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Humanitarian Services Offi ce (Single window facility for the repatriation of bodies) Ministry of Interior 40253371, 40253372, 40253369 Ministry of Health 40253370, 40253364 Incredibles 2 of Holly Hunter) is in the spotlight, Jack’s emerging superpowers. When Hamad Medical Corporation 40253368, 40253365 DIRECTION: Brad Bird leaving Bob (voice of Craig T. Nelson) a new villain hatches a brilliant and Qatar Airways 40253374 CAST: Holly Hunter, Craig T. Nelson, at home with Violet (voice of Sarah dangerous plot, the family and Frozone Sarah Vowell, Huck Milnen, Samuel L. Vowell) and Dash (voice of Huck Milner) must fi nd a way to work together again, Jackson to navigate the day-to-day heroics of which is easier said than done, even SYNOPSIS: Everyone’s favourite ‘normal’ life. It’s a tough transition for when they’re all Incredible. family of superheroes is back in everyone, made tougher by the fact that Incredibles 2 but this time Helen (voice the family is still unaware of baby Jack- THEATRES: The Mall, Landmark ote Unquo u te Q The Mall Cinema (1): Teen Titans Royal Plaza Cinema Palace (1): “Better three hours too Go (2D) 2:30pm; Saheb Biwi Aur Hotel Transylvania 3: A Monster Gangster 3 (Hindi) 4:30pm; Teen Vacation (2D) 2pm; Teen Titans Go soon than a minute too late.” Titans Go (2D) 7pm; Mohini (Tamil) (2D) 3:45pm; Mission Impossible 8:45pm; Saheb Biwi Aur Gangster 3 Go (2D) 2:15pm; Teen Titans Go 6: Fall Out (2D) 5:30pm; Mission (Hindi) 11:15pm. (2D) 4pm; Teefa In Trouble (Urdu) Impossible 6: Fall Out (3D) 8:15pm; — William Shakespeare The Mall Cinema (2): Hotel 5:45pm; Dhadak (Hindi) 8:30pm; Mission Impossible 6: Fall Out (2D) Transylvania 3: A Monster Vacation Happy Wedding (Telugu) 11pm. 11pm. (2D) 2pm; Hotel Transylvania 3: A Landmark Cinema (2): Mission Royal Plaza Cinema Palace (2): Monster Vacation (2D) 3:45pm; Impossible 6: Fall Out (2D) 2:30pm; Teen Titans Go (2D) 2:15pm; Mamma Mission Impossible 6: Fall Out (2D) Mission Impossible 6: Fall Out (2D) Mia: Here We Go Again (2D) 4pm; 5:30pm; Mission Impossible 6: Fall 5:30pm; Mission Impossible 6: Fall Dhadak (Hindi) 6:15pm; Junga Out (2D) 8pm; Mission Impossible 6: Out (2D) 8:15pm; Mission Impossible (Tamil) 8:45pm; Happy Wedding Fall Out (2D) 11pm. 6: Fall Out (2D) 11pm. (Telugu) 11:30pm. Community Editor The Mall Cinema (3): Junga (Tamil) Landmark Cinema (3): The Royal Plaza Cinema Palace (3): Kamran Rehmat 2:15pm; The Incredibles 2 (2D) 5pm; Incredibles 2 (2D) 3pm; Hotel Mission Impossible 6: Fall Out (2D) e-mail: [email protected] Mission Impossible 6: Fall Out (2D) Transylvania 3: A Monster Vacation 2:15pm; Teen Titans Go (2D) 5pm; Telephone: 44466405 7pm; Skyscraper (2D) 9:45pm; (2D) 5:15pm; Teen Titans Go (2D) Mission Impossible 6: Fall Out (2D) Happy Wedding (Telugu) 11:30pm. 7pm; Junga (Tamil) 8:45pm; Mohini 6:45pm; Skyscraper (2D) 9:15pm; Fax: 44350474 Landmark Cinema (1): Teen Titans (Tamil) 11:30pm. Mohini (Tamil) 11pm. Sunday, July 29, 2018 GULF TIMES 3 ROUND & ABOUT COMMUNITY

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It only means more piano, guitar and drums, to visualise WHEN: Wednesday – Monday WHERE: The Westin Doha Hotel and singing, playing and dancing for the sweet child’s limitless imagination and bring it to Learn the movements of dance styles Spa little ones aged 3 years and above. creative visuals through art and craft. This in Bollywood, Hip Hop and also the WHEN: Ongoing till August 25 camp will develop their communication musical instruments such as Piano, Guitar, TIME: 9am – 1pm Summer Activity skills through training in public speaking Keyboard for adults as well kids and move Enjoy a morning of moving, eating and WHERE: Aspire Zone along with hip hop dance, warm up in the world of music. For details, contact feeling well with a 60 minutes yoga session WHEN: Ongoing till August 15 exercises, karate and yoga. 66523871/ 31326749. balanced with healthy breakfast bites TIME: 8am – 2pm followed by time to revitalise by the pool. 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Compiled by Nausheen Shaikh. E-mail: [email protected], Events and timings subject to change 4 GULF TIMES Sunday, July 29, 2018 COMMUNITY COVER STORY “The definition of a so-called hero is changing” — Rajkummar Rao, Bollywood actor

I always wanted to feel like an actor and I don’t understand the term quintessential hero of ‘ Hindi films

SUNDAY’ CONVERSATION

VERSATILE: Rajkummar Rao has three films coming up where he plays diff erent roles. Sunday, July 29, 2018 GULF TIMES 5 COVER STORY COMMUNITY

“There are people who approach me for a film telling me that it’s a typical hero film but I always tell them that rather telling me it’s a hero film, tell me about name and characteristics of that character”

ctor Rajkummar Rao for Stree, the actor said, “It’s an feels with the kind unusual fi lm where we had so much of pace the cinema fun shooting for it. The entire team is changing, “the of this fi lm was living like a family defi nition of a so- in Chanderi and Bhopal. It’s a small Acalled hero is also changing” town, but we had no complaints as In an interview, Rajkummar also we were just focusing on making a said he was happy and content good fi lm.” with the way his fi lm journey was “We all are really proud of this shaping up for the last few years. fi lm and now I hope the audience On his upcoming releases, he will give a lot of support and laugh said: “Fanney Khan is my second that this fi lm totally deserves,” he release of the year 2018 after added. Omerta and Stree is next, for which Stree is a horror comedy written I am equally excited. After that, by Raj Nidimoru and Krishna D.K. I have Ek Ladki Ko Dekha To Aisa It is directed by Amar Kaushik and Laga. produced by Raj Nidimoru, Krishna “So I am very happy the way D.K. and Dinesh Vijan under the it’s going and the way my fi lm banner of Maddock Films. journey is shaping up. It’s a humble The fi lm also stars Shraddha beginning for the year and I just Kapoor in a lead role and is wish this year also brings same scheduled to release on August 31. amount of happiness and work Meanwhile, Mouni Roy, who is satisfaction for me like last year.” set to play Rajkummar’s wife in the On the response to the Fanney upcoming fi lm Made in China, and Khan trailer, Rajkummar said: “I am the actress of Naagin fame says he really happy with the overwhelming is a tremendous actor. response to the trailer. I have always FRESH PAIRING: Rajkummar will be seen in Fanney Khan with Aishwarya Rai-Bachchan. “I think Rajkummar is a been a big fan of Anil Kapoor and tremendous actor and I have always Aishwarya Rai Bachchan. It’s a as we have completed the London Kapoor, Pankaj Tripathi, What is hero? We are not heroes… looked up to his work. I can’t wait really sweet fi lm made by a great schedule of that fi lm. It has been Aparshakti Khurana, Abhishek heroes are people who are fi ghting to start working with him. I am team and I am playing a very a really nice experience shooting Banerjee, director Amar Kaushik, for us on borders. We are just doing even more ecstatic to be a part of beautiful character in it. the fi lm. We all are excited about fi lm distributor Anil Thadani, our job that’s it,” he added. Maddock Films,” Mouni said. “People are praising the it, including me, Ekta Kapoor and music composer Sachin-Jigar and Rajkummar is known as the Made in China will start rolling character of Anil Kapoor Sir in the Kangana because it’s a wonderful producers Raj Nidimoru, Krishna face of real Hindi cinema after his in September in Mumbai and then fi lm, and the chemistry between script. Since the narration of this D.K and Dinesh Vijan. critically acclaimed performances travel to Gujarat and China. The Aishwarya Rai and me is also being fi lm, I was game for it.” Asked whether he ultimately in Citylights, Shahid and Newton. fi lm will be directed by Gujarati appreciated.” On working with Kangana, with feels like a hero of Hindi fi lms Asked whether he feels the director Mikhil Musale. After the Rakeysh Omprakash whom he has earlier worked with in as he has featured in a number defi nition of a Hindi fi lm hero This is Rajkummar’s second Mehra directorial, Anil and Queen, Rajkummar said: “It is a lot of successful fi lms and won has changed in the last few years, collaboration with Dinesh Vijan of Rajkummar will share screen space of fun working with her. We know prestigious awards, Rajkummar he said, “I totally agree with that Maddock Films after Stree. in Ek Ladki Ko Dekha To Aisa Laga. each other from many years. Queen said, “I don’t know how a hero because with the kind of pace “We wanted someone who’d “People are saying there is a new was a game changer for her and it is feels honestly. I feel like an actor cinema is changing, I feel the connect with the heartland and couple in town in the form of both one of my most popular fi lms. We and I wanted to be an actor. I defi nition of a so-called hero is also Mouni, a typical Indian beauty, of us and I am completely okay with are really good friends. always wanted to feel like an actor changing. has a huge fan following. She has a it. I have no problem with that,” he “We discuss a lot on set about and I don’t understand the term “Therefore, we all see that an strong personality but gentle eyes quipped. enacting every scene in a better quintessential hero of Hindi fi lms.” actor like Aamir Khan Sir plays the and is a good dancer,” Vijan said. Rajkummar has just returned manner.” “There are people who approach character of a 50-year-old father “She has started working on her from a London shooting schedule Rajkummar says that he doesn’t me for a fi lm telling me that it’s a in Dangal. There is an action genre Gujarati dialect. Rajkummar will of Mental Hai Kya, which also stars understand the term quintessential typical hero fi lm but I always tell where you have to do stunts and start preparing soon and knowing Kangana Ranaut. hero in Hindi fi lms. them that rather telling me it’s a show your body…then, you might the chameleon that he is, I’m sure “We are on the verge of fi nishing At the trailer launch of Stree hero fi lm, tell me about name and call it as ‘hero’ fi lm.” he’ll quickly get under the skin of the shooting of Mental Hai Kya along with co-actors Shraddha characteristics of that character. Sharing his experience shooting the character,” he added. — IANS 6 GULF TIMES Sunday, July 29, 2018 COMMUNITY BOOK REVIEW Squeezed, an insightful analysis of class dynamics in the US Drawing from social science research, Alissa Quart points out that people’s perception of wealth, poverty and status is shaped by the local environment they are in and those around them.

VIVID: The stories of injustice build one on top of another, make the reader feel claustrophobic, walled in by the anxiety, debt, overwork and isolation, so vividly described by the author.

they are assigned to work on-call or American parents, “It can seem as if rotating work shifts, according to the we are being asked to work jobs we Economic Policy Institute. hate to support families we rarely see At times, Squeezed can feel like an and therefore don’t really know.” anxiety-inducing plane trip, marked Quart, a columnist for the by nonstop turbulence. The stories of Guardian newspaper and executive injustice build, one on top of another, editor of the non-profi t Economic until the reader feels claustrophobic, Hardship Reporting Project, does not walled in by the anxiety, debt, produce a grand theory explaining overwork and isolation so vividly the growing precarity of middle- described. class life. Nor does she off er an DECONSTRUCTION: Alissa Quart lucidly recounts wrenching stories of economic hardships, while meticulously Quart off ers heart breaking emancipatory alternative to the deconstructs some of the prevailing myths about middle-class life in the United States. portraits of women who conceal economic prison she describes. their pregnancy bumps, or who Yet Squeezed stands out for its deconstructing some of the one of a growing number of round- do not get pregnant at all, to avoid insightful analysis of class dynamics By Chris Serres prevailing myths about middle-class the-clock day care centres fi lling being penalised in the workplace. In in the United States. Drawing from life in the United States. the ‘parenting vacuum’ created by high-priced cities, a growing number social science research, she points Quart takes readers on an intimate unconventional work schedules. The of people are co-parenting by living out that people’s perception of n the wealthiest journey, inside living rooms and children sleep on thin mattresses with others and sharing duties wealth, poverty and status is shaped US cities, public workplaces across the nation, and laid over yoga mats and celebrate because they no longer can aff ord to by the local environment they are in school teachers are shows how even highly educated birthdays with their day and night raise their children themselves, Quart and those around them. There is a moonlighting as Uber workers, including lawyers, care friends. Caregivers at Dee’s Tots reports. class-based alienation that comes drivers to make ends academics, journalists and nurses tuck in children as their parents start While a number of cities, including with living in overpriced cities, where 0meet. Adjunct professors are have become trapped within a system their night shifts, and then scramble Minneapolis and St Paul, have even people with upper-middle- drowning in so much student debt that reinforces economic injustices to prepare breakfast before the adopted paid sick leave policies, class incomes can feel priced out of that they rely on food stamps. and inequality. They are members of morning rush arrives at 6am. enabling workers to take time off to their own communities. And across the US, children are what she calls the ‘middle precariat’, The rise of such centres, what tend to family medical needs, the The Uber-driving professionals spending their days, and nights, people who thought that years of Quart calls ‘extreme day care’, refl ects American workplace remains largely who believed that a degree plus years in 24-hour child care centres work and an advanced degree would deeper changes coursing through hostile to families, Quart argues. of work would result in success are designed to accommodate the erratic lead to status and success, but who the American workforce, resulting Only 13 percent of private-sector suff ering from a sense of profound schedules of their overworked instead fi nd themselves barely able to from the disempowerment of labour workers get paid family leave through disillusionment. They are likely to parents. scrape by amid stagnant wages and unions and the expansion of ‘just- their employers. One recent study blame themselves (and not global In Squeezed: Why Our Families rising costs for child care, housing in-time’ scheduling by companies. found that, even if women aren’t market forces or the fast-changing Can’t Aff ord America, Alissa Quart and education. Only a minority of Americans now harassed or pushed out of their jobs labour market) for the fact that lucidly recounts these and other Writing in a sharp-edged tone, have a normal fi ve-day, 40 hour for their ‘good news’, their salaries they will not be able to pass on their wrenching stories of economic Quart introduces us to Dee’s Tots workweek. At least 17 percent have are reduced by 7 percent per child. social status to their children. – Star hardship, while meticulously Child Care in New Rochelle, NY, unstable work schedules, meaning Quart laments that, for her and many Tribune/TNS Sunday, July 29, 2018 GULF TIMES 7 ENVIRONMENT COMMUNITY

CLEANER: Joan Adrover has been working as a trash fisher for the Spanish island of Mallorca for 14 years. He and 14 others pick up several tonnes of rubbish from the oceans every year. Trash fishers in Mallorca help keep waters clean for tourists

450,000 euros (527,000 dollars) collected By Patrick Schirmer Sastre from tourist taxes. For Balearic Tourism Minister Bel Busquets, the project is an example of oan Adrover carefully manoeuvres how taxes can be used to off set the carbon his 8-metre-long cutter right up footprint of tourists. “With this project, we to the rocks of a deserted bay on protect the environment and can off er our Mallorca’s east coast. visitors clean beaches.” He grabs a fi shing net and steps Mallorca is also working to decrease trash Jinto the water. With a swift, practised levels by making it compulsory for coff ee movement, the Spaniard fi shes a plastic capsules, plastic bags and plastic utensils to canister out from between the rocks. He then be biodegradable. The hotels on the island climbs back onto the gas-fuelled boat and are also being asked to off er free water from heads back out onto the open sea. drink dispensers instead of giving out plastic The 54-year-old is a trash fi sher. From the bottles. beginning of May until the end of September, Some hotels are going above and beyond: his boat is one of 14 that roam the waters The Mallorcan Melia group doesn’t want around the Balearic Island every day to pick to stop using disposable plastic just on the up trash from beaches and bays. island, but in its hotels around the world. In the fi rst two months of this season water,” he says.He’s responsible for the coast the trash fi shers. The worst time is when “Instead we off er water dispensers and alone, Adrover and the others have collected between Cala Romantica and Costa dels Pins the siroccos, south-east winds on the glasses or carafes. Straws are made of paper, more than seven tonnes of rubbish from the on the eastern side of island. Once in a while, Mediterranean, blow for two or three days. but are only given out if the guest expressly waters, according to fi gures from the local however, Adrover says he fi nds the most “Then all the trash comes from Algeria,” asks for them,” a spokeswoman said. Environmental Ministry. unexpected of objects washed ashore. says Adrover as he pulls a small bag from the The Cursach hotel group has also done Compared with 2017, it’s a modest fi gure: “The most macabre fi nd was defi nitely a water. away with straws at its hotel complex in the In July 2017 alone, nine tonnes of garbage human leg that had been hacked off below the “You can’t read what it says any more tourist stronghold Magaluf, saving 1.7 million were hoisted from the waters of Mallorca. knee and was still wearing a shoe,” he recalls. because it’s been in the water for so long, but straws every year. At the Mega Park beer About 40 per cent of it was plastic, and 35 per That was two years ago, he says, and he called it’s an Algerian milk bag,” he says – and he garden, which also belongs to the group, such cent wood. the police right away. should know, as he collects about 3,000 to steps have yet to be taken, says a spokesman, The trash fi shers also perform other tasks A motorcycle, part of a sperm whale 4,000 from the waters every year. though eco-friendly alternatives are being when the situation calls for it: For example, skeleton and a refrigerator from Croatia are It’s not just the waters of Mallorca that are sought out. in May, poisonous Portuguese man o’ also among the more memorable items he’s getting a scrubbing – the land is as well. Since Meanhile, Adrover continues to sail along war jellyfi sh were spotted off the coast of found on his patch. March, about 40 long-term unemployed the coast. Nearly always alone, his only Mallorca. The fi shermen were sent to pull Despite what one might think, it’s not people have been cleaning the coasts on connection to the land is his mobile phone. the creatures from the waters and prevent tourists on the island beloved by German and behalf of the local government. The trash fi sher loves his job, and it’s no them from stinging tourists. Adrover has British tourists who are responsible for most As of mid-June, they had gathered more wonder: “It’s peaceful here, and my children been doing this job for 14 years. “For the of the trash. than 23 tonnes of trash so far this year. The are proud, because papa is cleaning the most part it’s about off ering tourists clean Most of it comes from North Africa, say regional executive is funding the project with ocean,” he says. – DPA 8 GULF TIMES Sunday, July 29, 2018 COMMUNITY TECHN Bringing sense of touch, ‘Electronic skin’ developed at Johns Hopkins allows amputees to feel sensations in prosthet

SUCCESS: The experiment marked for the first time that an amputee could feel a range of benign physical pressures through a prosthetic device.

hen Gyorgy Levay they felt to him like some alien rubber sheath laced with sensors that with life,” he said in a statement. rapidly over the past decade and a half. lost parts of all attachments. the team called ‘e-dermis’, on the The experiment marked the fi rst It wasn’t until about four years four extremities, Thanks to a team of researchers fi ngertips of his prosthetic left hand, time that an amputee could feel a ago, though, that researchers at including most at Johns Hopkins University, he has Levay picked up several small rounded range of benign physical pressures Case Western Reserve University in of his left arm, to learned what they might feel like if objects, and then tested the same with through a prosthetic device. Cleveland and elsewhere began taking meningitisW in 2010, he resolved to they were part of him. Levay was a sharply pointed object. “For the fi rst time, a prosthesis steps toward imbuing prosthetic make the best of a bad situation. the principal volunteer subject in a When picking up the rounded can provide a range of perceptions, devices with touch. He mastered his state-of-the-art two-year study at the university that objects, he felt various levels of from fi ne touch to noxious touch, to Those researchers achieved their prosthetic replacements. He switched endowed an artifi cial limb with the physical pressure whilst with the an amputee, and this makes it much results by affi xing electronic sensors the focus of his graduate studies from capacity to feel pressure and pain. pointed object, the pain was felt. more like a human hand,” said Thakor, to prosthetic limbs. These tiny devices electrical to biomedical engineering. Led by Luke Osborn and Nitish To Levay, it felt as though a lifeless the co-founder of Infi nite Biomedical could register touch, translate it into The native Hungarian even found it Thakor, a graduate student and appendage, his left hand and arm, Technologies, a small Baltimore- electronic signals and send the signals interesting how he continued to feel professor in Johns Hopkins’ were born again. based company that supplied the across a set of wires to the appropriate sensations from the hand he no longer biomedical engineering department, “Normally my ‘hand’ feels a bit like prosthetic hardware for the study. locations in what remained of the possessed. the team developed a form of a hollow shell. When these electronic A paper on the study appeared in users’ limbs. But like most amputees, he felt ‘electronic skin’ that registers touch in stimulations started happening, it the journal Science Robotics recently. Every pioneering experiment something was missing. Because his the same way the human body does. felt a bit like fi lling a glove with water, The advances are the latest in an has its limitations, and these were prosthesis had no sense of touch, Wearing that ‘skin’, a fabric-and- almost as though it were fi lling up area of research that has expanded no exception. The process required Sunday, July 29, 2018 GULF TIMES 9 OLOGY COMMUNITY pain to prosthetic hands tic hands. By Jonathan M. Pitts

PREVIOUS EXPERIMENTS: Previously the process required invasive surgery, electrodes had to be implanted in the residual limbs to receive the signals and MAPPING: The researchers have used ‘sensory mapping’ for E-dermis, probing every square centimetre of the subject’s transmit them across the nervous system. residual limb and noting where the subject felt each of those touches on his phantom hand.

invasive surgery, electrodes had to “We knew what an electrical pulse be implanted in the residual limbs to for pain looks like, as well as pulses receive the signals and transmit them that convey information of pressure, across the nervous system and the texture and so forth,” he said. “We work provided only a narrow range of created similar pulses and matched pressure sensations. them against what the subjects The Hopkins team set out to expand actually perceive.” the menu of sensations provided, up The next challenge was to ensure to and including pain, a category of that the system was spatially accurate, feeling that, while always unpleasant, that is, that if contact occurs on the serves a crucial survival function. prosthetic index fi nger, the brain “Pain is a sensation we use to perceives it as coming from that spot. protect our bodies,” Osborn said. They achieved this through “We can take it for granted, and we ‘sensory mapping’, probing every certainly don’t always like it, but it square centimetre of the subject’s serves as a warning system, helping us residual limb and noting where the avoid harmful events.” subject felt each of those touches on The team, which included members his phantom hand. from the Johns Hopkins departments The process allowed Osborn and of electrical engineering, computer company to wire the sensor on the engineering and neurology, turned to index fi nger, for example, directly to biology for its model. the nerve in the residual limb that The sensory receptor cells in ordinarily would connect to the real human skin, they observed, are index fi nger. actually situated at various levels, “Those nerves that used to go to with those responsible for painful your hand are still there, they’re just sensation (nociceptors) primarily not connected to the hand anymore,” near the surface of the skin and those Osborn said. “By stimulating each of responsible for sensing pressure those nerves, we activate the location (mechanoreceptors) set deeper. in the brain that says ‘pinky fi nger,’ To replicate this system, they or ‘index fi nger,’ or ‘thumb,’ and the designed e-dermis to have sensors sensation should ideally feel as it arrayed in two layers, instead of would have before the amputation.” one like earlier engineers. Then the Having mapped the nerve patterns challenge was to ‘teach’ the sensors in so precisely, the team was able to avoid each layer to generate the sensations requiring the invasive implantation of appropriate to that layer. metal electrodes in the residual limb. Again, they turned to biology. They did attach wires from the The team studied the frequencies, prosthesis to the appropriate locations RELIABLE: E-dermis is an experiment that endowed an artificial limb with the capacity to feel pressure and pain. amplitudes and wavelengths of the on the limb, but they did so on the signals the body normally sends when surface of the skin, a process that is far Because he was interested on a a division of the National Institutes of of the paper, titled Prosthesis with generating sensations of pressure and easier on the subject. personal and professional level, and Health, among other sources. neuromorphic multilayered e-dermis pain. Then they calibrated the sensory Levay said he appreciated that physically nearby, he made the ideal The group worked with a perceives touch apparatus to mimic those variables. on many levels. He happened to be volunteer subject for the study, which number of volunteer amputees “E-dermis doesn’t work perfectly Osborn elaborated on this studying biomedical engineering was funded by grants from the Johns during the study, but because he yet,” Levay said, “but it’s defi nitely ‘neuromorphic’ approach, that is, the on a Fulbright scholarship at Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Laboratory was consistently available over a a step further in bringing sensations creation of technology that mimics Hopkins when Thakor and Osborn and the National Institute of course of months, Levay emerged back to the hand.”– The Baltimore biological patterns. began their research in 2015. Biomedical Imaging and Engineering, as the central, unnamed subject Sun/TNS 10 GULF TIMES Sunday, July 29, 2018 COMMUNITY QUIZ Diana’s royal fairy-tale wedding

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On the afternoon of July 28, 1917, nearly 10,000 African- Americans walked in silence down Fifth Avenue to protest against lynching and other acts of anti-black violence in the country. It was a watershed moment in the history of the civil rights movement. What was it called? Silent Protest Parade ady Diana’s wedding was the fairytale episode ‘The Bridge on the River Kwai’ everyone wanted. Ask is a 1957 British-American epic anyone who was alive war fi lm directed by David Lean. on 29th July, 1981 and I The fi lm was widely praised, betL they have all vivid memories winning seven Academy Awards of the day. Watched by one billion at the 30th Academy Awards. spectators the world over, Charles Where is the real bridge over the and Diana’s “I dos” were nothing River Kwai? short of spectacular. Kanchanaburi, Thailand. Their marriage was widely billed as the ‘wedding of the TREND-SETTER: Late Lady Diana’s wedding dress was covered in 10,000 pearls and complete with a 25-foot train. When this country became century’. It was declared a independent from Yugoslavia, national holiday in the UK, so Diana broke with tradition by swathed in a fairy-tale narrative, its Internet domain name went that citizens could be a part of excluding the promise to ‘obey’ it wasn’t the fairytale marriage the from being .yu to .me. Name the celebration. An estimated her husband in her vows, instead world had hoped for. “Well, there this country. 750 million people watched the promising to ‘love him, comfort were three of us in this marriage, Montenegro televised ceremony worldwide. him, honour and keep him in so it was a bit crowded,” Diana was The Times described it as a sickness and health.’ once quoted. The name of which African ‘carnival atmosphere,’ as throngs Hardly without hitches, had the The couple divorced in 1992, city comes from the Spanish of over 600,000 people sang, nuptial a few small bumps along only fi ve short years before Diana’s for ‘white house’? As per the danced and wished the couple the way. Wedding day jitters can untimely death in 1997. legend, during World War II, well along the procession route. happen to anyone, right? In a little Welcome to the world of ‘Nutty’s the Germans passed up a chance From Princess Diana’s sapphire fl ub, the nervous bride accidentally Infotainment. YAYS!’ to kill Franklin D. Roosevelt engagement ring to over-the- got her groom’s name wrong, Time! Your time starts NOW! because they mistranslated top wedding dress, her glittering calling him ‘Philip Charles’ instead the name of the city as “White tiara and the 27 wedding cakes, of ‘Charles Philip’. Charles had his Name the sister of Diana, House.” every detail of this royal wedding own blip, instead of off ering his Princess of Wales, who was Casablanca has been pored over and over bride ‘my worldly goods,’ he off ered earlier dating Prince Charles. for almost four decades now. her ‘thy goods.’ Lady Sarah McCorquodale The lady below became the The dress at the heart of it Never has there been a royal world’s fi rst female head of was veritably the most closely love story like Prince Charles’ Which famous movement government when she became guarded secret in the fashion and Princess Diana’s. The couple was started by Sir Robert Baden ARTIST: Vincent Van Gogh’s Prime Minister of her country history. The 20-year-old chose met when Diana was a teenager Powell with an event on 29th arguably most famous work, ‘Starry in July 1960. Name her. the duo, husband-and-wife and Charles was dating her older July, 1907 at Brownsea Island in Night’, was painted in an asylum. designers, David and Elizabeth sister. And in a perfectly Cinderella Southern England? (Answer next week. Answer Emanuel and, to keep it a secret, twist, Diana previously worked as Boys Scout 37, shot himself in his chest to to last week’s photoquiz: Nelson they code-named their client her sister’s cleaning woman. Her die 2 days later. Mandela) Deborah. Diana’s Emanuel dress stepmother was equally determined One of the most infl uential Vincent Van Gogh was an extravagant and much- to be the wicked step mother. Even artist of all time, he lost his anticipated sight to see. Covered the timeline of the romance seemed right ear in a fi ght with fellow In the fi eld of publishing, in 10,000 pearls and complete to be fast-tracked for a fi lm. Diana artist Paul Gauguin. He sold what does the abbreviation with a 25-foot train, David and had seen Charles 13 times between only one painting while he was ISBN stands for? Diana consciously wanted to set the beginning of their courtship alive. ‘Starry Night’, arguably International Standard Book a record for the longest train in and their wedding. With Diana, his most famous work, was Number. royal wedding history. The trend- Charles found his real-life Disney painted in an asylum. Identify defining silk-taffeta creation princess. this Post-Impressionist Dutch The fi rst known offi cial use reportedly cost $115,000. Though the wedding was painter who, at the young age of of this technique as a means In the seven months leading up of identifi cation was made the wedding, Diana had dropped in July 1858 by Sir William from having a 29-inch waist to James Herschel of the Indian a tiny 23.5-inch one. Emanuels Civil Service, while posted in created fi ve diff erent bodices to Tribe NI.yays the Hooghly District of India. accommodate Diana’s dwindling silhouette, and sewed a blue bow What’s the Good Word? 6. Paean: (a) laughter into her waistline for a bit of good 1. The fi lament of the 1st commercial light bulb, patented by (b) condemnation (c) scandalous (d) luck. Edison in 1880, was made of what? 1. Dotish: (a) on the ball (b) loving (c) song of praise Princess Diana’s wedding gown Bamboo significant (d) stupid 7. Gallus: (a) conscious (b) bold (c) was right out of a fairy tale with (Arwin Rodriguez, Kuwait Oil Company, Kuwait) 2. Retiform: (a) net-like (b) refuse (c) gluttony (d) revelation the exception of the perfume she make changes (d) over-indulge 8. Paralian: (a) dweller by the sea (b) spilled on her gown moments 2. Which is the only number that cannot be represented by a 3. Eviternity: (a) unending time (b) insane (c) herculean (d) dead plants before she was to walk down the Roman numeral? availability (c) eternal existence (d) 9. Draff : (a) accept (b) refuse (c) crazy aisle. And she smelt sweet! Zero. naughtiness (d) digestive problems A secret romantic gesture (Lisa Raymond, House-maid, Doha) 4. Exequy: (a) funeral rites (b) warn (c) 10. Stiver: (a) monstrous (b) infamous was hidden beneath Diana’s bring back (d) overthrow (c) dictator (d) insignificant amount handcrafted wedding shoes. The Do you have some interesting bytes to share? And, does your vibe 5. Operose: (a) wasting time (b) top of the shoe had an elaborate attract you to the ‘Tribe NI.yays!’ Every week two of your best questions displaying lot of eff ort (c) insatiable (d) Answers: 1 (d); 2 (a); 3 (c); 4 (a); 5 (b); 6 heart and ‘C’ and ‘D’, initials were will be featured here. Please do write to us at [email protected]. compel (d); 7 (b); 8 (a); 9 (b); 10 (d); hand-painted on the arches. Sunday, July 29, 2018 GULF TIMES 11 INFOGRAPHIC COMMUNITY 12 GULF TIMES Sunday, July 29, 2018 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. Sunday, July 29, 2018 GULF TIMES 13 PUZZLES COMMUNITY

Super Cryptic Clues Colouring

ACROSS DOWN 1. Is it used in water-polo? (4-4) 1. Goad the man spoken of (6) 5. Better put the key inside 2. Trim so it has a blunt end and when it’s been checked (6) a sharp end? (9) 10. Children during school 3. For injuries and broken ribs, holidays? (8,7) use (7) 11. Will have it that original sin’s 4. In the vegetable garden, said to be crossed out (7) it doesn’t retain water (5) 12. Turn, personally, to deliver 6. Not realising the woman and her to the Cockney (7) we have a right to enter (7) 13. Not so bad that you can’t 7. Established in very poor hand it round? (8) quarters (5) 15. Supply the soldiers all but a 8. Took one’s food away from thousand owing to them (5) one and was entitled to (8) 18. Learns to listen to the pipes 9. Runs to take the coat back in (5) to press; it’s badly squashed 20. A suit that serves as a pattern (8) for others (4-4) 14. Interrupted with objections? 23. By half-past, the mountains (6,2) appear unfamiliar (7) 16. As I’d said, anyway, came to 25. Local fury caused by the a bad end and were scorned Answers gunfire (7) (9) 26. Do they make one dead 17. It’s time the papers came out Wordsearch Codeword anxious? (5,10) with forecasts (8) 27. He works with precious 19. Genuine, because really stones, pet (6) friendless (7) 28. Stopped the queen going to 21. Vehicle on either side of a France with a big noise (6,2) central vehicle (7) 22. Because one’s out on the loose for a few months (6) 24. Cook in the oven at the far end (5) 25. By which notes are sent when messages have to be conveyed (5)

Yesterday’s Solutions

Across: 1 Rest-cure; 5 Educed; Down: 1 Remiss; 2 Satire; 3 9 Material; 10 Proust; 12 Strain; Cordial; 4 Roam; 6 Directs; 13 Proceeds; 15 Old wives’ 7 Causeway; 8 Detested; tale; 18 On reflection; 23 11 Privets; 14 Sweetie; 16 Plantain; 24 Spirit; 26 Skip it; Composes; 17 Treatise; 19 27 Consomme; 28 Sledge; 29 Fitting; 20 Opposed; 21 Primer; Pondered. 22 Attend; 25 Solo. 14 GULF TIMES Sunday, July 29, 2018 COMMUNITY LIFESTYLE/HOROSCOPE How to give a new twist to heirloom jewellery, apparel

eirloom jewellery creates a prefer to use heirloom stones in their sense of belonging for the engagement rings, or in a pendant. However, family members. Most people an important thing to keep in mind is when like to retain heirloom jewellery you make any signifi cant changes to an because of its emotional worth, heirloom piece you have to approach a skilled howeverH sometimes one wants to modify and trusted jeweller to assist you because pieces as per modern and contemporary once you alter a historic design, a substantial trends to make them more frequently amount of its value is lost. usable. Anika Dhawan Gupta, Creative Director Venkatesh S., lead designer at BlueStone and CO-founder of Bageecha Banaras, too, lists down some ways to reinvent your has some inputs to share: heirloom jewellery. z Traditional weaves can be reinvented in bright pastels and heirlooms can be paired Modifying an existing piece: The most up with bright contrasts to keep up to the common upgrade to heirloom jewellery is to current trend scenario. tweak an existing piece with minor changes z A lehenga which has been passed to make it more modern or wearable. For over generations can either make you look instance, a multilayered ranihaara can be extremely traditional or you can make it look split into two or three simpler neckpieces, glamorous by pairing it up with a contrast that are easy to wear. At times, a necklace blouse and dupatta. or a bracelet is too big or too small in size; element from an existing heirloom piece traditional mangalsutras can be used to z We also encourage using your age old in which case extra design elements can be to create new pieces. For instance, popular create charms for bracelets or independent antique silver jewellery that has been passed added or some links removed to modify the customisation is creating a choker out of a pendants. on through generations be it balis and piece. traditional coin or ginni necklace. Another kamarbandhs with Banarasi outfi ts against customisation would be to create pendants Working with heirloom stones: Stones gold, diamond and polki jewellery which is Creating a new piece from old: Often out of heavy earrings, making them wearable. are also at times passed on from generation very common these days. Its all about sticking one wants to extract a few stones or an In the South of India, elements from the to generation within families. Young brides to ones own aesthetic at the end. — IANS

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

Tune into the thoughts of others, Aries. Focusing only on yourself You’ll find that your brain is extra sharp today and you have a greater Many people conduct their lives without really making conscious means you’re missing the beauty and wisdom that come from other sense of clarity regarding your purpose in life. It could be that your decisions about their actions. People walk around like they’re asleep. people. Respect their opinions the way you want them to respect yours. nurturing instinct is high and your general self-esteem depends on how Don’t fall into this trap, Gemini. This is a good day to dust off your Your ego might get in the way of your brain until you embrace the useful you can be to the people around you. It may seem as if you’re thinking cap and take action. Don’t let others make decisions for lesson of sensitivity that it’s trying to teach you. Take a back seat and let everyone’s parent or watchful older sibling. Give people the advice they you. Take control of your destiny. To maintain the balance today, it’s someone else do the talking. need to grow and be wiser. important that you swing toward the sensitive side of things. CANCER LEO VIRGO June 21 — July 22 July 23 — August 22 August 23 — September 22

Your thinking is clear today and you’ll find that it’s right in sync with It’s OK to be wrong, Leo. If you know you’ve made a mistake, feel free to Be careful about being too critical today, Virgo. You’re likely to turn who you are, Cancer. Find your strength in conversations in which you admit it. Don’t let your ego stand in the way of progress. Others won’t people away if you aren’t careful with how you express yourself. This display your keen insight into the situation at hand. Your detective-like want to deal with you if you insist that what you’re doing is right all the is a good time to listen and receive as opposed to deliver information. nature is especially active, and others will find it hard to pull the wool time when perhaps it isn’t. Your mind may be a bit more fragile on a day Let things stew in your head for a while before you make any major over your eyes now. Stay tuned in to what’s going on around you. like this, so try to be more sensitive and receptive than usual. decisions. You’re likelier to find a greater balance in the situation if you slow down and back off a bit. LIBRA SCORPIO SAGITTARIUS September 23 — October 22 October 23 — November 21 November 22 — December 21

Your mental ability could be rather sluggish and lazy today. It could be One of the important lessons of the day for you is to remember that Someone may be calling you on certain behaviours today, Sagittarius. It that you aren’t feeling as sharp as you’d like, Libra. This is most likely a emotions are powerful things to recognise and honour. Don’t discount could be that your aggressive nature rubs someone the wrong way and sign that you simply need to slow down and relax. Don’t feel as if you your feelings. In fact, it’s most important that you embrace them with they simply don’t have thick enough skin to take it. You may not even be always need to deliver the keynote address. Be more of an audience your whole being. Once you relax and settle into your true emotions, aware of how your warlike attitude aff ects those around you. This is a member today and take advice from the other people up on stage. you’ll find that your mind clears and you can make conscious, rational good day to see things from someone else’s perspective in order to gain decisions about whatever issues come your way. a bit more data on the situation. CAPRICORN AQUARIUS PISCES December 22 — January 19 January 20 — February 18 February 19 — March 20

Your mind is thinking quite clearly today, Capricorn. You’ll discover that Your receptivity to new ideas is stronger than usual today, Aquarius. Your mental clarity is astounding today, Pisces. You’ll find that your you have a keen ability to tune into the subtle energies that are moving Listen to what people say and remember that you can learn from every pattern of thinking reflects exactly who you are at the core of your through your life right now. The good news is that your ego and brain person you meet. There’s a lesson in every situation. Remember to being. The moment you walk out the door this morning, you’ll find that are working together, and you may be able to strike a better balance keep your brain exercised, just like any other part of your body. To keep your brain wants to process everything. This action will give you greater between these two elements of your psyche much more easily than it working properly, you must make sure you give it the daily stimulus assuredness and insight, making this a terrific day to stand up and usual. that it requires. speak your mind. Sunday, July 29, 2018 GULF TIMES 15 SHOWBIZ COMMUNITY Nawabzaade is poorly crafted, fails to engage endeavour leads them in the police lock- moderate production values, the fi lm By Troy Ribeiro up where they get the “royal treatment” is packed with visually chaotic frames, by Police Inspector Kathor Singh and his except for the songs which are done with COUPLE: Michelle Williams, left, revealed she got married men. fl amboyance. to musician Phil Elverum. esigned as a romantic Narrated in a non-linear format, the While the trio — Raghav Juyal, Punit comedy, the title of this fi lm plot is poorly crafted in the tell-and- Pathak and Dharmesh Yelande — had Williams married Elverum secretly is a misnomer, unless you show method, where every chapter earlier impressed us with their dancing take it as a paradoxical slang. or sequence is preceded with Kathor in a fi lm called ABCD - Any Bo dy Can Shutter Island fame actress Michelle Williams revealed Here, instead of princes Singh requesting, “Detail mein batao”. Dance, here though they are sincere and she has secretly married musician Phil Elverum. Dor sons of aristocratic families as the title What follows is a detailed narrative natural, as leads, they lack the big-screen In an interview with Vanity Fair, the former lady love of suggests we have three losers -- Salim, in fl ashback. While the premise charisma. So does Isha Rikhi. As Sheetal, late actor Heath Ledger disclosed that the wedding was a Karan and Abhishek. Salim (Dharmesh seems cliched, the focus of the fi lm is she is effi cient and delivers her chops secret ceremony with friends and family in attendance in Yelande) is hardly educated and earns clumsy and haphazard. Especially the earnestly. Adirondacks, reports people.com. his living as a “kabadiwala”, trading in denouement, it takes off at a tangent, Of the supporting cast, Vijay Raaz as The 37-year-old actress has a 12-year-old daughter, old wares. Abhishek (Punit Pathak), leaving the audience bewildered. Inspector Kathor Singh is stereotyped Matilda, with Ledger. who studied graphic designing, is now The limply written script is verbose and is his usual self. So is Zakir Hussain Elverum is father to a 3-year-old from his marriage to reduced to a poster designer of sleazy in disposition. It sermonises about as Sheetal’s dad. Genevieve Castree, who died of pancreatic cancer in 2015. fi lms and Karan (Raghav Juyal) who romance and how to achieve it. The Among the myriad big names that Talking about her husband, the actress said: “Obviously studied fashion designing works as an dialogues delivered by the cast in various make guest appearances in the songs are I’ve never once in my life talked about a relationship, but assistant at a tailor’s shop. Despite their dialects of Hindi, are written for eff ect or Varun Dhawan and Shraddha Kapoor Phil isn’t anyone else. The way he loves me is the way I want distinctly contrasting circumstances for front benchers. One can note major in the fi nale song, High rated Gabru. , to live my life on the whole. I work to be free inside of the they are the best of friends. intentional or unintentional bloopers. Athiya Shetty in the fi rst song – Tere moment. I parent to let Matilda feel free to be herself, and I And given their background and Case in point is when Sheetal goes to the Naal Nachna, Dancer Shakti Mohan in am fi nally loved by someone who makes me feel free.” current status, it is obvious that no tailor shop and off ers Karan to take her the song – Amma Dekh, and Sanjeeda Ledger died in New York City in 2008 after taking a fatal girl would fall in love with them, so “naksha” - map instead of her “naap” - Sheikh and her husband Amir Ali. mix of prescription drugs. they desperately woo Sheetal, who has measurement. Overall, the fi lm is tedious to watch as They had dated for three years after meeting on the set of recently moved to their locality. Their Mounted with realistic fl avour with it fails to engage you. – IANS their 2005 fi lm Brokeback Mountain. “I never gave up on love. I always say to Matilda, ‘Your dad loved me before anybody thought I was talented, or pretty, or had nice clothes’,” added Williams.– IANS

APOLOGETIC: Roseanne Barr says her racist tweet “cost her everything.” COMEDY: A scene from Nawabzaade. Overall, the film is tedious to watch as it fails to engage the audience. Wish I worded it better: Barr on racist tweet Jha to direct biopic on mathematician Actress-comedian Roseanne Barr says her racist tweet Vashishtha Narayan Singh “cost her everything” and she wishes she had worded it “better”. Filmmaker Prakash Jha, known for his socio-political Barr has apologised to people for her tweet about dramas, will direct a biopic on the life of Indian mathematician former Barack Obama adviser Valerie Jarrett, an African- Vashishtha Narayan Singh, whom he considers the “nation’s American woman. The comment had generated immense treasure”. backlash and led to the cancellation of her US comedy Excited to be a part of the fi lm, the Gangaajal director said show Roseanne. During her hour-long interview with Sean in a statement: “Dr Vashishtha Narayan Singh, the brilliant Hannity on Fox News recently, Barr lamented the damage mathematician from Bihar is our national treasure. His life is so done to her by the tweet, reports The Guardian. inspiring, I would love to direct a biopic on him.” In response to the tweet “Muslim brotherhood & planet The fi lm is being produced by Vinay Sinha and his daughter of the apes had a baby vj” that she has written earlier this Priti Sinha. year, Barr clarifi ed that people misunderstood it and said Vinay said: “I have been reading about and tracking the life she would tell Jarett: “I’m sorry that you feel harm and hurt, of Vashishtha Narayan Singh since many years. His is a story of I never meant that. I never meant to hurt anybody.” tremendous highs and lows and now we are all set to produce a Barr repeatedly said her tweet was meant to address US- fi lm on him. I couldn’t be happier.” Middle Eastern policy and had no racial overtones. She said Priti told the media in Patna that the main motive behind she was stunned by the negative reaction, which Hannity the biopic on Singh is to inform people about a great noted was nearly universal, The Guardian reported. mathematician and his work and life. “I am a creative genius, and this is not a good feeling for She said Singh has been suff ering from schizophrenia for an artiste to be treated this way, and it’s not a good feeling decades and is not keeping well. for a citizen, either,” Barr added. “But we want to tell a real story of a genius,” she said, adding A supporter of US President Donald Trump, Barr further that the team is working on the fi lm’s cast and the names of the said: “I’m not a racist and the people who voted for Trump, actors will be announced soon. they’re not racist either, and Trump isn’t a racist, sorry. We Jha will take a call regarding the fi lm’s shooting. just have a diff erent opinion.” Singh is currently staying in Patna along with his younger Television network ABC has announced Roseanne will brother. According to records available, Singh was born in a return in October as a spin-off called The Conners with all village in Bhojpur district of Bihar in 1942. After graduating the main characters except Barr. – IANS from Patna Science College, Singh was awarded a PhD from the EXCITED: Prakash Jha considers Vashishtha Narayan Singh the University of California, Berkeley, US, in 1969. – IANS “nation’s treasure. 16 GULF TIMES Sunday, July 29, 2018 COMMUNITY

STRESS FREE: The dietician highlighted the significance of being stress-free and punctual while taking daily meals. Photos supplied De-stress eating for a healthy lifestyle mind and body and how that aff ects eating. During my presentation, I and vitamins in our body. She relax and do everything at your own By Mudassir Raja metabolism, nutrition absorption, gave an insight for what we need emphasised that people need to pace.” and digestion. She was addressing to eat and what to refrain from enjoy their food and take due time “The way the expert has spoken a community and networking certain times. I also elaborated to fi nish their meals for better and conveyed about for how we t’s just not enough to stick programme ‘Dimensions of on nutritional values of diff erent digestion. should have our food is amazing. to a healthy breakfast of Mind-Body Nutrition’ organised foods,” she said. Simona Arfene, Regus We have defi nitely forgotten the antioxidant-rich mixed by Regus, a company that The dietician added, “The Community Manager, said, “We tradition of sitting with the family berries and a leafy green and organises corporate offi ces, for its presentation also included how organise such events every month and having meals. We used to be protein-rich salad. Well your customers and diff erent community important oxygen consumption is for the community and for our relaxed and calm that time. It is Idiet can still fall-short of fulfi lling representatives. when having any meal of the day. clients in 10 diff erent centres that also very important to cook food, your nutritional needs. Although Talking to Community, Akl I elaborated on the importance we have in Qatar. Basically, it is a free of any sort of stress. I am very certain essentials, like vitamin D, A, said, “Today, I spoke about the of breathing and taking 10 deep networking event. It is a kind of get- thankful to the organisers for the E and K are easy to obtain from foods relationship that exists between our breaths before having a lunch or together with good pieces of advice. presentation and inviting me to the alone, but there requires more than mind and body concerning the way dinner. We also discussed about We choose diff erent topics for the event.” just healthy eating habits. we feel and the way we eat. We often how important it is to eat with gatherings after collecting feedback Israt Ara Younus, a fi nancial There are two interesting ignore our mind-set and the stress the people we love, having quality from people.” consultant, said, “It was actually a vitamins, Vitamin P (pleasure) and level while having food, which tends thoughts and sitting with a proper Millan Arun, a business woman privilege and an eye-opener to be Vitamin T (time), that recently to aff ect our absorption level and posture while having meals. who attended the presentation, here today. Food has become the last caught our attention, as a dietician nutritional status.” Inclination towards the kind of food said, “I am very happy to attend priority for working people. I think spoke about them and highlighted “In my presentation, I spoke that helps in digestion is also very this session today. It is defi nitely the focus of the presentation was on the signifi cance of being stress-free about diff erent dimensions of important.” surprising for how we have taken our me. Such events are rare. My take and punctual while taking daily the body and mind, related to She emphasised on having the lives so for granted. We are always in away is that we need to change our meals. stress eating versus relaxed eating meals stress-free and spending the fast line. We have forgotten how food habits. We have to change our Michelle Akl, Clinical Dietician habits, discussing parasympathetic time while eating; long enough for important food is for us and how cooking style and be more conscious with Diet Delights, recently spoke nervous system. I also referred to our digestive system to perform important it is for us to be stress about what we have to buy and what about the relationship between Vitamin P as the pleasure while its functions and absorb minerals free. That is as simple as that. Just we have to cook.”

PRESENTATION: Michelle Akl, Clinical Dietician with Diet Delights, recently spoke about the relationship between mind and body and how that aff ects nutrition absorption and digestion. GUESTS: The guests attending the presentation on ‘Dimensions of Mind-Body Nutrition’.