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Baftas 2015: Boyhood wins top honours
GRAMMY GRAMMY AWARDSAWARDS
The annual Grammys gala was once again a spectacle full of sparkling performances, but the music industry this year chose to recognise artists not for showmanship but for unadorned emotion.
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By Shaun Tandon
Sam Smith, the British soul singer who was virtually unknown a year ago, dominated the Grammys
on Sunday with four awards, although adventurous rocker Beck unexpectedly took home Album of the Year honors.
Superstar Beyonce and “Happy” creator Pharrell Williams took home three prizes each on the music industry’s biggest night, which was marked by displays of artist activism against domestic violence and police brutality.
The 22-year-old Smith swept up three of the night’s four top trophies — Record of the Year, Song of the Year and Best New Artist — as well as Best Pop Vocal Album honours.
Smith, who not long ago was working as a bartender in London, thanked the man who inspired “Stay With Me” — his mega-hit ballad.
Smith has refrained from on-stage theatrics and has walked a fine line on his personal life.
He earned an ovation at the Staples Center in Los Angeles when he performed his signature tune in his rich, soulful tenor voice with Mary J Blige.
“Before I made this record, I was doing everything to try to get my music heard. I tried to lose weight and ... I was making awful music,” said Smith.
“It was only until I started to be myself that the music started to flow and people started to listen. So, thank you, guys, for accepting me to be just me.”
Smith was prevented from a clean sweep of the top categories by Beck, whose introspective “Morning Phase” — full of lush orchestration around his acoustic guitar — won the Album of the Year prize.
Beck, who also won Best Rock Album, has for two decades been known for his inventive and often ironic style which has won him critical acclaim and a cult following, if not the mainstream success usually recognised by the Grammys.
Sam Smith dominates Grammys,but Beck gets surprise win Musician Beck accepts the Album
of the Year award for “Morning Phase” from musician Prince.
Sam Smith poses backstage with his awards for Record of the Year, Best New Artist and Best Pop Vocal Album.
Singer Brian Johnson of AC/DC performs onstage.
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Album of the Year Morning Phase, Beck
Record of the Year Stay With Me,Sam Smith
Song of the Year Stay With Me, JimmyNapes, William Phillips and Sam Smith
New Artist Sam Smith
Pop Vocal Album In the Lonely Hour,Sam Smith
Country Album Platinum, Miranda Lamber
Rap Album The Marshall Mathers LP2,Eminem
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‘Black Lives Matter’Beck’s Album of the Year award was
presented by the often-elusive Prince who, sporting a futuristic orange suit and carrying a staff, pointedly spoke out against a series of killings of African Americans that has galvanized public opinion.
“Like books and black lives, albums still matter,” Prince said.
The theme was echoed throughout the Grammys.
The rapper Common referred to the tensions with police in Ferguson, Missouri, as he joined John Legend on the song “Glory,” which is featured in the Oscar-nominated civil rights drama “Selma.”
And Williams turned “Happy” — what had been a straightforward ode to joy — into a more political track.
With his back-up dancers wearing hoodies, Williams led them in a “Hands Up, Don’t Shoot” gesture — a subtle protest against police shootings of African Americans.
US President Barack Obama also appeared unexpectedly on an overhead screen to urge action to stop violence against women.
Saying that more than one in four women has experienced some form of domestic violence, Obama declared: “It’s not okay. It has to stop.”
Survivor-turned-activist Brooke Axtell told the audience how she let a seemingly “handsome, charismatic man” abuse her, before Katy Perry sang an unadorned rendition of “By The Grace of God.”
In a less grand gesture, rapper Kanye West defiantly raised his finger to the world as he performed with Paul McCartney and Rihanna.
Madonna — who was furious last month when songs from her upcom-ing album leaked — performed her new song “Living for Love” in a red mata-dor-inspired outfit with male dancers in bull horns.
The music industry’s top names opened the night by wearing red devil horns as aging hard rockers AC/DC performed two songs including “Highway to Hell” with drummer Chris Slade taking over from Phil Rudd, who is facing charges in New Zealand including making death threats.
Another feat for BeyonceBeyonce won for Best R&B Song and
Best R&B Performance with “Drunk In Love,” her tale of marital bliss sung with her husband Jay-Z, as well as for the more technical Best Surround
Sound Album. With the latest honor, Beyonce has won 20 Grammys — top-ping Aretha Franklin for the woman with the second biggest all-time haul, although still well behind the country star Alison Krauss at 27.
“This has been such an incredible year. I love you all. I’d like to thank my beloved husband. I love you deep,” said the 33-year-old singer.
Williams took home prizes for Best Pop Solo Performance and Best Video for “Happy,” as well as Best Urban Contemporary Album honors for “Girl.”
Rosanne Cash — the daughter of folk legend Johnny Cash — took home awards in three Americana categories in her first Grammys since 1985.
Eminem won a record sixth Grammy for Best Rap Album for “The Marshall Mathers LP 2.”
Iggy Azalea, a white Australian who has become a cultural flashpoint for performing in an African American accent, was one of the night’s big losers.
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Singer Pharrell Williams performs ‘Happy’.
Beyonce Paul McCartney, Rihanna and Kanye West share the stage.
Common
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Tulukoota irganised many awareness and tree planting sessions at
various schools — Delhi Public School at Al Wakra, Qatar Finland International School and Little Flower Kindergarten — recently.
Navin Hegde, in his presentation, explained in detail about the connect between the life on earth and the environment. The chief campaigner of the “Environmental awareness Program” Chaitali Suhas Shetty interacted with the children through a puppet and showcased the significance of saving water and electricity. She also showed through audio and video examples how plastic is dangerous for
health and our environment. She also discussed with children how they can take simple steps and conserve water and eletricity at home and at school.
At Delhi Public school, President Nainar, Board member Rocky Fernandez, Principal, Vice principal and Manager Facilities were present along with president and memebers of Tulukoota. At Qatar Finland International School, the Principal Juha, staff and 100 children participated actively in the campaign.
At Little Flower Kindergarden, Principal Harini Rai and Administration Head Sudha Shetty along with 120 kids were present for the programme.
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‘SPORTSfocus-2015’ concludes
focusQATAR, a socio cultural Indian youth organi-sation, conducted sports and games competitions
titled ‘SPORTSfocus-2015’ for the expatriate Indians, supporting the Qatar National Sports Day. Madina Khalifa Area won the overall championship in the event conducted at Al Furqan School, Luqta.
Dr Abdulla Hamad Al Mulla, Secretary General of Qatar Sports Club, distributed the trophies and prizes to the winners.
Wakra, Hilal, Bin Mahmoud, Doha, Madina Khalifa, QIIC and Insight Qatar participated in the event. Football, volley ball, badminton, Arm wrestling, Chess, Walking race, Sac race and Tug of War were included in the competition section. Madina Khalifa won 45 points to become the overall champion and Insight Qatar came second with 25 points.
focusQATAR Sports Department manager Jashmeer Kasaragod led the event. Nisthar, Nagesh, Mohammed Rizwan, Riyas Vanimel and Shihabudheen were the referees of the different competitions. CEO, Muneer Ahmed, Admin Manager, Askar Rahiman and QIIC General Secretary, Ali Chalikkara addressed the gath-ering. The Peninsula
Tulukoota Qatar holds environmental awareness programme at schools
Ebrahim Abdulla M H Al Hail inaugurated the new branch of Gold Star Shopping Centre in Al Khor recently in the presence of Asharaf Vavullat, Chairman of Gold Star Busines Group, Shabeer of Persian Group Qatar, Mustafa of Luxury Group Qatar, Rasheed of Al Mushraf Group and other officials from Gold Star Group.
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Total launches Total Cup during Qatar Sport Day
Total’s annual sports tournament ‘Total Cup’ will commence today, coinciding with Qatar Sport
Day, and will contain three months of exciting competitions for Total’s employees and their families. The tournament will combine eight main competitions, namely Total Olympics, tennis, football, bowling, badminton, table tennis, volleyball, and basketball with special tournaments for men, women and children.
Total Olympics will be held on Tuesday in Thumama sports ground with eight different disciplines, includ-ing walking, sprinting, tug of war, potato sack race, Frisbee target, relay and a 3000 kilometre marathon.
One of the major competitions this year will be Tennis, whose finals will take place during Qatar Total Open, the Total-sponsored world class ladies’ tennis tournament held in Khalifa International Tennis and Squash Complex.
Total also uses sports as a means to break all barriers as it brings people
of different origins and backgrounds together, facilitating cultural integra-tion, unity and cooperation whilst com-peting for a common goal.
For the Total Cup tournament, all the employees and their families will be into four teams representing the company’s colors – Navy, Red, Blue and Orange.
An awards ceremony will be held in
the finale of the tournament to com-memorate the the top players of each competition and to crown the overall winners of the tournament. The win-ning team will receive the Total Cup trophy, which will be passed on from last year’s winners, the Blue team.
Guillaume Chalmin, Managing Director of Total E&P Qatar and Group Representative said: “We are
very keen to support Qatar National Sports Day through our 1st Total Cup event – Total Olympics. We will have a great diversity of participants - men, women and children of different nationalities. This is all being done in the sports spirit, and this healthy com-petition brings about the positive val-ues of unity and cultural integration”.
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Win a trip to Canada at Prime steakhouse
In honour of National Flag of Canada Day (February 15), InterContinental Doha The City announced its “Take a Trip to Canada” promotion with Etihad
Airways. From the February 8 to 28, the award-winning Prime
steakhouse at InterContinental Doha The City will be featuring a special Canadian menu crafted by guest chef Andrew Frastacky (pictured) from InterContinental Toronto Yorkville. Also, for the first time in Qatar, Prime will be serving Canadian beef. In addition, throughout the duration of the promotion, guests at Prime will have the chance to enter a prize draw for two round-trip Business Class tickets to Toronto from Etihad Airways.
“We are honoured to welcome the talented Chef Frastacky, who will create a menu of authentic cuisine from Canada. There are more than 8,000 Canadians liv-ing in Doha who will certainly be pleased to learn that for this promotion, we have incorpo-rated the country’s famous Canadian beef into the menu at Prime,” said Pascal Eggerstedt, General Manager at InterContinental Doha The City.
“We are likewise delighted to part-ner with Etihad Airways on this ini-tiative to offer our diners the chance to enjoy a luxurious flight to Toronto, where the lucky winners can experi-ence all that Canada has to offer.”
Etihad Airways’ General Manager in Qatar, Houssam Weiss said: “Etihad operates six daily flights between Doha and Abu Dhabi offering our guests seamless connections to our flights to Toronto and other North American and European destinations across the network. We are indeed excited
to partner with InterContinental Doha The City enabling the lucky winner to fly with us and experience all Etihad Airways’ premium services has to offer.”
The menu for the “Take a Trip to Canada” promotion will give diners a taste of cuisine from across the country with dishes such as Alberta Striploin, Ontario Venison Pot Pie, Nova Scotia Lobster and Apple Salad and Quebec Maple Pecan Tart. In addition, there will be a strong emphasis on Canadian beef.
“Canadian food products are abso-lutely second to none,” said Ambassador of Canada to Qatar, André Dubois. “As the world’s fourth largest agriculture and agri-food exporter, Canada is dedicated to producing high-quality, safe products while respecting the environment. I’m very happy that InterContinental Doha The City will be sharing with everyone in Qatar the great food that Canadians enjoy.”
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OSN Pehla shows now available on OSN Play
Subscribers of OSN now have the opportunity to keep up with some of the most popular South Asian
entertainment from the OSN Pehla roster at no extra cost on OSN Play, the region’s first online viewing platform.
Assuring an ‘anytime, anywhere’ TV experience, OSN Play is bringing a fast-expanding repertoire of South Asian content, starting with four of the lead-ing OSN Pehla channels – Colors, Sony, SAB and Aaj Tak. OSN Play is available for free to OSN subscribers as a value added service.
Emad Marcos, OSN’s Senior Vice President of Business Development, Strategy and Digital, said: “Starting with content from four OSN Pehla channels now available on OSN Play, subscribers have the choice of watching their favourite programmes on-the-go demonstrating our continued commitment to bring the home television experience closer to our custom-ers, anytime and anywhere.”
Among the content that OSN sub-scribers can watch on the award-winning service include one of India’s most popular comedy talk shows, Comedy Nights with Kapil, hosted by Kapil Sharma. Awarded ‘Entertainer of the Year 2013,’ Kapil regales audiences with his quick wit and repartees, and has defined the programme, telecast on Colors, as one of the highest rated non-fiction shows.
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Alberta Striploin
PLUS | TUESDAY 10 FEBRUARY 20156 RECIPE CONTEST
WINNER
Crispy Prawn Kebab
Ingredients:• 250 gms prawns, cleaned and deveined
• 2 tbsp vinegar
• 1 tsp garam masala
• 2 tbsp curd
• ½ tsp cumin powder
• 2 tsp ginger – garlic paste
• ½ tsp coriander powder
• 1 piece ginger
• 2 tbsp ghee/ Butter
• 2 tsp red chilli powder
• 1 Capsicum
• 1 Onion
• Bush red food colour
• Salt
Method:Take a bowl. Add to it prawns, vinegar, garam
masala powder, cumin powder, ginger – garlic paste,
chilli powder, curds and bush red food colour.
Mix the above mixture well and set aside for 2 hrs.
Cut the capsicum and onion in dices and keep a side.
Add a little vinegar to it.
Take 2 – 3 skewers. Put the marinated prawn a cube
of capsicum, prawn, a cube of onion. Repeat it till the
end of the skewer.
Brush a little ghee/ butter to the prawns and grill
it for 10 minutes till it becomes golden brown colour.
Arrange the skewers in a plate and add grated
cheese to it. Serve it hot with mint chutney.
Vernon Fernandes
Corn and Potato Kebab
Ingredients:• 1 cup boiled sweet corn kernels
• 1 cup potato, boiled and grated
• 2 tbsp chopped coriander
• 2 green chillies, finely chopped
• 1/2 tsp garam masala
• 2 tsp lemon juice
• 2 to 3 tbsp bread crumbs
• salt to taste
• Oil for grilling
Method:Mix all the ingredients in a bowl.
Divide the mixture into 4 equal portions.
Using a metal skewer, press each portion of the corn and
potato mixture on it using your fingers to make a 100 mm.
(4”) long kebab. Brush each kebab generously with a little oil.
Cook the kebabs over a charcoal or electric barbeque till
the kebabs are evenly browned (approx 3 to 4 minutes), on
all sides.
Serve the kebabs hot with green chutney and tandori roti.
• 1/2 tsp curry powder• Salt to taste• 1 medium green capsicum cut into 1 inch pieces• 2 slices tinned pineapple cut into 1 inch cubes• 1 medium Tomato seeded and cut into 1 inch pieces
Method:Chop one onion and cut another onion into one and half
inch square pieces. Make coarse paste of whole red chillies, chopped onion,
Transfer the paste into a bowl and add the chicken cubes. Add capsicum, pineapple, tomato and onion cubes and let them marinate for two hours preferably in a refrigerator.
Thread chicken, capsicum, pineapple, tomato and onion cubes one after the other onto skewers. Keep the remaining marinade for basting. Heat a non-stick tawa.
Place the skewers on the tawa and cook, basting with remaining marinade every five minutes, for ten to twelve minutes or until chicken is done. Serve hot.
Rania
Tuna-Methi Kebab
Ingredients:• 1 tin tuna chunks in olive oil• 1/2 cup methi (fenugreek) leaves• 1 cup channa dal• 5-6 pods garlic• 1 tsp grated ginger• 5 green chillies• 1 medium onion• 1 tbsp chilli flakes• 2 tbsp crushed kasuri methi• 1 tsp chat masala• 1 tbsp crushed roasted ground nuts• 1-2 tbsp bread crumbs• 1 tsp mango powder• 1 egg• Salt to taste
Method:Soak channa dal in hot water for 20 minutes.
Finely chop onion and 2 green chillies. Now boil channa dal
with salt, 3 green chillies, garlic pods and methi leaves. Drain
oil from tuna chunks and keep aside. Drain water thoroughly
from boiled channa dal.
Take a mixing bowl and put boiled dal, chilli flakes, grated
ginger, chat masala and mango powder. Mix well with the back
of a wooden spoon till smooth. Add tuna chunks, ground nuts,
chopped onion and green chillies. Blend all ingredients.
Add kasurimethi, egg breadcrumbs. Heat oil in a pan. Prepare
kebabs in desired shapes.
Shallow fry the kebabs carefully and sprinkle oil as required.
Serve hot with chilli sauce and potato wafers. Riniki Ghosh
Mahi Makhani Kebab
Ingredients:• ½ kg fish (boneless)
• 1 cup water
• 2 black pepper
• 1 inch cinnamon
• 4 bread slice
• 2 tbsp oil
• 1 onion Chopped
• 1 tsp ginger garlic paste
• 1 /2 tsp turmeric
• 1 tsp salt
• 1 tsp red chili powder
• ¾ tsp all apice powder
• 2 tbsp green coriander
• 4 green chilies chopped
• 1 tsp sugar
• 4 ounce butter
• 2 eggs
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Here’s the rap on wraps (sorry): At some point they became so ubiqui-tous — and they’re often
so boring — that they turned into the poster child for bad sandwiches everywhere. For those of us who strongly prefer corn tortillas over the flour ones often used in wraps, it was especially grating to see their growth, and all too easy to condemn them.
But they don’t have to be all that bad. One of the reasons they became common, in fact, is their upside: a functional design, especially for brown-bagging. And when you fill them wisely, they can be as satisfy-ing to eat as they are to tote.
One key is to make sure there’s enough moisture in there. The wrap-per — a flour tortilla, lavash bread or generic “roll-up” — is super-sturdy, which is what makes them good for transport — and what also often makes them dry. You can be gen-erous with condiments, or you can make sure the bulk of your filling includes enough wet ingredients. In the case of a wrap recipe that caught my eye recently, it was the latter, and the ingredient that I think made all the difference was avocado.
In her charming book But I Could Never Go Vegan! (The Experiment, 2014), Kristy Turner’s take on a wrap combines mashed avocado with mashed white beans in a mix-ture made tart and a little spicy by the addition of vinegar and canned green chilies, respectively. When it gets spread on lavash, topped with tomatoes and baby spinach leaves and rolled up, the result is some-thing that’s more than just func-tional enough to take to work. If you’ve dipped into the filling while making it, you might not be able to wait until lunchtime before you open up that bag and take a bite.
Avocado and White Bean Salad Wraps
2 servingsMake Ahead: The filling can be
refrigerated for up to 3 days; bring it to room temperature before making the wrap.
Adapted from But I Could Never Go Vegan! by Kristy Turner (The Experiment, 2014).
Ingredients2 teaspoons extra-virgin olive oil1/4 cup finely chopped yellow
onion1 clove garlic, finely chopped1 1/2 cups home-cooked or canned,
no-salt-added white beans, such as Great Northern or cannellini, drained
medium heat. Add the onion and garlic; cook, stirring frequently, until
tender, 4 to 6 minutes. Rinse the beans if using canned
and add them to the skillet, cook-ing briefly to warm them through. Add the tamari and vinegar; cook, stirring briefly, until the liquid has cooked away, 2 to 3 minutes.
Remove from the heat; use a fork to mash the beans.
Scoop the avocado flesh into a large bowl and mash until there are no chunks. Add the mashed beans, the lime juice, cilantro or parsley, chilies, paprika, salt and pepper, and mix until thoroughly combined. Taste, and add salt and pepper as needed. Lay out one lavash wrap. Spread half of the avocado mixture on it. Going widthwise, or the short-est distance across the lavash, lay out a row of tomato slices and a row of spinach next to it.
Repeat as needed to use half of the tomatoes and spinach.
Start rolling the wrap over the first row of tomatoes and continue until it is completely rolled up. Cut into 3 or 4 sections.
Repeat with the second wrap and remaining ingredients, and serve.
Nutrition | Per serving: 520 calories, 23 g protein, 74 g carbohydrates, 17 g fat, 2 g saturated fat, 0 mg cholesterol, 550 mg sodium, 19 g dietary fiber, 4 g sugar WP-Bloomberg
A tastier wrap is in the bag
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BOLLYWOOD NEWS
Politics on Mallika Sherawat’s mind
Inspired by Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s work, Dirty Politics actress Mallika Sherawat says if she gets the right platform, she won’t mind
joining politics. Women’s empowerment is a cause close to her heart.“If I get a good platform, I would like to join politics. If through that
platform, I can do something for the women in our society, then I would like to do it,” Mallika said.
“I’m inspired by Narendra Modi’s work. He is doing a great job. It’s not just me, the entire nation is impressed with his work,” he added.
Directed by K C Bokadia, Dirty Politic also features Om Puri.
Karan Johar in new avatar — a villain
Filmmaker Karan Johar, known for his glamorous movies, sharp one-liners and sense of humour, is seen in a new avatar in a poster of
his acting project Bombay Velvet. His villainous look with a shrewd smile and a moustache has got a thumbs up from his friends and colleagues from tinsel town.
In the Anurag Kashyap directorial, Karan plays Kaizad Khambatta, an arch rival of street fighter Johnny Balraj, played by Ranbir Kapoor.
Actor Varun Dhawan, who is gearing up for his intense and dark revenge drama Badlapur, was also floored by the intensity in Karan’s eyes.
“@karanjohar @anuragkashyap72 here comes the ACTOR. Can’t wait for bombay velvet. kaizad khambatta. Look at those eyes,” Varun tweeted.
Actress Alia Bhatt, who too debuted with Student Of The Year, also supported the filmmaker on the social medium.
“@karanjohar: The villain in @anuragkashyap72 ‘s #BombayVelvet... Kaizad Khambatta essayed by yours truly!!! Woohooooo,” she tweeted.
Overwhelmed by the response generated by the poster, Karan thanked everyone for appreciating his look.
“Thank you very much for the amazing feedback on my first look in #BombayVelvet...all credit to Niharika and Anurag,” he wrote on Twitter.
Meanwhile, actress Preity Zinta said KJo’s portrayal of a manipulative person in the film will be bang on.
“@karanjohar @anuragkashyap72 KJO! Cannot wait to see U in Bombay Velvet . Have a feeling you are going to kill it in the movie ;-))) ting,” Preity said.
Bombay Velvet is jointly produced by Phantom Films and Fox Star India, and is set for release on May 15. The film is set in the 1960s and is a large screen adaptation of Gyan Prakash’s Mumbai Fables.
Vidya mum on Benazir Bhutto biopic
Actress Vidya Balan pre-fers to maintain silence
on reports that she has been approached to portray Pakistan’s former prime minister Benazir Bhutto in an upcoming biopic. She says “many biopics” have come her way.
Asked about the reported project, Vidya said: “Even I have heard that I am doing some films this year, but I don’t know actually ... many biopics have been offered to me. “I have not decided anything yet. So I would not like to say anything about any biopic right now.”
Vidya, who portrayed Silk Smitha in The Dirty Picture in 2011, won the Best Actress National Film Award for her performance.
PLUS | TUESDAY 10 FEBRUARY 2015
By Mark Brown
A moving, groundbreaking film about growing up, which was shot with the same actors a few consecutive Sundays at a
time over 12 years, won the top awards at the 2015 Baftas.
Boyhood won best film, best director for the absent Richard Linklater and best supporting actress for Patricia Arquette.
The film, which portrays in real time a boy growing up from six to 18, has struck a chord with almost everyone who has seen it. People are watching it and then calling their mothers to apologise for things, said Arquette before the ceremony. Accepting the Bafta, she said Linklater had made a film like no other, which had broken “the rules of cinema … you made an ordinary story extraordinary.” The film’s star Ellar Coltrane, who we see growing from a boy in to a man, said it had not felt like making a movie, it felt “like an exercise of collaboration and vulnerability”.
It was a year in which no one film dominated. The most awards, five, went to The Grand Budapest Hotel and there
was success for Whiplash, Birdman, Still Alice and The Theory of Everything – and nothing for The Imitation Game and Foxcatcher.
Eddie Redmayne triumphed in the best actor category for his portrayal of Stephen Hawking in The Theory of Everything. He dedicated the award to his own family, to “his professional family”, the cast and crew, and the Hawkings, “for reminding me of the great strength that comes from the will to live a full and passionate life”. The film also won best adapted screenplay and outstanding British film.
Julianne Moore won best actress for her unbearably moving portrayal of a woman succumbing to Alzheimer’s in Still Alice.
The well-liked Whiplash, “in essence, Rocky with snare drums,” wrote the Observer’s Mark Kermode, came away with three awards including best editing, best sound and for JK Simmons as the tyrannical and ruthless music teacher Terence Fletcher, best supporting actor from an all-American shortlist. Thanking the director Damien Chazelle, his wife, children, mum and dad, Simmons said: “The whole experience
has been a gift to me.”Birdman, could probably feel
disappointed with just one award: best cinematography.
Not so The Grand Budapest Hotel, which dominated the craft categories, winning best original music, makeup and hair, costume design, production design, as well as best original screenplay for its absent director Wes Anderson.
The winner of the best documentary was Laura Poitras’ gripping Citizenfour, which documents Edward Snowden’s efforts to expose the scale of NSA post-9/11 spying. It was a predicted triumph as well as the only award where there was no one to pick it up.
Other awards included writer Stephen Beresford and producer David Livingstone winning in the outstanding British debut category for Pride; Interstellar won best special visual effects; Ida won best film not in the English language; and Jack O’Connell won the EE rising star award.
Some of the evening’s loudest applause came for The Lego Movie, which won the best animated film from a shortlist that also included Big Hero 6 and The Boxtrolls. Receiving the prize were Phil Lord and
Christopher Miller. Miller joked of the statuette: “It’s like a Halloween mask for a one-eyed child.”
In the two shorts categories, Boogaloo and Graham won best short film and The Bigger Picture won best short animation.
There had been many raised eyebrows that Mr Turner was only nominated in the craft sections, with nothing for its lead actor Timothy Spall or its director Mike Leigh. Leigh at least had a significant consolation prize: the Bafta Fellowship, presented by two actors who know his working methods well, Imelda Staunton and Sally Hawkins.
The 71-year-old Leigh, who won a best director Bafta 10 years ago for Vera Drake, joins an impressive list, from Alfred Hitchcock in 1971 to Helen Mirren last year, with names such as Elizabeth Taylor, Laurence Olivier and Judi Dench in between.
Leigh said he has was happy enough with the four nominations: “Your taste is your perogative,” he told Bafta voters. “Some people are expecting me to be rude this evening … you’re in for a disappointment.”
He thanked everyone he had ever worked with as well as “the boneheads, philistines and skinflints who said no” when asked for money. The films were better off without them, he said, then adding: “May you all rot in hell.”
BBC Films received the evening’s other special award: outstanding British contribution to cinema. It was presented by Julie Walters and Ralph Fiennes and collected by Christine Langan, representing a company responsible for more than 250 films over 25 years, from Truly Madly Deeply to Billy Elliot to Philomena.
It was a typically fun and jovial evening, leavened by poignant special tributes to Richard Attenborough from Prince William and Robert Downey Jr.
Ultimately, no one film dominated – Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid’s record of nine Baftas was never troubled – and it could be a similar pattern in a fortnight’s time. Seasoned awards observers believe the Bafta results can have a real impact on the Oscars, with voting for those not due to finish until February 17.
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Baftas 2015: Boyhood wins top honours but Grand Budapest Hotel checks out with most
The cast of Boyhood with Tom Cruise (left) after receiving the award for Best Film.
Eddie Redmayne with the award for best leading actor for The Theory of Everything.
Julianne Moore poses with the Best Leading Actress award for Still Alice.
Best Actor Eddie Redmayne,The Theory of Everything
Best Actress Julianne Moore,Still Alice
Best Supporting ActorJ.K. Simmons, Whiplash
Best Supporting ActressPatricia Arquette, Boyhood
Best foreign film Ida (Poland)
Special Effects Interstellar,Paul J. Franklin, Scott R. Fisher,
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Animated Film The Lego Movie
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Heart risks remain for a year after hospital discharge
Risks of rehospitalisation and death remain high for up to a year after an older heart
patient’s hospital discharge, a study has warned.
The researchers defined the absolute risks of rehospitalisation and death on each day during the full year after discharge.
“If we can track absolute risks and their changes over time, this information will be critical in helping patients and hospitals set realistic expectations and goals for recovery, and plan for appropriate care after discharge,” said lead author Kumar Dharmarajan, assist-ant professor at Yale School of Medicine.
However, specific risks vary by discharge diagnosis and outcomes over time.
For example, risk remains elevated for a longer period of time following hospitalisation for heart failure compared with hospitalisation for acute myocardial infarction and pneumo-nia, the researchers added.
The study looked at three million patients aged 65 or older who survived hospitalisation for heart failure, acute myocardial infarction, and pneumonia from 2008 to 2010.
“Patients should remain vigilant for dete-rioration in health for an extended time after hospitalization,” Dharmarajan pointed out.
“This might mean checking in more often with a primary care physician or specialist,” he added.
The study was published in the British Medical Journal.
Diabetes treatment should be localised, says study
The factors behind the prevalence of diabe-tes may be affected by the geography and
hence the prevention and treatment should be based on the local factors, said a study.
“In one region of the US, poverty and lower education outcomes are more predictive of higher diabetes prevalence, and in other regions, physical inactivity and obesity are more predictive,” said lead author J Aaron Hipp, assistant professor from Washington University’s Brown School in the US.
The study suggests that approaches to com-bating the disease should be localised.
Hipp and co-author Nishesh Chalise analysed county data from the US Census Bureau and the Centres for Disease Control and Prevention to find attributes associated with diabetes.
They discovered that results varied by region. Poverty levels and inactivity were asso-ciated with diabetes, but only in some areas. The percentage of the population cycling or walking to work correlated with lower preva-lence of diabetes in most counties, but not in some rural areas of Minnesota, North Dakota and South Dakota.
“Given this clustering of predictors of dia-betes prevalence, and knowing the effect of the predictors we used in our study, counties, states and regions should be able to better tar-get the most common predictors of diabetes in their more local area,” Hipp added.
The study was published in the journal Preventing Chronic Disease. Agencies
By Linda Thrasybule
Eating blueberries every day might improve borderline high blood pressure in mid-
dle-aged women, according to a small US study.
Women who ate freeze-dried blueberries for two months had lowered blood pressure and increased levels of a chemical that relaxes blood vessel walls.
“This tells us that blueberries may improve the health of blood vessels in addition to reduc-ing blood pressure,” said Sarah Johnson, a nutrition and exer-cise researcher at Florida State University in Tallahassee who led the study.
Johnson and her coauthors do not suggest that blueber-ries should replace hypertension medications. But they say the ber-ries might help offset a tendency toward rising blood pressure and stiffening blood vessels after men-opause that raises women’s heart disease risk.
Past research has suggested that blueberries may help lower blood pressure, the authors write in the Journal of the Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics. Some studies have also indicated that the flavonoids and other healthy plant compounds in blueberries may help to boost nitric oxide, a chemical that affects the cells that line blood vessel walls.
The 48 women in the study were all past menopause, with an average age of 55 and borderline high blood pressure.
For eight weeks, half the women consumed 22 grams (about 1.5 tablespoons) of freeze-dried blue-berry powder every day (equivalent
to a cup of fresh blueberries) and the other half consumed an iden-tical-looking powder that didn’t contain blueberry.
At the beginning of the study, then four and eight weeks later, researchers measured their blood pressure and the stiffness of their arteries.
According to the American Heart Association, a blood pressure reading of less than 120 mm Hg for the top number and less than 80 mm Hg for the bottom number is considered healthy. All the women in the study were either close enough to the top of the healthy range to be considered “pre-hyper-tensive” or already in the low end of the hypertension range.
At the start, the average blood pressure in both groups of women was 138/79 mm Hg. After four weeks, it hadn’t changed in either group.
After eight weeks, however, women who had been eating blue-berry powder had an average blood pressure of 131/75 mm Hg, repre-senting a drop of 5 to 6 percent. The readings of women eating the fake powder had not changed.
The researchers also found that blood nitric oxide levels rose by 68 percent among women eating the real blueberry powder. The rise in nitric oxide, which would relax and widen blood vessel walls, could have contributed to their lower blood pressure, according to Johnson.
She said the blood pressure decrease in the blueberry group is significant when compared to blood pressure medications and other types of interventions, but that it also depends on the individual.
“People respond differently to medications and in some people medications are even less effective than this,” she said.
“Some medications may work better but may also have negative side effects.”
Freeze-dried blueberry powder is available in stores and online for around $2 to $5 per ounce.
For women in the 50 to 55 age range who have borderline high blood pressure, medication isn’t always recommended, according to Dr Chileshe Nkonde-Price, director of the Penn Women’s Cardiovascular Center in Philadelphia, who was not involved with the study.
“Menopausal women who are often in that ‘gray zone’ can manage their blood pressure by maintaining a normal body weight through diet and exer-cise and watching their sodium intake,” she said. “But that can be hard to implement in every-day life.”
Nkonde-Price thinks adding a cup of blueberries to a daily diet is “simple” and something her patients can easily handle.
More research into understand-ing how blueberries affect arte-rial function is needed, however, Nkonde-Price said.
“This study opens the gateway for other foods or other drugs that could lower blood pressure through the same mechanism,” she said.
“I’d like to see more studies that show why foods or drugs work through this pathway.”
SOURCE: bit.ly/1C5buor Journal of the Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics, online January 8, 2015.
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By Samuel Gibbs
Ten years ago, a weekend journey to a friend’s wedding was likely to involve typing a postcode into Multimap, printing out step-
by-step instructions and then enduring amateur navigation from your partner in the passenger seat.
A decade on, digital maps and the inexorable rise of the smartphone have radically changed how we locate, navigate and plan our journeys. Mobiles, satnavs and computers act as our guides for eve-rything from driving holidays to nipping to the shops.
Apps such as Google Maps have become the de facto interface between the the physical and the digital world, meaning people need never be lost again — even if they don’t have a sense of direction.
While Sir Tim Berners-Lee’s nas-cent world wide web supported the first online maps in 1993, it wasn’t until the launch of Google Maps ten years ago today that digital maps began to enter the mainstream.
In 2004, Danish brothers Lars and Jens Eilstrup Rasmussen went to Google with an idea for a web app that would not only display static maps, but pro-vide people with a searchable, scrollable, zoomable map.
Google acquired their company Where 2 Technologies — along with a second company called Keyhole developing the geospatial visualisation software that would become Google Earth — and the new team of 50 people set out building Google Maps.
Google Maps launched in the US on February 8, 2005 and in the UK two months later, though by that time it wasn’t the first digital map of its kind: Yahoo had beaten Google to it with a redevelopment of its long-standing Yahoo Maps in 2004.
“Yahoo beat Google to web maps and MapQuest beat it to turn-by-turn direc-tions, but people didn’t stand up and take notice until Google Maps came along,” said Gary Gale, the Ordnance Survey’s head of APIs. “It wasn’t the first out there, but the role of Google Maps in transforming digital maps, making them popular and bringing them from a tech niche into the public consciousness can-not be underplayed.”
Google Maps didn’t stand still. Later in 2005 Google launched driving and public transport directions, but it wasn’t until the launch of satellite imagery that Hanke saw how committed Google was to the project.
“Our aim was to create one seamless, browsable map of the entire world — an Earth that you could browse,” John
Hanke, co-founder of Keyhole and vice president of Google’s geospatial division until 2011 told the Guardian. Google’s co-founders Sergey Brin and Larry Page, he said, thought that geospatial — data and information related to maps and location services — was a key element of Google’s organising the world’s information.
“At the time satellite imagery was quite expensive to acquire and scarce because there weren’t that many satel-lites available. I went to show Sergey on the map all the major cities we wanted to acquire. He looked and he just said, ‘why don’t we do all of it?’”
Street View was founder’s ideaStreet View has proved to be one of
Google Map’s most controversial but popular features. Launched for select US cities in 2006, and rolled out to Europe, Japan and Australia in 2008, the serv-ice relied on building up pictures of every street in the city using a specially equipped camera mounted on a car.
“Larry and Sergey had toured around the Stanford campus with Larry taking photos out the window of a car with a dSLR camera to experiment with stitch-ing them together,” said Hanke. “That was their idea, but it took a partnership with Stanford and Sebastian Blune to make it work.” Each car was fitted with a range of sensors including GPS, which allowed Google to trace routes and meant the company no longer had to reply on data from third parties.
The cameras also captured road signs, house numbers and other data not visible from the sky, giving its maps local knowl-edge of no-turns, speed limits and other street rules. This was all part of what Google termed “Ground Truth”, aiming to create the most accurate, detailed maps possible.
Google Maps debuts on first iPhoneGoogle Maps first appeared on a
smartphone in 2007 on Apple’s first iPhone — a very different era when Google and Apple were partners more than rivals as they are today.
“Smartphones were the key crystal-lising moment causing people to fall back in love with the map,” said Gale. “Digital maps are essential to everyday life — you wouldn’t buy a smartphone without them.”
“Steve Jobs called me at my desk to ask me to help out on a project — he wouldn’t tell me what it was, but of course I knew,” said Hanke. “We worked closely with Apple to get maps ready for the launch of the first iPhone, which opened up so many possibilities.”
Google Maps has since added turn-by-turn satellite navigation, Zagat restaurant ratings, traffic updates
and expanded Street View to include Venetian canals and the Grand Canyon — yet progress has not always been smooth.
In 2010 it was revealed that Street View cars had also been capturing information about private Wi-Fi net-works as they roamed the streets of US and Europe, prompting a $7m fine from US authorities. The service’s expansion into Europe, especially in Germany, also caused home owners to take issue with their property being captured and placed online for the world to see without their permission.
“We were doing something that hadn’t been done before,” said Hanke. “People had put up with surveyors going out with range finders and survey equipment, but now cars with cameras were doing the work. It was a learning process for us, the whole idea of photography in a public space and what it means; it was a big cultural shock and we were part of it.”
And the competition?Google Maps faces ever increasing
competition. Some, such as popular third party travel app Citymapper, use Google’s own mapping data, while other services have created their own geospa-tial resources.
Apple turned from partner to com-petitor in 2012, deciding to dump Google Maps from the iPhone for Apple Maps. The company quickly learned that mak-ing a solid map service was more difficult than it looked, forcing chief executive Tim Cook to publicly apologise for the bug-ridden product. Today it is a viable alternative and gaining in popularity as the default maps app for the iPhone, iPad and Mac computers.
Microsoft’s Bing Maps was one of the first to improve upon top-down aerial images, introducing a birds-eye view that allows browsers to see streets and build-ings from a 45-degree angle.
Nokia also acquired the largest maker
of automotive-grade map data, Navteq, in 2007 and has been using it to build highly accurate maps which it sells to other companies, including Garmin, BMW and Amazon.
Beyond the professional maps, there are also collaborative projects such Open Street Map creating free, editable maps of the world and relying on users to cor-rect things that are wrong in much the same way as Wikipedia.
“The mapping war isn’t over, and it won’t ever be,” said Gale. “It’s all about the fight to keep the map accurate and to give it context. A map is never fin-ished, there is always more to be done. Anyone who gives people and business what they want, making it valuable to them will win.”
The future of maps is indoorsFor Gale, the next five years in map-
ping technology will be about a new gen-eration of sensors to take over from GPS and mobile phone signal triangulation.
“The moment we get cut off from GPS the mapping experience becomes rubbish. We need something to fill the gap for mapping indoors, where accu-rate positioning is difficult. We’re not clear on what that will be yet – whether Bluetooth beacons or another suite of sensors,” Gale said.
The future of the digital map, how-ever, is not actually of the map, but using the map. Projects like those created by Hanke’s own Niantic Labs are good examples.
Field Trip, for instance, uses location awareness to notify users of interesting landmarks, features and places in the real world. Another, Ingress, is a location aware game that overlays a virtual play-ing field on top of our towns and cities.
These are the next evolution of the map, humanising and contextualising location to make it more relevant to us.
The Guardian
Google Maps:A decade of transforming the mapping landscape
“The mapping war isn’t over, and it won’t ever be. It’s all about the fight to keep the map accurate and to give it context. A map is never finished, there is always more to be done. Anyone who gives people and business what they want, making it valuable to them will win.”
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Chilean mountaineers say they have found the wreckage of a plane that crashed in the
Andes 54 years ago, killing 24 people, including eight members of a profes-sional soccer team.
The group said they came across the wreckage at an altitude of about 10,500 feet (3,200 metres) about 215 miles (360 kilometres) south of Santiago, the capital. Expedition member Leonardo Albornoz told Chile’s Channel 7 they’re keeping the exact site secret to prevent looting.
The disappearance of the Douglas DC-3 carrying members of the top-division Chilean team Green Cross on April 3, 1961 was one of the great unsolved mysteries in the South American country and at the time stunned the sporting world.
The club had played an away match in Osorno in the Copa de Chile and was returning to Santiago. The team and staff were spread over two flights. One of the planes reached the Chilean capi-tal and the other apparently vanished.
Rescuers spent fruitless weeks searching for the missing plane and
symbolic funerals for the missing players drew huge crowds in Chile.
“It was a breathtaking moment and we felt all kinds of sensations. One could feel the energy of the place and breathe the pain,” Albornoz said of apparent discovering the wreckage.
The mountaineers said they could
see a good part of the fuselage without needing to dig it out and found scat-tered debris and bones. The location of the wreckage was not where official publications indicated it should be.
Green Cross played in Chile’s first division until it was dissolved in 1965.
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A group of Chilean mountaineers pose for a photo on what they say is the wreck-age of a plane that crashed in the Andes 54 years ago.
