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PATH BREAKING: This sequence of images shows the development of embryos after being injected with biological kit to edit their DNA, removing a genetic mutation known to cause hypertrophic cardiomyopathy.

COVER STORY Editing DNA In a first, scientists rid human embryos of a potentially fatal gene mutation. P4-5 2 GULF TIMES Tuesday, August 8, 2017 COMMUNITY ROUND & ABOUT

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Compiled by Nausheen Shaikh. E-mail: [email protected], Events and timings subject to change 4 GULF TIMES Tuesday, August 8, 2017 COMMUNITY COVER STORY Path breaking In the new research, researchers set out to test whether germ-line gene editing could make the process of choosing healthy embryos more eff ective and eff icient by creating more of them. In the end, their experiment showed it could, writes Melissa Healy

sing a powerful gene- scientifi cally surprising. Long- editing technique, feared eff ects of germ-line editing, scientists have rid including collateral damage to “off - human embryos of a target” genetic sequences, scarcely mutation that causes an materialised. And “mosaicism,” a Uinherited form of heart disease often phenomenon in which edited DNA deadly to healthy young athletes and appears in some but not all cells, adults in their prime. was found to be minimal. The experiment marks the fi rst The study’s lead author, OHSU time that scientists have altered the biologist Shoukhrat Mitalipov, human genome to ensure a disease- called these “exciting and surprising causing mutation would disappear moments.” But he cautioned not only from the DNA of the subject that “there is room to improve” on which it’s performed, but from the the techniques demonstrated to genes of his or her progeny as well. produce mutation-free embryos. The controversial procedure, As for conducting human clinical known as “germ-line editing,” trials of the germ-line correction, was conducted at Oregon Health he said those would have to wait & Science University using human until results showed a near-perfect embryos expressly created for the level of effi ciency and accuracy, and purpose. It was reported in the could be limited by state and federal journal Nature. regulations. The new research comes less Eventually, Mitalipov said, such than six months after the National germ-line gene editing might also Academies of Science, Engineering make it easier for parents who carry and Medicine recommended that other gene mutations that follow scientists limit their trials of human a similar pattern of inheritance — germ-line editing to diseases that including some that cause breast could not be treated with “reasonable and ovarian cancers, cystic fi brosis alternatives” — at least for now. and muscular dystrophy — to In a bid to make the experiment The study’s lead author, OHSU biologist Shoukhrat have healthy children who would relevant to real-life dilemmas faced Mitalipov, called these “exciting and surprising not pass those genes to their own by parents who carry genes for off spring. inherited diseases, the researchers moments.” But he cautioned that “there is room to “There is still a long road ahead,” focused their editing eff orts on predicted Mitalipov, who heads the a mutation that causes inherited improve” the techniques demonstrated to produce Center for Embryonic Cell and Gene hypertrophic cardiomyopathy. Therapy at the Portland university. In this genetic condition, a parent mutation-free embryos The research drew a mix of praise who carries one normal and one and concern from experts in genetic faulty copy of a the MYBPC3 gene medicine. has a 50-50 chance of passing that Dr Richard O. Hynes, who co- mutation on to his or her off spring. chaired the National Academies’ If the child inherits the mutation, his report issued in February, called or her heart muscle is likely to grow the new study “very good science” prematurely weak and stiff , causing that advances understanding of heart failure and often early death. genetic repair on many fronts. In diseases where one parent Hynes, who was not involved with carries such an “autosomal the latest research eff ort, said he dominant” mutation, a couple will was “pleasantly surprised” by often seek the assistance of fertility researchers’ “clever modifi cations” doctors to minimise the risk of and their outcomes. passing such a mutation on to a “It’s likely to become feasible, child. A woman’s egg production technically — not tomorrow, not is medically stimulated, and eggs next year, but in some foreseeable and sperm meet in a lab — a process time. Less than a decade, I’d say,” called in vitro fertilisation. Then said Haynes, a biologist and cancer embryologists inspect the resulting researcher at MIT and the Howard embryos, cull the ones that have Hughes Medical Institute. inherited an unwanted mutation, and University of California, Berkeley transfer only unaff ected embryos molecular and cell biologist into a woman’s uterus to be carried Jennifer Doudna, one of pioneers to term. of the CRISPR-Cas9 gene-editing In the new research, researchers technique, acknowledged the new set out to test whether germ-line research highlights a prospective gene editing could make the process correction of a disease-causing the authors wrote in Nature. number of cycles needed for people use of gene editing for one inherited of choosing healthy embryos more gene carried by a single parent “can Co-author Dr Paula Amato, an trying to have children free of disease and off ers some insights eff ective and effi cient by creating potentially rescue a substantial Oregon Health & Science University genetic disease” if it’s found safe for into the process. more of them. portion of mutant human embryos, (OHSU) professor of obstetrics and use in fertility clinics. But Doudna questioned how In the end, their experiment thus increasing the number of gynaecology, said the technique Along the way, though, many broadly the experiment’s promising showed it could. The targeted embryos available for transfer,” “could potentially decrease the of the researchers’ fi ndings were results would apply to other Tuesday, August 8, 2017 GULF TIMES 5 COVER STORY COMMUNITY inherited diseases. She said she does not believe the use of germ- line editing as a means to improve effi ciency at infertility clinics meets the criteria laid out by the National Academies of Science, which urged that the techniques only be explored as treatment for diseases with “no reasonable alternative.” “Already, 50 percent of embryos would be normal,” said Doudna. “Why not just implant those?” Doudna said she worried that the new fi ndings “will encourage people to proceed down this road” before the scientifi c and ethical implications of germ-line editing have been fully considered. “A large group of experts concluded that clinical use should not proceed until and unless there’s broad societal consensus, and that just hasn’t happened,” Doudna said. “This study underscores the urgency of having those debates. Because it’s coming.” What is clear is that the researchers — a multinational team of geneticists, cardiologists, fertility experts and embryologists from OHSU and from labs in South Korea and China — tried a number of innovations in an eff ort to improve the safety, effi ciency and fi delity of gene editing. And most yielded promising results. After retrieving eggs from 12 healthy female volunteers, researchers simultaneously performed two steps that had never been combined in a lab: At the same moment that they fertilised the eggs with the sperm of a man who University of California, Berkeley molecular and cell biologist Jennifer carried a single copy of the mutated Doudna, one of pioneers of the CRISPR-Cas9 gene-editing technique, gene, they introduced the CRISPR- Cas9 repair machinery. questioned how broadly the experiment’s promising results would apply The resulting embryos took up the genetic-editing programme to other inherited diseases. “Already, 50 percent of embryos would be so effi ciently and uniformly that, after fi ve days of incubation, 72.4 normal,” said Doudna. “Why not just implant those?” percent of the embryos (42 of 58) created and tested were free of the embryos that were free of the MYBPC3 mutation. By comparison, disease-causing mutation. Only when sperm carrying the single one of the 42 embryos exhibited mutation was used to fertilise eggs mosaicism, a condition in which without any genetic manipulation, cells did not all carry the same just 47.4 percent of embryos were mutation-free genetic code. free of the mutation linked to the MIT’s Hynes said such fi ndings deadly heart condition. off er important insights into how The researchers believe the human embryos grow, develop timing and the techniques they and respond to anomalies, and will used prompted the embryos to rely help families facing infertility and on the healthy maternal copy of inherited illnesses. the gene as a model for fi xing the “Human embryogenesis is clearly MYBPC3 mutation, and not a repair diff erent from that of a mouse, template they introduced alongside which we know a lot about,” said the editing machinery when the Hynes. “That needs to be studied eggs were fertilised. Only one of the in human embryos, and there’s no 42 embryos used the introduced other way to do it.” template for repair. The scientists The results of the current study contrasted this process to the are “not low enough yet for most DNA-repair mechanism operating applications — certainly not for in stem cells, which do use repair clinical applications, but it’s a big templates. step forward,” he added. As the embryos’ cells divided While calling the new research and they matured to the blastocyst “very nice science,” Hynes stage — the point at which they downplayed fears that germ-line would usually be ready for transfer editing would soon lead to tinkering to a woman’s uterus — they did so with such attributes as looks, normally. After extensive testing, personality traits and intelligence in the embryos were used to make human children. “We’re not looking embryonic stem-cell lines, which at designed babies around the corner are stored in liquid nitrogen and can — not for a long time,” he said. be used in future research. “But we need to take advantage of Researchers also noted that HOW IT WAS DONE: Schematic of MYBPC3ΔGAGT gene targeting by injection of CRISPR–Cas9 into human zygotes the time and space we now have,” he genetic mosaicism — a concern at the S-phase of the cell cycle. MII oocytes were fertilised by sperm from a heterozygous patient with equal numbers said, to make decisions about which raised by earlier experimental of mutant and wild-type (WT) spermatozoa. CRISPR–Cas9 was then injected into one-cell zygotes. Embryos at the uses of the technique are legitimate eff orts at gene editing — was 4–8-cell stage were collected for genetic analysis. Injection during S-phase resulted in mosaic embryos consisting of and which are not. — Los Angeles virtually absent from the 42 non-targeted mutant, targeted NHEJ-repaired and targeted HDR-repaired blastomeres Times/TNS 6 GULF TIMES Tuesday, August 8, 2017 COMMUNITY MARKETING Luminor Marina 1950 3 Days Automatic now available

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umans prefer interacting with full with knowledge that can help us further faulty robots signifi cantly more improve the interactional quality in new than with robots that function dimensions. We think that because most and behave fl awlessly, new research focuses on perfect interaction, many research has found. potentially crucial aspects are overlooked,” HFor the study, published in the journal Mirnig added. Frontiers in Robotics and AI, researchers To examine the human interaction examined how people react to robots that partners’ social signals following a robot exhibit faulty behaviour compared to error, the research team purposefully perfectly performing robots. programmed faulty behaviour into a human- “Our results showed that the participants like robot’s routine and let the participants liked the faulty robot signifi cantly more than interact with it. the fl awless one. This fi nding confi rms the They measured the robot’s likability, Pratfall Eff ect, which states that people’s anthropomorphism and perceived attractiveness increases when they make a intelligence, and analysed the users’ reaction mistake,” said corresponding author Nicole when the robot made a mistake. Mirnig from University of Salzburg, Austria. The research team found that somewhat Although social robotics is a rapidly surprisingly, erroneous robots were not advancing fi eld, social robots are not yet at perceived as signifi cantly less intelligent or a technical level where they operate without anthropomorphic compared to perfectly making errors. performing robots. Nevertheless, most studies in the fi eld Instead, although the humans recognised are based on the assumption of faultlessly the faulty robot’s mistakes, they actually performing robots. rated it as more likeable than its perfectly “Alternatives resulting from unforeseeable performing counterpart. conditions that develop during an experiment These fi ndings may have exciting are often not further regarded or simply implications for the fi eld of social robotics, excluded,” Mirnig said. since they emphasise the importance for “However, we suppose that faulty robot creators to keep potential imperfections Most studies in the field are based on the assumption of faultlessly performing robots. instances of human-robot interaction are in mind when designing robots. - IANS Tuesday, August 8, 2017 GULF TIMES 7 HEALTH COMMUNITY Tiny gold particles may improve cancer treatments

tiny medical device containing gold nanoparticles could boost the eff ects of cancer medication and reduce its harm, suggests new research. AThe study, published in the journal Agewandte Chemie, showed that gold increased the eff ectiveness of drugs used to treat lung cancer cells. “We have discovered new properties of gold that were previously unknown and our fi ndings suggest that the metal could be used to release drugs inside tumours very safely,” said Asier Unciti-Broceta from Cancer Research UK Edinburgh Centre, University of Edinburgh. The fi ndings could help researchers use the device to reduce side eff ects of current chemotherapies by precisely targeting diseased cells without damaging healthy tissue. Gold is a safe chemical element and has the ability to accelerate – or catalyse – chemical reactions. Minute fragments, known as gold nanoparticles, were encased in a chemical device by the research team to control these highly-specifi c reactions in exact locations. The device was shown to catalyse a directed chemical reaction when implanted in the brain of zebrafi sh, suggesting it can be used in living animals. Gold is a safe chemical element and has the ability to accelerate – or catalyse – chemical reactions. Gold nanoparticles also activated anti- cancer medicines that had been applied to forward. We hope that a similar device in The study was carried out in collaboration delivering cancer drugs, studies like this have lung cancer cells in a dish, increasing the humans could one day be implanted by with researchers at the University of the potential to improve cancer treatment drugs’ eff ectiveness. surgeons to activate chemotherapy directly Zaragoza’s Institute of Nanoscience of and reduce side eff ects,” said Aine McCarthy, “There is still work to do before we can in tumours and reduce harmful eff ects to Aragon, Spain. a senior science information offi cer at Cancer use this on patients, but this study is a step healthy organs,” Unciti-Broceta said. “By developing new, better ways of Research UK. – IANS Early term babies at increased risk of diabetes, obesity

eing born early term may was conducted of 54,073 early-term “Pregnancies ending at early term increase a baby’s risk of deliveries and 171,000 full-term were more likely to be complicated by developing diabetes and deliveries. hypertensive disorders and maternal obesity-related illnesses “We found that hospitalisations up diabetes (both gestational and pre- as well as a shortened life to the age of 18 involving endocrine gestational). Deliveries were more Bspan, according to a new study. and metabolic morbidity were found often caesarean, and mean birthweight “Early term” was defi ned as delivery to be more common in the early-term was signifi cantly smaller,” Sheiner between 37 and 39 weeks. Their health group as compared with the full-term said. was compared with those born at 39 group, especially at ages fi ve and “Babies delivered at early weeks or later. older,” said Eyal Sheiner from Soroka term were also more likely to be In the study, published in the University Medical Center, Ben- low birthweight – less than 2.5 American Journal of Obstetrics Gurion University. kilograms,” Sheiner said. and Gynecology, the researchers What is more, “obesity was These diseases may increase investigated hospitalisations of signifi cantly more frequent among the the likelihood of other associated children up to age 18 to determine the early term,” Sheiner said. maladies with a detrimental long-term impact that early-term versus full- The researchers also discovered impact on one’s health and well- The researchers investigated hospitalisations of children up to age term gestation had on paediatric health that children older than fi ve exhibited being, increased lifetime healthcare 18 to determine the impact that early-term versus full-term gestation and hospitalisations. signifi cantly higher rates of Type-I expenditures and a shorter life span, had on paediatric health and hospitalisations. A population-based cohort analysis diabetes mellitus when born early term. the researchers said. – IANS

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Guests don't, but packers for Rock Creek Pack Station wear spurs.

The big melt of last winter’s massive snowfall By Christopher Reynolds has made their summer of 2017 a delicate Lake Davis and surrounding mountains on a morning without wind. enterprise. Though the peaks are snowier and the scenery is greener than they have been in Our travelling party consisted of three guides six mules and headed up the same trail. hane was a strong, sure-footed horse, years, the storms damaged many roads and trails. (traditionally known as packers), me and seven “We typically like to keep them right around about 20 years old, raised in Texas. But all or nearly all of the Eastern Sierra’s members of the Johanson-Palermo family, six 150 pounds when we’re packing,” Kaiser told me. He had plenty of ideas about how pack-animal operations are open, including from Los Gatos, Calif., one from Fargo, N.D. “But they can carry as much as 600 pounds.” an excursion into the Eastern Sierra Frontier Pack Train at June Lake, Glacier Pack We began with a leisurely ride to the banks of We set up our tents about 100 feet from Davis should go, especially the grazing and Train in Big Pine, Cottonwood Pack Station in Davis Lake, about fi ve miles up slope from the Lake, one of nine strung along Hilton Creek, Sdrinking between meals. Independence, Mammoth Lakes Pack Outfi t in nearest road and about 9,800 feet above sea level while the packers settled the horses at the edge I had diff erent ideas, and the reins. Mammoth Lakes, McGee Creek Pack Station in the John Muir Wilderness. of our camp and put together the kitchen. Occasionally, there was friction. at Crowley Lake, Rainbow Pack Outfi tters near This was the fi rst pack trip for all of us, and Afterwards, we fl opped on rocks to gaze at But for four days in late June, we were a team Bishop and Red’s Meadow Resort & Pack Station we were all novice or intermediate riders. But we the peaks that surrounded us, several of them clambering up switchback trails and crossing in Mammoth Lakes. had veteran packers Bryan Kaiser (17 summers named for railroad magnates, including Mount creeks full of rushing water that had surely been “Some of us were a little late getting open, but in the Sierra), Hilary Bruegl (four summers) and Huntington (12,405 feet) and Mount Stanford snow the day before. they’re open now,” said John Summers, owner of Jackson Stoll (two summers) to keep us out of (12,838 feet). Together, as part of a pack trip that began Mammoth Lakes Pack Outfi t. trouble as we trooped through the sometimes I gradually became aware of a steady, north of Bishop, California, USA at Rock Creek soggy forest. mysterious roar, like an unseen interstate. At fi rst Pack Station, we threaded through forests of Hitting the trail Meanwhile, a second group of packers had I thought it was the wind, which was raising big lodgepole pine and quaking aspen into a world of I showed up on the morning of June 26 at loaded tents and other supplies onto the backs of ripples on the water. But, no, it was the waterfall jutting peaks, clear lakes, clean air, gullible trout Rock Creek Pack Station, 33 miles northwest of and a few mosquitoes. Bishop. I’d never felt so close to this rugged, pristine The station, run by the London family since high country. 1947, uses about 130 horses and mules each Pack stations, which spend their summers summer. It off ers trips, from a two-hour outing sending travellers into the wilderness with to a 30-day expedition, with themes that include horses and mules, are in many ways a throwback fi shing, photography, Mount Whitney and wild to the 19th century. But a dozen still have mustangs. licenses to operate in the Eastern Sierra’s Inyo I paid $840 (before taxes and tip) for my four- National Forest. day, three-night trip.

Kami Decker, 16, eats breakfast at camp. Her cowboy name: Scruff y. Guests and packers from Rock Creek Pack Station start their ride back to the station from Davis Lake. Tuesday, August 8, 2017 GULF TIMES 9 AVEL COMMUNITY high country

If You Go

Several sources maintain lists of pack-trip outfitters in the Eastern Sierra, including the National Forest Service, the Bishop Chamber of Commerce, Mono County and Eastern Sierra Packers. Rock Creek Pack Station, 9001 Rock Creek Road, Bishop, Calif.; (760) 872-8331. Prices vary by trip. Four-day trail rides to Hilton Lakes start at $695 per person. Where to sleep before and after: Because many rides start early in the morning and end in the afternoon, it’s a good idea to spend the nights before and after the trip near the Pack Station. Fresh-caught trout for dinner, Davis Lake. The closest rustic option is Tom’s Place Resort (8180 Crowley Lake Drive, Crowley Lake; (760) Kami Decker, 16, chose the best cowboy name Later, pack station owner Craig London told 935-4239), 25 miles north of Bishop. It has cabins of the bunch – Scruff y – and kept riding even me Shane had been broken in by a blind trainer. ($75-$150 a night), private lodge rooms ($65-$75) when her buddy Olivia bowed out to catch more “A great guy – I don’t know how he did it,” and beds in dorm rooms ($30-$35 per bed). fi sh. London said, adding that Shane “has always One very comfortable option, with pool and dining Among the adults, David Johanson; his wife, been a favourite. Doesn’t jump, doesn’t room, is the Creekside Inn (725 N. Main St., Bishop; Karen Johanson; and his brother John Johanson spook.” (760) 872-3044), where rooms for two typically are (who had come from Fargo) did a lot of fi shing. The water was always with us. One day, we $140-$180 in summer. I cast a few times but mostly took photos and tried to reach the third lake in the Hilton Lakes collected pack-station vocabulary. chain, but the slopes were so covered with snow Dunnage pack: the bundle of your possessions and runoff that we had to turn around. The unconnected life that a packer loads onto a pack animal. On the way back to camp, however, we got across the lake, so tame most years that it hadn’t Still, we adapted, especially the four Spot trip: when a packer and animals deliver close to that roaring waterfall. Water giveth and been named. teenagers, who began the journey with their you and your gear (including food) to a campsite water taketh away. Dinnertime brought more revelations. The thumbs almost visibly twitching from cellphone where you’ll fend for yourself until he or she And then on Day 3, a little after sunset, the good news was that when you have mules, you withdrawal. returns to help with the trip back to civilisation. wind died. The lake’s surface went glassy, and need not eat freeze-dried everything. By the Disconnected from the grid, they gave All-expense trip: what we did, with packers the landscape was reborn: Not only did we time our trip ended, we’d eaten chicken, sausage, themselves cowboy names, whittled, hummed and animals always present, cooking and food have twice as many mountains, thanks to new steak, potatoes, rice, salad, fruit, vegetables and theme songs that nobody older than 20 had ever included, and most gear provided. refl ections on the water, but we also had the a few fresh-caught trout. heard, and played cards. entire panorama cast in the bluish light of the The bad news – an old story among outfi tters Olivia Palermo, 16, caught her fi rst fi sh (a trout Exploring on horseback moon. but unexpected for several of us customers – was of about 8 inches), named it Jimmy, and ate it, all Every day we had a diff erent expedition Somehow, our campsite was now a vast that the Forest Service bans campfi res at Hilton in her fi rst six hours on the lake. on horseback, beginning and ending with Japanese wood-block print, impossibly still, Lakes. Leo Palermo, Olivia’s 13-year-old brother, crossing the creek next to our campsite. harmonious and monochromatic. I know it’s for safety’s sake, but nobody performed a circus-worthy horseback limbo The water was 2 to 3 feet deep, and there On the fourth morning, the lake was still dreams of circling chairs at dinnertime and manoeuvre to dodge a nasty branch on a ride up a were plenty of loose stones under that cold, glassy, which made it hard to leave. But it was staring at the cold dirt where a fi re should be steep, snowy slope. clear fl ow, but the animals chose their steps time. while the temperature drops from about 70 to Trevor Dales, 13, cut a deal to wash dishes carefully. We rolled up our sleeping bags, collapsed about 40. after dinner so he could A) get an extra serving We rode one to four hours a day. Our saddle- the tents, saddled up. Shane harrumphed a of sausage and B) get his hands into some related aches and pains eased, and we got to time or two, then carried me one more time wonderfully warm water on a cold, windy night. know our horses better. across that swollen creek. - TNS

Moonrise over the Eastern Sierra. 10 GULF TIMES Tuesday, August 8, 2017 COMMUNITY INFOGRAPHIC Tuesday, August 8, 2017 GULF TIMES 11 LIFESTYLE/HOROSCOPE COMMUNITY 3 tips to ensure you’re ready to hit the road safely

emps are higher, the days driving causes tyres to heat up and air are longer and road trips are pressure to increase. Consult the vehicle’s planned. manual for proper inflation pressures. When it comes to getting our cars ready for the road, we 3. Check your tread depth habituallyT adjust our rear — view mirror Tyres with inadequate tread are susceptible and double — check fuel levels before to poor handling, hydroplaning, reduced putting the car in gear. We sometimes gas mileage and more. In fact, tyres are change our engine oil and refill the considered legally worn out when they reach windshield fluid. Yet we often overlook 2/32 of an inch. To ensure your tyres will one of the most important safety features perform safely, it’s crucial to monitor for on our vehicles — the tyres.With a little worn treads. preparation and the right tyre maintenance know — how, major issues on the road can Pro tip: A penny and a match are both be largely avoided. Follow these simple tips easy tools to check your tread depth. Stick to ensure your rubber is ready to meet the a penny, facing you, upside down in the road: tread on multiple spots around the tyre. If Lincoln’s head is completely visible, your 1. Choose the right tyres for the tread is too worn and you should replace season your tyres. Similarly, if you stick the head There are many different tyre categories, of a match in your tread and the tip is not from ultra — high performance (UHP) completely hidden, your tread is too worn. tyres designed to ensure performance These are both signs of ultimate worn vehicles handle flawlessly at high speeds tread, and you may want to consider new to highway tyres built to provide a smooth, tyres before reaching this point. comfortable ride and predictable handling. It’s important to work with a professional Before you hit the open road, remember tyre technician to decide which tyres are best that minor issues can become major suited for your vehicle and style of driving. roadblocks in the blink of an eye — or turn of the wheel. Take a little extra time to 2. Give your tyres a once—over for follow these simple tyre tips and the only correct air pressure uneven inflation will cause a number of driving experience. Tyre pressure should thing you’ll have to worry about is the wind One of the easiest ways to extend the problems for your vehicle, including poor be checked once a month and always before messing up your hair. life of your tyres is to regularly check handling and reduced comfort, increased longer trips. You should always check tyre them for correct air pressure. Low and fuel consumption and an overall unsafe pressure before hitting the road because ©Brandpoint

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

Others are apt to play a big role in the events that unfold today, You may be in a diff icult position today, Taurus, as if you're being It's very possible that the best solution today is to simply give up Aries. It's likely that closely communing with others will be very pulled in two directions with little say as to how things are supposed control, Gemini. When it comes to matters of the heart, other people important. Despite this, you may still feel alone. Even within a large to end. The acting forces could be manipulative, so you should take may be in a whirl of turmoil. Trying to figure out their state of mind group, your heart may yearn to bond tightly with just one other special care that no one takes advantage of you. This may be easier will be impossible so don't even try. You may just want to let things person. Do your best to stay positive regardless of the combative said than done at a time like this. ride and see where you end up tomorrow before making any major forces likely to be at work on a day like this. moves. CANCER LEO VIRGO June 21 — July 22 July 23 — August 22 August 23 — September 22

Mind your manners today, Cancer. Make sure your charm is Situations and people with strong opinions about how things Your adventurous spirit is noble, Virgo, but you might find that this is turned up high. Merging with the group is essential as you keep are done may impede your trajectory today, Leo. The key is to one of those days in which you're asked to justify your actions. Other the momentum of the energy going. The more the merrier. Once remember that everyone isn't your enemy. Try not to get paranoid people could be jealous of you and your lifestyle, so they're trying you get the ball rolling in the right direction, there will be plenty of about this. Do your best to take a relaxed approach and have to find fault with the things you do. Don't get tricked into thinking momentum to help it up the next hill. The important thing is that you confidence that things will work out fine. that anything you're doing is necessarily wrong or bad just because take responsibility for your actions. someone doesn't agree with it. LIBRA SCORPIO SAGITTARIUS September 23 — October 22 October 23 — November 21 November 22 — December 21

The warrior within may be stirred today. You might also have some Be aware that you might feel overshadowed or that your eff orts You should be aware that strong forces are at work to tangle the self-doubt about your actions, Libra. Stay confident that you're on won't be recognised, Scorpio. You could feel like you do all the work current situation, Sagittarius. Try not to get too discouraged by the right path at all times. There may be a bit of tension in your for others and get nothing in return. The key is to make sure that you whatever transpires as a result of this energy. Keep in mind that this, world, but try not to get too worked up over it. This is just a passing do the things you do because you want to. Do them for you. Don't do too, shall pass, and things will become clear again. Right now you phase. You shouldn't overreact and think that you're completely them for others because you expect that they will do something for should just sit back and take things with a grain of salt. wrong regarding something you're doing. you in return. Focus on the information coming your way today, Capricorn. CAPRICORN AQUARIUS PISCES December 22 — January 19 January 20 — February 18 February 19 — March 20

Try not to get too emotional about the consequences of the No one wants to budge from his or her position. You could be You may think that everything is perfect, Pisces, when suddenly, information. More than likely, a neutral approach is best in any caught between mind and heart issues. Both sides are unforgiving there's a great surge of unyielding emotional energy. Be on the situation you encounter. If you already have a strong preconceived and unwilling to give up control. Your best bet is to try to find lookout because such situations are likely to crop up and add notion of how things are going to be, you will fail to notice the compromise wherever possible. You may not get the exact solution intensity to your journey. Pool your knowledge with that of other valuable nuances that are being presented to you now. you want, but you will get one that's workable for all parties people instead of trying to come up with all the answers by yourself. Things may get a bit hostile today, Aquarius. involved. 12 GULF TIMES Tuesday, August 8, 2017 COMMUNITY CARTOONS/PUZZLES

Wordsearch Adam

Pooch Cafe

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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. Tuesday, August 8, 2017 GULF TIMES 13 PUZZLES COMMUNITY

Super Cryptic Clues Colouring

ACROSS DOWN 1. Wretch who hasn’t 1. Get weaving on the hair (5) benefited from the 2. Personally taking the vessel out wages of sin? (4,5) after three-quarters of an hour (9) 6. A patient answer to 3. The early morning rush (4,6) ‘Who’s that in the cellar?’ (5) 4. As the Archers’ cellar was? (7) 9. Hear he went to 5. Want to have a crack at, from way war with very old- back (4,3) fashioned equipment 6. Utter power or a little (4) (5) 7. An air of despondency (5) 10. Assumed to be sharp, 8. Goes to pieces when everything perhaps (9) turns up in the woods (9) 11. A round before closing (3,4,3) 13. Think something looks funny? 12. Cleans out the interior (3,3,4) for her (4) 14. Stop, say, to put back (9) 14. Very interested, which 16. About the country, lay it on thick (9) clinched it (7) 18. Selling saws perhaps (7) 15. Giving the heavy ball to 19. The phoney has gone off in a huff the dog ourselves (7) (7) 17. In the pictures note 21. Caught, blearily, the word ‘swarm’ they’re small creatures Answers (7) (5) 19. Dead wrong: theirs is 23. Deny turning the key in it that’s not firm (7) bust (5) Wordsearch Codeword 20. Steal and get rid of (4) 24. Regard as a plus for the estate 22. Logic that helped you agent (4) escape when locked in the refrigerator? (4,6) 25. Can’t take the man to be a wrong ‘un at heart (9) 26. Spout, or tea-pourer (5) 27. Give the same interior, but a new, renovated. exterior (5) 28. Candidly, on seeing that bank (9)

Yesterday’s Solutions

ACROSS: 1 Fathom 4 Brigands DOWN: 1 Farewell 2 Tender 10 Ringlet 11 Startle 12 Weed steak 3 Owls 5 Restated 6 13 Cheat death 16 Lesson 17 Grand total 7 Nut 8 Seethe Aerosol 20 Service 21 Father 9 Itchy 14 Another time 15 24 Take charge 25 Arms 27 Ant- Conviction 18 Scrawler 19 hill 29 Terrier 30 Trainers 31 Preserve 22 Strait 23 Agate 26 Adhere. Arid 28 Tea. 14 GULF TIMES Tuesday, August 8, 2017 COMMUNITY POP SPOT

in brief

Chester Bennington

The suicide of Linkin Park frontman Chester Bennington shocked and saddened the music world. Although no-one can know the state of Chester’s mind when he hanged himself, he was a very close friend of Soundgarden frontman Chris Cornell who also committed suicide by hanging two months earlier. Chester, who was the godfather of Cornell’s son Christopher, broke down in tears and was unable to finish One More Night, a song performed by Linkin Park in Chris Cornell’s honour. He also hanged himself on what would have been Cornell’s 53rd birthday. Tributes from fans and fellow musicians poured in after Chester’s death was announced. Fans also did what has now become customary when any significant music star dies. For whatever reasoning, they buy their old records. Four of Linkin Park’s albums feature among the Billboard 200. But the band’s record sales have been much greater in Britain. Nine of their albums are placed among the UK top 100. Five are in the top 40 and three in the top ten. Linkin Park have thus become the first American band to have three albums in the UK top ten since July, 1967, when The Monkees achieved this feat. They held the number two spot with Headquarters, number four with More of The Monkees and number six with their self-titled album.

Tyler hopes his business acumen will lead to an early retirement.

Older readers may well remember . Consisting of two girls, and , and two boys, Mike Nolan and , they won the 1981 Eurovision Song Contest with the UK chart-topping . Tyler’s newest album Bucks Fizz went on to enjoy a string of big hit singles during the 1980s. These included two more number ones, and My Camera Never Lies. Troubles within the group led to the departure of Jay Aston in what was to become the first of numerous personnel shows his maturity changes and legal disputes. Three of the latter resulted in changes of name. Such is the case now as three members of the original ngry rhymes, dirty mouth, festival. Odd Future perform collectively charts, his albums have proved hugely line-up, Cheryl, Jay and Mike, joined by Bobby McVay, have goofy kid. This was the or as individuals with a host of major popular. Goblin, 2013’s Wolf and 2015’s recorded a new album under the moniker of The Fizz. headline which accompanied players from the rap and R&B scenes also Cherry Bomb have all gone top fi ve on the The F-Z of Pop is the group’s first album since Writing an article on the then appearing on the bill. In addition to the Billboard 200 and done well on the UK On The Wall, which was released in November, 1986. The 20-year-old Tyler The live audience, those with the Golf Media chart. collection of 15 tracks has been produced by Mike Stock, ACreator in 2011. app can watch on their devices. Flower Boy now seems set to become another big name from the 1980s. Mike was part of the The intervening years have seen a “The non-music stuff is very Tyler’s biggest album to date. It has hugely successful Stock, Aitken and Waterman production growing maturity in the man born Tyler important,” Tyler remarked. “The already given him personal best chart team. Gregory Okonma. The Ladera Heights, continuing success of Camp Flog Gnaw positions in every country where the The new album will be released on September 22. It is being California, native still packs a profane- can open a lot of doors for me that even record has been released. promoted on the back of newly issued lead single, Dancing ridden punch or two in the songs on getting a platinum record can’t. It allows The list of guest artistes has expanded In The Rain. Initial reaction from fans has been enormously Flower Boy, his smash hit fourth studio me to talk business with certain people beyond the range of his Odd Future positive. There is no video as yet but an off icial audio album. But most critics agree it is largely and certain companies. It gives people the colleagues. Roy Ayres, Pharrell Williams and posting can be heard at www.youtube.com/watch?v=E- the work of an evolved artist and a chance to see a diff erent side of me other Charlie Wilson appeared on Cherry Bomb. aqh6Yh7X8 matured person. than just saying stuff over a beat.” Actor / rapper Jaden Smith, Norwegian Tyler was just 15 when he founded Odd Tyler hopes his business acumen will singer/ Anna Of The North Bully Future. The indie-rap collective originally lead to an early retirement. and multi-talented British artiste Estelle consisted of Tyler, Left Brain, Hodgy “I’m trying to retire at a young age are among the collaborators you perhaps Nashville might be regarded as the home of country music Beats and Jasper Dolphin. They have since and not have to worry about anything wouldn’t expect to fi nd on Flower Boy. but an increasing number of rock bands are now emerging been joined by 11 more artistes, seven of fi nancially. Jay-Z is someone I really “The songs on my new album and some from Tennessee’s state capital. whom are still members of Odd Future. admire in this respect. The way he handles of the guest artists refl ect an evolution in my Bully are among those who have made a significant impact Their concerts have been likened to his business interests is an inspiration to music. I got banned from some countries, in recent times. Their critically acclaimed 2015 debut punk rock shows in the 1970s and 80s. me. There are a good many music stars including the UK, a few years ago for some album, Feels Like, will soon be followed by the quartet’s They regularly featured stage diving, who have become entrepreneurs but Jay-Z of the lyrics in songs from the earlier part of sophomore set, Losing, which is scheduled for release on crowd surfi ng, moshing and group is one of those people who just make my career. I hadn’t even performed them in October 20. members antagonising the audience. things work.” my live shows for years. As with their first album, all songs were written by singer Odd Future’s activities are not confi ned Tyler’s solo music career began in 2009 “The authorities said I adopted a and guitarist Alicia Bognanno. She also engineered and to music. Tyler was the driving force with the release of a critically acclaimed mentally unstable alter ego who described mixed the record using the skills which earned her a degree behind creating Loiter Squad, a TV series mixtape. Odd Future members made violent physical abuse and murder in in audio recording from Middle Tennessee University. featuring comedy sketches, pranks and guest appearances on seven of the tracks. graphic terms which glamourised this Alicia is the founder member of Bully. After initially music which starred the Odd Future This was followed 18 months later by kind of behaviour. One of the songs performing with Nashville area power pop quintet King members. He also developed Odd Future’s Goblin, Tyler’s debut studio album. Many happened to be about the serial killer, Ted Arthur, she formed her own band in 2013. Golf Wang clothing line and a mobile app, tracks continue the theme established on Bundy, and I wrote it from his point of Spotify users can stream Feels Like in full. For everyone Golf Media, which contains exclusive his mixtape of dialogues with his fi ctional view. else, a selection of tracks, including live performances, can interviews, behind-the-scenes clips and therapist, Dr. TC. It is a style of song “I grew up in inner city Los Angeles, be found at www.youtube.com/watch?v=jl_ow0NSPH4&list cartoons. which would cause international travel which wasn’t great. But I don’t drink or take =PLKQVwcd42MlG6bVarwIdSoUf4Qv94l0j- In 2012, Tyler created Camp Flog Gnaw, problems for him in later years. drugs. You could watch any interview I’ve A video for Feel The Same, lead single from Bully’s an annual carnival in Los Angeles which Although Tyler has so far achieved ever given, see my personality, see the guy I forthcoming album, is posted at www.youtube.com/ is a combination of fun fair and music little success in the US and UK singles am and realise I wouldn’t hurt a fl y.” watch?v=T-I425JAhok Tuesday, August 8, 2017 GULF TIMES 15 SHOWBIZ COMMUNITY Men’s attitude towards women changing slowly, says Bhumi

ollywood actress Bhumi opportunity for a dream debut with a Pednekar, who earlier put song-dance saga fi lm, I would choose on weight for her debut the earlier any day.” fi lm Dum Laga Ke Haisha “From taking audition to working and has now come out with the creative team, production Bwith a new well-sculpted body for design, I got expose to every her two upcoming fi lms, says she felt aspect of fi lm making — both are equally beautiful when she was fuller important to become a good actor. because all the men around her made Coming from a regular middle class her feel comfortable. family, I think I am very fortunate,” Bhumi believes men in the country Bhumi said. are slowly but surely changing their Having grown up watching movies attitude towards women. of legendary fi lmmakers like Satyajit Asked whether men look at her Ray, Hrishikesh Mukherjee and diff erently after she lost weight, Bimal Roy, Bhumi said this is the Bhumi said: “You know when I was right phase of Hindi cinema where an bigger in size, I was getting equal actress like her can make a space. attention from men, nobody made “Not that I haven’t grooved with me feel uncomfortable by looking at the peppy songs of Khalnayak and me in a diff erent way.” Rangeelaa, but my love for cinema “I wore clothes that I wanted to, has come from watching a lot of Ray, and fl aunted my skin as per my Mukherjee, Benegal among others; wish. That’s why my confi dence because my mother loved watching was high even then. That is why I those fi lms and we used to watch would like to say that men’s attitude them together,” Bhumi said. towards women is slowly but steadily “In last fi ve years, the way our changing,” Bhumi added. Bollywood has changed, it is The actress, who started her career amazing. Whether it is Neerja, Piku, as an assistant casting director with Mardaani or Dum Laga Ke Haisha, , believes that was good stories have been told. It is the the best training ground she had to right time for me to be here,” she understand the craft of cinema. added. “I do not want to change any part The actress will next be seen of my story. If today, people ask alongside Akshay Kumar in me to choose between working in upcoming fi lm Toilet: Ek Prem Katha, TRANSFORMATION: Bhumi Pednekar’s hard yards are evident in the role she essayed in Dum Laga Ke Haisha, left, YRF for fi ve years before debuting which is slated for a release on and now. in Bollywood or wait for the August 11. — IANS Anchor Salinas steps down from Univision

of the news magazine programme amid much hype in 2006, Salinas By Meg James Aqui y Ahora. just smiled politely. She had “I was one of the students blazed a similar trail with much who looked up to her when I was less fanfare nearly 20 years nivision News anchor young, watching her on TV,” said earlier. And Salinas has thrived Maria Elena Salinas Brandon Benavides, 36, president in the role, connecting with — one of the most of the National Association of viewers by delivering the news in recognisable and Hispanic Journalists organisation a straightforward and rapid-fire respected journalists and the executive producer style. Uin Spanish-language media — is of Good Morning San Antonio Salinas drew controversy — and stepping down. morning show, which runs on loud boos — when she discussed Univision announced in a tweet that city’s ABC affiliate station. Univision’s coverage of Trump, that the longtime evening news “Growing up, there were very who was then a candidate, during anchor will leave Univision at the few Latina and Latino journalists a commencement address last end of the year. Salinas’ departure on TV,” Benavides said. “And year at Cal State Fullerton. When will mark the end of an era: For both of my grandmothers — she spoke briefly in Spanish, more than 30 years, millions on my mother’s side, and my some in the crowd shouted for of immigrants in the US have father’s side — would watch her her to get off the stage. She later faithfully turned to Salinas and on Noticiero Univision. After the attributed the dust-up to political co-anchor Jorge Ramos to learn telenovelas, my grandmothers divisions in the country. the news of the day on Univision. would watch the news.” “I am grateful for having Salinas has won many The Los Angeles native, the had the privilege to inform and awards, including an Emmy daughter of working-class empower the Latino community and a Peabody Award. She has Mexican immigrants, began her through the work my colleagues interviewed every US president career in 1981 at the Los Angeles and I do with such passion at since Jimmy Carter, with the station KMEX-TV Channel Univision every day,” Salinas exception of President Donald 34. Six years later, she became said in a statement. “I thank Trump. the co-anchor of the national our audience for their trust and Salinas serves as co-anchor of newscast at a time when few loyalty through the years, and Noticiero Univision, the highly women in TV news were taken want them to know that as long rated evening news broadcast seriously. as I have a voice, I will always use on the nation’s largest Spanish When CBS hired Katie Couric it to speak on their behalf.” — Los language network, and as co-host to be its evening news anchor Angeles Times/TNS ILLUSTRIOUS INNINGS: Maria Elena Salinas. 16 GULF TIMES Tuesday, August 8, 2017 COMMUNITY Volley fever takes over Nepal Better known for football and cricket, Nepal announced in May that volleyball was set to become the country’s off icial national sport. However, players still have a long way to go before they can command a leading role in the mountainous nation’s sports scene.

recently had to borrow money to By Deepak Adhikari send the country’s national team to Maldives in March so they could play in a fi ve-country regional rowing up in the Asian championship. countryside of eastern The investment was worth Nepal, Kumar Rai could it: The team earned its fi rst aff ord little by way of international medal, landing third entertainment. The place after beating Kyrgyzstan’s remoteG hamlet in the Himalayan national team. foothills was bereft of any clubs A few months ago, Sharma and or sports centre. So he fashioned NVA’s general secretary travelled a ball out of rags and began to play to Europe on a self-funded tour with it. seeking support for the sport in A Gurkha soldier returning home Nepal. gave 12-year-old Rai a white Mikasa The duo visited the International volleyball, sparking in the village Volleyball Federation, the sport’s boy a lifelong passion for the sport. governing body in the Swiss city of “This was the sport I grew up Lausanne. The trip bore some fruit playing,” recalls the short, balding – the Dutch volleyball federation 46-year-old. agreed to sponsor a volleyball coach “I used to fi nish all of my chores, for a month to work in Nepal. such as collecting fodder or looking While Nepal is yet to make its after our sheep, and then start mark in international competitions, playing with the ball, sometimes Sharma said growing interest with a friend but mostly alone.” among private business groups for Rai was a ninth-grader when the sport’s sponsorship has given his team won a district-level them a glimmer of hope. competition. Several years later, In May, the NVA signed a he left his home for Kathmandu two-year contract worth 1 million but continued to play volleyball as Nepali rupees (9,820 dollars) with a setter for his college’s volleyball the country’s state-run Rastriya team. He now coaches at New Banijya Bank, which is sponsoring Diamond Academy high school in the NVA-run national league. Kathmandu. “The game is very popular He says he was overjoyed when Female students practise volleyball at New Diamond Academy high school in Kathmandu. Long in the shadow of among young people,” Sharma says. Nepal announced on May 17 that football and cricket, the sport is now already enjoying more support since the government picked it as the nation's “They organise small tournaments volleyball was going to become off icial sport. in almost all districts across the the country’s national sport, country.” nearly seven decades after it was “But we need to capitalise on introduced by Nepali students who this popularity and nurture teams returned from their study in India. that can bring home international The reason for the surprise medals.” government decision is quite Im Thapa Magar, the 33-year-old simple. captain of the country’s national In the valleys and on the ridges team, says players like him had to of the mountainous nation, sports join one of Nepal’s three security that require lots of space are forces in order to survive as a player. notoriously diffi cult to play. “We don’t have regular training,” With steep declines everywhere, Magar explains. “We are called for a match ball can fl y hundreds training only before a major match.” of metres away from the fi eld, “Diet and sports gear that are launching a search that forces essential for us are always at a players to navigate slippery slopes premium. We can’t perform better and gorges. if we don’t have these resources,” Volleyball matches, however, are says Magar, who was recruited by played on a small court that can be Nepal Police to serve in its team. fenced in easily. Rai, the coach at the Kathmandu Long in the shadow of football school, believes corporate and cricket, the sport is now sponsorship is the key to success already enjoying more support. if Nepal wants to become a But volleyball offi cials say the real major player in world volleyball, challenge has only just begun. competing with countries like “We feel that we now have Brazil or the United States. greater responsibility, but we “If we are to raise the standards don’t have the infrastructure of volleyball, we must prioritise that befi ts the announcement,” it at the level of football and said Manoranjan Raman Sharma, cricket. The way forward is for us president of Nepal’s 40-year-old to organise professional leagues national volleyball association, the and for commercial institutions to NVA. Kumar Rai, a volleyball coach, teaches students at New Diamond Academy high school in Kathmandu. He says he was sponsor teams and tournaments,” Sharma said the association overjoyed when Nepal announced on May 17 that volleyball was going to become the country's national sport. he said. - DPA