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A SLICE OF A SLICE OF AFGHANISTAN AFGHANISTAN IN ISLAMABADIN ISLAMABAD

With ballgowns, Western-style bridal wear and cocktail dresses, Afghan dressmakers driven out of their homeland by the Taliban are carving a niche for themselves in Pakistan’s capital city.

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By Issam Ahmed

With bal lgowns , Western-style bridal wear and cocktail dresses, Afghan tai-

lors driven out of their homeland by the Taliban are carving a niche for themselves in Pakistan’s capital city.

Their stores stand between rows of animal carcasses and car workshops in Islamabad’s grubby Peshawar Mor neighbourhood — known more as a haven for refugees than a home for glamour.

In Pakistan, dresses are normally the preserve of a tiny liberal elite, with most women more likely to be seen in public wearing the traditional baggy shalwar kameez.

Raza Sakhi, a portly 43-year-old of ethnic Tajik heritage who fled Afghanistan when it came under control of the hardline Taliban, said those trends are now slowly changing in Pakistan.

“I shifted to Pakistan in 1996. I have been here now 19 years. I sell

bridal dresses and maxi dresses,” he says, sitting behind a row of mannequins.

“Earlier, more of our customers were Afghan, Iranian, Egyptians and so on. Now Pakistani sisters are buy-ing our dresses too, around 30 per-cent of our customers are Pakistani and we’re very proud of that.”

For Afghans who grew up under the rule of King Zahir Shah, the attire he creates represents a way of life that is now a distant memory.

“I became a dressmaker after leaving school, because I was always interested in this,” explained Shir Rahim Salimi.

He added that his pieces followed the old ‘Afghan style’ — a mix of tra-ditional and Western-styles favoured in the 1960s and 1970s.

Pre-Taliban Afghanistan was starkly different to the deeply con-servative, conflict-torn country of today — bright blouses and even mini-skirts were the order of the day among fashion-conscious citizens of Kabul.

Dressmakers bring touch of old Afghanistan to Pakistan

Morid Khawas, (left), a former Afghan Dari literature lecturer displays bridal dresses to a customer at his shop in Islamabad.

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The country saw a period of upheaval starting in 1979 when the Soviet Union invaded and violent resistance by the muja-hideen, religiously-indoctrinated fighters backed by the United States, began.

After the Soviets left, Afghanistan was plunged into bitter civil war, with the Taliban finally emerging to take control in 1996 and imposed a harsh law that forced women to remain at home and beheaded criminals in public.

Driven out Sakhi said he kept a small shop in

Kabul’s posh Wazir Akbar Khan district until 1996, and tried to keep it going even under Taliban rule.

“I was forced to keep a beard down to here,” he laughs, pointing towards his chest.

“We worked under the Taliban in Afghanistan for one year. They saw our catalogue one day and then arrested me for a day. Then they let me go and told me to stop making these designs.”

It was then that he decided to heed their warnings and moved to Islamabad.

Others like Morid Khawas, 55, have had a less straightforward route to the business.

The former Dari literature lecturer took a series of manual labour jobs after leav-ing Afghanistan for Pakistan, before finally deciding to make dresses.

“I had no choice because there is no mar-ket for Dari lecturers here,” he said.

Many of his customers are Pakistani Christians, who make up roughly five per-cent of the population in the Punjab region, but he also rents out his pieces to artist and performers working in theatre and TV, he said.

Dresses generally range from $50 to $1,000, with the lower end of the scale affordable for Pakistan’s middle class customers.

Uncertain futureThere are an estimated three million

Afghan refugees living in Pakistan either officially or unofficially, most of whom left their country to escape conflict in the 1980s and 1990s.

They have little desire to return to Afghanistan, which despite last year’s elec-tion of President Ashraf Ghani to power, remains politically unstable and still faces an array of daunting problems, including a fierce and resilient Taliban insurgency, widespread corruption, poverty and grow-ing unemployment among the country’s 30 million population.

Yet the dressmakers and their fellow refugees are viewed with deep suspicion inside Pakistan and are routinely accused by authorities of harbouring militants.

Those suspicions have sharpened in the aftermath of a deadly Taliban massacre at a school in Peshawar in December, leading to an exodus of more than 30,000 Afghans since the start of the year — most of their own volition.

“If the government of Pakistan decides to throw out Afghans then obviously we’ll be forced to pack up and leave since we are also Afghan,” said Sakhi.

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Afghan national of Tajik origin, Raza Sakhi poses in his bridal dress shop.

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Kainat Foundation marks 16th anniversary

Kainat Foundation, an NGO affiliated to ICC, working on education and health for the under-

privileged, celebrated its 16th anniversary recently at the Maza restaurant.

The event was attended by young and old Kainat members, supporters and longtime patrons like Syed Abdul Hye, Niglanshu Dey, Mohd Habibun Nabi, Najmul Hasan Khan and Divakar Poojary. Presentations were made on Kainat Foundation’s latest projects in health, education, environment and the successful ‘Each Child Teach Child’ initia-tive aimed to educate underprivileged children in Indian villages. The Project recently adopted over 200 children for education, providing them clothing and study materials.

Kainat Foundation in India also celebrated its 16th Anniversary with a 3 day event including annual Health Mela which saw over 3,000 residents receiv-ing free health checkups this year.

“Kainat Foundation creates a platform for the youth to implement their Ideas towards a better society; rather than having them follow a path paved by their predecessors,” Shakil Ahmed Kakvi, Founder & Chairman, Kainat Foundation, said.

The Peninsula Kainat Foundation members with guests at the anniversary function.

DMIS team triumphs in football tournamentDMIS football team emerged victorious in the Inter-Taleb Football match conducted by the Cambridge School for students of Grade 8 and 9 recently. The DMIS team members were Joel Thomas, Nithin Mathew, Zaeem Zafar Khan, Mujahid, Fahim Rasheed, Yadhu Krishnan, Nawaf Zubair, Rohit Sabu, Niven Benny, Tony Baby, Shorab Nazeer and AbuBacker. The captain Joel Thomas John received the winner’s trophy from David Thrope, Principal, The Cambridge School.

The final round of the Birla Public School inter house quiz competitions were con-

ducted for different categories at the Basant Kumar Birla audito-rium in the main school campus at Abu Hamour. The quiz master of the competition was Shajil Kader, Toastmaster, Area 18 Governor and EF Gavels club counselor and coordinator.

In the junior category (grade 3-5), Mars House emerged vic-torious. The team members were Ananya K Manoj, Shahad Fathima, Trivikram Sunil and Mariam Shiyad. In the intermedi-ate category (grade 6-8), Saturn

house won the first prize and the team members were Yash Samat Karmur, Arten Angelo P Garcia, Tanvi Kandalla and Shamitha Reddy. In the Senior category (grade 9 and 10) Adhithya Arun, Bharadwaj Swaminathan, Isha Pande and Riya Shekhar repre-senting Neptune House lifted the Champions Trophy.

The winners were felicitated by George Edison, Vice-Principal of the school. Sindhu Manoj, Activity Head Mistress of the School, BPS Quiz club members and other teaching faculty were present at the occasion.

The PeninsulaJunior Category winners receiving the prize of inter house quiz competition.

BPS holds quiz competitions

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Gomosafer.com unveils new offers and services

Gomosafer.com, the online divi-sion of Mosafer Travels, has launched Book Now and Pay

Later facility for the travellers. This facil-ity provides passengers an option of booking and keeping ticket of the flight of their choice on hold.

Customers now have the provision of booking the tickets of the flight of their choices without using the credit cards. In conjunction, multi payment options such as cash payments, credit card pay-ment, bank transfer and door delivery of the tickets has been made available.

Gomosafer.com have now put in motion the 24/7 call centre to cater the needs and requirements of the rising customer base. In order to provide bet-ter prices, Gomosafer.com has also now included a number of budget airlines like Air India Express, Air Arabia, Fly Dubai, Indigo Air, Spice jet, Air Costa and Air Asia.

Mobile Applications are also available on Android Playstore, Apple Store and Blackberry App World.

Commenting on the new facilities, Firos Nattu, Business Manager, Mosafer Travels, said: “With the introduction of the new facilities, we aim to maximise our efficiency and accurate services to our customers. Our aim is to ensure the maximum convenience for travelers, not only through traditional and conventional methods of booking, but online as well.”

“The facility has been especially designed for the convenience of those who don’t prefer credit cards, as such have been limited from making online flight bookings. We have always pro-vided our customers with best of the fares by not compromising on our qual-ity service and we aspire to achieve the same in the near future as well” he added.

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Global Auto Parts celebrated its 13th anniversary recently with a get-together at Grand Qatar Palace Hotel. The branch at Industrial Area St No. 13 won the best performing branch award and the branch at Industrial Area St No. 24 won the second best performing branch award for the year 2014. Global, an authorised dealer for Toyota, Nissan, Honda, Mitsubishi, Chevrolet, GMC, Ford, Hyundai, Audi, Volkswagen, Land Rover, Jaguar, Mazda and Kia genuine spare parts, has 13 branches across Qatar.

New chef at Retaj Hotels and Hospitality Retaj Hotels and Hospitality announced the appointment of Chef Mohamed Jumma Al Ali (pictured) as Corporate Executive Chef. Chef Jumma has over twenty years of culi-nary experience at various hotels. For the past four years, Chef Jumma served as the Corporate Executive chef at Palma Group Hospitality in Qatar, while, his nearly two decades of culinary experience started at Furat Al Cham Hotel in Syria where he served as Cook 1 and quickly rose through the kitchen ranks at various luxury hotels includ-ing Sheraton Damascus.

Starwood Hotels & Resorts strengthens Dubai portfolio

Starwood Hotels & Resorts Worldwide announced an agreement with wasl hospitality & leisure, a sub-

sidiary of wasl Asset Management Group, to debut the Aloft and Elements brands in Dubai. Scheduled to open in 2018, Aloft Dubai Raffa and Element Dubai Raffa will bolster Starwood’s presence in Dubai – the city with the second largest concentration of hotels for the company after New York City. With the debut of both brands in 2018, Dubai will soon be home to all nine of Starwood’s brands.

Aloft Dubai Raffa and Element Dubai Raffa will be built simultaneously and operate as a unique complex offering 165 and 96 rooms, respectively, upon opening in early 2018. Located near Dubai Maritime City — the new development at Port Rashid — the hotels will be conveniently located close to Sheikh Zayed Road and the heart of Dubai’s traditional commercial centre.

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Holiday Villa Doha marks National Sport DayIn celebration of the National Sport Day, Holiday Villa Hotel & Residence Doha recently held a day full of exciting and challenging activities with its employees and guests. The event promoted good health, and exemplified camaraderie and teamwork among all its participants. In his opening remarks on behalf of General Manager Joey Chen, Executive Assistant Manager, Roy Buma, said: “Today is is the day that we promise to stay healthy and active for our family and profession so that both can have the best of us. This year, I am delighted to see that employees and guests are inclined towards healthy lifestyle and have joined this year’s activities.”

PLUS | TUESDAY 17 FEBRUARY 20156 RECIPE CONTEST

WINNER

Apple stuffed Chicken breast filled

Ingredients:For 4 servings• 4 skinless, boneless chicken breasts

• 1/2 cup chopped apple

• 2 tbsp shredded Cheddar cheese

• 1 tbsp dried bread crumbs

• 1 tbsp butter

• 1/4 cup water

• 1 1/2 tsp cornstarch

• 1 tbsp chopped fresh parsley, for garnish

Method:Combine apple, cheese, and bread crumbs. Set

aside.

Flatten chicken breasts between sheets of waxed

paper to 1/4 inch thickness. Divide apple mixture

between chicken breasts, and roll up each breast.

Secure with toothpicks.

Melt butter over medium heat. Brown stuffed

chicken breasts. Add 1/4 cup water. Cover. Simmer

for 15 to 20 minutes, or until chicken is no longer pink.

Transfer chicken to a serving platter. Combine 1

tablespoon water and cornstarch; stir into juices in

pan. Cook and stir until thickened. Pour gravy over

chicken, and garnish with parsley. Serve.

Nafeesa Iqbal Mohammed

Baked Stuffed Apples

Ingredients:• 4 apples core & peal • 4 walnut kernels chopped • 1/2 cup sultanas• 2 tsp cinnamon powder• 2 tbsp sugar• 1/2 cup apple, pureed

Method:Core apples and peel the skin of only half of each apple.Preheat oven to 180°C. Make a stuffing of walnuts, sultanas and cinnamon powder

and you can add a little sugar or equal. Stuff the apples with the stuffing and press.

In a baking dish, place the apples and pour the apple puree over it. Add the remaining stuffing and bake the apples in the preheated oven at 180°C. Let it bake for thirty to forty minutes. Serve warm.

Namzz

Apple-Chilli Chutney

Ingredients:• 2 green apples peeled and grated• 5 red chillies deseeded and chopped• 1/4 tsp aniseed powder• 1/4 tsp green cardamom powder• 1/4 tsp mace powder• 1/2 tsp chilli flakes• 1/2 tsp black peppercorn• 1/2 tsp cloves• 1/2 tsp green cardamoms• 2 dessert spoon cider vinegar• 1/4 cup raisins• 1 cup sugar (approximately)• 2 cups water (approximately)• Salt to taste

Method:In a heavy bottomed saucepan put water and bring it to boil.

Tie cloves, peppercorns and cardamoms in a muslin bag.

Put it in hot water and boil for15-20 minutes. Then remove the

bag and add grated apple and chopped chillies. Add powdered

spices and mix well. Now add vinegar, salt and sugar.

Keep stirring till sugar melts. Add raisins and simmer. Stir

occasionally till done.

Check the chutney consistency so that excess water is com-

pletely evaporated.

Spoon out in glass container. Cool and refrigerate. Serve with

bread, parathas or chappatis. Ipshita

Apple Peanut Butter Crisp

Ingredients:• 5 cooking apples (peeled, cored and sliced)

• ½ cup all-purpose flour

• 2 tbsp creamy peanut butter

• 3 tbsp butter

• ½ cup packed brown sugar

• ½ tsp salt

• ½ cup quick-cooking rolled oats

• 1 ½ cups light cream or vanilla ice-cream.

• Original non-stick cooking spray

Method:Combine flour, oats, salt and brown sugar in a small bowl

then blend in the peanut butter and other butter with a fork

until the mixture resembles coarse crumbs.

Spray 9x1 ½ inch round microwave dist with the no-stick

cooking spray.

Place the apples in the prepared dish, top them with oat

mixture and microwave them for 14-16 min turning the dish

¼ turn halfway through the cooking time.

Serve warm with cream or ice-cream.

Jas

Apple Frankie

Ingredients:For The Stuffing• 1 3/4 cups boiled , peeled and mashed green apple

• 1 1/2 tbsp butter

• 1 tsp ginger garlic paste

• 3/4 tsp chilli powder

• 1 tsp garam masala

• 1/2 tsp chaat masala

• 1 tbsp finely chopped coriander

• Salt to taste

To Be Mixed Into A Onion Masala Mixture• 1/2 cup finely chopped green onions


• 1/2 tsp dried amchur powder

• Salt to taste

To Be Mixed Into Masala Water• 3 tbsp water


• 1 tsp dried amchur powder

• 1/4 tsp garam masala

• Salt to taste

MethodHeat the butter in a broad non-stick pan, add the ginger-

garlic paste and sauté on a medium flame for 30 seconds.

Add the green apples, chili powder, garam masala, chaat

masala, coriander and salt, mix well and cook for 1 to 2

minutes. Keep aside.

Place a roti on a clean dry surface and spread ¼th of the

potato stuffing in a single row in the centre of the roti.

Drizzle ¼th of the masala water and 1 tsp of chillies in the

vinegar evenly over it.

Sprinkle ¼th of the onion masala mixture on it and roll it

up tightly. Repeat with the remaining ingredients to make 3

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Green Apple Pasta Salad

Ingredients:• 1 cup macaroni pasta

• 10-15 cherry tomatoes, halved

• 1 bell pepper finely chopped

• 2 green apples peeled, cored and

cubed

• 1/2 cup sweet corn kernels fresh or

frozen

• 1 medium red onion sliced thinly

For the dressing• ½ cup mayonnaise

• 2 tbsp olive oil

• 1 tbsp dried basil

• 1 tsp dried dill

• 3-4 fresh mint chopped finely

• 1 tsp vinegar (cider or white) or 1 tsp

lemon juice

• 1 tbsp sugar

• Salt to taste

• Mint leaves for garnishing

Method:Drop the macaroni into a pan of boil-

ing water. Let is cook for about 20 to 25

minutes till they become soft and tender.

Once cooked, drain the water and wash

the macaroni under running water. This is

to make sure that they don’t stick to each

other.

In a large mixing bowl, add all the ingre-

dients for the dressing and using a whisk,

mix well. Now, add the chopped veggies to

the dressing and mix well. Add the washed

pasta to the veggie dressing mixture and

mix gently.

Let it chill for an hour. Garnish with a sprig

of mint and serve with any bread or soup

of your choice.

Ayesha Banu

Apple Brownies

Ingredients:• ½ cup butter (melted)

• 3 medium apples (cored, peeled and

thinly sliced)

• ¾ cup baking cocoa

• ½ cup walnuts (chopped)

• ½ tsp baking soda

• ½ tsp baking powder

• 1 cup flour

• 1 egg

• 1 cups White Sugar

• ¼ tsp Salt

MethodPrepare oven by preheating to 350 deg

F (175 deg C).

Grease a 9 x 9-inch baking pan.

Mix melted butter, egg and sugar in a

large bowl, until fluffy. Add walnuts and

apples and fold.

Take another bowl and sift baking soda,

baking powder, flour and salt.

Combine the wet and dry mixture together

and stir until well blended.

Spread the dough onto the prepared bak-

ing dish.

Place in oven and bake for 35 minutes.

Apple brownies are ready when a tooth-

pick inserted in the center comes out clean. Najju

ROBOTS 7PLUS | TUESDAY 17 FEBRUARY 2015

By Alex Webb

Robots long ago earned a place in factories, where their pneu-matic pumps and steel welding

arms help manufacture everything from cars to planes. Now, they’re learn-ing to behave around people, bringing them one step closer to the Jetsons-esque dream of automated servants that might one day serve you coffee or iron your shirts.

While today’s robots are more agile than ever, they typically require a safety cage to keep them from harm-ing the humans working around them. The world’s biggest robot makers — Switzerland’s ABB, Japan’s Fanuc and Germany’s Kuka — are rolling out new machines with a new generation of sensors that dramatically cut the risk of injury and help them better interact with workers.

The latest robots in the $29bn-a-year market are targeting the electron-ics industry, where factory automation lags behind businesses such as car-making due to the intricate assem-bly process. The same sensors which ensure that a machine doesn’t crush a circuit board or co-worker bring the prospect of robots serving customers even closer, according to Kuka Chief Executive Officer Till Reuter.

“We will have a time where there are far more robots at home — not just washing and cleaning robots, but other functionalities,” the executive said in an interview.

The key is sensors that improve a robot’s awareness of its surround-ings. Take YuMi, the torso-sized, dual-armed robot which Zurich-based ABB will start selling in April. Its built-in camera and pressure sensors allow it to mimic human movements to assemble small components for a watch or mobile phone, then physically hand them to a person alongside on the production line. ABB CEO Ulrich Spiesshofer pre-dicts robots will even soon be able to learn from humans.

“There’s a fantastic opportunity,” the chief of ABB, which also makes power grids, said on February 5, when the company said demand for its robots contributed to a 10 percent increase in orders last year. “A robot looks at you, sees what you’re doing and he copies you. Robots also become more intelligent in terms of understanding what he has in his hands and selecting what to do.”

Kuka promotes its LBR iiwa robot, introduced last year, as an “intelligent, industrial work assistant” whose built-in protection mechanisms and safe

torque sensors in every axis allow it to safely work next to humans on the factory floor.

Kuka shares rose to the highest level in 19 years on Wednesday as rising demand helped the company to exceed its own forecast for sales and profit-ability. Revenue surged 18 percent to €2.1bn while earnings before interest and taxes gained 18 percent to €142m.

The electronics industry, currently dependent on as many as 10 million fac-tory workers in Asia alone, could need 500,000 robots by 2020, Reuter esti-mates. There are currently about 1.3 million industrial robots in operation globally, according to the International Federation of Robotics.

The growth of the industry has attracted new players, ranging from software giant Google to online retailer Amazon.com and Chinese Web firm Alibaba Group.

Robots present a “great opportunity” in the next 20 to 30 years, Alibaba chief Jack Ma said Feb. 2 in Hong Kong as he pledged “significant” investment in artificial intelligence. Google has snaf-fled up at least seven companies since

2012, ranging from the robot imaging systems of Industrial Perceptions, to Redwood Robotics’ humanoid robotic arms and to Boston Dynamics’ walking robot armies.

Google Chairman Eric Schmidt said in March that the Mountain View, California-based company is experi-menting with automation in ways that will “replace a lot of the repetitive behaviour in our lives.”

Still, Kuka’s Reuter doesn’t see Google as a threat as the US soft-ware company lacks the 40 years’ mechatronics experience of ABB, Kuka and Fanuc. He says the likes of Google could be business partners, fusing their software expertise with the traditional players’ hardware experience to offer consumer robotic solutions.

Bot & Dolly, a company which Google acquired in 2013 and which pro-vided robotic technology for the 2013 Oscar-winning film Gravity, already uses Kuka machines.

An immediate competitor is Amazon, which bought Kiva Systems Inc for $775m in 2012, and has used the robotmaker’s technology to start

automating its distribution centers.Amazon’s Kiva robots can pick up a

shelf and transport it through a ware-house to an employee who then adds or removes the necessary objects. A simi-lar logic lies behind Kuka’s December decision to buy Swisslog, according to CEO Reuter.

“The next step will be not only to have a warehouse system, but a robot which can sort products,” he said, add-ing that Kuka’s robotic arms could ful-fil that role.

While Reuter predicts the con-sumer market will ultimately out-grow industrial robotics, the current cost of machines made by Kuka, ABB and Fanuc — starting at about €35,000 — makes that unlikely any time soon. Until that time, the companies will try to fill repetitive jobs in electronics manufacturing with their machines.

“Most big companies producing elec-tronics today, they can’t find enough people,” said ABB’s robots head Per Vegard Nerseth. “It’s not cost arbitrage — more and more it’s about finding people to do the difficult, delicate and dull jobs.” WP-Bloomberg

Robots can build cars; now they’re learning not to crush you

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BOLLYWOOD NEWS

I miss being in a band: Mohit ChauhanBefore he emerged as a popular playback singer, Mohit Chauhan had

tasted success with his band Silk Route, which dissolved in the early 2000s. Now, the “Tum ho” hitmaker says he sometimes misses having his own gang of musicians.

Before he delivered Bollywood hits like “Pee loon”, “Tum se hi” and “Masakali”, Mohit used to front the Silk Route band, known for the chartbuster “Dooba dooba”.

“Sometimes I think about being part of a band. It has crossed my mind. Being in a band is like a small family. You travel together, make music and share time with each other. I miss those days sometimes, but I am not sure if I’ll join a band again,” Chauhan said.

Abhishek meets Magic JohnsonBollywood actor Abhishek Bachchan’s childhood dream was fulfilled

when he got a chance to meet legendary basketball player Magic Johnson during NBA All-Star Weekend in New York city.

“Today, a childhood dream of mine came true. I met my idol. @MagicJohnson. Thank you for being such an inspiration,” Abhishek tweeted Monday along with an image in which he’s standing next to the sportsman.

Abhishek previously shared how his most prized possessions are two jerseys signed personally by Johnson.

The actor was announced the Goodwill Ambassador for NBA All-Star Weekend 2015 in Mumbai February 7.

RGV returns to romance genreFilmmaker Ram Gopal Varma, popular for his gangster and horror

films, is making a comeback to the romance genre with upcoming Telugu drama 365 Days after over a decade.

RGV’s last known popular romantic film was Prema Katha, which even won the prestigious Nandi award in 1999.

“This project marks Ramu sir’s grand comeback to the romance genre. I think it’s his first romantic musi-cal after Rangeela, and it’s going to be a treat for all those who closely follow his films. It will also be released in Hindi,” Nandoo, who plays the lead in the film, said.

“It’s a special film for me as well. He has spent about Rs40m on the project, and for a song, he spent a whopping Rs3.5m,” he said.

Nandoo and his co-star Anaika Soti spent about 60 hours shooting for a special song in the film.

“We shot for the song for about five days at a stretch. Initially, the idea of a rain song sounded fun, but by the time we finished shooting the song, we were completely exhausted,” he added.

The film revolves around a young couple, who rush into marriage, only to realise that their expectations don’t match.

“The story revolves around 365 days in the life of a couple and how time distances them,” said Nandoo.

HOLLYWOOD NEWS

Michael Gambon misses his paycheques

Actor Michael Gambon, who played wizard Professor Dumbledore in the majority of the film adaptations of J K Rowling’s Harry

Potter novels, says he misses “the money”.The 74-year-old said that he hasn’t missed working on the mov-

ies since the final instalment was released in 2011 but confessed he wouldn’t mind receiving the hefty salary again, reports mirror.co.uk.

Asked if he misses the film franchise, he said: “No. I miss the money, mind you.”

The Fortitude actor, who is currently starring in the TV adaptation of Rowling’s novel The Casual Vacancy, said that he’s “always” been plagued by self doubt but that his nerves are getting worse with age.

Quizzed on whether he still gets nervous after all these years, he told Radio Times magazine: “I think more so as you get older. You get more frightened. That applies to me, anyway. When I was an actor 50 years ago, I was quite relaxed. I don’t suppose I had as much to do. I was playing smaller parts.”

I still worry about money: Kevin Spacey

Actor Kevin Spacey might be a very successful actor, but his finances are something he’s concerned about.

“I still worry about money. I came from a modest middle-class fam-ily. My mother was the main breadwinner, my father was unemployed a lot, and I saw how difficult that was and I saw what it did to him. I was determined, I was not going to be like that,” Britain’s GQ magazine quoted Spacey as saying, reports femalefirst.co.uk.

The 55-year-old has appeared in Hollywood blockbusters like “The Usual Suspects” and “American Beauty” and was the artistic director of the Old Vic theatre for 10 years.

JLo’s $26,156 airport styleSinger-actress Jennifer Lopez looked sporty-chic at LAX International

Airport in Los Angeles, but the comfortable getup doesn’t come cheap.

The 45-year-old paired a grey sweater with $108 Peace Love World sweats. She opted for sneakers and a baseball cap. Her Versace high-tops ring in at $1,070, and her Brunello Cucinelli topper costs a whopping $1,115, reports eon-line.com.

Lopez donned a $1,378 white Versace bag and a version of her signature hoop earrings in the form of a $1,185 Lana Jewelry pair.

She also sported Jennifer Fisher hardware, topping off the look with a diamond-encrusted “Momma” gold cuff for $5,300 and a dia-mond ring that cost $16,000.

PLUS | TUESDAY 17 FEBRUARY 2015

By Guy Lodge

So it all comes down to this. After three consecutive years of nine nominees in the newly elasti-cated best picture category, the

Academy collectively (albeit not inten-tionally) elected to dock this year’s field by one. (Foxcatcher, with its surprise best director bid and four nominations besides, appears to have been the unlucky #9 fin-isher.) This slight shrinking of the ros-ter feels appropriate for a race that has been more closely fought than usual – at least half this year’s best picture nominees have looked like potential winners at one point or another, though it appears to have boiled down to a squeaker between two oppositely-styled independents from the same mini-major studio.

Since the expansion of the best picture category, there’s been a near-annual slot for the previous year’s big Sundance win-ner – a tip of the hat to the scrappier strand of “true” independent cinema that has yet to enjoy its big Oscar moment, as opposed to the polished mid-range indies that are now the Academy’s bread and butter. So it is that Whiplash follows in the footsteps of Precious, Winter’s Bone

and Beasts of the Southern Wild. And while it could convert a few of its five nominations to gold — JK Simmons has it locked, though I’m betting it will nab wins for adapted screenplay and editing too — most voters will deem the sweaty, shouty drumming drama not quite their tempo in the top category.

More so, at least on paper, is The

Imitation Game, the safe, polished British biopic from the Weinstein Company sta-ble that was once widely tipped to follow The King’s Speech — another safe, pol-ished British biopic from the Weinstein Company stable — to best picture glory. The Alan Turing drama started strong, echoing its spiritual predecessor by tak-ing the Audience award at Toronto, but has since hit a drastic losing streak, scor-ing multiple nominations but coming up empty at the Globes, the Baftas, the Guild awards, even the British Independent Film awards. Master strategist Weinstein has remained bullish in interviews – claim-ing it will ace the Academy’s preferential balloting system because it’s the “cumula-tive best” — but the campaign’s despera-tion is showing, not least in its distasteful “Honour the Man, Honour the Film” ads. A zero-for-eight showing is quite possible.

At the start of the season, everyone assumed it was The Theory of Everything

that would suffer most if the presence of two troubled-English-genius biopics in the race forced some kind of vote split in key categories. Instead, the Stephen Hawking portrait has emerged as the more quietly dominant player: Eddie Redmayne has been scooping up awards across the circuit, but it was the film’s additional wins for best British film and best adapted screen-play (both at the Turing film’s expense) at Bafta that had pundits reconsidering how deep the industry’s support for James Marsh’s film runs. If its US box office were as robust as its remarkable haul on home turf, it could have been an estimable spoiler. As it is, it’s mite too polite for the top gong — but could well win three of its five nominations.

The least-nominated film in the race

might well be the most fussed-over. Around November, when Ava DuVernay’s smart, stoic, socially textured Martin Luther King biopic Selma was first unveiled, many enamoured critics declared it a frontrun-ner. Its subsequent slide, however, has proven that critical advocacy is no match for a mismanaged campaign. When Selma scored a paltry two nods – with DuVernay and star David Oyelowo its most promi-nent casualties – sensation-hungry pun-dits blamed the supposed racial prejudices of the predominantly Caucasian voters. (Last year’s triumph for 12 Years a Slave, meanwhile, was dismissed as a guilt-alle-viating stopgap.) The truth is considerably more mundane: with Paramount having belatedly kickstarted the just-completed film’s campaign when Interstellar, the studio’s former prize priority, lost heat, screenings and screeners were arranged too late to penetrate the bulk of the Academy voting body. They were equally ill-prepared for the not-unforeseeable con-troversy that erupted around the film’s interpretation of Lyndon B Johnson. A few weeks’ groundwork might have made all the difference; sadly, though voters have had time to catch up with the film by now, the #OscarsSoWhite meme may have aroused more antipathy than admiration. Expect the best song Oscar to be its rather negligible reward.

If Selma proved that the recently short-ened Oscar calendar has made it harder for December releases to generate the neces-sary momentum ahead of voting deadlines, American Sniper proved that in Hollywood, Clint Eastwood is a law unto himself. Like Million Dollar Baby and Letters from Iwo

Jima, the controversial Chris Kyle biopic swooped in at the last minute to nab six nominations — despite initially split reviews that haven’t reached any greater consensus, with debate still raging over its political allegiances or lack thereof. That divisiveness counts against the film in the preferential balloting system, designed to reward the film with the broadest spread of admiration within the Academy. But as I mentioned when discussing Bradley Cooper’s best actor chances, Sniper’s stun-ning commercial performance — smack in the middle of the voting period, to boot — makes it a lurking threat.

No film in the lineup has played a longer Oscar game than The Grand Budapest

Hotel; having premiered at the Berlin fest over a year ago and opened theatrically in March, it’s the earliest release to score a best picture nod since The Silence of the

Lambs in 1991. Its awards potential wasn’t immediately obvious: despite glowing reviews, Wes Anderson’s romp was per-ceived as too lightweight for recognition beyond the screenplay and design catego-ries. Yet as the film’s box office kept quietly climbing (prior to American Sniper’s surge, it was the highest grosser of the nomi-nees), and later, loftier releases failed to register, Fox Searchlight’s stealth player held on to its industry affection, even tying with Birdman for the year’s highest nomi-nation tally. The froth factor will likely still keep it from the top prize, but with trophies for production design, costumes, music, makeup and original screenplay all possible-to-probable, it’s likely to be the night’s biggest winner.

I doubt even Searchlight was quite

prepared for their early bird’s success; like everyone else, their eyes were fixed on autumn release Birdman as (to mix meta-phors rather badly) their prize pony. Some questioned the film’s potential as a front-runner: between The Artist and Argo, the Academy has recently been sympathetic to films that reflect their own industry, but Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu’s backstage black comedy is a pretty sour, eccentric portrait. The stunt of its one-take conceit, meanwhile, could backfire with aestheti-cally conservative voters. But while the film underperformed in the early round of precursor awards, losing even the comedy Globe to The Grand Budapest Hotel, it sur-prisingly rallied in the all-important Guild awards, taking top honors from actors’, directors’ and producers’ collectives. All three share a significant portion of their membership with the Academy; moreover, no film has taken that trifecta and lost the Oscar since Apollo 13 in 1995.

If there’s a Braveheart in our midst, however, it hovers in the comparatively unassuming form of Boyhood. Richard Linklater’s 12-years-a-kid character study – also labelled a stunt contender in some quarters, though hardly a flashy one – was comfortably the bookies’ favourite before Birdman’s late surge, having swept the US critics’ awards and taken top honours at the not-always-indie-inclined Golden Globes. Last week’s Bafta triumph, mean-while, proved that it hadn’t necessarily lost momentum to Inarritu’s film – simply that both leading contenders have deep pockets of passionate industry support. Certainly, Boyhood is the friendlier frontrunner: many members may not take to its casu-ally structured narrative, but many oth-ers will respond to its bittersweet warmth and ultimate endorsement of family val-ues. Either way, voters will feel confident they’re crowning something that doesn’t quite resemble any previous best picture winner.

Will win: BirdmanShould win: Boyhood The Guardian

Oscars 2015: Which will win best picture?

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HEALTH / FITNESS 11

Meat-rich diet bad for kidney patients

Eating meat-rich diets could triple the risk of developing kidney failure among patients suffering from chronic kidney

disease, say researchers.Among patients with chronic kidney disease

(CKD), patients who consumed high acid diets (meat rich) were three-times more likely to develop kidney failure than patients who con-sumed low acid diets which are rich in fruits and vegetables, the findings showed.

The study suggests that patients may want to limit their intake of meats and increase their consumption of fruits and vegetables to help protect their kidneys.

“The high costs and suboptimal quality of life that dialysis treatments bring may be avoided by adopting a more healthy diet that is rich in fruits and vegetables,” said Tanushree Banerjee from University of California, San Francisco.

The researchers analysed information on 1,486 adults with CKD who were participat-ing in the National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey III (NHANES III), a large national sample of community dwelling adults. Patients were followed for a median of 14.2 years. The team found that higher levels of dietary acid load were strongly linked with progression to kidney failure among patients.

“Patients with chronic kidney disease may want to pay more attention to diet consump-tion of acid rich foods to reduce progression to kidney failure, in addition to employing recommended guidelines such as taking kid-ney-sparing medication and avoiding kidney toxins,” Banerjeere, who received her PhD in bio-statistics from University of Delhi in 2008, said. The study is forthcoming in the Journal of the American Society of Nephrology (JASN).

Why sleep loss could lead to weight gain

Following a night of total sleep depriva-tion, a brain region known as the “sali-ence network” may lead us to eat more

fat, new research has found.“Although this study examined the effects of

acute total sleep deprivation, similar changes may occur in response to the chronic partial sleep restriction that is so prevalent in today’s society,” said study’s senior author Hengyi Rao from the University of Pennsylvania.

The study involved 34 sleep-deprived par-ticipants and 12 controls in a sleep lab for five days and four nights for round-the-clock moni-toring. Sleep deprived participants consumed close to 1,000 calories during overnight wake-fulness. They consumed a similar amount of calories the day following sleep deprivation as they did the day following a good night’s sleep.

However, when comparing the macronutri-ent intake between the two days, researchers found that healthy adults consumed a greater percentage of calories from fat and a lower percentage of calories from carbohydrates dur-ing the day following total sleep deprivation.

The researchers also found that sleep deprived participants displayed increased con-nectivity within the “salience network,” which is thought to play a role in determining con-textually dependent behavioural responses to stimuli that can be either internal or external.

By Gene Emery

A new study suggests that smoking may be responsible for 60,000 to 120,000 more deaths

in the US each year than previ-ously thought.

The examination of 181,377 fatalities logged in five large databases found that many of the excess deaths among smokers were due to causes not previously linked to smoking, such as kidney failure, infections and possibly breast and prostate cancers.

Until now, 21 common diseases have been associated with cigarette smoking, including diabetes, 12 can-cers and six forms of cardiovascular disease. The new research, pub-lished in the New England Journal

of Medicine, may expand that list.“We were interested in whether

smoking causes more than these diseases that are on the list. And we certainly did find some,” coau-thor Eric Jacobs said. “The fact that about 17 percent of the extra deaths that occur in smokers were due to causes that were not on the Surgeon General’s list was a bit of a surprise to me.”

If the findings are applied nationwide, he said, the number of previously-unrecognised smoking-related deaths could be greater than the total number of Americans who die each year of influenza or liver disease.

Until this study, about 480,000 US deaths each year were believed to be attributable to cigarettes.

The researchers also found that the elevated risks faded as

smokers stayed off cigarettes.The findings derive from data-

bases following nearly a million people over age 54 for about a decade.

The researchers expected to see smokers dying faster than non-smokers, and they did.

But when they looked beyond conventional causes, they found that smoking doubled the risk of death from kidney failure and from various respiratory diseases. It also seemed to pose a six-fold risk of death from intestinal ischemia, where the intestine is damaged by reduced blood flow.

The risk of death from infec-tions was 2.3 times higher and the likelihood of death from cirrhosis of the liver was 3.1 times higher.

Breast cancer deaths were 30 percent higher among the smok-ers. Prostate cancer death rates were elevated by 40 percent.

In many cases, the more peo-ple smoked, the greater the risk. That wasn’t seen in pros-tate cancer, “but the risk of

death decreased significantly as the number of years since quit-ting smoking increased,” said Dr. Graham Colditz of the Washington University School of Medicine, St Louis, in an editorial.

“It’s not a surprise that smok-ing kills. We’ve known that for years,” said Jacobs, who is director of pharmacoepidemiology at the American Cancer Society. “But it’s important for people to realize the full impact that smoking has in terms of the national deaths. So eliminating smoking needs to be a national priority.”

In his editorial, Colditz points out that 18 percent of the U.S. population, 42 million Americans, smoke, and public health efforts to help them quit have not done enough to change “social norms.”

In the U.S., smoking has become a habit of the poor and the poorly-educated, Colditz told Reuters Health. He said that “in 2013, a total of 29 percent of adults below the poverty line smoked, whereas 16 percent at or above the pov-erty level did. In addition, only 6 percent of adults with advanced college degrees smoked, whereas 41 percent of those with a general equivalency degree did.”

Colditz writes in the editorial, “The Affordable Care Act pro-vides expanded access to cessa-tion support for many, but holes in Medicaid coverage in many states leave numerous smokers without as much evidence-based support as they need.”

Source: bit.ly/1xJnCqb New

England Journal of Medicine, online

February 11, 2015. Reuters


Fatal smoking risks may Fatal smoking risks may be higher than thoughtbe higher than thought

Smoking doubled the risk of death from kidney failure and from various respiratory diseases. It also seemed to pose a six-fold risk of death from intestinal ischemia, where the intestine is damaged by reduced blood flow.

TECHNOLOGYPLUS | TUESDAY 17 FEBRUARY 201512

By Chris Dring

The Legend of Zelda: Majora’s Mask is quite simply a masterpiece. Originally released for the N64 in 2000, it is a twisted and unique adventure about a menacing moon

set to crush the land of Termina three days from the game’s opening. As in the original, this remake, timed to coincide with the new 3DS, sees the hero, Link, able to travel in time and so when the three days are up, he warps back and begins again.

The game’s four main dungeons remain completed, but the generous helping of side-quests don’t, and Link will become intimately involved with Termina’s inhabitants as he changes their fates, reunites lost loves and tries to prevent the apocalypse over and over again.

There’s plenty of variety in the side-quests, too, as Link must transform into different creatures in

order to overcome obstacles. These creatures include a leaping shrubbery (the Deku Scrub), an amphibi-ous rock star (Zora) and a member of a race of rock people (the Gorons). Link can metamorphose into these characters by simply donning the right masks, and each transformation allows him to obtain spe-cial abilities, including the capacity to glide short distances, swim underwater or roll around the land-scape at high speed.

These multiple characters, plus the fact the titular Princess Zelda only makes a fleeting appearance in a flashback, makes for a stimulating and unexpected Zelda adventure.

It’s a dark and melancholic title, too, not just in its storyline but in how it looks. Almost all the character and scenery models have been taken directly from Majora’s Mask’s predecessor (The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time), but the developers have included some surreal effects and extra colour – primarily

dark blues and purples – which gives the world of Termina a very real sense of strangeness.

Then there’s the music, which increases in tempo as that moon – with its malicious grin and crazed stare – gets closer to destroying the world. And as those final moments draw near, the game’s wonderful soundtrack conjures a feeling of dread, with regu-lar earthquakes shaking the screen and sending the town folk fleeing to the hills.

Majora’s Mask really isn’t the typical fairy-tale adventure game. Thoroughly deserving another out-ing, the remake is visually impressive, with added gameplay tweaks and new fishing games. Those tweaks include improving the boss fights (somewhat lacklustre in the original), moving some of the items and re-landscaping a handful of confusing areas. But there have been some more substantial changes, too.

The bottom screen now features a more detailed notebook, which is invaluable for managing the game’s various side-quests. Meanwhile, the touch screen makes selecting items significantly easier than in the N64 original.

Another significant addition is the ability to warp to specific hours during the three-day cycle. This makes for a much better game, repeating side-quests is no longer as tedious and players are not forced to mindlessly stare at the in-game clock, waiting for the right time to save that old woman from the mugger.

Indeed, the save system has also been changed. Whereas in the original Majora’s Mask gamers could only save permanently by warping back to the first day, now they can do it at any one of the various Owl Statues dotted around Termina. It’s an essential adjustment to compensate for the fact that this is now a portable title, and players need to be able to save and put down their console whenever they have to. However, it does take away some of the tension and risk from the game, because failure no longer means having to restart that three-day cycle over again.

Nevertheless, this is unquestionably a better game than that bizarre, wonderful adventure Nintendo crafted in 2000. Back then, Majora’s Mask arrived at the end of the N64’s life and had the impossible task of living up to its predecessor, the widely lauded “greatest game ever”, Ocarina of Time. As a result, it did not get the recognition it deserved.

But now it has that second chance. The Legend of Zelda: Majora’s Mask is a mysterious, haunting game that shows that even within a series as established and traditional as Zelda, there’s room for invention. It’s nothing short of being the definitive version of one of Nintendo’s greatest games.

The Guardian

BY TEPPEI KASAI

Japanese shipments of traditional flip-phones rose in 2014 for the first

time in seven years while smartphone shipments fell, highlighting Japanese consumers’ tenacious attachment to the familiar and typically less expensive older models.

Dubbed “Galapagos” phones because they have evolved to meet unique Japanese standards and tastes, flip-phone shipments rose 5.7 percent to 10.58 million in 2014, data from mar-ket researcher MM Research Institute Ltd shows. Smartphone shipments fell 5.3 percent to 27.70 million, down for a

second year.Users in Japan pay some of the

highest smartphone fees among devel-oped nations, the telecommunications ministry says, while flip-phone rates are among the lowest. Many Japanese accustomed to years of deflation are content with old-style flip-phones offering voice calling, email and in most cases basic Internet services.

Japanese electronics companies Panasonic Corp and NEC Corp have pulled out of the consumer smart-phone business, unable to compete with dominant brands Apple Inc and Samsung Electronics Co Ltd. They still make flip-phones, though,

competing in a crowded market with Fujitsu Ltd and Sharp Corp, among others.

But with a mobile penetration rate of 98.5 percent, or 125 million sub-scriptions, there is little scope for significant overall growth in Japan’s mobile market, MM Research said. “Smartphones are also peaking in

terms of functionality and they tend to last a long time as well, so there are fewer renewals,” said MM Research Executive Analyst Hideaki Yokota. He said 2014 was a particularly strong year for renewals in the subscription cycle for flip-phones, suggesting that last year’s growth may not be repeated this year. Reuters

Japan’s old flip-phones soldier on while smartphones shrink

The Legend of Zelda: Majora’s Mask: One of Nintendo’s best

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Hoy en la HistoriaFebruary 17, 1405

1740: Swiss scientist Horace Benedict de Saussure, who coined the word “geology”, was born1880: Tsar Alexander II of Russia survived an assassination attempt when a bomb exploded at the Winter Palace in St. Petersburg1883: The Vacant-Engaged toilet-door sign was patented in England1996: World chess champion Garry Kasparov beat the Deep Blue computer to win their series 4-2

Turkmen Mongol conqueror Tamerlane, who established an empire extending from India to the Mediterranean, died while on an expedition against China

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12:00noon, 2:00, 4:00, 6:00, 8:00, 10:00 & 11:55pm

2Kingsman: The Secret Service (2D/Action)

– 11:30, 2:00, 4:30, 7:00, 9:30 & 11:55pm

3Sou2 Tafahom (2D/Arabic)

– 11:00am, 1:20, 3:40, 6:00, 8:30 & 11:10pm

4The Boy Next Door (2D/Thriller) – 6:10, 8:10, 10:10pm & 12:10am

Paddington (2D/Family) – 10:15am, 12:10, 2:00 & 4:00pm

5Yellowbird (2D/Animation) – 10:50am, 12:50 & 2:50pm

Everly (2D/Action) – 4:50, 7:00, 9:00 & 11:15pm

6Jupiter Ascending (2D/Action)

– 11:45am 2:15,, 7:10, 9:35 & 11:55pmThe Gambler (2D/Drama) – 5:00pm

7Son of A Gun (2D/Action)

– 10:00am, 2:40, 5:00, 9:30 & 11:50pmThe Gambler (2D/Drama) – 12:10 & 7:20pm

8American Sniper (2D/Action) – 12:00noon, 4:30 & 9:15pm

Wild Card (2D/Action) – 10:10am, 2:30, 7:15 & 11:45pm

9Kingsman: The Secret Service (IMAX 2D/

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

10Kingsman: The Secret Service (2D/Action)

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Yellowbird (2D/Animation) – 5:00pm

Picket 43 (2D/Malayalam) – 6:30pm

Sou2 Tafahom (2D/Arabic) – 8:30pm

Roy (2D/Hindi) – 10:45pm

2 Anegan (2D/Tamil) – 2:15pm

Kingsman: The Secret Service (2D/Action) – 5:00 & 9:00pm

Everly (2D/Action)– 7:15pm

Testament of Youth (2D/Drama) – 11:15pm

3Kingsman: The Secret Service

(2D/Action) – 2:30pm

Playing It Cool (2D/Comedy) – 4:45pm

The Boy Next Door (2D/Thriller) – 6:15 & 10:00pm

Big Eyes (2D/Drama) – 8:00 & 11:30pm

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Picket 43 (2D/Malayalam) – 9:15pm

2 Playing It Cool (2D/Comedy) – 3:00pm

Kingsman: The Secret Service (2D/Action) – 5:00 & 11:15pm

The Boy Next Door (2D/Thriller) – 7:15pm

Testament of Youth (2D/Drama) – 9:00pm

3 Anegan (2D/Tamil) – 2:00 & 10:30pm


Dilwale Dulhania Le Jayenge (2D/Hindi) – 7:15pm

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Testament of Youth (2D/Drama) –5:00 & 9:00pm


Kingsman: The Secret Service (2D/Action) – 11:15pm

2

Everly (2D/Action) – 2:45pm

Playing It Cool (2D/Comedy) – 4:30pm

Big Eyes (2D/Drama) – 6:15pm

Kingsman: The Secret Service (2D/Action) – 8:15pm


3 Yellowbird (2D/Animation) – 3:00pm


Everly (2D/Action) – 7:00pm


Big Eyes (2D/Drama) – 11:00pm

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14:00 Omni Sport

14:30 Golfing World

15:30 Nba Inside Stuff

16:00 Rugby 6

Nations

Scotland V

Wales

17:45 Wise Best Xi

18:00 Basketball

Nba All Stars

Saturday Night

Game

20:00 Football League

20:30 Tennis Atp 250

Delrey Beach

22:30 Tennis Atp 250

Delrey Beach

00:30 Fiba Basketball

01:00 Golfing World

02:00 Basketball

Nba All Stars

Saturday Night

Game

13:00 Bundesliga

Sunday

Highlights

14:00 Ita Mm2 Ces V

Juv

15:00 Scottish H/Lights

16:00 Epl News

18:45 Football Today

20:00 Sports News

20:30 This Is Paris

Inside

21:00 Goals Rush

22:00 Uefa

Champions

Psg V Chelsea

13:30 Better Off Ted

14:00 The Michael J.

Fox Show

16:00 Modern Family

16:30 The Goldbergs

18:00 New Girl

18:30 The Michael J.

Fox Show

19:00 The Simpsons

21:00 The Daily

Show With

Jon Stewart

21:30 Modern Family

22:00 Web Therapy

22:30 Curb Your

Enthusiasm

13:00 Kong Return To

The Jungle

14:30 Barbie As The

Princess And

The Pauper

16:00 Wheelers

18:00 Tiny Heroes

20:00 The Happets

22:00 Kong Return To

The Jungle

23:30 Wheelers

14:00 Bringing Down

The House

16:00 Three Men And

A Baby

18:00 Maid In

Manhattan

20:00 Vamps

22:00 Not Suitable

For Children

13:00 Caught In The

Act

14:00 Wild Australia

15:00 Prehistoric

Predators

17:00 Air Crash

Investigation

18:00 Breakout

20:00 World's

Toughest Fixes

21:00 Air Crash

Investigation

22:00 Breakout

23:30 Mad Scientists

00:00 Indestructibles

14:00 Unforgettable

15:00 Covert Affairs

16:00 Emmerdale

16:30 Coronation

Street

17:00 The Ellen

DeGeneres

Show

18:00 Unforgettable

19:00 Criminal Minds

20:00 State Of Affairs

22:00 True Blood

23:00 The Client List

00:00 Covert Affairs

02:00 True Blood

03:00 The Client List

04:00 State Of Affairs

13:00 Grace Of Monaco

15:00 Emperor

17:00 There Be

Dragons

19:00 McCanick

21:00 Hateship

Loveship

23:00 Side Effects

01:00 There Be

Dragons

03:00 Hateship

Loveship

13:00 Turbo

14:45 The Wolverine

17:00 Good Deeds

19:00 Jack Ryan:

Shadow Recruit

21:00 I Will Follow

You Into The

Dark

23:00 Lone Survivor

13:00 Jamai Raja

13:30 Bandhan

14:00 Doli Armaano Ki

14:30 Jodha Akbar

15:00 Kasamh Se

16:00 Hum Paanch

17:00 Teenovation

17:30 Neeli Chatri

Waale

18:00 Maharakshak

Aryan

18:30 Bandhan

19:00 Hello Pratibha

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20:00 Jamai Raja

20:30 Kumkum Bhagya

21:00 Qubool Hai

21:30 Satrangi Sasural

22:00 Doli Armaano Ki

22:30 Hello Pratibha

23:00 Best of Fear Files

00:00 Jodha Akbar

00:30 Kumkum Bhagya

01:00 Jamai Raja

13:05 Hannah Montana

13:30 Wizards Of

Waverly Place

13:55 Wizards Of

Waverly Place

14:20 Austin & Ally

15:00 Dog With A Blog


15:45 Liv And Maddie

16:10 Violetta

17:00 Austin & Ally

17:25 Jessie

17:50 Liv And Maddie

18:15 Girl Meets World



19:30 Violetta



22:00 Suite Life On

Deck

22:25 A.N.T. Farm

22:50 Shake It Up

23:10 Wolfblood

13:05 Auction Hunters

13:30 The Liquidator


14:20 Marooned With

Ed Stafford

15:10 Bike Battles

16:00 Fast N' Loud

16:50 How It's Made

17:40 Alaska: The Last

Frontier

18:30 Bear Grylls' Wild

Weekend

19:20 Survive That!

20:10 The Liquidator



Weekend

21:50 When Fish Attack

22:40 Survive That!

23:30 Alaska: The Last

Frontier

00:20 Fast N' Loud


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08:00 News

08:30 Counting the

Cost

09:00 Al Jazeera

World

10:30 Inside Story

11:00 News

11:30 The Stream

12:30 Earthrise

13:00 NEWSHOUR

14:00 News

14:30 Inside Story

15:00 The System

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17:30 The Stream

18:00 NEWSHOUR

19:30 Living The

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20:00 News

20:30 Inside Story

22:30 The Stream

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Astronauts’ exercise regime reveals how to stay fit

Astronauts on the International Space Station (ISS) are not only work-ing out to keep their hearts healthy but also to generate data to advance knowledge of health and fitness on Earth, a Nasa research indicates.

Researchers assessed exercise on longer spaceflights with the help of astronauts on the space station, meas-uring their oxygen consumption peak VO2 before, during and after missions of four to five months.

Widely accepted as the best measure of cardiovascular fitness, VO2peak, also called VO2max, is a measure of peak oxygen uptake.

That represents the highest amount of oxygen your body can use to produce energy during exercise.

“Oxygen is used by cells to provide the energy to perform work and a more aerobically fit individual’s cells take up and use more oxygen,” said Meghan Downs, senior researcher at Nasa’s Exercise Physiology Laboratory in the US.

The results showed that VO2peak

decreased by an average of 17 percent by day 15 in space, but then gradually increased. Most astronauts never recovered their pre-flight V02peak levels during the mission but a few were able to maintain or even improve VO2peak during flight with frequent bouts of high-intensity exercise.

Currently, each crew member is prescribed a two-hour daily workout using three pieces of equipment on the station.

The data would also help predict what activities an astronaut should be able to tolerate after a long space-flight. This would help in planning future missions.

Astronauts with higher VO2peak levels, for example, would be bet-ter able to work in heavy spacesuits exploring an asteroid or walking around Mars.

Why do some galaxies ‘burst’

To help understand why some gal-axies “burst” while others do not, an international team of astronomers have dissected a cluster of star-form-ing clouds at the heart of NGC 253,

one of the nearest starburst galaxies to the Milky Way.

Starburst galaxies transmute gas into new stars at a dizzying pace - up to 1,000 times faster than typical spi-ral galaxies like the Milky Way.

“All stars form in dense clouds of dust and gas. Scientists, however, struggled to see exactly what was going on inside starburst galaxies that distinguished them from other star-forming region,” said Adam Leroy from the Ohio State University in Columbus.

They used the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA) in northern Chile that offers the power to resolve individual star-forming structures even in distant systems.

Leroy and his colleagues mapped the distributions and motions of mul-tiple molecules in clouds at the core of NGC 253 - also known as the “Sculptor Galaxy”. Sculptor, a disk-shape galaxy currently undergoing intense star-burst, is located approximately 11.5 million light-years from Earth.

ALMA’s exceptional resolution allowed the researchers to first iden-tify 10 distinct stellar nurseries inside the heart of “Sculptor”.

AFP

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Events in Qatar

Family Art Workshops When: Till March 31, 2015 Where: Katara Art Studios - Bldg 19What: Katara Art Studios is hosting a series of Diverse Family Art Workshops from September 2014 to March 2015. They invite families to attend with their children aged between 5 years old to 10 years old.The cost of each workshop is QR150

Building Our Collection: Mughal And Safavid Albums ExhibitionWhen: Till February 21, 2015 Where: Museum Of Islamic Art What: Showcasing the museum’s collection of miniatures and calligraphy, these objects reveal the journey of artistic refinement from the Middle East to Asia and Europe across the centuries. It allows us to understand the significance of Islamic art collecting over the course of history and how this part of MIA’s collection was formed. Free admission

Here There ExhibitionWhen: Till March 30, 2015; Opening hours Sunday-Wednesday 10:30am – 5:30pm, Tuesday closed and Thursday 12pm – 8pm.Where: Al Riwaq Exhibition Hall What: The Qatar Brazil 2014 Year of Culture closes with a grand finale event as QM Gallery Al Riwaq presents Here There, a showcase of works by artists from Qatar and Brazil.Free entry

Craft, design and social change in Latin AmericaCrossing Boundaries Lecture: Adélia Borges When: Feb 18; 6pmWhere: VCUQatar AtriumWhat: The lecture will focus on the collaboration between designers and artisans in Latin America, especially in Brazil, where this is a collective, large-scale and widespread movement. The collaboration is happening as a two-way road: designers teaching craftsmen, and craftsmen teaching designers. Initiatives marked by entrepreneurism and social innovation brought a new push to sustainable local development.Free Entry

Mal Lawal BiennaleWhen: Till February 28Where: Doha Exhibition Center What: Spread over 5,000sqm space, the expo is divided into 11 categories and offers a feast to the eyes and intellect of visitors with a diverse array of objects.There has been a rise in the number of participants from 90 in the first edition to 152 this year, 110 of whom are from Qatar and 42 from other GCC countries.Free entry

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