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• Kids’ Athletic Exhibition at MES

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• New Emporio Armani collection aims at youthful-minded dressers

• Acceptance of heartfailure improvespatients’ quality of life

• Japan to sell talking robots that won’t try to make sense

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TRACK YOUR

FITNESS

Technology is here to help you lose weight and get fitter for 2015. Here is a quick guide to the best of the bunch for the start of the new year.

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By Samuel Gibbs

The festive season is behind us and it’s time to get moving to burn off the indulgence of the celebrations. Thankfully, technol-ogy is here to help and fitness trackers

are better, cheaper and more abundant than ever.Here’s our quick guide to the best of the bunch

for the start of the new year.

Jawbone Up MoveCost: £40 in UKThe Up Move is the low-cost fitness tracker

from Jawbone, makers of the popular Up band.

The Move is a small square button-shaped tracker that counts activity, steps and sleep using an accelerometer.

It uses a coin cell battery, lasting for around six months per battery. Swapping out the battery is easy using the small screw-on door at the back and saves having to charge it every five days or so.

The Move is water resistant, but not water proof, has an LED display to show activity progress and syncs via Bluetooth to an Android or iPhone. The Jawbone Up app is one of the best available with useful graphs and suggestions for improving sleep, activity and general health.

It comes with a belt clip but wristbands are available in a variety of colours.

Verdict: cheap and cheerful with a good app but an ugly device.

Misfit FlashCost: £50The Misfit Flash is the follow up to the great

Shine fitness tracker that packs all the same fea-tures into a cheaper, plastic body.

The Flash is waterproof, unlike the Move, and can track activity, sleep and steps using an acceler-ometer. It can be worn almost anywhere, including while swimming, and like the Move is powered by a coin cell battery lasting around six months per cell.

The Flash comes with a comfortable wristband

and belt clip, while clothing such as cycling socks with small pockets for the Flash are available. It can also be used as a watch to tell the time using a hidden ring of LED lights that also show your activity progress through the day.

The small device is about the size of a pound coin and syncs via Bluetooth to an iPhone or Android device. The Misfit app shows hours of light and deep sleep, calories burned and steps taken, but can output the data to a variety of fitness services including RunKeeper and MyFitnessPal.

Verdict: waterproof, attractive and lasts six months per battery.

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Fitbit ChargeCost: £100The Fitbit Charge is a chunky

wristband fitness tracker with a rechargeable battery that lasts around a week and is charged via a magnetic cable from any stand-ard USB charger.

Like most other fitness gadg-ets it tracks activity, steps, calo-ries burned and hours slept using an accelerometer. It also has an altimeter that tracks the number of stairs climbed and a silent vibrating alarm for waking you up.

It has a small screen that dis-plays the time and fitness stats, activated by a small button on the side of the band. The screen can also show caller ID notifica-tions from a smartphone syncing via Bluetooth. The Fitbit app is available for Android, iPhone and Windows Phone and can export data to a number of third-party services.

The button clasp on the band can be difficult to shut, but stays closed even with vigorous activity. The band is comfortable to wear, but bulky on the wrist and strug-gled to fit under a shirt cuff.

The Charge is water proof to 1m, which means it will be fine in the shower but not while swimming.

Verdict: screen is useful, but basic, bulky and needs charging once a week.

Jawbone Up24Cost: £100The Up24 is Jawbone’s more

sophisticated wristband fitness tracker. Like the Up Move it tracks steps, activity and sleep using an accelerometer.

But the Up24 also has a silent alarm that can be set to wake you up at the best time for your sleep pattern in the morning, within 30 minutes of your ideal wakeup time, to help you feel refreshed.

The band is charged via a USB cable and will last around two weeks per charge. The Up24 has no screen, but has a button on the end and two icons that show tracking of sleep or activity, which the user has to manually switch between.

The Jawbone syncs to the Up app on an Android or iPhone via Bluetooth and gives activity and health advice for better sleep and general fitness. The Up24 is water-resistant, but can’t be taken in the shower.

Verdict: two-week battery life and solid fitness tracking with useful app.

Sony Smartband TalkCost: £120

The Sony Smartband Talk is a cross between a smartwatch and a fitness band. It tracks steps and calories burned, but not sleep, using an accelerometer.

It connects via Bluetooth to a Android phone and Sony’s Lifelog app that tracks activity but also what music you listen to, who you spoke to and other “life events”.

The Talk has an e-ink screen like an e-reader, which displays the time, activity and can be used for alarms and smartphone noti-fications such as emails, texts and WhatsApp messages.

It can also make and take calls using a built-in microphone and speaker like a Bluetooth headset on the wrist. The microphone is sensitive enough that the band doesn’t have to be held close to the face to continue the conversation.

The Smartband Talk is water-proof to 1.5m for 30 minutes, fine for a shower or in the rain but not for swimming. It’s charged by a standard microUSB cable and lasts around three days between charges.

Verdict: a fitness band turned simple smartwatch but only for Android phones.

Basis PeakCost: £169The Basis Peak is the latest fit-

ness tracking watch from Intel. Unlike the others in this group it has a heart rate monitor as well as galvanic skin sensors for meas-uring temperature and sweat, and an accelerometer for general activity.

It constantly measures heart rate for around four and a half days between charges using a lit-tle magnetic USB charging dock.

The screen is constantly on simply displaying time unless you are walking or running, at which point is displays distance and heart rate or other information appropriate for the activity. The screen has a small backlight for reading at night.

Sleep monitoring with heart rate also allows the Peak to track sleep quality instead of just how long you slept – a big step forward in sleep tracking. It can tell which phase of sleep you’re in between light, deep and REM sleep.

The Peak promises to per-form smartwatch duties after a firmware update, but right now it feels slightly unfinished. The Android or iPhone app is also con-fusing, but the data is accessible from the easy to use Basis website.

Verdict: the fitness tracker with the most promise, but not fully baked yet.

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Fitbit Charge

Jawbone Up24

Sony Smartband Talk

Basis Peak

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Qatar Athletics Federation (QAF) under the patronage of International Amateur Athletic Federation (IAAF) organised Kids’ Athletic Exhibition at MES Indian School recently. About 48 students — 24 boys and 24 girls — from Junior Section of the school participated in various events such as Formula 1, Club throw, Zik Zak running and Front role. Twenty-four International Amateur Athletic Federation (IAAF) level-1 coaches conducted the programme. The event was held to promote athletic talents at younger age. The federation awarded certificates to all the participants. Ezekiel Balraj, Head, Department of Physical Education, facilitated the Kids’ Athletic Exhibition.

Kids’ Athletic Exhibition at MES

A group of young volunteers — ex-PEC students — arranged a

workshop for Pakistani community students in Qatar. Around 250 stu-dents from grades 9-12 attended the workshop held recently at the Pakistan Education Centre.

During the workshop profession-als from different fields gave lec-tures to the students and a series

of interactive sessions were held where students were given tasks to accomplish.

The professional speakers included; Dr Hassan from Qatar Foundation, Dr Farhan from Qatar University, Dr Iqbal from Sidra

Medical Centre and Azmat Haroon from Qatar University.

They provided a detailed overview of their fields showing the students what exactly they should expect on choosing the specific field. The interactive sessions

included Talent-Digging in which all students were asked to think and come up with one talent which stands them out from the rest and in another activity they were asked to come up with an innovative business idea which could serve the community as well as have monetary benefits.

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Career Counselling Workshop at PEC

PAAQ celebrates Annual Day

“Alumni is nostalgia,” said Dr Khalifa Nasser Al Khalifa, Director, Road Safety Studies Center, College of Engineering, University

of Qatar, during a ceremony to celebrate first Annual Day of PSMO College Alumni Association Qatar (PAAQ). The ceremony was held at Skill develop-ment Center recently with various cultural and edu-cational programmes. On the same day, Dr Khalifa unveiled the website of the association www.paaq.org, followed by a motivational speech by Prof P V Saed Mohammed.

Popular Facebook blogger Abbas O M with more than 27000 followers was honored by Mathai Philip, President, Confederations of Alumni Associations of Kerala, as the Most Influenced PSMO Alumni of 2014.

The programme was chaired by Mohammed Rafeeq Thangal, Acting President of PAAQ. Abdul Asees, Treasurer of the association, welcomed the members and guest and vote of thanks was given

by Fayyas Mohammed, Acting General Secretary of PAAQ.

Mohammed Hashir, General Secretary of Confederation of Alumni Association, Moideen Kutty

Chonari, Sharafudheen P K, Mubashir K P, Labeeb, Sadrul Anam and Nabsa Mujeeb were present for the celebration. An orchestra by PSMO alumni was the highlight of the evening. The Peninsula

Guests and PAAQ officials at the unveiling of the website.

Azmat Haroon from Qatar University providing guide lines to the students. LEFT: A section of the audience.

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The Embassy of the Republic of Korea hosted a dinner reception

to honour the Qatari participants in the upcoming Dream Program 2015, which will be held from January 25 to February 6, in Gangwon Province of South Korea. Six students from Qatar, along with their coaches are participating in the programme. Of these, three students are from the Qatari community, while the rest are representing the Syrian com-munity in Qatar.

The dinner reception, hosted by the Ambassador of the Republic of Korea, Chung Keejong, at his residence, was attended by Nizar Haraki, Syrian Ambassador, Adel Al Mutlaq, General Secretary of Qatar Winter Sports Committee, the participants, as well as other representatives from the Qatari and Syrian sides.

Dream Program is an annual winter sports training camp for

international youths including those in the snowless regions. The pro-gram is an initiative by the Gangwon Province of the Republic of Korea, and has been held every year since 2004. This year’s program will be held in the cities of PyeongChang and Gangnueng, and is expected to attract almost 172 participants from 42 countries.

The participants will take part in a variety of winter sports train-ing activities such as Alpine-Skiing, Snowboarding, Biathlon, Short Track Speed Skating as well as Figure Skating. The participants will also visit the PyeongChang 2018 Olympic and Paralympic facil-ities, as well as take city tours of PyeongChang and Seoul.

The participants are all spon-sored by the Gangwon Province in Korea for the entire duration of the programme.

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The Pakistan Professionals Forum Qatar (PPFQ) with the support of the Supreme

Council of Health, Hamad Medical Corporation (HMC), Pakistan Education Centre (PEC), and the Pakistan embassy organised its third free annual medical camp on the premises of PEC in Mesaimeer area recently.

As in previous years, the response to the camp was overwhelming. Patients started to gather at the venue early in the morning and over 670 patients of 9 nationalities received treatment at the multi-speciality camp. In order to provide access to lower income patients, spe-cial transport arrangements were made to pick and drop patients from multiple locations.

A dedicated team of doctors with specialities like paediatrics, oph-thalmology, orthopaedics and inter-nal medicine, nurses, pharmacists, and technicians were available to attend to patients. An ambulance was also on site throughout the day for emergency cases. All consulta-tions, treatments and medications were provided by Hamad Medical Corporation.

The camp was supported by local corporates such as Al Faleh Group and Ammico. PPFQ introduced for the first time a smart cloud based technology to facilitate patient reg-istration and analysis that greatly assisted us in streamlining the processes and logistics. CloudClinik

was the technology partner for this support.

Adnan Kirmani, President and Acting Chairman of PPFQ, said that “the medical camp is the flag-ship event of the PPFQ calendar and epitomises our mission to unite our professionals in Qatar for the betterment of our community. I’m extremely grateful to HMC, its staff, our sponsors, and our volunteers for their support in making this event a success.”

Shehzad Ahmad, Ambassador of Pakistan, and Dr Abdul Razzaq Al Emadi, Director of Population Health at HMC, were the chief guests of the event. The Peninsula Chief guests and other officials at the opening of the camp.

Gulf Madhyamam Chief Editor Hamza Abbas handing over a copy of Indo Gulf Mission book to Hashmukh Patel, President, Gujarati Samaj-Qatar, at the pavilion of Global Innovation Expo at Gandhinager Pravasi Bhartiya Divas and Vibrent Gujarat organised by Abrim Group in collaboration with FICCI. Also seen are Ashraf Mayancherry, CMD, Sky Intl Group, Bahrain, Sidhic Muhammed, MD, Abrim Group, P V Kunhabdulla and FICCI officials.

Participants of Dream Program 2015 honoured

Pakistan Professionals Forum Qatar holds medical camp

People registering their names for the camp.

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Home Appliances & Electronics Division (HAED) of Mannai Trading Company, a subsidiary of

Mannai Corporation relocated to a new showroom at Al Emadi Building, C-Ring Road, Doha.

“The inauguration of its customised showroom comes within HAED’s strategy to diversify and expand its operations to achieve maximum cover-age and customer outreach. It also has plans to inaugurate few more outlets in future,” said Adel Al Kurdi, General Manager, Mannai Trading Co - Home Appliances & Electronics Division.

“The 1,000 square-meter showroom located at a prime location on the “C” Ring Road shall offer wide range of home appliances and other products in addi-tion to new collection of phones, gaming gadgets along with enough customer parking spaces, to cater the needs of a larger customer segment,” he added.

The new showroom offers retail product display along with actual set up of appliances and sample built in kitchen equipment, showcasing customers a walk-through experience and inspiration for their dream kitchen.

The projects division also offers professional serv-ices to home builders, contractors and property man-agers engaged in residential and commercial projects.

Mannai’s Home Appliances & Electronics Division offers full range of products line that includes

watches, clocks, home appliances, small kitchen appliances, electronics, audio, video and it represents brands such as Electrolux, Toshiba, Moulinex, Seiko, White Westinghouse, Bompani, TCL, among others.

Mannai’s Home Appliances showroom is open from Saturday to Thursday from 9am to 10pm.

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Mannai Home Appliances & Electronics opens new showroom

Darz Design to launch wedding collection

High-end Abaya fashion house Darz Design has announced the launch

of its unique wedding collec-tion range. The luxurious col-lection of inspirational Abaya have been created for a wom-en’s most special day in mind, her wedding.

The range, has been designed with the finest materials. Chiffon, silk and crepe are used throughout the Wedding collection. The ornate hand stitched abayas, are a hallmark of the Doha based fashion house, have been crafted with both tradi-tion and fashion in mind. The chic, simple designs are ideal for anyone who wishes to make a real statement at a wedding celebration.

The range will be available soon across all of Darz out-lets, including their recently launched Duhail villa, outlet at 51- East and Bridy boutique at the Gate Mall.

Speaking on the success of the new collection general manager Saher Al Koni said: “The new collection repre-sents a real step forward for the Darz brand. Our latest range has some of the finest

materials to hand to represent the most special day in a women’s life, her wed-ding. This is our first collection of 2015 and we are planning several more excit-ing concepts for ranges to be launched over the course of the year.”

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Skills Development Centre, centre for learning fine arts and performing arts, located at new Salata conducted ‘Parents Day Celebrations’, at Maestro com-munity hall recently. SDC hosted a distinctive event where parents performed on stage. Saleem Ponnambath, former president of Indian Cultural Centre, and Dev Tamboli, President of Maharashtra Mandal, inaugurated the function. SDC Managing Director welcomed the gathering.

Parents’ day out

FASHION 7PLUS | WEDNESDAY 21 JANUARY 2015

By Colleen Barry

The fashion curtain call is part of the ritual of the runway show, with each designer’s personality reflected in that final bow.

Some, like Miuccia Prada, appear in the doorway for a nanosecond. Donatella Versace walks a good 10 meters (yards) out to salute the crowd, while Giorgio Armani stands perfectly lit in the darkened stage entrance.

Monday was to be Frida Giannini’s last bow as creative director at Gucci’s menswear after a decade at the Florentine house — but that was not to be. The highly anticipated curtain call was cancelled with-out explanation. Instead, the bow went to a young design team that completely revamped the collection Giannini had prepared.

Here are some highlights from menswear previews for next autumn and winter from the third day of Milan Fashion Week on Monday:

A New Gucci ChapterThe Gucci style team may have pulled off a fashion

record. They designed and produced the menswear runway show for next winter in five days, after outgo-ing creative director Frida Giannini left sooner than had been announced.

Giannini’s exit from the storied Florentine fashion house was announced last month by the French own-ers, Kering, which said she would leave after showing the men’s and women’s collections for autumn and winter 2016. No reason was given for the change of plans. Gucci’s press team on site Monday called the decision to redesign the collection from scratch “a new chapter.”

A team of young designers, led by head accessories designer Alessandro Michele, came out and took a collective bow, to sustained applause. Gucci said a successor to Giannini would be announced “in due course.”

Gucci Saluted The French RepublicGucci’s androgynous collection, worn by both

male and female models, appeared to be a tribute to French artists, intellectuals and revolutionaries in the wake of the twin terror attacks in Paris this month that have shaken Europe and the world.

The hues of red, white and blue, the colors of the French flag, contributed to the sense of camaraderie that sprung up worldwide in the wake of the recent terror attacks in Paris.

Many of the outfits suggested characters from France’s rich cultural history: A white shirt with a dark ribbon tied in a bow around the neck, worn with blue trousers and capped with a red beret, was reminiscent of a French school uniform. A more elaborately tied silken bow conjured the image of a poet. A fur-trimmed cape was befitting of an artist setting up his easel in a Parisian park.

Emporio ArmaniMetallic brush strokes across classic fabrics and

dramatic zipper placements defined the new Emporio Armani line, aimed at youthful-minded dressers.

“I wanted to recapture some grit with a style that was not too aggressive, but with pride and refined materials and shapes,” Armani told reporters.

Trousers come with a zip at the ankle, while more athletic cuts of pants carried the zip dramati-cally across a diagonal all the way down to the cuff. Armani continued his exploration of the jacket, cre-ating new versions out of soft rough-cut jersey with

a waistband in the back that gives it a blousy feel.The collection opened with a line of models dressed

in ski racing bodysuits, a glimpse of his EA7 line of athletic wear — which the designer said in a little over four years has grown to revenues of 100 million euros. “Nothing to laugh about,” he said.

Expo’s Fashion AmbassadorGiorgio Armani, who celebrates 40 years in the

fashion business this year, has been appointed to the role of Expo 2015 fashion ambassador for the six-month world’s fair opening May 1.

The 80-year-old designer is planning a gala runway show at his theatre to coincide with Expo’s opening. Armani said he won’t necessarily create a new Expo collection, and he hasn’t decided what elements of his collections he will highlight: menswear, womenswear or his highly prized Prive couture line.

Armani also has invested €50m to open an exhibit space called Silos where he will show a retrospective of his 40-year career “from the first clothes, to the last,” he said.

Brioni At 70Brioni has come full circle. On its 70th anniversary,

the Rome-based label returned to the runway that it pioneered in 1952 as the first menswear house to stage a catwalk collection.

“It was all very natural,” said creative director Brendan Mullane, whose fifth Brioni collection pre-viewed at the 15th Century Sforza Castles.

The collection was a study in discipline, taking inspiration from the equestrian tradition of the Spanish Riding School and architectural details from the Wiener Werkstaette. Mullane reveled in the coincidence that it takes Vienna school riders and Brioni tailors each nine years to reach master status.

Fittingly, models moved at a quick trot as they showed the belted cashmere overcoats, quilted blousons with leather borders and knitwear featur-ing graphic arched patterns made with 24-karat gold dusting to recall Viennese painter Gustav Klimt.

Extreme CraftsmanshipCall it craftsmanship at its most extreme. What

appears to be thick corduroy strutting down the Fendi runway on jackets and trousers is actually sheepskin and leather. And those pinstripes? Wrong again. Laser-cut 3D stripes.

The collection was very tactile, with a soft silhou-ette featuring sloping shoulders. And everything has a purpose: big scarves can function as blankets and feature handy pockets.

The bags are made for men who will use them: A backpack features a netted pocket big enough for a soccer ball. And if the classic color scheme -- dark blue, maroon and gray -- give a button-down, serious impression, well then take a look at the quirky bag charms: a furry smiley face and half an apple.

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New Emporio Armani aims at youthful-minded dressers

Models wear creations for Emporio Armani.

Models wear creations for Gucci.

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By Michael O’Sullivan

“Uneasy lies the head that wears a crown,” Shakespeare wrote. But is that true when

the coronet is no more than a back-wards ball cap balancing a pair of wraparound shades?

Such was the preferred headgear of Navy SEAL Chris Kyle, at least as por-trayed by Bradley Cooper in American Sniper, Clint Eastwood’s respectful — if somewhat superficial — treatment of the real-life Kyle’s 2012 memoir of the same name. Kyle, who achieved renown as the most lethal sniper in American military history, with 160 confirmed kills and nearly 100 more unverified ones, was honoured with the sobriquet “The Legend” during four tours of duty in Iraq.

On film, American Sniper treats him as a martyred hero. (In 2013, after leaving the service, Kyle was killed by a disturbed veteran whom he was mentoring.) And while that portrayal may arguably be justified, Cooper’s portrayal — while less than reveren-tial — also reveals a man remarkably

unburdened by conscience. When fel-low SEAL Marc Lee (Luke Grimes) is killed during an ambush, and the dead man’s mother reads a letter from him at the funeral expressing doubts about the American military mission, Kyle remarks that it wasn’t a bullet that killed his friend, but “that letter.”

Throughout the film, adapted for the screen by Jason Hall (Paranoia), Kyle comes across as a man gifted not just with the ability to shoot, but with a remarkable — and, at times, almost incomprehensible — moral clarity. Despite an opening scene that shows Kyle hesitating to pull the trigger on an Iraqi woman and a small boy who appear to be preparing to throw an antitank grenade at a convoy of Marines, American Sniper presents Kyle as someone with an almost superhuman ability to bear the same doubts that weigh so heavily on others in his job.

And make no mistake: American Sniper presents Kyle’s seemingly miraculous accomplishment as just that — something achieved while carrying out a task, albeit one of the most difficult and dangerous ones

imaginable. Eastwood drives home this point again and again, show-ing us the bullet holes that appear in walls where SEALs and Marines have just been, only seconds earlier. Kyle, referred to as the “overwatch” and typically stationed on a rooftop to protect fighters on the ground, is a figurative cousin to Brad Pitt’s Wardaddy character in the film Fury: a surrogate father, keeping an eye on his “children” through the scope of a sniper rifle.

Of course, his real family, back in the states, provides some contextual counterpoint to this slightly glorified interpretation. As Kyle’s wife (Sienna Miller) tells him, “It’s pretty egotisti-cal to think you can protect us all.” Kyle’s buddy Lee puts it another way, wondering aloud whether Kyle has a “saviour complex.”

For the most part, American Sniperis less interested in pursuing these and other questions of moral and psychological nuance than in telling a good war story. The main action follows two hunts: the first for a brutal lieutenant of Al Qaida leader Abu Musab Al Zarqawi, known as the

“butcher of Fallujah” (Mido Hamada); and the second for a Syrian-born sniper and former Olympic sharp-shooter nicknamed Mustafa (Sammy Sheik), whose own growing kill record taunts Kyle. Neither character fig-ures prominently in the book, though both fictionalised versions here have been sharpened and enlarged in order to better delineate the peaks and val-leys of the movie’s action.

From a narrative standpoint, it works. The battle scenes are alter-nately tense and thrilling, especially during one climactic sequence. Set during the approach of a massive sandstorm, it shows Kyle and his unit cornered on a rooftop by a mob of armed insurgents, while awaiting res-cue by what is, essentially, the cavalry.

The flavour of a Western is not acci-dental. Kyle, at one point, announces that he always wanted to be a cowboy. Maybe Eastwood does, too. Despite a couple of moments when it isn’t clear who the bad guys are and who the good guys are, American Sniper keeps its metaphorical headgear — white hats and blacks hats — very much separate. WP-Bloomberg

American Sniper: War film with a hint of a Western

HOLLYWOOD NEWS

Coen Brothers Cannes jury presidents

Filmmakers Joel and Ethan Coen have been announced as the co-pres-idents of the 68th Cannes Film Festival jury. The official line-up and

jury of the 2015 festival will be announced in April, reports variety.com.“We look forward to returning to Cannes this year. We welcome as

always the opportu-nity to watch movies there from all over the world,” the Oscar-winning directors said in a statement.

“Cannes is a festival that has been impor-tant to us since the very beginning of our career. Presiding over the Jury is a special honour, since we have never heretofore been president of anything. We will issue further proclamations at the appropriate time,” they added.

The Coen brothers have a long history with Cannes, having won the Palme d’ Or in 1991 for Barton Fink and the festival’s Grand Prix in 2013 for Inside Llewyn Davis. They’ve also won Best Director twice in 1996 for Fargo and in 2001 for The Man Who Wasn’t There respectively.

They are currently filming Hail Caesar!, starring George Clooney, Christophe Lambert, Scarlett Johansson, Tilda Swinton, Josh Brolin and Channing Tatum.

The 2015 Cannes Film Festival will take place May 13-24.

Selena Gomez sees psychic

Singer Selena Gomez is reportedly having sessions with a psychic. “Selena said the psychic was incredible. They did a lot of tarot and

angel card readings, and now they have sessions every week,” OK! magazine quoted a source as saying, reports femalefirst.co.uk.

“The psychic says Selena will have a new man by the summer!,” the source added.

Gomez, who was dating singer Justin Bieber on and off for four years, was spotted with music producer and DJ Zedd at a Golden Globes after-party last week.

Schultz apologises for Foxcatcher criticism

Olympic wrestler Mark Schultz, who is the subject of Oscar nominated film Foxcatcher, has apologised for his criticism earlier.

Schultz, played by Channing Tatum in the film, has posted a series of tweets in which he praised the film and apologised for previously slamming it and director Bennett Miller, reports hollywoodreporter.com.

“I apologise to you before the world, Bennett,” Schultz tweeted adding that he felt “terrible” for how he had treated him. “Bennett Miller is the greatest director ever. 3rd time’s the charm. He’s due an Oscar,” he wrote.

Miller has previously been nominated for directing Capote and Moneyball.This follows Schultz having blasted the film and Miller last month on

social media. He labelled Miller a “punk” and “liar” and threatened to end his career.

The film focuses on Schultz and brother Dave’s (Mark Ruffalo) rela-tionship with wrestling coach John du Pont (Steve Carell), which ended in Dave’s death. The film received five Oscar nominations, including best director for Miller and best actor for Carell.

Schultz was most upset that film critics had interpreted the film as sug-gesting there was a homosexual component to Schultz’s relationship with his coach. He also criticised a scene in which du Pont slaps his character.

BOLLYWOOD NEWS

Novelist accuses PK makers of plagiarism

Novelist Kapil Isapuri has approached the Delhi High Court, accusing the makers of Aamir Khan’s film PK of plagiarism.

He said certain portions from his Hindi novel Farishta published in 2013 were “stolen and copied” and used in the film.

Isapuri has sought punitive damages of ̀ 10m from the filmmakers along with credit for his work.

The Rajkumar Hirani directorial, which raises questions about reli-gion and people’s blind faith in godmen, has been co-produced by Vidhu Vinod Chopra and Hirani. The movie also stars Anushka Sharma and Sanjay Dutt.

The plea, filed through advocate Jyotika Kalra, alleged that the mak-ers of the film as well as scriptwriter Abhijat Joshi stole the characters, expression of ideas and sequences from the novel Farishta.

“The novel has criticised blind following of so-called godmen and that profession of religion is not natural but is man-made and artificial and, in a group of people, nobody can identify their respective religion,” the plea said.

The court recently also dismissed a plea which sought a ban on the film for alleged derogatory remarks against Hindu gods, Hindu beliefs, faith and worship.

Shamitabh is not serious, says Dhanush

Southern superstar Dhanush, who made a successful Bollywood debut in 2013 with Raanjhanaa, is gearing up for the release of his second

Hindi film Shamitabh. He says its concept may sound serious, but at heart it’s a fun-filled entertainer.

“This film is about ego clash. The concept might sound serious but it’s a very fun-filled film. There is amazing humour in this film. It’s a new concept and hopefully it will be a refreshing experience for the audience,” Dhanush said here.

The actor is guarded about revealing what his character in Shamitabhis.

“I don’t have the liberty to say what my character is about. It is very close to the script, and if I say anything about my character, it’ll be revealing the story of the film,” he added.

Shamitabh, directed by R Balakrishnan, is said to be the story of an actor and his dubbing artist. The film will see Dhanush share screen space with thespian Amitabh Bachchan and newcomer Akshara Haasan.

Priyanka excited about ‘public chat’

Actress Priyanka Chopra is upbeat about engaging in a public chat with her fans via Viber, a mobile communications app offering free

messaging and high definition quality calls.Viber yesterday announced the launch of Priyanka’s public chat, which

allows users to discover, share and follow live discussions from a wide variety of celebrities, personalities and brands across many genres includ-ing music, sports, fashion, entertainment and more.

Anyone on Viber can follow as many of these chats as they like on their mobile device. Conversations are multimedia, and include text, photos, audio, video, stickers, web links and more. Users can invite friends to follow the Public Chats that interest them, and can share content.

Priyanka started her chat by saying: “Happy New Year, I think this is a great way to start the new year to connect with all of you, I am excited to be here and look forward to some fun and meaningful interactions.”

The National Award winning artiste’s group has garnered great response, said Anubhav Nayyar, country head, Viber India.

“Public chats has gained immense popularity across the country and we have received a fantastic user response,” Nayyar added.

Priyanka is said to have close to 200,000 followers. Some other famous celebrities like Anushka Sharma, Parineeti Chopra, Ranveer Singh, Arjun Kapoor and Sachin Tendulkar are already active on Viber.

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Pills to adjust night-shift workers’ body clock

What if a pill could help adjust your internal body clock to night shifts or jet lag the

way it works during the day to eliminate various health risks, including cancer?

This may be possible, says a team of Australian researchers, with the administration of glucocor-ticoid tablets, a class of hormones used as power-ful anti-inflammatory compounds to treat various diseases.

“This new scientific discovery opens the door to innovative therapies that could act on the dif-ferent parts of the circadian system so that these rhythms can be adjusted to inverted sleep sched-ules,” said Diane B Boivin, director of the centre for study and treatment of circadian rhythms at the Douglas Mental Health University Institute.

For this, the team studied the rhythmic expres-sion of clock genes in white blood cells to see how they adjusted in response to glucocorticoids. The researchers analysed 16 healthy volunteers who were studied in temporal isolation chambers.

The results showed, for the first time, that the peripheral biological clocks located in white blood cells can be synchronised through the administration of glucocorticoid tablets.

“These cells are involved in our body’s reaction to attacks from many pathogens. This study suggests that biological rhythms may play a role in con-trolling immune function in night-shift workers,” added co-author Marc Cuesta, post-doctoral fellow.

Physiological changes over the course of a day are regulated by a circadian system comprised of a central clock located deep within the cen-tre of the brain and multiple clocks located in different parts of the body. Since humans are fundamentally diurnal creatures, staying awake at night can significantly disrupt all of the body’s internal biological clocks.

Over the long term, this can lead to a high incidence of various health problems, such as metabolic or cardiovascular problems or even certain types of cancer.

The previous work of Boivin and her team showed that exposing workers to bright light at night tor adjusting work schedules can improve the synchronisation of the central biological clock to their work schedule.

Biosensor to help machines smell like humans

In a first a researcher from the University of Manchester has created a biosensor that can

help machines smell the way humans do.The new generation of biosensors with an

acute ability to sniff out problems can help machines smell when food has gone bad or how much pollution is in the atmosphere.

“It has been challenging to get machines to be able to differentiate between smells that are mir-ror images of each other, which was a real barrier to creating machines which are able to smell as well or better than humans,” explained professor Krishna Persaud, lead author of the paper.

To develop the biosensor, Persaud along with colleagues from University of Bari in Italy uti-lised an odourant-binding protein.

Such proteins are found in the mucus of the nose which work olfactory receptors helping us to create our perception of smell.

The team has found a method of manufactur-ing these proteins in quantities that would allow them to be used in biosensors.

Agencies

By Janice Neumann

People who learn they have heart failure often feel emotionally devastated, but new research sug-

gests that accepting the reality of the disease can make life easier.

Researchers in Poland found that people who were able to adapt to their illness reported much more energy, less pain, a brighter outlook and better sleep than those who couldn’t accept their illness. They were also less isolated and more active.

Accepting the illness and hav-ing a positive attitude may help the patient cope with the nega-tive emotions, diagnosis and treatment, said the study’s lead author, Monika Obieglo, a nurse at Wroclaw Medical University.

Heart failure patients often feel helpless and hopeless, which can make dealing with their illness more difficult, she said.

More than 23 million adults worldwide have heart failure, including 5.8 million in the US and close to 1 million in Poland, Obieglo and her colleagues write in the European Journal of Cardiovascular Nursing.

A failing heart can’t pump enough blood to other parts of the body. As a result, patients may feel short of breath, fatigued and weak, and they may have difficulty

concentrating, among other symp-toms. Only about 50 percent sur-vive more than five years after diagnosis. The present study involved 100 patients (68 men and 32 women) being treated by the university’s cardiology department in 2012 and 2013. The patients, whose average age was 63 and who had heart failure for at least six months, answered questionnaires about their energy levels, pain, emotional reactions, sleep, social isolation and mobility. They also reported on how much the illness was affecting their work, social-izing and sex lives.

Overall, those who were older than 60 tended to be more isolated socially, less physically mobile and to feel worse emotionally. Women reported less energy and mobility than men. And people who were heavier also had much more pain than others.

When the researchers com-pared patients’ acceptance levels with their symptoms and qual-ity of life responses, they found that people who scored higher for acceptance of their illness had a much better quality of life.

Indeed, acceptance was the only independent predictor of quality of life, according to the results.

Dr Burhan Mohamedali, a cardiologist at Rush University Medical Center in Chicago, said the study added important

information about heart failure patients’ ability to weather diffi-cult symptoms.

“Clinically, I completely believe and agree with this paper . . . people who are accepting of their disease do tend to do much better in my clinic compared to people who are fighting their disease,” Mohamedali said.

He was especially interested in the effects of social isolation on patients and their symptoms.

“This is beautiful, it just adds on to more of what I was think-ing about. The paper definitely answers some of those questions,” said Mohamedali, who was not involved in the study.

Obieglo said education about heart failure, its symptoms and treatment can help patients come to grips with their illness. They need to see not just heart doctors, but also psychologists, physiother-apists and dietitians, she added.

The report notes that patients who came to terms with their illness were more likely to feel better emotionally and to follow medical recommendations.

The study could well be used as a model for other chronic diseases too, noted Mohamedali, although more research is needed.

SOURCE: bit.ly/1CgbEs2 European Journal of Cardiovascular Nursing, online January 8, 2015. Reuters

Acceptance of heartfailure improvespatients’ quality of life


Overall, those who were older than 60 tended to be more isolated socially, less physically mobile and to feel worse emotionally. Women reported less energy and mobility than men. And people who were heavier also had much more pain than others.

TECHNOLOGYPLUS | WEDNESDAY 21 JANUARY 201512

By Yuri Kageyama

The scientist behind a new talking robot in Japan says people should stop expecting robots to understand them, and instead try to chime in with robotic conversations.

Hiroshi Ishiguro’s 28-centimer (11-inch) tall button-eyed Sota, which stands for “social talker,” is programmed to mainly talk with a fellow robot, and won’t be trying too hard to understand human speech — the major, and often frustrating, drawback of companion robots.

Sota, shown to reporters at a Tokyo museum yes-terday, goes on sale in July at under 100,000 yen ($850) each. To fully enjoy its features, one would have to buy at least two of them, although people can buy just one.

“Don’t stop at just two. Please buy three or four,” said Ishiguro, a professor at Osaka University, who has previously shown a variety of robots that look eerily human, including one that’s his double.

Ishiguro also demonstrated a more elaborate robot CommU, which stands for communication unity. It will cost five times as much as Sota.

The news conference to introduce Sota and CommU was led by two other humanoids, which appeared to talk with the two newest additions to Japan’s robot pantheon.

Robot maker Vstone, which simplified Ishiguro’s research to come up with commercial products, expects to sell 3,000 Sota robots in the first year, mostly to businesses. They could be used for tasks such as drawing attention to products on display.

Japan is a leading maker of robots, and its reper-toire has ranged from industrial robots to whimsi-cal toys. Internet and telecommunications company Softbank Corp will start selling Pepper, a humanoid it claims is designed to read human emotions, in Japan next month for 198,000 yen ($1,700), possibly heralding the era of everyday robots here.

Ishiguro said the idea behind Sota and CommU was similar to watching chattering children. An adult joining such a conversation would have low expecta-tions and be engaging in dialogue for the fun, he said.

CommU is designed to make eye contact with roll-ing eyeballs, a feature Ishiguro believes is important to make conversations feel real.

In a demonstration, one CommU said to another CommU, “Do you know Denmark?”

It replied: “I love Denmark,” to which the first said, “I love Denmark, too.”

Ishiguro insists the robots can do more than just agree with each other, and can be programmed to carry on various kinds of conversations, including confrontational chatter. But the main point is that

people should stop expecting robots to live up to human expectations or merely do useful chores.

“Voice recognition has always been very difficult for robots,” Ishiguro said. “Human beings should instead adjust to what robots can do.”

AP

Japanese Android expert Hiroshi Ishiguro, left, talks with new talking robot Sota, right, Android robot Otonaroid, second left, and other talking robots CommU, center and second right, during a press event at the National Museum of Emerging Science and Innovation Miraikan in Tokyo

Indian bank allows payments via Twitter

India’s ICICI Bank has launched a new service called “icicibankpay” that allows customers to transfer

money using Twitter.Customers simply need to follow

the bank’s Twitter account to regis-ter their mobile phone with the bank and then send @icicibank a direct message with the recipient’s user name and the amount to be trans-ferred. The recipient does not need to be an ICICI Bank customer.

ICICI Bank, one of India’s big four banks and the second largest in terms of assets, is the second bank to add pay-by-tweet facilities. France’s second-largest bank Groupe BPCE introduced a similar service last year.

Mobile internet boomMany internet users have a mobile

phone or smartphone as their pri-mary computing device in India, where around 185 million of the total 213 million internet users access services through a mobile internet

connection last year.India has a population of 1.2 billion,

of which about 10 percent or 120 mil-lion people owned a smartphone in 2014, according to data from research company IDC. But the number of people owning smartphones in India is forecast to grow substantially as an influx of more affordable smartphone, such as the Motorola Moto G and models from local vendors including Micromax.

“This rapid pace of growth in smartphones is expected to con-tinue in India. While we notice that much of the growth is coming from low-cost devices using the Android operating system, Windows is mak-ing adequate gains too based on the strength of the entry level product mix in smartphones,” said Kiran Kumar from IDC India.

The new financial services are the result of Twitter’s push into e-com-merce as the social network attempts to expand beyond advertising as a potential revenue stream, and aims to make Twitter a core experience in other activities.

Twitter introduced a feature that

allowed users to buy good directly from some promoted tweets, while Amazon introduced a feature that allowed users to add stuff to their baskets for purchase using tweets.

Twitter buys ZipDial

Twitter Inc yesterday said it will buy Indian mobile phone marketing start-up ZipDial,

reportedly for $30m to $40m, as the US microblogging service looks to expand in the world’s second-biggest mobile market.

Bengaluru-based ZipDial gives cli-ents phone numbers for use in mar-keting campaigns. Consumers call the numbers and hang up before con-necting and incurring charges, and then receive promotion-related text messages.

The start-up’s clients include International Business Machines Corp, Yum! Brands Inc’s KFC and Procter & Gamble Co’s Gillette.

The service capitalises on a local tradition of communicating through so-called missed calls. A person may give a friend a missed call to signal

arrival at an agreed destination, for instance, without having to pay the cost of a phone call.

Such “unique behaviour” was behind ZipDial, the start-up said in a statement announcing the Twitter deal.

Twitter did not disclose terms of the purchase. Techcrunch, citing uni-dentified sources, reported the deal at $30m to $40m.

“This acquisition significantly increases our investment in India, one of the countries where we’re see-ing great growth,” Twitter said in a statement.

The acquisition is the latest in India by global tech giants who have snapped up companies in a fledgling startup scene, concentrated in the tech hub of Bengaluru in southern India.

Last year, Facebook Inc bought Little Eye Labs, a start-up that builds performance analysis and monitoring tools for mobile apps. Yahoo! Inc bought Bookpad, whose service allows developers to add doc-ument viewing and editing to their own applications. Agencies

Japan to sell talking robots that won’t try to make sense

COMICS & MORE 13

Hoy en la HistoriaJanuary 21, 2009

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Toyota of Japan overtook General Motors to become the world’s largest carmaker, ending the U.S. auto giant’s 77-year reign at the top

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LEARN ARABIC


With the Seamster

I want you to sew a suit for me from this cloth

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This jacket is long Ha�ihi al�akeet �aweela

Can you shorten it for me? Hal tasta�eeç an touqa�iraha lee?

When is the �tting? Mata satakoonou albrova?

I think that this jacket is loose Açtaqid anna ha�ihi al�akeet wasiça

Try it another time �arribha marra ou�ra

I want to see myself in the mirror Oureedou an ara nafsi fee almir'at

Do you want me to pay now? Atoureedounee an adfaça al'an?

When then? Mata i�an?

When I �nish sewing the suit Çindama antahi min �iya�at �aqm

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HYPER SUDOKU

CROSSWORD

CROSSWORDS

YESTERDAY’S ANSWER

How to play Hyper Sudoku:A Hyper Sudoku

Puzzle is solved

by filling the

numbers from 1

to 9 into the blank

cells. A Hyper

Sudoku has

unlike Sudoku

13 regions

(four regions

overlap with the

nine standard

regions). In all

regions the numbers from 1 to 9 can appear

only once. Otherwise, a Hyper Sudoku is

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ACROSS 1 Cause of an artery

blockage

11 Some working parts

15 Foam item at a water park

16 Coming up, to milady

17 Follower of Roosevelt

18 Jordan’s Mount ___, from which Jericho can be seen

19 Innards

20 Black hat

22 Sect in ancient Judea

23 Lacking backing

24 E.R. units

25 Protective, in a way

26 Missouri city, informally

29 Knuckle-bruiser

30 “Discreet Music”

musician

31 Ludwig ___ van der Rohe

32 “In”

33 Seizure

34 Field of fields?: Abbr.

35 Acoustic units

36 Hunter of a 20-Across

37 Standbys

39 “___ Nibelungenlied”

40 Like hospital patients and much lumber

41 Ephemeral

45 “Saving Fish From Drowning” author

46 Carry on

47 Mom on “Malcolm in the Middle”

48 Free

50 James of jazz

51 Hallmarks of Hallmark

52 Old TV news partner of David

53 Visual expertise

DOWN 1 Tear

2 Pluto and Bluto, e.g.

3 Debacles

4 Some Prado hangings

5 Intensify

6 Conservative side

7 Some candy wrappers

8 Interjects

9 ___ Sainte-Croix

10 Established in a new place, as a shrub

11 Hymn leader

12 They may be thrown out to audiences

13 Flip out

14 One left shaken?

21 Lead role in

the film known

in France as “L’Or de la Vie”

23 Brokers’ goal

25 Some lap dogs

26 Class clown, e.g.

27 A woolly bear becomes one

28 Springsteen, notably

29 Like diamonds and gold

32 Trysting site

33 Dished

35 Overseas deb: Abbr.

36 Hobby

38 Distresses

39 1978 Broadway revue that opens with “Hot August Night”

41 Rialto and others

42 Cuckoo

43 Cuckoo

44 Big V, maybe

46 Veronese’s

“The Wedding at ___”

49 Bleu body

1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14

15 16

17 18

19 20 21

22 23

24 25

26 27 28 29 30

31 32 33

34 35 36

37 38 39

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How to play Kakuro:The kakuro grid, unlike in sudoku, can be of any size. It has rows and columns, and dark cells like in a crossword. And, just like in a crossword, some of the dark cells will contain numbers. Some cells will contain two numbers.However, in a crossword the numbers reference clues. In a kakuro, the numbers are all you get! They denote the total of the digits in the row or column referenced by the number.Within each collection of cells - called a run

- any of the numbers 1 to 9 may be used but, like sudoku, each number may only be used once.

YESTERDAY’S ANSWER

14

EASY SUDOKUCartoon Arts International / The New York Times Syndicate

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


1Elott (2D/Arabic) – 10:15am, 12:15, 2:15, 4:15,

6:15, 8:15, 10:15 & 12:15am

2Taken 3 (2D/Action) – 10:00am, 12:10, 2:20, 4:30,

6:40, 9:00 & 11:20pm

3The Snow Queen 2: The Snow King

(3D/Animation)– 10:00, 11:40am, 1:20 & 3:00pm13 Sins (2D/Horror) –4:40, 6:40, 8:40 & 11:00pm

4Jack & The Cuckoo-Clock Heart

(2D/Animation) – 10:20am, 12:20 & 2:20pm; Zulu (2D/Aciton) – 4:20, 6:30, 8:40 & 10:50pm


(2D/Animation) – 12:15, 3:40 & 7:00pmSeventh Son (2D/Adventure)

– 10:15am, 1:40, 5:00, 9:00 & 11:15pm

6We'll Never Have Paris (2D/Comedy)

– 11:00am, 3:15, 7:30 & 11:45pmThe Theory of Everything (2D/Drama)

– 1:00, 5:15 & 9:15pm

7The Imitation Game (2D/Drama)

– 12:30, 4:40, 9:00 & 11:30pmPaddington(2D/Family)–10:40am, 2:45 &7:00pm

8Unborken (2D/Drama)– 10:50am, 3:20 & 7:50pm

Poker Night (2D/Thriller)

– 1:15, 5:40, 10:10pm, 12:15am

9Taken 3 (IMAX 2D/Action)

– 10:30am, 12:40, 2:50, 5:00, 7:15, 9:30 & 11:50pm

10Taken 3 (2D/Action) – 11:00am, 1:10, 3:20, 5:30,

7:45, 10:00pm & 12:15am

MALL


(2D/Animation) – 2:30pmJack & The Cuckoo-Clock Heart

(2D/Animation) – 4:00pm

Seventh Son (2D/Adventure) – 5.45pm

Taken 3 (2D/Crime) – 7:30, 9:30 & 11:30pm

2 The Theory of Everything (2D/Drama) – 3:00pm

The Snow Queen 2: The Snow King


13 Sins (2D/Horror) – 6:45pm

Elott (2D/Arabic) – 8:30pm

Shankar's "I" (2D/Tamil) – 10:15pm

3 Shankar's "I" (2D/Tamil) – 2:15pm

Taken 3 (2D/Action) – 5:30pm

Poker Night (2D/Action) – 7:30 & 11:30pm

The Theory of Everything (2D/Drama) – 9:15pm

LANDMARK

1 Shankar's "I" (2D/Tamil) – 2:00, 7:00 & 10:15pm


2Jack & The Cuckoo-Clock Heart

(2D/Animation) – 2:30pmThe Snow Queen 2: The Snow King


Taken 3 (2D/Action) – 5:45, 9:30 & 11:30pm

13 Sins (2D/Horror) – 7:45pm

3 Alone (2D/Horror) – 2:15 & 7:00pm



Poker Night (2D/Action) – 11:30pm

ROYAL

PLAZA

1

Jack & The Cuckoo-Clock Heart


Taken 3 (2D/Action) – 5:00, 9:00 & 11:15pm

Sharafat (2D/Hindi) – 7:00pm

2

The Snow Queen 2: The Snow King

(2D/Animation) – 2:30 & 4:00pm


13 Sins (2D/Horror) – 7:30 & 11:15pm

Sharafat (2D/Hindi) – 9:15pm

3 Poker Night (2D/Action) – 2:30 & 11:30pm

Legend Of The Never Beast (2D/Drama)

– 5:00pm



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Australian scientists have detected a short sharp flash of radio waves from a mysterious source up to 5.5 billion light years away from the earth,

media reported yesterday.The flash was detected by the scientists of

Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation (CSIRO) at Parkes radio telescope in Australia, reported Xinhua.

In Melbourne, Swinburne University of Technology PhD student Emily Petroff “saw” the burst live - a first for the astronomers.

Lasting only milliseconds, the first such radio burst was discovered in 2007 by the astronomers.

Six more bursts, apparently from outside the galaxy, have now been found with the Parkes telescope, in New South Wales, and a seventh with the Arecibo telescope in Puerto Rico.

Astronomers worldwide, have been vying to explain the phenomenon.

“These bursts were generally discovered weeks, months or even more than a decade after they hap-pened,” said Petroff.

“We are the first to catch one in real time,” Petroff said.

Confident that she would spot a “live” burst, Petroff had an international team of astronomers poised to make rapid follow-up observations, at wavelengths from radio to X-ray.

After the Parkes telescope saw the burst go off, the team swung into action on twelve telescopes around the world - in Australia, California, the Canary Islands, Chile, Germany, Hawaii, and India - as well as space based telescopes.

“We can rule out some ideas because no counterparts were seen in the optical, infrared, ultraviolet or X-ray,” CSIRO’s head of astrophysics Simon Johnston said.

“However, the neat idea that we are seeing a neutron star imploding into a black hole remains a possibility,” Johnston.

The 64-metre wide Parkes radio telescope New South Wales claimed a place in history in July 1969 when it received television transmissions of Neil Armstrong’s first steps on the moon.

One of the big unknowns of fast radio bursts is their distance. The characteristics of the radio signal - how it is “smeared out” in frequency from travelling through space - indicate that the source of the new burst was up to 5.5 billion light-years away.

“This means it could have given off as much energy in a few milliseconds as the sun does in a day,” Petroff said.

She said identifying the origin of the fast radio bursts is now only a matter of time. “We’ve set the trap. Now we just have to wait for another burst to fall into it.”

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Radio waves from mystery source detected

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