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• Banishing the blues with healthy blueberry muffins

• A look through the history of Bahrain Fort

• Battling biographies head to Toronto to win awards season hearts

• Low-carb diets may beat low-fat options for weight loss, heart health

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In most places swimmers go out of their way to avoid sharks, but wetsuit-clad tourists in Palau clamour to dive among the predators thanks to a pioneering conservation initiative that has made them one of country’s main visitor attractions.

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By Neil Sands

In many places swimmers might prefer to avoid sharks, but wetsuit-clad tourists in Palau clamour to dive among the predators thanks to a pioneering conservation initiative

that has made them one of the country’s main visitor attractions.

Palau created the world’s first shark sanctuary in 2009 and the move has been so successful that plans are now underway to completely ban commercial fishing in the island nation’s vast ocean territory by 2018.

The fishing-free zone in the northern Pacific,

described as unprecedented by famed US marine scientist Sylvia Earle, will cover 630,000sqkm (240,000 square miles), an area almost the size of France.

The architect of the ambitious plan is Palau President Tommy Remengesau, who said the ban was needed to “let the ocean heal” after years of industrialised fishing in the Pacific that has seen stocks of some species such as bluefin tuna fall to critical levels.

Remengesau said Pacific island nations, which are also struggling to deal with climate change, were effectively “the conscience of the world” on environmental matters and had to lead by

example because of their special connection with the ocean.

“The ocean is our way of life,” he said. “It sustains and nurtures us, provides us with the basics of our Pacific island cultures, our very identities.”

‘Million-dollar’ sharkJust a decade ago, dozens of so-called “shark

boats” regularly docked in Palau’s commercial centre Koror, hanging fins to dry from their rigging as they worked to supply a seemingly insatiable demand in Asia for the primary ingredient in shark fin soup.

Sharks off themenu and on the tourist trail in Palau

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During the height of the trade, an estimated 73 million sharks a year had their fins hacked off and were thrown back into the sea to die.

“I would have been very upset to see that,” said Maayan Sagr, a 22-year-old tourist on a six-week dive master’s course in Palau, which is regularly voted the world’s top spot for underwater enthusiasts.

“The nature and the sharks are the reason I came here,” she said. “Everybody knows it’s quiet and peaceful but the main attraction is the sharks, getting to see them in their natural environment.”

Remengesau said Palau’s world-first shark protection measures sparked global change in attitudes towards the top predator, which went from being seen as a dangerous pest to a valuable part of the eco-system. About one-third of the world’s countries have followed the Pacific nation’s lead in banning shark-finning, according to the Pew Environment Group.

Crucially, demand for shark fin soup in China has waned thanks to a ban from offi-cial state banquet tables and celebrities pub-licly speaking out against eating the dish, which is often regarded as a status symbol. Remengesau said sharks had more value to Palau as eco-tourism assets, citing a 2011 study that found a single reef shark could contribute almost $2m to the economy over

its 10-year lifespan via the dive tourists it attracts.

“We feel that a live shark is worth a thou-sand times more than a dead one,” he said.‘Wake-up call’

While tourist numbers have climbed since sharks were protected, there have been no attacks on divers, with operators keeping visitors a safe distance from the creatures.

Remesengau said the no-fishing plan pri-oritised tourism — which contributes about $160m or 50 percent of gross domestic prod-uct annually — over the tuna industry, which contributes around $5.5m a year.

Earle, a National Geographic Society “Explorer-in Residence” who has led more than 100 oceanic expeditions in a career stretching back almost six decades, said it was the first time a government had com-mitted to stopping commercial fishing in its waters.

“(There is) awareness in Palau that we need to protect the systems that keep us alive, to restrict what has clearly been unsustainable — taking the sharks, tuna and the ocean wild-life,” she said.

“I think it will set a standard and wake peo-ple up around the world... 50 years ago we thought the ocean was too big to fail, now we know there are limits to what we can take and still have an ocean that functions.” AFP

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Birla Public School conducted orientation programme and workshop for over 350 teachers, highlighting the various CBSE initiatives like ASL, PSA, OTBA etc, in light of CCE. This orientation programme and workshop was led by Pritam Ahluwalia, the Country Education Officer of the CBSE fame AIETS (All Indian Education Testing Services) Institution. Ahluwalia spoke about Activity Based Teaching, Multi Disciplinary Assessment in the scholastic and co-scholastic domains.

Fatikchari Samity Qatar (FSQ), a non-political, socio-cultural forum, was formed recently during a gather-

ing organised at the ballroom of East West Restaurant. FSQ is an organization formed by the people of Fatikchari, an Upazila (Sub District) of Chittagong District in the Division of Chittagong, Bangladesh. A 71 member execu-tive committee was formed with Musa Ahmed Bokotpuri, a Bangladeshi journalist, elected as the president and Shahedul Islam Shahed as general secretary. Mohammed Zakaria Chowdhury was named as the organising sec-retary. The election results were declared by the Chief advisor of the forum Engineer Mezbah uddin Pearu.

The newly elected president in his introductory speech reiterated that a full flagged committee will be presented in the month of December this year along with holding Mezban (community feasting). The main objective of the forum is to associate and reaching out to the people in need. Large members of people from Fatikchari were present in the function.

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The Qatar winner of the DSS Apprenticeship Program 2014, Najla Al Thani from Stenden University, has

returned home after successfully completing a two-week internship programme held in Dubai, where she represented her country alongside 16 other students from across the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region.

The program is organised by the Dubai Festivals and Retail Establishment (DFRE), an agency of the Department of Tourism and Commerce Marketing (DTCM), and organizers of Dubai Summer Surprises (DSS).

“We are proud to have concluded yet another successful edition of the DSS Apprenticeship Program in Dubai. On behalf of the entire team at DFRE,

I would like to congratulate all the students on completing this intern-ship, which we hope has contributed towards their all-round professional and personal development. All of the 17 interns have worked very hard towards proposing innovative strategies and fresh ideas towards the development of DFRE’s annual calendar of festi-vals and campaigns. We would like to thank them for their sincere efforts and wish them every success in the future,” said Laila Mohammed Suhail, Chief Executive Officer, DFRE.

The winning interns participated in several interactive sessions with sen-ior officials of key business and media giants including MBC Group.

During the programme, they also met with top representatives from the city’s prominent home-grown establishments

such as Emirates, Dubai Airports, Emirates Flight Catering, Dubai FDI and Majid Al Futtaim Group amongst others. The once-in-a-lifetime opportu-nity to visit Facebook’s MEA regional office in Dubai was a key highlight of their agenda in the emirate.

Commenting on her experiences of the program, Najla said, “The program has re-fuelled my passion for tour-ism. I can’t wait to go back home and apply the lessons I have learned here in Dubai. It was a truly enriching and encouraging experience.” The Peninsula

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5FASHION

By Harriet Walker

From Jessica Rabbit to Scarlett O’Hara, only a certain type of woman wears red - and she’s on the increase. At the Emmys last week, no fewer than seven leading ladies

from all your favourite DVD box sets turned up in dresses that matched the carpet. Meanwhile, French actress Julie Gayet wore red to the opening of the Venice film festival, breaking the recent event-dress-ing trend for safe and tasteful beige and white.

Ladies in red are something of a cultural event, from Mary Magdalene to Princess Diana, serenaded by Chris de Burgh on that very topic from a cherry-picker during the mid-80s. They capture the imagi-nation; any celebrity choosing to wear it demands our attention.

“There’s a powerfully emblematic message to wear-ing a red dress,” says Justine Picardie, editor-in-chief of Harper’s Bazaar. “It’s the colour of revolution and of blood, so it has more ambiguity, perhaps, than any other colour one might choose.”

Ambiguity and, yet, a certain universality: while women have traditionally shied away from the col-our for fear of standing out the latest procession of starlets is proof enough that those wearing red aren’t necessarily a type any more.

Consider the aesthetic polar extremes of Christina Hendricks, who chose a crimson Marchesa gown (ruched at the hip with golden brocade trim) for the Emmys, and her Mad Men co-star January Jones, a willowy figure in step-hem, A-line jacquard that edged toward the tomato end of the scale, by American designer Prabal Gurung.

While flame-haired Hendricks ticks the box tra-ditionally, Jones’s icy beauty in the shade, topped off with a swipe of scarlet on the lips too, was something less obvious - far less conventional, and all the more striking for that.

In July, Dutch design duo Viktor & Rolf presented an all-red haute couture collection in Paris that was seemingly made from the carpet itself, shaggy and jocular in oversized bows and furbelows.

And red is on the rise — the Pantone Institute, which forecasts colour trends for companies, reports a surge in popularity for it in the past 20 years, thanks in part to women in positions of power redefining what it stands for. Hillary Clinton and Angela Merkel in red trouser suits; Michelle Obama in lipstick-hued Jason Wu at her second inauguration ball: the usual connotations don’t stick.

“This colour family is symbolic of power and wealth,” says Leatrice Eiseman, executive director at Pantone. “It’s seen as the most assertive and dynamic of colours. It certainly enhances the confidence of the person wearing it.”

Red has a heritage and a legacy. In ancient Aztec

it means simply “colour”. It was also one of the first pigments to have been used in art, by cavemen grind-ing ochre, vermilion and cinnabar for their daubs. As man’s first shade both in visuals and vernacular, perhaps that’s why it’s so prominent in our collec-tive conscious: a social synesthesia that encapsulates emotions and abstracts into something instantly understood.

Monkeys are wary of red food because they associ-ate the shade with danger - the same reason some breeds have cartoonish pink faces, to scare off other bruisers.

Sports judges have been found to award more points to players in red. Women who wore red dresses on their first dates are more likely to still be in that relationship, if you believe online surveys.

Plus, if you’re wearing red as a singleton, you’re more likely to get that date in the first place (brown was at the other end of the scale - take note). Red has been used as a signifier from the earliest days of civilisation. The expense of dyes such as kermes and cochineal - brighter and less muddy than the prehis-toric shades - meant it was economically restricted to the upper orders, before sumptuary laws enforced that practice and red became part of formal dress for the aristocracy. Hendricks’s brocade-embellished dress has a rich historic and artistic legacy, then.

“Red has always been associated with luxury,” says Karen Serres, the Schroder Foundation curator of paintings at the Courtauld Institute in London. “Gold and red have always been thought to complement each other. Artists used an underlayer called red

bole underneath gold to bring out its richer hues.”And it has always had that note of self-aggran-

disement, too. In Aeschylus’s play Agamemnon, King Agamemnon is persuaded to walk a red carpet when he returns triumphant from Troy. His hubris at stepping on so precious a shade gives his wife Clytemnestra all the motive she needs for killing him in his bath moments later. The fact this seems to have been historically mistranslated and the fact that the rug was purple is beside the point; when celebri-ties walk that scarlet path, they do so because they have been deemed fabulous enough to lay their feet on

it. Make of that what you will, with reference to the cast of Downton Abbey at the Emmys.

“For centuries, red was worn by soldiers and men of power - like cardinals,” says Serres. “It began to be associated in art with lust - Mary Magdalene is often depicted with reddish-blond hair and a red cloak. On a practical level, that’s to distinguish her from the Virgin Mary, in blue, but it’s also to sig-nal her licentious living.”

It’s this element that has understandably put women off red, but it’s also context for its hav-ing been reappropriated at a later date.

“Designer Jean-Charles

Worth extolled the use of Grenadine in 1926,” says Eiseman (that’s shade 17-1558, should you care). “It was symbolic of an era when women were celebrat-ing the relaxation of rigid colour rules, an era all about partying.”

But with the fading of historic sumptuaries came the inevitable rush to “masstige”, goods that pro-vide prestige for the masses. When hoi polloi started wearing red, the shine wore off and the colour once again fell out of favour with the cognoscenti - case in point: Nancy from Oliver Twist. It’s related too to the state of the economy, seen as a buoyant, con-fident statement that has at times felt out of step with sober times. After the depression, it took the introduction of Technicolor in film to resurrect its style credentials. In the 60s, after Yves Saint Laurent popularised it once more on his Mondrian dress, it was the shade of choice for ambitious, space-age designers Pierre Cardin and Andre Courreges. Elio Fiorucci gave galoshes a makeover in warm red and renamed them “love boots”.

“Just think of all the resonant associations,” says Justine Picardie, “from painting the town red to the idea of being a ‘scarlet woman’.”

Designer Valentino Garavani, who made poppy red his signature, always presenting at least one full-length gown in the colour, described red as “the ultimate cure for sadness”. Far from tapping into its connotations of anger or blind lust, he and the likes of Issey Miyake have celebrated it as a mood-lifter, clinically proven to enhance our ability to take in detail. Why else is so much advertising in red?

So as you marvel at the rouged bevy of red-carpet lovelies, consider their social impact too. Whether style statement or Stop sign, red is one way of grab-bing everybody’s attention. The Guardian

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Stylish women are all wearing red again

BETTER RED …• Red is the colour most commonly

found in national flags.• Many animals, such as dogs, cannot

differentiate between the red and green.

• Because of its visibility, stop signs, stoplights, brake lights, and fire equipment are all painted red.

• The red flag has been a symbol of revolt since Roman times. It became a symbol of communism under the Paris Commune of 1871 and was adopted by the Bolsheviks in Russia's civil war of 1918-20.

• In China, it is the colour of good luck and red wedding dresses are believed to symbolise love and prosperity.

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By Sara Moulton

Ripe, plentiful blueberries are such a highlight of summer that some of us are prone to getting the blueberry blues

during the rest of the year.Happily, imported and frozen blue-

berries make it easy to enjoy them all the time. In fact, if you’re really on your game, you can pick extra now and freeze them for later. And when later comes around, those frozen hand-picked berries make for some pretty awesome muffins.

But before you get out the muffin pan, let’s tackle some of the issues we often run into when making muffins. Typically, the batter is made with white flour and a ton of fat and sugar. It’s a delicious combination, but one that makes blueberry muffins more an indulgence than a healthy choice.

It was easy to swap some of the white flour with whole wheat, but I also added oat flour to the mix. I worried oat flour might be hard to find, but that’s when I discovered that making your own easy; just pulverise the oats in a blender until smooth. I loved what the oats brought to the recipe besides lots of fibre and nutrients, principally a sweeter and heartier flavour than wheat flour. They also made the muf-fins moister.

Thanks to the mashed banana,

which contributed moisture of its own, this recipe for a dozen muffins required only 3 tablespoons of butter. Just make sure the banana is very ripe to get the most out of its flavour and natural sugars. I also substituted low-fat — and big-flavoured — buttermilk

for the full-fat milk usually called for.Finally, I jacked up the pleasure quo-

tient by adding lemon and cinnamon — which always pair up beautifully with blueberries — and conjured some crunch by topping the muffins with a little extra sugar.

Considering that this recipe requires only 25 minutes of hands-on time, you might frequently find yourself whip-ping up batches of blueberry muffins in the dead of winter. They are sure to banish those blueberry blues.

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Hearty Blueberry, Banana Muffins

Start to finish: 50 minutes (25 minutes active)Makes 12 muffins

Method:1 cup oat flour (made by pulverizing 1 cup plus 3 table-

spoons old fashioned oatmeal in a blender or processor until smooth)

3/4 cup plus 2 tablespoons all-purpose flour, divided1/2 cup white whole-wheat flour1/3 cup packed brown sugar1 teaspoon baking powder1 teaspoon baking soda1/4 teaspoon table salt2 teaspoons lemon zest1 teaspoon cinnamon1 small very ripe banana, mashed (about 1/4 cup)3/4 cup buttermilk1 large egg, lightly beaten3 tablespoons unsalted butter, melted1 1/4 cups frozen blueberries2 tablespoons granulated sugar

Method:Heat the oven to 350 F. Line a 12-cup muffin pan with

paper liners or coat it with baking spray.In a large bowl, combine the oat flour, 3/4 cup of the

all-purpose flour, the white whole-wheat flour, brown sugar, baking powder, baking soda, salt, lemon zest and cinnamon.

In a medium bowl, combine the banana with the butter-milk, egg and butter. Mix well. Add the wet ingredients to the dry ingredients and stir until they are just combined.

In a medium bowl toss the blueberries with the remain-ing 2 tablespoons all-purpose flour, then transfer them to a strainer and shake off the excess flour. Add the blueber-ries to the batter and gently fold them in.

Spoon the batter into the prepared muffin pan. The bat-ter should be slightly mounded above the edge. Sprinkle the granulated sugar evenly over the tops of the batter, then bake the muffins on the oven’s middle shelf for 20 minutes, or until a skewer inserted at the center of the muffins comes out clean. Let the muffins rest, in the pan, for 5 minutes before serving.

Nutrition information per serving: 170 calories; 40 calories from fat (24 percent of total calories); 4.5 g fat (2 g saturated; 0 g trans fats); 25 mg cholesterol; 29 g carbohydrate; 2 g fiber; 11 g sugar; 4 g protein; 210 mg sodium.

Banishing the blues with healthy blueberry muffins

ARCHAEOLOGY 7

Archaeological evidences have revealed that ‘defensive forts’ appeared for the first time in the Arabian Gulf after the

invasion of Alexander the Great at its extreme northern parts during the fourth century BC, which were called by the Greek Larissa (Kuwait main land) and Ikaros (Failka Island).

Greek historians such as Strabo and Arian Alexander called the latter Failka for it resembles to Ikaros Island in shape and located in the Aegean Sea. In this island, Ikaros, the Greeks built the first defensive fort and two temples.

On the other hand, Nearchus, who was part of Alexander’s command to discover the Arabian Gulf waters, docked in Bahrain Island and he named the Island Tylos.

Archaeological excavations took place at a site located in the northern parts of the Island suggested the exist-ence of a fort attributed to the Seleucid Empire (ca. 2-3 centuries BC).

As archaeological activities extended over the entire western shore of the Arabian Gulf, forts that are more defensive were found. Among them is the fort which was unearthed by an Iraqi team in 1974 and located off shore of Umm Al Qawain Emirate in UAE. This was dated to Seleucid Empire as well.

Ever since then, forts, castles and towers, began to spread over certain locations in inland and on shores of the Arabian Gulf down to modern times. Among them, for example, is an Islamic fort found in the northern part of Bahrain Island, and locally known as Bahrain Fort or Portugal Fort. According to historical and archaeo-logical evidences, the fort was built in the sixteenth century and measures 700m x 400m and 8m in height.

Excavations, which took place during

the second half of the fif-ties of the last century around the fort revealed six layers of habitation. Since each layer repre-sented certain span of time, therefore it was called by the archaeolo-gists City.

The first City appeared to have been established near the seashore in the beginning of the third millennium BC. Cultural remains on the other hand proved the trade and cultural links between City One and Mesopotamia. As excavations continued archaeolo-gists found that, the numerous archi-tectural remains of City Two covered the entire area of the former city.

In addition, City Two people seemed to be the main constructors of burial mounds located in the middle areas

of the Island during the last three centuries of the third millennium BC.

According to the archaeological remains City Three seemed to have corresponded with the Kassite Dynasty estab-lished in Mesopotamia between 1550-1100 BC. Luckily, most of its build-ings discovered during

excavations appeared in good shape and good number of antiquities attrib-uted to this era were found. Among them was a copper bullhead, which executed in naturalistic manner.

The ruins of City Four on the other hand proved to be more prominent than the others. A gate of more than three meters in height and other important architectural features were found. Studies revealed that this

City was contemporary with the Neo- Assyrian Dynasty in Mesopotamia 900-600 BC.

The remains of City Five appeared right over the ruins of City Four. Unfortunately, the remaining ruins of this layer were few, consisting of houses located outside the northern side of the City. The discovery of the Greek and Roman pottery ware and terracotta figu-rines suggested the trade links between Tylos (Bahrain), and the Greeks, and the Romans (ca.300 BC to early centuries AD). City Six clearly appeared to be dated 1100-1400 AD. Architectural remains of the city represented by small walled building, and antiquities attributed to the afro mentioned date. Undoubtedly, more excavations at Bahrain Fort will reveal more information concerning not only the history of Bahrain but also the his-tory of the entire Arabian Gulf.

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Dr Munir Taha

A look through thehistory of Bahrain Fort

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PLUS | WEDNESDAY 3 SEPTEMBER 2014 ENTERTAINMENT8 9

HOLLYWOOD NEWS BOLLYWOOD NEWS

Lindsay seeks hypnosis to quit smokingActress Lindsay Lohan is reportedly seeking hypnotherapy to help her

give up smoking before her West End theatre debut later this month.The 28-year-old will be part of “Speed-the-Plow” play and will perform

from September 24 till November 29 here, reports femalefirst.co.uk.“Lindsay knows that all eyes will be on her and she’s worried that if she

really starts to crave nicotine when on stage, it’ll put her off,” a source was quoted by The Sun newspaper as saying.

“Some people may not believe in the powers of hypnosis or think it’s all about swinging a watch about, but Lindsay is willing to try anything to make sure she’s a hit,” added the source.

Earlier this year, the Mean Girls star had documented her battle to get her career and life back on track in her self-titled reality TV series fol-lowing her sixth stint in rehab last year.

Rihanna shells out £6,000 on nail expert

Singer Rihanna paid £6,000 to have her favourite nail expert flown down to Italy from Britain.

Rihanna, who is currently enjoying some time off from her busy schedule on her luxury yacht in the Mediterranean, invited A-list nail technician Jenny Longworth to tend to her talons for the hefty sum, reports con-tactmusic.com.

Rihanna is said to have put the Revlon ambassador up in luxury accom-modation after paying for her first class flights as well as the price of the sought after beautician’s fees.

A source told the Daily Mirror newspaper: “Rihanna is quite fussy and wants to be able to trust her glamour team. She’s known Jenny for a while and loves her technique, so would prefer to pay for her to fly out to Italy than risk going to a stranger.”

Rocker Jimi Jamison dies at 63

Rock singer Jimi Jamison, who fronted the 1980s bands Cobra and Survivor, died following a heart attack, said his agent. He was 63.

He passed away on August 31, said the agent.Jamison succumbed to a heart attack at his home in Memphis, Tennessee,

reports usmagazine.com.Survivor’s Facebook page mourned the loss of “our brother” Jamison.There was a post on the page, which read: “The entire Survivor family

is very shocked and saddened.”Jamison joined the band in 1984, and recorded hit songs like “The

moment of truth”, “The search is over”, “Is this love” and “Burning heart”.Jamison was also the voice and co-writer behind “I’m always here” - the

“Baywatch” theme song.

Anurag won’t release Bombay Velvet till he is 100pc satisfied: Kay KayActor Kay Kay Menon supports Anurag Kashyap’s decision to release

Bombay Velvet next year and says that the director shows his work only when he is a hun-dred percent satisfied.

B o m b a y Velvet was initially slated to come out on November 28, but now it will hit the screens in May 2015. With a lot of pending VFX work, the film cannot be readied for a November release.

Kay Kay, who plays an investigative officer in the film, “doesn’t regret the delay”.

He said: “They must have thought of it before making any decision. To show 1960s is not easy, so post production will take time and Anurag will not release till he is satisfied with his work and that would be the reason they must have postponed it.”

“The film is based in 1960s, so the treatment is also different,” he added.Kashyap’s Bombay Velvet features Ranbir Kapoor and Anushka Sharma

in the lead roles.“This is my fourth film with Anurag. We have a different connection

and our working style is different. Without saying or talking much, we understand each other’s silence. It’s all about creativity,” said Kay Kay, who worked with Kashyap in films like Black Friday and Gulaal.

Bipasha wants to work with Honey SinghActress Bipasha Basu is so impressed with rapper-singer Yo Yo Honey

Singh that she wants to work with him.“I will be foolish if I don’t want to do it,” Bipasha said on the sets of

Honey Singh’s singing reality show India’s Raw Star.When asked if she would like to work with the singing sensation, she

said: “Definitely! I would love to work with him because his songs are very popular. People love his songs and you can really dance to them.”

“He has got a great groove to all his songs.”Further praising him, the 35-year-old said, “Honey Singh has the magic

touch. He is the Midas man of music.”Within a short span of time, Honey Singh has become quite popular

in B-town. Right from superstar Shah Rukh Khan to megastar Amitabh Bachchan, he has composed and sung for most of the top-notch actors. His biggest hit was “Lungi Dance” for “Chennai Express”.

Recently, Sonakshi Sinha featured in the music video “Desi Kalakaar” from his upcoming album.

As of now, Bipasha is looking forward to the release of her film Creature 3D on September 12.

Aamir wants to groove like Hrithik

Superstar Aamir Khan is so fascinated by Hrithik Roshan’s dance moves in Bang Bang! that he too wants to groove like him.

“I wish I could dance half as well as Hrithik! I really loved the new song of ‘Bang Bang’! And the ‘Bang Bang’ trailer is outstanding! Hrithik and Katrina look like a million bucks!

“...Love the shot of Hrithik come shooting out of the water with guns pointing! Cant wait for 2nd Oct!” Aamir tweeted.

While Bang Bang! will hit the screens on October 2, Aamir-starrer PKis slated to release on December 19.

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By Mary Milliken

As a first-time film direc-tor, television comedian Jon Stewart pleads ignorance about the workings of the

movie industry.But as he heads to the Toronto

International Film Festival this week, he shares many of the feelings of more seasoned directors: excitement, nausea and the hope that he has done justice to the man whose story he depicts in film.

The Daily Show host’s film is Rosewater, the real-life story of jour-nalist Maziar Bahari and his five months of torture and interrogation in an Iranian prison at the hands of a man who smells of rosewater.

“I felt like Maziar was really trust-ing me with something that was very personal to him,” said Stewart. “I have tremendous affection and respect for the guy and I wanted to do right by it.”

Stewart’s debut is one of several highly anticipated biographical films to feature at the Toronto festival that runs September 4-14 and is considered the kick-off to a six-month awards sea-son that concludes with the industry’s top honours, the Academy Awards.

There is the story of cosmologist

Stephen Hawking in The Theory of Everything, the portrayal of British World War II code-breaker Alan Turing in The Imitation Game, and Pawn Sacrifice about American chess champion Bobby Fischer and his 1972 match against Russian rival Boris Spassky.

In the women’s camp, Reese Witherspoon stars in Wild, based on the best-selling memoir of Cheryl Strayed, a self-destructive woman who treks solo across 1,000 miles (1,600 km) of wilderness.

Biographies are “catnip for the Academy,” says Keith Simanton, man-aging editor of movie website IMDb.

“We are seeing more biographies that have a really good shot of ending up being talked about at awards next year and in top 10 lists at the end of the year,” said Simanton.

The top award in Toronto, voted by the ordinary people who attend the multiple screenings of some 300 movies, can give a film extraordinary momentum to withstand the long sea-son, like last year’s Toronto winner 12 Years a Slave, the drama that went on to capture the Oscar best picture.

Tribute To The OutsiderToronto prides itself on its role as

early arbiter of top awards and this year decided to tighten rules on its premieres in hopes of preserving its cachet. If a film chose to go first to the smaller Telluride Film Festival this past weekend, it would not screen in the first four days at Toronto, when media attention is highest.

Rosewater, Wild and The Imitation Game all went to Telluride and received positive reviews.

For The Imitation Game direc-tor Morten Tyldum, who made the acclaimed Norwegian 2011 art caper Headhunters, the one-two Telluride-Toronto step is “a good way to start and creates a great awareness of the film.”

In his film, Benedict Cumberbatch plays Turing, the brilliant Cambridge mathematician who headed up the Enigma-code breaking operation and saved countless lives in World War II, but was later persecuted by the British government.

“It is such a big and wonderful and important story,” said Tyldum. “To me it became a tribute to everybody who is different, who is not really fit-ting in and who is not following the norm.”

In another portrayal of a famous Cambridge mind, The Theory of Everything director James Marsh looks at Stephen Hawking over

decades from the perspec- tive of his first wife Jane, as they fall in love and he is diagnosed with a form of motor neu-ron disease.

Eddie Redmayne’s portrayal of Hawking is already sparking talk of awards.

“He starts off being able-bodied and then he has to use a stick and then two sticks and he ends up in a wheelchair,” said Marsh. “He has to get across a range of disabilities and that is extraor-dinarily difficult.”

In Pawn Sacrifice, veteran direc-tor Edward Zwick was captivated by Fischer, an American prodigy who was “unruly, inappropriate and arrogant,” and maybe the most famous person in the world during “The Match of the Century” in 1972. He is played by Tobey Maguire while Liev Schreiber is Spassky.

“Even as he was reaching toward the world championship, he was also fight-ing this battle against extraordinary demons which ultimately did him in,” said Zwick.

The tough subjects and challenging roles may make 2014 an even better one for film than the acclaimed 2013.

“I do think this is a richer year and for my money it is already a better one,” said Simanton. Reuters

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HEALTH / FITNESS 11

Volunteering boosts health of older adults

Older adults who stay active by volunteering are likely to receive a health boost. Volunteering is

linked with reductions in symptoms of depression, better overall health, fewer functional limitations and greater longevity, a study indicated.

“We discovered a number of trends in the results that paint a compelling picture of vol-unteering as an important lifestyle component for maintaining health and well-being in later years,” said lead investigator Nicole Anderson from the University of Toronto in Canada.

Feeling appreciated or needed as a volunteer appears to amplify the relationship between vol-unteering and psycho-social well-being.

More vulnerable seniors (those with chronic health conditions) may benefit the most from volunteering.

However, health benefits depend on a moderate level of volunteering. There appears to be a tip-ping point after which greater benefits no longer accrue. The “sweet spot” appears to be at about 100 annual hours, or two to three hours per week.

“Taken together, these results suggest that volunteering is associated with health improve-ments and increased physical activity - changes that one would expect to offer protection against a variety of health conditions,” Anderson added.

For the study, the researchers examined 73 studies published over the last 45 years involving adults aged 50-plus who were in formal volun-teering roles. The study appeared online in the journal Psychological Bulletin.

Shun coffee and switch to tea for healthy heartIf you have to choose between tea or coffee, it is

probably better to drink tea for its antioxidant benefits. According to a large study, drinking tea reduces non-cardio-vascular (CV) mortality by 24 percent.

“Coffee and tea are important components of our way of life. We investigated their effects on CV mortality and non-CV mortality in a large French population at low risk of cardiovascular diseases,” said Professor Nicolas Danchin from France at the European Society of Cardiology (ESC) Congress 2014 in Barcelona, Spain.

The study included 131,401 people aged 18 to 95. During the average 3.5 year follow-up period, there were 95 deaths from CV and 632 deaths from non-CV causes. The researchers found that coffee drinkers had a higher CV risk profile than non-coffee drinkers.

Non-coffee drinkers were more physically active, with 45 percent having a good level of phys-ical activity compared to 41 percent of the heavy coffee drinkers. Tea drinkers had the reverse pro-file of coffee drinkers, with consumers having a better CV risk profile than non-consumers.

Physical activity increased with the number of cups of tea per day from 43 percent in the moderate tea drinkers to 46 percent in the heavy drinkers.

“Overall we tend to have a higher risk profile for coffee drinkers and a lower risk profile for tea drinkers. We also found big differences with gender. Men tend to drink coffee much more than women, while women tend to drink more tea than men,” Danchin emphasised.

“I think you could fairly honestly recommend tea drinking rather than coffee drinking,” he told the gathering.

Agencies

By Andrew M Seaman

A low-carbohydrate diet is better for losing weight and may also be better for lowering the risk of heart disease than a low-fat diet,

according to a new study.While low-carb diets have outperformed other

diets when it comes to weight loss, some researchers feared they might be worse for heart health because they tend to be high in fat.

The new study shows that with proper nutritional counselling, people can lose more weight and lower their risk factors for heart disease on a low-carbo-hydrate diet, said the lead author, Dr Lydia Bazzano of Tulane University in New Orleans.

“This study shows if you are overweight and have cardiovascular disease risk factors and haven’t had success on other diets, certainly a low-carbohydrate diet is worth a try,” said Bazzano.

Carbohydrates are found in food and include sugar, fibre and starches that give the body energy. Some carbs — like those in whole grains and fruits — are healthier than others — like those in white bread and other processed foods.

Bazzano and her colleagues write in Annals of Internal Medicine that low-carb diets have become popular weight loss strategies in recent years. Studies on their effects on cardiovascular risk factors have produced mixed results, however.

For the new study, she and her colleagues recruited 148 obese men and women between the ages of 22 and 75. None of the participants had heart disease or diabetes.

Half were randomly assigned to follow a low-car-bohydrate diet for a year, and the other half were assigned to a low-fat diet for a year. They were told to not change their physical activity throughout the trial.

All participants attended regular meetings where they learned about portion control, healthy eating and overall nutrition. They were also offered one meal-replacement bar or shake per day.

The only difference between the groups was the proportions of carbohydrate and fat in their diets.

Those in the low-carbohydrate group were told to eat at no more than 40 grams of digestible carbohy-drates per day. (“Digestible carbs” equals total carbs minus total fibre.)

Those in the low-fat group were told not to get more than 30 percent of their daily energy from fat and no more than 55 percent of their daily energy from carbohydrates.

Overall, about four of every five participants were still following the diets 12 months later.

During that time, the researchers found, people on the low-carbohydrate diet lost more weight and more body fat than those on the low-fat diet.

The difference in lost weight between the two groups would represent about eight additional pounds.

Additionally, the researchers saw no increases in total cholesterol or “bad” LDL cholesterol between the two groups. Bazzano said that’s good news since some thought a low-carbohydrate diet would increase cholesterol levels.

Those in the low-carbohydrate group had lower levels of fat circulating in their blood and had lower scores on a measure often used to predict the risk of a heart attack or stroke within the next 10 years.

“I thought that was a very striking finding,” Bazzano said. She added that the score that pre-dicts risk of future heart attacks and strokes was computed after the study was finished and is less reliable than the other risk factors they measured.

Dr David Jenkins, who wasn’t involved in the study, said: “This doesn’t look to me to say ‘eat all the meats you want to lower your carbohydrates.’ That’s just one way to do it.”

Instead, Jenkins said, people in this study appeared to improve their overall diets. For example, they were eating foods with healthier fats, such as nuts and beans.

He also said they seemed to eat more fiber and cut down on processed foods with more carbohydrates.

“I think it’s another testament to what one can do with a more plant-based diet using the right macro-nutrient profile,” said Jenkins of the Department of Nutritional Sciences at the University of Toronto and the Keenan Research Centre at St Michael’s Hospital.

Bazzano agreed that the overall diets improved among the participants and they were encouraged to eat healthier forms of protein like chicken, fish, nuts and beans.

She also said her team is not sure why people on the low-carbohydrate diets lost more weight and had lower risk factors for heart disease after one year. It’s not clear, she added,if there would still be a dif-ference after a longer period.

SOURCE: bit.ly/1qjI8OG Annals of Internal Medicine, online September 1, 2014.

Reuters

Low-carb diets may Low-carb diets may beat low-fat options for beat low-fat options for weight loss, heart health

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TECHNOLOGYPLUS | WEDNESDAY 3 SEPTEMBER 201412

By Mohana Ravindranath

At the General Services Administration in down-town Washington, tiny white sensors pepper the windows, ceiling tiles,

heating units, water tanks and fan coolers, almost blending in to the build-ing’s open-plan decor.

Some detect how much sunlight shines through a window, and indoor bulbs dim or shades raise themselves accordingly. Others sense motion, turning off lights, air conditioners or power sources when employees are away from their desks. Some sensors simply relay information about total utility consumption, such as how much cooled water or energy employees have used in a day.

For the past couple of years, GSA has been experimenting with a net-work of sensors in its building — a sys-tem technologists call the “Internet of Things” — intending to cut energy use and wasted resources. It aims to imple-ment this network in other federal buildings across the country as part of a “Smart Buildings” policy — so far, it has done so with about 80 federal buildings covering a combined area of about 45 million square feet.

The tests are part of an effort, com-bined with reducing the government’s use of office space, to save $24m in rent costs, $4m in energy costs and $12m in operational costs annually, according to the administration.

Though the actual savings are still being calculated, the Smart Buildings system has identified more than 10,000 inefficiencies and faults in GSA build-ings and outside properties.

At the GSA headquarters, moderni-zation is piecemeal. Two wings of the building at 1800 F St. NW are equipped with sensors. The second two wings, which project managers call “Phase 2,” do not yet have a completion date.

In the building’s modernised half, desk lights only turn on when an occu-pant has reserved the desk online. GSA

encourages employees to telework; when they do come into the office, they must reserve a desk every day or week, wherever one is available, either online or at an electronic kiosk.

Since about a month ago, GSA has connected the desk reservation sys-tem, called BookIt, to identification badges. When employees swipe in at the main entrance, the power source at their reserved desk turns on. Once the employee sits down, motion sen-sors under the desk detect whether a person is there and whether the light should be on.

Employees use tablets — mounted outside each conference room — to check into conference rooms, whose lights and power sources only func-tion when the room has been reserved online.

The system isn’t perfect yet. If employees are stationary for too long, the under-desk sensors sometimes register them as absent and switch off. Conference room lights flicker and turn off at the end of reserved time slots, so employees whose meet-ings run over must re-reserve the room.

Still, “it really improves how we utilise space,” said Sonny Hashmi, GSA’s chief technology officer and chief information officer. Motion sensors throughout the building can show which hallways and buildings are more popular than others, he said. “We are also seeing the parts of the buildings that are historically underutilised.”

The administration can then adjust building settings according to traf-fic patterns — if few people occupy a hallway, the heating or cooling systems don’t need to run on full blast.

All of this data is funnelled into a software application called Integrated Building Systems (developed and sold by a company by the same name), with data dashboards accessible by the building’s managers. They can track broad trends — total energy usage over time, perhaps — or examine particular

sensors, determining which windows are open and shutting off cooling units near those windows.

In June of last year, GSA deployed GSA Link, an analytics application developed by IBM that monitors the data from tens of thousands of sensors every five minutes and alerts GSA to any potential building faults.

The administration’s IT strategy is “no longer just about desktops and lap-tops,” said Frank Santella, GSA senior director of facilities management. “We now have ‘building networks.’ “

The system showed when equip-ment was consistently running during federal holidays, Santella said. “Now before holidays we send a notice . . . informing everyone, ‘Hey everyone, next week is Labor Day . . . we need you to ensure that your schedules are set for an unoccupied day.’ “

In another case, building managers discovered a dead pigeon stuck in a vent, obstructing airflow, after detect-ing an irregularity in air flow data, Hashmi said.

“These are things that [can] become apparent in real time,” he said.

Without sensors, a maintenance person would have had to search for the source of the obstruction manually. In some cases, the sensors find inef-ficiencies that would “never be visible from a human perspective,” Hashmi added.

The GSA is still measuring how it will know whether the program is worth the investment, Santella said — one indicator is how building manag-ers fix the faults and inefficiencies they discover using the smart software.

“We check every Monday to see how many people have been in the [GSA Link] system for the past week,” he said, adding, “it’s really about adoption.”

And the data can be used for more than just energy efficiency, Santella said.

For instance, he said, “How do we monitor our [building] contractors’ performance, knowing we have a deep visibility into the data?”

WP-Bloomberg

SpinMe Alarm Clock (Free + IAP)I’ve not yet met the alarm clock capable of getting

me out of bed without at least three bleary-eyed presses on the snooze button. SpinMe might be the cure for that bad habit: to turn the alarm off, you have to get up and spin around holding your phone. Fun, if punishing.

Wakie (Free)It’s officially the week of Android alarm-clock

apps. Wakie is an even stranger idea, but quite fun: you set an alarm, then get a phone call – for 60 seconds maximum – from another Wakie user at that time. And you can do the waking if you like too. Sounds creepy, but the community seems friendly.

MIX by Camera360 (Free)This is a spin-off from the well-regarded

Camera360 photography app: pitched as a “com-panion to Instagram”, it has lots more effects and filters to tweak your shots, with lots of scope to mix up your own settings (hence the title).

Fragment (£1.20)More photography here, with a nifty (if somewhat

novelty) app to turn your snaps into “prismatic art” then share them on various social networks. You choose frames, shapes and patterns, then use intuitive touchscreen controls to make a mini-mas-terpiece (or a mess).

WeTransfer (Free)Online, WeTransfer is a simple way to share large

files with friends. Its Android app is just as useful:

you can upload up to 10GB of photos and videos, entering friends’ email addresses to send them a link to the files. Good for sharing after large com-munal events – weddings, for example.

Line Toss: Photo Sharing (Free)If you are a social network Line user – and the

numbers are growing outside its native Japan – it’s a neat way to share and sort your snaps and videos with friends.

Delvv: Your Personal News Feed (Free)Isn’t that Facebook or Twitter? No, Delvv is one

of a group of apps aggregating news stories for you to read, based on your interests. Advanced users can add in RSS subscriptions to tune their feed, but it’s accessible enough for anyone to use.

By Stuart Dredge The Guardian

‘Smart Buildings’ strategy put to test

The General Services Administration is experimenting with a network of sensors in its downtown Washington building, intending to cut energy use.

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COMICS & MORE 13

Hoy en la HistoriaSeptember 3, 1939

1935: Sir Malcolm Campbell became the first man to drive over 300mph when he set a new land speed record of 301.1292mph at Bonneville, Utah1969: North Vietnamese president Ho Chi Minh died1994: Russia and China formally ended decades of confrontation at a summit meeting in Moscow, agreeing to cease aiming nuclear missiles at each other2009: Pop star Michael Jackson was interred in a private ceremony

Great Britain and France declared war on Germany. Both had agreed to support Poland in the event of a German invasion, which took place two days earlier

Picture: Getty Images © GRAPHIC NEWS

ALL IN THE MIND Can you find the hidden words? They may be horizontal,vertical, diagonal, forwards or backwards.

ACCELERATOR, AUTOMOBILE, AXLE, BATTERY, BRAKE,CARBURETOR, CLUTCH, CRANKSHAFT, CRUISE CONTROL,CYLINDER, DASHBOARD, DIFFERENTIAL, DISTRIBUTOR,ENGINE, EXHAUST, FUEL LINE, GEARS, HALF SHAFT,HEADLIGHT, IGNITION, MUFFLER, PISTON, RADIATOR,SHOCK ABSORBER, SPARK PLUG, STEERING, SUSPENSION,TAILPIPE, TRANSMISSION, WHEELS.

LEARN ARABIC

Baby Blue by Jerry Scott and Rick Kirkman

Zits by Jerry Scott & Jim Borgman

Hagar The Horrible by Chris Browne

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The Travel Agency

Travel Safar

Do you want to travel by land? Hal toureedou alsafar barran?

By sea Ba�ran

By air �awwan

I am thinking of �ying to Rome Oufakkirou bissafari �awwan ila Roma

What are the fares? Ma hiya Al'ou�oor?

Passport �awaz safar

With what company do you want totravel?

Maç ayyati šarika toureedou an tousafir?

When will the visa be ready? Mata satakoonou alveeza �ahiza?

When will the plane take off? Mata satouqliçou al�a'ira?

When will I arrive to...? Mata a�ilou ila'...?

Where is the information of�ce? Ayna maktobou alistiçlamat?

Note: ç = ‘a’ in ‘agh’ when surprised

HYPER SUDOKU

CROSSWORD

CROSSWORDS

YESTERDAY’S ANSWER

How to play Hyper Sudoku:A Hyper Sudoku

Puzzle is solved

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numbers from 1

to 9 into the blank

cells. A Hyper

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only once. Otherwise, a Hyper Sudoku is

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ACROSS 1 Cool dude

4 Woo

11 A train?

14 Times column: Abbr.

15 Canceled

16 Falstaff’s quaff

17 Org. that usually meets in the evening

18 Living room fixture since the ’50s

19 Born

20 Food wrap

22 Light for Aladdin

24 Asks in public, say

27 Flight simulator

29 Makeup of les Caraïbes

30 Extreme

32 A pride of lions?

33 Great finish?

34 Chicken for dinner

35 Founded: Abbr.

36 Incompatible

44 Cow, perhaps

46 Together

49 Sch. with a campus in Providence

51 Shrinking

52 Soother of an aching joint

53 Computer key

54 It may come in loose-leaf form

55 Poetic paean

56 Alfred Hitchcock title

57 Env. contents

58 Quarter or half

60 “L’chaim,” literally

62 1960s British P.M. ___ Douglas-Home

63 Either the top or bottom half of this puzzle, figuratively speaking

67 Taking care of business

68 Kind of wave

69 Send

70 Sold (for)

71 Brine

72 Bulldozed

73 Wakeboard relative

DOWN 1 ___ America

2 It gives Congress the power to declare war

3 Séance phenomena

4 Jumps back

5 Tic-tac-toe loser

6 Blanc who voiced Bugs Bunny

7 Foofaraw

8 King Harald’s land: Abbr.

9 Director’s cry

10 Cry at an unveiling

11 Fruit or nuts

12 Fourth pope

13 Crimson

21 “All That Jazz” director

23 Treated, in a way, as a lawn

25 Big band member

26 Camera type, briefly

27 Numero di R’s in “arrivederci”

28 ___ avis

31 Lightly scented perfume

36 Final maneuver

37 Seattle Center Coliseum, since 1995

38 Rebel yell

39 London gallery

40 Razzes

41 Rio ___ (Amazon feeder)

42 Silhouettes

43 Opera texts

45 Cyclist’s stunt

47 Wee one

48 Two- or four-seater, maybe

50 Snitch

59 Restaurant freebie

61 Ideal condition in which to ford a stream

64 Yellowhammer State: Abbr.

65 Longtime Red Sox nickname

66 Somme summer

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17 18 19

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33 34 35

36 37 38 39 40 41 42 43

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How to play Kakuro:The kakuro grid, unlike in sudoku, can be of any size. It has rows and columns, and dark cells like in a crossword. And, just like in a crossword, some of the dark cells will contain numbers. Some cells will contain two numbers.However, in a crossword the numbers reference clues. In a kakuro, the numbers are all you get! They denote the total of the digits in the row or column referenced by the number.Within each collection of cells - called a run

- any of the numbers 1 to 9 may be used but, like sudoku, each number may only be used once.

YESTERDAY’S ANSWER

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EASY SUDOKUCartoon Arts International / The New York Times Syndicate

Easy Sudoku PuzzlesPlace a digit from 1 to 9 in each empty cell so everyrow, every column and every 3x3 box contains allthe digits 1 to 9.

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The Expendables 3 (2D/Action) – 12.15, 5.00 & 9.45pm

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From Bombay To Paris: Hundred Foot Journey (2D/Romantic) – 12.00noon, 4.30, 9.00 & 11.30pm

6As Above So Below (2D/Horror) – 10.15am, 12.15, 2.15,

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– 10.30am, 12.45, 3.00, 5.15, 7.30, 9.45pm & 12.00midnight

9Guardians Of The Galaxy (IMAX 3D/Action)

– 11.30am, 2.00, 4.30, 7.00, 9.30pm & 12.00midnight

10The November Man (2D/Action) – 11.00am, 3.30, 8.00pm & 12.30am

Hercules (2D/Adventure) – 1.15am, 5.45 & 10.15pm

MALL

1

The 7th Dwarfs (3D/Animation) – 2.30 & 4.15pm

Hercules (3D/Action) – 6.00pm

Avatharam (2D/Malayalam) – 7.45pm

Salim (2D/Tamil) – 10.45pm

2

Elisa Khatafha Jameel (2D/Arabic) – 3.00pm

Let's Be Cop (2D/Comedy) – 5.30pm

As Above, So Below (2D/Horror) – 7.30pm

The Hundred Foot Journey (2D/Romantic) – 9.15pm

Into The Storm (2D/Action) – 11.30pm

3

What If (2D/Mystery) – 2.15pm

Hercules (3D/Action) – 4.00pm

And So It Goes (2D/Comedy) – 5.45pm

The November Man (2D/Action) – 7.30 & 11.15pm

Into The Storm (2D/Action) – 9.30pm

LANDMARK

1

What If (2D/Mystery) – 2.30pm

And So It Goes (2D/Comedy) – 4.15pm

As Above, So Below (2D/Horror) – 6.00pm

Avatharam (2D/Malayalam) – 7.45pm

Salim (2D/Tamil) – 10.45pm

2

The 7th Dwarfs (3D/Animation) – 2.30 & 4.15pm

Let's Be Cop (2D/Comedy) – 6.00pm

Hercules (3D/Action) – 8.00pm

Into The Storm (2D/Action) – 9.45 & 11.30pm

3

The Hundred Foot Journey (2D/Romantic) – 2.30pm

Elisa Khatafha Jameel (2D/Arabic) – 5.00pm

Suniya Fi Masr (2D/Arabic) – 7.30pm

The November Man (2D/Action) – 9.30 & 11.30pm

ROYAL

PLAZA

1

The 7th Dwarfs (3D/Animation) – 2.15 & 4.00pm

Suniya Fi Masr (2D/Arabic) – 5.45pm

Hercules (3D/Action) – 7.45pm

The November Man (2D/Action) – 9.30 & 11.30pm

2

What If (2D/Mystery) – 3.00pm

Raja Natwarlal (2D/Hindi) – 4.45 & 9.00pm

Into The Storm (2D/Action) – 7.15 & 11.30pm

3

And So It Goes (2D/Comedy) – 2.30pm

The Hundred Foot Journey (2D/Romantic) – 4.30pm

Elisa Khatafha Jameel (2D/Arabic) – 7.00pm

Let's Be Cop (2D/Comedy) – 9.30pm

As Above, So Below (2D/Horror) – 11.30pm

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Events in Qatar

Trapeze Exhibition and Acquisitions Program When: September 1 — November 1; 10am-10pmWhere: Katara What: The exhibition features the work of Qatari artists and their efforts to achieve a balance between reviving the heritage and traditions and preserve the cultural and popular memory, between their aspirations as artists yearning for the future enlightened by their country rising to the top ranks in various fields.Free entry

Brazilian Independence DayWhen: September 4–7; 6.30pm-8:30pm and 9pm–11.30pm Where: Ipanema, Marriott Marquis City Center Doha Hotel What: A four day celebration culminating on the Brazilian Independence Day. Explore the sounds, moves and flavours of Brazil — Live Brazilian Samba Band, Capoeira Performer, and Bahia Inspired Food Buffet at Doha’s award winning Brazilian restaurant – Ipanema. Tickets: QR290

Alif by Sabah ArbilliWhen: Till September 17Where: InterContinental Doha The City What: Specifically created for Ramadan and Eid, Arbilli uses his gift for calligraphy art to create this collection of works centred around Alif – the first letter of Arabic alphabet and the first letter in the revelation of the Quran. The exhibit will remain on display in the lobby area of the hotel. Free entry

Family Fun When: Till September 27; 3pm-11pmWeekends 4pm-12pm Where: Doha Exhibition CenterWhat: Plenty of family entertainment is available at the Family Entertainment City staged in the Doha Exhibition Center, which includes activities such as ski slopes, rock climbing and a variety of alternate entertainment options, a food court, and live Arabic pre-school Baraem shows for the little ones. No fee at the entrance, only for some rides.Free entry

The Tiger’s Dream: Tipu Sultan When: September 29 - January 24Where: Museum Of Islamic Art What: This exhibition delves into the life and times of Tipu Sultan, the South Indian ruler, statesman, and patron. Drawn entirely from the MIA collection, and featuring many objects which have never been displayed in Qatar, the centerpiece is a group of 24 paintings showing Tipu’s victory at the Battle of Pollilur in 1780.Free entry

By Jason Dearen

The north Florida town of Waldo has long had a reputation as a speed trap, and it’s no wonder.

A small segment of highway that runs through Waldo requires drivers to speed up and slow down six times: 65 mph becomes 55 mph; 55 becomes 45; then goes back to 55; then back down to 45; to 55 again and eventually, 35 mph.

AAA named the tiny town between Jacksonville and Gainesville one of only two “traffic traps” nationwide and even placed an attention-getting billboard outside the limits of the town to warn drivers to slow down before entering.

Now Waldo faces a scandal follow-ing allegations that the town victimises motorists to turn a profit. Two police chiefs have been suspended, the police department has rebelled and the state is investigating possible wrongdoing.

The situation simmered for years until this month, when Police Chief Mike Szabo was suspended August 12, apparently in response to an inves-tigation by the Florida Department of Law Enforcement into suspected

improprieties in the way officers write tickets.

The issue then burst into the open two weeks later at a Waldo City Council meeting, when a group of police officers said they had been ordered by Szabo to write at least 12 tickets per 12-hour shift or face repercussions.

The officers also levelled allegations at the meeting against Cpl Kenneth Smith, who had been picked to fill in for Szabo. The officers complained that Smith had, among other things, mis-handled evidence. The city council then suspended Smith.

Not surprisingly, things are tense at the tiny stucco storefront office that serves as Waldo City Hall. On Friday morning, Mayor Louie Davis and City Manager Kim Worley met in a small cluttered office to discuss the contro-versy, slamming a door shut with a “no comment” when a reporter walked in seeking information.

Waldo has long had a reputation as a speed trap, but the allegations made by the police officers were particularly stunning since ticket quotas are illegal under Florida law.

In 2013, Waldo’s seven police officers filed 11,603 traffic citations, according to records obtained by the Gainesville Sun newspaper. That compares with 25,461 citations in 2013 for much larger Gainesville, which has 300 officers and 128,000 residents, including thousands of college students. The fines paid by motorists are a big money-maker. According to the city’s 2013 budget, about half of its $1m in revenue came from “court fines” from tickets issued.

Because the stretch of highway with six different speed limits runs by schools and a popular flea market that draws many pedestrians, the depart-ment said the speed changes are legal. But enforcing speed limits is Waldo’s responsibility, said Tony Falotico, a traffic operations engineer at FDOT.

AP

Infamous speed trap town in US investigated over tickets