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WHITE HOUSEWHITE HOUSE PARDONS PARDONS TURKEYTURKEY

Typically on the day before Thanksgiving, US president, the man who makes decisions about wars, virus outbreaks, terrorism cells and other dire matters of state chooses to pardon a single turkey.

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By Tim Carman

Every year for a quarter-century now, the president of the United States has pardoned a turkey. Consider this for a moment. Typically on the day before

Thanksgiving, the man who makes decisions about wars, virus outbreaks, terrorism cells and other dire matters of state chooses to pardon a single turkey (plus an alternate, which presum-ably takes the place of the officially pardoned should he or she not be able to fulfill the duties). The birds for this year’s ceremony are already bulking up for their moment in the Rose Garden with President Barack Obama.

The two toms — their names still under con-sideration as of press time — were hatched in July and raised at Cooper Farms in Ohio, a family-owned operation that processes about 4.6 mil-lion turkeys annually. The feathered duo, one could assume, are too young to have committed crimes requiring a pardon — such as, say, terror-ising toddlers at a 4-H fair. In fact, at only a few months old, they are roughly the same age as the 46 million other turkeys that will not be spared

by the president (or anyone else) this year.The pardoned pair will not exactly earn their

unconditional freedom, either: After the cer-emony, the turkeys will go straight to Morven Park in Leesburg, Virginia, to live as tourist attractions, following almost the same path as last year’s poultry stars, Popcorn and Caramel. They’ll be there as long as the broad-breasted whites live, which typically isn’t long for a com-mercial breed raised to be abnormally large. Such bulk can be hell on a turkey’s legs and internal organs.

“Popcorn passed away, unfortunately, in July on one of those really hot days,” said a spokeswoman for Morven Park. “He just didn’t make it through the heat.” Caramel is doing great, thank you.

This White House ceremony clearly is not for the benefit of the creatures receiving the pardon. So, what is the point of the ceremony, and why have we paid attention to it every year since it began — not with Abraham Lincoln nor with Harry S Truman, but with George H W Bush in 1989? It’s a question few seem to have considered, as if the point were either self-evident or too silly to ponder in the first place.

The activist-minded, of course, pounce on the question as a way to underscore the schism between this intellectually convoluted ritual and the reality of most farmed turkeys raised for the Thanksgiving table.

The “pardon speaks to the conflict between our human desire to act with kindness and the violence associated with a holiday tra-dition centred on the body of a dead bird,” emails Gene Baur, co-founder and president of Farm Sanctuary. It’s worth noting that the nonprofit organisation promotes a meat-free diet.

“It is a way to validate our humanity,” Baur adds, “while also enabling the brutal slaughter of tens of millions of innocent animals.”

Bev Eggleston, president and founder of EcoFriendly Foods, latches on to the term “pardoned.” He points out that while the birds bound for the White House are among a small f lock raised in Ohio, the millions of turkeys bound for our dinner tables are isolated on large industrial farms, where the creatures are basically incarcerated and treated as pro-duction units, not animals of any sentience.

Why does US president pardon a turkey (or two)?

President Barack Obama, accom-panied by his daughters, Sasha and Malia, pardons Popcorn the turkey during the annual event in 2013.

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“I find it really interesting that we use the semantics of imprisoning,” Eggleston says. “What really needs a pardon is our social disgrace, that we accept the unacceptable.”

Michael Pollan, a writer known for analysing the food industry from multiple perspectives, views the tur-key ceremony through an almost religious prism, as if it toys with the Old Testament ritual of animal sac-rifices, designed to atone for our sins.

“It’s sort of an animal sacrifice in reverse — instead of killing the one to stand symbolically for the many, we free the one and kill the many,” Pollan offers in an email.

She doesn’t come right out and drop the word “sin,” but Marion Nestle, author and professor of nutrition, food studies and public health at New York University, fig-ures the White House is applying balm to ease our troubled conscience.

“I’m guessing that a lot of peo-ple feel vaguely guilty eating meat from animals and birds raised for food, and being responsible for their death,” Nestle writes via email. “The turkey pardon symbolically lets them off the hook. It lets everyone feel good about some meaning of Thanksgiving beyond an excuse for gluttony.”

Baur at Farm Sanctuary finds the practice of naming the turkeys curious, an act designed to draw Americans closer to animals that will eventually land on our dinner plates.

“Farmers often deliberately don’t name [or get close to] their animals because they don’t want to get emo-tionally attached to them,” Baur notes. “Naming these individuals can be a way to personify the birds, but within the context of a national holiday that celebrates killing these animals by the tens of millions, it’s painfully ironic.”

“Still,” Baur adds, “a couple of saved lives is better than no saved lives.”

He then puts in a plug for an alternative to the pardon: Farm Sanctuary’s Adopt a Turkey Project, which helps support the care of res-cued animals, including 65 turkeys at three shelters. “Our turkeys live longer lives than most indus-trial breeds,” e-boasts Susie Coston, national shelter director for the non-profit group. Some live to be 10 years old, she adds.

(Other animal protection groups, such as the People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals and the Humane Society of the United States, take a different tack and sug-gest Americans adopt vegetarian and vegan menus for the holiday, support humanely raised foods or even rent the animated film “Free Birds” to promote turkey compassion.)

Turkey producers, as you might guess, don’t brood as darkly over the president’s poultry pardon as do the activists. Keith Williams, vice president of communications and marketing for the National Turkey Federation, plays up the group’s role in the ritual. Every year since Truman was in office, the federation’s chairman has pre-sented the president with a national Thanksgiving turkey. Actually, that should be turkeys, plural, since the

group usually gives the president a pair.

“As this tradition observes the opening of a season of thanks,” Williams notes in a statement, “we come to reflect on the president’s words of an America mindful and thankful of its history, purpose and traditions.”

This year’s federation chairman is Gary Cooper, and he’s no actor. He’s the chief operating officer for Cooper Farms, a 76-year-old opera-tion that’s raising the turkeys for the White House. At 59, Cooper has spent his entire life on farms, amid these squawking creatures of ques-tionable temperament. He can talk turkey.

As a major producer of turkeys — a bird native to North America and symbolically aligned with our coun-try’s colonial roots — Cooper and his family have played an integral role in the Thanksgiving holiday, bringing Americans together over the table for decades. To Cooper, the turkey pardon is a moment of pro-fessional pride. It’s the fulfillment of his American dream: His farm will forever be a part of presidential and Thanksgiving lore, no matter how small.

“I’m able to represent . . . that these dreams really do come true,” Cooper says in an interview. “It’s great to go to the White House

and give a couple of turkeys to the president.”

So, how can the average American reconcile the perspectives of the activist and the turkey farmer over this ceremony? For help on the mat-ter, I turned to Gregory Kaebnick, a scholar at the Hastings Center, a bioethics research institute in Garrison, New Yprk. Kaebnick devotes significant brain power to pondering the moral issues around our relationship with nature. He finds value in the turkey pardon.

“There are a few small things to like about it,” Kaebnick emails. “It’s a tiny signal of restraint and moderation on a day that, at least at my house, is about getting as much as possible into the oven. It’s live and let live, even if it’s just turkeys.”

When I mention that Kaebnick is one of the few people I’ve inter-viewed who are outside the tur-key industry and still support the ritual, he types back another response: “I suppose it could be adapted to accomplish something,” he offers. “Perhaps Michelle Obama could use it to talk about industrial animal farming and overall meat consumption. But I doubt it does any great harm in its current form, and I end up thinking we should save our moral outrage for other things.” WP-Bloomberg

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There are a few small things to like about it. It’s a tiny signal of restraint and modera-tion on a day that, at least at my house, is about getting as much as possible into the oven. It’s live and let live, even if it’s just turkeys.

On November 22, 2000, the National Turkey Federation presents a turkey to President Bill Clinton that the president then pardoned.

PLUS | TUESDAY 25 NOVEMBER 20144 CAMPUS / COMMUNITY

IIS honours teaching staff

Ideal Indian School honoured its staff members teaching in Class XII for

their contribution in producing excel-lent results in CBSE Examinations. The teachers received appreciation letter issued by Smriti Irani, Minister for Human Resources Development, Government of India, in regard to their performance in teaching Class XII students and obtaining high marks in CBSE Class XII examination held in March 2014. Earlier, they were hon-oured with Certificate of Excellence during the 30th Annual Day celebra-tions. The Peninsula

Over 80 students from Qatar Foundation’s Academic Bridge Program (ABP) recently attended a lecture on how to read, under-

stand, and appreciate the text of a play. “Bringing Fiction to Life: Reading Drama as Performance” was presented by Professor Ann Woodworth who works in the Communications Department at Northwestern University in Qatar (NUQ). The venue for the workshop was NUQ’s Black Box Theater.

During the lecture, Professor Woodworth offered ABP students a unique opportunity to learn how to read a play in an analytical and meaningful way. The lecture invited active audience participation in read-ing excerpts from two famous works, A Doll’s House (Ibsen) and Our Town (Wilder). These are plays that the ABP students study in their Academic Literature classes.

Professor Woodworth encouraged the students to look closely into characters’ motivations and desires, the very things that drive their actions. She explained that, in a play, “the drama lies in what is not said” and told her audience to pay attention to visual details of stage settings, language nuances, and characters’ movements and actions.

For most of the students, it was their first lecture at a university and their responses to the experience

were quite positive.“I really enjoyed the lecture,” said Hissa Al

Mannai. “Professor Woodworth was very enter-taining and she really got us engaged. She used methods of performance, dialogue tasks, stories and even singing to get her message across. Her use of humour was very effective as it helped cement ideas of how to deliver good play performances,” Al Mannai listed several of Woodworth’s examples, like using body language, being vocal, stage directions, getting into character, and how drama has changed over the years.

“Professor Ann added so much to my learning,” commented Sarah Al Khuzaei. “She pointed out all the ways to analyse a play, like the tone and language of the characters and the way it is used in dialogue to imply a hidden meaning.”

Shahad Abdulla noted that attending the lecture was extremely motivational for her. “The moment I entered the studio,” she said, “I felt that it was the place I wanted to be next year, and it’s the place where I want to create a new production of my own.”

Such collaborations are just one of the many ways that the ABP and NUQ work together. Another example is cross-registration classes. This semester, for instance, 25 ABP students are taking one of their classes at NUQ. The Peninsula

ABP students attend NUQ lecture ABP students attending Professor Ann Woodworth lecture at NUQ’s Black Box Theater.

Farewell meeting

In honour of Indian Embassy Deputy Chief of Mission P S

Sasi Kumar a farewell meeting was arranged by Aligarh Alumni Association, Bazm-E-Urdu Qatar, Anjuman Muhibban Urdu Hind Qatar, World Bihar Organization, Kainat Foundation and Jamia Millia University Old boys and many other small organisations at Maza Restaurant recently.

Mohd Habibun Nabi, Chief Patron of AMUAA, welcomed the gathering.

All office-bearers of these groups lauded the work done by Kumar for the Indian community in Qatar. The Peninsula

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Kazema Supply and Parts in part-nership with Carlisle Company

USA announced the immediate avail-ability of Carlisle HVAC Accessory Products in the local market during an event held at the Crown Plaza Hotel Doha.

“Carlisle HVAC Products pro-vides high-performance solutions for the Heating Ventilation and Air Conditioning (HVAC) industry, manufacturing rolled duct sealants, mastics, adhesives, coatings and hard-ware as well as other accessories” said Rakesh Saxena, VP & General Manager.

Eric Gordon, International Sales Manager, Carlisle Company, said that

“Carlisle HVAC products encom-passes hard cast duct sealants and adhesives, DynAir airflow hardware, and the Nexus 4 Bolt Flange Closure System. They’re not only a one-stop shopping source for the contracting community; they’re also a leading pio-neer in the HVAC sealant industry, recently setting new standards with the Spray-Seal Mobile Duct Sealant Delivery System and the ISAAC Robotic System. Spray-Seal is a duct sealant specially formulated for spray applications on the jobsite can provide a labour and cost savings of over 50 percent.”

Fadhel Al Kazemi, President of Kazema Global Holding, stated that

“it is Kazema policy to partner with LEED and eco-friendly companies from all over the world and as a low-VOC, water-based product, Carlisle HVAC Energy Saving Sealants can also contribute toward LEED credit requirements.”

Al Kazemi closed the event say-ing that Kazema will be committed to deploying Carlisle HVAC Products targeting commercial and residential construction for both new and retro-fits markets. The Peninsula

Kazema Supply & Parts launches Carlisle HVAC products in Qatar

Over 800 people attended an award ceremony organized by Science India Forum –

Qatar to felicitate the winners of Shastraprathiba and Shastrayaan con-tests at Birla Public School recently.

Chief Guest Dr V K Saraswat, an eminent scientist and President of Aeronautical Society of India, delivered the key note speech.

Earlier in the afternoon a one hour interactive session between students of various Indian schools and Saraswat drew huge applause as the latter responded very proactively to intelli-gent questions raised by the students.

Shreedevi Ananthakrishnan was the moderator for the interactive session.

Manoj Pillai, SIF-Q Chairman, wel-comed the audience and the guests.

Dinesh Udenia, First Secretary (Press and Education) Embassy of India, was the guest of honour.

Dr Mohan Thomas, founding chair-man of Birla Public School, Seenu Pillai, Honorary Chairman of the IIE- Qatar chapter, and P S Saseedharan, President of Samanvayam, felicitated the various win-ners and participants of Shastrapratibha and Shastrayaan contests held in May and October respectively.

A souvenir with interesting and

informative articles written by scien-tists, students and various faculty was released on the occasion. D K Varma proposed vote of thanks.

SIF-Q is a science wing of

Samanvayam, an organization affiliated to the Indian Cultural Center under the aegis of the Embassy of India.

The function was anchored by Shweta Bharadwaj. The Peninsula

Al Danah Medical Company unveiled Obalon, a weight loss

technology, at a conference held at the Four Seasons Hotel. Camilo Docimo, Medical director Europe and Middle East of Obalon Therapeutics, launched the product. This technology treats overweight patients using Obalon Balloon, which offers a quick, discreet, non-surgical and fully reversible weigh loss solution.

Bader Sultan & Brothers Co.

(BSBC) is the distributor of Obalon in the Middle East, and Al Danah Medical Company is the official part-ner and exclusive distributor of Obalon in Qatar.

Dr Mohammed Afifi, General Manager of Al Danah Medical Company, stated: “Most solutions to the overweight/obesity scenario are surgical and address the problem more than the cause. Our product is designed to target the origin of this

condition, which is the appetite of a person. This way, the weight loss hap-pens more organically and naturally.”

“We are the pioneers in introducing breakthrough technology and Obalon, our latest offering, will change the lives of many,” he added.

Docimo explained to the attendees that the Obalon capsule contains a balloon that is orally permitted and inflated to occupy the upper space in the stomach to create a feeling

of fullness that can help people eat less. At least Two OBALON balloons should be swallowed and inflated dur-ing the treatment period and it may be increased to three balloons depend-ing on the response and needs of the patient. At the end of the treatment period, the balloons are removed through a short endoscopic proce-dure. The entire procedure takes only 15 minutes with no sedation required.

The Peninsula

New weight loss technology Obalon now available in Qatar

Hundreds attend award ceremony of Science India Forum - Qatar

Junior category winners

Senior category winnersShastrapratibhas with guests.

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WINNER Lajawab Potatoes

Ingredients:• 1 kg baby potatoes • 4 nos green chilly• 1 tbsp ginger paste • 2 tbsp garlic paste • Salt – as per taste• 2 tbsp red chilly powder• ¼ tbsp turmeric powder • ½ tbsp asafetida powder• ½ tbsp white til • 8 tbsp olive oil • Coriander – for garnishing

Method:Boil baby potatoes and peel.Make two parts of these potatoes, 500gms each part.Add 4 table spoon of olive oil in to a cooking pan.Slightly heat it and add ¼ table spoon of asafetida.Add 1 table spoon of green chilly paste, 1 table spoon

of garlic paste, 1 spoon ginger paste, 1/4 table spoon turmeric powder and salt as per taste and mix.

After properly mixing, put 500gms of boiled baby potatoes in to the pan. Mix the potatoes properly and in two min time, take the pan aside.

Take another cooking pan. Add 4 table spoon of olive oil in to a cooking pan. Slightly heat and add ¼ table spoon of asafetida.

Add 1 table spoon of garlic paste, add salt as per taste, 2 table spoon red chilly powder, add white til and immediately mix it. Add remaining 500gms of boiled potatoes. Mix it properly.

Make a flower of tomato and put that in middle of a plate. Surround that tomato flower with red potatoes.

Surround red potatoes with yellowish green potatoes.Garnish the yellowish green potato with coriander.

“Lajawab Potato” is ready to serve.You can sprinkle slight lemon juice on top of these

potatoes. Make salad of lettuce, onion and cucumber along with it. The dish taste good when served hot.

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Pepper and Potato Tortilla

Ingredients:• 2 potatoes• 45ml/3tbsp olive oil• 1 large onion, thinly sliced• 2 garlic cloves, crushed• 1 green pepper, thinly sliced• 1 red pepper, thinly sliced• 6 eggs beaten• 115g/4oz/1 cup grated• Mature cheddar or mahon cheese• Salt and ground black pepper

Method:Do not peel the potatoes but wash them well. Par-Boil them

for about 10 minutes, then drain and, when they are cool enough to handle, slice them quickly. Switch on the grill so that it warms up while you prepare the rest of the Dish.

In a large non-stick or well seasoned frying pan, heat the oil and fry onion, garlic and pepper over a moderate heat for 5 minutes until softened

Add the potatoes and continue frying,stirring from time to time until the potatoes are completely cooked and the vegetables are soft. Add a little extra oil if the pan seems rather too dry.

Pour in half the beaten eggs, then sprinkle over half the grated cheddar or mahon cheese, then the rest of the egg. Season with salt and pepper and finish with a layer of cheese.

Continue to cook over a low heat,without stirring, half cover-ing the pan with a lid to help set the eggs.

When the mixture is firm, flash the pan under the hot grill to seal the top just lightly. Leave the tortilla in the pan to cool.

This helps it firm further and make it easier to turn out.Cut it generous wedges to serve. Riffat Taihra

Red Potato Salad

Ingredients:• 3 red potatoes• Salt• 2 tbsp olive oil• 3 celery sticks• 1 red onion• 1/2 bunch parsley• 115 gram chedder cheese • 2 tbsp sour cream• 2 tbsp mayonnaise• Black pepper powder

Method:Chop potatoes into medium pieces without removing peels. Mix

salt and add olive oil. Arrange this in a baking tray and bake for 40 minutes @218 degree Celsius.

Chop celery sticks in a bowl. Add sliced red onion and finely chop parsley to it.

Shred Chedder cheese and mix with the above ingredients. Take out the baked potato and mix with the mixture in the bowl.Add sour cream and mayonnaise and mix properly. Add black

pepper powder to taste. Its ready to be serves as a healthy salad. Shalu Yadav

Gratin of Potatoes with Garlic Cream

Ingredients:• 3-4 potatoes• 1/2 tsp salt• Pepper to taste• Pinch of nutmeg• 1 clove garlic• 2 sprigs thyme• 1 sprig rosemary • 20 ml cream• 10 gm gruyere cheese• 15 gm cheddar cheese• 10 gm parmesan cheese• 10 gm butter

Method:Wash and peel the potatoes and cut into thin slices. Keep them

covered in water.Reduce the cream along with the garlic, a pinch of rosemary and

thyme to about half.Grate the cheeses and set aside.Drain the potatoes and season with salt, pepper and nutmeg.In a well greased baking dish, layer the potatoes neatly.Sprinkle the cheeses and some of the reduced cream. Top with another layer of potatoes followed by the cheeses and

cream until it is almost full. Dot with butter and bake for 25 minutes at 180°C or until the

potatoes are cooked and the surface is a beautiful golden brown. Althaha

Crispy Masala Potato slice

Ingredients:• 3 medium size potatoes, peeled• 1/4 tbsp turmeric powder• Salt (as per requirement)• 2 tbsp red chilli powder• 1/4 tbsp asafoetida • 2 tbsp coriander leaves and mint leaves (finely chopped)• Oil for shallow fry• 1 1/2 tbsp chat masala

Method:Cut the peeled potatoes into medium thick slices and put in bowl.Add two table spoon red chilli powder, 1/4 table spoon turmeric

power, 1/4 table spoon asafoetida and salt as per requirement. Mix well and let it settle down (keep aside) for 10-15 min.

Heat oil in a nonstick pan. Place potato slices one by one and fry them in low heat until it becomes brown colour.

Take out the slices and place on absorbent paper. Garnish with 2 table spoon coriander leaves and mint leaves. Its good to serve as breakfast.

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Potato Crougettes

Ingredients:• 5 boiled potatoes• 1/2 tsp salt• 1/2 tsp white pepper powder• 1/2 tsp nutmeg powder• 3 tbsp dried Papaya• 1 finely chopped onion• 1/4 cup processed cheese• Batter• 1 cup Punko breadcrumbs

Method:Grate a boiled potato in a bowl, add salt, white pepper powder, dried papaya, nutmeg

powder, onion and mix well . Make small roundels, make a small hole in the middle and fill it with processed cheese

piece and again make the round crougette. Dip this into the batter and coat with breadcrumbs. Heat oil in a wok and deep fry the

prepared crougettes. Najma Rafiq

Pretty Potato Roses

Ingredients:Serves 6; Cooking time 30 mins• 6 small potatoes (about ½ kg), washed and thinly sliced• 50gms (1/2 stick) butter, melted• 2gms dried thyme• 1gm salt• Pinch of black pepper or according to taste• 12 large sized fresh basil leaves (optional)r

Method:Preheat oven to 220 degree C. Coat 6 muffin cups with cooking spray.In a large bowl, combine all ingredients; mix well.Place 3 potato slices in the bottom of each muffin cup. Place additional potato slices around the insides of the muffin cups, overlapping them

slightly to form rose petals. Continue adding potato slices to each cup until the center is filled and a rose has been formed.Bake 30 to 35 minutes, or until golden. Using a serving spoon, carefully remove potato roses to dinner plates.Serve each potato on two basil leaves placed to look like flower leaves.

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FOOD 7PLUS | TUESDAY 25 NOVEMBER 2014

By T Susan Chang

Bakers across the world rejoice when Dorie Greenspan (pictured) comes out with a new cookbook. Her newest, Baking Chez Moi (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, $40), is

the 10th one she has devoted to the magic synergy of oven, flour, sugar and butter. With the publications, her Baking with Dorie app and the devoted Web followers who bake their way through her books on the Tuesdays with Dorie site, you could argue that Greenspan has claimed the America’s carb-loving heart as her own.

Greenspan lives in Paris, New York and Connecticut, and Baking Chez Moi is the work of her Paris persona. Despite what you probably think of French pastry, Greenspan maintains that French home baking is the opposite of fussy, demanding little time and a minimum of ingredients.

Even so, readers might at first find these recipes daunting. Greenspan’s style is to test exhaustively: terribly hard on herself, but a boon to others. She offers meticulous instructions on what to watch, lis-ten and smell for so you don’t stray from the flour-strewn path of virtue.

The recipes are long, but they hold your hand and go by quickly; if you pay attention, the rewards can be great.

Moka Dupont is merely an icebox cake of petit beurre cookies, dipped in espresso, stacked up and mortared together with the world’s easiest butter-cream (no mixer!). Even if your frosting technique is slapdash, everything’s hidden under an elegant scattering of chocolate curls.

Equally easy are pailles made with store-bought puff pastry, slivered and arranged crosswise. If you’re comfortable with Legos, it’s no trouble at all. In the end, you have little cross-grained pallets, which you sandwich together with jam. Eating pure puff pastry might be a little one-dimensional, but that’s never stopped me.

A mini-muffin, Greenspan observes, happens to look like a very, very small pie. With a tiny mince of apples, apricots and raisins within, and tiny vents in the top, her Apple Pielettes are doll-size and charming, gone in two bites. The dough — a simple galette dough smoothed with the smashing hand motion known as “fraisage” — threatens to misbehave, but it all comes together in the end, in a mini-muffin pan.

The heady perfume of pears blends with the

benzaldehyde sweetness of almonds in a tart; the egg white-almond topping bakes in a manner suggestive of nougat: sweet, crunchy yet also barely chewy, and almost obscene over the ripe, collapsing pears. Don’t be surprised if your pears don’t caramelise, or if after the prescribed five minutes in the pan they’re bathing in their own juice. (This might have something to do with how your fruit is; better to choose pears that are firm, just shy of ripe.) Just keep reducing till the pan’s nearly dry, and all will be well.

A lime tart has only six ingredients (if you don’t count the sweet, yolky tart dough). Although the filling is just a simple lime curd, Greenspan’s instruc-tions are painstaking, and I second-guessed myself.

I pulled out my thermometer, looking out for signs: 180 degrees and the telltale bubbling of the curd. But the bubbling began at 160 degrees; what to do? I held my ground, stirring, till 170, at which point I lost my nerve and pulled it. Good thing, too, as the custard showed traces of cooked egg when I strained it. Once set, the filling was unctuous and barely solid, silky and magnificent on the tongue, but I’m still wonder-ing about those last 10 degrees.

I can’t resist a financier (the confectionary kind, not the human kind) and fell headlong for the Chez Moi pistachio and raspberry version, baked in mini-muffin moulds instead of the traditional and hard-to-find ingot moulds. Apart from a mysterious optional ingredient (raspberry) suddenly popping up in the middle of the instructions, the recipe behaved beauti-fully, yielding up a shiny batter thick enough to scoop when chilled and swooningly buttery when baked.

Bubble eclairs are nothing but cream puff or choux dough, piped into little mounds of three. Despite a queasy moment when my piping went off course, the misshapen blobs took airy form, round and golden, just as they should have. I couldn’t tell whether they were hollow enough to fill in one smooth piping, so I hastily filled each segment with its own burst of cream. Moments later, they were demolished, anyway.

Greenspan calls the dough for croquets — little more than egg whites and nuts — a “misbehaver,” but mine was, strangely, not. Did I over-chop the mac-adamias, so that their fine particles coated the dough and made it less of a sticky proposition? Regardless, the biscotti-like fragments made for a fine sweet nothing to nibble on with tea and coffee.

By the end of a week, our house was stuffed with sweets. For a moment, I thought about packing some up for the Reserves — seasoned friends who have helped me clear out many an overdose of testing. Then I thought of the week ahead, and my kids load-ing up on candy while I watched.

I kept the leftovers. In the end, Baking Chez Moicould be deemed a success. But Eating Chez Moi was even better.

Chang is the author of A Spoonful of Promises: Stories and Recipes From a Well-Tempered Table (Lyons Press, 2011). WP-Bloomberg

Baking Chez MoiBaking Chez Moi,,a crisp, filling efforta crisp, filling effort

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Selena Gomez gets teary-eyed at AMAs

Singer Selena Gomez got emotional during her performance at the 2014 American Music Awards (AMAs). It left her friend Taylor

Swift concerned.The 22-year-old, whose latest single “The Heart Wants What It

Wants” is rumoured to be about her on-and-off boyfriend Justin Bieber, appeared to be teary-eyed as she performed it live for the first time here at the AMAs on Sunday, reports mirror.co.uk.

Gomez looked emotional towards the end of the song and even looked down to the ground, perhaps to avoid the cameras catching her mid-sob.

Her performance moved Swift, who appeared to be concerned for her emotional friend as the camera panned to her following Gomez’s moving performance.

In a prelude in the opening moments of the song, a tearful Gomez said: “When I was on stage and I was thinking of... I felt like I know... I know him, though, and I know his heart and I know what he wouldn’t do to hurt me.”

It’s direction over acting for Jolie

Actress Angelina Jolie says she is now looking to focus on her direct-ing career.

“I’ve never been comfortable as an actor — I’ve never loved being in front of the camera. I didn’t ever think I could direct, but I hope I’m able to have a career at it because I’m much happier,” Jolie told luxury lifestyle magazine Du Jour, reports femalefirst.co.uk.

Jolie, who made just one big screen outing this year as she took on the title role in Maleficent, will be donning the director’s hat with Unbroken, a biopic about Olympian and prisoner of war Louis Zamperini. She has just finished filming By The Sea, which will see her star and direct in the same movie for the first time.

The film stars her husband Brad Pitt, whom she is directing for the first time.

Sting to join Broadway cast

British rockstar Sting is all set to join the cast of his Broadway musical The Last Ship next month in a bid to push up flagging

ticket sales for the $15m show.The 63-year-old will take over the lead role in his show from singer-

actor Jimmy Nail. He has confirmed that he will join the cast through-out the festive season from December 9 and will be performing eight shows a week until January 10.

“I’ve been working on this show for five years and been at every rehearsal, every performance, so it’s not like I’ve flown in from Planet Rock Star to save the day...,” The New York Times newspaper quoted Sting as saying.

“I didn’t assume it would be (a piece of) cake coming to Broadway with an original musical. But it’s only become clearer to me that noth-ing’s guaranteed... I know all the lines and lyrics after all these years... I want to have a hit. I want it to be hugely successful,” he added.

I’ve written some bad films: Kashyap

Be it scripts or dialogues, Anurag Kashyap has written for many directors like Ram Gopal Varma and Vikramaditya Motwane.

But the filmmaker is not particularly proud of some of his works created for fel-low directors. “I’ve made good movies, but I’ve writ-ten some bad films. I won’t take their names as they are by some other film-makers’ movies. But the ones the audience didn’t like are the ones I am talking about,” the Gangs of Wasseypur director said in a group interview.

The filmmaker, who is set to release his directo-rial Bombay Velvet in 2015, says he needs to make a film every year.

“I’ve to make a film every year. If my previous work is successful, it encourages me to experiment more. Every film gives you the freedom to do more and freedom has to be earned,” he said at the Film Bazaar’s session titled “Master Class: How and Why to maximise your film. Is there a formula?”.

During the session, he also rued the paucity of exhibition space in the country. “We need more exhibition space and the Indian govern-ment should create it,” he said.

Kashyap also believes that some of the Marathi and Tamil films need to be discovered. “There are some great regional films. I think some of the Marathi and Tamil films are better than Hindi movies, but they don’t get discovered because of distribution issues in those regions,” said Kashyap, who feels filmmakers don’t encourage each other.

“If a movie doesn’t release in a theatre, people download it from the internet. Filmmakers don’t pay and watch,” he said.

He also wants people to take Indian film festivals “seriously”. “We have to make festivals respectable. It is an exhibition space, not a place for competition,” he said.

I wish censorship was final: Johar

Filmmaker Karan Johar said the government should help the movie industry by making censorship the final law — especially for times

when some people stage protests even after a film has received the green signal from the Central Board of Film Certification (CBFC) for release.

“I wish censorship was the final authority. I am fighting court cases that are ridiculous. I am still fight-ing a case for Kabhi Khushi Kabhie Gham. I wish there was a ruling finally and with the current gov-ernance being so proactive, I hope this is one of the things they should look into and say that censorship is the final law.

“If it doesn’t happen, filmmak-ers like me will be the soft target,” Karan said during a session titled “An afternoon at Film Bazaar with Rajeev Masand” on the final day of Film Bazaar.

Karan was reportedly charged with insulting the National anthem in his 2001 directorial Khabhi Khushi Kabhie Gham.

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By Ronald Grover and Chris Michaud

The Hunger Games: Mockingjay, Part 1 tallied $123m in ticket sales to top weekend box office charts and score the year’s

biggest US opening, according to stu-dio estimates.

The third installment of the block-buster Hunger Games action movie series starring Jennifer Lawrence added a further $152m at overseas box offices for a global opening weekend tally of $275m, tracking firm Rentrak said.

Mockingjay took in $17m at Thursday night showings for the year’s best Thursday total, but the film fell short of industry forecasts for about $148m through Sunday.

“This weekend will wind up down versus the same frame a year ago, when the previous Hunger Gamesinstallment Catching Fire led with $158.1m,” noted Paul Dergarabedian, senior media analyst at tracking firm Rentrak.

The first Hunger Games took in $152.5m on its opening weekend in 2012, according to Boxofficemojo.

Walt Disney’s animated action film Big Hero 6 was second, with ticket sales of $20.1m for the three days from Friday through Sunday, pushing its three-week total to $135.7m.

Director Christopher Nolan’s space adventure Interstellar was third with $15.1m at US and Canadian box offices.

It has taken in $120.6m since open-ing on November 5.

In Mockingjay, Lawrence plays Katniss Everdeen, the defiant young archer who becomes the face of a mass rebellion in a dystopian

post-apocalyptic society.Lionsgate, the studio behind The

Hunger Games series, split author Suzanne Collins’ final book in her sci-ence fiction trilogy into two movies, with the next set for release in 2015.

The latest chapter received “fresh” ratings from two-thirds of reviewers in aggregator site Rottentomatoes, while audiences gave the film an A-minus rating, according to CinemaScore.

Last weekend’s top movie Dumb and Dumber To, a follow-up to 1994’s Dumb and Dumber starring Jim Carrey and

Jeff Daniels, fell to fourth with $13.8m in ticket sales.

Director David Fincher’s hit Gone Girl, starring Ben Affleck as a husband suspected of murdering his wife, took in $2.8m to round out the top five.

Interstellar was released by Paramount Pictures, a unit of Viacom. Universal Pictures, a unit of Comcast, distributed Dumb and Dumber To.

Sixth spot was occupied by Beyond the Lights, a romantic drama starring Gugu Mbatha-Raw as an up-and-com-ing pop star. It earned $2.6m.

St Vincent, a comedy starring Bill Murray, Melissa McCarthy and Naomi Watts, earned $2.4m in seventh place.

Brad Pitt’s World War II tank bat-talion drama Fury dropped one place to eighth with $1.9m, just ahead of Michael Keaton’s dark comedy Birdman.

Rounding out the top 10 was The Theory of Everything starring Eddie Redmayne as theoretical physicist Stephen Hawking. The film earned $1.5m.

Agencies

Actress Priyanka Chopra took it upon herself to clean up a garbage-strewn neighbourhood in Mumbai as part of her efforts towards Indian Prime Minister

Narendra Modi’s Clean India campaign.“Gandhiji said ‘Be the change you want to see’ - thank you

@narendramodi for reminding me of that! #MyCleanIndia can happen! #ChangingMindsets,” Priyanka posted on Twitter after sharing a video link.

The 11-minute video chronicles how the efforts began, how Priyanka herself picked up the garbage, how the place was beautified, and how happy the residents were over the 16-day effort, which saw Priyanka along with her team cleaning up an area in Versova here.

In the video, Priyanka also shared her idea of contributing to the Swachh Bharat Abhiyan this way.

“It took me a little longer than I wanted, but when the prime minister asked me to be one of his ‘navratnas’, I was very excited. But I wanted it to be something that could be sustained,” she said.

Priyanka chose a place in Versova which she had visited during the shooting of her film Agneepath.

“We had put up a big set over there for the basti (village)

scene, and I remember there are people who live here, and there are children who play on mounds of garbage here, and that’s their life,” she recollected.

Her idea was not to just clean up the place, but rehabili-tate it.

“That’s the best we can do and eventually then it’s up to them (the residents) to sustain it. I think the idea of doing this is to create something which is long lasting. And I hope for the best, and that it stays this way (clean),” she said.

Priyanka, who believes a change in mindset is the need of the hour for a clean and green India, is seen slipping her hands into a pair of pink gloves to pick garbage herself, and she seeks the help of the neighbourhood’s children for the activity.

At the end of it all, the place looks clean and colourful with some graffiti and some plants.

She said: “I wanted to do a bit more that just cleaning a few piles of garbage.”

Her effort was lauded by Modi in a tweet saying: “An innovative effort by @priyankachopra. It is a wonderful way to bring people together to create a Swachh Bharat. Kudos! #MyCleanIndia.” IANS

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Unravelling the process of going to sleep

Sleeping is a gradual process and researchers have now developed a method to estimate the

dynamic changes in brain activity and behaviour during the transition from wakefulness to sleep.

The research could lead to new treatment for sleep disorders.

“We now have the power to chart the entire trajectory of your neurological, physiological and behavioural activity as you transition from wake to asleep, rather than simply reporting the time it takes,” said lead study author Michael Prerau from the Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH) in the US.

Current clinical criteria define sleep as begin-ning when the power of an individual’s alpha-range brain waves disappear.

The new study established that increasing power in two other brain waves — delta and theta frequencies — point towards the change in behaviour during the transition from wake-fulness to sleep.

“These results suggest that it is the presence of delta and theta power, rather than the lack of alpha power, that is necessary for the cessation of behaviour,” Prerau added.

“We may need to carefully re-examine the way sleep onset is defined, since behaviour is an essential component of the story that is not measured clinically,” Prerau said.

For the study participants were asked to hold a small rubber “stress ball” in one hand and squeeze the ball with every intake of breath and release it when exhaling.

The researchers found that two of the nine participants continued to correctly time their ball squeezes for several minutes after alpha levels had dropped.

Only when the power in their brain waves at the theta and delta frequencies had risen did both the behavioural and physiological measures indicate that they were asleep.

The findings appeared in the journal PLOS Computational Biology.

Trans fats bad for brain too

Trans fats are bad not only for your waistline but also for your brain, shows a study.

Every gram of dietary trans fatty acids con-sumed in a day was linked with 0.76 fewer words recalled, which means 11 fewer words recalled with the highest trans fat intake compared to those who consumed least trans fats.

“Trans fats were most strongly linked to worse memory, in young and middle-aged men, during their working and career-building years,” said Beatrice A. Golomb, professor of medicine at University of California, San Diego (UCSD).

For the study, presented at the American Heart Association (AHA) 2014 Scientific Sessions recently, researchers analysed the cross-sectional relation between trans fat intake and word memory test in 1018 adults, who had no previous history of coronary artery disease.

“From a health standpoint, trans fat consump-tion has been linked to higher body weight, more aggression and heart disease,” said Golomb.

Foods have different effects on oxidative stress and cell energy and the trans fats do contribute to oxidative stress, a process that damages cells, researchers found.

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By Kathryn Doyle

Overweight cancer patients may benefit from being tested for malnutrition, according to a new study.

Obesity increases the risk for cancer, so many patients are overweight or obese at diagnosis, and are typically not screened for malnutrition because they appear to be well-nourished, the authors write in the Annals of Oncology.

Obese cancer patients also tend to survive longer than underweight patients and that may further discourage nutri-tional screening, they add.

But recent studies have found that overweight people can also be undernourished, said lead author Dr. Ioannis Gioulbasanis of the chemotherapy depart-ment at Larissa General Clinic in Thessaly, Greece.

“However, it was the percent-age of those patients found to be at nutritional risk that was surprisingly high in our study, around 50 percent, and that was at baseline, just after cancer diag-nosis,” Gioulbasanis said.

He and his coauthors studied 1,469 patients with advanced cancer in France and Greece. Of those, 594 were overweight or obese.

With nutritional screenings and questionnaires, researchers determined whether the overweight and obese cancer patients were well nourished, “at risk,” or malnourished.

Screening included questions about weight loss, mobility, psychological stress, medical history, eating habits and how they viewed their own nutritional status.

Almost half the overweight and obese cancer patients were “at risk” for being malnourished and 12 percent were already malnourished, according to results.

Researchers followed the patients through chemo-therapy treatment and measured the period between cancer diagnosis and death, which was available for 357 patients.

Well nourished patients survived an average of almost 18 months, compared to eight months for the “at risk” group and between six and seven months

for the malnourished group.Some overweight cancer patients who also have

well-developed musculature will have a good progno-sis, but those with excess fat and muscle loss, called ‘sarcopenia,’ generally have a very poor prognosis, Gioulbasanis said.

Most of the undernourished obese people in this study probably had sarcopenic obesity, he said.

“An obese or overweight patient who presents to a cancer centre may have been 50 pounds heavier four months ago,” said Sarah Lowe, who researches nutrition and pub-lic health at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill.

“The fact that they are still overweight or obese may visu-ally camouflage their compro-mised nutrition status, but they are still likely nutrition-ally depleted and at risk for continued significant weight loss.”

Malnutrition in cancer patients can increase the risk for infection, treatment toxic-ity and healthcare costs while decreasing treatment response, quality of life and life expect-ancy, she said.

“In my opinion, all cancer patients should ask to be referred to a dietitian,” Lowe said. “Many if not all treatments, whether it’s surgery, chemotherapy, radiation, or chemoradiation can result in significant nutrition-related side effects that can have a huge impact (on) patients’ quality of life and nutrition status.”

There are no specific guidelines or nutritional protocols designed for overweight cancer patients, Gioulbasanis said.

It is unclear whether obese cancer patients benefit from maintenance of their heavy body weight or whether some limited degree of weight loss could be in some way desirable, he said.

“In any case, adequate protein intake and preser-vation of muscle mass should be the target,” he added.

Gioulbasanis said overweight cancer patients should be included in nutritional screening, which is usually done by a nurse. Those who are malnourished should then be referred for a nutritional consultation.

SOURCE: bit.ly/11iHasH Annals of Oncology, online October 30, 2014. Reuters

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Overweight cancer patients may bemalnourished

Malnutrition in cancer patients can increase the risk for infection, treatment toxicity and healthcare costs while decreasing treatment response, quality of life and life expectancy.

TECHNOLOGYPLUS | TUESDAY 25 NOVEMBER 201412

By Samuel Gibbs

Samsung’s latest phablet is a modified Galaxy Note 4, but the Note Edge’s has one cru-cial difference: a screen that curves around the edge on

the right hand side.It isn’t the first curved screen phone

that Samsung has produced — the bowed screen Galaxy Round had that honour — but it is the first smartphone with a rounded edge that increases func-tionality and displays useful information — such as news tickers or app controls, acting in effect as a second screen.

Almost everything about the Note Edge matches the Note 4. It has Samsung’s much-improved metal frames, solid build quality and keeps the fake leather plastic back.

At 5.6in versus 5.7in for the Note 4, the Edge has a slightly smaller screen. The display has the same resolution and looks just as crisp, bright and col-ourful as the Note 4, making it one of the best available at the moment.

The Note Edge is 2.2mm shorter, 3.8mm wider, 0.2mm thinner and 2g lighter than the Note 4. The dimen-sions make the smartphone difficult to hold and use with one hand, as with any large phablet, but the hard metal edges provide a solid grip for fingers and thumbs.

The curved screen on the right hand side is smooth and seamless with the main screen, forming a pleasant-feeling part of the grip area where a thumb or fingers rest. The stylus docks in the back of the device just left of the curved screen.

Specifications

Screen: 5.6in quad HD Super AMOLED + a 160 pixel curved screen

Processor: 2.7 GHz quad-core Qualcomm Snapdragon 805

RAM: 3GB of RAMStorage: 32GB plus microSD slot

supporting up to 128GB cardsOperating system: Android 4.4.4

with Samsung TouchWizCamera: 16-megapixel rear camera,

3.7-megapixel front-facing cameraConnectivity: LTE, Wi-Fi, NFC,

Bluetooth 4.0 with BLE, IR and GPSDimensions: 151.3 x 82.4 x 8.3mmWeight: 174g

Smooth runningThe internal components of the Note

Edge are equally similar to the Note 4. The Edge has the same processor, 3GB of RAM and 32GB of storage with a micro SD card slot, which means it performs equally as well.

The Note Edge is a very capable smartphone, running smoothly even with two apps side-by-side on screen. The battery, however, doesn’t last quite as long as the Note 4. The Note Edge will easily see out a day with heavy use, but not two.

Edgy softwareThe Note Edge runs the same cus-

tomised TouchWiz version of Android 4.4.4 KitKat — not the latest Android 5 Lollipop — as the Note 4, but has addi-tions for the curved screen including a left-handed mode that flips the screen and provides virtual Android buttons to replace the hardware buttons.

The edge is used for a variety of functions. It can run apps, including a word game, a Twitter ticker and some apps from Yahoo for sports scores,

stocks and news. Samsung bundles 12 pre-installed edge apps, but more can be downloaded from the Galaxy app store. Swiping left or right on the screen switches the app.

When not running an app, the pane can be used as a dock for apps, a multi-tasking switcher, or a notification tray with calendar appointments and the weather. The rolling ticker notifica-tions normally displayed at the top of the screen on an ordinary Android phone roll down the side.

Most apps ignore the screen, which shrinks a little, turns black and dis-plays “Galaxy Note Edge” in white text. The pane also gives quick access to a ruler, stopwatch, timer, torch and voice recorder.

Some of Samsung’s apps use the edge as a place to display icons. In the camera app, for instance, the shutter button and settings buttons sit on the edge out of the way of the viewfinder. It’s a useful addition, but not some-thing totally revolutionary — a two-stage physical shutter button would have been better.

Stylus, camera, heart rate sensor and fingerprint scanner

The Note Edge’s “S Pen” stylus and camera are the same as the Note 4. The stylus is decent, providing as good as a writing experience as can be had on a relatively small screen. It docks neatly in the back and can be safely ignored until the odd occasion where scribbling a note or drawing on a photo is required.

The camera is equally solid. Images are sharp with good detail, with decent low-light performance and the inter-esting rear camera and wide selfie

modes. A heart-rate sensor sits just under the camera lens, which works well for occasional use.

The fingerprint scanner, like the Note 4’s, is very good with an accuracy of around 95 percent in my testing, making unlocking the phablet easier. It can also be used to secure apps like LastPass, and authenticate purchases through Samsung’s app store.

PriceThe Note Edge costs approximately

£650 in UK.

VerdictThe Samsung Galaxy Note 4 is one

of the best phablets available, which makes the Note Edge a very solid, well made and powerful device.

The edge screen is interesting, and I’m glad Samsung is trying something innovative. Having virtual buttons and quick-access apps, tickers and notifi-cations is handy, but it isn’t the next evolution of smartphone design just yet. It does show what’s possible with alternative screen technology, though, and one day soon phone screens could bend around both sides, possibly even the back too.

If you’re looking for a smartphone that draws attention and is unique, the Note Edge is a great phone. But most people should buy the excellent Note 4 instead, if you’re looking for a phablet.

Pros: Fast, powerful, great screen, unique curved edge screen, great cam-era, good fingerprint scanner

Cons: Too big for comfortable one-handed use, battery life not as good as competition, left-handed use is awk-ward The Guardian

Samsung Galaxy Note Edge: Curved screen is more than a gimmick

The Note Edge is Samsung trying something a bit different, the first smartphone with a curved screen that’s actually useful.

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20 Experiment site

21 Alternative to dice

22 1952 Winter Olympics host

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24 “Spider-Man” director Sam

27 Abalone shell lining

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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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22:00 The Big Lebowski

00:00 Inappropriate

Comedy

12:00 World's

Toughest Fixes

13:00 Family Guns

14:00 Great

Migrations

15:00 Known Universe

16:00 Crash Science

18:00 Alaska Wing

Men

19:00 Known Universe

20:00 Crash Science

21:00 Salvage Code

Red

22:00 Alaska Wing

Men

13:00 The Ellen

DeGeneres

Show

14:00 Chicago Fire

16:00 Emmerdale

16:30 Coronation

Street

17:00 The Ellen

DeGeneres

Show

18:00 Chicago Fire

19:00 The Fosters

21:00 The Voice

23:00 Justified

01:00 The Fosters

03:00 Justified

13:00 Oh Christmas

Tree

15:00 Grand Piano

17:00 Everything

Must Go

19:00 96 Minutes

21:00 August: Osage

County

23:00 4:44 Last Day

On Earth

01:00 Everything

Must Go

13:15 From Prada To

Nada

15:00 The Mortal

Instruments:

City Of Bones

17:15 Epic

21:00 Pawn

23:00 Zero Dark Thirty

13:00 Jamai Raja

13:30 Bandhan

14:00 Doli Armaano Ki

14:30 Jodha Akbar

15:00 Kasamh Se

15:30 Kasamh Se

16:00 Hum Paanch

16:30 Hum Paanch

17:00 Teenovation

17:30 Neeli Chatri

Waale

18:00 Maharakshak

Aryan

18:30 Bandhan

19:00 Sapne Suhane

Ladakpan Ke

19:30 Jodha Akbar

20:00 Jamai Raja

20:30 Kumkum Bhagya

21:00 Qubool Hai

21:30 Aur Pyaar Hogaya

22:00 Doli Armaano Ki

22:30 Sapne Suhane

Ladakpan Ke

13:05 Good Luck

Charlie

13:30 Jessie

14:20 Austin & Ally

14:55 Gravity Falls

15:20 My Babysitter's A

Vampire

15:45 Mako Mermaids

16:10 Violetta

17:00 I Didn't Do It

17:25 Jessie

18:15 Dog With A Blog

18:40 Win, Lose Or

Draw

19:05 Liv And Maddie

19:30 Violetta

20:20 Mako Mermaids

21:10 Wolfblood

21:35 Suite Life On

Deck

22:00 Good Luck

Charlie

22:50 Shake It Up

23:10 Wolfblood

12:20 The Impressions

Show With

Culshaw...

12:50 Eastenders

13:20 Doctors

13:50 Last Woman

Standing

14:40 The Paradise

15:30 The Cafe

15:55 Moone Boy

16:20 The Weakest Link

17:05 Eastenders

17:35 Doctors

18:05 Last Woman

Standing

18:55 One Foot In The

Grave

19:30 Last Of The

Summer Wine

20:00 The Paradise

20:50 Luther

21:45 Getting On

22:15 Southcliffe

23:05 The Weakest Link

08:00 News

08:30 Counting the

Cost

09:00 World War One

Through Arab

Eyes

10:30 Inside Story

11:30 The Stream

12:30 Earthrise

13:00 NEWSHOUR

14:30 Inside Story

15:00 Al Jazeera

Correspondent

16:00 NEWSHOUR

17:30 The Stream

18:00 NEWSHOUR

19:30 The Cure

20:30 Inside Story

21:00 NEWSHOUR

22:30 The Stream

23:00 World War One

Through Arab

Eyes

1The Hunger Games: Mockingjay 1 (2D/Action)

– 11:30am, 2:00, 4:30, 7:00, 9:30pm & 12:00midnight

2Dumb & Dumber To (2D/Comedy)

– 10:15am, 12:30, 2:45, 5:00, 7:15, 9:30 & 11:45pm

3The Hunger Games: Mockingjay 1 (2D/Action)

– 10:30am, 1:00, 3:30, 6:00, 8:30 & 11:00pm

4Big Hero Six (2D/Animation) – 10:20am, 12.15, 2.15 & 4:15pm

Jessabelle (2D/Horror) – 6:15, 8:15, 10:15pm & 12:15am

5Interstellar (2D/Adventure) – 10:00am, 1:15 & 4:30pm

The Babadook (2D/Horror) – 7:45, 9:45 & 11:45pm

6The Signal (2D/Thriller)

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

Jessabelle (2D/Horror) – 4:15pm

771 (2D/Action) – 11:15am, 3:15, 7:15 & 11:15pm

Pocket Listing (2D/Action) – 1:15, 5:15 & 9.15pm

8Catch Hell (2D/Drama) – 11:30am, 3:30, 7:30 & 11:30pm

Hasslna Al Roab (2D) – 1:30, 5:30 & 10:30pm

9Interstellar (IMAX/Adventure)

– 11:30am, 2:45, 6:00, 9:15pm & 12:30am

10The Hunger Games: Mockingjay 1 (2D/Action)

– 10:00am, 12:30, 3:00, 5:30, 8:00, 10:30pm & 01:00am

MALL

171 (2D/Drama) – 2.30 & 11.15pm

The Signal (2D/Thriller) – 4:30pm

Happy Ending (2D/Hindi) – 6:15pm

Vellimoonga (2D/Malayalam) – 8:45pm

2Big Hero 6 (3D/Animation) – 3:00pm

Catch Hell (2D/Thriller) – 5:00pm

The Hunger Games: Mockingjay 1 (2D/Action) – 7:00 & 9.15pm

The Signal (2D/Thriller) – 11:30pm

3The Hunger Games: Mockingjay 1 (2D/Action) – 2.30pm

Hasslna Al Roab (2D/Comedy) – 4:45pm

The Babadook (2D/Horror) – 6.45 & 11.30pm

Al Jazeera 2 (2D/Action) – 8.30pm

LANDMARK

171 (2D/Drama) – 2:30 & 11.30pm

Catch Hell (2D/Thriller) – 4:30pm

Vanmam (2D/Tamil) – 6:15 & 8.45pm

2Big Hero 6 (3D/Animation) – 2:30pm

The Signal (2D/Thriller) – 4:30 & 11.30pm

The Hunger Games: Mockingjay 1 (2D/Action) – 6:15pm

Al Jazeera 2 (2D/Action) – 8.30pm

3The Hunger Games: Mockingjay 1 (2D/Action)

– 2.45 & 9.00pm

Hasslna Al Roab (2D/Comedy) – 5:00pm

The Babadook (2D/Horror) – 7.00 & 11.15pm

ROYAL

PLAZA

1The Hunger Games: Mockingjay 1 (2D/Action)

– 2.30 & 11.30pm

Catch Hell (2D/Thriller) – 4:45pm

Vanmam (2D/Tamil) – 6:45pm

71 (2D/Drama) – 9.30pm

2Happy Ending (2D/Hindi) – 2:30 & 9:00pm

71 (2D/Drama) – 5.00pm

The Signal (2D/Thriller) – 7:00 & 11.30pm

3Hasslna Al Roab (2D/Comedy) – 2:00pm

Pocket Listing (2D/Action) – 4:00 & 8.00pm

The Hunger Games: Mockingjay 1 (2D/Action) – 5.45pm

The Babadook (2D/Horror) – 9.45 & 11.30pm

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Events in Qatar

The Sound of Music Broadway theatrical show When: November 26-29; 7pm Where: Qatar National Convention CenterWhat: The world’s most-loved musical -The Sound of Music, comes to Doha. This iconic broadway musical show will be featuring lavish costumes and scenery, a wonderful live orchestra and starring a cast of the very best of London’s West End performers, this award-winning critically acclaimed production is an emotionally packed extravaganza.Entry: QR250-QR1200

Shirin Neshat: Afterwards When: Till February 15, 2015 Where: Mathaf: Arab Museum of Modern Art What: The first solo exhibition in the Middle East by internationally acclaimed artist Shirin Neshat. Occupying the entire ground floor galleries, the exhibition features existing and newly produced works. Free admission

Arabian Horse Exhibition When: November 27; 10am - 10pmWhere: Qatar Photographic Society – Building 18, Katara What: The Qatar Photography Society in collaboration with the Arabian Horses organisation is hosting the “Arabian Horses” exhibition which is a collective exposition of the society members, and includes 47 paintings featuring the beauty of photography and the splendour of the horses.Free entry

The Tiger’s Dream: Tipu Sultan When: Till 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

Yousef Ahmad: Story of ingenuity When: Nov 11- Feb14; 10am-8pmWhere: Qatar Museums Gallery, Building 10, Katara What: As a pioneer of Qatar’s modern art movement, Yousef Ahmad’s artistic journey has spanned over three decades, and his work has been influenced by his surroundings and emotional ties with Qatar’s culture and traditions. It showcases three phases in his career, from the early oil paintings that include the depiction of Al Zubarah Fort, to mixed media calligraphic pieces to new conceptual artworks.Free Entry

Boy band One Direction took home top prizes on Sunday at the American Music

Awards as chart-topper Taylor Swift used the platform to deliver a staunch defence of traditional album buying.

The American Music Awards focus on commercial success with fans vot-ing for their favourites, in contrast to the older Grammy Awards in which music industry professionals select what they consider to be the year’s top work.

One Direction, the heartthrobs who have released albums every year since 2011, won the biggest prizes including Artist of the Year and Favorite Album with their latest work, “Midnight Memories.”

The British quintet flew into Los Angeles for the gala ceremony at the Nokia Theatre, where the young men thanked screaming fans for One Direction’s success in the United States.

“It’s amazing because we worked so hard on these last two albums,” band member Liam Payne said. The five-piece band performed its latest single “Night Changes” against a night-time forest backdrop.

Katy Perry also won three awards, but did not attend the awards show because she is on tour in Australia.

Taylor Swift received a new award for excellence named in honour of the American Music Awards’ late founder Dick Clark, a pioneer of music television performances with his “American Bandstand” show.

Accepting the award from Motown legend Diana Ross, Swift appeared to dish out a new round of criticism, albeit obliquely, against the stream-ing service Spotify from which she has pulled her music.

Thanking her fans, Swift said: “What you did by going out and investing in music and albums is you’re saying that you believe in the same thing that I believe in — that music is valuable and that music should be consumed in albums, and albums should be consumed as art and appreciated.”

Swift’s latest album, “1989,” enjoyed the highest sales of any US album in its first week in 12 years. It far outpaced industry expectations

by selling two million copies in the United States in its first three weeks.

After the album came out, Swift pulled her entire catalog from Spotify, accusing the fast-growing streaming service of devaluing music by not paying enough back to artists.

Spotify’s Swedish founder Daniel Ek hit back that the company has paid $2bn to artists and songwrit-ers since its 2008 launch, creating a rare source of new revenue in the beleaguered industry.

Swift opened the evening by per-forming the album’s latest single “Blank Space,” in which the 24-year-old singer — playing at her reputation for short-lived relationships — held a burning rose as she pushed back suit-ors who pranced around her holding open picture frames.

Hip hop bad boy Lil Wayne also took to the stage in a passion-ate dance with actress and singer Christina Milian, his rumoured girlfriend.

They performed “Start a Fire” -- with ABC television editing out some lyrics from the broadcast. The track is expected to be on Lil Wayne’s upcoming album “Tha Carter V,” which is scheduled for release on December 9 after repeated delays.

AFP

One Direction, Taylor Swift shine

at American Music Awards