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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”.

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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

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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

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oti

ng h

er u

pcom

ing U

na

polo

geti

c alb

um

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anadia

n p

op s

inger C

arly

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epse

n, 26, pic

ked u

p t

he c

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d n

ew

arti

st-o

f-th

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ear a

ward o

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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.

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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.

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com

er B

rit

ish-I

ris

h b

oy b

an

ds

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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

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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

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rench D

J D

avid

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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.

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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.

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13 o

f th

e 2

0 a

wards

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anded o

ut

durin

g t

he liv

e b

roadcast

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aty

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as

nam

ed f

avourit

e f

em

ale

pop/r

ock a

rti

st,

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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

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hree a

ttended t

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how

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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

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ub

le

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uerade b

allroom

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tage

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ancers

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ns

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eneti

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ask

s.

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B s

tar U

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ight

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h a

medle

y o

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hit

s on a

lase

r-

filled s

tage, w

hile p

op-r

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ink t

eam

ed h

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rm

ance o

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ry”

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h a

dram

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c i

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rpreti

ve d

ance c

overed i

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ain

t w

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m

ale

dancer o

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ge fi

lled w

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ebris

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rs

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ber

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ps

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eric

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s

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dre

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urz

ynsk

i an

d L

isa

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hw

ine

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wil

igh

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pir

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nal

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r d

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ith a

mas-

siv

e $341m

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bal

movie

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cket

sale

s as

devote

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bid

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pouse

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dw

ard a

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ne o

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es.

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wil

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t S

aga

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rea

kin

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aw

n -

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rt

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arn

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sti

mate

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h i

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om

la

te n

ight

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ay t

hrough S

un

day,

ran

ked as th

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ht

big

gest

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tic fi

lm d

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ime.

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ht

Thursd

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creenin

gs

com

pris

ed $

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m

of

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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

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orld

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rea

kin

g

Da

wn

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art

2 r

ang u

p s

ale

s of

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9.6

m

from

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hursday to

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ers in

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r a w

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e

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l of

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, dis

trib

uto

r S

um

mit

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nte

rta

inm

ent

said

on S

unday.

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arlier T

wil

igh

t film

s pulled i

n a

com

bin

ed $

2.5

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at

glo

bal

box o

ffices

over a

four-y

ear r

un. T

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uccess

lif

ted

tiny s

tudio

Sum

mit

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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

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rta

inm

ent.

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ew

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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.

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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

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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

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an, half

-vam

pir

e d

aughte

r from

an a

ncie

nt

vam

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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

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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.

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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

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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.

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ovie

is

dir

ecte

d b

y

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ven S

pie

lberg a

nd h

as

earned c

rit

ical

prais

e a

nd a

wards-

seaso

n b

uzz

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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.

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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

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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

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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,

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ber 2

1.S

ony C

orp’s

m

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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.

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gh

t w

as d

istr

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d b

y

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ount

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tures,

a u

nit

of

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com

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c.

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ters

final

e st

arts

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h$

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orld

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e

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LLY

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OD

NE

WS

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ir t

ook

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htpa

trol

ling

polic

emen

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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

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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.

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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.

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asha

get

s ov

er a

mill

ion

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er f

ollo

wer

s

Actr

ess

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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.

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k y

ou a

ll,

for a

ll y

our l

ove,

1 m

illion

follow

ers,

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g

loved a

nd b

less

ed!”

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ash

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weete

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h 1

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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

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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

13

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

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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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H O V S W E A R A T W O OO N E S T O R Y C N NM A R C O N I G O S HE P S O M C H A C H A C H AS A T U P B E S T I R R E DP R A T E A L T A R R A I LU T T E R N E O N T E T R AN E E D S A N N E D E S I

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