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Bones pulled from the La Brea Tar Pits show perils of being a picky eater. P4-5

COVER STORY

Inadaptability

THE LESSON: Vanderbilt University palaeontologist Larisa DeSantis says by asking how the survivors responded to the loss of the larger carnivores we can begin to understand what the eff ects of past impacts of climate change and human eff ects were in these ecosystems and extract out important cautionary tales and lessons of relevance to conservation today.

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Frank, a singing QPO opens year of novelty and history book. excitement with orchestral concert. Page 14 Page 16 2 GULF TIMES Tuesday, September 3, 2019 COMMUNITY ROUND & ABOUT

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Porinju Mariam Jose in Thrissur, it is a story of friendship, love and revenge that DIRECTION: Joshiy revolves around the lives of a rowdy, an aristocratic and their CAST: Joju George, Chemban Vinod Jose, Nyla Usha mutual friend. SYNOPSIS: Set against the backdrop of a church festival THEATRES: The Mall, Landmark

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Community Editor For movie timings and Kamran Rehmat further details please scan e-mail: [email protected] the QR code above with your Telephone: 44466405 mobile phone camera or visit qatarcinemas.com Fax: 44350474 Tuesday, September 3, 2019 GULF TIMES 3 ROUND & ABOUT COMMUNITY

The olympic sport using horizontal bar, Hobby Classes rings and fl oor exercises on mats for the WHERE: Mamangam Performing Art children from age 4 till 16. Centre WHEN:Saturday – Friday Mamangam is an art and performance centre started with a vision of spreading our knowledge, interests and experience in various disciplines in arts across diff erent countries for children and adults. Mamangam has become the favourite centre for learning. We off er regular classes in the following disciplines like traditional classical and folk dance forms, art and craft, drawing and painting, personality development and public speaking, Bollywood dance, contemporary, hip hop styles, music both vocals and instrumentals. To develop health consciousness, we train them karate, yoga with special sessions for kids and adults. Mamangam has also come up with chess and robotics in regular batches in an attempt to give a better learning experience, as they sharpen their minds and brains too. For those who wish to register for more details, visit www.mamangamqatar.in Ballet Lessons WHERE: Music and Arts Atelier WHEN: Ongoing TIME: 4pm – 8pm For more info e-mail at registration@ atelierqatar.com or call on 33003839.

EVENTS Yoga Class Painting Class WHERE: Lululemon, Mall of Qatar WHERE: Qatar National Library WHEN: Every Saturday WHEN: September 22 TIME: 8:30am – 9:30am TIME: 11am — 12pm Join the complimentary in-store yoga Paint with a rolling ball, or a rolling car, classes. No registration or mat is required. or just stomp and drag your fi ngers, hands The class runs on fi rst come fi rst served basis. and feet! Little children will explore color Arabic Calligraphy Workshop and motion using diff erent media in this fun, WHEN: Saturday – Wednesday hands-on activity. Please dress your little TIME: 6pm ones accordingly. Arabic Calligraphy workshop is back. Come and learn the artistic practice of Arabic The Moon and Beyond handwriting and calligraphy at Music and WHERE: Qatar National Library Arts Atelier. WHEN: September 18 The lessons will take place every Saturday, TIME: 6pm — 7:30pm Monday and Wednesday at 6pm. For Celebrate 50 years since the moon landing more information, contact registration@ with a special presentation at the Library, atelierqatar.com in collaboration with the US Embassy in Doha. Dr. Mary Ellen Weber, a former NASA astronaut who fl ew on two Space Shuttle fl ights, will talk about her experiences in space After School Activities and the future of exploring the fi nal frontier. WHERE: Atelier Dr. Weber is a consultant in technology, WHEN: Ongoing innovation, strategic communications and Music and arts activities for students high-risk operations, and serves on the NASA taking place after they fi nish their day in Advisory Council Committee on Technology, school includes Group Music lessons, Hip- Innovation and Engineering.. hop, Ballet, Drawing and Painting, Drama Theatre & Taekwondo. Ages between 5 and 10 years old after school hours.

Career Guidance WHERE: Right Track Consultants, Al Sadd WHEN: Sunday – Thursday TIME: 6pm – 8pm Career guidance for course, country, college and entrance for students of Grade IX-XII, of all curriculum. Career assessments administered for stream preference, career Dance and Instrument Classes test, branch preference, personality, WHERE: TCA Campus, Behind Gulf Times multiple intelligence and learning styles Building and productivity. For more information, WHEN: Wednesday – Monday 55448835. Learn the movements of dance styles in Bollywood, Hip Hop and also the musical Artistic Gymnastic Classes instruments such as Piano, Guitar, Keyboard WHERE: Qatar Academy Msheireb for adults as well kids and move in the world WHEN: Ongoing of music. For details, contact 66523871/ TIME: 3:15pm – 4:15pm 31326749.

Compiled by Nausheen Shaikh. E-mail: [email protected], Events and timings subject to change 4 GULF TIMES Tuesday, September 3, 2019 COMMUNITY COVER STORY The coyote way It’s not yet clear why the saber-toothed cats and dire wolves couldn’t adjust to the changing ecosystem as well as the coyotes did. Perhaps those larger predators had become too specialised, according to palaeontologist Larisa DeSantis. By Stephanie De Marco

arrow rows of shallow survived — becoming the apex University palaeontologist Larisa gray bins tower to the predators famous for terrorising DeSantis, “we can begin to Everything that we ceiling. Resting inside family pets. The reason why, argues understand what the eff ects of are the jaw bones of new research based on the La Brea past impacts of climate change have lived and died saber-toothed cats and fossils, was the coyote’s superior and human eff ects were in these Nancient coyotes that perished in the ability to adapt to a changing world. ecosystems and extract out here, or at least La Brea Tar Pits as many as 40,000 From about 15,000 to important cautionary tales and migrated through years ago. 10,000 years ago — the end lessons of relevance to conservation “The original Angelenos,” of the Pleistocene epoch — a today.” here and died here said Aisling Farrel, a collections warming climate, the increasing For example, she asked, “Did the manager at Rancho La Brea. encroachment of humans, or diets of cougars and wolves and “Everything that we have lived some combination of both led to coyotes change in a substantial — Aisling Farrel, and died here, or at least migrated a massive extinction of some of way once extinction of these other through here and died here.” North America’s largest mammals. animals occurred? And in what way collections manager Multiple species of saber- By asking how the survivors did that actually happen?” at Rancho La Brea toothed cats went extinct about responded to the loss of the With over 3.5 million fossils ‘ ’ 10,000 years ago while coyotes larger carnivores, said Vanderbilt representing more than 600 Tuesday, September 3, 2019 GULF TIMES 5 COVER STORY COMMUNITY

“Everything you eat is incorporated into your tissues. The great thing about teeth is that the signal is locked in at the time those teeth mineralise”

— Larisa DeSantis, palaeontologist diff erent species, the La Brea Tar Pits would likely hold the answers. “If you’re going to study Pleistocene carnivores,” DeSantis said, “you go to La Brea.” An ancient tar seep in the middle of modern-day Los Angeles, the La Brea Tar Pits trapped all sorts of animals over the past 50,000 years. It’s one of the most valuable sites for palaeontologists studying EXAMINATION: A dire wolf tooth that was examined by Larisa DeSantis and her colleagues. both the causes and consequences of species extinctions. The reason for this difference plain,” said Julie Meachen, a topographic map,” DeSantis said. both saber-toothed cats and Unwitting herbivores like is that plants that grow in these palaeontologist from Des Moines Peter Ungar, a coyotes were chowing down on American bison or giant ground environments do photosynthesis University who was not involved palaeoanthropologist at the the fleshy, meaty parts of their sloths that accidentally wandered slightly differently, leading to in the research. University of Arkansas and the prey. into the sticky trap would cry out distinctive ratios of carbon-13 and Ancient coyotes, on the other inventor of dental microwear But teeth from coyotes found in for help, attracting the attention carbon-12. Herbivores that eat the hand, hunted in open areas. But texture analysis, explained that the tar pits after the Pleistocene of predators — dire wolves, plants incorporate their ratio of after larger predators died out, foods leave characteristic marks extinction were much more pitted coyotes, saber-toothed cats, and carbon isotopes into their bodies, coyotes began catching prey in on the teeth. and complex, indicating that they the rare American lion — looking as do the carnivores further up the more forested areas, their tooth If the predator is eating “the had shifted to a more scavenging for an easy snack. Those predators food chain. enamel revealed. organs and the meat, but not behaviour — a characteristic of would inevitably become stuck According to the carbon This shift was even clearer the bone, then they should have coyotes alive today. (Sure enough, themselves. isotope ratios, saber-toothed cats when the researchers looked at microwear dominated by fine the teeth of modern-day coyotes To understand how these preferred to hunt in sheltered the physical wear and tear on the parallel scratches,” he said. But were also quite pitted.) predators adapted to the changing groves. animals’ teeth. if they are eating a lot of bone, In other words, DeSantis said, prey availability and the loss of “It makes sense then that Using a technique called they’ll have “a lot of pits on their the animals “were able to adapt.” other predators, DeSantis and an ambush predator would be dental microwear texture teeth.” The findings were published her collaborators looked for clues catching more prey in a more analysis, “we scan that surface The researchers found that this month in the journal Current hidden in their teeth: both the covered area than in an open in three dimensions, much like a before the Pleistocene extinction, Biology. chemical composition of the “It’s a really interesting study,” enamel and the physical scrapes said Ungar, who praised the left on the surface. team for using multiple types of “Everything you eat is evidence to make their case. “I incorporated into your tissues,” think that’s the future of this kind DeSantis said. “The great thing of work.” about teeth is that the signal is It’s not yet clear why the locked in at the time those teeth saber-toothed cats and dire mineralise.” wolves couldn’t adjust to the Tooth enamel is laid down changing ecosystem as well as in adolescence, so it provides a the coyotes did. Perhaps those snapshot of what an animal was larger predators had become too eating during its young-adult life. specialised, DeSantis said. Drilling into the tooth, the “If you are smaller, if you researchers removed one to are a generalist, if you are two milligrams of enamel — an opportunistic, you have a better amount comparable to about three chance at surviving,” she said. grains of sugar. Understanding the coyotes’ Team members from Vanderbilt response to the disappearance and New York State Museum of large predators will guide in Albany then used mass researchers as they think about spectrometry to measure the how other species might react to relative abundance of different future extinction events. isotopes of carbon in the enamel When building models for how from ancient and modern-day species could change in response carnivores. to climate change and human Teeth with a higher ratio of population growth, “you have to carbon-13 to carbon-12 indicate make the assumption that what that their owner ate prey that the animal does today, an animal lived in open grassy areas. Teeth will do tomorrow,” DeSantis said. with a lower ratio signal the “But as we’ve learned from the carnivore hunted in more covered, coyotes, that’s not always the forested areas. COLLECTION: Fossil jaws of saber-toothed cats, left, and ancient coyotes, right, at the La Brea Tar Pits Museum. case.” — Los Angeles Times/TNS 6 GULF TIMES Tuesday, September 3, 2019 COMMUNITY

CIS organises orientation programme for new faculty members

As one of the leading international are one of the few truly international schools in Qatar, and as part of schools in Qatar; international premium education provider teachers, international students Nord Anglia Education, Compass and international curriculum from International School Doha recently Early Years through Secondary. It organised an extensive and in- is essential that our team have a depth orientation programme for fundamental understanding of the its new faculty members of the four environment they are teaching in to campuses as an introduction to fully do justice to our international international teaching and Qatari programmes, whether it’s our culture. Compass International School collaborations with Massachusetts Doha believes that an in-depth Institute of Technology (MIT), The understanding of Qatar is essential for Julliard School or Unicef. We are so their teachers in helping their students grateful to our friends, Abdul-Aziz and excel in Compass’ leading academic Ahmed, at the Sheikh Abdulla Bin Zaid programmes. Mahmoud Islamic Cultural Centre for Simon Porter, Director of Quality and their amazing work in educating our Staff Development at CIS, said, “We team.”

ICC to organise classical dance programme

Indian Cultural Centre, along with DPS Modern precision in their footwork. Indian School and Team Noopura, is all set Students of DPS Modern Indian School (DPS- to organise a cultural and classical dance MIS) will perform a group song, a classical programme on September 4 at Ashoka Hall and a semi classical dance sequence. The ICC. Team Noopura will present classical group will present motivational songs, which dance forms, including Bho Shambho, Varnam will be followed by semi-classical fusion of and Thillana. Bho Shambho is a padam popular Indian classical dances, including depicting the Tandava Nritta. Varnam is the Bharatanatyam, Keralanadanam, Kalari and most complex number and the central gem Contemporary and finally present a rich of any Bharathnatyam repertoire. Varna tradition of North India – Kathak, which is the means colour whose musical composition Hindustani name for one of the eight major brings out the structure and scope of the forms of Indian classical dance. raga in all dimensions. Abhinaya and Nritta The programme is a continuation of the are fascinatingly blended to bring out the initiative by Indian Cultural Centre along with versatility of the dancers. A classical dance all ICC Associate Organisations, Indian Schools recital reaches its crescendo with the Thillana and Indian Cultural Institutions in Qatar, to in which the dancers exhibit their mastery have Cultural shows every week at the Ashoka over the dance form with immaculate Hall.

MES conducts orientation session for parents

MES Indian School recently conducted an exclusive orientation session for parents of students option of selecting basic or standard math for the forthcoming Board Exam. She also highlighted of Grade X. The session was organised to equip parents about the changes implemented in the the responsibilities of the parents, including preserving and respecting children’s self-esteem, pattern of question papers by the CBSE Board. understanding the ever-new parental roles which encourage and foster self-confidence besides Hameeda Kadar, Principal of MES, highlighted the remodelled question papers and marking spending quality time with them and setting up realistic goals in line with the potentials of their system which is to be followed in the on-coming board exam in general, and precisely on the wards. Tuesday, September 3, 2019 GULF TIMES 7 COMMUNITY

NRNA-NCC organises oath taking ceremony for its new off ice bearers

An oath taking ceremony was recently NRN leader Asia; Yogen Chhetri from UK; organised for the newly elected working Manoj Kumar Shrestha, NRN leader; Raju committee of Non-Resident Nepalese Sayad, NRN leader; Swotantra Pratap Shah, Association-National Co-ordination Council from Australia; and Umesh Shrestha, leader of (NRNA-NCC) at the Embassy of Nepal. NRN from Japan. Mohammed Muktada Musalman, is the newly Rekha Rai, President of Federation of elected Chairman of NRNA-NCC. Limbuwan Society, also spoke on the Laxman Khanel, Charge de aff airs at the occasion. Speaking on the occasion, Kul Embassy of Nepal, was the chief guest on Acharya, Vice president NRN ICC UK, said the occasion. The event was attended by that the duty of NRNA committee members notable personalities, including Kumar Panta, is not voluntary, although the organisation is Vice President of NRN ICC Germany; Kul voluntary. He urged all NRNA-NCC members Acharya, Vice president NRN ICC UK; Januka to work for their country, and for the social Gurung, NRN Secretary Belgium; Badri KC, cause. Likewise, Kumar Panta, Januka Gurung, General Secretary Moscow; D B Chhetri, Badri KC, and RK Sharma also spoke on the Secretary Oman; Hem Raj Sharm, Former occasion. Spokesperson NRN UK; Dharma Raj Adhikari, – Text and photos by Usha Wagle Gautam

Woojoh hosts exclusive masterclasses One of the leading beauty retailers store, which was followed by its in Qatar, Woojoh, recently hosted Masterclass by Israa Abouchanab at two exclusive beauty masterclasses its Villaggio store. by top beauty influencers, From expert techniques when including Rania Ibrahim and Israa applying foundation, eyeshadow Abouchanab. With over 85 stores and lipstick to brush skills that across 9 countries and an ever- supercharge makeup application, all growing online presence, Woojoh the way through to practical ways has become the leading destination on improving and revamping looks, for all things fragrance, makeup and Woojoh’s masterclasses also featured skincare in the Middle East. Helping new products with high performance consumers to hone in and expand formulas from upcoming and their make-up skills and knowledge, exclusive brands This Works, Viseart Woojoh’s Masterclass by Rania and Woojoh’s newly branded beauty Ibrahim took place at its Landmark line – Wow Beauty Forward.

Kesariya Sweets and Restaurant opens its doors at Musheireb

Kesariya Sweets and Restaurant, one of the only signature thali, Speciality thali and others. Apart from authentic Rajasthani restaurants in Qatar that serves thalis, the restaurant has surprised its guest with lips Rajasthani and north Indian delicacies, has recently smacking tandoori items and main courses. Some of its opened its doors at Musheireb Doha, stated a press signature dishes, include Dal Bati Churma, Laal Maas, release. The restaurant off ers unique thalis, including Jumbo Thali, Signature Thali, Johdpuri chicken and Shahi Jumbo thali (a plate with 96 types of food), Kesariya Tukda. 8 GULF TIMES Tuesday, September 3, 2019 COMMUNITY TRA 7 Florida boat tours: The cla On a floating getaway, you can reach places where there are no roads and glimpse views you can’t see any other way, writes Bonnie Gross

EXPERIENCE: One of the best things to do from the Tarpon Springs Sponge Docks is take a boat tour, and it off ers several delights.

hen tourists came to big money-making attraction. My favourite way to see Silver Winter Park: 80 years and mastodon bones in the bottom of the Florida back in the By 2013, however, Silver Springs’ Springs, though, is by kayak, counting river, archaeological sites along its days before Disney, success as a tourist attraction had which you can rent at the park. It Long before Mickey Mouse came shores and it was also the setting for they still went on faded. The state took it over and is, without question, one of the to Orlando, folks were enjoying several early Tarzan movies starring ‘rides.’ But in Old opened the new Silver Springs State prettiest rivers to kayak in Florida. ‘jungle cruises’ in Orlando. The Johnny Weissmuller, as well as ‘The WFlorida, those rides were boat tours Park. Fortunately, the traditional Winter Park Scenic Boat Tours Creature from the Black Lagoon.’ not roller coasters. glass-bottom boat tours continue. St. Augustine: 100 years touring started taking visitors through the The guide on the boat tour Seeing Florida by boat is still one While the spring no longer pumps with one family lakes and canals of the Winter Park in Edward Ball Wakulla Spring of the best ways to enjoy all it off ers. enough water to be fi rst in the world, A hundred years ago, Henry Flagler chain in 1938. State Park tells you stories of the On a fl oating getaway, you can it is still a stunning sight. You can was bringing Florida’s fi rst tourists to On the tour, you see lushly mysterious spring (its source has reach places where there are no still see the bottom through 20 St. Augustine on his train and hosting landscaped lakefront estates and never been located) while pointing roads and glimpse views you can’t or 30 feet of water the colour of them at his grand Ponce De Leon ride through narrow canals. You’ll out wildlife, which is plentiful. see any other way. Some of the a swimming pool. Visitors often Hotel, which is now Flagler College. see boaters, wading birds and the Ancient bald cypress trees line the boats themselves are one-of-a-kind see wildlife – alligators, turtles, To amuse his guests, Flagler arranged occasional alligator. Tour guides river. attractions. Others are such classic anhingas, herons plus large fi sh in for some locals, Capt. Frank Usina and off er lots of stories about local The boat tour is a two-mile loop Florida experiences that they have and near the clear water. his wife, to off er oyster roasts. Pretty history and the people who lived that takes 45 minutes to an hour and been carrying visitors on these The glass-bottom boats have soon, Usina was transporting visitors in the mansions, plus a few corny it’s a bargain ($8 for adults and $5 for routes for more than 100 years. been powered by electricity since by boat around St. Augustine’s waters. jokes. The 18-passenger, open-air children). The water rarely achieves There are dozens of boat tours the 1930s, and because the trip is A century later, his descendants pontoon boats provide a friendly, the aquamarine clarity it once had, in Florida, but here are seven that short – 30 to 45 minutes – they’re are still doing that. A 75-minute intimate one-hour tour. Be sure to but when it does – usually in late stand out for their history or the also inexpensive ($11 for adults; $10 scenic cruise, operated by the fourth bring hats and sunscreen. Tours winter or early spring – Wakulla special experience they off er. for seniors and children; 5 and under generation of the Usina family, leave hourly and accept only cash or Spring brings out its glass bottom free). sails under St Augustine’s much checks. ($14 adults; $7 children.) boat for special tours. Silver Springs: Florida’s oldest The Silver River and its spring photographed Bridge of Lions and in Glass-Bottom Boat Tour: are worth more than a half-hour front of the Castillo De San Marcos, Wakulla Springs: make like Key West: see sunset from the It started in the 1870s when an tour, however, so I recommend you past salt marshes with wading birds Tarzan and explore ‘the black water entrepreneur fi xed a piece of glass consider the 90-minute River Boat and out to the lighthouse. Sightings of lagoon’ As early the 1960s, hippies in Key in the bottom of a rowboat. Tourists Tour, which is off ered on Fridays, dolphins are common. (Adults, $19; One of the largest springs in the West had turned watching the daily fl ocked here to see what was then Saturdays and Sundays. (Tickets are seniors $16; children 4-12 $9.) world and the deepest in Florida, sunset into a celebration on Mallory the largest artesian spring in the $25 adults; $20 seniors and children; The cruises do not operate Sept. 3 Wakulla Springs near Tallahassee Square. Sunset cruises weren’t far world, and Silver Springs became a 5 and under free.) to Oct. 3. has a rich history. There are behind. Tuesday, September 3, 2019 GULF TIMES 9 AVEL COMMUNITY assic way to see the scenery

AVAILABILITY: The Historic Key West Seaport has about a dozen sunset cruises available at varying prices and MID WAY: Winter Park Scenic Boat Tour boat crosses the canal from Lake Osceola styles. to Lake Virginia.

HISTORICAL: Hop aboard the Victory III for a guided cruise on the water in St. POPULAR: The glass bottom boat tour is a popular attraction at Silver Springs State Park in Florida. Augustine, Fla.

The Historic Key West Seaport has sails, is $65 and is BYOB. It’s a two- beer and hors d’oeurves for $96 per history. Then you head into Gulf Key Largo: Be like bogie on the about a dozen sunset cruises available. hour tour. schoonerjollyrover.com person. sail-keywest.com waters and spot dolphins. On some African queen You’ll want to search reviews on The Key West Cocktail Cruise off ers cruises, you head a few miles out You can’t do this anywhere TripAdvisor to see which one matches a cruise with cocktails for $80 per Tarpon Springs: historic cruise and stop on Anclote Key, a pristine else: The African Queen boat, the your style and pocketbook. Some are person, with champagne for $70 per plus a dazzling island white-sand barrier island reachable actual steamboat used in the 1951 priced for people celebrating special person and craft beer and wine for $42 Greeks came to Tarpon Springs to only by boat. Anclote Key is a state movie starring Humphrey Bogart occasions; others are doing a higher per person as a low-season special. dive for sponges, but by the 1920s, park with an 1887 lighthouse. The and Katharine Hepburn, has been volume/lower price business. keywestcocktailcruise.com some sponging boats began taking tours give visitors a brief time beautifully restored to take visitors on The yacht called the Party Argo Navis, a newer addition to visitors out for tours. The sponges are to enjoy Anclote’s perfect sandy Key Largo cruises. Cat promotes itself as the least Key West, is a luxury catamaran long gone, but the Greek heritage and beaches – you’ll wish you could Cruises are pricey – best for true expensive sunset cruise at $40 per with a smaller capacity. It off ers boat tours live on. stay. Visiting the lighthouse is not fans yearning to sit exactly where person. Beer and soft drinks are beer, wine plus charcuterie items One of the best things to do from part of the tour. Hepburn and Bogart did – but included plus music and dancing. and cheese for $91 per person. the Tarpon Springs Sponge Docks is There are several types of cruises, intimate. The boat is licensed to take sunsetwatersports.info sailargonavis.com take a boat tour, and it off ers several ranging in price from $16 for a two- just six passengers at a time and the The pirate-themed Jolly II Rover, Schooner America 2.0 is a tall delights. First you tour the Anclote hour dolphin cruise to $38 lunch or canal cruise, at $59 adults, is about 90 an 80-foot schooner with jaunty red ship that serves champagne, wine, River and hear a little Tarpon Springs dinner cruise with a beach option. minutes long. – Sun Sentinel/TNS 10 GULF TIMES Tuesday, September 3, 2019 COMMUNITY PHOTO ESSAY YOUR CHANCE TO BE IN THE Here’s your chance to let the world know of your skills and create a buzz. The published images will appear on both our Instagram page (@communitygt) as well as this coveted space. Community invites photographers to let their pictures speak the proverbial thousand words! E-mail your contributions with your full name, contact details and complete description of the images to [email protected]

Relax and breathe

Photo by Shammas TK

If we take a moment to hold our breath, perhaps we could realise how we are totally surrounded by mirrors which we never notice. Just as the water refl ects our riches in material, our closest ones refl ect our riches of life in their souls. The kindness we show, the love we can share, the gratitude in our hearts, it’s all there in the nature if you have time to look for it. — Text and photo by Antony Johnson Tuesday, September 3, 2019 GULF TIMES 11 LIFESTYLE/HOROSCOPE COMMUNITY Motivational text messages help diabetic patients: Study

esearchers have found to provide information and that a low-cost text motivation and help patients set messaging programme goals and manage stress. improves blood sugar The control group received two control in patients thank you text messages per month. Rwith diabetes and coronary heart At six months, blood glycated disease. haemoglobin (HbA1c) was “The eff ect in this study was signifi cantly lower in the not only statistically signifi cant intervention group compared to the but also has the potential to be control group (6.7 per cent versus clinically relevant by reducing 7.2 per cent). risk of diabetic complications and On an average, HbA1c fell by 0.2 death,” said study researcher Xiqian per cent in the intervention group Huo from Fuwai Hospital in China. and rose by 0.1 per cent in the “Capitalising on the exponential control group – a difference of 0.3 growth in mobile phone usage per cent between groups. over the past decade, a simple The change in fasting blood text messaging programme could glucose was larger in the increase the reach of diabetes self- intervention, compared to management support,” she added. control, group (-0.5 versus 0.1 It may provide a means to better mmol/L, respectively). address the burgeoning healthcare The intervention was demand-capacity imbalance. acceptable to participants, For the study presented at the 97 per cent found the text ESC Congress 2019 in France, the patients were randomly assigned The intervention group an automated system set up by the messages useful, readable and an researchers enrolled 502 patients to the text messaging intervention received six messages per week, researchers. appropriate method of contact. from 34 clinics in China and the or a control group for six months. at random times of the day, from The messages were designed – IANS

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

There’s a chance that incredible luck will befall you, Aries, but You may feel like someone’s trying to pin you down before you start, Things should be running smoothly for you, Gemini, and you’ll nothing will come without hard work on your part. Don’t expect Taurus. Perhaps these obstacles are self-imposed. Maybe you’re accomplish a lot with surprisingly little eff ort. Although there may someone else to hand you the treasure chest. You have the map in restricting yourself from doing the things you want to do because not be any Earth-shattering developments, you should find that your hand, so follow it. Once you start, you may realise that you’re you’re afraid they won’t work out. This fear of failure is the pain you things go well. Maybe you won’t win the lottery today, but the few much closer than you think. It’s up to you to make the journey. feel. Overcoming it is the first step. If you try and fail, you’ll be no dollars you invest now will turn into megabucks later. Be patient. There’s a great deal of help for you along the way. worse off than if you never try at all. Success may not come overnight, but it will come. CANCER LEO VIRGO June 21 — July 22 July 23 — August 22 August 23 — September 22

You may feel like you’re being tested in some way, Cancer, like you’re Your vitality is low. It may be diff icult to fight adversity, Leo. Try not You may find it hard to admit that you can’t do everything, Virgo. on trial and must defend yourself, including what you believe and to get discouraged. Instead, realise that this is part of the natural There are some jobs that you aren’t cut out to do. Why pretend when how you operate. This feeling is unsettling, but soon you’ll realise cycle. Awareness of your energy patterns is half the battle. Don’t a better option would be to delegate the task to someone else? If that it’s strengthening in many ways. Questioning your behaviour force yourself into feeling something you don’t. It’s important that you don’t feel a strong connection with something or someone, patterns is healthy, so open up in a way that you may not have you not overexert yourself or take on more responsibilities than you don’t force it. Pretending that you’re capable of something will only considered before. can handle. cause frustration for you and everyone else. LIBRA SCORPIO SAGITTARIUS September 23 — October 22 October 23 — November 21 November 22 — December 21

Your hard work is paying off in ways that may not be noticeable to You may feel like it’s your responsibility to take care of everyone, There are opportunities for achievement, so stay open to new energy you now, Libra. Things are flowing naturally, and you seem to have Scorpio. If you love someone, your brain translates this into thinking coming your way, Sagittarius. If you don’t turn at these fortuitous all your responsibilities under control. You may not be aware that that you need to be the caretaker. If you don’t take someone under junctions, you may never find this spot in the road again. What comes this is so since it’s easier to see when something’s wrong than when your wing, maybe you see yourself as selfish or unkind. Dismiss this your way may not be a pot of gold, but it will certainly be the rainbow something’s going well. Take time to appreciate the incredible things notion. Other people’s feelings aren’t your responsibility. Don’t let that leads you to it. If nothing else, you’ll find opportunities that you’ve created for yourself thanks to all your eff ort. another’s well-being become your project. strengthen your spirit, preparing you for adversity later. CAPRICORN AQUARIUS PISCES December 22 — January 19 January 20 — February 18 February 19 — March 20

You may find it hard to relate to others verbally, Capricorn. You may You may be coming to a point of reckoning in something you set Your thoughts may be scattered and confused, Pisces, especially have everything figured out in your head, but the words get in the into motion years ago, Aquarius. This is a time of hard work when regarding responsibilities that are important to you. You need to be way as soon as you share your ideas. Talking with someone else may you may need to either salvage the mess you’ve created or start disciplined and focused, but frivolous chatter may fill your brain. add confusion instead of clarity to the situation. The other person’s reaping the wonderful rewards of the success you’ve become. Your This kind of mental muddle limits you in many situations, making it energy seems to aff ect your perceptions. Stay grounded despite ego is wrapped up in this scenario. You may be frustrated by people diff icult to express what you feel. Ask someone who knows you well your frustration. wasting your time with problems that seem insignificant. to help you make sense out of these thoughts. 12 GULF TIMES Tuesday, September 3, 2019 COMMUNITY CARTOONS/PUZZLES

Wordsearch Adam

Pooch Cafe

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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. Tuesday, September 3, 2019 GULF TIMES 13 PUZZLES COMMUNITY

Super Cryptic Clues Colouring

Across Down 1 Once more making a profit (5) 1 What’s left after burning 4 Jump when surprised in trees? (5) launch? (5) 2 Great boxer associated 7 Presiding officer taking flier with graduates — or one behind church (8) associated with thieves (3,4) 8 A country one has entered 3 Mean to turn handle (4) before (4) 4 Sea dog in abandoned US 9 Winter transport, we hear, for naval base (3,5) butcher (4) 5 A male representative (5) 10 Error discovered by end of 6 Old jailer from country term, I wager (7) imprisoning knight (7) 12 Playing Lydia, Glenda is a 11 Bell sounds for fight (4-4) star (7,4) 12 Mail for landlords? (7) 14 Rum making saint wander 13 Word play that may make (7) grandee enraged (7) 16 Serenity, in classical 15 Modify some contractual mythology (4) terms (5) 19 Fabric that may be touched 17 Pals running out of steam? (4) (5) 20 Stubborn old boy expected 18 A mother? He didn’t have to hold rodent (8) one! (4) 21 Shoot small beast crossing river (5) 22 Complaint from mothers about parking (5) Answers

Solution Wordsearch Codeword 14 GULF TIMES Tuesday, September 3, 2019 COMMUNITY POP SPOT Frank, a singing history book

rank Turner has been “She was an apothecary. In those indiscretions in 2005 at around the described as a singing days, about 300 years ago, someone time that Million Dead, the post- history book. But not who dealt with substances aff ecting hardcore punk band he had joined for him are the tales of the body was in danger of being four years earlier, were breaking up. battles or individual accused of witchcraft. But she was This, combined with receiving a gift heroics.F Instead, Frank concentrates also kind to those who had fallen of Bruce Springsteen’s Nebraska on mostly lesser known people on hard times. Jinny’s ghost is said album, led to a change in his whose lives have provided him with to haunt ‘The Underworld,’ the musical style. interesting stories to tell. music venue in the basement at The “I basically only knew him from The fact that every subject World’s End.” Born in the USA. But listening to featured in the songs on his UK Frank refers to the Camden Town Nebraska left me with a completely smash hit eighth studio album, No area of London as his spiritual diff erent impression of Springsteen. Man’s Land, happens to be female is home. I’d never heard him sound like that purely a coincidence. “It’s my favourite place on Earth. and sing like that. I realised this was “I certainly didn’t set out to write I fi rst visited there when I was 14. I the kind of thing I wanted to do in an entire album of songs about felt like I’d come home for the fi rst my own career. I felt like I didn’t women,” remarked 37-year-old time in my life because I’d always need to be a punk rock rebel. I Frank. “I just wanted to create songs felt I was socially ostracised. It’s a wanted to become an entertainer.” which told stories, the traditional place for people who don’t fi t.” Frank’s transition to folk- approach of folk music. He had essentially been a social rock solo artiste did not bring “I was toying with various stories misfi t since birth. His father was a immediate rewards. His debut which I thought were interesting wealthy investment banker. Born album, 2007’s Sleep Is For The and realised the subjects were in Bahrain where his father was Week, struggled to number 200 on all women. I really wanted to working at the time, Frank was the UK chart. share these stories. After a time, I raised in a manor house set among But the benefi ts of an extensive thought the whole album should rolling hills at Meonstoke, not touring schedule saw 2008’s Love, be about women. It seemed pretty far from Winchester. After prep Ire & Song peak at number 72. pointless to include a song or two school, he was educated at Eton. Poetry of the Deed reached number about men just for the sake of Prince William was a fellow pupil. 36 in 2009 while 2011’s England something diff erent.” But Frank was not interested in the Keep My Bones established Frank as Very few of the women will be opportunities aff orded to him by a chart star. The album hit number known to the general public. Those this privileged background. 12 in Britain and was his fi rst to fi nd old enough to remember the Space “I was rebelling against international chart success. Shuttle Challenger disaster will everything. I thought William was Since then, Tape Deck Heart, know Christa McAuliff e while rather dull and most of the other Positive Songs For Negative People, the dancer Mata Hari, shot by students were pathetic. I formed a Be More Kind and now No Man’s the French allegedly for spying punk band, Kneejerk, and we were Land have all gone top three on the during World War I, has achieved a booed off stage when we played UK chart. signifi cant level of notoriety. at the school assembly. I shouted Frank is so determined to fully But how many people will ever and spat all over the front row. We tell the stories of the women have heard of women such as Jinny wanted them to hate us, which they featured on No Man’s Land that he Bingham, the suspected Camden did, so it worked. has even created a series of half- Town witch, Nannie Doss, the serial “Getting into punk rock was my hour podcasts to accompany each killer, or Rosemary Jane, Frank’s way of putting two fi ngers up to song. They can be accessed from mother. Eton, the establishment and the a link at (no www.) frank-turner. “Jinny Bingham was the starting posh, pillar-of-society, do-the- com/podcast/ UNCOMMON: Frank Turner concentrates on mostly lesser known people point for my album. There is a right-thing world my parents “I think it’s important that whose lives have provided him with interesting stories to tell. plaque in the doorway at The represented. these stories should be told. I even World’s End club in Camden Town “I later discovered my father was have historians on the podcasts to other artistes take these stories and “We released a self-titled which tells Jinny’s story. I’ve often not the model of conscientiousness, confi rm the accuracy. tell them in a better way then I’ll album in 2014 but we don’t play read it while waiting for people I’d traditional family man he always “Some people have criticised shout about it with great joy. In the together very often. We did four arranged to meet there. claimed to be. I’d been rebelling me for making the album because meantime, I’ll just do the best that shows in 2018 and these were our “Her parents were both hanged against everything he supposedly I’m a man. But it’s not as if female I can.” fi rst performances for three and for witchcraft. Her husband was stood for. This gave me the freedom artistes were telling the stories of Successful as Frank may be in his a half years. It’s a fun project, executed for sheep stealing. She and security to be who I was. But these women. solo work, the punk rocker still lies very diff erent from my solo stuff . supposedly had a string of lovers learning of his infi delity made me “I accept my eff orts might within him. In 2012, Frank and two If anyone wants to see us, we’re who met untimely deaths – re-evaluate everything in my own sometimes be a little clumsy or I other former members of Million playing fi ve shows across North anything from poisoning to being life.” might get something wrong. But Dead formed the hardcore punk trio America in December. I know we’re burnt in the oven. Frank learned of his father’s I welcome any correction and if Mongol Horde. going to have a great time.”

their eff orts will one day see and will certainly happen one day. My Story Both Humble and True. Oasis reunite, the chances of Four singles have so far been this happening must be rated Liam Gallagher released from Liam’s new album. in brief somewhere between slim and Only the lead single, Shockwave, none. Liam continually voices his Oasis may never perform which reached number 22 in desire for Oasis to re-form but the together again but Liam Gallagher Britain, has breached the top intervening years have seen no is moving on with his own career. 40. The off icial video for his Oasis / Foo Fighters since yet another confrontational softening in his relationship with His second solo album, Why Me? latest single, One of Us, can argument between the warring Noel. The brothers regularly trade Why Not, is scheduled for release be seen at www.youtube.com/ American rockers Foo Fighters Gallagher brothers led to Noel insults during interviews or on on September 20. watch?v=V3mhhT3c7oY used the occasion of their headline walking out of the band minutes social media. The album title directly relates to The song and video clearly refer appearance at the Reading Music before a scheduled concert in Paris. The best Oasis fans might hope a pair of drawings by John Lennon to Liam and his older brothers, Festival to urge fans to sign a In a statement issued at the time, for is a stage musical based on the which Liam owns. Why Me? was Noel and Paul Gallagher. It also petition to get Oasis back together. Noel said; “It is with some sadness band’s rise to fame. Noel recently bought from an exhibition of John’s references the 10th anniversary The band told the crowd they were and great relief that I quit Oasis revealed he has been approached art at a gallery in Munich in 1997. of Oasis splitting up. Indeed, the trying everything they could to tonight. People will write and say by a number of producers over the Why Not was given to Liam as a gift video was released 10 years to the reunite Noel and Liam Gallagher in what they like, but I simply could years who wanted to create a stage by John’s widow, Yoko Ono. The day. Despite all the insults, the song the hope that they would re-form not go on working with Liam a day show. Nothing has come to pass pictures were created by John in obviously suggests Liam would Oasis. longer.” as yet but Noel says he believes an 1978 and originally formed part of a like to have a far better relationship It is now just over 10 years Despite Foo Fighters insisting Oasis musical is almost inevitable series of 12 drawings called This is with Noel. Tuesday, September 3, 2019 GULF TIMES 15 SHOWBIZ COMMUNITY Even star kids proved their worth to rule: Nushrat

By Arundhuti Banerjee

ollywood buff s are being introduced to new CANDID: Tabu says she has no aspirations but wants to enjoy what star kids every year and the conversation she is doing. on nepotism never seems to end. Actress Nushrat Bharucha, an outsider who has made A fi lm off er must be exciting to it big without banking on a fi lmi bloodline, be aspirational for me: Tabu Bhowever, defends the star kid brigade saying even star kids have had to prove their worth with acting skills and Veteran actress Tabu says she has no aspirations but wants to commercial value to get to the top of the entertainment enjoy what she is doing. business. “I don’t have a plan. I don’t have such an aspiration but I want “Even star kids have had to prove their worth to to be able to enjoy what I am doing. It should excite me. When a be at the top of the game. Star kids might get great fi lm comes to me it’s not the genre or what I am doing but it should launch-pads, but all of them have proved their worth excite me, engage me. Then it becomes aspirational for me,” Tabu commerciality and creatively,” said Nushrat, who will said. soon to be seen in the fi lm Dream Girl. The 47-year-old actress will next be seen in Jawaani Jaaneman, “We are in the business of entertainment where we a comedy co-starring Saif Ali Khan. The fi lm also marks the debut have to make sure that we are either highly skilled with of actress Pooja Bedi’s daughter, Alaia F. Directed by Nitin Kakkar, our acting, or we build such a connection with the the fi lm is a coming-of-age story of a father and a daughter, and audience that it can add commercial value to a fi lm. That co-produced by Saif, Jackky Bhagnani and Jay Shewakramani. is why, though I am an outsider, I never felt victimised,” Tabu fi rst faced the camera in Sagar Sarhadi’s 1982 fi lm, Bazaar, she added. but was noticed when she played Dev Anand’s schoolgoing Over the past couple of years star kids such as Sara Ali daughter in Hum Naujawan. The actress made her Bollywood Khan, Janhvi Kapoor, Ishaan Khatter, Ananya Pandey, debut as a full-fl edged heroine opposite Rishi Kapoor in the 1994 Meezan, Sharmin Sehgal, Pranutan and Abhimanyu Pehla Pehla Pyaar. – IANS Dassani being launched, and soon Karan Deol, son of UNDETERRED: Nushrat Bharucha says she has never felt Sunny Deol, will make his debut. victimised despite being an outsider. Nushrat cites examples of Alia Bhatt and Varun Dhawan to explain how these young actors, despite a dialogue that said, ‘main heroine nahin, villain hoon’. belonging to illustrious Bollywood clans, are successful But in the end the audience liked my character because in their own right after proving their worth commercially through my performance I did not play it black. It was and creatively. grey.” After her performance in Pyaar Ka Punchnama (2011) In her upcoming fi lm Dream Girl, the actress plays the brought praise and popularity, she was seen in fi lms like love interest of the male protagonist. Akaash Vani, Darr @ The Mall, Meeruthiya Gangsters. She continued: “I take up such challenges as an actress “None of these fi lms worked at the box offi ce. Then and make it real. It was a challenge for me to play a part Pyaar Ka Punchnama 2 and Sonu Ke Titu Ki Sweety in a fi lm like Dream Girl because the central character in released, and both worked for me. In between, I got a the fi lm is of Lokesh played by Ayushmann. People will lot of character role off ers but I was sure I only wanted come to the theatre to watch his story. My challenge is, to play the female lead. Instead of blaming the situation in the end, when they leave the theatre, they should go on why people are not writing roles for me, I grabbed back with my performance also in mind – like the way the opportunity to prove the fact that even if I have fi ve people couldn’t forget MC Sher in Gully Boy although the scenes, I will nail them with my performance,” said fi lm was about on Ranveer (Singh) and Alia (Bhatt),” she Nushrat. shared. She also believes that it is in the hands of the Directed by Raaj Shaandilyaa, Dream Girl also features performer to treat a character in a certain way. Annu Kapoor, Vijay Raaz and Manjot Singh among Recalling her popular character Sweety Sharma in others. The fi lm is scheduled to release on September IMPERFECT: Elisabeth Moss feels women in real life are not perfect Sonu Ke Titu Ki Sweety, Nushrat said: “In the fi lm, I had 13. – IANS and don’t come with special powers.

Real women neither special nor perfect: Moss This Is Us a privilege for a fourth season soon. The third of my career: Moore season ended with Rebecca seen as a The Handmaid’s Tale star Elisabeth Moss feels women in real frail and bedridden old woman. life are not perfect and don’t come with special powers, and that’s Actress-singer Mandy Moore says “It was the last thing we shot what she likes to represent through her work. working on the popular TV show for this season and walking on set, In an interview to The Times, Moss said she wants her characters This Is Us has been a highlight of her people kind of avoided my gaze, to end up being heroines and representing feminism, reports career. avoided eye contact. I understood independent.co.uk In an interview for the September – it was jarring to look in the mirror “I always try to make my characters end up being heroines edition of Vera magazine, Moore has for me, too. There’s something and representing feminism. I try to make them real, whether it’s opened up about playing the role of really humbling about being in that representing a woman in the workplace or a mother. They’re just Rebecca Pearson, reports dailymail. moment, but also utterly heart- like you and me – not special, not perfect. Nobody is 100 per co.uk breaking. I won’t say it’s the fi nal cent good all of the time,” said the actress, known for her role as “It’s been the privilege of my moments of her life, but the end is Peggy in Mad Men and a woman enslaved for her womb in The career thus far, portraying this defi nitely near and that’s hard, for Handmaid’s Tale. woman and every diff erent iteration the audience and the actor,” she said. “We don’t have special powers. We’re women and we’re human. of her life and all of the challenges HIGHLIGHT: Mandy Moore plays the In the series, Moore is seen But real women who are not perfect can fi nd their strength, that she faces. She’s a completely role of Rebecca Pearson in This Is Us. with Milo Ventimiglia who plays whether that’s getting out of a bad relationship, telling your boss tough,” Moore said. her husband Jack and their three you want a pay rise or marching on the capital in a red costume,” Rebecca is the matriarch of present in the lives of the extended children are played as adults by added the actress. – IANS Pearson family in the series that goes Pearson family. The show, aired in Chrissy Metz, Justin Hartley, and back and forth between past and India on Star World, will be back Sterling K. Brown. – IANS 16 GULF TIMES Tuesday, September 3, 2019 COMMUNITY QPO opens year of novelty, excitement with orchestral concert on September 7

MAESTROS: Aziz Shokhakimov, left, will conduct the concert and Hans H. Suh will play piano with the orchestra during the first concert ‘Dvoák symphony no. 8’.

atar Philharmonic Orchestra Music has the power to heal. It helped (QPO) is all set to initiate its cure the Russian composer Sergei 2019-20 season called ‘The Rachmaninoff from a creative crisis in 1901, QPO’s Season of Visibility’ when he composed the Concerto No. 2 in C from next week with the Minor for Piano & Orchestra Op. 18. Today, Qopening concert taking place it stands as one of the most popular and on September 7. demanding piano concertos of the romantic “The Qatar Philharmonic welcomes all era, with melodies so striking that pop stars to the opening night of the new concert like Frank Sinatra and Celine Dion were season. It marks the start of the 12th year moved to incorporate them into their own since the orchestra’s inauguration in 2007 work. and brings with it a mature musical family. During the concert, they will sound With it also comes a promise: a year of through the interpretation of Hans H. novelty, excitement and enrichment for the Suh, the Korean virtuoso and laureate most important part of any orchestra, the of the prestigious Queen Elizabeth Intl. concert-goers,” noted a statement from Competition. QPO. Suh has performed as a soloist in many “We have a great deal planned for you in of the world’s distinguished venues, such all the regular ways; and in some irregular as Avery Fisher Hall (renamed David Geffen ones, too. The season of concerts is Hall) and Alice Tully Hall at the Lincoln innovative and broad, a continuance of our Center, Carnegie Hall, Merkin Hall at the commitment to bridge Arabic and Western Kaufman Center, Hitachi Systems Hall music; but we are reaching out still further Sendai, and the Concert Hall of Seoul Arts this year. It will be up to the music lovers Center. to keep an eye peeled – and perhaps it will Born in Seoul, Korea on May 22, 1990, fall on some familiar faces where you do not Hans began playing piano at age four, and expect them. We feel that Qatar is a place started composing at age five. At age seven, ripe for music, and that we are here to make he won first prize in The Korea Times it sound. Music Competition, and also held his first “There is something in it for those of who piano solo recital. Kurt Meister, Executive Director, QPO. Nasser Sahim, Deputy Executive Director, QPO. are with children here in Doha, too – look The evening will continue under toward their schools. It may so happen that the guidance of the exceptionally you will see the QPO there, integrating talented conductor Aziz Shokhakimov The Qatar Philharmonic welcomes all to the music with education this school year; of Uzbekistan, with Antonín Dvoák’s for we have decided that it is time to look optimistic Symphony No. 8 in G Major, Op. opening night of the new concert season. towards the important things in life.” 88; the pastoral character of which was The first concert ‘Dvoák symphony no. 8’ inspired by the folk music of this famous It marks the start of the 12th year since the will be held at Qatar National Convention Czech composer’s homeland. Centre (QNCC) Auditorium 3 on September Aziz was born in Tashkent in 1988 and orchestra’s inauguration in 2007 and brings 7 at 7:30pm. began studying at the Uspensky Music Aziz Shokhakimov will conduct the School for musically gifted children at the with it a mature musical family concert and Hans H. Suh will play piano age of six. He first studied the violin and with the orchestra. the viola, followed by conducting with one of the first to achieve worldwide of Moravia and his native Bohemia. The programme includes performances Vladimir Neymer. recognition. Dvoák’s own style has been described as of Sergei Rachmaninoff’s Concerto No.2 In addition to his concert schedule, Aziz Following the Romantic-era nationalist “the fullest recreation of a national idiom in C minor for Piano and Orchestra, op. 18 is an active opera conductor. example of his predecessor Bedich with that of the symphonic tradition, and Antonín Dvoák’s Symphony No.8 in G Antonín Leopold Dvoák (September 8, Smetana, Dvoák frequently employed absorbing folk influences and finding major, op. 88. 1841 – May 1, 1904) was a Czech composer, rhythms and other aspects of the folk music effective ways of using them”.