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Apple has updated its tablet range by announcing the new iPad Air — the first significant redesign of the 9.7in Apple tablet since its launch in 2010.

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By Adam Satariano

Apple introduced new iPads in time for hol-iday shoppers, as it battles to stay ahead of rivals in the increasingly crowded mar-ket for tablet computers.

Apple Chief Executive Officer Tim Cook debuted a new iPad mini with a high-definition screen, as well as a thinner and lighter design for the larger iPad named the iPad Air. The iPad Air goes on sale on November 1, with prices starting at $499.

“This is just the beginning for iPad,” Cook said to a crowd of media and technology-industry insiders at the Yerba Buena Center for the Arts Theater in downtown San Francisco. “We have been busy working on the next generation of iPad.”

In the year since Apple last updated the iPad, companies including Samsung Electronics, Asustek Computer, Google and Amazon.com have unveiled

new tablets, often at lower prices. The competi-tion adds pressure to Apple because the iPad is its second-largest source of revenue after its flagship iPhone. Success of the new models will be critical as the Cupertino, California-based company attempts to reignite revenue growth, which has slowed.

Apple also introduced new free Mac software, called Mavericks. The company showed an updated high-end Mac Pro desktop computer aimed at pro-fessions that need extra computing power, such as graphic design and film editing, as well as new MacBook Pro laptops.

“We still believe deeply in this category and we’re not slowing down on our innovations” in Macs, said Cook.

Apple is updating its products ahead of the lucra-tive holiday shopping season. As part of the lineup, the company released new iPhones — the iPhone 5s and 5c — last month.

Key facts and featuresApple has announced its latest slew of product updates in anticipation of the Christmas rush. Here’s what you need

to know.

iPad Air

• The new iPad is just 7.5mm thick and weighs 454g, mak-ing it the thinnest and lightest full-sized iPad to date. It is called the iPad Air.

• The 64-bit A7X processor in the iPad Air has double the performance of the previous generation and adds per-formance and security benefits, along with potential reductions in complexity of both hardware and software, which should aid reliability.

• The iPad Air will cost £399 ($499) and upwards, with the 4G version starting at £499 ($629). They will be available from 1 November.

iPad mini

• The iPad mini stays the same size as the previous genera-tion, but receives the retina display and A7 processor of its bigger sibling.

• As a result, the new iPad mini costs more than its pred-ecessor, from £319 ($399), with the 4G version starting at £419 ($529). They are also available from 1 November.

• At the low end, both the iPad 2 and the original iPad mini stay in the line-up. The iPad 2 will sell for £329 ($399), and the original iPad mini gets a price cut down to £249 ($299).

MacBook Pro

• Also unveiled were new MacBook Pros. The 13-inch model now weighs 1.5kg and is 1.8cm thick, and has been fitted out with Intel’s Haswell CPUs and Iris integrated graphics.

• The 15-inch MacBook Pro stays the same on the out-side, but also gets a speed bump to Intel’s “Crystalwell” CPU and Iris Pro graphics, as well as an Nvidia GeForce GT750M for gaming.

• Both laptops have longer-lasting batteries, with the 13in increasing from 7 hours to 9 hours, and the 15in increas-ing from 7 to 8 hours.

• The 13-inch MacBook Pro will retail from £1,099 ($1,299), and the 15in will retail from £1,699 ($1,999). They are available from today.

Mac Pro

• The Mac Pro, which was first announced in July and has been teased since 2012, was given a shipping date: December. It will retail for £2,499 ($2,999).

Mavericks, iWork and iLife

• Apple’s operating system, Mavericks, is available free for anyone with a compatible Mac.

• The OS works with iMacs and MacBook Pros from 2007, with MacBook Airs, MacBooks and Mac Pros from 2008, and with the Mac Mini from 2009.

• Additionally, its iWork productivity suite and its iLife media suite are both available for free with any new Mac or iOS device.

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Mac Pro tower for power users redesigned and relaunched

Apple’s long-awaited successor to its “professional” tower desktop computer, the Mac Pro, has finally been released after having been banned in Europe since March.

The new Mac Pro, which resembles a black bin with a novel new tubular design and integrated turbine-like cool-ing system, will cost $3,000 and be available for purchase starting in December, built in the US.

The new Mac Pro reduces the user’s ability to expand and upgrade the internal components of the computer for a more compact and efficient design. External expansion will be possible using the high-speed Thunderbolt 2 connection, as well as via USB 3.0.

The new Mac Pro is capable of supporting up to three 4K ultra high-definition displays, supported by powerful twin-graphics cards, processors and high-speed flash storage, while being 70 percent more energy efficient and quiet.

The old Mac Pro tower had been a staple of video and photo editing suites for years. However, an EU health and safety amendment put an increased regulatory requirement on computer manufacturers to put guards on cooling fans and extra protection around electrical ports. The old tower design of the Mac Pro lacked these additional safety fea-tures, leading to a sales ban in the EU, which took effect in March this year.

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Yet more than three years after Steve Jobs unveiled the iPad, the growth of the global tablet market is showing signs of decelerating. Tablet shipments are projected to increase 28 percent in 2014 to 301 million units, after doubling in 2012, according to Counterpoint Research.

Competitors are cutting into Apple’s lead. The company’s tablet market share slid to 32 percent in the second quarter, compared to 60 percent a year earlier, according to IDC.

Samsung, Asustek, Lenovo Group, Acer and others are offering devices with prices starting at less than half of the iPad mini’s $329. Amazon.com introduced new Kindle Fires last month with higher-resolution screens at prices starting from $229, while Microsoft and Nokia took the wraps off new tablets this week.

Cook alluded to the competition today, noting that “everybody seems to be making a tablet.” He added that the iPad is used more than four times more than all other tablets put together. Apple has sold 170 million iPads, he said.

In a move to spur growth, Apple will

also roll out the new iPad Air in China at the same time as other markets, said Phil Schiller, Apple’s senior vice presi-dent of product marketing.

The companies are trying to adjust to what Jobs called the “post PC” era, where preferences have shifted to mobile devices rather than personal computers. The shift has decimated the PC industry, with shipments of tra-ditional desktops and laptops projected by Gartner Inc. to fall 11.2 percent this year. The shift has hampered sales at Microsoft, Intel, Hewlett-Packard and others.

Some rivals’ tablet efforts have flopped. Microsoft took an $900m writ-edown earlier this year after its Surface failed to catch on with consumers.

Apple and other tablet manufactur-ers are now attempting to win over new customers, beyond consumers who use the devices to browse the Internet, watch videos or play games. School districts, government agencies, pharmaceutical sales forces, airlines and insurance companies are among those who have purchased thousands of tablets in lieu of traditional computers.

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Future doctors advised on their next career step

Residency programme directors from elite US medical schools met with Weill Cornell Medical

College in Qatar (WCMC-Q) students and faculty at the college’s annual med-ical education symposium recently.

The symposium, which this year had the theme “Current Landscape In Graduate Medical Education”, brought 20 programme directors to WCMC-Q from a host of renowned medical schools and teaching hospitals, includ-ing the Johns Hopkins University, Weill Cornell Medical College in New York, George Washington University and the University of Rochester Medical Center.

The event gave the programme directors the opportunity to engage with WCMC-Q students, faculty and alumni, learn about the college’s cur-riculum and facilities, and tour Hamad Medical Corporation, WCMC-Q’s pri-mary clinical training partner.

Dr Javaid Sheikh, dean of WCMC-Q, opened the symposium with a speech about the mission of the college, before keynote addresses were given by pro-gramme directors Dr Keith Armitage

of Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, Dr Shannon Scott-Vernaglia of Massachusetts General Hospital for Children, Boston and WCMC-Q grad-uate Dr Mohammed Al Hijji, now of Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore.

Dr Sheikh said: “It is a great privi-lege for WCMC-Q to be able to wel-come program directors from such esteemed institutions to our univer-sity. Their presence here gives us great encouragement that our ongoing mis-sion to provide excellence in medical education and produce world-class physicians is meeting with success.”

Dr Marcellina Mian, associate dean

for medical education, explained the benefit of the symposium. “It’s an opportunity for the program directors to learn about our school and its quali-ties so that when our students apply for a residency position they will have a better chance of being chosen,” she said. “The symposium also gives our students a better idea of what pro-gram directors are looking for when they choose residents, and what will be required of them when they become residents.”

Dr Felicia Smith, director of the psychiatry residency programme at Harvard Massachusetts General

Hospital McLean, Boston, was visit-ing WCMC-Q for the first time. She said: “It is great to see such dedica-tion to delivering a high-caliber medi-cal education here at WCMC-Q. I am impressed by the students’ confidence and their knowledge - with these quali-ties they will be able to perform well during interviews for residency place-ments and there’s every indication they will make great residents.”

WCMC-Q’s Class of 2013 achieved a 91 percent match rate with residency programmes in the US - the best match rate in the history of the college.

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PLUS | WEDNESDAY 23 OCTOBER 20134 CAMPUS

Eco project at Bhavan’sBhavan’s Public School completed the sec-ond session of Eco School Project of “Waste Management” at Matar Qadeem campus. Herald Moras, Head of DBank and Green Banking at Doha Bank, congratulated the school for the successful completion of the same. The biode-gradable waste from the classroom and school premises was collected and deposited in the container designed for compost process and it was used for manuring the school vegetable garden. In the end vegetables were harvested as well and Dr G Manulal, Principal, distributed the vegetables among the guest.

Exhibition at DPS-MIS

The little ones of classes 1 and 2 of DPS-MIS show-cased their skills at the ‘Enviro Fair-2013’ — an exhibition on Environmental Studies. The exhibition was held in the primary zone and not only helped to showcase the creativity, talent and confidence of the children but also provided them a platform for learning, participating, sharing and enjoying. There were more than five hundred exhibits in the form of charts, models and live shows on topics related to the social and physical environment. The exhibition was inaugurated by Principal Asna Nafees. Special inviteesKeyur V Shah, Environmental Expert, Ministry of Environment, and Ashok Tailor, Technical Director, Veolia Water, graced the occasion. Parents and guests who saw the exhibition hung a green leaf imprinted with their impressions, on a tree placed at the exit.

Visiting programme direc-tors with WCMC-Q officials. LEFT: Students interacting with the visiting experts.

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Fifty One East and Sony yes-terday introduced the new Xperia Z Ultra, a large-screen Android smartphone, which

is water resistant, ultra-slim and fea-tures a lightweight design.

The new Xperia Z Ultra is available at all Fifty One East outlets located in Al Maha centre, City Centre Doha and Lagoona Mall in addition to all Virgin Megastores at Villagio and Landmark malls.

A representative from Fifty One East said: “We are delivering the best of Sony technology across a range of premium smartphones and tablets, and now we are bringing this same premium offering to the large-screen smartphone segment.”

The Xperia Z Ultra also features Qualcomm Snapdragon 800 processor with 2.2 GHz quad-core CPUs, 4GLTE and HD voice.

Calum MacDougall, Director of Xperia Marketing at Sony Mobile Communications, said: “The Xperia Z Ultra is the most exciting revolution in

large-screen smartphone entertainment devices with both the slimmest and larg-est Full HD smartphone display in the world that is second to none.”

Xperia Z Ultra features a 6.4” touch-screen Full HD display with Sony’s unique Triluminos Display for mobile, creating a wider palette of rich natu-ral colours thanks to Sony’s Bravia TV expertise.

Slimmest Full HD smartphoneXperia Z Ultra is supremely slim

and lightweight with 6.5mm body and weighs just 212 grams. The front and back are made of tempered glass, creating a seamless surface with the OptiContrast panel housed in an inno-vative solid metal frame that looks stunning from any angle. It features the same OmniBalance design as Xperia Z and Tablet Z. The Xperia Z Ultra is available in a choice of black, white or purple colour finishes.

With an impressive rating of IP55 and IP58, this smartphone is not only resistant to dust, but to water too.

With one-touch functions, you can easily share music, photos and videos from your smartphone to a wide range of NFC-enabled Sony devices, includ-ing speakers, SmartWatch, wireless headsets and TVs.

Xperia Z Ultra features• 6.4” Full HD Triluminos Display• Ultra slim, water resistant and

dust resistant• Qualcomm Snapdragon 800

processor with 2.2 GHz quad-core CPUs and 4G LTE for fast performance

• Write and sketch with any pencil and selected stylus or pen (capacitive stylus or metal pen with tip diameter over 1mm)

• 8 megapixel camera with “Exmor RS for mobile” sensor and HDR for videos and photos

• Battery Stamina Mode for out-standing battery life

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Xperia Z Ultra now availableat Fifty One East outlets

IBQ offers special loan interest rates

Interna-t i o n a l Bank of

Qatar (ibq) announced the launch of a new c ampa ign that will offer new and exist-ing customers one of the most competitive personal and vehi-cle loan interest rates starting from as low as at 3.55 percent. The loan offer will also include flexible repayment periods, fast approval and will run from October 22, 2013 till January 31, 2014.

“Consumer loans are part of everyday life,” said Andrew Ball (pictured), Head of Retail Banking. “This is demonstrated by people’s preference for financ-ing a variety of their needs and as such we have set out to match customer demand with some of the best rates in the market. This campaign has also been launched with the objective to attract new customers not only with competitive rates but also our personalised service and customer experience,” he added.

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This autumn/winter Carluccio’s brings to mushroom lovers around Qatar the delicacy of

mushrooms with the launch of its Mushroom Festival. Mushrooms are one of the key ingredients used extensively in Italian cooking. These super foods, add nutrition, texture, incomparable variety, flavour and excitement to the cuisine. The promotion, available until December 1, highlights the classic ingre-dient perfect for a quick flavoursome pasta, risotto or pizza.

Carluccio’s brings together an array of products including ‘Burro al tartufo’ — truffle butter to be added to mushroom risotto, ‘Crema di porcini e tartufi’ — cream of porcini mushroom and truffle ideal for pasta, ‘Bricioloni di porcini’ — dried porcini mushroom to be used in risotto, ‘Funghi porcini secchi speciali’

— selected top quality dried porcini mushrooms, ‘Sugo al funghi porcini’ — porcini mushroom sauce for pasta or polenta. These products are exclusive and made especially for Carluccio’s and are not available anywhere else.

Coinciding with the Italian mushroom season Carluccio’s has come up with weekly specials rotating on a fortnightly basis. These will focus on the traditional ingredient. Customers can choose from a selection of; mushroom arancini – crispy deep fried mushroom risotto balls, Porcini lasagna –baked lasagna with lay-ers of porcini mushrooms and bécha-mel sauce, mushroom salad, truffle and Porcini pizza and mushroom cannelloni to name a few.

Carluccio’s is located at La Croisette 18 at The Pearl Doha.

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Customers can win up to 10kg of gold and can get 7,000 gold coins as free gifts during this festive season throughout GCC at Malabar Gold & Diamonds outlets.

Diwali is one of the biggest shopping seasons for Indians. The festival starts with Dhanteras on which most Indian business communities begin their financial year. The first day of the five day long festival is considered to be the one of the most auspicious day to buy gold, as it is believed to attract good fortune and luck. This year, Dhanteras and Diwali fall on November 1 and 3 respectively.

To mark this occasion the jeweller is providing their customers a chance to win 1/4kg of gold weekly on every purchase of jewellery worth QR1,000 through weekly raf-fle draw.

The customers also get an opportunity to buy 8g of gold coin with no making charges from any of Malabar Gold & Diamonds outlets. Malabar Gold and Diamonds is also offering customers ‘zero deduction’ facility by which they can exchange any 22ct old gold ornaments purchased in GCC with new designs of Malabar Gold & Diamonds by paying only the making charges ensuring that they don’t lose any value on rate of gold during this period. This offer is valid from October 23 to November 3.

Malabar Gold & Diamonds is also offering 0% easy pay-ment plan through which customers can pay in three to six instilments without any interest in association with leading banks.

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Win up to 10kg gold at Malabar Gold & Diamonds

Mushroom festival at Carluccio’s

PLUS | WEDNESDAY 23 OCTOBER 20136 FOOD

By L V Anderson

The word tortilla is a diminu-tive form of torta, one of several Spanish words for “cake.” Torta means differ-

ent things in different countries — and this is true of its diminutive form as well. In Mexico and Central America, tortilla typically refers to the corn-meal- or wheat-flour-based flatbread Americans know and love. In Spain, it more commonly refers to a frittata-like dish of eggs and potatoes. The latter, unlike the former, can legitimately be described as a savoury cake: It’s thick, rich, and indulgent.

I would never say that the Spanish tortilla is superior to the Mexican tor-tilla: Each is important and necessary in its own way. But I do want to sug-gest that maybe, when we Americans hear the word “tortilla,” our minds should not automatically jump to the flatbread. Because we are missing out.

Consider the tortilla española, often translated as “Spanish omelette,” an English rendering that is wildly inac-curate and also does an injustice to both omelettes and tortillas. An ome-lette is fluffy, pliable, and ideally pale rather than browned. A Spanish tor-tilla is none of those things. Even to describe it as a potato frittata, as I did a couple of paragraphs ago, is to miss the mark slightly. Like a frittata,

a tortilla is dense, substantial, and intended to be cut into wedges. But a tortilla is a much more specific thing than a potato frittata: You can’t merely boil some potatoes, pour some eggs over them, cook the thing, and call it a day. A tortilla is not a tortilla unless

it’s made with potatoes that have been braised slowly in lots and lots of olive oil. This is not the same as frying — your goal is to cook the potatoes (with onions) until they’re extremely tender, not to crisp them up.

Once that’s done, most of the oil gets

drained away. (You should absolutely save this onion- and potato-infused oil in the fridge and use it in other savoury dishes — your roasted veg-etables will be sublime for weeks.) But this draining doesn’t mean a tor-tilla is a low-fat dish. You’re not try-ing to rid the cooked potatoes of oil entirely before you add the eggs; don’t, God forbid, blot away excess oil with paper towels or anything like that. You need some of that residual fat to help crisp up and brown the surface of the tortilla.

Traditionally, you brown a tortilla on both sides by flipping it halfway through cooking on the stovetop. I am not a traditionalist in this regard. It is many times easier simply to bake the whole thing in the oven, where that residual fat will find its way to the top of your tortilla and give it a gorgeous brown sheen. (Pour off any oil that pools on the top of the tortilla before serving.)

In another regard, I am a tradition-alist. A Spanish tortilla should contain peeled potatoes, onion, eggs, olive oil, and salt and pepper — nothing else. Ultra-orthodox types might challenge me on the pepper, which does interfere with the otherwise uniformly cream-hued interior of the tortilla. But eggs and black pepper are irresistibly har-monious. Don’t fight it.

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Spanish Tortilla

Yield: 8 servingsTime: About 1 hour, partially unattended

Ingredients:Extra-virgin olive oil for braising1 1/2 pounds waxy potatoes, peeled and thinly sliced1 medium yellow onion, thinly slicedSalt and black pepper10 large eggs

Method:Heat the oven to 375°F. Put 3/4 inch of olive oil in a large pot over medium

heat. When it’s hot, add the potatoes and onion, season with salt and pep-per, and stir well to coat with the oil. Cook, stirring occasionally, until the potatoes and onion are very tender, 30 to 40 minutes.

Meanwhile, break the eggs into a medium bowl, season with salt and pepper, and beat vigorously for about 1 minute. Put a large skillet over medium heat; when it’s hot, transfer the potatoes and onion from the pot to the skillet with a spatula or slotted spoon, leaving most of the oil behind. (Reserve the oil for another use.) Pour the eggs over the potatoes and onion, stir very gently just to distribute all the ingredients evenly in the skillet, and bake until golden brown, about 20 minutes. Serve warm, at room temperature, or chilled. (Store leftover tortilla wrapped in foil in the refrigerator for up to a few days.)

How to make the best Tortilla

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Lead in paint poses problems for pregnant mothers: Study

Widespread use of paint that is laden with lead and other toxins poses new health

challenges to pregnant mothers and infants, said a new study by the UN Environmental Program launched in Nairobi.

The new study revealed that the consumption of paints that contain lead has surged mainly in developing countries to the detriment of human and environmental health, Xinhua reported cit-ing the study.

“Lead pollution is an emerging environmental threat that demands urgent attention. Science is clear that lead paint impact negatively on the health of pregnant mothers and children,” UNEP’s Director of the Division of Early Warning Assessment (DEWA) Peter Gilruth told journal-ists during the launch of the report in Nairobi.

The global construction sector continues to use paint that contains lead and other toxins despite the existence of a ban that was enforced by the League of Nations 90 years ago.

Gilruth challenged governments, industry and environmental groups to re-energise efforts to achieve a lead free world.

“We need to raise attention to environmen-tal and health dangers posed by lead in paint. Legislation should be enforced to ensure lead is not applied in the manufacture of paints,” said Gilruth.

The UNEP study analysed enamel decorative paints from nine countries to ascertain the level of lead and other toxic metals.

The majority of the paints that were tested failed to meet the regulatory standards approved by the World Health Organization (WHO).

Paints with extremely high levels of lead are readily available in many countries thanks to regulatory hiccups and low level of awareness.

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PLUS | WEDNESDAY 23 OCTOBER 2013

By Genevra Pittman

Think spanking will help teach an out of control child to stay in line? A new study suggests the opposite

may be true.Researchers found kids who

were spanked as five-year-olds were slightly more likely to be aggressive and break rules later in elementary school.

Those results are in keeping with past research, said Elizabeth Gershoff. She studies parental discipline and its effects at the University of Texas at Austin.

“There’s just no evidence that spanking is good for kids,” she said.

“Spanking models aggression as a way of solving problems, that you can hit people and get what you want,” Gershoff, who wasn’t involved in the new study, said.

“When (children) want another kid’s toy, the parents haven’t taught them how to use their words or how to negotiate.”

Despite mounting evidence on the harms tied to spanking, it is “still a very typical experience” for US children, the study’s lead author said.

“Most kids experience spank-ing at least some point in time,” Michael MacKenzie, from Columbia University in New York, said. “So there’s this disconnect.”

His team used data from a long-term study of children born in one of 20 US cities between 1998 and 2000. The new report includes about 1,900 kids.

Researchers surveyed parents when children were three and five years old about whether and how often they spanked their child.

Then they asked mothers about their kid’s behaviour problems and gave the children a vocabulary test at age nine.

A total of 57 percent of mothers and 40 percent of fathers said they spanked children when they were three years old. That fell slightly to 52 percent of mothers and 33 percent of fathers who spanked at age five.

Children acted out more and were more aggressive when they had been spanked by their moth-ers as five-year-olds, whether regularly or occasionally.

Spanking by mothers at least twice a week was tied to a two-point increase on a 70-point scale of problem behavior. That was after the researchers took into account children’s behavior at younger ages and other family characteristics.

There was no link between spanking by parents at age three and children’s later behaviour, however.

Kids also tended to score lower on vocabulary tests when they had been regularly spanked by their fathers at age five, MacKenzie and his colleagues write in Pediatrics.

The average vocabulary score for all nine-year-olds in the study was 93, slightly below the test-wide standard score of 100. Frequent spanking by fathers was linked to a four-point lower score. But the researchers couldn’t be

sure that small difference wasn’t due to chance.

Gershoff said the finding is a bit hard to interpret. “I don’t think that spanking makes kids stupi-der,” she said.

It’s possible that parents who are spanking are not talking to their children as often, Gershoff said. Or kids who are spanked and act out could be more distracted in the classroom.

When it comes to disciplining children, she said there’s more evidence on what doesn’t work long-term than what does.

“We know that spanking doesn’t work, we know that yelling doesn’t work,” Gershoff said. “Timeout is kind of a mixed bag. We know that reasoning does work.”

MacKenzie said spanking con-tinues to seem effective to parents in the short term, which makes it hard to change their minds about it.

“It’s strongly associated with immediate compliance,” he told Reuters Health. “Children will change their behavior in the moment.”

Because family strain and spanking often go together, he said doctors should try to sup-port stressed parents to encour-age more positive forms of discipline.

“The techniques that are designed to promote positive behaviors … oftentimes take more effort and time to put into place,” MacKenzie said.

SOURCE: bit.ly/cxXOG Pediatrics, online October 21, 2013.

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New cure for hair loss?

Researchers in the US have claimed that they have invented a hair restoration

method that can solve the problem of baldness.Researchers at the Columbia University

Medical Centre (CUMC) have devised a hair restoration method that can generate new human hair growth, rather than simply redis-tributing hair from one part of the scalp to another.

According to the study, published Monday in the online edition of the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS), the researchers harvested dermal papillae from seven human donors and cloned the cells in tissue culture -- no additional growth factors were added to the cultures.

After a few days, the cultured papillae were transplanted between the dermis and epidermis of human skin that had been grafted onto the backs of mice.

In five of the seven tests, the transplants resulted in new hair growth that lasted at least six weeks.

DNA analysis confirmed that the new hair follicles were human and genetically matched the donors.

“This approach has the potential to trans-form the medical treatment of hair loss,” said first author of the study Claire A Higgins.

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uperst

ar A

am

ir K

han,

know

n f

or i

nnovati

on, pla

ns

to p

itch f

or D

hoom

3 b

y u

sing t

he m

usi

c

of

the m

ovie

as

his

caller t

une.

Why n

ot?

The s

tar is

thrille

d w

ith a

cti

on-t

hrille

r’s

musi

c w

hic

h is

likely

to

com

e o

ut

by N

ovem

ber e

nd.

“Aam

ir i

s keen t

o u

se t

he m

usi

c a

s his

caller t

une. H

e u

sually d

oes

not

keep a

ny c

aller t

une. H

ow

ever,

his

excit

em

ent

over t

he s

ongs

of

Dh

oom

3

is v

ery h

igh,” s

aid

a s

ource.

“He i

s keen t

o s

hare t

he m

usi

c w

ith e

veryone w

ho r

eaches

out

to h

im

and h

ence t

he idea o

f usi

ng it

as

a c

aller t

une”,

the s

ource a

dded.

Rele

asin

g o

n D

ecem

ber 2

0,

the a

cti

on

-adven

ture t

hrille

r a

lso s

tars

Abhis

hek B

achchan, K

atr

ina K

aif

and U

day C

hopra i

n t

he l

ead r

ole

s and

has

been p

roduced b

y A

dit

ya C

hopra.

No

star

ving t

o pro

ve l

ove:

Kar

eena

Kareena K

apoor,

who g

ot

marrie

d t

o S

aif

Ali K

han l

ast

year,

says

she

doesn

’t h

ave t

o s

tarve o

n K

arw

a C

ha

uth

, to

prove h

er l

ove f

or h

er

husb

and.

“While a

ll w

om

en w

ill be s

tarvin

g, I

will be e

ati

ng. I

don’t

have t

o s

tarve

to p

rove m

y l

ove,” K

areena t

old

reporte

rs

at

the l

aunch o

f M

ala

bar g

old

and d

iam

ond o

nline s

hoppin

g s

tore.

She s

uggest

ed: “H

ave s

weets

, have e

veryth

ing. W

hy t

o s

tarve?”

On K

arw

a C

hauth

wom

en k

eep a

fast

for t

he w

ell b

ein

g o

f th

eir

husb

ands.

When a

sked i

f sh

e d

oes

not

believe i

n i

t, s

he s

aid

: “I

can’t

liv

e w

ithout

food. I

am

a K

apoor.”

HO

LLY

WO

OD

NE

WS

We

Am

eric

an a

ctor

s en

d u

pli

ke g

ypsi

es:

Nat

alie

Por

tman

Actr

ess

Nata

lie P

ortm

an s

ays

she is

jealo

us

of

her B

rit

ish c

o-s

tars

who

get

to s

hoot

at

the s

am

e p

lace w

here t

hey l

ive. T

he 3

2-y

ear-o

ld s

aid

th

at

Am

eric

an a

cto

rs

like h

er e

nd u

p m

ovin

g f

rom

one p

lace t

o t

he o

ther

to s

hoot

for t

heir

movie

s, r

eports

fem

ale

first

.co.u

k.

“I l

ove w

ork

ing h

ere i

n L

ondon a

nd I

’m e

nvio

us

of

Brit

ish a

cto

rs

and

Brit

ish c

rew

s because

Am

eric

an a

cto

rs,

we e

nd u

p lik

e g

ypsi

es

- m

ovie

to

movie

, m

ovin

g c

itie

s every t

ime,” P

ortm

an s

aid

.“B

ut

you c

an h

ave s

uch a

fulfi

llin

g, w

onderfu

l, r

ich c

areer h

ere b

etw

een

the t

heatr

e, th

e T

V, and t

he fi

lm a

ll i

n o

ne p

lace. It

’s p

rett

y c

ool

to g

et

to

live a

nd w

ork

in t

he s

am

e p

lace,” s

he a

dded.

One

Dir

ecti

on t

ops

under

30

ric

hes

t ce

lebri

ties

’ li

st

English

-Iris

h b

and O

ne D

irecti

on h

as

topped t

he lis

t of ric

hest

cele

brit

ies

under t

he a

ge o

f 30 in H

ea

t m

agazi

ne’s

ric

h lis

t. T

heir

tota

l fo

rtu

ne is

£59.3

3m

, reports

fem

ale

first

.co.u

k. T

he b

and m

em

bers

- H

arry S

tyle

s, 1

9,

Nia

ll H

oran, 19

, Z

ayn M

alik, 20, L

iam

Payne, 20 a

nd L

ouis

Tom

linso

n, 21,

have t

aken t

he t

op s

pot

from

acto

r D

anie

l R

adcliff

e.

Radcliff

e is

on s

econd s

pot

this

year w

ith a

fortu

ne o

f £56.1

8m

.A

cto

r R

obert

Patt

inso

n t

akes

the t

hir

d p

lace w

ith £

44.1

6m

wealt

h a

nd

actr

ess

-model K

eir

a K

nig

htl

ey is

at

fourth

wit

h £

37.

28m

fortu

ne.

Em

ma W

ats

on h

old

s th

e fi

fth p

lace w

ith £

27.

93m

.T

his

is

the s

econd t

ime t

hat

Patt

inso

n, K

nig

htl

ey a

nd W

ats

on h

ave f

ea-

tured in t

he t

op fi

ve lis

t.

Lena

Dunham

may

fea

ture

on V

ogue

cov

er

Usu

ally p

lus-

size

cele

brit

ies

are n

ot

in v

ogue o

n V

ogu

e c

over p

age, but

it s

eem

s th

e m

agazi

ne’s

edit

or-i

n-c

hie

f A

nna W

into

ur is

lookin

g for a

cult

ural sh

ift

and t

ryin

g t

o g

et

actr

ess

-film

maker L

ena D

unham

to featu

re

on t

he g

loss

y c

over.

So f

ar,

Adele

is

the o

nly

fam

ous

plu

s-si

zed b

eauty

to b

e s

een o

n V

ogu

e

cover.

Now

, W

into

ur,

63, has

reporte

dly

been p

lannin

g d

inners

to w

in o

ver

Dunham

, se

en a

s haple

ss H

annah o

n t

he p

opula

r H

BO

serie

s G

irls

.“A

nna is

tryin

g t

o s

educe L

ena into

brin

gin

g h

er n

ext-

generati

on a

udie

nce

into

the V

ogue b

rand, and s

he’s

willing t

o v

iola

te a

lot

of

Vogue t

radit

ions

to d

o it,

inclu

din

g p

utt

ing h

er o

n t

he c

over e

ven t

hough s

he d

oesn

’t r

eally

confo

rm

to t

he b

ody t

ype t

hat

Vogue h

as

featu

red f

or m

ost

of

its

his

tory,

” radaronline.c

om

quote

d a

source a

s sa

yin

g.

“This

din

ner i

s a fi

rst

ste

p f

or A

nna t

o s

ee i

f L

ena w

ill

pla

y b

all,

but

Anna’s

persp

ecti

ve is

that

they n

eed e

ach o

ther,”

the s

ource s

aid

.

PLU

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WE

DN

ES

DA

Y 2

3 O

CTO

BE

R 2

013

By

An

n H

orn

aday

The o

penin

g s

cenes

of

12 Y

ea

rs a

S

lave

, S

teve M

cQ

ueen’s

sear-

ing a

dapta

tion o

f th

e t

rue-l

ife

account

of

a f

ree b

lack m

an

who w

as

kid

napped a

nd s

old

into

sla

v-

ery in t

he p

re-C

ivil W

ar S

outh

, te

ll y

ou

all y

ou n

eed t

o k

now

about

the c

in-

em

ati

c e

xperie

nce y

ou’r

e a

bout

to h

ave.

A l

ush

, unnervin

g t

able

au o

f a g

roup

of bla

ck m

en b

ein

g t

aught

to c

ut

sugar

can

e r

em

inds

vie

wers

of

McQ

ueen

’s

gif

t fo

r e

vokin

g a

tmosp

here, w

hereas

a

scene t

hat

follow

s —

in w

hic

h t

he p

ro-

tagonis

t, S

olo

mon N

orth

up (

Chiw

ete

l E

jiofo

r),

att

em

pts

to

w

rit

e a le

tter

hom

e w

ith t

he juic

e o

f a f

ew

berrie

s —

brin

gs

vie

wers

into

in

tim

ate

con

tact

wit

h a

pla

ce a

nd t

ime t

oo o

ften r

en-

dered a

s dis

tant

and a

bst

ract.

Inte

nse,

un

flin

ch

ing,

sta

rk

in

it

s sim

pli

cit

y an

d oft

en

bold

ly radic

al

in i

ts u

se o

f im

age,

soun

d a

nd s

tag-

ing,

12 Y

ea

rs a

Sla

ve i

n m

any w

ays

is

the d

efinin

g e

pic

so m

any h

ave longed

for t

o e

xam

ine —

if

not

caute

ris

e —

A

meric

a’s

prim

al

wound. B

ut

it’s

als

o

a crow

nin

g ach

ievem

en

t of

a fi

lm-

maker w

hose

com

mand o

f th

e m

ediu

m

exte

nds b

eyon

d m

ere n

arrati

ve a

nd

its reducti

ve,

sen

tim

en

tal

sn

ares to

encom

pass

the f

ull d

epth

and b

readth

of

its

most

express

ive a

nd t

ransf

orm

-in

g p

roperti

es.

12

Yea

rs a

Sla

ve i

sn’t

just

a c

ath

ar-

tic e

xperie

nce t

hat

happens

to b

e a

n

asto

nis

hin

g fo

rm

al

ach

ievem

en

t: It

w

orks

its

em

oti

on

al

pow

er p

recis

ely

because

it’s

so e

legan

tly c

on

structe

d,

from

the insi

de o

ut.

From

those

unse

ttling init

ial sc

enes,

12

Yea

rs a

Sla

ve fl

ash

es

back t

o 1

841,

w

hen N

orth

up, a r

ela

tively

prosp

erous

musi

cia

n,

is l

ivin

g w

ith h

is w

ife a

nd

children in S

arato

ga, N

ew

York

. W

hile

his

fam

ily i

s out

of

tow

n,

North

up i

s in

troduced t

o t

wo s

elf

-desc

rib

ed t

al-

ent

scouts

, w

ho a

ssure h

im h

e c

an g

et

good w

ork

as

a fi

ddle

r w

ith a

travellin

g

cir

cus.

Aft

er a

trip

to W

ash

ingto

n a

nd

a n

ight

of

din

ing,

North

up w

akes

up

in a

hold

ing c

ell,

shackle

d b

y c

hain

s and e

nsh

rouded in h

eavy,

unrem

itti

ng

sile

nce.

What

follow

s is

a j

ourney o

f unim

-agin

able

suff

erin

g a

nd h

orror,

a s

ort

of

anti

-pic

aresq

ue d

urin

g w

hic

h N

orth

up

is b

eate

n f

or i

nsi

stin

g t

hat

he’s

a f

ree

man, th

en b

ought

and s

old

and b

ought

again

, fin

ally l

an

din

g a

t a p

lan

tati

on

ow

ned b

y t

he m

erciless

Edw

in E

pps

(Mic

hael F

ass

bender).

M

uch o

f 12

Yea

rs a

Sla

ve c

entr

es

on

North

up’s

rela

tionsh

ip w

ith E

pps,

who

is s

mart

enough t

o k

now

he s

hould

be

threate

ned b

y h

is e

nsl

aved s

ervan

t’s

superio

r inte

llect

and s

ense

of

cult

ure

— a

nd w

ho p

rocess

es

those

conflic

ting

feelings

the s

am

e w

ay h

e a

ccom

modate

s his

att

racti

on t

o a

field

work

er n

am

ed

Pats

ey (

Lupit

a N

yong’o

): w

ith e

scala

t-in

g a

nd increasi

ngly

psy

choti

c v

iole

nce.

(Epps’

meth

ods

of annih

ilati

on e

xte

nd

to t

he s

ubtl

e a

s w

ell, su

ch a

s w

hen h

e

casually l

ean

s o

n h

is s

ervan

ts,

as i

f th

ey’r

e p

ieces

of

furnit

ure o

r w

ooden

fence p

ost

s.)

But

12 Y

ea

rs a

Sla

ve, w

hic

h M

cQ

ueen

dir

ecte

d fr

om

a courtl

y,

adm

irably

econom

ical sc

rip

t by J

ohn R

idle

y, isn

’t

conte

nt

sim

ply

to b

e a

n index o

f hum

an

cruelt

y. R

ath

er,

the fi

lm o

ffers

a p

ano-

ram

a, not

just

of th

e A

fric

an A

meric

an

experie

nce i

n t

he a

nte

bellum

South

—

from

the i

ncon

sola

ble

wailin

g o

f a

wom

an s

eparate

d from

her c

hildren t

o

a f

orm

er s

lave c

onte

nte

dly

ensc

onced

as

the w

ife o

f her f

orm

er o

wner —

but

of

the v

arie

ties

of

racis

t path

olo

gy.

Wh

ite

au

die

nce

mem

bers

may

find i

t im

poss

ible

to i

denti

fy w

ith t

he

sadis

ticall

y

extr

em

e

abuse

perpe-

trate

d b

y E

pps

and h

is o

wn d

esp

erate

an

d c

ruel

wif

e,

pla

yed i

n a

chillin

gly

good p

erfo

rm

an

ce b

y S

arah P

auls

on

. B

ut

what

of

William

Ford (

Ben

edic

t C

um

berbatc

h),

one o

f N

orth

up’s

more

ben

evole

nt

ow

ners,

an

d h

is passiv

e

pate

rnalism

?T

he c

hallenge in p

rese

nti

ng o

ppres-

sion w

ithin

the t

radit

ional gram

mar o

f fe

atu

re fi

lms

is t

hat

the d

irecto

r w

inds

up a

est

heti

cis

ing v

iole

nce, or k

eepin

g it

at

a s

afe

, denia

ble

dis

tance. M

cQ

ueen

solv

es

this

proble

m b

y r

efu

sing t

o b

link,

or a

t le

ast

know

ing p

recis

ely

when t

o

allow

his

audie

nce t

o d

o s

o.

As

he d

id i

n t

he fi

lms

Hu

nger

an

d

Sh

am

e (a

lso sta

rrin

g F

assben

der),

M

cQ

ueen d

oesn

’t g

o in for a

lot

of flash

edit

s or s

elf

-consc

ious

vis

ual flouris

hes

to p

ut

vie

wers

at

ease

; rath

er,

he invit

es

the audie

nce to

sit

w

ith

h

im as h

e

gaze

s, a

maze

d, at

man’s

inhum

anit

y t

o

man, an u

nnervin

g e

ncounte

r t

hat

in

this

case

is

heig

hte

ned b

y a

percuss

ive,

adam

antl

y n

on-p

erio

d m

usi

cal sc

ore b

y

Hans

Zim

mer.

Wheth

er t

he fi

lmm

aker

is h

old

ing h

is c

am

era o

n N

orth

up a

s he s

truggle

s on

his

tip

toes,

his

neck

caught

in a

lynchin

g n

oose

, w

hile t

he

life

of

the p

lanta

tion d

eliberate

ly g

oes

on

behin

d h

im,

or a

n e

xcrucia

tin

gly

protr

acte

d w

hip

pin

g scen

e,

the n

et

eff

ect

is l

ess

an i

ndic

tment

of

slavery

than

a f

ar m

ore n

uan

ced p

ortr

ait

of

the v

iole

nce,

inti

macy,

obse

ssio

n a

nd

const

ant

psy

cholo

gic

al conto

rti

ons

that

defined its

most

toxic

enm

esh

ments

.A

t it

most

profo

und, th

ough, 12

Yea

rs

a S

lave

is

a c

apti

vati

ng s

tudy in h

um

an-

ity a

t it

s m

ost

trouble

d a

nd i

mpla

c-

able

, as

Ejiofo

r m

ast

erfu

lly p

ortr

ays

North

up’s

fight

to r

eta

in h

is d

ign

ity

an

d id

en

tity

w

ith

in an

ever-w

iden

-in

g n

ightm

are.

As s

uch,

McQ

ueen

’s

film

dese

rves

prid

e o

f pla

ce a

longsi

de

Gra

vity

, C

ap

tain

Ph

illi

ps

and t

he u

pcom

-in

g A

ll i

s L

ost

as

a b

reath

takin

g, am

bi-

tious

ess

ay o

n p

hysi

cal and e

xis

tenti

al

isola

tion. A

rguably

, th

e s

takes

here a

re

hig

her,

not

just

for N

orth

up, but

for t

he

vie

wers

who fi

nd t

hem

selv

es

caught

up

in h

is w

renchin

g journey. It

’s i

mprob-

able

that

anyone w

ill fe

el lighte

r a

fter

watc

hin

g 1

2 Y

ea

rs a

Sla

ve, but

they’r

e

likely

to fi

nd t

hat

their

moral im

agin

a-

tions

have b

een n

ew

ly lib

erate

d.

WP

-Blo

om

ber

g

12 Y

ears

a S

lave

:12

Yea

rs a

Sla

ve:

A s

eari

ng t

ime

A s

eari

ng t

ime

capsu

le o

f cr

uel

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le o

f cr

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China’s national space agency is forging ahead with ambitious plansto launch a manned space station by 2023. The orbiting outpost willsupport up to six crew and provide room for international modules

Expansion modules(non-Chinese)

Shenzhou mannedspacecraft

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11BOOKS PLUS | WEDNESDAY 23 OCTOBER 2013

Eleanor Catton is an extraor-dinary writer. Her first novel, The Rehearsal, was a marvel-lously peculiar and techni-

cally perfect story of a story within a story — or stories, actually — that had the reader’s mind spinning with the complexities of its narrative invention. The plot — a group of teenage girls act-ing out the consequences of a scandal at their school — was set loose from the very premise of storytelling. Whether what was taking place on the page was an account of events or only words in a script, no more than a rehearsal for what may or may not have happened … none of it mattered. It was wild.

The Luminaries is every bit as excit-ing. Apparently a classic example of 19th-century narrative, set in the 19th century, with all the right-sounding syntax, clothing and props, the project twists into another shape altogether as we read, and continue to read. The book is massive — weighing in at a mighty 832 pages. But every sentence of this intriguing tale set on the wild west coast of southern New Zealand during the time of its gold rush is expertly written, every cliffhanger chapter-ending making us beg for the next to begin. The Luminaries has been perfectly constructed as the consum-mate literary page-turner.

But it is also a massive shaggy dog story; a great empty bag; an enormous, wicked, gleeful cheat. For nothing in this enormous book, with its exotic and varied cast of characters whose lives all affect each other and whose fates are intricately entwined, amounts to anything like the moral and emotional weight one would expect of it. That’s the point, in the end, I think, of The Luminaries. It’s not about story at all. It’s about what happens to us when we read novels — what we think we want from them — and from novels of this size, in particular. Is it worth-while to spend so much time with a story that in the end isn’t invested in its characters? Or is thinking about why we should care about them in the first place the really interesting thing? Making us consider so carefully whether we want a story with emotion and heart or an intellectual idea about the novel in the disguise of historical fiction… There lies the real triumph of Catton’s remarkable book.

As in her first novel, Catton man-ages her multiple storylines with deft assurance, winding up a skein of a mys-tery that’s rich with secrets, a doomed love affair, murder and double dealing. It opens like a play, in a town called Hokitika, late at night — with an English gentleman blown through the door of the local inn, out of the weather and straight into the midst of a very strange crowd indeed.

“The twelve men congregated in the smoking room of the Crown Hotel gave the impression of a party accidentally met. From the variety of their com-portment and dress — frock coats, tail-coats, Norfolk jackets with buttons of horn, yellow moleskin, cambric, and twill — they might have been twelve strangers on a railway car, each bound for a separate quarter of the city that possessed fog and tides enough to divide them.”

The sense of staginess here, of set design and costume and figures placed in a room, recalls Henry James’s The Art of the Novel, when he writes about managing plot and drama as though directing a play. Full of theatrical detail and action that reads as carefully as stage directions, everything about the way this story is presented makes us think of James’s “divine principle of the scenario”.

In the same way, this drama relies on the confessions and revelations of its players who, one after the other, relate their version of events — it’s both a realistic-seeming account of characters’ individual actions and a melodramatic, highly wrought, artifi-cial piece of tale-telling.

The way that tale is told changes throughout the book, too, moving from a story told by insiders to an outsider, to the narration of a series of con-nected events, finally ending with its beginning. All the time, Catton wants us to be aware that this is fiction we are involved with (an authorial pres-ence is generally referred to; there are numerous hypertextual moments that underline that fact, with the word damned appearing as d___ed; intro-ductory summaries are given at the start of every chapter). Her commit-ment to the artificiality of her project is complete.

But the problem is that as we read on, we don’t read in. It is a curious

act of double-writing that Catton has achieved — that she could write more and more about a thing, only to have it matter less and less. The characters don’t gain depth as the story proceeds; they slip further away from us. The more words given to them, the less we know anything much about them. The last section of the book is an act of bravado analepsis, with chapters thinning out into mere pages as the backstory is laid out.

The same intriguing, undoing kind of writing works on the world of the book, too; its setting and details. So we may read and read about the weather, about the interiors of rooms, the cos-tumes people wear, the food on their plates, the New Zealand riverbank and mists and waters, the sound of its rain hammering on a tin roof … Yet these details don’t come together to be compressed into a reality we care about and inhabit. If the book has been made as a kind of stage, then these are the stage sets — not real to look at, only made of paper and glue. In the end, Catton’s wondrous 19th-century New Zealand and its rivers of gold may as well be as far away from

us as the colony would have been once to a British reader. Out of sight, out of mind.

Those girls in Catton’s first novel, literary constructs though they may have been, gathered up our concern as the story went on. We were involved in what happened; we cared about those words on the page. Here, it is as though the opposite is made to be the case. Catton has created her own world in The Luminaries — an upside-down, southern hemisphere kind of a place with its own astrological calen-dar that casts its own kind of influ-ence, its own light.

The clue is in the title, after all, and in the confusing frontispiece that the publishers might have made more of, to alert the general reader to the fabu-lous trick of the book they hold: that this great, intricately crafted door-stopper of a historical novel, with its portentous introduction, astrological tables, character charts and all the rest, in fact weighs nothing at all. Decide for yourself, Reader, at the end of all your reading, what you think of that: is “nothing” enough?

The Guardian

Eleanor Catton’s epic novel about the New Zealand gold rush has won Man Booker prize. Kirsty Gunn weighs up the masterpiece.

The LuminariesAn intricately crafted novel

TECHNOLOGYPLUS | WEDNESDAY 23 OCTOBER 201312

By Samuel Gibbs

Nokia announced its largest Windows Phone to date yes-terday, revealing a 6in full

HD-screen Lumia 1520 phablet with a 20-megapixel PureView Camera.

The Lumia 1520 comes less than one month after the release of Samsung’s latest in its popular phablet series, the Galaxy Note 3, which garnered much attention for its 5.7in screen and S-Pen stylus, and takes Windows Phone to new screen sizes and into a new category.

Nokia’s solidly built and colourful phablet - an oversized smartphone, or small tablet - resembles the slim profile and colourful polycarbonate

design of its smaller Lumia 1020 and 925 Windows Phone brothers, but fea-tures a 6in full HD screen that makes watching movies and Office productiv-ity easier.

High-end specificationsThe Lumia 1520 packs high-end

internal parts, with a top-of-the-line 2.2GHz quad-core Snapdragon 800 and 2GB of RAM, which should easily be able to handle multi-tasking and demanding apps and games. A built-in 3,400 mAh battery with wireless charging provides up to nine hours video playback or 29 days standby time.

To store music, movies, apps and games, Nokia equipped the 1520 with 32GB of storage as standard, plus a

micro SD card slot for adding up to 64GB of extra storage. Microsoft is also bundling 7GB of SkyDrive cloud stor-age with each 1520.

Nokia also brings some technol-ogy from its top camera phone, the Lumia 1020, to the 1520. Eschewing the 41-megapixel sensor for a smaller 20-megapixel camera, the 1520 has optical stabilisation and oversampling technology for a two-times lossless digital zoom and shake-free pictures, which should make indoor low-light photos better with less blur and noise.

Using the 20-megapixel camera, Nokia has also added the ability to refocus a picture after taking it, using some clever Nokia-developed software algorithms, while the new Story Teller app allows you to browse your photos in a timeline and across map locations provided by Nokia’s HERE maps.

Stiff competitionThe Lumia 1520 joins a raft of new

phablets that have launched this year, including stiff competition from the 5.7in Samsung Galaxy Note 3, the 5.9in HTC One Max and 6.44in Sony Xperia Z Ultra.

“There are two markets for the phablet – the multimedia market, where the cheapest, largest screen wins, and the professional market, where the phablet with the most value-added features triumphs,” said

Francisco Jeronimo, research direc-tor of European mobile devices for research firm IDC.

Samsung’s Galaxy Note line of devices differentiate themselves from the phablet competition, including Nokia’s new Lumia 1520, by employ-ing a feature-packed stylus that allows both drawing on the screen and pro-vides multiple multi-tasking modes such as Samsung’s multi-window.

According to Jeronimo, it is these value-added features that attract the highly lucrative professional market

“The stylus tips the buyer in the Note’s favour at the point of sale because, despite whether or not they will ever use the features, the more features available the more attrac-tive the proposition when the price is equal,” he said.

Budget phabletTo partner the 1520, Nokia is also

launching a more budget phablet, the 1320, which has a lower resolution 720p 6in screen, a slower 1.7GHz dual-core Snapdragon S4 processor, 1GB of RAM and 8GB of storage with a micro SD slot.

The 1320 mirrors the design lan-guage of Nokia’s more affordable Lumia 625, with rounded corners and sports a traditional 5-megapixel cam-era without Nokia’s PureView imaging technology. The Guardian

By Samuel Gibbs

Finnish mobile phone manufacturer Nokia announced its first colourful 10.1in Windows RT 8.1 tablet yesterday at Nokia World in Abu Dhabi, aiming to take on Apple’s iPad.

The Nokia Lumia 2520 features a full HD 10.1in screen, coming less than a month after the announce-ment of Microsoft’s second generation Surface 2 Windows RT tablet.

Solidly built with seamless construction and weigh-ing 615g, Nokia’s tablet resembles the manufacturer’s colourful, polycarbonate-clad range of Lumia Windows Phone smartphones, but runs Microsoft’s Windows RT 8.1 ARM-based tablet variant of its Windows 8 PC operating system.

Top-flight specificationsThe Lumia 2520 also features top-of-the-range com-

ponents, including a 2.2GHz quad-core Snapdragon 800 processor with 2GB of RAM, which should han-dle multi-tasking and gaming well. Built in is 32 or 64GB of storage, depending on model, while the 2520 is equipped with a micro SD card slot for adding up to 64GB more storage.

A 8,000 mAh battery should provide around 10 hours battery life, according to Nokia.

Nokia has also included a micro USB 3.0 port for fast data connections to external devices, as well as micro HDMI for connecting to an external display or

television.Unlike Microsoft’s Surface 2, Nokia’s tablet also

comes equipped with 4G LTE for mobile broadband, and NFC for linking and sharing data with Nokia’s range of Lumia smartphones.

Nokia sees the 2520 fitting in between the enter-tainment and productivity markets, for those who use a tablet for entertainment, like watching videos, browsing the internet and playing games, and also for those who need to do word processing and other office duties.

Running Windows RT 8.1, the 2520 comes with Microsoft’s full Office suite, including Word, Excel,

PowerPoint and Outlook. Nokia has also added its own HERE maps and Nokia music applications to Windows RT.

Nokia Lumia 2520 tablet has a keyboard accessory that turns it into a laptop hybrid with extended battery life. Nokia Lumia 2520 tablet has a keyboard accessory that turns it into a laptop hybrid with extended battery life. Nokia has also made a keyboard case accessory for the 2520, which, like the Microsoft Surface 2’s excellent Touch Cover 2, turns the tablet into a laptop hybrid with a full keyboard, a trackpad and two USB 2.0 ports, as well as a battery that adds an extra five hours to the battery life. The Guardian

Nokia launches its first tablet

Nokia enters ‘phablet’ market with Lumia 1520

COMICS & MORE 13

Hoy en la HistoriaOctober 23, 2011

1958: Russian author Boris Pasternak was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature for his novel Doctor Zhivago1983: Suicide bombings killed 241 U.S. marines and 58 French paratroopers in Beirut, Lebanon1995: Professor Stephen Westaby, of Oxford’s John Radcliffe Hospital, made the first implant of an artificial heart2002: Chechen rebels seized over 700 hostages at a Moscow theatre, threatening to blow up the building

Cristina Kirchner was re-elected as President of Argentina in a landslide victory, making her the first woman in Latin American history to retain the tob job

Picture: Getty Images © GRAPHIC NEWS

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

ABYSSINIAN, ANGORA, BALINESE, BENGAL, BIRMAN, BOBTAIL,BOMBAY, BURMESE, CHARTREUX, CHAUSIE, CHERUBIM,CYMRIC, HIMALAYAN, JAVANESE, KORAT, LONGHAIR, MALAYAN,MANX, MUNCHKIN, NEBELUNG, OCICAT, PERSIAN, RAGDOLL,SIAMESE, SIBERIAN, SINGAPURA, SOMALI, SPHYNX, TIFFANIE,TIIFFANY, TONKINESE.

LEARN ARABIC

Baby Blues by Jerry Scott and Rick Kirkman

Zits by Dennis Young and Denis Lebrun

Hagar The Horrible by Chris Browne

On the Bus

Where is the bus station? Ayna mawqif alba��?

I want to go to Beirut Oureedou al�ahab ila bayroot

Please give me a ticket Min fa�lik aç�inee ta�kara

What is the price of the ticket? Kam �aman altta�kara?

Is the place far? Hal almakan baçeed?

How far is it from here? Kam yabçoud min houna?

I want to get off here Oureedou an anzila houna

Wait for me a little In�ayirnee qaleelan

I want to sit here Oureedou an a�lisa houna

This seat is reserved Ha�a almaqçad ma��ooz

When will we arrive? Mata na�il?

Stop here, please Qiff houna min fa�lik

Thank you Šoukran lak

Note: ç = ‘a’ in ‘agh’ when surprised



HYPER SUDOKU

CROSSWORD

CROSSWORDS

YESTERDAY’S ANSWER

How to play Hyper Sudoku:A Hyper Sudoku

Puzzle is solved

by filling the

numbers from 1

to 9 into the blank

cells. A Hyper

Sudoku has

unlike Sudoku

13 regions

(four regions

overlap with the

nine standard

regions). In all

regions the numbers from 1 to 9 can appear

only once. Otherwise, a Hyper Sudoku is

solved like a normal Sudoku.

ACROSS 1 Java application?

12 E-mails a dupe

15 Swearing-in figure

16 Onetime giant in decking

17 Raphael, e.g.

18 It may have no stars

19 Film producer Fayed

20 Birthplace of the phonograph

22 Ruling group

23 Heads across the pond

25 Standing by

26 Cold front?

27 Gran Paradiso, e.g.

29 Prepares to be discharged

31 It goes over the tongue

34 Guitar-spinning group

35 City of a quarter million founded on a ranch site

37 ___ fit

38 Shred

39 Prefix with Germanic

40 Three-sided carrier

41 Peak periods

42 Piña colada topping?

44 Web site crasher?

45 M quarter

48 Specifically

51 Composer Siegmeister

52 Greetings

53 Bit of ancient art

56 ___ polar

(animal del Ártico)

57 Singer who founded Righteous Babe Records

58 Victor over H.H.H.

59 It competed with Mail Boxes Etc.

DOWN 1 Origin of the word

“cheetah”

2 F-, for one

3 Secures

4 It blew in 1707

5 Ottoman dignitary

6 Real fan

7 Makeup of some kits

8 Storied slacker

9 Routing abbr.

10 Move with a bobbing motion

11 Common cooler

12 Charge storer

13 Home of Pomona College

14 Settle

21 Big squares

23 Overgrown, say

24 Mobile

26 Wii, for one

27 Nose-burning

28 One may be taken in faith

30 Facial site

31 Its central deity is Amaterasu

32 Claims

33 Like sports cars, briefly

34 Full of energy

35 Eastern energy

36 1980s Argentine president Alfonsín

40 Hydrocarbon in gasoline

43 1-Across may be added to it

44 Neighbor of McGuire A.F.B.

45 Can

46 A third of

quince

47 Toy snappers

48 Dweller in the hall Bilskirnir

49 Like a 6-Down

50 Turn over

51 Actor McGregor

54 N.Y.C.’s ___ Bridge

55 Talent agent Emanuel

1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14

15 16

17 18

19 20 21

22 23 24 25

26 27 28 29 30

31 32 33 34

35 36

37 38

39 40 41

42 43 44 45 46 47

48 49 50 51

52 53 54 55

56 57

58 59

S I S T H E B I G S H O R TT N T B E A T L E M A N I AA D A S A M U E L A L I T ON O R W R E S P R I N T SD O S H O T S K A T TA R T E R Y U N C L E S A MS P R E E S M O K Y T L CI O U S T O P P S P R I MD O C G A N E F L E I C AE L K H O U N D S E E P I N

A T T Y D H A R M A SD E M I S E S E I S A K IE V A L O N G O R I A L E OF A C E R E A L I T Y L Y NT H E R E D R O V E R S S S

How to play Kakuro:The kakuro grid, unlike in sudoku, can be of any size. It has rows and columns, and dark cells like in a crossword. And, just like in a crossword, some of the dark cells will contain numbers. Some cells will contain two numbers.However, in a crossword the numbers reference clues. In a kakuro, the numbers are all you get! They denote the total of the digits in the row or column referenced by the number.Within each collection of cells - called a run

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

YESTERDAY’S ANSWER

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EASY SUDOKUCartoon Arts International / The New York Times Syndicate

Easy Sudoku PuzzlesPlace a digit from 1 to 9 in each empty cell so everyrow, every column and every 3x3 box contains allthe digits 1 to 9.

CINEMA / TV LISTINGS 15

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PLUS | WEDNESDAY 23 OCTOBER 2013 POTPOURRI16

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

IN FOCUS

Flowers in full bloom at a Mesaieed garden.

by Vivek Shroff

Send your photos to [email protected]. Mention where the photo was taken.

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

• Visitors to medical facilities of Hamad Medical Corporation complained of huge crowds and lack of car parking space on the first day of work after Eid vacation. They said the latest expansion of the car parking areas at Women’s Hospital did not make much difference.

• There were discussions in the social media about a Qatari citizen being wrongly reported that he is dead, who was issued a death certificate while he is alive.

• People have urged the authorities to be fair when distributing public parks over all the country, instead of giving priority to areas outside of Doha.

• Supervisors of Independent School buses were surprised over the decision of the Supreme Education Council to stop their allowance from last month. They said they have been receiving these allowances for two years for supervising student buses.

• People complained about the negligence of old public parks by the authorities, as many of them lack maintenance, development of infrastructures, and lack of hygiene. They said these parks are still preferred destinations for families during Eid, weekends and vacations.

• People said many importers and suppliers of food are still continuing to import beverages that have detachable covers, in contrary to the decision of the Ministry of Economic and Commerce taken three years ago not to import or sell cans with detachable covers.

• Parents complained about increasing prices of food at Independent and private school cafeterias, while there is no change in the quality of foods or quantity. The aim of having cafeterias in schools is to provide students with this service, not to make profits as the issue now has changed to pure business.

President of AshghalNasser Ali Al Mawlawi

Al Mawlawi joined Ashghal in December 2008 as acting gen-eral manager. Prior to this from

July 2007, he was CEO of Barwa City. Between 2003 and 2007, he worked as Director of venues with the organ-izing committee of the Asian Games Doha 2006, overseeing the games facilities and project management. Al Mawlawi graduated with a Bachelor’s Degree in electrical engineering from Boston University in US. Al Mawlawi served as an officer in the Engineering Division of Qatar’s Air Force for 15 years and was promoted to Colonel Engineer. He is the Vice-Chairman of Board of Qatar National Broadband Network Company (Qnbn).

Who’s who

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Relics — Damien HirstWhen: Until Jan 22; Sun-Wed: 10:30am–5:30pm. Tuesday ClosedThur-Sat: 12pm–8pm, Fri: 2pm–8pmWhere: Al Riwaq Exhibition Space What: The most comprehensive survey of Damien Hirst’s work ever shown and his first solo exhibition in the Middle East. Free Entry

My Rock Stars: Volume 1When: Until Oct 24, 2013 Where: VCUQatar Gallery

What: Exhibition by artist/photographer Hassan Hajjaj pays homage to traditional African portraiture, while celebrating present-day pop stars, unsung artists and personal inspirations in Hajjaj’s life. Entry: Free, open to all

NODDY in Toyland When: Oct 24, 25, 26; 4pm & 7pm Where: Al Rayyan theater, Souq Waqif What: A live show of Noddy — sing-along, dance-along — featuring friends Tessie Bear and Bumpy Dog as well as the naughty goblins. Kid’s play.Tickets: QR-100-QR350, available at Virgin Megastores

Exhibition by Rhys HimsworthWhen: Until October 27 Artist Talk on October 22; 7pm Where: Katara Art Center, Building 5

What: Rhys Himsworth is a British artist based in Doha, and is a faculty member of Virginia Commonwealth University where he heads the Painting & Printmaking program. Entry: Free, open to all

L’âge d’or — exhibitionby Adel AbdessemedWhen: October 6 to January 5Where: Atrium and ground floor of Mathaf: Arab Museum of Modern Art What: Curated by Pier Luigi Tazzi, the exhibition will showcase recent works, including drawings, paintings, sculptures and videos, many created by Adel Abdessemed.Entry: Free, open to all

Northern Legacy – Photographic Exhibition When: Until Nov 19, 2013; 10am-10pm Where: Katara Gallery 1 - Bldg 13 What: Photographic Exhibition by Harold Crompton Robinson. Free Entry

Omar Khalifa – “Infinite”When: Until Dec 15; 10am-10pmWhere: Katara Cultural Village What: This outdoor installation examines ‘the nature of being’. Using digital multiple exposure techniques, an image is crafted that gives a of other-worldliness and depth of perspective through the human form. Free Entry

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