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The fourth DTFF is screening internationally acclaimed films from the Arab world. Twenty seven films are vying for awards in the Arab Film Competition, whose winners will be announced at a ceremony to be held tomorrow at Al Rayyan Theatre.
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Arab flavour at film fest
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by Raynald C Rivera
Four Arab films exploring
very diverse themes and
genres were presented
before the media at the
Doha Tribeca Film Festival (DTFF)
yesterday.
The films were among the 27
vying for awards for the Arab Film
Competition of the festival whose
winners would be announced at
an awarding ceremony to be held
tomorrow at Al Rayyan Theatre in
Souq Waqif.
Algerian filmmaker Merzak
Allouache delves into his nation’s
‘black decade’ in The Repentant
taking a clode look at the lingering
effects of extremism and civil war
which ended in 1999, which for him
was a chance to shed light on what
was going on at that time in his
country.
“A movie cannot change the world,
but I felt I had the obligation to the
society and this movie is part of a
more comprehensive approach to
change,” said Allouache, adding film
for his was a way of examining issues.
Although it recently won Best
Screenplay at the official competition
for feature films at The International
Film Festival in Addis Ababa,
Allouache said he was not expecting
to win at the DTFF where he is
joining for the second time.
“Arab film festivals should not
have prize because the main purpose
of festivals is for directors to interact
and for films to screen for audiences
from different countries,” he said.
Despite acclaim in other countries,
the independently produced film has
met criticisms in its own country
and has only been screened thrice
in small theatres back in Algeria.
In Playground Chronicles,
filmmaker Brahim Fritah revisits
his childhood from five to 15 years
old.
DIVERSE THEMES IN ARAB FILMS
Four Arab films exploring very diverse themes and genres were presented before the media at the Doha Tribeca Film Festival (DTFF) yesterday.
Director of The Repentant, Merzak Allouache, flanked by actress Adila Bendimerad and actor Nabil Asli.
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Ninety percent of the story is fact and only 10 percent is fiction, which
makes it less attractive to producers since it did not have dramatic point,
explained Fritah.
“But I wanted to present something different, away from stereotypes,”
he said of his first feature film funded by the DFI. Around 200 children
auditioned for the lead role in the film which was finally offered to Yanis
Bahloul who exhibited such intelligence and intuitiveness, which fitted
him to his role, according to Fritah.
“I was not anxious at all, but just felt a bit bizarre having to acto infront
of many people,” said Yanis who was a neophyte in acting but had shown
much potential since he was four.
In France in the summer of 1980, 10-year-old Brahim is becoming
aware of the complexities of the world around him. By setting the simple
trials and jubilations of youth against a backdrop of social turmoil, the
director imagines what childhood treasures Brahim will take with him
into the future.
Algerian Documentary O My Body! looks into dance in a fresh
perspective as filmmaker Laurent Ait Benalla goes backstage tracing
the journey of Algiers’ first contemporary dance troupe whose members
were once hip-hop dancers.
“I haven’t seen any film that made me feel how it is to be new in a dance
and how it feels to be onstage for the first time,” said Benalla.
“This is not merely about dance performance but self liberation,” said
Nora Mahrossian, co-producer of the film, adding “What is important is
the artistic side of the film and its power to make people believe.
Born in 1976 to a Moroccan father and a French mother, Benalla is
one of the founders of SLAB, a Montpellier-based production centre for
documentaries.
In the Shadow of A Man, another documentary, depicts how it is to be a
woman in Egypt after recent developments the country has undergone.
Through intimate conversations, four women from different
backgrounds are transformed into unique, authentic figures, who imprint
themselves on our memories as they go through their own personal
revolutions.
The director Hanan Abdallah was born into a family of exiled Egyptian
activists in London. She graduated from Oxford with a degree in politics
and philosophy in 2010 and subsequently took filmmaking courses and
frequented journalists’ centre the Frontline Club before moving to Cairo
to document the revolution in 2011.
The Peninsula
Algerian Documentary ‘O My Body!’ looks into dance in a fresh perspective as filmmaker Laurent Ait Benalla goes backstage tracing the journey of Algiers’ first contemporary dance troupe whose members were once hip-hop dancers.
French Director Brahim Fritah and actor Yanis Bahloul
Hanan Abdallah Laurent Ait Benalla
PLUS | WEDNESDAY 21 NOVEMBER 2012 COMMUNITY4
Skills Development Centre to organise‘Winter Concert 12’
Skills Development Centre (SDC), the Centre of Fine Arts and Performing Arts, is organising a Winter
Concert – a Sitar performance by Pt Sanjay Deshpande – at the Maestro Hall of SDC, on Thursday, November 22, from 7.30pm onwards.
Sanjay Deshpande is a multifac-eted and versatile Sitar player who is known for presenting a variety of music forms on his customised Sitar, right from very authentic Indian classical “Khayal”, Indian evergreen film songs and even Rock music. Disciple of Late Pt Vishnupant Harmadhikari; an Esraj (Dilruba) Exponent of Gwalior tradition. Sanjay Deshpande is one of the leading Sitar player of the younger generation. He is perform-ing Hindustani classical music and composing light music since 1979.
Being the pioneer exponent of “Khayal Ang” on Sitar, he has made major changes in his Sitar so that he can play not only Hindustani, but any music on Sitar.
This Sitar is popularly known as “Sanjaykhani Sitar” by the Sitar makers.“The encouragement from the community for ‘Winter Concert’ every year have further strengthened and motivated us to invite internationally recognised artists for this grand endeavour. The event is open to the public,” the organisers announced during the press meet. The Peninsula
‘Dream Drive with Lulu’ mega draw was held yesterday at Lulu Hypermarket, Gharafa branch under the supervision of Jassim Mohammad, Inspector from the Ministry of Business & Trade. S Preethi Prasanna (Coupon No. 1744402) and Md Nabil (Coupon No.4414116) won Mercedes Benz E-300 cars. Shaijan M O, Regional Manager, Mohammed Basheer, General Manager, Rafi, Administration Manager, and other officials from Lulu were present at the mega draw.
‘Dream Drive with Lulu’ mega draw
North Indians’ Association marks festival of lights
North Indians’ Association (NIA) celebrated festival of lights at Marriott Hotel in
grand style. The Commercialbank-Jashn 2012 night was attended by more than 300 members along with their families. The programme included song and dance perform-ances by members and their children, who had worked hard to put together a wonderful cultural show.
Popular Indian stand-up comedian
Ahsaan Quereshi kept everyone glued to their chairs till the end. Indian Idol-5 singer Shilpi Paul and TV Musical show Sur-Kshetra performer Shahzad Ali made audience dance to their tunes.
The event was sponsored by
Commercialbank, NRI and enter-prise banking. Associate sponsor was Gulf Lights and support sponsors were CDC, Domasco Watches, Marhaba Jewellery, Al Muftah and official car-rier Emirates. Various items like gold
coins, watches, mobile phones, home appliance and two returns to India by Emirates were given during Lucky draws. A silver coin was given as a gift to each NIA family.
The Peninsula
Artistes performing at Jashn 2012. RIGHT: A section of the audience.
Qatar Petroleum’s Medical Services Department, in partnership with the HSE Department of
Ras Laffan Industrial City (RLIC), recently launched a major health promotion programme to ensure the well-being of the hundreds of workers based in Ras Laffan.
The programme in Ras Laffan is specifically tailored for a multilin-gual workforce, with the presenta-tions delivered in English, Arabic, Hindi and Urdu. These are meant to ensure their understanding of various health topics, including hypertension, diabetes, high blood cholesterol, as well as proper hand washing and per-sonal hygiene. As part of the programme, the workers are also given an introduction to cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR) followed by hands-on training on CPR.
The programme is supported by Abdulaziz Jassim Mohd Al Muftah, Director of Industrial Cities, Dr Mahmood Abdulrahman Al Jaidah, Manager for Medical Services, and Leon Van Der Heyde, Manager for Health, Safety & Environment at RLIC. The Peninsula
The QP team with work-ers at the health promo-tion programme.
QP launches health programme in Ras Laffan Industrial City
PLUS | WEDNESDAY 21 NOVEMBER 2012 5CAMPUS
Dell Services volunteers plant trees at Ideal Indian School premises
Dell Services, the information management and implementation services division of Dell Corporation, donated and delivered trees to the Ideal Indian School in an effort
to provide a greener environment to the pupils and school staff.
Dell Services, has been present in Qatar since June 2011, working on two important healthcare IT implementations.
Recognising the wish of employees to support local as well as international communities, the Qatar branch of the Dell Services group WISE (Women in Search of Excellence), launched a volunteering project for all Qatar based employees to raise funds to purchase trees and plant them in and around schools in Qatar.
Judit Cooke, Dell Services’ WISE Qatar Chair commented: “We chose the Ideal Indian School as our first beneficiary for the tree planting donation. We visited the school and were captivated by the active school life represented by the multitude of trophies at the entrance hall; the new building and the huge number of students (almost seven thousand) attend-ing the school. The school premises are quite new and the landscaping is still in progress, which gave us the opportunity to make a difference for the children. It
is great to see how people come together when they can if it is something that they care about.’
Richard Strong, a Customer Executive for Dell Services in Qatar said: “We now have a better under-standing of each other and we are looking forward to our next event together. Dell WISE is arranging a series of presentations on IT careers and this should
be a hit with finishing students, especially those in the Indian Ideal School whom are planning to study towards an IT degree.”
School officials like Hassan Kunhi MP, President, Syed Abdul Hye, Vice President and Syed Shoukath Ali, Principal were also present at the occasion.
The Peninsula
Officials of Ideal Indian School and Dell Services at tree planting programme held at IIS premises.
Forty-two students from year six and seven teachers from Doha British School headed off for a four-day outward bound adven-ture to the UAE.
As soon as they arrived at the base camp in Umm Al Quwain it was straight into kayaking, canoeing and raft building.
“The base camp was located on the beach, so all meals were eaten on the beach looking out to the mangroves and the sea, a stunning view. Day two saw the pupils travelling to Wadi Adventure in Al Ain to take part in whitewater rafting, zip wires
and testing their nerve on the high ropes course!” All pupils took to the activities with determina-
tion and all succeeded in each of the activities. On day three the pupils abseiled, climbed and
hiked at Wadi Wurayah in the East of the UAE. A refreshing swim in a natural pool at the turning around point was enjoyed by all. Day four saw the pupils once again taking part in activities in Umm Al Quwain. All pupils got to do mountain biking, archery and snorkeling. Forty-two very happy but tired pupils returned to Doha on Saturday having had the trip of a lifetime. The Peninsula
The Doha British School students with their teachers during the UAE trip. Left: Students doing rafting.
Adventure trip for Doha British School kids
PLUS | WEDNESDAY 21 NOVEMBER 2012 MARKETPLACE6
THE One has started stocking up on festive goodies. “This is the season to be jolly, so bring the magic of Christmas into your home with THE One’s funky range of festive goodies, featuring bold baubles, cool Christmas trees and dazzling decorations,” said a store official.
RasGas Company Limited (RasGas) recently honoured 106 employees during its annual long-service award
ceremony for their dedication and contributions to make the company the success story that it is today.
The honoured employees included 62 people, who completed 15 years of service in RasGas and 44, who completed 10 years in the company.
Out of the total number of awardees 41 were Qatari nationals, including members of the Executive Leadership Team of RasGas.
Addressing the employees at the ceremony organised at the company headquarters in Doha, Hamad Rashid Al Mohannadi, Managing Director of RasGas said that employees are the most pivotal asset of the company and that is why “people” became one of the
strategic choices of RasGas.“RasGas has always believed that its
continued success depends upon the skills and dedication of its people. The company regards the development of its personnel as a key element in our efforts to enhance skill levels that will ensure that we have adequate competencies to run a safe, reliable and environment-friendly production facility,” he said.
Al Mohannadi pointed out that the hard work of employees continues to play a vital role in RasGas reaching new achievements in all areas of work. He added that RasGas offers challenging and rewarding work opportunities for nationals and expatriates, through its focus on Qatarization as well as on employee development.
The Peninsula
RasGas honours 106 long-serving employees
RasGas officials with RasGas officials with long-serving employees.long-serving employees.
Nearly 400 global, regional and local Internet experts will attend - iNET Qatar: ‘The Rise of the Arab Information Society’ – at
Education City on November 27 from 10am to 4pm.
The one day conference is being organised by ISOC Qatar in partnership with the Internet Society (ISOC), ictQATAR and Carnegie Mellon Qatar. This is the first iNET conference that ISOC has run in the region, following recent events like INET Madrid, INET Tallinn and INET Bangalore.
ISOC Qatar launched at QITCOM earlier this year with a vision to make the Internet in Qatar inclusive and accessible so that everyone can use the Internet to enhance their personal and professional lives.
The Qatar Chapter, which has over 300 members, is one of over 80 Chapters in 72 countries working to identify and address the challenges and opportunities that exist online. A number of these key challenges will be addressed at the iNET Qatar conference,
with participants addressing topics such as Arab businesses on the Internet, the development of Online Arabic content and how the Internet is governed in the Arab World.
Speakers at the event include ictQATAR’s Secretary General, Dr Hessa Al Jaber, Qusai Al-Shatti, Deputy Chairman of Kuwait Information Technology, Dr. Imad Hoballah, Chairman and CEO of the Telecommunication Regulatory Authority in Lebanon and Khaled Koubaa, Policy Manager for Google in North Africa.
Dawit Bekele, Regional Bureau Director for Africa and the Middle East stressed the importance of the conference to helping inform ISOC’s work both in the region and globally.
“The Arab regional INET, will focus on the importance of connecting with regional Internet communities throughout the Arab region.” Registration at: http://www.internetsociety.org/inet-qatar-form
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Top Internet experts to attend Doha conference
FESTIVE GOODIES AT THE ONE
PLUS | WEDNESDAY 21 NOVEMBER 2012HEALTH 7
Health Tipsfrom DOCTOR
Vaccines are made in several ways. However, all vaccines have the same general goal: weaken the virus or bac-teria in a way that allows the recipi-
ent to develop an immune response without developing any symptoms of infection. Vaccines are made using the same components that are found in the natural virus or bacteria.
Weaken the virusUsing this strategy, viruses are weakened
so that they reproduce themselves very poorly once inside the body. The measles, mumps, German measles (rubella), rotavirus, intranasal influenza and chickenpox (varicella) vaccines are made this way. Whereas natural viruses reproduce themselves thousands of times, vaccine viruses usually reproduce themselves fewer than 20 times. Because vaccine viruses don’t reproduce themselves very much, they don’t cause disease, but vaccine viruses repli-cate well enough to induce “memory cells” that pro-tect against infection in the future.The advantage of live, “weakened” vaccines is that one or two doses provide immunity that is life-long.
Inactivate the virusUsing this strategy, viruses are completely
inactivated (or killed) with a chemical. By killing the virus, it cannot possibly reproduce itself or cause disease. The inactivated polio, hepatitis A, influenza (shot), and rabies vac-cines are made this way. Because the virus is still “seen” by the body, cells of the immune system that protect against disease are gener-ate. However, the limitation of this approach is that it typically requires several doses to achieve immunity.
Use part of the virusUsing this strategy, just one part of the virus
is removed and used as a vaccine. The hepatitis B and HPV vaccines are made this way. The vaccine is composed of a protein that resides on the surface of the virus. This strategy can be used when an immune response to one part of the virus (or bacteria) is responsible for pro-tection against disease
Use part of the bacteriaSome bacteria cause disease by making a
harmful protein called a toxin. Several vac-cines are made by taking toxins and inacti-vating them with a chemical (the toxin, once inactivated, is called a toxoid). By inactivat-ing the toxin, it no longer causes harm. The diphtheria, tetanus and pertussis vaccines are made this way. Just like for inactivated viral vaccines, bacterial vaccines require several doses to induce adequate immunity.
Dr. E V Kumar Specialist - Paediatrics
Healthspring World Clinic
How are vaccines made?
by Julie Steenhuysen
Two international teams of scientists have iden-tified a rare mutation in a gene linked with
inflammation that significantly increases the risk for the most common form of Alzheimer’s dis-ease, the first such discovery in at least a decade.
The findings, published in the New England Journal of Medicine, offer new insights into the under-pinnings of Alzheimer’s, a deadly, brain-wasting disease that robs people of their memories, their independence and their lives.
In separate studies, teams led by privately held deCode Genetics and John Hardy of University College London found that people with a muta-tion in a gene called TREM2 were four times as likely to have Alzheimer’s as people who did not have the gene.
“It quadruples the risk of Alzheimer’s,” said Dr Kari Stefansson of Reykjavik-based deCode in a telephone interview.
The level of risk compares with ApoE4, the best-known genetic cause of late-onset Alzheimer’s, the form of the dis-ease that occurs in older adults.
But this new gene variant is 10 times more rare than ApoE4, which is present in about 40 per-cent of people with late-onset Alzheimer’s.
Rare or not, scientists say the discovery represents a big breakthrough for Alzheimer’s research.
“This is one of the most com-mon, most devastating illnesses in humans and we still don’t
have a very good understand-ing of what causes the disease,” said Dr. Allan Levey, director of the Emory Alzheimer’s Disease Center of Excellence in Atlanta, which helped confirm the deCode findings.
“In my mind, this is very important. It gives us another important clue as to one of the biological factors that contribute to causing the disease,” he said.
Despite numerous costly attempts, drug companies have been stymied in their efforts to develop drugs that can alter the steady course of Alzheimer’s, which affects more than 5 mil-lion Americans and costs the United States more than $170 billion annually to treat.
Current research efforts have focused on removing sticky clumps of a protein called beta amyloid that accumulate in the brains of people with Alzheimer’s disease. But several drugs that have been developed to remove these proteins have failed to pro-duce a significant improvement in patients with mild to moder-ate forms of dementia.
TREM2 is a gene that affects a protein expressed on the surface of cells in various tissues that “clean up garbage,” Stefansson said. These cells, called microglia, are often associated with inflam-matory response.
A genetic mutation that alters the function of these housekeep-ing cells could affect how well the brain deals with an excess of toxic proteins from beta amyloid, Stefansson and others said.
And that suggests that even though TREM2 is rare, the way it works in the brain may be
important for brain health.“It is certainly plausible
that TREM2 is involved in all of Alzheimer’s disease,” said Andrew Singleton of the National Institute on Aging, who worked on the paper with Hardy and colleagues at University College London.
“I think it may be very gener-alizable,” Singleton said.
For their study, Hardy and colleagues used a number of gene sequencing techniques to study 988 people with Alzheimer’s disease and 1,004 healthy volunteers.
The team also tested brain tis-sues from deceased Alzheimer’s patients, and they studied the expression of the TREM2 gene in genetically engineered mice.
For the deCODE study, researchers sequenced the genomes of 2,261 Icelanders and identified variations likely to affect protein function. Then, they looked specifically for these variants in people with Alzheimer’s and those with healthy brains, and found those with the TREM2 variant had a significantly higher risk.
To make sure the gene was not specific to Iceland, they rep-licated their findings in popula-tions at Emory University in the United States, as well as groups in Norway, the Netherlands and Germany.
“We’ve essentially found exactly the same thing,” said Singleton of the NIA, which is part of the National Institutes of Health. “In a way which you don’t often see in science, the two studies point in the same direction. Reuters
A combination image of brain scans show a normal functioning brain and one with Alzheimers.
Scientists identify new risk gene for Alzheimer’s
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ded
in
the s
am
e g
ang
. It
’s t
he l
att
er, Y
an,
pla
yed
mar-
vello
usl
y b
y To
ny
Leu
ng
, w
ho
fasc
inate
s, t
ho
ug
h.
Imm
ers
ed
fo
r 1
0 y
ears
in a
triad
cu
ltu
re o
f vi
ole
nce
an
d c
rim
inalit
y, h
e h
as s
acri
ficed
his
life t
o fi
gh
t m
on
sters
, ye
t fa
ces
the p
rosp
ect
of
beco
min
g o
ne
him
self.
As
his
crisi
s o
f id
en
tity
deep
en
s, h
ow
eve
r,
so d
oes
the d
an
ger
of
bein
g c
au
gh
t.
AX
EL
FOL
EY
Beverl
y H
ills
Cop (1984)
Detr
oit’s
str
eetw
ise, s
harp
-talk
er
Axe
l Fo
ley
is the
ultim
ate
co
med
y co
p.
Yet
wh
ile h
e b
ecam
e E
dd
ie
Murp
hy’
s si
gnatu
re, i
t co
uld
so
easi
ly h
ave
been fi
rst
ch
oic
e S
ylve
ster
Sta
llon
e,
wh
o w
ou
ld h
ave
slu
rred
th
roug
h the ro
le li
ke a
dyi
ng
tra
cto
r. T
hankf
ully
, what
we g
ot is
Murp
hy
at his
fast
, filthy,
funny
best
- p
ow
-ering
the e
ntire
fish
-out-
of-
wate
r p
lot (w
hic
h is
flim
sy,
at
best
) th
rou
gh
sh
eer
ch
ari
sma.
It’s
th
is n
atu
ral,
imp
rovi
sed
ch
arm
th
at
allo
ws
his
ch
ara
cte
r to
lie
, ch
eat
an
d p
ose
so
co
nvi
ncin
gly
. P
lus,
he h
as
an
ace t
hem
e t
un
e.
MA
RG
E G
UN
DE
RS
ON
Farg
o (1996)
Fra
nces
McD
orm
an
d’s
Marg
e G
un
ders
on
is
no
t lik
e o
ther
co
ps.
Sh
e d
oesn
’t h
ave
a d
rin
k p
rob
lem
, sh
e i
sn’t
a w
isecra
ckin
g h
ard
-co
p w
ho
wo
n’t
pla
y b
y th
e r
ule
s -
hell,
sh
e’s
no
t eve
n a
day
fro
m r
etire
-m
en
t. In
stead
, th
e C
oen
bro
thers
’ g
reate
st c
reatio
n
is a
po
lite, p
reg
nant p
olic
e c
om
mis
sio
ner
who
neve
r lo
ses
her
head
beyo
nd
a s
imp
le “
aw
, je
ez”
. E
ven
in
the fi
nal a
ct,
when talk
ing
to
a m
an a
rrest
ed
for
killi
ng
si
x p
eo
ple
, sh
e a
do
pts
th
e g
en
tle to
ne o
f a teach
er:
“T
here
’s m
ore
to
life
than a
litt
le m
oney,
yo
u k
no
w?”
Sh
e’s
no
t an
gry
- ju
st d
isap
po
inte
d.
RO
BO
CO
PR
obocop (1987)
Insp
ired
by J
ud
ge D
red
d a
nd
Bla
de R
un
ner,
Pau
l V
erh
oeve
n’s
Ro
bo
co
p -
a s
up
er-
cyb
org
- is
a
satirical r
eactio
n to
eve
ryth
ing
the c
onse
rvative
co
p
genre
ho
lds
dear.
Bill
ed
as
“part
man, p
art
machin
e,
all
co
p”,
he i
s w
hat
rem
ain
s fr
om
th
e b
ruta
l m
ur-
der
of
po
lice o
fficer
Ale
x M
urp
hy,
wh
o,
than
ks
to
Verh
oeve
n’s
use
of
Ch
rist
ian
sym
bo
lism
, is
resu
r-re
cte
d a
s a v
iole
nt
Ro
bo
Jesu
s. R
idic
ulo
us?
Well,
ye
s, b
ut
he d
oes
serv
e a
s a v
ess
el fo
r n
ot
on
ly t
he
film
’s them
es
of cap
italis
m a
nd
masc
ulin
ity,
but als
o
the e
xis
ten
tial q
uan
dary
of
hu
man
iden
tity
.
JOH
N M
CC
LA
NE
Die
Hard
(1988)
Befo
re h
e s
tart
ed
talk
ing
to
ch
airs,
Clin
t E
ast
wo
od
’s
Dirty
Harr
y w
as
the e
pito
me o
f th
e trig
ger-
hap
py,
catc
h-
phra
se c
op
. Yet o
ut o
f his
leg
acy
cra
wle
d J
ohn M
cC
lane
- b
loo
die
d, b
ruis
ed
and
pro
bab
ly w
earing
a v
est
. Alw
ays
“t
he w
ron
g g
uy
in t
he w
ron
g p
lace a
t th
e w
ron
g t
ime”,
h
e is
th
e f
ou
l-m
ou
thed
, N
ew
Yo
rk m
ave
rick w
ith
a m
ar-
riag
e o
n t
he r
ocks,
a d
isre
gard
fo
r au
tho
rity
an
d a
loo
m-
ing
ad
dic
tio
n t
o a
lco
ho
l. E
ven
so
, fo
r all
his
clic
hed
ch
ara
cte
rist
ics,
no
oth
er
co
p i
s h
alf a
s sh
arp
, fu
nn
y o
r en
tert
ain
ing
as
Bru
ce W
illis
’s M
cC
lan
e.
Yip
pee-k
i-ya
y,
mo
ther
read
er.
VIR
GIL
TIB
BS
In t
he H
eat
of
the N
ight
(1967)
Virg
il T
ibb
s is
, b
y fa
r, t
he m
ost
cu
ltu
rally
im
po
rtan
t d
ete
cti
ve o
n t
his
lis
t, I
n t
he H
eat
of
the N
igh
t h
avi
ng
b
een
rele
ased
th
ree y
ears
aft
er
the C
ivil
Rig
hts
Act.
P
laye
d b
y S
idn
ey
Po
itie
r, t
he fi
rst
bla
ck a
cto
r to
win
an
O
scar, T
ibb
s is
th
e s
mart
, st
raig
ht-
talk
ing
Ph
ilad
elp
hia
d
ete
cti
ve in
vest
igati
ng
a m
urd
er
in a
racis
t M
issi
ssip
pi
tow
n.
His
defin
ing
mo
men
t co
mes w
hen
sla
pp
ed
by
wh
ite s
usp
ect
Eri
c E
nd
ico
tt.
In t
he b
oo
k f
rom
wh
ich
th
e fi
lm i
s a
dap
ted
, T
ibb
s d
oesn
’t s
lap
him
back.
In
19
67
, h
ow
eve
r, t
he r
esu
ltin
g c
han
ge m
ay
as
well
have
b
een
a g
ren
ad
e.
CL
AR
ICE
STA
RL
ING
The S
ilence o
f th
e L
am
bs (1991)
Han
nib
al
Lecte
r m
ay h
ave s
tole
n (
an
d e
ate
n)
the
sho
w b
ut
Jo
die
Fo
ster’s
Cla
rice S
tarl
ing
was
the t
rue
co
nd
uit f
or
ou
r h
orr
or, m
akin
g u
s fe
el ju
st a
s o
ut
of
ou
r d
ep
th a
s sh
e is.
A t
rain
ee F
BI
ag
en
t (s
o t
ech
nic
ally
no
t p
olic
e), s
he’s
task
ed
with
gath
erin
g i
nsi
gh
t in
to a
n a
t-la
rge m
urd
ere
r b
y an
aly
sin
g L
ecte
r (A
nth
on
y H
op
kin
s),
a c
an
nib
alis
tic s
eri
al
kill
er
wh
o a
naly
ses
back.
As
she
unw
isely
op
ens
up
to
him
, w
e g
et a la
yere
d g
limp
se in
to
som
eo
ne w
ho
is n
ot o
nly
ten
acio
us
bu
t to
rtu
red
to
o. It
’s
a m
ix m
ast
erf
ully
pu
lled
off
by
Fo
ster, w
ho
was
perf
ect
for
the r
ole
.
JAM
ES
GO
RD
ON
The D
ark
Knig
ht
trilogy (2005-2
012)
Pre
-Ch
rist
op
her
No
lan
, C
om
mis
sio
ner
Go
rdo
n w
as
little m
ore
than B
atm
an’s
bud
dy.
The D
ark
Knig
ht tr
ilog
y,
ho
weve
r, c
ast
s h
im a
s a c
op
co
nflic
ted
betw
een
wh
at
is r
igh
t an
d w
hat
is n
ecess
ary
, w
heth
er
that
mean
s n
ot
ap
pre
hen
din
g a
mask
ed
vig
ilan
te o
r p
erp
etu
atin
g a
lie
. It
’s a
mo
ral
dile
mm
a t
hat
No
lan
deve
lop
s fr
om
Fra
nk
Mill
er’s
Year
One c
om
ic, w
hic
h d
eals
with h
is fi
rst ye
ar
in
a c
orr
up
t G
oth
am
, ye
t is
giv
en a
sense
of d
ep
th b
y G
ary
O
ldm
an’s
po
rtra
yal o
f a d
ecent m
an in
an in
decent tim
e.
Fo
r G
ord
on is
the real g
uard
ian o
f G
oth
am
City,
one w
ith
no
mask
to
hid
e b
eh
ind
.
VIN
CE
NT
HA
NN
AH
eat
(1995)
At
the e
ver-
bu
rnin
g h
eart
of
Heat
is A
l P
acin
o’s
th
e-
atr
ical,
wild
-eye
d L
t V
incen
t H
an
na,
an
LA
PD
ho
mic
ide
dete
ctive
who
se d
evo
tio
n to
the jo
b h
as
left
his
pers
onal
life i
n r
uin
s.
No
t o
nly
is P
acin
o f
ero
cio
usly
en
tert
ain
-in
g,
bu
t H
an
na’s
relu
cta
nt
resp
ect
for
the c
rim
inal
Neil
McC
au
ley
(Ro
bert
De N
iro
) m
akes
for
a s
ho
wd
ow
n o
f u
np
ara
llele
d g
ravi
tas
an
d s
usp
en
se.
It’s
th
e fi
rst
tim
e
Pacin
o a
nd
De N
iro
ap
peare
d o
n s
cre
en to
geth
er,
resu
lt-
ing
in a
cla
sh t
hat
reach
es
its
peak w
ith
th
at
mem
ora
ble
sc
ene in
the d
iner.
As
Hanna s
ays
: “B
roth
er,
you a
re g
oin
g
do
wn
.”
The
Gua
rdia
n
Lady G
aga’s
dress
, w
hic
h h
as
her b
lood
stain
, is
bein
g p
ut
up f
or s
ale
. T
he
dress
is
said
to b
e e
ven
more g
rue-
som
e t
han h
er s
teak f
rock, reports
thesu
n.
co.u
k.
The E
ddie
Gavriilidis
Ecst
asy
gow
n w
ill
go u
nder t
he h
am
mer a
t Ju
lien’s
Aucti
ons,
B
everly
Hills
, on D
ecem
ber 1
. It
is
expecte
d
to f
etc
h m
ore t
han £
7,000.
The g
uid
e s
ays
it “
com
bin
es
tan a
nd g
old
pyth
on l
eath
er a
nd n
ude m
esh
”. T
he f
rock
als
o “
bears
a s
mall b
lood s
tain
- t
he r
esu
lt
of
a s
cratc
hed a
rm
suff
ered a
t th
e h
and o
f an o
verly
enth
usi
ast
ic f
an”.
Gag
a’s
bloo
d-st
aine
d dr
ess
on s
ale
10 b
est
scr
een c
ops
BO
LLY
WO
OD
NE
WS
Juhi
, Mad
huri
tog
ethe
r in
Gul
ab G
ang
Aft
er ropin
g in
M
adhuri
Dix
it fo
r G
ula
b G
an
g,
now
fi
lmm
aker
Anubhav S
inha h
as
cast
Juhi C
haw
la for t
he fi
lm a
nd s
ays
it w
ill be
great
to s
ee t
hem
togeth
er f
or t
he fi
rst
tim
e o
n b
ig s
creen.
“Actu
ally,
there w
ere t
wo r
easo
ns
to c
ast
Juhi C
haw
la f
or t
he fi
lm. T
he
very fi
rst
thin
g i
s th
at
it w
as
a c
reati
ve d
ecis
ion t
aken b
y a
ll o
f us.
.. a
nd
we t
hought
it w
ould
be g
reat
to s
ee t
wo iconic
sta
rs
- M
adhuri and J
uhi -
togeth
er in t
he fi
lm,” S
inha, w
ho is
producin
g t
he fi
lm, sa
id.
“I c
ould
n’t
have p
ulled o
ff a
bett
er c
ast
than t
he t
wo m
ost
iconic
fem
ale
st
ars,
Madhuri
and J
uhi, t
ogeth
er f
or t
he fi
rst
tim
e o
n I
ndia
n s
creen,” h
e
added.
Insp
ired b
y S
am
pat
Pal-
led G
ula
bi G
ang in B
undelk
hand, U
ttar P
radesh
, w
hic
h fi
ghts
for t
he r
ights
of w
om
en in t
he r
egio
n, th
e fi
lm w
ill be d
irecte
d
by
Soum
ik
Sen
. F
ilm
ing
wil
l sta
rt
in
Decem
ber
an
d
the
“first
schedule
will
be s
hot
in
Bom
bay,
” S
inha s
aid
.“W
e w
ere w
ork
ing on
th
e
looks
of
the a
ctr
ess
es,
now
we
are r
eady t
o r
oll. S
ince t
he fi
lm
is b
ase
d i
n r
ural
India
, both
of
them
will
be s
een i
n a
de-g
lam
avata
r a
nd w
ill
have a
rusti
c
look,” h
e a
dded.
Earli
er,
th
e pla
ns w
ere to
rele
ase
Gu
lab
Ga
ng o
n W
om
en’s
D
ay,
but
Sin
ha s
aid
that
“thin
gs
got
a l
ittl
e d
ela
yed a
nd n
ow
I
feel
the fi
lm w
ill
rele
ase
aft
er
March”.
Gu
lab
Ga
ng a
lso s
tars
Mahie
G
ill and S
hilpa S
hukla
.
SR
K d
enie
s pa
tch-
up w
ith S
alm
an
Superst
ar S
hah R
ukh K
han d
enie
d t
he h
ighly
-publicis
ed n
ew
s of
his
patc
h-u
p w
ith S
alm
an K
han a
t th
e p
rem
iere o
f Ja
b T
ak
Ha
in J
aa
n.
“This
is
a v
ery o
ld q
uest
ion
. It
’s b
orin
g,”
Shah R
ukh K
han
told
reporte
rs
durin
g t
he launch o
f K
idZ
ania
sto
re R
Cit
y m
all, G
hatk
opar.
When a
sked a
bout
Am
itabh B
achchan’s
tw
eet
about
their
patc
h-u
p, he
said
: “I
f A
mit
ji h
as
tweete
d i
t th
en y
ou a
ll a
sk h
im. T
here i
s no p
atc
h u
p.
I read a
bout
in n
ew
spapers.
Don’t
believe it.”
The a
cto
r, h
ow
ever,
is
happy t
hat
Jab
Ta
k H
ain
Ja
an h
as
done g
ood b
usi
-ness
world
wid
e.
Shah R
ukh s
aid
: “I
am
happy t
hat
the fi
lm is
doin
g w
ell w
orld
wid
e. T
his
is
a v
ery s
pecia
l film
for m
e, K
atr
ina K
aif
and A
nush
ka S
harm
a. D
esp
ite
som
e iss
ues,
the fi
lm h
as
work
ed. I
am
thankfu
l to
everyone.”
Shi
lpa
take
s so
n on
firs
t fo
reig
n tr
ip
Ahead o
f her t
hir
d w
eddin
g a
nniv
ersa
ry,
actr
ess
Shilpa S
hett
y h
as
taken h
er s
on V
iaan o
n h
is fi
rst
inte
rnati
onal tr
ip t
o B
angkok.
Shilpa is
on a
work
-rela
ted t
our,
but
she is
excit
ed a
bout
havin
g
her s
on’s
com
pany.
“Hey t
weeto
s, i
n B
an
gkok f
or a
n a
d s
hoot.
Via
an
Raj
Kun
dra’s
first
in
ternati
onal tr
ip. S
o m
uch p
ackin
g, nearly
carrie
d w
hole
house
!!! P
hew
,”
Shilpa p
ost
ed o
n T
wit
ter.
Shilpa m
arrie
d b
usi
ness
man R
aj K
undra in 2
009. T
he c
ouple
had t
heir
first
child in M
ay t
his
year,
and t
he a
ctr
ess
is
lookin
g forw
ard t
o c
ele
brat-
ing h
er t
hir
d a
nniv
ersa
ry a
broad t
oo.
“Com
ple
ting t
hree y
ears
of
marria
ge o
n N
ov 2
2, so
thought
this
would
be a
nic
e b
reak. T
ravellin
g o
ut
of
the c
ountr
y a
fter a
year! F
eels
so g
ood,”
she a
dded.
Juhi
Cha
wla
Mad
huri
Dix
it
PLUS | WEDNESDAY 21 NOVEMBER 2012 FOOD10
BY TIM CARMAN
The bright red pepper has a shriveled appear-ance, as if a bulbous clown nose had some-how wilted into a long, twisted witch’s beak. Between its wrinkly complexion and
its nasty reputation, the Bhut Jolokia, better known as the ghost pepper, generates fear and fascination. YouTube is littered with videos of bros pumped up enough to eat a whole one — only to crumple to the floor, pounding down milk.
When I cut into my first ghost pepper recently — while wearing food-safe gloves, at the urging of practically everyone who has an opinion on the sub-ject — I was first struck by the aroma. My kitchen was filled with the sweet, tropical fragrance of pas-sion fruit. You quickly learn that the aroma is a trap, designed to entice the innocent and ignorant into tasting the pepper. You will almost certainly regret any attempt to eat the fiery fruit straight up, with seeds and ribs.
I tried a small seedless dice of the pepper, approxi-mately the size of a pea, and within seconds, my right eye was streaming tears down my cheek, my nostrils were dripping and, worst of all, I began to hiccup uncontrollably. It was as if my head had become a wood-burning oven, lighting up my tongue and the interior of my skull. Milk provided little relief, until the burn began to subside on its own some 10 min-utes later.
The Bhut Jolokia is one of a rare breed of peppers: The nonprofit Chile Pepper Institute in Las Cruces calls them, without any whiff of comedic hyperbole, “super-hot” peppers. Believe it or not, these freak-show specimens are slowly creeping into some farm-ers markets.
I’ve seen super-hot chilies at DC area markets, where heat seekers sometimes treat the peppers more like schoolyard dares than take-home produce — just the latest example of that seemingly never-ending human desire to try to eat fire.
Lana Edelen, co-owner of Homestead Farm in Faulkner, once had a customer approach her stand at a market and stare at the colourful carnival of hot peppers for sale — not just Bhut Jolokias, but their cousin, the similarly piquant Dorset Naga, as well as Trinidad Scorpions, Jamaican Hot Chocolates and Habanero Caribbean Reds. “He said nothing was hot-ter than a habanero,” Edelen recalls. You can almost hear her sigh over the phone at the man’s arrogance.
So Edelen cut open one of her flame throwers and offered a piece to the man, but with a neighbourly warning. “It’s hot,” she told him. “I’m telling you beforehand.” He popped a piece into his mouth and told Edelen, “It ain’t too bad. There ain’t no heat yet,” she remembers.
“Then all of a sudden he was looking for something
to eat,” she adds. An hour later, she spotted him again and “his teeth and lips were still on fire.”
To some, Edelen’s anecdote would be a cautionary tale. To others, it’s a come-hither “Body Heat” signal of seduction, much like those hot sauces with the orifice-oriented names (think: Sphincter Shrinker XXX, Colon Cleaner) were in the 1990s and 2000s. But before anyone attempts this new daredevil stunt, they should know something important: Some of these super-hot peppers can be twice as fiery as the habaneros and Scotch bonnets often used in hot sauces.
To join the elite class of super-hots, peppers must register an average level of 1 million Scoville heat units in replicated, scientifically controlled trials. To give you some point of comparison, a common jalapeno tops out, depending on what source is cited, at 10,000 SHUs. Habaneros and Scotch bonnets can range from 100,000 to 350,000 SHUs.
At present, only a handful of peppers are mem-bers of the super-hot class. Aside from the ghost pepper (an average of 1,019,687 SHUs), the other ultra-hotties include the Trinidad Scorpion (1,029,271 SHUs); Trinidad 7-Pot Jonah (1,066,882 SHUs); Douglah Trinidad Chocolate (1,169,058 SHUs); and the mother of all tongue-destroying peppers, the Trinidad Moruga Scorpion (1,207,764 SHUs), accord-ing to a recently published Chile Pepper Institute sci-entific study. Two Trinidad Moruga Scorpion plants in the study topped 2 million SHUs.
The reigning Guinness World Record holder, the Trinidad Scorpion Butch T, grown by the Chilli Factory in Australia, was not included in the Chile Pepper Institute study, despite being tested at 1.46 million SHUs in March 2011. There’s a simple reason for that, explains Danise Coon, a senior research specialist for New Mexico State University and pro-gramme coordinator for the institute. The owners “would not send us seed,” Coon says. “We’d like to be nice and say they didn’t have any more seed. I really can’t draw any conclusions.”
But without the ability to test the Butch T pep-per under scientifically controlled conditions, the Chile Pepper Institute noted in its study that the Trinidad Moruga Scorpion “can be considered the world’s hottest known measured chile pepper.” Still, as the organisation points out on its site, “the Bhut Jolokia pepper remains the hottest pepper that is commercially available.” It was the first pepper to reach 1 million SHUs and was once the Guinness record holder.
This desperate chase for the world’s hottest pep-per — and whatever commercial applications it may hold for the record holder — is a separate issue, of course, from the people who want to consume them. You might be shocked to learn that not all consumers are heat junkies looking for their next starring role
as a human test dummy in a YouTube video.The reason Homestead Farm entered the hot pep-
per market was pure and simple consumer demand, which is interesting because other area farmers have said they’re not so hot about these plants, given that customer interest is marginal at best. “They’re very hard to make any profit on, because people don’t buy very many of them,” co-owner Moie Kimball Crawford says about the hot peppers grown at New Morning Farm in Hustontown. Zach Lester, co-owner of Tree and Leaf Farm in Unionville, says flat-out that super-hot peppers “don’t mix in with the food I’m selling and the recipes.”
But since 1992, Homestead Farm has tapped into an African market that desires foods from back home. Almost every day, Edelen says, customers come to pick sweet potato leaves, “garden egg” fruits, jute leaves or hot peppers. At first, Lana and her hus-band, Joseph, started planting more moderately spicy varieties, such as cayenne and jalapenos, before grad-uating to Scotch bonnets. Nothing was hot enough for their African customers, however, until the cou-ple began planting ghost peppers and Jamaican Hot Chocolates and even Trinidad Scorpions.
“I have people from Africa who buy them,” she says. “I have people from Jamaica who buy them.” Even some chefs are searching out Homestead Farm’s pep-pers, though Lana Edelen is hard-pressed to recall a name. She sells ghost peppers for $1 apiece and the other bombs for 75 cents each, but for customers who want more than a single conversation piece or a brief flirtation with capsaicin pain, she’ll also sell the peppers for $9 a pound.
Which brings us back to an issue that Lester raised: Do these carpet bombs for the mouth fit into dishes that are actually consumed by people with functioning palates? Coon with the Chile Pepper Institute thinks “some of these are completely ined-ible. . . . They’re not for food consumption, that’s for sure.” Then again, Coon notes that the institute sells a brownie mix, Dr. B’s Bhut-Kickin’ Brownies, made with ghost peppers. You can buy the product online.
Coon says the brownie mix includes only about a teaspoon of ground Bhut Jolokia powder, which is key. To use these peppers in the kitchen, you have to temper their heat and find a way to emphasise their other qualities, like the floral, fruity aromas of the ghost pepper.
My instinct was to push the ghost in the same sweet direction: as a heat and flavouring agent in a pear jam. The resulting spread was chunky and slightly sweet, with a long, hot and strangely cooling finish that tasted as though someone had crossed passion fruit with Sichuan peppercorns. It was, I’d say, about 1.019 million times better than eating a ghost pepper raw.
WP-Bloomberg
Frightening heat ...
... in a super hot pepper
FROM LEFT: Fatalii and Hot Mama (smaller yellow), Dorset Naga, Habanero Caribbean Red, Jamaican Hot Chocolate and Bhut Jolokia or ghost pepper.
PLUS | WEDNESDAY 21 NOVEMBER 2012BOOKS 11
by Elaine Lies
Marie-Louise is 18 years old in 1809, the cherished daughter of the Austrian king, when she is forced
to make a horrible choice - leave her nation to become Napoleon Bonaparte’s second wife, or see France attack her country.
So begins The Second Empress by Michelle Moran, her fifth novel and the latest in a collection of tales about strong women throughout history, from ancient Egypt’s Nefertiti to Cleopatra and Madame Tussaud.
Moran, who is currently working on a book about an Indian warrior queen, spoke about Napoleon, his sec-ond wife, and why she likes to write about history.
What got the book going?“Each of my books has been inspired
by actually either seeing the place where my characters live, or seeing something that was important to them. So for my first book, Nefertiti, it was seeing her iconic bust in Berlin. For my third book, Cleopatra’s Daughter, it was when I was doing an underwa-ter dive in Alexandria. This one is a lot less glamorous. I was standing in Fontainebleu, just outside of Paris. It was there that they showed us Marie-Louise’s bedroom. I had never really thought about Marie-Louise, she was an 18-year-old girl from Austria and she took the place of (first wife) Josephine. Josephine was really, really well liked by the public at that time. She was considered his good luck charm, and it was only less than 25 years before that another Austrian - Marie Antoinette - had come over to marry a French king. So she was also filling (her great aunt) Marie Antoinette’s shoes, in some ways, and that didn’t end too well for her great aunt.
“I thought what would it be like to arrive in a country that had beheaded your great aunt, only 25 years later. Many of the people who were involved in that are still living. You’re this man’s second wife, the church did not rec-ognise his divorce to Josephine so he was considered a bigamist. This was really shocking to her - she was really religious. He had recently conquered her mother’s country of Austria, he had humiliated the country and her father, and he didn’t give her a choice. He wanted her because of her blood line. In fact, the marriage was made without even asking her permission.”
What did you do to get yourself into her head?
“The book is actually told by three points of view. One is a Haitian chamberlain, and it was much more difficult to get into his head because I’m not Haitian, I’m not really religious, and writing from the male point of view is much harder. He
was desperately in love with Pauline Bonaparte, Napoleon’s sister, who was wildly outrageous - and she was the second narrator. The third narrator is Marie-Louise. To really try and get into their heads, I tried to read anything that was available, many first hand accounts of people who had actually met them.”
What were the challenges and interests of this particular period for you?
“The challenges were definitely try-ing to show a different side of Napoleon, since many people are attached to him as a military genius. There’s no doubting the man was a military gen-ius. He would sit in his tent and write
literally thousands of letters from the front. While he’s managing a massive campaign, he knew the fountains in Paris had stopped working. He knew everything that was going on, he was a micro-manager. That was incredibly impressive. So the challenge was to show a different side of him without angering people too much.
“The different side I found was a man who was a misogynist, a man who was literally, truly cruel to women. The first time he had sexual relations with his favourite mistress was when she fainted at his feet and he raped her. He was incredibly crass and enjoyed insulting women. He would go up to them at a soiree and he would hint that he knew about their husband’s infideli-ties, even if they had never cheated, just to see them squirm. Or he would pinch them and imply oh, you’re get-ting a little fat there. And women had to put up with this, because he was Emperor. So maybe that was the challenge.
“What made it easy was that there were so many resources to draw on. Some are reliable, some not. I read them all.”
There’s quite a jump in the places where you set your books. What is it about these places that appeals to you?
“What appeals to me are the sto-ries of women... and it doesn’t mat-ter what time, what place. Stories of women whose lives were unbeliev-able, and whose stories really went untold. They had a larger than life existence. They maybe were rul-ers, like Nefertiti. Maybe they were wives of rulers, like Marie-Louise, or maybe they were artists, like Madame Tussaud. It doesn’t matter. These are stories that got lost.
“Not many people know about Napoleon’s second wife, thousands of people visit Madame Tussaud’s across the world every day but not many know how unbelievable her story was, that she struggled between royals and revolutionaries and lived to tell the tale, which was true of nearly no one else.
And now, in India, a woman whose tale was untold in the West... a woman very much like Joan of Arc. She went into battle against Queen Victoria’s men, she rode into battle with her adopted son behind her, in some cases, and she lost.”
You must enjoy research.“I do. It is one of my favourite parts
about writing a book. That’s not to say that everything is necessarily histori-cally accurate. Historical fiction is fic-tion, and so in the parts where I’ve had to change the history slightly, I admit to it always in the afterword. I think people read historical fiction because they want to learn, so I try to stick as close to the history as possible.”
Reuters
The tale of Napoleon’s second wife
The challenges were definitely trying to show a different side of Napoleon, since many people are attached to him as a
military genius. The different side I found was a man who was a misogynist, a man who was literally, truly cruel to women.
PLUS | WEDNESDAY 21 NOVEMBER 2012 TECHNOLOGY12
by Hayley Tsukayama
EPIC MICKEY 2 – THE POWER OF TWOPro: Familiar funCon: Can feel a bit staleBest for: Those for whom there’s no school like the old schoolRetail price: $44.99 (all prices men-tioned in this article are for the US market.)
This year in the gaming world is all about the sequel, and games for the younger set are no exception. In its follow-up to Epic Mickey, Disney again relies heavily on its stable of beloved characters to produce a fun, familiar game that will appeal to kids of all ages.
Mickey returns, of course, as does his pal Oswald the Lucky Rabbit from the first title to help players fly over gaps and use his powers to turn ene-mies into friends. Gamers can choose to play solo or with a friend, thanks to flexible cooperative play that adds another layer to the game. The title also gives kids a little bit of the moral decision-making that shows up in more mature titles, as the way they play affects the world around them. Jumping on the heads of too many of the other creatures in a level makes other characters wary about working with you.
True Disney fans will appreciate that references to older movies and Disneyland jokes pepper the story line, making it a true nostalgic treat to watch as well as play.
NEW SUPER MARIO BROS UPro: Something-for-everyone gameplayCon: Exclusive to the Wii UBest for: Families who like to play togetherRetail price: $59.99 (in US)
With the latest Super Mario Bros title, Nintendo is trying to show off the best of its new Wii U console and the new kind of videogame playing that comes with it. Called “asymmet-ric play,” the Wii U and its tablet-like controller give one player the opportu-nity to take a slightly different role in the course of the game. In New Super Mario Bros U, that new role is one more suited to those not used to play-ing in the Mario world. The one who holds the tablet controller gets to cre-ate new blocks and platforms to help
— or hinder — their fellow players as they work their way through the level. That could mean giving your friend a leg up on a part of the map that’s dif-ficult to get past or blocking them into a confined space with an enemy.
The rest of the gameplay should be very familiar to Mario fans, who will be happy to see the return of the plumber protagonist’s most-used power-ups, including the leaf that gives you the ability to glide like a flying squirrel. The game also includes the return of baby Yoshi dinosaurs with special abili-ties to help players through the game world and toward the ultimate goal of saving the princess.
PLAYSTATION ALL-STARS BATTLE ROYALEPro: Pulls in the feel of favorite PlayStation gamesCon: Can feel a bit chaoticBest for: Good friends with thick skinsRetail Price: $59.99
Sony pulled out an impressive lineup of its classic characters to participate in a no-holds-barred battle game that should have PlayStation fans grinning from ear to ear as they beat each other senseless.
The cast of characters features those as varied as the sneaky raccoon Sly Cooper to Heihachi from Tekken to
Nathan Drake from Uncharted. In each case, the company has taken pains to make the controls feel as familiar as possible; each character plays the same way they do in their original games.
The mash-ups extend beyond the fact that you can play characters from different titles in the same game. Levels are set in backgrounds that pull elements from Sony games and lev-els will often introduce tidbits from other popular games halfway through a battle. So, for example, the level that features the setting from God of War gets a sudden visit from the rhythm-worshiping creatures from Patapon.
All in all, the game plays like a love letter to the company’s biggest fans. It’s a great game to have with a crowd, though friends will have to promise to leave their feelings about victories and defeats on the battlefield.
LITTLEBIGPLANET – KARTINGPro: Has a lot of build-your-own optionsCon: Basic racing gameplayBest for: Creative gamersRetail Price: $59.99
The developers from LittleBigPlanet are taking their world to the racetrack with the latest installment of the series. The racing part of the game admit-tedly doesn’t add much innovation to
the classic genre. But what sets this game apart is the ability to customise just about everything.
The development team has added a lot of tools that make it easy for any player to make up a level particularly suited to their own playing style. These options take the game far beyond its own genre for those who are willing to invest the time in building custom levels.
The toolbox itself is great and var-ied, though it could be a little over-whelming for younger (or even older, less experienced) players, who may otherwise enjoy the stock racing levels included in the game.
The title is a fun one for kids of all ages who enjoy zipping around the racetrack, particularly in the unique, fun world of LittleBigPlanet. LittleBigPlanet Karting is a strong addition to the popular series and certainly one that lets gamers express their full creativity.
HARRY POTTER FOR KINECTPro: Easy fun for the whole familyCon: Requires a Kinect; a little rigidBest for: Folks with big living roomsRetail Price: $49.99
Accio Xbox! Using the Kinect con-troller, this game is one of the first Harry Potter games to skillfully exe-cute what, by all rights, should have been a no-brainer for any developer working on a Harry Potter game. This title reads players’ movements for spell-casting, potion-making and soar-ing through the air on a broomstick.
The Kinect is able to read move-ments easily and rarely misfires — a common problem with Kinect games that has been less prevalent in recent years. It’s certainly one of the better motion-controlled Potter games and should be great for getting kids excited (and moving around!) as they picture themselves as students at Hogwarts.
The game is really aimed at younger players, or those more interested in getting a quick bout of play in rather than exploring the nearly total lack of story line in the game. It plays more like a collection of rigid mini games, which can be fun for shorter sessions but not marathon play. It’s certainly a game for people who want to act like wizards rather than those who want to revisit the story lines from the popular books. WP-Bloomberg
Tech Gift Guide: Video games for children
LittleBigPlanet: Karting Harry Potter for Kinect
Epic Mickey 2: The Power of Two
PLUS | WEDNESDAY 21 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.
ANNE MURRAY, BARBARA MANDRELL, BRENDA LEE, CHARLEY PRIDE, CHET ATKINS, CRYSTAL GAYLE, DOLLY PARTON, DON WILLIAMS, EMMY LOU HARRIS, GLEN CAMPBELL, HANK WILLIAMS, JOHNNY CASH, KENNY ROGERS, LORETTA LYNN, MARTY ROBBINS, MERLE HAGGARD, PATSY CLINE, ROGER MILLER, TAMMY WYNETTE, WAYLON JENNINGS, WILLIE NELSON.
Zits Jerry Scott and Jim Borgman
Hagar The Horrible Chris Browne
Blondie Dennis Young and Denis Lebrun
Slylock Bob Weber
PLUS | WEDNESDAY 21 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 Manhandle horribly
5 U. of Maryland athlete
9 Jollity
14 “Rule, Britannia” composer
15 End in ___ (finish evenly)
16 Brainstorms
17 Cut of meat
18 Pro ___ (how some law work is done)
19 Composition for nine musicians
20 Fiercely
23 OB/GYNs perform them
24 In ___ (harmonious)
25 Air safety org.
28 ___ Ness monster
30 Westerns, in old lingo
32 “Scream” director Craven
35 Embarrassingly imprudent
38 “___ cost you!”
40 Fall behind
41 Falco of “Nurse Jackie”
42 Next to one another
47 Member of the upper house: Abbr.
48 Roman leader who met his fate on the Ides of March
49 Police action on a gambling ring
51 “Carpenter” or “harvester” insect
52 Drizzle, say
55 Dentists’ tools
59 Fast and in large amounts
61 Television input jack
64 Battery fluid
65 Dread
66 Edge
67 “___ but known …”
68 Blues singer James
69 Bring joy to
70 Wife in “The Good Earth”
71 Having a positive outlook
DOWN 1 Mediterranean island
country
2 Woolf’s “___ of One’s Own”
3 The “U” in E.U.
4 Popular soup legume
5 ___ sauce
6 School on the Thames
7 Outsides of melons
8 Spring bloom
9 Easily portable movie maker
10 Winner of a Fox talent show beginning in 2002
11 Stimpy’s canine pal
12 ___ kwon do
13 President after F.D.R.
21 Part of a horse that’s shod
22 Before long, poetically
25 Prolonged hostilities
26 Clarinetist Shaw
27 Drained of color
29 ___ Bible
31 Follower of tic-tac
32 Pagan nature religion
33 Revolutionary Allen
34 Frozen 52-Across
36 Atlantic City casino, with “the”
37 Stravinsky or Sikorsky
39 Article in Paris Match
43 Sing-along at a bar
44 Raisin ___
45 Entered up to one’s ankles
46 Train line to Penn Sta.
50 Be at odds (with)
53 Boise’s state
54 Like some diet drinks
56 Be untruthful with
57 Exams for would-be attys.
58 Veer off the beaten path
59 Clue
60 ___ Blue, 1971 Cy Young Award winner
61 Lincoln, the Rail-Splitter
62 WWW address
63 Day, to Diego
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13
14 15 16
17 18 19
20 21 22
23 24 25 26 27
28 29 30 31
32 33 34 35 36 37
38 39 40 41
42 43 44 45 46 47
48 49 50
51 52 53 54 55 56 57 58
59 60
61 62 63 64 65
66 67 68
69 70 71
F E R N S P A L U P N E ZA R E Y O U A L O N E E L OC O M E I N T O T H E O P E NE D I T E D O U T C A N ES E X E N D O F C L A D
C A R E C US A C A G A W E A D O L L A RP R I M E R E A L E S T A T EA I R P O R T T E R M I N A LS E E D L E S S R A I S I N S
A D S T C MO L A V T A K E I O R BT O N I P Y R O M A N I AT E N D E R L O I N S T E A KE W E S T A T E S E N A T ER E X L E N O S C O M A S
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 | WEDNESDAY 21 NOVEMBER 2012 CINEMA / TV LISTINGS
SHOWING AT CITY CENTER12:00 Uefa
Champions
League Cluj V
Braga
14V15 Uefa
Champions
League Benfica
V Celtic
18:00 English Sports
News
18:45 Boxing Periban
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Champions
League Zenit
St Petersburg V
Malaga
22:00 Uefa
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League Man
City V Real
Madrid
01:30 Liga World
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10:30 Inside Story
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12:00 News
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13:00 NEWSHOUR
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15:00 The Fight for
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16:00 NEWSHOUR
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18:00 NEWSHOUR
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20:00 News
20:30 Inside Story
21:00 NEWSHOUR
22:00 News
22:30 The Stream
23:00 Witness
13:15 Ultimate
Survival
14:10 Border Security
14:35 Scrappers
15:05 Auction Kings
16:25 Wheeler
Dealers
19:40 How It’s Made
20:05 Border Security
20:35 Scrappers
21:00 Auction Kings
21:30 Dynamo:
Magician
Impossible
22:25 Mythbusters
12:00 Spine Chillers:
Scorpions
13:00 Wild
Mississippi
14:00 World’s
Deadliest
17:00 World’s
Weirdest
22:00 Dangerous
Encounters
With Brady Barr
23:00 Hunt for the
Giant Squid
13:15 The Marvelous
Misadventures...
14:30 Young Justice
16:35 Powerpuff Girls
17:00 Angelo Rules
18:50 Johnny Test
20:30 Ben 10
21:20 Level Up
21:45 Grim
Adventures Of...
22:10 Courage The
Cowardly Dog
12:00 The Hitchhiker’s
Guide To The
Galaxy
14:00 Robots
16:00 Joe Dirt
18:00 Nothing To Lose
20:00 Just Crazy
Enough
22:00 Frenemy
15
13:20 RSPCA: On
The Frontline
14:45 Animal Cops
Philadelphia
17:00 The Really Wild
Show
17:30 Too Cute!
19:20 Dogs 101
20:15 Monkey Life
20:40 E-Vets: The
Interns
22:05 Wildest Arctic
23:00 Galapagos
23:55 Mutant Planet
10:55 Valdez Is
Coming
12:25 Hannibal
Brooks
14:05 Solarbabies
15:40 The Tempest
17:10 Vigilante Force
18:55 Wicked
Stepmother
20:25 Murder In High
Places
22:00 The Unforgiven
12:55 Honky Tonk
14:45 Lady L
16:30 Forbidden
Planet
18:10 Escape From
Fort Bravo
19:45 Light In The
Piazza
21:25 Julie
23:00 Mrs. Soffel
15:00 Adventures Of
Sharkboy And
Lavagirl
18:00 Rio
20:00 Looney Tunes:
Back In Action
22:00 The Apple &
The Worm
23:30 Crab Island
GULF CINEMA
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– 1.00, 4.15, 7.30 & 11.00pm
2
Jab Tak Hai Jaan (2D/Hindi) – 1.00, 4.30 & 10.30pm
Son Of Sardaar (2D/Hindi) – 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
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LANDMARK
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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
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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
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IN FOCUS
• People are saying it’s strange that Qatar, despite being a peninsula, does not have good public beaches with facilities so that people can enjoy their holidays or spend their leisure time there.
• People are complaining about beggars and how they are harassing them in pub-lic. There is a call for the government to put in place laws to curb this practice.
• After increasing the minimum wage of Filipina housemaids in Qatar to QR1,460, many hope the move will now prevent them from running away from their exist-ing sponsors.
• Reports published by Qatar Statistics Authority are highly appreciated, and people hope other organisations will fol-low suit to give such information.
• One question being repeatedly asked by many people in the community is whether they require contacts or influence to get rooms for delivery at the women’s hos-pital because of the huge rush at the hospital.
• In Qatar, we have no world-famous cul-tural symbols as in Egypt, Kuwait etc.
• There is a need to evaluate the per-formance of civil society organisations and give them the freedom to operate independently, because currently they are under the control of the govern-ment. The law on non-profits organi-sations also must be reviewed, some say.
• Qatar Diabetes Organisation is doing well to educate people about diabetes, but more needs to be done since there is a high percentage of people living with diabetes here.
• People are requesting Ashghal to speed up construction work on C Ring Road from the Cinema signal to Toyota signal because it’s slowing traffic.
• There are complaints about the con-ditions of public restrooms on the Corniche, near Sheraton park. They have urged the authorities to take necessary action.
A summary ofissues of the daydiscussed by the Qatari communityin the media.
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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
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Three deer use automatic doors to enter Iowa store
Shoppers in Iowa got an unusual glimpse of wildlife when a doe and two fawns wandered into a depart-ment store. Coralville Police Chief Barry Bedford says the deer used doors that open automatically to get into a Kohl’s store. He says the fawns stayed in the store’s vestibule, but their mother made it into the store and headed toward the back.
Police say employees opened up some back doors and the doe exited. The two fawns turned around and used the automatic exit doors to leave the store.
Russian woman keeps dead husband’s body
Russian authorities say a woman with five children kept her hus-band’s body in their apartment for almost three years after his death. Prosecutors in the central Yaroslavl region said the unidentified woman, described as a devout Pentecostal Christian with a psychiatric record, was so distraught when her husband died of natural causes in 2009 that she believed he “was bound to resurrect.”
The prosecutors’ office said that the woman kept the cadaver in a bed in a room of her apartment and asked her children to talk to it and feed it.
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