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VENICE GETS SET FOR VENICE GETS SET FOR ‘PARTY OF THE YEAR’‘PARTY OF THE YEAR’

The world’s most famous bachelor, George Clooney, The world’s most famous bachelor, George Clooney, welcomed the who’s who of Hollywood to Venice for his welcomed the who’s who of Hollywood to Venice for his wedding to human rights lawyer Amal Alamuddin, with wedding to human rights lawyer Amal Alamuddin, with details of the long weekend bash kept as hazy as the details of the long weekend bash kept as hazy as the morning fog over the Grand Canal.morning fog over the Grand Canal.

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By Isla Binnie

The world’s most famous bachelor, George Clooney, welcomed more A-list stars to Venice on Saturday for

his wedding to human rights lawyer Amal Alamuddin, with details of the long weekend bash kept as hazy as the morning fog over the Grand Canal.

The extravaganza, billed as the party of the year, was making the Italian city of gondolas and palazzos look like Hollywood on the Adriatic.

Actors Matt Damon and Ellen Barkin, model Cindy Crawford, Vogueeditor Anna Wintour and others descended on Venice on Friday along with Clooney and Alamuddin, cruis-ing the canals on speedboats that took them from one luxury hotel to another.

Some of the stars expected to arrive during the day, ahead of a gala din-ner last night, included Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie, Sandra Bullock and singer Bono, according to local reports.

But locals and tourists didn’t seem to mind if only some of those rumoured to be coming would arrive, thrilled to be part of one of the memorable days in the city’s long history of hosting stars for its famous film festival, the world’s oldest.

“I thought he was like the world’s most eligible bachelor so I didn’t real-ise he was ever going to get married, but I guess if you’re going to get mar-ried what better spot than a beautiful Italian city like Venice?” said Canadian tourist Philip De Vooght.

Guests were due to attend a gala ceremony at the seven-star Aman Canal Grande Venice, housed in the 16th-century Palazzo Papadopoli on the Grand Canal, for a party where the two were to exchange vows informally ahead of a civil service on Monday.

According to local reports, the guests were due to have a reception in the rear garden, protected from the prying eyes and photographers’ long lenses on the Grand Canal side, before a dinner in the main dining room.

A slick, wooden speedboat, appro-priately called “Amore”, brought the couple into the city on Friday with a retinue of boats, a modern-day ver-sion of the ceremonial entrances of the Doges of the Venetian Republic, which lasted from the late seventh cen-tury until 1797. Alamuddin, 36, wore a black-and-white striped dress as she arrived with Clooney on the speedboat on Friday afternoon. She changed into a more formal red dress with black butterfly patterns for a party in her honour on Friday night.

Speedboat FleetGuests were being ferried around

the city in speedboats marked with “AG”, for Amal and George.

The Kentucky-born Clooney, the two-time Oscar winner who shot to stardom in the television series “ER”, had vowed never to remarry after his 1993 divorce from actress Talia Balsam.

Such was his aversion to tying the knot again that he is reported to have made a $100,000 bet with Michelle Pfeiffer that he would stay single.

Venice becomesHollywood on the Adriatic forClooney wedding

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Tantalising details have emerged of George Clooney’s wedding dinner, with Hollywood stars

reportedly to dine Saturday on lob-ster, wild mushrooms and figs at a banquet in Venice.

Clooney said goodbye to bach-elorhood on Friday night with a stag party at his favourite restaurant but was spotted at brunch as he gears up for a day of celebrations with his glamorous lawyer bride-to-be.

As evening approached and girls across the world sobbed, one of the world’s most eligible bachelors set out in black tie for an all-boys do with friends to celebrate one of his last nights as a single man.

After shaking off paparazzi, Clooney and his chums headed to Da Ivo near Saint Mark’s Square for the venue’s prized Venetian and Tuscan delicacies.

A waiter at the restaurant said the group tucked into stuffed zucchini flowers and fresh tagliolini pasta with

truffles. The feasting was set to con-tinue last evening, with some 130 guests being whisked to the exclu-sive seven-star Aman resort within the 450-year-old Palazzo Papadopoli by gondola and speed boat, under police escort.

There they’ll be met in the garden — an oasis sheltered from the bus-tle of the canal — with lashings of canapes, including polenta with wild mushrooms and beef ham with figs, according to a source.

They will then sit down in the main library to a sumptuous five-course dinner which will include lemon risotto with lobster, the source said.Mysterious ceremony before dinner

Intriguing reports also emerged of a ceremony to be held at the hotel before dinner.

Clooney was spotted in the gar-den of the luxurious Cipriani hotel Saturday with friends Cindy Crawford and her husband Rande Gerber — tipped to be Clooney’s best man.

Dressed in a casual blue shirt, he looked relaxed and fresh.

In a Cinderella moment, Alamuddin lost her shoe after the stiletto heel got caught in a gap in the slatted floor in front of the hotel, but she recovered in style.

Stars Brad Pitt, Angelina Jolie and musician Bono were tipped to be on their way to join Matt Damon and oth-ers for the party of the year.

‘When I fall in love’The Aman’s restaurant will be

turned into a nightclub where they’ll dance the night away, with Lana Del Rey reportedly preparing to serenade the couple and Clooney dedicating the song “When I fall in Love” to Alamuddin.

A string orchestra and jazz trio are also expected to perform a number of songs, including the uber-romantic “Smoke Gets in Your Eyes”, a ballad made famous by The Platters in 1958.

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Lobster, figs and wild mushrooms for dinner

The Lebanese-born Alamuddin, who had no previous connection to Hollywood, has repre-sented Ukrainian former prime minister Yulia Tymoshenko at the European Court of Human Rights, and WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange in extradition proceedings.

Alamuddin, who is based in Britain, also advised former United Nations secretary general Kofi Annan on the conflict in Syria, an issue about which Clooney has spoken publicly. Clooney is a strong advocate for human rights, leading several cam-paigns to bring attention to the plight of refugees in Darfur, Sudan.

The official ceremony is expected to be held on Monday at Venice’s town hall, the 14th-century Ca’ Farsetti palace, and Italian media reported that the former mayor of Rome, Walter Veltroni, a film buff and Clooney friend, would officiate.

Venice’s city government said it would close off a few of the town’s narrow pedestrian streets for two hours on Monday.

“Considering that the location of the ceremony is likely to become a target for people attracted by the celebrity status of the event, high numbers could be a problem for traffic and pose a threat to those people’s safety,” the local government said.

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Irish lead singer of U2, Bono waves to people as he arrives at the Cipriani Hotel in Venice.

George Clooney, US model Cindy Crawford and her husband Rande Gerber

George Clooney and his fiancee Amal Alamuddin stand on a taxi boat in Venice.

CAMPUSPLUS | SUNDAY 28 SEPTEMBER 20144

When Qatar Academy (QA) alumna Dana Al Anzy took

on the challenge of climbing Africa’s highest peak for Reach Out to Asia’s (Rota) Elevate to Educate campaign, she knew exactly where to seek sup-port from. The whole Qatar Academy community rose to the challenge and worked together to raise funds for the charity expedition that is led by Rota ambassador Sheikh Mohammed bin Abdullah Al Thani. Together with twelve young Qataris, they “will climb Mount Kilimanjaro the high-est mountain in Africa and the tallest freestanding mountain in the world to raise funds for improving the quality of education in the government schools in Palestine,” the campaign primer states.

Now a Georgetown University SFSQ student majoring in Politics and Culture, Dana is also set to make history by becoming the first Qatari

female to climb Mt Kilimanjaro. She believes that this feat will “motivate other women to pursue their dreams and ambitions regardless of the obsta-cles and battles they face in our soci-ety. We are not accessories nor should we be condescended to just that,” she asserts. This week, she’s found an avenue to convey this message across and promote the cause of Elevate to Educate. In Senior School, the student council organised at least two food sales to raise funds. Dana, familiar with every small and huge effort QA students come up with for worthwhile causes, was also on hand to sell food to the students. Both Primary and Senior School also held non-uniform days to raise funds. The call for support was likewise extended to the parents who generously backed Dana’s cause. “I believe in the right children have to access of education. I don’t believe any

child should not receive an education due to circumstances. It is what shapes and sculpts their personality and future – and everyone, especially the innocent souls who are lost in the big world of politics, deserves that,” she says.

These fund raising drives only serve to strengthen the overall culture of gen-erosity and social responsibility that

permeates the QA community, helping the students to emulate graduates like Dana who takes on and acts upon issues that will help make a difference in the lives of others: “I want to promote the culture of social responsibility across borders and allow people’s horizons to expand beyond the limits of what surrounds them,” she ends. The Peninsula

QA students help raise funds for Rota

Dana Al Anzy

DPS-MIS launches mobile appDPS-MIS launched its upgraded website and

mobile app recently at a function held at the school. The occasion was attended by Chief Guest and President of Executive Committee Hassan Chougule, Vice President and Director IT Yasir Nainar, Past President DPS-MIS M I Farid, Director Finance George Thomas, Director Administration Rocky Fernandes, Director Public Relations SonnyVarghese Director Transport and Security Azim Abbas, Editor of children magazine Gul BootayFarooq Sayyad, and scholar and poet Ubed Azmi.

In the welcome address, Principal, Asna Nafees, mentioned that the mobile app will be a tool to enhance the bond between parents, teachers and students. Nainar explained about the upgraded website and mobile app and said that it is a histori-cal milestone for DPS-MIS as well as the entire educational landscape of Qatar because DPS-MIS

is the first school in Qatar to introduce an mobile app. Speaking on the occasion, Chougule said: “DPS-MIS is committed to equip the students with technology infused education to make them highly motivated and effective learners. He also men-tioned that newly launched Mobile App is student

centric and will be a leap forward to the cause of education.” Abhisek Jha, HOD Computer Science, showcased all the features and functions of the mobile app. Headmistress, Mou Bera, anchored the programme. Vice Principal, G Mala proposed the vote of thanks. The Peninsula

Career awareness programme at DMIS

A career awareness programme for classes 11 and 12 was organised by the

Department of Guidance and Counselling at Doha Modern Indian School recently. Ravindra Iyengar, Senior Manager, Next Generation Data Services, Ooredoo, Qatar was the resource person.

The workshop started with a welcome note by Rakesh Singh Tomar, School Principal.

Iyengar dealt in depth on the concepts of telecom technology and industries related with telecommunications. He also gave the students an insight about the careers oppor-tunities available in various fields.

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The Marriott Marquis City Center Doha Hotel welcomed the new

fall season and bid summer farewell with a celebration of the world’s larg-est Volksfest (People’s Fair)– the Oktoberfest at Champions Sports Restaurant.

The Marriott Marquis City Center Doha is having a fun-filled Bavarian celebration from till September 28, where German delicacies and live per-formances by the Tschirgant duo take centre stage.

“We strive to provide authentic and innovative experiences for our hotel guests and Doha residents who are always looking for new and exciting

happenings in Qatar. The Oktoberfest is the world’s largest funfair held annu-ally in Munich, Bavaria (Germany), and being a German national, I find it fantastic that we can share this celebration right here in the heart of Doha” said Andreas Wissdorf, General Manager of the Marriott Marquis City Center Doha Hotel.

At the Marriott Marquis, a conven-tional two-man band with classical midi file sound have flown in to town to entertain Champions visitors.

Accompanying the great music, guests can savour German delicacies like Beef Goulash with Spaetzle, Beef Sausage with Sauerkraut and mashed

potatoes and Currywurst with French fries. And you can treat that sweet tooth with tradtional Apple Strudel

served with Rote Gruetze and vanilla ice cream.

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Marriott Marquis marks Oktoberfest at Champions

Special Eid Al Adha room packages at The Ritz-Carlton

The Ritz-Carlton, Doha, is set to mark the Eid Al Adha festivities with special family room packages.

Guests can experience the service at QR1,450 per room per night in a deluxe room with a private balcony and save up to 50 percent on the second room or second night. Guests staying for a minimum of three nights can enjoy a complimentary breakfast for two at the Lagoon Restaurant.

The Lagoon restaurant will also be hosting a special Eid Al Adha brunch on the first day of the festival, with a special buffet selection of hot and cold mezzeh, followed by various live cooking stations such as the popular ouzi carving station, shawarma station and assorted Arab grills. For dessert, the traditional Umm Ali is sure to appeal to the whole family. The package is priced at QR275 per person inclusive of soft beverages and QR140 for children aged 4-12 years old. Children under the age of 4 can dine for free.

“The ladies and gentlemen of The Ritz-Carlton, Doha will continue to surprise even the most discern-ing patrons during this festive season,” says Hoss Vetry, Cluster General Manager of The Ritz-Carlton, Doha.

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La Cigale Hotel staff donate blood

In collaboration with the blood donation unit of Hamad Medical Corporation (HMC) La Cigale

Hotel organised for the third consecu-tive year an employee blood donation day at its premises for the third con-secutive year. Many volunteers from different departments donated blood.

Khaled El Chaar, Human Resources Director at La Cigale Hotel thanked all those who have voluntarily donated blood and Hamad Medical Corporation for giving La Cigale the chance to be part of the blood donation campaign. He added: “We are very eager every year to be part of this humanitarian act and we always look forward to increase social responsibilities among our employees.”

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ICDL Arabia, the governing body and certification authority for the ICDL cer-tificate programme in Egypt, the GCC

States and Iraq, has announced that it has launched a new initiative specially designed for teachers in the region. The ‘ICDL for Teachers’ initiative aims to empower teach-ers with the skills they need to develop mod-ern teaching strategies using ICT in their teaching practices, allowing them to achieve educational goals more efficiently. Enhanced ICT skills enable teachers to simplify rou-tine tasks, such as planning lessons more efficiently; enhance communication with students and parents; improve collaboration between educators; and adopt cyber safety within the school environment.

Jamil Ezzo, Director General of ICDL Arabia, said: “According to a recent research report, the recurring spend on education in the GCC is poised to reach $150bn by 2016. The region’s governments along with the support of the private sector are keen

to upgrade facilities in the education sec-tor to offer a better learning experience to its students because of its vital role in the region’s growth and prosperity. International research has shown that ICT has a posi-tive impact on students’ performances and encourages them to become resourceful and learn independently. Technology makes les-sons more retainable by employing a variety of different learning styles helping students digest information in new ways and improve their retention levels.”

ICDL Arabia is already working with Qatar Supreme Education Council and Bahrain Ministry of Education on empow-ering teachers with latest ICT skills, and is in talks with other Educational authorities across the region to seek cooperation on this new initiative. Ministry of Education in Oman was the first to adopt ICDL IT Security programme for its Teachers and staff back in 2013 and so far thousands have been certified. The Peninsula

‘ICDL for Teachers’ initiative launched

PLUS | SUNDAY 28 SEPTEMBER 20146 FOOD

By Joe Yonan

Sometimes I like to go back to basics. For a relatively new vegetarian like myself — and even for more experienced ones — I think it’s helpful every so often to remember why we

made this transition in the first place.For me, the reasons included (and still include)

health, environmental concerns and, though I haven’t talked about this next piece of the puzzle so much, a sense of ethical obligation to the animals of the world. Now, health claims can be controversial, especially because of the seemingly ever-changing nature of nutrition research, so I’ll just report that I feel much better now than I did when I ate meat. When it comes to the environment, there are many complicating factors, but I view vegetarianism as just one more way in which I try to go easy on the planet. (Others include recycling, composting and not owning a car.) And as it concerns those animals, I’m more comfortable than ever stating that my lifelong love for dogs and cats has made me want to extend that compassion to beings that used to show up on

my dinner table.Erica Meier, executive director of Compassion

Over Killing, sponsor of a recent DC VegFest (where I spoke and served samples), summarised the rea-sons succinctly when she and I appeared on a local TV news show: “Vegetarian means being lighter in many ways,” she said. “Having a lighter footprint on our environment. . . . lighter in terms of our health. . . . And, of course, especially for me — and this is the reason I became vegan — a lighter conscience.”

If anyone is looking for a primer, a good new source is Plant Power by Nava Atlas, the prolific author of such books as Wild About Greens and the creator of VegKitchen.com.

The most helpful information might be the front matter. Besides recounting her own journey, Atlas busts common myths about plant-based eating (it’s not filling enough, you can’t get enough protein, you’ll get weak and sickly) and covers important nutri-tional considerations (which leafy greens are good sources of calcium and iron, which foods have the most protein and more). The latter is so useful that I was tempted to copy those pages and tape them

to my fridge.Ultimately, recipes make the best case of all for

vegetarianism, and I put one of Atlas’ to the test: How would it go over at a dinner party table occupied almost entirely by carnivores? I chose a slightly spicy stew that uses almond (or another nut) butter for creaminess and packs sweet potatoes, broccoli and kale into a tomato-based broth. Just a few bites in, our conversation turned not to the fact that there wasn’t any meat in sight, but to the kind of stories I like best: about our favourite vegetables.

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A spicy stew for good health

Southeast Asian-Style Vegetable and Nut Butter Stew

6 to 8 servings (makes about 9 cups)This spicy-as-you-like-it stew binds a medley of vegeta-

bles in a broth made creamy with your favorite nut butter. It’s got plenty of options: Feel free to use butternut or acorn squash instead of sweet potato, cauliflower instead of broccoli, cabbage or collards instead of kale.

Serve it over rice.Make Ahead: The stew can be refrigerated for up to 1

week and frozen for up to 3 months.

Ingredients:1 1/2 tablespoons extra-virgin olive oil1 large red onion, chopped4 cloves garlic, finely chopped2 medium sweet potatoes (about 1 3/4 pounds), peeled

and cut into 1/2-inch diceOne 15-to-16-ounce can no-salt-added diced toma-

toes, with juices2 teaspoons peeled and grated fresh ginger root, or

more as needed3 cups water, or more as needed3 cups (about 8 ounces) small broccoli florets1 or 2 small Thai chili peppers, seeded and finely

chopped (may substitute other small peppers or 1/2 to 1 teaspoon crushed red pepper flakes)

1/2 cup smooth almond butter (may substitute peanut or cashew butter)

3 cups lightly packed lacinato kale leaves (about 8 ounces), thick stems discarded, thinly sliced

1/2 cup chopped cilantro leaves1/2 teaspoon fine sea salt, or more as needed1/2 teaspoon freshly ground black pepper, or more as

needed1/2 cup dry-roasted, unsalted peanuts, chopped, for

garnish (optional)3 scallions, trimmed and thinly sliced, for garnish

(optional)

Method:Pour the oil into a soup pot over medium heat. Stir in the

onion and garlic; cook until the onion has lightly browned, 4 to 6 minutes.

Add the sweet potatoes, the tomatoes and their juices, the ginger (using more if you want the dish to be spicier) and the 3 cups of water. Let it slowly come to a boil, then reduce the heat so the water is barely bubbling; cover and cook until the sweet potatoes are nearly tender, 12 to 15 minutes.

Add the broccoli and chili pepper (or peppers, if you want the dish to be spicier). Stir in the almond butter a little at a time until it melts into the broth. Cover and cook until the broccoli loses a little firmness, a few minutes.

Stir in the kale and cook, uncovered, until it is wilted and all of the vegetables are just tender but not mushy, 5 minutes. Add a little more water if needed for a moist but not soupy consistency.

Stir in the cilantro, salt and pepper. Taste, and adjust the seasoning as needed. Serve in bowls over rice. If desired, garnish each serving with peanuts and/or scallions.

Nutrition Per serving (stew only, based on 8): 250 calo-ries, 6 g protein, 33 g carbohydrates, 12 g fat, 2 g saturated fat, 0 mg cholesterol, 320 mg sodium, 6 g dietary fiber, 7 g sugar

BOOKS 7PLUS | SUNDAY 28 SEPTEMBER 2014

By Ngozi Kemjika

American writer Vicki Constantine Croke has a special place in her heart for ani-mals and their magical connection and friendship with humans, which inspired her latest book, Elephant Company.

In the book Croke, 56, chronicles the life story of World War One veteran J H Williams (1897-1958), who was dubbed Elephant Bill because of the unique relation-ship he developed with the huge creatures while work-ing in colonial Burma for the Bombay Burma Trading Company.

She weaves historical accounts with scenes between Williams and the elephants, and uses his personal writ-ings to tell his story.

Croke, who lives outside Boston, spoke about her fascination with animals, the aim of her latest book and her secret agenda.

You have been exploring animal life for more than two decades. Why have you continued with it?

My entire career has been one big excuse to pat ani-mals. I came out of the womb this way and it is a dream come true for me to spend my life focused on writing about animals. There isn’t an animal that I don’t like.

In your book The Lady and the Panda you told the true story of American Ruth Harkness, who brought the first live giant panda to the United States, and in Elephant Company you write about Billy Williams. What is it that attracts you to writ-ing about human and animal relationships?

At the very centre of what fascinates me is our con-nection to the animal world and that connection isn’t always as intimate as these two people’s. Both of these stories are like fairy tales for adults to me. Some people grow out of stories about animals, but I never did.

I am not spiritual, but I believe there is a divine con-nection between people and animals. I am intrigued by those who can enter the world of wild animals and emerge unscathed.

How did you research the life of Billy Williams?He wrote so many memoirs but I was lucky enough

to be able to pore over the family archives from Treve Williams, his son. I found new, unpublished writings that contained important details. I had the original manuscripts for ‘Elephant Bill and Susan, his wife’s, memoir. I also found that he was able to express much more of his emotion in the movie treatments that he himself wrote rather than in the actual published mem-oirs. That helped me get to the emotional root of his feelings.

Did you study elephants or visit any of the places you detail in the book?

I went to Tasmania where Treve Williams lived, but I felt that the heart of the book was the elephants themselves.

I was fortunate enough to be given permission to visit a zoo, with my videographer every other week. Once there, I would spend the whole day with a pair of elephants. It was a gift to be able to scratch them behind their enormous ears and know them in a way that Bill got to know his elephants. I quickly began to know their quirks, understand their personali-ties, sounds and vocalisations. This intimate sense of elephants was both a personal and professional gift.

What was your aim in writing the book?I wanted to tell a good story ... It was important for

me to just get out of the way and let the story be told.

Why should people, animal lovers or not, read Elephant Company?

I naturally have this love of animals and I have always felt that if people just knew them better, they would fall in love. I guess I have a secret agenda, and that is to make everyone in the world fall in love with animals.

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Vicki Constantine Croke on special animal andhuman ties

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By Ann Hornaday

Jimi Hendrix purists itching to hear “Purple Haze” and “The Wind Cries Mary” in Jimi: All Is by My Side should

be warned: Neither of those chest-nuts appears in this movie. Far from a comprehensive biopic or conventional star-is-born parable, this oblique, impressionistic, thor-oughly convincing slice of Hendrix’s life instead zooms in on perhaps the most pivotal time of his career, when he spent a year in London becom-ing the guitar god and rock icon he would die as just a few years later.

Andre Benjamin — better known as Andre 3000, one half of the hip-hop group OutKast — does a phe-nomenal job of channeling Hendrix, first as a vague, unformed creature, and finally as the shrewd, self-con-scious but still idealistic creation he virtually willed into being.

Like all superstars, this one had more than one author: Jimi, which has been astutely written and directed by John Ridley, pays homage not only to its preternaturally gifted subject but to Linda Keith (Imogen Poots), the fashion model who in 1966 was best known for being Keith Richards’ girlfriend. She harboured enough taste to identify Hendrix as a musical genius, and enough drive to convince a dreamy, infuriatingly

passive-aggressive savant to take responsibility for his own potentially meteoric future.

It’s not a very well-known chap-ter in Hendrix’s life, and Ridley, who won an Oscar for his 12 Years a Slave screenplay, revisits it with vivid, atmospheric texture, from the Greenwich Village clubs where Hendrix appeared as Jimmy James — backing up Curtis Knight, then fronting his own band — to Carnaby Street-era London, where he eagerly fused his love for the blues with psychedelia, sci-fi and straight-up rock ‘n’ roll. (He’s just as drawn to Dylan as he is to Howlin’ Wolf, see-ing allegiance to one style of music as a “cage.”)

Stutter-stepping through a time that bridged post-war wholesome-ness with the trippy grooviness of the ‘60s, Ridley doesn’t tell Hendrix’s story as much as parachute in for brief, vagrant moments, interspers-ing them with quick flashbacks in the form of real-life snapshots or vintage film footage of Seattle, where Hendrix grew up. As audacious as his titular subject, Ridley often drops Jimi into total silence, as if to prepare viewers for the explosive changes that are just on the horizon, but as yet invisible.

Jimi takes place between 1966 and 1967, when Paul McCartney suggested Hendrix help represent

Britain at the Monterey Pop Festival — which in turn introduced America to the Jimi Hendrix most of us remember: the literally incendiary player and iconoclast who had a pen-chant for playing with his teeth and behind his back, and ended his set by lighting his guitar on fire.

A few of those flourishes are on display in Jimi” but for the most part the film is a study in Hendrix’s fey, approach-avoidance relationship to celebrity, and his tumultuous rela-tionships with women, including his girlfriend, Kathy Etchingham (Hayley Atwell).

Hendrix is so gentle, soft-spoken and poetically inclined toward love and universal good vibes that when he viciously attacks Etchingham with a telephone at a London night-club, it comes as a sickening, disil-lusioning shock.

Far more cheering are the sequences when Hendrix meets his idols and blows them away with his prodigious playing. Ridley has done an outstanding job of casting look-alike actors to play such historic pop culture figures as managers Andrew Loog Oldham and Chas Chandler, as well as the great Eric Clapton him-self, who, after inviting Hendrix to jam one night, is literally chased off the stage by the American’s scorch-ing version of “Killing Floor.” Having uncannily mastered Hendrix’s

left-handed playing, as well as his drawn-out speaking style, perform-ance tics and lanky, cat-like posture, Benjamin utterly owns that moment, just as he dominates Jimi with a por-trayal that’s at once tantalizingly off-center and on-the-nose in the very best sense. (It should be noted that Benjamin is given an able sonic assist from longtime Los Angeles session cat Waddy Wachtel on guitar.)

Because Hendrix’s estate refused to license any of the musician’s origi-nal songs for the film, Ridley was left with the early covers Hendrix per-formed, including “Wild Thing” and a performance of “Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band” at a famous per-formance for the Beatles themselves at the Savile Theatre. The scene is nothing short of electrifying, shot through with the exhilaration of dis-covery and suggesting that Ridley succeeded in turning Jimi’s greatest limitation into its greatest strength.

Liberated from playing the hits, Benjamin eloquently captures Hendrix’s emerging style with-out having to succumb to jukebox-musical opportunism. Rather, he allows glimmers of the future star’s voice and style to wrap, tendril-like, around everything he does. You can hear “Purple Haze” and “The Wind Cries Mary” all the way through Jimi, right where they always were: between the notes. WP-Bloomberg

Victoria Beckham appointed Unaids Goodwill Ambassador

Victoria Beckham has been appointed Unaids International Goodwill Ambassador.

The announcement was made on Thursday at a press conference during the 69th session of the UN General Assembly in New York, which runs from September 16 to October 1, Xinhua reported.

“This is the beginning of an important journey for me. As a woman and a mother I have a responsibility to support other women,” Beckham said.

“I am proud and honoured to be working with Unaids in this new role to help to raise resources and awareness to support and empower women and children affected by HIV.”

In her new role as an ambassador for Unaids, Beckham will work toward ensuring that all children are born free from HIV and that children and women who are living with and affected by HIV have access to medicines and care.

In February, Beckham had visited HIV clinics in Cape Town, South Africa, where she learned about the importance of antiretroviral therapy which can reduce the risk of a mother living with HIV passing the virus to her child to below five percent and about how children are being left behind in accessing treatment.

“Together we can end the Aids epidemic,” Beckham tweeted on Thursday.

Desi Kattey earthy, robust and virileBy Subhash K. Jha

Film: Desi KatteyCast: Suniel Shetty, Jay Bhanushali, Akhil Kapur, Tia Bajpai, Sasha AghaDirector: Anand Kumar

Two child actors, both performing very badly, grow up to be adult actors, one of whom turns out as a decent actor. As for the other, a crash course

in basic emoting is recommended.To find out which one of the two protagonists in this extended ‘gaatha’

(saga) of guns, guts and some glory redeems himself, you need to see Desi Kattey, a surprisingly watchable, though at times stretched out beyond belief, yarn yoking crime and sports in a way that we haven’t seen in any film.

To give you a plot heads-up, here’s what this well-written script tells you. Two boys who grow up in the badlands of Uttar Pradesh (Kanpur, we are told) wielding guns as though there is no antidote to lawlessness anywhere nearby, soon decide to go their separate ways, like all filmy friends.

Interestingly, what separates them is not violence, but the way the gun is used. While Pali (Akhil Kapur) uses it for a life of extended crime the other gentler shooter Gyani (Jay Bhanushali) is weaned away from a life of bloodshed by an ex-armyman, played with a quiet strength by Suniel Shetty. He is simply known as ‘Major’ throughout the film.

Major has a minor problem, an annoying kid-sister played by Sasha Agha, who already proved in Aurangzeb that she can’t act. She tries hard here, trying to make her presence felt in a script that has no room for female characters.

There are only two female characters in the entire film (not counting the item song by a foreigner). And that suits the movie’s macho motivations just fine.

Desi Kattey is the sort of hurling, heaving, lurching and lumbering homage to rustic heroics that went out of fashion in the 1970s. And that’s precisely why it holds your interest. It digs out the old convention of ‘jigri’ friends turned trigger-happy opponents and then takes the formula to another level altogether by keeping the emotional dynamics on an ambivalent level.

There is a lot that is seriously wrong with this film. But the narrative constantly redeems itself by playing against the rules of cliched cinema.

Director Anand Kumar builds the male bonding between the two buddies with tear-resistant material. Sure, Pali and Gyan, the two sharp-shooters who can aim at the hips and keep it a secret from their lips, hug and embrace and express more affection for one another than couples who have just dis-covered a shelf full of Archie comics.

But there is core of candour to the proceedings that makes the aberra-tions (hammy acting by many) bearable. While some of the actors behave as though their facial muscles do not listen to their mental faculties, Suniel and Ashutosh Rana skilfully play down their characters’ pitch to an octave much lower than prescribed by the hyper-ventilating plot.

Jay as the shooter who goes from crime to national championship shows growth as an actor.

Kailash Kher’s music is interesting at times.Earthy, robust and virile, Desi Kattey is the macho ‘gun gaan’ that fans of

Anurag Kashyap and Sanjay Gupta’s cinema would identify with. If you like stories about boys on a rampage, this one will make your heart swell with manly pride. IANS

Guy Pearce to play F Scott Fitzgerald

Actor Guy Pearce will portray the role of The Great Gatsby author F Scott Fitzgerald in new movie Genius.

Theatre director Michael Grandage will make his feature film debut with the big screen adaptation of A Scott Berg’s award-wining biography Max Perkins: Editor of Genius.

The story will talk about the relationship between American novelist Thomas Wolfe, played by Jude Law, and his editor Max Perkins, who will be portrayed by Colin Firth, reports contactmusic.com.

The film will also feature Nicole Kidman as costume designer and writer Aline Bernstein, who was romantically linked to Wolfe in the 1920s, and Laura Linney as Perkins’ wife, Louise.

Production on the project is due to begin in Britain next month.

Al Pacino honoured in London

Veteran actor Al Pacino was honoured with

a British Film Institute Fellowship here. The Godfather attended the event at Corinthia Hotel with his girlfriend Lucila Sola, reports contactmusic.com.

The Fellowship title is given to individuals in “rec-ognition of their outstanding contribution to film or televi-sion culture”.

In his acceptance speech, he said: “This is such a great honour... I’m overwhelmed. People I’ve adored have received this award. I appre-ciate this so much.”

Some of the previous Fellowship recipients include Ian Holm, Joan Collins and John Hurt.

Jimi: All Is by My SideJimi: All Is by My Side a a brilliant evocation of Hendrixbrilliant evocation of Hendrix

PLUS | SUNDAY 28 SEPTEMBER 2014

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West Africa’s overstretched Ebola treatment centres are at the heart of efforts to contain theworst-ever outbreak of the virus, staffed by dedicated healthcare workers and medical volunteers,

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HEALTH / FITNESS 11PLUS | SUNDAY 28 SEPTEMBER 2014

Baby babbling linked to hearing ability

A baby’s cooing or babbling may indicate his/her sound hearing ability, says a study.

The reason why the amount of vocalisations often differ between hearing and deaf infants is that vocalisations are primarily motivated by their ability to hear their own babbling, the findings showed.

The researchers also found that cochlear implants can help infants with profound hear-ing loss to correct their hearing.

Cochlear implants are small electronic devices embedded into the bone behind the ear that replace some functions of the damaged inner ear.

“Hearing is a critical aspect of infants’ moti-vation to make early sounds,” said researcher Mary Fagan, an assistant professor at the University of Missouri in the US.

“This study shows babies are interested in speech-like sounds and that they increase their babbling when they can hear,” said Fagan.

Fagan studied the vocalisations of 27 hearing infants and 16 infants with profound hearing loss who were candidates for cochlear implants.

She found that infants with profound hear-ing loss vocalised significantly less than hearing infants.

However, when the infants with profound hearing loss received cochlear implants, the infants’ vocalisations increased to the same lev-els as their hearing peers within four months of receiving the implants.

“After the infants received their cochlear implants, the significant difference in overall vocalisation quantity was no longer evident,” Fagan said.

“These findings support the importance of early hearing screenings and early cochlear implantation,” Fagan noted.

The study was published in the Journal of Experimental Child Psychology.

Kids who sleep well perform better in school

If you want your kids to do well in school, make sure that they get adequate sleep as research-

ers have found that lack of sleep increases the risk of failure in school.

Adolescents who suffer from sleep distur-bance or habitual short sleep duration (less than 7 hours per day) are less likely to succeed academically compared with those who enjoy a good night’s sleep, the findings showed.

The study involved more than 20,000 adoles-cents aged between 12 and 19 in Sweden.

“Another important finding of our study is that around 30 percent of the adolescents reported regular sleep problems,” said lead researcher Christian Benedict from the Uppsala University in Sweden.

“Similar observations have been made in other adolescent cohorts, indicating that sleep problems among adolescents have reached an epidemic level in our modern societies”, Benedict added.

The study appeared in the journal Sleep Medicine.

Agencies

By Shereen Lehman

People who spend more time preparing and cooking meals are more likely to have healthier diets, says a new study.

Those who spent the least time on food prepara-tion also spent the most money on food away from home and were more likely to eat at fast food res-taurants, the authors found.

“We’ve known for a long time that cooking and being able to prepare your own food is associated with eating a healthier diet and it sort of just make sense, but there actually isn’t much research in the area” Pablo Monsivais said.

Monsivais, from the Center for Diet and Activity Research at the University of Cambridge in the UK, led the new study.

His team used survey information from 1,319 par-ticipants in the Seattle Obesity Study, conducted from 2008 to 2009. All were the main food providers in their households. They were asked about cooking habits, eating habits, food spending and restaurant use.

“One of the measurements that we had was the amount of time that people spend on food prepara-tion — cooking and cleaning — the things that go into making a meal,” Monsivais said.

Participants were asked how much time they spent on food preparation each day: less than an hour, one to two hours, or more than two hours.

Participants who spent the most time in the kitchen tended to be white, younger married women. They also had larger families and more household income, but were less likely to be employed, the authors reported in the American Journal of Preventive Medicine.

People who spent the most time cooking meals consumed at least eight servings of fruit and 13 serv-ings of vegetables per week, the authors found. Those who spent the least amount of time preparing meals ate on average six servings of fruit and just under 11 servings of vegetables per week.

When it came to weekly food spending, those who spent the most time cooking spent about $7 less for each family member each week.

The study team also found that people who spent less than an hour per day cooking were almost twice as likely to visit fast food restaurants every week compared to those who spent the most time cooking.

Monsivais said healthy eating might have an asso-ciated time “cost” that people need to recognize.

“That’s not to say it isn’t something we should be spending time on — just that we should be aware up front that if we have intentions of having a healthier

diet it might be the case that we just have to spend more time in the kitchen to make that possible,” he said.

“I think some of the most creative people (with cookbooks and cooking shows) are showing people how to make healthy meals by doing it in a way that’s realistic in the sense of the economics of food and how much time people tend to have for making meals,” Monsivais said.

The researchers say their results don’t prove time spent on food prep translates to healthier diets. It’s possible that people who eat healthier just like to spend more time preparing food.

But if time is a critical ingredient in a healthier diet, they write, public programs to encourage better eating need to take that into account to make the “true costs of healthier diets more realistic” and to help improve food-assistance programs.

Lori Rosenthal, a dietician at Montefiore Medical Center in New York City, said the study highlights the need for more nutrition education and teach-ing on how to prepare meals quickly and more cost effectively.

“When you think about families where both par-ents are working, it’s easy to grab something and bring it home to your family, it’s a lot faster than preparing something,” said Rosenthal, who wasn’t involved in the new study.

“So that’s why it’s really important to teach people techniques that can cut the time down so they will be cooking and preparing meals instead of buying everything and also how to choose healthier options when they do buy things out of the home,” Rosenthal added.

Rosenthal said planning is the key to success for eating healthy, saving money and saving time.

“Sit down and figure out what you are going to eat for the week — breakfast, lunch, dinner, snacks – and make a grocery list so you can buy the things you need in advance,” she said. And look for things that are on sale when preparing a grocery list, she added.

“Even right after you go grocery shopping clean the vegetables, cut them up, separate things into Ziploc bags, have it set up for yourself, so it’s faster,” she said.

Another time saver Rosenthal recommends is pre-preparing meals or cooking foods in larger batches and freezing them in portions.

“You basically have healthy homemade frozen din-ners,” she said.

Rosenthal also suggests using slow cookers and making one-pot meals to save on clean-up time.

SOURCE: bit.ly/1t01shk American Journal of Preventive Medicine, online September 18, 2014

Reuters

Time might be ‘essential ingredient’ in healthier eating, says study

TECHNOLOGYPLUS | SUNDAY 28 SEPTEMBER 201412

By Samuel Gibbs

Testing of the iPhone 6 has shown that it is significantly more resilient to bending, after users began complain-

ing that the larger iPhone 6 Plus was bending in their pockets.

Scores of users took to forums, Twitter and technology sites to com-plain that their brand-new iPhone 6 Plus phones had become bent, just by being carried in front and back trouser pockets.

Lewis Hilsenteger from Unbox Therapy took a brand new iPhone 6 and subjected it to the same bending test as the iPhone 6 Plus, which deformed significantly under pressure.

“The iPhone 6 is far more durable. It has a smaller footprint, so the material isn’t spanning such a large footprint, so it’s integrity is significantly better,” said Hilsenteger in a video bending

the iPhone 6 and other competing smartphones.

“Can you still bend it? Probably, but under normal usage I don’t see this ‘bendgate’ issue affecting regular iPhone 6 users in the same way as 6 Plus users.”

The testing was not scientific, but the strain across Hilsenteger’s face was obvious, showing how much pressure was required to bend the phone.

‘That baby is solid’Hilsenteger also attempted to bend

other smartphones, including the Samsung Galaxy Note 3 – a direct competitor to the iPhone 6 Plus – the 2014 Motorola Moto X, the Nokia Lumia 1020 and HTC One M8, which has an aluminium body similar to the new iPhones, and the iPhone 5S.

The Motorola Moto X is the most rigid of the new phones, exhibiting no signs of bending or breaking, while

the the HTC One M8 does not bend in a similar way to the iPhone 6 or 6 Plus, but the screen did flex and come away from the phone’s body temporar-ily under pressure, as did the Nokia Lumia 1020.

“That baby is solid,” exclaimed Hilsenteger while visibly straining to bend the Moto X. “No noises, no move-ment; that is a robust device.”

The iPhone 5S also resisted bending, showing no signs of deformation after testing in the same manner.

‘If you bend it, of course it bends’Previous testing of the 5.7in

Samsung Galaxy Note 3 showed that it too bends like the iPhone 6 Plus and remained slightly warped after bend-ing, but not to the same extent as the iPhone 6 Plus. The Note 3 is 2.5mm thicker than the iPhone 6 Plus, which is 7mm thick.

“People have been saying that ‘if you bend it, of course it bends’ – but these

other devices are proof that’s not nec-essarily the case as I used the same amount of force and had very little result,” explained Hilsenteger.

Whether Apple has a serious issue with the iPhone 6 Plus is uncertain. The company has yet to respond to calls for comment. As smartphones get thinner and bigger, the strain put on them in pockets increases, while their strength decreases as the mate-rial is spread thinner over a larger area.

Other smartphones have suffered similar issues in the past. Sony’s Xperia Z1, which had a 5in screen and a metal frame, saw users complaining that they bent in pockets, while Samsung Galaxy S4 users had similar complaints, as did BlackBerry Q10 users.

“Regular iPhone 6 users, don’t panic; this thing is not going to bend easily, not nearly as easily as the iPhone 6 Plus,” concluded Hilsenteger.

The Guardian

iPhone 6 bends less than 6 Plus but Moto X is most resilient: Test

Users need not worry about the iPhone 6 bending in their pockets quite like the larger iPhone 6 Plus, but other competitors’ products are hardier.

Lewis Hilsenteger from Unbox Therapy attempting to bend an iPhone 6.

By Bill Rigby

Microsoft Corp will unveil a new name for its best-known product on Tuesday when it offers the first official glimpse of its latest Windows operating

system.The project, known for the past few years as “Threshold”

inside the software company and “Windows 9” outside it, will likely get an entirely new brand, or just be called Windows, analysts said, ahead of its full release early next year.

The name change is symbolic of a new direction and style for Microsoft, which is veering away from an aggressive focus on Windows and PCs, the hallmark of previous Chief Executive Officer Steve Ballmer. The new, quieter emphasis is on selling services across all devices and is championed by new boss Satya Nadella.

The switch also represents a desire to erase the ill will generated by Windows 8, an ambitious attempt to redesign Windows with tablet users in mind, which ended up annoy-ing and confusing the core market of customers who use mice and keyboards.

“Windows 8 was not a shining moment for Microsoft,” said Michael Silver, an analyst at tech research firm Gartner. “Probably the biggest issue that lingers is the negative brand equity in the name.”

Many users howled in protest over the death of the start-button menu and the introduction of a colorful grid of squares or tiles representing apps in what became known as the modern user interface, even though they could easily switch to a traditional desktop mode.

Judging by recent leaks online, which Microsoft has not tried to discredit, the start-button menu will come back in the next Windows, with an option of tacking on tiles if preferred.

But the problem of users having to toggle between the modern interface and the old-style desktop - for instance to use the full version of Excel spreadsheet software - has yet to be solved.

“The schizophrenic behavior between the modern user interface and the Windows desktop has got to go away,” said David Johnson, an analyst at tech research firm Forrester. “They have to smooth that out.”

Microsoft declined to comment on the new name, or what it plans to unveil on Tuesday.

The Redmond, Washington-based company has said only that it will have a “discussion” about where Windows is headed at a stylish event space in San Francisco on Tuesday.

The choice of wording and venue are key to a hum-bler, lower-profile Microsoft under Nadella, who is keen to rebuild respect in the Bay Area and Silicon Valley as it moves away from the PC and to play a bigger part in the mobile

computing world fashioned by Apple Inc and Google Inc.Nadella’s slogan is “mobile first, cloud first,” and

although he will not be at the San Francisco event - he is traveling in Asia - that theme will be at the fore.

“This is a launching pad and catalyst for Nadella’s holistic cloud vision over the coming years,” said Daniel Ives, an analyst at investment bank FBR Capital Markets. “Windows 9 is a potentially game-changing product release for Microsoft.”

Nadella is resigned to the fact that sales of PCs have leveled off, and with it sales of Windows. With the explosion of smartphones and tablets, Windows now powers only 14 percent of computing devices sold last year, according to Gartner.

His response is to focus on selling high-quality services - such as the Office suite of applications or storing docu-ments in the cloud - to people on whatever device or system they are using.

“Microsoft is changing from a company that was Windows-centric to one that is services-centric,” said Silver at Gartner. “It has to be that way. Windows revenue is likely going to decline, and Microsoft’s task is to replace that Windows revenue with revenue from services on all sorts of platforms.”

The challenge is to come up with killer apps and services users can’t live without.

“Microsoft built their business on being very good at delivering what people needed in the moment, for example Excel in the 1990s,” said Johnson at Forrester. “That’s what Microsoft has to get back to, innovating and creating things that people find indispensable.” Reuters

Microsoft offers first look at new

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Hoy en la HistoriaSeptember 28, 1934

1963: U.S. pop artist Roy Lichtenstein’s Whaam!, considered his most important work, debuted at a New York exhibition 1969: A large meteorite broke up and fell over Murchison, Australia. Some fragments contained amino acids with no apparent terrestrial source1994: Over 850 people died when the ferry Estonia sank in the Baltic Sea2008: Ethiopia’s Haile Gebrselassie set a new world record for the marathon of 2:3:58 in Berlin

French star Brigitte Bardot, who shot to fame in the film, “And God Created Woman”, was born. She now devotes her energies to campaigning for animal rights

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

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HYPER SUDOKU

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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

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(four regions

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only once. Otherwise, a Hyper Sudoku is

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ACROSS 1 Frigid

7 Question at the door

15 Miss out on a board

16 “’Sup?”

17 Subject for a golf lesson

18 Emphatic approval

19 Petition

20 51-Down and others: Abbr.

21 Nighttime

22 Hunky-dory

23 Clobbered

25 Birds in a clutch

26 Group that no one on earth has ever joined

29 Sun disk wearer, in myth

30 Petition

31 “That’s quite enough!”

35 Abridged

37 “What’s it gonna be?”

38 Feature of a certain bandit

39 20-Down, e.g.

40 Nut

41 What a nonconformist ignores

44 “___ magnifique!”

46 Big employer in Hartford, Conn.

47 Canal checker?: Abbr.

48 One who’s trustworthy?

49 Doesn’t just grab

50 Green shade

52 Public, as views

54 Instruments played with mizraabs

56 “I’d like you to leave”

57 Nips in the bud

58 Bank guards?

59 Ambush locale in Episode 1 of “The Lone Ranger”

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2 Thallium sulfate, e.g.

3 Figure out on the street?

4 Stick with it

5 One way to pay

6 Civic leader?

7 “Beg pardon?!”

8 Shop alternative

9 Takes credit?

10 Gabriel or Giorgio

11 Basic library stock

12 Iron-pumper

13 Australia’s ___ Rock

14 Lose a lot?

20 Nissan ___

22 Italian friend

24 Question in a long-distance relationship

25 Humble dwellings

27 Civil engineering safety feature

28 Square, in old slang, as indicated by forming a square with one’s hands

32 1969 hit with the repeated lyric “Big wheel keep on turnin’”

33 So that one can

34 Takes some hits

36 Red states

37 Humble dwellings

39 Short trunks

42 Possible protein shake ingredient

43 Sample in a swab test

44 Weber per square meter

45 Turn red, say

48 Drill bits?

49 Away from port

51 Christopher Columbus Transcontinental Hwy.

53 Kind of port

54 Pouch

55 Frequent form request: Abbr.

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17 18

19 20 21

22 23 24 25

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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 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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16:50 How It's Made

17:15 How Do They Do

It?

17:40 Gold Divers

18:30 Porter Ridge

18:55 Porter Ridge

19:20 Americarna

19:45 Americarna

20:10 American Diggers

20:35 The Liquidator

21:00 Hardcore Heroes

21:50 Americarna

NOVO

1The Maze Runner (2D/Action)

– 10:15 am, 12:40, 3:00, 5:20, 7:40, 10:00pm & 12:20am

2The Equalizer (2D/Action)

– 10:00am, 12:30, 3:00, 5:30, 8:00, 10:30pm & 1:00am

3Delhi Safari (2D/Animation) – 10:00am, 12:00, 2:00, & 4:00pmPenthouse North (3D/Drama) – 6:00, 8:00, 10:00pm, & 12:00am

4Drive Hard (2D/Action) – 10:30am, 12:30, 2:30, 4:30 &6:30pm

Kan Rafeeji (Arabic) – 8:30, 10:40pm & 12:30am

5A Walk Among Tombstones (2D/Action)

– 10:10am, 2:30, 6:45 & 11:30pmA certain Justice (2D/Action) – 12:30, 4:45 & 9:15pm,

6The Captive (2D/Thriller)

– 10:00am, 12:30, 3:00, 5:30pm, 10:30am & 1:00amLets Be Cops (2D/Comedy) – 8:00pm

7Kristy (2D/Thriller)

– 10:15am, 12:15, 2:15, 4:15, 6:15, 8:15, 10:15pm & 12:15am

8Super Hybrid (2D/Action) – 10:15am, 12:15, 02:15, 04:15, ,

8:00, 10:15pm & 12:15amLets Be Cops (2D/Comedy) – 6.00pm


– 11:00am, 1:30, 4:00, 6:30, 9:15pm & midnight


– 10:00am, 12:40, 3:20, 6:00, 8:40pm & 11:30pm

MALL

1Delhi Safari (2D/Animation) – 2.30 & 4.30pm

Penthouse North (2D/Thriller) – 6.15pm

The Equalizer (2D/Action) – 8.00pm

Sapthamashree Taskara (2D/Malayalam) – 10.30pm

2Hybrid (2D/Horror) – 2.30pm

Before Midnight (2D/Drama) – 4.30pm

Kristy (2D/Thriller) – 6.30pm



3Kan Rafeegi (2D/Drama) – 3.00pm

The Captive (2D/Thriller) – 5.00 pm

A Certain Justice (2D/Action) – 7.00pm



LANDMARK


Kan Rafeegi (2D/Drama) – 4.30pm




2Before Midnight (2D/Drama) – 2.30 & 6.15pm

Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles

(3D/Action) – 4.30pm

The Equalizer (2D/Action) – 8.30 & 11.00pm

3Delhi Safari (2D/Animation) – 2.30pm



Madras (2D/Tamil) – 8.15pm


ROYAL

PLAZA

1Delhi Safari (2D/Animation) – 2.30pm




Madras (2D/Tamil) – 10.30pm

2Kan Rafeegi (2D/Drama) – 3.00pm






Delhi Safari (2D/Animation) – 4.30pm




11:00 News

11:30 Talk To Al

Jazeera

12:00 News

12:30 The Cure

13:00 NEWSHOUR

14:00 News

14:30 Inside Story

15:00 Al Jazeera

World

16:00 NEWSHOUR

17:00 News

17:30 Listening Post

18:00 NEWSHOUR

19:00 News

19:30 101 East

20:00 News

20:30 Inside Story

21:00 NEWSHOUR

22:00 News

22:30 Talk To Al

Jazeera

23:00 Empire


PLUS | SUNDAY 28 SEPTEMBER 2014 POTPOURRI16

Editor-In-Chief Khalid Al Sayed Acting Managing Editor Hussain Ahmad Editorial Office The Peninsula Tel: 4455 7741, E-mail: [email protected] / [email protected]

IN FOCUS

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Events in Qatar

The Arabic Script When: Till September 30; 9am-6pmWhere: AaQool Atrium, Qatar Foundation Recreation Centre, Education City What: The display at this calligraphy exhibition includes authentic calligraphy artworks dating as far back as the 9th Century, and showcases the finest pieces from famous calligraphers Hamdulla Al-Amasi and Hafiz Osman, in addition to the exceptional work of Qatari calligrapher Ali Hassan Al Jaber.Free entry

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

Radio Controlled Car RaceWhen: Till November 21Where: Aspire Zone What: Qatar’s best radio controlled car racers can converge at Aspire Zone and take part in a series of exciting races at the Zone Race Track. Only drivers that have cars suitable for the competition can enter the race. The circuit features an off-road track that is 350 m long and 4 m wide, over an area of 1,650 square meters. The type of cars being used on the track are 1/8 scale buggy and Truggy style cars.More info at www.lifeinaspire.qa

The Tiger’s Dream: Tipu Sultan When: September 29 - January 24Where: Museum Of Islamic Art What: This exhibition delves into the life 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

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

Russians hand in Western T-shirts in patriotic fashion driveBy Alessandra Prentice

Looking to put a patriotic spin on international sanc-tions over Ukraine, a local group is touring Moscow, urging passers-by to swap their Western-branded

T-shirts for homegrown tops sporting pro-Russian slogans.“Sanctions? Don’t make my Iskanders laugh,” reads one

T-shirt, referring to a Russian missile system. “The Topol is not afraid of sanctions,” says another, vaunting the power of a Russian intercontinental ballistic missile.

A bus, decorated with the blue, white and red of the Russian flag, has already exchanged 10,000 tops this week and is due to keep on touring the capital until October 6.

“Everyone’s been responding well, even foreigners. People are giving up their shirts with pleasure,” said Anastasia Zadorina, the campaign’s designer, wearing one of her own creations — “We have our own cool things without Coca-Cola.”

Western nations have imposed an array of sanctions on Russia in response to its involvement in the conflict in Ukraine, including its annexation of Crimea earlier this year.

The punitive measures have limited Russia’s access to foreign money, sent the rouble to historic lows and slowed economic growth to a crawl. Russia has responded by ban-ning many Western food products and appealing to patriot fervour.

“We can live without oysters and Parmesan and without Western fashion,” Zadorina said. “We don’t want to offend anyone, we just love our homeland.”

Although Russia is becoming increasingly isolated,

President Vladimir Putin has won backing at home, with a survey by the independent Levada pollster putting support for him at 86 percent in September — the highest since 2008.

Some of the T-shirts on offer were printed with pictures of military hardware, while others are decorated with an image of the knotted red necktie, synonymous with the Communist Pioneer movement of the former Soviet Union.

The self-styled “ideologist” behind the campaign, Ksenia Melnikova, said the project was not funded by the Kremlin. The group’s website lists Moscow’s Vnukovo airport and two other Russian firms as corporate partners.

“We’re going to Crimea 100 percent. Other regions are inviting us also,” said Melnikova. The Western shirts will be recycled or used to make a political artwork, she added.

Oksana, a 25-year-old student, said she was happy “to support this patriotic campaign” and swap in her Western top for a new Russian design.

“It will all be okay in the end though, we’ll be friends again with the West before long,” she said. Reuters

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