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From lifestyle and children’s apps to games, social networking and the downright useful, here are the 50 best apps of the year.

The 50 best The 50 best apps of 2013apps of 2013

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By Stuart Dredge

The stats around mobile apps remain startling. There are now more than one million apps apiece in both Apple’s App Store and Android’s Google Play, with tech research

firm Gartner estimating that 2013 saw 102 bil-lion app downloads across the various stores. It’s big business too: the company reckoned that developers would make £15.8bn from their apps this year.

2013 was also a year of strong growth for Android, with Google-powered smartphones flying off the shelves, and tablets starting to challenge Apple’s iPad too. That was reflected in the larger number of apps available for both iOS and Android, with Microsoft’s Windows Phone snagging more of the most popular apps for its own store too — albeit often those that had been out for a year or more on rival platforms.

The biggest app trend of 2013 was the domination of “free-to-play” games: those that are free to download and play, but which make their money from in-app purchases of virtual items or currency. The biggest of the lot was Candy Crush Saga, although its 2012 launch means it’s not included in this roundup. It helped to make mobile gaming more main-stream than it has ever been, as a glance at the touchscreens on any commuter train or bus showed this year.

Children’s apps were another big trend, with a growing community of developers aim-ing to educate and entertain children as young as two years old on the tablets owned by their parents. Communications regulator Ofcom estimated that 42 percent of 5-15-year-olds and 28 percent of 3-4-year-olds now use a tablet at home.

Parents were spoilt for choice when it came to engaging apps for their kids, although free-to-play games proved more controversial in this market, with several high-profile cases of children blowing their parents’ iTunes budg-ets on virtual items, and an investigation by the Office of Fair Trading warning dodgy developers to mend their ways. On the plus side, crafting game Minecraft – which is huge among kids – was one of the biggest-selling

apps of the year without an in-app purchase in sight.

Also big in 2013: fitness-tracking apps, as part of a trend known as “quantification of the self”. Tracking your steps, calories, work-outs and even your sleeping patterns became increasingly common, with a flurry of existing apps tied to external monitors, and some new ones (like Moves in this roundup) which simply used your smartphone’s sensors.

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Glow iPhone, free: Using what the developers describe as a combination of “magic and science”, this fertility prediction app is for couples who are trying to conceive. It includes charts, health-tracking features and, daily reminders.

Moves iPhone/ Android, £1.99: Activity-tracking apps were big in 2013, but often they needed a pedometer-like gadget. Not Moves: this app uses your smartphone’s sensors to track your walking, running and cycling, while also showing you where you went during your day.

Helpouts Android, prices vary: This app comes from Google: a way to connect to experts in a host of categories for one-to-one help on… well, whatever you want. From computers to cooking, fashion to fitness, the twist is that you talk to the experts via live video chat.

BBC SPORT iPhone/ Android, free: The BBC split its sports coverage off into a standalone app this year, drawing on its online, TV and radio coverage. The app offers news stories, stats and tables for a range of sports as well as the ability to watch and listen to events live.

Explore Shakespeare iPad, free: This iPad app came from Cambridge University Press: comprehensive versions of Shakespeare’s most famous plays includ-ing the text, performance photos, audio versions and interactive features to understand them. Individual plays cost £4.99 via in-app purchase.

The Elements In Action iPhone/ iPad, £2.49: The original The Elements was a huge hit on iPad. In

2013, it got a quirky but brilliant follow-up: 79 videos for elements in the periodic table, showing the (often explosive) results when they’re used in real-world experiments. It’s got all the right chemistry.

Bob Dylan: The Bootleg Series iPhone/ iPad, free: Bob Dylan’s latest album is a collection of rare bootleg tracks from his past, and it was accompanied by this accomplished app. Timelines, biographies of musicians, photo galleries and video interviews give the stories behind the songs.

Disney Animated iPad, £6.99: If you’ve ever loved a Disney movie and own an iPad, this is an essential purchase, exploring the history of the animations with artwork, a timeline of every movie and even the chance to animate a character yourself from Wreck-It Ralph.

Iplayer Radio iPhone/ Android, free: This year, the BBC created a standalone app for listening live to its radio stations, which also streams on-demand shows and podcasts and helps you add songs to playlists in other services including Spotify and YouTube.

Beethoven’s 9th Symphony iPhone/ iPad, free: A real treat for classical music fans, whatever their level of knowledge. This app offers four famous recordings of Beethoven’s Ninth and lets you switch between them while viewing the score, and hear experts talking about the work and its composer.

Bloom.fm iPhone/ Android, free: One of the most stylish streaming music apps available on smart-phones, Bloom.fm streams you radio-style stations based on genres and artists. If you want to store tracks on your phone, you can pay £1, £5 or £10 a month for 20, 200 or as many as you like.

Google Play Music iPhone/ Android, free/£9.99: Google’s music service has many hats. It’ll stream you “custom” radio stations based on songs, artists and albums, as well as your own music collection if you’ve stored it on Google’s servers. And if you pay £9.99 a month, it’s a full, unlimited Spotify rival.

Soundwave Music Discovery iPhone/ Android, free: This app is perfect if you want to discover new music, rather than just listen to the music you know. It tracks the songs you play on streaming services Spotify or Rdio and shows you what your friends are playing – all in a slick, mobile-friendly interface.

Traktor DJ iPhone/ iPad, £2.99/ £13.99 There are quite a few DJing apps for smartphones and tablets, and most ape the turntables used by real-world DJs. This is different: it turns songs into waveforms to be mixed, scratched and warped at home or at a house party…

Xbox One Smartglass iPhone/ iPad/ Android/ Windows Phone, free: You’ll need an Xbox One games console to use this app, but it’s an essential companion if you do. You can use it to control the or browse the web on TV – and a growing number of games will use it as a second screen too.

Twitter #Music iPhone, free: Twitter’s music dis-covery app hasn’t been hugely popular, but it’s still a very good way for music fans to keep tabs on up-and-coming artists and songs, filtered through what people are tweeting about most.

GamesAngry Birds Star Wars II iPhone/ iPad/ Android/

Windows Phone, up to 79p: You can tell from both the Angry Birds Star Wars games that the developers at Rovio have a genuine love for the Star Wars films. This is another round of slinging birds at (evil Empire) pigs, with famous characters aplenty – and even some tie-in toys.

Call Of Duty Strike Team iPhone/ iPad/ Android, up to £4.99: Call of Duty games are big business on consoles, but this year saw a brand new title just for smartphones and tablets. It’s part first-person shooter and part tactical strategy game, as you switch between shooting and controlling your squaddies.

Clash Of Clans iPhone / iPad / Android, free: Clash of Clans was one of the most popular mobile games in the world in 2013: a characterful strategy game that saw you methodically building up a town and training an entire army to wreak havoc on other players.

Clumsy Ninja iPhone/ iPad, free: Another huge success on the App Store, this is a virtual pet game, except with a wonderfully animated ninja instead of a dog or cat. Your job is to train him up to be less clumsy, including tossing him through basketball hoops like a rag doll.

Best of 2013Best of 2013for iOS and for iOS and AndroidAndroid

Children’s apps were another big trend, with a growing community of developers aiming to educate and entertain children as young as two years old on the tablets owned by their parents.

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What lies ahead in 2014? Apps will spread on to new kinds of devices, from smart watches to cars. Tablets will be popping up in schools with increasing regularity; 4G mobile networks may spur a new boom in streaming music and video to smartphones and tablets; and the apps world will wait to see what the next big Candy Crush-sized mainstream success is.

Cut The Rope: Time Travel iPhone/ iPad/ Android, up to £1.99: A proper sequel to the puzzle game Cut the Rope was due right at the end of 2013, but this intermediate game helped fans while away the year. It sees cute monster Om Nom snipping more ropes in order to feed candy to relatives from down the years, to brain-testing effect.

Despicable Me: Minion Rush iPhone/ iPad/ Android/ Windows Phone, free: 150 million people downloaded the official mobile game for the Despicable Me 2 film in 2013, with its appeal stretching way beyond children. It’s a colourful affair featuring the characters and scenery from the film, with similarly riotous humour.

Dots: A Game About Connecting iPhone/ iPad/ Android, free: Few mobile games consumed more person-hours than Dots in 2013. An ostensibly simple puzzle game — trace lines and boxes of dots of the same colour on a grid — turned out to have ferociously addictive properties.

Flick Kick Football Legends iPhone / iPad / Android, free: This sequel to Flick Kick Football added more depth, putting you in charge of a marvellously retro football team, passing, tackling and shooting your way to success. A system of Panini-style cards to upgrade your squad added to the fun.

Football Manager Handheld 2014 iPhone/iPad/Android: More football, but this time you’re the man-ager, in the annual update to the mobile version of popular PC sim Football Manager. New features this year included a revamped design, more detailed media interaction and the option to create your own club.

Frozen Synapse iPad/Android, £1.99/ £2.00: Tablet-owning gamers looking for a strategy game to really get their teeth into won’t have been disappointed by Frozen Synapse. Ditching historical military themes for a Tron-style futuristic look, its 55 solo missions and multiplayer mode had lots of depth.

Infinity Blade III iPhone/iPad, £4.99: The Infinity Blade games have always been a showcase for Apple, and this third incarnation was no different, with graph-ics tuned to the latest iPhones and iPads. The gameplay was familiarly epic: big monsters, big loot and simple swipe controls.

Nimble Quest iPhone/iPad/Android, free: Something for nostalgic gamers here: a colourful new take on classic mobile title Snake, except with RPG-style heroes rather than wiggly wildlife. Your “conga line” winds its way round a series of levels attacking monsters, levelling up as they go. Quirkily good fun.

Real Racing 3 iPhone/iPad/Android, free: Driving game Real Racing 3 was controversial for its adop-tion of in-app purchases, but the game itself is very impressive. It looks like a console game, packed with real-world vehicles and tracks to zip around. Regular updates kept players occupied too.

Rymdkapsel iPhone/iPad/Android, up to £3.29: Another strategy game with lashings of neon, Rymdkapsel was quietly great. Your job is to build a space base for your minions to scoot around collecting resources and fending off alien attacks. It’s hypnotic, challenging and a gaming treat.

Star Wars: Tiny Death Star iPhone/iPad/Android/Windows Phone, free: Star Wars had a good year for mobile games. This second was based on mobile hit Tiny Tower, with the twist that you’re now building a Ttiny Death Star, complete with businesses, accom-modation and plenty of familiar characters moving in.

Year Walk iPhone/iPad, £2.49: The most bewitch-ing mobile game of 2013 was Year Walk, a supernatural

adventure based on Swedish mythology and full of strange creatures, brain-bending puzzles and beautiful production values. It has a companion app to explain all the myths.

Badland iPhone/iPad: Justifiably recognised by Apple in its Best of 2013 awards, Badland is the perfect game to get stuck into over Christmas: a platform-adventure set in an eerie forest, with beautiful visuals, slick physics and plenty of exploration. There was real imagination at work here, and iOS gamers responded.

SocialBBM iPhone/Android, free: Smartphone maker

BlackBerry had a bad year for selling handsets, but its messaging app BBM had a better one, launching for iPhone and Android and attracting 20 million users in its first week. It faces stiff competition from WhatsApp and Facebook Messenger but remains quick and slick.

Lift iPhone/Android, free: Lift sounds a bit new-agey with its promises of “daily motivation”, but if you’re trying to achieve a goal – from taking more exercise to eating less chocolate – it’s a very useful smartphone tool to track your progress and keep you on the right track.

IFTTT iPhone, free: IFTTT is hard to explain, but really useful once you’ve grasped it. It connects dif-ferent websites and apps – for example automati-cally saving your Instagram photos to your Dropbox, or emailing you when a favourite eBay seller has a new item.

KidsBBC CBeebies Playtime iPhone/iPad/Android/

Windows Phone, free: The preschool audience for CBeebies are taking to tablets in their thousands, and they won’t be disappointed with the channel’s first app: fun mini-games for Octonauts, Tree Fu Tom, Something Special and other shows.

The Snowman And The Snowdog Game iPhone/iPad/Android, free: Another app from a broadcaster, this time Channel 4, which has turned The Snowman and the Snowdog into a Temple Run-style endless runner game. Kids fly and collect snowflakes. It does have optional in-app purchases, but with an upper cap of £20.

Justin’s World: Goldilocks And The Three Bears iPhone/iPad, £1.99: Justin Fletcher is one of CBeebies’s biggest stars, and this is his own app: a

retelling of the Goldilocks fairytale with Justin dressing up as the main characters. Plenty of silliness, but also a serious focus on reading and accessibility for kids.

Little Red Riding Hood By Nosy Crow iPhone/iPad, £3.99: Another fairytale, beautifully realised by British publisher Nosy Crow, which has done similar tricks for Cinderella and The Three Little Pigs. The twist here is that children decide what items the heroine picks up en route to grandma’s to help her defeat the wolf.

Mr Shingu’s Paper Zoo iPhone/iPad/Android, £1.99: Origami and children’s gaming, together at last! This gets kids to fold together a menagerie of colourful animals, then keep them fed and entertained. Virtual coins are used to buy treats, but they’re earned entirely by playing, not by in-app purchases.

Toca Mini iPhone/iPad, £1.99: Swedish developer Toca Boca hasn’t yet made a bad app, and Toca Mini is one of its most creative yet. Children make a mini-figure: eyes, nose, mouth and clothing, with scope to make anything from superheroes and monsters to real celebrities.

Night Zookeeper Teleporting Torch iPad, £1.99: This creative kids’ app delivers daily drawing activities in the form of missions, asking children to draw spe-cific magical animals or scenes. Parents can take part too, sending their children on missions and checking on their progress.

Toca Builders iPhone/iPad/Android, 99p/£1.99: Another creative Toca Boca app, this time inspired by the popular building game Minecraft. Six robots construct, destroy or paint solid blocks, which can be built into anything the child fancies.

ProductivityMailbox iPhone/iPad, free: For anyone with an

overcrowded email inbox in 2013 (ie most people with an email inbox). Mailbox was a gem: an app that helped you swipe through your backlog with merry

abandon, even delaying non-urgent emails until a later time or date.

Ember iPhone/iPad, free: Subtitled “Capture, Organise and Share”, this is a simple but very elegant app for pulling together images around specific topics from a variety of sources, including your iOS device’s camera. It’s like your own personal version of Pinterest.

Cal iPhone/Android, free: Both Apple and Google have their own calendar apps for their smartphones, but Cal made a good pitch this year for replacing both. Pitched as a “smart” calendar, it’s easy to cre-ate appointments and events, and ties in neatly with the developer’s separate Any.do to-do lists app.

DuckDuckGo Search & Stories iPhone/Android, free: In a year of big stories about online surveillance, anonymous search engine DuckDuckGo emerged as a private alternative to Google. Its smartphone app took the idea mobile, with an additional focus on news stories with “no depressing news or graphic content”.

Quip iPhone/iPad/Android, free: Launched by Facebook’s former tech boss, Quip is a word-process-ing app designed to help people collaborate on docu-ments with colleagues, family members and friends: synchronising everything across iOS and Android devices to keep it up to date.

BBC Weather iPhone/iPad/Android, free: Weather apps are built in to Android and iPhone smartphones, but the BBC’s official weather app outdoes both with its simple, swipe-centric design, clear layout and compre-hensive forecasts. One of the best apps to have handy on your homescreen. The Guardian

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Sri Lankan Majlis Qatar elects new office bearers

Sri Lankan Majlis Qatar (SLMQ), held its 14th Annual General Meeting recently at Gulf

Paradise Hotel.The election of the Executive

Committee for 2014 was held at the meeting.

The outgoing president, Hazim Hamza, addressed the gathering, con-gratulated the incoming President.

Hamza also pledged his uncondi-tional support to services SLMQ has been doing.

The new President, Ameerudeen Moulana, expressed gratitude to the members for the trust bestowed on him.

Other office bearers for 2014 elected

at the meeting to conduct the affairs of the majlis include:

Vice-President Mohammed Lafir, General Secretary Thariq Cassim,

Treasurer Hafeel M Zubair, Projects Coordinator Rizvi Muhammed, Public Relations Coordinator Sahal Alavi, EXCO members Mohamed

Ashkaf, Riza Mohamed, Sabir Ahamed Salim, Ahmed Imthyas and Shadir Hassan.

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Little Chef ContestBirla Public School held a Little Chef Contest for stu-dents of Grade II CBSE International Curriculum. It was conducted in connec-tion with the topic ‘ABC… of Food’. The event was inau-gurated by George Edison, Vice Principal. Nutritive value, healthy ingredients, presentation etc, were the criteria for the judgement. Young chefs were quizzed as they cooked. It was excit-ing to watch the culinary creation of those kids.

Dr Kai Henrik-Barth, Georgetown University–SFS Qatar Senior

Assistant Dean for Faculty Affairs, is a nuclear energy and proliferation expert and a committed educator who is always willing to share knowledge with a new generation of learners.

Grade 5 students of Qatar Academy, are studying different forms of energy sources — renewable and non-renew-able energy — and their impact on the environment.

As part of their Unit of Inquiry under the Primary Years Programme, students were also looking into con-nections between technological advances and their effects on energy consumption.

Dr Barth accepted an invitation to give a presentation on nuclear power and energy sources at QA.

His presentation was informative

and interesting; an intellectual sharing and exchange of knowledge between young, curious minds and a scientific authority in the midst of Education City.

The presentation was factual and fast-paced with lots of interaction with students.

He discussed nuclear power in gen-eral and how is it different from other energy sources. Students, having done their research and being immersed in the topic, answered Dr Barth’s ques-tions and shared their queries.

Grade 5 Academic Coordinator Alana Gerrand, who informed Dr Barth beforehand that students would undoubtedly ask a lot of questions, saw the talk as a unique opportunity for QA students.

“It is incredibly fortunate for our students that we have access to

knowledgeable experts, such as nuclear scientists that are able to come and explain concepts first hand.

“Harnessing nuclear energy is a very complicated process to understand and we were really lucky to be able to find Dr Barth to share what he knows and answer questions.”

Dr Barth also discussed the dif-ference between nuclear power and nuclear weapons with an extended introduction to nuclear weapons – what precisely they are, which coun-tries have them and perhaps most important of all, what can the world collectively do about them. The Peninsula

Expert discusses nuclear power with Qatar Academy students

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Renowned musician Aiza Seguerra and award-winning rapper Gloc-9 will feature at

the Stars Night Concert on January 31 at West End Park amphitheatre.

This is the first time the two musi-cians will be together in a concert that could be the biggest Filipino concert yet, organisers say.

Seguerra is a Filipina actress, singer-songwriter and guitarist. After participating in Eat Bulaga’s Little Miss Philippines 1987, she became a child star starring in several movies and TV shows and is an undisputed superstar for the Filipino community worldwide.

Aristotle Pollisco, known by his stage name Gloc-9, is an Awit Award-winning Filipino rapper, whose fast-flowing vocal style has made him one of the most successful hip-hop artists in the Philippines.

Bilal Taha, event organiser and con-sultant known for successful events for

the Filipino community, who brought Rufa Mae Quinto, K Brosas, Charice Pempengco, Kim Idol, Jon Avila and more to Qatar, said: “It is always great to bring artists from the Philippines to Qatar. Filipinos work hard here and are far away from home. This is a way to bring “home” to Qatar at least for an evening.

“I am excited about this wonderful event. This time we are breaking all rules of entertainment and offering such fabulous ticket prices to make it affordable for every person. Ticket prices start from only QR3,” Taha added.

The concert also features Ava Jugueta and Haina Uddin.

Jugueta is a member of all-girl sing-ing group Pretty Young Thing. She is grand champion of 2007 GMA 7 real-ity- based musical talent search called Coca Cola Ride to Fame, model and host. Uddin is a young singing sen-sation in Qatar who brought home a

gold medal and three bronze medals from the World Championships of the Performing Arts in Hollywood, the US.

She is the grand champion of

2013 Talentadong Pinoy Middle East Worldwide. Ticket prices are QR39, QR59, QR79, QR99 and QR129.

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Filipino musicians to perform at West End Park

Hotelbeds.com has awarded Retaj Al Rayyan The business Partner 2013 for its efforts and contribution to success and relationship with Hotelbeds in 2013. From left: Amr Ghazy, Regional Director of Sales, Mostafa Abd El Baki, Corporate Director of Revenue, Ahmed Mubarak, Hotelbeds Representative, Mostafa El Seoud, Retaj Al Rayyan General Manager, and Mohamed Darwish, Corporate Director of Marketing and E-Commerce, at the event.

The Qatar UAE Exchange recently conducted the first draw of Fortune Fiesta promo-tion— an exclusive promotion for its Western Union custom-ers. Winners of 15 LED TVs, five digital cameras, seven mobile phones and five tabs were selected during the event. Qatar UAE Exchange Country Head Edison Fernandez and other senior officials were present. The draw was held under the supervision of Saud Al Anazi, Inspector from the Ministry of Business and Trade. The promo-tion is valid until January 31 and the final draw is on February 3. Sharaf DG is one of the sponsors of the promotion.

Qatar Shell celebrates top Qatari achievers

Qatar Shell celebrated the gradu-ation of seven Qatari employ-

ees from the company’s Accelerated Development Programme (ADP).

The ADP is a year-long programme to rapidly progress the professional growth of Qatari employees, includ-ing graduates and young professionals, who demonstrate high potential and performance. The objective of the pro-gramme is to develop a cadre of Qatari employees to help lead the delivery and operation of Shell’s current and future projects in the country.

“At Qatar Shell, we think of develop-ing all of Qatar’s resources — people as well as hydrocarbons. This is critical if we are to be the energy partner of choice for Qatar.

“The ADP plays an important role in helping some of our brightest and

most talented Qataris early in their careers and preparing them to take on leadership roles,” said Maryam Al Kaabi, Learning Manager, Qatar Shell.

“Shell provides challenging

experiences to young Qatari pro-fessionals early in their careers to sharpen their leadership skills and accelerate their development.

“Supporting local talent and

grooming future leaders help us fulfil our aspirations to become the employer of choice for Qatari nation-als,” she added.

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By David Merritt Johns

“Mayonnaise … is ketchup’s dark twin — loved by some, reviled by oth-ers, setting brother against brother wher-

ever it is spread,” wrote the novelist Gabriel Roth (a friend of mine) in a 2003 column for the San Francisco Bay Guardian. As I detail today in “Mayo-phobia,” there are some people who despise mayonnaise “with the passion of a thou-sand burning suns,” as one inflamed mayo critic recently attested on YouTube, while others (like me) adore the sauce and incorporate it into our bodies with abandon.

While this blistering debate over the merits of mayonnaise reached its boiling point only in recent decades, controversy has haunted the egg-based sauce from the very beginning. However, originally the disagreement was not about whether the condiment was good or bad, but rather who could claim bragging rights — France or Spain — for first spreading mayo’s gelatinous gospel.

One origin story, repeated in countless secondary sources, holds that the condiment was born in 1756 after French forces under the command of Duke de Richelieu laid siege to Port Mahon, on the Mediterranean island of Minorca, now a part of Spain, in the first European battle of the Seven Years’ War. The Duke’s chef, upon finding the island lacked the cream he needed for a righteous victory sauce, invented an egg and oil dressing dubbed mahonnaise for its place of birth. (Another version claims the chef learned

the recipe from island residents.) This creation tale came under assault a couple of generations later from a French gastronome who sniffed that Port Mahon was not exactly known for its haute cuisine. He felt Gallic provenance was more likely, and that the sauce might originally have been called bayonnaise after Bayonne.

Other advocates of French authorship suggested the name came from manier, meaning “to handle,” or moyeu, an old French word for yolk. By the 1920s, the Spanish were lashing back: a prominent Madrid chef published a pamphlet calling on his countrymen to reject the phony francophone term mayonnaise in favor of salsa mahonesa.

Present day food writer Tom Nealon emphatically endorses the Spanish view. “The fact that mayo doesn’t show up in any of the initial 17th century [French] recipe collections . . . does seem to confirm that the French didn’t have the ‘technology’ for mayonnaise until the 18th century,” he explained. But Andrew Smith, the author of several histories of mayonnaise, is not so sure: “All of the early recipes say French. I believe it,” he said.

There is no question that the French popularized the sauce. Starting in the very early 19th century, the word mayonnaise (or magnonnaise) began to appear in German and British cookbooks dedicated to French cuisine. Talk of mayo quickly made its way to the United States, often on the lips of migrating French chefs, such that by 1838 the gourmet eatery Delmonico’s in Manhattan was offering both a mayonnaise of lobster and a chicken mayonnaise.

The salad provided the initial beachhead for mayo’s colonization of American cuisine. Beginning in the late 19th century, elite eaters went bonkers for mayo-drenched potato salads, tomato salads, and Waldorf salads, an elegant mélange of apple, celery, walnuts and mayonnaise.

The sauce was terrific for disguising flaws in vegetables, and its superior binding capacity made it a natural for sandwiches — mayo’s second great platform — which took off as a brown-bag lunch staple following the invention of the mechanical bread slicer in the 1920s.

By 1923, the great white condiment’s star was rising so fast that President Calvin Coolidge was inspired to tell the press that the one treat he simply could not do without was his Aunt Mary’s heavenly homemade mayonnaise.

The president’s nostalgia for his aunt’s luscious sauce was a reflection of broad changes that were afoot in the American food production system. Handmade mayonnaise was fast becoming quaint: Spurred by the condiment’s popular momentum and the spread of refrigeration, hundreds of industrial manufacturers flooded the packaged mayo market. Hellmann’s, a New York City brand with fat jars that could accommodate giant spoons, came to dominate the sector.

“Mayonnaise, which had heretofore been considered a luxury, has now become a staple and a table necessity, not only in the homes of the rich, but also at the workingman’s table,” observed an industry publication in 1937.

Mayo had come to the great slathering masses.Merritt Johns is a doctoral student at Columbia

University’s school of public health.WP-Bloomberg

The origins of mayonnaise

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Volkswagen is poised to sell more vehicles in China than General Motors for the first time in nine years, regaining its place

as the biggest foreign carmaker in the world’s largest auto market.

Both companies have surpassed their targets to deliver more than three million vehicles in China this year, with Volkswagen crossing the mark on December 5 and GM a week later. The German automaker held a lead of about 70,000 vehicles through the first 11 months, according to data from the automakers.

Competition is set to inten-sify between the top European and American automakers, which have announced a combined $36bn in invest-ment for China even as more of the nation’s cities consider vehicle restric-tions to cut pollution. Toyota Motor Corp, still recovering from a consumer backlash, was outsold by Ford Motor Co in the country this year.

“China is the big battleground,” said Klaus Paur, Shanghai-based global head of automotive at market researcher Ipsos. “At the same time, there’s a risk of an over-dependence on the Chinese market. As long as this is all working well, it’s wonderful but if something gets in the way, then the exposure to risk is even bigger.”

Volkswagen said last month that it will invest €18.2bn ($25bn) through 2018 to expand in China. In the first 11 months of this year, the Wolfsburg,

Germany-based automaker boosted sales by 17 percent to 2.96 million vehicles, with its namesake brand accounting for almost 80 percent of the deliveries. The carmaker also owns marques such as Skoda, Audi, Porsche, Bentley, Lamborghini and Seat.

“You really have to understand that at present, we really have capacity problems, Jochem Heizmann, president and CEO of Volkswagen’s China opera-tions, said in an interview last month. ‘’We could sell more.’’

Volkswagen’s Audi, the top-selling premium brand in China, will start selling the locally made A3 compact sedan and a new version of the A4 next year, according to John Zeng, Shanghai- based managing director of market researcher LMC Automotive. Other planned models include the new VW Bora and Skoda Octavia sedans, he said.

At GM, the new year will be marked by changes in leadership.

Mary Barra will succeed Dan Akerson as chief executive officer in January, becoming the industry’s first female CEO. In China, Matthew Tsien was appointed to oversee GM’s largest market from January, taking over from Bob Socia, who is retiring.

GM will introduce four new Chevrolet models in China next year, according to John Stadwick, a vice president of sales and marketing. A lack of new models has hampered the growth of the brand, which has lagged behind the industry average this year,

Socia said in October.The low-cost Baojun brand will

also be expanded next year by adding a compact hatchback and multipur-pose vehicle, according to Raymond Bierzynski, executive vice president of SAIC-GM-Wuling, the GM local joint venture.

GM sells passenger vehicles in China under its Buick, Chevrolet, Cadillac, Opel and Baojun nameplates, and also counts the Wuling brand of mini-commercial vehicles. Excluding Wuling from the tally, as research-ers such as IHS Automotive and LMC Automotive do, the Volkswagen marque alone outsells GM’s main Buick, Chevrolet and Cadillac brands combined, according to company data compiled by Bloomberg.

Total sales of vehicles, including buses and trucks, industrywide reached 19.9 million units this year through November, putting China on course to be the first country to surpass 20 mil-lion units in annual vehicle sales.

China’s vehicle sales will ‘’rise stead-ily” next year, according to the auto-mobile association’s secretary general Dong Yang, declining to give a specific forecast. IHS Automotive predicts the passenger vehicle market to expand 10 percent next year on continued demand from smaller cities.

The increasing risk to rosy projec-tions for China’s vehicle sales — Ford predicts 32 million a year by 2020 — is pollution, which has become the top cause of social unrest in the country

and forcing authorities to impose restrictions on vehicle usage and ownership.

Tianjin, a port city about 114km (70 miles) from Beijing, became the latest municipality to cap the number of new license plates, according to the Xinhua News Agency.

The city joins Beijing, Shanghai, Guangzhou and Guiyang among those that control the number of new vehi-cles allowed each year to ease conges-tion and emissions.

Shanghai was blanketed by record smog pollution this month and is stud-ying a congestion charge, which would be a first for China if implemented. The city already sets a limit on the number of new license plates each year and sells them through auctions.

Other cities including Shenzhen, Chengdu and Chongqing are consid-ering quotas to tackle congestion, the automakers association said in July.

“Tianjin won’t be the last city lim-iting vehicle purchase,” Cao He, a Beijing-based auto analyst with China Minzu Securities Co, who predicts five cities will impose limits on vehicle purchases next year. “The ironic part of such policy is that it may actually spur purchase in a lot of cities as peo-ple concerned about the possibility of such ban dropping on their heads just overnight.”

Automakers remain undeterred, lured by lower vehicle ownership rates and rising incomes.

Among the newcomers, Tata Motors Ltd’s Jaguar Land Rover sales gained 28 percent in the first 11 months of this year to 83,499 vehicles on demand for the Range Rover Sport and Evoque SUVs. The Gaydon, England-based company is set to start producing cars in China next year, allowing it to avoid the nation’s 25 percent import duty.

Fiat SpA is negotiating to produce Jeep vehicles in China after production stopped in 2006.

Volvo Car Group, owned by Zhejiang Geely Holding Group Co, posted a 45 percent gain in sales this year and expects sales next year to be strong with the production of the S60L sedan in China since November, said Lars Danielson, the company’s senior vice president.

At Ford, the introduction this year of the EcoSport and Kuga SUVs helped the Dearborn, Mich.-based carmaker overtake Toyota to become No 5 in the China rankings.

Ford’s China sales rose 51 percent through November to a record 840,975 vehicles, aided by its Focus compact, which was China’s best-selling car this year. By comparison, Toyota sold 809,000 units in the same period for a 8 percent gain, as Japanese brands recovered from the consumer backlash sparked by a territorial dispute over a group of uninhabited islands.

“We have built a lot of momentum this year, and it’s really been on the strength of all those products that I mentioned,” David Schoch, Ford’s Asia Pacific president, told reporters at an event for the new Ford Mustang on December 5. “We’ve got more coming next year.” WP-Bloomberg

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uk

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or b

lata

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angalo

re, in

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thle

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enes

from

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rakash

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xperie

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lm

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ers

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ha

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m,

opposit

e B

ollyw

ood

supers

tar S

hah R

ukh K

han. H

er s

trug-

gle

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e s

aid

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as

in u

nderst

andin

g c

ol-

leagues,

the c

raft

and fi

ndin

g c

om

fort

in f

ront

of

the c

am

era.

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you b

egin

work

ing i

n y

our

early

20s

you a

re a

lso u

nderst

andin

g

yourself

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any people

w

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ave a

n i

nfluence o

n y

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ife -

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me g

ood, so

me b

ad,” s

aid

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ctr

ess

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artl

y d

ress

ed in a

hig

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hir

t and t

rouse

rs,

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h a

hin

t of m

akeup o

n

her fl

aw

less

skin

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she s

aw

early

sta

rdom

wit

h h

er

debut

film

, P

adukon

e h

as

als

o f

aced

som

e p

oor s

how

ings

at

the b

ox o

ffice.

Her 2010 film

s L

afa

ngey P

ari

nd

ey

(Rogue B

irds)

, K

hele

in H

um

Jee J

aa

n

Se (W

e P

lay W

hole

hearte

dly

) an

d

Ka

rth

ik C

all

ing K

art

hik

all fl

opped.

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rais

ed t

he r

ole

of her follow

ers

in k

eepin

g h

er m

oti

vate

d.

“Fans

giv

e y

ou love. I

know

min

e love

me f

or w

ho I

am

and n

ot

just

because

of th

e s

uccess

of m

y fi

lms,

because

even

in t

he y

ears

when m

y fi

lms

were n

ot

doin

g w

ell,

I fe

lt t

he s

am

e l

ove f

rom

th

e a

udie

nce a

nd f

ans.

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greed t

hat

2013

has

been

career-d

efinin

g,

wit

h t

he h

its

Ra

ce 2

, Y

eh

Ja

wa

an

i H

ai

Deew

an

i (T

his

Youth

is

Crazy

) an

d C

hen

na

i E

xp

ress

, again

co-s

tarrin

g S

hah R

ukh K

han

, w

hic

h

becam

e t

he m

ost

profita

ble

movie

in

In

dia

.A

lso t

his

year G

oli

yon

Ki

Ra

asl

eela

Ra

m-L

eela

(T

he B

att

le of

Bull

ets

: R

am

-L

eela

),

an

in

terpreta

tion

of

Rom

eo a

nd J

uliet,

won P

adukone n

ear-

univ

ersa

l prais

e.

There w

ere e

ven r

eports

of her b

ein

g

consi

dered for a

role

in t

he n

ext

inst

al-

ment

of

the F

ast

& F

uri

ou

s fr

anchis

e

— a

lthough t

he fi

lm i

s now

uncerta

in

aft

er U

S a

cto

r P

aul W

alk

er’s

fata

l car

accid

ent.

“I k

now

how

clo

se I

was

to d

oin

g

that

film

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I choose

to s

tand b

y m

y

earlier c

om

mit

ments

here,” s

he s

aid

.“F

ast

& F

uri

ou

s did

n’t

work

out,

for

whate

ver r

easo

ns.

But

it’s

rid

iculo

us

for p

eople

to s

ay t

hat

the s

torie

s w

ere

floate

d for p

ublicit

y. S

om

eti

mes

I th

ink

it’s

dest

iny,

” sh

e s

aid

.

Holl

ywood h

opes

But

she s

uggest

s H

ollyw

ood p

roje

cts

rem

ain

a r

eal

poss

ibil

ity.

“I a

m s

ure t

here w

ill

be s

om

eth

ing

els

e.”

Padukon

e h

as

thus

far m

ost

ly p

layed

the r

om

an

tic f

em

ale

lead i

n t

ypic

ally

com

mercia

l B

ollyw

ood fi

lms,

com

bin

-in

g s

on

g, dan

ce, com

edy a

nd a

cti

on

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real life

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ecto

r H

om

i A

daja

nia

describ

es h

er a

s h

avin

g a

n “

inte

nse

driv

e”,

com

bin

ed w

ith

lo

yalt

y an

d

“wis

dom

to p

lay t

he g

am

e w

ith p

ois

e”.

Sh

e

credit

s

her

back

grou

nd

in

sports

wit

h h

er d

iscip

lin

ed a

pproach

.“I

f m

y b

ackhan

d is

weak t

hen

befo

re

the n

ext

tourn

am

en

t I

bett

er p

racti

se

my b

ackh

an

d p

roperly

,” s

he s

aid

.“W

hen

a fi

lm d

oes

well

or d

oes

not

do w

ell, you a

naly

se it

an

d w

ork

on

the

thin

gs

that

did

not

work.”

Padukon

e h

as

als

o f

aced c

on

stan

t in

terest

from

goss

ip c

olu

mn

s, w

heth

er

over h

er lo

ve li

fe —

especia

lly h

er

form

er r

ela

tion

ship

wit

h f

ell

ow

sta

r

Ran

bir

Kapoor —

or s

upposed t

iffs

w

ith

in t

he s

mall

group o

f B

ollyw

ood

A-l

iste

rs.

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hin

k i

t is

more m

edia

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d

than

reality

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he s

aid

of

riv

alr

ies

wit

h

oth

er a

ctr

ess

es.

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at

may h

ave e

xis

ted e

arli

er,

but

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’t t

hin

k i

t exis

ts n

ow

. W

e m

ay

not

be t

he b

est

of

frie

nds

but

that

is

because

we d

on

’t h

ave t

he o

pportu

ni-

ties

or t

he t

ime.

“It’

s n

ot

that

we d

on

’t w

an

t to

. I

thin

k w

e a

re a

ll s

ecure i

n t

he w

ork

we d

o.”

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kon

e’s

n

ext

film

s

inclu

de

Fin

din

g F

an

ny,

an

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gli

sh

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kan

i la

nguage sati

re an

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ad

aii

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g, C

urly

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e),

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am

il p

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d fi

lm w

ith

south

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dia

n

superst

ar R

ajn

ikan

th.

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’s n

ice to

be apprecia

ted an

d

loved.

I kn

ow

that

I have t

he a

bilit

y

to m

ake p

eople

laugh

, cry o

r s

mil

e,”

sh

e s

aid

.“T

hat

I h

ave a

certa

in i

nfl

uen

ce o

n

people

’s l

ives

is v

ery h

um

bli

ng -

- an

d

a r

esp

on

sibil

ity t

o b

ear.”

AFP

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rit

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op g

irl

group

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irls

in t

he f

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as

adm

itte

d

that

she w

ishes

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e G

irls

were

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g m

ore a

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and”.

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ruth

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I w

as

alw

ays

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irls

to

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tinue.

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wan

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11HEALTH PLUS | WEDNESDAY 1 JANUARY 2014

By Kathryn Doyle

More strain at work might mean more illness in old age, according to a new study from Finland. The study found both physical and mental job strain

were tied to hospital stays later in life.Mental job strain can come from tight deadlines,

high demands and having little control over one’s work. Physical strain includes sweating, breathless-ness and muscle strain.

“Job strain is something that is individually per-ceived, so persons working in similar jobs can report different amounts of job strain,” lead researcher Mikaela von Bonsdorff said.

“When talking about job strain it is important to remember that occasional feelings of job strain are not necessarily a bad thing, but persistent high job strain has been identified as a health hazard.”

Recent studies have linked long-term job strain to lower functioning that lasts into old age, added von Bonsdorff. She is a gerontology researcher at the University of Jyväskylä in Finland.

The new findings come from a study of more than 5,000 middle-aged Finnish public sector employees who were initially surveyed about stress at work in 1981.

The researchers combined that information with data from national hospital records spanning the next 28 years.

With higher strain in midlife, days in the hospital tended to increase, especially for physical strain.

For instance, for every 1,000 men with low physical job strain, about eight days were spent in inpatient hospital care every year, on average. That compared to almost 13 days for every 1,000 men with high phys-ical job strain, according to findings published in Age and Ageing.

“What was interesting was that these associations were clear also when we looked at hospital care that took place after the individuals had turned 65, indicating that these associations were also robust in older age and not that the association was due to hospital care that took place immediately after the baseline assessment of job strain,” von Bonsdorff said.

For both men and women, hospital days increased as physical strain increased. But for mental strain, the link was only clear among men.

“Job strain of some sort can occur in basically any type of employment,” Loretta Platts said.

“Although physical job strain is confined to certain sorts of occupations, such as manual occupations or low-level service occupations like being an electri-cian, caretaker, driver, builder, cleaner, waiter, wait-ress, cook or shop assistant,” she said.

Platts is a doctoral candidate at Imperial College London. She studies how various factors influence quality of life after retirement and was not involved in the new research.

“The mechanism might be the development of musculoskeletal disorders from high physical strain jobs, which are often irreversible and painful, and can lead to osteoarthritis, a leading cause of hospital admissions in older people,” Platts said.

“In addition, immobility can be related to weight gain, which in turn leads to heart failure, high blood pressure and diabetes.”

Mental strain has been linked to heart disease, another cause of hospital stays.

Still, the study can’t prove that job strain causes poor health and more hospital stays, Platts pointed out.

High-strain jobs might be undesirable for many people, so it’s possible people working those kinds of jobs were unable to get less stressful jobs for an unknown, but relevant, reason. That reason could also be connected to their healthcare use.

It’s also possible that 28 years later, the people spending the most time in hospitals happened to think more negatively about their work in 1981, she said.

“This study was only of public sector employees and came from a country with a very developed wel-fare state. The consequences for people working in the private sector and in countries with less generous welfare states are likely to be worse,” Platts said.

“The public sector in Finland is probably a best-case scenario.”

SOURCE: bit.ly/1fKhSGi Age and Ageing, online December 8, 2013.

Reuters

Concussions may lead to Alzheimer’s later: Study

Suffered a head injury in the past and had a momentary loss of consciousness? You could

be at greater risk of Alzheimer’s disease later in life.

The symptoms of concussion — a short loss of normal brain function in response to a head injury — may lead to the build-up of brain plaques related to Alzheimer’s disease, says a new study.

The results, published in the journal Neurology, suggest a potential link between a history of head trauma and later cognitive decline.

“Interestingly, in people with a history of concussion, a difference in the amount of brain plaques was found only in those with memory and thinking problems, not in those who were cognitively normal,” said study author Michelle Mielke who is working with Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minnasota.

For the study, 448 people without any signs of memory problems and 141 people with memory and thinking problems — called mild cognitive impairment — were selected.

Of the 448 without any thinking or memory problems, 17 percent reported a brain injury and 18 percent of 141 people with memory and thinking difficulties reported a concussion or head trauma.

People with memory and thinking impair-ments with a history of head trauma had higher levels of amyloids, a kind of fibrous protein, than those with no head trauma history.

“Our results add merit to the idea that con-cussion and Alzheimer’s disease may be linked,” said Mielke.

“However, the fact that we did not find a rela-tionship in those without memory and thinking problems suggests that any association between head trauma and amyloids is complex,” he added.

Researchers suggested that higher amyloid levels could be a response to a higher level of damage to the myelin coating of the axons of neurons - the brain’s white matter.

Way to treat rare Kawasaki Disease found: ReportThere is good news for those seeking a cure

to the Kawasaki Disease (KD) - a rare childhood affliction that involves inflamma-tion of the blood vessels. A team of scientists at Sanford Children’s Health Research Centre in South Dakota, US, has discovered a molecule called ‘THRIL’ that helps regulate the immune response in children suffering from KD.

“THRIL could be a novel biomarker for immune activation and a potential target for inflammatory diseases like KD, rheumatoid arthritis and inflammatory bowel disease,” said Tariq Rana, senior author and professor at Sanford Children’s Health Research Centre.

According to the study, findings if which appeared in the journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, the new mol-ecule is formed when certain white blood cells — macrophages — are stimulated in response to pathogens.

The team of scientists measured ‘THRIL’ lev-els in KD samples at different stages and found that levels were at their lowest during the acute stage of the disease when TNF-alpha — a potent cytokine that promotes inflammation — levels are at their highest.

Agencies

Mid-life job stress linked to later health problems

TECHNOLOGYPLUS | WEDNESDAY 1 JANUARY 201412

By Sophie Knight and Reiji Murai

Panasonic Corp and Japan’s other mid-tier camera makers have a battle on their hands to win over a smartphone “selfie” generation

to mirrorless cameras that held such promise when they were launched around five years ago.

Panasonic, like peers Fujifilm Holdings and Olympus Corp, has been losing money on its cam-eras since mobile phones that take high-quality photos ate into the compact camera business. This year, compact camera sales are likely to fall more than 40 percent to fewer than 59 million, according to industry researcher IDC.

Meanwhile, sales of mirrorless cameras — seen as a promising format between low-end compacts and high-end single-lens reflex (SLR) cameras — are sputtering as buyers put connectivity above picture quality.

A 40 percent drop in Panasonic’s overall cam-era sales in April-September left the imaging divi-sion vulnerable as the company’s mid-term plan to March 2016 demands unprofitable businesses turn themselves around or face the axe.

“If you look mid-to-long term, digital camera makers are slipping and the market is becoming an oligopoly,” said Credit Suisse imaging analyst Yu Yoshida.

Panasonic held 3.1 percent of the camera market in July-September, down from 3.8 percent a year earlier, according to IDC. Canon Inc, Nikon Corp and Sony Corp controlled over 60 percent between them.

“Only those who have a strong brand and are competitive on price will last — and only Canon, Nikon and Sony fulfil that criteria,” added Yoshida.

Canon and Nikon dominate the SLR camera mar-ket, while Sony could survive any shakeout thanks to its strength in making sensors for a number of camera manufacturers as well as collaboration with its smartphone division.

Sputtering MirrorlessPanasonic, Fujifilm and Olympus are trying to

fend off the smartphone threat by cutting compacts, targeting niche markets such as deep-sea diving, and launching the higher-margin mirrorless models.

The mirrorless format promised mid-tier makers an area of growth as the dominance of Canon and Nikon all but shut them out of SLRs, where Sony is a distant third. Neither Panasonic nor Fujifilm makes SLRs, and Olympus stopped developing them this year.

Mirrorless cameras such as Panasonic’s Lumix GM eliminate the internal mirrors that optical viewfinders depend on, so users compose images via electronic viewfinders or liquid crystal displays. This allows the camera to be smaller than an SLR, while offering better quality than compacts or smartphones due to larger sensors and interchangeable lenses.

“SLRs are heavy and noisy, whereas mirrorless are small and quiet. While some people say SLRs still have better image quality, mirrorless (cameras) have improved to the point where they’re equivalent, if not superior,” said Hiroshi Tanaka, director of Fujifilm’s optical division.

Critics grumble that LCD screens can never compete with the clarity of an optical viewfinder, and that picture-taking speeds are too slow for fast-action subjects such as sports.

Nevertheless, the mirrorless format has been a hit in Japan since Panasonic launched the first domestically pro-duced model in 2008, the G1. They made up 36 percent of Japan’s inter-changeable lens camera shipments in

January-October, according to researcher CIPA.But the format is yet to catch on in the United

States and Europe, where shipments made up just 10.5 percent and 11.2 percent of all interchangeable camera shipments, respectively, and where consum-ers tend to equate image quality with size and heft.

Sales, which globally are less than a quarter of those of SLRs, fell by a fifth in the three weeks to December 14 in the United States, which included the busy ‘Black Friday’ shopping week, while SLR sales rose 1 percent, according to NPD, another industry researcher.

“I would focus on the detachable lens market proper, excluding mirrorless, and focus on connec-tivity,” said Ben Arnold, director of imaging analysis at NPD.

“How do you bridge that gap between high photo-capture quality and high-quality camera devices

and the cloud where every amateur photographer’s images live?”

Smartphone CompromisePanasonic, Olympus and Fujifilm do not yet have

a definitive answer.Consumers don’t want to connect cameras to

phones, analysts say; they want a single interface that can instantly upload photographs to social net-working sites such as Facebook Inc and Twitter Inc.

Sony’s compromise is its two QX lenses released this quarter. These come with their own sensors and processors, and clip onto smartphones through which the user operates them wirelessly. They are pocket-sized and produce photographs of a quality rivalling that of a compact camera.

“There was a lot of internal disagreement over the product. It’s the kind of product you either love

or hate,” said Shigeki Ishizuka, presi-dent of Sony’s digital imaging business.

But Sony appears to have connected with consumers as demand soon out-stripped production. Some are even using the lenses in a way Sony didn’t intend: placed at a distance while they press the shutter on their smartphone to take self-portraits, or selfies.

“We had no idea how much the QX would sell initially when we put it out. We didn’t set any targets,” said Ishizuka. It is little surprise Sony was the camera maker to break the mould as it is the only one to also have a prof-itable smartphone division.

“There are so many consumers that were hungry for Sony to do this,” said Chris Chute, IDC’s digital imaging research director. “They’ve (waited for Sony) to come out with something really innovative, almost like the Walkman (portable music player).”

Reuters

Camera makers face shakeoutas smartphones shatter hopes

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Northern and Southern Nigeria became a single British colony, to strengthen its economy and offset growing tension with German colonies in the region

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1Dhoom 3 (2D/Hindi) – 2.30 & 8.00pm

Silence (2D/ Malayalam) – 5.30 & 11.15pm

2

Frozen (3D/Animation) – 3.00pm

Walking W/ Dinosaurs (3D/Animation) – 5.15pm

Grudge Match (2D/Comedy) – 7.15pm

Howa Fi Keda -Arabic (2D/Arabic) – 9.30pm

A Strangers In Paradise (2D/Thriller) – 11.30pm

3

Grudge Match (2D/Comedy) – 2.30 & 11.15pm

Mandela (2D/Biography) – 4.30pm

Frozen (3D/Animation) – 7.00pm

47 Ronin (3D/Action) – 9.00pm

ROYAL

PLAZA

1

Dhoom 3 (2D/Hindi) – 2.30 & 8.00pm

Silence (2D/ Malayalam) – 5.30pm

Endrendrum Punnagai (2D/Tamil) – 11.00pm

2

Walking W/ Dinosaurs (3D/Animation) – 3.00pm

Frozen (3D/Animation) – 5.00 & 7.00pm

Grudge Match (2D/Comedy) – 9.00pm

47 Ronin (3D/Action) – 11.15pm

3

A Strangers In Paradise (2D/Thriller) – 2.30pm

Walking W/ Dinosaurs (3D/Animation)– 4.30pm

47 Ronin (3D/Action) – 7.00pm

Howa Fi Keda -Arabic (2D/Arabic) – 9.15pm

Grudge Match (2D/Comedy) – 11.15pm

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Editor-In-Chief Khalid Al Sayed Acting Managing Editor Hussain Ahmad Editorial Office The Peninsula Tel: 4455 7741, E-mail: plus@pen.com.qa / editor@pen.com.qa

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

• There was talk about Ooredoo’s initiative to enable customers to pay their water and electricity bills through its self-service machines, which are available in malls, commercial centres and on streets.

• There was discussion about the decision of the Border and Passport Department at the Ministry of Interior to issue new electronic smart ID, which includes special cell.

• Some people demanded that the authorities concerned find solutions and set standards for the construction of speed-breakers on the streets. They said many speed-breakers were high and sharp without colours or reflective paints which make it difficult for motorists to cross without damaging their vehicles. They said the authorities need to set clear terms and conditions for building speed-breakers before approval, and then ensure that the

requirements have been adhered to.• There was talk on social media about

the IPO allotment today by Mesaieed Petrochemical Holding Company, which continues until January 21.

• There was discussion on social media about Ashghal’s initiative to fix OVDS check-up devices to detect the height of trucks before they enter sub-passes or underbridges to avoid damage and ensure safety and security of drivers and public properties.

• Some people demanded that the authorities tighten monitoring on the consumption of electricity and water as many government institutions are wasting energy and water due to lack of monitoring and awareness. They stressed the need for awareness campaigns, monitoring streetlights in daytime, and preventing misuse of energy and water in government institutions.

IN FOCUS

A cat seen on a Doha road.

by Mohd Nufail

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Who’s who

Mohammed Al Naimi, Board Member and Executive Committee Member, Silatech

Mohammed Al Naimi currently serves as the Planning and Programming Director in

the Office of H H Sheikha Moza bint Nasser. He began his career in 1998 as a Civil Engineer at Qatar Liquefied Gas Company. In 2003, Mohammed joined South Hook LNG Company in the United Kingdom as a Project Engineer. He holds a BS in Civil Engineering from Southern Illinois University-USA, and an MBA from CASS Business School-London.

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Public talk on: Globalization, Power Diffusion, and Turkish Foreign Policy When: January 8, 2014; 5pm-7pmWhere: Qatar Foundation, LAS Building, B15 What: Talk by Professor Fuat Keyman, Director of Istanbul Policy Center and Professor of Political Science at Sabanci University, organised by Qatar Faculty Of Islamic Studies, Master’s Program In Public Policy In Islam. Free Entry

Project Space: Magdi Mostafa: Sound Element When: Till Jan 5, 2014Where: Mathaf: Arab Museumof Modern Art

What: Egyptian artist Magdi Mostafa explores the dialogue between sound and space. Mostafa’s work evokes personal and shared memories, recalling different images and emotions to be experimented by the visitors. Free Entry

Relics — Damien HirstWhen: Until Jan 22; Sun-Wed: 10:30am–5:30pm. Tuesday ClosedThur-Sat: 12pm–8pm, Fri: 2pm–8pmWhere: Al Riwaq Exhibition Space What: The most comprehensive survey of Damien Hirst’s work ever shown and his first solo exhibition in the Middle East. Free Entry

L’âge d’or — exhibitionby Adel AbdessemedWhen: Till January 5Where: Atrium and ground floor of Mathaf: Arab Museum of Modern Art What: Curated by Pier Luigi Tazzi, the exhibition will showcase recent works, including drawings, paintings, sculptures and videos, many created by Adel Abdessemed. Entry: Free, open to all

Sheikh Abdullah bin Jassim: A Leader’s Legacy When: Until January 30, 2014Where: QMA Gallery, Katara What: This exhibition presents new insights into Sheikh Abdullah’s life and legacy to Qatar’s people through exceptional artifacts, historic photographs, oral history interviews and original films. Free Entry

‘Our Qatar’ ExibitionWhen: Till Jan 18, 10pm to 10pm Where: Katara Gallery 2 - Bldg 18 What: A community photography installation project. You can contribute one photo that expresses the way you feel about Qatar and their life in the country. Maximum Size accepted is A3. For more information contact the Katara Art Studios Team at education@katara.netEntry: Free Entry

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