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PS4 OR XBOX ONE? PS4 OR XBOX ONE? This month sees the launch of two next-gen This month sees the launch of two next-gen

consoles – here is a guide to help you decide in consoles – here is a guide to help you decide in the latest battle in the gaming war.the latest battle in the gaming war.

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By Keith Stuart

If you’ve never touched a video game controller in your life, but do have avid players in your house-hold, you may be in for a bewildering month. That’s because we’re on the verge of what the

gaming industry excitedly calls ‘a new console gener-ation’. In short, the Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3, once the most powerful games machines on the planet are being replaced – the former by the PlayStation 4, the latter by the Xbox One. No, I don’t know why they called it the Xbox One either, but as a lot of people still refer to the original Xbox (launched waaaay back in 2001) as Xbox one, it’s going to lead to some hilarious misunderstandings.

Anyway, both of the new consoles are arriving in November, and members of your family may already be nagging you for one. So what are these things and what makes them different from each other, and from the consoles that you can still buy in the shops for a third of the price?

The technologyOkay, all you really need to know here is that

both the PS4 and the Xbox One represent a signifi-cant leap over their predecessors. Some people in the industry are suggesting that the Xbox One and PlayStation 4 are around eight times more powerful than the current Xbox 360 and PS3 machines. Does this mean that games will look eight times better? Probably not – tech specs don’t work like that. But game visuals will look noticeably more detailed, and you’ll see lots of lovely lighting effects and intricate character animations, which add to the “realism” of game worlds. I’ve put realism in quote marks there because we’re still a long way from “photo-realism”. However, I think the big blockbuster Xbox One and PS4 games will have moments where you’ll think

you’re watching TV, or at least a pretty good ani-mated movie.

What about the technical differences between the consoles? Well, they’re pretty negligible to the naked eye. Both are using very similar multi-core central processors and high-end graphics technologies, both have Blu-ray players and 500GB hard drives, and both have 8GB of system memory.

There are small differences in the way memory works and how graphics are handled which, on paper, suggest the PS4 is more powerful and will be capa-ble of better visuals. However, developers are very clever and usually work out how to get comparable results from all the available hardware. Even if right now PS4 games look better, that might not be the case a few months down the line when game studios work out how to squeeze extra performance from the Xbox One.

Finally, both offer advanced online functionality. The use of cloud computing, which connects your console to remote servers on the internet, may mean we see a new era of games which have huge online worlds that players can explore together, and that

seamlessly grow and evolve over time. We may see game processing tasks like physics and artificial intel-ligence being ‘outsourced’ to the cloud, meaning we see much more advanced simulations and life-like computer-controlled enemies. It’s a truly exciting time.

In a nutshell: Right now, it looks like PS4 is the most powerful console, but developers may well learn to exploit the Xbox One in new ways. It’s unlikely you’ll be making your buying decision on hardware specifications alone.

Motion controlsMicrosoft is making a big deal about its updated

Kinect motion controller, which uses a camera to watch player movements allowing you to control the onscreen action with arm waves, head nods and other gestures. Kinect was available for the Xbox 360, but it wasn’t very accurate and required a lot of light and space to work. The new Kinect is more sensitive and more powerful – it’ll be able to watch several players at once in quite a small room, it can recognise individual players, and it can even monitor your heart rate. Which isn’t at all creepy. It also has a microphone, so you can actually shout instructions at your console and it’ll obey. Again, Xbox 360 did this, but not very well. Oh, and Microsoft has assured everyone that the Kinect won’t be watching you 24 hours a day and then beaming live footage to the NSA. Its privacy statement assures users that all footage is kept locally on the machine.

So this is all very exciting, but then, the PS4 also has a new version of its own PlayStation Eye periph-eral which does a lot of the same stuff. According to Sony, it can recognise your face and voice, and it can track body movements, although it uses a different technology and there are doubts that it’ll do this as accurately as Kinect.

GAME-CHANGERSA quick guide designed especially for uninterested parents and partners, hopefully avoiding all the usual jargon and assumed knowledge.

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Perhaps the key difference, however, is that while the Xbox One ships with Kinect, PS4 owners will have to buy a PlayStation Eye camera separately. This will probably mean that developers are more likely to support the Kinect as they know everyone will have one. So if controlling games by wafting your arms around and/or talking is attractive, that’s a tick in the Xbox One column.

In a nutshell: both machines have interesting motion controllers that can reportedly recognise your face, your voice and your friends, though Microsoft seems to be taking Kinect more seriously than Sony is taking PlayStation Eye, and its motion technology is more advanced.

Entertainment beyond gamesXbox One and PS4 are promising lots

of entertainment options that will let you watch movies and listen to music on your console, as well as playing games. We’ll see deals with video-on-demand provid-ers like LoveFilm and Netflix, and there will be “free” TV services like YouTube, iPlayer and 4oD.

Right now, Microsoft seems more ambitious in this area. It has been show-ing off how you’ll be able to connect your cable or satellite set-top box to Xbox One, letting you control your live TV viewing pleasure through your console and also adding new social and interactive fea-tures to the experience. However, right now, a lot of those options are only avail-able in the US – and if you don’t really fancy, say, playing fantasy football while watching a real football match, it won’t excite you that much anyway.

Other than that, Microsoft is also making a big deal about how Xbox One can instantaneously switch between TV, movies and gaming without a lot of fid-dling about. It can also play your CDs and MP3 files and will soon be able to stream media content from your PC – PS4 can’t do any of those.

In a nutshell: both consoles will offer tons of on-demand movie and TV options, but Xbox One seems to have a wider array of options. You need to think of these machines, not just as games con-soles, but as all-round entertainment devices. You need to especially remember that when you’re handing over your £400.

Second screensThere’s a theory that the future of

interactive entertainment is going to be

about playing things on the your big liv-ing-room TV, while simultaneously inter-acting with a smaller screen on your lap. Basically, the games industry has been studying how everyone watches television these days, and, apparently, that involves sort of semi-viewing stuff like X Factor and Made in Chelsea while tweeting friends. This is the second-screen theory.

The PS4 and the Xbox One are going to support this to some degree. If you buy an Xbox One, for example, you’ll be able to download a new version of the SmartGlass app to your phone or tablet and then use your portable device to con-trol certain elements of the console game.

Microsoft has also shown how you’ll be able to use your tablet or smartphone as a remote control and programme guide, as well as comparing your gaming stats with friends, and organising multiplayer sessions.

PS4 has a smartphone app that does similar things to SmartGlass, such as acting as a limited remote control and showing game information. But Sony’s console also offers extra compatibility with the lovely PlayStation Vita hand-held console. For example, you’ll be able to remote play PS4 games on your Vita, as long as both are wirelessly connected to your home network.

Why would you want to do that? Well,

say you’re having a lovely time playing a PS4 game on the big TV in your living room, but then someone else wants to watch Downton Abbey – well, now you can pick up your Vita, select Remote Play and the PS4 game will appear on its little screen. You can now continue playing. Not all games will be compatible with Remote Play, but it’s still pretty neat. Oh, and Vita will also be used as a second screen for lots of new titles.

In a nutshell: Xbox One has a more powerful smartphone and tablet appli-cation in the form of SmartGlass and developers are already using it in very interesting ways. But PS4 has strong con-nectivity potential with the PlayStation Vita console.

Backwards compatibilityIn the past, new games consoles would

often let you play the old games released for proceeding machines. That’s not the case with the PS4 or Xbox One – you’ll have to keep hold of your rickety old PS3s and Xbox 360s to play those classic titles. However, from next year, the PS4 will be able stream a limited selection of PS3 games from “the cloud” (i.e. a remote server network) to your PS4, so you’ll have access to “retro” titles. It’s likely Xbox One will eventually offer this sort of thing as well.

As for peripherals, you won’t be able to use your old Xbox 360 or PS3 con-trollers with your new machines – both consoles have shiny new joypads with lots of new features. For example, the PS4’s Dualshock 4 controller has a touchpad, which provides a new form of tactile input, while the Xbox One controller has cool rumble packs in the triggers to … well … make the triggers vibrate. Don’t ask.

In a nutshell: Neither PS4 nor Xbox One are compatible with old games or controllers.

The gamesBoth consoles boast a selection of

exclusive titles and these are the key bargaining chips at this stage. Xbox

One has super driving simulator Forza Motorsport 5, gruesome zombie game Dead Rising 3 and historical hack-and-slash romp Ryse: Son of Rome.

PS4, meanwhile, is the only place you’ll be able to play family-friendly adventure Knack, sci-fi blaster Killzone: Shadow Fall and hectic shoot-em-up, Resogun. PS4’s ambitious open-world racing game, Drive Club, has been delayed until next year.

The Xbox One and PS4 will also offer all the major multi-platform blockbusters released this autumn, such as Battlefield 4, Call of Duty: Ghosts, Assassin’s Creed 4, Lego Marvel Superheroes and Fifa 2014. Which machine has the best ver-sions? Well, that’s going to vary quite a lot – and we don’t yet know the answers for several big titles. However, there’s been some controversy over the fact that Call of Duty: Ghosts runs in full native 1080p high-definition on PS4 but only 720p on Xbox One.

Don’t know what that means? It’s OK, a lot of people won’t notice the difference – indeed a lot of cheaper LCD televi-sion sets don’t actually support full 1080p HD. Furthermore, other developers are promising to get full HD performance out of Xbox One. Let’s just say this: if graph-ics are the main reason you’re buying a new machine, this is an issue to be aware of – especially if you’ve been presented with a Christmas list that says: “Dear Santa, please bring me a games console that absolutely definitely outputs in full 1080p HD at 60 frames-per-second or I’ll scream until I vomit”.

FIFA 14As for the future of games, well,

both consoles have their individual strengths. Sony has an amazing collec-tion of development studios that will work exclusively on PS4 and Vita titles. But Microsoft also has its own cabal of talented studios. Warwickshire-based veteran Rare is producing the hugely amusing Kinect Sports Rivals, and 343 Industries is now hard at work on epic space sequel Halo 5.

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Xbox One also has some extremely promising console exclusives on the way including Titanfall, the new sci-fi shooter from the people who brought us Call of Duty, and Quantum Break, an apocalyptic thriller set to tie-in with a live-action TV series.

Oh, as a sub-plot, it seems Sony has launched a major charm offensive on smaller indie developers. Consequently, there are quite a few idiosyncratic little treasures that will be exclusive to PS4 – at least in the short term. Microsoft is also trying to court these teeny stu-dios too – everyone wants to find the next big crossover hit, like Minecraft. Right now, though, PS4 is definitely the console to come to for offbeat titles like Supergiant’s sci-fi adventure Transistor and hilarious action puzzler Octodad: Dadliest Catch.

In a nutshell: Xbox One possibly has the stronger launch lineup in terms of big triple-A hits, although graphically it may be lagging behind its rival. PS4, meanwhile, is very strong on offbeat indie games.

Social interactionIt’s all about social gaming these days,

so both machines will offer video chat for up to eight people, and both will provide loads of social integration fea-tures, making it easier to find and play against friends. On the PS4, for exam-ple, as soon as you switch the console on, you’ll get a news screen showing what all your friends are playing – you’ll even be able to leap straight into their games.

One big new feature of the next-gen consoles will be seamless content shar-ing. On both, you can record yourself playing games and then post that foot-age to the web. This may sound daft to you, but there’s already a huge online community of gamers who share videos of themselves playing games, and many of them have hundreds of thousands of YouTube subscribers. This is what kids do nowadays instead of watching television.

All of this will be jammed with paren-tal locks so you shouldn’t have to worry about how much personal information your children are broadcasting across the gaming universe.

In a nutshell: the Xbox One and PS4 are both loaded with social features such as video chatting and video shar-ing, allowing users to communicate and share content with friends and the wider web. Xbox has traditionally been the best platform for online multiplayer gaming, but PlayStation is really push-ing it this time round.

Launch details and pricesThe PS4 is launching in North

America on November 15 and in Europe and Australia on November 29. The machine will cost $399 in the US, €399 in Europe, £349 in the UK and $549 in Australia – that price will get you the machine, a controller, a mono headset and an HDMI cable.

The Xbox One is launching in major global territories on November 22. It will cost $499 in the US, €369 in Europe, £429 in the UK and $599 in Australia. The basic package has a con-troller, all the essential leads, plus the

Kinect motion device.Games will cost between £45-60

each – you’ll be able to buy second-hand copies, but it’s likely that many will require you to pay again in order to unlock online multiplayer modes and other extras (originally, the Xbox One was designed to prevent or at least con-trol the sale of used games, but a public outcry led to a change in policy).

Both consoles will also be offering a range of free’ titles, that will cost nothing to download, but will doubt-less include ‘microtransactions’ so that players can purchase in-game items. The Xbox One has beat-em-’up Killer Instinct and game creation package Project Spark, while PS4 has third-person shooter Warframe and flight combat sim, War Thunder. Free-to-play is already a common model in smartphone games, and is likely to be a big deal on these new consoles too.

‘Hidden’ costsIf you buy an Xbox One, you’ll need

to pay an annual Gold subscription to be able to play games against other users online, as well as to use Skype and most TV services. This will cost £39.99 a year. On PS4 you’ll need an annual subscription to play online games – however, video chat and TV streaming options like iPlayer and 4oD

will be free. On both machines, video-on-demand services like Netflix and Lovefilm will almost certainly require separate subscriptions.

Purchasing a next-gen consoleAnd there are alternatives. The PS3

and Xbox 360 are great machines with vast libraries of excellent games – if you’re buying your first family console, you could do a lot worse than purchas-ing one of these and then jumping into the next-gen era in a year or so. There’s also the Nintendo Wii U, the follow-up to the hugely successful Wii. It hasn’t caught on as well as its predecessor, but with its innovative GamePad control-ler (which comes with its own display, like a tablet computer), it offers some really fun gaming experiences, such as Nintendoland, Pikmin 3 and New Super Mario Bros U – and there are new versions of Mario Kart and Wii Fit on the way.

If you love smartphone games, there are also a couple of smaller consoles based on the Android operating sys-tem. The Ouya and the GameStick are priced at less than £100 and are extremely portable – their games are more like those you’d find on your mobile, but for a lot of people that’s fine. Meanwhile, we’re seeing an increas-ing number of ‘living rooms PCs’

– computers designed for entertain-ment rather than work. Next year, the brilliant game developer Valve is releas-ing a series of Steam Machine PCs that will handle gaming brilliantly, as well as offering all the other advantages of a computer.

In a nutshell: Don’t feel you have to jump into the next generation just yet. Make sure you research the alternatives.

FinallyIf you’re choosing one for your fam-

ily, have a good think about what you’ll use it for. It’s really difficult to separate the two, but right now, if you want an all-round entertainment beast that will handle all your TV and movie needs as well as playing a very decent selec-tion of games, go for Xbox One. If it’s all about graphical performance and sheer variety of gaming experiences, PlayStation 4 may be the one for you.

They’re both super advanced machines with tons to offer, so in the end, it’s down to personal choice. The good news is, although this is billed as a console war, neither is likely to ‘lose’. Buy a next-gen console and, unless there’s some sort of financial catastro-phe, you’re investing in at least eight years of entertainment.

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PlayStation 4 conclusion

Pros• Powerful, cleverly designed hardware with high-

end graphics technology• Excellent ‘in-house’ developers• Really interesting new controller, with touchpad

interface• Plenty of ‘on-demand’ entertainment options,

many of which won’t require a subscription• Strong roster of offbeat ‘indie’ games• Clever ‘live’ user-interface that displays what

your friends are playing and lets you join them instantly

Cons• PlayStation Eye motion controller is sold sepa-

rately, which means it won’t be as well sup-ported by developers

• Launch lineup relies heavily on ‘third-party’ multi-platform games

PlayStation 4 conclusion

Pros• Advanced all-round entertainment options, allowing

users to plug in their satellite or cable box (content deals permitting) and control the TV experience

• Seamless transition between movies, TV and games• The new Kinect is extremely powerful and may well

lead to some truly innovative gaming experiences• The launch lineup is very strong with key brands like

Forza and Killer Instinct• Xbox Live is a very strong online multiplayer serv-

ice which has been fully overhauled for the new generation

Cons• Question marks over the console’s ability to display

full 1080p visuals when games are running at the optimal rate of 60 frames-per-second (but this may be temporary)

• The inclusion of Kinect means it’s more expensive

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Birla Public School (BPS) emerged winners in the Team Championship of the CBSE Qatar Cluster Badminton (Boys) Tournament 2013. BPS teams won the Under-19 and Under-14 titles. The BPS Under-14 Girls team was runner-up in its category. The Under–14 boys team comprised Steve John, Abraham Sunil, Rehan Arshad and Anirudh Santhosh. In the Under-19 category, Alan Thomas Philip, Renin Seby, Narsasimhan Ravi and Noel Paul won laurels. The Under-14 girls team members were Thea Anne, Sunidhi Sudheer, Shivani Nimaye and Arthi Kranakarn.

MES Indian School emerged champions in volleyball (boys under 19) in the CBSE Qatar Cluster Competition at Ideal Indian School recently. The MES volleyball team beat Ideal Indian School in the final and qualified for the Nationals, scheduled to be held from December 8 to 12 at St Joseph’s School, Bhopal, India.

Bhavan’s Public School celebrated Kerala Piravi at both its campuses. Kumari Bhairavi and Master Goutham anchored the programme. Principal Balasubramanian deliv-ered a welcome speech and recited a poem. Honey Baskaran, poet and writer, inaugurated the programmes by releasing the anthology of art forms of Kerala, prepared by students. RIGHT: Honey Baskaran delivering her keynote address.

Sanskriti competitions

Off-stage events of Sanskriti Inter-School Kalolsavam – 2013, being held

in connection with Sanskriti’s 15th anniversary celebrations, will be held on November 15. Interested students need to enrol before November 10. Applications can be submitted through the school representa-tives, arts institutions or Skills Development Centre. For more details, contact 55274408 or 55385074. “Details of the pro-gramme and application are available on www.sanskritika-lolsavam.com. Application for on-stage items will be accepted till November 30,” an organiser said.

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Four Seasons Hotel Doha is spreading holiday cheer with a line-up of feasts and festivities

to make the end-of-year celebrations special.

Guests can pre-order a butterball turkey complete with all trimmings to be delivered straight to their door. Side dishes include glazed potatoes as well as desserts including lemon pie, Yule log and Stollen. Orders for Stollen and Yule logs need to be placed at least 48 hours in advance while roast turkeys need to be ordered at least 72 hours in advance.

Guests can get into the festive spirit on December 1, when the hotel lobby will be lit up for the festive season. To set the mood, a children’s choir will

serenade guests and Santa may also make his first seasonal appearance. The event starts at 4.30pm.

For Christmas Eve dinner, a four-course menu awaits at Il Teatro, with the restaurant’s team of Italian chefs giving the traditional dinner a touch of la dolce vita, with dishes such as Pumpkin tortelloni with butter sage sauce, Thyme vanilla roasted hammour and Zuppa Inglese with butterscotch crema on the menu.

At Nusantao, Chef Toshikazu Kato and his team will be offering a Far Eastern-inspired Christmas Eve menu. Dinner starts from 7pm.

For Christmas day brunch, enjoy an extensive buffet at Nusantao. The offerings include traditional favourites

like roast turkey, salad selections and a dessert room, as well as treats like oysters, caviar and ceviche. Younger guests will have fun activities in store with face painting, a bouncy castle, a magic show, balloon twisting and a visit from Santa himself. Brunch starts from 12 noon.

Chef Aldo and his team at Il Teatro are preparing a five-course gourmet menu specially created for New Year’s Eve, with dishes like Lobster Carpaccio with Mandarin essence, red onions in sweet and sour cherry tomatoes comfit and Pears risotto with Taleggio cheese and truffle.

Guests can ease themselves into the New Year after a night of festivities with a relaxed New Year’s Day Brunch

at Nusantao. Special activities will keep the kids happily occupied while the grown-ups enjoy treats like oyster, foie gras, carvery and cheese stations. Brunch starts from 12 noon.

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Feasts and festivities at Four Seasons Hotel Doha

Winners of the Malabar Gold & Diamonds Diwali campaign raffle draw collecting their prizes of 250g of gold from Santhosh TV, Regional Head, and Noufal, Branch Head, at the outlet in Doha. The winners are Praful I Shah, Sreejesh and Najeeb.

Lebanese singer Reem Al Sherif, a long-term client of Khan Al Saboun, a com-pany specialising in manufacturing natural handmade scented soap and beauty products, tried their new treatments developed in collaboration with the bespoke company, Arabian Rose Body Massage, at B/Attitude Spa. Performed with Rose Essential Oil, it is a unique energy balancing massage combined with lymph drainage massage and aromatherapy, that improves blood and lymph circulation in the body and soothes mind and body. Reem is wearing an S-dress, designed with fabric that guarantees total breathability.

Celebrity visit

Lucky winnersLucky winners

Vodafone Qatar opened a new retail touch point at Lagoona Mall recently and it will be open until the end of December. Mohammed Al Yami, Director of External Affairs at Vodafone Qatar, said: “Lagoona Mall is a key location in Qatar and we’re happy to be able to provide our outstanding products and services to our customers in Lusail area. We have over 1,000,000 customers who are actively using our network on a daily basis and it is therefore important to take our customer experience nationwide by ensuring we are reaching out to our customers, wherever they are.”

New Vodafone outlet

Aristocrazy, the jewellery brand belonging to Spanish firm Grupo Suárez, held a preview event at Arumaila Boutique Hotel to showcase its jewellery ahead of the store’s opening in Lagoona Mall in December. The store will be Aristocrazy’s first in the Middle East. Amalia Aresu, Aristocrazy Middle East franchisee, said: “We are delighted to soon be opening our first store in Doha. Aristocrazy is a reference brand in the luxury market, well-known for its quality, its excellence, for using the best materials and design, and for its exclusive client service.”

Aristocrazy preview

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Toddlers who continue to use bottles beyond 12 to 15 months of age tend to be overweight. But sim-

ply switching them to sippy cups may not prevent extra weight gain, a new study finds.

Doctors recommend intro-ducing sippy cups at six months and weaning toddlers off bottles completely by the time they’re 15 months old.

But 20 percent of two-year-olds and 10 percent of three-year-olds in the US continue to use bottles, often drinking five bottles of whole milk every day, researchers said.

“Bottles can become a vessel for extra, or ‘stealth’ calories, because they are often used indis-criminately. For example, while in a stroller, or to put a child to bed,” Karen Bonuck said. She led the new study at Albert Einstein College of Medicine in Bronx, New York.

“Before you know it, a child can take in 150 calories of whole milk in a bottle on top of their regular diet,” Bonuck said.

The researchers wanted to see if giving parents educational materials as part of a program called ‘Proud to Be Bottle Free’ and a sippy cup would reduce the number of bottles kids used and the calories they consumed.

They enrolled 300 pairs of parents and 12-month-olds at two Bronx Women, Infants, and Children (WIC) sites.

To be eligible for the study, chil-dren had to be consuming more than two bottles of milk or juice every day. The participants were randomly split into two groups: a bottle-weaning group that received the materials and sippy cup and a comparison group that did not.

The research team checked in with parents over the next year to find out how many bottles kids were consuming every day, as well

as what else they ate and drank.One hundred and four parent

and child pairs completed the study.

After three months, bottle usage had dropped from 4.6 bot-tles per day to two bottles per day among kids in the bottle-weaning program. There was a smaller drop in the comparison group, from 4.4 bottles per day to 2.7, on average.

Sippy cup usage increased more in the bottle-weaning group.

By one year, toddlers in both groups were averaging about one bottle per day.

Kids in the bottle-weaning pro-gramme consumed slightly fewer calories - 1,090 calories per day, on average, versus 1,186 among comparison children. But the dif-ference was small enough that it could have been due to chance.

The program did not lower tod-dlers’ chances of being overweight, according to results published in The Journal of Pediatrics.

“At first we were surprised that there was no effect upon over-weight status,” Bonuck said, “but looking at the data more closely, this seems partially attributable to the substitution of sippy cups for bottles in the intervention group.”

She thought the program’s benefits might also have been clearer had fewer families left the study early.

“Had we achieved our optimal sample size, and included messages about sippy cups, I would suspect this would have affected our overweight status outcomes,” Bonuck said.

She said the advice to wean toddlers off bot-tles by 15 months should be extended to sippy cups.

“They seem to

just substitute for bottles well into the second and third years of life. In addition, we need to develop guidelines for liquid intake - including the proper balance of liquid versus solids during the sec-ond year of life,” she said.

“Around one year of age, a child should be getting much of his/her nutrition through food,” Angela Lemond told Reuters Health in an email.

A dietician and spokesperson for the Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics, she was not involved in the new research.

Lemond said breast milk, tod-dler formulas, whole milk and four to six ounces of 100-percent juice each day are all good choices for toddlers.

Beverages not on the recom-mended list for toddlers include low-fat milk or sweetened flavored milks like chocolate or strawberry, sport drinks, soda and other caf-feinated beverages.

The World Health Organization recommends exclusive breastfeed-ing — without any formula, other milk or solid food — until a baby is six months old, followed by breast-feeding with the addition of appro-priate foods through age two.

SOURCE: bit.ly/1ekl7WS The Journal of Pediatrics, online November 4, 2013.

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New US rules require equal coverage for mental ills

Most Americans with health insur-ance will be guaranteed access to mental health services, includ-

ing for depression and alcoholism, equal to medical and surgical treatment under long-delayed rules issued by the Obama admin-istration. But the protections do not apply to tens of millions of people, including the elderly.

The rules implement the 2008 Mental Health Parity and Addiction Equity Act, which took on greater urgency with the administration’s vow to address gun violence after a series of mass shootings across the United States in the past few years.

Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius estimated that 90 percent of Americans with substance-use disorders do not receive the care they need.

“For way too long, health plans openly dis-criminated against” Americans with mental illness, she said in a call with reporters on Friday. Labor Secretary Thomas Perez said mental illnesses “the stepchildren of the healthcare system.”

In any given year, about one-quarter of American adults have a mental illness that meets diagnostic criteria, says the National Institute of Mental Health.

Under the final rules, health plans must not have different co-pays, deductibles or visit limits for mental disorders and sub-stance abuse than they do for other illnesses.

New mutant gene discovery to help research: Study

Chinese doctors have discovered and registered a new mutant gene for alpha-thalassemia, in a first of its kind

advance worldwide that enriches the gene database to assist researchers find a cure for the genetic disease.

Li Youqiong and colleagues from the People’s Hospital of Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region, discovered this gene, a 21.9, after a series of experiments on a car-rier of the hereditary disease in 2011, reports Xinhua.

Thalassemia is a disease in which the car-rier is missing or has malfunctioning genes responsible for making haemoglobin, the blood protein that helps to carry oxygen around the body.

The haemoglobin molecule has sub-units commonly referred to as alpha and beta.

The mutant gene was identified by the end of 2012 before it was added to the GenBank database in the US-based National Centre for Biotechnology Information (NCBI) and then disclosed to the public Oct 1, 2013, according to Li.

There is no effective cure for alpha-tha-lassemia, and the discovery of the new muta-tion will help prevention of and research on the disease while preparing a theoretical basis for future gene therapy.

There are three main genetic sequence databases worldwide - DNA Databank of Japan, the European Molecular Biology Laboratory and the GenBank at NCBI. These three organisations exchange data on a daily basis.

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AY

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ER

2013

We

ded

icate

our

‘Dhoom

mach

ale

’to

Sach

in:

Aam

ir K

han

Cric

kete

r S

achin

Tendula

r’s

reti

rem

ent

from

Test

cric

ket

has

left

Aam

ir

Khan w

anti

ng t

o “

cele

brate

his

specta

cula

r i

nnin

gs”

. T

he s

uperst

ar

has

decid

ed t

o d

edic

ate

the t

itle

track o

f his

forth

com

ing fi

lm D

hoom

3

to t

he m

ast

er b

last

er.

“Through h

is e

nti

re c

areer h

e h

as

create

d ‘

Dhoom

’ in

every s

tep, on

every p

itch, in

every c

ric

keti

ng c

ountr

y, in e

very b

ow

ler’s

nig

htm

are, in

our

hearts

, in

every c

ric

ket

field

across

the w

orld

, and in t

he h

earts

of

every

cric

ket

fan a

cross

the w

orld

. S

o, very a

ppropria

tely

, w

e h

um

bly

dedic

ate

our s

ong D

hoom

ma

cha

le t

o t

he g

eniu

s,”

Aam

ir s

aid

in a

sta

tem

ent.

Tendulk

ar is

schedule

d t

o p

lay h

is 2

00th

Test

matc

h a

gain

st t

he W

est

In

die

s in

his

hom

eto

wn M

um

bai’s

Wankhede S

tadiu

m n

ext

week, draw

-in

g c

urta

ins

on a

specta

cula

r c

ric

ket

career s

pannin

g o

ver t

wo d

ecades.

The s

ong w

ill be launched b

efo

re h

e s

tarts

pla

yin

g in M

um

bai.

Dh

oom

3, produced b

y A

dit

ya C

hopra, w

ill be r

ele

ase

d o

n D

ecem

ber 2

0

and a

lso s

tars

Abhis

hek B

achchan, U

day C

hopra a

nd K

atr

ina K

aif

.

Pra

ise

from

fath

er m

akes

Viv

ek h

appy

Acto

r

Viv

ek

O

beroi

is

happy

foll

ow

ing

the

super success of

Krr

ish

3,

esp

ecia

lly b

ecause

his

fath

er,

vete

ran a

cto

r S

uresh

Oberoi,

has

prais

ed h

is w

ork

.“M

y f

ath

er t

old

me, ‘I

am

very p

roud o

f you f

or b

ein

g

so b

rave.

Bein

g a

hero,

you

accepte

d t

he r

ole

of

a s

uper

vil

lain

an

d th

at

too oppo-

site

a s

uperhero lik

e K

rris

h,

a fa

vourit

e in

In

dia

’,”

the

37-y

ear-o

ld s

aid

on F

rid

ay a

t a s

pecia

l sc

reenin

g o

f K

rris

h

3 f

or c

hildren.

His

fath

er a

lso a

pprecia

ted

how

, w

hile H

rit

hik

Rosh

an

has

pla

yed K

rris

h b

y j

um

p-

ing from

buildin

gs

and d

oin

g

all k

inds

of

stunts

, V

ivek, as

Kaal, perfo

rm

ed very w

ell

wit

h h

is f

ace a

nd fi

ngers.

For V

ivek,

his

prais

e w

as

specia

l.“I

t fe

lt g

ood b

ecause

he is

a fath

er a

nd w

hen s

uch a

tale

nte

d a

nd s

enio

r

acto

r p

rais

es

you it

alw

ays

feels

good,” h

e a

dded.

Krr

ish

3, dir

ecte

d b

y R

akesh

Rosh

an, als

o s

tars

Priy

anka C

hopra a

nd

Kangana R

anaut.

Kangana’s

dance

tra

inin

g h

elps

in R

ajjo

Actr

ess

Kangana R

anaut

says

she h

as

been t

rain

ing in c

lass

ical In

dia

n

dance for t

he p

ast

five y

ears

and s

he is

gla

d t

hat

in h

er u

pcom

ing fi

lm

Ra

jjo s

he h

as

got

a c

hance t

o s

how

her m

oves.

“I h

ave b

een

learn

ing c

lass

ical

dan

ce f

or a

lon

g t

ime a

nd i

t’s

just

a

coin

cid

ence t

hat

I got

to d

o t

his

film

. I

have b

een learnin

g it

for a

reaso

n,

that

som

eday I

will get

to d

o k

ath

ak,” K

angana s

aid

.S

he h

as

use

d h

er k

ath

ak s

kills

for o

ne p

arti

cula

r s

ong in R

ajjo, and s

ays

it’s

an a

rt

that

can’t

be learnt

in a

month

.“I

have b

een l

earnin

g c

lass

ical

dance f

or a

while n

ow

, fo

r f

our t

o fi

ve

years.

A s

ong i

n t

he c

lim

ax i

s fu

ll o

f kath

ak t

hat

you c

an’t

learn i

t in

a

week o

r a

month

. Y

ou h

ave t

o r

ehearse

for it

for a

long t

ime.”

Dir

ecte

d b

y V

ishw

as

Pati

l, R

ajjo,

rele

asi

ng o

n N

ovem

ber 1

5,

featu

res

Kangana a

s th

e p

rota

gonis

t.

By

Ste

ph

an

ie M

err

y

Movie

lovers

have f

aced a

n u

nusu

al

—

but

wonderfu

l —

conundrum

this

fall:

Wit

h s

o m

any e

xcellent

film

s in

thea-

tres

and a

lim

ited a

mount

of

tim

e in

the d

ay,

should

they s

ee G

ravi

ty o

r C

ap

tain

Ph

illi

ps?

or 1

2 Y

ea

rs a

Sla

ve?.

Th

e ch

oic

es w

ill

grow

m

ore dif

ficult

in

th

e

com

ing w

eeks,

as

hig

h-p

rofile

sequels

an

d m

ore

Osc

ar c

onte

nders

arriv

e o

n t

he b

ig s

creen. T

here’s

so

meth

ing f

or e

veryon

e:

Th

e H

ob

bit

an

d H

un

ger

Ga

mes

sagas

conti

nue, W

ill

Ferrell b

ecom

es

Ron

Burgundy o

nce a

gain

, and B

lack

Na

tivi

ty a

nd F

roze

n

light

up t

he s

easo

n w

ith s

ongs.

Read o

n f

or 2

0 m

ovie

rele

ase

s w

orth

your t

ime

this

seaso

n. S

om

e fi

lms

brin

g t

he a

cti

on a

nd s

om

e

deliver la

ugh

s;

som

e m

ovie

s fo

llow

ch

aracte

rs

behavin

g b

adly

and s

om

e d

eal

wit

h f

am

ily d

ram

a

(occasi

onally,

those

overla

p,

of

course

); a

nd,

yes,

so

me m

ovie

s m

ight

duke it

out

for b

est

pic

ture.

Th

e A

rm

str

on

g L

ie

This

isn

’t e

xactl

y t

he d

ocum

enta

ry A

lex G

ibney

had i

n m

ind w

hen h

e s

et

out

to c

hronic

le L

ance

Arm

strong’s

2009 c

om

eback. In

stead, th

e T

axi

to

the D

ark

Sid

e d

irecto

r c

hronic

led h

ow

the s

even-

tim

e T

our d

e F

rance c

ham

pio

n l

ied a

nd c

heate

d

his

way t

o v

icto

ry.

Th

e B

oo

k T

hie

f

Nazi

Germ

any is

the s

ett

ing for t

his

dram

a a

bout

an o

rphan n

am

ed L

iese

l (S

ophie

Neliss

e),

whose

new

fost

er p

arents

(th

e g

reat

Geoff

rey R

ush

and

Em

ily W

ats

on)

secretl

y h

arbour a

Jew

ish r

efu

gee.

The t

aut

an

d b

itte

rsw

eet

story i

s base

d o

n t

he

best

-sellin

g 2

006 n

ovel by M

ark

us

Zusa

k.

Th

e H

un

ger G

am

es —

Ca

tch

ing

Fir

e

Jennif

er L

aw

rence r

etu

rns

as

Katn

iss

Everdeen,

the p

lucky h

eroin

e from

Suza

nne C

ollin

s’ d

yst

opia

n

trilogy o

f young a

dult

novels

. T

his

second i

nst

al-

men

t pic

ks

up w

here t

he fi

rst

film

left

off

. Just

aft

er K

atn

iss

an

d o

ne o

f her t

wo l

ove i

nte

rest

s,

Peeta

Mellark

(Jo

sh H

utc

hers

on),

win

the k

ids-

only

gla

dia

tor-l

ike b

loodbath

that

is t

he H

unger G

am

es,

th

ey fi

nd t

hem

selv

es

bein

g c

arefu

lly m

onit

ored b

y

Big

Broth

er.

Philip

Seym

our H

off

man

an

d J

en

a

Malo

ne join

the fi

rst

film

’s a

lready s

tarry c

ast

.

Deli

very M

an

Vin

ce V

aughn

pla

ys i

t fa

irly

str

aig

ht

in t

his

E

nglish

-language a

dapta

tion o

f th

e C

anadia

n fi

lm

Sta

rbu

ck. H

is c

haracte

r, D

avid

Wozn

iak, is

a l

ist-

less

mid

dle

-age g

uy w

ho fi

nds

out

that

a t

rip

to

the s

perm

bank i

n h

is y

ounger y

ears

resu

lted i

n

533 o

ffsp

rin

g. W

orse

, th

ey’r

e t

ryin

g t

o u

ncover h

is

identi

ty. W

hen h

e s

ets

out

to c

overtl

y fi

nd o

ut

who

his

sons

and d

aughte

rs

are,

he w

inds

up h

elp

ing

them

and —

ta-d

a! —

findin

g p

urpose

in h

is lif

e.

Neb

rask

aY

ou c

an

alm

ost

sm

ell t

he a

lcohol

em

an

ati

ng

from

the p

ores

of

an

utt

erly

dis

hevelled B

ruce

Dern in t

his

bla

ck-a

nd-w

hit

e d

ram

a, w

hic

h e

arned

the p

rolific a

cto

r a

n a

ward f

or h

is p

erfo

rm

an

ce

at

Can

nes

earlier t

his

year.

Dir

ecto

r A

lexan

der

Payne’s

firs

t film

sin

ce w

innin

g a

n A

cadem

y A

ward

for T

he D

esc

en

da

nts

follow

s an a

gin

g b

ooze

r (

Dern)

who’s

convin

ced h

e w

on

$1m

an

d d

rags

his

son

alo

ng a

s he t

ravels

from

Monta

na t

o N

ebrask

a t

o

cla

im h

is d

ubio

us

priz

e. A

lso n

ote

worth

y: T

he s

on

is p

layed b

y S

atu

rda

y N

igh

t L

ive a

lum

Will

Forte

in

an u

ncharacte

ris

tically s

erio

us

role

.

Bla

ck

Na

tivit

y

The r

ousi

ng L

an

gst

on

Hughes

musi

cal, fi

lled

wit

h g

osp

el

ren

dit

ion

s of

Chris

tmas

carols

, gets

th

e b

ig-s

creen t

reatm

ent

wit

h a

n im

press

ive lin

eup

of

pla

yers,

inclu

din

g F

orest

Wh

itaker,

A

ngela

B

ass

ett

an

d p

ow

erfu

l vocalist

Jen

nif

er H

udso

n.

Rela

tive n

ew

com

er J

acob L

ati

more p

lays

Langst

on,

a B

alt

imore t

een w

hose

mom

(H

udso

n)

ship

s him

to

Harl

em

to s

pend C

hris

tmas

wit

h h

er e

stranged

parents

, in

clu

din

g h

er s

tern m

inis

ter f

ath

er.

Fro

zen

Win

ter is

com

ing. A

nd it’s

goin

g t

o b

e a

nim

ate

d.

In D

isney’s

next

musi

cal adventu

re, A

nna (

Kris

ten

Bell)

sets

off

in

search o

f her e

xiled s

iste

r, t

he

Snow

Queen (

Tony-w

innin

g B

roadw

ay l

um

inary

Idin

a M

enze

l),

who h

as

a K

ing M

idas-

like t

ouch

— o

nly

everyth

ing s

he r

est

s a h

and o

n t

urns

to ice.

Th

e L

ion

Kin

g (

1994)

was

the l

ast

Dis

ney m

usi

cal

to p

roduce t

ruly

mem

orable

tunes,

but

there a

re

hig

h h

opes

for t

he s

on

gs

pen

ned b

y t

hree-t

ime

Tony w

inner R

obert

Lopez

and h

is w

ife,

Kris

ten

Anderso

n-L

opez,

a D

ram

a D

esk

Aw

ard w

inner.

Old

bo

y

Ten y

ears

ago S

outh

Korean d

irecto

r C

han-w

ook

Park

gain

ed s

tate

side r

ecognit

ion f

or h

is h

yper-

vio

lent

movie

about

a m

an w

ho is

inexplicably

kid

-napped a

nd im

pris

oned f

or d

ecades,

then s

et

free

wit

hout

expla

nati

on

. N

ow

, th

e m

ovie

is

gett

ing

an E

nglish

-language m

akeover.

Spik

e L

ee d

irects

Jo

sh B

rolin a

s th

e r

ecentl

y l

iberate

d p

rota

gonis

t,

who g

oes

lookin

g for v

engeance a

nd w

inds

up w

ith

ple

nty

of

blo

od o

n h

is h

ands.

Ph

ilo

men

a

Ste

phen

Frears,

Academ

y A

ward-n

om

inate

d

dir

ecto

r o

f T

he Q

ueen,

helm

ed t

his

heartw

arm

er

about

a jaded journalist

who r

elu

cta

ntl

y t

akes

an

assig

nm

en

t to

cover a

wom

an

’s s

earch f

or h

er

son, w

ho w

as

taken from

her 5

0 y

ears

earlier.

Judi

Den

ch p

lays

the p

rete

rn

atu

rally f

rie

ndly

profile

su

bje

ct,

and S

teve C

oogan i

s her l

ess

em

path

eti

c

foil.

Th

e H

ob

bit

— T

he D

eso

lati

on

of

Sm

au

g

Behold

the s

econd i

nst

alm

ent

of

Pete

r J

ackso

n’s

trilogy o

f m

ovie

s base

d o

n J

R R

Tolk

ien’s n

ovel. T

his

ti

me, B

ilbo (

Marti

n F

reem

an),

alo

ng w

ith G

andalf

(I

an M

cK

ellen)

and t

he d

warves,

sold

ier o

n, avoid

-in

g t

he d

angers

of w

ood e

lves

and m

ass

ive a

rachnid

s befo

re a

rriv

ing a

t L

onely

Mounta

in, t

he h

om

e o

f th

e

menacin

g t

reasu

re-h

oardin

g d

ragon, S

maug.

Am

erica

n H

ustl

e

Writ

er-d

irecto

r D

avid

O R

uss

ell c

onvenes

the

stars

of tw

o o

f his

most

accla

imed fi

lms

— B

radle

y

Cooper a

nd J

ennif

er L

aw

rence from

Sil

ver

Lin

ings

Pla

ybook a

nd C

hris

tian B

ale

and A

my A

dam

s fr

om

T

he F

igh

ter

— for t

his

tale

, in

spir

ed b

y t

he A

bsc

am

sc

andal, o

f con a

rti

sts

work

ing u

ndercover for t

he

FB

I in

the l

ate

1970s

and e

arly

‘80s.

Adam

s and

Bale

pla

y p

ett

y c

rim

inals

recruit

ed b

y a

federal

agent

(Cooper)

to infilt

rate

a g

roup o

f la

wbreakers

that

inclu

des

a c

ity m

ayor.

An

ch

orm

an

2 —

Th

e L

eg

en

d C

on

tin

ues

Everyon

e’s

favourit

e m

isin

form

ed n

ew

scast

er,

R

on B

urgundy (

Will

Ferrell),

is

back o

n t

he b

ig

screen a

longsi

de h

is i

dio

tic s

idekic

ks.

The s

equel

finds

the s

till-m

ust

achio

ed B

urgundy leavin

g S

an

Die

go t

o b

reak i

nto

the 2

4-h

our n

ew

s busi

ness

in

New

York

Cit

y, w

here h

e w

ill no d

oubt

off

end a

ny

wom

en a

nd m

inorit

ies

he m

eets

.

Sa

vin

g M

r.

Ba

nk

s

Fresh

off

the c

rit

ical

and b

ox o

ffice s

uccess

of

Ca

pta

in P

hil

lip

s, T

om

Han

ks e

mbodie

s a

noth

er

real-

life

characte

r, W

alt

Dis

ney.

Em

ma T

hom

pso

n

pla

ys

P L

Travers,

the p

rim

, prote

cti

ve a

uth

or o

f M

ary

Pop

pin

s, a

nd t

he o

ne t

hin

g s

tandin

g b

etw

een

Dis

ney a

nd a

prom

ise h

e m

ade t

o h

is d

aughte

rs:

th

at

he’d

turn

the t

ale

of

a fl

yin

g n

an

ny i

nto

a

moti

on p

ictu

re.

In

sid

e L

lew

yn

Da

vis

This

is

the late

st from

the C

oen B

roth

ers,

whic

h

is a

ll s

om

e p

eople

need t

o k

now

befo

re fl

ockin

g t

o

the t

heatr

e. T

he fi

lm, w

hic

h p

rem

iered a

t C

annes,

is b

ein

g h

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11MUSIC PLUS | SUNDAY 10 NOVEMBER 2013

By Michael Roddy

It is a part of local lore that the London Symphony Orchestra (LSO) missed the maiden and only sailing of the Titanic which they were to have taken to make the first American tour

of what was billed as the “world’s best orchestra”.Though they avoided that fateful voyage, the 85

members of the orchestra still had what was for the time an adventurous trip, spending much of April 1912 living on a train in a whistle-stop tour of America as far west as Milwaukee before they returned to New York to sail back home.

“There was one seven-day period when they did 10 concerts and they travelled overnight,” said Gareth Davies, principal flautist with today’s LSO and author of the engaging and chatty The Show Must Go On: On Tour with the LSO in 1912 & 2012.

“They had breakfast on the train, did a matinee concert, got back on the train, did an evening concert and got back on the train and travelled to another place, so they were grumbling quite a lot,” Davies, who tours much more today than the orchestra did then, said.

Davies, who in addition to playing a wicked flute is the orchestra’s blogger-in-chief, has one of the LSO’s very own 1912 grumblers to thank for the delightful details he weaves into his narrative.

He wanted to mark the centenary of the trip with a book, but was at a loss for the vital inside scoop until the orchestra’s archivist, Libby Rice, out of the blue received the diary of the principal timpanist at the time, Charles Turner.

“The granddaughter of the timpanist had found this pocket diary and Libby had transcribed it all and sent me the file and it was all those gaps - what did they eat, where did they travel, did they miss home, was it fun and all of this stuff was just there,” Davies said.

“And as luck would have it two weeks later we were sent a second diary by the grandson of the second flute player and it filled in lots more gaps.”

Here’s what else he had to say about the accident that delayed the Titanic’s maiden voyage and forced

the orchestra to take an earlier crossing, how differ-ent touring is today and why it is such a kick when the orchestra plays the theme from Star Wars, which it recorded for the movies’ soundtrack:

How much does the Titanic actually figure in all this, given that the orchestra had arrived in New York on April 6, 1912, and the Titanic’s date with the iceberg was April 14?

The Titanic is a headline-grabbing thing but the book is not really being sold on that at all. What’s interesting for me is that it helps set the period, it sets the time. The first day of Charles Turner’s diary takes place on the last day of the last entry of (Titanic) Captain Scott’s diary. What I wanted this book to be was something not just for people who were LSO freaks... It is much more of a human story, it’s about what it’s like to do that, for a particular kind of person who plays in an orchestra.

Your book is filled with anecdotes, some of them quite humorous, about what it is like to tour with the LSO today, including one where you find a cafe in Vilnius that is filled with people who all seem to be cheering both sides in a televised soccer match. What is it like now versus 1912 and how do you square it with family life?

One big change is players were still sharing rooms until 30 to 40 years ago. The make-up of the orches-tra back in 1912 had only one woman but there are many more women in the music profession now so that’s changed, and the tours for us don’t tend to be as long as they were then. When we go to New York we’ve got a rehearsal the next day because it only takes seven hours to get there. The thing I found the same though (as 1912) is being away from home. I have a family and that’s not always easy. Another thing that’s the same is the size of the meals that Charles Turner ate in New York. They don’t seem to have shrunk.

Being principal flautist of one of the world’s top orchestras must be nerve wracking, even without the tours, no?

It does feel like you’re walking a tightrope some times. There are a few instances, like if you’re playing Debussy’s “L’Apres Midi d’un Faune” when no one else is playing anything. It’s terrifying and it doesn’t get any easier. But what I think I love about the LSO in particular is the wood section has a wonderful blend. I like that more than the solos.

The LSO famously recorded the soundtrack for the Star Wars movies in the 1970s, and again for the later trilogy, on which you performed. What is it like playing for film?

The LSO did all the Star Wars films and I got to be in the last three. That was just brilliant. You get given the music on the day, you sight read it, they change a few things and you record it again. That’s it.

Reuters

London orchestra misses Titanic, gets stuck on train

By Liz Bury

After turning to the Beatles for the soundtrack to his inter-national bestseller Norwegian

Wood, the Japanese novelist Haruki Murakami returns to the fab four for inspiration in a new short story called Drive My Car.

Named after the first track on the 1965 Rubber Soul album the story is due to be published in the maga-zine Bungeishunju, according to the Japanese newspaper Asahi Shimbun. English language readers will have to wait until the story is translated.

Set in 1960s Tokyo when students were challenging the established order – and the Beatles were met with pro-tests from right-wing nationalists on their tour of country in 1966 – Murakami’s breakout novel captured the popular imagination in Japan

when it was published in 1987. In the novel 37-year-old Toru Wantabe hears a cover of Norwegian Wood – which is also a Rubber Soul track – and is suddenly overwhelmed by feelings of

loss and nostalgia.The latest short story is subtitled

Onna no Inai Otokotachi, which trans-lates as Men Without Women.

It comes hot on the heels of another

short, Samsa in Love, written by Murakami and published by the New Yorker which saw him return to Kafka as a theme in his writing. The 15-year-old runaway at the centre of Murakami’s 2005 novel, Kafka on The Shore, calls himself Kafka in honour of Czech writer Franz Kafka.

Samsa in Love tells of a man who wakes one morning to discover that has transformed into Kafka’s Metamorphosis protagonist, Gregor Samsa. Its opening line runs: “He woke to discover that he had undergone a metamorphosis and become Gregor Samsa.”

Japanese bookshops were mobbed on the release of Murakami’s latest novel, Colourless Tsukuru Tazaki and His Years of Pilgrimage, in April. It is expected to be published in English in 2014.

The Guardian

Haruki Murakami gets back to the Beatles in new short story

TECHNOLOGYPLUS | SUNDAY 10 NOVEMBER 201312

By Rich Jaroslovsky

Keeping Google’s phone offerings straight can be a chore. There’s Motorola, the company it bought a couple years back. Then

there are the various “Google Play Editions” of popular smartphones from other manufacturers, with the makers’ proprietary software stripped out.

Finally, there are the Nexus phones, flagship devices made to Google’s speci-fications and designed to introduce new versions of the company’s Android operating system.

I’ve been using the latest of these, the Nexus 5. It’s the first device to run Android 4.4, dubbed “KitKat” in the company’s sweet-treat naming system, and the two make for a pleasant if not dazzling combination.

As with last year’s Nexus 4, Google has turned to LG Electronics to manu-facture the phone, which is handsome in a generic sort of way.

The corners are rounded and the soft-grip back is ever so slightly bowed; the five-inch display is surrounded by extremely thin side bezels, keeping the dimensions manageable even one- handed. At about a third of an inch thick, it slides comfortably into pocket or purse.

The 445-pixels-per-inch display exceeds both Apple’s iPhone 5s and Samsung’s Galaxy S4 — though your eye can’t detect any difference — and it weighs 4.59 ounces, which is less than the Nexus 4.

The most important change from its predecessor, though, is the inclusion of support for LTE, the fastest of so-called 4G networks.

The nicest thing is you get to choose:

Google is selling the phone, unlocked, at the bargain price of $349 with 16 giga-bytes of storage, or $399 with 32 GB.

The Nexus 5 bears more than a passing similarity to LG’s consider-ably more expensive G2, sharing simi-lar displays and a potent Qualcomm Snapdragon processor. But its battery is less powerful, and the front and rear cameras aren’t as good.

While I could get through a day of light-to-moderate use on the Nexus 5, streaming a two-and-a-half hour movie left a fully charged battery at 2 percent. And the eight-megapixel cam-era, while adequate for most purposes, was sometimes slow to focus, with col-ours seeming washed out in less-than-perfect lighting conditions. You can do much better.

Still, the Nexus 5 is a lot of phone for the money, as long as you don’t ask too much of it. As for KitKat, the new version of Android, it’s a step backward — and I mean that in a good way.

As a general rule, new operating sys-tems are designed to run best on the latest and greatest hardware. But that can pose problems for people with older devices, as some users of Apple’s iOS 7 have discovered.

The Android situation is even worse: Newer versions of the software don’t run on many older or less powerful devices, leaving users and developers adrift in a sea of incompatibility.

With KitKat, Google has re-engi-neered Android to allow it to run on lower-end devices, in the hope that more existing phones will be able to update to it and new, less-expensive devices, many of them being sold in emerging markets, will run it out of the box.

Of course, it runs just fine on

higher-end devices like the Nexus 5, where it can do some new tricks.

One is support for a listening mode: Saying “OK, Google” from the home screen allows you to immediately dic-tate a search query or issue a com-mand such as “Open the Netflix app.” It’s similar to, though not as powerful as, a feature introduced earlier this year in Motorola’s Moto X phone that works even when the screen is dark.

Meanwhile, Google Now, the per-sonal assistant, resides a fingerswipe to the right from the home screen, and Google has made some of the privacy settings more accessible — like the one that tells it not to scan all your Gmail attachments look-ing for packages to track, a feature

I always find particularly creepy.There are other new features as well,

including built-in support for step-counting and other fitness-related apps and the ability to search for nearby businesses from within the phone dialer screen.

I’m less enamoured of the consolida-tion of all texts, video calls and Google chat messages into a single hub called Hangouts, which feels more like an effort to promote the Google+ social network than something that really serves users.

KitKat is a modest step forward for Android — but it may be more impor-tant to Google than to the people who use it.

WP-Bloomberg

Google takes small steps with Nexus 5, KitKat

My Fitness PalGet a jump on managing holiday calorie intake

Whether you’re trying to get ahead of a little hol-iday weight gain or just interested in keeping better track of what you’re eating, My Fitness

Pal is an easy, yet robust app that should help you with your goals. It functions both as food diary and a source of advice — though, of course, you should speak with your physician before you embark on any major change to your diet and lifestyle. Its fairly complete database of food means that you won’t have to spend a lot of time hunting around for nutritional information to input on your own. And its data not only show you how many calories you’ve consumed (and burned) throughout the day, but also give you information on how you’re doing on your intake of carbs, fat, protein and more. Users can also choose to share their progress with each other (because, sometimes, it’s not easy to go it alone).

Finally, the app also works with several other popu-lar fitness apps, including those for trackers such as Jawbone UP and Fitbit, to keep all your info in one easy-to-find place. Free, for iOS, Android, Windows Phone and BlackBerry devices.

Toca Boca reaches 50m downloads

Children’s apps developer Toca Boca has reached a new mile-stone on Apple’s App Store: 50 million downloads of its apps since launching in 2011. The company, a subsidiary of Swedish

media group Bonnier, says that the US is its biggest market, account-ing for 18.3 million of those app downloads, followed by the UK with 3.7 million. Toca Boca has not revealed how many of its total have been sales of paid apps, versus downloads of free apps. The company has released 20 apps so far for iPhone and iPad, with a mixture of paid and free titles, and occasional promotions that make paid apps free for a limited period. “50 million downloads is testament to the fact that both kids and parents love Toca Boca products,” said chief executive Björn Jeffery. “To have reached this point in two and a half years is an achievement of which we are all incredibly proud, and we are excited about what the future holds.”

Toca Boca launched its first apps in March 2011, and reached 5 million downloads by January 2012, 10 million by May 2012, and then hit the 40 million mark by June 2013. As the latter milestone was announced, Jeffery said that Toca Boca had posted “a healthy profit” in 2012, while warning of the difficulties building a sustainable business in the children’s apps market. The latest 50m-downloads announcement is specifically for iOS. Toca Boca expanded onto Android in 2013 with three paid apps available on the Google Play store. The Guardian

COMICS & MORE 13

Hoy en la HistoriaNovember 10, 1933

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YESTERDAY’S ANSWER

How to play Hyper Sudoku:A Hyper Sudoku

Puzzle is solved

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ACROSS 1 Reconcile10 Certain Arabian

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nominated daughter16 Test for a tailor17 Mork first appeared on

it18 Boot19 Cons20 Graceful genie of myth22 See 50-Across23 Interrogee, often24 “Crimes of Passion”

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surgery40 Where Wyatt Earp

operated the Dexter Saloon

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[sic]49 Onetime big name in

hair removal50 Opposites of

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politics53 1998-2007 Lebanese

president Lahoud55 It doesn’t include a bass58 Hit most likely to start

an unassisted triple play59 Miss in an aisle60 Symbols of industry61 The Marx Brothers in

“Monkey Business,” e.g.

DOWN 1 “___ nui loa” (Hawaiian

words of gratitude) 2 Self-titled debut album

of 1991 3 Didn’t stop 4 Run out 5 With 35-Down, joins the

club, perhaps 6 Shut off 7 Novelist Leverson 8 Sasquatch studier, say 9 Slip past10 Didn’t run out for dinner11 Philly court legend12 Shrimp protrusion13 “Never”14 Kind of paint21 Word with cent or cell24 Blizzard battler25 Designer Gucci26 Writer Wilkinson of The

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once

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like a bent coat hanger56 Density symbol57 Tennis’s Hoad

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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

40 41 42 43 44 45 46

47 48 49

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

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

YESTERDAY’S ANSWER

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


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22:35 Lion Man: One

World African

Safari

23:00 Man-Eating

Super Snake

13:00 Do Dil Bandhe

Ek Dori Se

15:00 Pavitra Rishta

17:00 Punar Vivah

17:30 Pavitra Rishta

19:00 Do Dil Bandhe

Ek Dori Se

21:00 Qubool Hai

21:30 Khelti Hai

Zindagi Aankh

Micholi

22:30 Do Dil Bandhe

Ek Dori Se

13:00 A.N.T. Farm

15:00 Austin And Ally

16:10 Dog With A

Blog

16:35 A.N.T. Farm

17:00 Shake It Up

18:30 Jessie

20:05 Shake It Up

20:30 Jessie

22:00 Good Luck

Charlie

22:50 A.N.T. Farm

12:00 The Runway

14:00 My Dog's

Christmas

Miracle

16:00 I Don't Know

How She Does It

18:00 Love Birds

20:00 Rushmore

22:00 Casino Jack

12:50 Destroyed In

Seconds

13:40 How It's Made

15:45 Storage

Hunters

17:50 Border Security

19:55 Mythbusters

21:35 You Have Been

Warned

22:25 Diamond Divers

23:15 Bush Pilots

00:05 Jungle Gold

00:55 Bear Grylls:

Escape From

Hell

14:00 Royal Pains

15:00 Touch

16:00 Emmerdale

16:30 Coronation

Street

17:00 The X Factor

U.S.

18:00 Royal Pains

19:00 Top Gear (US)

20:00 Zero Hour

21:00 C.S.I.

22:00 True Blood

23:00 Treme

13:00 Drew Peterson:

Untouchable

15:00 American Girl:

McKenna

Shoots For The

Stars

17:00 Paranorman

18:45 Snow White

And The

Huntsman

21:00 Drift

23:00 50/50

13:00 Thunderstruck

16:15 Ice Age:

Continental Drift

18:00 Jingle All The Way

20:00 Who Framed

Roger Rabbit

22:00 Super Buddies

23:30 Ice Age:

Continental Drift

QF RADIO 91.7 FM ENGLISH PROGRAMME BRIEF

LIVE SHOWS Airing Time Programme Briefs

SPIRITUAL HOUR

6:00 - 7:00 AM A time of reflection, a deeper understanding of the teachings of Islam.

RISE 7:00 – 9:00 AM Today on Rise, Laura and Scott speak with Shabina Khatri from Doha News. Shabina will fill us in on everything that's happening locally here in Qatar.

INTERNATIO-NAL NEWS

1:00 PM The latest news and events from around the world.

DRIVE 3:00 – 4:00 PM A daily afternoon show broadcast at peak travel time. Today Nabil focuses on movies, what’s showing in cinemas and upcoming must sees with Amir Ghonim from the Doha Film Institute.

Repeat Shows

LEGENDARY ARTISTS

10:00 – 11:00 AM The show tells the story of a celebrity artist that has reached unprecedented fame. Throughout the episode the artists’ memorable performances/songs will be played to put listeners in the mood.

FASHION 12:00 – 1:00 PM A weekly show hosted and produced by Laura Finnerty. The show brings together the latest fashion trends along with exciting interviews with local and international designers.

INNOVATIONS 7:00 – 8:00 PM A weekly show hosted and produced by Scott Boyes. The show talks about all the newest and exciting advancements in the world of science and technology.

MALL

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Cloudy w/ A Chance Of Meatballs 2 (3D/Animation) – 2.30pm

Ender's Game (2D/Action) – 4.15pm

Captain Phillips (2D/Action) – 6.30pm

Last Vegas (2D/Comedy) – 9.00pm

Thor: The Dark World (3D/Action) – 11.15pm

2

Hatchet III (2D/Horror) – 2.30pm

Stuck In Love (2D/Comedy)– 4.30 & 6.30pm

Arrambam (2D/Tamil) – 8.30pm


3

A Common Man (2D/Action) – 2.30 & 7.15pm

Krrish 3 (2D/Hindi) – 4.15pm



LANDMARK

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Arrambam (2D/Tamil) – 4.15pm




2


Stuck In Love (2D/Comedy) – 4.30 & 6.30pm



3

A Common Man (2D/Action) – 2.30 & 6.30pm

Ender's Game (2D/Action) – 4.15pm



ROYAL

PLAZA

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Azhagu Raja (2D/Tamil) – 2.30 & 10.30pm


A Common Man (2D/Action) – 8.30pm

2


Stuck In Love (2D/Comedy) – 5.00pm


Thor: The Dark World (3D/Action) – 9.00 & 11.15pm

3


A Common Man (2D/Action) – 5.00pm

Stuck In Love (2D/Comedy) – 7.00pm




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Editor-In-Chief Khalid Al Sayed Acting Managing Editor Hussain Ahmad Editorial Office The Peninsula Tel: 4455 7741, E-mail: [email protected] / [email protected]

IN FOCUS

A view of Doha skyline from one of the towers.

by Akhil Thomas

Send your photos to [email protected]. Mention where the photo was taken.

MEDIA SCAN A summary ofissues of the daydiscussed by the Qatari communityin the media.

• There is discussion on social networking sites about the decision to ban serving of alcohol at swimming pools and hotel beaches in the country

• There is discussion on the move by some schools to inspect students to stop them from carrying sharp weapons, cigarettes, sweika, mobile phones, laser pens, and food that does not meet health specifications.

• Residents of Al Zakhira have demanded that the authorities develop Al Zakhira port because it is in very poor condition.

• The stock of pesticides in some municipalities ran out six months

ago. The municipalities have received more than 40 requests to spray pesticides.

• There is talk about the announcement by the Supreme Council of Health of a new coronavirus case, in which an expatriate has contracted the virus.

• Diabetics have demanded that the authorities build roadside public toilets because they are suffering due to a lack of such facilities, especially on busy roads.

• There are demands to build a diabetes centre for children to cut waiting times at the existing clinic.

Founder, Doha Academy Sheikha Aisha bint Faleh bin Nasser Al Thani

She is a member of Supreme Education Council and sits on the Board of Directors of Reach

Out to Asia. She is the Chairperson and founder of Al Faleh Group. She serves as a member of the Board of Directors of the Zaytuna Institute and Zaytuna College in US. She was chosen as one of the 500 Most Influential Muslims in the world for the year 2009, 2010 and 2011. She obtained Bachelor’s in Education and a Bachelor’s in English Literature from Qatar University, she got her Master in Business Administration from University of Hull in UK, received a PhD from Cass Business School in UK in ‘Corporate Governance’.

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Relics — Damien HirstWhen: Until Jan 22; Sun-Wed: 10:30am–5:30pm. Tuesday ClosedThur-Sat: 12pm–8pm, Fri: 2pm–8pmWhere: Al Riwaq Exhibition Space What: The most comprehensive survey of Damien Hirst’s work ever shown and his first solo exhibition in the Middle East. Free Entry

Once Upon a Butterfly...When: November 15; Saturday-Thursday: 10am–10pmFriday: 2pm–10pm Where: Anima gallery, Parcel 17, 30 La Croisette, Porto Arabia, The Pearl-Qatar

What: Solo exhibition by Lebanese German artist Said Baalbaki. Said Baalbaki’s paintings tell the story of the migrating butterfly. Since his early childhood, with the civil war in Lebanon, Said lived with suitcases. Memories of evacuation, of migration and of eventual immigration to Berlin. Said’s Suitcases share the butterfly’s destiny. Free Entry

L’âge d’or — exhibitionby Adel AbdessemedWhen: October 6 to January 5Where: Atrium and ground floor of Mathaf: Arab Museum of Modern Art What: Curated by Pier Luigi Tazzi, the exhibition will showcase recent works, including drawings, paintings, sculptures and videos, many created by Adel Abdessemed.Entry: Free, open to all

Northern Legacy – Photographic Exhibition When: Until Nov 19, 2013; 10am-10pm Where: Katara Gallery 1 - Bldg 13 What: Photographic Exhibition by Harold Crompton Robinson. Free Entry

Omar Khalifa – “Infinite”When: Until Dec 15; 10am-10pmWhere: Katara Cultural Village What: This outdoor installation examines ‘the nature of being’. Using digital multiple exposure techniques, an image is crafted that gives a of other-worldliness and depth of perspective through the human form. Free Entry

Jazz in the ParkWhen: November 13, 7pm - 8pm Where: Museum of Islamic Art Park What: Renowned musician Warren Wolf will perform at the MIA Park. The Museum of Islamic Art has partnered with Jazz at Lincoln Center Doha for a series of free world-class jazz concerts in MIA Park. Free Entry

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