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MASTERWORK: Matthew Mathiasen, left, and his friend, artist Chris Toledo, with the structure Toledo has spent the last two years working on, a grand home in miniature in their apartment in Los Angeles. Diminutive replica

COVER To reach his big dream of owning a home in Los STORY Angeles, Chris Toledo started very, very small. P4-5

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Vada Chennai Rajan. Vada Chennai is the story of a fi sherman from North DIRECTION: Vetrimaaran Chennai, who does not even realise when he falls prey to the CAST: Dhanush, Aishwarya Rajesh, Andrea Jeremiah trap set by a mafi a gang. What happens to him later forms the SYNOPSIS: The life of a North Madras youngster,Anbu, story. Emergency 999 changes completely when he meets local gangsters Guna and THEATRES: The Mall, Landmark Worldwide Emergency Number 112 Kahramaa – Electricity and Water 991 Local Directory 180 International Calls Enquires 150 Hamad International Airport 40106666 Labor Department 44508111, 44406537 Mowasalat Taxi 44588888 Qatar Airways 44496000 Hamad Medical Corporation 44392222, 44393333 Qatar General Electricity and Water Corporation 44845555, 44845464 Primary Health Care Corporation 44593333 44593363 Qatar Assistive Technology Centre 44594050 Qatar News Agency 44450205 44450333 Q-Post – General Postal Corporation 44464444

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Namaste England story of Jasmeet and Param, whose love story traces along DIRECTION: Vipul Amrutlal Shah diff erent places from Punjab to Dhaka to Paris to Brussels to CAST: Parineeti Chopra, Hiten Patel, Arjun Kapoor fi nally London. SYNOPSIS: Namaste England is a young and refreshing THEATRES: The Mall, Royal Plaza ote Unquo Qu te “Selfi shness is The Mall Cinema (1): 8:30pm; Badaai Ho (Hindi) Goosebumps 2: Haunted 11:15pm. not living as one wishes to Halloween (2D) 2:30pm; Legend Landmark Cinema (2): Hello live, it is asking others to live Of A Rabbit The Martial Of Guru Prema Kosame (Telugu) Fire (2D) 4:15pm; Sandakozhi 2 2:30pm; Badaai Ho (Hindi) 5pm; as one wishes to live.” (Tamil) 6pm; Namaste England Kayamkulam Kochunni Mandy (2D) 7:15pm; Masrycany (Hindi) 8:45pm; Vada Chennai (Malayalam) 11:30pm. (Arabic) 9pm; First Man (2D) (Tamil) 11:30pm. Landmark Cinema (1): 11pm. —Oscar Wilde The Mall Cinema (2): Vada Vada Chennai (Tamil) 2:15pm; Royal Plaza Cinema Palace Chennai (Tamil) 2:30pm; Kayamkulam Kochunni (1): Goosebumps 2: Haunted Goosebumps 2: Haunted (Malayalam) 5:15pm; Vada Halloween (2D) 3pm; Sandakozhi Halloween (2D) 5:30pm; First Chennai (Tamil) 8pm; 2 (Tamil) 5pm; Namaste England Man (2D) 7:15pm; The Old Man Sandakozhi 2 (Tamil) 11pm. (Hindi) 8pm; Vada Chennai And The Gun (2D) 9:45pm; Landmark Cinema (2): Legend (Tamil) 10:45pm. Community Editor Accident (2D) 11:30pm. Of A Rabbit The Martial Of Fire Royal Plaza Cinema Palace Kamran Rehmat The Mall Cinema (3): Hello (2D) 2:30pm; Goosebumps (2): Hello Guru Prema Kosame e-mail: [email protected] Guru Prema Kosame (Telugu) 2: Haunted Halloween (2D) (Telugu) 2:30pm; Badaai Ho Telephone: 44466405 2pm; Namaste England (Hindi) 4:30pm; Goosebumps 2: (Hindi) 5pm; The Old Man And 4:45pm; Badaai Ho (Hindi) Haunted Halloween (2D) 6:30pm; The Gun (2D) 7:15pm; First Man Fax: 44350474 7:30pm; Mandy (2D) 9:45pm; Namaste England (Hindi) (2D) 9pm; Mandy (2D) 11:30pm. Thursday, October 18, 2018 GULF TIMES 3 ROUND & ABOUT COMMUNITY

and The Algerian Embassy invites you to Aspire Torch Staircase Run 2018 attend Andalusian Music show by Nassima WHERE: The Torch Doha Hotel Chaabane, musician and singer. WHEN: November 10 TIME: 1pm – 6pm Aspire Zone Foundation (AZF) announces opening registration for the seventh annual ‘Aspire Torch Staircase Run’ scheduled to take place on November 10. The 2018 edition of the Aspire Torch Staircase Run (ATSR 2018), will offer sports enthusiasts the ultimate challenge of endurance, as runners will have to make their way to the top of the 300m tower to the 51st floor, climbing more than 1,300 steps.

Qatar Finance and Installment Exhibition WHERE: DECC WHEN: November 3 – November15 TIME: 7pm – 10pm The QFI Exhibition is a 3-day event that brings together the best of Qatar’s finance community, and local and international visitors who are keen to access Qatar’s robust market. We are pleased to present this opportunity to local and international investors, banking, finance and government institutions, along with leading firms in the real estate, investment and fin-tech sectors. Ballet Lessons WHERE: Music and Arts Atelier After School Activities WHEN: Ongoing WHERE: Atelier EVENTS Workshop on SheCommerce TIME: 4pm – 8pm WHEN: Ongoing WHERE: Crowne Plaza Doha - The For more info e-mail at registration@ Music and arts Activities for students European Film Festival Business Park atelierqatar.com or call on 33003839. taking place after they finish their day in WHERE: Museum Of Islamic Art WHEN: Tomorrow school includes Group Music lessons, Hip- WHEN: Ongoing till October 23 TIME: 3pm – 10pm hop, Ballet, Drawing and Painting, Drama TIME: 5pm – 8pm SIGN IN is a unique digital Theatre & Taekwondo. Ages between 5 and The European Cultural Cluster (EUNIC) entrepreneurship workshop with a 10 years old after school hours. is pleased to invite to the first edition dual-faceted focus. One is to facilitate of the European Film Festival in Doha, new and existing business ideas and the Hobby Classes in partnership with the Museum of second one to establish a strong online WHERE: Mystic Arts Centre behind Al Islamic Art. This festival is an excellent presence. SheCommerce, isn’t just the Hilal Focus Medical Centre opportunity to present the EU cultural most quintessential stage to raise voice WHEN:Wednesday – Monday diversity with screenings of outstanding and get heard, but at the same time it’s the Mystic Art Centre, is a holistic films contributed by EU Member States, most fertile ground to explore business performing artsinstitution and a one stop reflecting the official motto of the EU. opportunities and cultivate profits for solution for adults as well as children women entrepreneurs around the world. looking to explore their talents in various Breast Cancer Awareness It is the most secure road for ladies to take art forms. We offer classes in Carnatic WHERE: InterContinental Doha after and maintain their fantasies for a Music, Hindustani Music, Karate, Yoga, WHEN: Ongoing superior tomorrow. Zumba, Classical Dance, Salsa, Hip Hop, InterContinental Doha – The City is contemporary and Bollywood dance forms. organising several activities (especially Cycling: Losail Circuit Sports Club For details, call 33897609. at its various dining venues) that focus WHERE: Losail Circuit on highlighting the importance of early WHEN: Ongoing Dance and instrument classes detection. Try the pink afternoon tea, the TIME: 5pm WHERE: TCA Campus, Behind Gulf extravagant pink Bar Squared Brunch at Losail Circuit Sports Club, in association Times Building The Square and pink-themed nights at with Qatar Sports For All Federation, WHEN: Wednesday – Monday Strata Restaurant and Lounge. invites all cyclists, runners and walkers Learn the movements of dance styles to train under the floodlights of Losail in Bollywood, Hip Hop and also the International Circuit every Wednesdays. musical instruments such as Piano, Guitar, Keyboard for adults as well kids and move Gymnastics World Championships in the world of music. For details, contact WHERE: Aspire Dome 66523871/ 31326749. WHEN: October 25 – November 3 Over 700 male and female gymnasts from over 80 countries, including three Team Qatar gymnasts, will compete across 10 Kufic Beginners days of competition in Doha’s ionic Aspire WHERE: MIA Dome. Experience the drama, emotions and WHEN: Ongoing till Oct 26 excitement of gymnastics’ pinnacle event TIME: 10:30am – 12:30pm as global superstars go head to head in a bid The word ‘Kufic’ is related to the city to be crowned the best in the world. of the same name in Iraq, Kufa, and was developed from Hijazi script. Kufic Katara Beach - School Students calligraphy is characterised by its bold WHERE: Katara and vertical letters which often looks like WHEN: Ongoing modern design. Join us for this 4-session TIME: 9am – 12pm short course to learn this early and By participating in the programme of beautiful script! ‘Our culture is a school’, Katara Beach emphasises the Qatari marine tradition Andalusian Music Show and introduces to students the meaning of WHERE: Katara Dasha, Al Qafal and various type of pearls. WHEN: October 23 The students will discover all details of the TIME: 7pm – 8pm Fath El-Kheir journey. Cultural Village Foundation - Katara

Compiled by Nausheen Shaikh. E-mail: [email protected], Events and timings subject to change 4 GULF TIMES Thursday, October 18, 2018 COMMUNITY COVER STORY Casa California is a masterpiece of illusion

ARTIST AT WORK: Chris Toledo works on the roof tiles of a 1920’s, two-bedroom, two-bath, Spanish Colonial Revival, miniature home.

It has two bedrooms, but these By Esmeralda Bermudez days Casa California claims one. I imagined I was He’s wanted to build something like it since he was eight-year-old. a wealthy person hris Toledo has gone to masterpiece of illusion. That’s when, in a doctor’s painstaking lengths to The guest room is nearly the waiting room, he picked up a copy in the 1920s ... build the home of his length of a pencil. The stone of Nutshell News, a magazine for who moved to Los dreams. fountains are no taller than Q-Tips. miniaturists. He drew the patterns The fi replace fi ts in the palm of a It featured an impeccable tiny Angeles to build a C– based on antiques – for every one hand. version of the Gamble House in of his eight stained glass windows. The whole house is less than 6 Pasadena. Toledo knew the place. home for my family. He shaped delicate scroll railings for feet wide. He’d driven by it with his father, who his Juliet balconies. He laid nearly A life-size version would cost restored old homes. This would be my 6,000 barrel tiles, one by one, on his millions – millions Toledo does not “I was amazed,” he said of the castle rooftop. have. diminutive replica. “I didn’t know For the last two years, he’s So far, this is the closest the what it was, but I wanted to do just — Chris Toledo, obsessed over every detail of his 32-year-old has come to owning a that.” 1920s Spanish Mediterranean house. house of his own in Los Angeles. When Christmas came, he the artist Thousands have followed his Toledo lives with his friend, asked his parents for a kit to make labour online – including architects Matthew Mathiasen, in a small a miniature two-story log cabin. and interior designers. rented apartment near MacArthur Next came a Victorian, followed by a ‘ ’ But Casa California is a Park. farmhouse. Thursday, October 18, 2018 GULF TIMES 5 COVER STORY COMMUNITY

At home in Alhambra, Toledo world.” would spend months building each The upper echelon, Toledo structure, then use money he’d learned, is a rarefi ed place. It earned from chores to furnish every includes those who make the sort space. In Yucaipa, where his family of intricate edifi ces Kay Browning often camped, there was a miniature began acquiring in the 1970s and store, where he’d go to buy petite displays in her museum in Maysville, fl oral sofas, chests of drawers and Ky. china cabinets. Browning recently came across His parents, immigrants from Casa California’s black-and-white- Argentina, hoped it was a calling. tiled bathroom online. “We were convinced he’d be an The space instantly transported architect,” said his mother, Liliana her to her Greek Revival childhood Eschoyez. home. Instead, he grew up to work in “It made me feel very comfortable fashion, photography and later in his and warm inside,” she said. “I really current fi eld, graphic design. wanted to have it.” Four years ago, after a long pause, So she commissioned Toledo to he returned to building the little build that childhood bathroom. houses that had brought him such They have yet to discuss a price. boyhood joy. Browning’s miniature world But this time, ready-made kits includes buildings that have sold would no longer be enough. He for more than $200,000. Some wanted to create an entire tiny home collectors have been known to from scratch. take out mortgages to buy such It was supposed to be a hobby, properties. Others pay interior until he saw it might be more. designers large sums to outfi t their Toledo’s plan was to build a two- interiors. story, two-bedroom Spanish villa, ENTRANCE: The artist has spent the last two years working on the grand home. Browning says one furnished a vision he’d formed from watching piece, her ancestral home in Bob Villa restore a Spanish home Cheshire, England, is worth close to on TV and spending hours driving There were times when Toledo grew so $500,000. around ogling grand estates in overwhelmed by the house, he couldn’t bring Toledo and Mathiasen long to own Hancock Park and South Pasadena. a piece of Los Angeles – a real house “I imagined I was a wealthy himself to go near it. Sometimes, too, it looked so they can settle into. person in the 1920s ... who moved Now they realise that Casa to Los Angeles to build a home for lifelike and perfect from the outside that it was California may be their best bet. my family. This would be my castle,” painful knowing that he’d never live inside “It’s fi ne art,” said Mathiasen, he said. who works as a fashion sales On miniaturist sites, there are manager. “It can be worth a lot.” plenty of examples of Victorian lifelike and perfect from the outside “Everything is so real! I imagine it The miniature world is full of At fi rst, he didn’t fully homes and English cottages. that it was painful knowing that he’d on a hill above Montecito.” women, many from the East Coast. understand. He thought of Spanish dwellings are rare. So never live inside. “I’ve come back again and again He made friends with Bridgette, miniatures as toys. Toledo had to make things up as he A sneak peek of his freshly tiled to gaze into this scene.” whose specialty is teensy-weensy Sometimes he’d wander into went. staircase, a close-up of his hand- One person went so far as to cats, mice and bunnies; June, who Toledo’s work space and tinker Everything his father taught him painted ceiling beams, a wide shot call him “the Michelangelo of fashions French Baroque furniture; around in the tiny bathroom. He’d about carpentry, painting and metal of his living room, washed in the miniatures.” Barbara, who does wonders with accidentally break the leg off a tub, work came in handy. So did the electric glow of his scroll work His fan base grew to nearly stained glass. the faucet off a sink. Toledo would hours he spent watching YouTube sconces – Toledo started posting 40,000. Other miniaturists took Soon, Toledo had become a new stare at him, dead silent. tutorials and home restoration images on Instagram and Facebook. notice. They marvelled at his star. “He and the cat are the two shows. Each carried a little clue to show precision, his technique, his ability “The kid is astonishingly household members forbidden from To build scroll railings, he taught the scale – a quarter leaning on to constantly outdo himself — aged talented,” said Bradley Meinke, who entering my studio,” Toledo said. himself to solder bits of brass – the fountain, a Super Glue bottle plaster on the walls, glistening tile lives in Missouri and is the head of Every week, the friends hunt for beads, wire and charms he sourced in the corner of the guest room, a on the kitchen ceiling. When Toledo the Cat’s Meow Miniature Society, a properties on Zillow. Their phones online. pencil lying wall-to-wall across the posted photos of himself beside the group with about 350 members. “If buzz all the time with new listings. To make six diff erent types of kitchen. home, they marvelled that he was so he sticks with it, he’s going to be in But in L.A., their maximum price terra-cotta and ceramic tiles, he The comments began to roll in. young – and male. the upper echelon of the miniature of $600,000 is pretty much entry- tried nearly 20 methods – including level. fl attening clay on a pasta machine. So the homes they can aff ord with He ended up hand-painting each tile the kind of charm Toledo wants are and laser etching the grout lines. in sketchy neighbourhoods or have To get precise measurements major problems: water damage, for his barrel roof, he scrambled faulty foundations, kitchens and onto the rooftop of his two-story bathrooms that are total gut jobs. apartment building. On a recent afternoon, the two hit “If something wasn’t just right,” the road in Mathiasen’s Mazda to Toledo said, “I’d literally tear it do what they often do: drive around down and build the whole thing over Hancock Park and adore the houses. again.” Down wide, commodious June Tools took over the guest-room Street, the two sighed and craned closet: saw, drill, soldering iron. their necks to catch a glimpse of Shelves fi lled up with paint cans, every entryway and balcony. spackle pastes and sculpting clay. “Look at the Tudor over there,” In one corner, he set up a big Toledo said. laser cutter he bought for $3,500 “That’s stunning,” said on EBay. In another, a table to do Mathiasen. the tiniest tasks, such as attaching “It’s a buff et of gorgeous houses.” 10-millimetre hinges to wooden “I literally want every single one.” doors less than seven inches tall. They’re hopeful a collector might To aff ord everything he needed, shell out as much as $80,000 for he sold some of his clothes and Casa California – which would go a miniature furniture he’d collected long way toward a down payment. since he was a boy. He lived Not on a house of its grandeur – modestly. But the costs added up, with splendid stained glass and tile, into the hundreds, then thousands. said Toledo. There were times when Toledo “Maybe a little Spanish bungalow grew so overwhelmed by the house, we can fi x up over time.” – Los he couldn’t bring himself to go near Angeles Times/TNS it. Sometimes, too, it looked so HAPPY FACE: Chris Toledo looks into the kitchen, breakfast room of the grand home in miniature. 6 GULF TIMES Thursday, October 18, 2018 COMMUNITY Majlis-e-Frogh-e-Urdu Adab to present ‘22nd Aalmi Frogh-e-Urdu Adab Awards’

Majlis-e-Frogh-e-Urdu Adab, a world-renowned Qatar-based literary Urdu organisation, is all set to present ‘22nd Aalmi Frogh-e-Urdu Adab Awards’ to Professor Dr Mazhar Mahmood Shairani, a reputed Urdu scholar from Pakistan, and Syed Mohammad Ashraf, a fiction writer and Urdu scholar from India, at City Centre Rotana on November 15. Additionally, special awards will be presented to people for their outstanding services for the promotion of Urdu language, literature and poetry, including Hassan Abdul Karim Chougule, Chairman of Anjuman-e-Mohibban Urdu Hind; Saif-ur-Rehman, Incharge of Qatar Urdu Radio Service; Azim Abbas, Chairman of Karwan-e-Urdu; and Kamran Rehmat, Editor at Community - Gulf Times. Launched in 1996, the Aalmi Frogh-e-Urdu Adab each of which comprises of a gold medal and cash award of Rs150,000 are given annually to two Urdu writers and scholars, one from India and the other from Pakistan, for their life-time achievements in creative fiction, research and critical works. The 22nd Aalmi Awards were decided by two independent juries. The jury in India was headed by Professor Dr Gopi Chand Narang, Padma Bhushan Award winner and former Chairman of Sahitya Academy of India, along with Proff esor Muhammad Shafey Kidwai, Rashid Anwer Rashid and Zaheer Ahmed. The jury in Pakistan was headed by Professor Dr Khurshid Rizvi along with Proff esor Dr Saleem Akhter, Professor Dr Tehsin Firaqi and Professor Dr Zahid Munir Aamir. After the presentation of the awards, mushaira, ‘24th Aalmi Mushaira Bayad-e-Mushtaq Ahmed Yousufi’, will be held in the memory of legendary humourous and satirical writer, Mushtaq Ahmed Mushtaq Ahmed Khan Yousufi Dr Mazhar Mahmood Shairani Syed Muhammad Ashraf Khan Yousufi, who breathed his last on 20th June this year. The Mushaira will feature poets from India, Pakistan, UK and Kuwait. Majlis will also release a special souvenir on the occasion. Ehsan Shahid from UK, Khalid Sajjad from Kuwait, Atiq Anzar, Farzana Safdar and Roaise Mumtaz, Guest poets from Pakistan includes Professor Dr Peerzada Qasim, Dr Tehsin Firaqi, Abbas Tabish, all from Qatar, will also be part of the poetry symposium. Professor Dr Peerzada Qasim will preside Shakil Jazib, Syed Suleman Gilani and Fartash Syed. The guest poets from India includes Manzar over the mushaira. Professor Shafey Kidwai, an Urdu scholar from Aligarh Muslim University will be Bhopali, Tahir Faraz, Abrar Kashif, Sheen Kaaf Nizam and Dr Farida Akhter Tarunnum. the guest of honour.

Ministry of Municipality conducts workshop at PSS

Ministry of Municipality recently conducted a workshop for the students of Grade-IV at Pak Shamaa School (PSS). The workshop aimed at creating awareness about the safety of food. Students also participated in the interactive session. The workshop was conducted by Klaudia, Health Researcher at Ministry of Municipality, and co-ordinated by Noureen, Faculty at PSS.

Students of AMAB excel in Edexcel AS-Levels and IGCE examinations

Students of Al Maha Academy for Boys (AMAB) recently excelled in AS-Levels examination with Qatar-wide and international events and competitions,” He added. 100 percent and (International General Certificate of Secondary Education) IGCSE examination For the remarkable achievements in academics and major honours in national and international with 90 percent pass result. competitions, AMAB bagged the ‘School of Excellence’ Award at the 4th Ta’allum Awards held Shuja Uddin, Principal of AMAB, said, “We have every reason to celebrate this leap of success. Over at Katara – theCultural Village. Ahmed al-Mannai, CEO of Ta’allum, and Dr Mohammed Saefan, the last three years, Al Maha Boys has been rising steadily. To have reached 100% success – this is Director of Education, congratulated AMAB. unprecedented.” “Our achievements are placing Ta’allum Group of Schools at the forefront of Qatar education “We are witnessing our school moving quite rapidly, in the right direction. This is a testament landscape,” said Saefan. that we are building on our success year to year,” explains Shuja. “At AMAB our students receive “We look to AS-Levels and IGCSE as reliable yardsticks of our performance because they are quality instruction with the best facilities for learning. The kind of education they are getting builds recognised bodies in determining Secondary qualifications. We commit to preparing the future character. Their confidence and skills stand them in good stead when they go out to participate in leaders of Qatar with the right skills and Islamic values,” he added. Thursday, October 18, 2018 GULF TIMES 7 COMMUNITY Tezkar and Radio Olive FM organises ‘Dandiya Night with RJs’

Tezkar, in association with Radio Olive FM, recently organised ‘Dandiya Night with RJs’ at Regency the event. The event was sponsored by Rayyan Water, ATpik, NIIT Qatar and Q tickets. Halls. Radio Jockeys (RJs) including Neeti, Sumit, Simran, Harsha, Neeraj and Lallit performed at “The overwhelming and positive response from the guests proved that Radio Olive Suno Network the event. Around 800 people including Indian expatriates and Qatari nationals attended the has a magnanimous fan following across the country and thus we have decided to come up event. Hemant Kumar Dwivedi, First Secretary of Information and Education at Embassy of India; with more of such ground events where Radio Olive Suno Network would get an opportunity to Captain Kapil Kaushik, Defence Attaché at Embassy of India; along with other notable personalities connect with the listeners even more closely and serve them better,” said Ameer Ali and Krishna including Suhail Bukhari, Harish Kanjani, Ramesh Bhulchandani and Manoj Megchiani attended Kumar, Managing Directors of Radio Olive and Radio Suno, respectively.

OIS organises dance workshop

Olive International School (OIS) recently organised a dance workshop, conducted by the team of Mamangam Performing Arts Centre (MPAC). The students of Grade-III to VII participated in the workshop. Pranav Pardeshi, Artistic Director at MPAC, taught diff erent techniques of dance by various gesture movements.

IDEB-Qatar Chapter elects new executive committee The newly elected members of the executive committee of Institution of Diploma Engineers Bangladesh (IDEB)-Qatar Chapter, includes Mohammed Jahedul Islam, President; Mohammed Abdul Mukit, First Vice President; Amanat Hossain, Second Vice President; Mohammad Ashraf Uddin, General Secretary; Billal Hossain, Joint General Secretary; Mohammed Fauzul Azim, Finance Secretary; Mohammed Mizanur Rahman Maruf, Organising Secretary; Monwar Hossain Salim, Joint Organising Secretary; Khorshed Ahmed, Employment Related Secretary; Amran Hossain, Library and Off ice Secretary; Mohd Emdadul Haque, Public Relation and Publicity Secretary; Kazi Ramjan Ali, Joint Public Relation and Publicity Secretary; Md Hasan Chowdhury, Literacy, Cultural and Publication Secretary; Nurul Alam Bhuiyan, Social Welfare Secretary; Muhammad Hedayet Ullah Kabir, Science and Technology Secretary; Mohammed Shahjalal, Information and Research Secretary; Qamrun Nahar, Woman and Family Welfare Secretary; Mohammad Akbar Ali, Education and Training Secretary; Md Hashmat Ali, Students Aff airs Secretary.

Students of SSLSD celebrate World Teachers’ Day

The senior students of Staff ord Sri Lankan School Doha (SSLSD) recently honoured and recognised special ceremonial cake was also cut at the event along with the distribution of roses to the teachers their teachers and their dedication as part of World Teachers’ Day celebrations. The students of as a token of appreciation. A S P Liyanage, Ambassador of Sri Lanka, along with Roshan Balasooriya, Grade XIII hosted a special assembly to articulate and communicate their gratitude to the teachers. A Chairman of SSLSD, and members of the Board of Directors attended the event. 8 GULF TIMES Thursday, October 18, 2018 COMMUNITY EMRA’A holds ‘Introduce a Girl to Engineering Day’ at DESS

EMRA’A, ExxonMobil Qatar’s Professional Women’s Network, recently held its fourth ‘Introduce a Girl Engineering Day that inspire and encourage girls and young women to pursue careers in STEM,” to Engineering Day’ event at Doha English Speaking School (DESS). said Mariah Forte-Connor. The event is an extension of the programme that ExxonMobil organises in the United States and “It is extremely important that students understand how engineers make an impact on the world, other global locations; and is part of the company’s eff orts to encourage young girls to consider and that engineering needs creativity, communication and teamwork. One of the best ways to do careers in fields that require a background in science, technology, engineering and math (STEM) this is to provide girls with hands on activities and positive role models who are confident in their subjects. Fifteen professional women volunteered at the event. Around twenty-five students of Grade science and engineering abilities and can talk about their accomplishments and passion for their VI spent the morning with volunteers, working on various activities, which were followed by an fields,” she added. interactive session. The volunteers spoke about their professional experiences and how careers in Sean Sibley, Head-Teacher at DESS, said, “It is important for our children to aspire to be anything they engineering and other STEM fields can be rewarding. want to be. At DESS we promote and encourage our children to aim high in order to achieve their “The world is facing a shortage of engineers and scientists, the people we need to preserve and goals and ‘Introduce a Girl to Engineering Day’ is a fantastic opportunity for our girls to find out more improve our planet and our livelihoods. And there are even fewer women engineers and scientists about this potential area of employment. We would like to thank ExxonMobil Qatar for their help and in the global workforce today. This is why ExxonMobil supports programmes like Introduce a Girl to input in raising the aspirations of our children.”

GU-Q professor presents economic outlook of Qatar

Dr Alexis Antoniades, Director of Georgetown creating jobs for a young population, and University in Qatar (GU-Q), recently conducted attracting both Foreign Direct Investment (FDI) a session on assessment of Qatar’s economic and foreign businesses to Qatar. He continued past, present and future outlook ‘Qatar at a to describe Qatar’s milestone achievements in Crossroads’at GU-Q. building modern transportation infrastructure, The presentation was attended by over 240 along with advanced healthcare, education, people including foreign diplomats, notable banking, and transportation systems based on personalities of the business community revenues from energy exports. of Doha, local off icials, and general public. He then went on to describe the current The presentation was an overview of economic situation. Qatar’s economy along with strategic He concluded by emphasising the need to New upscale dining concept at the recommendations and concrete next steps to support existing businesses, and especially ensure a prosperous future for Qatar. family businesses many of which face the The presentation kicked off with a detailed 3rd generation succession challenge, and Kempinski Residences and Suites journey of the last decade of economic cautioned against substantial risks looming on progress and the nation’s energy export based the horizon including the higher interest rates development, focused on the key objectives of in the US and a potential correction in global Richard Sandoval, World renowned Chef- said Chef Sandoval. “Elevating Mexican preserving the wealth for future generations, markets . Restauranteur, has brought Maya, his signature cuisine has been my goal from the start. Modern Mexican dining concept, to the The restaurant off ers cuisine that is rooted in Kempinski Residences and Suites at West Bay tradition yet adventures into contemporary in Doha. tastes. Guests will rediscover Mexican classics According to the press release, Chef Richard in a creative and sophisticated way.” Sandoval has blended the earthy yet complex Maya’s menu showcases Chef Sandoval’s flavours of his native Mexico with worldly vibrant take on traditional Mexican recipes ingredients and creative cooking techniques using high quality ingredients. Appetisers to create the modern Mexican cuisine at Maya. include Sandoval’s traditional guacamole and Introducing exciting and artistic presentations a Tuna Guacamole made with fresh tuna and of fresh, vibrant flavours, Maya allows diners to serrano chili, alongside seafood and vegetable experience a menu filled with creative adaptations ceviches. Signature dishes include Carne Asada of traditional favourites. and Salmon en Mole Negro. Maya is Sandoval’s third culinary venture in The grand opening event included a live cooking Qatar after his Pan-Latin steakhouse, Toro Toro demo by Chef Richard Sandoval, who shared and Latin-Asian concept, Zengo. Maya was his signature recipes and culinary expertise with Chef Sandoval’s flagship restaurant which he members of the local media, influencers and opened in New York City in 1997. Following the notable personalities. The demo was followed by success of its other locations, Maya is all set to a tour of the restaurant and lounge to show off welcome both visitors and residents of Qatar all that Maya has to off er. The event concluded to experience its warm Latin hospitality and with samplings of selected signature dishes. progressive cuisine. Francisco Niembro, Ambassador of Mexico, “My vision with Maya is ‘old ways, new hands’,” also attended the event. Thursday, October 18, 2018 GULF TIMES 9 COMMUNITY Katara Opens the ‘Experiments of Truth’ and ‘Twenty Poems’ art exhibitions

Katara, the Cultural Village Foundation, in association with Embassy of India, recently opened The members of Visual Arts Forum of Indians in Qatar (VAFI) contributed with more than forty ‘Experiments of Truth’, as part of 150th birth anniversary of Mahatma Gandhi at Building 16 Katara. painting in the exhibition. Sree Kumar, Founder and President of VAFI, said that the artists had The exhibition was opened by HE Dr Khalid bin Ibrahim al-Sulaiti, General Manager of Katara, been working over the past couple of months to come up with this work. “We had done several along with several diplomats and dignitaries including P Kumaran, Ambassador of India; Dr Axel exhibitions over the past few years, and we are involving school students to participate with us Wabenhorst, Ambassador of Australia; and Abdulaziz al-Sabaa, Ambassador of Algeria. through paintings”, he said. Kumar adds that all the paintings in the exhibition are based on the life Kumaran said that the Mahatma Gandhi is the tallest leader of the Indian independence of Gandhi, his vision, mission, values and simplicity. movement and is the father of the Indian nation. “His two principles of non-violence and truth are Dr Khalid al-Sulaiti also opened another art exhibition ‘Twenty Poems’ at building 22 by Hamda highlighted in this exhibition, and these messages will continue to be relevant in today’s world al-Mannai, Qatari artist, who documented some Qatari traditional heritage in her paintings. which is seeing all kinds of manifestations of diff iculties”, he added.

Intertec Group WLL bags ‘Xiaomi’s Golden Distributor 2018’ award

Xiaomi, an Internet company with smartphones and smart hardware connected by an IoT platform for brand growth and product market share in Qatar. Asraf NK, Division Manager of Intertec Group, at its core, recently hosted 2018 edition of the Global Partner Conference ‘Winning Together’ in Beijing. attended the event. The award to Intertec was presented by Wang Xiang, Senior Vice President of Over 200 delegates from 60 partner countries attended the event. The aim of the conference was to Xiomi, and Liu Yi, Global Sales Director of Xiaomi Communications Co Ltd, in the presence of Xiaomi talk about how to further strengthen the partnership with Xiaomi. On the occasion, Intertec Group WLL, senior off icials, including Lei Jun, CEO and Founder of Xiaomi; Ronnie Wang, General Manager; Usher the sole authorised distributor of Xiaomi Mobiles and Eco System products, was awarded as ‘Xiaomi’s Liu, Regional Manager; and Tony Qin, Retail Manager. Currently Xiaomi is at 3rd position in the Qatar Golden Distributor 2018’ for the significant performance in business and remarkable achievement market with 19% of market share as per the IDC report of 2nd quarter 2018. 10 GULF TIMES Thursday, October 18, 2018 COMMUNITY INFOGRAPHIC Thursday, October 18, 2018 GULF TIMES 11 LIFESTYLE/HOROSCOPE COMMUNITY New smartwatch app can spot how many times you roll as you sleep

esearchers and ambient lighting. “Our from Lancaster project aims to unlock the University in the full potential of off-the-shelf UK and Northwest consumer smartwatches, taking University in China advantage of their sophisticated Rhave developed an app for suite of sensors to gain a fuller Smartwatches that can efficiently understanding of a wearer’s estimate sleep quality and sleep patterns,” said Dr Petteri provides users with practical Nurmi, a Lecturer from Lancaster advice to help them get a better University and co-author of the night’s snooze. work. Results showed that The team hopes the technology “SleepGuard” can estimate sleep can help users to have a deeper quality at a similar accuracy to and more comprehensive consumer-grade sleep monitors. understanding of their sleep and SleepGuard can also count enable them to take informed the number of times the wearer actions to improve the quality of rolls over during sleep – another their sleep and, as a result, their indicator of sleep quality with health. excessive rollovers potentially “When compared to existing indicating disturbed sleep. sleep monitors on the market, The app is also able to capture SleepGuard is able to report a key information about the factors wider range of sleep events and behind sleep quality and can help provide wearers with a better wearers identify the root causes of understanding for the causes their poor sleep. noisiness as well as breathing at Lancaster University and co- combination of different non- of their sleep problems,” noted “Sleep quality has been shown patterns, sleeping postures author of the research. biomedical factors – including Dr Liqiong Chang, Assistant to depend on a wide range of and bedtime routines,” said Dr “SleepGuard” was tested body movements, sounds Professor at Northwest factors, such as ambient light, Zheng Wang, Senior Lecturer on 15 participants. It tracks a related to sleep disorders University.– IANS

ARIES TAURUS GEMINI March 21 — April 19 April 20 — May 20 May 21 — June 20

There’s a great deal of power to your words today, Aries, so be careful Answers may not be crystal clear today, Taurus. They probably won’t Your head should be quite clear today, Gemini, and your witty how you use them. You may end up manipulating another’s choices be laid out in a neat and organised manner. Get out in the open air and comments will be met with appreciation and laughter. Your smile will if you aren’t careful with your conduct. Make sure you give others the join friends for a long bike ride. Fly a kite or feel the wind blow through delight everyone you encounter. Don’t be afraid to let your feelings out freedom and empowerment to decide things for themselves. Be open your hair on top of a mountain peak. The answer is flowing through the to those who need to hear them. Focus your energy on the ones you and honest about all the facts that might influence their decisions in air around you. Stop looking down at the ground for the information love. Your heart is warm and generous, so share it with other people any way. you seek. today. CANCER LEO VIRGO June 21 — July 22 July 23 — August 22 August 23 — September 22

Don’t worry about probing too deeply today, Cancer. Trust people You might consider taking a short trip today, Leo. Perhaps you need to Your mind might be stimulated today, Virgo, so stay alert and open to more than you normally would. You will find that things go much get out of the house and go across town. Whatever it is, introduce your new information. If you feel tired, take a short nap. It’s better to operate more smoothly if you approach them from a neutral or positive and brain to a new reality. It’s time to expand and explore. You itch to see at top speed and full capacity than go through your day only half not accusatory position. Listen to the people you care about the most. new places and experience new things, either physically or mentally. present. Don’t rely on external stimulants like caff eine to pick you up. They’re trying to convey important information. You might not want to Perhaps a religious sanctuary or quiet place in grove of trees is what These things will deceive your body and do damage to your nervous hear it now, but in the long run, . you need in order to quench this inner thirst. system. LIBRA SCORPIO SAGITTARIUS September 23 — October 22 October 23 — November 21 November 22 — December 21

Communication is flowing smoothly today, Libra, so take advantage of Don’t let fear of failure or fear of success hold you back, Scorpio. Even Powerful thoughts are running through your brain. You will find that this this and get the word out. It’s important for you to make connections though you may feel a natural tendency to want to shrink into the information can be transforming, Sagittarius. The key is to learn from with other people now. Run with your instincts and feel free to enter background and take the easiest route, you might be sacrificing your others and incorporate opposing viewpoints into your state of mind. into debates. Your words and tone of voice are very convincing. You true purpose when you do. Become the leader instead of following the Don’t automatically disregard the opinion of another just because it could sell anything to anyone today. leader. Rid yourself of all fear and take control of your destiny. contradicts your own beliefs. Teamwork is the name of the game on a day like today. CAPRICORN AQUARIUS PISCES December 22 — January 19 January 20 — February 18 February 19 — March 20

Information coming your way today might be unreliable, Capricorn. Be careful about being manipulated by another person today, Aquarius. Information you receive today may get you stirred up, Pisces. It could be hard for you to take a solid hold on the messages you get. It’s possible that someone is putting words in your mouth in order to Remember that it takes two to start an argument. You play an equal Keep in mind that there are important answers waiting to be heard. get you to act a certain way. Don’t fall into this trap. Be your own person part in any disagreement. If you want to promote peace and harmony, These answers will come to you when you least expect them. Keep your and think for yourself. Your mind is susceptible and vulnerable now. Use your words and body language must show this. If peace and harmony mind open to new possibilities and the path will open up and become your eyes and ears as a filter and don’t let people unload their garbage aren’t your ultimate goal, you may need to look inside yourself to clear. Don’t compromise your consciousness with abusive substances. on you. explore the reasons why. 12 GULF TIMES Thursday, October 18, 2018 COMMUNITY CARTOONS/PUZZLES

Wordsearch Adam

Pooch Cafe

Make ’em Laugh

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Codeword Every letter of the alphabet is used at least once. Squares with the same number in have the same letter in. Work out which number represents which letter.

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Sudoku

Bound And Gagged

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, October 18, 2018 GULF TIMES 13 PUZZLES COMMUNITY

Super Cryptic Clues Colouring

ACROSS DOWN 1. Did sun rot the seat? (6) 1. It’s extra, you say, for the 4. ‘Sweets,’ in turn, should be garment (8) underlined (8) 2. A switch for the water (8-3) 10. Drink back, too (7) 3. That’s nothing like, really! (4) 11. Trot off after the man, an 5. Scrutinised the material cut assistant (7) up (8) 12. Dash in pursuit (4) 6. The buzzing of the honey- 13. Trouble there will be if you bees? (5,5) buy the infernal thing? (5,2,3) 7. Don’t keep? Twaddle! (3) 16. Find it practicable to get over 8. Ways in which the man there from the gorge (6) digresses (6) 17. In one bag, wrapped up, I put 9. Tell one to arrange things (5) a plant (7) 14. With one’s praise, gave Answers 20. A wild tit in a bird-cage, satisfaction? (4,7) penned (7) 15. How the bus conductor said Wordsearch Codeword 21. Seize the music (6) ‘Going Dutch treat’? (2,8) 24. And is in trouble about one 18. The main salon is let out at foreigner (10) certain times of year (8) 25. Just skip it, lady! (4) 19. Do they beat other disguises? 27. Is not sauntering about at the (8) meeting-place (7) 22. Exercising, is so slim and 29. Put away the money inside, supple (6) once disturbed (7) 23. Game to keep an eye on (5) 30. She’s the mad girl running 26. Sound not so hollow when round inside (8) you open up (4) 31. Is clearly afraid of the many 28. A look of strain (3) debtors (6)

Yesterday’s Solutions

Across: 1 Backlog; 5 Granted; 9 Down: 1 Bow-legged; 2 Callers; Wilma; 10 See things; 11 Eleven; 3 Leaves out; 4 Gasp; 5 Great 12 Stingily; 14 Gusto; 15 Two hopes; 6 Ashen; 7 Tension; rounds; 18 Debutante; 20 Excel; 8 Dusky; 13 Stand aside; 16 22 Saturday; 24 Indeed; 26 One and all; 17 Salad days; 19 Adoration; 27 Anita; 28 Rosette; Buttons; 21 Crevice; 22 Stair; 23 29 Tellers. Roast; 25 Unit. 14 GULF TIMES Thursday, October 18, 2018 COMMUNITY REVIEWS Family meal served up Oath idea for Barinholtz bickering was fodder for a great Barinholtz served as the writer, By Rick Bentley script. director, producer and star of The Writing a politically charged Oath. script makes sense for Barinholtz “Before this, everything I have ke Barinholtz got more than a as he thought about a career in done has gone through some kind drumstick and a piece of pie government while he was growing of fi lter,” Barinholtz says. “Even at the Thanksgiving meal he up in Chicago. episodes of TV shows that I have hosted after the 2016 election. “Election Day was a very big directed have had to go through He also ended up with an idea day for me growing up. I have very fi lters. You go through the fi lter of Ifor a script that eventually became fond memories of being a little boy the producer of the TV show. the feature fi lm The Oath. and going to polling places where I “This was the fi rst time I was able Barinholtz wrote and directed would hand out doughnuts, watch to change something in my head the script about a family people come into vote and see the and present it with no fi lters. And Thanksgiving that ends up going politicians,” Barinholtz says. “It so, I really believe the director part from a discussion to argument to was so glamorous to me, but also controls everything.” police shooting. All the comedy, instilled in me this sense of civic Barinholtz did hedge his bet drama and chaos is triggered by a pride. I really could see myself as a little by surrounding himself government mandate that everyone being a senator from Illinois. with people he could trust. The must sign an oath of loyalty to the “Then as I got older I started to cast includes Tiff any Haddish, United States. think that maybe I didn’t have the John Cho, Max Greenfi eld, Jon “I always have a big Thanksgiving discipline to be a politician. I said Barinholtz and Billy Magnussen. at my house,” Barinholtz says. “My to myself that instead of being a The way he has written The Oath mom, my brother and I got into politician, I could play a politician. has a very claustrophobic feel, as this big argument. We were all kind So the arts won.” much of the story takes place inside of blaming each other for what Although Barinholtz is best a residence. Barinholtz is happy the happened in the election. known for his on-screen work way the movie is shot comes across “What struck me was that we’re in such productions as Blockers, a lot like a stage play, but he wasn’t all on the same side and had voted Snatched, Suicide Squad, Sisters thinking along those lines while for the same person. I thought if and Mark Felt: The Man Who writing the script. He just wanted this was going on around our family Brought Down the White House, to create a fi lm that would trigger table, what was going on at tables the Chicago native has done a lot some discussions. across the country?” of writing. He was very active in Right now, The Oath is just a He quickly found out his family the writer’s room while on MADtv movie. The idea of a national oath was not an exception. All the and was one of the writers for The of loyalty resonates with such confl ict made Barinholtz realise the Mindy Project. Barinholtz also potential to be a reality, Barinholtz holiday designed to bring families penned the buddy comedy fi lm says, “I keep checking Twitter to together had been changed forever. Central Intelligence. make sure it hasn’t happened.” – The silver-lining was the political Unlike his other past jobs, TNS Beautiful Boy is not a cautionary tale

character whose traits are some of the Also problematic is the onscreen By Kenneth Turan most familiar in contemporary cinema: depiction of David’s character. Though If you’ve lost track of the number of drug the extent of his devotion to his son is addicts and/or sullen, disaff ected teens undeniable, as played by Carell, David t was hinted at in Lady Bird and you’ve seen on screen, please raise your also comes across as self-involved and a other small roles and became hand. bit pompous, full of complacent parental more visible when Call Me By Your With moments reminiscent of James advice on the order of “your feeling of Name made him the youngest actor Dean, the ne plus ultra of these roles, alienation will pass.” nominated for a lead actor Oscar Chalamet both echoes the best of what’s Though both David’s current wife, Isince 1939. Now Beautiful Boy makes it come before and makes the part his Karen (Maura Tierney), and his fi rst wife offi cial: Timothee Chalamet might be the own, allowing us to feel we’ve never and Nic’s mother, Vicki (Amy Ryan), are male actor of his generation. seen a character like this. If you want to characters here, neither is given quite Still only 22, Chalamet gives an witness what honesty, authenticity and a enough to do, which may well be a factor extraordinary performance in this remarkable gift can accomplish, this is the of David’s obsessive determination to story of a young man’s descent into place to go. handle everything about his son himself. methamphetamine addiction and the Having the good fortune (or But just when you start to lose patience years-long attempt of his journalist misfortune, depending on how you look with Beautiful Boy, Chalamet returns to father, played by Steve Carell, to pull him at it) of playing opposite Chalamet is the screen and holds you absolutely. The out. Carell, a capable dramatic actor whose actor deftly conveys the teenage ability Not everything else in this fi lm, performance here is inevitably not in the to go from contrite to belligerent in a based on memoirs by the real-life father same league as his co-star’s. heartbeat, he makes the familiar horrors and son, David and Nic Sheff , and For though there are elements of of addiction and withdrawal feel fresh, straightforwardly directed by Belgium’s Beautiful Boy that strike notes diff erent and when he tells his father, “You don’t Felix Van Groeningen, measures up to from the usual, there is a sameness to all know who I am – this is me, Dad, this is this performance, but it matters not. addiction stories — the push and pull of who I am now,” he nails the moment. Chalamet is so good it’s worth seeing hope and despair — that can feel overly Beautiful Boy begins with David Beautiful Boy for his work alone. familiar and dramatically unsatisfying in quizzing a specialist (a welcome Timothy The actor’s performance is especially Luke Davies’ screenplay, even if they are Hutton) about what crystal meth is doing noteworthy because it comes playing a based on fact. to his son. – Los Angeles Times/TNS Thursday, October 18, 2018 GULF TIMES 15 SHOWBIZ COMMUNITY Ashvin Kumar hits out at CBFC for ‘abuse of power’

HONOUR: Rita Ora has become the most successful UK female artiste of all time on the UK Official Singles Chart. Rita Ora makes music chart history in UK

Singer Rita Ora has become the most successful UK female artiste of all time on the UK Offi cial Singles Chart. Her new single Let you love me has become her 13th top 10 on the Offi cial Singles Chart, climbing to number eight on the latest Top 40. It means Ora has set a new UK chart record for the most Top 10 singles by a British female artiste. The star has overtaken singers Shirley Bassey and Petula Clark, who each lay claim to 12 Top 10 hits, read a statement. “I’m so grateful and honoured – this is insane. I can’t put into words what this means to me. I appreciate everyone’s support. To my fans, thank you for your patience and thank you always for listening. I wouldn’t be here without you, and I promise to keep giving you all my best,” Ora said. She has had a strong run of success on the Offi cial Chart of late. Since June last year, fi ve of her singles have reached the top tier: Your song (seven), Lonely together (with DJ Avicii, four), Anywhere (two), For you (eight) and Let you love me. Let you love me is the latest single from her forthcoming second album Phoenix, which will release on November 23. Co-written by Ora, Let you love me is a mid- tempo pop song, revealing her insecurities in a new relationship. – IANS

A Star is Born soundtrack tops Billboard 200 Albums Chart

The soundtrack of singer-actress Lady Gaga and CRITICAL: Ashvin Kumar has questioned the CBFC’s decision to give his new movie No Fathers in Kashmir an ‘A’ certificate. actor Bradley Cooper’s A Star is Born made its debut at number one position on Billboard 200 Albums Chart. ilmmaker Ashvin Kumar has certifi cate to big budget Bollywood fi lm protest by the fi lmmaker, both were given Released via Interscope Records, the album makes questioned the Central Board Haider, which was far more critical of the an ‘A’ certifi cate, read the statement. this Gaga’s fi fth consecutive number one album, read a of Film Certifi cation’s (CBFC) situation in Kashmir than No Fathers in Kumar, son of veteran fashion designer statement. decision to give his new movie Kashmir”. Ritu Kumar, says the ‘A’ certifi cate is The album has also got number one spot on iTunes in No Fathers in Kashmir an ‘A’ He feels the CBFC has “avoided looking “death by strangulation” for a fi lmmaker. over 75 countries, including the US. certifiF cate, which he says is discriminatory at the totality of No Fathers in Kashmir’, Explaining why, he said: “Being an The soundtrack was released on October 5. It features to a small independent fi lm. as it is mandated to do by its own rules, independent fi lm without big studio new music from its principal stars: Grammy Award- No Fathers in Kashmir, a Kashmir-set by ignoring the fi lm’s overall message of backing, monetisation is a challenge in winner Gaga and the fi lm’s director and actor Cooper. story of forgiveness and hope told through forgiveness and hope”. itself. Theatrical revenues barely cover Performed by Gaga and Cooper, the soundtrack’s lead two teenagers experiencing fi rst-love and “CBFC viewed the fi lm instead through marketing costs and producers expect to single Shallow is currently at number fi ve spot on the heartbreak, was given an ‘A’ certifi cate a narrow prism that belies a complex, make 50-60 per cent of the total revenues Billboard Hot 100 and has held the number one spot on following a review committee screening on multi-layered narrative. CBFC has also from broadcast rights, not to mention the iTunes since the day after its September 27 premiere. – October 6. completely ignored the reality of the audience exposure a fi lm gets from being IANS Kumar says the movie has no sex, no present situation in the country, ignored on TV. violence, no vulgarity, no profanity, no facts already in the public domain, ignored “Under present laws broadcasters nudity and no drug abuse, as it attempts evolving tastes of younger audiences, cannot air ‘A’ certifi cate fi lms on TV. They to provide a fresh and youthful look at ignored content presently available on TV can only run either ‘U/A’ or ‘U’ certifi cate an old issue by involving young people and Internet and ignored precedents of fi lms. Thus, an ‘A’ certifi cate is as good as whose lives echo the lives of its teenaged previous fi lms on Kashmir being cleared banning the fi lm,” he said. protagonists. for universal screening. He says by the time No Fathers in “The CBFC’s decision is, fi rstly, against “CBFC’s stand is retrograde. It reiterates Kashmir is given relief by the courts of the established law. In the case of Pankaj decades of tired concepts that have left land, it may become “fi nancially unviable Bhutalia’s fi lm on stone pelting in Kashmir, little room for dialogue while denying,” to release the fi lm”. The Textures of Loss, in which the facts Kumar added. “I lost both revenue and audience due are almost similar to that of No Fathers in Kumar has earlier made fi lms like to CBFC’s misuse of the ‘A’ certifi cate Kashmir, the Delhi High Court converted Inshallah, Football and Inshallah, Kashmir, in the case of Inshallah, Football and the ‘A’ rating to ‘U’,” Kumar said in a both about Kashmir. They won a National Inshallah, Kashmir. This is the third time SUCCESS: The soundtrack of the movie starring statement. Award each and were awarded at Dubai, they are trying to restrict my fi lm using an singer-actress Lady Gaga, above, and actor Bradley The fi lmmaker has also pointed out that Pusan, Chicago and other international ‘A’ certifi cate. This is an abuse of power, Cooper made its debut at number one position. CBFC is “being discriminatory to a small festivals. But they too were both initially whereas CBFC’s mandate is only to certify independent fi lm as it has awarded a U/A banned by the CBFC then, and after a fi lms,” Kumar added. – IANS 16 GULF TIMES Thursday, October 18, 2018 COMMUNITY On Captain Cook’s anniversary, a look at the journey of vitamin C When James Cook began his first Pacific voyage 250 years ago, scurvy was ‘the plague of the sea,’ decimating ship crews with little or no vitamin C intake. By Heidemarie Puetz

PIONEERS: This year marks the 250th anniversary of the first Pacific voyage by British naval off icer and explorer, James Cook, one of the pioneers in the fight against scurvy.

RECOMMENDATION: While sales of vitamin supplements continue to boom, many experts say they’re unnecessary and instead recommend a diet Redoxon. Thus began the spectacular low in meat and high in fruit and vegetables. career of vitamin C, an essential dietary component found mainly in fruits and hether as a serum, in tablet and explorer James Cook, one of the pioneers However, he didn’t propagate his fi ndings vegetables including citrus fruits, berries, form or by weight, vitamin in the fi ght against scurvy. strongly enough, says Dr Ulrich Troehler, Brussels sprouts and spinach. It is involved C supplements sell very Organised by the Royal Society in emeritus professor of the history of medicine in many metabolic processes and as an well indeed. Many buyers conjunction with the Admiralty of the at the University of Bern (UNIBE) in antioxidant may limit the damaging eff ects of - often spurred by hyped Royal Navy, the expedition aboard the HMS Switzerland. free radicals, the molecules produced when Wadvertisements - expect health benefi ts from Endeavour began on August 26, 1768, ending Moreover, in the postscript to the third the body breaks down food or is exposed to the supposed wonder nutrient that medical in 1771. and fi nal edition of his A Treatise of the tobacco smoke and radiation. experts question. Another Pacifi c voyage followed in 1772, Scurvy,published between 1753 and 1772 “In the beginning, no medical need was There’s no doubt, however, that vitamin and a third in 1776, during which Cook was and summarising a century of work on seen [for vitamin C supplements], and then C - scientifi cally known as L-ascorbic acid killed by natives in Hawaii. the disease, Lind concluded that it had no they became a blockbuster,” says Beat Baechi, - prevents and cures scurvy, a nutritional Cook experimented with a variety of defi nitive remedy. a research fellow at the UNIBE’s Institute for defi ciency disease characterised by fatigue, substances presumed to have antiscorbutic Cook and Royal Navy surgeon William the History of Medicine. “It was a matter of anaemia, joint and muscle pain, bruising, (anti-scurvy) properties, including cress, Perry, who sailed with him on the Endeavour, boosting individual performance. You were connective tissue weakness, poor wound sauerkraut, carrot marmelade, mustard, rob preferred wort as an antiscorbutic sea already regarded as ill if you weren’t at your healing, bleeding gums and loosening or loss of lemon and orange. medicine - now known to be useless for this top performance level.” of teeth. Remarkably, not one of his crew died of purpose. Use of the supplements soared in the 1970s Fatal if left untreated, scurvy was called scurvy, the most frequent cause of death at It wasn’t until the mid-1780s that British when American scientist and two-time Nobel ‘the plague of the sea’ in the 18th century as it sea until the end of the 18th century. surgeon Robert Robertson and Gilbert Blane, Prize winner, Linus Pauling advocated mega- decimated ship crews with little or no vitamin In 1747, Sir James Lind, a Royal Navy physician to the West Indies fl eet, convinced doses of vitamin C for the common cold, C intake on lengthy voyages. surgeon, had conducted experiments in the Admiralty of the effi cacy of lemon juice, cancer and even schizophrenia. This year marks the 250th anniversary of which he determined that citrus fruits or which was offi cially adopted for use against The medical community was unconvinced. the fi rst Pacifi c voyage by British naval offi cer juices were eff ective in treating scurvy. scurvy in 1795. Today there’s hardly a processed food It wouldn’t be until 1928 that Hungarian without the additive E300 - ascorbic acid. biochemist Albert Szent-Gyorgyi fi rst It’s found, for example, in bread and yogurt. isolated vitamin C from plant juices and As an antioxidant, it increases shelf life and adrenal gland extracts, naming it hexuronic helps maintain colour. acid, now known as ascorbic acid. Four years While sales of vitamin supplements later, it was identifi ed as the curative agent continue to boom, many experts say they’re for scurvy. unnecessary and instead recommend a In 1933, British chemist Sir Norman diet low in meat and high in fruit and Haworth and Polish-born Swiss chemist vegetables. Vitamin C in excess of the Tadeus Reichstein independently succeeded body’s needs is quickly excreted in urine in chemically synthesising the vitamin, the anyway. fi rst to be artifi cially produced. According to the German Nutrition Reichstein’s method was superior, Society, a suffi cient daily intake is 110 allowing the vitamin to be synthesised in milligrams for men and 95 for women - bulk. It was patented and sold to the Swiss amounts provided by eating half a red pepper pharmaceutical company Hoff mann-La or an orange. And it’s now known that just EFFECTIVE: In 1747, Sir James Lind, a Royal Navy surgeon, had conducted experiments in which Roche, which marketed the vitamin as a 10 milligrams daily is enough to prevent he determined that citrus fruits or juices were eff ective in treating scurvy. dietary supplement under the brand name scurvy.– DPA