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Compiled by Nausheen Shaikh. E-mail: [email protected], Events and timings subject to change 4 GULF TIMES Wednesday, August 2, 2017 COMMUNITY COVER STORY Visual appeal

SPECTACULAR: The Nighttime Lights at Hogwarts Castle Gryff indor House imagery is projected against Hogwarts Castle against a web of spot lights as part of the new light show for The Wizarding World of Harry Potter, at Universal Studios. The addition to the site is a colourful state-of-the-art light display and special eff ects projection accompanied by an original arrangement overseen by Academy-Award winning composer John Williams. Projection mapping enables artists and designers to cast virtual graphics onto the physical world, fitting them to the exact contours and dimensions of just about any surface, writes Ethan Varian

t an after-party for the But as the underlying technology has red carpet premiere of the advanced and become more aff ordable, “I see every light bulb seventh season of Game projection mapping has exploded in being an intelligent light of Thrones at Walt Disney the US. Concert Hall, partygoers LA in particular, with its year-round bulb that can scan in 3-D Awatched as Westeros came to life on the calendar of Hollywood premieres, building before them. parties and theme park events, has in real time and re-project. An icy visage of the Night King become a hotbed for this emerging In the future, we’re not loomed over the aff air while dragons medium. Projected installations have soared across the hall’s sweeping been recently featured at TCL Chinese going to be able to trust arched facade, breathing fl ames Theatre and the Harry Potter attraction that appeared to envelope the iconic at Universal Studios Hollywood. reality because we will structure. Disneyland also showcases projections Local designer Bart Kresa created at a number of its attractions, including be able to create effects the multimedia installation for the Sleeping Beauty Castle and It’s a Small that are so incredibly HBO event using a technique called World. projection mapping. Employing TV and fi lm executives say the real that you’re not going high-powered video projectors and technology helps create social sophisticated spatial mapping software, media buzz around certain events. to know the difference” projection mapping enables artists and “I had phone calls from vendors and designers to cast virtual graphics onto friends around the world,” said Billy — Philippe Bergeron, the physical world, fi tting them to the Butchkavitz, HBO’s event designer founder and head of LA- exact contours and dimensions of just who used projection mapping for about any surface. the premiere of Game of Thrones, based projection mapping Projected light shows have been Westworld and other shows. popular in Europe for years, thanks to “Whenever the budget allows I try company Paintscaping generous public funding for the arts. to work in some form of projection Wednesday, August 2, 2017 GULF TIMES 5 COVER STORY COMMUNITY mapping in the overall design of the event,” Butchkavitz said. Many companies hired to work on these events are based in LA, tapping the city’s pool of experienced animators to meet a growing demand for projection mapping shows. In addition to the HBO premiere, Kresa and his 30-person team at Bartkresa Studio have created shows for Disney, Warner Bros., Universal Studios and the Grammy Awards. A projection for a Warner Bros. party in 2012 fi lled nearly an entire movie studio lot, creating optical illusions that gave the multistory buildings the appearance of depth and movement. “It’s a large-scale, bigger-than- life experience,” Kresa said. To create a projection, mappers fi rst take hundreds of photos of an object or building or use laser scanning technology to gather its exact dimensions. The information is then analysed by specialised software that stitches together a 3-D computer model of the structure. Onto the model, the software overlays graphics that are created using commercial animation programs. Next, designers produce a warped, two- dimensional image of the digital reproduction that perfectly fi ts to the shape of the physical object. The fi nal product is projected onto the space using extra-bright laser or LCD projectors built by BRILLIANCE: Another creative exhibition of projection mapping. retailers such as Panasonic and Epson, which can cost as much as Most of his team of 20 to 30 $100,000 apiece. Kresa and his contractors have experience crew operated 12 projectors to cover working in local film and video To captivate an audience, the concert hall for the HBO after- game studios such as Dreamworks party. Animation and Digital Domain. telling a compelling story To captivate an audience, “There is an availability of the with the technology is just telling a compelling story with the most incredible animators on the technology is just as important planet right here in LA,” Bergeron as important as creating as creating striking visual eff ects, said. said Garson Yu, founder and chief LA County is a major hub for striking visual effects, says executive of LA-based design artistic talent with more than 5,800 Garson Yu, founder and chief company YU+co. animators and multimedia artists, Yu and his team of designers according to the 2017 Otis Report executive of LA-based design have projected New Year’s Eve on the Creative Economy. light shows onto Los Angeles City Despite the abundance of quality company YU+co. “When I Hall since 2015. The projections, animators, projection mapping which covered the historic makes up only a small fraction of look at a building, I don’t just building’s nearly 30-story face, event spending in LA. One reason look at it as an object or as a not only featured dazzling 3-D is that it’s hard to get approvals. eff ects but also each had unique City offi cials can be reluctant canvas we project an image narrative themes. One followed a to issue permits for large-scale young boy as he explored diff erent installations, fearing they will onto,” Yu says. “I look at it as neighbourhoods in LA and distract drivers on local freeways. discovered the history of the city. Still, Kate Johnson, a digital almost like a character — as “When I look at a building, I media professor at Otis College, something that carries a lot don’t just look at it as an object or said an increase in public city- as a canvas we project an image sponsored events is driving a higher of stories and memories” onto,” Yu said. “I look at it as almost demand for projection shows. like a character — as something “Projection mapping has been that carries a lot of stories and huge throughout Europe, where it memories.” had a history of public gatherings,” Bergeron and his team concocted the computer will be available by (AR),” you’ll be able to order a ride Yu declined to reveal the Johnson said. “LA is now an projections that appeared to spiral fall. The company, which launched with Lyft or shop on Amazon just company’s fi nances but said emerging market because it’s and twist inside of the body of a car. in 2014, has raised $2.6 million by touching or talking to a projected demand for projection mapping has beginning to fi gure out how to put “It’s not just an artist’s in seed funding and grants led display. helped boost his company’s revenue on a big public event.” paintbrush, but a new paradigm by Silicon Valley venture capital “We have a vision for being the by more than 50 percent in recent Bergeron’s company has created in lighting, marketing and fi rms Lux Capital and Seven Seas Apple of projected AR,” Jones said. years. a number of projections for public entertainment,” Bergeron said. Partners. Bergeron also predicts a bright Philippe Bergeron, founder venues, including LA landmarks Eventually, projection mapping “Projection mapping can provide future for projection mapping. and head of LA-based projection such as Rodeo Drive and the may replace your smartphone. visual illusions that are compelling “I see every light bulb being mapping company Paintscaping, entertainment district called San Francisco startup Lightform magic, similar to (virtual reality) an intelligent light bulb that can also has enjoyed brisk business Hollywood and Highland Center, is building a computer that will be headsets that you would wear,” scan in 3-D in real time and re- since its founding in 2009. which has become a key source of able to attach to any projector and, Jones said. project,” he said. “In the future, Bergeron declined to reveal revenue. in eff ect, turn it into a real-time “In our version, you have we’re not going to be able to fi nances but said 2017 is poised to Paintscaping has produced 3-D scanner. It would enable an projectors as light sources and trust reality because we will be be the company’s most profi table mapping eff ects in music videos for individual artist to project graphics every surface in a room can become able to create effects that are so year. The company usually charges Rihanna, John Legend and Eminem, onto an object at the same time he an interactive display.” incredibly real that you’re not $50,000 to $100,000 per project, as well as television commercials or she is designing them. In Jones’ future, which he refers going to know the difference.” — Bergeron said. for Infi niti and BMW. For BMW, Lightform CEO Brett Jones said to as “projected augmented reality Los Angeles Times/TNS 6 GULF TIMES Wednesday, August 2, 2017 COMMUNITY PISQ shines in HSSC-II Results of FBISE Examination 2017

akistan International School, Qatar (PISQ) has performed better in HSSC-II Principal Nargis Raza Otho commended the students and congratulated their parents Annual Examination 2017 than in 2016. Out of 104 students, 98 were successful, and teachers. She said that PISQ is progressing in “academics gradually and clearly and in for a pass ratio of 94.23%. Last year, it was 93%. A total of 13 students achieved the days to come it would stand tall among its competitors in Qatar.” A1 grade whereas the number of A graders was 15. Kainat Mazhar Iqbal topped Pakistani ambassador Shahzad Ahmad also expressed his joy and pleasure on the the school with 967 marks, followed by Zoya Naeem with 952 and Zainab Ali achievement of the students. He applauded all concerned and stressed on the students to withP 947 out of 1100 marks. The results were announced by the FBISE in Islamabad, work industriously and make studies a priority in order to succeed. Pakistan. Seen here are the school’s top achievers.

Kainat Mazhar Iqbal Zoya Naeem Zainab Ali Ali Khalid Mohammad Abu Bakar Arisha Ahmed Roheena Murad

Sabar Jamila Ambreen Riaz Ahmad Mahnoor Shahid Mariam Bibi Awal Zaman Mahnoor Ghulam Akbar Ayesha Naeem Khan Sidrah Haider

Anmol Chohan Sarah Salman Salwa M Arshad Qudsiya Pervaiz Manal Saqib Noora M Zahir Khan Hira Manzoor

Fatima Adil Hussain Ibrahim Murtaza Sabar Mina Jawaria Rizwan Abdullah Saleem Fatima Shabir Rabia Suleman Ahmed Khan Wednesday, August 2, 2017 GULF TIMES 7 MARKETING COMMUNITY Geared up to go with the MINI Lifestyle Collection

nyone who is travelling this summer is bound to appreciate reliable, cleverly designed travel gear. The MINI Lifestyle Collection includes a wealth of Aproducts designed to make the journey as enjoyable as arriving at the destination, with a colourful range of robust and chic luggage. Shopping splurge, business trip, summer vacation or long-haul journey, the new MINI Lifestyle Collection covers every base with its extensive line-up of bags and suitcases. Alongside their striking design, the luggage items also off er excellent functionality and a host of well thought-out details. Practical compartments in the bags and the intelligently designed interior of the suitcases provide fl exible storage for keeping everything tidy. The products’ design is pared down to the essentials, yet always surprises in combine with black, white and grey tones for recognisable MINI fashion, with contrasting a compelling colour scheme to smarten up shapes, colours and materials. One of the any trip. Collection’s signature features is its splashes MINI Lifestyle items are available in MINI of colour – the familiar and much-loved West Bay Area Showroom, Doha, Alfardan MINI ‘colour block’. Aqua and lemon shades Automobiles, Qatar.

MOTORING Nissan’s Juke and Kicks dominate Gulf’s small urban crossover segment

The Nissan Kicks.

The Nissan Juke. Mobility technology that it is packed with, a car press and public alike, ensuring the order which sits at the more comfortable end of the books began to fi ll up well before the car ince pioneering the segment with the is also one of the fi rst Nissan models to realise market.” began to appear, initially on the roads of Murano back in 2003 before following the concept of Intelligent Mobility, initially Among the highlights of the Kicks’ Japan, Europe and North America before up with the X-Trail, Qashqai and presented at the Geneva Auto Show in 2016. technological off erings are the Around View being launched globally. It is no exaggeration Juke, Nissan has dominated the Intelligent Mobility uses smart, relevant Monitor and Moving Object Detection systems, to say that Juke completely shook up the global market in crossover vehicles. technology to make the driver’s life easier which use four integrated cameras to show an small car segment back then and left other SThat dominance has been underscored in the while also making advances towards Nissan’s overall view of the car and warn the driver in manufacturers scrambling to catch up. Even Middle East with Nissan capturing almost 60% long-term goal of zero emission and zero case of any unseen dangers. now, seven years later, Juke’s styling which of small urban crossover sales in the region. fatality motoring. Its qualities have helped The suite of technology available on Kicks combines elements of SUV, sports car and The Juke and newly launched Kicks models are the newcomer to eclipse its Juke stablemate in also extends to dynamic innovations to hatchback, still looks fresh and exciting, vying for top spot in diff erent markets. the region, making Kicks the top seller in its maximise safety and comfort. Among them while technologically it remains a real tour de Sales fi gures for the year to date show that segment. are Chassis Dynamic Control, Active Trace force. Nissan has captured 59.7% of the B-segment “The car-buying public here in the Middle Control, Active Ride Control, and Active Engine “We are pleased to see a healthy rivalry (small car) urban crossover market with the East is known to be a discerning one and it Braking. These innovations work discreetly to developing between Kicks and Juke in the Juke accounting for 44.2% of that share and the has been heartening to see how they have provide key interventions to ensure the Kicks ultra-competitive urban crossover B-segment,” recently introduced Kicks taking already taking embraced Kicks and yet continue to buy remains stable and comfortable for occupants added Kalyana Sivagnanam. “While there a healthy 15.5% (fi gures exclude KSA). Juke in considerable numbers,” said Kalyana at all times. Kicks is the fi rst vehicle in its is some overlap in terms of pricing, the The Kicks has proved an instant hit in Sivagnanam, Nissan’s Regional Vice President, segment to off er these innovations. two models are pitched at diff erent buyers, Gulf markets. Aimed squarely at urban Marketing and Sales for the Africa, Middle East, Kicks’ rapid success is in many ways with Kicks being favoured more by young driving environments it combines a robust and India region. “We are especially pleased to reminiscent of Juke, which was fi rst shown professionals and Juke appealing to those exterior and elevated driving position with see how, from a standing start, the Kicks has as the Nissan Qazana concept car at the with young families. In both cases, customers compact dimensions for agile performance rapidly established itself as a market leader. The 2009 Geneva Motor Show before entering appreciate the way these models stylishly and manoeuvrability. The body features an all-new Nissan Kicks has become a popular production and going on sale to the public in complement a busy urban lifestyle while advanced aerodynamic design, which optimises choice among the compact crossover segment 2010. Juke’s bold, dynamic styling instantly off ering technology that it both useful and fuel consumption and minimises noise. Kicks customers due to the advanced Intelligent captured the imagination of the motoring important in real world scenarios.” 8 GULF TIMES Wednesday, August 2, 2017 COMMUNITY OFFB Trial by imaginary fire for w

Montserrat hugs Kristen Allsion of the US Forest Service as Hannah , left, and Estep goodbyes after graduating from the Women in Wildland Basic Training Camp.

Montserrat Valencia, 19, of Cameron Park, left, Kelsey Almendariz, 27, of Inglewood, and Hannah Siebert, 19, of Bakersfield, take a water break after completing the gruelling mock fire test during the final day of the Women in Wildland Basic Training Camp.

Yasmine Wolfe, 52, a property manager from Sunland, learns proper nozzle technique during Women in the Wildland Basic Training Camp.

Those who can scramble through By the time they hit the fi nal half- the three-mile course in under 45 mile, an asphalt bike path stretching minutes will advance immediately along the crest of the dam, the women into fi ve days of training for a job are leaning forward, grimacing. that can require 16-hour shifts, One competitor’s stride gets night and day, for up to two weeks choppy and she falls behind. Then straight – often in rugged wilderness another. In the end, four fail the test. where, in addition to walls of fl ame Sales clerk Kelsey Almendariz, 27, and smoke roiling with lethal of Inglewood is the fi rst across the toxins, the workplace amenities fi nish line, with 11 minutes to spare. may include rattlesnakes, careening She struggles to catch her breath. rocks and burnt trees crashing over “The whole time ... I kept telling in the night. myself ... ‘Don’t disappoint.’” Still, many are tempted by the Campos and Jennings also cross $14-an-hour salary, with additional the line in the allotted time, faces pay for overtime, holidays and fl ushed, legs wobbling. So do hazardous duty, and a chance to forge Adela Montserrat Valencia, 19, of a new career path. Cameron Park, Hannah Siebert, 19, MacKenzie Jennings, 27, a single of Bakersfi eld, and Yasmine Wolfe, mother who works as a waitress near 52, of Sunland. Lake Hughes, says she’s going into the Campos immediately texts her Kelsey Almendariz, a sales clerk from Inglewood, learns how to connect a fire hose during Women in Wildland Basic trial with a sense of purpose. boyfriend, a fi refi ghter with a hotshot Training Camp. “Waiting on tables,” she says, crew out of Flagstaff , Ariz., not far stretching, “is not a lifetime job.” from where, in 2013, a wildfi re killed Fifty-four candidates fi led training programme, in New Mexico. A few feet away, Estephany 19 members of the Granite Mountain By Louis Sahagun applications to participate in the US “Our goal was to do a better job of Campos, 27, an art teacher who grew Hotshots: “Yo! I passed.” Forest Service’s Women in Wildland targeting women and preparing them up in South Los Angeles, takes a swig A few hours later a caravan of green Basic Training Camp – the fi rst to be mentally and physically for work on from a water bottle. Forest Service vehicles delivers the he veteran wildland held in Southern California’s Angeles fi re lines,” says Bequi Livingston, the “I don’t intend to fail,” she mutters. new fi refi ghting class to a remote fi refi ghter holds up a National Forest. Forest Service fi re specialist who came The thumb clicks the stopwatch. camp in the San Gabriel Mountains, stopwatch, his thumb on Now it’s down to 10. up with the concept. “Since then, the “Go!” about 45 miles northwest of Pasadena. the button. Women have fought wildfi res in the idea has spread to national forests The aspiring trainees surge forward. Hungry, tired and sore, they trundle “Everyone ready?” he US for decades. But a wide gender gap in Arizona, Idaho, Montana and Almost immediately they encounter to assigned cabins. Tasks. remains, with women holding about California.” a discouraging obstacle: A Labrador For four of the competitors lined 13 percent of the permanent wildfi re- So, on a hot and sticky June retriever has collapsed in the middle Veterans up in the scrubby terrain near Hansen suppression jobs in the Forest Service. morning, the remaining candidates, of the trail. Overseeing the immersion course Dam, it will soon become apparent To address this, in 2012 the Forest ages 19 to 52, fi dget uncomfortably “Heat exhaustion,” a passer-by are two self-confi dent veteran Forest that they should have answered, “No.” Service launched its fi rst all-women under the weight of 45-pound vests. says. Service fi refi ghters. Wednesday, August 2, 2017 GULF TIMES 9 BEAT COMMUNITY women taking on real flames

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Engine Capt. Linda Winkler joined the Forest Service in the early 1990s, when, she says, “women had to take a lot of crap because there were so few Yasmine crosses the finish line after completing a 3-mile hike wearing a 45-pound pack on day one of Women in Wildland Basic Training Camp. of us around.” “My mother encouraged me to and stumps with axes, rolling become a fi refi ghter,” she says. “Mom boulders aside with pry bars and is a badass, and saw a little bit of scraping through carpets of debris herself in me.” until their shovels clear a smooth Kristen Allison, a former hotshot, path down to bare mineral soil is 5-feet-1, weighs about 100 pounds roughly three feet wide, and growing and never needs to raise her voice. longer by the minute. Nodding toward the trainees as “Swinging!” one announces. they fi le into the camp dining hall “Bump a dime!” yells another, that evening, Allison says, “We’re not signalling a crewmate to move 10 feet going to sugarcoat anything. ... There up the line. will be lots of opportunities for these For a minute, Campos’ Pulaski women to say, ‘I’ve had enough, I repeatedly bounces off a rubbery want out.’” root. The next morning, the candidates “Enough of this nonsense!” she suit up in hardhats, brush pants, grumbles. T-shirts and leather boots and gather After a few more strikes, she severs at picnic tables. it. Joe Darling, a tall, tobacco-chewing “’Bout time!” she shouts when Glendora hotshot, lectures the class the razor-sharp blade fi nally slices on the importance of fi refi ghters through. Then she turns and high- having escape routes they can use fi ves Jennings. when a fi re turns on them to reach When the instructors tell the safety zones – open space or areas trainees they have fi nally encircled that have already burned. Estephany Campos, 27, left, an art teacher from Los Angeles and Kelsey pack up their hand tools after graduating from the imaginary fi re with their line, “Remember, black is your friend,” the Women in Wildland Basic Training Camp. there are more outbursts of exhausted says. “It’s already burned so it can’t joy. hurt you.” Experts coach the trainees on how With the end of a heavy canvas hose “We’ll see.” Then they learn that they’re not He follows up with a to use a drip torch to set a backfi re; draped over her shoulder, Campos done. demonstration on how to deploy how to adjust a fi re hose’s seven spray cranks the nozzle to full force and Angel Heart Hoisting backpacks brimming with the insulated foil cocoons that settings; how to sharpen and swing blasts water at a blaze she’s been On the day before completing hose, they charge back up the slope. fi refi ghters use as a last resort to such tools of the trade as the Pulaski, a told to imagine heaving up a forested the course and receiving their “Water coming!” shouts a trainee survive getting hit by a hurricane of heavy-duty hoe and axe. slope. certifi cates, the women line up beside back at the engine. fl ame and smoke. The main thing, an instructor says, “Hold it,” says Eduardo Chacon, a two pale green Forest Service engines “Water coming!” responds First, toss your tools and backpack, is to treat each fi re as if it’s trying to Forest Service engineer. parked along a narrow, winding road another. but keep your phone and a water kill you. After a quick review of operating just south of the camp. Adrenaline The hose bulges. Hot spots are bottle. Then drop to a kneeling During a lull, Darling tries to explain procedures, Campos attacks again, animates their eyes. knocked down. Embers are mopped position with your back to the fi re, the job’s appeal. this time adjusting the nozzle to more This is the class’s fi nal drill, up. And fi nally instructors declare the unpack the emergency shelter and “After a day on the fi re lines,” he of a mist, covering a wider area and designed to simulate fully containing Pine fi re conquered. shake it open, using the wind to help says, “there’s something spiritual moistening unburned fuel. a fi re on a brush-choked hillside. A hand-held radio growls a it unfurl. about wanting nothing more than a “Nice work,” Chacon says. “You’re An engine captain barks into a pressing question from headquarters: Then crawl inside with each hand little bit of shade and a sip of water.” getting it.” hand-held radio to add realism. “What’s the name of the crew helping and foot in a corner, and your feet Leaning on the handle of her “We’re at the one-eighth-acre out up there?” closer to the fi re, he says. “Lay on your In the thick of it shovel, Winkler is visibly pleased with Pine fi re. It’s 75 percent contained. The captain shoots a quizzical look stomach and start digging a hole in The next morning three fi re the progress shown by Jennings, a No structures threatened. No at Hernan Sotela, a camp mentor, the dirt under your face to create an air engines arrive at the camp packed neighbour she encouraged to apply for injuries.” who, after 39 years in the Forest pocket. Then wait it out.” with communications equipment, the camp. “Got fi refi ghters with you?” a Service, plans to retire in December. “How do you know when it’s safe to incendiary devices, work gloves, chain “She’s mature, a hard worker and commander at headquarters radios Sotela invents a name on the spot. emerge?” a trainee asks. saws, fi rst aid kits and canvas hoses has what it takes to be a fi refi ghter,” back. “It’s the Angel Heart crew from Los “When things cool down,” he that trainees will learn to fl ing out and Winkler says. “She’s also searching “We have a crew of eight,” the Angeles,” he says. replies. link, allowing the engine’s pumps to for a career that will last through captain responds. Blowing dust from their noses The lessons combine basic deliver water a mile or more away over retirement.” Then the trainees attack the and wiping dirt from their eyes, the meteorology, physics and hydraulics. rugged terrain. But is she ready? imaginary blaze, chopping shrubs trainees applaud. – TNS 10 GULF TIMES Wednesday, August 2, 2017 COMMUNITY INFOGRAPHIC Wednesday, August 2, 2017 GULF TIMES 11 LIFESTYLE/HOROSCOPE COMMUNITY Easy ways to lighten up your cookout

he mouthwatering taste reduce sugar, while still achieving Ingredients: of grilled foods, the the proper browning, rising and 1/2 cup butter, melted indulgence of rich desserts caramelising desired. 1 egg and the joy of entertaining The Bakers Bag is a smart pantry 1 teaspoon vanilla extract with family and friends – a staple and measures cup for cup 1/4 cup Sugar In The Raw + 1/2 cup Tcookout is always a crowd-pleaser, with sugar so there is no conversion Stevia In The Raw Bakers Bag no matter the time of year. The food needed. 1 1/4 cup all-purpose fl our and fun make for a memorable time, 1/2 teaspoon baking soda but sometimes all those savoury Think outside the bun: Iceberg 1/2 teaspoon salt sauces, scrumptious salads and and butter lettuce are smart 1/2 cup macadamia nuts succulent sweets can be a little heavy. alternatives for buns for those who 1 cup chocolate chips Fortunately, you can cut calories want to cut calories or have gluten and lighten up your menu without sensitivities. If you do want to Preparation: sacrifi cing taste. include buns in your menu, opt for Preheat oven to 375 F. In a large Try these ideas at your next whole grain rather than plain old bowl, beat together the melted cookout for lighter foods bursting white ones. butter, egg, vanilla extract and the with fl avour. Sugar In The Raw/Stevia In The Drink up: Soda, punch, blended Raw Bakers Bag combo. Meanwhile, Go lean: Burger and red meat can frozen drinks and adult cocktails are mix dry ingredients (fl our, baking be high in fat content and calories. packed with calories. Swap or add soda, salt) in a separate bowl. Add When grilling meat, opt for leaner in fl avoured water to the menu for a dry ingredients to wet ingredients varieties, such as chicken breasts, light and refreshing alternative. Fill and stir well to combine. Slowly turkey burgers or fi sh. Guests will pitchers with water, ice and add in add nuts and chocolate chips until love the variety. If you just can’t forgo fl avour enhancements, such as sliced well combined. Drop the dough in the classic burger, look for leaner lemons, cucumbers, strawberries and spoonfuls onto ungreased baking meat such as a 90-10 ground mix. raspberries. sheets. Bake for 10 minutes. Want more inspiration? Try this Skip the barbecue sauce: A recipe for decadent desserts that Nutrition information: cookout without barbecue sauce? are ideal whether you’re hosting a Per serving (1 cookie): 144 calories, It can be done. Try marinating or healthier marinade for chicken or fi sh sweetener with extracts from the cookout or attending a potluck. 9g fat (4.5g saturated fat), 16g rubbing spices on meats and sides that brings out natural fl avours. stevia plant. Try replacing about half carbohydrate, 1g protein, 1g dietary instead. the sugar in any of your favourite Chocolate Chip Cookies fi bre, 75mg sodium. For example, citrus juice, olive Cut sugar in desserts: Bake with baking recipes with Stevia In The oil and chopped fresh herbs are a Stevia In The Raw, a zero-calorie Raw Bakers Bag to cut calories and Makes 2 dozen cookies ©Brandpoint

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

Be brazen and bold in your actions today, Aries. This may be a hard The name of the game for you today is emotional freedom, Taurus. This is no time to be a stick in the mud, Gemini. Don’t be the weak direction for you at first, but it’s the most eff ective way to get where Your senses are heightened and the smallest things capture your link in the chain. The energy of the day is "get up and go." So either you need to go. Unexpected ripples of emotion may cause you to eye. Don’t delay your response to these events, whether they’re big lead, follow, or get out of the way. There are no excuses for backing go in an unconventional direction. Let yourself flow freely. This is an or small. Even the smallest event may blossom into a new world of down. When opportunity knocks, you need to be ready with important time to get up and moving in response to these powerful people and situations. Let your creativity explode into every part of your bags packed. Your emotions could lead you down new and emotions. your being. unexpected paths. CANCER LEO VIRGO June 21 — July 22 July 23 — August 22 August 23 — September 22

Set aside some time today explicitly for you, Cancer. Unexpected Try not to be so serious and intense today, Leo. Walk with a lighter Don’t miss any opportunities today, Virgo. No matter how tired you events are likely to pop up and cause a stir in your emotions. Giving step and don’t feel like you always need to be in control of every may be, this isn’t the time to rest. This is one of those days in which yourself personal space to digest and deal with these events will single thing you contact. Take on an attitude of going with the flow it’s simply easier to be you. There’s no need to shy away or hide your help keep you from suppressing your reaction to them. Make sure and you will be right in the place you need to be. Extreme actions true desires. Say what you want and you’ll get it. There’s no reason you have your internal maelstrom of thoughts settled before you get will lead to extreme consequences. There’s no need for that sort of to beat around the bush. Keep in mind that unexpected energies will tangled up in others’ aff airs. behaviour on a day like this. get thrown into the mix. LIBRA SCORPIO SAGITTARIUS September 23 — October 22 October 23 — November 21 November 22 — December 21

Your plans may be upended today, Libra, but this doesn’t mean that Today is one of those days in which you have a terrific opportunity Sometimes your daydreaming leads you way out of your body and you should give up hope in any way. Sometimes it’s necessary to to break free of normal, everyday life, Scorpio. Don’t feel badly if into a place well beyond time and space, Sagittarius. Your romantic let go of control and simply let things happen as they will. Adopt a you don’t know exactly which way to go. Follow your gut feeling. nature wants to escape and never touch back down to the real spirit of adventure and take risks that you normally may not want Whichever way you decide to go will probably be right. Your forceful, world. Take a giant step toward that which tickles your fancy. Take to take. There is a distinct advantage in spontaneity and working erratic approach may actually be the perfect method to use in order the loftier approach and encourage others to share your dreams harmoniously with the unexpected events that are bound to occur. to get exactly where you need to be. instead of letting them weigh you down. CAPRICORN AQUARIUS PISCES December 22 — January 19 January 20 — February 18 February 19 — March 20

Generally speaking, today should be a good day for you, Capricorn. Things may be moving a bit too quickly for your liking today, There are several opportunities open now that weren’t there before. You should have no problem setting a fast-paced tone for the day Aquarius. Make sure you continue at your own pace so you don’t get The key is to take advantage of them. Find freedom in the strange and sticking to it. There are opportunities in the strange and bizarre. pushed into something you don’t want to do. Eliminate all fear from and new. Be a pioneer today and venture into the unknown. This is a Don’t limit yourself by thinking narrowly. Let the electricity of the your being. The more receptive and accepting you are, the more day to expand and reach new heights by having more confidence in day lighten the atmosphere and give your attitude the jolt it needs to opportunities will come your way. Have faith in yourself and your your abilities. Things will get stale and boring if you keep doing the get back on track. Be open to new ideas. actions by not falling prey to whatever the crowd is doing. same things over and over. 12 GULF TIMES Wednesday, August 2, 2017 COMMUNITY CARTOONS/PUZZLES

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Codeword Every letter of the alphabet is used at least once. Squares with the same number in have the same letter in. Work out which number represents which letter.

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Sudoku

Bound And Gagged

Sudoku is a puzzle based on a 9x9 grid. The grid is also divided into nine (3x3) boxes. You are given a selection of values and to complete the puzzle, you must fill the grid so that every column, every anone is repeated. Wednesday, August 2, 2017 GULF TIMES 13 PUZZLES COMMUNITY

Super Cryptic Clues Colouring

ACROSS DOWN 1. Blow round to change the will 1. The c-cat let us in for a tax (6) (3,3) 2. The hooter that says over-time 5. It will start unless that’s put (4) outside again (6) 3. Renounced because of having 8. Round the side there’s a second promised to (8) (5) 4. Give up and allow one to catch 9. In the water it’s revealing..... (6) easily (5,2,4,4) 10...... might be fun to have a look, 5. Hopes they will put a brake on but it’s not playing the game spendthrift heirs (6) (6) 6. Notice me eating up the cheese 11. Doesn’t go back, one sees (5) (4) 14. Food Leslie and I brought to 7. Slings worth roughly 5p now (6) mother (8) 12. A fellow member comes in with 16. Marks the ways in which the something to wear (7) map is wrong (6) 13. The feeling of sickness is bad: 18. The cold beef all round? (6,9) the sea, I gather (7) 20. For spectators, it still holds 15. Regarding as a spell (5) Answers good (6) 17. The horse is not galloping on 22. Sending out a note to the page one (5) embassy (8) 19. The nag, ‘17’, running is pathetic Wordsearch Codeword 25. Obviously frightened, like the (8) he-man mother sent packing! 20. Didn’t do away with the water- (5) colour (6) 27. With justification, try to talk one 21. Pose with the man beside the round (6) church (6) 28. A cooked apple does have its 23. Caught up with Miss North (6) attractions (6) 24. Curry favour with a young thing 29. Said it’s gun law (5) (4) 30. Give over! The girl-friend’s 26. Prevent from standing to take coming round! (6) a look (4) 31. Listened to, when one broached it (6)

Yesterday’s Solutions

ACROSS: 1 Mighty fine 6 DOWN: 1 Marks 2 Getting on Stub 10 Retreat 11 Mooring 12 3 Theatre critics 4 Fat-head Shiftless 13 Ridge 14 Rogue 15 5 Nemesis 7 Tried 8 Big- Dispensed 17 Contracts 20 headed 9 Source of danger 14 Fired 21 Meant 23 Imitative 25 Recommend 16 Straining 18 Entices 26 Sagging 27 Duck 28 Crimson 19 Slips up 22 Antic 24 Snapdragon. Elgin. 14 GULF TIMES Wednesday, August 2, 2017 COMMUNITY CINEMA Indu Sarkar, pain and pathos of a woman during Emergency

I think it is this part of Indu’s fight By Gautaman Bhaskaran against the barbarism of the Emergency (look at the scene where the two children are forcibly taken away from Indu) – ometimes, the turbulence and which transforms from the micro (her turmoil in one’s life reflects in disagreement with her husband that leads his or her art. Tragedies help to her divorce) to the macro, when she fill the canvas with pain and joins a movement to tell the world about pathos – enriching the artistic the atrocities happening in her backyard – endeavour.S Madhur Bhandarkar’s cinema that is most endearing. This is what makes has often been seen as portrayals of life in Indu Sarkar unforgettable – much in the which suffering and sorrow play a crucial same way as the haunting love story in part. Whether it was his 2001 Chandni Bar Casablanca against the backdrop of World (about the low life of Mumbai’s bar dancers) War II. or his later Traffic Signal (on those who Ultimately, it is not the political eke out a livelihood selling knick-knacks upheavals and great wars that floor us, at street junctions) or Fashion (tracing but the human stories that these tragedies the pathetic plight of models fighting for expose us to. It is not so much the American fame and fortune), Bhandarkar’s films have Civil War that we remember in Gone with revealed a certain kind of angst which he the Wind as much as we do the romance and himself experienced early on. passion which the raging fires of Atlanta A school dropout, he had to work in a ignited in the hearts of Rhett Butler and video library (which did, though, give him Scarlett O Hara. So, we will never forget a great education in world cinema) and at Indu and the distress she had to pass a traffic junction selling chewing gum to through saving the lives of those two little commuters in cars or bikes. children – orphaned much like her. In keeping with this line of disquieting cinema, the director’s latest movie, Indu Nibunan Sarkar, is a touching study of an orphan girl The Arjun-starrer Nibunan is very similar to last week's Vikram Vedha. The Arjun-starrer Nibunan (Expert) whose stammer makes her unsuitable for got its timing all wrong. It should have the marriage market. the autocratic orders of Indira’s son, Sanjay Navin feels that the presence of the kids in opened a few weeks later, for so much of Played beautifully by Kirti Kulhari, Gandhi (essayed by Neil Nitin Mukesh), the his house would tarnish his reputation, and the film reminded me of last week’s Vikram Indu is lucky to catch the eye of a movie is more a personal story of Indu. he would fall out of favour with his bosses. Vedha. Much like Madhavan’s and Vijay government employee, Navin Sarkar (Tota She finds her lovely home crumbling and The important leaders of those terrible Sethupathi’s work, Arun Vaidyanathan’s Roy Chowdhury) – only that their union her relationship with her husband hitting times – like Jagdish Tytler, Inder Kumar Nibunan is a cop-chase-killer game. Yes, takes place during one of India’s darkest the rock bottom when she accidentally Gujral, Ruksana Sultana, George Fernandes Arjun’s Ranjith Kalidoss is no encounter moments, the 1975 Emergency, which lasted comes across the devastatingly heart- and Nanaji Deshmukh (Anupam Kher) – specialist like Madhavan’s Vikram. But both 19 months – when the Congress regime rending sight of men and women being shot can all be seen, though their names have end up with guns licensed to kill. headed by Indira Gandhi was at the helm of during the demolition. been changed. A disclaimer at the start of However, while Pushkar and Gayathri affairs. She finds two lost children and takes the film says that only 30 per cent is based kept their script taut and made sure Though the film captures the essence them home, but Navin would not have on facts, the rest is fiction. And it is this that their Vikram and Vedha did not go of that time – the forced sterilisations of anything to do with them. Fiercely fiction – which takes us through the life of overboard with their antics, Vaidyanathan Muslim men and the ruthless demolition of ambitious (much like Congressman Vidya the poor orphan girl/woman, Indu – that could not possibly rein in Arjun. the huge Turkman Gate slum in Delhi under Charan Shukla was said to have been then), really appealed to me. For, he is often called Action King, and with his 150th movie outing here, there is no stopping him as he goes about – sometimes like the Victorian sleuth, Sherlock Holmes (who was once famously called upon to crack a case where the criminal left sketches of dancing figures as clues). Ranjit too has a doll, a miniature puppet that is sent to his office, and whose arrival signals the start of a series of murders. Ranjit knows that each of these gruesome killings is linked to the murder of a domestic help, who is caught in bed with a young girl. (Reminds one of the Talwar case). Her rich and influential architect father, who kills the servant in rage, tries to buy his way out of this mess. But fails, and commits suicide along with his wife (Suhasini Maniratnam). And the murders continue. For two hours plus, Ranjit and two of his trusted lieutenants, Joseph (Prasanna) and Vandana (Varalaxmi Sarathkumar, whom we saw in Vikram Vedha as well), crawl around trying to decipher the coded messages that the murderous man on the prowl leaves behind for the policemen to solve. Now does this make you think about Tom Hanks’ Da Vinci Code?

z Gautaman Bhaskaran has been writing on Indian and world cinema for close to four decades, and may be A promotional poster for Indu Sarkar. e-mailed at [email protected] Wednesday, August 2, 2017 GULF TIMES 15 TELEVISION COMMUNITY

ACTION: Matt Bomer as Monroe Stahr, left, and Kelsey Grammer as Pat Brady in the Amazon Prime series, The Last Tycoon. Last Tycoon, based on F. Scott Fitzgerald’s unfinished work, has modest pleasures

As re-created by Billy Ray often in historical dramas. Fitzgerald did not live long enough to of Don Draper and Mad Men when By Robert Lloyd (Captain Phillips, The Hunger Stahr is partners with Pat Brady imagine. this project was coming together, Games), the Amazon Tycoon (Kelsey Grammer), the odd Irishman Brady has a daughter, Celia (Lily even that The Last Tycoon was on borrows characters and situations out in a business dominated by Jews Collins), called Cecilia in the book, someone’s mind when Mad Men . Scott Fitzgerald’s from the novel and has its own way who loves Stahr like a son and hates which she narrates. She is home was developed.) Grammer’s Brady unfi nished, posthumously with them. It’s as if Moby-Dick, say, him like a rival. Ray gives Brady new from college, full of premature is most interesting when he’s not published, might-have- were made into a series in which plotlines of his own, including a anti-fascism — the news from huffi ng and puffi ng and remembers been-a-masterpiece Ahab and Ishmael and Queequeg bonus bitter competition with L.B. Germany will be a main thread what’s good about his life, but he is novel The Last Tycoon and the gang — Moby too! — keep Mayer (Saul Rubinek), on whom through the series — and pitches required frequently to huff and puff , hasF become a TV series, premiering on sailing around the world, Fitzgerald loosely based Brady. a story to Stahr about Nazi spies perchance to blow his own house Friday on Amazon. It’s the studio’s rescuing shipwrecked sailors, In the series, Brady American in Manhattan; he makes her a down. second work of Fitzgeraldiana this solving crimes, fi ghting Nazis, Pictures is not a market leader but producer. (There has been some Is this fatal to its entertainment year, after the fi ne Scott-and-Zelda putting down mutinies. a struggling second-tier studio eff ort to make the women’s parts value? Not entirely. Melodrama has bio-series Z: The Beginning of Matt Bomer (White Collar) plays teetering from picture to picture on “interesting” in modern terms.) its pleasures, and some viewers will Everything. Make of that what you Monroe Stahr, ageing Hollywood the edge of ruin. As we meet them, She also gets involved with Max doubtless happily be caught in the will. boy genius with a heart condition. they are getting into business with Miner (Mark O’Brien), an Okie from stories’ myriad threads. And some As edited for publication in 1941 Fitzgerald based Stahr on MGM a demanding Benzedrine inhaler- the homeless encampment next- performances win out over the by Edmund Wilson, Fitzgerald’s tale production chief Irving Thalberg, sniffi ng Shirley Temple knockoff door to the studio. Why her parents material, most notably Rosemarie of art and commerce, professional whose name was synonymous with named Sally Sweet, which does not do not pack her straight back to DeWitt as Brady’s wife, Rose, who jealousy and love lost and found and capital-Q Quality Pictures in his augur well for future success. Or Bennington is one of the series’ feels complicated and touching and lost comprises six draft chapters, time. Thalberg, oddly enough, is does it? unexplored mysteries. human with whatever dramatic a prospective synopsis of the back also briefl y a character in the series, As in the novel, Stahr encounters Bomer and McElligott are fi ne heavy lifting she’s asked to do. half of the novel and sundry notes, which proposes a 1930s Hollywood a woman, Kathleen (Dominique individually, but there’s no real And the series does look very good, including the quote for which the in which there were two ageing boy McElligott, House of Cards), whom chemistry between them, and from its hairdos down to its shoes. If novelist is perhaps most famous: geniuses with heart conditions — he pursues. He does not, as on the one rarely feels that either has nothing else, The Last Tycoon gets “There are no second acts in they actually run into each other at page, fi rst glimpse her fl oating on the spark of greatness the series my personal thanks for its digital American lives.” the cardiologist — in complicated a giant head of Shiva in a backlot thrusts upon them; indeed, the re-creation of a local landscape No second acts, maybe, but nine partnership with older bosses. This fl ood after an earthquake, because insistence makes them seem all uninfected by skyscrapers. That is a episodes to start and who knows how sort of thing happens in Doctor that takes money. Many things the more pedestrian. (It feels just Hollywood dream I can get behind. many seasons to follow? Who all the time, sure, but less happen afterward between them that possible that someone was thinking —Los Angeles Times/TNS 16 GULF TIMES Wednesday, August 2, 2017 COMMUNITY Why doctors need to know if it’s Alzheimer’s

By Melissa Healy

lzheimer’s disease now aff ects a large number of people, and after decades of feverish work, researchers have so far failed to fi nd a treatment that Ahalts or reverses the inexorable loss of memory, function and thinking ability that characterise this feared illness. But researchers have been quite successful at devising ways to diagnose Alzheimer’s earlier and earlier. And that capability has emerged alongside evidence of a tantalising possibility: that if you can catch the disease early enough – ideally when symptoms of confusion or memory loss are just emerging, or before – some therapies already in hand might essentially halt its progress. For anyone who detects some mental slippage and wonders, “Is it Alzheimer’s?” the current state of dementia research raises a very real, and very wrenching, dilemma: If I can know, do I want to know? That is, if it’s Alzheimer’s disease, would I do anything diff erently? Would there be some benefi t in knowing for my loved ones, for myself? SUCCESSFUL STRATEGY: Computerised brain training can hold off cognitive decline and dementia, research suggests, and researchers have been Doctors and insurers, including the federal quite successful at devising ways to diagnose Alzheimer’s earlier. government, which administers Medicare, are asking some variants of the same questions: what to expect. would lose track of points he was making, and brain’s hippocampus that are, collectively, If an eff ective test, which costs between That new information may have guided sometimes of where he was at. the hallmarks of Alzheimer’s. $3,000 and $5,000 a shot, can diagnose family caregivers in planning their own It would take the loss of their home and No more. Improved medical imaging dementia early, and distinguish Alzheimer’s futures, or prodded patients to make a business bankruptcy for the Lehmanns to technologies developed over the last decade from other forms of dementia, should it be fi nancial decisions and power-of-attorney demand answers to what was going on. In have made it possible to peer inside the brain recommended to patients with cognitive assignments sooner. Some who learned that 2009, they moved from Sacramento, Calif., of a living patient, detect and measure the concerns and routinely covered by their they did not have Alzheimer’s discontinued to Edina, Minn., to live with a daughter. And accumulation of beta-amyloid, and make a insurance? Would it make patients’ lives medications that can have unpleasant there, at last, they found a neurologist who, defi nitive diagnosis. better, or lower the cost of their care? side eff ects. Others learned they do have despite initial scepticism (“but he presents In 2012, the Food and Drug Administration Newly unveiled research results are Alzheimer’s and decided to enrol in clinical so well!” the doctor proclaimed), diagnosed took a fi rst step in making such imaging bringing some clarity to such deliberations. trials that will test new drugs. dementia. possible, giving its blessing to the imaging And other new research, published recently A second study presented in London For the Lehmanns and many patients and agent fl orbetapir F18, which binds to amyloid in the journal Neurology, proposes a new analysed data from several studies, and families like them – as well as for neurologists aggregates in the brain and allows a PET scan diagnostic tool that may be able to detect found that in a large population of research – that diagnosis is often just the beginning of to be used to make the diagnosis. In 2013, two Alzheimer’s, and distinguish it from another participants with cognitive concerns, brain a deeper mystery. new imaging agents won FDA approval, and form of dementia, more simply and cheaply amyloid PET scans led to a change in diagnosis Alzheimer’s disease is the most feared and new imaging agents and techniques promise than does the best test now available. in approximately 20 percent of cases. most common form of dementia, accounting ever more precise means to visualise and At the Alzheimer’s Association “People should know what’s coming,” said for between 60 percent and 80 percent of diagnose Alzheimer’s in the brain. International Conference in London recently, Dr Maria Carrillo, chief science offi cer for all dementia cases diagnosed. But at least The research published in the journal researchers reported their preliminary the Alzheimer’s Association. The Centers seven other forms of dementia, and dementia Neurology suggested that transcranial fi ndings from a trial that is testing the impact for Medicare & Medicaid Services has linked to the movement disorder Parkinson’s magnetic stimulation, a technique that of diagnostic testing for Alzheimer’s disease given amyloid scans a provisional approval, disease, can cause loss of memory, reasoning, can selectively turn up or down activity on nearly 19,000 Medicare benefi ciaries. meaning they do not routinely pay for them. judgement and the ability to speak, in diff erent parts of the brain, could prove All of these study participants – largely The results may guide the agency to rethink comprehend and care for oneself. useful in distinguishing between Alzheimer’s people in their 70s, all with a diagnosis its position, she added. To the estimated 16 million Americans disease from frontotemporal dementia. of either “mild cognitive impairment” or The PET scan bore bad news for Ken living with some form of cognitive In many ways, Ken Lehmann’s symptoms atypical dementia – are living with the Lehmann, who enrolled last year in the impairment, telling the diff erence could make fi t neatly into a diagnosis of frontotemporal unconfi rmed suspicion that they have IDEAS trial, short for Imaging Dementia a signifi cant diff erence. Dementia forms dementia. A form of cognitive impairment Alzheimer’s. The study is underwritten by – Evidence for Amyloid Scanning. After with diff erent origins progress diff erently that typically becomes evident earlier the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services his long, slow decline that has fl ummoxed (or sometimes not at all). They respond best than most cases of Alzheimer’s, FTD often and the Alzheimer’s Association. It set out to doctors, Lehmann’s brain scan clearly showed to diff erent medications, and will come to aff ects judgement, personality and verbal fi nd out whether knowing – getting the costly he has Alzheimer’s disease. require diff erent levels of care and treatment. communication. This form of dementia test that would off er either confi rmation The certainty that has brought has been Some (though not Alzheimer’s) can even be progresses as inexorably as does Alzheimer’s. or reprieve – would change the way that a long time coming. When Lehmann began reversed with treatment. But its typical course diff ers slightly. patients with cognitive troubles are treated, withdrawing from friends, forgetting to Being able to distinguish which form of As an enrolee in the IDEAS trial, Lehmann or the way that they plan their lives. pay bills and having trouble following dementia a patient has should help doctors was prepared to learn what it was he had. The preliminary results suggested it did. conversations, he was just 58. Now, he’s 80. and caregivers to make better choices. “I had come to the conclusion they just After getting the results of a PET brain scan to Ken had always been considered a But it’s a question that until recently could don’t know,” said Lehmann, now 80, from detect and measure amyloid deposits, which “Renaissance man” – a furniture company be answered only after death. At that point, a his home in Minnesota. “In seven years, my are the key hallmark of Alzheimer’s disease, executive who rebuilt Porsches, played post-mortem examination of the brain could journey of decline has been very miniscule, roughly two-thirds of the subjects saw basketball and loved to entertain friends, said be done to look for the built-up clumps and and they don’t know why.” their medication regimens changed or were his wife, Mary Margaret Lehmann. But as tangles of beta-amyloid proteins, the overall It turns out, he added, “I have all the counselled diff erently by their doctors about years passed, his judgement seemed off . He shrinkage, and the loss of neurons in the biomarkers of Alzheimer’s disease.” -TNS