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Covid-19 meets the 2020 election: The perfect storm for misinformation. P4-5

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medicine. Or, try tying your meds to other habits. For example, you might leave your morning meds by your coff eepot.

Use reminders If you’re mostly at home, placing sticky notes near your medicines may be enough of an alert to keep you on track. Pillboxes are another low-tech tool. For a more high-tech option, set alarms or timers on your phone to remind you to take your medication. Your pharmacy may also off er a reminder service through phone calls and text messages. If your schedule varies from day to day, this service may be especially helpful.

Stay ahead on refi lls Some drug companies have shifted their focus toward helping with Covid-19. In addition, some people are taking drugs not yet proved to prevent or treat Covid-19. These situations may make it hard to get the medicine you need. Without access, your routine may lapse. A week or two before you need a refi ll, call your pharmacy to make sure your medication is available or order online. If there’s a shortage, your doctor may suggest other options. Before you pick up a prescription, check to see if your CREATE A SCHEDULE: If you take several medicines throughout the day, consider creating a schedule and posting it where you’ll see it often. pharmacy has drive-through or curbside pickup options. Or check with your pharmacy about mail he Covid-19 pandemic order or delivery. Ordering a 90- has turned life upside day supply of drugs instead of a down for many people. 30-day supply may be another way You may be working to stay on track. Tfrom home, not working If you run out of refi lls and can’t at all or have children at home see your doctor in person, ask if who don’t usually live with you, you can have a phone or online such as college kids. Juggling all visit instead. of the changes that the Covid-19 Cost can make it challenging pandemic has caused can make it to keep a steady supply of challenging to stay on top of your medication. If you’re having medication routine. trouble paying for your medicine, In addition, the Covid-19 ask your doctor about lower cost pandemic may cause you to feel alternatives. A generic version stressed, afraid and less hopeful. may cost much less. Your doctor These feelings may lead you to or pharmacy may also recommend make choices that worsen your organisations that can help cover medical condition, including the cost of medications. Drug not following your medication manufacturers also sometimes regimen as closely. Cost may also REFILL: A week or two before you need a refill, call your pharmacy to make sure your medication is available or off er discounts or programmes. be an issue, especially if you’re order online. unemployed. Reach out if you need to Whether you’re taking one medications from your doctor. This if you should make any changes. throughout the day, consider If you’re struggling to manage medication or several, it’s provides a clear roadmap for your If you can’t see your doctor in creating a schedule and posting it your medications, don’t isolate important to continue taking medication routine. Make sure person, a phone call or a video or where you’ll see it often. If you take yourself. Reach out to your doctor, them as directed by your doctor. it matches the drugs you have at online visit may be an option. These several medications, your doctor pharmacist, and family or friends Medicine helps keep medical home. types of telehealth visits can be or pharmacist may be able to help who care about you. With the conditions from getting worse. If you have questions about the helpful for conditions that need to with a schedule or off er ways to support of others and a solid Try these suggestions to help medicines you’re taking, call your be monitored, such as high blood make your routine simpler. plan in place, you can continue keep your routine on track. doctor or pharmacist. He or she pressure. If your daily routine has changed, to manage your medications and can guide you on any concerns you look to regular points, such as take good care of your health and Start with a list have, including risks involved with Map it out mealtimes and bedtime. These well-being. — Mayo Clinic News Have an up-to-date list of Covid-19. He or she can also tell you If you take several medicines can serve as cues for when to take Network/TNS 4 GULF TIMES Thursday, July 9, 2020 COMMUNITY COVER STORY After the pandemic the ‘infodemic’ Social media is the perfect platform for lightning-fast communication — and manipulation by people seeking to profit, sow discord or promote a political agenda. Factor in society’s preexisting fault lines, and you’ve got those “perfect storm,” conditions, writes Sandi Doughton

hen a mysterious a co-founder of the centre. As time goes on, what virus began racing “As time goes on, what we’re around the globe seeing is the convergence between we’re seeing is the early this year, Covid-19 and election 2020,” she Wscientists at the said. And that means the fl ood convergence between University of Washington’s newly of half-truths, distortions and created Center for an Informed fl at-out lies the World Health Covid-19 and election Public described it as the perfect Organization calls an “infodemic” 2020. Things are becoming storm for bogus information, both is only going to intensify. “Things innocent and malicious. are becoming more politicised,” more politicised So what’s the situation six Starbird said. months later, now that the The UW centre was launched coronavirus pandemic is playing in December to study the ways — Kate Starbird, Co-founder, out in tandem with a passionate misinformation spreads and push for racial justice and the the best methods to combat it. Center for an Informed opening volleys of the presidential The team was gearing up for race? The perfect superstorm? the census and the presidential ‘ Public ’ Pretty much, says Kate Starbird, contest, which they expected to Thursday, July 9, 2020 GULF TIMES 5 COVER STORY COMMUNITY

be their fi rst test cases. “Then the pandemic hit and “It’s really hard everything was crazy,” said director Jevin West, who also co-teaches the to determine UW’s popular “Calling B.S.” class whether where students learn to distinguish truth from spin. “This is like nothing something’s a bot I’ve ever seen in terms of the volume, and it’s growing massively or not. The thing every day,” he said. A lot of coronavirus that scares me misinformation began as honest the most is that attempts to share knowledge and help others, Starbird said. When we’re getting to emotions and uncertainty are high, people are particularly vulnerable the point where to seizing on simple solutions like home remedies or the oft-repeated, some people but baseless, claim that it’s possible don’t trust to diagnose yourself by holding your breath. One widely shared tweet, anything” purportedly from a scientist, falsely warned that hand sanitiser can’t kill viruses. In the Black community, rumours spread that dark skin — Jevin West, protects people from infection. Director, Center Even Starbird shared what turned out to be misguided tips for families for an Informed trying to protect relatives in senior living facilities, because she was so SEPARATING FACT FROM FICTION: University of Washington professors Jevin West, left, and Carl Bergstrom hope Public worried about her own parents. to teach a class on “BS.” “When we don’t have the information we need and feel what seemed true yesterday may not wasn’t serious enough to warrant briefi ng the CIA about a plan to use busloads of antifa activists inspired anxious about making decisions hold up tomorrow. shutdowns. vaccination to inject people with armed citizens to take to the streets about our health, our families Social media is the perfect Experts including UW biology microchips. to defend their communities, and our livelihoods, people come platform for lightning- professor Carl Bergstrom — who A video called “Plandemic” including the town of Snohomish together and try to make sense of fast communication — and studies pandemic response and pins the viral outbreak on a cabal north of Seattle. Protesters in what’s going on,” she said. manipulation by people seeking teaches the “Calling B.S.” class that includes Gates, the World Washington, DC, were duped by the West and his colleagues have to profi t, sow discord or promote with West — pointed out multiple Health Organisation, big pharma viral #DCblackout hashtag warning already amassed a data set that a political agenda. Factor in fl aws in the reasoning, including a and military labs that supposedly that police were blocking cellphone includes more than a billion society’s preexisting fault lines, and mistaken assumption the pandemic manipulated the virus. Starbird and communications. Twitter messages about the novel you’ve got those “perfect storm,” would follow a bell-shaped curve. her colleagues traced the way the Some of the rumours may have coronavirus. “People will be digging conditions. Medium deleted the post within video blazed across the twitter- originated organically, while others into this data for decades to come,” We can be equally vulnerable to 32 hours. But the piece had already verse, amplifi ed by anti-vaccination were deliberate misinformation, he said. misinformation when our political gone viral by then, thanks largely groups among others, before it Starbird said. But so far, she While the emergence of a identities are engaged, which makes to being highlighted by several Fox was deleted by YouTube and other hasn’t seen evidence of the type of new virus was a surprise, the us more likely to pass on without News personalities, Starbird found. platforms. international meddling documented proliferation of misinformation critical consideration posts that Some of them later acknowledged But the damage lingers, Caulfi eld during 2016, when Russian wasn’t. It happens during every align with our views, Starbird the problems with the post, but said. One of the video’s more trolls masqueraded both as BLM crisis, as people desperate to fi gure said. As the coronavirus pandemic those corrections were not widely outrageous claims is that wearing protesters and critics, with the likely out what’s going on share rumours quickly became as much a political circulated. a mask can activate viruses and goal of deepening divisions among and scraps of information — some debate as a public health crisis, The pandemic has also fostered sicken people — an argument now Americans. useful, some dangerously wrong, partisan players increasingly began conspiracy theories, though many of being raised by citizens furious Automated bots, programmed Starbird said. amplifying messages to serve their them aren’t actually new, said Mike about local mask mandates. Wearing to churn out tweets and retweets, In most crises, like earthquakes own agendas. Caulfi eld, a digital literacy expert masks, a staple of infection control almost certainly are playing a or hurricanes, the period of Starbird and her colleagues at Washington State University, in hospitals, has now become a role in spreading coronavirus uncertainty — when people engage analysed the spread of an initially Vancouver. The pandemic is only badge of political identity, with disinformation, but how much in what’s called “collective sense- obscure post on Medium, a the latest of many ills blamed on 5G many conservative politicians until is still not known, West said. making” — is short. But a pandemic blogging platform that doesn’t networks, though perhaps the fi rst recently scoffi ng at the idea. Researchers at Carnegie-Mellon is a slow-moving process with high fact-check most content, that was to inspire people to burn dozens of Tropes that circulated during University recently estimated that stakes. And because this pathogen quickly elevated by conservative cell towers in Britain, Belgium and previous Black Lives Matter nearly half of Twitter accounts is new, even basic information, commentators. Authored by a The Netherlands. Bill Gates is a demonstrations are also surfacing posting about coronavirus may not like how people become infected, Silicon Valley marketer, the post perennial target. An old, discredited again, like claims that liberal be actual people. But the group’s was initially unknown. With our was packed with data and graphs video now circulating again purports billionaire George Soros is funding research hasn’t been published understanding changing so quickly, and argued that the epidemic to show the Microsoft co-founder protest marches. False claims about yet and is being questioned by other experts. “It’s really hard to determine whether something’s a bot or not,” West said. Perhaps the most corrosive eff ect of pervasive misinformation and disinformation is the way it undermines confi dence in the very institutions we all rely on, especially during crises, he added. “The thing that scares me the most is that we’re getting to the point where some people don’t trust anything.” As the election approaches, the pandemic and its human and economic impacts are certain to become even more entwined with politics and other disinformation eff orts, Caulfi eld said. “I think what we’re looking at now makes what we were facing in 2016 look almost quaint,” he said, referring FALSE: A video called “Plandemic” pins the viral outbreak on a cabal that to organised networks intent on includes Bill Gates, the World Health Organisation, big pharma and military creating confusion and swaying the labs that supposedly manipulated the virus. outcome. —The Seattle Times/TNS 6 GULF TIMES Thursday, July 9, 2020 COMMUNITY INTERIOR DESIGN A tale of two cities

Art is given centre stage in a designer’s bright monochrome apartment that combines New York style and London chic. By Kate Jacobs

OPEN HOUSE: The bright living space is complemented by tranquil greys.

arl Blücher sits in his bedrooms, so losing one didn’t seem collection was the starting point for trademark baseball cap so dramatic after that,” he explains. the decor. “I keep the furniture pared and eye-poppingly bright “I like the idea of openness but not back and simple, with a slightly 60s TOUCH OF GLASS: There’s quite a minimalistic statement in the kitchen. trainers, his friendly literal one-room living.” Scandinavian vibe because I don’t Cminiature dachshund, The fl at is two rooms wide and want it to compete for attention Mr Big, on his knee in his New-York- three rooms deep, and originally with the art.” Blücher is attracted loft-inspired east London fl at. When had a corridor snaking in between, to edgy, graphic pieces, often with the new Whistles creative project says Blücher, who came to London a humorous element, such as his manager bought the compact fl at in 2001 and studied product design David Shrigley drawing, for which he in an Edwardian mansion block 13 at Camberwell College of Art, then customised a traditional gilded frame years ago, the original dining room Central Saint Martins. For a decade, with neon light tubing. was being used as a third bedroom he oversaw the creative direction of “I also like to buy works by new and the kitchen was tucked away at Islington design store Aria, where he artists, often from graduation shows. the back. It felt very small, dark and championed collaborations between I really like to get to know the artist boxy,” says Blücher, but “I could see artists and designers including and many become friends.” To that the proportions of the rooms graphic artist Camille Walala, which create a cohesive feel, a black and were good.” saw her Memphis-inspired designs white theme runs through many of He lived here for a couple of years, featuring on furniture and home the pieces. “Monochrome is quite a making only cosmetic changes before accessories. Now he’s excited about timeless look that transcends trends, moving and renting the place out to his new creative role at Whistles. and it feels right for the city.” friends. “But all the time I was away, “It’s a big fashion brand but it feels Painting the whole fl at white and I kept thinking about this fl at and exciting, like an independent.” dressing the windows overlooking how best to make it work.” Three His masterstroke was to swap the the traffi c-heavy street with opaque years ago, he and his friend Ben, who dark central bedroom with the little white blinds was, he says, an obvious works in fashion marketing, decided kitchen at the back of the fl at, built move to maximise the natural light. to return. “I’ve always loved Lower back when kitchens were purely The atmosphere manages to be both Clapton. It’s really diverse with a functional rather than recreational tranquil and stimulating, ultimately brilliant sense of community – but spaces, and measuring 100 sq ft. adapting to what’s happening in now it has good restaurants, too.” He then took down the walls of the the fl at: “It works well whether Blücher is particularly happy about central room, opening it up into the I’m working or seeking some calm, living in a fl at. “Maybe it was growing wraparound corridor, eff ectively whether we’ve got a crowd round for up in Sweden, but houses seem safe doubling the space and lightening dinner or are just relaxing here with and provincial to me. I always wanted it up in the process. “It creates a Mr Big.” to live in a fl at. It’s that New York loft better atmosphere when you come A mix of midcentury-inspired idea – apartments seem more cool.” straight into the kitchen rather than modern furniture and antiques, The mansion block’s dual function, a cramped corridor. It s the heart typically 18th- and 19th-century utilitarian heritage – it was in fact of the home now, says Blücher. He pieces from candelabra to gilt- designed with shops at ground level decided to go for a period look in framed paintings bought in the UK and fl ats above for the shopkeepers the kitchen, with its Shaker-esque or on trips to France and Sweden, added to its appeal. Blücher set about panelled cabinets, marble worktops, bring depth and texture to this giving this little place some Big Apple range cooker and metro tiles, as a modern space. “They bring their character, starting with the front nod to the Edwardian building. He own history to the room,” says bedroom, which he turned back into chose a central kitchen island with Blucher. “I grew up in an eclectic a dining room, knocking it through a butcher’s block-inspired wooden home that was full of memories of to the living room to create a bright, top. “We eat breakfast here and it’s a our family’s travels – and now I’m pleasingly proportioned space. “We great place to congregate at parties.” building that for myself.” thought about getting rid of two Elsewhere in the fl at, Blücher’s art — The Guardian PET FRIENDLY: Carl’s pet Mr Big on a Frank Gehry cardboard chair. Thursday, July 9, 2020 GULF TIMES 7 GARDENING COMMUNITY Time to heat up the garden with dazzling new blanket flowers

Heat It Up Yellow and Heat It Up Scarlet have been winning awards that should catch everyone’s attention, writes Norman Winter

POLLINATOR: Heat It Up Yellow blanket flower will attract an assortment of pollinators such as this Eastern Tiger Swallowtail.

MAXIMUM HEIGHT: Heat It Up Scarlet blanket flower or gaillardia made its debut this spring. They will reach about 2-feet tall with a spread of close to 3-feet.

n early June I had the there was a 12-month gaillardia, not Heat it Up Yellow and Heat it Up opportunity to attend the annual, not perennial, but eternal. Scarlet may very well give you a Young’s Plant Farm 2020 Trial That’s not happening, but Heat spring return in Zones 8 and warmer Garden Tour, which is one of It Up Yellow and Heat It Up Scarlet but you can’t beat the value when Ithe most prestigious plant have been winning awards that growing them as an annual. The trials in the country. Among the should catch everyone’s attention. pollinators will love you — well showiest fl owers were two gaillardias Take the yellow for instance: Perfect maybe it’s the fl owers they’ll love or blanket fl owers that made their Score Louisiana State University, most. Plant in full sun in fertile debut this spring. Heat It Up Yellow Perfect Score All Season University well-drained soil. This need not be and Heat It Up Scarlet look to fulfi l of Tennessee, Perfect Score Oregon luxurious soil, just not boggy. They that lust most gardeners have for this State University and the award that will reach 24 inches tall with a spread fl ower. catches my eye, Leader of the Pack of 36 inches, so plan on spacing As a horticulturist who was born Early Summer, Leader of the Pack 12 to 24 inches. You do not have to and raised in Texas, I can tell you Summer and Leader of the Pack Late deadhead. Once the petals fall, you The Garden Guy has a deep and Summer, at the North Carolina State are left with a yellow globe that passionate love or lust for the blanket University J. C. Raulston Arboretum. almost resembles a gomphrena. fl ower, also known as fi rewheel, Those same awards went to Heat it Like the display Mother Nature sundance and of course the legendary Up Scarlet too; that’s what we really gives you at the roadside or in Indian Blanket. Whether you are a want, a gaillardia that blooms all meadows, note it is massing that horticulturist or not you too may summer. catches your eye. One here and one have fallen for this magical fl ower as When I was director of the there will be no match for planting it is native to 38 states. National Butterfl y Center in Mission, a fl at of these star performers. In Heat it Up Yellow and Heat It Up Texas, we planted gaillardias as part the trials the Heat It Up Yellow Scarlet are hybrid gaillardias coming of a wildfl ower refuge in the front of combined with Unplugged So Blue from Proven Winners. Those of us the visitor centre. Sure, we did this salvia took our breath way. The Heat who love gaillardias will admit to for beautiful colour but we did this It Up Scarlet too was combined in a loving them all, Gaillardia pulchella to bring in pollinators. It will work dazzling display, but with Supertunia that I was referring to above and just like that at your house too. Even Vista Mini Violet petunias. These Gaillardia aristata native to the west though we have just fi nished June, Heat it Up gaillardias will allow your COMBINATION: Heat It Up Yellow blanket flower and Mojave Fuchsia and northern half of the country all if you are fortunate to fi nd healthy Monet-like creativity to blossom no portulaca create quite a display at the Young’s Plant Farm 2020 Trial the way to New York. We love the transplants at your garden centre, matter where you live. Garden Tour. hybrids too. Deep down we wish buy them and get them in the ground. — TNS 8 GULF TIMES Thursday, July 9, 2020 COMMUNITY OFFB Can equine therapy reall

From Gucci to Margiela, designers are fascinated by horses. Hannah Marriott heads to the stables to find out whether their tranquillity can help slow her busy life

AUTHENTICITY METER: Horses are not goal oriented. They can tell if you are ne cold, bright morning in January, I not being authentic – if you are behaving one way but feeling another. stood in a field in Gloucestershire with my eyes closed and imagined I had four on petrol station forecourts. who post frequent selfies nuzzling legs. Just metres away was a herd of eight At couture fashion week, in long noses. Last summer, Maison O horses. Before meeting them, advised January, during the Franck Sorbier Margiela’s couture show was therapist Lisanne Peters, it was wise to meditate. collection, two horses appeared on dedicated to “a horse called Blue” First, she told me to focus on sensations – the smell a catwalk flanked by hay bales. On that creative director John Galliano of hay; the birdsong. Then she instructed me to the high street, Uniqlo promoted had met during three months of imagine myself, centaur-like, “with another back and its collaboration with Inès de la equine therapy in Arizona. This another set of legs behind you. Feel how sturdy, how Fressange with a picture of the memory had bubbled up now, he grounded, you are.” French style arbiter walking a said, in a podcast accompanying the This was the beginning of my equine therapy majestic, milk-white horse down show, because “I feel as though we experience. I have never been a horse person but a windswept beach. In menswear, are going through a survival mood recently surprised myself by wanting to try it. the Charles Jeffrey Loverboy show and perhaps needing to revert back Perhaps it was because I have felt as though lately was inspired by the Orkneys’ to trusting our instincts. You can’t I see horses everywhere, particularly in fashion. 200-year-old pagan ritual, the lie to a horse, it’s so sensitive; it TAKING INSPIRATION: Jennifer Lawrence in Dior’s Gucci’s latest ad campaign, for example, imagines Festival of the Horse. Fashion’s feels any anxiety or fear.” Cruise 2019 collection, influenced by escaramuzas — horses integrated in urban lives: models feed them in most powerful models – Bella and Blinkers now off, I started traditional, highly skilled Mexican horsewomen. the supermarket and hose their hooves off with water Gigi Hadid – are avowed horse girls to see the cowboy trend as a Thursday, July 9, 2020 GULF TIMES 9 BEAT COMMUNITY y de-stress a city slicker?

fashion desk, than I could shake a riding crop at. I made a sub-City Slickers entrance for my first session, arriving at the tranquil centre demanding an iPhone charger and insisting I make an important phone call before we start. Twenty minutes later, however, within the field of horses, it was impossible not to slow down. Peters invites me to observe how peaceful the horses are, just being, just living. She asks if there are any I am drawn to and would like to meet. At first, they all look like horses to me. But gradually, I differentiate them. I choose a huge chesnut mare and try to say hi; she walks away, to another pile of hay. (I try not to think: “But of course I am such a charisma vacuum that even a horse would not want to hang out with me.”) Eventually, I approach slowly from the side, on Peters’ advice. The horse turns her nose towards my fist; I stroke her. “Now you have done a horse greeting,” Peters says. Much of my experience is like this: simply moving among the herd as though I am one of them. It takes some time for me to stop trying to smile; to dispense with social niceties. It also takes time to stop feeling a bit judged when they appraise me based on my non-verbal cues, and walk away. It feels a bit like the way a PR with a clipboard at fashion week might coolly assess my status judging by my footwear and find me lacking. THERAPY: Equine therapy is often used for addiction and to help children with autism and veterans with post-traumatic stress disorder. Gradually, though, I learn to be less person about it. Status anxiety romanticisation of a time when but limited) but it is available, in is not very horse, after all. They human lives were enmeshed certain counties, on the NHS and accept what happens and move on. with horses’. It felt as though through well-respected mental As I start to do the same, they seem something was ahoof in the health centres. It’s worth noting, happier to be around me. collective subconscious. I began too – not least for the sake of My next session is more active to notice “equine therapy” briefly safety – that Peters would not – and hugely illuminating. I try mentioned in spa break features advise trying it out anywhere to lead the alpha male, Brannan, in Vogue and in press releases for that does not have deep specialist around the paddock. I assume he luxury retreats. knowledge. will play ball – I’ve seen this sort Like “forest bathing” and Still, Peters believes it can be of thing on TV – but he doesn’t. other increasingly popular eco- useful for everyone, whether for As he resists, I feel a familiar therapies, equine therapy speaks leadership, team-building, anxiety sensation of not being entirely to an interest in getting back to or self-esteem: “It helps us to take comfortable telling others what to something fundamental. After control of our lives and our selves, do, something I can hide behind all, humans lived with horses for like meditation, rather than letting smiles at work. Brannan, however, thousands of years – it was only external things take control of you reads me like a book. He ends up the advent of the motorcar that – the horse is a master teacher for leading me, instead, back to the separated us. “They have been that.” paddock entrance. I try again. He alongside us in evolution always,” Horses “are not goal oriented”, demures. Later, Peters advises Peters says. “There is that quote: she explains. “They don’t have the me that this kind of exercise is ‘History is strewn with the bones frontal cortex over-thinking.” And “all about having an intention – of a horse.’” The connection, as prey animals, relying on instinct knowing where you want to go. she believes, “is something very for survival, they are “living It’s about being comfortable with ancient that we need to get back biofeedback machines”, she says: being the leader.” All of which to”. “They can tell if you are not being sounds familiar. To be clear, while equine authentic – if you are behaving I’m surprised by how powerful therapy might sound kooky and one way but feeling another.” Great hanging out with horses has been, alternative, it has very serious “horse people”, she says, can align and how clearly, and wordlessly, applications. Peters’ centre “thinking, feeling and action – Brannan laid bare one of my issues. – the Red Horse Foundation – we call it becoming congruent” I’m not finished with him yet: I’ll specialises in trauma. Equine – at which point a horse will do be back for another session and therapy is often used for addiction anything for you. will try to lead him again. With and to help children with autism So far, my own equine therapy Peters’ help I’m sure I will succeed. and veterans with post-traumatic experience has given me plenty I’ll be able to stand on my own feet stress disorder. Research is in its to chew on; there were more once I’ve cracked it. All four of infancy (a 2015 paper reported that HORSE LOVERS: Fashion’s most powerful models – Bella and Gigi Hadid – are metaphors and lessons for my busy them. the studies so far are promising avowed horse girls who post frequent selfies nuzzling long noses. life, overseeing the Guardian’s — The Guardian 10 GULF TIMES Thursday, July 9, 2020 COMMUNITY INFOGRAPHIC Thursday, July 9, 2020 GULF TIMES 11 LIFESTYLE/HOROSCOPE COMMUNITY Tall children have higher risk of developing obesity: Study

f your child is taller, kindly more likely to have a higher body take note. Researchers have mass index than shorter children. found that children who For example, among the are relatively tall for their thinnest children at the start, Iage have a higher risk of the prevalence of obesity at the developing obesity. second exam was 5-fold higher Several studies have shown that in the tallest children than in the height in childhood is correlated shortest children (3.1 per cent with body mass index (BMI) and versus 0.6 per cent). Among the with body fatness.”As about half heaviest children at the start, the of this association is independent respective prevalence rates of of the initial body mass index of obesity were 89.5 per cent versus the child, the use of height may be 53.4 per cent. a simple way to more accurately The findings showed that the classify which children will association between taller height become obese,” said study lead and obesity at the second exam author David S Freedman from was strongest in children who Centers for Disease Control and were initially examined when they Prevention in the US. were younger than seven years For the findings, the research old. team examined the health records “Health professionals should of 2.8 million children who were recognise that greater childhood initially examined between two height for age before 12 years of and 13 years of age. When they age may be a marker for increased were re-examined with an average risk of subsequent obesity,” the of four years later (but up to 13 study authors wrote. years later), taller children were — IANS

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

People will understand and appreciate your desire to stand out from You love everyone on this planet, Taurus, and this isn’t the day to Sometimes you make mistakes because of your lack of objectivity, the crowd today, Aries. This isn’t a sign of arrogance on your part. It’s come bothering you with all the little details of everyday life. You’re Gemini. You have a certain tendency to wish that other people were just that you’re particularly perceptive right now and people need in orbit, on a voyage to the stars, and this great feeling of freedom is just like you. Yet this won’t be the case today. You’re using your your good advice. Since you’re ready to step into the spotlight and pushing you to demand more justice for all. You might even find the good sense and reason, or rather your reason is doing the talking shine like the stars that are giving you all this wonderful energy, go perfect situation today to use your wonderful diplomatic skills. It’s for you. It would be a great day for people to listen to you since your for it. You’d kick yourself if you let this opportunity pass. the least you can do. judgments have nothing to do with your personal feelings. CANCER LEO VIRGO June 21 — July 22 July 23 — August 22 August 23 — September 22

You were once a creature of reason, Cancer. For you, everything had How about changing roles today, Leo? It’s true that you aren’t one for idle Scientists are sometimes pretty strange. They can be so engrossed an explanation, a reason to exist, and a place in the world. You never chat. You prefer taking action rather than talking about grandiose ideas in reality that they seem almost absent from it, as if they float above missed a chance to share your viewpoint. Then all of a sudden, silence. that never go anywhere. Yet today you may actually feel like discussing the Earth. That’s a bit how you feel about things, too, Virgo. You like Perhaps you needed to get some perspective, not necessarily on the things in depth. The stars’ alignments are bringing out this other side of to explain the world in your own special way, the way you see it and things you know, but on how you express that knowledge. Now words you, so take advantage of the energy. Other people will be grateful since not necessarily the way it really is. That’s your secret. You know that have come back into your life and your ideas are more moderate. they’ve been waiting a long time for this day. no one else can see the world the way you do. LIBRA SCORPIO SAGITTARIUS September 23 — October 22 October 23 — November 21 November 22 — December 21

As the real Libra that you are, you aren’t in the habit of talking without The people around you would really appreciate it if you’d slow down You did the right thing to put off those important decisions and not saying anything constructive. Sometimes people accuse you of having and relax a little. You always seem to be running around, so much give in to pressure, Sagittarius. You know well that sometimes it’s nothing to say. When you’re just being patient, they say that you’re so, in fact, that you’ve been neglecting the people close to you, important to relax and rest for the busy times ahead. Today you’ll ignorant. When you’re demonstrating your tolerance, they say you’re especially your family. They really need you. They have issues to feel refreshed and ready to tackle the world. You see your problems indiff erent. Today it’s time for those people to learn the real truth about discuss with you. They need to feel the comfort of your arms. Your from a diff erent point of view, and you’re much more optimistic you and understand just how much you have to say about the world. arms need to open up to them first. about things. Now you can take a calm look at the situation. CAPRICORN AQUARIUS PISCES December 22 — January 19 January 20 — February 18 February 19 — March 20

You have a generous nature, Capricorn. You know how to give and It’s always like this at first with you, Aquarius. You know something is Are you sure that other people wouldn’t like you to be in another devote yourself to solving the problems others that confide in you. happening but have no idea what. It’s as if electricity flows through space than where you are right now, Pisces, or even be a diff erent This will still be true today, but not entirely in the same way. In fact, it you. You’re practically vibrating with emotion. You can feel other person than the one you always thought you were? These questions wouldn’t be wise for people to bother you with their problems if they people’s emotions, too. Begin by listening to your heart and feeling are beginning to bother you. Devote some time to thinking about really aren’t all that important. It’s high time for you to take care of the sensation in your body. Only then will you be able to judge the them. The answers you come up with won’t be entirely meaningful yourself for a while. intensity of your feelings. for a few more weeks. Try looking at the essential things today. 12 GULF TIMES Thursday, July 9, 2020 COMMUNITY CARTOONS/PUZZLES

Wordsearch Adam

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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

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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, July 9, 2020 GULF TIMES 13 PUZZLES COMMUNITY

Super Cryptic Clues Colouring

Across Down 1 Phone teacher who may send 1 Raises backs (5) in the clowns? (10) 2 Midday? No, almost one (4) 7 Clergymen dance so 3 Light fog, by the sound of it, is awkwardly (7) left out (6) 8 Tunes accompanied by graces? 4 Drunkards find room inside for (4) vegetables (8) 10 Hurry to see a marsh plant (4) 5 Terribly angered! (7) 11 Grit held loosely - it brings 6 Reverence for commercial traffic to a standstill (3,5) speech (9) 13 He sits around producing a 9 They run out of clothes (9) dissertation (6) 12 Maid dons new suit (8) 15 Heavy, uniteresting food - 14 One who votes for German for example, little Dorothy’s prince? (7) turnover (6) 16 An Arab craft? Yes, certainly! 17 Start to care about lack of (3,3) prejudice (4,4) 19 Article on operating room? 18 Music from one of the Stones? This is different (5) (4) 20 Move quickly in river (4) 21 School of note, in a way (4) 22 Girl seen on the moors (7) 23 Wash ferret, possibly, in this? (5,5) Solution Answers

Wordsearch Codeword 14 GULF TIMES Thursday, July 9, 2020 COMMUNITY REVIEWS Hanks returns to World War II as a struggling Naval commander

Schneider (Get Low) taking command here. By Kevin Crust In a way, it’s a classic wagon train movie — a western on the high seas — with Greyhound and three other destroyers escorting 37 Allied abelling someone as capable may troop and supply ships across The Black Pit, seem like faint praise, but in the a notorious stretch of the north Atlantic case of many of the characters in outside the range of air support. Krause is the the Tom Hanks pantheon you could wagon master, charged with commanding the Lsay it is a requisite trait. Astronaut, entire convoy. Army Ranger, Cold War attorney, airline In the fi rst two years of the war, German pilot, even Mister Rogers — all exhibit degrees U-boats targeted Britain’s crucial oceanic of discipline and attention to detail that beget supply chain, resulting in heavy losses, results. making Krause and Greyhound’s mission a It’s easy to see the appeal of capability as perilous one. It’s a war with which Hanks is an access point for an actor such as Hanks. familiar, after starring in Saving Private Ryan, These characters often wind up heroes, but at and writing and producing the miniseries heart they are men who know and understand Band of Brothers and The Pacifi c. the tools of their trade. Hanks is, after all, a Hanks’ script is spare and economical. man who enjoys the fi ne lines and precision of We learn little of Krause or the men in his Schneider’s direction is taut, limiting much and those go largely unfulfi lled, leaving the a good typewriter. He appreciates craft. command. The dialogue is spartan, prudently of the action to the confi ned spaces of the impression that something is missing. Commander Ernest Krause, Hanks’ role in focused on commands and manoeuvres, with ship’s bridge and its vantage points. The close “Greyhound, however, is an effi cient, the tense new World War II nautical drama the men’s actions telling us all we need to quarters ratchet up the tension and intimacy satisfying war fi lm. In that regard, it’s a fresh Greyhound, is indeed capable, but he is also know about their character. of a space where everyone can see you sweat. telling of familiar elements, buoyed by the shadowed by doubt. A career Naval offi cer, Krause is pious (in the book, he’s the son of The vastness of the icy Atlantic, it’s powerfully understated performances from Krause fi nally receives his fi rst command in a Lutheran minister) and merciful. He prays crashing waves and turbulent skies are Hanks and his fellow cast members, including the wake of the United States’ December 1941 regularly and quotes the Bible when meting rendered dramatically by cinematographer Shue, Graham, Karl Glusman and Tom entry into the war. Within two months, he out discipline. A fl ashback early in the fi lm Shelly Johnson, evoking the roiling seascapes Brittney. is at the helm of a Fletcher-class destroyer briefl y introduces Evelyn, played by Elisabeth of J.M.W. Turner. Blake Neely’s ominous, Given its sombre, melancholic tone and nicknamed Greyhound. Shue, the woman he loves. howling score plunges the fi lm immediately the uncertainty around when theatres will Adapted by Hanks from the novel The Good Onboard the ship, Krause is methodical into the danger zone, often with a subtlety be screening big new releases again, it’s Shepherd by C.S. Forester, best known for the and relies on his executive offi cer Charlie Cole only sonar can detect. understandable that Sony opted to go the Horatio Hornblower series and The African (Stephen Graham), steadied by the experience While the fi lm’s brevity is an advantage digital route in selling Greyhound to Apple Queen, the fi lm is the fi rst of the actor’s etched on the XO’s seaworthy face. Hanks — this is one lean voyage — a subplot TV+, but it would have been an especially feature screenplays — following That Thing and Graham exchange volumes through involving a Black sailor named Cleveland good fi lm to experience on the big screen You Do and Larry Crowne — that he did not looks and glances as Krause’s apprehension feels underdeveloped. Casting an actor of Rob in an auditorium with the air conditioning himself also direct, with fi lmmaker Aaron threatens to undermine his command. Morgan’s calibre sets certain expectations cranked up. – Los Angeles Times/ TNS Theron’s Old Guard could launch a new superhero franchise on Netflix

As the movie begins, she has candidates for membership, there’s By Cary Darling been off the grid for some time. now another immortal out there. The band of brothers in her squad – They need to get to her before the Booker (Matthias Schoenaerts, The government turns her into a human irst things fi rst. Mustang) as well as Joe (Merwan lab rat. As a straight-up action Kanjari, Aladdin) and his life Also out there is Merrick (Harry fi lm, The Old Guard – the partner, Nicky (Luca Maranelli), Melling from the Harry Potter cinematic realisation of who met centuries ago trying to movies), a Mark Zuckerberg-like Fwriter Greg Rucka and kill each other in battle – are glad tech wunderkind and corporate illustrator Leandro Fernandez’s to have her back as she has been titan who has become aware of graphic novel – leaves something to lured out of isolation by an old the immortals’ existence and is be desired. Director Gina Prince- associate, Copley (Chiwetel Ejiofor, determined to capture them and Blythewood (best known for such 12 Years a Slave). He’s an ex-CIA fi nd out what makes them tick. smaller dramas as The Secret Life of agent looking for a group of secret, Theron, who has had experience Bees, Behind the Lights and Love and ninjalike assassins to rescue a playing take-charge action fi gures Basketball) approaches her heavily group of Sudanese schoolchildren before in Mad Max: Fury Road and choreographed money shots with abducted by a shadowy terrorist Atomic Blonde, brings a weary grace a sense of fi nesse that robs them of group. Who better than Andy and to the role of Andy, while Layne their punch. crew? proves to be compelling as a young As a story, The Old Guard – Meanwhile, everyone in Andy’s woman caught up in something she in which a group of fatigued gang is having strange dreams of an doesn’t understand. It’s thanks to immortals battles evil on behalf as long as an immortal – in other frustration and quiet anxiety. Who American soldier, Nile (KiKi Layne, them and Schoenaerts that The Old of a humanity that has remained words, forever. can’t relate to that these days? If Beale Street Could Talk), fatally Guard is better than it might have blissfully unaware of its existence Yet there’s something aff ecting Suff ering the most is Charlize wounded in Afghanistan – but, been. for centuries – has a distinct about The Old Guard and its story Theron’s Andromache of Scythia strangely, not only remaining alive The Old Guard may not off er X-Men vibe. And since this is sort of a group of tired, unacknowledged (you can call her Andy), the leader but with her wounds miraculously anything new, but its recycled of an origin story, it’s no shock superhero soldiers going through and the oldest of this troubled healing almost instantaneously. heroics still provide a few to learn that the door is left wide the motions of saving humankind band. She wants to walk away from This can only mean one thing: intermittent thrills. – San Antonio open for a franchise that could last with an increasing level of her job completely. After centuries of having no new Express-News/ TNS Thursday, July 9, 2020 GULF TIMES 15 SHOWBIZ COMMUNITY

Rajkummar Rao: Omerta was emotionally and physically draining

Rajkummar Rao recalls how Hansal Mehtas 2017 release Omerta allowed him to push his boundary as an actor. “Omar in Omerta is certainly one of the most challenging characters I have ever played on screen. It drained me completely emotionally and physically. I could never have imagined that playing this part would mentally take me to such dark places. It’s a journey of one of the most deadly terrorists of our times and Hansal sir pushed me out of my boundaries to explore,” said Rajkummar, about the fi lm that saw him essay Omar Saeed Sheikh, British terrorist of Pakistani descent. “This wasn’t an easy fi lm to make, with multiple locations, adverse weather IN ISOLATION: Russell Crowe says conditions and often limited resources. What CHALLENGING: Rajkummar Rao recalls how Hansal Mehtas 2017 release Omerta drained him he found time spent isolating very we had in ample measure was heart. The emotionally and physically. productive. entire team has put their heart and soul into every minute of the process throughout the Mehta opened up about his association were exploring a character’s inner darkness Russell Crowe: Have been way,” the actor added. with the actor. “This (Omerta) was my through this fi lm’s protagonist Omar Sheikh. self-isolating for past 30 years Rajkummar has done some of his best fi fth collaboration with Rajkummar Rao, This is a fi lm I’m very proud of. Omerta is an work in Hansal Mehta fi lms. In fact, his and perhaps one of his biggest challenges important document of our times,” he said Actor Russell Crowe says he is pretty performance in Mehta’s 2013 release Shahid as an actor. After having made fi lms like of the fi lm, which streams on the Zee5 July 25 good at self-isolating as he has been won him Best Actor at the National Awards. Shahid, Citylights and Aligarh together, we onwards. – IANS practising it for the past 30 years. “It turns out I’ve been self-isolating on and off for the past 30 years, and I’m pretty good at it,” hollywoodreporter. com quoted Crowe as saying. “I’ve actually found it to be very Irrfan’s son Babil: My father productive; it’s given me refl ective time, but also creative time, time to write songs and write scripts and work on productions in the future. I was was defeated at the box office starting to feel like I had this life where I was dragging a whole bunch of tin cans and loose tile parts behind me. So in a way, being still for a while, I’ve by hunks with six pack abs actually been able to just go through a list and check things off ,” he added. The actor will soon be seen in ate actor Irrfan Khan’s audience, refused to evolve.” Unhinged. son Babil has taken “My father gave his life trying Talking about the fi lm, he said: “It a dig at Bollywood’s to elevate the art of acting in the was a whole bunch of driving stuff and “blatant sexism and adverse conditions of noughties car accidents, playing a really, really L same-old conventional Bollywood and alas, for almost dark character completely lacking in representations of patriarchy”. all of his journey, was defeated humanity. And look, I got a diff erent Babil shared that Irrfan had once in the box offi ce by hunks with hairdo, I’ve coloured my beard, I’ve told him that Bollywood is seldom six pack abs delivering theatrical changed all these other things, but my respected in world cinema. one-liners and defying the laws of engine was used to revving way higher, Babil spoke his mind in an physics and reality, photoshopped so that just felt really easy.” Instagram post yesterday. item songs, just blatant sexism Unhinged is scheduled for release He wrote: “You know one of the and same-old conventional on July 31, and will be a big test case most important things my father representations of patriarchy to see if people are willing to return to taught me as a student of cinema? (and you must understand, to be theatres at the moment. Before I went to fi lm school, he defeated at the box offi ce means “Well, we’ll see what happens. The warned me that I’ll have to prove that majority of the investment in studio is doing constant revisions on myself as Bollywood is seldom Bollywood would be going to the the idea in tandem with the exhibitors respected in world cinema and winners, engulfi ng us in a vicious and local governments. It’s a hard at these moments I must inform circle).” position to take, but at the end of the about the Indian cinema that’s “Because we as an audience day, somebody has to do it. They’ve got beyond our controlled Bollywood.” wanted that, we enjoyed it, all we to test the water and see if that part of Sharing how his father’s sought was entertainment and our life can come back,” said the actor. warning came true, Babil wrote: safety of thought, so afraid to On the work front, the Oscar winner “Unfortunately, it did happen. have our delicate illusion of reality was recently seen essaying the role of Bollywood was not respected, no shattered, so unaccepting of any late Fox News founder Roger Ailes in awareness of 60’s-90’s Indian shift in perception. All eff ort to The Loudest Voice, aired in India on Zee cinema or credibility of opinion. explore the potential of cinema Cafe. There was literally one single and its implications on humanity “The core thing that they said that’s lecture in the world cinema and existentialism was at best kept captured is how much fun it was to be segment about Indian cinema by the sidelines.” in his company. And (it was important called ‘Bollywood and Beyond’, Babil feels the much-needed to me) to not fall into the trap of saying, that too gone through in a class change has just started to happen ‘I’m going to play the baddest man full of chuckles. It was tough to and it should be encouraged. alive, who has ripped the moral thread even get a sensible conversation “Now there is a change, a of America asunder’. Because if you about the real Indian cinema of new fragrance in the wind. A do that, you’re actually displaying the Satyajit Ray and K. Asif going.” new youth, searching for a new bias that the piece talks about in the Taking a dig at the taste of the meaning. We must stand our PRECIOUS MOMENTS: Irrfan Khan and son Babil. fi rst place,” he said, adding: “I have Indian audience which “refuses ground, not let this thirst for a to say I’m not a regular news watcher to evolve” and the box-offi ce deeper meaning be repressed cut her hair short, that is pure a fl uster of political debates, but if anymore, not that I was prior to this dependent Bollywood cinema, he again. A strange feeling beset abolishment of potential.” a positive change is manifesting, in job especially. And I could never watch further shared: “You know why when Kalki (Koechlin) was trolled “(Although I resent that the way of the Taoist, we embrace Fox News before anyway.” that is? Because we, as the Indian for looking like a boy when she Sushant’s demise has now become it),” he concluded. – IANS – IANS 16 GULF TIMES Thursday, July 9, 2020 COMMUNITY A home away from home An Indian expat shares how friends and neighbours from diff erent backgrounds helped the family after her husband tested positive for Covid-19

cultures and religions but still all By Mudassir Raja live in peaceful and homogeneous way. “The US society is also multi- he world was already cultural and multi-religious in reeling under issues nature. Though there is equality such as inequality, for all in US, I observed some exploitation, bigotry, disturbing practices. For example, Tand racism when the I still remember they used to novel coronavirus came along seclude the housing for people with a new set of challenges some based on their skin colour.” seven months ago. It took Dr Shashi some time Everyone faced new issues, and to observe and understand the many cracks in societies became life and culture in Qatar. “I more clear since the outbreak of remember as I arrived in this new Covid-19 pandemic. The virus has country first time. It was all new been infecting humans regardless experience for me. But what I of race or social stature. was carrying with me is openness The global unrest and and acceptance. I started my own uncertainty is a cause of trouble research to find friends. I initially for all – just as it is for Dr Shashi preferred to live in apartment Goel, an Indian expatriate, who rather than in villa. I wanted to has previously worked and lived have friends and some people to in the US, and has been living known me. On the same floor, in Qatar with her family for there were three other families, over five years now. She has not all from different countries. My lost all hope in humanity as her neighbours were from Syria, family received great support Jordan, Egypt, Tunisia, and from neighbours and friends Pakistan. I have only either heard from different backgrounds or read about these countries. I after her husband got infected started to greet and say hello to with Covid-19 and she had to go them and tried to find friends through tough times along with for me and my children. I used to her two kids. cook and offer them. I realised “What I have experienced is that they were also human like me awesome, encouraging and very who are also looking for friends. I humane. People from diverse also made more new friends after backgrounds helped me, my we moved to another house.” children and my ailing husband. Dr Shashi experienced strength Their love and concern have of friendship and kindness of improved my faith in humanity neighbours when her husband and universal brotherhood in the got infected by coronavirus. FAMILY: Dr Shashi Goel, right, seen with her husband and kids. turbulent times when the world is “My husband Dr Atirek Goel is shaken by racism,” said Dr Shashi, a medical practitioner. He was from Egypt, immediately came Kids are having friends and I have religion, or politics. What we who insisted upon sharing her hospitalised for 15 days. Initially, to my house and stayed with us a family. So, I would like to call it thought is: humanity and love. I experience of living in Qatar and there was no improvement and for whole night taking care of me my family away from family. wish we all do the same way and receiving friendly support during my heart sunk in sadness. We and my kids. Today I am fine and “We never thought of country, make this world a place for love, hard times. had stressful days and worrisome my husband is recovering well. nationality, culture, race, colour, care, and support to each other.” Dr Shashi is an experienced nights. I could not meet him and educator, adept trainer, dedicated did not know what was going on. coach, and selfless mentor “I got full support from all since 2007. She has specialised doctors and his friends and “I have no hesitation in in preparing individuals and colleagues. They kept me updated organisations for the success about his health. They are from saying that here doctors and challenge of the high- India, Pakistan, Iraq, Egypt, South performance journey. Currently Africa, Dominican Republic, are very hardworking. she gives session in training, Canada, and UK. coaching on various issues like: “I have no hesitation in The Ministry of Public mental health, career success, saying that here doctors are very motivational speech, self- hardworking. The Ministry of Health and doctors development training, successful Public Health and doctors of life, and personal development. Hamad Medical Corporation are of Hamad Medical The educator calls Qatar a home working hard while treating every away from home. She is all praise infected patient with utmost Corporation are for the country’s acceptability for care.” people of all religions, cultures, Though Dr Shashi and her working hard while races and colours. “It is an Islamic two children were not infected country but it is very welcoming but they had to deal with mental treating every infected and provides home feeling to stress and unending uncertainty. all kinds of people. People from In this situation they received real patient with utmost more than 180 countries live here support from their neighbours and they are free to follow their and friends. “I got severe back care” own faith and culture. You can pain attack and could not move. find different languages, foods, One of my neighbours, who is — Dr Shashi Goel