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Dogged resistance COVER STORY A small band of environmentalists takes fight against Obama Presidential Center to court. P4-5

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Actor, producer John wants Christopher Robin is a drama to change Indian cinema. on family life. Page 14 Page 15 2 GULF TIMES Monday, August 6, 2018 COMMUNITY ROUND & ABOUT

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USEFUL NUMBERS Fanney Khan musical inspirations. He couldn’t become Mohammad Rafi , but DIRECTION: Atul Manjrekar harbours a dream of his daughter becoming Lata Mangeshkar CAST: Aishwarya Rai , Anil Kapoor, Rajkumar Rao, Divya and the next singing sensation of India. Dutta, Anaitha Nair Aishwarya Rai plays the role of an established singer with SYNOPSIS: Fanney Khan is inspired by the 2000 Dutch fi lm, Rajkummar Rao as her love interest. Everybody’s Famous. With a dream in his eyes and a tune in his heart, Anil Kapoor plays father to a teenage daughter who has THEATRES: The Mall, Royal Plaza Emergency 999 Worldwide Emergency Number 112 Kahramaa – Electricity and Water 991 Local Directory 180 International Calls Enquires 150 Hamad International Airport 40106666 Labor Department 44508111, 44406537 Mowasalat Taxi 44588888 Qatar Airways 44496000 Hamad Medical Corporation 44392222, 44393333 Qatar General Electricity and Water Corporation 44845555, 44845464 Primary Health Care Corporation 44593333 44593363 Qatar Assistive Technology Centre 44594050 Qatar News Agency 44450205 44450333 Q-Post – General Postal Corporation 44464444

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Harb Karmoz Yousef al-Masri lives in Karamouz neighbourhood in DIRECTION: Peter Mimi Alexandria. The fi lm dates back to the reign of King Farouk CAST: Amir Kararah, Ahmed al-Sakka, Scott Adkins before the 1952 revolution in the English occupation of Egypt. SYNOPSIS: An Egyptian police offi cer named General THEATRE: The Mall, Landmark, Royal Plaza ote Unquo u te Q “As we The Mall Cinema (1): Chi La Sow Royal Plaza Cinema Palace (1): express our gratitude, (Telugu) 2:15pm; Fanney Khan Hotel Transylvania 3: A Monster (Hindi) 4:30pm; Buy Bust (Tagalog) Vacation (2D) 3pm; Leo Da Vince: we must never forget that the 7pm; Harb Karmoz (Arabic) 9:15pm; Mission Monalisa (2D) 5pm; Patrick highest appreciation is not to utter Fanney Khan (Hindi) 11:15pm. (Hindi) 2:15pm; Koode (Malayalam) (2D) 6:30pm; Mission Impossible 6: The Mall Cinema (2): Koode 4:30pm; Karwaan (Hindi) 7:15pm; Fall Out (3D) 8:30pm; The Spy Who words, but to live by them.” (Malayalam) 2pm; Leo Da Vince: The Spy Who Dumped Me (2D) Dumped Me (2D) 11:15pm. — John F Kennedy Mission Monalisa (2D) 4:45pm; 9:30pm; Koode (Malayalam) Royal Plaza Cinema Palace (2): Leo Da Vince: Mission Monalisa 11:30pm. Koode (Malayalam) 2:15pm; Fanney (2D) 6:15pm; Harb Karmoz (Arabic) Landmark Cinema (2): Leo Da Khan (Hindi) 5pm; Fanney Khan 7:45pm; Shock And Awe (2D) Vince: Mission Monalisa (2D) (Hindi) 7:15pm; Shock And Awe 9:45pm; The Spy Who Dumped Me 2:30pm; Leo Da Vince: Mission (2D) 9:30pm; Koode (Malayalam) (2D) 11:30pm Monalisa (2D) 4:150pm; Patrick (2D) 11:15pm. The Mall Cinema (3): Patrick 6pm; Mission Impossible 6: Fall Out Royal Plaza Cinema Palace (3): Community Editor (2D) 2pm; Karwaan (Hindi) 4pm; (2D) 8pm; Karwaan (Hindi) 11pm Leo Da Vince: Mission Monalisa Kamran Rehmat Karwaan (Hindi) 6:30pm; Mission Landmark Cinema (3): Chi La Sow (2D) 2pm; Patrick (2D) 3:30pm; e-mail: [email protected] Impossible 6: Fall Out (2D) 8:45pm; (Telugu) 2:30pm; Buy Bust (Tagalog) Harb Karmoz (Arabic) 5:15pm; Telephone: 44466405 Mission Impossible 6: Fall Out 5pm; Harb Karmoz (Arabic) 7:15pm; Harb Karmoz (Arabic) 7:30pm; The (Telugu) 11:30pm. Harb Karmoz (Arabic) 9:30pm; Harb Ashram (2D) 9:45pm; Our House Fax: 44350474 Landmark Cinema (1): Karwaan Karmoz (Arabic) 11:30pm. (2D) 11:30pm Monday, August 6, 2018 GULF TIMES 3 ROUND & ABOUT COMMUNITY

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Summer Camps WHERE: Mamangam Performing Art Centre, Al Hilal WHEN: Ongoing till August 31 TIME: 8am – 12:30pm Mamangam Performing Art Centre will be holding Summer Camps in its Al Hilal branch for two batches of age groups from 4 -18 yrs. The summer camps will include Yoga, Karate, Art and Craft, Music, Hip-hop, Bollywood, Indian Classical and Contemporary dance. For details, call 33897609. Hobby Classes Summer Camps WHERE: Mystic Arts Centre behind Al WHERE: TCA Hilal Focus Medical Centre WHEN: Ongoing WHEN: Wednesday – Monday TIME: 8:30am – 1pm Mystic Art Centre, is a holistic performing The TCA is holding Summer Camps in its arts institution and a one stop solution for branch for all students, ongoing from June adults as well as children looking to explore 24. Every two weeks, a new batch will begin their talents in various art forms. We off er for every child to join and learn new forms of classes in Carnatic Music, Hindustani Music, EVENTS Children can enjoy various activities art. The summer camps will include Abacus, Karate, Yoga, Zumba, Classical Dance, Salsa, such as football, taekwondo, swimming, Drawing and Painting, Calligraphy, keyboard Hip Hop, contemporary and Bollywood dance HEC Paris Masterclass gymnastics, aerobics, and recreational games. and dance. The camp will run for 7 days a forms. Personalised lessons, effi cient mentoring WHERE: 15th fl oor, Tornado Tower week from 8:30am – 1pm. You will be able to and exposure to stage helps our learner to walk WHEN: September 9 Choreography Lessons - Brazilian see the activities and schedules that will be out as a confi dent performer at the end of their TIME: 5pm – 7pm Zouk held for every week and register your kid. For course. For details, call 44723680/33897609. HEC Paris is organising ‘The Journey of WHERE: Music and Arts Atelier near MOI details, call 44373259. Innovation: From the Innovator to Eco- WHEN: Ongoing till September 15 Dance and instrument classes systemic Innovation’, an opportunity to learn Brazilian zouk is characterised by the Summer Camp for Kids WHERE: TCA Campus, Behind Gulf Times more about company innovation with HEC dancers’ undulating bodies and the girls’ WHERE: Music and Arts Atelier, Villa 57 Building Paris Associate Professor Frederic Dalsace, fl owing hair. Dancer or not, depending on Bin Omran WHEN: Wednesday – Monday MSc from HEC and an MBA with honors from the style of Brazilian zouk, you’ll be able WHEN: Ongoing till August 31 Learn the movements of dance styles in Harvard Business School and both MSc and a to choose connection and embrace with TIME: 7:30am – 2:30pm Bollywood, Hip Hop and also the musical PhD Management from INSEAD. long graceful steps. The fi nal performance Doha’s Kids Summer Camp where artists instruments such as Piano, Guitar, Keyboard is scheduled to be on 15 September as a are made! The A to Z of kid’s summer camp for adults as well kids and move in the world of Summer Sessions with Evolve and fl ashmob. – from artworks, dance and music lessons music. For details, contact 66523871/ 31326749. Westin and PLAY in between. For ages 5 years and up. WHERE: The Westin Doha Hotel and Spa Contact [email protected] and Outdoor and fi ve-a-side football WHEN: Ongoing till August 25 mobile 33003839. pitches TIME: 9am – 1pm WHERE: Aspire Zone Enjoy a morning of moving, eating and Summer Entertainment City 2018 WHEN: Daily feeling well with a 60 minutes yoga session WHERE: DECC TIME: 7pm – 11pm balanced with healthy breakfast bites WHEN: Ongoing till August 31 Aspire Zone’s fi ve-a-side football outdoor followed by time to revitalise by the pool. TIME: 12pm pitches opposite Al Waab Street are available Stimulate the rest of your day through An amazing range of local shopping every day from 7pm – 11pm. culinary experiences with the added 20% discount in all the restaurants and café.

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Compiled by Nausheen Shaikh. E-mail: [email protected], Events and timings subject to change 4 GULF TIMES Monday, August 6, 2018 COMMUNITY COVER STORY Brace for open space Charlotte Adelman, along with fellow advocates Maria Valencia, Jeremiah Jurevis and advocacy group Protect Our Parks, have filed a suit against Obama Presidential Center. Jackson Park, they say, must remain untouched, writes Lolly Bowean

I’ve devoted years of my life to the environment. It’s very important to me, it’s not just an interest, but the motivation ‘ of my life — Charlotte Adelman, environmentalist

IN THE VANGUARD: Charlotte Adelman visiting the Centennial Prairie Garden in Wilmette, Illinois, which she was instrumental in creating and designing. Adelman is one of the plaintiff s in a federal lawsuit trying to block the construction of the Obama Presidential Center in Jackson Park.

hen Charlotte journey to becoming a fighter for Jackson Park. “I’ve devoted years of my life the city of Chicago would cover Adelman was a environmental justice. Along the Adelman, along with her fellow to the environment. It’s very everything with buildings for student at the way, she has fought to preserve advocates Maria Valencia, Jeremiah important to me, it’s not just an miles. University of open spaces, ban pesticides in Jurevis and the advocacy group interest, but the motivation of my “Our parks are the last Chicago, the Wilmette and co-authored a Protect Our Parks, have fi led suit life,” she said. “Chicago, when remnants of open space.” nearby parks became a refuge ’book, Prairie Directory of North against the presidential centre. it was established, had so much In fi ling their lawsuit, Adelman W for her, a sprawling expanse of America. They contend that the city and Park open prairie land. Much of that and her fellow plaintiff s have green where she could escape the Now, Adelman, 81, has set her District do not have the authority to is gone. Our founders … they joined a long list of groups that concrete urban landscape. sights on her biggest target yet — make public parkland available for carved out space. I assume they have tried to infl uence the shape It was then, many decades to block the Obama Presidential the project. Jackson Park, they say, thought there would be buildings, and scope of the project. Many ago, that Adelman began her Center from being built in must remain untouched. but I doubt they ever thought activists, for example, pushed Monday, August 6, 2018 GULF TIMES 5 COVER STORY COMMUNITY for the centre to be built in an economically struggling area of the South Side, and some are holding “I’m opposed to damaging what little out for guarantees that the half- open space we have. Jackson Park is one billion-dollar project won’t disrupt the demographic makeup of the of the big bird watching centres — it’s community or displace residents. Others have raised questions right in the flight path of migratory birds. about who will get the jobs and largest contracts. In the These birds are beautiful, exquisite, jaw- months after the project was dropping works of art. Why put a gigantic proposed, there were protests and demonstrations and heated public tower into a migratory bird pathway?” meetings revealing divisions within the community. But Adelman and Protect Our Parks have emerged as perhaps — Charlotte Adelman the most strident opponents of the project and the only group that is taking legal action to block it altogether. The lawsuit has sparked difficult conversations within the community as even residents who have been critical of the centre wonder if the legal action might actually kill a project that has been touted as transformative for the economically struggling South Side. For much of the public protests surrounding the center, Adelman and her fellow plaintiffs kept a relatively low profile. Not anymore. By taking the matter to court, Adelman and Protect Our Parks have stirred memories of litigation that led George Lucas to drop his plans for a Lucas Museum IN THE LINE OF FIRE: Plans over placement for the half-billion-dollar Obama Presidential Center (inset) has provoked sharp divisions. along Chicago’s lakefront. “I think the Obama Foundation been finalised, we are confident and the city should take this that the lawsuit is without merit,” lawsuit seriously,” said Juanita said Bill McCaffrey, a spokesman Irizarry, the executive director of for the city’s Law Department, in Friends of the Parks, a group that a written statement. “The Obama has raised similar environmental Presidential Center will be a concerns but chose not to take valuable resource for all members court action. “Often we’ve seen of the public and will enhance the city communicate to the public the public’s enjoyment of Jackson who try to bring up questions that Park.” the struggle is over. There are still Officials with the foundation various levels of approvals that have would not comment on the to be made. We see this lawsuit as a lawsuit, but said they were valuable tool.” following the court action and For Margaret Schmid, an would cooperate with the city as activist with Jackson Park Watch, needed. the lawsuit provides a chance to Still, for Adelman and her push for an alternate location for network of supporters, the lawsuit the presidential centre. is about fighting to preserve “We are in favour of having valuable park space in a city that the Obama Presidential Center is becoming home to more and on the South Side, but it’s a more skyscrapers and buildings, matter of location,” she said. “If she said. It’s also to protect the they had chosen someplace else, homes of birds, butterflies, trees, construction would have started plants and wildlife that too often already. There are consequences get overlooked, she said. BONE OF CONTENTION: A drawing shows the proposed Obama Presidential Center campus in Chicago’s Jackson to their choice.” “I’m opposed to damaging Park, which was designed more than a century ago by Frederick Law Olmsted and Calvert Vaux as a tranquil retreat A hearing on the lawsuit is what little open space we have,” from urban life. scheduled for later this month. she said. “Jackson Park is one This court battle comes just as of the big bird watching centres At first, the two, along with a life, part of a network of parks formed in 2007 to challenge the the second federal review meeting — it’s right in the flight path of handful of other environmentally on the South Side that includes park district when the Latin has been delayed for a second time migratory birds. These birds are conscious friends, watched the the Midway Plaisance and School of Chicago wanted to this summer, and the foundation beautiful, exquisite, jaw-dropping drama around the presidential Washington Park. transform a grass field into a announced that groundbreaking works of art. Why put a gigantic centreunfold from a distance. The other two plaintiffs in the soccer field. The group filed a would be pushed into next year. tower into a migratory bird Then, about a year ago, they lawsuit declined to comment. lawsuit that was settled out of The foundation isn’t a defendant pathway? It seems to me there is decided they needed to get But Caplan said his group saw court. Since then, Caplan has in the lawsuit. Instead the suit no way to mitigate that.” involved, Caplan said. how activists tried to negotiate, weighed in on developments by targets the city and park district The legal action came after “We were reading about the many times unsuccessfully. They penning editorials and sending saying that the presidential centre Adelman, who is a retired Obama centre and something decided to pool their resources letters exerting influence. isn’t the same as a presidential attorney, had a conversation with about it just violated all our and hire an attorney. Like Adelman, Caplan, library and should not be granted Herbert Caplan about the South principles,” he said. “It takes a “There was so much talk back 87, is an attorney and avid public land. But even if the project Side project. Both Adelman and historic and dedicated park and and forth, but talk would not environmentalist. was designed to house Obama’s Caplan are North Siders — he turns it over to a private entity. lead to a conclusion,” he said. “The only objections we got archives, this collection still lives in Lakeview and she lives We waited to see if anyone was “The only way to address the were from people who thought wouldn’t want it situated in a park. in Wilmette. But they are both going to do anything about it.” complaints people have raised … that a lawsuit is disrespectful to “While the lawsuit is premature University of Chicago graduates Jackson Park was designed more is to have it solved in court with the former president,” Caplan because the agreements that will who got to know Jackson Park than a century ago by Frederick an impartial judge.” said. “We believe in an Obama govern the terms of the Obama while living in the Hyde Park Law Olmsted and Calvert Vaux Caplan is the president of centre, but not on park property.” Presidential Center have not yet community. as a tranquil retreat from urban Protect Our Parks, which was — Chicago Tribune/TNS 6 GULF TIMES Monday, August 6, 2018 COMMUNITY Acclaimed trio gets back to their roots with the film Rift Rift is an Indo-American crossover fi lm that follows the story of of MBA /MFA in Film and TV Producing, Siddharth Ganji is an eleven-year-old American couch potato who struggles through producer behind the award-winning fi lm, The Love Eff ect, which a jungle in Maharashtra to fulfi l his mother’s last wish. The fi lm won the Grand Jury Prize in 2016 at Santa Monica International explores the growing distance between Indian grandparents and Film Festival and Best Original Screenplay at the 2016 Malibu their grandchildren who are raised abroad. Rift also raises a voice International Film Festival. against the poaching of harmless animals and birds in India. Varun Verma started working in the entertainment industry in The fi lm is directed by Rushikesh Bhadane who pursued the year 2015 after graduating in Masters in Film Production from his Masters of Fine Arts in Filmmaking at the New York Film New York Film Academy. Academy. The previous short fi lm he wrote, directed and edited Together they have produced over 35 pieces of branded content was a semi-fi nalist at the ‘LA CineFest’ and won an award for best and music videos for big labels like Snoop Dogg, Chevrolet, student fi lm at the Independent Shorts Film Festival. Originally AT&T, Warner Brothers and EA Games. Siddharth and Varun from Nashik, Rushikesh believes that fi lms made in multiple were drawn to the Rift because of its roots in their homeland, languages fascinate and appeal to audiences all over the world, and specifi cally Maharashtra for Siddharth, and the Indo-American that blending Marathi and English hasn’t been done enough in cross-collaboration. Belonging to a generation that has travelled fi lms lately. and spent the half of their lives outside of India, the story instantly Co-producing the fi lm, Siddharth Ganji, Qatar Academy School struck a chord with them. Graduate and Varun Verma, the two award-winning producers, Starring Suhas Palshikar and veteran American stage, have also produced A Good Girl, a feature fi lm that’s scheduled to screen and television actor, Derek Phillips, Rift is set to spark release by the end of 2018. conversations about poaching operations through an entertaining An alumnus of Chapman University with a dual graduate degree piece made for a family audience. Future 318 and Inspire Me conducts workshop

Future 318 and Inspire Me recently conducted a workshop ‘Thinking Outside the Box’ at Royal Plaza Mall. The participants gained an insight on getting out of their comfort zone and becoming an influencer. Elizabeth Wood, Founder of Inspire Me, speaking on the event said, “Anyone who needs to get out of their comfort zone should feel the fear because that allows one to stretch, take more action, and push self into growth.” The second speaker, Sana Nazakat, Founder of Qatar Mental Health Awareness Community, also shared her thoughts on the event. IOSH conducts Qatar branch meeting

Institution of Occupational Safety and Health (IOSH), the world’s leading professional body IOSH members were also requested to come forward to try their hand at delivering chest for safety and health at workplace, recently conducted its Qatar branch meeting at Radisson compressions and rescue breaths. Blu Hotel. The meeting also elaborated on the global campaign of ‘Restart a heart day’ by The meeting started with a briefing on safety procedures by Ahmed Alidresy, Vice Chair demonstrating the CPR by accredited trainers. of IOSH Qatar Branch. It was followed with training on cardiopulmonary resuscitation The meeting was ended with two video presentations on introduction to CPR and the steps (CPR) skills by the team of Supreme Committee for Delivery and Legacy, invited by followed for the procedure. It also included the importance of CPR whilst dealing with Alan Crawford, Branch Chair IOSH. The team demonstrated the lifesaving skills using emergencies. resuscitation mannequins. The meeting was attended by 106 members. Monday, August 6, 2018 GULF TIMES 7 MUSIC COMMUNITY

OSCAR WINNER: The Oscar-winning film music composer gave the world the instantly recognisable soundtracks to films EDGY: Despite all the experience, live concerts still make Morricone a bit uneasy, believing there could be an ‘accident’ of hitting a such as Once Upon a Time in the West, A Fistful of Dollars and wrong note. The Good, The Bad and The Ugly. The man behind the iconic sounds of Western classics

Ennio Morricone has written some of the best-known film scores of all time. As he prepares to turn 90, he is showing no signs of slowing down, with plans to conduct concerts of his music all over the world

soundtracks to fi lms such as Once Upon a buzzes, clicks and chirps, mimicking sounds Eight, the Morricone received his fi rst Oscar. By Annette Reuther Time in the West, A Fistful of Dollars and The and melodies. Recalling his childhood home He had previously been nominated fi ve times, Good, The Bad and The Ugly. in Rome’s Trastevere district, he makes a receiving an Academy Honorary Award in But his music didn’t reach cult status just ‘bbbrrrbrrr’ sound. “The window in our 2007, but it was not until 2016 that he fi nally he lift seems to sigh as it slowly through his work on Westerns by director apartment faced a sawmill, where they made got his hands on the real thing. rattles towards the top fl oor. The Sergio Leone, who he worked with for an unbearable amount of noise sawing up tree How did that feel? “I remember better the doors open to reveal the hallway of decades.In his 60-year career; Morricone has trunks... brrrrrbrrrrr... I still remember.” times when I didn’t get it,” he says. “Because I an apartment block in Rome. The composed music for 450 fi lms. His music has His fi rst instrument was the trumpet. always thought that I had earned it. Everyone walls are lined with old furniture inspired not only directors, but also classical “I didn’t choose it. My father played the knew that I had earned it.” He hadn’t even containingT books and an eclectic selection of composers, heavy metal bands and even trumpet. He made a good living from it and wanted to attend the 2016 event in Hollywood ornaments. mobile phone ringtone providers. fed his family,” says Morricone. That’s why after being disappointed so often. Ennio Morricone, the Italian music legend, But despite all his experience, live concerts his father advised him to play trumpet. In November, Morricone celebrates his opens the front door. The Oscar-winning fi lm still make him a bit uneasy. “I’m nervous, Morricone later studied classical composition 90th birthday. People need to speak a bit music composer is wearing a black Yves Saint because there could always be an ‘accident.’ in Rome. more loudly when they’re around him, but Laurent shirt with thin white stripes, sensible An instrument hits the wrong note. Maybe Rome and Morricone are, in fact, otherwise he’s in good shape. When we shoes and black-rimmed glasses. people in the audience don’t realise it, but inseparable. Morricone never moved to meet, there’s no sign of the moody maestro He is small, so small, in fact, that his I do. There is also the rare case in which I Hollywood, even after being off ered a villa who once famously got angry over the words presence is almost drowned out by all the art make an error, but then I just keep going,” for free, he thought that if he took it, the ‘spaghetti Western’ and being asked the same on the walls, vases, antique commodes and Morricone says. person off ering would try to pay him less. His questions over and over again about Leone. old tables and cabinets in his apartment. The man is a perfectionist. He’s bordering attempts to learn English were also in vain, He also shows no sign of slowing down: Almost were it not for his booming voice. on obsessive, a music junkie, a workaholic. and now he’s too old. But in spite of it all, His diary for the next year is packed with The famous maestro is in a good mood, He composes every note himself, conducts Hollywood is still crazy about him. Director concerts, including performances in Russia, brimming with energy after conducting a the performances himself. His music exists, Quentin Tarantino, for example, has used Belgium, France, Britain and Germany. concert in Rome’s Baths of Caracalla the above all else ‘to be music, period.’ The fi lm Morricone’s music in several fi lms, including But no matter where he goes in the world, night before. Morricone, nearly 90 years old, stuff is secondary - the music always comes Kill Bill and Inglorious Basterds. you can’t help feeling he will always be most gave the world the instantly recognisable fi rst, he says. When Morricone speaks, he It was for a Tarantino fi lm, The Hateful at home in this rustic Rome apartment.– DPA 8 GULF TIMES Monday, August 6, 2018 COMMUNITY THE PHY Major medical errors assoc high levels of physician b

SURVEY RESULTS: According to the study, published in Mayo Clinic Proceedings, 54 percent physicians reportedly are burned out and 88 percent feel stress at work. STRESS FACTOR: There is a great incre hospitals, increasing the level of stress. Reducing burnout among physicians is important both to ensure like 400 physicians a year in American suicide. That’s equivalent to two large medical school classes,” quality of care and because burnout is one of the reasons behind said Yellowlees, who recently published a book titled Physician Suicide Cases and Commentary. the worldwide physician shortage As a practising psychiatrist, Yellowlees sees physicians as clients. These physicians come from a fi rst, prioritising them, which we caused by errors in judgment and wordwide, according to the study. variety of health groups, including By Hannah Holzer always have been doing and still 20 percent attributed them to an The study linked burnout rate to UC Davis, Sutter Health, Kaiser do,” he said. “But sometimes it’s incorrect diagnosis. Around 54 factors including a “chaotic work Permanente and Mercy General at the expense of ourselves. And percent physicians reportedly environment or lack of control over Hospital as well as private practice. hysicians experience increasingly we understand that burned out and 88 percent admitted that work environment,” Sinsky Burnout is a minor psychiatric extremely high levels that’s not a healthy thing.” to feel stress at work. said. Another factor is work that problem that can have more severe of burnout and that’s The study, published in Mayo “The study found that there’s takes physicians away from direct implications, Yellowlees said. contributing signifi cantly Clinic Proceedings, compiled survey two times the rate of perceived error patient care. “I think it’s pretty clear that to the medical errors. results from 6,695 physicians when physicians are burned out,” “There is a great increase in burnout can act as a trigger,” he PThat’s the conclusion of a new Mayo responding to topics including Sinsky said. the amount of administrative and said. “We know that there are lots of Clinic study that found more than fatigue, burnout, thoughts of suicide The survey asked physicians to clerical work,” she said. “That causes of depression. If you then are half of the physicians worldwide and workplace safety. give their work areas a grade based disconnects physicians from the in a situation where you’re feeling experience burnout, defi ned as Thirty-two percent of on patient safety. Burnout was found reason why they went into the very burnt out through your work, it either emotional exhaustion or a respondents reported feeling to be more likely in areas with low profession in the fi rst place and can be a trigger.” feeling of distance from a one’s job excessive fatigue and more than 10 safety grades, but it also occurred in that’s a source of burnout.” In addition to its eff ect on and colleagues, said Dr Christine percent said they had committed areas with high safety grades. Physicians can be slow to seek out physicians, burnout also hurts Sinsky, the Vice President of what they considered to be a major “High burnout, even in an personal help; sometimes resorting physicians’ families and their professional satisfaction at the medical error in the three months excellent safety environment, is to self-care and end up committing patients in various ways. American Medical Association. prior to taking the survey. nearly as risky as no burnout in a suicide at a rate that exceeds “We know that patients are Those fi ndings resonate with Dr The physicians who reported unit that had a poor safety grade,” national averages, the study reports. less adherent to our treatment Albert Chan, the Chief of digital major medical errors also Sinsky said. Dr Peter Yellowlees, Vice Chair recommendations when physicians patient experience for Sutter Health acknowledged higher levels of Medical errors are responsible for for Faculty Development in the UC are burned out, physicians show and a family medicine doctor. “Our burnout. Of the 663 physicians 100,000 to 200,000 patient deaths Davis Department of Psychiatry, has less empathy to their patients physician culture is very much who reported medical errors, nearly every year in the United States and researched the suicide issue. when burned out and physicians a culture of putting the patients 40 percent said the mistakes were increasing at an increasing rate “It’s estimated there’s something are less satisfi ed with their care,” Monday, August 6, 2018 GULF TIMES 9 YSICIAN COMMUNITY ciated with burnout

ASSOCIATED RISK: Physicians and other clinicians who are burned out are at higher risk of divorce, diseases such as coronary artery disease and drug abuse.

ease in the amount of administrative and clerical work for physicians at clinics and

Sinsky said. “Physicians and other encouraged its providers to engage clinicians who are burned out are at in acts of gratitude during a two- higher risk of divorce, diseases such month campaign aimed at reducing as coronary artery disease and drug burnout. abuse.” And the Sierra Sacramento Valley In the 16 years Chan has been in Medical Society hosts the annual Joy practice as a family medicine doctor, of Medicine summit, which looks he said he’s never experienced to connect local physicians and burnout. But he’s seen the impact on help them bring joy back into their his colleagues. profession. THREAT: Medical errors are responsible for 100,000 to 200,000 patient deaths every year in the United States and “At a minimum, we spend 11 plus Some researchers looking into increasing at an increasing rate wordwide. years to get where we’re at and to physician burnout have criticised reach the end of your training, which similar eff orts, saying they blame 20 percent is driven by individual systems that use a system developed burnout is one of the reasons behind is really just the beginning of your physicians instead of broader issues factors,” Sinsky said. “We really by Augmedix Inc that connects the worldwide physician shortage, career, and you wonder if you should and employers for burnout. get more for our investments if we physicians with a remote, trained Sinsky said. continue to be a physician and “It’s more nuanced, I think,” invest in system factors that reduce scribe. Physicians wear Google Glass The Association of American you’re fatigued, that’s a concern,” Yellowlees said. “It’s absolutely true burnout.” during appointments with patients Medical Colleges projects a shortage Chan said. that you can’t resilience yourself The American Medical and the technology allows the of up to 100,000 doctors by the year Local health providers like Sutter out of burnout. It’s undoubtedly Association and Sutter Health remote scribes, who take notes and 2030. and Kaiser are aware of these issues the organisational issues that cause are looking into regulatory issues provide medics with information, to Sinsky referenced data from and are actively working to reduce burnout and that need changing. that can add to the administrative sit in on the appointment. surveys completed in 2007 and 2014 the number of stressors aff ecting That’s why most groups are trying load on physicians. Maintenance Sutter patients are made aware that predict 2 percent of physicians physicians. to change the organisational culture. of electronic health records is one of the remote digital assistant are highly likely to leave the medical A feature story published by And you’ve got to avoid blaming time-consuming area both groups beforehand and there is a 98 percent profession. Kaiser last year addressed the health physicians. But because physicians mentioned. patient acceptance rating for the That can be reduced if the job is group’s active and ongoing focus on tend not to seek out care, it can Chan mentioned research service, used in doctors’ offi ces in made more fulfi lling. improving the mental health and be important for health systems published by Health Aff airs, which areas including Sacramento and “Anything that gets in the way of well-being of its medical students or organisations to encourage found physicians spend around 3.08 the Central Valley, said a Sutter physicians being able to provide that and staff . Eff orts by Kaiser include physicians to do so”, he said. hours in face-to-face interactions spokesperson. This service allows high quality care is likely a contributor providing wellness services like Sinsky said she thinks change on a with patients and 3.17 hours providers more time doing the face- to burnout,” Sinsky said. “This is a nutrition counselling and teaching systemic level will yield more long- interacting with electronic health to-face work they most enjoy. solvable problem. I believe that we can students ‘resilience and coping term results. “It’s my observation records and other virtual tasks every Reducing burnout among work more productively together to skills.’ that 80 percent of burnout is day. physicians is important both to begin to solve these problems.”– The In the summer of 2016, Sutter driven by system factors and only Sutter is one of several healthcare ensure quality of care and because Sacramento Bee/TNS 10 GULF TIMES Monday, August 6, 2018 COMMUNITY INFOGRAPHIC Monday, August 6, 2018 GULF TIMES 11 LIFESTYLE/HOROSCOPE COMMUNITY Give transformation to your home without much sweat

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

You may be having a diff icult time getting your opinions across to The emotional swings that you could feel today might put a damper People around you are apt to be touchy, Gemini, so be careful how others, Aries. For some, your ideas may seem too self—centred. For on your fantasy world, Taurus. Remember that it's up to you to you interact with them. You’ll find that they can see beyond any sort others, you may come across as insensitive to the situation. Do your nurture these dreams. Try not to let the emotional tides of the day of facade and easily detect dissention within the ranks. Be honest best to understand what others are telling you. Don’t be surprised if aff ect your long—range strategy for realising your most treasured about your opinion, regardless of how you think it will be received. you don't receive the loving strokes that you feel you deserve. This is visions. Spend time by yourself if that makes you feel better. Don't This is your best approach to a certain situation, especially since the a day for you to observe and learn. give up. truth will surface no matter what. CANCER LEO VIRGO June 21 — July 22 July 23 — August 22 August 23 — September 22

While other people may be confused and distressed, you’re actually Be passionate about the thing you love the most, Leo. Instead of You may feel like a skipping record, Virgo. You’ve been scratched the one with all the answers, Cancer. Indeed, you’re best equipped to trying to eat every single thing at the buff et table, just pick one or and mistreated, and now you continue to repeat the same thing deal with the diff icult situations that are likely to arise on a day like two items that you like the best and eat them with great enjoyment. over and over until you’ve driven your point home. This isn’t your this. You have the ability to see through thick walls that others erect Feel free to take some for later. Don’t let anyone talk you into a dish doing, so don’t be concerned if you hear protests that you’re sending as barriers. Nothing will stop your penetrating eyes from seeing that doesn't appeal to you. You're the only one who knows what you others over the edge. This may be the very thing necessary for all of someone else's deceit. truly hunger for. you to advance to the next step. LIBRA SCORPIO SAGITTARIUS September 23 — October 22 October 23 — November 21 November 22 — December 21

There could be some tough forces questioning your most cherished You’re in a unique position to understand all sides of the issues, You may be feeling rather anxious, Sagittarius. Perhaps you have dreams, Libra. Be careful about confronting someone who wants Scorpio. While this is apt to give you a tremendous advantage over a big day coming up and your mind is buzzing with how to make to poke holes in your idealism. You could end up feeling like a those who still have their heads stuck in the sand, this knowledge the best impression. Remember that the harder you try, the further punctured balloon that's slowly deflating. Do whatever you can to also gives you a greater responsibility to others. You intuitively know away you’ll push the object of your desire. The most important part avoid the aggression at work to bring you down. Don’t let others get what's best, and now you must find a way to bring others around of impressing another is having confidence. Relax. Try not to get too to you. and help them see it from your perspective. caught up with yourself. CAPRICORN AQUARIUS PISCES December 22 — January 19 January 20 — February 18 February 19 — March 20

This could be one of those days in which you feel like you just can’t You may feel a need to add some fantasy to your daily routine today, Your psychic sense is apt to be keen as you fill your mind with get anything right, Capricorn. In an eff ort to appease other people, Aquarius. Do you have someone in mind you'd like Cupid’s arrow to fanciful scenarios, Pisces. These pictures in your head aren’t as you may think you have to make some adjustments that make you strike? Well, don’t rely on a cherub to do your work for you. Get out farfetched as you might think. Today would be a good day to listen feel uneasy. This uncomfortable feeling could turn into nervousness, and do some target practice of your own so you’ll be prepared when to your inner guidance — the aspect of yourself that’s keyed into restlessness, and eventually anger. Don’t feel like you need to be the you see the object of your desire across a crowded room. Keep hearing subtle important messages. Not everyone can pick up on one to make any sacrifices at this time. things light and cheerful. them. 12 GULF TIMES Monday, August 6, 2018 COMMUNITY CARTOONS/PUZZLES

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 6, 2018 GULF TIMES 13 PUZZLES COMMUNITY

Super Cryptic Clues Colouring

ACROSS DOWN 1. Speaks ill of, as a footballer 1. Established one has quarters, who plays dirty (9) though not good outside (5) 6. A vice doctors have (5) 2. Spot something in the 9. As I take the railway back into jeweller’s window (9) the country (5) 3. Certainly how the ruthless are 10. Better shelter is found in the prepared to gain their ends grass (9) (2,3,5) 11. More convinced than ever, 4. Gets going and attacks (5,2) after playing with, as a 5. Got better after half the dose partner? (6,4) (7) 12. She’s urging on the gunner (4) 6. That’s pointless, my dear (4) 14. The nun’s upset about the 7. The goods sent by road leave lace being torn and dirty (7) (5) 15. Having the locks put back is 8. Character that funny, crazy sweet (7) dream was about (3,6) 17. Guards who won’t let anybody 13. In the way intended, the get off! (7) forged Degas took in the 19. Before the nobleman and I island (2,8) Answers returned (7) 14. Doesn’t fully satisfy (9) 20. Very interested in the new 16. One mile out, with a neat flick, Wordsearch Codeword role (4) get rid of it (9) 22. Writes a letter and so 18. Waters about a thousand attempts to get one out of a asters, spraying them (7) hole? (5,1,4) 19. At once, writes: “A quarter the 25. Belong with the paper-chain cost” (7) and a tin, outside (9) 21. Beat the birdie! (5) 26. Allow, in general (5) 23. From many, uplifting praise 27. It feels smooth and silky, to a (5) girl’s back (5) 24. Were having a wee drop in 28. A flower or weed, perhaps, the drink, for a laugh (4) that has charm about it (9)

Yesterday’s Solutions

Across: 1 Supply; 4 Stripped; 10 Down: 1 Snippets; 2 Prime Initial; 11 Nippers; 12 Pied; 13 One movers; 3 Laid; 5 Tangiers; 6 in seven; 16 Took on; 17 Prattle; Imposition; 7 Pie; 8 Dosing; 20 Mention; 21 Noodle; 24 Cast 9 Plane; 14 Valid reason; 15 a spell; 25 Gene; 27 Rebates; 29 Contracted; 18 Composer; 19 Classes; 30 Spenders; Reversed; 22 Scores; 23 Slack; 31 Stoned. 26 Part; 28 Bye. 14 GULF TIMES Monday, August 6, 2018 COMMUNITY BOLLYWOOD Actor, producer John wants to change Indian cinema

rom producing Indian cinema’s fi rst a statement with that fi lm. As a producer, I know ever fi lm on organ donation to giving what do I really want to do and associate myself an insight into the iconic nuclear test of with,” he said. Pokhran, supermodel-turned-actor- From his 2003 debut fi lm Jism, a thriller, to producer has proved he some successful fi lms like Dhoom, Water, Taxi No. Fis a perfect mix of brains and brawn. He says he 9211, Kabul Express and Dostana among others, wishes to bring about a change in Indian cinema. John was most appreciated for his well-built body His last release Parmanu - The Story of and strong screen presence. Pokhran had a successful run, and he is now Was that the reason why he wanted to shift the gearing up for the Independence Day release of focus of the audience to his intellect by producing SatyamevaJayate. some meaningful cinema? “We just had fi ve days of promotion of “Yes, you can say that. Every time people Parmanu... and I am really glad how the fi lm call me to say how amazing I was looking in the sustained in the theatre for so long, and not fi lm. As an individual, I am very shy to take the only earned money, but respect too. I think the compliment and as an actor, I was not getting best promotion for a fi lm is the fi lm itself. As an fi lms that I wanted myself to be associated with. actor-producer, I really want to change our Indian That was the initial reason why I started working cinema so that people gain that faith to invest towards becoming a producer,” said the actor, who time and money on a Friday to go to the theatre holds a degree in business management. to watch a fi lm produced by (my banner) JA Asked if having good education helped him Entertainment,” John said in an interview here. to become a better fi lm producer, John said: “If After SatyamevaJayate, John has two important creative people can manage their business well, projects lined up – and Romeo Akbar they would be successful. That is how I manage Walter (RAW). He says both the movies will give creative content and commerce. him the opportunity to prove his potential as actor “As a creative person, I go by instinct but then and producer. my business knowledge helps me to execute “I know for a fact that Batla House is a movie the creative idea in a commercially viable way,” that has a superb story and shows today’s India added John, who had taken to fi lm production exactly the way it is. People can either like the fi lm with National Award-winning fi lm Vicky Donor. or throw it on my face, but the fact is I am making – IANS VERSATILE:John Abraham has proved that he is a perfect mix of brains and brawn.

Doing TV show is like having Gunjan to host a talk a relationship: Sourabh show in bathroom

Actor Sourabh Raaj Jain says reinventing ourselves, shaping Actor Gunjan Utreja will host Bubble Baat, a digital talk doing a TV show is like having a ourselves and moulding show set in a bathroom. relationship with someone. ourselves according to the “We all develop special relationship with our bathrooms. His show Mahakali - Anth need of the hour,” said the A bathroom has always been the fi rst place where an artiste Hi Aarambh Hai is coming to actor, known for featuring in starts to sing or act. It’s your real world away from lights, an end. mythological shows. glamour and paparazzi,” the show’s creator Ritika Bajaj said in “Doing a TV show is like He feels an actor has to be a a statement. having a relationship. Once complete package. “This is the place where you are yourself sitting on the it’s over for whatever reason, “So there’s always so much thinking pot. So what better place to have ‘unguarded, it aff ects you. A part of you is to work on – acting, anchoring, unabashed and unadulterated conversations’,” she added. gone forever. One can even have dancing, fi tness, action, etc,” The show will feature a mix of celebrity interviews, a rebound and that is scary,” he said. impromptu gags and musical performances. Sourabh said in a statement. “They say mythological “I am excited to host a show for the web. Digital is the future “It is good to take some shows are challenging, I and I am glad that I have teamed up with a phenomenal creative time off , let go of the past have done a few. So now I’m team – Indian Storyteller to create a very unique show,” said attachments, feelings and then looking for a greater challenge Gunjan, former host of The Voice. move on.” to break the earlier mould and Episode one of the show will feature singer Benny Dayal. It He said the challenge as an to surprise my audience with will stream on Indian Storyteller’s YouTube channel on August EXCITED: Gunjan Utreja says he is excited to host a show for actor is to make a character a new transformation,” said 10. – IANS the web. “big, real and loved”. the Devon Ke Dev...Mahadev “Once the journey of the actor. show ends, one must then On the kind of roles that Ranvir Shorey joins dark comedy break the mould and once again would excite him, he said: along with Vir Das transform into a completely “Action-packed thriller roles new character. We actors are with the perfect angle of an Actor Ranvir Shorey has joined the cast of Nikkhil ‘transformers’. We must keep intense love story.” – IANS Advani’s upcoming dark comedy Hasmukh. Sameer Nair-headed Applause Entertainment, the content studio from the Aditya Birla Group, is backing the project along with Advani’s Emmay Entertainment. It will also feature comedian-actor Vir Das. As part of Hasmukh, Ranvir will be playing a character by the name Jimmy, whose role is currently a mystery, read a statement. The series promises to be a “perfect mix of a dark thriller and a laughter riot”. They have begun fi lming the series. Vir had expressed his excitement about the show on Twitter. “First day begins for Hasmukh. Thank you to the whole NEW VENTURE: As part of Hasmukh, Ranvir Shorey will be team for giving life, passion, and ‘killer’ creativity,” Vir playing a character by the name Jimmy. wrote. A post on the offi cial Twitter handle of Emmay Directed by our dearest Nikhil Gonsalves and starring the CANDID: Sourabh Raaj Jain says the challenge as an actor is to Entertainment also read: “A day of new beginnings. For our brilliant duo of Vir Das and Ranvir Shorey, we’re excited for make a character “big, real and loved”. 12th production, Hasmukh, we venture into the web format! this one.” – IANS Monday, August 6, 2018 GULF TIMES 15 HOLLYWOOD COMMUNITY Christopher Robin is a drama on family life

HAPPY: Hayden Panettiere was seen dancing and By Todd Martens laughing with the mystery man.

Panettiere spotted with mystery o many Disney fi lms follow a child man amid split reports or young adult suddenly thrown into a grown-up world and forced Actress Hayden Panettiere was spotted holding to overcome all of its headaches. hands with a mystery man here amid reports of her split Christopher Robin, however, turns from her fi ance Wladimir Klitschko. Sa childhood hero of those who grew up Panettiere and the mystery man were seen together admiring A A Milne’s Winnie the Pooh tales leaving celebrity hotspot Craig’s recently. They even into a depressed and overwhelmed adult — a stopped to show off their dance moves. In photographs, man whose youthful imagination ultimately Panettiere can be seen dancing in the parking lot, proved no match for the realities of war, laughing and twirling around with the man before they fatherhood and a thankless job. hopped inside their car, reports people.com. In the fi lm, an old and familiar pal comes to Following the outing, Panettiere’s mother said the the rescue, but is Winnie the Pooh — a plump actress had split from Klitschko and that “there are a lot stuff ed bear whose biggest bothers often of changes going on in her life”. involved stealing honey from a bee — ready “But I think they’re positive changes. And I think to fi x the life of a workaholic whose marriage that she’s taking some time,” her mother Lesley Vogel is entering crisis mode? Or, perhaps more told Radar Online. accurately, are Pooh fans ready to see it? “She needs to take a little bit of a break and make Those who worked on Christopher Robin FIXING LIFE: A scene from the film. The ultimate goal of the movie is to dispel any notion some decisions on her own of what she wants to do. So I say the mission was to tap into the original that Winnie the Pooh is simply kid stuff . think she is in a very good place.” Milne template, one that mixed comedy Vogel said that amid the split and her show Nashville and complex emotions to deliver patient the story moving and keep people engaged The Many Adventures of Winnie the Pooh at ending, her daughter had relocated from Nashville to life lessons. The ultimate goal of the fi lm: to but in a quiet and thoughtful way. We were Disneyland in Anaheim, Calif. Los Angeles. dispel any notion that Winnie the Pooh is going to have to establish a very real context This story begins where Milne’s ended, Vogel added that Panettiere and Klitschko are still on simply kid stuff . for this every-man Christopher and what with Christopher Robin heading off to good terms. “I wouldn’t be ashamed to be a grown man was holding him back — he’s ultimately the boarding school. Panettiere shares three-year-old daughter Kaya with going to see a Winnie the Pooh movie in the antagonist of this story — so we were hoping, “Once he goes to boarding school, he has the Ukrainian boxing champion. theatre with no child next to me, so let’s make and we have our fi ngers crossed, that kids will to put on an uniform,” Forster said. “From The couple started dating in 2009 before splitting sure we’re making that movie,” said Alex Ross be patient with that.” boarding school, he has to go to war and puts temporarily in 2011. They later rekindled their on- Perry, a fi lmmaker with several acclaimed on another uniform. From war, he goes to again, off -again romance and got engaged in 2013, indies under his belt and one of three credited work and puts on another uniform — a tie and though they never got married. – IANS screenwriters on the picture. “It has to be suit. So metaphorically speaking, he’s in a completely logical in that Pixar sense, where straitjacket.” adults can go see it in a roomful of kids, but it Forster contrasts that with Pooh, whose doesn’t feel like you’re seeing a kids movie.” red shirt, he said, represents heart — which While Christopher Robin can be viewed as adults may seek to repress in a bid for following in the footsteps of Disney’s other seriousness and professionalism. cartoon-to-live action properties, including “We do not spend enough time with the The Jungle Book, Beauty and the Beast and people we love or care about,” Forster said. Pete’s Dragon, the work also presents a hard “When Christopher Robin comes back into left turn from those prior examples, focusing the Hundred Acre Wood, and he fi nds all the less on fantasy and instead zeroing in on the animals, it’s kind of like coming back to a existential panic of an adult man. dinner with all your family. There’s the weird Though it has many a nod to Disney’s 1977 uncle and this and that, but at the end, you animated compilation The Many Adventures still feel happy because all these characters of Winnie the Pooh, this re-imagining from are around and you have a wonderful time.” ENTERTAINER: Television entertainer Barry World War Z and Monster’s Ball director The timing may be right for a more mature Chuckle, best known as one half of the Chuckle Marc Forster doesn’t feel entirely about Winnie the Pooh. In the mid-’90s, fueled Brothers, is no more. re-creating the whimsical and fantastical in part by the success of Disney’s TV series inhabitants of the Hundred Acre Wood for The New Adventures of Pooh, the character Barry Chuckle dies at 73 simple nostalgia. Instead, Christopher Robin was experiencing such a surge in popularity not only seems aimed squarely at those who that Pooh was one of the top fi ve licensed Television entertainer Barry Chuckle, best known as grew up with Winnie the Pooh but also seeks A period drama set in midcentury London, toy lines and sold on par with Hot Wheels one half of the Chuckle Brothers, is no more. He was 73. to refl ect their grown-up, mixed-up adult here the increasingly strained relationship and Lego. Today, NPD Group, a marketing Barry, whose real name was Barry Elliot, starred worlds. between Ewan McGregor’s Christopher research fi rm, would say only that Pooh was alongside his younger brother Paul Elliot for more than It’s a family drama that just so happens to Robin and Hayley Atwell’s Evelyn Robin somewhere in the “top 200.” In 2018, NPD 50 years. have a talking stuff ed donkey. serves as the anchor for a fi lm that ultimately Group reported that Pooh-branded books “I’ve not just lost my brother, I’ve lost my theatrical And while Milne’s original vision for touches on parenting struggles and class have combined to sell a total of 105,000 partner of many, many years and my very best friend,” Winnie the Pooh often carried with it a sense divides. The latter gives Christopher Robin a copies, placing it outside the top 50 of said Paul, thesun.co.uk reported yesterday. of melancholy — as did the 1977 animated slightly topical edge to contrast the well- popular children’s books brands. Earlier this year, the brothers returned to the small feature that ended in sorrowful goodbyes intentioned naivete of Pooh, Tigger and And yet we live in an era when grown- screen with a new show Chuckle Time. rather than a happily-ever-after — this may others. ups continually fl ock to movie theatres to They had started their careers as ‘The Chuckles’ on be the most emotionally intense take on Forster focused on the intimacy of the connect, or reconnect, with the superhero or talent show Opportunity Knocks in 1967 before making Winnie the Pooh and pals yet. human actors and heightens the fragility fantasy franchises of their youth. their name with BBC show ChuckleVision in the 1980s “That’s a risk we really wanted to take,” of the stuff ed creatures by giving Pooh “We can now reconsider things that were and 1990s. said producer Brigham Taylor, who has had and friends a lived-in look. He wanted the once frivolous as serious properties,” said The ChuckleVision show was one of the longest designs on overseeing a live-action Pooh fi lm animals to feel as if they had been heavily Taylor. “That’s what Christopher Nolan did running children’s programmes on the BBC continuing since watching a lifelike talking teddy bear played with. in spades with Batman Begins. Many of us for 22 years from 1987 to 2009. in Steven Spielberg’s 2001 fi lm A.I. Artifi cial “They’re used,” he said. “They’re not brand grew up with Adam West — the height of Barry’s manager Phil Dale said in a statement: “It is Intelligence. new, off -the-shelf.” tongue-in-cheek cheeseball. More and more with great sadness that the family announce that Barry “We knew this movie would have a This contrasts from Disney’s more recent in this culture, I think, we like to take a more passed away peacefully at his home surrounded by his thoughtful and deliberate pace because that’s takes on the character, who throughout a serious look and a slightly more academic wife Ann and all his family.” – IANS the nature of this literature,” Taylor said. ’90s resurgence had a brighter, more rounded look at these things we’ve grown up with.”– “But by the same token, you want to keep feel, one that’s represented in the cheery ride Los Angeles Times/TNS 16 GULF TIMES Monday, August 6, 2018 COMMUNITY

GROUP: Members of Bazm-e-Urdu Qatar in a group photo after the session. Photos supplied Urdu lovers continue to explore the work of Ghalib Keeping up with the tradition of Bazm-e-Urdu Qatar, its associated group Guzargah-e-Khiyal recently held Ghalib symposium, a 63rd session on the poetry of Mirza Asadullah Khan Ghalib

Akolvi, BUQ President and a noted Hanif, BUQ Chairman and founder By Mudassir Raja Urdu poet, hosted the programme of Guzargah-e-Khiyal, said, “The at his house at West Bay. Syed sessions were started to discuss Abdul-Hye, BUQ senior patron, poetry of great Urdu poets. The oetry’s ability to presided over the session. A good forum tries to understand the Urdu transcend language, number of Urdu poets and lovers poetry and to cultivate love and culture, and human from both Indian and Pakistani admiration for poetry among the diff erences is extra- communities attended the session audience. We have been organising ordinary. There is and enjoyed the discussion on the these sessions to understand arguablyP no genre more visceral work of Ghalib. Ghalib’s poetry for fi ve years. We than this one, or more expressive. The organisers shared a pick one ghazal from Dewan-e- Ghalib’s romantic and philosophical selected ghazal of Ghalib with the Ghalib. So far, we have discussed 104 poetry, the lyric and mystic work, is participants and started discussion ghazals of Ghalib.” a doorway for those looking to feel, on every verse of the ghazal. Every He added, “Ghalib is considered escape and be transported elsewhere participant gave his input and as one of the most diffi cult Urdu for a moment or two. Ghalib’s explained the verses according poets to understand. We try to poems, especially his ghazals, remain to their owning understanding. understand his diction, language, beloved throughout South Asia However, the elaborations made thoughts, and imagination. We and worldwide for their arresting by Urdu literature experts were believe that if the Urdu lovers can intelligence and lively wit. His work exceptional as they unfolded understand Ghalib, it will not be reveals the vigour of his prose style. diff erent layers of meanings diffi cult for them to understand Bazm-e-Urdu Qatar (BUQ) has conveyed by the great poet. The other poets or writers as well. The been actively trying to keep Urdu participants not only learnt how session is not a mushaira but an CELEBRATED: Ghalib’s poems, especially his ghazals, remain beloved language alive and promote literature the poet used diff erent phrases and intellectual discussion on works throughout South Asia and worldwide for their arresting intelligence. among expatriate communities expressions to convey his thoughts, of Ghalib. We try to understand in Qatar since its inception in they also enjoyed the sublime ideas multi-layers of thoughts shared He added, “The session on Iftikhar Raghib said, “Today, 1959. It was founded as a platform penned by Ghalib. by Ghalib. There has been a lot of Ghalib is a very unique activity we learnt how Ghalib conveyed for aspiring poets and already Two prominent Doha-based Urdu research carried out on Ghalib’s currently going on in Qatar for Urdu his opinion and thoughts on his established ones from Pakistan and poets presented tazmeen of the work. The work goes on and people lovers. The sessions teach how to times through the selected work. India, residing in Doha. ghazal. Tazmeen is an Urdu literary continue to explore Ghalib.” appreciate the Urdu poetry. It has As a poet, I have improved myself Keeping up with tradition of BUQ, term. The poets took one line from a Mohammed Rafi que Shaad been benefi cial both for writers by attending these sessions. It is a its associated group called Guzargah- verse of Ghalib and added their own Akolvi said, “I have been associated and common Urdu speakers. We unique programme. We thoroughly e-Khiyal (Road of Imagination) second line to make a new verse. with BUQ since 1987. I have long always invite diff erent Urdu poets and slowly study Ghalib.” recently held Ghalib symposium. Muzaff ar Nayyab presented serious been hosting the sessions on both from India and Pakistan to He noted, “Mostly, men of letters The programme, a regular feature of tazmeen of the ghazal and earned Ghalib. I think the session provides our sessions and ask them to share attend these sessions and they learn Guzargah-e-Khiyal, was 63rd session appreciation from the gathering for an opportunity to learn Urdu their thoughts on the works of about Ghalib and then convey it on the poetry of Mirza Asadullah his creativity. Iftikhar Raghib, Urdu language and literature. If you can Ghalib. After fi nishing the work of to common readers through their Khan Ghalib, most popular Urdu poet, presented humorous tazmeen understand Ghalib, you will be Ghalib, we will start our sessions works. These sessions are a good poet. of the ghazal. able to appreciate all kinds of Urdu about the Urdu creative works of Dr source of promoting Urdu language Mohammed Rafi que Shaad Talking to Community, Dr Faisal literature.” Muhammad Iqbal.” and literature.”