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• Qatar Academy teachers begin school year on ‘positive’ note

• 10 fresh ways to use butternut squash

• What neuroscience tells us about getting organised

• Whiff of humour permeates Jon Stewart debut drama Rosewater

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The 60th anniversary edition of the Guinness World Records book will reflect on six decades of record-breaking, while also featuring the latest additions to the oddball hall of fame like long tongues and leaping cats.

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From super-long tongues to leaping cats, a host of weird and wacky land-marks have made the cut

for 60th anniversary edition of the Guinness World Records book launched yesterday.

The new edition reflects on six decades of record-breaking, while also featuring the latest additions to the oddball hall of fame.

They include Californian Nick Stoeberl, possessor of the world’s longest tongue at 10.1 centimetres (four inches).

British film buff Nick Bennett earned a place in the compendium for having the largest collection of James Bond memorabilia, with 12,463 items from model cars to posters displayed in a shrine in his house.

“I’m still collecting... And there’s still stuff arriving today,” said

Bennett, who started collecting in 1995.

In Japan, Akiko Obata has the largest collection of plastic food, with more than 8,000 items includ-ing giant plastic burgers, donuts and dishes of everything from soup to desserts filling her apartment.

Meanwhile Alley of the United States takes the longest jump by a cat record, at an impressive six feet (1.83 metres). The white, black and ginger cat leapt the distance between two small platforms.

Brewers Guinness launched their famous records book in 1955 to set-tle disputes among drinkers.

Since then, more than 132 million copies of their annual compendium have been sold in 20 languages in more than 100 countries.

All the record attempts are assessed by adjudicators from the organisation.

Long tongues and leaping cats in 60th World Records book

Yannick Read from London has secured a place in the book for building the world’s smallest caravan.

Alley secured her place in World Records book for the longest jump by a cat.

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New inclusions this year include Inke Siefker of San Francisco, who set a record for furthest arrow shot on target with the use of feet (6.10 metres, 20 feet) — done by operating a bow with her legs while standing on her hands.

Meanwhile Karsten Maas in Germany has invented the world’s longest usable golf club at 14 feet and five inches (4.39 metres).

Maas conceded his invention was not the most practical as “the weight and length of the club make striking the ball really exhausting. Plus, I don’t have a caddy!”

And Londoner Yannick Read who created the smallest known caravan — measuring under 2.4 metres (seven feet, 10 inches) in length.

“It’s even got a kettle so you can make your-self a nice cup of tea,” Read said in a promo-tional video.

Other records included the most oceans rowed, awarded to Simon Chalk, and heavi-est weight lifted with beard, taken by Antanas Kontrimas who picked up a woman attached by a harness to his grey beard.

There’s a new reigning champ for “Largest Collection of Comic Books.” Bob Bretall, a 52 year old senior director at a telecommunica-tions software company from Mission Viejo, California now holds this title. He is a private collector who has been collecting, non-stop, since July 1970.

How big is his collection? Well, Bretall has 94,268 comics and none of any of those books counted are duplicates. Bretall began his collec-tion at the age of 8 with Amazing Spider-Man #88, written by Stan Lee and drawn by John Romita Sr. He has not missed a month of col-lecting since then. He currently buys ore than 140 issues a month, which add to his collection.

Aside from the new records, the 2015 book looks back at records from the last 60 years including British runner Roger Bannister’s sub-four-minute mile and Michael Jackson’s music industry landmarks.

“This is an important landmark edition for Guinness World Records, giving us the opportu-nity to look back at how records have changed over these six extraordinary decades,” said edi-tor Craig Glenday.

“Of course, we’ve still had to process around 50,000 claims in this past year alone, giving us plenty of new and updated records to choose from... and making it a really difficult task to decide what makes the final cut.”

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Largest Collection of James Bond Memorabilia.

Largest collection of plastic food.

Furthest Arrow Shot with the Feet

PLUS | THURSDAY 11 SEPTEMBER 20144 CAMPUS

The new school year at Compass International School, Al Khor

(CISAK) got off to a strong start this week, as the community welcomed more than 125 new students to its classrooms.

The new students, hailing from all around the world, join a growing school community made up of more than 600 students in a school that will celebrate its third birthday in January 2015.

Robert Graves, the Principal of CISAK, said: “Our new students were ready to make new friends and eager to get learning. Our returning stu-dents quickly got back into the rou-tine of being at school, and the school was abuzz with excitement. We have hired many new teachers this year to cater for our growing school, and the new and returning staff members were enthused about the opportuni-ties of the year ahead.” The Peninsula

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Qatar Academy teachers begin school year on ‘positive’ note

Counselor and media personality Abdulrahman Al Harami (pic-

tured) returned to Qatar Academy with a workshop aimed at instilling positivity in the classroom and in life. Addressing the Arabic and Islamic Studies teachers from Early Education, Primary, Middle and High School divi-sions, Al Harami outlined key points in attaining a positive outlook in life. He believes that positivity is an acquired trait that can be developed in us, one that can specially help teachers in doing their jobs effectively. To achieve this in the workplace, he stressed that teachers must seek to build good rela-tionships with everyone, be proactive, quality oriented and be always willing to seek professional development and growth as an educator.

According to Al Harami, who has worked with the QAD community last year through teacher, student and parent sessions, this approach to life has a direct impact on the class-room. “Teachers are good role models for our students and they can share with them the tools to develop posi-tive life habits,” he says. Beginning with communicating positively with their students and through encouragement

and motivation, teachers will be able to accept student differences and address their varying learning needs. This then allows them to develop a balanced approach to handling different situa-tions in class and therefore contribute to the overall wellbeing of all students.

“We believe that organizing such workshops will enhance the quality of teaching at Qatar Academy,” Senior School Assistant Principal Maha Al Romaihi says. “Abdulrahman Al Harami is familiar with our commu-nity and his input is always valuable and relevant. These workshops defi-nitely help build and maintain positive mindsets, attitudes and habits as the school year progresses”.

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As a part of the teachers’ professional development programme, Shantiniketan Indian School organ-

ised an education conference titled ‘Makeover’ spread over two days. The conference focused on various aspects of teaching-learning process in adherence to the Academic Capacity Building (ACB). The topics included were ‘Behavioural Policies’, ‘Objective Assessment’, ‘Lesson Planning’, ‘The Five Es of Enquiry Based Learning’, ‘Designing Rubrics’, ‘Cooperative Learning’, ‘Thinking Skills’, ‘Blended Learning’ and ‘Designing Question Papers’.

The ‘Makeover’ aimed at mak-ing the SIS Teachers ‘Delightful Teachers’ and encouraged them to emphasise on creative and mean-ingful involvement of parents in the schooling process. It also stressed on the behaviour modification strategies and research for developing value and skill based curriculum in the perspec-tive of developing our children as glo-bal citizens.

Dr Subhash B Nair, Principal, in his keynote address stressed on the qualities of a ‘Delightful Teacher’ and urged teachers to maximise utilisa-tion of resources to attain academic excellence in their children.

Makeover was an interactive and activity oriented session with multi-media presentations, exercises and

group discussions, which enriched the knowledge base, skills and pre-paredness of a teacher to face major changes in the trends in educa-tion. The purpose of the session was Academic Capacity Building of teachers, and to practice the process of ‘learn, unlearn and relearn’.

“The knowledge, classroom proc-ess, value systems and assessment should be objective so that each learner is benefited by the process,” expressed Dudley O’Connor, Vice Principal CBSE-i & Staff Professional Development Co-ordinator.

“The students, parents, teachers and community in general will be benefited by these sessions,” com-mented Shihabudheen Pulath, Vice

Principal-Admin. Rashid Ahmed, Senior Analyst,

Ooredoo, Qatar and a member in the school management committee, as a resource person, conducted an inno-vative session on ‘Blended Learning’.

Besides the Principal and the Vice Principals, Syed Meraj Ali, Tono Fernandez, Donald D’Costa, Nazneen Fathima, Afshan Rathore and Shakir Hussain, were resource persons for the event. The conference made use of the online resources available for teachers Edmodo and SIS Learn.

Dr Jasmine Ahmed, Section Head NIOS, expressed notes of apprecia-tion for the resource persons and delegates.

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IWA announces 18th Inter School Quiz Contest

The Indian Women’s Association (IWA) announced that they will

host the 18th Inter School Quiz contest on Friday, October 31 at Birla Public School.

“The IWA Inter School Quiz contest has had a successful run for the last 18 years and plans to continue its commit-ment to enhancing student knowledge and honing their competitive spirit,” a pres release from the association said.

The IWA 18th Inter School Quiz contest is open to students of both national and expatriate schools of Qatar. Students of classes VII, VIII and IX are qualified to take part in this quiz. The quiz will test the participat-ing teams on a wide range of topics including general knowledge, literature, science, geography, sports, music, and current international affairs.

Celebrity quizmaster Mohan Kapur will host the quiz contest. He was India’s first ever quiz show host with Zee TV’s Saap Seedhe and more recently the enthusiastic host of the Star Plus Babyshop Star Quiz contest. The Preliminary round of the quiz is scheduled for Thursday, October 30, at Birla Public School.

Interested schools can contact IWA at [email protected] for information.

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SIS holds educational conference ‘Makeover’

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The Qatar Chapter of The Institution of Engineers (India) conducted a Theme Seminar at

the Ashoka Hall of the Indian Cultural Center.

A central theme of national impor-tance is chosen every year in India at IEI Head Quarters and deliberated at various international, state/local centres of the institution to educate the society and the engineering com-munity as well. This year the council

selected “Making Indian Engineering World-class” as the theme. The topics presented on the day were:

Achievements of green practices in the construction industries in India (Case study on green practices in Auroville in Pondicherry India) by Seenu Pillai, Chairman of the Insitution.

Making India an Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) engineering superpower by Vineet Chandran,

Civil Engineering Marvels in India – A case study by Narendra Kulkarni, Executive committee member of the Institution.

The seminar was preceded by a short felicitation program for Indian Engineers who had worked in Qatar for thirty years and more.

Following Engineers were recognised and felicitated: Animesh Sarkar, K B Shareef, Satish Deshpande, Tarun Chakraborti, Mohamad Zafar Siddiqui,

Bipin Chandra Joshi, Ravisankar Krishnamoorthy and Roy John Oommen.

Syed Razilla conducted the proceed-ings and the programme was attended by over 90 engineers.

Past Chairman Debashis Roy gave the welcome speech, while Shaik Kareem Basha, Secretary, compered the event. Sekhar Babu, executive commit-tee member, proposed vote of thanks.

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IEI Qatar Chapter organises technical seminar

Committee members with engineers who were felicitated for working in Qatar for thirty years or more.

Sharq Village and Spa, a Ritz-Carlton Hotel, organised a Blood Donation Day recently in partnership with the Hamad Medical Corporation. “Here at Sharq Village and Spa, we are committed to actively supporting the long-term vision of Ritz-Carlton and our com-munity as a whole,” said Carsten Fritz, General Manager, Sharq Village and Spa. “Our Blood Donation Day highlighted our ongoing commitment to the community and its success was thanks to our team, guests and members of our community coming together to make a difference.”

Bazm e Urdu Qatar announced that a semi-nar will be organized on

renowned poet and Islamic scholar from Indian subcontinent, Allama Shibli Nomani on October 31 at Swiss Bell Hotel Doha. Bazm e Urdu magazine will be published on this occasion. Urdu Scholars Dr Jazib Qureshi from Pakistan and Dr Shamim Hanafi from India will be the Chief Guest for the seminar.

During the executive meeting held at recently at the Grand Qatar Palace Hotel Doha Chief Patron of Bazm e Urdu, Sabeeh

Bukhari and Vice Patron Habib un Nabi appreciated the efforts made by Bazm e Urdu.

Bukhari also said that he is planning to organise a com-edy Mushaira in December at Industrial area West End Park and well known Urdu comedy poets will be invited.

The patrons and members of the management committee are:

Sabeeh Bukhari, Chief Patron, Habibun Nabi, Vice Chief patron, Hassan Chougule, Shakeb Ayaz , Rana Ayub, Belal Khan and Khalid Dad Khan are Patrons.

Shaukat Ali Naz, Shafique Akhter, Aziz Nabeel, Zawwar hussain Zair and Ashfaque Deshmukh are members of Advisory Board.

Amjad Ali Sarwar, Chairman, Sayed Faheemuddin, President, Mansur Azmi, Senior Vice President, Ejaz Haider, Vice

President, Ahmad Ashfaque, General secre-tary, Anwar Karim, Senor Joint Secretary, Qaiser Masood, Joint secretary, Tahir Jameel, Media Secretary, Fakhruddin Razi, PR sec-retary, Mahfuz Hassan, Treasurer and Salal yousuf, Media Adviser. The Peninsula

Bazm e Urdu Qatar to organiseseminar on Allama Shibli Nomani

Carsten Fritz

Blood donation drive

The patrons and members of the management committee.

PLUS | THURSDAY 11 SEPTEMBER 20146 FOOD

By Alison Ladman

Before we get cooking, let’s talk prep. Butternut squash’s thick skin and rock-hard flesh can make the peeling, seeding and chopping part of the meal a challenge.

No wonder those bags of prepped squash chunks at the grocer are so popular. But they also are pricy, so let’s talk tips for making the work a little easier.

Start by setting your squash on its side on the cut-ting board. Use a heavy chef ’s knife to slice off the top (stem end) and bottom (wider end). Slicing off the bottom reveals the seedy-stringy interior. It also gives you a flat base so you can stand your squash upright without it wobbling. Now use a vegetable peeler to remove the skin.

Once the squash is peeled, grab your melon baller. You don’t have one? Get one. It doesn’t need to be fancy, just sturdy. A melon baller — with its sharp edges designed for scooping and scraping — is the best tool for quickly and cleanly removing the seeds and strings.

Once the interior is scraped clean, return the squash to the cutting board on its side. Cut the squash in two crosswise, cutting just above the bul-bous bottom. At this point, you have manageable chunks of squash with flat edges. And that means those chunks can be easily cut or chopped without wobbling.

For simplicity, every recipe idea assumes you’ve peeled and seeded the squash.

Patties: Cut a squash into 2-inch pieces. Microwave until just tender. Allow to cool slightly, then arrange small mounds of cubes on a lightly oiled baking sheet. Use the bottom of a bowl or mug to gently smash each mound into a patty about 1/2 inch thick. Brush the top of each patty with olive oil, then season with salt, pepper and smoked paprika. Bake at 450 F until browned and crispy, flipping the patties after about 10 minutes.

Hummus: Boil 2 cups squash cubes in water until tender. Drain well, then combine in a food proces-sor with 1/4 cup tahini, 2 cloves garlic, the zest and juice of 1 lemon, 1 tablespoon toasted sesame oil, and

salt and pepper, to taste. Process until smooth, then spoon into a bowl. Top with a drizzle of olive oil and chopped Peppadew peppers. Serve with pita chips.

Salad: Boil 2 cups squash cubes in water until just tender. Drain thoroughly and set aside to cool. Toss the cooled squash with 1/2 cup chopped cilantro, 1 cup cooked shelled edamame, 2 tablespoons olive oil, 2 tablespoons white balsamic vinegar and 1 cup chopped roasted red peppers. Season with salt and pepper, then top with shredded manchego cheese and toasted pine nuts.

Hash: Cut the squash into 2-inch chunks, then add to the food processor. Pulse until well chopped, but not pureed. Heat a splash of canola oil in a large

skillet, then add the squash and an equal amount of chopped corned beef. Sauté until the squash is browned and tender. Serve topped with poached or fried eggs.

Grilled: Slice the squash into 1/2-inch-thick slabs. Drizzle each slab with olive oil, then sprinkle with salt and pepper. Grill over medium heat until tender when pierced with a fork. If the squash browns too quickly, turn one side of the grill off and leave the other side on medium-high. Move the squash slices to the cooler side and continue cooking, with the grill covered, until tender.

Soup: Bring to a simmer 2 cups chicken broth, a 13 1/2-ounce can of coconut milk, 3 cloves garlic and 3 cups cubed squash. Cook until very tender. Working in batches, transfer the mixture to a blender and puree until smooth. Season with salt, a squeeze of lemon juice and a splash of hot sauce. Stir in cooked shredded chicken or cooked shrimp, if desired. Top with shredded fresh basil.

Ganache: Boil 1 cup squash cubes in water until tender. Drain, then add to the food processor and puree until very smooth. Set aside. In a small sauce-pan, heat 1 cup heavy cream with 1 teaspoon cinna-mon, 1/4 teaspoon nutmeg and 1/2 teaspoon ground dry ginger. When just hot, remove from the heat and stir in 12-ounce bag semisweet chocolate bits. Stir in the squash puree until completely smooth. Serve warm over ice cream or toasted pound cake or gingerbread.

Biscuits: Boil 1 cup squash cubes in water until tender. Drain and mash with a fork; you should have 1/2 cup of mashed squash. Cool and stir together with 2/3 cup buttermilk. Freeze 6 tablespoons butter until it’s very cold but not rock solid. Grate the butter with a cheese grater into a bowl with 2 cups self-rising flour. Stir together with a fork. Add the squash and stir just until it comes together. Scoop 1/4 cup at a time onto an oiled baking sheet and bake at 425 F for 10 to 12 minutes.

Roasted: Toss squash cubes in a bowl with melted butter, salt, pepper, and Italian or Cajun seasoning. Spread on a rimmed baking sheet and roast at 425 F until tender and browned, stirring occasionally.

Crab cakes: Drain a 16-ounce can lump crabmeat. Stir in 1 cup finely grated butternut squash, 1/4 cup chopped fresh chives, 2 teaspoons Old Bay seasoning, 1 egg and 1/2 cup panko breadcrumbs. Form into 8 patties and cook in a skillet with vegetable oil until browned and cooked through, about 4 to 5 minutes per side at medium-high. AP

10 fresh ways to use butternut squash

BOOKS 7PLUS | THURSDAY 11 SEPTEMBER 2014

By Jena McGregor

We’ve all heard the con-ventional wisdom for better managing our time and organising our

professional and personal lives. Don’t try to multitask. Turn off the email and Facebook alerts.

But what’s grounded in real evidence and what’s not? In his new book The Organized Mind, Daniel Levitin (pic-tured) — a McGill University pro-fessor of psychology and behavioural neuroscience — explores how having a basic understanding of the way the brain works can help us think about organising our homes, our businesses, our time and even our schools in an age of information overload.

What was your goal in writing this book?

Neuroscientists have learned a lot in the last 10 or 15 years about how the brain organises information, and why we pay attention to some things and forget others. But most of this information hasn’t trickled down to the average reader. There are a lot of books about how to get organised and a lot of books about how to be better and more productive at business, but I don’t know of one that grounds any of these in the science.

From the book, you seem to be a fan of David Allen, the time man-agement guru. Does his “Getting Things Done” system have a real basis in neuroscience?

A lot of what he says is. One of his big ideas is the mind-clearing exercise. At various intervals throughout your day or week, you’re supposed to stop and write down all the clutter. Well, the scientific basis for this is real. The conscious mind can only pay atten-tion to about four things at once. If you’ve got these nagging voices in your head telling you to remember to pick up the laundry and call so-and-so, they’re competing in your brain for neural resources with the stuff you’re actually trying to do, like getting your work done.

But I would also modify Allen’s system based on the science. I don’t think you need to file everything as he suggests. People have different styles: Some are filers and some are pilers. The people who pile things often know exactly where things are, and they’re often just as organised as the people who file things.

There are a bunch of practical, and pretty low-tech, suggestions in your book for getting organized. For instance, you suggest writing down each thing we need to do on separate 3x5 index cards. Why?

It’s not about having a perfect

system, but the 3x5 cards offer the freedom to reorganise and re-prioritise — to put things in piles or change the order of things. At some point in the day, your priorities change. It’s rela-tively simple to go through the whole stack, find the card you want and put it at the top of the pile.

The problem with the computer is that it’s a place where everything is done, and you don’t associate it with your to-do list. The index cards, on the other hand, become the place you go to see what’s up next or to put down thoughts. Your brain remembers and associates a certain activity and a cer-tain focus with those index cards, or with your notebook, or your paper and pencil list. Which one doesn’t matter.

Why multi-tasking is so bad for us?

We now know that the brain doesn’t multi-task. Rather, the brain shifts rapidly from one thing to the next. That causes us to not be able to focus attention on any one thing, and this dividing of our attention makes us less efficient. The reason we think we’re good at it is just self-delusion. The brain is a very good deceiver.

Why is it such a hard habit to break?

Multi-tasking puts us in a kind of dopamine addiction loop, which is similar to cocaine addiction. Each time we do some little new task, our brain rewards us with a tiny shot of dopamine, the pleasure neurochemi-cal. For our ancestors, this was a motivating force to be active and get things done. Today, even answering an email or responding to a tweet gives out these little dollops of reward.

There was a famous study in the 1950s where rats were given an opportunity to press a bar that would release dopamine in their brains. They pressed that bar to the exclusion of everything else, including eating and sleeping and drinking. They died of starvation and thirst because the dopamine became more important. We have to train ourselves. We have to enforce time away from these things because it can be a real addiction, a chemical addiction.

What is “Area 47” in the brain, and why is keeping it happy impor-tant for job satisfaction?

My colleague and I have been study-ing this little sliver of brain tissue for 15 years. If you put your fingertips on your temples, just above the outside part of your eyebrows, Area 47 is in there. It’s about the size of an almond on each side. Area 47 contains predic-tion circuits that are scanning and monitoring the environment and try-ing to figure out what’s going to hap-pen next. Keeping Area 47 happy is tricky. If everything in the environ-ment is utterly predictable, you become bored. If it’s utterly unpredictable, you become frustrated.

Pleasure results from having Area 47 experience an optimal balance between predictability and surprise. And one of the principles of job satisfaction is we function best in that context — when we’re working under some constraints, but able to exercise some creativity within those constraints. People like feeling as though they’re not just cogs in the machine.

In the book you write that researchers have begun examining what the brain of a leader looks

like. You suggest that within a few years the techniques may be refined enough to use as a screening tool for leadership positions. Really?

In five to 10 years we’ll know more. Whether it will be helpful in prac-tice is hard to say. It’s emerging that there are differences in brain struc-ture. There are regions of the brain associated with empathy, and they’re more active in good leaders who, in an experiment, are listening to various scenarios. Good leaders also tend to use more parts of their brain, so we see more connectivity between brain regions.

There are a lot of other factors, right? One can have the personality and the brain structure but then be mismatched for the company.

I don’t know what is going to hap-pen in the real world. I just think in five to 10 years the science will have progressed to where we’ll have a better idea of what the neural components of leadership are. Whatever we discover, my hunch is that only about 50 percent of what goes into being a leader will be revealed through the brain. The other 50 percent will be factors like culture and environment. WP-Bloomberg

What neuroscience tells us about getting organised

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By Mary Milliken

The true story of a journal-ist accused by Iran of being a Western spy, thrown into solitary confinement and

tortured for months would not seem to invite humour, or dancing for that matter.

But journalist Maziar Bahari has an acute appreciation for the absurd, and in bringing his harrowing tale to the big screen in Rosewater, he found a director and actor who knew how to seize on the comedy in the tragedy.

The director and screenwriter is Jon Stewart, one of the biggest names in American comedy as host of late-night television satire The Daily Show. Rosewater, his directorial debut, screened at the Toronto International Film Festival on Monday.

Bahari is played by Gael Garcia Bernal, the Mexican actor who has worked with acclaimed directors like Alfonso Cuaron and Pedro Almodovar.

“It was Maziar who has this caus-tic humor and in a very beautiful way, that humor was what made him sur-vive this,” Garcia Bernal said.

Much of the humour comes late in the film, when the situation is most dire for the Tehran-born journalist who lives in London and has gone to Iran to cover the 2009 elections, leav-ing his pregnant wife at home.

Bahari was arrested by Revolutionary Guard police after giv-ing footage of street riots to the BBC and spent 118 days in solitary confine-ment in jail. His interrogator known as Rosewater, played by Kim Bodnia, gives off that sweet scent but is bent on breaking down Bahari physically

and emotionally to the point where he confesses to being a spy.

But Bahari learns to cunningly tease Rosewater — with a fabricated tale of his love of “massage” with several women, or with a riff on why in the world he would visit the state of New Jersey. When Rosewater grills him on what he knows about his Facebook friends, Bahari can hardly fathom the stupidity of the questioning.

‘Laughing Inside’“He was laughing inside, because

he was like, ‘This is ridiculous,’” said Garcia Bernal.

Bahari also laughs about his talks in his cell with the apparitions of his late father and sister, both imprisoned by Iranian authorities in decades past.

Despite his lack of experience directing, Stewart’s comedic timing seems to come in handy in the form of witty dialogue and playful interaction between oppressed and the oppressor.

One positive review from the BBC noted that “Stewart works with astounding confidence and skill; he’s a born storyteller with a gift for sculpt-ing drama out of the smallest actions.”

For Stewart, bringing Bahari’s humour to the fore was the way to show him reclaiming his humanity from the repressive regime. He told the Toronto audience that humour and dance are “the two most simplis-tic and guttural expressions of your humanity.” The dance in question is Bahari’s poetic rebuke. Alone in his cell, he swirls and leaps with abandon to a Leonard Cohen song playing in his head, sending a not-so-subtle message of his strength to his captors watching on a screen. Reuters

By Jeffrey Hodgson

The two actors who portray Beach Boy Brian Wilson in a film about his troubled life say get-

ting a deeper knowledge of the revered Californian songwriter’s music helped their performances nearly as much spending time with the man himself.

Love and Mercy, which had its world premiere at the Toronto International Film Festival on Sunday, stars Paul Dano and John Cusack as younger and older versions of Wilson, cutting between his creative peak in the 1960s and painful recovery from mental ill-ness, addiction and abuse two decades later.

Wilson’s turbulent life is already the stuff of music industry legend. He shot to fame in the early 1960s as the lead songwriter for the Beach Boys, produc-ing hits like “Surfer Girl” that became the soundtrack for an era.

Yet Wilson’s ambitions ran deeper. Enthralled by the complexity of the Beatles’ “Rubber Soul,” he set out to top them. “Love and Mercy” depicts the production of his landmark “Pet Sounds,” one of the most highly regarded albums in rock history.

Dano said his performance was guided by the hours of audio still avail-able from those and other sessions, in which Wilson can be heard giving detailed directions to and joking with musicians.

“I just tried to capture his spirit as best as I could. He’s such a generous guy. He talks about wanting to make music that will help people heal, that will help people smile,” Dano said.

“Without question, learning to play and sing and listening to the music was

the most important, because the most true Brian to me is in ‘Pet Sounds.’ If you want to know him, you go listen to it.”

‘Portrait Of The Genius’Cusack said hearing Wilson’s early

work, particularly the long unreleased “Smile Sessions,” also increased his appreciation for a musician he already revered.

“You get a portrait of the genius at work at the apex of his powers at the time before he kind of went into the ashes,” he said.

Cusack portrays Wilson as he recov-ered from a combination of mental ill-ness and drug use that at one point caused him to retreat into his bedroom for more than two years.

He eventually fell into the hands of psychologist Eugene Landy, played by Paul Giamatti in the film, who went beyond treating him to taking over his business affairs and nearly every aspect of his life. The film covers the clash between Landy and Melinda Ledbetter, whom Wilson eventually married.

Both Wilson, now 72, and his wife cooperated in making the film and attended the premiere in Toronto. When the screening ended, the audi-ence gave the couple a standing ovation.

While Love and Mercy” covers some of the most traumatic moments in Wilson’s life, Dano said the musician told him afterward he was pleased with the work.

“He loved it,” said Dano. “And Brian, he’s a little unfiltered, so you would know if he didn’t. I was so happy to see him. He loved it. And he was thankful. It was beautiful.” Reuters

When Taylor Swift escaped death

Singer Taylor Swift says she once dodged death when she was involved in a serious snowmobile accident with an ex-boyfriend. Swift admitted her

life flashed before her eyes when one of her former lover, rumoured to be One Direction singer Harry Styles, lost control of the vehicle and crashed it, which resulted in them both going to hospital, reports femalefirst.co.uk.

Swift has penned new song titled “Out of the woods”, about the incident for her forthcoming album “1989”.

Speaking about the song and the incident, the 24-year-old said she wasn’t hurt before correcting herself, saying: “Not as hurt.”

When asked why nobody has ever leaked information about her snowmobile accident, she said: “You know what I’ve found works even better than an NDA (non-disclosure agreement)? Looking someone in the eye and saying, ‘Please don’t tell anyone about this’.

“People think they know the whole nar-rative of my life. I think maybe that line is there to remind people that there are really big things they don’t know about,” she added.

Justin Bieber ‘seeing a therapist’

Singer Justin Bieber is reportedly spending 600 pounds-an-hour for taking help from a therapist. The 20-year-old is allegedly seeing John

Kenyon, to help control his impulsive behaviour following multiple run ins with the law, which left him facing charges of assault and drag racing, earlier this year, reports femalefirst.co.uk.

“Kenyon’s treating Justin in person, when possible, then over Skype when he’s away. Sometimes they even have more than one session a day,” said a source.

“Kenyon’s so booked up he doesn’t normally take on new clients but Justin used his name to skip the three-year waiting list.

“It’s too soon to tell if it’s having a positive effect, but the fact that Justin has kept it up and passed the first batch of sessions speaks volumes. If he hates something he’s not normally the kind of person to stick it out,” added the source.

It is said that Bieber was encouraged to participate in the sessions by his mother Pattie Mallette, who has become increasingly worried that his erratic behaviour will be damaging to his career.

Aniston calls de-glam role ‘liberating’

Friends star Jennifer Aniston, known for featuring in romantic comedies like Just Go With It and Marley & Me, is seen with greasy hair and no

make-up in her new film Cake. And the actress found it liberating to play the role.

In Cake, the 45-year-old plays a woman suffering from addiction, rage issues and suicidal depression after a tragic accident leaves her scarred inside and out. She hasn’t played a role like this in the past and liked going makeunder for the role.

“It’s awesome and liberating to let that all go. And see yourself looking like that on a 50-foot screen,” people.com quoted Aniston as saying.

Aniston also said she moved stiffly and with great discomfort, aided by a back brace, to play a woman suffering from chronic pain caused by a car accident.

Don’t put `1bn pressure on us: Priyanka

Mary Kom witnessed an impressive opening and the film’s lead actress Priyanka Chopra doesn’t want the biopic to be pitted against biggies.

She says that “our film is already successful”, and hopes “it sets an example that even female centric films can do well”.

When asked if she feels the film will enter `1bn club, she said: “Please! Don’t put such pressure on us. Ours is a small film and don’t compare us with big boys.”

“Our film is already successful and I only hope that it sets an example that even female centric films can do well. I don’t know what our destiny is, but I don’t want to put such pressure on our film,” said the actress who has won appreciation from all quarters for etching out the role of boxing champion M C Mary Kom convincingly on the big screen.

Directed by Omung Kumar, Mary Kom came out on September 5 and till Tuesday it has collected `389.5m at the box office. The film is report-edly going steady.

According to Priyanka, the film has “opened well and that is a huge relief for me. Now let’s see how long does it sustain in the second week.”

The actress, who has turned producer with Madamji, which is being directed by Madhur Bhandarkar, says she is yet to understand the number game, but hopes to learn on the job.

She said: “I am a creative person and I get confused with the number game. I have a very strong team. Eventually when you make a film, it will be a learning experience.”

Meanwhile, Mary Kom is riding ahead on positive word of mouth, and the makers are confident that since English language Bollywood enter-tainer Finding Fanny is a niche offering it may not eat up the box office share of Mary Kom when it hits the screens on Friday.

Hope Creature 3D gets support for indigenous technology: Bipasha

Describing as a “very tough experience” the shooting of her forthcom-ing film Creature 3D which brings to Indian audiences a fresh genre of

cinema, Bollywood actress Bipasha Basu yesterday hoped Indian viewers will appreciate the work of indigenous technicians.

The movie, slated to release September 12, is a creature-based thriller directed by Vikram Bhatt.

In the film, Bipasha’s character Ahaana battles a creature, based on Indian mythology, as she transforms from a “vulnerable and lonely” girl to a powerful woman.

“It is India’s first creature-feature. For an actor is all about reacting to a situation and who is in front of you. But for the first time there was no one in front of us so we had to imagine everything.

“Shooting part was extremely difficult for the actors and the technicians. I hope we being Indians support the film because of the efforts put in by Indian technicians. The creativity is indigenous and the team is Indian, no foreigners,” Bipasha told reporters here.

“They were shooting with 3 D cameras which was completely differ-ent from the normal process and post that there was 11 months of post-production where the creature was actually made.

“Every scale, every speck of saliva of the creature was imagined and created by Indian technicians... no foreigners,” Bipasha explained.

The storyline, she said B, is India-centric and based on the concept of Brahma-Rakshas or demon spirits of Hindu mythology but if one were to consider the creature-generated from special effects-in isolation, the beast is much like those in the West (ern films).

“I will not compare the film as a whole, with the West, because the sensibilities are very different. The story line is India-centric but just the creature is very much like the West,” she said.

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Treatment of muscular dystrophy possible

In what could lead to the discovery of drugs to treat muscle weakening diseases such as mus-

cular dystrophy, researchers have discovered a signalling pathway responsible for reducing aged stem cells’ ability to repair muscle. As people age, stem cells gradually lose their capacity to repair damage, even from normal wear and tear.

As muscle stem cells age, their reduced func-tion is a result of a progressive increase in the activation of a specific signalling pathway that transmits information to a cell from the sur-rounding tissue. The particular culprit identi-fied by the researchers is called the JAK/STAT signalling pathway.

“What is really exciting to our team is that when we used specific drugs to inhibit the JAK/STAT pathway, the muscle stem cells in old ani-mals behaved the same as those found in young animals,” said Michael Rudnicki, a professor from the University of Ottawa in Canada.

“These inhibitors increased the older animals’ ability to repair injured muscle and to build new tissue,” Rudnicki added.

With this discovery, the researchers are exploring the therapeutic possibilities of drugs to treat muscular dystrophy and such other muscle weakening diseases.

The drugs used in this study are commonly used for chemotherapy and the team is now look-ing for less toxic molecules that would have the same effect. The findings appeared online in the journal Nature Medicine.

Nose virus may trigger middle ear infection

A viral infection in the nose may trigger middle ear infections, which affect more than 85 per-

cent of children under the age of three, says a study.Flu virus inflamed the nasal tissue and sig-

nificantly increased both the number of bacte-ria and their propensity to travel through the Eustachian tube — linking the ear and the nose — and infect the middle ear, the researchers said.

“Every individual has bacteria in their nose that most of the time do not cause problems,” said study lead author W Edward Swords, pro-fessor of microbiology and immunology from the Wake Forest Baptist Medical Center in the US.

“However, under certain conditions these bacte-ria can migrate to the middle ear and cause an ear infection, and now we have a better understanding of how and why that happens,” Swords added.

For the study, the researchers simultaneously infected the nose with a flu virus and a bacterium that is one of the leading causes of ear infections in children.

The bacterium used in the animal study, Streptococcus pneumoniae, is known to exist in the noses of children in two phases, one invasive and the other benign.

The invasive phase is more frequently found in the infected ears of children. However, the study indicated that the flu virus promoted bacterial growth and ear infection regardless of which phase of the bacterium was present in the nose.

“These findings suggest that a flu infection modifies the response of the immune system to this particular bacterium, enabling even the type that has previously been considered benign to infect the middle ear,” Swords noted.

The study appeared in the journal Infection and Immunity.

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By Abby Phillip

Sitting for eight or more hours a day can be deadly. That fact has been hammered home in study after study showing the negative health effects — including heart

disease, poor circulation and joint pain — associ-ated with being parked on your behind for most of the day. The only sure way to prevent those problems, researchers have said, is to sit far less.

But there is growing evidence that there are ways to reverse the damage without necessarily committing to being on your feet for eight or more hours a day.

A new study by researchers at Indiana University published in Medicine & Science in Sports & Exercise suggests that the impaired blood flow in leg arteries can actually be reversed by breaking up your sitting regimen with five-minute walking breaks.

Sitting can cause blood to pool in the legs and prevent it from effectively flowing to the heart — a precursor to cardiovascular problems. After just one hour of sitting, normal blood flow became impaired by as much as 50 percent, the study found.

But the men who walked for five minutes on a treadmill for each hour they sat didn’t see that decline.

“American adults sit for approximately eight hours a day,” Saurabh Thosar, the study’s lead author, said in a statement.

“The impairment in endothelial function is sig-nificant after just one hour of sitting. It is inter-esting to see that light physical activity can help in preventing this impairment.”

The findings add to a growing body of evidence that all is not lost for people unwilling or unable to get on the standing desk train or those who can’t do much about long commutes. It is also the first experimental evidence that moderate movement

can promote healthy blood flow, in spite of sitting habits.

Participants in the study were otherwise healthy males between the ages of 20 and 35 who did not have any heath problems like obesity, heart disease, high blood pressure or diabetes.

“They were inactive people though; they did not exercise regularly,” Thosar said in an interview. “There is a risk that people who don’t exercise can start sitting more and more. That’s why we chose that population.”

Going to the gym isn’t likely to reverse the damage caused by sitting all day (one study found that six hours of sitting counteracted the positive health benefits of an hour of exercise). But several studies suggest that simply breaking up bouts of sitting with moderate exercise or movement can have a positive impact.

One study earlier this year found that break-ing up prolonged sitting with light or moderate walking breaks reduced the blood pressure of a group of obese adults in a randomized trial. And yet another recent study found that breaking up sitting with light activity improved blood sugar levels, but breaking up sitting with bouts of stand-ing did not.

Thosar’s study did not investigate whether walk-ing proved more effective than standing when it came to improving blood flow. But he suspects that walking prevented impaired blood flow in the legs because it requires active muscle movement.

“Walking definitely increases blood flow in the legs,” added Thosar, who is now a researcher with Oregon Health & Science University. “If it’s static and people are not moving, perhaps people are still not using their muscles as much as during walking.”

(Disclaimer: The author of this story recently began using a standing desk, which raised eyebrows throughout The Washington Post newsroom.)

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By Jeremy Wagstaff and Noel Randewich

Apple Inc’s embrace of wireless charging for its new Watch may be a defining moment for a technology that’s languished for years amid competing standards and consumer

confusion.Supporters of wireless charging see a future where

people no longer worry about topping up their gadg-ets; are free from tangled power cords and low-bat-tery warnings and where terms like “outlet” and “plugged in” will be as anachronistic as “dialing” a phone.

Users seem to like the idea too: in a recent sur-vey by technology consultancy IHS, 83 percent were interested in wireless charging; in China, the figure was 91 percent.

But, while the technology is largely there to do this, competition to set a global standard is getting in the way of delivery. It’s reminiscent of the Betamax vs VHS videotape wars of three or four decades ago, or the more recent battle between Blu-ray and HD DVD for supremacy in high definition optical disc format.

For now, there are three alliances, but not much to show. Last year, fewer than 20 million phones were shipped with wireless charging built in, according to IHS — less than 2 percent of the billion smartphones shipped around the world.

“There are a lot of bees around the hive,” said Omri Lachman, CEO of Humavox, a start-up with its own wireless charging technology. “Up to now we’ve not seen a mass aggregation of wireless charg-ing in devices. There’s a good reason for that: three standards for the same form of technology.”

While users clearly see wireless charging — where mobiles, tablets and other devices are charged by lay-ing them on a mat or other surface — as a natural next step, some industry leaders have cautioned that having to still plug in the charging device may prove fiddly for some. “Having to create another device you have to plug into the wall is actually, for most situa-tions, more complicated,” Apple senior vice president

Phil Schiller said just two years ago.

Beam Me Up …Maybe, but others say the wireless vision remains

compelling. “Look at Star Trek,” says Geoff Gordon of the Alliance for Wireless Power (A4WP), one of the three competing alliances. “They never talk about their batteries dying on any of their devices. If you look far enough into the future we’re looking at a world where you don’t even think about power.”

But to catch on, wireless charging has to work seamlessly. That means a user can easily find a wire-less charging zone and not have to worry whether their device is compatible, or properly connected or even secure from theft.

Intel Corp, a member of A4WP along with the likes of Samsung Electronics and Qualcomm Inc, says wireless charging is a lot like wireless comput-ing. Just as the world has largely ditched network cables for wireless hotspots, so we will leave charg-ers and cables at home as we’ll never be far from a charging pad.

But getting there, the chipmaker argues, will require someone with its clout to set the global standard for wireless technology. “History will tell you it’s what it takes to get mainstream lift-off,” said Intel’s Leighton Phillips.

Among the competing standards, A4WP uses something called magnetic resonance, while the Wireless Power Consortium (WPC) — which includes tech names such as Nokia and Philips — champions its Qi standard using inductive charging, a method which is also used by the Power Matters Alliance (PMA).

They are all variations of the same technology: a coil inside the device picks up an electrical charge from a transmitter coil in the charging surface. Apple, which sits outside the alliances, appears to have used a version of induction charging in its Watch, further muddying the waters.

$8.5bn Market

Sparring in a battle for leadership in a market that IHS reckons will be worth $8.5bn by 2018 — as the technology is incorporated into devices, furniture, cars, restaurants — the alliances fling accusations at one another.

The WPC accuses its rivals of trying “to benefit from intellectual property they think they own,” in the words of WPC vice president for market devel-opment John Perzow, instead of “what benefits the consumer.”

The WPC’s Qi brand is the only one to have made any real headway on the market, doubling its annual shipments to 20 million devices last year. The PMA has a couple of products out, while the first devices carrying the A4WP’s Rezence brand are expected to be shipped this year.

A4WP supporters say the WPC has had its chance and blown it. “Very quickly the momentum behind A4WP will dwarf anything that Qi has accomplished,” says Alex Gruzen, CEO of US-based WiTricity.

The PMA, meanwhile, has focused less on the hardware and more on the application program-ing interface that would allow others to connect to it. Its main backers are companies like Procter & Gamble and Starbucks Corp, which promises to roll out charging surfaces in its US outlets by the end of next year.

The groups all agree on one thing: squabbling over standards has kept smartphone manufacturers, fur-niture designers and car makers from building wire-less charging technology into their products as much as they might if the technology’s future were clearer.

The Jeep Cherokee, for example, includes a wire-less charging pad, and Cadillac has announced plans to add wireless charging in 2015 models - but driv-ers will only be able to use the feature if they have compatible phones.

There are signs of progress: the A4WP and the PMA in February agreed to ensure their two stand-ards work well together.

But for wireless charging to take off, Intel says, it not only needs compatible devices and charging mats in homes and offices, but also a broader public infrastructure - coffee shops, hotels, malls.

“The vision we have and that Starbucks has is that it becomes part of the slipstream of your life,” says Powermat president Daniel Schreiber. “How do we make power come to you rather than have you think about power?”

“Nothing’s Happeneing”There are other issues. One is that the technology

still needs to be easier to use. In some cases, a device can’t just be dropped anyhow onto a charging pad — it needs to be aligned or it either won’t charge, or will charge more slowly.

Also, fitting charging coils into devices isn’t as simple as it may sound. “Coils have a physical limi-tation that won’t change with size,” said Humavox’s Lachman. “A lot of people have been trying to fit that into the device.”

“All the companies are working around the clock to figure out how to pull in that technology and make sure it works,” says Pavan Pudipeddi, CEO of PowerSquare, which in July launched a charging pad using Qi which allows users to recharge multiple devices. Pudipeddi welcomed the launch of Apple’s Watch with wireless charging. “Others will feed off that and it’s good for the technology in general,” he said.

Meanwhile, the dithering over an industry stand-ard is opening up opportunities for others.

Some companies like uBeam, for example, use ultrasound, converting electricity to sound and sending that over the air as ultrasound. Others, like Humavox, use radio frequencies, where the coils are replaced by antennae.

“Our decision to build this technology from the ground up is proving the right choice,” said Lachman. “Wireless charging has been out there for five years and nothing’s happening.” Reuters

Pulling the plug: Apple’s Watch a boost for wireless charging

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Hoy en la HistoriaSeptember 11, 2001

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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

13 regions

(four regions

overlap with the

nine standard

regions). In all

regions the numbers from 1 to 9 can appear

only once. Otherwise, a Hyper Sudoku is

solved like a normal Sudoku.

ACROSS 1 Gut-busting side

11 Port. title

15 Alternative to 1-Across

16 Some GPS suggestions, informally

17 Shooting star?

18 College figs.

19 It means little in the Lowlands

20 Trimming gizmo

21 Like floppy disks, e.g.

22 Vino de ___ (Spanish wine designation)

23 Red shade

24 Santa Ana wind source

27 It may be up against the wall

29 Bring out

30 1975 hit song about “tramps like us”

33 Like Athena

34 Sharon’s predecessor

35 Fig. for I, O or U, but not A or E

36 It may be said while wearing a toga

38 Manual series

39 Phoenix suburb larger than the Midwest city it’s named for

40 Break through

41 Princess of ballet

43 Like red bell peppers

44 Orders

45 Key ring?

47 Scoutmaster, often

50 The moment

that

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53 Co-star in the U.S. premiere of “Waiting for Godot,” 1956

54 Pride and joy

55 Abstainers

56 Question from a bully

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4 A.L. East team, on sports tickers

5 Like many pregnant women

6 Where to get a cold comfort?

7 #1 spoken-word hit of 1964

8 “My Son Is a Splendid Driver” novelist, 1971

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10 Old map abbr.

11 Like some pills and lies

12 Dilly

13 Bait

14 Listing on I.R.S. Form 8949

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22 Front runners

23 Engine buildup

24 Sound like a baby

25 Cartoon pooch

26 Hunky-dory

27 Rather informal?

28 Printer part

30 Port on the Adriatic

31 Like Bill Maher, notably

32 Supporter of shades

34 Unembellished

37 Stock to put stock in

38 Verbal alternative to a head slap

40 Go for a

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42 Tunisian money

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45 Devotional period?

46 Insignificant

47 Twain’s “celebrated jumping frog”

48 Talent show lineup

49 “___ Bones G’wine Rise Again” (spiritual)

51 Important card source: Abbr.

52 Deterrent to lateness or cancellation

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

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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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14:20 Deadliest Catch

15:10 World's Top 5

16:00 Fast N' Loud

16:50 How It's Made

17:15 How Do They Do

It?

17:40 Gold Divers:

Under The Ice

18:30 Porter Ridge

18:55 Porter Ridge

19:20 Backyard Oil

19:45 Backyard Oil

20:10 Lost And Sold

20:35 The Liquidator

21:00 Porter Ridge

21:25 Porter Ridge

21:50 Backyard Oil

22:15 Backyard Oil

22:40 Amish Mafia

23:30 Porter Ridge

NOVO

1Third Person (2D/Drama) – 10.00am, 2.40, 7.30pm & 12.30am

Jawasa Miri (2D/Arabic) – 12.30, 5.15 & 10.15pm

2Sin City: A Dame To Kill For (2D/Crime)

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

3No Good Deed (2D/Thriller)

– 10.15am, 12.30, 2.45, 5.00, 7.15, 9.30 & 11.45pm

4Let's Be Cops (2D/Comedy)

– 10.00am, 12.20, 2.40, 5.00, 7.20, 9.40pm & 12.00midnight

5Into The Storm (2D/Action) – 10.00, 11.50am, 1.40 & 3.30pm

If I Stay (2D/Drama) – 5.20, 7.40, 10.00pm & 12.20am

6Invader (2D/Action) – 10.15am, 2.15, 6.15 & 10.15pm

Elly Jay Ahsan (2D/Comedy) – 12.15, 4.15, 8.15pm & 12.15am

7Finding Fanny (2D/Hindi)

– 10.20am, 12.40, 3.00, 5.20, 7.40, 10.00pm & 12.20am

8The Rover (2D/Crime)

– 10.45am, 1.00, 3.15, 5.30, 7.45, 10.00pm & 12.15am

9Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (IMAX3D/Action)

– 11.30am, 1.30, 3.30, 5.30, 7.30, 9.30 & 11.30pm

10

Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (2D/Action)

– 10.00am, 12.15 & 2.30pm Sin City: A Dame To Kill For (2D/Crime)

– 4.45, 7.00, 9.15 & 11.30pm

MALL

1

Invader (2D/Action) – 2.30pm

If I Stay (2D/Drama) – 4.15pm

No Good Deed (2D/Thriller) – 6.15pm

Creature (2D/Hindi) – 8.15pm

Vanavarayan Vallavarayn (2D/Tamil) – 10.45pm

2

Third Person (2D/Drama) – 2.15pm

The Rover (2D/Crime) – 4.45 & 11.30pm

Finding Fanny (2D/Hindi) – 6.45pm

Peruchazhi (2D/Malayalam) – 8.45pm

3

Inside Liewyn Davis (2D/Drama) – 2.30pm

Bound: The Power of Few (2D/Action) – 4.15pm

Sin City: A Dame To Kill For (2D/Crime) – 6.00 & 11.30pm

Elly Jay Ahsan (2D/Comedy) – 8.00pm

V/H/S 2 (2D/Horror) – 9.45pm

LANDMARK

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If I Stay (2D/Drama) – 5.00 & 9.00pm


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ROYAL

PLAZA

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IN FOCUS

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MEDIA SCAN A summary ofissues of the daydiscussed by the Qatari communityin the media.

• There is talk in social media about efforts by the Ministry of Interior to use iPads to help patrolling traffic police officers find the location of minor accidents. The iPads are linked to the control room.

• There are complaints from some nationals that some Independent schools prefer to hire expatriate teachers, and when Qataris apply to these schools for jobs, the managers tell them that they will call them, which they never do.

• There is talk about the fire at the Abu Hamour Karwa bus station, which resulted in the loss of 22 buses.

• A number of parents have demanded that the Supreme Education Council ask schools to use smaller buses to ferry students. The big buses carry a large number of students, who have to be picked up and dropped at different places, because of which the bus trips take a long

time, leaving the children tired at the end of the school day.

• A CMC member and other nationals have urged the authorities to stop the phenomenon of vehicles being parked on sidewalks in residential areas. They have suggested building multi-storey car parks in open spaces in different parts of the country.

• There are complaints about some dealers in electronic goods refusing to repair damaged devices, instead asking customers to get them repaired at their own expense even when they are under warranty.

• The authorities have been urged to prevent motorists from suddenly pulling up on the right side of the road to buy things from shops, because this leads to accidents, and the driver who hits from behind is considered at fault even though the sudden parking is to blame for the accident.

British ship lost 170 years ago found near Canada

Canadian underwater archaeolo-gists have found the wreckage of one of the two British explora-

tion ships, which were part of the famed Arctic explorer Sir John Franklin’s doomed expedition 170 years ago.

The wreckage was found in the Arctic Ocean off the north coast of Canada using a remote operated underwater vehicle recently acquired by Parks Canada, an agency of the Canadian government, a report on the website cbc.ca said.

“It is a very substantial wreck,” said Ryan Harris, an underwater archae-ologist with Parks Canada, adding that the wreck was “indisputably” one of Franklin’s two ships.

“Sonar images from the waters of Victoria Strait, just off King William Island, clearly show wreckage of a ship on the ocean floor,” Harris maintained.

The team is yet to find which of the two lost ships has been discovered.

Two ships, HMS Erebus and HMS Terror, were abandoned in 1845 after they got trapped in the polar ice.

Several searches through the 19th century attempted to find the lost ships but failed.

IANS

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Events in Qatar

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

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

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

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

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

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