WEDNESDAY 11 OCTOBER 2017

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US scientists find ways to boost protein in corn

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CLOUDSPOTTING: SKY’S THE LIMITWhether they’re streaking from horizon to horizon or floating in whiffs and puffs, clouds play large role in our lives.

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CAMPUSWEDNESDAY 11 OCTOBER 2017 03

Keeping up its tradition to felicitate the eminent edu-cationists and retiring

Principals of Indian schools in Qatar, DPS-Modern Indian School invited A K Srivastava, retired prin-cipal of Birla Public School as the Guest of Honour on the occasion of ‘Award Ceremony’ held on Octo-ber 5.

The solemn ceremony was graced by the Chief Guest Hemant Kumar Dwivedi, First Secretary (Information and Education)

Embassy of India in Qatar; Hassan Chougule, President DPS-MIS, Yasir Nainar, vice-president and Director of IT Department, distin-guished members of DPS-MIS executive committee, other emi-nent guests and key functionaries.

Asna Nafees, Principal, wel-comed the guests and appreciated Srivastava for his inspiring leader-ship qualities and dedication to the field of education. She also recog-nised him as a passionate teacher,

friend, philosopher and guide who has moulded many lives into beau-tiful dreams.

His selfless and valuable serv-ice to the community is indeed an inspiration to all the future leaders.

Hassan Chougule, President DPS-MIS, commended Srivasta-va’s exceptional contribution to Indian expat community in Qatar.

Srivastava thanked DPS-MIS management for their kind gesture and acknowledgement.

DPS-MIS honours retired Birla Public School Principal

Expressing profound gratitude to all the teachers of the world, The Next Generation

(TNG) School paid tribute to its teachers by organising an event at the TNG Al Wakrah campus on October 5. Unesco commemorates the valuable contributions of teachers all around the world, cel-ebrating and conducting activities based on a theme every year to discuss the challenges faced by the educators. The topic chosen this year by UN “Teaching in Freedom,

Empowering Teachers” follows the roadmap of the Global Education 2030 agenda which highlights the fact that achievement of quality education depends on the freedom of teachers, equipping them with skills, tools and training that are fundamental for supporting an effective education system.

Guest speakers from distin-guished backgrounds were invited to share their views and ideas to the audience.

Maricel Fernandez, Program

Assistant Education at Unesco Doha; Commodore Irfan Taj, Defence Attaché and Osama Bin Javaid, Journalist-Al Jazeera Net-work graced the occasion to mark the day with TNG.

Qudsia Asad Khan, TNG Prin-cipal who gave a hearty welcome address, shared the difficulties that a teacher has to face every day with her tasks, meeting deadlines, controlling classrooms and con-necting with student.

“We have 8 dedicated years

of imparting quality education and it feels like it was just yesterday when the school opened its doors to enroll 17 students in Doha. Today, after having etched its mark in the Doha community TNG stands tall with proud figures of 3,854 parents, 1,927 students, 175 teachers , and 5 campuses, Al Dayeen being the youngest cam-pus. The numbers are a testament of how the community of Doha has embraced the vision of TNG wholeheartedly. The Next Gener-ation is a unique combination of quality and passion infused together and it is my honour to be in this hall with you ,the teachers, because you have been selected on the basis of your commitment in imparting knowledge to the stu-dents in TNG. You truly lead the students with your passion. ”, quoted Ms Asad.

Seminar session began with the speaker Maricel Fernandez.

She is an Education Pro-gramme Assistant at the United Nations Education, Scientific and Cultural Organization (Unesco Doha) office, covering the Arab States in the Gulf and Yemen.

She congratulated TNG in organising the said event.

TNG School pays tribute to teachers

COVER STORY WEDNESDAY 11 OCTOBER 201704

From cloud nine to climate

change, here’s why you

should always look up

Amy Ellis Nutt The Washington Post

The sky has brought nothing but trouble lately - hurricanes, tornadoes, torrential rain. For good

reason, people look up with wary eyes. On ordinary days, a pleasant wisp of white or a menacing thunderhead serve a more pedestrian preoccupation, a pragmatic barometer for how to dress or where to go.

Then there are those who gaze skyward for contemplation, even inspiration - especially when that azure canopy is tinted by white.

Whether they’re streaking from horizon to horizon or floating in whiffs and puffs, clouds play large role in our lives. They saturate our speech: Think of cloud nine. Our songs: Cue Joni Mitchell. Our literature, our art, even our geology is filled with clouds. What are some of the highest mountains in Colorado named? Mount Nimbus, Stratus, Cirrus & Cumulus.

As Yeats wrote, “I know that I shall meet my fate somewhere among the

clouds above.”For climatologists, though, clouds are

scientifically important as well as deeply challenging.

“Clouds are hard to model,” NASA asso-ciate research scientist Kate Marvel said.

“They’re the result of water vapor or ice crystals coalescing around microscopic bits of dust, particles of smoke and sea salt.

. . . So they have a dual effect on climate. They trap the heat from the planet and spit it back down, making things warmer, but they also block sunlight, which is a cooling effect.”

All of which frustrates climatologists trying to understand the effect of clouds on the planet.

“Even small changes to the distribution of clouds with rising temperatures could substantially diminish or enhance global warming,” said David Romps, a professor of Earth and planetary science at the Uni-versity of California at Berkeley.

In July 2016, the journal Nature pub-lished research showing cloud cover had increased over Earth’s polar regions, accelerat ing greenhouse gas concentrations.

“Right now, clouds are more air con-ditioner than heater,” Romps noted, “but that will change as the planet warms.”

Some scientists have even theorized certain distinctive cloud formations can be harbingers of imminent earthquakes. A Chinese engineer claims to have suc-cessfully predicted more than 30 temblors.

Psychologically speaking, clouds also have both positive and negative impact. Overcast weather turns us inward and helps us focus, the experts say. Sunny weather, by contrast, slows cognition.

Researchers in Australia tested their theory with an experiment several years ago. They showed - for the first time in a real-life setting - weather-induced moods can significantly affect memory. On rainy, cloudy days, which caused a gloomy mood, the ability to recall objects was three times greater than on sunny days, despite all the positive vibes they triggered.

To artists and writers, clouds have been everything from eye-catching backdrops in paintings to humorous metaphors in literature - even objects of philosophical inquiry.

COVER STORYWEDNESDAY 11 OCTOBER 2017 05When 17th century French

thinker Rene Descartes wasn’t busy becoming the father of modern phi-losophy (“I think, therefore I am,”) he was looking up at the sky and musing confidently on his scientific acumen.

“We imagine [clouds] so lofty that even the poets and painters depict them as the throne of God,” he wrote.

“This makes me hope that if I explain their nature . . . one will easily believe that it is possible in the same way to find the causes of everything won-derful on the Earth.”

More than 400 years later, Dutch visual artist Berndnaut Smilde cre-ates his own fleeting clouds indoors. He uses a complicated mix of smoke and water vapor, then captures the results on photographs before the clouds disintegrate back into nothingness.

Smilde has conjured clouds in a Turkish bath in Istanbul, at a deserted mining company in Bel-gium, even in a centuries-old London dungeon.

“You need a certain space and want it to float,” he explained. “The search for the ideal cloud can take a long time.”

Clouds have often come with numbers attached, the most preva-lent being cloud nine. It played a starring role in The Temptations’ 1968 album of the same name, with its eponymous Grammy-winning song. It then resurfaced 19 years later as an album title for former Beatle George Harrison.

The phrase, indicating a state of euphoria, may have originated from the early cloud classification system in which cloud nine was the tallest formation. Then again, cloud seven carried you into bliss, according to

the 1960 American Dictionary of Slang. You definitely didn’t want to end up on cloud eight - it meant you were drunk, per a 1930s book about the criminal “underworld.”

Gavin Pretor-Pinney sees cloud-watching as a leisure activ-ity. On a lark in 2005, the Londoner founded the Cloud Appreciation Society. Its membership today tops 43,500 with “cloudspotters” ring-ing the globe from the Congo to Canada, Iceland to Iran, China to Chile.

The United Kingdom is home to more than half the organisation’s members. The United States is sec-ond with nearly 10,000.

Many regularly send their best cloud photos to Pretor-Pinney, who uses them for his “cloud of the day” and “cloud of the month” emails. In fact, interest has grown so much that the Cloud Appreciation Society is now a full-time business. Pretor-Pinney, an art designer by training, is leading “sky holidays” to partic-ularly cloudy parts of the world. The

first trip was to Canada in February to see the Northern Lights.

“I’ve always felt the sky to be the most dynamic, most poetic part of nature,” Pretor-Pinney said. “So it’s always struck me as a shame that it’s gotten bad press.”

The society even helped iden-tify a new class of cloud, a turbulent formation named asperitas that was officially added this March to the 121-year-old International Cloud Atlas.

The group, of course, has noth-ing good to say about lovers of cloudlessness - including beach-goers, most prominently. They call the worship of monotonous cloud-lessness “blue sky thinking.”

Pretor-Pinney rejects such a limited view of the heavens.

“Cloudspotting is a conscious invi-tation to daydream, a sensitivity to your surroundings,” he said. “It’s a kind of sky geekiness, which is beautiful.”

MARKETPLACE / COMMUNITY WEDNESDAY 11 OCTOBER 201706

Mohsen Alyafei, an official from Ministry of Business and Trade-Field Control Department announced the first third raffle draw winners of Malabar Gold & Diamonds running campaign ‘Win upto 100 kilos of Gold’ in the presence of Santhosh T V , Regional Head - Malabar Gold & Diamonds; Abdulla Shaffi, Branch Manager and other officials from Malabar Gold & Diamonds. Each winner -Vijaya G, Jigme Gurung and Rahana Jasim- will receive 250 grammes of gold.

‘Nammude Adukklathottam Doha’ (Our Kitchen Gar-den),’ a group of organic

farmers, organised an agricultural seminar to mark the beginning of its fourth season at the Ashoka Hall ICC and was inaugurated by the head of chancery of Indian Embassy K S Dhiman.

The seminar was presided over by the Committee President Ramla Samad.

ICC Joint Secretary Raja Vijayan Baburaj, MES School Prin-cipal Hameeda Kadar, Voice of Kerala Fame Yathendran Master and Committee Member Mari-amma Thomas offered felicitation speeches.

MES Principal Hameeda Kadar invited the committee members to bring awareness to the school stu-dents about organic farming and encourage the future generation about the importance of the same.

The organisation also selected the best farmers for fellowship.

John Joseph, Agriculture Officer from Kerala), delivered a speech

clarifying the doubts of farmers. Seeds, plants, grow bags and fish amino acid (Organic fertilizer) were distributed to the farmers.

A m b a r a P a v i t h r a n ,

Chairperson; Jisha Krishnan, Rajesh Puthussery, Sibi Mathew, Siroz, Suresh Krishna, SKD Nair and Unni Narayanan , Committee Members, were present

on the occasion. Secretary Jawahar Bharathan

welcomed the seminar and Treas-urer Ameer Koya proposed a vote of thanks.

Indian body holds seminar on organic farming

Malabar Gold & Diamonds raffle draw winners announced

SCIENCEWEDNESDAY 11 OCTOBER 2017 07US scientists find ways to boost protein in cornAFP

US scientists have found a way to genetically engineer corn to produce an amino acid,

boosting the nutritional value of one of the world’s most important crops.

The process involved inserting a bacterial gene that causes corn to make methionine, a crucial nutri-ent for the health of skin, nail and hair.

Researchers said the discovery could benefit millions of people in the developing world who depend on corn as a staple, and could reduce animal feed costs, accord-ing to the report in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sci-ences, a peer-reviewed US journal.

“We improved the nutritional value of corn, the largest commod-ity crop grown on Earth,” said co-author Thomas Leustek, profes-sor in the Department of Plant Biology at Rutgers University.

“Most corn is used for animal feed, but it lacks methionine -- a

key amino acid -- and we found an effective way to add it.”

The sulfur in methionine “pro-tects cells from pollutants, slows cell aging and is essential for absorbing selenium and zinc,” the PNAS report said.

Already, industries spend bil-lions adding synthetic methionine to field corn seed, which does not naturally contain this amino acid, in order to help livestock grow.

Co-author Joachim Messing, a professor who directs the Waks-man Institute of Microbiology, said this is a “costly, energy-consuming process.”

The new method involved inserting an E. coli bacterial gene into the corn plant’s genome.

The E. coli enzyme caused methionine production in the plant’s leaves, and methionine in corn kernels increased by 57 per-cent, the study said.

The process did not affect plant growth.

Scientists fed the genetically engineered corn to chickens at Rut-gers University and found it was

nutritious for them, Messing said.Leustek said that “in principle,

the technology could be quickly deployed, within a couple of years.”

“The transgene that we devel-oped can easily be inserted into commercial corn varieties,” he said in an email.

“The major obstacle would be regulatory hurdles because it is a transgenic technology.”

Food and animal feeds contain-ing genetically modified organisms are highly controversial in the Euro-pean Union, amid public suspicions that they carry a health risk.

A sweeping review in 2016 of the available scientific literature by

the US National Academies of Sci-ence found no evidence that genetically modified crops are unsafe to eat.

Leustek said researchers also found that it might be possible to grow corn that contains this amino acid without using genetic engineering.

“For example, by feeding plants with different sources of sulfur nutrients as fertiliser,” he said.

“Of course, this will require addi-tional work and the outcome is not guaranteed. But our results strongly suggest that changes in use of fer-tilisers could also achieve the desired result.”

Wind farms in Atlantic could power the world

AFP

Wind farms in the open ocean can generate far more renewable energy

than those on land, possibly enough to power the whole world,

said a US study.Researchers at the Carnegie

Institution for Science found that higher wind speeds over the open seas could produce five times as much energy as wind turbines over land.

While no commercial-scale deep water wind farms exist at present, the findings suggest the technology is worth pursuing, though the power would vary according to the seasons.

“In the winter, North Atlantic wind farms could provide suffi-cient energy to meet all of civilisation’s current needs,” said the report in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

“In the summer such wind farms could merely generate enough power to cover the electricity demand of Europe, or possibly the United States alone.”

The study is based on compu-ter models that compared the productivity of large Kansas wind farms to imagined, massive wind

farms erected in the open seas.In some areas, particularly the

North Atlantic, ocean-based wind farms would be far more potent because the drag introduced by wind turbines would not slow down winds as much as they would on land. Also, open-water wind farms were seen as better able to capture energy that originates high up in the atmosphere and is trans-ported down to the surface, where turbines may extract it.

“We found that giant ocean-based wind farms are able to tap into the energy of the winds throughout much of the atmos-phere, whereas wind farms onshore remain constrained by the near-surface wind resources,” said co-author Anna Possner.

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Double mastectomy tied to more missed workLisa Rapaport Reuters

Many women with early-stage breast cancer have full-time jobs when they’re

diagnosed, and they are more likely to miss at least a month of work when they receive aggressive treat-ment that includes surgery, a US study suggests.

The majority of women in the study had surgery - either a lumpectomy that removes malig-nant tissue while sparing the rest of the breast or a mastectomy that removes the entire breast. After-wards, many of them also got chemotherapy or radiation to destroy any remaining abnormal cells and reduce the risk of cancer coming back.

Women who received the most aggressive treatment - a double mastectomy followed by breast reconstruction surgery - were almost eight times more likely to miss a month or more of work than women who got a lumpectomy, the study found. With a double mas-tectomy and reconstruction, women were also three times more likely to stop working altogether.

“We know that many of the women who are receiving (double) mastectomy do not have advanced tumors that require mastectomy even on the affected side,” said lead study author Dr. Reshma Jagsi of the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor.

All of the women had early breast cancer, meaning the tumors had not spread beyond the breast and nearby lymph nodes. Survival odds are generally much better for women diagnosed with these early-stage tumors than for patients with tumors that have metastasized, or spread to other organs in the body.

“Many of the women who are considering more aggressive sur-gery tell me that they are considering this because they want to make sure they will be there for those who depend on them, both at home and at work,” Jagsi said by email. “For most women with

early-stage breast cancer, lumpec-tomy with radiation therapy is an option, will yield equivalent over-all survival to mastectomy, and will actually be less likely to disrupt their ability to be there for others.”

For the study, researchers examined data on 1,006 working women diagnosed with early-stage breast cancer in 2014 and 2015. Overall, 84 percent were working full-time before their diagnosis, but only half of them had paid sick leave and just 38 percent had dis-ability benefits.

When women got chemother-apy, they were 30 percent more likely to miss at least a month of work than when they didn’t receive these drugs, the study found. Chem-otherapy was also associated with roughly four times the odds that women would stop work altogether.

Among women who missed more than a month of work, 29 per-cent lost more than $5,000 in income, researchers report in the journal Cancer.

The study wasn’t a controlled experiment designed to prove how different treatment options directly cause missed work or lost wages. Another limitation of the study is that researchers lacked data on why women missed work, and it’s pos-sible some of that time wasn’t related to the type of treatment they received.

Because the vast majority of women diagnosed with breast can-cer can be cured, and because more aggressive care doesn’t necessar-ily improve survival odds, it makes sense for patients to consider the financial or career impacts of treat-ment to help decide what makes

sense for them, said Dr. Michael Hassett of the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute and Harvard Medical School in Boston.

“Women should start by figur-ing out what treatment has the best chance of curing their cancer,” Has-sett, who wasn’t involved in the study, said by email. “If more than one effective treatment exists, then patients should look for the treat-ment option that has the least impact on employment or what-ever is most relevant to her.”

Too often, discussions women have with their doctors about the best treatment options don’t include a conversation about the employ-ment impact, said Dr. Benjamin Smith, of the University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center in Houston.

“This needs to change,” Smith, who wasn’t involved in the study, said by email. “Patients need to understand how their choices may influence their employment, and patients need assistance to help ensure their treatment choices are truly shared decisions that weigh the potential employment impact of given treatment options.”

“Women who pursue a more aggressive surgery for early stage breast cancer have nearly eight times the odds of reporting substantial employment disruptions.”

BOLLYWOODWEDNESDAY 11 OCTOBER 2017 11

IANS

Mumbai is set to get a taste of a Punjabi wedding musi-cal in a Bollywood-themed

Broadway style from next month onwards.

After “Zangoora”, “Jhumroo” and “Jaan-E-Jigar”, Wizcraft Inter-national Entertainment Pvt Ltd is gearing up to launch their fourth theatrical -- “Balle Balle - The Big-gest and Craziest Wedding”.

“I think weddings in India are something that everyone looks for-ward to. The joy and parties last for three to four days. Punjabi wed-dings are much more louder by default. So, I wanted to do a Pun-jabi wedding musical with a Bollywood-Broadway style,” Viraf Sarkari, Director, Wizcraft Inter-national Entertainment Pvt Ltd, said.

The “full India cast” consists of 24 actors and 24 dancers.

“All are being trained in dancing, drama and singing. So, it will be in a truly Broadway style,” he said.

Any known names participat-ing in it?

“No. I don’t think for a project like this, we need a known name. We have taken raw and aspiring actors and singers, and turned them into stars. Everyone has fabulous

talent and great energy. This will be a long-running project,” he said.

Mumbai is known as the hub of Bollywood. So why do a Bollywood show in the city?

“What happened was that eve-rybody -- family and friends

-- from Mumbai would go to King-dom of Dreams (Gurugram) for

‘Zangoora’ and ‘Jhumroo’. Mumbai is the hub of entertainment, but there is nothing to make people get close to Bollywood.

“If you see Filmcity,

nothing happens there in terms of entertainment for the masses. Besides watching movies on the screen, there is nothing. This is the first time that we are literally bring-ing Broadway to Mumbai,” Sarkari said.

There will be previews and spe-cial shows, but the masses can catch it at Bal Gandharva Rang Mandir from November 10 onwards.

“It won’t be a conventional play that happens on weekends. All the drama and masala of a blockbuster

Bollywood film will be there. It will be like watching a live movie with sing along and foot tapping music,” he said.

“The moment the audience will enter the theatre, it will be like they have come for a wedding. It will be highly interactive as well,” he added.

They plan to do eight shows a week.

“It will be in the evening during weekdays. For Saturday and Sun-day, we are planning to have a matinee show,” he said.

Bollywood-themed musical is coming to Mumbai

IANS

Actor-host Samir Kochhar has joined the cast of the digital show “Karrle Tu Bhi

Mohabbat” season 2, starring actors Ram Kapoor and Sakshi Tanwar. He will be seen playing a lawyer Palash in ALTBalaji show.

Speaking about his character and the upcoming season, Samir said in a statement: “This season promises to be filled with lots of drama and excitement. He is a law-yer who has nothing in his life, but his job. He is a bitter human being. He is very focused about his work and doesn’t like things that distract

him from his work.”Samir has earlier worked with

Ram and Sakshi in the Ekta Kapoor-produced show “Bade Acche Lagte Hai”.

“It’s good to be back with the old team. It feels like we are rec-reating the magic of ‘Bade Acche Lagte Hai’. Ekta has this amazing digital platform ALTBalaji and her magic continues. So, it’s good to be back and it’s good to be work-ing with friends again,” Samir said.

“I am really enjoying the web space a lot. It gives an actor an opportunity to go and do what they want. It’s the way the world is moving forward.”

Karan Johar hails S S Rajamouli

Filmmaker Karan Johar wished S.S. Rajamouli on his 44th birthday yesterday, and called

him the “best director of Indian cin-ema”. Karan had distributed the Hindi version of the magnum opus

“Baahubali: The Beginning” and “Baa-hubali 2: The Conclusion”, helmed by Rajamouli.

“Wishing the BEST director of Indian Cinema S.S. Rajamouli a very very happy birthday! Master story-teller and genius visionary,” Karan tweeted.

“Baahubali” is an epic historical fiction film directed by Rajamouli featuring Prabhas, Rana Daggubati, Anushka Shetty, Tamannaah, Ramya Krishnan, Sathyaraj and Nassar.

Samir Kochhar joins the cast of ‘Karrle Tu Bhi Mohabbat season 2’

HOLLYWOOD WEDNESDAY 11 OCTOBER 201712

AFP

Lucasfilm debuted its highly anticipated second trailer for

“Star Wars: The Last Jedi” yes-terday, hinting at dark times ahead for the Resistance and possibly even the end of Leia.

The footage from the eighth installment in the blockbuster space opera, due for release on December 15, dropped during ESPN’s Monday Night Football half-time show.

The 154-second clip follows a trailer released in April which teased Luke Skywalker (Mark Hamill) teaching Rey the ways of the Force.

This time around more plot was unveiled, with Luke telling Rey (Daisy Ridley) he’d only seen power like hers once before -- and while it didn’t scare him enough then, it does now.

Fans speculated on social media that he could be talking about his nephew and Rey’s nem-esis Kylo Ren, who is seen in a TIE fighter with his mother General Leia Organa in his sights, his eyes welling up as he prepares to open fire.

Carrie Fisher -- who has played the character since she was known simply as Princess Leia in the orig-inal 1977-83 trilogy -- died in December, having already wrapped her scenes for “The Last Jedi.”

Lucasfilm chief Kathleen Kennedy has said Fisher will not appear in the as-yet untitled ninth episode, due for release in 2019 -- leading some observers to conclude that the new trailer was showing her final moments.

Elsewhere Poe Dameron and Finn are shown battling the evil First Order and then there is a glimpse of Rey, apparently a pris-oner of Supreme Leader Snoke, asking Kylo to “show me my place in all this” as -- shock, horror -- he offers her his hand.

The marketing around the film has been controversial, with direc-tor Rian Johnson (“Looper,” “Brick”) recently warning fans via Twitter that those wanting to go into the theater “clean” should “absolutely avoid” watching the new clip.

He appeared to have softened his stance by the time the footage dropped, however, tweeting: “FOR-GET EVERYTHING I SAID AND WATCH IT WATCH IT WATCH IT.”

It had almost half a million views and more than 21,000 com-ments on YouTube within two hours of being posted, with #The-LastJedi quickly becoming the top trending hashtag worldwide on Twitter.

The reaction among critics was effusive, with Ryan Parker, a film writer for the The Hollywood Reporter, enthusing that he was

“blown away.”

“I don’t think I have ever been so hyped for a ‘Star Wars’ film than I am right now. It was the perfect mix of everything I was hoping it would be,” he said.

“We got more Luke, but not too much, some looks at Leia that really hurt my heart and some more insight into where this all is going.”

For Rolling Stone’s Sean Col-lins, the “hints at a heel turn from Rey with those grim fourth-wall-breaking shots of Carrie Fisher’s warrior princess on the verge of death, at the hands of her own son no less” presaged a movie strong in the dark side of the Force.

“The Last Jedi” -- filmed on the west coast of Ireland and at Pine-wood Studios -- sees the return of the characters introduced in 2015’s seventh installment.

Introducing the cast at a fan event earlier this year Johnson unveiled a new star, Kelly Marie Tran, who plays Rose, a mainte-nance worker who is part of the Resistance.

The actress revealed that she had told her family she was doing

“an indie movie in Canada” -- such has been the secrecy surrounding the film.

Hamill tweeted that he was rac-ing home to watch the trailer but told fans he was “not sure if I’ll make the Kessel Run in 12 par-secs!!!” -- a reference to a famous line from the original “Star Wars.”

Amy Winehouse musical coming to West EndIANS

Late singer Amy Wine-house’s life are set to be documented in a new

West End musical.Winehouse was found

dead at her home at the age of 27. Her family, with whom she was extremely close, are in talks to create a musical documenting the singer’s life, reports dailymail.co.uk.

“A musical celebrating her life and music is being talked about for the near future. It is something I’d really like to happen and I’ve said I’m happy for it to go ahead,” Winehouse’s father Mitch said.

“It would be for the West End. We want to do something that remembers Amy for what she was, there’s so much more to her than just the drugs and the alcohol,” he added.

Sylvester Stallone to direct ‘Creed 2’

Actor Sylvester Stallone has announced that he will direct the upcom-

ing sports drama film “Creed 2”. Besides directing, Stallone also shared on Instagram that he will be producing the sequel to the 2015 film

“Creed”, which earned him an Academy Award for Best Sup-porting Actor, reports aceshowbiz.com.

Along with a photograph of himself and “Creed” star Michael B. Jordan, Stallone wrote: “Looking forward to directing and producing the incredibly talented Michael B Jordan in ‘Creed 2’ next year... One more round.”

“Creed” was directed by Ryan Coogler. It served as both spin-off and sequel to Stallone’s “Rocky” film series.

second trailer released

TECHNOLOGYWEDNESDAY 11 OCTOBER 2017 13The Washington Post

Not content with being dom-inant online, Google is pushing into your home -

with a line of smart devices and speakers that it hopes will grace your shelves and coffee tables very soon. The company handed out the smallest member of its speaker line, the Google Home Mini, to everyone who attended the launch event last week. These are my thoughts after a few days with it.

First things first: The main sell-ing point for the Google Home Mini is its price. As the Google Home Mini itself will tell you - if you ask - it costs just $49. That’s $10 less than Amazon’s competing mini-hub, the Echo Dot. If you’re looking for an easy way into the smart home, Google Home Mini is the cheapest way to do that.

And yet it doesn’t feel cheap. It feels like a total home hub in its own right - though with a few compromises.

In truth, if you have a Google Home, you pretty much know how the Google Home Mini works. And, if you don’t, it’s easy enough to fig-ure out. Once you download the app onto your phone, it basically sets itself up and teaches you how to use it to ask for information, set timers and control whatever other smart devices you may have about.

It’s simple, and that’s good. It keeps a low profile; it’s much smaller than the Google Home, not even clearing the base of its older sibling. The Mini has just enough switches and indicators to function, and very little else.

If you’re looking to put multi-ple home hubs in your house

- maybe one in the kitchen and one on the nightstand - that’s when the Google Home Mini really comes into its own. Like the Echo Dot, the Home Mini is an appealing way to make your smart home features available in more rooms, particu-larly at that $50 price.

For example: I have a Google Home. It sits in my bedroom and has the main function of control-ling my bedroom lights and playing podcasts or music to put me to sleep. But placing it at my bedside meant that I had to choose not to put it in my living room, where I wanted to

use it to control my Chromecast and television. With the Mini as a sort of satellite hub in the living room, I can now do both.

As a stand-alone speaker, Google Home Mini is decent - though certainly not something to recommend to an audiophile. It’s best for background music while you work or do chores, not for seri-ous music appreciation, such as when you really want to hear the warmth of the clarinets. To be hon-est, the Google Home isn’t the world’s best speaker, either, but the Mini is noticeably less full.

But the Home Mini can hear your commands, even when its vol-ume is cranked high - making it better than some smart speakers that can’t always hear you over the noise they’re generating.

If you have to adjust the volume by touching the speaker instead of using your voice, you can do so with easy taps on the speaker’s ends.

And I can group the Google Home and Google Home Mini together, so that they can, for

example, play the same song. That comes in handy if I’m moving from room to room while vacuuming or folding and putting away laundry. I never have to miss a note or word of a podcast, and I don’t have to spend a lot on a smart speaker sys-tem to get that feature. It’s a little creature comfort, but still a nice one.

Of course, adding a Mini - either as a primary or secondary hub - also means allowing Google more access into your home. The Mini, like the Google Home, is always lis-tening for its trigger phrases, “Okay, Google”or “Hey, Google.” And that, understandably, can be a bit dis-concerting, particularly if you’re putting these devices in your bed-room or the bathroom. So, just as with the Home, Mini has a mute function, which will shut off the microphone. If ever you want to, you can flip that mute switch.

Google Home Mini has all the new features coming to Google Home, as well, including the abil-ity to make hands-free calls through the speaker, using your smartphone.

So, if you’re wrist-deep in bread dough and need to call your spouse for some extra ingredients, you can do that, and it can show up as a call from your own number. If you lose your phone, ask Google Home to call it for you - on Android devices, it will even ring if your phone is muted. (It can’t override a mute set-ting on the iPhone.)

You can also use Google Search as a sort of phone directory, to call the “nearest florist,” etc. But I haven’t found that feature too use-ful yet, if only because the nearest store isn’t always the best one. Still, it’s a promising feature, and shows off how Google is infusing its smarts into these devices. And that’s the broader takeaway for anyone look-ing with interest at the Google Home Mini. Google knows this is a crowded space and is putting its software smarts front and center to stand out. So, while Amazon may have a wider spread of products and Apple may pursue hardware excellence, Google’s focus is on function. So far, it’s working.

Google Home Mini: The cheapest

way to get into the smart home

BABY BLUES

HAGAR THE HORRIBLE

Five medical students, obsessed by what lies beyond the confines

of life, embark on a daring experiment: by stopping their hearts

for short periods. Director: Niels Arden Oplev; Stars: Ellen Page,

Diego Luna, Nina Dobrev

Note: Programme is subject to change without prior notice.

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BRAIN TEASERSWEDNESDAY 11 OCTOBER 15

Yesterday’s answer

Conceptis Sudoku: Conceptis Sudoku

is a number-placing puzzle based on a

9×9 grid. The object is to place the

numbers 1 to 9 in the empty squares so

that each row, each column and each

3×3 box contains the same number

only once.

BRONZE, CHINA, COPPER,

CORAL, COTTON, CRYSTAL,

DIAMOND, EMERALD, GOLD,

IRON, IVORY, JADE, LACE,

LEATHER, LINEN, PAPER,

PEARL, POTTERY, RUBY,

SAPPHIRE, SILK, SILVER,

STEEL, TIN, WOOD, WOOL.