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Appalling I haven’t worked enough Geena Davis, three others to with women directors, says Dia. receive honorary Oscars. Page 14 Page 15 2 GULF TIMES Wednesday, June 5, 2019 COMMUNITY ROUND & ABOUT

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Wrong No. 2 who falls in love with a man who is not as fi nancially stable as DIRECTION: Yasir Nawaz herself. When former love interests make an appearance, the CAST: Neelam Munir, Sami Khan new lover face challenges. SYNOPSIS: Neelum Munir stars as Zoya, a rich heiress THEATRE: The Mall Emergency 999 Worldwide Emergency Number 112 Kahramaa – Electricity and Water 991 Local Directory 180 International Calls Enquires 150 Hamad International Airport 40106666 Labor Department 44508111, 44406537 Mowasalat Taxi 44588888 Qatar Airways 44496000 Hamad Medical Corporation 44392222, 44393333 Qatar General Electricity and Water Corporation 44845555, 44845464 Primary Health Care Corporation 44593333 44593363 Qatar Assistive Technology Centre 44594050 Qatar News Agency 44450205 44450333 Q-Post – General Postal Corporation 44464444

Humanitarian Services Offi ce (Single window facility for the repatriation of bodies) Ministry of Interior 40253371, 40253372, 40253369 Ministry of Health 40253370, 40253364 Hamad Medical Corporation 40253368, 40253365 Qatar Airways 40253374

Bharat that he will keep his family together no matter what, a promise DIRECTION: Ali Abbas Zafar that he works to keep over the next 60 years of his life. CAST: Katrina Kaif, SYNOPSIS: An 8-year-old boy makes a vow to his father THEATRES: The Mall, Landmark, Royal Plaza ote Unquo u te Q “Adopt the The Mall Cinema (1): (2D) Parabellum (2D) 9:30pm; Godzilla II: King pace of nature: her 9:30am; Children’s Park () of the Monsters (2D) 11:45pm. 11:45am; Chhalawa () 2:30pm; Royal Plaza Cinema Palace (1): Bharat secret is patience.” Godzilla II: King of the Monsters (2D) () 10am; X-Men: Dark Phoenix (3D) 4:30pm; Godzilla II: King of the Monsters 1pm; Godzilla II: King of the Monsters (3D) — Ralph Waldo Emerson (2D) 7pm; Godzilla II: King of the Monsters 10am; Children’s Park (Malayalam) 3:30pm; Godzilla II: King of the Monsters (2D) 9:15pm; Godzilla II: King of the 12:15pm; X-Men: Dark Phoenix (2D) 3pm; (2D) 6pm; Godzilla II: King of the Monsters Monsters (2D) 11:30pm. Godzilla II: King of the Monsters (2D) 5pm; (2D) 8:30pm; Bharat (Hindi) 11pm. The Mall Cinema (2): Bharat (Hindi) Godzilla II: King of the Monsters (2D) Royal Plaza Cinema Palace (2): X-Men: 9:15am; X-Men: Dark Phoenix (2D) 7:15pm; Godzilla II: King of the Monsters Dark Phoenix (2D) 10:15am; Godzilla 12:15pm; X-Men: Dark Phoenix (2D) (2D) 9:30pm; John Wick 3: Parabellum II: King of the Monsters (2D) 12:30pm; 2:15pm; X-Men: Dark Phoenix (2D) 4:15pm; (2D) 11:45pm. Bharat (Hindi) 3pm; X-Men: Dark Phoenix X-Men: Dark Phoenix (2D) 6:15pm; Bharat Landmark Cinema (2): X-Men: Dark (2D) 6pm; Bharat (Hindi) 8:15pm; (Hindi) 8:15pm; Bharat (Hindi) 11:15pm. Phoenix (2D) 10:30am; X-Men: Dark Casablanc (Arabic) 11:15pm. Community Editor The Mall Cinema (3): Wrong No. 2 (Urdu) Phoenix (2D) 12:45pm; Bharat (Hindi) 3pm; Royal Plaza Cinema Palace (3): 10am; Aladdin (2D) 12:15pm; Children’s X-Men: Dark Phoenix (2D) 6pm; Bharat Children’s Park (Malayalam) 9:30am; Kamran Rehmat Park (Malayalam) 2:30pm; Casablanca (Hindi) 8pm; Bharat (Hindi) 11pm. Aladdin (2D) 12:30pm; X-Men: Dark e-mail: [email protected] (Arabic) 5:15pm; John Wick 3: Parabellum Landmark Cinema (3): Bharat (Hindi) Phoenix (2D) 2:45pm; Aladdin (2D) 5pm; Telephone: 44466405 (2D) 7:15pm; Casablanca (Arabic) 9:30pm; 10am; Aladdin (2D) 1pm; Casablanca Casablanca (Arabic) 7:15pm; John Wick Fax: 44350474 John Wick 3: Parabellum (2D) 11:30pm. (Arabic) 3:15pm; Aladdin (2D) 5:15pm; 3: Parabellum (2D) 9:15pm; John Wick 3: Landmark Cinema (1): Chhalawa (Urdu) Casablanca (Arabic) 7:30pm; John Wick 3: Parabellum (2D) 11:30pm. Wednesday, June 5, 2019 GULF TIMES 3 ROUND & ABOUT COMMUNITY

WHEN: Ongoing WHEN: Ongoing TIME: 4pm – 8pm Music and arts activities for students For more info e-mail at registration@ taking place after they fi nish their day in atelierqatar.com or call on 33003839. school includes Group Music lessons, Hip- hop, Ballet, Drawing and Painting, Drama Summer Camp for Special Needs Theatre & Taekwondo. Ages between 5 and 10 WHERE: Step by Step Centre for Special years old after school hours. Needs WHEN: June 30 – August 1 TIME: 8:00am – 12:30pm During this time, all therapists and teachers will be working together, running individual, peer and group sessions within classes. The children will continue learning age-appropriate concepts, work on social skills, life skills training, arts and crafts, music, and fun activities such as water play.

Hobby Classes WHERE: Mamangam Performing Art Centre WHEN:Wednesday – Monday Mamangam Performing Art Centre, is a holistic performing arts institution and a one EVENTS stop solution for adults as well as children A Choral Kaleidoscope Concert looking to explore their talents in various WHERE: Swiss International School art forms. We off er classes in contemporary, MF Hussain: The Horses Of The Sun WHEN: June 13 Bollywood, hip hop, indian classical dance, Exhibition TIME: 7pm onwards music (Hindustani and Carnatic), arts and WHERE: Mataf: Arab Museum of Modern Featuring Qatar Youth Choir and Qatar craft, karate, yoga, percussion( Chenda, Art Junior Choir – their last concert of the Thimila, Elathalam and Madhalam), violin, WHEN: Ongoing till July 31 season. Qatar Youth Choir has recently Artistic Gymnastic Classes harmonium, public speaking. TIME: 9am – 7pm returned from workshops and concerts with WHERE: Qatar Academy Msheireb Additional services include dance The exhibition presents Hussain’s pluralist the Vienna Boys Choir in Austria. Qatar WHEN: Ongoing education, choreograph music videos and approach to the divine and cosmic aspects of Junior Choir will perform their concert TIME: 3:15pm – 4:15pm dance cover albums, choreograph dance being, articulated through the myths, symbols programme in September.Tickets are The olympic sport using horizontal bar, musical projects, corporate workshops and and narratives of the world’s religions and available from choir members or on the door rings and fl oor exercises on mats for the events, choreograph events for schools, philosophies. M. F. Husain: Horses of the Sun for QR60. children from age 4 till 16. colleges, alumni meets and corporate bears witness to a recurrent motif in his art, a and choreography events. For details, call personal symbol of self-renewal and vitality. ISC Skipping Rope Open Career Guidance 33897609. Championship WHERE: Right Track Consultants, Al Katara Drive Thru Festival WHERE: Ashoka Hall, ICC Sadd WHERE: Katara— the Cultural Village WHEN: June 15 WHEN: Sunday – Thursday WHEN: Ongoing till June 10 TIME: 11.00 AM - 1:30 PM TIME: 6pm – 8pm TIME: 6pm – 4am Indian Sports Centre under the patronage Career guidance for course, country, Join us at Katara— the Cultural Village and of Embassy of India is organising Third college and entrance for students of Grade enjoy the diverse cuisines at your car step! edition of ISC Skipping Rope Open IX-XII, of all curriculum. Career assessments From fi rst day of Ramadan until Eid holidays Championship - 2019 for Speed Hop and administered for stream preference, career starting from 5pm till 2am. Speed Endurance competitions. Categories, test, branch preference, personality, include Under–12 (Boys and Girls), Under–18 multiple intelligence and learning styles India to Qatar – Symbiosis of Cultures (Boys and Girls) and Adults (Men and and productivity. For more information, WHERE: FBQ Museum Women) - Above 18 years. Entry is free. 55448835. WHEN: Ongoing till July 31 Championship is open to all Indians and Under the context of cultural exchange, students of any nationality studying in Indian FBQ Museum brings together the treasures Schools. Last date of entry is June 11. For of the museum owned collection in order to further details, [email protected] or promote mutual understanding, recognition 55824194/55956008. and appreciation between Qatar and India. Arabic Calligraphy Workshop Composed of fi ve main topics, including WHEN: Saturday – Wednesday community, trade, arts, food and incense, TIME: 6pm the exhibition takes one on a journey to Arabic Calligraphy workshop is back. explore the rich and diverse Indian cultures, Come and learn the artistic practice of Arabic the long historic links between Qatar and handwriting and calligraphy at Music and India, and cultural similarities between Arts Atelier. Qatar and India. The lessons will take place every Saturday, Monday and Wednesday at 6pm. For more information, contact registration@ atelierqatar.com

Dance and Instrument Classes WHERE: TCA Campus, Behind Gulf Times Building WHEN: Wednesday – Monday Learn the movements of dance styles in Bollywood, Hip Hop and also the musical instruments such as Piano, Guitar, Keyboard for adults as well kids and move in the world Ballet Lessons After School Activities of music. For details, contact 66523871/ WHERE: Music and Arts Atelier WHERE: Atelier 31326749.

Compiled by Nausheen Shaikh. E-mail: [email protected], Events and timings subject to change 4 GULF TIMES Wednesday, June 5, 2019 COMMUNITY COVER STORY Wildlife emergency So far this year, at least 70 gray whales have been found dead and stranded along the coasts of California, Oregon, Washington and Alaska — the most in nearly 20 years, writes Paul Rogers

STUDY: Biologists from National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, Southwest Fisheries Service Center, take tissue and skin samples from a decomposing 43-foot grey whale on Lower Trestles beach in San Onofre State Park.

larmed by the high number of gray whales that have been washing up dead We are seeing lots of live on West Coast beaches this spring, the US government last week declared the gray whales in unusual troubling trend a wildlife emergency. AThe declaration by the National Oceanic and locations, clearly Atmospheric Administration — technically, the emaciated, trying to agency dubbed the deaths an “unusual mortality event” — kicks in a provision of federal law that feed. Most whales, and provides funding for scientists to fi gure out the cause when such die-off s of marine mammals occur, especially emaciated from whales and dolphins in the Pacifi c or Atlantic to manatees off Florida. whales, will tend to sink So far this year, at least 70 gray whales have when dead. So been found dead and stranded along the coasts of California, Oregon, Washington and Alaska — the the numbers that wash most in nearly 20 years, scientists from NOAA said on Friday. In recent weeks, whales have washed up in up represent a fraction Marin, San Francisco and San Mateo counties. of the total On average about 35 of the giant marine mammals wash up dead on the West Coast in a year, or around — John Calambokidis, three per month. Last year, 45 were found. But the average number found dead for the fi rst ‘ research biologist fi ve months of the year on the West Coast is 15, so ’ Wednesday, June 5, 2019 GULF TIMES 5 COVER STORY COMMUNITY this year is seeing fi ve times the Research Collective in Olympia, collect information about the dead Mexico where they breed and give increased. By 1994, after they average rate. Washington. whales, including their age, sex, birth. They begin swimming north reached a healthy population, the Among those unusual locations: tissue samples and other data, and up the California coast in mid- Clinton administration removed “There have been juveniles but San Francisco Bay, Los Angeles will study it, along with records February toward feeding grounds in them from the Endangered Species adults as well. There have been Harbour and Puget Sound, he said. of ocean conditions, fi sheries Alaska’s Bering and Chukchi seas Act list in what is still considered males and females. It’s been all Closer to shore, whales are more patterns and other factors as part and can be seen commonly from one of the nation’s major wildlife across the board at this point,” at risk from dying by being hit by of the detective work aiming to Big Sur to San Francisco during success stories. said Justin Viezbicke, NOAA’s freighters, oil tankers and other fi nd the killer. “It can take months March and April because they Scientists said because of the California Stranding Co-ordinator. large commercial ships. to years to do the research,” said stay closer to shore than any other whales’ large population numbers, The last time this many gray Another theory is that the West Deborah Fauquier, a veterinary species of whale. they should be able to bounce whales were found dead off Coast gray whale population — medical offi cer with NOAA’s Office Once hunted by whaling ships in back and recover from this year’s California, Oregon, Washington which has grown to more than of Protected Resources in Silver the 1800s for their oil until there die-off . and Alaska was in 2000, when 83 27,000 animals in recent decades Spring, Maryland. “There may be were only about 1,000 or 2,000 But the increase in deaths this had washed up by May 31. That after whale hunting ended in multiple causes.” individuals left, gray whales were year is sparking concern from year, 131 died. the early 1970s — has reached a Gray whales are one of the West protected in 1972 when President marine biologists. That’s in part Scientists say they don’t yet carrying capacity of sorts, and this Coast’s iconic wildlife species. Richard M. Nixon signed the because the whales that wash up know why the whales are dying, year’s ocean conditions have meant They can grow to 50 feet long, Marine Mammal Protection Act. dead on the shore may represent although many have been found there is not enough shrimp, krill weigh 70,000 pounds and live 70 The last whaling company in only 10% of the whales that are malnourished, leading to theories and small fi sh in some places for years. the United States, the Del Monte dying in the open ocean off the that warmer ocean waters from them to eat. Every year, thousands swim Fishing Company, operated at West Coast. climate change might be disrupting “We should be aware that in 10,000 miles between Baja Point Molate in Richmond. It “Most whales, and especially their food supply, particularly in some years the environment California in Mexico and Northern made dog food out of whales that emaciated whales, will tend to sink the Arctic. is capable of supporting more Alaska. They draw crowds of its crews shot with mechanised when dead,” said Calambokidis. “We are seeing lots of live gray whales than in other years,” said people to state parks, beaches and harpoon cannons. The company “So the numbers that wash up whales in unusual locations, clearly David Weller, a wildlife biologist whale-watching tours. closed in December 1971 as the law represent a fraction of the total. emaciated, trying to feed,” said with NOAA’s Southwest Fisheries Gray whales typically head south was about to take eff ect. The vast majority go unreported.” John Calambokidis, a research Science Center in San Diego. in December, swimming down the After whaling was banned in — The Mercury News (San Jose, biologist with the Cascadia Scientists will continue to West Coast to sheltered lagoons in the US, numbers of gray whales California)

Sharks popping up all around Florida for summer beach season Sharks most often attack lone By Richard Tribou individuals. 2. Don’t wander too far from shore. Doing so isolates you and here are sharks off places you away from assistance. Florida’s coast. 3. Avoid the water at night, That’s not news, but dawn, or dusk. Many sharks are with Memorial Day most active at these times and are weekend’s traditional better able to fi nd you than you are Tsummer season kickoff , there to see them. are now thousands more people 4. Don’t enter the water if venturing to Florida’s beaches, so bleeding. Sharks can smell and that means more shark sightings. taste blood, and trace it back to its That’s still no excuse to source. not heed warnings, which are 5. Don’t wear shiny jewellery. what lifeguards posted when a The refl ected light looks like hammerhead shark hung around shining fi sh scales. Nokomis Beach near Venice off 6. Don’t go into waters Florida’s Gulf Coast on Tuesday. containing sewage. Sewage attracts The 8- to 12-foot shark kept bait fi shes, which in turn attract swimmers out of the water for sharks. more than an hour, according to a 7. Avoid waters being fi shed story on WFTS. and those with lots of bait fi shes. About 100 miles north, another Diving seabirds are good indicators hammerhead shark was the star of of such activities. a video put on the Pasco County 8. Don’t enter the water if sharks Sheriff ’s Offi ce Facebook page. are present. Leave immediately if Meanwhile, the nonprofi t sharks are seen. OCEARCH that tags sharks and 9. Avoid an uneven tan and tracks them on its website shows brightly coloured clothing. Sharks many of its nicknamed great white see contrast particularly well, so sharks spending time off Florida’s use extra caution when waters are coast. cloudy. As of May 29, 10-foot, 2-inch 10. Don’t splash a lot. Also, Miss May is off the coast of keep pets out of the water. Erratic Daytona Beach, 12-foot, 9-inch movements can attract sharks. Caroline is off the Florida Keys, SPOTLIGHT: A blacktip shark hooked by Florida Atlantic University associate professor Stephen Kajiura and his team 11. Use care near sandbars 12-foot, 5-inch Miss Costa is in of students swims toward the boat off John D. MacArthur Beach State Park. or steep drop-off s. These are the Florida Straits between the favourite hangouts for sharks. Keys and Cuba and 5-foot, 1-inch he waded in waist-deep water in since 2015, although 2019 already unprovoked shark attacks. Volusia 12. Don’t relax just because Hudson is in the Gulf of Mexico off New Smyrna Beach, according has its fi rst fatal US shark attack, as County is No. 1 by far with 303 porpoises are nearby. Sightings the coast of Naples. The group also to a Volusia County Beach Safety a man was just killed off the coast while Brevard is No. 2 with 147 and of porpoises do not indicate the tracks other species and there are spokesman. Hawaii. Palm Beach County in third with absence of sharks. Both often eat several tracked tiger sharks and bull Those bites aren’t fatal though. Florida was home to half of the 76. the same foods. sharks in Florida’s waters as well. According to the International 32 attacks with 16 overall in 2018. The fi le also tracks the most 13. Don’t try to touch a shark if Most years, shark bites happen Shark Attack File, for 2018, shark Volusia County once again led with dangerous months with data since you see one. off Florida’s coasts more than bites were down worldwide, with four bites while Brevard had three, 1926. So in the last 92 years, more 14. If attacked by a shark, the anywhere else in the world, with only 66 incidents recorded, down Nassau and St. Lucide counties than 70 attacks a month have been general rule is “Do whatever it Volusia County leading the way. from 88 in 2017. The average over with two, and one bite each in from July-October with 103 of the takes to get away.” Some people That’s often due to surfers near the last fi ve years is 84 bites. Of Duval, Monroe, Palm Beach, attacks coming in September. have successfully chosen to be Ponce Inlet getting bit in the stirred the 66 in 2018, 32 happened in US Pinellas and St. Johns counties. The fi le off ers the following tips aggressive, others passive. Some up waters near New Smyrna Beach. waters. Only one of the 32 was fatal, Historically, the International for shark safety: yelled underwater, others blew In April, a shark bit a teenager off the coast of Massachusetts, and Shark Attack File notes that bubbles. — The Orlando Sentinel from Sanford on the calf while the fi rst fatal shark attack in the US since 1882, Florida has had 827 1. Always swim in a group. (Orlando, Florida)/TNS 6 GULF TIMES Wednesday, June 5, 2019 COMMUNITY BOOK REVIEW Mary Miller’s new charming and much complicated novel In the blurbs, critics compare Miller’s work to Lorrie Moore, early Ann Beattie and (oddly) Ernest Hemingway, writes Laurie Hertzel

ere’s my advice: Don’t think too much about this book, just enjoy it. Biloxi, the fourth book by Mary Miller, isH an entertaining, endearing story about a late-middle-aged, morose divorced guy who accidentally acquires a dog. The dog changes his life (as dogs do). For good? For bad? For more complicated? For all those things. The morose divorced guy is named Louis McDonald Jr., and he narrates the tale. He lives in Biloxi, Miss., in the same house he shared for years with his now-ex-wife, Ellen, and their daughter, Maxine. But Ellen has left him, Maxine has grown and gone, and Louis is feeling unmoored. And what a pill Ellen was, at least in Louis’ memory. When a friend baked her cookies, Ellen refused to eat them, claiming “the cookies were meant to fatten her up, that they were cookies with bad intent.” As for his daughter, Louis is not estranged from her so much as he is indiff erent to her, a far cry from Maxine’s childhood, when “she had loved me better than anybody in ENTERTAINING: Biloxi, the the world,” he says. “She’d reach for fourth book by Mary Miller, is an my hand, take it and hold it until I entertaining, endearing story about couldn’t bear it any longer and had a late-middle-aged, morose divorced to let go.” guy who accidentally acquires a dog. This is a man who, clearly, is not comfortable with vulnerability. Louis is a mostly likable guy, Now 63, Louis has quit his job although he does have some as an insurance salesman (a job I cringeworthy observations (which was ill-suited for and hated every seem not out-and-out racist but single day) and spends his time probably pretty accurate for a late- drinking cola, watching reality TV middle-aged white guy in Biloxi), and waiting for an inheritance that and he certainly watches TV too should be coming any day now from much. But after he takes in Layla, his father’s estate. But why won’t he gradually starts taking in other the lawyer return his calls? (You can misfi ts, including the wife of Layla’s guess why.) fi rst owner (who, as it turns out, He thinks, from time to time, was not allergic) and the guy who about the gun he has stashed in changes his locks, and it’s clear to his bedroom. Might he use it on the reader, even if it’s not clear to himself? Would anyone care? Louis, that he is starting to open up And then one morning on his way to the world. to pick up his diabetes medication at Is it possible to change late in Walgreens, he fi nds himself in front life? Is it possible for the hopeless to of a house festooned with balloons regain hope? Apparently the answer and a sign announcing FREE DOGS. is yes, if you get a dog. The next thing he knows, he’s In the blurbs, critics compare putting Layla into his car. She’s a Miller’s work to Lorrie Moore, border collie, black and white, a bit early Ann Beattie and (oddly) overweight and prone to gagging, Ernest Hemingway. I’d tuck Biloxi which is why her owner is giving somewhere between Stewart her away. Plus, the guy said, his new COMPLICATED: The novel grows complicated in a hilarious sort of way, a way that you don’t want to examine too O’Nan, who writes so knowingly wife is allergic. closely, with con men, minor story lines that go nowhere, and all kinds of implausible twists and turns. about the small details of a quiet And the next thing that happens life, and the comic novels of after that is that Louis fi nds himself much stuff at PetSmart. Can such a hilarious sort of way, a way that you implausible twists and turns. Jonathan Evison. But why compare singing nonsensical songs to Layla whirlwind romance last? don’t want to examine too closely, But the ride is so much fun that it to anyone? Miller’s good all on her about how her belly smells like Miller’s charming and funny with con men, minor story lines you’d be a spoilsport for demanding own. — Star Tribune (Minneapolis)/ corn chips, and buying her too novel grows complicated in a that go nowhere, and all kinds of that it all add up. TNS Wednesday, June 5, 2019 GULF TIMES 7 BODY & MIND COMMUNITY

GAINING AUTHORITY : To gain authority over a situation, find out if someone cares how much it’s aff ecting you. If they don’t care, try another route. It’s okay to call in reinforcement. How to find your voice of authority Judi Light Hopson, Emma H Hopson and Ted Hagen give basic tips for discovering your ‘adult’ voice

o you get upset a lot he’ll say, “Everyone else can stay because you let other out until midnight! Or, your boss people run over you? may say, “Employees at my other Maybe you’re a young store never complain! They work person working for around the clock, if I ask them to.” Da hateful boss. Or, maybe you’re To gain authority over a a grandmother stressed about situation, fi nd out if someone cares babysitting. how much it’s aff ecting you. If they To fi x your pain, it’s necessary to don’t care, try another route. It’s voice limits and expectations with okay to call in reinforcement. other people. For example, go to the manager Here are some basic tips for above your boss, if you have to. discovering your ‘adult’ voice: Or, have your spouse tell your daughter-in-law, “We can’t have 1- Practice speaking your the grandkids here fi ve nights a emotions. This way, you’ll say week.” what you mean without going An executive we’ll call Dylan overboard. For example, say, “I says he suff ered for ten years before feel extremely angry about this fi nding his voice of authority. situation.” Or say, “I’m going “I had to speak up to the CEO to draw a fi rm line in the sand. I of my company about money cannot work overtime this week.” disappearing. I was on sensitive ground, believe me.” 2- Use a lot of “I” statements. Dylan says he presented the Say, “I don’t like the way this is information in a group meeting, so being handled.” Or say, “I know I’m no one could lie about what he said right about this problem. I can’t PRACTICE: Practice speaking your emotions. This way, you’ll say what you mean without going overboard. to the main boss. give an inch on this decision.” Avoid “I addressed the situation using the word “you” when you’re have to retract. Pretend your That’s why you must be grateful moment you verbally slap a person, instead of attacking people,” Dylan upset, or you’ll sound like you’re ‘performance’ is being recorded for being in a few tight spots in life. you’ll wind up in a personal reveals. “I said to the group, ‘There attacking the other person. when you must speak up boldly. Challenges allow you to practice fi ght. Avoid this by saying, “I am is something way out of kilter on Don’t use language you’ll be your moves. determined to correct this problem. these fi nancial reports. If anyone 3- State your desired ashamed of later. For instance, say, “Try to attack the problem Are you on board with me?” would like to address this, I think outcome. Tell someone, “I want a “I am going to take the lead and ask instead of jumping a person,” says Another important point to you should do it now. I cannot better accounting system in place.” for your resignation.” Don’t shout, a psychologist we’ll call Jenny. remember is this: People try to start allow these discrepancies to refl ect Don’t say, “Someone needs to fi re “Fool, you must resign!” “It’s much more eff ective to tell an argument if they don’t wish to on my own job performance. My the treasurer!” No one ever polished their everyone the problem needs ironing fi x the problem. reputation is at stake here, and I’m performance as an authority fi gure out.” For example, if your teenage son asking for help from all of you.” 4- Speak words you won’t without taking on challenges. Jenny goes on to say that the doesn’t want to be home by eleven, – TNS 8 GULF TIMES Wednesday, June 5, 2019 COMMUNITY TECHN A wake-up call on data-collect Sleep Number, one company that makes beds that can track heart rate, respiration and movement, said it collects more than 8 billion biometric data points every night, gathered each second and sent via an app through the Internet to the company’s servers, writes Julie Appleby

SENSORS: Smart beds and other types of sleep trackers have diff erent sensors. Sleep Number beds have movement sensors, for instance, which can inflate, deflate or otherwise adjust the mattress for comfort.

our bed could be through a growing number of Number beds to players. even de-identified biometric data. Pete Bils, Sleep Number’s vice watching you. Internet-connected devices. The company says it goes Starting with when you turn in president of sleep science and OK, so not with a “We don’t know what happens to great lengths to protect its and when you wake up, and many research. camera. to all that data,” said Burcu Kilic, customers’ data. things in between, these beds know That data, along with goals each But if you have any of Director of the Digital Rights “To be clear, Sleep Number a lot. consumer sets for sleep, go into aY variety of ‘smart beds,’ mattress Programme at Public Citizen, an does not share any Sleep IQ And because it’s a bed, there’s an creating what the firm calls a Sleep pads or sleep apps, it knows when advocacy group in Washington, or biometric” data outside inescapable salaciousness factor. IQ Score, a term devised to assess you go to sleep. It knows when you D.C. the company, Sleep Number “I can’t imagine it wouldn’t be how well a consumer slept and toss and turn. It may even be able The information “is also relevant spokeswoman Julie Elepano said in possible to look at that data and is used heavily in the company’s to tell when you’re having leisure and important to pharmaceutical an e-mail exchange. say anything” said Lee Tien, senior marketing. Over time, the score time, including having a cup of companies and those that make Still, that differs from the staff attorney at the Electronic can show if a person is deviating coffee and a book on bed. hospital-related technology,” Kilic company’s privacy notice, which Frontier Foundation, talking about from their averages. Sleep Number, one company said. clearly states that personal the whole range of sleep-tracking If consumers don’t want to track that makes beds that can track Nonetheless, consumers information, potentially including tools. “The raw data may not tell what’s going on in bed, they can heart rate, respiration and are flocking to mattresses and biometric data, ‘may’ be shared you that, but what they do is take flip on a ‘privacy mode’ setting, movement, said it collects more under-mattress sensors aimed with marketing companies or the raw data and try to interpret it.” which halts transmission but also than 8 billion biometric data points at quantifying sleep as well as business partners. They, in turn, Smart beds and other types limits what a consumer can learn every night, gathered each second sleep-tracking devices; sleep could send out pitches for Sleep of sleep trackers have different about their sleep patterns, which and sent via an app through the apps are among the most popular Number or offers to participate sensors. Sleep Number beds have is presumably one reason they Internet to the company’s servers. downloads on Apple and Android in partner product loyalty movement sensors, for instance, bought the bed in the first place. “This gives us the intelligence smartphones. programmes. The policy also says which can inflate, deflate or “The more you use the bed, the to be able to continue to feed our The Sleep Number bed is one personal information could be otherwise adjust the mattress for more it knows you,” said Bils. algorithms,” CEO Shelly Ibach told of the most heavily marketed given to partners for “research, comfort. From what is spelled out in attendees at a Fortune Brainstorm of such products, with press analysis or administering surveys.” Some sleep apps and devices privacy policies for these beds and Health conference in San Diego in releases and ads often equating Finally, the privacy policy made by other firms even use apps, it’s clear the data could be April. good sleep with a better life. Sales says Sleep Number can ‘exploit, microphones to track snoring. useful in other ways, too. Analysing all that personal data, of the beds grew 6% from 2017 share and use for any purpose’ Late last year, there was a For example, the French Ibach continued, not only helps to $1.5 billion in 2018, company personal information with names collective social media freakout company Withings, which makes consumers learn more about their filings show. Early this year, the or addresses withheld or stripped when bloggers noticed a quirk in the Sleep under-mattress monitor health, but also aids the company’s company signed a partnership out, known as “de-identified” the Sleep Number bed privacy that can track movement, heart efforts to make a better product. with Ariana Huffington’s Thrive data. policy that seemed to indicate rate, snoring and other factors, Still, consumer privacy Global, a corporate wellness firm When asked about the seeming those beds had a microphone. said it shares anonymous and advocates are increasingly raising she launched after leaving The difference between what the But they don’t, the company was aggregated data “with partners concerns about the fate of personal Huffington Post in 2016. Last year, privacy policy states and her quick to note. such as hospitals, researchers or health information, which is the bed maker began a multiyear comments, Elepano did not Instead, Sleep Number beds companies, as well as to the public potentially valuable to companies partnership with the NFL, in address that directly, but reiterated gather data through tiny changes in blog posts and data studies.” that collect and sell it, gathered which the company gives its Sleep that the company does not share in the mattress’s air pressure, said According to the Sleep Number Wednesday, June 5, 2019 GULF TIMES 9 OLOGY COMMUNITY ing smart beds and sleep apps

SCORE: That data, along with goals each consumer sets for sleep, go into creating what the firm calls a Sleep IQ Score, a term devised to assess how well a consumer slept and is used heavily in the company’s marketing. Over time, the score TRACKING: Some sleep apps and devices made by various firms in the world can show if a person is deviating from their averages. even use microphones to track snoring.

MONITOR: The French company Withings, makes the Sleep under-mattress monitor that can track movement, heart rate, snoring and other factors.

privacy policy, it collects personal personal information allow for connect with other ‘smart’ devices do so and collect all this info from but it’s a slippery slope,” said Dr information, which can include the sharing of data that has been in your home, such as a thermostat you: How do you use your bed? Seema Khosla, a pulmonologist names and information about a stripped of personal identifiers. or coffee maker. This is very sensitive information.” and medical director of the North consumer’s age, weight, height But privacy experts have shown Nifty, for sure, because as Privacy experts recommend Dakota Center for Sleep, a sleep and gender. If a consumer creates a it’s not terribly difficult to use or you wake up, your heater can encryption and the use of study facility in Fargo. Khosla, who user profile on the bed’s app, that combine such information to ‘re- kick on and the coffee maker strong passwords and additional uses a few trackers herself, is also personal information is expanded identify’ people. can start doing its thing. But it authentication whenever possible. the lead author of the American to include specifics about “You are left with the impression also can mean those devices are The goal of the data gathering, Academy of Sleep Medicine’s movement, positions, respiration that, ‘Don’t worry, no one will sharing your information. Sleep Sleep Number and other position paper on sleep apps. and heart rate. be able to point to you,’ but they Number said its beds can import companies say, is helping sleep- One unexpected consequence: That is also true for children if don’t actually say that,” said Tien. information from other devices deprived Americans do a better job Consumers so attuned to their data parents create a user profile for “I don’t know how they actually but does not share customer at, well, sleeping. may experience anxiety – and an them. could say that.” information with them. But do consumers really need inability to sleep. The policy also notes that Unlike personal data collected in Still, the interconnectedness an app, or a bed that can cost “We call it orthosomnia,” she personal data might be stored a doctor’s office or a sleep clinic, exposes more vulnerabilities. thousands of dollars, to tell said. “They get all this data and indefinitely, even “after you cancel the information gathered by sleep “We connect all these devices to them how rested they feel in the get upset about having a perfect or deactivate” user accounts. trackers is not protected by federal each other,” noted Kilic at Public morning? number. We tell them to put it The privacy policies of many privacy rules. Citizen. “If hackers want to get Such tools are “great because it away for a couple of weeks.” – devices that track and transmit Some sleep trackers or apps can into the system, (they) can easily makes people more aware of sleep, Kaiser Health news/TNS 10 GULF TIMES Wednesday, June 5, 2019 COMMUNITY INFOGRAPHIC Wednesday, June 5, 2019 GULF TIMES 11 LIFESTYLE/HOROSCOPE COMMUNITY Get your summer basics right for fashionable outing

tep up your summer vacation? Give way to the fashion Bear in mind, the best citrus-based fashion game by diva in you by fl aunting pumps, fragrance choices are the ones that experimenting with sliders, cross body bag, tote bag and are reinforced with woody, fl oral and comfortable and stylish keep your style quotient high. fruity notes to make the fragrance ensembles in white, pink, Are you an adventure junkie stay on you for longer. Sred, pastels and blue. and want to stay stylish? Lay —Choose fragrances that are a Tushar Ved, President Major your hands on comfortable blue hallmark of freshness to get the Brands India Pvt. Ltd, for Charles or pink sneakers or white sports best contrast with the hot weather, & Keith, shares fashion tips for shoes paired with shorts, T-shirt, Abdulla said. diff erent occasions. backpack and sunglasses to Umashan Naidoo, StudioWest — Brunch look: A summer complete the sporty and chic look. Buying Head at StudioWest, shared brunch calls for an outfi t that Worried about the body odour? how can one make the fragrance makes you look fresh and classy. Abdulla Ajmal, Consulting last longer in summer. You can choose to wear comfortable Perfumer at Ajmal Perfumes, tells — Fragrances become robust and shoes for the brunch. Pastel colours how to keep the smell away. begin to pop as the body heats up and white shoes with the jeans and — Summer perfumes usually and if it’s sprayed in areas that are T-shirt are the perfect combo for a are citrus-based that cool the skin warmer, like the sides, elbows and brunch outing. and envelope the wearer in fresh chest. — Dinner heels: Racing against uplifting aroma. The summer sun — Always make sure your skin is deadlines and rushing for a dinner can agitate the fragrance, causing fresh before spraying. party or date, you can wear high it to evaporate faster rather than — It’s a good idea to layer and heels or wedges, or fashionable fl ats sticking to your skin. Thus, it’s ideal look out for brands that sell the or stilettos paired with the knee to carry your summer fragrance body lotion, deodorant, EDT and length dress. One can also wear in your bag and keep reapplying miniatures. Post-shower use the — It’s important to recognise what left hand and elbow of your right pencil heels, teamed with a peplum throughout the day. body lotion and deodorant, then scents suit your PH. What may smell hand. Let it settle for 20 minutes top. Up you fashion game by opting — Mostly, men prefer citrus target warm spots and pulse areas great on a friend may not work for as the top note settles and the true for black or red colour and heels. scents and in the summer months with EDT and carry the miniature you. Before purchasing, spray the nature of the fragrance is revealed. Packing your bags for a summer women tend to lean that way as well. in your bag for a backup spritz. scent you love on the wrist of your – IANS

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

The day is likely to be somewhat challenging, and it contains Taurus, you can expect the day to be a bit bumpy. If you were A planetary configuration like today’s often makes people afraid to some disappointments. You’re liable to feel dejected if you receive an Olympic athlete, today you’d be standing at the starting line, start anything that challenges the status quo. This is true for you in a lacklustre response from the world. Apparently, Aries, your wondering if you had trained enough for a topnotch performance. your professional life. You should dare to take on more responsibility. performance has lost some of its ability to captivate an audience. Have you had enough practice? Will you make the grade? Issues The aspects speak of fear only, not of being incapable of succeeding. Whether you accept this or try to shine up your act is the question related to your material resources will certainly be on the agenda. The saying about fear being the only thing to fear is something you of the day! should take to heart right now, Gemini. CANCER LEO VIRGO June 21 — July 22 July 23 — August 22 August 23 — September 22

Cancer, today’s your chance to stand up to family members who It’s up to you to strut your stuff , Leo. As long as you’re bashful about You don’t have to answer to society’s cultural values, Virgo. If most want to exert too much control over your life. It’s time to bang your showcasing your innate gifts, it will be diff icult to find meaning in of your work is organised around an activity that’s considered fist on the table and say, “Enough’s enough, I’ll love who I want to.” your life. Today’s planetary alignment gives you the challenge to fashionable, you will never succeed in feeling good about yourself When you insist that well-meaning relatives respect your choices, take your talents more seriously. You could easily profit from them, or your creations. You’re too motivated by meaningful activities to you’ll tap into a new well of self-respect. provided you look deep inside to discover how. spend your time with frivolous ones. Today’s aspects will push you to cut yourself off from all that doesn’t resonate deeply. LIBRA SCORPIO SAGITTARIUS September 23 — October 22 October 23 — November 21 November 22 — December 21

You may have noticed for some time now to what an extent your Are you hesitating, Scorpio? Do you feel caught between the desire You can expect to have to make a choice today related to your ambitions wear you out and to what point they have become to participate fully in the world and the equally strong desire to relationships. You may have become aware that something is outdated. If you aspire to live an ambitious life, but also one that remain in your dream world, even at the risk of feeling a little out missing, either in your partner or yourself. Today you will act on that is calmer and more balanced, the celestial energy is indicating the of it? Who says that these two worlds are incompatible? If you look awareness, but it may not be easy. The root of the problem could be moment has come to make some important decisions, Libra. closely, you will see that you don’t need to choose one or the other. an issue of independence and self-suff iciency. Try to figure out the source of the problem before acting on it, Sagittarius. CAPRICORN AQUARIUS PISCES December 22 — January 19 January 20 — February 18 February 19 — March 20

You’re being called upon to make a commitment or promise, most There are times in your life when you may feel somewhat inhibited, The forecast today is stormy. You may have sensed that there was likely relating to your life. Will you take that decisive step? That’s the as though something is holding you back from total fulfilment. some tension clouding the conversation at home. Resentments were question today. Over the next few days you will doubtless have to Perhaps the emotions overwhelm you or the idea of commitment left unsaid and subtle power games were played without resolution. prove what you’re made of. The challenge most likely emanates from frightens you. In any case, Aquarius, you’re well aware that your Today, Pisces, it all becomes too unbearable for you. Regardless of your relationships. There is no running away this time, Capricorn. It’s reluctance to take the plunge is detrimental to your relationship. The the risks involved, you will take measures to clear things up. time to take a stand. day will call on you to take a few more risks. 12 GULF TIMES Wednesday, June 5, 2019 COMMUNITY CARTOONS/PUZZLES

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Codeword Every letter of the alphabet is used at least once. Squares with the same number in have the same letter in. Work out which number represents which letter.

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Sudoku

Bound And Gagged

Sudoku is a puzzle based on a 9x9 grid. The grid is also divided into nine (3x3) boxes. You are given a selection of values and to complete the puzzle, you must fill the grid so that every column, every anone is repeated. Wednesday, June 5, 2019 GULF TIMES 13 PUZZLES COMMUNITY

Super Cryptic Clues Colouring

Across Down 1 Herd heard in port (5) 1 Drink caught up with old man 4 Award kept in De Niro’s (5) caravan? (5) 2 Crying as a result of little 7 A party leader has little desire noise? (7) for food (8) 3 Hide capital for Swiss family 8 Panto character made to (4) change (4) 4 Joke about English passenger 9 A bird engaged in some ship (3-5) activity (2,2) 5 A trainee soldier acted 10 Leader in dance is wrong to strangely (5) twist (7) 6 Self-reproach about TV 12 Urge able guy to give up detective (7) sport? (5,6) 11 Austrian dressed ornately (8) 14 Traitor’s initial motive for his 12 Uncommon morsel for a crime (7) snack? (7) 16 Support for piano? (4) 13 Mixed-up clothing came first 19 Lincoln seen by daughter (7) possibly sleeping (4) 15 Does it count as a poisonous 20 English attribute that makes reptile? (5) no difference (8) 17 Trifling - like a naval officer? 21 Partly capturing Italian city (5) (5) 18 Only time for cask (4) 22 US lawyer entertained by plaything now (5) Answers Yesterday’s Solution Wordsearch Codeword 14 GULF TIMES Wednesday, June 5, 2019 COMMUNITY BOLLYWOOD Appalling I haven’t worked enough with women directors, says Dia

than they may desire and you will By Simran Sethi have a happy team with hopefully always a quality product,” she said. or actress Dia Mirza, who Before the web show, Dia is is also a fi lm producer, it’s credited as producer for fi lms like a thing to ponder that in Love Breakups Zindagi and Bobby a career of over 15 years, Jasoos. she has worked with “As far as the economics go for womenF directors only twice. a web show or a fi lm, I think each “It is appalling that in my career story and its duration in terms of of over 15 years, I did not get enough minutes delivered has its own basic chances to work with women cost, so there is no cost distinction directors... it has been hardly one per se,” Dia said. or two times. I did not intentionally But as an actor, she found it a choose not to work with women diff erent experience to work in a fi lmmakers. Unfortunately, there fi lm vis-a-vis in a project for the were hardly any women on the web medium. director’s chair till a few years ago,” “The web medium gives more Dia said over phone. exposure to actors in terms of time Dia had worked in Reema Kagti- one can invest on the characters. directed Honeymoon Travels Pvt Ltd Web shows are like novels. You have in 2007. And years after that, she is to go deep into the characters to now under the direction of Sonam understand it. One gets more time Nair in a web series titled Kaafi r. to spend with the characters. It is a The 38-year-old actress feels “a boon for actors,” she asserted. lot” has changed for women in the Dia was a teenager when she industry over the years. won the Miss Asia Pacifi c title in “I am a huge supporter of women 2000 and later rose to fame with claiming their space and backing Bollywood fi lm Rehnaa Hai Terre their voices because I think they Dil Mein. She has not just worked as have some very important things to an actor but also invested herself in say and stories to share. philanthropy. “So, each time I see a woman ADVOCATE: “I am a huge supporter of women claiming their space”, says Dia Mirza. As a UN Goodwill Ambassador achieve success on the merits of her for the environment since 2017, thought and action, I am happy to refl ecting in her tone. digital medium as a producer. Dia Applause Entertainment. Dia has campaigned for the cause cheer the loudest,” added Dia. “It’s just a matter of being certain and her husband Sahil Sangha, “Our experience as producers extensively. After acting and production, is about the story that I want to tell. who run the banner Born Free teaches us only one thing – give She was recently appointed the direction next on her mind? Once that is clear to me, I will most Entertainment, have produced the narrative all that it deserves UN Secretary-General’s Advocate “I am defi nitely going to direct certainly call ‘action’,” she said. the upcoming web show Mind The and requires in terms of budget, of Sustainable Development Goals. one day,” Dia said, with excitement Dia is also making a foray in the Malhotras in collaboration with give your team even more love – IANS

Ranveer roots for V.Unbeatable dance We shouldn’t give up on group #MeToo: Taapsee

Actor Ranveer Singh says he is proud of Actress Taapsee Pannu says V.Unbeatable, -based dance group, that got a people must not stop raising standing ovation from the judges of the reality show their voice against sexual America’s Got Talent last month. harassment at workplace “Gully boys dancing like Peshwas! World class and continue the #MeToo performers making India proud, unbeatable,” Ranveer movement. tweeted on Monday. Her comment comes just two Along with the tweet, he shared a link of the video days after director Vikas Bahl in which the group is seen performing to Malhaari was given a clean chit after an song from Ranveer-starrer Bajirao Mastani. allegation of sexual misconduct The troupe comprises 28 members aged 12-27 made against him by a former VOCAL: Taapsee Pannu has years. They chanted ‘Ganpati Bappa Morya’ in unison employee of the now disbanded been very vocal about women before starting their sequence, which included jaw- Phantom Films, was probed, and empowerment. dropping fl ips and electrifying dance moves. his credit as director of Super 30 Before their performance, the dance group was was restored. for ages.“We all can see how a asked what it was like to stay in Mumbai. One Even actor Alok Nath, who collective consciousness has member said: “Life in Mumbai is very hard... the life was accused of rape by a writer- come into the picture since the in slums.” director, has appeared in the fi lm #MeToo movement started. “Many members of our group live in slums. The . Nothing will change overnight, slums are crowded, dirty and they don’t get proper Asked how she looks at the but we should not give up on the electricity. Often 7-10 people stay in one room. It’s situation, Taapsee said: “Look, situation and tolerate abuse.” challenging to survive there. Each day we pray for a if the person who is accused Taapsee, who has been vocal better life, but in slums there is very little opportunity of harassment, doesn’t get about women empowerment, for us.” Dance gives them an opportunity to forget punished, of course the spirit said it takes a lot of time to break their surrounding. of the movement, the spirit of the momentum in such matters. “For the past two weeks, we have not been able a woman who comes out with “Obstacles will come, but to sleep. This opportunity could change our lives. the story of abuse in public, gets we should not give up. This Everyone wants to succeed and give back to their shattered. is a transformative time and families. We used to watch America’s Got Talent on “However, that should not therefore it is diffi cult but if we YouTube. “We were like ‘can we go here someday?’ stop other girls from raising do not continue, the change will We were just dreaming about it and today we are here. PLEASED: Ranveer Singh says he is proud of their voices if they are abused... not come in future,” added the It’s our dream come true,” said a member. – IANS V.Unbeatable, Mumbai-based dance group. because girls have stayed silent Pink actress. – IANS Wednesday, June 5, 2019 GULF TIMES 15 HOLLYWOOD COMMUNITY Geena Davis, 3 others to receive honorary Oscars

By Josh Rottenberg

he Board of Governors of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences announced Monday that it will present its annual honorary CELEBRATED: Barry Jenkins won the Academy Award for GovernorsT Awards to director David best adapted screenplay for Moonlight. Lynch, actor Wes Studi and director Lina Wertmüller, while actress Geena Jenkins to direct Alvin Ailey biopic Davis will receive the Jean Hersholt Humanitarian Award. Moonlight writer-director Barry Jenkins will direct a The Governors Awards, which were biopic about late African-American iconic choreographer, once a part of the Oscar telecast and are Alvin Ailey. now handed out in a separate ceremony, Film studio Fox Searchlight fi rst announced the project are given “to honour extraordinary in March 2018, saying it had the support of the Ailey distinction in lifetime achievement, Organisation. Singer-songwriter Alicia Keys is producing exceptional contributions to the state of with Susan Lewis through her AK Worldwide production motion picture arts and sciences, or for company, along with Judy Kinberg, Rachel Cohen and Jana outstanding service to the Academy.” Edelbaum from iDeal Partners, reports variety.com The Jean Hersholt Humanitarian Award Julian Breece is writing the script. is presented “to an individual in the Ailey, who was raised in rural Texas by a single mother, motion picture arts and sciences whose founded the interracial Alvin Ailey American Dance humanitarian eff orts have brought Theatre in New York in 1958 and helped popularise credit to the industry.” modern dance. His Revelations became one of the most- Davis, who won an Oscar for her performed modern dance pieces in history. supporting performance in The Ailey received the Kennedy Centre Honours in 1988, Accidental Tourist and has starred in a year before he died at the age of 58 from AIDS-related such fi lms as Thelma & Louise, The complications. In 2014, former US president Barack Fly and A League of Their Own, is the Obama selected Ailey to be a posthumous recipient of the founder and chair of the nonprofi t Presidential Medal of Freedom. Geena Davis Institute on Gender The project includes the rights to Jennifer Dunning’s in Media, which is dedicated to biography Alvin Ailey: A Life in Dance. eliminating gender bias and stereotypes RECOGNITION: Geena Davis at the UCLA Mattel Children’s Hospital Gala in Los Fox Searchlight and the producers will be working with in entertainment and boosting roles Angeles. the dance company’s artistic director Robert Battle and for women. In 2015, she launched artistic director emerita Judith Jamison. the Bentonville Film Festival to competitive Oscar. also earned her an original screenplay Jenkins won the Academy Award for best adapted support women and diversity in the The Oklahoma-born, Cherokee nod. Known for tackling political and screenplay for Moonlight and received an Oscar entertainment industry. American Studi is known for his social issues, her other fi lms include nomination for directing the coming-of-age best picture Since making his feature debut portrayals of strong Native American The Basilisks (1963), The Seduction of winner. He was nominated this year for best adapted with 1977’s Eraserhead, Lynch has characters. Since breaking out in 1990’s Mimi (1972), Love and Anarchy (1973) screenplay for If Beale Street Could Talk, which he also established himself as one of cinema’s Dances With Wolves and as the fi erce and Swept Away (1974). directed. – IANS most idiosyncratic and infl uential Huron warrior Magua in 1992’s Last of Last year’s Governors Awards went directors. His 1980 drama The Elephant the Mohicans, he has earned acclaim for to actress Cicely Tyson, composer Lalo Man earned eight Academy Award his work in the movies Geronimo: An Schifrin and publicist Marvin Levy, Cage offi cially divorced from fourth wife nominations, including directing American Legend, Heat, The New World, while producers Kathleen Kennedy and and adapted screenplay for Lynch Avatar and Hostiles. Frank Marshall received the Irving G. Actor Nicolas Cage and along with best picture. He received In 1976, Wertmüller became the Thalberg Memorial Award. his fourth wife Erika Koike additional directing nods for 1986’s fi rst woman to receive an Academy This year’s awards are to be presented are offi cially divorced after Blue Velvet and 2001’s Mulholland Award nomination, for directing the at the Governors Awards ceremony on a four-day marriage. Drive, yet he has never won a picaresque fi lm Seven Beauties, which October 27. – Los Angeles Times/TNS The former couple were granted the divorce three months after their A librarian who gave James auditioned for the Jeopardy! College wedding, which they tried Holzhauer a run for his money Championship while at Princeton, to annul after four days, on Jeopardy! according to a 2014 article in the Daily after Cage claimed he Princetonian. Her friend made the cut. was ‘too drunk’ to marry, Warning: Spoilers ahead. “She’s such a perfect candidate reports dailymail.co.uk Emma Boettcher, a 27-year-old for the show because she’s obviously TMZ state that University of Chicago librarian, incredibly smart and also very according to court SEPARATION: Nicolas Cage unseated Naperville, Ill., native James personable,” Boettcher told the records, the judge in Clark and his fourth wife Erika Koike Holzhauer as Jeopardy! champion college newspaper about her friend. County, Nevada granted are off icially divorced after a four- on Monday’s episode as Holzhauer “Sometimes you get kind of arrogant their divorce on May 31. day marriage. came close to beating the $2.52 million people in Jeopardy that are just Cage, 55, had claimed Ken Jennings earned during his 2004 obsessed with showing off how smart the union was based on fraud, because Koike didn’t winning streak. they are, and Terry’s not like that all.” disclose her criminal history and her relationship with According to her LinkedIn profi le, Boettcher and her family did not another person. Boettcher has worked at the University return Tribune requests for comment. There appeared to be problems with the union almost of Chicago as a user experience resident WINNER: University of Chicago She recently told the New York Times immediately and hours after the wedding, which took librarian since August 2016. She focuses librarian Emma Boettcher, right, unseats that she has watched Jeopardy! for place on March 23, they were seen fi ghting outside the on faculty and student experiences with Naperville native James Holzhauer years and documented her scores in a Bellagio hotel. the university’s library services. as Jeopardy! champion on Monday’s notebook. She kept track of how many Koike later opposed Cage’s hope to annul their marriage Boettcher, whose family hails from a episode. times she correctly answered the clues and made a claim for spousal support. community outside of Philadelphia, also and “Daily Doubles.” TMZ claimed that Cage was unable to get the annulment worked as a library account manager that degree — “Predicting the Diffi culty “I knew going in that Daily Double but managed to get a quick divorce and it is unclear if Koike at the University of North Carolina at of Trivia Questions Using Text Features” hunting was something that I could do was granted the spousal support she wanted. – IANS Chapel Hill, where she said she received — relied on Jeopardy! clues. and feel confi dent doing,” she said. “I her master’s degree in information She got her bachelor’s degree in don’t need to be cautious around that.” – science in 2016. Her master’s paper for English from Princeton in 2014. She Chicago Tribune/TNS 16 GULF TIMES Wednesday, June 5, 2019 COMMUNITY

PRESS MEET: Organisers and sponsors of the Bollywood sensation Armaan Malik’s concert seen at the press meet. Armaan Malik keen to perform for the first time in Doha tomorrow

of an actor for who he loves the “Doha Waves has organised By Mudassir Raja singing most, Armaan said: “I many of international events have sung for numerous actors. including Bollywood concerts I did my singing debut for sir like Live Qatar verything is set for a Salman [Khan] in the movie Jai and Udit Narayan Live in concert heart-throbbing musical Ho. [Smiling] I was bit scared at which were a tremendous evening tomorrow when that time because I was only 18 success.” rising Bollywood music years old. I asked Salman sir if my He added: “Armaan Malik is star Armaan Malik will voice will match his character and known as ‘The Prince of Romance’ performE for his Doha fans at Ali he said that he would reduce some in his followers. He has sang Bin Hamad Al Attiyah Arena from of his wait to look younger. It was playback in so many movies in 7:30pm onwards. great for me to sing for such an different languages including “It is going to be a musical amazing actor in the beginning of Hindi, Malayalam, Tamil, Telugu, night full of fun in Doha. I am very my career. , Bengali, Assamese, excited to be here as this is going to “My favourite in the young Marathi and Urdu. He has sung be my fi rst performance in Qatar. I generation is Varun Dhawan. I more than 500 movies. Some of am very happy to be in Doha. Lots have sung a song Theher Ja for his famous songs are Boldo Na of my fans have been asking me to him in the movie called October. I Zara, Huwa Hai Aaj Pehali Baar, come to Doha,” said Armaan Malik am hoping to sing more songs for Tere Mere, Kaun Tuje, Dil mein during a press conference and him. I feel my voice matches with Chupaloonga et. meet-up held at Ali Bin Hamad Al that of a lot. I did the “He has been nominated 15 Attiyah Arena on Monday evening. song Sub Tera for the film Baaghi. times for best Playback Singer- He said: “I am very glad to Even today, Tiger comes to me Male and he won 11 awards collaborate with Doha Waves as and tells me that he feels as if he is from various organisations they are going to have their 100th singing instead of me.” like Filmfare, Global Indian show in Doha. They have done In response to a question about Music Academy, South Indian shows of very good artistes in the singing in languages other than International Movie, Stardust and past. The most special thing about Hindi, he said: “I am proud to be Mirchi Awards for best Playback my show is that it coincides with not only a Bollywood singer but Singer-Male from 2015 onwards. Eid. It is very auspicious time for also an Indian singer. I also sing For his show, we are expecting a all of us.” in South Indian movies. I sing in crowd of over 8000 fans.” Armaan, who is just 23, promised Bengali movies. I sing in Gujrati, The tickets categories are: his fans that it is going to be a Marathi, and almost all Indian Royal (QR 1000), VIP (QR 500), fun night. “I am just hoping that languages.” VIP for family (QR 1200-admit 3), everyone in Doha, who loves music Armaan also said: “I am not Platinum (QR 200), Gold (QR 150) and Bollywood, comes together and interested in acting as I do not and Silver (QR 75). Online Tickets “It is going to be a musical night full has a fun night with me. I guarantee know how to act. I have to learn it are available at Q-Tickets and you that it is going to be an amazing before I go for it.” direct sale in Lulu Hypermarkets of fun in Doha. I am very excited to night.” Muhammed Thoyyib, Chairman Outlets, Tea Time all outlets, The seemingly enthusiastic Doha Waves Events, said: Safari Mall outlets, Grand Mall – be here as this is going to be my fi rst Armaan showed great energy in “Doha Waves” a leading event and all leading restaurants. The responding to diff erent questions management company celebrating main sponsor of the programme is performance in Qatar” and comments from the media their 100th mega event in Argon Global and Brought you by persons. association with Tea Time and Mumbai Spices. Event manager is — Armaan Malik When asked about the name Prime Sports Centre. Media Plus.