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Traditional art meets modern imagery in
world famous South Korean media artist
Lee Nam Lee’s first ever solo retrospective
in Doha which features some of his best
artworks to date.
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ART MEETS IMAGERY
COMMUNITY | 5
COVER STORY
| 03WEDNESDAY 3 FEBRUARY 2016
By Raynald C Rivera
The Peninsula
Traditional art meets modern
imagery in world famous South
Korean media artist Lee Nam
Lee’s first ever solo retrospec-
tive in Doha which features some of
his best artworks to date.
Juxtaposing classic art master-
pieces and video and digital art, Lee
breathes new life into the works pro-
viding them a fresh look that tran-
scends expectations across all types of
art connoisseurs.
One of his latest works, on display,
a 2016 reinterpretation of a Kawk-Hee
masterpiece, integrates space battle
theme. One of his Battle of Civiliza-
tion series, the work called Star Wars
shows spacecraft hovering above the
old nature-themed painting of in a six-
minute clip giving it a futuristic effect.
Lee’s artwork are immersive and
creates perplexity as it crosses be-
tween reality and fantasy as he com-
bines various elements in the work.
Traditional Painting-Happiness , a
highlight of the exhibition, provides an
immersive experience to the viewer as
objects travel across eight-fold screen
as if the classic paintings from China,
Korea and Japan are connected by
Lee’s use of imaginary objects which
travel through time, place and seasons.
“The artworks we brought here to
Katara have subjects which are usual-
ly based on traditional paintings from
Korea, China and Japan and they are
reinterpreted in modern ways. They
are actually aesthetic art created us-
ing media which give them vitality and
life. These are among Lee Nam Lee’s
very special artworks that’s why we
brought them to Qatar,” Asan Gallery
CEO Soo Yeol Kim told The Peninsula
at the launch event.
Lee’s exhibition was brought to
Doha through a partnership between
South Korea-based Asan Gallery and
Katara Art Centre (KAC) with support
from Korean embassy and South Kore-
an Trade-Investment Promotion Agen-
cy (KOTRA).
This is the first time Asan Gallery
has brought a Korean artist to Doha
which Kim said has been on the glo-
bal map of world’s largest art markets.
For its debut expo in Doha, Asan has
chosen Lee Nam being a world famous
media artist and currently a very im-
portant artist in Korea.
“I want to introduce popular and
very important Korean artists to Qatar
that’s why I Chose Lee Nam Lee to fea-
A cultural bridge between Qatar and South Korea
ture in this exhibition,” he said.
Lee’s breakthroughs in media art has
brought him to every city around the
world doing solo and group exhibitions
in art capitals such as Paris, Berlin and
New York as well as other countries in-
cluding Spain, the UK, Argentina, Russia,
and China among others.
Globally prominent Nam June Paik,
considered the founder of video art,
was born in Korea and another very im-
portant artist the country has ever pro-
duced, and Lee is now regarded as the
next Nam June Paik.
“Lee Nam is called the second Nam
June Paik. He is more modernised and
does art work with media art which
makes him very special as he is a high-
ly technological post modernism artist,”
Kim added.
Now that Lee Nam Lee has become
very famous, a new breed of artists has
emerged in Korea and they try to be like
him.
“So there are lots of media artists
in Korea now but Lee Nam is the father
of media art and he is an expert in this
field,” he said.
He shone as the artistic director at
the opening ceremony of the Gwangju
Universiade Games in Korea last year
and Kim believes that he has a great po-
tential to be an artistic director of World
Cup 2022 in Qatar.
“Lee Nam has also lots of media art-
works on buildings and I know there are
many tall buildings in Qatar so my plan
is to present his artworks in buildings in
Doha,” said Kim as he reveals his plans
for the future. Kim said he had always
wanted Asan Gallery to have an exhi-
bition of Korean artists in Qatar and af-
ter three years, he was happy to finally
stage the expo here, which he said was
a result of the visit of South Korean Pres-
ident Park Geun-hye in Qatar in March
last year. Asan Gallery has already host-
ed an exhibition featuring a number of
prominent Qatari artists in Korea includ-
ing Ali Hassan, Faraj Daham and Yousef
Ahmad as part of an agreement be-
tween Asan and KAC. “These exhibitions
serve as a cultural bridge between Korea
and Qatar,” he said.
Lee Nam Lee’s exhibition is open un-
til February 14 at Katara Art Centre.
CAMPUS
04 | WEDNESDAY 3 FEBRUARY 2016
Ideal Indian School (IIS) held fancy dress competitions for the students of KG Section recently. There was no limit to the tiny tots’ fancies. The attires they wore
and the personalities they presented ranged from fictitious characters to common human beings, professionals and great leaders, clown, fabric parrot, tree,
farmers, fish, French fries, nature, chocolate, robot, honey bee, turtle, book, water drop, blood and a lot of other creative work. The KG Section wore a festive
look with students turning up in colour costumes.
The Gulf English School (GES) re-
cently celebrated a fortnight
with creative events and mu-
sical concerts. The events held
during International Fortnight high-
lighted the importance of diversity &
respect and helped students under-
stand the global environment.
During the Junior Arts Week, stu-
dents took part in activities where they
discovered interesting facts about sev-
eral countries in the world. They show-
cased their knowledge of countries
such as Africa, the United Kingdom,
Holland, Germany and Italy by featur-
ing demonstrations of food, clothing,
famous landmarks and geographical
elements.
“It was fantastic to share the work
that the children have been doing in
our celebration assembly, and every-
one had a fabulous time!” said Sarah
Hartley, Deputy Head at GES.
Following the Junior Arts Week, the
Musical Concert Week witnessed par-
ticipation from 30 students belonging
to the Year 2 choir. Before the actual
event, the choir rehearsed every Sun-
day after school for six weeks. The two
songs chosen were Doh, Re, Mi from
the musical The Sound of Music and
a combination of Dipidoo and Tinga
Layo, which had been learned in class.
“During rehearsals they concen-
trated on four things a good sing-
er should do: Stand up straight and
still, breathe deeply, open mouths
wide and think. This soon became
second nature and the choir began
to produce a good sound. We also
explored diction and movement. We
tried adding percussion to the songs
but this proved to be a distraction to
good sound production. The children
were regularly videoed and they as-
sessed their own performances, said
Fiona Pattison, Music Teacher at the
school.
The children also had a dress re-
hearsal by performing in assembly – al-
though a little rough around the edges,
it was a great success. By the time the
concert day arrived, the year 2 singers
were acting and sounding like a prop-
er choir.
During the Musical Concert Week,
the School Orchestra performed a
piece of music with full accompani-
ment for the first time ever and all by
memory! The recorder duet that was
featured was also a new musical activ-
ity in the concert.
Fancy dress contest at IIS KG section
GES students celebrate international fortnight
COMMUNITY
| 05WEDNESDAY 3 FEBRUARY 2016
Nissan continued to sizzle in
the games after it downed
even a spirited Alfardan BMW,
68-59, which was sparked by
the rally of the triumvirate of its top
players in the crucial two minutes as
they took advantage of the series of
turn-overs on the other side.
Nissan’s win put them on the spot-
light anew with a clean 5-0 record
in the standing to keep them on the
number one spot as the elimination
round nears its end in the Inter-Card
Division of the 19th Season Men’s Bas-
ketball Cup of Pinoy Basketball of Qa-
tar.
The reliable trio of Benzon Men-
doza, Bong Esmael and Thirdie Ba-
zan was all that matters for Nissan
to claim the sweet victory prompting
them to pull away with 2:26 left in the
game while miscues like bad passes,
ball handling, travelling and ball out of
bounds haunted the Alfardan squad
to the end.
But what really caused a heart-
breaker for Alfardan were the two
missed shots, a two-point and an-
other three point shot, committed by
Jan Lareza and Aries Fernandez in the
crucial last two minutes which proved
to be costly for their defeat.
Mendoza topscored for Nis-
san with 21 points complemented
by team mates Allan Mallari with 14
points, Esmael with 11 points and Ba-
zan with 10 points plus the monster
domination on the boards with 14 re-
bounds.
In other games, AAB Toyota start-
ed to reclaim the lost glory from the
last season after they easily trounced
Mannai Corporation, 64-43. The win
put Toyota still in contention with two
wins and two losses record going into
the quarterfinals.
Porshe, who is on second spot
with 3-1 record, outclassed KIA Mo-
tors, 46-34.
The Pibaq’s 19th Season is pre-
sented by Alicafe with the support of
Philippine embassy, Qatar Basketball
Federation and sponsored by Oore-
doo and Diana Jewellery & Watches.
Nissan trounce Alfardan in crucial Pibaq match
Skills Development Centre (SDC)
has conducted a Karate Belt
Awarding ceremony at Maestro
Community Hall in New Salata. SDC is
conducting regular classes for Karate
and students from various communi-
ties are attending the classes.
Grade tests are conducted on
regular intervals at SDC in coordi-
nation with Qatar Karate Federation
and Japan Shotokan Karate Associ-
ation (JSKA), an International Karate
Association operating in Qatar.
With 100 percent success rate
some 130 students from SDC were
successful in receiving the belts. JS-
KA Qatar Chief Instructor, Sensei Shi-
habudeen along with Lieutenant Ab-
dulla Khamis Al Hamad and Lieuten-
ant Abdul Azeez Zaman from Qatar
Police Sports Federation and Fais-
al Hudawi from Ministry of Interior’s
Public Relations Department distrib-
uted the belts and certificates to the
winners.
Live demo of Karate Techniques
were another highlight of the event.
Allen Biju Ipe, Albin Biju Ipe, Gitanja-
li Narzary, Samridhi Bhardwaj, Shah-
zar Mehmood Sayed, Vishnu Mohan,
Yedu Krishnan, Rahul Kishor and
Amudha Selvan received ‘Best Stu-
dents’ awards. SDC’s Chief Instructor
Sensei. Shihabudeen was honoured
with a memento presented by Lieu-
tenant Abdulla Khamis Al Zaman
Skills Development Centre holds Karate Belt Awarding ceremony
MARKETPLACE
06 | WEDNESDAY 3 FEBRUARY 2016
KIMS Qatar Medical Centre (KQMC)
achieved the prestigious ACHSI
(Australian Council on Health-
care Standards International) Accred-
itation. The official certificate presen-
tation ceremony was held at Oryx Ro-
tana Hotel in Doha on Monday.
KQMC is the first medical centre
in Qatar to achieve this quality mile-
stone.
(ACHSI) was represented by Dr
Desmond Yen, Executive Director,
in the ceremony held in the pres-
ence of a number of dignitaries in-
cluding Dr Samar Aboulsoud, A/
CEO of Supreme Council of Health;
R K Singh, Deputy Chief of Mis-
sion, Indian embassy; Dr Moham-
med Sahadulla, Chairman of KIMS
Group; Jassim Mubarak, Chairman-
KQMC; Nishad Azeem, Executive
Director of KQMC; Dr Sheriff Saha-
dulla, Executive Director-Medical &
Group CMO, and Jacob Thomas, Di-
rector Operations.
KQMC in Wakrah, a branch of KIMS
Healthcare Group, has expanded its
facilities remarkably over the past
years, with presently holding 15 clin-
ics, a full-fledged laboratory, radiol-
ogy department, physiotherapy de-
partment and pharmacy.
The participation of women,
both Qatari and expatriate, in
the professional market has
steadily grown over the years.
With a unique set of goals and chal-
lenges facing women in the work place
– a new forum has emerged for women
in business to share their experiences
with others.
The “Women in Business in Qatar”
networking series, organised by prom-
inent Doha law firm Pinsent Masons,
aims to bring together women active
in the business community to impart
their hopes and concerns for their fu-
ture working in an emerging country
with numerous opportunities.
The first event in the series took
place last week at the Movenpick Ho-
tel. More than 90 attended the event.
Maryam Al Subaiey, founder of Q Tal-
ent, gave a keynote speech.
Of particular interest to the attend-
ees was the topic of company “quotas”
requiring set numbers of women to be
appointed to senior positions in com-
panies.
The prospect of quotas for women
on boards has made headlines across
the world since Norway became the
first country to introduce official board
gender quotas in 2003. Many countries
have since introduced such quotas, in-
cluding Italy, France, Spain and Iceland
and the subject is now being mooted
in a number of emerging economies
such as India and Malaysia. If we look
to neighbouring countries, the United
Arab Emirates made it compulsory for
corporations and government agen-
cies to include women on their boards.
In Qatar, there are already calls for
greater representation of women at
the political level through quotas; the
extension of such an approach to the
business community could therefore
be a very real prospect for the future.
Polled on the issue, the overall
mood of attendees was one of mixed
feelings; with some considering that
women should be promoted on mer-
it, rather than because of a compa-
ny’s drive to achieve a target. Others
thought a target did not necessari-
ly detract from the fact that the pro-
motion was earned. All participants
agreed that if corporate quotas were
indeed introduced, that it was equal-
ly as important to ensure those who
were promoted were also influential
and right for the job, rather than be-
ing given the promotion to ‘tick a box’.
Pamela McDonald, an associate at
Pinsent Masons and organiser of the
event, said “We were delighted to have
such a high turnout at our first event. It
goes to show the interest profession-
al women in Qatar have on this top-
ic. We are fortunate at Pinsent Masons
to have a supportive board who are
mindful of the gender diversity issue
and have created the Project Sky initi-
ative to identify changes which can be
made to the business which will em-
power women to achieve their career
goals.”
Women in Business in Qatar holds first meeting
Dr Desmond Yen, Executive Director, ACHSI, giving accreditation certificate to Dr Mohammed Sahadulla, Chairman of KIMS Group, and Jassim Mubarak, Chairman
of KQMC, in Doha. Picure/Abdul Basit
KQMC gets ACHSI accreditation
FOOD
| 07WEDNESDAY 3 FEBRUARY 2016
By Cathy Barrow
The Washington Post
Before the season ends, I make
sure to put up a few jars of
Lemon Squash, intensely fla-
voured with lemon oil, zest and
juice. A squash is an old recipe, named
for an Indian concentrate of fruit juices.
Squashes show up in British preserv-
ing books from the early 20th century.
A presweetened concentrate, it makes
exceptional lemonade by the pitcher-
ful. It is a pantry wonder, stirred into
tea, sparkling water, wine or bourbon.
The cheerful and sunny flavour is wel-
come in any season. I make a version
with ginger; when a cold is coming on,
I put a glug into a hot toddy for an in-
stantly soothing tipple. Make a version
with lime, and you’ll be ready for mar-
garita season.
Lemon Squash
4 half-pint jars;makes 32 ounces to-
tal. MAKE AHEAD: Properly canned lem-
on squash can be stored at room tem-
perature for up to 12 months. It can be
frozen in jars (directly, with plastic lids),
leaving a 1-inch head space to allow for
expansion, for up to 3 months.
Ingredients
10 lemons (see headnote)4 cups water3 cups sugar
Steps
Use a vegetable peeler or channel
knife to zest 4 of the lemons.
Bring the water to a boil in a large,
wide pot over high heat, then add all
the lemons, including the zested ones,
and the strips of lemon peel. Cook for
2 minutes, then transfer the lemons to
a bowl to cool. Reserve 2 cups of the
lemon cooking water and the boiled
strips of lemon peel in a separate me-
dium saucepan.
When the lemons are cool enough
to handle, cut them in half, then juice
them into a large liquid measuring
cup, straining and discarding the pulp,
seeds and spent lemon halves. The
yield should be 1 to 1 ½ cups.
Add the sugar to the lemon cooking
water and lemon peels in the sauce-
pan; bring to a boil over high heat;
cook for 5 minutes, then remove from
the heat. Discard the lemon peels, or
reserve them for candying. Stir in the
fresh lemon juice until well incorpo-
rated. Fill the jars, leaving a ¼-inch
head space. Wipe the jar rims well and
place the lids and rings, tightening un-
til just secure. Process for 10 minutes
in a boiling-water bath, starting timing
from the moment the water returns to
a boil. Remove the jars from the water
bath, setting them upright on a folded
towel to cool completely.
Roasted Orange Salty Caramel
Tofu
6 servings
This recipe takes advantage of the
cara cara and blood oranges just now
in season, but can be made with na-
vel oranges as well. The sauce, which
comes together quickly, is bright and
full of umami.MAKE AHEAD: The tofu
needs to drain for 1 hour.
Ingredients
Three 14-ounce blocks extra-firm tofu
3 cara cara or blood oranges2 teaspoons toasted sesame oil1 cup packed dark brown sugar½ cup good-quality fish sauce,
preferably Red Boat brand½ cup plain rice vinegar¼ cup fresh orange juice¼ cup fresh lime juice1 ½ tablespoons finely grated
fresh peeled ginger root1 tablespoon minced, fresh lemon
grass1 cup cornstarch½ teaspoon kosher salt¼ teaspoon freshly ground black
pepper¼ cup grapeseed oil6 large scallions (white and light-
green parts), slivered (1/2 cup)¼ cup loosely packed cilantro
sprigs¼ cup minced chives½ teaspoon unsalted butter
Steps
Do this in the sink: Place the blocks
of tofu on a board and cover with an-
other board. Top with a 28-ounce can
(for weight). Tilt this contraption slight-
ly so the excess moisture in the tofu
will be pressed out, and the water will
drain away. Drain for 1 hour.
Heat the oven to 400 degrees. Seat
an ovenproof rack in a rimmed baking
sheet. Slice off and discard the tops
and bottoms of 2 oranges. Use a Y-
shaped vegetable peeler to cut wide
strips of zest from the third orange;
juice that orange for the ¼ cup you’ll
need for this recipe.
Cut each of the 2 remaining orang-
es horizontally into 3 thick slices. Rub
them with the toasted sesame oil, then
place them on the baking sheet rack;
roast for 25 minutes, until the edges
are caramelised and their surfaces are
bubbling. Let them cool.
Combine the reserved orange-peel
strips, dark brown sugar, fish sauce,
rice vinegar, orange juice, lime juice,
ginger and lemon grass in a large, wide,
straight-sided saute pan. Bring the
mixture to a boil over high heat, stir-
ring until the sugar has dissolved. Add
the roasted orange slices, then reduce
the heat to medium and cook for 12 to
15 minutes or until the mixture has re-
duced by half, to form a caramel sauce.
Meanwhile, whisk together the
cornstarch, salt and pepper on a plate.
Heat the grapeseed oil in a large, wide
saute pan over medium-high heat.
Line a plate with layers of paper towels.
Cut each drained block of tofu in-
to 4 equal slices and use more paper
towels to pat the tofu dry. Press each
one into the cornstarch mixture, mak-
ing sure the tofu is completely coated
and shaking off any excess.
Once the grapeseed oil is shim-
mering, working in batches as need-
ed, pan-fry the tofu blocks on the first
side for about 3 minutes or until nice-
ly browned, then turn them over and
cook on the second side for 2 to 3 min-
utes. Transfer to the paper-towel-lined
plate to drain..Stir the caramel sauce;
if it is not thick and spoonable, like a
warm chocolate sauce, increase the
heat to medium and cook further to
reduce it to the right consistency.
When ready to serve, combine the
slivered scallions, cilantro sprigs and
chives in a bowl. Add all but a pinch or
two to the sauce, reserving the rest as
a garnish. Cook the sauce for 1 minute,
then stir in the butter, which will make
the sauce shiny.
Make a pantry wonder
with lemons
FASHION
08 | WEDNESDAY 3 FEBRUARY 2016
Beware against buying fake weaves & hand embroideryIANS
Are you one of those who love
the world famous weaves
from Banaras or chikankari
embroidery, but don’t know
how to differentiate between what’s
real and what’s fake? Take note of
some important indicators before you
make a purchase, says an expert.
Neha Baheti, co-founder of Indian
Artizans, an online apparel portal work-
ing directly with weavers all across In-
dia, has shared tips on how to judge
the originality of a weave. Here’s how:
• The best way to determine if a
particular handcrafted product is from
India or not is to buy from brands that
have certifications from local agencies
like Craft Mark.
• To judge whether the chikankari
on your cloth is by machine or not, it
is suggested that one should see the
kind of embroidery the piece of art
boasts of. If it is handcrafted, the cloth
will have French knots, shadow stitch,
criss cross embroidery. In the machine
made ones, you do not find these em-
broideries.
• Patola weaving technique has
travelled far overseas and some coun-
tries like Indonesia and Japan still have
fabrics woven with this technique.
However, there is quite a difference in
the colours and motifs in India. Patola
from Gujarat has an overdose of colour
and intricacy. Although both double
and single Ikat is being practised else-
where, but design is something that
can be copied assuming that the tech-
nique has been well mastered.
• When it comes to Assam silks, the
silks used here are Muga, pat, eri. Pat is
a very soft silk and to differentiate be-
tween handwoven and machine made,
is by the locking system noticeable at
the back of the sari. Also, in machine
made saris, there are a lot of limita-
tions like colour and sharpness of the
designs. The special aspect of hand-
woven Assam saris are that the bor-
der is woven separately and stitched
on the sari.
• One can differentiate a machine
made sari from a handwoven one by
the pallu and its border. In a handwo-
ven piece, the backside of the pallu or
border is a replica. In a machine made
one, you will find a lot of threads hang-
ing. Also in machine made, there are a
lot of limitations like colour, sharpness
of the design and intricacy.
• Authentic hand block prints will
have small flaws in the printing and
drops of extra colours here and there.
There will also be very distinct designs
in bright colours whereas printed de-
signs will be 100 percent consistent.
• Authentic Banarasi weaves can be
judged by looking at the reverse side of
the sari. The ones done by hand will be
heavy on thread work at the back and
will look very different from the front.
Also, only an original sari would have
floats.
• Another way to identify a real Ba-
narasi sari is to check for a six to eight
inch long patch of plain silk on the pal-
lu of the Banarasi saree.
• An original sari will mostly carry
Mughal patterns like amru, ambi and
domak. A fake Banarasi saree wouldn’t
have these Indian hand made Persian
designs on it.
HEALTH & FITNESS
| 09WEDNESDAY 3 FEBRUARY 2016
Feeling depressed? Check with your brainBy Nishant Arora
IANS
Have you started feeling depressed or moody
while in love, lacking focus or motivation to
finish a task at work or finding yourself ad-
dicted to shopping or even gambling? Do
not just blame sudden impulses or your stars — at
the axis of such deviating behaviour are two key nat-
urally occurring chemicals in your brain: dopamine
and serotonin.
While dopamine helps keep our mood in a bal-
anced level so that we avoid depression, serotonin is
also a vital feel-good hormone — important for calm-
ness and emotional well-being - and is responsible
for enhancing confidence levels.
Any fluctuation in their levels can lead to myriad
health problems — from depression and anxiety dis-
orders to greater impulsivity and even hallucinations
and suicidal thoughts.
“When these key neurotransmitters become vola-
tile, there is rapid mood imbalance. It leads to a rise
in depression and, over a period of time, can be clini-
cally dangerous,” Dr Mohinish Bhatji-
wale, Director (Neurosurgery) at
Mumbai’s Nanavati Super Specialty
Hospital, said.
According to Dr. Madhuri Behari,
director (neurology) at Fortis Flight
Lieutenant Rajan Dhall Hospital, sero-
tonin is the happy neuro-transmitter
and when its levels go down, we feel
low and depressed.
Dopamine receptor, on the other
hand, is more complex and has two
classes. When the levels of Class 1 (D1,
D2 and D3) receptors go down, one
experiences symptoms of Parkinson’s
disease.
“When levels of Class 2 receptors
(D4 and D5 ) go high, one gets symp-
toms of psychosis where the person
becomes agitated, cannot sleep, be-
lieves that people are up to harm his or her family,
wife/husband is having extra-marital affair and hallu-
cinations,” Behari said.
A study led by Robb Rutledge at University Col-
lege London and published in the Journal of Neuro-
science last year found that increasing dopamine lev-
els in healthy adults led participants to choose more
risky options in a gambling task.
The findings revealed that participants took more
risks to try to get bigger rewards after receiving
dopamine but not a placebo.
Dopamine is involved in reward learning and pre-
vious research has linked dopamine drugs with com-
pulsive gambling problems in people with Parkin-
son’s disease.
When it comes to serotonin that regulates mood,
appetite, sleep and also impacts cognitive functions
including memory and learning, increased levels can
cause vasoconstriction (constriction of blood vessels
which increases blood pressure) and contributes to
migraine.
“Large amounts of serotonin are also secreted by
carcinoid tumours, resulting in flushing (of the skin,
usually of the head and the upper part of thorax),”
said Dr Keki Turel, consultant neurosurgeon and ex-
head, department of neurosurgery, Bombay Hospi-
tal.
The healthy levels of both neuro-chemicals are af-
fected by our changing lifestyles; so tweaking the
way we live can help us get back our optimum levels.
“Exercise, especially ancient practices of pranaya-
ma and yoga, can go a long way in ensuring bal-
anced levels of the two important neurotransmitters,”
Bhatjiwale advised.
When our thoughts are judgemental or critical,
the brain chemicals affect our immune system in
a negative way. And when our thoughts are loving,
empowering and positive, the neurotransmitters en-
hance the immune system.
“Science is confirming that our negative think-
ing is killing us. Joy and sorrow are all creations of
the mind. Peace is within you and what’s strange
is that it stays right where restlessness, anger and
resentment reside! You can control your thoughts
with mindful meditation and positive lifestyle,” ex-
plained Dr Rajiv Anand, Director (Neurology) at the
BLK Super Specialty Hospital.
At times, anti-depressants and other medica-
tion can affect healthy levels of both brain chemicals.
“There are some people who are genetically predis-
posed to having high or low levels of these neuro-
transmitters, leading to Parkinsonism and schizophre-
nia,” Behari noted.
According to her, such people can have certain
food which are rich in these neurotransmitters — like
complex carbohydrates, the B vitamins and omega-3
fatty acids.
Food such as whole-wheat bread, pasta, pota-
toes, cereal and brown rice are rich in tryptophan —
an amino acid that converts to serotonin in the brain.
Other nutrient-rich carbohydrate choices include
starchy root vegetables such as sweet potatoes and
carrots, as also corn.
“Participate in activities that you like. ‘Giving’ is al-
so known as ‘Vitamin G’ that if we provide to people
in terms of means, support, education and spiritu-
al support, we can remain happy 24/7,” Behari said.
In a nutshell, enjoy life, eat and sleep well and
give anxiety an early retirement to keep your mood
and confidence levels up.
ENTERTAINMENT
10 | WEDNSDAY 3 FEBRUARY 2016
By Sandy Cohen
AP
Fox is gearing up to give Broad-
way a serious dose of the Hol-
lywood treatment. Grease: Live”
goes beyond other made-for-TV
live musicals such as The Sound of Mu-
sic and The Wiz, both of which were
huge hits for NBC.
This hybrid of the stage and movie
musical blends theatre with film, with
dynamic camera movements captur-
ing the dance and drama on multiple
sets housed in two massive sound-
stages.
“The scale is insane,” said TV direc-
tor Alex Rudzinski. “It’s almost half a kil-
ometre from one end of the site to the
other.”
Cast and crew members will rely on
golf carts — or fast feet — to get be-
tween the stages during commercial
breaks.
Grease: Live, which stars Julianne
Hough as Sandy and Broadway veter-
an Aaron Tveit as Danny, has taken over
Warner Bros studios with its many sets
and stages.
Here’s a look at this ambitious Par-
amount Television production by the
numbers:
412: The number of times Grease:
Live director Thomas Kail can listen to
consecutive replays of the song “Hand
Jive.”
Fresh off the success of his Broad-
way production Hamilton and his Tony
Award for In the Heights, Kail is bring-
ing his theatre talents to the produc-
tion of Grease: Live, and he’s not daunt-
ed by its scope and scale.
“The spirit of theatre that’s cap-
tured so many of us for so long is
you do what you do to make the
show,” he said. “Our job is to capture
that and see if we can put it through
some tubes and send it into peo-
ple’s homes.”
208: And that’s just the number
of costumes for the show’s 52 extras.
Hundreds more outfits were need-
ed for the dozen main cast members,
most of whom change outfits at least
four times each, said Tony Award-win-
ning costume designer William Ivey
Long, who commandeered an entire
empty soundstage on the Warner Bros.
lot just to house the show’s collection
of clothing.
Creating costumes for this live TV
production is different than work-
ing onstage, he said, where outfits
have to be built “super-duper, eight-
shows-a-week for a year.” Because of
this show’s more cinematic approach
to photography, costume details near
the face take on new significance.
Long has also been excited to incorpo-
rate real vintage pieces into the stars’
wardrobes — items that would be too
delicate to hold up to the rigours of
theatre.
Because stars have to do quick
changes during commercial breaks,
many of the costumes are held togeth-
er with magnets. Some stars will also
be wearing layers of outfits on top of
each other for what Long calls “mag-
ical transformations that were not in
the Broadway musical and were not in
the film either.”
45: The number of camera posi-
tions needed to shoot scenes in dis-
parate locations from multiple angles.
Using 20 cameras, Rudzinski is doing
something almost unprecedented in
live TV: taking cameras offline so they
can be moved and reset for the vari-
ous scenes.
“We move them over the three-
hour broadcast about 30 times,” said
Rudzinski, who shoots live shows
weekly as a director of ABC’s Dancing
With the Stars. “That’s a huge chal-
lenge and obviously kind of nerve-
racking on a live show to be losing
feed and then coming back up.”
He has storyboarded the entire
show, like film productions general-
ly do, to time camera movements to
the beat — or even half-beat — of the
music.
45: The number of seconds it takes
to travel between stages on a golf
cart. But it isn’t idle time: Makeup art-
ists, hairstylists and dressers will ride
with the stars between scenes to help
facilitate quick changes while the carts
are in motion.
“I have one commercial break to go
from good Sandy to bad Sandy,” said
Hough, confessing that she needs to
abandon her tendency to try to do her
hair and makeup herself.
Three: The age musical director
Tom Kitt was when he first saw Grease
in theatres. “I probably saw it between
50 and 100 times when I was a kid,”
tagging along with his older sisters to
the movies, he said.
The Pulitzer Prize- and Tony Award-
winning composer (Next to Normal) al-
so choreographed a dance routine to
The One That I Want when he was 5
years old, then produced Grease as a
senior musical at his New York high
school.
“I haven’t music-directed it again
until now,” he said, adding, “obviously,
this is a very different production.”
Cast members, including Car-
ly Rae Jepsen and Vanessa Hudgens,
have recorded a soundtrack album for
Grease: Live set for release after the
show airs. Other featured musical per-
formers include pop star Jessie J and
Boys II Men.
“The spirit of theatre that’s captured so many of us for so long is you do what you do to make the show. Our job is to capture that and see if we can put it through some tubes and send it into people’s homes.”
Broadway and Hollywood mix for Grease: Live
The Pulitzer Prize- and Tony Award-winning composer also choreographed a dance routine to The One That I Want when he was 5 years old, then produced Grease as a senior musical at his New York high school.
Aaron Tveit (left) and Julianne Hough rehearse for Grease: Live.
ENTERTAINMENT
| 11WEDNESDAY 3 FEBRUARY 2016
By Nivedita
IANS
Bollywood actress Kangana
Ranaut says that she is inac-
tive on social media because
of “nasty trolls and frustration”
from different people, but she feels
that one of its advantages is that peo-
ple can use the medium to clarify their
stands and dispel rumours.
“I am inactive so I don’t miss it (so-
cial media) but what I definitely see....
Certainly one of the good things about
such mediums is that you can actual-
ly clarify your stand when you are sort
of facing rumours and misunderstood.
“The bad things is that you are sus-
ceptible to all kinds of nasty trolls and
frustrated people who are just out to
show their frustration regardless of
whosoever it is and you get subject-
ed to that sort of hatred which is inhu-
man,” Kangana said to a query why she
stays away from social media and what
are the pros and cons of being there as
an actress.
She also added that she wants to
stay away from negative things in life
and this is the reason why she is not
active on social media platforms.
Recently Bollywood actor Hrithik
Roshan’s tweet made headlines when
he indirectly pointed out at the ac-
tress on the micro blogging site. “Ther r
more chances of me having had an af-
fair with d Pope and any of d (Im sure
wonderful) women d media hs ben
naming. Thanks but no thanks,” he had
posted.
His reaction came post the Tanu
Weds Manu Returns actor’s comment
that she “fails to understand why exes
do silly things to get attention”.
Taking back the words, Kangana
sought to end the row by saying that
she doesn’t want to “dig the grave yet
again”.
She contended that on social me-
dia, different people take “one state-
ment in a thousand different ways and
hence it gets difficult to clarify to eve-
ryone”.
“The way you perceive things is dif-
ferent from what other person feels.
It creates certain negative environ-
ment. As a person I live only for myself
and for those for whom I make mov-
ies. I impress myself through my work
and that’s what I focus on. I don’t care
about anyone,” she retorted.
The National award winning ac-
tress also says that if she has to clari-
fy something, she “believes in releasing
an official statement”.
Kangana, who was in New Delhi to
launch Big Fish Ventures’ table reser-
vation app, called it a “cool idea”.
“It’s a cool idea and cool app. For me,
I think it’s great initiative for people like
us who plan on the spot. It’s very hand
and useful,” said the actress, looking
glamorous in a pant suit teamed with
short hair look, post the launch of the
app at the The Junkyard Cafe here.
Big Fish Ventures is a Delhi-based
startup that also runs other premi-
um dining lounges such as The Vault
Cafe, Cafe Public Connection, Indi-
an dhaba restaurant GaramDharam
and Bandstand. The app will cater to
the 60,000 customer base who fre-
quent these restaurants every month
in a better way and plans to serve over
2 lakh customers expected by end of
2016.
Kangana says social media helps people in clarifying their stands
Kangana Ranaut during the launch of Big Fish Ventures’ table reservation app.
Actress Divya Dutta is plan-
ning to pen a book based on
the moments spent with her
mother, who died earlier this month.
She plans to title it Me and Maa.
The Delhi 6 actress, who lost
her mother on January 10, says she
wants the world to know about the
“precious moments” that she shared
with her mother Nalini, who was a
doctor by profession.
“I am planning to write a book on
my mother. I think it will be called Me
and Maa... Whoever knew me and
my mother, knew we bonded like no-
body else. She wasn’t just a mother
to me she was my best friend. I want
to share this with the world,” Divya
said over phone from Mumbai.
The 38-year-old actress said the
book will be out this year. “I am not
in the mental condition to start it, but
I think I will start it immediately and
the book will be out this year,” said
the Chalk N Duster actress.
What urged her to pen such a
book?
Divya said: “It is very strange. I
was sitting right next to her when she
wasn’t well in the hospital, and the
thought just came to me. The book
will have everything... It will make you
smile, laugh and cry. But it will be re-
latable and I want to share it with the
world.” The actress had lost her fa-
ther when she was all of seven.
Asked if the book will also have
chapters on him, Divya said: “Of
course! My father was an integral
part. I was very close to him. But af-
ter I lost my father, my mother had
been the rock in my life... She taught
me how to look into my dreams and
follow them, and stood by me in eve-
rything.”
Divya may call book on mother Me and Maa
TECHNOLOGY
12 | WEDNESDAY 3 FEBRUARY 2016
The big myth Facebook needs everyone to believe
By Caitlin Dewey
The Washington Post
In the middle of January, in a change
noticed nowhere but Spain, Face-
book added six words to a single
dialogue box — and inadvertently
stumbled into a tortuous national de-
bate.
The dialogue box is part of Face-
book’s content-reporting process, the
means by which users can request that
the social network censor their friends.
The six words appeared to invite Span-
ish users to report on a new category of
things: Under the option “it’s inappro-
priate, it annoys me, or I don’t like it,”
Facebook listed Spain’s millennium-old
national pastime, bullfighting.
Bullfighting is a controversial sport;
even within Spain, few people still fol-
low it. But columnists from Madrid to
Malaga bristled at the suggestion that
a federally recognised piece of heritage
could be branded offensive.
“Facebook equates bullfighting with
p**********n,” declared ABC, the coun-
try’s third-largest newspaper, on Janu-
ary 14. Days later, when Facebook inev-
itably backtracked and deleted its ref-
erences to bullfighting — clarifying, in
a statement to The Washington Post,
that it had been included mistakenly --
Spain’s second-largest paper, El Mundo,
rejoiced that the network had “rectified”
the situation.
But unfortunately for the suits at Fa-
cebook, who had suffered considerable
headaches over the bullfighting mess,
that situation was just the latest in a
string of unintended clashes as inevi-
table as they are endless. As Facebook
has tentacled out from Palo Alto, Cali-
fornia, gaining control of an ever-larg-
er slice of the global commons, the net-
work has found itself in a tenuous and
culturally awkward position: how to de-
termine a single standard of what is and
is not acceptable — and apply it uni-
formly, from Maui to Morocco.
For Facebook and other platforms
like it, incidents such as the bullfighting
kerfuffle betray a larger, existential dif-
ficulty: How can you possibly impose a
single moral framework on a vast and
varying patchwork of global communi-
ties?
If you ask Facebook this question,
the social-media behemoth will deny
doing any such thing. Facebook says
its community standards are inert, uni-
versal, agnostic to place and time. The
site doesn’t advance any worldview, it
claims, besides the non-controversial
opinion that people should “connect”
online. “Every day, people come to Fa-
cebook to connect with people and is-
sues they care about,” a spokeswom-
an said in a statement. “Given the di-
versity of the Facebook community, this
means that sometimes people share
information that is controversial or of-
fends others. That’s why we have a set
of global Community Standards that ex-
plain what you can and cannot do on
our service ... We work hard to strike the
right balance between enabling expres-
sion while providing a safe and respect-
ful experience.”
Facebook has modified its standards
several times in response to pressure
from advocacy groups — although the
site has deliberately obscured those ed-
its, and the process by which Facebook
determines its guidelines remains stub-
bornly obtuse. On top of that, at least
some of the low-level contract workers
who enforce Facebook’s rules are em-
bedded in the region — or at least the
time zone —whose content they mod-
erate. The social network staffs its mod-
eration team in 24 languages, 24 hours
a day.
In response to recent criticism that
Facebook has mishandled takedown
requests from users in the Middle East,
Facebook’s policy director for the region
assured users that “all reports are as-
sessed by teams of multilingual, impar-
tial and highly trained people” — includ-
ing native speakers of Hebrew and Ar-
abic, who presumably understand the
region’s particular issues.
And yet, observers remain deep-
ly sceptical of Facebook’s claims that
it is somehow value-neutral or global-
ly inclusive, or that its guiding principles
are solely “respect” and “safety.” There’s
no doubt, said Tarleton Gillespie, a prin-
cipal researcher at Microsoft Research,
New England, that the company ad-
vances a specific moral framework —
one that is less of the world than of the
United States, and less of the United
States than of Silicon Valley.
If you study Facebook’s communi-
ty standards, going back to the long-
forgotten time when users voted on
a version of them, the site has always
erred on the side of radical free speech,
corporate opaqueness and a certain
American prudishness: Its values are
those of the early Web, moderated by
capitalist conservatism.
The values that Facebook articu-
lates are not always the ones it enforc-
es. Below that top-level standard are
the unknown thousands of invisible
click-workers forced to interpret it, and
below them are the self-deputized us-
ers flagging their friends’ content. Be-
tween the site’s demonstrably US ori-
entation and the layers of obfuscation
below, there can be little doubt that the
values Facebook ends up imposing on
its “community” of 1.55 billion people
are not agreed upon by many — per-
haps even most — of them.
Somehow, it seems that we only no-
tice the imposition when there’s a glitch
in the machine: I can’t use a tribal name
on Facebook? The site maligned bull-
fighting? Why, how dare this private
company impose its worldview on me!
This is not merely a problem for
Facebook; Gillespie, the Microsoft re-
searcher, calls it the unsolvable “ba-
sic paradox” of all Internet companies:
They’re private and they have their own
corporate motives, but they’re called
upon to police public speech. Alas, as
their public grows more diverse, the
worldviews of the “community” and
its corporate sponsor would appear to
align less and less.
As of 2013, eight of the world’s 10
top Web properties were based in the
United States — and 81 percent of their
users were located outside of it. (If noth-
ing else, there’s a compelling statistical
reason why Google, Amazon.com, Face-
book and Apple, collectively acronymed
“GAFA,” have been called the new face
of “American cultural imperialism.”)
Facebook will never make everyone
happy, of course; nor does anyone sug-
gest it should. But in a better world, the
largest social network would at least ad-
mit that it’s not an impartial, value-neu-
tral observer. After all, every single thing
Facebook does -- from advance a sin-
gle global “community,” to add six extra
words in a dialogue box -- reshapes the
public space of its users.
“The myth of the social network as
a neutral space is crumbling, but it’s still
very powerful,” Gillespie said. “For Fa-
cebook to finally say, ‘Yes, we construct
social life online. We construct public
discourse’ — that would be so impor-
tant, but for them, dangerous.”
Observers remain deeply sceptical of Facebook’s claims that it is somehow value-neutral or globally inclusive, or that its guiding principles are solely “respect” and “safety.”
SCIENCE
| 13WEDNESDAY 3 FEBRUARY 2016
Scientist develops
software to detect
nuclear testsIANS
A computer scientist in the US
has developed a software
to detect and verify poten-
tial nuclear tests, especially
by smaller devices, possibly by terror-
ist organisations or other non-state ac-
tors.
Erik Sudderth, a computer scien-
tist from Brown University, Rhode Is-
land, has designed a Vertically Inte-
grated Seismic Analysis (VISA) — a ma-
chine learning system that is helping
the International Monitoring System to
“make sure that no nuclear explosion
goes undetected”.
Sudderth and his team devised an
efficient inference algorithm that can
scan incoming data to find events that
likely represent an actual seismic sig-
nal.
The VISA can reduce the number
of missed events by 60 percent com-
pared to the original system. It can al-
so provide more accurate location in-
formation in many cases, the findings
revealed.
The International Monitoring Sys-
tem includes 149 certified seismic
monitoring stations around the globe.
These stations send data to the Com-
prehensive Nuclear-Test-Ban Treaty Or-
ganization’s (CTBTO) headquarters in
Vienna, Austria, where analysts com-
pile all seismic events into a daily bul-
letin supplied to nations around the
world.
Analysts pick out unnatural events
from the characteristics of the seis-
mic waveforms they create, but before
they can determine whether an event
is unnatural, they need to know that an
event has occurred.
“You have hundreds of stations all
over the world producing high-dimen-
sional data that’s streaming in 24-by-
seven,” said Sudderth.
“(People) can’t look at all the data all
the time. They need the help of auto-
mated tools,” he added.
The automated tools keep a con-
stant eye on every station and cre-
ate a log of potential local detections.
They also combine data from multi-
ple stations to hypothesize the time,
location, and magnitude of plausible
seismic events, Sudderth explained,
in the paper published in the Bulletin
of the Seismological Society of Amer-
ica.
Analysts then look at those data to
determine, if indeed, each detection
was from a seismic event or just repre-
sented a random noise. Once an event
is confirmed to be real, analysts review
it to determine whether it was natural
or human-made, he concluded.
Corals species bred in laboratory reproduce in the wildIANS
Scientists have been successful
in aiding a sustainable restora-
tion of Caribbean reefs with the
rearing of a threatened Caribbean
coral species to its reproductive age.
A team of researchers from
SECORE International — a leading
conservation organisation for the
protection and restoration of coral
reefs — has for the first time success-
fully raised laboratory-bred colonies
of a critically endangered elkhorn
coral (Acropora palmata) to sexual
maturity.
A new technique was developed
whereby male and female gametes
were caught in the wild and fertilised
in the laboratory to raise larger num-
bers of genetically unique corals, the
study said.
The method promoted the forma-
tion of new genotypes that could po-
tentially cope better with the condi-
tions on modern reefs than their al-
ready struggling parents, the study
showed.
These sexually-bred corals, there-
fore, not only aid in the recovery of
dwindling elkhorn coral populations
by increasing the number of colo-
nies, but also by increasing the ge-
netic diversity of this critically endan-
gered species, thus giving evolution
the opportunity to play its part, ex-
plained the researchers.
In 2011, the offsprings of the en-
dangered elkhorn coral were reared
from gametes collected in the field
and were outplanted to a reef one
year later, the researchers revealed.
“In four years, these branching
corals have grown to a size of a soc-
cer ball and reproduced, simultane-
ously with their natural population,
in September 2015,” said Valérie
Chamberland, coral reef ecologist
from Carmabi Marine Research Sta-
tion in Curaçao, a Dutch Caribbean
island.
Elkhorn corals reproduce on-
ly once or twice a year, generally a
few days after the full moon in Au-
gust. During these nights, the Acro-
pora colonies synchronously release
their gametes into the water column,
the findings, published in the journal
Bulletin of Marine Science, showed.
The researchers collected small
proportion of these gametes, and
produced the coral embryos by in-
vitro fertilisation, mixing sperm and
eggs in the laboratory.
The coral embryos then devel-
oped into swimming larvae within
days and eventually settled onto spe-
cifically-designed substrates. After a
short nursery period, the scientists
outplanted these substrates with the
newly-settled corals in the reef.
An estimated 80 percent of
all Caribbean corals disappeared
over the last four decades and the
elkhorn coral was one of the spe-
cies whose decline was so severe
that it was one of the first coral
species to be listed as threatened
under the US Endangered Species
act in 2006 and as critically endan-
gered under the IUCN Red List of
Threatened species in 2008.
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An American nanny is shocked that her new English family’s boy is actually a life-sized doll. After she violates a list of strict rules, disturbing events make her believe that the doll is really alive.
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15WEDNESDAY 3 FEBRUARY 2016
Yesterday’s answerEasy Sudoku Puzzles: Place a digit from 1
to 9 in each empty cell so every row, every
column and every 3x3 box contains all the
digits 1 to 9.
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.
HYPER SUDOKU
Yesterday’s answer
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.
KAKURO
ACROSS
1 Not diverge
9 Its plantation features the Pineapple Garden Maze
13 U.S. freight measure
14 Italian admiral for whom
several ships were named
15 Symbol of the Franciscan order
16 Jays’ fan, maybe
17 Greatly magnified
18 One letting off steam at the dinner table?
19 Jazz trumpeter Jones
20 Witness by chance
21 Setting of many a revival
24 Pranks
25 South Pacific’s largest city
26 Sigma signification
29 Recipient of Argus’s 100 eyes, in myth
32 Base of many operations
33 Per
35 Singer/actress once called the “Black Venus”
37 Iconoclast stiflers
41 Ones with halting speech?
42 Cold-weather wear
44 Longtime
jeweler to royals
45 Peter Fonda
cult film about an acid experience
48 Eggs, e.g.
49 Cubs’ supporters, maybe
50 Makeup of humanity
51 Crude, in slang
52 Group started
as the Jolly Corks
53 Snarky sort
DOWN
1 Bubbly option
2 “De-fense! De-fense!,” e.g.
3 Comeback to a comeback
4 Searchlight light
5 Approached like John Wayne, with “to”
6 Relatives of Winnebagos
7 1-Down quality
8 Enterprise position: Abbr.
9 Loft additions
10 Call for Chinese, say
11 Be superposed on
12 Concern of paleoanthropology
14 Like a rattlebrain
16 Good pear for poaching
18 Film figure who said “I take orders from just one person: me”
20 Things removed before signing
22 GPS output: Abbr.
23 Pursue
26 Consideration for college admission
27 Sturm und Drang
28 Apollo collection
30 One side in college football’s annual Big Game, informally
31 Accessory with a magnetic strip on a kitchen wall
34 Glaziers’ supplies
36 Maximally intense
38 Plotting aids
39 Speeds
40 Slips of paper?
43 Studbook figures
45 One side of a feud
46 Prefix related to benzene’s shape
47 G.I. Joe’s “Knowing is half the battle” spots, e.g.
49 GPS input: Abbr.
ANSWER TO PREVIOUS PUZZLE
A F F L U E N Z A T R A PS E E Y A S O O N S W A M IT R A D E S H O W W I D E NO M R I O M A G A Z I N E
I S A A C R I Z Z ON Y E T G I L P I N
D O T T E D T H E I E L S EA D R A G R O T B R A S IW E A K W E N T E A S Y O NG A N E S H G U L L
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CROSSWORD
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.
BRAIN TEASERS
Hoy en la HistoriaFebruary 3, 1981
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Gro Harlem Brundtland became Norway’s first woman prime minister. She subsequently led the WHO for 5 years and is now a UN special envoy for climate change
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