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As lodges and shanty towns proliferate in Kenya’s Masai Mara, drastic and urgent steps are needed to save this beautiful game reserve from becoming an environmental disaster.
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Our vehicle comes to an abrupt stop. “There, now watch,” says Josphat, my exacting young Masai guide. We cut the engine and the silence is acute.
Josphat points out a cheetah’s head in an ocean of golden grass. One minibus has already pulled up on another sandy track a few hundred metres away and four heads are craning out of the roof. We sit and watch for the cheetah. All of a sud-den white minibuses crest the horizon in droves. We are in a stampede. Eight of them surround us. Within five minutes we have counted 30, the drivers communicating via radio to make sure their clients tick off “the big five”. A cheetah will never kill like this; its prey will have been alerted. And if it has killed, the vehicles will make it blind to a subsequent hyena attack. But this cheetah is now nowhere to be seen. Undeterred, the mini-bus drivers start ploughing into the long grass. Eventually they give up. I ask if this happens often. Every day, Josphat says.
Josphat is a member of the Kenya Professional Safari Guides Association, which means he knows the Latin names and mating rituals of every ani-mal in his domain. He is 27, small, intelligent and deeply serious about his work. He is accustomed to tracking animals and avoiding humans, but he is also proving adept at the inverse, showing me the “real” Masai Mara. One of the greatest natural spectacles on earth is under way. More than a million hungry wildebeest are on their way from Tanzania to Kenya’s Mara National Reserve to raze tons of sweet red-oat grass. Primordial gnus are the stars of the show, but in support-ing roles are a few hundred thousand zebras and half a million Thomson’s gazelles; then there are the resident crocodiles, lions, hyenas, leopards and cheetahs.
Their show is in danger of being upstaged. Every year, thousands upon thousands of tourists descend on the Masai Mara to witness the migra-tion. The resident human population is increas-ing; lodges are proliferating. Rampant corruption means money is not filtering down to the Masai
population, who are increasingly turning to char-coal and arable farming to make ends meet. In short, mankind is in danger of squandering one of the most important habitats left in the world.
“It will not be long before it is gone, unless some drastic and urgent steps are taken now,” says Joseph Ogutu, a scientist who has studied changes in the area’s fauna for 24 years. The Masai Mara represents the northern quarter of the Serengeti ecosystem that stretches down into Tanzania. The wild animals that remain here require vast and various dispersal areas to survive drought, predators and human pressure. These safe havens are disappearing. Lodges surrounding the park have erected kilometres of electric fencing; lions have been known to use them to trap their prey. Shanty towns are developing fast, and some may soon be on the national grid. There are too many cows for not enough land, and wheat fields are advancing (wheat has become a swearword among conservationists). Human waste is being buried or dumped. The environment is display-ing symptoms of its mismanagement. Algae are emerging in rivers upstream, a consequence of fertiliser use. The Mara river, where wildebeest cross from Tanzania, dried up completely in 2009, says Dickson Kaelo, a respected Masai guide. He recalls seeing scores of minibuses queueing to watch wildebeest splash through the water. But there was “just dust”. Inside the treasured reserve, monkeys play with crisps packets. Even the predators’ behaviour is changing. Malaika is a cheetah who will sit on the roof of your car; Josphat is disgusted by the guides who encourage her, to secure a good tip.
Kenya’s economy is heavily reliant on tourism and the core area, the Mara National Reserve, generates an estimated £13m each year. The place projects a timelessness that speaks to notions of man’s origins and the beginnings of time. But it also epitomises a modern conflict over land and resources playing out across Africa today.
Landowner Kaitet Ole Naingisa sips hot choco-late in a central Nairobi cafe. He has travelled
to the capital to present his case to the commis-sioner of lands. He pulls his title deed from a brown A4 envelope. Naingisa’s family had a plot close to the National Reserve in Siana where they had lived for more than 20 years, and where his 10 children are being schooled. Siana was one of many “group ranches”, areas of communal land around the reserve, which have been subdivided among members in recent decades. It was this subdivision, locals say, that opened the door for the land-grabbing that is now epic in scale. When the land registry finally issued Naingisa with his title deeds last year, he got “this”, he says, bran-dishing the embossed title deed to plot 366, far from his home, on unproductive land. The deed states his name as the land’s original owner, but another name is semi-legible beneath it. There is a hole in the paper where someone has tried to rub it out. This is not his original land; the authorities have fiddled it, he says.
In battling for their rights, the Masai are seen as greedy by many conservationists, but most are not, an exasperated Josphat says: they just want their rightful share. The Masai occupied most of western Kenya at the turn of the 20th century, but disease, massive evictions by British colonialists and civil war reduced them to only 0.5 percent of the population. Centuries of sur-vival in harsh lands gave them a strong sense of mutualism, but a culture of cronyism now pits the Masai against one another. The uneducated minority are represented, and exploited, by an educated few. There are countless lawsuits lan-guishing in the courts and a number of unsolved, politically motivated murders. Paramilitary police have carried out forced evictions by night. People are bitter, and trust has eroded. Somali emigres run thriving businesses in the Mara, because the Masai trust them more than Kenyan tribes.
Until last year, the Mara National Reserve, 371,000 acres of government-owned land, was administered by two different county councils. Now it is united under a new governor. “We call him the Big Fish,” a young herdsman says.
The Masai Mara: ‘It will not be long before it’s gone’
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One half of the administration had outsourced its management to a con-servation group, one that received praise for its environmental work but faced allegations of corruption. Samuel Tunai, the “Big Fish”, was on its board of directors. He holds a stake in more than 2,000 acres of prime land that were once part of the reserve but then given to the community to use. The land now boasts three luxury camps. There had also been allegations of corruption on the other side of the administration, and management was said to be worse. But now, under Kenya’s new constitution, Tunai, as governor, is in charge of both administrations. He has rejected claims that his involvement in the Mara repre-sents a conflict of interest. Attempts to contact him proved unsuccessful.
Three decades ago, the Masai com-munity gave president Daniel Arap Moi a parcel of land on the northern escarpment, a gesture that belonged to a more honourable era when “grabber” didn’t feature in the local vernacular. Moi built a spectacular lodge with the only tarmac landing strip in the Mara. Today his presidential pied-a-terre, Ol Kurruk, has fallen into ruin. The buildings have either collapsed or been gutted by fire. Huge herds of giraffe and zebra have moved in. As we pick through the demolished rooms, small antelope, lizards and monkeys skitter away. Communities living on the escarp-ment fear Tunai plans to turn it into yet another luxury lodge.
“Today it’s lodges, lodges, lodges. Everybody wants a lodge,” Josphat says in despair. Some of those inside the reserve secure leases by greasing palms; others pay wardens for illegal permits, or start up as temporary camps and never leave. Outside the reserve it’s easier. The first Chinese lodge is under construction on the south-eastern edge of the reserve. Its flat-pack cabins travelled 5,000 miles from China to be constructed on cleared forest. The min-ister for tourism said recently that of 108 tourist operations in the Mara area, only 29 percent were legal. Jake Grieves-Cook, a former chairman of the Kenya Tourist Board who owns a number of camps, estimates there are 7,000 tourist beds in the Mara ecosystem. If this is true, then in the past 10 years, despite a four-year moratorium on development, the number has almost trebled.
Fifty years after the process of
dividing community lands began, it became evident that these traditional pastoral lands would turn into hous-ing estates and farms if something didn’t hold them together. A number of “conservancies” sprang up. These are privately managed reserves, funded directly by tourism, that lease land from communities to be set aside for wild-life. They increase the size of the pro-tected area by 50 percent. Supporters argue that they will be enough to save the Mara; others say they are a stick-ing plaster and can support it for only so long.
Josphat and I venture out to British entrepreneur Richard Branson’s much-discussed new camp, which lies on its own conservancy away from the poli-tics of the National Reserve. We eye the “tents” agog. They could feature in Star Wars, with four-metre pegs supporting futuristic domes. But their aspect is all natural. As we stand next to the infinity pool, a hyena obligingly comes to drink at the stream below. When almost 300 landowners of the surrounding Motorogi community were offered 3,500 shil-lings per hectare per year, they were delighted; the land was so overgrazed it looked worthless. Fast-forward five years and “you wouldn’t recognise it”,
says Tarn Breedveld, Branson’s hand-some young manager. The story is the same across the conservancies: over-grazed land has recovered with only a few years of good management, and ani-mals have come back in great numbers. For tourists, the conservancies give a flavour of what the Masai Mara was.
We drive between two conservancies with Grieves-Cook, an early pioneer of the community-owned model. Night falls and we become hopelessly lost. We drive through herds of buffalo and stop for hippopotamuses to cross the road. When we eventually arrive in camp we are greeted with a hero’s welcome. The tented camps Grieves-Cook operates don’t have menus or cash-bars. Seven hundred acres is budgeted per tent, and a game drive isn’t a treasure hunt. Driving through Olare Orok conserv-ancy, we sit in silence with a pride of lions for an hour as the sun goes down. Cubs tumble around like Andrex puppies and bloated females finish off a wilde-beest as the lone male has a lie-down.
Go on safari, meaning “journey” in Swahili, with someone like Grieves-Cook and such mishaps and surprises will be the moments you remember best. In the early days, trailblazers took guests on a journey in every sense of the word. In
the 1950s, the late Sydney Downey once burst every one of his tyres. His glamor-ous guests were made to stuff them with grass and bump along. Another time, Downey forgot all the food apart from a wheel of cheese. His guests gave him a silver plaque to commemorate “the great cheese safari”. When Downey discovered someone was going to build a permanent structure in his beloved Mara he was “horrified”, his daugh-ter Margaret recalls. Keekorok Lodge opened in 1962 on Downey’s favourite camping site. It is a 200-bed behemoth with tarmac roads and a swimming pool. At 4pm sharp, white minibuses charge out, taking guests on prosaic “game drives”.
Jackson Looseyia, a veteran guide of 26 years and presenter of the BBC’s Big Cat Diaries, is between safaris. I have come to meet him in a private house owned by a wealthy Briton. Looseyia wears rubber sandals made from old tyres, a red-checked shuka, red dress and beaded belt. “I don’t normally eat like this,” he says, feigning embar-rassment at the elegant meal laid on. I believe him. However much time he has spent around westerners, Looseyia is Masai to the core. What concerns him most about the future of the Mara is the rocketing value of land. Africa is ris-ing, the media proclaim, but it is doing so unequally. Wealthy investors in the former Masai rangelands 30km south of Nairobi have driven land up to 12m shillings per acre. Both the Masai, who “suffered big time”, Looseyia says, and the wildlife are gone. “It’s a threat to conservation, it’s a threat to the com-munity. We are bordering the famous Masai Mara National Reserve. That in itself is gold. It could easily go,” he says.
As well as the Serengeti wildebeest that convene every year in the National Reserve, around 300,000 wildebeest from Kenya’s Loita plains used to arrive concurrently and mingle with their Tanzanian counterparts - the “northern migration”. Calvin Cottar, whose fam-ily have been in the Mara for almost 100 years, has seen the Loita migration reduce by 90 percent to 30,000 animals in the past three decades. Wildlife popu-lations crashed by up to 70 percent in that time, according to a Journal of Zoology study, while cows grazing ille-gally inside the reserve were up by 1,100 percent.
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PLUS | SUNDAY 25 AUGUST 20134 MARKETPLACE / CAMPUS
Qatar UAE Exchange conducted the first draw of its Summer Surprize promotion recently. Two Massaki Pearl necklaces studded with diamonds, eight Mediacom karaoke sets, 100 gold coins of 3 grams each and 50 Popeye gift vouchers worth QR100 were given to winners. Customers who make a remittance transaction at any of UAE Exchange branches in Qatar get a chance to win 318 prizes. The promotion is valid until October 2 with the final draw on October 3. The event was held under the supervision of Khaled Al Mansoori, inspector from the Ministry of Business and Trade. Edison Fernandez, General Manager, Raju Ramachandran, Marketing Head, Murali S Potty, Operations Head, Syed Ibrahim Qadri, Public Relations Officer, of Qatar UAE Exchange, were present at the draw.
W Doha Hotel & Residences celebrated Starwood’s ‘Road to Awareness’, the associate fundraiser to support Unicef, with a special W Bazaar sale for staff. It was held as part of a continuous Starwood global initiative to help raise money to educate children in Cameroon and Nigeria. Staff were invited to participate in ‘W Bazaar’ at the W Doha, where home-baked cakes, clothes, DVDs, games and other items were for sale.
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Georgetown University in Qatar (GU-Q) wel-comed the incoming Class of 2017 at its new student convocation. The 76 entering stu-
dents hail from over 20 countries ranging from China to Yemen to Georgia. Thirty are from Qatar.
The freshmen assembled at the Georgetown audi-torium, processed, and then pledged the honour code. The students were then officially inducted into their promising roles as members of the Georgetown com-munity and officially donned their academic robes.
Gerd Nonneman, Dean of the Georgetown University School of Foreign Service in Qatar, wel-comed the new students.
“These students are laying the foundation of their future,” Nonneman explained. “Over the next four
years they will develop their capacity not only to change their lives but to positively impact the lives of others. This is the time for students to stretch their boundaries, to challenge themselves, and to showcase all they are capable of as they proceed on this remarkable journey.”
Convocation speaker Dr Jeremy Koons told the Class of 2017: “You have earned your place here. You wouldn’t be here if we didn’t think that you were the ones who would thrive here, who would make us proud, who would leave this place in four years as Georgetown men and women.”
The Class of 2017 will be part of the population of over 250 students at Georgetown’s Qatar campus this year. The Peninsula
Georgetown in Qatar welcomes Class of 2017
Dean Gerd Nonneman and faculty members.
The Class of 2017
5WHEELS PLUS | SUNDAY 25 AUGUST 2013
The Porsche Panamera, the brand’s four-seater sports car, is expanding further with the introduction of the second
generation at Porsche Centre Doha, Al Boraq Automobiles. Ten derivatives are now available, with three debut models joining a redeveloped line-up.
Parts of the range are the Panamera 4S Executive and Panamera Turbo Executive, with an extended wheelbase. They take the sporty saloon into the luxurious executive segment. A third new model, the Panamera S E-Hybrid, marks a new technological benchmark as the world’s first plug-in hybrid in the luxury class. A completely new three-litre V6 engine that features biturbo charging for the Panamera S and Panamera 4S is introduced.
New technologies mean fuel savings of up to 56 per cent and – with the exception of the diesel model – more power. The standard version offers a blistering top speed of 259km/h, 310 horsepower and a fuel consumption of just 8.4 l/100km, proving efficiency need not mean a compromise in sport-ing performance.
The model redesign has an enhanced driver experience at its core. The redeveloped Porsche Doppelkupplung (PDK) with virtual intermediate gears further improves fuel economy and comfort. Newly developed tires, lighter 18-inch wheels and a specifically tuned Porsche Stability Management (PSM) add to the car’s sportiness and comfort.
Visually tighter lines, more pro-nounced contours and newly shaped body elements all combine to enhance the Panamera’s Gran Turismo charac-ter. A widened rear windscreen gives the car a visually lower stance, whilst a wider spoiler and optional LED lights make the new model stand out.
George Wills, Managing Director of Porsche Middle East and Africa FZE, says: “This is a great moment for our brand as we extend the Panamera range
to an unprecedented ten models in the Gran Turismo segment. Each model offers a unique and individual experience, but all bring luxury and comfort together with sporty driving performance.”
The new Executive models — with their 15 cm longer wheelbase –— offer more rear seating space and introduce features for a more private, comfort-able ride. Privacy glass with its tinting and enhanced light reflecting prop-erties is provided for the rear side windows.
Continuing to increase perform-ance and efficiency is the completely new V6 three-litre biturbo engine which is replacing the previous 4.8-litre V8 engine in the Panamera S and Panamera 4S, and is also used in the new Executive version of the Panamera 4S, whereas the Panamera GTS will retain its V8 engine.
The new engine gives the Panamera S and Panamera 4S 20 hp more power and 20 Newton metres more torque, but
with 18 per cent improved fuel economy compared to the previous model.
Central to the new generation is the Panamera S E-Hybrid — a sys-tematically advanced development of the parallel full hybrid, which Porsche introduced to the market as a pioneer in the field. With 416 horsepower, acceleration from 0-100km/h in 5.5 seconds and a top speed of 270km/h, it is a Porsche Gran Turismo through and through. It is unique in its ability to drive considerable distances in all-electric mode, with a range of up to 36km and an unrivalled electric driving top speed of 135km/h.
Salman Jassem Al Darwish, Chairman & CEO of Porsche Centre Doha, said: “As you would expect, we have had a great deal of interest around the launch of the new Panamera. The new design is a lot more precise, sharper and edgier. It’s a successful combination of traditional values and a forward-looking design.
“I am personally excited about the new Executive versions that represent the best of both worlds: a sporty spin in the driver’s seats or an efficient work session in the comfort of the rear. It is the first time that Porsche has paid special attention to the absolutely exquisite rear compartment. Several features such as 8-way power seats with seat ventilation as well as ther-mally and noise insulated glass with a privacy glazing are just a few features, our customers will be able to enjoy.” PRICE RANGE:
Panamera: QR381,200Panamera 4: QR404,500Panamera Diesel: QR379,000Panamera S: QR459,500Panamera S E-Hybrid: QR482,900Panamera 4S: QR484,000Panamera 4S Executive: QR561,200Panamera GTS: QR522,000Panamera Turbo: QR668,100Panamera Turbo Executive: QR729,100
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All-new Nissan Tiida makes regional debut
Nissan raised the curtain on the All-new Nissan Tiida in the region recently. The completely revised second generation of the compact hatchback has everything to
build on the Tiida nameplate’s established success. Already commanding 54 percent of the expanding compact hatchback segment in the Gulf, Nissan aims to more than double sales and extend market share beyond 60 percent with the introduction of the All-new Nissan Tiida.
”The All-new Nissan Tiida is equipped to reward the diverse lifestyles of the Middle East’s free spirits,” said Samir Cherfan, Managing Director, Nissan Middle East.
“Tiida is the Middle East’s most established name in the hatchback market, with a customer loyalty second to none in its class. With refreshed design and improved levels of standard technology, the All-new Nissan Tiida will not only appeal to existing
customers but also attract a new range of Middle East buyers looking for a stylish and premium hatchback.”
On September 18, Nissan will create a special “Tiida Moment” with a unique launch event to be held simultaneously in multiple locations across
the region. The hatchback has arrived with sleek styling, best-in-class fuel economy, class-leading interior spaciousness, advanced technology and features typically expected from far more expensive vehicles.
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New Porsche models reach Doha showroom
PLUS | SUNDAY 25 AUGUST 20136 FOOD
BY J M HIRSCH
Many years ago, I was vegan. And I was rather fond of my tofu. That was many years ago. Today I am rather fond of my beef bacon. And steak. And eggs. And all manner
of cheeses.Still, every now and again it’s worth revisiting the
culinary paths we walked before. I may no longer wish to abstain from things meat and dairy, but that doesn’t mean I must in turn abstain from tofu. It is, after all, a healthy, delicious, affordable and versatile protein that — thanks to being naturally lighter than meats and seafood — is particularly good in summer.
Back in the day, I loved cutting tofu into cubes, then tossing them with chilled soba noodles and spicy peanut sauce. It was a robust, yet cool salad for a warm day. And lately I’ve found myself crav-ing it.
But I decided to play around with the concept a bit. I wanted more flavour. And I wanted to make use of the grill to get it. The results were terrific.
One caution. It is important to search out tofu that is already smoked and baked. Not only is the flavour of this style of tofu better, the texture is superior, as well. It has almost a cheddar cheese-like density. Conventional tofu is watery and flavourless and can be fussy to grill. If you need a shortcut for this recipe, you could use bottled peanut sauce, but the flavour won’t be nearly as good. It would be bet-ter to make the sauce ahead of time and store it in the refrigerator, where it will keep (tightly covered) for several days. AP
Spice Peanut Noodle Saladwith Tofu
Start to finish: 40 minutesServings: 6
Ingredients4 cups broccoli floretsOlive oilKosher salt and ground black pepper8-ounce block marinated and baked tofu6.2-ounce package soba noodles2/3 cup natural peanut butter1/4 cup soy sauce1/4 cup water3 tablespoons seasoned rice vinegar1-inch chunk fresh ginger2 cloves garlicHot sauce, to taste2 scallions, chopped1/4 cup chopped roasted peanuts
Method:Heat the grill to medium. Check the grates
of your grill to see whether the broccoli florets are likely to fall through. If so, line a small bak-ing sheet or metal roasting pan with foil, then mist with cooking spray.
In a medium bowl, combine the broccoli florets and about 2 tablespoons of olive oil. Toss until evenly coated. Season with salt and
pepper.Place the tofu slabs on the grill. Carefully
transfer the broccoli to the grill, either directly on the grates or on the prepared baking sheet or roasting pan. Grill the broc-coli for 3 minutes, the tofu for 8 minutes, or until the broccoli is lightly charred and the tofu is nicely seared. Transfer everything to a baking sheet in a single layer. Place in the refrigerator to cool.
While the broccoli and tofu cool, bring a large saucepan of salted water to a boil. Add the soba noodles and cook for 5 minutes, or until just tender. Drain well, then transfer to the
baking sheet in the refrigerator to cool.Meanwhile, to prepare the peanut sauce,
in a blender combine the peanut butter, soy sauce, water, rice vinegar, ginger and garlic. Blend until smooth. Add a splash of hot sauce, blend then taste and adjust with additional hot sauce, if desired.
When the tofu, broccoli and noodles have cooled, transfer the tofu to a cutting board and cut into bite-size chunks. Transfer the noodles to a large bowl and drizzle the peanut sauce over them. Toss to coat evenly, then add the tofu and broccoli and mix gently. Garnish with chopped scallions and peanuts.
You don’t need to be vegan to appreciate tofu
FITNESS/HEALTH 7
Casey Seidenberg, co-founder of Nourish Schools, a Washington-based nutrition education com-pany, answering questions about creating a healthful family breakfast:
When trying to get break-fast on the table, cereal is the quickest way to go. But are cereals really all that healthy? Even if they’re not the versions with marshmallows or honey, are they healthy enough when paired with (low-fat/skim) milk?
Processed cereals are not as healthful as whole-grain options such as whole oatmeal. The grains in a processed cereal have been broken down, so they don’t provide all of the nutrition a whole grain would, and they often lack fiber, so they enter the bloodstream more quickly than a whole grain, which leaves a child hungry sooner. A better bet for a quick breakfast is a homemade whole-grain muffin, or pre-soaked oatmeal that can be heated quickly.
I switched the term “break-fast” to mean “eat something.” It could be scrambled eggs on toast or a meatloaf sandwich. Some days it was a serving spoon of peanut butter and a glass of milk. Other days it was homemade milkshake with frozen fruit. Our child was in a carpool and I lived with empty glasses and greasy paper towels left in my car.
Leftovers often make a great
breakfast! I agree that we should think out of the box when it comes to breakfast. We don’t need to eat the very American cereals and baked goods. Meats and broth and greens are traditional morning meals in many countries and are a fantastic way to begin any day.
Is there any risk to eating the same thing every day, as long as it’s something healthy?
As long as you are getting a variety of foods and nutrients throughout your day, you are probably fine eating the same healthful breakfast most days. It never hurts to shake it up on weekends or when you have more time to experiment. Perhaps add fresh fruit or some raw nuts to up the nutrition.
It seems to be trendy these days to make your own nut butters, yogurt, flours, etc. Is it worth it? I guess I’m wonder-ing about taste-wise, nutrition-wise and price-wise.
Making your own food is won-derful! If you have the time, of course. I often make nut butters because we eat a lot of them, but I have decided that the ground flours are worth buying since there are wonderful options out there and I don’t have the time to grind my own. Everyone has dif-ferent amounts of time, different comfort levels in the kitchen, dif-ferent budgets, and access to dif-ferent foods, so I believe it is best to decide what works for you and your family.
One of my three kids just plain isn’t hungry in the morn-ing. It takes at least two hours for her stomach to “wake up,” and before that, it’s all I can do to get her to drink a glass of milk. . . . She’s starting kinder-garten next month, and she’ll need to eat something in the morning! I’ve tried smoothies, cereal, pancakes, muffins and all kinds of “treats,” but she just won’t touch anything. Any thoughts?
My advice would be to do three things. First, explain to your child how important breakfast is to a growing child. The Web site www.breakfastfirst.org has some simple statistics and easy-to-explain facts. This might not change her behavior immediately, but it is an important part of your role as a parent to teach her to make the right choices when away from you. Second, see whether you can pack her something to eat on the way to school or even at her desk. If discussed in advance, many teachers will allow a child to eat something at school if there is a good reason for it. Third, think about lighter foods such as smoothies (which I know you have tried!). Ask your child whether it would feel better for her to have a smoothie or a little fruit and plain yogurt instead of something heavier like oatmeal or a baked good. She might be more open to foods if they are labeled “lighter.”
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A weight control kit that makes pills redundant
An Indian American doctor and a fellow phy-sician have co-invented a weight control kit that promises to make weight loss supple-
ments, that risk damage to the liver and kidneys, redundant.
Called SlimPlate System, the “portion control kit” developed by Sandeep Grewal and Myo Nwe, both practising physicians in Rock Hill, South Carolina, marks a radical shift in weight loss planning and control, according to a media release.
Portion control, a dieting method of understand-ing how much a serving size of food is and how many calories or how much food energy a serving contains, is not a new concept. But the SlimPlate System kit makes portion control easy and structured.
“We have presented ‘Weight-Loss In A Box’. Our new SlimPlate System provides a plan, as well as a method, for users to control portion sizes effort-lessly,” the media statement quoted a spokesperson of Ace Medical Weight Loss Centre that produces the kit as saying. Rock Hill-based Ace Medical Weight Loss Centre was co-founded by Grewal and Nwe.
According to the spokesperson, instead of count-ing on people to figure out the correct portion sizes, the makers of the kit have included portion control plates, cups, bowls and a set of unique portion control cutting rings.
“This gets rid of any guesswork. The SlimPlate System is the only system of weight loss that pro-vides tableware that have clearly marked lines that separate the portions of the different groups of foods. Fruits, grains, vegetables and proteins are all kept within different coloured lines for easy portion-control,” he said.
It took two years to develop the kit and the results were presented at the 2012 annual meeting of The American Society of Bariatric Physicians in Orlando, Florida. Grewal is a recipient of the Charlotte Business Journal’s Healthcare Innovator Award for 2013, Nwe holds a diploma from the American Board of Obesity Medicine.
Fruits, vegetables may lower women’s bladder cancer risk
Rsearchers in the United States say their stud-ies suggest that greater consumption of fruits and vegetables may reduce the risk of devel-
oping invasive bladder cancer in women. Researchers at the University of Hawaii described in the Journal of Nutrition that they analysed data collected from 185,885 older adults over a period of 12.5 years, Xinhua reported. Overall, 152 women and 429 men were diagnosed with invasive bladder cancer.
After adjusting for variables related to cancer risk, such as age, the researchers found that women who consumed the most fruits and vegetables had the lowest bladder risk.
According to the researchers, women consuming the most yellow-orange vegetables were 52 percent less likely to have bladder cancer than women con-suming the least yellow-orange vegetables.
The study also suggested that women with the highest intake of vitamins A, C and E had the low-est risk of bladder cancer. There are, however, no associations between fruit and vegetable intake and invasive bladder cancer in men, the study found.
“Our study supports the fruit and vegetable rec-ommendation for cancer prevention,” researcher Song-Yi Park at the University of Hawaii Cancer Center said in a statement.
“However, further investigation is needed to understand and explain why the reduced cancer risk with higher consumption of fruits and vegetables was confined to only women,” Park said. Agencies
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the C
ollapsi
ng T
entp
ole
s. A
s m
ega-b
udget
specta
cle
s su
ch a
s W
hit
e
Hou
se D
ow
n, T
he L
on
e R
an
ger
and A
fter
Ea
rth f
ell a
part
at
the b
ox o
ffice, litt
le
engin
es
that
could
— o
ne w
ith a
nam
e
that
was
lite
rally “
Mud”
— p
roved t
hey
could
not
only
surviv
e t
he c
om
peti
tion,
but
thriv
e.
As
we l
earned l
ast
sum
mer,
whic
h
featu
red s
uch d
ebacle
s as
Joh
n C
art
er
an
d
Ba
ttle
ship
, quali
ty sti
ll coun
ts.
Stu
dio
s, w
hic
h g
en
erally a
void
mov-
ies th
at
are n
ovel
or ris
ky or n
ot
base
d o
n a
com
ic b
ook b
ecause
they’r
e
“executi
on d
ependent,
” m
ay s
low
ly b
e
realisi
ng t
hat
everyth
ing’s
executi
on
dependent,
no m
att
er t
he s
tar, so
urce
mate
ria
l or s
pecia
l-eff
ects
budget.
Th
at
goes fo
r en
durin
gly
reli
able
fa
mily fi
lms
as
well —
in t
he p
ile-u
p o
f an
imate
d k
ids’
movie
s th
is s
um
mer,
the t
riu
mphs
happened a
lso t
o b
e t
he
best:
D
esp
ica
ble
Me 2
an
d
Mon
sters
Un
ivers
ity.
Those
vic
torie
s, p
lus
a f
ew
out-
of-
left
-field
hit
s and m
isse
s, m
ade
the
past
few
m
on
ths
parti
cula
rly
in
structi
ve f
or a
nyon
e w
illin
g t
o p
ay
att
enti
on.
Befo
re w
e all
go back
to
sch
ool,
here a
re a
few
lesson
s l
earn
ed t
hat
Holl
yw
ood m
ay w
an
t to
stu
dy up
on
w
hen
it
pla
ns our n
ext
sum
mer
vacati
on.
Even
the b
iggest
sta
rs b
urn
out:
Tw
o of
the big
gest
sta
rs on
th
e
pla
net
—
Wil
l S
mit
h
an
d
Joh
nn
y
Depp —
got
rude aw
ak
en
ings th
is
sum
mer,
when
their
movie
s flopped.
Th
e L
on
e R
an
ger
proved t
hat
a d
ust
y
perio
d W
est
ern b
ase
d o
n a
1930s
radio
se
ria
l —
surpris
e! —
won’t
connect
wit
h
young a
udie
nces
or inte
rnati
onal vie
w-
ers,
regardle
ss o
f explo
sions,
specta
cu-
lar s
tunts
and t
he m
agic
al
Mr D
epp.
Aft
er
Ea
rth h
as
done b
ett
er o
verse
as,
but
probably
not
well e
nough t
o t
urn
a g
enuin
e p
rofit.
It’
s n
ot
just
about
US
:E
ven i
f non-U
S b
ox -
offi
ce r
eceip
ts
can
’t s
ave a
debacle
lik
e A
fter
Ea
rth,
they h
ave t
ipped t
he s
cale
s in
favour
of
Pa
cifi
c R
im,
especia
lly in
C
hin
a:
Guil
lerm
o
del
Toro’s
scie
nce
fic-
tion
fa
nta
sy un
derperfo
rm
ed w
hen
it o
pen
ed d
om
est
ically b
ut
has
more
than m
ade u
p f
or t
hat
in o
ther m
ar-
kets
, la
rgely
due t
o d
el T
oro’s
inst
inc-
tively
glo
bal
poin
t of
vie
w a
nd k
nack
for c
osm
opolita
n c
ast
ing.
Wom
en
aren
’t t
he e
nem
y,
Holl
yw
ood:
On
e o
f th
e b
iggest
surpris
e h
its
of
the s
um
mer w
as
Th
e H
ea
t, t
he o
nly
big
-popcorn m
ovie
to f
eatu
re a
fem
ale
le
ad (
two i
n f
act:
Sandra B
ullock a
nd
Meli
ssa
McC
arth
y).
An
d
an
oth
er
dark h
orse
can a
ttrib
ute
its
success
to
wom
en: B
rad P
itt’
s zo
mbie
chase
-movie
W
orl
d W
ar
Z w
ent
from
dis
ast
erpie
ce
to B
rad’s
hig
hest
-gross
ing fi
lm, th
anks
to t
he w
om
en w
ho m
ade u
p a
whoppin
g
50 p
ercent
of
its
audie
nce.
Bla
ck
fi
lms
don
’t
“overperfo
rm
.”
They p
erfo
rm
, perio
d.
Wit
h s
uccess
es
like F
ruit
vale
Sta
tion
and L
ee D
an
iels
’ T
he B
utl
er,
this
was
a
great
sum
mer f
or A
fric
an
-Am
eric
an
st
orie
s on
screen
. A
nd t
hey b
ecam
e
hit
s, n
ot
just
because
they w
ere g
ood,
but
because
they w
ere m
ade f
or m
od-
est
budgets
and m
arkete
d w
ith s
avvy
and s
ensi
tivit
y.
Lik
e t
he T
yle
r P
erry
oeuvre,
rom
-com
s like Ju
mp
ing a
nd
Bro
om
an
d T
hin
k L
ike a
Ma
n a
nd 4
2
befo
re t
hem
, th
is s
um
mer’s
crop o
f film
s by a
nd a
bout
Afr
ican-A
meric
ans
con
necte
d w
ith j
ust
the r
ight
audi-
en
ces
—
wh
eth
er
that
mean
t th
e
Wein
stein
Com
pan
y r
eachin
g o
ut
to
bla
ck c
hurches
to p
rom
ote
Th
e B
utl
er
or C
odebla
ck E
nte
rta
inm
en
t, w
hic
h
produced K
evi
n H
art
: L
et
Me E
xp
lain
, research
ing H
art’
s ti
cket
sale
s an
d
Tw
itte
r a
nd F
acebook f
ollow
ings.
The
resu
lt?
Let
Me E
xp
lain
was
one o
f th
e
sleeper h
its
of
the s
um
mer,
gross
ing
just
over $
32m
(w
hic
h, coin
cid
enta
lly,
is a
lso t
he g
ross
from
tic
ket
sale
s fr
om
H
art’
s la
st t
our).
A ris
ing ti
de can
’t li
ft all
boats
if
th
e h
arbour i
s t
oo c
row
ded:
Th
e sum
mer m
ovie
season
broke
box-o
ffice r
ecords
this
sum
mer, earn-
ing n
orth
of
$4bn.
But
John F
ithia
n,
presi
den
t an
d c
hie
f executi
ve o
f th
e
Nati
on
al
Associa
tion
of
Th
eatr
e
Ow
ners,
suggests
th
at
stu
dio
s le
ft
mon
ey
on
th
e
table
by
crow
din
g
their
m
ovie
s in
to an
alr
eady busy
three-m
on
th p
erio
d.
“Som
e o
f th
ose
m
ovie
s w
ould
have d
on
e a
lot
bett
er
som
ew
here e
lse. A
fam
ily t
itle
moved
from
sum
mer t
o F
ebruary c
ould
have
increase
d i
ts g
ross
, even s
om
e o
f th
e
popcorn a
cti
on m
ovie
s rele
ase
d s
om
e-
where e
lse c
ould
have i
ncrease
d t
heir
gross,”
F
ith
ian
says.
“Th
ere are 12
month
s on t
he c
ale
ndar. W
e c
onti
nu-
ally u
rge d
istr
ibuto
rs
to s
pread t
heir
m
ovie
s out.
” (H
ear t
hat,
Wh
ite H
ou
se
Dow
n?
Or C
rood
s? O
r T
urb
o?)
Dit
ch t
he c
ape:
“Y
ou don
’t n
eed superh
eroes to
succeed,”
says B
oxoffi
ce.c
om
’s P
hil
Contr
ino. “I
f you l
ook a
t th
e o
ne s
tu-
dio
that
had o
ne o
f th
e b
est
sum
mers
it w
ould
be U
niv
ersa
l —
min
us
R.I
.P.D
— a
nd t
hey h
ad F
ast
an
d F
uri
ou
s 6 a
nd
Desp
ica
ble
Me 2
, [n
eit
her]
a s
uperhero
franchis
e.
This
idea t
hat
you h
ave t
o
take a
superhero a
nd m
ake e
ight
mov-
ies
out
of th
at
characte
r is
not
the o
nly
w
ay t
o g
o.”
That
goes
for f
ran
chis
es
in g
eneral: W
hile s
erie
s in
stallm
ents
li
ke
Perc
y Ja
ck
son
: S
ea
of
Mon
sters
and T
he S
mu
rfs
2 a
rriv
ed i
n t
heatr
es
alr
eady g
asp
ing for a
ir, orig
inal horror
film
s like T
he C
on
juri
ng a
nd T
he P
urg
e
— a
s w
ell a
s th
e l
iterary a
dapta
tions
Th
e G
rea
t G
ats
by
and W
orl
d W
ar
Z —
defied H
ollyw
ood’s
tir
ed r
eboot-
sequel-
franchis
e p
aradig
m. (O
f course
, W
orl
d
Wa
r Z
has
reporte
dly
alr
eady launched
anoth
er f
ranchis
e, and t
he w
orld
goes
‘round a
nd ‘round.)
An
d le
t serio
us dram
as save th
e
day:
On
e o
f th
e m
ost
profita
ble
movie
s of
the s
um
mer w
as
Mu
d,
an
atm
os-
pheric
bayou t
hrille
r s
tarrin
g M
att
hew
M
cC
on
aughey i
n t
he t
itle
role
; aft
er
openin
g in t
heatr
es
in A
pril, it
pla
yed
all s
um
mer long, st
ill att
racti
ng a
udi-
en
ces
even
when
it
was
available
on
D
VD
. S
imilar s
uccess
es
inclu
de T
he
Pla
ce B
eyon
d t
he P
ines,
th
e m
id-l
ife
rom
an
ce
Befo
re
Mid
nig
ht,
W
oody
Allen
’s B
lue J
asm
ine,
the c
om
ing-o
f-age c
om
edy T
he W
ay,
Wa
y B
ack
an
d
the e
moti
onally g
rip
pin
g u
rban d
ram
a
Fru
itva
le S
tati
on. A
ll o
f th
ese
win
ners
prove t
hat
“the a
udie
nce is
really c
rav-
ing c
lass
ic fi
lmm
akin
g,”
says
How
ard
Coh
en
, co-presid
en
t of
Roadsid
e
Att
racti
on
s, M
ud’s
dis
trib
uto
r.
“Mu
d
had M
att
hew
McC
on
aughey,
it h
ad
som
e a
mbit
ion
, it
had s
om
e s
cope,
it
was
access
ible
for t
he w
hole
countr
y, it
w
as
not
cult
urally e
xclu
sive. B
ut
most
[i
mporta
nt]
, it
was
a m
ovie
for g
row
n-
ups,
the k
ind t
hat’
s not
gett
ing m
ade
anym
ore o
uts
ide m
ovie
s engin
eered for
Osc
ars.
”
We m
ay be gett
ing over 3-D
here
but
it i
sn
’t o
ver o
ver t
here.
Aft
er a
mad r
ush
to c
onvert
mov-
ies
an
d t
heate
rs
to 3
-D i
n t
he w
ake
of
blo
ckbust
ers
like A
vata
r and A
lice
in W
on
derl
an
d,
the 3
-D m
arket
has
matu
red i
n t
he U
nit
ed S
tate
s.
Less
than
a th
ird of
box-o
ffice reven
ues
for
two
of
the
sum
mer’s
big
gest
hit
s —
Desp
ica
ble
Me 2
an
d M
on
sters
Un
ivers
ity —
cam
e f
rom
3-D
prem
i-um
s. S
ays
Nato
’s F
ithia
n, th
e s
uccess
of 3-D
“breaks
dow
n g
eographic
ally a
s w
ell a
s [b
y]
genre. 3-D
did
prett
y w
ell
inte
rnati
onally t
his
sum
mer, but
not
so
hot
dom
est
ically.”
Genre-w
ise, he s
ays,
“F
am
ily t
itle
s, p
arti
cula
rly
in
volv
ing
young c
hildren, aren’t
workin
g o
n 3
-D
as
well a
s w
e t
hought.
” M
eanw
hile, an
adapta
tion
of
a J
azz
Age n
ovel
by F
S
cott
F
itzgerald
does gan
gbuste
rs.
Says
Fit
hia
n,
“3-D
’s n
ot
goin
g a
way
in t
he U
nit
ed S
tate
s, b
ut
we h
ave t
o
be m
ore s
ele
cti
ve in t
he m
ovie
s w
here
we e
xpect
it t
o w
ork.”
W
P-B
loom
ber
g
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ND
AY
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GU
ST 2
013
Mad
ras
Cafe
: Tau
t po
litic
al t
hrill
erB
y S
ub
has
h K
Jh
a
Fil
m:
Ma
dra
s C
afe
Cast
: Jo
hn A
braham
, N
argis
Fakhri and R
aash
i K
hanna
Dir
ecto
r: S
hoojit
Sir
car
If o
nly
his
tory
co
uld
be c
han
ged
by
art
. C
inem
a i
s a p
ow
erf
ul
med
ium
fo
r so
cio
-p
olit
ical e
xp
ress
ion
an
d revo
lutio
n. A
las,
in th
is c
ou
ntr
y, e
nte
rtain
men
t en
gag
es
all
oth
er
asp
ects
of
life o
n c
ellu
loid
.B
ut
seri
ou
sly,
it’s
tim
e n
ow
to
get
off
th
e C
henn
ai E
xpre
ss a
nd
get
into
Mad
ras
Caf
e fo
r a c
up
of
the c
om
pelli
ng
. W
e n
eed
a r
ealit
y ch
eck.
An
d w
e n
eed
to
reg
ain
a
sen
se o
f h
isto
ry in
Bo
llyw
oo
d c
inem
a w
hic
h s
eem
s lo
st in
th
e h
oary
art
of
stre
ets
ide
tam
ash
a,
glo
rified
an
d a
gg
ran
dis
ed
by
pro
cess
es
of
cin
em
atics
that
are
perc
eiv
ed
to
be t
he e
lixir o
f p
op
cu
ltu
re.
It is
tim
e fo
r m
ain
stre
am
ente
rtain
ment to
gro
w u
p. H
eig
hte
ned
realis
m is
a m
eans
to
achie
ve a
syn
thesi
s o
f fa
nta
sy a
nd
his
tory
in this
deft
ly s
crip
ted
sem
i-fictio
nal a
cco
unt
of
the p
rocess
es
lead
ing
to
Rajiv
Gan
dh
i’s t
rag
ic a
ssass
inatio
n in
19
91
.T
he t
ren
ch
an
t sc
rip
t, c
o-w
ritt
en
by
So
mn
ath
Dey
an
d S
hu
ben
du
Bh
att
ach
ary
a,
att
em
pts
an
d s
ucceed
s i
n b
uild
ing
th
e s
am
e s
pir
al
of
pseu
do
-his
tory
th
at
Oliv
er
Sto
ne b
uilt
in
JF
K.
I fe
el In
dia
n p
olit
ics,
becau
se o
f th
e c
ou
ntr
y’s
mu
lti-
cu
ltu
rism
, is
fa
r m
ore
co
mp
lex t
han
its
Am
erican
or
Eu
rop
ean
co
un
terp
art
. O
ur
cin
em
a t
en
ds
to
dilu
te, si
mp
lify
an
d trivi
alis
e h
isto
ry b
ecau
se w
e a
re m
uch
to
o w
ary
of an
d la
zy a
bo
ut
gett
ing
in
volv
ed
. N
ot
Sh
oo
jit S
ircar. N
ot
Mad
ras
Caf
e. N
ot
Jo
hn
Ab
rah
am
. W
hat
a
co
ura
geo
us
pro
du
cer
an
d a
cto
r Jo
hn
has
pro
ven
him
self t
o b
e!
Let
me s
ay
rig
ht
aw
ay,
th
at
to u
nd
ers
tan
d t
he e
no
rmity
of th
e s
tory
to
ld in
Mad
ras
Cafe
, th
e a
ud
ien
ce o
ug
ht
to b
e f
am
iliar
with
th
e v
iole
nt
his
tory
of
the S
ri L
an
kan
civ
il w
ar. B
ut
eve
n if
yo
u d
on
’t k
no
w t
hat
tho
usa
nd
s o
f Ta
mili
an
s d
ied
in t
he w
ar
of
sep
a-
ratism
, it is
no
sw
eat
off
th
e s
cre
en
pla
y’s
back.
Tucked
aw
ay
in t
he c
om
pelli
ng
cre
ase
s o
f th
e p
lot
is a
terr
ific t
hrille
r ab
out
the
ass
ass
inatio
n o
f a p
rim
e m
inis
ter, w
ho
, le
t it b
e k
no
wn
, is
no
t n
am
ed
in t
he fi
lm. N
or
are
th
e L
TT
E (
Lib
era
tio
n T
igers
of
Tam
il E
ela
m), P
rab
akara
n a
nd
th
e o
ther
key
pla
y-ers
. B
ut
then
th
is is
Ind
ia.
Here
, se
cre
cy
an
d s
tealth
are
th
e f
ou
nd
ing
fath
ers
of
an
y p
olit
ical e
xp
ose
.B
ut
you
can
’t e
scap
e t
he c
lutc
hes
of
his
tory
’s t
yran
ny.
Sircar’s
skill
ful i
nte
rweave
-m
en
t o
f fa
ct
an
d fi
ctio
n le
ave
s lit
tle r
oo
m f
or
scep
ticis
m. W
e k
no
w a
s w
e w
atc
h w
ith
h
elp
less
ast
on
ish
men
t, t
hat
the ‘
Prim
e M
inis
ter’
will
die
, th
at
the h
ero
in
th
is c
ase
w
on
’t b
e a
ble
to
save
him
.S
uch
are
th
e h
ero
es
in r
eal
life.
Un
sun
g,
size
s sm
alle
r th
an
life.
Jo
hn
Ab
rah
am
sk
ips
into
th
e p
art
of
the R
AW
ag
en
t V
ikra
m S
ing
h w
ith
an
ease
an
d c
om
fort
of
a
natu
ral-
bo
rn s
ecre
t ag
en
t. If
Jam
es
Bo
nd
or
for
that
matt
er
Kab
ir K
han
’s T
iger
were
to
have
any
truck w
ith real-
life p
olit
ics,
they
wo
uld
have
been a
s b
elie
vab
ly b
rave
and
as
cre
dib
ly h
ero
ic a
s Jo
hn
in t
his
film
.S
pecia
lly r
ivetin
g is
Pra
kash
Bela
wad
e a
s Jo
hn
’s a
sso
cia
te,
wh
o s
eem
s to
drin
k
hard
to
esc
ap
e f
rom
th
e e
no
rmity
of
his
co
mp
rom
ise.
Eve
n N
arg
is F
akh
ri,
so s
elf-
co
nsc
iou
sly
aff
ecte
d a
s R
an
bir K
ap
oo
r’s
do
om
ed
so
ul-
mate
in
Ro
ckst
ar, n
ails
her
war
co
rresp
on
den
t’s
part
with
her
rad
ian
t p
rese
nce.
Bu
t I
have
a q
uib
ble
with
her
ch
ara
cte
r Jaya.
Wh
y d
oes J
aya s
peak i
n E
ng
lish
wh
ile V
ikra
m a
nsw
ers
in
Hin
di?
T
he l
ing
uis
tic p
uzz
le n
eve
r q
uite o
bst
ructs
th
e d
eva
statin
g d
ram
a o
f w
ar
vio
len
ce
co
nsp
iracy
an
d b
etr
aya
l. P
len
ty o
f th
e c
red
it fo
r th
e t
on
al c
orr
ectn
ess
of th
e n
arr
ative
mu
st g
o t
o K
am
alje
et
Neg
i’s b
rilli
an
tly
un
ad
orn
ed
cin
em
ato
gra
ph
y, w
hic
h l
ocks
in o
n s
tun
nin
g v
isu
als
of
vio
len
ce a
nd
esp
ion
ag
e-r
ela
ted
actio
n.
Sircar’s
ed
ito
r C
hand
rash
ekhar
Pra
jap
ati im
bues
a d
ocum
enta
ry s
tyle
mo
od
to
the
foo
tag
e. B
ut th
e s
en
se o
f cin
em
atic e
xp
an
sive
ness
is reta
ined
in th
e w
ay
the c
am
era
m
ove
s th
rou
gh
th
e c
hara
cte
rs’
rest
less
liv
es,
searc
hin
g f
or
po
sitio
ns
of
co
mfo
rt in
a
situ
atio
n la
den
with
desp
era
te a
nxie
ty.
Th
ere
’s a
wh
ole
lo
t o
f st
ifled
dra
ma i
n M
ad
ras
Cafe
. W
hen
a k
ey
ch
ara
cte
r d
ies
in t
he s
eco
nd
-half, th
e t
rag
ed
y is
han
dle
d w
ith
ou
t fu
ss. Jo
hn
’s t
igh
t-lip
ped
perf
orm
-an
ce g
ives
the fi
lm a
sen
se o
f tr
ag
ic g
ran
deu
r. W
e c
on
stan
tly
feel w
e a
re in
a t
err
ito
ry
where
dra
ma h
as
no
pla
ce. T
he s
ound
track is
excep
tio
nally
ho
nest
. Shanta
nu M
oitra
’s
backg
rou
nd
mu
sic u
nd
ers
co
res
eve
ry s
cen
e w
ith
ou
t h
am
merin
g in
th
e e
mo
tio
ns.
Mad
ras
Caf
e is
a d
ark
deep
an
d s
atisf
yin
g fi
lm a
bo
ut
the p
olit
ics
of
sep
ara
tism
. T
he fi
lm d
oesn
’t t
ake s
ides.
If
it is
ag
ain
st a
nyt
hin
g,
it is
the c
ultu
re o
f vi
ole
nce t
hat
natio
ns
oft
en feed
into
neig
hb
ouring
co
untr
ies
for
their o
wn g
ain
s. T
his
film
op
ens
up
th
e h
ith
ert
o u
nexp
lore
d g
en
re o
f p
olit
ical d
ram
a in
Bo
llyw
oo
d.
Aft
er
Vic
ky
Do
no
r, w
e k
no
w S
ircar
is c
om
fort
ab
le e
xp
lorin
g in
no
vative
cin
em
atic
terr
ito
ry. H
ere
, he tells
an e
dg
y d
istu
rbin
g p
rovo
cative
but ra
tio
nal a
nd
fair-
min
ded
sto
ry
that
takes
main
stre
am
Bo
lyw
oo
d c
inem
a k
ickin
g a
nd
scre
am
ing
into
a n
ew
ho
rizo
n.
Th
is i
s cin
em
a s
ign
ifyi
ng
a c
om
ing
-of-
ag
e w
ith
un
forg
ett
ab
le v
isu
als
an
d d
ram
a
and
a ro
usi
ng
matu
re c
are
er-
definin
g p
erf
orm
ance b
y its
lead
ing
man. T
his
is a
rguab
ly
the b
est
po
litic
al t
hrille
r th
at
Bo
llyw
oo
d h
as
so f
ar
giv
en
us.
IAN
S
Cha
rlie
Hun
nam
and
R
inko
Kik
uchi
in
Pac
ific
Rim
Julie
Del
py a
nd E
than
Haw
ke
in B
efor
e M
idni
ght.
EIG
HT
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ons
from
su
mm
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icab
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PLUS | SUNDAY 25 AUGUST 2013 GAME CONSOLES610
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PriceRelease
dateCPUGPU
MediaMemoryStorageInternet
BluetoothPorts
ControlSecondscreen
Backwardscompatible
Power
Sensor BarPS4 Eye†
$399/€399
Nov 15 (North America),Nov 29 (Europe)
8-core AMD Jaguar
AMD Radeon (1,152 shaders)
Blu-ray/DVD
8GB RAM
500GB HD + cloud
Ethernet, Wi-Fi
Bluetooth 2.1
USB 3.0, HDMI
DualShock 4, Eye†, Move‡
PS Vita handheld, tablets andsmartphones running PS4 app
Selected PS3 titles usingGaikai cloud gaming network
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End 2013 (eight countriesdelayed until 2014)*
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USB 3.0, HDMI
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SmartGlass app for tablets andsmartphones
No (rumoured to be workingon XBox 360 title compatibility)
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11BOOKS PLUS | SUNDAY 25 AUGUST 2013
By Christopher Palmeri
“Walt’s dream is a night-mare.” “Crowds gripe over long waiting lines.”
“Opening day was a confused mess.” These were the first newspaper reviews of Disneyland, the California theme park that debuted one scorching day in July 1955.
As a junior publicist hired a month earlier, Marty Sklar had an inside view of the event which included women’s heels stuck in the hot asphalt, not enough water fountains due to a plumber’s strike and attendance dou-ble what was planned because of ticket counterfeiting.
He remembers “Davy Crockett” star Fess Parker, mounted on his steed, pleading, “Marty, help me get out of here before this horse kills somebody.” Sklar escorted them both backstage.
Disney’s PR staff turned things around by inviting the press to come back at night, when the park wasn’t so crowded.
Sklar went on to become president of the Walt Disney Co’s Imagineering unit, which designs the company’s parks and hotels. Author of a new memoir, Dream
It! Do It!, Sklar described the company’s early days and why the world’s largest licensor may never lend its name to a car.
What was it like to work with Walt?
He was not the kind of person who would pat you on the back and say “Great idea.” He just expected it. Dick Irvine (a design executive) was a mas-ter at getting something in position, something Walt could build on. Walt loved plus-ing other people’s ideas. That was exciting to be around.
What were meetings like?I remember we had an idea for
an electronic shooting gallery set in outer space. We spent an hour describing it and the characters. Walt didn’t say a word. Finally, he got up and said, “Is that all they do?” We all understood the signal. It never was a game.
Another idea that didn’t work was a Disney car.
We found that teenage boys had no interest in riding in a Disney car. No one wanted to hear that a kid was
killed or injured in an accident. It was something you don’t want to have to deal with.
Disney has taken a lot of chances,
though.We learned by doing. We tried a lot
of things at Disneyland that didn’t work. The things that worked became traditions. The biggest thing about Walt Disney was that he did not do sequels. He did not want to follow himself.
In the early days Disney cre-ated original park attractions like Pirates of the Caribbean and the Haunted Mansion. Today a new ride is much more likely to be linked to movie content.
When you can attach great stories to an attraction, why not? Having great Pixar stories to use, or other Disney films, it’s really quite an advantage. Cars Land, what a fabu-lous addition. I love going there at night, all those neon signs. And the ride itself is one of the best we’ve done.
One of the things that comes out in your book is that some countries want their park to reflect the local culture and some don’t.
The Japanese said: “Don’t Japanize us. We came to you for Disney. We came to you for America.” Tokyo Disneyland didn’t even have a Japanese restaurant when it opened.
The French said, “We have the greatest culture in the world.” You get different attitudes in different places. All of Walt’s stories were out of Europe. Snow White was German; Mary Poppins, English. In Shanghai they’re paying a lot more attention to the Chinese culture.
Your career has taken some turns. You started out as a publi-cist and ended up running a group that included engineers, designers and MBAs.
Too many MBAs. I tell young people: Learn as much as you can, about as much as you can, when you’re young. That’s the time to find out what you really want to do. If you’re not having fun in the fun business, find something else to do. WP-Bloomberg
Dream It!: Recalling the bumpy beginning to the Disney empire
TECHNOLOGYPLUS | SUNDAY 25 AUGUST 201312
Vodafone has introduced a winner pack-age with its Smart Mini plus data pack combo deal. The international telecom giant’s entry-level smartphone comes with a 15 GB data pack free for a month
for postpaid customers and 1GB of data free for pre-paid customers if they buy the QR299 phone before October 18.
The device is one of the best in its category and makes an excellent VoIP phone. Although there are similar phones in the market in the same price range, Smart Mini scores over most of them with the inclu-sion of Android 4.1 (Jelly Bean).
Samsung Galaxy Pocket and Huawei Ascend Y210 match the Smart Mini in price but neither have the 1 GHz processor the Vodafone phone boasts of.
The Smart Mini will be an ideal entry phone for someone who is a tech newbie or someone on a tight budget looking for a smartphone that makes connecting with friends and family with the help of VoIP apps like Viber, Mobile VoIP, Line etc very easy.
On the other hand, those into gaming won’t really enjoy the 3.5” HVGA TFT TN screen as it is not as responsive to multitouch gestures as high-end smartphones.
Out of the 4 GB built in memory, 2.2 GB is user-accessible, which should be enough to download most basic apps. There is an option to upgrade the memory by up to 32 GB through a Micro SD card, and this should be enough to enjoy multimedia files of popular formats.
Built-in GPS and A-GPS let you know exactly where you are using Google Maps or any other third party tracking app of one’s choice. It also ensures one’s photos are geotagged.
Smart Mini’s wireless connectivity arsenal includes
Wi-Fi 802.11b/g/n, which fared pretty well during our testing, and Bluetooth 4.0 A2DP, which gives you the option to use wireless stereo headsets, but you would still need to use the included wired head-phones to utilise the built-in FM radio.
The 2MP camera can hold its own in this age of 10-plus megapixels lenses. The photos are pretty sharp in daylight and okay in low light, and offer a range of options like panorama shot, smile detector and more.
One concern of most smartphone users is battery life, and Smart Mini doesn’t disappoint. It chugged on for more than a day even as we were busy squeezing out the juice by testing its features day and night.
Vodafone’s Smart Mini is 115 x 62.3 x 12.2 mm in dimension, which is similar to an iPhone 4S, and looks clean and uncomplicated with the start and volume buttons neatly incorporated into the phone body. The build quality may not be the best you have
seen but is not less than anything else in its category. The bar form factor gives the device quite a sturdy feel, while the 3.5-inch screen makes it using with one hand very convenient. Add to that voice com-mands and its literary hands-free.
The Smart Mini is very simple to set up out of the box, but you need to sign in using your Google ID to use it to its full potential. The Peninsula
Vodafone has launched its entry-level smartphone Smart Mini in Doha. Qassim Rahmatullah puts its through the paces to find out how it fares.
Smart Mini is a value deal
Dimensions: 115 x 62.3 x 12.2 mmWeight: 117g
Colors: Black, White, PinkScreen: 3.5” HVGA TFT TN
Camera: 2 MP camera Fixed FocusPlatform (OS): Android 4.1 (Jelly Bean)
Chipset: MTK 6575M, 1GHz Cortex-A9 MCUMemory: 512 MB RAM
4GB total internal flash ROMBattery Capacity: 1400 mAh
Networks: GSM / EDGE / HSPAFeatures: Wifi 802.11b/g/n, A-GPS, BT4.0 A2DP
Video: H.263, H.264, MPEG4Audio: AAC, AAC+, MP3, Midi
Asphalt 8 Airborne (£0.69)Gameloft’s street racing games
were popular on mobile phones long before Android even existed. The eighth incarnation offers more cars — 47 in total — nine locations to race them in, and a new emphasis on ramps, rolls and stunts (hence the “Airborne” aspect). Online multiplayer races for up to eight players at once add to the fun.
Dots A Game About Connecting (Free)
Dots might just be the most addic-tive Android game yet, thriving on the simplicity of connecting same-coloured dots on a grid in 60-second rounds. Twitter and Facebook are plumbed in to compare your scores to friends, and there is also an untimed mode for practice. In-app purchases of power-ups fund the action.
Timely Alarm Clock (Free)Clock apps are ten-a-penny on the
Google Play store, but there’s some-thing special about Timely. It’s sim-ple and elegant to use, with dragging and swiping controls used to set your alarm, gestures to control the snooze function, and a tablet-optimised design. It’s free but shows ads after five days if you choose not to upgrade via in-app purchase.
Mr Shingu’s Paper Zoo (£0.99)Aimed at children, this is a
delightful combination of origami and virtual pets. Kids have to popu-late a zoo with colourful animals by folding them (virtually) together fol-lowing on-screen prompts, then keep the menagerie occupied with items. Rather than in-app purchases, the app uses a virtual currency earned by playing to fund your child’s zoo expansion.
Minuum Keyboard (£2.48)Pitched as “the little keyboard for
big fingers”, Minuum is a clever idea that shrinks the size of your on-screen keyboard, while using auto-correct to detect what you’re typing on the reduced number of keys. The company behind it is hoping to expand (so to speak) onto smart-watches and other
wearable devices in the future, so this is an early look at how its technology is shaping up.
Dragons of Atlantis Heirs (Free)Social games publisher Kabam had
a big hit on Facebook with its Dragons of Atlantis game, which has more than 15m players. This mobile spin-off is separate — existing players will have to start all over again on their phones — but sees a similar mixture of city-building and dragon-raising.
Nook Video (Free)Only available in the US, this is
the film and TV service from Barnes & Noble’s Nook brand, now available for Android devices beyond its own Nook tablets. It’s a store rather than a subscription service, with shows and movies available to stream or download.
By Stuart DredgeThe Guardian
Android apps of the day
COMICS & MORE 13
Hoy en la HistoriaAugust 25, 1989
1967: A new constitution came into effect in Paraguay, now celebrated each year by a public holiday1973: The first scan was made using CAT (Computer Axial Tomography)1975: Talks between Rhodesia’s white minority government and black leaders opened in railway carriages near Victoria Falls2006: Fire destroyed the vast main dome of the Trinity Cathedral in the Russian city of St Petersburg
After travelling for 12 years and 4.5 billion kilometres, the Voyager 2 spacecraft flew over the cloud tops of the giant planet Neptune and its moon Triton
Picture: Associated Press © GRAPHIC NEWS
ALL IN THE MIND Can you find the hidden words? They may be horizontal,vertical, diagonal, forwards or backwards.
ACTION, ACTOR, AUDIENCE, AUDITION, BACKSTAGE, BOX OFFICE, CABARET, CAMERA, CAST, COMEDY, COSTUME, CURTAIN CALL, DIRECTOR, DRAMA, ENCORE, ENTERTAINMENT, EXTRA, FILM, FOOTLIGHTS, GREASEPAINT, HOLLYWOOD, LIGHTING, LINES, LOCATION, MOVIE, MUSICAL, PERFORMANCE, PLAY, PRODUCER, PROMOTER, PROP, RADIO, REVIEW, ROLE, SCENE, SCORE, SCRIPT, SPOTLIGHT, STAGE, STAND IN, STAR, STUNT.
Baby Blues by Jerry Scott and Rick Kirkman
Zits by Dennis Young and Denis Lebrun
Hagar The Horrible by Chris Browne
Learn Arabic lessons will resume from
September 1, 2013
PLUS | SUNDAY 25 AUGUST 2013
PLUS | SUNDAY 25 AUGUST 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 Rand McNally
publication
6 Where a fetus develops
10 What says
“Miss America” on Miss America
14 “Grand” instrument
15 Samoan capital
16 Duo + one
17 Cent
18 Casual pants
20 Ocean bottoms
22 Depart
23 Fishing line holder
24 Names like Billy the Kid
26 Vehicle with a compactor
30 Ingredient in a McDonald’s Quarter Pounder
31 Recreational walk
32 Traffic problem
35 Unsuave sort
36 Unrefined oil
38 Conceal
39 Items checked by T.S.A. agents
40 Rugmaking apparatus
41 Target, as with a gun
42 Where one might witness a hit and run?
45 Opposite of rejects
48 Winnie-the-___
49 Find, as a missing person
50 Atomic bomb unit
53 Fishing gear holder
56 Stop, as a stream
58 “What ___ be done?”
59 Made a rug, e.g.
60 Pig sounds
61 Spot for a goatee
62 Spots for glasses
63 Skedaddles … or what 18-, 26-, 42- and 53-Across all have
DOWN 1 Online store offering
2 Knots
3 Roadway division
4 University of Michigan’s home
5 Small source of protein
6 Walk like a duck
7 Magnum ___
8 Fraction of an hr.
9 Valise
10 What a meteor looks like in the sky
11 Zones
12 One working out the lumps?
13 Garden watering aids
19 Wonderland girl
21 Neural activity measure, for short
24 Desertlike
25 Book between Mark and John
26 Asian desert
27 “And giving ___, up the chimney he rose”
28 Spanish waterways
29 Hitchhiker’s digit
32 Iwo ___
33 Eve’s mate
34 Ration (out)
36 Price
37 Masses of fish eggs
38 Leave lickety-split
40 Place to pin a tiny flag
41 Numerous
42 Summon
43 Peaks
44 Item resting on andirons
45 Room just under a roof
46 Stock market disaster
47 Desert plants
50 Transport
51 Prefix with directional
52 Zap
54 Ram’s mate
55 The “B” of
B.S.A.
57 Letter add-ons, for short
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
I C A N N O T T E L L A L I EM O N E Y F O R N O T H I N GP R I V A T E E N T R A N C EA R M E D S M U T S E L SL E A R W H O I S S O O TA C T D I O R S S C U S ES T E A R N E S S E A T E D
R I D S P O E MT B O N E S H A N D S A W SA R I E S C A R D S L A HP E L L C O M T E A B R II N B R A L L Y E N U R EO N E C E L L E D A N I M A LC A L C U L A T I N G M I N DA N T I P E R S P I R A N T S
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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The Smurfs 2 (3D/Animation) – 5.00 & 7.00pm
Jobs (2D/Drama) – 9.00 & 11.15pm
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The Mortal Instruments (2D/Action) – 2.30 & 5.00pm
The Conjuring (2D/Horror) – 7.15 & 9.30pm
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Madras Cafe (2D/Hindi) – 2.30 & 8.00pm
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The Mortal Instruments (2D/Action) – 2.30 & 5.00pm
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PLUS | SUNDAY 25 AUGUST 2013 POTPOURRI16
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From Qurtuba To CordobaWhen: Until August 31, 10am-10pm Where: Katara Gallery 1 - Bldg 13
What: This exhibition displays a variety of ornamental details — testimony to past splendour — 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
Qatar National Library Heritage Collection When: Public tours on Sundays and Tuesdays from 10am until 11.30am. Where: Qatar National Library’s Heritage Collection What: Qatar National Library’s remarkable Heritage Collection is a rare trove of manuscripts, books, and artefacts documenting a wealth of Arab-Islamic civilization and human thought. Among its more than thousands of 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
The ThievesWhen: August 25-26, 7pm Where: Drama Theater, Building 16
What: A band of five infamous Korean thieves headed by Popie (Lee Jung-Jae) receives an irresistible offer from former partner Macau Park, to steal a $20m diamond known as ‘Tear of the Sun’ from a casino. The team travels to Hong Kong where Park brought along four other Chines thieves to complete the job. On the day of the heist, the professionals who left nothing to chance find their perfect plan quickly turn into disaster revealing that they all have their own agenda. But who will succeed and walk away with the priceless diamond? Directed by Choi Dong hoon, this star-studded heist movie is one of the top grossing Korean films of all time See dohafilminstitute.com for more information on tickets
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A view of Fanar Mosque.
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MEDIA SCAN A summary ofissues of the daydiscussed by the Qatari communityin the media.
Ohio man back to life 45 minutes after heart stops
A man who was declared dead when his heart stopped beat-ing for 45 minutes suddenly
revived, said his stunned doctors, who can’t find an explanation. The man, though, credits his faith.
The presumed-dead diesel mechanic, Tony Yahle, was being prepared by nurses to be seen by his family when he began to show signs of life, the doctors said. He fully awoke at the hospital five days later, they said.
Yahle, a 37-year-old West Carrollton resident, has been a topic of conversation since, said his cardi-ologist, Dr Raja Nazir.
“In the last 20 years, I’ve never seen anybody who we have pro-nounced dead ... and then for him to come back, I’ve never seen it,” Nazir told the Dayton Daily News. “Actually, I’ve never heard of it.”
Yahle said at Christ’s Church in Bellbrook that a “miracle happened” when he revived. He said doctors couldn’t find any defects in his heart. He said his doctors’ last guess was that it was all the result of a possible viral infection.
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• People are demanding that the authorities earmark additional areas for car parking near Souq Waqif as many visitors to the souqs are spending a long time looking for parking space.
• There is a suggestion to replace all advertisement boards with electronic bulletin boards to display the message clearly. Many of the advertisement boards cannot weather changes in the climate.
• Some real estate experts have demanded that the government intervene to stop the increase in prices of land and construction materials, and also grant land to citizens to control increasing rents.
• A number of visitors to the Umm Salal health centre are demanding that the authorities speed up opening of a new health centre because people are suffering every day as the old building
lacks enough space to accommodate the increasing number of patients.
• Some people with special needs have complained of lack of parking spaces at some bank branches that have opened recently in different areas. All institutions providing services to the public should take this section of society into account and reserve parking spaces for them.
• Some of the eateries need to be monitored by the consumer protection department as many of the workers are not using gloves and following other health rules.
• Many people are complaining about pollution at the Abu Nakhla swamp, where sewage water is pumped out. Migratory birds camp there, and many bird hunters shoot the birds and leave the carcasses in the swamp, which is increasing pollution in the area.