MONDAY 30 OCTOBER 2017

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DPS-MIS students to conduct Third Edition of TEDxYouth

Risk of irregular heart rhythm

rises with weight and age

If Japanese automakers want more young people to buy their cars, they have to come up with truly stylish and unique cars. They need to come to places like this and show cars that will get kids’ hearts racing: Akio Toyoda

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PISQ honours meritorious studentsMeritorious students - SSC

and HSSC Annual Board Examination 2017 of Paki-

stan International School Doha (PISQ) were honoured with Shields, Roll of Honour and Merit Certifi-cates at the Annual Academic Achievement Awards Ceremony hosted by the school on October 26.

Nargis Raza Otho, School Prin-cipal, chaired the ceremony as Chief Guest while Members of Board of Governors Pakistan International School Muhammad Riaz, Muham-mad Saleem Khattak, Dr Abdul Shakoor and Munir Ahmad, Doha Bank Manager, were the guests of honour.

The event was attended by a large number of parents, students and guests.

Nargis Raza Otho warmly wel-comed all the guests and parents at the ceremony and extended her gratitude to the distinguished guests for gracing the occasion.

“Today we look forward to Almighty Allah who has showered on us plentiful blessings. This event

gives a great opportunity to high-l ight the achievements accomplished by the school in this session.”

In her annual school report, she said that her students performed creditably well in the SSC and HSSC Annual Examination conducted by the FBISE, Islamabad, this year. The school’s pass percentage was 100 in SSC and 94.23 in HSSC. The prin-cipal also highlighted the remarkable achievements of the students in the co-curricular and extra-curricular activities in the last academic year. Among their nota-ble laurels were victories in debates, dramas, poetry, painting, creative writing, exhibitions and sports and games competitions at inter-school and intra-schools level. “These activities provide the students an opportunity to reveal their creativ-ity and progress with confidence” she said.

She expressed her delight on the achievement of the students and congratulated them, the staff and parents on the exam results. She

said that she is extremely excited that one of her students, Aena Farooq has once again set another new record in Doha by securing 1014 marks out of 1050 marks in the SSC Annual Exam 2017.

She pledged that the journey of the school’s progress will continue.

“Today we look forward with a sense of hope towards greater growth and progress. We have miles to go to achieve our goals.”

She also urged the teachers to continue delivering their best to bring more laurels for the school.

As many as 141 students of SSC and HSSC were among the award winners. A1 grade holders were feted with merit certificates by the BOG members and Vice Principals whereas the first, second & third position holders were honoured with Shields and Roll of Honour by the chief guest.

Rajagiri organised a spirited campign to bring about the aware-ness among students about the value of food.

The events like tablaue, skit, speeches and other presen-tations highlighted the message well.

Ideas that food is medicine and every kind of wasting of food is equal to stealing from the table of the poor were driven deep into the mind of the students on the occasion.

Moreover, the willingness to share one’s excess food with the poor was also stressed. The students went home taking up the respon-sibility of keeping the world happy narrowing the gap between the rich and the poor.

Hameed Al Husseinie College Colombo

wins Inter-school Bowling Tournament

Hameed Al Husseinie Col-lege Colombo – Old Boys’ Association of Qatar won

the Inter-school Bowling Tourna-ment which was organised by Old Anandians - Qatar. Runner-up awardees are – Mathale Ajmeeri-ans, 3rd Place Award Old

Wesleyites; Best bowler Award Mohamed Rifdhi from Zahira Col-lege Matale.

Twenty school teams of Sri Lankan Old Boys’ Associations in Qatar participated in the tourna-ment held at Qatar Bowling Centre Doha on October 24.

Rajagiri raises awareness to fight food waste

COVER STORY MONDAY 30 OCTOBER 201704

Reuters

By day, the Daikoku Parking Area hums with transport trucks en route to and from

the Port of Yokohama. On week-end evenings, it transforms into a revved-up runway of tuned-up Jap-anese cars.

The unassuming rest stop is famous to car enthusiasts as a tem-ple of the country’s motor culture, but it also illustrates a “youth” prob-lem that auto companies such as Toyota Motor Corp and Nissan Motor Co are scrambling to address.

The crowd last Friday - around 50 supercar fans who huddled around the back of a loading truck to get a first glimpse of the latest Lamborghini Huracan Performante delivered days before to collector Takeshi Kimura - were mainly men in their 40s and 50s.

“Today’s young people, they came of age during the recession, and some of them didn’t grow up with a family car,” said Kimura, who has earned a reputation on Japanese social media as an ambas-sador of car culture thanks to stunts

including coasting his Ferrari F40 down ski slopes and racing his supercars around a driving school practice course.

“As a result, people hit their 20s and they’re not aware of how fun cars can be.”

On top of that, the cars whose

finely-tuned growls echoed beneath the overpasses that criss-cross the Daikoku lot are mostly from the 1990s heyday of Japan’s auto industry.

Back then, Honda Motor Co, Nissan and their compatriots forged a global reputation for their stylish,

fast, highly engineered cars. Drift-ing, the technique of sliding rear-wheel-drive cars through bends that entered popular culture through films like the Fast and the Furious franchise, was born on Japan’s winding roads.

Japan’s automakers tuning up to

rekindle youthful passion for cars

Today, even those young Japa-nese who do get the car bug are unimpressed by the domestic choices on offer.

“These days automakers just aren’t making cars I’d want to drive,” said Sho Watabe, a 20-year-old stu-dent who had rocked up to Daikoku in his 1996 Mazda RX-7.

“If you look at the way cars are designed these days, they all look the same. They all lack personality

... If automakers keep making the same types of cars, young people are going to continue turning away from them.”

SPORTIER MODELSJapanese car makers for years

have grappled with falling interest in cars among young people, which, along with a rapidly greying soci-ety, has led to a 17 percent fall in domestic vehicle sales since 2000, data from the Japan Auto Dealers Association shows.

The number of Japanese license holders aged under 30 has dropped 35 percent since 2001, according to National Police Agency data, even as the total number of license hold-ers has increased around 9 percent during the same period.

The country’s tuning culture, once known among global car fans for its focus on squeezing as much

speed as possible out of mass-mar-ket models, is also losing its pep, as complex control units and sensors make cars increasingly hard to tinker with.

To appease car enthusiasts and drum up more interest among young people, Toyota last month launched a new line of customized, sporty versions of the Prius, Yaris and other existing models in Japan under its Gazoo racing brand, which

feature sports car tuning and rac-ing trims.

Nissan is also marketing more sportier siblings of its flagship mod-els, unveiling racing versions of its Leaf electric car and its Serena min-ivan at the Tokyo Motor Show this week.

“Mass market consumers want reliable, convenient cars, but we want to position Gazoo as a plat-form to use our ‘secret sauce’, to use

our tuning capabilities to attract car fans,” Toyota President Akio Toy-oda told reporters last month.

To raise brand awareness among young car fans, Toyota and a growing number of automakers and suppliers are tapping the coun-try’s drifting culture, which has cleaned up its image after being associated for years with illegal road racing.

“We don’t participate in motor sports in a big way, so we weren’t registering with young drivers, a small but important market for us,” said Junichi Sugano, a spokesman at Toyo Tires, known domestically as a specialist in minivan tires, which was a sponsor of the first-ever FIA Intercontinental Drift Cup held earlier this month in Tokyo.

“People who attend drift events, not all of them drift, a lot of them drive minivans.”

Longer term, Toyota has also promised to expand its sports car line-up, stoking anticipation of a revival of its popular Supra model.

Back at Daikoku, Kimura, who set up Car Guy, a crew of car enthu-siasts, has some advice for Japanese manufacturers.

“If Japanese automakers want more young people to buy their cars, they have to come up with truly stylish and unique cars,” he said.

“They need to come to places like this and show cars that will get kids’ hearts racing.”

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COMMUNITY / CAMPUS MONDAY 30 OCTOBER 201706

Division ‘E’ of Toastmasters International held three informative and engaging

training sessions titled ‘Triple Treat Workshop’. The trainings were led by 3 seasoned Toastmasters - Dis-tinguished Toastmasters Rajeswar Sundaresan, D George Thomas and Virendra Nath.

Division ‘E’ Director HP Singh Bhullar opened the workshop to a packed house of eager learners from across Toastmaster Divisions in Qatar.

District 20 Program Quality Director, Rajeswar Sundaresan DTM,

a prominent and senior member of Doha Toastmasters Club, conducted the session on “Constitutional Bylaws”, simplifying the TMI Articles and their relevance to toastmasters.

An experienced leader George Thomas DTM, who was the Past International Director, undertook a detailed session on “Parliamentary Procedures” outlining the procedures to be put in place for an effective meeting and discussion. Virendra Nath DTM, a towering Toastmaster figure who is currently presiding the Division ‘E’ TLI Chair, shared his

insights on the art of effective eval-uation and constructive feedback in a session titled “Evaluate to Motivate”.

Distinguished Toastmaster Raghavan Menon who is the District 20 TLI Chair, Division ‘J’ Director Venkatesan Kulandaivelu and many other dignitaries graced the occasion.

Sumptuous breakfast was arranged for the participants to

reenergise as they pondered over the knowledge shared by the trainers.

Meticulous planning was under-taken by Division ‘E’ Program Quality Director and Distinguished Toastmaster Rajesh VC and Speaker Bureau Chair Girish Jain to have a hitch free workshop. The audience was left wanting for more.

Division ‘E’ of Toastmasters International is the first Toastmas-ter division of Qatar with 3 active Areas comprising of 12 pulsating Clubs. Other valuable contributors to the workshop included Toast-masters -Subramanya Hebbagelu, Sunil Kumar Menon, Rajeshwar Rao, Balakrishna Karande, Nirmala Raghuraman, Niloufer Samal, Ashina, Sonia Jadav, Jamsheed Melath, Kamal Thakur and Sudhanva.

Division ‘E’ Toastmasters International conducts Triple Treat Workshop

To foster ideas worth shar-ing and inculcate the spirit of initiative and

collaboration in its students, DPS-Modern Indian School is hosting the third edition of TEDxYouth@ DPSMIS. The first and second editions embraced the unknown and invited the unseen. This year, the event will be held on November 2 at the school itself and will fea-ture five speakers from diverse backgrounds. From discover-ies in science to stories of business icons, the event hopes to inculcate in the youth, to dream big.

The speakers of this year were carefully curated through an open call, followed by an interview. Featuring the founder of Qatar’s most loved networks,

‘I Love Qatar’, the event voices the journey of Mr. Khalifa Saleh Al Haroon, or simply ‘Mr. Q’. With the view of overcoming challenges that the society poses, our speaker Ms. Maleeha Fatima shares her impeccable service to society. Aiming to maximize performance potential, Mr. Arvind Rampal intends to share with all the ‘Law of Attraction’. Other speakers include Mr. Sal-man Nasser, who wants to redefine ‘adventure’ and Dr. Said Ismail, who desires to high-light the importance of the

‘Qatar Genome Programme’. With the support of the

attendees, Management, Princi-pal, staff and students, we are looking forward to our speakers making the programme a grand success.

DPS- MIS students to conduct Third Edition of TEDxYouth

LIFESTYLEMONDAY 30 OCTOBER 2017 07

The Washington Post

We only ended up in San Sebastian by happen-stance. After committing

to two weeks in southern France, my wife and I discovered that a col-lege friend and his wife were planning a simultaneous two-week trip to Barcelona and parts south. To meet up, we needed a compro-mise destination. San Sebastian, rubbing up against the French bor-der on the northwest Spanish coast, was an equal detour for both of us.

I had never been to Spain’s Atlantic Coast, or to its northern Basque region. All I knew about San Sebastian came from a brief pas-sage in the 1926 novel “The Sun Also Rises.” The beach town was where Hemingway’s antihero Jake Barnes retreated near the end of the book to recover from a prodigious week-long drunk and having his heart gored by the preternaturally pro-miscuous Lady Brett Ashley. Stoic as ever, he walks from the hotel to the beach and dives into the surf.

“I swam slowly, it seemed like a long swim with the high tide, and then pulled up on the raft and sat, dripping, on the boards that were becoming hot in the sun. I looked around at the bay, the old town, the casino, the line of trees along the promenade, and the big hotels with

their white porches and gold-let-tered names. Off on the right, almost closing the harbor, was a green hill with a castle. The raft rocked with the motion of the water. On the other side of the narrow gap that led into the open sea was another high headland.”

Ninety years on at that point, the description perfectly captured the view that met us as we drove into the surprisingly (to me) big town. The only thing lacking, sadly, was the swimming raft, which had no doubt slipped its moorings sev-eral generations earlier.

We’d booked an Airbnb a block from the Kursaal Bridge over the Urumea River, an easy walk to the oldest part of the city. Within min-utes, we were wandering through the heart of town, alternating nar-row streets and wide boulevards lined with immaculately preserved Belle Epoque sandstone block buildings, five and six stories tall, faced with filigreed wrought-iron balustrades. The walkways were lined with shade trees, palms and art deco streetlamps. A promenade curved through a park along 1,500 meters of white sand that swept along Concha Bay, where Jake Barnes had his swim. The bay curved in a near-perfect crescent - green hills rising at either end and an island in the middle. The

immediate impression was Paris on the beach. That’s no accident, since the Parisian plan inspired those who rebuilt the city in the 19th century, after it had been burned to the ground in the Napoleonic wars.

The city had grown gracefully, across the river and up the slopes of the hills to the east and west. It was full of flower-filled parks, his-torical sites and well-attended museums. Wandering down any of the narrow streets - many of them only for pedestrians - revealed an endless variety of bars, cafes, res-taurants and storefronts ranging from tiny boutiques to large, mall-like chain stores. After noon and before dinner the bars are over-flowing with people and pintxos (pronounced peen-chos) - the Basque version of tapas, more var-ied and of higher quality than the typical Spanish small plates. Heavy on squid, shellfish, cheese, olives, eggs and luscious sauces that I couldn’t identify.

Our favourite place was Res-taurante Saltxipi, just a few blocks from the beach and right at the foot of Monte Ulia, which rises about 1,300 feet above the eastern edge of the city. The restaurant is in what must have once been a lovely fam-ily home, and as soon as we entered into a great room with a stone

fireplace, we were treated like old friends. The wait staff spoke Span-ish and the ancient Basque tongue, which is unrelated to the Romance languages. But they eked out enough English to show friendly interest that seemed genuine and unrelated to tip-motivated ingratiation.

The next morning, we walked right past the restaurant on the way out of the city, went up the steep approach to Monte Ulia and took a six-mile hike along the mountain’s ridge trail, overlooking the dazzling blue disc surrounding the steep-sided cliffs descending to the Bay of Biscay. The flier we picked up in the tourism office said the trail was clearly marked, but either we some-how missed it or the trail markings were more aspirational than real. But no matter. We just kept the ocean to our left and climbed what-ever path presented itself - from paved road to goat trail. By noon, they had carried us to Ulia’s high-est spot. There, unadorned by signage, were the stone ruins of what looked to have been a 19th-century fort. It offered a commanding view of the harbor, sweeping down to a promontory about 1,000 feet below us. Atop the promontory was the Cape Plata Light, a lighthouse complete with castlelike turrets.

In Spain’s northern Basque region, San Sebastian shines

INFOGRAPHIC MONDAY 30 OCTOBER 201708

Nintendo’s latest Super Mario video game — Super Mario Odyssey (Nintendo Switch) — sees the eponymous Italian plumber return to an open world, sandbox format for the first time since his 2002 outing in Super Mario Sunshine. Odyssey is garnering rave reviews ahead of launch and is expected to be a huge seller.

FOODMONDAY 30 OCTOBER 2017 09

Jim Shahin The Washington Post

With their rich flavor and crunchy texture, nuts take naturally to smoke.

Buy packaged or canned salted mixed nuts or select your own and mix them. Either way, the slightly sweet, savory spicy seasoning blend mates well with the smoke to create a handy snack or appetizer.

Make Ahead: You’ll need to soak 1 cup of hickory or pecan wood chips for an hour before smoking.

8 servings (makes 2 cups)

Ingredients1 teaspoon packed light brown

sugar1 teaspoon dried thyme1/2 teaspoon ground

cinnamon1/4 teaspoon ground cayenne

pepper1/4 teaspoon powdered

mustard1/4 teaspoon chipotle powder2 cups mixed salted nuts, such

as almonds, pecans, cashews and macadamias

2 teaspoons extra-virgin olive oil

StepsPrepare the gas grill for indi-

rect heat. Turn the heat to high.

Drain the chips and put them in a smoker box or foil packet poked with a few fork holes to release the smoke; set it on the cooking grate, between the grate and the ceramic briquettes, or atop the angled metal heat plates, close to the flame. When you see smoke, reduce the heat to medium (375 to 400 degrees). Turn off the burners on one side.

Whisk together the brown sugar, thyme, cinnamon, cayenne pepper, powdered mustard and chipotle powder in a medium bowl. Pour the nuts into a baking pan, then add the brown sugar mixture and the oil, stirring to coat evenly. Spread the nuts in a single layer.

Place the pan on the cool side

of the grill, close the lid and smoke for 30 to 40 minutes. Serve the nuts warm or at room temperature.

Variation: For a charcoal grill, light the charcoal or briquettes; when the briquettes are ready, dis-tribute them on one side of the grill. For a medium fire, you should be able to hold your hand 6 inches above the coals for 6 or 7 seconds. Drain the chips and scatter them over the coals. Have ready a spray water bottle for taming any flames.

Nutrition: Per 1/4-cup serving: 220 calories, 4 g protein, 7 g car-bohydrates, 21 g fat, 3 g saturated fat, 0 mg cholesterol, 170 mg sodium, 3 g dietary fiber, 2 g sugar.

Wood-smoked mixed nuts

HEALTH MONDAY 30 OCTOBER 201710

Risk of irregular heart rhythm rises with weight and ageReuters

The risk of developing an irreg-ular heart rhythm increases as people age and become

overweight or obese, spiking after age 50 for men and age 60 for women, a recent study suggests.

Researchers examined data on almost 80,000 people, ages 24 to 97, in four European studies. When they joined the studies, none of the participants had atrial fibrillation.

After following half of the par-ticipants for at least 13 years – and some of them for nearly 28 years – researchers found that 4.4% of the women and 6.4% of the men had developed atrial fibrillation. Com-pared to people who didn’t develop atrial fibrillation, those who did had a tripled risk of dying during the study period, researchers report in Circulation.

Excess weight explained most of the increased risk with atrial fibrillation, said study author Dr. Christina Magnussen of the Univer-sity Heart Center Hamburg in Germany.

“For each additional 10 pounds, the atrial fibrillation rate increases by 31% in men and by 18% in women,” Magnussen said by email.

“As (weight) is a modifiable risk fac-tor, we advise weight reduction for both women and men.”

In atrial fibrillation, the upper chambers of the heart, or atria, quiver instead of beating to move blood effectively.

Few people developed atrial fibrillation before age 50, the study found. By age 90, roughly one in four men and women had the condition.

High cholesterol didn’t appear to increase the risk of atrial fibril-lation. In fact, the opposite held true, especially for women.

The study wasn’t a controlled experiment designed to prove whether or how specific risk fac-tors like high cholesterol or obesity might increase the risk of atrial fibrillation. Some people also might

have had undiagnosed atrial fibril-lation when they joined the study.

Even so, the results add to the evidence that the risk of atrial fibril-lation decreases with weight loss, said Dr. Jonathan C. Hsu, a researcher at the University of Cal-ifornia, San Diego.

“As the body ages or gains weight, inflammatory molecules may be released into the blood,” Hsu said by email. “This type of inflammation may affect the heart and increase the risk of developing atrial fibrillation.”

“Both men and women can reduce their odds of heart problems such as atrial fibrillation by

improving their overall health and losing weight.”

“Prior studies have shown that the lifetime risk of developing atrial fibrillation is one in four, with increasing age, elevated blood pres-sure, obesity, smoking and alcohol consumption being major risk fac-tors, said Dr. Gregg Fonarow, a researcher at the David Geffen School of Medicine at the Univer-sity of California, Los Angeles.

“This study further highlights that maintaining a healthy body weight and blood pressure, and not smoking, can substantially lower the risk of developing atrial fibril-lation,” Fonarow said by email.

Gut microbiome linked to post-traumatic stress disorderIANS

Intestinal bacteria could hold clues to whether or not an indi-vidual wil l develop

post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) after experiencing a trau-matic event, finds a study.

PTSD is a serious psychiatric disorder that can develop after a person experiences a life-threat-ening trauma.

The findings showed that indi-viduals with PTSD had significantly lower levels of a combination of three bacteria -- Actinobacteria, Lentisphaerae and Verrucomicro-bia -- compared to

trauma-exposed control groups. Individuals who experienced

trauma during their childhood also had lower levels of two of these bacteria Actinobacteria and Verrucomicrobia.

“Individuals who experience childhood trauma are at higher risk of developing PTSD later in life, and these changes in the gut microbiome possibly occurred early in life in response to child-hood trauma,” said lead researcher Stefanie Malan-Muller, postdoc-toral student at the Stellenbosch University, South Africa.

One of the known functions of these bacteria is immune system

regulation, and researchers have noted increased levels of inflam-mation and altered immune regulation in individuals with PTSD.

“We therefore hypothesise that the low levels of those three bac-teria may have resulted in immune dysregulation and heightened lev-els of inflammation in individuals with PTSD, which may have con-tributed to their disease symptoms,” Malan-Muller added, in the paper published in the jour-nal Psychosomatic Medicine.

However, researchers are una-ble to determine whether this bacterial deficit contributed to

PTSD susceptibility, or whether it occurred as a consequence of PTSD.

Factors influencing suscepti-bility and resilience to developing PTSD are not yet fully understood, and identifying and understand-ing all these contributing factors could in future contribute to bet-ter treatments, especially since the microbiome can easily be altered with the use of prebiotics (non-digestible food substances), probiotics (live, beneficial micro-organisms), and synbiotics (a combination of probiotics and prebiotics), or dietary interven-tions, the researchers suggested.

BOLLYWOODMONDAY 30 OCTOBER 2017 11

IANS

Known for infusing the patri-otic fervour in videos like

“Vande Mataram” and “Jana Gana Mana”, filmmaker Bharat Bala is now enthused about telling some

“untold stories” about India to the world via a series of at least 100 short films.

The project is called India Film Collective, the Chennai-based film-maker said on the sidelines of the MTV India Music Summit.

“It’s kind of a legacy project. It’s an idea about covering untold sto-ries of India as short films and narratives. These are short stories about people, music, traditions, rit-uals of the country, not like a documentary but in a way of tell-ing a story.

“These engaging and well-crafted films are all under 10 minutes. The way they are pro-duced, the music they have and the editing, I;m sure they will make for inspiring films which will be thrill-ing to watch,” Bala said.

He plans to go all out to give these films a digital release.

“I have already finished 47 films. Once we finish 100, then the whole platform will start getting launched,” the filmmaker

said, adding that while he and his company are doing the research for the stories, they are engaging young talents like cinematogra-phers and editors.

“They can bring something new so that young people can inspire youngsters.”

At the Summit, he gave a sneak peek into one story as part of the India Film Collective. It was called

“Talam” -- meaning rhythm -- a musical film about boat racing.

Bala, who had also directed the music video of “Jiyo Utho Bado Jeeto”, the official song of the 2010 Commonwealth Games, also said that there was no government tie-up for the India-based shorts.

“It is by the people, for the people.”

Considering his projects have largely been India-inspired, what is his view of the changing politi-cal and social landscape in the country?

“I don’t care... The people haven’t changed. When you go to the interiors of the country, the people haven’t change. If you touch the people at an emotional level, they don’t change.

“If you touch the people at an economic level, they will react. But if you go and appeal to their heart,

you see nothing has changed. The ‘sanskriti’ will remain.”

On the feature film front, Bala had started his journey with Dha-nush-starrer Tamil movie “Maryan” back in 2013. He was to direct another film “The 19th Step”, which was shelved.

But now he wants to revive it.“Now I am kicked about reviv-

ing it. I may make an announcement in two months’ time,” said the filmmaker, who was to work with Kamal Haasan in the movie.

Happy with the proliferation of cinema that appeals pan-India, Bala said it was a great time where credit needs to be given to the peo-ple who are absorbing good content irrespective of language or star value.

“If you have a good story, it doesn’t matter which language it is in, people will take it. Look back... How did ‘Roja’ come... Nobody knew Rahman (A.R. Rahman) that time. It had melody. It touched.

“If there’s honesty, beauty in the creation, it will conquer. You can’t be thinking that you’ll make some-thing big purely with advertising. Marketing is essential, but funda-mentally, the content must be there.”

Bharat Bala to feature India’s ‘untold stories’ in 100 short films

‘Padman’ to be released on Republic Day

National Award winning actor Akshay Kumar’s

“Padman”, an upcoming Hindi film that focuses on menstru-ation and women’s health, will release on the Republic Day next year.

Akshay took to Twitter yesterday to announce the release date.

Alongside the film’s poster, Akshay wrote: “Not all superheroes come with capes! Bringing you the true story of a real superhero,

‘Padman’ this Republic Day - January 26, 2018.”

Inspired by the life of Coimbatore-based Arunach-alam Muruganantham, who found a way to make afford-able sanitary napkins for women in his village, “Pad-man” also features Sonam Kapoor and Radhika Apte.

Prabhudheva choreographs Big B for song

Actor-filmmaker Prabhud-heva has choreographed

Amitabh Bachchan for a song and the megastar seems to have had a tough time shak-ing a leg at age 75.

Amitabh shared a throw-back image of himself on Twitter and wrote: “At 75 made to dance… and accom-plish that, which Prabhudheva, the genius directs. Happy you are home instead of an asylum.”

Amitabh didn’t share any details about the project.

Meanwhile, Amitabh has wished luck to Bengali actor Prosenjit Chatterjee for his upcoming film “Mayurakshi”.

ENTERTAINMENT MONDAY 30 OCTOBER 201712

Mirabelli Stefania, a fan of Justin Bieber, has been jailed after she trespassed

on the singer’s private property three times over the course of one week. Stefania received a sentence of eight days after she pleaded guilty to one count of misdemean-our aggravated trespass for the incidents that took place in last 10-15 days in Beverly Hills, reports tmz.com.

She will only serve four of the

eight days, the judge said, however. She has been placed on one year of probation and ordered to keep at least “100 yards” away from Bieber.

According to tmz.com, the fan, who is in her 40s, entered the property twice last week before security guards found her and escorted her off the premises.

The third incident happened on October 23 evening when the woman was finally arrested.

Bennington remembered at Linkin Park concert

The life of late Linkin Park frontman Chester Bennington was remembered at a tribute concert by bandmates Mike Shinoda, Joe Hahn and Steve Aoki.

Linkin Park performed for the first time at the Hollywood Bowl amphitheater on Friday night since Bennington committed suicide in July, reports nydailynews.com.

Titled “Linkin Park And Friends Celebrate Life In Honour Of Chester Bennington”, the three-hour concert was sold out and also featured musical guests including singer Alanis Morissette, rock band Blink-182, DJ Zedd and rapper Machine Gun Kelly.

All performers donated their fees to Linkin Park’s charity Music for Relief’s fundraiser programme One More Light Fund.

Is the director of ‘The Lobster’ caught in a trap?The Washington Post

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The Lobster” was one of my favourite movies of 2016. I loved the inventive idea

(single people check into a resort where they’re turned into the ani-mal of their choice if they don’t find a soul mate), the humour, the sweetness at its core. I also rec-ommended it to about four people total, because it is messed UP.

The work of Greek writer-director Yorgos Lanthimos (“The Lobster,” “Dogtooth”) is polariz-ing, and his latest, “The Killing of a Sacred Deer,” is no exception. The hallmarks of Lanthimos’ style are very much present: There is an element of the magical that is never explained, the actors deliver most of their lines in an entirely flat voice, and an overwhelming

sense of dread pervades even the most mundane scenes. You could argue for an eternity about whether Lanthimos’ films are bril-liant or terrible, but the one thing that’s certain is they’re not for everyone.

In “The Killing of a Sacred Deer,” a man (Colin Farrell, who, as in “The Lobster,” really excels in weirdness) is terrorized by a teenage boy (Barry Keoghan, a study in slack-jawed terror). The less said about the plot the better, as the movie spins from revenge story to supernatural thriller to the most dementedly hilarious brother-and-sister fight in recent cinematic history. “The Killing of a Sacred Deer” is like a visceral, disturbing fairy tale - only here, instead of biting a magic apple, one character chomps a chunk out

of his own arm and then yells, “IT’S A METAPHOR.”

Like I said, not for everyone.I don’t know if Lanthimos is a

great filmmaker. I don’t think he’s a terrible one, but I worry that his cinematic style will become a par-ody of itself. Of course, there are plenty of directors who have their signature touches; it’s just that some of them use them as acces-sories to decorate and enhance their films (Alfred Hitchcock and his icy blondes, Amy Heckerling and her soundtracks), while some attempt to build a body of work defined by those touches (Zack Snyder with his grim lighting and DEAFENING SOUNDTRACKS, Robert Zemeckis and his “look what I can do!” long shots).

This is Lanthimos’ second Eng-lish-language film, and both

feature relatively big stars at the center - Rachel Weisz in “The Lob-ster,” Nicole Kidman in “The Killing of a Sacred Deer” and Far-rell in both. The films strike many of the same chords, with scenes that had me peeking through my fingers while simultaneously laughing and muttering.

I’m glad to see Lanthimos enjoying success, and I’m not say-ing he should abandon his realm of hilarious horror or “go main-stream.” I want him to embrace his style, but also to expand on it - to get even sharper at illuminating the absurdity of the world, at find-ing the moments of salvation in a time of despair, at making his audience gasp-laugh.

He has his style; the question is whether it will become his straightjacket.

Bieber’s fan jailed for trespassing

SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGYMONDAY 30 OCTOBER 2017 13Reuters

A trail of fossilized three-toed footprints that measure nearly two feet (57 cm) long shows that a huge meat-eating dinosaur

stalked southern Africa 200 million years ago at a time when most carnivorous dinosaurs were modest-sized beasts.

Scientists described the footprints from an ancient river bank in Lesotho, and estimated that the dinosaur, which they named Kayenta-pus ambrokholohali, was about 30 feet (9 metres) long.

No fossilized bones were found, but the foot-prints alone showed a lot about the animal. The scientists concluded it was a large theropod -- the two-legged carnivorous dinosaur group that included later giants like Tyrannosaurus and Giganotosaurus -- but that it was more lightly built than those brutes. The theropod group also gave rise to birds.

Kayentapus lived early in the Jurassic Period, shortly after a mass extinction that doomed other large reptilian terrestrial predators that lived in the preceding Triassic Period, when dinosaurs first appeared.

“Our finding corroborates the hypothesis that theropods reached a great size relatively early in the course of their evolution, but apparently

not before the Triassic-Jurassic boundary,” said paleontologist Fabien Knoll, of the Dinopolis Foundation in Spain and the University of Man-chester in Britain.

There are no skeletal fossils of meat-eating dinosaurs this large so early in the dinosaur evo-lutionary history. It lived on the ancient southern hemisphere super-continent of Gondwana.

There are other fossilized footprints from Poland that indicate a similar-sized thero-pod inhabited the northern super-continent of Laurasia around the same time.

Theropods of similar size do not appear in the fossil record until 30 million years later, Knoll said.

The footprints were found on what was once a river bank, bearing telltale ripple marks and desiccation cracks.

“It is the first evidence of an extremely large meat-eating animal roaming a land-scape otherwise dominated by a variety of herbivorous, omnivorous and much-smaller carnivorous dinosaurs,” added paleontolo-gist Lara Sciscio of the University of Cape Town in South Africa.

The research was published on Wednes-day in the journal PLOS ONE.

In separate research, other scientists on Thursday described another new dinosaur, a plant-eater called Matheronodon provincia-lis, that lived 70 million years ago. Its fossils were unearthed in southern France.

Matheronodon is distinctive for its large teeth with a chisel-like cutting edge that pro-vided a powerful shearing action like scissors to eat tough vegetation, said paleontologist Pascal Godefroit of the Royal Belgian Insti-tute of Natural Sciences in Brussels.

That research was published in the jour-nal Scientific Reports.

The Washington Post

Drop some justice on bad guys from a great height in Heroes Fally,

a game that puts players in the place of heroes using gravity to fight crime. The premise is simple: There are bad guys, and you can squash them by jumping off buildings. Of course, it gets a bit more com-plicated than that - as you fall, your path is populated with objects that can help you, such as mysterious crates that can activate your particular super-powers. There are also plenty of diabolical objects, such as bombs and chain saws, that can hurt you and stop your worthy descent.

What careless person left bombs and chain saws in the air? Just suspend your disbe-lief; it’s a game, after all. Avoid the bad things, grab the good things, and enjoy the ride. The game is ad-supported, and players can opt to watch ads to get more in-game currency

(medals, in this case) if they want to speed up their progress in the game and pur-chase more heroes, who have different abilities.

You can also buy some heroes and heroines outright, if you want more variety. But you don’t need to spend money; you can build your roster of good guys and gals as easily as falling off a log. Well, almost as easily as that.

-Free, for iOS. Android and Amazon versions coming soon.

Augmented reality is a technology that blends the digital and real worlds by using your camera lens. AR Runner uses this technology as the foundation for its game to get you moving, no matter where you are. Open the app and select the size and shape of the playing field you want, based on your environment. Once that’s done, the game will scan the area you’ve selected and set up a course for you.

From there, look at your phone’s screen and hit the checkpoints it suggests as quickly as you can. The free version of this game gives you two types of courses - one in which you have to hit check-points in a certain order and another asking you to “punch” through hoops.

The game allows you to play in a single-player mode or with others as you pass the device between you.

It also lets you compare your times against all AR Run-ner players, in case your competitive spirit goes beyond the immediate area. A pre-mium purchase, at a price of $2, gets you two additional game modes, a larger playing field option and different course shapes. One more thought: Do be careful while running that you don’t focus too heavily on your screen. There’s a risk that you’ll trip and fall. It’s all fun and games until someone gets hurt, after all. -Free, for iOS.

App reviews: Heroes Fally & AR Runner

Fossil footprints reveal existence of big early dinosaur predator

BABY BLUES

HAGAR THE HORRIBLE

Adv. Ramanunni is offered an MLA seat, he is thrown headfirst in to

the dirty abyss of politics. What ensues is a cloak and dagger game

where it is impossible to survive unless he plays along.Note: Programme is subject to change without prior notice.

VILLAGGIO & CITY CENTER

MONDAY 30 OCTOBER 2017CINEMA PLUS14NOVO — Pearl

Jigsaw (2D) 10:00am, 12:00noon, 2:00, 4:00, 6:00, 7:00, 8:00, 10:00pm & 12:00midnight Geostorm(2D/Thriller) 10:00am, 12:20, 2:15, 2:40, 5:00, 7:20, 9:15, 9:40pm & 12:00midnight24 Hours To Live (2D) 10:00am, 12:00noon, 2:00, 4:00, 4:45, 6:00, 8:00, 10:00, 11:45pm & 12:00midnight Only The Brave (2D) 10:00am, 3:15 & 8:30pmMother (2D/Thriller) 12:45, 6:00 & 11:15pmMonster Family (2D/Animation) 10:00am, 12:00noon, 2:00, 4:00 & 6:00pmHappy Death Day (2D) 8:00, 10:00pm & 12:00midnightThe Little Vampire (2D) 10:15am, 12:30, 2:45, 5:00 & 7:15pmDa3doush (2D/Arabic) 9:30pm & 12:00midnightFantastic Journey To Oz (2D) 10:00am, 12:00noon, 2:00, 4:00 & 6:00pmThe Foreigner (2D/Action) 8:00 & 10:15pmBrawl In Cell Block 99 (2D) 10:15am, 1:00, 3:45, 6:30, 9:15pm & 12:00amGeostorm(3D IMAX/Thriller)10:30am, 1:00, 3:30, 6:00, 8:30 & 11:00pm

MALLVunnadhi Okate Zindagi (Telugu) 2:00pm Happy Death Day (Horror) 8:15pmThe Little Vampire (2D/Animation) 2:00 & 3:30pmMersal (2D/Tamil) 2:15 & 11:15pm Ramleela (2D/Malayalam) 4:30pmFantastic Journey To Oz (2D/Animation) 5:00pmSecret Superstar (2D/Hindi) 7:00 & 9:00pm Geostorm (2D/Action) 7:15pm 24 Hours To Live (Action) 9:45pm Only The Brave (Drama) 5:00pmJigsaw(2D/Horror) 6:30 & 10:00pm Golmaal Again(2D/Hindi) 11:30pm Brawl In Cell Block 99 (2D/Action) 11:45pm

LANDMARKMersal (2D/Tamil) 2:15 & 10:30pm Human Flow (Documentary) 2:30pmThe Little Vampire (2D/Animation) 2:15 & 3:45pmAkasha Mittayi (2D/Malayalam) 5:00pm Happy Death Day (Horror) 7:30pmVunnadhi Okate Zindagi (Telugu) 5:00pm Only The Brave (Drama) 9:15pmFantastic Journey To Oz (2D/Animation) 5:15 & 6:30pm24 Hours To Live (Action) 7:30 & 9:15pm Jigsaw(2D/Horror) 8:30pmRamleela (2D/Malayalam) 11:00pm Brawl In Cell Block 99 (2D) 11:30pm

ROYAL PLAZA

ROXY

The Little Vampire (2D/Animation) 2:00 & 5:00pmRamleela(2D/Malayalam) 2:15&11:15pm Akasha Mittayi (2D/Malayalam) 5:00pmFantastic Journey To Oz (2D/Animation) 3:30pmBrawl In Cell Block 99 (2D/Action) 5:30pm 24 Hours To Live (Action) 7:15 & 9:30pm Happy Death Day (Horror) 7:45pmMersal (2D/Tamil) 2:30 & 6:45pm Jigsaw(2D/Horror) 9:45 & 11:30pm Human Flow (Documentary) 9:00pm Only The Brave (Drama) 11:30pm

Fantastic Journey To Oz (2D/Animation)12:00noon, 2:00, 4:00,6:00&8:00pm 24 Hours To Live (2D/Thriller) 12:00noon, 2:00, 4:00, 6:00, 8:00 & 10:00pmBrawl In Cell Block 99 (Thriller) 12:00noon & 8:15pm Ramleela (2D/Malayalam) 12:00noon, 3:10, 9:10pm & 12:20am Only The Brave 2:45, 5:30 & 11:00pm Unnadi Okate Zindagi 6:20pm &12:00am

ASIAN TOWNRamleela (Malayalam) 6:45, 7:45, 9:45, 10:45 & 11:15pm Vunnadhi Okate (Telugu) 6:00pmGolmaal Again (Hindi) 6:00pm Mersal (Tamil)9:00pm Parava (Malayalam)8:30pm

AL KHORJigsaw 11:00am, 1:00, 6:00 & 11:00pm Only The Brave 11:30am, 5:30 & 11:30pm Happy Death Day 11:00am, 3:30 & 8:00pm Ramleela 3:00 & 8:00pm Mersal (Tamil) 2:15 & 8:15pm 24 Hours To Live 1:15, 5:45 & 10:15pm

RAMLEELA

CROSSWORD CONCEPTIS SUDOKU

ALL IN THE MIND

08:00 News08:30 101 East 09:00 Living Beneath

The Drones10:30 Inside Story11:30 UpFront12:00 News12:30 Witness13:00 NEWSHOUR14:00 News14:30 Inside Story15:00 Killing The

Count16:00 NEWSHOUR17:00 News17:30 Talk to Al Jazeera18:00 Newsgrid19:30 Counting the

Cost20:00 News20:30 Inside Story21:00 NEWSHOUR22:00 News22:30 The Stream23:00 The Wanted 18

13:10 The Zhuzhus

13:20 Bizaardvark 15:50 K.C.

Undercover 16:40 Jessie 17:05 Descendants

Wicked World18:50 Miraculous

Tales Of Ladybug & Cat Noir

20:05 Best Friends Whenever

20:30 Liv And Maddie Halloween-town 2: Kalabar’s Revenge

23:05 Disney Mickey Mouse

23:10 Rolling With The Ronks

13:50 Dogs 101: New Tricks

14:45 Rugged Justice

15:40 Mutant Planet

16:35 Lone Star Law

17:30 Treehouse Masters

20:15 Rugged Justice

21:10 Escape To Chimp Eden

21:30 Escape To Chimp Eden

22:05 Monsters Inside Me

23:00 Mountain Monsters

23:55 Mutant Planet

00:50 Lone Star Law

13:10 Alaska: The Last Frontier

16:10 Street Customs 2008

17:00 How Do They Do It?

17:50 Extreme Collectors

18:20 Deals, Wheels And Steals

18:50 Treasure Quest: Snake Island

20:35 How Do They Do It?

21:00 Gold Rush21:50 Gold Divers22:40 Deadliest

Catch23:30 Fast N’

Loud

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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.

ACCORDION, BAGPIPES, BANJO,

BASSOON, BELL, BUGLE,

CASTANETS, CELLO, CLARINET,

CLAVIER, CONCERTINA,

CORNET, CYMBALS, DRUM,

DULCIMER, EUPHONIUM,

FLUEGELHORN, FLUTE, FRENCH

HORN, GONG, GUITAR,

HARMONICA, HARMONIUM,

HARP, HARPSICHORD, KAZOO,

KOTO, LUTE, LYRE, MANDOLIN,

MARIMBA, OCARINA, ORGAN,

PIANO, RECORDER, SITAR,

TAMBOURINE, TIMPANI,

TROMBONE, TRUMPET, TUBA,

VIBES, VIOLA, VIOLIN, WHISTLE,

ZITHER.