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Ana And Bruno with her mom at a mental institution. Anna’s mom is deeply DIRECTION: Carlos Carrera troubled and is in need of psychiatric therapy. Keeping up with CAST: Marina de Tavira, Damián Alcázar, Héctor Bonilla movie cliché tradition, the asylum looks like Addams Family SYNOPSIS: An animated adventure about a young girl manor, and is run by a sinister looking doctor. who seeks out her father in order to help save her troubled Emergency 999 mother. The movie opens with little girl named Ana arriving THEATRES: Royal Plaza, Landmark 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

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Sandakozhi 2 SYNOPSIS: The plot revolves around Balu, who after 13 DIRECTION: N. Linguswamy years returns to protects his family from an old foe. CAST: , Keerthi Suresh, Rajkiran THEATRES: Landmark ote Unquo Qu te “Despite The Mall Cinema (1): Landmark Cinema (3): Mandharam () Baazaar (Hindi) 3pm; Badhaai everything, I believe 2:30pm; The Princess And The Ho (Hindi) 5:30pm; Badhaai Ho that people are really Dragon (2D) 5pm; Badhaai Ho Kochunni (Hindi) 8pm; Baazaar (Hindi) good at heart.” (Hindi) 6:30pm; Badhaai Ho (Malayalam) 10:45pm. 10:30pm. (Hindi) 9pm; Baazaar (Hindi) Landmark Cinema (1): Royal Plaza Cinema Palace 11:30pm. Sandakozhi 2 (Tamil) 2:30pm; (1): The Princess And The — Anne Frank The Mall Cinema (2): The Jarugandi (Tamil) 5:15pm; Dragon (2D) 3pm; The Princess And The Dragon (2D) Chalakkudikkaran Changathi Princess And The Dragon (2D) 3pm; Goosebumps 2: Haunted (Malayalam) 8pm; Badhaai Ho 5pm; Hunter Killer (2D) 7pm; Halloween (2D) 5:15pm; (Hindi) 11pm. First Love (Tagalog) 9:15pm; First Love (Tagalog) 7:15pm; Landmark Cinema (2): Ana Halloween (2D) 11:30pm. Community Editor Halloween (2D) 9:30pm; Hell And Bruno (2D) 3pm; The Royal Plaza Cinema Palace Fest (2D) 11:30pm. Princess And The Dragon (2D) (2): Ana And Bruno (2D) Kamran Rehmat The Mall Cinema (3): 4:45pm; The Princess And The 2:30pm; Badhaai Ho (Hindi) e-mail: [email protected] Jarugandi (Tamil) 3pm; Dragon (2D) 6:15pm; Hunter 4:30pm; The King Of Thieves Telephone: 44466405 Baazaar (Hindi) 6pm; Killer (2D) 8pm; Halloween (2D) 7pm; Badhaai Ho (Hindi) Fax: 44350474 Hunter Killer (2D) 8:30pm; (2D) 10:15pm. 9pm; Baazaar (Hindi) 11:15pm. Tuesday, October 30, 2018 GULF TIMES 3 ROUND & ABOUT COMMUNITY

at its various dining venues) that focus on highlighting the importance of early Startup Weekend Competition detection. Try the pink afternoon tea, the WHERE: Tawar Mall extravagant pink Bar Squared Brunch at WHEN: November 15 – November 17 The Square and pink-themed nights at TIME: 6pm – 10pm Strata Restaurant and Lounge. In just 54 hours, you will experience the highs, lows, fun, and pressure that make Katara Beach - School Students up life at a startup. As you learn how to WHERE: Katara create a real company, you’ll meet the very WHEN: Ongoing best mentors, investors, cofounders, and TIME: 9am – 12pm sponsors who are ready to help you get By participating in the programme of started. ‘Our culture is a school’, Katara Beach emphasises the Qatari marine tradition After School Activities and introduces to students the meaning of WHERE: Atelier Dasha, Al Qafal and various type of pearls. WHEN: Ongoing EVENTS The students will discover all details of the invites all cyclists, runners and walkers Music and arts Activities for students Fath El-Kheir journey. to train under the floodlights of Losail taking place after they finish their day in Squash Tournament International Circuit every Wednesdays. school includes Group Music lessons, Hip- WHERE: Khalifa International Tennis Qatar International Art festival-2018 hop, Ballet, Drawing and Painting, Drama and Squash Complex Where: Doha Fire Station Gymnastics World Championships Theatre & Taekwondo. Ages between 5 and WHEN: Ongoing till November 2 When: Tomorrow – November 4 WHERE: Aspire Dome 10 years old after school hours. The Qatar Classic 2018 Squash Time: 10am – 6pm WHEN: Ongoing till November 3 Tournament will see top players from MAPS International WLL, in co- Over 700 male and female gymnasts from around the world gather in Doha to compete operation with Doha Fire Station-Qatar over 80 countries, including three Team for a championship prize of $177,000, the Museums and in collaboration with Unesco Qatar gymnasts, will compete across 10 largest award in the tournament’s history. Club of Piraeus and Islands, organises days of competition in Doha’s ionic Aspire Players battling it out in this year’s event international mega art festival. The art Dome. Experience the drama, emotions and include rising Qatari champion Abdulla festival is planned for more than 200 excitement of gymnastics’ pinnacle event al-Tamimi, rated 28th in the Professional artists from around the World. QIAF 2018 as global superstars go head to head in a bid Squash Association (PSA) World Ranking; is the very first art event in the region to be crowned the best in the world. Germany’s leading squash player, Simon that connects the artist worldwide with Rösner, rated fifth in the PSA world live painting, group painting exhibition, ranking; South America’s first top ten qatar cultural tour, panel art show, master player, Miguel Angel Rodriguez, rated sixth classes, award ceremony evening and many in the PSA world ranking, as well as many more for 6 days under 1 roof. For query, more top-ranked global players. e-mail at [email protected]

Hobby Classes WHERE: Mystic Arts Centre behind Al Hilal Focus Medical Centre WHEN:Wednesday – Monday Aspire Torch Staircase Run 2018 Mystic Art Centre, is a holistic WHERE: The Torch Doha Hotel performing artsinstitution and a one stop WHEN: November 10 solution for adults as well as children TIME: 1pm – 6pm looking to explore their talents in various Aspire Zone Foundation (AZF) announces art forms. We offer classes in Carnatic opening registration for the seventh annual Music, Hindustani Music, Karate, Yoga, ‘Aspire Torch Staircase Run’ scheduled Zumba, Classical Dance, Salsa, Hip Hop, to take place on November 10. The 2018 contemporary and Bollywood dance forms. edition of the Aspire Torch Staircase Run For details, call 33897609. (ATSR 2018), will offer sports enthusiasts the ultimate challenge of endurance, as Dance and instrument classes runners will have to make their way to the WHERE: TCA Campus, Behind Gulf Choir Concert top of the 300m tower to the 51st , Times Building WHERE: Swiss International School Ballet Lessons climbing more than 1,300 steps. WHEN: Wednesday – Monday WHEN: November 3 WHERE: Music and Arts Atelier Learn the movements of dance styles TIME: 7pm WHEN: Ongoing in Bollywood, Hip Hop and also the Don Diri Don, Polish Youth Choir, along TIME: 4pm – 8pm musical instruments such as Piano, Guitar, with Qatar Youth and Junior Choir, will be For more info e-mail at registration@ Keyboard for adults as well kids and move performing in Doha. The choir will also atelierqatar.com or call on 33003839. in the world of music. For details, contact spend a week in Doha touring the best 66523871/ 31326749. Qatar has to offer, and sharing their talent with the larger community through school workshops. For further details, e-mail at [email protected]

Breast Cancer Awareness WHERE: InterContinental Doha WHEN: Ongoing InterContinental Doha – The City is organising several activities (especially Qatar Finance and Installment Exhibition WHERE: DECC WHEN: November 3 – November15 TIME: 7pm – 10pm The QFI Exhibition is a 3-day event that brings together the best of Qatar’s finance community, and local and international visitors who are keen to access Qatar’s Cycling: Losail Circuit Sports Club robust market. We are pleased to present WHERE: Losail Circuit this opportunity to local and international WHEN: Ongoing investors, banking, finance and government TIME: 5pm institutions, along with leading firms in Losail Circuit Sports Club, in association the real estate, investment and fin-tech with Qatar Sports For All Federation, sectors.

Compiled by Nausheen Shaikh. E-mail: [email protected], Events and timings subject to change 4 GULF TIMES Tuesday, October 30, 2018 COMMUNITY COVER STORY What’s up with Time’s Up? Nearly one year in, however, confusion persists about the mission and inner workings of Time’s Up, writes Meg James

ound by fury, 300 women Oprah Winfrey used her speech It is very difficult in entertainment came that January night to condemn “a together last fall in the culture broken by brutally powerful to sustain social wake of the Harvey men” and repeat the organisation’s movements over Weinstein sexual undeniably catchy name, Time’s Up. harassmentB scandal to form a loose- “For too long, women have not time. You cannot knit coalition with big ambitions. been heard or believed if they dared The group quickly raised to speak their truth to the power of be inattentive, you $12 million and vowed to fi ght those men,” Winfrey said. “But their discrimination and sexual time is up.” must continue to harassment by giving voice and Nearly one year in, however, be vigilant support to those who have suff ered confusion persists about the mission abuse. It took out “Dear Sisters” and inner workings of Time’s Up. newspaper ads and staged a dramatic The group has raised more than “blackout” at the Golden Globes, $22 million, much of it coming from — Lisa Borders, CEO with A-list actresses and producers big names in Hollywood, for a legal Time’s Up dressed in a monochromatic display defence fund that has provided ‘ ’ of unity. assistance to dozens of women. But Tuesday, October 30, 2018 GULF TIMES 5 COVER STORY COMMUNITY eff orts to shift the balance of power Time’s Up turned to the National — and demand that institutions Women’s Law Center in Washington listen to the voices of women — to administer its legal defence fund. largely have fallen short, even during “We pivoted into something that the contentious confi rmation of Brett would be a real demonstration of M Kavanaugh to the US Supreme sustained support for women who Court. Beyond the image of actress don’t have the visibility that women Alyssa Milano silently sitting behind in Hollywood do,” McGrath said. him during a Senate hearing, its Or the money. Many women eff orts were ignored. A day after said they kept silent about sexual the testimony by Kavanaugh and harassment over the years for fear of his accuser, Christine Blasey Ford, being crushed by a man with access Time’s Up co-sponsored a protest at to powerful lawyers. LA City Hall. It drew a sparse crowd. Kaplan said she got a call in early Several groups came together last November from Tina Tchen, a fall as women shared #MeToo stories Chicago attorney and former chief of abuse. One, the Commission on of staff for Michelle Obama. Movie Eliminating Sexual Harassment and producer Brett Ratner had fi led a Advancing Equality in the Workplace, defamation lawsuit against a woman is led by Anita Hill — who became a in Hawaii who wrote on her Facebook public fi gure when she accused then- page last October that he had raped Supreme Court nominee Clarence her. Thomas of harassment. But with Ratner, who continues to deny its inspiring name and star power, the accusation, withdrew the Time’s Up overshadowed the others; defamation suit this month. Still, the indeed, it was often considered ramifi cations were enormous. synonymous with #MeToo, which “We saw (her) case as the remains a movement rather than an beginning of a wave,” Kaplan said. organisation. “Women (were) sued to stop them Initially fashioned as a democratic from talking. … There was no upside collective, the organisation for a lawyer to take that case, but prided itself on not having a we needed lawyers to protect these single leader, typically speaking FIGHTING BACK: Rep. Carolyn Maloney (D-NY), right, and actress and sexual assault survivor Alyssa Milano women.” through an unsigned statement. interviewed in the hearing room where Christine Blasey Ford testified before the Senate Judiciary Committee in the Since January, more than 3,500 Announcements of smaller groups Dirksen Senate Off ice Building on Capitol Hill in Washington, DC last month. people, from all 50 states, have — Time’s Up Technology, Time’s Up sought help through the legal defence Entertainment — and other areas Katie McGrath, who runs Bad Robot group member who also was not words and talk and slogans, we want fund. The group has agreed to fi nance of interest such as helping female Productions with her husband, JJ authorised to comment. it to result in real concrete action. In at least 51 cases, and about $4 million farmworkers and promoting fi lm Abrams. “There were varying levels of order for that to happen, we have to has been spent on legal and public critics of colour, only added to the Early on, the energy was electric irateness,” she said. “It was like have a structure with leadership.” relations assistance. confusion. and meetings were massive, and having a meeting of 200 members Caroline Heldman, an associate Time’s Up also provided $750,000 “It’s never been clear what Time’s often unfocused. In Hollywood, of PETA. And while you are trying professor at Occidental College who for grants to 18 groups, including the Up is,” an attorney who has worked where gatherings were held at the to come up with a strategy, someone has become a leading advocate for YWCA of Greater Los Angeles. with the group said. “We don’t even homes of actresses including Eva stands up and says: ‘My local victims of rape and other sexual “We’ve been focused on low- know who Time’s Up is.” Longoria and Brie Larson, there were restaurant has rabbit on the menu, assault, said Time’s Up has done a wage workers,” said Sharyn Tejani, The group appeared to realise debates between women who had and I think it is terrible. Should we remarkably good job with two things: who is director of the legal defence some of the problem; this month, spoken out against high-profi le men call the police?’ “They have helped keep the #MeToo fund. “And we have seen that in it was announced that Lisa Borders and those who had not. “Things got in the weeds very movement and the issue of sexual almost every case, there is a claim would be leaving her job as In one meeting before the group quickly.” violence in the national agenda. And of retaliation. If they complain, they president of the Women’s National made its public debut in January, One member equated the leaders’ they have raised a lot of money for are told there is no work for you, or Basketball Association to become a few members began drafting an attempts to corral members during the legal fund, which goes beyond the their shifts get cut. That makes it president and chief executive of “enemies and allies” list so they meetings to herding cats. women of Hollywood to help people incredibly diffi cult for people to come Time’s Up. When a few reporters could zero in on executives whom Goldman took issue with that in other industries.” forward.” were hastily summoned to a they viewed as not supportive of characterisation. Money has poured in. Big talent Tejani’s group connects people news conference to meet her, the women, according to one participant. “It was actually a really informed, agencies, some tarnished by with one of the 780 lawyers who sense of relief among other group Some demanded that Time’s Up strategic process to gather feedback, accusations of abetting Weinstein have joined the legal network. members was clear. dictate who would be hired to lead to gather opinions,” she said. “We and others, forked over million-dollar Each provides at least one free “It is very diffi cult to sustain social Amazon Studios after its former have done that groundwork of donations. Steven Spielberg and his consultation, and they often take on movements over time,” Borders said chief, Roy Price, was ousted in a listening, learning and examining so wife, Kate Capshaw, through their the cases for free. later in an interview. “You cannot be harassment scandal. that we can turn it into action.” foundation, contributed $2 million. Jackie Len, an employment inattentive, you must continue to be A discussion in Lifetime Television Roberta Kaplan, a prominent New Abrams and McGrath donated $1 attorney with Endeavor in Beverly vigilant.” network’s New York offi ces dissolved York attorney, was more blunt. million. Reese Witherspoon, Meryl Hills, volunteered to help Annie Already the group has certainly into vitriol over Bill Cosby (before “We needed a leader,” Kaplan said. Streep, Jennifer Aniston and Sandra Delgado, a teacher in Merced changed, or highly infl uenced, the his conviction), according to another “We want this thing to not just be Bullock each gave $500,000. who had been fi ghting her school wave of outrage unleashed by sexual district after a boys basketball coach harassment allegations against allegedly slapped her on the buttocks dozens of high-profi le men in the and made lewd comments at a 2017 last year. school function. “To say that we did not know There was an investigation, and what we were launching was an Since January, more than the coach received a reprimand. understatement,” Rebecca Goldman, Then the school district honoured the chief operating offi cer, said 3,500 people, from all 50 the coach to mark his 400th win. recently. “We literally ordered 300 Delgado said that celebration, as T-shirts and 500 lapel pins. We did states, have sought help well as being belittled by a school not know if anyone would want administrator for reporting the them. What happened was this through the legal defence incident, made her feel as though she incredible outpouring of women … fund. The group has agreed was the one being punished. calling us, coming together, wanting Together, the two women have to mobilise.” to finance at least 51 cases, pushed the district to strengthen its Even some Democratic members sexual harassment policies. of Congress, including House and about $4 million has “I just remember crying — I was so Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi, grateful,” Delgado said of Len’s help. sported the lapel pins during been spent on legal and “In some ways, this has been a life President Trump’s State of the public relations assistance preserver. I felt like I was fi nally being Union address. Seven full-time heard.” staff members were hired with seed money from two of the co-founders, z Staff writer Amy Kaufman television producer Shonda Rhimes contributed to this report (Grey’s Anatomy) and producer —Los Angeles Times/TNS 6 GULF TIMES Tuesday, October 30, 2018 COMMUNITY ICBF organises ‘35th Free Medical Camp’

Indian Community Benevolent Forum (ICBF), in association with Abeer Medical Centre, recently organised ‘35th Free Medial Camp’ for workers at Al-Abeer Medical Centre, Industrial Area. The camp provided free medical assistance to over 500 workers and labourers of six diff erent nationalities from various labour camps and companies in Industrial Area and Doha. The camp was inaugurated by Dr Mohammed Aleem, Third Secretary of Labour and Community Welfare at the Embassy of India, in the presence of Devis Edukulathur, President of ICBF; PN Baburajan, Vice President of ICBF; Nivedita Ketkar, Medical Co-ordinator at ICBF; Mahesh Gowda, General Secretary ICBF; Dr Nithyanand, Head of Operations at Al Abeer Medical Centre; Farooq, representative from Wellcare Pharmacy; Mahesh, representative from Dosa Plaza; along with Al Abeer off icials and other dignitaries. Dr Aleem addressed the concerns of workers and provided assurance for all possible assistances from the embassy and ICBF in highlighting and resolving their concerns. Dosa Plaza provided free snacks to the workers in addition to their voluntary support. The team of dedicated doctors including general physicians and specialists along with paramedical services were available. Wellcare Group also provided free medicines at the camp.

IIS holds Intra-School Discussion Forum

Ideal Indian School (IIS) recently held its first Intra-School Discussion Forum ‘Future The speakers shared their view on how classrooms can be better equipped with learning Education and its impacts’. The panel members were selected from different sections of the devices and software based teaching programmes. Shamim Skaikh moderated and school and highlighted the importance of technology in teaching and learning process and co-ordinated the forum. The co-ordination of the participants of the forum was done by the role of technology in students learning abilities. Sandhya.

Members of the German gymnastics national team visits GIS

Members of the German gymnastics national team, taking part in the ongoing 48th World Championship at the Aspire Dome, recently visited German International School (GIS). Hansa Udo Muzel, Ambassador of Germany, along with other dignitaries and notable personalities felicitated the team. Dirk Sillschneider, Principal of GIS, thanked the team members for accepting their invitation and visiting the school. Jana Heinermann and Manar Hassabou, students of Grade V, performed gymnastic exercises at the event. An interactive session with the team members was also part of the event. “A lot of training, a lot of discipline and the strong will to win is the key to success,” said athletes. The national team, includes Sven Karg, Head of the contingent, Ulla Koch, Andreas Toba, Nick Klessing, Lukas Dauser, Philip Herder, Nils Dunkel, Kim Bui, Lead Grieber, , , , and Carina Kroll. Tuesday, October 30, 2018 GULF TIMES 7 COMMUNITY

TRAQ organises TRAQUEST at BPS

Thiruvananthapuram District Residents Association Qatar (TRAQ) recently organised their In the family quiz category, Vinu Kumar and Maya Vinu Kumar from KSCA bagged the first flagship event TRAQUEST at Birla Public School (BPS). The quiz competition was conducted position. Manoj and Cigi Manoj got first runner-up while Joice and Saritha Joice got second by Manzoor Moideen, quiz master and motivational speaker. runner-up position, respectively. Around 150 students from eight Indian schools across Doha participated in the competition. The winning team also received the trophy from Professor Sunil Paul, Head of Robotics and Bhavan’s Public School’s team including Gautam and Krishnaraj bagged the Ever Rolling Automation at Texas Training Centre Doha. Sulaiman Ashraf of JBM Trading Contracting Trophy. DPS-Modern Indian School team including Madhumitha Rajesh and Hafiz Ahmed Company handed over the trophy to first runner-up and Soji Nair, General Secretary at TRAQ, Raffi and Ideal Indian School team including Adithya Pavithran and Faiz Rahman got the first presented the trophy to the second runner-up. runner-up and second runner-up positions, respectively. K S Arun Kumar, Managing Director TRAQUEST was sponsored by Desert Line Group of Companies, JBM Trading and Contracting of Desert Line Group of Companies, presented the Ever Rolling Trophy to the winning team, Company, Zaithoon restaurant, Joyalukkas, Texas Training Centre, Naseem Al Rabeeh Medical while A P Sharma, Principal of BPS, and Seena Manoj, President of TRAQ, presented the Centre, Career Links Academy, Malabar Gold and Apta Trading Contracting and Services trophies to the first runner-up and second runner-up, respectively. including Radio Suno and Radio Olive, media partners.

PICPA organises Advanced MSExcel Workshop Part 1

Philippine Institute of Certified Public Accountants (PICPA) – Qatar Chapter recently organised an future,” said Irfan Mansoor, participant of the workshop. Advanced MSExcel Workshop Part 1 at Crowne Plaza Hotel. The workshop was attended by over Muhammad Haroon, another participant of the workshop, said, “The Excel presentation was 61 PICPA members and 41 non-members. interesting and good that kept us all engaged. Anthony has an excellent command of the software, Sharon C dela Cruz, President of PICPA, presided over the workshop. Anthony R Montenegro we must acknowledge and incorporate into practice. This seminar provided lots of information was the resource person at the workshop. The workshop kicked off with a review of navigating which can be used in the off ice on a daily basis. I personally feel better equipped to manage my and designing a spreadsheet, followed by a number of topics and functions including optimising work in excel after completing the course.” worksheets by incorporating templates, graphs, charts and advanced formulas, solving formula All attendees earned Certificate of Participation with 4-hour *CPD credits. The CPD credit units are errors, auditing with cell tracking, combine data from multiple resources, working with data forms, necessary for a Philippine licensed CPA professional to enable them to renew their Professional slicers and timelines and using pivot tables, pivot charts and macros. Regulation Commission ( PRC) CPA license. A total of 120 CPD credit units are required for a CPA “The MS Excel seminar conducted by the PICPA was a very well organised and highly informative for a three-year cycle. event. I look forward to more such productive events to bolster my knowledge and skills in the A plaque of recognition and appreciation was presented to Anthony. 8 GULF TIMES Tuesday, October 30, 2018 COMMUNITY

PSSC organises mental awareness and career counselling session

Pak Shamaa School and College (PSSC) recently organised a mental awareness and career counselling session for the students of Grade XI-XII. Sana Nazakat and Ayesha Ishfaq, Qualified Psychologists, conducted the session. Students were briefed about how to manage stress eff ectively. Other topics discussed included peer pressure, behavioural changes, social anxiety, parental pressure and selecting right career.

LIS organises 4th Art and Science Annual Exhibition

Loyola International School (LIS) recently organised 4th Art and Science Annual Exhibition. Anoop media. The teachers of LIS also participated in the exhibition. Photo booth, photo gallery and scary Chakravarthy, Managing Director of LIS, inaugurated the exhibition by torching the lamp. room were also set up as an attraction at the exhibition. Over 400 exhibit works of the students of Grade KG-1 to Grade VI were displayed at the exhibition. P K V Prasad, Principal of LIS, said that all the credit for the successful exhibition goes to the The work was based on the subjects of arts, science, mathematics, social studies, languages and social collaborative eff ort of students, teachers, and parents who involved themselves in the creative process.

ISL Qatar hosts workshop on Principal of BPS to receive award

‘Parenting the Love and Logic Way’ A P Sharma, Principal of Birla Public The award is being bestowed upon him School (BPS) will be receiving ‘Exemplary for his contribution to global exemplary School Leadership Award’ at International educational development at national The International School of London Adolescent Summit, New Delhi. and international level. The summit will (ISL) Qatar recently hosted its first The award will be presented by Pranab be attended by dignitaries from several leg of the workshop on ‘Parenting Mukherjee, former President of India. nations and UN representatives. the Love and Logic Way’ by Jennifer Heathcote Osborne, Secondary School Social Emotional Psychological Guidance Counsellor at ISL. Jennifer presents the 6 week course ‘Parenting the Love and Logic Way’ and teaches the techniques for parents to avoid un-winnable power-struggles and arguments, stay calm when their kids do incredibly upsetting things, set enforceable limits, avoid enabling and begin empowering, help their kids learn from mistakes rather than repeating them and raise kids who are family members rather than dictators. The Love and Logic approach to parenting provides a variety of simple and eff ective strategies for parenting children through to adulthood. Tuesday, October 30, 2018 GULF TIMES 9 COMMUNITY PICPA Doha scholars excel in licensure exam

According to the results from Philippine Professional Regulation Commission (PRC), some 3,616 out of 14,358 scholars recently passed the CPA Licensure Examination conducted by the Board of Accountancy. Fifteen scholars from the Philippine Institute of Certified Public Accountants – Doha chapter passed the examination, including Mark Carlo B Roque, from Bulacan State University; Rai Stephany D Atenciana, Bulacan State University; Charmae C Bautista, Carlos Hilado Memorial State College; Chris Rey G Talisay, Carlos Hilado Memorial State College; Alyssa D. Colobong, Divine World College of Laoag; John Andehl P Aguinaldo, Mariano Marcos State University; Jayson D Custodio, Mariano Marcos State University; Charlie Joy D Palalay, Mariano Marcos State University; Kimberly A Viovicente, Mindanao State University – IIT; Ric Jason T Pangilinan, PHINMA Araullo University; Reychelle R. Sibua, Polytechnic University of the Philippines (Manila);Cromwell Allan A Kamatoy, Polytechnic University of the Philippines (Manila); John Paul I. Talinio, Polytechnic University of the Philippines (Manila); James Aaron F. Mendoza, University of the Philippines (Visayas); and Shorin Rio O. Daa, Eastern Visayas State University. BOOK REVIEW Barbara Kingsolver novel of crumbling houses, hard times

prepared for. Thatcher Greenwood, a and African-Americans for the erosion By A N Devers local teacher, is intrigued by his new of his job security and his piece of neighbour, who he at fi rst takes for the pie. His health is failing, and the an eccentric before realising she’s a family insurance isn’t covering care. few years ago, I bought fl oral respected scientist whose knowledge Throughout, Zeke’s baby coos happily in wallpaper covered in fl owers far surpasses his. Treat is a clear-eyed, the background, though his future is the and Venus fl ytraps and stalwart savant, while Greenwood most tenuous. ants. Designed by a small hesitates to risk his job and livelihood Kingsolver ably navigates the company called Grow House when pressed to present Darwin’s theory problematic white privilege of the Grow,A the name of the pattern was ‘Ms to the small town. Across the country, family, which is refreshing to read in Treat.’ The design was inspired by Mary Darwin’s theory has people retreating a contemporary novel about white Treat, an American scientist in the late to the pulpits of blustery unscientifi c middle-class issues, and shows us a 19th century. Treat’s work is forgotten, men. “I suppose it is in our nature,” family struggling to wake up to the but she was a specialist in carnivorous Treat explains. “When men fear the fact that their lives were built on plants, published several books and loss of what they know, they will follow presuppositions and entitlement, while infl uenced the work of Charles Darwin. any tyrant who promises to restore old at the same time portraying a very Who was she? And why did I only learn order.” clear crisis confronting many. There’s about her because of a wallpaper design? In the current day, Willa Knox is a not enough money to cover costs, and So thank God for Barbara Kingsolver, former editor turned freelance writer there’s no job security on the horizon. one of America’s hardiest novelists who inherits a crumbling Victorian They register for Obamacare, and Willa who has also stumbled upon the lost manor on brink of collapse and moves problem solves for every person in her history of Treat. Kingsolver went into in when her professor husband’s family, while barely holding herself the archives and got her hands on university folds and he fi nds a low- together. Treat’s papers and correspondence with paying contract at a nearby college. Willa has set her hopes on discovering Darwin, emerging with Unsheltered, a Willa’s adult children return home the origins of her falling-down house gripping novel of two multigenerational soon after. Her son, Zeke, is struck and fi nding some signifi cant history households set in New Jersey. There’s by tragedy when his wife, the mother that can help her access grant money, the 19th-century Greenwood family, and of his newborn son, kills herself, an which leads her to the discovery of Ms the contemporary household overseen eff ect of dropping her anti-depressants Treat. One way Kingsolver suggests that by Willa Knox who has moved to New to protect her developing fetus. Her we move forward in this new unsteady Jersey in the year approaching Donald daughter, Tig, has returned from her present to study and own our past. Trump’s election. Both households off -the-grid adventures in Cuba. She’s Unacknowledged histories and work fi nd themselves in poorly constructed the millennial of the household, and abound. By the end of Unsheltered, dwellings on faulty foundations, the other soothsayer of the novel, an houses aren’t saved, but there are during a time of sweeping cultural and Occupy Wall Street graduate with interesting directions to go, and so Willa historical change. radical opinions about the impending is on a mission to write a biography of Mary Treat is the next-door climate crisis, the impending risk of Mary Treat and her contributions to neighbour of the fi ctional Greenwood Trump and the limitations of a capitalist science. Here’s hoping that someone family. It’s the late 1860s, and the democracy. There’s Nick, Willa’s will take up Kingsolver’s suggestion SUGGESTION: In Unsheltered Kingsolver planned community of New Jersey is father-in-law, a former union worker and write Treat’s biography outside the suggests that we move forward in this new confronting cultural shifts it wasn’t who wrongfully blames immigrants pages of a novel.– Newsday/TNS unsteady present to study and own our past. 10 GULF TIMES Tuesday, October 30, 2018 COMMUNITY INFOGRAPHIC Tuesday, October 30, 2018 GULF TIMES 11 LIFESTYLE/HOROSCOPE COMMUNITY Better cardiorespiratory fitness linked to longer life, says study

esearchers at the benefi t of elite versus high Cleveland Clinic in the performance was the most notable US have found that in older patients, the fi ndings better cardiorespiratory revealed. fi tness leads to better Results showed that among Rlongevity, regardless of age, with respondents above 70, elite no limit on the positive eff ects of performers had a nearly 30 per cent aerobic fi tness. reduced risk of mortality compared Cardiorespiratory fi tness is to high performers. the ability of the circulatory and For those patients with respiratory systems to supply hypertension, the elite oxygen to skeletal muscles during performers again showed a nearly sustained physical activity. 30 per cent reduction in all- The study, published in the cause mortality compared to high journal JAMA Network Open, found performers. that increased cardiorespiratory The risk associated with poor fi tness was directly associated cardiorespiratory fi tness was with reduced long-term mortality compared to or even exceeded particularly in older patients, aged traditional risk factors, such as 70 and above, and among those cardiovascular disease, diabetes with hypertension. high fi tness levels,” said Wael Jaber, occurring in a population, relating Elite performers were defi ned as and smoking, according to the “Aerobic fi tness is something cardiologist at the institute. to the benefi ts of exercise and having aerobic fi tness by age and study. that most patients can control. Researchers from the varsity fi tness. gender, and demonstrated fi tness However, according to the And we found in our study there examined 1,22,007 participants Participants were broken up into levels comparable to endurance study, individual patients should is no limit to how much exercise who underwent exercise treadmill fi ve performance groups – elite, athletes. always check with their healthcare is too much. Everyone should be testing to measure all-cause high, above average, below average When the subgroups were provider before starting an exercise encouraged to achieve and maintain mortality — all of the deaths and low. analysed by age, the survival programme. — IANS

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

Has a certain project been a drag for you lately, Aries? Don’t be Today you could complete a creative project that you’ve been working Things seem to be returning to normal after the hectic pace of late, surprised if today you get your second wind. You’re looking at your on for a while, Taurus. You will be more than happy with the results and Gemini. Life has slowed down, and the energy is lower but more tasks in a practical manner, your interest in them is up, and you’re inspired to move on to bigger and better things. You will feel strong peaceful. There’s also no rush to get anything done. The deadlines can able to accomplish them quickly and eff iciently with minimal stress. enough to take on just about any type of project. It’s possible that you be postponed to another day. You might take whatever spare time you Relationships should also be going well. Make the most of this while you might get started on the next one right away. Don’t wear yourself out! have to just lie back and enjoy the quiet. Don’t feel guilty. You can work can! hard again tomorrow! CANCER LEO VIRGO June 21 — July 22 July 23 — August 22 August 23 — September 22

Have you been waiting for a letter or call from a business or friend for Your time finally seems to be your own, Leo. There are probably no rush A relationship seems more stable than usual today, Virgo. The security a long time, Cancer? If so, you will probably receive it today. Don’t be jobs to finish, no urgent phone calls to make, and no one looking over wraps itself around you like a blanket as you consider the events surprised if it’s long! News and useful information could be exchanged. your shoulder. This causes a significant release of stress, and you’re leading up to this new sense of commitment. You and your friend may You will feel energised and determined once the communication is better able than usual to focus on what you have in front of you. In the spend the evening doing nothing more than being together, which feels completed. The partnership’s future goals will be more strictly defined evening, relax at home, order delivery, and watch a movie. great! Mark this day in your memory so you can recall it whenever your as a result. insecurities get the better of you. LIBRA SCORPIO SAGITTARIUS September 23 — October 22 October 23 — November 21 November 22 — December 21

Today you may not feel much like working, and you might even decide A community issue may come up today concerning you and your A new opportunity could come your way today, Sagittarius. There’s to play hooky from your responsibilities, Libra. If you have nothing neighbours, Scorpio. Perhaps a meeting will be held in your home. no promise or guarantee, but there is an indication that if you devote urgent to do, consider indulging this whim. Relax with a good book and Something requires change in your neighbourhood, and most of you yourself thoroughly, your chances of progress are pretty good over a cup of tea. Watch a favourite movie. Take a long walk in a beautiful are probably firmly united behind it. This bodes well for your future, the next month for any activity that you begin today. Keep up the good park. Savour the day’s gentle energy. so you will probably feel good about the entire situation after the work and keep smiling! The latter action is as important as the former. gathering breaks up. Onward and upward! CAPRICORN AQUARIUS PISCES December 22 — January 19 January 20 — February 18 February 19 — March 20

Have you wanted to take a certain course or workshop, Capricorn? If so, Decisions regarding investments, savings, or other financial matters Have you and a friend been discussing the possibility of going into this is a good day to consider all the details, make some phone calls, or might need attention today, Aquarius. Don’t panic. You’re in the right business together? If so, Pisces, the two of you might want to have enrol. As far as your educational goals go, you’re very focused. You’re frame of mind for this. Your business sense is at an all-time high, as is some serious discussions now about the nature of the business, how apt to stick with any programme you decide to tackle. You’re also apt to your ability to focus on the task at hand. Intuition plays a strong role. it should be structured, and what the financial arrangements may be. learn more quickly and retain more. Think about it, read the pertinent Even if you don’t feel like it, it’s important to get this done. Tomorrow You’re both sharp enough to see both the promise and the downside of literature, then make some calls! you might not be quite as focused as you are today. your enterprise. Get some paper and pens and go to it! 12 GULF TIMES Tuesday, October 30, 2018 COMMUNITY CARTOONS/PUZZLES

Wordsearch Adam

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ARENA FEINT POINTS BELL FLYWEIGHT REFEREE BELT GLOVES RING BOUT HEAVYWEIGHT ROPES BOXER HOOK ROUND CHAMP JAB SECOND COUNT KNOCKOUT SPAR DECISION MATCH UPPERCUT

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

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Sudoku

Bound And Gagged

Sudoku is a puzzle based on a 9x9 grid. The grid is also divided into nine (3x3) boxes. You are given a selection of values and to complete the puzzle, you must fill the grid so that every column, every anone is repeated. Tuesday, October 30, 2018 GULF TIMES 13 PUZZLES COMMUNITY

Super Cryptic Clues Colouring

ACROSS DOWN 1. Record the range of tones (8) 1. Proceed to have another 5. Jokes about strikes? (6) whirl (6) 9. Attacked when made to work 2. Catch, a long time after, in (6,2) the building (6) 10. The limber Herbert is second 3. The son wished to change in (6) nationality (7) 12. Recover and put on weight 4. Black key one is about to play again (6) (4) 13. The dog I catalogue as a 6. Complaining, though it’s for boxer (8) our protection (7) 15. In which Jekyll became 7. Not what the wood-chuck Hyde? (8-4) did? (That’s very hard!) (4-4) 18. Digest what’s been said and 8. Quite a while in the former retract (3,4,5) (8) 23. Measure and give one false 11. Clean the picture with water facts about the plant (4,4) (7) 24. Nearly a man: very much so 14. And going in, I see, for Answers (6) something to eat (7) 26. Clannish. That’s the nuisance 16. How the motor mechanic Wordsearch Codeword about the British (6) said ‘Let go’? (8) 27. Talk - or clam up (8) 17. Authenticating it, though 28. Rent, we’re told, that’s gone obviously angry (8) up (6) 19. The skull of a lunatic? (3,4) 29. They order the dishes (8) 20. Either hand over or free (7) 21. Studies the ground to be run over (6) 22. Walks off, we’re told, with the sharpeners (6) 25. It would upset a hard drinker? Nonsense! (4)

Yesterday’s Solutions

Across: 1 Too little; 6 Get-up; Down: 1 Titan; 2 Overtones; 9 Twerp; 10 Entertain; 11 Not 3 Imperative; 4 Treason; 5 present; 12 Inch; 14 Winston; 15 Extends; 6 Garb; 7 Train; 8 Station; 17 Disavow; 19 Pie-dogs; Penchants; 13 Save labour; 14 20 Acts; 22 Takes a hand; 25 Wide-awake; 16 Isolation; 18 Asparagus; 26 Onion; 27 Eerie; Wrangle; 19 Pressed; 21 Taper; 23 28 Endurance. Dunce; 24 Free. 14 GULF TIMES Tuesday, October 30, 2018 COMMUNITY POP SPOT

in brief

Fleetwood Mac

Fleetwood Mac recently announced plans for their latest European concert tour. But the veteran rock outfit have all too often been in the news for off stage controversies as much as their music. Such is the case now as singer and guitarist Lindsey Buckingham is suing band members Mick Fleetwood, Stevie Nicks, John McVie and Christine McVie for breach of fiduciary duty and breach of oral contract. The lawsuit stems from Lindsey being fired from the band last January. No reason for his dismissal was made public but reports suggested it concerned FAITHFUL: Steve Perry has resumed his music career to fulfil the promise he made to his girlfriend, who died of cancer. disputes about tour schedules. Lindsey claims to have lost around 12 million USD from what would have been his share of the proceeds from their current tour. Mick Fleetwood’s only comment about the split with Lindsey was Brokenhearted Steve ‘We arrived at the impasse of hitting a brick wall.’ The band now say they look forward to their day in court. In the meantime, Lindsey has been replaced by two Perry returns to music musicians. Fans will know singer / rhythm guitarist Neil Finn 2009. He resumed songwriting and accumulated said she needed me to promise that if anything from his work with Split Enz and By Geoffrey Rowlands around 50 songs over an 18-month period. happened to her, I wouldn’t go back into isolation. Crowded House. Lead guitarist / “I never thought I would write again. But I “She knew I hadn’t been singing or recording keyboardist Mike Campbell was decided to open up that room and see what I could so I understood what she meant. I gave her my formerly with Tom Petty and The any fans insist the music of fi nd. Some of the songs sounded familiar, some promise and Traces is me keeping that promise by Heartbreakers. The new line-up American rock band Journey were really contemporary, others I couldn’t put a going back to music.” began their ‘An Evening with has never been as good since the label on. I didn’t know if I’d ever do anything with The intensity of his grief made it initially Fleetwood Mac’ tour on October departure of songwriter and lead them but I was at least open to the possibility of impossible for Steve to keep his word. 3 in Tulsa, Oklahoma. singer Steve Perry. His last work someday doing another solo album.” “I’d written a song called In The Rain. This withM the band was on their 1996 album, Trial By The delay in creating what has become his was before I met Kellie. But the song is about a Lauren Jauregui Fire, after which he largely disappeared from the Billboard 200 top ten hit album, Traces, came profound loss. I never played it for her because I music scene. from Steve falling in love. The fact that he has didn’t want to bring this kind of subject matter Lauren Jauregui is the latest Steve recorded two songs for the 1998 fi lm, now released it is born from the tragic loss of that into the struggle she was in to save her life. member of all-girl group Fifth Quest for Camelot, and issued a solo album, love and a promise he made to the woman who he “It really hit home after I lost her. One of the Harmony to embark on a solo Greatest Hits + Five Unreleased, in the same regarded as his soulmate. lyrics is Your face in a photograph staring back career. She has already featured year. But he has since been seen in the crowd at “I have a friend, Patty Jenkins, who was editing in silence. This was exactly what I was going on collaborative singles with her baseball games rather more frequently than in the a Lifetime Channel special on breast cancer. I through. I was sitting alone in my house, looking boyfriend, Ty Dolla Sign, Marian recording studio. was in the editing room with Patty while she was at Kellie in our photographs and just crying.” Hill, Halsey and Steve Aoki. “I simply fell out of love with music,” explained working and saw this lovely laughing girl on the As time passed, Steve gradually came to terms But Lauren has now released 69-year-old Steve. “I had found music as a life- screen. It was Kellie (Nash). I asked Patty if she with his despair. It was his fi lm director friend Expectations as her debut solo sustaining thing when I was about six years old. would send Kellie an e-mail saying her friend Patty Jenkins who helped him return to music. single. She wrote the song about My parents were about to split up. But immersing Steve would love to take her to coff ee or lunch “She introduced me to the Eels’ album, Daisies a situation with Ty Dolla Sign. myself in music allowed me to kind of turn off sometime. Of The Galaxy. I loved it and went to some of the “I’d been working for a lot of what was happening around me in my family life “Patty agreed but told me Kellie had been in a band’s shows with Patty. She then introduced me hours and just wanted a night and just live in the songs. It saved my life. three-year battle against breast cancer. She was to (band leader) Mark (Everett). cuddling with my boyfriend. But “Walking away from writing and performing in remission for eight months but the cancer had “We hung out with him and he became a friend. Ty had to work. He had to do music probably did exactly the same. There was come back in her lungs and bones. She was in He then started asking if I would sing a song with an appearance at a club. I didn’t nothing left in my heart for music. It was a really Stage 4 and fi ghting for her life. the band. I eventually agreed and did one of their want to go because I’m not a club scary feeling. I knew instinctively I’d have a hole “I was frozen. I had lost all my family. I was an encores at the Fitzgerald Theatre in Minneapolis. person so I stayed home and in my soul which would get bigger and bigger if only child. I could see myself spending the rest of That was the fi rst time I had walked out on stage waited for him. Instead of coming I stayed in music. I also knew I was likely to fi ll my life with Kellie and I’d been hit with the news in 25 years.” straight home, he went to the that hole with the wrong kind of things so I had that this was unlikely to happen. Patty asked if I This experience eff ectively set the ball rolling recording studio with Future and to stop. still wanted her to send the email. My heart still in terms of Steve creating his new album and was unreachable. “After getting out, I never wrote music, I said yes. Kellie was a psychologist so I thought she fulfi lling his promise to Kellie. “I understand Ty likes to get didn’t even sing in the shower. I didn’t listen to could be my friend or my shrink if nothing else.” “You could say Traces represents Kellie’s legacy. to work immediately when he conventional music. I could only listen to ambient It was love at fi rst sight when the couple met. If I hadn’t made the promise, I’m not sure if I has his music ideas. But I was music. Liquid Mind was my favourite. No vocals, They were together for around 18 months until would ever have returned to music, at least not as pretty mad at him and put all no drums, just ethereal synths. Kellie died in December 2012. a performer. those feelings into the lyrics of “It was years before I could listen to songs “It was the most wonderful time of my life. “I’m pleased that people seem to enjoy the Expectations. Doing this kind of again. Give Me The Reason, an album by Luther Kellie didn’t let the cancer ruin what time she had album but they should thank Kellie. Through her, purged my emotions. I wasn’t so Vandross, was the breakthrough. He sung so left. We were like a couple who would be together I was able to rediscover my passion for music. The angry when we finally spoke.” beautifully. I would go for walks and listen to the forever. album is here now and I already have more songs The video for Expectations can album on my headphones.” “The album came about from something she started so I think Traces will mark the beginning be seen at www..com/ Steve’s return to music began as long ago as said when we were just talking one night. She of my second career in music.” watch?v=RHXdA-ZkEsw Tuesday, October 30, 2018 GULF TIMES 15 SHOWBIZ COMMUNITY Khaitan not yet prepared to make

NO MORE: Freddie Hart, who won a Grammy Award for Easy warrior film Loving, is dead at 91. Country star Freddie Hart dead By Natalia Ningthoujam

Country singer Freddie Hart, a World War II veteran who had a run of number one hits in the early 1970s and won a irector Grammy Award for Easy Loving, is dead. He was 91. of Humpty Sharma Ki He died on October 27 in Burbank, reports variety.com Dulhania fame says he Hart’s career encompassed several eras of country music. needs more time to develop He started in the early 1950s but didn’t break through until the warrior fi lm, which was 1971, when he had adopted the slicker Nashville sound of Easy Dsupposed to star actor . Loving, which made him a star in his mid-40s. “We (he and Varun) were supposed to Hart was inducted into the Nashville Songwriters Hall make a warrior fi lm together, but I need of Fame in 2004, not just for his own hits but for the songs more time to develop that fi lm because he had recorded by Patsy Cline, Loretta Lynn, Buck Owens, the kind of research, technology and George Jones, Waylon Jennings, Bobby “Blue” Bland, Porter eff ort (that is) required... I am not Wagoner, Eddy Arnold, Carl Smith, Charlie Rich, Billy Walker, prepared for it right now,” Khaitan said. the Louvin Brothers and dozens of others. “So right now, we are working on an He remains associated with Easy Loving, which was so action-entertainer together. We are much Hart’s signature song that his latter-day promotional excited about it. The basic structure materials referred to him as “Mr. Easy Lovin’”. has come out. Karan (Johar) and Varun Easy Loving was popular enough that it achieved the rare are both excited about it,” he added. honour of winning the Country Music Association Award for Karan, Varun and Khaitan had joined best song two years in a row, in 1971 and 1972. forces for Humpty Sharma Ki Dulhania Those were part of a slew of awards that Hart won or and then . was nominated for during his early 1970s commercial peak, Should the audience expect more parts including a total of six CMA nominations over the course of of the franchise? two years and a win at the Grammys for best country male “I hope it does. Right now, we are vocal Grammy in 1972. focused on making something. If time Hart signed with Capitol Records during his time touring permits, we would love to continue with Frizzell and found little initial success as a recording with the franchise. It has given me so artiste – but had considerably more as a writer in 1954 when much... other than a great friend and Carl Smith heard his single Loose Talk and covered it, turning franchise. Just so much in terms of it into a No. 1 hit. relationships. Hart is survived by his wife of 61 years, Ginger and sons “So, I would like to go back to that. Freddie Jr., Andy, Joe and Victor. Funeral arrangements are I don’t know when and how. But I am pending, according to variety.com – IANS hoping... at some point surely.” Khaitan had also made – the Ruth Wilson may return in Luther Hindi version of the hit 2017 Marathi fi lm . People involved with Actress Ruth Wilson, who plays research scientist Alice Dhadak were trolled online by fans of Morgan in TV series Luther, says she would love to return to Sairat. Has that discouraged him from the series “if the script is right”. making remakes again? In an interview to The Sun, Wilson said: “We’ve talked “If I like something, I would like to. CANDID: “We were supposed to make a warrior film together but I need more time about it actually. Yes, defi nitely, if the script is right and the I am not averse to that. I was excited to develop the one”, says Shashank Khaitan. storyline is right. It’s funny. People like watching her (Alice to make Dhadak. I was very sure that Morgan) because she comes in and out. If you watched a it would get compared and that a lot of not the sort of person who will say, ‘I “The thing is I didn’t know that I whole episode of her, would it be the same? I don’t know.” people were going to slam it.” am not going to make a remake again’. It wanted to be an actor. I was told by Wilson’s character had apparently met her end on Luther. “But the love that we received has to excite me.” people that I should act because I used But the 36-year-old actress was seen on set of the fi fth series otherwise, the box offi ce collection... “There was an instinct for Sairat that to dance well. fi lming alongside co-star Idris Elba. the non Sairat watchers and Sairat I wanted to remake it. And I went ahead “I never realised whether I am “I am interested – if the script is right, yes. You would watchers have liked the fi lm, so I am and did it. I don’t think it’s a remake. passionate about it or not. When I have to make the show quite diff erent in style though, and get It’s an adaptation and tomorrow if went to a fi lm school, Whistling Woods inside her head,” she added. – IANS I see something and feel I have my International, I actually realised that I still enjoy own perspective, I will do it. So these I enjoyed writing and fi lm direction comparisons, being slammed or more. acting, but it’s praised, don’t change my opinion.” “I still enjoy acting, but it’s not As a writer and director, he says that something that I am really passionate not something he gets inspired by various things in about or I look forward to it. I look that I am really life. forward to writing and I look forward “You meet someone, you want to to direction. I probably look forward to passionate about make a fi lm on him, you read a book, dancing more than acting.” you want to make a fi lm on it or you see “Having said that, if there is or I look forward a movie, you want to adapt it. something fun, I wouldn’t mind to it. I look forward “It doesn’t matter where your doing it but I want to stay focused on inspiration comes from, as long as direction for sure.” to writing and I you are excited to tell that story,” said Khaitan was one of the speakers of the alumnus of Whistling Woods “Film schools: Education vs reality”, HOPEFUL: Ruth Wilson says she would love to return to the look forward to International. a session that was held on Monday as series if the script is right. In fact, there was a time when the part of MAMI 20th Film direction Nashik native wanted to be an actor. Festival with Star. – IANS 16 GULF TIMES Tuesday, October 30, 2018 COMMUNITY

PERFECT SHOT: Instagrammers in a photo trying to snap a perfect photograph at The Tanjung Aru beach in Malaysia. The destructive quest for perfect Instagram travel pic According to a recent survey, 40 percent of young people now choose their holiday destination based on how good it will look on Instagram. By Laura Krzikalla

urquoise blue waters the immense power of social media seem too bothered about it, though. glisten in the sun. platforms-when a certain picture “Instagram, Facebook and other Fishing boats rock gently goes viral, others are sure to want to social media have made our spot on the surface of the replicate it. That can boost tourism, more popular and allowed tourism lake, which refl ects the of course, but it can also have to grow even more.” nearbyT mountains. The Lago di negative consequences. Some people, such as Italian Braies lake in Italy’s South Tyrolean “These places have little control photographer Sara Melotti, believe Alps is breath-taking; an oasis over what content is posted the beauty of a place gets drowned amid the region’s regal peaks. about them on social media,” out when too many people take But even though it’s tucked says Laura Jaeger, who works for photos. “Instagram ruins these away between mountains, the lake TourismWatch, an information places completely,” says Melotti, is no hidden spot. On the social service that pushes for sustainable herself a travel blogger. She says she media platform Instagram, there tourism. “Travellers should be uses Instagram, but is discerning are more than 150,000 photos aware of the eff ect their behaviour about what she posts. under the hashtag #lagodibraies. on social media has on their “Young people travel to take And that number gets bigger every destinations and the people who photos to share them on social day. live there, and act responsibly,” she media, just to show that I was “I need to go there!” read the says. here,” she says, adding that she comments under many of the But a quick look around knows infl uencers who travel with photos. Places such as the Lago any popular beach these days a schedule that charts out exactly di Braies have become celebrities reveals that most people don’t where they are going to be hour by QUEST: For many young people, the quest for impressive Instagram pictures in their own right on Instagram. give a second thought to such hour in order to take the right snap. has become an important element of choosing a holiday destination. But these destinations can’t responsibility: There’s always The 30-year-old no longer shares always withstand their sudden someone posing or angling the exact locations of her photos; Schofi elds Insurance found that in according to National Geographic social media fame: After one themselves for the perfect vacation she wants to spare those places 2017, 40 percent of 18- to 33-year- magazine. Italian blogger last year wrote photograph. The most popular from the behaviour she has seen all olds picked their travel destinations Most people take the same image a post about the Valle Verzasca Instagrammable beach in 2018, too often while travelling. based on Instagrammability. The with the rock formation that sticks in Switzerland, the town was according to the Holidu vacation She gives the example of a Trolltunga in Norway is one of out over Ringedalsvatnet lake. They unprepared for the wave of visitors portal, was in Italy: the Scala dei temple in Bali that was completely those destinations - there are more sit or stand at the tip of the tongue, that followed. Turchi in Sicily. “We’ve noticed unknown until a few years ago. than 110,000 Instagram posts with the lake and mountains in Local media reported kilometres- this phenomenon,” confi rms “Now tourists get up at 4 am with the hashtag #trolltunga. the background, with no one else long traffi c jams, vehicles parked a spokesman for the tourism in order to take a photo with Between 2009 and 2014, the in sight. What you can’t see is the in any spot possible and piles of association of Realmonte, where the sunrise there,” complains number of visitors to the Trolltunga line of people waiting to take the trash. The incident goes to show the beach is located. He doesn’t the blogger. A British study by grew from 500 to 40,000, same shot.– DPA