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RECALL: Violence during the 1919 Chicago race riots. How a black boy’s drifting raft triggered a deadly week of riots 100 years ago in Chicago. P4-5

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Compiled by Nausheen Shaikh. E-mail: [email protected], Events and timings subject to change 4 GULF TIMES Monday, July 29, 2019 COMMUNITY COVER STORY 100 years ago, in Chicago The cataclysmic event that left 38 people dead (23 black and 15 white), over 500 injured and hundreds homeless due to arson influenced many of the city’s leaders who would face issues about race relations for decades, writes William Lee

BLAST FROM THE PAST: An edition of The Chicago Defender captures the fragility of the time.

ne hundred years ago, 7-year-old ever seen and stood at the window, and I heard Juanita Mitchell should have been him say ‘Here they come,’” Mitchell, now 107, playing with other children in the recently recalled at the suburban Flossmoor streets during that summer’s heat home she shares with her daughter. “It meant wave and getting to know her new the white folks was coming up 35th Street and homeO on Chicago’s South Side. that the riot was going to begin.” You had a situation that She and her younger sister, Iona, had just Many details about one of the city’s worst moved with their mother into their great- weeks are not widely known. was ready to explode. Many uncle’s home near the corner of 35th Street and The 1919 riots “didn’t seem to make it into Giles Avenue, the heart of the city’s expanding the timeline alongside titanic stories about white Chicagoans felt African black community where new faces were Fort Dearborn, Jean-Baptiste Point du Sable, Americans had been getting showing up daily and thousands of families the World’s Columbian Exposition, the 1968 were hoping to fi nd the jobs and dignity absent riot, Richard J. Daley, or Harold Washington,” out of their place. So they in the Jim Crow South. wrote Eve Ewing in her book of poetry 1919. In But instead, Mitchell and other relatives fact, only a small marker on the beach near the used this opportunity to were trapped inside a stifl ing upstairs room, spot where 17-year-old Eugene Williams was sometimes huddled behind a piano, as angry murdered commemorates the days of rioting remind them of their place mobs of young white men and boys roamed the that followed. in a subordinate and so-called black belt looking to maim, kill or But the cataclysmic event that left 38 people set fi res. dead (23 black and 15 white), more than 500 second-class position Mitchell — one of the last living injured and hundreds homeless due to arson ‘ eyewitnesses to Chicago’s most violent racial infl uenced many of the city’s leaders who confl ict that began on July 27, 1919 — still would face issues about race relations for recalls her great-uncle Cecil’s signal that white decades. — Julius Jones, assistant curator men armed with guns had crossed Wentworth What Mitchell and other newly arriving with Chicago History Museum Avenue, the racial dividing line, and entered black families couldn’t have known was that their neighbourhood. Chicago a century ago was a city on the edge. ’ “My uncle pulled out the biggest gun I’ve That year, much of the country was already Monday, July 29, 2019 GULF TIMES 5 COVER STORY COMMUNITY engulfed in sporadic, deadly racial violence against blacks that led black author and activist James Weldon Johnson to call it the “Red Summer.” With the hint of revolution in the air around the world, postwar Chicago was dealing with labour strife and an infl ux of southern black families who doubled its population in two years, shrinking housing options and leading to tensions with neighbouring white residents. World War I soldiers, black and white, returned home with diff erent ideas about equal treatment and were competing for jobs, most notably at the stockyards in Back of the Yards. And then there was a stifl ing heat wave. “You had a situation that was ready to explode,” said Julius Jones, an assistant curator with the Chicago History Museum, who has long studied the riots and their eff ects on the city. The riots, Jones and numerous other historians have long since noted, were perpetrated by young white gangs and “athletic clubs” pushing back against what they saw as black intrusion. “Many white Chicagoans felt African Americans had been getting out of their place. So they used this opportunity to remind them of their place in a subordinate and second-class position. All of those things sort of came to a head at that moment,” Jones said. GRIM REMINDER: Juanita Mitchell, 107, was only 7 when she witnessed the worst racial violence in Chicago›s history, dubbed the Red Summer. It all set the stage for a nasty confrontation on a 96-degree community left another lasting In reality, Chicago had struggled her arrival in Chicago after her and a schoolteacher before getting Sunday afternoon at the 29th Street legacy: the black street gang. “To for months with random outbreaks great-aunt and family matriarch, married and raising a son and Beach, where the era’s informal be sure, the 1919 riot contributed of violence against black residents Beulah White — called Auntie daughter on the South Side. yet strictly enforced colour line directly to Black gang formation as their numbers swelled in the White — invited them to stay after She’s outlived her husband, even extended into Lake Michigan. in Chicago as Black males united city’s industrial sector, pushing her father died of pneumonia. son and numerous other relatives. When Williams’ raft drifted south to confront hostile White gangs them to seek housing closer to their “My aunt was married to a doctor, She is committed to sharing past the imaginary line separating who were terrorising the Black white neighbours. and when we came here, my sister her memories with younger the beach, a white man started community,” author James C Several weeks ahead of the and I, we came to Auntie White’s generations. throwing rocks at black swimmers. Howell wrote in his book The centennial for the deadly riots, house on 35th Street and that’s where Muse, who heard her mother’s The teen’s drowning death and History of Street Gangs in the Mitchell and her family recalled we lived,” Mitchell said. stories countless times while growing the weak police response to the United States: Their Origins and how her dreams quickly turned into Cecil White, a physician by up, has been happy to help her share attacks, historians and countless Transformations. a nightmare during that sweltering training, ran a grocery store on 31st the painful memories of a diff erent reports and analyses of the riots say, As an adult, Mitchell began to week: her only access to the outside Street across from Olivet Baptist Chicago. The director of nursing led to some of the ugliest instances open up to friends and family about world being a window where she Church. “He would see his patients for the Wisconsin Department of racial animus and violence her experience arriving “in the watched soldiers come and go from at the back of the store,” Mitchell’s of Corrections, Muse said she’s the city has ever witnessed. The middle of the riots.” She would tell the nearby armory. daughter, Mary Muse, said. struck by the irony of black people confl ict didn’t spread to every them how she expected a grand “It wasn’t any fun,” she said in a Mitchell’s family survived the seeking safety in the North only to be corner of the city but did lead to and mythic spectacle bigger than low voice, seated in her wheelchair. terror, and she remained in Chicago, attacked after they arrived. mob attacks from Little Italy to anything her young eyes had seen in Mitchell has slowed down in the graduating from Hyde Park High “They expected the big city of Englewood. The riots’ stop-and- her native Louisiana. past few years, but she still recalls School. She worked as a seamstress Chicago to be diff erent from things go pattern was aided mightily by that were in the South. The trauma wild rumours, propagated by the of that event, I think, stuck with city’s black and white newspapers her. My mother never forgot it.” (including the Chicago Tribune). In the end, despite a number The riots ended after seven days, of murder indictments, few if brought about by the intervention any people were ever convicted of the Illinois militia — which and sentenced to prison. Political critics said came too late. The leaders initially blamed black riots changed Chicago in ways it criminals for sparking the riots. continues to grapple with. Days And many displaced black people after the riot, the City Council, relocated closer to the chain of for example, proposed formalised neighborhoods that made up the segregation on the South Side that black belt and would remain there remains in place informally today. through the 1960s. The city’s black residents — like But on one topic, there was those in other Red Summer cities agreement, Jones said. and towns — banded together to “In the aftermath, you call it an fend off white mobs that crossed interracial consensus that the best Wentworth Avenue. Black residents way to prevent something like this faced white attackers in street from happening again was to keep clashes and fi red on them from the races separate. That was the rooftops and windows. Between lesson that was mislearned from April and November 1919, white the riot,” he said. mobs instigated more than 30 It was an idea that helped racial attacks across the country, erect a system of barriers such as resulting in hundreds killed of both segregated housing, covenants and races in beatings, shootings, public redlining that would keep black and lynchings and burnings. white residents living separately in Consequently, the trauma of many communities for generations. the white assault on the black UGLY FACE OF HUMANITY: Mob running with bricks during the Chicago race riots of 1919. —Chicago Tribune/TNS 6 GULF TIMES Monday, July 29, 2019 COMMUNITY GU-Q’s Pre-College Summer gives high schoolers a competitive edge

ith the increasing importance of earning a college degree, high school Wstudents are taking advantage of opportunities that helps them get into the right college for their career goals. Participants in Georgetown University in Qatar’s (GU-Q) Georgetown Pre-College Summer (GPS) programme just spent three weeks of their summer holidays to get a sample of university life, and gain a competitive edge in the university application process. The 47 students, half of whom were Qatari, and the rest representing nine different nationalities, took part in the annual programme, attending full time classes, and a number of fun activities on and off campus to help in their overall development. “GPS has polished me into a better individual, academically, socially, and mentally” reflected participant Trisha Ambrale from DPS Modern Indian School. applied to the real world, so we made the experience special. The programme was led by Jibin study game theory in math for “They cared about opening up Koshy, Educational Enrichment example, and economics, which is students’ horizons through Manager at GU-Q who notes that not offered in many high schools intellectual discussions. I have GPS is one of the best platforms here. recommended GPS to my friends, for high school students intending Also, I really learned to research family, and to our school debate to join prestigious universities. here from writing a thesis to team as a good way to learn about “The programme’s rigorous finding information, we’ve gotten Georgetown’s courses, community curriculum and skill-building a lot of personal attention and and values.” activities, pushes students out of care.” GU-Q’s academic enrichment their comfort zone, and prepares Through discussion- offerings also include the them to take on the challenges of based seminar sessions, workshop series Planet university academics.” the GPS programme also Georgetown, A Day in the Life In addition to helping students introduces students to the of a Georgetown Student, and prepare for the standardised tests degrees offered at GU-Q, workshops and skill building required for university admission, which include International courses offered through the the programme’s busy schedule Politics, International History, Admissions Department and included classes in English, Math, International Economics, and open to all high school students International Affairs, and for the Culture and Politics, as well as in Qatar. first time this year, Economics. a minor in Arabic, and several According to Koshy, these “The class offerings are really concentrations of study in programmes “demonstrate our diverse” said GPS participant various topics within the field of firm commitment to ensuring that Hanah Shokeir, a year 12 student International Affairs. youth in the community have the at Doha College, explaining why For Al Bayan Secondary chance to prosper academically she wanted to take part in the School for Girls student Kaltham and become successful lifelong programme. “The subjects are Alsubaey, engaging in dialogue learners.”

QAS reveals outstanding IB diploma programme results

Qatar Academy Sidra’s (QAS) Class of 2019 school community, and we look forward to closely students are celebrating the results of their following their futures.” International Baccalaureate Diploma Programme The students are now preparing to attend a (IBDP), which were announced worldwide earlier variety of universities around the world, including this month. Carnegie Mellon University in Qatar, a QF The results for QAS, part of Qatar Foundation’s partner university; University of the Philippines; (QF) Pre-University Education, revealed that University of Birmingham, UK; Maastricht the average score for its students was 32 points University, The Netherlands; Sabancı University, – above the global average – with one student Turkey; Maryville University, US; and Saint achieving a high of 39 points. Mary’s University, Canada. Kim Green, Director QAS, said: “We’re QAS’s Class of 2019 officially joined a global delighted that our students have successfully community of nearly one million IB-educated undertaken the IB journey. We congratulate them men and women in May when they graduated from on their outstanding results. the two-year programme in an official ceremony We are proud of their contributions to our held at Multaqa (Education City Student Center). Monday, July 29, 2019 GULF TIMES 7 COMMUNITY

Best Buddies Qatar wins International Program Award n recognition of its are determined to achieve Qatar disabilities and the appropriate 2019, various activities, workshops, and lectures were held during this programmes, Best Buddies National Vision 2030 and Qatar›s environment for their education, awareness lectures and events in academic year.” Qatar, a non-profi table Second National Development employment, social integration cooperation with the centres for Latifa al-Kuwari underscored organisation, under the Strategy 2018-2022, under the wise corresponding their abilities, persons with disabilities, were held the role of Best Buddies Qatar umbrella of Shafallah Center leadership of His Highness Sheikh potentials and skills. Best Buddies to fulfi l the needs and abilities of Vocational and Rehabilitation Ifor Persons with Disabilities, won Tamim bin Hamad al-Thani, the Qatar succeeds in integration Best Buddies Qatar members with Program, which provides International Program Award Amir of the State of Qatar.” of its members with disabilities and without disabilities of Primary professional services to help for the years 2018-2019 at 29th Laalei Abu Alfain added: “The and their peer-friends without School, Secondary School, College, persons with disabilities to use Annual Best Buddies Leadership prize is the result of 10 years disabilities breaking the barriers Citizen and Jobs Programmes. The their skills and abilities to reach Conference in Indiana, USA. of fruitful work in integrating of isolation through numerous organisation organised numerous independence, as one of their Best Buddies Leadership and empowering of persons activities during the academic year; sports activities in partnership with integral rights in accordance with Conference brought together with and without intellectual raising awareness in educational diff erent sport federations, clubs the Convention on the Right of leaders with and without and developmental disabilities environment promotes the rights and fi tness centres. Persons with Disabilities and intellectual and developmental in the community, since the of persons with disabilities, the Best Buddies Qatar held a row principals of Social Sustainable disabilities from communities organisation’s establishment in friendship between a person with of events for 42 employees of the Development Goals 2030. Among worldwide to share their the year of 2008 at the initiative of and a person without disability schools and colleges, 356 parent the services are: job guidance and experiences and to celebrate the Her Highness Sheikha Moza bint and increases the volunteer spirit and 543 members with disabilities. trainings held by qualifi ed team in incredible impact, which volunteers Nasser. Best Buddies Qatar provides among students.” The number of friendships accordance to certain criteria and make in the world because of their opportunities for persons with Latifa al-Kuwari highlighted: between persons with and without basis suitable for the abilities of leadership. intellectual and developmental “During this academic year 2018- disabilities is 275. 104 workshops persons with disabilities. Latifa al-Kuwari, Director of Rehabilitation and Inclusion Department of Best Buddies Qatar, said: “We seek to exploit and develop capabilities of persons with disabilities and to employ them accordingly to the skills to achieve the best level of their functional, social and fi nancial intendance.” On this occasion, Laalei Abu Alfain, Executive Director of Best Buddies Qatar and Acting Executive Director of Shafallah Centre for Persons with Disabilities, expressed her great pleasure to receive International Program Award lauding the effi ciency of Best Buddies Qatar offi cials in accomplishing its strategic objectives. Laalei Abu Alfain stressed: “The award was achieved under the guidance of Qatar Foundation for Social Work management. We 8 GULF TIMES Monday, July 29, 2019 COMMUNITY POST-RET Seniors challenge retirement in t

SHARING: From left, Sheldon Stein, Ivry Hall, Father Michael Pfleger, and Barbara Stein, share a laugh in the Steins’ Chicago home. Hall is a recipient of the Steins’ scholarship and he recently finished his first year at Alabama State University.

Press-NORC Center for Public Affairs students who are interested in college Barbara’s advice to other retirees: Look By Darcel Rockett Research found seniors in big cities are the but need help financing it. To receive the outside your bubble and do something for most likely to do so. “Stein Fund,” students must demonstrate somebody else. To be sure, financial need plays a role for financial need, be connected to the church “You have to try to help somebody who alking into Haven Studios, a many. Others with more economic stability congregation in some way, submit an essay doesn’t have as much by way of opportunity, music mentoring programme simply want to challenge themselves. or letter about why they should receive the but deserves it,” said the 83-year-old. “It’s on the South Side, Arthur Like DuBois, these three Chicago-area scholarship, maintain a B grade average and, very invigorating to be able to do this and to DuBois was told by founder seniors, all in their 70s, no longer have to once done with their degree, give back to the get to know people like Ivry. It truly becomes Andre “Add-2” Daniels that work for a living but have chosen to stay community from which they came. inspiring.” Wthe space was for young folks. busy and relevant by giving back to the Funded by the Steins via “a lifetime of DuBois retort: “I’m young at heart.” community – each testaments to the adage working, saving, investing,” the scholarship Yvonne Green – Holistic Wellness The Bronzeville resident has rehearsed “young at heart.” has helped 10 students since its inception, Coach and recorded more than two dozen trap including Ivry Hall, a recent freshman at If Yvonne Green’s white mohawk doesn’t music beats, a sub-genre of hip-hop that Barbara & Sheldon Stein – Alabama State University. grab you, her ability to do the full splits went mainstream in the late 90s’, simply for Philanthropists The young boxer lost both parents prior to might. The 70-year-old described herself fun. A YouTube video of his beat-making Barbara and Sheldon Stein, a Near North college and said that had it not been for the as a “partier” in the 1970s, as well as skills went viral in March and now boasts Side couple of over 60 years, called the Steins’ scholarship, he doesn’t know where overweight and a smoker. The Bronzeville nearly 173,000 views. The newfound fame Rev. Michael Pfleger in 2015. Even as non- he would be now. native took up running in the 1980s and, landed him coverage on Windy City Live, parishoners, the retired teacher and retired “Of course, not in college,” he said. “If this during the transition, started wandering into Rollingstone.com, CBSNews.com, NPR. attorney knew of his work in the Auburn didn’t happen, I could find myself back on health food stores and researching holistic com and Buzzfeed. DuBois is working with Gresham community and wanted to be part the street. But look at me now, I’m in college living. Haven and Add-2 is serving as his mentor of the good the St. Sabina priest does. and I finished my first year with all A’s and Her “a-ha moment” had arrived. and adviser. The result: A community garden on the one B. I’m doing great. I’m grateful to them.” Green’s self-improvement journey “At 72, I don’t consider myself old,” church’s property (planted in 2018) and The Hall plans to major in business and open up a prompted her to start YBG & Associates, a DuBois said. “I’m still alive. As long as Barbara and Sheldon Stein Scholarship Fund boxing gym one day. South Side holistic health consulting and you’re still alive, age doesn’t mean nothing. (founded in 2016), which aids high school Pfleger and the Steins are currently communication business. Since 1983, she If you still want to do something at your age, students. looking for applicants for the upcoming has conducted seminars and workshops do it.” “Education is the most important thing,” school year, while the first scholarship focused on “whole person wellness” – He’s not alone in that mindset. Social said Sheldon, 90. “Friends fall away and recipients will graduate in 2020. mental, emotional, physical, spiritual, Security kicks in just after age 66, when disappear and here’s an opportunity to “I think Barbara and Sheldon are more social, cultural, political and financial – for traditional retirement – think travelling or make a new friendship, a new relationship the exception than the norm,” Pfleger said. individuals and organisations throughout migration to warmer climates – used to be and it’s not one of talk, but one of do. For “There’s a lot of people who say ‘I want to Chicagoland. the norm. Now, a record-breaking share of older people, it’s very important to have do something, but don’t know what.’ I say: In addition to working for her paying Americans plan to keep working. these kinds of relationships and even better Be blessed and be a blessing. There’s an clientele, the Baby Boomer volunteers A 2018 Gallup poll found that 41% of to have one that amounts to a wonderful obligation that comes with blessings, and her services for struggling populations, non-retirees expect to work past 66, and project.” they have done that. They are able to affect including people reentering society after a Census data analysis by The Associated The couple, along with Pfleger, selects lives.” incarceration and those in substance Monday, July 29, 2019 GULF TIMES 9 TIREMENT COMMUNITY the recording studio and beyond

abuse programmes and transitional living facilities. Green has worked with Prosperity House, a transitional living programme for women and men on the city’s South Side, for seven years. “Most of the women I have are recovering from drug addiction, some are homeless, some are coming from incarceration – I got the gamut,” said Beverly Dawson, founder and CEO. “Ms. Green does maybe a month’s worth of classes ... teaching the women how to love themselves, raise their consciousness and self-esteem up, and how to take care of themselves and how important it is to take the time to work on themselves. She helps the women heal, and the women just love her.” “Once I found this way, I could never go back,” Green said. “Your health is your foundation to your wealth. If you have a strong foundation – it doesn’t matter what you do, you’ll be able to sustain. You change, you keep adjusting, you don’t retire from your life.” Green says her holistic approach transcends age limitations because she provides clients a strong foundation of information and practical recommendations that will make a difference long term. For the older set, she gives advice about muscle strength, flexibility and endurance: “You have to keep it moving.” And she emphasises the importance of staying connected to society: “Social interactions are a must- have.” “An artist uses their skill and imagination VOLUNTEER: Rev. Doris Green, founder of Men & Women in Prison to create a thing of beauty and that should be COACH: Yvonne Green in Chicago. Ministries, in Chicago. yourself – you’re creating a thing of beauty, your life, yourself,” she said. “I’ve gone work in West Africa. She said she something that benefits their well-being, us all the years that he wants us to have, but through different phases of my life. I see understands that not everyone has the which in turn can benefit others. I want to be doing something in those years. how the body changes, and the challenges luxury of doing a job they love or feel called “Everyone is passionate about something. I’m freer now than I was at 35, 40, 50. Find the body faces during those changes. I think to – in her case, a job that doesn’t feel like Doesn’t matter what it is, get into it and out what it is that you like to do, and do it.” – I can be much more effective now than I’ve “work” – but everyone has the ability to do stick with it and learn,” she said. “God gives Chicago Tribune/TNS ever been.” Green says self-love is key for being happy and living longer, and she plans to keep helping people meet that goal. “I’ve got a second wind to do it,” she said. “As my mother said (who lived to 94) ‘I’m going to make my last days, my best days.’ And that’s the same way I feel. I’m going to do my best work, I’m going to be my best person because at this point, I’m at the top of the chain. We’re the elders now.”

Rev. Doris green – Minister To Formerly Incarcerated At 70, the Rev. Doris Green’s passion lies in helping people reenter society after incarceration. Her decades-old organisation, Men & Women in Prison Ministries, offers assistance in a variety of crucial areas, including health services (specifically HIV and hepatitis C screenings), GED completion and acquiring a valid state ID. “Sometimes they come here with nothing, depending on how long they were locked up. They come through here and they’re angry and mad, but we have the population and staff here that know how to work with that. “At 72, I don’t consider myself Because of them, I’m who I am.” old. I’m still alive. As long as As the former director of correctional health and community relations for the AIDS you’re still alive, age doesn’t Foundation of Chicago, the Berwyn resident started her nonprofit. Once ordained, mean nothing. If you still she took her ministry into state detention facilities; her work as a volunteer chaplain want to do something at your at Illinois penal institutions kick-started the age, do it.” organisation’s founding. Decades later, the agency serves thousands of clients and their — Arthur DuBois families annually. Green, also a published author, soon plans to make her daughter CEO of the organisation so Green can start outreach MUSICIAN: Brownsville resident Arthur DuBois, 72, is a self-taught music composer. 10 GULF TIMES Monday, July 29, 2019 COMMUNITY INFOGRAPHIC

Science Matters Neonatal hyperbilirubinemia (Newborn jaundice)

Simple ‘ruler’ detects Red blood cells break down, ... a newborn in trouble releasing yellow Up to 80% of newborns have jaundice, which can be bilirubin into life-threatening if it becomes severe, but infants in low- bloodstream and middle-income countries are often not diagnosed early enough. A new color “ruler” can help. Newborn’s liver cannot remove it fast enough ... and skin and whites of eyes turn yellowish 1 Ruler is pressed gently Treated by exposing against skin of infant to blue fluorescent nose or heel light, breaks down bilirubin

2 Skin becomes pale as blood is pressed away

3 Person giving test estimates which of ruler’s colors matches skin best

If the test shows the infant’s skin color matches children with jaundice, the child is given further optical or blood tests and may be sent for treatment

Testing skIn on infant’s heel or palm Ruler’s colors accurately match skin color in different degrees of jaundice. Test was refined Source: Brigham and Women's Hospital (Boston); for babies of different ethnicity, skin pigment. Katherine C. Cohen, Boston Children's Hospital Graphic: Helen Lee McComas, Tribune News Service Monday, July 29, 2019 GULF TIMES 11 LIFESTYLE/HOROSCOPE COMMUNITY Add chic vibe to your home decor

o you want your home decor to resonate with the chic interiors of a hotel? Well, it is possible to create that vibe in your home with minimal eff ort. Rajiv Rajgopal, Managing Director at AkzoNobelD India, and Parul Mittal, Director, Greenlam Industries Ltd, share how one can combine hotel chic with the real house warmth. — One of the quickest ways to give home a hotel inspired make-over is opting for accent walls. Hotels use accent walls to create a focal point by use of a colour that stands out. — To bring in the whimsical vibe of hotel décor, choose a palette which is elegant but relaxed, with whimsical and playful touches. For example, a gently muted mix of romantic powder pinks (super candy) and blues create (satin blue) calm, with spiced honey bringing depth and sophistication to the look. Plain, pale wood, simple hand- made vessels and pretty fabrics add to the contemplative, centred feel of this home. — Real wood fl ooring is one element that is timeless and is always incorporated in hotel rooms. Premium engineered wood fl oors are perfect to add an elegant touch that gives your home an ultra-modern vibe. — Bring in a vivid combination through a stunning white couch with a combination of emerald green and black and white chevron patterned cushions. Add side tables in light tanned laminates to balance the look of the room. — Layering textures is another element that is excessively used in hotels. Textures have a tactile element to them and never fail to create an authentic and rich look to your interiors. Bring in a variety of layers through throw blankets, cushions and faux rugs along with textured laminates which look breath-taking without being heavy on your pockets. – IANS

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

You might come across strong opposition today. Someone may Act on your instincts and you won’t go wrong, Taurus. You may need You have the missing piece that people need in every situation seem to want to cut straight through to your heart, Aries. In reality, to give up control and put logical thinking aside. Let the wind take today, Gemini. Engage in light conversation in social situations, and this is a message reminding you to think about things in terms of you where it will. Explore your feelings and how others influence turn your charm up high. You have the ability to make favourable the collective, the oneness of all. Be aware of a greater perspective them. It will be just about impossible to solidify any plans today. impressions on just about everyone, so set the day off on the right in which you see more than just your side of the issue. Discuss the You’re better off exploring options and comparing notes with others. foot. Get out of bed earlier than usual and get your blood pumping issues with others before making any major decisions. Don’t pigeonhole yourself into one way of thinking. with a brisk walk around the neighbourhood. CANCER LEO VIRGO June 21 — July 22 July 23 — August 22 August 23 — September 22

People may want to talk a great deal, but they’re avoiding their You should be able to evaluate your emotions from a detached If you’re talking about another person today, Virgo, don’t say feelings today, Cancer. Put your emotions on the back burner and perspective today, Leo. Use this opportunity to take action based on anything that would upset them if they were standing next to you. let your mind take over. Deal with the facts and make sure your what you discover. Make sure your actions are based on practicality Gossip may run rampant, but that’s no excuse to contribute to it. Be emotions don’t interfere with the information you receive. Things and you aren’t acting rashly in response to someone else’s hasty aware that what you say has a strong impact on the people around can get clouded if you don’t stay true to the communication that’s manoeuvres. You will be amazed at the incredible things that you. It’s likely to spread to many more ears than you think. taking place. Be conscious of the impact of your words. develop if you think first. LIBRA SCORPIO SAGITTARIUS September 23 — October 22 October 23 — November 21 November 22 — December 21

It’s important to take action on a day like this, Libra. Trust yourself You might be unfocused and confused about which way to go, It’s important to get outside and feel the wind, Sagittarius. and your instincts. Often you have the perfect counsel for everyone Scorpio. Your baff led look isn’t giving others much confidence in Reconnect with nature and be aware of the four elements, especially but you. Keep in mind that you might have to turn to others for the your ability to make a good decision. Don’t feel obliged to stay in the air. Take deep breaths and fill your lungs with the energising life best advice for you. Talk things out and then take action. Hesitation an unhealthy situation. It may be time to let go and break some force. Imagine yourself on a mountain looking over a vast ocean. will only have negative consequences. You have all the facts you ties to things that are no longer working for you. Feel good about Expand your awareness so that nothing escapes your attention. need. extracting yourself from old habits. Keep your head clear of clutter and be open to new adventures. CAPRICORN AQUARIUS PISCES December 22 — January 19 January 20 — February 18 February 19 — March 20

Make practical use of the thoughts you’ve synthesised in the last few This is an important day to make valuable connections, Aquarius. It may be hard for you to get a handle on things today, Pisces. days, Capricorn. Stretch your boundaries and extend your wisdom You will be engaged in fast-paced, witty conversations and debates Your focus seems to jump from one problem to the next without to the people around you. This is a day to take action. Connect with from which you can learn a great deal. You’re good at seeing both finding resolution. This isn’t a day to find a solution. You’re better off your heart and move forward with your plans. We normally think of sides of an issue. The problem is that this can lead to indecisiveness researching, questioning, and gathering facts. Keep your channels of our hearts as soft, tender, and vulnerable. Think of your heart today and an inability to commit. Choose a path and stick to it. communication open, and don’t try to pin anyone down for answers. as tough, strong, and adventurous. You’ll accomplish a lot by keeping active and light. 12 GULF TIMES Monday, July 29, 2019 COMMUNITY CARTOONS/PUZZLES

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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. Monday, July 29, 2019 GULF TIMES 13 PUZZLES COMMUNITY

Super Cryptic Clues Colouring

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Today’s Solutions 14 GULF TIMES Monday, July 29, 2019 COMMUNITY HOLLYWOOD She transfixed Hollywood 50 years before Once Upon a Time ... in Hollywood there was Sharon Tate, recalls Jeff rey Fleishman

n death, Sharon Tate was born into women.” Born in Dallas two years before the myth, an “it” girl with a canyon house, end of World War II, Tate was an army brat, a famous director husband, and a living in Texas, Washington state and Italy beauty Hollywood craved as its mirror before moving to Los Angeles. A homecoming in an age of acid trips and biker gangs, dance queen and cheerleader, she had an Ia time when America was unmoored and the uncredited role in Barabbas (1961), a biblical studio system was giving way to brash, young epic starring Anthony Quinn. independent fi lmmakers. Tate went onto appear in popular TV Tate lived at a moment when the shows, including Mister Ed and The Beverly counterculture barged in on the martini set Hillbillies. She starred alongside Patty Duke and tore up the rules. She was that fl icker and Barbara Parkins in Valley of the Dolls. between eras, wholesome daughter, libertine Based on the novel by Jacqueline Susann, wife. Her murder in 1969 came as if a horror Valley cast Tate as a beautiful, doomed show had hijacked a pot-scented parade. showgirl. Hollywood ran scared and Tate, who was The movie was released the same year eight months pregnant when she was stabbed as three fi lms that epitomised Hollywood’s 16 times by followers of Charles Manson, fresh sense of social realism: The Graduate, became a patron saint to the inexpressible. Bonnie and Clyde and In the Heat of She was 26. Her role as a suicidal soft- the Night. Valley was, by comparison, porn actress in the Valley of the Dolls, a tale melodrama. The New York Times called it of barbiturates and reckonings, did not win “an unbelievably hackneyed and mawkish the reviews that crystallise a career. But her mish-mash of backstage plots and ‘Peyton end, as with those of James Dean and Bobby Place’ adumbrations in which fi ve women Kennedy, was tragically American, a promise are involved with their assorted egotistical forsaken, a dream denied. She became aspirations, love aff airs and Seconal pills.” inextricably linked to the crime that took her, Tate told Look magazine in 1967 that when and what’s left is a stunning, ageless face, people look at her “all they see is a sexy an alluring portrait upon which to hang our thing. … People are very critical on me. It what-ifs and insatiable fascinations. makes me tense. Even when I lay down, I’m Tate fl ashes as if a recurring candlelight tense. I’ve got an enormous imagination. I in Quentin Tarantino’s new Once Upon a imagine all kinds of things. Like that I’m all Time … in Hollywood. Played with trippy washed up, I’m fi nished. I think sometimes guilelessness by Margot Robbie, Tate, married that people don’t want me around. I don’t to real-life Polish director Roman Polanski, like being alone, though. When I’m alone, my shines in snippets through a gritty, nostalgic, imagination gets all creepy.” musical joyride into 1960s Hollywood and Such insecurities were not recognisable the lives of washed-up fi ctional TV star Rick from the outside. Sue Cameron, a former Dalton (Leonardo DiCaprio) and his stuntman RECALL: American actress Sharon Tate (1943 - 1969), second wife of film director Roman Polanski, columnist for the Hollywood Reporter and confessor Cliff Booth (Brad Pitt). in London. She was murdered by followers of Charles Manson the notorious serial killer. author of Hollywood Secrets and Scandals, The fi lm is as much homage to Tate as it said the last time she saw Tate was at a Stars is to an era of halter tops, draft dodgers, Joe on Roller Skates event at an old ballroom on Namath and Easy Rider. She dances at the Sharon Tate became inextricably linked to the Santa Monica pier. Playboy Mansion and races in a convertible the crime that took her, and what’s left is a “It was the middle of summer and Sharon with Polanski, whose Rosemary’s Baby had wore a full length mink coat,” said Cameron. made him a heralded auteur. In mini-skirt stunning, ageless face, an alluring portrait “I’ll never forget that. She was into the and white go-go boots, Tate slips into a movie celebrity stuff . She was beautiful. It was theatre to watch her part as a secret agent upon which to hang our what-ifs and real. When you looked into her face she had in The Wrecking Crew. The scene reveals these luminous eyes that looked right at you. unadorned wonder that she, a Catholic- insatiable fascinations Maybe Polanski would have urged her to take raised army offi cer’s daughter, is on the Tate’s magic was that she was a fl eeting on the road with a fi lm, frequenting clubs a deeper look at herself as an actress, but I marquee with Dean Martin and Elke Sommer. ingénue, her face everywhere, as if on a and, according to a number of accounts, think she was just one of the pretty girls cast Robbie has few lines, but her resonance pinwheel spinning through pop culture. orchestrating trysts. Nine years after Tate’s in movies. She was at a crossroads at what carries a lasting, eerie enchantment. She Her brand could be recycled and reinvented. death, he would fl ee the US after being she was going to do.” embodies an actress who personifi ed a time The 50th anniversary of her death brought arrested on sex abuse charges against a minor, Less than a month after man fi rst walked at the instant that time changed. “I always the April release of the widely panned The never to return. on the moon, in a year when the Beatles look at the character and what the character Haunting of Sharon Tate starring Hilary Duff In his 2015 biography, Sharon Tate: A Life, gave their fi nal performance and Jimi is supposed to serve to the story,” said Robbie and the upcoming novel Set the Controls for Ed Sanders writes of a woman confl icted over Hendrix played The Star-Spangled Banner when the fi lm premiered at Cannes. “The the Heart of Sharon Tate by Gary Lippman. wanting to be either an American version of at Woodstock, in a time of tie-dye, fl ower moment I got on screen gave an opportunity Her wedding dress was auctioned last year for Catherine Deneuve or a stay-at-home-mom. children and sexual revolution, a man to honour Sharon … I think the tragedy $56,250. Feminism was chipping at tradition and nicknamed “Tex” and Manson “family” ultimately was the loss of innocence. To really A sex symbol — she appeared in a Playboy women such as Tate were balancing personal members Susan Atkins and Patricia show those wonderful sides of her, I think, spread shot by Polanski — Tate also wore desires and family expectations. Tate seemed Krenwinkel walked up to 10050 Cielo Drive could be adequately done without speaking.” scarves, went barefoot and read Thomas to enjoy celebrity more than the rigours of and slaughtered Tate and four others, Tate’s sister, Debra, could not be reached Hardy’s Tess of the d’Urbervilles, which serious acting and Polanski, a man of moods including her hairdresser and former lover Jay for comment. She had misgivings about the a decade later Polanski would adapt for a and ruffl e collars who cast her in The Fearless Sebring. Manson, who died in a Bakersfi eld fi lm, but reportedly after receiving a script movie. Their house on Cielo Drive in Benedict Vampire Killers (1967), was consumed with hospital in 2017 while serving a life sentence, from Tarantino, regarded the director’s Canyon echoed with the parties of a new his own scripts and obsessions. had ordered the killings to ignite a race war, rendition as respectful to Sharon’s memory. Hollywood, a set of fi lmmakers, artists, “Roman was the star in that relationship using the phrase “Helter Skelter,” the title Hollywood is much altered since the days of musicians and narcotic-induced wanderers and Sharon was the beautiful actress wife. of a Beatles song, and a reference to his Sharon Tate when women were often cast changing the city, the country and the You didn’t walk into a room and think this is apocalyptic vision of Scripture. Tate was more as types than talents. Sex abuse cases, culture. Meryl Streep,” said Toni Basil, choreographer left lying beside a sofa, a rope looped around including those against Harvey Weinstein, It wasn’t all glamour and discovered on Tarantino’s fi lm, who knew Polanski and her neck. Polanski was in Europe. When Los Tarantino’s former longtime producer, have privilege. The real-life Tate had her problems. Tate and once dined with them in France. Angeles woke up, a fantasy had ended and the raised awareness and given women more Polanski, whom Tate had fi rst met at a party “Sharon was dear, sweet and aware of her world was not the same as before. inroads in the industry on and off set. in London, was domineering and often sexuality but not competitive with other — Los Angeles Times/TNS Monday, July 29, 2019 GULF TIMES 15 SHOWBIZ COMMUNITY Taapsee demurs on open letter storm

Amidst the open letter storm, actress letter to Prime Minister Narendra Modi, Taapsee Pannu said that she is in the centre expressing concern over the growing cases of things as she does not believe in left wing of lynching in India. or right wing politics. On Friday, however, sixty-two celebrities, “I am in centre of things. I don’t believe including actress Kangana Ranaut and in left wing politics or right wing politics. I writer-lyricist Prasoon Joshi, came out express my views on things which aff ect me. with a counter open letter slamming the I have expressed my views on bad things and earlier one submitted to Modi by 49 fi lm whenever something good has happened in personalities. our country, I have talked about it proudly. Expressing her views on the ongoing open “I feel both sides have their own point of letter debate, Taapsee said: “I feel there are views. No-one asked for a sign from me and good people and bad people in every society whatever I have to say I say it through social and some of them are tolerant and some of media platforms,” Taapsee said. them are intolerant, so I haven’t counted to Earlier this week, around 49 celebrities see that who is in the majority. I can say that including Anurag Kashyap, Aparna Sen, I have seen both kinds of people.” Adoor Gopalakrishnan, Mani Ratnam On the work front, Taapsee is gearing up and Konkona Sen Sharma, wrote an open for the release of . — IANS DEAD-BAT: Taapsee Pannu. Real-life incidents are the latest tinsel flavour not that fi lmmakers don’t want By Simran Sethi to make fi ction movies, but there is certain aura attached to fi lms based on reality.” Stating that you he reality-inspired feel more connected to things that Bollywood cinema are real, he said, “You feel you have has moved beyond the experienced it or you can do it. standard biopics and Also, reality is always interesting historical incidents. than fi ction.” New-ageT writers and fi lmmakers On the vital role of fact-checking are fi nding inspiration in real fi lms based on real life event, incidents involving commoners, Menon said, “Research is important which inspire, impress and awe, and one should not play with the and at times also make us proud as facts. A fi lmmaker should at least Indians. try to get the basic facts right.” It has become a trend to narrate Airlift, which featured Akshay stories about extraordinary Kumar in the role of Ranjit Katyal, incidents involving ordinary was based on the evacuation people. What began as a of Indians from Kuwait during mainstream experiment with fi lms, Mission Mangal stars Akshay “While doing Kesari I realised fl avour, narrating inspiring stories invasion by Iraq in 1990. To bring like Madras Cafe, Airlift, Padman or Kumar as a mission head with that there are so many people who of common man who triumph in that evacuation drama to the big Neerja, is fi nding increasing favour actresses Vidya Balan, Taapsee have no idea about the bravery unusual circumstances. screen, Menon did a lot of research. of fi lmmakers with releases in the Pannu, Sonakshi Sinha, Kirti of 21 Sikhs who fought against No one Killed Jessica, Airlift, However, Menon said a fi lmmaker genre such as Uri: The Surgical Kulhari and Nithya Menen playing 10,000 Afghans. There was so little Black Friday, Madras Cafe, Neerja, should be allowed “creative liberty” Strike, Article 15, Kesari and India’s the all-women team at ISRO who information available about them Talwar, The Attacks of 26/11 and to add entertainment to the real Most Wanted. made India’s 2013 Mars Orbiter online or in text books. After the Shahid are a few recent Hindi story. These fi lms draw inspiration Mission possible. Film historian fi lm almost everyone knows about fi lms in this category. Filmmaker “If basic facts are right, then from the valour of commoners, SMM Ausaja considers it a “positive them. We should keep making Raja Krishna Menon, who directed you can take creative liberty to who stood up to the occasion to sign” for Bollywood. reality-based fi lms because cinema Airlift, said real life stories helped make your fi lm interesting and do something that stands out, in a “Cinema and art should always has the power to make people aware set up drama in fi lms as very few entertaining. While making Airlift real-life situation. refl ect the society. It’s a positive and educate them,” Parineeti said. other genres do. I did a lot of research. I spoke to Bollywood’s inclination for such sign that more and more fi lmmakers Ayushmann Khurrana’s latest “Filmmakers pick stories they people who were involved in the real stories will be on display this are coming up with fi lms based on release Article 15 is inspired by feel are important. As a fi lmmaker evacuation. As a fi lmmaker, though, Independence Day when Batla reality. With the medium, like fi lms the 2014 Badaun gang-rape and I generally look at those real life creative liberty is important for House and Mission Mangal will and shows, new generation will get murder. Although Ayushmann stories, which will depict an me. Akshay’s character was my explore two diff erent shades of to know about the important events plays a fi ctitious cop, his character incredible amount of bravery or work of fi ction and imagination. realism in a bid to defi ne what it of the past,” he said. and certain fi ctional drama is used features a person who has gone out His character was inspired by means to be a patriot. Earlier this year, the Akshay intelligently in the fi lm to highlight of his/her way to accomplish the Mathunny Mathews, who helped ’s Batla House, Kumar-starrer Kesari fell back on the sordid societal reality of impossible,” he said. evacuate Indians from Kuwait. starring , is inspired history to discover an intriguing heartland India. On the sudden infl ux of such “I met Mathews and his son. I by the alleged encounter of 2008 slice of commoners’ valour in the Over the past couple of years, movies, Menon said, “Nowadays took his permission to fi ctionalise in in the wake of the serial 1897 Battle of Saragarhi. directors have been attempting to people hardly read. Even if they the character based on him. blasts. The fi lm seeks to fi nd Actress Parineeti Chopra, who portray reality through diff erent want to know about a historical Creative liberty is important answers to several questions about was a part of Kesari, says it’s types of movies. The common event, they prefer to watch a for fi lmmaking to make it more the operation, which remains a important to depict such reality factor about these fi lms is they video. So fi lmmakers are coming cinematic. A fi lm should attract mystery. through cinema. are all stories seeped in everyday up with more biographies. It is people,” Menon reasoned. — IANS 16 GULF TIMES Monday, July 29, 2019 COMMUNITY

RESTORED: Big Ben’s North Dial has been restored to its original Prussian blue hands and numbers, with gold frames and white glass. Conservation work to the tower is also progressing EXPERT: Ian Westworth, a clock mechanic, works on Big Ben, which is undergoing restoration work. well. Big Ben silent during 160th birthday as latest makeover continues 5-ton mechanism, and cleaning and about as loud as a police siren. According to another theory, it was Conservation work to the tower is By Silvia Kusidlo and repairing its four dials. Speaking of police, the tower named after Ben Caunt, a 19th- also progressing well. If all goes according to plan, once housed a small prison cell. Its century bare-knuckle prizefi ghter Decades of heavy air pollution Christoph Meyer Sturge says, the scaff olding will last inmate, in 1880, was a newly and English heavyweight have blackened the structure, says start coming down in 2020 and the elected – and atheist – member champion. Adam Watrobski, the project’s project will be completed in 2021. of Parliament who was held there The Great Clock is famous for its principal architect. While this will he River Thames and The project’s dimensions are overnight in a dispute over his accuracy. now likely be less of a problem Buckingham Palace enormous. Each of the four clock refusal to take the religious oath of To keep it that way, a team of thanks to environmental protection are far below, while dials, for instance, has a diameter allegiance to the Crown. expert clock mechanics has been measures, he says no one knows the rolling hills around of 7 metres and consists of 324 Many Britons are upset at painstakingly overhauling all of its how climate warming will aff ect London can be seen pieces of pot opal glass. “They’re all having to go so long without Big components. An electric motor has the building. Big Ben isn’t the only inT the distance. It’s cramped mouth-blown and not transparent,” Ben’s familiar chiming every hour been temporarily installed to drive architectural icon in London that’s nearly 100 metres up in Big Ben, says Robert Christ, marketing and four “quarter bells” every the hands while the mechanism is badly decayed. Large sections of with space enough for just a director of LambertsGlas, a 15 minutes. They still sound, restored. the Palace of Westminster are being few workers at a time amid the Bavarian glass-making company however, on special occasions such “The Great Clock and its refurbished. tangle of scaff olding and ladders. that’s restoring the dials. as New Year’s Eve. Parliament bell have become much-loved Most of the some 4,000 windows Claustrophobia or a fear of heights The tower’s cast-iron roof is even squabbled about the matter. representatives of our democracy, in its 1,100 rooms don’t shut are inadvisable. also being refurbished, along with While then British prime minister and the conservation works properly, walls are crumbling in At the halfway stage of a what’s known as the Ayrton Light, Theresa May said a four-year hiatus currently taking place will ensure places, water sometimes drips four-year restoration project, the a lantern-like lamp above the Great “can’t be right,” Jeremy Corbyn, that it continues to be so for through the ceiling, and staff are British landmark recently marked Bell that shines after sunset when head of the opposition Labour generations to come,” says Steve afraid to turn off the old heating its 160th anniversary cloaked in Parliament is sitting. Party, countered that it was “not a Jaggs, Keeper of the Great Clock. for fear it won’t come back on in scaff olding and plastic sheeting – Disconnected since August 2017, national disaster.” Meanwhile, the North Dial winter. to the disappointment of countless the bell’s bongs are to remain silent Big Ben is believed to have been has been restored to its original Nearby Buckingham Palace is in tourists. until 2021 to protect workers from named after Sir Benjamin Hall, Prussian blue hands and numbers disrepair too. Staff have even had to On July 11, 1859, Big Ben – which hearing loss. chief commissioner of works, – they were long black – with collect dripping water in buckets to is actually the name originally given At nearly 120 decibels, they’re whose name is inscribed on the bell. gold frames and white glass. protect artworks. – DPA to the 13.7-ton Great Bell – chimed for the fi rst time. The name is commonly used for the clock tower as a whole, offi cially known as Elizabeth Tower since 2012 in tribute to the then 60-year reign of Queen Elizabeth II. Time has taken its toll on the building, at the north end of the Houses of Parliament in the Palace of Westminster; the last time signifi cant work was carried out on it was in 1983-85. “The workers here have to be very careful,” says project manager Nicholas Sturge during a recent inspection. In addition to conservation work – including essential maintenance, installation of new amenities and improved energy effi ciency – they’re dismantling the Great SILENT: Big Ben has been mostly silent during a four-year Clock piece-by-piece, restoring its LANDMARK: Time has taken its toll on Big Ben. restoration project on the icon.