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Bhutan’s Bhutan’s youth youth struggle in struggle in kingdom of kingdom of happinesshappiness

By Rachel O’Brien

It is known as “the last Shangri-La” -- a remote Himalayan nation, rich in natural beauty and Buddhist culture, where national

happiness is prioritised over economic growth. But urban youngsters in the kingdom of Bhutan are quick to chal-lenge its rosy reputation.

“We can see the people are not happy,” said Jigme Wangchuk, a social worker and recovered drug addict in the capital Thimphu, where he works at a drop-in centre for young sub-stance abusers.

“We are facing so many challenges, where many people are suffering,” the 24-year-old said.

Drinking, especially home-brewed rice wine, has long been part of Bhutanese culture, but alcohol liver disease has become one of the top killers at Thimphu’s main hospital, a National Statistics Bureau report said last year.

Increasing drug abuse by young people, especially of pharmaceuticals, has also become a major concern as modernisation takes hold in what was one of the world’s most isolated coun-tries for centuries.

The kingdom only allowed foreign tourists in 1974, television in 1999 and democracy in 2008.

It still has an otherworldly feel to outsiders: the national dress is worn to work and school, monasteries and prayer wheels dot the breathtaking landscape and old fortresses serve as government offices.

But the traditional social fabric is starting to show the strain.

“The crime rate is increasing over the years, with breaking into people’s houses and muggings that were vir-tually unknown 10 years ago,” said Damber K Nirola, one of two psychi-atrists in the country of fewer than 750,000 people.

“The biggest problem that we are now challenged with, and I think will increase over time, is unemployment, and along with that comes drugs and alcohol.”

Such problems may seem surprising in a nation whose trademark is “Gross National Happiness” -- a term that began as an off-the-cuff remark by the former king in the 1970s and has since become a fully-fledged develop-ment model.

Unlike other countries’ focus on gross domestic product, Bhutan’s “GNH” is designed to protect the environment and culture, promote good governance and pursue sustain-able socio-economic development.

This alternative vision of balancing spiritual and material wealth has won

global attention and praise, drawing a stream of academics and well-being gurus to happiness conferences in Bhutan.

But some Thimphu residents are sceptical of how GNH has evolved, mentioning jokey alternatives such as “government needs help” and “gross national harassment”.

The Gross National Happiness Commission, Bhutan’s planning body, screens all new policy to ensure it complies with the guiding GNH prin-ciples, while a complex index has been devised to try and measure people’s well-being.

Although the basic concept appears to have support in Bhutan, there are doubts about its implementation.

“Looking at the problems in the country, I don’t think GNH is there,” said Jamyang Tsheltrim, a 21-year-old student, in one of Thimphu’s popular snooker halls. As with many others, one of Tsheltrim’s chief concerns is the lack of desirable employment for young people in Bhutan, where the median age is 26 and more and more people are trying to join the workforce.

Officially, Bhutan’s youth unem-ployment statistics decreased from 12.9 percent in 2009 to 7.3 percent in 2012, although the figures have been questioned.

GNH is a goal that the whole Bhutanese people... is trying to claim, trying to achieve. Right now nobody is saying that Bhutan has achieved Gross National Happiness.”

Schoolgirls in traditional Bhutanese dresses before a cultural event.Schoolgirls in traditional Bhutanese dresses before a cultural event.

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Prized white-collar jobs for educated Bhutanese are lim-ited by an under-developed private sector, while manual work in the booming construction industry is largely left to Indian labourers from across the border.

“There’s a mismatch in the demand and the supply of jobs,” said Nirola, adding concern that youngsters are abandon-ing agriculture -- still the main source of livelihood -- and leaving their elders to manage the fields.

Underlying the problems is Bhutan’s huge dependence on its giant neighbour India for investment, aid and imports. Last year the country ran out of Indian rupees on too much demand and suffered a major credit crunch.

The economic crisis peaked around the time that Prime Minister Jigmi Y Thinley -- standing for office again next month -- was promoting the happiness philosophy at a high-level United Nations meeting in New York.

“That is when GNH came under heavy criticism from a lot of people, saying that our government leaders are more interested in promoting GNH outside Bhutan,” said Tenzing Lamsang, editor of The Bhutanese newspaper.

He said there was a “denial mindset” over the growing problems back at home, where GNH has become a “highly intellectualised” concept that is popular with the elites, but yet to be fully grasped by most citizens.

“We haven’t learnt to walk but we are already trying to run 100 metres,” Lamsang added.

Defenders of GNH agree that it will not solve everyone’s problems, but say it provides a more enlightened guideline than simple monetary measures.

Pema Thinley, a researcher at the Centre for Bhutan Studies think-tank which devised the GNH index, says their philosophy gets an unfair rap owing to unrealistic expecta-tions of a “utopian-like state”.

“GNH is a goal that the whole Bhutanese people... is trying to claim, trying to achieve. Right now nobody is saying that Bhutan has achieved Gross National Happiness.”

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CBSE chairman visitsCERT at Bhavan’sVineet Joshi, Chairman of India’s Central

Board of Secondary Education (CBSE),

and Dr Sadhana Parashar, Director,

Academics and Training, visited

Bhavan’s Public School in order to learn

about the working of Bhavan’s Centre

for Educational Research and Training

(CERT). J K Menon, acting chairman,

Saleem Ponnambath, president, P N

Babu Rajan, general secretary, mem-

bers of the school’s board of directors

and members of CERT were present.

Joshi appreciated the work done by the

members of CERT and said it was an

innovative idea to integrate research

into the school system. He added that

it was an excellent idea which, when

it matures, would be a boon for every

school in this area.

DPS-MIS recently organised the Scholar Badge Ceremony (2012-2013) to felicitate students for

their dedication and perseverance in working towards academic excellence. The event was attended by chief guest Hassan Chougule, president of the DPS-MIS management committee, Harish Kanjani, director, administra-tion, parents and the young achievers.

Principal Asna Nafees welcomed the guests. She said: “DPS-MIS believes in rewarding excellence as apprecia-tion and encouragement motivate the receiver to reach greater heights.”

The chief guest commended the efforts of the students. “Success is one percent inspiration and 99 percent perspiration. One should always aim high and strive hard with

good character to achieve success,” he said.

Almost 300 students from Classes VI to XI (2012-2013) were awarded badges and certificates. Grade XII students (2012-2013) were also awarded certifi-cates for their excellent performance in AISSCE (All India Senior Secondary Certificate Examination).

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DPS-MIS felicitates senior wing students

Honoured students with the principal and guests.

‘Recycle-to-Regain’ initiative gets overwhelming response in Qatar

More than 23,000 students in the UAE and Qatar this week raised their voices in

unison against the rapid environ-mental degradation brought on by human activities. The recycling effort, called “Recycle to Regain” (R2R) is one of the largest such initiatives of its kind in the region and puts the focus on young minds who wish to contribute towards safeguarding the environment.

As part of the effort, students from The Cambridge High School (Abu Dhabi), Indian High School (Dubai), MES and Birla Public School (both in Qatar) collected more than 6.68 tonnes of recyclable material, including paper and plastic. In addi-tion, through interactive events such as workshops and awareness pro-grammes, the students learned about segregating the recyclable material at source and avoiding contamination.

Engineer Hani Hossni, Strategy and Business Development Director at CWM, pointed out that through such initiatives, the Centre was keen to increase awareness about the environment and reduce pressure on landfills by segregating waste at source. “The most effective way to spread the environmental message is through students, who in turn educate their parents about the best practices in recycling. Our engagement with young minds through such initiatives ensures that future generations can be well aware of their environmental responsibility,” he added.

Sasidharan A P, Principal of MES, said: “The Recycle-to-Regain cam-paign gives children the opportunity to learn and experience environment protection first hand. We want the younger generation to grow up with a real love of the environment and hope that the drive will play a useful part in that process.”

The material collected during the campaign will be taken by waste man-agement leader Dulsco to authorised recycling facilities where they will be recycled into useful environment-friendly products. In the next few months, Dulsco plans to broaden the campaign to include many more schools in the region.

Prakash Mahadalkar, Managing Director of Dulsco, said the R2R campaign was aimed at putting the spotlight on people’s duty towards the environment. “The R2R initiative was developed to involve all sections of society and it is encouraging to see children, more than adults, mobilising themselves for this important cam-paign,” he added. “Being a responsi-ble company, we are keen to ensure a greater private-public engagement in environment protection.” The Peninsula

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Qatar-UAE Exchange celebrates Customer Loyalty Month

Qatar UAE Exchange is celebrating Customer Loyalty Month this June

to honour the patronage of loyal custom-ers. A party was hosted at the Horizon Manor Hotel and top officials of Qatar UAE Exchange, along with representa-tives from major camps who regularly deal with the company for their financial requirements, were present.

Edison Fernandez, Country Head, Qatar Operations, said: “Customer service is our motto and we are always listening to the needs and wants of customers for improvising our facilities to match with changing market pulse. We believe in connecting with custom-ers through such events, where we can directly interact and share our views with esteemed customers.” The Peninsula

Global home furnishing retailer Ikea has announced special activities for Ramadan in the

Doha store beginning today. In keep-ing with the Ramadan season, Ikea will focus on the theme of dining to inspire customers in creating the per-fect ambience for quality family time.

The store in Doha measures 32,000 square metres with over 7,500 prod-ucts, many of which are showcased in Ikea trademark room settings — which also includes the region’s first ever majlis set-up.

John Kersten, Managing Director, Ikea-UAE, Qatar, Egypt and Oman, said: “Ramadan is a very important time for us at Ikea and this year we have attempted to build a strong campaign around the idea of bringing

families together. Through our prod-uct range, restaurant offers, Småland and children’s activities, we hope to create a bond with our customers and bring the spirit of the Ramadan sea-son to life.”

Beginning July 10, each week for four weeks the store will also feature a selec-tion of products that would be high-lighted and available at reduced prices. These products are chosen from across the entire Ikea range and are unique to each week.

While the Swedish Food Market would sell the usual delicacies all day, the Ikea restaurant and exit bistro will neither serve nor permit eating prior to Iftar timings. The popular Ikea res-taurant will feature a special daily Iftar meal priced at QR22.

Ikea plans specialRamadan activities

A VMUG official doing a

presentation at the meet.

Qatar UAE Exchange officials with regular customers.

Mansoft Qatar sponsors meeting of VMUG

Mansoft Qatar, a subsidiary of Mannai Corporation, sponsored the second quarterly meeting of the

VMware User Group held at the Doha Marriott. Mansoft Qatar holds a partnership with VMware. Mansoft has executed complex VMware projects in Qatar and helped clients realise the CAPEX and OPEX benefits of infrastructure virtualisation solu-tions and desktop virtualisation competencies.

Bringing together VMware users and customers from all across Doha, the meeting showcased the lat-est in virtualisation and cloud technologies. The meet-ing began with a status update from Tom O’Reilly, Qatar VMUG leader. This was followed by VMware product updates from Maqsood Siddiqui, senior sys-tems engineer, as well as a technical session by VMUG Steering Committee member Gopinath Keerthy.

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The store will also host a festive Ramadan tent close to the exit bis-tro, offering complimentary dates, coffee and traditional beverages

to customers breaking their fast. The Ramadan activities in store will

conclude on August 10.The Peninsula

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By Patricia Reaney

Dr William Davis, the American cardiologist who trumpeted the health ben-efits of a wheat-free diet in

his 2011 bestselling book Wheat Belly, has taken his approach a step further with a cookbook.

In the Wheat Belly Cookbook Davis explains the thinking behind his wheat-free eating plan, adds updates on research and includes 150 wheat-free recipes and instructions on how to make pizzas, pies, cakes and cookies with other types of flour.

Davis said he first stumbled upon the benefits of not eating wheat when he was looking at ways to improve his patients’ cardiovascular health.

He found that a modern strain of wheat had a high glycaemic index, which rates how food affects blood sugar and insulin, and a protein called gliadin that he says stimulates the appetite.

After advising patients to remove wheat and wheat products from their diet Davis said he noticed over a few months that they had improved sugar levels, had lost weight, suffered less fatigue and experienced other benefits.

Davis spoke about writing the cook-book, developing wheat-free recipes and how to substitute wheat with other foods.

How did you go from developing

an approach to wheat-free eating to writing a cookbook?

“When I wrote the first wheat belly book (which explains his ideas) ... my editor said, ‘That’s not good enough. People want solutions.’ So, I was essen-tially required to write a diet with it, which is the diet I use every day and have been for years.”

Where did all the recipes come from?

“For the most part I took food that people are already familiar with and

recreated it. Some of the recipes are put in there for fun to round out choices in appetizers and desserts.”

Are they original recipes?“They are all original. I did this along

with people at the Rodale (publishing company) test kitchen.”

Are all of the recipes wheat-free?“It is mostly wheat-free and thereby

mostly gluten-free.”

What do you use in your

recipes instead of wheat?“There are a number of choices ...

almond flour or meal is the most com-mon, pecans, walnuts, seeds like sun-flower, chia, sesame, pumpkin. Ground golden flaxseed is a good one ... Those are pretty much the workhorses.”

How easy is it to convert to a wheat-free diet?

“You have to make some changes. There are some initial inconveniences. It means divorcing yourself from a lot of processed foods.” Reuters

Mini pizzas Ingredients (six servings)

3/4 cup warm water (100-110°F)1 1/4 teaspoons active dry yeast1 cup almond meal/flour1 cup garbanzo bean (chickpea)

flour1/2 cup ground golden flaxseeds1 teaspoon sea salt2 tablespoons olive oil1 1/2 cups sugar-free pizza or mari-

nara sauce

Toppings (optional)1 cup ricotta cheese1 cup shredded mozzarella cheese8 ounces thinly sliced fresh moz-

zarella cheese4 ounces thinly sliced pepperoniThinly sliced and sauteed bell pep-

per and onion.

Thinly sliced and sauteed yellow squash and zucchini

Quartered grape tomatoes2 tablespoons chopped fresh herbs

Method:In a small bowl, whisk together the

water and yeast until the yeast dis-solves. Let stand for 10 minutes.

In a medium bowl, whisk together the almond meal/flour, garbanzo flour, flax-seeds, and salt. Add the oil and the yeast mixture and stir for 5 min-utes, or until all of the ingredients are evenly distributed and a loose ball of dough forms. Cover with plastic wrap and let stand in a warm place for 1 hour. Divide into 6 equal pieces.

Preheat the oven to 350°F. Line 2 baking sheets with parchment paper.

Place a piece of parchment paper on the work surface. Place 1 piece of

dough on a piece of parch-ment paper and top with a second sheet of parch-ment paper. Flatten with a rolling pin into a cir-cle about 4 inches. Place the dough on the baking sheet. Carefully remove the top layer of parch-ment paper. Use a spoon or your hands to form a crust edge. Repeat with the remaining pieces of dough.

Bake for 20 minutes, or until lightly browned. Remove from the oven and top each with 1/4 cup pizza or marinara sauce and desired toppings. Bake for 10 minutes or until heated through.

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FITNESS 7

By Gabriella Boston

One sneaker fits all

According to US government recommendations, you should do at least 2 1/2 hours of moderate aerobic activity

per week and twice-weekly sessions of strength training to improve your health, no matter your age.

But don’t physical fitness needs change as we grow older?

Not that much, it turns out.Todd Miller, an associate professor

in the Department of Exercise Science at George Washington University, says whether you’re 20 years old or 60, you will need a combination of cardio and strength training to keep your heart and muscles in good shape and your weight under control.

The one difference may be that strength training becomes more cru-cial for everyday functional fitness as you get older. “A big issue as you age is the risk of falling. And strength train-ing that builds muscle power helps pre-vent falls,” he says.

“People should do a combination of both cardio and strength” to meet those fitness goals, he says, but in gen-eral he sees an “overemphasis on car-dio and underemphasis on strength.”

The challenge, Miller says, is not deciding whether fitness needs are age-specific. It’s getting people to do what they should do, at any age, to stay healthy and fit. “The problem is not the exercise or the type of exercise; it’s the adherence or the lack of adherence to exercise that is the main issue,” he says. Only about 20 percent of Americans fol-low the government recommendations.

As you try to figure out a regime that keeps you healthy, here’s some advice from three people — Miller, a trainer and tennis great Martina Navratilova — that may help you, whether you’re 20 or 60.

The professional athlete“As we age, we should exercise more

often but for shorter periods of time,” says Navratilova, 56, who writes a health and fitness column for AARP.

“And mix up your routine. Do strength, cardio, yoga. Do what feels good in the body, go easy on the joints,” she says.

That’s actually pretty much in line with government recommendations, which say, “We know 150 minutes each week sounds like a lot of time, but you don’t have to do it all at once. Not only is it best to spread your activity out during the week, but you can break it up into small chunks of time dur-ing the day. As long as you’re doing your activity at a moderate or vigorous effort for at least 10 minutes at a time,” says the Center for Disease Control

and Prevention, which recommends “a 10-minute brisk walk, three times a day, five days a week. This will give you a total of 150 minutes of moderate-intensity activity.”

Navratilova says that when she was in her 20s, she worked out six hours a day and could do 70-pound triceps presses. No more. “Daily exercise? I don’t do anything daily except eat and sleep,” she jokes. “But I do think if you can do functional fitness (exercises designed to help someone better handle daily tasks) for an hour a day, that is great,” she says. But for aging bodies, she adds, don’t overdo it. “Be nice to yourself and listen to your body.”

Navratilova says she recently began running again after a hiatus. “Nothing feels better than when you can run,” she says. “But every day? Absolutely not. It’s hard on your joints.”

Now living in Miami, she mixes it up by adding bicycling and paddleboard-ing to her running and tennis cardio regimen.

The trainerMike Fantigrassi, a trainer at the

National Academy of Sport Medicine in Chandler, Arizona, says he makes balance and flexibility exercises a regu-lar part of sessions with clients, but it’s different for younger and older people.

“If we have 60 minutes, we would do about five minutes of flexibility for someone in their 20s or 30s,” he says. “For someone 65 or older, we might do up to 15 minutes of flexibility.” It’s not

that the 20- or 30-year old should go completely without stretching (partic-ularly of the postural muscles — chest, core, neck and shoulders — that get tight from sitting at a desk all day) or working on balance, he says. But younger bodies, generally speaking, are naturally looser than older ones and have not been subjected to as much wear and tear.

So when a 20-year-old reaches down to pick something up off the floor, he probably won’t notice anything, but a 60-year-old may feel a tight hamstring. “But even a teenager who never does any flexibility work might get reduced joint flexibility eventually,” he adds.

Fantigrassi, who is 40, adds that the ability to generate muscle power suf-fers as we age, but we can slow the process down with such exercises as jumps — from foot to foot, or up and down from a bench or box. Eventually you’re going to lose your basketball jump shot, but you can keep it alive longer by training the leg muscles that generate power.

The researcherMiller, 45, says that while building

stronger muscles is protective for older people, strength training is important for everyone.

People begin to lose muscle mass and strength in their 30s, which slows metabolism. WebMD.com says that “each extra pound of muscle you carry can burn up to 50 additional calories (per day) just to maintain itself — and

with no effort on your part.” Others, however, suggest that the muscle effect is probably much smaller.

Lifting weights can counteract mus-cle loss. Of course, you still may not be able to lift as much weight in your 60s as you could in your 20s, but you can slow muscle loss, which otherwise can decline by five percent per decade after age 30.

“The only difference between 20 and 60 is that you might be lifting less weight at 60. But the exercises them-selves shouldn’t change unless you have an injury, but that isn’t age-related,” says Miller.

Strength training will also improve bone density, says Miller, who advo-cates the type of strength exercises where the feet are planted on the floor and generate force into the spine. It could be a regular squat. It could be a squat with dumbbells in your hands, resting on your shoulders. It could be one of those squat machines with pad-ding on top of the shoulders.

Given that most Americans gain roughly a pound per year starting in their 20s, it’s important at all ages to have cardio workouts in your week.

“If running feels good, then run,” Miller says. Just make sure it feels okay in your joints, whether you’re 20 or 60. “For me, it hurts, so I don’t do it.” In such cases, a treadmill or bike may be a better bet, he says. Whatever you choose, the point is to get regular exercise no matter what age you are.

Boston is a writer and fitness trainer in Washington. WP-Bloomberg

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ele

brate

the n

atu

ral agein

g

process

and t

he c

hanges

in o

ur e

nvir

onm

ent,”

she s

aid

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insl

et,

who h

as

two c

hildren, M

ia, 12

, and n

ine-y

ear-o

ld J

oe, sa

id s

he

did

n’t

get

tim

e f

or a

length

y b

eauty

regim

e in t

he m

ornin

g.

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eauty

routi

ne in t

he m

ornin

g h

as

to b

e fast

as

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up e

arl

y t

o g

et

everyone o

ut

of th

e d

oor for s

chool. S

o I

mig

ht

wash

rapid

ly w

ith L

ancôm

e’s

Mouss

e E

cla

t, w

hic

h m

akes

the s

kin

feel cle

an,” s

he s

aid

.“T

hen I

sla

p o

n a

couple

of quic

k p

um

ps

of V

isio

nnair

e (

skin

correcto

r)

and i

mm

edia

tely

apply

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i-lift

(cream

) w

hic

h h

as

SP

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5 i

n

it,” s

he a

dded.

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iah C

arey

shif

ts a

lbum

rel

ease

dat

e

Hit

maker M

aria

h C

arey’s

next

alb

um

, “T

he A

rt

of

Lett

ing G

o”,

will

get

dela

yed a

s sh

e n

eeds

more t

ime t

o d

o “

just

ice”

to h

er w

ork

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he a

lbum

was

schedule

d t

o h

it t

he s

tores

on J

uly

23. It

alr

eady h

as

a lead

track, but

she is

yet

to fi

nalise

the r

ele

ase

date

, reports

huffi

ngto

npost

.com

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arey g

ave t

he n

ew

s to

her f

ans

via

Tw

itte

r.“‘

The A

rt

of

Lett

ing G

o’ w

ill

not

be r

ele

ase

d a

s pla

nned, cit

ing a

need t

o

do t

he a

lbum

just

ice,” t

weete

d t

he 4

3-y

ear-o

ld.

Her last

alb

um

, “M

em

oir

s of

an I

mperfe

ct

Angel”

, w

as

rele

ase

d in 2

009.

Krr

ish

3 to

hit

scr

eens

on N

ovem

ber

4

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final. K

rris

h 3

is

set

to r

ele

ase

on N

ovem

ber 4

, a d

ay a

fter D

iwali t

his

year,

says

film

-maker R

akesh

Rosh

an

. “K

rris

h 3

will

fin

ally r

ele

ase

on

N

ovem

ber 4

, th

at

is M

onday,

” sa

id p

roducer-d

irecto

r R

osh

an,

confirm

ing

the fi

nal rele

ase

date

of

the fi

lm f

or t

he fi

rst

tim

e.

Rosh

an a

lso c

onfirm

ed for

the fi

rst

tim

e t

hat

the fi

rst

offi

cia

l tr

ailer

of th

e

film

would

be a

ttached t

o R

ohit

Shett

y’s

Ch

en

na

i E

xp

ress

. “Y

es,

our t

railers

w

ill be o

ut

on A

ugust

8,” h

e a

dded.

Rakesh

and H

rit

hik

Rosh

an h

ad b

een in t

alk

s to

decid

e t

he c

rucia

l D

iwali

rele

ase

date

for

Krr

ish

3. W

hile e

arl

ier

the fi

lm w

as

to b

e r

ele

ase

d o

n S

unday,

N

ovem

ber 3

, w

hic

h is

Diw

ali, th

e R

osh

ans

were u

nder p

ress

ure t

o p

ost

pone

the r

ele

ase

by a

day.

“The D

iwali d

ay,

that

is N

ovem

ber 3

, had b

een l

ocked i

n f

or t

he r

ele

ase

. B

ut

then d

istr

ibuto

rs a

nd e

xhib

itors

felt

people

lik

e t

o s

tay h

om

e o

n D

iwali

nig

ht

for L

axm

i P

uja

. It

was

felt

Novem

ber 4

, th

at

is t

he d

ay a

fter D

iwali,

would

be f

ar m

ore f

avourable

as

a r

ele

ase

date

for K

rris

h 3

,” s

aid

a s

ource

clo

se t

o t

he R

osh

ans.

Adit

i R

ao H

ydar

i’s w

ish l

ist

She h

as

done fi

ve H

indi film

s so

far a

nd s

how

n h

er v

ers

ati

lity

. N

ow

, A

dit

i R

ao H

ydari

has

got

a l

ist

of

people

wit

h w

hom

she w

an

ts t

o w

ork

—

Sush

ant

Sin

gh R

ajp

ut,

Ranveer S

ingh a

nd R

anbir

Kapoor f

eatu

re o

n h

er

wis

h lis

t.“I

actu

ally h

ave a

lis

t of people

that

I w

ant

to w

ork

wit

h a

nd I

am

work

ing

tow

ards

it,” A

dit

i sa

id.

“I w

ould

lik

e t

o w

ork

wit

h S

ush

ant

Sin

gh R

ajp

ut,

Ranveer S

ingh, A

rju

n

Kapoor,

Ranbir

Kapoor.

.. I

t’s

a long lis

t because

there a

re s

o m

any b

eauti

ful

acto

rs p

layin

g s

uch inte

rest

ing r

ole

s and t

hat

makes

this

pla

ce m

ore inte

r-

est

ing f

or g

irls

lik

e m

e t

o c

om

e a

nd w

ork

here,” s

he a

dded.

The 2

6-y

ear-

old

made h

er

Bollyw

ood d

ebut

wit

h a

sm

all r

ole

in D

elh

i 6, but

wit

h Y

eh

Sa

ali

Zin

da

gi and L

on

don

, Pa

ris,

New

York

she g

raduate

d t

o b

ig r

ole

s.S

he a

lso f

eatu

red i

n R

anbir

-sta

rrer h

it m

usi

cal

Rock

sta

r and h

er c

areer

seem

s to

be m

ovin

g i

n t

he r

ight

dir

ecti

on.

Her n

ext

is B

oss

wit

h A

ksh

ay

Kum

ar.

Talk

ing a

bout

her c

hoic

e o

f role

s, s

he s

aid

: “I

want

to w

ork

in a

n e

pic

love

story,

a p

iece o

f lite

ratu

re t

hat

is m

ade into

a fi

lm, as

well a

s a d

ance fi

lm.”

What

about

item

songs?

“The f

act

they a

re c

alled i

tem

num

bers

is

a p

roble

m.

On

ce y

ou c

all i

t an i

tem

num

ber,

it

imm

edia

tely

means

som

eth

ing d

em

eanin

g. It

’s a

way o

f dance,” s

he a

dded.

Cit

ing t

he e

xam

ple

of

Madhuri

Dix

it, sh

e s

aid

when s

he d

ances,

“it

’s n

ot

an i

tem

num

ber.

She i

s ju

st d

ancin

g...

if a

dancer d

ances,

it

looks

like a

n

excit

ing d

ance n

um

ber,

but

if s

om

eone w

ho d

oesn

’t k

now

how

to d

ance i

s ask

ed t

o d

o it,

it’s

goin

g t

o b

e a

n ite

m n

um

ber”

.“I

thin

k a

dance t

rack i

s a w

onderfu

l tr

ack. W

e I

ndia

ns

have d

ance a

nd

musi

c i

n o

ur b

lood a

nd t

hat

is w

hat

makes

our fi

lms

what

they a

re,

they

are f

un a

nd t

here i

s noth

ing w

rong w

ith t

hem

... I

would

love t

o d

ance i

n a

film

,” s

he a

dded.

Only

I c

an p

lay

Shak

tim

aan:

Muke

sh

Acto

r M

ukesh

Khanna, w

ho b

ecam

e p

opula

r a

fter p

layin

g t

he s

uperhero

in S

ha

kti

ma

an, is

com

ing u

p w

ith a

75-m

inute

tele

film

tit

led H

am

aa

ra

Hero

Sh

ak

tim

aa

n, in

whic

h h

e p

lays

Shakti

maan a

gain

. H

e s

ays

only

he c

an

pla

y S

hakti

maan.

“I c

an’t

make A

ksh

ay K

um

ar S

hakti

maan, I

can’t

let

Aja

y D

evgan p

lay

Shakti

maan. T

hey a

re g

ood a

cto

rs. I

can’t

even l

et

Shah R

ukh K

han p

lay

Shakti

maan b

ecause

they d

on’t

have t

he im

age t

hat

I have,” t

he 5

4-y

ear-o

ld

said

at

a p

ress

confe

rence t

o a

nnounce t

he t

ele

film

that

will

go o

n a

ir o

n

June 3

0 o

n P

ogo c

hannel.

“So I

have t

o d

o t

his

(pla

y S

hakti

maan)

and I

would

say t

hat

I have t

hat

audacit

y t

o p

lay S

hakti

maan a

gain

because

there

was

nobody b

efo

re M

ukesh

K

hanna,” h

e a

dded.

Produced b

y M

ukesh

and d

irecte

d b

y D

inkar J

ani, S

ha

kti

ma

an o

rig

inally

air

ed o

n D

oordars

han a

nd w

as

hugely

success

ful.

Dav

id B

eckham

can

be

nex

t B

ond:

Vic

tori

a

Sin

ger-t

urn

ed-f

ash

ion

desi

gn

er V

icto

ria

Beckham

feels

her h

usb

an

d,

reti

red s

occer p

layer D

avid

, fits

the r

ole

of

spy a

gent

Jam

es

Bond i

n

the m

ovie

franchis

e.

The c

ouple

was

prese

nt

for a

join

t in

tervie

w w

hen

David

was

quiz

zed a

bout

his

pla

ns

to e

nte

r H

ollyw

ood. D

avid

rule

d o

ut

any

chances

of

acti

ng, reports

thesu

n.c

o.u

k.

He s

aid

: “I

have s

om

e frie

nds

who a

re a

cto

rs.

Tom

Cruis

e is

a v

ery g

ood

frie

nd o

f ours.

But

I don’t

thin

k I

have a

ny p

lans

to b

ecom

e a

n a

cto

r. I

’m

not

sure I

’d b

e v

ery g

ood a

t it

.”H

ow

ever,

Vic

toria

said

to D

avid

: “I

thin

k y

ou w

ould

be r

eally g

ood a

t acti

ng.”

Turnin

g t

o t

he i

nte

rvie

wer,

Vic

toria

ask

ed:

“Don’t

you t

hin

k h

e’d

be

good a

t acti

ng?

I th

ink y

ou’d

be g

reat.

I t

hin

k h

e s

hould

be J

am

es

Bond!

He’d

be a

good J

am

es

Bond..

Acto

r D

anie

l C

raig

has

pla

yed t

he r

ole

in t

he l

ast

three m

ovie

s of

the

Jam

es

Bon

d f

ranchis

e.

the l

ast

year,

was

the t

op m

an o

n t

he

list

, ahead o

f rock s

tar B

on J

ovi

at

No.

7, t

ennis

cham

pio

n R

oger F

ederer a

nd

Just

in B

ieber,

the y

oungest

mem

ber o

f th

e l

ist,

squeeze

d i

nto

the t

op t

en

at

No. 9.

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hough o

nly

23, si

xth

pla

ce s

inger

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r S

wif

t, m

ade t

he lis

t fo

r t

he fi

rst

ti

me a

nd r

ounded o

ut

the t

op 1

0 a

long

wit

h E

mm

y-a

ward w

inn

ing T

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lk

show

host

Ellen D

eG

eneres.

MO

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AM

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IAL

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es

base

d a

cele

brit

y’s

earn

ings

on incom

e from

tours,

books,

contr

acts

, en

dorsem

en

ts,

movie

s a

nd r

esid

uals

. E

ach c

ele

brit

y w

as

giv

en a

mark

eta

bilit

y

score,

develo

ped b

y C

alifo

rnia

mark

et

rese

arch fi

rm

E-P

oll.

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auged f

am

e a

nd influence b

y h

ow

oft

en c

ele

brit

ies

appear i

n t

he m

edia

. It

use

d S

tarcoun

t, a

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gapore-b

ase

d

com

pany t

hat

looks

at

11 s

ocia

l m

edia

pla

tform

s in

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din

g F

acebook, T

wit

ter

and Y

ouT

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ence in s

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PLUS | THURSDAY 27 JUNE 201310 UNEMPLOYMENT

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Youth unemployment rose in April to 23% with 5.6 million young peopleofficially jobless. In addition, 7.5 million Europeans aged 15-24 are

not employed, not in education and not in training (NEETs)

2007 2008 2009 2010 2011 2012 2013

Greece*62.5%

Spain56.4%

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France26.5%

UK20.2%

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Jobless rate amongthose under age 25(percent, April 2013)

2007: Start offinancial crisis

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(2011-13)

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Eurozonebailoutloans

since 2010€347.5bn

11WHEELS PLUS | THURSDAY 27 JUNE 2013

By James Nash

Los Angeles embodied America’s love affair with the automobile in the last century. In this one, it’s trying to kick the car to

the curb.The city that put drive-through

restaurants on the map has doubled bike lanes to 292 miles and expanded light rail by 26 percent in eight years. Bus and train ridership is increasing while the number of passenger cars registered in Los Angeles County has declined.

The traditional combustion-engined, gasoline-powered car is under assault from those and other options: Electric cars, hybrids and car-sharing plans such as the one operated by Avis Budget’s Zipcar. Los Angeles, the larg-est market in the biggest US state for vehicle sales, could be the ultimate test of the conventional car’s future.

“The next 10 years will be as impor-tant to the auto industry and transpor-tation literally as the invention of the Model T,” Scott Griffith, former chief executive officer and now adviser to Zipcar, said. “We’re now on the edge of all these new business models coming along and the intersection of informa-tion and the car and transportation. If you look out 10 years, I think we’re going to see a huge change, particularly in cities.”

Even though the new-car market has rebounded from the recession, Los Angeles County had 28,000 fewer pas-senger cars registered in 2012 than five years earlier, according to California Department of Motor Vehicles data. Boardings on the Los Angeles County Metropolitan Transportation Authority’s buses and trains increased 4.7 percent to 41.3 million in May 2013, compared with May 2011.

Authority officials plan to spend $14bn to accelerate that shift.

Under outgoing Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa, D, who accelerated fund-ing for light rail and subway systems, Los Angeles is working to reach almost 115 miles of track, from the current 88 miles, by 2036.

Angelenos have been among the most car-dependent US commuters, with 67 percent commuting solo in 2009, compared with 24 percent for New York and 51 percent for Chicago, according to the US Census Bureau. In Detroit, home of the US auto industry, the figure was 71 percent.

Los Angeles had the nation’s long-est congestion-related delays in April, according to Inrix Inc.’s scorecard, with the average driver wasting 5.2 hours, up from 4.5 hours in April 2012.

Villaraigosa, 60, who was elected

in 2005, championed a 2008 ballot measure that raised sales taxes in Los Angeles County by half a percentage point for 30 years, with the projected $40bn in proceeds earmarked for rail lines, expanded rapid bus service, wid-ening highways and adding carpool lanes. Twenty percent of the revenue was devoted to highways, with the larg-est share, 35 percent, for rail and bus rapid-transit lines.

“Los Angeles in the eyes of people outside of LA has always been 72 sub-urbs in search of a city, very much an automobile-driven place,” said Anastasia Loukaitou-Sideris, Associate Dean of the Luskin School of Public Affairs at UCLA. “I don’t think we can see Los Angeles as a solely auto-centric city.”

The city has added bike lanes and reminded drivers they must share the road. Los Angeles is making plans for a bike-share programme similar to New York’s Citi Bike, the network inaugu-rated last month in Manhattan and Brooklyn.

Privately held Bike Nation USA last year announced plans for bike sharing in Los Angeles, beginning downtown this year, with as many as 4,000 bicy-cles eventually.

The changes are making it easier for two-wheeled commuters like Madeline Brozen, 26, who studies urban mobil-ity, and Mehmet Berker, 27, a graphic designer.

“I feel pretty spoiled by the tran-sit system in LA,” said Brozen, who uses a bicycle and buses to make a 12-mile trek to her job as director of the Complete Streets Initiative at the University of California.

Berker, who sold his car after mov-ing from Minneapolis, said he cycles, takes the subway and bus, asks for rides from friends and uses Zipcar’s short-term car rentals.

“It’s sometimes a matter of bumming

a ride,” he said, “and sometimes, it’s just impossible.”

Villaraigosa, whose two terms in office end June 30, leaves behind a city partially reshaped by his bus and bike initiatives, with the potential for a denser, more developed urban core. The city also plans to extend a light-rail line to Los Angeles International Airport within the next decade.

As Los Angeles develops its public-transit lines, builders, business owners and investors will be enticed to areas near transit stations for development opportunities, said Robert Cervero, a professor in the Department of City and Regional Planning at the University of California, Berkeley.

“LA pioneered intra-urban rail in the US with its Red Car lines more than a century ago and, in my opinion, is poised to shed its auto-centric iden-tity and become a more balanced, mul-timodal, transit-friendly city,” Cervero said in an email.

The city tore out its Red Car net-work of electrified streetcars that once rolled along more than 1,000 miles of tracks in four counties in the mid-20th century. Cars became ascendant after the 1940 opening of the Arroyo Seco Parkway, the first freeway in the west-ern US.

Since then, Southern California’s growth patterns have frustrated large-scale public transit, said Joel Kotkin, a fellow in urban futures at Chapman University in Orange.

The region’s current transit push isn’t likely to change how people get around, Kotkin said by telephone. Public work contractors and retail and housing developers are leading

the drive for new transit lines, seeing profit building rail lines and stations and apartments and stores near them.

“The DNA of this city is just not that,” Kotkin said. “You couldn’t con-ceivably build enough subway lines to make it work. LA is not going to be Paris. You could densify it and maybe get Tehran.”

Villaraigosa’s transportation direc-tor, Jaime de la Vega, agreed.

“More people will choose to take transit because it’s either more eco-nomical or it’s faster,” de la Vega said. “In a lot of cases, people are still going to take cars.”

Northeast of downtown, residents and store owners are protesting plans to restripe road lanes to make room for bicycles, saying the loss of car lanes will worsen congestion. De la Vega said new bike lanes could be returned to cars if they’re shown to significantly add to congestion.

In Beverly Hills, a fight is on against a Metropolitan Transit Authority plan to tunnel below Beverly Hills High School, allowing the subway to reach Westwood.

Among carmakers, Toyota, Honda and Ford have the most at risk if driv-ers in Los Angeles decide to park their cars. Combined, the three accounted for almost half the new cars and trucks sold in California in the first quarter, led by Toyota, with 21.4 percent and its top-selling Prius hybrid, accord-ing to the California New Car Dealers Association.

Honda’s sales are rising in Los Angeles County, said Robyn Eagles, a spokeswoman for the carmaker’s Torrance-based US unit, noting Honda’s alternative-fuel and fuel-effi-cient cars including the natural gas Civic, plug-in Accord and Fit EV.

“We want to provide Angelenos with a range of options,” Eagles said. “There will always be a need for cars here.”

Incoming Mayor Eric Garcetti, who supported rail and bike-lane expan-sion as a city council member, said he will continue Villaraigosa’s transit philosophy.

“I will continue expanding rail and will also focus on local connectors that bridge the gaps between people’s homes and main lines,” Garcetti said in an emailed statement. “There is no silver bullet to addressing traffic. We must pursue a comprehensive approach.”

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LA’s new love affair with the road: Bikes, light rail put cars to the test

TECHNOLOGYPLUS | THURSDAY 27 JUNE 201312

Drawnimal (£1.49)iPhone / iPad by Lucas Zanotto

This is an absolutely fab idea, get-

ting children to draw the outer bits of

animals (legs, ears, whiskers and so

on) around their iPhone or iPad, before

the device provides an animated face.

There’s an animal for every letter of the

alphabet, and many of them will make

parents and kids alike laugh out loud.

Great British Chefs Kids (Free)

iPhone /

iPad by Great

British Chefs

This free

app wants to

get children

cooking, with

105 recipes

from 21 British

chefs, split into

categories like

snacks, mains,

cakes and biscuits, pastry, chocolate

and “vegetables & salad” (good luck

with that one, most parents!). Step-

by-step text, photographs and videos

explain everything, and there’s a Tesco

tie-in to help parents buy the ingredi-

ents from their device.

Toontastic Jr Shrek (£1.99)iPhone / iPad by Launchpad Toys

File this alongside Toy Story: Story

Theater, in the way it allows children

to make their own stories featuring

much-loved film characters. In this

case, it’s Shrek, Fiona and Donkey

from the Shrek films, with 12 scenes,

voice recording and the chance to use

a “StoryShare” feature to collabo-

rate with family and friends on other

devices.

Caspar Babypants Music Time (£1.49)

iPhone / iPad by Catnap Apps

Chris Ballew made his name in band

the Presidents of the United States of

America — they did Lump and Peaches,

which should give your internal jukebox

another jolt. Nowadays he also makes

well-crafted music for children, which

has now been turned into an app. Kids

can play along on virtual instruments,

and instead of in-app purchases, the

app points parents to Apple’s iTunes

Store if they want more music to use.

Puppet Workshop (£1.99)iPad by JumpApp

Most kids I know like sock puppets

(the original kind, not the review-

their-own-books-on-Amazon kind),

but Puppet Workshop takes the idea

digital. Kids start with a virtual sock

or glove, and decorate it with buttons

and other items, before placing it on

a background and taking a picture.

What I loved most about this app,

though, is that it got my children into

making real sock and glove puppets:

digital play sparking physical play,

rather than replacing it.

Mibblio (Free + IAP)iPad by Mibblio

A number of children’s apps are

doing fun things with music in 2013,

with several represented here. Mibblio

is a “musically interactive storybook

app” with a selection of stories, each

with their own song. Kids can lis-

ten to the song while

reading

its lyrics,

or play along by tap-

ping on virtual instruments, from

a keyboard to percussion. Individual

songs cost £1.49 each as in-app

purchases.

Identikat (£1.99)iPad by Ovolab

File this alongside Puppet Workshop:

it’s another app that mirrors creativity

in the real world, while trying to spark

kids’ imaginations to carry on once the

iPad is switched off. Here, they’re mak-

ing virtual cats from lifelike materials

and household objects — “the things

you’d find in grandma’s secret drawer”.

Freckleface Strawberry Monster Maker (Free)

iPad by Nymbly

The Freckleface Strawberry books

are the work of actor and author

Julianne Moore, and have received

lots of critical acclaim. This app isn’t

a straight story, although there is a

storytelling element. It gets children to

create their own monster from differ-

ent body parts, with the ability to insert

it into photographs of themselves and

friends or family members. A creative

introduction to the Freckleface series.

Easy Studio — Animate with Shapes (£2.49)

iPad by Les Trois Elles

French studio Les Trois Elles have

made a series of polished, charac-

terful children’s apps over the last

year or two. This is great fun: an app

designed to help children start making

their own animations, using geometric

shapes as the basis for their moving

scenes. Two difficulty modes — Easy

and Expert — cater for different ages.

Its potential is only limited by each

child’s imagination.

Faces iMake — ABC (£1.49)iPad by iMagine Machine

If your children tire of making sock

puppets, cats or monsters, how about

alphabetical objects? This is an app

with 26 collages of household items for

children to reassemble. The idea: they

learn their letters and spatial

skills while feeling pride at putting the

various objects together

PLAYFUL

Toca Hair Salon 2 (Free - £1.59)iPhone / iPad / Android by Toca Boca

In truth, you can buy any Toca Boca

app and expect marvellousness: the

publisher has a well-earned reputa-

tion for quality. Toca Hair Salon 2 is its

newest app, and a good introduction. It

gets kids cutting, colouring, brushing

and styling the hair of a collection of

quirky characters, with no set goals

beyond having creative fun. Note, it’s

currently free on iOS as a promotion,

but may well revert to paid in the next

few days.

Sago Mini Forest Flyer (£1.49)iPhone / iPad by Sago Sago

Sago Sago is actually a subsidiary of

Toca Boca, after it bought Canadian

developer Zinc Roe earlier in the year.

Its apps focus on younger children:

Toddlers. This is a bright and colour-

ful app based on Robin, a bird who flies

through the forest discovering more

than 20 characters, locations and

items. That means animated scenes,

but kids are left to make up their own

storyline.

Bloomsbury Pirate Activity (£2.99)

iPad by Bloomsbury Publishing

Book publisher Bloomsbury was

behind this digital stickering app,

which apes the kind of sticker/activity

books you can buy in the real world,

but with no chance of the stickers end-

ing up plastered all over the house.

Pirates are the theme (although a

separate princesses app is also avail-

able) with mazes, puzzles and colouring

also included.

The Letter Monster (£1.99)iPhone / iPad / Android by Wombi

This is a good introduction to the

playful apps of Swedish developer

Wombi, starring a friendly sea-mon-

ster who wants to eat letters. So it’s

educational as well as fun, as kids drag

and drop letters into his gaping maw.

A friendly gaping maw...

Petting Zoo by Christoph Niemann (£0.69)

iPhone / iPad by Christoph Niemann

One of my favourite apps of the

year so far — and in more digital-to-

physical fun, it’s one of the reasons my

sons were so keen to go to a real-world

zoo earlier in the year. It’s the work of

author and illustrator Niemann: a col-

lection of 21 animals whose animations

respond to your swipes up, down and

across the screen. Craft and humour

in spades.

More Trucks by Duck Duck Moose (£1.49)

iPhone / iPad by Duck Duck Moose

If you have a child with a yen for

big-wheeled trucks, they’ll love this

app from well-established developer

Duck Duck Moose. It sees them driv-

ing four trucks, including a fire engine

and crane. In the latter case, they get

to build (and then, more importantly,

knock down) some structures.

Yummiloo Rainbow Power (£1.49)iPhone / iPad by Night & Day Studios

This colourful game revolves around

characters called Yum Yums, whose

annual carnival has been derailed by

a lack of food. That means children

get to help the Yum Yums harvest it,

with the game aiming to entertainingly

introduce ideas about healthy eating as

they sort ripe from spoiled foodstuffs.

I Spy With Lola (£0.69 - £1.49)iPhone / iPad / Android by BeiZ

Part of a bigger series of Lola Panda

games, this sees the heroine travelling

the world on an “I Spy adventure”, col-

lecting items based on different letters,

and unlocking new locations to explore

as she goes.

Dr Panda’s Handyman (£1.49)iPhone / iPad / Android by TribePlay

Finally... more pandas! In fact, there

are lots of Dr. Panda games to investi-

gate, but this is one of the latest ones.

It’s based on DIY, with 13 activities in

a virtual home: making a bed, tearing

up old floors and painting everything.

The Guardian

iPhone, iPad and Android apps from 2013 for kids.

Apps for kids that

parents can trust

COMICS & MORE 13

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

ASTRONOMICAL, ATOM, COLOSSAL, DOT, ELEPHANTINE, ENORMOUS, GALACTIC, GARGANTUAN, GIANT, HUGE, IMMENSE, INFINITESIMAL, IOTA, ISOTOPE, JOT, JUMBO, LARGE, LITTLE, MASSIVE, MICROBE, MICROSCOPIC, MINISCULE, MINUTE, MITE, MOLECULE, MONOLITHIC, MONUMENTAL, NEUTRON, NUCLEUS, PARTICLE, PINCH, POINT, PROTON, SCINTILLA, SMALL, SMIDGEN, SPECK, TINY, TREMENDOUS, VAST.

Baby Blues by Jerry Scott and Rick Kirkman

Zits by Dennis Young and Denis Lebrun

Hagar The Horrible by Chris Browne

LEARNARABIC

The Destinations/ Directions:

Qareeb, min Close,from

Ba eed, min Far,from

Bi’janib Beside

Ala tool Straight

Hal yujad? Is there (m)

Hal tujad? Is there (F)



HYPER SUDOKU

CROSSWORD

CROSSWORDS

YESTERDAY’S ANSWER

How to play Hyper Sudoku:A Hyper Sudoku

Puzzle is solved

by filling the

numbers from 1

to 9 into the blank

cells. A Hyper

Sudoku has

unlike Sudoku

13 regions

(four regions

overlap with the

nine standard

regions). In all

regions the numbers from 1 to 9 can appear

only once. Otherwise, a Hyper Sudoku is

solved like a normal Sudoku.

ACROSS 1 Rounded cathedral

feature

5 Undue speed

10 Bowled over

14 Miller ___ (low-calorie beer)

15 Banks in the Baseball Hall of Fame

16 Sheltered bay

17 Equipment to help a patient breathe

19 Regatta group

20 Prince who became Henry V

21 “___ I care”

22 Jules who wrote “Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea”

23 Floor measurements

25 “Sorry to hear that”

28 Breath mint in a roll, informally

30 Events with baying hounds

31 Foray

34 Small bit, as of cream

35 Lab eggs

38 H. G. Wells novel … with a hint to this puzzle’s circled words

42 Pea holder

43 Completely

44 In recent days

45 Trees that sway in a hurricane

48 Religious offshoot

49 Went to pieces

52 “Beauty is truth, truth beauty” poet

56 Resell unfairly, as tickets

57 First-rate

59 Flapper’s neckwear

60 Musical sound

61 Vishnu or Shiva

64 Fashion designer Cassini

65 “It’s ___ of the times”

66 Some poems from 52-Across

67 Tennis’s Sampras

68 Broadway honors

69 Captain in “Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea”

DOWN

1 ___ State (Hawaii’s nickname)

2 Film studio behind “Toy Story” and “Up”

3 Fashion

4 Brain wave readout, for short

5 “Cluck, cluck” makers

6 Monet or Manet

7 Megamistake

8 Sn, to a chemist

9 Mouse spotter’s cry

10 Say yes to

11 Troubling

12 Datebook notation

13 “___ Defeats Truman” (famous 1948 headline)

18 Enter slowly and carefully, as a parking spot

22 Many an airport shuttle

24 Play opener

26 Spiced tea

27 Telescope serviced by astronauts

29 Change significantly

31 Big inits. in fuel additives

32 “Well, whaddya know!”

33 Mars, with “the”

34 Web access inits.

36 Kilmer of “The Doors”

37 One or more

39 Rick’s beloved in “Casablanca”

40 Was without

41 Suffix with major

46 Declare to be true

47 Swimming unit

48 Hardly hip

49 Camera lens setting

50 Place to learn in Lille

51 Carted off to jail

53 Tolerate

54 Emblem carved on a pole

55 Permission

58 Convent residents

61 Place for a rabbit in a magic act

62 Equal: Prefix

63 Immeasurably long time

1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13

14 15 16

17 18 19

20 21 22

23 24 25 26 27

28 29 30

31 32 33 34 35 36 37

38 39 40 41

42 43 44

45 46 47 48

49 50 51 52 53 54 55

56 57 58 59

60 61 62 63

64 65 66

67 68 69

H I S P A N I C S P A T H SI M L O V I N I T C R E E PT H E M I K A D O B E L L AS O W S O P E R S A L L Y

A L A R M S M O SA L S O R A N Y E S M E NS O L D A S I S C H A T U PS L I E R C A M O C H R ET A M T A M P A Y R A I S E

F E S T E R L O T U S E ST A B T A K E T OO L A F V N I L E A S P SP A L E O D R E A M B O A TI N L E T O B A M A C A R EC A S T E M Y D O G S K I P

How to play Kakuro:The kakuro grid, unlike in sudoku, can be of any size. It has rows and columns, and dark cells like in a crossword. And, just like in a crossword, some of the dark cells will contain numbers. Some cells will contain two numbers.However, in a crossword the numbers reference clues. In a kakuro, the numbers are all you get! They denote the total of the digits in the row or column referenced by the number.Within each collection of cells - called a run

- any of the numbers 1 to 9 may be used but, like sudoku, each number may only be used once.

YESTERDAY’S ANSWER

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EASY SUDOKUCartoon Arts International / The New York Times Syndicate

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.

CINEMA / TV LISTINGS 15

TEL: 444933989 444517001SHOWING AT VILLAGGIO & CITY CENTER

MALL

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Monster University (3D/Animation)– 2.30 & 5.00pm

ABCD (2D/Malayalam) – 7.30 & 10.30pm

2

Man of Steel (3D/Action) – 2.15 & 4.45pm

World War Z (3D/Action) – 7.15pm

The Purge (2D/Horror) – 9.30pm

White House Down (2D/Action) – 11.15pm

3


The Heat (2D/Action) – 4.30 & 6.45pm


Dark Tide (2D/Thriller) – 11.30pm

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1

Man of Steel (3D/Action) – 2.30 & 5.00pm

ABCD (2D/Malayalam) – 8.00pm


2

Monster University (3D/Animation) – 2.30 & 4.30pm

The Heat (2D/Action) – 6.30pm



3

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Tatah (2D/Arabic)– 4.30pm


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1

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2

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The Heat (2D/Action) – 4.30 & 6.45



3


Raanjhanaa (2D/Hindi) – 5.30pm

Ghanchakkar (2D/Hindi) – 8.30 & 11.00pm

QF RADIO 91.7 FM ENGLISH PROGRAMME BRIEF LIVE SHOWS Airing Time Programme Briefs

SPIRITUAL HOUR 6:00 – 7:00 AM A time of reflection, a deeper understanding of the teachings of Islam.

FASHION NEWS 12:00 NN Is a lighthearted 10-minute fashion bulletin from red carpets and popular brands around the world.

INTERNATIONAL NEWS

1:00 PM The latest news and events from around the world.

DECADES 4:00 PM A journey through time. The show reminisces at the music, the inventions, and the events that ensued during that era and defined modern history. Hosted by Ms. Laura Finnerty and Scotty Boyes.

TOUR OF QATAR 6:00 PM The show takes you on a weekly trip to different locations in Qatar.

LEGENDARY ARTISTS

8:00 PM The show tells the story of a celebrity artist that has reached unprecedented fame. Throughout the episode, the artists’ memorable performances/songs will be played to put listeners in the mood.

THINK ABOUT IT 10:30 PM Is a show about ‘Spoken Word.’ Every week the audience is introduced to a new artistic piece. Created by our very own Nabil Al Nashar.

MUSIC & INFORMATION

Listen in the whole day as we offer a wide array of music from Pop, to Classical, Reggae, Jazz, Funk, World/Ethnic and more!


0800 Atp Magazine

0830 Cesc Fabregas

Documentary

0930 Omni Sport

1330 Magazine Tba

1400 English Sports

News

1415 Short

Programme

1615 Short

Programme

1630 Magazine Tba

1700 Fifa World Cup

U20 Korea V

Nigeria

1900 Boxing From

23/6/13

Malinagi V

Broner

2000 Fifa World Cup

U20 Spain V

France

2200 Messi 100

Goals

2300 Ibrahimovic

Documentary

6:00 News

6:30 The Cure

7:30 The Stream

10:00 News

10:30 Inside Story

11:00 News

11:30 The Stream

12:00 News

12:30 Activate

13:00 NEWSHOUR

14:00 News

14:30 Inside Story

15:00 Witness

16:00 NEWSHOUR

17:00 News

17:30 The Stream

18:00 NEWSHOUR

19:00 News

19:30 Witness

20:00 News

20:30 Inside Story

21:00 NEWSHOUR

22:00 News

22:30 The Stream

23:00 Al Jazeera

Correspondent

15:05 Auction

Hunters

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16:00 Jesse James:

Outlaw Garage

16:55 Gold Rush

17:50 Mythbusters

18:45 Sons Of Guns

19:40 How Stuff

Works

20:05 How It’s Made

20:35 Auction

Hunters

21:00 Storage

Hunters

15:00 Monster Croc

Hunt

16:00 Anaconda:

Queen Of The

Serpent

17:00 World’s Worst

Venom

19:00 Fish Warrior

20:00 Man v.

Monster

21:00 Monster Croc

Hunt

22:00 Anaconda

16:40 A.N.T. Farm

17:00 Toy Story 2

18:30 Prankstars

18:45 That’s So

Raven

20:00 Jessie

20:25 Wizards Of

Waverly Place

20:50 Wizards Of

Waverly Place

21:15 Phil Of The

Future

08:00 Bushwhacked-

10:00 The Waterboy-

12:00 The Smurfs-PG

16:00 The Waterboy-

18:00 The Winning

Season-PG15

20:00 Take Me Home

Tonight-18

22:00 Grabbers

12:20 Wildlife SOS

13:15 SSPCA: On

The Wildside

13:45 Animal Precinct

16:30 Dogs/Cats/

Pets 101

18:20 Groomer Has It

19:40 Bondi Vet

20:10 Shamwari: A

Wild Life

21:05 Charles &

Jessica: A

Chimp Tale

22:00 Wildest Africa

22:55 Galapagos

12:10 The Initiation Of

Sarah

13:40 Have You Seen

My Son?

15:10 Sleeper

16:35 Hidden Agenda

18:20 Mgm’s Big

Screen

18:35 Alice

20:20 Pulp

22:00 Assassination

Tango

23:50 Cohen & Tate

07:00 Doctor

Zhivago-PG

10:05 Cimarron-FAM

12:30 Jailhouse

Rock-PG

14:05 The Charge

Of The Light

Brigade-FAM

16:00 Elvis: That’s

The Way It Is-

18:00 Three Daring

Daughters

14:30 D’Fenders

16:00 The Tooth Fairy

18:00 Cheaper By The

Dozen

20:00 Olentzero

Christmas Tale

22:00 Kong Return To

The Jungle

23:30 Little Einsteins

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Ferozkoh: Tradition and Continuity in Afghan Art When: Until July 20Sunday, Monday, Wednesday:10:30am - 5:30pmThursday, Saturday: Noon — 8pmFriday: 2pm — 8pm Where: Museum of Islamic Art What: An exhibition showcasing works created by Afghan artists inspired by masterpieces from the Museum of Islamic Art (MIA) collection Entry fee 25QR (free on Mondays and for children under 16 years)

Qatar National Library Heritage Collection

When: Public tours twice every Sunday and Tuesday at 10am and 11:30am. Where: Qatar National Library What: Qatar National Library’s remarkable Heritage Collection is a rare trove of manuscripts, books, and artefacts documenting a wealth of Arab-Islamic civilisation and human thought. Among its more than 100,000 works, the collection contains an edition of Ptolemy’s Geographia, which was printed in Rome in 1478 and is the oldest printed map showing the name of Qatar or referred to in Latin as ‘Catara’. Free Entry

1st Red Bull Flugtag QatarWhen: November 1, 1pm Where: Museum of Islam Art Park,

What: Red Bull Flugtag, which means “flying day” in German, pushes the envelope of human-powered flight, but competitors need more than airtime to reach the podium.Teams are judged on three criteria: Flight distance, creativity of the craft, and showmanship. These criteria have inspired flying tacos, prehistoric pterodactyls, winnebagos with wings and even Snoopy and the gang to grace the Red Bull Flugtag flight decks! Free entry

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Some of the towers which dot the Doha skyline.

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Please mention where the photo was taken.

Two-headed turtle hatchesat San Antonio zoo

A two-headed turtle has hatched at the San Antonio Zoo and officials have named her Thelma and Louise.

The female Texas cooter arrived June 18 and will go on display Thursday at the zoo’s Friedrich Aquarium.

Zoo spokeswoman Debbie Rios-Vanskike (van SKYKE’) said Wednesday that the two-headed turtle appears healthy and is able to swim and walk. She says experts at the zoo don’t foresee any health issues for Thelma and Louise, named for the female duo in the 1991 Oscar-winning road movie of the same name.

The San Antonio Zoo is no stranger to two-headed rep-tiles. The facility was home to a two-headed Texas rat snake named Janus from 1978 until the creature’s death to 1995.

James Bond watch with geiger counter sells for $160,000

A watch adapted for the fictional British spy 007 in the James Bond movies sold for nearly £104,000 ($160,000) at a pop culture auction

after being bought, strapless, at car boot sale for £25.The Breitling Top Time, worn by actor Sean Connery

during 007’s mission to find stolen atomic bombs the 1965 movie Thunderball, was estimated to sell for between £40,000 and £60,000.

Auction house Christie’s said this was the first watch to be modified by the Q branch in the Bond movies and was equipped with a “Geiger counter” to help the suave secret agent detect the emission of nuclear radiation in the film.

Made by Breitling in 1962, it was adapted by the James Bond art department and was the only example produced for the movie, a Christie’s spokeswoman said.

She was unable to give details on the vendor or pur-chaser of the watch that was one of 252 lots at the auction house’s pop culture sale.

Among the many other items sold were Bob Dylan lyrics for an unreleased song and actress Elizabeth Taylor’s first wedding dress, which she wore as an 18-year-old when she married Conrad Hilton Junior in 1950 in one of the social events of that year attended by over 700 guests.

“The dress symbolises one of the most iconic off-screen moments of ‘Golden Age Hollywood’,” Christie’s said in a statement.

The dress sold for nearly £122,000 after an estimated sale price of £30,000 to £50,000.

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