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It’s quite normal that most children will be fussy with vegetables. So should you just give up and fry the potatoes, and opt for a once-a-day vitamin pill that will deliver the vitamin C, E and folate that picky eaters often miss in their diets? Probably not.
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By Marta Zaraska
Our kids eat less than half the vegetables they need, according to a recent report published by the Federal
Interagency Forum on Child and Family Statistics. Some parents have taken to hiring outsiders to help them raise a veggie lover, but for those not wanting to outsource — or not having the money to do so — science offers some ways to make the peas and car-rots go down easier.
Resistance often starts around 18 months of age: sealed lips, head turned away, food left untouched on the plate. Scientists have a term for when children won’t try new foods — “food neophobia” — and it makes
sense from an evolutionary perspec-tive. Peaking between ages 2 and 6, being standoffish from unknown foods protects a child, who is becom-ing less dependent, from eating sub-stances that might be poisonous. Unfortunately, because there are so many kinds of vegetables, these are often the rejected foods.
How much your kid fears new foods may be highly heritable, say authors of a study of twins published last year. If you loathe trying new food, it appears, your child may, too. What’s more, many vegetables are bitter, and chil-dren are preprogrammed by nature to avoid bitter taste, since it may signal the presence of toxic compounds.
“Many parents don’t realise that it’s quite normal that most children will
be fussy with vegetables,” says psy-chologist Gemma Mitchell of Britain’s Loughborough University.
So should you just give up and fry the potatoes, and opt for a once-a-day vitamin pill that will deliver the vita-min C, E and folate that picky eaters often miss in their diets?
Probably not. Nutritionists say vitamin pills are no replacement for vegetables and fruit. Veggies contain many important substances in addi-tion to vitamins and minerals such as phytonutrients, which lower the risk of cancer and cardiovascular disease.
With all this in mind, here are some techniques, gleaned from the latest research, for dealing with food neopho-bia, or what could be called Vegetable Aversion Syndrome:
Offer vegetables witha glass of water.
In an article published last March in the journal Appetite, University of Oregon researcher Bettina Cornwell shows that kids may eat more veggies if they are given water with a meal instead of soda or juice. Cornwell offered 75 children age 3 to 5 a plate of carrot sticks and red pepper accompanied either by plain water or by a sugary drink, Hawaiian Punch. Results were impressive. When served water, kids ate 35 percent more veggies. “When you take a sweet drink with your meal, you can’t taste the deli-cate sweetness in a carrot,” Cornwell explains. She advises parents to replace even a flavored vitamin water with a plain one to help children develop a preference for subtle natural flavors.
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Don’t give up, even after many rejections.
In another 2013 Appetite article, Mitchell points out that you may need to offer your toddler or preschooler new food even up to 15 times before it gets accepted. The reason? Typical childhood neophobia: If you don’t rec-ognise a food, you don’t trust it and you don’t eat it. Yet most parents don’t per-severe that long. Faced with wrinkled noses, they usually give up after three to five attempts. “Keep offering the food again and again,” Mitchell says, basing her comments on evidence from many studies. “The child doesn’t even have to eat it. Repeated exposure is all that is needed.” Let your kids play with the broccoli or spinach on their plates, let them touch the vegetable, smell it. If they don’t eat, don’t panic. Simply take the plate away. And a few days later, try again.
Don’t pressure.Researchers say pressuring kids to
eat veggies — or anything else — tends to backfire by spurring negative emo-tions that will become associated with the vegetable. As in: When there is cabbage on my plate, I feel sad, scared, angry. According to Mitchell, even a simple “just one more bite” can be problematic.
A 2006 investigation by researchers from Pennsylvania State University and Appalachian State University found that when 3-to-5-year-olds were con-tinually pressured to finish a vegetable soup during lunch — the researchers said, “Finish your soup, please” once a minute during a five-minute period — they developed more of a dislike for the food than those who weren’t pressured. What’s more, according to a 2002 study of food aversions among college students, such adults’ food aversions can often be traced back to childhood struggles at the dinner table.
Increase the portionsThis may sound counterintuitive, but
it turns out that if you pile up more veggies on your kid’s plate, more will get eaten. “What’s really effective is
giving children big portions of vegeta-bles at the start of a meal when they’re hungry. In our lab we’ve done this with raw carrots and with tomato soup. The bigger the portion was, the more the kids ate,” says Barbara Rolls, a pro-fessor of nutritional sciences at Penn State.
In an experiment conducted in 2010, Rolls and her colleagues showed that doubling the portion size of carrots offered to preschoolers as a first course increased the consumption of that veg-etable by 47 percent.
So serve a salad before the mac and cheese. And you should prob-ably keep the main portion small: An investigation published last year in the American Journal of Clinical Nutritionshowed that the bigger the entree (the authors used mac and cheese in their experiments), the fewer fruits and veg-etables get cleared off the plates.
Disguise the vegetables“One of the most effective strategies
we’ve found is the hidden-vegetable approach: putting pureed vegetables into dishes,” Rolls says. “Most kids don’t care what’s in their food as long as it tastes good. With baked goods like zucchini bread or pumpkin bread, we’ve found that kids actually prefer those with added vegetables because they are moister.”
So put some grated vegetables into casseroles, pasta dishes or mac and cheese. Another scientifically tested strategy is to serve vegetables with a dip or with some seasoning. It works for two reasons: first, because the familiar sauce will make the unfamil-iar vegetable appear more trustwor-thy; second, because the
sweetness of sugar or ketchup masks the bitter taste of vegetables.
A study published in 2012 showed that offering preschoolers salad dress-ing as a dip to go with raw broccoli increased consumption of the vegetable by as much as 80 percent.
Build positive associations“If a child is upset, many parents
will say, ‘Oh, come here, have a cookie.’ Children are quick learners: Soon they start equating biscuits with comfort,” Mitchell says. But you can build a simi-lar positive association with vegetables, offering up a carrot stick instead of a cookie. It’s not about tricking the kids, but about building positive associations with a healthful food, she says.
Relax and have funCut the veggies into creative shapes,
mix as many colours on the plate as possible, allow the kids to get messy while eating. In other words: Let them have fun with food. Giving veggie dishes cool names works, too. An experiment published in 2012 found that elemen-tary students ate twice as many “X-ray Vision Carrots” in a school cafeteria than identical ones described simply as “carrots” — even though they were both exactly the same, plain carrots. “Show them how to grow food, even if it’s just a few simple herbs. Take them to a grocery store, let them help pick the vegetables. Get them involved rather than simply demanding that
they eat their veggies,” suggests Rolls.
Finally, even if none of this works, relax — and wait. A 2010 study that followed a group of kids from age 2 to 11 found that picky eating declines as kids get older. By the time most are 6, only about 3 per-cent remain very fussy.
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Most kids don’t care what’s in their food as long as it tastes good. With baked goods like zucchini bread or pumpkin bread, we’ve found that kids actually prefer those with added vegetables because they are moister.
PLUS | THURSDAY 27 MARCH 20144 CAMPUS
The seventh annual Careers Fair at The Gulf English School (GES) was opened by Sheikh
Faisal bin Qassim Al Thani, and attracted leading names in business and academia in Qatar.
Planned and organised by International Baccalaureate (IB) students from GES, the Fair welcomed hundreds of students keen to meet and talk to representatives of key Qatar businesses and universities. In addition to the GES community, ACS and Modern Indian School also attended the Fair.
Sheikh Faisal, the patron of GES, was greeted by pupils Saad Al Kuwari and Noor Al Naemi.
Gold sponsors of the fair included
RasGas, Ezdan Real Estate, Al Faisal Holding, Aamal and the Ministry of Municipality and Urban Planning, while Al Ahli Hospital and Gelato were the Bronze sponsors. Other participating organisations included Ooredoo, Qatar Islamic Insurance Company, Qatar International Islamic Bank, Tadmur Trading, Hamad bin Khalifa University, Qatar University, Stenden University Qatar, Qatar Aeronautical College, Community College Qatar and Tajmeel Beauty Academy.
IB student Haziq Ruzali was in charge of the technical requirements for the event. He said: “I had a lot of responsibility – meeting all the par-ticipants and making sure they had
everything they needed for their stalls. I was also in charge of ensuring the room itself was fitted out appropriately. I have been really nervous, but I have
learned a lot – particularly in terms of communicating with my teachers and peers. It has been a great experience.”
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WCMC-Q students secure 100pc residency programme match rate
There were scenes of jubilation at Weill Cornell Medical College in Qatar (WCMC-Q) as every
student who sought a US residency programme secured a place at a hospital to continue their training after graduation.
The annual Match Day event is a fiercely com-petitive affair, with more than 40,000 graduat-ing medical students around the world vying for approximately 25,000 residency positions.
The WCMC-Q students revealed the news of their successful matches in front of friends, family and faculty at an event held at the college. Students matched at internationally renowned medical institutions in the United States, including Johns Hopkins Hospital in Baltimore, Yale-New Haven Hospital, the University of Rochester Medical Center in New York and New York-Presbyterian Hospital.
Of the 34 students of the Class of 2014, 25 sought
and secured matches on residency programmes in the United States. Two students were accepted to residency programmes at Hamad Medical Corporation (HMC) and seven are pursuing a variety of alternative activities next year.
Dr Javaid Sheikh, Dean of WCMC-Q, paid trib-ute to the Class of 2014.
He said: “Achieving a match rate of 100 percent is a great honour for our college, an honour that has been made possible by the truly excellent levels of commitment, hard work and talent shown by our students during their time here, and by our faculty and staff who have supported them every step of the way.” The Peninsula
More than 80 former stu-dents gathered at Texas A&M University at Qatar
for its first former student reunion at the Green Spine in Education City to highlight their connection to the University and to each other.
The event was the first of its kind for the Texas A&M at Qatar Alumni Council, which was formed in August 2013. The Council, consisting of 14 former students nominated and elected by the university alumni body, aims to promote a sense of affinity and long-term camaraderie among former students.
The event was organised and hosted by the university’s Office of Strategic
Partnerships and Alumni Relations, which works closely with Alumni Council members and committees to assist in accomplishing their goals as well as ensuring that university rules and regulations are followed.
John Small, director of strategic partnership and alumni relations, said: “Texas A&M University is internation-ally recognised for its strong network of former students, and for our tradi-tion of staying in touch with each other and with the university’s main campus. I am so glad to see our Texas A&M at Qatar graduates expanding these traditions as the university created the newly formed Alumni Council and now are attending their first organised
alumni reunion. These are first steps toward building something that will benefit Doha Aggies for decades to come.”
“The aim of this reunion is to con-nect with fellow former students to
engage and share experiences since graduation,” said Khaled Hassiba ’09, Alumni Council president. “It makes each and every Aggie a part of a big-ger family.”
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Music Lovers Group organises flute concert
Music Lovers Group organised an Indian classical flute concert last weekend in memory of its founder president,
Ganesh Srinivasan, at the Concorde Hotel in Doha. Accomplished flautist Rakesh Chaurasia, nephew of the legendary Hari Prasad Chaurasia, and young tabla artist Ojas Yogesh cast their magical aura over an appreciative audience and had everybody spellbound for nearly two hours.
Rakesh started off with Raag Yeman and
played his instrument with ease, and Ojas matched him well and the mood was set for the audience perfectly for the evening.
Rakesh, with his uncanny humour, inter-acted with the audience in between the num-bers and, on request from the audience, played Raag Desh, followed by Hamsadwani. His control over Pahadi raag was amazing
and ‘Raghupathi raghava rajaram’ in Raag Jaijaivanthi was one of the best of the evening.
Rakesh, under his fusion band called RAF (Rakesh and his friends) is performing in a jazz programme on March 28 in Cape Town, South Africa, in front of an audience of 35,000. RAF is the only band from India taking part in the event.
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PPFQ provides aid for Thar famine victims
Pakistan Professionals Forum Qatar (PPFQ) has handed over a cheque
for QR60,000 to a group of volunteers called Team Karachi to help the vic-tims of a persistent famine in Thar. Pakistan’s Thar desert, in the south-eastern Tharparkar district, is home to about a million residents, and is a harsh landscape that has seen a sharp drop in annual rainfall, pushing residents of the area into a state of ‘severe food inse-curity’ and famine, as categorised by the World Food Programme. The funds will be used to install water pumps and provide dry food rations and medicines.
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ibq picks thanq winnerInternational Bank of Qatar (ibq) has announced the eighth winner of the monthly prize draw in the bank’s loy-alty programme, thanq. Jean Khnaizer was the lucky winner this month, walk-ing away with 100,000 thanq reward points at the bank’s headquarters in the presence of Hassan Al Mulla, head of distribution and deputy head of retail banking. “We extend our congratula-tions to the lucky winner of this award, which offers many benefits. The thanq programme is ibq’s way to thank its loyal clients and to give back to the commu-nity it operates in,” said Al Mulla.
Inter-school Scrabble tournament heldStafford Sri Lankan School Doha hosted the 8th annual Inter-School Scrabble Tournament in the school premises recently. This year the tournament was organised in two catego-ries: school and open categories. Over 100 people took part in the tournament, which was open to all expatriate schools as well as Scrabble enthusiasts in Qatar. All Scrabble players who have a passion for the game met under one roof to compete with one another and test their word power. Sonia Philip, Programme Coordinator of QatarDebates of Qatar Foundation, was the chief guest. The team representing Stafford Sri Lankan School Doha emerged the champion for the second consecutive year, while the team from MES Indian School was the runner-up.
PLUS | THURSDAY 27 MARCH 20146 WHEELS
Al Boraq Automobiles Co and Porsche Centre Doha have launched the world’s first sports car in the compact
SUV segment, the Macan, at an event held at the Doha Exhibition Centre. The launch event marks Porsche’s move into a new segment, following in the footsteps of the brand‘s most suc-cessful model in the luxury SUV range, the Cayenne.
Poised to set new standards in driv-ing dynamics and enjoyment, both on and off the road, the new Macan boasts the typical sporty handling character-istics that have become synonymous with the Porsche brand. Many of the design and performance elements have been inspired by the brand’s sports cars, including the iconic 911 and the revolutionary 918 Spyder, making it clear that the compact SUV heralds the first of its kind.
Commenting on the occasion, Christer Ekberg, Managing Director of Porsche Middle East and Africa FZE, said: “With first deliveries of the all-new Macan starting on April 12, Porsche will launch a world first and enter a new segment. I have no doubt that this car will be another success for Porsche, with the long-term commit-ment and intensive efforts of our local Porsche Centre here in Qatar.”
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All-new BMW M4 Coupé powers into the Middle East
The BMW M4 Coupé made its Middle East debut at the showroom of Alfardan Automobiles, ahead of its appearance as
Official Safety Car for 2014 MotoGP, which was held in Qatar on the Losail International Circuit.
The BMW M4 Coupé sees BMW M GmbH reveal a new interpretation of the high-perform-ance sports car. It represents an on-going commit-ment to the M philosophy blending motor sport genes and uncompromised everyday usability within an emotionally rich overall concept. The ‘M4’ badge is also a reference to the new ‘4’ model series that provides the basis for the new M model.
Axel Mittler, Head of Co-operation MotoGP at BMW M GmbH, attended the launch event, sending a strong signal about how BMW Group views the Middle East’s importance to BMW M GmbH following an 11 percent sales growth achieved across the region in 2013. On a global level, BMW M GmbH also concluded 2013 with double digit growth with the number of BMW M and BMW M Performance cars sold rising by 14 percent.
Commenting on the importance of BMW M products for the Middle East Region, Johannes Seibert, Managing Director, BMW Group Middle East said: “Middle East customers appreciate our BMW M vehicles; they place high value on their powerful performance, quick response and
individual driving dynamics on the roads. With the support of our importer partners, we will con-tinue to ensure that ‘M’ remains the most power-ful letter in the alphabet when it comes to sporting performance.”
Mittler commented: “Four generations of the BMW M3 have blended motor sport genes and uncompromised everyday usability within an emotionally rich overall concept. The BMW M4
Coupe represents an ongoing commitment to this philosophy. The engine is the heart of every M model, and the new turbocharged six-cylinder unit fitted in the two new cars combines the virtues of a high-revving naturally aspirated unit with the strengths of turbocharger technology. A commit-ted lightweight design concept produces a weight saving of around 80 kilograms over the outgoing M3.” The Peninsula
FOOD 7PLUS | THURSDAY 27 MARCH 2014
By L V Anderson
Some chocolate chip cookie questions are easy. Should you put nuts in your chocolate chip cookies? No, obviously. Should
your chocolate chip cookies be chewy or crunchy? Chewy, duh.
Others are more difficult. Should you stick with the classic recipe, the one that Ruth Wakefield invented at the Toll House Inn in 1938 and that has adorned packages of Nestle choco-late chips for decades? Or should you choose a newfangled, sophisticated, sci-entifically refined recipe, like the one The New York Times published in 2008? (The ingredients list for the Times rec-ipe, based on French pastry chef Jacque Torres’ version, begins, “2 cups minus 2 tablespoons [8 1/2 ounces] cake flour, 1 2/3 cups [8 1/2 ounces] bread flour . . .” 1-2-3-4 cake this is not.)
I have a hard time answering this question. There’s something about the proposition of finding the “per-fect” chocolate chip cookie via cold, calculating clinical trials, that smacks of hubris. Surely tradition counts for something. (And surely people should not have to get out their digital scales every time they want to make cook-ies.) I am also wary of French chefs who think they understand chocolate chip cookies better than Americans do.
Then again, tastes change over time, and some developments — like the idea of sprinkling sea salt over your cookies before baking them — are undeniably
very good. (The combination of choco-late and sea salt is far superior to the more traditional combination of cara-mel and sea salt.)
So I recommend a middle way — a pastiche of old and new that everyone can agree on, like Pharrell’s “Happy.” An updated Toll House cookie that does not require mad-scientist-style meticulousness.
It doesn’t require a trip to a spe-cialty store, either. Contra The New York Times, you do not need “1 1/4 pounds bittersweet chocolate disks or fèves, at least 60 percent cacao con-tent,” nor do you need, as some cook-book authors recommend, to chop up dark chocolate bars by hand. (There are few tasks less pleasant than chop-ping chocolate: The chocolate dust gets
everywhere and embeds itself into your cutting board, hands and clothes.) You can get Ghirardelli chocolate chips, or another decent brand, at most grocery stores these days. And the convenience of simply dumping a bag of chocolate chips into your mixing bowl is priceless.
The ratios in the recipe you find below are quite similar to those of Wakefield’s recipe: I use slightly less flour and baking soda to encourage chewiness, and I use more vanilla, because more vanilla is almost always a good idea. I also strongly endorse using all brown sugar instead of a mix of white and brown: Brown sugar confers moisture and a subtle caramel flavour to everything you put it in, and those traits are highly desirable in chocolate chip cookies.
So what concessions do I make to the Times? There’s that sprinkle of sea salt to offset the sweet richness of the cookie dough. I also tip my hat to the Times for emphasizing the importance of refrigeration. You should always, always refrigerate your cookie dough for at least a couple of hours before baking it — the longer the refrigeration time, the better the consistency of the final product.
But equally important to consist-ency, keep in mind, is not overbaking: As soon as the edges of the cookies are golden brown, pull them out of the oven. A minute makes the differ-ence between chewy and crunchy — and while a crunchy cookie isn’t bad, exactly, it’s best avoided. WP-Bloomberg
Yield: 40 to 45 cookiesTime: 3 hours, mostly unattended
(or longer, depending on how long you refrigerate the dough)
Ingredients1 1/2 cups brown sugar1 cup (2 sticks) unsalted butter,
softened2 large or 3 small eggs2 teaspoons vanilla extract1/2 teaspoon baking soda1/2 teaspoon fine-grain salt2 cups all-purpose flour2 cups semi-sweet chocolate chipsAbout 1 teaspoon coarse sea salt
Method:Beat the brown sugar and but-
ter with the paddle attachment of a stand mixer (or with a handheld mixer in a large bowl). Add eggs and
vanilla and beat to combine. Add the baking soda and fine-grain salt and beat to combine, then add the flour and stir just until combined. Stir in the chocolate chips. Wrap the dough in foil or plastic wrap (or simply cover the bowl) and refrigerate for at least 2 hours and up to 3 days.
Heat oven to 350 degrees F and grease one or two baking sheets (or line them with parchment paper). Drop the dough by the rounded table-spoonful onto the baking sheet(s), leaving 2 inches between cookies. Sprinkle a small pinch of coarse sea salt on each cookie, then bake until the cookies are mostly firm and their edges are golden brown, 9 to 11 min-utes. Transfer the cookies to wire racks or paper towels, and repeat with the remaining dough and salt. Serve warm.
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By Radhika Bhirani
From mortgaging his house to seeking funds from friends and family, Sandeep Varma crossed various hurdles to bring on the
big screen the heart-wrenching story of Manjunath Shanmugan, an Indian Institute of Management (IIM) graduate who was killed for speaking out against corruption. The first-time director says he found immense “cinematic potential” in the story.
At a time when the Bollywood calen-dar seems to be near-crowded with biop-ics on iconic names like Milkha Singh, M C Mary Kom, Bhupen Hazarika, Kishore Kumar and Dara Singh, Manjunath is Varma’s humble effort to bring alive an ordinary officer’s extraordinary courage to fight corruption.
“It was a story worth telling,” Varma said as he recollected the process of mak-ing the film, which will be released by Viacom18 Motion Pictures on April 25.
Manjunath’s story grabbed headlines in 2005. A graduate of IIM-Lucknow and an executive with the Indian Oil Corporation, he was killed on November 19, 2005, allegedly after he threatened to
revoke the licence of a Lakhimpur Kheri petrol pump owner for selling adulter-ated fuel.
The incident evoked strong reactions from people across the nation soon after, but Varma started toying with the idea of a film in 2008. He got more involved with his story when he started making posters, leaflets and audio-visuals for The Manjunath Shanmugam Trust.
“There was a curiosity aspect about the case. I asked a few people: ‘Why do you think this happened to Manju?’ People said he was naïve, but that ran false — he was in IIM for three years (he flunked one year), worked in UP for three years. he knew where he was work-ing and he knew the repercussions of what he did.
“I find it extremely inspiring that someone as young as Manju (27) took on such a job knowingly, he did the right thing, repeatedly putting his life at risk. I felt it is a story worth telling — of a real life hero,” Varma, an ad filmmaker based in Mumbai, said over the phone.
He had no money to translate the story on to the screen. When he approached producers and investors, he realised “it was difficult”.
“The audiences are ready for some-thing new and different, but the people in the trade are stereotypical. Audiences will accept a well-told story as long as its grammar is entertaining,” said Varma, who faced questions if his “UP-based movie will have a spicy item number or two”.
The director found an answer in crowd-funding, and received support from Manjunath’s alma mater for per-mission to shoot on the IIM-L campus for some days.
“It was critical to shoot at IIM. We shot there in 2012, and the rest was done around Lucknow and some other places in UP and in Mumbai too,” Varma added.
As a matter of precaution, the project was given a pseudonym during the shoot-ing to avoid unwanted attention and resistance. However, Varma found that even children in the area knew about Manjunath’s story and he was a “hero” in their eyes. That egged on the director.
He invested 25 percent of the “medium budget” himself, mortgaged his house and sought funds from his friends, fam-ily and Manjunath’s batchmates to bring the film to life. He also found solace in the fact that actors like Divya Dutta and
Yashpal Sharma agreed to work in the film for a nominal fee.
But there came a point where he felt he would have to perhaps empty his bank balance to make the film. And he admits he was scared.
“I then went to Manju’s parents and told them. But they said they won’t give anyone else the permission to make a film on their son. Then I came to Mumbai, and the words started haunt-ing me. I knew this project was mine to do, and I didn’t want to take a chance with it,” said Varma, who has roped in a new face to play Manjunath on screen.
It was a year ago that Viacom18 Motion Pictures came on board. Varma is now confident that the movie will get a good release window and that it will be promoted well.
The actor who has played the titu-lar role has been kept well under wraps till now. Another interesting aspect is the fact that when Varma was asked to include an item number to spice up the film, he took the unbeaten path of ask-ing Indian rock and roll band Parikrama to compose true blue rock tunes for the movie.
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Ileana, Varun elated after songs’ popularity
Actor Varun Dhawan and Ileana D’Cruz are happy that Palat and Besharmi ki height, the numbers from their forthcoming movie Main Tera Hero,
has become popular and admit songs are an important part of the film. Varun and Ileana, who will be seen promoting Main Tera Hero on the sets of Dance India Dance Little Masters, talked about the popularity of the songs.
“Songs are such an important part of the film. I am very happy and surprised that Palat became a big hit,” Ileana said.
Varun added: “Ileana and I often discuss about which is our favourite song. Yesterday we were at a radio station and they told us that Palat was an instant hit, but Besharmi Ki Height is slowly rising, people are requesting for that song. It is Ileana’s favourite song.”
Directed by David Dhawan, Main Tera Hero also stars Nargis Fakhri and hits theaters April 4. Meanwhile, Varun is all set to reveal some college days secrets of grand master Mithun Chakraborty, who was his father David Dhawan’s senior in college.
“Dada (Mithun) is my dad’s senior from college and he used to rag my dad a lot. So dad has already told me two-three stories about him. So I am going to talk about Dada’s college days,” Varun said.
Deepika thanks 15m Facebook fans
Actress Deepika Padukone’s fan following on Facebook has crossed 15 million, and as a mark of appreciation, she has decided to give her fans
an opportunity to chat with her live on Facebook.
Her Facebook page is www.facebook.com/DeepikaPadukone, and it very recently crossed 15 million likes.
Deepika, who gave four back to back hits like Yeh Jawaani Hai Deewani and Ram-leela last year, has always considered her fans to be the reason behind her suc-cess, and she makes it a point to express her gratitude in her own small ways, said a source.
“This Facebook chat seems to be yet another token of apprecia-tion to her fans all over the world - her way of acknowledging that her fans mean the world to her,” the source added.
Sunny loves his first Haryanvi character
Actor Sunny Deol, who plays gangster Lakwa in Dishkiyaoon, says he fully enjoyed his first
Haryanvi character in the movie.
“It’s (Dishkiyaoon) a good film...has a good story and I loved my character in the film,” Sunny said at the press conference of the film.
“This is the first time I am playing a Haryanvi character in a film. I really loved doing this charac-ter,” he added.
Dishkiyaoon, produced by Shilpa Shetty and Raj Kundra, will also see Harman Baweja and newcomer Ayesha Khanna.
It will release on Friday.
Winfrey gives life lessons to Lohan
Media mogul Oprah Winfrey wants trou-
bled actress Lindsay Lohan to get her life back on track.
Winfrey was seen meet-ing with the actress on an episode of TV series Lindsayfollowing complaints from production staff over her difficult behaviour and poor time keeping, and advised her to “work on herself” and not spoil the chance she had been given, reports female-first.co.uk.
Winfrey told her: “You need to relax, the most important work for you is the true spiritual work, your core beliefs about what is the essence of you and allowing the divine order or universal energy, I call it god, to work through you.
“You need to align with that, that is where your strength and power is. You need to start with the personal work on yourself. It is waiting there for you, you are here to teach us how to do it. I believe that you believe that this is your time to turn things around for yourself.
Paltrow posts no-make up selfie
Actress Gwyneth Paltrow has thanked water and its “healing power” by shar-
ing her no make-up selfie on Twitter.The 41-year-old posted a selfie sans
make-up on the microblogging site to cel-ebrate World Water Day on March 22, reports huffingtonpost.com.
Paltrow had also said that her beauty routine is “very minimal”.
“After I drop my kids, I always exercise and then I take a shower and I basically
just put on moisturiser — and that’s kind of it,” she said.“If I have a meeting or something I’ll put on some mascara, but that’s
as far as I go,” she added.
Cowell wants Rihanna as X Factor judgeMusic mogul is trying his best to
get singer Rihanna on board as the fourth judge on his popular reality show The X Factor.
The 54-year-old has drawn up a hit-list of attractive girls he wants on board and the singer is his favourite, reports dailystar.co.uk.
Rihanna sparked rumours of a secret meeting with Cowell after flying into London recently.
Cowell believes the 26-year-old art-ist will add an edge to his show, and he is determined to put the ITV show back at the top of the ratings.
Cowell also believes that having both Rihanna and Cheryl Cole, 30, on the panel would make it a great line-up.
Other candidates include Joss Stone, 26, Ellie Goulding, 27, Mel B, 38, and Black Eyed Peas star Fergie, 38.
The other judge apart from Cowell and Cheryl is Louis Walsh.
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By Andrew M Seaman
Women who have their breasts removed because of cancer may
benefit from receiving radiation if they still have traces of cancer in their lymph nodes, suggests a new analysis.
Radiation reduced the risk of death and of cancer return-ing among women who had can-cer cells detected in the cluster of nodes under the arms after a mastectomy. The nodes are part of the lymphatic system, a conduit for immune and other cells.
“It has been clear for some time that women in whom the disease has not spread to the lymph nodes in the armpits will not benefit from radiotherapy,” Sarah Darby said.
“It’s been unclear what the ben-efit is for women with one, two or three positive lymph nodes,” she said.
Darby is one of the study’s authors from the Early Breast Cancer Trialists’ Collaborative Group at the University of Oxford in the UK.
The new findings are based on data from over 8,000 women who were randomly assigned to either receive radiation or not after hav-ing one or both breasts removed because of cancer. The data were from 22 trials conducted between 1964 and 1986.
The researchers, who published their results in The Lancet, had information about whether the women were diagnosed with breast cancer again within about 10 years of receiving radiation. They also knew whether the women had died by the start of 2009.
They confirmed what had been known - that radiation did not offer any benefits for women who had no lymph nodes test positive for cancer after their mastectomy.
But for women who had one to
three lymph nodes test positive after their breasts were removed, they did find a noticeable differ-ence in cancer recurrence and death.
For example, women with posi-tive lymph nodes had about a 46 percent risk of their breast can-cer returning during the 10 years after their breasts were removed. That risk fell to about 34 percent over 10 years among women who received radiation.
Similarly, about 47 percent of the women who did not receive radiation died of breast cancer by the start of 2009. That compared to about 37 percent of women who received radiation.
Women who received radiation were also less likely to die from any cause, compared to those who did not get radiation.
The benefits of radiation remained even among women who received other treatments, such as chemotherapy.
“This actually will confirm a lot of what people started to think about,” Dr Alphonse Taghian told Reuters Health.
He wasn’t involved in the new study but is co-director of the Breast Cancer Research Program and chief of breast radi-ation oncology at Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston. He also teaches at Harvard Medical School.
“My sense is that there is a majority of physician oncologists who would use post-mastectomy radiation in patients with one to three positive lymph nodes,” Taghian said.
“There will still be cases that we’ll agonise about and it’s not really clear cut, but there is no doubt that this study will make an impact on how people think about the one to three positive lymph nodes,” he said.
Most professional guidelines do not recommend radiation for women with one to three lymph
nodes that test positive for cancer, Darby said.
“I hope people will review the guidelines,” she said. “I would certainly expect the guidelines to change.”
Due to the age of the data included in the study, however, there are some caveats.
Specifically, the women included in this analysis had their lymph nodes sampled or completely removed to see how many con-tained cancer. Those procedures are not commonly used now.
Also, Taghian said, it’s also important for people to know that while radiation can cause heart problems or other cancers, the technology has improved.
“We are more precise,” he said. “We are able to protect tremen-dously the tissue which doesn’t need to be exposed to radiation and we have a better under-standing and knowledge of the biology of the tumor. This should reduce the risk of having major complications.”
Dr Philip Poortmans wrote in an accompanying editorial that the results of the new analysis “clearly confirm” that post-mas-tectomy radiation should be con-sidered for patients with one to three lymph nodes that test posi-tive for cancer.
He is with the Department of Radiation Oncology at the Institute Verbeeten in Tilburg, Netherlands.
Darby said it’s important for women to talk with their doctors about their treatment options.
“Breast cancer is a very com-plicated disease,” she said. “In each individual case it would be very hard for the patient to know what’s best. I would counsel women to talk about it with their oncologists.”
SOURCE: bit.ly/NOENqw and bit.ly/QbL4yr The Lancet, online March 19, 2014.
Reuters
To keep employees happy and productive, Google it
From laundry facilities to volleyball courts, from nap areas to a slide connecting work
floors, the popular search engine Google leads in keeping its employees in a good mood.
And this has resulted in a higher productivity, a 12 percent boost at work, a research said, adding that the firm may actually have hit the right idea that happy employees do work harder.
“The driving force seems to be that the happier workers use their time more effectively, increasing the pace at which they can work without sacrific-ing quality,” said Daniel Sgroi from department of economics at University of Warwick in Britain.
According to the researchers, Google was at the forefront of improving its employees’ happiness with its perks that include free food, buses and gyms along with sports courts and even a slide to get between floors.
In a series of lab tests, they found happiness made people 12 percent more productive. The study included four different experiments with more than 700 participants. The participants were either shown a comedy movie clip or treated to free chocolate, drinks and fruits.
Others were enquired about recent family tragedies to assess whether lower levels of hap-piness were later associated with lower levels of productivity.
Companies like Google have invested more in employee support and as a result employee satis-faction has risen, concluded the researchers in the study published in the journal of Labour Economics.
Depression can lead to obesity in adolescent girlsAdolescent girls who suffer from depression
are at a greater risk for developing obesity as they grow older, a research said.
“Adolescence is a key developmental period for both obesity and depression, so we thought it significant to look at the onset of these disor-ders at an early age,” said Naomi Marmorstein, an associate professor of psychology at Rutgers University-Camden in US.
By assessing a statewide sample of over 1,500 males and females in Minnesota, Marmorstein and colleagues found that depression occurring by early adolescence in females predicts obesity by late adolescence.
Meanwhile, obesity that occurs by late adoles-cence in females predicts the onset of depression by early adulthood, they said.
No significant associations between the two disorders across time were found in males dur-ing the study.
“Some say that depression and obesity go hand-in-hand while others did not see that connection. We tried to take the next step in clarifying this link by looking at a sample of youth that we fol-lowed from ages 11 to 24,” Marmorstein said.
Depression can lead to obesity through an increased appetite, poor sleep patterns and leth-argy, while obesity can cause depression due to weight stigma, poor self-esteem and reduced mobility.
When a person is young, she is still develop-ing eating and activity patterns as well as coping mechanisms.
According to Marmorstein, if she experienced a depressive episode at the age of 14, she may be more at risk for having an onset of unhealthy patterns that persist.
Agencies
Radiation improvesRadiation improvesodds for some womenodds for some womenafter mastectomyafter mastectomy
PLUS | THURSDAY 27 MARCH 2014
By Alexei Oreskovic and Malathi Nayak
Facebook Inc will acquire two-year-old Oculus VR Inc, a maker of virtual-real-ity glasses for gaming, for $2bn, buying its way into the fast-growing wearable devices arena with its first-ever hard-
ware deal.The acquisition, which comes hot on the heels of its
$19bn deal for messaging service WhatsApp, marks a big bet by Facebook to anticipate the next shift in an evolving technology industry, at a time when consumers are increasingly abandoning their PCs for smartphones.
The world’s largest social network was deemed late to recognise the shift to mobile devices and the company’s revenue has only recently begun to recover from the late start.
Many in the industry believe that wearable devices could represent the next big platform shift. Google Inc has been testing Google Glass, a stamp-sized electronic screen mounted to a pair of eyeglasses for several years. Last week, it introduced an effort to develop computerized wristwatches.
Facebook said virtual-reality technology could emerge as the next social and communications platform.
“The history of our industry is that every 10 or 15 years there’s a new major computing plat-form, whether it’s the PC, the Web or now mobile,” Facebook co-founder and Chief Executive Mark Zuckerberg said in a conference call with analysts and media to discuss the acquisition.
“We’re making a long-term bet that immersive, virtual and augmented reality will become a part of people’s daily life,” the 29-year-old Zuckerberg said, noting that wearing the Oculus goggles was “differ-ent than anything I’ve ever experienced in my life.”
Zuckerberg said Facebook was not interested in becoming a hardware company and did not intend to try to make a profit from sales of the devices over the long term. Instead, he said Facebook’s software and services would continue to serve as the company’s underlying business, potentially generating revenue on Oculus devices through everything from advertis-ing to sales of virtual goods.
While Oculus will operate as an independent com-pany, Zuckerberg stressed that Facebook’s plans for Oculus extended well beyond games.
“Imagine enjoying a court side seat at a game, stud-ying in a classroom of students and teachers all over the world or consulting with a doctor face-to-face — just by putting on goggles in your home,” he said.
In addition to game makers, Oculus has garnered some interest from developers keen on creating apps in areas like architecture, automobiles, marketing and education, the company has said.
Facebook’s recent spate of acquisitions is some-what concerning, RBC Capital Markets analyst Mark Mahaney wrote in a note to investors. But he said that for a company of Facebook’s size, the deal did not seem “irrational.”
“The question this time is whether Facebook is too early or simply betting on the wrong platform. This won’t be known for some time. But if it gets the plat-form right, we’re relatively confident that Facebook
will develop an effective monetization strategy for it, thus boosting its overall financial growth,” Mahaney said.
Happy, Go LuckeyThe acquisition makes Oculus VR one of the most
successful companies or projects to ever emerge from the fledgling Kickstarter programme, which has helped attract small investments from the public for everything from the Pebble smartwatch to the recent “Veronica Mars” movie.
Oculus VR, founded by Palmer Luckey, a self-described virtual-reality enthusiast and hardware geek, got its start as a Kickstarter-funded pro-gramme, drawing small investments from thousands of people on the popular fund-raising platform.
It quickly drew attention to its “Oculus Rift” virtual-reality glasses, demoed at tech and gaming conventions around the country.
Oculus VR raised $75m in December in a round led by Andreessen Horowitz, to market its virtual-reality headset for video games and develop the product for use in areas like education, film, architecture and design. Andreessen Horowitz partner Marc Andreessen, who is also on Facebook’s board, said in a tweet that he was recused “on both sides” of the Facebook Oculus deal.
Other venture capital backers included Spark Capital, Formation 8 and Matrix Partners. Oculus now employs more than 100 people and has distrib-uted some 75,000 software development kits for Oculus Rift to game developers and others.
It recently began taking orders for new software development kits with better graphics and features to reduce motion sickness — a frequent complaint of the old prototype — slated to ship in July for $350 apiece.
Oculus plans to produce commercial versions of its virtual-reality glasses, called Oculus Rift, which users mount on their heads with a strap. It also hopes to take its technology beyond gaming.
“Virtual reality creates a canvas that is much richer than anything we’ve seen in computing so far,” Antonio Rodriguez, Oculus board member and gen-eral partner at Matrix Partners said in an interview.
He said virtual reality presents an opportunity to re-imagine various tasks and social interactions in areas like medicine and education.
So far, “people have done all sort of apps (outside gaming) like body switching apps, where two bodies are scanned and you can switch identities.
Last week, Sony unveiled a prototype for a new virtual-reality headset accessory for its Playstation 4 games console at the annual Game Developers Conference in San Francisco. The headset, still in development under the name “Project Morpheus”, is designed to provide an immersive experience for gamers and is poised to compete with Oculus’ Rift once both devices are on the market.
Deal SpreeThe deal, which Facebook said is expected to close
in the second quarter, marks the company’s second multi-billion dollar acquisition since mid-February.
Zuckerberg said on the call the two deals involved “incredibly rare companies” and that Facebook was unlikely to continue making big acquisitions at a similar pace.
Facebook ended 2013 with $11.45bn in cash and marketable securities. The company’s $19bn acquisi-tion of WhatsApp includes $4bn in cash. The Oculus deal comprises $400m in cash and 23.1m shares of Facebook common stock.
Finance Chief David Ebersman said the price of the deal was based primarily on the gaming business, but that Facebook believed the technology could be worth “multiples” of the purchase price if Facebook succeeds in extending it into other areas such as entertainment and communications.
Reuters
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Facebook to buy virtual reality goggles maker for $2bn
We’re making a long-term bet
that immersive, virtual and
augmented reality will become
a part of people’s daily life.
Wearing the Oculus goggles was
different than anything I’ve ever
experienced in my life.
Marc Zuckerberg
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MEDIA SCAN A summary ofissues of the daydiscussed by the Qatari communityin the media.
• Some people have lauded the idea of opening a 24-hour call centre for answering people’s queries about health services in different hospitals.
• There are complaints about delays in grant of housing loans to a number of Qatari women, who say they applied three years ago and got approval for their loan, despite which the authority concerned has not taken practical action. This delay will affect those who applied later as they will need to wait for a similar period.
• Some Qatar University students are demanding that the University administration stop discriminating between Qatari students by giving some of them allowances of up to QR7,000 per month while others are denied any money. They say all should be treated equally as the allowances are for the benefit of the students.
• It has been suggested that the Ministry of Labour and Social Affairs, in collaboration
with other ministries and state institutions, publish booklets to raise awareness among expatriate workers about laws related to their entry, exit, residence and sponsorship, and other relevant rules.
• There is talk about the second phase of the health insurance scheme, which will include all Qataris and start by the end of April 2014, as announced by the National Company for Health and Social Insurance.
• There is talk about the decision by the Independent schools bureau at the Supreme of Education Council to resume the morning flag ceremony in schools, which was suspended a few months ago following the detection of some coronavirus cases in the country.
• Some people have criticised the drainage network, especially in new projects such as the Salwa Road underpasses, one of which has been closed because of flooding caused by rains.
Fahad Abdulla Turki Al Subaiey, Chief Executive Officer, Hassad Food
HPrior to joining Hassad Food, Al Subaiey was the Executive Director-Gas & Power, Qatar
Petroleum International. With over 20 years of experience and a degree in Chemical Engineering, Al Subaiey was the chairman of the Board, South Hook Gas (UK), board member in the Adriatic Terminal (Italy), member of Dolphin Energy Limited management commit-tee and executive committee member at Qatar Chemical Company II project, executive committee member and chair-man, board of governors of the Awsaj Academy.
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Convention Centre
What: A mix of circus arts and urban dance by Cirque Éloize, an affiliated company of Cirque du Soleil directed by Jeannot Painchaud. Tickets: QR95 - QR1,500, Available at Virgin Megastores (Villagio and Landmark) or online at www.virginmegastore.me
Behind the Veil When: Until April 12; 10am-10pmWhere: Katara Building Number 12 What: A tribute to the grande dame of photography, Eve Arnold, and celebrates her legendary career that spanned nearly half a century as a photojournalist social commentator and documentor. She is known for her portraits of Hollywood heavy weights such as Joan Crawford and Marilyn Monroe.Free Entry
Halal Hal Qatar Festival When: Mar 22-31; 10am-10pm Where: Katara’s Southern Area
What: This carnival will present three main activities: Al-Mazaiyn: A show of beauty for goats and sheep, there will be prize for the first 5. Al-Mazad (public sale): Selling groups of livestock through auction. Al-Izab: Group of barns, each contain different kind of livestock, the visitor will be able to know it and see it closely. Free Entry
Radiant When: Until Mar 29Where: Museum of Islamic Arts What: The Museum of Islamic Arts in partnership with East Wing, presents a photographic exhibition featuring artwork by German artist Antje Hanebeck. Free Entry
Massimo Banzi: Crossing Boundaries When: Mar 26Where: VCUQatar AtriumWhat: Massimo Banzi is the co-founder of the Arduino project. He is an interaction designer, educator and open source hardware advocate. He has worked as a consultant for clients such as: Prada, Artemide, Persol, Whirlpool, V&A Museum and Adidas.Free Entry
Kings and Pawns When: March 19 - June 21Where: Museum of Islamic Arts What: This exhibition uncovers the history of board games in the Islamic world, from India to Spain between 7th and 20th century. King and Pawns features game-boards, Persian and Arabic chess manuals, paintings and illustrated manuscripts.Free Entry
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