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Compiled by Nausheen Shaikh. E-mail: [email protected], Events and timings subject to change 4 GULF TIMES Sunday, September 29, 2019 COMMUNITY COVER STORY “I never tell myself that I am perfect” — Nukhet Dora, Turkish cake specialist SUNDAY CONVERSATION

I got so passionate about baking that people assumed there was always a cake at my home!

‘By Mudassir Raja akes are special. Every birthday, the celebration ends with something sweet — most likely, a cake — that people remember. Perhaps, it’s all about the memories. Cakes are baked and decorated fi rst to make Cmemories and then to make them memorable. It may not be hard to fi nd a good cake-baker but it is rather diffi cult to fi nd a baker who is very good at decorating cakes artistically at the same time. ’ Nukhet Dora, a Doha-based Turkish expatriate, loves baking and decorating cakes, cupcakes and cookies. She is actually a sculptor making sculptures out of cakes. For her, it all started as a hobby and has become a passion and a source of joy. Community recently sat with Nukhet, a civil engineer by qualifi cation and mother of two daughters, and discussed her passion for cake baking and decorating as a hobby. The expatriate has lived in other Gulf countries with her husband. “We moved to Doha in 2012. Earlier we lived in Dubai and Saudi Arabia where my husband worked. I also worked there as civil engineer. “After I had my fi rst daughter — who is 16 now — I made a web page updating my experiences of by a mother. It got very famous back in Turkey as number of mothers visited my page and took advantage from my experiences of motherhood. I continued working as a civil engineer till 2009.” Explaining how her love for cakes started, Nukhet said: “For my second daughter, who is now 13-year-old, I started writing blogs. It was the time and trend for blogs. Photos by Shemeer Rasheed I witnessed online that many people were busy in doing something diff erent and other than their routine work. Sunday, September 29, 2019 GULF TIMES 5 COVER STORY COMMUNITY

TOOLS OF THE TRADE: Nukhet Dora’s little art factory. Photos supplied

I, along with my sister, ran the blog “If you are making a birthday cake, sharing our cooking and baking experiences. they can ask you for a specific shape “Through this experience, I came across the cake baking and sugar or character. You have to make such paste decoration work. As the fi rst birthday of second daughter was cakes by hand, which needs some coming, I decided to bake my fi rst WORKS OF ART: A few pieces of art — cakes — made by Nukhet Dora. cake for the birthday in 2007.” sculpture-making talent. You also Nukhet taught herself everything children and for my customers myself to make cakes of diff erent about cake baking and decorating. need to be some sort of a sculptor” alike. styles.” Sharing her piece of advice “It is all self-teaching. I got help — Nukhet Dora “I do not plan to turn it into a full to others, she said: “First of all, they from books and Internet. Later on, time business in the near future as need to have an interest in baking. however, to learn decoration, I took I have a home to tend to. However, Then only, they can learn from some classes with Wilton cooking her work. “In the world, there divide the classes into three hours I will continue learning about the others. It all starts with little steps. centre. After I quit my job, I started are many talented cake bakers over two days. Even the days are not art as much as I can. I am pushing They can grow slowly but steadily.” taking orders to bake birthday cakes. I and decorators. There is so much consecutive (for convenience).” got really busy with the baking.” knowledge as well that I have to Nukhet believes not everyone can The Turkish expat got her name attain. I also try to follow some master cake decoration art. “The by beautifully decorating the cakes really successful decorators. I never skill needs some talent to master and giving them diff erent shapes. tell myself that I am perfect.” it. For example, if you are making “I think people started to like the After mastering the art of cake a birthday cake, they can ask you way I decorate and colour my cakes decoration, she has also started for a specifi c shape or character. and cupcakes. I started trying new giving training and organising You have to make such cakes by recipes. I got so passionate about workshops for those interested. hand, which needs some sculpture- baking that people assumed there “I started teaching how to bake a making talent. You also need to be was always a cake at my home! cake before I came to Qatar. I have some sort of a sculptor. I am also There were not many people been arranging workshops in Doha planning to take formal sculpture making decorated cakes there for the last seven years. However, I classes.” (Dubai) at the time. I became kind am not very regular. But very often, She also sees a high demand and of famous (laughs) among the I get number of orders for birthday interest in beautiful and big cakes expatriate communities.” cakes. in Qatar. Nukhet believes her distinct way “I give three classes — for cake “There are many people here who of decoration and making sculptors decoration, cookies and cupcakes. are more interested in bigger cakes. with cakes made her work diff erent. The basic class is for baking. Then, I bake at home. It is my hobby and “I brought to the people good sugar we go for fl owering and then not business. I take orders only paste decoration. I made very neat for fi guring. I also teach how to for family parties and charge only and clear shaped cakes. I like both make two-tier cakes. As for the for my ingredients. I bake for my baking and decorating. First, I make decoration, I use sugar paste. I a sketch in my mind about what teach students how to make the fl avours or shapes I will give to a paste and cream, and how to role cake, and then, I start the process. it up on the cake. There is layering “People tell me the special thing and creaming process that we do about my cakes pertains to the together. I also teach them how to colours I use. I try to make colours use diff erent tools to decorate a look natural and have good colour cake.” schemes. Mixing of diff erent Nukhet is happy with the colours comes naturally to me. I response she is getting from her got it from my father who was an students. “My classes mostly go artist/painter. I come from a kind of on for six hours. I see that mothers creative family.” are predominantly interested in Nukhet fi rmly believes in learning skills. As they do not have constant learning and improving six consecutive hours for a class, I 6 GULF TIMES Sunday, September 29, 2019 COMMUNITY IIS wins Islamic awareness competition

Ideal Indian School (IIS) recently hosted the 4th Annual the overall trophy for fourth successive year. Syed Shoukath Ali, SIS Principal, congratulated the Interschool Uswa-E- Rasool Elocution and Recitation Fadhil Mohammed secured the second position in Qur’an Department of Arabic, students and teachers for achieving competition with reverence and austerity. recitation in junior category. Abdullah Mohammed khan the victory. The competition was judged by the members The topics for the completion were; “The Respect of stood first in Qur’an recitation in senior category. Farha Naaz from Tech for Qatar. The team consisted of Khalid Omar Humanity in the Light of Teaching of the Prophet (PBUH)” secured second position in elocution in junior category and Yassin, Chief Programme Office Tech for Qatar; Mohammad and “Islam, a Religion of Peace and Love”. Out of the 10 Ziya Sulficker secured the first position in elocution in senior Ahmed al-Shaabi, Programme Manager Tech for Qatar; and schools that participated in the annual mega event, IIS lifted category. Mariem Fekih Zguir, Fellow & Teacher Tech for Qatar.

DPS-MIS holds bus safety activity for Grad-II students

DPS Modern Indian School (DPS- MIS) recently conducted a ‘Bus Safety Activity’ for the students of Grade-II. The children were taken to the school bus by the respective class teachers. They were welcomed by the bus driver. The driver spoke to the children about how to be safe while travelling in a bus. The teachers conducted a safety quiz in the bus where children had to answer raising placards indicating whether an action stated is safe or unsafe. It was a learning experience for the children who enjoyed the session and promised the drivers and teachers to always abide by the safety rules.

Pre-primary children observe Hat Day at SIS

Hats are totally fun. Hat Day is one of the most liked events of the year at Shantiniketan Indian School (SIS). Young students came dressed up in colourful outfits which co-ordinated well with their artistically created hats, adorned on their heads. Teachers and parents tried their best to nurture creativity in the children. They learnt that the sun is the source of heat and light and hats can reduce the intensity of heat. The Hat Day was one of the best days for the tiny tots to break the routine and make them feel super cool with their hats on. Sunday, September 29, 2019 GULF TIMES 7 MOTORING COMMUNITY 2020 Hyundai Sonata, Le Fil Rouge concept named finalists at 2019 IDEA

Sonata 2020 Le Fil Rouge

he All-New 2020 pure aesthetics, perhaps even beyond ambience created by a wide, long architecture, styling and automotive industry,” added Hyundai Sonata and design,” said SangYup Lee, the Senior and layered hood, low-hanging technology, simultaneously SangYup Lee. “Hyundai Motor will Le Fil Rouge concept Vice President and Head of Hyundai stance and sleek roofl ine. Boasting combining aesthetics and function. continue to develop and off er more have been recognised Global Design Center. “Employing a high-powered look, the 2020 The concept has enabled distinctive and creative designs.” as fi nalists at the 2019 Hyundai Motor’s new design Sonata has an average height Hyundai designers to create IDEA is a premier international InternationalT Design Excellence philosophy ‘Sensuous Sportiness,’ (including the deck lid) nearly proportionally sound, aesthetically design competition that recognizes Awards (IDEA) by the Industrial Hyundai Sonata and the Le Fil Rouge an inch lower than any of its appealing and functionally and promotes design excellence Designers Society of America concept refl ects our goal by creating predecessors.’ The ultra-wide rear progressive vehicles. across a wide array of industries (IDSA) for their bold and artful vehicles with a heightened emotional taillight adds to the Sonata’s sporty A Le Fil Rouge concept car and disciplines. design innovations. IDEA value and desirability.” character. exudes unique proportions forged Organised annually by the honours design excellence that The 2020 Sonata is a celebration Le Fil Rouge concept is a by a long wheelbase, large wheels Industrial Designers Society of improves quality of life and pushes of the four-door coupe. It has a reinterpretation of Hyundai’s and short overhangs. A balanced America, submissions are judged conceptual and engineering distinct tension on the side that sporty design spirit that was fi rst dash-to-axle ratio – the distance according to criteria such as design boundaries in categories such as harmoniously blends crisply introduced in the 1974 Hyundai from the dashboard to the front innovation, benefi t to the user, automotive and transportation, layered body lines and the vehicle’s Coupe Concept Car by famous axle – allows a comfortable driving benefi t to the client, benefi t to design strategy, consumer aerodynamic frame. Italian car designer Giorgetto position, while a teardrop roofl ine society and appropriate aesthetics. technology, environments and Concave and convex forms Giugiaro. completes its fl uid, dynamic look. The 2020 Sonata will be available more. are also carefully orchestrated to Exemplifying the “sensuous “We are creating a variety of at Skyline Automotive W.L.L., a “It’s a great honour to be named highlight its voluptuous fastback sportiness,” Le Fil Rouge charismatic characters for each Jaidah Group company and offi cial fi nalists at this prestigious award. character. Another attractive harmonises the four design segment to make Hyundai Motor distribution partner of the Hyundai Our ultimate goal is to go beyond feature is Sonata’s athletic elements of proportion, the most beloved brand in the Motor Company in Qatar. Genesis G70 wins J D Power Multimedia Quality award

The Genesis G70 takes top premium segment as well as the days of ownership. The 2019 segment honours in this month’s JD industry overall. This overall 2019 survey is based on responses Power 2019 Multimedia Quality and IQS Study result represents 32% from purchasers and lessees of Satisfaction Study. In taking this fewer issues than the industry new, 2019 model-year vehicles, award among all compact premium standard and 25% fewer issues which is designed to provide segment cars and SUVs, the brand than the runner-up premium manufacturers with information adds to its consecutive fi rst place brand. to facilitate the identification overall fi nishes in JD Power’s 2018 “Our customers constantly tell of problems and drive product and 2019 US Initial Quality Studies us how technological innovation improvement. (IQS). Skyline Automotive WLL, is one of their top purchase Within the past year, Genesis a Jaidah Group company, is the reasons. We are always striving to has won highest-ranked brand in offi cial distributor of Genesis in bring meaningful technological the automotive industry awards Qatar. innovations into our cars. So, for quality and owner satisfaction The annual study measures receiving this recognition from industry experts such as JD customers’ satisfaction with audio, from industry leader J D Power Power, AutoPacific, and Strategic communication, entertainment and reinforces our commitment Vision. navigation (ACEN) systems. Both to deliver the best ownership The Genesis product lineup JD Power studies award brands and experience to customers through consists of the fl agship G90 luxury vehicles with the lowest instance of our focus on incredible audio sedan, the G80 and G80 Sport problems per 100 cars sold (PP100). entertainment and effortless midsize luxury sedans, and the The G70s researched in the communication and navigation G70 luxury sport sedan, which was Multimedia Study witnessed systems,” said Erwin Raphael, named the 2019 North American just 7.4 PP100, representing 28% COO, Genesis Motor America. Car of the Year, the MotorTrend fewer issues than the closest The IQS study, now in its 2019 Car of the Year, as well as a competition. Similarly, in this fourth decade, serves as the category winner in the Car and year’s IQS study, Genesis vehicles industry benchmark for new- Driver 2019 10Best awards, among saw 63 PP100 in leading both the vehicle quality measured at 90 more than a dozen others. Genesis G70 8 GULF TIMES Sunday, September 29, 2019 COMMUNITY FASH Hedi Slimane gets creative at

Not content with shocking the fashion industry with his radical takeover of Celine, Hedi Slimane is tearing up retail – turning the French house’s stores into intriguing brutalist salons, writes Alex Needham

INNOVATIVE: New order Celine Art Project Store Concept, Tokyo.

director, takes photographs of the musicians. He has commissioned part of the story – he’s responsible brutalism involving stainless steel, t’s midnight on Sunday in crowd, a collection of models, bands such as These New Puritans for everything, from photographing black granite threaded with ginger Paris, in a basement club friends and co-workers, who are all and SWMRS to create the the advertising campaigns and and cream and wood, but there called Le Dandy, and the team enjoying the chance to cut loose into soundtrack to fashion shows, and designing the sets for his elaborate would also be plenty of chairs to from French fashion house Monday morning as Bodega tear into documented their lives in books fashion shows, right down to look sit on, books to read, people to talk Celine are celebrating. The last year’s excellent single How Did such as London Birth of a Cult. A and paper quality of the shopping to, materials to stroke (not just the Ithird band of the night are playing This Happen? diehard music fan, Slimane has bags. Of course, this 360-degree clothes, but the building’s surfaces), – Brooklyn punk-funkers Bodega, While his aesthetic is instantly been deeply inspired by the greatest approach includes designing music to listen to – and artworks to who provided the soundtrack for the recognisable – lean, sharp, rock performers of the past 20 Celine’s stores. So far, remodelled look at. menswear show earlier that evening. rock’n’roll – Slimane has always years. However, his recent work at branches in New York, LA, Tokyo, Which is where the new The artist David Kramer is here with relished the chance to open up his Celine has thrown the spotlight on Milan and Paris have been unveiled, Celine Art Project comes in. It his wife – Kramer’s nostalgic, witty, vision to other contributors and to another group of collaborators: ranging from an imposing glass box encompasses almost 20 painters and Technicolor paintings featured on points of view. “He has developed a artists. in Madison Avenue to the fl agship sculptors, ranging from emerging the show’s invitation, and slogans very distinct visual vocabulary,” says Slimane was announced as on Rue de Grenelle in Paris, a tactile talents such as Shawn Kuruneru from his work such as, “I have LA-based sculptor Oscar Tuazon, Celine’s new creative director in temple of marble and reclaimed to huge names such as Theaster nostalgia for things I probably have “and I think it thrives in contrast January 2018, with a mandate to oak, with plinths and shelves that Gates, who have had work either never known,” were transposed or an unexpected juxtaposition of introduce menswear and eventually – thanks to LED lighting – seem to commissioned or acquired for on to the clothes and fl oppy straw elements.” couture. From 2012-16 he had fl oat just above the concrete fl oor. Celine’s stores around the world baskets in the spring/summer 2020 For two decades, both as overhauled Saint Laurent, a project Slimane’s stores for Saint as they are redesigned by Slimane. collection. a photographer and fashion which more than doubled the Laurent had been modernist and The stores have been envisaged as Dressed in jeans, boots and a designer for Dior Homme, Saint brand’s turnover, and redefi ned the monumental. For Celine, he wanted not simply places to buy clothes, white T-shirt speckled with holes, Laurent and now Celine, Slimane role of the modern fashion designer. something more intimate. Yes, but as salons in which to hang out Hedi Slimane, Celine’s creative has collaborated with emerging For Slimane, the clothes are only the stores would embody a kind of and explore culture, proposals for a Sunday, September 29, 2019 GULF TIMES 9 HION COMMUNITY t French fashion house Celine

PIONEER: Hedi Slimane, whose ultimate aim is to uncover new talent and create a community with shared attitudes and aesthetic values. CREATIVE: James Balmforths Surface Response Stack in the New York Madison store stainless steel, mild steel and slag.

21st-century maison. “There’s a real the soft luxuriousness of the clothes. Stumble With Mountain, a black some kind of sympathy of spirit. endeavour,” Goldberg says. “There understanding that [the store] is a The sculptor Virginia Overton has a concrete pillar with two grey stones (“He found my work to be very is an embedded misogyny in the public space,” says Tuazon, who has work on each American coast. The on top; and James Balmforth’s strange,” says Goldberg. “And exclusion of fashion as an outlet for made a piece for the Grenelle store. piece in Celine’s Soho, New York Surface Response (Stack), large strange can of course be attractive.”) thought and action.” “It has restrictions, but it is a place store, she says, is “made with cedar, chunks of steel and slag placed Slimane’s ultimate aim is to uncover Overton, meanwhile, simply says where anybody can walk in the door walnut, steel and string. It’s a low on top of one another with three new talent and create a community that it’s refreshing to have a work and the levels of engagement vary – columnar piece, with the angled smooth, grey surfaces and a black, with shared attitudes and aesthetic displayed somewhere unusual: not everybody’s there to buy.” walnut chunk stacked on top of the jagged one, commissioned for values, in which music, design, art “Unexpected places like the Celine Tuazon’s work Mobile Floor larger cedar component.” In the Madison Avenue. and fashion all express a way of stores are nice because we can is mounted on the wall but looks Rodeo Drive store in Los Angeles While the stores are united seeing the world. experience the work in new ways.” a bit like the fl oorplan of a small is an Overton piece “from a small by Slimane’s aesthetic, there’s Other artists’ work has been Tuazon likes that the store itself structure, detailed in contrasting series of sram-like wall works nothing identikit about them. The incorporated into Slimane’s clothes acts as a performance arena for wood, some of which was sourced that are made from old plywood designer carefully considers each design; most recently Kramer, shoppers trying on new clothes – from parquet panels from a house in tabletops in the studio. The ‘star’ store’s location, the history of the but also artists like Seth Bogart, and that while the clothes may be the same Left Bank neighbourhood that hangs at Celine was the fi rst one building, and how it knits into the frontman of Hunx and his Punx, for sale, there are also objects in the as the store, “so it has a connection that I made as a test. The plywood local community. He has decided whose cartoon scribbles covered store, like his works, that can’t be to that place and history”. Like many was worn out in terms of its use as where all the artworks will stand shirts and shoes in a Saint Laurent bought: “There can be an interesting of the other works in the Celine Art a tabletop but functioned well as or hang, and also personally placed capsule collection released in 2014. tension between objects in two Project, it begs to be touched. “The a sculpture. I cut the full sheet of the furniture in its own specifi c Slimane’s fi rst collection for Celine, diff erent states.” store is welcoming in a diff erent plywood into 20 triangular sections locations – not just vintage pieces, meanwhile, saw Christian Marclay As further revamped stores way than an art gallery,” Tuazon and then reassembled it into the but pared-down, modernist chairs – famous for his 24-hour fi lm open around the world – London’s says. “There, you’re asked to look at current shape: usefulness restored.” he designed himself (they were masterpiece The Clock – create pop Mount Street has just relaunched something and leave. Here, you’re Canadian sculptor and briefl y commercially available in art-style cartoon panels which were and 45 more will have opened by asked to look at something and stay. installation artist Rochelle Goldberg, the 00s, and may be again). “I’ve embroidered on coats and jackets the end of the year – the Celine It comes down to touch – people can meanwhile, has created a sequence been to the store in New York and (Pet Shop Boys singer Neil Tennant Art Project will continue to evolve. go into the store and touch things.” of ceramic masks called Composite Tokyo, and seeing how the space wore a Slimane/Marclay parka when “Hedi’s a creative person so he Certainly, in the Avenue Montaigne Release, which have been placed in is organised and the furniture he’s performing with the Killers during understands the process and the store in Paris I am encouraged the changing rooms of the Milan done, I like his selection, I feel their headline set at Glastonbury support artists need,” Tuazon to rattle the painted chains of a Montenapoleone and Paris Duphot there’s a common interest there,” this summer). says. “He’s really committed to sculpture by Davina Semo. Called stores, “confronting the private says Kuruneru, whose swirling, None of the artists believe that making the space work.” With their We Don’t Win Any More, the black sphere of the patron and everything black ink paintings hang in two of their work is weakened by being collision of opposites – public and chains have been hung to form two he or she brings to the mirror”, the the Paris stores. put in a fashion context. “It’s the private, rough and soft, commercial giant X’s. artist says. Other works in the Celine Common interest is key in moment to recognise that fashion and intellectual, high and low – Many of the works Slimane Art Project include Goldberg’s Slimane’s collaborations, both with has historically been a female- these spaces are Slimane’s design commissioned are rough-edged and totemic whittled cedar columns artists and musicians – likeminded, dominated domain while the art philosophy made concrete. almost architectural, a contrast to in two Paris stores; Gates’s Small creative people whose work exhibits world has been a male-dominated — The Guardian 10 GULF TIMES Sunday, September 29, 2019 COMMUNITY INFOGRAPHIC

Science Matters Exoplanet K2-18b New find: A life-friendly world 110 light-years found by • Mass and diameter similar to Earth from Earth Hubble space • Orbits star in “habitable zone” telescope (temperature allows liquid water) Its star: Red • Has water vapor, may have liquid dwarf K2-18 What water worlds are best for life Astronomers can find distant “exoplanets” with water – the essential requirement for life – and some day will be able to say which have oceans most likely to harbor living organisms.

‘Upwelling’ Three things promote upwelling Dense Key to life on Earth, 1 atmosphere STRONG WINDS and any other world creating strong When sea water flows upward, winds that can it returns nutrients from dark pump deep sea Surface water depths to sunlit surface layers water upward

Photosynthetic life – the base Planets like of the food chain – lives there Mars, with thin atmospheres, Deep water lifted More upwelling means more have weak nutrient resupply, which means winds more biological activity Presence of continents lets wind 3 push surface Slow planet rotation water away 2 from the coast, lets wind overcome Land “Coriolis forces” to lift deep which makes Deep water (Coriolis is seen deep water rise water in a hurricane’s rotation) to replace it rises

Source: The vast distances to exoplanets Stephanie means it is impossible to visit them Olson of University of with space probes (left) Chicago, NASA Graphic: Instead, scientists will look for the Helen Lee planets’ details with remote sensing McComas, Tribune News Service tools such as telescopes (right) Sunday, September 29, 2019 GULF TIMES 11 LIFESTYLE/HOROSCOPE COMMUNITY Here is what researchers think gut bacteria has to do with weight gain

team of US researchers The study, done in mice, revealed have found a molecule that HDAC3 turns on genes that helps synchronize involved in the absorption of fat. the absorption of They found that HDAC3 interacts nutrients in the gut with the biological clock machinery Awith the rhythms of the Earth’s within the gut to refi ne the day-night light cycle -- a discovery rhythmic ebb and fl ow of proteins that has far-ranging implications that enhance absorption of fat. for obesity in affl uent countries This regulation occurs in the and malnutrition in impoverished daytime in humans, who eat during countries. the day, and at night in mice, which Dr Lora Hooper and her research eat at night. team at UT Southwestern found “Our results suggest that the that the good bacteria that live in microbiome and the circadian clock the guts of mammals programme have evolved to work together to the metabolic rhythms that govern regulate metabolism,” said Hooper. the body’s absorption of dietary fat. Disrupting the interactions The team also found that between the microbiota and the microbes programme these body’s clock could make us more so-called circadian rhythms by likely to become obese. activating a protein named “histone “These disruptions happen deacetylase 3” (HDAC3), which is frequently in modern life when we made by cells that line the gut. take antibiotics, work overnight Those cells act as intermediaries shifts, or travel internationally. But between bacteria that aid in we think that our fi ndings might digestion of food and proteins that machinery to make fat absorption obesity. Whether the same thing Dr Zheng Kuang, a postdoctoral eventually lead to new treatments for enable absorption of nutrients. more effi cient. is going on in other mammals, fellow in the Hooper’s laboratory in obesity - and possibly malnutrition The microbiome actually “But when fat is overabundant, including humans, is the subject the study published in the journal - by altering the bacteria in our guts,” communicates with our metabolic this communication can result in of future studies,” said lead author Science. the researchers mentioned. –IANS

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

You may feel extra dreamy today, Aries. Your moods may fluctuate. Pay close attention to your friends today, Taurus. One of them may Your artistic nature is especially heightened today, Gemini. Your It may be hard to get other people to share your boisterous good be going through a tough time and need a little extra support and heart and brain are working together to create something great. Use humor. Trying to get people to jump on your bandwagon of attention. If you can, gather several buddies together and organize your creative abilities to make a bold statement. Have a good time. excitement may be diff icult. Perhaps there’s something going on an impromptu lunch or dinner or any other activity that allows you There may be a tendency toward laziness. If sitting on the couch with them and their emotions that you simply aren’t noticing. Pay to laugh, bond, and share. Your friendships are a treasure to be is all you want to do, that’s fine. Realize that there’s a great deal of attention. cherished and nurtured. potential energy available to you if you choose to harness it. CANCER LEO VIRGO June 21 — July 22 July 23 — August 22 August 23 — September 22

Nothing will escape your attention today, Cancer. Your sixth sense You may feel like you’re ready to get the party started today, Leo, Don’t worry so much about getting things done today, Virgo. Instead, is right on target. Your mind is razor sharp and emotions extra but for some reason, the people around you aren’t exactly following concentrate on your feelings and relationships. A caring, sensitive sensitive. You will move through this day with your radar fully intact. suit. Perhaps you need to slow down and wait for others to catch attitude is needed, as opposed to a harsh, militant way of dealing You’re like a detective cutting through to the core of every issue. up. They may end up not coming around at all. If people say they’re with things. You will find that by adopting a tender, nurturing tone, You will be able to get quite a bit accomplished with very little eff ort. doing fine, don’t necessarily believe them. There’s most likely people will be much more receptive to you in general. Things will naturally flow your way. something brewing beneath the surface that needs attention. LIBRA SCORPIO SAGITTARIUS September 23 — October 22 October 23 — November 21 November 22 — December 21

Don’t get sad if no one is laughing at your jokes today, Libra. It Don’t be shy today, Scorpio. Express how you feel. The more you Hold your temper today, Sagittarius. No one wants to argue. It may doesn’t mean you aren’t funny. It just means that people may not be share with others, the more they will be encouraged to share be tough to connect with the people around you, but this isn’t a in the mood to laugh. Ridiculous as it seems, today is simply a better themselves with you. Today may be filled with a great many tender reason to get upset. Tone things down and speak more softly. Listen day to cry. Let out all your pent-up emotions. Talk things over with moments that are worth documenting in your journal tonight. Your to what others have to say. There may be a bit of a disruption in your others. Your heart communicates well through you today. thinking is clear and in line with your deepest and truest emotions. daily routine. Others may challenge what you’re feeling. Don’t doubt You’re the star of the show. yourself. CAPRICORN AQUARIUS PISCES December 22 — January 19 January 20 — February 18 February 19 — March 20

Today is an excellent day for you, Capricorn. You will discover many Today is a good day for you, Aquarius. New opportunities will Your intuition is more reliable than your mind today, Pisces. This opportunities. You would do well to work with others by tuning into abound in your regular routine. Work with a group to accomplish is a terrific day in which you should enjoy a good mood and clear your sensitive nature and chiming in to the energy of the group. something greater than you could do by yourself. Tune in to the head. Your emotions are high, so take advantage of this energy and Your grounding and stability are exactly what are needed to give energy of the collective. You have exactly the right qualities that share it with others. Your generous, nurturing spirit is in demand. If order to the fluctuating, indecisive minds you’re working with. others need today. Use them. you had a nickel for every good piece of psychological advice you dispense today, you’d be a millionaire. 12 GULF TIMES Sunday, September 29, 2019 COMMUNITY CARTOONS/PUZZLES

Wordsearch Adam

Pooch Cafe

ADMIRAL CAPTAIN COMMANDER CONSTABLE ENSIGN INSPECTOR MAJOR PRIVATE TROOPER BRIGADIER COLONEL COMMODORE CORPORAL GENERAL LIEUTENANT MARSHAL SERGEANT

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. Sunday, September 29, 2019 GULF TIMES 13 PUZZLES COMMUNITY

Super Cryptic Clues Colouring

Across Down 1 Small fruit put underground, we 1 Anger about bishop revealing hear (5) scripture (5) 4 Cereal in west requiring warmth 2 Bird that’s upset an Italian city (7) (5) 3 You are not finished in time (4) 7 A lovable eccentric primarily (5,3) 4 Manuscript buried in wood 8 Standard portion or medium somewhere in Cheshire (8) selection (4) 5 Change in middle of genuine 9 Woman from the United Nations weariness (5) (4) 6 Row about stray dog (7) 10 Drug distributed in Paris (7) 11 One smear for one from Tonga, 12 Carrier hurried in back street to say (8) get drink (11) 12 Delayed, having attempted to 14 Sinatra could be a skilled worker cross a river (7) (7) 13 Giant one found with a fairy 16 Action taken to back favourites queen (7) (4) 15 Lacking vigour, trainer takes 19 Be fond of story about king (4) part (5) 20 Persuaded to talk when taken 17 Courage is needed to remove from the bank (5,3) feathers (5) 21 Cleaners don’t have gents to put 18 Essayist requiring meat (4) off (5) 22 Want to follow Branson’s first jet? (5) Answers

Wordsearch Codeword Today’s Solutions 14 GULF TIMES Sunday, September 29, 2019 COMMUNITY SHOWBIZ Million dollar prodigy wants to produce music for Hollywood

hild prodigy pianist milestones motivate me to Lydian Nadhaswaram achieve the next step.” enjoyed meeting Ellen “I feel so happy whenever I Degeneres, and says perform in foreign countries. the comedian-host Since I’m a home schooled kid, Cwas very kind and encouraged I can easily manage my day him a lot. spending majority time with Music prodigy Nadhaswaram music and that gives me more won a $1 million this year on time for me to grow that love an American reality show for and interest towards music,” he showcasing exceptional talent on added. the piano. He has also appeared The teenage wants to on popular The Ellen DeGeneres “compose music for Hollywood Show earlier this year. and also Bollywood when “Ellen was so kind and she something comes as a project”. encouraged me. The whole “I want to become a composer experience in that show was and basically a good human absolutely amazing, enjoyed being,” said the Chennai-based every question of Ellen and Nadhaswaram. every moment in that interview,” In response to a question Nadhaswaram said. about how he realised his love for Talking about wining ‘The music? World’s Best’ global talent “When I was two years old, I contest, Nadhaswaram said: started playing drums. My father “This is the fi rst step in my life identifi ed it and from then, the I believe. I have still lots to do, love and urge for music keeps me FLYING HIGH: Lydian Nadhaswaram enjoyed meeting Ellen Degeneres, and says the comedian-host was very kind and to learn and to practice. These driving till now,” he said. — IANS encouraged him.

Disney-Sony Spider-Man ends ahead of sequel Akshay ready to work with Marvel Studios president Kevin Feige will produce the next Spider-Man movie after all, Sony Pictures and Walt Disney Co. has said. Sajid Khan if he is acquitted The announcement came about a month after Culver City-based Sony and Marvel ctor Akshay Kumar, who stars in the upcoming parent Disney appeared to Housefull 4, has made it clear that he will part ways over fi nancial terms collaborate with fi lmmaker Sajid Khan in future for the superhero franchise. if the latter is acquitted of the sexual harassment The rift threatened to take the charges levelled against him by multiple women webslinger out of the lucrative Alast year, under #MeToo Movement. Marvel Cinematic Universe. Kumar was interacting with the media at the trailer launch But the two sides have of the fi lm along with co-actors Riteish Deshmukh, Kriti apparently come to terms. Sanon, Pooja Hegde, Kriti Kharbanda, Chunky Pandey and Financial details were not Bobby Deol, besides the fi lm’s director Farhad Samji and disclosed. The third fi lm in producer Sajid Nadiadwala in Mumbai. the Spider-Man: Homecoming Filmmaker Sajid Khan had directed the fi rst two series, starring Tom Holland, instalments of the Housefull franchise and Sajid was to direct is scheduled for release on July the fourth fi lm, too. 16, 2021, the studios said. As However, Sajid stepped down in October last year after he part of the deal, Spider-Man was accused of sexual harassment by three women, including will also appear in a future actress Saloni Chopra. Farhad Samji came on board to fi nish Marvel Studios fi lm. Amy the fi lm. Besides two fi lms in the Housefull series, Akshay has Pascal will also return to also collaborated with Sajid on Heyy Babyy in the past. produce through her Pascal “I don’t know exactly what has happened in his case but if Pictures shingle. everything goes well and if he is acquitted, I will surely work “I am thrilled that Spidey’s with him in the future,” declared Akshay. journey in the MCU will Earlier reports had suggested that Sajid Khan had directed continue, and I and all of us at 60 per cent of Housefull 4 before being asked to stepped Marvel Studios are very excited down, so shouldn’t he be given credit along with Farhad that we get to keep working on Samji? “It is true that he has directed 60 per cent of the it,” said Feige, in a statement. fi lm but this call has been taken by the studio (Fox Star),” “Spider-Man is a powerful icon explained Akshay. and hero whose story crosses all It’s been a year since #MeToo Movement started in ages and audiences around the Bollywood. Asked if he noticed any change, Akshay globe. He also happens to be the replied: “There have been a lot of changes. I think every only hero with the superpower other production company which I know — even in Sajid to cross cinematic universes, so Nadidadwala’s company nowadays — there is a offi cer who as Sony continues to develop deals with sexual harassment cases. They make sure that their own Spidey-verse you nothing goes wrong. They are there to accept complaints and never know what surprises the they know everything what is happening. There is a lot of future might hold.” – TNS security. We don’t want any misbehaviour in our company or WILLING: Akshay Kumar. fi lm sets.” – IANS Sunday, September 29, 2019 GULF TIMES 15 COMMUNITY A JOINT COLLABORATION OF Introducing

& The Judging Panel

Lolwa Hussain al-Marri

President of Qatar Women’s Sports Committee

After getting her Bachelor Degree from Qatar University, Lolwa completed her Executive Masters in Sports Organisation Management from the University of Poitiers. Over the years, she has been involved in many sports events and conferences from around the world including being part of the Asian Games Organising Committee from 2005-2007 and the 2011 Arab Games Organising Committee. She was also part of the fi rst women’s Qatar Olympic Committee delegation to the 2012 London Olympics and a community board member of the Advisory Committee for Development of Female Sport Participation in Qatar. Since 2016, alongside her role as President of the Qatar Women’s Sport Committee, she has been a board member of the GCC Women Sports Committee.

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translates into “this is my opinion, By Mudassir Raja what is yours?” discusses an important topic in the society today, which is accepting others’ atha Rayi Esh Rayak is opinions and convictions. The a book that contains book also states the author’s own the insightful views views which are built on respecting of Amal Lingawi, a other’s diff erent perspectives. The Qatari author and book is available at Fnac in Lagoona Htherapist. The book discusses the Mall and Doha Festival City. author’s opinions and views about The author interacted with the a wide range of social matters. It gathering and shared her idea of is published by Hamad Bin Khalifa writing the book and about her University Press and recently interest that led to writing the launched at Doha Festival City. book. The launching ceremony was Talking to Community, Amal hosted by Fnac, the leading French said: “My book consists of two retailer in Qatar. The gathering was parts. The fi rst part has 20 articles “The book contains many topics like superstitions attended by academics, media and about social and ethical issues and clients who were happy to have the subjects that we face in our daily and how people perceive black cats. I also speak book signed by the author. life. The event was in line with a “The other part of the book about what people think about marriages in diff erent partnership between Fnac and only has the titles of my articles. the Ministry of Culture and I hope that the readers will write cultures. Another topic is how we see relations Sports, under which Fnac hosts their opinions about what I said. events for local and international Whether they agree or disagree between men and women – whether they complete authors in order to revive the with my quotes. They can comment culture of reading and highlighting on my opinion.” each other or compete with each other” — Amal Lingawi the contemporary and creative The author has tried to interact movement of writing in Qatar. with the readers. “I thought it is competing each other as they are patients. I have learnt about many she was 17. “I have written for Speaking on the occasion, better if it is interactive rather than actually completing each other. patients wishes and desires that Arrayah highlighting the life of a Amal said: “I am pleased to I imposing my opinions on the Women can cover certain aspects they want to do in their lives. The Qatari student studying abroad. I hold the launching ceremony of readers.” of life that men may not. Nature experience has always made me wrote about my life as a student. my new book here at Fnac, the Amal has touched upon diff erent has built each of them to complete think that how I want to deal with When I came back to Qatar, I leading destination for spreading aspects of life in her short book. each other. I think we should not my life. I thought about why if I joined Hamad Hospital and kept knowledge and promoting the “The book contains many topics take our opinions to one certain take every day as a chance to do writing my opinions. Actually, culture of reading and dialogue like superstitions and how people extreme. Moderation should be the something in my life. I also want to one of my friends collected all among the local community. This perceive black cats, for example. key.” ignite thoughts in the community. my opinions and took them to the book represents my own experience I also speak about what people When asked about what inspired I think majority of people do publication. and views, which I would like to think about marriages in diff erent her to become a writer, Amal said: not want to change their way of “I am also planning to translate share with readers in hopes that cultures. Another topic is how we “I graduated from UK where I life. I think we should be more my book into Urdu. The issues I together we can build relationships see relations between men and studied radio therapy and oncology. fl exible and be open to hearing and have discussed are very local and based on mutual respect and women – whether they complete I have been working in diff erent discussing other opinions. We can there are many people in Qatar acceptance of the others’ opinion. each other or compete with each hospitals. I have worked in UK and agree to disagree with respect.” who speak and understand Urdu. Hatha Rayi Esh Rayak which other. I think they should not be France. I have been treating cancer Amal has been a writer since My target audience lives in Qatar.”