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Time of India
30-05-2025
- Health
- Time of India
AIIMS Gorakhpur launches ‘UMEED' against addiction
Gorakhpur: AIIMS Gorakhpur, in collaboration with ECHO India, rolled out Project UMEED, a national, peer-led initiative to prevent substance abuse and build resilience among adolescents to mark the World No Tobacco Day to be observed on Saturday. Tired of too many ads? go ad free now Aligned with this year's WHO theme 'Protecting Youth from Tobacco and Nicotine Industry Interference,' the project UMEED (Understanding, Mentorship & Education to End Emerging Substance use & Develop resilience) is being implemented across six premier institutes including AIIMS Nagpur, Guwahati, Rajkot, Deoghar, and JIPMER Puducherry. The initiative will engage 108 schools where teachers and peer leaders will be trained in role-play, refusal skills, and awareness drives on harmful effects of tobacco, alcohol, and drugs. Community health officers will extend outreach into rural belts The project also aims to expose tobacco industry tactics—like selling cigarettes near schools, offering single-stick sales, and placing products at children's eye level. "Children lured by candy often get exposed to tobacco. These tactics must be curbed through awareness and enforcement," said national coordinator project UMEED and assistant professor in Gorakhpur AIIMS Dr U Venkatesh. "Project UMEED is not only a program—it's a movement," said executive director, AIIMS Gorakhpur Vibha Dutta.
ABC News
19-05-2025
- Entertainment
- ABC News
Nicole Kidman honoured at Cannes Film Festival for championing female directors
In 2017, Oscar-winning actor Nicole Kidman made a public declaration that she would work with a female director every 18 months. In the eight years since, Kidman has exceeded that pledge, having worked with 27 female directors to date, including projects in development. In recognition of her efforts, the Australian actor has picked up the 2025 Women in Motion award from luxury conglomerate Kering at the Cannes Film Festival. Kering has joined forces with the festival for the past decade to recognise a groundbreaking woman in film each year as part of the Women in Motion program which highlights the contribution made by women on and off the screen in culture and the arts. Of her pledge, Kidman told Kering that she was determined to "make it possible". "You would go, 'Okay, cool, well, could a woman direct this?' And there just wasn't the number of names that you could consider." Kidman said first-time directors, in particular, were seen as a risk that people were reluctant to take. "So, I went, I have to start to just say, well, this is how I'm doing it, and this is what I'm doing, and we'll take the risk, and we're going to mentor, and support, and help, and then really protect, because part of it is protecting and surrounding the women with, almost like, a force field of protection and support, so that they can do their best work," Kidman said. "And then at the same time giving them the opportunity to not feel like this is the only chance, because a lot of it is 'okay you get one shot', which as we know creatively is almost impossible." She said opportunities need to continue regardless of whether a project has taken off. "It just means you're in process, and we need to support the long process of building the female voices, particularly the directors and the writers, and then also all of the crew members." When announcing two weeks ago that Kidman would receive the award, Kering referred to the Australian actor's storytelling as "bold" and "uncompromising". "A major figure in cinema, Nicole Kidman has built a career marked as much by her artistic audacity as by her virtuosity and transformative portrayals that have reshaped the representation of women on screen," Kering posted on Instagram. "From Eyes Wide Shut and The Hours to Big Little Lies and Babygirl, her work reflects a deep commitment to bold, uncompromising storytelling." Kidman won an Academy Award in 2002 for her portrayal of Virginia Wolf in The Hours. She founded a production company called Blossom Films in 2010.
The Review Geek
10-05-2025
- Entertainment
- The Review Geek
The Match (2025) Ending Explained – Who wins the final Go match?
The Match Plot Summary The Match is based on a true story and revolves around the friendship and rivalry that grows between champion Go player, Cha Hun-hyun, and child prodigy Lee Chang-ho. As the film progresses, Hun-hyun helps nurture and grow Chang-ho's talent. Hun-hyun becomes increasingly frustrated with Chang-ho's desire to forge his own path while playing, but in doing so, the pair form an unlikely bond that only grows with time. How does Hun-hyun start mentoring Chang-ho? After winning the Ying Shibei World Professional Go Championship, Cho Hun-hyun establishes himself as one of the greatest Go players out there. However, he soon comes across a short-tempered kid called Lee Chang-ho who is touted as a child prodigy. Amused, Chang-ho initially refuses to mentor the kid given his brash nature and reckless moves on the gameboard. Instead, Hun-hyun gives him an equation to solve to show his skills. shows his skills. After convincing Hun-hyun, the pair have another match, and this time Chang-ho comes out on top. He shows he's really passionate about the game, encouraging Hun-hyun to take him under his wing. However, he's to call him 'seonsaengnim' which means teacher. What lessons does Hun-hyun teach? Hun-hyun gets into psychological mind games here, explaining the concept of going to battle and using the basic building blocks of Go to come out on top. He also encourages Chang-ho to learn stamina, patience, being graceful while playing and understanding to always use your right hand to place pieces down. Chang-ho is grilled hard over the basics and Hun-hyun grows increasingly frustrated that the kid has his own experimental way of working, going against Hun-hyun tried and tested methods. The teacher kicks his student out… until he checks over the board and realizes the kid has a point. He changes his mind and brings him in. What happens at the competition? During the competition, Chang-ho beats Hun-hyun by half a point. It's shockingly close and it all comes from Chang-ho keeping his composure and turning the tide on his teacher. Hun-hyun is shocked and believes that he has 'nothing more to teach'. Hun-hyun concedes but he's spiralling and clearly wasn't expecting this. Hun-hyun and Chang-ho continue to play each other over the span of different competitions. Their dynamic changes as Hun-hyun starts to slip and loses the composure he was initially famous for. He doesn't take losing well, and doesn't even extend his hand to thank Chang-ho after the games either. The stress causes him to have nosebleeds and strike out with increasingly erratic behaviour. Chang-ho has taught the guy that he can lose at any time and as such, they go their separate ways. Just before they do, Hun-hyun finally says in private that he's proud of Chang-ho for everything he's accomplished. Where does Hun-hyun get inspiration from? Hun-hyun begins to act 'pathetically' prompting his wife to tell him, in no uncertain terms, to man up. Hun-hyun even forfeits games with Chang-ho too, drinking instead of showing up for the games. He does get some inspiration though, encouraged to continue on by Ki-Cheol, the fellow Go player whom he beat numerous times across his career. This is also the same man who Chang-ho beat him in the semi-final of his first competition. Hun-hyun remembers the words he wrote on the Go board, reading: 'Go is a fight against yourself', which help to spur him on to try and do better. How does Hun-hyun rise up again? Fast forward a year and Hun-hyun is doing better. He's accepted that he's no longer top dog but he's embracing his position as challenger rather than a teacher now. He's even quit smoking and has nicotine gum instead. During a pivotal game, Chang-ho and Hun-hyun change their tactics on the Go board, showing a very different style than what we're used to seeing. Tied 2-2, Hun-hyun makes a crazy play, goading Chang-ho into making a move that finally sees him on the backfoot after being on top all game long. Chang-ho sees no way out and resigns, allowing Hun-hyun to find a way back to the top after 15 losses on the bounce. Although Chang-ho is disappointed, the respect between him and Hun-hyun has never been stronger. Hun-hyun even hands over his old Go board too to signify a passing of the torch. How does The Match end? Hun-hyun and Chang-ho continue to duke it out but this time, they're both entering the arena as men, on equal footing, despite Chang-ho still calling him seonsaengnim. We don't see the final match as they play out in the snow because, well, it doesn't matter. We already know that Go is a battle of the minds, along with a battle with oneself. The real war was perhaps fought by both men trying to overcome their own demons and become better people in the process. In that respect, you could argue that they've both already won. However, the real history here continues, and we learn at the end that Hun-hyun took back his Guksu championship title in November 1998 after 5 long years. Chang-ho ruled at the top though for 15 years, and is considered one of the strongest players of all time. He and Hun-hyun are both still playing though and duking it out after all these years.
