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Last year, the American Last year, the American Medical Association formally Medical Association formally recognised the “potential recognised the “potential risks of prolonged sitting” risks of prolonged sitting” as it urged employers and as it urged employers and employees alike to seek out employees alike to seek out alternatives to sitting, such alternatives to sitting, such as standing working stations as standing working stations -- some even equipped with a -- some even equipped with a treadmill -- or isometric balls treadmill -- or isometric balls instead of desk chairs.instead of desk chairs.

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Three centuries after Thomas Jefferson found standing up a superior way to work, a growing number of Americans are mulling the dangers of sitting down

on the job — and opting to get on their feet.Backaches. Muscular degeneration. Heart

disease. Diabetes. Colon cancer. Even premature death is on the list of the potential consequences of a sedentary working life, according to a raft of studies on the topic.

“We’re sitting ourselves to an early death,” said Rob Danoff, a family physician in Pennsylvania and member of the American Osteopathic Association with a special interest in preventative medicine.

“We are a ‘potato’ society,” he said.“We sit most of the day, so we are work potatoes

-- and then we go home and we are couch potatoes. That combination can be deadly.”

Risks of ‘prolonged sitting’Adult Americans spend on average 7.7 hours a

day engaged in “sedentary behavior,” the National Institutes of Health has reported.

And the American Osteopathic Association estimates that 70 percent of office workers spend more than five hours a day seated at their desks.

The longer people are sitting, the more difficult it is for their blood to circulate, explained Danoff, who cautioned that going to the gym after work affords no compensation.

According to a study in the Archives of Internal Medicine, the risk of premature death grows 15 percent for those who sit eight hours a day, and 40 percent for those who sit 11 hours a day, compared with those who sit just four hours.

Last year, the American Medical Association formally recognized the “potential risks of prolonged sitting” as it urged employers and employees alike to seek out alternatives to sitting, such as standing working stations -- some even equipped with a treadmill -- or isometric balls instead of desk chairs.

The message is starting to get around, with more Americans choosing standing desks -- like Jefferson, one of the US founding fathers and third president, prolific architect and well-known tinkerer, who favored standing when doing his tasks.

“Standing desks have been popular probably for 20 years in Europe, but not in the United States,” said Jeffrey Meltzer, president of Applied Ergonomics, an Illinois firm that specializes in workspaces.

“In the states, they were seen as silly,” said Meltzer, adding that he noticed a significant shift in 2013 when sales of standing desks leaped 50 percent.

‘More pro-active’In trend-setting California, with its youthful and

cutting-edge technology sector, standing desks have become increasingly commonplace.

In Washington, Kathleen Hale, the 34-year-old co-founder of Rebel Desk, has found a market among lawyers, university professors and health professionals for standing desks with slow-paced treadmills attached.

“People have been working for healthier working environments since it’s the place where many of us are spending more time than we do with our

families,” Hale said.Bilaal Ahmed, 34, founder of the startup

Linktank, has embraced the concept of an adjustable office, even if he is in excellent health.

“It’s more proactive,” he said. “It’s a desire to be healthy, to stay active even when I’m working. This is one of the best ways to do that.”

He added: “It’s not only to be standing, but also to have the computer at a certain level, so your arms are perpendicular to the body.”

If he gets tired, Ahmed simply flops down into a nearby chair. Overall, he said he feels more alert, more aware and more productive.

Hale recommends mixing up positions throughout the day.

“Sometimes you stand. Sometimes you walk. And when you need to, you sit, to take a break,” she said. “That’s how we encourage people to think about sitting — it’s a time to take a break.”

Danoff said staying in motion is key.“We weren’t made to sit all day,” he said. “We

were not made to stand all day. We were made to move. It’s all about balance.”

He said it is “unrealistic” to install standing desks in most places, as doing so could result in going from one extreme to another.

Just getting up for a moment every half-hour, going for a walk in the hallway, taking the stairs instead of the elevator and seeing a colleague instead of sending an email are all useful options.

“There are a lot of things that people can do which they don’t do,” he said. “You don’t need all this fancy equipment. There are common things to do.” AFP

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Standing on the

job gains favour

in US workplaces

Last year, the American Medical Association formally recognized the “potential risks of prolonged sitting” as it urged employers and employees alike to seek out alternatives to sitting, such as standing working stations

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The workspace of the future is a lot more than a typical office cubicle.

It may be a coffee shop, the liv-ing room, an airport terminal, or anywhere technology can provide connections.

Laptops already allow many peo-ple to work remotely, but the trend is gaining momentum with advances such as virtual reality avatars and tel-epresence robots.

“People are working not only from home but from wherever it is conven-ient,” says Ted Schadler, an analyst at Forrester Research who studies mobile collaboration technology.

“Some people may leave early and then work at home after they put the kids to bed.”

A 2012 survey by software firm Citrix found 90 percent of US employ-ers allowed “mobile work styles.”

And the practice is almost as wide-spread in China (85 percent), Brazil (81 percent), India (77 percent), Britain (72 percent), France and Germany (71 percent each).

The next leap may be the introduc-tion of tech-nologies to allow robots or virtual reality to fill the gap of face-t o - f a c e c o m mu -nications.

So-called telepresence robots allow a kind of videoconferencing.

A product made by California star-tup Double Robotics uses an iPad attached to a self-balancing scooter which can roam around an office and interact with colleagues.

The robots have been satirised on television comedies, but Jay Liew of Double Robotics says companies are warming to them.

“We’ve had customers tell us they can’t remember when the person was really there and when the robot was there,” Liew said.

“After the initial excitement wears off, it’s not just a robot. It’s John. It’s Connie, from the Seattle office.”

And the person working remotely can get be a part of the “team” by moving around the office, chatting in the break room, or “stopping by” a col-league’s desk to ask a question.

Another technique allows people to interact in a cartoon-like world via their “avatars” — or images they create.

Jeremy Bailenson, director of the Virtual Human Interaction Lab at

Stanford University, said virtual meetings can in

many cases be better than those tak-ing place face-to-face.

Virtual handshake“People say there is nothing like the

handshake and eye contact,” he said. “I build systems that allow you to have that handshake and eye contact.”

Bailenson says an individual can tweak his or her avatar to produce features and body language.

“So I can do things in a virtual meeting that can make me a more effective sales person, make me a bet-ter leader,” he said.

Bailenson said virtual reality offers a host of advantages such as reducing commuting fuel costs and road acci-dents and saving time.

But for it to gain mass adoption, it should be more natural, without the cumbersome helmets and sensors now required.

Bailenson added that Facebook’s $2bn acquisition of the virtual reality firm Oculus Rift suggests the trend may be accelerating.

Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg recently visited his lab “so maybe we are at a tipping point.”

Ford has begun using virtual reality in its Immersion Lab, allowing design

engineers to collaborate on items like sideview mirrors and concealed wind-shield wipers.

Like ‘Second Life’The auto giant says the collabo-

ration is “like a Second Life game,” referring to the popular 3D virtual world game.

“We now have Ford designers and engineers around the world work-ing together virtually — inside and side-by-side — on the same product,” said Ford virtual reality specialist Elizabeth Baron.

Kori Inkpen Quinn, who stud-ies human-computer interaction at Microsoft Research, said her studies suggest colleagues are comfortable with video interaction such as with a telepresence robot but that most are not ready for the cartoonish avatars of virtual reality.

“Even if I’m comfortable looking like a cat, you might not be comfort-able having a business meeting with a cat,” she said.

Lindsey Pollak, a workplace con-sultant for the insurance firm The Hartford, says changes may be driven by younger tech-savvy people coming into the workforce.

“They are digital natives and expect the workplace will be as digital savvy and as flexible as they’ve seen in the consumer market,” she said.

One problem is that employees may face more stress because they never really stop and disconnect from work.

A recent Gallup survey found one-third of full-time workers say their employer expects them to check email and stay in touch after the business day ends.

“This is becoming the new normal and it is creating tremendous stress,” Pollak said. “Stress and depression is one of the reasons Millennials are tak-ing disability leave.” AFP

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Workspace of the future: Everywhere

The person working remotely can be a part of the “team” by moving around the office, chatting in the break room, or “stopping by” a colleague’s desk to ask a question.

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CBSE CLASS XII TOPPERS - BIRLA PUBLIC SCHOOL

CBSE CLASS XII TOPPERS - DMIS

CBSE CLASS XII TOPPERS - DPS-MIS

PALLICHADAYATH HARISANKAR NAIR

VRINDASHENOY

DAISHA ANN MATHEW

JOE TOMS PANIKULAM

ELIZABETHJACOB

GAUTAM RAJEEV

HARSHAVARDHINI RANGANATHAN

HEVNA DHULKIFLE

JOSHUA PALATHINKAL ISSAC

AYSHA NIHALA REYAS

SUMEDHA ACHARYA

HIBA NASREEN

ADIL MOHAMED M

SANCHU PHILIP MATHEW

MEYYAPPAN HARI SUBBIAH

KEVIN BIJU JOHN

JOSEPH JACOB

AISHWARYA PARAMMAL UPOT

SONALI PATRO POLAKI

MOHAMMED YOUNUS

MOHAMMED ADEL ABDUL RAHMAN

NILESH ANANTHA SUBRAMANIAN

SHREYA ESTHER JACOB

RAVISHAGUPTA

SUZAAN SHAJIL

RIYA MARYMATHEW

In all, 121 students appeared for the Class XII Board exams. Thirty-three passed with a score of 90 percent and above, and 76.9 percent scored above 75 percent. The first three toppers in the science stream were Vrinda Shenoy (96.40 percent), Joe Toms Panikulam (95.40 percent), and Pallichadayath Harisankar Nair (95.20 percent). Toppers in the Commerce stream were: Hiba Nasreen (95.80 percent), Ankita Rajendra Gaddam (92.20 percent), and Mohammed Younus (92 percent).

Ninety-five students passed with 75 percent and above and 44 students secured an aggregate of 90 percent or above. Science stream toppers: Vatsal Vimal Patel (98.2 percent), Nirali M Shah (96.8 percent), Sheran Rashel Cardoza (96.2 percent). Commerce stream toppers: Shanice Fernandes (94.6 percent), Tanya Gupta (93.8 percent) Rebecca Elizabeth Kurien (92 percent).

A 100 percent pass rate was registered with a record class average of 82 percent. Suzaan Shajil topped the science stream with 92.8 percent marks. Shreya Elizabeth Jacob topped the commerce stream with 92.8 percent. Sixty percent of the students who appeared for the exam scored 80 percent and above.

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ATRAYEE MUKHERJEE

NIRALI M SHAH

DINDUKURTHI APOORVA

SHERAN RASHEL CARDOZA

MUGUNDAN GUHAN

SHANICE FERNANDES

POOJAN SHAH

TANYA GUPTA

SHIBIKA MITRA

REBECCAELIZABETH KURIEN

SONALI NEERAJ TIWARIKURIEN

ADHISH VERMA

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Thrissur Vedi to mark World Environment Day

Thrissur Jilla Souhruda Vedi (TJSV), an organisation of Keralites hailing from

Thrissur district, Kerala, and func-tioning under the aegis of the Indian Embassy in Qatar, is celebrating World E n v i r o n m e n t Day 2014 under the patronage of the Ministry of Environment on June 6 for the general public and on June 7 for ECO Club members from all Asian schools in Qatar. Muhsen Al Khayarin, Environment Educational Consultant from the MoE, will be the chief guest on Friday, June 6 at KMCC Hall. TJSV Patron C K Menon will preside over the function. Academician and an environmental expert from Kerala, Prof E Kunhikrishnan (pictured) will deliver the keynote address on the topic ‘Climate Change — Man-made causes and Challenges’.

On the same day, award-winning Nature/Environment photographer Dileep Anthikad will present a slide show of his photographs of flora and fauna from the Western Ghats to Himalayas. TJSV will conduct an interactive workshop for students and teachers of ECO clubs of schools in Qatar on Saturday, June 7 at 9am at ICC’s Asoka Hall. Twenty-five members from each club have been invited to participate.

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Qatar Fertiliser Company (Qafco) celebrated World Environment Day with a series of art and educational competitions for students. The activities included group discussions, presentations and quiz competitions. Fifty-six students from grade 8 of Pakistan Education Centre (Girls’ Wing) attended the event along with three teachers, Shamsa Nazeer, Mahjabeen Baloch and Ambreen Ashraf.

McDonald’s Qatar and an alumni asso-ciation joined hands on Friday to clean

up Salwa Beach at Bu Samra in Qatar. More than 300 staff members came together and collected bottles, cans, plastic bags and other trash left behind by revellers at Salwa beach and distributed caps, food and refreshments as part of the clean-up drive.

“McDonald’s Qatar is committed to increasing awareness on protecting and preserving the environment. Our aim is to not only deliver the best quality of food but also participate in events that support initiatives that prevent our biophysical

environment from being damaged per-manently. This is in line with McDonald’s ongoing dedication to saving mother earth and providing younger generations with a safe and healthy environment for a better future. This is a great initiative to bring our local communities together and educate them on issues that cause environmental degradation,” commented Kamal Saleh Al Mana, Managing Director of Al Mana Restaurants & Food Co, the owner and operator of McDonald’s restaurants in Qatar said.

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ACS International S c h o o l s h a s announced the

appointment of Steven Calland-Scoble (pictured)as Head of School for their Doha campus, effective the next academic calendar. Steven brings to ACS over 20 years of experience, includ-ing as Head of School at St Gilgen International School, Austria, and School Director at Pechersk School International, Ukraine.

Steven commented on his new role: “I am absolutely delighted to be appointed as the next Head of School at ACS Doha; being offered such an opportunity to further lead the

development of the school and to serve its diverse, international community in the coming years is a truly exciting one.”

Managing Director, Chris Johnson said: “I would like to take this opportunity to thank Diane Hren, who is stepping down as Head of School after three years,

having transformed a start-up cam-pus into the amazingly vibrant school it is today. Diane remains a part of ACS, taking up a new role as Head of Programme at our UK Head Office. I look forward to the continued success of ACS Doha under the leadership of Steven Calland-Scoble.”

ACS Doha International School has also appointed Robert Cody as Deputy Head of School. He joins the school from Pacific Academy in Hawaii, where he held the posi-tion of Head of School. Previous to that, Robert was Primary and High School Principal at Northbridge International School in Cambodia.

Robert commented: “I am very honored to be part of ACS Doha and I look forward to serving the ACS Doha community as it continues to grow and mature into a leading, world-class school. In addition, my family and I are very excited to live in Qatar and learn more about this country and its people”.

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ACS Doha International School announces new head of school

Lagoona Mall, in association with Al Gheed Ballet Centre, is hosting an

evening of classical dance to celebrate its first anniversary and the first batch of 25 aspiring students graduating from the academy on June 2.

The event, open to public, starts at 6.30 pm and will see live performances by the graduating students aged five to 13 in front of their friends and families on a custom-built stage located in the lower court area of Lagoona Mall. To add to the festivities, Al Gheed Centre is offering new members a 15 percent discount on the total fees if they reg-ister that day.

“We enjoy the trust and support of our patrons and in a very short time have been able to connect with members of the Qatari community and provide them with a venue to hone their talent and develop new skills in an entertain-ing and creative environment. We are very proud of the achievements of our graduating class and look forward to the community enjoying their perform-ance and applauding their hard work and commitment to the art form as they pursue their passion to dance and

achieve their dreams,” commented Iqbal, director of Al Gheed Ballet Centre.

Eamon Kelly, General Manager of Lagoona Mall, said: “Our aim is to provide an environment that offers much more than shopping, making the exercise a fun and enjoyable experi-ence for each member of the family. So while our adult patrons enjoy the wide selection of shopping and net-working opportunities, our younger fans are engaged with activities that excite their passion and encourage their creativity. Al Gheed Centre, the first of its kind training academy inside a mall in Qatar that aims to provide dance and fitness enthusiasts of all ages with an opportunity to learn and train in a motivating environment.”

Al Gheed Centre also offers other activities such as aerobics and taek-wondo classes for children aged between five and 13, in addition to other training courses for adult learners. Members of Al Gheed Centre receive certificates on completion of the required levels, and the students can choose the activity that suits them best.

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Lagoona Mall celebrates as first batch of Al Gheed Ballet Centre graduates

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By Diana Marszalek

The concrete countertops in Eleanor Zuckerman’s San Francisco kitchen are hand-crafted works of art.

Custom-designed by Fu-Tun Cheng of the Berkeley, California-based Cheng Concrete, they feature colours like brick, flowing lines and pictures of nautilus shells.

“With concrete there is a lot of room for creativity, to say nothing of colour,” says Zuckerman, a retired psychologist. “It gives you flexibility.”

Homeowners looking to spice up their kitchens can install a variety of countertops that go beyond the tradi-tional laminate and tile. Today’s options include concrete and butcher-block-style wood, and a range of custom-designed colours and shapes. IceStone countertops use recycled glass from broken bottles.

“So many different materials are used in countertops these days,” says Tony Izzo, Curtis Lumber’s corporate kitchen and bath manager in Albany, New York. Until about 25 years ago, he says, roughly 90 percent of countertops in US homes were laminate, and the rest tile.

Then DuPont’s Corian hit the mar-ket, followed by granite and quartz, which are current favorites, he says. Today, just half of countertops are laminate, Izzo says.

The burgeoning interest in alter-native countertops is the natural extension of that trend. And they are becoming more affordable.

“Slowly, over the years, the market has really grown,” says Mike Heidebrink, president of Cheng Concrete. When the company opened in 2002, it catered mostly to well-heeled dot-commers willing to spend more to bring an arti-san’s touch to their kitchens.

Today, Heidebrink says, Cheng also serves a growing number of skilled do-it-yourselfers who want to shape, mold and install countertops themselves. They can choose the color and lines of their countertops, he says. Once installed and sealed, he says, concrete countertops are as durable as lime-stone and marble.

“They can have that for $10 a square foot,” he says.

Nils Wessell in Brooklyn, New York, says the do-it-yourself movement is also fueling his businesses, in a differ-ent way.

“This DIY interest in cooking leads to people wanting a suitable surface to chop up meat on,” says Wessell, whose company, Brooklyn Butcher Blocks, makes wooden countertops

with enough thickness and durability to be used as cutting boards. Clients include barbeque restaurants as well as home cooks.

While Wessell says his handmade countertops are more expensive than factory-made ones, he can make “a size-able countertop for about a grand,” he says.

Of course, no countertop is perfect. Concrete can stain, so it must be sealed properly. Wooden countertops take a beating from knives, although Wessell says they can be easily maintained with semi-regular sanding.

Soapstone, popular for its natural look, has its quirks as well, Izzo says: It weathers over time. “Consumers generally have to accept that idea and know that they want a living finish like that,” he says.

Izzo notes that granite countertops can release trace amounts of the radio-active gas radon. The Marble Institute of America notes that many other items in and around a home also can emit radon. The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency says most granite countertops are safe, adding little to a house’s radon level. It depends on the rock that is used, the agency says, recommending that homeowners con-cerned about radon get their counter-tops tested. AP

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By Piya Sinha-Roy

A college dropout who has gone on to build a $100m fashion business, NastyGal founder Sophia Amoruso has lifted the lid on her

unlikely journey from thief to chief, rags to riches and anti-capitalist to CEO.

#Girlboss, Amoruso’s first foray into writing, has garnered attention since its release this month for the intimate details of the entrepreneur’s turbulent past: from being a broke and shoplifting youngster to harnessing the power of the Internet to sell vintage clothing on eBay.

Sitting in her 55,000-square-foot (5,100-square-meter) loft office in downtown Los Angeles, the Louis Vuitton-clad Amoruso oversees hundreds of employ-ees at NastyGal headquarters, her eBay business now a flourishing online fashion brand.

In #Girlboss, part-memoir and part-business advice, the 30-year-old entrepreneur adopts a friendly, sassy voice to dole out the lessons she has learned along the way.

How do you feel about being labeled in dichotomies?

I think the best things exist in real extremes like that. Past and present, I mean mine is really extreme, but I think I’m really happy for it. It’s like only through the low points that I appreciate the high points. And I think there’s a certain amount of naivete that came with my story, that has made me able to tackle things that I have tackled, because I don’t think I knew how hard it was to build a busi-ness this big.

If someone had told me, I probably would have been terrified ... it’s the people around me who have more experience than I do that really understand the gravity of what I’m achieving.

You write that you don’t like to use the word

‘luck’ for your success, but was there a case of the stars aligning?

Yes, the stars definitely exists, and they align or they don’t align, and I think that following my gut — and you can call it gut, you can call it stars align-ing — there were decisions I was making along the way that made this happen for sure. But there’s also the serendipity of meeting the right person at the right time, and the serendipity of just having the idea at the right time that drives you to actually ask for something rather than have it fall on your lap. ...

A lot of it has been run on how I feel, which people don’t talk about. Maybe people haven’t written busi-ness books about that because it’s pretty esoteric and weird and you can’t quantify it, it’s not something they teach in business school.

Some entrepreneurs like to say one must fail in order to succeed, but you haven’t really endured failure with NastyGal?

Failure is, it’s like those are the people who are going out in the world and saying, ‘This is what I want to do, and if this doesn’t work, I’ve failed,’ which I never did. I never wanted to be a CEO. I mean, I want to be one today but I never intended to be a CEO. I never intended to build a $100m business. If that was what I was focused on, I think I would be missing all of these things along the way, all of the small things that got us here.

You discuss book-smarts versus street-smarts and not going to college yourself. What is your stance on college?

It just wasn’t for me. I think it’s amazing. I think if you know what value you can derive from college and are mature enough to do that and get what there is to get out of the college experience, it’s perfect ... If you’re unhappy like I was, and too impatient to complete four years of anything at that age, it’s not for you. Reuters

NastyGal CEO Amoruso on dumpster-diving to Girlboss

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By Marylou Tousignant

After visiting the National Gallery of Art in Washington with his

parents when he was 5, Mark Macaluso picked up the book about the exhibit they had seen and asked his dad to tell him about the paintings. They were all by Vincent van Gogh (pronounced van-GO), a famous artist born in Holland in 1853. Van Gogh’s work is not too kid-friendly, so Mark’s dad, Ted, knew he had to come up with a good story to capture the boy’s imagination.

He invented a tale about a fox that leads young Vincent and his brother, Theo, on a wild chase. The boys want to catch the furry creature. The fox leads them through thick woods, across land and sea, and into the city — scenes shown in the paintings in the book.

Fast-forward 14 years, to the present. Mark is now in college. Ted Macaluso has retired from his government job and decided to revisit that story and share it with other kids. The result is his first book, Vincent, Theo and the Fox.

It’s not a long or hard book to read. But the colourful paintings jump off the pages and will

give you a lot to think about. The story ends with Vincent wonder-ing what he’ll be when he grows up. In real life, van Gogh tried many jobs, including teaching and being a minister like his father. He didn’t begin painting until his late 20s. Macaluso includes informa-tion on each of the paintings in the book, on van Gogh’s life and on sites where you can see more of his work.

At home in Reston, Virginia, Macaluso is working on his second

book. The challenge, he said, is “having faith that you can find the story and the right paintings” to help tell it. In the second book, due out later this year, a child steps into a painting at an art gal-lery and wanders into several more while trying to figure out how to return to the real world. It’s a story inspired by the author’s own childhood.

“My mother used to drag us to every museum in New York City,” he said. “I loved it, but I wouldn’t admit it. I’m, like, 8 or 10. Kids aren’t going to tell their parents, ‘This is cool.’ “

Not until they grow up, it seems. Now, Ted Macaluso wants to share the beauty of the art world with all kids. And even if they don’t admit it right away, it’s cool. Very cool. WP-Bloomberg

Van Gogh and a fox make art more fun

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Tom Cruise’s narrow escape as a child

Actor Tom Cruise says that he nar-rowly escaped a serious injury during

his childhood when he tried to emulate a stunt by Evel Knievel.

The 51-year-old was a big fan of the stuntman and decided to recreate one of Knievel’s famous canyon jumps, reports contactmusic.com.

“I saw Evel Knievel jumping off a canyon and I lived on a steep hill so set up boards and trash cans to copy him. I was about eight years old and my sisters begged me not to do it, as I had been to the hospital a few times by this point,” said Cruise.

Cruise set up ramps so he could leap over several trash cans on his pushbike, but his speedy descent down a steep hill and ended in disaster. When he careered into the bins and was left covered in blood on the sidewalk.

“I realised halfway down the hill that I couldn’t stop and it was too late to bail - I was committed and I thought I’m going to go so far and so high but of course the boards split and I ended up just pile-driving through the cans. It was violent and there was blood everywhere,” he added.

a vertiginous spiral of desolation and dejection. It is not easy to watch des-tiny destroy an innocent family’s sim-ple will to survive.

And yet if there’s so much cruelty happening all around to the people who know no better life than the one that the city doles out to them, there are also bursts of empathy from the most unexpected places.

The arrival of the character played by the very accomplished actor Manav Kaul signals the “thriller” movement of the plot. Miraculously Mehta never loses grip of the film’s exacerbated emotional quotient. He charts the migrant family’s craggy path to doom and destruction with a fatal inevitabil-ity. The film uses natural sounds and incidental images from every day life to imbue a visceral vividness and vitality to everyday experiences.

Take a sequence like the one where, at the outset, Deepak and his wife are duped by fake house brokers. Here, as in other sections of the narrative, the victim and the perpetrator of deceit are both shown without prejudice.

A remarkable equilibrium runs through the moral fibre of the film. Ritesh Shah’s sensitive script doesn’t look for villains to make his protago-nists look sympathetic.

Mehta could have avoided the wall-to-wall songs in the background. Though the music is evocative, it tends to overplay its welcome. This is film that doesn’t depend on adornments for effect.

Most unadorned being the actors. Rao’s stark performance is no per-formance at all. To call what he does a “performance” is an insult to what he does to his character. Just like the city that swallows the impoverished migrant, he disappears into his char-acter, much like Balraj Sahni in Bimal Roy’s Do Bigha Zameen, the classic tale of the homeless migrant to which Mehta’s haunting saga of the indignity of poverty owes emotional allegiance. Patralekha with her haunted eyes and evocative pain-lashed voice is the find of the year.

The epic tale of the ainvisible’ fam-ily’s struggle to survive in the city gets its power and strength from the seam-less merger of body and soul that edi-tor Apurva Asrani and sound designer Mandar Kulkarni achieve in the physi-cal and emotional structure of the plot.

Citylights would remain with me for a long time. Gripping, glorious and unforgettable, it is a shattering, life-changing experience.

IANS

By Subhash K Jha

The city swallows up the inno-cent wholesale, diminishes the individual’s ego. If you happen to be one of the mul-

titude of faceless migrants, you are in for a really grueling time.

Citylights is Hansal Mehta’s ode to the invisible people, those people popu-lating the pavements we often see from our moving cars. Mehta zooms in on the life of one such family. He takes us into their lives with such intensity and passion that we never can bear ourselves to come out of their world even when their lives become unbear-ably hurtful.

Citylights secretes a heart large enough to break in front of our eyes. As Deepak Singh (Rajkumar Rao, that non-actor par excellence), his wife Rakhi (Patralekha) and little daugh-ter relocate from their little universe in Rajasthan to Mumbai, we watch in numbed silence their initiation into the world of disillusionment and heartbreak.

As the happy little family’s world comes apart at the seams, Mehta’s camera captures them in unadorned stark colours. Citylights shoots its saga of the brutal cruelty of the concrete jungle with a candour that leaves us

flummoxed and frozen. The plot as it thickens in the second half, doesn’t allow any elbow room for distractions. The protagonist’s journey into the heart of darkness is immediate, and irreversible. What Mehta does is to show us the fatality and finality of lives thrust into the bowels of the city.

Not that Mumbai is shown to be entirely lacking in kindness and com-passion. Deepak and his wife encoun-ter good people too. It’s not the people who are callous. It’s the daily grind that makes them self-centred and uncaring.

Mehta’s ode to the remorseless city is suffused in a lived-in pain. Only an artiste who has suffered the first-hand humiliation of rejection and compro-mise could do the sequence such as the one where Rakhi auditions for a bar girl’s job. Mehta furbishes such stark moments with an astute and rigorous honesty.

In that scene, Pratilekha strips her-self of dignity. She’s a revelation. But then so is the actor (Vinod Rawat) who plays the bar owner. If she epitomizes the exploitative underbelly of the city, he too is a victim of a system that thrives on exploitation.

Moving completely away from the original material (Sean Ellis’ Metro Manila), Hansal Mehta constructed

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Citylights: An ode to Mumbai’s invisible populace

Lily Allen flashes red hair

Bright hair colours seem to be the in thing, and singer Lily Allen has fol-

lowed the trend by colouring her locks red. The 29-year-old singer debuted her bright red hair strands while she was in London Thursday, reports contactmusic.com.

Allen stepped out in platform sneak-ers, teaming it with a fishnet tunic top and upped the bold factor with her new hairstyle - dark red roots and bangs. The singer keeps upgrading her looks and likes to make a style statement. Just a few weeks ago, Allen was spotted with bright orange hair stripes.

Dark roots, bright colour trend in hair are seen a lot recently. Singer Katy Perry went for a very similar style, only instead of red she chose ‘slime green’. Socialite Kylie Jenner was seen sporting blue hair.

Big B, Aamir to launch Dilip Kumar’s biography

Iconic veteran actor Dilip Kumar’s long-awaited biography Substance and

Shadow, will be launched on June 9 in the presence of the thespian’s wife Saira Banu as well as Bollywood stars Amitabh Bachchan and Aamir Khan.

The biography, which was earlier sched-uled to be released on Dilip Kumar’s 91st birthday in December last year, is penned by author Uday Tara Nayar, who is also a close family friend of the Bollywood thespian.

Singing legend Lata Mangeshkar is also likely to be present at the momentous

occasion, said a statement Saturday.Dilip Kumar, one of the best performers that the Indian silver screen has

ever witnessed, gave six decades of his life to filmdom and worked in much appreciated films like Jwar Bhata Mela, Naya Daur, Devdas, Madhumati and Mughal-E-Azam.

Now Hindi remake of The Intouchables

Filmmaker Karan Johar’s banner Dharma Productions together with producer Guneet Monga of Sikhya Entertainment will co-produce the

official remake of popular French film The Intouchables. Mohit Suri will direct the project.

In the announcement on Twitter, Karan posted: “Guneet Monga (Sikhya Entertainment) and Dharma Productions will co-produce the official remake of The Intouchables...directed by Mohit Suri.”

The Intouchables, released in 2011, was directed by Olivier Nakache and Eric Toledano.

On ‘Holiday’ set, English was a saviour!

Language turned out to be a bit of an issue on the set of forthcom-

ing Bollywood film Holiday: A Soldier is Never Off Duty as it had a mix of Hindi and Tamil-speaking crew. But the film’s lead actors Akshay Kumar and Sonakshi Sinha say it was all in good fun!

For one of the songs in this Hindi remake of Tamil entertainer Thuppakki, some sand had to be thrown in the air for effect. But the people who were responsible for throwing the sand ended up overdo-ing it as the instructions were being given in Hindi and they didn’t under-stand it.

Sonakshi, who has shot a southern movie recently, said: “I’ve been a part of other south Indian sets as well. Everyone communicates in English and it’s fun when people from two cultures interact.”

The film is directed by ace southern filmmaker A R Murugadoss. Sonakshi says he is “wonderful” and “explains what is required in a shot very well to his actors”.

Meanwhile, Akshay said English was a common factor.“We all know English and Hindi. They all know English, but not Hindi.

They had a translator. Nothing funny happened (on the set) because we all were in a serious mood while shooting. The film is something very intense,” the action titan said.

The actor will be seen in the role of a dedicated army officer in the film which is ready to hit the screens on June 6.

It is presented by Reliance Entertainment and produced by Vipul Shah.

No dress, no marriage: Angelina JolieActress Angelina Jolie has no immediate

plans to marry fiance and actor Brad Pitt. The reason, she says, is that she has no dress for the D-day!

The duo has been engaged for over two years now.

“Nothing is ready. I don’t have a dress, noting that the big day matters to us in a very private way, but we also understand that we’re public people,” eonline.com quoted the 38-year-old as saying.

The actress and Pitt, 50, are parents to Maddox, 12, Pax, ten, Zahara, nine, Shiloh, seven, and twins Knox and Vivienne, five.

Jolie said that she and Pitt are discussing their marriage with their children to under-

stand how they imagine the wedding day to be.

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HEALTH 11PLUS | SUNDAY 1 JUNE 2014

Stiff arteries alone can cause high BP: StudyIn what could open a new debate on what

actually causes high blood pressure, a team of scientists have suggested that stiff arteries can be the main culprit. In experiments over a computer model of a ‘virtual human’, they found that stiff arteries alone are enough to cause high blood pressure.

“The arterial stiffness represents a major therapeutic target. This is contrary to exist-ing models, which typically explain high blood pressure in terms of defective kidney func-tion,” explained Klas Pettersen, a researcher at the Norwegian University of Life Sciences.

When blood pressure travels down the aorta from the heart, a special group of cells in the aortic wall, called baroreceptors, sense the pressure in this stretch of the aortic wall and send signals with this information to the nerv-ous system. If the blood pressure is too high, these cells send stronger signals and the body is able to lower blood pressure.

However, if the aorta gets stiffer, as typically happens with age, this stretch of the aorta is not as sensitive as it once was in measur-ing blood pressure. With the stiffening of the wall that follows ageing, these sensors become less able to send signals that reflect the actual blood pressure. “Our mathematical model pre-dicts the quantitative effects of this process on blood pressure,” Pettersen emphasised.

If this is proven right, “arterial stiffness and baroreceptor signaling will become hotspot tar-gets for the treatment of high blood pressure and the development of new medicines and medical devices,” said Stig W Omholt from the Norwegian University of Science and Technology.

The model predictions were compared with data on the health history of 74,000 people, including blood sample collection from 65,000 people, said the study recently published in PLOS Computational Biology.

Sugary drinks should have health warning labels: Study

You have seen health warnings on insecticides, other toxic products and cigarettes. What

about sugary drinks that are reportedly leading to overweight and obese kids worldwide?

According to a professor of public health at University of Liverpool in Britain, there should be health warning labels on sugary drinks too.

“A recent BBC survey found that 60 percent of adults would support health warnings simi-lar to those on cigarette packets on food pack-aging. Even more, 70 percent would support banning sugary drinks in schools, or limiting the amount of sugar allowed in certain foods,” professor Simon Capewell stressed.

Sugar is “increasingly being implicated as a specific causal factor” for overweight, obesity and heart disease and “current obesity policies are failing to reverse obesity trends”, he added.

He wondered whether calorie control strate-gies could learn from previous successful les-sons in tobacco control and alcohol control.

“The state of California is already consider-ing a new health bill that will see sugary drinks labelled with health warnings,” he said.

Warning labels represent an “interest-ing natural experiment” that “may offer an effective new strategy to complement exist-ing, potentially powerful interventions like marketing bans and sugary drinks duties”, he noted in a paper published on bmj.com.

Agencies

By Will Dunham

Scientists have come up with a bright idea - literally - to repair teeth. And they say

their concept — using laser light to entice the body’s own stem cells into action — may offer enormous prom-ise beyond just dentistry in the field of regenerative medicine.

The researchers used a low-power laser to coax dental stem cells to form dentin, the hard tissue simi-lar to bone that makes up most of a tooth, demonstrating the process in studies involving rats and mice and using human cells in a laboratory.

They did not regenerate an entire tooth in part because the enamel part was too tricky. But merely getting dentin to grow could help allevi-ate the need for root canal treatment, the painful procedure to remove dead or dying nerve tissue and bacteria from inside a tooth, they said.

“I’m a dentist by training. So I think it has poten-tial for great impact in clinical dentistry,” researcher Praveen Arany of the National Institute of Dental and Craniofacial Research, part of the US National Institutes of Health, said.

Arany expressed hope that human clinical trials could get approval in the near future.

“Our treatment modality does not introduce any-thing new to the body, and lasers are routinely used in medicine and dentistry, so the barriers to clinical translation are low,” added Harvard University bio-engineering professor David Mooney. “It would be a substantial advance in the field if we can regenerate teeth rather than replace them.”

Using existing regeneration methods, scientists

must take stem cells from the body, manipulate them in a lab and put them back into the body. This new technique more simply stimulates action in stem cells that are already in place.

Scientists had long noticed that low-level laser therapy can stimulate biologi-cal processes like rejuvenating skin and stimulating hair growth but were not sure of the mechanisms.

Arany noted the importance of find-ing the right laser dose, saying: “Too low doesn’t work and too high causes dam-age.” High-powered lasers are used for cutting and cauterizing.

The researchers found that laser expo-sure of the tooth at the right low inten-sity prompted certain chemically active,

oxygen-containing molecules to activate a cell protein known to be involved in development, healing and immune functions.

This protein in turn directed stem cells present in tooth pulp to turn into dentin. Stem cells are master cells that are capable of transforming into various types of tissues in the body.

The researchers drilled holes in the molars of the rodents, zapped the tooth pulp with the laser and put on temporary caps, then watched as dentin formed over a period of 12 weeks.

The question is whether using this method could get other stem cells to became useful in laser-induced regenerative medicine. Arany said he was hopeful it could be used in healing wounds, regenerating cardiac tissue, dealing with inflammation issues and fixing bone damage, among other applications.

The study appears in the journal Science Translational Medicine.

Reuters

A bright smile: Scientists use lasers to regrow teeth

“Our treatment modality does not introduce anything new to the body, and lasers are routinely used in medicine and dentistry, so the barriers to clinical translation are low.”

TECHNOLOGYPLUS | SUNDAY 1 JUNE 201412

As teenagers use their flexible thinking to create practical smartphone apps for life and learning — one high school student has already started his own app business —

various initiatives have emerged in Japan to support young people who want to make the world a better place through information technology.

About 20 middle and high school students and others gathered inside a room in an office building in Chuo Ward, Tokyo, on May 23 to learn programming from university students at Life is Tech! School. Run by Life is Tech Inc, the course teaches students how to make smartphone apps and other skills, aiming to release the apps they create online.

Seminars are also held during summer vacation and other holidays. Since opening in March 2013, the school has taught about 180 students. The endeavour has received attention from IT companies, includ-ing garnering scholarships from Google Inc of the United States.

“It’d make me so happy if a lot of people used my app,” said a 14-year-old middle school student from Nerima Ward who attends the school. He said he would like to use the skills he has learned to start his own business someday.

Life is Tech President Yusuke Mizuno, 31, said he started the school because “there are a lot of kids who are interested in making apps, but there was no environment to teach them.”

Akira Baba, a professor of information studies at the University of Tokyo, said: “With so few resources, Japan needs to develop its information technology field for the sake of its future development. To do so, it’s important to teach people things like app development when they’re young.”

“The IT industry is struggling to secure app

developers, who are in short supply,” said Junji Kawakami, head of the consumer project department at D2C Inc, a mobile advertising and marketing firm.

To help motivate young people, D2C started the Teens Apps Awards in 2011, an app development contest for primary, middle and high school students. Last year the contest received 533 entries from all over the country.

The creators’ youthful outlook is reflected in the apps submitted to the contest. One app alerts eld-erly people with an alarm when it is time to take their medicine, and then sends an e-mail to family members when the medication is taken. Another makes instantaneous changes to classroom seating orders.

The tournament’s first winner, Kento Dodo, went on to study at Keio University and has since been contracted by a company to develop an app that provides information on Japanese otaku culture.

Dodo is currently an adviser to an IT company. “I’d like to produce an app that can detect bullying from online interactions,” he said.

Yu Asabe, another Teens Apps Awards champion, has already started his own business.

After winning the contest with an app that quizzes people on recorded sounds, the 16-year-old student at Makuhari Senior High School launched his own IT firm in December, with himself as president.

The company’s philosophy is “Using IT, even a high school student can change the world.”

The firm is currently working on a website and app that Japanese middle and high school students can use to broadcast information about Japan overseas.

“Most people assume they’ll use apps made by someone else, but if you believe you can do it, even middle and high school students can give shape to their ideas,” Asabe said. “I hope more people take up the challeng. WP-Bloomberg

The creators’ youthful outlook is reflected in the apps submitted to the contest. One app alerts elderly people with an alarm when it is time to take their medicine, and then sends an e-mail to family members when the medication is taken. Another makes instantaneous changes to classroom seating orders.

Samsung unveiled a new digital health technology platform that uses sensors to track a range of

body functions such as heart rate and blood pressure.

Unveiled at an event in San Francisco the new platform dubbed “Simband” does not include any com-mercial products, but Samsung dem-onstrated how it might work with a wristband.

The South Korean electronics giant showed how a device can track measurements such as heart rate, respiratory rate and blood pressure and collect data from a variety of sources to help consumers better understand what is happening with their health.

Simband will work in tandem with a cloud-based open software platform

called SAMI which securely stores data and can provide better insights into health issues.

“The combination of Simband-designed sensor technologies and algorithms and SAMI-based software will take individual understanding of the body to a new level,” the company said in a statement.

The new tech platform in coop-eration with university researchers is part of an effort by Samsung to use digital products to help improve health care.

“Our bodies have always had some-thing to say but now, with advanced sensors, algorithms and software, we will finally be able to tune into what the body is telling us,” said Michael Blum of the University of California at San Francisco, in the Samsung

statement.“Validation of these technologies

will improve the quality of data col-lected and help advance the ability to bring new products to market quickly.”

The Samsung Digital Health Initiative is based on open hardware and software platforms and allows the use of sensors, algorithms, and data collection and analysis that can help consumers and health care providers.

The initiative “provides an exciting opportunity for the brightest minds in the technology world to come together to develop the products that will, for the first time, put individuals in the driver’s seat in understand-ing their own health and wellness,” said Young Sohn, president and chief

strategy officer, Device Solutions at Samsung Electronics.

“At a time when health care spend-ing is at record levels and when the number of people over the age of 60 worldwide is expected to exceed more than 1.2 billion by 2025, digital health is an incredibly important area for innovation. We believe this initiative will be an essential first step and we invite developers and partners across the globe to join us in creating the technologies of the future that will help make people’s lives healthier.”

The move follows an announce-ment by Google last year that it was launching a new company that could draw on the work from technology and other sectors to combat health problems.

AFP

Samsung unveils new digital health platform

Teens step into role as next generation of app designers

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Hoy en la HistoriaJune 1, 2009

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Air France Flight 447 from Rio de Janeiro to Paris plunged into the Atlantic Ocean 1,000km off Brazil’s northern coast, killing all 228 people on board

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

AFGHANI, AURAR, BAHT, BANI, CENT, CENTAI, CENTIMES, DINAR, DIRHAM, DOLLAR, DRAM, EURO, FORINT, FRANC, HALERU, JIAO, KORUNA, KRONA, KRONER, KRONUR, LIRA, MANAT, PAISE, PARA, PESO, POUND, QUINDARKA, RAND, RINGGIT, RIYAL, RUBLE, RUPEE, RUPIAH, SANTIMI, SHEKEL, SHILLING, STOTINKI, TAKA, TUGRIK, WON, YEN, YUAN.

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HYPER SUDOKU

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YESTERDAY’S ANSWER

How to play Hyper Sudoku:A Hyper Sudoku

Puzzle is solved

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informally15 Cry used to pump up a

crowd16 Following17 Fortune18 Beast in a Marco Polo

tale19 Old station name20 Abbr. in a birth

announcement21 Request in pool or beer

pong23 Hudson River school?25 “Eww!”27 Soundtrack to many a

bomb-defusing scene28 Prizes given to good

docs?31 “Kazaam” star,

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YESTERDAY’S ANSWER

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

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Mr Fraud (2D/Malayalam) – 4.45pm

A Million Ways To Die In The West (2D/Comedy) – 7.15pm

Blood (2D/Crime) – 9.15pm

LANDMARK

1

Reign Of Assassins (2D/Action) – 2.15pm

The Amazing Spider-Man-2 (3D/Action) – 4.30pm

The Angriest Man In Brooklyn (2D/Comedy) – 7.00pm

Godzilla (3D/Action) – 9.00pm

Maleficent (3D/Action) – 11.15pm

2

Maleficent (3D/Action) – 2.30, 7.00 & 9.00pm

Chef (2D/Comedy) – 4.30pm

X-Men: Days Of Future Past (3D/Action) – 11.00 pm

3

X-Men: Days Of Future Past (3D/Action) – 2.15 pm

Mr Fraud (2D/Malayalam) – 4.45 & 11.00pm

A Million Ways To Die In The West (2D/Comedy) – 7.15pm

Blood (2D/Crime) – 9.15pm

ROYAL

PLAZA

1

Maleficent (3D/Action) – 2.30, 7.00, 9.00 & 11.00pm

The Amazing Spider-Man-2 (3D/Action) – 4.30pm

2

Reign Of Assassins (2D/Action) – 2.30pm

Godzilla (3D/Action) – 4.45pm

Chef (2D/Comedy) – 7.00pm

A Million Ways To Die In The West (2D/Comedy) – 9.15pm

Blood (2D/Crime) – 11.30pm

3

Rio 2 (3D/Animation) – 2.30pm

A Million Ways To Die In The West (2D/Comedy) – 4.30pm

The Angriest Man In Brooklyn (2D/Comedy) – 7.00 & 11.30pm

X-Men: Days Of Future Past (3D/Action) – 9.00 pm

13:00 Do Dil Bandhe Ek

Dori Se

13:30 Ek Mutthi Aasmaan

14:00 Doli Armaano Ki

14:30 Jodha Akbar

15:00 Kumkum Bhagya

15:30 Pavitra Rishta

16:00 Aur Pyaar Hogaya

16:30 Qubool Hai

17:00 Word Match

17:30 Zee Connect

Season 4

18:00 Sapne Suhane

Ladakpan Ke

18:30 Ek Mutthi Aasmaan

19:00 Do Dil Bandhe Ek

Dori Se

19:30 DID L'il Masters

Season 3

21:00 Qubool Hai

21:30 Aur Pyaar Hogaya

22:00 Doli Armaano Ki

22:30 Sapne Suhane

Ladakpan Ke

11:40 The Weakest Link

12:25 Last Woman

Standing

13:20 Doctor Who

14:30 Doctors

15:00 Doctors

16:00 Doctors

16:30 Rock & Chips:

Special: Xmas

2010

17:25 Doctor Who

18:10 The Mystery Of

Edwin Drood

19:00 Hunderby

19:25 The Job Lot

19:50 Mistresses

20:40 Waking The Dead

21:35 The Mimic

22:00 The Cafe

22:25 Being Erica

23:10 Doctor Who

23:55 The Mystery Of

Edwin Drood

13:00 A.N.T. Farm

14:10 Good Luck

Charlie

14:35 Mako Mermaids

16:30 Cars Toons

16:35 A.N.T. Farm

17:00 Good Luck

Charlie

17:20 Jessie

18:10 Liv And Maddie

18:30 Mako Mermaids

18:55 Good Luck

Charlie

19:20 Violetta

20:05 Austin & Ally

20:30 Jessie

20:50 Dog With A Blog

21:15 Jessie

21:40 Shake It Up

22:00 Austin & Ally

22:25 A.N.T. Farm

22:50 Good Luck

Charlie

23:10 Wolfblood

PLUS | SUNDAY 1 JUNE 2014

PLUS | SUNDAY 1 JUNE 2014 POTPOURRI16

Editor-In-Chief Khalid Al Sayed Acting Managing Editor Hussain Ahmad Editorial Office The Peninsula Tel: 4455 7741, E-mail: plus@pen.com.qa / editor@pen.com.qa

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

• It has been suggested that the

weather forecast bureau issue

weather bulletins at regular intervals

throughout the day to update people

about temperatures, so that they can

avoid going out in scorching heat.

• There is discussion about the move

by the Traffic Department to launch

patrols in two shifts (morning and

evening) to catch those violating

traffic rules and to ease traffic jams.

• There are demands that the authori-

ties cut or trim trees growing in the

central reservation, which cause

traffic jams and shelter insects.

In some places they also block

motorists’ view, which can cause

accidents.

• People are asking why the Supreme

Education Council has removed

tens of teachers who had worked

in Independent schools for many

years. Some of them have received

termination letters.

• Many people have complained

about traffic snarls due to diver-

sions on highways, and demanded

that road maps of the diversions be

put up to guide motorists, as traffic

jams are delaying them for work.

• There are demands that the Traffic

Department ban the entry of trucks

on February 22 Road because truck

drivers do not follow traffic rules.

They do not keep to their lane and

change lanes without signalling.

IN FOCUS

A view from Katara.

by Kateryna Reshetova

Send your photos to plus@pen.com.qa. Mention where the photo was taken.

Saleh Johar Al Mohamed, Director, Human Capital & Administration, malomatia

Prior to joining maloma-tia, Saleh was hold-ing the position of

Administration Manager at Gulf Drilling International. Saleh has also worked as HR Director at Al Jazeera Network, Head of Training and Development at Qatar Electricity & Water Company (QEWC) and in Technical Department at Qatar Petroleum. He holds an MBA from Hull University in the United Kingdom, in addition to several certified designations in core HR functions.

Who’s who

If you want your events featured here, mail details to plus@pen.com.qa

Events in Qatar

One Thousand and One Nights BalletWhen: June 16 & June 23; 8pm-9.15pm Where: Katara Opera House – Building 16 What: A spectacular show that evokes the fragrance of history and the East’s magic. Enchanting dance performances and pieces composed by Amirov merging East and West tunes.Tickets: QR100 to QR250 at Virgin Megastore (online)

Kings and Pawns When: Till June 21Where: Museum of Islamic Arts What: This exhibition uncovers the history of board games in the Islamic world, from India to Spain between 7th and 20th century.Free Entry

BFA and MFA Exhibition 2014 When: Till June 4 Where: VCUQatar Gallery (MFA exhibition) & Room 390 (BFA exhibition)

What: A celebration of the creative achievements of VCUQ graduating students and provides the opportunity to preview Qatar’s emerging talent in the fields of graphic, fashion & interior design, painting & printmaking, and design studies.Free Entry

In Bloom (film screening) When: June 12-18, 7 PM Where: Katara Drama Theater Building 16

What: In the Georgian capital of Tbilisi in 1992, Eka and Natia look to leave childhood behind as they ignore societal customs and work to escape their turbulent family lives.Tickets available at DFI ticket outlet at Katara building 26(www.dohafilminstitute.com)

Richard Serra: Concurrent ExhibitionsWhen: Till July 6, 8:30am- 5:30pmWhere: QMA Gallery Building 10, KataraWhat: Richard Serra is among the most important contemporary sculptors. The exhibition organised by the QMA in Doha is one of Serra’s most ambitious ever in that it brings together sculptures and drawings from different periods, ranging from the seminal One Ton Prop (House of Cards) of 1969 (on rare loan from the Museum of Modern Art in New York) to a new large-scale work, Passage of Time, especially created for this occasion.Free entry

Vasile IOVU Folk Group When: June 6, 7.30pm Where: Katara Drama Theater Building 16

What: The Cultural Village Foundation - Katara and the Embassy of Republic of Moldova are hosting the Folk Group Tickets: QR50 at Virgin Megastore (online)