THURSDAY 12 OCTOBER 2017

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The Torch Doha lights up exterior in support of noble causes

To make this frittata,

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THERAPEUTIC DORMS:

DOES IT WORK?In UVM’s Wellness Environment, known as WE, students live in a substance-free dorm, take a required class in what affects the health of their brains and bodies, and are given incentives.

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CAMPUSTHURSDAY 12 OCTOBER 2017 03GES holds fun-filled learning activities for students

Gulf English School (GES) stu-dents are getting ahead and brushing up in mathematics

through a workshop organised by GES for parents on “How to teach your child Math’.

Though the workshops were organised by the school, they arranged for external trainers to support the parents of students who would like some additional support in math.

Another workshop on “How to teach your child phonics” was also held recently and was aimed at enhancing reading and vocabulary skills.

The event kicked off on

September 25 with a ‘Healthy Breakfast Day’ to raise awareness on the importance of eating break-fast before coming to school and to promote the attainment of a healthy and balanced diet.

A series of fun-filled activities have been lined up until April 2018 to underline the school’s efforts to ensure a truly vertical curriculum.

As part of ‘Reading All Over the World’, students will welcome an author who will entertain and inspire the students.

Parents are also invited to come to school and join in the fun by reading with their children during the reading tea party.

Students will also take part enthusiastically in the whole school reading snake programme.

For the month of November and December, GES students will take part in Spooky Scary Carnival, Week Without Walls, Book Fair as well as National Week. The school has further planned exciting projects that support and promote their values through art.

Pupils will learn how to think visually and critically to appreciate art.

While toddlers will be practis-ing new skills to create individual pieces during the Art week, IB stu-dents will be exhibiting their work

during the Visual Art exhibition where the whole school will be turned into an immense display space.

Furthermore, students will par-ticipate in the Spring Carnival, Fitness Week, Career’s Fair and Music Concert to be held in March and April.

All these programmes are designed to give students the expe-riences that will inspire them to become caring global citizens.

Besides, participating in each of these activities will help students to plan and work as teams, strengthening their teamwork for a common goal of greater good.

To salute teachers, Bhavan’s Public School celebrated International Teacher’s day

with great zeal and fondness. A special assembly was held in

all three campuses to celebrate and thank teachers for their selfless serv-ice in moulding the new generation.

Students delivered their speeches with confidence in Wakra Campus to pay tribute to the relentless serv-ices of the teachers to the society. Miss Afrin of class IV A was appreciated by our honourable principal for her spe-cially contributed song for Emir of Qatar. The student teachers at New Salata Campus got the opportunity to teach children of lower classes.Songs were dedicated to teachers and the teachers expressed their love and

care by giving messages in different languages.

Kindergarten teachers were hon-oured for their work of moulding the tiny tots. Students at Matar Campus put up a heart-warming assembly

where the whole ambience was abuzz with anticipation as the stu-dent teachers graced the stage and paid tribute to their look-alike teachers.

The students of pre-primary and

primary section presented the hand-made cards to the teachers. The informal interview of the students with the teachers made the learning environment vibrant.

With an aim of spicing up read-ing habit among students, teachers of Matar campus contributed books to the school library. M P Philip, School Principal and Anjana Menon, Director for Administration sparked the occasion with their presence and encouraged the students to be pro-lific readers. Principal and Headmistress Shailaja Krishna Kumar and Asha Shiju expressed their love and gratitude to all the teachers and appreciated them for their commit-ment, dedication and selfless service in their adresses.

Bhavan’s Public School teachers honoured

COVER STORY THURSDAY 12 OCTOBER 201704

College enshrines healthy living in bricks and mortarAP

Pledges by college students to eschew bad vices are old hat. Now they’re meditating, working out, practising yoga, eating

healthfully, and at least one school, the University of Vermont, it has become a bona fide lifestyle.

In UVM’s Wellness Environ-ment, known as WE, students live in a new, big substance-free dorm, take a required class in what affects the health of their brains and bod-ies, and are given incentives to stay healthy like access to a free gym membership, nutrition and fitness coaches and an app that tracks their activities.

“We created an environment where we believe if we offer young people healthy foods, healthy choices, they’ll make them. We reward those things, and we don’t encourage the negative things, so the rule in the environment is no alcohol, no drugs, and the students follow it,” said Dr. Jim Hudziak, the chief of child psychiatry at the UVM’s Larner College of Medicine, who founded the Wellness Environment or WE programme.

It goes beyond the wellness and substance-free residential halls

found at some colleges.“It looks at them (students) as an

individual, which is really important obviously for health and wellness, but then it’s also making changes to their community,” said David Arnold, of the Washington-based NASPA, Student Affairs Administrators in

Higher Education. “So combining those two things together as well as working broader with faculty is actually a very, very impressive implementation of that process.”

At the start of a recent class, “Healthy Brains, Healthy Bodies,” the auditorium full of students stood

with eyes closed for a few minutes of meditation. Then Hudziak, who tosses a brain-shaped football to stu-dents in the auditorium before class, discussed neuroscience topics including how traumatic or stress-ful experiences in childhood can affect physical and mental health.

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And there’s no tolerance for alcohol or drugs in the dorm. If you’re caught with either in the environment, you’re thrown out, Hudziak said.

“I’m a genetic neuroscientist and child psychiatrist who wanted to end what I thought and saw was very damaging cultures in univer-sity settings, and I thought using neuroscience and behavior change science rather than sort of lectur-ing and setting standards of behavior would work,” he said.

That makes for a quieter dorm, said freshman Cole Spaulding, of Waterbury, as he worked out in the dorm’s fitness center on a recent evening.

“You’re sitting at home in your

dorm, and it’s not like people are yelling. You know the bathrooms are always clean. It’s a nice place to just live,” he said.

WE students pay the same rate for campus housing as other students.

After a recent evening medita-tion class in the dorm, Hannah Bryant, of Brewster, Massachusetts, said her choice to join WE already has paid off.

She bases her life around living a healthy lifestyle and liked the chance to be surrounded by healthy opportunities like yoga, meditation and good food.

“Just like already within the first three weeks of school has already made a huge difference. And it’s

things like this, the 30 minutes, that can really change your week around,” she said.

Through the app, students earn coins for healthy choices that can be used to buy WE paraphernalia

— socks, sweat shirts, hats. They’re also encouraged to mentor kids in the community as one of the four pillars on which the program is based: fitness, mindfulness, nutrition and relationships.

Freshman Joy Vincenzo of Portland, Connecticut, said she

chose the WE program because in high school she would get stressed about school work.

The UVM program has helped in her first few weeks of college. She does yoga and, when she has breaks between classes, she might go to the gym for 20 minutes.

“This argument of WE is, if we teach and practice these health-promoting activities, when things get tough, you’ll rely on a whole new set of skills,” Hudziak said.

COMMUNITY / MARKETPLACE THURSDAY 12 OCTOBER 201706

The Torch Doha, member of leading hotels of the World has joined forces with Qatar

Cancer Society to raise awareness towards breast cancer by switch-ing its 3780 LED exterior lights in

”Pink” for the entire month of Octo-ber. Located at the heart of Aspire Zone – Doha’s Sports City, the iconic tower stands out, illuminat-ing at night, by a kinetic display which creates an eye-catching effect for locals and visitors.

October is the official Breast Cancer Awareness month and major cancer charities organise events to raise awareness for can-cer prevention.

“We are honoured to support the cancer awareness campaign initiated by Qatar Cancer Society this month. We are always happy to contribute to events alike, where community awareness towards cancer serves dramati-cally to Qatar Vision 2030, aiming

to produce educated and healthy generations working in an advanced society.” says General Manager Sherif Sabry.

On October 7, The Torch Doha joined another international cause and lit up “Teal” for one day, in order to support the International Trigeminal Neuralgia Awareness Day for the fifth consecutive year.

“It gives us great pleasure sup-porting the International Trigeminal Neuralgia Awareness

Day for the fifth consecutive year, to raise awareness globally and to change the future of those who struggle with Trigeminal Neural-gia (TN) and other facial pain disorders. Moreover we encour-age everyone to show concern for individuals and families who deal with the hardships of this condi-tion.” stated General Manager Sherif Sabry.

Also this October, The Torch Doha joined the initiative together with other landmark buildings and monuments around the globe lighting up in ‘teal’. The iconic hotel used its exterior lights for yet another time in October 10 and participated in the fifth annual awareness event “Light Up Pur-ple” for World Mental Health Day. This event was supported by the World Federation for Mental Health, at whose initiative World Mental Health Day was first cele-brated in 1992. The theme for 2017 was “Mental Health in the Workplace”.

The Torch Doha is actively supporting Awareness Initiatives internationally and locally throughout the year. As it has done numerous times in the past, the hotel uses its enormous virtual canvas and lights up its exterior of 3780 LED lights that bring the building to life after sunset.

It was an action packed Friday in PIBAQ’s 24th Conference last October 6. The Inter Company

Division game between Ashghal and Salam Technology saw Ashghal leading comfortably by 20 in the first half as both Carlo Querijero and Ralph Coronel getting their groove in the offensive end. It was a differ-ent story though in the second half as Salam Technology felt the urgency as they try to crawl back from the huge deficit. Through teamwork and determination, they ended the 3rd quarter trailing by just 5. Ashghal was able to regroup and brought back their lead to 12 but that didn’t shook Salam’s resolve as they staged a 16-4 to equalize the score with only 2 minutes remaining. Salam Technology finally took the lead through Roldan Dela Rosa’s

conversion. With 9 seconds left in the game, Nowell Espanol sent Ralph Coronel of Ashghal to the strip who split his free throws enabling Salam Technology to escape with a 64-63 win. Roldan Dela Rosa led Salam Technology with 15 while Ralph Coronel paced Ashghal with 19 markers.

In the Women’s Division, Boom Generals was just too much for the Balleros to handle as Boom Gener-als capitalized on Ballero’s lack of ball handlers. Boom Generals employed the full court press right from the get go and

forced turnovers. It was the sweet shooting of Tara Mitic and the lead-ership of Pamela Barrozo which enabled them to lead comfortably the whole game. In the end, Boom Generals won with a huge margin 77-12 with Pamela Barrozo leading the way with 21 points. The Qatar Basketball Federation (QBF) in coop-eration with the Philippine Embassy in Doha and Samahang Basketbol ng Pilipinas, Inc (SBP) brings PIBAQ’s Commissioners Cup 2017 to you. And sponsored by Season Restaurant, Happy Journey Travels, and Philip-pine Airlines.

Salam Technology comes from

behind to win over Ashghal

The Torch Doha lights up exterior in support of three noble causes

FOODTHURSDAY 12 OCTOBER 2017 07

The Peninsula

Trader Vic’s introduces its new Friday Brunch concept this season with the Islander’s

Luau Brunch for QR 275 per per-son, enhancing its already ever popular Tiki Brunch with the menu featuring a blend of the all-time favorite casual food and the Trader Vic’s Asian-Polynesian signature dishes. Signature mocktails and favourite drinks are served unlim-ited or choose from the menu while the new resident Cuban performs throughout the day.

The exciting menu includes unlimited servings of Trader Vic’s mainstays such as beef cho-cho, jalapeno cheese balls, assorted maki & sushi, caesar salad, coco salmon lomi-lomi for starters, Asian duck taco, wasabi prawns, duo of slider, huli-huli chicken, and

mouth-watering desserts.Laurence Fernandez, general

manager of Trader Vic’s Doha said “It’s amazing how Friday brunches

has become a weekend lifestyle for the residents and visitors of Doha, so in this sense, we decided to make the brunch affordable enough so people can make it their weekly activity, without comprising the quality. In fact, we added your favorite comfort food items to the menu and introduced festive party libations or big bowl servings for groups in this new brunch”.

The live Cuban band performs from 12:30pm during Friday Brunch and nightly from 8pm.

Meanwhile, the ongoing expansion project of the Trader Vic’s, the opening out of the terrace and the preparation of the long-planned Tahitian Village will be taking the seating capacity to additional 200 seats, with additional live entertainment, indoor and outdoor seating and a complete Tahitian ambiance.

Trader Vic’s launches Islander’s Luau Brunch

HEALTH THURSDAY 12 OCTOBER 201708Reuters

Children and teens with type 1 diabetes who use insulin pumps may have better-con-

trolled blood sugar and fewer complications than youth who inject insulin, a new study suggests.

Type 1 diabetes is a lifelong con-dition that develops when the pancreas produces little or no insu-lin, a hormone needed to allow blood sugar to enter cells and pro-duce energy. People with the condition usually have to test their own blood sugar level throughout the day and inject insulin to man-age it; otherwise they risk complications like heart disease and kidney damage.

Researchers examined data on 14,460 diabetes patients under 20 years old who used insulin pumps and another 16,460 patients who injected insulin. With pumps, patients were less likely to develop dangerously low blood sugar or a life-threatening accumulation of acids in the blood that happens when sugar levels get too high.

“The study adds to the growing evidence of the benefits of insulin pump therapy, when applied appropriately, in the young,” said Dr. Roman Hovorka of the Univer-sity of Cambridge Metabolic Research Laboratories in the U.K.

Previous research has sug-gested pumps may help young patients get better blood sugar con-trol than they can achieve by giving

themselves multiple daily insulin injections, Hovorka, who wasn’t involved in the study, said by email. But research to date on how well pumps work to prevent danger-ously low blood sugar has yielded mixed results, he said.

All of the patients in the current study had been using either injected or pumped insulin for at least one year.

Overall, dangerously low blood sugar known as hypoglycemia hap-pened at a yearly rate of 9.55 out of every 100 kids treated with insulin pumps, compared with almost 14 children out of every 100 treated with injections, researchers report in JAMA.

Rates of ketoacidosis, a life-threatening buildup of acid in the blood, were 3.64 patients out of every 100 treated each year with insulin pumps, compared with 4.26

kids out of every 100 per year treated with injections.

The study also looked at one measure of blood sugar known as glycated hemoglobin, which assesses average blood sugar lev-els over the previous several months. Higher numbers indicate poorer blood sugar control over time. Glycated hemoglobin was 8.04 percent for kids who used pumps and 8.22 percent for chil-dren who injected insulin, the study found. Total daily insulin doses were also lower with a pump than with injections.

The study wasn’t a controlled experiment designed to prove that insulin pumps are better than injec-tions, however.

Another limitation is that researchers lacked data on the type and amount of diabetes education on using insulin that children and

parents received, Dr. Beate Karges, of RWTH Aachen University in Ger-many and colleagues write.

Patients tend to get more inten-sive training on managing their blood sugar with pumps than they do with injections, and some doc-tors have questioned whether better patient education might be the rea-son pumps get better results.

Pumps may deliver insulin more consistently than injections by infusing it slowly, and pumps can also be easier to adjust, said Dr. Simon Heller, a diabetes researcher at the University of Sheffield in UK.

“They are not always more com-fortable or convenient,” Heller said by email. The best option may depend in part on children’s age.

“I think pumps should be offered widely to young children and peo-ple who experience hypoglycemia on insulin therapy,” Heller said. “For adolescents, particularly those who find it difficult to do all the compli-cated things in managing diabetes, pumps may not be the best option, particularly if insulin is missed.”

However it’s delivered, the effectiveness of insulin depends on how well patients work to get the right dose at the right time, said Edwin Gale, an emeritus professor at the University of Bristol in UK.

“Pumps work very well in selected people with proper support, but they are not for everyone,” Gale, who wasn’t involved in the study, said. “There is nothing in this study to say that parents should feel obli-gated to opt for pump therapy.”

Know how menopause triggers Alzheimer’sIANS

Decline in oestrogen levels in women during meno-pause causes metabolic

changes in their brain that may increase the risk of Alzheimer’s disease in them, researchers said.

This finding on the primary female’s hormone could help in the development of early inter-ventions, they said.

According to neuroscientists, depleting levels of the hormone cause a decline in a key

neuroprotective element in the female brain, which then raises their risk of developing the disease.

“Our findings show that the loss of oestrogen in menopause doesn’t just diminish fertility. It also means the loss of a key neu-roprotective element in the female brain and a higher vulnerability to brain ageing and Alzheimer’s disease,” said lead author Lisa Mosconi, Associate Professor at the Cornell University in the US.

This decline in oestrogen

levels also triggers a shift to a “starvation reaction” in brain cells -- a metabolic state that is benefi-cial in the short-term but can be harmful in the long term.

The findings also revealed reduced volumes of brain cells and nerve fibre bundles in female brain regions that are strongly affected in Alzheimer’s.

“We urgently need to address these problems because, currently, 850 million women worldwide are entering or have entered men-opause,” Mosconi said.

Medical attention provided to women in their 40s, well in advance of any endocrine or neu-rological symptoms may help them avert the disease, the researchers said.

Women might need antioxi-dants to protect their brain activity and mitochondria in combination with strategies to maintain oes-trogen levels.

“Exercise and foods that are rich in antioxidants, such as flax-seeds, also may help boost oestrogen production.”

Insulin pump may beat shots for Type 1 diabetes

FOOD THURSDAY 12 OCTOBER 201710Bonnie S Benwick

The Washington Post

Just when you think you’ve had every kind of frittata in the egg playbook, along comes yet

another good one to tackle. This noodle version has ingredients that are standard issue at the supermarket these days, yet I had never had them combined in quite this way.

The pasta invoked is a Chinese egg noodle, on the short side and at a medium width instead of the wide egg noodles typically used for kugels and stroganoff. Look for them in the Asian foods sec-tion of the international aisle. They give the frittata just enough heft to be deserving of the dinner hour. Seasoned sun-dried toma-toes and dollops of tangy tomato paste pop up in every other bite, along with scallions and pan-crisped spinach.

Cooked in a small skillet, it’s a down-to-earth, slightly surpris-ing meal built for two.

Noodle Frittata2 servingsThe original recipe called for

4 ounces of cooked/cured chor-izo, which is good. But we liked the dish even better as a meatless one, so we used sun-dried toma-toes instead.

We used Blue Dragon brand egg noodle nests, which are avail-able on the international aisle of larger supermarkets, including Whole Foods. But any medium-width dried egg noodles will do here.

Serve with sauteed broccoli rabe or an arugula salad.

Adapted from “Pimp My Noo-dles: Turn Instant Noodles and Ramen Into Fabulous Feasts!” by Kathy Kordalis (Hardie Grant, 2017).

IngredientsSalt2 1/2 ounces dried egg noodles

(see headnote)2 to 3 ounces sun-dried toma-

toes packed in oil3 1/2 ounces fresh spinach3 scallions1 tablespoon extra-virgin olive

oil; Spanish smoked paprika (sweet or hot)

2 tablespoons tomato paste, preferably double-concentrated

5 large eggsFreshly ground black pepper2 to 3 tablespoons crème

fraîche (optional); Handful fresh flat-leaf parsley, for garnish

StepsPreheat the oven to 350

degrees. Bring a medium sauce-pan of water to a boil over medium-high heat. Add a pinch of salt and then the egg noodles; cook according to the package

directions (al dente). Drain and place in a mixing bowl.

Meanwhile, drain, then coarsely chop the sun-dried tomatoes and the spinach, keep-ing them separate. Trim the scallions, then cut the white and green parts on the diagonal into thin slices.

Heat half the oil in an 8-inch ovenproof skillet over medium heat. Once the oil shimmers, add the sun-dried tomatoes, then sprinkle them lightly with the smoked paprika. Cook for about 1 minute, stirring once or twice, then stir in 1 tablespoon of the tomato paste and cook for 1 minute. Add the contents of the skillet to the noodles and toss to incorporate.

Return the skillet to the stove top (over medium heat). Add the remaining 1/2 tablespoon of oil, then add the chopped spinach and

stir-fry it just until wilted. Trans-fer the sun-dried tomato/noodle mixture into the skillet, along with the scallions. Cook for 2 minutes, without stirring, until heated through.

While that’s cooking, beat the eggs in the now-empty mixing bowl; season lightly with salt and pepper. Pour into the skillet and cook for 2 minutes, undisturbed, then transfer to the oven. Dollop the creme fraiche, if using, around the surface, along with the remaining tomato paste. Bake (middle rack) for 5 to 7 minutes, or until puffed and just set.

Coarsely chop the parsley and scatter it over the top. Serve warm at the table, cutting it into wedges.

Nutrition | Per serving: 470 calories, 25 g protein, 39 g carbo-hydrates, 25 g fat, 6 g saturated fat, 495 mg cholesterol, 460 mg sodium, 5 g dietary fiber, 3 g sugar.

To make this frittata, use your noodles

BOLLYWOODTHURSDAY 12 OCTOBER 2017 11

Anupam Kher appointed FTII ChairmanIANS

Anupam Kher (pictured), who has acted in over 500 mov-ies and is a vocal supporter

of Prime Minister Narendra Modi, was named Chairman of the pres-tigious Film and Television Institute of India (FTII) in Pune yesterday.

The film industry hailed the move. Anupam himself said he will give his best to the role.

Anupam, 62, husband of actress-and-BJP MP Kirron Kher, will succeed the controversial Gajendra Chauhan, whose appoint-ment in 2014 had triggered widespread student protests.

“I feel deeply humbled and hon-oured to be apportioned as the Chairman of iconic FTII. I will per-form my duties to the best of my abilities,” Anupam tweeted.

Kirron Kher said that Anupam was the right choice to head the FTII, which provides training in act-ing, direction and other technical aspects of film making in a country which is one of the largest produc-ers of movies.

“My husband is a very fine actor. He has been in the film industry for so many years. He is very capable of (being FTII head).

“He has been teaching acting for so long. He is the only person who earlier headed CBFC, then National School of Drama and now has been appointed Chairman of FTII.”

Anupam, who began his acting career with “Saaransh” in 1984, also has his own acting institute Actor Prepares.

Apart from featuring in Hindi films like “Karma”, “Daddy”,

“Lamhe”, “Dilwale Dulhaniya Le Jay-enge”, “Kuch Kuch Hota Hai”,

“Maine Gandhi Ko Nahin Mara”, “A Wednesday” and “Baby”, the National Award-winner has dab-bled in international projects like

“Bend It Like Beckham”, “Bride and Prejudice”, “Speedy Singhs”, “The Mistress of Spices”, “Lust, Caution” and the Academy Award winning

“Silver Linings Playbook”.He was honoured with Padma

Shri in 2004 and with Padma Bhushan in 2016 for his contribu-tion to the field of arts.

His appointment yesterday was welcomed by the film fraternity with open arms.

Filmmaker Madhur Bhandarkar tweeted: “Heartiest congratulations to Anupam Kher.” Filmmaker Pri-tish Nandy called it an “excellent change” at FTII. “Finally, the gov-ernment is listening to us.”

Actor Kabir Bedi said Anupam “would do wonders” in his new role, and director Kunal Kohli said “no

one could be more appropriate to set it back on track”.

Chauhan, however, said FTII needs a good administrator, more than a good actor.

Conveying his good wishes to Anupam, Chauhan told IANS: “In FTII, it’s more important to be a good administrator than a good actor. He is quite experienced and runs his own (acting) institute (Actor Prepares) in Mumbai. So, I think he will be able to handle it quite nicely. I wish all the best to Anupamji and wishes he will complete all the work, which I left due to the end of my chairmanship.”

Chauhan completed his tenure in March. His appointment had trig-gered student protests at the Pune-based institute. Anupam had then said the FTII needed a person with much more qualifications than Chauhan had as a producer, direc-tor or actor.

Chauhan, who said he himself had a “lot of administrative quali-fications”, insisted that he had not been axed as claimed by a section of the media.

‘Aiyaary’ gets February 9 release date

IANS

Filmmaker Neeraj Pandey’s next movie “Aiyaary”, which was due to release

on January 26, 2018, will now hit the screens on February 9, the makers announced yesterday.

It features Sidharth Malhotra and Manoj Bajpayee in the lead roles. Its last schedule was shot in Cairo.

The film, set in Delhi, Lon-don and Kashmir, revolves around two strong-minded army officers having completely dif-ferent views, yet right in their own ways. It is a real-life story based on the relationship between a mentor and a protege.

Kunal Kapur to explore Indian regions in new show

IANS

Celebrity chef Kunal Kapur is ready to explore the hid-den gems and stories from

Indian homes with a new show “Utsav: Thalis of India”.

“During the course of the shoot, I have had the fortune of experiencing some of the most wonderful food legacies and tra-ditions passed on through generations from cities across the country. Viewers will be filled with pride for Indian regional cuisine after watching this show,” said Kapur in a statement.

The show, that will be aired on Living Foodz, will take view-ers on a journey across 18 cities and offer a peek into India’s rich culinary heritage.

On the show, Kapur explores each region and unravels fasci-nating anecdotes about its people, the regional delicacies, local ingredients, cooking and food-serving techniques. He visits the homes of the locals, temples and marketplaces to discover the vibrant culture and thalis of each city.

The show emphasises on how a thali is a beautiful amalgama-tion of a region, its people, traditions, cultures and flavours and is a beautiful reflection of the diversity in our country.

On the season finale, Kapur prepares a Grand Thali based on his travel to the different regions of the country, which will be an amalgamation of the unique del-icacies found across the country.

This thali will be curated for an esteemed panel of chefs, authors and restaurateurs.

“Food has been an integral part of any celebration across the world. It is a great conversation starter and bonds people from various communities instantly. ‘Utsav: Thalis of India’ brings out ‘Unity in Diversity’ in the real sense of the term and celebrates regional Indian cuisine.

“At Living Foodz, our endeavour has been to offer interesting content to Indian audiences, and this show is a prime example of this. We are excited to collaborate with Chef Kunal (Kapur) and look forward to the launch this festive sea-son,” said Amit Nair, Business Head, Living Foodz.

ENTERTAINMENT THURSDAY 12 OCTOBER 201712

Hollywood movie studios join forces for new download serviceBloomberg

Several major Hollywood movie studios have signed up to a new digital film service

led by Walt Disney that lets con-sumers buy movies and store them in a digital locker to access on their devices, people familiar with the matter said.

Disney has been courting stu-dios to join its Movies Anywhere service since last year, Bloomberg News reported at the time.

Customers can watch and keep their online film purchases at a single site through the prod-uct. 20th Century Fox, Warner Bros. and Universal Pictures are among the major studios joining the service, the people said. The plan could be announced as soon as this week, they said.

The service could help studios

compensate for the collapse in physical DVD sales and a disap-pointing year at the box office. By banding together, the makers of the world’s most popular films, including Disney’s “Star Wars” and Warner Bros.’ DC Comics, are bet-ting they can succeed in attracting more users than their previous attempts did. Disney originally introduced its service under the name Disney Movies Anywhere in 2014, and other studios supported a rival format called UltraViolet.

Shares of Disney, based in Bur-bank, California, were little changed at $99.59 at the close, erasing losses earlier in the day. 21st Century Fox Inc., the Fox stu-dio’s parent company, rose 0.5 percent to $26.72.

DVD sales fell more than 10 percent in the first half of this year from a year earlier, while

electronic sales have grown more than 8 percent, according to data from the Digital Entertainment Group. North American theater ticket sales year to date are down almost 5 percent, according to ComScore Inc. Theater stocks fell Monday after another movie,

“Blade Runner 2049,” disappointed at the box office last weekend.

Viacom Inc.’s Paramount Pic-tures is the only one of the six major studios that isn’t joining Movies Anywhere, because of a disagreement over financial terms, said one of the people, who asked not to be identified because the talks are private. Paramount, maker of the Transformers films, and smaller Lions Gate Entertain-ment Corp., home of “The Hunger Games,” are supportive of the con-cept and may join later, two people said.

Disney Movies Anywhere used a proprietary storage tech-nology called KeyChest that allows consumers to access mov-ies on one site, whether they’re purchased online from Apple’s iTunes, Amazon.com, Google or a brick-and-mortar store like Wal-Mart Stores. The service offered films from all of the com-pany’s brands, including Disney, Pixar, Marvel and Lucasfilm.

With the rise of Netflix and other video services, studios may be too late to persuade consum-ers to buy movies to keep and re-watch, said Rich Greenfield, analyst at BTIG said, who has a buy rating on Netflix and a sell rating on Disney.

“The consumer has moved on from ownership of media to access via subscription services,” he said.

Sharon Jones album to come out a year after her death

AFP

An album of unreleased songs by soul singer Sharon Jones (pictured) will come out

next month one year after her death, her label announced.

Jones, who found fame late in life as her powerful, rich voice brought comparisons to James Brown, had been recording with her band The Dap-Kings before her death, Daptone Records said.

Following posthumous studio

work, the album -- entitled “Soul of a Woman” -- will come out on November 17, the label said.

“Though we’ll never again see her electric form shimmy across the stage, Sharon Jones continues to give us her soul and her music.”

Raised in Brooklyn, Jones started singing Gospel music in church and secured work as a back-up recording vocalist. But without steady music work, she took a variety of other jobs .

She had her break as a backup singer for Amy Winehouse, and finally found success as a solo art-ist in the 2000s on newly formed Daptone, a Brooklyn-based label dedicated to reviving classic soul and funk.

Jones, who had battled cancer since 2013, died at age 60. She suf-fered a stroke when watching the results of last year’s presidential election, and in her final days joked that Donald Trump’s victory was to blame.

Jennifer Garner ‘stalks’

people on InstagramIANS

Actress Jennifer Garner (pic-tured) got an Instagram account so she could stalk

people. The 45-year-old uploaded her first image to the photo-shar-ing app in September.

“First of all I started Insta-stalking people, mostly ballerinas. But I’ve so enjoyed watching

dancers that I admire from afar and feeling like I get a little insight into their lives and so it just seemed like, ‘OK that makes more sense to me’,” Garner said recently.

“I don’t have to go any deeper than I wanna go, I can kind of be in charge of it. So we’re having fun with it. It’s just my house,” she added.

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Microsoft to bring digital assistant Cortana on Skype

IANS

Microsoft is introducing an update for its Skype chat app that will have built-in support for its digital assistant Cortana.

Cortana “will be gradually rolled out” for Skype on both Android and iOS platforms, starting with the US, The Verge reported.

Users will be able to start a private chat with Microsoft Cor-tana in Skype and the assistant will give them quick suggestions while responding to text chats.

“With Cortana’s in-context assistance, it’s easier to keep your conversations going by having Cortana suggest useful informa-tion based on your chat, like restaurant options or movie reviews. Cortana also suggests smart replies, allowing you to respond to any message quickly and easily -- without typing a thing,” Skype wrote in a blog post.

The update to integrate Cortana with Skype was announced more than a year-and-half ago. However, it is not clear what has been the reason for the delay, the report added.

The integration would be similar to what we have seen Google do with its assistant in “Allo” and Facebook with “Messenger”.

Email users at highest risk of cyber threatsIANS

Email users are more than twice as likely to encounter cyber threats through emails

than any other malware, a new report said yesterday.

One out of every nine users would have received a malicious email in first half of 2017, revealed the cyber security firm Symantec’s report “Email Threats 2017”.

Business email compromise (BEC) scams have also been iden-tified as cyber threat where scammers impersonate someone along the lines of an executive within the company, or within the administrative chains and attempt to get users to extort money or share sensitive information.

“We see approximately 8,000 businesses targeted by BEC scams

in a month. On an average, these businesses receive more than five BEC scam emails each month.”

The report identified spam emails as another annoyance. Spam rate which was on a slow but steady decline since 2011 is beginning to rise now.

“The spam rate hit 54% for the first half of 2017, which equates to around 11 more spam emails in your inbox each month compared to a year ago.”

“One out of every nine users would have received a malicious email in the first half of 2017.”

Warming oceans may make clownfish harder to findAFP

The clownfish, the colourful swimmer propelled to fame by the 2003 film “Finding Nemo”,

is under threat from warming ocean waters wreaking havoc with sea anemones -- the structures which serve as its home, a study has found.

Closely related to corals, sea anemones are invertebrate marine creatures that live in symbiosis with algae, which provide them with food, oxygen and colour.

Clownfish, also known as anemonefish, in turn use the struc-tures as shelter to lay their eggs and raise their young -- keeping the anemones clean in return.

For the study, a research team monitored 13 pairs of orange-fin anemonefish living among the coral reefs of Moorea Island in the South Pacific.

They were monitored before, during and after the El Nino weather event that in 2016 caused major coral bleaching as the Pacific Ocean warmed.

Half of the anemones in the study “bleached”, expelling the algae that live on them and turning bone white, the team found.

This happens in response to environmental stress, such as ocean warming or pollution.

“Among the clownfish living in the bleached anemones, the scien-tists observed a drastic fall (-73 percent) in the number of viable eggs,” said in a statement.

“These fish were laying eggs less

frequently and they were also lay-ing fewer and less-viable eggs.”

No changes were observed among fish with unbleached abodes.

“Blood samples showed a sharp increase in levels of the stress hor-mone cortisol in the affected fish, and a “significant drop” in sex hor-mones that determine fertility.”

The health of the anemones and the fish improved three to four months after the end of the warm-ing event.

The team said, to examine the effects of a longer, or more intense, warming period, whether affected fish would deal better or worse with a new bleaching episode.

Exceptional ocean warming events are predicted to become more frequent as the average glo-bal temperature rises.

Nearly 200 nations agreed under the 2015 Paris Agreement to limit warming to two degrees Cel-sius over industrial levels.

A level of about 1 C has already been reached and scientists fear the ceiling will be shattered, with potentially disastrous consequences for the Earth’s climate.

In June last year, a study said many of the real-life Nemos swim-ming in children’s fish tanks around the world were caught using cyanide

-- another threat to the species.“Finding Nemo”, the movie

about the quest of a young fish sep-arated from its family, resulted in more than a million clownfish being harvested from tropical reefs as pets.

BABY BLUES

HAGAR THE HORRIBLE

Parava is an Indian Malayalam comedy drama film directed by

Soubin Shahir with a script jointly written by Shahir and Muneer

AliNote: Programme is subject to change without prior notice.

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THURSDAY 12 OCTOBER 2017CINEMA PLUS14NOVO — Pearl

Blade Runner 2049 (2D/Action) 11:00am, 12:00, 2:00, 3:00, 5:00,6:00; 8:00, 9:00pm; 11:59;m & 1:00pm Renegades (2D/Action) 10:00am, 12:00, 2:00, 4:00, 6:00, 8:00, 10:00 & 11:59pmThe Foreigner (2D/Thriller) 10:15; 12:30, 2:45, 5:00, 7:15, 9:30 & 11:45pmLeatherface (2D/Horror) 10:00am, 12:00, 2:00, 4:00, 6:00, 8:00, 10:00 & 11:59pmFlatliners(2D/Horror) 10:00am, 12:00, 2:00 & 4:00pmKingsman:The Golden Circle(Action) 12:15, 5:15 & 10:15pmThe Son Of Bigfoot(2D/Animation) 10:00, 12:00, 2:00 & 4:00pmThe Snowman (2D/Crime) 6:00, 8:30 & 11:00pmAmityville: The Awakening (2D/Horror) 10:00am, 12:00, 2:00, 4:00, 6:00pmMy Pet Dinosaur (2D/Crime) 10:00am, 12:00, 2:00, 4:00 & 6:00pm

MALLRaju Gari Gadhi 2 (2D/Telugu) 2:00pm Parava (2D/Malayalam) 2:30 & 11:30pmMy Pet Dinosaur (2D/Action) 2:15 & 5:45, 7:30pmPulikkaran Stara (2D/Malayalam) 5:00pm The Snowman (2D/Crime) 5:45pmLast Night (2D/Tagalog) 9:15pm; Leatherface (2D/Horror) 10:30pmThe Son Of Bigfoot (2D/Animation) 4:00pm; Renegades (2D/Action) 4:00pmAmityville: The Awakening (2D/Horror) 7:30pm & 12:00midnightBlade Runner 2049 (2D/Thriller) 7:45, 9:00 & 11:30pm

LANDMARKPulikkaran Stara (2D/Malayalam) 2:30 & 9:15pm ; The Son Of Bigfoot (2D/Animation) 2:15 &4:00pm; My Pet Dinosaur (2D/Action) 2:30, 4:30 & 6:30pm; Raju Gari Gadhi 2 (2D/Telugu) 5:00pm Renegades (2D/Action) 7:15pm; Amityville: The Awakening (2D/Horror) 5:45pm; The Snowman (2D/Crime) 9:00pmParava (2D/Malayalam) 11:15pm; Last Night (2D/Tagalog) 7:15pm Blade Runner 2049 (2D/Thriller) 8:15 & 11:15pm; Leatherface (2D/Horror) 11:45pm

ROYAL PLAZA

ROXY

My Pet Dinosaur (2D/Action) 2:00 & 3:45 & 5:30pmAmityville: The Awakening (2D/Horror) 7:15 & 9:45pmBlade Runner 2049 (2D/Thriller) 7:00 & 9:00 & 11:30pm Parava (2D/Malayalam) 2:00 & 11:30pm; Pulikkaran Stara (2D/Malayalam) 4:30pm The Son Of Bigfoot (2D/Animation) 2:30pm; The Foreigner(2D/Thriller) 4:15pm ; Leatherface (2D/Horror) 6:15pm; Last Night (2D/Tagalog) 7:15pm; Renegades (2D/Action) 9:45pm; The Snowman (2D/Crime) 11:30pm

The Son Of Bigfoot (2D/Animation), 12:00, 2:00 & 4:00pm Renegades (2D/Action) 6:00, 8:15 &10:30pmBlade Runner (Thriller) 12:00noon, 3:15, 6:30, 9:45pm & 01:00am Pulikkaran Stara (2D/Malayalam) 12:00, 2:45, 5:30; 8:15pm & 11:00pm

ASIAN TOWNPulikkaran Stara (2D/Malayalam) 12:30; 315; 5:45, 8:30, 11:00pm &1:45am, Parava (2D/Malayalam) 12:30, 1:00, 3:00, 3:45, 5:45, 6:30, 8:15; 9:15, 11:00pm & 12:00; 1:30am Raju Gari Gadhi 2 (2D/Telugu) 1:00, 3:45 & 6:30pm

AL KHORParava (2D/Mal) 11:30am, 5:30, 8:30 & 11:30pm Pulikkaran Stara (2D/ Mal) 3:15, 9:00 & 11:45pm; Raju Gari Gadhi 2 (2D/Telugu) 3:30 & 9:00pm The Snowman (2D/Crime) 2:45; 7:15 & 11:45pm Leatherface (2D/Horror) 10:45am; 12:45, 5:15 & 9:45

PARAVA

CROSSWORD CONCEPTIS SUDOKU

ALL IN THE MIND

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11:30 Alex & Co. 11:55 Alex & Co. 12:20 Lolirock 14:25 K.C.

Undercover 15:40 Stuck In

The Middle 16:05 Liv And

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World 19:10 Disney

Mickey Mouse

19:15 Liv And Maddie

19:40 Elena Of Avalor

20:05 Jessie 20:30 Cracke 20:35 K.C.

Undercover

09:10 Rugged Justice

10:05 Wildest Islands Of Indonesia

13:45 Rugged Justice

14:40 Wildest Islands Of Indonesia

15:35 Untamed & Uncut

16:30 Treehouse Masters

17:25 Whale Wars18:20 Whale Wars19:15 Rugged

Justice20:10 Dark Days

In Monkey City

20:38 Dark Days In Monkey City

21:05 Whale Wars

09:00 Garage Gold

09:25 How Do They Do It?

12:47 Garage Gold

13:55 Deadliest Job Interview

14:40 Outback Truckers

15:25 Fast N’ Loud

19:40 How Do They Do It?

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21:00 What On Earth?

21:50 So You Think You’d Survive?

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BRAIN TEASERSTHURSDAY 12 OCTOBER 15

Yesterday’s answer

Conceptis Sudoku: Conceptis Sudoku

is a number-placing puzzle based on a

9×9 grid. The object is to place the

numbers 1 to 9 in the empty squares so

that each row, each column and each

3×3 box contains the same number

only once.

APUKWA, CHIBIABOS, GITCHE

MANITO, HIAWATHA, KABEYUN,

KABIBONOKKA, KEEWAYDIN,

KENABEEK, KWASIND,

LAUGHING WATER,

MEGISSOGWON,

MINJEKAHWUN, MINNEHAHA,

MONDAMIN, MUDJEKEEWIS,

NAWADAHA, NOKOMIS,

OSSEO, PONEMAH, PUKWANA,

SHAWONDASEE, SHINGEBIS,

TAWASENTHA, TUSCALOOSA,

WABASSO, WABUN,

WAWBEEK, WENONAH,

WYOMING, YENADIZZE.