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STARRING THE TEACHER: Yang Soon Ju teaching fashion illustration.

COVER The all-rounder STORY Korean expat Yang Soon Ju is a late bloomer, but now that she has found her calling, sky is the limit. P4-5 2 GULF TIMES Monday, August 15, 2016 COMMUNITY ROUND & ABOUT

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QSports Summer Camp DATE: Until September 1 TIME: 8am-1pm VENUE: Al Jazeera Academy Registration for QSports Summer Camp 2016 is now open. QSports summer camps are committed to providing a safe, fun and skill-based experience for kids between the ages of four and 14. We have a dedicated team of specialist kid’s coaches and classes and activities are safe, planned, progressive, active, creative, inclusive and designed to maximise participation of all children by off ering a variety of activities.

Yamativo Salsa Classes DATE: Every Monday TIME: 7pm VENUE: Radisson Blu It’s always fun and always challenging. Let’s EVENTS VENUE: The Pearl-Qatar take advantage of the extra free ticket you get meet and learn some moves every Monday The Pearl-Qatar will host several anytime you buy two Stingray Tickets. night. You don’t need to do anything, just join Aspire Splash and Dash entertainment activities and roaming musical us. Level 1 (intermediate level) 7pm and for DATE: Every Sunday and Wednesday acts and parades at dedicated locations in Porto Qatar Summer Festival 2016 beginner level 8pm. Be there at Raddison Blu TIME: 7pm-9pm Arabia as well as Medina Centrale from 6.30 pm DATE: Until August 31 Hotel Cabana Club. VENUE: Aspire Dome to 9.30 pm on August 12, 13, 19, 20, 26 and 27. VENUE: Doha Exhibition and Convention The athletics track and swimming pool will Center Cake Decoration Classes be open for 50 participants aged seven years Barzan Girls Center’s Summer Enjoy with your family the Qatar Summer DATE: Morning and evening and above per session and facility. Swimming Programme Festival, organised by Qatar Tourism Authority VENUE: Tavola Royal Plaza, Al Saad Street skills are mandatory for registering at the DATE: Until August 25 throughout the month of August under the Tavola off ers a range of cake decorating swimming sessions with a limited number of 50 TIME: 6pm theme ‘Color Your Summer’. It will include a and kitchen skills classes. Tavola is the only participants per session. The event is open to VENUE: Barzan Girls Center wide range of summer entertaining events and authorised Wilton method provider in the public registration on-site from 6 to 7:45pm. Barzan Girls Center is organising its summer activities, art zones, shopping promotions, in Middle East. programme, which continues for a month addition to a unique entertainment city. Muay Thai Roadshow and targets girls aged 15 years and above. New Bootcamp Abu Hamour DATE: August 20 For registration, you can visit the centre’s DATE: Sunday, Tuesday, Thursday TIME: 1:30pm—5pm headquarter at 6pm. The programme aims to TIME: 6pm VENUE: Grand Hyatt Doha exchange experiences and information between VENUE: Doha British School The event is completely free of charge the girls, establish the spirit of co-operation Located just minutes from Villaggio and and open to the public – both workshop between them, and to advance their characters a walk away from Ain Khalid Gate the Doha participants and spectators are free to come through learning. It features several educational British School campus is our newest Bootcamp on what promises to be a spectacular day. The programmes, workshops, courses, camps, location. The training takes place on the event will take place at the Grand Hyatt Doha festivals, skills, and trips. For enquiries, please main grass playing fi eld surrounded by an on Saturday from 1:30pm-5pm. Information call at: 44789392. athletics track. There are showers available and on how to register either as an attendee or changing rooms. workshop participant can be sought via 5040 Summer Programme for School 3234 or [email protected] Students Pottery workshop for kids DATE: Until August 21 Garage Gallery DATE: Every Monday TIME: 5pm-6pm Doha Toastmasters Meet VENUE: Virginia Commonwealth DATE: Until Nov 1 Kids will learn a new hand building technique DATE: August 20 University TIME: 8pm for creating and fi nishing artworks in clay. For TIME: 7pm-9:30pm Virginia Commonwealth University in VENUE: Spaces at the Fire Station more, call 44865201. VENUE: Holiday Villa Qatar is organising its summer programme for The Artists in Residence exhibition is a Doha Toastmasters, the pioneer club of all school students aged six years and above. culmination of an intensive nine-month Sketching with pencil and charcoal Qatar, trains individuals in communication They can choose from a variety of programmes programme, featuring works by 18 local DATE: Sunday and Wednesday and leadership skills. Transform yourself designed for various age groups, with the aim contemporary artists who have been working TIME: 5pm- 6:30pm into a confi dent public speaker and a strong of learning new skills and making new friends in the artist’s studios and spaces at the Fire If you can hold a pencil, you can draw… leader. Acquire this vital skill in a friendly and during the summer holidays. Station since September 2015. Discover techniques to make your drawing supportive environment. For more details, call The exhibition showcases new work more realistic. Every Saturday and Wednesday 77036696. and projects created by the artists during from 5pm-6:30pm. their residency period, shedding light on Doha Sightseeing the development of their innovative ideas Fitness Training DATE: Until September and diverse studio practices. Photographic, DATE: Sunday, Tue, Thu TIME: 9am-9pm sculptural, and installation based artworks fi ll TIME: 6pm-7pm VENUE: Around Doha the Garage Gallery and showcase these talented VENUE: MIA Park Doha Bus is Qatar’s fi rst Hop-on Hop-off artists. There are fi tness classes in the park on sight-seeing bus tour, providing both local Sunday, Tuesday and Thursday nights at 6 and residents and visiting tourists a fl exible way Vacation Competition 7pm. Open to all levels of fi tness. Bootcamp to discover the country’s vibrant past, present DATE: Until September 21 is an intensive and fun way to train and also and future. Each Doha Bus tour highlights a VENUE: eFCC Offi c meet new people in the open and friendly variety of interesting locations throughout this Women’s forum of Friends Cultural Centre group atmosphere. More information, from fast changing landscape including Souq Waqif, has announced competitions for Qatar-based Bootcamp, Qatar or info @ bootcampqatar. The Pearl, Villaggio as well as The Museum of Malayalee students of grades IV–XII. There com. Islamic Art. Doha Bus enhances the sightseeing are two competitions including Avadhikkalath experience with seven diff erent language Combination of Sun, Sand and Surfi ng an article on vacation experiences and FOODIE CHOICE options to choose from as well as group DATE: Ongoing Avadhikkalakazhchakal, on photography. discounts, private coach tours and corporate VENUE: Aqua Park Article on vacation experiences should be RESTAURANT: Jewels of the Tandoor outings. Doha Bus is a fun, interactive and For the fi rst time ever in Qatar, it will be prepared in Malayalam or in English with a LOCATION: Signature Sanjeev Kapoor highly education experience for every traveller. possible to ride up curved sidewalls at 90 minimum of 500 words. Photographs for the Four course set menu specially created from degrees to the direction of the water fl ow. competition should be printed on A4 size art the tandoor, savour delicacies — from starters Qatar Summer Festival at The Pearl Giving visitors and especially surfi ng fanatics paper or photo paper. to dessert — all cooked in the tandoor. Lunch: DATE: Until August 27 an amazing experience available at only one Pictures should not have been published 12pm-3pm and dinner: 7pm – 11pm. For TIME: 6:30pm place in Qatar Aqua Park. Come join us and also before and should not be downloaded from reservations, call 40199999.

Compiled by Nausheen Shaikh. E-mail: [email protected], Events and timings subject to change 4 GULF TIMES Monday, August 15, 2016 COMMUNITY COVER STORY “It’s a matter of time before I complete a wonderful picture” — Yang Soon Ju, designer, educator, illustrator, artist

IN OIL: Boat near Doha Corniche.

National University of Singapore; yourself: By Aney Mathew has completed a course in business I’ve been living in Doha for 12 administration at CNAQ and studied years. This is my second home art history as a minor. and this is where I found my life’s ang Soon Ju a.k.a. Prior to pursuing a course in art, passion, as I had the opportunity Elizabeth Ju, from the Elizabeth used to work in the area of studying art and design at Republic of Korea is an of accounting and audit and has Education City. I have a diverse award-winning designer, had a stint as a research assistant education background and have educator, illustrator and in Singapore. Her experiences also performed many diff erent roles artist.Y Although she was always include working as a teacher in over the years; these have all helped interested in art, she took it up Thailand and in Korea. Besides the me understand art and design in a seriously only eight years ago and has academic world, Elizabeth’s love for holistic manner. Recently, I’ve been not looked back since. Her belief that theatre has seen her participating in enjoying interdisciplinary design it is never too late to pursue a dream stage shows and musicals in Doha, projects as part of my master’s or learn something new has opened not to mention her involvement in studies, in addition to teaching up a whole new world for her with Doha Debate. young students various art and endless possibilities. “My strength is being able to design classes. Having lived in Qatar for more prioritise my work with effi cient than 12 years, Elizabeth is currently time management under pressure, What got you interested in art? pursuing a master’s in fi ne arts while my weaknesses can be that I I guess I’ve had a calling for art (MFA) at VCUQatar. Her academic sometimes take a long time to take since my teens, I just never realised background and career are varied decisions, and being too focused,” this until much later in my life. I’ve and colourful; she holds a major says Elizabeth. been collecting books on European FASHION STATEMENT: A Korabic Abaya (Abaya-styled coat inspired by in fashion design from VCUQatar; paintings as far as I can remember, Korean attire) a master’s in chemistry from the Tell us something about and used to buy antique-looking Monday, August 15, 2016 GULF TIMES 5 COVER STORY COMMUNITY

AT HER BEST: Teaching a student.

Where do you draw your inspiration from? From various sources: from people as close to me as my family, from places, and sometimes from the work of others artists or designs from varying time periods; occasionally, I’m also inspired by my research or experience. ARTIST PAR EXCELLENCE: Yang Soon Ju showcasing a collection of her work. What’s been your greatest achievement? necklaces whenever I could aff ord. What do you consider your Being able to share dreams with People seemed to get the vibe that signifi cant accomplishment in my children; to show them that I was an art student even though I art? they should do what they want; didn’t seem to be aware of it. Come That probably would be my to make them believe in chasing a to think of it, interesting objects, sophomore fashion show, a fi rst for dream — like I did. I’m glad I was stories, and paintings always got my me. The theme was recycling — in able to make my children pursue attention. a way ‘upcycling’ and repurposing what they wanted to. Being able Funnily though, I did not take up resources. The project was more to infl uence my young students art seriously or consider following meaningful than creating an ordinary to follow their interest in art and a career in art until a few years ago. collection especially as it was my design, thus setting them on a The credit goes to my husband who maiden venture. The creativity path where they can pursue their was the inspiration behind this process resulted in unexpected dreams. switch. He is the one who suggested outcomes in the form of interesting that I take up art seriously. It was designs for children. It certainly was What’s been your greatest indeed a life-changing moment a good opportunity to express my disappointment? for me when I decided to go to art cultural identity as a designer and That would be the senior collection school and found out this was what also to grasp how design could be I worked on for VCUQatar’s annual I want to do for the rest of my life! developed. show. I think the only moments I regret are those where I didn’t put What kind of art are you Share with us your preferences in my hundred per cent or instances interested in? with art and the various when I didn’t go beyond my comfort The most interesting and mediums… zone as a designer. There aren’t many exciting part of art and design I fi nd all arts quite challenging, but moments like that because I always are the various ways in which you that’s what draws me to it! challenge myself and enjoy working can create something. I would say It’s hard for me to specify one hard, ever since I stepped into the my work is more or less similar to kind of art as my favourite as I world of art and design. an interdisciplinary art and has enjoy diff erent concepts and have CHILDREN'S COLLECTION: Showcasing a collection on the theme of a multi-disciplinary approach, varied interests. I often fi nd fashion What are your other interests? recycling. similar to the style of Yinka illustration exciting, especially as I I am a person of varied interests. Shonibare (a Nigerian-British artist can employ wet and dry mediums I used to enjoy sports like golf, Gruau, Salvador Dali and David My life is full of challenges with living in London). as well as collage, not to mention horse riding, and tennis; watching Downton, among others. In personal several ups and downs. It’s been a My recent work comprises of various digital tools. musicals; learning languages; life, it is my husband for seeing the complicated, yet simple puzzle. It several capsule collections titled Stating my preference for one photography; calligraphy and love of art in me, and encouraging me took me a long time to fi nd my pieces. the Korabic Abaya Coat series medium over the other is also playing Korean drums. Nowadays to take it up seriously. Now that I’ve found art and design, (abaya-styled coats inspired diffi cult because I feel it’s all about though, I’m more of a workaholic. I it’s a matter of time before I complete by the traditional Korean coat). conveying the message. I generally fi nd that my hobbies and interests Share with us your dream… a wonderful picture. These collections were initiated by choose to work with the medium that always revolve around art and design To be able to continue doing what Tasmeem 2013, an international can best convey the message that is to — there’s a fi ne line of distinction I love whilst being able to be a strong Life lessons design conference at VCUQatar. be conveyed. These days I fi nd myself between work and leisure for me pillar for my children. I want to keep Always follow your passion; don’t I’ve also been researching headwear falling in love with watercolour and when it comes to creativity! improving — possibly at teaching, hesitate to change. Never force around the world, as part of my gouache paintings as I use them painting, and designing. Hopefully, yourself to follow the old course MFA thesis to understand hybird often while teaching classes. New Who is your hero? I can have my own exhibition because you think ‘it is too late’. cultures and designs. Recently, the technologies like 3D printing or laser On the professional side I look somewhere, one day. Never let your wrong choices haunt impact of globalisation on Third cutting are also interesting mediums up to Renoir, John Singer Sargent, you from being better, either in your Culture Individuals has also been for artists and designers of the 21st Coco Chanel, John Galliano, Hussein How would you describe your professional or personal life. Failure is getting my attention. century. Chalayan, Yinka Shonibare, Rene life right now? just an opportunity to begin again. 6 GULF TIMES Monday, August 15, 2016 COMMUNITY COMMUNITY Centro Capital Doha gets children cooking

entro Capital Doha invited children recently for a fun day of cooking at its restaurant, c.taste. The objective of the event was to teach children fun cooking, give them an insight into the kitchen and the importance of healthy food. C“We launched a fun and innovative activity dedicated for children, teaching them the basics of cooking and giving them an experience to remember. This is an event that is aimed at giving children the chance to learn and have fun at the same time. During our fi rst cooking class, we taught children the secrets of a successful homemade pizza and how to decorate cookies,” said Michelle Akl, Marketing Executive of Centro Capital Doha. Together with Centro’s chefs, children collected their ingredients and went off to the kitchen to prepare delicious dishes. They were also taught how to use basic kitchen tools safely, the importance of healthy cooking and most importantly being creative with food. The children also got to take their fi nished products home to enjoy with their families with a few other surprise giveaways. “It was a wonderful and exciting opportunity to teach children basic cooking and to engage with them. I personally started cooking at a very early stage and I am very happy to be able to introduce children to my everyday life and provide them with such an experience. Cooking is a great way for children to learn all sorts of crucial academic skills like reading, following directions, basic math, and using kitchen tools safely,” said Chef Toufik, Executive Chef at Centro Capital Doha.

HEALTH How to bring up weight loss with your partner

Since the weight-loss topic is sensitive, By Andreea Ciulac don’t place yourself on a superior scale; off er to be involved by using words such as “us,” “we” or “together.” ou’re worried your partner Tara Coleman, clinical nutritionist might be getting too heavy, and speaker on building healthy eating but you don’t want to hurt his habits, says that often, weight gain is a or her feelings. How do you sign of stress, low self-esteem or trouble bring it up? sleeping, so the fi rst step is to check in YDr Carmen Simon, cognitive and see if your partner is OK. neuroscientist and author of Impossible If it was simply an indulgent summer, to Ignore: Creating Memorable Content the next step is to see if weight is to Infl uence Decisions, says that if you important to him or her. know the other person’s motivations, If he or she is open to making changes, you can off er weight-loss advice without ask how you can be supportive. Be sure off ending. that your good intentions won’t come Some people are motivated by across as policing and controlling. achievements or caregiving. Others For instance, avoid saying, “I picked are motivated by money and prestige. out fi ve low-carb dinners to help you lose Knowing this will help you choose your weight.” This can lead to problems in the words. relationship, as well as secretive binge Talking to achievers or thinkers, you eating. might say, “I wonder what it takes to lose Try instead, “Why don’t we sit down 2 pounds in one week. Should we fi nd out and pick out some healthy dinners that we together?” both will enjoy for the week?” For caregivers, a more eff ective Finally, don’t withhold love, aff ection approach is to point out how much energy or intimacy while you are working on this. kids or pets have and then add, “Losing I recommend sitting close to your partner a few pounds might help us keep up with when you are having these conversations. them better.” Your partner most likely knows that his or With money-driven people, off er a cash her body has changed and may already be prize. Say something like, “If we each lose feeling vulnerable or ashamed. Physical one pound a week, we can take $200 and rejection will only make things worse. — A couple jogs in countryside. Knowing how your partner is motivated is key to getting them to start use it any way we please.” Chicago Tribune/TNS focusing on their health. Monday, August 15, 2016 GULF TIMES 7 OFFBEAT COMMUNITY Gazan urban farmer grows food without soil

By Stefanie Jaerkel

rom the roof of his house, Said Abu Nasser gazes over the concrete jungle of Gaza. There are no seating areas, no parasols andF hardly any plants on the surrounding rooftops. But next to Abu Nasser, green and red pepper, and mint thrive in blue plastic tubs. Six stories below, the 53-year-old has also created an oasis beside his home, with aubergines, pepper and salad — and all without using soil. The amateur gardener has been growing plants in water for around six years and wants to use this technique to improve the quality of life in Gaza. “My plants are now bearing fruit for the fi rst time,” says Abu Nasser, as water bubbles through long plastic troughs surrounding him. “I am so happy, but I really want to make it even better.” The population of the Gaza strip currently stands at 1.9 million and is growing rapidly — farmland has to give way to housing. To address this issue, the United Nations is seeking alternatives to traditional methods of growing vegetables. Over recent years, the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) has supported 219 households in the NEW TECHNIQUES: Said Abu Nasser has been growing plants like aubergine in water for around 6 years, and wants to use this soil-free technique to improve Gaza strip with rooftop gardens the quality of life in Gaza. and soilless plant cultivation. Abu Nasser received the equivalent pepper. at him. But the amateur gardener is UN wants to expand too. technology,” says Abu Nasser. By of over 5,400 dollars, as well as “It’s a clean and healthy type of already thinking ahead — he wants “One day everybody will then the concrete jungle of Gaza training. salad,” he says. to expand, and to train others. The be required to use this new could have become green. —DPA “Such interventions are The electricity for the pumps particularly important in Gaza comes from solar collectors on the because they introduce innovative roof. technologies that use fewer natural Mahmoud al-Ajouz, who teaches resources like water and land,” says agricultural plant production at a spokeswoman. They also use less Al Azhar University in Gaza, is insecticide and fertiliser, she says. collaborating with Abu Nasser on Wearing a grey suit and striped his project. shirt, Abu Nasser doesn’t look like “In Gaza day after day we have your typical amateur gardener. In less water for the people. It’s his day job, he works at the Interior becoming highly salinated,” says Ministry of Hamas, which governs al-Ajouz, whose specialist fi eld the Gaza strip. Israel and Egypt is herbicides. Cultivating plants have largely closed the borders due without soil saves water compared to security concerns. to conventional agriculture because “The water in Gaza is not suitable it is reused several times, he says. and requires a special treatment,” Growing plants in this way also he explains. The plants are placed requires less space and less time, he in polystyrene panels, which fl oat adds. “Usually we can plant 3,000 in troughs, with roots hanging in to 4,000 lettuce in 1,000 square water. Abu Nasser adds various metres. With hydroponics we can minerals like magnesium and plant 30,000 in the same area.” calcium to the water, and watches Abu Nasser and al-Ajouz are also how the plants react. experimenting with plants that At fi rst, for instance, the salad grow on stones, using fertiliser that did not grow. But Abu Nasser says comes from fi sh manure. he has now given 2,000 heads of The idea for his water garden lettuce to his friends and family, came to Abu Nasser when a as well as around 200 kilos of neighbour was trying to grow plants aubergines and 100 kilos of green in water pipes. His friends laughed In the concrete jungle of Gaza City space and food is running short. 8 GULF TIMES Monday, August 15, 2016 COMMUNITY TRA Banff off ers a walk in th

PRISTINE: Peyto Lake, in Banff National Park, west of the Icefields Parkway.

Everything feels unbelievably huge colliding in the Earth’s magnetic and unpopulated as if it didn’t exist fi eld. Elemental mysteries such as on Earth, but on a distant planet these deserve more than technical far from people. The province of explanations. Alberta comprises 255,000 square Our home base was Banff and miles, about three times the size of its adjacent Banff National Park, Minnesota; with 4 million people, it a truly extraordinary institution has about a third less population. about a 90-minute drive north of Even the visitors don’t ruin Calgary. It was the fi rst national park the eff ect. Banff National Park designated in Canada and the third deservedly drew 3.6 million visitors in the world. in its 2014-15 season, most of them The area was settled at the end REFLECTIONS: Grassi Lakes walk in Canmore, Alberta. Albertans and other Canadians. of the 19th century, having been Back to those heart-melting azure “discovered” in 1883 by three list, several adventurous, outdoorsy Canada has more lakes, rivers and streams and ponds. Geologists say workers building the Canadian By Colin Covert friends thought otherwise. I’m forests than any other nation, and their shimmering hues are caused Pacifi c Railroad who immediately grateful I joined them in June on a Canadians, not prone to hyperbole, by sunlight refracting against recognised the commercial potential weeklong visit to Banff , the home of call this its most breath-taking area. glittering silt-sized rock fl our of its mineral hot springs. They ow is it possible? How Canada’s oldest national park, one And how. If this panoply of beauty constantly deposited at the lake bed off ered rare swimming pools in a can they all be so jaw- of its best known and most popular. isn’t God’s country, there’s no such by thundering waterfalls. I’m not country whose lakes are eternally droppingly, picture- I’ve taken trips expecting “good.” place. The epic mountains on all buying that explanation. I think it’s too cold to breaststroke. Its status perfect blue? The vast This was one of the most delightful I sides rival the Matterhorn majesty a gimmick hatched by Canadian as a sacred site to local First Nations rivers and lakes beside have ever had, an experience akin to of the Alps. (In fact, it was Swiss tourism authorities to make the people didn’t weigh heavily on the Hthe saw-toothed Canadian Rockies falling completely in love. and Austrian mountain guides who shores around Banff National Park men’s conscience, so they built a of central Alberta in Canada are Some experiences were daunting. introduced skiing to the area in some of the most photographed fence around the Cave and Basin an otherworldly, electric shade of Hikes up the inexhaustible trails can 1909.) Spending a week wandering locations on the planet, just like natural hot springs and started turquoise. Staring at them makes be gruelling. With signifi cant wolf the Continental Divide triggers the they added the area’s ski resorts building a tourist cabin. you wonder if you walked out of and bear populations, this is not a kind of joyful awe that we can all use and four-star hotels. Or else it’s an Two years later, the prime reality and into a surreal Instagram. petting zoo. It is worth the eff ort. more of in our lives. iridescent miracle, like the Northern minister created a 10-square-mile While visiting backcountry It will help form your defi nition of There’s a sheer beauty to its Lights, which I am convinced do not reserve around the area for the Banff Canada was never high on my life scenic beauty. no-signs, no-graffi ti barrenness. strictly stem from charged particles Hot Springs, launching Canada’s Monday, August 15, 2016 GULF TIMES 9 AVEL COMMUNITY he clouds

A panorama shot along the trail.

through a zoo enclosure and into the lair of a carnivorous animal thinking about lunch. To keep hundreds of local bears away, we carried a noisy reindeer sleigh bell (I thought of it as the dinner bell) and a can of pressurised pepper spray (for me to carry and shoot as needed, although I have never squirted anything but bug spray). We did not encounter anything but mountain goats and enviably fast rival Alpinists, whose sudden approaches from behind made me as fi dgety as deputy Barney Fife with his revolver drawn. Our nine-hour climb to the top and descent across the back was punishing at the start and terrifying at the fi nish, where we slid across sloping mountain fi elds of small loose stones, primed to avalanche away wherever a footstep encountered them. I expected to end the death march as broken as those rock fragments, with a small memorial bearing my name at the base of the crags. Did I mention the shoe-skidding snow bluff s? Having survived, I have to say the endeavour was awesome, lifting national park system. Banff National trails atop Sulfur Mountain. Climb me above old fears and introducing Park, now a Unesco World Heritage a few thousand feet higher and you me to new levels of confi dence. Site, covers 2,500 square miles, pass the tree line, proceeding to If anyone invites you, the correct very little of it scarred by human slippery snowfi elds that make June response is, “Sounds great! Let’s meddling. feel like a good time to be wearing ice go!” We spent every day of our stay crampons. Before peak tourist season, Banff meandering in beautiful serendipity. That was the top mission for is a charming town of about 9,000 Stunning Lake Louise and baby my companions, who decided that inhabitants, cool enough that Sports blue Peyto Lake are a good hour’s sightseeing from ground level was Illustrated shot its annual swimsuit drive north from Banff , and the not enough. We would climb a edition there in 2011. Its wide streets Icefi elds Parkway, where you can mountain. Not with crampons and are home to art galleries, antique Tall spruce trees on the mountains surrounding Lake Louise. walk directly up to limitless tons of rope, but hiking shoes and sweat and stores, a nice selection of eating pristine glacial ice, is a lot farther shortness of breath and vertigo and establishments, pubs and a couple of Mounties, railroad baron Sir William The galleries host a charming away. But we motored there along group momentum. late-night dance venues that crowd Cornelius Van Horne reportedly collection of old landscapes, modern the jagged spine of the Canadian The average American walks about up even midweek. said. The stately pile’s guests have art and community memorabilia Rockies, seeing imposing mountain a fl at mile-and-a-half per week. Just a pleasant stroll away is included King George VI and Queen such as moccasins and old-school vistas that rewarded us tenfold. It We’d show them. the extraordinary Fairmont Banff Elizabeth, Marilyn Monroe and camping tools, and off er guided was so scenic and fi lled with caribou We went clambering up to the Springs Hotel, a castle-like grand Winston Churchill. tours through Banff ’s most historic that I would have been happy if we shoulder of nearby Mount Edith hotel in Scottish baronial style My less-celebrated group stayed buildings. The museum even houses had crossed the route by dog sled. Cavell, a prominent peak considered almost too vast and beautiful to at a wonderful century-old Airbnb a vintage helicopter with a small The tidy tourist sanctuary of the area’s second hardest to hike, be taken seriously. Its gigantic four-bedroom house directly bubble cockpit that visitors can Banff in the Bow Valley is the and the loveliest. We marched up reception rooms, huge foyer and facing the swift, scenic blue Bow climb aboard. highest city in Canada, with an and down a total of about 6 miles panoramic dining-room vistas of River. It was pretty opulent, too. The chopper is indoors and unable elevation just under a mile. It’s an along serpentine switchbacks, the countryside were constructed The closest relative to a mansion to take visitors up to the alpine zone, environmental enthusiasts’ mecca, nearing its 11,000-foot peak, me of marble and stone 125 years ago that you can hope to find in or I would have reserved it for an off ering uphill hikers not prone to following at my own glacial pace. by the Canadian Pacifi c Railroad a village, it was the ancestral afternoon sightseeing ascent rather altitude sickness a splendid view Several high-profi le grizzly for Victorian gents and golf course home of the prosperous family than wearing out my boots. I have of the surrounding countryside. If attacks in the area this season were putters of comfortable means. that founded the nearby Whyte warm memories of my toe-jamming, you prefer high-level trips without thankfully nonlethal, but they “If we cannot export the scenery, Museum of the Canadian Rockies, knee-pounding visit up Mount physical exertion, ride the Banff had me feeling like one of those we will have to import the tourists” one of the best collections of Edith, but I’m not nuts. —Star Gondola to the viewing decks and unfortunate toddlers who wander to experience moose, mountains and mountain art in western Canada. Tribune /TNS 10 GULF TIMES Monday, August 15, 2016 COMMUNITY INFOGRAPHIC Monday, August 15, 2016 GULF TIMES 11 LIFESTYLE/HOROSCOPE COMMUNITY 5 ways tech can help you score home entertaining gold

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

If you feel that you are wasting time with something or someone, Sometimes you keep on kicking goals and sometimes you kick Expect the unexpected today twins. With a Full Moon fast stop it immediately. You have to ensure that you put your time and points Taurus. It really depends on how the day starts out and what approaching in quirky Aquarius, your higher education and spiritual energy into worthy projects and people right now. mood you are in to. Try to get up on the right side of the bed bulls! zone, now is the time for you to really tap into that innovative mind of yours and make some big and small moves twins.

CANCER LEO VIRGO June 21 — July 22 July 23 — August 22 August 23 — September 22

Don’t let your inhibitions deter you from doing exactly what you It’s pretty diff icult to please all the people all the time Leos. In fact, Use each and every opportunity that comes your way today Virgos. want to do today Cancers. You know you can do it and you know it’s virtually impossible, isn’t it? Best thing to do is to make sure you Jupiter, the planet of good luck and fortune in your sign through what you need to do in order to get it done. So get to work! are pleased and that you feel you have worked hard and as fairly as September 10 is the best thing you could wish for. Like winning the possible. cosmic lottery.

LIBRA SCORPIO SAGITTARIUS September 23 — October 22 October 23 — November 21 November 22 — December 21

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CAPRICORN AQUARIUS PISCES December 22 — January 19 January 20 — February 18 February 19 — March 20

No one can take away what a great job you have done with You’re in the driver’s seat right now with your Full Moon coming Today’s Moon shines in Capricorn today, your eleventh house of something or someone goats. However, it’s done now and the more up on the 18th and a nice trine from the Leo Sun and Uranus in hopes, wishes and friendship. Plan something fun and spontaneous you revel in the glory and praise, the less time you will have to get on Aries — your relationship and communication zone respectively. Got with a good friend today. with your next big thing. something to say? Say it loud and say it proud today. 12 GULF TIMES Monday, August 15, 2016 COMMUNITY PUZZLES/CARTOONS

Wordsearch Adam

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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. Monday, August 15, 2016 GULF TIMES 13 PUZZLES COMMUNITY

Quick Clues Colouring

ACROSS DOWN 7. Extremely fat (5) 1. Chicanery (5-5) 8. Person who hunts illegally 2. Actions (5) (7) 3. Ale (4) 9. Experience (7) 4. Self-possession (6) 10. Pick-me-up (5) 5. Micro-organisms (8) 12. Agile thief (3,7) 6. Coarse gravel (7) 15. Something very easy (6,4) 11. English horn (3,7) 18. Sweet substance (5) 13. Channel Island (8) 19. Sunshade (7) 14. Cotton fabric (7) 21. Swinging bar in a circus (7) 16. Marionette (6) 22. Moulds, mushrooms, etc. 17. Employing (5) (5) 20. Widespread (4) Cryptic Clues

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ACROSS DOWN 7. Another name for Celia (5) 1. Cataracts Fats Waller had? (10) 8. Avoiding contact at an 2. May have strength (5) informal gathering (7) 3. Intend to change a name (4) 9. Alcohol from Athlone? (7) 4. Work on the wall leading to strike (6) 10. Give a word for "owned up" 5. Type of medicine using conifers? Yesterday’s Solutions (5) (8) 12. Diana's own take away? (10) 6. Related to generous Communist QUICK CRYPTIC 15. Insincere tribute provided (7) Across: 1 Immediate; 8 Urn; 9 Implication; Across: 1 Clothiers; 8 Rip; 9 Casting vote; by beautician? (3,7) 11. Saw nothing about the U.S. capital 11 Trounce; 12 After; 13 Arouse; 15 Shelve; 17 11 Riposte; 12 Chord; 13 German; 15 Alpine; 18. Bones a scar may reveal (5) (10) Eerie; 18 Awesome; 20 Parentheses; 22 Ash; 17 Loire; 18 Initial; 20 Intentional; 22 Ego; 23 19. A job for tender? (7) 13. Repeats and spells out treaties (8) 23 Directory. Destroyer. 21. Fast food for the citizens, 14. Terrible respect for a ghost (7) Down: 2 Mum; 3 Deign; 4 Abated; 5 Epitaph; Down: 2 Lea; 3 Heirs; 4 Eagles; 5 Stoical; 6 say (7) 16. Disappear like a vehicle? (6) 6 Punctilious; 7 Intercede; 10 Photography; Premonition; 7 Speedwell; 10 Supervision; 11 17. Ski-run I step over (5) 11 Tradesman; 14 Steered; 16 Banner; 19 Ethic; Regulates; 14 Alerted; 16 Viands; 19 Icier; 21 22. Proportion to air, perhaps 20. Gunners and sappers are not (5) common (4) 21 Err. Ave. 14 GULF TIMES Monday, August 15, 2016 COMMUNITY Not a superstar treatment n the popularity hustings between The response by diff erent government the three Khans, Shah Rukh is right authorities was immediate. Nisha Biswal, now fi rmly third considering that he Assistant Secretary of State for South and cannot even guarantee a blockbuster Central Asia, US Department of State, nowadays, as was clear with the fate tweeted apologising, presumably on behalf Iof Fan, his last movie. The Indian audience of her government, ‘Sorry for the hassle is having somewhat of a mellow response at the airport, @iamsrk - even American to him. diplomats get pulled for extra screening!’ On the other hand there is a category The Indian ambassador to the United of fans that never seem to get enough of States also tweeted an apology to him, Shah Rukh and they are the non-resident ‘Sorry for the trouble at LAX @iamsrk. Indians, settled outside the country. He has We are working to ensure it doesn’t ruled their hearts for decades and even now happen again. Your work inspires millions, his movies easily outperform anyone else’s including in the US.’ with them. The largest number of NRIs and While Shah Rukh replied to both of the main overseas market for Shah Rukh is them saying that he understood the need in the United States. It is therefore ironical to maintain security in troubled times like how he gets treated by the security agencies these, it was a testing experience. If it had whenever he goes to that country. been a one-off thing, then it wouldn’t have Last week, as he was entering US from mattered so much. But Shah Rukh gets Los Angeles airport he was detained for a repeatedly detained like this at US airports. while for unexplained reasons. The world It happened to him in 2009 and then in came to know about it when Shah Rukh 2012. The reason is not too hard to guess. tweeted, ‘I fully understand & respect His name gets fl agged by their database security with the way the world is, but which confuses it with others who are a to be detained at US immigration every security threat and leads to the questioning. damn time really really sucks.’ And then The Indian government had in the past even he followed it up with a small joke, ‘The complained offi cially to the United States. brighter side is while waiting caught some But it seems to not have had much of an really nice Pokemons.’. eff ect going by his present experience. RED FLAG: Shah Rukh Khan was stopped yet again at the airport while travelling to America.

Followed unfollowed

After the success of Kabali, the legend of Rajnikanth continues unabated. The movie’s box collections would put many Bollywood superhits to shame. And it is not always that people fi nd themselves followed on Twitter by Rajnikanth. That is what happened to Aamir Khan and Shah Rukh Khan recently when they found that the southern superstar had followed them on the social networking site. But then, suddenly, soon after he also unfollowed both of them. The mystery was not hard to solve. Turns out that Rajnikanth is not very active on Twitter and his account had been hacked and it was the hackers who had made the handle follow Shah Rukh and Aamir’s handles. But then when Rajnikanth got control over his HACKED: Someone hacked into Rajnikanth’s account again, he had reverted to unfollowing Twitter account and followed Aamir Khan and the two. A look at his Twitter handle shows Shah Rukh Khan. He later got control of his that the only Bollywood actor he does follow is account back and unfollowed the two. Amitabh Bachchan.

DEDICATED: Aamir Khan’s look for his upcoming film. Surprise disclosure the success of Sultan, Salman returns to do another Kabir movie as his next. Shooting is Salman Khan and Kabir Khan first gave the going on for it and right now the crew is in hit movie Ek Tha Tiger and Kabir went on to Ladakh. become Salman’s favourite director. Last year, The movie has as its subject the war Commercial sense their movie Bajrangi Bhaijaan was the biggest between and China in 1962. Salman’s blockbuster of the year. And now flush with character is said to be in a romance with a Chinese woman. A Chinese actress is e know that Aamir Khan takes typical Bollywood masala mould. therefore playing a main character in a big some very courageous decisions On top of that it deals with wrestling budget Hindi film, something of a first for Wwhen selecting a movie. No one as a theme, something which Salman Bollywood. But this has led to an odd issue. would do something like Taare Zameen Khan has just pulled off with Sultan The actress’s name is Zhu Zhu. In Bollywood Par, which dealt with childhood dyslexia and there could therefore be a chance of everything has scope to be strategically and expect it to be big commercial winner. audience fatigue. milked for publicity and the presence of a It was the movie, Lagaan, that started his All this is perhaps why when it became Chinese actress would have provided fertile run of blockbusters which has continued known what Aamir’s next project would be material. But no one seems to have told Zhu unfailingly for 15 years and even that movie after Dangal, it was not surprising that it Zhu about how promotions are done here and was a very diff erent fare. was a commercial fare. The movie is called she tweeted a photo with Salman announcing But what is not really highlighted is that Thug and is being produced by Yashraj that she was part of Tubelight. Aamir also takes very calculated decisions Productions, who also made Dhoom 3 with It has apparently annoyed Salman, to never lose his status as a commercial Aamir. But what makes this more exciting according to one gossip column. But what is hero. So he will shuffl e between off beat for his fans is that Amitabh Bachchan will done is done and the surprise is out. In any movies and out and out entertainers also said to be starring in it and, if true, case, her tweet itself made for some news like Ghajini. After two years, Aamir will this is the fi rst time that the two will come columns and so it was not wasted altogether. now have a movie, Dangal, releasing this together for a movie. All in all, Aamir has WINNING COMBINATION: Salman Khan is December and it is also a movie not in the ensured a big probability of a blockbuster. doing another movie with Kabir Khan, after their Send your feedback to successful last collaboration. [email protected] Monday, August 15, 2016 GULF TIMES 15 SHOWBIZ COMMUNITY Shabana appeals for raising voice against gender disparity

ix short fi lms featuring Bollywood actresses one month. Ishita Jain, wife of Siddharth Jain, Director, including Shabana Azmi, INOX Leisure Ltd, said in a statement: “Utilising and Kangana Ranaut and talking about various the powerful medium of fi lm, we want to contribute issues aff ecting women will be screened at Inox towards enhancing the quality of life and economic properties across India. well-being of the local populace in general, women and SINOX Leisure, a multiplex chain, is providing a children in specifi c. We share the WIFT philosophy of platform to Women in Film and Television (WIFT) empowering women in our industry to achieve their to assist in creation of awareness about the need for potential by providing them with opportunities to empowerment of Indian women to assist them in their grow. struggle for independence. “We are happy to present these fi lms at our This will be done through exclusive screenings of multiplexes and hope that our network across the a series of six short fi lms starring Shabana, Priyanka, country will assist in delivering the message about Kangana, Dia Mirza, Shriya Saran and Rituparna Sengupta empowerment of women across the nation.” at Inox properties in India. Petrina D’Rozario, Founder Director, WIFT India, The fi lms will feature the actresses talking about said: “As fi lmmakers, our craft can construct or various issues aff ecting women like dowry, sexual destruct. We have used our craft and the medium of harassment, female foeticide, teach a girl child, child fi lm to talk about some issues that plague our nation. marriage and domestic violence. No other medium has such a wide appeal and ability As a part of the initiative, starting today, the to hold the audience’s attention. We hope we can leave multiplex will screen a series of six fi lms, each of a behind a residue of thought that gender violence needs REACHING OUT: Shabana Azmi duration of 40 seconds, across all its multiplexes for to stop.” — IANS Suniel Shetty joins Twitter Acne made Knightley Kangana pays tribute Actor Suniel Shetty has joined the try million skin products to Indian armed forces micro-blogging website Twitter. He fi rst tweeted to megastar Amitabh Actress Keira Knightley says Actress Kangana Bachchan – “the most special man in she never did anything to her Ranaut has paid a the industry”. The 55-year-old actor, skin until she got acne. The tribute to the Indian who created his account on the site 31-year-old, who has been the armed forces in a video. with the name Suniel V Shetty, was face of the luxury designer brand The anthem titled Love warmly welcomed by the Hindi fi lm Chanel’s beauty campaigns, says your country released fraternity members like , WELCOME ABOARD: Suniel Shetty she only wore smudgy eyeliner last week online. It Pritish Nandy and Tanuj Garg. when she was a teenager, reports also focuses on social But he fi rst replied to Big B, who Suniel, who is following only six femalefi rst.co.uk. issues such as rape, had sent him birthday wishes on celebrities including Prime Minister “I didn’t do anything with female infanticide, August 10. Suniel wrote: “Amitabh Narendra Modi, is already being my skin until I started getting child marriage, dowry Bachchan, making my Twitter debut followed by almost 2,000 individuals. acne, at which point I did and even apathy, read a special, with a tweet to the most The actor has fi lms like Mohra, everything possible to get rid statement. special man in the industry! Thank Gaddaar, Border, Refugee, Hera Pheri of it. I tried a million products, The almost three- you for the birthday wish, sir.” and Main Hoon Na to his credit. but none of them worked,” minute long video has Ajay welcomed ‘Anna’ (big Last seen on the big screen in The InStyle magazine quoted Kangana saluting, lip brother) and wrote: “Anna, welcome Shaukeens, Suniel will soon feature Knightley as saying. “I had synching to the song, to the digital world Suniel Shetty.” in Reloaded, a prequel to the Hrithik bad skin until I was 25. I later sung by Siddhart Sharma, Nandy lauded Suniel’s profi le picture Roshan-starrer 2014 hit fi lm Bang learned that it was more about Piyush Wasnik and Yash and posted: “Welcome to Twitter Bang!. He will also star in Circus — diet and hormonal changes,” Chauhan. “Do you vote?” asks Suniel Shetty. The new look is super directorial debut of choreographer she added. — IANS Kangana, clad in a white outfi t, in sharp.” Bosco Martis. — IANS the anthem. This song comes after Kangana created waves with a video on Leonardo DiCaprio doesn’t take ‘cleanliness is next to godliness’ decisions lightly: Baz Luhrmann addressing Prime Minster Narendra Modi’s Swachh Bharat Actor Leonardo DiCaprio does not play around when it comes to Abhiyan. — IANS choosing projects, says director Baz Luhrmann. “Leo is never easy about deciding to do anything,” Luhrmann, who directed the Oscar- winner in the 1996 fi lm Romeo + Juliet and The Great Gatsby of 2013 said on a radio show, reports people.com. “He doesn’t make those decisions lightly, and he put me through FLAGGING ISSUES: Kangana Ranaut the hoops in a really good way,” he said of casting DiCaprio in the role. “It really was about working with Leonardo again and we were always trying to think of something to do and I had to wear him down.” Recalling how diffi cult the “decision-making process” was for Natalie helps empower women through education DiCaprio on Romeo + Juliet, the director said: “It was worse! It took longer! But honestly, I admire him for that because the thing about Actress Natalie Portman is America — raising money to Leonardo, I mean he’s a friend, our families are friends, is that he looks for trying to empower women by build schools for their peers in joy in life, but when it comes to two things, acting and the environment, he educating them. “I’ve been very developing countries like Kenya, just doesn’t take it lightly.” interested in girls’ education,” China, and India. It’s an amazing While DiCaprio might take his time to pick a new role, Luhrmann said the actress, 35, told people.com. way to engage young people.” he knew right away the young actor was the perfect choice for his “So I did some research and saw After travelling to Kenya, Romeo. “When I saw Leonardo, and then I thought, God that’s how he that WE — previously known as Portman became inspired by the should look but can he act?” he explained. “Then I found out he was the Free the Children — was really the power of teamwork. preeminent young actor.” most effi cient and eff ective school “WE creates this sustainable DiCaprio even made a surprise visit to the director’s native Australia creator.” system, so it’s not just a new for an impromptu audition. “He came down to Australia for nothing She added: “In 2015, I travelled school, but also wells, health and he brought all these friends and we made a whole video of the show to Kenya in support of WE’s clinics and organic gardens that with other actors,” Luhrmann said. “I won’t say who, it will never be Power of a Girl project and was the locals learn how to tend for seen, I realised that I couldn’t make it without him.” — IANS able to see the ripple eff ect that food,” said the actress. “The goal a girl’s education can have. WE is to build a village that can be has young people in developed sustained by local people for the SERIOUS PLAYER: Leonardo DiCaprio countries — primarily in North rest of its lifeline.” — IANS 16 GULF TIMES Monday, August 15, 2016 COMMUNITY

GETTING LYRICAL: Held at Katara Art Centre, the evening saw a wave of applause for the participants, including Emirati poetess Afra Atiq who flew down from the UAE just for the event. An ode to verses Words & Strings event at Katara Art Centre saw some exciting participation from local poets and also from the region. By Anand Holla

all it an open mic to end have attended,” tweeted @hallah_t. due to very high demand. As people all open mics. Doha might Poetess Zainab, whose poem had kept mailing us, we decided to put have precious few open lines such as – As if by choice I left, as some extra seats, and therefore, extra mic opportunities to if by choice you stayed… I think I’m tickets but even those were sold out begin with but none seem home – made @_ItsAya say, “Zainab in no time. We now realise that we are toC pack in the refreshing momentum blessing our ears with her poem.” growing rather rapidly, and we might or the rising popularity of Words & Arwa Elsanosi, Communications need a bigger space to accommodate Strings. Manager, Words & Strings, told the audience.” An evening of poetry, spoken word Community, “Friday’s event was Two years ago, Words & Strings Be it music or words, participants can showcase their talent to a friendly and music, at the Katara Art Centre exceptional and very diverse be it in started with a group of fi ve audience. (KAC), saw 17 performers belt out terms of the types of performers or enthusiastic and multitalented a wide range of quality creativity to nationalities. It’s wonderful to see youth, who are passionate about arts in September 2014, and perhaps the and spoken word here that are this a cheery audience of close to 100 people from all ages exploring a range and more so about the spoken word. most successful of all. From the fi rst open to everyone. Words & Strings on the weekend. Words & Strings of topics through their creativity and The organisers say, “This group minute till the last, people listened give a chance to everybody who have been pioneering spoken word then present it on this stage. Such an attempted to fi ll the gap between the to the poems with rapt attention and wants to try their hand at reciting art events to unite the many and event shows just how international of existence of talent and the lack of some even stood all through the show poems. scattered talents in Qatar. As they a hub Doha is, and also how Words & consistent platform to share it, with because all seats were taken. In spite “Even those who don’t have the say, “enriching the local art scene” is Strings is able to bring that out.” the aim to create an open space for of the minor technical diffi culties, desired stage presence or haven’t their goal. Elsanosi says that the two-hour- artists and art lovers to come together people didn’t complain and stayed penned full-fl edged poems are Soon after the show that drew long Words & Strings event is held and comfortably share their talents till the very end. It’s heartwarming to welcome to give it a shot. Be the a huge wave of applause for the every other month and the eff ort is to on the only consistent platform for see how everybody appreciates our poem in Arabic or English or be participants including Emirati unite the various spoken word talents spoken word art in Qatar.” eff orts.” the poet young or old, everybody is poetess Afra Atiq who fl ew down in Qatar. Co-founder of Words & Strings Nabil al-Nashar, who has been free to be part of this. If someone from the UAE just for the event and “People are usually very excited and poet, Amin Isaac said, “The participating at Words & Strings ever is a little shy or not very confi dent, won most hearts with her words, the before the event,” she said, “One fi rst thing I noticed at the latest since it began, said, “To be part of a everybody encourages them by social media buzzed with glowing has to register for a free ticket to the edition of Words & Strings is how Words & Strings event is an excellent clapping and cheering even more reviews by those who attended. event, but for Friday’s show, we ran much this event has grown. It’s our experience because as far as I know, for them. It’s a very friendly “Honestly, best #WordsNStrings I out of tickets in less than 24 hours seventh event since we started off there are no other outlets for poetry community.”