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By Aditi Shah
The Athashri retirement community offers the over-55 crowd Western-style amenities such as a club-
house, gym, library and pool but with a distinctly Indian twist: a temple on site where residents worship Ganesh, the elephant-headed god followed by many Hindus in Maharashtra state.
The 180-unit development in the city of Pune, which enjoys better weather and less bustle than nearby Mumbai, overlooks open fields and hills and is set in lush gardens — an appealing escape from the crowds and grime of India’s mega-cities.
Retirement communities like this one are just beginning to gain traction in India, where the multi-generational “joint family” structure endures despite rampant modernisa-tion. The concept of housing for the elderly still carries a social stigma in the country, which accounts for less than 1 percent of the $25bn senior housing industry worldwide.
But rising incomes, longer life expectancy and the rise of nuclear families as more people relocate for jobs are driving demand for retire-ment homes in Asia’s third-largest economy, and attracting developers and investors.
Paranjape Schemes Ltd, which manages Athashri, is among a hand-ful of companies tapping the bur-geoning senior living sector including Max India Ltd, backed by Goldman Sachs Group Inc, LIC Housing Finance Ltd, The Covai Group and Ashiana Housing Ltd.
Tata Housing Development Co Ltd, part of India’s biggest conglom-erate, launched its first senior hous-ing project in May in the southern city of Bangalore, and plans at least
four more, catering to independent retirees looking for better security and services than what is available in ordinary housing.
“A significant section of seniors today are independent, financially stable, well-travelled and socially connected, and as a result have a fairly good idea of how they want to spend time after retirement,” said Brotin Banerjee, CEO, Tata Housing, which expects revenues of `950m ($16m ) from its ̀ 700m project investment over three years.
While India is much younger than Japan, China or the United States,
the number of people over age 60 is expected to more than double to 173 million by 2025.
Real estate consultant Jones Lang LaSalle estimates current annual demand for senior homes across 135 Indian cities at 312,000, far outstrip-ping supply of 10,000 to 15,000 new homes now in the pipeline.
YOUNG AT HEARTAfter spending two decades in
Houston looking after their grand-children, Vidyadhar and Aruna Gokhale returned to India last year and moved into a retirement home.
Developers view such Indians returning from overseas, the vast and often prosperous diaspora known as non-resident Indians or NRIs, as a key target market.
“Nobody needs us there so we thought we should live our lives the way we want to because we are young enough to be able to enjoy it,” Aruna Gokhale, 81, said in her apartment at Athashri in Pune, where she and her husband, now 84, grew up.
Most of India’s retirement homes are targeted at urban middle- and upper-income buyers who can afford to pay between `3m and `6m ($50,200 and $100,400) for an apart-ment, which is cheap by Western standards but beyond the reach of the average Indian. Max India
is building a project in the north Indian hill resort town of Dehradun that aims higher, with villas priced above `10m.
Unlike the United States, where retirement housing is typically rented, providing recurring annual income for investors, in India people prefer to own. That suits developers as well because it means less capital tied up.
Investing in Indian retirement homes generates returns of about 25 percent annually for developers, less than the 35 percent that is typi-cal for comparable ordinary housing in the country, Jones Lang LaSalle said.
That is partly because the retire-ment communities include more open, communal space. Developers are also keen to keep prices afforda-ble for middle-class buyers who nor-mally must pay cash as Indian banks rarely offer mortgages to seniors.
Developers expect economies of scale to bring down costs as the industry grows, and they hope even-tually to be able to charge more for amenities such as food and facilities.
“There is a margin to be made but today the returns are not as good and we would like to improve that,” said Ankur Gupta, joint managing director at Delhi-based Ashiana, which has built three retirement home projects in India.
Retirement homes in vogue as Indians live longer and prosper
A significant section of seniors todayare independent, financially stable,well-travelled and socially connected, and as a result have a fairly good idea of how they want to spend time after retirement.
Suresh Chitre, 67, and his wife Rekha Chitre, 63, stand on the balcony of their flat at the Athashri retirement village in Baner, Pune.
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SOCIAL STIGMAThe biggest challenge for the emerging
senior living sector is the social stigma associated with elderly family members living on their own.
“Twenty years ago the social fabric of India was very different as we were still a closed economy,” said Abdulla Kagalwalla, chief financial officer at Texas-based Signature Senior Living, which in 2010 tied up with Covai to build and manage retirement homes in India.
“As the economy opened it brought about a great social change, and an increase in the education and remunera-tion of middle class families caused a dramatic shift in thinking.”
The share of households in India with five or fewer members rose to 69 percent in 2011, from 60 percent a decade earlier, according to government data, showing a shift away from the traditional multi-generational family system.
Later this year, Pune-based Paranjape, which operates the Athashri project and three others in the city, will open a home in Bangalore and start building three more in south India.
“When we launched our first project in 2000 it was very difficult to sell but now we have more than 1,500 families staying with us,” said Managing Director Shashank Paranjape.
ACHES AND PAINS
At Paranjape’s Athashri, where the Gokhales live, corridors with handrails, anti-skid tiles, a doctor’s room and a 24-hour ambulance set it apart from
ordinary housing. All homes have multiple red emergency buttons and a rope in the bathroom for calling a caretaker.
It costs up to 30 percent extra to build sen-ior homes because of the additional features and amenities but they sell for 15 to 20 percent more than comparable regular homes.
Suresh and Rekha Chitre spent their savings of `4.3m ($71,900) to escape the chaos of Mumbai by
moving to Athashri in Pune but are struggling to adjust to life in a retirement home.
“It is more comfortable here but everyone is old and always complaining about aches and pains,” said Suresh Chitre, 67, who misses interacting with people of different age groups.
“In the last few months four people died and that can get depressing.”
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The biggest challenge for the sector is the social stigma. As the economy opened it brought about a great social change, and an increase in the education and remu-neration of middle class families caused a dramatic shift in thinking.
Aruna Gokhale, 81, watches as her husband Vidyadhar Gokhale, 84, speaks on the phone in their flat at the Athashri retirement village.
PLUS | SUNDAY 30 JUNE 20134 CAMPUS
Grade 10 students of Qatar Academy completed their MYP course and their school year with a celebration held
at the Student Centre in the grounds of Education City yesterday. With their two-year Diploma Programme begin-ning in September, they decided a cel-ebration was in order.
They started the day with the Spiders Web, which is something of a tradition for QA MYP. This year was no exception as the activity aims to help raise the students’ awareness of their expectations of each other and to build awareness in areas that some students may be struggling with.
All the students sat in a huge circle where a giant ball of string was passed back and forth among them. While passing the ball, they kept hold of the string and slowly started to build a giant spider web inside the circle. They took that moment to thank the student
or teacher they threw the ball to for something that helped or had made the past year a memorable one for them.
As part of the tradition, one of the students collected the string at the end and bracelets are made for each student.
It looked fabulous and was great fun to watch. Special Projects Coordinator Lisa Isom, who participated in the bas-ketball event, said “I played basketball with the students today; it was great fun because the students really put everything into it. It was a great way to end the term”.
Some of the students taking part in the event were also partly responsible for arranging and running the event, and had arranged for Fuse Ball, 10 pin bowling, ping pong, football and basket-ball competitions to be held at different times during the day.
One of the students who helped organise the event remarked, “I really
enjoyed being part of the organising team. We all had such fun while work-ing as a team”.
Before the final activities took place, the students held an unofficial awards ceremony where they thanked several students and teachers for their hard
work the past year. They also con-gratulated the Grade 10 students on the completion of the MYP in prep-aration for the challenging Diploma Programme for the incoming school year.
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QA students closeschool year in style
QA students at the party.
A week-long cultural bonanza, Skill-O-Panorama, was held at Doha Modern Indian School.
The events were organised class-wise and many students displayed their talents.
The inter-house competitions were held not only on-stage but included off-stage events held two weeks prior to the main events.
While the medley brought out the musical talents of the students, the mime and skit events provided
opportunities for the students to showcase their creative and acting skills. Events like JAM, recitation, elocution and storytelling brought out the communication and speaking skills of the children.
The show stealers were a group dance by girls and a Western dance by boys.
“Without the support of the stu-dents and teachers, this event wouldn’t have been possible, apart from the undying support from the
heads and management,” commented one House head. “My holidays couldn’t have started on a better note seeing my house win,” said another enthusi-astic participant.
All worked hard to ensure that their House won. Ruby House fin-ished first with 367 points, Emerald House came second with 350 points, Sapphire House came third with 289 points and Topaz came fourth with 285 points.
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QBRI official delivers keynote addresses at two international conferences
Dr Abdelali Haoudi, Executive Director of Qatar Biomedical
Research Institute (QBRI), delivered keynote addresses at two of the larg-est biomedical conferences in North America this year. On May 21, he spoke to the Biomedical Science and Engineering Conference at the Oak Ridge National Labs in Oak Ridge, USA, and on May 26 he addressed a symposium on “Self-assembled Nanomaterials in Nanomedicine” as part of the 96th Canadian Chemistry Conference in Québec City, Canada.
“QBRI is establishing itself on the international stage in the area of bio-medical research, and major organisa-tions in the field are taking note,” said Dr Haoudi. “It was an honour to repre-sent Qatar Foundation at these confer-ences and to use these opportunities to build collaborative relationships with leading laboratories around the world.”
At both conferences Dr Haoudi shared his views on building successful global collaborative networks to accel-erate biomedical innovations.
Summer camp at BPSBirla Public School, Doha will con-
duct a month-long summer camp, ‘Chill the Summer 2013’, for children in all classes from the kindergarten to Grade VIII. The camp will start with an inaugural ceremony today. Children will be engaged in activities such as aerobics, yoga, music, art and craft and public speaking.
Nearly 250 children have enrolled for the summer camp.
The camp will conclude on August 6.The Peninsula
DMIS holds inter-house competitions
A scene from one of the skits by DMIS students.
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Trust Exchange Co (managed by State Bank of India), a subsidiary of Intertec
Group, has unveiled a promotional campaign.
The 111 days Trust Exchange Promotion offers QR15.7m worth of gifts. A customer who remits money from any branch of the Trust Exchange to any country between June 27 and October 15 will receive a gift voucher and the opportunity to win prizes through a raffle draw.
George Thomas, group CFO, while inaugurating the promo-tion campaign at the main Trust Exchange office at Souq Al Dira, said: “This is the first time in Qatar
an exchange company is giving such a huge offer to its customers. This campaign would create healthy competition among customers to send money through eight branches of Trust Exchange and bring more customer satisfaction, rewards and trust towards Trust Exchange”.
D S C S Varma, GM, Trust Exchange, said: “At Trust Exchange, we do our business each day with honesty, integrity and trust, and as a team, to meet our custom-ers’ needs and expectations. We provide more comfort level to our customers to remit money to India, Nepal, Philippines and Bangladesh etc.”
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Trust Exchange unveils promotion Trust Exchange and Intertec officials at the launch of the promotion.
Aqua Parkholds many special events
Aqua Park recently organised the Water Garden Festival, which ushered in a series of entertain-
ing and exciting games. Activities in the festival included a
games kiosk, a balloon jumping pro-gramme, a magician’s show, and a fire dancing show. A photo exhibition was also held.
Mohamed Ferdaus, director-general of Aqua Park, said the Water Garden Festival was part of efforts by the administration of the park to attract more local tourists.
Ferdaus said another water festival will take place during Eid Al Fitr along with varied programmes and activities that will include entertainment activi-ties for both children and families.
Ferdaus said as many as 20,000 peo-ple visited Aqua Park last month.
He revealed that the Aqua Park had attracted 500 Saudi visitor on
weekends, in addition to 1,000 visitors from Bahrain, Oman and the United Arab Emirates.
He said the “7 Cinema Days” event, one of the new activities in the park, had drawn the attention of a large number of visitors.
He said the event presents films on a daily basis along with entertaining activities during the intervals.
Ferdaus said tickets to Aqua Park were still being sold at the Villaggio and Landmark centres, as
well as at Virgin stores in the malls. Ferdaus said the park currently
offered water slides for all age groups, a wave pool and an African Village, which contains an Octopus Slide, Elephant Slide, Rabbit Slide
and mushroom-shaped waterfalls.He added that the administration
paid attention to security and safety by deploying a number of qualified res-cuers with knowledge and experience.
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Malabar Gold and Diamonds has won Doha Bank’s ‘Business Partner of the year
2013’ award. Santhosh T V, regional head of Malabar Gold and Diamonds, received the award from Ahmed Abdul Rahman Yousuf Obaidan Fakhroo, vice chairman of Doha Bank, and Dr R Seetharaman, Doha Bank Group CEO, recently.
The award recognises partners who demonstrate world-class serv-ice and entrepreneurial excellence. Malabar Gold and Diamonds received
the award in recognition of its serv-ice offered through the zero percent EEP instalment scheme in associa-tion with Doha Bank. The largest number of customers who used Doha Bank’s credit card for jewellery pur-chases shopped at Malabar Gold and Diamonds outlets.
Santhosh said: “We are extremely happy to receive this esteemed award. This validates our group’s efforts in providing customers world-class prod-ucts with the highest level of service.”
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Malabar Gold & Diamondswins Doha Bank award
Malabar Gold and Doha Bank officials at the award function.Malabar Gold and Doha Bank officials at the award function.
Mohamed Ferdaus
PLUS | SUNDAY 30 JUNE 2013 FASHION66
by Lauren Cochrane
The nameUp until 1996, the word “acne” wasn’t
very fashionable. Since Acne — which stands for Ambition to Create Novel Expressions — began, though, the label otherwise known as a common skin disorder has become distinctly hip. Jonny Johansson, one of the founders and now global creative director, has said he liked the idea of “appropriat-ing a difficult word” and making it cool. Messing with us, basically. Now, though, Johansson, a soft-spoken soul sporting a MA1 flying jacket and Acne jeans, is a little embarrassed. “I wish we hadn’t called it that,” he says. “People said it was a weird name, and I agree with them.” The brand’s official title now is Acne Studios.
The jeansWhen Acne started with four guys
and a lot of idealism, they had the equiv-alent of writer’s block. “If you’re doing a modern brand, where do you start?” says Johansson. Jeans worked because they were iconic: “You might as well try to do Coca-Cola or you’re going about it the wrong way.” The first designs were plain, straight-legged with distinctive red stitching. They made 100 pairs and gave them to “the creative kids” in Stockholm. Soon, editorials from Wallpaper* and French Vogue turned up. By the early noughties, Acne had officially blipped on to the fashion radar.
The cityBefore Acne, the idea of Stockholm
style probably stood for more in the world of interiors than fashion. The brand — the most internationally nota-ble fashion label from Sweden bar H&M — has exported its home city’s look of
layers, sportswear details, prints, and a lot of black all over the world, report-edly making nearly £78m in the process last year. “If you’re from Sweden, you grew up with Swedish design — it’s in your DNA, functionality,” says Johansson. “We’re often mistaken for minimalists but we’re very colourful and love nature.”
The studioAnyone after a spot of workplace
envy should check out Acne’s famous-in-fashion studio. A converted bank that dates back to the 16th century, it features an art nouveau frieze, labyrin-thine rooms and a communal kitchen with birch benches, Barbara Hepworth-style sculptures and a worktop hewn out of green marble. And that’s not even mentioning the population of this style utopia. A team lunch includes girls with purple hair, handsome men in modern-ist glasses and Hamish Bowles from American Vogue.
The pinkAcne likes nothing better than mak-
ing something a bit wrong the height of cool. See its trademark pink, which covers all its shopping bags, merchan-dising and stationery. “I told Johnny we needed recognisable bags,” says Mikael Schiller, the brand’s executive chairman, who is wearing a typical Acne ensemble of classic brogues with a wrinkled mac. “He went full on. Now you see these butch guys walking around with pink bags everywhere.”
The Pistol bootYou know those ankle boots you
have with the chunky heel and zips? You can thank Acne for those. Their version, the Pistol boot, which goes for around £380, has been copied by high-street stores everywhere and became
a bestseller for the brand. Designed as “a mix of cowboy and motorcycle and riding boot,” says Johansson, he believes its success is down to boring old prac-ticality. “It’s big in bad-weather places — Scandinavia, the UK,” he says. “Girls are running around London in sandals in the middle of winter, so when you propose a rough and cool design, it’s a success.”
The collaborationsAsk Acne — a brand associated with
off-duty-model style and slouchy, leggy people in general — who it would most like to collaborate with and you expect it to say an edgy new label you’ve never heard of. Wrong. “Rolex,” says Johansson. This kind of cool contrari-ness is key to Acne. So far, the brand has worked with Snowdon, the 83-year-old British photographer, and Lanvin. “What connects them all is a certain kind of humour,” says Johansson. “They have a quirkiness to them.”
The chairsBefore working in fashion, Johansson
dallied with furniture. He showed he still had the knack with a three-piece
suite the brand brought out in 2010 — designed to “find the inheritance for Swedish design,” he says. He did that by referencing the Nya Berlin couch made by Carl Malmsten in the 20s for the Swedish embassy in the German capi-tal. In typical Acne style, though, they messed with it: putting the drawings into Illustrator and stretching them out. The result was a hybrid: long and skinny furniture perfect for fashion people.
The storesYou might think a brand such as Acne
would open in London’s hipster central, Dalston. But, if you’re sensing a theme here, that’s far too obvious. Instead, its new store opening next month is on Pelham Street in Brompton Cross — more the territory of yummy mum-mies than mom jeans. This preference for off-centre locations plays out across the world. Its first Paris store is in a converted garage that Schiller admits is “hard to find” while the Stockholm flag-ship is in the former bank where hos-tages were taken in 1973 and the phrase Stockholm Syndrome was coined.
The fansAcne doesn’t court fashion’s top 10
percent to wear its clothes; they do it anyway. Celebrities including Rihanna, Alexa Chung and front-row stalwart Yasmin Sewell are regularly photo-graphed in them too, something lots of other brands would kill for — or cer-tainly pay through the nose. This is not the Acne way. “We never paid anyone and we don’t want to,” says Johansson. “That doesn’t mean we don’t like celeb-rities wearing our clothing but that strategy is cold and hard and short-lived. Our brand is about product. If you start from there, everything else falls into place.” The Guardian
10 things you should know about AcneAs the Swedish label prepares to launch another London store, a look at how the brand with the unlikely name became one of the hippest in fashion.
Acne on the catwalk for Acne on the catwalk for autumn/winter 2013.autumn/winter 2013.
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Pistol ankle boot
Heart disease deaths show dramatic decline in Europe
By Kate Kelland
The number of people dying from heart disease in Europe has dropped dramatically in recent dec-ades, thanks largely to the success of cholesterol-lowering drugs and drives to persuade people to quit smoking, scientists said.
Cardiovascular disease death rates have more than halved in many countries in the European Union since the early 1980s, accord-ing to their study in the European Heart Journal.
Yet heart disease - which can lead to fatal heart attacks and strokes - remains a leading cause of death in the region and rising rates of obesity and diabetes could soon start to reverse progress made in the past 30 years.
“For the most part and for most countries this is good news - the death rates have come down quite substantially in the last 30 years,” said Nick Townsend of Britain’s Oxford University, who worked on the study.
“But what we don’t want to say is that the job is done, because we know by looking at trends in other conditions that they could reverse the trends we’ve worked so hard to achieve in heart disease.”
According to the World Health Organization, cardiovascular dis-eases kill around 17 million people globally each year.
Townsend’s team looked at deaths from coronary heart dis-ease between 1980 and 2009 in both sexes and four age groups: under 45, 45 to 54, 55 to 64, and 65 years and over.
They found that almost all EU countries had a large and signifi-cant decrease in death rates from heart disease over the last three decades in both men and women when all the age groups were con-sidered together.
Britain, Denmark, Malta, The Netherlands and Sweden had the largest declines in death rates for both sexes, while among men in Hungary, Latvia, Lithuania and Poland, the decreases were small and not statistically significant. In Romanian men, there was a small but statistically significant increase.
Although the study did not look specifically for causes, Townsend said the progress was probably mainly due to better drugs - such as statins to treat high cholesterol and anti-hypertensives to treat high blood pressure - as well as lower rates of smoking in the region overall.
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By Vicky Hallett
Sitting on the ground with her legs straight out in front of her, yoga instruc-tor Annie Carlin demon-strated her problem with
seated forward bend. It’s not an issue of flexibility — Carlin has the bend part down pat. It’s that the size of her thighs makes it physically impossible to keep her feet together.
So she prefers to keep them hip-distance apart, as she explained to the students enrolled in her four-week Yoga for Larger Bodies workshop series at Washington’s Golden Heart Yoga, which began this month.
“The other thing we can do is move our back side out of the way,” she added, noting with a grin that “yoga teaching is the only time I get to say this.”
Other teachers can say it, but most of them don’t actually have much of it. And that’s what can prevent peo-ple who look like Carlin and her stu-dents from feeling as if they belong in a yoga class even though they derive the same benefits from stretching, strengthening and breathing deeply as everyone else.
“I stand out no matter what I do,” says Carlin, 31, who admits that even she’s wary whenever she walks into a new studio. But with certain modifica-tions and props, Carlin can be com-fortable in any class, and that’s her goal for her students, too.
Every person brings something dif-ferent to the yoga mat, Carlin says, and it’s not always visible. In her case, it’s a decade of practice that started when she fell for yoga while studying at New York University. Over time, she experienced changes in her career — which brought her to Washington in 2007 — as well as her body.
“I’ve lost 100 pounds and gained it back,” the Takoma Park, resident says. “For a really long time, I was angry. All these moves, I couldn’t do them anymore.”
But Carlin still adored yoga, and in 2010, she went ahead with her plan to take teacher training, despite being the only “larger person” in the pro-gramme. Beyond lessons on prenatal yoga that required her fellow trainees to strap big pillows to their bellies, most had no firsthand experience working with different bodies.
To a certain degree, that doesn’t matter, Carlin says. None of her teachers have been anything other than skinny, and they’ve all been able to help her grow in her practice. Even when two people physically resemble each other, she says, they’re not likely to have the same amount of strength, tightness or flexibility.
As Carlin tells her students: “The idea that my body will do [poses] the same way as one of you is ludicrous.”
But what Carlin understands better than most instructors is that being larger doesn’t mean weaker. It just means there’s more to lift.
“Plank pose is basically bench-pressing your body weight. That’s just physics,” she says. “So it’s not that I can’t do plank pose, but I just don’t hold it as long.”
For similar reasons, in her Yoga for Larger Bodies series, Carlin is focusing on alternatives to down-ward-facing dog. Resting on your hands and feet in an inverted-V shape is generally considered a soothing stretch in yoga. But putting excess pressure on the wrist joints doesn’t feel so nice.
“If a teacher has you hold it for 10 minutes, there’s always another option,” said Carlin, who offered wall dog, which involves hinging from the hips and placing your hands on the wall instead of the floor. A more dis-creet choice is puppy, which is similar to downward-facing dog except your knees rest on the mat.
That move also works as a replace-ment for child’s pose, another popular yoga position that’s not as comfort-able in bigger bodies. When Carlin brought up this subject in the first session of the workshop, 30-year-old Emily Goodstein led the group in a round of applause.
“You don’t want to be the only
person who says, ‘I don’t like child’s pose,’ or the only person using props,” explains Goodstein, who researches extensively to find “body-affirming” yoga environments. It’s tougher than it should be to find classes that don’t feel competitive and instructors who don’t use weight-loss-focused lan-guage, she adds.
And it’s even more of a challenge to find a class that fits her criteria that’s actually challenging. “I’m not new to yoga. I know what I’m doing,” Goodstein says.
Carlin plans to build each week through the series so students really get the chance to see what their bod-ies can do.
“I feel like I haven’t moved in two years. So I like a class that can ease me back into it,” said Michelle Weiner, 31, who was attending the workshop after a lengthy hiatus from yoga.
Armed with her techniques and advice, Carlin hopes the women she’s teaching show up at every yoga studio in the area, and end up teaching them a thing or two.
“The more we’re out there,” Carlin says, “the more people will learn I’m not a unicorn.”
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Turning yoga’s image on its head
Yoga teacher Annie Carlin showing a yoga pose.
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pon,
Ba
d B
oys
and R
ush
Hou
r to
more r
ecent
film
s like T
he O
ther
Gu
ys a
nd last
year’s
21
Jum
p S
treet
rem
ake.
But
they h
ave
featu
red m
ale
leads.
Sta
rrin
g t
wo w
om
en i
n s
uch a
film
requir
ed s
om
e c
hanges,
Feig
said
.T
he 5
0-y
ear-o
ld d
irecto
r, w
ho h
as
help
ed u
sher in a
new
wave o
f fe
male
-le
d
com
edie
s,
said
h
e
wan
ted
the
characte
rs t
o d
eal w
ith iss
ues
that
pro-
fess
ional w
om
en w
ould
face o
n t
he job,
while a
lso s
how
ing w
om
en w
ho e
njo
y
bein
g in t
he w
ork
force.
“We w
ante
d t
o s
ay,
‘If
you love y
our
job,
that’s
what
you s
hould
be d
oin
g
an
d m
aybe y
ou m
ight
need a
frie
nd
in a
sim
ilar s
ituati
on t
o b
e y
our c
onfi-
dante
,’” h
e s
aid
.F
eig
’s 2
011
film
Bri
desm
aid
s, a
bout
a b
rid
e a
nd h
er f
rie
nds
who s
uff
er a
serie
s of
un
fortu
nate
even
ts ah
ead
of
the w
eddin
g,
was n
om
inate
d fo
r
two O
scars
inclu
din
g b
est
supporti
ng
actr
ess
for M
cC
arth
y a
nd m
ade $
288m
w
orld
wid
e.
HO
LLY
WO
OD
NE
WS
John L
ennon
hop
ed t
o bea
t Pau
l M
cCar
tney
wit
h I
mag
ine?
Late
sin
ger-s
on
gw
rit
er Joh
n L
en
non
w
as
reporte
dly
obsessed
wit
h
com
posin
g
a
son
g bett
er th
an
h
is fo
rm
er ban
dm
ate
P
aul
McC
artn
ey’s
“Y
este
rday”.
He h
oped h
is s
on
g
“Im
agin
e”
would
turn o
ut
to b
e a
s good a
s th
e
latt
er’s
1965 h
it n
um
ber.
Len
non
w
ish
ed to
pen
a bett
er son
g th
an
“Yest
erday”
as
many f
an
s m
ista
ken
ly t
hought
it w
as
com
pose
d b
y h
im a
long w
ith M
cC
artn
ey,
reports
dailyst
ar.
co.u
k.
He cam
e up w
ith
“I
magin
e”
in 1971 an
d
approached h
is D
J frie
nd H
ow
ard S
mit
h t
o k
now
if
the s
ong w
as
bett
er t
han M
cC
artn
ey’s
track.
“John c
am
e t
o m
y loft
and h
e w
as
all e
xcit
ed.
He s
aid
, ‘I
thin
k I
finally w
rote
a s
ong w
ith a
s good a
melo
dy a
s Y
est
erday’. ‘
Yest
erday’
drove
him
crazy
. People
would
say,
‘T
hank y
ou for w
rit
ing ‘Y
est
erday’, a
beauti
ful
song.’
He w
as
alw
ays
civ
il, but
it d
rove h
im n
uts
,” M
ojo
magazi
ne q
uote
d
Sm
ith a
s sa
yin
g.
“He p
layed it
through a
nd a
sked m
e w
hat
I th
ought.
(I
said
) ‘I
t’s
beauti
-fu
l’. (H
e s
aid
) ‘B
ut
is it
as
good a
s Y
est
erday?’
(I
said
) ‘T
hey’r
e im
poss
ible
to
com
pare’. S
o h
e p
layed it
again
. A
nd a
gain
. A
nd h
e s
aid
, ‘Y
ou’ll se
e, it
’s
just
as
good a
s ‘Y
est
erday’,”
he a
dded.
Juli
anne
Moo
re o
ffer
edTh
e H
unger
Gam
es..
.
Actr
ess
Julian
ne M
oore h
as
been
reporte
dly
approached t
o b
e p
art
of
Th
e H
un
ger
Ga
mes:
M
ock
ingja
y, t
he fi
nal, t
wo-p
art
film
in t
he H
un
ger
Ga
mes
franchis
e.
The 5
2-y
ear-o
ld is
off
ered t
o p
lay m
anip
ula
tive
Presi
den
t A
lma C
oin
in
the b
ig s
creen
adapta
-ti
on o
f auth
or S
uza
nne C
ollin
s’ n
ovel
Mock
ingja
y,
reports
deadline.c
om
.If
Moore
agre
es
to p
lay t
he o
ffere
d r
ole
, sh
e w
ill
share s
creen s
pace w
ith J
osh
Hutc
hers
on,
Lia
m
Hem
swort
h a
nd J
ennif
er
Law
rence
am
ong o
thers
.
By
Su
bh
ash
K J
ha
(13:
50)
Film
: G
han
ch
akkar
Cast:
Em
raan
Hash
mi,
Vid
ya B
ala
n,
Raje
sh V
erm
a a
nd
Nam
it D
as
Dir
ecto
r: R
ajk
um
ar
Gu
pta
He is
a la
zy la
d.
An
d sh
e is
on
e
hell
uva
crazy
Pun
jaban
whose k
ookie
cookin
g d
riv
es
her s
ullen
husb
an
d u
p t
he n
earest
w
all. D
isgust
on t
he d
in-
ing-t
able
cam
ouflaged in
ton
s of
table
-salt
, S
an
ju
(Em
raan H
ash
mi, p
itch-
perfe
ct
in
his
spousal
indole
nce)
would
prob-
ably
have g
one o
n t
ole
r-
ati
ng h
is w
ife’s
appallin
g
culin
ary s
kills
matc
hed
only
by h
er h
ideous
fash
ion s
ense
, if
only
he d
idn’t
decid
e t
o p
ull o
ff o
ne
last
heis
t th
at
would
make h
im a
nd h
is i
nept
cook o
f a w
ife r
ich f
or t
he
rest
of
their
lif
e.
Oh, I
forgot
to t
ell y
ou... H
ash
mi
pla
ys
an e
xpert
lock-p
icker,
the k
ind
of
safe
-bet
who c
an c
rack s
afe
s fa
ster t
han w
e c
an s
ay ‘
Saif
Ali K
han’.
Forgetf
uln
ess
com
es
easi
ly in t
his
crazi
ly u
npredic
table
dark
com
edy a
bout
an o
rdin
ary D
elh
i couple
’s lif
e g
oin
g u
nim
agin
ably
out-
of-
contr
ol w
hen t
hey
decid
e t
o m
ess
around w
ith t
wo s
elf
-sty
led b
um
bling b
addie
s, w
ho s
eem
to
have m
odelled t
heir
crim
e lif
e o
n p
irate
d v
ideo p
rin
ts o
f G
uy R
itchie
and
Quenti
n T
aranti
no c
rim
e fl
icks.
Every c
haracte
r in t
his
out-
of-
the-b
ox c
om
edy is
a b
it o
f an ineff
ectu
al
self
-im
porta
nt
clo
wn. In
tryin
g h
ard t
o b
e c
ool, t
hey e
nd u
p l
ookin
g l
ike
fools
. A
nd t
hey d
on’t
even k
now
it!
Gh
an
cha
kk
ar
is a
dom
est
ic c
om
edy t
hat
gets
progress
ively
dark
an
d
sin
iste
r. S
om
e o
f th
e fi
lm’s
most
riv
eti
ng m
om
en
ts fi
nd o
ur a
mn
esi
ac
hero s
earchin
g f
or h
is o
wn i
denti
ty a
nd t
ryin
g t
o l
ocate
the t
rust
facto
r
in h
is m
arria
ge t
hat
is t
hreate
ned b
y h
is lack o
f cogent
mem
ory. D
irecto
r
Rajk
um
ar G
upta
is
the m
ast
er o
f st
raig
ht-
faced w
him
sy.
There a
re n
o
laugh-o
ut-
loud m
om
ents
in G
ha
nch
ak
ka
r. I
ts h
um
our is
the k
ind t
hat
hit
s you in h
indsi
ght.
Characte
rs
such a
s P
arvin
Dabas
keep p
oppin
g u
p f
or n
o s
eem
ing p
ur-
pose
. B
ut
then w
e b
egin
to r
ealise
the p
lot’s
larger d
esi
gn is
to t
ell u
s th
at
there’s
no r
eal la
rger d
esi
gn in lif
e. V
ery o
ften t
hin
gs
happen h
aphaza
rdly
and inexplicably
because
that’s
the w
ay lif
e is.
Many c
hunks
of G
upta
’s s
toryte
llin
g s
eem
excess
ively
quir
ky c
aptu
rin
g in
languid
moti
ons,
the v
agarie
s of everyday lif
e w
ithout
whip
pin
g u
p a
n o
ver-
punctu
ate
d d
ram
a e
ither t
hrough t
he b
ackground s
core o
r f
ancy e
dit
ing
patt
erns.
Setu
’s c
am
era l
ooks
at
Mum
bai’s
mid
dle
cla
ss w
ith a
ffecti
onate
dis
dain
, not
judgm
enta
l, b
ut
certa
inly
not
alo
of
eit
her.
Its
sin
iste
r t
hrust
s, e
specia
lly t
ow
ards
the e
nd,
eat
raven
ousl
y i
nto
th
e c
om
edy.
This
may n
ot
work f
or t
hose w
ho a
re c
om
ically r
egale
d
by t
he G
olm
aa
l se
rie
s or e
ven t
he w
acky w
it o
f F
uk
rey.
The c
om
edy i
n
Gh
an
cha
kk
ar
is e
nti
rely
reliant
on t
he p
rin
cip
al characte
rs’
abilit
y t
o p
en-
etr
ate
and m
ake s
ense
of
the s
qualid w
orld
of
greed a
nd a
cquis
itiv
eness
th
at
they s
eem
to inhabit
so c
asu
ally.
The fi
lm’s
heis
t-quoti
ent
is s
ubst
anti
ally s
ust
ain
ed a
nd a
ggrandis
ed b
y
the c
rackling h
issi
ng a
nd s
narl
ing c
hem
istr
y b
etw
een t
he b
old
and fearl
ess
B
ala
n a
nd t
he e
ndearin
gly
rest
rain
ed a
nd u
nder-t
he-t
op H
ash
mi.
The i
ncid
enta
l characte
rs
- an i
nquis
itiv
e n
eig
hbour,
an o
ver-f
rie
ndly
real-
est
ate
agent,
a n
osy
moth
er/
moth
er-i
n-l
aw
whom
we o
nly
hear o
n
the p
hon
e,
et
al, a
ppear u
nan
noun
ced.
But
then
all s
aid
an
d d
um
ped,
Gh
an
cha
kk
ar
is n
oth
ing l
ike a
nyth
ing w
e’v
e e
ncounte
red i
n t
he g
enre o
f dark
com
edy.
Depic
ting t
he s
cary,
but
savagely
funny u
nderbelly o
f th
e G
reat
India
n
Mid
dle
cla
ss’ consu
meris
t capric
es,
Gh
an
cha
kk
ar
giv
es
Vid
ya B
ala
n a
noth
er
chance a
fter T
he D
irty
Pic
ture
and K
ah
aa
ni to
create
an u
north
odox h
ero-
ine. Y
ou m
ay n
ot
thin
k m
uch o
f her loud a
ttit
ude t
o lif
e, but
then y
ou h
ave
to h
and it
to V
idya for s
tayin
g c
onst
antl
y u
npredic
table
in h
er c
haracte
ris
a-
tions.
Em
raan H
ash
mi se
em
s to
inst
incti
vely
grasp
his
forgetf
ul characte
r’s
obst
inacy a
nd a
nxie
ties.
He b
rin
gs
calm
to t
he b
reath
less
proceedin
gs. IA
NS
Cru
ise
pay
s $
50
K a
wee
k f
or S
uri
’s s
afet
y
Acto
r T
om
Cruis
e r
eporte
dly
pays
$50,0
00-a
-week t
o b
odyguards
to
prote
ct
his
seven-y
ear-o
ld d
aughte
r S
uri.
One o
f th
e O
bli
vion s
tar’s
main
reaso
ns
for h
irin
g s
ecurit
y is
the c
onst
ant
paparazz
i th
at
follow
s S
uri and h
is e
x-w
ife, K
ati
e H
olm
es,
all t
he t
ime.
“Tom
is
alw
ays
surrounded b
y t
wo r
ings
of pla
inclo
thed s
ecurit
y a
gents
. T
hat
goes
double
for h
is p
recio
us
daughte
r. K
ati
e b
elieves
money i
s no
obje
ct
when i
t com
es
to t
he s
afe
ty o
f S
uri
and i
nsi
sted T
om
handle
that
side o
f th
ings,
” fe
male
first
.co.u
k q
uote
d a
source a
s sa
yin
g.
“She’d
go b
roke if sh
e h
ad t
o p
ay for it
and it’s
a t
ota
l necess
ity w
ith t
he
enorm
ous
inte
rest
in S
uri,”
the s
ource s
aid
.“T
hese
guys
are h
ighly
train
ed. T
hey l
egally c
arry w
eapons.
When i
n
Los
Angele
s th
ey k
eep g
uns
in t
he t
runks
of
Kati
e’s
SU
V l
imos.
When
in N
ew
York
, th
ey h
ave l
icense
s to
carry fi
rearm
s on t
heir
perso
n,” t
he
source a
dded.
Holm
es
is a
pprecia
tive o
f her form
er h
usb
and’s
gest
ure a
nd t
he s
ecurit
y
guards
giv
e t
he h
igh p
rofile
actr
ess
peace o
f m
ind.
“Kati
e k
now
s th
e g
uys
are t
he b
est
in t
he w
orld
and s
he c
an b
reath
e a
lo
t easi
er w
ith t
hem
on t
he job. S
uri has
the R
olls
Royce o
f se
curit
y g
uys
watc
hin
g o
ut
for h
er,”
said
the s
ource.
TH
E Q
UE
ST
FO
R W
OM
EN
IN
C
OM
ED
YM
cC
arth
y, 4
2, sa
w h
er s
tar r
ise a
fter
the s
uccess
of
Bri
desm
aid
s. S
he follow
ed
the fi
lm u
p w
ith F
ebruary’s
Th
e I
den
tity
T
hie
f, w
hic
h g
ross
ed $
174m
largely
on
the s
trength
of her p
erso
na, and a
sup-
porti
ng r
ole
in T
he H
an
gove
r 3,
where
she h
eld
her o
wn
opposit
e t
he fi
lm’s
m
ale
-led c
ast
. B
ullock, 48, had b
een m
ost
ly a
bse
nt
from
film
sin
ce w
innin
g t
he B
est
Actr
ess
O
scar for 2
009’s T
he B
lin
d S
ide, fo
cusi
ng
inst
ead o
n b
ein
g a
sin
gle
moth
er t
o h
er
adopte
d s
on L
ouis
. T
he H
ea
t, p
roduced b
y N
ew
s C
orp’s
20th
Centu
ry F
ox s
tudio
, mark
s a r
etu
rn
to c
om
edy f
or h
er,
draw
ing p
arallels
to
the q
uir
ky n
euroti
c c
haracte
rs
she h
as
pla
yed i
n 2
000’s
Mis
s C
on
gen
iali
ty a
nd
2009’s
Th
e P
rop
osa
l.
Feig
init
ially w
as
draw
n t
o t
he K
ate
D
ippold
-writ
ten s
crip
t fo
r T
he H
ea
t in
part
because
he felt
com
edy fi
lms
in t
he
last
few
decades
have b
een m
ost
ly m
ale
-dom
inate
d, w
ith w
om
en d
epic
ted a
s th
e
ones
who r
uin
the g
ood t
ime.
“The g
uys
are h
avin
g f
un, or t
hey’r
e
out
savin
g t
he w
orld
and t
he w
om
an is
sayin
g, ‘Y
ou n
eed t
o b
e h
om
e w
ith t
he
fam
ily,
’” s
aid
Feig
.“E
ith
er th
ey are k
illjoys or com
-ple
tely
un
aw
are o
f th
e i
mporta
nce o
f w
hat
their
husb
ands
are d
oin
g -
neit
her
one o
f w
hic
h s
eem
s fa
ir t
o t
he w
om
en.”
Feig
said
he f
elt
som
e o
f his
favour-
ite fe
male
com
edia
ns are n
ot
bein
g
giv
en
a c
han
ce t
o s
hin
e,
cit
ing S
arah
Silverm
an
’s m
ean
gir
lfrie
nd ch
arac-
ter in 2
003’s
Sch
ool
of
Rock
and R
achel
Harris
’ sh
rew
ish g
irlf
rie
nd p
ortr
ayal in
2009’s
Th
e H
an
gove
r.“T
hese
are m
ovie
s I
love, but
at
the
sam
e t
ime y
ou g
o, ‘W
ell t
hat’s
a w
ast
e
of
a h
ilario
us
perso
n,” s
aid
Feig
. “I
just
fe
el like, ‘G
od, le
t’s
rig
ht
the w
rongs.
’”
Goin
g fo
rw
ard,
Feig
said
h
is n
ext
proje
ct
wil
l be a fe
male
Ja
mes
Bon
d
com
edy in t
he v
ein
of
Th
e H
ea
t, b
ut
he
stress
ed h
e d
oesn
’t w
ant
to b
e t
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PLUS | SUNDAY 30 JUNE 201310 ARCHAEOLOGY
Pictures: GDA via AP Images
Ancient royal tomb unearthed in PeruArchaeologists in Peru have discovered a royal tomb, with treasure andmummified women, that sheds new light on the enigmatic Wari people
who ruled the Andes before the rise of the better-known Inca civilisation
El Castillode Huarmey:1,200-year-oldburial chamber instepped pyramid,contained bodiesof 63 people,including threeWari queens
Many bodies foundsitting upright –indicating royaltyand suggestingWari women heldgreat power
Gold-and-silver earornaments, found amongmore than 1,200 artifacts
TIMELINE OF ANCIENT PERU
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Regional States:Includes Chimú culture
ca 900-1470
Inca empire:ca 1400-1532
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Archaeologists in Peru have discovered a royal tomb, with treasure andmummified women, that sheds new light on the enigmatic Wari people
who ruled the Andes before the rise of the better-known Inca civilisation
El Castillode Huarmey:1,200-year-oldburial chamber instepped pyramid,contained bodiesof 63 people,including threeWari queens
Many bodies foundsitting upright –indicating royaltyand suggestingWari women heldgreat power
Gold-and-silver earornaments, found amongmore than 1,200 artifacts
TIMELINE OF ANCIENT PERU
Wari: ��������� ���earliest empire.ca 700-1000 A.D.
Regional States:Includes Chimú culture
ca 900-1470
Inca empire:ca 1400-1532
600 700 800 900 1000 1100 1200 1300 14001532: Spanish conquest
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11BOOKS PLUS | SUNDAY 30 JUNE 2013
By Suzanne Barlyn
Rose Kennedy’s public image as the stoic matriarch of America’s most famous political family is one that she carefully cultivated, but writer Barbara Perry
reveals a more vulnerable side in Rose Kennedy: The Life and Times of a Political Matriarch.
The biography of Rose Kennedy, who lived to age 104, includes hundreds of details from her voluminous personal diaries and letters made public by the John F Kennedy Presidential Library and Museum in 2006.
Perry, a senior fellow and associate professor in the Miller Center’s Presidential Oral History Program at the University of Virginia, has writ-ten other books, including Jacqueline Kennedy: First Lady of the New Frontier.
Perry spoke about her interest in the Kennedy family and her research process.
What sparked your lifelong interest in the Kennedys?
My mother took me to a JFK rally in Louisville when I was four. On October 5, 1960, my mother piled me and my two older brothers into our ‘56 Chevy and drove to downtown Louisville. It helped me to understand his grip on the American people.
Was there a process for deciding who would write Rose Kennedy’s biography?
No. Presidential libraries are sponsored by the National Archives, in part, and they are public facilities. Anyone can go into the archive room at the library and say “I’m here to look at the Rose Kennedy papers.”
In my case, I had to figure out how to narrow down from the 250 boxes what would be most useful. What was difficult was the sheer voluminous numbers of papers, and files, and photographs. She lived to 104 and kept everything.
How did you work through the volumes of papers?
I decided to begin with her 1974 memoir, Times to Remember. There’s a huge component of Rose
Kennedy’s papers devoted to producing that book. Particularly, I was interested in her image creation.
I began combing through all of the things she col-lected to do that book and then very quickly got into what I will call the oral history — the many, many taped conversations that her ghost writer, Robert Coughlan, did with her and of her as they began to produce that book.
Your book shows a less perfect side. What
were you trying to do by bringing out those details?
First of all, let Rose be Rose. I just felt her voice had often been subsumed under the men’s. That was one of my goals — to let her speak through her diary and through her letters, memos and oral history.
But it’s not always an edifying message — because she could be a difficult woman, so caught up in this image making that I think she maybe sometimes lost the larger meaning of life or put people off in her own family. The concept of cre-ating an image of oneself, or ones’ family is going to involve some sleight of hand. I came across that on occasion.
I really liked her bouffant hair.Yes, that she was so proud of. She was pretty
proud she didn’t go gray, just like her mother.On her travel list, I discovered a wig stand and a
wig. Ladies like that had their hair done at least once a week and at least more often. I’d see in her date book — whenever she was about to do a big event, off to the hairdresser she would go, or the hairdresser would come to her home.
She was totally into the image thing. The matron of makeover.
Reuters
Scholar unearths Rose Kennedy’s less public side
Paula Deen’s publisher has can-celed a deal with her for multi-ple books, including an upcoming
cookbook that was the No. 1 seller on Amazon.com and Barnes & Noble.com, following her admission she used a racial slur.
Ballantine Books announced it would not release Paula Deen’s New Testament: 250 Favorite Recipes, All Lightened Up, which was scheduled for October and was the first of a five-book deal announced early last year. Interest in it had surged as Deen, who grew up in Albany, and specialises in Southern comfort food, came under increasing attack for acknowledging she had used the N-word.
Ballantine, an imprint of Random House Inc, said it had decided to can-cel the book’s publication after “care-ful consideration.” It had no comment
beyond what was in its brief statement, spokesman Stuart Applebaum said.
Later Friday, Deen’s literary agent, Janis Donnaud, said that the entire deal had been called off.
“I am confident that these books will be published and that we will have a new publisher,” said Donnaud, who declined to comment on whether she had heard from other publishers.
The trouble for Deen started when comments she made in a court deposi-tion became public. During the deposi-tion in a discrimination lawsuit filed by an ex-employee, Deen admitted using the N-word in the past but denied using it to describe waiters.
Deen said she’s not a racist during a tearful Today show interview but has lost many of her business relationships. Sears Holdings Corp and J C Penney Co said that they were cutting ties with
Deen following similar announcements from Wal-Mart Stores Inc, Target Corp and Home Depot.
Last week, the Food Network said that it would not renew her contract. She also was dropped by Smithfield Foods, Caesars Entertainment stripped her name from restaurants and drug company Novo Nordisk said it was sus-pending its work with her.
Publishers have pulled a wide range of books over the years, usually because of plagiarism, fabrications or other issues with the books themselves. Ballantine’s decision highlights a prob-lem for Deen even when the product itself has not been challenged and is in high demand.
Some outlets that might have sold her books, such as Target and Wal-Mart, have cut ties with her. Other stores likely would have been reluctant
Publisher cancels multibook Paula Deen contract
Paula Deen
Barbara Perry
to promote her new book or to invite her for personal appearances.
Because Paula Deen’s New Testamentwas months away from release, no copies had been printed. All purchases had been pre-orders, so refunds aren’t necessary.
TECHNOLOGYPLUS | SUNDAY 30 JUNE 201312
By Rich Jaroslovsky
Microsoft’s long-anticipated Office Mobile app for Apple’s iOS operating system turns out to be a total non-event.
Ever since the iPhone ushered in the era of ubiq-uitous mobile computing — and especially since the release of the first iPad began a shift away from traditional personal computers — the question has been whether and how Microsoft Office would adapt.
Here’s the answer: Grudgingly, and not very well. Office Mobile, which slipped into Apple’s App Store with little fanfare, turns out to be a stripped-down add-on that will leave both Office and Apple users wondering, “Is that all there is?”
Office Mobile is technically free. But it’s useless unless you’ve already paid at least $100 for a year of Office 365, Microsoft’s effort to convert its traditional shrink-wrapped, purchase-one-time-only software business into a pay-as-you-go subscription model. (By contrast, the version of Office Mobile included on devices running Microsoft’s own Windows Phone software doesn’t require an Office 365 subscription.)
That’s just one of the limitations the company has imposed on its iOS app. Another is that it’s intended only for the iPhone; there’s no separate version designed to take advantage of the iPad’s larger display.
Office Mobile will still run on an iPad; in fact, I’m typing these words on one, using the docking-station keyboard Apple introduced when it unveiled the iPad three years ago. But it’s just a blown-up view of the phone app. Microsoft says iPad users are better off using its online Office Web Apps.
Office Mobile contains pocket versions of three of the Office desktop suite’s core applications: Word, Excel and PowerPoint. There’s no version of Outlook, the e-mail and calendar program, but I didn’t find its absence to be a big deal, since the iPhone’s built-in mail and calendar programs already work and play well with Microsoft.
To benefit from Office Mobile, you have to use Microsoft’s free SkyDrive cloud-based service to store your Office documents; other popular stor-age options like Dropbox and Google Drive aren’t supported.
When I logged into the app for the first time, all the SkyDrive documents I had previously created using Office 365 on my Windows PC were waiting for me. I could edit them, sort of, and create new ones, sort of.
This column, for instance, was started in the
Mobile version of Word, and I also created a couple of Excel spreadsheets. But once I did, there was a whole lot I couldn’t do with them.
I could enter text and formulas, make and review comments, and change the color and size of text. But I couldn’t create or edit a macro, switch to a different font or even check my spelling.
PowerPoint is even more limited. There’s no way to begin a presentation, or even to insert a new slide into an existing one. So if you have a last-minute brainstorm on the way to your meeting, you’re out of luck.
Office Mobile did allow me to work on documents even when I wasn’t connected to the Internet; my changes were saved on the phone until I got back online. But the syncing process with SkyDrive wasn’t smooth. Instead of having my files upload automati-cally after I reconnected, I had to go back into the app and manually force it to sync.
Even then, the app continued to display a “Couldn’t upload” message and the document was saved to SkyDrive as a second copy rather than overwriting
the original. Microsoft says it isn’t sure what hap-pened, but that the syncing should have been auto-matic and the new version should have overwritten the old one.
Microsoft’s arms-length attitude toward iOS stands in stark contrast to arch-rival Google, which devotes considerable resources to putting its most important software onto rival platforms. (The Google Now intelligent-assistant software, for instance, is more widely available on iOS devices than on Google’s own Android operating system.)
Office Mobile’s shortcomings mightn’t be so obvi-ous if there weren’t so many higher-quality Office-compatible apps already available for iPads and iPhones. These include Apple’s own iWork suite ($30) and Quickoffice Pro ($15 for iPhone, $20 for iPad), which Google bought last year. Still, none of them is the official, Microsoft-endorsed solution.
A lot of iOS users have wanted to get Microsoft Office onto their devices in the worst way. And that’s just how they’ve gotten it.
WP-Bloomberg
XCOM: Enemy Unknown$20, for iOS devices.
Firaxis Games took one of its biggest recent releases to the small screen last week by making a full version of the triple-A title available on the iPad and iPhone. But this is no “lite” version or clunky mobile remake — for its mobile debut, Firaxis has
rebuilt the game from the ground up. The game is almost exactly like the full title that came out for consoles and PCs last
fall, meaning it provides all the hours of deep game play and dramatic alien invasion action of the original title. And the title translates well to the touch platform, though getting the right camera angle or elevation can sometimes lead to unexpected results.
Overall, the game is a smooth experience and a good representation of what more-serious mobile gaming can become. But there are caveats. The file itself is huge — over 3 GB — and can eat up a lot of your storage space. And the game’s $20 price may be far too steep for those who don’t yet see their iPad or iPhone as a primary gaming device. “XCOM: Enemy Unknown” on iOS is a good game and a hopeful step for gaming, but by no means an impulse app purchase.
WP-Bloomberg
IPhone Microsoft Office isn’t worth the wait
Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer speaks at a 2012 event in San Francisco.
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COMICS & MORE 13
Hoy en la HistoriaJune 30, 2004
1859: Charles Blondin walked across Niagara Falls on a tightrope, crossing from the American side to the Canadian side, watched by 25,000 people1940: German troops occupied the Channel Island of Guernsey1971: The three crew members of the Soviet spacecraft Soyuz II died on re-entry due to a drop in air pressure1994: The International Earth Rotation Service in Paris advanced atomic clocks by one second
After a seven year journey, the U.S.-European Cassini probe became the first spacecraft ever to go into orbit around the giant gas planet Saturn
Picture: Getty Images © GRAPHIC NEWS
ALL IN THE MIND Can you find the hidden words? They may be horizontal,vertical, diagonal, forwards or backwards.
ABBREVIATED, ABRIDGED, AGES, BRIEF, CEASELESS, COMPRESSED, CONDENSED, CUT BACK, DECREASED, DIMINISHED, ENDLESS, EPHEMERAL, ETERNAL, EXTENDED, FLEETING, INCESSANT, INCREASED, INTERMINABLE, LENGTHY, LESSEN, LITTLE, LONG, MOMENTARY, PERPETUAL, PRECIS, PROLONGED, PROTRACTED, REDUCED, SHORT, TRUNCATED..
Baby Blues by Jerry Scott and Rick Kirkman
Zits by Dennis Young and Denis Lebrun
Hagar The Horrible by Chris Browne
LEARNARABIC
The Destinations/ Directions:
Lef ala al yameen Turn right
Lef, Ala Al yes’sar Turn left
Hel Al Bank baéed, min Huna
Is the bank far from here
Qareeb min huna Near here
Ba eed min huna Far from here
Fanar Be’janib Souq Waqif
Fanar beside Souq Waquif.
PLUS | SUNDAY 30 JUNE 2013
PLUS | SUNDAY 30 JUNE 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 Web site help section, for
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4 Doorframe part
8 William Tell, for one
14 Mich. rival in the Big Ten
15 “Peek-___!”
16 Historian Will or Ariel
17 Ipanema’s city, for short
18 A.T.M. printout
20 “La Danse” painter Henri
22 Some loaves
23 Golden ___ (senior)
24 ___ Park (F.D.R.’s home)
26 Get well
30 Scroll in the ark
32 Joe Six-Pack’s overhang
35 Persian Gulf state
37 War heroes from Tuskegee, e.g.
38 Actress Thurman
41 Yellow “Sesame Street” character
43 Driver’s license datum
44 Hang on to
46 “___ a vacation!”
48 Portable sources of music
50 Big wheel
54 Do the crawl, say
55 “Now it makes sense!”
57 Marat’s counterpart in a Peter Weiss title
58 Word before rack or mitt
61 Galvanic cell component
63 It appeared before Moses on Mount Horeb
67 Fell for a come-on, say
68 Caught sight of
69 One-half base x height, for a triangle
70 Peach State capital: Abbr.
71 Ones without permanent addresses
72 Lab job
73 Bit of scheduling luck at a tournament
DOWN 1 Adjust the margins of, for
example
2 Hard Italian cheese
3 One reciting others’ lines
4 Verbal zingers
5 Make red-faced
6 Container in an armored car
7 ___ choy (Chinese cabbage)
8 Forever and ___
9 Announce a decision
10 Uninvited partygoer
11 ___ Solo of “Star Wars”
12 Britannica, for one: Abbr.
13 Road map abbr.
19 “Desperate Housewives” role
21 One side in a 1980s war
25 Headgear for Laurel and Hardy
27 O’Neill title trees
28 Sheltered, at sea
29 Wildcat with tufted ears
31 Diplomat Philip
33 “Still mooing,” as burgers go
34 Ex-senator known as “Amtrak Joe”
36 Ex-Yankee Martinez
38 Cities, informally
39 Feline’s “feed me”
40 Yours, in Ypres
42 Lacking confidence
45 Strong-smelling cleaning ingredient
47 Imprecise recipe amount
49 Ped ___
51 Thick-trunked African tree
52 Item fit for “Ripley’s Believe It or Not!”
53 Classic VW
56 Makes more bearable
59 Went head to head
60 Means justifier, for some
62 “Not ___!”
63 Stiller of film
64 G.I. entertainers
65 Letters after 33 or 45
66 Echolocation-using mammal
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17 18 19
20 21 22
23 24 25 26 27 28 29
30 31 32 33 34
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38 39 40 41 42 43
44 45 46 47
48 49 50 51 52 53
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58 59 60 61 62
63 64 65 66 67
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B I R D S S M I T H S A D E N E M OA T E U P T O W A R D U R N A D I PR I S K Y O N E T H I N K A T A T I M EA S I A N A T R A A S T H M A T I CK I N K O F T H E R O A D R I L E
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T H I S M A Y S T I N K A L I T T L EN T S E E N Y D I S S O L V E
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R E E L B I G B A N K T H E O R YP A M D A W B E R O H I O O H G E EA W I N K A N D A P R A Y E R R O D A NG E N A Y A O D E T E C T A L E R TO D D S S I M T O S S E S S E N S E
How to play Kakuro:The kakuro grid, unlike in sudoku, can be of any size. It has rows and columns, and dark cells like in a crossword. And, just like in a crossword, some of the dark cells will contain numbers. Some cells will contain two numbers.However, in a crossword the numbers reference clues. In a kakuro, the numbers are all you get! They denote the total of the digits in the row or column referenced by the number.Within each collection of cells - called a run
- any of the numbers 1 to 9 may be used but, like sudoku, each number may only be used once.
YESTERDAY’S ANSWER
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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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6:00 – 7:00 AM A time of reflection, a deeper understanding of the teachings of Islam.
MORNING SHOW “RISE”
7:00 – 9:00 AM Rise, a LIVE 2-hour morning show hosted and produced by Scott Boyes. It discusses a wide array of topics from Weather, News, Health tips, Sports News and interactive bits with the callers.
INTERNATIO-NAL NEWS
1:00 PM The latest news and events from around the world.
STRAIGHT TALK
7:00 – 8:00 PM A LIVE weekly 1-hour Political show produced and hosted by Nabil Al Nashar. The show will host discussions and debates about the latest world political news/ issues/events.
LEGENDARY ARTISTS
8:00 – 9:00 PM The show tells the story of a celebrity artist that has reached unprecedented fame. Throughout the episode the artists’ memorable performances/songs will be played to put listeners in the mood.
6:30 Counting the
Cost
7:30 South2North
9:00 Al Jazeera
Correspondent
10:30 Inside Syria
11:30 Talk To Al
Jazeera
12:30 The Cure
13:00 NEWSHOUR
14:00 News
14:30 Inside Syria
15:00 Al Jazeera
World
16:00 NEWSHOUR
17:00 News
17:30 Listening Post
18:00 NEWSHOUR
19:30 101 East
20:00 News
20:30 Inside Story
21:00 NEWSHOUR
22:00 News
22:30 Talk To Al
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23:00 Empire
14:10 How It’s Made
14:35 Auction Kings
15:05 Auction Kings
15:30 Auction Kings
16:00 Auction Kings
16:25 Auction Kings
18:15 Border Security
- Series 6
Specials
18:45 Border Security
- Series 6
Specials
19:10 Soul Food
Family
20:05 James May’s
12:00 Buffalo Warrior
13:00 Hooked
14:00 Python
Hunters
16:00 Amazonia’s
Giant Jaws
17:00 Wild, Wild
West
18:00 Ultimate
Animal
Countdown
19:00 Hooked
20:00 Python
14:35 A.N.T Farm
14:55 Code: 9
15:20 Shake It Up
15:45 Austin And Ally
16:10 Jessie
16:35 A.N.T Farm
17:00 The Wizards
Return: Alex vs.
Alex.
18:00 Dog With A
Blog
18:20 Prankstars
08:00 Police Academy
4: Citizens On
Patrol-PG15
10:00 Snow Day-PG
12:00 Naked Gun 33
1/3: The Final
Insult-PG15
14:00 Police Academy
5: Assignment
13:45 Mutant Planet
14:40 Shamwari: A
Wild Life
15:05 Shamwari: A
Wild Life
15:30 Bondi Vet
16:00 Bondi Vet
16:30 Too Cute!
17:25 My Cat From
Hell
18:20 Call Of The
Wildman
18:45 Call Of The
Wildman
19:15 Wild Things
12:30 Swamp Thing
14:05 The Unforgiven
16:10 Guns Of The
Magnificent
Seven
17:55 Yentl
20:05 What’s New
Pussycat?
22:00 Garwood:
Prisoner Of
War
23:40 A Man Called
Sarge
07:30 How The West
Was Won-PG
10:00 Show Boat-U
11:50 North By
Northwest-PG
14:15 Singin’ In The
Rain-FAM
16:00 Guns For San
Sebastian-PG
17:50 Rhapsody-FAM
19:50 Little Women-=
22:00 Cool Hand
11:30 Lady And
The Tramp
II: Scamp’s
Adventure
13:00 Mandie And
The Secret
Tunnel
14:45 Wheelers
16:15 Winner
MALL
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Monster University (3D/Animation)– 2.30 & 5.00pm
ABCD (2D/Malayalam) – 7.30 & 10.30pm
2
Man of Steel (3D/Action) – 2.15 & 4.45pm
World War Z (3D/Action) – 7.15pm
The Purge (2D/Horror) – 9.30pm
White House Down (2D/Action) – 11.15pm
3
The Purge (2D/Horror) – 2.30pm
The Heat (2D/Action) – 4.30 & 6.45pm
White House Down (2D/Action) – 9.00pm
Dark Tide (2D/Thriller) – 11.30pm
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Man of Steel (3D/Action) – 2.30 & 5.00pm
ABCD (2D/Malayalam) – 8.00pm
White House Down (2D/Action) – 11.00pm
2
Monster University (3D/Animation) – 2.30 & 4.30pm
The Heat (2D/Action) – 6.30pm
White House Down (2D/Action) – 9.00pm
Dark Tide (2D/Thriller) – 11.30pm
3
The Purge (2D/Horror) – 2.30 & 6.30pm
Tatah (2D/Arabic)– 4.30pm
World War Z (3D/Action) – 8.30pm
The Heat (2D/Action) – 11.00pm
ROYAL PLAZA
1
Man of Steel (3D/Action) – 2.30pm
Monster University (3D/Animation) – 5.00pm
White House Down (2D/Action) – 7.00 & 11.15pm
Dark Tide (2D/Thriller) – 9.30pm
2
Monster University (3D/Animation) – 2.30pm
The Heat (2D/Action) – 4.30 & 6.45
White House Down (2D/Action) – 9.00pm
The Purge (2D/Horror) – 11.30pm
3
World War Z (3D/Action) – 3.00pm
Raanjhanaa (2D/Hindi) – 5.30pm
Ghanchakkar (2D/Hindi) – 8.30 & 11.00pm
0600 Table Tennis Ittf
Japan
1300 Football Asia
1330 Stars Carragher
1400 Omni Sport
1430 Fifa World Cup
U20 – Turkey V
El Salvador
1615 Fifa World Cup
U20 From
Paraguay V Mali
1800 Fifa World Cup
U20 – Chile V
Egypt
2000 Rio Ferdinand
Documentary
2100 Fifa World Cup
U20 – England
V Iraq
2300 Best Of Plus 3
From 31/10/12 –
Chelsea V Man
United
2445 Best Of Plus
3 World Cup
Qualifiers
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Ferozkoh: Tradition and Continuity in Afghan Art When: Until July 20Sunday, Monday, Wednesday:10:30am - 5:30pmThursday, Saturday: Noon — 8pmFriday: 2pm — 8pm Where: Museum of Islamic Art What: An exhibition showcasing works created by Afghan artists inspired by masterpieces from the Museum of Islamic Art (MIA) collection Entry fee 25QR (free on Mondays and for children under 16 years)
Qatar National Library Heritage Collection
When: Public tours twice every Sunday and Tuesday at 10am and 11:30am. Where: Qatar National Library What: Qatar National Library’s remarkable Heritage Collection is a rare trove of manuscripts, books, and artefacts documenting a wealth of Arab-Islamic civilisation and human thought. Among its more than 100,000 works, the collection contains an edition of Ptolemy’s Geographia, which was printed in Rome in 1478 and is the oldest printed map showing the name of Qatar or referred to in Latin as ‘Catara’. Free Entry
1st Red Bull Flugtag QatarWhen: November 1, 1pm Where: Museum of Islam Art Park,
What: Red Bull Flugtag, which means “flying day” in German, pushes the envelope of human-powered flight, but competitors need more than airtime to reach the podium.Teams are judged on three criteria: Flight distance, creativity of the craft, and showmanship. These criteria have inspired flying tacos, prehistoric pterodactyls, winnebagos with wings and even Snoopy and the gang to grace the Red Bull Flugtag flight decks! Free entry
Events in Qatar MEDIA SCAN
• People are talking about the decree by
the Emir, H H Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad
Al Thani, on the title of “H H Father
Emir” for Sheikh Hamad bin Khalifa Al
Thani.
• There is discussion about the large
percentage of failed students in the
Independent secondary schools
• There is discussion on social networking
sites about delay in the issuance of the
amended law for human resources.
People expect a new ministry for human
resources to be set up.
• People are demanding that barriers be set
up at roundabouts and on roadsides to
reduce the impact of sandstorms, which
blow sand on to roads.
• Tougher action is being urged against
youngsters who perform driving stunts on
vacant plots of land in residential areas,
disturbing those living nearby.
• Some citizens are suggesting that
the services sector come up with a
mechanism to train its staff in dealing
with customers, in order to avoid any
misunderstanding between customers
and officials and save their time.
• People are still discussing on social
networking sites the speech of the Emir
and its focus on citizens.
• Residents of Old Airport area are
complaining about delay in the
implementation of a road project, as the
excavation works are creating problems
for them. Companies implementing
the project mobilised large numbers
of labourers in the beginning, but have
reduced their numbers gradually, they
say.
• There is talk about small grocery shops
that stock up on commodities supplied
at discounted rates during Ramadan to
sell them at higher prices after the holy
month.
A summary ofissues of the daydiscussed by the Qatari communityin the media.
IN FOCUS
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Sri Lankan dies ofheart attack after shocking electric bill
A Sri Lankan man suffered a fatal heart attack after being
presented with a shocking elec-tricity bill, a media report said yesterday.
The 61-year-old victim had pro-tested at the Ceylon Electricity Board in Colombo on Friday that his bill had suddenly spiked, the Ceylon Today newspaper said.
It said the man was told that the bill was due to a hefty tariff increase from last month and suf-fered a heart attack on the news, collapsing at the electricity board headquarters.
The newspaper did not give the victim’s bill amount, but said it was in line with the new 50 percent tar-iff increase. The man identified as S P Samaradasa collapsed on a chair, the newspaper said in a front-page report headlined: “Electricity tariff claims first victim.”
“The cause of death was identi-fied as a heart attack,” the paper added. He was dead on arrival at hospital.
Sri Lanka is one of the most expensive countries in Asia for electricity with a kilowatt hour costing up to 47 rupees ($0.37).
AFP