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search should throw up a willing By Christian Koch tutor for whatever whimsy you have, whether it’s cake decorating, choir practice or Colombian ockdown could have seen cookery. Meanwhile, InterPals, My us wallowing in some Language Exchange and Italki pairs pretty unusual hermetic anybody eager to learn a language behaviour. Obsessively with a native speaker on Skype or rearranging your groceries FaceTime. Lby best-before date. Binge-watching Online rendezvous: Over on old episodes of Terry and June. Zoom, Cocktails After Dark features Blankly staring at the forks in your out-of-work bartenders teaching cutlery drawer wondering why they viewers how to make drinks (plus have four prongs and not three. earning much-needed tips in the Instead, the past few weeks process). And MasterClass features have shown that being shut video classes from the likes of away could be making us more Martin Scorsese, Serena Williams, connected with each other. Thanks Werner Herzog, Annie Leibovitz, to strong internet networks and Aaron Sorkin, Herbie Hancock and an array of digital apps and video Neil Gaiman. communication software, we’re spending more quality time with Feed your wanderlust loved ones, rehabilitating old Travel might be on pause at relationships and forging new ones. the moment, but people are still Indeed, a recent study by Channel globetrotting vicariously. An Mum found a quarter of British expedition team of 30 climbing people now talk with neighbours friends in the UK recently they previously ignored. In short? clambered up a virtual Mount Being confined to quarters is Everest – all 8,848m of it – by helping us rediscover a new sense of trudging up stairs, steps and ladders community. within their own homes (often Every day brings more inspiring kitted up in full mountaineering and creative digital gatherings, gear). Elsewhere, tourist attractions whether it’s quarantine quizzes, such as the Louvre, British Museum online aperitivo or friends slogging and New York’s Guggenheim up their staircases thousands of now offer 360-degree videos and times in a bid to conquer a virtual GET FIT: Fitness apps are offering private, livestreamed classes (in yoga, physiotherapy, mindfulness and personal livestreaming on their websites. Everest. While we’re all busy training), pairing you with a self-employed professional whose livelihood may have been affected by the pandemic. Wildlife fans can ogle webcams rearranging our lives to adjust to the showing brown bears emerging new norm, internet providers are Urban offers private, livestreamed from hibernation in Alaska’s doing their bit too. Taking capacity classes (in yoga, physiotherapy, Katmai National Park, majestic from commuter hotspots such as mindfulness and personal training), pachyderms and other charismatic Waterloo to expand capacity in pairing you with a self-employed megafauna at South Africa’s the suburbs is one way networks professional whose livelihood may Tembe Elephant Park, or sea otters such as Vodafone are adjusting have been affected by the pandemic. sploshing around at Monterey Bay their behaviour. With internet Aquarium. connectivity remaining robust, Co-watch cinema Online rendezvous: The here’s some inventive ways to escape In recent weeks, Netflix Party, Scandi trend for slow TV is the lockdown funk and embrace the Chrome extension that allows seemingly tailor-made for these webcameraderie. groups of friends to watch and trapped-inside times. Fire up comment on series and movies the three-hour-long Sailing to Make new connections together, at the same time, has Tobago YouTube video on your Even Camilla, Duchess of turned television into a communal laptop, fix quarantini-inspired rum Cornwall is a fan of Houseparty, the activity again: something that only cocktails and stream a destination- chat app where groups have been happens at Christmas or during appropriate calypso/yacht rock throwing virtual dinner parties, the World Cup. Its live chat room playlist and you’ll be gliding staging karaoke singalongs and might be the digi-equivalent of the (imaginary) crystalline Caribbean playing board games. Quarantine crisp-packet-rustler down your waters in no time. quizzes have flourished, too (check local multiplex, but there’s no better out Edinburgh-based Goose’s way to laugh, comment and discuss Turn your living room into a Quizzes on Twitch), along with the intricacies of Joe Exotic’s mullet live gig venue online book clubs: Yiyun Li’s en masse. “I’ll find a way to deal with the #TolstoyTogether sees the author Online rendezvous: With ennui,” declared Christine and the lead fellow bibliophiles in a daily many Hollywood films getting early Queens recently. Her method was War and Peace reading. Feeling digital releases, a number of stars throwing herself into near-daily live cheeky? Try gatecrashing one of are hosting interactive events. When performances from a Paris studio the growing number of nuptials and sci-fi thriller The Invisible Man hit on Instagram. Other musicians other parties held online. Hundreds streaming platforms, director Leigh have been livestreaming shows, of people tuned in to watch LEARN NEW SKILL: There’s never been a better time to pick up new skills as Whannell held a live group- too, such as Neil Young, Erykah 13-year-old London schoolboy Jude specialists everywhere dispense their wisdom via one-on-one video tuition. watch answering viewers’ questions Badu, Alicia Keys, Charli XCX and Cannon’s bar mitzvah in his parents’ in a virtual Q&A afterwards. more. Meanwhile, the World Health living room after his original one network we rely on to keep our kids Organisation’s #TogetherAtHome was cancelled, while in China one Let the gym come to you active. Domestic dancing has also Learn something new concert series has featured John wedding was livestreamed to 3 Personal trainer Joe Wicks has taken off: see Fame legend Debbie Ever wanted to learn how to Legend and Chris Martin. A virtual million people. Just don’t expect any done a sterling job marshalling the Allen’s Instagram Live lessons (one spoon carve? Master the oboe? Live Aid-style charity concert is free drinks. nation’s cooped-up urchins into recent light-the-sky-up-like-a- Speak the Cyrillic alphabet from surely in the offing. Online rendezvous: Salon doing kangaroo hops at 9am. To flame workout attracted 34,000 A to Z? There’s never been a Online rendezvous: New York’s London livestreamed a book club help the 1.2 million subscribers people), or the English National better time to pick up new skills as Metropolitan Opera House has been where online audiences engage in doing PE with Wicks each morning, Ballet’s Tamara Rojo’s Facebook specialists everywhere dispense livestreaming an opera every night Q&As with authors such as Emma internet providers such as Vodafone classes. their wisdom via one-on-one on its website. Jane Unsworth. are flexing to provide the powerful Online rendezvous: Fitness app video tuition. A quick online – The Guardian 4 GULF TIMES Tuesday, April 21, 2020 COMMUNITY COVER STORY The moment medical staff realised ‘they were on their own’

BLAST FROM THE PAST: In 2014, Martha Phillips, an American nurse, travelled to West Africa during the Ebola crisis to provide medical care. Treating Ebola not only taught her how to stay safe around a deadly virus, but also how to manage the stress and sadness of working during a disease outbreak. She’s now drawing on that experience to help other nurses cope with the challenges of coronavirus.

artha Phillips knows exactly how it feels to suddenly find There is nothing comparable to (the) kind of oneself up close to — and unprotected massive influx of terribly sick, terribly infectious, fromM — a deadly virus. In 2014, Phillips, an emergency terribly distraught patients that I can even conceive room nurse, was at the bedside of a suspected Ebola patient in Sierra of (in Sierra Leone, 2014) but I had better personal Leone when the disposable plastic protective gear in West Africa by a long shot guard protecting her face came loose. “I turned my head quickly and my shield came off,” she recounted. — Martha Phillips, nurse at a hospital in Bellingham, “So I am in an Ebola treatment Washington unit and my eyes are completely exposed.” She stayed calm and ‘ ’ quickly left the room. Tuesday, April 21, 2020 GULF TIMES 5 COVER STORY COMMUNITY

Phillips, 35 at the time, had arrived in a rural corner of Martha Phillips northwestern Sierra Leone just as Ebola cases were surging in West also learned Africa. One day, early on, more than 50 sometimes you patients flooded into their hospital — a collection of abandoned can’t control classrooms that had been converted into treatment units. She and other what’s about nurses worked into the night, until to happen, like they ran out of supplies. “We had no blankets, no pillows, when a woman, no water,” she said. “We were just hauling them out of ambulances stricken with and putting them in beds, and then we had to get out.” Ebola, collapsed Phillips had never worked in a war zone and said no training could in the nearby have prepared her for this type of marketplace. immediate triage. “There is nothing comparable Phillips was to that kind of massive influx of terribly sick, terribly infectious, told the crowd terribly distraught patients that I can even conceive of,” she said. She would likely paused, then added: “Certainly kill the patient nothing in standard American medicine … up until this point.” if the hospital Phillips now works in the ER at a hospital in Bellingham, didn’t get her Washington, and is seeing the toll of another infectious disease — this immediately. time on her own community. While Covid-19 isn’t as deadly “The fear was so as Ebola, Phillips is drawing incredible … so on her experiences in Africa to help other nurses cope with the overwhelming unprecedented fear and uncertainty of a pandemic now killing doctors in the and nurses on the front lines. community,” From Ebola to Covid-19 Phillips said she wasn’t surprised she recalls the novel coronavirus came to the United States, but the failure to The making of an Ebola nurse nurse overseas. She did surgical her to West Africa to treat Ebola off the hooded suit and knee-high protect healthcare workers has When the Ebola crisis emerged, trips to Guatemala and travelled to patients. rubber boots. stunned her. Across the country, Phillips was eager to sign up. the Philippines after a typhoon to When she arrived in West “We didn’t do half-measures. many have resorted to reusing “It wasn’t even necessarily a provide emergency medical aid. Africa, the humanitarian aid You protected your staff at all masks and wrapping themselves in conscious decision,” she said. “It In the summer of 2014, just nonprofit International Medical costs,” she said. makeshift gowns, like garbage bags was almost this frenetic drive of … after a new nephew she was Corps trained her to navigate the But she also learned sometimes with holes cut in them. ‘I can do this work, send me, I can excited to meet was born, she dangers of Ebola. She learned not you can’t control what’s about “I had better personal protective help.’” contacted every organisation to cross her arms or touch her to happen, like when a woman, gear in West Africa by a long shot,” She had already worked as a she could find that might send face, and the precise way to take stricken with Ebola, collapsed in she said. the nearby marketplace. Phillips Like many nurses, Phillips is was told the crowd would likely kill having to make equipment like N95 the patient if the hospital didn’t get masks last longer as her hospital her immediately. tries to conserve supplies. “The fear was so incredible … so In mid-March, the Centers for overwhelming in the community,” Disease Control and Prevention she said. published a set of strategies for Phillips had no ambulances. She healthcare workers confronted with found what appeared to be an old a shortage of personal protective ice truck and headed to the market. equipment (PPE) and a surge in They discovered the woman looking patients. As a last resort, the CDC very sick. recommends a bandana or scarf in “She saw us and she tried to run,” the place of a medical-grade face said Phillips. “One of my national mask. staff members literally reached out This was the moment, Phillips and grabbed her by the arm.” said, that she and many other They were able to persuade her nurses realised “they were on their to come back to the hospital for own.” treatment. “Our government, they had Other times, Phillips recalled, nothing else to offer us,” she said. the patients ended up being “That has affected morale in this the medical colleagues working country unimaginably.” at her side. She watched one Nurses now confide in Phillips. nurse she knew get taken out They send her messages or pull her of the ambulance after she had aside to ask: Is it OK to be afraid? To contracted Ebola. consider not showing up for work? “That was one of my breaking She doesn’t hesitate to respond. moments,” she said. “I was just so “It’s really important that we tired of people who wanted so badly continue to tell them that they to help their own country and help have nothing to be guilty about, their people being killed by this that they are not lesser nurses disease. It felt unfair and it feels because of it,” she said. “Were we unfair now, too.” adequately supplied and protected, WRITING ON THE WALL? “Were we adequately supplied and protected, the terror would be much less,” avers — Kaiser Health News/TNS the terror would be much less.” Martha Phillips. 6 GULF TIMES Tuesday, April 21, 2020 COMMUNITY Researchers of WCM-Q bag first position in the 12th Annual UREP

esearchers at Weill Cornell Medicine-Qatar (WCM-Q) recently bagged first position in the 12th Annual RUndergraduate Research Experience Programme (UREP), run by Qatar National Research Fund (QNRF). The project, titled ‘Role of the Human Gut Microbiota in Autism Spectrum Disorders and Inflammatory Bowel Diseases’ was led by Dr Ghizlane Bendriss, lecturer in biology. Her research team, comprising of two other faculty mentors and six students, was awarded first prize in recognition of the important achievements and outcomes of the project. WCM-Q is a member of Qatar Foundation. Working alongside Dr Bendriss, faculty members working on the STUDENT PARTICIPANTS: From left, Dana al-Ali, Zain Burney, and Nada Mhaimeed. project included Dr Dalia Zakaria, lecturer in biology at WCM-Q, and Dr Noha Yousri, Assistant Professor of Research in Genetic Medicine. The students, included Dana al-Ali, Ameena Shafiq, Nada Mhaimeed, Mohammed Salameh, Zain Burney, and Krishnadev Pillai. In this year’s UREP contest, 14 projects were selected for the final round out of an original pool of 46 projects produced by research teams at universities across Qatar. Students from each of the 14 shortlisted teams then presented their projects and the judging panel awarded prizes to the top three. Students Dana al-Ali and Ameena Shafiq were tasked with presenting the WCM-Q project to the panel of judges, a process which this year took place via videoconference because of the physical distancing STUDENT PARTICIPANTS: From left, Krishnadev Pillai, Mohammed Salameh, and Ameena Shafiq. rules in place to limit the spread of the coronavirus. Second place in this year’s contest was won by Texas The UREP contest is designed to A&M University at Qatar, and third promote research-based education place by Qatar University. Dana al-Ali, a third-year and hands-on learning, helping medical student, said, “We have been working on this project for students gain experience of team- about three years now and for it to compete and win was very surreal. based research and collaboration Our project was one of the first in Qatar studies to look into gut microbiota in Qatar, which made its results unique and new to Qatar. Of course, this very grateful to QNRF for their to all those who contributed to project would have not reached its continued support of the UREP this success with their support full potential without the support programme and for running this and guidance, including the IRB of QNRF, our mentors, especially inspiring contest, which does so office at WCM-Q and Dr Marco Dr Ghizlane, and my fellow team much to fuel the enthusiasm and Ameduri, Senior Associate Dean members, who worked tirelessly on ambition of young researchers at for Premedical Education and this project.” institutions all over Qatar.” Education City Collaborative Dr Khaled Machaca, Senior The UREP contest is designed to Curricular Affairs. This project- Associate Dean for Research, promote research-based education based learning was an opportunity Innovation and Commercialisation and hands-on learning, helping for our future doctors to gain at WCM-Q, said, “I offer my students gain experience of team- knowledge, practical skills and warmest congratulations to the based research and collaboration the inquisitive mindset needed winners for this extraordinary with faculty, postdoctoral fellows, to succeed in their careers. It achievement. This achievement graduate students, and other was also an occasion to explore highlights the superb calibre of undergraduates or research staff in this novel paradigm that links our students and faculty, and it Qatar. the gut microbiome to many is especially gratifying during Dr Ghizlane Bendriss said, modern diseases and to raise these extraordinary times as it “I am very proud of my team, awareness among the public of the demonstrates their outstanding as this project was not easy to latest discoveries by sharing the commitment to research. We are Dr Ghizlane Bendriss, lecturer in biology at WCM. implement, and I am grateful findings.” Tuesday, April 21, 2020 GULF TIMES 7 COMMUNITY Nepali women stay home, stay fit

Sushila Tamang

Sonu Tamang

can fight against the disease.” and a focused, permanent sense of By Usha Wagle Gautam Another Nepali expat, Nanu serenity and peace,” says Rai. Ghale, who has been living and Similarly, Jeena Tamang, a Nepali Jeni Rai working in Qatar at Hamad woman working in Qatar, has to go he Covid-19 pandemic International Airport for seven to work for six days a week but she is is not just a health years, tells that she might have strictly following the safety tips. She issue. It’s a profound been confined to her apartment wears gloves, masks and eyeglasses, shock to our societies but even then she exercises at and carries a sanitiser. “We have and economies. It has least an hour or two per day. “I regular temperature check-ups Tdrastically altered everyday life get bored inside. So I try to go for in our office. As we strictly follow as we know. And while we are all basic sports, staying at home. I health instructions, I don’t generally in it together, as it happens in throw volleyball on the wall and fear the infection. After my office any crisis or pandemic, women catch it. My time in quarantine shift, I play volleyball with friends, are being impacted by Covid-19 and isolation will for sure help me obviously keeping the distance.” An equally as well. Even sometimes losing more weight, increasing avid volleyball fan and a player who more, considering the house concentration, sharpening has taken part in many volleyball management as an add on. Nepali my memory, creativity and tournaments, Jeena says, “Volleyball community forms a large chunk of productivity at work,” she says. helps me improve my mood, expats living in Qatar. There are Working three days a week especially my self-confidence, over 20,000 Nepali women living and six hours a day, Jeni Rai lose weight and build muscle, thus with their families or working does yoga and play volleyball making me happier. I request all independently in the country. at home. “I am not really bored Nepali women in Qatar to strictly These women are well following during the quarantine. I do yoga follow the instructions.” the lockdown instructions in view on regular basis and perform Sonu Tamang has been living of coronavirus pandemic but are various exercises. Yoga helps in Qatar for six months and she still keeping themselves fit and you heal from any physical and is duly following the instructions mentally strong at home. mental stress. It reduces toxins and safety rules for pandemic. Sushila Tamang recently shifted and makes you feel happy. It helps She is in isolation and regularly to Qatar ‑ just about a month you heal. Yoga also helps improve performs yoga and plays ago before the pandemic took blood circulation, increases volleyball. She too is a volleyball over the world. As a security metabolism, activates joints, player. She has played over thirty guard she has to work two days reduces toxins, and stimulates official matches in Nepal. in a week but other wise stays at systems in addition to acquiring “If you feel tired of doing home. Against the indolence she’s the right body weight. It also exercise, listening to music while keeping herself fit via push-ups helps me understand myself much exercising can help you work out and jumping jacks. Back home in better and to go beyond limit. for a longer period of time and Nepal, she was a volleyball player. Yoga will help me to achieve a give you a certain push,” says Nanu Ghale “If we are physically fit, maybe we more positive outlook on life Tamang . 8 GULF TIMES Tuesday, April 21, 2020 COMMUNITY FASHION Fashion sustainability: stories of love for old clothes Lockdown is a great time to rediscover pieces already in your wardrobe. To mark Fashion Revolution Week, people share tales of long-lasting love for favourite items. By Jo Jones

ockdown is a great time Perette for its sheer joie de vivre. in Green Street, I knew we would to rediscover pieces Suzy Perette had a licence to make be friends for a while. This sari already in your wardrobe. copies of Christian Dior designs in will be shared, so my nieces and To mark Fashion the US in the 50s and I have several children, Inshallah, will also wear Revolution Week, the examples in my collection. All are it. Lorganisation, who are focused on impeccably made and although Just like other parts of my creating an ethical and sustainable they are about the same age as me culture, it’s a tribute to all those way forward for fashion, are the dresses are still as good as new. women in Bangladesh and their exploring new models of behaviour This dress is always ready for a skills in making something for clothes lovers across the globe. party. beautiful and made to last. At the start of this special week we Clothes can have such a celebrate 10 tales of long-lasting dramatic effect on mood and Dina Doerfel love for favourite items. dressing up definitely makes me In 1990 I found myself, at the feel happier. I particularly love age of 30, in a job that required Nikki Redcliffe vintage clothes of the 40s and 50s “professional office wear”. This My name is Nikki and I’m an for their quality, individuality and wasn’t really my thing so I found addict. A vintage clothing addict. enduring charm. it hard to find items that I found Asking me to write a love story to acceptable and also fitted the just one garment is like asking me Tahmina Begum requirement. to pick my favourite child. I have A sari for me isn’t just symbolic I shared my dilemma with my an awful lot of clothes and I love of my Bangladeshi culture. It’s also mum who was a hugely talented them all. a historic emblem of sustainability dressmaker – and 30 years later I During the coronavirus through fashion. Saris are simply still have, and wear, the beautiful lockdown my massive vintage extended pieces of material you tailored blazer that she made me. wardrobe has been a source of adorn your body with, in a myriad The jacket is a classic navy made endless comfort and joy. I’ve of ways. It can be worn when from wool suiting and is fully been able to play, guilt free, in washing the dishes, going for a lined, with two patch pockets, my dressing room to my heart’s walk or to your own wedding. two buttons and a flourish of content and a couple of nights a They’re timeless and generous in contrasting piping hidden on the week my partner and I “dress for the stories they lend. inside where the lining meets the dinner”. Even if dinner is only a One of my favourite saris is this fabric. Very Paul Smithesque. bowl of pasta we don our finest red and green georgette number. Mum died in 2017, but she lives threads and make it a special event. I’ve worn it to a Mehndi ceremony on not only in the memories the I’ve picked this late 1950s red and also when visiting Bangladesh family have, but also the clothes taffeta cocktail frock by Suzy recently. When I bought it, for £25 she made.

BIG DAYS: Isabelle Landicho in her wedding dress.

FAMILIAL WARMTH: Sue Rubinstein in her red wool jumper in the 1980s (left), and her daughter in the replacement, knitted by her grandmother from the same pattern. FUNCTION JUNCTION: Lily Pearmain in her work overalls. Tuesday, April 21, 2020 GULF TIMES 9 FASHION COMMUNITY Fashion sustainability: stories of love for old clothes

Isabelle Landicho glows cherry pink in the sun in an That’s simply because they are an At the risk of sounding like Aberystwyth charity shop. Mum, extension of me. I’m not trying to a hopeless romantic, it seemed at 80, still had the pattern and prove anything when I put them perfect for my item to be what immediately started knitting a on, there’s absolutely nothing I wore when I married the love replacement. aspirational about them. They just of my life. I wanted my wedding My daughter has become quite signal “work, now”. dress to be unique, hold a story attached to this new sweater, Trying to work without them and be representative of my home wearing it every day in the run-up just feels wrong. I took all three country – which is why my dress to the last election and now on pairs home for a wash recently, is designed and handmade in the Zoom calls while working at home and felt at a loss at the studio the Philippines by my mum’s school during lockdown. next day without them, barely friend, Therese Andaya. getting a single thing done. I can Working on the dress together Hakan Karaosman only conclude that the overalls are was so intimate, with countless These challenging and uncertain integral to my mindset and work. messages and phone calls across times remind us the importance the sea, so when I finally met of justice, empathy, well-being Laura Nash Therese in real life it was like and love. We need to rebuild the When my son, Roman, was meeting an old friend. fashion system by using social, born, my mother-in-law gave me I wanted a simple dress, not natural and creative resources a bundle of beautiful hand-me- just because I prefer a minimal constructively. down baby clothes, all lovingly aesthetic, but also because – and This custom-made silk shirt I handcrafted by her mother. The this seems unorthodox for a am wearing is from the 1970s. I clothes had been worn by my wedding dress – I wanted to wear inherited it from my father and husband and his sisters in the mid- something beautiful over and over have been cherishing it ever since. 1980s. again. The silk Gucci scarf was a gift I’m particularly fond of this from my mother-in-law who had little waistcoat which is now a Sue Rubinstein treasured this iconic piece in her staple in Roman’s spring wardrobe. This is a shaggy jumper story wardrobe since the 1970s. Last Not only is it beautifully made, it is of two identical knits. When I was but not least, I keep on proudly also reversible with a blue paisley a child my mum knitted a signal using and loving these jeans that I pattern on one side and red flowers red wool jumper for her younger purchased back in 2002. on the other. sister. My aunt wore it through These are some of my It has been so special to dress the 1960s as a young teacher in empowering pieces that remind Roman in these clothes as he is Cardiff and Canada then passed it me of my values and that inspire growing, knowing that they were on to me when I was at art college me to work harder in order to help worn by his dad and aunties and in the late 70s. I loved it and wore the fashion system become more have stood the test of time. it constantly in my freezing studio sustainable. Now his aunty Lily is taking the in Brighton. But after darning the baton during isolation and has elbows and cuffs it eventually fell Lily Pearmain made Roman some fabulous yellow apart and was consigned to the I don’t think about my work plaid trousers to add to the archive. MATERIAL GIRL: Tahmina Begum in her red and green georgette Sari. compost heap. overalls when I put them on. I Who knows, maybe Roman’s A couple of years ago I found a don’t think about how they make children will wear them one day. bundle of gorgeous red yarn which me feel or the fabric or the fit. – The Guardian

PARTY PIECE: Nicola Redcliffe in her late 1950s red taffeta cocktail dress by PASSING ON TO THE NEXT GENERATION: Roman (right) wears the waistcoat worn by his dad in his childhood (left). Suzy Perette. 10 GULF TIMES Tuesday, April 21, 2020 COMMUNITY PUBLIC SERVICE MESSAGE Tuesday, April 21, 2020 GULF TIMES 11 LIFESTYLE/HOROSCOPE COMMUNITY Interesting activities you can try from home during lockdown

id you know that foreign language, explore the one of the world’s world’s greatest museums or largest art museums, watch the best TV shows and The Louvre in Paris, movies, the document provides offers free virtual a comprehensive guide of things Dtours of several of its most that could keep you hooked. popular exhibits online? There In the languages section, are hundreds of other interesting it includes apps like Babbel, activities that you can engage in Duolingo and Memrise. Similarly, during this period that requires the exercises sections also us to stay at home. include some of the top apps Discovering these interesting used by people around the world activities has been made a lot like 8fit, Yoga Studio, among easier by Lisbon, Portugal-based others. Theritage Concierge which And if you want to use this provides lifestyle management & time to sharpen your culinary personal assistance services. skills, it tells you that you can The “WHAT’S UP – learn the skills from some of the Quarantine Special Edition” from top chefs in the world all for free. the luxury private members club Be it music, art or distance offers a user-friendly, interactive learning courses, the encyclopaedia of over 100 online “Quarantine Special Edition” activities to try from home. from Theritage Concierge has It’s smart links, allows you to something for everyone to navigate within the document explore. and directly connect you to the It can provide people with website of the venue, download ideas to reinvent themselves and the app or visualise that movie. keep them entertained – all the Whether you want to learn a while staying at home. – IANS

Aries Taurus Gemini March 21 — April 19 April 20 — May 20 May 21 — June 20

A friend or neighbour you need to contact could be in and out all This probably isn’t a good day to do work that concerns money, A lost object could have all the members of your household going day, Aries, and so you could have trouble reaching him or her. Phone Taurus. Your mind may not be in the right space. You could make through every room trying to find it, Gemini – probably without or e-mail probably won’t work, since your friend could be too busy errors that cause problems. If possible, also avoid working on any success. Visitors could pitch in as well and help with the search. The to check messages. The best way to make contact might be to hop kind of creative project, since your mind might not be very clear item is probably in a fairly large room that everybody uses, probably in the car and drive to wherever they might be. Take the side streets, and you probably won’t be happy with the results. However, this is a among other objects. If no one locates it, however, let it go for now. It however. The main roads are probably clogged with traffic! great day for routine work that doesn’t require much concentration. could reappear later as if by magic. Cancer Leo Virgo June 21 — July 22 July 23 — August 22 August 23 — September 22

This could be a very busy day in your community, Cancer. Some A future course of action that you may or may not take could Are you unhappy or uncertain about your current profession, Virgo? kind of rally, protest, or other public gathering might take place. If depend on information you might receive today, Leo. However, don’t Are you thinking of making a change? News could reach you today you attend, you may not hear much because of all the noise, and the be surprised if the information is vague and needs to be clarified. of possible avenues to explore, but you shouldn’t make any decision event could seem disorganised at best. It could also render traffic On top of it all, you might not be able to reach the person who can today. Your mind isn’t as objective as it should be to think through impossible! If you can, stay home today. Going out could be more clear it up for you! Hang in there. You’ll want to make up your mind everything. Think about it, by all means, but wait a day or two before trouble than it’s worth. Protest with your vote or your wallet instead. as soon as possible. giving serious consideration to anything vital. Libra Scorpio Sagittarius September 23 — October 22 October 23 — November 21 November 22 — December 21

Your natural psychic or intuitive abilities could be short-circuited The atmosphere around you could seem somewhat unreal today. Communication could take some extra effort today, Sagittarius. A today, Libra. Interference from the minds of other people could If you get a weird vibe from someone, Scorpio, take everything this business partner could seem like they’re keeping things from you. You cloud issues, and this won’t do you any good. Your imaginative person says with a grain of salt. He or she has an agenda and isn’t might get some uneasy vibes and wonder if there’s trouble with your faculties could be rather garbled as well. The best possible advice above distorting the truth to achieve it. If what they say doesn’t partnership. Don’t be afraid to ask. Your friend probably won’t tell you would be to take the day for your own needs. You can go back to affect you, don’t worry about it. If it does, take pains to learn the facts what the problem is, but will reassure you that it has nothing to do with your usual routine tomorrow. before acting on it. You’ll be glad you did. you. If so, it isn’t your business. Let it go. Capricorn Aquarius Pisces December 22 — January 19 January 20 — February 18 February 19 — March 20

Messages from a distant state or foreign country, possibly through Staying in touch with a partner could be difficult today, Aquarius, problems with the lighting or heating in your home, Pisces? If so, fax, e-mail, or website, might not be totally accurate, Capricorn. If any almost to the point of causing a minor panic. Don’t jump to any you might not be able to get a professional out today. There could information presented in this fashion sets off an alarm bell in your head, unwarranted conclusions about possible problems in the relationship. be problems in the entire neighbourhood. You might have to get out be sure to do some research on your own and check out the facts. Don’t What’s causing the silence is probably beyond your friend’s control, the candles and flashlights to get you through the evening. Don’t accept any news at face value today. The lines of human and technical and could well be related to sudden and unexpected crises, or possibly let this throw you. It’s a minor inconvenience that will be fixed soon. communication are definitely out of whack today. something as mundane as a computer breakdown. Are you having Think of it as an adventure! 12 GULF TIMES Tuesday, April 21, 2020 COMMUNITY CARTOONS/PUZZLES

Wordsearch Adam

Pooch Cafe

AMUNDSEN DRAKE SOTO DARWIN ROSS COOK NANSEN CABOT HUDSON BALBOA FLINDERS STANLEY DIAZ SCOTT DA_GAMA POLO COLUMBUS MAGELLAN BERING FRANKLIN

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, April 21, 2020 GULF TIMES 13 PUZZLES COMMUNITY

Super Cryptic Clues Colouring

Across Down 1 Policeman getting tough about 1 Earth-shattering organ (5) print-out (4,4) 2 Colourful display – one covered 5 Style of jazz with some extra by a brown form (7) drumming? (4) 3 A hundred over to be divided 8 Gore and Eisenhower are (5) similar (5) 4 Yielding one in factory (6) 9 Prisoners not out with friends 6 Think highly of large mammal (7) (5) 11 Be entertained by giant from 7 Scrap Mark did without (7) Asia (7) 10 Woman beginning to mourn 12 Turning a chunk of wood for first murder victim (5) modellers (5) 13 Road surface making snake 13 When one chooses a woven stop (7) fabric (2,4) 14 Rules for punishment in 15 Gerald, perhaps, looked fierce school (5) (6) 16 Was not happy about long 18 Father backed a horse – he’s a note (7) heathen (5) 17 Fitting person to follow tinker? 20 A supporter like this coming (6) round to the point (7) 19 Blush when injured by 23 Lose oar that’s tossed about animal’s horns? (5) in spray (7) 21 Bad scare in sporting events 24 After swindle leave African (5) river (5) 22 Sites for sights (5) 25 Neat sort of sum? (4) 26 Campaigns that could make Answers us scared (8) Wordsearch Codeword Solution 14 GULF TIMES Tuesday, April 21, 2020 COMMUNITY Technicians to superstars, everyone will re-evaluate post Covid-19: Nikkhil

By Arundhuti Banerjee

WITTY: makes witty comment on Salman ilmmaker Nikkhil Advani, Khan’s new song. who had several productions in the pipeline when the SRK on Salman’s corona song: ‘Bhai Covid-19 lockdown was kamaal ka single aur singer hai’ announced, says that the wholeF process of budgeting and Shah Rukh Khan’s trademark cryptic wit was working releasing a film will change once this overtime again on Monday afternoon, when he commented phase ends, keeping in mind social on ’s new song. distancing and viewing habit of the SRK’s quip came during an interactive Twitter session audience. with fans titled “#asksrk”, when a user asked him what he Asked about how he is holding up thought of the new song that Salman has released on the amid the lockdown, the founder of coronavirus outbreak, titled Pyaar karona. Emmay Entertainment said: “We “Bhai kamaal ka Single aur Singer hai...” was Shah Rukh’s had three films and six shows in the reply. pipelin. Everything is on hold now. Many fans feel SRK was playing a pun using the word Arjun (Kapoor) and Rakul’s film was “Single” – which could refer to the song, as well as on the floor. We were also shooting Salman’s bachelor status. “Bhai” could be a reference to two films – Satyameva Jayate 2 and Salman, of course, but Shah Rukh could also be addressing Mumbai Diaries. I am doing post the fan. (production) of Indoo Ki Jawani. Among several other interesting questions, SRK was “As a producer, of course I am asked who he would love to work with – Martin Scorsese affected, but what I am trying to or Christopher Nolan. His reply, again, was a cryptic one, do is, instead of thinking negative, and many users felt he is hinting at a possible collaboration I am working with my writers and with Rajkumar Hirani in the future. developing scripts. I am trying to finish Replying to the question about Scorsese or Nolan, Shah the post-production of those projects Rukh tweeted: “Wow both are awesome and I have met that we can sitting in the house” them... but Raju apna sa lagta hai... nahi?” – IANS shared Nikkhil. Under his banner Nikkhil delivered films like D-Day, Satyameva Jayate, Airlift, Batla House, and Marjaavaan among others. He has also produced the Netflix show Hasmukh, featuring Vir Das. Talking about one of the biggest problems the shooting process will CANDID: Nikkhil Advani believes we cannot fight change in these times. face in near future, Nikkhil said: “Maintaining social distancing on a home entertainment through OTT and small budget films. We plan the shooting floor is tough and that we platforms is another. Of course, it is budget based on the subject and have to incorporate in our lifestyle, in more convenient. From technicians to stars coming on board for the film. our work culture. From budgeting to superstars, everyone has to sit down As the viewing habit of our audience promoting and processing of a film, and re-evaluate. We are all going to is changing, we have to choose the everything is going to change post look at it as ‘pre-Covid 19’ and ‘post platform of release and the story lockdown. I do not think the formula Covid 19’. Nothing is going to be accordingly. That will surely change we were working with for long will be same!” the budgeting of a film. The definition relevant anymore.” Does he have any solution in mind? of stardom will also change. Running Citing an example, he said: “Even “We cannot fight the change. We have a production house is not easy, and if we want to release a film, will to change ourselves to deal with it. all I am doing is preparing myself to CARING: Mandana Karimi hopes no one goes to bed empty people go to the theatre to watch Every film cannot be an event film. deal with the new age that is coming!” stomach. it? Social distancing is one factor, There are high-budget, mid-budget Nikkhil signed off. – IANS Mandana distributes food to the needy Anushka lists benefits of work-from-home arrangement Actress Mandana Karimi is distributing food among the needy from her cloud kitchen in the time of Covid-19 With most employers allowing their staff to work pandemic. from home amid the coronavirus lockdown, actress “Well, I wanted to be able to reach out to people who Anushka Sharma has pointed at the benefits of such an need help. There are a few friends of mine in Bandra who arrangement. are doing lot to help people in need of food. I got in touch “I read that some companies are work from home with them and sent them the food and whatever was there as a new norm. Can you imagine how much it will at my place from my cloud kitchen Mandana’ kitchen,” she lessen traffic and burden on infrastructure to contain said. Mandana hopes no one “goes to bed empty stomach the demands of traffic apart from cutting costs for the and everyone has shelter during such times”. companies as well. Food for thought this morning. Good “The lockdown means different to different sectors of morning,” Anushka wrote on Instagram. people. And we are all in it together to fight this pandemic. Apart from this, Anushka and her husband, Indian We are not going to relent back from helping. Let’s stay cricket captain Virat Kohli, have pledged to support home, stay safe and fight this epidemic,” she said. the Prime Minister’s Relief Fund and Chief Minister’s Mandana started her career in Bollywood with a guest (Maharashtra) Relief Fund in the ongoing battle against appearance in the film Roy She was later seen in Bhaag the Covid-19 pandemic. Johnny, Main Aur Charles, and . A source in the industry said that Virat and Anushka — IANS have jointly donated Rs3 crore towards Covid-19 relief. POSITIVE: Anushka Sharma says working from home will – IANS lessen traffic and burden on infrastructure. Tuesday, April 21, 2020 GULF TIMES 15 HOLLYWOOD COMMUNITY

Johnson feels lockdown had he felt “wobbly” the first two weeks of positive effect on his marriage quarantine as he felt unsure of the future, but he “realised kinda quickly how critical Hollywood star Dwayne Johnson says it was for (him and his wife) to be ultra “self-quarantining” amid the coronavirus considerate, caring and empathetic of one pandemic has had a positive effect on his another”. marriage. “Be even better listeners. Even better The actor, who is self-isolating at communicators. Recognise that during home with his wife Lauren Hashian, these times, we’re not operating at full daughters Jasmine Lia, 4, and Tiana Gia, brain & emotional EQ capacity as we 2, opened up about how he and Hashian usually are,” he said. are maintaining a healthy relationship on Throughout his experience at home, Instagram when a fan asked how social however, the former professional wrestler distancing has been affecting his marriage, said his wife is “the best” and that the reports people.com two “try to go easy on each other, to go Through a video message, Johnson light and not get too judgy”. He also gave a explained that he and Hashian have piece of advice about what to do when you been “doing (their) best” amid the get “short-tempered” with a quarantine circumstances. partner. While he admitted that the two “are “Grab your partner by the shoulders, going through dumb” and occasionally like I grabbed Lauren. Look them directly “get snippy” with one another, he feels in the eyes and say with full conviction, that “the quarantine has had a very “baby, you’re not wrong”. You’re just not positive effect on my relationship and my used to being right’ and then count the marriage”. seconds it takes for you both to belly laugh The 47-year-old star explained that your assess off,” he joked. – IANS CONSIDERATE: Dwayne Johnson says that he and his wife try to go easy on each other. Finding comfort in the sounds of ‘70s California soft rock soaring, soulful tenor delivers a many of the previously unissued By Randall Roberts series of questions: “Where did demos and takes on Heritage II: you go when things went wrong, Demos/Alternate Takes 1971-1976 baby? Who did you run to and find hit with a certain weirdness. Since uring a moment in a shoulder to lay your head upon? they weren’t recorded for release, which the ability Wasn’t I there and didn’t I take odd accents such as use of ARP to remain calm is good care of you?” 2600 synthesiser on the Mandy disconcertingly Apparently not, because demo adds a surreality. The connected to the Hatfield’s singing this song as if outtake of Tin Man is a revelation. Dsize of your Purell and paper his very existence depended on As with the hit version, this towel stockpile, the sanitised her, and she’s got nothing to say. one employed longtime Beatles pop sounds of 1970s Southern When the brass and full band kick studio-dwellers producer George California can project an inherent in, sound roars from the speakers. Martin and engineer Geoff comfort. Who needs musical (One clue on why she might have Emerick. But this one strips away aggression, after all, when there’s left comes in a later verse, when all of the singing save the backing a relentless, invisible enemy he insults her by singing, “Maybe vocals. The effect reveals the lurking outside your window? I was too good to you,” but nuance beneath the singing – and The Grammy-nominated whatever.) makes it a hot pick for your next Los Angeles imprint Omnivore Does the drummed rhythm of stuck-at-home karaoke session. couldn’t have foreseen the coming Oo Wee Baby, I Love You sound The Burbank-born Gold, who Covid-19 coronavirus when it like the one in the Beatles’ Get played on some of America’s commissioned a trio of soft- Back? Absolutely. That’s because sessions over the years, was ish rock releases by America, Ringo Starr does the pounding the son of Oscar-nominated Andrew Gold and the Righteous across the Stay With Me sessions, composer Ernest Gold and landed Bros.’ Bobby Hatfield, but the alongside Klaus Voorman (bass), two smash middle-of-the-road timing couldn’t be better for their Kooper (keyboards and guitar), hits in the 1970s: Lonely Boy and release. Crazy times require non- Rolling Stones saxophonist Bobby Thank You for Being a Friend. A crazy music. Keys and more. In fact, at times prodigious instrumentalist, he Sanity permeates Hatfield’s Stay with Me is too hard to be a played with Cher, Bonnie Raitt, Stay with Me: The Richard Perry soft-rock record. But when it the Eagles, Linda Ronstadt, Sessions. Recorded after the end does move to gentleness, it’s with Jackson Browne and dozens more of the Righteous Bros.’ run of purpose: Hatfield’s take on Cole before he died in 2011. hits (most famously Unchained Porter’s In the Still of the Night The stuff on Gold’s Something Melody and You’ve Lost That feels designed for quarantine New: Unreleased Gold rolls with Lovin’ Feelin”), the collection comfort. Beatle-esque ease and sounds gathers extant recordings he made Best known for hits such as like Father John Misty minus with famed Los Angeles producer A Horse with No Name, Ventura the irony. A songwriter whose Richard Perry. Highway and Tin Man, the Los appreciation for a seamless Perry, whose early production Angeles band America is an pop song suggests a kinship credits include Captain Beefheart’s archetype of Southern California with classicists such as Billy Safe As Milk, Tiny Tim’s God Bless musical tranquility. With Joel, Randy Newman and Adam Tiny Tim and Harry Nilsson’s harmonies that soar like seagulls Schlesinger, Gold loved a good Nilsson Schmilsson, liked to add and a country-tinged twang that melody as much as he loved a flair to his production. The first few suggests wide open space, the trio hook, and these stripped-down measures of Stay with Me don’t hint was one of the most successful (and versions reveal a writer who at the barrage to come: a stress-free critically dismissed) bands of the understood how to structurally MUSICIAN: Andrew Gold in 1970s loved a good melody as much as he loved guitar-and-keyboard duet glides in, early 1970s. engineer a song. – Los Angeles a hook. courtesy of Al Kooper, as Hatfield’s Nearly a half-century later, Times/TNS 16 GULF TIMES Tuesday, April 21, 2020 COMMUNITY “What are you uniquely learning from staying home?” Empowerment coach Elizabeth Wood speaks about the need of reprogramming and reframing during the health crisis

work-flow and take it day by day. By By Mudassir Raja choice, I no longer see my clients at “My take on the my office. Rather we meet online via Zoom for their one-to-one sessions. health crisis is t is believed that if we look As for my group-coaching gatherings closely enough, we will find usually held in public spaces, I host simply a shift in solutions within our problems weekly webinars for my followers and difficulties. But this and develop customised programmes my own mindset. I depends on how we react to a online for corporate communities. Idifficult situation and bring about a “There has been a strong sense reprogramme my solution. One may not be able to avoid of increased solidarity and support the difficulty but one can definitely from the community, and more than mind consciously face it with the right kind of attitude. ever my regular attendees have been The current novel coronavirus meeting up online for their weekly and reframe what I pandemic, affiliated economic dose of positivity and personal woes, and disturbing phenomenon growth.” understand as crisis of social distancing are some of In response to a question that the problems that people cannot how she views the health crisis and to something else simply avoid. They, however, can resultant social change, Elizabeth react to the challenges with the right said: “My take on the health crisis is – something that attitude that brings about workable simply a shift in my own mindset. I solutions and helps cope with the reprogramme my mind consciously serves me better. I change. and reframe what I understand as British expatriate Elizabeth Wood is crisis to something else – something chose to take it as an a life and empowerment coach. In her that serves me better. I chose to interaction with Community she has take it as an opportunity to grow opportunity to grow shared how she has been conducting during this time, to re-align with herself while staying at home and my values, to practise patience and during this time, to re- what she has to convey to people resilience. being a life coach. “I do not mean that these things align with my values, “My core values are curiosity, come without challenges, indeed they connection and inclusivity. I moved do. However I choose to look at this to practise patience to Qatar from England in 2009 as a with different lenses that serve me fresh graduate, and worked for one of rather than drag me down. Regarding and resilience” the largest corporate organisations for changing social norms, my take on it is almost 10 years in the field of public adaptation and resilience. I do what I — Elizabeth Wood relations and communications. can to manage with the resources and “I explored a rapid career change potential I have. Instead of focusing and opened Inspire Me – a coaching, on what I do not have, I approach the mentoring and consultancy situation with the questions; what do company – after hiring a life-coach I have? What can I do with that right for myself to discover what my now?” true calling is. I also value fresh When asked what piece of advice knowledge and continuous personal she would like to share with people, development causing me to seek the British coach said: “Rather than more education in human behaviour, offering advice, as a coach, I will leadership and coaching. For the last ask thought-provoking questions three years, I have been studying for others to empower themselves what makes people tick, how they through their own awareness. Advice are motivated and inspired, and for one person may not be the perfect most importantly how they take solution for someone with a totally massive action to live a purposeful different experience of life. life aligned with their core values “As an expert of your own life, and potential. My coaching clients what are you uniquely learning from are from all around the world, staying home? How does that learning diverse industries, and socio- align with your core values? What economic backgrounds with unique resources do you have that you can human aspirations and beliefs.” personally control? If you were able to When asked how she has been be positive about the outbreak, what managing the new normal of staying would that feel like? What is new at home, the life coach said: “I have awareness are you noticing? ” been spending my time at home enjoying different roles of a mother, Readers are welcome to attend wife, mom-schooler and coach, which Elizabeth’s free weekly webinars is not a big change from a regular every Tuesday evening via Zoom day outside of the current world- from 6:30pm-7:30pm. Follow on challenges. I have been adapting to the Instagram @inspiremeqa, for WEBINAR: The empowerment coach says that webinar attendees have been consistently meeting up online changes of online communication and updates [email protected] for their weekly dose of positivity and personal growth.