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DPS faculty attends Running & Coaching A Debate Club workshop
Kareena has many adorable
qualities: Saif Ali Khan
Loosen the reigns on your childBanning sugar may be more of an enemy to your children’s health than letting them indulge (mindfully of course)
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DPS Modern Indian School faculty Somasundaram Narayanan (pictured)
attended 5 weeks prolonged work-shop sequences specified ‘Running and Coaching a Debate Club’ directed by Qatar Debate from October 18, 2017 to November 17, 2017 for five long sessions which focused to delegate pursuing debate coaches with inventive ideas & procedures to efficaciously superintend their debate club in schools.
This collective and interactive session of the workshop was reg-ulated auspiciously by Abdur Rehman (coach) with arrays of practical exercises. The subsisting and contemporary Debate Coaches and coordinators from preparatory and secondary schools throughout Qatar took part in it instinctively. Establishing the debate club, Train-ing Qatar debate format, Public
Speaking, Critical thinking, prop-osition case & arguments and opposition case & refutation were the contrasting area inscribed with. Finally, the certification was done to all the participants.
The Washington Post
Ten years ago, girls were so scarce in high school computer science classes that the number of female students taking
Advanced Placement tests in that subject could be counted on one hand in nine states. In five others, there were none.
Latino and African American students were also in short supply, a problem that has bedev-iled educators for years and hindered efforts to diversify the high-tech workforce.
Now, an expansion of AP computer science classes is helping draw more girls and underrep-resented minorities into a field of growing importance for schools, universities and the economy.
Testing totals for female, black and Latino students all doubled in 2017, following the national debut of an AP course in computer sci-ence principles. It joined a longer-established AP course focused on the programming language Java.
Racial and gender imbalances persist. But education leaders said the data show a signifi-cant advance in a quest to banish the stereotype that computer science is mainly for coding geeks
who tend to be white or Asian American boys.“We’re trying to diversify a field that for what-
ever reason has remained not so for generations,” said David Coleman, president of the College Board, which oversees the AP program. “Really, what this is about is computer science breaking out of its narrow role.”
Coleman acknowledged “there’s more work to do.” About 27 percent of roughly 100,000 AP
computer science test-takers last spring were girls. Black students accounted for 5 percent of those tested and Latino students for 15 percent, well below their overall shares of school enroll-ment. The quest to broaden the computer science talent pool hinges, in many ways, on stoking the passion of students such as Adesoji Adenusi and Daijah Etienne to explore the power of programming.
DPS faculty attends Running & Coaching Debate Club Workshop
Ethera Api organisation - Qatar branch is a leading community organisation
working for the betterment of Sri Lankan expatriates. It is also a registered body at the Sri Lankan Embassy and is going to conduct a public lecture titled ‘New perspectives on Sri Lankan history’ on January 19 at Plaza Inn Hotel, Doha. The lecture will be conducted by an eminent professor in the field of archae-ology Dr Raj Somadewa, who will arrive on in the four-day visit.
Ambassador of Sri Lanka to Qatar, A S P Liyanage, will be the chief guest of the event.
Professor Somadeva gradu-ated in a number of Sri Lankan and Foreign Universities has been honoured extensively locally and globally for
his contributions to the field. Currently he is working as a sen-ior professor in archaeology in the post graduate institute of University of Kelaniya.
According to the organising committee, the upcoming lec-ture will facilitate the participants to recognise several inspiring findings pertaining to the Sri Lankan history which came to light from recent researches conducted.
Further, the organising com-mittee advises the intended participants to confirm the attendance in advance as lim-ited seats are available for the event which will be conducted free of charge.
More details can be obtained by contacting Prasanna (70548160), Aruna (55793260) or Asaal (66033117)
Public lecture on latest findings of Sri Lankan history on January 19
Expansion of AP computer science draws more girls & minorities
COVER STORY WEDNESDAY 10 JANUARY 201804
The Washington Post
As a new year begins, I hear many of the typi-c a l r e s t r i c t i v e resolutions: I will give up gluten, cut sugar etc.
Many parents announce they are going to do a better job restricting their kids’ intake of sugar, because this past year they were too permis-sive. No more soda, sugary cereal or ice cream in the house. Instead it will be all vegetables all the time.
Does restriction actually work? The answer is no. Restricting food does not create healthy eating hab-its: In fact it usually backfires, steering children to sneak food and overeat.
Food restriction has many faces. Parents restrict when they control portion size or limit seconds. Par-ents restrict when they ban certain foods from the house. I am guilty of
this; my boys beg me to buy Pop-Tarts, but I haven’t because they scream processed food unhealthi-ness. What has happened as a result of my refusal? My boys want Pop-Tarts more than any other food. Big backfire. Parents also restrict when they buy only “healthy” versions of foods, such as only fat-free cheese or brown rice. Sometimes kids just want that real cheese or white rice.
My restriction stems from fear. I know the science behind how powerful healthy food can be and how damaging too much unhealthy food can be, and so I clamp down on things like Pop-Tarts. Other par-ents restrict because they are afraid their child will be, or already is, overweight. Perhaps diabetes is a worry, or the parents have their own painful memories of being over-weight as a child.
No matter which expression of restriction inhabits your house, the
outcome is usually the same dam-aged relationship to food.
In her book, “It’s Not About the Broccoli,” Dina Rose talks about the danger of having a “nutrition mind-set” when parents focus too intently on the nutrients or amount of sugar their kids consume daily, rather than looking at the long view of teaching their children to eat a vari-ety of foods in moderation. She explains, “The more that parents focus on nutrition, the worse their kids are likely to eat.”
Studies show that if you pres-sure your child to eat less or you restrict their food intake, they eat more, especially sweets, whenever they have the chance.
Ask yourself, is your end goal to restrict sugar today? Or is it to teach your children skills such as how to navigate a world with tempting foods, how to eat enough but not too much, how to try new foods
without fear, and how to enjoy a variety of foods? If you force your child to eat more healthy foods, they stop trusting their bodies to alert them when they are full. If you with-hold particular foods, your kids won’t learn to self-regulate or eat those foods in moderation.
Teaching your children to trust your instincts is dangerous, and as Rose explains, it becomes “a self-fulfilling prophecy: You don’t think your kids can self-regulate, so you interfere. Because you interfere, your kids never learn to self-regulate.”
It’s better to teach kids to listen to their own hunger cues and let them decide how much to eat based on those cues. They will make some mistakes and overeat, but mistakes help children learn. If a child doesn’t study for a test and receives a bad grade, hopefully next time she stud-ies harder.
Banning sugar may not be the best strategy
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If she forgets her shin guards and isn’t allowed to play in the soc-cer game, hopefully she’ll pack all of her gear for the next game. Eat-ing is no different. If she overeats and feels sick, hopefully the next time she remembers that feeling and does a better job listening to her stomach. If a parent brings her the forgotten shin guards or forces her to stop eating when he thinks she is full, will she ever learn? Probably not.
Every child is different, and these differences can affect the way in which each child relates to food and restriction. For instance, one of my boys has always been able to self-regulate, to eat a few bites of ice cream and stop when he is full. The minute you tell my other son he can’t have something, he wants it even more.
Regardless of your child’s tem-perament, restricting has a negative effect. For instance, when you restrict the more self-regulatory child, he may follow your rules and
appear to have a fine relationship with food, while in truth he feels ashamed that he secretly wants those restricted foods even though you are praising him for not eating them. Or, he is learning that some foods are unacceptable to eat, so if he ever does eat them even in mod-eration, he may feel he has done something wrong. On the flip side, another type of child may resist your restriction and then learn the different lesson that food is a bat-tle, something to control, and that he should eat as much of something as he can because he may not get it again.
When food is restricted, many children begin to see it as a battle-ground. Imagine the child who constantly wants a certain food or more food but cannot have it. He builds up frustration and possibly negative associations with eating, satiety and consumption. Children do not want to be controlled by their parents, yet they are - we make them sit in a car seat, go to bed, take out the garbage, turn off the technology. By age 2, children learn that food is one thing they can control and win.
If you are constantly at war with your child over food, your child will start to associate eating with stress, and perhaps begin to harbour feelings of guilt and shame that they want food you do not
want them to have. When a child finishes every family dinner angry and ashamed, you have lost. When a child finishes every family din-ner satiated physically and emotionally, you have won.
If you identify with any of these issues, then make 2018 your year to rethink restriction. Here is how:
1. Adopt Ellyn Satter’s ‘Divi-sion of Responsibility’ where parents decide what, when and where food is served, and children decide how much and whether they eat these foods. This means you must allow your children to keep eating whatever you serve even when you are pretty darn sure they are no longer hungry.
2. Designate meal and snack times so that eating has structure.
3. If you and your child are at war over food, you must remove the conflict. Stop restricting, at least temporarily. Allow sugary foods into the house (with some struc-ture, of course). As you ease up and assure your child that you are no longer trying to control them, they will back down from their own fight.
4. Give your children con-trol, such as what to pack in their lunch, how much of a certain food they will put on their plate and eat, next week’s dinner menu, and which snacks you will buy.
5. Designate a drawer in the house for sweets, decide how many times a day or week your family indulges in these sweets, and then give your kids the choice as to what to have and when. If the food is in the house, and kids know they can have some, they won’t feel as des-perate to gorge. Remember, the goal isn’t to prevent your child from ever eating sugar, it is to teach them to eat it in moderation.
6. Tell your kids about your new plan and structures, that you will stop trying to control their food intake because you want to help them learn to listen to their bodies.
Feeding kids is not easy. I have made so many mistakes, which my kids will be happy to shout from the rooftops. But a new year signi-fies a new start, so let’s take it. I am kicking mine off with a box of Pop-Tarts.
When food is restricted, many children begin to see it as a battleground.
LIFESTYLE WEDNESDAY 10 JANUARY 201806
The Washington Post
As a designer and avid cook, I’m often asked what material I recommend for kitchen coun-
tertops. My answer: honed marble (statuary or Carrara are my favour-ites) or soapstone because I like their mellow look juxtaposed with my kitchen’s polished-nickel fixtures and semi gloss-painted cabinets.
But I always add the caveat that such materials can stain and chip eas-ily. My counter tops have nicks along their edges where I’ve accidentally banged a heavy pot, and their share of stains, particularly under the cof-fee maker. But neither scrape nor spot bother me; they are evidence of time well spent, food made and enjoyed.
For years, many architects and kitchen designers steered their cli-ents away from natural-stone counter tops such as marble, limestone and soapstone because of their porous, fragile nature, but people have eased up in their attitudes about having a perfect kitchen. Jennifer Gilmer,
founder of Jennifer Gilmer Kitchen & Bath in Chevy Chase, Maryland and co-author of “The Kitchen Bible,” has designed more than a thousand kitch-ens during her 30-year career, and although she says it is “safer” to use man-made stone - such as Corian or Caeserstone - she advises clients to focus on the look that they want and what best suits the project as opposed to whether the material stains.
When it comes to natural stone’s finish, Gilmer, like me, prefers honed. Not only does honed stone look more interesting than super-sleek polished stone, but it’s also more user-friendly.
“If the client is going with marble, it has to be honed; otherwise it will show every scratch and etching,” she says. That’s not to say that honed stones are blemish-free; some honed stones will show oil from fingerprints, and dark polished stones will show everything: Fingerprints, spills, crumbs. Gilmer suggests getting a sample of the counter you are con-sidering and using it at home for a while to see whether you like the way it performs.
Most natural-stone counter tops should be sealed using a clear liquid silicone that can be bought at a hard-ware store. My fabricator recommended StoneTech counter-top sealer, which works on almost all natural stones ($22.39 for a 24-ounce spray bottle, amazon.com). Sealing does not make the stone stain-proof, but it makes it more stain-resistant. Your fabricator typically seals the stone before it is delivered and
installed, and then it’s sealed again after installation. Gilmer recommends that you reseal your counter tops about once or twice a year depend-ing on how much you use your kitchen. Soapstone and slate should be oiled with mineral oil several times a year, which will help them resist staining. (I oil my soapstone four times a year; this makes it one of the more high-maintenance stones.) You will know your counter tops are sealed and/or oiled properly when
water beads on the surface.The key to keeping your natural-
stone counter tops looking their best is simple: Clean up spills as soon as you see them. The longer you let cof-fee, lemon juice, cranberry juice or salad dressing sit on your counter, the more it will penetrate and leave a stain. If you do end up with a stain (like my coffee-stained marble), chances are it can be removed. The Natural Stone Institute (marble-insti-tute.com) lists solutions to many common stains. (It turns out you can get rid of coffee stains by mixing a small amount of hydrogen peroxide in water with a few drops of ammo-nia and then applying it to the stain with a clean white rag.)
Sometimes, however, a stain is bad enough that you need to call in the professionals. Gilmer once had a client go on vacation and leave a bas-ket of tomatoes on her counter. The tomatoes ripened, dissolved into the counter top and stained it. Gilmer immediately contacted the counter top installer, who was able to get the stains out. In some cases, Gilmer adds, stains may not come out totally, but you can usually make them less noticeable.
The counter argument for natural stoneThe key to keeping your natural-stone counter tops looking their best is simple: Clean up spills as soon as you see them.
BOLLYWOODWEDNESDAY 10 JANUARY 2018 07
IANS
‘Boom Boom In New York’, an ensemble cast 3D comedy starring Karan Johar (pic-
tured, right), Diljit Dosanjh (pictured, left), Sonakshi Sinha Riteish Deshmukh, Lara Dutta, Boman Irani and more, will hit the screens on February 23.
Producer Vashu Bhagnani announced the release date yester-day, read a statement.
“‘Boom Boom In New York’ will be a new entertaining experience
for theatre audiences. I am pretty sure our audiences have not seen so many big stars together in one film,” Bhagnani said in a statement. The movie is being described as a
“heartfelt, rib-tickling comedy that tells the story of two unlikely young-sters living in India in search of a better life for themselves”. It is about how an unexpected trip to New York City sets them off on a life-chang-ing comic adventure.
Produced by Pooja Films and Wiz Films, it is directed by Chakri Toleti.
The Karni Sena, a Rajput out-fit, yesterday once again threatened the makers of
the controversial film ‘Padmavat’ of dire consequences if it was released on January 25.
The film, cleared by the CBFC after a few cuts and renamed from ‘Padmavati’ to ‘Padmavat’, is scheduled to release on January 25 across India. The film will, how-ever, not be released in Rajasthan.
Addressing reporters, National Convenor of the Karni Sena, Lokendra Singh Kalvi said they will financially harm the producer of the film Sanjay Leela Bhansali and said their demand now was a ban on the film. He also urged the Prime Minister and the Cen-sor Board to understand the
“sentiments behind” their protests and also the “seriousness of the issue”. There will be curfew if this film is released, he threatened.
Adding that the film was made
during the demonetisation days, the Karni Sena convenor also called for a probe into the financ-ing of the film which stars Deepika Padukone, Ranveer Singh and Shahid Kapoor in main roles.
Kalvi also alleged that he had been threatened on phone from Pakistan, a location “somewhere near Lahore” for protesting against the release of the film.
“Why is Pakistan so interested in the matter,” he asked.
Before the press conference at the Press Club here, Kalvi, along with some office bearers of his outfit, called on Uttarakhand Chief Minister Trivendra Singh Rawat and sought a ban on screening of the film in the hill state.
The outfit said Kalvi was right in demanding the film-ban which was aimed at protecting the hon-our of the Rajputs as he was the 24th descendant of Maharana Pratap and 37th generation descendant of Rani Padmavati.
‘Boom Boom In New York’ to release on February 23
Karni Sena again warns against release of ‘Padmavat’
Actor Saif Ali Khan (pictured, right) says that his wife Kareena Kapoor Khan has
many adorable qualities.“There are so many adorable
qualities about her (Kareena) like time management, organisation, fitness, discipline and she is very patient also,” said Saif while talk-ing about Kareena at the promotional interviews of his forthcoming film “Kaalakaandi”.
Saif and his ex-wife Amrita Singh’s daughter Sara Ali Khan is making her Bollywood debut with Abhishek Kapoor’s film “Kedar-nath” and the actor says that he has given many advices to the young face.
“I have given her so many pieces of advice. I told her to be honest and to find what is special inside her and not to be like other people,” he said.
“She understands all of this. She
always wanted to be an actor and I think she will be great. We worry about children as this profession has so much drama to it. So I had thought she will do some normal job because she is brilliant student, but I guess nobody wants that (nor-mal job),” added Saif.
Saif Ali Khan has completed 25 years in the industry and he finds his journey interesting.
“As far as my acting journey is concerned, in these 25 years, it has been interesting, full of ups and downs and learning constantly,” he said.
“I think from last year, I gave more thought to acting than before. My last year’s films like ‘Rangoon’,
‘Chef’ and now ‘Kaalakandi’ are better performances than before.
“My upcoming film ‘Bazaar’ is also very commercial film but I think its good work and it will be interesting. I am playing slightly
dangerous guy in it so it will be fun,” added Saif.
Apart from Saif, “Kaalakaandi” also features Akshay Oberoi, Deepak Dobriyal, Amyra Dastur, Vijay Raaz, Shobhita Dhulipala and Shehnaaz Treasury.
It has been directed and writ-ten by Akshat Verma, who is famous for his adult comedy movie
“Delhi Belly”, and produced by Rohit Khattar and Ashi Dua.
The movie is scheduled to release on Friday
Kareena has many adorable qualities: Saif Ali Khan
HOLLYWOOD WEDNESDAY 10 JANUARY 201808
IANS
‘The Shape Of Water’, an American dark fantasy drama film directed by Guillermo del Toro, leads the nominations for the British Acad-
emy Film Awards 2018, to be hosted by the British Academy of Film and Television Arts (BAFTA) with 12 nods.
The nominations were announced yester-day, according to a statement on the official BAFTA website.
‘Darkest Hour’ and ‘Three Billboards Out-side Ebbing, Missouri’ have both received nine nominations while ‘Blade Runner 2049’ and
‘Dunkirk’ have tied at eight. ‘I, Tonya’ has received five nominations,
‘Call Me by Your Name’ and ‘Phantom Thread’ have four each and ‘Film Stars Don’t Die in Liv-erpool’, ‘Lady Bird’ and ‘Paddington 2’ have been nominated in three categories each.
Four other feature films have received one nomination each: ‘Molly’s Game’ for Adapted Screenplay, ‘War for the Planet of the Apes’ for
Special Visual Effects and ‘Victoria & Abdul’ and ‘Wonder’ both for Make-up and Hair.
‘The Shape of Water’ is nominated for Best Film, Original Music, Cinematography, Pro-duction Design, Costume Design, Sound, Editing and Special Visual Effects.
Toro, who won Best Director at the 75th Golden Globe Awards on Sunday, is nominated for both Director and Original Screenplay while Sally Hawkins is running for Leading Actress and Octavia Spencer for Supporting Actress.
The nominations for Film Not in the Eng-lish Language are ‘Elle’, ‘First They Killed My Father’, ‘The Handmaiden’, ‘Loveless’ and ‘The Salesman’.
In the Animated Film category, competi-tors are ‘Coco’, ‘Loving Vincent’ and ‘My Life as a Courgette’. The nominations in the Docu-mentary category are ‘City of Ghosts’, ‘I Am Not Your Negro’, ‘Icarus’, ‘An Inconvenient Sequel’ and ‘Jane’. The BAFTA Awards will be held on February 18 at the Royal Albert Hall, London. The ceremony will be hosted by Joanna Lumley.
Veteran actress Meryl Streep (pictured) says she was not expecting to find singer
Mariah Carey on her seat at the Golden Globe Awards ceremony.
On “Jimmy Kimmel Live!”, Streep shared her reaction to Carey accidentally stealing her seat during a commercial break.
“She stole my seat,” Streep jok-ingly told host Jimmy Kimmel.
“Yeah, I came over and there she was next to (Steven) Spielberg
sucking up. She said, ‘Oh my god they made me sit down!’ Because you know we’re moving they make you... Everyone has to drop to their seat,” the celebrated actress recalled, likening the moment to musical chairs.
“I was left out. I said, ‘No, no. Stay there. I’ll sit on your lap.’ Because you know it looked comfy,” Streep said.
During the 75th annual awards show, Carey, who was nominated for her song in the ani-mated film “The Star”, tweeted from the audience about her encounter with Streep, who was nominated for best actress.
“Got caught mingling on the way to the loo during a commer-cial break. Took the first seat available, happens to be right next to Steven Spielberg,” Carey wrote.
“Cut to next commercial break, guess who comes back to her seat....” According to Carey, Streep told her: “You can take my seat any time!”
TV show host Jimmy Kimmel (pictured) says he is in no hurry to start writing his
material for his hosting gig at the Academy Awards 2018.
Whether it is related to indus-try’s ongoing discussion about sexual misconduct or the cam-paign by women to lead a change—the themes which dom-inated the conversation at Golden Globe Awards on Sunday—Kim-mel says it is difficult to judge what the mood will be at the event to be held on March 4, reports cnn.com.
“I do thank (Seth Meyers) for being that litmus test,” Kimmel told reporters at the Television Critics Association press tour, ref-erencing the Golden Globes host.
“As far as how I will handle it, the problem is it’s two months from now. So it’s almost like get-ting into a hot tub or something; you can’t really know what the temperature is until you get there. I couldn’t tell you that I have one joke in mind that I know I’ll do.”
Whether sexual harassment
will continue to be top of mind remains to be seen, said Kimmel. But he thinks the moment had a noticeable impact on the red car-pet, reports cnn.com.
“I thought the red carpet was really interesting because people were talking about something for once, and I think that was refresh-ing. And at the very least, it was great to see people discussing something of significance. I think, ultimately, how can you argue that any of this is anything but good?”
‘The Shape Of Water’ leads BAFTA nominations
When Carey ‘stole’ Streep’s chair at Golden Globes
Jimmy Kimmel in no hurry to write Oscar jokes
FOODWEDNESDAY 10 JANUARY 2018 09
Joe Yonan The Washington Post
When it comes to food, here are three of my favorite words, especially when
they’re together: sweet and sour. What is it about this combination that is so appealing once it hits the palate? It just tastes, well, right.
The latest Brussels sprouts rec-ipe to join my weekly repertoire depends on this agrodolce, as the Italians so mellifluously put it.
You briefly steam Brussels sprouts to get them going, then toss them with a lot of shallots, along with olive oil, salt, pepper — and the all-important marriage of bal-samic vinegar and honey. After about a half-hour, the lot is nicely caramelised, and you toss it with cooked lentils.
The finishing touch: More sweet and sour, in the form of more bal-samic vinegar you’ve boiled down with a pinch of sugar into a glaze. The result is a warm, hearty salad perfect for the cool weather, served
as an entree or side dish. If you save this one for Thanksgiving, I wouldn’t blame you.
Caramelised Brussels Sprouts and Lentil Salad
4 servingsThis salad lends a sweet-and-
sour approach to Brussels sprouts, and the addition of lentils takes them into main-course territory.
Adapted from “Naturally Veg-etarian” by Valentina Solfrini (Avery, 2017).
Ingredients1 1/2 cups brown lentils, picked
over and rinsed1 1/2 pounds Brussels sprouts10 large shallots3 tablespoons extra-virgin olive
oil1/2 cup plus 2 tablespoons bal-
samic vinegar1 tablespoon honey or maple
syrup1 teaspoon salt, plus more as
needed1/2 teaspoon freshly ground
black pepper1 teaspoon sugarSliced almonds, for garnish
StepsPour the lentils into a large pot
and cover with water by at least 1 inch. Bring the water to a boil over medium-high heat, then reduce the heat to medium-low and cook until the lentils are tender yet still retain their shape, 20 to 30 minutes. Drain them in a fine-mesh strainer, briefly rinse with cold water, and let dry.
Preheat the oven to 400 degrees.
Trim any damaged leaves off the Brussels sprouts. Trim at the root ends, and make a shallow crisscross cut on the bottom of each one, placing them in a steamer bas-ket set over a large pot filled with a few inches of water. Once they’re all prepped, turn the heat to medium, and, once the water is barely bubbling, cover and cook/steam for about 10 minutes, or until they start to get tender on the outside.
Cut the shallots in half length-wise, cut off the tough root, and then cut each in half lengthwise again. Transfer to a rimmed bak-ing sheet, along with the Brussels sprouts, oil, 2 tablespoons of the
balsamic vinegar, the honey or maple syrup, the salt and pepper. Use your hands to toss together and coat evenly. Roast (middle rack), shaking the pan occasionally, until the vegetables are tender and slightly caramelized, about 30 minutes.
Meanwhile, heat the remaining 1/2 cup of balsamic vinegar in a nonstick skillet over medium-high heat, then stir in the sugar. Cook until the mixture has reduced by half (to 1/4 cup) to form a glaze. Pour into a glass measuring cup to cool (during which time it will get slightly stickier).
Transfer the roasted vegetables to a large bowl, add the cooked len-tils and toss well to incorporate. Taste, and add more salt, as needed.
Divide among individual plates, garnish with the sliced almonds and drizzle with the balsamic glaze. Serve warm or at room temperature.
Nutrition: Per serving: 470 cal-ories, 23 g protein, 78 g carbohydrates, 13 g fat, 2 g satu-rated fat, 0 mg cholesterol, 610 mg sodium, 19 g dietary fiber, 16 g sugar.
Caramelised brussels sprouts and lentil salad
BOOK REVIEW WEDNESDAY 10 JANUARY 201810
The Washington Post
Stan Lee, who turned 95 last week, still commands the cen-tre spotlight as the greatest
living ambassador of comics. His towering presence as editor and showman runs through two of the most notable books from last year about the superhero industry.
The lore about the longtime Marvel mastermind abounds, as tales of Lee’s professional rise, the iconic 1960s characters born under his editorship and his push into Hol-lywood enliven scores of recent books. Of those, Sean Howe’s ‘Mar-vel Comics: The Untold Story’ is one of the most illuminating; and the illustrated ‘Amazing Fantastic Incredible: A Marvellous Memoir,”’by Peter David, Colleen Doran and Lee himself, is one of the most entertaining.
Joining that shelf is ‘Stan Lee: The Man Behind Marvel’ by cul-tural historian Bob Batchelor
(Rowman & Littlefield), which neatly threads together so many Lee sto-ries - and they are not always entirely consistent in Lee’s own retellings.
Batchelor takes us from Stanley Martin Lieber’s humble origins in Manhattan and the Bronx - his father, born in Romania in 1886, fled the pogroms and had landed at New York’s harbour in 1905 - through the Depression, as Lee’s mother urges him to complete his schooling quickly so he can work to help the struggling family.
From there, Batchelor notes the foggy variations on how Lee pro-gressed from high school to Timely Comics, Marvel’s predecessor, as run by a relative of Lee’s. As Batchelor writes: ‘Many episodes in Lieber’s early life are shrouded in ambigu-ity,’ and his Timely hiring to assist Joe Simon and Jack Kirby, who were on the verge of creating Captain America, involved “both a bit of mystery and a touch of mythmaking.”
‘The Man Behind Marvel’ is a thorough primer for the newcomer to the tale of Lee’s legendary 1960s rise. Batchelor delves into not only how Lee worked as an editor - the creative freedom he gave many art-ists worked to his advantage, too
- but also how he built himself into a celebrity brand synonymous with the Marvel name.
Batchelor’s biography serves the reader well till the 1990s - at which point, you might want to switch over to ‘Slugfest: Inside the Epic 50-Year Battle Between Marvel and DC,’ by freelance entertainment writer Reed Tucker (Da Capo). Although Tucker’s book spans about a half-century, the work particularly comes to life once the 1990s arrive, as the author often relies on the very words of creators and editors who are still working today.
‘Slugfest’ is at its best when it becomes a virtual oral history of the Big Two comics publishers after Frank Miller and Alan Moore alter the entire industry in the mid-80s through their epic Batman and Watchmen titles. (The incisive words from comics-makers help lend heft
to Tucker’s breezy tone, too.) The author traces how Marvel was on the verge of conceivable extinction by the late 1990s, setting up the turn-of-the-century decisions we see playing out today.
‘Slugfest’ is a book best appreci-ated by those who have a true curiosity about, say, the motivations and controversies of such comics executives as former DC editor Paul Levitz and onetime Marvel editor Joe Quesada, the latter of whom gave an especially incendiary and divisive interview to my former Washington Post colleague Sridhar Pappu, published in the New York Observer in 2002. Leaders help raise
or lower the tempers between the empires.
Just as comic-book series cycle from inspired to tired, the dynamics between DC and Marvel run good to bad and back, with noted periods of detente and creative crossovers to mine comics-’event’ stunts for money.
‘Slugfest’ feels very much in its comfort zone when covering the past two decades, as ‘Men in Black’ became a huge box-office hit of a small-comic adaptation, and as X-Men and Spider-Man finally found their way to the screen after years of less-than-savvy Hollywood deal making by Marvel, and right as effects technology finally caught up to Spidey’s cinematic needs.
Two books explain the rise of Marvel & DC ‘The Man Behind Marvel’ is a thorough primer for the newcomer to the tale of Lee’s legendary 1960s rise.
MUSICWEDNESDAY 10 JANUARY 2018 11
The Washington Post
Those of us on the edge of our seats in anticipation of Mar-vel Studios’ “Black Panther”
film might soon just fall off.The studio announced that
rapper Kendrick Lamar (pic-tured) and record label chief Anthony “Top Dawg” Tiffith will curate and produce the sound-track to the Ryan Coogler-directed movie, which hits theaters February 16. A new lead single by Lamar and label mate SZA, “All the Stars,” accom-panied the news.
“The magnitude of this film showcases a great marriage of art and culture,” Lamar said in a release. “I’m truly honoured to contribute my knowledge of pro-ducing sound and writing music alongside Ryan and Marvel’s
vision.” The collaboration marks a pair of firsts. “Black Panther: The Album” is the rapper’s first time writing, performing, pro-ducing and curating music for a film of this scale, according to the release. It’s also Marvel’s first soundtrack to include multiple original recordings.
But Lamar is just the latest in a line of popular performers
who have curated soundtracks for film and television. Here are some others worth noting. Lorde,
“The Hunger Games: Mockingjay Pt. 1” (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack)
Much before “Melodrama” sent waves through the pop music scene, the singer put together a star-studded album for the 2014 “Hunger Games” installment. Her lead track, “Yel-low Flicker Beat,” climbed charts after ranking as the highest launch by a female artist on Bill-board’s Alternative Songs chart in 19 years. Kanye West later reworked the single with some very Yeezy-esque echoes and feedback in a track also included on the album. Other Lorde-cho-sen artists included Ariana Grande, CHVRCHES, Miguel and Tinashe.
In the quarter-century since its release, the song ‘Creep’ by Radiohead has become something of a case study in pop music pla-
giarism, perennially showing up on those lists of sound-alike songs that tend to circulate whenever musicians sue each other for cop-yright infringement.
After Radiohead released the breakthrough
hit in 1992, a pair of songwriters, Albert Ham-mond and Mike Hazlewood, noticed that it bore more than a few similarities to a song called ‘The Air That I Breathe’ that they had composed for The Hollies two decades ear-lier. Hammond and Hazlewood sued, and Radiohead agreed to give them co-writing credits.
Fast forward to 2018 and, in a develop-ment dripping with irony, Radiohead is reportedly preparing a legal fight to protect its artistic and pecuniary interests in ‘Creep.’
Lana Del Rey (pictured, left) confirmed rumours published over the weekend in a Brit-ish tabloid that Radiohead front man Thom Yorke (pictured) and the band’s other mem-bers were considering suing her for copyright infringement over the song ‘Get Free’ from her most recent album. “It’s true about the lawsuit,” the 32-year-old singer-songwriter tweeted. “Although I know my song wasn’t inspired by Creep, Radiohead feel it was and want 100 percent of the publishing - I offered up to 40 over the last few months but they will only accept 100. Their lawyers have been relentless, so we will deal with it in court.”
It’s not clear whether Radiohead’s attor-neys had actually filed court papers or were still in talks with Del Rey’s legal team. What-ever the case, it doesn’t take a trained musical ear to hear the overlap between “Get Free” and ‘Creep,’ and ‘Creep’ and ‘The Air That I Breathe.’ All three songs are in different keys, but they follow an almost identical chord pro-gression, played at about the same tempo.
Radiohead is considering suing her for plagiarising ‘Creep’: Lana Del Ray
With ‘Black Panther,’ Kendrick Lamar is the latest artist to curate a major soundtrack
SCIENCE WEDNESDAY 10 JANUARY 201812
IANS
China launched a pair of 0.5-metre high-resolution remote sensing satellites
yesterday.The satellites, SuperView-1 ¾,
blasted off at 11:24am, on the back of a Long March 2D rocket, from the Taiyuan Satellite Launch
Centre in Shanxi province, reports Xinhua news agency.
The satellites, which are able to provide commercial images at 0.5-metre resolution, are expected to offer remote sensing data to customers worldwide and provide services to land and resource sur-veys, mapping, environmental monitoring, finance and insurance
as well as the internet industry, according to authorities.
The satellites were developed by the China Aerospace Science and Technology Corporation.
It is the second launch of the corporation’s commercial remote sensing satellites, followed by the launch of SuperView-1 ½ in December 2016.
IANS
In an interesting find, Indian astrophysicists have unearthed a nearly 5,000-year-old rock carving in Kashmir which, they believe, is the
oldest record of supernova and sky chart found in human history.
The rock carving—known to be the earliest form of human expression—found in Burzahama region in Kashmir is on an irregular stone slab
with a size of about 48 cm by 27 cm. The figure shows two bright objects in the sky
with rays of light coming out of them and a hunter spearing an animal below the first object.
There is another animal to the left of the hunter drawn above the hunter’s spear, repre-senting a hunting scene. The two objects are a pair of bright stars at the local zenith at the begin-ning of the hunting season.
The two objects cannot be Sun and Moon since,
with such proximity to the Sun, the Moon would be in a partial phase around the new and hence not very bright, said researchers led by Hrishikesh Joglekar from the Tata Institute of Fundamental Research (TIFR) in Mumbai.
“The stone drawing is a complete sky chart of the night on which the Supernova was first observed by unknown observers around 4,500 BC,” Joglekar said in a statement yesterday.
A supernova is a transient astronomical event that occurs during the last stellar evolutionary stages of a massive star’s life, whose dramatic and catastrophic destruction is marked by one final titanic explosion. The researchers had ruled out the possibility that the observed object is a star pair or comets, halos and terrestrial events.
They investigated the possibility that the rock drawing is the record of the supernova HB9 and found that only one Supernova remnant HB9 meets all the criteria and it exploded around 4500 BC with a brightness comparable to the bright-ness of the Moon.
Scientists have found a star that is almost identical to the Sun except for the
chemical composition—which they believe is like a Rosetta Stone that can help shed light on sun’s variability and its effect on Earth’s climate.
The star is located 120 light-years away in the con-stellation of Cygnus and, on the surface, it looks just like the Sun. It has the same mass, radius and age—but inside, the chemical composition of the star is very different. It con-sists of around twice as many heavy elements as in the Sun. Heavy elements here means elements heavier than hydro-gen and helium.
The observations revealed that the amplitude of the cycle seen in the star’s magnetic field is more than twice as strong as what is seen on the Sun, and the cycle is even stronger in visible light.
Sun-like star can help decode sun’s variability
Oldest supernova found in 5,000-year-old rock carving in Kashmir
China launches remote sensing satellites
WEDNESDAY 10 JANUARY 2018 13TECHNOLOGY
Chip giant Intel has announced that two million vehicles from
BMW, Nissan and Volkswagen will use Mobileye Road Expe-r ience Management (-definition maps throughout this year.
Intel bought Israeli sensor and chipmaker Mobileye last year for $15bn.
In a keynote address at the “CES 2018”, Intel CEO Brian Krzanich highlighted how data is transforming the world around us and driving the next great wave of technology innovation—from autono-mous driving to Artificial Intelligence (AI) to Virtual Reality (VR).
Krzanich unveiled Intel’s first autonomous vehicle in its 100-car test fleet, the company said in a statement.
He also announced new collaborations with SAIC Motor and NavInfo to extend crowd-sourced map building to China.
Focused on the future of AI, Krzanich announced a partnership with Ferrari North America to use Intel’s AI tech-nologies to apply data from the racetrack to enhance the expe-rience for fans and drivers.
In the field of immersive media, he introduced Intel Stu-dios and announced Paramount Pictures will be the first major Hollywood studio to explore this technology.
“Data is going to introduce social and economic changes that we see perhaps once or twice in a century,” Krzanich said. Krzanich also announced that Intel will enable the larg-est scale virtual reality event to date with the Olympic Win-ter Games PyeongChang 2018, using “Intel True VR” technology.
IANS
Facebook is shutting down its text-based virtual assistant called ‘M’ that helped
researchers train an Artificial Intelligence (AI) system.
According to a report in The Verge, ‘M’ which was available through a bot on Facebook Mes-senger and it was available to only
about 2,000 people. ‘M’ was first introduced in August 2015. The final day of the virtual assistant will be January 19.
“We launched this project to learn what people needed and expected of an assistant, and we learned a lot,” Facebook told The Verge.
“We’re taking these useful
insights to power other AI projects at Facebook. We continue to be very pleased with the perform-ance of ‘M’ suggestions in Messenger, powered by our learn-ings from this experiment.”
Facebook had described ‘M’ as a “beta” and suggested the human-powered assistant would be available for more users.
to shut down its virtual assistant ‘M’
Intel technology to power BMW and Nissan in self-driving cars
IANS
Aiming to take on tech giants Samsung and Apple, Chinese smart phone maker Vivo
yesterday showcased the world’s first in-display fingerprint scanning smart phone at the ongoing Con-sumer Electronic Show (CES) 2018 here.
The first smart phone to feature the in-display fingerprint technol-ogy will be announced in the first half of 2018, the company said in a statement.
“With our efforts in extensive consumer research and long-term R&D investment, Vivo is well posi-tioned to pioneer the development of fingerprint scanning technology,” said Alex Feng, Senior Vice Presi-dent, Vivo. “Today’s showcase of a ready-to-produce in-display fin-gerprint scanning smart phone with an optical fingerprint sensor is a step forward in bringing consum-ers this futuristic mobile experience. We are very excited to make it available to consumers soon,” Feng added. Synaptics—the company
responsible for handling the touch input on millions of laptop track pads and smart phone screens—announced in December 2017 that it has started mass production with its first optical in-display finger-print sensors.
The company had announced that it is going into full production with what it described as “top five original equipment manufacturers (OEM)”, without naming Vivo. Vivo is one of the top five smart phone vendors globally, according to the IDC Q1 2017 Tracker.
Vivo showcases fingerprint scanning smart phone
BABY BLUES
HAGAR THE HORRIBLE
Edward Livingston, an English professor at the Travancore Maharaja College.
As the defiant students continue to split into warring factions, Livingston
sets out to restore order and make the campus a better place for everyone.Note: Programme is subject to change without prior notice.
VILLAGGIO & CITY CENTER
WEDNESDAY 10 JANUARY 2018CINEMA PLUS14NOVO — Pearl
lnsidious: The Last Key (2D/Horror) 10:00am, 12:10, 2:20, 2:30, 4:30, 6:40, 7:15, 8:50, 11:00, 11:40pm & 12:00midnightJumanji: Welcome To The Jungle (2D/Action) 11:00, 11:30am, 12:00noon, 1:30, 4:00, 4:20, 4:45, 6:30, 8:50, 9:00, 9:30 & 11:30pm Tadeo 2(Animation) 3D 10:00am, 1:20 & 4:40pm 2D 11:40am, 3:00, 6:20, 8:00&9:40pmFerdinand (2D/Animation) 10:00am, 12:10, 2:20 & 4:30pmPitch Perfect (2D/Comedy) 6:40, 8:50 & 11:00pmThe Humanity Bureau (2D/Action) 10:30am, 2:40 & 6:50pm Bleeding Steel (2D/Action) 12:30, 4:40, 8:50 & 11:00pm Loving Vincent (2D/Crime) 10:00am, 2:00, 6:00 & 10:00pm Disaster Artist (2D/Comedy) 12:00noon, 4:00, 8:00pm & 12:00midnight Molly’s Game (2D/Drama) 10:00am, 12:45, 3:30, 6:15, 9:00 & 11:45pm Alaa Wadaakh (2D/Arabic) 2:00, 6:50 & 11:15pm The Greatest Showman (2D/Drama) 11:00am, 4:15, 9:30 & 11:45pm Star Wars: The Last Jedi 2 (2D IMAX/Action) 1:15 & 6:30pm
MALL
LANDMARK
ROYAL PLAZA
ROXY
ASIAN TOWNMasterpiece (Malayalam) 6:30, 7:30, 9:30, 10:30pm Aana Alaralodalaral (Malayalam) 5:30, 8:00 & 10:30pm
AL KHORMasterpiece (Malayalam) 12:00noon, 3:00, 6:00, 9:00pm & 12:00midnight Molly’s Game 11:00am, 4:00 & 9:00pm Insidious 1:45, 6:45 & 11:45pm Tiger Zinda Hai (2D/Hindi) 12:30, 6:00 & 11:00pm Jumanji 3:30 & 9:00pm
Aana Alaralodalaral (2D/Malayalam) 2:30pm Tadeo Jones 2(Animation)2:30 & 4:15pm Loving Vincent (2D/Animation) 2:45pm Masterpiece (2D/Malayalam) 6:00, 8:45 & 11:30pm Jumanji: Welcome To The Jungle (2D/Action) 6:30pmDisaster Artist (2D/Drama) 4:30pm Tiger Zinda Hai (2D/Hindi) 8:30 & 11:00pm Molly’s Game (2D/Drama) 5:00pm The Humanity Bureau (2D/Action) 7:30pm Insidious: The Last Key (2D/Horror) 9:15 & 11:15pm
Tadeo Jones 2 (Animation) 10:30am, 12:30, 3:30 & 6:30pm Disaster Artist (2D/Drama) 10:30am, 12:45, 3:00, 5:15 & 7:30pm Insidious: The Last Key 10:30am, 5:45, 8:00, 10:15pm & 12:30am Masterpiece10:30am, 1:30, 4:30, 7:30, 9:45 & 10:30pm Jumanji: Welcome To The Jungle (Animation) 12:45, 3:15, 8:30 & 11:00pm
Chupan Chupai (2D/Comedy) 2:30pm Disaster Artist (2D/Drama) 5:00pmTadeo Jones 2 (Animation) 2:30 & 4:00pm The Humanity Bureau (2D/Action) 7:15pm Tiger Zinda Hai (2D/Hindi) 5:00 & 11:30pm Jumanji: Welcome To The Jungle (2D/Action) 5:30 & 7:30pmMasterpiece (2D/Malayalam) 2:15, 8:00 & 11:00pm Molly’s Game (2D/Drama) 9:00pm Insidious: The Last Key (2D/Horror) 9:30 & 11:30pm
Loving Vincent (2D/Animation) 2:30pm Masterpiece (2D/Malayalam) 2:30, 8:30 & 11:15pm Tadeo Jones 2 (Animation) 3:00 & 4:30pm Tiger Zinda Hai (2D/Hindi) 5:30 & 8:15pm Jumanji: Welcome To The Jungle (2D/Action) 4:00 & 6:00pmAana Alaralodalaral (2D/Malayalam) 6:00pm The Humanity Bureau (2D/Action) 8:00pm Insidious: The Last Key (2D/Horror) 11:00pm Disaster Artist (2D/Drama) 9:45pm Molly’s Game (2D/Drama) 11:30pm
MASTERPIECE
CROSSWORD CONCEPTIS SUDOKU
ALL IN THE MIND
08:00 News08:30 The Listening Post09:00 Al Jazeera
Investigations10:00 News10:30 Inside Story11:30 The Stream12:00 News12:30 Artscape - The
New African Photography
13:00 NEWSHOUR14:00 News14:30 Inside Story15:00 Al Jazeera World16:00 NEWSHOUR17:30 The Stream18:00 Newsgrid19:00 News19:30 Witness20:30 Inside Story21:00 NEWSHOUR22:00 News22:30 The Stream23:00 Witness
13:00 Bunk’d14:40 K.C.
Undercover 15:05 Miraculous
Tales Of Ladybug & Cat Noir
15:30 Bizaardvark 17:00 Tangled:
The Series 17:25 Disney
Cookabout 19:10 Disney
Mickey Mouse20:05 Descendants
Wicked World 20:35 Disney The
Lodge21:00 Alex & Co.22:15 Lolirock 22:40 Evermoor
Chronicles 23:05 Rolling With
The Ronks
13:50 Too Cute! Pint-Sized
14:45 Biggest And Baddest
16:35 Untamed & Uncut
17:30 Treehouse Masters
18:25 Tanked19:20 Pet Nation
Renovation20:15 Biggest And
Baddest21:10 Swamp
Brothers22:05 Tanked23:00 Pet Nation
Renovation23:55 Wildest
Latin America
00:50 Untamed & Uncut
01:45 Treehouse Masters
13:05 How Do They Do It?
13:55 Deadliest Catch
14:40 Yukon Men15:30 Diesel
Brothers16:15 Super-
truckers17:50 Alaska: The
Last Frontier18:40 Deadliest
Catch20:15 Street
Outlaws21:00 Dangerman21:50 X-Ray Mega
Airport22:40 Abandoned
Engineering23:30 Alaska: The
Last Frontier00:15 Yukon Men01:05 Gold Rush
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BRAIN TEASERSWEDNESDAY 10 JANUARY 2018 15
Yesterday’s answer
Conceptis Sudoku: Conceptis Sudoku
is a number-placing puzzle based on a
9×9 grid. The object is to place the
numbers 1 to 9 in the empty squares so
that each row, each column and each
3×3 box contains the same number
only once.
ANNE MURRAY, BARBARA
MANDRELL, BRENDA LEE,
CHARLEY PRIDE, CHET ATKINS,
CRYSTAL GAYLE, DOLLY
PARTON, DON WILLIAMS,
EMMY LOU HARRIS, GLEN
CAMPBELL, HANK WILLIAMS,
JOHNNY CASH, KENNY
ROGERS, LORETTA LYNN,
MARTY ROBBINS, MERLE
HAGGARD, PATSY CLINE,
ROGER MILLER, TAMMY
WYNETTE, WAYLON JENNINGS,
WILLIE NELSON.
