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Sunday, August 2, 2020
Dhul-Hijjah 12, 1441 AH
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STORY Caution at work
Swabs, masks, action! Film-making through a pandemic. P4-5
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“A single
sunbeam is enough to
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— Francis of Assisi
Anne with an E who, after an abusive childhood spent in series will follow a similar storyline to
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in the world and for love. The drama her unique spirit, fierce intellect and themes of identity, sexism, bullying,
revolves around a young orphaned girl brilliant imagination. While the new prejudice and trusting oneself.
Sunday, August 2, 2020 GULF TIMES 3
BODY & MIND COMMUNITY
Gut instinct: can your diet
affect your mental health?
There’s a reason our gut is known as the ‘second brain’ –
what you eat has an effect on your mind, writes David Cox
T
he idea that many of our substances – some of which have
emotions and feelings been linked to positive health
are linked to the gut is outcomes.
an ancient one. More Johnson explains how scientists
than 2,000 years ago, the have found that patients with
Romans made reference to what we depression have less of a particular
today describe as a “gut feeling”. type of bacteria called bacteroides,
Now, modern science indicates which is known to produce an
that the gut may indeed play a role important chemical called GABA
in mood disorders and our mental (gamma-aminobutyric acid). This
health. neurochemical helps minimise the
The gut is covered in nerve cells impact of stress, and can therefore
known as neurons – cells that help us sleep soundly through
transmit signals to other neurons, the night. If the brain does not
and which are also fundamental to get enough GABA, this leads to
our brains. Research suggests that increased anxiety and insomnia.
this network, known as the enteric One particularly important
nervous system, contains more product for the brain is the amino
than 100m neurons. This complex acid tryptophan. Tryptophan
network of cells in our gut is able to in our diet is broken down – by
function independently of the brain a group of gut microbes called
and spinal cord, and is often referred bifidobacteria – into smaller
to as the body’s “second brain”. metabolites that can cross
And although this “second the blood-brain barrier. The
brain” doesn’t actually do any brain needs a constant supply
“thinking”, the gut is far more than of tryptophan metabolites, as
just a mechanism for processing they are the building blocks for
and digesting our food. The gut the mood-regulating hormone
communicates with the brain serotonin. It appears that if we
in a number of ways, and plays don’t have a sufficient abundance
a vital role in providing it with of bifidobacteria in our gut, due to
neurochemicals, such as serotonin eating a poor diet, this process will
which influences mood, among VITAL ROLE: The gut communicates with the brain in a number of ways, and plays a vital role in providing it with be inhibited, with consequences
other functions. neurochemicals, such as serotonin which influences mood, among other functions. for our mental health.
In addition to the bloodstream, “Numerous studies over the
one of the main pathways between “In a study five years ago, we microbiota of a depressed patient One of the reasons that diet past decade have illustrated the
the two is the vagus nerve – a long profiled the gut microbes of patients into a rat, the rat’s behaviour altered is important is because the large importance of tryptophan,” says
bundle of nerve fibres that stretch with depression and of healthy and it developed depressive-like intestine – a component of the gut Dinan. “If you take patients who
from the brain to the abdomen. subjects, and we found that there behaviours and a more inflamed which is relatively heavily populated have recovered from depression
“Roughly 80% of the nerve fibres was much less microbial diversity in immunology. Whereas if you do the from a microbial perspective – acts and you deplete their brains of
which make up the vagus nerve are the intestines of the individuals with same thing from a healthy human to as a giant fermentation organ. The tryptophan, their depression will
signalling in the direction from the depression,” says Dinan. a rat, the animal’s behaviour doesn’t microbes within it break down reoccur within a really short period
gut to the brain, while only 20% “And when we transplanted the change at all.” certain fibres producing various of time, within minutes to hours.”
are the other way around,” says Making sure the right types of
Dr Katerina Johnson, a psychiatry bacteria are flourishing in your
researcher at the University of gut appears to be a crucial part
Oxford. “It highlights how much of keeping your brain working
the brain is a receiver of information effectively, yet because people’s
from our gut.” guts are so complex – and so
Developing research shows different – scientists are still
that much of this information trying to establish the exact
comes from gut microbes, which definition of a healthy microbiome.
respond to a variety of external What we do know for now is that a
influences ranging from diet to good diet plays an important role
stress. It is through the actions and in keeping your gut – and therefore
composition of these microbes that your brain – healthy.
the gut is thought to play a role in “We know that if somebody
impacting mental health. starts off on a good diet, and then
Along with various other factors goes on a diet of fast food, their
such as our genes, our diets may microbiota changes rapidly in a
play a role in determining how very short period of time, and good
we cope with stress and deal with microbes in the gut tend to be lost
life traumas. Ted Dinan, emeritus or decreased very dramatically,”
professor of psychiatry at University Dinan says. “There’s no doubt that
College Cork, in Ireland, points out an appropriate diet gives us a good
that both human and animal studies microbiota, which helps us deal
have established links between poor more appropriately with stress.”
diet and poor mental health. A GOOD DIET: A good diet plays an important role in keeping your gut – and your brain – healthy. — The Guardian
4 GULF TIMES Sunday, August 2, 2020
COMMUNITY COVER STORY
“You’ve got to
protect the cast”
– Richard Clark, film director, on being back
in business, but not business as usual
SUNDAY
CONVERSATION
‘ To be honest, you get
used to the patterns
and the rituals pretty
quickly. Testing is the
key thing: temperature
checks for everybody
every morning, and 30
members of the crew and
the lead actors are tested
every morning
– Richard Clark, filmmaker
By Steve Rose
“ ’
You get used to sticking a six-inch cotton-
wool bud up your nose and down your tonsils
every morning,” says Richard Clark. He is
describing his typical working day. “The
masks are quite suffocating. They’re quite
sweaty. You don’t drink as much water, and so people
dehydrate. You get headaches. Certainly on the first
week, by five o’clock, a certain kind of fugginess comes
over everybody. Concentrating during those last two
hours … you can feel it being a little bit harder.”
It sounds like the experience of a frontline
care worker, but this is film-making in the age of
Covid-19. Clark is directing the second season of
Fox’s apocalyptic sci-fi series War of the Worlds in
south Wales, with a crew of about 70 people. Having
shut down in late March because of the pandemic, the
UK’s film and high-end television industry is back in
business, which can only be good news. But it is by no
means business as usual. As the director of one of the
first productions to resume, three weeks ago, Clark has
Sunday, August 2, 2020 GULF TIMES 5
COVER STORY COMMUNITY
been negotiating a whole new way of working scheduled to begin shooting this summer.
— not quite as dystopian as the programme Universal has spent a reported £5m on safety
he’s making, but strange and slightly sci-fi all protocols for Jurassic World at Pinewood. The
the same US studios have deeper financial resources
“To be honest, you get used to the and resilience, but for smaller domestic TV
patterns and the rituals pretty quickly,” he and independent film productions the costs
says. “Testing is the key thing: temperature have been prohibitive. Insurance has been a
checks for everybody every morning, and 30 particular barrier to restarting, although that
members of the crew and the lead actors are problem was finally resolved this week with
tested every morning.” There is a full-time a new £500m government-backed support
Covid-19 consultant on set to keep an eye scheme.
on social distancing and cross-contacts. Film-making is also expected to be
Sets are fogged every night, as are all the slower under the guidelines, although
costumes. Props are kept sealed in bags, Wright and Clark report no major
then only handled by the cast member using schedule delays. “At the moment, we are
them. Even dining is different, with no more shooting about 18 setups a day, which
catering truck and lunchtime socialising. is what I aim for in a high-end drama,”
Meals are individually packaged and served, says Clark, “so we are not dropping
and eaten in a huge marquee. Each table is anything.” Much of that is down to the
two metres long, so one person can sit at military-level planning required in the
either end. preproduction phase. Another factor could
“The main philosophy behind how we be the reduced number of interruptions,
operate is essentially: ‘You’ve got to protect now that nonessential personnel cannot
the cast,’” Clark explains. In War of the casually drop by to “see what’s going on” or
Worlds’ case, that includes Gabriel Byrne, surreptitiously gawp at Tom Cruise.
Elizabeth McGovern and Normal People’s Long-term lessons could yet come out of
Daisy Edgar-Jones. “Ultimately, the crew are this situation. As with many sectors, the film
replaceable, including — to an extent — the industry seems to have realised how much
director. But the lead cast are not, so you’ve more people could be working remotely.
got to prioritise safeguarding those personnel There are also, suggests Wootton, lessons
who, if they went down ill, would cause the about sustainability – never one of the
whole thing to collapse.” There is a complex industry’s strong points. “Big productions
system of coloured armbands denoting the such as James Bond move around the world,
degree of proximity to which crew members ACTION: Gabriel Byrne in the first season of War of the Worlds. and you can’t see that changing, but there
are allowed to the actors. Everyone must wear might be more: ‘Do we really need to go to
masks, even when shooting outdoors. Some, that country? Do we really need to send
such as hair and makeup, must wear visors, hundreds people on a jet there for several
too. “Ultimately, the crew are replaceable, including weeks?’”
It is a similar setup over at Pinewood
studios, says Sarah-Jane Wright, the head
— to an extent — the director. But the lead cast As for the creative impact, the new working
conditions make certain scenarios more
of production at Working Title. She has just are not, so you’ve got to prioritise safeguarding difficult. Crowd scenes, for example, or
returned from the set of Last Night in Soho, street scenes requiring lots of extras, all of
Edgar Wright’s new movie, a psychological those personnel who, if they went down ill, whom must be tested, monitored and socially
horror set in 1960s London. Shooting was distanced. But there are always workarounds.
just about finished when lockdown started, would cause the whole thing to collapse” This week’s shooting on Last Night in Soho
but a week of additional photography was was originally supposed to have taken place
still needed. With a larger crew, their system — Richard Clark in the real Soho in central London; instead
is even more complicated than Clark’s. they have had to recreate the streetscape on
Personnel are divided into discrete pods. Pod were queueing up to take advantage of the have been working ever since to figure a soundstage with visual effects filling in the
A is the cast (which includes Anya Taylor- UK’s expertise and tax breaks. Then, with the out how to get film-making back up and gaps. Clark has not had to make changes to
Joy, Diana Rigg and Thomasin McKenzie) imposition of lockdown in March, everything running, talking to industry, studios, unions, War of the Worlds’ scripts, he says, but he,
along with crew who have to be close to them, changed practically overnight. “We went government, public health bodies, right up too, has had difficulties finding locations,
such as the director and camera operators. from pretty much full employment to zero to No 10. It was the biggest consultation since so many places are shut down or high-
They have their own separate entrance and employment and everything stopping,” says they have ever done, according to Wootton. risk, which has necessitated building more
check-in area (again, temperature checks and Adrian Wootton, the CEO of the British Film The end result was a 53-page document indoor sets.
Covid-19 swab tests are routine), separate Commission (BFC), which is responsible of guidelines for working safely during One small but significant difference, Clark
bathrooms and their own dining facilities. for persuading foreign companies to come Covid-19, published in June but continually observes, is how protective equipment and
Pod A can only interact with their “pod unit and film in the UK. “We had something updated since. It has served to kickstart the social distancing affect human interaction:
base”, which consists of hair and makeup, like a billion pounds— worth of production recovery process. “Pretty much from the “It puts a slight wall between you that wasn’t
second assistant directors and others. mothballed or suspended in the UK.” minute the guidance was published, people there before. It’s surmountable, but you feel
Pod B contains other technicians and crew The BFC, British Film Institute and others started rehiring their teams, and started going it. There’s a kind of intimacy in terms of
who have to be on set. They are separated back into active preproduction,” Wootton directing, and particularly with the cast. We
from pod A by Plexiglass and barriers. Pod C says. shot a very emotional scene this morning
is standbys, electricians, grips, riggers and That recovery is proceeding apace. At the and it was quite upsetting for the actor, and it
props, who have their own marquee outside beginning of July, Tom Cruise arrived in the was hard maintaining a distance from them.
the set. “If a light needs changing or props UK to resume filming on Mission: Impossible Usually, there would probably be a touch on
need adjusting, they can only go on to the 7 and 8 at Hertfordshire’s Leavesden studios the arm, a physical reassurance. Actors make
set when pod A and pod B have cleared it.” (filming in Italy was halted in February). themselves very vulnerable, and they need
Then there’s Pod O (office and props, who Cruise was one of a number of actors to be the support and reassurance of directors to
are nearby but never come on set), and Pod granted exemption after standard quarantine help them go there, and know that it’s safe.
H (people working remotely). Plus 24-hour rules were relaxed to allow Hollywood crews That reassurance is slightly harder to provide
cleaners and a team of between six and 10 to work in the UK under socially distanced if you’re a metre-plus away from them with a
Covid-19 co-ordinators, swabbing nurses and conditions. Across the Pinewood lot from mask on.”
medics. “We have a very good Covid adviser Last Night in Soho, Jurassic World: Dominion Nobody wants this “new normal” to last,
who does actually have a metal measuring is back on set, having shut down in March. but film crews are well accustomed to coping
tape to make sure everyone is two metres Other titles such as The Batman, Disney’s with adverse and unpredictable conditions,
socially distanced.” Because everyone is in The Little Mermaid and Fantastic Beasts and points out Sarah-Jane Wright. “If any
masks, things are quieter than usual, says Where to Find Them 3 are preparing to start industry was going to adapt to this, the film
Wright. “It can feel as if you’re going to work up again. Netflix expects its UK series such as and TV industry is built to just take this on
in an operating theatre. But it has so quickly The Witcher and Sex Education to be filming board and run with it. If this is our normal for
become our new normal.” by the end of September. Bollywood is also the next year, I feel we can achieve it. When
Before coronavirus, film and high-end returning to the UK: Akshay Kumar’s Bell I visited the set, there was a real sense that
television production in the UK was booming. Bottom is due to shoot in Scotland in August. everyone was really, really happy to be back
Inward investment, mostly from the US, was Film-making under Covid-19 will be at work … although it’s hard, because you
at a record-breaking £3.65bn in 2019. This COVERING BASES: “We have a very good more expensive. Working to the guidelines can’t see people smiling through a mask.”
year was on track to exceed that. The major Covid adviser who does actually have a metal is adding between 15% and 25% to gross Clark agrees: “Being in a mask 10 hours a day
film studios were fully booked, new ones measuring tape to make sure everyone is two budgets, estimates Sarah-Jane Wright, on top is not fun, but these are not exactly terrible
were being built across the country to cope metres socially distanced,” says Sarah-Jane of money lost by shutting down. At the time problems. We’re all bloody grateful to be
with the demand and Hollywood productions Wright, head of production at Working Title. of lockdown, Working Title had four films working, to be honest.” – The Guardian
6 GULF TIMES Sunday, August 2, 2020
COMMUNITY GARDENING
A competition for
pollinator plants
You will love Lo & Behold Ruby Chip for its habit and
its nonstop bloom production. By Norman Winter
T
his year The Garden Guy
decided to add some
dwarf buddleia into his
arsenal of pollinator
plants. The idea of
3-foot-tall or less buddleias or
butterfly bushes seemed like just
what the doctor ordered to be able
to incorporate them with lantanas,
rudbeckias, gaillardia and salvias
for a colourful wild Serengeti style
backyard habitat. Lo & Behold
I have a found a Garden Guy
favourite.
I hope you are smiling with my
little Lo & Behold segue. There is
a brand spanking new selection
called Lo & Behold Ruby Chip.
Oh my gosh, you will love it for
its habit and its nonstop bloom
production. It will compete with
all of your favourite pollinator
plants including salvias. I’ve felt
like nothing could compete with
Rockin salvias, but here is this
little buddleia always with blooms,
always with bees and butterflies,
and getting attention from
hummers too.
I remember well the first buddleia
I saw as a young ornamental
horticulturist; it was well over two
stories tall. These new buddleias
I am growing feel like the perfect
complement to the perennial BREATHTAKING: This Eastern Tiger Swallowtail appears to be doing
garden. Notice I am talking plural acrobatics as he feeds on a Pugster Amethyst butterfly bush.
here, even though my new love is Lo
& behold Ruby Chip.
I am also growing Pugster Blue
and Pugster Amethyst. These are
so different you will adore them.
Imagine fat pudgy flowers coming
from a compact bush that is a
handsome dark green. There are
six colours and I want them all.
I’ve got the Pugster Blue grown in
close proximity to Indian Summer
rudbeckia. To be honest sometimes
it seems more like intermingled.
In another area Pugster Blue is
partnered with SunPatiens Hot
Coral impatiens for a gawdy but COMBINATION: Lo & Behold Ruby Chip butterfly bush is a new compact
wonderful marriage. variety and partnered here with Heat It Up Yellow gaillardia.
The Garden Guy partnered the
Pugster amethyst with the Colour You’ll find Blue Chip, Pink Micro an acre to grow the butterfly bush.
Coded Orange You Awesome Chip, Ice Chip (white), Lilac Chip, If your soil drains poorly plant on
echinacea and Luscious Marmalade all of which get around 30-inches raised beds and even plant a little
lantana. This was the first to bloom tall with a 24-inch spread. Ruby high with the rootball slightly
in my garden and immediately Chip gets slightly larger, and Purple higher than the soil surface.
brought in the Eastern Tiger Haze is the largest of the group Both the Lo & Behold and
swallowtails. The Pugster butterfly but still a compact 36-by-36-inch Pugster groups are brought to you
bushes come in Blue, Pink, White, habit. by Proven Winners and cold hardy
Amethyst and Periwinkle and are These compact buddleias or from zones 5-9 meaning just about
going to reach 2 feet tall with a butterfly bushes are really easy to everyone can enjoy their beauty.
2-foot spread, probably slightly grow. Give them fertile soil, good Your decision will be how to use
more in the South. drainage with full sun and you will them. Let your creative and artistic
The Lo & Behold group comes have garnered the ‘Green Thumb abilities loose, you are the Monet of PERFECTION: This female dark morph Eastern Tiger Swallowtail finds the Lo
in six colours and can vary in size. Award.’ No longer will you need your garden. — TNS & Behold Ruby Chip butterfly bush to be just perfect.
Sunday, August 2, 2020 GULF TIMES 7
BOOK REVIEW COMMUNITY
Imagining Shakespeare at home
In her stunning new novel, Hamnet, Maggie O’Farrell seizes that
blank canvas and paints a gorgeously written, deeply moving
family portrait of William Shakespeare, writes Colette Bancroft
AUTHOR: Maggie O’Farrell, who was born in Northern Ireland and lives in Scotland, has written seven novels, including
the Costa Book Award-winning The Hand That First Held Mine, and a memoir.
rest of her life.” William Shakespeare and the Latin tutor meet when he’s unbearably real. The latter part of the
is never named in this book. He’s the pressed into service teaching her novel explores the effects of such a
father, the husband or, somewhat younger half brothers at the family’s loss on a marriage, and what might
disparagingly, the Latin tutor. He’s farm, in payment for a debt his father be salvaged from the ruins.
not even the main character. owes her family. John Shakespeare Allusions to Shakespeare’s plays
That role is played by his wife, the is a somewhat sketchy businessman are used with the lightest of hands,
mother of Hamnet. In some historical and, at home, a violent abuser of until a final virtuoso scene about the
records, her first name appears as his wife and children, especially his play that bears a version of Hamnet’s
Agnes; that’s what O’Farrell calls her, oldest son. name. O’Farrell does employ one of
and she is a memorable character Sparks fly between Agnes and the playwright’s favourite tropes,
— strong, smart, mysterious and the tutor immediately. Both of them though — twins who trade places
sometimes heartbreaking. want nothing more than to escape with each other. Shakespeare most
The first part of the book moves from their families. Her stepmother often made it a comic device, but
back and forth between two does not consider a teenager with here it has dire consequences.
timelines: the days surrounding no particular prospects a suitable Line to line, O’Farrell’s writing is
Hamnet’s death and, 15 years before, match, especially since Agnes has a so beautiful it can be breathtaking:
his parents’ courtship and marriage. considerable dowry left by her late “Look, a kingfisher: a jewel-backed
The novel opens with foreboding as father. But love finds a way (which arrow piercing the silver skin of
the boy’s twin sister, always a frail the stepmother discovers by counting a brook.” At the same time, she
child, suddenly falls frighteningly ill. the number of clean menstrual cloths immerses us in the real details of
A REMINDER: Line to line, O’Farrell’s writing is so beautiful it can be The children’s father is in London, in the cupboard), and the pair are life in the 16th century, especially
breathtaking. Bubonic plague killed one-third of the population of Europe, but and, by coincidence, all of the other soon happily, if quickly, wed. the enormous amount of labor it
this novel reminds us that every one of such deaths, then and now, shatters adults in the Shakespeare household Agnes has escaped, but the couple took to run a household, most of
someone’s world. _ mother, grandparents, aunts is living in John’s household, and her it by women. Midway through the
and uncles — are out about their husband is still working for his father. novel, O’Farrell includes a chapter
D
espite William Some of the few facts we have business, the twins home alone. Within a few years, his restlessness about the path the plague took to the
Shakespeare’s singular about Shakespeare have to do with When Hamnet sees huge swellings turns into something that sounds Shakespeare household, starting with
position at the peak of his family. His father, John, was a emerging on Judith’s neck, he like depression. Everyone knows a cabin boy who plays with a tame
Western literature, we glovemaker in the town of Stratford- recognises them as buboes, the about Agnes’ gift for healing, but monkey on a street in Alexandria and
know vanishingly little upon-Avon. When William was 18, dreaded telltale symptom of bubonic she’s secretive about her abilities to brings back to his ship its fleas, the
about the man himself. he married Anne Hathaway, a woman plague. He runs through the town to read minds and sometimes foresee carriers of the disease, and ending
In her stunning new novel, eight years his senior. Their daughter summon the physician, but returns the future. Holding a person’s hand with Judith in Stratford, opening a
Hamnet, Maggie O’Farrell seizes that Susanna was born six months after thwarted to the empty house. By the between the thumb and forefinger, box of fancy Venetian beads that had
blank canvas and paints a gorgeously the wedding, twins Hamnet and time Agnes comes home, tragedy is she can see into his mind, and she travelled on that ship. Along the way,
written, deeply moving family Judith two years later. In 1596, at age already in motion. knows her husband’s holds entire the plague leaves countless dead in its
portrait. 11, Hamnet died of unknown causes. In the chapters set years earlier, worlds, and that he must find a way wake. O’Farrell couldn’t have known
O’Farrell, who was born in That death lies at the heart of we learn about the families of Agnes to bring them into being. when she was writing Hamnet just
Northern Ireland and lives in O’Farrell’s novel. “Every life has its and her future husband. Her beloved Hence, when Judith sickens, her how terribly timely a book about a
Scotland, has written seven novels, kernel, its hub, its epicentre,” she mother, who died when Agnes was father has been living in London child’s death in a pandemic would
including the Costa Book Award- writes, “from which everything little, was rumored to have strange for a while, pursuing a career in be. Bubonic plague killed one-third
winning The Hand That First Held flows out, to which everything powers and origins. Agnes has a the theatres and coming home of the population of Europe, but this
Mine, and a memoir. Much of her returns. This moment is the absent somewhat wicked stepmother and occasionally. A desperate letter novel reminds us that every one of
fiction has contemporary settings, mother’s: the boy, the empty house, a protective older brother; like her brings him rushing back, but too late. such deaths, then and now, shatters
but Hamnet is set in a vividly the deserted yard, the unheard cry. mother, she’s a healer with a deep O’Farrell’s depiction of Agnes’ someone’s world.
imagined Elizabethan England. ... It will lie at her very core, for the knowledge of the natural world. She overwhelming grief is almost — Tampa Bay Times/TNS
8 GULF TIMES Sunday, August 2, 2020
COMMUNITY TRA
How coronavirus is reshapin
The collapse of visitor numbers amid the pandemic offers cities a new opportunity
to rethink their business model, writes Stephen Burgen and Angela Giuffrida
B
arely a year ago the
graffiti on the walls of
Barcelona read Tourists
Go Home. Now that they
have gone, the city –
along with others that are heavily
dependent on the tourist trade –
fears an economic meltdown and
is hastily drawing up plans to lure
visitors back while placating tourist-
weary residents.
Trade associations predict at least
15% of businesses and one in four
restaurants in Barcelona city centre
will close permanently as a result
of coronavirus and the outlook is
similarly grim in other urban tourist
destinations, with tens of thousands
of jobs at risk.
But Covid-19 has got the mayors
of some of Europe’s most heavily
visited cities, academics and urban
scholars all singing the same tune:
the collapse of the travel industry
caused by the virus offers a unique
opportunity for cities plagued
by mass tourism to rethink their
business model.
Barbora Hrubá, of the Prague
tourist agency, said the Czech
capital wants a different type of
visitor. Xavier Marcé, the Barcelona
councillor responsible for tourism,
said: “I don’t want more tourists, I
want more visitors. We’re a city in
crisis and are trying to do something
different,” said Paola Mar, his
counterpart in Venice. Charles bridge in Prague.
“We want to have a sustainable
visitor economy that doesn’t
harm the liveability of our city,” 2019 2020
said Heleen Jansen, corporate
communications co-ordinator
at amsterdam&partners, a non-
profit organisation that advises
Amsterdam on how to market itself.
However, good intentions are one
thing, concrete proposals another.
According to Janet Sanz, Barcelona’s
deputy mayor, cities that have grown
dependent on tourism are paying
the price for having a monocultural
economy and now the challenge is to
diversify.
Easier said than done with the
scale of tourism in these cities.
Barcelona, which has a population
of 1.6 million, received 30 million
visitors in 2019; Venice, 270,000
residents, 25 million visitors;
Amsterdam, population 873,000,
welcomed 19 million tourists.
In Venice, mass tourism has in
recent years been seen as a threat
to the city’s survival, but now the
debate has switched to how it will
pull through with fewer visitors.
While tourists have been
trickling back to the city since the
coronavirus lockdown was eased,
the majority travelling by car from
Austria, Germany, France and
Belgium, many hotels remain closed
and those that are open are only
about 30% full. St Mark’s Square in Venice.
Sunday, August 2, 2020 GULF TIMES 9
AVEL COMMUNITY
ng Europe’s tourism hotspots
2019 2020
The waters off of San Marco square in Venice.
“This is a time for reflection,” by Paris, Berlin or Amsterdam.
said Mar. While the city is yet to Limiting the number of beds in the
devise any bold measures to manage city has no impact on day-trippers,
tourism better in the future, some he points out.
smaller changes are afoot. In Amsterdam, Geerte Udo, chief
“Owners of property that was executive of amsterdam&partners,
rented to tourists have signed an says they are working on a
agreement with the council and “campaign about the rediscovery
Venice’s universities to now rent of the cultural offer, the old centre
to students,” said Mar. “It’s a good of the city and other different
sign.” neighbourhoods, the local
Other cities, including entrepreneurs and the public
Amsterdam, Barcelona and Lisbon, space. In this way, the campaign
have taken steps to curb the Airbnb contributes to the renewed bond
phenomenon that has pushed up between residents and their city,
rents and driven residents out. environment and each other.
Jaime Palomera, spokesman It builds on our aim to seduce
for Barcelona’s Tenants’ Union, Amsterdamers to rediscover their
wants the thousands of tourist city.” At a time when many residents
apartment licences that were are revelling in the tourist-free
granted in perpetuity by the Catalan streets, squares and beaches, it
government in 2011 to be revoked. seems odd that both Amsterdam
He also says the government should and Barcelona are urging them
legislate against letting single to “rediscover” the city. It gives
rooms to tourists, a loophole that the impression that the citizens
allows landlords to get around the abandoned the city when in fact they
law banning renting out entire feel they have been expelled from it.
apartments. In the meantime, no one expects
As in Barcelona, much of travel to recover significantly this
Venetians’ antipathy towards Las Ramblas in Barcelona. year, so for now it is a question of
tourists has focused on the giant wait and see.
cruise ships. But neither city has mass unemployment. “There are difficult to discourage visitors from marketing plan.” Agreed by whom? “We think the low-cost market
jurisdiction over the port and any people who think that the city is congregating at iconic sites. asks Pere Mariné, spokesman for is going to change, both because of
form of control will have to come magnificent the way it is, without “Thirty million visitors managed Barcelona’s federation of residents’ effects on airlines and attitudes to
from central government. tourists,” Marcé said. “But they may the way they were up until the associations. He says that because mobility,” Marcé said, adding that
“We no longer live in fear of the change their view when the state beginning of this year is not they’re thinking about businessmen, low-cost accounts for only 4 million
monsters crashing,” said Matteo stops paying 80% of their salary in sustainable,” Marcé said. “The same not citizens.” visitors to the city.
Secchi, who leads the activist group, September and unemployment goes number with different interests “As for Marcé’s idea of Mar also believes there will be a
Venessia. “But I feel for the staff up to 18%.” dispersed to different areas may not decentralisation, I’m not opposed natural change in tourism as a result
at the cruise ship terminal who are Marcé believes it is less a question be such a big problem.” to it, but that entails promoting the of the pandemic.
now at home. We are against big of numbers than of distribution. Octavi Bono, the director city in a different way, and the plans “Tourism will be completely
ships and have always said we need He wants to encourage tourists general of tourism for the Catalan they’ve approved recently point to different,” she said. “Not everyone
a solution, but the workers must be to visit other parts of the city and government, agrees. “We don’t want more of the same, mass tourism.” will travel like they used to. And
protected.” not just the traditional sites. This more or less tourism, we want better Marcé says the problem is that those who do travel may want to do
With tens of thousands of jobs at is a view shared by Amsterdam in tourism with a better distribution of the Catalan coast is crowded with so in a calmer way, maybe they will
stake, the headache for cities is how its six-point post-Covid-19 plan, tourists by season and by location. tourists who want to spend a day see less but enjoy the experience
to rethink tourism without causing although it concedes that it is We are continuing with an agreed in Barcelona, a problem not shared more.” — The Guardian
10 GULF TIMES Sunday, August 2, 2020
COMMUNITY INFOGRAPHIC
Science Matters
New material for the Solar Age
Thin sheets of the mineral perovskite can generate electricity more efficiently than
the silicon panels used worldwide. Researchers are racing to make them practical.
In sunny places, 1 hectare (2.5 acres) ... today silicon panels can
of solar panels can generate about
1 megawatt of power ...
BUT reach only 20% efficiency
– under ideal conditions
Perovskite*: Crystals a natural semiconductor
Mineral discovered Acts as a semiconductor, can be
in Ural Mountains used instead of silicon to capture
contains calcium and transmit energy from solar
titanium oxide crystals radiation to electric power
* Named after the Russian mineralogist Lev Perovsky (1792-1856)
Perovskite solar cell New tandem design adds silicon
Research has centered on this design Newer, more promising design
Transparent Transparent layer
Sunlight enters Creates charge
perovskite layer in perovskite Perovskite
layer, which layer; light
passes v
of different wavelengths
electric Perovskite creates more Silicon
charge to the Electrode charge in silicon Electrode
base electrode
Electric charge Electric charge
Researchers tackle persistent issues
Source: Liu, Z., Qiu, L.,
Ono, L.K. of Okinawa Experimental perovskite panels last only a year at most.
Institute of Science and Silicon-based panels, 25 to 30 years
Technology; Nature
Energy magazine;
E/The Environmental
Magazine; Ron Lavinski Highly efficient only on “postage stamp-sized” chips
crystal photo; TNS
Photos
Fabricating efficient perovskite solar cells requires toxic
Graphic: Helen Lee
McComas, Tribune compounds, such as lead. Less toxic versions
News Service of perovskite chips are less efficient.Sunday, August 2, 2020 GULF TIMES 11
QUIZ COMMUNITY
Celebrating friendship and also her own creation. As
she turned 55, her creation
celebrated his 40th birthday.
Name both of them.
J K Rowling and Harry Potter.
What is the name of the
world’s 1st underground tube
railways which opened on this
day (Aug 2), 150 years back in
1870?
Tower Subway. It is a tunnel
beneath the River Thames in central
London, between Tower Hill on
I
prayed for a coterie of the north bank of the river and
wonderful people and Vine Lane (off Tooley Street) on the
God said, “So be it”. From south .
‘the-ever-smiling-and-
inspiring’ to ‘my-alter- On August 6, 2013, a car-sized
ego-during-my-tryst-with- rover named Curiosity audibly
triumphs-and-tremors’ and played “Happy Birthday to
‘bringing-life-and-smile,’ the You” in certain honour, also
world calls them my ‘friends’. I creating some firsts. Where was
call them ‘my world’. They bring in it played?
me a sense of pride. Our claim to On Mars surface. Curiosity is on
fame could be that we have been a mission exploring Mars surface,
so much part of each other’s life. having landed there on August 6th,
Friends are indispensable. HISTORY: The concept of Friendship Day began as a novel marketing strategy in the early 1930s. Joyce Hall, an 2012. The song was in honour of
And I am not just saying that to American businessman, originally promoted the first Sunday of August as Friendship Day. As the trend caught on, the one Earth year mark of its Martian
make you smile (like your bestie United States Congress announced the first Sunday of August as National Friendship Day in 1935. landing. It was the first time for
would.) Tina Fey and Amy Poehler a song to be played on another
are so close they’re practically planet. This was also the first time
‘sisters.’ Jennifer Aniston and different countries. The concept April 27, 2011 stating “Our world 23 – June 25. The first day of the music was transmitted between two
Courtney Cox have been BFFs of a day for celebrating friends faces many challenges, crises and weekend is known as Best Friends’ planets.
since their time on FRIENDS. And spread through much of the forces of division… To confront Day.
what would the world be without world. those crises and challenges, their Welcome to ‘Nutty’s Mysophobia is a common
Harry Potter, Hermione, and Ron The idea of World Friendship root causes must be addressed by Infotainment. YAYS! Your time phobia, relevant very much
watching each other’s backs? Day was first proposed by Dr promoting and defending a shared to kick the bestie celebration into now? What is it a fear of?
Grab your bestie, people, Ramon Artemio Bracho in 1958 spirit of human solidarity that high gear starts NOW!!! Also known as verminophobia,
and hold ‘em tight. Today is when he was on a dinner with takes many forms – the simplest germophobia, germaphobia,
International Friendship Day. his friends in Puerto Pinasco in of which is friendship.” Which cartoon character bacillophobia and bacteriophobia,
Whoever has a friend, has a Paraguay. The friends’ dinner gave In Spain, Friendship Day is was chosen as the world’s it is a pathological fear of
treasure — that phrase might hold rise to World Friendship Crusade, called ‘D del Amigo’ which is Ambassador of Friendship at contamination and germs. It’s
more truth than you’d think! In a foundation that promotes celebrated annually on July the United Nations in 1998? a case of obsessive–compulsive
studying friendship, scientists friendship and fosters care among 20, including in Uruguay and Winnie the Pooh. disorder (OCD) exhibited in
have discovered shocking facts. all humans regardless of their Argentina. Women’s Friendship repeatedly washing one’s hands.
Hanging out in a group of race, religion, ethnicity. Paraguay Day is celebrated on the third The idea of Friendship Day Some well-known people who
friends can make you look more celebrated the first World Sunday of September. started as a fresh marketing suffer (or suffered) from it include
attractive? This is called the Friendship Day on July 30, 1958. To protect and honour the strategy in the 1930s by Joyce Nikola Tesla, Saddam Hussein,
cheerleader effect. A recent study The widespread popularity rights of animals, Best Friends Hall. He came up with the Charlize Theron, David Beckham,
suggests that close friends share of the concept led the General Animal Society established an idea of celebrating the first Madonna and Cameron Diaz.
about one percent of their DNA, Assembly of the United Nations occasion known as the Best Sunday of August every year
making them as close genetically to declare July 30 as the official Friends Weekend. The occasion as Friendship Day. Which What is depicted in the image
as fourth cousins. International Friendship Day on is observed every year from June company was founded by him below? It has relevance for
A 1993 primate study at the in 1910 in Kansas City? today. No more clue required.
University of Oxford indicated Hallmark Cards.
that each individual is only
capable of maintaining a certain
number of social relationships at
any given time. Anthropologist
Robin Dunbar, who conducted
Tribe NI.yays Which month is touted as
the International Month of
Friendship?
February.
the study, extrapolated this to
humans, estimating the human 1. If you were in Germany, you might hear someone say, “This Which group released the
limit for simultaneous friendships appears to be Spanish”, while in the Philippines it would be, immortal song With a Little
at around 150 – known as “It’s German to me.” In Finland it would be “It’s Hebrew,” and in Help from My Friends that deals
‘Dunbar’s number’. Hebrew it would be “It’s Chinese to me,” while the Chinese either with the theme of friendship,
The concept of Friendship say, “These are chicken intestines,” or ‘Is this a ghost’s script?’ to mark the 10th anniversary
Day began as a novel marketing What would an English speaking person normally say in this celebrations of International
strategy in the early 1930s. Joyce circumstance? Friendship Day in 1967?
Hall, an American businessman, It’s Greek to me. Beatles.
originally promoted the first (Angelito Maricar, Mapua University, Manila.) (Answer next week. Answer to
Sunday of August as Friendship Which cult sitcom arrived at last week’s photo-quiz: Louise
Day. As the trend caught on, 2. Which 20th century artist had a pet Ocelot named its title after being suggested Brown is known as the world’s
the United States Congress Babou, who used to go with him almost everywhere, even names such as ‘Friends like Us,’ first “test-tube baby,” conceived
announced the first Sunday of into restaurants? Ocelots are a species of wild cat found ‘Six of One, ‘Across the Hall,’ through in vitro fertilisation
August as National Friendship predominantly in South and Central America. ‘Once Upon a Time in the West (IVF). Her younger sister, Natalie
Day in 1935. In view of the Salvador Dali. Village,’ and ‘Insomnia Café’? Brown, was also conceived through
growing hatred and hostilities (Juna Fernando, Housewife, Doha.) F.R.I.E.N.D.S IVF four years later, and became
post World War I, it was felt that the world’s fortieth child after
steps need to be taken so that Do you have some interesting bytes to share? And, does yourvibe She was born on July 31, conception by IVF. In May 1999,
there could be more trust and attract you to the ‘Tribe NI.yays!’ Every week two of your best questions 1965. She shares her birthday Natalie was the first human born
understanding not just between will be featured here. Please do write to us at ni.yays@zoho.com. with perhaps the most iconic after conception by IVF to give
nations but even the people of fictional character of the time birth herself—without IVF.)12 GULF TIMES Sunday, August 2, 2020
COMMUNITY CARTOONS/PUZZLES
Wordsearch Adam
Pooch Cafe
BELL CINDERS CYLINDER
FIREBOX PISTON SMELL
STEAM TRACK WHEELS
BOILER COAL DOME
MOGUL PUMPS SMOKE
TANK VALVES WHISTLE
CAB COUPLING ENGINEER
PACIFIC REGULATOR SPARKS
TENDER WATER
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.
Puzzles courtesy: Puzzlechoice.com
Garfield
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.Sunday, August 2, 2020 GULF TIMES 13
PUZZLES COMMUNITY
Super Cryptic Clues Colouring
Across Down
1 A lighter of mine (4,4) 1 Rolled turf makes a picture (5)
5 Cash dispenser containing 2 Altering navy rig at sea (7)
nothing or tiny amount (4) 3 She requires daily movement
8 Bitter cold in very dry (5)
environment (5) 4 Spud for lawman? (6)
9 Bird going round an Italian city 6 It takes two to make colour
(7) vanish (5)
11 Chips with an odd vegetable 7 Terribly dear men wander
(7) aimlessly (7)
12 Name of man taking Dolly out 10 Home team? (5)
(5) 13 Country girl following bishop
13 Large girl finding way to have (7)
two husbands? (6) 14 Manuscript about beer for
15 A car that’s made of glass? men (5)
(3,3) 16 After half a month tropical
18 Flat obtained by a woman in vine is seen by Dutch queen (7)
the Fifties (5) 17 Edge hoop in iron (6)
20 Gallery constructed in a royal 19 Poison that makes some live
manner (7) no more (5)
23 Meat cooked in ovens? (7) 21 Profits in gas distribution (5)
24 Biblical patriarch’s investment 22 Cathy’s new boat (5)
account (5)
25 Objectives set in Siam (4)
26 Communist beginning to get
a bird (8)
Answers
Solution
Wordsearch Codeword14 GULF TIMES Sunday, August 2, 2020
COMMUNITY LIFESTYLE/HOROSCOPE
Lip care during summer
L
ip care is very important lips when they feel dry, instead use
in summer. So, keep your a hydrating lip balm, switch to lip
lip balm handy to protect balms enriched with bees wax. Use
them, say experts. Hema SPF protected lip balms to reduce
Sharma Datta, Head – the harm.
Skin Care and Cleansing, R&D, The Exfoliation is as important
Himalaya Drug Company, tells why for the lips as it is for skin, apply
it is important to protect lips in a sugar scrub using a toothbrush
summer. once a week to get rid of the dead
skin layer.
Lips lack natural protective You can use butter stick as
oil: well. Butter stick lip treatment is
Our skin contains sebaceous hydrating. It will make lips feel
glands that secrete the natural oil and look softer, smoother and
called sebum which keeps our skin moisturised.
moisturised. However, our lips Eat plenty of green
do not contain these glands and vegetables and fruits as fruits rich
therefore, it is essential for us to in vitamin help in increasing the
keep them protected and hydrated water intake too.
through the day. Therefore, using Lips do turn black in the
a lip balm that is enriched with summer heat. So you can mix
natural ingredients in this weather saffron and curd and apply daily 2-3
is a must. times to maintain the natural lip
colour.
Harmful ultraviolet (UV) rays run thus damaging their health and reason, carrying a lip balm that India, give tips to protect the lips. Maintain a regular night lip
of the sun affect the lips: appearance. nourishes and soothes our lips is regime. For this you can take half a
UV rays are extremely harmful extremely essential. Datta, Shikhee A lip balm enriched with the teaspoon of glycerine, castor oil and
for our skin, and our lips are no Sudden changes in Agrawal, Head Training, The essence of oranges is the best bet lemon juice. Apply this mixture on
exception. Since they have fewer temperature can make your lips Body Shop, Geetika Mittal Gupta, for you to protect your lips from to your lips and leave overnight.
melanocytes in them, they are more dry: Founder and Medical Director the sun, owing to its natural photo Drinking up to 12 glasses
prone to sun damage caused by UV The sudden and drastic change at ISAAC (International Skin & protection and skin conditioning of water keeps your body and lips
exposure. It impacts the production in temperature is quite detrimental Anti Aging Centre), Sham Kumar, properties. hydrated and helps stimulate the
of collagen in our lips in the long to the health of our lips. For this Education Manager at Kiehl’s We have a habit of licking our blood circulation of the skin. – IANS
ARIES
March 21 — April 19
TAURUS
April 20 — May 20
GEMINI
May 21 — June 20
Take charge of your overall health today, Aries. You’ll likely wake If there’s something crafty or artsy you’ve had your eye on and It’s the perfect day to get up and head outside, Gemini. You’ll likely
up feeling energetic and well. Seize this opportunity to be active in would really like to get but can’t afford, Taurus, consider making find yourself feeling positive and energetic, and some fresh air,
doing things that will help continue your good feelings. Consider all it. Even if you don’t consider yourself artistic, you may surprise sunshine, and physical activity may be long overdue. Even if this is
aspects of your health, including emotional and spiritual. If you can, yourself if you give a project half a chance. There are numerous a workday for you, make the most of your breaks and lunch hour by
sit outside in the sunshine and fresh air to consider the areas of your websites that cater to novices and can give you the support and walking. This evening may be the opportune time to get together
life that could use a workout. Take a walk, do some gardening. instruction you need. Don’t dismiss your ability. with some friends for coffee or a favorite sporting event.
CANCER
June 21 — July 22
LEO
July 23 — August 22
VIRGO
August 23 — September 22
It won’t be surprising if you find yourself getting frustrated with a close See about using your good relationships with friends and loved ones If you’re lacking a regular exercise routine, Virgo, today’s a great day
friend or partner today who is far less ambitious than you, Cancer. The today to get some group activities going, Leo. Chances are you’ll feel to turn that around. Exercise doesn’t have to wear you out or hurt.
energy in the air can really emphasise your “go, go, go” way of reaching pretty good and the idea of socialising will appeal to you. See about Even relaxing activities like walking or yoga are excellent ways to
goals and achieving success. Others who are passive or fearful in this inviting people over for supper or a game of cards. If you’re especially keep you in good shape. Participating in a sport that appeals to you
area may be difficult to understand. Yet each person has to do things in lively, some sports may be just the ticket to get you out and moving. Do like volleyball or bowling combines fun with exercise. Heck, even
ways that are best for him or her. Try to be patient. whatever it takes to have some fun and get some fresh air today. dancing is a recognised form of exercise!
LIBRA
September 23 — October 22
SCORPIO
October 23 — November 21
SAGITTARIUS
November 22 — December 21
Put your ambition into action today, Libra. The day’s planetary aspects Don’t hesitate when it comes to taking on a project or making plans Today should go well for you, Sagittarius. Expect to feel a renewed
should find you feeling energetic and positive. Make the most of this today, Scorpio. Extra energy will complement your organisational energy and perspective on things, especially those that are work
by taking steps towards your goals. As you know, if you don’t actively skills, making the perfect combination to handle almost anything. Be related. Make the most of this by working towards finishing projects
pursue things, nothing will happen. The years can pass by so quickly sure to write down your goals and plans to help keep you focused. that are waiting for you or by cleaning and organising your desk or
and you wouldn’t want to be sitting on a rocker wondering “what if.” If you decide to tackle any cleaning today, get rid of the things you broom closet. Feel confident that you’ll be able to handle most any
Trust yourself and do what it takes. Everything starts with a single step. never use. Consider donating such items to charity. task in no time.
CAPRICORN
December 22 — January 19
AQUARIUS
January 20 — February 18
PISCES
February 19 — March 20
Today you may notice that you’re feeling very creative and Don’t be surprised if you wake up feeling super today, Aquarius. The effect from the planetary aspects will bring an end to any
ambitious, Capricorn. You might want to use these strengths to work Chances are good that you’ll feel a renewed physical strength with lethargy you’ve been feeling, Pisces. It’s an excellent day to get up
directly on an artistic project. Or you may choose to channel that energy to spare. That said, it might be a good day to tackle any projects and head into the open to do something active. Walking, running,
energy into activities like organising your home or workspace. If you that require you to use some muscle. Perhaps there’s some yard work or going on a hike can make great use of both your energy and
plan it out, there should be plenty of time to get to both if you have a that needs to be done or furniture you want to move around. On the fun creativity. Fresh air and physical exertion will lend much to your
mind to. Make the most of the day! side, you might want to get to the gym for a workout or swim. health as well, so make the most of this.You can also read
