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CONTROVERSY’S CHILD: Evidence of Jackson’s questionable behaviour has abounded for a long time. Now there’s fresh impetus to it with a new documentary that puts a huge question mark over his legacy.

OVER Documenting C STORY A rethink is in order on the complicated life and artistic legacy of the King of Pop after Leaving Neverland. P4-5

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A sports movie Films like Golmaal only work mirroring society. because of all of us: Kunal. Page 14 Page 15 2 GULF TIMES Thursday, March 7, 2019 COMMUNITY ROUND & ABOUT

PRAYER TIME Fajr 4.36am Shorooq (sunrise) 5.52am Zuhr (noon) 11.45am Asr (afternoon) 3.07pm Maghreb (sunset) 5.41pm Isha (night) 7.11pm Total Dhamaal about to be divorced, Lallan and Jhingur, fi re offi cers turned DIRECTION: Madhu C Narayanan off enders, and two weird siblings Aditya and Manav. All of CAST: Ajay Devgn, Riteish Deshmukh, Arshad Warsi them refuse Guddu’s off er to distribute the money and the USEFUL NUMBERS SYNOPSIS: And the madness and the craziness of the race to reach the booty fi rst begins. Finally after many ups and biggest franchise of laughter continues. Total Dhamaal is a downs all reach the designated place. But it’s not as easy as mad adventure comedy about money. Guddu, a small time it seems. Is there any truth about the hidden booty? Or all of crook gets double-crossed by his own colleague, Pintu, after them are being fooled? After a day full of life changing, near they have managed to get their hands on an illegal booty. death experiences, will the adventure ever end or another one Guddu and his sidekick Johnny manage to trace his colleague begin? Find out how the story concludes and if they are able to but only after Pintu has given the information of the booty get the booty or not. Emergency 999 to 3 other groups i.e. Avinash and Bindu, a bickering couple THEATRES: The Mall, Landmark, Royal Plaza Worldwide Emergency Number 112 Kahramaa – Electricity and Water 991 Local Directory 180 International Calls Enquires 150 Hamad International Airport 40106666 Labor Department 44508111, 44406537 Mowasalat Taxi 44588888 Qatar Airways 44496000 Hamad Medical Corporation 44392222, 44393333 Qatar General Electricity and Water Corporation 44845555, 44845464 Primary Health Care Corporation 44593333 44593363 Qatar Assistive Technology Centre 44594050 Qatar News Agency 44450205 44450333 Q-Post – General Postal Corporation 44464444

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Arctic SYNOPSIS: A man stranded in the embark on a deadly trek through the DIRECTION: Joe Penna Arctic after an airplane crash must unknown in hopes of making it out CAST: Mads Mikkelsen, Maria decide whether to remain in the relative alive. Thelma Smáradóttir safety of his makeshift camp or to THEATRES: The Mall, Royal Plaza ote Unquo u te Q The Mall Cinema (1): Mr. & Ms. Royal Plaza Cinema Palace Rowdy (Malayalam) 2pm; Total (1): Captain Marvel (2D) 2:15pm; “No-one can fi gure Dhamaal (Hindi) 4:45pm; Luka Captain Marvel (3D) 4:30pm; Chuppi (Hindi) 7pm; Sathru Captain Marvel (2D) 6:45pm; out your worth but you.” (Tamil) 9:15pm; Mr. & Ms. Rowdy (Kannada) 7pm; Sathru (Tamil) Captain Marvel (2D) 9pm; (Malayalam) 11:30pm. 9:15pm; Boomerang (Tamil) Captain Marvel (3D) 11:15pm. The Mall Cinema (2): Captain 11:30pm. Royal Plaza Cinema Palace — Pearl Bailey Marvel (2D) 2:30pm; Captain Landmark Cinema (2): Mr. & (2): Total Dhamaal (Hindi) Marvel (2D) 4:45pm; Captain Ms. Rowdy (Malayalam) 2pm; 2:15pm; Luka Chuppi (Hindi) Marvel (2D) 7pm; Captain Captain Marvel (2D) 4:45pm; 4:45pm; Total Dhamaal (Hindi) Marvel (2D) 9:15pm; Captain Captain Marvel (2D) 7pm; 7pm; Sathru (Tamil) 9:15pm; Marvel (2D) 11:30pm. Captain Marvel (2D) 9:15pm; Mr. & Ms. Rowdy (Malayalam) The Mall Cinema (3): Gully Captain Marvel (2D) 11:30pm. 11:30pm. Boy (Hindi) 2:15pm; Bell Bottom Landmark Cinema (3): Total Royal Plaza Cinema Community Editor (Kannada) 5pm; Arctic (2D) Dhamaal (Hindi) 2pm; Luka Palace (3): Mr. & Ms. Kamran Rehmat 7:15pm; Boomerang (Tamil) 9pm; Chuppi (Hindi) 4:15pm; Total Rowdy (Malayalam) 2:15pm; e-mail: [email protected] Thirumanam (Tamil) 11:30pm. Dhamaal (Hindi) 6:30pm; Thirumanam (Tamil) 5pm; Arctic Telephone: 44466405 Landmark Cinema (1): Captain Thirumanam (Tamil) 8:45pm; (2D) 7:45pm; Look Away (2D) Marvel (2D) 2:15pm; Bell Bottom Mr. & Ms. Rowdy (Malayalam) 9:30pm; Boomerang (Tamil) Fax: 44350474 (Kannada) 4:30pm; Bell Bottom 11:30pmpm. 11:30pm. Thursday, March 7, 2019 GULF TIMES 3 ROUND & ABOUT COMMUNITY

A R Rahman Concert invites all cyclists, runners and walkers WHERE: Khalifa Stadium to train under the floodlights of Losail WHEN: March 22 International Circuit every Wednesdays. TIME: 6pm – 11pm Music maestro A R Rahman is going to be performing on the 22nd of March at the Khalifa Stadium.

Arabic Calligraphy Workshop WHEN: Saturday – Wednesday TIME: 6pm Arabic Calligraphy workshop is back. Come and learn the artistic practice of Arabic handwriting and calligraphy at Music and Arts Atelier. The lessons will take place every Saturday, Monday and Wednesday at 6pm. For more information, contact [email protected]

EVENTS Grand Prix of Qatar 2019 WHERE: Losail International Circuit Artistic Gymnastic Classes WHEN: Tomorrow till March 10 WHERE: Qatar Academy Msheireb TIME: 1pm – 9pm Syria Matters Exhibition WHEN: Today The opening race will be held under the Where: Museum of Islamic Art TIME: 3:15pm – 4:15pm floodlights. Tickets can be purchased on- When: Ongoing till April 30 The olympic sport using horizontal bar, line. Time: 9am – 7pm rings and floor exercises on mats for the Museum of Islamic Art (MIA) in Doha children from age 4 till 16. presents a major exhibition, co-curated by MIA Director Dr Julia Gonnella and Rania MIA Park Bazaar 2019 Abdellatif, as part of the MIA ten-year WHERE: Museum Of Islamic Art anniversary celebrations. After School Activities WHEN: Ongoing WHERE: Atelier TIME: 12pm – 8pm WHEN: Ongoing MIA Bazaar will be having a vibrant Music and arts activities for students mix of 350 stalls. MIA Park Bazaar is a taking place after they finish their day in modern version of the old souq tradition. school includes Group Music lessons, Hip- The stalls are going to offer a wide range hop, Ballet, Drawing and Painting, Drama of gastronomies from all over the world. Theatre & Taekwondo. Ages between 5 and You can also browse and grab handcrafted 10 years old after school hours. artefacts, accessories, canvases, fashion wears, designer ornaments. Open Evening WHERE: Stenden Qatar, Cafeteria WHEN: March 13 Ballet Lessons TIME: 3pm – 6pm WHERE: Music and Arts Atelier Stenden Qatar is hosting an open WHEN: Ongoing evening, free for public, including parents TIME: 4pm – 8pm and students. For more info e-mail at registration@ atelierqatar.com or call on 33003839. HEC Paris Info Session Hobby Classes WHERE: 14th Floor, Tornado Tower, WHERE: Mamangam Performing Art West Bay Centre WHEN: March 11 WHEN:Wednesday – Monday TIME: 4:45pm – 6pm Mamangam Performing Art Centre, is HEC Paris invites you to the next a holistic performing arts institution and Information Session for its revamped a one stop solution for adults as well as Mehaseel Festival Specialised Master’s Degree in Strategic children looking to explore their talents WHERE: Katara Cultural Village Business Unit Management (SBUM). This in various art forms. We offer classes in WHEN: Ongoing till March 31 part-time degree programme is designed contemporary, Bollywood, hip-hop and Mehaseel Souq will be open every as a practical foundation for managing a Indian classical dance forms, along with Thursday, Friday and Saturday until 31st of business. It will give you the opportunity classes for music, art and crafts, karate and March. It is a perfect market to get amazing to learn international best practice from yoga. Additional services include dance local fresh produce. world-class faculty. Find out how it will education and choreography. For details, help you take your career forward! call 33897609.

New Media + New Museum Dance and Instrument Classes WHERE: Education City WHERE: TCA Campus, Behind Gulf WHEN: March 12 Times Building TIME: 7pm – 9pm WHEN: Wednesday – Monday Storytelling in exhibitions has become Cycling: Losail Circuit Sports Club Learn the movements of dance styles increasingly important, and melded with WHERE: Losail Circuit in Bollywood, Hip Hop and also the technology can create immersive, active WHEN: Ongoing musical instruments such as Piano, Guitar, spaces for visitors, a far cry from the TIME: 5pm Keyboard for adults as well kids and move passive viewing of objects often thought of Losail Circuit Sports Club, in association in the world of music. For details, contact as a typical museum experience. with Qatar Sports For All Federation, 66523871/ 31326749.

Compiled by Nausheen Shaikh. E-mail: [email protected], Events and timings subject to change 4 GULF TIMES Thursday, March 7, 2019 COMMUNITY COVER STORY Bad vibes, again Leaving Neverland may not prove ’s guilt or innocence. But it demands that we start listening to him as a man, not as an icon, concludes Mikael Wood

DODGY REPUTATION: Michael Jackson arrives to launch his global initiative Heal the Kids at Oxford University on March 6, 2001. Reuters

ou can’t touch out of court for a reported $23 which Jackson was acquitted On Monday night, HBO But Robson’s and Safechuck’s me ‘cause I’m million. in 2005, failed to dampen concluded its two-part broadcast testimony is so powerful — as untouchable, Michael Yet in many ways nothing enthusiasm for a series of 50 of Leaving Neverland, director horrifyingly graphic as it is Jackson sang on his seemed to stick to Jackson, sold-out concerts he planned to Dan Reed’s searing documentary persuasively specific — that it’s last real studio album, perhaps the biggest pop star the perform in London starting in in which two men, hard to imagine Jackson gliding Yand for years that appeared to be world has ever known. Though 2009. And his shocking death that and James Safechuck, detail the past their claims as he did others true. Invincible didn’t achieve the year at age 50 only bolstered his abuse they say they suffered as in the past. By the time Jackson released omnipresence of his earlier work appeal, as demonstrated by the children at Jackson’s hand. In part that’s because they Invincible in 2001, he’d spent — global smashes like success of several posthumous The singer’s estate has denied frame their stories in language nearly a decade dodging and Bad, whose influence can records and shows, including a the allegations and strongly that fans can understand. suspicions of child sexual abuse. still be heard today — the album Cirque du Soleil production on condemned Reed’s film; it Again and again in Leaving Evidence of his questionable topped the Billboard 200 and was view as we speak at Mandalay Bay has also filed a $100-million Neverland, the men describe behaviour seemed to abound; a certified for double-platinum in Las Vegas. lawsuit against HBO, which the the experience of being close to boy accused him of molestation in sales. Now that invincibility may estate accuses of violating a Jackson as a kind of hypnosis; so 1993 before settling the civil case A second charge of abuse, of finally be weakening. nondisparagement agreement. too do their mothers, who shake Thursday, March 7, 2019 GULF TIMES 5 COVER STORY COMMUNITY

PUBLIC PERSONA Who can’t relate to the idea of being dazzled by Michael Jackson’s talent? As a singer and a dancer and a songwriter, he synthesised the sounds and attitudes of soul and pop — and of black and white — to create a new American music that even now, 40 years afterOff the Wall, feels revolutionary

their heads at the memory of — even after death — beyond a up resenting in his domineering allowing their sons to be in the normal code of conduct. father. same bed with a grown man they Or at least we did. Try to listen to a song like Watching Leaving Neverland, hardly knew. Watching Leaving Neverland, Unbreakable, that defiant one of the revelations that But who can’t relate to the idea one of the revelations that strikes Invincible cut, while thinking of of being dazzled by Jackson’s you is the ghoulish yet mundane Jackson as someone bound by strikes you is the ghoulish yet talent? As a singer and a dancer precautions that Jackson took at conventional notions of right and a songwriter, he synthesised his ranch, according to Safechuck, and wrong. It doesn’t make any mundane precautions that the sounds and attitudes of soul who says the singer had special sense; the song presupposes Michael Jackson took at his and pop — and of black and white doors and bells in place to hide that the singer occupies his own — to create a new American music their intimate interactions from moral plane. In a way, though, ranch, according to Safechuck, that even now, 40 years after Off anyone who might discover them. the same is true of a much older the Wall, feels revolutionary. That’s not the doing of some song such as Rock With You, who says the singer had special Of course, as #MeToo has otherworldly genius; it’s the sign which practically glows with an shown us, domination through of a predator who knew the risks ebullience simply out of reach for doors and bells in place to hide amazement is a familiar MO of his alleged crimes. any of Jackson’s peers. The song their intimate interactions from among entertainers accused of If our perception of Jackson is is magic of a kind, and it’s not abuse. Yet Jackson was operating changing, then, what do we do as though Jackson had only one anyone who might discover them on an infinitely higher level than with his music? trick up his sleeve; the guy made that of R. Kelly or Ryan Adams; I don’t mean strictly in a moral dozens of tunes that seemed to indeed, he presented himself — sense, though that’s certainly part stand apart from the rest of pop, credibly! — as something of a of it. In the streaming era, when including Don’t Stop ‘Til You magical creature, with talismans every play on Spotify or Apple Get Enough, Wanna Be Startin’ like his sequined glove and dance Music is worth a few fractions of a Somethin’, Beat It, Billie Jean, moves that seemed to defy earthly penny, listeners must accept that P.Y.T. (Pretty Young Thing), The physics. interest is tantamount to support Way You Make Me Feel, Smooth In the late-’80s video game — a real shift from the days when Criminal and Remember the Time. Michael Jackson’s , his problematic figures could be To hear any of them is to be feet literally throw off digitised examined (as they should be) reminded of the others and, sparks that beat back the bad without being slowly enriched. therefore, of the singularity of guys. And what was Neverland But for Jackson the question Jackson’s career. And to consider Ranch if not the ultimate is also an aesthetic one: How do his career is to acknowledge embodiment of his fairy tale we hear his music outside the the outrageous leeway we felt mindset? framework of his untouchability? his work entitled him to in his There was more troubling So much of Jackson’s catalog personal life. stuff too, including the many is rooted in the exceptionalism Leaving Neverland may alterations to his physical body. of a man who was groomed from not prove Jackson’s guilt or Still, even when he baffled us or childhood for superstardom — innocence. But it demands that tempted our pity, the effect of and who later, after he’d achieved we start listening to him as a Jackson’s supernatural bearing it, seemed to take on some of man, not as an icon. — is that we’ve allowed him to live the very qualities he’d grown Times/TNS 6 GULF TIMES Thursday, March 7, 2019 COMMUNITY Doha College organises Medical Review School Conference

Doha College recently organised ‘Doha College’s Medical Review School Conference’. research on ‘Regenerative Knee Surgery’. Their presentation focused on the work of professor Thirty-eight teams from 9 schools participated in the conference that researched on a set Hideo Ochi, President of Hiroshima State University in Japan. of six topics, including hereditary and metabolic diseases; cancer; technology in medicine; Toleen Masarweh, Wardah Shah and Nuhansa Wijesuriya, students of Park House English radiological, pathological and diagnostic updates and epidemiology of infectious diseases. School, got second position for their presentation on ‘Uncovering the mysteries of Parkinson’s The morning session had teams present their research to impartial teacher judges from Disease’. Nassima Zerouali, Asmaa Modak and Safira Awanis, students of Al Khor International participating schools. The four teams with the highest scores presented again to a panel School, secured first position for their presentation on ‘The Silent Muscle Crippler’. Their of judges, including Dr Satyawan Bhatt and Dr Salman Qureshi, from Hamad Medical research focused on the nature of Duchenne Muscular Dystrophy (DMD), which causes Corporation (HMC); and Dr Nesrin Ghazi Elkhatib and Dr Osama Hassan Salha, Elite Medical degeneration of the muscles in the body. Speaking on the occasion, Dr Steffen Sommers, Centre. Principal of Doha College, said, “I was impressed by the number of schools in attendance, and Keynote speakers at the conference, included Professor Peter Woodruff, Chair of Psychiatry the quality and calibre of the presentations was truly phenomenal.” and Medical Director of the Mental Health Service at Hamad Hospital; and Sanjith Ganesan, The schools participating in the conference, included Al Khor International School, GEMS Doha College alumnus studying medicine at Weill Cornell Medicine – Qatar. American Academy, GEMS Wellington, Lebanese School, Park House English School, Hisham Khan and Zakki Sarwar, students of Doha College, bagged third position for their Sherborne Qatar, Newton British Academy and Doha College.

ISC elects new off ice bearers

Indian Sports Centre (ISC) recently elected its new managing committee. The new off ice bearers, and Head of Yoga and Fitness; Ravi Shankar, Head of Finance; Ashik Mohammed, Secretary include Nilangshu Dey, President of ISC; E P Abdurahman, Vice President Operations, Membership Volleyball and Basketball; T S Srinivas, Secretary Cricket and Tennis; Arun Kumar K M, Secretary and Premises Development; Sharafu P Hameed, Vice President Corporate and Government Table Tennis, Badminton and Swimming; Safeerurahman, Secretary Football; and Shivani Mishra, Relations and Sponsorship; Habib Un Nabi, General Secretary; Nisha Agrawal, Joint Secretary Secretary Athletics, School sports and Ladies Games.

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Students of DPS-MIS perform at a concert

Students of DPS-Modern Indian School (DPS-MIS) recently performed the national anthem of Qatar and India at the musical concert of Vishal Dadlani and Shekhar Ravjiani, Bollywood singers, along with Fahad al-Kubaisi, Grammy nominated Qatari singer, at Ali Bin Hamad Al Attiyah Arena. As part of Qatar-India 2019 Year of Culture, the programme was initiated by FAB Entertainment. Thursday, March 7, 2019 GULF TIMES 7 COMMUNITY ICAI-Qatar Chapter organises seminar and elects new management committee

Institute of Chartered Accountants of India (ICAI) – Qatar Chapter, recently organised a committee at the general meeting. The new office bearers, include Rukkaiya Pachisa, seminar on ‘Forensic Graphics’, which was followed by Annual General Meeting at Hotel Chairperson; Sandeep Chowdhary, Vice Chairman; Nirlep Bhatt, Secretary; Jithu Koshy, Crowne Plaza – The Business Park. The event was attended by over 150 members. The Treasurer; and Ankit Agarwal, Jaison PT, Kamlesh Tibrewal and Vignesh Kalyanraman, event was sponsored by Quantum Global Solutions. committee members. Rob Valenta, Creative Director of Quantum Global Solutions, was the keynote speaker at Addressing the gathering, Rukkaiya Pachisa spoke about her vision for the chapter. She the event. He briefed the audience about the evolving concept of forensic graphics and re-emphasised the importance of the growth of the CA fraternity and briefly outlined its importance for the construction and infrastructure industries in Qatar. He explained the future events. She also spoke about how professionals should be responsive to the that forensic graphics have played a key role in the successful litigation of lawsuits around ever-changing dynamic global scenario and keep themselves constantly updated about the world, by providing a visual reconstruction of structures, products, materials and latest updates and trends. Nirlep Bhatt welcomed the gathering and Sandeep Chowdhary components that are pertinent to the investigation. ICAI elected its new management proposed a vote of thanks.

WORKSHOP: Ideal Indian School (IIS) recently organised a workshop for the students of Grade X-XII, to celebrate International Women’s Day. William Augustt, Associate Director at Turner & Townsend, and Rajani Rajendran, Senior Quantity Surveyor at Turner & Townsend, conducted the workshop. William and Rajani spoke about various career opportunities available for women in the construction field.

Chupa Chups to hit the racing tracks with Jorge Lorenzo

Chupa Chups, distributed in Qatar exclusively by Ali Bin daisy logo, right from the start of the pre-season tests,” Ali (ABA) Holding’s FMCG Division, Dohatna Innovative said Jorge. «Motorcycling isn’t just sacrifice, passion and Distribution, is all set to hit the racing tracks. The most commitment, it’s also having fun and Chupa Chups is a loved lollipop in the world is bringing fun on two wheels fun brand! My passion for motorcycling dates back to as the 20-year-old partnership with Spanish Grand Prix childhood and Chupa Chups, like motorbiking, is part of motorcycle road racer Jorge Lorenzo has been renewed, my childhood fun, a memory that has been part of many stated a pressed release. adventures and achievements and that it’s still present The iconic logo, originally designed by Salvador now,” he added. Dali, returns to the tracks of the World Motorcycle Jorge’s fondness for the iconic lollipop brand has lasted Championship, embellishing the helmet of one of the for over 20 years since, way back in 1999, his helmet greatest champions of all times. Jorge is the holder of five was signed Chupa Chups, accompanying him through world championship titles and recently joined the Honda the early years of his career in both the 125cc and 250cc team. He will wear his new helmet with the Chupa Chups class, when he won the championship in 2006 and 2007, logo in the 2019 and 2020 World Championships, starting up until 2008 when he raced his first championship in with the upcoming Qatar Grand Prix on March 10. the 500cc class. The helmet with the Chupa Chups logo Chupa Chups will also accompany Jorge every time he became an iconic element and part of the brand’s history. climbs onto the podium, as the star racer will unwrap and Commenting about Dohatna’s association with Chupa consume a Chupa Chups lollipop. A fun and irreverent Chups, Mohammad Imran, General Manager of Dohatna way to celebrate his successes, showing his many fans Innovative Distribution, said, «Chupa Chups is a highly how he enjoys the brand for which he has been a true popular brand in Qatar and its endorsement by such ambassador for many years. an iconic character will only add to its popularity. ABA «I could not resist the temptation to show off my new Holding and Dohatna are proud to be partners with the Shark helmet, showcasing the legendary Chupa Chups brand.” 8 GULF TIMES Thursday, March 7, 2019 COMMUNITY ADVICE Don’t overstress during exams

LEARNING: Explaining the concept to a peer may also reinforce learning.

of the concepts that they had sequence through chapters to answer questions as well. High will reduce performance to a By Dr Subhash Nair learnt in the lower classes without may help in better preparation achievers do this all the time and huge level. Parents and teachers wasting a lot of time in digging for examination as they are their preparation for examination must show signs of increased information. Children resort expected to correctly associate the appears effortless. It is extremely trust in children and must give housands of students of to both focused and diffused questions to the right content and important to give our brain reassurance that their wards’ Grade X-XII are going learning during their preparation concept to answer it well. Going sufficient rest every day to ensure results and marks will not affect through their CBSE for examination. through the content at random its better performance during the way they love their children. Board Examination. Focused learning for a certain not in any particular sequence the examination. Students must Parents must pay great attention Teachers and parents period of time, say ten minutes, during revision is better for this sleep well for not less than six to provide a suitable atmosphere Tset high expectations for their must be followed by at least five purpose. hours at night preferably in total at home for their ward to prepare wards’ achievement. Mostly high minutes of diffused learning Chunking is another method to darkness. This will rejuvenate for the examination which achievers are under stress as their during which the child goes for gradually develop concepts in our the brain cells and will give includes a better study space, schools expect them to emerge as a walk or dance or sing a song or mind. Rather than memorising in them power for better neural quite atmosphere, a little bit toppers. They work hard to achieve do something else that relaxes a rot fashion, chunking helps to connections which are essential of sacrifice of TV and other A1 grades in all the subjects to get him/her. The neural connections give a structure to the concepts for memory, intelligence, and entertainment time during the CBSE Merit Certifi cates that are established through the focused in our mind. A few significant reasoning that are needed for a study hours and dining together. awarded to the 0.1% of the top learning will be reinforced aspects or facts related to the better performance during any Try to avoid get-togethers till scorers. The competition in Qatar during the diffused learning concept form the initial chunk examination. the exams are over. Stop advising is very healthy as the schools part process. Many students resort that is kept in our mind first. Having healthy food rich in and correcting them now. That of CBSE Gulf Sahodaya collaborate to continuous focused learning Every time we revise the concept fruits and vegetable, drinking period is over and now is the to support students from all the that causes fatigue to their brain some more related facts are added lots of water and regular physical time to demonstrate trust and schools and leaves the mind confused to that chunk and this chunking exercise are also essential to confidence. Allow them to resort Children having excellent due to the lack of reinforcement. strengthens the concept. The ensure well performance in to their style of learning. learning skills find it easy to After reading a piece of content initial chunk that we form in our exams. Junk food and carbonated Let them feel our support and prepare well for their examination trying to recollect the essence mind helps to answer the question drinks must be reduced and concern through our action. and for them high achievement of what is learnt will reinforce and what we added subsequently regularity of meals of balanced Encourage them to call their is a habit formed over a period. learning and strengthen to the chunk helps to make the diet rich in vitamins and minerals teacher if they are stuck with a Schools use digital content memory. Many students resort to answer rich to score better marks. must be ensured. A few minutes doubt instead of wasting a lot of and learning platforms to effective mnemonic techniques This means that scoring better of prayer or meditation will help time digging to clear it. Encourage make learning interesting and to strengthen memory as well. marks in an examination is not in calming the mind and to reduce them to write the answers as they enjoyable. Certain learning Explaining the concept to a peer just a co-incidence. It is a result stress. revise rather than just depending platforms like EduBrisk help may also reinforce learning. of a purposeful preparation. As Children must be told that a on reading. students to diagnose their During the revision time we practice again and again to little bit of stress is essential for learning gaps and scale down interleaving rather than perform a dance or song, well better performance. However, z Dr Subhash Nair is Principal learning to the facts and attributes proceeding in a particular there must be deliberate practice unreasonably high level of stress of Shantiniketan Indian School. Thursday, March 7, 2019 GULF TIMES 9 GARDENING COMMUNITY

A-LIST CLIENTELE: Kranz’s caters to creating gardens for children and schools, but she also has famous clients, including a wide range of Los Angeles celebrities, from singer Katy Perry and actor Jason Bateman to designer Jenni Kayne and chef Suzanne Goin. Finding room to grow almost anywhere Anyone can turn a yard or even a few pots into beautiful food, says Los Angeles gardening guru Lauri Kranz. By Jeanette Marantos

e really all kind of colourful plants, including rich fragrance and attractiveness want to a vividly violet caulifl ower, delicately to bees, butterfl ies and other empower striped eggplant and her must-have benefi cial insects. people to garden plant: African basil, with “Attracting all those benefi cials grow their creamy spikes of purple and white to the garden is vital,” she said, own“W food and not be overwhelmed fl owers and every shade of green you “because without them, our edible about having to know everything can possibly imagine. Her husband, gardens wouldn’t produce many before they even begin,” add the Dean Kuipers, a former editor at the edibles.” author of the new book A Garden Can , assisted with the Be Anywhere. writing. Location, location, location Kranz moved from New York Almost all the featured gardens are “The most important thing is to Los Angeles in the mid-1990s in the Los Angeles area, except for picking the right place,” Kranz says. to pursue a music career, but her two small farms in Maine, but Kranz Explore your property and take foray into gardening was almost hopes this book will attract readers photos of every potential garden spot an accident: Her oldest son’s across the country. every two hours during the day to kindergarten needed someone to Beauty and individuality are see how much time is spent in sun or oversee the student garden, and key to Kranz’s gardens. These are shade. Kranz volunteered. not utilitarian rows of carrots and Eight hours of sun is perfect “if “That sparked everything,” she tomatoes but a smorgasbord of you want to grow giant heirloom said. “I became obsessed,” reading varieties grown close together to tomatoes and melons, but fi ve hours all the books she could fi nd and shade the soil, draw in pollinators of full sun is fantastic too. You can pumping growers for information at and produce an abundance of food, grow delicious Sun Gold tomatoes her favourite farmers markets. fragrance and hues. and beautiful kale, herbs, peas and When her second son started “For me, music and gardening are beans with just fi ve hours a day.” kindergarten, his school didn’t have not that far apart,” she said. “In both, a garden, and she off ered to start you’re starting with a blank canvas, Feed your soil one. Parents who were impressed whether it’s a piece of paper or a plot Kranz is a strong proponent of by its bounty asked her to help them of land, and you create something to organic gardening and believes set up gardens at their homes, and tell your own story.” building a friable (i.e. crumbly), her business Edible Gardens LA was It’s important to Kranz that her nutrient-rich soil is critical to your born. clients get a garden that suits their garden’s success. CRAMMED: The 256-page book A Garden Can Be Anywhere is filled with Kranz’s business still caters to needs and becomes a place they want Such soils can take years to create, easy-to-digest advice and inspiring photos of riotous garden plots crammed creating gardens for children and to linger. Which is not to say she she said, but to start she advocates with all kind of colourful plants. schools, but she also has famous doesn’t have rules. the “double-digging method”: clients. She doesn’t drop names, but Here are her top four tips for Digging up a shovel-wide trench, Water wisely perforated hoses the length of the the glowing recommendations on her creating the garden of your desires: half fi lling it with compost and then Most of her gardens are made bed, 6 inches apart. In Southern book cover include a wide range of shovelling soil from the next trench of raised beds of untreated, California, she suggests, start Los Angeles celebrities, from singer Blooms are vital into the fi rst to introduce air into the unpainted wood (no wider than watering three times a week for 18 Katy Perry and actor Jason Bateman “An edible garden is created to soil and mix in the compost, That, 4 feet so the middle is always minutes, and then adjust from there to designer Jenni Kayne and chef produce food,” Kranz said, but plus regular fertilizing with liquid within reach), and she’s found if the soil is too wet or dry. Suzanne Goin. that doesn’t mean you plant only seaweed, is all she recommends for drip irrigation to be the best way Don’t know how to tell? Stick your The 256-page book is fi lled with edibles. Her gardens are stuff ed the fi rst year. to keep them watered. fi nger in the soil. If it’s consistently easy-to-digest advice and inspiring with fl owers too, some edible, “Your garden will tell you what else After she fi lls the beds with soil, moist 2 inches down, your plants are photos by Yoshihiro Makino of like her omnipresent African it needs,” she said. “You’ll be learning she lays a half-inch irrigation hose fi ne. If it’s dry, break out the hose. – riotous garden plots crammed with basil, and some because of their as you go.” on one end and strings quarter-inch Los Angeles Times/TNS 10 GULF TIMES Thursday, March 7, 2019 COMMUNITY INFOGRAPHIC Thursday, March 7, 2019 GULF TIMES 11 LIFESTYLE/HOROSCOPE COMMUNITY Beauty expert gives simple make-up guide for beginners

t doesn’t matter if you are a beginner minor spots. Use it with a fl at foundation at putting on make-up. Just go with brush for more coverage or a buffi ng brush the basics like a foundation and liquid for a more natural look. lipstick to give your lips a soft hint of z Then use liquid highlighter depending colour and use the same colour on your on your skin tone over your eyelids, on the cheeksI to give it a glow, say experts. inner corners if you have close set eyes to Vineeta Singh, make-up expert and make them appear more brighter and over CEO from SUGAR cosmetics and make-up the top of your cheekbones to give it the advisors from TheBalm Cosmetics, India, luminous glow. have listed tips to make life easier for z Dab on a red liquid lipstick to give your beginners. lips a soft hint of colour. Use the same colour z To begin with, always start putting on your cheeks to give it a rosy glow. your make-up on a fresh and clean canvas. z For your lips, it is essential to apply This means that you should always wash a clear lip tint or a lip balm at least 10 your face, and clear out any residue with minutes prior to using your lipstick. A better a good cleansing lotion or cleansing water alternative to this would be a lip primer. This to start right. The same step is mandatory helps in the smooth application of lipstick before you retire for the day. This helps to and makes it last longer. avoid clogging of pores and ensures healthy z As a beginner, your go-to lipstick skin. should defi nitely be a subtle shade (soft z Always begin with a face primer before pink or nude brown). Opt for a classic bullet your foundation and concealer to make your lipstick with a comfortable velvety matte makeup last the whole day. This primer can fi nish. even be used with any make-up base to give z For an easy, everyday make-up look, you fresh looking matte skin all day. skip the kajal and wear a volumising mascara z Next, use the foundation for a medium that will make your eyes look bigger and to full coverage make-up look and to cover brighter. – IANS

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

Books or lectures on spiritual or metaphysical matters could inspire A new and previously unacknowledged talent for working in social, Increased intuition, imagination, and spiritual insight could inspire you to pursue a subject and perhaps do some writing, Aries. Contact humanitarian, or spiritual fields could come to light today, Taurus. you to either undertake a course of study or move ahead with with friends or colleagues with similar interests could result in This could have you thinking seriously about changing jobs or related creative projects, Gemini. You might be very pleasantly fascinating discussions. You might receive some insights about how pursuing an entirely new career. The opportunities are there if you surprised at what you learn or produce, and so be motivated to to pursue your goals more eff ectively. It will advance you materially look. If you’re serious about this change, it’s best to pursue it now. If continue with whatever you’re doing. This could be an inspiring and as well as intellectually and spiritually. you wait too long, the process might prove more diff icult. productive time for you. Make the most of it! CANCER LEO VIRGO June 21 — July 22 July 23 — August 22 August 23 — September 22

Recent new ideas, insights, and visions could motivate you to invite An invitation to a social event in your neighborhood could put you Spiritual insights you received over the past few days could turn friends with similar interests over today, Cancer. You will want to in touch with artistic or spiritually inclined people. There could be your thoughts to serving others. You might have a talent for share your experiences, listen to their stories, and try to make sense some fascinating exchanges, Leo. The event might continue into the teaching and choose to share what you’ve learned in this way, Virgo. of it all. This may be an important process, even if some of what’s night. No matter how late, no matter how tired you are when you get You should feel especially healthy and energetic, so you may be said doesn’t seem to make sense. Write down your thoughts and go home, try to get a little exercise to clear your head and quiet your tempted to plunge ahead. Plan carefully. Even the most admirable of over them later. mind. You might have trouble getting to sleep otherwise. enterprises needs to be faced in a practical frame of mind. LIBRA SCORPIO SAGITTARIUS September 23 — October 22 October 23 — November 21 November 22 — December 21

Romance should pick up speed today, Libra. You could discover that You might have intense dreams and visions tonight that could be A lecture given by a magnetic speaker could excite your imagination you and a current or potential romantic partner have many spiritual almost prophetic, Scorpio. These premonitions could be personal, and interest you in a new and intriguing field, Sagittarius. You could interests in common. You might attend some lectures or workshops but they’re apt to be more worldly, such as political events or also learn about some books on the subject that you want to read. on one of these subjects together. Take care not to plan too much something in the life of a celebrity you admire. What you sense This could give you new motivation to pursue some cherished goals at once. One or both of you could run into conflicts and end up should be positive, so there are no warnings involved. Write them that you’ve let slide for a while, perhaps inspiring some writing of disappointing the other. Schedule a few and stick to your plans. down so you can verify them later. You might be surprised! your own. Friends could prove supportive in this enterprise. CAPRICORN AQUARIUS PISCES December 22 — January 19 January 20 — February 18 February 19 — March 20

A friend or colleague could introduce you to a way to increase your Enthusiasm for spiritual and metaphysical studies could have you Today you might want to host a meeting of your metaphysically income by doing what you love most, Capricorn. This may involve feeling optimistic about the future. Your physical energy is high, inclined friends, Pisces. Discussions could lead to insights that none the creative arts, healing, or spiritual or metaphysical matters. Aquarius, and this suggests that you want to try yoga, tai chi, or of you would have come up with alone. Your minds will be going a Although this might take weeks or months of preparation to put into another discipline that combines physical exercise with developing thousand miles an hour. None of you may ever be the same! Don’t eff ect, it should be worth the eff ort. Check out the facts and think psychic and spiritual faculties. Friends could want to join you in this forget to take notes of your discussions. You won’t want to forget a about it. If you still like it, go for it! activity. Let the insights flow, and write them down. thing you’ve heard or said. 12 GULF TIMES Thursday, March 7, 2019 COMMUNITY CARTOONS/PUZZLES

Wordsearch Adam

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ACTOR DUKE MCQ BIG JAKE EL DORADO RIO BRAVO BLUE STEEL EPIC RIO LOBO BRANNIGAN FILMS STAGECOACH CAHILL FORT APACHE THE ALAMO CHISUM HOLLYWOOD TOUGH COWBOY HONDO TRUE GRIT DRAWL MARION WESTERN

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

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Sudoku

Bound And Gagged

Sudoku is a puzzle based on a 9x9 grid. The grid is also divided into nine (3x3) boxes. You are given a selection of values and to complete the puzzle, you must fill the grid so that every column, every anone is repeated. Thursday, March 7, 2019 GULF TIMES 13 PUZZLES COMMUNITY

Super Cryptic Clues Colouring

ACROSS DOWN 1. And, playing in the water 1. Immediately coming out, in container, it’s very sweet (7) the company of (9) 5. Act I is set in a railway 2. The tent pitched by the man compartment in Rome (7) annoys one (7) 9. Rolls about loosely, too, in 3. Understanding the word ‘yes’ the car (5) (9) 10. The turbulence causes 4. In return, ration the gin (4) disquiet (9) 5. Wishing one weren’t so 11. He claims he has a title (6) pleased with oneself? (4,6) 12. How one says ‘I’m shattered’? 6. Follow the line (5) (8) 7. The wine is cold: a thin, 14. The woman is first to come blended one (7) out (5) 8. Not ‘Mademoiselle de Paris’! 15. Seeing about (9) (5) 18. Is the swishing cane, 13. Be responsible for Jack’s perhaps, responsible for the debut? (5,5) vacillation? (9) 16. When good and dry, get Answers 20. The picture is sent off after caught in the rain and make one (5) a fuss (5,4) Wordsearch Codeword 22. No forewords? The 17. Have you understand you impertinence! (8) won’t be given tick? (3,6) 24. He’s cried off, having a cold in 19. Ties the pooch, one notices, the head (6) outside (7) 26. Attacked when one cancelled 21. Set and waiting (7) (6,3) 22. Established the man, a sailor, 27. Before twelve, I set off with a had returned (5) friend (5) 23. Means to say you hide it (5) 28. By the sound of it, without 25. Fill the cups up (4) permission, go off course (7) 29. For a joke, stuffs with chips (7)

Yesterday’s Solutions

ACROSS: 1 Cathedral city 8 DOWN: 2 Abridge 3 Hue 4 Date Serpent 9 Teacups 11 Undine 13 5 Afterwards 6 Chain 7 Toughly Trencher 15 Steep 16 Inanity 18 8 Squash court 10 Street scene Clothed 19 Cards 21 Upbraids 12 Napoo 14 Nightdress 17 23 Aspire 25 Tillage 26 Incus 18 Cobbler 20 Raiment Concede 28 Brute strength. 22 Avast 24 Scar 27 Nun. 14 GULF TIMES Thursday, March 7, 2019 COMMUNITY REVIEWS A sports movie mirroring society

on it, Foxcatcher and Win Win being Jaquan: Though a weakness for By Kenneth Turan the best among them. burritos makes it hard for him to Wrestle conveys a fi ne sense of make weight, his passion for this this intense, demanding, almost unlikely sport confounds his mother, ust as sports mirror society, gladiatorial sport, nakedly nerve- who says, “I got a white son, a white so do the best sports fi lms wracking and insisting on total boy inside a black boy’s body.” not only take us inside mental and physical preparedness. Teague: The only white athlete of games and those who play One of the hooks of Wrestle is the four profi led, he has attention- them but also provide that Huntsville’s J.O. Johnson High, defi cit diffi culties but increasingly insightJ into our world and how it in one of the city’s poorest areas avoids his medications in favour of works. Wrestle, a superb sports and a fi xture on the state’s failing self-medicating with recreational documentary, does exactly that. schools list, is the last place you drugs. As directed by Suzannah would expect to fi nd a competitive In addition to the rigors of this Herbert and co-directed by Lauren wrestling team. very demanding sport, these young Belfer, this story of a Huntsville, It exists because its 28-year-old men have to cope with living in poor, Ala., high school wrestling team coach, Chris Scribner, who taught single-parent households where a so expertly balances those two social studies there, is a sincere and sense of normality is not a given, and points of view, the athletic and the passionate believer that fi ghting to where personal situations may be cultural, that comparisons to Steve excel in sports, “grinding every day,” beyond their capacity to handle. James’ landmark Hoop Dreams are increases an individual’s chances We also see, in vignettes that inevitable and legitimate. of both winning tournaments and are all the more potent for being One reason Wrestle is so having a successful life. delicately handled, how what comes eff ective is that director Herbert “It’s not about you, it’s about the off very much like racial profi ling and cinematographer Sinisa Kukic opportunity you’ve been given to be aff ects these kids in terms of their decided to move to Huntsville for great,” he says in the pep talk, one of interactions with local police. the duration of the shoot. many he gives that opens the fi lm. Even their coach, who reveals What resulted was not only Set in the 15 weeks between the that his own high school years were 650 hours of footage but also the start of the season and the state more than problematic, legitimately benefi t of countless additional fi nals, Wrestle focuses on four of worries that his charges will not get time spent just hanging out with the strongest members of the team, the repeated chances to overcome the protagonists. As a result, the empathetically examining their bad choices that he himself was director notes, “When intense, hard personal lives and the formidable given. things actually did happen, it wasn’t challenges that each of them faces. By the time the Alabama state weird or uncomfortable for us to be These include: Jailen: Quiet, even- high school championships roll there.” keeled and self-motivated, he hasn’t around, we know these four Though football is much seen his mother since he was 2, his wrestlers intimately and we’ve come the dominant athletic activity father who is in and out of prison, to care enough to want nothing in Alabama, having intense, and lives with his grandfather. but the best for each of them, not demanding wrestling at the centre Jamario: Determined to make a only in the tournament but in their of things pays dividends of its own. success of his life, he worries his lives. But this is truth, not fi ction, Often not as celebrated as other mother and his coach because of the and that’s not something that’s sports, wrestling has had its share intensity of his involvement with his guaranteed. – Los Angeles Times/ of strong dramatic features focusing girlfriend. TNS Eco-warrior balances activism with motherhood

– what we have witnessed is her fifth such character delineation eff ective. By Kenneth Turan attack – so successful that news reports Helped by Baldvin (Jorundur Ragnarsson), talk darkly of “organised sabotage by a a friendly mole inside the Icelandic foreign terrorist network.” In reality, it’s government, Halla is trying to decide if she ot to get all alliterative about it, just her. should quit the bow-and-arrow stuff while but Woman at War is something Though these issues are serious, and though she’s ahead and issue the ecological manifesto wonderful. Made with a fi nely Halla herself insists “I am not a criminal; I am she’s been planning. honed sense of the ridiculous as trying to prevent crimes against us,” there is With American thermal cameras preparing well as unexpected emotion, this something slyly ridiculous about the way the to monitor Iceland’s highlands from space and modernN Icelandic saga is completely serious whole business is treated by Erlingsson and his even operatives getting into the act, Halla is about its wall-to-wall wackiness, which of co-writer, Olafur Egill Egilsson. leaning toward mothballing her weapon when course is the only way to go. For example, getting away clean from her life throws her a curve. Director and co-writer Benedikt Erlingsson latest attack requires Halla to solicit the help A surprise phone call reveals that an has chosen to start his fi lm, which he of Sveinbjorn (Johann Sigurdarson), a grumpy, application Halla made years earlier to adopt puckishly describes as a “mainstream overweight farmer in bib overalls who might a child has unexpectedly been acted on, and blockbuster story for everyone,” with a scene just be her unacknowledged second cousin. a woeful-looking 4-year-old girl, complete that could have come from a whole other kind Indisputably adding to the humour is the with a backstory that would draw tears from of movie. unusual way Woman at War has chosen a stone, is ready for her to pick up in war-torn To a military drumroll, a metal arrow is to deal with its music. Instead of simply Ukraine. put into a bow and aim carefully taken. We putting melodies on the soundtrack, director As Halla tries to balance the appeal hold our breath, wondering if we’re watching Erlingsson has chosen to have them played of activism with the joys of impending a trained assassin, or maybe a celebrated live on screen by a trio of musicians who pay motherhood, Woman at War ups the ante by big game hunter, but the target aimed at is attention to the action but are gloriously introducing a three-voice Ukrainian choir, something very diff erent. unseen by the actors. all in native dress, who sing up a storm at key A woman named Halla shoots at a huge In her non-terrorist life, Halla is someone decision-making points. electrical pylon, causing widespread power very diff erent, a peace-loving choirmaster With a masterful melding of the serious, the outages. She wants to sabotage a nearby who has large pictures of Gandhi and Nelson comic, the ridiculous and the musical, Woman aluminum plant and dissuade multinational Mandela on her living room walls and smiles at War is joyful to experience though diffi cult corporations from coming in, damaging the at everyone she meets. to sum up. It may not have won this year’s environment and opening the door to global Halla and her yoga-teaching twin, Asa, foreign-language Oscar or even made the warming. are both impeccably played by top Icelandic short list of nominees, but its kind of delicious It turns out Halla (played by Halldora actress Geirharosdottir, someone with the absurdist fun is always in too short supply. – Geirharosdottir) is a dedicated eco-warrior skill to make the fi lm’s exactly calibrated Los Angeles Times/TNS Thursday, March 7, 2019 GULF TIMES 15 SHOWBIZ COMMUNITY Film like Golmaal only works because of all of us: Kunal

VERSATILE: Rizwan Ahmed, also known as Riz MC, is a British actor, rapper, and activist of Pakistani descent. Riz Ahmed to star in, produce music drama Mughal Mowgli

Emmy Award-winning British Pakistani actor and rapper Riz Ahmed is producing and starring in the music drama Mughal Mowgli, which he has co- written with director Bassam Tariq. The spiritual drama follows a British Pakistani rapper who, on the cusp of his fi rst world tour, is struck down by an illness that threatens to derail his big break, reports variety.com. Ahmed’s Left Handed Films is producing the drama with Pulse Films’ Thomas Benski and Bennett McGhee, and Michael Peay. Ahmed won an Emmy for his role in The Night Of and went on to star in Rogue One: A Star Wars Story, Jacques Audiard’s The Sisters Brothers, and Venom. As Riz MC, Ahmed emerged in the London music scene as a rap battle champion, going on to write and perform both as a solo artist and with his band, Swet Shop Boys. Tariq’s Ghosts of Sugar Land won the non-fi ction short fi lm award at Sundance and was acquired by Netfl ix. – IANS CAST: All the four Golmaal films starred Ajay Devgn, Arshad Warsi, and Tusshar Kapoor, with Kareena Kapoor appearing in two of the four films. My dream is to belt out songs on stage: Kunal Kapoor ctor Kunal Kemmu has been with a laugh. But that’s not the only what kind of film will open... how on a a part of filmmaker Rohit reason. Friday. Multi-starrers have gone down, Actor Kunal Kapoor says his dream is to be on Shetty’s Golmaal franchise “It’s the story that always attracts newcomers’ films have worked. So, stage belting out songs for a live audience. for a while now. He says the me. A film like Golmaal only works there is some formula that none of us Kunal shared a photograph of his, holding a mic, multi-starrer film series because of all of us. It is as much actually know,” said Kunal. on . worksA only because of the entire team, Ajay’s film as it is mine or Arshad’s or He is currently tied up with his He captioned the image: “Me, speaking at an including his co-stars Ajay Devgn, Tusshar’s. These are the stories of the maiden web series Abhay, an eight- event. My dream though is, to be on stage belting Arshad Warsi and Tusshar Kapoor. gang,” Kunal told IANS in a telephonic episode crime thriller on ZEE5. out songs to an audience. Ain’t happening anytime Kunal has been part of Golmaal 3, interview. “It’s a new platform for me and new soon though! Everyone in my family can sing but Golmaal Again, Go Goa Gone and has “I do have a solo film coming out this experience. It’s a longer commitment. the singing gene skipped me.” more multi-starrer movies, including year. It’s a fun-filled film. I am trying to By the time I will be done with eight The 41-year-old actor added that he also hired a the recently announced Malang and the do multiple things which I kind of enjoy episodes, there will be about seven music teacher. fifth part of Golmaal, lined up. doing,” added the Kalyug actor. hours of footage. So playing a character “I hired a teacher, who said I can teach anyone What does he like about being a part He feels that as an actor, nobody for seven hours and playing a character and after two weeks of trying, disappeared,” he of multi-starrer movies? really knows what’s going to work. for two hours on screen... There’s a added. “The most important reason is that “If we knew we would all be doing difference. It’s a process that I am Kunal was last seen on screen in the 2018 it’s not on your shoulders,” he replied successful films. It is unpredictable... enjoying,” he said. – IANS historical sports-drama based on the national hockey team’s title at the 1948 Summer Olympics, Gold starring Akshay Kumar and directed by Reema Netfl ix hits back at Spielberg’s Spielberg, an Academy of Motion Kagti. – IANS reported rule changes Picture Arts and Sciences governor for Oscar’s eligibility representing the directors branch, reportedly is planning to propose rule Netfl ix appears to have mounted a changes that would prevent streaming defence of its fi lms following a report that services such as Netfl ix, Amazon and famed director Steven Spielberg is aiming Hulu from competing in the Academy to foil Academy Awards eligibility for Awards without their projects getting a streaming services. full theatrical run fi rst. The Netfl ix Film account on Twitter His proposal comes on the heels of outlined Sunday what the streaming complaints that Netfl ix fl outed academy service loves about cinema and what rules and still went on to win numerous other people, presumably those who Oscars last month for Alfonso Cuaron’s oppose Spielberg, love about such Roma, which had a limited theatrical services. The latter includes “access for run, and the short-subject documentary people who can’t always aff ord, or live Period. End of Sentence. in towns without, theatres,” “letting Sunday’s tweet from the streaming everyone, everywhere enjoy releases at giant, which has upended the world of the same time” and “giving fi lmmakers fi lm distribution, follows IndieWire’s more ways to share art.” report that Spielberg will present his “These things are not mutually case at an upcoming board of governors VETERAN: Spielberg is considered one of HOPEFUL: Kapoor has hired a music teacher to help exclusive,” the company said in its tweet. meeting. It is unclear when the meeting the founding pioneers of the New Hollywood him fulfil his dream of singing. Representatives for Netfl ix declined to is expected to take place. – Los Angeles era and one of the most popular directors and comment further on Monday. Times/ TNS producers in film history. 16 GULF TIMES Thursday, March 7, 2019 COMMUNITY Benefits of reducing added sugar go beyond boost in energy Researchers find that cutting out added sugars can boost metabolic health and reduce the stress that consuming the sweet stuff puts on organs including the pancreas and liver

By Erica Pearson “My arthritic aches and pains ore energy. Changed taste have greatly buds. Better sleep. After a month diminished. without sugar, the M(completely unscientifi c yet very Aft er a couple of compelling) anecdotal evidence is in from some of the more than sugarless weeks 3,000 folks – myself included – who tackled the Star Tribune’s I can hardly 28-Day Sugar-Free Challenge. Overwhelmingly, challengers believe these are said they found that going for a month without added sugar (no my knees” cookies, no cake, no fructose- laden sauces) made them feel — Kathy Obler better. Even if, like Maple Grove participant Tim Deets, they’re of St. Paul “not claiming perfection.” “I think my energy level is more lots of folks taking part. Many balanced over the day,” he said. RISKS INVOLVED: Added sugars contribute zero nutrients but many added calories that can lead to extra pounds or said they dropped a few pounds “I have not seemed to get the even obesity, thereby reducing heart health. (this was true for me); while some midafternoon crash.” said the scale didn’t change at all. But the benefi ts of reducing such as infl ammation, night sweats Mary Hanson-Busch of New slices instead of crackers. Fresh Others, like Hanson-Busch, said added sugar can go beyond energy. and aches and pains lessened as Prague said she was shocked to pineapple and mango instead of they lost a dozen pounds or more. Researchers have found that the month went on. learn how much added sugar she blondies and brownies, with no Some of the most inspiring cutting out added sugars can boost “My arthritic aches and pains had been regularly consuming. whining from our kids. feedback we’ve received has metabolic health and reduce the have greatly diminished,” said “I don’t drink pop, so that was We also managed to (mostly) been from those who are newly stress that consuming the sweet Kathy Obler of St. Paul. “After a easy, but smoothies and blended wean our youngest off ketchup, empowered to permanently take stuff puts on organs including the couple of sugarless weeks I can coff ee drinks were frequent although some of this eff ort was charge of how and when added pancreas and liver, according to a hardly believe these are my knees!” purchases for me,” she said. “I undone when, out to eat as a sugar makes its way onto their scientifi c review by SugarScience, “The mental fog that went with feel like I can continue to pass on family, she saw that red bottle on plate. a site run by health scientists at the roller-coaster quest for sugar products that have added sugar or the table before we did. (My eff orts “I have always been pretty the University of California, San is gone,” she said. “Now the overly other sugar substitutes and hope at homemade, date-sweetened conscientious about what I eat, Francisco. sweet treats I loved have lost their it leads to better food choices ketchup were completely rejected, but have never avoided sugars like Studies by University appeal.” overall.” as were date and cocoa “brownie” this. It has been eye-opening,” said College London researchers Not everyone noticed physical And like Wynn Martin, many in bites.) Mary Swanson Senneka. and others have also found that changes. Many reported simply the challenge found they actually When the Star Tribune decided “The challenge has made me accountability is a powerful feeling positive about being more enjoyed eating more vegetables to host this challenge, our hope more deliberate about what I eat. I motivator, something that the in-the-know about what they were and fruit and less processed and was that we’d learn about the will go back to eating sugars. I love members of our closed Facebook eating and drinking. packaged foods. added sugar in packaged foods, a piece of dark chocolate now and group demonstrated as they “I found it eye-opening. Added “It was a good change in our sauces and condiments, which then or a cookie or ice cream. But supported one another, banding sugar is in what I considered to be house,” said Martin, who lives in would spur us to create new, I think that I now want to be able together to figure out how to pretty healthy food,” said Paula Minneapolis. healthy habits to keep sugar to decide when I consume sugar get through tough moments Doll-Wildenberg of St. Paul. Being This was what I ended up consumption more in line with – my choice on the chocolate, and stay positive. A look at data part of the challenge taught her to liking most about the challenge, current recommended limits. not a manufacturer deciding to from the monthlong, very active be a “better consumer by reading too – the fresh foods we added Weight loss wasn’t one of the put it in soup.” – Star Tribune group showed that the posts that labels more carefully.” to our shopping list. Cucumber goals, but we did hear about it from (Minneapolis)/ TNS garnered the most comments were often ones from folks seeking help or in need of encouragement. All told, the group created more than 23,000 posts, comments and reactions — from recipes for cheese-stuff ed dates to suggestions of mayonnaise brands without added sugars. Some were thrilled to discover that sugar-free peanut butter tasted so good. Others found that many of the packaged breads made without added sugars tasted like “cardboard.” Throughout February, many participants reported – in the Facebook group, in e-mails and even phone calls – that they were KEY INGREDIENT: Added sugars are sugars and syrups used to add a sweet sleeping better, and that troubles flavour to processed or prepared foods.