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Community Community Principal of 12 books you Ideal Indian must include P6School P16 in your receives ‘Best Results reading list in Humanities Stream this year. Award’ at 31st CBSE Gulf Principals’ Conference. Sunday, January 13, 2019 Jumada I 7, 1440 AH Doha today: 160 - 230 PRESCRIBED: Wet-lining around the edge of the burn unit during a prescribed burn at the Point Reyes National Seashore on July 16, 2010. Wet-lining is the application of water and foam in a line, which stops fire from burning across. COVER Counterintuitive STORY If California wants to get out in front of its wildfire problem, scientists advise to start more forest fires. P4-5 QUIZ SHOWBIZ First Grand Slam A Dog’s Way Home is tennis event of the year. worth a tail wag. Page 10 Page 15 2 GULF TIMES Sunday, January 13, 2019 COMMUNITY ROUND & ABOUT PRAYER TIME Fajr 5.01am Shorooq (sunrise) 6.21am Zuhr (noon) 11.42am Asr (afternoon) 6.43pm Maghreb (sunset) 5.06pm Isha (night) 6.36pm USEFUL NUMBERS Petta more to Kaali than meets the eye. Things take an interesting DIRECTION: Karthik Subbaraj turn when Kaali’s path crosses with a group of dreaded CAST: Rajinikanth, Vijay Sethupathi, Simran gangsters. 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The Accidental Prime Minister World (2D) 6pm; Petta (Tamil) The Mall Cinema (2): Vinaya (Hindi) 9pm; Ntr: Kathanayakudu 8pm; Petta (Tamil) 11pm. Vidheya Rama (Telugu) 2pm; (Telugu) 11pm. Royal Plaza Cinema Palace Petta (Tamil) 5pm; Petta (Tamil) Landmark Cinema (2): Petta (2): Vinaya Vidheya Rama Community Editor 8pm; Petta (Tamil) 11pm. (Tamil) 2pm; Petta (Tamil) 5pm; (Telugu) 2:15pm; The Mule (2D) Kamran Rehmat The Mall Cinema (3): Viswasam Petta (Tamil) 8pm; Petta (Tamil) 5pm; The Accidental Prime e-mail: [email protected] (Tamil) 2:15pm; Black ‘47 (2D) 11pm. Minister (Hindi) 7:15pm; The Landmark Cinema (3): Ntr: Telephone: 44466405 5pm; Viswasam (Tamil) 6:45pm; Accidental Prime Minister The Mule (2D) 9:30pm; Uri: The Kathanayakudu (Telugu) 2pm; (Hindi) 9:15pm; Viswasam (Tamil) Fax: 44350474 Surgical Strike (Hindi) 11:30pm. How To Train Your Dragon: 11:15pm. Sunday, January 13, 2019 GULF TIMES 3 ROUND & ABOUT COMMUNITY Ballet Lessons old. Also, a kids’ duathlon was introduced WHERE: Music and Arts Atelier this year for two age groups 7-9 and 10-12 WHEN: Ongoing years old to allow all family members to TIME: 4pm – 8pm enjoy the event. For more info e-mail at registration@ atelierqatar.com or call on 33003839. Cycling: Losail Circuit Sports Club WHERE: Losail Circuit WHEN: Ongoing TIME: 5pm Losail Circuit Sports Club, in association with Qatar Sports For All Federation, Arabic Calligraphy Workshop invites all cyclists, runners and walkers WHEN: Saturday – Wednesday to train under the floodlights of Losail TIME: 6pm International Circuit every Wednesdays. Arabic Calligraphy workshop is back. Come and learn the artistic practice of Arabic handwriting and calligraphy at Music and Arts Atelier. EVENTS Getting Started with Makey Makey The lessons will take place every WHERE: Qatar National Library Saturday, Monday and Wednesday at Arijit Singh Live in Doha WHEN: January 19 6pm. For more information, contact WHERE: Lusail Sports Arena TIME: 4:30pm – 5:30pm [email protected] WHEN: January 18 How can everyday objects be used to TIME: 5pm onwards control computers? In this session, you’ll After School Activities With more than 200 songs in just 5 learn how you can use the Makey Makey WHERE: Atelier years, Arijit Singh enjoys an immense fan invention kit to turn ordinary objects into WHEN: Ongoing following thanks to his soulful voice and computer keyboards. Music and arts activities for students unparalleled talent. Come and witness the taking place after they finish their day in magic live. school includes Group Music lessons, Hip- hop, Ballet, Drawing and Painting, Drama Autism Football Theatre & Taekwondo. Ages between 5 and WHERE: Student Center Education The Colour Run 10 years old after school hours. WHEN: Ongoing till January 17 WHERE: QNCC TIME: 11am – 4pm WHEN: January 26 Qatar Foundation is excited to launch TIME: 8:30am new inclusive sports programmes for the Celebrate the hero in you in a realm Autism community. The assessment will where nothing is impossible and you are identify what session will be suitable for unstoppable. Soar to new heights in the all- each participant based on their football new Super Zone and suit up in gear fit for ability and age. only the most super of heroes as you collect your medal at the Finish Line! 2019 will Archives Exhibition also include the Foam Zone. Gates will open WHERE: Qatar National Library at 7am on January 26, with our first Color WHEN: Ongoing till January 31 Runners setting off at 8.30am. TIME: 8am – 8pm The exhibition explores the history of Qatar through several family collections. It presents selected items from previously Hobby Classes unseen private archives of photos, artefacts WHERE: Mystic Arts Centre behind Al and documents to show the role that Robotics Junior Course Hilal Focus Medical Centre individuals within a community can play WHERE: Recreation Centre WHEN:Wednesday – Monday in building its identity and preserving its WHEN: January 19 Mystic Art Centre, is a holistic heritage and history. TIME: 1pm – 3pm performing arts institution and a one stop Children are invited to build their own solution for adults as well as children robot and make it move however they want. looking to explore their talents in various It will be a fun chance for them to delve art forms. We offer classes in Carnatic deep into the world of robotics and explore Music, Hindustani Music, Karate, Yoga, how computer programming and robot Zumba, Classical Dance, Salsa, Hip Hop, design can solve all kinds of problems. contemporary and Bollywood dance forms. Doha Triathlon 2019 For details, call 33897609. Katara Beach - School Students WHERE: Museum of Islamic Art WHERE: Katara WHEN: February 8 Dance and Instrument Classes WHEN: Ongoing Doha Triathlon has opened registration WHERE: TCA Campus, Behind Gulf TIME: 9am – 12pm for its third edition. Those wishing to Times Building By participating in the programme of participate in the event can visit www. WHEN: Wednesday – Monday ‘Our culture is a school’, Katara Beach doha-triathlon.com to register in either the Learn the movements of dance styles emphasises the Qatari marine tradition Olympic or Sprint which offers registration in Bollywood, Hip Hop and also the and introduces to students the meaning of for both individuals and team relays. musical instruments such as Piano, Guitar, Dasha, Al Qafal and various type of pearls. Another choice is the Super Sprint which Keyboard for adults as well kids and move The students will discover all details of the is only for individuals and open for both in the world of music. For details, contact Fath Al-Khair journey. adults and kids aged between 13-15 years 66523871/ 31326749. Compiled by Nausheen Shaikh. E-mail: [email protected], Events and timings subject to change 4 GULF TIMES Sunday, January 13, 2019 COMMUNITY COVER STORY California can use fire to kill wildfire formed US Forest Service began By Julia Rosen extinguishing flames as quickly as possible. Managers believed that suppressing fires protected both f California wants to get communities and forests, Martin out in front of its wildfire said. And for decades, it did. problem, scientists But over time, the plan backfi red. have some clear but That was especially true in conifer counterintuitive advice: forests, which used to burn every IStart more forest fires. fi ve to 20 years and grew denser Decades of research shows with each missed cycle. that lighting fires under safe Then came drought, tree-killing conditions not only clears out the beetles and climate change – plus dead plants and thick underbrush a booming population that kept that fuel many severe wildfires, expanding into forested areas. it also restores a natural process Californians are all too that once kept forests healthy and familiar with the consequences: resilient.
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    RESIDENT ALIEN Musical genres, melodies and beat-cycles morph, as Ali Sethi and Sunny Jain explore the idea of migration. In a nation of immigrants, where its system describes human beings as a “resident alien” or “illegal alien”, Ali and Sunny assert the very real and beautiful threads of migration, from the origins and synthesis of language, to exile, to political and religious freedom. The band includes Ali Sethi on vocals, Sunny Jain on drumset/dhol, Grey Mcmurray on guitar and Shoko Nagai on keyboards. Some people look for a beautiful place, others make a place beautiful. - Hazrat Inayat Khan Ali Sethi is a Pakistani singer, musician, writer, and columnist. Sethi was globally recognized for writing the book, The Wish Maker. The book was short-listed for DSC Prize for South Asian Literature and the Shakti Bhatt First Book Prize Award. Sethi has written several columns for New York Times, The New Yorker, The Caravan, and The Friday Times. 2013, he began focusing on his music career and made his film debut as a playback singer in The Reluctant Fundamentalist (2013) and released a cover single "Mohabbat Karne Waley.” Later, he released four cover singles and debuted as a featured artist in the eight season of Pakistani music reality show, Coke Studio. In 2016, Sethi released his first original single "Mahi Mera", which was critical acclaimed. He received his first Lux Style Aware nomination as a Best Playback Singer – Male at 15th Lux Style Awards, and was nominated for Best Play Singer – Male at 2nd ARY Film Awards, both for "Aah Ko Chayie." He also received a Hum Award nomination for Best Music Single category.