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VIEW: In the Sahara, the key is that today’s typical solar panels would increase the surface albedo, according to researchers.

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“Only I can change my life. No one can do it for me.”

— Carol Burnett

Alpha DIRECTION: Albert HughesCAST: Kodi Smit-McPhee, Morgan

Freeman, Natassia Malthe

SYNOPSIS: In the prehistoric past, a young man struggles to return home after being separated from his tribe during a buff alo hunt. He fi nds

a similarly lost wolf companion, and starts a friendship that would change humanity.

THEATRES: The Mall, Landmark

Enchanted PrincessDIRECTION: Artyom LukichevSYNOPSIS: A family comedy about a young prince,

who sets on a mission to fi nd a missing princess from the

neighbourhood kingdom. Along the journey he gets to meet a doopie dragon who joins him on the adventure, but prince does not know that the dragon isn’t who he says he is.

THEATRES: The Mall, Landmark, Royal Plaza

The Mall Cinema (1): Maradona (Malayalam) 2pm; Alpha (2D) 4:45pm; Alpha (2D) 6:45pm; Jawani Phir Nahi Ani 2 (Urdu) 8:30pm; Maradona (Malayalam) 11:30pm.The Mall Cinema (2): Hotel Transylvania 3: A Monster Vacation (2D) 2:30pm; Enchanted Princess (2D) 4:15pm; Hotel Transylvania 3: A Monster Vacation (2D) 5:45pm; The Nun (2D) 7:30pm; The Nun (2D) 9:30pm; The Nun (2D) 11:30pm.The Mall Cinema (3): Stree (Hindi) 2pm; Jawani Phir Nahi Ani 2 (Urdu) 4:30pm; Miss Granny (Tagalog) 7:30pm; Peppermint (2D) 9:30pm; Paltan (Hindi) 11:30pm.

Landmark Cinema (1): Alpha (2D) 3pm; Paltan (Hindi) 4:45pm; Jawani Phir Nahi Ani 2 (Urdu) 7:30pm; Jawani Phir Nahi Ani 2 (Urdu) 10:30pm.Landmark Cinema (2): Enchanted Princess (2D) 2:30pm; Hotel Transylvania 3: A Monster Vacation (2D) 4:15pm; Alpha (2D) 6pm; The Nun (2D) 7:45pm; Alpha (2D) 9:30pm; The Nun (2D) 11:15pm.Landmark Cinema (3): Hotel Transylvania 3: A Monster Vacation (2D) 2:15pm; Jawani Phir Nahi Ani 2 (Urdu) 4pm;

Peppermint (2D) 7pm; The Nun (2D) 9pm; Maradona (Malayalam) 10:45pm.Royal Plaza Cinema Palace (1): Hotel Transylvania 3: A Monster Vacation (2D) 3:30pm; Alpha (2D) 5:30pm; Alpha (2D) 7:15pm; The Nun (2D) 9:15pm; The Nun (2D) 11:15pm.Royal Plaza Cinema Palace (2): Paltan (Hindi) 2:30pm; Stree (Hindi) 5:15pm; Jawani Phir Nahi Ani 2 (Urdu) 7:45pm; Stree (Hindi) 10:45pm.Royal Plaza Cinema Palace (3): Jawani Phir Nahi Ani 2 (Urdu) 2:30pm; Enchanted Princess (2D) 5:30pm; The Nun (2D) 7pm; The Mercy (2D) 8:45pm; Alpha (2D) 10:45pm.

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Compiled by Nausheen Shaikh. E-mail: [email protected], Events and timings subject to change

EVENTS

Katara Art Studio: Workshops for children

WHERE: Katara Art StudioWHEN: Ongoing till September 15TIME: 3pm – 8pmAs part of its rich educational

programme, Katara Art Studio continues to offer a number of technical workshops ongoing till September 15, aimed at enhancing artistic talents and creative abilities. The workshops will include the art of paper cutting and design, the art of the design of felt and gouache by Jaya Elizabeth Jacob, the art of painting the line brush (a course for beginners) offered by trainer Grace Castrodes, silk screen and art drawing on the glass.

Free Activities WHEN: OngoingWHERE: Swiss International SchoolThe Swiss International School is

opening its new HUB offering Zumba, Salsa, Yoga, Hip Hop, Football, Spinning, Boxercise, Drama, Piano, Violin and ABRSM music theory: enjoy a large range of activities for both kids and adults.No need for registration.

Weekly Knitting and Crochet CircleWHERE: Qatar National LibraryWHEN: Ongoing till September 27TIME: 9am – 11amJoin the casual gathering of knitters and

crocheters to work on projects and share skills in a friendly atmosphere. Participants will be welcome to bring their own supplies and projects or to borrow QNL needles and yarn. All skill levels are welcome including beginners who are interested in learning.

Choreography Lessons - Brazilian Zouk

WHERE: Music and Arts Atelier near MOI

WHEN: Ongoing till September 15Brazilian zouk is characterised by the

dancers’ undulating bodies and the girls’ flowing hair. Dancer or not, depending on the style of Brazilian zouk, you’ll be able to choose connection and embrace with long graceful steps. The final performance is scheduled to be on 15 September as a flashmob.

Doha Women ForumWHERE: The Westin Doha Hotel & SpaWHEN: September 26TIME: 8am – 5pmDoha Women Forum 2018: Press for

Progress is a platform where women can learn from experts, get inspired by the experiences of other women, share ideas, and network. The forum will feature the stories of women who took steps to affect positive change in their workplace, their community and personal lives. The event will consist of empowering talks, group discussions and workshops.

International Wedding ExhibitionWHERE: DECC, WestbayWHEN: September 26 – 30TIME: 10am – 10pm IWED 2018 is to stage a high-profile

luxury wedding exhibition in order to position it in the calendar as a key appointment for the luxury market in the Middle East. This event also offers women, who are interested in fashion and luxury, the latest styles and trends in the market.

Outdoor and five-a-side football pitches

WHERE: Aspire ZoneWHEN: DailyTIME: 7pm – 11pmAspire Zone’s five-a-side football

outdoor pitches opposite Al Waab Street are available every day from 7pm – 11pm.

Inter-School Yoga ChampionshipWHEN: October 5WHERE: MES Indian School, Abu

HumourTIME: 1pmIndian Sports Centre is all set to organise

the second edition of ‘Inter-School Yoga Championship’, sponsored by ‘The Children’s Place’. The championship has been expanded to include students of all nationalities residing in Qatar. Free training sessions can also be arranged to help schools prepare their students for the championship. Team and Individual Championship is classified into two categories of under-12 and under-18 for both boys and girls. Rolling trophy will be awarded to the champion school. Last date of entry is September 26. For further details 55646693 /55824194 or email at [email protected]

Med FoodWHERE: DECCWHEN: October 1 – 4TIME: 3pm – 9pmFor international entrepreneurs, traders,

manufacturers, suppliers, food technology companies, and hospitality services on food and beverage, MedFood will be an excellent platform to open new vistas to foray into the emerging markets of Qatar While Qatar economy is rapidly progressing, the demand and supply of food is inevitable increasing due to the growth of local population, foreign worker and its tourism.

Breast Cancer AwarenessWHERE: InterContinental DohaWHEN: OctoberInterContinental Doha – The City is

organising several activities (especially at its various dining venues) that focus on highlighting the importance of early detection. Try the pink afternoon tea, the extravagant pink Bar Squared Brunch at The Square and pink-themed nights at Strata Restaurant and Lounge.

Gymnastics World ChampionshipsWHERE: Aspire DomeWHEN: October 25 – November 3Over 700 male and female gymnasts from

over 80 countries, including three Team Qatar gymnasts, will compete across 10 days of competition in Doha’s ionic Aspire Dome. Experience the drama, emotions and excitement of gymnastics’ pinnacle event as global superstars go head to head in a bid to be crowned the best in the world.

After School ActivitiesWHERE: AtelierWHEN: OngoingMusic & arts Activities for students

taking place after they finish their day in school includes Group Music lessons, Hip-hop, Ballet, Drawing & Painting, Drama Theatre & Taekwondo. Ages between 5 and 10 years old after school hours.

Hobby ClassesWHERE: Mystic Arts Centre behind Al

Hilal Focus Medical CentreWHEN:Wednesday – MondayMystic Art Centre, is a holistic

performing artsinstitution and a one stop solution for adults as well as children looking to explore their talents in various art forms. We offer classes in Carnatic Music, Hindustani Music, Karate, Yoga, Zumba, Classical Dance, Salsa, Hip Hop, contemporary and Bollywood dance forms. For details, call 4723680/ 33897609.

Dance and instrument classesWHERE: TCA Campus, Behind Gulf

Times BuildingWHEN: Wednesday – MondayLearn the movements of dance styles

in Bollywood, Hip Hop and also the musical instruments such as Piano, Guitar, Keyboard for adults as well kids and move in the world of music. For details, contact 66523871/ 31326749.


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Kinetic vistasIf wind turbines and solar panels were deployed across the Sahara, more rain would

fall and more plants would grow in the massive African desert, according to research

Renewable energy can have multiple benefits for climate and sustainable development

— Team led by researchers

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’ HYPOTHESIS: Once their hypothetical energy farms were built, the researchers fed the details into a sophisticated computer program that simulates Earth’s dynamic climate. Then the program made predictions about how the farms would change the environment.

By Karen Kaplan

You already know that using solar and wind power can influence the climate by reducing our

dependence on heat-trapping fossil fuels. Now scientists say these renewable forms of energy can change the climate more directly — and do it in ways that might surprise you.

If wind turbines and solar panels were deployed across the Sahara, more rain would fall and more plants would grow in the massive African desert, according to research published in Friday’s edition of the journal Science.

“Renewable energy can have multiple benefits for climate and sustainable development,” wrote a team led by researchers from the University of Maryland’s Department of Atmospheric and Oceanic Science.

To figure this out, the researchers imagined three scenarios for the Sahara and the Sahel, a semi-arid region immediately to the south.

In one, the area is studded with wind turbines that stand more than 300 feet high. In another, solar panels cover 20 percent of the land. The third case combines wind and solar farms — a setup that would produce about 82 terawatts of electricity per year. (For the sake of comparison, the entire world used roughly 18

terawatts of electrical power in 2017, according to study co-leader Yan Li.)

Once their hypothetical energy farms were built, the researchers fed the details into a sophisticated computer program that simulates Earth’s dynamic climate. Then the program made predictions about how the farms would change the environment.

In the case of wind farms, the giant turbines would cause warmer air from above to mix with cooler air below, bringing more heat close to the surface. Air temperatures near the ground would increase by nearly 4 degrees Fahrenheit.

In addition, the turbines would interrupt the smoothness of the desert surface. Winds blowing

through the area would move more slowly.

That, combined with the added heat, would change the atmospheric conditions over the Sahara and bring more moisture to the area. Average rainfall would increase by up to 0.25 of a millimeter per day — about double what it would have been otherwise, according to the study.

The additional water would fuel plant growth, and those extra plants would reduce the amount of sunlight that’s reflected off the desert surface.

From there, it’s a positive feedback loop, the researchers explained: The reduced reflectivity (or surface albedo) enhances precipitation, which fuels plant growth, which reduces

albedo, and so on.The story is a little different for

solar farms.Instead of slowing the wind

or causing hot and cool air to mix, the main effect of solar panels is to reduce albedo. That would increase average daily precipitation by about 0.13 of a millimeter in the Sahara and 0.59 of a millimeter in the Sahel. The additional water would induce more plant growth, further reducing albedo and allowing the cycle to continue.

These changes were predicted to increase the maximum temperature by more than 2 degrees Fahrenheit, the researchers reported.

If wind and solar farms were combined, these effects would be


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“enhanced,” they said. Average daily precipitation would increase to 0.59 of a millimeter. That’s nearly 1.5 times higher than the Sahara would be in its natural state.

But the rain wouldn’t be spread evenly everywhere. The computer

simulations predicted that parts of the Sahel could get as much as nearly 20 inches of additional precipitation per year. All that extra water could have “major ecological, environmental, and societal impacts,” Li and his colleagues wrote.

Average temperature would also rise, by nearly 5 degrees Fahrenheit. Changes like these wouldn’t necessarily happen everywhere solar farms are built, the researchers cautioned. In the Sahara, the key is that today’s typical solar panels would

increase the surface albedo. But if the landscape were different, that might not be true.

Ditto if the solar panels were more efficient — that could cause temperatures to fall instead of rise. Without added heat, rainfall wouldn’t increase. It might even

decrease, the researchers noted.These are all factors to consider

when building a wind or solar farm, they wrote. If placed just so, these power plants could generate more rain and plants in addition to more clean energy. —Los Angeles Times/TNS

SOLAR PANELS: Instead of slowing the wind or causing hot and cool air to mix, the main eff ect of solar panels is to reduce albedo. That would increase average daily precipitation. The additional water would induce more plant growth, further reducing albedo and allowing the cycle to continue.

A third scenario combines wind and solar farms — a setup that would produce about 82 terawatts of electricity per year (for the sake of comparison, the entire world used roughly 18 terawatts of electrical power in 2017, according to study co-leader Yan Li)

By Jonathon Tirone

Nuclear energy can’t compete on cost with cheap natural gas or renewables and therefore needs the help of policy makers who are willing to promote its low-

emission power generation as a way to fi ght climate change, according to a landmark new study.

To stave off runaway global warming by midcentury, the world’s current crop of leaders need to institute policies that dial down greenhouse gases emitted by power producers more than 90 percent, according to scientists at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. The clearest way to get there may be by putting a price on carbon emissions and supporting clean technologies.

“As of today and for decades to come, the main value of nuclear energy lies in its potential contribution to de-carbonising the power sector,” reads the 246-page report. “Cost is the main barrier to realising this value. Without cost reductions, nuclear energy will not play a signifi cant role.”

The study casts doubt on whether President Donald Trump’s attempts to rescue money-losing US reactors while undoing climate policies can succeed. A more straightforward path to supporting the nuclear industry would

be to follow the lead of other countries that have put a price on emissions, either through direct taxation or carbon-trading markets. That would give atomic operators more room to compete against cheap gas, wind and solar.

In order to stabilise climate change and keep temperature rises well below 2 degrees Celsius (3.6 degrees Fahrenheit) by 2050, utilities need to cut carbon dioxide emissions to an average of about 10 grams from 500 grams a kilowatt-hour, according to the study. Failure to deploy nuclear could mean missing enormous costs savings, especially in emerging markets like China, that still rely heavily on burning coal for electricity.

“The role of government will be critical,” John Parsons, the MIT study’s co-chair, said in a statement. “Government offi cials must create new de-carbonisation policies that put all low-carbon energy technologies on equal footing, while also exploring options that spur private investments.”

Feeding into the report were more than 30 researchers with backgrounds from science, government and fi nance. Advisers to the project include William Magwood, head of the Paris-based Nuclear Energy Agency; former U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission Chairman Richard Meserve; and former Goldman Sachs Group Inc. managing director James Del Favero. MIT’s assessment of the nuclear industry fi rst appeared in 2003 and was updated in 2009. Previous versions

also touted nuclear power as an answer to combating global warming.

The report criticised the European and US nuclear industries for promoting “completely unrealistic” cost estimates throughout the 2000s, which contributed to the shift in investment toward new markets in Asia, Russia and the Middle East. Elevated safety concerns following the 2011 meltdowns at

Japan’s Fukushima plant have also hindered development.

A new generation of small, modular reactors that can be built with standardised designs and safety features could spell relief for the industry in America and Europe, according to the study, which advised regulators to earmark locations for investors to test prototype technologies. —Bloomberg News/TNS

FINDING: Luminant’s Comanche Peak Nuclear Power Plant’s domed Unit 2 reactor behind the plant’s transformers unit in Glen Rose, Texas. A new study suggests nuclear energy can’t compete on cost with natural gas or renewables and must be promoted by its low-emission power generation.

Nuke energy has to use climate

crisis to justify high cost: MIT


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SIS organises ‘Professional Development Programme’ for teachersShantiniketan Indian School (SIS) recently organised a five-day intensive ‘Professional Development Programme’ for teachers in preparation of the new term. Dr Subhash Nair, Principal of SIS, welcomed the teachers. The hands-on training on Microsoft Excel, digital tools and graphics was conducted by SyamKrishna, Bilkees Nisar, Shobi Stephen and Mukta Chaturvedi, ICT department. Donald D’Costa and Wilson Roystin also enlightened the teachers on ‘Multilingual Inclusive Practices and Collaborative Learning Strategies’. Shihabudeen Pulath, Senior Vice Principal, gave a presentation on ‘Influential Teachers.’ Vasavi Ayyanan and Austin

Solomon enriched teachers on various aspects of English communication.Dudley O’Connor, Vice Principal of SIS, elaborated on ‘Etiquettes in Communication’ at the training sessions. Principal’s Award on ‘Innovation in Teaching Strategies’ was bagged by Donald D’Costa for the Academic year 2017-18.The school management has also introduced EduBrisk, a dynamic learning platform to help students, teachers and parents, as part of a present to the faculty on Teachers’ Day. Saiju Arvind, CEO of EduBrisk, also conducted a training session.

DMIS conducts training session for faculty membersDoha Modern Indian School (DMIS) recently organised a training session for its faculty members on ‘Diff erentiation in Teaching’ conducted by Linda Van Laan, an American educator.David Throp, Education Consultant of Taleb Group of Schools, welcomed Linda and introduced her to the faculty. The session was to inculcate various teaching techniques to cater to the needs

of diff erent students with various intelligence levels. The activities and the questionnaire motivated the teachers. Linda focused on strategies for ‘Early Finishers’ and ‘Low achievers’. She also shared diff erent strategies, including Menu, Cubic and Tic Tac Toe to engage all the learners in the classroom. Vinod Kumar Bhatia, Principal of DMIS, proposed a vote of thanks.

BPS teachers attend 5-day workshopBirla Public School (BPS) recently conducted a five-day workshop for its teachers on the premises of Abu Humour campus. Some 375 teachers of all three campuses attended the workshop. While addressing the teachers, Shirly Rappai, Senior Vice Principal of BPS, said, “The art of teaching lies in catering diff erently abled students.” The workshop consisted of various sessions including demo lessons in all subjects, art of grooming, developing personality, ICR training and specktron board training.Teachers also went through a training on pedagogy, lesson planning, question paper setting, preparing blue prints and setting mark schemes “Every teacher is called upon to influence students with creativity to pursue learning with eagerness. The vigour and urge, a teacher carries to the class helps him/her to inspire these students,” said George Edison, Vice Principal BPS. A P Sharma, Principal of BPS, urged the teachers to devote themselves to the learning of the students. He said, “With your target set on the board exams in March 2019. Let every teacher be a role model for its students to emulate in virtues. Be kind and compassionate to all the students.” He also advised the teachers to be cautious while handling students in the first few days after re-opening. Radhika Rele, Vice Principal BPS, compered the sessions.


COMMUNITYMES celebrates Teachers’ DayMES Indian School recently celebrated Teachers’ Day in a colourful ceremony. P K Mohammed, General Secretary of MES Indian School, addressed the gathering. He praised the tireless eff orts of the teachers in inspiring students and appreciated the selfless service rendered by them in dispelling the darkness of ignorance from the minds of students. Hameeda Kadar, Principal of MES Indian School, urged the teachers to rededicate themselves and work with full potential in a way to benefit the students’ community. Mohamed Irfan Habeeb Shaik, Head of Boys’ Section, along with teacher representatives from various sections of the

school also delivered felicitations on the occasion. The teachers with the service of 10, 15, 20 and 25 years at MES Indian School were also honoured with certificates of appreciation. Cultural programme featuring a medley of songs was presented by the teachers at the event. The winners of competitions, conducted by the Department of Physical Education, were also honoured at the event. Catherine Vimala, Staff Secretary Girls’ Section, welcomed the gathering and Sajitha Faisal, Teacher at Junior Section, proposed a vote of thanks. The event was co-ordinated by Rajendran, Incharge of Literary Activities.

DC students excel in IGCSE and A Level examsStudents of Doha College (DC), excelled in IGCSE ( International General Certificate of Secondary Education) conducted by University of Cambridge International Examinations with 99.2% of the students achieving five or more A*- C Grades. 61% of the grades were A* or A’s, and nearly a third of all grades were straight A*s. The students also showed remarkable results in A Level Examinations with 47% A* - A and 90% A* - C Grades. DC alumni were successful in securing places at various reputable global universities, including University of Cambridge, University of Manchester, Imperial College London, St Andrews, Kings College London, Carnegie Mellon University and Weill Cornell University in Qatar, Boston

University, University of Texas, University of Houston, University of British Columbia, University of Chicago, California, Institute for the Arts and Erasmus University (Amsterdam). Dr Steffen Sommer, Principal of DC, said, “We are extremely proud of the result that our students have achieved at A Level and IGCSE. These results prove that our adoption of High Performance Learning is making a real difference to the growth of mind-sets of our students and preparing them for their future careers and life-long learning. Yet again, Doha College is able to make a positive contribution to education and continue to support Qatar’s National Vision 2030.”

BPS reopens after summer vacationBPS has re-opened for the second term activities after summer vacations. BPS has inducted 60 new teachers to join the team of 375 teaching staff already existing.Shirly Rappai, Senior Vice- Principal of BPS, advised the teachers to allow students to emerge from within, developing and grooming their own image. “Respect the diversity and diff erent needs of students within the classrooms and carter for varied learning requirements of a multidimensional student body”, she said. George Edison, Vice- Principal BPS, while

addressing the teaching staff said, “In the exponentially exploding knowledge world, teachers have to be competitive and up-to-date with their fund of knowledge to whet the appetite of children” A P Sharma, Principal of BPS, called upon the entire staff to be compassionate and empathetic towards students and reminded teachers about the need for kindness and care in dealing with them in class. Radhika Rele, Vice- Principal of BPS, and Bhavana, Vice- Principal of Quality Control also addressed the teachers.


COMMUNITYMES conducts teachers’ in-service programmeMES Indian School recently conducted a three-day in-service orientation programme for teachers, featuring interactive sessions and various activities pertaining to scholastic and co-scholastic domains to enhance their classroom interactions.Inaugurating the orientation, Hameeda Kadar, Principal of MES Indian School, highlighted the importance of acquiring vital information about teaching-learning process and the need for eff ective use of knowledge imparted from orientation programmes. She also urged the teachers the need to update teaching strategies to the preferences and requirements of the younger generation.A total of 320 teachers attended the programme. Navinder Kaur, Senior Manager of Training and School Support, S Chand, and Manju Sharma, a specialised personnel in conducting workshops, spoke on eff ective teachers, ‘Innovative strategies for active learning classroom’ and ‘Developing teaching methodologies for slow learners and enrichment strategies for bright students’.

Vinod Singh Chauhan, Head of Department of Hindi at Delhi Public School, Greater Noida, also conducted a workshop for Hindi Language teachers.The other sessions conducted during the programme, included Jency George, Department of English, on life skills; Jisha, Department of Counselling on ‘Inclusive Education’, Srilakshmi Babu, Department of Home Science, on students’ health and hygiene and Welfare Department of the school on first aid tips for teachers.Physical Education Department also conducted a fitness session for body and soul. Teachers were given training on simple exercises, yoga and general tips to be followed while using gym equipment. An ERP training session in the new study modules was conducted by the ICT Department of the school. The programme was co-ordinated by Buvaneshwari, Department of Physics.

BPS dedicates new sporting facility for studentsBirla Public School recently dedicated a newly constructed sports and games facility to the students at Abu Hamour campus. Gope Shahani, Acting Chairman of BPS, inaugurating the facility said, “BPS management takes great care in looking after the needs and requirements of the students and spares no eff ort in giving students the best. The management makes sure that the students will be able to complement their studies with the new sporting and gaming facilities”.The newly opened sporting facility includes an EPDM athletic track, an artificial grass football field, a volleyball court and a basketball court.These are in addition to a swimming pool, indoor badminton courts and facility for table tennis in the school. The school also provides training in taekwondo, cricket, khokho, hockey and handball.

A P Sharma, Principal of BPS, while addressing the students said, “Now with the addition of new facilities, students will be able to enjoy sports activities much more than they used to and will be able to reach excellence in performance.” Gope Shahani joined the students on the playing field. “The school has been on the ascendance in all spheres of its activity, and with these facilities provided to the students, the sporting activities are likely to witness a perceptible upward growth. Faster, stronger and further has been the motto of school for co –scholastic areas,” said George Edison, Vice Principal of BPS. Shirly Rappai, Senior Vice Principal of BPS, also joined the students in the maiden games in the newly opened playing field. Hisham Sharaf, Head Boy of the school also addressed the students. Ashvin Viju, Sports Captain Boys Team and Thea Anne Anil, Sports Captain Girls Team, proposed a vote of thanks.


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Don Wong knew Bruce Lee. As young men, they worked at Ruby Chow’s restaurant together. When

Wong, leading the Wing Luke Museum’s ‘Bruce Lee’s Chinatown Tour’ describes his connection with the martial-arts star, it’s not the brag you might expect. He speaks with a touch of sadness as he reminisces about attending the judo classes Lee held at the restaurant after hours.

Wing Luke, where the tour starts, is bustling with 140 students on a fi eld trip. But there are just three of us here for the Wednesday tour, Diana and Judd, a couple visiting from Arizona, and me.

The tour has only been hosted by the museum for the past few years. Before that, it was part of Chinatown Discovery Tours, run by Wong’s sister and her husband. They donated it to the museum in 2014, the same year the museum partnered with the Bruce Lee Foundation to launch the Do You Know Bruce? exhibition series, the only Bruce Lee-focused exhibit outside of Hong Kong.

We start the tour in a small room on the second floor of the

museum, where photos of Bruce Lee, his family, Ruby Chow, and the family friends who hosted Lee in Seattle are grouped on the walls. Wong speaks easily and knowledgeably without sounding the least bit rehearsed. He makes casual conversation between stops at one of Lee’s former studios and Tsue Chong Company, the 101 year-old Seattle company that makes and distributes Rose Brand noodles and fortune cookies.

Wong’s a well-known and welcome face around the Chinatown community. When Diana, who wonders aloud about a pastry which she only knows as paw be (actually lao po beng), translating roughly to ‘honey cake’ or ‘sweetheart cake,’ and which she can’t find back home in Arizona, Wong stops in at Tsue Chong and talks with his friend behind the counter about where they might find one. We make some stops at different family-association buildings, where Wong explains the history of family groups and the first arrival of Chinese families to the area.

Before long we’re hunting along Weller Street for a bakery, where Wong finds the lao po beng

for Diana. The baker here has them labelled as ‘Winter Melon Cake.’ Diana orders three to take home to her parents, folding the bag securely and carrying them like something precious for the rest of the tour. We take a brisk walk through Uwajimaya, where Wong shows us the famous love-it-or-find-it-absolutely-disgusting durian fruit, followed by a brief stop at the Chinatown Gate. Toeing the blurred borders between the Japanese and Chinese communities, Wong guides us to Higo’s, a store in the Nihonmachi community previously run by one of the few Japanese families to return from internment and reclaim their property.

Diana and Judd begin conferring with each other as Wong leads us to Tai Tung, one of the oldest continuously running restaurants in Seattle and a Bruce Lee haunt, according to Wong. A work conference calls the couple away, so Wong and I find ourselves one-on-one over a spread of fried chicken, Napa cabbage soup, broccoli and Bruce Lee’s two favourite dishes: beef with oyster sauce, and black beans and prawns in garlic sauce.

Over lunch, it becomes clear that Wong’s knowledge of the city extends far beyond Chinatown. He tells me about the many transformations Seattle has gone through, and the changes to come, and the places where people find home and comfort among these changes, places like Chinatown, where many older, first-generation Chinese residents choose to live because it reminds them of home.

After lunch, our waitress, with whom Wong shares a comfortable rapport, packs up the leftovers, and after a stop at the Tai Tung memorial booth, where Lee used to eat his beef with oyster sauce, we head back to Wing Luke, where Wong offers me a hongbao, or red envelope, which contains a little

treat, and suggests I take the time to visit the Bruce Lee exhibit once the last group of students has made their rowdy way through.

This has been one of my first tours in the city, and I feel that it’s already my favourite. The tour offers more than just factoids about Lee, you get an immersive look into the Chinatown of his life. And Wong’s personal connection to Lee offers an understanding of Lee the man, rather than just Lee the martial-arts star. But most important, Lee’s story, as told through the streets of the International District, is a gateway to the living history that makes and has made Seattle’s Chinatown such a strong community.– The Seattle Times/TNS

‘Bruce Lee’s Chinatown’ tour off ers a personal look at himSeeing Seattle’s Chinatown through the lens of the

martial artist reveals the community’s rich living

history, writes Crustal Paul

CHINATOWN: The tour guide tells about the many transformations Seattle has gone through, and that places like Chinatown are where people find home and comfort.

MORE THAN FACTOIDS: The tour off ers more than just factoids about Lee, you get an immersive look into the Chinatown of his life.

GALLERY: The tour starts in a small room on the second floor of the museum, where photos of Bruce Lee, his family, Ruby Chow, and the family friends who hosted Lee in Seattle are grouped on the walls.


COMMUNITY INFOGRAPHIC


COMMUNITYLIFESTYLE/HOROSCOPE

ARIESMarch 21 — April 19

CANCERJune 21 — July 22

LIBRASeptember 23 — October 22

CAPRICORNDecember 22 — January 19

TAURUSApril 20 — May 20

LEOJuly 23 — August 22

SCORPIOOctober 23 — November 21

AQUARIUSJanuary 20 — February 18

GEMINIMay 21 — June 20

VIRGOAugust 23 — September 22

SAGITTARIUSNovember 22 — December 21

PISCESFebruary 19 — March 20

Too much indulging may leave you with a headache or stomachache

to the point where you may want to spend most of today sleeping.

The stress of this condition could cause you to snap at family

members, but remember that they weren’t the ones who chose to

overindulge. Chill out, get some rest, and regain your strength. You’ll

be back in the real world soon enough.

You might have to do a lot of running around when you probably

want to stay home. Obligations to friends and family are likely to

come up, and even though you’re a bit tired you’ll want to help

out. The best plan for today is to get everything done as quickly as

possible and then spend the rest of the day relaxing alone. You can

have it both ways!

An exciting communication could inform you of an advancement

opportunity that you should explore. While you’d be quick to act

under normal circumstances, Libra, today you might be more

cautious. You’ve sought recognition for a while, so don’t be too

reticent. Don’t let your insecurity get the better of you. Learn all you

can about the situation and then make an informed decision.

Frustration may be the word for today, Capricorn. You could be

experiencing a bit of wanderlust. Distant states and foreign lands

may beckon to you, but circumstances could make it hard for you to

get away. There might also be friction with your partner. Don’t get

sucked into a quarrel. Use your placid nature to get grounded, then

use your practicality to solve the issues at hand.

You like to be honest with those you care about, but today you’re

likely to be a bit too honest. Don’t be too quick to take off ence, and

watch the tendency to be too blunt. If you temper your honesty

with some diplomacy, you should get your message across with a

minimum of hurt feelings. You create win/win situations that way. It’s

best for all involved.

Don’t be surprised if lots of visitors show up today. Perhaps you’re

hosting an impromptu social event or neighbours bring news of

changes nearby. You should be brimming with energy, so you can

handle it, but you might find it a bit unnerving if it gets too exciting.

It’s best just to go with the flow and enjoy situations like this. You can

think about it later.

A friend could ask for a loan and you might hesitate to give him or

her the money. Follow your instincts. The person probably isn’t too

savvy about money. You might want to participate in some group

activities, but don’t let people take unfair advantage of you. You’re

willing to serve those who need you, but discriminate between those

who do and don’t really need your help.

You’ve probably had a busy week, Aquarius, and may feel out of

sorts today. Perhaps you had too much good food last night, stayed

up too late, or both. It goes against your grain to stay in and rest, but

this is the perfect day to curl up with a good book. You’re going to

want some exercise, but don’t overdo it. As you well know, you can

get too much of a good thing!

It might feel like your home has turned into Grand Central Station.

Lots of visitors, messengers, and others are going to drop by, and

you may just want to watch TV or read a book. This could lead to

some understandable irritation. However, be your usual polite self. If

possible, get a family member to screen your callers. You might be

frustrated, but you don’t want to off end anybody.

You could be feeling a bit antsy today and may want to spend time

exercising or trying a new sport or game that you’ve never played

before. This is great. Ask some friends to join you. Don’t push

yourself past your limits. This can only bring exhaustion or injury,

and it won’t help your fitness level. Exercise within your limitations

and do it more often.

Today you’re likely to experience a powerful burst of energy that

may temporarily turn you into a workaholic. Chores may have piled

up around the house that desperately need to be done. You may

want to go through them like wildfire. You don’t have to do them all

at once. Take care of the most pressing tasks and then relax. The rest

can wait. Ask family members to help.

There might be a lot of work to do at home today. Since certain

family members are conveniently absent, you may feel that the

burden falls on you. Don’t be a martyr, however. Just do what you

can and leave the rest. Uncertainties about money could also be on

your mind, but put these aside for now. You’ll be better able to deal

with them tomorrow.

Experts on smart feeding techniques for fussy childI

t is natural to worry whether your child is getting enough food and nutritional value when they refuse to eat sometimes and demand for unhealthy snack. But it is perfectly normal for toddlers to behave in

this manner hence the responsibility lies with the parents and elders of the family to smartly and subtly introduce healthy food habits into their life.

On National Nutrition Week, Kejal Sheth, Weight Management Expert and Founder of Nutrivity.in and Jinal Pasad, Paediatric Nutrition expert based in Mumbai share some techniques that will help you inculcate smart eating habits in your kids and look out for their health in the long run.

Be healthy role models. Children often mimic their parent’s behaviour. Try to eat together at the table as a family as often as possible.

Make fruit popsicle’s as this makes a healthy treat for the kids and provides the much needed antioxidant dose.

Introduce vegetable soup and juices. This ensures incorporation of good amount

of veggies in the diet. Keep healthy snacks handy. If the child

refuses to eat anything other than junk food, don’t worry. They will soon fi nd there’s not much point making a fuss if you don’t react.

Do not force the child to eat. Introduce new foods when the child is hungry.

It’s best not to use food as a reward. Your child may start to think of sweets as nice and vegetables as nasty.

Combine the ingredients they do not like to eat with the one’s they usually prefer eating. Eg. bottle gourd in bhaji

Grate vegetables in paratha’s or in the idli/uttapam batter. This makes the meal colourful and visually appetising as well as

Introduce one new food at a time. Kids are usually reluctant to try anything new but don’t give up.

Involve the child with cooking tasks like squeesing fresh orange juice or cracking eggs are well within the capabilities of a young child. It’s amazing how being involved in the planning and preparation of a meal can stimulate a child’s appetite. — IANS


COMMUNITY CARTOONS/PUZZLES

Adam

Pooch Cafe

Garfield

Bound And Gagged

Codeword

Wordsearch

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

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.

Africa

ALGERIAANGOLABENINBOTSWANABURUNDICHADCONGOEGYPTETHIOPIA

GABONGHANALESTHOLIBERIAMALAWIMAURITANIAMOROCCONIGERIARWANDA

SENEGALSOMALIASUDANTANZANIATOGOTUNISIAUGANDAZAMBIAZIMBABWE


COMMUNITYPUZZLES

Colouring

Answers

Wordsearch Codeword

ACROSS3. Capital in general (10)

8. Or maybe taking out a new

girl (6)

9. The money Brian docked

from the librarian (4)

10. An early form of music (4,6)

11. Bean that’s very popular with

vegetarians (3)

13. The names of those that are

not upright? (4)

14. First mate’s got drunk and

returned to the vessel (7)

15. Take a break and at half past,

work (4)

17. Slim is the recorder (5)

20. “Letitia”, to start with, is

wrong, as a name (5)

22. It is applied to parking areas

for motor car inspection (4)

24. Free to find another

occupant for (7)

25. Gives one’s views on music?

(4)

27. Is not understood when read

backwards (3)

28. Where Aspel, after the

breakdown, got the car going

again (5,5)

29. He is upset by the sound of a

horn (4)

30. Show your affection for the

old bus you call “she?” (6)

31. Finish - dialling? (3,7)

Super Cryptic Clues

Yesterday’s Solutions

Across: 1 Barsac; 5 Roasts; 8 House; 9 Rosita; 10 Appear; 11 Pumps; 14 Armchair; 16 Nutmeg; 18 Getting into a row; 20 Astern; 22 Hardened; 25 Tango; 27 Ocelot; 28 Valise; 29 Lance; 30 Settle; 31 Rocket.

Down: 1 Bertha; 2 Ruse; 3 Chaplain; 4 Summer lightning; 5 Reason; 6 Seem; 7 Spring; 12 Scatter; 13 Strayed; 15 Reeds; 17 Evoke; 19 Turnover; 20 Across; 21 Nettle; 23 Desert; 24 Rest; 26 Tick.

DOWN1. In France, my new alias is

“The Smiler” (4,4)

2. My dear girl, back in and we’ll

have a little food (6)

3. Rings for the cleaners (7)

4. Be told to rest round about

the end of the year (5)

5. Is given about £50 for one’s

troubles (4)

6. Send Martin’s out on time (8)

7. Act once revolving round

music (8)

12. Allowed to remain a radical

(4)

14. Saturday parking is

introduced, which makes a

difference (4)

16. Go as far up as F for fish? (4)

17. Article about line casting (8)

18. Uproots oneself and leaves?

(5,3)

19. The centre pearls turn out

not to be false (4)

21. Big S in “gifts” (8)

23. Extend the period (7)

25. Stick the broken head on

again (6)

26. But possibly about a quarter

African (5)

28. Fly, therefore, to Ely leaving

early (4)


COMMUNITY BOLLYWOOD

Aishwarya receives Meryl Streep Award

Actress Aishwarya Rai Bachchan was honoured

with the inaugural Meryl Streep Award for Excellence at the Women in Film and Television (WIFT) India Awards in Washington.

She was accompanied to the event by her daughter Aaradhya and mother.

The former beauty queen yesterday took to Instagram to thank her fans for their beloved wishes.

She wrote: “A heartfelt thank you to all my well-wishers from India and all around the world, for being my inspiration and strength. God bless and all my love.”

She also posted a few pictures in which she can be seen holding a trophy in her hand and her daughter and mother beside her.

The Fanney Khan actress also penned a message for 6-year-old Aaradhya.

“You my Aaradhya complete me. Divine, blissful and eternal love,” Aishwarya captioned the photograph of her daughter.

Apart from Aishwarya, fi lmmaker Zoya Akhtar received the Wyler Award for Excellence in Direction, and Dhadak star Janhvi Kapoor was

also honoured with the WIFT Emerald Award.In photographs from the event, Janhvi,

daughter of late acting icon Sridevi, is seen exchanging pleasantries with Aishwarya.

WIFT honours the best female talent in Bollywood and Hollywood. — IANS

Hard work, perseverance key to success: Madhavan By Nivedita

R. Madhavan, who began his acting career on the small screen and went on to make his name in both the

southern and Hindi fi lm industry, says a combination of talent, hard work and perseverance is needed to cement one’s space in cinema anywhere in the world.

Asked about his take on whether actors from southern India face any problem being accepted in Bollywood, Madhavan said: “I don’t think that’s the case.”

“If you’re talented and hardworking, you will get what you deserve, eventually. It also depends on what actors want to do and what makes them happy. There are actors who are sticking to one genre and are happy. There are also people who are doing multiple genres, and they are happy too.

“Having said that, you need to have a combination of talent, hard work and perseverance to make a name in any cinema you enter.”

Known for fi lms like Rehnaa Hai Terre Dil Mein, 3 Idiots, Rang De Basanti, Tanu Weds Manu and its sequel Tanu Weds Manu Returns and Saala Khadoos, the actor will be soon seen hosting National Geographic’s new series Mega Icons, premiering on September 24.

Each episode would be a journey into the life of an iconic personality, with help of not only intimate interviews of the icons and their families, but also through research and analysis by experts.

Appealing to the common man’s aspirations, the show delves on the life of celebrities from diff erent walks of life. The list includes cricketer Virat Kohli, politician and actor Kamal Haasan, former President APJ Abdul Kalam, spiritual leader and Nobel laureate Dalai Lama, and social activist and India’s fi rst women IPS offi cer Kiran Bedi.

Madhavan is excited.

“When we look at these personalities, we wonder whether they were born to be great, and their success defi ned from day one — or if their journey through life, their experiences and hard work, really shaped them into the giants we revere.

“The show will not only discuss the journey of these icons, but will also help shaping the actions of millions in the country who aspire

to make it big,” he said.As Kamal Haasan is one of

the personalities on the show, Madhavan said: “I’ve grown up watching his fi lms. I’ve admired his acting and him as a person ever since I’ve got into cinema. He is a powerhouse of knowledge, whose commitment to cinema is unbeatable.

“I have learnt from him that you need to be your character when

you enact in front of the camera. Whenever I meet him, I feel like the same 16-year-old boy, with utmost admiration for him.”

Madhavan is also someone who is admired by fans all over. And his fan following increased when he came back fi t and in form after a sabbatical due to a shoulder injury.

“I was confi dent of getting back on screen. I love what I do, and work keeps me going,” he said.

He is confi dent that Mega Icons will inspire many lives.

“What is really interesting is that the show is bringing together some of the most inspiring personalities, selected carefully from varied walks of life; and I believe every story will reveal answers to many questions we have always wondered about geniuses,” said the actor.

On the work front, Madhavan also did a web series Breathe, which had received a positive response.

Any plans to do more web series?“Yes, that is an interesting space

and, of course, if there is an exciting script, I’d love to take it up,” he said.

“The digital world is a great platform for young blood, who are full of talent and energy. With so much content being produced in a short span of time, it’s a great platform for some newcomers to shine.

“Of course, there are experienced people as well working for the digital business, which also gives a chance for the newcomers to work and learn with them. I think we are already seeing some great talents who are doing great on the digital platform, and then they are also bagging roles in traditional cinema,” added the actor. — IANS

NEXT ATTRACTION: R Madhavan will be hosting National Geographic's new series Mega Icons, premiering on September 24.

HONOURED: Aishwarya with her daughter and mother.

When Preity fought with Saif

As Siddharth Anand’s directorial Salaam Namaste completed 13 years of release yesterday, actress Preity Zinta became nostalgic and recounted fond memories with co-star Saif Ali Khan.

Preity took to Instagram and wrote: “Awwww! We had so much fun on this fi lm it was insane. Saif and I fought so much on and off camera that the crew didn’t know if we were rehearsing our lines or really wanted to kill each other. I miss Saif. 13 years of Salaam Namaste.”

Along with the post, the 43-year-old actress posted a short video of the title track of the fi lm, which was a romantic comedy set in Melbourne.

Apart from Salaam Namaste, the actors have worked together in several fi lms including Kya Kehna, Dil Chahta Hai and Kal Ho Na Ho.

On the work front, Preity is returning to the big screen after a long break with Bhaiaji Superhit, while Saif after playing the offi cer Sartaj Singh in the hit web television series, Sacred Games, is prepping for his role for tentatively titled movie, Hunter. — IANS

Monday, September 10, 2018 15GULF TIMES

COMMUNITYVENICE FILM FEST

Mexican director Alfonso Cuaron won the Golden Lion top prize at the Venice fi lm festival for Roma, which critics called not merely a

movie but “a vision”.With its highly emotional story centred on

an indigenous maid working for a middle-class family in Mexico City in 1971, it has been hailed as Cuaron’s most personal fi lm — and also his best.

Cuaron told reporters that in an incredible coincidence “today is the birthday of Libo, the woman the movie is based on. What a present!”

The fi lm industry bible Variety said Roma is likely to go down as a “masterpiece”.

“It is no mere movie — it’s a vision... where every image and every emotion is perfectly set in place,” said critic Owen Gleiberman.

Cuaron “dunks us, moment by moment, image by luminously composed image, into a panorama of the hurly-burly of Mexico City.”

The Italian press declared it “sublime” while for The Guardian’s Peter Bradshaw it was a “complete triumph”.

Venice has become the launchpad for the Oscars race with Hollywood heavyweights jostling for attention in a line-up director Alberto Barbera called “the best in 30 years”.

Vintage yearCuaron, 56, reconstructed his childhood

home for the Netfl ix-backed fi lm, borrowing furniture back from relatives to recreate how it was when he was 10.

But the heart of the fi lm is the “luminous” performance of fi rst-time actor Yalitza Aparicio, who plays Cleo, a young live-in

maid of Mixteco heritage who looked after the director as a boy.

“Cleo is based on my babysitter when I was young. We were a family together,” Cuaron said.

“But when you grow up with someone you love you don’t discuss their identity. So for this fi lm I was forced to see myself as this woman, a member of the lower classes, from the indigenous population. This is a point of view I had never had before.”

The second prize Silver Lion went to France’s Jacques Audiard for his hugely enjoyable Western The Sisters Brothers starring Joaquin Phoenix and John C Reilly.

Another Wild West tale, The Ballad of Buster Scruggs by the Coen brothers, won best script.

Having missed out on an Oscar last year, Willem Dafoe took best actor for his acclaimed portrait of the painter Vincent Van Gogh in At Eternity’s Gate.

Powerful womenBritain’s Olivia Colman took best actress for

playing the needy and weak-minded Queen Anne in The Favourite, a viciously funny and

apparently accurate historical drama about two powerful women competing for her favour.

Colman, 44, who is playing Britain’s present monarch in the television series The Crown, said she “loved every second” of playing her 18th-century predecessor, “even if none of us knows what it is like to be a queen”.

The fi lm’s Greek director Yorgos Lanthimos of The Lobster fame won the Grand Jury Prize.

It was one of several movies with strong female stories vying for the Golden Lion -- with all three of its leading actresses tipped as Oscar contenders.

Even so the organisers were lambasted for choosing only one female director among the 21 competing for the top prize for the second year in a row.

Australian director Jennifer Kent did however win the special jury prize for The Nightingale, her stirring story of revenge and friendship involving an Irish convict woman and an Aboriginal tracker in colonial Tasmania.

Aboriginal victory Baykali Ganambarr, making his movie debut

playing the tracker, won the best newcomer award. He praised Kent for the unfl inching ways she portrayed the genocide of his people, and said he saw his prize as a victory for them.

An Aboriginal from East Arnhem Land in the Northern Territory, he made an impassioned plea for Australia to face up to the crimes of its past.

“Ours is the oldest living culture on the planet. This story is one of many in our history. The brutality depicted in it is only just scratching the surface. History in Australia has been whitewashed.

“But it is only through confronting and addressing it that we can get over the hurt,” Ganambarr added.

The fi lm, which is shot in English, Irish Gaelic and the Tasmanian Aboriginal Palawa Kani language, portrays the extreme violence and racism of the island in the 1820s when it was known as Van Diemen’s Land.

Kent called for more women to make the leap into directing. “We need you,” she declared.

“The feminine force is the most powerful and most healing on the planet.”

Venice was far from short of female talent this year.

Pop superstar Lady Gaga made a highly praised big screen debut playing a ballsy young waitress who dreams of being a singer in A Star is Born.

And the three main characters in the winning fi lm Roma were also women.

Cuaron made his name at Venice in 2001 with his sensual Spanish coming-of-age movie, Y Tu Mama Tambien, before going onto to Oscar glory with Gravity, which also premiered at the festival.

A similar path is predicted for Roma. — AFP

RECOGNITION: Director Alfonso Cuaron poses with the Golden Lion award for Best Film during the awards ceremony of the 75th Venice Film Festival at Venice Lido. AFP

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RomaRomaMexican director Alfonso Cuaron “dunks

us, moment by moment, image by luminously composed image, into a

panorama of the hurly-burly of Mexico City,” opins critic Owen Gleiberman.

The Guardian’s Peter Bradshaw describes it as a “complete triumph”


COMMUNITY

By Laurie Hertzel

When Lisa Brennan-Jobs was very young, her mother took a picture of her wearing

nothing but a false nose and glasses and sent it to Steve Jobs.

‘I think it’s your kid!’ Chrisann Brennan wrote on the back of the photo.

In return, the big-nosed, bespectacled Steve Jobs who was, indeed, Lisa’s father, but who had denied it repeatedly sent Chrisann $500. She used the money to sublet a room in a house in Menlo Park, Calif, ‘with a hippie who kept bees.’

And that anecdote tells you everything you need to know about Jobs and Brennan, who had been high school sweethearts and who had a child together when both were 23: He was a cold, manipulative, selfi sh man who used money to control people. She was needy and eternally broke.

Their daughter’s memoir, Small Fry, is not a book you would read unless you were interested in Jobs, the writing is capable but doesn’t sparkle, the anecdotes are depressing and just pile up.

But if you care about Jobs, the book will tell you a lot about

his obsessed, self-absorbed and mercurial character.

Once he fi nally admitted paternity, he began sending Chrisann money sporadically, and occasionally he bought her lavish things, a couch, a car and, much later, a house. But just as often, he promised things he never delivered on. In Small Fry, Lisa Brennan-Jobs, Steve Jobs’s oldest child, seeks control of part of her father’s myth. The drama has almost inevitably unfolded in ways that re-inscribe his power.

When Chrisann fi rst asked him to buy her a house, he toured the house in question and then bought it for himself and his new wife.

Lisa lived with him off and on throughout her adolescence, and he used emotional blackmail to manipulate her. Whenever she exhibited independence, he would ominously accuse her of not wanting to be part of the family, and she would drop whatever she was doing and come crawling back.

But was she part of the family? Her bedroom, in a separate part of the house, had no heat, and he refused to get it fi xed. It was her job to babysit his three other children at his command and also do the dishes each night, but he refused to get the dishwasher repaired. Lisa, lonely, the odd child out, asked him to tuck her in at night. His

response: a fl ip ‘Nope.’He told people he had three

children, but of course Lisa made four. He refused to admit that his fi rst computer, the Apple Lisa, was named after her, and for some reason this denial seemed to disturb her more than anything else. (Finally, when Bono asked him, Jobs admitted the truth, another weird detail of Lisa’s weird childhood.)

Throughout the book, Lisa recounts slights, hurts, snubs and rejections, as well as more intimate details, such as Jobs’ habit of walking around the house in a black T-shirt and underpants, and his stringent food restrictions. A dinner might be grated carrots with half a lemon.

The indignities pile up, right up until Jobs’ cancer death. Among his last words to her were, “Lis? You smell like a toilet.” The man was a jerk, but that was clear from Page 1. Moments of joy, roller-skating together, or jumping on a trampoline are tinged with anxiety and awkwardness: On skates, he often fell. On the trampoline, they never bounced in sync.

Small Fry is an excruciatingly sad read, a tell-all memoir from a woman who craved acceptance and paternal love from a man who was incapable of giving it. Because his name was Jobs, we read.– Star Tribune (Minneapolis)/TNS

A drama that unfolds in a waythat re-inscribes Job’s power

If you care about Steve Jobs, Small Fry, a memoir by his daughter Lisa Brennan

Jobs, will tell you a lot about his obsessed, self-absorbed and mercurial character

THE PATERNAL BOND: Lisa lived with Steve off and on throughout her adolescence, and he used emotional blackmail to manipulate her.

AUTHOR: Throughout the book, Lisa recounts slights, hurts, snubs and rejections, as well as more intimate details.

MEMOIR: Small Fry is an excruciatingly sad read, a tell-all memoir from a woman who craved acceptance and paternal love from a man who was incapable of giving it. Because his name was Jobs, we read.

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