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DIANE KRUGER EXPRESSES GRIEF, FURY AND REGRET ‘IN THE FADE,’ A GERMAN MOVIE Design: Ansar Saleem CONTENTS FOCUS

COVER STORY DIANE KRUGER 8

MUSIC 4 JUSTIN TIMBERLAKE

FILMS 6 GOLDEN GLOBE AWARDS

FILMS 10 Fikra Campus Library ALL THE MONEY IN THE WORLD

FILMS 12 THE POST

FASHION 16 LONDON FASHION WEEK

TRAVEL 18 SAN ANTONIO, TEXAS

MOTORING 30 Meeting room for members at Fikra Campus Fikra Campus cafe FIAT 124 SPIDER Going spaces Muhammad Yusuf writes about a new cultural spot in Sharjah which is innovative in design, contemporary in style and futuristic in concept

harjah-based Fikra Design and is open to the public from Fikra, said: “The formation of was remarkably compelling and PLUS Studio has announced the Sunday to Thursday, 8 am -10 this project stems from the legacy an obvious step for the design opening of “Fikra Campus” pm. It is accepting applications of Fikra Design Studio over the studio to take”. ASTROSCAPE (FC), the first space of its for memberships right now. last 11 years of continuously FC’s opening also sees the Skind to include a design studio, a Fikra is a global award-winning pushing the boundaries of design inaugural of its first exhibition HEALTH WATCH, ART, co-working space, a cafe, design multidisciplinary design while incorporating a deeper titled “Making a Space”, which INFOTECH shop, library and an experimental organisation and is a catalyst that understanding of culture in the presents the making of FC — gallery space that altogether encourages an investigative and visual communication sphere. a design project that aims for FOOD, QUIZ, pioneer a year-long cultural and research-based approach to design. “The urge to initiate a creative the development of a physical educational programme. Commenting on the new space that fosters community and intellectual space. Curated YOUNG WORLD & FC is located in the iconic initiative, Sheikh Salem Al- engagement, cross-disciplinary by Al-Qassimi, it displays the TALKING POINT Gibca Building, Al Wahda Street, Qassimi, Principal and Founder, exchange and cultural production process of planning, designing

2 / THE GULF TODAY TIMEOUT / THURSDAY, JANUARY 11, 2018 and developing the campus from that fits geography. “We will within the finished space and traces learn not in a university, but in its evolution, looking much beyond an informal environment”, he TIME OUT the mere handover of a design. said. He said that the space did Fikra has also announced its not come abstractedly, but through first design-residency programme long deliberation. “It is a coming WEEKLY TABLOID FROM in Sharjah. It is an annual design together of many ideas”, he said. residency calendar aimed at He laid great emphasis on international and regional designers contextually relevant study and who seek to conduct design research practical ideas. It is not only and delve into an experimental design theory that the campus process of creation. will deal with but it will also It is designed to encourage the allow designers “to experience production of new work and engage their profession through the lens in intellectual discourse relating to of design”, he said. PUBLISHED BY contemporary design practice and He said that though there was Taryam Omran and Abdullah Omran visual culture. Completed work will a “members only” area, the focus be displayed in the gallery space. was firmly on the general public. EDITOR-IN-CHIEF Founded in 2006 in Sharjah, He felt there was high potential Aysha Taryam Fikra started as a multidisciplinary in the lay public, which could be design studio that specialises in shaped into a support system for ARTS EDITOR bilingual art direction, branding, design. “Our space is where the publication design, web design, larger community can discuss Sarah Taryam exhibition design and curation. design”, he said. Salem Al-Qassimi FC’s modular expanse is There is a meeting room for FEATURES EDITOR multi-purpose: it can hold events, members and also a rooftop space, Nutan Sheriff workshops, panel discussions, film which will be opened for outdoor screening, summer programmes presentations and talks. “We want CHIEF DESIGNER and thematic exhibitions. to help design entrepreneurship”, Ansar Saleem “We will promote design led Al-Qassimi said. “So we also have by research and vice versa”, said provision for start-up labs. We CHIEF SUB-EDITOR / REPORTER Al-Qassimi. “We hope to bring have reduced rents and made Raghib Hassan together critics, mentors, and even them affordable so more people Riaz Ali Khan poets, artists and engineers, and can be involved”. provide a platform to all those who Al-Qassimi is a multidisciplinary SENIOR SUB-EDITOR / REPORTER Nabi Dad Khan architects, down the path of COOL DESIGNS FOR creative experimentation in SPECIAL FEATURES WRITER design. 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Art and Design. During a media tour, he pointed He studied Multimedia Design INDIA out that the space is placed within at AUS, earning an MFA in Graphic “Muslim,” one of Salem Al-Qassimi’s projects as a student at RISD a community setting. A quick look Design from the Rhode Island The Times of India — Response Department at the library – since the concept School of Design (RISD). After Tel: 0091 22 2630338 of the campus revolves around working in various companies in Fax: 0091 22 2673145 knowledge – showed that FC has the UAE and abroad, he founded BAHRAIN covered almost all bases connected Fikra Design Studio in 2006 – which Arab World — Advertising to design. has won many awards through & Information Centre Books available there include its multidisciplinary efforts. 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We have to produce protoType at Typecon2016, ShjSeen education tailored for this region: Startup Award, and has been Printed and published by that is the goal of Fikra Campus”. featured in Forbes Middle East Dar Al Khaleej, P.O. Box 30 He called for design that is ranking list “The Leading Young Sharjah, United Arab Emirates culturally relevant and something Entrepreneurs in the UAE”. Bilingual logo created for Tashkeel gallery, Dubai, by Fikra Design Studio

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4 / THE GULF TODAY TIMEOUT / THURSDAY, JANUARY 11, 2018 op superstar Justin Timberlake with all-star pop producer Pharrell Williams. recently announced his first Timberlake, one of the top-selling artists of the album in nearly five years, 21st century both as a solo artist and with boy promising more “personal” band NSYNC, rose to fame with an electronic songwriting inspired by his pop sound before finding a new voice by bringing home and family. in R&B, notably on his 2006 album “FutureSex/ The 36-year-old singer and LoveSounds.” actor said that “Man of the Timberlake has been offering hints of his Woods,” his fifth solo studio upcoming album for years. In a 2016 interview album, will come out on February 2 -- two days with the BBC, Timberlake declined to describe it as before he headlines entertainment during the a country album but acknowledged the influence. SuperP Bowl, generally the most watched television “I really did grow up in a place in America event of the year in the United States. where I was like two hours from the country Timberlake unveiled the album with a short music capital of the world (Nashville), home of video on social media that, true to the album’s the blues, birthplace of American rock ‘n’ roll,” title, shows him walking reflectively in scenes of he said. nature from a snowy forest to a sunny corn field. Timberlake last released full albums in 2013, “This album is really inspired by my son, my putting out “The 20/20 Experience” and “The wife, my family, but -- more so than any other 20/20 Experience -- 2 of 2” in quick succession. album I’ve ever written -- where I’m from,” Even without albums, Timberlake has kept Timberlake says in the video. putting out music, scoring a mega-hit in 2016 “And it’s personal.” with “Can’t Stop the Feeling!” a giddy summer Timberlake -- who had a son in 2015 with his song that appeared in the animated film “Trolls.” wife, actress Jessica Biel -- grew up near Memphis, But Timberlake has focused increasingly on Tennessee, one of the capitals of blues and soul acting rather than music in the past several years, music as well as rural-rooted country. most recently starring as a bookish and seductive The video features snippets of acoustic guitar, lifeguard in Woody Allen’s “Wonder Wheel.” hinting perhaps at a more somber sound for the album, but closes with Timberlake in the studio Agence France-Presse

Justin Timberlake gets ‘personal’ in his first album in five years

THE GULF TODAY TIMEOUT / THURSDAY, JANUARY 11, 2018 / 5 FILMS GoldenThe 75th annual Golden moments Globe Awards

Martin McDonagh (left), Best Screenplay, Sam Rockwell, Best Actor in a Supporting Role and Best Actress Frances McDormand.

Actor Gary Oldman Oprah Winfrey speaks after accepting the Cecil B. Demille Award.

Saoirse Ronan Allison Janney poses with the award.

Director Fatih Akin COCO Producer Darla K. Anderson (left), director Lee Unkrich and Adrian Molina. Actor James Franco

6 / THE GULF TODAY TIMEOUT / THURSDAY, JANUARY 11, 2018 he Golden Globe about making the best worst Awards aren’t movie ever made, but in fact it’s a For once, everyone was listening to generally known for movie about friendship, he said, their seriousness, thanking Rogen and his brother what the women of Hollywood had to yet the Jan. 7 Dave, who co-starred as his best ceremony will go friend in the film. say. And it all went down at — of all down in history “I used to want my own Coen as a powerful brother, someone to collaborate places — the Golden Globe Awards celebration of women. with,” James Franco said, putting TOprah Winfrey gave a an arm around his brother. “I movement-defining speech. realised I had a Franco brother. Natalie Portman threw shade at Thanks to my mother for giving the all-male directing nominees — him to me.” while presenting that award — and then Geena Davis did the same BEST ACTRESS AWARDS for the actors. Barbra Streisand scoffed at the bleak fact that 34 They are separated by almost years after her win, she remains 40 years, grew up on different the only female director to have continents, and lead films that won a Golden Globe. And nearly couldn’t be more different, but every soul wore black in support the two best actress winners of Time’s Up and as a statement at the Golden Globes, Frances against sexual misconduct in McDormand, 60, and Saoirse Hollywood. Ronan, 23, agreed that the night For once, everyone was listening was something special— the LIST OF GOLDEN GLOBE to what the women of Hollywood awards themselves were just WINNERS (FILM) had to say at the Globes, which saw almost a side show. big wins for female-led projects like McDormand, who won for “Big Little Lies” and “Lady Bird.” portraying the vengeful and BEST FILM, DRAMA: grieving mother of a daughter who “Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, JAMES FRANCO ON TRACK was raped and murdered in Martin McDonagh’s “Three Billboards Missouri” FOR AN OSCAR NOMINATION Outside Ebbing, Missouri,” said James Franco took what was that while she keeps her politics arguably the worst performance private that, “It was really great BEST FILM, MUSICAL OR COMEDY: in movie history and turned it to be in this room tonight and “Lady Bird” Guillermo del Toro with the award for Best Director into what was arguably his own to be part of the tectonic shift in greatest role, taking home a Golden our industry’s power structure.” Globe for “The Disaster Artist”. “Trust me,” McDormand BEST DIRECTOR: Franco played Tommy Wiseau, continued, “The women in this Guillermo del Toro, “The Shape of Hollywood cult hero of mysterious room tonight are not here for the origins and the force behind the food. We are here for the work.” Water” worst-best-film-ever “The Room,” She won her first individual in “The Disaster Artist.” Golden Globe ever in the best “First person I have to thank is actress in a drama category over BEST ACTOR, DRAMA: the man himself, Tommy Wiseau, Jessica Chastain (“Molly’s Game”), Gary Oldman, “Darkest Hour” come on up here Tommy!” Franco Sally Hawkins (“The Shape of shouted when he accepted the Water”), Meryl Streep (“The Post”) award. and Michelle Williams (“All the BEST ACTRESS, DRAMA: Wiseau darted out of his chair, Money in the World”). Frances McDormand, “Three Billboards ran across the room, and leapt up Backstage when a reporter to the stage with his long, dyed- asked McDormand if there Outside Ebbing, Missouri” black hair and sunglasses looking, was any danger of Hollywood as Franco’s friend and co-star Seth returning to its old ways, BEST ACTOR, MUSICAL OR COMEDY: Rogen described him earlier in McDormand said sternly, “What the show, “like a vampire went do you think?” James Franco, “The Disaster Artist” to a costume party dressed as “No, there’s no going back,” Johnny Depp.” she said eventually. “Go forward. Franco’s remarks were as much In the best possible way.” BEST ACTRESS, MUSICAL OR COMEDY: an acceptance speech for Wiseau Saoirse Ronan “Lady Bird” star Saoirse Ronan, “Lady Bird” as they were for Franco himself. meanwhile, also picked up her “Nineteen years ago, he was first Golden Globe win for best stuck in traffic and saw a sign for actress in a musical or comedy. BEST SUPPORTING ACTOR: the golden globes,” said Franco, “I wanted to say how Composer Alexandre Desplat who then broke into Wiseau’s inspirational it has been to be Sam Rockwell, “Three Billboards mystery accent as he did in the here tonight,” Ronan said in a Outside Ebbing, Missouri” film. “Golden Globz, I don’t care, short and sweet speech, where I’m not invited. Guy with long also said “hi” to her mother in hair, accent. So I show them. I Ireland, not on TV, but on FaceTime BEST SUPPORTING ACTRESS: don’t wait for Hollywood, I make on a personal phone that someone my own movie.” in the audience held up to the Allison Janney, “I, Tonya” Wiseau was among the most podium. She hugged her movie popular partners for celebrities mom, Laurie Metcalf, as she made BEST SCREENPLAY: posing for photos on the red carpet. her way to the stage. Franco, 39, a clear but not Ronan plays the title character Martin McDonagh, “Three Billboards overwhelming favourite in the in the Greta Gerwig-written and Outside Ebbing, Missouri” category, beat out fellow nominees directed coming-of-age film “Lady Steve Carell for “Battle of the Bird,” about a teenage girl in her last Sexes,” Ansel Elgort for “Baby year of high school in Sacramento BEST FOREIGN LANGUAGE FILM: Driver,” Hugh Jackman for “The in 2002. The film also won best Greatest Showman” and Daniel musical or comedy. “In the Fade” Kaluuya for “Get Out.” “It’s an incredibly special thing It was Franco’s first Golden to have a character like this exist BEST ANIMATED FEATURE: Globe for a film role in his now finally,” Ronan said backstage, third nomination in the movie alongside Gerwig. “Coco” categories. Ronan, who had previously He won a Golden Globe in picked up nominations for 2002 playing the title character “Brooklyn” and “Atonement,” BEST ORIGINAL SCORE: in the biopic “James Dean.” was up against Margot Robbie (“I, Alexandre Desplat, “The Shape of His one previous Oscar Tonya”), Emma Stone (“Battle of nomination came in 2011 for the Sexes”), Judi Dench (“Victoria Water” “127 Hours.” & Abdul”) and Helen Mirren (“The BEST ORIGINAL SONG: Franco later shifted to earnest Leisure Seeker”). in his speech. Benj Pasek and Justin Paul, “This Is “This was billed as a movie Associated Press Me” from “The Greatest Showman” Songwriting duo Benj Pasek and Justin Paul

THE GULF TODAY TIMEOUT / THURSDAY, JANUARY 11, 2018 / 7 erman-born Sekerci. She lives in Hamburg with actress Diane her husband Nuri (Numan Acar), Kruger’s latest who’s Turkish, and their five-year- role as a woman old son Rocco (Rafael Santana). whose husband In the movie’s opening preamble, and son are killed Nuri, clad in a white suit, is walked in an attack in the from his prison cell directly into his German movie wedding with Katja. It’s the kind “In the Fade” left her “physically of incongruity Akin delights in. Gexhausted” and taking a step back (His “Head-On” fashioned a love from acting. story between a man and woman “I didn’t take a movie for a long brought together by mutual suicide time. I just felt like I couldn’t. I was attempts.) The first notes of “My feeling I was drowning,” Kruger Girl” radiate while Nuri strides said. down a corridor of cheering male “I just needed time for myself inmates. to get my life back in order,” she It’s also just the first inversion added. of “In the Fade.” The film flashes Kruger, known for films such as forward to their happy family life “Inglourious Basterds” and “Troy,” five years later. When Katja returns plays Katja in director Fatih Akin’s to Nuri’s office one evening, she “In the Fade,” about a woman who encounters a road blocked by police. marries her husband while he is Her initial horror is soon confirmed: in prison. both Nuri and Rocco have been killed Years later, a devastating tragedy by a nail bomb exploded just outside Diane Kruger, (right), and Rafael Santana in the film ‘In the Fade.’ leaves her husband dead and Katja his tax office, their bodies obliterated. on a mission for justice, suspicious Katja descends into a nightmare that Neo-Nazis might be behind of grief and disorientation. She her loss. leads investigators through the German director Akin, who is of rain to her home to give them her Turkish descent, said he wanted to husband and son’s toothbrushes explore racism and specifically Neo- to identify their DNA. Nazis in Germany within the film. The police, while sympathetic, are “There are people in this country, immediately suspicious of Nuri’s which I consider is my country, who background. Was he religious? want to kill me just because I look Was he “politically active?” Was like how I look like with black hair he dealing drugs again? and brown eyes. They want to kill But Katja remembers a fleeting me for it, for nothing. This bothers encounter when she left her me,” Akin said. husband’s office where a woman “I don’t like that, so I have a left an unchained bicycle outside the feeling that I need to express my office. She was, as Katja says, white anger so the film gave me the and blonde, “as German as me.” opportunity to express it on paper Only once investigators have looked and later on film,” he added. into dormant criminal connections The film has garnered both Akin and nonexistent Turkish mafia ties and Kruger strong praise from do they realise Katja was correct. critics, and Kruger was named The bombing was the work of neo- best actress at France’s Cannes Nazis, a pair of whom were simply Film Festival last year. targeting a Turkish area of town. Diane Kruger discusses her “In the Fade” is Germany’s entry Akin was inspired to make “In to the Oscars, one of nine films the Fade” (the title of which comes short-listed in the foreign language from a Queens of the Stone Age song; challenging ‘In The Fade’ role, film category. the band’s Josh Homme composed the score) after a rash of Neo-Nazi Reuters terrorist attacks in Germany, where a which is Germany’s entry to the flood of refugees from Syria has also raised anti-immigration tensions. DIRECTOR FATIH AKIN But “In the Fade” resonates on Oscars, one of nine films short- many other shores, too, including SHOWS A SELDOM here in the United States, where SEEN FACE OF neo-Nazism is also present, and listed in the foreign language film where the ethnicity of a perpetrator TERRORISM sometimes seems to determine t’s startling how few filmmakers which mass killings get labeled category. Rollo Ross writes have tried to tackle terrorism terrorism. In “In the Fade,” the Iwith anything beyond a face of terrorism is blonde and standard procedural account. It’s blue-eyed. less surprising that one of the few Told in three distinct chapters, to really grapple with a response the film is alternatively wrenching, is Fatih Akin, the German-born gripping and a little perplexing. filmmaker of Turkish descent, whose The middle chapter, the courtroom thorny, probing dramas traverse drama, is expertly done, and aided borders as a matter of course. by fine attorney performances by His latest, “In the Fade,” is Denis Moschitto and Johannes Germany’s Oscar submission and Krisch. But the second act’s clear one of the nine films shortlisted lines of good and evil are blurred for best foreign language film. It in the final chapter, which moves deservedly earned its star, Diane to sunny Greece where Akin’s film Kruger, the best actress award at fights a growing sense of despair last year’s Cannes film Festival. with the glimmer of a greater And like the best of Akin’s films empathy. (“Head-On,” ‘’The Edge of To say that the many parts of “In Heaven”), it’s a muscularly lean the Fade” are held together by Kruger and emotionally raw film. At turns would be an understatement. As a a tragedy, a courtroom drama and cocktail of grief, fury and regret, she’s a revenge thriller, “In the Fade” is a remarkably original protagonist — a shape-shifting quest through a a chain-smoking, tattooed mother terrorist tragedy, as outraged as it who, in her trauma, is always a is compassionate. breath away from drowning. Kruger, a native German acting in her first German film, plays Katja Jake Coyle/Associated Press Director Fatih Akin and Diane Kruger.

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In ‘All the Money in the World,’ money is everything and nothing, says Jill Serjeant

MARK WAHLBERG, (LEFT), CHARLIE PLUMMER, MICHELLE WILLIAMS, AND RIDLEY SCOTT. KEVIN SPACEY

Michelle Williams Christopher Plummer

10 / THE GULF TODAY TIMEOUT / THURSDAY, JANUARY 11, 2018 hen director Ridley Scott REVIEW decided to remove Kevin Spacey from his film It may be unfair that the story of “All the Money in the “All the Money in the World” — World” and reshoot it Ridley Scott’s film about the 1973 with Christopher Plummer, he did kidnapping of John Paul Getty III — Wnot just pull off an extraordinary feat. has been hijacked by the last-minute Plummer’s performance as US oil replacement of one of the film’s most billionaire J. Paul Getty also subtly important supporting players. When changed the tone of the movie about Kevin Spacey went down in the Great the sensational 1973 kidnapping of Hollywood Sexual Assault Reckoning Getty’s 16-year-old grandson. of 2017, director Scott was not about to “There is a coolness to Kevin. let his film go down too as collateral That’s his style, even when he’s being damage. The legendarily fast Scott emotional,” Scott said in an interview. reshot the every one of Spacey’s scenes “This man (Plummer) has enormous as curmudgeonly oil billionaire John charm, and when you apply that charm Paul Getty with Christopher Plummer to such, sometimes really hard, words, in the role, and pulled it off — from it makes it much more interesting,” production to post — in only a matter he said. of weeks. The seamless final product Part biography and part thriller, “All is astonishing for that fact alone. Its the Money in the World” dramatises the production has now become myth. kidnapping in Italy of John Paul Getty But “All The Money In The World” III and his grandfather’s refusal to pay deserves to be appraised on its own. a $17 million ransom despite being the The film is a bold stylistic project from richest man in the world. Scott, a faded, sepia-toned snapshot of In a rare move, Scott announced a heady moment in time; a whirlwind in November that he would reshoot of frenzied activity detailing the life the finished film with Plummer after and legend of John Paul Getty, through allegations of sexual misconduct against the lens of this ugly incident. Through Spacey, saying he feared negative publicity this event, we come to understand the would damage the film’s prospects. psychology of the man, a visionary oil Spacey issued an apology for the billionaire for whom money becomes first reported incident, involving actor more plentiful than air. And yet, it is Anthony Rapp. He has since been accused his miserliness that defines him. When of misconduct by more than 30 men and it came to his beloved grandson’s dropped from the next season of Netflix kidnapping, Getty was a real Scrooge TV series “House of Cards.” (ironically, Plummer played Ebenezer Reuters has been unable to verify the Scrooge himself in the meta-adaptation allegations against Spacey. The Oscar- of “A Christmas Carol,” “The Man Who winning actor is seeking unspecified Invented Christmas,” this fall). Unlike treatment, and a representative on Scrooge, it’s doubtful Getty ever had a Monday did not respond to a request true change of heart, according to “All for comment. the Money in the World.” It’s a testament The Sony Pictures, movie, now to Michelle Williams’s outsize talent that starring Plummer along with original for all the hubbub surrounding the film, cast members Michelle Williams and she shines like a beacon. It’s one of her Mark Wahlberg, will be released in best performances, which helps explain Europe later this week and in the United why Scott so desperately wanted to save States on Dec. 25. the film. She adopts a patrician accent as Plummer, 88, sought to bring Gail Getty, the daughter-in-law of Getty humanity to Getty, although he said Sr. and mother of Paul (Getty the third). he “made no pretense at research” for For her, it never really seems to be about the role ahead of a nine-day reshoot in the money. She’d like her husband to London and Rome in mid-November. get a job and suggests he contact his He did not see Spacey’s original scenes. estranged father. But their connection to “I had to follow the writing, all in him places the target squarely on her son a very short space of time,” Plummer Paul’s (Charlie Plummer) back. When said. “I saw him more vulnerable than Paul is kidnapped, Gail is on her own, the script suggested ... so he would have her ex-husband wasted in Marrakech, not some dimension and some humanity.” a true Getty cent to her name. Reaching Plummer, Scott and Williams were out to her father-in-law for help, he nominated last week for Golden Globe dispatches the hysterical woman with awards. his hired dealmaker, former CIA man Scott said he was initially drawn Fletcher Chase (Mark Wahlberg), refusing to the project not so much because of to pay the ransom, claiming his other the kidnapping by the ‘Ndrangheta, grandchildren will be kidnapped. For the Calabrian mafia, who cut off their Fletcher, it seems like another gig, as victim’s ear, but because of the elder Gail and Getty quibble over dwindling Getty. sums of money and the kidnapping “He’s an enigmatic character who stretches on interminably. Paul himself isolated himself through wealth. When dwindles, losing an ear in the process. somebody becomes that wealthy, all the But, for its breathless pace, the plot friends start evaporating, so he was an eventually grinds to a stalemate. As the isolated individual,” the British director film reaches its conclusion, the message said. Getty died in 1976. we come away with is: Money means Scott said the $40 million reported nothing and money means everything. budget for the film plus $10 million for For Getty, money is air, but he grasps reshoots was “a little high.” The costs at every last cent. Money is his entire were borne by production company existence. Gail’s existence is family. But Imperative Entertainment. there isn’t much more characterisation He said he hoped the publicity around or motivation than that, and Fletcher the decision to reshoot six weeks before is granted even less. This movie may its scheduled release would help rather be about the soul-corroding nature of than overshadow the film. money, and it illustrates that well, but “I think it may have people attracted what exactly does it all mean? Scott to it out of curiosity who normally proves miserly in providing answers wouldn’t come and see this film.” beyond that. Reuters Katie Walsh/Tribune News Service

Mark Wahlberg

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Feminism and press freedom come together in ‘The Post’, writes Jill Serjeant

TOM HANKS PORTRAYS BEN BRADLEE, (LEFT), AND MERYL STREEP PORTRAYS KATHARINE GRAHAM.

12 / THE GULF TODAY TIMEOUT / THURSDAY, JANUARY 11, 2018 teven Spielberg’s new movie about what was happening in the “The Post” may be set in 1971 world and the country.” but its theme about press After getting the script in February, freedom is all about today. “suddenly my entire outlook on SSpielberg rushed to get the movie the future brightened overnight,” filmed and released within a year. It he said. is about the battle by newspapers to Among those in the forefront of publish the leaked Pentagon Papers that battle was Washington Post detailing the US government’s publisher Katharine Graham, played misleading portrayal of the Vietnam by Meryl Streep, who despite being War. in her mid-50s at the time, was “I just felt that there was an struggling to establish herself in a urgency to reflect 1971 and 2017 man’s world. She had taken over because they were very terrifyingly the publisher’s job following the similar,” the Oscar-winning director death of her husband, Phil Graham. told a Hollywood audience after a “There is something very relatable screening of the film. to a woman finding her voice, to a “Our intended audience are the woman standing in a room with people who have spent the last 13, men and being out-talked and 14 months thirsting and starving overlooked,” said Liz Hannah, who for the truth,” Spielberg said. “They wrote the screenplay with Josh Singer. are out there, and they need some It was Graham who had to give good news.” the go-ahead to editor Ben Bradlee Starring Meryl Streep as the late (played by Tom Hanks) to defy an Washington Post publisher Katharine injunction by the Nixon White House Graham and Tom Hanks as late editor and risk imprisonment by publishing Ben Bradlee, “The Post” on Monday the Pentagon Papers. was named the best film of 2017 The decision affected not only by the National Board of Review, Graham’s family but the future of her a New York-based 100 year-old company and the way she thought group of academics, filmmakers of herself. and professionals. Streep, 68, who is expected to be Streep was named best actress Oscar-nominated for a record 21st time and Hanks was voted best actor, next month, had no doubt about the setting the film up as an early front- film’s relevance for women who are

Director Steven Spielberg

runner for the Oscars. Spielberg, a still fighting for equality in corporate prominent Hollywood Democrat, did boardrooms and in Hollywood itself. not mention US President Donald “I try to tell young women who Trump in his remarks. But “The weren’t alive then how different it Post” arrived in movie theatres was very recently, and it still is in in December at a time when the those leadership circles. We have media has been under repeated filled up the bottom of the pyramid attacks by Trump since his election but ... where it all gets decided, we in November 2016. don’t have parity. We’re not even Trump has called the press “the close,” Streep said. enemy of the American people.” He Streep said she relied on Graham’s uses the term “fake news” to cast Pulitzer Prize-winning memoir doubt on news reports critical of “Personal History” for insight into his administration, often without the publisher’s thinking at the time. providing evidence to support his “She was very uncertain, and it’s case. in her book and she talks a lot about US Attorney General Jeff that.” Streep said. “At work, she Sessions said in August the Trump had so many people thinking she administration was considering didn’t deserve to be where she was. requiring journalists to reveal their We know what a brilliant woman sources amid Trump’s push to stop she turned out to be.” leaks to the press. The Washington Post review of The film dramatises the decisions “The Post” said, that “Streep and by the New York Times and the Hanks lead a stirring homage to Washington Post to publish the top- the pursuit of the truth.” secret Pentagon Papers about the And Entertainment Weekly Vietnam War in the face of injunctions said that Streep’s performance by the Nixon administration in a “elevates ‘The Post’ from being a battle that went to the US Supreme First Amendment story to a feminist Court. one too.” Spielberg said that before making the film he was “really depressed Reuters

THE GULF TODAY TIMEOUT / THURSDAY, JANUARY 11, 2018 / 13 OUTBID CELEBRITY FORMAL REQUEST ENSURING SECURITY BRAD PITT offered to pay $120,000 to watch an Model KENDALL JENNER’s boyfriend BLAKE GRIFFIN PARIS HILTON, who got engaged to CHRIS ZYLKA, has episode of “Game of Thrones” with Emilia Clarke, has filed papers in court for the custody battle of his hired security to look after her $2 million engagement but he was outbid. two children, who he has with former girlfriend Brynn ring. Pitt bid six figures on Saturday night during Cameron. Hilton has hired 24/7 security to shadow her and a silent auction at Sean Penn’s annual gala for Griffin formally requested equal parenting rights keep an eye on her expensive ring, reports tmz.com. Haiti, held at Milk Studios in Los Angeles, reports with Cameron, in October, but court papers only “They’ve had 24/7 security shadowing them. And variety.com. surfaced this week, reports radaronline.com. specifically the ring ever since they got engaged last During the charity gala, the auctioneer announced Documents at the Los Angeles Superior Court reveal weekend,” a source said. the opportunity to watch an episode with Clarke, that Griffin is demanding joint physical and legal Hilton’s latest move comes in the wake of the who was in attendance at the event, along with her custody of son Ford Wilson and daughter Finley Elaine. burglaries that targeted Nicki Minaj and Kim “Game of Thrones” co-star Kit Harington. Cameron has already been hit with a restraining Kardashian’s homes. The auction to watch the episode with Clarke order since the couples’ split in July 2017. “She feels it’s best to have someone on guard at started at $20,000. Pitt raised his bid $120,000. In The formal order prohibits her from leaving California all times because of the rash of celeb burglaries this the end, Pitt was outbid by a gala-goer who ended with their children until a final decision about parental past year,” the source said Hilton already has “around the auction at $160,000. access has been agreed. the clock security at home”.

14 / THE GULF TODAY TIMEOUT / THURSDAY, JANUARY 11, 2018 The Capricorn group in the sphere of profession is a It is the peak period to work on your challenges ARIES peak season for Aries. Here, you are in the spotlight LIBRA in connection to home and family matters. The # with peers and authorities challenging you as the period stresses the need to be careful, in charge ## world watches on. So be wary of your reputation. of decisions that may need to be enforced despite # The best way to handle this strong energy is to seek the antagonism as well as the discipline and solutions, listen carefully to authorities, show respect, restriction for the home and family. It is about   be disciplined and above all be patient. The rewards taking charge and being the authority. It is a MAR 21 are immense if you seek to glorify yourself publicly SEP 21 new beginning for home and family life and APR 20 sooner or later but first you must pass these tests or OCT 20 while it may not be rosy do remember that take a long rest from the ladder of success. It could there is always the calm after the storm and this be the beginning of the end of your current career Capricorn energy is working to bring about that and the start of a brand new one. Whatever the New result for you, for your home and for your family. Moon brings, it is time for change in the outer world. Mercury’s Capricorn ensures strong, stern and Others are going to view you differently and things practical communication. Proceed carefully and won’t be the same – it is not an ominous statement, be wise. not if you choose it to be. When there is a New Moon in Capricorn, backed The New Moon in Capricorn along with the Sun, SCORPIO by other planets and a luminary, it becomes the TAURUS Mercury, Venus, Saturn and Pluto are a powerful peak period of support, communication and and favourable combination for Taurus when it is commutation with and from those around. It connected to overseas, higher education, in-laws becomes the hull of education and the need and foreign media. This period is at its peak and to interact with peers and authorities that boosts Taurus in a very beneficial way. You are promotes ideas and messages. There are promoted overseas and your horizons expand. It OCT 21 several opportunities this week that prove to be APR 21 means it is time to travel and seek new shores. Begin NOV 20 beneficial in the long run. The heart and mind MAY 20 a new adventure; pursue higher education; find love are in perfect co-ordination for the best results. and finances; get authorities to pat your back and Mercury’s move into Capricorn also ensures CAPRICORN support as well as promote you and empower your sensible and practical communication that is expansion. All of this only if you take that first step! censored and governed by authorities for the So move, now. good of all concerned. COVERAGE The New Moon in Capricorn along with other The New Moon and the other planets, now GEMINI planets packed together in the sphere of joint SAGITARIUS Mercury included, along with the Sun work financial ventures is the peak week for planning hard for new financial beginnings that bring and implementing these ventures. It is about about prosperity for Sagittarius. This is the peak restructuring, restraining, and disciplining all period to look into personal financial matters YOUR FRIENDLY ASTROLOGER MEL resources. This is a brand new period to work out that are likely to need restructuring, restraint matters with a financial partner and it could be the and discipline as well as focus. Be practical and MAY 21 end of an old union or the beginning of a brand new NOV 21 conservative with your finances and watch it t is a very peak JUN 20 one. This New Moon along with the other planets DEC 20 grow as you tend to it carefully and wisely with period for is about restructuring joint finances and resources patience and great effort. It may spoil the fun about strengthening the bond between partner and with children, recreation and romance but it does Capricorn this self. It can be very difficult and there will be financial so for your own benefit. week, with the limitations but grin and work at it. Sun, Venus, The New Moon along with planets such as Venus, The New Moon in Capricorn is the start of a brand CAPRICORN Saturn, Pluto and now Mercury, including the Saturn, Pluto, CANCER new relationship phase that could be the end of an Sun in your own sign presents a very powerful and yes, the old relationship and the beginning of a new one. Of period for you. It is your peak period to rise New Moon course, it is a very emotionally opposing period and and shine, promote and deliver, wake and make. a rather challenging one but this is always the case The shadows of Sagittarius have passed over all grouped when it is about change. It is about restructuring and and your sky is burgeoning with fresh, new together on disciplining the self to take stock of the emotions and DEC 21 opportunities, a brand new makeover and new this zodiac’s terrain. For JUN 21 not allow them to rule you into distress and disaster. JAN 20 position with power. No doubt, you will work JUL 20 This is about being co-operative with the partner. hard for the rewards but as you are already hard- those signs that cheer Legal matters are part and parcel of this relationship working, this is a bonus and will be well received Ion Capricorn values and for better or worse. It is the time Cancer settles down by you. Empower yourself and watch out for beliefs get added support once again to what has the potential to become a excess that has the opposite effect of destruction. long-lasting and empowering relationship. Advice: You are at your peak. Handle it wisely and well. and for those signs that Please watch your words. Begin anew. baulk at the hard lessons Capricorn gives via The New Moon in Capricorn calls for new beginnings The New Moon in Capricorn brings new LEO in matters of health, work, colleagues, animal AQUARIUS beginnings that advise a lot of rest and retreat convention, tradition, companions, and in one’s routines. This period from the outer world. This is a powerful period culture, restraint, is packed with Capricorn power that enforces to empower the self in private. No doubt, there restrictions and imposes discipline. It is a period will be many things happening in secret but it is restrictions and discipline to tap into the latent Capricorn energy in your own up to you to decide if the secret is to be dissolved get detention. While all system that brings out the cool, calm and wise or to be worked on to be revealed much later. of these topics appear JUL 21 authority that takes over and restores health as JAN 21 Whatever is the decision, be patient, work hard dour and boring, the AUG 20 well as gets your act together for work and service FEB 20 and be careful. It is important to be prudent especially to the vulnerable such as vulnerable and live within the rules of the confinement and invaluable lessons gained animals. It is time for a promotion and financial to be accepting of retreat. Rebellion will not be from these experiences raise if you hold a job or time for new steadfast tolerated. Mercury in Capricorn is best lived and capable employees as well as a new working through reading or pursuing spiritual interests. are what toughens the environment. Get the Capricorn energy to work for Quiet the mind and empower the soul. spirit and reinforces you. Mercury in Capricorn advises being calm and strength. The best route wise in communication. is to get your gear on PISCES The New Moon in Capricorn calls for new VIRGO The New Moon in Capricorn and other planets beginnings of an empowering kind that is related with the empowering call for new beginnings of a very favourable kind to social causes, groups and goals. It involves Capricorn. Get ready to for matters related to romance, creative ventures, restrictions, restraint, discipline, focus, hard recreational activities and children. This is a great work, sacrifices and authority figures. It is a begin anew. period to take a break and unwind. Your innate strong period for selfless and humanitarian nature is to stay disciplined and dedicated and this purposes but personal gain is not on the agenda. period works favourably to endorse all this and more FEB 21 This is a strong period to interact socially with AUG 21 for these areas of your life. Love is in the air and it MAR 20 those influential people who could help promote SEP 20 may turn out to be a long-lasting and dependable your goals. Interact, communicate and commute one. Finances may start to perk up and you are given for best outcomes. Overseas matters continue to the power to be the playful yet careful you. Go ahead peak and push for expansion but as with every you worked hard so now reap your rewards. good thing, watch out for excess. ATRO TIP FOR THE WEEK THE NEW MOON IN CAPRICORN ADVISES NEW BEGINNINGS THAT INVOLVE DISCIPLINING THE EMOTIONS AND BEING FOCUSED ON WORK HARD AND POSITION THAN ON THE PERSONAL MATTERS WHILE MERCURY IN CAPRICORN ADVISES BEING CAREFUL, PATIENT, CONSTRUCTIVE AND WISE IN ALL MANNER OF COMMUNICATION. CONTINUE TO HAVE AN EMPOWERING WEEK!

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16 / THE GULF TODAY TIMEOUT / THURSDAY, JANUARY 11, 2018 JOHN LAWRENCE SULLIVAN odels will strut their AUTUMN-WINTER 2018 stuff on catwalks when London’s menswear fashion LONDON Mweek gets under way on Saturday, but absent will be FASHION WEEK some big industry names who have chosen to skip the event, or make digital presentations BEGINS WITH in place of runway shows. The event will see around 50 traditional catwalk shows A HOST OF over three days, with the remainder of the 80 designers YOUNG on the bill showcasing their wares through a variety of other events, including TALENT digitally. The transition to new methods of connecting with buyers has cost the event some of its biggest catwalk names. Punk icon Vivienne Westwood announced last month that she would eschew a runway show and showcase her collection via an audio- visual presentation. Other big Brands, including Britain’s Burberry and J.W. Anderson, decided to skip the event last year and this year respectively, in favour of holding ‘co-ed’ shows during London’s fashion week for womenswear in February. “All we’re trying to do is shorten the distance from a consumer to a pair of trousers,” said London fashion Week Men’s Chairman Dylan Jones, who is also the editor of British GQ magazine. “If a brand or a designer deems that it’s much better for them to do a joint show, a show out of season, a digital show, go direct to consumer — doesn’t matter. It’s all about amplifying British creativity and selling.” John Lawrence Sullivan’s show at London Fashion Week Men’s in London kept the audience rapt with admiration while he promoted a more youthful image. Japanese designer and founder of the label Arashi Yanagawa, provided a fresh insight into menswear, pairing coats with denim. Long overcoats, formal jackets and streamlines trousers featured in the collection. The drift away from London Men’s fashion Week by established designers has seen the number of parades drop by a dozen this year. It has led to questions over whether the British event, the younger of the annual fashion weeks, can still compete with Paris, Milan and New York. Organiser The British fashion Council hopes it can still flourish by allowing young and upcoming local designers to showcase their talents. Caroline Rush, its chief executive, said the 2018 edition will be “a celebration of discovery and the creative diversity that has made London an international hub for menswear.” Agencies

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18 / THE GULF TODAY TIMEOUT / THURSDAY, JANUARY 11, 2018 Texan style When in San Antonio, check out the shops selling cowboy boots. They’re not just footwear; they’re part of a Texan’s identity, whether rough-hewn or fancy

visit to San Antonio under certain conditions.) would not be complete More fashion boutique without a stroll by the than traditional Western wear Alamo, enjoying a store, the Lucchese store at the Acheesy enchilada plate at a Tex- Alamo Quarry Market on Jones Mex joint off the River Walk, or Maltsberger Road sells cowboy browsing the cowboy boot section boots better suited, and priced, for at the local Western wear shop. boardrooms than the oil field. The In fact, nothing says more soft leathers of goat and buffalo about a Texan than a fancy pair adorn many of the boots in the of cowboy boots. Whether they’re showroom along with the scaly rough-hewn boots scuffed and pirarucu skin, a large freshwater dirtied after a hard day’s work fish found in the Amazon. at the ranch, or a slick pair of Lucchese’s high-priced boots exotic skin boots made from have been worn by US presidents, snake or alligator, worn to a board Dallas Cowboys cheerleaders meeting or for dancing at the and celebrities like Arnold honky-tonk, cowboy boots are Schwarzenegger and the late a part of Texas identity. professional wrestler Andre the “I won’t wear anything else,” Giant, who wore a whopping says Dallas resident Coley 26EEE, according to Lucchese Kellogg, 24, who got his first marketing manager Merritt pair of custom-fit boots when Milliorn. Saleswoman Michelle Esquivel holds a pair of custom made cowboy boots at his feet stopped growing at age If boot shoppers want the Lucchese Boot Maker shop. The Lucchese store sells off the shelf hand 15. Kellogg, who originally grew something different than the crafted boots made in Texas. up in San Antonio, works as off-the-shelf boots, head down an analyst in the oil and gas to Little’s Boot Company on San industry and pairs his fancy Antonio’s south side. Founded by ostrich-skinned boots with slacks Lucien Little in 1915, the company to the office every day. has been making customised Any boot-wearing Texan can boots for over a century. The attest it takes confidence to pull off shop offers handmade footwear a fancy pair, especially if you’ve for customers willing to spend didn’t grow up in a Western-wear top dollar for a cowboy boot that culture. Texans just don’t wear offers a unique style, comfort, them sparingly: Western boots perhaps most importantly, a are matched with business suits, sense of identity. accessorised with mini-skirts and Inside Little’s showroom, even found under the occasional hundreds of colourful boots wedding dress. the family made over several Western wear shops can be decades line the shelves. Some found around San Antonio and, have decorative embroidery along with 10-gallon hats and stretching from the pointy toes humongous belt buckles, most up to the shafts. Others are shops will have a wide variety emblazoned with pictures of of cowboy boots to peruse and the Alamo, bluebonnets, and try on. Cavender’s Boot City, a even a portrait of Elvis Presley Duane Little holds a custom designed yellow kangaroo skinned cowboy Western wear shop found just stitched into one unique pair boots made by his family’s shop, Little’s Boot Company, in San Antonio, west of the airport off NW Loop of boots. The store can create Texas. 410, sells cowboy boots for as designs for customers upon little as $100 but offers many request, incorporating elements for hundreds, even thousands, with personal meaning ranging depending on the types of from musical notes to Day of the materials used in making the Dead, according to Duane Little, boots. The Lucchese Bootmaker who helps run the business his store in central San Antonio sells great-grandfather started. a handmade pair of American A pair of custom-made boots alligator skin boots costing nearly from Little’s made with calf’s $13,000. leather or kangaroo skin and Traditionally, cowboy boots simple stitching and no fancy were made with tough cattle hides designs start at $1,300 with an to withstand a life of driving eight-month waiting list. Little’s cattle across the open plains, is located on Division Street just but boot makers turned to exotic off I-35 South. leathers and fancy stitching to The cowboy boot is a lifestyle, attract not only cowboys, but as most Texans will attest. It is the ranch and oil field owners part of an identity that keeps who were willing to pay more Texans, Texan. So if you think for something different. you’re tough enough to tame a Boot maker Jose Pena nails a steel shank into a custom fitted cowboy boot Many boot makers use snake bucking bronco or brave enough at Little’s Boot Company. and lizard skins, along with the to two-step across the dance floor, hides of hippo, stingray, elephant consider picking up a pair on and many others. (Laws allow your next trip to San Antonio. import and sale of these animal Custom designed boots line the shelves at LIttle’s Boot Company. skin products with proper permits Associated Press

THE GULF TODAY TIMEOUT / THURSDAY, JANUARY 11, 2018 / 19 iabetes is an epidemic highly gratifying result since all other the stomach and the upper part of the problem in many parts treatments only control diabetes - they small intestine. About 80% of diabetic of the world including are not able to achieve a remission. patients undergoing this surgery the Gulf region. The Considering these results, bariatric achieve a remission of diabetes prevalence of diabetes surgery has gradually been adopted and another 15% show significant is increasing in most as an option in management of type- improvement in control of diabetes. countries. The WHO 2 diabetes. It has no role to play in Also, when nondiabetic individuals estimates that from a global prevalence treatment of type-1 diabetes. with obesity undergoing gastric Dof about 4.7% in adults over 18 years of Most of the time, bariatric surgery bypass surgery (or other bariatric age in 1980, the prevalence had increased is done in people with significant surgery) are followed up, much lesser to 8.5% in 2014 and is now increasing obesity and if the person has diabetes number of them develop diabetes even more. In absolute terms, there were it serves as an added inducement as compared to matched controls. about 108 million diabetics worldwide for this type of surgery. The usually Sleeve gastrectomy is another type of in 1980 while in 2014 their number was recommended cut-off level for weight loss surgery in which part of estimated to have gone up steeply to qualifying for bariatric surgery as the stomach is removed. This surgery 422 million. Diabetes occurs due to an a means to treat diabetes is a BMI is usually recommended for relatively absolute or relative lack of insulin, the of 35 or above. BMI is the acronym less obese individuals. The surgery hormone produced by specialized cells for Body Mass Index and is derived is also effective in inducing diabetes located in the pancreas. Lack of insulin by dividing the weight in Kg by the remission independently of weight interferes with utilization of glucose square of the height in metres (Weight loss. Diabetes remission is achieved by cells and results in an elevation in / Height²). BMI is the most widely in about 60% of type-2 diabetics blood glucose levels. The two major adopted measure of obesity. Desirable undergoing this surgery. Adjustable types of diabetes are type-1 and type-2. or normal BMI is between 18.5 to 24.9. gastric band involves placement of In type-1 diabetes the pancreas does not A BMI between 25 and 29.9 classifies a band around the upper part of the secrete any significant amount of insulin. the individual as overweight while stomach which helps in restricting People with this type of diabetes need a BMI above 30 denotes obesity. The food intake and thus achieving weight exogenous insulin to be administered, BMI suffers from a few problems loss. Gastric banding is carried out in the usual route being by injection, for such as diagnosing overweight in less obese individuals with the aim them to survive. In type-2 diabetes insulin excessively muscular individuals and of achieving moderate weight loss. secretion is deficient rather than absent underestimating abdominal obesity, The results of diabetes remission are and a resistance to the action of insulin the far more problematic type of correspondingly lower at around 45%. at the cellular level is often present. This obesity. In spite of these limitations While bariatric surgery does is much the commoner type of diabetes. it remains a very useful indicator of achieve excellent results in obese SURGERY FOR Type-2 diabetes often responds to drugs obesity and underweight in most diabetics, the negative aspects also that stimulate the pancreas to produce more individuals. While a diabetic with a need to be highlighted. All surgery insulin or those that facilitate the action high BMI is likely to benefit most from has an inherent risk and this is also of whatever insulin is being produced bariatric surgery it has been found true of bariatric surgery. The operative by the pancreas. More severe cases of that the surgery is also effective in risk is further increased in such type-2 diabetes also require exogenous achieving a diabetes remission even patients because of the underlying DIABETES insulin which is often used along with when there is no significant obesity. problems of obesity and diabetes. oral anti-diabetic drugs. In other words the favourable effect The team carrying out the surgery will surely take all due precautions to reduce risk by carrying out There is a favourable response in diabetes required investigations and adopting rectification measures prior to and during surgery but even in the best of hands there is a small risk which control after all types of weight loss surgery. can never be claimed to be negligible or irrelevant. Further, there are also However, best results are seen after the potential complications associated with the various bariatric surgeries. These are commonest after the more surgeries which result in greater weight loss aggressive types such as duodenal switch and gastric bypass. Direct surgical risks include perforation Type-1 diabetes is widely regarded of bariatric surgery on diabetes is not of stomach or intestine, leakage as an auto-immune disease in which by weight loss alone. This supposition at suture site, infection and post- our own immune system attacks is further strengthened by the finding operative adhesions causing intestinal the insulin producing cells of the that diabetes remission is usually obstruction. Malabsorption of food pancreas while in type-2 diabetes a noted within a few days to weeks of and deficiencies of nutrients such number of factors including racial the surgery, well before substantial as vitamins and minerals is quite and genetic predisposition, obesity, weight loss has been achieved. How common after duodenal switch and lack of exercise, increasing age and this is achieved is not too clear. One is also an issue with gastric bypass stress are implicated. Central obesity possible mechanism is bypassing a and other bariatric surgery but to a in which fat collection is predominant short segment of the proximal small lesser extent. Lifelong monitoring to in the abdomen has a higher risk intestine which results in altered detect and treat such deficiencies and than generalized obesity in which signals affecting blood glucose control. also supplementation with vitamin excess fat is deposited more or less Another theory is that delivery of and mineral preparations is indicated. proportionately all over the body. nutrients to the distal small intestine There is also a risk for development of Much of the increase in prevalence of because of the bypass is the source of gall stones after all bariatric surgery diabetes to pandemic levels is credited signals resulting in favourable blood and many surgeons carry out removal to lifestyle changes affecting diet, glucose control. of the gall bladder at the time of the obesity and lack of physical exercise. There is a favourable response bariatric surgery itself to circumvent Adoption of a healthier lifestyle in diabetes control after all types of this potential complication. with more fruits and vegetables in weight loss surgery. However, best In spite of the potential risks of diet, avoiding simple sugars and results are seen after the surgeries complications of bariatric surgery excessive intake of all carbohydrates, which result in greater weight it remains a very viable option in reduction of weight and regular loss. Duodenal switch surgery is properly selected diabetics. Bariatric physical exercise reduce or delay generally carried out for the most surgery is currently recommended for the development of diabetes even obese individuals. About 70% of the obese diabetics with a BMI of 35 and in people with significant genetic stomach is removed and passage of above. Diabetics with BMI of between risk for this disease. Unfortunately, food is rerouted so that a large length 30 and 35 may also be advised obesity continues to be rampant and of the small intestine is bypassed. weight loss surgery if diabetes is not a large proportion of such individuals This results in restriction of food controllable in spite of best efforts. are not able to make much headway intake as well as interference with This recommendation is further in achieving sustained weight absorption of food. This surgery strengthened when these patients loss. Bariatric surgery which is the achieves very significant weight loss suffer significant associated medical technical term for weight loss surgery in most individuals and also the best problems such as heart disease. In is an effective option in treating gross results of diabetes remission in more diabetics with a BMI below 30, even obesity. An incidental benefit which than 90% of cases. Gastric bypass is though this type of surgery will often was first noted as long back as the a less radical surgery and achieves achieve a remission, it is not generally Dr Asheesh Mehta 1980s was that the type-2 diabetes somewhat lower, although still very advised. In any case bariatric surgery Internal Medicine Specialist which many of these individuals satisfactory, weight loss as compared is useful only in type-2 diabetes and is suffered went into remission after to duodenal switch. After gastric not recommended for type-1 diabetes weight loss surgery. This was a bypass surgery, food bypasses most of patients.

20 / THE GULF TODAY TIMEOUT / THURSDAY, JANUARY 11, 2018 Smart show Race for ‘smart’ hits fever pitch at electronics show in Las Vegas. Julie Charpentrat writes

A robot developed by Taiwan engineers moving chess pieces on a board against an opponent. Armoto from HumaK, a next generation smart toy for children equipped with a mechanical switch, body sensor and Ai speech engine offering a software and harware platform.Vegas, Nevada. iving gadgets brains will and will know your preferences, Blau, large and small tech firms Mobileye and chipmaker Nvidia, which are adapted to the individual, be a hot theme at the and it’ll then try to get smarter are locked in battle to be at the along with a dozen exhibitors in O’Donnell said. Consumer Electronics about how to interact with you,” heart of smart homes and devices. the autonomous car “marketplace.” “The whole idea of understanding Show set to open in Las he said. “To some degree there is still CES hosts the debut of a $130,000 context is a big theme in AI, and GVegas, with device makers big As consumer electronics evolve, a war on for the connected home electric car from Fisker — a we’ll see a lot of effort to improve and small touting hardware with an overriding theme has become platform,” Blau said. relaunched startup led by former the empathy of devices,” he said. “smarts.” voice-assisted digital assistants “Communication standards are BMW designed Henrik Fisker whose O’Donnell said he expects to see Whether it’s a doorbell or being integrated into more devices, being worked out, but the other previous venture went bankrupt “an evolution of the intelligence of refrigerator, a TV set or a toothbrush, said Stephen Baker of the research thing is whose allegiance you will — and one of several challengers those devices,” adding that “AI is chances are it will be connected firm NPD. commit your home to — will it be to rapidly expanding Tesla. going to improve the experience of to digital assistants powered by “I think you are going to be Samsung, LG, Amazon, Google?” Although CES ends just days the device even if it doesn’t change artificial intelligence aiming to overwhelmed by smart homes Carolina Milanesi of the ahead of a major Detroit auto show, what they are.” anticipate needs or desires. and voice — the voice speakers consultancy Creative Strategies O’Donnell said automakers are eager At this year’s show, CES will “I think you’re going to see the yelling at you in the convention said major electronics firms like to show their new technology to a include zones and marketplaces year of smart,” said Jack Gold, a center and up and down the (Las Bosch, Panasonic, Sony, Samsung wider public. for sports technology, health and technology analyst with J. Gold Vegas) Strip will be overwhelming,” are looking to showcase how several “It’s a place to make a statement wellness, robotics, smart cities, Associates. Baker said of CES. devices can work together with a about technologies that will have product design and manufacturing One of the largest trade shows He said gadget makers will connected hub. resonance,” he said. and more, and conference panels in the world, the January 9-12 infuse more products and services “I definitely see the speaker still “And the vast majority of the on many of these topics. CES will attract about 170,000 with virtual aides such as Amazon’s be key to controlling the connected new innovations in cars are in fact Keynote speakers include Ford visitors and 3,900 exhibitors from Alexa, Google Assistant, Apple home,” she said. tech things.” Motor Co. chief executive Jim 150 countries and will showcase Siri and Microsoft Cortana. Bob O’Donnell, analyst and O’Donnell said the success of Hackett, Intel’s Brian Krzanich and innovations in computers, gaming, “What happened is all the consultant with Technalysis Research, these new technologies will depend Huawei consumer chief Richard Yu. robotics, vehicle technology, virtual appliance and device guys gave said artificial intelligence also opens on how well machines can think the Conferences on tech policy and augmented reality and more. up (on making their own isolated the door to “computer vision” used way people do. will include US Transportation Gold said gadgets will be smart home systems) and instead in drones, autonomous cars and “We are looking for ways these Secretary Elaine Chao, Federal increasingly tuned to glean insights are building an ecosystem in which robotics which will be showcased devices have contextual intelligence,” Communications Commission about the people using them, with pretty much everybody’s devices at CES. he said. chief Ajit Pai and Michigan an aim of anticipating what might will talk to Google or Amazon, or Major carmakers will be on hand This would enable a device or Governor Rick Snyder. be desired at any given moment. eventually Siri,” Baker said. as well as makers of tech platforms assistant to understand multipart “Your device will learn about you Still, says Gartner analyst Brian for self-driving vehicles such as Intel’s questions and develop responses Agence France-Presse

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Unknown Letters all together When letters are stars Muhammad Yusuf writes on an exhibition where the artist follows the footsteps of a legendary calligrapher and reaches surprising conclusions

araya Art Centre, Sharjah, It includes four sculptures of the Open up to the Roof. After travelling to Iran with is collaborating with resulting forms as well as drawings Make a new water-mark on your his father, he started exploring the Sharjah Islamic Arts and wood pieces outlining the excitement relationship of geometry and Islamic Festival (till Jan. 23) to process of production. This is the And love. architecture. Combining Islamic Mpresent ‘Timo Nasseri: All the Letters and Western cultural heritages, his first time the four Unknown Letters Like a blooming night flower, in All the Stars’ (till Feb. 23). The are being shown together. Bestow your vital fragrance of work is inspired as much by specific exhibition, curated by Laura Metzler, Besides the life and work happiness memories and religious references is the artist’s first solo in the UAE. of Ibn Muqla, Nasseri is also And giving as by universal archetypes described Its starting point is his take on the inspired by Raphael Mirami and Upon our intimate assembly. by mathematics and language, and story of Ibn Muqla, the 10th century his study of mirrors. Mirami was Change rooms in your mind for the inner truths of form and rhythm. calligrapher who claimed to have a Jewish Ferrarese physician and a day. Amna Alwan, member of the found four missing letters in the mathematician with a special interest All the hemispheres in existence committee team, Department of Arabic language. in mirrors, optics and poetry. Lie beside an equator Culture, Sharjah Islamic Arts Festival, Nasseri’s artworks are a He also authored the In your heart. said that the festival was all about combination of new and older ‘Compendious Introduction to the Greet Yourself the public. “There is nothing private pieces, which highlight different First Part of the Study of Mirrors’ In your thousand other forms about it!” she said. mediums of his practice while putting where he wrote: “I say that, for some, As you mount the hidden tide and She said that the works of 42 them into a larger dialogue between mirrors constitute a hieroglyph of travel artists had been chosen around fragmentation and order, in the truth in that they uncover everything Back home. the theme of ‘Impact’. The artwork pursuit of the infinite. that is presented to them … Others, All the hemispheres in heaven had to be inspired by Islamic arts. Arab calligrapher Ali Muhammad on the contrary, hold mirrors for Are sitting around a fire Participating in the festival are bin Hassan bin Muqla, also known as a symbol of falsity because they Chatting Sharjah Art Museum, the Qasba Ibn Muqla (885 - 940) believed he had Timo Nasseri so often show things other than While stitching themselves together zone and the Al Majaz waterfront. found four letters that were missing they are”. These lines are quoted by Into the Great Circle inside of The fest is a no profit venture and from the Arabic language. Despite Nasseri in one of his works. You”. aims to enhance culture. immense pressure and physical thus protected from the calligrapher’s Another Muse is Hafiz, whom The museum hosts the main mutilation, he never revealed the enemies. Nasseri is happy to echo (‘All the Nasseri’s wide study and broad show as most of the artists are letters: his notes on their discovery The exhibition is a result of Hemispheres’): reach of interests is evident in the presenting their works there. The are still missing today. the artist’s in-depth research and Masters he brings home. He was event is reinforced by over 150 Nasseri drew inspiration from investigation of this theory as well “Leave the familiar for a while. born in Berlin in 1972 to a German workshops. “Many nationalities are this story and started searching for as his practice of Arabic lettering Let your senses and bodies stretch out mother and Iranian father. He began taking part”, Alwan said. “Perhaps where Ibn Muqla could have found in the method of Ibn Muqla and Like a welcomed season his artistic career as a photographer we mostly think of Islamic art in these letters. He theorised that they applying it to a recreated star chart Onto the meadows and shores and before making the transition to classical terms. Our aim is to promote were hidden in the constellations and from Baghdad in 934. hills. sculpture in 2004. a different perspective”. She said

22 / THE GULF TODAY TIMEOUT / THURSDAY, JANUARY 11, 2018 that each culture had its own way of expressing itself. She noted that each year, the theme of the festival itself is changed. The exhibition marks the beginning of the collaboration between Maraya Art Centre and Sharjah Islamic Arts Festival. The 20th Edition of Sharjah Islamic Arts Festival commenced on December 13, 2017. Ibn Muqla was born in Baghdad and was one of the foremost calligraphers of the Abbāsid Age (750–1258). He is the reputed inventor of the first cursive style of Arabic lettering, the nakshi script. It replaced the angular Kūfic as the standard of Islamic calligraphy. In the naskhī script, Ibn Muqla introduced the rounded forms and curved lines that in later styles were refined to give Arabic writing the flowing beauty for which it is renowned. Among the other scripts invented by him were the tawqi and the more elegant thuluth. In addition to his calligraphic work, Ibn Muqla led a chequered political life. He was appointed vizier three times, and lost office thrice for being involved in political Distinguished visitors at the inaugural with Laura Metzler (right) intrigue. He was also imprisoned three times. During one imprisonment, his enemies cut off his right hand. When released, he continued to work with great skill, using his left hand. Finally, his left hand was severed, his tongue cut out, and he was cast into prison for life a third time. He died in prison. WRITTEN IN THE STARS: A DRAMATISATION BY THE ARTIST Baghdad, Sunday, the 285th day of the year 934. The night of October 12. t was one day after the new moon. Nothing obstructed the view of IIbn Muqla. He could make out 3,000 stars with the naked eye. The view he would never see in the same way again and whose plan he now understood. Four were missing. Without Artwork covers the wall them the script was not perfect. Language and script were not in harmony. Form and content were not in balance … He had to complete the alphabet, in which all the tones on earth could resonate. It would be perfect … The Batin, the deeper meaning, was not in the word in its form on paper. There, on paper, its character must transform into a harmony for the eyes. To find, define and record the missing letters must be possible … And so on this night he looked up to the heavens, as if certain stars stood out, creating lines and curves between them, forming letters in the sky for him. There were fifteen, a whole new alphabet, graceful, perfect, complete. They had always been in the sky. No one had the power to erase them and, at the same time, the sky was the perfect hiding place for them. There he could keep them safe. He could protect them from his enemies. They wanted to control the words, so that people would see only the Zahir, the superficial meaning. Detail of an exhibit

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Quick n easy Boiling an egg shouldn’t be so hard, therefore, Noelle Carter shares a recipe to make it simple

here are countless methods large enough to hold them in a I like to leave the eggs in the time to slowly bubble out of the Cook the eggs for 3 minutes. for making hard-boiled single layer. Add enough cool hot water for 15 minutes, which porous shell while the water 3. Immediately remove from heat eggs, and as many opinions water to cover the eggs by one is long enough to fully cook the heats up, whereas when eggs and set the eggs aside, leaving regarding which is the inch. Bring the water to a boil and yolk without leaving it chalky. are added to boiling water, the them in the hot water for 15 Tright one. The whole exercise cook the eggs for three minutes. Then I place the eggs in a bowl air needs to escape quickly, and minutes. Remove the eggs and can be frustrating, particularly Then remove the pot from the of ice water until they’re cool often cracks the shell. place them in a bowl of ice water for those of us who boil eggs heat and leave the eggs in the enough to peel. That’s it. until cool enough to peel. (If only once or twice a year. Do hot water to finish cooking. Don’t worry about overcooking not using immediately, drain I start the eggs in cold or hot Depending on how you like the eggs. Because the water is HARD-BOILED EGGS the ice water, dry the eggs and water? How long do I boil them your eggs, you might leave slowly cooling over time, you’re refrigerate them until ready for? Should I shock them in ice them in the water anywhere unlikely to find any of that ABOUT 30 MINUTES. to use.) water? And if so, when? And from five to 15 minutes before dreaded grayish-green color in MAKES 1 DOZEN HARD-BOILED EGGS 4. To peel the eggs, crack the what about steaming eggs, or cooling them in ice water. the yolk. I’ve even left the eggs in shell evenly on all sides. Begin cooking them in the oven? If you wait as little as five the water for a half-hour before 1 DOZEN EGGS peeling at the wide end of the I have a method I settled on minutes before cooling, the cooling and haven’t had any eggs (where there should be an years ago, when I worked with yolks will be soft with a rich problems. 1. Place the eggs in a pot large enough air pocket), to make peeling a high-end restaurant group golden colour and the whites And I haven’t had to worry to hold them in a single layer. easier. If the shell sticks to the in Los Angeles and had to boil will be firm but silky. Let the about exploding eggs either. Fill the pot with enough water eggs, peel the eggs under cool dozens of eggs every week. The eggs sit in the water longer, Because the eggs start in cold to cover the eggs by 1 inch. water. method is simple, and forgiving. and the yolk will continue to water, they’re less likely to crack 2. Over high heat, bring the water to Place the eggs in a pot just firm up, lightening in colour. as they boil. The trapped air has a rolling boil, about 10 minutes. Tribune News Service

24 / THE GULF TODAY TIMEOUT / THURSDAY, JANUARY 11, 2018 A new statue is to be erected in Westminster’s Parliament Square, and for the first time it honours a woman. Who is being honoured thus?

1 Which cricketing innovation was used for the first time in Britain during a game between Glamorgan and Warwickshire at Cardiff on April 27 1997? It is attributed to two men named Frank and Tony. 2 Which British actor, now one of the highest-paid film stars in the world, competed for England in the diving QUIZ MASTER competition at the 1990 Commonwealth STANLEY DAVID Games? GENERAL IS THE AUTHOR OF THE PENGUIN INDIA QUIZ BOOK 3 Imagine winning both these coveted awards: an Oscar and a Nobel - well, these two people have achieved that rare honour. One won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 2016 and the Oscar for Best Song in 2000. The other won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1925 and the Oscar for Best Screenplay in 1938.

ANSWERS 4 Who won the Grammy in 2017 for 25, yet she spent the rest of her acceptance 1. DUCKWORTH LEWIS METHOD, A MATHEMATICAL FORMULATION DESIGNED TO CALCULATE WOMEN’S SUFFRAGE SOCIETIES IN 1897 speech thanking Beyonce, stating “But I THE TARGET SCORE FOR THE TEAM BATTING SECOND IN A LIMITED OVERS CRICKET 7. SIERRA LEONE. SEE, A DIAMOND CAN DO A LOT OF GOOD, FOREVER can’t possibly accept this award. ….But MATCH INTERRUPTED BY WEATHER OR OTHER CIRCUMSTANCES 8. MO FARAH, AS HE RAN TO VICTORY IN HIS LAST 10,000M TRACK EVENT AT THE WORLD my artist of my life is Beyoncé. And this 2. JASON STATHAM CHAMPIONSHIPS IN LONDON. FARAH’S 10TH CONSECUTIVE GLOBAL TRACK DISTANCE album to me, the “Lemonade” album, 3. BOB DYLAN AND GEORGE BERNARD SHAW TITLE, AT 34, WAS HAILED AS HIS BEST EVER is just so monumental. Beyoncé, it’s so 4. ADELE. 9. JODIE WHITTAKER monumental. ….And all us artists here 5. BILL CLINTON. IT WILL BE HIS FIRST NOVEL. 10. MCDONALD’S. IN FINLAND, IT CONSISTS OF A SOY PATTY, BUN, TOMATO, LETTUCE, adore you. You are our light.” 6. DAME MILLICENT FAWCETT. SHE WAS AN EQUAL RIGHTS CAMPAIGNER DEDICATED PICKLES, ONION, KETCHUP, MUSTARD, OIL AND AN EGG-LESS SANDWICH SAUCE HER LIFE TO GETTING THE WOMEN’S VOTE, AND SET UP THE NATIONAL UNION OF 5 The President Is Missing is an upcoming novel penned by James Patterson and which former US President? 6 A new statue is to be erected in Westminster’s Parliament Square, and for the first time it honours a woman. Who is being honoured thus? JASON STATHAM 7 Recently, a 709 carat rough diamond, named the “peace diamond”, was sold at auction in New York for $6.5m (£4.9m). The money is to go towards benefiting the people of which African country? 8 About which 10,000 metres track athlete was sporting commentator Brendan Foster speaking of when he said: “He was tested in the middle, he was hurting in the middle. But he had what he had before. We’ve seen a piece of history.” 9 Who played the role of the first female Dr Who ( the 13th) in the popular TV series ? 10 Which fast-food chain is planning to offer a series of vegan burgers across Europe?

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e met international supermodel Adriana Lima at the Gramercy Park Hotel in Manhattan. She is also the host of “American Beauty WStar” on A&E television network. TELL US WHY YOU DECIDED TO BECOME A PRODUCER OF THIS NEW SHOW. When I got the call to be part of the show, I never thought that it would be possible for me to host the show. And when I got an offer from the producer of the show, I feel very lucky because I get a part to create some ideas behind the challenges. So I’m learning as we go because this is the first time I host a TV ROLE MODEL show and we have different challenges that Supermodel Adriana Lima I hope you guys enjoy. Has anyone ever tried to come up on the runway while you were walking? Not yet. Not yet, and I hope it will stay that talks with Long Island kids way. It would be very scary.

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WHERE DID YOU GET YOUR INSPIRATION FOR YOUR NEW Game tips: ‘Destiny 2: SHOW? The Inverted Spire My inspiration for my new show is my children. They actually inspire me in everything I do, in my everyday work. I want to make Nightfall’ guide them proud when they see me or when I come home or in the future. So everything I do is thinking of them. HAIR AND MAKEUP ARE A MULTIBILLION-DOLLAR INDUSTRY. Useful WHAT WILL THE VIEWERS LEARN FROM YOUR SHOW? There are many things. You’re going to learn, you’re going to see what goes behind the creation, the process. It’s not only a picture when you do. You know how they get inspired. And hair points and makeup artists, where they come from. Why they decided to follow hair or be a hair stylist, for example. ... How do they (the models) feel about how they’ve been treated? How they feel about how they look. You know, it’s not only about hair. It’s about how you feel and what is behind it. WHAT DO YOU THINK IS THE NEXT FASHION FOR GIRLS? The next fashion for girls, you know, I believe that every girl should create their own fashion, whatever it is. If you want to wear pink lipstick to a formal, wear a sock in different colour, just do it _ like, you make the trends. You don’t follow. So whatever you want to do, you just make your own statement. HOW DO YOU PICK YOUR LOOK? My look for the runway? It depends. ... Fashion shows, usually we don’t get a chance to pick our looks. But sometimes if you feel a little uncomfortable, you can change certain things. But when you do red carpet appearances — which could be, for example, the Golden Globes or Emmys or something like that — you can pick what you wear. And it depends, I like to watch movies sometimes he Nightfall Strikes are brutally through one battle at a time, there and get inspired by movies. And I want to feel comfortable, too. hard in “Destiny 2,” especially are two teams pushing through two Sometimes my kids pick for me, too. And yes, OK, I like it. And they if you’re just starting or even battles at once. However, there is have good taste. I like it usually. They love high heels. I would go attempting the incredibly obviously a lot of pressure on the in the flat shoes. challenging Prestige Nightfall. Due leader to clear out as much of the Tto the new time constraints, saving cavern as possible, if they can get WHAT ADVICE WOULD YOU GIVE THIS GENERATION OF seconds, and even minutes where the entire cave cleared before the possible, is absolutely necessary. You’ll other two arrive, even better! FEMALES WITH RESPECT TO WEARING MAKEUP AND HAVING be pleased to know there are a few Depending on the other THEIR HAIR DONE? DOES THIS MAKE A WOMAN MORE AP- ways you can save a lot of time in modifiers, you’ll either run onwards PEALING? “The Inverted Spire Nightfall Strike.” or stop to jump through the Vex Before you even boot up “The gates. When you reach the open I think it’s about how you feel. If you feel comfortable not wearing Inverted Spire Strike” (when it’s the field, there’s really no exploit here, makeup, great. If you want to wear a lip balm, wear a lip balm. Red Nightfall), you must ensure your team simply group up and take down lipstick, which is my thing, wear it. It’s about how you feel, really, and composition is as robust as possible, the Cabal Majors who are hiding in what you like. It’s not about following what people are telling you to do. with every damage type accounted for the bunkers, at which point you’ll (especially when the Prism modifier be able to progress to the drill. WOULD YOU ENCOURAGE YOUR DAUGHTERS TO ENTER BEAU- is active) and that every modifier The drill section is where you is taken into consideration. At this can avoid a lot of unnecessary TY PAGEANTS? point, pick your strongest player to fighting. Instead of all players I think I can see whatever makes them happy, I would be supportive be the team leader and the person jumping to activate the jump gates, of them. I see my oldest daughter, I think she will definitely become a calling the shots, they’ll be the ones send one player down. Once the model. Whatever is happiness for them, I will be right there. As long moving ahead and doing some of lever has been pulled and the as they finish school. the heavy lifting. percentage meter begins ticking Boot up the Nightfall, and the first up, the player who jumped down WHAT IS YOUR BIGGEST FEAR WHILE WALKING ON THE RUN- thing you (the heroic leader) will can die, wait the 30 seconds, and want to do is get on your Sparrow respawn themselves. This allows WAY? and instead of heading left toward all three players to safely sit up You know, sometimes the floor is very slippery and sometimes you the group of enemies and Conflux, the top while they wait for the put sand on the floor on the runway. And we’re walking with shoes like head right toward the radiolarian jump gate to be in place. this, so it’s not easy. Sometimes we have dresses and it will be kind of lake. You’ll want to aim for the bricks After passing through the jump embarrassing if you fall down. So that’s the biggest fear, falling down hanging over the edge that are just past gate, get your Sparrow out and on the runway — it’s so silly. where the jumping puzzle spawns. zoom past everything, and even Jump down onto the platform to find use it to jump down to the other YOU ARE CONSIDERED ONE OF THE MOST BEAUTIFUL WOMEN the Vex gates already active _ jump side, being careful not to explode on on through! Your goal is to get down landing. To avoid dying on landing, IN THE WORLD. DESCRIBE TO US WHAT MAKES A WOMAN to the cavern while the two other try to roll your Sparrow and dash BEAUTIFUL. players work their way forward. away from the ground. Meanwhile, the two remaining If it’s not the Vex gate modifier, I think what makes a woman beautiful is them being themselves, players will need to kill the enemies, you can use your Sparrow to soar embracing who they are. Whatever it is, if your personality — if activate the Conflux, and fight their past everything with minimum fuss. you’re nervous, if you’re shy, you just embrace that. And there is way to the cavern. As soon as the Just make sure to stick to the middle no such thing as perfect in life. Imperfections are also beautiful, Conflux is scanned, the Vex barrier path, the one that doesn’t have a and you just accept yourself in the way you are. That’s the beauty. blocking you from the cavern will massive swinging blade. Enter the disappear. boss room and prepare to fight. Christina Cooke, Janine Saraceno, Maggie Mcdermott and Kaitlin Wing/ The advantage of this split is that Tribune News Service instead of three players pushing Sam Chandler/Tribune News Service

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115 new species discovered BY MEENA S. JANARDHAN

HOT RAP SONGS ROCKSTAR POST MALONE FEATURING 21 SAVAGE NO LIMIT G-EAZY FEATURING A$AP ROCKY & CARDI B GUCCI GANG LIL PUMP MOTORSPORT MIGOS, NICKI MINAJ & CARDI B BODAK YELLOW (MONEY MOVES) CARDI B LOVE. KENDRICK LAMAR FEATURING ZACARI crocodile lizard that HIGHLIGHTS Vietnam have given insights The illegal wildlife trade is has been turned into a into the history and formation decimating wildlife populations BARTIER CARDI cartoon character, a snail- • A mountain horseshoe bat, of Indochinese mammals since across the Greater Mekong, CARDI B FEATURING 21 SAVAGE eating turtle discovered Rhinolophus monticolus, they were found in a network especially in the Golden Triangle, Ain a Thai food market and a found in the evergreen of streams and rivers in where Laos, Thailand and GUMMO horseshoe bat that would not forests of mountainous Laos Northern Vietnam. As one of Myanmar meet. This criminal 6IX9INE look out of place in a Star Wars and Thailand that took 10 the discoverers of the species, trade threatens wildlife across movie are just three of the 115 new years to determine as a new Dr. Alexei Abramov, remarked, Asia and into Africa. A major I FALL APART species discovered by scientists species by Dr. Pipat Soisook. Its one of the ways moles managed driver of the trade is tourists from POST MALONE in the Greater Mekong region in distinctive horseshoe-shaped to maintain stable populations China and Vietnam traveling 2016, according to a new report facial structure – known as a and escape poachers is because to areas such as MongLa and LET YOU DOWN released by the World Wide Fund noseleaf -- has led some to liken they live underground inside Tachilek in Myanmar, and border NF for Nature (WWF). The report, it to a character from the cantina protected areas. areas such as Boten and the Golden ‘Stranger Species’, documents the scene in Star Wars. • A vibrantly colored frog, Triangle Special Economic Zone HOT DANCE CLUB/ work of hundreds of scientists • The Vietnamese crocodile Odorrana Mutschmanni, is one in Laos. from universities, conservation lizard, Shinisaurus crocodilurus of five new species discovered in The region PLAY SONGS organizations and research vietnamensis, is a medium- the same karst forest in Northern The Greater Mekong sub- institutes around the world who sized lizard that lives in remote Vietnam by a research team region, or just Greater Mekong, discovered 11 amphibians, two freshwater and evergreen forest led by Dr. Truong Nguyen. is an international region of the X WITH U TOM BUDIN & LUCIANA fish, 11 reptiles, 88 plants and habitats of South China and These species are threatened Mekong River basin in Southeast three mammals in Cambodia, Northern Vietnam. It is so by quarrying for cement and Asia. The region is home to more Laos, Myanmar, Thailand and heavily threatened by habitat road construction and their than 300 million people and was THINK (ABOUT IT) Vietnam. destruction, coal mining and karst forest home desperately designated with the launch of a BARBARA TUCKER The discoveries also include a collection for the pet trade that needs new protection. development program in 1992 AIN’T NO MOUNTAIN HIGH ENOUGH 2017 beautifully coloured frog found as few as 200 individuals could • A loach (fish species) from by the Asian Development in the limestone karst mountains remain in Vietnam. The lizard, Cambodia with striking Bank, which brought together DIANA ROSS of Vietnam, two mole species discovered by a research team black and brown stripes on the six states of Cambodia, China found by a team of Vietnamese headed by Professor Dr. Thomas its elongated body. STARS (specifically Yunnan Province and KRISTINE W and Russian scientists, and a loach Ziegler has been immortalized in • A frog and four plants from Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous a comic strip featuring “Shini,” Myanmar – which is opening Region), Laos, Myanmar, Thailand, (fish species) from Cambodia with LOVE LINE a long body and bold stripes. This who helps explain to school up to scientific exploration and and Vietnam. brings the total new species of children the importance of could harbour hundreds of Greater Mekong holds LEANN RIMES plants, birds, mammals, reptiles, protecting lizards. undiscovered species. irreplaceable natural and cultural TOO MUCH TO ASK fish and amphibians discovered • The snail eating turtle, riches and is considered one of in the region between 1997 and Malayemys isan, was not the world’s most significant NIALL HORAN 2016 to 2,524. discovered in a river or forest, CRITICAL TIME biodiversity hotspot. The region Scientists typically wait to but a local market in Northeast These new species discoveries is a very important food provider COPING TONI BRAXTON reveal new finds until an animal Thailand. Dr. Montri Sumontha come at a critical time. The Greater and the site of many large-scale or plant is officially described noticed the turtle in two different Mekong region is under intense construction projects with social as a new species – a time- markets and suspected it was development pressure from mines and economic implications. SHINE YOUR LOVE consuming process – hence the a new species. He asked the to roads to dams, threatening the The region is home to some of SCOTTY BOY & LIZZIE CURIOUS lag between the initial discovery shopkeepers, who said they survival of the natural landscapes the planet’s most endangered wild and announcement for some caught them in a nearby canal, so that make it so unique. Poaching species, including the tiger, saola, WOMAN species spotlighted in the report. he purchased them to check. He for bushmeat or the multi-billion Asian elephant, Mekong dolphin KESHA FEATURING THE DAP-KINGS HORNS The report ‘Stranger Species’ notes that the turtle is threatened dollar illegal wildlife trade puts and Mekong giant catfish. A total is the ninth in a series of reports by infrastructure such as dikes additional pressure on the region’s 2,409 new species of plants, birds, COMPLICATED DIMITRI VEGAS & LIKE MIKE VS. DAVID highlighting new species and dams and urges protection wildlife, meaning many species mammals, fish, amphibians and discoveries in the Greater Mekong under Thai law. could be lost before they are even reptiles have been discovered in GUETTA FEATURING KIIARA region. • Two moles discovered in discovered. the Greater Mekong since 1997.

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HELLO YOUNG ARTISTS Take out your crayons, colour pencils or paint boxes and start drawing and colouring.Your original drawings and illustrations are always welcome. A4 paper size is ideal. Please send in your drawings and paintings, along with your photograph. We will select the best ones and publish them! The address is: Young World, The Gulf Today, Post Box 30, Sharjah e-mail: [email protected] CENTRE OF ATTRACTION

People look at koi carp in a tank during a ‘nishikigo’ (coloured carp) contest’ in Tokyo. Agence France-Presse

THE GULF TODAY TIMEOUT / THURSDAY, JANUARY 11, 2018 / 29 Web power The 2017 Fiat 124 Spider brings classic roadster styling in a modern package. Charles Fleming writes about the change

hen Fiat Chrysler and convertible, is still the bestselling But the most essential difference is very engaged. Meant to be an engine improves, and the sense Mazda announced in Fiat ever in the US market. is under the hood. The Mazda is homage to the great two-seaters of engagement increases. A small 2012 a joint venture to But two-seat ragtops don’t sell powered by a 2.0-litre, four-cylinder of previous decades, the new screen behind the seats cuts the build a sports car that very well, and aren’t economically engine that makes 155 horsepower version is in many ways an old- breeze flowing into the driver Wwould in time become Mazda’s feasible for most big car companies, and 148 pound-feet of torque. The fashioned, analog vehicle. compartment, but driving with the new Miata and Fiat’s new 124 unless they can find a way to build Fiat uses a 1.4-litre MultiAir four- The convertible top goes up top down is still a nicely windy Spider, cynics dismissed the effort them in large-enough numbers — cylinder turbocharged engine, and down manually, with no experience. as nothing but a sneaky way to by finding a partner, for instance, designed and manufactured in Italy, motor to assist, but like the Miata The cabin space felt ample, with build one car and pretend it was that also wants to recapture some which while smaller produces 160 top, and unlike the Fiat’s brother lots of legroom and, with the top two. past glory. Like Mazda, which was horsepower and 184 pound-feet of Alfa Romeo 4C Spider, it requires up, sufficient headroom. But the And when the two resulting eager to relaunch its bestselling torque. It is said to go from zero only one person, two hands and seats are set quite low and may vehicles were unveiled last year, sports car, the Miata. to 60 mph in 6.7 seconds. minimal effort. make shorter drivers wish for a auto journalists jokingly called “Let’s face it — these are not the Run through a manual six-speed There’s a cup holder, but taller perch or a pillow. them both “Fiata.” This was one most popular cars in the world,” gearbox similar to the Miata’s, the it’s placed so badly, behind the Trunk space? There’s more than car, with two nameplates, they said, said Bob Broderdorf, director of Fiat engine is peppy, powerful and driver’s elbow, as to be more or in the Miata, Fiat says, and room built with the same drivetrain, on Fiat Brand North America. “The responsive. It makes a cheerful, less useless. (The Miata has the for a full-size piece of carry-on the same platform, in the same volume is not there.” throaty roar when pushed same inconvenient cup cubby.) luggage, but you won’t be throwing factory, with only slightly different The two cars share a basic hard, and delivers impressive There is no glove box, in the a golf bag in there. styling. platform. They share some interior performance throughout all traditional sense. The seats adjust And, being a convertible, it’s Mea culpa! Mea maxima culpa! I elements. They are both built on six gears. It’s not a massive manually. The entertainment, not a quiet car. Fiat added sound- was among them, and I was wrong. Mazda assembly lines in Japan. But powerplant, but it makes this climate control and navigation deadening elements to the car — an The Fiat 124 Spider and the Mazda the experience of driving them is light sports car feel fast. systems are minimal. I was almost acoustic windshield and additional MX-5 Miata are both great sports quite different, and the experience The clutching is soft but sturdy, surprised to find power windows. components inside the convertible cars, and neither one is a Fiata. of driving the Fiat is fantastic. and the shifting has a tight, tidy In other words, this is a precise, roof but engine noise, tire noise Fiat was hoping, with the The most obvious difference feel. (A six-speed automatic purposeful, driver’s car _ a car you and wind noise, even with the reintroduction of the Spider, to between the two vehicles is the transmission is also available. are meant to drive attentively, alert top up, tend to accentuate the recapture past glory. The version styling. The Fiat is longer, with But, why?) and attached to the road. engaged drive experience. the Italian company sold in the broader shoulders and bigger, Like its Mazda counterpart, the That’s even more true with 1960s and 70s, a low-slung, two-seat bolder headlamps. overall Spider driving experience the top down. The sound of the Tribune News Service

30 / THE GULF TODAY TIMEOUT / THURSDAY, JANUARY 11, 2018 THE GULF TODAY TIMEOUT / THURSDAY, JANUARY 11, 2018 / 31 TOTAL MAKEOVER ctress Emma Watson showed off choppy fringe and new darker hairdo at a red carpet event. The “Harry Potter” star debuted Athe new hairstyle at the star-studded BAFTA tea party held at the Four Seasons Hotel in Beverly Hills on Saturday, reports mirror. co.uk. The 27-year-old had ditched her usual mousy brown colour in favour of a rich and darker brown hairdo and was also sporting a short and choppy fringe. She donned a chic outfit made up of sharp white blazer and black trousers. She finished off the look with a small black handbag and comfortable black flats. It’s the first time Watson has undergone such a dramatic hair transformation. She last sported a different hairdo — a pixie cut, in 2010.