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P 11 The spicy scent of Cape Verdian | cuisine wafts down its winding alleyways, past a colourful bric-a- brac of houses perched high above TECHNOLOGY Lisbon. Welcome to the infamous • What to do when Cova da Moura, Portugal’s answer pressing a key produces to the favelas of Brazil -- now turned the wrong result? tourist magnet. P | 12

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General view of the Cova da Moura neighbourhood of Amadora during a tourist sightseeing tour of the area on the outskirts of Lisbon.

By Brigitte Hagemann

he spicy scent of Cape Verdian cuisine wafts down its winding alleyways, where palm trees sway among a colourful bric-a-brac of Thouses perched high above Lisbon. Welcome to the infamous Cova da Moura, Portugal’s answer to the favelas of Brazil — now turned tourist magnet. Taxi drivers refuse to venture after dark into the belly of Cova da Moura, a drug-trafficker’s haven half an hour north of the capital that was long seen as one of Europe’s most dangerous slums. But by day tourists — around 1,000 a year including academics, architects and sociologists — are now will- ing to pay the five euro price for a tour of its narrow, Cova da Moura, history-filled streets. On this autumn day, a group of a dozen Germans stand poring over giant graffiti of Nelson Mandela and Martin Luther King. “These are idols for many of us,” explains their the Portuguese 27-year-old guide Reginaldo Spinola, originally from the once-Portuguese Cape Verde islands like three quarters of local residents. Inspired by the favela circuits launched in Brazil ‘favela’ turned in recent years, the visits have a twin goal: “to clean up the neighbourhood’s image as a drug and crime haven, and give the local economy a boost,” said Miguel Lourenco, who runs the tourism project “Sabura”. tourist magnet “This isn’t Montmartre or Barcelona’s gothic quar- ter, but our cultural heritage can take visitors into the world of Cape Verde, its food, crafts and music.” Baseball cap twisted backwards, Spinola shakes hands and exchanges a few words in Creole with neigh- bours, as he tells the story of Cova da Moura. “This is a little village of 7,000 people — everyone knows everyone else.” PLUS | SUNDAY 9 NOVEMBER 2014 3

Police raids are frequent by night, but Cova da Moura is considered safe to visit — with a local guide — after sunrise, and the gangs seem to have reached a tacit decision to leave the tourists alone.

Selling drugs for food Moura is a gateway to Europe,” demolition. without a licence. The first to settle the hill above Spinola said. “Ten years ago, city hall wanted Judging by the German tourists’ Lisbon were Portuguese returning Others — armed with Portuguese to tear down the neighbourhood reaction as they clap and cheer to from the colonies. But after Cape qualifications — have headed home and offer the land up to property a local rap video shot to denounce Verde’s independence in 1975, they to Cape Verde, even though life developers. It is very well located, police violence — the PR operation were joined by a mass influx of there is now twice as expensive as at the gates of Lisbon. is a success. immigrants who built homes there Portugal. “They organised a campaign of For Sabine Oster, a pharmacist illegally. Godelieve Meersschaert first slander on television to get people from Frankfurt, the tours “show Along with men and women from came to Cova da Moura from worked up against us,” she said. you the other side of Lisbon, former colonies Angola and Guinea Belgium in 1982, as a young psychol- So from there came the idea of instead of just visiting the same Bissau, they flocked to Portugal at a ogist looking for a new experience. opening up the area to tourists, old monuments.” time when it was hungry for cheap “I liked the neighbourhood, and to show another side of Cova da “Exploring Cova da Moura is labour. I’m still here,” she said. Moura. more than worthwhile,” she said. Forty years on, with the economic Together with her husband So how bright does the future crisis biting hard, Cova da Moura is Eduardo, originally from the Azores ‘Gold mine’ look for the neighbourhood? plagued with unemployment. Those islands, she founded an association Police raids are frequent by night, Although new waves of immi- who have work struggle as badly called Moinho da Juventude — Mill but Cova da Moura is considered grants continue to head to Cova paid labourers or cleaners. of Youth — which has been working safe to visit — with a local guide — da Moura, any new construction “A lot of young people sell drugs to improve local living conditions, after sunrise, and the gangs seem is banned. to put food on their families’ tables,” including fighting for access to run- to have reached a tacit decision to “When a local resident dies, if said Spinola. ning water and sewage. leave the tourists alone. his children live far away, the town Some have left to seek better These days, the soft-spoken One dealer even had an abortive demolishes his home,” said Spinola, fortune elsewhere, in Switzerland, 69-year-old is on a new mission go at a new career as a tour guide — gesturing at a patch of newly- Germany or France. “Cova da — to save Cova da Moura from before he was sent to jail for driving cleared land. “They want to knock down the neighbourhood,” he said. “It’s a gold mine for developers.” In the middle of the 2000s the Portuguese government tried to bring local crime under control, while funding a major literacy campaign. But in 2011, on the verge of bank- ruptcy, the state pulled out. “The authorities are no longer doing anything at all for Cova da Moura,” said the sociologist Elsa Casimiro, who has studied the neighbourhood and its close-knit community. “But the area will survive, because there is a great solidarity here.” AFP

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American School of Doha to stage Sweeney Todd

he American School of Doha T(ASD) High School Music and Drama Departments are bringing Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street to the stage; a 1979 musical with music and lyrics by Stephen Sondheim. This production, directed by Patricia Sands (ASD HS Drama Instructor) features Sen Huang (ASD grade 12 student) and Deana Taheri (ASD grade 11 student) as Sweeney Todd and Mrs Lovett, the most unlikely of partners. This includes a full Ideal Indian School (IIS) Taekwondo team with Principal Syed Shoukath Ali and team officials. IIS team bagged 9 gold, 3 cast of 36 plus over 40 stage- silver and 2 bronze medals and emerged as the Qatar Cluster champions in the CBSE Clusters Taekwondo Championship hands and crew members, all held recently. The team was trained by Martial Arts Coach Amazad Khan. students from The American School of Doha. To prepare for this produc- tion, the cast members held a live Skype master class and a Q&A session on Wednesday, October 22, with Alex Gemignani. Gemignani is a SIS marks Broadway actor and tenor and a Broadway regular. He per- Keralappiravi formed the role of Sweeney Todd in the 2007 national tour of the he 58th Keralappiravi was Broadway production, among celebrated with cultural pro- his many recent performances. Tgrammes depicting the tradi- This opportunity was arranged tions and customs of Kerala. by the Musical Director for the Students, guided by the production Stephanie Gravelle Malayalam department, presented (ASD HS Choral Instructor.) a cultural fiesta that comprised of Sweeney Todd is set on Fleet Thiruvathira, Opanna, Poem recita- Street in Victorian London and tion, Mapilapattu and Vallamkari. features the story of Benjamin Shareefudin brought alive the audi- Barker who seeks revenge ence with his compering. Shameem during the industrial revolu- welcomed the gathering. Principal, tion. Filled with wonderful and Dr Subhash Nair praised the per- memorable Sondheim tunes, formances of the students and the this popular production will efforts of the teachers. Abhirammi amaze you. Tickets are on sale Unnikrishnan presented the vote of now. More information email thanks. The Peninsula [email protected]. The Peninsula

Tennis tournament All Stars Tennis club kicked off the annual singles tournament for its members recently at the Aspire Tennis courts. The matches will be played on Friday and Saturday morning 7 to 10. Finals will be played on December 19. The club members play regularly at the Aspire courts. The club was formed three-year ago by a group of tennis loving residents in Qatar from various walks of life. The club conducts tennis camps for kids by bringing in experienced coaches. The picture shows some of the members on the first day of the tournament. COMMUNITY / MARKETPLACE PLUS | SUNDAY 9 NOVEMBER 2014 5

Painting workshop

A drawing and painting work- shop was conducted at Al Khor Community by Bharathi. Workshop was led by N Ravindran winner of “Beat the Drum award” for creat- ing best posters in Toastmaster International — Middle East-North Africa regional level for three times including this year. Workshop was conducted in three sessions for different age groups from 9am to 4pm. Skills like sketching, colour- ing, water colour painting were demonstrated to more than 150 children.

Condolence meeting condolence meeting will be A held in remembrance of the son of prominent Pakistani expatri- ate Nazakat Ali Khan, today at the Dakkan hall on Rayyan road. His son Fraz Ali Khan (18) died in an accident in Lahore, Pakistan recently. He was turning home with friends after attending a cultural fair and was hit by a car on an overhead bridge in Lahore. Fraz succumbed Qatar Culinary Professionals to injuries. Nazakat is the chief organiser of Punjab music group in Qatar. The Peninsula David Sossom (second right), President of Qatar Culinary Professionals, and Gissur Gudmundssi (fourth left), President World Chefs, with Executive Committee Members at the launch of Qatar Culinary Professionals recently.

Manweir hosts Technology Symposium

anweir, a wholly owned subsidiary of Mannai Principals and service partners of Manweir par- adhering to ethical code of integrity and trust in busi- MCorporation, hosted its first Technology ticipated in the event are Zenith structural access ness relationships,” said Khalid Mannai, Executive Symposium at the Marriott Marquis. The sympo- solutions, Jacobi –activated carbons, EC Works, Director, Mannai Corporation. sium was attended by over 200 delegates from Oil Cyberhawk , Fishbones , QuickFlange , Gulf stra- “Manweir strongly believes in building relation- & Gas, Petrochemical, Power, Infrastructure and tegic partners ,Verwater, Delta fluids , Tranter and ship with its clients which is a key for long term Marine sectors. Through this symposium, Manweir Siemens . sustained growth. Through this event, we demon- along with its global principals and service partners “Manweir stands firm on its commitments in strated Manweir’s capabilities which have been built showcased its capabilities of over 40 specialised serv- meeting and exceeding the expectations of their over the last 4 decades,” said Michael Rau, General ices through exhibition, product demos and over 20 customers, employees and community by provid- Manager of Manweir. technology seminars. ing a rewarding, safe, and stable work environment, The Peninsula 6 PLUS | SUNDAY 9 NOVEMBER 2014 WHEELS

By Hannah Elliott

ou’d think a 400-pound, 1,200 cc motorcycle would feel heavy to ride. You’d Ythink that its great dead weight would lumber and lurch and lull against any impulse for flight. You’d think. Instead, the 2014 Ducati Monster 1200S is alive with the same élan that flows through the veins of a dres- sage champion. Like the quivering withers of a muscled warmblood, its sculpted fuel tank, arched seat, and potent haunches display the enor- mous power — and beautiful disci- pline — contained therein. Just one trip on this animal and you won’t forget the ride. I rode the latest addition to Ducati’s flagship Monster line for two weeks throughout New York City, using it to commute to offices in the West Village and Midtown Manhattan, to explore Chinatown and Harlem, and to speed up the West Side Highway and through the empty streets of outer Brooklyn. It was basically the type of varied, Power weds Italian style in day-to-day riding Ducati says this Monster is meant to handle with ease. (Spoiler: It did.) Even at 400 pounds the 1200S the Ducati Monster 1200S is the lightest motorcycle in its class — as compared to the 417- pound KTM 1290 Superduke or a turns or attacking straightaways, be, the truth is I could find nothing suspension, carbon-fiber mud guards, true hog in a different style, like the the 1200S thrusts forward without of significance to complain about. and Y-pattern wheels come standard 670-pound Harley- Davidson Street hesitation. It’s pricey, yes, and no one needs a exclusively with the S package. It Bob — but don’t mistake its nim- One thing that has endeared Ducati. But if you’re going to shell affords an additional 10 horsepower ble character and lean sinews as a Ducati to generations of riders — out nearly 20 Gs on a motorcycle, and 1 kg-m torque over the straight compromise to prowess. Riding this and one of the things that justifies its and you want something you can 1200 variant. As with any Monster bike means feeling it gather itself as $15,995 price tag — is the company’s use every day without getting sick of bike, ABS, traction control, and three you shift and then smoothly, eagerly exceptional devotion to design. Spend odd riding positions (like crazy street drive modes are standard. surge forward when the throttle an afternoon talking with Ducati bikes or weird bobbers) or eventu- Also standard, a “Park” function opens. It gives exceptional power the North America CEO Cristiano ally outgrow as a rider (in terms of on the ignition barrel — and potential instant you ask. Silei and you’ll walk away marvel- your skills surpassing the engine’s Achilles’ heel. (Veteran Ducati riders, Credit that precise control to its ling at how much he loves beautiful size/capabilities), this is the bike for you know where I’m going with this.) Testastretta 11° L-Twin 145-horse- things. To him, bikes are the ultimate you. There’s a reason the Monster One unintentional full turn left, where power engine. For decades Ducati expression of form following function. has been Ducati’s best-selling model “lock” rests for other bikes, engages used air-cooled engines in its “We don’t make commodities,” he for years. a parking light that Murphy’s Law Monsters, but this year introduced told me during one impassioned con- But I digress. states you will definitely not notice in in the series the same second-gener- versation about Ducati’s consumers. Supremely calibrated suspen- daylight. It’s a superfluous example of ation water-cooled technology found “They choose to live a lifestyle that sion and steel handlebars situated excessive features getting in the way of on the Multistrada 1200 and Diavel. goes only with the motorcycle we relatively high and close to the rider good common sense use. Translation: (The update will get you 18,000 miles produce.” optimise the ergonomics. As does the I found myself walking home one hot between services.) That attitude inhabits the 1200S. dual capacity, adjustable seat ideal afternoon. (Although in my defense, Ducati also redesigned the dual From the solid knee panels along the for riders around 6 feet tall (front the following week a senior spokesman spark plugs for quicker combustion tank and the unmistakable profile of seat height adjusts from 30.9 to 31.9 from a well-known motorcycle com- and developed a new air system simi- its 17.5- litre (4.6 gallon) gas tank to inches) and passengers around 5 pany also committed the same error. lar to the one on that 1199 Panigale. the (new) racing-derived steel trel- foot 8 inches. I’m 5 foot 10 inches Inadvertent battery drain can happen It shrank all of its air ducts, intake lis frame connected directly to the tall, without a lot of extra weight on to anyone.) manifolds, throttle bodies, and pipes. bike’s cylinder heads, it looks very my frame, and the bike fit as if it Another small nit-pick: The These improvements optimise air- “Monster.” Expect big grins and sur- had been made to measure. Another Monster is hot, in more ways than flow and increase the torque you feel reptitious iPhone photos when riding blessing, should a friend convince one. Touch one of the twin aluminum in the lower of its six speeds when this beauty through the streets. I’d you to share the fun: The rear seat mufflers while you wait in traffic and you ride. Not that slower speeds are be lying if I said it wouldn’t boost has an easily removable cover, low risk searing your skin for life. Other really this Monster’s cup of tea. He’ll your ego. footpegs, and handles integrated bikes are not as hot. (Also in more rumble and snort in protest when This motorcycle will work for rid- underneath. ways than one.) So please avoid buy- you downshift and brake. ers who own only one such plaything The 1200S comes painted either in ing the 1200S if most of your riding Coming to the 1200S after hav- — and frankly, you may not want to all red or in a white gas tank with a time involves sub-15-mph crawls. ing ridden a Kawasaki dirt bike own anything else. It is fast and light bronze frame. The dual exhaust tips Fighting congestion isn’t this stallion’s for a week (which was surprisingly enough for daily errands and social- are blacked-out for added effect, idea of a good time. fun, but that’s a story for another izing but comfortable enough to ride as are the glossy black aluminum The Ducati Monster 1200S costs column), it’s tough to overstate the over considerable distances. wheels. $15,995 in US. It’s available now in excitement I felt in dominating this At the risk of sounding more Race-caliber Brembo brakes, dealerships worldwide. kind of power. Whether rolling off enthused than an auto critic should electronic fuel-injection, Öhlins WP-Bloomberg BOOKS PLUS | SUNDAY 9 NOVEMBER 2014 7 Feri Lainscek on Facebook writing

By Zoran Radosavljevic Internet age. Could the Internet spell the end lovenia’s best-selling author How did you decide to publish of literature and books as we know Feri Lainscek published 35 chapters of your new novel on them? most of his 21st novel, Fear Facebook? No. I have no fear because I believe Sfor Butterflies in the Storm, in It was the idea of interactive engage- in the story. The story is what matters, instalments on Facebook over several ment that tickled me. But, paradoxi- everything else is just a form, medium. months this year. cally, it became more akin to a classic Music survived the downfall of the It was an attempt to interact with literary supplement, except that sup- CD and still goes on. his readers and share what he had plements do not allow readers to com- Electronic media can only help the written almost in real time, but the ment. But even there, the readers did stories travel more efficiently... When final chapters will only be published not really try to give advice or disagree I was a school boy, I used to read by when the book comes out this month. or change the plot. They came to see the light of a kerosene lamp and my Set in the 1970s, when Slovenia was this as a novel in instalments, or a TV mom would say ‘You’ll ruin your eyes part of communist Yugoslavia, and series, and just continued reading and and you’ll amount to nothing, all you in 1991, during its brief war for inde- cheering for the heroes. So in the end do is read books’. pendence, the plot follows a Slovenian there was not as much interactivity as Today moms tell their children student, Marko, as he serves in the I had hoped for. Some told me ‘Wow, ‘You’ll ruin your eyes and you’ll amount Yugoslav People’s Army in Serbia and great marketing move’, but for me it to nothing. All you do is stare at the falls in love with Ljiljana, a Serb from was about experimenting with this computer’. Belgrade. medium, with something new. Some 20 years later, as communism How did you take up writing? is collapsing in Europe and Yugoslavia Do you plan any more web-based I did not become a writer because I is falling apart, he will learn that a laugh, sitting in his cozy writing loft projects? read a lot but because I listened a lot. Ljiljana gave birth to their child, a son in Murska Sobota, a town tucked away I really enjoyed this one so I don’t I come from a poor family where there she named Marko. Young Marko is in the northeastern corner of Slovenia. think it’s my last web experiment. I was no electricity, no TV or radio or now doing his own military service in “The novel is a metaphor for have written several popular poem anything to connect us with the outside the Yugoslav army, which has rolled Yugoslavia’s disintegration. Butterflies collections. world. But fortunately my mom and out tanks to crush Slovenia’s drive for are the young men who fought in One of them sold 12,000 copies, dad were great storytellers and there independence. Yugoslav, Croatian, Serbian, Bosnian which is a huge figure for Slovenia. were so many great stories. That’s how The more than 2,000 readers who troops. The break-up wasn’t happy, I am tempted by the idea of putting I came to know that it is stories that followed the novel on Facebook have there were thousands of dead and the sound recordings of my poetry onto explain how the world is made, what yet to find out if father and son will ending cannot be happy. So ladies, pre- the Internet. That’s how I could tran- it’s all about. Stories did not start trav- meet, but Lainscek cautioned against pare your handkerchiefs.” scend the boundary of written poetry. elling with Gutenberg, nor will they expecting a happy ending. Lainscek, 55, whose work has been Through the Internet I can get close to disappear at the end of the “My readers always want me to translated into several languages the reader with my voice. It could be Gutenberg era. As long as they keep write a happy ending and I can only including English, shared his views a recording, video-conferencing or live travelling, regardless of the medium, say I’ve failed once again,” he said with about the future of literature in the streaming of ‘poetry evenings’. humanity will go on. Reuters

up on the eve of World War Two. Amazon described its third choice, In the Kingdom Everything I Never of Ice, as the ultimate adventure story with a touch of romance and intrigue. It chronicles the battle Told You is Amazon’s for survival of the crew of a polar exploration ship trapped in ice in the early 1880s. The Short and Tragic Life of Robert Pearce: A book of the year Brilliant Young Man Who Left Newark for the Ivy League” a reported memoir by Jeff Hobbs about By Patricia Reaney his best friend, was fourth on the list. “It is about a young African American man who came up through the roughest parts of Newark and verything I Never Told You, the debut novel by by his sheer brilliance and will got himself to Yale,” author Celeste Ng about a teenage girl grow- said Nelson. Eing up in a mixed race family in the American National Book Award finalist Phil Klay’s Midwest in the 1970s, was named Amazon’s best Redeployment, a book of short stories about the wars book of 2014 yesterday. in Iraq and Afghanistan, rounded out the top five. It topped the list of 100 good reads, which included Editors at Amazon selected the 100 from its list fiction and non-fiction works, selected by editors at of monthly favourites and any other noteworthy the online retailer. books. It also compiled top 20 lists in more than two “It is a beautiful book about a family,” Sara Nelson, dozen categories such as mystery/thriller, humor/ editorial director of books and Kindle at Amazon. entertainment, young readers and cookbook and com, said about the novel. “The characterizations lifestyle. are moving. The people are very interesting.” “We look for things that make us excited,” said All the Light We Cannot See by Anthony Doerr, a Nelson. finalist for the National Book Award which will be The top 10 list includes two debut books and four announced on November 19 in New York, came in a works by women. very close second, followed by the polar expedition Stephen King’s horror novel, Rival, also made story In the Kingdom of Ice: The Grand and Terrible the top 10, coming in at No. 6, as did National Book Polar Voyage of the USS Jeannette by Hampton Sides Award finalist Emily St. John Mandel, whose Station at No. 3. Eleven, an apocalyptic novel about a theatre troupe We Were Liars was the No. 1 for teen and young “He is an amazing writer. Every sentence is a in the aftermath of a pandemic, which was tenth. adult readers and The Slanted Door: Modern beautiful construction,” Nelson said about Doerr, an Amazon selected The Pigeon Needs a Bath as its Vietnamese Food was the best cookbook. award-winning author whose book tells the story of best children’s picture book and The Fourteenth The full list can be found at www.amazon.com/ two extraordinary young people in Europe growing Goldfish as its top book for 9- to 12-year olds. bestbooks2014 Reuters 8 PLUS | SUNDAY 9 NOVEMBER 2014 ENTERTAINMENT PLUS | SUNDAY 9 NOVEMBER 2014 9

NEWS it to “be like we’re in New York, we’re own sake. BOLLYWOOD NEWS HOLLYWOOD at a party and there’s a hundred peo- Few filmmakers test their audiences’ ple in the room they want to escape,” tolerance as aggressively as Alex Ross Hollywood, we have a Klyce explained in an interview with the Perry, whose last film, The Color Wheel, I’m a work in progress: JLo website Mixonline. “He was constantly followed two unhappy, unfunny, thor- The Shaukeens: A rib-tickling pushing us to amp up the sound effects oughly unpleasant siblings on a desul- inger-actress Jennifer Lopez describes herself as a “work in progress”! problem: Dialogue is and he really wanted to feel that texture tory road trip (ending with a de rigueur rumbustious comedy She says she’s learning to appreciate herself before going on to find throughout.” transgressive flourish). In Perry’s Listen S By Subhash K Jha love with someone else. Fincher used the same technique in Up Philip, Jason Schwartzman stars as a “I would describe the woman I am today as a work in progress, a ‘WIP’! The Social Network, most memorably in similarly self-absorbed, misanthropic fig- And this was the beginning of what I think is going to be a life-long jour- getting harder to hear a scene set at a San Francisco night- ure, a Philip Roth-like author who spends Film: The Shaukeens ney of being content and happy with myself,” the 45-year-old told E! News, club, where Mark Zuckerberg (Jesse the entire movie verbally and emotionally Cast: Akshay Kumar, Anupam Kher, Piyush Mishra, Annu Kapoor and reports femalefirst.co.uk. Eisenberg) can barely hear a pitch from abusing his friends and colleagues. Lisa Haydon The singer said she has to know “how great” she is and believes everyone By Ann Hornaday investor Sean Parker (Justin Timberlake) As a sour portrait of artistic ego run Director: Abhishek Sharma needs to know how great they are. “All of the things I’m involved with, the words, unlike Inception, which left over the din of disco music and clinking amok, Listen Up Philip possesses its share have the same message and it’s that you must love yourself first, that the y now, audiences eager to me wondering to this day exactly what glasses. What Fincher was going for, he of mordant humour, along with a moving ho says remakes can never be as good as the originals? Abhishek love that you’re looking for is inside you,” she said. see Interstellar, Christopher Ken Watanabe was saying. Then there’s explained to Mixonline, was “a certain performance from Elisabeth Moss and a Sharma’s new-age rendering of Basu Chatterjee’s Shaukeen is a Lopez believes that everybody should be their own “most-important” Nolan’s hotly anticipated the notorious case of The Dark Knight realistic density.” gorgeous production design that includes Wsmartened-up avatar of the original. It’s the smartphone of the person in their lives and put themselves before others. Bspace epic starring Matthew Rises and Tom Hardy’s Bane character, If Fincher can be admired for his devo- some imaginary book jackets that evoke current generation as compared with landline version of the comedy that “That sounds like a weird thing sometimes but it’s so real, and when you McConaughey, Jessica Chastain and whose vocalisations were so impossible tion to aural realism, his and Nolan’s their eras with wonderfully spot-on fonts. Chatterjee made over 30 years ago. can really appreciate the person you are — not what you’ve accomplished, Anne Hathaway, have heard the word to discern in an early trailer that Nolan push-me-pull-you approach to sound But Perry’s enterprise — to see how far Thanks to Tigmanshu Dhulia and Sai Kabir’s writing, the characters are not the money that you have — none of that, just the girl you are — that on the movie, which has received mixed- reportedly — grudgingly — re-recorded also exemplifies a dark side to auteur- he can take such a contemptible charac- spunkier and more rounded even when they appear to be as curvaceous person is just a good, funny, generous loving person. to-positive reviews. his vocal track. ism, wherein a director insists on strong- ter — betrays his own contempt for an as Haydon. “You always have to be the most important (person in your life). That’s The unanswered question is whether When it comes to overseasoning the arming his audience to the absolute brink audience he believes should somehow be In principle, The Shaukeens hijacks only the basic idea of the original film. what love is,” she added. they’ll hear a word in the movie. sonic soup, Nolan is in good company: — and sometimes beyond — of not just punished for wanting to care about the Three 60-plus men get lustfully attracted to a PYT (pretty young thing). At one point, Lopez felt everyone “hated” her. In what is becoming a distressingly Many people who went to see Gone Girl comfort, but coherence. people they’re watching. Incidentally, the PYT from Basu-da’s film has now metamorphosed into a “We have a tendency to focus on the negative and I let that work on my predictable ritual for Nolan’s movies, found themselves straining to make out All too often, the privileges of being Admittedly, Perry has staked out sad boring housewife in The Shaukeens. A tragic bit of self-reference that self-esteem. I was always thinking that people didn’t like me, they just hated Interstellar has been dinged in recent just what Ben Affleck and Rosamund considered a visionary translate into an extreme position in regards to the makes no sense. me. It’s such a ridiculous notion, we tend to do this to ourselves,” she said. weeks by critics and other gadflies for Pike’s characters were saying during a believing that the filmmaking fundamen- very audience that keeps him in busi- But we are digressing. The three over-the-hill lechers in The Shaukeens, a muddy, thuddingly loud sound design, pivotal scene when their characters meet tals of sense, clarity and concision don’t ness (both The Color Wheel and Listen played by Anupam Kher, Annu Kapoor and Piyush Mishra, are as danger- in which Hans Zimmer’s booming score at a New York cocktail party. Like Nolan, apply. Viewers could find value in the Up Philip recently played at the New ous as a child with a toy gun. A tone of ironical self-mocking bravado runs (he’s all about that bass) and similarly Gone Girl’s director, David Fincher, is most confounding passages of Terrence York Film Festival). But his stance is a throughout the two-hour comic celebration of the wrinkled libido. thumping sound effects render spoken well known for his densely layered sound Malick’s The Tree of Life (which son was familiar one, especially in the art-film Not that Dhulia’s writing and Sharma’s astutely tongue-in-cheek direc- When Radcliffe drank antifreeze dialogue a submerged garble. The sound mixes, which in this case included lots of Sean Penn, again?) or the gnomic whis- world, where the audience is treated tion spare the childlike-oldies the rod. There are some scenes of embar- was “so bassy and woofer-throbby and “walla” (background chatter) and a cap- pers of To the Wonder and still think both either with indifference, ambivalence or rassing humiliation meted out to the prowling trio — for instance, the one Actor Daniel Radcliffe says that he almost poisoned himself by drink- aimed at my rib cage that I couldn’t tivating musical score by Trent Reznor would have benefited from more rigorous outright antagonism. As an independ- where a girl on a deserted Delhi road reacts violently to their leching. Ling antifreeze on the set of his latest movie Horns. hear half the dialogue,” complained and Atticus Ross. editing. ent film producer admitted last weekend More power to the actors’s sporting spirit. All three actors give off their During a chat with TV host Conan O’Brien, the actor says he was lucky Hollywood Elsewhere’s Jeffery Wells According to Fincher’s longtime sound Whereas Malick seems interested in at the Middleburg Film Festival, when best performances portraying their characters with a mix of childlike to escape death after consuming a cup of water containing the chemical after an October screening. “My ears designer Ren Klyce, Fincher purpose- exploring how much narrative content he asked what he thought the audience was guilelessness and over-ripened curiosity. additive, reports dailymail.co.uk. felt left out, not to mention the part of fully broke the usual rule of upping the can withhold without sacrificing mean- for one of his films, “I don’t really think I specially loved Piyush Mishra’s home life. A bland manufacturer of a While filming the horror-comedy in Canada, he was unaware that the my brain that enjoys hearing words and volume on Affleck and Pike’s dialogue ing, others have made it their artistic about the audience when I’m producing masala brand, his two sons are shown to come forward one at time each potent substance had been added to water to ensure it wouldn’t freeze, sentences.” in the scene, the better to re-create the mission to offend and outrage their view- a film. Maybe I should.” evening, the first to offer him his meal and the other a choice between a and he also didn’t realise that it was possibly the cause of an illness he When Interstellar screened earlier this real-life distracting thrill and thrum of ers, not in service to any higher ideal or It’s understandable that, for some blue and white pyjama. had previously suffered. week, I was actually able to hear most of a Manhattan soiree. Fincher wanted social message but as an exercise for its filmmakers, being conscious of the These are lives awaiting excitement. Mauritius and Lisa Haydon provide “It is very cold in Canada and as a solution to that, because they don’t audience’s enjoyment has become tan- that much-needed break from ennui in the three elderly thrill-seekers’ lives. want the water to freeze in the pipes in the trailers overnight, they put tamount to pandering: In Hollywood, Haydon, full of trivialised existential problems about the number of ‘likes’ antifreeze in it,” he said. movies are habitually test-marketed on Facebook and other puerile prattle, plays her unselfconscious hottie’s “So it’s all non-potable water that comes out the tap. I did not know and focus-grouped into a bland mush, role with the required amount of innocence and sauciness. that, so I drank a full cup of non-potable water ... so I guess like half- their distributors shamelessly catering Rather than indulge the lechers, the narrative mocks them without let- antifreeze or whatever it would have been. to their target demographic’s every ting them know. That’s the film’s primary victory. But the main-stay of The “I didn’t realise, and then I got horrendously ill and didn’t know why whim. But the slavish catering to Shaukeens and the reason why this film must be seen is Akshay Kumar. I had become so ill, and a couple of weeks later I went to drink a glass of mainstream tastes has created its own Playing an bored water in hair and makeup and they were like, ‘What are you doing? Don’t reflexive bias, with filmmakers believ- and cranky ver- do that, that’s crazy you can’t drink that water!’,” he added. ing that they must either disregard or sion of himself, After realising the additive was the cause of Daniel’s near-death expe- alienate their audiences to be taken Akshay quite rience, he raced back to his trailer on the set to discover it hadn’t been seriously. (It’s the same sensibility that simply takes fitted with signs telling him not to drink the water. dismisses anything that endeavours to over the show, Luckily, the British actor suffered no lasting damage from the incident, be accessible or, heaven forbid, optimis- bringing into and he has recently been busy promoting the new movie. tic, as hopelessly middlebrow.) play the kind So far, viewers have been surprisingly of self-depre- forgiving of the directors who get off on catory humour toying with their eardrums and expec- that we have tations: Having already earned almost not seen any Heidi Montag offers Bynes a place to stay $150m at the box office, Gone Girl is on Bollywood its way to becoming the most commer- superstar inger Heidi Montag offered Amanda Bynes a place to stay after photos cially successful film of Fincher’s career. indulge in. Sof the troubled actress sleeping at the Beverly Center in Los Angeles Interstellar is tracking similarly well for There are scenes showing Akshay Kumar the star, targeting himself as a were released. Nolan. It’s gratifying that what easily non-actor, surrounded by yes-men and minions who smirk and cheat behind Earlier in the day, Bynes tweeted that she wasn’t given money for a hotel could have been generic blockbusters are his back. Look out for Cyrus Broacha as the star secretary, Mohan Joshi as from her parents, so she has been staying with friends and fell asleep on being tackled by filmmakers of distinc- the star-director and Kavin Dave as an on-location fixer. This could have the mall couch, reports nypost.com. “I was not given money for a hotel so tive, even risk-taking vision. But they been a tragic saga of a superstar’s isolation from reality. Instead, Akshay i have been staying with friends and i didn’t get enough sleep last night should have long since realized that the turns the whole stardom game into an inhouse joke. so I fell asleep on a couch,” she posted. choice between pleasing themselves and This is Akshay’s best performance in recent years. He adds considerably Montag posted on micro-blogging site Twitter Friday, offering Bynes pleasing their audience is a false one. to the film’s comic quotient. As do the three veteran actors with perform- a place to stay: “@amandabynes you are more then welcome to crash in Push-me-pull-you is a perfectly legiti- ances that go beyond the bawdy. our guest house in Santa Barbara if you need somewhere to stay! DM mate artistic gambit, but pleasure — and The Shaukeens is a rib-tickling rumbustious sleaze-less comedy that me!” she tweeted. plain old comprehensibility — deserve to Basu Chatterjee is likely to smile at. It’s bound to make you laugh out loud. be part of the game as well. IANS WP-Bloomberg 10 PLUS | SUNDAY 9 NOVEMBER 2014 TECHNOLOGY

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arents managing their preschoolers’ food allergies should also be alert to the need Young kids with food allergies for their kids to have chances to solve Pother kinds of problems, suggests a new study. may learn helplessness “I think the biggest take home message is to just be careful that you don’t let the real need to supervise and keep your child safe interfere with letting your child develop independence,” said we eventually get kids to the Linda Dahlquist, who led the research. point where they can take About 4 percent of children in the US have life- care of themselves and threatening food allergies that require parents their healthcare condi- to constantly monitor what their children eat. tion by themselves.” Dahlquist, a psychology researcher at the Dahlquist cautioned University of Maryland in Baltimore, and her that she doesn’t want colleagues looked at whether that high level of to “over-conclude” parental involvement might spill over into other from her results, areas and prevent kids from learning the skills adding that parents to solve their own problems. should just be alert For their experiment, Dahlquist and her col- to the potential for leagues recruited 66 children with food allergies their allergic kids to between the ages of three and six years old, 67 have an issue with children of the same ages without food allergies problem solving. as well as all of the children’s mothers. “(The findings) just The researchers asked the children to work on suggest to me that proc- two different puzzles — an easy age-appropriate ess could be challenging puzzle with eight pieces and a difficult one with and if parents could watch 41 pieces meant for older children. out for it ahead of time, The mothers were told to let the kids work on maybe they would catch it the puzzles by themselves, but they could provide early before it becomes prob- help if their child asked. Meanwhile, the study requests lematic and just be sure their chil- team videotaped the children and their moth- for help with dren get opportunities to try things ers to watch their interactions as the children the easy puz- on their own and really develop the con- worked on each puzzle for six minutes. zle by telling their fidence that comes from having some chances The authors found that 39 percent of the three- mothers the puzzle was too of failure and then succeeding,” Dahlquist said. and four-year-olds with food allergies made indirect hard or that they couldn’t do it. Only 14 percent of Dr Peggy Scallon, a child and adolescent psycholo- the younger kids without food allergies made similar gist at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, said requests. that kids who don’t develop a sense of autonomy In addition, the mothers of the young kids with may start to fall behind their peers, have lower self- food allergies were more likely to provide unneces- esteem, strained relationships with family members Asthma could affect sary help with the easy puzzles. and be more irritable and anxious. The researchers didn’t see any differences in “Parents should be aware of their child’s ability and entire body, not just lungs requests for help among the five- and six-year-olds scaffold that child’s skills in moving to the next level sthma could be more dangerous than with and without allergies. - they should be anticipating the next step in their Apreviously thought as researchers have There were also no differences between the groups independence,” Scallon said. “They should be reading found that it could affect the whole body, not of kids in the number of indirect requests for help the child’s cues and then anticipating the next level just the lungs. with the more difficult puzzle or the number of of self-help skills and helping them prepare for that.” “Asthma is a very widespread disease, and direct requests for help for either puzzle, according Scallon, who wasn’t involved in the study, sug- we show for the first time an association to the results published in the Journal of Pediatric gests speaking to the child’s primary care doctor between asthma and genotoxicity in periph- Psychology. if parents have any concerns about their children’s eral blood,” said Robert Schiestl, senior author The authors suggest that the higher rate of indi- development. and professor at the University of California, rect requests for help from the younger children Dahlquist said that most child clinical physiologists Los Angeles in the US. with food allergies could reflect an early pattern of would also be able to help evaluate the child and see if This is important because it shows not only helplessness in problem solving. there are any concerns or if developmental progress damage to the lungs but the whole-body effect “We really need to be thinking about how to help is not being made. due to asthma, Schiestl added. give our kids the skills they need to be independ- SOURCE: bit.ly/ZTVc2V Journal of Pediatric Researchers looked for the overexpression ent of their parents, and that’s true in any chronic Psychology, online October 17, 2014. of a cytokine called interleukin 13 (IL-13), illness,” Dahlquist said. “The challenge is how do Reuters which is known to mediate inflammation for people with asthma. According to Schiestl, it appears that IL-13 increases important elements of the inflam- Second-hand smoke leads to obesity, says study matory response, including free radicals. Free radicals is an atom or group of atoms ebunking a long-held popular belief that smoking cigarettes helps keep one slim, researchers that has at least one unpaired electron and Dhave now found that even second hand exposure to cigarette smoke can cause weight gain. is therefore unstable and highly reactive. In “For people who are in a home with a smoker, particularly children, the increased risk of car- animal tissues, free radicals can damage cells. dio-vascular or metabolic problems is massive,” said Benjamin Bikman, author and professor of The team found four different markers of Physiology and Developmental Biology at the Brigham Young University (BYU), Utah in the US. DNA damage and one marker of protein dam- For the study, researchers exposed laboratory mice to second-hand smoke and followed their age in blood cells in the body periphery. metabolic progression. “This could indicate that other organs in Those exposed to smoke put on weight. asthmatics have a higher risk of developing The researchers found the smoke triggered a tiny lipid called ceramide that leads to disruption disease,” Schiestl concluded. of normal cell function by inhibiting the cells’ ability to respond to insulin. The findings were published in the jour- “Once someone becomes insulin resistant, their body needs more insulin. And any time you have nal Mutation Research — Fundamental and insulin go up, you have fat being made in the body,” said Paul Reynolds, co-researcher from BYU. Molecular Mechanisms of Mutagenesis. The study was published in the American Journal of Physiology: Endocrinology and Metabolism. 12 PLUS | SUNDAY 9 NOVEMBER 2014 TECHNOLOGY

What to do when pressing a key produces the wrong result?

Kingdom. After that, click the tab for Keyboards and Languages, and then the button for Change Keyboards. This will allow you to add or remove a keyboard and set the default input language. (You have two keyboards: the Toshiba laptop has one built in.) Another tab refers to the Language Bar, which is used for switching between languages. This is usually By Jack Schofield and see a # appear instead. docked in the taskbar, where you can easily get to it. If you have the location and the language set cor- I have a Microsoft Professional keyboard Extended keyboards rectly, and a suitable driver installed, the keyboard plugged into a Toshiba laptop running Windows Further problems can arise with extended key- should work correctly. However, keys can be changed 7. When I press the delete key, I get a hash symbol boards that provide keys for opening programs or to do different things by editing the Windows regis- (#). The delete key does work, but adds a # every controlling media events that weren’t standard key try. Perhaps your delete key has been remapped by time it moves backwards. It’s driving me nuts. assignments on typewriters or early computer ter- a program or by accident or by some odd registry Stephen minals. For example, a “media keyboard” may have corruption. extra keys for things like play/pause, volume up, and e’re used to the idea that you can plug any volume down. In these cases, Windows will need a Changing what keys do keyboard into any Windows PC, but not suitable device driver. If Windows recognises the key- The simplest way to change keyboard mappings is, Weverything will work every time. It cer- board, it may provide one. If not, you can download as mentioned, to use a free utility that will change tainly helps if you set things up correctly, but if that one from the supplier’s website. the registry for you. This avoids having to grap- fails, there are several utilities that let you change In this case, I’m not sure which keyboard you ple with HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\ the key assignments. For example, if you keep hitting have, but I suspect it’s a Microsoft Digital Media Pro CurrentControlSet\Control\Keyboard Layout. caps lock or F1 by mistake, you can reprogram those USB keyboard. If so, you can download the correct Well known examples include SharpKeys, keys to do something else, or nothing. driver, IntelliType 8.2 64-bit for Windows 7, from KeyTweak, and MapKeyboard. I’d start with If a key is producing the wrong response, check Microsoft’s website. If not, search for the exact name SharpKeys but use whatever works for you. Note, that Windows has the correct settings for your loca- of the model you have, or look through Microsoft’s however, that success is not guaranteed: some tion and the language used by your keyboard. UK list. Most drivers are self-installing, but they can be “non standard” keys are controlled by drivers and keyboards obviously have a different layout from installed manually. Windows can’t redirect those. French and German keyboards, but the most com- As always, don’t do things you can’t undo. You SharpKeys is a simple program that provides two mon problems are due to the much smaller differ- should always have a current backup of your work, lists of keys: “From” keys on the left and “To” keys ences between UK and US settings. UK users want and before changing Windows, you should create a on the right. Select the key you want to change on a pound (£) sign, which was not part of the original “restore point” so that you can easily return your PC the left hand side, and then select what you want standard ASCII character set. The double-quote (“) to its current state. the key to do on the right. After changing any keys, and ampersand (@) keys are also swapped. Now, open the control panel, find the entry for click the “write to Registry” button and then restart For future reference, if both UK and US layouts “Clock, Language and Region” and click where it says your PC for the changes to take effect. are available, you can swap between them by press- “Change keyboards or other input methods” to bring MapKeyboard is a very small program that doesn’t ing left alt-shift. It’s very easy to do this by accident, up the Properties sheet. Next, click the Location tab need to be installed, and it’s based on a graphical rep- which is probably why so many people hit the £ sign to make sure your location is set correctly, eg United resentation of a standard keyboard. The drawback is that this probably doesn’t match the keyboard you have. Also, it doesn’t include special hotkeys, but it Apple blocks malicious software on iPhones does include some small advertisements. KeyTweak 2.30 is a more sophisticated (but aban- By Alex Hern doned) program that also provides a drawing of a keyboard, but it can handle “speciality” keys. It also Apple says it has blocked Wirelurker, the first piece of malware able to infect iOS devices and applica- has a “teach mode”, though it’s still not as easy to tions which have not been jailbroken. Identified by security researchers Palo Alto Networks on Wednesday, use as SharpKeys. the malware has been spotted shipping alongside pirated copies of Chinese Mac apps, before jumping to Of course, the ultimate in keyboard tweaking is the iPhones and iPads over a USB cable. Apple says that it is “aware of malicious software available from free Microsoft Keyboard Layout Creator (MSKLC). a download site aimed at users in China, and we’ve blocked the identified apps to prevent them from This would be handy if you needed to create a key- launching.” board to handle more than one language, or one of the The company did not elaborate on how it is carrying out the blocking, but did emphasise that “as languages that Windows 7 doesn’t support. (Wolof, always, we recommend that users download and install software from trusted sources”. Cherokee and Scottish Gaelic, for example, are only The infected apps were discovered on the Maiyadi App Store, a third-party application store based supported in Windows 8.) I mention it for complete- in China which is largely filled with pirated and unauthorised copies of major apps, such as Dropbox, ness, but it would be overkill for your purposes. Spideroak and Autodesk. Wirelurker works by abusing capabilities in Apple’s operating systems designed Finally, there’s AutoHotKey. Not only can it remap to enable large enterprises to install their own applications on employees’ devices. That enables the keys, it can assign macro programs to them. You can malware to not only scrape data from affected users’ iOS devices, but even go so far as to install third- use AutoHotKey to create keyboard shortcuts that party applications on those devices, and infect installed applications. open programs and documents, repeat a series of It is the first in-the-wild malware family that can do this, and only the second ever that attacks iOS actions, expand abbreviations, paste in bits of text, devices through OS X via USB. A second Apple vulnerability disclosed this week, known as Rootpipe, and so on. remains unpatched. The researcher who discovered it has not revealed how the vulnerability, which lets Users who have written complex AutoHotKey attackers gain root privileges without entering a password, can be abused, and says he is waiting for scripts sometimes share them in the user forum, Apple to issue a patch. The Guardian and there are other collections, but I’d be amazed if any of them included the one you want. The Guardian COMICS & MORE PLUS | SUNDAY 9 NOVEMBER 2014 13

LEARN ARABIC The Professions

Watch-man Mouraqib Broker Simsar Jeweller Jawharee

Gold-smith ayi Barber allq Hoy en la Historia

Black-smith addad November 9, 1989 Watch-maker Saçatee Jubilant Berliners celebrated the fall of the Berlin Wall as the Teacher Mouçallim East German government threw open its border to West Berlin and ç = ‘a’ in ‘agh’ when surprised West Germany 1799: A 33-year-old Corsican general, Napoleon Bonaparte, seized power in France in a coup d’etat Baby Blues by Jerry Scott & Rick Kirkman 1967: The first Saturn V rocket was successfully launched from Florida 1967: Rolling Stone magazine, the first national rock and roll periodical in the United States, published its first issue with John Lennon on the front cover 2011: Italy’s cost of borrowing reached a record high, with interest rates on 10-year loans rising to 7% Picture: Getty Images © GRAPHIC NEWS ALL IN THE MIND Hagar The Horrible by Chris Browne Can you find the hidden words? They may be horizontal, vertical, diagonal, forwards or backwards.

Zits by Jerry Scott & Jim Borgman

BALLET, BALLROOM, BARN DANCE, BELLY DANCING, BOLERO, BREAK DANCING, CHA CHA CHA, CHARLESTON, CLOG DANCING, CONGA, DISCO, FANDANGO, FLAMENCO, FOXTROT, GAVOTTE, HIGHLAND FLING, IRISH JIG, JIVE, LINE DANCING, MINUET, PAS DE DEUX, PASO DOBLE, POLKA, QUICKSTEP, RAIN DANCE, REEL, RUMBA, SAMBA, SQUARE DANCE, SWORD DANCE, TANGO, TAP DANCING, TARANTELLA, TWIST, TWO STEP, WALTZ. 14 PLUS | SUNDAY 9 NOVEMBER 2014 CROSSWORDS

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HYPER SUDOKU 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

Cartoon Arts International / The New York Times Syndicate How to EASY SUDOKU play Hyper Easy Sudoku Puzzles Sudoku: Place a digit from 1 to 9 in A Hyper Sudoku each empty cell so every Puzzle is solved row, every column and by filling the every 3x3 box contains all numbers from 1 the digits 1 to 9. 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 YESTERDAY’S only once. Otherwise, a Hyper Sudoku is solved like a normal Sudoku. ANSWER CINEMA / TV LISTINGS PLUS | SUNDAY 9 NOVEMBER 2014 15

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Interstellar (2D/Adventure) – 8:15pm 12:00 My Boys 12:00 Emmerdale Varsham (2D/Malayalam) – 11:15pm 15:00 New Girl 12:30 Coronation 16:30 My Boys Street 10 Years (2D/Drama) – 2:00pm 18:30 The Goldbergs 14:00 Chicago Fire 1 19:00 Growing Up 15:00 Drop Dead Bullet (2D/Action) – 3:45pm Fisher Diva Interstellar (2D/Adventure) – 5:30pm 19:30 The Michael J. 16:00 Emmerdale Fox Show 16:30 Coronation Jai Hind 2 (2D/Tamil) – 8:30pm 20:00 Two And A Street Half Men 18:00 Chicago Fire The Berlin File (2D/Crime) – 11.15pm 20:30 Wilfred 19:00 Parenthood Beauty & The Beast (2D/Romantic) – 2:30 & 8.30pm 21:00 The Daily 20:00 How To Get 2 Show With Away With LANDMARK Big Hero 6 (3D/Animation) – 4:30 & 6.30pm Jon Stewart Murder Interstellar (2D/Adventure) – 10:30pm 22:00 Saturday Night 21:00 Defiance 23:00 Veep 22:00 The Knick – 2:00pm 3 Bullet (2D/Action) 23:00 Grimm Horns (2D/Horror) – 3:45pm Vellimoonga (2D/Malayalam) – 5:45pm Interstellar (2D/Adventure) – 8:00pm 11:30 Planet 51 11:00 Stuck In Love 13:00 Jamai Raja 13:05 African Cats 10:10 Outcasts 13:00 Garfield's Pet 13:00 Oh Christmas Tree Varsham (2D/Malayalam) – 11:00pm 13:30 Bandhan 13:30 I Didn't Do It 11:05 The Weakest Link Force 15:00 The Philly Kid 14:00 Doli Armaano Ki 14:20 Sabrina: Secrets 11:55 Tough Guy Or 17:00 The Glass Man Bullet (2D/Action) – 2:00pm 14:30 Pacific Pirates 1 14:30 Jodha Akbar Of A Teenage Chicken? 16:00 Krazzy Planet 19:00 The Perks Big Hero 6 (2D/Animation) – 3:45 & 5.45pm 15:00 Kasamh Se Witch 12:45 Me & Mrs Jones 18:00 Barbie As The Of Being A 15:30 Kasamh Se 14:55 Gravity Falls 13:15 Doctor Who Island Princess Wallflower Al Jazeera 2 (2D/Action) – 7.45pm 16:00 Hum Paanch 15:20 Dog With A Blog 15:30 Doctors 20:00 Marvel's Next 21:00 Promised Land Interstellar (2D/Adventure) – 10:45pm 16:30 Hum Paanch 15:45 Good Luck 16:30 Outcasts Avengers: Heroes 23:00 Frozen Ground 17:00 Parwaaz Charlie 17:25 Doctor Who Of Tomorrow 01:00 The Glass Man – 2:00pm Horns (2D/Horror) 18:00 Zee Connect 16:10 Austin & Ally 18:10 The Paradise 22:00 Pacific Pirates 03:00 Promised Land 2 16:35 Liv And Maddie Beauty & The Beast (2D/Romantic) – 4.00pm Season 4 19:00 Me & Mrs Jones 23:30 Krazzy Planet ROYAL 18:30 Bandhan 19:05 Jessie 19:30 Hebburn Vellimoonga (2D/Malayalam) – 5:45pm 19:00 Dil Se Naachein 19:30 African Cats 20:00 Southcliffe Indiawaale 19:55 Gravity Falls 20:50 Hustle Interstellar (2D/Adventure) – 8:00pm PLAZA 19:30 Dil Se Naachein 20:20 Mako Mermaids 21:45 Life On Mars Varsham (2D/Malayalam) – 11:00pm Indiawaale 20:45 Spooksville 22:35 Michael 14:00 Standing 13:00 The Nut Job 21:00 Qubool Hai 21:10 Wolfblood McIntyre's Ovation 15:00 From Prada To 10 Years (2D/Drama) – 2:00pm 21:35 Suite Life On 3 21:30 Aur Pyaar Hogaya Comedy 16:00 The Runway Nada Horns (2D/Horror) – 3:45pm 22:00 Doli Armaano Ki Deck Roadshow 18:00 Nick And 17:00 Chasing 22:30 Sapne Suhane 22:00 Good Luck 23:20 Ideal Norah's Infinite Mavericks Interstellar (2D/Adventure) – 6:00pm Ladakpan Ke Charlie 23:50 Me & Mrs Jones Playlist 19:00 Escape Plan The Shaukeens (2D/Hindi) – 9:00pm 23:00 Best of Fear Files 22:25 A.N.T. Farm 00:15 Hebburn 20:00 The Stepford 21:00 A Common 00:00 Jodha Akbar 22:50 Shake It Up 00:45 The Paradise Wives Man – 11.30pm The Berlin File (2D/Crime) 23:10 Wolfblood 01:40 Southcliffe 22:00 Bad Milo! 23:00 Kick-Ass 2 16 PLUS | SUNDAY 9 NOVEMBER 2014 POTPOURRI

81-year-old charged with rural Lincoln County. Institute and the University of Events in Qatar The Advocate-Messenger reports Tokyo, Xinhua reported citing the looting tangerine grove that incumbent Randall Price and Kyodo news agency. The research challenger Priscilla Manuel tied for findings were published Thursday The Sound of Music eputies in Florida say an 81-year- fourth place in the four-seat race for in the US scientific journal Cell. Broadway theatrical show Dold man picked thousands of Crab Orchard City Commission, with The process involves perfusion of When: November 26-29; 7pm tangerines — 11 truckloads worth — 113 votes apiece. the mice’s organs with a chemical Where: Qatar National Convention and then sold the stolen bounty at a Manuel called tails, but the coin cocktail, dubbed CUBIC, which Center nearby market. landed on heads. Price got the seat. decolorises blood efficiently. By What: The world’s most-loved musical Herman Southall was charged In the second race, challengers subjecting the organs to CUBIC -The Sound of Music, comes to Doha. with 11 counts of transporting citrus John W Sallee Jr and Peggy Denham through blood vessels, the team was This iconic broadway musical show will without a certificate, grand theft of Hester tied for sixth place in the six- able to turn entire adult mice as be featuring lavish costumes and scenery, more than 2,000 pieces of citrus and seat race for Stanford City Council, well as specific organs transparent a wonderful live orchestra and starring a trespassing. He is being held at the each with 377 votes. in 10-14 days. cast of the very best of London’s West End Polk County Jail on an $8,500 bond. Hester called heads, but the coin While the technology existed to performers, this award-winning critically Southall and another man were landed on tails. Sallee won the seat. make mouse fetuses and the brains acclaimed production is an emotionally packed extravaganza. found by deputies picking fruit in a County Clerk Sonny Spoonamore of adult mice transparent, turning Entry: QR250-QR1200 Dundee grove after a Sheriff’s Office flipped the coin both times, with a adult mice and internal organs helicopter pilot saw them. It’s unclear small crowd gathered. containing large amounts of blood if he has retained an attorney. colourless had been difficult. Shirin Neshat: Afterwards Deputies say the two had picked The process can also be used to When: Till February 15, 2015 more than four rows of Sunburst Scientists succeed in mark particular types of cells to Where: Mathaf: Arab Museum of tangerines. The report said they observe parts of the body in 3D. Modern Art were preparing to load the fruit into turning mice transparent By marking the insulin-producing What: The first solo exhibition in the Southall’s truck. Japanese research team has cell masses in the pancreas of a Middle East by internationally acclaimed A succeeded in turning mice diabetic mouse and making the rest artist Shirin Neshat. Occupying the entire transparent by administering of the pancreas transparent, the ground floor galleries, the exhibition In two Kentucky polls, them with special chemicals, a team could observe the cell masses features existing and newly produced process the scientists say allows reduce in number. works. Free admission coin toss decided winner the observation of organs without Kazuki Tainaka, a researcher eads or tails? For four political dissection and contributes to at the University of Tokyo who Hhopefuls in central Kentucky, studying progression of such co-authored the paper, said the Longines Global the choice meant winning or losing diseases as cancers and diabetes, a findings “will have uses in many Champions Tour an election. media report said. fields, such as research into the When: November 13-15 Simple coin tosses decided the The team comprised researchers progression of cancer in organs.” Where: Al Shaqab Horse Racing winners in two tied races, both in from the government-backed Riken Agencies Academy What: Qatar will again host the Longines Global Champions Tour Championship Final at the Al Shaqab Equestrian Centre. IN This magnificent venue will see the best FOCUS by Vikrant Patil riders in the world pull out all the stops to win the overall title for 2014. Free entry

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

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

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