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Community Editor Kamran Rehmat Next In Fashion influence what people wear worldwide. Similar to Bravo’s e-mail: [email protected] STARS: , , Prasad Romijn Project Runway, the contestants are all professionals who Telephone: 44466405 SYNOPSIS: Next In Fashion is a reality show and fashion have been dressing celebrities and working with major Fax: 44350474 design competition series hosted by designers Tan France fashion houses. The winner receives USD$250,000 and and Alexa Chung. Over ten episodes, eighteen designers can debut a collection with Net-a-Porter, a luxury fashion compete in rounds based on design trends and styles that retailer. Thursday, April 16, 2020 GULF TIMES 3 BODY & MIND COMMUNITY Extra Covid-19 precautions for people with physical disabilities

When you have a condition that causes paralysis, or weakens muscles in the chest, abdomen or diaphragm, you may not be able to remove lung secretions by coughing

eople with conditions for your personal or your such as spinal cord pet’s needs can be difficult to injury, Lou Gehrig’s coordinate, but it is so crucial to disease and multiple plan ahead to find someone who sclerosis are at risk can help if your caregiver gets sick Pof developing severe respiratory or isn’t able to assist you,” Beck problems related to Covid-19 says. because the muscles that help them breathe already may not If your usual caregiver is function normally. unavailable: “When you have a condition 1. Plan on backup caregivers and that causes paralysis, or weakens prepare anyone you may need to muscles in the chest, abdomen rely on in an emergency. or diaphragm, you may not be 2. Ensure you can get assistance able to remove lung secretions by if a caregiver does not show up. coughing,” says Kristin Garlanger, 3. Identify people to assist with D.O., a Mayo Clinic physiatrist. groceries or have meals delivered “You may have difficulty inhaling to your home. and filling the lungs with oxygen 4. Identify a way to get that is carried to the rest of the medications and other supplies in body. a timely manner. “If you have a physical 5. Remember pet needs, too. disability, now is the time to Ensure plenty of food and arrange take extra precautions to protect a backup caregiver for your service yourself from this dangerous animal or pet. virus.” “Some people with disabilities Be proactive to prevent illness, rely on ventilators every day,” Beck Dr. Garlanger says: VULNERABLE: When CDC guidelines talk about keeping at least 6 feet from another person, that’s especially says. “Making sure caregivers 1. Stay hydrated to keep lung important if you use a wheelchair. Your head is lower than people who are standing, so you may be more vulnerable to follow strict guidelines to clean secretions thin. respiratory droplets produced when an infected person coughs, sneezes or talks. and use these machines will help 2. Eat a healthy, well-balanced protect those who are vulnerable to diet to boost the immune system. respiratory illnesses.” 3. Perform deep breathing and “coughing exercises,” which are Users of ventilators or other controlled coughing manoeuvres respiratory assistive devices that help clear lungs. Users of ventilators or other 4. Change position frequently, respiratory assistive devices using gravity to help clear lungs. should consider these tips: 1. Clean and disinfect medical To protect yourself and others equipment according to the from Covid-19, everyone needs to manufacturer’s instruction. follow Centres for Disease Control 2. Change filters, as suggested and Prevention (CDC) guidelines: by the manufacturer’s 1. Wash your hands. instructions. 2. Practice social distancing. 3. Wash hands before and after 3. Avoid touching your face. working with the ventilator or the 4. Stay home when sick. person. 4. Make sure caregivers wear But people with physical a mask or eye shield if they are disabilities are encouraged to suctioning secretions. take extra safety measures, 5. Self-assessment tool and says Lisa Beck, a Mayo Clinic resources advanced-practice provider in the Department of Physical Medicine caregiver plans and respiratory wheelchair, use an antibacterial 2. Have caregivers wash their Mayo Clinic offers a Covid-19 and Rehabilitation. devices: solution to clean the joystick, and hands when they arrive and each self-assessment tool to help “When CDC guidelines talk Wheelchair users any other controls, armrests, tray time before touching you. people assess symptoms. The tool about keeping at least 6 feet Wheelchair users should or any parts your hands touch. 3. Ask caregivers to be vigilant also offers guidance on when to from another person, that’s consider these tips: “If you use other assistive about not touching their face or seek medical care and what to do especially important if you use 1. Keep at least 6 feet from devices, like walkers or canes, be yours. in the meantime. a wheelchair,” Beck says. “Your others, when possible. sure to regularly wipe those with 4. Have caregivers check their “If you do become sick and head is lower than people who 2. Wash your face, in addition antibacterial products too,” Beck temperature before arrival. need medical attention, make sure are standing, so you may be more to your hands, after being in says. Ask caregivers not to come to you or your caregivers mention vulnerable to respiratory droplets public and after having in-person your house if they are not well, your disability and how it affects produced when an infected person conversations. People with caregivers including symptoms such as a your respiratory system when you coughs, sneezes or talks. Droplets 3. Use an antibacterial solution People with caregivers should cough or temperature of 100.4 reach out to medical providers drop.” to clean high-touch surfaces, such consider these tips: degrees Fahrenheit or higher, or or emergency responders,” Dr as wheels, brakes and push rims 1. Ask caregivers to wear a mask if they have a known exposure to Garlanger says. “They will be Dr Garlanger and Beck offer of a manual wheelchair chair, when they enter and work with someone who is sick. better prepared to help you. tips regarding wheelchair use, throughout the day. For a power you in your home. “Finding appropriate caregivers – Mayo Clinic News Network 4 GULF TIMES Thursday, April 16, 2020 COMMUNITY COVER STORY “I have the ability to give back in a unique and unprecedented way” — Elle Wohlmuth, coronavirus survivor

I’m not elderly. I’m not sick. I don’t fall into any of the high-risk categories. There are people who need our help now. We can all do a little bit of something

‘ — Elle Wohlmuth, Senior Program Manager for global Inclusion & Diversity Initiatives at Apple

RECOVERED: Elle Wohlmuth is photographed in her San Francisco apartment, where she’d spent 14 days quarantined as a coronavirus patient. Now healthy, Wohlmuth was the first recovered patient to donate antibody-rich plasma to Stanford Blood Center’s collection effort to help Covid-19 patients.

By Lisa M. Krieger and coronavirus survivors are donating their no-brainer.” Ashleigh Papp virus-fighting antibodies at Bay Area As deaths climb with no proven blood banks in an effort to save those treatment or vaccine’ in sight, such who are less lucky. donations are a medical Hail Mary. Last week, their cells were shipped to While the approach is still unproven, lle Wohlmuth’s blood is rich critically ill patients in California and the need is so great that US Food in immune cells that waged Midwestern hospitals. and Drug Administration regulators war, and won, against the “I have the ability to give back in a have waived the traditional testing coronavirus. unique and unprecedented way,” said requirements and authorised emergency They protected her. Could 27-year-old Wohlmuth, a San Francisco shipments to the critically ill. theyE help someone else? resident whose brief illness last month But the demand exceeds supply. Volunteers in a desperate new caused only a mild fever, minor body To boost donations, Stanford and the treatment strategy, Wohlmuth and other aches and a trivial cough. “It felt like a University of California, San Francisco Thursday, April 16, 2020 GULF TIMES 5 COVER STORY COMMUNITY

are among an estimated 500 other neutralising antibodies, said UCSF’s sites around the nation are now Chin-Hong. But for many patients, “it registering patients to donate so-called is late. It’s not around when you need “convalescent plasma.” The effort, it.” called Expanded Access Program “So you find someone else who’s for Convalescent Plasma for the been there, done that,” he said. “You Treatment of Patients with Covid-19 transfer their army to neutralise the protocol, is organised by Minnesota’s virus in someone else. Mayo Clinic. They also hope to give it “We don’t know if it works in to sick Bay Area patients, if needed. Covid-19,” he added. “But it’s a cool Stanford Blood Center started last idea.” Tuesday, welcoming Wohlmuth as To study its effectiveness, a smaller their first donor. group of physicians and scientists “We’re ramping up collections this from 57 institutions in 46 states, led by week and hope it will grow,” said Dr Johns Hopkins University, have self- Suchi Pandey, Chief Medical Officer organised to conduct a formal research at Stanford Blood Center, which is study, called the National Covid-19 partnering with hospitals in the Bay Convalescent Plasma Project. If proven Area and beyond to build a wider beneficial, that could lead to FDA network of donors. “If you are someone approval for wider use. who had Covid and has recovered, In these clinical trials, only certain then please consider a donation. One patients are eligible to participate. Half donor can potentially help up to three get the plasma; the other half gets an patients.” inactive placebo. Doctors closely watch UC San Francisco is erecting a tent for side effects and measure clinical and soliciting volunteers to open this signs and death rates. week or next. Such research may reveal that “Americans have always risen to Covid-19, like Ebola, hepatitis C, HIV a challenge,” said infectious disease and other viral diseases, does not expert Dr Peter Chin-Hong, who with respond to plasma infusions. Dr. Annie Luetkemeyer is leading But if the plasma looks promising, UCSF’s programme. “I have no doubt the trials can help inform future that they’ll also do it this time.” strategies, suggesting who is likely In San Jose, obstetrician- to benefit and the best time to offer gynaecologist Dr Phuong Nguyen is treatment. Plasma likely will work best registering to donate. The 52-year if used early during the illness, said old chief medical officer of Santa Chin-Hong, “when a patient is sick Clara Valley Medical Center sickened but not too sick.” In the later stages after attending an annual national of illness, it’s the body’s hyperactive conference for hospital administrators inflammatory response, rather than the and teaching faculty. Now she’s virus, that’s lethal. healthy. “If you predict who would get sick,” “It should go where someone needs he said, “you could give the product to it,” she said. “Once you experience stop the virus in its tracks.” Covid, you can relate to patients’ And not every survivor has abundant symptoms, and the sense of fear, antibodies, he added. People with very uncertainty and concern. … It makes mild illness may not have enough to me want to try to do even more things donate. to help people.” Stanford and UCSF will conduct While new to Covid-19, plasma such focused research in the future — donation is an approach that dates to but for now, they’re participating in an the late 1800s and for decades was a alternative approach, called “expanded While the approach is still unproven, the need is mainstay of treatment for infectious access.” Less intent on data collection, diseases such as rabies, snake bites, and it’s a massive last-ditch effort to save so great that US Food and Drug Administration hepatitis A and B. It was developed as a lives at hundreds of participating treatment during the 1918 flu pandemic hospitals. regulators have waived the traditional testing and has also been used during the Sars, Local donations will go into a requirements and authorised emergency Mers, and 2009 H1N1 outbreaks. centralised distribution system for “There is biological plausibility that patients everywhere. shipments to the critically ill it works,” said Chin-Hong. “And we In many ways, plasma donation is have very little in the way of current a lot like conventional blood draw. It proven antiviral or other therapies for takes a little longer, perhaps 45 minutes an illness that has a high mortality in or so. The preparation is identical. certain populations.” It differs in that it uses a procedure One very small Chinese study, called apheresis, which collects only published in the March 27 Journal of plasma. Other parts of the blood, such as the American Medical Association, haemoglobin, are returned to the donor. reported encouraging – yet early — And the donation criteria are much results of treatment. stricter. Donors must have tested This is the concept: People who positive for the virus when they were have recovered from Covid-19 have ill, recovered, have had no symptoms an abundant supply of so-called for 14 days, and now test negative. “neutralising antibodies” that their Because there has been such a great body built to fight off the virus. These shortage of tests, many potential antibodies only live in the straw- donors won’t qualify. Those who coloured plasma of the blood. qualify can donate repeatedly. When those people donate their “I was lucky. I feel really privileged blood, the antibodies are filtered that I was able to be tested,” said out and removed, and then injected Wohlmuth. A senior programme intravenously into someone whose manager for global Inclusion & body isn’t able to produce its own Diversity Initiatives at Apple, she was immune response or fight off the infected while travelling in Europe for disease. work. “I’m not elderly. I’m not sick. It’s also thought that these I don’t fall into any of the high-risk antibodies could be given preemptively categories. to health care workers, to help boost “There are people who need our help their immune system as they fight on now,” she added. “We can all do a little the frontlines of the pandemic. bit of something.” — The Mercury News Everyone who is sick makes these (San Jose, California)/TNS 6 GULF TIMES Thursday, April 16, 2020 COMMUNITY CUISINE New variety of vegetables bring in new possibilities for spring

When too large, these radishes tend By Jackie Varriano to turn tough and bitter, which can be helped by cooking. Still, even small, delicate springtime Easter hink of that one thing egg radishes are delicious cooked. in your house that has Slice in half, and toss with olive been there so long, oil and sliced fennel. Place in the you’ve completely bottom of a preheated Dutch oven, forgotten about it. and use them as the base layer for TMaybe it’s a medal you got from roasted chicken. Alternately, sear running your first 5K, or maybe in a pan with scallions and unsalted it’s that adorable knickknack from butter. Finish with a squirt of fresh your last vacation – whatever it lemon, and serve alongside poached might be, I’m betting you feel the salmon and boiled, buttery new same way about that thing as you potatoes. do about radishes. Icicle radishes are another That is to say, you loved it once. variety that are good raw. These The best season for radishes should be scrubbed and chopped, locally is spring – but they are added to your favourite tuna salad available at markets year-round. with a sprinkling of sunflower And I think that’s why (despite seeds or hunks of creamy avocado. their vibrant red colour), we just Toss them with olive oil and stop seeing the crimson bunches vinegar, and throw them atop after a while. Every now and again, fish tacos. They’ll also bring an I’ll pass them in the produce aisle unexpected crunch to a sour and think, “Huh. I love radishes. I cream-based potato salad or even should get some!” And there they a simple spring green salad spiked go, topped and tailed, scrubbed with fresh herbs and English peas. of dirt and placed in a little bowl Radish greens shouldn’t be of water in my fridge. I have every ignored, either. Radishes grow intention of doing more with them quickly, often maturing in less than than just slicing them for salad, a month, so the greens are almost but before I know it, that little always still tender. However, the bowl of water has formed a lid of overall texture and light bitterness ice (how is this even possible?), mean the greens are best when and it’s all over. roasted right alongside the radish But now it’s spring, and time for itself, or blitzed in a food processor new beginnings. I vow to forget for pesto. Use the greens’ pesto as about radishes no more. Join me, a sauce for that poached salmon won’t you? and new potatoes. Drizzle atop Although the radishes we are your sliced radishes and cream most accustomed to are the red cheese on a bagel, or mix with a globe-shaped ones called ‘Cherry little creme fraîche, and slather Belle’ or ‘Champion,’ springtime over a sliced, toasted baguette, will yield quite a few varieties. finished with chopped raw radish. You’ll see carrot-shaped white Whatever you do, give those icicle radishes, elongated red- Radish Green Pesto radishes a week in the spotlight to-white ombre French breakfast before we forget about them again. radishes and multihued Easter egg radishes. Radish Green Pesto Each has its own level of spice, Greens from 1 large bunch of but if you peel the skin and choose radishes to braise, roast or even quickly 2 cloves garlic saute them, that spice will mellow Juice from a lemon greatly, giving way to a completely ½ cup slivered almonds or different vegetable. Yet I’m a firm sunflower seeds believer that not all radishes should ½ cup finely grated Parmesan be roasted. Some cookbooks will cheese compare radishes to turnips or even 1/3 cup olive oil rutabagas – but if there are ever Salt and ground pepper vegetables people are less excited 1. Fill your sink or a large bowl about than radishes, it’s those two. with cold water, and dunk the French breakfast radishes should greens, being sure to remove all only be eaten raw. Milder than dirt clumps. You might have to some, these are the radishes that swap out the water for fresh, should be sprinkled with flaky salt depending on how muddy the and dragged through butter. They greens are. should be sliced paper-thin and 2. Place the garlic and a pinch scattered atop a toasted Everything of salt in your food processor, and bagel with a schmear of plain or pulse until the garlic is minced. smoked salmon cream cheese. They Add greens, lemon juice, almonds should be chopped and mixed with or sunflower seeds, and Parmesan, celery, walnuts, and blue cheese and pulse again until things look before being scooped up with whole granulated, but not to a total paste. boat-shaped cups of endive. Scrape into a bowl and, with a On the other hand, squatty spatula, fold in the olive oil slowly. Easter egg radishes are wonderful GOOD AND RAW: Icicle radishes are another variety that are good raw. These should be scrubbed and chopped, Add salt and freshly ground pepper pan-seared, sauteed or roasted. added to your favourite tuna salad with a sprinkling of sunflower seeds or hunks of creamy avocado. to taste. – The Seattle Times/TNS Thursday, April 16, 2020 GULF TIMES 7 ART & CRAFT COMMUNITY

TOOLS OF THE TRADE: Tools and brushes used to create the pieces. Learn ceramics quickly A new social enterprise scheme in London helps locals train as potters in an artist’s studio. Meet the terracotta army designing planters for your garden, writes Serena Fokschaner

t’s easy to miss the narrow through charities, social enterprise alleyway that leads to Troy and cultural spaces. Town Art Pottery, running “I think that supporting young along the wall of Hoxton people to learn practical skills and Street community garden work together is pretty much the Iin east London. The low building, most important thing I can think of which is filled with light that pours right now,” says Hadrian Garrard, through a glass vaulted ceiling, chief executive of Create. “There’s used to be a potting shed. Its an amazing spirit of collective horticultural history is about to endeavour at the pottery.” be revived. Artists have used this Hoxton Gardenware already ceramics studio to produce work has commissions – for the British shown at Tate Britain, the Turner Council’s new HQ in Stratford and Prize and in the Arts Council the conservatory at the Barbican. collection, but now it is also a Plans for pots to go on sale in local school where young local people shops and at Broadway Market have learn to throw garden pots. been put on hold, like pretty much Troy Town was founded by the all of life during the coronavirus artist Aaron Angell in 2014 as a pandemic. But existing and online resource for artists wanting to orders are being delivered. experiment with clay as a material “We hope that by arranging for sculpture – rather than as contact-free delivery and collection something to make teapots with. we can help people get on with Names such as Anthea Hamilton their gardening at home during this and Steven Claydon have been strange spring,” says Angell. “That’s resident at Troy Town. Angell is a nice transfer from the work of part of the growing generation of people making pots to something artists fascinated by clay and his that can entertain people at home.” work has been shown all over the As Garrard points out, the pots world in recent years as collectors do more than please their new and museum curators have woken owners. “Our priority is to get some up to the pleasure of pottery. BASIC: Using a wheel in the studio. money into the hands of the young But Angell wanted to involve people who have been working the local population as well as the The scheme launched five “I’ve learned so much,” says batches. Natural imperfections on the project and to support the wider artistic community in his months ago and has six trainees Elliot Anderson, a 23-year-old – random wobbles, the drip of a pottery at this really uncertain pottery. The result is the Hoxton taught by ceramicist Ned Davies. who is one of the trainees at Troy fugitive glaze – are encouraged. time. We have to keep going where Gardenware scheme, a not-for- “We started with a series of Town “I arrived a beginner and I’m “We take a studio approach to the we can because we all want to look profit social enterprise scheme for workshops, but decided we wanted slowly getting there. I’ve learned to work, which makes it different from forward to the future with hope and Hackney residents aged 18-24 who to do something more commercial,” be patient with the process and to mass-produced garden pots.” positivity. There’s nothing quite as want to learn to throw a pot. “We’ve says Angell. “Ceramics is a craft enjoy the mistakes.” The scheme is co-founded with hopeful as a young plant growing in tried to appeal to people who might which you can learn relatively Clay planters, imprinted with the Create London, an organisation a beautiful new pot on a sunny day, not feel that this industry is for quickly and then, in a few years, set shapes of leaves or flowers, and pots that works with artists on projects is there?” them,” says Angell. up a self-sustaining enterprise.” are produced on the wheel in small that benefit local communities – The Guardian 8 GULF TIMES Thursday, April 16, 2020 COMMUNITY RECOMMENDATIONS Nine novelists pick books to inspire, uplift, and offer escape

rom Hilary Mantel to This gem of a book is one of the Kazuo Ishiguro and few I know that delivers, without Marlon James to Sebastian manipulation or sentimentality, a Barry, writers share their bounce of joy in its final sentence. favourite literary comforts. F Marlon James Curtis Sittenfeld Author of A Brief History of Author of American Wife and Seven Killings and Black Leopard the forthcoming Rodham: What If Red Wolf Hillary Hadn’t Married Bill Back in the stone age when I was a Alice Munro has been my favourite teenager, reading X-Men and being writer ever since I first read a in the X-Men felt like the same thing. collection of her stories almost Feared and hated by the world they’ve 30 years ago, when I was still a sworn to protect? Feared and hated teenager. Periodically, something by the cool kids whose homework in life reminds me of one of her I kept doing for free? At 14 I didn’t stories, and I reread it. When I do, see much difference. And yet, those I’m freshly struck by the richness 22 pages every month were all that of her plots and the complexity of saved me from harming myself. I her characters, their emotions, and drifted from comics several years ago, their relationships with each other. but Jonathan Hickman’s House of Although her work isn’t uplifting per X brought me roaring back. Ironic, se, its wisdom is somehow inherently then, that a book that still fills me reassuring to me. More than once, with such hope kicks off with the I’ve thought: I bet if I started each loss of it. Mutants, having finally lost day by reading an Alice Munro story faith in humanity ever doing the right instead of looking at Twitter, I’d be thing, have decided to rely only on so much better off. Full disclosure: I themselves. Bleak for some maybe, haven’t. But maybe I finally will. In but as I look at my Black Lives Matter the meantime, no hour of the day is T-shirt, I know exactly what it means wrong for reading a Munro story, and when you realise there’s no justice, no Munro story is the wrong one. just us. If this really is the season But why not start with Hateship, where the best you can do for others Friendship, Courtship, Loveship, is care for yourself, then House of X Marriage? is the urgent love letter that arrived just in time. Sebastian Barry Author of Days Without End Evie Wyld and A Thousand Moons Author of All The Birds Singing It seems uncanny that there and The Bass Rock is a radiant book for these times, It feels like a good time to revisit although it was written 2,000 years some Chuck Palahniuk. I read ago. Meditations by Marcus Aurelius Survivor when I was 19 and it is one is very modern somehow, of the of those immersive exciting “fun” moment certainly. Indeed, he warns books that I don’t read enough of against futile reference both to the any more. When I say fun, it’s about past and the future. He is trying to a death cult, so it’s not light fun. balance himself on the pin of the But he’s so playful as a writer, the present. Also, he advises not to rail pages are numbered backwards and against misfortune, but to use all your I remember being amazed they’d let self and self-possession to breast you do something like that. Tender, it. I don’t know if he ever achieved the hero of the book, is working what he advises. Throughout all the as a housekeeper and has all sorts years of his reign as Roman emperor, of tips about how to get blood out plague burned back and forth of upholstery. I feel like Palahniuk through the empire. His philosophy showed me what was possible in is that troubles are constant, a given fiction, how to have fun with it, of life. The weapons against them and this feels like the summit of are courtesy and compassion, and to play, full of blood and other bodily do the work that has been allotted to fluids, explosions and disgusting yet you. The comfort of Aurelius is in his compelling characters. calm certainty, whispered in your ear. If he had a descendant, it might be Kazuo Ishiguro Churchill. Author of The Remains of the Day, Never Let Me Go and The Hilary Mantel Buried Giant Author of Wolf Hall, Bring Up The Fortnight in September by the Bodies and The Mirror and the RC Sherriff is just about the most Light uplifting, life-affirming novel I can The Women in Black is not a think of right now. Published in 1931, cheering title, but in Madeleine St this is an exquisitely subtle account John’s novel the characters are not of an ordinary lower-middle class in mourning; they are salesladies in family from south London, preparing a 1950s department store in Sydney. for, travelling to, then enjoying their It’s a coming-of-age story. As one modest summer holiday in Bognor of the characters tells us: “A clever Regis. At one level totally undramatic, girl is the most wonderful thing in all Sherriff magically re-calibrates Creation.” The author died in 2006, our norms of what is and isn’t and her reclusive last years were wonderfully exciting till we become marred by illness, but she was wry, utterly tuned into the rise and fall smart and funny, able to write about of this family’s emotions. Sherriff youth with piercing sweetness and never patronises, nor does he attempt without portentous foreshadowing. to exalt these people beyond what Thursday, April 16, 2020 GULF TIMES 9 RECOMMENDATIONS COMMUNITY Nine novelists pick books to inspire, uplift, and offer escape

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they are. He respects them for all the worry beads he carried in his pocket same books one was read as a child right reasons – for their instinctive even when he looked incredibly calm (and the joyous recall of Alan Bennett decency towards one another and and composed – “Darling,” he would reading Owl for the TV show, which I to those they encounter, and for say, “I was born in a .” confess I affectionately imitate), and the unselfconscious – perhaps I have always loved his music but you have a powerful dose of positive unconscious – way they function as a there is a magical moment that I feeling to get you through the night. happy family, despite their individual carry with me – the concert he gave insecurities and frustrations. The in Istanbul shortly before his death. Mark Haddon Great English Seaside Holiday in its A beautiful night, starry skies. In my Author of The Curious heyday, and the beautiful dignity mind, Cohen is still singing on a stage Incident of the Dog in the Night- to be found in everyday living, have in Istanbul, with his elegant manners, Time and The Porpoise rarely been captured more delicately. troubled soul, striking mixture of I don’t go to novels for mischief and shyness, and “the comfort. I go to TV dramas and Elif Shafak gentle modesty with which he dealt documentaries. In particularly Author of Three Daughters of with big subjects”. difficult times I go to diazepam and Eve and 10 Minutes 38 Seconds in an emergency iTunes playlist. I read This Strange World Max Porter novels for intellectual stimulation, These days I find myself reading Author of Grief Is the Thing for insights into different lives biographies (and autobiographies) With Feathers and Lanny and different minds, for the thrill more than ever before. I’m Your Man: Meg and Mog books never fail of language used in new ways. The Life of Leonard Cohen written to cheer me up. My littlest child is I do, however, have a soft spot by the renowned music journalist learning to read so we are enjoying for Victorian fiction. The often Sylvie Simmons is a terrific book and them together. A very high level of soothingly melodramatic plots, I would recommend it especially in dramatic commitment is necessary, yes, but equally the syntax and the these strange, unsettling times. As and amateur dramatics with funny cadence language written by people you keep reading, you will be hearing accents is good for the soul. However with more time to write, for an his music playing somewhere in the depressed or worried one might be, audience with more time to read, background. Warm, real, intense, once you’re in a Meg and Mog story or indeed to listen. Eliot, Dickens, uplifting without even trying. you’ve got no choice but to TWIT- Gaskell, the Brontës, Wilkie Collins, There is a lot in this book: love, TWOO and SNAP and EEK, all the Trollope pretty much anything for sure, but also heartbreak. Talent, voices, all the noise. Undercooking except Wuthering Heights (why definitely, but also the struggles it isn’t an option. They have a strong were we so seduced for so long by a of an introvert. There is humour, and uplifting acid-house energy. dog-strangling abuser?). I’ve just humanism, sorrow, melancholy, This inherent joy, combined with the started reading Lady Audley’s Secret loneliness. The beauty of Cohen’s already miraculous essence of hope by Mary Elizabeth Braddon, and it’s music, the power of his lyrics, the that is a child learning to read, and very much hitting the spot so far. complexity of his character, the Greek the rush of nostalgia from reading the – The Guardian 10 GULF TIMES Thursday, April 16, 2020 COMMUNITY PUBLIC SERVICE MESSAGE Thursday, April 16, 2020 GULF TIMES 11 LIFESTYLE/HOROSCOPE COMMUNITY Screen time before bed will make your kids sleepless

ear parents, if you want your also more likely to report that they felt sleepy children to have proper sleep, the following morning. Watching television read this carefully. Joining a before bed had no significant effect on sleep growing list of studies that length. tell parents to shun devices at There were also some interesting Dbed-time, researchers say that children who observations over the weekends where use devices and decide what time they go students went to bed later but woke later to sleep, achieve less sleep and feel more achieving similar sleep length to the school sleepier the following day than their peers. days, the researchers said. The study of children in this age-group A small group of students (six per cent) (aged 11 to 13 years), published in the New who reported less than seven hours of sleep, Zealand Medical Journal, found most (72 including a small number reporting not per cent) of the 163 students interviewed by sleeping at all, according to the study, University of Otago researchers achieved “Therefore, while the average across the recommended guidelines of an average 9 to 11 week of 72 per cent of students reporting hours sleep nightly over one week. adequate sleep is reassuring, it is far from the But that also means that almost one in goal of every child achieving sleep within the four students did not achieve sleep within recommended guidelines,” Ford said. these guidelines, which highlights an area for Dr Paul Kelly, head of the Sleep Health improvement,” said study researcher Kate Service at Canterbury District Health Board, Ford. supervised the study and explained that the However, consistent with previous foundations for good health are based on research in 15 to 17-year-old New Zealanders, proper nutrition, regular exercise and good the study results show less sleep on the nights sleep quality. where devices are used in the hour before bed. “Sleep quality is often overlooked as a guidance around bedtimings and moderation “Respect and protect your sleep, as good According to the researchers, students contributory factor to poor health. The of the use and availability of electronic daytime functioning is reliant on adequate who used devices before going to sleep were study findings suggest the need for parental devices before bed,” Kelly said. sleep,” Kelly added. – IANS

Aries Taurus Gemini March 21 — April 19 April 20 — May 20 May 21 — June 20

OK, up and at ‘em, Aries! You might feel like you’re walking through You could be startled to find that your artistic talents, although This could be a tough day for you emotionally. It might surprise you sand today, but you really need to shake your booty and get the dormant for a while, are called into service today. A particular to find that some very old, deep-seated feelings get churned up in blood flowing. If you don’t get up and do something, you’ll be a slug undertaking of those around you could benefit from your gift in this the course of investigating a subject of keen interest to you. It might all day. You need to clear your head and cast off that bloated feeling. area. Don’t panic, Taurus, you won’t be expected to do this alone. be difficult to process these feelings. Don’t try to intellectualise them Most importantly, you want to get a good start to the day so you can Others will pitch in and help. One thing to be careful of today is not too much, Gemini. At the same time, be wary of situations that could accomplish everything that awaits you. let your emotions run away with you. It could spoil everything. trigger an emotional cyclone. Some words can be brutally painful. Cancer Leo Virgo June 21 — July 22 July 23 — August 22 August 23 — September 22

Things could be up and down for you today, Cancer. You might You might be feeling a little tense because you and your partner This will be an exciting day for you intellectually, Virgo. A number experience some confusion as a result of communication snafus or are grappling with some thorny financial issues right now, Leo. You of intriguing concepts will catch your fancy, and you’ll be hungry computer glitches that affect financial issues you’re trying to solve. could be frustrated because you need to postpone some purchases to learn more about them right away. Your research could take you Persevere and you’ll succeed. Don’t be surprised if you’re recruited or investments until the cash starts flowing more freely again. The to a library or onto the Internet. The topics might relate to social or to join a project that is totally new to you. You may be apprehensive good news is that this is a fine time to work out such a conflict to a political issues. As irresistible as these new ideas are, don’t forget to at first, but you’ll do just fine. Go ahead and say yes. satisfactory resolution. Both of you will need to be open-minded. tend to the business of everyday life. Libra Scorpio Sagittarius September 23 — October 22 October 23 — November 21 November 22 — December 21

You’ll want to respond to your creative juices, which will be flowing Tugs on the home front could be pulling you away from attending Cool heads will be needed today, Sagittarius, as tempers may flare freely today, Libra. Don’t suppress the urge to sing, compose, paint, an event with friends that you’ve been looking forward to for at work because of frustration with ongoing problems. You might or write. You’ll be in the full flower of creativity, so make the most some time. Try to be reasonable and sort out the needs of those need to take the lead in keeping everyone calm by facilitating clear of it. You’ll be able to take care of your daily obligations and still at home with kindness in your heart. You might be able to address and open communication. It will be important to keep emotions in make room for your creative expression. Listen to the messages you those issues and still have time to be with your friends later. Just check or words will fly that people may regret. This is a temporary receive in your heart and let them burst forth. remember to keep your priorities straight, Scorpio. situation. Everyone should be back on an even keel. Capricorn Aquarius Pisces December 22 — January 19 January 20 — February 18 February 19 — March 20

If you find yourself second-guessing plans you made earlier, Evaluate vacation plans or a class with an analytical eye. There is a possibility that you’ll fall into a bit of a regression today Capricorn, perhaps for a plane trip, try to look objectively at your You might find yourself wrestling some ongoing, unresolved issues as old feelings of anxiety or inadequacy surface. Although you’ve concerns. You don’t have to cancel everything if you have money that could interfere with your ability to do your job. Be mindful that reached a good place in terms of self-confidence, some old worries. Your fears will probably turn out to be unfounded. This you’re a bit brittle today, particularly if you’re working on financial childhood fears could resurface. The old emotions that bubble up could be a good time to look into learning more about modern matters, Aquarius. The last thing you want is a major battle with could impede your interactions with your co-workers or friends technology, either by enrolling in a class or attending a lecture. those around you, so do your best to keep a cool head. today, so be mindful of what lies under the surface for you, Pisces. 12 GULF TIMES Thursday, April 16, 2020 COMMUNITY CARTOONS/PUZZLES

Wordsearch Adam

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BALLAD ROCK MELODY ENSEMBLE FOLK CHORUS SOLO OVERTURE RHYTHM HARMONY COUNTRY TUNE BAND SCORE MUSIC FANFARE GIG CLASSICAL SONATA RAGTIME RIFF JAZZ DUET VARIATIONS BLUES SEGUE NOTES GROUP CONCERT TREMOLO

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Sudoku is a puzzle based on a 9x9 grid. The grid is also divided into nine (3x3) boxes. You are given a selection of values and to complete the puzzle, you must fill the grid so that every column, every anone is repeated. Thursday, April 16, 2020 GULF TIMES 13 PUZZLES COMMUNITY

Super Cryptic Clues Colouring

Across Down 1 Runner’s problem with 2 First-class swimming in the mounted frame (6,2) pool (3-4) 6 Watering place in cyberspace? 3 Principle of having it both (3) ways? (5) 9 Singular writer behind a tree 4 Simpson’s pigeons? (6) (5) 5 Trap I’ve set for soldier (7) 10 I’m great novel detective (7) 6 Kid taking part in news 11 Fish left in hat (7) programmes (5) 12 Wrath when fisherman loses 7 Wine waiter finally on the move heart (5) (5) 13 A kid relaxed (2,4) 8 Essayist getting attorney to 15 Council finally reduces rents reveal Greek letter (6) (6) 14 Declining environment? (7) 19 See most of the soldiers 16 Nurse is working at break of retreating (5) day (7) 21 Come forward for a loan (7) 17 Transport needed by Santa 23 First nuts in glade (7) — his leg is broken (6) 24 Telling stories — some only 18 Witch is eating good food in in Greek (5) Scotland (6) 25 You must get time to be still 19 Rush out suddenly to see a (3) girl (5) 26 Delicate material found when 20 Allowance made for sorting some rags (8) American general (5) 22 Home where criminal Answers dropped in (5) Wordsearch Codeword Solution 14 GULF TIMES Thursday, April 16, 2020 COMMUNITY REVIEWS Taiwanese immigrant experience examines unspoken family stories

underrated marriage story show up his technique from watching By Glenn Whipp Forever – is the relationship American movies, and he’s between the adult Pin-Jui enjoying romancing the beautiful (played by the great Tzi Ma) Yuan (Yo-Hsing Fang) with his n the opening 10 minutes and his grown daughter, Angela impetuousness and impeccable of his affecting new film (Christine Ko). appreciation for music. (Who Tigertail, writer-director Or, to be more specific, the could resist Yao Su Rong?) Alan Yang introduces us absence of a relationship. Their Because Yang himself to the movie’s central time together is marked by possesses discriminating taste Icharacter, Pin-Jui, in three pained silence. What wounds (the music choices on Master of stages of his life – as a young Angela is not just the lack of None were consistently wide- boy, a fledgling adult and, finally, conversation, but her father’s ranging and inspired), the scenes a retiree – asking viewers to wilful impenetrability. “Maybe between Yuan and Pin-Jui owe reconcile how a once-vital human it’s easier if we just stopped a certain debt to Wong Kar-wai, could have turned so inward that trying,” she tells him. boasting a restrained sensuality he now leads a life that amounts Certainly, the notion of the tinged with sadness. to solitary confinement. emotionally distant Asian father And because we’ve already It’s a mystery that Yang reveals has been mined in movies. What glimpsed the graying Pin-Jui, methodically, purposefully, distinguishes Tigertail is the way flabby and stoic, we know, like building toward a moving Yang explores Pin-Jui’s earlier the entanglements in Wong’s resolution that could prompt a life as a means of showing how masterpieces, this particular few parents to share life stories duty and obligation brought him story doesn’t have a happy with their adult children. I mean, to that place. ending. we’ve got the time right now, And as Yang takes us on that But there are a few stories don’t we? And since Tigertail is journey with him, he also offers in Tigertail. I haven’t even streaming on Netflix, you don’t a low-key lesson for redemption mentioned the one that brings have to be sheltering in the same – examine the past to escape Pin-Jui to America, as its home to partake. Set up a Zoom regret. revelations are best left to be meeting for an after-movie heart- Pin-Jui’s history in Taiwan discovered. (Another surprise: to-heart. Just remember to keep a is steeped in loss, resulting in Joan Chen’s in this movie, box of tissues within reach. tears, which bring about familial appearing memorably toward the Tigertail examines those reprimands. “Crying never solves end.) unspoken family stories and, anything,” his grandmother (Li-li Most of the film’s episodes specifically, serves as a nuanced Pan) tells him. “Be strong. Never and characters are fully realised, look at the Taiwanese immigrant let anyone see you cry.” save for Angela’s, whose personal experience – the sacrifices, But when we see Pin-Jui upheavals are only broadly the loneliness and the sheer as a carefree young man (a sketched. exhaustion that can break people charming Hong-Chi Lee), he’s Her journey is tied to her and leave them unrecognisable. far from a tortured soul. Yes, father’s, separate lives longing The heart of Yang’s film – his he’s impoverished, working in for a mutual understanding that feature debut after co-creating a sugar factory and living with eventually, fittingly, begins and the vibrant Netflix comedy series his mother (Kuei-Mei Yang). But ends in silence. – Los Angeles Master of None and Amazon’s he’s also a good dancer, picking Times/TNS WWE kids’ movie on Netflix suplexes itself

It didn’t pass their smell test. the cartoonish violence (a scrawny By Michael Ordona Predictability in plot and 11-year-old beating up 300-plus- dialogue were their principal pound behemoths) – left them complaints. When a pretty girl unmoved. o you love the smell appeared across the cafeteria, one On the bright side, the cast is of a musty leather groaned, “the love interest.” When diverse and some combatants are mask locked in a box Leo donned the mask to thrash a entertainingly costumed. One looks for decades, likely robber, the other sighed, “So he’s a like a villager who came straight steeped in mystery vigilante now?” from a Bavarian rave and is still Dperspiration? Does it smell like What turned them off the most tripping hard. His dance across this victory? was the same thing that lost this movie’s mortal coil, however, is all In The Main Event, a WWE reviewer: Leo’s failure to come too fleeting – kind of like life. Studios exercise for kids on Netflix, through for other people. It looks Anyway, WWE Studios has an 11-year-old wrestling fanatic to be set up for young Leo to learn churned out a cage-rattling number discovers a pungent luchador mask. “With great power comes great of features since 2002 (right around So of course he puts it on. And as responsibility,” but … naaah. 60), not all of them bad. But they these things tend to be, it’s magic. Instead we get might-makes- didn’t seem to put much effort Mom has split, Dad is emotionally right scenarios and unearned into this one. The filmmakers cast distant, Grandma is fun and the forgiveness. Not exactly what you several comic performers – Adam kid, Leo (Seth Carr), now has the want to teach kids. When Leo’s Pally as the dad, Tichina Arnold as tool he needs to turn the tables being pursued by the bully squad the grandmother, Ken Marino as on the school bullies and win a on bikes, he zips behind a car that’s the bad guy – but there aren’t really pro wrestling tournament against backing up. That shout you just opportunities for them to shine. adults. heard was every parent: “Hey, no, Arnold seems to have the most fun This reviewer assembled a crack that’s bad! Don’t do what he did!” with it. team to expertly sniff out the The thing you’d think my The Main Event, sadly, never gets truth of The Main Event: two kids middle-school movie mavens off the mat. – Los Angeles Times/ the age of the movie’s protagonist. would be most geared to enjoy – TNS Thursday, April 16, 2020 GULF TIMES 15 SHOWBIZ COMMUNITY

Covid-19 effect: Cannes film Our hearts, minds, souls aren’t in lockdown: Sara fest won’t happen in June Bollywood actress Sara Ali The Cannes Film Festival will Khan has shared a beautiful not take place in June due to the photograph of herself ongoing Covid-19 pandemic. along with some profound The organisers are busy exploring brainstorming. She says that different options to conduct the the hearts, minds and souls are festival later this year. not in lockdown. The organisers also mention Sharing a stunning that the festival can’t go ahead monochrome picture of herself “in its original form” due to the on Instagram, she wrote: coronavirus crisis, reports variety. “Our hearts, minds and souls com aren’t in lockdown #stayhome “Following the French #staystrong#staypositive President’s statement, on POSTPONED: The Cannes Film Festival organisers are busy exploring #staysafe,” she captioned the Monday, April 13th, we different options to conduct the festival later this year. image, which has garnered acknowledged that the over 1.5 million likes on social postponement of the 73rd media. International Cannes Film that the Festival de Cannes, cases in France and the rest of the She had recently shared a Festival, initially considered for an essential pillar for the film world has made it difficult to move throwback video of herself the end of June to the beginning industry, must explore all ahead in June or July. Since its first along with her brother Ibrahim CANDID: Sara Ali Khan shares tips of July, is no longer an option,” contingencies allowing to support edition after World War II in 1946, Ali Khan telling “knock- to beat lockdown boredom during the festival said in a statement, the year of Cinema by making the Cannes Film Festival has been knock” jokes”. the ongoing Covid-19 lockdown. adding: “It is clearly difficult Cannes 2020 real, in a way or cancelled only once in 1968 during She had also shared tips to assume that the Festival de another,” added the fest. the nationwide student riots. for fans to beat lockdown boredom during the ongoing Covid-19 Cannes could be held this year in In March, it was announced For the worldwide film lockdown. its original form.” that the 2020 edition will not community, the cancellation On the work front, Sara was last seen in Imtiaz Ali’s Love Aaj Kal, “Nevertheless, since yesterday be held in May. They planned to of the fest would have a far- which also starred Kartik Aaryan. evening we have started many move forward with a tentative plan reaching impact. Last year’s film Sara will be next seen opposite Varun Dhawan in the remake of discussions with professionals, to postpone the event until the market reported a record 12,527 Coolie No.1. She will also be seen sharing screen space with Akshay in France and abroad. They agree end of June. The rise of Covid-19 participants. – IANS Kumar and Dhanush in Atrangi Re. – IANS More people are sampling new streaming services

have great dividends for us,” Quibi Chairman By Wendy Lee Jeffrey Katzenberg said in an interview prior to the service’s launch. As consumers test out different services, ore consumers are increasing some can be fickle about staying on as the number of streaming subscribers, the study said. About half of the services they have access to, consumers surveyed said they cancelled their looking for ways to entertain free trial on a streaming service after they themselves at home as the finished watching a show. nationM deals with the rapid spread of the One way consumers are getting around novel coronavirus. paying for multiple services is by sharing The average person is streaming eight passwords. The study said that 42% of people hours of content each day, double the admitted sharing or receiving a password to a number of hours from before the pandemic streaming service after the novel coronavirus rapidly spread in the US, according to data came to the US. collected from surveys conducted by market Ross Benes, an analyst with research firm research firm OnePoll for streaming service eMarketer, said he believes it will become Tubi. The study surveyed 2,000 Americans more common for people to share passwords who can access at least one streaming as they chat about the shows they’re seeing service. with friends and family over the phone. Three in four people are using more “I would expect a lot of services to get streaming services since the coronavirus tested from people who aren’t directly giving came to the US, the study said. them their information,” Benes said. The average person has logins to four The pressure to catch up with shows streaming services, with 38% having access prominent in pop culture is so great that to five or more services, according to the some people even lie about seeing something study. they didn’t watch, the study said. One of the Subscription streaming services, including breakout hits during the coronavirus has been Apple TV+, Quibi and CBS All Access, have the Netflix docuseries , which drew ESCAPE: A still from Netflix’s Tiger King: Murder, Mayhem and Madness. offered free trials to some or all of their shows roughly 34 million people in the US in its first in an effort to get consumers interested. 10 days, according to Nielsen. supported streaming services like Viacom- active accounts as of March 31, up 3 million Quibi, which launched on April 6, has one “The real-life documentary featuring big owned Pluto TV and Los Gatos-based Roku since Dec. 31. of the longest free trials, offering 90 days cats and even larger personalities seemed are seeing a boost in viewership. Tubi is a free, ad-supported streaming free to customers who sign up for its app. to give Covid-confined consumers a way to Roku, a Los Gatos-based company that service that has older movies and shows Last Monday, Quibi said it had more than 1.7 escape from an even more real news cycle,” sells devices that help people connect their that aren’t on Netflix, including thriller million downloads in its first week, exceeding Nielsen said. televisions to various streaming services, Blood Diamond and drama The Passion of the the company’s expectations. The OnePoll study said that nearly half of estimates that the number of hours streamed Christ. The San Francisco-based streamer “For good will and for building a brand consumers are using free streaming services on Roku will be 13.2 billion in the first quarter, is expected to be acquired by Fox Corp. later and all of those things, the decision to give to add to their existing subscription services up 49% compared to a year earlier. The this year for $440 million. – Los Angeles it free to everybody in the end will actually or to save money. Already, some free, ad- company estimates there were 39.8 million Times/TNS 16 GULF TIMES Thursday, April 16, 2020 COMMUNITY How to feel confidently beautiful Filipino Aesthetic Specialist Anne Conza-Montebon shares tips for women on how to take care of hair, skin and beauty while staying at home

By Mudassir Raja

ocial distancing introduced in the wake of the novel coronavirus outbreak has made it difficult to do many tasks we did as per routine usually. SGetting a haircut and other beauty services was never an issue for women in Qatar since they found experts and salons not far from their homes. But since beauty salons along with barber shops have shut down as part of measures to stop the spread of coronavirus, availing regular beauty services is an issue many women face. Anne Conza-Montebon is an aesthetic specialist by profession. The Filipino expatriate is currently working with L’Oreal Professional – Educational Team. “The team has a passion for teaching and influencing people how to feel good and look better. We focus on how to be the best version of ourselves and how to feel confidently beautiful. I have been working in the beauty industry for over 13 years now. Starting as a beauty therapist, I have moved to become a skin consultant. I have also improved my skills and expertise to be part of hair care industry, Anne said while sharing her expertise with Community. She added: “I aspire to embrace beauty in a simple way and share the passion with others around me. I like the fact that I am able to help inner beauty shine out on the outside.” Stuck at home like others due to the coronavirus crisis, Anne grants ample time to herself to remain healthy and positive. “I give enough time to pray and PASSIONATE: Anne says she aspires to embrace beauty in a simple way and shares her passion with others around her. reflect on my future goals. I indulge in yoga and meditation to help reduce stress anxious. Too much anxiety can result in and enhance my immune system. To hair fall and signs of ageing that reflect “If you are feeling relax myself, other than doing domestic on skin. duties, I watch Netflix, read books, —Washing hands excessively – the need to cut or dye listen to my favourite playlist and do my nowadays – can cause dry skin. We morning and evening beauty routines.” should follow up with any lotion to stay your hair during this Anne and her company have also moisturised and hydrated. resorted to e-learning. “Due to the —The UV rays that reach us through time, it is best to keep health crisis, many salons are closed. window, lights, gadgets and even while So we from L’Oreal Professional - cooking can possibly damage our skin. it a little longer and Product Division provide the e-learning Do not forget to wear SPF (sun protection platform ‘Access’ to ensure the efficient factor) or sunscreen daily no matter leave it to be done continuity of our hair education for all whatever your location is. our client salons and hairdressers. We —Take a break from damaging hair when the salons also have ‘At Home Solutions’ to deal every day from heat styling. Instead take with our consumer needs by giving this time to focus on taking care of your reopen. Explore tips on how to take care of their hair at hair using your favourite hair treatment home.” routine. If there is dryness on the ends, new looks and new Anne has many easy steps to share give your hair a conditioner or a hair with women about how to take care of masque to help repair your hair from styles. A little home their hair, skin and beauty needs while damage. For hair root growth problem, staying at home. For Anne, beauty rituals we can use touch-up / concealer spray pampering may help are a part of mindful practice. She shares for temporary coverage. some easy measures to take care of skin, —Lastly, if you are feeling the need to us get through this beauty and hair while at home are: cut or dye your hair during this time, it —Drink a lot of water to keep hydrated is best to keep it a little longer and leave quarantine time and have a complete eight hour sleep. it to be done when the salons reopen. —Regular physical exercise makes our Explore new looks and new styles. A together” blood healthy that travels around our little home pampering may help us get body making our skin and hair healthy. through this quarantine time together, — Anne Conza-Montebon —Do not be stressed and be overly Anne recommends.