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Traditional art meets modern imagery in

world famous South Korean media artist

Lee Nam Lee’s first ever solo retrospective

in Doha which features some of his best

artworks to date.

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ART MEETS IMAGERY

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COVER STORY

| 03WEDNESDAY 3 FEBRUARY 2016

By Raynald C Rivera

The Peninsula

Traditional art meets modern

imagery in world famous South

Korean media artist Lee Nam

Lee’s first ever solo retrospec-

tive in Doha which features some of

his best artworks to date.

Juxtaposing classic art master-

pieces and video and digital art, Lee

breathes new life into the works pro-

viding them a fresh look that tran-

scends expectations across all types of

art connoisseurs.

One of his latest works, on display,

a 2016 reinterpretation of a Kawk-Hee

masterpiece, integrates space battle

theme. One of his Battle of Civiliza-

tion series, the work called Star Wars

shows spacecraft hovering above the

old nature-themed painting of in a six-

minute clip giving it a futuristic effect.

Lee’s artwork are immersive and

creates perplexity as it crosses be-

tween reality and fantasy as he com-

bines various elements in the work.

Traditional Painting-Happiness , a

highlight of the exhibition, provides an

immersive experience to the viewer as

objects travel across eight-fold screen

as if the classic paintings from China,

Korea and Japan are connected by

Lee’s use of imaginary objects which

travel through time, place and seasons.

“The artworks we brought here to

Katara have subjects which are usual-

ly based on traditional paintings from

Korea, China and Japan and they are

reinterpreted in modern ways. They

are actually aesthetic art created us-

ing media which give them vitality and

life. These are among Lee Nam Lee’s

very special artworks that’s why we

brought them to Qatar,” Asan Gallery

CEO Soo Yeol Kim told The Peninsula

at the launch event.

Lee’s exhibition was brought to

Doha through a partnership between

South Korea-based Asan Gallery and

Katara Art Centre (KAC) with support

from Korean embassy and South Kore-

an Trade-Investment Promotion Agen-

cy (KOTRA).

This is the first time Asan Gallery

has brought a Korean artist to Doha

which Kim said has been on the glo-

bal map of world’s largest art markets.

For its debut expo in Doha, Asan has

chosen Lee Nam being a world famous

media artist and currently a very im-

portant artist in Korea.

“I want to introduce popular and

very important Korean artists to Qatar

that’s why I Chose Lee Nam Lee to fea-

A cultural bridge between Qatar and South Korea

ture in this exhibition,” he said.

Lee’s breakthroughs in media art has

brought him to every city around the

world doing solo and group exhibitions

in art capitals such as Paris, Berlin and

New York as well as other countries in-

cluding Spain, the UK, Argentina, Russia,

and China among others.

Globally prominent Nam June Paik,

considered the founder of video art,

was born in Korea and another very im-

portant artist the country has ever pro-

duced, and Lee is now regarded as the

next Nam June Paik.

“Lee Nam is called the second Nam

June Paik. He is more modernised and

does art work with media art which

makes him very special as he is a high-

ly technological post modernism artist,”

Kim added.

Now that Lee Nam Lee has become

very famous, a new breed of artists has

emerged in Korea and they try to be like

him.

“So there are lots of media artists

in Korea now but Lee Nam is the father

of media art and he is an expert in this

field,” he said.

He shone as the artistic director at

the opening ceremony of the Gwangju

Universiade Games in Korea last year

and Kim believes that he has a great po-

tential to be an artistic director of World

Cup 2022 in Qatar.

“Lee Nam has also lots of media art-

works on buildings and I know there are

many tall buildings in Qatar so my plan

is to present his artworks in buildings in

Doha,” said Kim as he reveals his plans

for the future. Kim said he had always

wanted Asan Gallery to have an exhi-

bition of Korean artists in Qatar and af-

ter three years, he was happy to finally

stage the expo here, which he said was

a result of the visit of South Korean Pres-

ident Park Geun-hye in Qatar in March

last year. Asan Gallery has already host-

ed an exhibition featuring a number of

prominent Qatari artists in Korea includ-

ing Ali Hassan, Faraj Daham and Yousef

Ahmad as part of an agreement be-

tween Asan and KAC. “These exhibitions

serve as a cultural bridge between Korea

and Qatar,” he said.

Lee Nam Lee’s exhibition is open un-

til February 14 at Katara Art Centre.

CAMPUS

04 | WEDNESDAY 3 FEBRUARY 2016

Ideal Indian School (IIS) held fancy dress competitions for the students of KG Section recently. There was no limit to the tiny tots’ fancies. The attires they wore

and the personalities they presented ranged from fictitious characters to common human beings, professionals and great leaders, clown, fabric parrot, tree,

farmers, fish, French fries, nature, chocolate, robot, honey bee, turtle, book, water drop, blood and a lot of other creative work. The KG Section wore a festive

look with students turning up in colour costumes.

The Gulf English School (GES) re-

cently celebrated a fortnight

with creative events and mu-

sical concerts. The events held

during International Fortnight high-

lighted the importance of diversity &

respect and helped students under-

stand the global environment.

During the Junior Arts Week, stu-

dents took part in activities where they

discovered interesting facts about sev-

eral countries in the world. They show-

cased their knowledge of countries

such as Africa, the United Kingdom,

Holland, Germany and Italy by featur-

ing demonstrations of food, clothing,

famous landmarks and geographical

elements.

“It was fantastic to share the work

that the children have been doing in

our celebration assembly, and every-

one had a fabulous time!” said Sarah

Hartley, Deputy Head at GES.

Following the Junior Arts Week, the

Musical Concert Week witnessed par-

ticipation from 30 students belonging

to the Year 2 choir. Before the actual

event, the choir rehearsed every Sun-

day after school for six weeks. The two

songs chosen were Doh, Re, Mi from

the musical The Sound of Music and

a combination of Dipidoo and Tinga

Layo, which had been learned in class.

“During rehearsals they concen-

trated on four things a good sing-

er should do: Stand up straight and

still, breathe deeply, open mouths

wide and think. This soon became

second nature and the choir began

to produce a good sound. We also

explored diction and movement. We

tried adding percussion to the songs

but this proved to be a distraction to

good sound production. The children

were regularly videoed and they as-

sessed their own performances, said

Fiona Pattison, Music Teacher at the

school.

The children also had a dress re-

hearsal by performing in assembly – al-

though a little rough around the edges,

it was a great success. By the time the

concert day arrived, the year 2 singers

were acting and sounding like a prop-

er choir.

During the Musical Concert Week,

the School Orchestra performed a

piece of music with full accompani-

ment for the first time ever and all by

memory! The recorder duet that was

featured was also a new musical activ-

ity in the concert.

Fancy dress contest at IIS KG section

GES students celebrate international fortnight

COMMUNITY


Nissan continued to sizzle in

the games after it downed

even a spirited Alfardan BMW,

68-59, which was sparked by

the rally of the triumvirate of its top

players in the crucial two minutes as

they took advantage of the series of

turn-overs on the other side.

Nissan’s win put them on the spot-

light anew with a clean 5-0 record

in the standing to keep them on the

number one spot as the elimination

round nears its end in the Inter-Card

Division of the 19th Season Men’s Bas-

ketball Cup of Pinoy Basketball of Qa-

tar.

The reliable trio of Benzon Men-

doza, Bong Esmael and Thirdie Ba-

zan was all that matters for Nissan

to claim the sweet victory prompting

them to pull away with 2:26 left in the

game while miscues like bad passes,

ball handling, travelling and ball out of

bounds haunted the Alfardan squad

to the end.

But what really caused a heart-

breaker for Alfardan were the two

missed shots, a two-point and an-

other three point shot, committed by

Jan Lareza and Aries Fernandez in the

crucial last two minutes which proved

to be costly for their defeat.

Mendoza topscored for Nis-

san with 21 points complemented

by team mates Allan Mallari with 14

points, Esmael with 11 points and Ba-

zan with 10 points plus the monster

domination on the boards with 14 re-

bounds.

In other games, AAB Toyota start-

ed to reclaim the lost glory from the

last season after they easily trounced

Mannai Corporation, 64-43. The win

put Toyota still in contention with two

wins and two losses record going into

the quarterfinals.

Porshe, who is on second spot

with 3-1 record, outclassed KIA Mo-

tors, 46-34.

The Pibaq’s 19th Season is pre-

sented by Alicafe with the support of

Philippine embassy, Qatar Basketball

Federation and sponsored by Oore-

doo and Diana Jewellery & Watches.

Nissan trounce Alfardan in crucial Pibaq match

Skills Development Centre (SDC)

has conducted a Karate Belt

Awarding ceremony at Maestro

Community Hall in New Salata. SDC is

conducting regular classes for Karate

and students from various communi-

ties are attending the classes.

Grade tests are conducted on

regular intervals at SDC in coordi-

nation with Qatar Karate Federation

and Japan Shotokan Karate Associ-

ation (JSKA), an International Karate

Association operating in Qatar.

With 100 percent success rate

some 130 students from SDC were

successful in receiving the belts. JS-

KA Qatar Chief Instructor, Sensei Shi-

habudeen along with Lieutenant Ab-

dulla Khamis Al Hamad and Lieuten-

ant Abdul Azeez Zaman from Qatar

Police Sports Federation and Fais-

al Hudawi from Ministry of Interior’s

Public Relations Department distrib-

uted the belts and certificates to the

winners.

Live demo of Karate Techniques

were another highlight of the event.

Allen Biju Ipe, Albin Biju Ipe, Gitanja-

li Narzary, Samridhi Bhardwaj, Shah-

zar Mehmood Sayed, Vishnu Mohan,

Yedu Krishnan, Rahul Kishor and

Amudha Selvan received ‘Best Stu-

dents’ awards. SDC’s Chief Instructor

Sensei. Shihabudeen was honoured

with a memento presented by Lieu-

tenant Abdulla Khamis Al Zaman

Skills Development Centre holds Karate Belt Awarding ceremony

MARKETPLACE


KIMS Qatar Medical Centre (KQMC)

achieved the prestigious ACHSI

(Australian Council on Health-

care Standards International) Accred-

itation. The official certificate presen-

tation ceremony was held at Oryx Ro-

tana Hotel in Doha on Monday.

KQMC is the first medical centre

in Qatar to achieve this quality mile-

stone.

(ACHSI) was represented by Dr

Desmond Yen, Executive Director,

in the ceremony held in the pres-

ence of a number of dignitaries in-

cluding Dr Samar Aboulsoud, A/

CEO of Supreme Council of Health;

R K Singh, Deputy Chief of Mis-

sion, Indian embassy; Dr Moham-

med Sahadulla, Chairman of KIMS

Group; Jassim Mubarak, Chairman-

KQMC; Nishad Azeem, Executive

Director of KQMC; Dr Sheriff Saha-

dulla, Executive Director-Medical &

Group CMO, and Jacob Thomas, Di-

rector Operations.

KQMC in Wakrah, a branch of KIMS

Healthcare Group, has expanded its

facilities remarkably over the past

years, with presently holding 15 clin-

ics, a full-fledged laboratory, radiol-

ogy department, physiotherapy de-

partment and pharmacy.

The participation of women,

both Qatari and expatriate, in

the professional market has

steadily grown over the years.

With a unique set of goals and chal-

lenges facing women in the work place

– a new forum has emerged for women

in business to share their experiences

with others.

The “Women in Business in Qatar”

networking series, organised by prom-

inent Doha law firm Pinsent Masons,

aims to bring together women active

in the business community to impart

their hopes and concerns for their fu-

ture working in an emerging country

with numerous opportunities.

The first event in the series took

place last week at the Movenpick Ho-

tel. More than 90 attended the event.

Maryam Al Subaiey, founder of Q Tal-

ent, gave a keynote speech.

Of particular interest to the attend-

ees was the topic of company “quotas”

requiring set numbers of women to be

appointed to senior positions in com-

panies.

The prospect of quotas for women

on boards has made headlines across

the world since Norway became the

first country to introduce official board

gender quotas in 2003. Many countries

have since introduced such quotas, in-

cluding Italy, France, Spain and Iceland

and the subject is now being mooted

in a number of emerging economies

such as India and Malaysia. If we look

to neighbouring countries, the United

Arab Emirates made it compulsory for

corporations and government agen-

cies to include women on their boards.

In Qatar, there are already calls for

greater representation of women at

the political level through quotas; the

extension of such an approach to the

business community could therefore

be a very real prospect for the future.

Polled on the issue, the overall

mood of attendees was one of mixed

feelings; with some considering that

women should be promoted on mer-

it, rather than because of a compa-

ny’s drive to achieve a target. Others

thought a target did not necessari-

ly detract from the fact that the pro-

motion was earned. All participants

agreed that if corporate quotas were

indeed introduced, that it was equal-

ly as important to ensure those who

were promoted were also influential

and right for the job, rather than be-

ing given the promotion to ‘tick a box’.

Pamela McDonald, an associate at

Pinsent Masons and organiser of the

event, said “We were delighted to have

such a high turnout at our first event. It

goes to show the interest profession-

al women in Qatar have on this top-

ic. We are fortunate at Pinsent Masons

to have a supportive board who are

mindful of the gender diversity issue

and have created the Project Sky initi-

ative to identify changes which can be

made to the business which will em-

power women to achieve their career

goals.”

Women in Business in Qatar holds first meeting

Dr Desmond Yen, Executive Director, ACHSI, giving accreditation certificate to Dr Mohammed Sahadulla, Chairman of KIMS Group, and Jassim Mubarak, Chairman

of KQMC, in Doha. Picure/Abdul Basit

KQMC gets ACHSI accreditation

FOOD


By Cathy Barrow

The Washington Post

Before the season ends, I make

sure to put up a few jars of

Lemon Squash, intensely fla-

voured with lemon oil, zest and

juice. A squash is an old recipe, named

for an Indian concentrate of fruit juices.

Squashes show up in British preserv-

ing books from the early 20th century.

A presweetened concentrate, it makes

exceptional lemonade by the pitcher-

ful. It is a pantry wonder, stirred into

tea, sparkling water, wine or bourbon.

The cheerful and sunny flavour is wel-

come in any season. I make a version

with ginger; when a cold is coming on,

I put a glug into a hot toddy for an in-

stantly soothing tipple. Make a version

with lime, and you’ll be ready for mar-

garita season.

Lemon Squash

4 half-pint jars;makes 32 ounces to-

tal. MAKE AHEAD: Properly canned lem-

on squash can be stored at room tem-

perature for up to 12 months. It can be

frozen in jars (directly, with plastic lids),

leaving a 1-inch head space to allow for

expansion, for up to 3 months.

Ingredients

10 lemons (see headnote)4 cups water3 cups sugar

Steps

Use a vegetable peeler or channel

knife to zest 4 of the lemons.

Bring the water to a boil in a large,

wide pot over high heat, then add all

the lemons, including the zested ones,

and the strips of lemon peel. Cook for

2 minutes, then transfer the lemons to

a bowl to cool. Reserve 2 cups of the

lemon cooking water and the boiled

strips of lemon peel in a separate me-

dium saucepan.

When the lemons are cool enough

to handle, cut them in half, then juice

them into a large liquid measuring

cup, straining and discarding the pulp,

seeds and spent lemon halves. The

yield should be 1 to 1 ½ cups.

Add the sugar to the lemon cooking

water and lemon peels in the sauce-

pan; bring to a boil over high heat;

cook for 5 minutes, then remove from

the heat. Discard the lemon peels, or

reserve them for candying. Stir in the

fresh lemon juice until well incorpo-

rated. Fill the jars, leaving a ¼-inch

head space. Wipe the jar rims well and

place the lids and rings, tightening un-

til just secure. Process for 10 minutes

in a boiling-water bath, starting timing

from the moment the water returns to

a boil. Remove the jars from the water

bath, setting them upright on a folded

towel to cool completely.

Roasted Orange Salty Caramel

Tofu

6 servings

This recipe takes advantage of the

cara cara and blood oranges just now

in season, but can be made with na-

vel oranges as well. The sauce, which

comes together quickly, is bright and

full of umami.MAKE AHEAD: The tofu

needs to drain for 1 hour.

Ingredients

Three 14-ounce blocks extra-firm tofu

3 cara cara or blood oranges2 teaspoons toasted sesame oil1 cup packed dark brown sugar½ cup good-quality fish sauce,

preferably Red Boat brand½ cup plain rice vinegar¼ cup fresh orange juice¼ cup fresh lime juice1 ½ tablespoons finely grated

fresh peeled ginger root1 tablespoon minced, fresh lemon

grass1 cup cornstarch½ teaspoon kosher salt¼ teaspoon freshly ground black

pepper¼ cup grapeseed oil6 large scallions (white and light-

green parts), slivered (1/2 cup)¼ cup loosely packed cilantro

sprigs¼ cup minced chives½ teaspoon unsalted butter

Steps

Do this in the sink: Place the blocks

of tofu on a board and cover with an-

other board. Top with a 28-ounce can

(for weight). Tilt this contraption slight-

ly so the excess moisture in the tofu

will be pressed out, and the water will

drain away. Drain for 1 hour.

Heat the oven to 400 degrees. Seat

an ovenproof rack in a rimmed baking

sheet. Slice off and discard the tops

and bottoms of 2 oranges. Use a Y-

shaped vegetable peeler to cut wide

strips of zest from the third orange;

juice that orange for the ¼ cup you’ll

need for this recipe.

Cut each of the 2 remaining orang-

es horizontally into 3 thick slices. Rub

them with the toasted sesame oil, then

place them on the baking sheet rack;

roast for 25 minutes, until the edges

are caramelised and their surfaces are

bubbling. Let them cool.

Combine the reserved orange-peel

strips, dark brown sugar, fish sauce,

rice vinegar, orange juice, lime juice,

ginger and lemon grass in a large, wide,

straight-sided saute pan. Bring the

mixture to a boil over high heat, stir-

ring until the sugar has dissolved. Add

the roasted orange slices, then reduce

the heat to medium and cook for 12 to

15 minutes or until the mixture has re-

duced by half, to form a caramel sauce.

Meanwhile, whisk together the

cornstarch, salt and pepper on a plate.

Heat the grapeseed oil in a large, wide

saute pan over medium-high heat.

Line a plate with layers of paper towels.

Cut each drained block of tofu in-

to 4 equal slices and use more paper

towels to pat the tofu dry. Press each

one into the cornstarch mixture, mak-

ing sure the tofu is completely coated

and shaking off any excess.

Once the grapeseed oil is shim-

mering, working in batches as need-

ed, pan-fry the tofu blocks on the first

side for about 3 minutes or until nice-

ly browned, then turn them over and

cook on the second side for 2 to 3 min-

utes. Transfer to the paper-towel-lined

plate to drain..Stir the caramel sauce;

if it is not thick and spoonable, like a

warm chocolate sauce, increase the

heat to medium and cook further to

reduce it to the right consistency.

When ready to serve, combine the

slivered scallions, cilantro sprigs and

chives in a bowl. Add all but a pinch or

two to the sauce, reserving the rest as

a garnish. Cook the sauce for 1 minute,

then stir in the butter, which will make

the sauce shiny.

Make a pantry wonder

with lemons

FASHION


Beware against buying fake weaves & hand embroideryIANS

Are you one of those who love

the world famous weaves

from Banaras or chikankari

embroidery, but don’t know

how to differentiate between what’s

real and what’s fake? Take note of

some important indicators before you

make a purchase, says an expert.

Neha Baheti, co-founder of Indian

Artizans, an online apparel portal work-

ing directly with weavers all across In-

dia, has shared tips on how to judge

the originality of a weave. Here’s how:

• The best way to determine if a

particular handcrafted product is from

India or not is to buy from brands that

have certifications from local agencies

like Craft Mark.

• To judge whether the chikankari

on your cloth is by machine or not, it

is suggested that one should see the

kind of embroidery the piece of art

boasts of. If it is handcrafted, the cloth

will have French knots, shadow stitch,

criss cross embroidery. In the machine

made ones, you do not find these em-

broideries.

• Patola weaving technique has

travelled far overseas and some coun-

tries like Indonesia and Japan still have

fabrics woven with this technique.

However, there is quite a difference in

the colours and motifs in India. Patola

from Gujarat has an overdose of colour

and intricacy. Although both double

and single Ikat is being practised else-

where, but design is something that

can be copied assuming that the tech-

nique has been well mastered.

• When it comes to Assam silks, the

silks used here are Muga, pat, eri. Pat is

a very soft silk and to differentiate be-

tween handwoven and machine made,

is by the locking system noticeable at

the back of the sari. Also, in machine

made saris, there are a lot of limita-

tions like colour and sharpness of the

designs. The special aspect of hand-

woven Assam saris are that the bor-

der is woven separately and stitched

on the sari.

• One can differentiate a machine

made sari from a handwoven one by

the pallu and its border. In a handwo-

ven piece, the backside of the pallu or

border is a replica. In a machine made

one, you will find a lot of threads hang-

ing. Also in machine made, there are a

lot of limitations like colour, sharpness

of the design and intricacy.

• Authentic hand block prints will

have small flaws in the printing and

drops of extra colours here and there.

There will also be very distinct designs

in bright colours whereas printed de-

signs will be 100 percent consistent.

• Authentic Banarasi weaves can be

judged by looking at the reverse side of

the sari. The ones done by hand will be

heavy on thread work at the back and

will look very different from the front.

Also, only an original sari would have

floats.

• Another way to identify a real Ba-

narasi sari is to check for a six to eight

inch long patch of plain silk on the pal-

lu of the Banarasi saree.

• An original sari will mostly carry

Mughal patterns like amru, ambi and

domak. A fake Banarasi saree wouldn’t

have these Indian hand made Persian

designs on it.

HEALTH & FITNESS


Feeling depressed? Check with your brainBy Nishant Arora

IANS

Have you started feeling depressed or moody

while in love, lacking focus or motivation to

finish a task at work or finding yourself ad-

dicted to shopping or even gambling? Do

not just blame sudden impulses or your stars — at

the axis of such deviating behaviour are two key nat-

urally occurring chemicals in your brain: dopamine

and serotonin.

While dopamine helps keep our mood in a bal-

anced level so that we avoid depression, serotonin is

also a vital feel-good hormone — important for calm-

ness and emotional well-being - and is responsible

for enhancing confidence levels.

Any fluctuation in their levels can lead to myriad

health problems — from depression and anxiety dis-

orders to greater impulsivity and even hallucinations

and suicidal thoughts.

“When these key neurotransmitters become vola-

tile, there is rapid mood imbalance. It leads to a rise

in depression and, over a period of time, can be clini-

cally dangerous,” Dr Mohinish Bhatji-

wale, Director (Neurosurgery) at

Mumbai’s Nanavati Super Specialty

Hospital, said.

According to Dr. Madhuri Behari,

director (neurology) at Fortis Flight

Lieutenant Rajan Dhall Hospital, sero-

tonin is the happy neuro-transmitter

and when its levels go down, we feel

low and depressed.

Dopamine receptor, on the other

hand, is more complex and has two

classes. When the levels of Class 1 (D1,

D2 and D3) receptors go down, one

experiences symptoms of Parkinson’s

disease.

“When levels of Class 2 receptors

(D4 and D5 ) go high, one gets symp-

toms of psychosis where the person

becomes agitated, cannot sleep, be-

lieves that people are up to harm his or her family,

wife/husband is having extra-marital affair and hallu-

cinations,” Behari said.

A study led by Robb Rutledge at University Col-

lege London and published in the Journal of Neuro-

science last year found that increasing dopamine lev-

els in healthy adults led participants to choose more

risky options in a gambling task.

The findings revealed that participants took more

risks to try to get bigger rewards after receiving

dopamine but not a placebo.

Dopamine is involved in reward learning and pre-

vious research has linked dopamine drugs with com-

pulsive gambling problems in people with Parkin-

son’s disease.

When it comes to serotonin that regulates mood,

appetite, sleep and also impacts cognitive functions

including memory and learning, increased levels can

cause vasoconstriction (constriction of blood vessels

which increases blood pressure) and contributes to

migraine.

“Large amounts of serotonin are also secreted by

carcinoid tumours, resulting in flushing (of the skin,

usually of the head and the upper part of thorax),”

said Dr Keki Turel, consultant neurosurgeon and ex-

head, department of neurosurgery, Bombay Hospi-

tal.

The healthy levels of both neuro-chemicals are af-

fected by our changing lifestyles; so tweaking the

way we live can help us get back our optimum levels.

“Exercise, especially ancient practices of pranaya-

ma and yoga, can go a long way in ensuring bal-

anced levels of the two important neurotransmitters,”

Bhatjiwale advised.

When our thoughts are judgemental or critical,

the brain chemicals affect our immune system in

a negative way. And when our thoughts are loving,

empowering and positive, the neurotransmitters en-

hance the immune system.

“Science is confirming that our negative think-

ing is killing us. Joy and sorrow are all creations of

the mind. Peace is within you and what’s strange

is that it stays right where restlessness, anger and

resentment reside! You can control your thoughts

with mindful meditation and positive lifestyle,” ex-

plained Dr Rajiv Anand, Director (Neurology) at the

BLK Super Specialty Hospital.

At times, anti-depressants and other medica-

tion can affect healthy levels of both brain chemicals.

“There are some people who are genetically predis-

posed to having high or low levels of these neuro-

transmitters, leading to Parkinsonism and schizophre-

nia,” Behari noted.

According to her, such people can have certain

food which are rich in these neurotransmitters — like

complex carbohydrates, the B vitamins and omega-3

fatty acids.

Food such as whole-wheat bread, pasta, pota-

toes, cereal and brown rice are rich in tryptophan —

an amino acid that converts to serotonin in the brain.

Other nutrient-rich carbohydrate choices include

starchy root vegetables such as sweet potatoes and

carrots, as also corn.

“Participate in activities that you like. ‘Giving’ is al-

so known as ‘Vitamin G’ that if we provide to people

in terms of means, support, education and spiritu-

al support, we can remain happy 24/7,” Behari said.

In a nutshell, enjoy life, eat and sleep well and

give anxiety an early retirement to keep your mood

and confidence levels up.

ENTERTAINMENT

10 | WEDNSDAY 3 FEBRUARY 2016

By Sandy Cohen

AP

Fox is gearing up to give Broad-

way a serious dose of the Hol-

lywood treatment. Grease: Live”

goes beyond other made-for-TV

live musicals such as The Sound of Mu-

sic and The Wiz, both of which were

huge hits for NBC.

This hybrid of the stage and movie

musical blends theatre with film, with

dynamic camera movements captur-

ing the dance and drama on multiple

sets housed in two massive sound-

stages.

“The scale is insane,” said TV direc-

tor Alex Rudzinski. “It’s almost half a kil-

ometre from one end of the site to the

other.”

Cast and crew members will rely on

golf carts — or fast feet — to get be-

tween the stages during commercial

breaks.

Grease: Live, which stars Julianne

Hough as Sandy and Broadway veter-

an Aaron Tveit as Danny, has taken over

Warner Bros studios with its many sets

and stages.

Here’s a look at this ambitious Par-

amount Television production by the

numbers:

412: The number of times Grease:

Live director Thomas Kail can listen to

consecutive replays of the song “Hand

Jive.”

Fresh off the success of his Broad-

way production Hamilton and his Tony

Award for In the Heights, Kail is bring-

ing his theatre talents to the produc-

tion of Grease: Live, and he’s not daunt-

ed by its scope and scale.

“The spirit of theatre that’s cap-

tured so many of us for so long is

you do what you do to make the

show,” he said. “Our job is to capture

that and see if we can put it through

some tubes and send it into peo-

ple’s homes.”

208: And that’s just the number

of costumes for the show’s 52 extras.

Hundreds more outfits were need-

ed for the dozen main cast members,

most of whom change outfits at least

four times each, said Tony Award-win-

ning costume designer William Ivey

Long, who commandeered an entire

empty soundstage on the Warner Bros.

lot just to house the show’s collection

of clothing.

Creating costumes for this live TV

production is different than work-

ing onstage, he said, where outfits

have to be built “super-duper, eight-

shows-a-week for a year.” Because of

this show’s more cinematic approach

to photography, costume details near

the face take on new significance.

Long has also been excited to incorpo-

rate real vintage pieces into the stars’

wardrobes — items that would be too

delicate to hold up to the rigours of

theatre.

Because stars have to do quick

changes during commercial breaks,

many of the costumes are held togeth-

er with magnets. Some stars will also

be wearing layers of outfits on top of

each other for what Long calls “mag-

ical transformations that were not in

the Broadway musical and were not in

the film either.”

45: The number of camera posi-

tions needed to shoot scenes in dis-

parate locations from multiple angles.

Using 20 cameras, Rudzinski is doing

something almost unprecedented in

live TV: taking cameras offline so they

can be moved and reset for the vari-

ous scenes.

“We move them over the three-

hour broadcast about 30 times,” said

Rudzinski, who shoots live shows

weekly as a director of ABC’s Dancing

With the Stars. “That’s a huge chal-

lenge and obviously kind of nerve-

racking on a live show to be losing

feed and then coming back up.”

He has storyboarded the entire

show, like film productions general-

ly do, to time camera movements to

the beat — or even half-beat — of the

music.

45: The number of seconds it takes

to travel between stages on a golf

cart. But it isn’t idle time: Makeup art-

ists, hairstylists and dressers will ride

with the stars between scenes to help

facilitate quick changes while the carts

are in motion.

“I have one commercial break to go

from good Sandy to bad Sandy,” said

Hough, confessing that she needs to

abandon her tendency to try to do her

hair and makeup herself.

Three: The age musical director

Tom Kitt was when he first saw Grease

in theatres. “I probably saw it between

50 and 100 times when I was a kid,”

tagging along with his older sisters to

the movies, he said.

The Pulitzer Prize- and Tony Award-

winning composer (Next to Normal) al-

so choreographed a dance routine to

The One That I Want when he was 5

years old, then produced Grease as a

senior musical at his New York high

school.

“I haven’t music-directed it again

until now,” he said, adding, “obviously,

this is a very different production.”

Cast members, including Car-

ly Rae Jepsen and Vanessa Hudgens,

have recorded a soundtrack album for

Grease: Live set for release after the

show airs. Other featured musical per-

formers include pop star Jessie J and

Boys II Men.

“The spirit of theatre that’s captured so many of us for so long is you do what you do to make the show. Our job is to capture that and see if we can put it through some tubes and send it into people’s homes.”

Broadway and Hollywood mix for Grease: Live

The Pulitzer Prize- and Tony Award-winning composer also choreographed a dance routine to The One That I Want when he was 5 years old, then produced Grease as a senior musical at his New York high school.

Aaron Tveit (left) and Julianne Hough rehearse for Grease: Live.

ENTERTAINMENT


By Nivedita

IANS

Bollywood actress Kangana

Ranaut says that she is inac-

tive on social media because

of “nasty trolls and frustration”

from different people, but she feels

that one of its advantages is that peo-

ple can use the medium to clarify their

stands and dispel rumours.

“I am inactive so I don’t miss it (so-

cial media) but what I definitely see....

Certainly one of the good things about

such mediums is that you can actual-

ly clarify your stand when you are sort

of facing rumours and misunderstood.

“The bad things is that you are sus-

ceptible to all kinds of nasty trolls and

frustrated people who are just out to

show their frustration regardless of

whosoever it is and you get subject-

ed to that sort of hatred which is inhu-

man,” Kangana said to a query why she

stays away from social media and what

are the pros and cons of being there as

an actress.

She also added that she wants to

stay away from negative things in life

and this is the reason why she is not

active on social media platforms.

Recently Bollywood actor Hrithik

Roshan’s tweet made headlines when

he indirectly pointed out at the ac-

tress on the micro blogging site. “Ther r

more chances of me having had an af-

fair with d Pope and any of d (Im sure

wonderful) women d media hs ben

naming. Thanks but no thanks,” he had

posted.

His reaction came post the Tanu

Weds Manu Returns actor’s comment

that she “fails to understand why exes

do silly things to get attention”.

Taking back the words, Kangana

sought to end the row by saying that

she doesn’t want to “dig the grave yet

again”.

She contended that on social me-

dia, different people take “one state-

ment in a thousand different ways and

hence it gets difficult to clarify to eve-

ryone”.

“The way you perceive things is dif-

ferent from what other person feels.

It creates certain negative environ-

ment. As a person I live only for myself

and for those for whom I make mov-

ies. I impress myself through my work

and that’s what I focus on. I don’t care

about anyone,” she retorted.

The National award winning ac-

tress also says that if she has to clari-

fy something, she “believes in releasing

an official statement”.

Kangana, who was in New Delhi to

launch Big Fish Ventures’ table reser-

vation app, called it a “cool idea”.

“It’s a cool idea and cool app. For me,

I think it’s great initiative for people like

us who plan on the spot. It’s very hand

and useful,” said the actress, looking

glamorous in a pant suit teamed with

short hair look, post the launch of the

app at the The Junkyard Cafe here.

Big Fish Ventures is a Delhi-based

startup that also runs other premi-

um dining lounges such as The Vault

Cafe, Cafe Public Connection, Indi-

an dhaba restaurant GaramDharam

and Bandstand. The app will cater to

the 60,000 customer base who fre-

quent these restaurants every month

in a better way and plans to serve over

2 lakh customers expected by end of

2016.

Kangana says social media helps people in clarifying their stands

Kangana Ranaut during the launch of Big Fish Ventures’ table reservation app.

Actress Divya Dutta is plan-

ning to pen a book based on

the moments spent with her

mother, who died earlier this month.

She plans to title it Me and Maa.

The Delhi 6 actress, who lost

her mother on January 10, says she

wants the world to know about the

“precious moments” that she shared

with her mother Nalini, who was a

doctor by profession.

“I am planning to write a book on

my mother. I think it will be called Me

and Maa... Whoever knew me and

my mother, knew we bonded like no-

body else. She wasn’t just a mother

to me she was my best friend. I want

to share this with the world,” Divya

said over phone from Mumbai.

The 38-year-old actress said the

book will be out this year. “I am not

in the mental condition to start it, but

I think I will start it immediately and

the book will be out this year,” said

the Chalk N Duster actress.

What urged her to pen such a

book?

Divya said: “It is very strange. I

was sitting right next to her when she

wasn’t well in the hospital, and the

thought just came to me. The book

will have everything... It will make you

smile, laugh and cry. But it will be re-

latable and I want to share it with the

world.” The actress had lost her fa-

ther when she was all of seven.

Asked if the book will also have

chapters on him, Divya said: “Of

course! My father was an integral

part. I was very close to him. But af-

ter I lost my father, my mother had

been the rock in my life... She taught

me how to look into my dreams and

follow them, and stood by me in eve-

rything.”

Divya may call book on mother Me and Maa

TECHNOLOGY


The big myth Facebook needs everyone to believe

By Caitlin Dewey

The Washington Post

In the middle of January, in a change

noticed nowhere but Spain, Face-

book added six words to a single

dialogue box — and inadvertently

stumbled into a tortuous national de-

bate.

The dialogue box is part of Face-

book’s content-reporting process, the

means by which users can request that

the social network censor their friends.

The six words appeared to invite Span-

ish users to report on a new category of

things: Under the option “it’s inappro-

priate, it annoys me, or I don’t like it,”

Facebook listed Spain’s millennium-old

national pastime, bullfighting.

Bullfighting is a controversial sport;

even within Spain, few people still fol-

low it. But columnists from Madrid to

Malaga bristled at the suggestion that

a federally recognised piece of heritage

could be branded offensive.

“Facebook equates bullfighting with

p**********n,” declared ABC, the coun-

try’s third-largest newspaper, on Janu-

ary 14. Days later, when Facebook inev-

itably backtracked and deleted its ref-

erences to bullfighting — clarifying, in

a statement to The Washington Post,

that it had been included mistakenly --

Spain’s second-largest paper, El Mundo,

rejoiced that the network had “rectified”

the situation.

But unfortunately for the suits at Fa-

cebook, who had suffered considerable

headaches over the bullfighting mess,

that situation was just the latest in a

string of unintended clashes as inevi-

table as they are endless. As Facebook

has tentacled out from Palo Alto, Cali-

fornia, gaining control of an ever-larg-

er slice of the global commons, the net-

work has found itself in a tenuous and

culturally awkward position: how to de-

termine a single standard of what is and

is not acceptable — and apply it uni-

formly, from Maui to Morocco.

For Facebook and other platforms

like it, incidents such as the bullfighting

kerfuffle betray a larger, existential dif-

ficulty: How can you possibly impose a

single moral framework on a vast and

varying patchwork of global communi-

ties?

If you ask Facebook this question,

the social-media behemoth will deny

doing any such thing. Facebook says

its community standards are inert, uni-

versal, agnostic to place and time. The

site doesn’t advance any worldview, it

claims, besides the non-controversial

opinion that people should “connect”

online. “Every day, people come to Fa-

cebook to connect with people and is-

sues they care about,” a spokeswom-

an said in a statement. “Given the di-

versity of the Facebook community, this

means that sometimes people share

information that is controversial or of-

fends others. That’s why we have a set

of global Community Standards that ex-

plain what you can and cannot do on

our service ... We work hard to strike the

right balance between enabling expres-

sion while providing a safe and respect-

ful experience.”

Facebook has modified its standards

several times in response to pressure

from advocacy groups — although the

site has deliberately obscured those ed-

its, and the process by which Facebook

determines its guidelines remains stub-

bornly obtuse. On top of that, at least

some of the low-level contract workers

who enforce Facebook’s rules are em-

bedded in the region — or at least the

time zone —whose content they mod-

erate. The social network staffs its mod-

eration team in 24 languages, 24 hours

a day.

In response to recent criticism that

Facebook has mishandled takedown

requests from users in the Middle East,

Facebook’s policy director for the region

assured users that “all reports are as-

sessed by teams of multilingual, impar-

tial and highly trained people” — includ-

ing native speakers of Hebrew and Ar-

abic, who presumably understand the

region’s particular issues.

And yet, observers remain deep-

ly sceptical of Facebook’s claims that

it is somehow value-neutral or global-

ly inclusive, or that its guiding principles

are solely “respect” and “safety.” There’s

no doubt, said Tarleton Gillespie, a prin-

cipal researcher at Microsoft Research,

New England, that the company ad-

vances a specific moral framework —

one that is less of the world than of the

United States, and less of the United

States than of Silicon Valley.

If you study Facebook’s communi-

ty standards, going back to the long-

forgotten time when users voted on

a version of them, the site has always

erred on the side of radical free speech,

corporate opaqueness and a certain

American prudishness: Its values are

those of the early Web, moderated by

capitalist conservatism.

The values that Facebook articu-

lates are not always the ones it enforc-

es. Below that top-level standard are

the unknown thousands of invisible

click-workers forced to interpret it, and

below them are the self-deputized us-

ers flagging their friends’ content. Be-

tween the site’s demonstrably US ori-

entation and the layers of obfuscation

below, there can be little doubt that the

values Facebook ends up imposing on

its “community” of 1.55 billion people

are not agreed upon by many — per-

haps even most — of them.

Somehow, it seems that we only no-

tice the imposition when there’s a glitch

in the machine: I can’t use a tribal name

on Facebook? The site maligned bull-

fighting? Why, how dare this private

company impose its worldview on me!

This is not merely a problem for

Facebook; Gillespie, the Microsoft re-

searcher, calls it the unsolvable “ba-

sic paradox” of all Internet companies:

They’re private and they have their own

corporate motives, but they’re called

upon to police public speech. Alas, as

their public grows more diverse, the

worldviews of the “community” and

its corporate sponsor would appear to

align less and less.

As of 2013, eight of the world’s 10

top Web properties were based in the

United States — and 81 percent of their

users were located outside of it. (If noth-

ing else, there’s a compelling statistical

reason why Google, Amazon.com, Face-

book and Apple, collectively acronymed

“GAFA,” have been called the new face

of “American cultural imperialism.”)

Facebook will never make everyone

happy, of course; nor does anyone sug-

gest it should. But in a better world, the

largest social network would at least ad-

mit that it’s not an impartial, value-neu-

tral observer. After all, every single thing

Facebook does -- from advance a sin-

gle global “community,” to add six extra

words in a dialogue box -- reshapes the

public space of its users.

“The myth of the social network as

a neutral space is crumbling, but it’s still

very powerful,” Gillespie said. “For Fa-

cebook to finally say, ‘Yes, we construct

social life online. We construct public

discourse’ — that would be so impor-

tant, but for them, dangerous.”

Observers remain deeply sceptical of Facebook’s claims that it is somehow value-neutral or globally inclusive, or that its guiding principles are solely “respect” and “safety.”

SCIENCE


Scientist develops

software to detect

nuclear testsIANS

A computer scientist in the US

has developed a software

to detect and verify poten-

tial nuclear tests, especially

by smaller devices, possibly by terror-

ist organisations or other non-state ac-

tors.

Erik Sudderth, a computer scien-

tist from Brown University, Rhode Is-

land, has designed a Vertically Inte-

grated Seismic Analysis (VISA) — a ma-

chine learning system that is helping

the International Monitoring System to

“make sure that no nuclear explosion

goes undetected”.

Sudderth and his team devised an

efficient inference algorithm that can

scan incoming data to find events that

likely represent an actual seismic sig-

nal.

The VISA can reduce the number

of missed events by 60 percent com-

pared to the original system. It can al-

so provide more accurate location in-

formation in many cases, the findings

revealed.

The International Monitoring Sys-

tem includes 149 certified seismic

monitoring stations around the globe.

These stations send data to the Com-

prehensive Nuclear-Test-Ban Treaty Or-

ganization’s (CTBTO) headquarters in

Vienna, Austria, where analysts com-

pile all seismic events into a daily bul-

letin supplied to nations around the

world.

Analysts pick out unnatural events

from the characteristics of the seis-

mic waveforms they create, but before

they can determine whether an event

is unnatural, they need to know that an

event has occurred.

“You have hundreds of stations all

over the world producing high-dimen-

sional data that’s streaming in 24-by-

seven,” said Sudderth.

“(People) can’t look at all the data all

the time. They need the help of auto-

mated tools,” he added.

The automated tools keep a con-

stant eye on every station and cre-

ate a log of potential local detections.

They also combine data from multi-

ple stations to hypothesize the time,

location, and magnitude of plausible

seismic events, Sudderth explained,

in the paper published in the Bulletin

of the Seismological Society of Amer-

ica.

Analysts then look at those data to

determine, if indeed, each detection

was from a seismic event or just repre-

sented a random noise. Once an event

is confirmed to be real, analysts review

it to determine whether it was natural

or human-made, he concluded.

Corals species bred in laboratory reproduce in the wildIANS

Scientists have been successful

in aiding a sustainable restora-

tion of Caribbean reefs with the

rearing of a threatened Caribbean

coral species to its reproductive age.

A team of researchers from

SECORE International — a leading

conservation organisation for the

protection and restoration of coral

reefs — has for the first time success-

fully raised laboratory-bred colonies

of a critically endangered elkhorn

coral (Acropora palmata) to sexual

maturity.

A new technique was developed

whereby male and female gametes

were caught in the wild and fertilised

in the laboratory to raise larger num-

bers of genetically unique corals, the

study said.

The method promoted the forma-

tion of new genotypes that could po-

tentially cope better with the condi-

tions on modern reefs than their al-

ready struggling parents, the study

showed.

These sexually-bred corals, there-

fore, not only aid in the recovery of

dwindling elkhorn coral populations

by increasing the number of colo-

nies, but also by increasing the ge-

netic diversity of this critically endan-

gered species, thus giving evolution

the opportunity to play its part, ex-

plained the researchers.

In 2011, the offsprings of the en-

dangered elkhorn coral were reared

from gametes collected in the field

and were outplanted to a reef one

year later, the researchers revealed.

“In four years, these branching

corals have grown to a size of a soc-

cer ball and reproduced, simultane-

ously with their natural population,

in September 2015,” said Valérie

Chamberland, coral reef ecologist

from Carmabi Marine Research Sta-

tion in Curaçao, a Dutch Caribbean

island.

Elkhorn corals reproduce on-

ly once or twice a year, generally a

few days after the full moon in Au-

gust. During these nights, the Acro-

pora colonies synchronously release

their gametes into the water column,

the findings, published in the journal

Bulletin of Marine Science, showed.

The researchers collected small

proportion of these gametes, and

produced the coral embryos by in-

vitro fertilisation, mixing sperm and

eggs in the laboratory.

The coral embryos then devel-

oped into swimming larvae within

days and eventually settled onto spe-

cifically-designed substrates. After a

short nursery period, the scientists

outplanted these substrates with the

newly-settled corals in the reef.

An estimated 80 percent of

all Caribbean corals disappeared

over the last four decades and the

elkhorn coral was one of the spe-

cies whose decline was so severe

that it was one of the first coral

species to be listed as threatened

under the US Endangered Species

act in 2006 and as critically endan-

gered under the IUCN Red List of

Threatened species in 2008.

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15WEDNESDAY 3 FEBRUARY 2016

Yesterday’s answerEasy Sudoku Puzzles: Place a digit from 1

to 9 in each empty cell so every row, every

column and every 3x3 box contains all the

digits 1 to 9.

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.

HYPER SUDOKU

Yesterday’s answer

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.

KAKURO

ACROSS

1 Not diverge

9 Its plantation features the Pineapple Garden Maze

13 U.S. freight measure

14 Italian admiral for whom

several ships were named

15 Symbol of the Franciscan order

16 Jays’ fan, maybe

17 Greatly magnified

18 One letting off steam at the dinner table?

19 Jazz trumpeter Jones

20 Witness by chance

21 Setting of many a revival

24 Pranks

25 South Pacific’s largest city

26 Sigma signification

29 Recipient of Argus’s 100 eyes, in myth

32 Base of many operations

33 Per

35 Singer/actress once called the “Black Venus”

37 Iconoclast stiflers

41 Ones with halting speech?

42 Cold-weather wear

44 Longtime

jeweler to royals

45 Peter Fonda

cult film about an acid experience

48 Eggs, e.g.

49 Cubs’ supporters, maybe

50 Makeup of humanity

51 Crude, in slang

52 Group started

as the Jolly Corks

53 Snarky sort

DOWN

1 Bubbly option

2 “De-fense! De-fense!,” e.g.

3 Comeback to a comeback

4 Searchlight light

5 Approached like John Wayne, with “to”

6 Relatives of Winnebagos

7 1-Down quality

8 Enterprise position: Abbr.

9 Loft additions

10 Call for Chinese, say

11 Be superposed on

12 Concern of paleoanthropology

14 Like a rattlebrain

16 Good pear for poaching

18 Film figure who said “I take orders from just one person: me”

20 Things removed before signing

22 GPS output: Abbr.

23 Pursue

26 Consideration for college admission

27 Sturm und Drang

28 Apollo collection

30 One side in college football’s annual Big Game, informally

31 Accessory with a magnetic strip on a kitchen wall

34 Glaziers’ supplies

36 Maximally intense

38 Plotting aids

39 Speeds

40 Slips of paper?

43 Studbook figures

45 One side of a feud

46 Prefix related to benzene’s shape

47 G.I. Joe’s “Knowing is half the battle” spots, e.g.

49 GPS input: Abbr.

ANSWER TO PREVIOUS PUZZLE

A F F L U E N Z A T R A PS E E Y A S O O N S W A M IT R A D E S H O W W I D E NO M R I O M A G A Z I N E

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CROSSWORD

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.

BRAIN TEASERS

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