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The Mall Cinema (1): Nirdosh The Pirates Of Somalia (2D) 7:15pm; ote Unquo (Hindi) 2:30pm; Diwanji Moola Downsizing (2D) 9:15pm; Aadu 2 u te () 4:30pm; Downsizing (Malayalam) 11:30pm. Q (2D) 7pm; 12 Strong (2D) 9:15pm; Asian Town Cinema: Aadu Most good Aadu 2 (Malayalam) 11:30pm. Strong (2D) 11pm. 2 (Malayalam) 1:15pm; Aadu relationships are built The Mall Cinema (2): Bunya And Landmark Cinema (3): Gulae 2 (Malayalam) 4pm; Aadu 2 Babe (2D) 2:30pm; Bunya And Babe Bhaghavali (Tamil) 2:30pm; Aadu (Malayalam) 6:45pm; Aadu 2 on mutual trust and respect. (2D) 4pm; JUMANJI: Welcome To The 2 (Malayalam) 5pm; The Pirates Of (Malayalam) 9:30pm; Aadu 2 Jungle (2D) 5:30pm; The Post (2D) Somalia (2D) 7:15pm; The Commuter (Malayalam) 12:15am; Sketch (Tamil) 7:30pm; The Post (2D) 9:30pm; 12 (2D) 9:30pm; Gulae Bhaghavali 12:30pm; Aadu 2 (Malayalam) — Mona Sutphen Strong (2D) 11:30pm. (Tamil) 11pm. 3:15pm; Guleybhagavali (Tamil) The Mall Cinema (3): Aadu 2 Royal Plaza Cinema Palace (1): 6pm; Aadu 2 (Malayalam) 8:30pm; (Malayalam) 2:15pm; Downsizing (2D) Bunya And Babe (2D) 2:30pm; Sketch (Tamil) 11:15pm; Thaana 5pm; The Pirates Of Somalia (2D) JUMANJI: Welcome To The Jungle Serndha Kottam (Tamil) 1:45am; 7:30pm; Nirdosh (Hindi) 9:30pm; (2D) 4pm; Downsizing (2D) 6pm; 12 Aadu 2 (Malayalam) 12:15pm; Aadu Gulae Bhaghavali (Tamil) 11:30pm. Strong (2D) 8:30pm; 12 Strong (2D) 2 (Malayalam) 3pm; Nirdosh (Hindi) Landmark Cinema (1): Diwanji 11pm. 5:45pm; Aadu 2 (Malayalam) 8:15pm; Moola (Malayalam) 2:30pm; Bunya Royal Plaza Cinema Palace (2): Aadu 2 (Malayalam) 11pm; Aadu 2 Community Editor And Babe (2D) 5pm; Downsizing (2D) Aadu 2 (Malayalam) 2:15pm; Bunya (Malayalam) 1:45am; Thaana Serndha 6:30pm; 12 Strong (2D) 9pm; Diwanji And Babe (2D) 5pm; The Commuter Kottam (Tamil) 12:15pm; Diwanji Kamran Rehmat Moola (Malayalam) 11:15pm. (2D) 7pm; The Post (2D) 9pm; The Moola (Malayalam) 3pm; Diwanji e-mail: [email protected] Landmark Cinema (2): Bunya And Post (2D) 11pm. Moola (Malayalam) 5:45pm; Diwanji Telephone: 44466405 Babe (2D) 3pm; JUMANJI: Welcome Royal Plaza Cinema Palace (3): Moola (Malayalam) 8:30pm; Diwanji To The Jungle (2D) 5pm; The Post Gulae Bhaghavali (Tamil) 2:30pm; Moola (Malayalam) 11:15pm; Diwanji Fax: 44350474 (2D) 7pm; The Post (2D) 9pm; 12 Diwanji Moola (Malayalam) 5pm; Moola (Malayalam) 2am. Thursday, January 18, 2018 GULF TIMES 3 ROUND & ABOUT COMMUNITY

EVENTS participation of ministries, institutions custom-made track specially designed and private sector centres that are all set to for remote-control car racing, for car Family Tour present a wide range of diverse events that lovers across Doha. Interested motorsport WHEN: Tomorrow include performances, theatrical shows and enthusiasts can try the race track opposite WHERE: Al Khor educational workshops. In this edition of the Aspire Academy, from 4pm to 10pm on TIME: 8.30am the festival, the Childhood Cultural Center Thursdays, Fridays, and Saturdays. Qatar-based alumni of St Joseph’s High will organie several children activities School, Enamakkal (ASHA) in ’s including competitions and games, with Outdoor and five-a-side football Thrissur district, plan to go on a family tour gifts distribution. Qatar Heritage and pitches to In Barkh Farm House in Al Khor. The tour Identity centre is also featuring a unique WHERE: Aspire Zone will start from the Toys R Us compound in educational theatrical show highlighting WHEN: Daily Al Sadd at 8.30am. For further information, the winter season besides numerous TIME: 7pm-11pm please contact president Joy Elavathungal entertaining activities, organised with an Aspire Zone’s five-a-side football on 5554 2234 or Abdul Azeez on 5533 5060. aim of a acquainting the public and children outdoor pitches opposite Al Waab Street with the Qatari cultural and national are available every day from 7pm until 11pm identity, and Qatar’s flora. These festivities from Sundays to Thursdays, and on Fridays are sought to afford the children a glimpse and Saturdays from 7am-11pm. on Qatari life style during winter.

Salute Qatar Breakdance Classes WHERE: Holiday Inn WHEN: Sunday-Wednesday WHEN: Feb 9 Breakdancing is part of the Hip Hop TIME: 6.30pm culture that originated in New York Farook College Old Students Association and has since spread all over the world. Qatar are conducting an event named Breakdancing is an athletic and acrobatic ‘Salute Qatar’ on Feb 9, 2018. The style of dancing, which can often appear event consists of a live orchestra led by to defy the laws of physics. This extreme Muhammed Aslam, a Bollywood singer and dance-sport uses tremendous upper- member of A R Rahman’s team. For further body strength for tricks and poses and a Sonu Nigam in Doha details, call FOSA General Secretary Askar great way to get into shape and have fun. WHERE: Doha Exhibition and Rahiman at 5550-9834. Register now by calling 33003839 or e-mail Convention Center [email protected] WHEN: Tomorrow Laugh Out Loud TIME: 5pm - 11pm WHEN: Feb 9 Reggae Beachfest Doha From a TV anchor of a music show, now WHERE: Intercontinental Doha The WHEN: Thursdays and Fridays to the biggest playback singer Bollywood City WHERE: Oyster Beach Bar at St. Regis has ever seen, Shop Qatar brings to you the TIME: 9am- 1am Hotel super talented super versatile Sonu Nigam Eat, have fun and Laugh Out Loud with Mahaseel Festival TIME: 8pm onwards Live in Doha. Sonu Nigam concert will be two of the finest Filipino comedians – WHEN: Thu, Fri, Sat In collaboration with Reggae Beachfest the finale to the Bollywood week of Shop Wacky Kiray and Boobita. The event will WHERE: Katara in Dubai, Qatar will witness the best rasta Qatar. The event will be hosted at the Doha start with a brunch meet and greet with TIME: 9am-10pm nights around. The organisers say, “We’ve Exhibition and Convention Center. Sonu Wacky Kiray and Boobita. In the afternoon Visitors to the festival can expect a got the setup sorted to get you feeling the Nigam and his crew of 32 members, which onwards, the activities will be: Komikero/a variety of products from local vegetables, Caribbean vibe. Along with our resident includes musicians, dancers and top visual, (a stand-up comedy contest), videoke flowers, honey and meat, poultry and band Earthkry all the way from Jamaica, light and sound engineers will ensure Doha challenge, band performances, a comedy diary items. For those of you looking for we have so many big names in the Reggae is treated to a concert of a lifetime. The show with guest artist and dance party. For traditional Qatari food, there will also be scene lined up at this huge beachfest!” tickets are starting from as low as QR50. further information call 7777-8542. stalls selling homemade foods such as Entrance fee is QR50 at the door. For more The three-hour concert will be opened Machbous. Farm-grown goods include information, please call 44460105. by top local performers who are putting aubergines, peppers, cucumbers, tomatoes, together an unplugged session. courgettes, cauliflower, herbs, and chilis. Zumba Session There are also animal products such as WHERE: Bin Omran Amazing African Circus chicken, milk, cheese and eggs from Qatari WHEN: Sundays WHERE: Hyatt Plaza companies like Baladna and Al Waha TIME: 7pm - 8pm WHEN: Until Jan 21 Poultry Company. Participate in Zumba Sessions (Adults) TIME: 5:30pm every Sunday. For more information call From January 8 to 21, the Amazing B.Square Mall Grand Event 33003839 or [email protected] African Circus will be at Hyatt Plaza food WHERE: Al Thumama, Doha court area starting from 5:30pm. Bring WHEN: Ongoing Salsa Nights your friends and family and come enjoy the TIME: 6:30pm WHERE: The Irish Harp-Sheraton show. Entry is free. The only mall in Qatar dedicated to Grand Doha entertainment, B.Square Mall will occupy WHEN: Every Wednesday Winter Festival at Katara a total space of 26,000 sq.m and 250 car TIME: 9pm WHERE: Katara parking spaces, as well as provide a range Get ready for some Latin beats every WHEN: Jan 24-28 of shopping, services, and entertainment Wednesday night, where all the salseros TIME: 4pm options. and salseras in town meet and party all Cultural Village Foundation-Katara night. Entry is QR50 for gents. Ladies enter will launch its 2018 edition of the Winter Souq Waqif Spring Festival Torba Farmers Market free. For details call 4485 3000 Festival on January 24 and will continue WHERE: Souq Waqif WHERE: Education City until January 28 at Katara esplanade. WHEN: Ongoing WHEN: Ongoing Off -Road biking tour This year’s edition draws a significant TIME: Evening TIME: 9am WHERE: Zekreet Souq Waqif is hosting Spring Festival Qatar Foundation (QF) has partnered WHEN: Fridays events until April 25. The festival is with Torba Farmers Market, a Qatar-based Blue Pearl Experience Qatar is offering organised by the Organizing Committee initiative that aims to deliver organic the country’s first off-road biking tour. of the Private Engineering Office. This and locally-grown food and homemade Ride in the desert on a fat bike to explore year’s festival offers a range of family- products, to host a weekly market in the local flora and fauna spot desert friendly fun including parades, shows, Education City. Open to the public, the wildlife, hike up jebels, chill in the magic of plays, music featuring top stars and market be held at QF’s Ceremonial Court, the Richard Serra statues and this unique children’s entertainment. Spring Festival accessible from gate 2, every Thursday from landscape. Participants will get to cross will also present fine arts events in the 9am-4pm and every Friday from 8am-11am the desert riding fat bikes from Zekreet various sections of Souq Waqif Arts Center, and 2pm-5pm.The name ‘Torba’ is derived to the Richard Serra statues, on a route of including workshops directed to all visitors. from , and means “the pure soil that approximately 13kms. The route is easy to feeds, nourishes, and nurtures.” A wide ride and suitable for people with average Remote-controlled car racing track range of fresh, locally-grown items will fitness. You must be able to ride. Kids aged WHERE: Aspire Park be on offer, including organic fruits and 9 and older are also welcome. The fee is QR WHEN: Thu, Fri, Sat vegetables, homemade preserves, syrups, 220 (QR190 for ages 9-14) and includes bike TIME: 4pm-10pm and butters, as well as handicrafts and and safety equipment. The activity lasts Aspire Zone Foundation has created a gardening supplies. about 2.5 hours.

Compiled by Nausheen Shaikh. E-mail: [email protected], Events and timings subject to change 4 GULF TIMES Thursday, January 18, 2018 COMMUNITY COVER STORY The great virtual assistant debate My personal assistants include Siri on my iPhone and Mac, Cortana on my Windows PC, Amazon’s amazing Alexa on my Echo and a voice that can be changed from female to male on my Google Home Mini, writes Harold Glicken

e live in an age of voice that can be changed from the intricacies of modern life? I degrees. temperature graphic appeared on virtual assistants. female to male on my Google Home posed fi ve questions to each of Google Home: In Grand Forks, the screen.) I have four at my Mini. Siri and Cortana are free them: it’s currently 25. Winner: Siri — I like the “pretty beck and call, as part of the Mac and Windows Cortana: It’s cloudy and 24, cold” comment. ready to guide me operating systems respectively. 1. What is the temperature in with partly cloudy skies and a throughW the day. The cheapest Echo costs $99, Grand Forks, ND? high of 29 in the forecast. (A visual 2. What’s the best way to My personal assistants include and the Google Home Mini costs Echo: Currently it’s 26 degrees display of a 10-day forecast also travel by car to Long Beach, Siri on my iPhone and Mac, Cortana $50, although both are frequently with mostly cloudy skies. Tonight appeared on my monitor.) California (I live in LA)? on my Windows PC, Amazon’s discounted. you can expect cold weather and Siri: Pretty cold in Grand Forks. Echo: I don’t know. I’ll look into amazing Alexa on my Echo and a How deft are they at explaining freezing rain with a low of 25 24 degrees (A visual hour-by-hour it. Ask me later. Thursday, January 18, 2018 GULF TIMES 5 COVER STORY COMMUNITY

Google Home: Los Angeles is distance about 28 mins. If you was marked by a great expansion of Winner: Echo, which had the from Amazon’s fee-based library, 17.7 miles. As I don’t know your want to planning (sic) travel by the British Empire. best voice response. and I like the way Echo’s little speed, I can’t tell you how long it plane, for 20 miles, you can get this Winner: Google Home brother, Echo Dot, has Bluetooth will take. (I didn’t ask for times, distance in 32 minutes. (Huh?) So, which one would I use most connectivity for my external just the route.) Siri: Traffi c to Long Beach is 5. What is the status of if I had only one choice? None of speaker. I also use Echo to control Cortana: Siri: OK. I found light, so it should take 39 minutes the wildfi res in Southern them got it right all the time, and my house lights and thermostat. this on the web …” (Five modes via I-405. California? these apps and devices can do Google Home can do likewise. of transportation popped up, but Winner: Siri Echo: Six major fi res have much more than answer the kinds One thing’s for certain, though. there were no specifi cs about been burning across Southern of questions I posed. For example, If you have an Echo, you don’t need the best routes by car. One entry 4. How long did Queen California since Monday. Many are Siri will dial your phone calls, and a Google Home. And if you have pulled up an article on travelling Victoria rule the British still raging, according to The New all four will fi nd a recipe for (for Siri, you don’t need to rush out and between New York and California.) Empire? York Times … the Thomas Fire in example) chilli, and hold your hand buy a Windows PC for Cortana. Siri: (Same as Cortana) Echo: Sorry, I’m not sure. Ventura County and Santa Barbara as you prepare the ingredients. Siri What did we do before we had Winner: None Google Home: 63 years, 7 is only 15 percent contained. had some folksy qualities, which I virtual personal assistants? We months and 2 days … Victoria (When I asked again, I got an NPR like, while Google Home was more looked up information, listened 3. How long will it take to get was the longest reigning British news update with several other straightforward. In the fi re status to the radio for traffi c updates and from LA to Long Beach? monarch until her great-great news stories.) question, I like the way Echo gave pulled out a tattered, stained paper Echo: As I don’t know your granddaughter Elizabeth II Google Home: Sorry, I can’t me an update, then transferred recipe for chilli. — TNS speed, I can’t estimate the time it surpassed her in 2015. help with that. to the newscast. Cortana is best will take. Cortana: According to Cortana: No voice response, used while sitting in front of a ABOUT THE WRITER Google Home: By car, the Wikipedia, her reign was 63 but an impressive list of news computer. Harold Glicken is a retired trip from LA to Long Beach is 39 years and seven months (and) is reports about the fi res. If you have an iPhone, Siri newspaper editor. He can be reached minutes with light traffi c. known as the Victorian Era, It was Siri: OK. I found this on the will answer most questions. My at Harold.glicken@helpware-onlin. Cortana: Distance from Los a period of industrial cultural, web (a list of stories from the grandkids go wild with Echo, com and a collection of his columns Angeles, Calif. to Long Beach, political, scientifi c and military Washington Post, New York Times begging for kiddie songs. I use can be found atwww.helpware- Calif. 24 miles. You can get this change in the United Kingdom and and Los Angeles Times). Echo mostly for playing music online.com

“So, which one would I use most if I had only one choice? None of them got it right all the time, and these apps and devices can do much more than answer the kinds of questions I posed” — Harold Glicken 6 GULF TIMES Thursday, January 18, 2018 COMMUNITY MES conducts health awareness session for transport staff

A presentation on basic first aid training was conducted for the staff of the transport section of A total of 180 members of the staff attended the programme. A demo for recovering from chock MES Indian School at KG auditorium recently. was also carried out for better understanding. The programme also familiarised the staff with the The awareness programme primarily focused on equipping the staff with theoretical knowledge use of modern and uptodate methods of giving medical first aid. and practical skills on providing first aid. The staff was also trained to eff ectively deal with an The training session emphasised on instilling a sense of teamwork in providing initial response to emergency situation. The awareness programme focused on areas such as injuries, burns, help mitigate the impact of emergency situations and to save lives. seizures, proper handling of cases of casualty in the event of any untoward incident, and adequate The paramedical team was headed by Subeesh, a qualified first aid trainer. The welfare department knowledge of diabetes. of the school along with Athira Raju and Gincy Wilson also presented the training session.

Staff ord Sri Lankan School holds workshop entitled ‘Teaching at the Highest Levels’

Staff ord Sri Lankan School Doha recently organised students, teachers and the general public, as his way a workshop entitled ‘Teaching at the Highest Levels’ of extending support to the mission of QF, which for its academic staff . aims at unlocking human potential locally, regionally The interactive workshop was led by Dr Rajeev and internationally. Thomas, who is a motivational speaker and Kumudu Fonseka, chairman and founder of Staff ord leadership transformation coach based in Qatar. The Sri Lankan School Doha, also attended the workshop. workshop was a specially developed programme Speaking about the workshop, Dr Rajeev Thomas aimed at teachers who want to be at their best. said, “It is my desire to touch a million lives through Dr Rajeev Thomas, who is currently the Head the various workshops and programmes that I am of Business Planning at Qatar Foundation for involved in, and in conducting a session for the Education, Science and Community Development Staff ord Sri Lankan School, I have taken yet another (QF), conducts a large number of workshops for step closer to that milestone.” Thursday, January 18, 2018 GULF TIMES 7 COMMUNITY BPS hosts annual sports activities

Birla Public School (BPS) recently held annual sporting activities for students at its three diff erent mettle in various categories such as running, race, obstacle race, long jump, relay race, and shot campuses. The event included diff erent sports and athletics. put. The winners were awarded medals and certificates. The events for primary section students were held at their campus. The main school from grade V The annual sports celebrations will be concluded in the main campus with sporting activities for to XII held the athletic and sporting events at Al Sadd Stadium. About 2,000 students tested their both teaching and non-teaching staff on the Qatar National Sport Day.

DPS-MIS staff trained for first aid, CPR

The management of DPS-MIS recently organised a workshop on first aid and BSL for the teaching and non-teaching staff of the institution. The workshop was conducted by medical experts from Hamad International Training Centre. They demonstrated to the staff how to handle basic first aid and CPR during emergencies.

Qatar Steel employees give farewell to colleague

Qatar Steel Electrical and Instrumentation Engineers and Supervisors gave farewell to their colleague Sayed Abdul Wahab. Section Head Mahmoud Shama presented a memento to Sayed. 8 GULF TIMES Thursday, January 18, 2018 COMMUNITY TRA Cruising around Cape Horn is

SHIP: Our ship, the Norwegian Sun, took us to places in southern South America otherwise impossible to reach easily.

penguins, looking for their next By Doug Hansen meal in the frigid, steel-gray South Atlantic waters. As I photographed this melange of assorted penguins, I he world is a felt that this extraordinary penguin book and those encounter alone made our cruise who do not worthwhile. travel read only To put this adventure in one page.” St. proper context, after our recent “TAugustine retirement, my wife and I rented A surprisingly cold wind swept our home and travelled in South across the desolate beach at America for four months, both to Volunteer Point, one of the Falkland see her family and to explore this Islands’ most popular tourist intriguing part of the world. As destinations, but the throngs we had learned during a previous of king, gentoo and Magellanic extended Europe trip, by including penguins didn’t seem to mind. This a nice cruise in the middle of our sight made the two hours of bumpy travels, we were able to put aside four-wheeling over roadless peat the demands of overland travel and beds worthwhile, and neither the savour our cruise ship’s unique overcast skies nor the midsummer ability to provide a high level of chill could dampen the excitement comfort while taking us to varied I felt as I gazed at the largest and often remote destinations. colony of king penguins outside of Which explains how we found Antarctica. ourselves on Norwegian Cruise More than a thousand of the Line’s ship, the Norwegian Sun, stately birds huddled in a protective circumnavigating the tip of South circle, many straddling a single America – Cape Horn. This once- egg or feeding a downy gray chick. in-a-lifetime cruise, beginning Occasionally a few adults waddled in Buenos Aires and ending in VOLUNTEER POINT: Volunteer Point in the Falkland Islands hosts the largest colony of king penguins outside of unsteadily away from the group, Valparaiso, Chile, provided an Antarctica. past a separate cluster of Gentoo amazing assortment of adventures Thursday, January 18, 2018 GULF TIMES 9 AVEL COMMUNITY s South American adventure

SPECTACULAR: The mountains and glaciers of the Chilean fjords were spectacular.

CRAGGY MOUNTAINS: The craggy mountains in Torres Del Paine National Park in southern Chile PETROHUE FALLS: Located near Puerto Montt, Chile, Petrohue Falls provides a dramatic view of are considered among the most beautiful in the world. the Osorno Volcano.

with penguins, glaciers and fi ords, America, but it provided easy air most picturesque mountain ranges, visited. From our vantage point and crept inexorably toward their mixed in with remote towns and access to one of the world’s greatest Torres del Paine National Park. halfway up the cylindrical cone, we demise in the frigid ocean water. hospitable people. waterfalls, Iguazu Falls, a natural This trip required two bus rides admired the expansive view of Lake As the Norwegian Sun pulled In a journey fi lled with so many wonder not to be missed. and a private plane fl ight over Esmeralda and the hilly countryside into Valparaiso’s bustling harbour, memorable moments, here are the Approaching Cape Horn, the surprisingly barren expanses of surrounding it. we reflected on our once-in- highlights: southernmost piece of land on Patagonia before we reached the When we entered the Chilean a-lifetime cruise around some Buenos Aires proved to be a Earth above Antarctica, we earned craggy mountains. From what we fi ords, every passenger watched of the most remarkable sights remarkably European-looking our nautical bragging rights as our could see of the peaks through the spellbound as we glided past a in the world. We felt grateful to city, full of parks, a renowned ship battled formidable waves and clouds, the formations were indeed series of spectacular glaciers have been able to sail around the 200-year-old-cemetery (the site wind before we were able to gaze at spectacular. draped across craggy, snowcapped infamous tip of South America of Eva “Evita” Peron’s tomb), the the rocky point that had witnessed From Puerto Montt, Chile, a mountains. The massive ice sheets, and to have waddled alongside widest boulevard in the world and centuries of sailing triumphs and rather nondescript town, our lined with deep fi ssures, glowed king penguins in the remote a shoreline bordering the Rio de la tragedies. ship’s tour took us to Petrohue with deep aquamarine hues in the Falkland Islands. This chapter Plata, considered by many to be the At Punta Arenas, Chile, we joined Falls, whose cascading waters late afternoon sunlight. Some of the in the book of our travels will widest river in the world. Not only our ship’s exclusive DMC Chile framed the perfectly cone-shaped ice walls spewed milky waterfalls remain among our most treasured is it the most visited city in South excursion to one of South America’s Osorno Volcano, which we later as the behemoths slowly melted memories. — TNS 10 GULF TIMES Thursday, January 18, 2018 COMMUNITY INFOGRAPHIC Thursday, January 18, 2018 GULF TIMES 11 LIFESTYLE/HOROSCOPE COMMUNITY Touring for work too often can up anxiety and depression risk

o you travel for Previous research showed that business assignments extensive business travel was for two weeks or associated with higher body mass more in a month? index, obesity, and higher blood According to a study, pressure. Dsuch people are more likely to For the study, published in suffer from symptoms of anxiety the Journal of Occupational and and depression and are also likely Environmental Medicine, the to smoke, be sedentary and have team checked health records of trouble sleeping. 18,328 employees who under The findings showed that poor went a health assessment behavioural and mental health in 2015 through their corporate outcomes significantly increased wellness work benefits as the number of nights away from programme. home for business travel rose. The results showed that mild Among those who consume or worse anxiety or depressive alcohol, extensive business travel symptoms were common in this was associated with symptoms of employee population. alcohol dependence. Employers and employees “Although business travel should consider new approaches can be seen as a job benefit to improve employee health and can lead to occupational during business trips that advancement, there is a growing go beyond the typical travel literature showing that extensive said Andrew Rundle, Associate travel medicine needs to expand injury to bring more focus to the health practice of providing business travel is associated Professor at the Columbia beyond its current focus on behavioural and mental health immunisations and medical with risk of chronic diseases University. infectious disease, cardiovascular consequences of business travel,” evacuation services, Rundle said. associated with lifestyle factors,” “The field of occupational disease risks, violence and Rundle added. — IANS

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

An intense conversation with a close friend or partner could bring you Discussions with others could result in new plans and opportunities for Your life circumstances may have altered so much in the past few closer to this person. You probably share a number of goals, Aries, and advancing yourself on any level you wish: career, financial, or social. months that you could be in an entirely diff erent space than ever before, discussions could lead to how you could work together in order to Inner resources may come to light that you might not have been aware Gemini. Success and good fortune have increased your self-image, and make them happen for both of you. You’re more likely to take the lead, of before. You could also decide to make use of creative abilities that business and money matters should be going well. Today you should however, since your communicative abilities are particularly high right have lain fallow for a while. Give some careful thought to the next pause to take some time to assess your situation and decide in which now. Put your heads together and move forward! Enjoy! couple of months. direction you want to go. CANCER LEO VIRGO June 21 — July 22 July 23 — August 22 August 23 — September 22

You may have preferred not to acknowledge your own psychic abilities The recent completion of one or more long-term goals may cause you Recent career advances may have you wondering where to go next. in the past, Cancer, but today they could prove impossible to ignore. to pause today and consider what you’re going to aim for next. Don’t be You could be considering taking some time off to travel or perhaps Visions, premonitions, and telepathic messages from others could pop afraid to be more ambitious than before, Leo, because you’ve acquired advance your education. You aren’t likely to want to rest on your laurels, into your mind all day. This shouldn’t be treated as something strange, an inner power that gives you more confidence and a stronger belief Virgo. Striving to reach new horizons is important to you, and today is but rather you should regard it as a source of inner power. Abilities like in yourself. It is belief in our own self-worth that gives us the power to the perfect day to consider what horizons are the most critical to you this increase your understanding of others as well as yourself. move mountains. now. Nonetheless, it’s important to be sure. LIBRA SCORPIO SAGITTARIUS September 23 — October 22 October 23 — November 21 November 22 — December 21

A new and highly compelling interest may have captured your Today you might turn your attention toward discovering new ways to Events both in your personal and public arenas could give you a new imagination. You could find it diff icult to think of much else, Libra, and so advance yourself financially, Scorpio. You’re likely to be more aware and unexpected sense of power over your own destiny, Sagittarius. it might be a good idea to try to find the most beneficial ways to pursue than usual of your inner power. Reading about various possibilities Perhaps hard work has paid off in career and financial advancement. this subject. Your abilities for in-depth study are enhanced by intuition, could be enlightening, especially as you’re feeling particularly capable Support and encouragement from friends and family are likely to spur so reading could well prove especially beneficial right now. Classes and today and therefore more likely to be able to zero in on whatever you on to further accomplishments, particularly in areas requiring workshops could give you assistance as well as information. method is best for you. leadership. CAPRICORN AQUARIUS PISCES December 22 — January 19 January 20 — February 18 February 19 — March 20

Visitors in the home could share stories of strange experiences of some Today you could enter a new relationship, Aquarius, or you could Today you’re likely to be feeling especially fit and healthy and able to sort, perhaps intense and vivid dreams, visions, or maybe premonitions experience a new sense of unity and commitment within an existing take on the most monumental of tasks, Pisces. Therefore, you could that have come true. This could spark some deep thought, Capricorn, one. Whichever it is, the relationship might become very intense, so well decide to clean out the basement or tear all the weeds out of the causing you to reflect on similar experiences of your own. It might be sure that you and your partner make the eff ort to give each other backyard. Take care to pace yourself! These things need to be done, but be a good idea for you and your friends to attend some classes or plenty of space. not all at once. It’s just as important for you to enjoy yourself as to spend workshops on psychic development. the whole day working. 12 GULF TIMES Thursday, January 18, 2018 COMMUNITY CARTOONS/PUZZLES

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Across: 1 Blowpipe; 5 Prosit; Down: 1 Buckle; 2 Over there; 10 Create a stoppage; 3 Putters; 4 Plans; 6 Ripples; 7 11 Letters; 12 Allegro; 13 Slang; 8 Teetotal; 9 Stranded; Measured; 15 Samba; 18 Dress; 14 Registry; 16 Mouse-hole; 20 Gadabout; 23 Appeals; 25 17 Advanced; 19 Starter; 21 Cholera; 26 Creature comfort; Bloomer; 22 Matter; 24 Press; 27 Desert; 28 Dear dear. 25 Cache 14 GULF TIMES Thursday, January 18, 2018 COMMUNITY REVIEWS Dunkirk is an instant war classic film sand shower down, and gives us a pair of Royal Air Force pilots. Nolan By Katie Walsh bird’s-eye view from the cockpit intercuts between these events of Spitfi res dogfi ghting in the until they all become inextricably sky. We’re planted on a deserted intertwined together. ot much can prepare village street with a group of British In the script, Nolan has done you for the heart- soldiers tip-toeing amongst a away with exposition. The story stopping immersion of snowfall of Nazi propaganda fl iers. is all that happens there, and we Christopher Nolan’s The booming gunshots reverberate become emotionally bonded to Dunkirk, his tribute to through your bones. these characters in just witnessing Nthe World War II battle that looms Nolan and cinematographer their fi ght for survival. On the large in the history and heart of Hoyte van Hoytema have crafted beach, we follow a young soldier, England. The 1940 evacuation a fi lm that places us in this played by Fionn Whitehead in of more than 300,000 British heightened reality, shooting with his fi rst feature fi lm, in a nearly soldiers from a French beach, IMAX cameras on large format fi lm wordless performance, through an under heavy fi re from German stock. Everything about Dunkirk unspeakably harrowing survival soldiers and planes, was aided by a is bigger, realer, in images that are tale, from the streets of Dunkirk, to fl otilla of small boats captained by equally breathtaking in their beauty the belly of a destroyer, through the civilians from across the English and in their terror. Nolan eschewed oil-soaked, fi ery sea. Channel. That show of bravery and computer special eff ects for the The dramatic scope never wavers solidarity is still spoken of today most part, striving for as authentic from the individual, interpersonal mole, Navy Commander Bolton “tick-tick-tick” reminds us of the as “the Dunkirk spirit,” which a representation as possible, even level, though the enormity of (Kenneth Branagh) quietly makes imminent threat that grows with Nolan presents beautifully in this strapping IMAX cameras to vintage the task at hand is never far from the toughest decisions. In the sky, each passing moment, each bomb simply astonishing cinematic planes to capture those soaring, mind. Aboard a pleasure yacht RAF pilots Farrier (Tom Hardy) and and torpedo and bullet, but it’s achievement. vertiginous shots over the open sea. en route to Dunkirk, a civilian Collins (Jack Lowden) are all that almost scarier when that ticking On a towering IMAX screen the There are three storylines, named (Mark Rylance) and his son (Tom stands between the defenceless clock stops. Nolan almost never lets fi lm swallows you whole, and puts “1. The Mole: One Week,” which Glynn-Carney) and friend (Barry soldiers on the beach and German up the intensity in the remarkable you in the middle of the action takes place on the beach in Dunkirk, Keoghan) spar with a shell- bombs. Dunkirk, an instant war classic that — on land, on sea and in the air. “2. The Sea: One Day,” following the shocked soldier (Cillian Murphy) Hans Zimmer has composed fi nds its power in individual tales Nolan puts you on the beach with small boats from England, and “3. they’ve fi shed out of the sea, who a score that whines and vibrates of heroism and renders them larger these young men, as bombs and The Air: One Hour,” the story of a refuses to return to France. On the with high anxiety. A constant than life. — TNS Emoji Movie could not be more meh

ords aren’t If you were to imagine the story told no explanation as to why the emojis can’t cool,” is the by The Emoji Movie, it’s likely this would just come back, if it’s all digital detritus. courtship advice be the one you’d dream up. It’s just that Therefore, it’s hard to care at all about imparted by obvious. When malfunctioning “meh” whether or not Gene can consistently one texting emoji Gene starts a glitch in Alex’s make a “meh” face and if he’ll be eaten by “Wteen to another in The Emoji Movie. That phone, he goes on an odyssey from app anti-virus bots. statement is the canary in the coal mine to app, hoping to reprogram himself to There aren’t any real jokes, and most that “Cyrano de Bergerac” this movie is only express one emotion, the way emojis laughs come from app recognition – most decidedly not. Will Alex (Jake T. should. But, of course, what makes him Candy Crush, the Twitter bird, and Austin) choose the right emoji to express different, his “malfunction,” is what look, now they’re taking a row boat on his ardour for Addie (Tati Gabrielle)? Or makes him unique. On his journey, he the “music streams” of Spotify. It’s will “meh” emoji Gene (TJ Miller) mess makes new friends, falls in love, learns to truly just “Intellectual Property: The it all up for him? Perhaps we should just accept himself, and manages to become Movie.” If we’re laughing at simple brand throw our smartphones into the sea and a new, more evolved emoji, expressing a recognition, then yes, it’s true, words let the waves take us now. multitude of emotions at once. aren’t cool anymore, and smart phones The Emoji Movie is an easy, cheap Director Tony Leondis co-wrote have made us dumb. target for abuse. The marketing campaign the script along with Eric Siegel, and The Emoji Movie isn’t terrible, it isn’t has centred around a chocolatey brown surprisingly, Mike White (School of offensive or outright bad. It just is, and you-know-what named “Poop” (voiced Rock) is also credited. But for a film there could be far worse ways to spend by Sir Patrick Stewart), adorning our that wants to imagine the world inside 86 minutes. But maybe, just maybe, it’d bus shelters and billboards, for crying smart phones, this story just feels so be the better choice to spend those 86 out loud. If we are trolled in this way, unimaginative and low-stakes. It’s tied minutes outside, or reading a book, or the only answer is to troll right back. too closely to the way we use smart talking to another human being’s face. And the truth is that The Emoji Movie is phones to create a transporting, wild Because The Emoji Movie could not be exactly what you expect: There’s no need new world. Every step of the journey is to more meh. – By Katie Walsh/TNS to wait and see if it surprises, if maybe prevent Alex from restoring the phone to it’s potentially great. Nope, it’s a perfect factory settings, destroying the world of DVDs courtesy: reflection of its main character – meh. Textopolis, where emojis live. But there’s Saqr Entertainment Stores, Doha Thursday, January 18, 2018 GULF TIMES 15 SHOWBIZ COMMUNITY Failure has made me stronger, says Sean Paul “I usually go by something I like. So if him six years to perform in again? By Natalia Ningthoujam I like the song and the content, I go for it. “I was preparing myself for the Indian And collaborating with artistes, gives a audience once again with something diff erent feel also as they come with their completely different this time compared rammy Award-winning own genre too. So it just adds up to the to last time. And I will be back with a Jamaican rapper Sean Paul music all the more,” he said. bang this time,” he promised. became a global star after On his best collaboration, he said: “This “India, other than Supersonic (in his second album Dutty Rock would be quite diffi cult but yes, Baby boy February), I’m coming this October to hit the music stores in 2002. with Beyonce, Cheap thrills with Sia and your cities and I’m really excited to rock WhileG his dancehall-oriented numbers Rockabye with Clean Bandit are some of Mumbai, Delhi and Pune. So stay tuned often topped the charts, there were times the best collaborations. Also, if you see via and let’s rock it. when he also faded from prominence. top 10 Billboard (songs).” “I’m really excited as I’ll be having two But he believes that failure makes people Paul, born as Sean Paul Ryan Francis visits in India. The people of the country stronger, and that’s what it has done to Henriques in 1973 in Kingston, Jamaica, have always given me so much love but him. is one of the artistes who has made yes, can’t really unveil anything about Paul’s monstrous hits like Get busy dancehall, mostly characterised by fast my new songs but there is a lot in store. (2003) and Temperature (2006) enjoyed the rhythms, popular across the globe. While I’m sure everyone will love it as much as top spot on the Billboard Hot 100. It was cemented in reggae and dancehall from they did to my latest tracks,” he added. only a decade later that he regained the top his home country, Paul maintains a global Last time, he praised Indian actress position with singer Sia’s Cheap thrills. presence with numerous collaborations in Priyanka Chopra and expressed a desire Asked about coping with low point in genres such as EDM and pop. to meet her. In 2017, his song No lie his career, Paul told IANS in an e-mail Is he happy with the cocktail of genres got featured in her Hollywood film interview: “I feel you need failures to grow or does it annoy him as dancehall loses its Baywatch. Did he get to meet her? and succeed. They say that failures make authenticity? “I wish that desire came true but I you stronger. And that’s what it has done “Yes, see at times it does. But then didn’t get a chance to meet her as we to me. If I have failed so I have gotten up, it’s cool because people who know what were very packed. But being a part of learnt from it and got my a** back moving dancehall is they know and people who Baywatch itself means a lot. I would towards my goal.” don’t know they still love my music so still say that I would love to meet her as Apart from Sia, he has also collaborated either way I’m on benefi t,” he said. she’s one of my favourites and I really with artistes like Beyonce Knowles, People love his music in India and he is like the way she performs,” he said about Santana, Joss Stone, Enrique Iglesias and set to return to the country and raise the Priyanka, who has also sung songs like In COMEBACK: Grammy Award-winning Jamaican rapper Clean Bandit. “temperature” this year. Why did it take my city and Exotic. - IANS Sean Paul.

much attention upon their initial All wars are somewhat Pataky, William Fichtner, and Rob release in 1992, but after being similar: 12 Strong director Riggle. played extensively by MTV, were On the fi lm, Fuglsig said: “In a re-issued and peaked on the UK 12 Strong director says Nicolai way, all wars are somewhat similar charts. Fuglsig says all wars are similar in when you consider the element Their second album, No Need terms of the “human tragedy”. of human tragedy, but I think this to Argue included the award- Fuglsig, a war photojournalist, is fi lm is a very diff erent type of war winning Zombie, a harder grunge making his directing debut with 12 drama. The Americans come to help song about a bombing by the Strong. the Afghans fi ght their own battle Irish Republican Army that was “As a photojournalist, I have against the Taliban, so these people seen by many as a raw expression seen war fi rsthand and defi nitely from two very diff erent cultures of frustration and grief about a experienced some very intense have to learn to work together for a convulsed period in Irish history moments,” Fuglsig said in a shared cause.” known as The Troubles. statement. Jerry Bruckheimer, the fi lm’s The Cranberries recorded fi ve 12 Strong is set in the harrowing producer, praised Fuglsig for his albums with O’Riordan before they days following 9/11 when a US vision. went on hiatus in 2003, the year Special Forces team, led by their “Nicolai is an extraordinary visual before she launched her solo career. new Captain, Mitch Nelson (Chris artist who has won awards for his The band reunited for a world Hemsworth), is chosen to be the fi rst commercial work. He also has a tour in 2009 and again at the US troops sent into Afghanistan for background as a documentarian and Special Olympics opening an extremely dangerous mission. as a photojournalist who has shot all NO FOUL PLAY: Irish singer Dolores O'Riordan of Irish band The Cranberries ceremony in Limerick in 2010. The fi lm, based on book Horse over the world and covered the war during a performance in 2016. O'Riordan was on Monday found dead in her A European tour started in Soldiers, also stars Michael in Kosovo. He has a unique eye and hotel room in the centre of London. 2016, but a second part, slated for Shannon, Michael Peña, Navid we felt fortunate to work with him 2017, was cancelled due to back Negahban, Trevante Rhodes, Elsa on his fi rst movie.” - IANS Death of Cranberries treated as suspicious,” London’s problems, according to O’Riordan. lead singer O’Riordan not Metropolitan Police said in a She had discussed in interviews suspicious: British police statement, adding: “A report will that she had suffered from an be compiled for the coroner”, eating disorder when she was The death of Dolores reported Efe news agency. younger at had in 2015 been O’Riordan, the 46-year-old iconic O’Riordan was born in diagnosed with bipolar disorder. lead singer of the rock band The Ballybricken, County Limerick, After her death, tributes Cranberries, was on Tuesday Ireland and her warm, western immediately poured in from music ruled not suspicious by the British Irish accent while singing legends and Irish politicians alike, police. remained a distinguishing feature, all mourning the loss of a singer O’Riordan was on Monday helping propel her band to fame whose unforgettable voice had found dead in her hotel room in in 1994. been part of the soundtrack for the centre of London, where she The band’s first singles Dream many people’s lives across the was getting ready to take part in a and Linger and the full-length globe. brief recording session. album Everybody Else is Doing It, She is survived by three “The death is not being So Why Can’t We? failed to gain children. -IANS FIRST FILM: The film is Nicolai Fuglsig's directorial debut. 16 GULF TIMES Thursday, January 18, 2018 COMMUNITY Hundreds of expats attend Nepali musical programme

By Usha Wagle Gautam

undreds of people from diff erent areas of Qatar flocked recently to Al Dana Driving School to see a rare musical programme organised by GEFONT.H The fi rst GEFONT cultural dhamaka featured the performance of Nepali Film Actress Chanda Dahal, Folk Singer Puskal Sharma, Singer Tara Shreesh and Doha based Nepali local artistes. The programme was hosted by Debika KC and Prabahat Tirpathi. The cultural programme was hosted by Ujwal BK, acting president of G Front Trade Union Qatar. Binda Pandey, member of the International Labour Organisation ( ILO) governing body, was the chief guest. Nitesh Sapkota, Second Secretary of Embassy of , and RK Sharma, Gulf Co-ordinator of organisation, was the guest of honour on the occasion. Speaking at the programme, Pandey as the chief guest praised the new rules CHIEF GUEST: Binda Pandey making a MELODIOUS: Tara Shreesh enthrals the in Qatar to provide better facilities for speech. audience. FOLK: Folk singer Puskal Sharma in action. the employees. She said that the Nepali revolution which was marked with special features had entered a new phase. She added that the poll outcome is expected to mark the end of Nepal’s transition to federal democracy, 11 years after the end of a brutal civil war in 2006. Since then the nation has seen 10 prime ministers. Pandey is one of the 1,000 women who were recommended for the Nobel Peace Prize in 2005. She was the fi rst member of the 1st Nepali Constituent Assembly representing the Communist Party of Nepal. She was the driving force behind most of the publications brought out by GEFONT, one of the largest confederations of Nepali trade unions. Working in the trade union movement, she represented GEFONT in the Committee for Asian Women (CAW), a regional organisation working for women workers in 13 Asian countries. The musical afternoon kicked off with a performance by Nepali Film Actress Chanda Dahal. Dahal performed two dances at the programme. Though performing for the fi rst time in Qatar, Dahal said she felt as if the place was familiar to her. Chanda Dahal is a struggling actress and dancer from Nepal. She is known for her dancing. The main attraction of the programme was Puskal Sharma. He was the one who was most cheered by the crowd. He performed 10 most popular songs from his own album. He appreciated the mixed audience and praised the Nepali community as culture- loving folks. “Nepalis in Qatar love music and culture,” he said. He added that the Nepali music industry was looking for the warm support of Qatar-based Nepali community. After receiving applause, Sharma stepped down the stage to give a brief comment. “It was ENJOYING MUSIC: The adience at the programme. my second performance in Qatar but the response from the audience made me feel as Qatar. Her songs dealt with common man’s in Qatar. It was better than other countries. Mohan Shah crooned a live song with the if I werea regular performer.” melancholies. She also cracked jokes during “My audience in Qatar loves my music,” she support of the Nepali musical instruments Singer Tara Shreesh performed two songs. her performance. She briefl y commented said,” adding she was inspired to perform and Suresh BC performed the comic acts at she was performing for the fi rst time in that it was very special for her to perform with great zeal. the programme.