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Footballer Xavi Hernandez joins hands with the team delivering the 2022 FIFA World Cup Qatar as he became an official ambassador for Generation Amazing, the flagship CSR programme of the Supreme Committee for Delivery & Legacy (SC).
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Lead the lifestyle you dream ofBy Amna Pervaiz Rao
The Peninsula
Qatar Professional Women’s
Network (QPWN) hosted a
‘Healthy’ seminar for all work-
ing women and housewives,
as it is hard to stay healthy while lead-
ing a busy life in searing temperatures
and dusty air.
Saima Bukhari, Founder and CCO
of Crunch Doha, and Roufaida Thabti,
freelance personal trainer, talked about
how we can create healthy habits for
ourselves and our families, at Rotana
City Center recently.
QPWN is an informal women’s net-
work for both Qatari and expatriate
women, established in early 2010 by
several professional women living in
Doha. The Qatar Professional Women’s
Network’s mission is to promote and
facilitate the professional development
and advancement of women in Qatar.
To achieve that mission, QPWN fo-
cuses essentially on three key areas:
Networking events to help members
expand their network of contacts and
facilitate cross-cultural sharing, out-
reach to like-minded organisations in
the Gulf as well as public and private
bodies in Qatar with a view to provid-
ing guidelines on female professional
advancement and Mentoring (Circle of
Pearl) to refine and expand members’
professional skills.
The team of QPWN has four core
committee members — Rita di Anto-
nio, the QPWN Leader; Paula Shaw,
the leader of operations; Willemijn van
der Krogt, the Leader of the digital and
social media, and Emma Morrell, the
leader of the events which are hosted
by QPWN.
Her journey started in 2013 when
she got her certification from IFA — In-
ternational Fitness Alliance. She cov-
ered all the courses which IFA offered
to become the personal trainer. The
tough part that she quoted was “to get
herself in shape.” She got her first cli-
ent 3 years ago and now 99 percent of
her clients are Qataris. Most of them
have big homes that she goes to train
them at.
She added that while 80 percent of
her clients are serious with the train-
ing that she gives them, 20 percent of
the clients are trying to be fit. She has
been training two of her clients since
2 years as they just want to maintain
themselves. These clients think if their
trainer leaves them, they won’t have
anybody to guide them. Such emotion-
al attachment tends to happen with
few clients. She charges QR250 per
month for the training. However, the
charge also depends on how far the
client lives from her home. She has di-
vided her training sessions in blocks
of 12 and reduces the price to QR200.
“It’s not about money, it’s ‘what they re-
ally want,’” Roufaida Thabit told The Peninsula.
The event was hosted by (Lead-
er of QPWN) Rita Di Antonio, which
started with a warm welcome to all
the ladies present. It was followed by
a brief introduction of the planned
changes and exclusive events com-
ing up. The discussion started with
a question-and-answer session with
speakers.
“I’ve seen people becoming overam-
bitious and trying to do it all but they for-
get to factor in many different aspects of
life. Kids, family, spouse, social life and
so on. It only adds up. You have to build
a healthy lifestyle around your priori-
ties and routine. If you wish to wake up
one day and say, that’s it, I’m going to
be healthy from today, it’s possible but
challenging,” said Saima Bukhari.
“If you have the motivation and de-
termination it’s a lot easier to do so be-
cause for eating better or working out
you feel a sense of achievement. How-
ever, if this is lacking, you are likely to
fail within the week. Instead build up
on small habits which amount to your
bigger goals. Personally, I find setting
small milestones easier as they seem
more attainable.
“This also gives me a sense of con-
trol over my day. If I know I am going
to be eating out in the night, I manage
my portions and quality of food for the
rest of the day. It’s all in the balance,”
she added.
There will always be temptations
The advice on how to handle weekends,
parties, and all day business meetings
and travel were all about balance.
Saima Bukhari said: “It’s all about
balance. It sounds like I’m saying a
cliché almost ‘oh everyone says that.
But how do I do it?’ Being realistic
and planning takes you a long way. I
have friends who prepare their meals
on Friday or Saturday for the entire
week. This frees up time on their cal-
endar to go out, meet friends, and
spend quality time with the family
and so on. If I know I have a wedding
to attend in a month, I will ensure to
eat clean to either get in shape be-
fore the wedding or at least lose a lit-
tle bit of fat so that I can indulge and
not have to worry during the celebra-
tory period.”
She said: “The industry is so vast
there are so many ways to be associ-
ated with it or be a part of it. You have
people aspiring to be fitness models
or pro body builders, nutritionists, PTs,
supplement experts, health coaches,
and gym owners and so on. Find what
interests you and either get certified
or at least research topics that inter-
est you.”
Talking about the facts of diet
plans that would be preferable, Sai-
ma Bukhari said: “What are carbohy-
drates? It’s our daily bread, rice, pas-
ta & potatoes. But the question is why
do we need carbohydrates? It’s an en-
ergy source. How do we expect our
body and more importantly our brain
to function when it’s being deprived
of the natural energy source? Energy
drinks, coffee are not natural energy
sources and not what our bodies were
designed to fuel from, we need food.”
While addressing the gathering,
she added: “We can work with low car-
bohydrate diets to achieve the goal
in weight loss. Again, how much the
carbohydrate intake reduces should
be balanced. Don’t live on 2 slices of
bread a day for 3 months! It has to be
gradually reduced. You can’t say one
size fits all.”
When it comes to sugars, it’s great
to consume a safe amount of natural
sugars like honey or fruits. The only is-
sue with sugars including fructose is
the spike in energy it brings. When you
are committed to a weight loss journey,
sugars trigger cravings as it creates a
hike and plunge. Overall, we should
prefer to stay away from most proc-
essed products because we just don’t
feel good after having them.
Avoid processed foods. Eat Fre-
quent meals — Maintaining about 5
meals in the day to keep your metab-
olism charged up and your digestive
system smooth. When you’re eating
frequently, you aren’t having large por-
tions, so enjoy it. We are sure many of
us are foodies so get creative with your
meal preparation.
Try different ingredients, experi-
ment with low calorie sauces every
now and then. Find a routine that suits
you and the lifestyle you dream of.
Audience at the seminar on health organised by Qatar Professional Women’s Network in Doha.
Pic: Abdul Basit/ The Peninsula
COVER STORY
04 | THURSDAY 29 SEPTEMBER 2016
Over an unparalleled career
spanning two decades with
Barcelona and Spain, Xavi
Hernandez has won more
than the 28 titles which make him
one of the most decorated players in
world football — he has also become
a role model with the trademark hu-
mility and respect which have in-
spired millions of youngsters around
the world.
This week, the FIFA World Cup win-
ning midfielder joined forces with the
team delivering the 2022 FIFA World
Cup Qatar as he became an official
ambassador for Generation Amaz-
ing, the flagship CSR programme of
the Supreme Committee for Deliv-
ery & Legacy (SC). Through football
for development workshops and vis-
its to different Generation Amazing
projects in Qatar and the Middle East,
Xavi will begin working with school-
children, refugees and migrant work-
ers to use the power of football to in-
spire social change within communi-
ties.
“I’m very excited to be joining this
programme, which really inspired me
through the fantastic work they are
doing with different groups within so-
ciety,” Xavi told www.sc.qa.
“I try to help as much as I can
and have done so in all my life, both
in Spain through my academy for
youngsters and now here in Qatar.
For that reason joining the Genera-
tion Amazing programme, and help-
ing children, migrant workers, refu-
gees and the people who most need
it is a real privilege for me.”
Xavi will this week visit a Genera-
tion Amazing pitch in Jordan and con-
duct football for development training
sessions with the youngsters in a refu-
gee camp, to the backdrop of the U-17
FIFA Women’s World Cup.
The former FC Barcelona midfielder
will meet Generation Amazing ambas-
sadors and attend the opening match
of the tournament between Jordan
and Spain tomorrow.
“I’m very excited to be heading to
Jordan, as my first trip and my first ac-
tivity with Generation Amazing. I look
forward to meeting the young Gen-
eration Amazing ambassadors there
and seeing the difference they are
making to their communities.
Football for social change
Xavi will this week visit a Generation Amazing pitch in Jordan and conduct football for development training sessions with the youngsters in a refugee camp.
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After a glittering career which saw him lift the 2010 FIFA World Cup, two UEFA European Championships, four Champions League titles and eight Spanish La Liga titles, Xavi wants to use his experience on the pitch to show how football can change people’s lives. Xavi will be accompanied on his first visit as a Generation Amazing ambassador by SC Secretary General Hassan Al Thawadi, and SC Assistant Secretary General Nasser Al Khater.
It will also be great to see how
girl’s football is developing and I will
attend a game of the Under 17 World
Cup. It gives me great pleasure to be
travelling to Jordan, to be there for
two days to enjoy the time with the
youngsters.”
After a glittering career which saw
him lift the 2010 FIFA World Cup, two
UEFA European Championships, four
Champions League titles and eight
Spanish La Liga titles, Xavi wants to
use his experience on the pitch to
show how football can change peo-
ple’s lives.
“Football is a fantastic tool to unite
people, societies, it crosses cultures
and religions, and unites everyone
who tries to employ the game in a
positive manner. Here in Qatar and in
Jordan and the other countries where
Generation Amazing is present and
has opened pitches, we can use foot-
ball to unite people. Of course I will
also learn from the kids. In life you al-
ways have to try and learn things, and
improve as a person.”
Xavi will be accompanied on his
first visit as a Generation Amazing
ambassador by SC Secretary General
Hassan Al Thawadi, and SC Assistant
Secretary General Nasser Al Khater.
“We are honoured to have the glo-
bal icon, Xavi Hernandez, represent
the Generation Amazing programme,
which means so much to our organ-
isation and to the 2022 FIFA World
Cup,” said SC Secretary General, Has-
san Al Thawadi.
“When Qatar bid to host the FIFA
World Cup, the Generation Amaz-
ing programme made a commit-
ment to use the power of football to
change lives. It will continue to do so
until 2022 and beyond, and we be-
lieve Xavi will be a fantastic ambas-
sador for the programme with all of
the positive values he represents. We
look forward to visiting Jordan and
inspiring the kids and refugees that
we meet there through the power of
football.”
COMMUNITY / MARKETPLACE
06 | THURSDAY 29 SEPTEMBER 2016
North Indian Association celebrates HindiThe Peninsula
North Indians’ Association (NIA)
recently celebrated Hindi to
commemorate ‘Hindi’, the na-
tional language of India, in
L’etoile Hotel.
Various interactive activities were
organised by NIA Managing Commit-
tee to generate a spirit of enthusiasm
in the audience towards the language.
NIA Chairman Advisory, Harish Kan-
jani and NIA Chairman Mukesh Kumar
Singh received the guests. NIA Vice-
President Sanjay Arora welcomed the
guests and introduced the programme.
Two skits performed by kids were
the main attraction of the programme.
All attendees witnessed an amazing set
of talent as children performed the skit.
“With such talent, NIA can now proudly
say that our next generation is devel-
oping an appreciation for what it tru-
ly means to have an Indian heritage. It
is important that our kids connect with
that aspect beyond movies and songs
and truly appreciate what it means to
be an Indian,” a NIA press release said.
NIA also announced launch of NIA
toastmasters club in English and Hin-
di the details of which are available on
the association website.
Anchoring by Devendra Mishra was
worth watching. Like previous years
it was a pleasure to watch the splen-
did performance by all ‘Hasya Kavi’
participants. All participants enjoyed
the games organised for children and
adults.
NIA President Praveen Sharma co-
ordinated the entire show while Gener-
al Secretary Durgesh Gupta and Cultur-
al Secretary Abhijit Sarkar coordinated
the cultural programme. The games
were conducted by Chandra Gururani
and Shivani Mishra with support from
Kuldeep Kour Bahl. NIA member Sunita
Chaturvedi conducted special games
which was highly appreciated. Admin-
istrative work was handled by Anil Me-
hta. NIA also announced the schedule
of the major upcoming event ‘Deepot-
sava’ scheduled for November 4, 2016
at Hotel Radission Blu.
The St Regis Doha to launch three food outlets T
he St Regis Doha, the finest
address in Qatar, continues to
grow its impressive concept
portfolio with three new out-
lets due to launch in the last quarter
of this year, reaffirming once again
the position of the hotel as Doha’s su-
preme leisure destination.
As part of its commitment to di-
versifying Doha’s music scene, The St
Regis Doha announced the opening
of its new venue “The Club” on Sep-
tember 12 this year. By offering world-
class live music, lively performances
and delicious soul food at The Club,
music lovers and guests will be able
to enjoy a truly unforgettable music
experience every Tuesday through
to Saturday, as globally renowned ar-
tistes take to the stage creating an
electrifying and buzzing atmosphere
every single time.
The Club will cater to a multi-
tude of diverse music genres across
Soul, Blues and Bossa Nova and R&B
and will feature a roster of world re-
nowned artists including soul vocal-
ist, Judi Jackson; the smooth sound
of funk and soul vocalist, Tasha Dan-
ae; drummer, Michael Pignéguy; pi-
anist, Davis Whitfield; who will all be
joined by tenor saxophonist and sea-
soned performer, Jonathan Beshay;
and seasoned bassist Gilard Lopes.
Gregory Generet made a special ap-
pearance from September 20 to 24
and will also do so from September
27 until October 1.
Meanwhile, The St Regis Doha
will also debut their latest concept,
The Raw Bar. In an intimate dinning
setting, with only 11 seats available,
The Raw Bar will feature an exquisite
menu of sushi, sashimi and seafood
including oysters and caviar, with a
greater emphasis on fresh, raw food.
The Raw Bar is expected to open its
doors on October 1.
Rounding out the list of new con-
cepts will be Oyster Bay Live which
will be presenting La Noche de Doha
and was launched on September 21;
to be open every Tuesday to Satur-
day from sunset until late. With a new
Cuban band playing crowd-favourites
and signature music styles including
rhumba, Afro-Cuban jazz, salsa, sou-
kous as well as Spanish fusion gen-
res, guests can look forward to relax-
ing at the beach side bar, with lounge
music, authentic Cuban treats and re-
freshing drinks by the pool all as the
sun goes down as the temperature
at Oyster Bay rises. The artists who
bring their magic to La Noche de Do-
ha currently are Gerardo Contino and
Jenny Sotolongo on vocals, Axel Tosca
on the keyboard, Israel Cedano on
bass & Yusnier Bustamante on con-
ga drums.
Commenting on the launch of the
new concepts, Tareq Derbas, Area
General Manager of Lebanon, Syria,
Pakistan, Iran and Iraq for Starwood
Hotels & Resorts Middle East and
General Manager of The St Regis Doha,
said: “Launching three new concepts
at the St Regis Doha is an important
pillar in our strategy for growth and
diversified offering to Doha. With our
exciting new concepts, we are very
well placed to offer our guests greater
choice and world-class dining and en-
tertainment options. Being the finest
address in Qatar, The St. Regis Doha
prides itself on providing world-class
service and offerings and proves once
again its commitment to catering to
all tastes and preferences.”
The St Regis Doha has furthermore
introduced more enhancements to its
existing offerings.
In collaboration with Café Mambo
Ibiza, the Rooftop is getting one in-
ternational DJ per month from 22nd
September 22 and featuring John
Jacobsen. The Rooftop will also offer
House Music on Thursday and Ret-
ro night on Friday with Retrofusion
Nights.
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CAMPUS/ COMMUNITY
DPS-MIS alumnus guides students
The Peninsula
Vatsal Patel, the Head Boy and
school topper of the 2013
batch, proved his love and
loyalty for his alma mater —
DPS-MIS— when he enlightened stu-
dents of classes 11 and 12 on the ad-
mission process in US universities. He
is pursuing an undergraduate pro-
gramme in Mechanical Engineering at
the University of California, Berkeley.
The video conference with Vatsal
threw light on the US curriculum.
A world of opportunities with the
best faculty and resources, the uni-
versities let one pursue the subjects
that interest him. Moreover, they let
students get involved in clubs and or-
ganisations as their interests, sched-
ule, and scholastic pursuits permit.
His interaction threw light on the
fact that scoring in the school exams
is equally important as participating
in extra-curricular activities. He made
students aware of the right moment
to begin their preparations like writ-
ing the essays. Patel concluded by
saying that students could contact
him for further guidance.
Urdu awards for Indian
and Pakistani poetsThe Peninsula
The 20th annual Aalmi Frogh-e-
Urdu Adab Awards will be pre-
sented to India’s Javed Akhtar
and Pakistan’s Amjad Islam Am-
jad by Majlis Frogh-e-Urdu Adab, a
leading Qatar-based literary forum on
October 28.
The event is being organised under
the patronage of the Ministry of Cul-
ture and Sports. “We are proud and
very pleased that the Ministry is con-
tinuing to extend its support and coop-
eration to us, which it has been doing
for the last many years,’’ Majlis Chair-
man Mohammad Atiq said.
Launched in 1996, the Aalmi
Frogh-e-Urdu Adab Awards (Interna-
tional Award for promotion of Urdu lit-
erature), which comprises a gold shield
and cash award of Rs.150,000 is given
annually to two Urdu writers, one from
India and the other from Pakistan, for
their life-time achievements in creative
fiction, research or critical works.
The 20th Awards were decided by
two independent juries, headed by Prof
Dr Gopi Chand Narang, former Chairman,
Sahitya Academy of India (with Prof
Shafey Qidwai, Prof Dr. Abdus Samad
and Haqqani Al Qasmi as members) and
Dr Khurshid ul Hasan Rizvi noted Urdu
scholar, educationist and poet from Pa-
kistan (with Prof Dr Saleem Akhter, Prof
Khawaja Mohammad Zakaria and Prof
Tehsin Firaqi as members).
Prof Dr Gopi Chand Narang, reput-
ed Urdu critic and research scholar,
Prof Dr Pirzada Qasim, well known ed-
ucationist and poet and Shabana Azmi,
leading actress and human rights ac-
tivist, will be the guests of honour.
After the awards presentation cer-
emony, an international Mushaira will
be held, which will feature top poets
from Pakistan, India, USA, UK, Germa-
ny and UAE. The award winner from In-
dia, Javed Akhtar, will preside over the
Mushaira.
Majlis will also release a special sou-
venir on the occasion.
This year’s Mushaira has been des-
ignated as “Bayad (meaning, in mem-
ory of) Ahmed Nadeem Qasmi’’, whose
birth centenary is being celebrated in
Pakistan and all over the world this year.
Qasmi, who was born in November,
1916 and died in July, 2006, was one of
the greatest poets, writers, journalists
and scholars of Pakistan. That was why,
when Aalmi Awards were launched
by the Majlis in 1996, the Pakistan ju-
ry, headed by renowned satirist, hu-
mor writer and Urdu scholar, Mushtaq
Ahmed Khan Yousufi, decided to confer
the first Aalmi Award upon Ahmed Na-
deem Qasmi from Pakistan.
Guest poets from India for this
year’s Mushaira are Javed Akhtar, Has-
an Kazmi, Prof Muzaffer Ali Shahmiri,
Khursheed Alam and Aleena Itrat Riz-
vi. The guest poets from Pakistan are
Pirzada Qasim, Amjad Islam Amjad,
Shoaib bin Aziz, Ayoub Khawar, Qaiser
Wajdi and Khalid Masood Khan.
Javed Akhtar Amjad Islam Amjad
HEALTH & FITNESS
08 | THURSDAY 29 SEPTEMBER 2016
Why does your knee hurt? Figure outBy Jill U Adams
The Washington Post
I started running again this spring.
I began slowly, with intermittent
walking. All was good until the day
both my knees started complaining.
A twinge of pain accompanied every
footfall.
This new-to-me pain came from in-
side the knee, not below the kneecap,
my usual sore spot. The other move-
ment that gave me a flash of pain was
the deep knee bend I did every morn-
ing to scoop the dog’s food.
I knew enough to stop doing the
things that cause pain; I quit running
and I leaned over on straight legs to
reach the dog food. Other movements
— walking, stairs — didn’t trigger the
sharp pain, but my knees would get
achy later in the day. Aspirin helped.
Self-treatment is appropriate for
minor knee pain, according to the
presidents of the American College
of Physicians and the American Acad-
emy of Family Physicians, Nitin Dam-
le and John Meigs, respectively. How-
ever, if there’s redness or if you have
trouble with stability or walking, see
a physician.
Another worry entered my mind —
and that’s what sent me to the doc-
tor. I live in New York’s Hudson Valley,
which harbours some of the highest
rates of Lyme disease in the nation.
My doctor accommodated me with a
Lyme test, but she also examined me
and asked a lot of questions.
General practitioners see a lot of
people with knee pain, says Meigs,
who has a private practice in Cen-
treville, Ala. “It’s one of the most
common complaints family physi-
cians get.”
Faced with a painful knee, doc-
tors will take a history: Did you injure
yourself? Did you change your exer-
cise regimen? “All can lead to inflam-
mation of the knee,” says Damle, who
has a private practice in Wakefield, RI.
Your doctor will examine the knee.
“You might see fluid buildup, a de-
crease in the range of motion or dif-
ficulty bearing weight,” Damle says.
These symptoms may indicate a se-
rious injury such as a ligament tear,
which may prompt an MRI scan and
a referral to an orthopaedic surgeon.
If you didn’t injure your knee out-
right, your doctor will look for oth-
er problems. Mild swelling and pain
can arise from what are called over-
use injuries. “Sometimes people take
up jogging or walking or whatever,
and they do a little too much too fast,”
says Meigs, who has a private practice
in Centreville, Ala.
I swear I didn’t do too much too
fast. And yet, there are numerous
structures in the knee that can be-
come injured or inflamed. The most
serious things are a fractured knee-
cap; a torn ACL (anterior cruciate liga-
ment); and a torn meniscus, the car-
tilage cushion inside the knee. The
more run-of-the-mill things are bursi-
tis, a swelling of the small sacs of fluid
that cushion the outside of the knee
joint, and tendinitis, irritation and in-
flammation of the tendons that attach
your leg muscles to your leg bones.
Runners, skiers and cyclists are all
susceptible to bursitis and tendini-
tis. The treatment is straightforward:
rest, ice, brace and anti-inflammato-
ry medicine. That means you need to
stop doing anything that causes pain,
ice your knee (most helpful in the first
two days after an injury), use athlet-
ic wrap or a knee brace to protect
against a move that may reinjure the
joint, and take ibuprofen or naproxen.
My doctor told me that if I was
negative for Lyme and the pain con-
tinued, I might consider seeing a spe-
cialist to check for osteoarthritis. The
diagnosis becomes increasingly com-
mon with age; studies have found
nearly 20 percent of people older
than 45 and more than a third of peo-
ple older than 60 have osteoarthritis
of the knee.
“Sustained pain in both knees in
older adults: One does think osteoar-
thritis,” Damle says. An X-ray can help
confirm osteoarthritis by document-
ing bony outgrowths and/or narrow-
ing of the joint space.
A week after my doctor’s visit, an-
other possibility presented itself. A
friend told me she had taken her
daughters — two tween gymnasts —
to the paediatrician with knee pain.
They were diagnosed with parvovirus,
which in their case was not accompa-
nied by the telltale rash or fever. “It’s
going around,” my friend’s doctor re-
ported, adding that the symptoms
should go away in a week or two.
In an online search, I discovered a
syndrome called viral arthritis, which
often causes pain in the large joints,
such as the knees, and can be trig-
gered by parvovirus, even in adults,
and a handful of other viruses includ-
ing hepatitis (B and C), enterovirus
and rubella. Perhaps I had a risk factor
my doctor hadn’t asked about - living
with a preadolescent child in a town
where parvovirus was prevalent.
Bacteria can infect knees as well,
Meigs says. “A hot knee will be red,
swollen and tender,” he says, and war-
rants a doctor’s visit. Antibiotics can
clear bacterial infections, but not vi-
ral ones. Those tend to clear with time.
Sure enough, my pain resolved in
about two weeks. But did I have par-
vovirus? I cannot say.
The good news is that I started run-
ning again this week, and I am pain-
free. If my pain reappears, I may look
into specific stretching and strength-
ening exercises to help better support
my knees while running and walking.
Britain’s Queen Elizabeth emerges from the King Edward VII hospital after surgery
on her knee in London on January 14, 2003. The Queen was operated on for a
torn cartilage in her right knee.
FOOD
10 | THURSDAY 29 SEPTEMBER 2016
In the UK right now, the Cronut isn’t the hottest topic in baking. It’s the Great British Bake Off, a much-loved TV show that recently jumped from the BBC to Channel 4, but without some of its hosts.
Manhattan’s cronuts ready to devour London
By Richard Vines
Bloomberg
Brits, be prepared to queue.
The Cronut — the croissant-
doughnut hybrid — lands in
London tomorrow when the
new Dominique Ansel Bakery opens at
precisely 8am.
In New York, people were lining
up ‘round the block in Manhattan’s So-
ho within days of the pastry being in-
troduced on May 10, 2013. This sweet
monster was supposed to be just a
Mother’s Day special, but everything
changed after a blogger published a
preview the night before the debut.
“He called me about 6pm, and he
told me his article had gone viral,” An-
sel says. “I said, ‘I am happy for you.’
And he was like, ‘No you don’t under-
stand: This is going crazy. You should
be ready to make some more tomor-
row.’”
Ansel made 25 the first day. And 35
the next. Eventually the line stretched
more than two blocks. Some people
started to resell pastries on the Cronut
black market for a steep markup.
“I only had four employees,” he says.
“We couldn’t keep up.”
Three years on, the Cronut is a
trademarked phenomenon. Ansel now
has four stores worldwide: Two in New
York, one in Tokyo, and one in Lon-
don, where he is adding pastries and
tweaking his range.
Ansel changes the flavour of the
Cronut monthly. In London, it will de-
but with salted butterscotch and cocoa
nib as a cost of £4 ($5.19), compared
with $5.75 in New York.
Other options on the menu will in-
clude the Paris-London, a twist on the
traditional Paris-Brest, a wheel-shaped
pastry created more than a century
ago to celebrate a cycle race. In Lon-
don, it’s made with Earl Grey mousse,
blackberry, and lemon. It sports a shirt
collar, a moustache, and a monocle,
and costs £6.20.
Or how about the Eton Mess Lunch-
box (£7.50)? This features “straw-
berries” (made with mousse and jel-
ly) atop crème fraiche with small me-
ringues in a clear plastic box that you
shake to create a mess. “It’s inspired by
Korean lunchboxes in New York, where
they put in the rice and the eggs and
then shake,” Ansel says.
The Banoffee Paella (£6) is a banof-
fee pie made in a paella pan with car-
amelised bananas. You flip it over and
serve with dulce mousse and passion
fruit. “There are a lot of Spanish influ-
ences in London, and I take that as an
inspiration,” Ansel says.
He grew up in the northern French
city of Beauvais and started working in
a restaurant when he was 16 to earn
money for his family, who couldn’t af-
ford to pay for higher education. “My
mom was a terrible cook,” he says. “It’s
what got me in the kitchen: I wanted
better food.”
After military service, he bought
a car with his savings, drove to Paris,
and got a job in a bakery. He worked
in the city for eight years before chef
Daniel Boulud invited him to New York
to work at Daniel. Ansel spent almost
six years in charge of pastry at the
Midtown restaurant, which won three
Michelin stars while he was there. He
left in 2011 and opened his own New
York bakery on Spring Street.
But in the UK right now, the Cronut
isn’t the hottest topic in baking. It’s the
Great British Bake Off, a much-loved
TV show that recently jumped from the
BBC to Channel 4, but without some of
its hosts.
“I watched one, and it is very excit-
ing to me that people are so excited
about baking,” he says.
“If people try to remember the first
thing they ever made in the kitchen, 95
percent will tell you baking — a cook-
ie or a cake that they made with their
mom, with their grandma.”
Cronuts are filled with cream and rested on a tray at the Dominique Ansel Bakery in Manhattan in 2013. Ansel is opening
a new bakery in London tomorrow.
FASHION
| 11THURSDAY 29 SEPTEMBER 2016
Rihanna’s stiletto sneaker hype leaves Paris dazed
AFP
Before she even set foot
on the Paris catwalk yes-
terday singer Rihan-
na was making headlines
with her second collection for Pu-
ma, sending supermodel Gigi Had-
id off sprinting in a pair of stiletto
sneakers.
In pictures released on Instagram,
Hadid was shown running and jump-
ing in high-heeled trainers in a long
dress with a swimsuit-like bodice.
Another had her stretched out in
a skin-tight body suit like a sprinter
set to speed off down the track in the
same white stilettos with the German
brand’s trademark black stripe.
The carefully choregraphed series
of leaks to hog the maximum of social
media attention, also hinted that the
Barbadian star is finally bringing col-
our to her Puma x Fenty (ccrt) range,
after a debut show based solely on
black and white.
Another mustard and white tunic
dress gives Hadid much more room
for manoeuvre.
Behind-the-scenes videos show
the 28-year-old star preparing for
her Paris debut in a light pastel pink
shift dress.
The show, in a mansion close to
the Champs Elysee, will be streamed
live on the rapper Jay-Z Tidal plat-
form.
Rihanna’s first collection for Puma
was shown in New York last autumn
and was heavy on sportwear and re-
worked jogging gear.
This is far from the first time that
designers have given sneakers a bit
of a life. Several has given them a
high heel including New York-based
Donna Karan in 2012.
Despite its new-found hipness
Puma, which is owned by the French-
based fashion conglomerate Kering,
has struggled to compete with ri-
vals Nike and Adidas. It does however
make Usain Bolt’s running shoes.
ENTERTAINMENT
12 | THURSDAY 29 SEPTEMBER 2016
Fear gives way to hope in ‘Queen of Katwe’
By Kristen Page-Kirby
The Washington Post
We’ve all seen movies
where a poor kid uses an
unlikely talent to escape
to a better life. In “Stand
and Deliver” it was calculus; in “The
Blind Side” it was football.
In Disney’s “Queen of Katwe,” a
girl in a Ugandan slum thinks a board
game could be her ticket out. Despite
the long odds, these stories almost al-
ways have happy endings — but that
doesn’t mean a mom can’t worry.
The apprehensive mother in the
fact-based “Queen of Katwe” is played
by Oscar winner Lupita Nyong’o, who
understands the risks of letting a child
even begin to dream there’s a way out
of poverty.
“You can open a child’s mind to
another world, to other possibilities,
but how do you ensure that they can
achieve those things? And what hap-
pens when they have to deal with the
disappointment of not being able to
achieve those things?” Nyong’o says.
“They are left in limbo, because the
world that they have come from is no
longer good enough, and the world
that they are seeking to attain is not in
their grasp.”
In the film, Nyong’o plays Harriet,
the mother of young, illiterate Phiona
Mutesi (Madina Nalwanga). Scraping
out an existence by selling maize in the
crowded city streets of Katwe, Phiona
is all but resigned to her situation un-
til she stumbles across a chess club run
by Robert Katende (David Oyelowo).
Chess creates a space where Phiona
can dream — and that scares Harriet.
“Wanting to have a life outside of
poverty is something that Harriet has
not seen as possible as a woman in this
community,” Nyong’o says, “so how can
she possibly instill with confidence that
dream in her daughter?”
As Phiona becomes a major player
in the world of youth chess, her tour-
naments take her to places unimagi-
nable to her mother. In the course of
a day, Phiona can move from a luxury
hotel with a swimming pool and an all-
you-can-eat buffet back to a one-room
house with no running water and not
enough food. The trophies and medals,
tangible signs of Phiona’s gift, seem to
belong to a different world.
“You see the baby (brother) using
a trophy cup as a plate, because they
need a plate,” Nyong’o says. “You are
constantly being faced with the im-
practicality of this pursuit.”
Nyong’o, who won an Academy
Award for her performance as the en-
slaved Patsey in 2013’s “12 Years a
Slave,” spoke with the real-life Harri-
et to try to understand why Phiona’s
hope eventually overcame Harriet’s
fear. She discovered it was something
so simple that any mother could un-
derstand it.
“Her first reason was Robert Ka-
tende provided [Phiona] with a cup of
porridge every day” at the chess club,
Nyong’o says.
Nyong’o appreciated the arc of her
character. “She gets to a place where
she realises that her daughter’s life
does not have to look like hers,” she
says. “Her journey is one where she has
to learn that the best way to show her
daughter love is to act out of radical
hope rather than out of fear.”
Lupita Nyong’o plays the mother of newcomer Madina Nalwanga in Disney’s “Queen of Katwe”.
Madina Nalwanga is Phiona Mutesi in “Queen of Katwe”.
The apprehensive mother in the fact-based “Queen of Katwe” is played by Oscar winner Lupita Nyong’o, who understands the risks of letting a child even begin to dream there’s a way out of poverty.
| 13THURSDAY 29 SEPTEMBER 2016
SCIENCE
Musk plans to send people to Mars The Washington Post
By Christian Davenport
Elon Musk’s Falcon 9 rocket is
grounded, after blowing up for a
second time. The maiden flight of
its more powerful Falcon Heavy
has been delayed again and again.
But Musk, never one to shy away
from grand pronouncements, intro-
duced SpaceX’s conceptual plans Tues-
day for a rocket and spacecraft de-
signed to start a “self-sustaining city on
Mars” that he said could be achieved
within 40 to 100 years.
In an hour-long speech titled “Mak-
ing Humans a Multiplanetary Species”
at the International Astronautical Con-
gress he said his goal was to “make
Mars seem possible. To make it seem
like it’s something we can do in our
lifetimes. That you can go.”
Musk, the billionaire co-founder of
PayPal, who also runs Tesla Motors,
knows how to attract attention, and
thousands of people packed the con-
ference hall in Guadalajara in Mexico,
cheering on his much-hyped and long-
anticipated presentation.
Wearing a suit and open collar,
Musk stood before a large orb of Mars
that over time morphed into a habit-
able planet with oceans and greenery.
And he showed a tantalizing video of
the rocket taking off from the Kennedy
Space Center in Florida with 100 peo-
ple on board, refuelling in orbit and
then landing on the surface of Mars.
The design of the Mars rocket
shows that it is a towering 400-feet
tall, far more powerful than the Sat-
urn V that took the Apollo astronauts
to the moon. He acknowledged the
immense, if quixotic, challenge he was
undertaking would begin not just with
creating a spacecraft that could keep
dozens of humans alive for extended
periods but with producing rocket fu-
el from the resources on Mars. And he
acknowledged the difficulties of lower-
ing the cost of the flights from $10bn a
person to $200,000 or less, in part by
reusing rockets to fly repeat missions
ferrying lots of people.
But less clear was how SpaceX
would pay to get to that point, and
outside of the technical details of the
rocket and spacecraft he offered few
specifics on how a city on Mars would
get built.
“In terms of the presentation today,
I was particularly keen to learn about
[research and development] costs,
venture capital and other investments,
returns on investments, manufacturing
costs, and why and how one sustains a
population on Mars,” said Phil Smith, a
space analyst at the Tauri group, a con-
sulting firm. “Musk did provide some in-
sight into manufacturing costs, pricing,
and sources of funding, but I need to
study those to see if they are realistic.”
Musk said he would “make the big-
gest contribution I can” of his own
wealth, and at one point he joked that
the company might have to use Kick-
starter, the online fundraising platform,
to raise money.
“As we show this dream is real. . .I
think the support will snowball over
time,” Musk said.
He said ultimately it would have to
be a “public-private partnership” but
while Nasa is partnering but offering
no funds on a first SpaceX mission, it
has its own plan to get to Mars by the
2030s. Budget limitations could make
even the agency’s mission difficult.
Musk has also outlined an incred-
ibly ambitious timeline, starting with
the first launch of an unmanned craft
as soon as 2018. That mission would
be on the Falcon Heavy, which has yet
to fly. And he conceded that he isn’t “al-
ways the best” at hitting the aggressive
timelines he lays out for his dreams.
Getting to Mars is exceedingly diffi-
cult. On average, it’s 140 million miles
from Earth, though the planets come
to within about 35 million miles of each
other every 26 months. Even under the
best circumstances it takes months to
get there, Musk said SpaceX could do it
in 80 days and eventually in 30.
The deep space environment can
also be tremendously harsh. Of the 43
robotic missions to Mars, including fly-
bys, attempted by four different coun-
tries, only 18 have been total successes.
Musk didn’t address the explosion
that blew up one of its rockets earli-
er this month. He has previously said
the incident, which occurred while the
rocket was being fuelled ahead of an
engine test firing, was the most “diffi-
cult and complex” the company has
ever faced. It follows another Falcon 9
failure last year, when it blew up a cou-
ple minutes into flight.
The Falcon 9 remains ground-
ed while the investigation continues,
meaning SpaceX’s government and
commercial customers have to endure
yet another costly delay.
Still, while the plan may remain
in the realm of science fiction, Musk
has reignited interest in space, inspir-
ing another generation of enthusiasts
who believe in Musk’s vision. One of his
questioners even asked if she could
come up on stage to give him a “good
luck kiss.”
“Musk’s Mars vision, if realised,
would be transformational for all hu-
mankind,” said Alan Stern, a former
Nasa official and leader of the New Ho-
rizons mission to Pluto. “And given his
talents, drive, and many past accom-
plishments, I wouldn’t bet against him.”
In a statement, Nasa said: “Nasa
applauds all those who want to take
the next giant leap — and advance the
journey to Mars. We are very pleased
that the global community is working
to meet the challenges of a sustaina-
ble human presence on Mars.”
While Nasa has not flown people
beyond what’s know as low Earth orbit
in decades, Musk and the New Space
movement he leads has proven that
space no longer is the exclusive do-
main of governments. Several compa-
nies are currently pursuing their own
visions of space travel.
Musk said SpaceX’s spacecraft, with
its huge windows, would make the trip
an adventure.
He talked lightly about how the
journey has “got to feel fun and ex-
citing. It can’t feel cramped.” He said
there would be games passengers
could play in zero gravity and a res-
taurant on board as it sped at 62,634
mph to Mars.
John Logsdon, the former director
of George Washington’s Space Policy
Institute said that Musk has become
bigger than SpaceX. “His job is to pro-
vide inspirational leadership not just for
SpaceX but for the larger space com-
munity,” he said. “There hasn’t been
someone like that for a very long time.”
Tesla Motors CEO Elon Musk speaks about the Interplanetary Transport System
which aims to reach Mars with the first human crew in history, in Guadalajara,
Mexico.
Tesla Motors CEO Elon Musk at a press conference during the 67th International
Astronautical Congress in Guadalajara, Mexico.
ASIAN TOWN
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Yesterday’s answer
Conceptis Sudoku: Conceptis Sudoku is
a number-placing puzzle based on a 9×9
grid. The object is to place the numbers
1 to 9 in the empty squares so that each
row, each column and each 3×3 box
contains the same number only once.
Yesterday’s answer
MEDIUM SUDOKU
ALL IN THE MIND
CROSSWORD
BRAIN TEASERS
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CONTRALTO, COUNTRY
MUSIC, DUET, ETUDE,
FOLK SONG, GOSPEL
MUSIC, GROUP, OPERA,
HIP HOP, HYMN, JAZZ,
KARAOKE, LULLABY,
MADRIGAL, MUSICAL,
NEW WAVE, POP SONG,
PSALM, RAPPER,
REFRAIN, RHAPSODY,
ROCK, SERENADE,
SONATA, SOPRANO,
SWING, SYMPHONY,
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