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Baahubali: The Beginning team heads to Cannes

FASHION | 9 ENTERTAINMENT | 12

Mourjan Marinas welcomes students

from ISL Qatar

Care for your hair in simple steps

this summer!

www.thepeninsulaqatar.com

WEDNESDAY 11 MAY 2016 @peninsulaqatar @peninsula_qatarEmail: [email protected] thepeninsulaqatar

CAMPUS | 3 T | 12

CCOOLLOOUURRYOUR LIFEYOUR LIFE

Colouring books offer a real elixir, a way of getting past hurdles — mental, physical or both — that can’t be replicated by more-traditional approaches.P | 4-5

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| 03WEDNESDAY 11 MAY 2016

CAMPUS

PEC team tops in Qatar Schools Debate 2016Pakistan Education Centre (PEC)

Girls’ Wing Team comprising

Rameesha Khan, Arooj Ha-

roon and Ayesha Farooq won

Qatar Schools Debate League Nation-

al Championship 2016 by showcasing

their potential talent and best debat-

ing skills.

Nargis Raza Otho Principal PEC, Af-

shan Shahid Vice Principal Girls’ Wing

also attended the final contest and re-

ceived the champions trophy for the

school. Qatar Debate is the platform

worth mentioning where PEC students

have proved their mettle by winning

team positions as well as ranking as

top speakers throughout the competi-

tions in the last few years arranged by

Qatar Debate.

Adding more to its victory one of

PEC debating team represented by

Ayesha Farooq, Arooj Haroon and Ram-

eesha Khan won all rounds in nation-

als and made it to the Final played on

9th May 2016. In the face of all these

achievements, the momentous occa-

sion of fetching the champions’ trophy

by winning in the finals by outpacing

the opponent team. The unbeatable

Team of PEC was awarded with Team

Award of Qatar Schools Debate League

National Championship 2016. Ramee-

sha Khan certified as the best speaker

of the Finals. Riffat Tahir coached the

winning team for the final contest.

Likewise, for the term 2015-2016,

three teams of Girls’ Wing represent-

ed PEC in 1st and 2nd QSDL tourna-

ments of league 2016.Team 1 and

Team 2 of PEC remained invincible

throughout the tournaments and won

top two team positions. PEC debat-

ing teams sustained first-rate perform-

ance in 2nd QSDL tournaments as well

as its all three teams qualified for Na-

tionals. First time ever in Qatar debates,

any school in Doha achieved an hon-

our of having its three teams quali-

fied for Nationals held at the comple-

tion of two league tournaments. Team

1 comprising of Mahnor Shahid, Zu-

ha Sattar, Ambreen Riaz, Team 2 Mah-

noor Akbar, Arooj Haroon, Rameesha

Khan, Team 3 Sabar Meena, Nawal Sar-

farz, and Maryam Nadeem, contested

exceptionally well in two tournaments

and Team PEC seized 1st league posi-

tion by winning Champions trophy of

Qatar Schools Debate League 2015-

16. It is also worth mentioning that the

team PEC also notched 3 individual po-

sitions among the top 10 debaters, the

promising student of PEC, Zuha Sattar

ranked the top speaker in the QSDL 1st

and 2nd tournaments for the fall 2015-

16 among all the speakers of both the

leagues. She was awarded with med-

al, certificate where as, Mahnoor Sha-

hid grabbed 6th position ,Ambreen

Riaz secured 7th postion ,also award-

ed with medals and certificates in the

nationals. Riffat Tahir, Naheed Nadeem,

Zaibun Nissa Kazi, Razia Sardar, were

the mentors and adjudicators for the

participating teams. The incredible

success of the PEC debating team was

hailed and much-admired by the Prin-

cipal Nargis Raza Otho, all VPS and fac-

ulty members.

Mourjan Marinas welcomes students from ISL Qatar Mourjan Marinas – Lusail City,

Doha’s premier yachting des-

tination, recently welcomed

students from ISL Qatar (Internation-

al School of London Qatar) to support

the schools’ community service pro-

gramme initiative, which emphasizes

on the environment preservation.

The students, accompanied

by their teachers, were welcomed

by the Mourjan Marinas- Lusail City

team, which provided an overview

of the marina’s rules, regulations and

operations, and emphasized on ma-

rinas’ environmental consciousness

with reference to the floating man-

groves project underway at the ma-

rina.

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COVER STORY

04 | WEDNESDAY 11 MAY 2016

Adult colouring books are a lifesaver, for some

By Nora Krug The Washington Post

Dee Ledger can remember ex-

actly when she found solace, if

not salvation, after the death

of her 10-week-old son, Obed.

It is where she found it, and how, that

surprised her: in a colouring book.

Ledger, a former English teach-

er and hospice chaplain, had always

been able to use words and prayer to

find peace in difficult times and to help

others do the same. But after her son

died in April 2011, she needed some-

thing more, something different, to

calm her nerves and help soothe her

grief. “I was looking for something

quiet that could get rid of this rest-

lessness,” she says, to help quell the

churning thoughts that made it hard

for her to focus or sleep.

Back then, colouring books weren’t

the phenomenon they are today. Ledg-

er found hers in a spiritual catalogue.

Now, of course, adult colouring

books are ubiquitous, crowding book-

stores and bestseller lists. Colouring-

book groups have sprouted up every-

where — in cafes and libraries, on Fa-

cebook and Instagram.

In 2015, an estimated 12 million

adult colouring books were sold in the

United States, according to Nielsen

Bookscan. There are adult colouring

books for hipsters, “Dr. Who” fans, cat

lovers, Taylor Swift devotees, and ad-

mirers of Supreme Court Justice Ruth

Bader Ginsburg — pretty much anyone

with a niche interest and a need to re-

lax. In other words, everyone.

“It’s easy to pooh-pooh colour-

ing books as just another fad,” Ledg-

er says. But maybe, she says, we

shouldn’t be so dismissive: “Anything

can be a fad, even prayer.”

For Ledger and others, colouring

books offer a real elixir, a way of get-

ting past hurdles — mental, physical

or both — that can’t be replicated by

more-traditional approaches.

Joanne Schwandes, a 67-year-old

Silver Spring, Maryland, resident, says

that colouring books have boosted her

confidence in fine motor skills weak-

ened by a tremor in her arm.

A Virginia mother says that colour-

ing has helped her stay calm in the

face of her son’s violent behaviour. On

one Facebook colouring group, mem-

bers share their creations along with

their stories of healing — using colour-

ing as a tool against self-harming or as

a way to manage the effects of phys-

ical illness or fend off depression and

other difficulties.

Colouring books work like other

mindfulness techniques such as yoga

and meditation, says Craig Sawchuk, a

clinical psychologist at the Mayo Clin-

ic in Rochester, Minnesota. Such ap-

proaches work “almost like a volume

knob to turn down the sympathetic

nervous system, the stress response.”

Colouring can help slow down heart

rate and respiration, loosen muscles

and stimulate the brain, he says. Col-

ouring has a “grounding effect” he says,

a benefit that can be amplified with de-

liberate focus on the process — “the

gentle pressing of the crayon or pen-

cil on the page, the texture of the paper

across your hand, and the soft sounds

of the colouring instrument moving

back and forth in a rhythmic fashion,”

he says.

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COVER STORY

| 05WEDNESDAY 11 MAY 2016

Although there have been no large

clinical studies of colouring books, the

benefits of colouring are compara-

ble to those of mindfulness practic-

es, he says, which have been studied.

And colouring can help with more-se-

vere problems beyond stress; Sawchuk

spoke about one patient who used col-

ouring books to stop an obsessive hab-

it of picking at her skin.

Indeed, art therapists have been us-

ing colouring books for years. “There’s

a self-soothing meditative benefit be-

cause you are doing the same motion

over and over, especially with symmet-

rical drawings,” says Lina Assad Cates,

a psychotherapist and board-certified

art therapist in Washington who uses

colouring books as part of her practice.

“The books help create boundaries —

the literal boundaries of the lines and

the metaphorical boundaries for draw-

ing healthy boundaries in relationships.

There’s also the potential benefit of just

mastering something you’ve created.”

This reflects Ledger’s experience.

“As a pastor, I am fascinated by how

easily colouring becomes meditative,”

she says. “By selecting colours and

working with the design, I find that I

can lose myself in ways that are heal-

ing and creative.”

Ledger, who lost her husband to

cancer in 2013, less than a year after

giving birth to twins, spends about

three hours a week colouring, mostly

at night, when her children are asleep

and she can sit quietly in the kitch-

en of her Rockville, home and gather

her thoughts. (Her sons, Griffin and Eli,

have their own colouring books.)

Now pastor at Bethesda United

Church of Christ in Maryland, Ledg-

er approaches her hobby with a mix

of pride and self-deprecating hu-

mour. “I’m not an artist,” she says as

she spreads out her works on her bed.

Some she keeps in a hardback bind-

er, others in a small journal that fits

in her purse. In a small office carved

out of a second bedroom, her pencils

and markers are neatly organised in

plastic containers that once held Cas-

cade detergent. Ledger, 46, has col-

oured her way not only through grief

but also through physical pain. When

she had back surgery a few years ago,

she asked the doctors to make sure

that the intravenous lines were in her

right arm so that she could use her left,

her colouring arm, as soon as she was

awake. “I literally coloured in the recov-

ery room at the hospital,” she says.

Still, she understands that colouring

is neither a panacea nor for everyone.

“If someone was grieving, I wouldn’t

just pay a visit on them and say, ‘You

should colour, and that would take your

grief away,’ “ she explains. “I don’t be-

lieve that.” But colouring has given her

a sense of power in a life that has spun

wildly off plan. “Being able to sit there

and actually control that little world” in-

side a colouring book has been “real-

ly instrumental in my starting a new

chapter of my life,” she says. “I don’t

know if you ever fully heal from loss

and trauma. But colouring has defi-

nitely helped me start a new life again.”

The benefits of colouring are comparable to those of mindfulness practices. And colouring can help with more-severe problems beyond stress as well.

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06 | WEDNESDAY 11 MAY 2016

COMMUNITY

M Pallonji win Corporate Cricket League cupAfter seven days of continuous

matches, the first Corporate

Cricket League came to an

end on Friday, following semi-

finals and finals in Asian town cricket

stadium. It was held under the patron-

age of the Ministry of Administrative

Development Labour and Social Affair

and organised by Network Advertising

& Events in accordance with World La-

bour Day for Safety and Health at Work

sponsored by Doha Rocks and DISS.

The final match started at 5:45pm

between M Pallonji and Midmac. M Pal-

lonji beats Midmac by seven wickets.

The award ceremony started at

7:30 with the presence ofSalam Al Ku-

wari, MOSLA, Shabrawi Khater, CEO

Network Advertising, Jennifer De Je-

sus, Team Lead Doha Industrial Serv-

ices, Tanseem Brand Manager Doha

Rocks, Riyaz Cheeroth, Sports & Rec-

reation Manager, IBN Ajayan Projetcs,

Sajjad Choudhary, CEO Pro Events.

Neymeth from Doha Rocks won Best

Batsman and Best All Rounder. Milroy

from M Pallonji won Best Baller, Im-

ran from M Pallonji won Man of the Fi-

nal. DISS sponsored a voucher worth

QR30,000 to the winners M Pallonji

and QR15,000 to the runners up Mid-

mac. Doha Rocks sponsored snackbox

throughout the league

eleven teams participated on a

league basis. The participating corpo-

rates are:-

1. Doha Rocks

2. Standard Chartered

3. Qatar Cleaning

4. M Pallonji

5. ShapoorjiPallonji

6. Midmac

7. Yuksel

8. SalehHamad Al Mana

9. AG Middle East

10. Nakheel Landscapes

11. Malabar Gold.

AMU Alumni Association holds friendly cricket match on Ezdan ground

Friendly Cricket match was or-

ganised by AMU Alumni As-

sociation at Ezdan ground on

April 29.

The final was played between

AMU Knight Riders and QKR (Qatar

Knight Riders) of Bengal Association.

The toss was won by AMU Knight Rid-

ers and they elected to bat first. In

the allotted 14 overs AMU managed

to score 66 runs, thus giving the tar-

get of 67 runs to QKR.

AMU Knight Riders won the match

by the margin of 13 runs. Highlights

of the match included wonderful all-

round performances by Imtiaz Mal-

lick, Umar Ashraf, Mohd Akran Khan,

Kashif Habeeb, Mohd Asif and Ha-

midullah.

Imtiaz Mallick (Captain of AMU

Knight Riders) and Trinajan Gupta

(Captain of QKR) presented highest

level of energies in managing their re-

spective teams at the ground. Umar

Ashraf featured in extraordinary re-

flexes behind the wickets wherein

Dibyendu Gupta hold a spectacular

catch at the boundary of the bowl-

ing of Vipin.

Syed Zakir showed astonishing ef-

forts on the field with his remarkable

catching efforts, Umar Ashraf was

brilliant with his batting efforts as he

stole the show by hitting 4 bound-

aries, on the other hand Sourabh

Show of QKR remained not out with

his patient knock of 26. Ziauddin Ah-

mad, President of AMUAAQ applaud-

ed the players for their performanc-

es and the Certificates of apprecia-

tion were handed to the followings

by the Advisor Shahid Yar Khan and

the trophies were given to the Man

of the match and winning team by

Ali Imran.

Man of the Match: Mohd Umar

Ashraf

Best Batsman: Saurabh Show

Best Bowler: Mohd Akram Khan

Best Fielder: Dibyendu Gupta.

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| 07WEDNESDAY 11 MAY 2016

MARKETPLACE

The Happy Box now in QatarThe happiest com-

pany in the region

announces plans

to launch in Qatar.

Sharing the notion that ‘hap-

piness should be universal’,

the founding duo behind

The Happy Box came up

with this incredible concept

over a breakfast of French

toast. As a solution to their

troubled predicament of not

being able to spend quality

time with their family, the

pair set out to establish a

business geared towards

spreading joy in this world

by means of strengthening

family ties. Since then what

started off as an idea over

an early morning meal has

become one of the most

successful ventures and an

award winning household

name. THB now boasts a

thriving network of retail-

ers and exclusive partners

in the region alongside fran-

chise locations in Bahrain

and Saudi Arabia (Eastern

Province). This is in line with

the founders’ vision to make

their merry mandate acces-

sible to a global audience.

All set to realize this vi-

sion further, the company is

now ready to open doors in

Qatar. Operating through a

franchise, starting mid-May.

The launch event will be tak-

ing place at Gymbore Play &

Music, located at The Gate

Mall on May 12 from 4pm.

Established in 2014, The

Happy Box is an educational

company that offers month-

ly subscription activity box-

es designed to provide fam-

ilies with a medium to bond

and engage in. With a motto

that centers on the little mo-

ments of life, the brand has

been designed to help you

create those special mem-

ories with your loved ones

amidst fun, engaging activ-

ities that you can partake in

with your children. Each box

is themed around an activi-

ty for you and your child to

enjoy in the privacy of your

home or outdoors.

Besides being fun, the

boxes are designed to be

educational and help with

the development of your

child’s cognitive and motor

skills. Each package is care-

fully created to incorporate

8 activities and a book sur-

rounding a specific theme.

Ensuring child safety, the

materials used to create the

activities are non-toxic and

carefully sourced high qual-

ity materials. Making the

world a happier place one

box at a time, founders Ju-

mana (pictured) and Li-

na Darwish are relentless in

their approach to make their

brand global and this is just

the beginning of many more

fun things to come.

Integral Services Co holds blood donation campaign

Integral Services Co leading Uniform manufacturer and suppli-

ers since 1998, in co-operation with Hamad Medical Corporation

(HMC), organised a blood donation campaign at its head office on

D Ring road on April 20.

The initiative, held under the slogan “Donate Blood, Save a Life”,

aimed to further raise awareness on the importance of blood dona-

tion as a life-saving exercise that would benefit the entire community

and also support restocking the hospital’s blood bank.

The campaign was supported by employees from various de-

partments, highlighting their commitment to the cause. Staff from

HMC was present to ensure that the participating donors were pre-

screened to meet strict donor criteria in line with international stand-

ards.

More than 75 employees registered for the noble cause and 52

employees qualified to donate. Prior to the campaign, the man-

agement conducted session with their employees in different de-

partments on blood donation awareness and its positive impact on

health as well as the responsibility towards the society.

The blood donation campaign is an important part of the com-

pany’s social responsibility strategy, affirming its commitment to rais-

ing awareness and encouraging charitable activities that serve and

enhance community welfare. Integral also take active participation in

National Sports Day activities every year. Management appreciated

and thanked all the employees for their active participation.

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FOOD

08 | WEDNESDAY 11 MAY 2016

By Jayne Orenstein The Washington Post

Avocado toast has come to de-

fine what makes food trends

this decade: It’s healthy and

yet ever-so-slightly indulgent.

It can be made vegan and gluten-free.

It’s so Instagrammable that #avoca-

dotoast has over 100,000 posts. And

most important of all: It is wholeheart-

edly endorsed by Gwyneth Paltrow.

Tracking down the origin of avo-

cado toast is not as simple as tracing

back the Chinese chicken salad trend

to Wolfgang Puck’s Chinois. It’s not in

“The Joy of Cooking” or some other go-

to master cookbook, mainly because

it does not require a recipe. In areas

where avocados are commonly found,

like Mexico, California and Australia,

people have always eaten the fruit on

corn tortillas or toast. Mexican chef Pa-

ti Jinich joked that the Latin American

version is avocado “tostada,” since the

tortilla might be toasted.

Avocado toast as we know it to-

day started to take hold in the early

1990s. The first recorded sighting on a

menu might be in 1993 when Sydney

chef Bill Granger started serving it at

his cafe. Then in 1999, British chef Ni-

gel Slater suggested a smashed avoca-

do on toast recipe in his column for the

Guardian.

In the United States, New York’s

Café Gitane is often cited as the origi-

nator of the dish, and can be credited

as the source for many copycats — es-

pecially the ones that are often seen

on Instagram, perfectly dotted with

red pepper flakes.

Café Gitane owner Luc Levy and

Chef Chloe Osborne said the dish has

definitely been on the menu since

2006, but it could have been served

even earlier than that. As a child in

Australia, Osborne would visit a fami-

ly friend in Queensland, where she was

served avocado on toast.

“The thing of putting things on toast

is very Australian,” Osborne remarked

recently over the phone. “It stems from

the British breakfast. Fresh tomatoes

on toast has been an Australian break-

fast for a long time.”

The Internet seized on Cafe Gitane’s

avocado toast, which is why the res-

taurant is often cited as the “OG of av-

ocado toast.” Prominent food blogs

seized on the simplicity of the dish and

posted recipes based on Gitane’s ver-

sion. In 2008, The Kitchn posted a rec-

ipe re-creating it, and earlier this year,

Deb Perelman, who runs Smitten Kitch-

en, credited the restaurant for the rec-

ipe that she published.

Probably the most prominent mo-

ment in avocado toast history, howev-

er, was when Paltrow included a reci-

pe for it in her 2013 cookbook, “It’s All

Good.” In it, she acknowledges how

stupidly simple it is: “Truthfully this is

one ‘recipe’ both Julia [co-author] and

I make and eat most often! And it’s not

even a recipe,” she writes.

“It’s the holy trinity of Vegenaise, av-

ocado and salt that makes this like a

favourite pair of jeans — so reliable and

easy and always just what you want.”

(In her new cookbook, “It’s All Easy,”

she includes three recipes for avoca-

do toast.)

Food bloggers started copying

her recipe and introducing their own

versions. Bon Appétit magazine pub-

lished a recipe for “Your New Avocado

Toast” in its January 2015 issue. It’s on

T-shirts. In March, viral worlds briefly

collided when Meryl Streep was turned

into avocado toast on the @tasteof-

streep Instagram.

At this rate, it seems like we haven’t

even reached peak avocado toast —

which is a literal thing. If you look at

the Google Trends data, searches for

“avocado toast” continue to rise.

The recipe has been personal-

ised and iterated on by so many rep-

utable chefs and food magazines that

it has elevated avocado toast from a

simple way to showcase avocado to a

food trend to a visual feast as iconic

as baked Alaska. Now avocado toast is

more than just a meal — it’s a meme.

Now avocado toast is more than just a meal

Avocado toast as we know it today started to take hold in the early 1990s. The first recorded sighting on a menu might be in 1993 when Sydney chef Bill Granger started serving it at his cafe. Then in 1999, British chef Nigel Slater suggested a smashed avocado on toast recipe columns.

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FASHION / LIFESTYLE

| 09WEDNESDAY 11 MAY 2016

Care for your hair in simple steps this summer!IANS

With heat, humidity and

dust playing spoilsport to

the hair during summers,

they require that extra

dose of nourishment! To help solve the

problem, conditioning is important to

avoid dull and dry tresses, experts say.

Thirumal Raj, CEO and Founder of

Advanced Beauty and Cosmetic Clinic,

summed up a few tips stressing the im-

portance of conditioning to avoid dull,

dry hair. Besides, drinking lots of water

and eating the right food is crucial to

promoting hair growth, he points out.

Here are a few tips:

Regular hair wash: Pollution and

dust combined with sweat tend to ac-

cumulate on the scalp, which results

in hair fall. Choose a shampoo that re-

moves the right amount of oil from

your scalp. Wash hair frequently with

a mild shampoo and a good condition-

er to stop your hair from splitting and

drying out.

Deep conditioning: Summer heat

can wreak havoc with your hair and

can leave it dull and dry. Conditioning

becomes imperative in this scenario.

Oil your hair regularly to revitalise

dull and dry strands of hair. A little oil

on the scalp helps stimulate blood flow

and relieves stress.

You can also apply some Shea but-

ter on the strands for a lustrous post-

wash look. An easy hack for making an

effective conditioner at home is rinsing

your hair with diluted apple cider.

Eat and drink right: It is advis-

able to consume healthy foods such

as green leafy vegetables, salads and

fresh fruits to improve the condition of

your hair in the summer. Low water in-

take in this season can cause dehydra-

tion.

This will not only damage your skin

but will also lead to hair loss and dry

scalp. Drink plenty of water and eat the

right food to promote hair growth.

Use a scarf: It is essential to cov-

er head with a cotton scarf to protect

tresses from the scorching heat. This

will also save your hair from dust, pol-

lution and wind.

Trim it or keep it short: To escape

from the sweltering heat and humid

climate, it is advisable to keep your hair

short or trim them.

Have your hair trimmed once a

month to remove any dry or split ends

that may have occurred in the summer.

Cutting tresses short means low main-

tenance, which will keep the hair thick-

er, too.

Heel size as a fashion statementIANS

If you want to know how ambitious

your female friend is, look — and not

kneel — at her heels. According to re-

searchers, a woman’s choice to fit in

with a crowd or stand out may depend

on the size of her high heels which ex-

plains the deep human urge to gain

status in the society.

The findings showed that women

adopt local trends — like changing the

size of heels — while moving to richer

parts of the city but ignore them when

they move to socio-economically low-

er areas. “In other words, most women

want to look like rich girls and different

from the poor girls,” said Kurt Gray, as-

sistant professor at University of North

Carolina in the US.

While moving to posh cities, wom-

en tend to closely try and match the

size of their heels with the heel size

of other women in that city, showing

a deep desire for conformity. Howev-

er, on the contrary, in a bid to keep up

with their individuality, they match the

size of their heels with the size of their

own past purchases, when shifting to

poorer localities.

The researchers labelled this phe-

nomenon as “trickle down conformi-

ty”, because fashion preferences trick-

le down from the top but seldom up

from the bottom. “From the begin-

ning of time, people have thirsted for

respect and social standing, and have

aligned themselves with the power-

ful and distanced themselves from the

powerless. So it makes sense that they

do the same with heel sizes,” Gray ex-

plained in the paper published in the

journal PLOS ONE.

This “aspirational fashion” of people

want to look rich is getting more prev-

alent, with the increasing inequality

in society and widening gap between

rich and poor.

To examine this trend, the re-

searchers teamed up with a large-on-

line fashion retailer. They examined the

size of high heels in five years of shoe

purchases — 16,236 in total — of 2007

women who moved between one of

180 US cities. Such aspirations also fuel

the fortunes of fashion sites that pro-

vide high-status goods for low prices,

the researchers noted, adding that the

phenomenon may also apply to men.

“Men do the same thing when they

purchase clothes, electronics or cars,”

Gray said.

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HEALTH & FITNESS

10 | WEDNESDAY 11 MAY 2016

Nutritional therapy for kidney stonesBy Fatima Nabil The Peninsula

Kidney stones is the formation

of hard mass in the kidneys.

This mass is usually made of

calcium and oxalate. These

formation of stones are known as ne-

phrolithiasis.

Causes of kidney stones

The prevalence of kidney stones is

usually found more in men than wom-

en during the age of 30-60 years. Kid-

ney stones are usually made up of cal-

cium, ammonia, uric acid or cystine (it

is an amino acid which helps in build-

ing protein). If any of these substanc-

es are higher than usual in our body

they convert into hard mass and form

stones in our kidneys. The other most

common factor of stone formation is

drinking less fluids than recommend-

ed. Fluids helps in cleaning waste

products and pass them through our

body via urine.

If kidney stones are small enough

they pass out through urine with the

help of medication and drinking plen-

ty of fluids. If they are larger in size

they can be removed through surgical

procedures.

Symptoms of kidney stones

Most of the time kidney stones are

small and pass out from the body and

many times they remain undetected

due to no symptoms. When kidney

stones are larger in size it causes se-

vere pain which is known as renal col-

ic, the most common symptom of kid-

ney stones are urinary tract infection,

in this situation kidney stones are stuck

in the urethra or in the ureter which

cause pain and difficulty in urination as

well. Restlessness and frequent need

to urinate are other symptoms.

Nutrinional guidelines for kidney stone patients

Those who have kidney stones

should drink plenty of fluids to avoid

blockage in the kidneys. Physicians

recommend at least 3 litres of water

per day in a moderate weather, if the

weather is too hot then water intake

should be increased as per need. Low

sodium and low oxalate diet is rec-

ommended during this disease. Per

day 40-50 mg of oxalates are recom-

mended. Oxalate rich foods are spin-

ach, okra, beets, cashew, peanuts

and almonds are very high sources of

oxalates.

Decrease sodium in your diet

Studies have suggested that if

someone has calcium stone he should

restrict sodium rich foods from his di-

et instead of decreasing calcium in-

take, sodium should be restricted up

to 2000mg from the daily diet. For

decreasing sodium intake avoid hav-

ing canned foods, canned foods are

dipped in syrup which usually have

high sodium content. Beware of read-

ing food labels before purchasing

canned food to avoid extra sodium

intake from the diet. Avoid sprinkling

extra spices and salt before having

any food. Processed foods also have

high sodium content; avoid consum-

ing them as well.

Decrease oxalate rich foods

Oxalates are some salts present in

the natural food which helps in bind-

ing calcium from our body. it is re-

quired for our body, but if someone

has calcium oxalate stones he has

to limit oxalate rich foods up to 40-

50 mg from the diet, as I mentioned

above oxalate rich foods are spinach,

okra, sweet potatoes, beans, egg-

plant, dried apricots, they have very

high content of oxalates from fruits

and vegetable source, avoid using

nuts that are almonds, cashew, pea-

nuts, hazelnuts, pecans, tahini and but-

ter from the fat and oils source. From

protein source avoid using peanut but-

ter, dried beans, and processed meat.

From bread and cereal group avoid

using white corn flour, soy beans and

fried potatoes. Avoid chocolate and

marmalades from sweets group. Stud-

ies have suggested that many oxalate

rich foods are good for health, so do

not over restrict your diet from oxalate

rich foods.

Decrease high purine foods

If someone has uric acid stone he

has to limit purine rich foods from

the diet, purine rich foods are animal

foods that are beef, organ meat and

shellfish which has the tendency to in-

crease uric acid. Make sure to follow a

healthy diet which includes fruits, veg-

etables, whole grain foods and poul-

try. Avoid using alcohol, caffeinated

foods and sweet beverages which on-

ly increase uric acid and has zero nu-

tritional value.

The author is a dietician with a Bachelors of Science (BS) in Nutrition and Dietetics from University of Kara-chi, Pakistan.

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ENTERTAINMENT

| 11WEDNESDAY 11 MAY 2016

Broadway hit ‘Hamilton’ is making millions

By Gerry Smith Bloomberg

The Broadway hit “Hamilton” is

making millions. It could be mak-

ing millions more if not for scalp-

ers snapping up seats and hawk-

ing them for $2,000 a piece or more.

At least $30,000 from every show

goes to ticket resellers instead of the mu-

sical’s investors, producers and cast, ac-

cording to Matt Rousu, an economics pro-

fessor at Susquehanna University. With

eight shows a week, that comes out to

$240,000 every seven days, or almost

$12.5 million a year filling the pockets of

brokers, he said.

It’s become such a problem that the

show’s producers are considering almost

doubling premium-priced “Hamilton”

tickets to $995 to keep more of the prof-

it for themselves, according to the New

York Post. The move is one of several ex-

periments playing out in the ongoing cat-

and-mouse game on Broadway between

show producers and brokers.

The producers “are having discussion

after discussion about what they should

do about this,” said Mitch Weiss, a Broad-

way manager and author of the book

“The Business of Broadway.” “They don’t

want to charge people that much to see

a show. But if someone is going to make

money, it ought to be the people who

work on it.”

Broadway ticket brokers aren’t new,

but they are cashing in on “Hamilton” like

never before as its popularity reaches a

fever pitch. The show, a hip-hop musi-

cal about the first US Treasury secretary,

drew a record 16 Tony Award nomina-

tions, including for Best Musical. Its crea-

tor, Lin-Manuel Miranda, won the Pulitzer

Prize for Drama last month.

Demand is so high that the produc-

tion in a tweet said more than 50,000

people tried to enter a lottery for $10 tick-

ets in January and the website. Tickets

are now sold out through January 2017,

according to Ticketmaster’s website.

Brokers buy tickets to live events in

bulk using illegal software called “ticket

bots,” according to a report in January

by the New York Attorney General’s office.

Ticketmaster, which has a deal with some

Broadway theater owners, tries to thwart

bots by requiring buyers to type charac-

ters into a box to prove that they’re hu-

man.

Yet sophisticated brokers get around

this by employing armies of “typers” —

or human workers in foreign countries

where labor is cheap — to type the se-

curity phrases into the boxes in real-time,

the report found. Each year “tens of thou-

sands” of tickets to live events like con-

certs are bought by ticket bots, crowding

out human buyers and causing prices for

good seats to soar, according to the re-

port. “Ticketing, to put it bluntly, is a fixed

game,” the Attorney General’s office said

in the report. Catherine Martin, a spokes-

woman for Ticketmaster, said in a state-

ment that the company uses “best-in-

class bot-blocking technology.” Ticket-

master “welcomes additional efforts to

help ensure tickets get into the hands of

fans,” she said.

The producers of “Hamilton” declined

to comment for this story. Jeffrey Sell-

er, the lead producer, told the New York

Times last month that a broker armed

with a “bot” purchased 20,000 tickets

to the show. Even when the brokers get

caught, “they figure out a new way to

hack the system. It’s frustrating, and it’s

infuriating,” Seller said.

To be sure, many people involved in

“Hamilton” are doing quite well. The show

has made almost $67m in revenue since

it began in July, according to Broadway-

World.com. It nets $500,000 in profit

each week, according to the Times. Last

month, the producers agreed to share

some of the show’s profits with the orig-

inal cast members. Yet brokers are si-

phoning off some proceeds by taking ad-

vantage of the high demand and tight

supply for tickets in the 1,300-seat Rich-

ard Rodgers Theatre, said Ronald Shech-

tman, a lawyer who represented “Ham-

ilton” performers in the profit-sharing

deal. “Now that the actors have a stake in

the profits, they are affected by this part

of the market,” Shechtman said. “That’s

money that’s not going to investors or

the artists.”

Meanwhile, stage hands and musi-

cians who don’t share in the gains typical-

ly get a minimum gross salary of $1,907 a

week, said Weiss, the Broadway manag-

er and author. “The poor manager of the

show who is working 12 to 14 hours a day

because there’s so much business going

on makes a flat salary,” Weiss said. “They

don’t get any more.”

Some producers are trying to recov-

er lost profits by adjusting ticket prices or

capturing a slice of the secondary market.

Broadway theaters are experimenting

with variable ticket prices based on de-

mand, similar to how the airline industry

operates. And in 2014, StubHub, owned

by EBay Inc., struck a deal with the pro-

ducers of “Book of Mormon” and the tick-

et service Telecharge to sell premium

seats at face value on StubHub.

“As a marketplace, StubHub does not

have the ability to regulate where and

how sellers obtain the tickets they sell,”

company spokeswoman Jessica Erskine

said in an e-mail. “Importantly, a large

number of tickets offered by a seller does

not indicate in any way where or how

tickets were obtained.”

For Hamilton’s producers, raising pric-

es for premium seats may not solve the

problem. If the face value goes up, “the

brokers will just raise their prices even

higher,” Weiss said. The brokers know

that there will always be wealthy theat-

er fans willing to pay any price to say they

saw a popular show, he said.

It’s become such a problem that the show’s producers are considering almost doubling premium-priced “Hamilton” tickets to $995 to keep more of the profit for themselves.

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ENTERTAINMENT

12 | WEDNESDAY 11 MAY 2016

‘Baahubali’ team heads to Cannes

IANS

Baahubali: The Beginning” di-

rector SS Rajamouli and pro-

ducer Shobu Yarlagadda will

be leading a panel discussion

at the upcoming Cannes Film Festival.

The southern magnum opus will al-

so be screened at the prestigious film

fest.

Rajamouli, who got the Best Fea-

ture Film award at the recently held

63rd National Film Awards, will lead a

discussion on virtual reality (VR) at the

Marché du Film, a film market event

taking place alongside the festival.

The film festival will take place from

May 11 to May 22. And the film’s team

will be part of the gala on May 16.

The director of the film, produc-

er along with Raja Koduri, senior

vice president of Radeon Technolo-

gy Group (RTG), AMD, will lead a panel

discussion titled Increasing the Inten-

sity and Scale of Epic Film Experiences

through VR at the NEXT Pavilion, read

a statement.

AMD group has driven innovation in

high-performance computing, graph-

ics, and visualisation technologies for

more than 45 years by building blocks

for gaming and immersive platforms.

Radeon Technologies Group is now an

autonomous graphics division, part of

the AMD group. The panel will be mod-

erated by Patrick Frater, Asia Bureau

Chief, Variety. The panel will discuss

new opportunities that a storyteller

has today through VR, to create expe-

riences with unprecedented scale and

immersiveness, the need for new tech-

nology and powerful graphics proces-

sors (GPU’s) to build these experienc-

es, challenges in VR production, and

new ways to distribute these experi-

ences to reach a mass audience.

The interactive panel will be

streamed live via the official Face-

book page of “Baahubali: The Begin-

ning” and AMD. After the discussion,

the film will be screened at Palais K at

the Marché Du Film venue in Cannes.

“Baahubali: The Beginning”, which

was a box office wonder, has been

lauded for being an imaginative film,

monumental by its production val-

ues and cinematic brilliance in creat-

ing a fantasy world on the screen. It

stars Prabhas and Rana Daggubati in

the lead. Post its success, the second

part of the film is already in the works.

“Baahubali: The Conclusion” is the

second part in the franchise and it is

tipped to be made on a higher budget

than its predecessor.

RTG is currently working in associ-

ation with Arka Mediaworks, the mak-

ers of the first film to create a first of

its kind, path breaking VR experience

based on the movie.

Vikas Bahl to make biopic on Super 30 founderIANS

Queen” fame director Vi-

kas Bahl announced he was

making a biopic on Bihar’s in-

novative educational coaching in-

stitute Super 30, and its founder

Anand Kumar. “His life has many in-

teresting dimensions and weaving

them into a story for a film would

be really fascinating. The actor will

have to study Anand Kumar and

mould himself in his style. The film

will be extensively shot in Bihar to

create the flavour,” Bahl told media

here.

The filmmaker said Kumar

signed the contract for the film with

producer Vinay Sinha and Preeti

Sinha of Reel Life Entertainment.

“It is true that talks were on for

a biopic on my life for the last few

years and some directors and pro-

ducers talked to me in this regard,

but eventually Preeti Sinha was

destined to make it,” Kumar said.

Bahl said that he would like Ku-

mar to play some part in the film.

“But he says he is good at teaching

and would love to confine himself to

that. He says that a suitable actor

should do the job,” he said.

Kumar said the income from the

film would be used for expansion of

Super 30.

For the last 14 years, Kumar has

been grooming talented students

from underprivileged families for

the highly competitive Indian Insti-

tute of Technology-Joint Entrance

Examination (IIT-JEE).

‘Kahaani 2’ to release in NovPost the gripping act in “Kahaani”, actress Vidya Balan will

be back on the silver screen with the second part of the

film — “Kahaani 2”. The sequel will release on November

25. The actress, who floored one and all with her act as a preg-

nant woman on a mission to find her husband in the movie, al-

so asked her fans and followers on Twitter to brace for “another

mother of a story”.

Vidya took to Twitter to share the news via a 20-second vid-

eo. “Kahaani 2” is co-written and directed by Sujoy Ghosh.

The sequel, which went on the floors in March, also stars

Arjun Rampal. “Kahaani” revolved around a pregnant wom-

an named Vidya Bagchi, who came to Kolkata from London in

search of a man. The 2012 film also featured Parambrata Chat-

terjee, Nawazuddin Siddiqui, Indraneil Sengupta, Dhritiman

Chatterjee and Saswata Chatterjee among others.

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| 13WEDNESDAY 11 MAY 2016

SCIENCE

Get cozy with your skin bacteria — they’re not going anywhere

By Rachel Feltman The Washington Post

When Josiah Zayner’s

health problems be-

came too much to bear,

he decided to make a

radical lifestyle change — and tried to

get rid of every microbe living in his

gut or on his skin. A recent profile in

the Verge follows Zayner’s grueling

process, which involved a regimen

of antibiotics and disinfectants fol-

lowed by an inoculation with a healthy

friend’s native bacteria. He swal-

lowed pills containing his friend’s fec-

es and bathed himself in liquid full of

the healthy man’s skin microbes. The

poop pills seem to have worked; the

bacterial bath failed. After the ill-ad-

vised experiment, the microbes on

Zayner’s skin were largely unchanged.

One new study may help explain why.

There are plenty of reasons to want

to change the bacteria that live on and

in a human body. Scientists have linked

a large number of these human-lov-

ing microbes to particular measures of

health or illness. A certain species of

bacteria might make one person’s gut

ever-slightly-so more prone to obesity.

Another might give someone healthy,

regular bowel movements. Yet an-

other might have made an individual

more prone to asthma as a child.

It would be easy to think that the

surface of skin, which comes in con-

tact with countless foreign surfaces

teeming with their own bacteria eve-

ry day, would change with regularity.

But previous research has shown that

humans tend to change the bacterial

makeup of the environments they en-

counter — people leave microbial “fin-

gerprints” everywhere, and even colo-

nise hotel rooms with preferential spe-

cies within a few hours. According to a

study published Thursday in the jour-

nal Cell, the microbes on skin are sur-

prisingly resilient over time.

Senior study authors Heidi Kong of

the National Cancer Institute and Ju-

lie Segre of the National Human Ge-

nome Research Institute found that

microbes showed a strong preference

for particular skin types, like moist ar-

eas around the genitals, oily regions

like the outer ear canal or dry areas

like the palm of the hand. That wasn’t

a surprise — previous studies have

shown that skin microbes tend to like

certain terrain.

The new study is small, showcas-

ing just 12 individuals sampled at dif-

ferent intervals over the course of a

couple years. But Kong and Segre say

they found compelling evidence that

microbes linger on the skin for a long

time, with some species and sites

showing even more resilience than

others. “The stability of a healthy in-

dividual’s skin microbial communities

extending beyond 1-2 years was sur-

prising,” Segre said. “Despite routine

skin hygiene and environmental expo-

sures during these time periods, the

composition of the skin microbial com-

munities of an individual was relatively

consistent. Some sites like the oily are-

as (back) were more similar over time,

whereas some sites like the feet were

more varied over time.”

The variability of feet may be due

to our clothing habits. Most humans

wear a rotation of different socks and

shoes, and sometimes go barefoot,

which means feet spend significant

time stewing in different sorts of en-

vironments. A few hours in socks, an

hour sweating at the gym in different

shoes, and a trip to the shower fol-

lowed by a few hours padding bare-

foot through carpet might provide

more chances for bacterial colonisa-

tion than a few firm handshakes and

quick swipes across foreign surfaces

would in hands.

“Knowing that there is relative sta-

bility in healthy skin will be important

in comparing the skin microbial com-

munities in patients as well as poten-

tial future studies that explore wheth-

er we can alter our skin microbes,”

Kong added.

The skin, she explained, is the

body’s first line of defense against

infection. Kong, Segre and their col-

leagues want to study how particu-

lar microbes might make people sick

or healthy, but they’re also interest-

ed in how the overall makeup of a mi-

crobial community can increase or de-

crease the skin’s ability to protect peo-

ple from foreign invaders.

Certain individuals in the study were

more or less prone to variability — even

at sites such as the feet - than others,

suggesting that behaviour or even ge-

netics could affect how tenacious our

bacterial communities are. Under-

standing how variation helps or hurts

an individual could be important. Is a

person more likely to pick up a danger-

ous infection if their microbes are stal-

wart and steadfast, or does a tendency

toward quick variability make the per-

son more likely to battle those danger-

ous bacteria quickly? Further study is

needed to find the answer.

It’s possible that one day scien-

tists will decide what makes a “good”

skin microbiome and what makes a

“bad” one. If that day ever comes, hu-

mans we could theoretically try to rec-

olonise themselves with a better mix

of bacteria and fungi. But Kong and

Segre strongly advise against any DIY

attempts like Zayner’s.

“The microbial communities provide

tremendous health benefit (resisting

colonisation with pathogens, tuning

the immune system), so we need to

recognise that most endogenous mi-

crobes on our skin, in our guts, in our

mouths are healthy,” Segre said.

Research suggests that bacterial

skin communities are pretty individual-

ised. While some individuals may have

a luckier lot than others, that doesn’t

mean swapping one microbiome out

for another will have the desired ef-

fect. And trying to become sterile

enough to make it happen would be

nearly impossible at best and incred-

ibly dangerous at worst.

“We should start to think of our-

selves as super-organisms,” Segre add-

ed. “Humans are ecosystems who are

a combination of both trillions of hu-

man cells and trillions of microbes. Our

health is determined by the interplay

of all of the cells of our body.” In oth-

er words, people should try to love the

skin they are in — and the microbes

that live on it — because they are pretty

much stuck with most of them.

Humans tend to change the bacterial makeup of the environments they encounter — people leave microbial ‘fingerprints’ everywhere, and even colonise hotel rooms with preferential species within a few hours.

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Captain America: Civil War (2D/Action) 11:30am, 2:30,

5:30, 8:30 & 11:15pm

1920 London (2D/Hindi) 11:00am & 11:15pm

One Night Stand (2D/Hindi) 1:15 & 9:45pm The Jungle Book (2D/Action) 3:00 & 5:00pm The Man Who Knew Infinity (2D/Drama) 2:00 & 7:00pm Just The 3 of Us (2D/Tagalog) 11:30am, 5:30 & 9:00pm The Adderall Diaries (2D/Action) 4:00 & 11:30pm Kangar Hoppiena (2D/Arabic) 7:45pm

AL KHORCaptain America: Civil War (2D/Action) 11:30am, 2:30, 5:30, 8:30 & 11:30pm 24 (Tamil) 12:30, 3:30 & 6:30, 9:30pm & 12:30am Jacob’s Kingdom of Heaven (Malayalam) 11:00am, 2:00,

5:00, 8:00 & 11:00pm

ASIAN TOWN

NOVO

MALL

ROYAL PLAZAVILLAGGIO & CITY CENTER

JACOB’S KINGDOM OF HEAVEN

BABY BLUES

ZITS

A devoted family man, his entire life revolves around his wife Sherlyn and the couple’s four children. But when the global economic crash strikes, Jacob finds himself in deep trouble.

14 WEDNESDAY 11 MAY 2016

CINEMA PLUS

Captain America: Civil War (Action) 3D 11:00am, 2:00, 5:00, 8:00 & 11:00pm 2D 10:30, 11:30am, 12:00noon, 1:30, 2:30, 3:00, 4:30, 5:30, 6:00, 7:30, 8:30, 9:00, 10:30, 11:30 & 11:55pm The Man Who Knew Infinity (2D/Drama) 10:15am, 12:30, 2:45, 5:00, 7:15, 9:30 & 11:45pmHellions (2D) 10:00am, 2:30, 7:00 & 11:30pm The Adderall Diaries (2D/Action) 12:30, 5:00 & 9:30pmMother’s Day (2D/Comedy) 11:00am, 3:20, 7:40 & 11:40pmI Am Wrath (2D/Thriller) 1:20, 5:40 & 9:40pmThe Jungle Book (2D/Adventure) 11:30am, 1:45, 4:00 & 6:15pmTake Down (2D/Action) 8:20 & 10:45pmThe Huntsman Winter’s War (2D/Action) 11:00am, 1:30, 4:00 & 6:30pmKangar Hoppiena (2D/Arabic) 9:00 & 11:30pmCaptain America: Civil War (2D IMAX/Action) 10:00am, 12:50, 3:40, 6:30, 9:30pm & 12:30am

Jacob’s Kingdom of Heaven (Malayalam) 4:30, 6:15, 7:30,

9:15, 10:30 & 12:00midnight

24 (Tamil) 6:15, 7:00, 9:00pm & 12:00midnight

The Man Who Knew Infinity (2D/Drama) 11:45am & 6:00pm The Jungle Book (2D/Action) 2:15 & 4:15pm One Night Stand (2D/Hindi) 4:00pm 24 (2D/Tamil) 5:45 & 10:45pmJust The 3 of Us (2D/Tagalog) 8:45pmCaptain America: Civil War (2D/Action) 11:00am, 1:30, 8:00 & 11:00pm Kangar Hoppiena (2D/Arabic) 6:00pmJacob’s Kingdom of Heaven (2D/Malayalam) 11:15am, 2:15

& 8:45pm

The Adderall Diaries (2D/Action) 5:00pm 1920 London (2D/Hindi) 11:30pm

Note: Programme is subject to change without prior notice.

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EASY SUDOKU

15WEDNESDAY 11 MAY 2016

Yesterday’s answer

Easy Sudoku Puzzles: Place a digit from 1

to 9 in each empty cell so every row, every

column and every 3x3 box contains all the

digits 1 to 9.

Yesterday’s answer

MEDIUM SUDOKU

ALL IN THE MIND

CROSSWORD

BRAIN TEASERS

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.

ACROSS

1. Obscure (5)

4. Nimble (5)

7. Monumental (7)

8. Fencing sword (4)

10. Test (5)

13. Woodwind instrument (5)

14. Celestial body (4)

17. Innovator (7)

19. Carapace (5)

20. Raucous (5)

DOWN

1. Smooth fabric (6)

2. Precious stone (3)

3. Simple (4)

4. Bee house (6)

5. Imprecise (7)

6. Reverberation (4)

9. Oval (7)

11. Saunter (6)

12. Blood vessel (6)

15. Optical device (4)

16. Ursine mammal (4)

18. Uncooked (3)

13:05 Game Of Pawns

13:30 Storage Wars

Canada

15:10 Wheeler Dealers

16:00 Fast N’ Loud

16:50 Fifth Gear

19:20 Diamond River

Hunters

20:10 Storage Wars

Canada

21:00 You Have Been

Warned

21:50 Pop Illusionist

22:40 Superhuman

Science

13:00 King Fishers

15:00 The Jesus

Mysteries

17:00 Desperate

Hours

18:00 Underworld, Inc.

19:00 Taboo

22:30 Underworld, Inc.

23:20 Science Of

Stupid

13:45 Gator Boys

14:40 Treehouse

Masters

16:30 Biggest And

Baddest

17:25 River Monsters

(Best Of Series

1-5)

18:50 Village Vets

20:10 Africa’s Trees

Of Life

21:05 Treehouse

Masters

22:00 Village Vets

22:55 Gator Boys

14:00 KumKum

Bhagya

16:00 Vishkanya

18:30 Vishkanya

19:00 Tashn E Ishq

19:30 Kaala Teeka

20:00 Meri Saasu Maa

21:30 Jamai Raja

22:30 Tashn E Ishq

23:00 Vishkanya

08:00 News

08:30 The Listening

Post

09:00 In Search Of

Putin’s Russia

10:00 News

10:30 Inside Story

11:00 News

11:30 The Stream

12:00 News

12:30 Rebel

Architecture

13:00 NEWSHOUR

14:00 News

14:30 Inside Story

15:00 Al Jazeera

World

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 Witness

13:10 Austin & Ally

14:00 Liv And

Maddie

14:25 Disney Mickey

Mouse

15:20 Dog With A

Blog

16:10 Violetta

17:00 The Next Step

17:25 Alex And Co

17:50 Jessie

18:15 Gravity Falls

18:40 Mako

Mermaids

19:30 Liv And

Maddie

20:45 Good Luck

Charlie

21:10 H2O: Just

Add Water

22:00 Binny And The

Ghost

22:50 Sabrina

Secrets Of A

Teenage Witch

23:10 Hank Zipzer

23:35 Binny And The

Ghost

TV LISTINGS

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