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89-YEAR-OLD SCRIBE STILL GOING STRONG

Toshio Hiratsuka is the backbone of his local newspaper; he is the only reporter at the Oshika Shimbun. And at the age of 89, he is also editor and publisher of the paper that has well over 1,000 subscribers.

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Reporter, editor,publisher: Japan’s 89-year-oldnewshound

By Miwa Suzuki

Toshio Hiratsuka is the back-bone of his local newspaper; the star reporter whose trusty notebook and pen have

borne witness to nearly every signifi-cant event in his corner of Japan for 65 years.

Hiratsuka is the man without whom the paper would never be produced. In fact he is the only reporter at the Oshika Shimbun. And at the age of 89, he is also editor and publisher of the paper that has well over 1,000 subscribers.

All week he toils, cycling everywhere to find out what local folks are talking about on his quest to unearth all the news that’s fit to print.

He reports on fish hauls at the port and on award-winning residents; he covers accidents and incidents — including the two foxes that appeared in a deserted park recently.

He pays regular visits to the local police box, noting down the details of the occasional crime — one of the worst of which in recent times involved a hit and run on a telephone pole.

He follows the goings on at the town office and reports on the activities of local politicians.

“From Monday to Thursday I’m tied up with the paper,” Hiratsuka said.

“I’m really happy on Thursday nights... It’s like that relief you felt in your school days once an exam was over,” he says.

Miss WatanohaJournalism began for Hiratsuka

after World War II, when he returned to the town of Watanoha to take up an unpaid apprenticeship at a local newspaper.

In 1949, he and another man started the Shukan Watanoha (Weekly Watanoha), which told readers in its first edition that rikshaws and bicy-cles plying the dirt roads must be registered.

A year later the paper was trans-formed into the weekly Oshika Shimbun(Oshika Newspaper) when his business partner left.

“I was young and worked feverishly, the days flew by,” he said.

Then-mayor of Watanoha, Keisuke Baba lauded the 1949 publication — which cost 30 yen (around eight US cents at the time) a month — writing that it had “an important role as our hometown paper.”

“I hope it will not imitate major papers (in Tokyo) unnecessarily but will fully develop its character and become a newspaper loved by local people.”

And indeed it has — over the inter-vening 65 years, the Oshika Shimbun has written the history of Watanoha.

It reported the selection of the first Miss Watanoha on the stage of the town’s only movie theatre in 1950, as a still war-shattered Japan began to show signs of life.

It told, in 1959, how the settlement of Watanoha on the Oshika peninsula ceased to be a town in its own right and became a district of Ishinomaki city.

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It recounted the tsunami that raced across the vast breadth of the Pacific Ocean in 1960 after a huge earthquake in Chile, slamming into the town.

Over coming decades it told of daily life in a small part of a Japan that was getting richer by the week, as the post-war economic miracle was wrought.

In fact, the only big event the Oshika Shimbun did not cover as it happened was the 2011 quake and resulting tsu-nami that washed away Hiratsuka’s home, his printworks and 547 of the town’s 17,000 people, including the reporter’s sister.

For six months, as a nuclear crisis raged further south at the Fukushima Daiichi power plant, Hiratsuka did not produce his paper. The disaster, which killed 18,500 people nationwide, had knocked the stuffing out of the town and its chronicler.

“But so many people asked me when I’d resume producing the paper. I even-tually started to think ‘I’ve got to do it’,” Hiratsuka said. Six months after he downed his pen, the paper was back.

“Newspapers have their value in being continued. I’m a man of yore, I can’t just stop.”

Family affairGiven its editor’s age, the paper has

become something of a family affair —Hiratsuka writes his articles by hand for his daughter-in-law to type up.

His 74 year-old wife and the cou-ple’s grandson take some of the strain in hand-delivering the paper to local subscribers. Others who have moved away receive theirs by mail.

Newspapers remain an important part of the media landscape in Japan, a country that boasts several of the world’s biggest-selling papers, includ-ing the Yomiuri Shimbun which shifts 13 million copies a day.

But their readerships are declining, as in other developed countries, as readers migrate to the Internet, tak-ing advertisers with them.

The key, say some industry observ-ers, is to localise. And while Hiratsuka’s one-man-band approach may be extreme, his hyper-locality might be the key.

The irony for Hiratsuka, is that far from being a new thing, his cutting edge strategy is decades old.

“I’ve been doing the same thing all the time — working to issue a

newspaper which can be appreciated by people,” he says.

Koji Takahashi, an 84-year-old former town official and a long-time reader, agrees the paper has earned a

special place in residents’ hearts.“It carries small stories, it’s all about

us,” he says. “We say ‘if you want to know about Watanoha, look in the Oshika Shimbun.” AFP

Given its editor’s age, the paper has become something of a family affair —Hiratsuka writes his articles by hand for his daughter-in-law to type up. His 74 year-old wife and the couple’s grandson take some of the strain in hand-delivering the paper to local subscribers. Others who have moved away receive theirs by mail.

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Stafford Sri Lankan School holds Leadership Development CampA Leadership Development Camp was conducted

at Stafford Sri Lankan School Doha recently for students of year seven. It was a novel experience for these children of adolescent age to be independent and to take up challenges.

The camp was the brainchild of the school’s chair-man, Kumudu Fonseka, and was supported by the principal, Rienzie Nanayakkara.

The programme started with an orientation ses-sion for parents to apprise them of the importance of the programme. This was followed by a presentation on poverty and poverty alleviation, a workshop on leadership, team building activities and a barbecue. After an entertainment session filled with music, the first day’s programme came to a close.

The next day, the children were given a chance to display their artistic prowess. Subsequently, there was a visit to Mercure Grand Hotel, where a pres-entation on global warming was organised. After completing their programme at the hotel the stu-dents visited Villaggio shopping mall. Back in school, they had their final presentation on “Terrorism and Insecurity Round the World”.

The programme was launched to educate the par-ents and build up confidence and trust among the children in order for them to participate in adventure

tours in higher classes geared towards achieving the “Duke of Edinburgh” Bronze, Silver and Gold Awards. The Peninsula

PEC teams attend debate preparatory championship

Qatar Debate, a member of Qatar Foundation, hosted the 2014 Boys Preparatory Schools

Tournament recently at Ibn Khaldoon Independent Preparatory School for Boys.

This tournament was intended for students of grades seven, eight and nine, and those who had not debated in any secondary school tournament held by Qatar Debate before. Twenty-six teams from 13 schools participated, two being from Pakistan Education Centre.

Team 1 included Rajab Sajid, Kamran Osama Iqbal, and Team 2 included Abdul Rehman Naeem, Abdul Rehman and Wahab Malik. Both teams won two out of three rounds.

Iqbal was named among the top 10 speakers of the day and was awarded a medal. Wasim Rana was the coach and Azeem Ghani performed the role of a judge during the tournament. All the participants were given certificates.

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IIS students tour Istanbul

Ideal Indian School (IIS) recently organised an edu-cational tour of historical sites of Istanbul, Turkey.

A team of 43 students escorted by four teachers returned after an exciting, four-day educational tour as a part of the school curriculum.

The trip took them to the Topkapi Palace and the Sultanhamet Mosque. The Hagia Sophia Museum fas-cinated the students, as the monument showcases the age-old history of Istanbul.

A ferry-ride took them to the Prince’s Islands, in the Marmara, a few kilometres from the Bostanci shore on the Asian side and twenty kilometres from the historic peninsula.

The tour party returned after having traversed a land with a rich history and a heritage maintained intact even in the midst of modern development.

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First batch graduates from Al Gheed Ballet Centre at Lagoona Mall

Lagoona Mall hosted Al Gheed Ballet Centre to celebrate its first anniversary and the first

batch of 25 students graduating from the academy, who showed their capa-bilities and skills.

The event saw live performances by the graduating students aged five to 13 on a custom-built stage located on the lower court area of Lagoona Mall. The show included ballet dancing by the young girls as well as a taekwondo show for boys and youth. All graduates received certificates and gifts. To add to the festivities, Al Gheed Centre offered new members who registered on this day a 15 percent discount on the total fees.

“We enjoy the trust and support of our patrons. We are pleased to have this school to hone the talent of the students and develop new skills in an entertaining and creative envi-ronment. We are very proud of the achievements of our graduating class and look forward to the community

enjoying their performance and applauding their hard work and com-mitment to the art form as they pur-sue their passion to dance and achieve their dreams,” said Iqbal, director of Al Gheed Ballet Centre.

Eamon Kelly, General Manager of Lagoona Mall, said: “Our aim is to

provide an environment that offers much more than shopping, making the exercise a fun and enjoyable experi-ence for each member of the family. So, while our adult patrons enjoy the wide selection of shopping and networking opportunities, our younger fans are engaged with activities that excite their

passion and encourage their creativity. We are proud to host Al Gheed Centre, the first of its kind training academy inside a mall in Qatar that aims to pro-vide dance and fitness enthusiasts of all ages with the opportunity to learn and train in a motivating environment.”

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The International Ladies Portluck Group (ILPG), consisting of 350 members from over 60 countries, celebrated Indonesian

Extravaganza, an event hosted by its Indonesian members to showcase their country, at the Al Jazi Garden Club House recently.

Endang, the wife of the Indonesian ambassador, was the chief guest and was accompanied by the wives of the ambassadors of Brunei, Gambia, Iran, Nigeria and the Philippines.

The chief organiser of the event was Betayanti Ghozaliz, while Stratya of Puspa Qinraya Group coordinated dances and a fashion show.

Apart from cultural performances, there was a buffet consisting of a variety of Indonesian food.

The proceedings began with Angklung, playing of bamboo instruments. There were also a couple of vendors selling Indonesian handicrafts.

There was also a demonstration of three ways to wear an Indonesian sarong by Paulina Kuwarti, with help from Nadeem Szewc (France), Olga Fadel (Moldovia) and Emily Aung (Myanmar).

There was also a lucky draw, with the first prize being a weekend’s stay for two at the Intercontinetal Doha City. Among other prizes were vouchers from the Grand Mercure Hotel

and W Hotel, and gift bags from Royal Plaza. Indonesian batkis, shawls and handbags donated by some of the Indonesian ladies and vendors were also among the raffle prizes.

The group, formed 10 years ago by Hasnah McCauley, is run by Shriani Burley and Ruth

Sabry, co-presidents, with Anu Vye as treasurer. Event registrations and raffles were assisted by Amany Garcia, Madiha Szewc, Fahima Manon, Chandini Bhari, Trudy Soertz, Tamara Simmons and Claire Kely.

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ILPG hosts ‘Indonesian Extravaganza’

PASS Qatar family reception held

PASS (Poonoor Association for Social Services) Qatar, an association of residents from Poonoor

village in Kerala, India, held a family gathering and hosted a reception for Abdulla Master, who is on a short visit to Qatar.

The event was inaugurated by Siddheeque Purayil, managing director, Al Able Group, and Moosakkoya Naduvannor did a presentation on “Expatriates: Problems and solutions”.

A welcome address was given by Ummer Poonoor. Asarali presided over the event and Dr Savad and Kalam also spoke. The Peninsula

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Turkish Technic and Air Arabia have signed a component support contract. The signing ceremony, held in the General Management

Building of Turkish Technic Inc, was attended by Air Arabia Group CEO Adel Abdulla Ali and Turkish Technic President and CEO (acting) Fazıl Çiftçi.

Adel Abdulla Ali, expressed Air Arabia’s trust in Turkish Technic’s quality of services. The CEO added: “We are recognised for high-quality services and on-time departures, and Turkish Technic com-ponent support services will be an ideal support to our technical operations.”

Turkish Technic President and CEO (acting) Fazıl Ciftci said: “This is one of the bold steps we have achieved in 2014 as we are broadening our component

pool service area to the Middle East and also reach-ing a fleet size for more than 500 aircraft in the component pool market. Turkish Technic is currently supporting many airlines’ Airbus and Boeing fleets in the region and we are delighted with the steady growth of our component pool services.”

Turkish Technic former president and CEO, Ismail Demir, who has recently taken over as undersecre-tary of defence industry, expressed his delight at the agreement and said: “We are glad to welcome Air Arabia to be a valuable user of Turkish Technic com-ponent services. Since Turkish Technic’s inception, our primary mission has always been to be the leading service provider of the world, and in this regard we showed a marked improvement with every passing

year. This partnership is one of the most important awards given to our commitment in establishing trust among airlines.” The Peninsula

Air Arabia chooses Turkish Technic for component and support services

Darwish Technology, the tech-nological arm of Darwish Holding, and Bang & Olufsen

have announced the availability of the foremost flagship entertainment creation from Bang & Olufsen, the BeoVision Avant Television, which is designed to appeal to fans who appreci-ate intuitive simplicity and mechanical innovation. The product offers ultra high definition (4k) video performance and jaw-dropping acoustic authentic-ity, unveiling how high-end multime-dia entertainment can go hand in hand with uncompromising design.

BeoVision Avant introduces a number of innovations that build new bridges between electronics and magical movement. And to add more amazing movement, the designers have created a discrete but powerful sound panel that unfolds when the television

is on, then retreats inside when you turn it off.

BeoVision Avant’s innovative stand programme includes wall, floor and table options which make integrating even a very large television into the home décor easier and more flexible than ever before. Rather than arrang-ing your room around the television, the new stands turn the television toward you when you want to use it — then back in place when you have finished viewing.

Connection to Bang &Olufsen wireless speakers via the built-in Immaculate Wireless Sound solution is as easy as turning on the television to create a true surround sound up to 7.1 channels

Its new Chromatic Room Adaptation feature analyses ambient light from two sensors, and adjusts the screen

to compensate for the room’s colour tones

Fully Internet-ready, and with room for Apple TV and a hard disk drive

to be hidden within the back panel, BeoVision Avant is also the perfect hub for web-based content.

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Darwish Technology debuts Bang & Olufsen BeoVision Avant TV

As it celebrates four years in Qatar, Harman House is offering customers

an opportunity to exchange their old home theatre/music systems and upgrade from a select choice of eight models of Harman Kardon products at very attractive prices. This is the first such offer from Harman in Qatar.

Harman is the parent company behind an array of legendary brands that includes AKG, Harman Kardon, JBL, Mark Levinson, Lexicon, Infinity and more. The Harman family of distinguished brands enjoys a leg-acy spanning more than 60 years of lead-ing-edge innovation and premium quality. Harman customers include the top names in entertainment and automotive and venue design – linked by a common passion for high-fidelity sound and multimedia.

Harman House boasts of elegant, ultra-modern products in its showrooms with complete demonstration facility to experience the true decibels. It makes sound look beautiful through innovative design and is committed to reproducing accurate, honest sound.

Harman House showcases the best of Harman brands, including Harman Kardon, JBL, Infinity and AKG. It’s first digital boutique in Qatar was opened at the City Center in 2010 by the electronic group Jumbo (Video Home), who are the sole distributors for Harman in Qatar. Jumbo has expanded the reach of this brand by opening another three more boutiques at strategic locations in Pearl Qatar, Fareej Al Nasser and Al Khor Mall.

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Harman celebrates four years in Qatar with special offer

FROM LEFT: Juan Carlos J Cardenas, Marketing Executive, KIA Motors, Jassim Shaker Al Shammri, Ministry of Business & Trade, Hanafi Hijab, Finance and Administration Manager, KIA Motors, and Hossam A Shadi, Director Automotive, KIA Motors, during a raffle draw at KIA Motors Building in Doha yesterday.

KIA raffle draw

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By David Watkins

Chan Koonchung’s novel The Fat Years, set in a China of the near-future where a dark moment of history has been erased from public memory, has never been pub-lished on the mainland.

The book released in 2009 presents a dystopian vision of 2013 in which China’s rise coincides with the economic weakening of the West. Fiction chimed with reality when it was first released at the height of the financial crisis.

But its chances of being published in China were always going to be slim, given its allusions to the Communist Party’s censorship machine and the way events such as the bloody Tiananmen Square crackdown 25 years ago this week have been virtually deleted from official history.

“My novels are unpublishable (in China),” said Chan in an interview in Hong Kong.

“When I wrote The Fat Years in 2009, many main-land publishers came to me. But after they read the book they never came back.”

The English translation of Chan’s latest novel, The Unbearable Dreamworld of Champa the Driver, was released in May.

It is an explicit and frequently coarse look at ethnic relations through the eyes of an urbanised Tibetan who makes his way from Lhasa to Beijing via com-plicated affairs with Han Chinese women.

It also has not found a mainland publisher.“It’s very anti-romantic,” said Chan of the novel.

“We all have a very romantic notion about Tibet but this novel is really anti-romantic. It’s very direct.”

Shanghai-born Chan nevertheless continues to live in Beijing, having moved there in 2000 to focus on writing about China after stints in Hong Kong, Taiwan and the United States. The 61-year-old says he has not faced interference and has had non-fiction works published in the mainland.

He says “enterprising” readers were able to access electronic copies of The Fat Years before they were removed from the Internet, while hard copies were briefly sold under-the-counter in some Beijing bookstores.

‘The new normal’Both Champa and The Fat Years explore material

obsessions in modern China, with Champa covet-ing his domineering Chinese boss’s Toyota while she brings him back designer goods from Beijing.

“Young Tibetans are urbanised, educated, they lis-ten to the same music, wear the same designer jeans and have the same aspirations as their counterparts elsewhere in urban China,” said Chan.

“But they face subtle exclusions elsewhere. Landlords in Beijing for example will try to find a reason to turn them away — not because they want to discriminate but because of the trouble involved. If you rent a house to an ethnic person from Tibet, you have to apply with the security bureau first for approval.”

The self-congratulatory protagonist in The Fat Years meanwhile sips a Lychee Black Dragon Latte in Starbucks (which in the book has been bought out by a Chinese company) and is overcome by emotion when describing life in a placid Beijing — where there are seemingly no unhappy memories.

“Every day I congratulated myself on living in China,” says ‘Chen’ in the book. “Sometimes I was moved to tears I felt so blessed.”

Self-satisfied amnesiaOne of Chen’s counterparts — among the few

characters determined to challenge the self-satis-fied amnesia — is searching for the entire month of February 2011, whose disappearance coincided with China’s economic and cultural rise in the story.

A third of China’s current population was born after the 1989 crackdown on pro-democracy protest-ers, and a huge swathe of those under 25 are ignorant

of the event.Online, hundreds of millions of Chinese now have

unprecedented access to information but an army of censors deletes topics deemed sensitive, even the most oblique references to Tiananmen.

A Chinese equivalent of Wikipedia maintained by domestic Internet giant Baidu has no entry for the year 1989, let alone anything more specific.

In the book’s preface Chan is quoted as saying he sought to show a regime that has silenced or absorbed its opponents and “how the public have bought into China’s authoritarian model”.

“The mentality of many Chinese has changed to

wonder if maybe our government is doing something right — it’s more confident of its own system,” said Chan, referring to China’s increasing assertiveness in international relations.

While he is willing to write “unpublishable” books that confront problems in modern China, Chan has nevertheless made Beijing his home and sees nothing changing there for the forseeable future.

“I would think this is the new normal for China now and it’s going to last at least 10, 15 years,” he added — shrugging off concerns over a slowing prop-erty market and rising debt levels.

“The economy will have hiccups, ups and downs, maybe a serious crisis. But even if it slows down, China will still be rising. This is something the world will have to accept — that China’s rise may be unstoppable.”

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Chan Koonchung

In the book’s preface Chan is quoted as saying he sought to show a regime that has silenced or absorbed its opponents and “how the public have bought into China’s authoritarian model”.

From From Fat YearsFat Years to reality to reality for Chinese author Chanfor Chinese author Chan

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Cowell hopes One Direction gets support

Music mogul Simon Cowell hopes One Direction’s fans will “stay loyal” to the band following the leaked video showing band members Zayn

Malik and Louis Tomlinson smoking cannabis while on tour in Peru.Cowell is standing by the band - who he put together on the 2010 series

of “The X Factor” Britain - following the recent leaked cannabis smok-ing video shot while on tour in Peru, something which isn’t illegal in the South American country, and is hoping their fans will support them too, reports femalefirst.co.uk.

Asked what he thought of the video, he said: “I can’t really comment on that, what I can say, because I’ve worked with the boys for a long time, they are the hardest working boys I’ve ever worked with.

“They still haven’t changed, they’re really respectful to their fans, they’re hard working, a great British export but that’s all I can really say. I hope the fans stay loyal.”

The band also comprises Liam Payne, Niall Horan and Harry Styles.

Brown to remove bad influences from life?

Singer Chris Brown is report-edly planning to cut ties with

the bad influences in his life and has assured his record company that he plans to focus on his career after being released from jail.

The R&B star, who has been in prison since March, was freed Sunday. He was jailed earlier this year following his dismissal from a court-ordered rehab stint for bad behaviour, which was part of a probation violation case stemming from his 2009 assault conviction for attacking ex-girl-friend Rihanna.

He is reportedly determined to clean up his image and has assured his record company that he plans to focus on his career, reports femalefirst.co.uk.

According to a source, Brown has vowed to stay away from drugs and bad people, especially those connected to gangs, as he never wants to go behind bars again.

The source also said that Brown blames many of his recent problems on the people he surrounded himself with in the past, but is also taking responsibility for his erratic behaviour.

Recently diagnosed with Bipolar disorder, he is now on medication and is stable.

Beyonce almost attacked me, says 50 Cent

Rapper Curtis James Jackson III, better known as 50 Cent, says singer Beyonce Knowles once confronted him for getting into an argument

with rapper-record producer Jay Z and “jumped off a ledge” to defend her husband.

The rapper was shocked when Knowles “jumped off a ledge and came running over” to defend her husband at the Cosmopolitan Hotel in Las Vegas, reports femalefirst.co.uk.

“One time (Knowles) jumped off of a ledge and came running over cause she thought me and Jay had issues. And I’m like, did she really just jump and run up on me like that?’,” said 50 Cent.

Knowles became very protective of Jay-Z because she thought things were about to turn physical between the two rappers, but they soon laughed off the dispute.

“She jumped out and I was like this, ‘What?! That Bonnie and Clyde for real! You try this or what, boy?! I’m here!’ She bugged out at me. I looked and Jay starts laughing. He’s like, ‘Yo, you know what it is’,” said 50 Cent.

Yudh an endeavour to be different: AmitabhBy Subhash K Jha

Megastar Amitabh Bachchan always wanted to do a

serial on the small screen, and he is glad that his debut fiction show on the tube, Yudh is an attempt to offer something “different” to the viewers.

In an interview, the 71-year-old veteran speaks about the show, about his TV journey and about working on the growing medium.

Yudh is the title chosen for your first fiction show on tel-evision. Please shed some light on the title.

Yudh is the name of the char-acter I play...Yudhishtir! But there is a ‘yudh’ (war) in his life too, which he battles with on many fronts.

What made you choose this as your first foray into fiction on television?

I had wished to do a serial some day. Endemol came up with this project and idea. I liked it and then we set about building a team and getting down to constructing it.

What do you think of the standard of other fiction shows on television?

I am no judge. The audience is. The ones that garner good ratings are obviously the ones that must come in the category of good. I suppose they set the standards.

What prompted you to take the plunge into fiction on television specially at a time when your hands are full with so much to do?

Nothing. Just the desire to work on an aspect I had not attempted.What is your role in Yudh? Do we get to see you do something

different on television as compared with what you’ve done (so spectacularly) in the movies?

I cannot say. You will have to judge when it airs. The basics are the same. No matter what medium, we actors are acting. And that is how you shall see this serial as well. But Anurag Kashyap and the team wished that they present it differently from what has been coming in the category of soaps and serials. That is the endeavour.

Do you watch any television? Do you think the content on Indian television has shown a healthy growth over the years?

Yes, I do watch TV and yes, the growth of television in India is by far the largest and the greatest in the world. With about 800 channels currently operative, it’s perhaps larger than the entire volume of global channels put together. TV in India has overtaken the returns of cinema three fold, and this, within a spate of the last 10 to 15 years. Compared to a 100-year film industry, this must be looked upon as a healthy growth.

You proved a game-changer on television with Kaun Banega Crorepati. What expectations can your audiences have from Yudh?

I am no game-changer, nor do I ever aspire to be one. I just want to do my stipulated work. The audiences will decide the fate of “Yudh”. And that is how it should be.

How would you be able to balance the impossible schedules on television with your various commitments?

I have been managing it so far. I hope to be able to manage it further too.

Finally, would you say Yudh is a new phase in your endlessly re-invented career?

Phases in a person’s life need deeper thought and consideration and comment. TV is just another aspect of a profession I already prac-tice. This fresh attempt is another project. Let us not give it so much importance.

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Oliver Stone is to make a film about fugitive US intelligence contractor Edward Snowden, based on a book by a British

journalist, it was announced yesterday.Luke Harding, the author of The

Snowden Files: The Inside Story Of The World’s Most Wanted Man, said on Twitter that the US film-maker has bought the movie rights to the book.

Harding, who writes for British newspa-per The Guardian, said Stone would write and direct the film with his long-term pro-ducing partner Moritz Borman.

“I’m thrilled and delighted,” the jour-nalist said.

Stone, an Oscar-winning director whose films include Wall Street, JFK, and Nixon, said he was looking forward to making the film.

“This is one of the greatest stories of our time. A real challenge,” he said.

The Guardian said Stone had begun writing the screenplay, while Borman was “fast-tracking it as a major European co-production” to start filming before the end of the year.

Harding and other Guardian journalists are due to act as production and story consultants.

“The story of Edward Snowden is truly extraordinary, and the unprecedented revelations he brought to light have for-ever transformed our understanding of

— and relationship with — government and technology,” said Alan Rusbridger, The Guardian’s editor-in-chief.

“We’re delighted to be working with Oliver Stone and Moritz Borman on the film.” Snowden is wanted by the American authorities for leaking series of US intel-ligence secrets, and is currently living in Russia. His US passport has been revoked.

Snowden has said he is open to the pos-sibility of clemency or amnesty and would like to return home one day.

But he maintains he carried out a patriotic act by exposing huge surveil-lance dragnets he said infringed the US Constitution.

Washington says Snowden is welcome to return home but only to face trial for exposing sensitive top secret information it says aided US enemies.

The Stone film is not the only one being made about Snowden, based on a Guardian writer’s book.

Sony Pictures Entertainment said last month it has acquired the rights to the new book by Glenn Greenwald, who led the Pulitzer Prize-winning team at The Guardian that covered the story.

James Bond franchise producers Michael Wilson and Barbara Broccoli will make the movie version of “No Place to Hide”, described as “a political film that will resonate with today’s moviegoers.”

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Oscar-winning Kenyan actress Lupita Nyong’o has joined the cast of the new Star Wars movie, alongside the original

stars of the legendary series, producers said.

Game of Thrones star Gwendoline Christie will also appear in Star Wars: Episode VII, which began filming last month and is due for release in December next year, they said.

Nyong’o, who won the best supporting actress Academy Award in March for her role in historical drama 12 Years a Slave, had already been rumored to be joining the Star Wars cast.

Her casting and that of Christie — who plays female knight Brienne of Tarth in the hit TV series — were confirmed on the new movie’s official website.

“I could not be more excited about Lupita and Gwendoline joining the cast of Episode VII,” said Kathleen Kennedy, president of Lucasfilm, which was founded by Star Wars creator George Lucas and is now owned by Walt Disney.

“It’s thrilling to see this extraordinarily talented ensemble taking shape.”

Producers gave no details on the

characters the two actresses will play. A spokeswoman for Nyong’o also declined to give any more details.

Original cast members Harrison Ford, Carrie Fisher, Mark Hamill, Anthony Daniels, Peter Mayhew and Kenny Baker will star in the new movie, scheduled for worldwide release on December 18, 2015, and directed by blockbuster filmmaker J.J. Abrams.

Ford, 71, is back as smuggler Han Solo, 62-year-old Hamill will return as Jedi Knight Luke Skywalker and Fisher, 57, reprises the role of Princess Leia.

Other actors already confirmed include Max von Sydow, John Boyega, Daisy Ridley, Adam Driver, Oscar Isaac, Andy Serkis and Domhnall Gleeson. The mov-ie’s screenplay is written by Lawrence Kasdan and Abrams.

Disney recruited Star Trek and Mission: Impossible III director Abrams in a bid to re-create the magic from the original trilogy: Star Wars, The Empire Strikes Backand Return of the Jedi.

Kennedy, Abrams, and Bryan Burk are producing, while multiple Oscar-winner John Williams returns as the soundtrack composer. AFP

Lupita Nyong’o joins Star Wars cast

Oliver Stone to make film about Snowden

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HEALTH / FITNESS 11

Green tea daily reduces pancreatic cancer risk

The cup of your favourite green tea is full of health benefits and now researchers

have found that an active compound in green tea also reduces the risk of pancreatic cancer.

In lab research, EGCG, the active biologic constituent in green tea, changed the metabo-lism of pancreatic cancer cells by suppressing the expression of the LDHA enzyme associ-ated with cancer.

The researchers also found an enzyme inhibitor, oxamate — known to reduce LDHA activity — operated in the same manner: It also disrupted the metabolic system of pan-creatic cancer cells.

“This study will open the door to a whole new area of cancer research and help us understand how other foods can prevent can-cer or slow the growth of cancerous cells,” said Wai-Nang Lee, a lead researcher with Los Angeles Biomedical Research Institute (LA BioMed).

Using sophisticated metabolic profiling methods, the researchers found EGCG dis-rupted the balance of “flux” throughout the cellular metabolic network.

Flux is the rate of turnover of molecules through a metabolic pathway.

The researchers found the EGCG disrupted this balance in the same manner that oxamate, a known LDHA inhibitor did.

“Both EGCG and oxamate reduced the risk of cancer by suppressing the activity of LDHA, a critical enzyme in cancer metabolism, thereby disrupting the balance in the cancer cells metabolic functions,” Lee explained.

The study was published online in the jour-nal Metabolomics.

Some low-fat foods may trick you on calorie intake

Do you often opt for low-calorie food to shed some extra kilos? This may stun

you: New research reveals some low-fat foods actually have more calories than regular food - owing to added sugars.

Even low-fat bread can have more calories than regular ones, the research showed.

“Low-fat foods do appear on average to help reduce calorie intake. However, appropriate food choices may still require reading nutri-tional information on the food labels, as 10 percent of low fat foods still have more calo-ries and 40 percent have more sugar, than their regular fat counterparts,” explained Matthew Capehorn from Rotherham Institute for Obesity.

During the study of 62 supermarket prod-ucts, 10 percent of low-fat foods analysed had more or the same calories than the regular fat version.

Substituting sugar for fat in diet or low fat foods has been done for a long time and many people will have been fooled into buying them thinking they were improving their health, Capehorn added.

“The message for people is to read the labels and do not assume that low fat or diet foods are lower in calories,” he added.

The findings were presented at the European Congress on Obesity in Sofia, Bulgaria.

Agencies


By Allison Bond MD

Children and teens with type 1 diabetes are already at increased risk for becoming overweight

or obese, but certain traits make the odds even higher, according to a new study.

Because obesity can compound some of the health problems that go along with diabetes, it’s impor-tant to help kids avoid weight gain, researchers say.

Elke Frohlich-Reiterer, of Medical University Graz in Austria, and her colleagues ana-lyzed data collected from 250 diabetes centers in Germany and Austria; altogether, there were 12,774 participants in the study.

All the kids were under the age of 20 and had type 1 diabetes, which used to be known as juve-nile diabetes because it typically appears during childhood.

In type 1 diabetes, the body’s immune system destroys the cells of the pancreas that normally produce the insulin necessary for processing sugars in food. The other variety - type 2 diabetes - occurs when the body doesn’t properly use insulin.

The children in the study were grouped by age: under five years, 5-10 years, 10-15 years and 15-20 years. They were also divided into cat-egories based on how long they had had diabetes: less than two years, 2-5 years, 5-10 years and more than 10 years.

The researchers found that being female, a younger age when diabe-tes was first diagnosed and having diabetes for a longer time were all linked to a bigger jump in body mass index, a measure of weight relative to height and peer group.

Using short-acting insulin med-icines was also linked to greater weight gain in girls, whereas using long-acting insulin was linked to more weight gain in boys.

Finally, girls who developed dia-betes around the time they went through puberty — between the ages of 10 and 15 years old — were more likely to have gained excess weight.

“The increasing prevalence of overweight and obesity and asso-ciated risk factors among youth are major global health prob-lems,” the authors write in the paper, which was published in the journal Archives of Disease in Childhood.

“As children and adolescents with type 1 diabetes are also at increased risk to develop over-weight and obesity, weight gain is

an important aspect in the care of children and adolescents with (the disease),” making it important to figure out which factors indicate a higher risk of this excess weight gain, they write.

The study reinforces what’s already known about young peo-ple with diabetes, who are at an increased risk of excess weight gain as they grow up, a researcher not involved in the study said.

But the new work also “provides additional insight into important factors for the development of obesity,” said Karen Peterson, a researcher in nutrition at the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor.

Weight gain among people with diabetes is especially detrimental because the risks of diabetes and obesity overlap and can be addi-tive, she said.

“Higher weights can exacerbate the insulin resistance that comes with diabetes. And obesity has some of the same metabolic issues diabetes does, such as adding to risk factors (for heart disease),” Peterson said.

That’s why it’s particularly important for kids with diabetes to maintain healthy habits, keep-ing in mind that some weight gain during childhood and adolescence is normal and healthy.

Peterson recommends that par-ents track their child’s pattern of weight gain, but instead of focus-ing on weight, “emphasize an over-all healthy diet that includes more fruits, veggies, and complex car-bohydrates, and which is coupled with active play,” she said.

SOURCE: bit.ly/1tuZ9Dh Archives of Disease in Childhood, online May 8, 2014.

Reuters

Experts recommend that parents track their child’s pattern of weight gain, but instead of focusing on weight, emphasize an overall healthy diet that includes more fruits, veggies, and complex carbohydrates, and which is coupled with active play.

Certain kids with diabetes are most at risk for excess weight: Study

TECHNOLOGYPLUS | WEDNESDAY 4 JUNE 201412

Apple unveiled new operating software it hopes will cre-ate a seamless experience for users flitting between its

coveted mobile devices and popular Macintosh computers.

A next generation operating sys-tem called “Yosemite” and new iOS 8 software for iPads, iPhones and iPod devices were unveiled before 6,000 developers at a sold-out conference here.

In a keynote presentation, chief executive Tim Cook said this would make it easy to start tasks on one Apple device and to continue on another: “a seamless experience unparalleled in the industry.”

Alongside the operating system updates, the California company -- the world’s largest by market value -- unveiled HealthKit software to manage personal healthcare and HomeKit for home appliances.

Apple played to its audience at the conference of third-party develop-ers, hoping to keep them enthused, informed and devoted when it comes to designing hip, fun or functional apps.

Cook devoted a chunk of the keynote to a software development kit he billed as the biggest release since the launch of the App Store.

Apple also debuted a programming language called Swift, to allow devel-opers write programs that are faster, modern, safer and more interactive than they would be under its predeces-sor Objective C.

Apps interactingDoors opened by Apple for develop-

ers included letting applications once kept separate in “silos” work with one another.

Examples included a Bing language tool being able to swoop in to translate a Safari browser Web page, or being able to “pin” a Web photo directly from Safari to online bulletin board Pinterest.

Apple also opened up its recently introduced Touch ID fingerprint rec-ognition capability to third-party apps, giving the potential for it to become a security feature in more programs.

HealthKit was said to provide a secure haven for data collected by devices such as fitness bands that track activity and sleep.

Health-related information can now be collectively managed on Apple

devices which could then watch for signs of trouble and even fire off mes-sages to doctors when warranted.

HomeKit would let iPhones or iPads be used as a centralized control for Internet-linked gadgets such as door locks, lights, thermostats and security systems.

“We thought we could bring some rationality to this space,” Apple senior vice president of software engineering Craig Federighi said while demonstrat-ing HomeKit.

Apple came up with a common network protocol, so not only can an iPhone be used to open smart locks, but virtual assistant Siri can dim lights and lower thermostat settings when told “Get ready for bed.”

Apple also beefed up graphics and

speed capabilities for games, which are consistently among the hottest applica-tions on its mobile devices.

Apple has sold more than 800 mil-lion mobile devices powered by iOS; more than half of those being iPhones, according to Cook.

Capabilities being woven into oper-ating software included one called “Continuity,” which let tasks started on one Apple gadget be automatically handed off to another one nearby.

Calling Dr DreMessages or calls can also be handed

off between devices, a feature Federighi demonstrated by ringing rapper and entrepreneur Dr Dre, co-founder of startup Beats that Apple recently bought in a deal valued at $3bn.

“Now, your Mac is phone savvy,” Federighi said while making a tongue-in-cheek “welcome” call to Dr Dre to discuss when he should show up for employee orientation at Apple.

Versions of the new-generation oper-ating systems were made available to developers at the conference but won’t be publicly released until closer to the end of this year.

“Improvements in how Apple prod-ucts work together in the family are huge from a customer perspective,” Forrester analyst Frank Gillett told AFP after the keynote presentation.

“And the improvements under the covers are huge for developers.”

Apple is tapping into talents of third-party developers to put its hardware at the center of hot trends in wearable computing and in integrating technol-ogy into appliances and locks, accord-ing to the analyst.

Because Apple makes all of its own devices, it can achieve a level of syn-ergy between them that competing platforms can’t match, Gillett said.

AFP

Apps for healthier lifestyleBy Natasha Baker

Feeling stressed, overwhelmed and finding it difficult to fit everything into the day? New apps are designed to help people pace them-

selves better to achieve a healthier, more balanced lifestyle. Owaves, for the iPad, is one of several new wellness planning apps that aim to help users reduce stress by visualizing how they will spend their day.

“Day planning is a very important and under-appreciated piece of achieving wellness. It gives you a roadmap,” said Royan Kamyar, founder and chief executive officer of Owaves, based in San Diego, California.

The free app includes a 24-hour clock and lets users drag and drop activities essential to health, such as exercise, sleep, relaxation

and nutrition, into the day planner to fit into the normal routine of work and play.

“Being cognizant of how you spend time is a fundamental first step towards improving health and wellness,” said Kamyar. Designed by game developers, the app also encourages people to incorporate activities like meditation and spending time with friends and family into their day.

“Something as simple as a half hour of meditation a day is good for you to lower stress, improve memory and reduce depression. But most people will say they don’t have that time, which is usually a problem of time management,” Kamyar added.

Users can also save routines they plan to repeat regularly.

Other life balance apps include Candooit and Life-Clock, which are both for iPhone and cost 99 cents. Scott Schieman, a professor of sociology at the University of Toronto in Canada who studies work stress and health, believes the apps may help people gain a greater awareness that they need to take time to unwind.

“With our minds being so cluttered with work and other responsibili-ties, it’s really important to plan some kind of disengagement or time away,” he said in an interview, adding that even a five-minute break can be beneficial. “Planning is key because it’s easy to let other things take priority,” he added. But Schieman is skeptical about whether people will follow through on their plans.

“At a minimum these kinds of apps keep your mind more focused on the way you’re actually spending your time, but it might raise aware-ness of how little control you have of that,” he said. Reuters

App of the day

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Hoy en la HistoriaJune 4, 1989

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Chinese army tanks entered Tiananmen Square in Beijing to oust pro-democracy protesters. Death toll estimates range from a few hundred into the thousands

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

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LEARN ARABIC

Baby Blue by Jerry Scott and Rick Kirkman

Zits by Dennis Young and Denis Lebrun

Hagar The Horrible by Chris Browne

Verbs often used

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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 Craigslist offering 4 Company with a

spokesduck 9 It’s gathered during recon14 Baseball club designation15 Keynote speaker at

the 1984 Democratic National Convention

16 1940s-’60s P.M.17 “Laugh-In” comic19 “Is Shakespeare Dead?”

writer20 ___ on it (agree)21 “Chitty Chitty Bang Bang”

author23 Telesthesia, e.g.25 ___ Disney Resort

(original name of Disneyland Paris)

26 Kingdom on old Asian maps

29 Bestow32 ___ law 36 Daytime host starting in

201238 Like the Perseid meteor

shower40 1994 World Cup country41 Nuts

43 2014 World Cup city44 Outlets for some small

pumps46 Punk rock icon48 Twist49 Also, in Arles51 Rightmost column52 Broad sashes54 Drain56 One of two acting

brothers61 Drive dangerously, in a

way65 Rival for Federer66 Noted groom of

10/20/196868 City 15 miles from Rome69 Runs in place70 Matterhorn, e.g.71 Precept72 Life partner?73 Confident crossword

solver’s implement

DOWN 1 Amphorae, e.g. 2 It can be a curse 3 ___ Fresh �(Tex-Mex

restaurant chain)

4 Stuntmen’s woes 5 “Sounds dandy!” 6 Take the booby prize 7 King of the gods, in

Egyptian myth 8 Bestow 9 Bury10 Sequel to “Twilight”11 Cuisine with tom yum

soup12 CNN anchor Burnett13 Breathing space?18 Vermont ski resort22 Rapper with the #1 hit

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Meade42 YouTube video preceders,

often

45 Batman villain who makes decisions by flipping a coin

47 Acts despondent50 Log-in info53 Highest and lowest black

key on a piano55 Up to one’s neck (in)56 Unit of currency in the

Harry Potter books57 Oscar winner Blanchett

58 Point before “game”59 Give up60 Caffeine-yielding nut62 “Now!”63 Word that becomes its

own synonym if the last letter is moved to the front

64 “NFL Live” airer67 Safety measure

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17 18 19

20 21 22

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26 27 28 29 30 31 32 33 34 35

36 37 38 39

40 41 42 43

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


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

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

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

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

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

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

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

German museum shows live replica of van Gogh’s earBy Frank Jordans

A German museum has put on display a copy of Vincent van Gogh’s ear that was grown

using genetic material provided by one of the 19th-century Dutch art-ist’s living relatives.

The Center for Art and Media in Karlsruhe said artist Diemut Strebe made the replica using living cells from Lieuwe van Gogh, the great-great-grandson of Vincent’s brother Theo.

Using a 3D-printer, the cells were shaped to resemble the ear that Vincent van Gogh is said to have cut off during a psychotic episode in 1888.

“I use science basically like a type of brush, like Vincent used paint,” Strebe said.

The US-based artist said the ear, which was grown at Boston’s Brigham and Women’s Hospital, is being kept alive inside a case containing a nour-ishing liquid and could theoretically last for years.

Convincing Lieuwe van Gogh to take part was easy. “He loved the project right away,” said Strebe.

Lieuwe and Vincent van Gogh share about 1/16th of the same genes, including the Y-chromosome that is passed down the male lineage.

But hopes of using genetic material that belonged to the post-Impression-ist master himself were dashed when DNA extracted from an envelope turned out to belong to someone else. “The postman messed it up,” Strebe joked.

Still, work is underway with a female relative to include mitochon-drial DNA — passed down the moth-er’s line — for future installations.

The exhibition, at which visitors can speak into the ear through a microphone, lasts until July 6. Strebe said she plans to display the ear in New York next year. AP

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