Monday, April 13, 2020 Sha’ban 20, 1441 AH Doha today 230 - 290 BLAST FROM THE PAST: Hugo Torres holds a picture of himself as a seven-year-old with his mother Maria Luisa Castillo while at home on March 31 in Monrovia, California. Torres was nine when his family went through the Mexico City earthquake of 1985. It was a tough time and he is using the lessons he learned from his mother back then during the coronavirus pandemic. COVER STORY Cold comfort Families confronting coronavirus draw strength from surviving wars and other disasters. P4-5 HOLLYWOOD BACK PAGE Fox & Friends co-host Young singer focuses on creating contracts coronavirus. new music to stay positive. Page 15 Page 16 2 GULF TIMES Monday, April 13, 2020 COMMUNITY ROUND & ABOUT SERIES TO BINGE WATCH ON NETFLIX PRAYER TIME Fajr 3.53am Shorooq (sunrise) 5.14am Zuhr (noon) 11.36am Asr (afternoon) 3.05pm Maghreb (sunset) 5.57pm Isha (night) 7.27pm USEFUL NUMBERS The Witcher place in a world where people often prove more wicked than DIRECTION: Lauren Schmidt monsters and beasts. But when destiny hurtles him towards CAST: Henry Cavill, Freya Allan, Anya Chalotra a powerful sorceress, and a young princess with a special SYNOPSIS: The Witcher follows the story of Geralt of gift, the three must learn to navigate independently the Rivia, a solitary monster hunter, who struggles to find his increasingly volatile Continent. 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Bancroft 40253369 SYNOPSIS: The show is set in a future where was killed, and the last automatic backup of his stack was Ministry of Health 40253370, 40253364 consciousness is digitised and stored in cortical stacks made hours before his death, leaving him with no memory Hamad Medical Corporation 40253368, 40253365 implanted in the spine, allowing humans to survive physical of who killed him and why. While police ruled it a suicide, Qatar Airways 40253374 death by having their memories and consciousness ‘re- Bancroft is convinced he was murdered and wants Kovacs to sleeved’ into new bodies. The story follows specially trained find out the truth. ote Unquo Qu te “A good laugh is sunshine in the house.” — William Makepeace Thackeray Community Editor Kamran Rehmat e-mail: [email protected] Russian Doll car and killed, only to find herself alive and well, back at her Telephone: 44466405 DIRECTION: Leslye Headland, Natasha Lyonne, Amy own birthday party earlier that night. When she dies again and Fax: 44350474 Poehler her timeline resets, Nadia begins to question her own sanity CAST: Natasha Lyonne, Charlie Barnett, Greta Lee as she strives to unravel the mystery of why and how this is all SYNOPSIS: On Nadia’s 36th birthday, she is struck by a happening. Monday, April 13, 2020 GULF TIMES 3 BODY & MIND COMMUNITY Exercise is important for body, mind If you have symptoms of the common cold, it’s usually fine to keep exercising. It may even help you feel a little better uestion: Can I continue to exercise even if I don’t feel well, or should I hold off until I start to feel Qbetter? Answer: The answer to that question depends largely on what’s wrong. For example, if you have symptoms of the common cold, it’s usually fine to keep exercising. It may even help you feel a little better. If you have a fever or other more severe symptoms, it’s best to put your exercise routine on hold until those symptoms go away. Exercise is important for your body and mind. Regular exercise can help you maintain a healthy weight, keep your blood sugar and blood cholesterol levels in check, increase bone strength and help manage stress, just to name a few benefits. For healthy adults, the recommendation is 150 minutes of aerobic exercise each week. That includes activities such as running, biking, jogging, swimming, brisk walking and dancing. Many people break up their weekly aerobic activity into 30-minute sessions, five days a week. In addition, your exercise routine should include at least two 20- to 30-minute sessions of strength training a week, which many people have a tendency to forget. Remember, too, that even if you don’t get to the recommended level of HEALTHY LIFESTYLE: Regular exercise can help you maintain a healthy weight, keep your blood sugar and blood cholesterol levels in check, increase bone exercise sometimes, any amount strength and help manage stress, just to name a few benefits. of exercise, even if it’s just 10 minutes of walking, has benefits. should give your body some time When you’re not feeling well, to rest and recover. A fever is your it’s still fine to exercise in some body’s way of telling you to slow cases. A good rule of thumb to down, and it’s important to listen follow is if you have symptoms to that. As you recover after these above the neck, such as a runny kinds of symptoms, go a bit slower nose, sneezing, nasal congestion and decrease the intensity of or a minor sore throat, you’re your workout when you return to OK to exercise. In those cases, exercising. exercise may even help you feel Due to the current better by opening up your nasal recommendations for social passages. However, you may want distancing during the Covid-19 to reduce the intensity and length outbreak, your fitness centre of your workout, and limit group may be closed. Even if it’s not, activities. you may want consider skipping Instead of running, for example, the gym and take your workout go for a walk. If you work out outdoors instead, or explore new when you’re having some exercise options that you can do symptoms of illness, make sure at home. Regardless of where you stay attuned to your body’s you exercise, don’t forget to wipe need for fluid. Drink to your level off equipment, including bikes, of thirst. Be aware that if it’s warm weights, benches and yoga mats, outside, you may need to take in after you’re done with them. more fluid than usual. If you exercise when you’re If you have symptoms of not feeling well, and then you illness that affect you below the experience additional pain or neck, such as chest congestion, symptoms when you exercise a hacking cough, muscle aches, – or if you have other concerns fatigue or an upset stomach, or questions about exercising it’s best to take a break from when you’re ill – talk with your exercising for a few days. RECOMMENDATION: For healthy adults, the recommendation is 150 minutes of aerobic exercise each week. That healthcare provider. If you have a fever, you also includes activities such as running, biking, jogging, swimming, brisk walking and dancing. – Mayo Clinic News Network 4 GULF TIMES Monday, April 13, 2020 COMMUNITY COVER STORY These days, he knows how much it calms her to hear the voices of her children DOWN MEMORY LANE: Hugo Torres looks through a family album in Monrovia, California. By Esmeralda happening, of losing everything,” Bermudez Tarin said. “I understand her. I’ve inherited the same anxiety.” Every time she left, it was turmoil For families who have he phone rings every few survived untold hardship — war, for me. I thought the earth would fall hours. persecution, natural disasters — “Are you OK, my son? the coronavirus pandemic has apart and swallow her up Are you wearing a mask? provoked a mix of emotions and Please don’t go out. coping methods. There’s a lingering TPlease don’t touch anything.” trauma, an instinct to protect your — Hugo Torres, now 42, then 7, recalls From his home in Washington, own, to focus on life’s most urgent DC, Haris Tarin, 41, does his needs. In some cases, the elders mom who was rushing out kids when best to answer his mother’s calls. who lived through the worst of These days, he knows how much it times, many of them immigrants, an 8 magnitude earthquake struck, calms her to hear the voices of her have become the greatest source of children, spread across three states. strength. killing 10,000 “She’s been through so much, Tarin’s mother, Latifa Tarin, ‘ ’ she’s constantly afraid of the worst doesn’t linger on lectures or advice. Monday, April 13, 2020 GULF TIMES 5 COVER STORY COMMUNITY When she calls from Phoenix, she old. wants to know if her son, a senior “Every time she left, it was policy adviser for the federal turmoil for me,” said Torres, now 42 government, has enough money and living in Monrovia. “I thought in his bank account. “I’m going to the earth would fall apart and send you something,” she says. swallow her up.” “You don’t need to,” Tarin tells Over time, the responsibility her. “We’re OK.” Maria Luisa placed on his her Back in Afghanistan, when life son’s shoulders influenced him in was good, the mother of six used countless ways.