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Bridal dilemmaBridal dilemma
Dieting is exactly what brides shouldn’t do if they want to be happy, healthy, calm and confident on their wedding day.
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Looking like a twig not a healthy option for nuptials
lower math scores than those wearing the sweater, presumably because they were too busy thinking about their thighs to contemplate trigonometry.
Thankfully, obsessing about weight or appea-rance doesn’t dull our minds permanently, but it does leave us less able to perform at our mental best. Choosing a DJ and caterer who fit your budget and drawing up a seating chart are difficult enough on a full stomach, let alone a deprived one.
In a similar vein, activities that require will-power are further brain-draining. Take, for exam-ple, an experiment in which one group of college undergraduates was given a two-digit number to remember, and a second group was given a seven-digit number. The students were told to walk down a hall, where they were presented with two snack options: a slice of chocolate cake or a bowl of fruit salad.
BY KJERSTIN GRUYS
After a bride-to-be says yes to the dress, she often starts saying no — to carbs, desserts and other high-calorie foods. When I was planning my 2011 wedding, I felt the pres-
sure to do all I could to look my most beautiful on my wedding day. In our culture, beautiful usually means thin. Indeed, a glance at the top three national bridal magazines published this month found an abundance of weight-loss advice, including “clever ways to shed those last few pounds”, tips for choosing a low-sugar juice cleanse and lists of “bloating” foods to avoid.
But dieting is exactly what brides shouldn’t do if they want to be happy, healthy, calm and confi-dent on their wedding day. Sure, there are plenty of great reasons to be more mindful about your diet and exercise habits, but looking like a twig for your nuptials isn’t one of them. In addition to not wor-king 95 percent of the time, dieting makes us poor decision-makers, depletes our willpower, darkens our mood and can be toxic for our intimate relationships.
Let’s start with the most obvious issue: Diets don’t work in the long run. Numerous studies show that those who diet are more likely to gain weight in the future than they are to lose weight and keep it off. In terms of weight loss or maintenance, we’re generally better off if we never diet in the first place.
Of course, weight gain or loss isn’t the only thing at stake when dieting. Focusing obsessively on our looks makes us dumber. Psychologists have found that the human brain can do only so much at one time, and thinking self-consciously about our looks steals brainpower from other tasks.
In my favourite study on this topic, 72 men and women were required to try on a bathing suit or a V-neck sweater in a dressing room with a full-length mirror. They were then asked to take a math test. Women wearing the bathing suit had significantly
Diets don’t work in the long run. Numerous studies show that those who diet are more likely to gain weight in the future than they are to lose weight and keep it off. In terms of weight loss or main-tenance, we’re generally bet-ter off if we never diet in the first place.
The students with seven digits to remember were nearly twice as likely to choose the cake as those who were given two digits. Willpower is finite; all it takes is a few extra bits of information before the brain starts to give in to temptation.
Now imagine the effects of denying oneself those few bites of dessert every day for months on end. I’m convinced that being “hangry” (hungry + angry) is often the first step to becoming a bridezilla.
And let’s not forget about a bride’s most impor-tant relationship — with her spouse-to-be. Dieting and having a poor body image can do serious damage to romantic relationships.
For example, a 2010 study by University of Tennessee psychologists found that a woman’s body image accounts for 19 percent of her marital satisfaction and 6 percent of her husband’s marital satisfaction. This should not be surprising; when we feel bad about ourselves, that negativity spills into our relationships. So it makes sense that women with a healthy body image enjoy more frequent and more satisfying sex than do women who are unhappy with their bodies.
But what’s worse is how we ignore our partners’ pleas to stop dieting before the big day. Having someone love you as you are ought to dissuade you from the self-imposed misery of dieting, but many women dismiss their partners’ feelings. “Your opi-nion on this doesn’t matter,” we insist, as we forge ahead with our vanity agendas.
Within a month of becoming engaged, I was lured into weight-loss fantasies. Despite being a reco-vered anorexic, I told myself that being a bride-to-be gave me permission to diet, so I spent a few weeks counting carbs and calories. I even bought a wedding dress that was too small, assuming I’d find a way to fit into it. During these weeks I had a short temper and picked more than a few fights with my fiance. At one point, Michael had had enough, declaring, “This isn’t you, or at least this isn’t the side of you I want to marry!” He was right. I was risking my health — and the health of our relationship — for my vanity.
To keep myself from obsessing about my weight, I ended up avoiding mirrors for a year before my wedding. I put fabric over the mirrors in my
apartment, cut back on makeup, and I even resisted the urge to sneak a peek at myself in storefront windows. It was enormously challenging, but it forced me to shift my focus away from my appea-rance and toward more important things such as my relationships, my research and my writing.
I did weigh myself during the experiment. Stepping on the scale was a way I could remind myself that even if I was feeling “fat,” my body was taking care of itself just fine.
Regardless of whether a bride diets before her big day, she will surely care a lot about how she looks. After all, it’s hard to escape the fact that you’re about to be in the spotlight. For this special occasion, paying extra attention to your appea-rance is normal and can be fun and indulgent.
But for your sanity and that of your future spouse: Indulge in a little cake here and there. That “I’m-marrying-the-love-of-my-life” glow is the most important part of looking your best — and you won’t get it by counting calories.
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In addition to not working 95 percent of the time, dieting makes us poor decision-makers, depletes our will-power, darkens our mood and can be toxic for our intimate relationships.
PLUS | TUESDAY 16 JULY 20134 COMMUNITY / CAMPUS
Qapco welcomes QITS students to summer internship programme
Gulf Incon team wins ICBF Ramadan cricket tournament
ICBF Ramadan Cricket Festival 2013 tournament recently con-cluded at Old Ideal Indian School
grounds. Gulf Incon team won the match, with Hanan team as runners-up in the finals.
Indian Ambassador and Chief Guest Sanjiv Arora presented award to the winning team and Deputy Chief of Mission Sasi Kumar presented award to the runners-up.
Nilangshu Dey, Chairman of the ICBF Advisory Committee, K M Varghese, Chairman of the ICC Advisory Committee, Hassan Chougle, past president and Chairman of the Advisory Committees of ICBF, ICC, IBPN and prominent businessman and
past vice-president of ICBF, Ganesh Srinivasan and past and present ICBF executive committee members were also present. The ceremony was called to order by Sarma Anupindi and the welcome address was given by the President of ICBF Kareem Abdulla. Chief Coordinator Habib Un Nabi pro-vided details of the tournament.
Arora inspired the players by high-lighting personal experiences in the game, and praised the organisers and the audience for their commitment and dedication. A lucky draw was held and five members from the audience received prizes. The Vice President of ICBF, Baby Kurian, proposed the vote of thanks. The Peninsula
Officials and students.
Qatar Petrochemical Company (Qapco) recently welcomed a group of young stu-dents from Qatar Independent Technical
School (QITS) to participate in its Summer Internship program.
As part of its corporate social responsibility, Qapco has built strong partnerships with the edu-cational sector over the last few years and prides itself on being committed to supporting the youth of Qatar.
Nasser Abdulla Al Mohammedi, A/Human Resource & Learning Manager, described the pro-gramme as “a wonderful opportunity for students to learn more about the world of work and in par-ticular Qatar’s Oil & Gas Industry”.
He said: “An internship offers the chance to gain real work experience that you just can’t get in the classroom. Plus it will enhance networking skills as these programmes are a great way of meet-ing new people that could eventually become your work colleagues. I am very happy that as part of our MoU with QITS we are able to accept these young students and I hope that they will return to Qapco in the future to join our excellent scholar-ship programme.”
Abdulla Shams, Principal of QITS, thanked Al Mohammedi for inviting his students to visit Qapco and stated: “I believe that Internship programmes are a vital component in a student’s development as they provide a transition into the workplace and enable the boys to obtain more information about
the oil and gas industry. “It also gives them an opportunity to apply the
knowledge and theory they have learnt in the class-room and I am sure that this programme will give
them more confidence to complete their studies with us and join the industry in the next few years,” he added.
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The winners with Indian Ambassador Sanjiv Arora and ICBF officials.
5COMMUNITY / MARKETPLACE
During Ramadan, InterContinental Doha has put together a series of events and activities that suits the authenticity and traditions of
the holy month.At Coral restaurant, guests can break the fast with
a wide variety of Arabic, Oriental and international delights, live cooking stations and a large selection of Arabian hot and cold mezzeh and traditional bever-ages. Iftar buffet starts from sunset at QR195.
Charming guests even more, InterContinental Doha this year introduced “Shahrazad”, the origi-nal tent of Doha, to enjoy a special sohoor with live traditional entertainment and flavourful shishas.
Sohoor starts at 9pm at QR215. Special rates for group iftar and sohoor start from QR150.
“We are very proud to welcome you to Shahrazad Ramadan Tent, our special venue for sohoor. Shahrazad provides residents and visitors to Doha with the opportunity to experience the finest hos-pitality and best traditions of Arabia.
“With its contemporary Arabesque setting and a wide array of Arabian and international cui-sine, Shahrazad is the ideal place to relax and entertain with family, friends and colleagues,” said Cyril Mouawad, Director of Sales & Marketing, InterContinental Doha.
As soon as Haj Majid Elewa, 62, from Al Tuffah District, Gaza, was in the examina-tion room, his heart beats started increas-
ing, his forehead started sweating, and he started experiencing complications from his poor heart condition.
After examination, Dr Marwan Al Sadiq, heart surgeon and consultant at the Department of Heart Diseases at Al Shifa Hospital and Adviser to Qatar Red Crescent in Gaza, confirmed the urgent need of doing an open heart surgery on him due to his deteriorating health.
Elewa described his condition saying: “Since 1998, I had been unable to exercise my life nor-mally, and after doing the catheterisation in Egypt in 2004, I did not notice improvement in my health condition, which reflected negatively on my career as a construction worker, despite the fact that my four children rely mainly on my work to support them!”
Being with him while suffering from these severe complications, and struggling made his wife burst into tears.
She described how she was full of anxiety and fear during the days her husband came late from work, especially after suffering setbacks in his health in 2011 which made his youngest son — a student of medicine in Sudan — leave his educa-tion and return and help his father who couldn’t work anymore.
In addition, the elder brother worked on a job to transfer boxes at a confectionery factory in Gaza Strip to support his family.
Elewa started to feel at ease when he was prom-ised by Dr Al Sadiq that he will be in good care. He did pre-operation tests and then conducted the operation. It lasted five to six hours and Elewa woke up, surrounded by nurses and doctors who monitored and followed up on his operation and operations conducted on others.
Dr Al Sadiq has been conducting such operations over the past three years. He has conducted more than 1,000 open-heart surgeries in the Strip, with a success rate exceeding 98 percent.
However, as foreign remittances were in steady decline and to help heart patients in low- and
Qatar District Cooling Company, also known as Qatar Cool, the district cooling leader in the
country, has recently hosted a student work experience programme and an internship programme. Both see stu-dents assigned to different depart-ments of the company, including the Operations & Services Department, with the objective of teaching the next generation about the environmental benefits of district cooling and helping prepare them for their future careers.
Holding this internship programme for the third consecutive year, Qatar
Cool is delighted with the level of stu-dent interaction and interest in the company’s innovative technology. In addition to hosting students within the company for one week to one month, Qatar Cool also invites local schools to tour its Integrated District Cooling Plant at Pearl-Qatar which is the larg-est district cooling plant in the world.
On the initiative, the recruitment manager at Qatar Cool said: “District cooling is recognised as the most effi-cient, cost effective and environmen-tally friendly solution to satisfy Qatar’s growing cooling demands and we are
delighted to have the opportunity to give the country’s youth a more in-depth understanding of how it works, and the benefits it offers. Each year we are impressed with the drive and curi-osity to learn students demonstrate. These are qualities we value most at Qatar Cool.”
Throughout the programme, stu-dents were exposed to many areas of the district cooling industry and became better informed about district cooling systems and the benefits they provide to the environment such as lowering carbon footprints reducing
energy consumption. Fatima Mohammad Al Kuwari,
Qatar University student, spoke about her experience. “Sustainable develop-ment and environmental protection is something I am particularly interested to learn more and this also reflects Qatar’s increasing focus to support the country’s continued growth. District cooling is an important element of this and it’s been wonderful to have a behind-the-scenes perspective of the energy efficient utility and cutting edge technology that Qatar Cool provides.”
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Qatar Cool fosters youth’s sustainable development
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Qatar Red Crescent heart project saving many a life in Gaza
middle-income brackets, such high-calibre physi-cians joined QRC heart surgery project in the Strip.
Dr Al Sadiq said: “Conducting open-heart surger-ies on local patients contributed largely to lessening the burden on the Ministry of Health, especially when it comes to dwindling foreign remittances.
“The continuity of this type of advanced project means access to self-sufficiency in the heart health sector in Gaza and providing a productive solution to the problem of heart surgery referrals.”
The Peninsula
The medical team.
Treats await visitors at InterContinental Doha Ramadan Tent
The Ramadan Tent is sponsored by FORD, JYM Group, Chip International, XS Energy Drink and Kobeco Concept.
The hotel has also tailored a special package that includes accommodation in a luxurious room, delight-ful iftar buffet at Coral or splendid sohoor buffet at Shahrazad, complimentary WIFI Internet and many
other facilities starting at QR799.And to celebrate Eid El Fitr, InterContinental
Doha has put together an array of events in its out-lets and a variety of room packages which will for sure delight tourists and residents.
For details or to make a reservation, call 4484 4919 or email [email protected] The Peninsula
The Shahrazad Ramadan Tent.
PLUS | TUESDAY 16 JULY 2013 ENVIRONMENT66
BY ADRIAN HIGGINS
BIZARRE, lurid and sim-ply huge, the world’s largest flower stands poised to do its Elvis act at the US Botanic Garden.
As early as today or later in the week, its pleated crimson cape will peel back to reveal a central stalk with a secret weapon for drawing pol-linators. The King may have had his gyrations, but the titan arum emits a stench designed to lure carrion insects from miles around. In this case, the stink is expected to entice thousands of humans, as word spreads that this rare event is unfolding in the garden’s ornate conservatory at the foot of the US Capitol.
The garden is extending its hours until 8 p.m. so that more folks can get a view of this strange floral beast and perhaps get a whiff of its sickening scent, which doesn’t appear until after it has opened and reaches its worst the first night after flowering.
“Like a very dead elephant,” said Elliott Norman, the gardener who has been growing it since 2005, when it was the size of a pea. Its tuber alone may weigh as much as 90 pounds.
In the warm, muggy environment of the conservatory’s lush Garden Court, the flower is growing by the hour. Its height on Saturday was 5 feet 2 inches, but it had grown another five inches by midday Sunday. It was noticeably plumper too, but as a steady stream of admirers came by hoping to see and smell it in its full glory, the titan arum made it plain that it will do its thing when it is ready. It had suddenly become Washington’s version of the Royal Baby Watch.
“I was hoping to smell it,” said Nicole Dinion, 25, a member of the national rowing team who is based in Oklahoma City. She had cycled nine miles from Falls Church, Virginia, with her mom and step-dad to see the bloom. “I might come back tomorrow.”
Paige Gance, 22, a summer intern in Washington and a recent gradu-ate of Washington and Lee University, said she was “kinda bummed that it isn’t in bloom yet, but it’s pretty neat.” She arrived with her friend Zander Tallman, a rising senior at the same university.
“I don’t think I’ll ever get another chance to see one of these things,” she said. “Though I’m a bit nervous about how bad it smells.”
For botanical gardens, the arum’s appearance is a boon, as well as a money-spinner for those that charge admission (the US Botanic Garden, at 100 Maryland Ave. SW, is part of the Capitol complex and is free to visit). Although the arum is not as rare in the West as it once was — this is the fourth display of an arum in Washington in the past 11 years (two grown by the Smithsonian) — its appearance still has the capacity to draw crowds and media attention. “It’s the Botanic Garden’s panda,” said Norman. He was speak-ing Friday, the day after the giant was transported very carefully from the
institution’s production greenhouses in Southeast Washington. Still furled but big and weird, the arum drew smiles and some eye-bulging glances from a gathering crowd. “Are you the grower?” a middle-aged woman asked Norman as she took a picture. “Congratulations.”
While pandas appear cuddly, the titan arum has a more pernicious and suggestive quality about it. (Its botanic name is Amorphophallus). It comes from the sultry, steamy jungles of Sumatra, and once it opens, it begins to pulsate with heat, so that its rotten smell convects up and away to distant dung and carrion beetles.
It is sometimes called the “corpse flower,” and while a species of palm tree has a complex, candelabra-like inflorescence that extends much far-ther than that of the Sumatran giant, the titan arum ranks as the biggest
unbranched bloom on the planet.The actual size varies by individual
and the age of its tuber or corm. The current blooming is the first flowering of this plant, but Norman, 66, is pleased with its size. His first arum, in 2003, was much smaller, but he has become more skilled at growing them. “I used to feed it dead mice two or three times a month,” he said. “Dead rodents — nothing like ‘em.”
He has since employed the organic gardener’s standard blood, bone and feather meal, as well as a supplement for plants that grow in volcanic soils, as the arum — now in its eruption — does so fittingly.
Adding to its strangeness is that its growth cycle is entirely unpredictable. It will send up a tall stalk with leaves that may last for 18 months and then die away. In the wild, it may bloom every three years; in greenhouse cultivation, the flower may appear every seven to 10 years. The gardener doesn’t know if the corm is producing a leaf stalk or a prized flower until the stem is well developed. Norman first noticed growth in April but couldn’t positively confirm it to be a flower until Monday of last week.
Seeds and transplants are available
from specialty nurseries, but the arum’s size, difficulty of cultivation and need for hot, humid growing conditions mean that typically it is only grown by botanical institutions.
Ari Novy, the garden’s public pro-grams manager, summed up its appeal: “Exotic, superlative, totally unpredict-able and difficult to master technically. And with the stinky smell it grabs the public’s imagination,” he said.
“Many plants are lurid,” said plant curator. “This is lurid off the charts.”
They advised fans to follow the Botanic Garden’s website, www.usbg.gov, to check the arum’s status through live-streaming video and time-lapse photos.
After it blooms, the flower will wilt — offering more opportunity for puerile humour — and the plant will return to the production facility, where it will join another titan arum, which has yet to bloom, and 10 seedlings that Norman is raising for future display.
“We are kind of glad it’s not so easy to grow this,” said Norman. “It’s not something you can put on your patio in the summer and bring it into the garage in winter, like a banana tree.”
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As a flower prepares to bloom, US Botanic Garden prepares to smell like death
Jim Kaufmann, in blue shirt, horticulturist at the US Botanic Gardens in Washington, talks to visitors in front of the titan arum. The plant, also known as the corpse flower, emits a horrendous stench similar to decaying meat when it blooms.
The world’s largest flower stands poised to do its Elvis act at the US Botanic Garden.
HEALTH 7PLUS | TUESDAY 16 JULY 2013
BY MARI-JANE WILLIAMS
ALLY Carr was learning how to slide into home plate this spring when she tore the meniscus in her knee. She had to have surgery to repair the tear and missed much of the season. The 16-year-
old softball catcher at Maret School in Washington hopes to be fully recovered in time to play volleyball in the fall.
More than 38 million children and teens play sports in the United States each year, according to Safe Kids Worldwide, and it’s taking a toll. About one in three kids playing team sports is injured seriously enough to miss practice or a game. Those who, like Ally, play multiple sports that put pressure on the same body part are at an increased risk for injury.
Ally’s mother, Kate Carr, is president and chief executive of Safe Kids. She says Ally is trying to condition her knees to better withstand the pressure that volleyball and softball put on them.
Her organisation, which works to prevent child-hood injuries, is trying to raise awareness of youth sports injuries and teach children, parents and coaches how to prevent them or minimize their effects.
“We [need to] begin to help our children under-stand that if you want to have a lifetime of being active, you have to protect your body while you’re young,” Carr said. “If you don’t, it will either limit your ability to play this sport that you love or it will cause a lifetime of damage.”
Here’s what experts say about some common sports risks for children and how to recognise, pre-vent and treat them.
CONCUSSIONS
Causes: A direct blow to the head or a hit to the body that causes the head to jerk back quickly can result in a concussion. Gerard Gioia, chief of neuropsychology and head of the Safe Concussion Outcome and Recovery Education Program at Children’s National Medical Centr in Washington, said it’s like an injury to the software system of the brain.
Signs and symptoms: Loss of consciousness hap-pens in fewer than 10 percent of concussions, Gioia said. If a child appears confused, stunned or unsure about what she is supposed to be doing, she might have a concussion, Gioia said. Symptoms also include headaches, a feeling of pressure in the head, dizzi-ness, blurred vision or feeling like your head is fuzzy or foggy.
“When they raise those questions or symptoms, then we invoke the rule ‘When in doubt, sit them out’,” Gioia said. “Remove the youngster from play-ing, let the parent know, and seek medical attention immediately.” Gioia and his colleagues have developed a smartphone app called Concussion Recognition and Response to help coaches and parents evaluate athletes after a blow to the head.
Treatment: If the child’s headache is getting worse or she is not responding to questions, has trouble recognising people, is slurring her speech or loses consciousness, go to the emergency room imme-diately, Gioia said. If the child is coherent but not feeling right and having some symptoms, call your pediatrician.
There is no set treatment for concussions that will fit all children, Gioia said, but parents and coaches should manage the child’s activity level to give the brain time to heal itself. After a concussion, a child needs rest from physical and mental activities, and
Kids and sports: Playing it safe
a gradual return to normal, as long as it doesn’t aggravate her symptoms. If something does make symptoms worse, stop that activity.
Prevention: Gioia said parents should advocate with their coaches and youth sports organizations to follow the safest procedures possible. Many youth sports have altered their policies to increase safety, Gioia said. Football players are taught to tackle with their shoulders instead of leading with their heads, for example. Teach your child that it is not a matter of winning at all costs and that safety should be the top priority.
HEAT ILLNESS
Causes: Extreme temperatures, particularly when combined with high humidity or intense sunlight, can interfere with the body’s normal ways of regulating temperature, said pediatrician Stephen Rice, who co-authored the American Academy of Pediatrics’ 2011 statement on heat sickness in children. Heat illnesses, including heat cramps, heat exhaustion and heatstroke, occur mostly outside and during the sum-mer but can happen anytime or anywhere, Rice said.
Signs and symptoms: Children who are getting overheated might look flushed or feel lightheaded. Heat illness can also cause dry mouth, fatigue, a decrease in performance level or attention span and
excessive sweatiness, Rice said. When humidity is high, sweat can’t evaporate. That prevents the body from cooling. Sweating is “really the best method of cooling we have,” Rice said. “If you grab a towel and keep wiping yourself off, you’ve lost a chance to cool off. It’s not the production of sweat but evaporation of sweat that cools you.”
Treatment: Get the child to the shade as soon as possible, Rice said. Coaches should be prepared to cool someone down rapidly if necessary, including having cold, wet towels and washcloths and ice packs to apply to the child’s neck, armpits and groin. Start the cooling process immediately, Rice said. Don’t wait for medical help to arrive.
Prevention: Drink plenty of water before and stay hydrated during physical activity. The AAP recom-mends that children ages 9 to 12 drink three to eight ounces of water every 20 minutes. Adolescents should drink 34 to 50 ounces of water an hour while they are exercising in the heat. Encourage children to drink water before and after practices or games. Other ways to prevent heat illness include gradu-ally building up workouts so the child can get used to exercising in warm weather. Adjust the practice schedule, activities and expectations to match the weather conditions, Rice said, and allow at least two hours of rest between practice sessions.
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p m
y
min
d t
o s
et
asi
de jazz
and w
ait
unti
l I
becam
e a
true p
rofe
ssio
nal ja
zz s
inger,”
she s
aid
.Ju
ju m
ade h
er debut
in Japan
in
2004,
about
10 years aft
er she first
went
to t
he U
nit
ed S
tate
s. A
t th
e t
ime,
she w
as
accla
imed a
s bein
g f
am
ilia
r
wit
h any m
usic
gen
re,
an
d gain
ed
popula
rit
y a
s a p
erso
n w
ith “
voic
es
in
seven c
olo
urs,
” a m
eta
phor m
eanin
g a
w
ide v
ocal range.
Aroun
d t
his
tim
e,
she r
eceiv
ed a
n
off
er t
o w
ork
for a
join
t proje
ct
wit
h
Sn
oopy,
a popula
r ch
aracte
r in
th
e
US
com
ic s
trip
Pea
nu
ts.
Juju
quic
kly
rela
ted S
noopy to
ja
zz.
As sh
e h
ad
heard t
he jazz
y s
ound t
racks
of
Pea
nu
ts
an
imati
on
fi
lms sin
ce sh
e w
as very
young, sh
e t
hought
of
no o
ther m
usi
c.
But
sh
e fe
lt it
w
as to
o early
to
rele
ase
a j
azz
alb
um
. “I
was
nervous
when r
ele
asi
ng t
he a
lbum
,” J
uju
said
. “B
ut
makin
g t
he a
lbum
was
lots
of fu
n.
I recognis
ed h
ow
much I
lik
ed jazz
for
the fi
rst
tim
e in m
ore t
han 1
0 y
ears.
”S
he a
lso t
hought
it w
as
too s
oon t
o
rele
ase
the s
econd jazz
alb
um
.
In late
January,
just
befo
re s
he h
ad a
to
ur t
hat
would
last
alm
ost
six
month
s,
Ju
ju w
as asked to
sin
g T
ak
e F
ive,
a
popula
r jazz
num
ber,
for a
TV
dram
a.
She w
as
als
o a
sked t
o a
ppear i
n t
he
dram
a.
Alt
hough n
ot
too h
appy w
ith
the c
ondit
ions,
Juju
accepte
d b
ecause
of
her u
nyie
ldin
g love o
f ja
zz.
“For t
he fi
rst
tim
e I
serio
usl
y e
xam
-in
ed th
e ly
ric
s fo
r all
possib
ilit
ies
rela
ted t
o fi
ve m
inute
s [r
efe
rred t
o i
n
the s
ong].
It
was
a m
ovin
g e
xperie
nce,”
she s
aid
. “I
was
off
ered a
song t
hat
eve-
rybody k
now
s an
d c
ould
n’t
mis
s th
e
opportu
nit
y.”
Sin
ce s
he w
as
young, Ju
ju s
aid
jazz
has
had a
healing e
ffect
whenever s
he
felt
trouble
d. “O
nce I
realise
d I
could
in
terpret
any s
ong a
nyw
ay I
lik
ed, life
becam
e m
uch e
asi
er,”
she s
aid
. “J
azz
als
o h
as a dis
harm
on
ic beauty
, you
kn
ow
. G
ood o
rder i
n c
haos.
Jazz
has
taught
me t
hat
I can
see s
om
eth
ing
nic
e e
ven t
hough I
’m a
mess
.”Ja
zz is
oft
en s
hunned b
y p
eople
who
fin
d it
dif
ficult
to
un
dersta
nd.
But
Juju
hopes
young p
eople
, parti
cula
rly
w
om
en, w
ill list
en t
o h
er n
ew
alb
um
to
popula
riz
e t
he g
enre’s
appeal.
“Of cours
e, I
want
jazz
enth
usi
ast
s to
hear it,”
she s
aid
. “T
rust
me, th
ey w
on’t
com
pla
in t
hat
it’s
just
a J
-pop e
xte
n-
sion. T
here, I’ve c
om
e o
ut
and s
aid
it.”
Ju
ju’s
n
ew
alb
um
in
clu
des m
any
popula
r n
um
bers
, su
ch a
s S
um
mert
ime,
Wh
en
You
Wis
h U
pon
a S
tar
an
d I
n a
Sen
tim
en
tal
Mood.
“Som
e p
eople
say j
azz
is
dif
ficult
to
underst
and.
I’m
not
happy a
bout
the
situ
ati
on,” J
uju
said
. “I
chose
easy
num
-bers
because
I w
ant
to s
ing s
ongs
that
people
are f
am
ilia
r w
ith, but
usi
ng m
y
ow
n i
nte
rpreta
tion. I
hope t
hat
when
they h
ear m
y s
on
gs,
people
will
feel
clo
ser t
o jazz
.”S
he san
g
Giv
e H
im t
he O
oh
-la
-la
wit
h a
lig
ht,
cute
voic
e.
“I s
an
g t
his
to
hig
hlight
its
precocio
us
lyric
s. A
s I’m
rath
er c
ynic
al, I
trie
d t
o s
ing it
in
such a
way t
hat
people
won’t
thin
k I
’m
a d
elinquent.”
Juju
als
o g
ave a
pow
erfu
l rendit
ion
of
Harry C
onnic
k J
r.’s
We A
re I
n L
ove
w
ith a
n a
ttracti
ve lilt
to it.
“My p
roducer a
lways
lets
me s
ing
a m
an’s
song f
or m
y a
lbum
,” s
he s
aid
. “I
told
him
: ‘I
t’s
a s
on
g a
bout
a m
an
proposin
g
marria
ge
to
a
wom
an
. W
hen I
sin
g i
t, s
hall I
put
on a
fals
e
must
ache?’
”M
ore
T
ha
n Y
ou
K
no
w h
as been
su
ng b
y m
an
y f
am
ou
s s
ingers,
bu
t Ju
ju s
aid
sh
e l
ikes t
he v
ersio
n s
un
g
by M
ich
ell
e P
feif
fer i
n t
he f
ilm
Th
e
Fa
bu
lou
s B
ak
er B
oys.
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-BLO
OM
BE
RG
HO
LLY
WO
OD
NE
WS
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ger
Juj
u’s
new
alb
um is
aim
ed a
t ja
zzin
g p
eopl
e up
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Y 1
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ULY
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ligen
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ands
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tro
uble
SIN
GE
R R
ihanna h
as
landed h
erse
lf i
n a
le
gal
soup a
fter s
he m
isse
d m
any c
ourt
hearin
gs
aft
er s
uin
g h
er form
er m
anagers
. R
ihanna e
arl
ier s
ued t
he c
om
pany,
Berdon L
LP,
for n
ot
takin
g c
are o
f th
e a
ccounts
and s
aid
that
they o
wed h
er m
illions,
but
the fi
rm
fired b
ack
by s
ayin
g t
hat
the m
ism
an
agem
en
t happen
ed
because
of
the s
inger’s
carele
ss a
ttit
ude.
Berdon L
LP
has
been t
ryin
g t
o g
et
the s
inger
to s
it for t
he d
eposi
tion for n
ine m
onth
s, b
ut
she
has
skip
ped m
any h
earin
gs,
reports
tm
z.com
. T
he 2
5-y
ear-o
ld d
id n
ot
att
end a
ny o
f th
e h
earin
gs
- in
Novem
ber 2
012
, on
account
of
a d
ate
exte
nsi
on; on J
anuary 2
9, 2013
, sh
e a
void
ed t
he h
earin
g;
on M
ay 8
and M
ay 9
, 2013
, sh
e c
ited a
concert
as
a r
easo
n for s
kip
pin
g t
he
hearin
g e
ven t
hough s
he k
new
the c
oncert
date
s lo
ng b
efo
re; and o
n J
une
19, 2013
, sh
e s
aid
she w
as
sick.
Now
the a
ccuse
d fi
rm
is
angry a
t R
ihanna’s
late
st e
xcuse
as
they a
ccom
-m
odate
d h
er s
chedule
and s
et
up t
he d
eposi
tion in L
ondon. T
he c
om
pany
cla
ims
that
she h
ad p
erfo
rm
ed s
hortl
y b
efo
re a
nd a
fter J
une 1
9 a
nd w
as
even a
cti
ve o
n m
icro-b
loggin
g s
ite T
wit
ter t
he d
ay b
efo
re, w
ith n
o s
igns
of illn
ess
. T
he a
ccounta
nts
are a
skin
g a
judge t
o d
ism
iss
Rih
anna’s
mult
i-m
illion d
ollar s
uit
outr
ight
and w
ants
her fi
ned a
t le
ast
$10
0,0
00 f
or t
heir
w
ast
ed t
ime a
nd r
eso
urces.
Ric
har
d G
ere,
the
tough g
uy
AC
TO
R R
ichard G
ere s
ays
he b
ehaves
like
a t
ough g
uy w
henever h
e is
on t
he m
ovie
se
ts a
nd e
verybody h
as
to l
iste
n t
o h
im.
The 6
3-y
ear-o
ld, w
ho h
as
giv
en h
its
like “
Prett
y
Wom
an”,
“H
achi: A
Dog’s
Tale
” and “A
rbit
rage”,
on
ly l
ets
his
wif
e C
arey L
ow
ell d
om
inate
him
w
hen
they a
re a
t hom
e.
“I’m
kin
d o
f a t
ough
guy a
t w
ork
and I
guess
because
I’m
a b
ig s
hot
on s
et,
everyone h
as
to lis
ten t
o m
e,” T
ota
l F
ilm
m
agazi
ne q
uote
d G
ere a
s sa
yin
g. “B
ut
I live w
ith
a v
ery s
trong w
om
an!
Believe m
e,
she d
oesn
’t
say ‘yes’
very o
ften. I’m
the o
ne t
hat
says
‘yes’
. I
say,
‘Y
es,
dear.’ I
don’t
even a
rgue,” h
e a
dded.
Roo
ney
Mar
a pre
fers
nat
ura
l lo
ok
AC
TR
ES
S R
ooney M
ara s
ays
she b
elieves
in n
atu
ral beauty
and d
oesn
’t w
ear m
uch
makeup in
everyday li
fe.
Th
e “S
ide
Eff
ects
” actr
ess
als
o a
dm
its
that
she i
s “h
or-
rib
le”
at
apply
ing c
osm
eti
cs
herse
lf.
“For m
e,
natu
ral
beauty
is
som
eth
ing I
’ve a
lways
been
draw
n t
o.
I st
ill
don
’t r
eally w
ear m
akeup i
n
my e
veryday l
ife a
nd I
would
be h
orrib
le a
t even t
ryin
g t
o d
o it
to m
yse
lf,” fem
ale
first
.co.u
k
quote
d M
ara a
s sa
yin
g.
The 2
8-y
ear-o
ld j
ust
use
s su
nsc
reen loti
on a
nd k
eeps
a c
heck o
n h
er
die
t. “T
his
is
goin
g t
o s
ound s
o s
imple
, but
sun-
screen...
I a
lways
wear s
unsc
reen. I
als
o fi
nd t
hat
what
you e
at
is t
he b
est
beauty
secret
- it
sort
of
starts
from
the insi
de o
ut,”
she s
aid
.M
ara, fa
ce o
f fa
shio
n h
ouse
Calv
in K
lein
’s n
ew
perfu
me D
ow
nto
wn, sa
id
their
desi
gns
reflect
her o
wn s
implist
ic s
tyle
. “T
he C
alv
in K
lein
collecti
on
is r
eally q
uit
e s
imilar t
o h
ow
I d
ress
in m
y p
erso
nal life
. It
’s v
ery m
inim
al
and c
lean a
nd c
om
forta
ble
, but
very m
odern a
t th
e s
am
e t
ime,” s
he s
aid
.
Bhaa
g..
. succ
ess
defi
nin
g m
omen
t: M
ehra
DIR
EC
TO
R R
akeysh
Om
prakash
M
eh
ra beli
eves th
at
the w
arm
recepti
on t
o h
is late
st fi
lm B
ha
ag
Mil
kh
a B
ha
ag is
a s
ign o
f evolv
ing
tast
es
of
the a
udie
nces,
whic
h c
an h
elp
sto
-ryte
llers
and fi
lmm
akers
like h
im t
o “
break
the g
lass
ceilin
g”.
Bh
aa
g M
ilk
ha
Bh
aa
g,
whic
h r
ele
ase
d o
n
July
12, is
a b
iopic
on form
er a
thle
te M
ilkha
Sin
gh. F
arhan A
khta
r s
lips
into
the F
lyin
g
Sik
h’s
shoes
to d
eliver a
pow
er-p
acked p
er-
form
ance.
“It’s
a g
reat
sign t
hat
the a
udi-
ence’s
tast
e i
s changin
g a
nd i
t is
evolv
ing.
It’s
the c
ountr
y w
hic
h is
changin
g a
nd t
hat
is r
eflecti
ng i
n o
ur m
ovie
s to
day,
” M
ehra
said
here a
t a p
ress
confe
rence h
eld
for t
he
success
of
the fi
lm.
“It’s
a h
appy s
ign, it
giv
es
us
more lati
tude n
ow
to b
reak t
he g
lass
ceilin
g.
This
could
be a
definin
g m
om
ent
for a
ll o
f us,
as
storyte
llers,
film
makers,
te
chnic
ians
and a
cto
rs,
” he a
dded.
How
ever,
Mehra, w
ho h
as
earlier h
elm
ed m
ovie
s like R
an
g D
e B
asa
nti
and D
elh
i-6, sa
ys
it i
s im
porta
nt
to r
each t
he m
ass
es
wit
hout
follow
ing
a s
et
patt
ern o
f film
s. “
Reachin
g o
ut
to t
he m
ass
es
is im
porta
nt
wit
hout
form
alisi
ng t
he w
hole
thin
g, like follow
ing a
set
patt
ern. It
’s v
ery inte
rest
-in
g, w
hen I
look a
t it
and s
eparate
myse
lf a
s a fi
lmm
aker,
it’s
a h
ealt
hy
trend a
nd w
e s
hould
be h
appy a
bout
it,” M
ehra s
aid
.
Pra
n d
eser
ved a
goo
d s
end-o
ff:
Shat
rughan
AC
TO
R-P
OL
ITIC
IAN
Shatr
ughan
S
inha w
as
dis
mayed t
o s
ee t
he p
oor
turn-o
ut
at
the funeral of le
gendary
acto
r P
ran, th
e B
ollyw
ood v
illa
in a
udie
nces
loved t
o h
ate
. “I
saw
very f
ew
people
from
th
e fi
lm indust
ry.
A m
an w
ho g
ave 7
0 y
ears
of
his
lif
e t
o t
he fi
lm i
ndust
ry d
ese
rved
a m
uch m
ore h
eft
y s
end-o
ff,” s
aid
Sin
ha.
Pran K
ishan S
ikand,
popula
r a
s P
ran,
breath
ed h
is l
ast
at
the L
ilavati
Hosp
ital
here l
ate
Frid
ay e
ven
ing f
ollow
ing p
ro-
lon
ged i
lln
ess
. H
e w
as
93.
His
last
rit
es
were p
erfo
rm
ed t
he n
ext
day a
nd a
handfu
l of people
lik
e A
mit
abh B
achchan, A
nupam
K
her,
Karan J
ohar,
Raj B
abbar a
nd S
hakti
K
apoor c
am
e t
o p
ay t
heir
last
resp
ects
to
the d
eparte
d s
oul.
Sin
ha,
who c
an
celled h
is t
rip
to P
atn
a t
o a
tten
d t
he f
un
eral, s
aid
: “T
here is
no d
oubt
Pranji w
as
an inst
ituti
on. H
e h
as
insp
ired g
enerati
ons
of
acto
rs,
inclu
din
g m
e. W
hen I
heard o
f his
pass
ing a
way,
I im
media
tely
cancelled m
y t
rip
to P
atn
a t
o a
ttend.”
Recallin
g S
aty
ajit
Ray’s
condole
nce m
eeti
ng a
t th
e M
ehboob S
tudio
s on t
he d
oyen’s
death
, S
inha s
aid
: “T
his
was
Saty
ajit
Ray w
ho b
rought
renow
n t
o I
ndia
n c
inem
a a
nd t
o t
he n
ati
on, th
e o
nly
India
n t
o w
in b
oth
th
e O
scar a
nd t
he B
harat
Ratn
a.
And t
here w
as
hardly
anyone a
t th
e
condole
nce m
eet.
At
Pranji’s
funeral
on S
atu
rday I
was
sadly
rem
inded
of
Ray’s
condole
nce m
eet.”
Sin
ha s
ays
he w
as
influenced b
y P
ran. “
I use
d t
o c
opy h
is h
air
style
from
Jis
Desh
Mein
Ga
nga
Beh
ti H
ai
durin
g m
y c
ollege d
ays
in P
atn
a. L
ate
r, I
got
the c
hance t
o w
ork
wit
h P
ranji i
n fi
lms
like G
an
ga
Tera
Pa
ni
Am
rit,
Bu
niy
ad
and V
ish
wa
na
th.” “I
n M
ere
Ap
ne, I
paid
Pranji a
trib
ute
by c
opy-
ing t
hat
idio
syncrasy
of
his
from
Jis
Desh
Mein
Ga
nga
Beh
ti H
ai w
hereby
he k
ept
scratc
hin
g h
is n
eck,” h
e s
aid
. “P
ranji d
id a
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PLUS | TUESDAY 16 JULY 201310 RECIPE
Tutti Frutti
Ingredients:• Juice of 2 oranges,• 2 tsp of lemon juice• 2 cups pineapple juice• 2 cups grape juice• 4 tbsp sugar• 1 egg white• Soda water to top upTo Decorate:
• Grated chocolate, Fruit slices.
Method:Place the ingredients in an electric blender with some crushed
ice and blend on maximum speed for 30 seconds.Pour into cocktail glass and top up with soda water.Sprinkle grated chocolate on top and decorate with fruit slices
speared on the glass. Mohamed Abdulrahiman
Ginger-Pear Juice - Refreshing Appetizer
Ingredients:• 1 large pear• 1 tbsp peeled fresh ginger• 1 medium sized tangerine• 1 tbsp fresh squeezed lemon juice• Garnish: Diced small ginger and pear piece and lemon rind
Method:Wash pear, slice into juicable strips. Peel 1 Tbsp of fresh ginger.
In a manual citrus juicer, juice tangerine and lemon juice. Set aside in a glass. Juice pear and ginger in an electric juicer. Finish the juice by pouring the citrus juice into the juicer blending all the flavours together. It will infuse citrus juice with the ginger
and pear flavours.Pour it to the serving glass. Garnish it with lemon rind or small
pea sized diced ginger and pear pieces. Anjali Pimple
Fruit Energy Punch
Ingredients: • 2 Carrots, cooked, chopped• 2 Pears, fresh, chopped• 1 Orange • 1 small handful of fresh Coriander leaves, chopped• 6 Mint leaves fresh, chopped• Few ice cubes
Method:Peel and juice the orange. Combine it with the chopped pears,
cooked carrots, chopped mint leaves and chopped coriander leaves in a blender. Blend on a low speed for around 20 seconds. Gradually increase the speed to high and blend for another 20-30 seconds. Pour the juice in the tall glass-over ice and decorate it with slice of orange and 2 mint leaves and serve.
Nitin Tawde
Five Fruit Chiller Fizz Ingredients:
• 2 chilled Apples sliced.• 1 chilled nectarine.• 1 chilled pear.• Small bunch of chilled grapes.• 2 chilled oranges.• 1 small piece of fresh ginger.• 1 glass of orange flavored soda or orange flavoured Miranda.
(soft drink. chilled)
Method:Pass all the fruits and ginger through the juicer extract .Pour the extracted juice into the glasses ,
Gently pour the chilled orange flavoured drink into the juice and serve at once.
Mehwish Mohammed
Purple Rain
Ingredients: • 2 small apples• 1 carrot• 1/4 purple cabbage• 1” ginger• 1 handful of blackberries• 3 large strawberries
Method:Juice the berries first and then follow up with the other ingredi-
ents. Add ice if you prefer & Enjoy! Mrs G Busuttil
Qatar Cool Mocktail
Ingredients: • ¼ cup laban • ¼ cup thick watermelon juice • ¼ cup thick mango juice • 3 tbsp Red grapes juice • 4 tbsp lemonade • 1 Scoop vanilla Ice Cream• 2 tbsp pure honey• 2 tbsp sugar ( Brown preferred ) • A pinch of salt • Cherry , Lemon wedge and water melon wedge for decoration • Glazed , shredded cherries for topping
Method:Cut the watermelon in small pieces. Put it in the blender with salt
and lemonade. Blend it into thick juice and keep it aside. Cut the ripe mango into small pieces. Blend it and keep it aside.Churn the laban with sugar with a fork and keep it ready.Take a tall glass. Pour the thick water melon juice. Then pour the
laban on top of it very slowly. On top of this pour the mango juice very carefully. Put one scoop of vanilla ice cream . Put in red grape juice . Top it up with honey and glazed cherries.Decorate with cherry, lemon and water melon wedges. Serve immediately with a straw and a tall spoon. Riniki Ghosh
Tabbouleh Juice
Ingredients: • 1 big bunch parsley (4 cups)• 1 tomato• 1/4 red onion• 1/2-1 lemon (peeled)• 1/2 cucumber• 1 tsp olive oil • Salt and black pepper as required
Method:Push parsley, tomato, red onion, lemon and cucumber through juicer.Add
olive oil, salt and pepper into juice, stir to mix.Juice, pour over ice and serve..Add the chopped tomatoes and continue to cook for a further 5 minutes,
stirring from time to time. Remove from the heat and serve. Amna
Refreshing Avocado and Pineapple Frappe
Ingredients: • 1 medium ripe avocado, peeled, pitted• 1½ cups fresh pineapple, chopped• 1½ cups fresh orange juice• 1 tbsp honey, optional• 2 tsp fresh lime juice• ½ cup ice cubes
Method:Combine avocado, pineapple, and blend in a blender; puree until smooth. Add fresh orange juice, fresh lime, ice cubes and pulse until smooth. Pour in serving glass and garnish with pouring strings of honey in the glass. Serve immediately. Aysha Naeem
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Ginger-Pear Juice Shooters
Ingredients: Makes 5-6 shooters
• 1 large pear• 1 tbsp peeled fresh ginger• 1 medium sized tangerine• 1 tbsp fresh squeezed lemon juice• Garnish: 3 ginger chew candies, diced small• 5-6 toothpicks
Method:Prepare your ginger chew skewer garnishes by
slicing the ginger chews into pea sized bits and skewing them on toothpicks. Set aside.
Wash your pear, slice into juicable strips. Yes, I juice the entire pear-seeds and all.
Peel your 1 Tbsp of fresh ginger. I peel my ginger because otherwise my juice comes out brownish.
In a manual citrus juicer, juice your tangerine and lemon juice. Set aside in a glass.
Turn on your electric juicer. Juice your pear and ginger. Finish the juice by pouring the citrus juice right into the juicer-this will blend all the flavors together and even infuse your citrus juice with the ginger and pear flavors that just ran through the juicer.
Now that you have your completed juice, pour each shooter to the brim. Add your ginger chew garnish on top and place on a platter to be served. Cayenne for extra spice is optional, and as I men-tioned, having a few low or no ginger options may be useful.
Prabhakar Rao
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11WHEELS PLUS | TUESDAY 16 JULY 2013
BY WARREN BROWN
LESS is sometimes better — as when you are sitting in rush-hour traffic on an entrance to the Lincoln Tunnel rushing nowhere. You are jammed with cars and trucks substantially more expensive than
the 2013 Mazda3 S Grand Touring sedan in which you are parked. They aren’t moving. Neither are you.
There is schadenfreude in that truth. There is comfort in schadenfreude. There is epiphany in both.
Your thoughts turn to myriad automobile TV com-mercials and formal marketing conferences, the lat-ter often held in some of the world’s most exotic locales.
Somehow, the cars and trucks in those presenta-tions are never surrounded by ambient traffic, cer-tainly nothing as frustrating as the stagnant mess that has me cemented between the toll booth and the tunnel’s entrance. The cars in the TV commercials are always plying open roads. The test drives in mar-keting presentations seem timed and organized to avoid any conflict with real traffic. If a manufacturer wants to demonstrate the “ultimate” driving prowess of its anointed product, there always is an available racetrack on which to do so. It’s baloney.
This is the real world — caught in horn-honking mayhem between a toll booth that just relieved me of $13 and swarmed by seemingly enraged motorists who are hellbent on moving into one of the world’s most congested, grimiest urban tunnels before I do. There is no open road, no open anything. Every inch is hotly contested premium space.
Driving “performance” has been redefined by real-ity. Suddenly, I find myself smiling, happy that I am in one of the smallest, most comfortable, reliable, easiest-to-drive-in-a-crowd, most fuel-efficient cars available in the North American market.
I love this Mazda3... and love it even more now
that I am stuck in thick urban traffic going nowhere fast. It is a front-wheel-drive fuel sipper — getting 28 miles per gallon in the city and nearly 40 miles per gallon, or better, on the highway. And it drinks less-expensive regular grade petrol and does just fine with that.
It is a deliciously small car with a wheelbase — the centre-line distance between the front and rear wheels — of 8 feet, 7 inches (103.9 inches). With a relatively small turning circle of 34.2 feet, it can squirm out of some of the tightest spaces. It has an agile personality. Yet it is big enough to comfortably seat three adults and a large chocolate Labrador who feels entitled to the space of two. There’s cargo space for several pieces of soft-pack luggage and a large bag of dog food.
Once out of the tunnel, the little Mazda3 dem-onstrates another bit of performance compliance with reality. New York City, as is the case with a growing number of municipalities nationwide, has fallen in love with speed cameras — ostensibly as a traffic safety measure, realistically as a revenue-enhancement tool.
It is the ultimate irony — being stuck forever in go-nowhere city traffic only to arrive home and find a $125 ticket from the New York City Department of Finance for “speeding”.
Thankfully, the Mazda3 S Grand Touring comes with an onboard TomTom navigation system that automatically signals the presence of speed cameras before you reach them ... or they nab you. There are so many reasons to love the Mazda3. Speed-cam navigation warning is just one of them.
NUTS AND BOLTS
Bottom line: Anyone shopping for a reliable, fuel-efficient small car has got to put the Mazda3 on his or her list. Those searching for something more “fun to
drive” should take a look at the Mazdaspeed3. Spoiler alert: Driving conditions can negatively affect the fun of driving anything.
Ride, acceleration and handling: The Mazda3 S Grand Touring gets good marks in all three. I found it to be a friend in nasty traffic.
Body style/layout: The Mazda3 is a compact, front-engine and front-wheel-drive automobile avail-able as a sedan or hatchback. It is offered in five trim levels — i SV; i Sport; i Touring; i Grand Touring; and S Grand Touring.
Engine/transmission: The 2013 Mazda3 S Grand Touring comes with a 2.5-liter, inline four-cylinder, direct-injection gasoline engine with variable valve timing (167 horsepower, 168 pound-feet of torque). A six-speed manual transmission is standard. A six-speed automatic that also can be operated manually is optional.
Capacities: Seats five people. Cargo capacity with all seats in place is 11.8 cubic feet. The fuel tank holds 15.9 gallons of petrol. Regular grade gasoline is okay.
Mileage: I barely got 24 miles per gallon in con-gested urban traffic. But I did get nearly 40 miles per gallon on the highway.
Safety: Standard equipment includes four-wheel disc brakes (ventilated front/solid rear); four-wheel antilock brake protection; emergency braking assist-ance; electronic brake-force distribution; electronic stability and traction control; high-intensity dis-charge head lamps; front and rear head air bags.
Recommended optional safety equipment: Blind-side monitoring and lane departure warning systems.
Pricing: The base price of the 2013 Mazda3 S Grand Touring with six-speed automatic transmis-sion is $25,150 with a dealer’s invoice price of $24,052. Price as tested is $25,945 including a factory-to-dealer transportation charge of $795. Dealer’s price as tested is $24,847.
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TECHNOLOGYPLUS | TUESDAY 16 JULY 201312
BY RICH JAROSLOVSKY
SONY’S new Xperia Z is a “yes, but” smartphone. Already a huge hit in Japan, the Xperia Z arrives in the US on July 17 through
an exclusive deal with T-Mobile. It’s intended to be Sony’s flagship and has a lot of nice touches.
In my 10 days of using it, though, I found many of its positives at least partially offset by negatives. Yes, it’s an attractive phone at a reasonable price — but there’s not quite enough to make it stand out in the crowded field of devices using Google’s Android operating system.
The Xperia shares styling cues with Sony’s recently introduced, well-received Xperia Z tablet, including its sleek, flat design. Curiously, the phone is more than 25 percent thicker than the otherwise much larger tablet — but since we’re talking about a dif-ference of .07 of an inch, no one will complain much.
The Xperia’s five-inch screen posi-tions it directly against Samsung’s Galaxy S4 among high-end Android smartphones. So too does the reso-lution of its display, which offers the same 1920 by 1080 pixels as the Galaxy.
Sony boasts that the Xperia is pow-ered by technology borrowed from its Bravia TVs, but I’m a longtime sucker for Samsung’s screens, and the Sony’s, nice at is, didn’t make me change my mind. Even the Xperia’s most notewor-thy feature — the fact that it’s water-resistant to a depth of a meter for 30 minutes — turns out to be something of a mixed blessing.
The pros are obvious: Splashing it with a Coke or accidentally dropping it in the sink won’t faze it. (It’s dust- proof, too.) But securing it against such man-made disasters requires a
Sony Xperia Z Phone: ‘Yes, but’
LEFT: The camera on Sony Corp’s Xperia Z has a 13-megapixel sensor and is capable of shooting high-dynamic-range, or HDR, video. RIGHT: The Xperia Z is water-resistant to a depth of a meter for 30 minutes.
few annoying design concessions.Specifically, the power and head-
phone ports and the SD memory and SIM-card slots are all covered by tiny hatches along the phone’s skinny edges. While they seem sturdy enough, they’re hard to locate and even harder to open.
The camera has a 13-megapixel sen-sor and is capable of shooting high-dynamic-range, or HDR, video. HDR, which until recently was only avail-able on smartphones for still photos, is designed to adjust for situations in which there’s a wide variation in light-ing of the scene.
I was generally happy with the pho-tos and videos I shot on the Xperia, though I wasn’t as impressed as I was with the HTC One, whose sensor is only rated at four megapixels but is larger and features sophisticated image processing.
In normal use, the Xperia’s battery should be able to get you through a day without a recharge — particularly if you make use of what Sony calls “Stamina” mode. This feature, also found on the Xperia tablet, shuts down Wi-Fi and other data traffic when the screen dims.
You’ll still receive phone calls, texts and calendar notifications, but the phone won’t, for example, check for email, or perform other tasks in the background unless you dive into the settings to make exceptions. While it works, it also reduces the benefit of having an always-connected device in your pocket.
The Xperia is powered by a Qualcomm Snapdragon processor and is capable of running over LTE, cur-rently the fastest data-network tech-nology. But there’s a catch: T-Mobile only launched U.S. LTE service a few
months ago, and it’s far behind Verizon and AT&T in terms of people and places covered.
With T-Mobile’s “uncarrier” busi-ness model, you don’t have to commit to the usual two-year contract for service. On the other hand, and unlike carriers that subsidize the cost of the phone, T-Mobile makes you responsible for the full freight.
For the Xperia, which has 16 giga-bytes of storage, that’s $580, which works out to $100 down and $20 a month for 24 months. It’s the same price T-Mobile is charging for the Galaxy S4 and HTC One, and $70 less than Apple’s iPhone 5.
None of those phones, though, is likely to survive falling into the swimming pool. If that’s a risk in your life, the Xperia Z can put your mind at ease.
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BY HAYLEY TSUKAYAMA
A FEDERAL judge ruled that Apple con-spired to raise e-book prices, handing the tech giant a bruising loss that could ripple throughout the industry and force compa-
nies to rethink how they meet consumer demand for digital products..
For 160 pages, US District Judge Denise Cote scolded Apple for violating antitrust law and col-luding with five of the nation’s top book publishers to ensure the successful launch of its digital book-store in 2010. “Apple played a central role in facili-tating and executing that conspiracy,” Cote said in her ruling. “Without Apple’s orchestration of this conspiracy, it would not have succeeded as it did.”
The ruling was a stinging rebuke to Apple’s care-fully cultivated public image of putting its custom-ers first. The company’s tactics, Cote found, were motivated as much by its bottom line as its desire to
introduce an innovative new product. But the case may also have broad implications for the technol-ogy industry as tech giants, rather than traditional retailers, offer consumers more digital content — from books and movies to music.
The ruling will likely prompt Apple and other companies, such as Amazon, Google and Netflix, to rethink how they structure deals for multimedia content in the future, said Allen Weiner, a media specialist at the research firm Gartner. There is cur-rently no industry standard for how companies deal with streaming video or a la carte television, he said. The same is true of other growing digital markets, such as streaming music or even digital textbooks.
“There’s a number of emerging media areas that have yet to find their way,” Weiner said. “Every little nugget like this Justice Department ruling is going to get people interested. This ruling affirms that antitrust regulations apply even when dealing with new types of media, said Mark Cooper, director of
research at the Consumer Federation of America, a consumer-advocacy organisation.
Apple will appeal the ruling, company spokes-man Tom Neumayr said. “When we introduced the iBookstore in 2010, we gave customers more choice, injecting much needed innovation and competition into the market, breaking Amazon’s monopolistic grip on the publishing industry,” Neumayr said.
Apple’s lawyers framed the company’s actions as a reaction to Amazon’s dominance in the early years of the e-book market and said that their company was trying to break its competitor’s grip on publishers and consumers. Yet Cote found that Apple’s solution, to strike a deal with publishers that gave it a cut of book sales, violated the law. She also objected to Apple’s requirement that publishers grant it “most-favored nation status” to ensure it received rates matching those offered to rivals. That directly led to higher book prices, she said.
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COMICS & MORE 13
Hoy en la HistoriaJuly 16, 1945
1048: Benedict IX resigned from the papacy. He was the only man to have been Pope more than once, and the only man ever to have sold the papacy1965: The seven-mile Mont Blanc road tunnel, linking France with Italy, was opened1999: Microsoft became the first company in the world to be valued at over $500 billion1999: John F. Kennedy Jr., his wife and her sister died in a plane crash
The world’s first atomic bomb, developed by Robert Oppenheimer and his team at Los Alamos and codenamed Trinity, was detonated in the New Mexico desert
Picture: Associated Press © GRAPHIC NEWS
ALL IN THE MIND Can you find the hidden words? They may be horizontal,vertical, diagonal, forwards or backwards.
ASTEROID, ASTRONAUT, ASTRONOMY, ASTROPHYSICS,ATMOSPHERE, BLACK HOLE, CAPSULE, COSMOS, COUNTDOWN, CREW, EXPLORATION, FLIGHT, GALAXY, GRAVITY, LAUNCH, LIGHT YEAR, METEOR, MISSION, MODULE, MOON, NEBULA, ORBIT, PLANET, PULSAR, ROCKET, SATELLITE, SOLAR SYSTEM, SPACECRAFT, SPACE STATION, STAR, SUPERNOVA, TAKEOFF, TRAJECTORY, UNIVERSE, VELOCITY, VOYAGE,
LEARNARABIC
A list of some common adjectives
Examples:
Ta’baan (m) Ta’baana (f) Tired
Mareedh (m) Mareedha (f) Sick, ill
Farhan (m) Farhana (f) Glad
Sa’eed (m) Sa’eeda (f) Happy
Jow’aan (m) Jow’aana (f) Hungry
Baby Blues by Jerry Scott and Rick Kirkman
Zits by Dennis Young and Denis Lebrun
Hagar The Horrible by Chris Browne
PLUS | TUESDAY 16 JULY 2013
PLUS | TUESDAY 16 JULY 2013
HYPER SUDOKU
CROSSWORD
CROSSWORDS
YESTERDAY’S ANSWER
How to play Hyper Sudoku:A Hyper Sudoku
Puzzle is solved
by filling the
numbers from 1
to 9 into the blank
cells. A Hyper
Sudoku has
unlike Sudoku
13 regions
(four regions
overlap with the
nine standard
regions). In all
regions the numbers from 1 to 9 can appear
only once. Otherwise, a Hyper Sudoku is
solved like a normal Sudoku.
ACROSS 1 Rescue op
5 100 centimes, once
10 Belgium-based imaging company
14 Dodeca- halved
15 Fiery feeling
16 Nursery bagful
17 Balm business?
19 Mischievous Norse god
20 Bottom-of-the-barrel stuff
21 Learn by ___
23 Yodeling tribute band’s repertoire?
27 Place for a washer and dryer: Abbr.
30 Cross one’s fingers
31 Call a game
32 R&B pioneer Johnny
33 N.Y.C.’s first subway line
34 Tattoo ___
37 Steamrolled stuff
38 Words of encouragement to a tailor?
40 “Evil Woman” grp.
41 Regency hotels
43 Place to play video games
44 Next-to-last Greek letters
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46 Cameron who voiced Fiona
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53 “Born from jets” automaker
56 Mass vestments
57 “Columbo” trench coat?
62 Pucker-producing
63 More faithful
64 Busy place
65 Influence
66 Rec centers
67 New Ager who sings in Irish Gaelic
DOWN 1 Comments
accompanying shrugs
2 Osso buco need
3 What a drivetrain connects to
4 “As is” and others
5 Marbled meat feature
6 Grammar school basics, briefly
7 Decay-fighting org.
8 A real smarty
9 Dimin.’s opposite, in music
10 Here, there and everywhere
11 Bodily reaction to fear
12 Hot-coals walker
13 Out of kilter
18 Alien’s subj.
22 Bugs of the underworld
24 Pop music’s Collins and Spector
25 Suit material?
26 Decided to join
27 This and that
28 Hang around
29 Push-up garment
34 Kind of scheme
35 This and that
36 Looking up
38 Do penance
39 Scan, as a U.P.C.
42 Like under-watered plants
44 Pizazz
46 Render harmless
48 Some H.S. exams
49 Counselor-___
50 Pushover
51 “… lovely ___ tree”
54 Very similar
55 Group of quail
58 TV captain
Jean-___ Picard
59 Mauna ___
60 Takers of 48-Down: Abbr.
61 Caddy’s contents
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13
14 15 16
17 18 19
20 21 22
23 24 25 26
27 28 29 30 31
32 33 34 35 36
37 38 39 40
41 42 43 44
45 46 47
48 49 50 51
52 53 54 55
56 57 58 59 60 61
62 63 64
65 66 67
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M P A A O T TI N T E R N O A R A P S EP E N N I E S F R O M H E L LO S U S N E A D B A S A LD S T E D E N S A B O V 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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SPIRITUAL HOUR
6:00 AM A time of reflection, a deeper understanding of the teachings of Islam.
CHILDREN OF ADAM & EVE
8:00 AM The program will provide spiritual sustenance during the month of Ramadan bringing scholars of religions and special guests to discuss various topics of interest for our everyday lives.
YOUR HEALTH FIRST
9:00 AM A series of health tips to benefit the community throughout the observance of the month of Ramadan.
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12:30 PM The latest news and events from around the world.
LIFE IN THE LIGHT OF FAITH
2:00 PM The program focuses on how “a life in the light of faith” uplifts and inspires people to live in the fullness of God.
RAMADAN 101 4:00 PM The program is a crash course to help you jump right into the spirit of the holy month. Every day the audience is introduced to a new word, this way you can learn more about the traditions and rituals of Ramadan.
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From Qurtuba To CordobaWhen: Till August 31, 1oam-10pm Where: Katara Gallery 1 - Bldg 13
What: This exhibition displays a variety of ornamental details -testimony of past splendour- which is often taken for granted by Cordoba’s dwellers and visitors. The collection highlights emblematic monuments, walls, doors, towers, minarets and baths, including some examples of Mudéjar art, a more recent architectural style inspired by the influences of Al Andalus in the Iberian Peninsula. Free entry
Omar Khalifa – “Infinite”When: Until Dec 15; 10am—10pmWhere: Katara Cultural Village What: This outdoor photography installation examines ‘the nature of being’. Using digital multiple exposure techniques, an image is crafted that gives us a sense of other-worldliness and depth of perspective through the human form. Free Entry
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
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Family claims iPhone killed daughterBEIJING: Relatives of a 23-year-old woman from northwest China have claimed that she died after being electrocuted while using her iPhone. The older sister of vic-tim, Ailun, said on Sina Weibo, the Chinese equivalent of Twitter, that Ma was electrocuted while trying to answer a call on her iPhone while the device was charging, Xinhua reported.
“(I) hope that Apple Inc can give us an explanation. I also hope that all of you will refrain from using your mobile devices while charging,” her post read. The post has gone viral online, with many forwarding the message and warning others of the dangers of using mobile devices while they are being charged.
Ma’s father, Ma Guanghui, con-firmed that his daughter was electro-cuted, adding that her body showed signs of electrocution.
Ma, a resident of Xinjiang’s city of Changji, was previously employed as a flight attendant at China Southern Airlines. Ma’s sister said she hopes to seek justice from Apple.
Apple said Sunday the company felt
“deeply sorry for the unfortunate acci-dent” and expressed condolence to the victim and her family. It said it would have a thorough probe into the case.
407 Picassos stolen, says stepdaughterPARIS: Pablo Picasso’s stepdaugh-ter said 407 works by the late Spanish artist were stolen from her chateau in southern France.
Catherine Hutin-Blay, 65, told Le Parisien newspaper she noticed the works were gone in 2011, when the Picasso Administration — manager of the Spaniard’s estate — alerted her that several Picassos were on sale at a private gallery in Paris.
Hutin-Blay recognised the titles as among the works she inherited from her mother, Jacqueline, who was Picasso’s second wife, and soon confirmed that the pieces were indeed missing from the chateau in Vauvenargues. The robberies appar-ently took place between 2005 and 2007, Hutin-Blay told the newspaper.
Le Parisien said artworks were also taken from the home of Hutin-Blay’s neighbor, Sylvie Baltazart-Eon, the 58-year-old daughter of Picasso’s art dealer, Aime Maeght.
Freddy Munchenbach, who per-formed unspecified work for both women, is suspected of making off with more than 600 works belong-ing to Baltazart-Eon and Hutin-Blay,
according to the newspaper.Besides the Picassos, the haul
included pieces by Kandinsky, Joan Miro, Antoni Tapies, Giacometti and Eduardo Chillida.
The works stolen are worth as much as ¤2m ($2.6m). Hutin-Blay said she has recovered 22 of the looted works.
Pacific Rim inspires mobile gameNEW DELHI: Hollywood sci-fi film Pacific Rim has inspired the launch of a mobile game, which asks gam-ers to pilot a giant Jaeger robot and defend Earth from invading aliens.
The game, surrounding the movie, is developed by Reliance Games, the mobile gaming division of Reliance Entertainment Digital, in partnership with Behavior Interactive.
“We are excited to provide an enhanced and immersive experience to moviegoers with a state-of-the-art 3D mobile game,” Manish Agarwal, CEO, Reliance Entertainment Digital, said in a statement.
Available on iOS and Android, the game features epic battles amidst sky-scrapers as players swipe and tap to defeat the Kaijus, aliens that have risen from the sea to wipe out humanity. To aid in the apocalyptic fight to save human-ity, new weapons, technology and devas-tating combos can be unlocked during the course of the game.
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