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The Expanse from Mars (MCRN Federation). As news of the attack USEFUL NUMBERS DIRECTION: Mark Fergus, Hawk Ostby spreads throughout the system, the incident’s flow-on CAST: Steven Strait, Cas Anvar, Dominique Tipper threatens to destabilise already tenuous relations between SYNOPSIS: Two hundred years in the future, in a fully Earth, Mars and The Belt. Far away from the struggles colonised solar system, police detective Josephus Miller in deep space, on Earth, Chrisjen Avasarala (Shohreh (Thomas Jane), who was born in the asteroid belt, is given Aghdashloo), a powerful United Nations executive and the assignment to find a missing young woman; Julie diplomat, works to prevent war between Earth and Mars Mao (Florence Faivre). Meanwhile, James Holden (Steven by any means. Soon, the 3 find out the missing woman and Emergency 999 Strait), the first officer of an ice freighter, is witness to an the ice freighter’s fate are part of a vast covert conspiracy Worldwide Emergency Number 112 unprovoked attack upon the ship, by craft believed to be which threatens all humanity. Kahramaa – Electricity and Water 991 Local Directory 180 International Calls Enquires 150 Hamad International Airport 40106666 Labor Department 44508111, 44406537 Mowasalat Taxi 44588888 Qatar Airways 44496000 Hamad Medical Corporation 44392222, 44393333 Qatar General Electricity and Water Corporation 44845555, 44845464 Primary Health Care Corporation 44593333 44593363 Qatar Assistive Technology Centre 44594050 Qatar News Agency 44450205 44450333 Q-Post – General Postal Corporation 44464444

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Community Editor Kamran Rehmat Goliath (Patty) approaches him to represent her in a wrongful death case. e-mail: [email protected] DIRECTION: David E. Kelley, Jonathan Shapiro After reluctantly accepting to take on the case, a series of strange Telephone: 44466405 CAST: Billy Bob Thornton, Tania Raymonde, Nina Arianda events befall Billy. Through death threats, harassment, and Fax: 44350474 SYNOPSIS: Billy Mcbride is going through a rough patch. He trumped up arrests, Billy embarks on obtaining justice, and it is has been fired from the law firm he helped build, his wife has left one hell of a ride. Additional unique cases eventually come Billy him, and he’s now a down on his luck ambulance chaser. A lady and Patty’s way, making the ride even more entertaining. Wednesday, April 22, 2020 GULF TIMES 3 BODY & MIND COMMUNITY Keeping sane in the time of insanity and boredom

While first responders and medical professionals get plenty of well-deserved kudos for the work they’re doing, parents deserve some recognition, writes Armin Brott

uestion: I’m a single ask them to tell you things you father and I’m going might not already know about crazy. Like almost them. everyone else in the US, my kids – 9 and Get outside: Q14 – and I are under lockdown. Yes, you’re already doing We’ve binge watched every family- plenty of dog walks, but instead friendly show, streamed every of focusing on finding trash cans superhero movie, done indoor where you can toss those full camping and treasure hunts, dog-poop bags, look for strange- and we’re taking our dog out for looking plants, unique animals walks five times a day. I’m doing (even roadkill), out-of-state license everything I can to keep them busy, plates, and more. entertained, and off their electronic devices, but I’ve completely run out Go someplace new (online): of ideas. What can I do to retain my Dozens of museums around the sanity? world have posted virtual tours of Answer: These are definitely their galleries. And many cities challenging times, and while have virtual tours of famous and first responders and medical not-so-famous landmarks. This professionals get plenty of well- is a great time to put together a deserved kudos for the work they’re post-lockdown wish list of places doing, parents deserve some to visit. recognition as well. Here are a few ideas I think you and your kids will Story time: enjoy: Your kids are getting to the age when they think they’re too old Spend time in the kitchen: for bedtime stories. But reading We all have to eat, right? So why out loud is a wonderful, calming, not make it a group activity. Try bonding activity that doesn’t have new foods or new twists on old EXPERIMENT: Try new foods or new twists on old favourites. And this is the perfect time to connect with friends and to be limited to bedtime. If you favourites. And this is the perfect family and create your very own Covid cookbook. don’t feel like reading, make up time to connect with friends and a story of your own. One person family and create your very own starts with the first few sentences, Covid cookbook. then each person adds a few more sentences, going in whatever Play games: direction they want. You’ll be I’m a big fan of puzzles, escape- amazed at how creative you can be. room-type games (there are tons of options available), and classics Bend the rules: like Monopoly. And a good, old- There’s no question that, in fashioned deck of cards offers general, kids (and adults) spend nearly unlimited possibilities. too much time on our phones, Whatever you do, be sure that you computers, and other devices. And rotate between a game one of the I applaud you for your efforts to kids picks, one you pick, and one keep your kids from getting sucked that’s news to all of you. into the whirlpool of games. But in moderation, there’s a place for Learn something: electronics. Since most schools around the country are shut down for the rest Give up on the idea that you of the academic year, your kids need to, as you put it, “keep probably have class meetings, them busy and entertained”: school projects, and homework. All of us (including our pets) need But there’s no reason why you can’t down time. You need time (kid-free add in some additional learning – and pet-free) to yourself to keep as long as it’s fun. Whatever the from burning out. And your kids subject, I guarantee you’ll find need time to themselves as well, if plenty of educational resources for no other reason than to think. online. Some of that time can be spent reading, some video chatting with Talk and listen: friends, some doing homework, and Tell the kids things they don’t some, yes, mindlessly playing on know about your life, your parents, SHARING STORIES: Tell the kids things they don’t know about your life, your parents, where and how you grew up. their devices. where and how you grew up. And And ask them to tell you things you might not already know about them. – TNS 4 GULF TIMES Wednesday, April 22, 2020 COMMUNITY COVER STORY Corona’s community assault Among those lost are prominent black pastors, performers, and practitioners who lived through struggles for civil and cultural rights in their communities, writes Kenya Evelyn

Ronald Lewis at his museum, the House of Dance & Feathers, in New Orleans, Louisiana.

oronavirus has claimed more than 42,000 lives in the US as of Wednesday — especially those of older Americans, who represent 91% of all Covid-19 deaths. Within that vulnerable population, older Cblack people are more likely to die of the virus than their white counterparts. And among those lost are prominent black pastors, performers, and practitioners who lived through struggles for civil and cultural rights in their communities. “Many of them are the last flag bearers of an era long ago,” said Brian Turner, an associate professor of psychology and director of African American Diaspora Studies at Xavier University, a historically black university in New Orleans. “The collective trauma our communities are experiencing risks the lifelines of our cultural anchors and folklores shared through oral traditions.” The map of where these elders live is a story within itself. African Americans face a higher risk of exposure to the virus, mostly on account of concentrating in urban areas and working in essential industries. In the Midwest and north-east, racial inequities in labour and population Lila Fenwick speaks to attendees of a Harvard Law summit in 2003. density threaten lives. Wednesday, April 22, 2020 GULF TIMES 5 COVER STORY COMMUNITY

Theodore Gaffney, went on to become one of the first African Americans photographers inside the Gil Bailey, the ‘Godfather of Caribbean radio’ built his own radio platform and inspired many White House and for the Washington Post. young immigrants in New York City.

Meanwhile, the south rights activists who, beginning at it even though the economics say Lila Fenwick, 87 the globe”. presents the “perfect storm of in 1961, rode interstate buses we ain’t supposed to be,” Ronald Manhattan, New York characteristics to just be a tragic throughout the south to protest Lewis once said. Lila Fenwick is most known Gil Bailey, 84 region in terms of the Covid segregation. As founder of the House of for being the first black female Queens, New York outbreak,” said Thomas LaVeist, After Klansmen and white mobs Dance & Feathers in 2003, Lewis graduate of Harvard Law School Bailey was born in Jamaica and dean of public health and tropical attacked the activists debarking provided a community centre in 1956, a year before US Supreme moved to the US in the 1960s medicine at Tulane University. a Greyhound bus in Alabama, that celebrated African American Court justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg and quickly became a prominent Poverty and inadequate healthcare Gaffney’s photo of the bus in flames and Creole culture, an important began her studies. voice in local radio and Caribbean mean higher rates of diabetes, made national papers across the cause as the city saw rampant But, as she recalled to Harvard American affairs. “In our history, hypertension and heart disease. country. gentrification after Hurricane Law alumni, “It never occurred to the Jamaican population had one “So many black folks struggle According to his wife, Gaffney Katrina. [her] that there were going to be any person on the radio waves, it was with inequities that contribute to died on Easter Sunday at the age of “He spoke up for us all,” his obstacles.” this man. We’ve come a long way, premature death rates,” said Daniel 92 in his native Washington, DC. neighbour, Jimmy Lewis, told the “I knew I was going to be a lawyer and he led the way,” artist Nadine Dawes, professor of health law and He tested positive for the virus on Guardian. “He was full of love and when I was a little girl,” she said. Sutherland wrote in tribute. policy at the Morehouse School of 12 April. concern.” Fenwick spent much of her “We are losing the pillars that Medicine. “Many are not even able “We’ve lost a tremendous As a lifelong resident of the adult life working as a specialist built our legacies throughout this to die in dignity.” wealth of knowledge who actually Lower Ninth ward, Ronald Lewis’s on gender, racial and religious country,” Sutherland told the “We’re losing an incredible brain lived many of the things we are home was also one of the first to be discrimination at the United Guardian. “That’s what matters trust with these generations and documenting,” Matthews said. rebuilt after Hurricane Katrina. But Nations until she retired in 1974 — most.” that will impact an entire country, though he weathered nearly every when the UN’s headquarters were not just the black community,” Ronald Lewis, 68 storm, the coronavirus proved relocated to Geneva. Eugene Kane, 63 Dawes said. New Orleans, Louisiana an entirely different beast for the She died at the age of 87 in her Milwaukee, Wisconsin The Guardian presents the stories New Orleans Mayor LaToya 68year old with diabetes. Manhattan home on 4 April. Decades before race and identity of five black Americans who died of Cantrell called Lewis “the very Social distancing made In a tribute blog post, Harvard where designated beats for news the coronavirus, the impact on their definition of a culture bearer”. a proper sendoff of Lewis University remembered Fenwick outlets, Eugene Kane often called families, and unique communities. “I want to educate the world impossible, but the community as “an extraordinary leader who out Milwaukee’s long history of about our great culture, how we do will come together again to devoted her career” to protecting struggle with civil rights and race Theodore Gaffney, 92 this, and why we are so successful celebrate a cultural icon. “human rights of all people across relations. Washington, District of And he didn’t hold back. “I’m not Columbia doing this to make white people feel Theodore Gaffney’s presence in better,” he once said. the civil rights movement remains Born in Philadelphia, Kane called one of the most recognisable — Milwaukee home for most of his even though he was always behind adult life, covering the city before the scenes. Gaffney captured much launching his own award-winning of the historic events of the era as a column, Raising Kane. photographer. “He wrote to make people Descended from former slaves uncomfortable, to be provocative in South Carolina, Gaffney went and start conversation,” artist on to become one of the first Andre Lee Ellis, a close friend of African Americans photographers reporter Eugene Kane, recalled over inside the White House and for the the phone. Washington Post. The longtime reporter and “He provided proof that black columnist for the Milwaukee people are being assaulted at these Journal Sentinel was found dead protests,” said Lopez Matthews, a in his apartment on Thursday. librarian at Howard University’s City officials praised the Moorland Spingarn Museum, former journalist for inspiring a where Gaffney was a longtime generation of young, black media contributor. professionals — including this “His work was important in Guardian reporter. portraying an experience only “He spoke for a community who African Americans were believing wanted the world to know we don’t at the time,” he added. have to ask for permission to be Gaffney documented the black,” Ellis said. — The Guardian infamous Freedom Riders, civil Eugene Kane, former columnist for the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel. 6 GULF TIMES Wednesday, April 22, 2020 COMMUNITY GARDENING Double Play Candy Corn Spirea: what a beauty

There are not many plants we write about that the foliage takes your breath away before knock out flowers appear, opines Norman Winter

TEXTURE: Double Play Candy Corn Spirea and Soft Caress Mahonia create a show of leaf texture.

he winter was such that that it wasn’t really a shrub or plant As I mentioned Double Play Candy The Garden Guy’s house for the South and the extreme heat Corn is known botanically as Spirea has some of the most and humidity; after all it is a Spiraea japonica or Japanese spirea and is beautiful flowers ever japonica. If you allow me to chase a cold hardy from zones 4-8. You may for mid-April. There rabbit, why is it spirea as a common have even grown other varieties Tare echinacea, coreopsis, dianthus, name and spiraea as a scientific like Gold Flame, Gold Mound and and salvias galore. The first plant name? Ugh, I digress. Anthony Waterer. Moist fertile loam you would walk to however has no So, we as horticulturists with the is recommended in the landscape. It blooms yet; it is a shrub that for all power of science behind us were becomes quickly apparent that the appearances seems like “the burning thinking negatively about the plant premium blends of potting soil used bush.” as we were falling in love with it in in mixed containers are also just right Your eyes become fixated on the secret. Unbeknownst to most of us, to maintain its stunning presence. glow of golden leaves and flaming large nurseries in the Deep South Candy Corn is recommended for red tips. It is the Double Play Candy were growing it as fast as they could full sun, though in the hottest parts Corn Spirea. The name is certainly produce it. of zone 8 or 9, I would probably appropriate but, wow is it a beauty. Face it, Double Play Candy Corn go toward a morning sun and As a horticulturist and garden writer, Spirea is as an alluring of a plant in afternoon shade. You’ll find this there are not many plants we write the nursery as it gets. You will want one to be more compact reaching about that the foliage takes your one and probably decide on at least 18 to 24 inches with a mound habit, breath away before knock out flowers three. I want more. I want it for the though you’ll find them great appear. flaming foliage. If I get the knock out as a border accent plant or even I wrote about Double Play Candy purple-red blooms great too! The grown as a small hedge and, yes, Corn Spirea in 2018 as my son James Proven winners tag says it all; the containers too. was using it as a pansy partner. This foliage color is orange, red, yellow I am growing mine in close may say it all when you consider he and pineapple yellow in more shade. proximity to Rockin Blue Suede was using a deciduous shrub as a The flower color is a shade of purple. Shoes salvia, which is a marriage of pansy pal. To be honest I don’t think The plants bloom on new wood indescribable beauty and contrast. we as horticulturists and gardeners so cutting back late winter is always I also have it paired with blue have begun to see the possibilities a good thing. I did that and first agastache. This is the plant of your that this relatively new shrub from thing I noticed in early March was dreams for design in the garden. Proven Winners offers us in the what looked like fire coming from The Double Play series has landscape or in large containers. Even the ground. Deadheading or a light several choices, Double Play Red, to say spirea and containers in the shearing after bloom will often Double Play Gold, Double Play Big same reference is a little unnerving. stimulate another round of blooms, Bang and others, but I assure you COMBINATION: Double Play Candy Corn spireas creates a stunning Though we have been loving it for which by the way be bringing in the Candy Corn will be on your combination with lemon sedum and Rockin Blue Suede Shoes salviain a well over a year, we were still thinking butterflies. must-have list. – TNS mixed container. Wednesday, April 22, 2020 GULF TIMES 7 BOOK REVIEWS COMMUNITY Running out of books yet? We’ve got you covered, with 6 new paperbacks

just a border novel or a novel about By Moira Macdonald immigration writ large, it becomes more than that,” wrote a New York Times reviewer, who praised the unning out of books yet? book’s humanity. “It’s a novel about the necessity of gardens, and the Is such a thing possible? the great lengths humans will go to Scotland noir for years, ever since both a twisty mystery and a moving majesty of the ginkgo,” wrote a Kirkus As we continue staying at in order to be seen, to be touched, to I heard her speak (she’s wickedly examination of what happens to reviewer, concluding, “Balanced and home, do remember that be loved.” funny) at the Vancouver Writers a family and a community when insightful, this valedictory collection a) new paperbacks are Festival. Though she’s got two two members vanish. And it offers a fine coda to a remarkable life stillR coming out, every week, and b) Circe by Madeline Miller: ongoing series worth a look – demonstrates, as the NPR reviewer and career.” your neighbourhood indie bookstore, Miller – whose 2011 debut novel featuring police detective Alex wrote, that “one woman can write a even though its doors are closed, The Song of Achilles reimagined Morrow and investigative journalist novel about a country not her own American Spy by Lauren would probably be delighted to order The Iliad – here takes on the life Paddy Meehan – this one is a stand- that comes closer in spirit to great Wilkinson: said paperbacks for you. (Check your story of the goddess Circe, from alone, and it’s one wild ride: An American literature than most of the Wilkinson’s well-received debut local bookstore’s website and see if Homer’s Odyssey; the result became Edinburgh homemaker obsessed fiction set within US borders.” is that rarity: a spy novel with a they’re shipping or otherwise still an acclaimed national bestseller. with true-crime podcasts suddenly Black woman at its centre. Set in the selling; they likely are!) Stay well, “Although she writes in prose, listens to one with a connection to Everything in Its Place: First 1990s, its heroine is Marie Mitchell, friends, and keep reading. A few Miller hews to the poetic timber of her own life. Read the first few pages; Loves and Last Tales by Oliver a veteran of the FBI who’s recruited options: the epic, with a rich, imaginative I guarantee you’ll be up late. Sacks: for an overseas operation in Burkina style commensurate to the realm of The renowned British neurologist Faso. The novel has “plenty to Where We Come From by Oscar immortal beings sparked with mortal Disappearing Earth by Julia and author, best known for The enjoy on its own terms ... as a slick, Casares: sass,” wrote a Washington Post Phillips: Man Who Mistook His Wife for a well-observed thriller,” wrote a New Casares, who teaches creative reviewer. “We know how everything A National Book Award finalist Hat and other elegant writings of York Times reviewer, “but what adds writing at the University of Texas here turns out – we’ve known it and one of The New York Times’ neurological case histories, died in depth are the perspectives offered by at Austin, set his timely second for thousands of years – and yet in 10 Best Books of the Year last year, 2015; this posthumously published the central character ... For a debut novel in Brownsville, Texas, and Miller’s lush reimagining, the story Phillips’ novel was called a “stunning collection contains both previously novel it’s remarkably assured, earning centred it on a Mexican American feels harrowing and unexpected.” debut” by NPR. Set in the peninsular published and unreleased pieces. its genre stripes with panache, and family who reluctantly become Russian province of Kamchatka, Along with clinical case studies, addressing thought-provoking issues involved in smuggling immigrants Conviction by Denise Mina: and involving the abduction of two Sacks here weighs in on such topics along the way.” over the border. “Instead of being I’ve been a fan of Mina’s dark young sisters and its aftermath, it’s as “libraries, swimming, museums, – The Seattle Times/TNS 8 GULF TIMES Wednesday, April 22, 2020 COMMUNITY CUISINE Lockdown: 29 tips for simpler, tastier home cooking A former chef shares what she learned over three decades, from how to keep your pans good as new to the virtue of storing ginger in the freezer. By Louise Kennedy

MAKING THE MOST OF IT: Roasting something in the oven? Add a tray of veg to make the most of your time and energy.

oled up at home, many about three minutes,” it is lying. It sustainable. Get them to help with of us are doing way takes 10 to 15 minutes to achieve actual meals. Small ones can roll more cooking than this. Meanwhile, it is likely they will meatballs or falafels, pick herbs, usual. Maybe you are start to colour, which leads me on to mash avocados. enjoying it – or maybe the next thing. 8. Older ones can use knives, Hyou are trying to put in a working 3. Water is your friend. A splash peelers, graters. It is up to you to day at a corner of the kitchen table, will stop your onions from burning, decide what age or which child; my dreading the preparation of the next thin that sauce, make that pastry daughter was handy with a knife at meal. rollable. seven or eight, but there are adults I I worked as a chef for almost 30 4. When you cut an onion, it wouldn’t like to see wielding a blade. years. Although I am now a full- releases a vapour that reacts with If you have teenagers, tell them to time writer, I haven’t managed to the first wet thing it finds. If that get out of bed and make lunch. escape the kitchen: I am currently happens to be your eyeballs, you will 9. It is good to look in your fridge ONION HACK: If you cut an onion with a wet blade, it won’t make you cry as much. feeding four strapping adults. I cry. If your knife is wet and you have and come up with new dishes, but don’t always enjoy cooking, but I rinsed the onion, you will cry less. some combinations just don’t work. will plummet. You will be left with a He isn’t great with names. 14. “From have had so much practice that I can I am not sure of the science, but I I was once served sardines with pale, simmering stew rather than a scratch” doesn’t mean you can’t get a reasonable meal on the table know that it helps. strawberry puree. It was muck. burnished prime cut. take shortcuts. I can’t be bothered to without much fuss. Here are some of 5. If you are going to roast or bake Mackerel with pickled rhubarb, on 12. When frying steaks, oil the roast and skinpeppers for romesco the things I have learned that might something for dinner, add a tray of the other hand, was sublime. Think meat, not the pan. This goes for or muhammara. Lidl sells them in make your lives a bit easier. veg for lunch the next day, or a cake. about what you are doing. cooking anything on a ridged grill jars; if you rinse them well, they Cheaper and better for the planet. 10. Maldon is my favourite salt, pan, from halloumi to asparagus. work a treat. 1. If you think your food isn’t 6. You may be baking with kids. but it is not cheap. Use any old salt And season after oiling or the salt 15. You are not cooking in tasty, it may be because many home Do not begin with scones. Like for boiling pasta etc and use the will eat into the food. a restaurant. Some dishes are cooks don’t use enough salt and pastry, scones need the gentlest good stuff when you will notice the 13. To clean a cast-iron pan, rub impossible to recreate perfectly pepper. Season as you go, taste, touch. Make bread, fairy cakes or a difference. on salt with a piece of old tinfoil. at home. Commercial pizza ovens season again. You can’t get flavour Victoria sandwich that will survive 11. Don’t be afraid of heat. Most When the food residue is gone, wipe are set at two temperatures: very into a shepherd’s pie by sprinkling a the assault. domestic stoves can’t reach the a wee bit of oil on the pan to keep hot on the bottom for a crispy base bit on at the table. You need to sort 7. We are getting hardly any temperatures an industrial one it from rusting. This is my father’s and cooler on top so as not to burn that before you assemble it. exercise and this could go on for can. As soon as you throw a steak, tip. He says reusing the foil “will the cheese. Accept this or get a 2. If a recipe says: “Cook the weeks or months. Baking a cake a chicken breast, a chop or a bag of keep that nice wee Swedish girl takeaway. onions until they are translucent, with your kids every other day isn’t mince on a pan, the temperature happy”. He means Greta Thunberg. 16. Most restaurant cookbooks are Wednesday, April 22, 2020 GULF TIMES 9 CUISINE COMMUNITY Lockdown: 29 tips for simpler, tastier home cooking

STAY TOGETHER, COOK TOGETHER: Involve children in making everyday meals, not just baking cakes.

SUBSTITUTE: If you don’t have chick peas, you can make hummus-like dip using many varieties of white bean.

down or need to be chopped or handles and pandemic-yellow liquidised. They always need to be floor stickers. Make substitutions. sweetened. Do it to taste, but go easy I made a reasonable sort of or there will be a ketchupy vibe. hummus with butter beans. Rocket 24. Use a serrated knife to slice works instead of parsley. Cashews fresh tomatoes. I have a small one and walnuts are OK in pesto. that I use for lemons, too, or you can 28. You can switch ingredients use a steak knife or the bread knife. when baking, but be careful. Tomatoes will wreck your straight Baking is chemistry. The other day, blade – blunt it almost immediately. I made brown bread, adding oat I don’t know why, but they will. bran and milled chia seeds instead 25. Chefs have this thing called of the wheatgerm and wheat bran mise en place, where all their the recipe called for. It needed ONLY WHEN REQUIRED: Use sea salt flakes where it counts; ordinary salt is perfectly fine for most cooking. ingredients are prepped and laid out extra liquid, possibly because chia in front of them before they begin. seeds are thirsty. for the coffee table. You are cooking and serve one for dinner. The other and noodle salads when they are I am not recommending that you 29. At the end of each shift, your way through a lockdown. For I strip down for coronation chicken warm. Hot, they will absorb all the buy a set of identical glass dishes, chefs clean down every surface. the purposes of this exercise, foams or a pie. I put both carcasses in a dressing. Cold, they will absorb but maybe consider getting all your Out of habit, I do this and have and gels are for the bathroom. slow cooker overnight with water none of it. chopping out of the way before you never had to use steel wool or Getting an omelette and chips to the and aromatics then use the stock for 21. I love my food processor, but start and laying it in separate little strong chemicals on my hob. It is table is no mean feat. soup, risotto, etc. I loathe cleaning it. I do dry stuff piles on one big plate or tray. 13 years old and could pass for new. 17. I worked in some decent 19. Which aromatics? Onion, leek, in it first – making breadcrumbs, 26. Some pastry chefs use I am otherwise a slattern, by the kitchens, but never in one where we carrot, celery, bay, thyme, parsley, chopping nuts – then wipe it with crème pâtissière in desserts such way. made vegetable or chicken stock. black peppercorns. The trimmings kitchen paper. Then I do any grating, as trifle. It contains a little flour 30. Salt is controversial. So (The bubbling pot of what is known of spring onions, fresh tomatoes, chopping or slicing and rinse it and is easier and quicker to make is sugar. If you are supposed to as “jus” is another story.) It is OK to mushrooms. I rarely have all these before liquidising or pureeing. and less likely to burn than crème avoid them for medical reasons, buy them, although they vary quite at once and often make it with just 22. I keep root ginger in the freezer anglaise (runny custard). then do so. Obviously. If you like a bit. Some taste too strongly of onion and a bay leaf. A big no to and leave it out for five minutes 27. If you can find everything you your own cooking, keep doing celery; some contain gluten or MSG. garlic, starchy stuff like spuds or before grating. Then I freeze it again. want in the shops these days, you what you are doing. These are not Try them out. anything resembling cabbage. And I 23 Most chefs use chopped tinned are doing better than me. Besides, commandments, just the musings 18. That said, I make chicken stock always add a single clove. tomatoes for cooking because the supermarkets are traumatising of a virus-freaked oldie. most weeks. I roast two chickens 20. Dress pasta, rice, potatoes whole ones take so long to break now, with their bogging trolley – The Guardian 10 GULF TIMES Wednesday, April 22, 2020 COMMUNITY PUBLIC SERVICE MESSAGE Wednesday, April 22, 2020 GULF TIMES 11 LIFESTYLE/HOROSCOPE COMMUNITY Screen time for babies linked to higher risk of autism-like symptoms

mid the pandemic induced were asked about how often their baby is lockdown across the globe when exposed to screens or books, and how often many children are at home all they play with their child. Following this day sitting in front of a tablet or group of 2,152 children from the National television due to the coronavirus Children’s Study the team examined how Aoutbreak, researchers have found that too watching television or videos, as well as much of screen exposure can be linked to a social playtime and reading together, were higher likelihood of autism spectrum disorder associated with ASD risk and ASD-like (ASD)-like symptoms in babies. symptoms at two years of age as measured The study, published in the journal JAMA by the Modified Checklist for Autism in Pediatrics, found that 12 months of babies Toddlers (M-CHAT). who spend large portions of time looking at While toddlers generally are interested in screens were more likely to show autism- interacting with others, those with ASD- like symptoms at two years of age. like symptoms are less likely to show these “The findings strengthen our social behaviours. understanding of the importance of The findings showed that viewing playtime between parents and children screens at 12 months of age was associated relative to screen time,” said senior author with four per cent greater ASD-like David S Bennett from Drexel University in symptoms, and daily playtime with a parent the US. compared to less than daily playtime was “There is a great opportunity for public associated with nine per cent less ASD-like health campaigns and paediatricians to symptoms. educate and empower parents to possibly The study backs recommendations from minimise their child’s risk of ASD the American Academy of Pediatrics which symptoms, which may include increasing discourages screen time in children younger social interaction and limiting screens at an than 18 months unless it is used for video early age,” Bennett added. chatting. but rather with ASD-like symptoms. predisposed to ASD being drawn to the For the results, during babies’ 12- and The authors noted that their study did Future studies should explore whether screens or screens contributing to ASD-like 18-months well visits, their caregivers not find an association with ASD risk, this relationship is determined by children symptoms, they said. – IANS

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Have you been reading about how a positive mental outlook creates a Research that you’ve been doing for a particular project may finally be Dreams and visions about your family paint a rosy picture of your healthy body and a happy life, Aries? If so, you might just find that this completed, Taurus. Now you’re ready to finish your work. Your mind is future, Gemini. These dreams could well be prophetic, but don’t attitude brings results. You’re feeling strong, fit, and mentally sharp. especially sharp right now, so this is a good time to work on any kind of jump to that conclusion without first analysing the symbols and Career interests seem to be looking up for you. A fringe benefit is that project that involves communication. If you’re a writer, your publishing discerning what your dreams are trying to tell you. There could be you’re probably feeling especially intuitive, too. Keep doing whatever prospects look good. Perhaps you just became aware of a strong something that you need to consider before you can move ahead you’ve been doing to bring this all about, because it’s working! psychic bond between your beloved. toward the future you want to create. Cancer Leo Virgo June 21 — July 22 July 23 — August 22 August 23 — September 22

Tonight you might decide to attend a social gathering held in your If you’ve been uncertain about the possibility of a raise in your Family could take top priority with you today, Virgo. You might be community that involves a lot of people who are into psychic or salary, Leo, today you could finally be told for certain that it’s feeling a little insecure about the stability of your current relationships, spiritual matters, Cancer. This should be an interesting experience coming. This is definitely cause for celebration. You might want to but you’re wasting your energy. For now, at least, things look very for you, because you could not only glean a lot of fascinating call a friend or partner and propose a night on the town. Your good promising for you. You should be communicating well and getting information but also make some new friends. Someone could luck shows signs of continuing if you keep on working as hard as along great. Use your intuition to tune in to your friend’s mind, and recommend a few intriguing books. Keep your eyes and ears open! you have been. Now it’s time to enjoy it! you’ll probably feel your doubts slip away. Libra Scorpio Sagittarius September 23 — October 22 October 23 — November 21 November 22 — December 21

If you play your cards right, Libra, you just might be able to turn what Expect to exchange a lot of phone calls and e-mails with friends Financial good fortune continues, Sagittarius, although old habits are you’re picking up psychically into an exalted creative effort. The today, Scorpio. Communication with others is your top priority. You hard to break and you might have difficulty adjusting to it. You could emotions and images flowing into your brain might be obscure, but have a lot of news to deliver and you’ll receive a lot in return. Much alternate between wanting to buy out the store and continuing to they’re significant in some way. Whether you write, play music, dance, of what you hear could be useful for whatever you’re involved with pinch pennies the way you used to. That’s OK. Everybody has to make or paint, you could be blown away by your own work. Whatever your now. The only downside is mental overload. You could feel as if your adjustments in life. Second only to falling in love, this will probably be materials, get them out and memorialise your inspiration. brain has spent the day running a marathon. one of the most pleasant adjustments you’ll ever have to make! Capricorn Aquarius Pisces December 22 — January 19 January 20 — February 18 February 19 — March 20

Are you going on a trip or possibly moving, Capricorn? Is education You tend to be intuitive by nature, Aquarius, but today you could receive Communication with friends and partners should be clear, open, involved in some way? Whatever your reasons for going away, you’re psychic impressions by the dozen. You might even experience visions honest, and supportive today, Pisces. Camaraderie flows freely, and going to gain whatever you hope for – and more. Writing, teaching, or hear voices. Don’t worry – you aren’t going crazy! You do, however, affection is shown without restraint or overkill. If you’re presently and anything involving communication should go very well right need to pay attention to these messages. They may have immense involved but not yet committed, an expression of desire to move the now, including conversations with a friend. Your mind is quick and personal or even planetary significance. If you can’t make sense of relationship to the next level could be in the wind. At the very least, your retentive right now, so make the most of it. them, write them down. It should all be clear to you later. partner should pay you a compliment or two! 12 GULF TIMES Wednesday, April 22, 2020 COMMUNITY CARTOONS/PUZZLES

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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. Wednesday, April 22, 2020 GULF TIMES 13 PUZZLES COMMUNITY

Super Cryptic Clues Colouring

Across Down 1 Impeded deer? Poor deer! (8) 2 Lights that fused singe it (7) 6 Used to be a revolutionary tool 3 Greek letter taken up? Cheers! (3) (5) 9 Record left by girl (5) 4 Check polish once more (6) 10 Very young cat I lost in 5 Action about night flier may be ancient city (7) discussed (7) 11 An unequal share? Certainly! 6 County loses its vigour (5) (3,4) 7 Like some beaches in Skegness 12 Irritable youth leader on trial and Yarmouth (5) (5) 8 Bet about northern composer 13 Is getting in support to put up (6) a fight (6) 14 Nasty giant, somewhat 15 Some postcodes, say, in port gloomy (7) (6) 16 Accounts signed initially by 19 Hat seen at Epsom? (5) politicians (7) 21 Ancient city as opposed to old 17 Appalled — but helping to church (7) make Branagh a star (6) 23 Awfully isolated, having 18 Bother with false lashes (6) dismissed fifty yes-men (7) 19 The fruit of engagements (5) 24 Races round island to see 20 Province in actual centre of wrecks (5) Germany (5) 25 American uncle plays a major 22 Beginner has left part (3) mountainous area (5) 26 Pointers initially seem unnecessary (8) Answers Solution Wordsearch Codeword 14 GULF TIMES Wednesday, April 22, 2020 COMMUNITY

Priyanka shares homemade hair-pack solution for the scalp

Priyanka Chopra has turned beautician! The actress has come up with DIY (do it yourself) tips to take care of your scalp and hair during the quarantine days. The actress shared a video on Twitter where she can be seen preparing a hair pack with yogurt, egg and honey, the last one being her “secret ingredient”. Priyanka suggested that this is a treatment for those suffering from scalp-related problems like dry scalp and dandruff. APPALLED: Farhan Akhtar says mob rule should Sharing the ingredients in a tweet, BEAUTICIAN: Priyanka Chopra has come up with DIY tips to take care of scalp and hair have no place in the society. she wrote: “Full Fat Yogurt, 1 tsp during quarantine. honey, 1 egg. Let it sit in your hair for 30 min and rinse with warm water. condition as usual.” Fans shared their how to reduce the bad smell caused by Bollywood condemns Palghar Disclaimer: while this works inputs in the comments section. A user egg and commented: “Using essential mob lynching incident wonders (for me), it doesn’t smell the wrote: “Please do it on nick purely for oil will reduce the bad smell. Works like best. You may need to shampoo twice our entertainment.” a charm.” Another fan quizzed: “What is Bollywood celebrities have condemned the to remove all the yogurt, and then Another fan shared inputs regarding the remedy for gray hair?” – IANS brutal mob lynching that claimed three lives in Maharashtra’s Palghar last week. Two sadhus and their driver, proceeding from Nashik to Surat, were attacked on April 16 by a 200-strong mob in Palghar, who were incited by rumours that the three men were robbers or kidnappers. The mob also attacked the policemen I am not done yet as and damaged two police vans. Bollywood celebs took to social media to condemn the brutal incident. Actor-filmmaker Farhan Akhtar tweeted: “Strongly condemn the violence that took the lives an actor: Naseeruddin of 3 people in Palghar. Mob rule should have no place in our society and I hope the murderers have been arrested and that justice is delivered swiftly.” Actress Richa Chadha expressed: “Horrific By Arundhuti Banerjee news from Palghar. And we’ll be so quick to fit this tragedy into our respective world-views, that we’d have forgotten that we actually live among a crazed, rom theatre to television, cinema violent, unpredictable mob! Over a 100 ppl took 3 to digital platforms, veteran lives! Condolences to the families of the deceased. actor Naseeruddin Shah is Gutted.” constantly proving his relevance Actress Raveena Tandon reacted: “Visuals of as a performing artiste. the elderly sadhu being beaten flashing on tv, very AlthoughF there is nothing to prove as far very disturbing. Merely on suspicion , they were as his skill as an actor goes, he says that he mercilessly beaten to death. Very very disturbing wakes up every day to the new sun with the . What were the cops doing? They just walked belief that he has “something to give” to away!!????” the audience. Poet-lyricist Javed Akhtar tweeted: “Those who “I think it is the suspicion that I still are responsible for the lynching of the two seers have function left to fulfil, I am not done and their driver should not be spared at any cost yet as an actor. I still have something to .There shouldn’t be any tolerance for a barbaric and give (to the audience) and I am lucky that heinous crime like lynching in a civilised society.” people still want to watch me. I am lucky, Veteran actor Anupam Kher reacted: and also the fact that I love my work, I “HORRIFIED AND DEEPLY DEEPLY SADDENED love acting. There is something about at the #PalgharMobLynching of three sadhus. performing. I can’t explain the excitement, Couldn’t watch the video till the end. Yeh kya and I haven’t got over it. I think I am ho raha hai? Yeh kyon ho raha hai? Manavata ka obsessed with acting. I think when I wake jaghanya aparadh hai yeh.” (What is happening? up tomorrow morning if I am unable to Why is it happening? This is one of the most perform, I probably will commit suicide. heinous crimes in human history.) What is there in life without it?” the Actress Swara Bhasker expressed: “#palghar 70-year-old actor said. Highly condemnable! A shameful reflection of who Shah is one of the most revered faces we are as a society. Maybe a time for reflection.. of parallel cinema and has also tasted when you breed a culture Violence & normalise commercial success. Over the years, he mob justice on streets.. it comes home one day... has worked with the biggest of filmmakers this is a disease in our society allowed to fester & across genres, and he says he has always become a monster!” been supportive of debutant filmmakers. Filmmaker Hansal Mehta reacted: “Terrible. “When I interact with newcomer I have #Palghar.” the example of people like Habib Tanvir, OBSESSED: Naseeruddin Shah says he is obsessed with acting. Filmmaker Reema Kagti tweeted: “Absolutely , Om Puri, , condemn the incident at #Palghar. Swift & strong . When I was a youngster, to do a film, Shah said: “ It is not always used to disturb me as a growing adult. action must be taken against all the perpetrators they were ideals for me. When one the character but what the intention I was like, ‘but my friend KC Singh is for this brutal, barbaric attack. @CMOMaharashtra struggles, encouragement is needed, and behind telling the story is that matters the such a nice fellow, it was not his decision @DGPMaharashtra” these people always guided us. Perhaps most.” to born a Hindu, so why would he go Filmmaker tweeted: “OMG. it is because of them, even in our darkest Citing an example, the actor to hell?’ We do not choose our parents Woke up to such a tragic news. May God give days, we stayed hopeful and continued elaborates: “If the film Khuda Kay Liye and the religion we are born into’. Why everyone wisdom in such trying times. #Palghar” our struggle to become the actor we are. were about glorifying the Taliban I would should music be banned? All those Actress Tisca Chopra expressed: “Deeply So when I work with new actors and film have not come on board to be part of questions were addressed in Khuda Kay shocked to see the video of an old man lynched to directors, I try and encourage the story the story. Coming from a very orthodox Liye. So, as an actor, I had to agree with death by a mob in #Palghar .. two others were also that is worth telling,” he said. Muslim family, as a child I was told that the ideology that the story was showing, killed. Hope the murderers have been apprehended Asked if the politics of an on-screen Islam is the greatest religion and all non- not necessarily the character that I was and that justice will be swift .. such mob mentality characters matters to him when he agrees Muslims are ‘kaafirs’. But those thoughts portraying.” – IANS mustn’t be condoned ..” – IANS Wednesday, April 22, 2020 GULF TIMES 15 HOLLYWOOD COMMUNITY Oliver roasts Dr Phil for false coronavirus claims a year, not 360,000. After his Fox News By Christi Carras segment, McGraw addressed his remarks while filming his own show from home, saying, “if you didn’t like my choice of ohn Oliver is here to remind you words, I apologise for that.” that Dr Phil’s bizarre comparison “Also, if swimming pools were killing of the number of deaths from 360,000 people a year, and you could drowning in swimming pools to contract a swimming pool on a trip to the those from coronavirus doesn’t grocery store, we might want to think about holdJ water. shutting them down until we’ve worked out During Sunday’s quarantined edition what was going on,” Oliver quipped. of Last Week Tonight, Oliver roasted The watchdog comedian also took several several of his fellow TV hosts, including swipes at Fox News for airing misleading “not-a-medical-Dr Phil,” for spreading commentary on Covid-19 and President misinformation amid the public health Trump’s response to it. crisis. “Look, a lot of people underestimated His attack on Phil McGraw – who isn’t the danger of this virus early on, but Fox a medical doctor but has a PhD in clinical was still doing it not just as the death toll psychology – was in reaction to widely mounted, but even as – behind the scenes criticised comments the CBS star made – their own company was suspending non- last week downplaying the severity of the essential business travel and encouraging outbreak. employees to ‘cancel all in person meetings “The fact of the matter is 45,000 people and summits and conduct business via a year die from automobile accidents, Skype or by phone,’ because they only 480,000 from cigarettes, 360,000 a year pretend to believe these things on television from swimming pools, but we don’t shut for money,” he said. the country down for that,” McGraw said Before signing off, Oliver doubled down on while appearing on Fox News’ The Ingraham his criticisms of McGraw, Trump and Fox by Angle. revisiting a litany of their false claims. “A quick thing there, though: The annual “The fact is, the fastest way for this to US death toll from swimming pools isn’t be over is for all of us to remain united in actually 360,000,” Oliver said, setting the this very difficult task. But the only way record straight on his HBO programme. that happens is if we have trusted, well- WATCHFUL: John Oliver has also taken several swipes at Fox News for airing misleading “They’re not killing almost a Cleveland informed leadership, which unfortunately, commentary on Covid-19. every year. The total number of drownings, we don’t,” Oliver said. period, is around 4,000.” “Instead, we have a compulsive liar cold with, potentially, a 100% cure swimming pool killing spree that, for some According to the CDC, swimming constantly listening to voices telling him available, and that there’s already a great reason, nobody’s talking about.” accidents account for about 3,600 deaths that this is nothing more than the common plan to restart baseball even as there’s a — Los Angeles Times/TNS

Why Mendes is keeping her Ke$Ha’s new lockdown song Home kids off social media Alone dedicated to Macaulay Culkin

Actress Eva Mendes says she won’t post Singer Ke$ha’s new photographs of her daughters “until they are old lockdown track Home enough” to give her consent. Alone is a tribute to actor The actress, 46, took to Instagram to explain Macaulay Culkin and his why she doesn’t share photographs of Ryan hit 1990 film of the same Gosling or their daughters Amada Lee, and name. Esmeralda Amada, reports people.com The 33-year-old “I have always had a clear boundary when it singer took to social comes to my man and my kids,” she wrote on media to share a clip Instagram, responding to a comment from a fan. of the tune alongside “I’ll talk about them of course, with limits, but I footage of herself won’t post pictures of our daily life,” she added. performing the track, The actress went on to share that it doesn’t feel blended with scenes right to make decisions for her children. from the iconic film, “Since my children are still so little and don’t reports aceshowbiz.com understand what posting their image really means, “I’ve been bored I don’t have their consent,” Mendes said, adding: at home so I made a “And I won’t post their image until they’re old song for u animals!!! enough to give me consent.” PROTECTIVE: Eva Mendes says she won’t post And a little video. It’s BORED: Ke$ha says she was bored at home so When it comes to posting pictures of Gosling, images of her daughters until they’re old enough to called HOME ALONE... she made a song dedicated to everyone hanging there is one exception to her rule. give their consent. dedicated to all of you around at home. “As far as Ryan, I’ll only post flashbacks of people hanging at things that are already ‘out there’ (like pics from Earlier in an interview with People, Mendes home.....alone. and also dedicated to the one and only @culkamania,” she movies we did or stuff like that),” she shared last spoke about her daughters, saying: “They are so said. month, while responding to a fan who said they their own women already. And it’s so beautiful to The video begins with a clip of Daniel Stern’s character Marv and Culkin’s “wouldn’t mind an appearance by Ryan on this watch.” role as Kevin saying “hello,” as he points a gun into the camera. page”. “My five-year-old cut her socks, the foot part The singer then dances around her lavish home in lingerie, knee-high “My man and my kids are private. That’s off, and she likes to wear socks as sleeves,” Mendes socks and a nearly unbuttoned blue denim shirt, showing off her kitchen, important to me so thanks for getting that. Have said of her older child, adding: “And the other day bedroom, and staircase. a beautiful day. Sending so much love,” Mendes she wore underwear as a hat and I was like, ‘That’s The song is the star’s latest tribute, after she teased another new song, added. amazing’. I wish I could do that. I can’t.” – IANS titled Nicolas Cage, dedicated to the star. – IANS 16 GULF TIMES Wednesday, April 22, 2020 COMMUNITY Eye-opening documentary on global plastic pollution crisis Marking World Earth Day, Arab Youth Climate Movement to hold watch party online for The Story Of Plastic today

By Mudassir Raja “With Covid-19 affecting n a message shared on Earth Day, which is to be observed all in-person gatherings, today, António Guterres, UN Secretary-General, said; we have planned to host “We must act decisively to Iprotect our planet from both the a virtual community coronavirus and the existential threat of climate disruption.” screening of The Story Nature is suffering and various natural calamities are a proof of it. Of Plastic. This model The Australian fires, heat records, the worst locust invasion in Kenya, ensures the safety of as well as the ongoing worldwide health pandemic Covid-19 our communities while are linked to the health of our ecosystem. providing shared viewing Climate change, man-made changes to nature as well as crimes experiences to watch, that disrupt biodiversity, such as deforestation, land-use change, discuss, and take action to intensified agriculture and livestock production or the growing illegal end the plastic crisis” wildlife trade, can increase contact and the transmission of infectious — Neeshad Shafi, AYCM diseases from animals to humans (zoonotic diseases) like Covid-19. executive director From one new infection disease that emerges in humans every 4 months, 75% of these emerging diseases come from animals, according to UN Environment. This shows the close relationships between human, end at 5:30pm. Viewers can use the communities around the world animal and environmental health. documentary link one time during –and the global movement rising As this year’s Earth Day the three hours period starting from up in response. With original goes digital, the single most 4pm. animation, archival industry important event is telecasting of a “Following the watch party, footage starting in the 1930s and documentary The Story of Plastic by there will be an online question and first-person accounts, the film Discovery Channel and by climate answer session that will provide distills a complex problem that is volunteers through different digital viewers a chance to discuss their increasingly affecting the planet’s platforms. In Qatar, the Arab Youth experience and take action to end and its residents’ well-being. Climate Movement (AYCM-Qatar) the plastic crisis. We will also Neeshaed said: “The issues is all set to launch the documentary have discussion of our Instagram highlighted in The Story of Plastic during Earth Day watch party. account.” illuminate how the decisions made Neeshad Shafi, AYCM executive An official selection of Mill Valley locally can affect us globally. We are director, said: “With Covid-19 Film Festival (Audience Award eager to highlight the solutions laid affecting all in-person gatherings, winner) and 2019 DOC NYC, The out in the film that will help make we have planned to host a virtual Story of Plastic looks at the man- our world a cleaner and healthier community screening of The Story made crisis of plastic pollution and place to live.” Of Plastic. This model ensures the worldwide effect it has on the He added: “The film reveals the safety of our communities health of our planet and the people how the plastics industry is while providing shared viewing that inhabit it. simultaneously blaming wasteful experiences to watch, discuss, and Spanning three continents, consumers for plastic pollution take action to end the plastic crisis. the film illustrates the ongoing and aggressively investing to “To access the documentary, the catastrophe: fields full of garbage, produce more single-use plastic enthusiasts need to get registered veritable mountains of trash; than ever before. Reclaiming the with AYCM via its Facebook page rivers and seas clogged with narrative, the film highlights that or e-mail. People have already waste; and skies choked with the while cleanup is important to been registering and we urge more poisonous emissions from plastic understanding the situation, the people to get registered. All the production and processing. The real solution lies in stopping the registered people will receive a film features interviews with mass production of plastic in the one-time link of the film that is experts and activists on the first place.” one and a half hour long. Once the frontlines of the fight, revealing For registration documentary is finished the link the disastrous consequences of [email protected] will not be used again. The online the flood of plastic smothering For post film discussion WATCH ONLINE: People can watch the documentary by registering with screening will start at 4pm and will ecosystems and poisoning Instagram @AYCMQA AYCM-Qatar.