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SUNDAY 1 MARCH 2015 • [email protected] • www.thepeninsulaqatar.com • 4455 7741 CAMPUS MARKETPLACE BOOKS HEALTH TECHNOLOGY P | 4 P | 6 P | 7 P | 11 P | 12 • Bangladesh minister visits Bangladesh School Maersk Oil and Vodafone join forces for Road Safety Jenny Offill: Life after Dept. of Speculation After a heart attack, well-managed exercise is key to rehabilitation • Google plans to expand headquarters inside LEARN ARABIC Learn commonly used Arabic words and their meanings P | 13 P | 8-9 Leonard Nimoy: A pop culture force as Spock of Star Trek Black/blue or Black/blue or white/gold? white/gold? Cyberspace was being consumed by a debate over a picture of a dress many claim is obviously white and gold but others argue just as trenchantly is black and blue. The hashtag #TheDress led trends on Twitter worldwide, boosted by a stream of tweets from celebrities voicing support for either of the opposing camps.

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SUNDAY 1 MARCH 2015 • [email protected] • www.thepeninsulaqatar.com • 4455 7741

CAMPUS

MARKETPLACE

BOOKS

HEALTH

TECHNOLOGY

P | 4

P | 6

P | 7

P | 11

P | 12

• Bangladesh minister visits Bangladesh School

• Maersk Oil and Vodafone join forces for Road Safety

• Jenny Offill: Life after Dept. of Speculation

• After a heart attack, well-managed exercise is key to rehabilitation

• Google plans to expand headquarters

inside

LEARN ARABIC • Learn commonly

used Arabic wordsand their meanings

P | 13

P | 8-9

Leonard Nimoy: A pop culture force as Spock of Star Trek

Black/blue or Black/blue or white/gold? white/gold?

Cyberspace was being consumed by a debate over a picture of a dress many claim is obviously white and gold but others argue just as trenchantly is black and blue. The hashtag #TheDress led trends on Twitter worldwide, boosted by a stream of tweets from celebrities voicing support for either of the opposing camps.

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2 COVER STORYPLUS | SUNDAY 1 MARCH 2015

By Shawn Pogatchnik

Friends and co-workers worldwide are debating the true hues of a royal blue dress with black lace that, to

many an eye, transforms in one pho-tograph into gold and white. Experts are calling the photo a one-in-a-mil-lion shot that perfectly captures how people’s brains perceive colour and process contrast in dramatically dif-ferent ways.

“This photo provides the best test I’ve ever seen for how the process of color correction works in the brain,’” said Daniel Hardiman-McCartney, the clinical adviser to Britain’s College of Optometrists.

“I’ve never seen a photo like before where so many people look at the same photo and see two sets of such dramatically different colours.”

The photo, taken earlier this month before a wedding on the

remote Scottish island of Colonsay, also illustrates the dynamics of a per-fect social-media storm.

Guests at the wedding could not understand why, in one photo of the dress being worn by the mother of the bride, the clearly blue and black-striped garment transformed into gold and white. But only in that sin-gle photo, and only for around half of the viewers.

The debate spread from the wedding to the Internet, initially from friend to perplexed friend on Facebook.

One such wedding guest, musician and singer Caitlin McNeill, a Tumblr user with the handle ‘swiked’ posted the photo Thursday night to her account with the question: “Guys please help me. Is this dress white and gold, or blue and black? Me and my friends can’t agree and we are freaking the (expletive) out.” She’s consistently seen gold.

Debaterages overcolour of dressphotographed in rare light

Shop manager Debbie Armstrong adjusts a two tone dress in a window display of a shop in Lichfield, England.

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And then the Internet blew up.One of her friends, Alana MacInnes, saw gold

and white for the first hour, then black and blue.Buzzfeed sensed clickbait heaven and, amid its

own newsroom argument, was among the first to call McNeill. It posted more than a half-dozen stories on the image and the tsunami of reaction.

The post went viral on Twitter, Facebook and other social media platforms, with users pas-sionately split over what color the dress really is — blue with black lace, or white with gold lace.

A BuzzFeed page devoted to the debate had more than 25 million views early Friday, with 72 percent of Internet users insisting the dress was white and gold, while 28 percent swore it was blue and black.

On Twitter, #TheDress and variants surged to the top of trending lists globally within hours.

The entertainment elite then chimed in.Taylor Swift saw the dress was “obviously”

blue and black. “I don’t understand this odd dress debate and I feel like it’s a trick somehow,” pop diva Taylor Swift wrote in a message retweeted more than 90,000 times.

“I’m confused and scared. PS it’s OBVIOUSLY BLUE AND BLACK.”

“What’s the matter with u guys, it’s white and gold,” countered Julianne Moore. Kim Kardashian, never one to miss a trending topic, reported she was seeing gold but to husband Kanye West, it was solidly black and blue. “Who is color blind?” Kardashian asked the twitterati.

The answer, says Hardiman-McCartney, is that every viewer seeing either set of colours is right.

He says the exceptional bar-code style of the dress, combined with the strongly yellow-toned backlighting in the one photo, provides the brain a rare chance to “choose” which of the dress’ two primary colours should be seen in detail.

Those who subconsciously seek detail in the many horizontal black lines convert them to a golden hue, so the blue disappears into a blown-out white, he said.

Others whose brains focus on the blue part of the dress see the photo as the black-and-blue reality.

“There’s no correct way to perceive this pho-tograph. It sits right on the cusp, or balance, of how we perceive the colour of a subject versus the surrounding area,” he said.

“And this colour consistency illusion that we’re experiencing doesn’t mean there’s any-thing wrong with your eyes. It just shows how your brain chooses to see the image, to process this luminescence confusion.”

There may be a scientific explanation for all the madness. According to British physicist Isaac Newton, colour is not inherent to objects. Humans perceive the colours reflected on the surface of objects through light that hits the retina in the back of the eye.

Reena Garg, an assistant professor at the New York Eye and Ear Infirmary of Mount

PLUS | SUNDAY 1 MARCH 2015

Sinai in New York, said the varied reactions can be explained by how we understand colour, not-ing that the poorly exposed photograph was likely taken with a cell phone camera.

“If you see the dress as black and blue, you’re probably seeing the photo as over-exposed, mean-ing there is too much light, so the colors in the dress appear darker to you after the retina has compensated,” Garg said.

“If you see the dress as white and gold, you’re probably seeing the photo as under-exposed, mean-ing there is too little light and the colors in the dress appear lighter to you after the retina has compensated.”

The photo produced a deluge of media calls on Friday to the Tumblr reporter, 21-year-old McNeill, who calls the seemingly endless phone calls “more than I’ve received in the entirety of the rest of my life combined.”

She says the photographer, who is also the mother of the bride, never wanted the publicity.

There’s one clear winner: English dress retailer Roman Originals, which has reported a million hits on its sales site in the first 18 hours following the photo’s worldwide distribution.

The British manufacturer confirmed that the dress is, in fact royal blue with lace, and sells for £50 ($77).

“I can officially say that this dress is royal blue with black lace trimming,” said Michele Bastock, design director at Roman Originals.

She said staff members had no idea that the dress, when shot in that singularly peculiar light, might be perceived in a totally different color scheme. Not until Friday anyway, when they arrived at work to field hundreds of emails, calls and social media posts. They, too, split almost 50-50 on the photo’s true colors.

All agreed, however, the dress for the Birmingham, England-based retailer was likely to become their greatest-ever seller. The chain’s web-site Friday headlined its product as “#TheDress now back in stock — debate now.”

“Straightaway we went to the computers and had a look. And some members of the team saw ivory and gold. I see a royal blue all the time,” she said. “It’s an enigma ... but we are grateful.”

AP

The two-tone dress, left, alongside an ivory and black version, made by Roman Originals.

The photo which sparked the Internet storm.

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CAMPUS PLUS | SUNDAY 1 MARCH 20154

Khandaker Mosharraf Hossain, Minister of Expatriates’ Welfare and Overseas

Employment (EWOE), visited Bangladesh MHM School and college, Qatar recently.

The minister was given a tour of the school building and class rooms. He enjoyed the cultural programmes presented by the students of the school.

Syed Masud Mahmood Khundoker, Ambassador of Bangladesh and chairman of Governing Body of Bangladesh School, Governing Body members, Principal, faculty mem-bers, students, parents and commu-nity members were also present on this occasion.

The Principal Md Jashim Uddin said: “It is an honour to have the minister here. The visit has given everyone a real lift and generated a great sense of excitement in the school.”

The principal informed him of the fact that the school has achieved 100 percent passing rate in both PSC and

JSC examinations as well as very good result in SSC and HSC examination under the Board of Intermediate and Secondary Education, Dhaka.

Bangladesh school stood first among all expatriate Bangladeshi Schools in respect of board exami-nation results.

The minister praised the efforts of the school in providing quality educa-tion to the children of the Bangladeshi community in Qatar.

He said: “We were and always will be with your good initiative.”

He also advised the students, “It is high time you concentrated to your study and bring glory for our nation.”

For ensuring smooth educational atmosphere by building new school buildings the Minister donated Taka 20m to the school.

The minister also laid the foundation stone of new academic building.

On the eve of the minister’s depar-ture the principal thanked him for his visit.

The Peninsula

Bangladesh minister visits Bangladesh School

The minister receiving a memento from the school officials. Below: Students and staff presenting various programmes.

The students of Noble International School created awareness about the “Qatar National Environment Day” by organising the anti-littering campaign at Al Khor beach in support of ICC to promote alertness and sense of responsibility among students.

Noble marks Environment Day

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Maersk Oil Qatar and Vodafone Qatar have come together to help address one of Qatar’s

most pressing challenges – road safety. Hundreds of students at Park House English School in Doha have benefitted from a week-long road safety event, featuring one-to-one coaching and a state-of-the-art road safety simulator, that sought to high-light positive road behaviours among young people.

Road accidents are fast becoming a global epidemic, according to the United Nations, with 1.3 million peo-ple losing their lives and 50 million others seriously injured each year on roads. The road safety event at Park House English School drew on Maersk Oil Qatar’s and the General Directorate for Traffic’s successful Students for Road Safety programme that seeks to transform young peo-ple into ambassadors for safe road

behaviour. Students were given one-to-one coaching in the Students for Road Safety simulator that uses an artificial intelligence engine to rec-reate common mistakes made by drivers in Doha, such as tail-gating, failure to indicate, flashing lights and cutting across lanes at roundabouts.

Sheikh Faisal bin Fahad Al Thani, Deputy Managing Director of Maersk Oil Qatar, said: “I am delighted that Vodafone Qatar has joined with Maersk Oil Qatar in highlighting how relatively simple, positive behaviour on the road can help avoid unneces-sary injuries and fatalities. The recent visit to Park House English School is a fantastic example that by working together in an efficient way, we can help make a meaningful difference to the lives of people in Qatar.”

During the event, Vodafone Qatar outlined practical steps that students can take to improve road safety with iPads featuring an educational road

safety app that outlined a set of “absolute road rules”.

Kyle Whitehill, Chief Executive Officer of Vodafone Qatar, said: “We’re very pleased to partner with Maersk Oil in tackling road safety awareness because this an issue requires a contribution from every-one. Road safety is a topic that is strongly embedded in our workplace

culture, where Vodafone staff across the world live by seven absolute health and safety rules including in their driving behaviour. By work-ing together and bringing the best resources to support the campaign, we can all do our part to encourage future drivers to become road safety ambassadors and make Qatar’s roads safer.” The Peninsula

5COMMUNITY PLUS | SUNDAY 1 MARCH 2015

PWF’s ‘Education for All’ programme appreciated

Shabaz Sharif, the Chief Minister of Punjab of Pakistan while appreciating successful ‘Education for All’ project

initiated by Pakistan Welfare Forum (PWF)-Qatar for the children of under privileged Pakistani families in Qatar invited PWF delegation to visit Pakistan and take benefit of each other’s experience for eliminating illiteracy.

Earlier, Riyaz Bakali President PWF briefly apprised the visiting dignitary about the activities and achievements of PWF including Education for All

Programme in Qatar besides financial assistance for deserving Pakistani fam-ilies under social welfare and medical programmes. He also highlighted PWF tremendous role during natural calam-ities of Pakistan at the times of floods in 2010 and 2011 and earthquake in 2012. Recently, PWF also contributed

significantly for IDPs of KPK province.The meeting was also attended

by Federal Minister of Petroleum Shahid Khaqan Abbasi, Ambassador of Pakistan in Qatar Shahzad Ahmad and several other high ranking official besides senior members of the forum including Muhammad Khan, Idrees

Anwar, Malik Qaiser, Perveiz Iqbal and few other notable members.

The chief minister was also informed about direly needed multipurpose hall at PEC School. Sharif while lauding the project assured full support for construction of the hall.

The Peninsula

HEC Paris welcomed the Class of 2016 of the HEC Executive MBA programme with a launch and orientation event held recently

at the Tornado Tower in Qatar.The Class of 2016, comprising of 47 participants,

has an average age of 40. The participants repre-sent 11 nationalities and are senior executives from various sectors such as Construction, Travel and Tourism, Finance, IT, Oil and Gas and Education.

The new participants were welcomed by Prof Laoucine Kerbache, Dean & CEO of HEC Paris in Qatar, followed by an overview of the programme with Matthew Gibb, Director of Executive MBA of HEC Paris and Prof Wolfgang Amann, Academic Coordinator of the Executive MBA Doha Modular. The day ended with an official ceremony, which included words of encouragement from Yousef Al

Jaber, Head of CSR and Institutional Relations at Total Qatar, HEC Paris alumni Nasser Al Ansari, Chairman, QDVC and Abdulla Al Mehshadi, CEO, Msheireb Properties and, also, from Prof Kerbache.

“Participants will learn from HEC Paris’ top fac-ulty and benefit from interaction with other senior participants who also bring a wealth of practical business experience from a wide spectrum of sectors and management functions to the classroom,” Prof Kerbache said. “The HEC Paris EMBA is distinctly positioned for participants to gain comprehensive, innovative, and applicable knowledge and skills that will facilitate the translation of vision into action by focusing on strategy and leadership in a global business environment.”

“As we welcome this year our fifth cohort since

the beginning of our partnership with Qatar Foundation, we are delighted with the continued growth of our global learning community and look forward to developing tomorrow’s influential lead-ers and thinkers,” he added. The Peninsula

Park House students practising using the simulator.

HEC official addressing the gathering.

HEC Paris welcomes Executive MBA Class of 2016

Maersk Oil and Vodafone join forces for road safety

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PLUS | SUNDAY 1 MARCH 20156 FOOD

By Joe Yonan

Long before the slow cooker, there was the tagine: a clay cooking vessel from northern Africa whose conical lid pro-

motes condensation and moisture retention, bathing the stew inside (also called a tagine) with steam and coaxing its ingredients to silky tenderness. In Morocco, it was the original set-it-and-forget-it cooker, set on bricks over coals and left to do its thing for hours.

Don’t you feel a little warmer just thinking about it? This winter’s cold snap has me, and pretty much every cook I know, scrounging for new ways to take the chill off. When a particu-larly brutal stretch hit recently — freezing my pipes and knocking out water in my kitchen — I filled pitchers of water (and did more than one load of dishes) in an upstairs bathtub, cranked up the heat in my townhouse, and pulled out my tagine.

To be honest, I’ve had the thing for years without using it; I got it from friends who, well, had it for years without using it. It looks strik-ing on my tower of pots, with its dramatic red lid, but for some reason I had never before put it through its paces.

Maybe it was the height of the tagine, which takes up pretty much the whole oven, requir-ing rack-shuffling to make it fit. Or maybe it’s because I associate tagines so strongly with lamb, poultry and other meats, and, well, need I say more?

But the fact is, vegetables — especially roots — cook wonderfully in a tagine, and they pair just as well with traditional ingredients: dried fruit, honey, warming spices like cumin and cinnamon, nuts. Best of all, just when I was wanting to avoid washing more dishes than nec-essary, these stews can come together in just one pot. (If you don’t have a tagine, don’t let that stop you from making one of those dishes: Go with a Dutch oven instead.)

Traditional clay tagines can require special attention to be appropriate for both stove top and oven use; you need to heat them gradually or place a diffuser on a burner. But mine, made

by Le Creuset, is the best of both worlds: It has a cast-iron bottom that can handle the high-est of direct heat (and works on my induction stove), letting me brown ingredients if I want, and a glazed stoneware lid that works just the way a tagine should.

To inaugurate my tagine, I tried a recipe from Sally Butcher’s wonderfully witty The New Middle Eastern Vegetarian: More Recipes from Veggiestan (Interlink, 2014) that calls for many of my favourite winter staples: turnips, carrots, shallots, prunes. And when it emerged from the oven just 40 minutes after going in (turnips don’t take nearly as long to cook as, say, lamb shoulder), the result was just as intoxicatingly fragrant — sweet and savoury — as any tagine I’ve had in the best Moroccan restaurants.

I don’t know whether it was the turned-up heat in my townhouse or the magic of the tag-ine, but within eight hours after I pulled it from the oven, my pipes had thawed and I could do dishes in my kitchen again. After I washed the tagine, I didn’t return it to the tower but left it on the countertop. Just in case.

Prune and Turnip Tagine4 to 6 servingsServe with couscous or bread and a salad.Make Ahead: The cooked tagine may be

refrigerated for up to 1 week.

Ingredients8 ounces shallots2 tablespoons extra-virgin olive oil1 tablespoon unsalted butter (may substitute

olive oil)2 teaspoons ground cinnamon1 teaspoon ground ginger1 teaspoon ground cumin1 1/2 pounds turnips (4 medium or 6 to 7

baby turnips), peeled and cut into large chunks2 medium carrots, scrubbed well and cut into

1/2-inch pieces1 3/4 cups no-salt-added or homemade veg-

etable broth1/4 teaspoon saffron threads, soaked in a

splash of boiling waterAbout 10 ounces (2 cups) soft pitted prunes1 1/2 tablespoons runny honey1/2 teaspoon fine sea salt, or more as needed1/2 teaspoon freshly cracked black pepper1/4 cup sliced almonds, toasted (see Note)1 tablespoon sesame seeds, roasted or toasted

(see Note)1/2 cup loosely packed cilantro leaves,

chopped

Method:Preheat the oven to 325 degrees. If using a

tagine, set the oven racks to easily accommo-date it.

If the shallots are particularly large and multi-lobed, separate them into individual lobes.

Heat the oil and butter in a Dutch oven (or the base of a cast-iron tagine, if you are using one) over medium heat. (If your tagine is made of flameproof clay, start over low heat and grad-ually increase it to medium.) Add the shallots, toss to combine and cook, stirring occasionally, until the shallots are lightly browned in spots, 2 to 3 minutes.

Add the cinnamon, ginger, cumin, turnips and carrots, and stir to combine. Cook for a minute or two, until the spices become fragrant, then pour in the broth and soaked saffron threads. Increase the heat slightly to bring the mixture to a boil, then turn off the heat and stir in the prunes, honey and the 1/2 teaspoon each of salt and pepper. Taste, and add more salt as needed.

Cover and transfer to the oven; bake until the vegetables are tender, 30 to 40 minutes.

Uncover; sprinkle with the almonds, sesame seeds and cilantro. Serve hot.

Note: Toast the almonds in a small, dry skil-let over medium-low heat for a few minutes, until fragrant and lightly browned, shaking the pan as needed to prevent scorching. Toast the sesame seeds, separately, in the same way.

Nutrition | Per serving (based on 6): 320 calo-ries, 5 g protein, 60 g carbohydrates, 10 g fat, 2 g saturated fat, 5 mg cholesterol, 300 mg sodium, 9 g dietary fiber, 36 g sugar

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Putting the tagine to test

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BOOKS 7PLUS | SUNDAY 1 MARCH 2015

By Lidija Haas

A Brooklyn writer is having trouble producing a second book; she also struggles with bed-bugs, a small daughter and a husband who gets involved with a younger woman. The

plot of Jenny Offill’s second novel, Dept. of Speculation, doesn’t sound promising: “If someone had described this novel to me, I would never have read it,” she says when we meet on West 23rd Street in Manhattan. A novel of ideas half disguised as a domestic drama, it’s told in fragments, jokes, quotations: WB Yeats, Rainer Maria Rilke, Ludwig Wittgenstein appear alongside proverbs, scientific “fun facts” and snip-pets of self-help. So familiar is the story that it can be told with rare economy, leaving out almost every expected element in favour of something quicker, sadder, funnier. As her agent told the press when they sold the novel to Knopf in 2013, “If your average book is a body, this is an x-ray.” When she saw it had made the New York Times Book Review’s Ten Best Books of 2014, Offill wondered if she’d start seem-ing too popular for readers like herself (she’s often drawn to “more experimental, small-press books”).

Over lunch, Offill still looks a little taken aback. Her debut, Last Things, came out to good reviews in 1999, but she clearly didn’t expect this smaller, stranger book to be such a hit. “I realised about a year ago, ‘Oh, I’m not sure that underdog persona’s going to fly any more.” As well as teaching writing as a “roving adjunct”, she’s had a lot of jobs over the years, from waiting tables to working at BookCourt, my local bookshop in Brooklyn, to facilitating the vanity projects of “crazy rich people”. For years she wondered if she should do a postgraduate course in linguistics, or become a primatologist, but “like many writers I’m kind of a one-trick pony – this is the thing I can do”.

Born in 1968, she grew up the only child of two private-school English teachers, moving around the US from Massachusetts to California to Indiana to North Carolina, going to school with children from much wealthier backgrounds. “For so much of my life money was always the thing, I might have had time but I didn’t have money.” When she moved to New York as an adult, the wealth and privilege was “of another order. I couldn’t figure out how all these people were surviving on the salary of, say, a fact-checker. And then eventually one of them would have a party and you’d go to their house and think, ‘Oh … everybody has secret money.’” One paragraph in Dept. of Speculation (each is set out like the stanza of a poem) reads:

“A woman at the playground explains her dilemma. They have finally found a house, a brownstone with four floors and a garden, perfectly maintained, on the love-liest of blocks in the least anxiety producing of school districts, but now she finds that she spends much of her day on one floor looking for something that has actually been left on another floor.”

If New York’s class dynamics are clearly implied, the novel nonetheless operates on a scale where broader social or political life is mostly invisible. There’s the bizarre isolation of domesticity and there are the vistas of deep space, and not much in between; when the narrator discovers that her hus-band is listening to a lecture series called “The Long Now”, she’s surprised to learn that it’s about “topics such as climate change and Peak Oil. Somehow I had assumed it meant the feeling of daily life”.

Confusions of scale have always intrigued Offill.

Last Things, now being reissued, is told from the per-spective of an eight-year-old girl being home-schooled by her increasingly unstable mother (“another book”, she says, “that if described to me I would not wish to read”). Science, mythology and playground rumours mix together without hierarchy: the child and the unbalanced adult understand each other, Offill says, because “when you put things on the same plane, you start to see that they’re not necessarily as far apart as they might seem”. She comes across this idea everywhere, that “these distinctions we make between what is important and what is trivial, what is big and what is small, are really arbitrary”.

Offill was pleased that UK reviewers seemed to understand Dept. of Speculation in a different way – they “got the humour of it” more, “all these moments which are really meant to be kind of a joke about what it’s like to be depressed”. Readers responded to that, too; she heard from quite a few unhappy young men who work in bookshops. Offill herself has had depression since she was 18 and “when I’m medicated, which I’m doing now … I have to work a little harder to get up to high speed”. At times writ-ing seems to get harder as living gets easier. Coming out of a difficult time into a more comfortable one can be “like watching the light dim”.

In the book, the narrator’s troubles emerge only obliquely. Late on there’s a glancing reference to medicine, and another to her childhood: she and her sister discuss her husband, “just a nice boy from Ohio”, and how unprepared he is for this marital breach, the first bad thing that’s really happened to him. “What would it be like,” the sisters wonder, “to make it so late into life before trouble hit?” They lost their mother young, and their father was elsewhere: not expecting the worst isn’t a problem they have. The narrator suspects her husband’s lover might be more like her. Offill tells me she thinks those

with “a little of that raised-by-wolvesness” can spot each other. She’s met people – often, again, the rich – to whom the big loss or disillusionment “hasn’t happened yet. And I always feel a little nervous for them.”

There is a certain chutzpah in letting 15 years go by and then publishing a novel fewer than 200 pages long that looks more like a poem. As well as having her daughter Theodora at 35, Offill was wrestling with an earlier version of the book, formed from the same elements – marriage, creative work, “mother-hood hijacking you out of that art-making mind” – but more linear, more conventionally structured. At Columbia she taught a class about unhinged nar-rators, and after encouraging countless students to experiment, unhinge, deconstruct, she started to feel like “a total hypocrite”: “Why am I not writing like that?” Teaching students not to overwrite also helped her with her own art of compression: “I spend a lot of time trying to figure out how you can say the most with the least.”

She’d got as far as sending the earlier version to publishers, and when a couple turned it down, she realised that alongside her anxiety over more years of booklessness, she felt liberated – “thrilled, relieved” – because this wasn’t the novel she’d hoped to write. “My dirty little secret is that when I gave up on it I wrote poetry for a year,” she says. “I had to get my sea legs back.” Writing poetry freed her from wor-rying about narrative for a while: “For me, people’s emotional life is plot.” She remembers coming out of her study and saying to her husband: “OK, I’m writing a completely different book about this stuff, and probably nobody’s going to read it except other writers, but it might be a lot better — and I’ll just make money writing kids’ books.” (Indeed, she’s writ-ten several, including 17 Things I’m Not Allowed to Do Anymore and While You Were Napping.)

The form of Dept. of Speculation often mimics the experience of early motherhood. Caring for her baby, the narrator writes, involved a repetitive sequence of “urgent and tedious” tasks that “cut the day up into little scraps”. The book is not an autobiography, and Offill says she’s learned her lesson about creating a protagonist whose biographical details are so close to her own. Still, the central problem of combining motherhood and creative work is one drawn from life. The narrator, like Offill, had always planned to be “an art monster”, someone ruthless, who would never let family ties get in the way of her writing. Offill used to pore in vain over Paris Review inter-views; she didn’t find enough female art monsters to console her, though in a way women are the only real ones — when it’s a man “they just call it being an artist”. Her most natural writing method is the binge – “I do my best writing if I’m just left alone for weeks at a time and don’t have to in any way act like a normal human being” — which isn’t very compatible with parenthood. Now she’s able to take a break from teaching, and her daughter is 10, it’s going faster: she plans to turn in the next book in October.

Offill is aware of the improbability that “a book that is written the way you want to write it” will make money or attract a big, mainstream, book-club audience: it’s “literary lightning”. Soon after our lunch, I stop by my local bookshop, the one Offill once worked in. They have a monthly bookclub, and guess who’s the February pick. The Guardian

Jenny Offill: Life after Dept. of Speculation

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Nim

oy,

who d

ied F

eb. 27 a

t 83. A

tall, ta

ut-

face

d a

ctor,

he h

ad b

een

labori

ng i

n o

bsc

uri

ty f

or

15 y

ears

befo

re

Roddenberr

y h

ired h

im i

n 1

966 t

o p

lay

the

half

-hum

an, h

alf

-alien

space

explo

rer

Spock

.T

hose

poin

ty e

ars

— a

lon

g w

ith t

he

upsw

ept

eyebro

ws

and “

five-p

oin

t” V

idal

Sass

oon b

ob —

bro

ught

Nim

oy e

nduri

ng

stard

om

in a

n e

nte

rtain

ment

and m

er-

chandis

ing e

mpir

e e

quale

d p

erh

aps

only

by t

he J

am

es

Bond,

Sta

r W

ars

and H

arr

y P

ott

er f

ranch

ises.

Sta

r T

rek,

a d

ram

a a

bout

the a

dven-

ture

s of

the “

stars

hip

” E

nte

rpri

se a

s it

explo

red “

the fi

nal fr

onti

er”

of sp

ace

, w

as

not

a c

rit

ical

or p

opula

r h

it d

urin

g i

ts

init

ial ru

n o

n N

BC

fro

m 1

966 t

o 1

969.

In s

yn

dic

ati

on

, how

ever,

it

becam

e a

phenom

enon.

Com

mu

nit

ies

of

fan

s

kn

ow

n

as

“Tre

kkie

s” b

urs

t fo

rth in t

he 1

970s,

cre

-ati

ng r

ichly

im

agin

ed fanta

sy w

orl

ds

that

were

base

d o

n t

he s

how

and t

hat

were

pla

yed o

ut

at

large-s

cale

conven

tion

s.

Film

maker

Georg

e L

ucas

said

Sta

r T

rek

help

ed p

ave t

he w

ay f

or h

is S

tar

Wa

rsm

ovie

s. T

he

succ

ess

of

Sta

r W

ars

, in

turn

, help

ed s

pur

the S

tar

Tre

k fi

lm s

eri

es.

As

a t

ele

vis

ion p

rogra

mm

e,

Sta

r T

rek

pro

ved g

roundbre

akin

g in m

any w

ays.

It

serv

ed u

p a

llegori

cal ta

les

about

vio

lence

, gre

ed, je

alo

usy

, pre

judic

e, peace

and love

— t

he r

oilin

g s

oci

al is

sues

of

the 1

960s

in t

he g

uis

e o

f in

terg

ala

ctic

adventu

re.

It d

id s

o, sa

id t

ele

vis

ion s

chola

r R

obert

T

hom

pso

n,

“at

a t

ime w

hen

Am

eric

an

te

levis

ion

com

ple

tely

shie

d a

way f

rom

any k

ind o

f re

levan

ce o

r so

cia

l con

tro-

vers

y, e

xce

pt

in t

he n

ew

s.”

Its

23rd

-centu

ry s

tars

hip

cre

w w

as

a

uto

pia

n f

edera

tion

of

men

an

d w

om

en

, bla

cks

and w

hit

es,

Am

eri

cans,

Russ

ians

and A

sians

— a

nd S

pock

, w

ho w

as

born

on t

he p

lanet

Vulc

an in a

civ

iliz

ati

on t

hat

has

mast

ere

d c

ontr

ol of it

s fe

elings.

(T

he

Vulc

an a

phori

sm “

live long a

nd p

rosp

er”

becam

e a

catc

hphra

se.)

He b

eco

mes

the

scie

nce

offi

cer

and fi

rst

mate

aboard

the

Ente

rpri

se a

nd w

as,

sci

ence

fict

ion w

rite

r Is

aac

Asi

mov o

nce

obse

rved, a “

creatu

re

of

pure

reaso

n a

nd n

o e

moti

on.”

By m

ost

accoun

ts,

Nim

oy p

ortr

ayed

the m

ost

popula

r ch

ara

cter

of

the S

tar

Tre

k c

ast

. W

hile s

om

e c

rit

ics

thought

that

Nim

oy’s

act

ing w

as

dour

or

wooden,

fans

mig

ht

have a

rgued t

hat

these

were

pre

cise

ly t

he c

hara

cteri

stic

s of

the e

mo-

tion-s

uppre

ssin

g, lo

gic

-obse

ssed S

pock

.In

on

e epis

ode call

ed “T

he N

aked

Tim

e,”

a vir

us

infe

cts

th

e sp

acesh

ip

and c

ause

s th

e c

rew

’s “

hid

den s

elv

es”

to

em

erg

e —

revealing p

revio

usl

y u

nknow

n

dim

en

sion

s of

Spock’s

natu

re.

At

on

e

poin

t, t

he c

haos

overt

akes

him

, and h

e

bre

aks

dow

n a

nd c

ries.

“It

solidifi

ed e

very

thin

g,” N

imoy t

old

th

e N

ew Y

ork

Tim

es in 1

968. “I

knew

that

we w

ere

not

pla

yin

g a

man w

ith n

o e

mo-

tion

s, b

ut

a m

an

who h

ad g

reat

prid

e,

who h

ad learn

ed t

o c

ontr

ol his

em

oti

ons

and w

ho w

ould

deny t

hat

he k

new

what

em

oti

on

s w

ere.

In a

way,

he w

as

more

hum

an t

han a

nyone e

lse o

n t

he s

hip

.”H

e a

dded:

“In

spit

e o

f bein

g a

n o

ut-

cast

, bei

ng m

ixed

up, l

ookin

g d

iffe

rent,

he

main

tain

s his

poin

t of

vie

w. H

e c

an’t

be

bullie

d o

r put

on. H

e’s

frea

ky w

ith d

ignit

y.

There

are

very

few

chara

cters

who h

ave

that

kin

d o

f pri

de, co

ol and a

bilit

y t

o lay

it o

ut

and w

alk

aw

ay.

Hum

phre

y B

ogart

pla

yed m

ost

of

them

.”L

eon

ard S

imon

Nim

oy w

as

born

in

Bost

on o

n M

arc

h 2

6, 1

931,

to p

are

nts

who

had b

een p

easa

nts

in w

hat

is n

ow

U

kra

ine.

His

fath

er b

ecam

e a b

ar-

ber

and u

rged h

is s

ons

— L

eonard

an

d a

n o

lder b

roth

er,

Melv

in —

to

ward

sta

ble

care

ers

.T

he b

oys

gre

w u

p in a

Yid

dis

h-

speakin

g h

ouse

hold

and a

ttended

Ort

hodox J

ew

ish s

erv

ices,

whic

h

becam

e a

n u

nexpect

ed i

nfluence

on

N

imoy’s

role

as

Spock

. H

is

“Vulc

an s

alu

te”

— m

ade b

y p

art

-in

g t

he m

iddle

and r

ing fi

ngers

of

each

hand —

was

base

d o

n a

hand

gest

ure

he n

oti

ced w

hile a

ttend-

ing a

synagogue a

s an 8

-year-

old

.“I

did

n’t

know

what

it m

eant,”

he

once

said

, “b

ut

I knew

it

looked

like s

om

eth

ing m

agic

al.”

Nim

oy d

evel

oped

an e

arl

y inte

r-est

in a

ctin

g, and h

e r

ecalled t

hat

his

paren

ts w

ere “

grie

f-st

ric

ken

” w

hen

he a

ban

don

ed a

schola

rsh

ip a

t B

ost

on

College t

o s

eek a

care

er

in H

ollyw

ood.

In 1

952, he w

on t

he t

itle

role

, a b

oxer

wit

h a

dis

figure

d f

ace

, in

the l

ow

-budget

film

Kid

Mon

k B

aro

ni. N

imoy m

ista

kenly

th

ought

the p

art

would

launch

his

care

er.

“I

t pla

yed a

bout

thre

e d

ays

as

a s

eco

nd

bill

som

ew

here i

n H

ollyw

ood a

nd t

hen

die

d,”

he t

old

the T

imes.

“N

oth

ing h

ap-

pen

ed a

nd, i

n 1

953, I

wen

t in

to t

he

Arm

y.”

Aft

er

his

dis

charg

e,

he m

ost

ly p

layed

heavie

s on

TV

show

s su

ch a

s D

ragn

et,

Sea

Hu

nt

an

d W

agon

Tra

in b

efo

re h

is

breakth

rough i

n 1

964 w

hile a

cti

ng o

n

the adven

ture se

rie

s T

he L

ieu

ten

an

t.

Roddenberr

y w

as

a p

roduce

r of th

e s

how

and s

oon h

ired h

im f

or

Sta

r T

rek.

“For t

he fi

rst

tim

e,

I had a

job t

hat

last

ed longer

than t

wo w

eeks

and a

dre

ss-

ing r

oom

wit

h m

y n

am

e p

ain

ted o

n t

he

door a

nd n

ot

chalk

ed o

n,”

Nim

oy l

ate

r

told

the T

imes

.N

imoy s

truggle

d w

ith h

is S

tar

Tre

k

legacy.

H

is fi

rst

m

em

oir

, publi

shed in

19

75,

was

called I

Am

Not

Sp

ock

. It

was

follow

ed 2

0 y

ears

late

r by I

Am

Sp

ock

, in

w

hic

h h

e s

aid

he h

ad c

om

e t

o p

eace

wit

h

the s

how

that

defined h

im i

n t

he p

ublic

imagin

ati

on.

Nim

oy d

esc

rib

ed a

n i

nte

nse

“si

blin

g

riv

alr

y”

wit

h

Wil

liam

S

hatn

er,

w

ho

starr

ed a

s th

e h

ero

ic C

apt

Jam

es

T K

irk.

Nim

oy w

as

nom

inate

d t

hree t

imes

for

the E

mm

y f

or

best

support

ing a

ctor

but

felt

he d

ese

rved r

eco

gnit

ion for

what

was

ess

en

tially a le

adin

g role

. M

eanw

hil

e,

Shatn

er

rece

ived n

o n

om

inati

ons.

Nim

oy,

who t

ook a

n e

arn

est

appro

ach

to

his

art

, w

as

oft

en t

he b

utt

of S

hatn

er’s

on-s

et

pra

nks.

He d

idn’t

talk

to S

hatn

er

for

weeks.

They l

ate

r re

conci

led.

Nim

oy s

aid

he

help

ed S

hatn

er

thro

ugh h

is m

arr

iage t

o

an a

lcoholic

and c

om

fort

ed h

im a

fter

the

wom

an, N

erin

e K

idd, dro

wned

in a

sw

im-

min

g p

ool.

The o

rigin

al ru

n o

f S

tar

Tre

k w

as

can-

celled b

ecause

of

dw

indling r

ati

ngs,

and

Nim

oy’s

str

ong i

denti

ty a

s S

pock m

ade

it h

ard

for

him

to t

ransc

end t

he r

ole

. O

n

the C

BS

seri

es

Mis

sion

: Im

poss

ible

fro

m

1969 t

o 1

971,

he p

layed a

mast

er

of

dis

-guis

e n

am

ed P

ari

s. F

rom

1976 t

o 1

982, he

host

ed t

he

syndic

ate

d d

ocu

men

tary

ser

ies

In S

earc

h O

f...,

whic

h e

xplo

red p

hen

om

ena

such

as

the L

och

Ness

monst

er

and t

he

Berm

uda T

riangle

.

Nim

oy w

rote

and p

erf

orm

ed

in a

one-m

an s

tage s

how

about

Theo v

an G

ogh a

nd h

is t

rou-

ble

d

bu

t bril

lian

t pain

ter

bro

ther,

Vin

cent.

He

had

supporti

ng

role

s on

screen

, but

he w

as

relu

c-

tan

t to

repris

e S

pock f

or t

he

firs

t S

tar

Tre

k m

ovie

in 1

979. A

st

ickin

g p

oin

t had b

een r

oyal-

ties

he f

elt

he w

ere

ow

ed o

ver

toys,

post

ers

and o

ther

mem

o-

rabilia

wit

h S

pock

’s im

age.

He m

ade th

e m

ovie

aft

er

sett

lin

g a la

wsu

it w

ith

th

e

studio

.T

o p

ersu

ade

Nim

oy t

o a

ppea

r in

Sta

r T

rek

II:

Th

e W

rath

of

Kh

an (

1982),

Para

moun

t st

u-

dio

s off

ere

d h

im a

plu

m r

ole

in

its

tele

vis

ion p

roduct

ion A

Wom

an

Ca

lled

G

old

a a

bout

the I

sraeli p

rim

e m

inis

ter

Gold

a M

eir

.N

imoy w

as

cast

as

Morr

is M

eyers

on,

Meir

’s h

usb

and, opposi

te I

ngri

d B

erg

man

in t

he t

itle

role

, an

d e

arn

ed a

n E

mm

y

nom

inati

on f

or

his

support

ing p

art

. T

he

on

ly c

on

sola

tion

in

losi

ng,

he s

aid

, w

as

that

it w

as

to L

aure

nce

Olivie

r in

the

lim

-it

ed s

eri

es

Bri

des

hea

d R

evis

ited

.S

pock

h

ad

been

k

ille

d

savin

g

the

Ente

rpri

se c

rew

in t

he s

eco

nd m

ovie

ver-

sion b

ut,

to t

he

relief

of m

any e

nth

usi

ast

s,

the

chara

cter

was

reviv

ed in futu

re m

ovie

in

stallm

en

ts t

hat

Nim

oy a

lso d

irecte

d:

Sta

r T

rek

III

: T

he

Sea

rch

for

Sp

ock

(19

84)

and S

tar

Tre

k I

V: T

he

Voy

age

Hom

e (1

986).

He late

r dir

ect

ed t

he h

it c

om

edy 3

Men

a

nd

a B

ab

y (1

987),

sta

rrin

g T

om

Selleck

, T

ed D

an

son

an

d S

teve G

utt

en

berg a

s bach

elo

rs

wh

o care fo

r an

in

fan

t le

ft

on

their

doorst

ep.

To l

ess

en

thusi

ast

ic

revie

ws,

h

e dir

ecte

d D

ian

e K

eato

n in

T

he G

ood

Moth

er

(1988),

base

d o

n t

he

Sue M

ille

r novel about

a d

ivorc

ed m

oth

er

wh

ose

n

ew

foun

d pass

ion

s th

reate

n to

co

nsu

me h

er

life

.A

roun

d th

e sa

me ti

me,

Nim

oy le

ft

his

w

ife

of

33

years,

S

an

dra

Zober,

an

d t

hey d

ivorced.

In 1

989,

he m

arrie

d

actr

ess

S

usa

n B

ay.

Besi

des

his

w

ife,

surv

ivors

incl

ude t

wo c

hildre

n f

rom

his

firs

t m

arr

iage,

Adam

an

d J

ulie;

a s

tep-

son;

a b

roth

er;

six

gra

ndch

ildre

n;

and a

gre

at-

gra

ndch

ild.

Nim

oy p

arl

ayed h

is S

tar

Tre

k f

am

e

into

a s

ingin

g c

are

er

in t

he late

1960s

and

1970s,

cutt

ing a

lbum

s su

ch a

s L

eon

ard

N

imoy

Pre

sen

ts M

r. S

pock

’s M

usi

c F

rom

O

ute

r S

pa

ce.

He a

lso p

ublish

ed b

ooks

of

poetr

y a

nd p

hoto

gra

phy a

nd c

ham

pio

ned

pro

gre

ssiv

e c

ause

s, i

ncl

udin

g c

ivil r

ights

an

d C

esa

r C

havez’

s eff

ort

s on

behalf

of

imm

igra

nt

farm

work

ers

.T

he fi

lm o

r te

levis

ion o

ffers

that

rolled

in d

urin

g h

is l

ate

r l

ife t

en

ded t

o b

e i

n

the r

ealm

of

scie

nce

fict

ion. H

e w

as

the

voic

e o

f S

enti

nel

Pri

me i

n t

he 2

011

film

T

ran

sform

ers

: D

ark

of

the M

oon,

an

d h

e

part

icip

ate

d i

n n

earl

y a

ll S

tar

Tre

k fi

lm

and T

V incarn

ati

ons.

He s

poke t

o t

he w

rite

r D

igby D

iehl in

19

68 a

bout

the s

trange e

ffect

Spock

and

his

foam

rubber

ears

had o

n w

om

en

in

part

icula

r. “

I te

ll y

ou f

rankly

, I’ve n

ever

had m

ore fe

male

att

en

tion

on

a se

t befo

re,”

he s

aid

. “A

nd g

et

this

: th

ey a

ll

wante

d t

o t

ouch

the e

ars

.” W

P-B

loom

berg

B

OLLY

WO

OD

NE

WS

HO

LLY

WO

OD

NE

WS

No

‘joy

’ bet

wee

n L

awre

nce

, O’R

uss

ell

Actr

ess

Jennif

er L

aw

rence w

as

reporte

dly

spott

ed h

avin

g a

bla

zing

row

wit

h t

he d

irecto

r o

f her n

ext

film

Joy.

Accordin

g t

o a

source,

the 2

4-y

ear-o

ld a

nd O

’Russ

ell w

ere l

oudly

sc

ream

ing a

nd s

wearin

g a

t each o

ther o

n t

he s

et

of th

e m

ovie

in B

ost

on,

reports

tm

z.com

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he a

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us

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alls

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1995).

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ajo

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dhya f

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arcasm

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fluent

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we n

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feel th

e w

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of nost

alg

ia in t

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self

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HEALTH / FITNESS 11

By Des Bieler

February is American Heart Month, so I initiated a conversation with Alfred Casale, chairman of cardiothoracic surgery at the Geisinger Heart &

Vascular Institute in Wilkes-Barre. Our discussion got off to a decidedly grim start.

“The number-one reason that people in the United States, across the board, will die,” he told me, “is because of cardiac and vascular disease.” Okay, well, that’s the bad news. There is some good news, right?

Right. Over the past 25 years or so, Casale said, the treatment of cardiac diseases has improved to the point where “it’s really one of the success stories of modern medicine.”

“When I was growing up,” the 59-year-old continued, “somebody having a heart attack was a catastrophe. Now, although a heart attack is still nothing to be taken lightly, somebody with the same kind of problem is likely to be going home the next day, off of work for a couple of days, and then back in the saddle with a plan in place to change their lifestyle.”

That plan probably has a pharmaceutical element. But an extensive course of physical workouts is usually also required, and if hitting the gym can seem daunting for healthy people, it’s particularly scary for those whose hearts have recently failed them.

However, if the process is managed carefully, even an elderly person with a weak heart and little previous experience with working out can become a success story.

The key, according to Casale, is to “assess where you are, set a plan for where you want to go, and then very gradually, three times a week over a 12-week period, begin to ramp up gently the amount of exercise.” And ideally, continue exercising for the rest of your life.

Which is where a place like the University of Maryland Baltimore Washington Medical Center, located in Glen Burnie, comes in. Exercise physiologist Debbie Lund, who has been a supervisor at the center’s cardiac rehab programme since it began in 1985, says “the majority of patients are toward the older population. . . . It’s mostly aerobic, but some strength training.”

Jim Southworth, 78, is one of the center’s regulars. The Glen Burnie resident has been exercising there for 14 years, ever since undergoing quintuple bypass surgery, and he credits his regimen with not only keeping him fit but also helping him survive a disastrous accident.

About four years ago, Southworth was visiting his sister in Florida when he slipped and fell in the shower. “Split my head open,” he said, requiring 30 stitches, and he wound up breaking his neck.

He wasn’t given much chance of living, and still less of avoiding paralysis, but after a stay in an intensive care unit plus a month of rehabilitation in Florida, Southworth was back in Glen Burnie, ready to resume what’s known as a maintenance programme.

Southworth goes to the center at 7am every Monday, Wednesday and Friday, where he meets his regular group

of friends, “plus or minus a few that have passed on.” He added, “We all go to breakfast after we exercise in the morning, and it’s like a kaffeeklatsch, you know?”

The experts with whom I spoke said that that element of camaraderie can be crucial in the rehab process. Lund said people who have suffered a major illness “go through the denial, the depression, that type of thing. And to be with other people who have heart problems themselves definitely helps.” Casale said his father, who had a bypass operation a few years ago, is part of a maintenance group that is almost like family — “it’s kind of cool.”

Southworth said his exercise routine has varied little over the years. One difference is that, whereas patients in the initial rehab phase are continuously monitored by staff and hooked up to EKG machines, now he sim-ply records his own heart rate and blood pressure after every station.

Every session begins with five to six stretches, which are “very, very important,” according to Casale. “Let’s remember,” he said, “most people who’ve had a heart attack are older, they may have orthopedic issues, they usually have not spent a whole lot of time focusing on athleticism. So learning how to warm up carefully — and eventually, at the end, slow down and cool off — is a big part of what the physiologist teaches.”

Southworth then does a slow warm-up on a treadmill before setting it on an incline with a speed of 3 mph for about 10 minutes. Then he rotates between a step machine, an arm ergometer — sometimes called an arm bike — and the treadmill before weighing himself, cool-ing down and checking his resting pulse and heart rate. Since his accident, Southworth can’t do much strength training.

The whole process usually takes a little over an hour, and he is living proof of its effectiveness (along with, of course, sensible eating habits and medication). Before his quintuple bypass, Southworth said his 5-foot-9 frame car-ried about 250 pounds, but the initial course of rehab got his weight down to around 195, and he has kept it there.

Once victims of a heart attack or heart disease are done with the 12-week programme, they are not required to keep coming back to a medical facility for mainte-nance; that can be done at any gym, or even at home.

Casale noted that “more and more commercial gyms are recognising that putting programmes together for specific populations, like patients who’ve had [heart attacks] in the past or are rehabbing from a cardiac event, is not only part of their mission, but it’s good business.”

For his part, Southworth gets peace of mind from working out in the vicinity of medical personnel. “This way . . . if something goes wrong, within 10 to 15 seconds, somebody’s there, and they’re taking care of you.”

But things have largely gone right for Southworth since his heart surgery, thanks to his diligence in following doctors’ orders. “I’m still here for 14 years,” Southworth said. “I get up every morning, put ‘em on the floor and thank God I got another day.” WP-Bloomberg

Skin test may help early diagnosis of Alzheimer’s

Skin tests can be used to detect elevated levels of abnormal proteins found in

Alzheimer’s and Parkinson’s diseases, a new research has found.

“Until now, pathological confirmation was not possible without a brain biopsy, so these diseases often go unrecognised until after the disease has progressed,” said study author Ildefonso Rodriguez-Leyva from the University of San Luis Potosi in San Luis Potosi, Mexico.

“We hypothesised that since skin has the same origin as brain tissue while in the embryo that they might also show the same abnormal proteins. This new test offers a potential biomarker that may allow doctors to identify and diagnose these diseases earlier on,” Rodriguez-Leyva added.

For the study, researchers took skin biopsies from 20 people with Alzheimer’s disease, 16 with Parkinson’s disease and 17 with dementia caused by other conditions and compared them to 12 healthy people in the same age group.

They tested these skin samples to see if specific types of altered proteins were found — ones that indicate a person has Alzheimer’s or Parkinson’s.

As compared to healthy patients and ones with dementia caused by other conditions, those with both Alzheimer’s and Parkinson’s had seven times higher levels of the tau protein associated with risk of Alzheimer’s disease.

People with Parkinson’s also had eight times higher level of alpha-synuclein protein than the healthy control group.

“The findings are exciting because we could potentially begin to use skin biopsies from liv-ing patients to study and learn more about these diseases. This also means tissue will be much more readily available for scientists to study,” Rodriguez-Leyva noted.

Young women ignore heart attack symptoms

Driven by concerns of initiating a false alarm, young women tend to ignore or

dismiss the earliest symptoms of an impend-ing heart attack, such as pain, dizziness and delay in seeking emergency medical care, says new research.

“Young women with multiple risk factors and a strong family history of cardiac disease should not assume they are too young to have a heart attack,” said lead researcher Judith Lichtman, associate professor at Yale School of Public Health.

For the study, the researchers examined the experiences of 30 women ranging in age from 30 to 55 years old who were hospitalised with acute myocardial infarction (AMI, heart attack).

“Participants in our study said they were concerned about initiating a false alarm in case their symptoms were due to something other than a heart attack,” said Lichtman.

“Identifying strategies to empower women to recognise symptoms and seek prompt care with-out stigma or perceived judgment may be partic-ularly critical for young women at an increased risk for heart disease,” she pointed out.

The researchers conducted in-depth inter-views with young women and found that patients inaccurately assessed their personal risk of heart disease.

Agencies

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TECHNOLOGYPLUS | SUNDAY 1 MARCH 201512

Google Inc submitted plans on Friday for a vastly expanded headquarters at the Silicon Valley city where the tech giant is based, presenting a bucolic vision of mov-

able structures to be built under curving and trans-lucent canopies.

The submission of the plan to the City Council in Mountain View, California, which the company chose for its headquarters 15 years ago, marks the first step in what city officials describe as a long review process.

The new headquarters would give the Internet company the room for an additional 10,000 employ-ees, compared to the 20,000 Google staffers that cur-rently work in the city, a Google spokeswoman said.

Google’s blueprint for new headquarters in the city’s North Bayshore district has gathered wide-spread attention because the design is seen as archi-tecturally innovative.

In the San Francisco Bay Area, the plan also is closely watched due to concerns the technology industry’s high salaries are pushing housing prices beyond levels affordable to most families.

“Today we’re submitting a plan to redevelop four sites — places where we already have offices but hope to significantly increase our square footage — to the Mountain View City Council,” David Radcliffe, Google’s vice president of real estate, said in a com-pany blog post.

The design by architect Bjarke Ingels of the firm Bjarke Ingels Group and Thomas Heatherwick of architecture and design company Heatherwick Studio calls for block-like structures that Google says could be moved around to create space for teams to pursue different projects. It would add about 2.5 million square feet of space to the existing campus.

Vast, clear canopies over the buildings would allow light to filter into the futuristic campus. There would be places for trees, grass and bicycle paths, all of it nestled into different parts of the campus.

“They’re very ambitious,” Mountain View City Councilman Ken Rosenberg said of the blueprints. “They’re taking what we know about building design and significantly advancing the concept.”

The proposal by Google, which is the city’s leading source of property taxes, would contribute to more local prosperity but also increased traffic, he said.

Rosenberg said he views the company’s proposal within the plan to build 100 units of affordable housing as an acknowledgment to housing market problems.

The city could demand more housing units in the North Bayshore area, he said. In 2013, Cupertino approved Apple Inc’s plan for a spaceship-like cam-pus, which is under construction. Reuters

Google plans to expand headquarters

An artist's renderings of the proposal to re-develop part of Google Headquarters North Bayshore campus in Mountain View, California.

By Zoran Radosavljevic

Damir Sabol, Croatian computer expert and entrepreneur, was helping his son with his maths

homework when he had an idea.“I found it a bit tedious, all those

additions and multiplications, so I reckoned, ‘We already have intelligent software, why not make it deal with maths?’” Sabol said.

The result was PhotoMath, a free app that scans and solves equations, providing a step-by-step explanation. It has been downloaded more than 11 million times since its introduction in October, and it was just updated

on Thursday to take it to high school level. An Android version is due in days.

The app is based on the same technology as an earlier app called PhotoPay that was introduced in 2012 by Sabol’s company, which is also called Photo Pay. That app facilitates mobile banking, by scanning household bills and paying them instantly.

“Basically, what we do is teach mobile phones to read things from the real world,” Sabol said in his sparsely decorated office in Zagreb, where a dozen young software engi-neers jot down ideas and algorithms.

He said the PhotoMath averages about 1.5 million users every month and he had received scores of emails from grateful students, parents — and

even teachers. “Will I allow my pupils to use the app? Absolutely,” a British maths teacher wrote on www.amath-steacherwrites.co.uk, after a pupil proudly presented the app in class.

“As a means for them to check their work it’s unrivalled ... They are far more likely to ‘listen’ to an electronic device, rather than teacher, telling them that they are right or wrong,” the teacher wrote.

Sabol says he has never regretted making the app available for free.

“Now, of course, we are looking for ways to be commercial,” he said. “Without that, we cannot continue developing the app. Reuters

School maths answers only a scan away with Croatian app

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COMICS & MORE 13

Hoy en la HistoriaMarch 1, 2014

1810: Sweden became the first country to appoint an ombudsman1940: Vivien Leigh won an Oscar for her role as Scarlett O’Hara in Gone With The Wind, one of the most popular films of all time1995: Yahoo! Inc., the U.S. internet corporation known for its web portal and search engine Yahoo Search, was incorporated2014: Russia dispatched troops to the Ukrainian region of Crimea

Acclaimed French film director Alain Resnais died at age 91. His best known films include Night and Fog (1955), and Hiroshima Mon Amour (1959)

Picture: Getty Images © GRAPHIC NEWS

ALL IN THE MIND Can you find the hidden words? They may be horizontal,vertical, diagonal, forwards or backwards.

ANNE MURRAY, BARBARA MANDRELL, BRENDA LEE, CHARLEY PRIDE, CHET ATKINS, CRYSTAL GAYLE, DOLLY PARTON, DON WILLIAMS, EMMY LOU HARRIS, GLEN CAMPBELL, HANK WILLIAMS, JOHNNY CASH, KENNY ROGERS, LORETTA LYNN, MARTY ROBBINS, MERLE HAGGARD, PATSY CLINE, ROGER MILLER, TAMMY WYNETTE, WAYLON JENNINGS, WILLIE NELSON.

Baby Blues by Jerry Scott & Rick Kirkman

Zits by Jerry Scott & Jim Borgman

Hagar The Horrible by Chris Browne

LEARN ARABIC

PLUS | SUNDAY 1 MARCH 2015

At the Book shop

Ink pot Mi�bara

Poetry �içr

Poem Qa�eeda

Lesson Dars

Hand-writing �a��

Language Lou�a

Dictionary Qamoos

Copy book Daftar

Fountain pen Qalam �ibr sa'il

ç = ‘a’ in ‘agh’ when surprised

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HYPER SUDOKU

CROSSWORD

CROSSWORDS

YESTERDAY’S ANSWER

How to play Hyper Sudoku:A Hyper Sudoku

Puzzle is solved

by filling the

numbers from 1

to 9 into the blank

cells. A Hyper

Sudoku has

unlike Sudoku

13 regions

(four regions

overlap with the

nine standard

regions). In all

regions the numbers from 1 to 9 can appear

only once. Otherwise, a Hyper Sudoku is

solved like a normal Sudoku.

ACROSS 1 Run up ___

5 Marks for life

10 “___ be in England”

14 Big shot

15 Also-ran of 1992 and 1996

16 Frond bearer

17 Bootleggers’ foes

18 Begin to correct, maybe

19 “Exodus” hero and others

20 Cabinet department until 1947

21 Like the figure formed by the three circled letters in the upper left

23 East of Germany?

24 Snobbishness

26 1996 Olympics city

28 Highlights show

29 Somerhalder of “The Vampire Diaries”

31 Skin-and-bones sort

32 Anti-D.U.I. ads, e.g.

33 A dog might catch one

35 Newcastle’s river

36 Like the figure formed by the three circled letters in the upper right

39 He tapped Ryan in 2012

42 Something to lean on

46 “If the shoe fits, wear it,” e.g.

47 “Alice” waitress

50 Shopaholic’s binge

51 “Alice” diner owner

52 Traffic problem

54 1936 opponent of Franklin D.

55 Like the figure formed by the three circled letters at the bottom

60 Make a comeback

62 Overlay material

65 “In the Heat of the Night” Oscar winner

66 Rules for hunters to follow

67 Some distracted drivers

68 Sucker in

DOWN 1 Belgian seaport

2 Wrapped Tex-Mex fare

3 Stephen Colbert’s “I Am ___ (And So Can You!)”

4 Football’s Roethlisberger

5 Blueprint details, in brief

6 Ming vases, e.g.

7 ___ Sea (Asian body)

8 Comic with a “domestic goddess” persona

9 Artery implant

10 All ___ sudden

11 Nesting area for wading birds

12 Isolde’s beloved

13 Treading the boards

21 Nurse at a bar

22 N.Y.C.’s Third and Ninth Avenue lines, e.g.

25 Zapping, in a way

27 Starts malfunctioning

30 Early nuclear org.

33 Kind of milk

34 Special attention, briefly

37 Get the idea

38 Triage spots, for short

39 Flock member

40 Horatian work

41 The symbol for the Roman

god Mars represents it

43 Refrain syllables

44 Disney collectible

45 Playboy nickname

47 Manicurists, at times

48 Grazing area

49 Loss of power

52 Ty Cobb, for most of his career

53 Praline nut

56 Conk out

57 The munchies, e.g.

58 Dream states, for short

59 “… ___-foot pole!”

60 Queue after Q

61 Season after printemps

63 La Brea gunk

64 39-Down’s mate

1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13

14 15 16

17 18 19

20 21 22 23

24 25 26 27

28 29 30 31

32 33 34 35

36 37 38

39 40 41 42 43 44 45

46 47 48 49 50

51 52 53 54

55 56 57 58 59

60 61 62 63 64

65 66

67 68

L A B S S C A M B A J AE L I A U N D O O D E L LT E D T U R N E R R A F T SB R E E Z E O V E R F E DE O N B C E S I D E B

D E A R E D O E T SY E S I K N O W A M A Z O NS T A R S E A S O F AE N M E S H B R E A K S U PR A W C A P M V P S

A E R I E S O P A L EW A L M A R T L L A M A SO N T O P S T E V E J O B SE N O T E I O N E A R E A

O N E S T O T S R E L Y

How to play Kakuro:

The kakuro grid, unlike in sudoku, can be

of any size. It has rows and columns, and

dark cells like in a crossword. And, just like

in a crossword, some of the dark cells will

contain numbers. Some cells will contain two

numbers.

However, in a crossword the numbers

reference clues. In a kakuro, the numbers

are all you get! They denote the total of the

digits in the row or column referenced by the

number.

Within each collection of cells - called a run

- any of the

numbers 1

to 9 may be

used but,

like sudoku,

each

number

may only be

used once.

YESTERDAY’S ANSWER

14

EASY SUDOKUCartoon Arts International / The New York Times Syndicate

Easy Sudoku PuzzlesPlace a digit from 1 to 9 in each empty cell so everyrow, every column and every 3x3 box contains allthe digits 1 to 9.

PLUS | SUNDAY 1 MARCH 2015

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1Kingsman: The Secret Service (2D/Action)

– 10:35am, 1:00, 3:30, 6:00, 8:30 & 11:00pm

2Focus (2D/Comedy)

– 10:30am, 12:45, 3:00, 5:15, 7:30, 9:45 & 11:55pm

3The Spongebob Movie: Sponge Out of Water

(2D/Animation) – 10:00am, 12:00noon, 2:00 & 4:00pmThe Wedding Ringer (2D/Comedy)

– 6:00, 8:00, 10:00 & 11:55pm

4Zarafa (2D/Animation) – 10:45am, 12:30 & 2:15pmSerena (2D/Action) – 3:45, 6:05, 8:15 & 11:00pm

5The Protector 2 (2D/Action)–10:15am, 2:45 & 11:50pm

The Atticus Institute (2D/Horror) – 7:15pmClash of Empires: Bloodlines (2D/Action)

– 12:35, 5:00 & 9:30pm

6The Boy Next Door (2D/Thriller) – 10:20pmBoys of Abu Ghraib (2D/Drama) – 3:40pm

Youm Maloush Lazmah (2D/Arabic)

– 10:50am, 1:15, 5:40, 8:00pm &12:15am

7Captain Sabertooth & The Lama Rama Treasure

(2D/Action) – 10:00am, 2:15, 6:30 & 11:00pm & 12:15am; Fort Bliss (2D/Action)

– 12:00noon, 4:15 & 8:30pm

8The Spongebob Movie: Sponge Out of Water

(2D/Animation) – 3:15 & 5:10pmDragon Blade (2D/Action)

– 10:20am, 12:50, 7:10, 9:30 & 11:50pm

9Focus (IMAX 2D/Comedy) – 11:30am, 1:40, 3:50,

6:00, 8:10, 10:20pm &12:30am

10Focus (2D/Comedy)

– 10:00am, 12:10, 2:20, 4:40, 6:50, 9:20 & 11:40pm

MALL

1Zarafa (2D/Animation) – 2:15pm

Serena (2D/Drama) – 4:00pm

Captain Sabertooth & The Treasure of Lama

Rama (2D/Action) – 6:00 & 7:45pm

The Protector 2 (2D/Action) – 9:30pm

Still Alice (2D/Drama) – 11:30pm

2 Fort Bliss (2D/Drama) – 2:45pm

Combustion (2D/Action) – 5:00pm

Focus (2D/Comedy) – 7:00 & 11:15pm

Ab Tak Chhappan (2D/Hindi) – 9:00pm

3 Fireman (2D/Malayalam) – 2:00, 6:30 & 11:00pm

Youm Maloush Lazma (2D/Arabic)

– 4:15 & 8:45pm

LANDMARK

1 Serena (2D/Drama) – 2:30pm

Combustion (2D/Action) – 4:30pm

Youm Maloush Lazma (2D/Arabic) – 6:30pm

The Protector 2 (2D/Action) – 9:00pm

Captain Sabertooth & The Treasure of Lama

Rama (2D/Action) – 11:15pm

2 Zarafa (2D/Animation) – 3:00pm

Focus (2D/Comedy) – 5:00, 7:00 & 11:15pm

Youm Maloush Lazma (2D/Arabic) – 9:00pm

3 The Protector 2 (2D/Action) – 2:30pm

Fort Bliss (2D/Drama) – 4:30pm

Captain Sabertooth & The Treasure of Lama

Rama (2D/Action) – 7:00pm

Fireman (2D/Malayalam) – 9:00pm

Still Alice (2D/Drama) – 11:30pm

ROYAL

PLAZA

1

Ab Tak Chhappan (2D/Hindi) – 2:30pm

The Protector 2 (2D/Action) – 5:00 & 9:15pm

Captain Sabertooth & The Treasure of Lama

Rama (2D/Action) – 7:15 & 11:30pm

2

Zarafa (2D/Animation) – 3:00pm

Combustion (2D/Action) – 5:00pm

Focus (2D/Comedy) – 7:00 & 11:15pm

Ab Tak Chhappan (2D/Hindi) – 9:00pm

3 Serena (2D/Drama) – 2:30pm

Fort Bliss (2D/Drama) – 4:30pm

Youm Maloush Lazma (2D/Arabic)–6:45 & 9:00pm

Still Alice (2D/Drama) – 11:15pm

CINEMA / TV LISTINGS 15

TEL: 444933989 444517001SHOWING AT VILLAGGIO & CITY CENTER

10:10 Alaska: The

Last Frontier

11:00 Street Outlaws

11:50 American

Muscle

13:30 How It's Made

16:50 Baggage

Battles

17:15 Baggage

Battles

18:55 The Carbonaro

Effect

19:20 The Carbonaro

Effect

19:45 The Big Brain

Theory

20:35 You Have Been

Warned

21:25 Gold Rush

22:15 Gold Divers:

Under The Ice

23:05 Alaska: The

Last Frontier

13:20 Lion Man: One

World African

Safari

13:50 Into The Pride

14:45 Animal Cops

Houston

15:40 Tanked

18:25 Lion Battlefield

19:20 The Last Lion

Of Liuwa

20:15 Sharkageddon

22:05 Killer Iq: Lion

vs Hyena

23:00 Shark

Rampage 1916

13:00 My Name Is Earl

15:00 Cougar Town

16:00 Mystery Girls

16:30 Welcome To

The Family

18:00 Enlisted

18:30 Melissa & Joey

19:00 Brooklyn Nine-

Nine

19:30 Men At Work

20:00 Mindy Project

20:30 Veep

21:30 Mystery Girls

22:00 Married

23:00 George Carlin:

It's Bad For Ya

13:00 Barbie

Fairytopia

14:30 Hatching

16:00 Garfield's Fun

Fest

18:00 Barbie And

The Diamond

Castle

20:00 Astro Boy

22:00 Hatching

23:30 Garfield's Fun

Fest

12:00 Straight Talk

14:00 Hope Springs

16:00 Free Samples

18:00 It's A Disaster

20:00 The World's

End

22:00 Breathless

00:00 Hope Springs

02:00 Free Samples

13:00 Dangerous

Encounters

14:00 Situation Critical

15:00 Air Crash

Investigation

16:00 Wild Sri Lanka

17:00 Swamp Men

18:00 Human Ape

19:00 Air Crash

Investigation

20:00 Wild Sri Lanka

21:00 Swamp Men

22:00 Human Ape

23:00 Last War

Heroes

14:00 Franklin & Bash

15:00 Crisis

16:00 Emmerdale

18:00 Franklin & Bash

19:00 Castle

20:00 How To Get

Away With

Murder

20:45 How To Get

Away With

Murder

21:30 Better Call Saul

22:20 House Of

Cards

23:30 Top Gear (UK)

00:30 Game Of

Thrones

13:00 Christmas

Magic

15:00 Mirror Mirror

17:00 I Will Follow You

Into The Dark

19:00 Hateship

Loveship

21:00 The Letter

23:00 Killing Season

01:00 I Will Follow

You Into The

Dark

13:00 Khumba

15:00 Way Way Back

17:00 The Twilight

Saga: Breaking

Dawn Pt. 2

19:00 Homefront

21:00 We Are What

We Are

23:00 Counselor

12:00 Bandhan

12:30 Hello Pratibha

13:00 Jamai Raja

13:30 Kumkum Bhagya

14:00 Qubool Hai

14:30 Jodha Akbar

15:00 Kasamh Se

16:00 Hum Paanch

17:00 Aunn Zara

18:00 Servicewali Bahu

18:30 Bandhan

19:00 Hello Pratibha

19:30 Sa Re Ga Ma Pa

Li'l Champs 5

20:30 Kumkum Bhagya

21:00 Qubool Hai

21:30 Satrangi Sasural

22:00 Doli Armaano Ki

22:30 Jodha Akbar

23:00 Best of Fear Files

00:00 Kumkum Bhagya

00:30 Qubool Hai

01:00 Jamai Raja

01:30 Servicewali Bahu

13:05 Good Luck

Charlie

14:20 H2O: Just Add

Water

17:00 Liv And Maddie

17:25 I Didn't Do It

17:50 Dog With A Blog

18:40 Binny And The

Ghost

19:55 Gravity Falls

20:20 Kim Possible

20:45 H2O: Just Add

Water

21:10 I Didn't Do It

21:35 Gravity Falls

22:00 Suite Life On

Deck

22:25 Sabrina: Secrets

Of A Teenage

Witch

22:50 Sabrina: Secrets

Of A Teenage

Witch

23:10 Wolfblood

11:00 Antiques

Roadshow

11:50 Masterchef: The

Professionals

16:10 Come Dine With

Me

17:45 Bargain Hunt

19:15 Antiques

Roadshow

20:05 Come Dine With

Me

20:55 Food Glorious

Food

21:45 The Roux Legacy

22:20 Homes Under

The Hammer

23:10 Homes Under

The Hammer

00:00 Antiques

Roadshow

00:50 Come Dine With

Me

01:40 Food Glorious

Food

08:00 News

08:30 People &

Power

09:00 Wukan Votes

10:30 Inside Story

11:00 News

11:30 Talk To Al

Jazeera

12:30 Soapbox

Mexico

14:30 Inside Story

15:00 Al Jazeera

World

16:00 NEWSHOUR

17:30 Listening Post

18:00 NEWSHOUR

19:30 101 East

20:30 Inside Story

22:00 News

22:30 Talk To Al

Jazeera

23:00 Killing The

Messenger

PLUS | SUNDAY 1 MARCH 2015

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Acting Editor-In-Chief Dr Khalid Al-Jaber Acting Managing Editor Hussain Ahmad Editorial Office The Peninsula Tel: 4455 7741, E-mail: [email protected] / [email protected]

IN FOCUS

An enchanting view of the morning sky .

by C Rajendran

Send your photos to [email protected]. Mention where the photo was taken.

Scientists perplexed as huge black hole foundScientists say they have discovered a black hole so big

that it challenges the theory about how they grow.Scientists said this black hole was formed about 900

million years after the Big Bang.But with measurements indicating it is 12 billion times

the size of the Sun, the black hole challenges a widely accepted hypothesis of growth rates.

“Based on previous research, this is the largest black hole found for that period of time,” Dr Fuyan Bian, Research School of Astronomy and Astrophysics, Australian National University (ANU), said.

“Current theory is for a limit to how fast a black hole can grow, but this black hole is too large for that theory.”

The creation of supermassive black holes remains an open topic of research. However, many scientists have long believed the growth rate of black holes was limited.

Black holes grow, scientific theory suggests, as they absorb mass. However, as mass is absorbed, it will be heated creating radiation pressure, which pushes the mass away from the black hole.

“Basically, you have two forces balanced together which sets up a limit for growth, which is much smaller than what we found,” said Bian.

The black hole was discovered a team of global scien-tists led by Xue-Bing Wu at Peking University, China, as part of the Sloan Digital Sky Survey, which provided imagery data of 35 percent of the northern hemisphere sky.

The ANU is leading a comparable project, known as

SkyMapper, to carry out observations of the Southern Hemisphere sky.

Bian expects more black holes to be observed as the project advances.

Playing physics: Student builds Lego Large Hadron Collider

A particle physics student has used his downtime to build a Lego model of the world’s most powerful par-

ticle accelerator, the Large Hadron Collider (LHC), and is now lobbying the toy company to take it to market.

Nathan Readioff ’s design uses existing Lego pieces to replicate all four elements of the LHC — known as ATLAS, ALICE, CMS and LHCb — and uses cutaway walls to reveal all of the major subsystems.

He also wrote step-by-step guides to making the mini-atures and has now submitted his models to the Lego Ideas website, where ideas from members of the public that get more than 10,000 votes are considered by Lego for future production.

“I have always been a Lego fan,” Readioff said in a state-ment from Liverpool University, where he is in the third year of his PhD. “I had in mind Lego’s basic principles of encouraging imagination and play through building bricks.”

The LHC in Geneva allows scientists to test the predic-tions of different theories of physics. Its 27km ring is bur-ied 100 meters below the French and Swiss countryside.

To see footage of Readioff ’s model, go to:stream.liv.ac.uk/ndcbkwbt

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Events in Qatar

Family Art Workshops When: Till March 31, 2015 Where: Katara Art Studios - Bldg 19What: Katara Art Studios is hosting a series of Diverse Family Art Workshops from September 2014 to March 2015. They invite families to attend with their children aged between 5 years old to 10 years old.The cost of each workshop is QR150

Here There ExhibitionWhen: Till March 30, 2015; Opening hours Sunday-Wednesday 10:30am – 5:30pm, Tuesday closed and Thursday 12pm – 8pm.Where: Al Riwaq Exhibition Hall What: The Qatar Brazil 2014 Year of Culture closes with a grand finale event as QM Gallery Al Riwaq presents Here There, a showcase of works by artists from Qatar and Brazil.Free entry

Yousef Ahmad: Story Of Ingenuity ExhibitionWhen: Till March 28Where: Qatar Museums Gallery Katara What: The exhibition highlights Qatari artist Yousef Ahmad’s body of work through a precise selection of his most striking artworks from his early works in 1970s until today. From the early oil paintings that include the historic depiction of Al Zubarah Fort, to his mixed media calligraphic pieces to his new conceptual artworks presenting his ability of developing an innovate artistic style.Free entry

Tasmeem Doha 2015: 3ajeeb!When: March 8 - March 12 Where: VCUQatar What: Tasmeem Doha is a biennial international conference focusing on unique and contemporary themes in art and design. The 2015 edition will focus on the theme of ‘playfulness’ expressed by the Arabizi word 3ajeeb! (ahh-jhee-b).This year’s festival will feature:3 Studio days + 2 Shawarma Sessions with artists, designers, musicians, writers, tinkerers, and playful thinkers1 Day Off to sit back and enjoy presentations by world-class speakers1 Festival Day of exhibitions, playful interactions and performancesFree, but need to register. Go to www.tasmeemdoha.com for details

Handcrafts Workshops And Outdoor MarketWhen: Till March 26-27; 4pm to 10pmWhere: Katara Art Studios – Bldg 19 What: The Cultural Village Foundation — Katara in cooperation with the Ministry of Labour & Social Aairs is organising Handcrafts Workshops and Outdoor MarketFree entry