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A New Company Planning to Launch Passengers from Kennedy Space Center Dangling from a Balloon Thursday, June 25, 2020 Dhul-Qa’da 4, 1441 AH Doha today: 330 - 410 RINGING IN THE NEW: Space Perspective, introduced during a video news conference last Thursday, plans a 650-foot-tall balloon that will lift a capsule of eight passengers up to 100,000 feet above Earth. COVER Space-fically STORY A new company planning to launch passengers from Kennedy Space Center dangling from a balloon. P4-5 REVIEW BACK PAGE My Spy is The Last of Us Part 2 is a horror formulatic fluff. game and that’s why it hurts. Page 14 Page 16 2 GULF TIMES Thursday, June 25, 2020 COMMUNITY ROUND & ABOUT SERIES TO BINGE WATCH ON AMAZON PRIME PRAYER TIME Fajr 3.14am Shorooq (sunrise) 4.47am Zuhr (noon) 11.38am Asr (afternoon) 3.01pm Maghreb (sunset) 6.29pm Isha (night) 7.59pm USEFUL NUMBERS Emergency 999 Worldwide Emergency Number 112 Kahramaa – Electricity and Water 991 Local Directory 180 International Calls Enquires 150 Hamad International Airport 40106666 Labor Department 44508111, 44406537 Mowasalat Taxi 44588888 Qatar Airways 44496000 Hamad Medical Corporation 44392222, 44393333 Qatar General Electricity and Modern Love been a date. An unconventional new family. These are unique Water Corporation 44845555, 44845464 CAST: Anne Hathaway, Tina Fey, Andy Garcia stories about the joys and tribulations of love, each inspired Primary Health Care Corporation 44593333 SYNOPSIS: An unlikely friendship. A lost love resurfaced. by a real-life personal essay from the beloved New York Times 44593363 A marriage at its turning point. A date that might not have column Modern Love. Qatar Assistive Technology Centre 44594050 Qatar News Agency 44450205 44450333 Q-Post – General Postal Corporation 44464444 Humanitarian Services Office (Single window facility for the repatriation of bodies) Ministry of Interior 40253371, 40253372, 40253369 Ministry of Health 40253370, 40253364 Hamad Medical Corporation 40253368, 40253365 Qatar Airways 40253374 te Unqu uo ot Q e “One father is more than a hundred schoolmasters.” — George Herbert The Expanse to find a missing young woman; Julie between Earth, Mars and The Belt. Far DIRECTION: Mark Fergus, Hawk Mao (Florence Faivre). Meanwhile, away from the struggles in deep space, Community Editor Ostby James Holden (Steven Strait), the first on Earth, Chrisjen Avasarala (Shohreh Kamran Rehmat CAST: Steven Strait, Cas Anvar, officer of an ice freighter, is witness Aghdashloo), a powerful United Nations Dominique Tipper to an unprovoked attack upon the executive and diplomat, works to e-mail: [email protected] SYNOPSIS: Two hundred years in ship, by craft believed to be from Mars prevent war between Earth and Mars Telephone: 44466405 the future, in a fully colonised solar (MCRN Federation). As news of the by any means. Soon, the 3 find out the Fax: 44350474 system, police detective Josephus Miller attack spreads throughout the system, missing woman and the ice freighter’s (Thomas Jane), who was born in the the incident’s flow-on threatens to fate are part of a vast covert conspiracy asteroid belt, is given the assignment destabilise already tenuous relations which threatens all humanity. Thursday, June 25, 2020 GULF TIMES 3 PARENTING COMMUNITY Keeping kids happy indoors Faced with two children, a small flat and no garden, Covid-19 meant one couple needed to think creatively, writes Francesca Brown that we were living in – rather than mourning the bigger loss. From seeing everyday items through new eyes to rearranging furniture, we realised our flat had so much potential that we’d never appreciated before. For Rosa, who was literally climbing the walls and coffee table, we dragged the cushions off the sofa, blankets from drawers and piled them in the middle of the floor so she could face plant on them repeatedly without upsetting the downstairs neighbours. Inspired by fiveminutemum.com, we then invested in bubbles, pipe cleaners and tiny pom-poms that she could sort and play with. We even bought some toddler-friendly crayons at 5am one morning, checking out quickly with PayPal while simultaneously warming up milk and manically trying to keep Rosa occupied. There’s nothing like a pandemic to give you a newfound delight in the breadth of stuff you can buy. Each room, which before felt confining, opened up with possibilities. Rosa was in her element in an empty bath playing with pots, pans and beakers plus a jug of water – while I sat on the bathroom floor catching up on family admin for a full 20 minutes. When I was in the kitchen cooking, REIMAGINATION: Lockdown meant reimagining the home through new eyes. she “helped” by threading dry spaghetti through the holes in a colander. It not only kept her happy, efore any of us had heard it did wonders for her hand-to-eye the phrase “lockdown”, co-ordination. my parenting style was Meanwhile, Betty – inspired by very much of the “Let’s how-to-draw videos by children’s go …” variety. “Let’s go illustrator Rob Biddulph – found B... to the park/cinema/museum/ a new power in creating her own anywhere that will get us out of this bedroom art gallery and started to small flat and make us feel like we’re render friends and family in paper not stifling your childhoods with our form so that she could play with inability to afford a garden.” them – an idea both lovely and As Spain and Italy locked down heartbreaking. A friend lent us their with draconian measures, we could tent, which we popped up in the feel the panic rising: how would my sitting room so Betty and Steven partner, Steven, and I keep seven- could have an indoor sleepover one year-old Betty and 18-month-old Saturday night. Lucky Steven. Rosa occupied with no childcare, no If this all sounds too Waltons to be family or friends, no private outside true then it is. It’s not the full story: space and no throw-money-at-the- Betty also now has an addiction to problem excursions while trying to the computer game Stardew Valley hold down our own jobs? and Rosa’s fifth word is “telly”, The answer unfolded during the which she shouts repeatedly as she first week of lockdown when I told shoves the remote control at our my mum how frustrated Betty was heads. by Hurricane Rosa, the toddler who DIY: One can get inspired by how-to-draw videos by children’s illustrator Rob Biddulph – and find a new power in We’re not nailing this thing by destroys everything in her wake, creating an own bedroom art gallery. a long stretch, as our downstairs shoving small toys in her mouth at neighbours will attest to. But we’ve superfast speed. Mum suggested we soon evolved into an ambitious a luxury department store with a scraps of material for tablecloths. realised that the external draw of empty Betty’s higher bookshelves recreation of Malory Towers-meets- rigged-up LED night light and mood In a world that felt as if it was the organised fun isn’t always the so she could use them to play with Hogwarts, with a dormitory, head music from Classic FM. We then spinning out of control, there was answer; that actually unleashing her Sylvanian Families in peace. teacher’s office, infirmary, canteen moved on to restaurants and bakeries real comfort in having total mastery creativity helped us through a For the uninitiated, these are toy and swimming pool complete with using bits and pieces I bought from of our own tiny domain. tricky and confusing time. Our figures of rabbits, bears and mice tap water. As Betty became ever more every corner of the internet (day or It was then that the lightbulb imagination was fuelled by theirs … who have homes, furniture – whole invested, so did I, and together we night, I was able to check out securely moment struck: if we were going and vice versa. I hope it’s something communities in fact. became increasingly imaginative, using PayPal): so we had cakes made to be locked down, then we needed we remember to take with us into What started as a basic school turning my bedside cabinet into from Blu Tack, sequins for biscuits, to totally rethink the small world the future. – The Guardian 4 GULF TIMES Thursday, June 25, 2020 COMMUNITY COVER STORY A space of their own The goal is to make the flights as accessible and affordable to as many people as possible, one day possibly hosting weddings or corporate retreats, writes Caroline Glenn CONCEPT: Space Perspective joins the ranks of burgeoning companies working to create an industry that can send paying passengers to the edges of space. pair of self-described serial entrepreneurs, best-known for flying a KFC chicken sandwich into space and living two years sealed inside That’s really what this is all Aa biosphere, are attempting to start a new human spaceflight company that instead about: Everybody should be of launching rockets will lift civilian passengers into the sky tethered to a high- able to see the Earth from performance balloon. space. We want them to Space Perspective, introduced during a video news conference last Thursday, really be able to experience aims to carry a capsule of eight passengers at a time, dangling from a 650-foot-tall what astronauts talk about, balloon 100,000 feet above Earth. The balloon and capsule will gently ascend for seeing the Earth in space in about two hours at 12mph, floating along that inky blackness of the for another two hours as passengers enjoy refreshments and a view of the Earth cosmos, looking down at the below, and then descend back down at 12mph and splash down in either the Gulf curvature of the Earth of Mexico or the Atlantic Ocean.
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