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by Isabel Ovalle to, for instance, hall number 3, where delegations are lot is going on in located, almost at the Qatar National beginning of the corridor. Convention The space for media is Media at COP18: ACenter (QNCC) big and well equipped with these days, and the world plenty of computers, and wouldn’t know about it numerous booths for televi- if it wasn’t for one key sion and radio stations, as Taking the message link on the chain: media. well as news agencies from Over 1,500 journalists are different countries. accredited to cover the UN The hall is usually not climate change conference very busy, evidently because in Doha, and their work is journalists are on the hunt across the globe essential to the process, for an exclusive story. All just as much as that of del- the same, professionals egates, nongovernmental from all over the world organizations, ministers gather there, becoming a and other parties involved. representation, in small- Keeping record of what scale, of the UN. is really happening in the Ciro Di Costanzo, from halls of QNCC is a difficult Excélsior newspaper from task that not all can accom- Mexico City, has covered plish. Lack of time, impos- previous conferences in sibility to be in two places Cancun (Mexico, 2010) at once, are important and Durban (South Africa, obstacles. Jokes aside, there 2011). He explained that the is much more to a journal- first week of the meeting is ist’s job than that of attend- valuable to lay the founda- ing a press conference, and tion for agreements, which a big challenge attached to will “hopefully” be reached the job is gaining the trust during the second week, of potential sources in a especially from December record time. 5, when the high level nego- Professionals specialised tiations begin. “If there is in environmental or scien- important news, they will tific reporting have a great be given during the second advantage, as well as those week, even though the hard who have attended previous work was the first week,” he conferences of the parties added. addressing climate change. It’s not the first visit These reporters know well to the Middle East for Di how to prioritise and are in Costanzo, and he thinks a unique position to com- that matters concerning pare the Doha summit with the region have not been previous ones. sufficiently addressed. The media space for the “This generates scepticism, press in Qatar’s convention people wonder if there is center is located in hall 9, really a commitment with the last one in the ground the environment and the floor. It takes approximately reduction of emissions,” he 15 minutes to walk from if stated. PLUS | TUESDAY 4 DECEMBER 2012 3

The presidency is in charge of boosting negotiations, “I hope that in the end there is an agreement to extend the commitment period of Kyoto Protocol and raise the level of ambition to decrease emissions”, Delegates need added this Mexican journalist. While regarding activism of NGO’s in to reach solutions COP18, he said that “there is none”. It’s not the first COP for Raoul fast, they can’t go Antoine Siemeni, of Afrique Environment Plus, who was also on for ever. If the present in Durban. His view is clear: house is on fire, “parties seem tired”. This journalist from Congo stated that, “so far, the conferences aren’t conference is not very attractive”, while he wondered how many more the answer. COPs can be held. “Delegates need to reach solutions fast, they can’t go on for ever. If the house is on fire, Raoul Antoine Siemeni conferences aren’t the answer,” he Afrique Environment Plus added. On his past experience in COP17, he remembers that countries were Even though it’s his first time in also very tired back then. “Canada Qatar, this Argentinean journal- and Japan said no to the Kyoto ist has noticed that the country is Protocol. Ultimately, if there is no very secure and respectful. On this disposition to limit emissions; there basis, he said that “perhaps that’s is no solution,” he concluded. why NGO’s haven’t been more par- Victor Edgardo Ingrassi works ticipative or visible. There are no for La Nación in Buenos Aires events in the street, outside the (Argentina). In his opinion the first convention center for citizens to week serves as a meeting point for approach and find out what’s going delegates. During this time the press on,” he added. has access to scientific reports that David Zhang, from People’s Daily, serve as a pressure mode for dele- official newspaper of China’s com- gates to close deals related to studies munist party, said that “Qatar has that are “more dark and catastrophic created a very comfortable environ- every year”. ment, people from the whole world Ingrassi worked in Durban feel amazed, and it has been a great for COP17, back then talks were experience”. extended two extra days because All journalists agree that more there was no agreement. “Delegates, public pressure would contribute to secretaries of environment and negotiations moving forward faster. ministers literally fell asleep on the Media professionals feel responsible tables in the morning, after staying for raising awareness about environ- up all night negotiating. That is not mentalism and the legacy left behind PICS: Salim Matramkot & Shaival Dalal positive for discussions or for COPs for generations to come. in general,” he said. The Peninsula 4 PLUS | TUESDAY 4 DECEMBER 2012 COMMUNITY Pakistan Professionals Forum to hold free medical camp

akistan Professionals Forum attend to all the patients coming to Qatar is organising a free the camp. medical camp on Friday, Arrangements have been made for PDecember 7, at Pakistan patients with gynaecological problems Education Centre in Abu Hamour. to be attended to by lady doctors. The camp will be open to individu- All consultation, treatment and als of all nationalities from all walks medication will be provided free of of life, and is being especially held charge, courtesy of Hamad Medical for the benefit of low-income work- Corporation. ers. Provisions are being made to run Special transport arrangements clinics in different specialties all day have been made to pick up and drop to treat common ailments. Clinics for registered patients from several loca- gynaecology, paediatrics, ENT, oph- tions within the city. thalmology, internal medicine and The camp will be officially inaugu- dental hygiene will open their doors rated by the chief guests, Dr Sheikha to patients on Friday. Aisha bint Faleh bin Nasser Al Thani, ICBF President Kareem Abdulla, General Manager of Gulf Incon Ganesh A dedicated team of expert doctors and the Ambassador of Pakistan to Sreenivasan and other officials at the ticket releasing ceremony. in all specialties, nurses, pharmacists Qatar, Mohammad Sarfaraz Khanzada. and technicians will be present to The Peninsula ICBF to screen Talaash to raise fund for charity

ndian Community Benevolent along with Rani Mukharjee and Forum (ICBF), a charita- Kareena Kapoor. The film is run- ble organization working ning to packed theatres in India. Iunder the aegis of the Indian The tickets are available at the Embassy in Qatar, is organizing counter in Doha Cinema, and can a charity film show on Friday, also be purchased from ICC and December 7, at 2.30pm in Doha the ICBF Help Desk at the Indian Cinema. ICBF President Kareem Embassy after 6pm. Abdulla has appealed to all local Ganesh Sreenivasan, General Indian organizations in Qatar to Manager of Gulf Incon, released support this programme, since all the tickets in the presence of local proceedings from the same would media representatives, the ICBF be channelled to various humani- president and committee members. tarian causes. For more information, call The Hindi movie “Talaash” fea- 55854791 or 55335679. tures Bollywood star Aamir Khan The Peninsula Dr Mazhar Monga (centre), Chairman PPFQ, with Adnan Kirmani (left), President, and Shabber Ali, General Secretary, at the press meet to announce the medical camp.

The Qsports Indian Pravasi welfare board director Dhow team

The Qsports Dhow team finished first among the Qatari teams in an exciting race at the Katara Dhow Festival recently. While Omani teams dominated the event – they took the top four spots – the Qsports team finished fifth, beating the other four Qatari teams in the finals. The Qsports team included Arab, Asian, European and American residents in Qatar. Captain Former Kerala minister M M Hassan (second left) presented a shawl to Joppachan Thekekutt, who Shahad Miah, who steered the dhow, was delighted with the was elected as one of the directors of the Pravasi Welfare Board, at a function held in his honour result: “We had no opportunity to practise, so I am very pleased in Doha recently. how everyone came together to row as such a strong team.” CAMPUS PLUS | TUESDAY 4 DECEMBER 2012 5

Qatar Academy gets ready for ISAC football tournament atar Academy’s boys varsity football team took on their teachers in a friendly football match during a recent spirit assembly at the school. The gathering of students from grades 6-12 was organised Qto raise awareness about the boys’ and girls’ ISAC Varsity Football Tournament, which takes place from December 6 to 8 at Qatar Academy. Nearly 150 players and coaches from around the Gulf region will converge on Education City during the tournament. “We are really excited to have schools from Egypt, Kuwait, Jordan and Qatar University President Prof Sheikha Abdulla Qatar joining us on campus next weekend,” said Stephen Walker, QA’s Al Misnad honouring one of the students. athletics director, to a crowd of about 500 students gathered in the gym. “This is our chance to show off our campus, our hospitality, and our talents on the field. We couldn’t do it without the help of many student volunteers and host families.” At that, the students and teachers took to the floor for a hard-fought football match, which, for the second year running, ended in a draw at 3–3. QU honours top students

he achievements of some 159 to be successful leaders in the future.” distinguished Qatar University The QU Vice-President for Student students were honoured in a Affairs, Dr Omar Al Ansari, said: Tceremony held at Katara “Everyone at QU is very proud of our recently. A total of 150 students were distinguished students, whose hard honoured for their outstanding academic work over these last years has really performance, and 11 of them received an paid off. Many congratulations to Award of Excellence, each having scored them all and they have our very best a GPA of 3.94 or more. A further nine wishes as they enter the labour market, students were congratulated on their embodying the best of a QU education.” exemplary non-academic achievements. Lolwa Al Medadi, International Qatar University President Affairs student at College of Arts & Prof. Sheikha Abdulla Al Misnad Sciences, said: “The main obstacle I said: “These students’ outstanding faced at the beginning of my academic achievements, both academically life was adapting to using English and in other fields, are testament to language, especially because I studied the sheer dedication of themselves, only Arabic language in high school. their families and everyone at QU to However, I overcame this problem achieving nothing short of their very through reading books. I encourage The Qatar Academy students team takes best. We are delighted that again, this all students to be well-organized and on teachers in a friendly football match. year, we have such a strong cohort of a good time-manager from the very well-rounded and motivated students beginning of their academic journey.” going out into the world, determined The Peninsula Birla Public School girls cricket team wins laurels

Birla Public School girls cricket team – under-19 category – secured second position in the Cricket Tournament conducted by Qatar Cricket Association. Picture shows the team with the coach and other officials. 6 PLUS | TUESDAY 4 DECEMBER 2012 COMMUNITY Standard Chartered hosts coaching clinics for kids Three hundred children benefit from football coaching sessions with Liverpool FC

tandard Chartered recently tremendous potential here and we are hosted two Liverpool FC impressed to see the enthusiasm in Foundation coaches, who con- children and adults alike for football Sducted football coaching clin- in Qatar” commented Scott Fowler. ics for children from various schools Dougie Smith, Headmaster at Park in Qatar. House English School, commented, David McParland and Scott Fowler, “Park House students had a wonder- coaches who work full time with the ful day with the Liverpool coaches Liverpool FC Foundation, flew down and were enthused and excited by the to Qatar to conduct coaching clinics whole experience. The coaches had a for children from three schools: Ali Bin really good rapport with the students Abdulla Independent School, Shafallah and were a credit to the Liverpool Centre for Special Needs, and Park FC Foundation. It is great to see Children who attended the camp with coaches from Liverpool FC. House English School. such events happening in Qatar and The coaches also conducted a coach- we thank Standard Chartered and ing session for children of the bank’s Liverpool FC for making this event staff, and met with the bank’s football possible”. team. David McParland coaches at the Charles Carlson, Chief Executive LFC Academy and works with the Officer at Standard Chartered Qatar, Pre-Academy Group in addition to his said: “It’s been a pleasure to host the role within the LFC Foundation. At LFC Foundation coaches and I have the Foundation, both David and Scott been impressed with the skills and work on a daily basis with the Football technique taught to the children. Each Development Programme, where they session has been tailor-made to suit coach in local primary schools. the age and capability of the children, As part of the Football Development therefore everyone had a chance to programme, they also help in coach- learn and play the game regardless of ing the Special Needs Groups, which their skill levels”. include both children and adults. “Qatar has been amazing. We have Currently they are both developing the never experienced as warm a reception Competition Element to the Football as we have here”, said David McParland, Development Strategy. referring to the traditional Qatari wel- Both Scott and David have been come given to the coaches when they on a number of soccer clinics abroad, visited Ali Bin Abdulla School. including the Goals Project in Mumbai “The response to the coach- and, recently, the LFC Pre-Season ing session has been great. There is Tour in the US. The Peninsula

Over a thousand attend ‘Care & Aware’ medical camp

ENT specialist were available at the The participants were provided medical camp to attend to the health- with free medicines through Well care needs of the attendees. At the Care pharmacies by the CSR part- camp, the residents could get their ner, Malabar Gold and Diamonds. The blood sugar, blood pressure and lipid volunteer committee was coordinated profile checked and undergo physical by KMCC Kozhikode. Apart from the examination. Patients suffering from general check-ups and healthcare chronic ailments were also served at advisory services, seminar sessions the camp. on diabetes were also arranged for People getting their blood pressure checked at the medical camp. Commenting on the medical camp, the patients. Dr Sameer Moopan, Managing Shashikumar, First Secretary at ver 1,200 people availed of Indians, Bangladeshis, Sri Lankans, Director, DM Healthcare, said: “We the Indian Embassy, inaugurated the healthcare services at a Indonesians etc, including women, was are well pleased with the success of medical camp. medical camp titled ‘Care beyond expectations,” said the organ- ‘Care & Aware’ camp. The participa- Commenting on the initiative, O& Aware’, coordinated by iser. Though the camp was scheduled tion from the expatriate community Santhosh Regional Head, Malabar Malabar Gold & Diamonds in associa- to start at 6:30am for those who had was way beyond our expectations. We Gold, said: “CSR activities are an tion with Aster Medical Centre, Well registered in advance, a large number believe preventive care is extremely important part of our organization’s Care Group and KMCC Kozhikode as of people were present at the MES important and goes a long way in philosophy. We plan to organize at least a part of its CSR activities. The one- premises from 5am. ensuring the overall well-being of indi- one such medical camp every quarter day camp was held at the MES Indian Diagnoses by expert doctors and viduals as well as the society at large. in different parts of Qatar, aiming School campus on November 30, 2012 free consultation were provided by I congratulate our team of organis- at improving the quality of the com- from 6:30am to 11:30am. Aster Medical Centre. Specialist ers, without whom we wouldn’t have munities we serve, without financial “The response from the expatri- doctors, including a general physi- attained the huge response at the consideration.” ate community of Qatar, including cian, dermatologist, orthopaedist and camp.” The Peninsula HEALTH PLUS | TUESDAY 4 DECEMBER 2012 7

Health Tips from DOCTOR Diabetes may be Bed-wetting in children linked to hearing nuresis is more commonly known as bed-wetting. Nocturnal enuresis, or bed-wetting at night, is the most Ecommon type. Daytime wetting is called diurnal enuresis. Some children expe- loss: Study rience either or a combination of both. The condition is not diagnosed unless the child is 5 years or older.

What Are the Symptoms of Enuresis? The main symptoms of enuresis include: • Repeated bed-wetting • Wetting in the clothes • Wetting at least twice a week for approximately three months What Causes Dr E V Kumar iabetes has already 2008, researchers from the U.S. kind of study does not prove that Enuresis? Specialist - Paediatrics been tied to an National Institutes of Health diabetes is directly responsible Many factors may be Healthspring World Clinic increased risk of kid- (NIH) saw similar patterns in a for the greater hearing loss rates. involved in the devel- Dney and cardiovascu- sample of more than 11,000 peo- “It doesn’t definitively answer opment of enuresis. lar troubles, nerve damage and ple, with people with diabetes the question, but it continues to Involuntary, or non-inten- vision loss, and now a Japanese twice as likely to have hearing raise an important point that tional, release of urine may result from: study finds diabetics to be more loss as those without. patients might ask about,” said • A small bladder than twice as likely as those It’s thought that high blood Steven Smith, a diabetes spe- • Persistent urinary tract infections without the disease to have hear- sugar levels brought on by dia- cialist at the Mayo Clinic in • Severe stress ing impairment. betes may lead to hearing loss Rochester, Minnesota. How Common Is Enuresis? In a review of past research by damaging blood vessels in the The researchers note that Enuresis is a common childhood problem. on the issue, published in the ears, said Horikawa. future studies that take more Estimates suggest that 7 percent of boys and Journal of Clinical Endocrinology Horikawa and colleagues factors into account, such as 3 percent of girls age 5 have enuresis. and Metabolism, scientists found collected information from 13 age and noisy environment, How Is Enuresis Diagnosed? that younger diabetics were at previous studies examining the are needed to clarify the link First, the doctor will take a medical his- even higher risk than older link between diabetes and hear- between diabetes and hearing tory and perform a physical exam to rule out adults, though they could not ing loss and published between loss. Still, Horikawa said, people any medical disorder that may be causing the explain why. 1977 and 2011. Together, the data should recognise that diabetics release of urine, which is called incontinence. “Current meta-analysis sug- covered 7,377 diabetes and 12,817 may be at risk for hearing loss Laboratory tests may be also performed, such gests that the higher prevalence people without the condition. based on their results. as a urinalysis and blood work to measure blood of hearing impairment in dia- Overall, Horikawa’s team “Furthermore, these results sugar, hormones and kidney function. Physical betic patients compared with found that diabetics were 2.15 propose that diabetic patients conditions that could result in incontinence nondiabetic patients was con- times as likely as people without are screened for hearing impair- include diabetes, an infection, or a functional sistent regardless of age,” wrote the disease to have hearing loss. ment from (an) earlier age com- or structural defect causing a blockage in the lead researcher Chika Horikawa, But when the results were bro- pared with non-diabetics,” said urinary tract. at Niigata University Faculty of ken down by age, people under Horikawa, adding that hearing How Is Enuresis Treated? Medicine, and colleagues. 60 had 2.61 times the risk while loss has also been linked to an Treatment may not be needed for mild cases It’s not the first time research- people over 60 hand 1.58 times increased risk of depression and of enuresis, because most children with this ers have found a link between higher risk. dementia. SOURCE: http:.//bit.ly/ condition outgrow it. Reassuring the child and diabetes and hearing loss. In Some experts caution that this RIVeeW Reuters parents is essential. Early dinner and no water after 9pm are helpful. Awakening the child at midnight and making him pass urine is often rewarding. Medicines are used more often if ‘Healthy nose’ promotes long, loving relationship the child’s self esteem is getting affected by the wetting. healthy nose ensures a happy, endur- Psychology reports. WebMD Medical Reference ing relationship, says a study based on Women in both categories had on average data involving people aged between 18 the same number of partners - four - but those A and 46 years with and without olfac- who couldn’t smell lacked confidence in their tory sense, according to a British media report. partners and were on average 20 percent less The results showed men and women unable secure than females who could. to smell were more insecure, with men par- Significantly, a woman’s lack of smell had no ticularly affected when it comes to finding love. impact on her friendships, suggesting smell is Such men averaged just two partners compared only key for females when it comes to relation- to 10 among those with robust sense of smell. ships, according to the Daily Mail. Scientists attribute this to timidity and lack Smelling, or olfaction, is generally the least of adventurousness on the part of men because understood of the senses but it is increasingly of their poor sense of smell and how they are recognised as having an important role in a perceived by others, the journal Biological large number of areas. IANS 8 PLUS | TUESDAY 4 DECEMBER 2012 MOVIE PLUS | TUESDAY 4 DECEMBER 2012 9

HOLLYWOOD NEWS BOLLYWOOD NEWS Pitt splashes £75,000 on Noddy car painting Star system has helped

ctor Brad Pitt has reportedly spent Bollywood flourish: Zoya a whopping £75,000 on a Noddy car Apainting by iconic artist Bambi as a gift to his partner Angelina Jolie on by Uma Ramasubramanian Chirstmas. Pitt commissioned an oil painting of ilmmaker Zoya Akhtar him, Angelina and their six children in strongly believes in a bright red and yellow Noddy car. The Bollywood’s star system couple and their six kids, Maddox, 11, Pax, Fand feels it has helped the eight, Zahara, seven, Shiloh, six, and four- industry build an identity in the year-old twins Knox and Vivienne, love map of world cinema. the Noddy and Big-Ears stories by Enid “Star system is important. If you Blyton. see worldwide, India, Hollywood “The Jolie-Pitt children love Noddy; Twilight shines in third box office win over Bond and China -- all these three (film) they each have a Noddy car,” dailystar. industries have a star system. Rest co.uk quoted a source as saying. (of the film) industries like Europe “Brad wants the painting to be a sur- and other countries don’t have stars prise Christmas present to hang in the and their (film) industries are kids’ playroom. The artwork titled The dying,” Zoya said in an interview. Rainbow Family will show all six children Having directed film stars squashed into a Noddy car with a shadowy Hrithik Roshan and Abhay Deol Brad and Angie in the background. Brad and her younger brother Farhan asked if there could be extra space left for Akhtar, Zoya said India has survived Hollywood because “we have our future children,” the source added. language; we have our own style, so our audience would want to see a Shah Rukh Khan and not Tom Cruise”. “Our star system has made our industry grow. So I definitely have a lot of respect for that and I understand that,” the 40-year-old said. Then, who according to her is a film star? Jolie might quit acting for brood “They are called stars because no matter what the film is, they get an opening. Stars pull people. But having said that, stars want to cater to their ctress Angelina Jolie says she might consider quitting Hollywood, audience by doing what has worked before. So you can’t make too many when her children become teenagers. films with them because they (stars) don’t want to experiment. They want A Jolie raises Maddox, 11, Zahara, 8, Shiloh, 6, Pax, 9, and four-year- that safety and that is the problem,” said Zoya. old twins Knox and Vivienne with fiance actor Brad Pitt. “In this case, Aamir Khan is a little different,” she said, on her experience “I think I am going to have to give up acting as the kids hit the teen- of working with him in Talaash, which released on November 30. age years because there is going to be too much to manage,” thesun.co.uk Zoya co-wrote the film with director Reema Kagti, experimenting for quoted Jolie, 37, as saying. the first time with the suspense genre. “My challenges were to keep the story engaging, give depth to the char- acters and also focus on their emotional chord. Our audience relate to by Lisa Richwine acclaimed performance by Daniel Day- The Weinstein Company distrib- by Summit Entertainment, a unit emotional quotient. So, if you don’t connect them emotionally, they will Lewis as the 16th US president, kept uted the movie, which was produced of Lions Gate Entertainment. Sony not watch (a film),” she said. I can fall perfectly, says Kelly Osbourne he Twilight teen movie vam- the No 3 slot with $13.5m. for less than $20m by Annapurna Corp’s movie studio distributed Skyfall. Zoya, the daughter of poet-lyricist Javed Akhtar and script writer Honey pires sucked more money out A week ago, Breaking Dawn - Part Pictures, Inferno Entertainment, and Lincoln was produced by Dreamworks Irani, has written and directed Luck By Chance (2009) and Zindagi Na inger Kelly of theaters over the weekend, 2 and Skyfall helped push the five-day Pitt’s production company, Plan B and distributed by Walt Disney Co. Milegi Dobara (2011). Osbourne says she Tleading James Bond, Brad Thanksgiving weekend to a box office Entertainment. Viacom Inc’s Paramount studio distrib- She said she would like a balance of commercially viable and critically Soften trips while Pitt and the rest of box office pack with record. The success of the two films, In the No 4 slot, family movie Rise uted Rise of the Guardians. News Corp’s acclaimed projects. walking which has $17.4m in US and Canadian ticket sales plus upcoming releases such as fan- of the Guardians captured $13.5m. The 20th Century Fox studio released Life “I feel both are important. Commercial success is important. But if I helped her make new and scoring its third weekly win. tasy prequel The Hobbit and musical Dreamworks Animation film has taken of Pi, and LD Entertainment distrib- make a film and it makes money, but if the audience says they didn’t like dance moves. Pitt’s new movie, the small-budget Les Miserables, are likely to power 2012 in $48.9m since its Thanksgiving week- uted The Collection. it at all, I will be disappointed. I want everybody to watch my films and Osbourne, 28, says she gangster film Killing Them Softly, ticket sales to an all-time high, accord- end debut, one of the slowest starts for Reuters like it,” she said. IANS can now fall perfectly as bombed with filmgoers who panned ing to industry forecasts. a movie from the studio behind Shrek she has flexible muscles it with a rare “F” grade on average As of Sunday, year-to-date sales and Kung Fu Panda. and bones. in polling by audience survey firm were running 5.9 percent ahead of the Guardians features the voices of 1. The Twilight Saga: Breaking “I’m double-jointed CinemaScore. The movie landed in same point in 2011 at $9.9 billion, box Chris Pine and Alec Baldwin as the Dawn — Part 2, $17.4m ($48.4m Shah Rukh gets Morocco’s medal of honour everywhere, I think seventh place with $7m in ticket sales office tracker Hollywood.com said. Tooth Fairy, Santa Claus and other international) that’s why I’m so acci- at domestic theaters. Critics were kinder than audiences childhood favourites who save the 2. Skyfall, $17m ($34m international). uperstar Shah Rukh Khan has been conferred Morocco’s prestigious dent prone. Tight jeans The results were much brighter to Pitt’s Killing Them Softly. Seventy- world. 3. Lincoln, $13.51m. Medal of Honour. The ongoing Marrakech International Film Festival and high heels equals for Breaking Dawn - Part 2, the fifth nine percent of reviews collected on the Rounding out the top five, survival 4. Rise of the Guardians, $13.5m Spaid a tribute to Hindi Cinema’s 100 years and a bevy of Bollywood one of my hips popping and final film in the Twilight vampire Rotten Tomatoes website applauded the story Life of Pi earned $12m and fifth ($40m international). stars, including Amitabh Bachchan, Hrithik Roshan, Sridevi and Shah out and my face on the and werewolf saga, which has earned film, which blends a violent but comic place. The critically praised film from 5. Life of Pi, $12m ($21.5m Rukh were among its guest list. floor,” US magazine $254.6m at North American (US and gangster story with criticism of politi- director Ang Lee is based on a book international). After the tribute, Prince Moulay Rachid hosted a dinner for Indian quoted Osbourne as Canadian) theaters since its smash cians’ failure to address the economic about a boy stranded on a boat with 6. Wreck-It Ralph, $7.02m ($1.5m delegation of Bollywood actors. At the royal dinner, Rachid presented saying. debut on November 16. crisis. an adult Bengal tiger. Its two-week international). Shah Rukh with Medal of Honour of Morocco. Shah Rukh also tweeted “As a result of this The top rankings were similar to last In the movie, Pitt plays a hitman domestic total reached $48.4m. 7. Killing Them Softly, $7m ($700,000 his picture with the medal. curse, I can fall perfectly. week’s Thanksgiving holiday weekend. brought in by mafia bosses to elimi- The other nationwide release, horror international). “Thanks for the honour and happiness. All the best for the rest of the I turn it into a dance Bond movie Skyfall starring Daniel nate a group of thieves who raid a thriller The Collection, took in $3.4m 8. Red Dawn, $6.6m ($500,000 festival,” he tweeted. move,” she added. Craig as superspy 007 grabbed $17m high-stakes poker game. The film is and finished in tenth place. The movie, international). Previously, Amitabh was also decorated with the Medal of Honour of and held on to second place, accord- set in an unspecified US city marked a sequel to 2009 movie The Collector, 9. Flight, $4.5m. Morocco by Morocco’s King Mohammed. ing to studio estimates compiled by by abandoned houses, closed shops and tells the story of a serial killer who 10. The Collection, $3.4m. Reuters. Steven Spielberg’s historical petty criminals and mobsters trying kidnaps women. drama Lincoln, featuring a critically to get by. Breaking Dawn - Part 2 was released 10 PLUS | TUESDAY 4 DECEMBER 2012 HOSPITALITY

WINNER sauce, and red vinegar. RECIPE CONTEST Season with basil, salt, and cayenne epper. Add shrimp to the bowl, and stir until evenly coated. Cover, Grilled Halloumi and Cherry and refrigerate for 30 minutes to 1 hour, stirring once Daily at or twice. Tomatoes with Mint Pesto Preheat grill for medium heat. Thread shrimp onto Seasons Ingredients: skewers, piercing once near the tail and once near the • 250gms (loosely packed) fresh mint leaves head. Discard marinade. Restaurant • 180gms (loosely packed) fresh basil leaves Lightly oil grill grate. Cook shrimp on preheated grill • 60gms finely grated Parmesan cheese for 2 to 3 minutes per side, or until opaque. Introducing an enticing dining • 60ml plus 30ml extra-virgin olive oil Kavitha experience each night of the • 1 garlic clove, sliced week: • 30gms pine nuts, toasted Monday - Italian night. • 250gms cherry tomatoes, grape tomatoes, Firecracker Grilled Tuesday - Swiss night. and/or pear tomatoes Alaska Salmon Wednesday - Asian night. • 360gms Halloumi cheese, cut crosswise into Thursday - Seafood night. 2-inch-thick slices Ingredients: Friday - Steak night. • 12 fresh basil leaves, thinly sliced • 8 (4 ounce) fillets salmon Saturday and Sunday • 1/2 cup peanut oil – International. • 3 to 4 long metal skewers • 4 tablespoons soy sauce Opening hours • 4 tablespoons balsamic vinegar Dinner 06.30pm – 11.00pm Method: • 4 tablespoons green onions, chopped Location: Mövenpick Hotel Doha, Combine mint, basil, Parmesan, 60ml oil, garlic and pine nuts • 3 teaspoons brown sugar Corniche Road. For more in processor. Blend until smooth. Season pesto with salt and • 2 cloves garlic, minced information call 4429 1111. pepper. Transfer to small bowl. • 1 1/2 teaspoons ground ginger The theme for this week is Prepare barbecue (medium-high heat). • 2 teaspoons crushed red pepper flakes SPINACH. Thread tomatoes onto skewers. Brush with 2 tablespoons oil; • 1 teaspoon sesame oil (Send in your recipe with sprinkle with salt. Grill skewers until tomato skins crack, 2 to 3 • 1/2 teaspoon salt ingredients in metric minutes per side. Grill Halloumi until golden, 2 minutes per side. Peninsula Plus measurements). Winner will Transfer cheese to platter. Method: PO BOX 3488, Doha, receive a dinner voucher. Remove tomatoes from skewers and scatter over cheese. Place salmon filets in a medium, nonporous glass [email protected], To claim your prize Top with dollops of pesto. Sprinkle with sliced basil and serve. dish. [email protected] call 44557837. Karen K In a separate medium bowl, combine the peanut oil, soy sauce, vinegar, green onions, brown sugar, garlic, ginger, red pepper flakes, sesame oil and salt. Whisk together well, and pour over the fish. Cover and mari- Marinated Grilled Shrimp nate the fish in the refrigerator for 4 to 6 hours. • Banana leaves (20cm X 30cm) Method: Prepare an outdoor grill with coals about 5 inches • Red Chilli sauce, to serve with fish. Mix fish with marinating ingredients and Ingredients: from the grate, and lightly oil the grate. (Made of 10 fresh red chillies, little toasted marinate for at least 1 hour in fridge. • 3 cloves garlic, minced Grill the fillets five inches from the coal for 10 minutes shrimp paste and little salt.) Wrap each fish individually by rolling with • 1/3 cup olive oil per inch of thickness, measured at the thickest part, a piece of banana leaf. • 1/4 cup tomato sauce or until fish just flakes with a fork. Turn over halfway Ingredients for Marinating: Close both ends. • 2 tablespoons red vinegar through cooking. 1 cup Onion, chopped Grill fish in a preheated oven at 220oC • 2 tablespoons chopped fresh basil Murali 50 gms garlic, chopped for 15 min. • 1/2 teaspoon salt 2 tbsp curry powder Turn over and grill it for another 10 min. • 1/4 teaspoon cayenne pepper 2 tbsp chilli powder Serve hot with the prepared sauce..and • 2 pounds fresh shrimp, peeled and deveined Fish Grilled with 1 tsp turmeric powder. lime juice. • Skewers Banana Leaves 6 tbsp thick coconut milk For the sauce,smash red chillies and 1-1/2 tsp salt shrimp paste until it turns smooth. Method: Ingredients: 1 tbsp lime juice Vijayalakshmi Kamalakkannan In a large bowl, stir together the garlic, olive oil, tomato • 500g Mackerel fish Renaissance Hotel’s West End gets ready for festive season

he West End Doha dining precinct inside Black Angus, 4kg or 6kg turkey, gravy, stuffing, the Renaissance Doha City Center Hotel sweet corn and cranberry, ready to order from is offering many options for dining, includ- December 1. Ting the New York Steakhouse, Crossroads From December 1, West End’s Quick Bites Kitchen, Ipanema Brazilian Churrascaria and café will be stocking imported Italian Panettone, Cucina, the Italian Kitchen. German Stollen, Scottish fudge, French short- Ready for the holiday season with a sumptuous bread, Dundee cake, gingerbread houses, home- festive menu is New York Steakhouse, located on made mince pies and many more. Level 2 of West End. Chef Moritz Neumann has With New Year 2013 just around the corner, instilled his new menu with an array of festive Robert Catlin, Director of Beverage and Food for delights, such as Seared Tuna Tataki, Wagyu Beef the hotels, commented: “The festive winter season Carpaccio and Kobe Peppercorn Rump. in Doha really brings people together and we are West End Doha has all the bases covered with pleased to be able to cater to so many tastes with three restaurant options for festive brunches on nine international restaurants and bars. It’s been December 25 and January 1, 2013 with a market- wonderful to see a loyal following growing over the style Italian brunch at Cucina, a feast of Brazilian year. Our focus has been on bringing the best pro- Churrascaria meats at Ipanema or an interna- duce to our restaurants and providing the highest tional buffet at Crossroads. Alternatively, for level of service to cater to our discerning guests. those of you who prefer to relax in the comfort Whether you are planning a romantic night out, of your own home, simply order and pick up a a business gathering or special event, join us this complete festive dinner to go. No need to spend festive season at the West End in Doha”. hours in the kitchen with their 2kg prime beef The Peninsula BOOKS PLUS | TUESDAY 4 DECEMBER 2012 11

In a three part series Slate magazine’s editors, The best of designers, and columnists choose their favourite 2012 books of 2012. Here’s the second part...

The People of Forever Are Not Afraid by Shani Boianjiu Shani Boianjiu’s debut reads more like a collection of sto- ries about what it’s like for a woman serving in the Israeli army than a cohesive novel, but that somehow makes it better. The fractured portraits of these three young women manage to be deeply depressing but also incredibly funny, leaving Boianjiu somewhere between Etgar Keret and Amos Oz, with some even tempted to dub her Israel’s Lena Dunham. (Miriam Krule, copy editor)

The Last Policeman by Ben H Winters It’s by now cliché for a detective novel or movie to feature an earnest young cop and a grizzled old-timer living out the final days of a long career. But The Last Policeman, a debut novel by Ben H. Winters, turns that trope on its head. The eager up-and-coming detective is Hank Palace. The griz- zled veteran? Earth itself. Scientists have determined that a humanity-ending asteroid will strike earth in six months, and against the Western canon while banging at an electric clavier. read it I walked around for days seeing my life as a series of most people are responding by quitting their jobs and “going This sounds masturbatory to you? Well, it does to Robbins, Alison Bechdel drawings. Bucket List” — that’s how Hank got promoted to detective too, if I’m reading his self-skeptical phallocentrism properly. (Katie Roiphe, columnist) — or committing suicide. Palace is investigating a hanging (Troy Patterson, TV critic) death that doesn’t quite feel like a suicide to him, and along The Entertainer the way he must deal with the victim’s relatives, a romantic The Orphan Master’s Son by Margaret Talbot entanglement, and his crazy sister. So how does the Earth fare by Adam Johnson The sweetest thing about The Entertainer, my friend Margaret in the end? Spoiler alert: This is the first of a trilogy. A Grand Guignol of a novel, The Orphan Master’s Son fol- Talbot’s warm, funny and rigorous history of her father Lyle (Rachael Larimore, managing editor) lows an orphaned boy who survives horror after horror after Talbot’s acting career, is its constant sense of surprise. You are horror, at each stage rising toward the top of North Korea’s rolling along the vaudeville era and suddenly you find yourself Escape From Camp 14 hellishly bizarre society. It exaggerates the grim reality of on stage with a hypnotist painting a mustache on a young by Blaine Harden North Korea, but that country is so warped that the depravities maiden. You pass the era of the talkies and into a fistfight with In January 2005, a malnourished 23-year-old named Shin Adam Johnson imagines actually seem possible. (Would North Clark Gable. Sometime later, Ed Wood appears at the Talbot Dong-hyuk escaped from the North Korean prison camp where Korea’s leader try to recreate a Texas ranch, Potemkin style? He family breakfast table in a negligee. Along the way, you have he’d been born. Escape From Camp 14 is his story — a parade probably would!) Individual scenes — the underground prison absorbed the history of the founding of Hollywood and what of unimaginable cruelties that Shin and the hundreds of thou- mines, the psych-torture dungeons of Pyongyang — have the it means for the American identity. sands of other prisoners held in North Korea’s vast gulags sickening power of Holocaust memoirs, but the book as a (Hanna Rosin, DoubleX editor) face every day. The account, by the former Washington Post whole has a manic, comic buoyancy. I could have done with reporter Blaine Harden, is a brutal, terrify- 20 percent less magical real- Why Does the World Exist ing read, with every page offering graphic ism and 20 percent more real by Jim Holt details of monstrous physical, psychologi- realism. Even so, The Orphan In his beautifully written “existential detective story” Why cal and emotional torture. It’s complicated Master’s Son is the most fun Does the World Exist, an intellectual thriller, Jim Holt’s great by Shin’s own apparent conflicts about his you’ll ever have reading about contribution is to pull the rug out from under the obfuscation own behavior in camp. And it is also an torture, totalitarianism and death and philosophical illiteracy of those PR hungry pop cosmolo- unforgettable adventure story, a coming- camps. gists who claim they’ve proven how the universe “was created of-age memoir of the worst childhood (David Plotz, editor) from nothing.” By redefining “nothing” to mean “well, actually imaginable. Read it to feel better about any something,” they’re engaging in shameless sophistry — you problem you’ve ever encountered. Are You My Mother? could call it “creationism” — that Holt has the physics and the (Farhad Manjoo, technology columnist) by Alison Bechdel philosophy — and the courage — to expose. Nothing matters! A transcendently great (Ron Rosenbaum, columnist) Alien vs. Predator graphic memoir, veers elegantly by Michael Robbins from D W Winnicott to Virginia Alif the Unseen In keeping with the title, Alien vs. Predator Woolf to Dr Seuss, while at the by G Willow Wilson — built to savage with big-screen cuspids same time capturing with aston- Hackers, the Middle East and magical creatures are all famil- — Michael Robbins makes like a saucy ishing precision the author’s iar pop culture staples. It’s the particular alchemy G Willow omnivore in his first volume of poems. own relation to her mother, the Wilson brings to them in Alif the Unseen, an amazing novel Turning and turning phrases, he pirouettes difficulties about writing about about a young hacker in an unnamed Emirate who runs afoul of into nasty attitudes blazing aggression and one’s own life, and the vicissi- state security services that matters. Wilson makes connections opposition; the verses are very versus, as tudes of romantic attachment, between the Arabic and the integrity of code, conjures up the it were. The author, a post-apocalyptic col- all with an astonishing lightness most memorable djinns in memory, and creates a powerfully lagist, mashes up Wordsworth and classic of touch. In its original energy, its humane and subversive counter to the image of Muslims that rock, bounces hip-hop off Roethke, and resourcefulness of observation, dominate so much of popular culture. Have I mentioned it’s a kicks out the enjambments, giving every it makes you see things differ- compulsively readable and mature love story, too? impression of waging a one-man rap battle ently, which is very rare. After I (Alyssa Rosenberg, XX Factor blogger) 12 PLUS | TUESDAY 4 DECEMBER 2012 TECHNOLOGY Clashes over internet rules As the United Nations debates whether it should play a greater role in overseeing the internet, tech companies and rights groups are voicing to mark Dubai concerns over greater censorship and less innovation in cyberspace meeting International Proposed treaty by Brian Murphy Telecommunication changes could give Union (ITU) – UN oversight of he UN’s top telecommunica- UN agency tasked issues such as tions overseer sought yesterday to quell worries about greater with promoting cyber security, fraud, Tinternet controls emerging information and international tariffs, from global talks in Dubai, but any attempts for major Web regulations will communication and management of likely face stiff opposition from groups technologies internet addresses led by a high-powered US delegation. The 11-day conference, seeking to Summit aims to Critics say update codes last reviewed when the Web was virtually unknown, high- revise International countries such as lights the fundamental shift from Telecommunication China and Iran will tightly managed telecommunications networks to the borderless sweep of Regulations (ITR) use treaty to further the internet. treaty, unchanged their current efforts Some at the Dubai conference, including a 123-member US delegation since 1988 to restrict web with envoys from tech giants such as Google Inc and Microsoft Corp, worry ITU is challenging authority of Internet search giant Google that any new UN oversight could be used by nations such as China and existing bodies, mainly ICANN – says proposals would require services Russia to justify further tightening of internet addressing agency under such as YouTube, Facebook and Web blocks and monitoring. “Love the free and open internet? Tell U.S. government Skype to pay the world’s governments to keep it that influence. Russia, new tolls to reach way,” said a message on the main search page of Google.com with a link for com- China and other people across ments directed to the Dubai conference. ITU member states borders, which The agenda for the gathering of more than 1,900 participants from 193 want control to could limit access nations covers possible new rules for pass to UN to information a broad range of services such as the internet, mobile roaming fees and sat- WORLD INTERNET USAGE, millions (% of population), June 2012 ellite and fixed-line communications. Questions include how much sway the UN can exert over efforts such as bat- tling cyber-crimes and expanding the Asia internet into developing nations. 1,076.7 The secretary-general of the UN International Telecommunications (27.5%) Union, Hamadoun Toure, said that Europe accusations that the meeting could North 518.5 limit Web freedoms are “completely Oceania untrue” and predicted only “light- America (63.2%) touch” regulations. 273.8 24.3 “Many countries will come to reaf- (67.6%) firm their desire to see freedom of (78.6%) expression embedded in this confer- Middle ence,” he told reporters. East But the head of the American con- tingent, Ambassador Terry Kramer, Latin America 90.0 said the US would propose taking all and Caribbean Africa (40.2%) internet-related discussions off the table 254.9 167.3 and concentrating on already regulated ICANN = Internet Corporation services such as phone networks. (42.9%) (15.6%) “What we don’t want to do is bring for Assigned Names and Numbers in all the private networks, the inter- Sources: Internet World Stats, wire agencies Picture: Associated Press © GRAPHIC NEWS net networks, the government net- works, etc.,” he said. “That opens the door to censorship.” The gathering is also powerless to fighting in months to hit the capital, “That opens the door ... to content The outcome of the Dubai gathering is force nations to change their inter- Damascus. censorship,” he said. Another battle that far from certain. More than 900 proposed net policies, such as China’s notori- Kramer told reporters last week in will likely take place in Dubai is over regulatory changes have been proposed, ous “Great Firewall” and widespread Washington that all efforts should be European-backed suggestions to change but details have not been made public. blackouts of political opposition sites made to avoid a “Balkanization” of the the pay structure of the Web to force Broad consensus is needed to adopt any in places including Iran and the Gulf internet in which each country would content providers — such as Google, items — the first major review of the UN’s Arab states. Last week, Syria’s inter- impose its own rules and standards Facebook Inc. and others — to kick in an telecommunications protocols since 1988, net and telephone services disappeared that could disrupt the flow of com- extra fee to reach users across borders. well before the internet age. for two days during some of the worst merce and information. AP COMICS PLUS | TUESDAY 4 DECEMBER 2012 13

Baby Blues Jerry Scott and Rick Kirkman ALL IN THE MIND Can you find the hidden words? They may be horizontal, vertical, diagonal, forwards or backwards.

Hagar The Horrible Chris Browne

AL FRESCO, BANQUET, BARBECUE, BARS, BISTRO, BRASSERIE, BREAKFAST, BUFFET, CAFE, CAMPFIRE, CANTEEN, CLUB, COFFEE HOUSE, COLLATION, DINER, DINNER, DRINK, EATING HOUSE, FEAST, FOOD, GRILL, HOTEL, LUNCH, MEAL, MOTEL, PICNIC, PUBS, REPAST, RESTAURANT, ROTISSERIE, SANDWICH, SNACK, SUPPER, TAVERN, TEA SHOP.

Zits Jerry Scott and Jim Borgman

Blondie Dennis Young and Denis Lebrun Hoy en la Historia

December 4, 2011 Former Brazil football captain Socrates died aged 57. Regarded as one of the world’s greatest midfielders, he was also a doctor of both medicine and philosophy 1791: Britain's Observer newspaper, the world’s oldest Sunday newspaper, was first published Slylock Bob Weber 1972: Honduran President Ramon Cruz was overthrown in an army coup led by General Oswaldo Lopez Arellano 1993: Rocker Frank Zappa died in Los Angeles 2000: EU agriculture ministers banned meat and bone meal in livestock feed to control mad-cow disease Picture: Getty Images © GRAPHIC NEWS 14 PLUS | TUESDAY 4 DECEMBER 2012 CROSSWORDS

ACROSS 36 Two-time DOWN 27 Sights at Occupy 48 Hindu princess CROSS WORD 1 Nursery rhyme vessel Oscar-winning 1 Cheese city protests 50 Bad demonstrations 1234 5678 910111213 5 Candy used to be cinematographer 2 Staggering 30 More 51 Prefix with -meter Nykvist seen on it 3 Probably 32 Stores 52 Time out? 14 15 16 37 Aphorism’s middle 9 Like a celestial body 4 Joke follower 33 “Pagliacci” clown 54 ___ fruit 40 Draftable 17 18 19 14 Oscar Wilde poem “By 5 Not being such a 34 Turns 56 On one’s ___ 41 Tick off the ___” daredevil, say 36 Mushroom stem 57 When doubled, Miss 20 21 22 42 Journalist Howell 15 Ingredient in traditional 6 Place for many a 38 ___ jolie Piggy’s white poodle medicine 43 Actor Wheaton hanging 39 Chicago’s Saint ___ 58 N.H.L.’s Laperriere 23 24 25 26 27 16 Uncertain 44 Medgar ___ College 7 Brings along University 59 Start of an alphabet 28 29 30 31 17 Start of a Confucian 46 Number twos, for 8 Speed: Abbr. 44 Fishermen with traps book aphorism short 9 Guinness superlative 45 Browning piece 32 33 34 35 36 20 Man’s name that’s 47 Some galas Latin for “honey” 10 “La ___ du jeu” HAWK OCTO UMASS 49 Accustoms (1939 Renoir film) 37 38 39 21 Not so great AGEE HARK MULCH 53 Place for family 11 Music featured in “A 22 Arm raiser, informally portraits GREATAPES ASTOR 40 41 42 Clockwork Orange” 23 Like the gang, in an 54 Together, in Toulon SERIOUS HARE 12 “___ tu” 43 44 45 46 old song 55 Suffix with manager POP MET RUBYRED 13 Faulty: Prefix 25 Single, e.g. 56 Aphorism’s end CARE ALENE SDS 47 48 49 50 51 52 18 One who’s working out 28 Accept eagerly, with 60 Beau PROVABLE THA “up” of pocket, informally? WARANDPEACE 53 54 55 61 Call ___ (stop play 19 “Elf” co-star, 2003 29 A goner after service) NAT TEARDROP 24 Co-creator of “The RPM I SNOT CORE 56 57 58 59 31 Dig it 62 “Am ___ only one?” Flintstones” CHARL I E PCS SEZ 32 Work assignments 63 Terminals in a 60 61 62 25 Curse 35 TV network that computer network COVE NAMEONE 26 Memorable 2011 ONEAL THEDONALD 63 64 65 broadcast live from 64 Minuscule issues hurricane LENTO LOVE IDID Opryland USA 65 Word with china or ASSAY YSER DOVE chop

HYPER SUDOKU 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.

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Cartoon Arts International / The New York Times Syndicate How to EASY SUDOKU play Hyper Easy Sudoku Puzzles Sudoku: Place a digit from 1 to 9 in A Hyper Sudoku each empty cell so every Puzzle is solved row, every column and by filling the every 3x3 box contains all numbers from 1 the digits 1 to 9. 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 YESTERDAY’S only once. Otherwise, a Hyper Sudoku is solved like a normal Sudoku. ANSWER CINEMA / TV LISTINGS PLUS | TUESDAY 4 DECEMBER 2012 15

Talaash (2D/Hindi) – 2.30, 8.30 & 11.15pm SHOWING AT CITY CENTER 1 Thuppakki (2D/Hindi) – 5.00pm 0830 The Global 7:30 The Stream GULF Game 8:00 News CINEMA 101 Weddings (2D/Malayalam) 0930 Omni Sport 8:30 News – 2.30, 8.00 & 11.00pm 1000 Dutch League 9:00 The Fight for 2 Ajax V Psv Amazonia 1145 Short 10:00 News Talaash (2D/Hindi) – 5.30pm Programme 10:30 Inside Story 1200 The Serie A 11:00 News Paranorman (Comedy) – 2.30pm Show 11:30 The Stream 1230 The Football 12:00 News 1 League Show 12:30 Witness 101 Weddings (2D/Malayalam) 1300 The Global 13:00 NEWSHOUR – 4.30, 7.30 & 10.30pm Game 14:00 News Rise Of The Guardians 1400 English Sports 14:30 Inside Story (3D/Animation) – 2.30 & 4.15pm Enws 15:00 Al Jazeera 1800 English Sports Correspondent The Woman In The Fifth News 16:00 NEWSHOUR 2 (3D/Thriller) – 6.00 & 7.45pm 1815 Short 17:00 News Programme 17:30 The Stream MALL The Collection (2D/Action) 2015 Rugby 18:00 NEWSHOUR CINEMA – 9.30 & 11.15pm International 19:00 News Friendly 19:30 Fault Lines Red Dawn (2D/Action) England V New 20:00 News – 2.45 & 5.00pm Zealand 20:30 Inside Story 2200 Uefa 21:00 NEWSHOUR Twilight Saga: Breaking 2 (2D/Adventure) – 7.15pm Champions 22:00 News 3 Trouble With The Curve (2D/Drama) – 9.30pm 11:25 Outback 09:15 Cats 101 The Paperboy (2D/Thriller) Truckers 10:10 Must Love Cats – 11.30pm 13:15 Gold Divers 11:05 Wild France 14:10 Border Security 14:15 Bondi Vet The Paperboy (2D/Thriller) – 2.30pm 14:35 Dirty Money 15:40 Wild France 15:05 Auction Kings 16:35 Going Ape 17:20 Hillbilly Trouble With The Curve 17:30 My Cat From (2D/Drama) – 4.45pm Handfishin’ Hell 1 18:15 Mythbusters 19:20 Cats 101 19:10 How Stuff’s Red Dawn (2D/Action) – 7.00pm 20:15 Monkey Life Made 20:40 Bondi Vet 19:40 How It’s Made 21:10 Call Of The The Collection (2D/Action) 20:05 Border Security Wildman – 9.15 & 11.30pm 20:35 Dirty Money 21:35 Going Ape 21:00 Auction Kings 22:05 Wild France Rise Of The Guardians (Animation) ROYAL – 3.00, 5.00, 7.00 & 9.00pm 2 PLAZA Hunger Games (Drama) – 11.00pm

10:10 Python 10:50 A Man Called Snow White & The Huntsman (Adventure) – 2.30 & 4.45pm Hunters Sarge 12:00 Lizard Kings 12:20 Till There Was What To Expect When You’re 13:00 Nordic Wild You Expecting (Comedy) – 7.00pm 16:00 Shark Men 13:50 Driving Me 3 18:00 Animal Crazy The Bourne Legacy (Action) Intervention 15:15 Parker Kane – 9.00pm 19:00 Wild Russia 16:50 Starcrossed 21:00 Monkey 18:25 De-Lovely Mission Impossible (Action) Thieves 20:30 While Justice – 11.15pm 21:30 Monkey Sleeps Thieves 22:00 Extreme Close- Cinderella (3D/Animation) – 2.30pm 22:00 Shark Men Up

The Man With The Iron Fist (2D/Action) – 4.30pm 1 14:30 Young Justice The Woman In The Fifth 09:25 Julie-PG (3D/Thriller) – 6.30 & 8.30pm 16:10 Ben 10: Alien Force 11:00 The Swan-FAM 16:35 Powerpuff Girls 12:45 Casablanca- Skyfall (2D/Action) – 10.30pm 17:00 Angelo Rules 14:25 It’s Always Fair 17:20 Young Justice Weather-FAM Rise Of The Guardians 17:40 Hero 108 17:45 Son Of Lassie- (3D/Animation) – 3.00, 5.00 & 7.00pm 18:50 Johnny Test 19:25 The Last Time I 2 19:15 Adventure Time Saw Paris-PG LANDMARK The Collection (2D/Action) 19:40 Regular Show 21:20 Singin’ In The – 9.00 & 11.00pm 20:05 Green Lantern: Rain-FAM The Animated 23:00 Westworld Red Dawn (2D/Action) – 2.30pm

Twilight Saga: Breaking 2 (2D/Adventure) – 4.45pm 10:00 The Search For 16:15 Princess 3 Trouble With The Curve Santa Paws-PG Sydney: The (2D/Drama) – 7.00pm 14:00 Robots-PG Legend Of The 16:00 The Search For Blue Rabbit- Argo (2D/Drama) – 9.15pm Santa Paws-PG 18:00 Gulliver’s 18:00 The Family Travels-PG Stone-PG15 20:00 Little Secrets- The Paperboy (2D/Thriller) – 11.30pm 20:00 Extract-PG15 22:00 The Fantastic 22:00 28 Days-PG15 Adventure 16 PLUS | TUESDAY 4 DECEMBER 2012 POTPOURRI

Paul McCartney to Today in Qatar feature in Dandy comic A summary of MEDIA SCAN issues of the day aul McCartney will fulfill a life- discussed by the Yan Pei-Ming Plong wish when he appears in the Qatari community “Painting the history” final print edition of Britain’s longest- in the media. When: 9am-8pm, Till Jan 12, 2013 running children’s comic The Dandy, a Friday 3pm to 9pm favorite of the ex-Beatle when he was WHERE: QMA Gallery, Bldg 10 growing up in Liverpool. WHAT: Curated by Francesco Bonami, this The comic that brought beloved exhibition profiles three types of history- characters including pie-eating cowboy makers and highlights the power of painting Desperate Dan and Korky the Cat to • People are calling for bringing a law to make to Aspire management for the way they are as a medium for recording historical events. millions of homes is going digital-only recruitment of people with disabilities com- organising security and safety in the area. Free entry from Tuesday, 75 years after it was first pulsory in government and non-government People are able to use the facilities as the published. offices. weather is good now. Tea with Nefertiti The weekly publication sold more • There is an increasing demand from the Gulf • Some people say that the discount sales being When: Till March 31, 2013; 11am-6pm than two million copies in its 1950s hey- citizens that they should get visas on entry announced by malls and other commercial WHERE: Mathaf: Arab Museum of day, but with children lured by alterna- at airports in the UK in the same way the centres are not genuine. They advertise “up to Modern Art tive entertainment from television and British are issued visas at airports in the GCC 50%” discount but this is vague and the actual WHAT: Offer a critical perspective on how video games, circulation fell to less than countries. discount could as well be 1% or whatever. to perceive an artwork, particularly in and 8,000. Published in the Scottish city of • Some residents say Ashgal should ask compa- Where is Consumer Protection Department, from the Arab world. Dundee by DC Thomson, executives nies which are executing its projects to display they are asking. Free entry are describing digital-only Dandy as a at worksites their names and other details • The authorities have said that there is enough chance for a “new lease of life” rather like the timeframe for the completion of the supply of milk in Qatar, but the situation is Forever Now than the beginning of the end. projects, in the same way as such details are different and there is still shortage, some When: Till March 31, 2013; 11am-6pm McCartney contacted Dandy after displayed at building construction sites. residents say. WHERE: Mathaf: Arab Museum of the digital switch was first announced • Some workers at malls and other commercial • People are talking about the news that in Modern Art in August. He said that in an interview centres don’t speak either Arabic or English, Egypt, 11 newspapers and three satellite VT WHAT: Forever Now proposes new with music magazine NME in 1963 he making communication difficult. channels have decided to stop printing or go readings based on the works of five artists was asked what his personal ambition • Some citizens are complaining that covers of off air for one day in protest against Mursi’s from Mathaf’s permanent collection. This was, and he replied that he wanted to manholes in roads are sometimes above the policies. exhibition unpacks new narratives that have his picture in The Dandy. road level, which causes huge inconvenience • People are complaining that many ministries, posit a unique understanding of five diverse “I hope it’s not too late!” the 70-year- to drivers. They have urged the authorities government departments and non-govern- artists: Fahrelnissa Zeid, Jewad Selim, old wrote in a letter. He will be seen to look into the problem and conduct checks ment institutions are not updating their web- Saliba Douaihy, Salim Al–Dabbagh and grimacing as Desperate Dan squeezes when road works are finished. sites, especially their career section, for a long Ahmed Cherkaoui. his fingers in a firm handshake. • People have expressed their appreciation time. Free entry Reuters Art of Travel WHEN: Till Feb 11, 2013 (Sun, Mon, Wed: 10:30-5:30; Tue: closed; Thu, Sat: 12noon-8pm; Fri: 2pm-8pm) IN by Boris Roessler WHERE: Al Riwaq Hall next to the FOCUS Museum of Islamic Art WHAT: A watercolour album dated 1590 was commissioned by Bartholomäus Schachman, mayor of Gdansk in 1604. It documents what he saw during his travels through the Ottoman Empire in 1588-89, depicting costumes and people, scenes of everyday life, festivals and ceremonies. The pages of the album are on display along with related artworks and documents providing visitors with a fascinating and vivid view back in time to the 16th century. Entry: Children Free, adults QR:25

Record of Images in Algerian Film Exhibition WHEN: 15 Dec 2012 10am-10pm WHERE: Katara Art Center, Bldg 5 WHAT: Posters have long been a visual tool of politics. In the world of cinema this medium is the still representation of a series of plans, plots, moving images, scripts and protagonists. This exhibition explores the relationship between selected posters of key films that made Algerian film history and stills from the films themselves, framing the aesthetics of its socio-political context that has evolved through the years to form a thriving independent cinema that has demarcated itself in the region. Entry: Free A white horse gallops through the snow in Hambach, Germany. Temperatures around zero and snow is If you want your events featured here forecast in the region over the course of the following days. mail the details to [email protected]

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