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• Goan WelfareAssociation stagesKonkani musical
• IBQ lead sponsorof EuromoneyQatar Conference
• People overestimate benefits of prevention
• Teething: Signs and symptoms
• Young designerstresses on ‘simpleand elegant’ designs
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TUESDAY 20 NOVEMBER 2012 • [email protected] • www.thepeninsulaqatar.com • 4455 7741
Twilight finalestarts with$341m worldwide
The Wives of Ambassadors and Heads of Mission are happy to be in Qatar and help their husbands to showcase the traditions and culture of their home countries.
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by Isabel Ovalle
The experience of working in
over seven countries in 35
years, five languages spoken
fluently, third culture kids
and friends from all over
the world… These are characteristics
that can easily describe the life of an
ambassador, and of course, of his or her
spouse.
The Wives of Ambassadors and Heads
of Mission (Wohom) are women that
represent the rainbow of cultures that
nowadays populate Doha. They live the
life of a nomad for love and by choice.
Packing is an ordinary task for them
and their children are used to travelling
and changing schools frequently.
This article aims to take a peek into
the lives of those women, while travel-
ling with their partners, who ran into
each other in Qatar and are now mem-
bers of Wohom.
These women also serve their coun-
tries as ambassadors to their culture
and, during their postings, focus on get-
ting to know the host country as well
as on showcasing their own traditions.
When Wohom organises activities they
try to keep it a low cost affair, given that
they don’t have a place to gather. They
also put together charity events for Red
Cross or cancer awareness, among other
issues.
The current president of this group
is Bozena Rostek, spouse of the
Ambassador of Poland to Qatar. She
has lived in Qatar for six years and
heads the group that currently has
over 40 active members. For Rostek,
Doha is the third destination, with
previous stays in Egypt and Iraq.
Four years into her posting in
Qatar, she became president of
Wohom. She works to organise vari-
ous activities and make newcomers
to Doha feel welcomed along with
Halima Sayyar, from Bahrain, vice-
president of the association. Sayyar
moved to Qatar from Damascus
(Syria) seven months ago with her
husband and children.
Salma Bhyat, wife of the South
African Ambassador moved to Qatar
seven months ago. Bhyat is new to
this life but happy, “every day is a
new experience,” she explained. “My
husband was appointed for political
reasons when, coincidently, our chil-
dren are already in the university.
Since I was a stay at home mum, I
moved happily and it was quite easy
to get involved in Doha life. I found
Qatar is like South Africa, a rainbow
country”.
Bridging Bridging culturescultures
Over seven countries in 35 years, five languages spoken fluently, third culture kids, an MBA in Finance and friends from all over the world… These are characteristics that can easily describe the life of an Ambassador, and of course, that of his or her spouse.
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These ladies meet important people and should know when to keep quiet and that certain issues can only be discussed within close circles.
The wife of Malaysian Ambassador,
Sabariah Jazri, left her career as an audi-
tor back home to travel with her husband.
Since then, she has lived in Australia,
Indonesia and Switzerland and along the
way learned to blend with the host culture
and also serve as a diplomat. Her family’s
postings in different countries have varied
from three to four years, giving her time
to adapt to the new house and city and
take care of the needs of the Malaysians
in each country.
All these women attended courses
before their first postings, in some cases
for two weeks, in others six months. The
purpose was no other then reviewing their
country’s culture and history and learning
how to behave in different situations. A
relevant part of the job is discretion. These
ladies meet important people and should
know when to keep quiet and that certain
issues can only be addressed within close
circles.
That’s why Wohom ladies feel completely
at ease when they get together, because
they are free to talk about anything. For
the wife of Jordan Ambassador, Faten Al
Smadi, after 35 years of diplomatic life, it’s
fairly easy to adapt to a new environment.
Nevertheless, packing is one of the things
that she dislikes the most after living in
Algeria, Russia, Belgium, Greece, Morocco
and Turkey, in most cases for four years.
She stated that this life has “more
good things than bad, it’s a privileged life”
which, however, can be hard on children.
These kids learn many languages and are
accustomed to a special way of life that
later makes it very difficult for them to feel
comfortable in their home country, “they
are outsiders there,” she added.
Ultimately, to quote Mirsada Buric-
Recica, wife of the Ambassador of Bosnia
and Herzegovina to Qatar, “it’s a beau-
tiful life”. Buric-Recica holds a MBA
degree and was used to travelling well
before she did so with her husband, with
stops in the US, Denmark, UK, Italy and
Germany, among other countries, due to
her career. Now that she lives in Doha
she’s focused on taking care of her two
small children.
This economist is certain that she has
had the chance to live in Qatar in a “his-
toric” time, she’s “satisfied and enjoying
Doha very much, thanks to the openness
of the Qatari people”.
The Peninsula
AMU alumni tomark Sir Syed’sbirth anniversary
The Alumni Association of India’s Aligarh Muslim University (AMU) here is
marking the birth anniversary of the university’s founding father, Sir Syed Ahmed Khan, on Thursday.
A senior officer from the Indian Police Service (IPS), Syed Mohamed Afzal, will be the chief guest on the occasion, a release from the Association said yesterday.
Afzal who has been registrar at two major educational institutions in India — AMU and Jamia Millia Islamia, New Delhi — will be deliv-ering lectures on changing trends in education in India.
A post-graduate in law (LLM),
Afzal is currently Inspector-General (IG), Special Armed Force (SAF), Gwalior, Central India. Afzal’s fam-ily in the northern state of Uttar Pradesh (UP) is actively involved in social uplift and runs educational institutions to mainly benefit those strata of society that do not have easy access to education.
The Association release said past AMU students desirous of attending the function can contact cell numbers 55204432 and 66627575 for details.
PLUS | TUESDAY 20 NOVEMBER 2012 COMMUNITY4
Premium Care Polyclinic conducted a Diabetic Walk at Aspire park to mark World Diabetic Day. Several people participated in the walk. A free medical camp was also conducted for blood sugar and blood pressure check at the park. A team of doctors from Premium Care Polyclinic were available at the site for counselling patients.
Comedian and playwright John D’Silva’s new Konkani musical play ‘Ranvotti’ was staged recently at the Al
Ghazal Club Hall by the Goan Welfare Association in Doha-Qatar, headed by Simon D’Silva.
The story of Ranvotti revolves around a child who, at the age of seven, was lost in the jungle and brought up by a savage. After 14 years in the jun-gle, he comes to the city only to be lost in its bad vices. Whilst his jungle life was free of bad vices, when he lands in the city, circumstances transform him into a wild man.
The drama came to an end with a powerful message for the audience,
that underlined the reality of life in the city.
The script by John D’Silva was thought provoking, with meaningful dialogues, accompanied by a variety of songs like trio, duet, choral song, decent solos and comedy solos with clean and decent comedy.
John D’Silva was at his witty best, while the rest of the cast – Mita Afonso, Alice Correia, Joe Dicarpale, Soccorro de St Cruz, Peter De Pedda, Marcus Vaz and Nato Vales – mesmer-ised the audience with their acting and singing. The actors were supported by the musicians Filipe de Sanvordem, Christo, Jose Carvalho and Roque.
Alex Soares, general manager of
Middle East Information & Publication, was the chief guest and Lavina De Souza, councilor of Marmagoa Municipal Council, Vasco Da Gama, Goa, was the guest of honour.
“If the Konkani language is alive today it’s only due to our tiatrists (konkani artists) who promote the konkani language and culture,” D’Souza said. The Peninsula
Goan Welfare Association stages Konkani musical
Comedian John D’Silva and Nato Vales during the musical.
Youth Forum, a socio- cul-tural organisation of young Indian expatriates, launched its social service
campaign last Friday with its lead-ers and members donating blood to Hamad Medical Corporation (HMC). In collaboration with government authorities and various departments, diverse community service activities have been planned as part of the cam-paign which will span over 45 days.
Apart from blood donation, traf-fic awareness programmes, labour camp visits, training on first-aid and life support techniques, career guidance, awareness programmes on health problems and labour law, medical camps, volunteer training
programmes have been slated to be held in different parts of Qatar. An exclusive handbook on Qatar, to be distributed to newcomers to Qatar, will also be released as part of the campaign, said Majeed Ali, coordi-nator of the event and head of social services of Youth Forum. The con-cluding event will be held in the end of December with the participation of more than one thousand labourers.
While formally inaugurating the campaign, Mujeeb Rahman, former president of Solidarity Youth Movement, Kerala, pointed out that though modern technology helps peo-ple of remote areas to connect each other, we often fail to see the suf-ferings of people in our immediate
vicinities. He urged Youth Forum workers to make service to human-ity a part of their daily life. Dr Najeeb K P, president of Indian Medical Forum, and Kareem Abdulla, presi-dent of ICBF, assured their support to Youth Forum in its voluntary
activities. Acting President of Indian Islamic Association (IIA), V T Faisal also spoke. President of Youth Forum Sajid Rahman presided over the brief inaugural session held at Youth Forum office at Hilal.
The Peninsula
Youth Forum launches social service campaign
Mujeeb Rahman, former president of Solidarity Youth Movement, Kerala, inaugurating the campaign.
Syed Mohamed Afzal
Premium Care Polyclinic’s Diabetic Walk
PLUS | TUESDAY 20 NOVEMBER 2012 5CAMPUS
Sixty students became entrepre-neurs for the day when Injaz Qatar teamed up with the Bedaya Center to host the lat-
est instalment of its ‘Innovation Camp (I Camp)’ series. The event was part of Global Entrepreneurship Week (GEW), which was hosted at the Crowne Plaza Hotel Doha last week.
Global Entrepreneurship Week is the world’s largest celebration of the innovators and job creators who launch start-ups that bring ideas to life, drive economic growth and expand human welfare.
Innovation Camp was designed to provide an engaging entrepreneurship experience for students. With anywhere between 50-100 people participating during the five-hour event, students are divided into teams of up to 10 to
compete against each other to solve a business challenge within a limited time. Each team is given access to tools,
information and resources and is guided by a corporate volunteer from the busi-ness sector.
Each team, mentored by eleven corporate volunteers from Yashfeen Medical Equipments, Qatar University, Nasser bin Khaled Holding, BDO Jawad Habib, Georgetown University – School of Foreign Service in Qatar, Qtel, Roudha Center and SEIB Insurance were given access to a range of tools and asked to come up with creative ideas to encourage safe driving in Qatar. Each student team prepared a business plan that was pitched to a panel of judges for the most creative idea. The panel included Shadi Eideh, Digital Content Cluster Manager at ICTQatar, Saleh Al Khulaifi, Head of Bedaya Center, Iqbal Kaundal, Head of Advisory at Qatar Development Bank and Ricard Huguet Managing Director of Invenio. Prizes for the two winning teams were sponsored by Blue Salon. The Peninsula
Sixty students learn entrepreneurial skills at innovation camp
Students at the innovation camp.
Curtain rises on 38th MES Annual Day
The 38th Annual Day Celebrations of MES Indian School, the largest expatriate school in Qatar, are scheduled to be held on November 22-23.
On the opening day, Sanjiv Arora, Indian Ambassador, is the chief guest and Fouziya Abdul Aziz Al Khatir, Director of Private Schools, Supreme Education Council, is the guest of honour.
On the closing day Mansoor Al Khatir, Chief Executive Officer, Qatar Museum, will be the chief guest and Saad Al Muhannadi, Chief Executive Officer, Qatar Railways Company and Ahmed Abdullah Al Abdullah, Deputy Chief Executive Officer, Barwa Group will grace the occasion as the guests of honour. The cultural extravaganza consisting of a variety of dances, multi-lingual dramas and mimes, representing the tradition of Indian Art and Culture and a special light and sound thematic programme, with the support of LED screen, highlighting the importance of nature, will be staged at the Open Air Auditorium of MES. The Peninsula
What is the greenhouse effect? What are the causes of climate change? What are its
consequences? What can we do to reduce them? Those questions and many others were discussed with about 60 pupils of Ibn Khaldoun Prep Independent School for Boys in Doha and Sheikha Athba bint Thamer Al Thani, Chief Support Services Officer and Sustainable Development Manager of QDVC during a workshop.
The children of the Prep School, from 13 to 15 years old, attended the workshop and asked a lot of questions.
“We are very happy to collaborate with QDVC on sustainable develop-ment issues and to share its experi-ence,” said Khalid Al Qahtani School Principal and Authorisation Owner at Ibn Khaldoun Prep Independent School.
“Our syllabus already includes Sustainable Development topics, sup-porting Qatar National Vision 2030. But, beyond academic information, it’s really interesting to discover the Sustainable Development policy of a company such as QDVC, and to see how QDVC implements it in its daily work. The pupils were very enthusiastic to be
able to ask questions and to discover good practices.”
Sheikha Athba Bint Thamer Al Thani, Chief Support Services Officer and Sustainable Development Manager of QDVC, said: “With the coming Conference on Climate Change that will take place in Qatar from November 26
to December 7, it is important for us, as a Qatari construction company, to explain to the youngest ones what sus-tainable development is and to show them that it is possible to design and deliver projects that carefully balance the interests of the current environment for the needs of future generations. The
way the Ibn Khaldoun Prep School and all the students welcomed us shows how much the next generation is concerned by these eco-friendly topics. Companies, schools, students, citizens: by commit-ting ourselves all together, we’ll succeed to build a greener tomorrow.
The Peninsula
Workshop held on climate change and sustainable development
QDVC officials addressing the Ibn Khaldoun Prep Independent School students.
P H Kurian, Principal Secretary, IT, Kerala, talking to students of Birla Public School on safety measures that are to be followed while following a technology based culture and about patent related issues.
IT Kerala principal secretary at Birla Public School
PLUS | TUESDAY 20 NOVEMBER 2012 MARKETPLACE6
A carnival was organised at Regency Halls in collaboration with Harley Owner Group ‘Doha Chapter’ on Saturday. The event featured an impressive bike show as well as games and activities for children, live DJ entertainment, food stalls and much more.
Thomas Pulimoottil (Managing Partner) receiving the award for the “Best Tourism Project” on behalf of Horizon Manor Hotel. The award function was organised by Qatar Development Bank under the auspices of “Al Dhameen” scheme at Crown Plaza Hotel, Doha.
Regency Halls teams up with Harley Owner Group Doha Chapter
Best tourism project award
Abdullah Abdulghani & Bros (AAB), agent for Toyota vehicles in Qatar, announced the winner of
Toyota Corolla, which was raffled away as prize during their recently concluded Eid Al Adha sales cam-paign. The winning coupon No. is 2168.
AAB as part of their Eid Al Adha campaign had offered their Toyota customers an opportunity to win one Toyota Corolla in addition to other benefits. First Finance who had part-nered with AAB for this campaign also offered a host of benefits.
The raffle draw took place in the Toyota Showroom, Al Abdulghani Tower, in the presence of representa-tive from the Ministry of Business & Trade, Senior Managers from AAB & Frist Finance. ] The Peninsula
A representative from the Ministry of Business & Trade with senior managers of AAB and First Finance at the draw.
Under the theme of “global finance re-designed”, the International Bank of Qatar (ibq) sponsors the upcom-
ing “Euromoney Qatar Conference” to be held in Doha for the first time on December 11- 12 at the Ritz-Carlton, Doha. The conference will attract scores of industry leaders and key players.
The event will also feature live inter-views with major international and Qatari figures all involved in determin-ing the direction of the new landscape of global finance. Key high-level speak-ers and attendees including economists and banking senior executives will be
present as well.Jabra Ghandour, Managing Director,
ibq, said: “The Euromoney Conference in Qatar is exactly what we need here to foster productive dialogue for the industry. It is only at such events that peers and leaders get the opportunity to share the necessary knowledge we all need to develop our thinking, strat-egies and views. These platforms are perfect to discuss both success and fail-ure stories which are excellent learn-ing points for even the most advanced business and banking work models. We are looking forward to being there and to meeting the superb line-up of speak-ers who are poised to leave a strong
impact through their thought-leading statements.”
Richard Banks, Director of Euromoney Conferences said: “The first Euromoney Qatar Conference will gather international financial experts to discuss global financial stability and the role that Qatar plays in the new financial landscape’ adding that “Euromoney is delighted to be working with IBQ on this exciting conference.”
The conference will also shed light on what regulators need to do to cre-ate a banking system that is more robust and able to deliver services for the wider economy in addition to other important topics. The Peninsula
IBQ lead sponsor of Euromoney Qatar Conference
Jabra Ghandour
AAB picks Eid Al Adha promotion winner
by Kerry Grens
Patients asked to estimate how many lives would be saved through cancer screening or
how many hip fractures can be prevented with bone-building medication mostly overestimate the benefits of these preventive measures, according to a survey of New Zealanders.
Annette O’Connor of the University of Ottawa, who studies how patients weigh risk and make decisions, said she would expect that people would overvalue any given prevention effort.
“Most people would overestimate because they’re told about their benefits, but with no numbers...so why would you think that it’s going to be really low?” said O’Connor, who was not involved in the new study.
Doctors, nurses and others who communicate health information often don’t detail how much a given test or drug can help, but only say that people ought to have it, O’Connor said.
“I think it’s led to more people taking part in screening or availing themselves of preventive medication than would have been the case if they were presented the information in more meaningful terms,” said Dr. Ben Hudson, the new study’s lead author and a professor at the University of Otago in Christchurch, New Zealand.
“I would also be concerned that it’s led to people having over-heightened expectations of what these things can achieve, and that may lead to disappointment when the inevitable breast cancer happens despite screening,” he added.
Hudson said that in talking with his patients about screening, he found they were surprised by how small the benefits were.
To get a broader sense of patients’ expectations for preventive measures, Hudson and his colleagues asked 354 people about the benefits of breast cancer screening with mammography, bowel cancer screening with stool testing, taking antihypertension medication and taking bone-strengthening medication.
Specifically, participants were asked to imagine scenarios in which 5,000 people between ages 50 and 70 undergo one of these preventive interventions for 10 years, then asked how many “events” the participants thought would be avoided as a result of the measure.
For three of the four interventions in the survey, the event to be avoided was death and in the case of bone drugs, it
was hip fracture.For breast cancer screening,
only seven percent of the participants answered in the correct range of one to five lives being saved with screening, whereas 90 percent overestimated how many lives would be saved. Fully a third thought that 1,000 deaths would be averted.
The numbers were similar for bowel cancer screening, which is thought to save five to 10 lives for every 5,000 people tested, Hudson’s group reports in the Annals of Family Medicine.
Eighty-two percent of participants overestimated the number of fractures prevented by bone-strengthening medication, which in reality is about 50 for every 5,000 patients given the drug. And 69 percent of participants reported that 500 or more lives would be saved if 5,000 people took blood pressure medication, when the correct range should have been 50 to 100.
“It’s probably unreasonable to expect people to make an accurate guess at the absolute number (of lives saved or fractures prevented), but what we found was a consistent trend toward higher levels,” Hudson told Reuters Health.
“I don’t think most patients are likely to have access to good numerical data presented in a simple and informative way. I think that’s part of the problem here,” he said.
The US Preventive Services
Task Force (USPSTF) issues screening recommendations and other guidelines for disease prevention, which doctors, nurses and public health groups often consult when counseling patients.
A survey of US physicians found that most of them don’t fully grasp what the numbers mean when it comes to cancer screening.
O’Connor said that when health
care professionals repeat these
guidelines to patients, they often
don’t include the numbers when
talking about benefits or they only
refer to something called the “rela-
tive risk.”
The relative risk describes the
change in a person’s chances of
developing a disease, but it does
not give any sense of how much
risk that person had to begin with.
For example, a “50 percent
reduction in risk” may be less sig-
nificant than it sounds if a per-
son’s absolute risk for a condition
- how likely they are to develop it
at some point in life - was origi-
nally five percent, and drops to 2.5
percent.
“Professionals and people
who provide health information
need to know absolute benefits,”
O’Connor said. Hudson advocated
for better informing patients of
the benefits and harms of any
preventive intervention. “I have a
feeling this would all be easier if
we could present (patients) with
this information, trust them with
their decisions and support them
in doing so,” he said. Reuters
PLUS | TUESDAY 20 NOVEMBER 2012HEALTH 7
Health Tipsfrom DOCTOR
Signs that your baby is teethingSymptoms can last for just a few days, right around the time a new tooth is coming in, or as long as several months, as a group of
teeth make their way through. For a few lucky babies (and parents), teething doesn’t cause any noticeable signs at all.
What’s tricky is that there’s no single set of teeth-ing symptoms “So, one third of the kids might drool, another third might be irritable, and another third might have trouble sleeping.”
For this reason, the following list of symptoms is just a guideline.
Signs your baby is teething may include:• A tooth visible below the
gum• Swollen, bulging gums• Trying to bite, chew, and
suck on everything she can get her hands on
• Drooling• Irritability• Rubbing her face• Difficulty sleeping• Turning away food• Grabbing her earsIf you observe several of
these symptoms together, the likelihood that teething is the culprit is higher – but there’s always the chance that something else is to blame.
What not to chalk up to teethingIf your baby is suffering from diarrhea, fever, or
a runny nose, don’t dismiss it as merely a sign of teething, especially if the symptoms persist for more than 24 hours.
Even though plenty of parents swear that these symptoms seem directly related to their child’s teeth-ing, there’s no scientific proof that they are linked. A comprehensive analysis of 78 studies published in the Archives of Disease in Childhood in 2007, for example, found no connection between high fever and teething.
So if your child exhibits diarrhea or fever, call his doctor to rule out anything more serious.
When to worry about a late teetherThe first pearly white typically peeks through
between 4 and 10 months of age, but it’s also perfectly normal for it to show up a little later. If your child’s teeth are slow to appear but her bone growth, skin, and hair are normal, there’s likely nothing wrong.
Still, if your baby reaches her first birthday with no tooth in sight, mention it to her doctor, who may refer you to a pediatric dentist. Occasionally, children can be missing a primary or permanent tooth, but it’s not usually a long-term concern. By the time your child is 8 or 9, you can consult with an orthodontist who will review the options, which include closing the gap with braces or fitting an implant.
Dr. Nabeel Saif Hussein Shaif GP-Paediatrics
Healthspring World Clinic
Teething: Signs and symptoms
People overestimate benefits of prevention
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land-t
hem
ed s
et.
Rih
anna c
am
e a
way w
ith o
ne w
in. S
he c
ould
n’t
make t
he s
how
because
sh
e i
s in
Berlin
, m
idw
ay t
hrough a
seven
-day t
our a
cross
seven
cit
ies
around t
he w
orld
prom
oti
ng h
er u
pcom
ing U
na
polo
geti
c alb
um
.C
anadia
n p
op s
inger C
arly
Rae J
epse
n, 26, pic
ked u
p t
he c
ovete
d n
ew
arti
st-o
f-th
e-y
ear a
ward o
ver O
ne D
irecti
on, A
ust
ralian a
rti
st G
oty
e, in
die
-pop b
and f
un. and r
apper J
. C
ole
. S
he p
erfo
rm
ed h
er h
it C
all
Me M
ayb
e.
“I a
m fl
oored,” t
he s
inger s
aid
, th
ankin
g B
ieber a
long w
ith h
er f
ans
in
her a
ccepta
nce s
peech.
New
com
er B
rit
ish-I
ris
h b
oy b
an
ds
On
e D
irecti
on
, w
hic
h h
ad t
hree
nom
inati
on
s, a
nd T
he W
an
ted,
whic
h h
ad o
ne n
om
inati
on
, w
en
t hom
e
em
pty
-han
ded,
losi
ng o
ut
in t
he f
avourit
e p
op/r
ock g
roup c
ate
gory t
o
well-e
stablish
ed L
os
Angele
s group M
aroon 5
.F
rench D
J D
avid
Guett
a w
on t
he fi
rst
-ever A
meric
an M
usi
c A
ward for
ele
ctr
onic
dance m
usi
c o
ver D
Js C
alv
in H
arris
and S
krille
x.
“It’s
wonderfu
l als
o t
o s
ee e
lectr
onic
musi
c r
ecogniz
ed a
t th
is l
evel
in
the U
S,” G
uett
a s
aid
in a
taped a
ccepta
nce s
peech.
Only
13 o
f th
e 2
0 a
wards
were h
anded o
ut
durin
g t
he liv
e b
roadcast
. K
aty
Perry w
as
nam
ed f
avourit
e f
em
ale
pop/r
ock a
rti
st,
Shakir
a w
as
nam
ed
favourit
e L
ati
n a
rti
st, w
hile B
eyonce w
as
vote
d favourit
e s
oul arti
st. N
one
of
the t
hree a
ttended t
he s
how
. C
ountr
y-p
op d
arl
ing T
aylo
r S
wif
t, 2
2, sc
ored t
he favourit
e fem
ale
coun-
try a
rti
st a
ward b
efo
re p
erfo
rm
ing h
er late
st s
ingle
I K
new
You
Were
Tro
ub
le
from
her c
hart-
toppin
g a
lbum
Red, on a
masq
uerade b
allroom
-sty
le s
tage
wit
h d
ancers
in t
uxedos,
gow
ns
and V
eneti
an m
ask
s.
R&
B s
tar U
sher k
icked o
ff t
he n
ight
wit
h a
medle
y o
f his
hit
s on a
lase
r-
filled s
tage, w
hile p
op-r
ocker P
ink t
eam
ed h
er p
erfo
rm
ance o
f her late
st
single
“T
ry”
wit
h a
dram
ati
c i
nte
rpreti
ve d
ance c
overed i
n p
ain
t w
ith a
m
ale
dancer o
n a
sta
ge fi
lled w
ith b
urnin
g d
ebris
. R
eute
rs
Bie
ber
swee
ps
Am
eric
an
Mus
ic A
war
ds
with
big
win
s
by
An
dre
a B
urz
ynsk
i an
d L
isa
Ric
hw
ine
The T
wil
igh
t vam
pir
e s
aga’s fi
nal
chapte
r d
ebute
d w
ith a
mas-
siv
e $341m
in
glo
bal
movie
ti
cket
sale
s as
devote
d fans
bid
fa
rew
ell t
o b
lood-s
uckin
g s
pouse
s B
ella
and E
dw
ard a
nd o
ne o
f H
ollyw
ood’s
big
-gest
franchis
es.
Th
e T
wil
igh
t S
aga
: B
rea
kin
g D
aw
n -
Pa
rt
2 e
arn
ed a
n e
sti
mate
d $
141m
in
the U
nit
ed S
tate
s an
d C
an
ada over
the w
eekend, fa
llin
g s
lightl
y s
hort
of
a
record f
or t
he s
upern
atu
ral
rom
an
ce
serie
s about
a h
um
an-v
am
pir
e-w
erew
olf
lo
ve t
ria
ngle
.T
he t
ota
l, w
hic
h i
nclu
des
sale
s fr
om
la
te n
ight
Thursd
ay t
hrough S
un
day,
ran
ked as th
e eig
ht
big
gest
dom
es-
tic fi
lm d
ebut
of
all t
ime.
Late
-nig
ht
Thursd
ay s
creenin
gs
com
pris
ed $
30.4
m
of
the $
141m
tota
l.F
an f
ever f
or t
he fi
fth T
wil
igh
t m
ovie
raged h
igh a
round t
he w
orld
. B
rea
kin
g
Da
wn
- P
art
2 r
ang u
p s
ale
s of
$19
9.6
m
from
T
hursday to
S
un
day at
theat-
ers in
61 coun
trie
s fo
r a w
orld
wid
e
tota
l of
$341m
, dis
trib
uto
r S
um
mit
E
nte
rta
inm
ent
said
on S
unday.
The e
arlier T
wil
igh
t film
s pulled i
n a
com
bin
ed $
2.5
bn
at
glo
bal
box o
ffices
over a
four-y
ear r
un. T
he s
uccess
lif
ted
tiny s
tudio
Sum
mit
Ente
rta
inm
ent
into
H
ollyw
ood’s
big
leagues
and p
aved t
he
way for its
$412
m a
cquis
itio
n in J
anuary
by L
ions
Gate
Ente
rta
inm
ent.
N
ew
Moon s
cored t
he b
iggest
debut
of
the s
erie
s, g
ross
ing $
142.8
m o
ver i
ts
first
three d
ays
in 2
009.
The m
ovie
s base
d o
n a
serie
s of best
-se
llin
g y
oung a
dult
books
by S
tephenie
M
eyer ignit
ed a
pop c
ult
ure infa
tuati
on
wit
h b
lood-s
uckin
g v
am
pir
es
and w
ere-
wolv
es.
The fi
lms
star K
ris
ten S
tew
art
as
hum
an-t
urned-v
am
pir
e B
ella S
wan,
Robert
Patt
inso
n a
s her v
am
pir
e l
ove
Edw
ard C
ullen, and T
aylo
r L
autn
er a
s w
erew
olf
Jacob B
lack, w
ho c
om
pete
s fo
r
Bella’s
aff
ecti
on.
Sum
mit
spen
t $120m
to
produce
Bre
ak
ing D
aw
n -
Pa
rt 2
, w
hic
h c
onclu
des
the t
ale
wit
h n
ew
ly t
urned v
am
pir
e B
ella
and h
usb
and E
dw
ard i
n a
hig
h-s
takes
batt
le t
o p
rote
ct
their
half
-hum
an, half
-vam
pir
e d
aughte
r from
an a
ncie
nt
vam
-pir
e c
lan. T
he c
ouple
enlist
the e
xte
nded
Cullen f
am
ily in t
heir
fight.
Fans
of
the s
erie
s, m
ost
ly t
een g
irls
nic
knam
ed “
Tw
i-hards,
” em
braced t
he
fin
al
film
, w
hic
h in
clu
des a surpris
e
twis
t th
at
was n
ot
in t
he fi
nal
book.
Au
die
nces
poll
ed
by
Cin
em
aS
core
aw
arded t
he m
ovie
an “
A”
grade,
wit
h
an
“A
+”
from
film
goers
un
der a
ge 2
5,
accordin
g t
o S
um
mit
. C
rit
ics
were l
ess
su
pporti
ve. F
ifty
-one p
ercent
of revie
ws
collecte
d o
n t
he R
ott
en
Tom
ato
es
websi
te
were p
osi
tive.
Sum
mit
En
terta
inm
en
t’s
presi
den
t of dom
est
ic d
istr
ibuti
on R
ichie
Fay s
aid
though t
he v
ast
majo
rit
y o
f th
e a
udi-
ence w
as
fem
ale
, he e
xpecte
d m
ore m
ale
vie
wers
than for p
revio
us
Tw
ilig
ht film
s.“T
he m
ale
audie
nce h
as
increase
d a
good b
it, and t
he r
ati
ngs
am
ong m
ale
s are h
igher I
thin
k in p
art
to t
he a
cti
on
in t
he fi
lm,” h
e s
aid
.A
uth
or M
eyer h
as
not
rule
d o
ut
the
poss
ibilit
y o
f m
ore s
torie
s in
the v
am
-pir
e-w
erew
olf
univ
erse
but
said
she h
as
clo
sed t
he c
hapte
r o
n t
he C
ullens.
H
ollyw
ood is
eager to
fill th
e void
aft
er t
he s
uccess
of
Tw
ilig
ht hig
hlighte
d
the p
ow
er o
f young a
dult
sto
rie
s on t
he
big
screen. S
tudio
s are b
rin
gin
g a
t le
ast
fo
ur n
ew
film
s base
d o
n p
opula
r y
oung
adult
novels
to t
heate
rs
next
year a
s w
ell a
s th
e s
equel
to t
he n
ew
est
teen
m
ovie
sensa
tion,
Th
e H
un
ger
Ga
mes.
T
he T
wil
igh
t excit
em
ent
eclipse
d a
ll
oth
er m
ovie
s over t
he w
eeken
d.
Last
w
eek’s w
inner,
Jam
es
Bond m
ovie
Sk
yfa
ll
finis
hed in s
econd p
lace w
ith $
41.
5m
at
North
Am
eric
an
(U
S a
nd C
an
adia
n)
theate
rs.
S
kyfa
ll i
s n
ow
the h
ighest
-gross
ing
Bond m
ovie
to d
ate
wit
h a
glo
bal
tota
l of
over $
669m
, su
rpass
ing t
he $
599m
ta
ken in b
y C
asi
no R
oya
le in 2
006.
Sk
yfa
ll a
lso p
ropelled d
istr
ibute
r S
ony
Pic
tures E
nte
rta
inm
en
t to
a record
year,
push
ing i
ts w
orld
wid
e b
ox o
ffice
tota
l over t
he $
4bn m
ark
.H
isto
ric
al
dram
a L
inco
ln e
xpan
ded
from
a lim
ited o
penin
g a
week a
go a
nd
lan
ded i
n t
hir
d p
lace w
ith $
21m
. T
he
movie
sta
rs
Dan
iel
Day-L
ew
is a
s th
e
16th
presi
dent
near t
he e
nd o
f his
lif
e
as h
e b
att
les t
o b
an
sla
very a
nd e
nd
the C
ivil W
ar.
The m
ovie
is
dir
ecte
d b
y
Ste
ven S
pie
lberg a
nd h
as
earned c
rit
ical
prais
e a
nd a
wards-
seaso
n b
uzz
.In
fourth
pla
ce, W
alt
Dis
ney C
o a
ni-
mate
d m
ovie
Wre
ck-I
t R
alp
h,
about
a
vid
eogam
e c
haracte
r w
ho d
est
roys
eve-
ryth
ing i
n h
is p
ath
, pulled i
n $
18.3
m.
Denze
l W
ash
ingto
n d
ram
a F
ligh
t earned
$8.6
m a
nd t
he N
o. 5 s
pot.
E
lsew
here,
rom
an
tic c
om
edy S
ilve
r
Lin
ings
Pla
ybook b
rought
in $
458,0
00 a
t 16
locati
on
s, o
r a
n a
verage o
f $28,6
25
per th
eate
r. T
he fi
lm sta
rs B
radle
y
Cooper a
s a b
ipola
r form
er t
eacher just
rele
ase
d f
rom
a m
enta
l in
stit
uti
on a
nd
Jen
nif
er L
aw
ren
ce a
s a y
oun
g w
idow
he e
ncounte
rs
as
he t
rie
s to
put
his
lif
e
back t
ogeth
er.
S
ilve
r L
inin
gs
won o
ver c
rit
ics
who s
ay
it m
ay e
arn
a s
pot
in t
he O
scar r
ace.
The W
ein
stein
Co, th
e p
riv
ate
com
pany
that
rele
ased t
he m
ovie
, w
ill
expan
d
the fi
lm n
ati
onw
ide in U
S b
egin
nin
g o
n
Wednesd
ay,
Novem
ber 2
1.S
ony C
orp’s
m
ovie
stu
dio
dis
trib
-ute
d S
kyfa
ll.
Lin
coln
was
produced b
y
Dream
work
s an
d rele
ased by W
alt
D
isn
ey C
o.
Fli
gh
t w
as d
istr
ibute
d b
y
Param
ount
Pic
tures,
a u
nit
of
Via
com
In
c.
Reu
ters
final
e st
arts
wit
h$
341
m w
orld
wid
e
BO
LLY
WO
OD
NE
WS
Aam
ir t
ook
tips
from
nig
htpa
trol
ling
polic
emen
Bollyw
ood s
tar A
am
ir K
han i
nte
racte
d w
ith n
ight
patr
ollin
g p
olice-
men t
o k
now
more a
bout
their
work
aft
er s
unse
t so
that
he c
ould
giv
e p
erfe
ct
shots
in h
is f
orth
com
ing t
hrille
r T
ala
ash
.T
he 4
7-y
ear-o
ld w
ill
be s
een a
s In
specto
r S
urja
n S
ingh S
hekhaw
at
in
the fi
lm f
or w
hic
h m
any s
cenes
were s
hot
aft
er s
unse
t.“A
lmost
all o
f th
e m
ajo
r s
cenes
have b
een s
hot
durin
g t
he n
ight.
Sin
ce
the s
hooti
ng w
ould
take p
lace a
fter s
unse
t, t
here w
ould
be c
ops
on t
he
sets
. A
am
ir o
ften c
hatt
ed w
ith t
hem
ask
ing d
eta
ils
about
their
work
and
inquir
ing a
bout
the p
laces
that
they w
ould
vis
it o
ften,” a
source s
aid
.D
irecte
d b
y R
eem
a K
agti
, T
ala
ash
, is
a t
hrille
r t
hat
als
o s
tars
Kareena
Kapoor a
nd R
ani M
ukerji. S
late
d f
or a
Novem
ber 3
0 r
ele
ase
, th
e fi
lm h
as
been c
o-w
rit
ten b
y K
agti
and Z
oya A
khta
r.“N
ight
seem
s to
be a
key p
layer i
n t
he fi
lm’s
sto
rylin
e.
The i
dea o
f m
akin
g t
his
film
had a
lso s
tem
med f
rom
an i
ncid
ent
involv
ing c
ops
that
was
wit
ness
ed b
y Z
oya a
nd R
eem
a w
ho t
hen w
rote
this
proje
ct,”
anoth
er
Cou
ldn’
t ha
ve m
ade
Sark
arw
ithou
t B
alas
aheb
: RG
V
Film
maker R
am
Gopal
Varm
a s
ays
Sa
rka
r and S
ark
ar
Ra
j w
ould
not
have b
een p
oss
ible
wit
hout
Bal
Thackeray a
nd a
dds
som
e o
f th
e d
ialo
gues
in t
he fi
lm w
ere insp
ired b
y t
he S
hiv
Sena s
uprem
o.
Thackeray d
ied S
atu
rday.
“If
Godfa
ther w
as
not
there,
I w
ould
n’t
have m
ade S
ark
ar.
..if
Bala
S
aheb w
asn
’t t
here, I
could
n’t
have m
ade S
ark
ar
(sic
),”
Varm
a t
weete
d.
“Many o
f th
e d
ialo
gue f
rom
both
Sa
rka
r and S
ark
ar
Ra
j are a
ctu
ally
Bala
Saheb’s
lin
es
whic
h I
copie
d f
rom
what
he s
aid
. H
e a
ctu
ally t
old
m
e, ‘M
ujh
e jo s
ahi la
gta
hai m
ain
wahi karta
hoon!’, w
hic
h I
copie
d a
nd
made A
mit
ji (
Am
itabh B
achchan)
say it
in S
ark
ar,”
he f
urth
er p
ost
ed.
Rele
ased
in
2005,
Sa
rka
r,
a
crim
e t
hrille
r, w
as
set
in th
e back
-drop
of
poli
tics
and c
rim
e.
Th
e
film
sta
rred A
mit
abh
Ba
ch
ch
an
in
th
e
tit
le
role
an
d
it
als
o
fea-
tured
Abh
ish
ek
Bach
ch
an
, K
ay
Kay
M
en
on
, K
atrin
a
Kaif
, A
nu
pam
K
her,
Su
priy
a
Path
ak
an
d
Ta
nis
ha
Mukherje
e.
Its
seq
uel,
S
ark
ar
Ra
j, c
am
e
out
in 2
008.
Bip
asha
get
s ov
er a
mill
ion
Twitt
er f
ollo
wer
s
Actr
ess
Bip
ash
a B
asu
is
over t
he m
oon a
fter c
ross
ing o
ne m
illion
follow
ers
on m
icroblo
ggin
g s
ite T
wit
ter.
“Than
k y
ou a
ll,
for a
ll y
our l
ove,
1 m
illion
follow
ers,
Feelin
g
loved a
nd b
less
ed!”
Bip
ash
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PLUS | TUESDAY 20 NOVEMBER 2012 FASHION10
by Isabel Ovalle
Mona Al Ansari is a hands on designer. From buying the fabrics, to draw-ing the patrons and sowing, young designer Mona Al Ansari, winner of
the second edition of the W Doha and Virginia Commonwealth University in Qatar (VCUQ) Fashion Award, has done it all. She has worked continuously during two months taking care of every detail -“from A to Z”- of her collection of 27 pieces.
The pieces were displayed in an intimate fashion show that took place in an exceptional location, Doha’s Lusail Marina. In a beautiful spot, although surrounded by buildings and construction, the dock served as a runway flanked by luxurious boats.
Doha’s fashion lovers, along with the designer’s family and friends, gathered to watch an outdoor show that left no one unimpressed. The collection featured 27 pieces of colourful designs, comprising cocktail dresses, gowns, and casual wear, as well as a wedding dress.
Al Ansari, a double major in Interior and Fashion design at VCUQ, found her inspiration in W Hotel Doha. She said to The Peninsula that most of the designs are “simple and elegant”, two qualities that she reaches with light fabrics that she has searched for and chosen herself in the Souq.
Questioned about her team, Al Ansari added that “I make everything myself, from A to Z. It took me around two months to make these make 27 pieces”. About the fashion map in Doha, she said that “there are few designers in Qatar that impress me, but I’m not too related to designers here. I’ve been very busy with my collection so I was separated from the whole world”.
Regarding her future in the industry, Al Ansari is humble, “I’m just a beginner”, but “I have a few orders for my designs” and, in the meantime, the pieces will be displayed on W Doha’s Facebook page and the designer’s Instagram. The Peninsula
Blue Salon recently launched the exclusive line of Porsche Design Travel and Shoes.
A clear line with no frills is at the heart of Porsche Design’s phi-losophy and makes the luxury brand unique. Porsche Design is uncompro-mising in the used materials and in manufacturing.
The brand’s perfect symbiosis of form and functionality in shoes and travel items was awarded four times by the world-renowned juries of the ‘Red Dot’ Award and was also given the prestigious ‘iF Product Design’ award.
“Our luxury brand Porsche design focuses on technically inspired products
with a timeless, functional and purist design to highlight the iconic essence of the brand”, says Juergen Gessler, CEO of the Porsche Design Group.
“The four design awards or our shoes and luggage series attest the extraor-dinary potential and the tremendous quality of our collections.”
This exclusive collection features products across a variety of series like Porsche Design Cargon, Porsche Design Roadster (Roadster Titanium), Porsche Design CL2 and the Porsche design P’1700 Shoes. Many Porsche Design products have gone on to become classics since the inception of Porsche Design.
Officials at the Porsche Design Travel and Shoes launch at Blue Salon.
Blue Salon launches Porsche Design Travel and Shoes
The brand was founded in 1972 by Ferdinand Alexander Porsche, whose products have stood for functional, timeless and purist design ever since.
Porsche Design products are sold
around the world in the company’s own stores, shops-in-shops, high end department stores and exclusive spe-cialist retailers.
The Peninsula
Young designer stresses on ‘simple and elegant’ designs
Designer Mona Al Ansari with models donning her creations.
PLUS | TUESDAY 20 NOVEMBER 2012FOOD 11
Cheese Pizza with Spinach
Ingredients:1 pound fresh refrigerated pizza dough
2 tablespoons olive oil, divided
4 garlic cloves, thinly sliced
6 cups fresh spinach cut small pieces
1 cup part-skim ricotta cheese
2 ounces shredded mozzarella cheese
(about 1/2 cup)
3 tablespoons reduced-fat milk
1 garlic clove, minced
1 tablespoon cornmeal
Method:Remove the dough from refrigerator. Let stand at
room temperature, covered, for 30 minutes.
Place a pizza stone or heavy baking sheet in oven.
Preheat oven to 500° (keep pizza stone or baking sheet
in oven as it preheats).
Combine 1 1/2 tablespoons olive oil and sliced gar-
lic in a large skillet. Heat over medium-high heat 1
1/2 minutes or until the garlic begins to sizzle. Add 6
cups spinach; sauté 2 minutes or until spinach wilts.
Set aside.
Combine cheeses, milk, and minced garlic in a bowl.
Roll dough into a 14-inch circle on a lightly floured
surface, and pierce entire surface liberally with a fork.
Carefully remove pizza stone from oven. Sprinkle corn-
meal over pizza stone; place dough on pizza stone.
Spread cheese mixture over dough, leaving a 1/2-inch
border. Bake at 500° for 10 minutes or until crust is
golden and cheese is lightly browned. Top with spin-
ach; bake an additional 2 minutes or until thoroughly
heated. Remove from oven; brush outer crust with
remaining 1 1/2 teaspoons oil. Cut into 6 large slices.
Serve with sauce.
Farhana Azaz
Palak Shankarpale (Crispy Spinach Diamonds) Ingredients:150 grams Maida (All Purpose Flour)
60 grams Palak Puree (Boiled Spinach Paste)
15 grams Ghee (Clarified Butter)
5grams Roasted Jeera (cumin) Powder
10 Pepper Corns freshly ground
15ml Oil
5 grams Salt
450 ml Vegetable Oil for deep frying
Twice Cooked Spinachand Cheese Souffles
Ingredients:400ml of milk
100gm frozen spinach
55gm butter
55gm all purpose flour
100gm emmental grated
4 eggs
Salt and pepper
6 x 200ml ramekins or full size souffle dish
Method:Oven at 200C
Heat gently the milk and the frozen spinach in a saucepan until spinach
has melted into the milk.
Melt the butter in another pan and stir in the flour and cook together
for a minute.
Add the hot milk and spinach mix and stir and cook until it has come
gently to the boil for a minute
Stir into the sauce the grated cheese and add salt and pepper to taste
and then set it aside off the heat.
Separate the eggs, beat the yolks and add them to the mix in the pan
off the heat
Beat the egg whites until v stiff then fold carefully into the mixture
Put the ramekins into a baking tin in which you have put some warm
water which comes half way up the ramekins this is a bain marie
Share the mixture between the ramekins and put into the oven to bake
for 20 minutes until they are risen and lightly brown and springy
If using a souffle dish following the same method putting the dish into
the bain marie but cooking for 30 minutes.
When cooked take out of the bain marie and leave to cool. You can
keep them in the fridge for 2 days or freeze them at this stage, as they
cool they will sink do not worry, they are magic.
When you want to eat them take them out of the ramekins and put
them in a baking dish pour a little single cream or even better liquid
creme fraiche
Grate parmesan over them and bake again in a hot oven for 20 minutes
serve immediately with fingers of brown toast or a little green salad.
Gillian Molloy
WINNER
The theme for this week is
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ingredients in metric
measurements). Winner will
receive a dinner voucher.
To claim your prize
call 44557837.
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Method:Put all the ingredients in a large mixing bowl except oil. Knead together all
ingredients to form a firm dough. Apply 1 teaspoon of oil to the dough and
knead well for 2 minutes keep this dough covered for minimum of 2 hours.
Take out and knead the dough again for a minute and then make 4-5 big
balls from the kneaded dough.
Keep the wok on low flame with 450ml oil added to it.
Roll out a ball of dough into a paratha/ roti of ¼ cm thickness.
With the help of knife cut the paratha into
diamond shapes.
Collect and put sufficient cut diamond
shapes in hot oil for deep frying.
Make sure oil is hot enough and flame
low for entire frying session. It will take 6-7
minutes to fry each batch.
Turn them with the help of slotted spoon
so that they fry well on both sides and turn
crispy.
Remove and place them on absorbent
paper once they are fried.
Repeat the procedure till all the crispy dia-
monds are fried.
Karen Kumar
Spinach PooriIngredients:
250gms Whole wheat flour
15ml Oil
1 pinch Salt
15ml Ghee
200gms fresh Spinach
Method:Blanch the spinach leaves in boiling salted
water and immediately immerse in ice cold
water to keep the colour intact.
Grind spinach leaves to a paste.
Mix the spinach paste in the whole wheat
flour, mix in salt, ghee or oil while kneading
in semi-hard dough.
Use a muslin cloth to cover the dough for
10 minutes.
Make the dough into 16 equal sized balls,
roll out the ball into 1mm thick small discs.
Deep fry in hot oil.
Serve hot spinach poori with dal, sabji or
just yoghurt.
Buddhika Perera
Adding to the vibrant gastronomic mix of Doha’s culinary scene, Sharq Village & Spa introduced Sea Lounge ideally located on the water’s edge lulled by the sound of the waves
and dozes in the sun before all five senses come alive. “The essence of Sea Lounge is to create a place for people to
meet, relax and lounge,” said Carsten Fritz, General Manager of Sharq Village and Spa.
“For diners who prefer loftier views Sea Lounge offers an elegant and refined location ideal for both business functions, and casual gatherings,” he added.
Guest will be able to experience Chef’s special menu starting from tapas such as patatas bravas, fried calamari with avoli sauce, marinated beef, or lamb cutlets from the grills, to the impres-sive range of classical cocktails, long drinks, fancy cocktails, and tropical drinks.
Sea Lounge will be open every day from 5pm to 11pm and closed on Sundays. More information on 4425 6666.
The Peninsula
Sharq Village & Spa opens Sea Lounge
PLUS | TUESDAY 20 NOVEMBER 2012 SCIENCE12
© GRAPHIC NEWSSources: NASA, German Aerospace Centre (DLR) Picture: Akira Fujii / Infrared Astronomical Satellite
The Stratospheric Observatory for Infrared Astronomy, or SOFIA, a joint U.S.-German projectfeaturing a 15-tonne telescope mounted on a jumbo jet, is beginning its first full cycle of science
flights in an effort to help astronomers better understand how stars form and evolve
Constellation of Orionin visible light
What SOFIA seesin infrared
Education andpublic outreach
Cockpit Pressurizedcabin
Scienceinstrument(camera)
Pressurebulkhead
Door in fuselage slidesopen to reveal telescopein unpressurizedcompartment
Mission controland scienceoperations
BOEING 747SP: Heavily modified former Pan Am airliner
Telescope:2.5m-diameter reflector.Aircraft altitude allowsinfrared observation aboveobscuring layer of watervapour in atmosphere
HOW A STAR IS BORN
Over millionsof years, vast cloudsof interstellar dustand gas are pulledtogether by forceof gravity
Cloud contractsunder its own gravity.Centre becomesdenser and hotter,forming protostar –visible in infrared
When internalpressure equalsgravity pushing in,hydrogen is fusedinto helium andstar is born
by Robert Evans
A new elementary parti-cle whose discovery was announced with fanfare to a waiting world in July may be
just a little less exciting than scientists had hoped.
Reporting on a conference in Kyoto where the latest data from their Large Hadron Collider (LHC) was presented, scientists at the CERN European research center said on Thursday it seemed very likely that the particle was indeed the long-sought Higgs boson, which gives mass to matter.
But rather than an exotic beast open-ing the door to new realms of cosmology
as some had hoped, the data increas-ingly suggests it is a “Standard Model Higgs” fitting into the current scientific concept of the universe, they asserted.
“It is still too early to tell, but the new particle looks like, sings like, and dances more and more like a Higgs boson,” said Pauline Gagnon, a physi-cist on the LHC Atlas experiment, one of three which analyse the data.
Oliver Buchmueller, of the rival but parallel CMS experiment, told Reuters “the evidence for it being the Higgs gets stronger and stronger as we go along.”
But there was still no sign of it being more unusual than originally predicted.
The prime task of the $10 billion LHC was to find the Higgs, without
which the primeval chaos of flying par-ticle debris after the Big Bang, 13.7 bil-lion years ago, could not have formed into stars, planets and galaxies.
Existence of the particle was postu-lated in 1964 by British physicist Peter Higgs, who saw it filling a gap in the Standard Model, a blueprint of how the universe works at the fundamental level fully developed from the 1970s.
Scientists sought to track it from the 1980s and finally succeeded in spotting something like it two years after the LHC went into operation in 2010.
But they insisted they still had to establish its existence with what they call 5-sigma - or absolutely total - certainty.
They had also hoped their search would find at least some evidence for more out-of-the-box concepts such as super-symmetry, dark matter and dark energy - beyond the Standard Model and part of what they call fall “New Physics.”
Super-symmetry could theoretically account for the dark matter believed to make up nearly 25 percent of the known universe - of which no more than five percent is visible. But no sign of that has come so far, the reports from Kyoto say.
However, the CERN scientists have not given up hope that something more exotic might emerge.
Reuters
‘Higgs’ boson may not open door to exotic realms
The Peninsula / Graphic News
PLUS | TUESDAY 20 NOVEMBER 2012 COMICS
Baby Blues Jerry Scott and Rick Kirkman
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ALL IN THE MIND Can you find the hidden words? They may be horizontal,vertical, diagonal, forwards or backwards.
ALBENIZ, BACH, BARTOK, BEETHOVEN, BELLINI, BERLIOZ,BIZET, BORODIN, BRAHMS, BRITTEN, BRUCKNER, BYRD,CHOPIN, COUPERIN, DEBUSSY, DELIUS, DVORAK, ELGAR,FAURE, GRIEG, HANDEL, HAYDN, HOLST, LISZT, MAHLER,MENDELSSOHN, MONTEVERDI, MOZART, PAGANINI,PROKOFIEV, PUCCINI, PURCELL, RAVEL, ROSSINI, RUBINSTEIN, SCARLATTI, SATIE, SCHUBERT, SCRIABIN, SIBELIUS, VERDI, VIVALDI, WAGNER.
Zits Jerry Scott and Jim Borgman
Hagar The Horrible Chris Browne
Blondie Dennis Young and Denis Lebrun
Sherman’s Lagoon Jim Toomey
PLUS | TUESDAY 20 NOVEMBER 2012
HYPER SUDOKU
CROSS WORD
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 Fiddlehead sources
6 Get chummy
11 Odeur detector
14 Phone query before a private conversation
16 Grp. with the
top 10 album “Face the Music”
17 Emerge
19 Like many obscenities
20 Supporter of Yoda
21 Masters focus
22 Words before story or debate
24 Wrapped up
25 Dodgem feature
27 Euro forerunner
29 It first circulated in 2000
38 Great parking spot, slangily
39 Gate holder
40 Sultanas, say
41 Things often zapped
42 It shows many
B&W pictures
43 South Georgia’s Prince ___ Harbor
46 1960s TV actor whose name looks like a free offer?
50 Big revolver
53 “Mickey” singer Basil
54 Lighting problem?
57 Slice from beneath the ribs
60 Roquefort source
61 One of Washington’s houses, e.g.
62 1976 Rodgers and Harnick musical about Henry VIII
63 Soft, meshed fabrics
64 Some are drug-induced
DOWN 1 Braves
2 Lose ground?
3 D.J.’s creation
4 Maxim’s denial
5 Somme silk
6 “Cry, the Beloved Country” author
7 One way to pray
8 Match game?
9 America East sch.
10 Epi center?
11 Seti River setting
12 Opera’s Obraztsova
13 Like a lot, maybe
15 Oppressed by the heat?
18 Kabbalah
23 Big leagues
25 Roosevelt established it as Shangri-La
26 Steeped in tradition
28 Vast
29 Pleasant treatment centers
30 Oberhausen opera highlight
31 Highly glazed fabric
32 Believers in raising spirits?
33 Sinks a sub?
34 Joltin’ Joe, e.g.
35 “Lift Every Voice” author Guinier
36 ___ end
37 Genealogical line: Abbr.
43 Sleek fur
44 “The Little Prince” composer
45 Proposal for business expansion
47 “But not without ___”: Pope
48 Golden Pavilion setting
49 Early New Yorkers
50 Early hour
51 Neck tie?
52 Is oppressed by the heat
55 Brief moment, briefly
56 He’s 2, say
58 An expat may take it: Abbr.
59 One taken on a drive: Abbr.
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13
14 15 16
17 18
19 20
21 22 23 24
25 26 27 28
29 30 31 32 33 34 35 36 37
38
39
40
41 42
43 44 45 46 47 48 49 50 51 52
53 54 55 56
57 58 59
60 61
62 63 64
N E A P B I T T C A R L AO N B A L A N C E A B E A MD O N L A R S E N T O N K AU L E E S G O L D A L T E RH A R D S E L L S L I T H E
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How to play Kakuro:The kakuro grid, unlike in sudoku, can be of any size. It has rows and columns, and dark cells like in a crossword. And, just like in a crossword, some of the dark cells will contain numbers. Some cells will contain two numbers.However, in a crossword the numbers reference clues. In a kakuro, the numbers are all you get! They denote the total of the digits in the row or column referenced by the number.Within each collection of cells - called a run
- any of the numbers 1 to 9 may be used but, like sudoku, each number may only be used once.
YESTERDAY’S ANSWER
14
EASY SUDOKUEasy 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.
Cartoon Arts International / The New York Times Syndicate
PLUS | TUESDAY 20 NOVEMBER 2012 CINEMA / TV LISTINGS
SHOWING AT CITY CENTER10:00 Serie A Show
12:30 The Football
League Show
13:00 The Global
Game
14:15 Basketball Nba
La Clipers @
San Antonio
16:15 Dutch League
Utrecht V
Twente
18:00 English Sports
News
18:15 Liga World
19:30 Uefa
Champions
League Spartak
Moscow V
Barcelona &
Juventus V
Chelsea
01:30 Basketball Nba
La Clippers @
San Antonio
03:30 The Serie A
Show
08:00 News
9:00 The Fight for
Amazonia
10:30 Inside Story
11:00 News
11:30 The Stream
12:00 News
12:30 Activate
13:00 NEWSHOUR
14:00 News
14:30 Inside Story
15:00 Al Jazeera
Correspondent
16:00 NEWSHOUR
17:00 News
17:30 The Stream
18:00 NEWSHOUR
19:00 News
19:30 Fault Lines
20:00 News
20:30 Inside Story
21:00 NEWSHOUR
22:00 News
22:30 The Stream
23:00 The Fight for
Amazonia
13:15 River Monsters
14:10 Border Security
15:30 Ultimate
Survival
16:25 Wheeler
Dealers
20:05 Border Security
20:35 Scrappers
21:00 Auction Kings
21:30 You Have Been
Warned
22:25 Bear’s Mission
Everest
23:20 Ultimate
Survival
13:00 Wild
Mississippi
16:00 Shark Men
17:00 Python
Hunters
18:00 Rescue Ink
20:00 World’s
Wildest
Encounters
21:00 Cliffhangers
22:00 Shark Men
23:00 Python
Hunters
14:30 Young Justice
14:55 Foster’s Home
For...
16:10 Ben 10: Alien
Force
17:40 Hero 108
18:50 Johnny Test
20:55 Generator Rex
21:45 Grim
Adventures Of...
22:10 Courage The
Cowardly Dog
12:00 Below The
Beltway
14:00 Say Anything
16:00 Prom
18:00 Pieces Of April
20:00 Dinner For
Schmucks
22:00 Reginald D
Hunter Live
15
13:20 Clinically Wild:
Alaska
14:15 E-Vets: The
Interns
17:00 Really Wild Show
17:30 Trophy Cats
21:10 Deep Into The
Wild With Nick
Baker
22:05 Wildest Latin
America
23:00 Gator Boys
23:55 New Breed
Vets With
Steve Irwin
13:00 Grow Old
Along With Me
16:00 Johnny Be
Good
17:25 Absolute
Strangers
18:55 The Golden
Seal
20:30 Implicated
22:00 Murder In High
Places
23:35 Welcome To
Woop Woop
11:30 Conspirator
13:00 The Fastest
Gun Alive
14:30 Guns For San
Sebastian
17:45 Les Girls
19:35 The Band
Wagon
21:25 Crazy In Love
23:00 The Hill
13:00 Alex & Alexis
16:00 Blue Elephant 2-
18:00 Hoodwinked Too!
Hood vs. Evil
20:00 Adventures Of
Sharkboy And
Lavagirl
21:45 Blue Elephant 2-
23:30 Alex & Alexis
GULF CINEMA
1
Thuppakki (2D/Tamil) – 1.00pm
Son Of Sardaar (2D/Hindi) – 4.15pm
Jab Tak Hai Jaan (2D/Hindi) – 8.00pm
Special Programme
2
Jab Tak Hai Jaan (2D/Hindi) – 1.00, 4.30 & 11.00pm
Thuppakki (2D/Tamil) – 7.45pm
MALL CINEMA
1
Ice Age 4: Continental Drift (Animation) – 3.00 & 5.00pm
Ted (Comedy) – 7.00pm
The Expendables 2 (Action) – 9.00pm
The Bourne Legacy (Action) – 11.00pm
2
Jab Tak Hai Jaan (2D/Hindi) – 2.30 & 6.00pm
Al Anessa Mammy 2 (2D/Arabic) – 9.15 & 11.30pm
3
Skyfall (2D/Action) – 2.15pm
Flight (2D/Drama) – 4.45pm
Hotel Transylvania (3D/Animation) – 7.15pm
Twilight Saga 2: Breaking Dawn 2 (2D/Adventure) – 9.00 & 11.15pm
ROYAL PLAZA
1
Al Anessa Mammy 2 (2D/Arabic) – 3.00 & 7.15pm
Twilight Saga 2: Breaking Dawn 2 (2D/Adventure) – 5.00, 9.15 & 11.30pm
2Jab Tak Hai Jaan (2D/Hindi)
– 2.15, 5.30 & 9.00pm
3
Brave (Animation) – 2.30 & 4.30pm
Special Forces (Action) – 6.30 & 8.30pm
Jab Tak Hai Jaan (2D/Hindi) – 10.30pm
LANDMARK
1
Al Anessa Mammy 2 (2D/Arabic) – 2.30, 6.30 & 8.30pm
Wreck - It Ralph (3D/Animation) – 4.30pm
Jab Tak Hai Jaan (2D/Hindi) – 10.30pm
2
Hotel Transylvania (3D/Animation) – 2.30pm
Twilight Saga 2: Breaking Dawn 2 (2D/Adventure) – 4.30, 9.15 & 11.30pm
Skyfall (2D/Action) – 6.45pm
3
Son Of Sardaar (2D/Hindi) – 2.30 & 8.30pm
Jab Tak Hai Jaan (2D/Hindi) – 5.15pm
Al Anessa Mammy 2 (2D/Arabic) – 11.15pm
PLUS | TUESDAY 20 NOVEMBER 2012 POTPOURRI16
Today in Qatar
Kimiko Yoshida When: Till Dec 1, 10am - 10pmWhere: Katara Gallery 1, Building 19 What: Japanese photographer Kimiko Yoshida studied photography in Japan as well as in France, where she lives and works since 1995. For the Katara Galleries exhibition the curator has selected works where the artist features her interpretation of Middle Eastern, Arab and North African traditional dress and accessories.Free entry
“Elizabeth Taylor in Iran, 1976” Firooz Zahedi WHEN: Till Nov 30, 10am - 10pmWHERE: Katara Gallery 1, Building 19 WHAT: Firooz Zahedi was a personal friend and confidant of Elizabeth Taylor, as a friend and a photographer he accompanied the movie start in her visit to Iran in 1976. This exhibition will bring to Doha the photographs taken during that visit.Free entry
Constantin Boym Exhibition : Learning From MabkharaWhen: Till Dec 1, 10am-10pmWHERE: Gallery 2 Building 13 WHAT: Featuring unique and exquisite shapes and designs, Mabkhara is a traditional Arab incense burner, an authentic object typically used as daily domestic activities in the Arab world. Free entry
Yan Pei-Ming“Painting the history”When: 9am-8pm, Till Jan 12, 2013Friday 3pm to 9pmWHERE: QMA Gallery, Bldg 10 WHAT: Curated by Francesco Bonami, this exhibition profiles three types of history-makers and highlights the power of painting as a medium for recording historical events. Free entry
Ibrahim El-Salahi: AVisionary ModernistWhen: Till Nov 27, 10am-10pmWHERE: Katara Gallery, Building 22 WHAT: The first museum retrospective of acclaimed Sudanese artist, Ibrahim El Salahi. Free entry
MEDIA SCAN
IN FOCUS
• The Traffic Department is monitoring motorists who are driving through parking lines on the right side of the road.
• People are appreciating the efforts of the Health Department and the Municipality for continu-ous monitoring of restaurants in the country, to check hygiene and quality of food.
• There is a discussion about small and medium enterprises in Industrial Area and the availability of plots for companies. Some say it’s very dif-ficult to get plots for companies in Industrial Area.
• People are happy with Qatar Airways special offers for New Year but they are asking why the same wasn’t done for the Eid holidays.
• Aspire Street that leads to Villaggio and Aspire Academy has become a hub for those wanting to sell used cars. The side roads are being used as display areas for cars that are up for sale.
• There is discussion about Um Al Fae area, where the garbage dumping ground is located.
Garbage dumping in the area poses environ-mental and health problems and therefore must be reevaluated, some residents say.
• There is an increasing number of ads for teachers to give private tuitions. These ads appear in shopping complexes, compounds and newspapers. Private tuitions (business without licence) have become a career for many unemployed people or those who want to earn more money.
• The parking area in front of the Ministry of Justice is overcrowded and very narrow. This makes it hard for those visiting and working there.
• There are complaints about construction of roads and how construction companies leave the work half-way or don’t finish them on time causing trouble to motorists.
• A project for setting up centres for the elderly, called Al Majlis (more like clubs), in different parts of the city is yet to be started, even though it was planned more than two years ago.
A summary ofissues of the daydiscussed by the Qatari communityin the media.
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Kung fu nuns teach cosmic energy to CERN scientistsA dozen kung fu nuns from an Asian Buddhist order displayed their mar-tial arts prowess to bemused sci-entists at CERN as their spiritual leader explained how their energy was like that of the cosmos.
The nuns, all from the Himalayan region, struck poses of hand-chops, high-kicks and punches while touring the research centre where physicists at the frontiers of science are probing the origins of the universe.
“Men and women carry differ-ent energy,” said Gyalwang Drukpa, a monk who ranks only slightly below the Dalai Lama in the global Buddhist hierarchy. “Both male and female energies are needed to better the world.”
This, he said, was a scientific prin-ciple “as fundamental as the relation-ship between the sun and the moon” and its importance was similar to that of the particle collisions in CERN’s vast “Big Bang” machine, the Large Hadron Collider (LHC).
The nuns, mostly slim and fit-looking teenagers with shaven heads and clad in flowing burgundy robes, nodded sagely.
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by Axel Heimken