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Deftly feeling their way along the bumps of their unique braille score, the young players of Thailand’s first blind orchestra memorise scales, defying both their impairment and an ingrained negative attitude towards disability.

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By Apilaporn Vechakij

Deftly feeling their way along the bumps of the braille score, the young players of Thailand’s first blind orchestra memo-rise scales, defying both their impairment and ingrained negative attitudes towards disability.

It is rehearsal time just hours ahead of a concert at an open-air auditorium in a national park, and around 30 fledgling classical musicians enthusiastically strum, pluck and bow instruments they have held but never seen.

“At first it was really hard for me... I wanted to stop,” said Joe a 14-year-old budding cellist who picked up the stringed instrument nine-months ago.

“But when I realised that others could do it, I gave it another try,” he said, smiling broadly.

Official figures show that Thailand is home to 1.8 million disabled people, of whom around 180,000 are blind, in a population of more than 64 million.

Yet campaigners say state provision for disabled people is poor, compounding a widely held Buddhist belief in karma that, in the minds of many, links physical impairments with the supposed ‘mis-deeds’ of a past life.

The Thai Blind Orchestra, made up of players aged between eight and 15 years old, offers a rare positive platform for disabled Thais.

The orchestra, who use donated instruments, were brought together by a professional classical musician whose day job is look-ing after elephants in the Khao Yai national park in northeastern Nakhon Ratchasima province.

‘The kids are happy’The seeds of the idea were planted when the blind students met

their soon-to-be maestro, Alongkot Chukaew, at his conservation classes in the park.

Teaching with the help of audible aids, including his guitar, the 43-year-old Alongkot noticed music caught the attention of the children.

Blind children defy disability to play in Thai orchestra

Nok Kaew singing during a concert at the Thai Elephants Research and Conservation Fund in Khao Yai national park 180 km north east of Bangkok. BELOW: First playing a flute.

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He asked his music teachers to play different instruments and encouraged the youngsters to follow the sound they liked best.

As their affinity with their chosen instrument mushroomed, Alongkot introduced a braille system for the stu-dents to learn to read classical music.

Shown one-on-one how to position their fingers on their instruments, the children then memorise both the notes and the correct placement to make the right sounds. “It was hard because they cannot see the demonstration of where to put their fingers or hold the bows,” Alongkot said. “But it was fun.”

“Some people might not like their performance, but the kids are happy and have fun with it,” he said, adding they are not looking to compete.

Attitudes towards disability across Southeast Asia are often shaped by a sense of karmic destiny.

The same philosophy that encour-ages people to do good deeds so they may be rewarded on reincarnation also leads people to believe that the disabled suffer their impediments because of their actions in a past life.

It is something that holds back pro-gressive policies and leaves many of the region’s disabled in poverty or hidden at home by ashamed families.

“Disabled people are the poor-est of the poor,” explains Suporntum Mongkolsawadi, a Thai double-amputee from childhood who now campaigns for improved rights.

“The belief in karma makes disa-bled people think they should just surrender and accept their fate,” added the 48-year-old, who heads the Redemptorist Foundation for People with Disabilities.

‘My gift is music’Activists say other countries in the

region such as Malaysia, Singapore and Philippines tend to have a better track record of rolling out disability aids and policies.

Suporntum blames Thailand’s lag on years of political instability and short-lived governments for hampering policy changes to transport, education and health.

While the law codifies equality, in practice life remains at best complex for many disabled Thais.

Most public transport lacks wheel-chair access, few state offices have ramps and there are no braille signs and few voice signals.

Jobs are also sparse while social opprobrium runs high.

But Suporntum sees some reasons

for hope, saying the ruling Thai junta is well placed to drive through change, after it vowed to make society more inclusive and include rights for all in its reform agenda.

In January, a Bangkok court ordered that lifts be installed at 19 more sta-tions of the capital’s elevated skytrain service within a year — up from four currently — an issue Suporntum has campaigned on for eight years.

But for real change to take place Thailand must first shed its precon-ceptions on disability, says Rosalina Alexander McKay, an activist from the Rainbow Room Foundation in Bangkok.

“You don’t have to change the belief system but you have to change your ways of looking at things,” adds Rosalina, who has a seven-year-old daughter with Down’s Syndrome.

As sighted volunteers prepare to lead the orchestra to their seats — and instruments — on the open-air stage, cellist Joe says he refuses to be held back by received notions of karma.

“I cannot see but I have good ears... that is my gift in music,” he says, the outline of trees overhead as the stage lights catch his crisp white shirt.

“When we lose one thing, there will always be a substitute.”

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The Thai blind orchestra

The director of the Thai Elephants Research and Conservation Fund and musical director Alongkot Chukaew (centre).

PLUS | THURSDAY 12 MARCH 20154 CAMPUS

The students of CBSE Grade 1 A to F at Doha Modern

Indian School took part in a ‘Pulse Pasting Activity’ recently, exploring new areas of learning. Different colourful pulses were used as a substitute for paint and for children, identifying them during or after the art activity

was a great lesson in itself. “Students came up with a number of questions as they identified the pulses which their mothers cooked for them in different dishes and asked how they are grown and

where they came from. It was amazing to see how an art activity can lead to interesting lessons in language, cuisine or geography and in this kind of learning each subject is effortlessly connected to

the other,” a school press release said.

Different types of pulses were pasted to make pictures of a parrot, sunflower, carrot, brinjal, butterf lyand grapes enhancing the motor skills of the young ones and helping to coordinate among themselves. The Peninsula

Pulse pasting activity at DMIS

Doha College has opened their new swim-ming pool at the West Bay campus for Doha College primary students. The pool will also serve as a community pool and

will be used by Evolution Sports and will also become the home for Freestyle Aquatics — a programme set up to offer swimming for disabled adults and children across Qatar.

Nicholas Hopton, British Ambassador to Qatar, cut the ribbon to officially open the sporting facility. In his opening address he said: “I am delighted to officially open this fantastic swimming pool. This rep-resents not just a school project but also a community project with these facilities being open to a much wider community thanks to Doha College’s vision and commitment to Evolution Sports and Freestyle Aquatics. As one of the leading international schools in the world, Doha College is a shining example of an excellent British school abroad. I would like to thank everyone involved at GAC, Al Rayaan Swimming Pools and of course Doha College for completing this project”

All students will benefit from the swimming pool as it is part of the Doha College’s sporting curriculum. In additional, Evolution Sports will have access to the pool in the evenings which adds to Doha College benefitting the local sporting community. The pool will also become the home of Freestyle Aquatics who offer an opportunity for disabled children and adults to swim. This is as part of Doha College’s CSR pro-gramme which will ultimately benefit the lifestyle of Freestyle Aquatic’s students.

Principal of Doha College Mark Leppard said: “Doha College have a commitment to produce all round education to all students. This launch today will allow all West Bay students to have a fully oper-ating swimming pool and swimming programme from Term 3.”

Kathleen Bates, Director of Freestyle Aquatics was at the launch to see their new disabled swimming home. She explained what these facilities mean to her students, “being able to use Doha College’s swimming facilities free of charge means we can now grow our programme and offer swimming access to even more

of our students. Swimming has so many benefits for our disabled students. As well as the obvious physi-cal benefits it also improves their emotional health, increases confidence and offers a sense of achieve-ment. Even more important is the social integration that swimming can offer. Being in the water allows our students to feel the same as others, it can change the family dynamics as they share the same activities as family and friends.”

The pool at West Bay is 25 meters, half of an Olympic pool and is set up to offer six lane swim-ming. It is fully shaded to protect the young students

and has an advanced integrated chemical system to ensure it stays clean. Additionally, a chilled and heating system allows the pool to be fully operational throughout the year. Shaded seating and separate male and female changing rooms provide a complete outdoor aquatics centre.

Doha College has a fantastic reputation for its suc-cess in swimming and that is evident from Alumni Nada Arkaji who is an Olympic Qatari swimmer. She competed in the summer 2012 Olympics in London and was the first woman from Qatar to compete in the Olympic Games. The Peninsula

Doha College opens swimming pool at West Bay campus

From left: Mark Leppard, Principal, Christine Walker, Head of Primary, Nicholas Hopton, British Ambassador, Kathleen Bates, Director Freestyle Aquatics, and Mikko Wieru, General Manager GAC.

Children displaying their artworks.

5CAMPUS / COMMUNITY PLUS | THURSDAY 12 MARCH 2015

Travel to Asia and have a taste of its rich flavours every Monday at Aramede Restaurant of Crowne Plaza

Doha – The Business Park. Guests can find themselves eating their way through South, Southeast and East Asia with the different curries as well as salads, breads, dips, mains and desserts.

The main stars of the evening are the curries – all expertly prepared by the team of chefs hailing from these regions. The recipes are those of their grandmothers and mothers, the first dish they learned to cook while grow-ing up. Others are inspired by their passion for creating something that tastes and looks delicious. Whatever the story behind each masterpiece, one will find in between tastes and traditions an unforgettable sensory experience.

The cuisines from each region are characterised by the level of spiciness, raw ingredients and way of prepara-tion. The South Asian Cuisine from the Indian subcontinent uses turmeric and cumin to make curries that give the

rich colour and aroma. Also known as Desi Cuisine, the dishes are flavoured with various types of chillies, peppers, other strong herbs and flavoured but-tered ghee.

Known for its strong aromatic fla-vours of sweet, spicy, salty and sour, South East Asian Cuisine uses cit-rus, lemon grass, tamarind and fish sauce as the main ingredients. Most dishes are prepared stir-fried, boiled or steamed. East Asia has a culinary tradition that can be traced back over thousands of year. The cuisines are known for the direct simplicity of its dishes, as well as the striking beauty of their final presentation. Freshness is key and light, healthy meals with a bold punch of flavour are the norm.

The buffet starts with a healthy selection of greens including the spicy yet refreshing Indonesian chicken salad, gin thoke or Burmese ginger salad that can serve both as an appe-tizer and a palate cleanser, Thai mango salad with prawns, red chilli and mint that bursts with sweet and tangy fla-vours and chukka wakame or seaweed salad. You can also pair your rotis,

chappattis and parathas with the selec-tion of Indian salads like aloo anardana made of potatoes and pomegranate and the creamy yoghurt dahi wada.

Curries include Thai Duck Red Curry, Thai Shrimps in Green Curry, Sri Lankan Chili Pepper, Japanese Beef Kare, Aubergine Curry with Lemongrass and Coconut milk, the fish simmered in caramel sauce or Vietnamese Ca Kho To, and the Singaporean Crab Chili.

Desserts are made in-house. Hits from Thailand are the khao niew mamuang or sticky rice with mango

doused with coconut milk, studded with ripe mango and the Thai pan-cake, a popular peddled sweetbread in the country. Also in line are gulab jamun, one of India’s most popular sweets made of thickened milk soaked in rose flavoured sugar syrup and the jalebi that has a sweet and citric taste. Chai is also served to every table; this mildly-sweetened drink resets the pal-ate and serves as a perfect end to this gastronomic food journey.

The World of Curries at Aramede Restaurant is every Monday from 6pm to 11pm and costs QR175. The Peninsula

Aramede brings ‘World of Curries’ to Qatar

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PLUS | THURSDAY 12 MARCH 20156 TRAVEL

By Elaine Lies

Miyako in northeastern Japan was for decades a small coastal city, famed for the salmon that

splashed upriver in the autumn and the succulent oysters gathered just offshore. Tourists came to fish, paddle kayaks in the bay and enjoy the scenic views.

Then came March 11, 2011. A pow-erful 9.0 offshore earthquake struck, sending massive waves hurtling up the coast and into its fjord-like bays and inlets.

The water slammed into Miyako, flooding the city hall, train station and much of the central business district, in some cases several storeys deep. Some of the most harrowing footage of the tsunami — a black wave carrying cars over a seawall, a fishing boat crushed beneath a bridge — was recorded in Miyako.

More than 600 people died and 6,000 buildings were destroyed in the city. Hundreds still live in temporary housing.

Four years on, Miyako is recover-ing, with tourist numbers back up and many former sites restored. New busi-nesses have developed, and oyster floats once again criss-cross the bay, where kayakers mingle with sail boats.

Many obvious reminders of the tsu-nami have vanished in central Miyako.

Piers where person-sized chunks of concrete from ruined seawalls once lay scattered have been repaired. Boats chug out on fishing tours from picture-perfect harbours where nets and floats line the shores while kites shriek overhead.

But amid the noodle shops, karaoke pubs and grilled chicken restaurants are empty swathes that are unusual in densely populated Japan. Weeds darken the tiled floors and low concrete walls where houses once stood, and visitors can still spot remnants of metal rail-ings bent and twisted like pretzels.

In Taro area, where a 38-metre-high wave left little standing, visitors can stop by the Taro Kanko Hotel, whose two lower floors now consist of only girders. Its manager, who fled to an upper floor and captured the wave on video, takes visitors to the same place he stood and recounts the events of the day. (0193-77-3305 for arrangements; in Japanese only.)

Between Taro and downtown Miyako lies Jodogahama, a beach whose scenic rock formations were named for their resemblance to paradise. The rest house there features noodle dishes and other fast food, and sometimes fresh scallops grilled in their shells. A painted line two storeys up marks the height of the wave.

The Bountifull SeaA popular site for tasty ocean treats

is the Miyako Gyosai Ichiba, where market stalls holding bins of salmon, sea urchin and scallops crowd a ware-house-like building.

Depending on the season, live crabs and sacks of mussels are also available. Or stop off at one of several no-frills restaurants, which feature bowls of rice topped with slices of fresh sashimi. (0193-62-1521; closed Wednesday)

A short walk from the market is Yoshi Sushi, whose “Matsu” lunch set offers an array of fresh sushi for 2,000 yen ($17). (0193-62,1017; closed some Mondays).

For those tired of seafood, Torimoto provides juicy chunks of chicken and vegetables on skewers, grilled or deep-fried until crispy. The owner, who had to rebuild after the tsunami, hires mainly mentally disabled workers, for whom jobs are scarce in Japan. (0193-63-6776)

Bordering Miyako to the south is the town of Yamada, which was flat-tened by the wave. Among the prefab shops now springing up is the Yamada Kakigoya, or oyster shack (pictured left).

From October to May, visitors sit at low tabletop grills to eat as many steamed oysters as they want within 40 minutes. (0193-84-3775; reservations required). At other times, it sells sea-food to go, including mussels, oysters and crabs for a fraction of the cost.

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Japan coastal city Miyako puts tsunami behind it

A combination photograph shows the same location on a street in Miyako, Iwate Prefecture, northeastern Japan on two different dates, March 11, 2011 (top) and February 17, 2012 (bottom).

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By Lenny Bernstein

Just about everybody has one raging narcissist to deal with, sooner or later — on the job, in social situations or (God forbid) in the home. How did he get this way, we wonder? What was his childhood like?

For what appears to be the first time, researchers have taken a stab at that question by following and surveying 565 children ages 7 through 11 and their parents — 415 mothers and 290 fathers.

The results are quite clear: Parents who “over-value” children during this developmental stage, telling them they are superior to others and enti-tled to special treatment, are more likely to produce narcissistic children — who can grow up to become narcissistic adults, unless something is done about it.

“When children are seen by their parents as being more special and more entitled than other children, they may internalize the view that they are superior individuals, a view that is at the core of narcissism,” the researchers wrote in a study released online Monday in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. “But when children are treated by their parents with affection and appreciation, they may internalise the view that they are valuable individu-als, a view that is at the core of self-esteem.”

This seems to make sense intuitively, but as the authors — Brad Bushman of Ohio State University and Eddie Brummelman, a post-doctoral researcher at Holland’s University of Amsterdam and Utrecht University — point out, this was not the prevailing explanation all along. Psychoanalytic theory sug-gested that narcissists were the result of parents who showed them too little warmth.

So Bushman and Brummelman pitted social learn-ing theory — the idea that you learn through modeled behavior — against the psychoanalytic argument and found that, indeed, children learn their narcissism from parents who teach them that they are more than special.

The authors also wanted to determine what

differentiated narcissists — who tend to be more aggressive and even violent than other people, and are at higher risk for depression, anxiety and drug addiction — from people with strong self-esteem. As mentioned above, parents who show their kids warmth and appreciation without promoting the idea that they are superior tend to raise children with solid self-esteem.

Previous studies have looked at narcissistic adults, but in 2008, Brummelman said in an interview, reli-able testing instruments became available for young children. By the age of 7 or 8, he said, children develop

the ability to describe whether they are happy with themselves and are very likely to compare themselves with others. “It’s an age when they maybe especially sensitive to parental influence,” he added.

The researchers did note that they couldn’t quite come out and show cause and effect. “Of course, parental overvaluation is not the sole origin of narcis-sism,” they wrote. “ . . . Like other personality traits, narcissism is moderately heritable and partly rooted in early-emerging temperamental traits. Some chil-dren, due to their temperamental traits, might be more likely than others to become narcissistic when exposed to parental overvaluation.”

Aside from having to deal with someone like this, why should any of us care? Well, narcissism has been on the rise among Western youth in recent dec-ades. Bushman wasn’t available for an interview, but he put his concerns nicely when my colleague Rachel Feltman interviewed him for another study last summer:

“I’ve been studying aggression for about 30 years,” he said, “and I’ve seen that the most harmful belief that a person can have is that they’re superior to others. ‘Men are better than women, my race is bet-ter than your race, my religion is superior to your religion.’ When people believe they’re better than other people, they act accordingly.”

He and Brummelman wrote in this paper: “Narcissistic individuals feel superior to others, fantasize about personal successes, and believe they deserve special treatment. When they feel humiliated, they often lash out aggressively or even violently.”

So can anything be done to halt this process? Brummelman said yes, both during the ages of 7-12, when the sentiment develops, and later. “Perhaps we can develop a way to help parents convey affec-tion and appreciation for a child without necessarily putting a child on a pedestal, without telling the child he is better than others,” he said.

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How parents create narcissistic children

“When children are seen by their parents as being more special and more entitled than other children, they may internalize the view that they are superior individuals, a view that is at the core of narcissism.”

PLUS | THURSDAY 12 MARCH 2015 ENTERTAINMENT8 9

BOLLYWOOD NEWS

For instant boost, Deepika resorts to aromatherapy oil massage

Deepika Padukone, who has been giving hit films back-to-

back, says whenever she gets tired she finds relief in aromatherapy massage.

The face of Parachute Advansed says aromatherapy helps her unwind.

“I’ve discovered aromatherapy, thanks to Parachute Advansed special edition aromatherapy oil. Aromatherapy helps me unwind and relax after a long day at work. A quick head massage using aro-matherapy oils, can have a calming effect and is also one of the easiest and effective destress mechanisms,” Deepika said.

However, the Happy New Year star doesn’t follow a fixed routine.

“Whenever I feel tired or stressed and need an instant boost I resort to a quick aromatherapy massage,” said

the actress, who will be seen in films like Piku and Tamasha.The 29-year-old swears by coconut oil, but also uses aroma oils like

lavender, bergamot and rosemary once in a while.

Left ‘Singh Is Bling’ due to constant delay: Kriti Sanon

Actress Kriti Sanon says she stepped out of Parbhudheva’s

directorial Singh Is Bling as it was constantly getting delayed and also because its dates were clashing with her other projects.

“I’m not doing Singh Is Bling now. I think you all must have read. The film was getting delayed for many rea-sons,” the actress said at the launch of Spring-Summer collection of the store Aldo.

“Now when the film is starting, its dates are clashing with my other projects, so I chose not to do it,” she added.

The 24-year-old, who made her Bollywood debut with Sajid Nadiadwala’s Heropanti last year, said she was keen to feature in the movie. “I was preparing a lot for the film. Akshay Kumar and Prabhudheva are a team that you always want to be a part of, she said, but added that she does not regret her decision to step out from the film.

“It is a mutual decision. Producer (of Singh Is Bling) Ashvini Yardi and I tried a lot to work out the dates, but nothing worked. Then we mutually decided that I step out of the film,” she said.

After the Heropanti actress’ exit from the film, Amy Jackson has been roped in opposite Akshay in the film. Kriti feels “Amy suits the role perfectly”.

“Now Amy Jackson is doing the film. Since I know the script, I can say she suits the role perfectly and I wish her all the best.”

Meanwhile, there are reports that Kriti has signed filmmaker Rohit Shetty’s film.

However, she refused to divulge any details and said: “I’m really sorry as I won’t be able to comment on that film right now. Wait for some more time, you will hear everything about the film...I will talk about the film when the time is right.”

By Chris Francescani

The dawn of drone cinema is upon us. And the views will blow your mind.

Inside a storied Manhattan theatre on Saturday night, the New York City Drone Film Festival, billed as the first of its kind, debuted to a packed house.

Thirty-five finalist films were screened — each shorter than five min-utes and bracketed into nine categories between blessedly short award speeches.

Most freshman indie festivals tend to be grab-bag affairs and can range wildly in quality. Despite blistering sound lev-els and a few edit glitches, the festival was a wild ride straight on through.

For two hours, hushed cries and whispered expletives rang out in the Directors Guild of America theater on 57th Street, punctuated by random gasps here and there.

“Oh my God!” Gasp.“That’s in-sane!” Gasp.Drone shorts have spread virally

through social and traditional media recently, but seeing high-quality point-of-view drone films on a theatre screen was an entirely new experience for most of the audience, way beyond the scope of Imax films.

When the lights dimmed, view-ers sailed birdlike above the spires of Normandy’s Mont Saint-Michel, plumbed azure seas in the Galapagos archipelago, roamed ghostlike through Chernobyl, surveyed shelves of rice pad-dies in Bali, dipped into an active vol-cano mouth, stepped off cliffs, walked tightropes and raced down dizzying inclines on the handlebars of a mountain bike ridden, apparently, by a madman.

In bursts of colour reminiscent of Michael Mann films — lush greens and gunmetal grays, rusty reds and piercing

yellows — the films opened windows into worlds rarely seen from such majestic angles.

Among the dozens of finalists, The

Fallout, which won the Architecture Award for AeroCine, most artfully showcased the potential cinematic power of drones.

Producers said they travelled through Ukraine last spring amid violent con-flicts in the region, smuggled by fixers through street riots in Kiev, eventually reaching the now-remote abandoned nuclear facility, where they shot aerial footage of the plant’s shell and the ghost town on its snowy border. The 1986

Chernobyl meltdown has been deemed the worst nuclear disaster in history.

For the most part, though, the films were bright-hearted, sometimes funny, and uplifting. The festival drew an eclectic mix of aeroplane pilots, bearded film-school grads, publicists, producers and a handful of beautiful women in four-figure gowns, some on the arms of young aviation law-yers in tailored suits — men like Paul Fraidenburgh, whom organisers iden-tify in festival literature as “rock star drone lawyer Paul Fraidenburgh.”

Drone filmmakers and aerial photog-raphy firms are artistic outliers among a handful of more-utilitarian industries (like pipeline inspection) chosen by the Federal Aviation Administration to beta-test an evolving American mar-ketplace in the sky.

Last month, the FAA issued long-awaited draft regulations governing the incorporation of commercial drone use into US airspace — targeted for the end of this year but probably at least another year or two from full imple-mentation, experts say.

But the draft regulations include a key exemption, known as “333” for its section number, which allows pilots with small commercial drones under about five pounds to complete an equivalent, but far less onerous demonstration of drone flight aptitude. The FAA has begun reviewing about 200 applications and has granted a few dozen exemptions.

Still, every new innovation generates fresh waves of drone enthusiasts, oblivi-ous to the developing legal structure.

“Well,” says Dave Mathewson, an industry veteran who helped launch a “Know Before You Fly” campaign just before Christmas, “we feel these new enthusiasts ... don’t know that the FAA exists, let alone the national airspace.”

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HOLLYWOOD NEWS

Ashton Kutcher’s diaper worry

Actor Ashton Kutcher wants men’s public restrooms to have more diaper changing stations.

The 37-year-old who welcomed his daughter Wyatt with wife Mila Kunis five months ago, complained on Facebook on Monday about the lack of diaper changing stations at men’s public restrooms, reports aceshowbiz.com.

“There are NEVER diaper changing stations in men’s public restrooms. The first public men’s room that I go into that has one gets a free shout out on my FB page! #BeTheChange,” he wrote.

Kutcher got an overwhelming response from fans for showing off his concern. Some of them suggested to him some specific locations of men’s restrooms with diaper changing stations, while others echoed his complaint, saying that most times the diaper changing stations are only found in women’s toilets.

Last month, Kunis shared on “The Ellen DeGeneres Show” that her fiance was not only good at changing diapers, but also swaddling a baby.

“The second she was born he changed the first diaper. And has changed multiple diapers ever since. If he’s home he changes the dia-per. He became a master swaddler. He can swaddle anyone’s baby. If your baby needs to be swaddled, he will do it,” she said.

Stephanie Sigman joins Spectre

Mexican actress Stephanie Sigman has been roped

in to play Estrella in the next James Bond movie Spectre.

The 28-year-old has joined previously announced stars Monica Bellucci and Lea Seydoux in the film, reports aceshowbiz.com.

The news was announced on the official James Bond Twitter account, where the post read: “We are pleased to announced that @SigmanStephanie has

joined the cast of #Spectre as Estrella.”Sigman will play the mysterious character in the 24th James Bond

film, with further details being kept under wraps. She has appeared in films like Miss Bala and Pioneer.

Meanwhile, Daniel Craig will reprise the role of James Bond for the fourth time, alongside director Sam Mendes and returning co-stars Ben Whishaw, Naomie Harris, Ralph Fiennes and Rory Kinnear as his MI6 colleagues.

New cast members included in Spectre are Andrew Scott, Christoph Waltz and Dave Bautista. Spectre is slated to release on November 6.

Johnny Depp injured on set

Actor Johnny Depp has injured his hand while shooting for Pirates

of the Caribbean: Dead Men Tell No Tales in Australia and will be flying to the US for surgery.

According to sources, production on the fifth installment of the Pirates of the Caribbean franchise, which began last month on Australia’s Gold Coast, is not expected to be overly impacted by Depp’s injury and the release date is still set for July 7, 2017, reports hollywoodreporter.com.

The 51-year-old will reprise his role of Captain Jack Sparrow in the upcoming film, which will also star Brenton Thwaites, Kaya Scodelario, and Javier Bardem in pivotal roles.

Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Men Tell No Tales is co-directed by Espen Sandberg and Joachim Ronning.


By Paul Sandle

Jeremy Clarkson, the outspoken British presenter of the Top Gear motoring show, has been suspended

by the BBC after he was involved in a “fracas” with a producer.

Clarkson, who has generated both con-troversy and profits for Britain’s publicly funded broadcaster, was already on a final warning over accusations last year that he had used racist language while filming the show.

“Following a fracas with a BBC producer, Jeremy Clarkson has been suspended pending an investigation,” the broadcaster said in a statement on Tuesday. “No one else has been suspended.”

The BBC said Top Gear, which is aired in more than 200 countries, would not be broadcast on Sunday.

A friend of Prime Minister David Cameron, Clarkson became the popular face of Top Gear by mixing a passion for cars with blunt banter and swagger that offended, among others, environ-mental groups, mental health charities and cyclists.

Clarkson was called before BBC bosses last year after a British newspaper

reported he had been heard using the word “nigger” as he recited an old ver-sion of the rhyme “Eeny, Meeny, Miny, Moe” to choose between cars in filming two years earlier.

The 54-year old presenter later apol-ogized for any offence caused by the reports about the use of the word.

He wrote in his Sun newspaper col-umn in May that he had been told by the BBC that if he made “one more offensive remark, anywhere at any time, I will be sacked”.

But he was back in hot water in October when the show sparked a dip-lomatic incident between Britain and Argentina, two countries which went to war in 1982.

A Top Gear television crew was forced to flee Argentina after driving a Porsche 928 GT with the registration number H982 FKL - which some people suggested could refer to the Falklands conflict.

Despite or even because of years of controversy, however, Top Gear has become one of the BBC’s most success-ful and lucrative programs. It was even recognized by Guinness World Records as the most-watched factual television show of all time. Reuters

BBC suspends Top Gear host Jeremy Clarkson after ‘fracas’ with producer

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ROYAL BIRTHPLUS | THURSDAY 12 MARCH 201510

HEALTH / FITNESS 11

Onion extract lowers high blood sugar, cholesterol

Combined with the antidiabetic drug met-formin, an onion extract can help lower high blood glucose (sugar) and total cho-

lesterol levels among diabetics, says a study.The onion extract used for the experiment in

rats was a crude preparation from onion bulb.“We need to investigate the mechanism by

which onion brought about the blood glucose reduction,” said lead investigator Anthony Ojieh from the Delta State University in Abraka, Nigeria. “We do not yet have an explanation,” Ojieh noted.

To rats with medically induced diabetes, the researchers gave metformin and varying doses of onion extract — 200, 400 and 600 milligrams per kilogrammes of body weight daily (mg/kg/day) — to see if it would enhance the drug’s effects.

Two doses of onion extract, 400 and 600 mg/kg/day, strongly reduced fasting blood sugar lev-els in diabetic rats by 50 percent and 35 percent, respectively, compared with “baseline” levels at the start of the study before the rodents received onion extract, Ojieh reported.

It reportedly lowered the total cholesterol level in diabetic rats, with the two larger doses again having the greatest effects.

Onion extract led to an increase in average weight among nondiabetic rats but not diabetic rats. “Onion is not high in calories. However, it seems to increase the metabolic rate and, with that, to increase the appetite, leading to an increase in feeding,” Ojieh said.

Hormone helps you get good night’s sleep

Melatonin supplements are commonly taken as a sleep aid but new research reveals that even in the absence of a

supplement, naturally occurring melatonin hor-mone may help us fall asleep.

“The study on zebrafish suggests that the mela-tonin naturally made in our brains may also be important for sleep,” said David Prober, assistant professor of biology from California Institute of Technology. For years, researchers have known that melatonin production is regulated by the circadian clock and that animals produce more of the hormone at night than they do during the day.

In the hopes of determining, once and for all, the role that hormone actually plays in sleep, Prober and his team designed an experiment using the larvae of zebrafish that has a well-characterised genome. Like humans, zebrafish are also diurnal - awake during the day and asleep at night - and produce melatonin at night.

But how exactly can you tell if a young zebrafish has fallen asleep? There are behavioural criteria - including how long a zebrafish takes to respond to a stimulus, like a knock on the tank, for example.

“Based on these criteria, we found that if the zebrafish larvae do not move for one or more min-utes, they are in a sleep-like state,” Prober noted.

To test the effect of naturally occurring mela-tonin on sleep, the researchers first compared the sleep patterns of normal zebrafish larvae to those of zebrafish larvae that are unable to produce the hormone. They found that fish with the mutation slept only half as long as normal fish.

And although a normal zebrafish begins to fall asleep about 10 minutes after “lights out” - about the same amount of time it takes a human to fall asleep — it took the mutant fish about twice as long. Agencies


By Kathryn Doyle

For people with heart disease, high levels of stress coupled with depression increase the risk of heart attack and death, accord-ing to a new study.

“We found that the combination of high stress and high depression symptoms was particularly harmful for adults with heart disease during an early vulnerability period,” said lead author Carmela Alcantara of Columbia University Medical Center in New York City.

Alcantara and colleagues fol-lowed more than 4,400 people age 45 and older with coronary heart disease, a buildup of plaque in the arteries which is the most com-mon form of heart disease.

Between 2003 and 2007, par-ticipants had in-home examina-tions and completed stress and depression questionnaires. For example, they reported how often during the previous week they felt depressed, lonely or cried, and how often during the past months they felt overwhelmed or like life was out of their control.

Almost 12 percent of the participants had high stress, almost 14 percent had high lev-els of depression and 6 percent reported having both.

After roughly six years of follow-up, 1,337 par-ticipants had a heart attack or died.

The 6 percent of people with both high stress and depression were 48 percent more likely to die or have a heart attack within two and a half years of the home visit than people without both of these risk factors.

There was no increased risk over longer peri-ods or for people with either depression or stress, but not both, according to results in the journal Circulation: Cardiovascular Quality and Outcomes.

“We were surprised that high stress, and high depression, alone did not increase the risk of another heart attack or death, in analyses that

accounted for important medical, behavioral, and demographic factors,” Alcantara told Reuters Health by email.

Coronary heart disease is the leading cause of death for men and women in the US, according to the National Institutes of Health, but it can be managed with medications and lifestyle changes.

Previous studies tied stress and depression to the development of heart disease as well, though this study was limited to people who already had the condition, Alcantara said.

“More research is needed to understand why psychosocial factors like these are so often tied to heart health in particu-lar,” she said.

During periods of stress, the part of the nervous sys-tem that regulate the heart and other organs “makes the heart beat harder and faster causing blood pressure to increase, a potential cause of heart attacks and strokes,” Dr Phil Chowienczyk, who was not part of the Circulation study, said.

In a recent paper in the journal Hypertension, Chowienczyk and colleagues from the King’s College London report that normally,

the body regulates blood flow by releasing a mol-ecule that lets blood vessels open wider to prevent blood pressure from rising too much.

People with high blood pressure seem to release less of that molecule, particularly during stress, according to their findings - and this may contrib-ute to stress-induced cardiovascular crises.

Behavioral stress and depression management therapies may help improve medical outcomes for people with heart disease, Alcantara said, but more research is needed in that area.

SOURCES: bit.ly/1B1S14d Circulation: Cardiovascular Quality and Outcomes, online March 10, 2015 and bit.ly/1KT5qXy Hypertension, online March 2, 2015.

Stress, depression boost risks for heart patients

“During periods of stress, the part of the nervous system that regulate the heart and other organs makes the heart beat harder and faster causing blood pressure to increase, a potential cause of heart attacks and strokes.”

TECHNOLOGYPLUS | THURSDAY 12 MARCH 201512

By Cecilia Kang

Snapchat has made its name mostly as the smartphone app that swept the teenage world, with kids sending each other

messages, or “snaps,” that disappear within seconds. But the app is now turning into something else: a way for the biggest names in media to connect with younger audiences that aren’t that interested in news.

It may seem like an odd strategy. The stories put on the app by partners such as CNN, ESPN, and National Geographic vanish quickly.

But the hope is that the estimated tens of millions of Snapchat users — mostly between 13 and 25 — will also swipe to view a video on the crisis in Ukraine, take a cute pet quiz, or try out a cronuts recipe found on the app.

The ways that people are finding news have radically changed in recent years, with Facebook, Google and Twitter becoming the biggest sources of stories and videos on the Internet. This means that established news companies — under pressure already to make up for lost ad revenues — are increasingly dependent on social media firms like Snapchat to spread their work.

But while these news sites may get added visibility showing up on a reader’s Facebook feed or Snapchat app, the financial benefits for them are limited since ad revenues are usu-ally split between the news and tech firms. Meanwhile, sites like Facebook and Snapchat don’t have to spend any money creating the stories and videos drawing people to use their products.

And then there’s the question of whether it’s even possible to tell com-plex news stories in a matter of seconds through an app like Snapchat. CNN recently posted on Snapchat a look at the growing global influence of ISIS. Yahoo News reported on Republican presidential hopeful Jeb Bush’s speech on foreign policy.

“It’s an incredible opportunity and incredible audiences of millennials and younger users,” said Meredith Artley, editor and chief of CNN Digital. “It’s not about getting everyone to come to you. It’s about getting young audiences where they already area and that’s why Snapchat is so powerful because they have a very desirable and distinct audience.”

The evolution of Snapchat from a simple mobile messaging app to a potential rival to Facebook and Twitter illustrates the fast-evolving power structures of the Internet, where the firms with the most users hold the greatest power. Social media sites are

the first place many people — particu-larly audiences younger than 34 — get their news and entertainment. That has drawn the biggest media firms — from Viacom to Time Warner — to cre-ate stronger ties with social networks in order to reach those audiences.

Those trends are only strengthening while newspapers and cable television networks aren’t able to raise online ad revenues as quickly as their legacy print and TV businesses decline.

For 18-29 year olds, 61 percent said they got their political and government news from Facebook in the past week, according to a 2014 Pew Research poll. That compared to 53 percent of people 30-50 years old. And one-quarter of all 18-29 year olds said they got their political news from YouTube.

For news organizations, the trick will be getting young users in the habit of reading their stories on a regular basis. People under the age of 34 largely do not watch TV or subscribe to print news. And according to a 2013 Pew report, younger news consumers and those who get news online or from social networks are more likely to say they check in on the news only “from time to time.”

Snapchat was founded less than four years ago by Evan Spiegel and Bobby Murphy, who had met as fraternity brothers at Stanford University. Based in Venice, California, the disappearing feature of its photo messaging service quickly caught on with teens and young adults and has become known for send-ing racy pictures. The site even drew a bid from Facebook to buy the firm for $3bn in 2013. Snapchat won’t say how many users it has but estimates are as high as 100 million users. The company

said an average of 700 million photo texts are sent each day.

Now, as it attempts to take on Facebook, Google and other Internet giants, Snapchat hopes those young users — who often use the service every day — will stay on longer by getting all

their news and entertainment on the there too.

For months, Snapchat has courted big media firms to come on as partners. And for now, Snapchat doesn’t make any editorial decisions.

Each day, partners that include Food Network, The Daily Mail, and ESPN, choose a handful of short clips, quiz-zes, recipes and stories to put on the Snapchat Discover feature. Recently, that included a story on Food Network about an entire bathroom made out of chocolate — including a bidet. CNN’s take on the winter vortex included “Case of the Winter Crazies,” about how people in the Northeast are going stircrazy with the cold. It included a comical time-lapsed video of a man in just a swim cap and speedo jump-ing into a pile of snow as if it were a pool. On Valentine’s day, National Geographic showcased photos of cute animal pairs and it recently posted a quiz asking what it means when a cat’s tail swishes from side to side (answer: it’s angry and about to pounce).

And yet for young people, the brands of big media don’t carry they same

weight that they do for older audiences.According to 2014 Pew survey, 15

percent of young adults said they got their political news from The Daily

Show and TheColbert Report, and 8 percent said they turned to Buzzfeed for political news.

The reception has been strong, the partners say. They won’t say how many users are viewing their content, but each day CNN’s handful of short videos and stories are viewed in the “seven digits,” according to people familiar with data collected by Snapchat. CNN said it has three full-time and 1 part-time employees who curate, write and edit content each day for Snapchat and plan to expand its staff to work on the app.

Early advertisers include BMW for CNN and Nabisco for the Food Network.

But for now, just getting an imprint on minds of youth is the main goal.

“Of course monetization is a goal, but what we really want is for Snapchat users to think about Food Network and our lifestyle brands more and engage with our brands now so we create those relationships for the long term,” said Tammy Franklin, senior vice president for Scripps Network Interactive, which owns Food Network. She said the Food Network’s cable audience is typically over 35 years old and mostly female.

But soon money will become a stick-ing point. Right now, revenue with advertisers is shared between Snapchat and the media firms. If the UK’s Daily

Mail newspaper brings an advertiser, it gets a larger cut of revenues. Snapchat may more easily bring advertisers who will buy blanket spots across the con-tent provided by media partners — and get a majority of revenues in return.

And the partnerships with social media sites worries publishers who fear they are relenting too much profit to aggregators who just host their videos, photos and stories.

“What’s particularly interesting about these platforms like Facebook, Twitter, Vine, Instagram and Snapchat is that they themselves aren’t content creators,” said Dave Pakman, a venture capital investor at Venrock Capital. “In those models, the businesses are super efficient and don’t have to pay to cre-ate high quality content and have no costs for distribution because people just show up.” WP-Bloomberg

Read the news now or it’s gone: CNN, ESPN push for Snapchat users

The evolution of Snapchat from a simple mobile messaging app to a potential rival to Facebook and Twitter illustrates

the fast-evolving power structures of the Internet, where the firms with the most users hold the greatest power. Social media sites are the first place many people — particularly

audiences younger than 34 — get their news and entertainment. That has drawn the biggest media firms — from Viacom to Time Warner — to create stronger ties with

social networks in order to reach those audiences.

COMICS & MORE 13

Hoy en la HistoriaMarch 12, 1945

1890: Legendary Russian dancer Vaslav Nijinsky, leading light of Sergei Diaghilev’s ballet company, was born1925: Chinese revolutionary leader Sun Yat-sen, known as the father of modern China, died1930: Mahatma Gandhi began a 300-mile protest march in India against the British tax on salt1955: Charlie Parker, influential U.S. jazz saxophonist nicknamed “Bird”, died at the early age of 34

Jewish diarist Anne Frank, aged 15, died in the Nazi concentration camp at Bergen-Belsen, just one month before it was liberated by British troops

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ALL IN THE MIND Can you find the hidden words? They may be horizontal,vertical, diagonal, forwards or backwards.

APPLE, APRICOT, BANANA, BEANS, BEEF, BEER, BREAD,BUTTER, CABBAGE, CAKE, CANDY, CARROT, CEREAL, CHEESE, CHICKEN, CHOCOLATE, COFFEE, COOKIE, CREAM, EGGS, FISH, JUICE, LEMON, LETTUCE, MARMALADE, MELON, MILK, MUSHROOM, ONION, ORANGE, PASTA, PEACH, PEAR, PEAS, PICKLE, PINEAPPLE, POTATO, PRESERVE, RICE, SODA, SOUP, SPINACH, STEW, SUGAR, SYRUP, TOMATO, TREACLE, TURKEY, WATER, WINE.

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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

solved like a normal Sudoku.

ACROSS 1 Willy of “Free Willy,”

e.g. 5 Kind of breath10 Transportation for Mary

Poppins or E.T.14 Bit of office greenery15 Forge a deal, say16 How a sale item may be

sold17 United Nations

headquarters decoration18 Nursery worker’s

suggestion for a backstabber?

20 Gets more clearheaded22 Pontius ___23 Part of a place setting24 Killer bees and others25 Shrew27 Ones cutting in line,

e.g.28 Tennis’s Ivanovic29 Former New York

governor Spitzer31 Deuces35 Peaks: Abbr.36 … for a scoundrel?

39 Physicist Georg40 Ask, as a riddle42 Run away (with)43 The Tigers of the S.E.C.44 Responds hotly?47 Atmospheric

phenomenon during low temperatures

49 Mujer of mixed race52 Noted filmmaker with a

dog named Indiana53 Milanese fashion house54 Overly devoted son57 … for a fall guy?59 Connecticut Ivy60 Away from a chat

program, say61 It’s debatable62 From the top63 Cartoon collectibles64 Wheelbarrow or

thimble, in Monopoly65 Line parts: Abbr.

DOWN 1 Does a mob hit on 2 Move, to a Realtor 3 … for a grouch?

4 German chancellor Merkel

5 Extended piece by John Paul Jones of Led Zeppelin or John Entwistle of the Who

6 ___ Dei 7 Snare 8 Cry at a horror house 9 Like the diving end of a

pool vis-à-vis the other end10 Gas balloon supply11 “Shaft” composer

Hayes12 Kunta ___ of “Roots”13 ___ Park, Colo.19 Rosy21 Was fierce, as a storm24 “I second that”25 Improvise musically26 “What’s gotten ___

you?”27 Features of a droopy

face30 Sinatra’s “___ Kick Out

of You”32 … for a lothario?

33 Extremely34 Self-satisfied37 Old-time drug hangout38 Bing Crosby’s record

label41 Millionaires’ properties45 One in Munich46 Rapper who hosted

MTV’s “Pimp My Ride”48 Light courses?

49 Illusions50 Wear away, as a bank51 Picayune52 Lash ___ of old

westerns54 Purchase for Halloween55 Designer Cassini56 Trees for making

longbows58 Spanish “that”

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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

40 41 42 43

44 45 46 47 48

49 50 51 52

53 54 55 56

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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.


1Cinderella (2D/Drama)

– 10:30am, 1:00, 3:30, 6:00, 8:30 & 11:00pm

2Run All Night (2D/Action) – 10:30am, 12:45, 3:00,

5:15, 7:30, 9:45pm & 12:00midnight

3Cairo Time (2D/Arabic) – 1:00, 3:15 & 10:10pm

Youm Maloush Lazmah (2D/Arabic)

– 10:40am, 5:30, 7:50pm & 12:30am

4American Heist (2D/Action)

– 10:10am, 6:10, 8:10 & 10:10pmWalking On Sunshine (2D/Romantic)

– 12:10, 2:10, 4:10pm & 12:10am

5Kinsman: The Secret Service (2D/Action)

– 10:15am, 2:45, 7:15 & 11:45pmOutcast (2D/Action) – 12:45, 5:15 & 9:45pm

6Focus (2D/Comedy) – 2:00, 6:00 & 10:15pm

The Wedding Ringer (2D/Comedy)

– 12:00noon, 4:00, 8:10pm & 12:25am Asterix (2D/Animation) – 10:10am

7Fast...Er (2D/Action) – 11:00am, 3:00, 7:00 & 11:00pm

Before I Go To Sleep(2D/Thriller)–1:00, 5:00& 9:00pm

8Demonic (2D/Horror) – 3:50, 7:40 & 11:50pm

Apartment 143 (2D/Horror)–10:20am, 5:45 & 9:40pm; Asterix(2D/Animation)–12:10 & 2:00pm

9Cinderella (IMAX 2D/Drama) – 11:30am, 2:00,

4:30, 7:00, 9:30 &11:55pm

10Run All Night (2D/Action) – 1:20, 6:30, 9:00 &

11:40pm;Cinderella(2D/Drama)–11:00am& 4:00pm

MALL

1Asterix (2D/Animation) – 2:00pm

Demonic (2D/Horror) – 3:45pm

Walking On Sunshine (2D/Romantic) – 5:15pm

Run All Night (2D/Action) – 7:00 & 9:15pm

Fast...Er Superfast (2D/Comedy) – 11:30pm

2 Ennakul Oruvan (2D/Tamil) – 2:30pm

Cinderella (2D/Drama) – 5:00 & 9:15pm

Before I Go To Sleep (2D/Mystery) – 7:15pm

Apartment 143 (2D/Horror) – 11:30pm


Cairo Time (2D/Arabic) – 5:00 & 7:15pm


N.H.10 (2D/Hindi) – 11:15pm

LANDMARK





2 Asterix (2D/Animation) – 2:15pm


Walking On Sunshine (2D/Romantic) – 5:15pm



3 Fast...Er Superfast (2D/Comedy) – 2:30pm



Ennakul Oruvan (2D/Tamil) – 10:45pm

ROYAL

PLAZA

1

N.H.10 (2D/Hindi) – 2:30 & 11:30pm



2


Asterix (2D/Animation) – 3:45pm




3 Asterix (2D/Animation) – 3:00pm




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13:30 Dog With A Blog

15:20 Binny And The

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15:45 Girl Meets World

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17:25 Binny And The

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21:10 Austin & Ally

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South Africa television reporter mugged on camera

Two men, one armed with a gun, were caught on camera late on

Tuesday mugging a South African journalist in Johannesburg as he pre-pared for a live television report on Zambian President Edgar Lungu’s hos-pital treatment.

The incident is just one of scores of often violent crimes, including rape, robberies and murder recorded every day in Africa’s most advanced econ-omy, earning it a place among the most violent countries in the world outside a war zone.

The video, which went viral on the Internet, shows the men pacing around reporter Vuyo Mvoko while he speaks to the camera outside the hos-pital, before a scuffle ensues, and then Mvoko is heard shouting: “Hey, we’re being mugged.”

Mvoko was reporting on the arrival of Zambia’s Lungu, 58, at a Johannesburg hospital for medical tests after he fell ill at the weekend with a suspected narrowing of the food pipe.

“He was looking for the phone and when I wasn’t giving him the phone, he calls the other one who has a gun, to say: ‘shoot this dog’ or something

like that,” Mvoko, who works for the national broadcaster, told radio station 702. “So I gave him the phone.”

Police spokeswoman Colonel Noxolo Kweza was not available for comment, but the government condemned the attack.

“Government has intensified the fight against crime to protect the rights of citizens ... and will continue in its efforts to reduce crime to ensure that all people who live in South Africa are, and feel safe.”

Owner of Maine inn to give property away to essay contest winner

The owner of an idyllic Maine coun-try inn valued at $905,000 has

plans to give it all away to the winner of an essay contest she launched early this year.

Applicants must be eager to run the business and convey their qualifi-cations in an impeccably crafted, but spare, 200-word essay, the owner of the Center Lovell Inn and Restaurant, Janice Sage, said on Monday.

Sage, who first launched her con-test in January on Facebook, said in an interview that she aims to garner as many as 7,500 paid submissions by May 17th.

At $125 per entry, that would be

enough to cover the estimated value of the 210-year old facility, plus an additional $20,000 for the next owner.

“There are a lot of talented people that can’t, just can’t, go out and buy an inn like this,” she said. “Now all they need to do is write and convince me.”

The hotel, together with a barn built in 1895 and other outbuildings, is located about 55 miles northwest of Portland and offers sweeping views of New Hampshire’s snow-capped mountains.

Sage, who has run the inn for 22 years, will select the top 20 essays then pass them on to two unnamed local residents to judge the finalists and select a winner.

Other than the contest rules, vet-ted by Maine authorities and available online, Sage said she is not giving out any hints to help guide applicants.

There is some fine print. The winner, Sage said, must agree to operate the business for one year following trans-fer of ownership, and will keep the inn painted its traditional white, with green or black roofing and shutters.

Even the idea for the contest is rooted in tradition, she said.

Sage herself took ownership of the inn in 1993, after she won a similar essay contest launched by the previous owner. “I came here on angel’s wings,” she said. “I hope I can do the same for someone else.”

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