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• Bangladesh minister visits Bangladesh School
• Maersk Oil and Vodafone join forces for Road Safety
• Jenny Offill: Life after Dept. of Speculation
• After a heart attack, well-managed exercise is key to rehabilitation
• Google plans to expand headquarters
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Leonard Nimoy: A pop culture force as Spock of Star Trek
Black/blue or Black/blue or white/gold? white/gold?
Cyberspace was being consumed by a debate over a picture of a dress many claim is obviously white and gold but others argue just as trenchantly is black and blue. The hashtag #TheDress led trends on Twitter worldwide, boosted by a stream of tweets from celebrities voicing support for either of the opposing camps.
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By Shawn Pogatchnik
Friends and co-workers worldwide are debating the true hues of a royal blue dress with black lace that, to
many an eye, transforms in one pho-tograph into gold and white. Experts are calling the photo a one-in-a-mil-lion shot that perfectly captures how people’s brains perceive colour and process contrast in dramatically dif-ferent ways.
“This photo provides the best test I’ve ever seen for how the process of color correction works in the brain,’” said Daniel Hardiman-McCartney, the clinical adviser to Britain’s College of Optometrists.
“I’ve never seen a photo like before where so many people look at the same photo and see two sets of such dramatically different colours.”
The photo, taken earlier this month before a wedding on the
remote Scottish island of Colonsay, also illustrates the dynamics of a per-fect social-media storm.
Guests at the wedding could not understand why, in one photo of the dress being worn by the mother of the bride, the clearly blue and black-striped garment transformed into gold and white. But only in that sin-gle photo, and only for around half of the viewers.
The debate spread from the wedding to the Internet, initially from friend to perplexed friend on Facebook.
One such wedding guest, musician and singer Caitlin McNeill, a Tumblr user with the handle ‘swiked’ posted the photo Thursday night to her account with the question: “Guys please help me. Is this dress white and gold, or blue and black? Me and my friends can’t agree and we are freaking the (expletive) out.” She’s consistently seen gold.
Debaterages overcolour of dressphotographed in rare light
Shop manager Debbie Armstrong adjusts a two tone dress in a window display of a shop in Lichfield, England.
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And then the Internet blew up.One of her friends, Alana MacInnes, saw gold
and white for the first hour, then black and blue.Buzzfeed sensed clickbait heaven and, amid its
own newsroom argument, was among the first to call McNeill. It posted more than a half-dozen stories on the image and the tsunami of reaction.
The post went viral on Twitter, Facebook and other social media platforms, with users pas-sionately split over what color the dress really is — blue with black lace, or white with gold lace.
A BuzzFeed page devoted to the debate had more than 25 million views early Friday, with 72 percent of Internet users insisting the dress was white and gold, while 28 percent swore it was blue and black.
On Twitter, #TheDress and variants surged to the top of trending lists globally within hours.
The entertainment elite then chimed in.Taylor Swift saw the dress was “obviously”
blue and black. “I don’t understand this odd dress debate and I feel like it’s a trick somehow,” pop diva Taylor Swift wrote in a message retweeted more than 90,000 times.
“I’m confused and scared. PS it’s OBVIOUSLY BLUE AND BLACK.”
“What’s the matter with u guys, it’s white and gold,” countered Julianne Moore. Kim Kardashian, never one to miss a trending topic, reported she was seeing gold but to husband Kanye West, it was solidly black and blue. “Who is color blind?” Kardashian asked the twitterati.
The answer, says Hardiman-McCartney, is that every viewer seeing either set of colours is right.
He says the exceptional bar-code style of the dress, combined with the strongly yellow-toned backlighting in the one photo, provides the brain a rare chance to “choose” which of the dress’ two primary colours should be seen in detail.
Those who subconsciously seek detail in the many horizontal black lines convert them to a golden hue, so the blue disappears into a blown-out white, he said.
Others whose brains focus on the blue part of the dress see the photo as the black-and-blue reality.
“There’s no correct way to perceive this pho-tograph. It sits right on the cusp, or balance, of how we perceive the colour of a subject versus the surrounding area,” he said.
“And this colour consistency illusion that we’re experiencing doesn’t mean there’s any-thing wrong with your eyes. It just shows how your brain chooses to see the image, to process this luminescence confusion.”
There may be a scientific explanation for all the madness. According to British physicist Isaac Newton, colour is not inherent to objects. Humans perceive the colours reflected on the surface of objects through light that hits the retina in the back of the eye.
Reena Garg, an assistant professor at the New York Eye and Ear Infirmary of Mount
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Sinai in New York, said the varied reactions can be explained by how we understand colour, not-ing that the poorly exposed photograph was likely taken with a cell phone camera.
“If you see the dress as black and blue, you’re probably seeing the photo as over-exposed, mean-ing there is too much light, so the colors in the dress appear darker to you after the retina has compensated,” Garg said.
“If you see the dress as white and gold, you’re probably seeing the photo as under-exposed, mean-ing there is too little light and the colors in the dress appear lighter to you after the retina has compensated.”
The photo produced a deluge of media calls on Friday to the Tumblr reporter, 21-year-old McNeill, who calls the seemingly endless phone calls “more than I’ve received in the entirety of the rest of my life combined.”
She says the photographer, who is also the mother of the bride, never wanted the publicity.
There’s one clear winner: English dress retailer Roman Originals, which has reported a million hits on its sales site in the first 18 hours following the photo’s worldwide distribution.
The British manufacturer confirmed that the dress is, in fact royal blue with lace, and sells for £50 ($77).
“I can officially say that this dress is royal blue with black lace trimming,” said Michele Bastock, design director at Roman Originals.
She said staff members had no idea that the dress, when shot in that singularly peculiar light, might be perceived in a totally different color scheme. Not until Friday anyway, when they arrived at work to field hundreds of emails, calls and social media posts. They, too, split almost 50-50 on the photo’s true colors.
All agreed, however, the dress for the Birmingham, England-based retailer was likely to become their greatest-ever seller. The chain’s web-site Friday headlined its product as “#TheDress now back in stock — debate now.”
“Straightaway we went to the computers and had a look. And some members of the team saw ivory and gold. I see a royal blue all the time,” she said. “It’s an enigma ... but we are grateful.”
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The two-tone dress, left, alongside an ivory and black version, made by Roman Originals.
The photo which sparked the Internet storm.
CAMPUS PLUS | SUNDAY 1 MARCH 20154
Khandaker Mosharraf Hossain, Minister of Expatriates’ Welfare and Overseas
Employment (EWOE), visited Bangladesh MHM School and college, Qatar recently.
The minister was given a tour of the school building and class rooms. He enjoyed the cultural programmes presented by the students of the school.
Syed Masud Mahmood Khundoker, Ambassador of Bangladesh and chairman of Governing Body of Bangladesh School, Governing Body members, Principal, faculty mem-bers, students, parents and commu-nity members were also present on this occasion.
The Principal Md Jashim Uddin said: “It is an honour to have the minister here. The visit has given everyone a real lift and generated a great sense of excitement in the school.”
The principal informed him of the fact that the school has achieved 100 percent passing rate in both PSC and
JSC examinations as well as very good result in SSC and HSC examination under the Board of Intermediate and Secondary Education, Dhaka.
Bangladesh school stood first among all expatriate Bangladeshi Schools in respect of board exami-nation results.
The minister praised the efforts of the school in providing quality educa-tion to the children of the Bangladeshi community in Qatar.
He said: “We were and always will be with your good initiative.”
He also advised the students, “It is high time you concentrated to your study and bring glory for our nation.”
For ensuring smooth educational atmosphere by building new school buildings the Minister donated Taka 20m to the school.
The minister also laid the foundation stone of new academic building.
On the eve of the minister’s depar-ture the principal thanked him for his visit.
The Peninsula
Bangladesh minister visits Bangladesh School
The minister receiving a memento from the school officials. Below: Students and staff presenting various programmes.
The students of Noble International School created awareness about the “Qatar National Environment Day” by organising the anti-littering campaign at Al Khor beach in support of ICC to promote alertness and sense of responsibility among students.
Noble marks Environment Day
Maersk Oil Qatar and Vodafone Qatar have come together to help address one of Qatar’s
most pressing challenges – road safety. Hundreds of students at Park House English School in Doha have benefitted from a week-long road safety event, featuring one-to-one coaching and a state-of-the-art road safety simulator, that sought to high-light positive road behaviours among young people.
Road accidents are fast becoming a global epidemic, according to the United Nations, with 1.3 million peo-ple losing their lives and 50 million others seriously injured each year on roads. The road safety event at Park House English School drew on Maersk Oil Qatar’s and the General Directorate for Traffic’s successful Students for Road Safety programme that seeks to transform young peo-ple into ambassadors for safe road
behaviour. Students were given one-to-one coaching in the Students for Road Safety simulator that uses an artificial intelligence engine to rec-reate common mistakes made by drivers in Doha, such as tail-gating, failure to indicate, flashing lights and cutting across lanes at roundabouts.
Sheikh Faisal bin Fahad Al Thani, Deputy Managing Director of Maersk Oil Qatar, said: “I am delighted that Vodafone Qatar has joined with Maersk Oil Qatar in highlighting how relatively simple, positive behaviour on the road can help avoid unneces-sary injuries and fatalities. The recent visit to Park House English School is a fantastic example that by working together in an efficient way, we can help make a meaningful difference to the lives of people in Qatar.”
During the event, Vodafone Qatar outlined practical steps that students can take to improve road safety with iPads featuring an educational road
safety app that outlined a set of “absolute road rules”.
Kyle Whitehill, Chief Executive Officer of Vodafone Qatar, said: “We’re very pleased to partner with Maersk Oil in tackling road safety awareness because this an issue requires a contribution from every-one. Road safety is a topic that is strongly embedded in our workplace
culture, where Vodafone staff across the world live by seven absolute health and safety rules including in their driving behaviour. By work-ing together and bringing the best resources to support the campaign, we can all do our part to encourage future drivers to become road safety ambassadors and make Qatar’s roads safer.” The Peninsula
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PWF’s ‘Education for All’ programme appreciated
Shabaz Sharif, the Chief Minister of Punjab of Pakistan while appreciating successful ‘Education for All’ project
initiated by Pakistan Welfare Forum (PWF)-Qatar for the children of under privileged Pakistani families in Qatar invited PWF delegation to visit Pakistan and take benefit of each other’s experience for eliminating illiteracy.
Earlier, Riyaz Bakali President PWF briefly apprised the visiting dignitary about the activities and achievements of PWF including Education for All
Programme in Qatar besides financial assistance for deserving Pakistani fam-ilies under social welfare and medical programmes. He also highlighted PWF tremendous role during natural calam-ities of Pakistan at the times of floods in 2010 and 2011 and earthquake in 2012. Recently, PWF also contributed
significantly for IDPs of KPK province.The meeting was also attended
by Federal Minister of Petroleum Shahid Khaqan Abbasi, Ambassador of Pakistan in Qatar Shahzad Ahmad and several other high ranking official besides senior members of the forum including Muhammad Khan, Idrees
Anwar, Malik Qaiser, Perveiz Iqbal and few other notable members.
The chief minister was also informed about direly needed multipurpose hall at PEC School. Sharif while lauding the project assured full support for construction of the hall.
The Peninsula
HEC Paris welcomed the Class of 2016 of the HEC Executive MBA programme with a launch and orientation event held recently
at the Tornado Tower in Qatar.The Class of 2016, comprising of 47 participants,
has an average age of 40. The participants repre-sent 11 nationalities and are senior executives from various sectors such as Construction, Travel and Tourism, Finance, IT, Oil and Gas and Education.
The new participants were welcomed by Prof Laoucine Kerbache, Dean & CEO of HEC Paris in Qatar, followed by an overview of the programme with Matthew Gibb, Director of Executive MBA of HEC Paris and Prof Wolfgang Amann, Academic Coordinator of the Executive MBA Doha Modular. The day ended with an official ceremony, which included words of encouragement from Yousef Al
Jaber, Head of CSR and Institutional Relations at Total Qatar, HEC Paris alumni Nasser Al Ansari, Chairman, QDVC and Abdulla Al Mehshadi, CEO, Msheireb Properties and, also, from Prof Kerbache.
“Participants will learn from HEC Paris’ top fac-ulty and benefit from interaction with other senior participants who also bring a wealth of practical business experience from a wide spectrum of sectors and management functions to the classroom,” Prof Kerbache said. “The HEC Paris EMBA is distinctly positioned for participants to gain comprehensive, innovative, and applicable knowledge and skills that will facilitate the translation of vision into action by focusing on strategy and leadership in a global business environment.”
“As we welcome this year our fifth cohort since
the beginning of our partnership with Qatar Foundation, we are delighted with the continued growth of our global learning community and look forward to developing tomorrow’s influential lead-ers and thinkers,” he added. The Peninsula
Park House students practising using the simulator.
HEC official addressing the gathering.
HEC Paris welcomes Executive MBA Class of 2016
Maersk Oil and Vodafone join forces for road safety
PLUS | SUNDAY 1 MARCH 20156 FOOD
By Joe Yonan
Long before the slow cooker, there was the tagine: a clay cooking vessel from northern Africa whose conical lid pro-
motes condensation and moisture retention, bathing the stew inside (also called a tagine) with steam and coaxing its ingredients to silky tenderness. In Morocco, it was the original set-it-and-forget-it cooker, set on bricks over coals and left to do its thing for hours.
Don’t you feel a little warmer just thinking about it? This winter’s cold snap has me, and pretty much every cook I know, scrounging for new ways to take the chill off. When a particu-larly brutal stretch hit recently — freezing my pipes and knocking out water in my kitchen — I filled pitchers of water (and did more than one load of dishes) in an upstairs bathtub, cranked up the heat in my townhouse, and pulled out my tagine.
To be honest, I’ve had the thing for years without using it; I got it from friends who, well, had it for years without using it. It looks strik-ing on my tower of pots, with its dramatic red lid, but for some reason I had never before put it through its paces.
Maybe it was the height of the tagine, which takes up pretty much the whole oven, requir-ing rack-shuffling to make it fit. Or maybe it’s because I associate tagines so strongly with lamb, poultry and other meats, and, well, need I say more?
But the fact is, vegetables — especially roots — cook wonderfully in a tagine, and they pair just as well with traditional ingredients: dried fruit, honey, warming spices like cumin and cinnamon, nuts. Best of all, just when I was wanting to avoid washing more dishes than nec-essary, these stews can come together in just one pot. (If you don’t have a tagine, don’t let that stop you from making one of those dishes: Go with a Dutch oven instead.)
Traditional clay tagines can require special attention to be appropriate for both stove top and oven use; you need to heat them gradually or place a diffuser on a burner. But mine, made
by Le Creuset, is the best of both worlds: It has a cast-iron bottom that can handle the high-est of direct heat (and works on my induction stove), letting me brown ingredients if I want, and a glazed stoneware lid that works just the way a tagine should.
To inaugurate my tagine, I tried a recipe from Sally Butcher’s wonderfully witty The New Middle Eastern Vegetarian: More Recipes from Veggiestan (Interlink, 2014) that calls for many of my favourite winter staples: turnips, carrots, shallots, prunes. And when it emerged from the oven just 40 minutes after going in (turnips don’t take nearly as long to cook as, say, lamb shoulder), the result was just as intoxicatingly fragrant — sweet and savoury — as any tagine I’ve had in the best Moroccan restaurants.
I don’t know whether it was the turned-up heat in my townhouse or the magic of the tag-ine, but within eight hours after I pulled it from the oven, my pipes had thawed and I could do dishes in my kitchen again. After I washed the tagine, I didn’t return it to the tower but left it on the countertop. Just in case.
Prune and Turnip Tagine4 to 6 servingsServe with couscous or bread and a salad.Make Ahead: The cooked tagine may be
refrigerated for up to 1 week.
Ingredients8 ounces shallots2 tablespoons extra-virgin olive oil1 tablespoon unsalted butter (may substitute
olive oil)2 teaspoons ground cinnamon1 teaspoon ground ginger1 teaspoon ground cumin1 1/2 pounds turnips (4 medium or 6 to 7
baby turnips), peeled and cut into large chunks2 medium carrots, scrubbed well and cut into
1/2-inch pieces1 3/4 cups no-salt-added or homemade veg-
etable broth1/4 teaspoon saffron threads, soaked in a
splash of boiling waterAbout 10 ounces (2 cups) soft pitted prunes1 1/2 tablespoons runny honey1/2 teaspoon fine sea salt, or more as needed1/2 teaspoon freshly cracked black pepper1/4 cup sliced almonds, toasted (see Note)1 tablespoon sesame seeds, roasted or toasted
(see Note)1/2 cup loosely packed cilantro leaves,
chopped
Method:Preheat the oven to 325 degrees. If using a
tagine, set the oven racks to easily accommo-date it.
If the shallots are particularly large and multi-lobed, separate them into individual lobes.
Heat the oil and butter in a Dutch oven (or the base of a cast-iron tagine, if you are using one) over medium heat. (If your tagine is made of flameproof clay, start over low heat and grad-ually increase it to medium.) Add the shallots, toss to combine and cook, stirring occasionally, until the shallots are lightly browned in spots, 2 to 3 minutes.
Add the cinnamon, ginger, cumin, turnips and carrots, and stir to combine. Cook for a minute or two, until the spices become fragrant, then pour in the broth and soaked saffron threads. Increase the heat slightly to bring the mixture to a boil, then turn off the heat and stir in the prunes, honey and the 1/2 teaspoon each of salt and pepper. Taste, and add more salt as needed.
Cover and transfer to the oven; bake until the vegetables are tender, 30 to 40 minutes.
Uncover; sprinkle with the almonds, sesame seeds and cilantro. Serve hot.
Note: Toast the almonds in a small, dry skil-let over medium-low heat for a few minutes, until fragrant and lightly browned, shaking the pan as needed to prevent scorching. Toast the sesame seeds, separately, in the same way.
Nutrition | Per serving (based on 6): 320 calo-ries, 5 g protein, 60 g carbohydrates, 10 g fat, 2 g saturated fat, 5 mg cholesterol, 300 mg sodium, 9 g dietary fiber, 36 g sugar
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Putting the tagine to test
BOOKS 7PLUS | SUNDAY 1 MARCH 2015
By Lidija Haas
A Brooklyn writer is having trouble producing a second book; she also struggles with bed-bugs, a small daughter and a husband who gets involved with a younger woman. The
plot of Jenny Offill’s second novel, Dept. of Speculation, doesn’t sound promising: “If someone had described this novel to me, I would never have read it,” she says when we meet on West 23rd Street in Manhattan. A novel of ideas half disguised as a domestic drama, it’s told in fragments, jokes, quotations: WB Yeats, Rainer Maria Rilke, Ludwig Wittgenstein appear alongside proverbs, scientific “fun facts” and snip-pets of self-help. So familiar is the story that it can be told with rare economy, leaving out almost every expected element in favour of something quicker, sadder, funnier. As her agent told the press when they sold the novel to Knopf in 2013, “If your average book is a body, this is an x-ray.” When she saw it had made the New York Times Book Review’s Ten Best Books of 2014, Offill wondered if she’d start seem-ing too popular for readers like herself (she’s often drawn to “more experimental, small-press books”).
Over lunch, Offill still looks a little taken aback. Her debut, Last Things, came out to good reviews in 1999, but she clearly didn’t expect this smaller, stranger book to be such a hit. “I realised about a year ago, ‘Oh, I’m not sure that underdog persona’s going to fly any more.” As well as teaching writing as a “roving adjunct”, she’s had a lot of jobs over the years, from waiting tables to working at BookCourt, my local bookshop in Brooklyn, to facilitating the vanity projects of “crazy rich people”. For years she wondered if she should do a postgraduate course in linguistics, or become a primatologist, but “like many writers I’m kind of a one-trick pony – this is the thing I can do”.
Born in 1968, she grew up the only child of two private-school English teachers, moving around the US from Massachusetts to California to Indiana to North Carolina, going to school with children from much wealthier backgrounds. “For so much of my life money was always the thing, I might have had time but I didn’t have money.” When she moved to New York as an adult, the wealth and privilege was “of another order. I couldn’t figure out how all these people were surviving on the salary of, say, a fact-checker. And then eventually one of them would have a party and you’d go to their house and think, ‘Oh … everybody has secret money.’” One paragraph in Dept. of Speculation (each is set out like the stanza of a poem) reads:
“A woman at the playground explains her dilemma. They have finally found a house, a brownstone with four floors and a garden, perfectly maintained, on the love-liest of blocks in the least anxiety producing of school districts, but now she finds that she spends much of her day on one floor looking for something that has actually been left on another floor.”
If New York’s class dynamics are clearly implied, the novel nonetheless operates on a scale where broader social or political life is mostly invisible. There’s the bizarre isolation of domesticity and there are the vistas of deep space, and not much in between; when the narrator discovers that her hus-band is listening to a lecture series called “The Long Now”, she’s surprised to learn that it’s about “topics such as climate change and Peak Oil. Somehow I had assumed it meant the feeling of daily life”.
Confusions of scale have always intrigued Offill.
Last Things, now being reissued, is told from the per-spective of an eight-year-old girl being home-schooled by her increasingly unstable mother (“another book”, she says, “that if described to me I would not wish to read”). Science, mythology and playground rumours mix together without hierarchy: the child and the unbalanced adult understand each other, Offill says, because “when you put things on the same plane, you start to see that they’re not necessarily as far apart as they might seem”. She comes across this idea everywhere, that “these distinctions we make between what is important and what is trivial, what is big and what is small, are really arbitrary”.
Offill was pleased that UK reviewers seemed to understand Dept. of Speculation in a different way – they “got the humour of it” more, “all these moments which are really meant to be kind of a joke about what it’s like to be depressed”. Readers responded to that, too; she heard from quite a few unhappy young men who work in bookshops. Offill herself has had depression since she was 18 and “when I’m medicated, which I’m doing now … I have to work a little harder to get up to high speed”. At times writ-ing seems to get harder as living gets easier. Coming out of a difficult time into a more comfortable one can be “like watching the light dim”.
In the book, the narrator’s troubles emerge only obliquely. Late on there’s a glancing reference to medicine, and another to her childhood: she and her sister discuss her husband, “just a nice boy from Ohio”, and how unprepared he is for this marital breach, the first bad thing that’s really happened to him. “What would it be like,” the sisters wonder, “to make it so late into life before trouble hit?” They lost their mother young, and their father was elsewhere: not expecting the worst isn’t a problem they have. The narrator suspects her husband’s lover might be more like her. Offill tells me she thinks those
with “a little of that raised-by-wolvesness” can spot each other. She’s met people – often, again, the rich – to whom the big loss or disillusionment “hasn’t happened yet. And I always feel a little nervous for them.”
There is a certain chutzpah in letting 15 years go by and then publishing a novel fewer than 200 pages long that looks more like a poem. As well as having her daughter Theodora at 35, Offill was wrestling with an earlier version of the book, formed from the same elements – marriage, creative work, “mother-hood hijacking you out of that art-making mind” – but more linear, more conventionally structured. At Columbia she taught a class about unhinged nar-rators, and after encouraging countless students to experiment, unhinge, deconstruct, she started to feel like “a total hypocrite”: “Why am I not writing like that?” Teaching students not to overwrite also helped her with her own art of compression: “I spend a lot of time trying to figure out how you can say the most with the least.”
She’d got as far as sending the earlier version to publishers, and when a couple turned it down, she realised that alongside her anxiety over more years of booklessness, she felt liberated – “thrilled, relieved” – because this wasn’t the novel she’d hoped to write. “My dirty little secret is that when I gave up on it I wrote poetry for a year,” she says. “I had to get my sea legs back.” Writing poetry freed her from wor-rying about narrative for a while: “For me, people’s emotional life is plot.” She remembers coming out of her study and saying to her husband: “OK, I’m writing a completely different book about this stuff, and probably nobody’s going to read it except other writers, but it might be a lot better — and I’ll just make money writing kids’ books.” (Indeed, she’s writ-ten several, including 17 Things I’m Not Allowed to Do Anymore and While You Were Napping.)
The form of Dept. of Speculation often mimics the experience of early motherhood. Caring for her baby, the narrator writes, involved a repetitive sequence of “urgent and tedious” tasks that “cut the day up into little scraps”. The book is not an autobiography, and Offill says she’s learned her lesson about creating a protagonist whose biographical details are so close to her own. Still, the central problem of combining motherhood and creative work is one drawn from life. The narrator, like Offill, had always planned to be “an art monster”, someone ruthless, who would never let family ties get in the way of her writing. Offill used to pore in vain over Paris Review inter-views; she didn’t find enough female art monsters to console her, though in a way women are the only real ones — when it’s a man “they just call it being an artist”. Her most natural writing method is the binge – “I do my best writing if I’m just left alone for weeks at a time and don’t have to in any way act like a normal human being” — which isn’t very compatible with parenthood. Now she’s able to take a break from teaching, and her daughter is 10, it’s going faster: she plans to turn in the next book in October.
Offill is aware of the improbability that “a book that is written the way you want to write it” will make money or attract a big, mainstream, book-club audience: it’s “literary lightning”. Soon after our lunch, I stop by my local bookshop, the one Offill once worked in. They have a monthly bookclub, and guess who’s the February pick. The Guardian
Jenny Offill: Life after Dept. of Speculation
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970s,
cre
-ati
ng r
ichly
im
agin
ed fanta
sy w
orl
ds
that
were
base
d o
n t
he s
how
and t
hat
were
pla
yed o
ut
at
large-s
cale
conven
tion
s.
Film
maker
Georg
e L
ucas
said
Sta
r T
rek
help
ed p
ave t
he w
ay f
or h
is S
tar
Wa
rsm
ovie
s. T
he
succ
ess
of
Sta
r W
ars
, in
turn
, help
ed s
pur
the S
tar
Tre
k fi
lm s
eri
es.
As
a t
ele
vis
ion p
rogra
mm
e,
Sta
r T
rek
pro
ved g
roundbre
akin
g in m
any w
ays.
It
serv
ed u
p a
llegori
cal ta
les
about
vio
lence
, gre
ed, je
alo
usy
, pre
judic
e, peace
and love
— t
he r
oilin
g s
oci
al is
sues
of
the 1
960s
—
in t
he g
uis
e o
f in
terg
ala
ctic
adventu
re.
It d
id s
o, sa
id t
ele
vis
ion s
chola
r R
obert
T
hom
pso
n,
“at
a t
ime w
hen
Am
eric
an
te
levis
ion
com
ple
tely
shie
d a
way f
rom
any k
ind o
f re
levan
ce o
r so
cia
l con
tro-
vers
y, e
xce
pt
in t
he n
ew
s.”
Its
23rd
-centu
ry s
tars
hip
cre
w w
as
a
uto
pia
n f
edera
tion
of
men
an
d w
om
en
, bla
cks
and w
hit
es,
Am
eri
cans,
Russ
ians
and A
sians
— a
nd S
pock
, w
ho w
as
born
on t
he p
lanet
Vulc
an in a
civ
iliz
ati
on t
hat
has
mast
ere
d c
ontr
ol of it
s fe
elings.
(T
he
Vulc
an a
phori
sm “
live long a
nd p
rosp
er”
becam
e a
catc
hphra
se.)
He b
eco
mes
the
scie
nce
offi
cer
and fi
rst
mate
aboard
the
Ente
rpri
se a
nd w
as,
sci
ence
fict
ion w
rite
r Is
aac
Asi
mov o
nce
obse
rved, a “
creatu
re
of
pure
reaso
n a
nd n
o e
moti
on.”
By m
ost
accoun
ts,
Nim
oy p
ortr
ayed
the m
ost
popula
r ch
ara
cter
of
the S
tar
Tre
k c
ast
. W
hile s
om
e c
rit
ics
thought
that
Nim
oy’s
act
ing w
as
dour
or
wooden,
fans
mig
ht
have a
rgued t
hat
these
were
pre
cise
ly t
he c
hara
cteri
stic
s of
the e
mo-
tion-s
uppre
ssin
g, lo
gic
-obse
ssed S
pock
.In
on
e epis
ode call
ed “T
he N
aked
Tim
e,”
a vir
us
infe
cts
th
e sp
acesh
ip
and c
ause
s th
e c
rew
’s “
hid
den s
elv
es”
to
em
erg
e —
revealing p
revio
usl
y u
nknow
n
dim
en
sion
s of
Spock’s
natu
re.
At
on
e
poin
t, t
he c
haos
overt
akes
him
, and h
e
bre
aks
dow
n a
nd c
ries.
“It
solidifi
ed e
very
thin
g,” N
imoy t
old
th
e N
ew Y
ork
Tim
es in 1
968. “I
knew
that
we w
ere
not
pla
yin
g a
man w
ith n
o e
mo-
tion
s, b
ut
a m
an
who h
ad g
reat
prid
e,
who h
ad learn
ed t
o c
ontr
ol his
em
oti
ons
and w
ho w
ould
deny t
hat
he k
new
what
em
oti
on
s w
ere.
In a
way,
he w
as
more
hum
an t
han a
nyone e
lse o
n t
he s
hip
.”H
e a
dded:
“In
spit
e o
f bein
g a
n o
ut-
cast
, bei
ng m
ixed
up, l
ookin
g d
iffe
rent,
he
main
tain
s his
poin
t of
vie
w. H
e c
an’t
be
bullie
d o
r put
on. H
e’s
frea
ky w
ith d
ignit
y.
There
are
very
few
chara
cters
who h
ave
that
kin
d o
f pri
de, co
ol and a
bilit
y t
o lay
it o
ut
and w
alk
aw
ay.
Hum
phre
y B
ogart
pla
yed m
ost
of
them
.”L
eon
ard S
imon
Nim
oy w
as
born
in
Bost
on o
n M
arc
h 2
6, 1
931,
to p
are
nts
who
had b
een p
easa
nts
in w
hat
is n
ow
U
kra
ine.
His
fath
er b
ecam
e a b
ar-
ber
and u
rged h
is s
ons
— L
eonard
an
d a
n o
lder b
roth
er,
Melv
in —
to
ward
sta
ble
care
ers
.T
he b
oys
gre
w u
p in a
Yid
dis
h-
speakin
g h
ouse
hold
and a
ttended
Ort
hodox J
ew
ish s
erv
ices,
whic
h
becam
e a
n u
nexpect
ed i
nfluence
on
N
imoy’s
role
as
Spock
. H
is
“Vulc
an s
alu
te”
— m
ade b
y p
art
-in
g t
he m
iddle
and r
ing fi
ngers
of
each
hand —
was
base
d o
n a
hand
gest
ure
he n
oti
ced w
hile a
ttend-
ing a
synagogue a
s an 8
-year-
old
.“I
did
n’t
know
what
it m
eant,”
he
once
said
, “b
ut
I knew
it
looked
like s
om
eth
ing m
agic
al.”
Nim
oy d
evel
oped
an e
arl
y inte
r-est
in a
ctin
g, and h
e r
ecalled t
hat
his
paren
ts w
ere “
grie
f-st
ric
ken
” w
hen
he a
ban
don
ed a
schola
rsh
ip a
t B
ost
on
College t
o s
eek a
care
er
in H
ollyw
ood.
In 1
952, he w
on t
he t
itle
role
, a b
oxer
wit
h a
dis
figure
d f
ace
, in
the l
ow
-budget
film
Kid
Mon
k B
aro
ni. N
imoy m
ista
kenly
th
ought
the p
art
would
launch
his
care
er.
“I
t pla
yed a
bout
thre
e d
ays
as
a s
eco
nd
bill
som
ew
here i
n H
ollyw
ood a
nd t
hen
die
d,”
he t
old
the T
imes.
“N
oth
ing h
ap-
pen
ed a
nd, i
n 1
953, I
wen
t in
to t
he
Arm
y.”
Aft
er
his
dis
charg
e,
he m
ost
ly p
layed
heavie
s on
TV
show
s su
ch a
s D
ragn
et,
Sea
Hu
nt
an
d W
agon
Tra
in b
efo
re h
is
breakth
rough i
n 1
964 w
hile a
cti
ng o
n
the adven
ture se
rie
s T
he L
ieu
ten
an
t.
Roddenberr
y w
as
a p
roduce
r of th
e s
how
and s
oon h
ired h
im f
or
Sta
r T
rek.
“For t
he fi
rst
tim
e,
I had a
job t
hat
last
ed longer
than t
wo w
eeks
and a
dre
ss-
ing r
oom
wit
h m
y n
am
e p
ain
ted o
n t
he
door a
nd n
ot
chalk
ed o
n,”
Nim
oy l
ate
r
told
the T
imes
.N
imoy s
truggle
d w
ith h
is S
tar
Tre
k
legacy.
H
is fi
rst
m
em
oir
, publi
shed in
19
75,
was
called I
Am
Not
Sp
ock
. It
was
follow
ed 2
0 y
ears
late
r by I
Am
Sp
ock
, in
w
hic
h h
e s
aid
he h
ad c
om
e t
o p
eace
wit
h
the s
how
that
defined h
im i
n t
he p
ublic
imagin
ati
on.
Nim
oy d
esc
rib
ed a
n i
nte
nse
“si
blin
g
riv
alr
y”
wit
h
Wil
liam
S
hatn
er,
w
ho
starr
ed a
s th
e h
ero
ic C
apt
Jam
es
T K
irk.
Nim
oy w
as
nom
inate
d t
hree t
imes
for
the E
mm
y f
or
best
support
ing a
ctor
but
felt
he d
ese
rved r
eco
gnit
ion for
what
was
ess
en
tially a le
adin
g role
. M
eanw
hil
e,
Shatn
er
rece
ived n
o n
om
inati
ons.
Nim
oy,
who t
ook a
n e
arn
est
appro
ach
to
his
art
, w
as
oft
en t
he b
utt
of S
hatn
er’s
on-s
et
pra
nks.
He d
idn’t
talk
to S
hatn
er
for
weeks.
They l
ate
r re
conci
led.
Nim
oy s
aid
he
help
ed S
hatn
er
thro
ugh h
is m
arr
iage t
o
an a
lcoholic
and c
om
fort
ed h
im a
fter
the
wom
an, N
erin
e K
idd, dro
wned
in a
sw
im-
min
g p
ool.
The o
rigin
al ru
n o
f S
tar
Tre
k w
as
can-
celled b
ecause
of
dw
indling r
ati
ngs,
and
Nim
oy’s
str
ong i
denti
ty a
s S
pock m
ade
it h
ard
for
him
to t
ransc
end t
he r
ole
. O
n
the C
BS
seri
es
Mis
sion
: Im
poss
ible
fro
m
1969 t
o 1
971,
he p
layed a
mast
er
of
dis
-guis
e n
am
ed P
ari
s. F
rom
1976 t
o 1
982, he
host
ed t
he
syndic
ate
d d
ocu
men
tary
ser
ies
In S
earc
h O
f...,
whic
h e
xplo
red p
hen
om
ena
such
as
the L
och
Ness
monst
er
and t
he
Berm
uda T
riangle
.
Nim
oy w
rote
and p
erf
orm
ed
in a
one-m
an s
tage s
how
about
Theo v
an G
ogh a
nd h
is t
rou-
ble
d
bu
t bril
lian
t pain
ter
bro
ther,
Vin
cent.
He
had
supporti
ng
role
s on
screen
, but
he w
as
relu
c-
tan
t to
repris
e S
pock f
or t
he
firs
t S
tar
Tre
k m
ovie
in 1
979. A
st
ickin
g p
oin
t had b
een r
oyal-
ties
he f
elt
he w
ere
ow
ed o
ver
toys,
post
ers
and o
ther
mem
o-
rabilia
wit
h S
pock
’s im
age.
He m
ade th
e m
ovie
aft
er
sett
lin
g a la
wsu
it w
ith
th
e
studio
.T
o p
ersu
ade
Nim
oy t
o a
ppea
r in
Sta
r T
rek
II:
Th
e W
rath
of
Kh
an (
1982),
Para
moun
t st
u-
dio
s off
ere
d h
im a
plu
m r
ole
in
its
tele
vis
ion p
roduct
ion A
Wom
an
Ca
lled
G
old
a a
bout
the I
sraeli p
rim
e m
inis
ter
Gold
a M
eir
.N
imoy w
as
cast
as
Morr
is M
eyers
on,
Meir
’s h
usb
and, opposi
te I
ngri
d B
erg
man
in t
he t
itle
role
, an
d e
arn
ed a
n E
mm
y
nom
inati
on f
or
his
support
ing p
art
. T
he
on
ly c
on
sola
tion
in
losi
ng,
he s
aid
, w
as
that
it w
as
to L
aure
nce
Olivie
r in
the
lim
-it
ed s
eri
es
Bri
des
hea
d R
evis
ited
.S
pock
h
ad
been
k
ille
d
savin
g
the
Ente
rpri
se c
rew
in t
he s
eco
nd m
ovie
ver-
sion b
ut,
to t
he
relief
of m
any e
nth
usi
ast
s,
the
chara
cter
was
reviv
ed in futu
re m
ovie
in
stallm
en
ts t
hat
Nim
oy a
lso d
irecte
d:
Sta
r T
rek
III
: T
he
Sea
rch
for
Sp
ock
(19
84)
and S
tar
Tre
k I
V: T
he
Voy
age
Hom
e (1
986).
He late
r dir
ect
ed t
he h
it c
om
edy 3
Men
a
nd
a B
ab
y (1
987),
sta
rrin
g T
om
Selleck
, T
ed D
an
son
an
d S
teve G
utt
en
berg a
s bach
elo
rs
wh
o care fo
r an
in
fan
t le
ft
on
their
doorst
ep.
To l
ess
en
thusi
ast
ic
revie
ws,
h
e dir
ecte
d D
ian
e K
eato
n in
T
he G
ood
Moth
er
(1988),
base
d o
n t
he
Sue M
ille
r novel about
a d
ivorc
ed m
oth
er
wh
ose
n
ew
foun
d pass
ion
s th
reate
n to
co
nsu
me h
er
life
.A
roun
d th
e sa
me ti
me,
Nim
oy le
ft
his
w
ife
of
33
years,
S
an
dra
Zober,
an
d t
hey d
ivorced.
In 1
989,
he m
arrie
d
actr
ess
S
usa
n B
ay.
Besi
des
his
w
ife,
surv
ivors
incl
ude t
wo c
hildre
n f
rom
his
firs
t m
arr
iage,
Adam
an
d J
ulie;
a s
tep-
son;
a b
roth
er;
six
gra
ndch
ildre
n;
and a
gre
at-
gra
ndch
ild.
Nim
oy p
arl
ayed h
is S
tar
Tre
k f
am
e
into
a s
ingin
g c
are
er
in t
he late
1960s
and
1970s,
cutt
ing a
lbum
s su
ch a
s L
eon
ard
N
imoy
Pre
sen
ts M
r. S
pock
’s M
usi
c F
rom
O
ute
r S
pa
ce.
He a
lso p
ublish
ed b
ooks
of
poetr
y a
nd p
hoto
gra
phy a
nd c
ham
pio
ned
pro
gre
ssiv
e c
ause
s, i
ncl
udin
g c
ivil r
ights
an
d C
esa
r C
havez’
s eff
ort
s on
behalf
of
imm
igra
nt
farm
work
ers
.T
he fi
lm o
r te
levis
ion o
ffers
that
rolled
in d
urin
g h
is l
ate
r l
ife t
en
ded t
o b
e i
n
the r
ealm
of
scie
nce
fict
ion. H
e w
as
the
voic
e o
f S
enti
nel
Pri
me i
n t
he 2
011
film
T
ran
sform
ers
: D
ark
of
the M
oon,
an
d h
e
part
icip
ate
d i
n n
earl
y a
ll S
tar
Tre
k fi
lm
and T
V incarn
ati
ons.
He s
poke t
o t
he w
rite
r D
igby D
iehl in
19
68 a
bout
the s
trange e
ffect
Spock
and
his
foam
rubber
ears
had o
n w
om
en
in
part
icula
r. “
I te
ll y
ou f
rankly
, I’ve n
ever
had m
ore fe
male
att
en
tion
on
a se
t befo
re,”
he s
aid
. “A
nd g
et
this
: th
ey a
ll
wante
d t
o t
ouch
the e
ars
.” W
P-B
loom
berg
B
OLLY
WO
OD
NE
WS
HO
LLY
WO
OD
NE
WS
No
‘joy
’ bet
wee
n L
awre
nce
, O’R
uss
ell
Actr
ess
Jennif
er L
aw
rence w
as
reporte
dly
spott
ed h
avin
g a
bla
zing
row
wit
h t
he d
irecto
r o
f her n
ext
film
Joy.
Accordin
g t
o a
source,
the 2
4-y
ear-o
ld a
nd O
’Russ
ell w
ere l
oudly
sc
ream
ing a
nd s
wearin
g a
t each o
ther o
n t
he s
et
of th
e m
ovie
in B
ost
on,
reports
tm
z.com
.T
he a
rgum
ent
is s
aid
to h
ave b
egun b
ecause
Law
rence w
as
unhappy
wit
h h
ow
O’R
uss
ell w
as
dir
ecti
ng a
scene. H
ow
ever,
a r
eprese
nta
tive for
Fox 2
000 s
tudio
, sa
id t
he s
cream
ing w
as
just
meth
od a
cti
ng.
The s
tudio
, w
hic
h i
s producin
g t
he fi
lm c
laim
ed t
hat
O’R
uss
ell w
as
help
ing L
aw
rence t
o g
et
riled u
p b
efo
re s
he s
hot
a s
cene i
n w
hic
h s
he
had t
o s
hout
at
anoth
er a
cto
r.Jo
y is
O’R
uss
ell a
nd L
aw
rence’s
thir
d fi
lm t
ogeth
er.
The d
uo h
as
previ-
ousl
y w
ork
ed in S
ilve
r L
inin
gs
Pla
ybook a
nd A
meri
can
Hu
stle
. “J
oy”
is b
ase
d o
n t
he l
ife o
f in
vento
r a
nd e
ntr
epreneur J
oy M
angano
(pla
yed b
y L
aw
rence),
a s
truggling s
ingle
moth
er w
ho a
chie
ved g
reat
success
aft
er c
reati
ng t
he M
iracle
Mop.
The m
ovie
, w
hic
h w
ill als
o s
tar a
cto
r B
radle
y C
ooper —
Law
rence’s
co-
star in S
ilve
r L
inin
gs
Pla
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anu f
an f
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mbit
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to m
arry a
prett
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and w
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as
a “
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m t
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rid
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on t
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this
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1995).
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ajo
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ing h
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brid
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lm’s
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ly m
edit
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om
ents
occur w
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moth
er t
rie
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hurrie
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lectu
re h
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bout
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wom
an
must
endure t
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mom
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reate
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dis
mis
sive j
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s th
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cti
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enjo
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dhya f
rom
her h
usb
an
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lm m
ocks
fem
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t id
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str
okes
of
aggress
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sm
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ten c
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oth
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min
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up t
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issu
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ises
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icit
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arcasm
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he w
rit
ing i
s so
fluent
robust
and r
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d t
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he m
ilie
u t
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we n
ever
feel th
e w
eig
ht
of nost
alg
ia in t
he w
ords.
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et
in t
he p
re-c
ellphone,
VH
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audio
cass
ett
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era,
DL
KH
carrie
s th
e w
eig
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of it
s peri-
odic
ity very li
gh
tly,
alm
ost
jaunti
ly.
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e
rath
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self
-con
scio
us
fin
ale
is
sadly
a
cin
em
ati
c
necessit
y th
at
hap-
pil
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doesn
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tak
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aw
ay f
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the fi
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u
tterly
u
nself
con
-scio
us
weig
htle
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debate
on m
arria
ges
bein
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ade in h
eaven o
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ell.
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work
s fo
rcefu
lly i
n t
he fi
lm’s
favour i
s it
s dis
arm
ing s
implicit
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nt
dir
ecto
r S
harat
Kata
riy
a is
a d
ilig
ent
steadfa
st s
toryte
ller.
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eye f
or v
isual
deta
il (
inherit
ed f
rom
his
guru R
aja
t K
apoor)
goes
a l
ong
way in m
akin
g t
he c
haracte
r’s
appear larger t
han t
heir
str
ife.
Ayush
mann t
ota
lly t
ransf
orm
s in
to H
arid
war’s
Sanu f
am
e t
hum
b-c
on-
trolled b
y a
fath
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nt
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i pla
ys
the o
verw
eig
ht
brid
e w
ith a
breezy
confidence t
hat
giv
es
‘waza
n’ to
her p
erfo
rm
ance. S
he i
s a p
riz
ed
find.
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re m
any h
eroes
in t
his
econ
om
ically-t
old
un
falt
erin
g t
ale
of
a m
arria
ge o
f in
com
pati
ble
s: t
he d
ebuta
nt
dir
ecto
r, s
o u
nerrin
g i
n h
is
deta
ilin
g o
f th
e d
ram
a,
the s
erene c
ity o
f H
arid
war c
aught
in a
brig
ht
but
believable
lig
ht
by M
anu A
nand’s
cam
era, A
yush
mann b
rin
gin
g b
ack
fond m
em
orie
s of R
aj K
apoor a
nd A
mol P
ale
kar’s
work
ing-c
lass
anxie
ties.
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AR
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2015
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ard N
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HEALTH / FITNESS 11
By Des Bieler
February is American Heart Month, so I initiated a conversation with Alfred Casale, chairman of cardiothoracic surgery at the Geisinger Heart &
Vascular Institute in Wilkes-Barre. Our discussion got off to a decidedly grim start.
“The number-one reason that people in the United States, across the board, will die,” he told me, “is because of cardiac and vascular disease.” Okay, well, that’s the bad news. There is some good news, right?
Right. Over the past 25 years or so, Casale said, the treatment of cardiac diseases has improved to the point where “it’s really one of the success stories of modern medicine.”
“When I was growing up,” the 59-year-old continued, “somebody having a heart attack was a catastrophe. Now, although a heart attack is still nothing to be taken lightly, somebody with the same kind of problem is likely to be going home the next day, off of work for a couple of days, and then back in the saddle with a plan in place to change their lifestyle.”
That plan probably has a pharmaceutical element. But an extensive course of physical workouts is usually also required, and if hitting the gym can seem daunting for healthy people, it’s particularly scary for those whose hearts have recently failed them.
However, if the process is managed carefully, even an elderly person with a weak heart and little previous experience with working out can become a success story.
The key, according to Casale, is to “assess where you are, set a plan for where you want to go, and then very gradually, three times a week over a 12-week period, begin to ramp up gently the amount of exercise.” And ideally, continue exercising for the rest of your life.
Which is where a place like the University of Maryland Baltimore Washington Medical Center, located in Glen Burnie, comes in. Exercise physiologist Debbie Lund, who has been a supervisor at the center’s cardiac rehab programme since it began in 1985, says “the majority of patients are toward the older population. . . . It’s mostly aerobic, but some strength training.”
Jim Southworth, 78, is one of the center’s regulars. The Glen Burnie resident has been exercising there for 14 years, ever since undergoing quintuple bypass surgery, and he credits his regimen with not only keeping him fit but also helping him survive a disastrous accident.
About four years ago, Southworth was visiting his sister in Florida when he slipped and fell in the shower. “Split my head open,” he said, requiring 30 stitches, and he wound up breaking his neck.
He wasn’t given much chance of living, and still less of avoiding paralysis, but after a stay in an intensive care unit plus a month of rehabilitation in Florida, Southworth was back in Glen Burnie, ready to resume what’s known as a maintenance programme.
Southworth goes to the center at 7am every Monday, Wednesday and Friday, where he meets his regular group
of friends, “plus or minus a few that have passed on.” He added, “We all go to breakfast after we exercise in the morning, and it’s like a kaffeeklatsch, you know?”
The experts with whom I spoke said that that element of camaraderie can be crucial in the rehab process. Lund said people who have suffered a major illness “go through the denial, the depression, that type of thing. And to be with other people who have heart problems themselves definitely helps.” Casale said his father, who had a bypass operation a few years ago, is part of a maintenance group that is almost like family — “it’s kind of cool.”
Southworth said his exercise routine has varied little over the years. One difference is that, whereas patients in the initial rehab phase are continuously monitored by staff and hooked up to EKG machines, now he sim-ply records his own heart rate and blood pressure after every station.
Every session begins with five to six stretches, which are “very, very important,” according to Casale. “Let’s remember,” he said, “most people who’ve had a heart attack are older, they may have orthopedic issues, they usually have not spent a whole lot of time focusing on athleticism. So learning how to warm up carefully — and eventually, at the end, slow down and cool off — is a big part of what the physiologist teaches.”
Southworth then does a slow warm-up on a treadmill before setting it on an incline with a speed of 3 mph for about 10 minutes. Then he rotates between a step machine, an arm ergometer — sometimes called an arm bike — and the treadmill before weighing himself, cool-ing down and checking his resting pulse and heart rate. Since his accident, Southworth can’t do much strength training.
The whole process usually takes a little over an hour, and he is living proof of its effectiveness (along with, of course, sensible eating habits and medication). Before his quintuple bypass, Southworth said his 5-foot-9 frame car-ried about 250 pounds, but the initial course of rehab got his weight down to around 195, and he has kept it there.
Once victims of a heart attack or heart disease are done with the 12-week programme, they are not required to keep coming back to a medical facility for mainte-nance; that can be done at any gym, or even at home.
Casale noted that “more and more commercial gyms are recognising that putting programmes together for specific populations, like patients who’ve had [heart attacks] in the past or are rehabbing from a cardiac event, is not only part of their mission, but it’s good business.”
For his part, Southworth gets peace of mind from working out in the vicinity of medical personnel. “This way . . . if something goes wrong, within 10 to 15 seconds, somebody’s there, and they’re taking care of you.”
But things have largely gone right for Southworth since his heart surgery, thanks to his diligence in following doctors’ orders. “I’m still here for 14 years,” Southworth said. “I get up every morning, put ‘em on the floor and thank God I got another day.” WP-Bloomberg
Skin test may help early diagnosis of Alzheimer’s
Skin tests can be used to detect elevated levels of abnormal proteins found in
Alzheimer’s and Parkinson’s diseases, a new research has found.
“Until now, pathological confirmation was not possible without a brain biopsy, so these diseases often go unrecognised until after the disease has progressed,” said study author Ildefonso Rodriguez-Leyva from the University of San Luis Potosi in San Luis Potosi, Mexico.
“We hypothesised that since skin has the same origin as brain tissue while in the embryo that they might also show the same abnormal proteins. This new test offers a potential biomarker that may allow doctors to identify and diagnose these diseases earlier on,” Rodriguez-Leyva added.
For the study, researchers took skin biopsies from 20 people with Alzheimer’s disease, 16 with Parkinson’s disease and 17 with dementia caused by other conditions and compared them to 12 healthy people in the same age group.
They tested these skin samples to see if specific types of altered proteins were found — ones that indicate a person has Alzheimer’s or Parkinson’s.
As compared to healthy patients and ones with dementia caused by other conditions, those with both Alzheimer’s and Parkinson’s had seven times higher levels of the tau protein associated with risk of Alzheimer’s disease.
People with Parkinson’s also had eight times higher level of alpha-synuclein protein than the healthy control group.
“The findings are exciting because we could potentially begin to use skin biopsies from liv-ing patients to study and learn more about these diseases. This also means tissue will be much more readily available for scientists to study,” Rodriguez-Leyva noted.
Young women ignore heart attack symptoms
Driven by concerns of initiating a false alarm, young women tend to ignore or
dismiss the earliest symptoms of an impend-ing heart attack, such as pain, dizziness and delay in seeking emergency medical care, says new research.
“Young women with multiple risk factors and a strong family history of cardiac disease should not assume they are too young to have a heart attack,” said lead researcher Judith Lichtman, associate professor at Yale School of Public Health.
For the study, the researchers examined the experiences of 30 women ranging in age from 30 to 55 years old who were hospitalised with acute myocardial infarction (AMI, heart attack).
“Participants in our study said they were concerned about initiating a false alarm in case their symptoms were due to something other than a heart attack,” said Lichtman.
“Identifying strategies to empower women to recognise symptoms and seek prompt care with-out stigma or perceived judgment may be partic-ularly critical for young women at an increased risk for heart disease,” she pointed out.
The researchers conducted in-depth inter-views with young women and found that patients inaccurately assessed their personal risk of heart disease.
Agencies
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TECHNOLOGYPLUS | SUNDAY 1 MARCH 201512
Google Inc submitted plans on Friday for a vastly expanded headquarters at the Silicon Valley city where the tech giant is based, presenting a bucolic vision of mov-
able structures to be built under curving and trans-lucent canopies.
The submission of the plan to the City Council in Mountain View, California, which the company chose for its headquarters 15 years ago, marks the first step in what city officials describe as a long review process.
The new headquarters would give the Internet company the room for an additional 10,000 employ-ees, compared to the 20,000 Google staffers that cur-rently work in the city, a Google spokeswoman said.
Google’s blueprint for new headquarters in the city’s North Bayshore district has gathered wide-spread attention because the design is seen as archi-tecturally innovative.
In the San Francisco Bay Area, the plan also is closely watched due to concerns the technology industry’s high salaries are pushing housing prices beyond levels affordable to most families.
“Today we’re submitting a plan to redevelop four sites — places where we already have offices but hope to significantly increase our square footage — to the Mountain View City Council,” David Radcliffe, Google’s vice president of real estate, said in a com-pany blog post.
The design by architect Bjarke Ingels of the firm Bjarke Ingels Group and Thomas Heatherwick of architecture and design company Heatherwick Studio calls for block-like structures that Google says could be moved around to create space for teams to pursue different projects. It would add about 2.5 million square feet of space to the existing campus.
Vast, clear canopies over the buildings would allow light to filter into the futuristic campus. There would be places for trees, grass and bicycle paths, all of it nestled into different parts of the campus.
“They’re very ambitious,” Mountain View City Councilman Ken Rosenberg said of the blueprints. “They’re taking what we know about building design and significantly advancing the concept.”
The proposal by Google, which is the city’s leading source of property taxes, would contribute to more local prosperity but also increased traffic, he said.
Rosenberg said he views the company’s proposal within the plan to build 100 units of affordable housing as an acknowledgment to housing market problems.
The city could demand more housing units in the North Bayshore area, he said. In 2013, Cupertino approved Apple Inc’s plan for a spaceship-like cam-pus, which is under construction. Reuters
Google plans to expand headquarters
An artist's renderings of the proposal to re-develop part of Google Headquarters North Bayshore campus in Mountain View, California.
By Zoran Radosavljevic
Damir Sabol, Croatian computer expert and entrepreneur, was helping his son with his maths
homework when he had an idea.“I found it a bit tedious, all those
additions and multiplications, so I reckoned, ‘We already have intelligent software, why not make it deal with maths?’” Sabol said.
The result was PhotoMath, a free app that scans and solves equations, providing a step-by-step explanation. It has been downloaded more than 11 million times since its introduction in October, and it was just updated
on Thursday to take it to high school level. An Android version is due in days.
The app is based on the same technology as an earlier app called PhotoPay that was introduced in 2012 by Sabol’s company, which is also called Photo Pay. That app facilitates mobile banking, by scanning household bills and paying them instantly.
“Basically, what we do is teach mobile phones to read things from the real world,” Sabol said in his sparsely decorated office in Zagreb, where a dozen young software engi-neers jot down ideas and algorithms.
He said the PhotoMath averages about 1.5 million users every month and he had received scores of emails from grateful students, parents — and
even teachers. “Will I allow my pupils to use the app? Absolutely,” a British maths teacher wrote on www.amath-steacherwrites.co.uk, after a pupil proudly presented the app in class.
“As a means for them to check their work it’s unrivalled ... They are far more likely to ‘listen’ to an electronic device, rather than teacher, telling them that they are right or wrong,” the teacher wrote.
Sabol says he has never regretted making the app available for free.
“Now, of course, we are looking for ways to be commercial,” he said. “Without that, we cannot continue developing the app. Reuters
School maths answers only a scan away with Croatian app
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At the Book shop
Ink pot Mi�bara
Poetry �içr
Poem Qa�eeda
Lesson Dars
Hand-writing �a��
Language Lou�a
Dictionary Qamoos
Copy book Daftar
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HYPER SUDOKU
CROSSWORD
CROSSWORDS
YESTERDAY’S ANSWER
How to play Hyper Sudoku:A Hyper Sudoku
Puzzle is solved
by filling the
numbers from 1
to 9 into the blank
cells. A Hyper
Sudoku has
unlike Sudoku
13 regions
(four regions
overlap with the
nine standard
regions). In all
regions the numbers from 1 to 9 can appear
only once. Otherwise, a Hyper Sudoku is
solved like a normal Sudoku.
ACROSS 1 Run up ___
5 Marks for life
10 “___ be in England”
14 Big shot
15 Also-ran of 1992 and 1996
16 Frond bearer
17 Bootleggers’ foes
18 Begin to correct, maybe
19 “Exodus” hero and others
20 Cabinet department until 1947
21 Like the figure formed by the three circled letters in the upper left
23 East of Germany?
24 Snobbishness
26 1996 Olympics city
28 Highlights show
29 Somerhalder of “The Vampire Diaries”
31 Skin-and-bones sort
32 Anti-D.U.I. ads, e.g.
33 A dog might catch one
35 Newcastle’s river
36 Like the figure formed by the three circled letters in the upper right
39 He tapped Ryan in 2012
42 Something to lean on
46 “If the shoe fits, wear it,” e.g.
47 “Alice” waitress
50 Shopaholic’s binge
51 “Alice” diner owner
52 Traffic problem
54 1936 opponent of Franklin D.
55 Like the figure formed by the three circled letters at the bottom
60 Make a comeback
62 Overlay material
65 “In the Heat of the Night” Oscar winner
66 Rules for hunters to follow
67 Some distracted drivers
68 Sucker in
DOWN 1 Belgian seaport
2 Wrapped Tex-Mex fare
3 Stephen Colbert’s “I Am ___ (And So Can You!)”
4 Football’s Roethlisberger
5 Blueprint details, in brief
6 Ming vases, e.g.
7 ___ Sea (Asian body)
8 Comic with a “domestic goddess” persona
9 Artery implant
10 All ___ sudden
11 Nesting area for wading birds
12 Isolde’s beloved
13 Treading the boards
21 Nurse at a bar
22 N.Y.C.’s Third and Ninth Avenue lines, e.g.
25 Zapping, in a way
27 Starts malfunctioning
30 Early nuclear org.
33 Kind of milk
34 Special attention, briefly
37 Get the idea
38 Triage spots, for short
39 Flock member
40 Horatian work
41 The symbol for the Roman
god Mars represents it
43 Refrain syllables
44 Disney collectible
45 Playboy nickname
47 Manicurists, at times
48 Grazing area
49 Loss of power
52 Ty Cobb, for most of his career
53 Praline nut
56 Conk out
57 The munchies, e.g.
58 Dream states, for short
59 “… ___-foot pole!”
60 Queue after Q
61 Season after printemps
63 La Brea gunk
64 39-Down’s mate
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13
14 15 16
17 18 19
20 21 22 23
24 25 26 27
28 29 30 31
32 33 34 35
36 37 38
39 40 41 42 43 44 45
46 47 48 49 50
51 52 53 54
55 56 57 58 59
60 61 62 63 64
65 66
67 68
L A B S S C A M B A J AE L I A U N D O O D E L LT E D T U R N E R R A F T SB R E E Z E O V E R F E DE O N B C E S I D E B
D E A R E D O E T SY E S I K N O W A M A Z O NS T A R S E A S O F AE N M E S H B R E A K S U PR A W C A P M V P S
A E R I E S O P A L EW A L M A R T L L A M A SO N T O P S T E V E J O B SE N O T E I O N E A R E A
O N E S T O T S R E L Y
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
14
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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– 10:35am, 1:00, 3:30, 6:00, 8:30 & 11:00pm
2Focus (2D/Comedy)
– 10:30am, 12:45, 3:00, 5:15, 7:30, 9:45 & 11:55pm
3The Spongebob Movie: Sponge Out of Water
(2D/Animation) – 10:00am, 12:00noon, 2:00 & 4:00pmThe Wedding Ringer (2D/Comedy)
– 6:00, 8:00, 10:00 & 11:55pm
4Zarafa (2D/Animation) – 10:45am, 12:30 & 2:15pmSerena (2D/Action) – 3:45, 6:05, 8:15 & 11:00pm
5The Protector 2 (2D/Action)–10:15am, 2:45 & 11:50pm
The Atticus Institute (2D/Horror) – 7:15pmClash of Empires: Bloodlines (2D/Action)
– 12:35, 5:00 & 9:30pm
6The Boy Next Door (2D/Thriller) – 10:20pmBoys of Abu Ghraib (2D/Drama) – 3:40pm
Youm Maloush Lazmah (2D/Arabic)
– 10:50am, 1:15, 5:40, 8:00pm &12:15am
7Captain Sabertooth & The Lama Rama Treasure
(2D/Action) – 10:00am, 2:15, 6:30 & 11:00pm & 12:15am; Fort Bliss (2D/Action)
– 12:00noon, 4:15 & 8:30pm
8The Spongebob Movie: Sponge Out of Water
(2D/Animation) – 3:15 & 5:10pmDragon Blade (2D/Action)
– 10:20am, 12:50, 7:10, 9:30 & 11:50pm
9Focus (IMAX 2D/Comedy) – 11:30am, 1:40, 3:50,
6:00, 8:10, 10:20pm &12:30am
10Focus (2D/Comedy)
– 10:00am, 12:10, 2:20, 4:40, 6:50, 9:20 & 11:40pm
MALL
1Zarafa (2D/Animation) – 2:15pm
Serena (2D/Drama) – 4:00pm
Captain Sabertooth & The Treasure of Lama
Rama (2D/Action) – 6:00 & 7:45pm
The Protector 2 (2D/Action) – 9:30pm
Still Alice (2D/Drama) – 11:30pm
2 Fort Bliss (2D/Drama) – 2:45pm
Combustion (2D/Action) – 5:00pm
Focus (2D/Comedy) – 7:00 & 11:15pm
Ab Tak Chhappan (2D/Hindi) – 9:00pm
3 Fireman (2D/Malayalam) – 2:00, 6:30 & 11:00pm
Youm Maloush Lazma (2D/Arabic)
– 4:15 & 8:45pm
LANDMARK
1 Serena (2D/Drama) – 2:30pm
Combustion (2D/Action) – 4:30pm
Youm Maloush Lazma (2D/Arabic) – 6:30pm
The Protector 2 (2D/Action) – 9:00pm
Captain Sabertooth & The Treasure of Lama
Rama (2D/Action) – 11:15pm
2 Zarafa (2D/Animation) – 3:00pm
Focus (2D/Comedy) – 5:00, 7:00 & 11:15pm
Youm Maloush Lazma (2D/Arabic) – 9:00pm
3 The Protector 2 (2D/Action) – 2:30pm
Fort Bliss (2D/Drama) – 4:30pm
Captain Sabertooth & The Treasure of Lama
Rama (2D/Action) – 7:00pm
Fireman (2D/Malayalam) – 9:00pm
Still Alice (2D/Drama) – 11:30pm
ROYAL
PLAZA
1
Ab Tak Chhappan (2D/Hindi) – 2:30pm
The Protector 2 (2D/Action) – 5:00 & 9:15pm
Captain Sabertooth & The Treasure of Lama
Rama (2D/Action) – 7:15 & 11:30pm
2
Zarafa (2D/Animation) – 3:00pm
Combustion (2D/Action) – 5:00pm
Focus (2D/Comedy) – 7:00 & 11:15pm
Ab Tak Chhappan (2D/Hindi) – 9:00pm
3 Serena (2D/Drama) – 2:30pm
Fort Bliss (2D/Drama) – 4:30pm
Youm Maloush Lazma (2D/Arabic)–6:45 & 9:00pm
Still Alice (2D/Drama) – 11:15pm
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10:10 Alaska: The
Last Frontier
11:00 Street Outlaws
11:50 American
Muscle
13:30 How It's Made
16:50 Baggage
Battles
17:15 Baggage
Battles
18:55 The Carbonaro
Effect
19:20 The Carbonaro
Effect
19:45 The Big Brain
Theory
20:35 You Have Been
Warned
21:25 Gold Rush
22:15 Gold Divers:
Under The Ice
23:05 Alaska: The
Last Frontier
13:20 Lion Man: One
World African
Safari
13:50 Into The Pride
14:45 Animal Cops
Houston
15:40 Tanked
18:25 Lion Battlefield
19:20 The Last Lion
Of Liuwa
20:15 Sharkageddon
22:05 Killer Iq: Lion
vs Hyena
23:00 Shark
Rampage 1916
13:00 My Name Is Earl
15:00 Cougar Town
16:00 Mystery Girls
16:30 Welcome To
The Family
18:00 Enlisted
18:30 Melissa & Joey
19:00 Brooklyn Nine-
Nine
19:30 Men At Work
20:00 Mindy Project
20:30 Veep
21:30 Mystery Girls
22:00 Married
23:00 George Carlin:
It's Bad For Ya
13:00 Barbie
Fairytopia
14:30 Hatching
16:00 Garfield's Fun
Fest
18:00 Barbie And
The Diamond
Castle
20:00 Astro Boy
22:00 Hatching
23:30 Garfield's Fun
Fest
12:00 Straight Talk
14:00 Hope Springs
16:00 Free Samples
18:00 It's A Disaster
20:00 The World's
End
22:00 Breathless
00:00 Hope Springs
02:00 Free Samples
13:00 Dangerous
Encounters
14:00 Situation Critical
15:00 Air Crash
Investigation
16:00 Wild Sri Lanka
17:00 Swamp Men
18:00 Human Ape
19:00 Air Crash
Investigation
20:00 Wild Sri Lanka
21:00 Swamp Men
22:00 Human Ape
23:00 Last War
Heroes
14:00 Franklin & Bash
15:00 Crisis
16:00 Emmerdale
18:00 Franklin & Bash
19:00 Castle
20:00 How To Get
Away With
Murder
20:45 How To Get
Away With
Murder
21:30 Better Call Saul
22:20 House Of
Cards
23:30 Top Gear (UK)
00:30 Game Of
Thrones
13:00 Christmas
Magic
15:00 Mirror Mirror
17:00 I Will Follow You
Into The Dark
19:00 Hateship
Loveship
21:00 The Letter
23:00 Killing Season
01:00 I Will Follow
You Into The
Dark
13:00 Khumba
15:00 Way Way Back
17:00 The Twilight
Saga: Breaking
Dawn Pt. 2
19:00 Homefront
21:00 We Are What
We Are
23:00 Counselor
12:00 Bandhan
12:30 Hello Pratibha
13:00 Jamai Raja
13:30 Kumkum Bhagya
14:00 Qubool Hai
14:30 Jodha Akbar
15:00 Kasamh Se
16:00 Hum Paanch
17:00 Aunn Zara
18:00 Servicewali Bahu
18:30 Bandhan
19:00 Hello Pratibha
19:30 Sa Re Ga Ma Pa
Li'l Champs 5
20:30 Kumkum Bhagya
21:00 Qubool Hai
21:30 Satrangi Sasural
22:00 Doli Armaano Ki
22:30 Jodha Akbar
23:00 Best of Fear Files
00:00 Kumkum Bhagya
00:30 Qubool Hai
01:00 Jamai Raja
01:30 Servicewali Bahu
13:05 Good Luck
Charlie
14:20 H2O: Just Add
Water
17:00 Liv And Maddie
17:25 I Didn't Do It
17:50 Dog With A Blog
18:40 Binny And The
Ghost
19:55 Gravity Falls
20:20 Kim Possible
20:45 H2O: Just Add
Water
21:10 I Didn't Do It
21:35 Gravity Falls
22:00 Suite Life On
Deck
22:25 Sabrina: Secrets
Of A Teenage
Witch
22:50 Sabrina: Secrets
Of A Teenage
Witch
23:10 Wolfblood
11:00 Antiques
Roadshow
11:50 Masterchef: The
Professionals
16:10 Come Dine With
Me
17:45 Bargain Hunt
19:15 Antiques
Roadshow
20:05 Come Dine With
Me
20:55 Food Glorious
Food
21:45 The Roux Legacy
22:20 Homes Under
The Hammer
23:10 Homes Under
The Hammer
00:00 Antiques
Roadshow
00:50 Come Dine With
Me
01:40 Food Glorious
Food
08:00 News
08:30 People &
Power
09:00 Wukan Votes
10:30 Inside Story
11:00 News
11:30 Talk To Al
Jazeera
12:30 Soapbox
Mexico
14:30 Inside Story
15:00 Al Jazeera
World
16:00 NEWSHOUR
17:30 Listening Post
18:00 NEWSHOUR
19:30 101 East
20:30 Inside Story
22:00 News
22:30 Talk To Al
Jazeera
23:00 Killing The
Messenger
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IN FOCUS
An enchanting view of the morning sky .
by C Rajendran
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Scientists perplexed as huge black hole foundScientists say they have discovered a black hole so big
that it challenges the theory about how they grow.Scientists said this black hole was formed about 900
million years after the Big Bang.But with measurements indicating it is 12 billion times
the size of the Sun, the black hole challenges a widely accepted hypothesis of growth rates.
“Based on previous research, this is the largest black hole found for that period of time,” Dr Fuyan Bian, Research School of Astronomy and Astrophysics, Australian National University (ANU), said.
“Current theory is for a limit to how fast a black hole can grow, but this black hole is too large for that theory.”
The creation of supermassive black holes remains an open topic of research. However, many scientists have long believed the growth rate of black holes was limited.
Black holes grow, scientific theory suggests, as they absorb mass. However, as mass is absorbed, it will be heated creating radiation pressure, which pushes the mass away from the black hole.
“Basically, you have two forces balanced together which sets up a limit for growth, which is much smaller than what we found,” said Bian.
The black hole was discovered a team of global scien-tists led by Xue-Bing Wu at Peking University, China, as part of the Sloan Digital Sky Survey, which provided imagery data of 35 percent of the northern hemisphere sky.
The ANU is leading a comparable project, known as
SkyMapper, to carry out observations of the Southern Hemisphere sky.
Bian expects more black holes to be observed as the project advances.
Playing physics: Student builds Lego Large Hadron Collider
A particle physics student has used his downtime to build a Lego model of the world’s most powerful par-
ticle accelerator, the Large Hadron Collider (LHC), and is now lobbying the toy company to take it to market.
Nathan Readioff ’s design uses existing Lego pieces to replicate all four elements of the LHC — known as ATLAS, ALICE, CMS and LHCb — and uses cutaway walls to reveal all of the major subsystems.
He also wrote step-by-step guides to making the mini-atures and has now submitted his models to the Lego Ideas website, where ideas from members of the public that get more than 10,000 votes are considered by Lego for future production.
“I have always been a Lego fan,” Readioff said in a state-ment from Liverpool University, where he is in the third year of his PhD. “I had in mind Lego’s basic principles of encouraging imagination and play through building bricks.”
The LHC in Geneva allows scientists to test the predic-tions of different theories of physics. Its 27km ring is bur-ied 100 meters below the French and Swiss countryside.
To see footage of Readioff ’s model, go to:stream.liv.ac.uk/ndcbkwbt
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Family Art Workshops When: Till March 31, 2015 Where: Katara Art Studios - Bldg 19What: Katara Art Studios is hosting a series of Diverse Family Art Workshops from September 2014 to March 2015. They invite families to attend with their children aged between 5 years old to 10 years old.The cost of each workshop is QR150
Here There ExhibitionWhen: Till March 30, 2015; Opening hours Sunday-Wednesday 10:30am – 5:30pm, Tuesday closed and Thursday 12pm – 8pm.Where: Al Riwaq Exhibition Hall What: The Qatar Brazil 2014 Year of Culture closes with a grand finale event as QM Gallery Al Riwaq presents Here There, a showcase of works by artists from Qatar and Brazil.Free entry
Yousef Ahmad: Story Of Ingenuity ExhibitionWhen: Till March 28Where: Qatar Museums Gallery Katara What: The exhibition highlights Qatari artist Yousef Ahmad’s body of work through a precise selection of his most striking artworks from his early works in 1970s until today. From the early oil paintings that include the historic depiction of Al Zubarah Fort, to his mixed media calligraphic pieces to his new conceptual artworks presenting his ability of developing an innovate artistic style.Free entry
Tasmeem Doha 2015: 3ajeeb!When: March 8 - March 12 Where: VCUQatar What: Tasmeem Doha is a biennial international conference focusing on unique and contemporary themes in art and design. The 2015 edition will focus on the theme of ‘playfulness’ expressed by the Arabizi word 3ajeeb! (ahh-jhee-b).This year’s festival will feature:3 Studio days + 2 Shawarma Sessions with artists, designers, musicians, writers, tinkerers, and playful thinkers1 Day Off to sit back and enjoy presentations by world-class speakers1 Festival Day of exhibitions, playful interactions and performancesFree, but need to register. Go to www.tasmeemdoha.com for details
Handcrafts Workshops And Outdoor MarketWhen: Till March 26-27; 4pm to 10pmWhere: Katara Art Studios – Bldg 19 What: The Cultural Village Foundation — Katara in cooperation with the Ministry of Labour & Social Aairs is organising Handcrafts Workshops and Outdoor MarketFree entry