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LOVED: Carly Rae Jepsen takes photos with fans te Unqu uo ot t started off on Tumblr, as many Q e matters pertaining to Canadian pop “Failure star Carly Rae Jepsen do. One of will never overtake her fans thought it would be nice if she had a sword, and started a viral me if my determination to Icampaign to get her one. A few months and many memes later, she was handed succeed is strong enough.” one onstage at Lollapalooza ‘18 (there have — Og Mandino actually been several – Jensen’s fans are fi ercely devoted, and seem to love swords for some reason). When Jepsen won the Song of the Decade lottery with Call Me Maybe in 2012, the fame that came with it, oppressive at fi rst, settled into something breathable and nice over the course of the next few albums: Emotion Community Editor (2015), and the new Dedicated, a pristine, ‘80s-dwelling pop album. Kamran Rehmat In an interview, Jepsen, 33, discussed her e-mail: [email protected] post-Call Me Maybe life, her little-heard Telephone: 44466405 folk-pop debut, and what she does with all Fax: 44350474 those swords. The following is an edited version of that conversation: Friday, August 2, 2019 GULF TIMES 3 COVER STORY COMMUNITY
The fame that came after the massive hit Call Me Maybe in 2012, oppressive at first, settled into something breathable and nice over the course of the next few alb ums: Emotion (2015), and the new Dedicated, a pristine, ‘80s-dwelling pop album.
You had almost 200 songs written for the album. How did you choose? It was a really hard. I was home for a brief stint in Canada and I went into my dad’s music room, and there were poster boards of all the many songs I had written for giving this my all.” And they were I’m much happier now and I’m feeding. Is yours more low They’ve given me a few swords my fi rst ever EP, that probably no like, “All right, go for it, kid.” much more confi dent in who I maintenance? now. one ever listened to. It was nice. I When you’re at home in L.A., am, and the artist that I want to Wow, I didn’t know that about Do you keep them? Could was like, I guess I’ve always been an can you move through the world be. I’m grateful for the journey of Taylor. I think that’s amazing, you get them through airport overwriter. ... I usually have lots of pretty easily, without showing it, though. I don’t regret Call Me though. I don’t think that’s security? friends and bandmates and family up in the Daily Mail the next Maybe, or the craziness of what we anything but really cool. But it’s A: I was like, “What am I going members involved in helping me day? got to experience, but every year more of an organic feeling, like, to do with a sword? It’s so sweet, I narrow it down, by throwing these I do get recognized on occasion, has felt better and better. after the shows I WANT to do the can’t leave it here.” I gave it to my kind of chaotic listening parties at but it’s not on the Justin Bieber level, You do have a dedicated meet and greets. It doesn’t feel like tour manager, and he cracked us my house. That’s a really helpful where you can’t leave your house or fanbase, but do they need a a pressure thing. ... “Tending” I up by sending us a picture of the tool for seeing what people are go do something on your own. And lot of tending? You always see don’t think is the right word. sword wrap ped in styrofoam, going reacting to. They get invested and when people do come up, they’re nice Taylor Swift on Tumblr, liking They wanted to give you a through security. have debates about it. It’s kind of and friendly, it’s (not) madness or fan posts. It’s a beast that needs sword. — Chicago Tribune/ TNS fun to sit back and watch. craziness, it’s just people being nice. Is it true that you never have The Call Me Maybe era was a little too writer’s block? intense for me, so I much prefer my Yeah. I feel like I’m going to need privacy on some level. to knock on wood if I keep saying It seems having a big hit that. It’s not that I don’t write a bad like that would be weirdly song _ if you needed me to write terrifying. You don’t know if you a song today, I’m sure I could you’re going to have another, come up with something. I guess people are constantly coming I’m fairly able to write if I need up to you. to write, yeah. I’m kind of even It’s funny what you think you writing when I don’t mean to be. want, and what you want. I’m really When someone says something in a glad I got to experience it, but there certain way, I’ll fi nd some poetry to was some time afterwards when it, kind of ignoring the conversation you feel that adrenaline of, “What’s and writing it down quickly. My next? How do we (make another friends call me out for doing it a lot. hit)?” And I just thought, what am I What kind of expectations did working for here, because this isn’t you have when you released that fun, even. I would love to have a job fi rst folk-pop album? Are you in music, but there’s diff erent goals, like, “Here we go. I’m going to and being honest about that was be famous now”? critical. It doesn’t mean we didn’t One thing I’ve never had is a big try for it. We were on the road, in expectation for what my career the hustle, but there was a point was going to look like. I just knew where it was good to take some time that I was going to keep hustling off and get back into the studio. I and trying to have one. Even in my spent a while before Emotion came PowerPoint presentation to my into fruition. When I had that parents when I decided that I was album, I was hoping to fi nd a tribe going to make a run for this thing, of people who loved music vs. the I was like, “One’s happiness equals celebrity-ness of my career, and (less) regrets. Even if I was jazz I’ve been so lucky to have that. lounge singing and waitressing six Do you look at now as being nights a week, I will be so happy better than back then? VIRAL: In 2018, fan art and photoshops depicting Jepsen with a sword, such as that above, began spreading online. 4 GULF TIMES Friday, August 2, 2019 COMMUNITY BODY & MIND How walking makes us happier and brainier Neuroscientist Shane O’Mara believes that plenty of regular walking unlocks the cognitive powers of the brain like nothing else. He explains why you should exchange your gym kit for a pair of comfy shoes and get strolling, writes Amy Felming
aking a stroll with stress, depression and anxiety; and Shane O’Mara is a learning, memory and cognition. risky endeavour. The “It turns out that the brain systems neuroscientist is so that support learning, memory and passionate about cognition are the same ones that walking,T and our collective right to are very badly aff ected by stress go for walks, that he is determined and depression,” he says. “And by not to let the slightest unfortunate a quirk of evolution, these brain aspect of urban design break his systems also support functions stride. So much so, that he has a such as cognitive mapping,” by habit of darting across busy roads which he means our internal GPS as the lights change. “One of life’s system. But these aren’t the only great horrors as you’re walking is overlaps between movement and waiting for permission to cross the mental and cognitive health that street,” he tells me, when we are neuroscience has identifi ed. forced to stop for traffi c – a rude I witnessed the brain-healing interruption when, as he says, “the eff ects of walking when my partner experience of synchrony when was recovering from an acute walking together is one of life’s brain injury. His mind was often great pleasures”. He knows this not unsettled, but during our evening only through personal experience, strolls through east London, things but from cold, hard data – walking started to make more sense and makes us healthier, happier and conversation fl owed easily. O’Mara brainier. nods knowingly. “You’re walking O’Mara, 53, is in his element rhythmically together,” he says, striding through urban landscapes “and there are all sorts of rhythms – from epic hikes across London’s happening in the brain as a result sprawl to more sedate ambles in of engaging in that kind of activity, Oxford, where he received his DPhil and they’re absent when you’re – and waxing lyrical about science, sitting. One of the great overlooked nature, architecture and literature. superpowers we have is that, when He favours what he calls a “motor- we get up and walk, our senses are centric” view of the brain – that it sharpened. Rhythms that would evolved to support movement and, previously be quiet suddenly therefore, if we stop moving about, come to life, and the way our brain it won’t work as well. interacts with our body changes.” This is neatly illustrated by From the scant data available the life cycle of the humble sea on walking and brain injury, says squirt which, in its adult form, O’Mara, “it is reasonable to surmise is a marine invertebrate found that supervised walking may clinging to rocks or boat hulls. It help with acquired brain injury, has no brain because it has eaten depending on the nature, type it. During its larval stage, it had a and extent of injury – perhaps by backbone, a single eye and a basic promoting blood fl ow, and perhaps brain to enable it to swim about also through the eff ect of entraining hunting like “a small, water- various electrical rhythms in the dwelling, vertebrate cyclops”, as brain. And perhaps by engaging in O’Mara puts it. The larval sea squirt systematic dual tasking, such as knew when it was hungry and talking and walking.” how to move about, and it could One such rhythm, he says, is that tell up from down. But, when it of theta brainwaves. Theta is a pulse fused on to a rock to start its new or frequency (seven to eight hertz, vegetative existence, it consumed to be precise) which, says O’Mara, its redundant eye, brain and spinal “you can detect all over the brain cord. Certain species of jellyfi sh, during the course of movement, conversely, start out as brainless and it has all sorts of wonderful polyps on rocks, only developing eff ects in terms of assisting learning complicated nerves that might be and memory, and those kinds of considered semi-brains as they things”. Theta cranks up when we become swimmers. move around because it is needed O’Mara’s enthusiasm for for spatial learning, and O’Mara walking ties in with both of his suspects that walking is the best main interests as a professor of movement for such learning. “The experimental brain research: timescales that walking aff ords us a Friday, August 2, 2019 GULF TIMES 5 BODY & MIND COMMUNITY
High Vitamin A intake essential for the healthy growth squamous cell carcinoma were can lower skin cancer and maturation of skin cells but reported and verifi ed within the risk prior studies on its eff ectiveness 24 to 26 year follow-up periods. in reducing skin cancer risk have Participants’ hair colour, the Researchers have found that shown mixed results. number of severe sunburns they people who intake high levels of In the study published in the had received in their lifetime and Vitamin A were 17 percent less Journal of American Medical any family history of skin cancer at risk of getting a skin cancer Association Dermatology, the were also taken into account. as compared to those who ate researchers analysed data from After grouping the participants modest amounts of foods and two long-term observational into fi ve categories by their supplements rich in Vitamin A. studies in which 121,700 US Vitamin A intake levels, the “Our study provides another women were followed from 1984 researchers found that people reason to eat lots of fruits and to 2012 and 51,529 US men from in the category with the highest vegetables as part of a healthy 1986 to 2012. average daily total Vitamin A diet. Skin cancer, including The research team looked at intake were 17 percent less likely squamous cell carcinoma, is the diet and skin cancer results to get skin cancer than those in hard to prevent, but this study of the participants. Between the the category with the lowest total suggests that eating a healthy diet two studies, around 123,000 Vitamin A intake. rich in Vitamin A, in addition to participants were white (and The team also found that the wearing sunscreen and reducing thus had a signifi cant risk of majority of Vitamin A came sun exposure, may be a way to developing skin cancer), had from the participants’ diets, reduce the risk,” said Eunyoung no prior history of cancer and particularly from fruits and Cho, Associate Professor at the completed the dietary reports vegetables, rather than from Brown University. multiple times. animal-based foods or vitamin Vitamin A is known to be A total of 3,978 cases of supplements. – IANS
ACCESSIBLE: Walking is much more accessible and easily woven into everyday life for an active lifestyle. are the ones we evolved with,” he sustained for at least 30 minutes, at writes, “and in which information least four or fi ve times a week.” pickup from the environment most O’Mara describes our inbuilt easily occurs.” GPS, or cognitive mapping system, Essential brain-nourishing as a silent sense. “It is constructed molecules are produced by largely without our awareness, and aerobically demanding activity, we only notice it if it fails us.” While too. You’ll get raised levels of the sensitive vestibular system brain-derived neurotrophic factor of the inner ear governs balance, (BDNF) which, writes O’Mara, for mental mapping (which can “could be thought of as a kind of work even when our eyes don’t), a molecular fertiliser produced we have what are known as place within the brain because it supports cells in our hippocampi. If you structural remodelling and growth stay in one place, the cell for that of synapses after learning … BDNF position keeps fi ring, but if you increases resilience to ageing, move, that cell will stop fi ring and and damage caused by trauma or a cell marking your new position infection.” Then there’s vascular will start fi ring and so on. In rat endothelial growth factor (VEGF), experiments, the system worked MIXED RESULTS: Vitamin A is known to be essential for the healthy growth and maturation of skin cells but which helps to grow the network of less well when the rodents were prior studies on its eff ectiveness in reducing skin cancer risk have shown mixed results. blood vessels carrying oxygen and wheeled around as opposed to nutrients to brain cells. walking. Some people, I point out, While all this is going on in the Shame, guilt aff ect work the emotional response to asthma under control,” Gyandeep Mangal, don’t think walking counts as background, our social brains are of asthma suff erers in the workplace,” said Kevin Senior Consultant in Respiratory proper exercise. “This is a terrible working to predict which direction Gruff ydd-Jones from Box Surgery Medicine at Sri Balaji Action mistake,” he says. “What we need others will take, to avoid collision. It is not just respiratory in Britain. Medical Institute in Delhi, told to be is much more generally active In order to walk and navigate, the symptoms or a feeling of tiredness The study results found that IANS. over the course of the day than we brain fl ickers between regions, that asthma suff erers have to face on an average, up to one-tenth “The disease aff ects the daily are.” And often, an hour at the gym just as our waking minds are daily, many of them even have (9.3 percent) of work hours were life of an individual where she/ doesn’t cut it. “What you see if you often, says O’Mara, “fl ickering to deal with shame and a sense missed in a single week because of he has to take a number of get people to wear activity monitors between big-picture states – of guilt using inhalers at work, workers’ asthma symptoms. precautions for their well-being is that because they engage in an thinking about what we have to preventing them from working to Asthma suff erers in India too along with medications and and hour of really intense activity, do tomorrow, plans for next year, their full potential, new research face similar challenges, according at the same time have to continue they engage in much less activity engaging in what is called ‘mental has found. to doctors. with their jobs, home tasks and afterwards.” time travel’ – and task-focused The World Health Organisation “One cannot ignore the other work,” he added. – IANS But you don’t get the endorphin work. And you need to fl icker estimates that 235 million people environment and other related high from walking, I say. “The same between these states in order to do around the world suff er from conditions which in any case hit you get from running is what creative work.” asthma. can go against the patient; she/ you’d get from taking morphine? That’s how important The study, published in the he has to be prepared all the We simply don’t know that’s true,” associations get made, and this Journal of Asthma and Allergy, time with medications, inhalers he says. “People who study this fl ickering seems to be bolstered by showed that asthma suff erers are and other prescriptions,” said area don’t go on about endorphins walking. missing nearly one-tenth of work Navneet Sood, Senior Consultant, and there may be a reason for O’Mara’s ultimate ode to urban hours due to their symptoms, Pulmonology, Dharmshila that.” Not that he is opposed to walking is TS Eliot’s 1915 poem which also results in a loss of Narayana Superspeciality vigorous exercise, but walking is The Love Song of J Alfred Prufrock, productivity and aff ects their Hospital in Delhi. much more accessible and easily which he describes as “a journey emotional well-being. “Strong will power is needed to woven into everyday life: “You on foot, and a journey through On an average, three out of continue with normal daily life as don’t need to bring anything other states of mind”. Wordsworth four workers could not work to being careless is not an option,” than comfy shoes and a rain jacket. composed poetry as he wandered, their full potential, showed the Sood said in a statement. You don’t have to engage in lots of while Aristotle delivered lectures survey of over 1,500 symptomatic Asthma patients often feel preparation; stretching, warm-up, on foot in the grounds of his asthma patients across six inferior and disadvantaged warm-down …” O’Mara gets off his school in Athens. The philosopher countries: Brazil, Canada, compared to their non- commuter train a stop early so that Friedrich Nietzsche memorably Germany, Japan, Spain and the symptomatic colleagues. he can clock up more steps on his said that “only thoughts reached UK. “Being an asthma patient pedometer. To get the maximum by walking have value”, a notion Overall, total work productivity one is prone to minor or major INFERIORITY COMPLEX: health benefi ts, he recommends that Charles Dickens – who was as dropped by one third (36 per cent) attacks. A large number of Asthma patients often feel inferior that “speed should be consistently prolifi c a walker as he was a writer due to asthma. patients have to be on daily and disadvantaged compared to high over a reasonable distance – would no doubt have seconded. “But, what struck us most was treatment to keep symptoms their non-symptomatic colleagues. – say consistently over 5km/h, – The Guardian 6 GULF TIMES Friday, August 2, 2019 COMMUNITY CUISINE
Broccoli 1 head Bok choy, big dice 2 cups Egg noodle 2lb. Chicken broth 1 cup Chili garlic sauce 2 tbsp. Sriracha sauce 1 tbsp. Soy sauce light 4 tbsp. Salt to taste Black pepper crushed to taste For Garnish Spring onion to garnish Cilantro leaves to garnish
Method: Cut the chicken breast into thin strips and keep aside. Marinate the chicken strips in 1 tbsp. oil, salt, pepper and 1 tbsp. minced garlic, refrigerate for 30 minutes. Heat water with salt and oil in a heavy bottom pot and blanch the noodles. Allow the noodles to cook and remove when they are al dente, refresh in cold water and drizzle some oil. Wash, cut and prepare all the listed vegetables and keep aside. Heat the fl at top griddle over medium heat and spread oil and season it well. Allow the grill to season and add more oil if required. Photo by the author Once the grill is seasoned and like a nonstick pan test the grill by placing few chicken strips to see if it sticks to the grill. If the chicken sticks to the grill, The culinary showmanship repeat the season process of the grill. Then add all the chicken and stir fry till almost cooked. of Mongolian grill Now add all the veggies and stir fry over medium high heat , add some chicken stock and oil if y current full time round, solid, thick griddle used allow multiple visits to the grill. food stall in Taipei in 1951. He required. project involves typically in Mongolian, Chinese, Some people relate this type originally wanted to call the dish Add the mentioned sauces and planning and Korean, Japanese restaurants to stir of grill to the Teppenyaki grills “Beijing Barbecue” but because adjust the seasoning with salt and execution of 10 fry meats and vegetables along with from Japan and also the Korean of the political sensitivity with pepper. live food stations accompaniments and seasonings Barbecuing due to the similarity the city, which had just recently Stir fry till the chicken is cooked whichM will feed approximately according to the guest choice. of the dishes being prepared on been designated as the capital of and the sauce is evenly coated over 5,000 people every day in Atlanta, Diners choose from a variety of the griddle and their demographic communist China he settled with the chicken and vegetables. Georgia. The biggest challenge is these foods for the chef to “grill- proximity with each other. Where “Mongolian Barbecue” instead, Serve hot garnished with some to make sure that there is enough stir fry” it right in front of them and ever the concept came from, this even though it had no direct spring onion and fresh chopped variety and the menu is planned the large capacity griddle enables concept has been successfully relation to Mongolia. This grill cilantro. keeping a lot of factors in mind like him to cook simultaneous meals at adopted by American restaurants came to America in 1960’s and the menu rotation, preferences once in this entertaining culinary and have been popularised and since then numerous restaurants Note: The choice of vegetables of the dinners, availability of showmanship. The round shape of commercialised all over the world are based on this concept as the and proteins that you can choose ingredients, allocated budget the grill allows for multiple chefs including franchised Mongolian food is cooked in a live station and for the above recipe is endless, you and trending food dishes and to cook food simultaneously and restaurants in Mongolia. Some is fresh. can add snow peas, beans, bean organisational guidelines. All to cook quickly due to the thinly American chains place the food sprouts, baby corn, Edamame the live cooking stations work as sliced ingredients, so that the on diff erent parts of the round Mongolian Barbecue beans, Napa cabbage and many individual restaurants and serve food is typically cooked in one grill, sometimes in a special wedge Cicken more vegetables. You can replace a menu for breakfast, lunch and revolution of the grill. Oil and shaper. Each dish is stir fried in its the chicken with tofu or cottage dinner for the guests. One such water is continuously sprayed to turn and the chef walks around the Ingredients cheese. station and one of my favourite maintain the season of the griddle grill and turns each individual’s Chicken breast 600gm one is the Mongolian grill or Flat and serves as a cooking medium. food in succession. Oil 3 tbsp. Iron as I like to denote it is one of When cooking is complete, each The origin story of Mongolian Garlic, minced 4-6 cloves my favourites action station with fi nished dish is scooped into a bowl grill relates it to a Taiwanese Bell peppers 2 no. z Chef Tarun Kapoor, a huge Mongolian fl at iron grill and handed to the diner. Many comedian and restauranteur who Yellow onion 2 no. Culinary Mastermind, being the centre of attraction. A Mongolian grill restaurants follow fl ed from China during the Chinese Mushroom, sliced 240gm USA. He may be contacted at Mongolian barbecue grill is a large, an all you can eat buff et format and civil war and opened a street Carrots, julienne 1 cup [email protected] Friday, August 2, 2019 GULF TIMES 7 COMMUNITY QPEC organises event to acknowledge its suppliers and contractors
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ICC commemorates Mohamed Rafi’s 39th death anniversary
Indian Cultural Centre, in association with Al Zaheem Events, recently organised an event to Local singers, including Hashim Puthur, Haleem Bhai, Mythili Praveen, Sunil Muhamed, Aslam and commemorate the 39th death anniversary of Mohamed Rafi, one of the greatest and most Manaf presented songs of Rafi at the occasion. influential singers of the Indian subcontinent, at Ashoka Hall ICC. Around 100 people attended K M Varghese, the Chairman of Advisory Board of ICC, felicitated the artistes and organisers on the event. Mohamed Rafi had received six Film Fare Awards and one National Film Award in his the occasion. The event was co-ordinated by Bhumeshwar Padala, Managing Member of ICC career. In 1967, he was honoured with the Padma Shri award by the Government of India and had and Head of Counsellor Services and External Events, and supported by Ramachandra Shetty, recorded as many as 7405 songs in many languages. Managing Committee member and Head of In-house activities. 8 GULF TIMES Friday, August 2, 2019 COMMUNITY INFOGR Friday, August 2, 2019 GULF TIMES 9 RAPHIC COMMUNITY 10 GULF TIMES Friday, August 2, 2019 COMMUNITY FASHION A Philadelphia designer who is making menswear more relaxed
Francesco Reale, CEO of Moda Matters Custom Menswear.
There are fl at-front and single- have shoulder pads (that promotes stitch, the true mark of a well-made on friends Stephen Zaff uto, By Elizabeth pleated chinos in such saturated stiff ness) but they do feature lower Italian shirt. Jonathan Edwards and Scott Silver neutrals as olive, rust, tobacco inside pockets designed specifi cally Reale started his business as a as partners. And last year, Reale Wellington and cream as well as blazers in to hide bulky wallets and cell hobby back in 2014 while he was launched a capsule collection with soft, jersey knits that are totally phones. The sleeves are hand- working for Agusta Westland, Men’s Style Pro blogger Sabir Peele. mix-and-matchable. The major stitched onto the jacket and have an aerospace company in the This year, Reale decided to bring et’s face it: Relaxed standout: a twice-washed denim functional buttons at the bottom. Northeast. He was studying for his ready-to-wear suits to his business menswear causes more blazer that is so soft it feels as if it’s “It’s an added detail that shows off MBA and had a hard time fi nding because he says the casual elements problems than solutions. been broken in for years. The pieces the ability of Italian tailors,” Reale suits that suited his fancy, so he are starting to drive his customers. Without steadfast have very little structure and even says. The double-breasted jacket started a business making made- “There is always going to be fashion rules – especially some stretch. opens with the same smoothness to-measure suits in China. But a time and a place for suits, but theL tried-and-true blazer/tie In the last decade, the menswear of a classic three-button. Moda eventually he moved manufacturing people are starting to realise here combo – men started to both market has seen the largest Matter shirts feature French-spread and fabric sourcing to Italy as a that you don’t need a full suit to squeeze or swim in ill-fi tting, dated shift in style. But early in this collars and the buttons are affi xed way to pay homage to his Italian look elegant,” Reale said. looks that always seemed sloppy. millennial game, men’s retailers using the classic chicken foot heritage. Two years ago he brought The Philadelphia Inquirer/ TNS Enter Francesco Reale, the took inspiration from buttoned- 35-year-old owner and founder up dandies who fancied bespoke of Moda Matters. For summer, English-style suits. the aerospace executive-turned- That was a lot of work – and fashion mogul is introducing ironing. And it became expensive. a line of suits on its website In the last two years, however, (ModaMatters.com) inspired by the menswear, like its women’s wear fashions of Italy. He’s calling the counterpart, has started taking style Italian American, the looks its cues from athletic apparel. come just in time for the summer Instead of made-to-measure suits, wedding season. the focus has been on made-to- “We are taking some of the measure joggers. And the Italian elements of Italian suits and giving American look, Reale said, fi ts them an American twist,” Reale told easier into today’s reality: the guy me from his offi ce in WeWork on who wants to be dressed for work, the 1900 block of Market Street. craves aff ordability – blazers range “It’s a much more relaxed look,” from $388 to $488, while chino he continued. “Italian American trousers are about $158 – but doesn’t mean velour sweatsuits doesn’t want to feel stiff . anymore. It doesn’t mean bright And, Reale said, as more and tacky, but it is about wearing companies allow men to ditch their the brighter palette. It’s about being suit and ties, as Goldman Sachs did dressed, but being comfortable.” in March, the Italian American look On a recent spring morning, the will only become more relevant. Moda Matters rack pops with nine While Reale touts the Italian pieces from the brand’s summer American style as more relaxed, collection, especially the soft red Moda Matters doesn’t shirk on the windowpane jacket that reminds details. It’s those details, he says, me of what a 1970s sitcom dad that give this casual look grown- would wear, but is the defi nition of man credibility. all that’s vintage, cool and modern. Moda Matters jackets don’t Friday, August 2, 2019 GULF TIMES 11 LEISURE COMMUNITY
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Super Cryptic Clues Wordwatch
teknonymy or tecnonymy 2. The act of determining such (to grow). Earliest documented use: (tek-NON-uh-mee) relationship. 1796. MEANING: 3. Forming of a new branch. USAGE: noun: The custom of naming a parent “Malena is the hypocoristic form after their child. USAGE: of Madalena, but there is nothing USAGE: “French Foreign Minister Bernard diminutive about supermodel-actress “Indeed, the taboo against using Kouchner recently asked the German Monica Belluci.” personal names is so strong, and the government to grant citizenship to urge to teknonymy so strong, that the French war babies who seek it after ultima Thule child in question can be imaginary. Sim tracing their filiation.” (UL-tuh-muh THOO-lee) cites with disapproval the example of MEANING: a young housewife on a TV gameshow hypocoristic noun: being asked to introduce to the (hy-puh-kuh-RIS-tik, hip-uh-) 1. The northernmost part of the world audience the gentleman standing MEANING: believed habitable by the ancients. besides her. Her reply [meant] ‘This is adjective: Relating to a pet name or 2. A distant or remote goal or place. my husband (the father of our as-yet- diminutive form of a name. 3. The farthest point. unconceived child)’.” noun: A pet name or diminutive form of ETYMOLOGY: Ho-min Sohn; Korean Language in a name. From Latin ultima (farthest) + Thule, a Culture and Society; University of Hawaii ETYMOLOGY: place believed by ancient people to be Press; 2006. From Greek hypokoristikos, from the northernmost, variously identified as hypokorizesthai (to call by pet names), Iceland, Norway, Greenland, or Shetland filiation from hypo- (under) + kor- (child). Islands. Earliest documented use: 1771. (fil-ee-AY-shuhn) Ultimately from Indo-European root USAGE: MEANING: ker- (to grow), which is also the source “On what’s known as the shy-bold noun: of other words such as increase, continuum of human behaviour, 1. The fact of being descended or recruit, crew, crescent, cereal, concrete, Unst stands out as an ultima Thule of derived from someone or something. crescendo, sincere, and Spanish crecer shyness.” — wordsmith.org
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For movie timings and further details please scan the QR code above with your mobile phone camera or visit qatarcinemas.com 14 GULF TIMES Friday, August 2, 2019 COMMUNITY LIFESTYLE/HOROSCOPE Active girls have better lung function in adolescence: Study
arents, please take and lifestyle-related factors. note. Researchers The researchers defined low, have demonstrated an moderate and high physical association between activity trajectories. regular physical activity “Girls in the moderate and high Pduring childhood and higher physical activity trajectories had lung function in adolescent girls a higher exhalation capacity — compared to boys. that is, greater forced expiratory The study, published in volume — than girls in the low the International Journal of physical activity trajectory,” said Epidemiology, examined the study lead author Celina Roda relationship between physical from ISGlobal. activity, from childhood to In contrast, no such association young days and lung function in was observed in boys. One adolescence in 2,300 boys and possible explanation, according girls participating in the Avon to researchers, is that “growth Longitudinal Study of Parents and spurts occur earlier in girls than Children (ALSPAC). in boys, so any effect of physical “The high prevalence of activity on lung function can be physical inactivity observed in more easily observed at an earlier children is worrying. Extrapolated age in girls”. to the population as a whole, The fi ndings showed that less this is a factor that could have “Strategies for promoting to the researchers, the children’s was analysed by spirometry at 8 and than 7 per cent of the children a considerable impact on lung physical activity in childhood physical activity was recorded 15 years of age. achieved the level of physical function,” said Judith Garcia could be highly benefi cial for using an Actigraph sensor over The children’s parents also activity recommended by the World Aymerich from Barcelona Institute the respiratory health of the seven-day periods at 11, 13 and 15 completed questionnaires on Health Organisation — a minimum for Global Health (ISGlobal). population,” she added. According years of age and their lung function socio-demographic, psychological of 60 minutes each day. – IANS
ARIES TAURUS GEMINI March 21 — April 19 April 20 — May 20 May 21 — June 20
You could receive some sort of windfall today, Aries. Use it wisely. It’s likely that you will succeed at whatever you set out to accomplish Your energy may flag a bit today, Gemini. There’s nothing to worry Consider buying some time to figure out what you want to do with today, Taurus. If you’ve been held back by worries over the integrity about, though you could take better care of your health. What your life. It’s likely that your career isn’t exactly ringing your bells of a relationship or the long-term prospects of a partnership, you can happened to that exercise regimen you vowed to start? It’s never these days. You’re ready for new challenges and opportunities. dispel concerns by confronting the person directly. You may find he too late to improve your eating habits and begin working out. Even Meditate on what would make you happy and then take a systematic or she has the same feelings about you! Honesty is important today. if you only walk three times a week, you will notice a dramatic approach to achieving it. diff erence in your appearance and outlook. CANCER LEO VIRGO June 21 — July 22 July 23 — August 22 August 23 — September 22
Today is meant for socialising and connecting, Cancer. Your You can’t help but notice that your home looks a bit drab, Leo. Today You have a to-do list a mile long today, Virgo. You may spend a lot of creativity is at an all-time high, so also try to work in some quiet time you could plan to do something about it. It won’t take much money, your day running errands. It certainly takes a lot to run a household, where you can do some writing or painting. If friends invite you out just time and a little creativity. Paint some samples on the walls. Your as you no doubt realise. Try not to get overwhelmed with all that you in the evening, by all means, take them up on the off er. You may spirits will improve. You can make big changes to the mood of the feel needs to be done. Most of the deadlines are self-imposed. No meet someone who could be pivotal to your career. Be open to all place simply by introducing more colour. one will know if you don’t meet them. possibilities. LIBRA SCORPIO SAGITTARIUS September 23 — October 22 October 23 — November 21 November 22 — December 21
You’re ready for a career change, Libra, or at least a change of venue. What is your dream, Scorpio? Answer that question as specifically as This may seem odd, Sagittarius, but you may not be the person you Have you considered telecommuting one day per week? That might possible today, then set about attaining that goal. All signs indicate think you are. There are indications that you have hidden talents. If give you the variety you seek without needing to find a new job. that whatever you begin today will pay off big time. Even though you they come out today, no one will be more shocked than you! This You may meet someone today or in the near future who will have a may feel that your dreams are too ambitious, there’s no need to feel could take your career in an entirely new direction. Strategise ways dramatic influence on your career decisions. Listen carefully. overwhelmed. Vow to take things one step at a time. Keep in mind to incorporate this talent into your career. Your work will take on a the old adage, “Once begun is half done.” new dynamic, and you will take a major leap forward. CAPRICORN AQUARIUS PISCES December 22 — January 19 January 20 — February 18 February 19 — March 20
You’re about to experience a major change in your life’s direction, You’re unstoppable today, Aquarius. It seems you can do anything. It’s likely that you’re being held back by certain traumatic past Capricorn, and it may occur today. Keep your mind open to all sorts Your confidence and energy are high. There’s no question that you’re events. Before you can make further progress in your life, Pisces, of possibilities. You’re likely to receive some important information. ready to take the world by storm. Is the world ready for you? Think you must address these painful memories for the last time. If it feels Of course, you may not realise its importance right away. It’s only carefully as you formulate plans for your new project. Whatever you too frightening to do alone, seek professional help. You will find that with the passage of time that you will look back on this event as do will succeed, but be sure you’re doing what you really want to do mustering the courage to do this diff icult, emotional housecleaning pivotal. Make sure you don’t miss it. rather than what others expect of you. is more than half the battle. Friday, August 2, 2019 GULF TIMES 15 SHOWBIZ COMMUNITY
Twinkle’s witty prescription to keep ‘pesky’ kids at bay
Writer-producer Twinkle Khanna has shared a hilarious post note about “a middle-aged model’s stellar tip” to “keep pesky kids at bay.” The 45-year-old shared a picture from one of her photoshoots on Instagram and wrote: “A middle-aged model’s stellar tip – Return from a shoot to find 3 small kids lolling on your bed – Threaten to rip out your eyeballs first and then theirs – Remove your lenses and fake eyelashes, place onto their palms and watch them scream and run. “A scream A Day Keeps Pesky Kids At Bay.” Twinkle, who was a big star in the nineties and the 2000s, retired at her prime ENTERTAINING: “A scream A Day to marry superstar Akshay Keeps Pesky Kids At Bay,” says Twinkle Kumar. She is the daughter Khanna. of Rajesh Khanna and Dimple Kapadia, and has featured in films such as Barsaat, Love Ke Liye Kuch Bhi Karega, Mela and Badshah among others. She has produced movies like Pad Man, Tees Maar Khan and Holiday: A Soldier Is Never Off Duty, starring husband Akshay. – IANS ALL INSPIRING: Hal Prince speaks at the Every Body, Rise!: A Celebration Of Elaine Stritch at Al Hirshfeld Theatre in New York City.
Shilpa to get back to fi lms with Nikamma Actress Shilpa Shetty will be making a comeback after 13 years Broadway producer with Sabbir Khan’s action film Nikamma. “It feels great. I am ready to take that plunge again and looking forward to be back on the big screen. It’s a refreshingly unique project and am looking forward to working with Sabbir. I loved my role, and it’s something I’ve never done before ... I can’t wait Hal Prince dies at 91 for my audiences to see me in a new avatar,” Shilpa said. The actress, who was last seen on the big screen in 2007 in By Kate Feldman and to become what I wanted to be, a Judy and two children, Daisy and Life In A... Metro and Apne, also took to Instagram to share her director. (Ultimately, I hired myself, Charles. excitement about the project. which is more than anyone else “RIP our dear Hal Prince,” Kristin “My sabbatical of 13 long years comes to an end. I am so excited Karu F Daniels would do.)” Chenoweth tweeted. “You inspired. to announce that the film you will see me next in is Nikamma... Along with his own work, You will ALWAYS inspire.” Need all your blessings,” she posted. Prince also lined up a who’s who “I am saddened beyond words,” On working with Shilpa, Sabbir said: “Shilpa is a much loved al Prince, who racked of collaborators, including Bob wrote Chita Rivera. “There are name in every household and she was very clear right at the up more than 20 Fosse, Leonard Bernstein, Stephen some people you feel we will never onset that her comeback would have to be with a worthy role. Tony Awards over a Sondheim and Andrew Lloyd be without. Hal is one of them. I It’s a dynamic part and I am glad to be working with Shilpa and legendary 50-year Webber, for various projects. owe so much to him. He knows my bringing her back for the fans that miss her.” Broadway career, died “Not just the prince of musicals, love for him.” Nikamma will also star Abhimanyu Dassani and social media Hon Wednesday after a brief illness in the crowned head who directed “Hal, you taught me so much,” star Shirley Setia. Jointly produced by Sony Pictures International Iceland, his publicist said. two of the greatest productions Tony Award winner Tony Yazbeck Productions and Sabbir Khan Films, the film is slated to release in He was 91. of my career, Evita and Phantom,” tweeted. “You inspired and the summer of 2020. – IANS Prince, born and raised in Webber said in a statement. “This encouraged me on a daily basis. Manhattan, was the director behind wonderful man taught me so much Thank you for showing me what iconic Broadway hits including and his mastery of musical theatre a real leader can be like. So kind, West Side Story (1958), Cabaret was without equal.” so gracious, and a real visionary (1966), Company (1970), Evita Tony Award winner Chuck for the theatre. Your heart was (1979) and The Phantom of the Cooper who worked with Prince on seen in everything you created and Opera (1988). his fi nal Broadway production, the imagined. I will miss you greatly!” Throughout a career that began 2017 musical career retrospective “One of the giants of Broadway as an assistant stage manager after aptly titled Prince of Broadway, told and a deeply kind and inspiring two years in the army during the the Daily News: “I don’t know if human being,” tweeted actor Tony Korean War, Prince won 21 Tony it was his insightful intuition, his Goldwyn. Awards, more than any other thoughtful wisdom, his uncanny “Another hero moves on and I individual, including best musical luck or some powerful combination can only imagine the welcome he’s for The Pajama Game in 1954, Damn of all of these that made his getting in heaven,” wrote producer Yankees in 1955 and Fiddler on the choices sparkle with relevance and Neil Meron. “It’s the greatest Roof in 1965. audience pleasing brilliance.” theatrical legacy of all time that will Prince’s Fiddler, which he He added Wednesday: “He’s never be matched.” produced alongside director Jerome given the American musical theatre “We will always remember Hal Robbins and star Zero Mostel, was, some of its brightest jewels. I doubt Prince, a true champion of the for a time, the longest-running if there will ever be another theatre American Theatre,” the American show in Broadway history with artiste who will create such a Theatre Wing said in a statement. more than 3,000 performances colossal and enduring legacy.” “He was a brilliant, generous soul between 1964 and 1972. In 2006, Prince was given a & he changed my life (and so many “I became a producer because Lifetime Achievement Award at the lives) with his genius,” wrote Donna COMEBACK: Shilpa Shetty make a comeback after 13 years with fate took me there, and I was Tony Awards for his contribution to Lynne Champlin. “He will live Sabbir Khan’s action film Nikamma. delighted,” Prince wrote in his the stage. forever in our lives and deeply in my 1974 memoir. “I used producing Prince is survived by his wife, heart.” – New York Daily News/TNS 16 GULF TIMES Friday, August 2, 2019 COMMUNITY Three diverse comedians all set to entertain audience at QNCC
By Mudassir Raja
There is nothing in the world so irresistibly contagious as laughter and good humour,” declared Charles Dickens in his novel A Christmas Carol. “Good humour not only brings laughter, it also cools down high temperatures. This is the right time to have some good comedy to laugh off the hot and humid weather in Qatar. The on-going Doha Comedy Festival is an attractive part of the Summer in Qatar campaign launched by Qatar National Tourism Council (QNTC). Being the most exciting side of the campaign, the festival promises to bring top international comedians to Qatar this summer as the multicultural audience gets a chance to taste highest quality of comedy. The next event of the festival promises to bring not only huge quantity of laughter but also a rich variety comedy. Omid Djalili, Nemr Abou Nassar and Hamad al-Amari – the three talented stand-up comedians with diverse backgrounds – are all set to make the Doha audience cachinnate at Qatar National Convention Centre’s Hall 9 on August 15. According to the organisers, the comedy show will start at 8pm and will continue till 11pm. The three comedy stars will fi nish off the laughter season – Doha Comedy Festival – that earlier saw thrilling performances by Zakir Khan, an Indian stand-up comedian, and Trevor Noah, a celebrated South African comedian. Omid Djalili is an English stand-up Hamad al-Amari Omid Djalili comedian, actor, television producer, voice actor and writer. to mark Prince Charles’s 60th birthday in Born to Iranian parents, Omid’s fi rst 2008. signifi cant success of in his stand-up comedy Nemr Abou Nassar is a Lebanese- career was at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe in American stand-up comic who now 1995 with Short, Fat Kebab Shop Owner’s Son, performs globally using only his first name, followed by The Arab and the Jew with Jewish Nemr. He has always performed in English, comedian Ivor Dembina in 1996. and now performs regularly in the United He has performed in numerous countries, States, Europe, and the Middle East. including Australia, Ireland, Sweden, On October 7, 2017 Nemr premiered Belgium, Canada and the United States, his brand new hour comedy special, No where he had his own HBO Special and did Bombing in Beirut, across the United 22 episodes of the NBC sitcom Whoopi with States on Showtime, and across Canada Whoopi Goldberg. on CraveTV and The Movie Network. He did his part for Comic Relief after the It is currently available on demand and 2004 Indian Ocean earthquake and tsunami streaming as well as regular play across and also in 2005 he appeared on the British these networks. TV show Top Gear as a celebrity driver. The Filmed in both Beirut and Los Angeles, same year he broke Edinburgh Festival box No Bombing in Beirut was made to show office records with over 16,500 ticket sales. that we are much more similar than we In 2006, Sky Television picked him to have been led to believe. Nemr believed be the face of their Saturday night film that if you showed two crowds on opposite premières, and he also announced a new sides of the planet laughing together at tour of the UK called ‘No Agenda’, from the same material, and as he cut back and January 2007 until March 2007, covering 23 forth between the two, that if it felt like one different dates. The No Agenda tour DVD show, there would be no better proof that was released in late 2007. we have so much more in common. On 18 March 2007, he was voted by the Nemr has written and performed seven British public as the 60th best stand-up full feature shows, the latest of which was comedian in a Channel 4 programme The a world tour that took Nemr to many major 100 Greatest Stand-Ups. On 26 October US cities, Europe, and across the Middle 2007, he guest-presented the BBC political East. quiz show Have I Got News for You. The Hamad al-Amari is a Qatari-Irish stand- Omid Djalili Show started on BBC1 on 17 up comedian. His diverse background is a November 2007. The series was a mix of rare sight in this region. Having grown up in sketches and stand-up material. A second Qatar, Southern Ireland and the US, he has series was recorded in late 2008 and began had unusual exposure to many experiences broadcast on BBC 1 on 20 April 2009. He and diversity, which have helped form his performed on We Are Most Amused on ITV1 identity and approach to comedy. Nemr Abou Nassar