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By Aditi Shah

The Athashri retirement community offers the over-55 crowd Western-style amenities such as a club-

house, gym, library and pool but with a distinctly Indian twist: a temple on site where residents worship Ganesh, the elephant-headed god followed by many Hindus in Maharashtra state.

The 180-unit development in the city of Pune, which enjoys better weather and less bustle than nearby Mumbai, overlooks open fields and hills and is set in lush gardens — an appealing escape from the crowds and grime of India’s mega-cities.

Retirement communities like this one are just beginning to gain traction in India, where the multi-generational “joint family” structure endures despite rampant modernisa-tion. The concept of housing for the elderly still carries a social stigma in the country, which accounts for less than 1 percent of the $25bn senior housing industry worldwide.

But rising incomes, longer life expectancy and the rise of nuclear families as more people relocate for jobs are driving demand for retire-ment homes in Asia’s third-largest economy, and attracting developers and investors.

Paranjape Schemes Ltd, which manages Athashri, is among a hand-ful of companies tapping the bur-geoning senior living sector including Max India Ltd, backed by Goldman Sachs Group Inc, LIC Housing Finance Ltd, The Covai Group and Ashiana Housing Ltd.

Tata Housing Development Co Ltd, part of India’s biggest conglom-erate, launched its first senior hous-ing project in May in the southern city of Bangalore, and plans at least

four more, catering to independent retirees looking for better security and services than what is available in ordinary housing.

“A significant section of seniors today are independent, financially stable, well-travelled and socially connected, and as a result have a fairly good idea of how they want to spend time after retirement,” said Brotin Banerjee, CEO, Tata Housing, which expects revenues of `950m ($16m ) from its ̀ 700m project investment over three years.

While India is much younger than Japan, China or the United States,

the number of people over age 60 is expected to more than double to 173 million by 2025.

Real estate consultant Jones Lang LaSalle estimates current annual demand for senior homes across 135 Indian cities at 312,000, far outstrip-ping supply of 10,000 to 15,000 new homes now in the pipeline.

YOUNG AT HEARTAfter spending two decades in

Houston looking after their grand-children, Vidyadhar and Aruna Gokhale returned to India last year and moved into a retirement home.

Developers view such Indians returning from overseas, the vast and often prosperous diaspora known as non-resident Indians or NRIs, as a key target market.

“Nobody needs us there so we thought we should live our lives the way we want to because we are young enough to be able to enjoy it,” Aruna Gokhale, 81, said in her apartment at Athashri in Pune, where she and her husband, now 84, grew up.

Most of India’s retirement homes are targeted at urban middle- and upper-income buyers who can afford to pay between `3m and `6m ($50,200 and $100,400) for an apart-ment, which is cheap by Western standards but beyond the reach of the average Indian. Max India

is building a project in the north Indian hill resort town of Dehradun that aims higher, with villas priced above `10m.

Unlike the United States, where retirement housing is typically rented, providing recurring annual income for investors, in India people prefer to own. That suits developers as well because it means less capital tied up.

Investing in Indian retirement homes generates returns of about 25 percent annually for developers, less than the 35 percent that is typi-cal for comparable ordinary housing in the country, Jones Lang LaSalle said.

That is partly because the retire-ment communities include more open, communal space. Developers are also keen to keep prices afforda-ble for middle-class buyers who nor-mally must pay cash as Indian banks rarely offer mortgages to seniors.

Developers expect economies of scale to bring down costs as the industry grows, and they hope even-tually to be able to charge more for amenities such as food and facilities.

“There is a margin to be made but today the returns are not as good and we would like to improve that,” said Ankur Gupta, joint managing director at Delhi-based Ashiana, which has built three retirement home projects in India.

Retirement homes in vogue as Indians live longer and prosper

A significant section of seniors todayare independent, financially stable,well-travelled and socially connected, and as a result have a fairly good idea of how they want to spend time after retirement.

Suresh Chitre, 67, and his wife Rekha Chitre, 63, stand on the balcony of their flat at the Athashri retirement village in Baner, Pune.

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SOCIAL STIGMAThe biggest challenge for the emerging

senior living sector is the social stigma associated with elderly family members living on their own.

“Twenty years ago the social fabric of India was very different as we were still a closed economy,” said Abdulla Kagalwalla, chief financial officer at Texas-based Signature Senior Living, which in 2010 tied up with Covai to build and manage retirement homes in India.

“As the economy opened it brought about a great social change, and an increase in the education and remunera-tion of middle class families caused a dramatic shift in thinking.”

The share of households in India with five or fewer members rose to 69 percent in 2011, from 60 percent a decade earlier, according to government data, showing a shift away from the traditional multi-generational family system.

Later this year, Pune-based Paranjape, which operates the Athashri project and three others in the city, will open a home in Bangalore and start building three more in south India.

“When we launched our first project in 2000 it was very difficult to sell but now we have more than 1,500 families staying with us,” said Managing Director Shashank Paranjape.

ACHES AND PAINS

At Paranjape’s Athashri, where the Gokhales live, corridors with handrails, anti-skid tiles, a doctor’s room and a 24-hour ambulance set it apart from

ordinary housing. All homes have multiple red emergency buttons and a rope in the bathroom for calling a caretaker.

It costs up to 30 percent extra to build sen-ior homes because of the additional features and amenities but they sell for 15 to 20 percent more than comparable regular homes.

Suresh and Rekha Chitre spent their savings of `4.3m ($71,900) to escape the chaos of Mumbai by

moving to Athashri in Pune but are struggling to adjust to life in a retirement home.

“It is more comfortable here but everyone is old and always complaining about aches and pains,” said Suresh Chitre, 67, who misses interacting with people of different age groups.

“In the last few months four people died and that can get depressing.”

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The biggest challenge for the sector is the social stigma. As the economy opened it brought about a great social change, and an increase in the education and remu-neration of middle class families caused a dramatic shift in thinking.

Aruna Gokhale, 81, watches as her husband Vidyadhar Gokhale, 84, speaks on the phone in their flat at the Athashri retirement village.

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Grade 10 students of Qatar Academy completed their MYP course and their school year with a celebration held

at the Student Centre in the grounds of Education City yesterday. With their two-year Diploma Programme begin-ning in September, they decided a cel-ebration was in order.

They started the day with the Spiders Web, which is something of a tradition for QA MYP. This year was no exception as the activity aims to help raise the students’ awareness of their expectations of each other and to build awareness in areas that some students may be struggling with.

All the students sat in a huge circle where a giant ball of string was passed back and forth among them. While passing the ball, they kept hold of the string and slowly started to build a giant spider web inside the circle. They took that moment to thank the student

or teacher they threw the ball to for something that helped or had made the past year a memorable one for them.

As part of the tradition, one of the students collected the string at the end and bracelets are made for each student.

It looked fabulous and was great fun to watch. Special Projects Coordinator Lisa Isom, who participated in the bas-ketball event, said “I played basketball with the students today; it was great fun because the students really put everything into it. It was a great way to end the term”.

Some of the students taking part in the event were also partly responsible for arranging and running the event, and had arranged for Fuse Ball, 10 pin bowling, ping pong, football and basket-ball competitions to be held at different times during the day.

One of the students who helped organise the event remarked, “I really

enjoyed being part of the organising team. We all had such fun while work-ing as a team”.

Before the final activities took place, the students held an unofficial awards ceremony where they thanked several students and teachers for their hard

work the past year. They also con-gratulated the Grade 10 students on the completion of the MYP in prep-aration for the challenging Diploma Programme for the incoming school year.

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QA students closeschool year in style

QA students at the party.

A week-long cultural bonanza, Skill-O-Panorama, was held at Doha Modern Indian School.

The events were organised class-wise and many students displayed their talents.

The inter-house competitions were held not only on-stage but included off-stage events held two weeks prior to the main events.

While the medley brought out the musical talents of the students, the mime and skit events provided

opportunities for the students to showcase their creative and acting skills. Events like JAM, recitation, elocution and storytelling brought out the communication and speaking skills of the children.

The show stealers were a group dance by girls and a Western dance by boys.

“Without the support of the stu-dents and teachers, this event wouldn’t have been possible, apart from the undying support from the

heads and management,” commented one House head. “My holidays couldn’t have started on a better note seeing my house win,” said another enthusi-astic participant.

All worked hard to ensure that their House won. Ruby House fin-ished first with 367 points, Emerald House came second with 350 points, Sapphire House came third with 289 points and Topaz came fourth with 285 points.

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QBRI official delivers keynote addresses at two international conferences

Dr Abdelali Haoudi, Executive Director of Qatar Biomedical

Research Institute (QBRI), delivered keynote addresses at two of the larg-est biomedical conferences in North America this year. On May 21, he spoke to the Biomedical Science and Engineering Conference at the Oak Ridge National Labs in Oak Ridge, USA, and on May 26 he addressed a symposium on “Self-assembled Nanomaterials in Nanomedicine” as part of the 96th Canadian Chemistry Conference in Québec City, Canada.

“QBRI is establishing itself on the international stage in the area of bio-medical research, and major organisa-tions in the field are taking note,” said Dr Haoudi. “It was an honour to repre-sent Qatar Foundation at these confer-ences and to use these opportunities to build collaborative relationships with leading laboratories around the world.”

At both conferences Dr Haoudi shared his views on building successful global collaborative networks to accel-erate biomedical innovations.

Summer camp at BPSBirla Public School, Doha will con-

duct a month-long summer camp, ‘Chill the Summer 2013’, for children in all classes from the kindergarten to Grade VIII. The camp will start with an inaugural ceremony today. Children will be engaged in activities such as aerobics, yoga, music, art and craft and public speaking.

Nearly 250 children have enrolled for the summer camp.

The camp will conclude on August 6.The Peninsula

DMIS holds inter-house competitions

A scene from one of the skits by DMIS students.

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Trust Exchange Co (managed by State Bank of India), a subsidiary of Intertec

Group, has unveiled a promotional campaign.

The 111 days Trust Exchange Promotion offers QR15.7m worth of gifts. A customer who remits money from any branch of the Trust Exchange to any country between June 27 and October 15 will receive a gift voucher and the opportunity to win prizes through a raffle draw.

George Thomas, group CFO, while inaugurating the promo-tion campaign at the main Trust Exchange office at Souq Al Dira, said: “This is the first time in Qatar

an exchange company is giving such a huge offer to its customers. This campaign would create healthy competition among customers to send money through eight branches of Trust Exchange and bring more customer satisfaction, rewards and trust towards Trust Exchange”.

D S C S Varma, GM, Trust Exchange, said: “At Trust Exchange, we do our business each day with honesty, integrity and trust, and as a team, to meet our custom-ers’ needs and expectations. We provide more comfort level to our customers to remit money to India, Nepal, Philippines and Bangladesh etc.”

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Trust Exchange unveils promotion Trust Exchange and Intertec officials at the launch of the promotion.

Aqua Parkholds many special events

Aqua Park recently organised the Water Garden Festival, which ushered in a series of entertain-

ing and exciting games. Activities in the festival included a

games kiosk, a balloon jumping pro-gramme, a magician’s show, and a fire dancing show. A photo exhibition was also held.

Mohamed Ferdaus, director-general of Aqua Park, said the Water Garden Festival was part of efforts by the administration of the park to attract more local tourists.

Ferdaus said another water festival will take place during Eid Al Fitr along with varied programmes and activities that will include entertainment activi-ties for both children and families.

Ferdaus said as many as 20,000 peo-ple visited Aqua Park last month.

He revealed that the Aqua Park had attracted 500 Saudi visitor on

weekends, in addition to 1,000 visitors from Bahrain, Oman and the United Arab Emirates.

He said the “7 Cinema Days” event, one of the new activities in the park, had drawn the attention of a large number of visitors.

He said the event presents films on a daily basis along with entertaining activities during the intervals.

Ferdaus said tickets to Aqua Park were still being sold at the Villaggio and Landmark centres, as

well as at Virgin stores in the malls. Ferdaus said the park currently

offered water slides for all age groups, a wave pool and an African Village, which contains an Octopus Slide, Elephant Slide, Rabbit Slide

and mushroom-shaped waterfalls.He added that the administration

paid attention to security and safety by deploying a number of qualified res-cuers with knowledge and experience.

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Malabar Gold and Diamonds has won Doha Bank’s ‘Business Partner of the year

2013’ award. Santhosh T V, regional head of Malabar Gold and Diamonds, received the award from Ahmed Abdul Rahman Yousuf Obaidan Fakhroo, vice chairman of Doha Bank, and Dr R Seetharaman, Doha Bank Group CEO, recently.

The award recognises partners who demonstrate world-class serv-ice and entrepreneurial excellence. Malabar Gold and Diamonds received

the award in recognition of its serv-ice offered through the zero percent EEP instalment scheme in associa-tion with Doha Bank. The largest number of customers who used Doha Bank’s credit card for jewellery pur-chases shopped at Malabar Gold and Diamonds outlets.

Santhosh said: “We are extremely happy to receive this esteemed award. This validates our group’s efforts in providing customers world-class prod-ucts with the highest level of service.”

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Malabar Gold & Diamondswins Doha Bank award

Malabar Gold and Doha Bank officials at the award function.Malabar Gold and Doha Bank officials at the award function.

Mohamed Ferdaus

PLUS | SUNDAY 30 JUNE 2013 FASHION66

by Lauren Cochrane

The nameUp until 1996, the word “acne” wasn’t

very fashionable. Since Acne — which stands for Ambition to Create Novel Expressions — began, though, the label otherwise known as a common skin disorder has become distinctly hip. Jonny Johansson, one of the founders and now global creative director, has said he liked the idea of “appropriat-ing a difficult word” and making it cool. Messing with us, basically. Now, though, Johansson, a soft-spoken soul sporting a MA1 flying jacket and Acne jeans, is a little embarrassed. “I wish we hadn’t called it that,” he says. “People said it was a weird name, and I agree with them.” The brand’s official title now is Acne Studios.

The jeansWhen Acne started with four guys

and a lot of idealism, they had the equiv-alent of writer’s block. “If you’re doing a modern brand, where do you start?” says Johansson. Jeans worked because they were iconic: “You might as well try to do Coca-Cola or you’re going about it the wrong way.” The first designs were plain, straight-legged with distinctive red stitching. They made 100 pairs and gave them to “the creative kids” in Stockholm. Soon, editorials from Wallpaper* and French Vogue turned up. By the early noughties, Acne had officially blipped on to the fashion radar.

The cityBefore Acne, the idea of Stockholm

style probably stood for more in the world of interiors than fashion. The brand — the most internationally nota-ble fashion label from Sweden bar H&M — has exported its home city’s look of

layers, sportswear details, prints, and a lot of black all over the world, report-edly making nearly £78m in the process last year. “If you’re from Sweden, you grew up with Swedish design — it’s in your DNA, functionality,” says Johansson. “We’re often mistaken for minimalists but we’re very colourful and love nature.”

The studioAnyone after a spot of workplace

envy should check out Acne’s famous-in-fashion studio. A converted bank that dates back to the 16th century, it features an art nouveau frieze, labyrin-thine rooms and a communal kitchen with birch benches, Barbara Hepworth-style sculptures and a worktop hewn out of green marble. And that’s not even mentioning the population of this style utopia. A team lunch includes girls with purple hair, handsome men in modern-ist glasses and Hamish Bowles from American Vogue.

The pinkAcne likes nothing better than mak-

ing something a bit wrong the height of cool. See its trademark pink, which covers all its shopping bags, merchan-dising and stationery. “I told Johnny we needed recognisable bags,” says Mikael Schiller, the brand’s executive chairman, who is wearing a typical Acne ensemble of classic brogues with a wrinkled mac. “He went full on. Now you see these butch guys walking around with pink bags everywhere.”

The Pistol bootYou know those ankle boots you

have with the chunky heel and zips? You can thank Acne for those. Their version, the Pistol boot, which goes for around £380, has been copied by high-street stores everywhere and became

a bestseller for the brand. Designed as “a mix of cowboy and motorcycle and riding boot,” says Johansson, he believes its success is down to boring old prac-ticality. “It’s big in bad-weather places — Scandinavia, the UK,” he says. “Girls are running around London in sandals in the middle of winter, so when you propose a rough and cool design, it’s a success.”

The collaborationsAsk Acne — a brand associated with

off-duty-model style and slouchy, leggy people in general — who it would most like to collaborate with and you expect it to say an edgy new label you’ve never heard of. Wrong. “Rolex,” says Johansson. This kind of cool contrari-ness is key to Acne. So far, the brand has worked with Snowdon, the 83-year-old British photographer, and Lanvin. “What connects them all is a certain kind of humour,” says Johansson. “They have a quirkiness to them.”

The chairsBefore working in fashion, Johansson

dallied with furniture. He showed he still had the knack with a three-piece

suite the brand brought out in 2010 — designed to “find the inheritance for Swedish design,” he says. He did that by referencing the Nya Berlin couch made by Carl Malmsten in the 20s for the Swedish embassy in the German capi-tal. In typical Acne style, though, they messed with it: putting the drawings into Illustrator and stretching them out. The result was a hybrid: long and skinny furniture perfect for fashion people.

The storesYou might think a brand such as Acne

would open in London’s hipster central, Dalston. But, if you’re sensing a theme here, that’s far too obvious. Instead, its new store opening next month is on Pelham Street in Brompton Cross — more the territory of yummy mum-mies than mom jeans. This preference for off-centre locations plays out across the world. Its first Paris store is in a converted garage that Schiller admits is “hard to find” while the Stockholm flag-ship is in the former bank where hos-tages were taken in 1973 and the phrase Stockholm Syndrome was coined.

The fansAcne doesn’t court fashion’s top 10

percent to wear its clothes; they do it anyway. Celebrities including Rihanna, Alexa Chung and front-row stalwart Yasmin Sewell are regularly photo-graphed in them too, something lots of other brands would kill for — or cer-tainly pay through the nose. This is not the Acne way. “We never paid anyone and we don’t want to,” says Johansson. “That doesn’t mean we don’t like celeb-rities wearing our clothing but that strategy is cold and hard and short-lived. Our brand is about product. If you start from there, everything else falls into place.” The Guardian

10 things you should know about AcneAs the Swedish label prepares to launch another London store, a look at how the brand with the unlikely name became one of the hippest in fashion.

Acne on the catwalk for Acne on the catwalk for autumn/winter 2013.autumn/winter 2013.

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Pistol ankle boot

Heart disease deaths show dramatic decline in Europe

By Kate Kelland

The number of people dying from heart disease in Europe has dropped dramatically in recent dec-ades, thanks largely to the success of cholesterol-lowering drugs and drives to persuade people to quit smoking, scientists said.

Cardiovascular disease death rates have more than halved in many countries in the European Union since the early 1980s, accord-ing to their study in the European Heart Journal.

Yet heart disease - which can lead to fatal heart attacks and strokes - remains a leading cause of death in the region and rising rates of obesity and diabetes could soon start to reverse progress made in the past 30 years.

“For the most part and for most countries this is good news - the death rates have come down quite substantially in the last 30 years,” said Nick Townsend of Britain’s Oxford University, who worked on the study.

“But what we don’t want to say is that the job is done, because we know by looking at trends in other conditions that they could reverse the trends we’ve worked so hard to achieve in heart disease.”

According to the World Health Organization, cardiovascular dis-eases kill around 17 million people globally each year.

Townsend’s team looked at deaths from coronary heart dis-ease between 1980 and 2009 in both sexes and four age groups: under 45, 45 to 54, 55 to 64, and 65 years and over.

They found that almost all EU countries had a large and signifi-cant decrease in death rates from heart disease over the last three decades in both men and women when all the age groups were con-sidered together.

Britain, Denmark, Malta, The Netherlands and Sweden had the largest declines in death rates for both sexes, while among men in Hungary, Latvia, Lithuania and Poland, the decreases were small and not statistically significant. In Romanian men, there was a small but statistically significant increase.

Although the study did not look specifically for causes, Townsend said the progress was probably mainly due to better drugs - such as statins to treat high cholesterol and anti-hypertensives to treat high blood pressure - as well as lower rates of smoking in the region overall.

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By Vicky Hallett

Sitting on the ground with her legs straight out in front of her, yoga instruc-tor Annie Carlin demon-strated her problem with

seated forward bend. It’s not an issue of flexibility — Carlin has the bend part down pat. It’s that the size of her thighs makes it physically impossible to keep her feet together.

So she prefers to keep them hip-distance apart, as she explained to the students enrolled in her four-week Yoga for Larger Bodies workshop series at Washington’s Golden Heart Yoga, which began this month.

“The other thing we can do is move our back side out of the way,” she added, noting with a grin that “yoga teaching is the only time I get to say this.”

Other teachers can say it, but most of them don’t actually have much of it. And that’s what can prevent peo-ple who look like Carlin and her stu-dents from feeling as if they belong in a yoga class even though they derive the same benefits from stretching, strengthening and breathing deeply as everyone else.

“I stand out no matter what I do,” says Carlin, 31, who admits that even she’s wary whenever she walks into a new studio. But with certain modifica-tions and props, Carlin can be com-fortable in any class, and that’s her goal for her students, too.

Every person brings something dif-ferent to the yoga mat, Carlin says, and it’s not always visible. In her case, it’s a decade of practice that started when she fell for yoga while studying at New York University. Over time, she experienced changes in her career — which brought her to Washington in 2007 — as well as her body.

“I’ve lost 100 pounds and gained it back,” the Takoma Park, resident says. “For a really long time, I was angry. All these moves, I couldn’t do them anymore.”

But Carlin still adored yoga, and in 2010, she went ahead with her plan to take teacher training, despite being the only “larger person” in the pro-gramme. Beyond lessons on prenatal yoga that required her fellow trainees to strap big pillows to their bellies, most had no firsthand experience working with different bodies.

To a certain degree, that doesn’t matter, Carlin says. None of her teachers have been anything other than skinny, and they’ve all been able to help her grow in her practice. Even when two people physically resemble each other, she says, they’re not likely to have the same amount of strength, tightness or flexibility.

As Carlin tells her students: “The idea that my body will do [poses] the same way as one of you is ludicrous.”

But what Carlin understands better than most instructors is that being larger doesn’t mean weaker. It just means there’s more to lift.

“Plank pose is basically bench-pressing your body weight. That’s just physics,” she says. “So it’s not that I can’t do plank pose, but I just don’t hold it as long.”

For similar reasons, in her Yoga for Larger Bodies series, Carlin is focusing on alternatives to down-ward-facing dog. Resting on your hands and feet in an inverted-V shape is generally considered a soothing stretch in yoga. But putting excess pressure on the wrist joints doesn’t feel so nice.

“If a teacher has you hold it for 10 minutes, there’s always another option,” said Carlin, who offered wall dog, which involves hinging from the hips and placing your hands on the wall instead of the floor. A more dis-creet choice is puppy, which is similar to downward-facing dog except your knees rest on the mat.

That move also works as a replace-ment for child’s pose, another popular yoga position that’s not as comfort-able in bigger bodies. When Carlin brought up this subject in the first session of the workshop, 30-year-old Emily Goodstein led the group in a round of applause.

“You don’t want to be the only

person who says, ‘I don’t like child’s pose,’ or the only person using props,” explains Goodstein, who researches extensively to find “body-affirming” yoga environments. It’s tougher than it should be to find classes that don’t feel competitive and instructors who don’t use weight-loss-focused lan-guage, she adds.

And it’s even more of a challenge to find a class that fits her criteria that’s actually challenging. “I’m not new to yoga. I know what I’m doing,” Goodstein says.

Carlin plans to build each week through the series so students really get the chance to see what their bod-ies can do.

“I feel like I haven’t moved in two years. So I like a class that can ease me back into it,” said Michelle Weiner, 31, who was attending the workshop after a lengthy hiatus from yoga.

Armed with her techniques and advice, Carlin hopes the women she’s teaching show up at every yoga studio in the area, and end up teaching them a thing or two.

“The more we’re out there,” Carlin says, “the more people will learn I’m not a unicorn.”

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om

franchis

e fi

lms

like B

eve

rly

Hil

ls C

op,

Leth

al

Wea

pon,

Ba

d B

oys

and R

ush

Hou

r to

more r

ecent

film

s like T

he O

ther

Gu

ys a

nd last

year’s

21

Jum

p S

treet

rem

ake.

But

they h

ave

featu

red m

ale

leads.

Sta

rrin

g t

wo w

om

en i

n s

uch a

film

requir

ed s

om

e c

hanges,

Feig

said

.T

he 5

0-y

ear-o

ld d

irecto

r, w

ho h

as

help

ed u

sher in a

new

wave o

f fe

male

-le

d

com

edie

s,

said

h

e

wan

ted

the

characte

rs t

o d

eal w

ith iss

ues

that

pro-

fess

ional w

om

en w

ould

face o

n t

he job,

while a

lso s

how

ing w

om

en w

ho e

njo

y

bein

g in t

he w

ork

force.

“We w

ante

d t

o s

ay,

‘If

you love y

our

job,

that’s

what

you s

hould

be d

oin

g

an

d m

aybe y

ou m

ight

need a

frie

nd

in a

sim

ilar s

ituati

on t

o b

e y

our c

onfi-

dante

,’” h

e s

aid

.F

eig

’s 2

011

film

Bri

desm

aid

s, a

bout

a b

rid

e a

nd h

er f

rie

nds

who s

uff

er a

serie

s of

un

fortu

nate

even

ts ah

ead

of

the w

eddin

g,

was n

om

inate

d fo

r

two O

scars

inclu

din

g b

est

supporti

ng

actr

ess

for M

cC

arth

y a

nd m

ade $

288m

w

orld

wid

e.

HO

LLY

WO

OD

NE

WS

John L

ennon

hop

ed t

o bea

t Pau

l M

cCar

tney

wit

h I

mag

ine?

Late

sin

ger-s

on

gw

rit

er Joh

n L

en

non

w

as

reporte

dly

obsessed

wit

h

com

posin

g

a

son

g bett

er th

an

h

is fo

rm

er ban

dm

ate

P

aul

McC

artn

ey’s

“Y

este

rday”.

He h

oped h

is s

on

g

“Im

agin

e”

would

turn o

ut

to b

e a

s good a

s th

e

latt

er’s

1965 h

it n

um

ber.

Len

non

w

ish

ed to

pen

a bett

er son

g th

an

“Yest

erday”

as

many f

an

s m

ista

ken

ly t

hought

it w

as

com

pose

d b

y h

im a

long w

ith M

cC

artn

ey,

reports

dailyst

ar.

co.u

k.

He cam

e up w

ith

“I

magin

e”

in 1971 an

d

approached h

is D

J frie

nd H

ow

ard S

mit

h t

o k

now

if

the s

ong w

as

bett

er t

han M

cC

artn

ey’s

track.

“John c

am

e t

o m

y loft

and h

e w

as

all e

xcit

ed.

He s

aid

, ‘I

thin

k I

finally w

rote

a s

ong w

ith a

s good a

melo

dy a

s Y

est

erday’. ‘

Yest

erday’

drove

him

crazy

. People

would

say,

‘T

hank y

ou for w

rit

ing ‘Y

est

erday’, a

beauti

ful

song.’

He w

as

alw

ays

civ

il, but

it d

rove h

im n

uts

,” M

ojo

magazi

ne q

uote

d

Sm

ith a

s sa

yin

g.

“He p

layed it

through a

nd a

sked m

e w

hat

I th

ought.

(I

said

) ‘I

t’s

beauti

-fu

l’. (H

e s

aid

) ‘B

ut

is it

as

good a

s Y

est

erday?’

(I

said

) ‘T

hey’r

e im

poss

ible

to

com

pare’. S

o h

e p

layed it

again

. A

nd a

gain

. A

nd h

e s

aid

, ‘Y

ou’ll se

e, it

’s

just

as

good a

s ‘Y

est

erday’,”

he a

dded.

Juli

anne

Moo

re o

ffer

edTh

e H

unger

Gam

es..

.

Actr

ess

Julian

ne M

oore h

as

been

reporte

dly

approached t

o b

e p

art

of

Th

e H

un

ger

Ga

mes:

M

ock

ingja

y, t

he fi

nal, t

wo-p

art

film

in t

he H

un

ger

Ga

mes

franchis

e.

The 5

2-y

ear-o

ld is

off

ered t

o p

lay m

anip

ula

tive

Presi

den

t A

lma C

oin

in

the b

ig s

creen

adapta

-ti

on o

f auth

or S

uza

nne C

ollin

s’ n

ovel

Mock

ingja

y,

reports

deadline.c

om

.If

Moore

agre

es

to p

lay t

he o

ffere

d r

ole

, sh

e w

ill

share s

creen s

pace w

ith J

osh

Hutc

hers

on,

Lia

m

Hem

swort

h a

nd J

ennif

er

Law

rence

am

ong o

thers

.

By

Su

bh

ash

K J

ha

(13:

50)

Film

: G

han

ch

akkar

Cast:

Em

raan

Hash

mi,

Vid

ya B

ala

n,

Raje

sh V

erm

a a

nd

Nam

it D

as

Dir

ecto

r: R

ajk

um

ar

Gu

pta

He is

a la

zy la

d.

An

d sh

e is

on

e

hell

uva

crazy

Pun

jaban

whose k

ookie

cookin

g d

riv

es

her s

ullen

husb

an

d u

p t

he n

earest

w

all. D

isgust

on t

he d

in-

ing-t

able

cam

ouflaged in

ton

s of

table

-salt

, S

an

ju

(Em

raan H

ash

mi, p

itch-

perfe

ct

in

his

spousal

indole

nce)

would

prob-

ably

have g

one o

n t

ole

r-

ati

ng h

is w

ife’s

appallin

g

culin

ary s

kills

matc

hed

only

by h

er h

ideous

fash

ion s

ense

, if

only

he d

idn’t

decid

e t

o p

ull o

ff o

ne

last

heis

t th

at

would

make h

im a

nd h

is i

nept

cook o

f a w

ife r

ich f

or t

he

rest

of

their

lif

e.

Oh, I

forgot

to t

ell y

ou... H

ash

mi

pla

ys

an e

xpert

lock-p

icker,

the k

ind

of

safe

-bet

who c

an c

rack s

afe

s fa

ster t

han w

e c

an s

ay ‘

Saif

Ali K

han’.

Forgetf

uln

ess

com

es

easi

ly in t

his

crazi

ly u

npredic

table

dark

com

edy a

bout

an o

rdin

ary D

elh

i couple

’s lif

e g

oin

g u

nim

agin

ably

out-

of-

contr

ol w

hen t

hey

decid

e t

o m

ess

around w

ith t

wo s

elf

-sty

led b

um

bling b

addie

s, w

ho s

eem

to

have m

odelled t

heir

crim

e lif

e o

n p

irate

d v

ideo p

rin

ts o

f G

uy R

itchie

and

Quenti

n T

aranti

no c

rim

e fl

icks.

Every c

haracte

r in t

his

out-

of-

the-b

ox c

om

edy is

a b

it o

f an ineff

ectu

al

self

-im

porta

nt

clo

wn. In

tryin

g h

ard t

o b

e c

ool, t

hey e

nd u

p l

ookin

g l

ike

fools

. A

nd t

hey d

on’t

even k

now

it!

Gh

an

cha

kk

ar

is a

dom

est

ic c

om

edy t

hat

gets

progress

ively

dark

an

d

sin

iste

r. S

om

e o

f th

e fi

lm’s

most

riv

eti

ng m

om

en

ts fi

nd o

ur a

mn

esi

ac

hero s

earchin

g f

or h

is o

wn i

denti

ty a

nd t

ryin

g t

o l

ocate

the t

rust

facto

r

in h

is m

arria

ge t

hat

is t

hreate

ned b

y h

is lack o

f cogent

mem

ory. D

irecto

r

Rajk

um

ar G

upta

is

the m

ast

er o

f st

raig

ht-

faced w

him

sy.

There a

re n

o

laugh-o

ut-

loud m

om

ents

in G

ha

nch

ak

ka

r. I

ts h

um

our is

the k

ind t

hat

hit

s you in h

indsi

ght.

Characte

rs

such a

s P

arvin

Dabas

keep p

oppin

g u

p f

or n

o s

eem

ing p

ur-

pose

. B

ut

then w

e b

egin

to r

ealise

the p

lot’s

larger d

esi

gn is

to t

ell u

s th

at

there’s

no r

eal la

rger d

esi

gn in lif

e. V

ery o

ften t

hin

gs

happen h

aphaza

rdly

and inexplicably

because

that’s

the w

ay lif

e is.

Many c

hunks

of G

upta

’s s

toryte

llin

g s

eem

excess

ively

quir

ky c

aptu

rin

g in

languid

moti

ons,

the v

agarie

s of everyday lif

e w

ithout

whip

pin

g u

p a

n o

ver-

punctu

ate

d d

ram

a e

ither t

hrough t

he b

ackground s

core o

r f

ancy e

dit

ing

patt

erns.

Setu

’s c

am

era l

ooks

at

Mum

bai’s

mid

dle

cla

ss w

ith a

ffecti

onate

dis

dain

, not

judgm

enta

l, b

ut

certa

inly

not

alo

of

eit

her.

Its

sin

iste

r t

hrust

s, e

specia

lly t

ow

ards

the e

nd,

eat

raven

ousl

y i

nto

th

e c

om

edy.

This

may n

ot

work f

or t

hose w

ho a

re c

om

ically r

egale

d

by t

he G

olm

aa

l se

rie

s or e

ven t

he w

acky w

it o

f F

uk

rey.

The c

om

edy i

n

Gh

an

cha

kk

ar

is e

nti

rely

reliant

on t

he p

rin

cip

al characte

rs’

abilit

y t

o p

en-

etr

ate

and m

ake s

ense

of

the s

qualid w

orld

of

greed a

nd a

cquis

itiv

eness

th

at

they s

eem

to inhabit

so c

asu

ally.

The fi

lm’s

heis

t-quoti

ent

is s

ubst

anti

ally s

ust

ain

ed a

nd a

ggrandis

ed b

y

the c

rackling h

issi

ng a

nd s

narl

ing c

hem

istr

y b

etw

een t

he b

old

and fearl

ess

B

ala

n a

nd t

he e

ndearin

gly

rest

rain

ed a

nd u

nder-t

he-t

op H

ash

mi.

The i

ncid

enta

l characte

rs

- an i

nquis

itiv

e n

eig

hbour,

an o

ver-f

rie

ndly

real-

est

ate

agent,

a n

osy

moth

er/

moth

er-i

n-l

aw

whom

we o

nly

hear o

n

the p

hon

e,

et

al, a

ppear u

nan

noun

ced.

But

then

all s

aid

an

d d

um

ped,

Gh

an

cha

kk

ar

is n

oth

ing l

ike a

nyth

ing w

e’v

e e

ncounte

red i

n t

he g

enre o

f dark

com

edy.

Depic

ting t

he s

cary,

but

savagely

funny u

nderbelly o

f th

e G

reat

India

n

Mid

dle

cla

ss’ consu

meris

t capric

es,

Gh

an

cha

kk

ar

giv

es

Vid

ya B

ala

n a

noth

er

chance a

fter T

he D

irty

Pic

ture

and K

ah

aa

ni to

create

an u

north

odox h

ero-

ine. Y

ou m

ay n

ot

thin

k m

uch o

f her loud a

ttit

ude t

o lif

e, but

then y

ou h

ave

to h

and it

to V

idya for s

tayin

g c

onst

antl

y u

npredic

table

in h

er c

haracte

ris

a-

tions.

Em

raan H

ash

mi se

em

s to

inst

incti

vely

grasp

his

forgetf

ul characte

r’s

obst

inacy a

nd a

nxie

ties.

He b

rin

gs

calm

to t

he b

reath

less

proceedin

gs. IA

NS

Cru

ise

pay

s $

50

K a

wee

k f

or S

uri

’s s

afet

y

Acto

r T

om

Cruis

e r

eporte

dly

pays

$50,0

00-a

-week t

o b

odyguards

to

prote

ct

his

seven-y

ear-o

ld d

aughte

r S

uri.

One o

f th

e O

bli

vion s

tar’s

main

reaso

ns

for h

irin

g s

ecurit

y is

the c

onst

ant

paparazz

i th

at

follow

s S

uri and h

is e

x-w

ife, K

ati

e H

olm

es,

all t

he t

ime.

“Tom

is

alw

ays

surrounded b

y t

wo r

ings

of pla

inclo

thed s

ecurit

y a

gents

. T

hat

goes

double

for h

is p

recio

us

daughte

r. K

ati

e b

elieves

money i

s no

obje

ct

when i

t com

es

to t

he s

afe

ty o

f S

uri

and i

nsi

sted T

om

handle

that

side o

f th

ings,

” fe

male

first

.co.u

k q

uote

d a

source a

s sa

yin

g.

“She’d

go b

roke if sh

e h

ad t

o p

ay for it

and it’s

a t

ota

l necess

ity w

ith t

he

enorm

ous

inte

rest

in S

uri,”

the s

ource s

aid

.“T

hese

guys

are h

ighly

train

ed. T

hey l

egally c

arry w

eapons.

When i

n

Los

Angele

s th

ey k

eep g

uns

in t

he t

runks

of

Kati

e’s

SU

V l

imos.

When

in N

ew

York

, th

ey h

ave l

icense

s to

carry fi

rearm

s on t

heir

perso

n,” t

he

source a

dded.

Holm

es

is a

pprecia

tive o

f her form

er h

usb

and’s

gest

ure a

nd t

he s

ecurit

y

guards

giv

e t

he h

igh p

rofile

actr

ess

peace o

f m

ind.

“Kati

e k

now

s th

e g

uys

are t

he b

est

in t

he w

orld

and s

he c

an b

reath

e a

lo

t easi

er w

ith t

hem

on t

he job. S

uri has

the R

olls

Royce o

f se

curit

y g

uys

watc

hin

g o

ut

for h

er,”

said

the s

ource.

TH

E Q

UE

ST

FO

R W

OM

EN

IN

C

OM

ED

YM

cC

arth

y, 4

2, sa

w h

er s

tar r

ise a

fter

the s

uccess

of

Bri

desm

aid

s. S

he follow

ed

the fi

lm u

p w

ith F

ebruary’s

Th

e I

den

tity

T

hie

f, w

hic

h g

ross

ed $

174m

largely

on

the s

trength

of her p

erso

na, and a

sup-

porti

ng r

ole

in T

he H

an

gove

r 3,

where

she h

eld

her o

wn

opposit

e t

he fi

lm’s

m

ale

-led c

ast

. B

ullock, 48, had b

een m

ost

ly a

bse

nt

from

film

sin

ce w

innin

g t

he B

est

Actr

ess

O

scar for 2

009’s T

he B

lin

d S

ide, fo

cusi

ng

inst

ead o

n b

ein

g a

sin

gle

moth

er t

o h

er

adopte

d s

on L

ouis

. T

he H

ea

t, p

roduced b

y N

ew

s C

orp’s

20th

Centu

ry F

ox s

tudio

, mark

s a r

etu

rn

to c

om

edy f

or h

er,

draw

ing p

arallels

to

the q

uir

ky n

euroti

c c

haracte

rs

she h

as

pla

yed i

n 2

000’s

Mis

s C

on

gen

iali

ty a

nd

2009’s

Th

e P

rop

osa

l.

Feig

init

ially w

as

draw

n t

o t

he K

ate

D

ippold

-writ

ten s

crip

t fo

r T

he H

ea

t in

part

because

he felt

com

edy fi

lms

in t

he

last

few

decades

have b

een m

ost

ly m

ale

-dom

inate

d, w

ith w

om

en d

epic

ted a

s th

e

ones

who r

uin

the g

ood t

ime.

“The g

uys

are h

avin

g f

un, or t

hey’r

e

out

savin

g t

he w

orld

and t

he w

om

an is

sayin

g, ‘Y

ou n

eed t

o b

e h

om

e w

ith t

he

fam

ily,

’” s

aid

Feig

.“E

ith

er th

ey are k

illjoys or com

-ple

tely

un

aw

are o

f th

e i

mporta

nce o

f w

hat

their

husb

ands

are d

oin

g -

neit

her

one o

f w

hic

h s

eem

s fa

ir t

o t

he w

om

en.”

Feig

said

he f

elt

som

e o

f his

favour-

ite fe

male

com

edia

ns are n

ot

bein

g

giv

en

a c

han

ce t

o s

hin

e,

cit

ing S

arah

Silverm

an

’s m

ean

gir

lfrie

nd ch

arac-

ter in 2

003’s

Sch

ool

of

Rock

and R

achel

Harris

’ sh

rew

ish g

irlf

rie

nd p

ortr

ayal in

2009’s

Th

e H

an

gove

r.“T

hese

are m

ovie

s I

love, but

at

the

sam

e t

ime y

ou g

o, ‘W

ell t

hat’s

a w

ast

e

of

a h

ilario

us

perso

n,” s

aid

Feig

. “I

just

fe

el like, ‘G

od, le

t’s

rig

ht

the w

rongs.

’”

Goin

g fo

rw

ard,

Feig

said

h

is n

ext

proje

ct

wil

l be a fe

male

Ja

mes

Bon

d

com

edy in t

he v

ein

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Pictures: GDA via AP Images

Ancient royal tomb unearthed in PeruArchaeologists in Peru have discovered a royal tomb, with treasure andmummified women, that sheds new light on the enigmatic Wari people

who ruled the Andes before the rise of the better-known Inca civilisation

El Castillode Huarmey:1,200-year-oldburial chamber instepped pyramid,contained bodiesof 63 people,including threeWari queens

Many bodies foundsitting upright –indicating royaltyand suggestingWari women heldgreat power

Gold-and-silver earornaments, found amongmore than 1,200 artifacts

TIMELINE OF ANCIENT PERU

Wari: �� earliest empire.ca 700-1000 A.D.

Regional States:Includes Chimú culture

ca 900-1470

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Archaeologists in Peru have discovered a royal tomb, with treasure andmummified women, that sheds new light on the enigmatic Wari people

who ruled the Andes before the rise of the better-known Inca civilisation

El Castillode Huarmey:1,200-year-oldburial chamber instepped pyramid,contained bodiesof 63 people,including threeWari queens

Many bodies foundsitting upright –indicating royaltyand suggestingWari women heldgreat power

Gold-and-silver earornaments, found amongmore than 1,200 artifacts

TIMELINE OF ANCIENT PERU

Wari: �� earliest empire.ca 700-1000 A.D.

Regional States:Includes Chimú culture

ca 900-1470

Inca empire:ca 1400-1532

600 700 800 900 1000 1100 1200 1300 14001532: Spanish conquest

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11BOOKS PLUS | SUNDAY 30 JUNE 2013

By Suzanne Barlyn

Rose Kennedy’s public image as the stoic matriarch of America’s most famous political family is one that she carefully cultivated, but writer Barbara Perry

reveals a more vulnerable side in Rose Kennedy: The Life and Times of a Political Matriarch.

The biography of Rose Kennedy, who lived to age 104, includes hundreds of details from her voluminous personal diaries and letters made public by the John F Kennedy Presidential Library and Museum in 2006.

Perry, a senior fellow and associate professor in the Miller Center’s Presidential Oral History Program at the University of Virginia, has writ-ten other books, including Jacqueline Kennedy: First Lady of the New Frontier.

Perry spoke about her interest in the Kennedy family and her research process.

What sparked your lifelong interest in the Kennedys?

My mother took me to a JFK rally in Louisville when I was four. On October 5, 1960, my mother piled me and my two older brothers into our ‘56 Chevy and drove to downtown Louisville. It helped me to understand his grip on the American people.

Was there a process for deciding who would write Rose Kennedy’s biography?

No. Presidential libraries are sponsored by the National Archives, in part, and they are public facilities. Anyone can go into the archive room at the library and say “I’m here to look at the Rose Kennedy papers.”

In my case, I had to figure out how to narrow down from the 250 boxes what would be most useful. What was difficult was the sheer voluminous numbers of papers, and files, and photographs. She lived to 104 and kept everything.

How did you work through the volumes of papers?

I decided to begin with her 1974 memoir, Times to Remember. There’s a huge component of Rose

Kennedy’s papers devoted to producing that book. Particularly, I was interested in her image creation.

I began combing through all of the things she col-lected to do that book and then very quickly got into what I will call the oral history — the many, many taped conversations that her ghost writer, Robert Coughlan, did with her and of her as they began to produce that book.

Your book shows a less perfect side. What

were you trying to do by bringing out those details?

First of all, let Rose be Rose. I just felt her voice had often been subsumed under the men’s. That was one of my goals — to let her speak through her diary and through her letters, memos and oral history.

But it’s not always an edifying message — because she could be a difficult woman, so caught up in this image making that I think she maybe sometimes lost the larger meaning of life or put people off in her own family. The concept of cre-ating an image of oneself, or ones’ family is going to involve some sleight of hand. I came across that on occasion.

I really liked her bouffant hair.Yes, that she was so proud of. She was pretty

proud she didn’t go gray, just like her mother.On her travel list, I discovered a wig stand and a

wig. Ladies like that had their hair done at least once a week and at least more often. I’d see in her date book — whenever she was about to do a big event, off to the hairdresser she would go, or the hairdresser would come to her home.

She was totally into the image thing. The matron of makeover.

Reuters

Scholar unearths Rose Kennedy’s less public side

Paula Deen’s publisher has can-celed a deal with her for multi-ple books, including an upcoming

cookbook that was the No. 1 seller on Amazon.com and Barnes & Noble.com, following her admission she used a racial slur.

Ballantine Books announced it would not release Paula Deen’s New Testament: 250 Favorite Recipes, All Lightened Up, which was scheduled for October and was the first of a five-book deal announced early last year. Interest in it had surged as Deen, who grew up in Albany, and specialises in Southern comfort food, came under increasing attack for acknowledging she had used the N-word.

Ballantine, an imprint of Random House Inc, said it had decided to can-cel the book’s publication after “care-ful consideration.” It had no comment

beyond what was in its brief statement, spokesman Stuart Applebaum said.

Later Friday, Deen’s literary agent, Janis Donnaud, said that the entire deal had been called off.

“I am confident that these books will be published and that we will have a new publisher,” said Donnaud, who declined to comment on whether she had heard from other publishers.

The trouble for Deen started when comments she made in a court deposi-tion became public. During the deposi-tion in a discrimination lawsuit filed by an ex-employee, Deen admitted using the N-word in the past but denied using it to describe waiters.

Deen said she’s not a racist during a tearful Today show interview but has lost many of her business relationships. Sears Holdings Corp and J C Penney Co said that they were cutting ties with

Deen following similar announcements from Wal-Mart Stores Inc, Target Corp and Home Depot.

Last week, the Food Network said that it would not renew her contract. She also was dropped by Smithfield Foods, Caesars Entertainment stripped her name from restaurants and drug company Novo Nordisk said it was sus-pending its work with her.

Publishers have pulled a wide range of books over the years, usually because of plagiarism, fabrications or other issues with the books themselves. Ballantine’s decision highlights a prob-lem for Deen even when the product itself has not been challenged and is in high demand.

Some outlets that might have sold her books, such as Target and Wal-Mart, have cut ties with her. Other stores likely would have been reluctant

Publisher cancels multibook Paula Deen contract

Paula Deen

Barbara Perry

to promote her new book or to invite her for personal appearances.

Because Paula Deen’s New Testamentwas months away from release, no copies had been printed. All purchases had been pre-orders, so refunds aren’t necessary.

TECHNOLOGYPLUS | SUNDAY 30 JUNE 201312

By Rich Jaroslovsky

Microsoft’s long-anticipated Office Mobile app for Apple’s iOS operating system turns out to be a total non-event.

Ever since the iPhone ushered in the era of ubiq-uitous mobile computing — and especially since the release of the first iPad began a shift away from traditional personal computers — the question has been whether and how Microsoft Office would adapt.

Here’s the answer: Grudgingly, and not very well. Office Mobile, which slipped into Apple’s App Store with little fanfare, turns out to be a stripped-down add-on that will leave both Office and Apple users wondering, “Is that all there is?”

Office Mobile is technically free. But it’s useless unless you’ve already paid at least $100 for a year of Office 365, Microsoft’s effort to convert its traditional shrink-wrapped, purchase-one-time-only software business into a pay-as-you-go subscription model. (By contrast, the version of Office Mobile included on devices running Microsoft’s own Windows Phone software doesn’t require an Office 365 subscription.)

That’s just one of the limitations the company has imposed on its iOS app. Another is that it’s intended only for the iPhone; there’s no separate version designed to take advantage of the iPad’s larger display.

Office Mobile will still run on an iPad; in fact, I’m typing these words on one, using the docking-station keyboard Apple introduced when it unveiled the iPad three years ago. But it’s just a blown-up view of the phone app. Microsoft says iPad users are better off using its online Office Web Apps.

Office Mobile contains pocket versions of three of the Office desktop suite’s core applications: Word, Excel and PowerPoint. There’s no version of Outlook, the e-mail and calendar program, but I didn’t find its absence to be a big deal, since the iPhone’s built-in mail and calendar programs already work and play well with Microsoft.

To benefit from Office Mobile, you have to use Microsoft’s free SkyDrive cloud-based service to store your Office documents; other popular stor-age options like Dropbox and Google Drive aren’t supported.

When I logged into the app for the first time, all the SkyDrive documents I had previously created using Office 365 on my Windows PC were waiting for me. I could edit them, sort of, and create new ones, sort of.

This column, for instance, was started in the

Mobile version of Word, and I also created a couple of Excel spreadsheets. But once I did, there was a whole lot I couldn’t do with them.

I could enter text and formulas, make and review comments, and change the color and size of text. But I couldn’t create or edit a macro, switch to a different font or even check my spelling.

PowerPoint is even more limited. There’s no way to begin a presentation, or even to insert a new slide into an existing one. So if you have a last-minute brainstorm on the way to your meeting, you’re out of luck.

Office Mobile did allow me to work on documents even when I wasn’t connected to the Internet; my changes were saved on the phone until I got back online. But the syncing process with SkyDrive wasn’t smooth. Instead of having my files upload automati-cally after I reconnected, I had to go back into the app and manually force it to sync.

Even then, the app continued to display a “Couldn’t upload” message and the document was saved to SkyDrive as a second copy rather than overwriting

the original. Microsoft says it isn’t sure what hap-pened, but that the syncing should have been auto-matic and the new version should have overwritten the old one.

Microsoft’s arms-length attitude toward iOS stands in stark contrast to arch-rival Google, which devotes considerable resources to putting its most important software onto rival platforms. (The Google Now intelligent-assistant software, for instance, is more widely available on iOS devices than on Google’s own Android operating system.)

Office Mobile’s shortcomings mightn’t be so obvi-ous if there weren’t so many higher-quality Office-compatible apps already available for iPads and iPhones. These include Apple’s own iWork suite ($30) and Quickoffice Pro ($15 for iPhone, $20 for iPad), which Google bought last year. Still, none of them is the official, Microsoft-endorsed solution.

A lot of iOS users have wanted to get Microsoft Office onto their devices in the worst way. And that’s just how they’ve gotten it.

WP-Bloomberg

XCOM: Enemy Unknown$20, for iOS devices.

Firaxis Games took one of its biggest recent releases to the small screen last week by making a full version of the triple-A title available on the iPad and iPhone. But this is no “lite” version or clunky mobile remake — for its mobile debut, Firaxis has

rebuilt the game from the ground up. The game is almost exactly like the full title that came out for consoles and PCs last

fall, meaning it provides all the hours of deep game play and dramatic alien invasion action of the original title. And the title translates well to the touch platform, though getting the right camera angle or elevation can sometimes lead to unexpected results.

Overall, the game is a smooth experience and a good representation of what more-serious mobile gaming can become. But there are caveats. The file itself is huge — over 3 GB — and can eat up a lot of your storage space. And the game’s $20 price may be far too steep for those who don’t yet see their iPad or iPhone as a primary gaming device. “XCOM: Enemy Unknown” on iOS is a good game and a hopeful step for gaming, but by no means an impulse app purchase.

WP-Bloomberg

IPhone Microsoft Office isn’t worth the wait

Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer speaks at a 2012 event in San Francisco.

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COMICS & MORE 13

Hoy en la HistoriaJune 30, 2004

1859: Charles Blondin walked across Niagara Falls on a tightrope, crossing from the American side to the Canadian side, watched by 25,000 people1940: German troops occupied the Channel Island of Guernsey1971: The three crew members of the Soviet spacecraft Soyuz II died on re-entry due to a drop in air pressure1994: The International Earth Rotation Service in Paris advanced atomic clocks by one second

After a seven year journey, the U.S.-European Cassini probe became the first spacecraft ever to go into orbit around the giant gas planet Saturn

Picture: Getty Images © GRAPHIC NEWS

ALL IN THE MIND Can you find the hidden words? They may be horizontal,vertical, diagonal, forwards or backwards.

ABBREVIATED, ABRIDGED, AGES, BRIEF, CEASELESS, COMPRESSED, CONDENSED, CUT BACK, DECREASED, DIMINISHED, ENDLESS, EPHEMERAL, ETERNAL, EXTENDED, FLEETING, INCESSANT, INCREASED, INTERMINABLE, LENGTHY, LESSEN, LITTLE, LONG, MOMENTARY, PERPETUAL, PRECIS, PROLONGED, PROTRACTED, REDUCED, SHORT, TRUNCATED..

Baby Blues by Jerry Scott and Rick Kirkman

Zits by Dennis Young and Denis Lebrun

Hagar The Horrible by Chris Browne

LEARNARABIC

The Destinations/ Directions:

Lef ala al yameen Turn right

Lef, Ala Al yes’sar Turn left

Hel Al Bank baéed, min Huna

Is the bank far from here

Qareeb min huna Near here

Ba eed min huna Far from here

Fanar Be’janib Souq Waqif

Fanar beside Souq Waquif.



HYPER SUDOKU

CROSSWORD

CROSSWORDS

YESTERDAY’S ANSWER

How to play Hyper Sudoku:A Hyper Sudoku

Puzzle is solved

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4 Doorframe part

8 William Tell, for one

14 Mich. rival in the Big Ten

15 “Peek-___!”

16 Historian Will or Ariel

17 Ipanema’s city, for short

18 A.T.M. printout

20 “La Danse” painter Henri

22 Some loaves

23 Golden ___ (senior)

24 ___ Park (F.D.R.’s home)

26 Get well

30 Scroll in the ark

32 Joe Six-Pack’s overhang

35 Persian Gulf state

37 War heroes from Tuskegee, e.g.

38 Actress Thurman

41 Yellow “Sesame Street” character

43 Driver’s license datum

44 Hang on to

46 “___ a vacation!”

48 Portable sources of music

50 Big wheel

54 Do the crawl, say

55 “Now it makes sense!”

57 Marat’s counterpart in a Peter Weiss title

58 Word before rack or mitt

61 Galvanic cell component

63 It appeared before Moses on Mount Horeb

67 Fell for a come-on, say

68 Caught sight of

69 One-half base x height, for a triangle

70 Peach State capital: Abbr.

71 Ones without permanent addresses

72 Lab job

73 Bit of scheduling luck at a tournament

DOWN 1 Adjust the margins of, for

example

2 Hard Italian cheese

3 One reciting others’ lines

4 Verbal zingers

5 Make red-faced

6 Container in an armored car

7 ___ choy (Chinese cabbage)

8 Forever and ___

9 Announce a decision

10 Uninvited partygoer

11 ___ Solo of “Star Wars”

12 Britannica, for one: Abbr.

13 Road map abbr.

19 “Desperate Housewives” role

21 One side in a 1980s war

25 Headgear for Laurel and Hardy

27 O’Neill title trees

28 Sheltered, at sea

29 Wildcat with tufted ears

31 Diplomat Philip

33 “Still mooing,” as burgers go

34 Ex-senator known as “Amtrak Joe”

36 Ex-Yankee Martinez

38 Cities, informally

39 Feline’s “feed me”

40 Yours, in Ypres

42 Lacking confidence

45 Strong-smelling cleaning ingredient

47 Imprecise recipe amount

49 Ped ___

51 Thick-trunked African tree

52 Item fit for “Ripley’s Believe It or Not!”

53 Classic VW

56 Makes more bearable

59 Went head to head

60 Means justifier, for some

62 “Not ___!”

63 Stiller of film

64 G.I. entertainers

65 Letters after 33 or 45

66 Echolocation-using mammal

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30 31 32 33 34

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38 39 40 41 42 43

44 45 46 47

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T H I S M A Y S T I N K A L I T T L EN T S E E N Y D I S S O L V E

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R E E L B I G B A N K T H E O R YP A M D A W B E R O H I O O H G E EA W I N K A N D A P R A Y E R R O D A NG E N A Y A O D E T E C T A L E R TO D D S S I M T O S S E S S E N S E

How to play Kakuro:The kakuro grid, unlike in sudoku, can be of any size. It has rows and columns, and dark cells like in a crossword. And, just like in a crossword, some of the dark cells will contain numbers. Some cells will contain two numbers.However, in a crossword the numbers reference clues. In a kakuro, the numbers are all you get! They denote the total of the digits in the row or column referenced by the number.Within each collection of cells - called a run

- any of the numbers 1 to 9 may be used but, like sudoku, each number may only be used once.

YESTERDAY’S ANSWER

14

EASY SUDOKUCartoon Arts International / The New York Times Syndicate

Easy Sudoku PuzzlesPlace a digit from 1 to 9 in each empty cell so everyrow, every column and every 3x3 box contains allthe digits 1 to 9.

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13:45 Mutant Planet

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15:30 Bondi Vet

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17:25 My Cat From

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20:05 What’s New

Pussycat?

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Adventure

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0600 Table Tennis Ittf

Japan

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1430 Fifa World Cup

U20 – Turkey V

El Salvador

1615 Fifa World Cup

U20 From

Paraguay V Mali

1800 Fifa World Cup

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Egypt

2000 Rio Ferdinand

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2100 Fifa World Cup

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V Iraq

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Ferozkoh: Tradition and Continuity in Afghan Art When: Until July 20Sunday, Monday, Wednesday:10:30am - 5:30pmThursday, Saturday: Noon — 8pmFriday: 2pm — 8pm Where: Museum of Islamic Art What: An exhibition showcasing works created by Afghan artists inspired by masterpieces from the Museum of Islamic Art (MIA) collection Entry fee 25QR (free on Mondays and for children under 16 years)

Qatar National Library Heritage Collection

When: Public tours twice every Sunday and Tuesday at 10am and 11:30am. Where: Qatar National Library What: Qatar National Library’s remarkable Heritage Collection is a rare trove of manuscripts, books, and artefacts documenting a wealth of Arab-Islamic civilisation and human thought. Among its more than 100,000 works, the collection contains an edition of Ptolemy’s Geographia, which was printed in Rome in 1478 and is the oldest printed map showing the name of Qatar or referred to in Latin as ‘Catara’. Free Entry

1st Red Bull Flugtag QatarWhen: November 1, 1pm Where: Museum of Islam Art Park,

What: Red Bull Flugtag, which means “flying day” in German, pushes the envelope of human-powered flight, but competitors need more than airtime to reach the podium.Teams are judged on three criteria: Flight distance, creativity of the craft, and showmanship. These criteria have inspired flying tacos, prehistoric pterodactyls, winnebagos with wings and even Snoopy and the gang to grace the Red Bull Flugtag flight decks! Free entry

Events in Qatar MEDIA SCAN

• People are talking about the decree by

the Emir, H H Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad

Al Thani, on the title of “H H Father

Emir” for Sheikh Hamad bin Khalifa Al

Thani.

• There is discussion about the large

percentage of failed students in the

Independent secondary schools

• There is discussion on social networking

sites about delay in the issuance of the

amended law for human resources.

People expect a new ministry for human

resources to be set up.

• People are demanding that barriers be set

up at roundabouts and on roadsides to

reduce the impact of sandstorms, which

blow sand on to roads.

• Tougher action is being urged against

youngsters who perform driving stunts on

vacant plots of land in residential areas,

disturbing those living nearby.

• Some citizens are suggesting that

the services sector come up with a

mechanism to train its staff in dealing

with customers, in order to avoid any

misunderstanding between customers

and officials and save their time.

• People are still discussing on social

networking sites the speech of the Emir

and its focus on citizens.

• Residents of Old Airport area are

complaining about delay in the

implementation of a road project, as the

excavation works are creating problems

for them. Companies implementing

the project mobilised large numbers

of labourers in the beginning, but have

reduced their numbers gradually, they

say.

• There is talk about small grocery shops

that stock up on commodities supplied

at discounted rates during Ramadan to

sell them at higher prices after the holy

month.

A summary ofissues of the daydiscussed by the Qatari communityin the media.

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by Wasielah Dollie

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Sri Lankan dies ofheart attack after shocking electric bill

A Sri Lankan man suffered a fatal heart attack after being

presented with a shocking elec-tricity bill, a media report said yesterday.

The 61-year-old victim had pro-tested at the Ceylon Electricity Board in Colombo on Friday that his bill had suddenly spiked, the Ceylon Today newspaper said.

It said the man was told that the bill was due to a hefty tariff increase from last month and suf-fered a heart attack on the news, collapsing at the electricity board headquarters.

The newspaper did not give the victim’s bill amount, but said it was in line with the new 50 percent tar-iff increase. The man identified as S P Samaradasa collapsed on a chair, the newspaper said in a front-page report headlined: “Electricity tariff claims first victim.”

“The cause of death was identi-fied as a heart attack,” the paper added. He was dead on arrival at hospital.

Sri Lanka is one of the most expensive countries in Asia for electricity with a kilowatt hour costing up to 47 rupees ($0.37).

AFP

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