SUNDAY 21 MAY 2017 Arshad Warsi dubs for Depp in ‘Pirates...’ CAMPUS | 6 LIFESTYLE | 7 BOLLYWOOD | 11 SIS organises Creative Fest 2017 Choose jewellery according to face type Email: [email protected]in D | 11 The Elbphilharmonie, a concert hall in Hamburg encased in glass and set upon a giant brick warehouse surrounded on three sides by the waters of the city’s bustling harbour, has become an instant destination for music lovers. MUSIC PARADISE P | 4-5
Meritorious students from Gulf English School’s (GES) secondary section, AS and IB Class of 2017 were felicitated during
the Graduation Day held recently. Sheikh Faisal bin Qassim Al Thani presented the certificates to 9 IB and 98 AS grad-uates. Having earned acceptance to Universities in the UK, Canada, Sweden, USA and Qatar, the students will now step out into the world to pursue higher studies.
“I’d like to start off by congratulating the graduating Class of 2017 for their accom-plishments and the positive contributions they’ve made over the years to Gulf English School. But tonight is not about the past, it’s about your future,” said Mona El Helbawi, Principal of GES, in her address.
Exemplar GES Alumnus, Maryam Al Suwaidi,
from the Class of 2012, who is currently work-ing as petroleum engineer at Qatar Gas after graduating from Texas A&M, spoke of her mem-ories at GES. She encouraged students to be inspired and strive to achieve the impossible, pave the way for the future and make the world a better place. She also talked about the impor-tance of making the right choices and having the
correct mindset. “Educate and improve yourselves and create more solutions. Since you have even greater opportuni-ties than my generation, do not ever take any of the opportunities that come your way for granted,” she said.
Razan Osman and Shorouk Ismail, IB graduates of Class 2017, thanked their teachers, coaches, family and friends who all helped make graduation day possible for her as well as for their classmates.
Ahmed Al Hammadi, AS graduate of class 2017 said:”At GES, we have garnered
a unique toolkit of skills and developed everlasting relationships that we will always be able to rely on. The solution to any problem will always be within reach; we just have to look inside ourselves and find it.”
David Frame, Head of Secondary, and Dan-iel Langfield, Head of Sixth Form too spoke on the occasion.
Rajagiri holds ‘Mummy and Me’ eventRajagiri Primary Section organ-
ised a special programme called ‘Mummy and Me’ to honour
mothers on Mother’s Day. The partic-ipants were mothers of Grade 1 and 2 students. About eighty of them attended the function. They dressed up them-selves and their kids and walked the ramp with the music.
It was a spectacular show of the loving bond between the mother and the child. The children felt proud of their mothers and the mothers felt proud of their children. The audience loved it. Each pair was encouraged and appreciated with big rounds of applause.
It was followed by group games and
fun games for them. The mothers were honoured with gifts from the manage-ment. Each of them came up the stage with their kids to receive gifts and the principal and the management thanked them for attending the function. A beautiful song befitting the occasion was rendered by Aisha Zia of Grade VII on the occasion. The mothers thanked the principal and the management in turn for organising such a beautiful function on Mother’s Day.
They told that they really felt hon-oured and are looking forward to having more of such functions at Raja-giri. The organisers specially honoured the mothers of the management com-mittee on the occasion.
COVER STORY SUNDAY 21 MAY 201704Philip Kennicott The Washington Post
The Elbphilharmonie, a concert hall in Hamburg encased in glass and set upon a giant brick ware-house, is surrounded on
three sides by the waters of the city’s bustling harbour.
Designed by the Swiss architec-ture firm Herzog and de Meuron, the building cost about $850m, took more than a decade to design and build, and was for a long time cited as a joke — a dark joke — among Germans who fretted that the project had become an albatross: unbuildable, over budget, and wildly out of proportion to what the sensible people of this mercantile city wanted or needed.
But the building, one of several projects around the world which aim self-consciously for “iconic” status and have price tags in the bil-lion-dollar range, opened to international acclaim on January 11. The acoustics, designed by the renowned Japanese acoustician Yasuhisa Toyota, are a marvel of clarity, precision and cool objectiv-ity. Visitors enjoy stunning views of the industrial grit of Hamburg, renewing the city’s relation to the source of its wealth and its cultural window on the larger world. Tour-ists flock to ascend the Elphie’s long escalator, rising through the old warehouse in a tunnel of white glass and plaster to visit the rooftop terrace, which bustles with activ-ity before and long after evening concerts. If you want to attend a concert, good luck, because almost everything is sold out.
“Demand is overwhelming,” says Christoph Lieben-Seutter, general director of the Elbphilharmonie.
Subscriptions for classical concerts have doubled since the hall opened, tour operators are pressuring the organisation to make more tickets available, and more than 1.5 mil-lion people have visited the public plaza since it opened last
November. The building has become a phenomenon through-out the country. “Music isn’t just the talk of the town, it is the talk of Ger-many,” Lieben-Seutter says.
In March, the Caracas-based Simon Bolivar Symphony
Orchestra played all nine Beethoven symphonies at the new hall. At the end of the third movement from Symphony No. 5, where the first violins seem to get stuck dithering a scattered reminiscence of the main theme, there is one of the most famous crescendos in the his-tory of music, a swelling and triumphant transition from dark-ness to light.
The sound in the hall was so accurate that if you closed your eyes, you could point to exactly the spot where the timpani player was gently thumping his drums, and as the winds joined the strings, each addition to the burgeoning chord was like another colour being added to the spectrum, until the light was brilliant and white.
A new concert hall in Hamburg transforms the city
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Those eight bars could stand for the astonishing shift in public per-ceptions about the building, “from a scandal to a world wonder,” as Lie-ben-Seutter puts it. Two decades after a Frank Gehry-designed outpost of the Guggenheim Museum opened in Bilbao, Spain, the idea that a build-ing can transform a city, or a cultural institution, isn’t held in high repute anymore. Debt and disillusion have made the “Bilbao effect” seem a hol-low promise of a different age.
Here it is, back again, and it’s imperative to know why it is work-ing. Why this building? What about its design, its location and the implicit social messages embedded in its architecture have made it so successful?
Carsten Brosda, a senator in Hamburg’s state government and head of its cultural authority, says location is a primary factor in its suc-cess. “I was never a fan of iconic buildings because so many of them are rather generic,” he says. But Elb-philharmonie is exceptional, located in the geographical heart of the city, on a site that demanded some excep-tional public use. “There were architects saying this is on the verge of being unbuildable, but that is what makes it unique.”
The care taken with the acous-tics are another factor. Toyota doesn’t try to replicate the sumptuous warmth of 19th-century concert halls. Rather, he aims for a live-perform-ance sound adapted to the digital age, which reinforces pleasures lost to an
era of cheap headphones and lim-ited-range MP3 files. There is no golden aura, but there is fantastic clarity and spatial presence. Part of that success, at the Elbphilharmonie, may be attributable to what people here call the “white skin,” an interior surface of 10,000 unique gypsum-fiber panels that help diffuse sound.
But it is the architecture, the way it floats like a giant ship above the old brick factory, the drama of how one enters and moves through its spaces, and the way it situates people in rela-tion to each other in the soaring auditorium, that makes this building truly extraordinary. The shape of the building was first adumbrated by Jacques Herzog, a principal of the firm that became world famous for the “Bird’s Nest” stadium at the 2008 Beijing Summer Olympics. Herzog supposedly scribbled a wavy form on top of a picture of the old, 1960s-era Kaispeicher A warehouse, and the idea quickly became embedded in Hamburg’s civic consciousness.
“Everybody was basically nuts about this,” Brosda says. The project is part of a major multibillion-dollar redevelopment of Hamburg’s har-bour, converting 19th-century brick buildings and empty lots into resi-dential, office and commercial space. But a concert hall atop an old factory was counter intuitive. The con-strained and irregularly shaped floor plate of the warehouse meant that the auditorium, above, would be abnormally vertical in its layout. And placing it so high above the ground
meant that street life, so important to most urban developments, would need to be sucked up into the sky and redistributed on the terrace some eight floors above.
Entry to the concert spaces — which include the 2,100-seat main hall and a 572-seat recital hall — is accessed up a curving flight of wooden steps. When the building is open for performances, the visitor encounters no doors; the path up the steps leads directly into the lobby areas, which flow uninterrupted into the auditorium. The seating is in the round, or “vineyard” style, with the audience arrayed close to the stage in a set of shallow, interconnecting balconies.
Often, architects and critics stress the “democratic” or egalitarian vir-tues of vineyard-style seating, though the peculiar height of the Elbphilhar-monie makes the lower seats, closest to the orchestra, more equal than oth-ers, especially the highest ones, which can inspire vertigo. It’s not a demo-cratic seating plan with all seats being equal, but it is one that fosters an exciting sense of community during performances, with the audience aware not just of the music, but of its own presence in the space.
“This is a house for everybody,” says Ascan Mergenthaler, the senior partner at Herzog and de Meuron in charge of the project. But this was clearly a hall designed for, and intended to elevate (literally and sym-bolically), the experience of classical music. And that is remarkably refreshing. Brosda says one reason the building has been so quickly embraced despite the huge cost over-runs is that it reaffirms values
essential to Germany. “Questions of culture become more and more important today,” Brosda says. “It is a statement by a free and open society.”
It is also a magical place to hear music. The ride up its 262-foot-long escalator creates a genuine sense of expectation and detaches one from the everyday world, mimicking the wide staircase and symbolic ascent of traditional concert hall architec-ture. During three concerts in March, the audience was scrupulously well behaved, attentive and enthusiastic. Even the signs marking the restrooms
— which show a male figure in a tie and a female figure in a long, sleeve-less evening gown — suggest how comfortable the Germans are with formality and elegance, which they don’t reflexively equate with hierar-chy or privilege as in the United States.
And that may be the last and most important reason that this hall could revive, at least once and perhaps only here, the “Bilbao effect,” transform-ing a place, or an art form, or cultural attitudes through architecture. The design of this building takes the idea of listening to serious music seriously, it posits the experience as an event to be relished, and it celebrates a spe-cies of aural attention that is in danger of extinction: collective, attentive, in communion with the musicians and the audience alike. This building, high above the city and its industrial waterfront, suggests that music can still stop time for a few hours and extinguish the triviality of the world, seen for a while only as a blur of lights, twinkling in the distance and reflected on the turbid water far below.
CAMPUS SUNDAY 21 MAY 201706
MES students witness Emir Cup Final
MES Indian School had the privilege of being the Emir Cup fans to witness both national and inter-
national soccer stars in action. A total of 2,500 enthusiastic
soccer fans of MES were among the excited spectators present to wit-ness the match played between the two premier teams, Al Sadd and Al Rayyan in the full capacity at Kha-lifa International Stadium on Friday.
MES is one of the few expatriate schools to have been invited to wit-ness the grand opening ceremony of First 2022 World Cup stadium. They extended its wholehearted support
by enthusiastically participating with its entire team of staff students, and parents.
“This is the most opportune moment for our students to have a hands-on experience and to learn about footballing skills displayed at the highest professional level and enjoy the benefits of a healthy life-style derived from sports”, said the school Principal (Officiating), Hameeda Kadar.
The keenly-contested final of the Emir Cup 2017, which was pre-ceded by the inauguration of the stadium itself, was an action-packed event with Al Sadd overwhelming Al Rayyan by 2 goals to 1.
SIS organises Creative Fest 2017Shantiniketan Indian
School organised annual creative festival to show-
case the talents of students in recitation (different languages), speech, Holy Quran recitation, vocal music, classical music, instrumental music, classical dance, folk dance, group dance, mimicry, mono act, group song, story-telling and mime.
Students also contested in story writing, essay writing, pencil drawing and poster designing.
The array of events pro-vided students an opportunity to perform off-stage and on-stage that created a vibrant and competitive environment.
LIFESTYLESUNDAY 21 MAY 2017 07
IANS
Are you gearing up for a sum-mer beach getaway? A beach destination is a good choice
to relax by the waves and take stun-ning photographs. But as you get all set to take those memorable pho-tos, don’t forget to pay attention to your beach look with the right out-fits, standout sunglasses and footwear, suggest experts.
Bhavya Chawla, Chief Stylist at e-commerce portal Voonik, and Kristy De Cunha, Associate Designer of Female Clothing at e-commerce portal Shopotox, share a few tips to accessorize your beach look with panache:
* Sarongs: Printed sarongs to ombre sarongs, this is definitely one beach essential.
* Beads and shells: To keep the beach mood on, chuck away your routine neck pieces and choose beads and shells over them. Also if you can get hold of some star fish neck pieces, they could make the perfect sea accessory.
* Bangles and bracelets: Stock up on them, different colours in metallics or wooden will add more to your beach look.
* Ankle ties or anklets: While showing off that swimwear, add
some punk to it with an anklet or ankle ties.
* Rock it with a hat: Look for wide-brimmed hats that can pro-vide you extra protection from the blazing sun. On a tropical escape, you can prepare your look up with floppy hats or even smaller ones to complement your delicate sundress. If you wish to spend the evening by the water, then a tan-coloured hat can enhance your overall look.
* Scarf it up: One of the most versatile items in your beach ward-robe ought to be the scarf. A scarf can accentuate your beachwear look just right. You can use your scarf like a bandana and protect your hair from excess sun damage. You can try out different styles with your plain scarves by turning them into headbands. You can even go retro by casually tying your scarf around your neck and feel like a diva straight out of the 60s.
* Go for minimal bling: Why deny some bling on your sun-kissed skin? However, accessorize mini-mally with just a beaded necklace or a long chain. Some semi-pre-cious stones could also look super trendy with your beachwear. You can also pack some bracelets and printed headbands for that boho chic appeal.
* Slip on the right footwear: Enjoy your beach adventures with foot-friendly sandals such as comfy beach platforms with a thick rub-ber sole or just flip flops that go well with your beach costume. If flat sandals are your choice, then opt for cheerful colours such as yellow or pink and flirty embellishments that are both comfy and stylish. Bal-lerina flats, sneakers and other lightweight flat summer shoes can
also look amazing for a beach party or a yacht ride.
* Shade your eyes: When the sun is out, the sunglasses should be out as well. A classic pair of aviator sun-glasses can up your oomph factor and notch up your look on the beach. If you are keen to try out more styles, choose from cat eyed, mirror sunglasses or metal round sunglasses to make a strong style statement.
Face type is one of the most important factors to be kept in mind while shopping for
jewellery. The styles and cuts of the earrings and necklaces should complement the jaw line and length of the face, say experts.
Kapil Hetamsaria, CEO and co-founder at VelvetCase.com (e-commerce portal), and Sheh-zad Zaveri, Creative Director at Minawala (diamond jewellery house), have rolled out tips to guide you better:
* Round shaped face should be accessorised in a manner that it gets an elongated appearance. Narrow chandelier and teardrop
earrings look best on round faced beauties.
* Rectangular shaped faces can opt for button earrings and dainty ear studs.
* Oval shaped faces are the
ones where lots of versatility can be explored. Women with this kind of face cut can wear danglers and big hoops. Oblong-shaped faces can opt for button styled earrings and circular ear studs as well.
* Women with square shaped faces should avoid wearing very wide earrings. They should opt for long drops, hoops and elongated narrow earrings as they soften the appearance of their wide jaw line.
* Triangle shaped faces can eas-ily pull off heart or pan shaped danglers and ear cuffs. For neckpieces, multilayered or single chain necklaces that draws V line would be a good option.
* Danglers and hoops accentu-ate diamond shaped face. Make sure that the danglers should not be diamond shaped as it will exagger-ate the face lines. Collar or princess neck pieces suits them the best.
Nail your beach holiday look with right accessories
Choose jewellery according to face type
FOOD SUNDAY 21 MAY 201708Joe Yonan The Washington Post
Apologies to the Beatles, but in the kitchen, all you need is sauce. Vinaigrettes for your salads, creamy
purees for your grain bowls, salsas for dipping, glazes for coating. I mean, if you think about it, what is soup, if not a big bowl of sauce? With perhaps some chunks of vegetables and/or proteins swim-ming in it. Perhaps that last example goes a little far, but you get my point. When I’m in the mood to make something partic-ularly quick and straightforward, but I need to add complexity of flavor, I turn to a sauce. Bonus points when the sauce takes hardly any time to put together. The sauce, is a simply simmered blend of aromatics and spices, vin-egar, oil, water, tomato paste, lemon juice and sugar. I realise that the demonisation of sugar in nutrition circles might make its addition a tough sell to some, but it’s a small amount for four to six servings, and the sugar balances the sauce into something truly sublime that coats those vegetables. Trust me: You’ll want bread for sopping.
Vegetables a la Grecque4 to 6 servings,
An array of seasonal vegetables bathes in a quick sweet-and-sour sauce. This would be a lovely lunch (served with a piece of crusty bread), a first course for a spring or sum-mer party, or you could bulk it up with beans, poached eggs and/or a grain of your choice for a stan-dalone dinner.
Here, we chose vegetables that would look pretty on the plate:
“cheddar” cauliflower, haricots verts, spears of zucchini, quartered red radishes and thin purple carrots. If
you can’t find true baby vegetables, feel free to create your own mix.
This recipe calls for a bouquet garni, which is a cinch to make: Use kitchen twine (or a small cheescloth bag) to tie together stems of herbs for flavor. The bundle makes for quick and easy removal.
Ingredients1/2 teaspoon coriander seed1/2 teaspoon salt white
peppercorns1/4 cup white wine vinegar1/2 cup olive oil1/2 cup water3 tablespoons concentrated
tomato paste1/3 cup fresh lemon juice (from
2 lemons)2 large cloves garlic, crushed1 small bouquet garni (herbs
such as parsley, thyme and bay leaf)1/4 cup sugarPinch salt, plus more as needed
1 3/4 pounds baby vegetables of your choice, trimmed and cut, as needed
4 ounces small button mush-rooms, cleaned and cut into halves or quarters
Freshly ground black pepper2 tablespoons finely chopped
flat-leaf parsley leaves, for garnish
StepsCrush the coriander seed and
white peppercorns using a mortar and pestle, then transfer the mix-ture a large pan. Add the vinegar, oil, water, tomato paste, lemon juice, garlic, bouquet garni, sugar and salt; cook gently, over low heat, for 15 minutes, stirring occasionally with a whisk to form a smooth dressing.
Meanwhile, bring a pot of salted water to a boil over high heat. You’ll use it to cook/blanch the separate
kinds of vegetables, except for the mushrooms: Allow 1 minute for the cauliflower florets, 30 seconds for the green beans, 1 minute and 30 seconds for the zucchini spears, 30 seconds for the radishes and 2 to 3 minutes for the carrots. Drain the blanched vegetables and add to the pan with the dressing.
Add the raw mushrooms to the pan and stir gently to coat all the vegetables; cook for 5 minutes. Dis-card the bouquet garni.
Transfer the vegetables to a serving bowl with the dressing and let cool a little. Season with salt and black pepper, as needed. Scatter the parsley on top. Serve still warm, or at room temperature.
Nutrition: Per serving (based on 6): 250 calories, 3 g protein, 20 g carbohydrates, 19 g fat, 3 g satu-rated fat, 0 mg cholesterol, 150 mg sodium, 3 g dietary fiber, 14 g sugar.
For quick vegetables that sing, cook them simply and then slather them in sauce
FOODSUNDAY 21 MAY 2017 09Jim Shahin The Washington Post
2 to 4 servings
You’ll need 1 cup of apple, pecan, oak or cherry wood chips or 6 fist-size chunks;
replenish coals as necessary.
Make Ahead: You’ll probably have spice rub left over. It keeps well in a sealed container in the pantry for up to a month.
IngredientsFor the rub and ribs3 tablespoons sweet paprika2 tablespoons kosher salt1 tablespoon granulated garlic
pepper1 tablespoon light brown sugar1 teaspoon ground cayenne
pepper1 teaspoon freshly ground black
pepper1 teaspoon freshly ground white
pepper1 rack (about 2 1/2 pounds) baby
back ribsFor the glaze1 cup cherry preserves6 ounces tart cherry juice1/2 teaspoon finely grated
lemon zest and 2 tablespoons juice (from 1 lemon)
1 tablespoon Worcestershire sauce
1/2 teaspoon ground cinnamon
2 tablespoons unsalted butter1 chipotle pepper in adobo
(from a can), diced1/2 teaspoon kosher salt1/4 teaspoon freshly ground
black pepper
StepsFor the rub and meat: Whisk
together the paprika, salt, granu-lated garlic and onion, ancho chile pepper, light brown sugar, and the cayenne, black and white black peppers in a bowl, until lump-free. The yield is about 2/3 cup.
For the glaze: Combine the cherry preserves, cherry juice, lemon zest and juice, Worcester-shire sauce, cinnamon, butter, diced chipotle, salt and pepper in a large pan over medium heat, stirring until well incorporated. Once the mix-ture begins to bubble at the edges, reduce the heat to low and cook for 15 minutes, stirring occasionally, to form a slightly thickened sauce.
Transfer to a food processor; puree until smooth. Pour into a bowl for use later to baste the ribs. The yield is about 2 cups.
Place the ribs on a rimmed bak-ing sheet, meat side down. You’ll see a thin membrane on the bone side; some say this prevents flavor from penetrating the meat and is papery to chew on. But pulling it off can be a little tricky, and a lot of ribs are served with the membrane still
on. The choice is yours. If you opt to remove it, slide a small, sharp knife beneath the membrane to cut it enough so that you can grab it with your hands and pull it off. The best place to insert the knife is in the midsection, so that you can tear off one side and then the other.
Coat both sides of the ribs with the rub, working it into the meat. (You may have some rub left over.)
Prepare the grill for indirect heat. If using a gas grill, turn the heat to high. Drain the chips and put them in a smoker box or foil packet poked with a few fork holes to release the smoke; set it between the grate and the briquettes, close to the flame. When you see smoke, reduce the heat to medium (375 to 400 degrees). Turn off the burners on one side.
If using a charcoal grill, light the charcoal or briquettes; when the briquettes are ready, distribute them on one side of the grill. For a medium fire, you should be able to hold your hand 6 inches above the coals for 6 or 7 seconds. Drain the
chips and scatter them over the coals. Have ready a spray water bottle for taming any flames.
Set the rack of ribs meat side down directly over the coals; grill for 5 minutes, then turn them over (bone side down) and repeat.
Move the ribs to the cool side of the grill, bone side down. Close the lid. Smoke the meat until it is browned and tender, 3 to 3 1/2 hours.
In the last half hour, baste the meat with the cherry glaze at least three times, or every 7 to 10 minutes.
Use tongs to transfer the ribs to a cutting board; let them rest for about 10 minutes before cutting them apart between the bones.
Pile onto a platter. Serve warm, drizzled with more of the glaze.
Nutrition: Per serving (based on 4, using half the rub and glaze): 850 calories, 55 g protein, 36 g car-bohydrates, 53 g fat, 20 g saturated fat, 205 mg cholesterol, 1,170 mg sodium, 2 g dietary fiber, 24 g sugar.
Cherry-glazed baby back ribs
HEALTH SUNDAY 21 MAY 201710
AFP
Weight-loss balloons swal-lowed rather than surgically inserted in the
stomach were shown to be safe and effective in preliminary trials, according to findings unveiled at a medical conference.
So-called intragastric balloons have been used for decades to help obese patients shed unwanted kilos. Inflated with water, the devices curb hunger and make it easier to diet by inducing a feeling of full-ness. Up to now, however, they could only be implanted in the stomach surgically, a costly proce-dure requiring general anaesthesia or sedation.
In a small trial led by Roberta Ienca, a researcher in experimen-tal medicine at Sapienza University in Rome, 42 obese patients -- 29 men and 13 women — were fitted with balloons that were swallowed before being inflated with liquid.
“A catheter is attached to the bal-loon, which is folded into a capsule,” Ienca explained said. A doctor fills
the balloon via the tiny tube, which is then removed via the mouth with a tug. “This process takes just a few seconds,” she added.
The body-mass index (BMI) of the volunteers varied between 30 and 45. The threshold for obesity is a BMI — one’s weight in kilos divided by one’s height (in centi-metres) squared — of 30.
The balloons remained in the stomach for 16 weeks, during which time patients were put on a low-carbohydrate, low-calorie diet.
At the end of that time, an
internal release valve automatically opens and drains the balloon, which is then excreted. On average, vol-unteers shed more than 15kg, which amounted to 31 percent of excess weight. No serious side effects were reported.
After the trial, patients were transitioned to a Mediterranean diet, heavy on vegetables and olive oil, and light on protein and starch. The new technique “appears to be a safe and effective weight-loss method,” Ienca commented in a statement.Because the swallowable balloon
“does not require endoscopy, sur-gery or anaesthesia, this may make it suitable for a larger population of obese patients not responding to diet or lifestyle treatment.” It could also lead to significant cost savings, she added.
“In itself, gastric balloons are not a long-term solution for weight loss,” Simon Cork, a researcher in investigative medicine at Imperial College London who was not involved in the study, commented after reviewing the results.
“Nevertheless, gastric balloons are still useful for some patients, and the introduction of a device which doesn’t require surgery to implant is a positive step forward.” Devel-oped by US-based Allurion Technologies, the system is already marketed in Europe in France, Italy, Spain, Belgium and Greece. It is also available in Saudi Arabia and Kuwait.
The company intends to begin the FDA approval process in the United States soon, Ienca said. The findings were presented at the European Congress on Obesity in Porto, Portugal.
Finding it hard to take choles-terol-lowering medications? Take heart, now lowering cho-
lesterol may be as easy as munching a muffin, researchers say.
A scientist at the University of Queensland in Australia, has devel-oped a “good heart” blueberry muffin, that could help lower cholesterol as well as the risk of heart disease. High cholesterol levels can limit blood flow, increasing the risk of a heart attack or stroke. The low-fat blueberry muf-fin contained three grams of beta glucans — a healthy soluble fibre — that occurs naturally in the cell walls of oats and cereals, and meets the food standard guidelines for choles-terol-lowering properties.
Previous studies had demon-strated that beta glucan fibre in oats can slow absorption of fats to reduce
blood cholesterol. “There is good evi-dence that three grams or more of oats beta glucan consumption a day can help reduce cholesterol levels,” Nima Gunness, Food Sciences scien-tist and keen baker at the University of Queensland, said.
“I wanted to turn my discovery into a product, like a muffin, that peo-ple could eat to help reduce the amount of cholesterol in their blood stream, lowering the risk of heart dis-ease,” Gunness added.
“We are not suggesting that peo-ple go off any cholesterol-lowering medication,” Gunness continued.
“Rather, we are aiming to provide a convenient, healthy and very tasty way of helping to reduce cholesterol levels...eating a muffin a day is a con-venient way for people to improve their heart health,” Gunness said.
Swallowable balloons work to curb obesity
Now a muffin that can lower cholesterol levels
Exercising burns the fat found within bone marrow and this process improves
bone quality in a matter of weeks, says a study. The study, published in the Journal of Bone and Mineral Research, also sug-gests that obese individuals
— who often have worse bone quality — may derive even greater bone health benefits from exercising than their lean counterparts.
“One of the main clinical implications of this research is that exercise is not just good but amazing for bone health,” said lead author Maya Styner, Assist-ant Professor at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in the US. “In just a very short period of time, we saw that run-ning was building bone
significantly in mice,” Styner said.Although research in mice is
not directly translatable to the human condition, the kinds of stem cells that produce bone and fat in mice are the same kind that produce bone and fat in humans. Styner said the research also could help illuminate some of the factors behind bone deg-radation associated with conditions like diabetes, arthri-tis, anorexia, and the use of steroid medications.
The research shows it is pos-sible to use exercise to reverse some of the effects on bones.
“Our studies of bone biome-chanics show that the quality and the strength of the bone is significantly increased with exercise and even more so in the obese exercisers,” Styner said.
Exercise helps burn bone fatand make them stronger
BOLLYWOODSUNDAY 21 MAY 2017 11
Arjun Kapoor and Shraddha Kapoor starrer romantic drama “Half Girlfriend” has
got off to a decent start at the box office by collecting `102.7m on its opening day. “We are ecstatic at this opening figure. ‘Half Girlfriend’ has not only managed to stand out with its immense hype and pre-buzz, but also recorded a fantastic opening of `102.7m, in the face of the ‘Baahu-bali’ wave and the IPL match factor,” Shreyans Hirawat of NH Studioz, the company that is distributing the film nationwide, said in a statement.
“The audiences have spoken and have thronged theatres giving the
film a massive initial. ‘Half Girlfriend’ was the only film that had managed to stand out and has seen solid growth through the first day across centres,” Hirawat added.
“Half Girlfriend”, which released on Friday in 2500 screens across India, is an adaptation of author Chetan Bhagat’s novel of the same name. Meanwhile, Irrfan Khan’s
“Hindi Medium”, which was in com-petition with “Half Girlfriend”, has `28.1m on its opening day. Made on a budget of `220m, “Hindi Medium” has already recovered `150m from digital, satellite, music and overseas rights.
Karan Johar’s “Ae Dil Hai Mushkil” is the front runner in the nomination pack of
the 18th International Indian Film Academy (IIFA) Awards with a chance to win in eight categories, followed by “M S Dhoni: The Untold Story” which has been nominated across seven categories.
Both the movies are in compe-tition with “Neerja”, “Pink”, “Sultan” and “Udta Punjab” for the Best Pic-ture trophy. The list of nominations in the popular category for IIFA were announced via a statement on Friday. The global voting went live yesterday and will continue till June 18. Set to be held at the iconic MetLife Stadium in New York July 14-15, the two-day IIFA festival — produced and created by Wizcraft International Entertainment — will see a congregation of film celebrities.
Nominees for Best Actor in Leading Role (Male) are Shahid Kapoor for “Udta Punjab”, Ranbir Kapoor for “Ae Dil Hai Mushkil”, Shah Rukh Khan for “Fan”, Sush-ant Singh Rajput for “M.S. Dhoni...”, Amitabh Bachchan for “Pink” and Salman Khan for “Sultan”.
Among the women, the con-tenders are Anushka Sharma for
“Ae Dil Hai Mushkil”, Alia Bhatt for
“Dear Zindagi” and “Udta Punjab”, Sonam Kapoor for “Neerja” and Taapsee Pannu for “Pink”.
The Best Director nominations feature Karan Johar (“Ae Dil Hai Mushkil”), Neeraj Pandey (“M.S. Dhoni...), Ram Madhvani (“Neerja”), Aniruddha Roy Chowdhary (“Pink”), Ali Abbas Zafar (“Sultan”) and Abhishek Chaubey (“Udta Punjab”).
Varun Dhawan (“Dishoom”), Jimmy Shergill (“Happy Bhag
Jayegi”) and Rishi Kapoor (“Kapoor & Sons”) are vying for the Best Comedian title.
In the Best Actor in a Negative role, the nominees are Neil Nitin Mukesh (“Wazir”), Shah Rukh Khan (“Fan”) and Jim Sarbh (“Neerja”).
A long list of names are vying for the Best Supporting Actor (Male)
Kher (“M.S. Dhoni...”) and Amitabh Bachchan (“Wazir”).
In the female category, there are Shabana Azmi (“Neerja”), And-rea Tariang (“Pink”), Ratna Pathak Shah (“Kapoor & Sons”), Disha Patani (M.S. Dhoni...”) and Richa Chadha (“Sarbjit”).
In the music categories; for Music Direction, the competition is between Pritam for “Ae Dil Hai Mushkil”, Amaal Malik and Rochak Kohli for “M.S. Dhoni...” and Amit Trivedi for “Udta Punjab”; in the Best Lyrics category, the contend-ers are Amitabh Bhattacharya
“Channa mereya” from “Ae Dil Hai Mushkil”, Gulzar for “Aave re Hitchki” from “Mirzya” and Tan-veer Ghazi for “Tu chal” from Pink”.
Best Singer (male) will see Ari-jit Singh (“Channa mereya”), Amit Mishra (“Bulleya”), Diljit Dosanjh (“Ikk Kudi - Reprise), Armaan Malik (“Besabriyaan”) competing with one another, and among the women, the competition is between Kanika Kapoor, Neha Bhasin and Tulsi Kumar for “Da da dasse”, “Jag ghoomeya” and “Soch na sakke” respectively.
The 2017 IIFA festival will play host to some of the most celebrated stars and musicians of the Indian film industry.
‘Ae Dil Hai Mushkil’ leads IIFA 2017 nominations
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Warsi dubs for Depp in ‘Pirates...’
Actor Arshad Warsi has been roped in to dub for Hollywood actor Johnny Depp’s popular charac-
ter Captain Jack Sparrow for the Hindi version of upcoming fantasy film
“Pirates of the Caribbean: Salazar’s Revenge”.
“I am very fond of this character. I really like Jack Sparrow. The moment I saw ‘Pirates of the Caribbean’, I became a fan of the character. It’s a major challenge to do this. It’s not easy to dub him,” Arshad said over phone from Mumbai.
“It was a challenge to dub him (Depp) when he was drunk in the scenes. It’s hard to play a drunk man. Altogether, I am fond of this franchise and looking forward to more of it,” added Arshad, who is currently shooting for “Golmaal Again”.
Depp will return with the fifth instalment of the popular “Pirates Of The Caribbean” franchise. The film, which will also feature Javier Bardem, Brenton Thwaites, Kaya Scodelario, Kevin McNally and Geoffrey Rush, will be released in India by Walt Disney Pic-tures and Jerry Bruckheimer Films on May 26.
HOLLYWOOD SUNDAY 21 MAY 201712
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This summer’s biggest-budget films have everything mov-iegoers have come to expect
from Hollywood blockbusters: Superheroes, pirates, space aliens. But in the truest sense of the term, none of them is a Hollywood movie.
Despite a major effort by Los Angeles over the last two years to lure film production back to where it started, producers continue to make big-budget movies elsewhere, say-ing they get better tax breaks and subsidies outside of Hollywood.
As a result, the summer’s movies come from all over the globe. Warner Bros. filmed “Wonder Woman” and
“King Arthur” in Britain, where the Time Warner Inc studio owns a large production space. Twenty-First Cen-tury Fox Inc’s movie studio chose Australia for “Alien: Covenant”. Walt Disney Co’s Marvel Studios rolled its cameras in Georgia for “Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2”, one of six super-hero movies it has filmed near Atlanta.
“The support we get in Georgia is tremendous,” Marvel Studios President Kevin Feige said. “We’re certainly doing many of our biggest films there well through this year and into next year.”
Twenty-five years ago, most big-budget films were filmed pri-marily in Los Angeles. Since then, to lure production, locations across
the United States and around the globe have begun offering tax cred-its or rebates of up to 40 percent of local production spending, a siza-ble savings on action films that cost up to $250m to make. Thirty-two US states and dozens of foreign countries now offer tax credits or rebates, plus other benefits such as waivers of permit fees.
California decided in 2014 to sweeten its own subsidies in an attempt to lure production back. The results have been mixed. Many more television shows are now being filmed in the state, but it still struggles to attract the mega-budget action movies that hit screens from May through the US Labour Day holiday in early September.
One of Hollywood’s biggest stars, actor and producer Dwayne
Johnson, moved his HBO TV series “Ballers” from Miami to the Los Angeles area after securing a Cali-fornia tax break. Johnson said he would like to film his big movies there, too. “On the TV side, the incentives are fantastic,” Johnson said. “On the film side, there is a lot of room for improvement.”
Johnson’s upcoming movie for Paramount Pictures, a remake of the TV show “Baywatch” about Cal-ifornia lifeguards, was filmed on Tybee Island, Georgia, with help from tax credits.
Hollywood used to have a firm grip on film production because of its infrastructure, which includes numerous sound stages as well as specialised equipment and a large network of experienced crew mem-bers, actors and extras.
Increasingly, other locations such as the state of Georgia are offering good production facilities and trained personnel, though pro-ducing outside Los Angeles still often requires flying in some key workers.
“You have to think of these pro-ductions as three-legged stools,” said Mary Ann Hughes, Disney’s vice president of film production planning. “You need a local crew base, local infrastructure, and the production incentives.”
California offers a 20 percent credit for feature films, applicable to $100m in spending. Some costs receive an additional 5 percent. The state does not apply the credit toward one large chunk of movie budgets — the salaries of actors, directors and producers — as other locations do.
Since upping the subsidies, Hol-lywood has landed two forthcoming big-budget films. Disney’s adapta-tion of children’s book “A Wrinkle in Time” received an $18m credit for $85m in spending, and an unti-tled Paramount release was awarded $22m for $102m in spend-ing. Some officials in California say the increase in television and mid-dle-budget film production is evidence the higher subsidies have been effective. The incentives have brought 11 TV series back to the state since 2015.
Actress Angelina Jolie is reportedly all ready to move into her new man-
sion after her split from actor Brad Pitt. Large moving trucks were spotted outside Jolie’s new $25m mansion in Los Angeles.
The luxurious mansion was once owned by legendary film-maker Cecil B DeMille, reports aceshowbiz.com. In a photograph that surfaced online, several men were seen loading in boxes and crates into the mansion.
Although, there were already many huge boxes stacked on top of each other, it
seemed like more trucks would come in in order to fill the huge mansion. The property reportedly has six bedrooms and 10 bath-rooms, along with a swimming pool, large gardens and a tea house. It also features a stunning library and an old farmhouse kitchen.
As per sources, Jolie bought the house to make it easier for her
six children to see Pitt, who lives just under two miles away. “Brad and Angelina both agree that living close to each other would make the transition easier for the kids,” a source said.
Tom Hardy to star in ‘Venom’
Actor Tom Hardy has been roped in to star in the upcoming superhero film “Venom”, a spin-off to the “Spider-Man” franchise.
The Sony Pictures-backed project will be directed by “Zombieland” fame Ruben Fleischer, reports theguardian.com. According to sources, Hardy is a huge fan of Venom. His only film in the super-hero genre was 2012’s “The Dark Knight Rises”, in which he played Bane.
Hardy will play Eddie Brock, a freelance pho-tographer who becomes infected by an alien life form that needs a host in order to survive. Mean-while, actor Tom Holland will next be seen playing Spider-Man in the upcoming Marvel Cinematic Universe project, “Spider-Man: Homecoming”, which is slated to release on July 7 in US. “Venom” is set to hit theatres on October 5, 2018.
Big summer movies were all filmed elsewhere
Jolie to move into $25m mansion after split
TECHNOLOGYSUNDAY 21 MAY 2017 13
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If you fly into London City in two years’ time, air traffic control-lers won’t see your plane
through a window but will guide it down from screens 70 miles away as the airport becomes one of the first in a major capital to use a dig-ital control tower.
Staff will monitor planes with the help of high-tech 360-degree cameras and sensors fitted to a newly constructed tower, with data and a panoramic views all feeding through to the national air traffic control centre in the southern town of Swanwick.
The airport, which is undergo-ing a £350m ($455m) expansion, is located near the Canary Wharf financial centre in east London and used by over 4.5 million passengers mainly for business travel between Europe’s major centres.
But from 2019, controllers will be based over 110km away where the airport says an array of digital tools will improve their awareness
of situations and efficiency, allow-ing for quick decision-making.
“A pioneering new digital air traffic control system will enhance safety and improve resilience, set-ting a new standard for the global aviation industry to follow,” Lon-don City Airport Chief Executive Declan Collier said.
“This cutting edge proven tech-nology future-proofs London City
Airport’s air traffic control for the next 30 years and beyond,” he said.
The current control tower is reaching the end of its operational lifespan, he said, with the new tech-nology already in use at Sweden’s smaller Ornskoldsvik and Sunds-vall airports.
Controllers will be equipped with a range of tools including a c l o s e - u p v i e w o f
aeroplane movements along the 1.5km runway and cameras which can zoom in up to 30 times for close inspection.
Pictures from the airfield and data will be sent through independ-ent and secure fibre networks to the operations room in Swanwick, the airport said.
The technology is supplied by Saab Digital Air Traffic Solutions, a partnership between LFV, the Swedish air navigation service pro-vider, and military defence and civil security firm Saab.
The airport, bought last year by a consortium including Canadian pension funds, is due to expand as part of a development programme which will see an extra two million people flying to and from it every year by 2025 and an additional 30,000 annual flights.
Construction of the 50-metre digital tower will begin later this year and is due to be completed in 2018, followed by a year of testing and training before it becomes fully operational.
IANS
Facebook is rolling out new option “Order Food” to select users in
the US which will let them order food directly from its app, without having to open the restaurants’s dedicated app or website.
Represented by a ham-burger icon, the option lets Facebook users place food pickup and delivery orders from restaurants using Delivery.com or Slice, Tech Crunch reported on Friday.
In October last year, the social media giant announced a deal with online order-ing businesses Delivery.com and Slice. The new roll out is the expansion of the tie-up.
Facebook has been bullish in market and is on track to hit two billion active monthly users this year. The company owns the world’s most popular apps:
WhatsApp, Instagram and Messenger.Facebook has introduced a number
of features that have been killing the need of separate apps. It has launched features, including weather, a networking section called “discover people”, a travel section called “city guides”, government info via
“town hall”, an online jobs board, fund-raisers, instant games and more.
Facebook confirmed that the “Order Food” functionality is related to the Octo-ber news of Slice and Delivery.com food ordering functionality via restaurants’ Facebook Pages.
London airport to get first digital air traffic control
Soon you can order food from Facebook Instagram ‘worst for young mental health’
Instagram is rated as the worst social media platform when it comes to its impact on young people’s men-tal health, a poll conducted in the UK says.The poll conducted Royal Society for Public Health
(RCPH) asked 1,479 people aged 14-24 were asked a series of questions about whether YouTube, Instagram, Snap-chat, Facebook and Twitter had an impact on their health and well-being, the BBC reported.
Participants were asked to score each platform on 14 health and well-being issues. Based on these ratings, YouTube was considered to have the most positive impact on mental health, followed by Twitter and then Facebook.
Snapchat and Instagram were given the lowest scores overall. The RSPH report warns that “social media may be fuelling a mental health crisis” in young people, reports the BBC.
It can also be used as a tool for good, the report said, and companies should be doing their best to make plat-forms a safe place to be.
About 90 percent of young people use social media - more than any other age group - so they are particularly vulnerable to its effects, although it is not clear what these are on current evidence.
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