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More than 150 photographs are on display at Katara as part of the World Press Photo 13 exhibition. The show aims to inform and inspire an understanding of the world through photographs.

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By Isabel Ovalle

It is said a picture is worth a thousand words. This is borne out by the World Press Photo 13 exhibition, which is on in

Doha until June 5, aiming to inform and inspire an understanding of the world through photographs.

The annual show is held at about 100 venues all over the world, with 15 sets of the exhibition travelling to various cities. This is the third time it has come to Doha. It is being held at the premises of hosts Qatar Photographic Society, located in building 18 of Katara Cultural Village.

This year’s event includes more than 150 photographs, including the winning photo and award-winning images from each of the nine cat-egories in the World Press Photo Contest.

Each year, photojournalists, photo agencies, newspapers and magazines from all corners of the world submit entries in the nine categories: Spot News, General News, Sport Action, Sport Features, Contemporary Issues, Daily Life,

Observed Portraits, Staged Portraits and Nature.

An independent international jury, consisting of 19 members, judges the entries. This year’s com-petition attracted 5,666 photogra-phers from 124 countries, but there were no Qatari participants. In total, 103,481 images were entered in the contest.

The jury of the 56th World Press Photo Contest selected a picture by Paul Hansen of the Swedish daily Dagens Nyheter as the World Press Photo of the Year 2012. The picture shows a group of men carrying the bodies of two children through a street in Gaza City. Two-year-old Suhaib Hijazi and his elder brother Muhammad, almost four, are being carried by their uncles to a mosque for their funeral while their father’s body is carried behind on a stretcher.

Suhaib and Muhammad were killed when their house was destroyed in an Israeli missile strike. Their injured mother was put in intensive care in a hospital. The picture was taken on November 20, 2012 in Gaza City, Palestinian Territories.

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The jury gave prizes in the nine categories to 54 photographers from 33 countries: Argentina, Australia, Belgium, Brazil, Canada, Chile, China, Czech Republic, Denmark, France, Germany, India, Indonesia, Iran, Italy, Jordan, Malaysia, Mexico, Palestinian Territories, the Netherlands, Peru, Poland, Portugal, Russia, Serbia, South Africa, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, Turkey, United Kingdom, USA, and Vietnam.

Many images exhibited this year are from the siege of Aleppo in the Syrian

civil war. Among them are two photos by Javier Manzano from Mexico, win-ner of the third prize singles for Spot News Stories. One of them transports the viewer to the side of Free Syrian Army rebels just after their entry into Aleppo, Syria’s largest city. Another of his shots shows a rebel fighter examining the impact of a rocket pro-pelled grenade, giving a glimpse of the destruction in the commercial capital of the country.

Other shots show Barcelona on March 29, 2012, the day of a general strike in Spain, in a photo by Emilio Moneratti, and gangs in El Salvador, in Tomas Munita’s photo, which won the third prize stories award in the Daily Life category.

The happier shots are from the Sport Action category, like those of the Australian synchronised swimming team at the London Olympic Games, taken by Wei Zheng from China, and of sumo wrestlers, taken by Dennis Rouvre from France, in the Sport Features category.

Ahmed Yousef Al Khulaifi, chair-man of Qatar Photographic Society, said, “the exhibition will be here for about three weeks. We invite everyone to come to Building 18. I recommend starting with the sad photos and con-cluding with the happy ones in the left wing.”

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Information is provided alongside the images, while an Exhibition Guide in English is also available. For the 2013 exhibition tour, World Press Photo is offering a free and updated mobile Exhibition Guide. This application, which is available for both iOS and Android smartphones, enables users to learn more about the exhibited

photographs. It enhances the viewers’ experience by allowing them to listen to captions, read the photographers’ biographies and find out more about the equipment used. After their visit, guests can view their favourite pho-tos again and continue the experience online.

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The happier shots are from the Sport Action category, like those of the Australian synchronised swimming team at the London Olympic Games, taken by Wei Zheng from China, and of sumo wrestlers, taken by Dennis Rouvre from France, in the Sport Features category.

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“Say No to soft drinks,” said Dr Susan George, a prosthodontist, while addressing Grade 4 students of DMIS. In a talk about oral hygiene, she shared her expertise in taking care of teeth. Dr George explained the harmful effects of plaque and how it can be prevented. A PowerPoint presentation and video helped the students understand the right way to brush their teeth. They also learnt that a healthy diet has an important role in preventing tooth decay. The event concluded with an interactive session.

DMIS pupils learn dental care

Harvest at Bhavan’s vegetable gardenThe fourth harvest from Bhavan’s veg-etable garden took place at the Matar Qadeem campus recently. The harvest was done by Dr G Manulal, principal, BhPS, Prabhavathy Nambiar, head-mistress, academic and activity coor-dinators, students, teachers and Eco Club members. The school’s Eco Club members took the initiative to plant a variety of vegetables in their garden. The vegetables harvested were cucum-ber, ladies finger, brinjal, tomato, bitter gourd, bottle gourd, green chillies, blue chillies, white chillies, capsicum, beans and tur dal beans.

The Organising Committee of the Schools Olympic Programme (SOP) announced that the opening ceremony of

the seventh edition will be staged on Wednesday, September 25.

The sports competitions will begin on Monday, September 30 and the clos-ing ceremony of the girls competitions will be held on Thursday, April 3, 2014 while the boys competitions will come to an end on Friday, April 4, 2014.

The Organising Committee will meet teachers of participating schools on June 19 to brief them about registra-tion procedures for the seventh edition. Registration for team sports will start on June 19 and end on September 19.

Registration for individual sports will open 45 days prior to each event and close a week before the start of the competition. The draw for boys’ and girls’ competitions

will be conducted on September 22. Earlier this month, Qatar Olympic

Committee and the SOP Organising Committee announced that they would organise the seventh edition of SOP under the theme “Sports and Integrity”, in cooperation with their regular part-ners, the Supreme Education Council, Qatar School Sport Association and Qatar Paralympic Committee. The International Centre for Sport Security will be a strategic partner for this edition.

The QOC and the SOP Organising Committee also revealed that shooting had been included in SOP as a new discipline. With this, the total number of SOP sports events has increased to 11, including volleyball, basketball, football, handball, athletics, tennis, gymnastics, swimming, fencing, table tennis and shooting.

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SOP seventh edition to begin on Sept 25

MES releases newsletter

MES Indian School brought out the second edition of its news-letter of the academic year

2012-13, featuring activities in the school and the major achievements of its stu-dents, in a special assembly at the KG Auditorium of the school.

A Shamsuddeen, senior vice presi-dent, and K P Abdul Azeez, general sec-retary, MES Governing Body, together released the newsletter and gave away the first copy to A P Sasidharan, prin-cipal. Student representatives of all the sections of the school received the news-letter during the ceremony.

“The very heart and soul of MES Indian School is reflected in the pages of the newsletter and I am proud to present this issue in the name of all the budding talents of our school”, said Jose K Babu, chief editor, while welcoming the gathering. The Peninsula

School officials and students at the newsletter release ceremony.

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QIB offers new salary transfer scheme

Qatar Islamic Bank (QIB) is launching a new salary trans-fer campaign aimed at offer-

ing unique benefits to customers and their families.

Under the “Family Comes First” campaign, customers who transfer their monthly salary accounts from other banks to QIB will receive a comprehensive package of benefits including free comprehensive ‘Family Shield’ (Takaful) worth QR100,000, a free Gold Card for the first year, free supplementary cards for family mem-bers, and protection against job loss.

QIB will also offer buyout/new finance at a competitive rate. Other benefits include a QR1,000 free voucher for car protection products, a rate of 2.9 percent on auto finance insurance and free roadside assistance to auto financing customers.

In addition to the benefits package, QIB will pay the one percent early settlement fees imposed by other banks when transferring liabilities

and, to make it convenient for cus-tomers and their families, all the work of transferring the account will be done by QIB’s direct sales agents.

D Anand (pictured), QIB’s Personal Banking Group General Manager, said: “We all want to put our fami-lies first, which is why QIB has come up with this comprehensive scheme.”

“Now you can transfer your salary payments directly into a QIB account and secure their future, ensuring their financial stability, while at the same time enjoying extra benefits. With nothing to lose and so much to gain, this offer really is unbeatable,” he concluded.

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PLUS | SUNDAY 26 MAY 2013 COMMUNITY / MARKETPLACE66

Jezequel, a clothing brand from France, celebrated the opening of its store in Doha with a flash mob

performance at Lagoona Mall. With outlets across Europe and Asia,

the brand chose to launch its exclusive store in Qatar with its distributer Naira Group. Gilbert El Khoury, CEO, Naira International Group, commented: “At a time when Qatar is taking centre stage in education, sports and fashion on a global scale, we are proud to bring Jezequel to represent French fashion in one of the world’s fastest develop-ing markets. The brand’s classic and

versatile designs offer functional and high-quality lifestyle products to fash-ion forward individuals with a sense of classic elegance and style. Jezequel’s high-quality designs at competitive prices are sure to be very appealing to the local market”.

Drawing on its French heritage, Jezequel organised two flash mobs, which recreated a Parisian night and French boulevard scene. Participants in the flash mob wore Jezequel’s latest Spring and Summer collections, featur-ing its trademark casual sportswear.

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French fashion brand Jezequel opens store in Lagoona Mall

Participants in the flash mob performance in front of the store.

The Torch Doha receives ISO certification

The Torch Doha has received ISO 9001:2008 Quality

Management System certification from MS Certification.

Following an assessment and audit of the hotel’s management system and processes, MS Certification handed over the certificate at a ceremony recently.

“We are honoured and humbled to be one the first five-star hotels in Qatar to receive the ISO 9001:2008 certification. This ensures that we have a management system manual in place. When applied, the manual allows for managing effec-tively the hotel processes,” said hotel manager Sherif Sabry. The Peninsula

FROM LEFT: Tamer Kamel of MS Certification, Gerhard Foltin, The Torch Doha General Manager, Sherif Sabry, The Torch Doha Hotel Manager, and Sherif Taher of MS Certification.

G4S Qatar had a “Health Check-up Day” for its indirect employees at the company’s head office recently. The initiative was taken by the company’s managing director, Dr Saif Al Hajri, and spearheaded by the Health, Safety and Environment Department. Medical staff from the Al Attiyah Group clinic headed by Dr Hari Lal (car-diologist) facilitated the check-up, which included checking the body mass index, blood pressure, blood sugar level and free consultation.

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By Julie Steenhuysen

Kathrin Jansen is a microbiol-ogist with at least two break-through vaccines to her name: she brought the cervical can-

cer vaccine Gardasil to market for Merck and helped develop the $4bn a year pneu-monia and meningitis vaccine Prevnar 13 for Pfizer.

Jansen’s next vaccine success could come by taming the superbug MRSA, a drug-resistant bacterium that she has seen ravage a healthy man up close and personally.

Methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus infects an estimated 53 mil-lion people globally and costs more than $20bn a year to treat. In the United States alone, MRSA kills 20,000 Americans each year, exceeding annual deaths from AIDS.

Jansen watched the infection unfold two years ago when visiting her stepfa-ther, who was in the hospital for a hip replacement. The man in the bed next door died soon after MRSA attacked the vascular graft in his leg.

“He went in healthy and died very quickly,” recalls Jansen, senior vice president of vaccine research and early development at Pfizer Inc, the world’s largest drug maker. She says the expe-rience steeled her resolve to develop an effective vaccine that could prevent such deaths.

But Staphylococcus aureus has proven a tenacious adversary. In the past decade, vaccine candidates by Nabi Biopharmaceuticals and Merck & Co Inc failed in costly, late-stage clinical tri-als. Now, led by Jansen, Pfizer is taking a shot. Competitors, including vaccine giants GlaxoSmithKline, Novartis and Sanofi, are, too.

And while the race could lead to a via-ble vaccine, potentially worth billions in sales, critics say companies may be risk-ing costly failure with so much work on a bacterium that is still barely understood.

‘BAG OF TROUBLE’Staph has been living in and on its

human hosts for centuries. At any given time, 25 to 35 percent of individuals will test positive for staph, often with no symptoms. But the bacterium can cause a range of diseases from boils and impetigo to raging blood infections and deadly bacterial pneumonia.

The discovery of penicillin in 1928 gave doctors a way to defeat staph infec-tions, but overuse and misuse gave rise to drug-resistant staph. Methicillin was

developed to overcome drug-resistance, but by the 1960s, staph evolved new defenses to overcome this more power-ful version of penicillin.

Thus began the decades-long battle against methicillin-resistant staph, now the most common cause of hospital-acquired infections that is increasingly spreading into army barracks, prisons and daycare centres.

Dr Bill Gruber, a Pfizer senior vice president who led clinical trials for Prevnar 13 and is running the company’s Staph aureus trials, thinks of the bacte-rium as “a little bag of trouble.”

“Basically, it has a number of different toxins and defenses to try to defeat you.”

That may explain why vaccines from Nabi and Merck failed. Both tried to defeat this bug by attacking on just one front.

The vaccine by Nabi, now Biota Pharmaceuticals, focused only on the sugar capsule the bacteria make to hide from the immune system, while Merck’s focused on a single protein that helps staph gets its nutrition. Neither lived up to expectations.

“We’ve learned that just focusing on one target of Staph aureus might not be sufficient,” said Dr. Buddy Creech, an infectious diseases expert at Vanderbilt University.IT TAKES STAMINA

Jansen has been working on a Staph aureus vaccine for the past decade, first at Merck, then at Wyeth, and now at Pfizer.

The East German-born scientist - who fled to the West in 1960 and earned her PhD in biology at Philipps University in Marburg - says it takes stamina to develop a successful vac-cine, a process that can take 15 years or more. With the cervical cancer vac-cine Gardasil, which had 2012 sales of

$1.6 billion, it took 14 years from lab bench to government approval. “That’s actually a fast development program,” she said.

With Staph aureus, it took eight years from the first experiments to human safety trials. Now, it could take another seven to 10 years to wind up clinical trials, putting the team about midway through the process.

Pfizer’s initial vaccine targeted three mechanisms key to staph’s survival and ability to cause disease. Two of those focused on sugar capsules. The third attacks a mechanism called “clumping factor,” which allows bacteria to stick to proteins when they enter the body.

But Jansen’s team wanted one more point of attack. They added a fourth anti-gen, a protein that allows the bacterium to steal manganese - a key nutrient - from host cells.

The result is a four-antigen vaccine that generates antibody responses at dis-tinct points of the life cycle of the bug. The company is testing this in Phase 1/Phase 2 trials in healthy adults in the United States. If Pfizer gets the results they hope for, likely later this year, the company expects to meet with regulators to iron out a plan for larger trials involv-ing thousands of individuals.

Initially, the vaccine would be aimed at preventing infections in millions of peo-ple globally who need elective procedures such as a hip replacement. Ultimately, it could be used to protect people at risk in the broader community.

RIVAL VACCINESPfizer is furthest along, but the large,

untapped market, estimated to be worth $3bn to $4bn a year, has drawn interest from several companies.

GlaxoSmithKline has been quiet about its approach. The drugmaker

had been partnering with Nabi’s failed StaphVax candidate, and in 2009 bought another Nabi candidate called PentaStaph for $46m.

Company researchers declined to dis-cuss their program, but Glaxo spokes-woman Melinda Stubbee confirmed the company has a four-component vac-cine in Phase 1 development. “We are still evaluating the data and haven’t yet announced plans to present the data or to pursue further development,” she said.

NovaDigm Therapeutics, a private company based in Grand Forks, North Dakota, is developing a single-antigen vaccine that targets both staph and yeast infections caused by the fungus Candida.

Other rivals with early-stage pro-grams include Novartis, which has a vac-cine in Phase 1 trials, and Sanofi, which is partnering with privately held biotech Syntiron.

Although academic researchers applaud these efforts, they say companies may be rushing into trials too soon, espe-cially when so much is unknown about how staph interacts with people.

“Our development of Staphylococcal vaccines has predated an adequate understanding of the human response to infection,” Creech said.

For instance, it is still not clear whether a Staph aureus vaccine that protects against skin infections will also protect individuals from bloodstream infections. It may be that instead of preventing infection, some vaccines will merely blunt infection.

Dr Robert Daum, who leads the MRSA Research Center at the University of Chicago Medical Center, doubts any of the current candidates will make it into widespread use. “I am convinced we need a vaccine. I’m just not sure anyone knows how to make one yet.”

Jansen, who knows Daum, said she understands his skepticism. “I’m a micro-biologist. I know bacteria pretty well. They are very potent adversaries.”

She says there’s a reason the company was not the first out of the gate. “We wanted to make sure that we looked under all the rocks and found what we needed to find.”

Tests in animals and people suggest the vaccine induces production of anti-bodies that defeat staph’s defenses and kill the bacteria. “To our knowledge, we are the only ones who have demonstrated very, very robust killing responses.”

That was enough for Jansen. “We essentially said, ‘That’s it. We put it together as best as we know how. Now is the time to test it.’” Reuters

Pfizer takes its shot at a vaccine for evasive superbug

A MRSA bacteria strain is seen in a petri dish con-taining a special jelly for bacterial culture.

Kathrin Jansen, sen-ior vice president of Vaccine Research and Early Development at Pfizer Inc.

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again

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you’v

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een h

ow

Kareena K

apoor a

ffects

the s

ober,

sta

id a

nd r

epress

ed

Shahid

Kapoor i

n J

ab

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et, y

ou’d

know

that

fem

inin

e e

xuberance i

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ard a

phrodis

iac t

o r

esi

st,

specia

lly i

f you a

re a

clo

set-

rom

anti

c l

ike

Akaash

(R

hehan M

aliek)

who in n

o t

ime a

t all (

first

five m

inute

s of

this

cris

p a

nd d

elightf

ul sl

ice o

f lo

ve-l

ife c

om

edy)

is e

ati

ng o

ut

of Is

hkq’s

lovely

hands.

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hqk! S

he is

that

kin

d o

f a g

irl. H

alf

-French a

nd f

ully d

esi

, Is

hqk

fills

up t

he f

ram

es

wit

h a

n u

nbrid

led joie

de v

ivre. I

can’t

thin

k o

f a r

ole

bett

er w

rit

ten f

or P

reit

y Z

inta

. M

issi

ng f

rom

the s

creen f

or a

couple

of

years,

she b

oun

ces

back w

ith a

perfo

rm

an

ce t

hat

deriv

es

its

zin

g a

nd

spark

le f

rom

the a

ctr

ess

’ in

built

zest

for lif

e.

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y t

akes

her c

haracte

r I

shqk b

eyond h

er o

wn p

erso

nality

. F

rom

F

ram

e o

ne w

e s

ee I

shkq a

s a g

irl

trapped i

n s

elf

-decepti

ons

that

leave

her u

nnecess

arily w

ary o

f rela

tionsh

ips.

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kq h

ides

her r

eal em

oti

ons

in

rom

anti

c n

onchala

nce. T

his

is

not

the fi

rst

tim

e P

reit

y p

lays

a r

epress

ed

characte

r. I

n N

ikhil A

dvani’s

Ka

l H

o N

aa

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reit

y h

ad t

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ake a

‘sp

ec-

tacle

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her c

haracte

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ain

a t

o b

rin

g o

ut

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om

mit

ment

phobia

in t

he

abse

nce o

f a f

ath

er,

who a

bandoned h

er w

hen s

he w

as

young.

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his

Paris

ian h

om

age t

o a

ll t

hin

gs

rom

anti

c, P

reit

y’s

characte

r

blo

ssom

s befo

re u

s w

ithout

props

and y

et

lookin

g im

mense

ly f

etc

hin

g. It

is

a n

on-a

ccess

orie

d p

erfo

rm

ance, very b

asi

c a

nd lib

erate

d from

hum

bug.

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y b

rin

gs

out

the h

ighs

and low

s in

her e

moti

onally a

wash

characte

r

wit

hout

takin

g fl

am

boyant

leaps

of

on-c

am

era c

onceit

. It

’s a

beauti

fully

writ

ten a

nd d

irecte

d p

art,

reple

te w

ith r

est

rain

ed r

eso

nances

that

giv

e

the a

ctr

ess

a c

hance t

o s

how

her s

kills

in s

ubtl

e w

ays.

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s P

reit

y’s

‘oth

er’

giv

es

the a

ctr

ess

just

the r

ight

cues.

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an

d y

et

not

cocky,

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seem

s pois

ed f

or a

sati

sfacto

ry i

nn

ings

in

Hin

di film

s.P

rem

Raj allow

s th

e c

ouple

ple

nty

of

space t

o let

their

feeling b

reath

e

freely

and e

asi

ly i

nto

the n

arrati

on.

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wo p

rota

gonis

ts m

ay b

e i

n a

hurry t

o g

et

som

ew

here, th

e fi

lm is

not.

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xquis

ite c

am

eraw

ork

by M

anush

Nan

dan

sw

eeps

lan

guorousl

y

through t

he n

eon

-lit

nig

ht-

life

of

Paris

an

d t

he d

ayti

me b

ust

le o

f th

e

streets

ide c

afe

s w

ithout

gett

ing into

touris

tic a

we.

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hot

where P

reit

y t

reats

Rhehan t

o t

he w

ondrous

sight

of

all t

he

lights

com

ing a

live in t

he E

iffe

l T

ow

er s

tays

wit

h y

ou.

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rest

ingly

the n

arrati

on is

fash

ioned lik

e a

fable

wit

h t

he legendary

French a

ctr

ess

Isa

belle A

dja

ni

tellin

g u

s about

Ishkq’s

brie

f encounte

r

wit

h A

kaash

and i

ts a

fterm

ath

wit

hout

lett

ing u

s in

to h

er o

wn r

ole

in

the r

om

ance. It

’s a

cute

lit

tle s

ecret

kept

aw

ay f

rom

us

for a

while i

n a

film

where t

he m

ain

prota

gonis

ts p

lay o

ut

their

em

oti

ons

in full v

iew

and

wit

h d

isarm

ing t

ransp

arency.

IAN

S

by

Pet

er

Bra

dsh

aw

Aft

er t

he g

lossy a

nd f

ain

tly

impla

usi

ble

Osc

ar-b

ait

pic

-tu

re, T

he D

esc

en

da

nts

, dir

ec-

tor A

lexan

der P

ayn

e h

as

retu

rned t

o a

more n

atu

ral

and p

er-

sonal

movie

language f

or h

is n

ew

film

in

the C

annes

com

peti

tion.

Neb

rask

a

is a

bit

tersw

eet

road m

ovie

sta

rrin

g

Bruce D

ern a

nd W

ill

Forte

as

Woody

and D

avid

, an e

lderly

fath

er a

nd m

id-

dle

-aged son

ta

kin

g an

un

com

fort-

able

road t

rip

togeth

er.

Their

sto

ry i

s la

ced w

ith p

ath

os,

com

edy a

nd r

egret,

recallin

g t

he c

lass

ic i

ndie

cin

em

a o

f H

al

Ash

by an

d B

ob R

afe

lson

. It

is

sh

ot,

wit

h a

lmost

Am

ish a

ust

erit

y i

n

mon

ochrom

e,

whic

h giv

es a w

intr

y,

end-o

f-th

e-w

orl

d d

rear t

o t

hat

hom

ely

roadsi

de A

meric

ana t

hat

Payne l

oves

to p

ick o

ut

wit

h h

is c

am

era.

Nebrask

a m

ay n

ot

be sta

rtl

ingly

n

ew

, an

d s

om

eti

mes

we c

an

see t

he

epip

han

ies

loom

ing u

p o

ver t

he d

is-

tan

t horiz

on

; th

e t

on

e i

s,

moreover,

lighte

r a

nd m

ore l

enie

nt

than i

n e

ar-

lier p

ictu

res l

ike S

idew

ays

. B

ut

it i

s alw

ays

funny a

nd s

mart,

and w

hat

is

un

expecte

d i

s th

e c

rackin

g p

erfo

rm

-an

ce fr

om

Jun

e S

quib

b as W

oody’s

can

tan

kerous

wif

e,

Kate

. S

quib

b,

who p

layed J

ack N

ichols

on

’s w

ife i

n

Ab

ou

t S

chm

idt, c

ould

now

be i

n l

ine

for a

best

actr

ess

aw

ard w

ith t

his

far

juic

ier r

ole

, challen

gin

g L

éa S

eydoux

an

d A

dèle

Exarchopoulo

s fr

om

Blu

e

is t

he W

arm

est

Colo

ur.

It’s

als

o a

lovely

fi

rst-

tim

er scrip

t fr

om

fo

rm

er T

V

writ

er B

ob N

els

on, fo

r w

hom

this

has

probably

been a

long-n

urtu

red p

roje

ct.

Dern

’s W

oody,

a w

hit

e-h

air

ed,

bad

tem

pered o

ld g

uy liv

ing in r

eti

rem

ent

in B

illin

gs,

Mon

tan

a,

is w

ithdraw

ing

into

a c

onfu

sed a

nd m

ela

ncholy

sta

te.

Th

e poor old

fe

llow

h

as receiv

ed a

junk-m

ail fl

yer a

ppearin

g t

o p

rom

ise

him

a l

ott

ery p

ayout

of

a m

illion d

ol-

lars,

on

con

dit

ion

that

he c

ollects

it

in p

erso

n f

rom

an

offi

ce i

n L

incoln

, N

ebraska.

To th

e exasperati

on

an

d

fury o

f his

wif

e a

nd g

row

nup c

hildren,

Woody i

s obse

ssed w

ith m

akin

g t

he

journey,

on f

oot

if n

ecess

ary,

because

his

car i

s out

of

acti

on

. E

veryon

e i

s in

creasi

ngly

aw

are t

hat

this

kin

d o

f flig

ht

is a

sym

pto

m o

f in

cip

ient

dem

en-

tia, but

– t

o h

um

our h

im, exorcis

e t

his

crazy

idea, and s

pend a

lit

tle t

ime w

ith

his

dad –

his

son D

avid

(F

orte

) off

ers

to d

riv

e h

im. T

hey m

ake a

sto

pover in

their

form

er h

om

eto

wn o

f H

aw

thorne,

meeti

ng u

p w

ith e

lderl

y b

roth

ers,

rela

-ti

ons

and n

eig

hbours

who t

hem

selv

es

sta

rt

believin

g i

n W

oody’s

crackpot

million

air

e cla

im;

as a result

, som

e

pain

ful fa

mily s

ecrets

are e

xhum

ed.

Fans

of

Payne’s

previo

us

work

will

savour t

he w

ary w

ay t

he f

am

ily s

peak

about

the career success of

David

’s

broth

er R

oss

(B

ob O

denkir

k),

who i

s a local T

V n

ew

s anchor: th

ey c

all h

im

a “

go-g

ett

er”

. T

his

is

just

how

Matt

hew

B

roderic

k’s h

ighsc

hool te

acher r

efe

rred

to R

eese

Wit

hersp

oon’s

am

bit

ious

teen

Tracy F

lick in h

is 1

999 h

igh-s

chool sa

t-ir

e E

lect

ion. T

he p

hrase

rem

inded m

e

how

much I

’d l

ove t

o s

ee P

ayne d

irect

Ele

ctio

n 2

, sh

ow

ing h

ow

Tracy’s

politi

-cal

or m

edia

career p

anned o

ut.

The

acrid

tan

g o

f dis

appoin

tmen

t w

ould

un

doubte

dly

be

fierce.

But

inte

r-

esti

ngly

, it

is

n

ot

quit

e so fi

erce in

N

eb

rask

a.

Both

broth

ers

are r

easo

n-

ably

conte

nt.

It is

the q

uest

ion o

f how

Woody feels

th

at

is m

ore d

ifficult

to a

nsw

er.

Does

he f

ully b

elieve i

n h

is “

lott

ery w

in”?

P

erhaps

not.

His

obse

ssio

n w

ith t

he

money is

at

least

partl

y a

last

desp

er-

ate

wis

h t

o a

ssert

him

self

, to

do w

hat-

ever t

he h

ell i

t is

he f

eels

lik

e d

oin

g.

An

d t

his

en

rages

his

wif

e K

ate

, w

ho

feels

that

he h

as

been s

elfi

shly

doin

g

whate

ver h

e w

an

ts a

ll t

heir

marrie

d

life

. Dern

giv

es

a t

errifi

c p

erfo

rm

an

ce

as t

he b

lan

k-f

aced,

dis

agreeable

old

W

oody,

who als

o has a bla

nd,

com

-pla

isan

t si

de.

This

em

erges

when

he

com

es

face-t

o-f

ace w

ith h

is o

ld b

uddy

and t

wo-f

aced form

er b

usi

ness

partn

er

Ed P

egram

, sh

arply

pla

yed b

y S

tacy

Keach, w

ho i

s grasp

ing a

nd c

redulo

us

on t

he s

ubje

ct

of

Woody’s

new

ric

hes.

W

hat

is incid

enta

lly inte

rest

ing a

bout

Neb

rask

a is

that

the fi

cti

on o

f W

oody’s

lo

ttery p

ayout

is a

lmost

as

good a

s th

e

non-e

xis

tent

fact.

Bogus

ric

hes

brin

g

Woody a

ccla

im, st

atu

s, p

rest

ige. A

s fo

r

the c

ash

, all h

e c

an t

hin

k o

f to

buy is

a

new

truck. T

he m

oney w

ould

n’t

change

his

lif

e. B

ut

fanta

sy m

oney r

eally h

as

changed i

t, a

nd i

n p

ursu

ing t

his

fake

cash

, he h

as

forced a

real

cris

is,

and

forced h

is fam

ily t

o c

onfr

ont

som

e r

eal

facts

.A

lon

g

wit

h

these

hard

truth

s,

the m

ovie

has

a s

oft

heart.

Perhaps

punches

are b

ein

g p

ulled, ju

st a

lit

tle.

It d

oesn

’t s

top N

eb

rask

a f

rom

bein

g a

th

oroughly

sw

eet

and c

harm

ing m

ovie

, and a

rem

inder o

f D

ern’s

quality

as

an

acto

r.

The

Gua

rdia

n

Neb

rask

a bl

ends

har

d tr

uths

with

sof

t hea

rt

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2013

G8 SUMMITPLUS | SUNDAY 26 MAY 201310

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Leaders of the world’s eight biggest economies will attend the G8 summitat Lough Erne in Northern Ireland from June 17-18. The security bill

for the two-day event is estimated at up to £50 million

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PolicePSNI* officers:UK police:Gardaí†Cost:

4,4003,600

300£3.75m/day

DronesThreespy-craftto monitor estimated20,000 protestersCost: £1 million

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£3.8m

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Hotel

General securityG4S staffOthers£800,000/day

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Accommodation170 “Snoozebox” mini-hotel roomsfor 1,350 security personnel: £3.8m

Armoured vehiclesMore than 100 LandRovers available

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Gardaí to shut downnetwork to stop signals

being used to trigger bombs

250m

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11BOOKS PLUS | SUNDAY 26 MAY 2013

By Billy Cheung

Award-winning author James Salter, who completed his last full-length book more than 30 years ago, has

released a new novel that chronicles a life drawn from many of his own experiences.

Like Salter, the main character in All That Is leaves the military to embark on a literary career. Unlike Salter, Philip Bowman becomes an editor after failing to find work as a writer.

Salter is considered by many one of the best postwar American novelists and short-story writers. His books include The Hunters, Burning the Days and Dusk and Other Stories, for which he won the PEN/Faulkner Award in 1989.

The new book spans several decades and explores Bowman’s fleeting per-sonal relationships in a bygone era of independent, clubby publishing houses.

The 87-year-old Salter talks about that literary world, why he wrote the book and his writing process.

How did you come up with the title and what does it signify?

It has two meanings and they’re not the same meaning but they overlap. One is all that is to life, and the other is all that is in life. They’re not exactly the same thing, but I think your under-standing shifts between the two with-out recognising that they’re shifting. Maybe that is the way it is designed, and to the reader, that doesn’t make any sense, but that is how it is meant.

Given how much time has passed since your last full-length novel, what made you want to finish it now?

I was writing other things ... There was no professional reason. I became interested in it through editors that I knew. In the beginning, I didn’t know any editors. My first book was pub-lished without any editorial advice. Nobody said you might do this or that, or why don’t we see more of this. I

merely took the book and published it.It was not until I began to write a

book called Light Years that an editor really stepped in. The editor was Joe Fox at Random House and he wound up editing a subsequent book. I got to know him very well personally as well as professionally. And through another editor after him, Robert Gay, I became gradually more interested in their lives and that world of publishing.

They are involved in leisurely things like reading books, having lunch with writers and agents - it is all really beautiful and so I thought I would write something about all of this.

Can you describe the writing proc-ess behind this novel?

I did spend a lot of time pre-writing. I have three big notebooks as thick as your little finger filled with notes about what might be in this book - people, places, and things. It took a long time to write those and then I was paring away.

The main protagonist, Philip

Bowman, has very few serious attachments, whether in material possessions or relationships. What do you hope readers learn from his character?

No lesson but I hope they read it with pleasure. The book is the journey of a life. I suppose if you search in it as you do at the end of a course in college, you can come up with several ques-tions. Did he learn from experience? Was he emotionally stunted? Is this an example of the moral degeneration of an era?

None of these questions is that relevant. You are not going to get an answer from the book - the book is what it is. It is meant in a way to give you some idea of the life of an editor in a publishing house - in my view, a very favorable idea. I think it is an admi-rable and interesting life, and being an editor can be potentially deeply satisfying.

The book finishes without a

definitive conclusion. How should readers think about the end of the book?

With the last female relationship, he says and thinks certain things regard-ing her. That, to me, seems to make plain that he anticipates they are going to be together for a long time. The book does not say that precisely but it does say that he wondered if they didn’t get married, would they stay together.

Could they possibly have a life such as people have in art? In art, by that, I mean painters and sculptors’ lives - that life of art that is superior to ordinary mores and behaviour. There are levels of art and writing and they live on a certain level that I think we instinctually envy. That is the level that he said perhaps they would live on.

There is so much implied in this book that if you don’t read it with your openness to its implications rather than to its literal text, then I think you would miss what this book is about.

Reuters

James Salter breaks long silence

First edition of Great Gatsby to be sold at auction

A first edition copy of F Scott Fitzgerald’s masterpiece, The Great

Gatsby, will be up for sale next month and could fetch up to $150,000, Sotheby’s said. The book, which once belonged to the critic and author Malcolm Cowley, will go under the hammer

along with a group of Fitzgerald’s letters and an unpublished poem in the June 11 books and manuscript sale in New York. “The book is now almost universally recognized as standing among the great achievements of 20th-century American literature with the tragic story of Jay Gatsby, and more broadly, the American dream, resonating with readers for generations,” Sotheby’s said in a statement announcing the sale. Fitzgerald wrote the Jazz Age drama while living in France. Although it was popular when it was published in 1925, it wasn’t until Fitzgerald’s death in 1940 that it was hailed as the great American novel. News of the sale comes just weeks after the opening of director Baz Luhrmann’s film The Great Gatsby, starring Leonardo DiCaprio as the hero of the tragic love story. Reuters

TECHNOLOGYPLUS | SUNDAY 26 MAY 201312

By Rich Jaroslovsky

The main drawback to Fitbit’s wearable activity monitors may be how unobtrusive they are. To hear users tell it, their

trackers have taken more unplanned trips through the washing machine than a crumpled dollar bill.

Meet the new Flex, which for the first time puts Fitbit’s technology into a wristband. Even simpler than the already uncomplicated clip-on ver-sions, the band is also more powerful, and there’s much less danger of forget-ting it’s there.

The $100 Flex joins an increasingly crowded field of devices jostling for wrist-share, including Jawbone’s UP and the Nike+ Fuelband. But it’s the best of the bunch.

The Flex package includes the wrist-band itself, a comfortably light, rub-berized strap slightly thicker on one side, and the sensor, which lives in the band except when you pop it into its USB-powered charging bracket every five days or so.

If you have an iPhone or compatible Android phone, you’ll most likely use Fitbit’s excellent free app, available in the Apple App Store and from Google Play, to sync your data. (There’s also a Bluetooth adapter for use with a per-sonal computer.)

Wireless syncing is one of the Flex’s big advantages over the UP, which requires you to remove a small, emi-nently losable tip in order to physically connect the band with your phone’s audio port.

Another Flex advantage is that it makes a complete loop around your wrist, unlike the UP’s overlapping ends, which get caught more easily on sleeves.

Then again, I had a devil of a time with the Flex’s clasp, which holds it securely but requires a significant amount of fiddling and pressure to close properly. (The company says it’s working on tweaking the design.)

Like its clip-on Fitbit siblings, the Flex is primarily focused on how many steps you take. The default goal is 10,000 a day, which experts say is a pretty good yardstick for moderate, healthy activity.

But unlike other Fitbits, as well as most other step-counters, the Flex can recognise and give you credit for some non-walking activities. In my case, the band recognised time I spent on a sta-tionary bike and translated it into an equivalent number of steps to help me meet my daily goal.

That was a big deal for me, providing what felt like a much more accurate picture of my general activity.

The Flex is an almost 24-hour-a-day companion. At night, if you remember to tell it you’re going to bed by tap-ping it, it tracks your sleep patterns. It also includes a silent alarm that vibrates to rouse you without bothering

a still-snoozing partner.It’s sufficiently water-resistant that

I wore it in the shower repeatedly with no ill effects, though the company does recommend removing it while swimming.

Unlike the Fuelband and Fitbit’s other trackers, which can show let-ters and numbers, the Flex doesn’t pro-vide you with a lot of information at a glance. Its entire display, visible only when you tap it, consists of five tiny lights that illuminate based on how far you’ve progressed toward your daily goal; two lights, for instance, means you’re 40 percent of the way there.

I missed being able to get more information directly from the Flex, but it wasn’t far away. All I had to do was pull out my phone and access the app, which uses low-energy Bluetooth tech-nology to minimise the battery drain.

More than just a display for the Flex, the app can be used to set goals and to log your food, water consumption, weight and activities the Flex can’t track, such as yoga. And for a little mutual reinforcement, you can connect with friends to compare step totals.

Wearable tech is still in its infancy but growing rapidly. Google is get-ting reams of publicity for its Google Glass, now available only to develop-ers, while rumours continue to swirl around Apple. Jawbone recently dou-bled down in health and wellness by acquiring device-maker BodyMedia and app developer Massive Health.

Eventually, one of them may well rule the wrist. But for now, Fitbit is at the head of the pack. WP-Bloomberg

Fitbit’s Flex leads wristband tracker pack

By Charles Arthur

The travel app company Waze is believed to be the subject of a billion-dollar bidding war between Google and

Facebook, in a move apparently aimed at tying its social functions more closely into the rival firms’ networks.

A fortnight ago reports suggested that Facebook had bid $1bn for the business, in order to wrap the “social travel” element into its billion-strong social network. But those ini-tial approaches seem to have been rebuffed — and now Google is said to have entered the fray.

Any buyout by Google or Facebook could also have implications for Apple, which buys data from Waze for its much-criticised Maps application on the iPhone and iPad. In January, Waze was said to have been in takeo-ver talks with Apple, for which it is

a supplier of some map data. Apple was reported to have been offering about $500m for the company — an amount that was apparently rejected by Waze chief executive Noam Bardin, who was holding out for substantially more.

Now those bids seem to have arrived for the company, which has more than 40 million users, and which has attracted attention in the US for its ability to provide real-time infor-mation about traffic. Its social influ-ence was highlighted after Hurricane Sandy, when the White House and the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) contacted Waze to ask its users to indicate which petrol stations in New Jersey were short of fuel after the devastating storm so they could be prioritised for deliveries.

Waze, founded in 2007 and head-quartered in Silicon Valley, provides a free smartphone app which uses GPS

sensing when the user is in traffic to determine their speed; by amalgamat-ing it with other Waze users’ data, it can generate real-time information about holdups, accidents and other problems. That, in turn, helps to pre-dict optimal routes avoiding conges-tion or roadblocks. After Hurricane Sandy, the company sells anonymised data sets of maps and traffic to third parties.

For Facebook, Waze would provide a further route into the burgeon-ing mobile space, where purchased

photo-sharing app Instagram for $1bn in April 2012. Buying Waze could give it more opportunities to sell mobile ads, as well as getting better data about its users’ movements.

For Google, Waze would help to enhance the social side of its new maps app, which was unveiled at its recent I/O conference earlier this month. Waze has received a total of $67m of venture capital funding, the most recent a $30m injection in October 2011 which valued it at around $250m. The Guardian

Google and Facebook in bidding war over Waze

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1923: The first Le Mans 24-hour race was run. It is now the world’s most famous sports car endurance race1979: Israel formally returned the Sinai to Egypt as part of the peace deal formulated by Anwar Sadat2003: A plane bringing 62 Spanish peacekeepers home from Afghanistan crashed in Turkey, killing all 752011: Ratko Mladic, ex-Bosnian Serb general believed responsible for the Srebrenica massacre, was arrested

China relaxed its one-child policy following the Sichuan earthquake. Over 5,000 children died when schools collapsed due to shoddy construction

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

ARGON, ARSENIC, BARIUM, BORON, BROMINE, CADMIUM, CALCIUM, CARBON, CHLORINE, CHROMIUM, COBALT, COPPER, FLUORINE, GOLD, HYDROGEN, IODINE, IRON, KRYPTON, LEAD, LITHIUM, MAGNESIUM, MANGANESE, MERCURY, NEON, NICKEL, NITROGEN, OXYGEN, PLATINUM, PLUTONIUM, RADIUM, RADON, SILICON, SILVER, SODIUM, STRONTIUM, TITANIUM, TUNGSTEN, URANIUM, XENON, ZINC.

Baby Blues by Jerry Scott and Rick Kirkman

Zits by Dennis Young and Denis Lebrun

Hagar The Horrible by Chris Browne

LEARNARABIC

Arabic Numbers

Wahid+wa+Ishroon. 21 From 20 to 90, We start with the lesser number, then the bigger.ex: 1and20= waheed wa Ishroon,21…etc

Thelatha thoon. 30 From 30 to 90 is just the number +oon,ex: khamsa +oon=khamsoon, 50

Arba’ oon 40

Kham’s oon 50

Sit’toon. 60

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PLUS | SUNDAY 26 MAY 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 California’s ___ Woods

5 Equipment for deep diving

10 Radio switch

14 The “A” of A.D.

15 Kind of saw in a workshop

16 Tilt-A-Whirl or bumper cars

17 Volcano output

18 Tennis great Chris

19 Exam for an aspiring atty.

20 Santa Claus facial feature

23 Have a meal

24 Misfortunes

25 Until now

28 Like an idol for a teen girl, say

30 Apple computer

33 The Cowboys of the Big 12 Conf.

34 Goes out with

35 Aid for night photos, once

37 “___ sorry”

40 Actress Catherine ___-Jones

41 Oil change chain

45 First, second or reverse

49 Toothpaste-evaluating org.

50 Doughnut shapes

51 Seed on many a bun

53 Mess up

55 Pop music’s Bee ___

57 E.R. workers

58 Drink made with crystals

62 Golden arches for McDonald’s, e.g.

64 Nebraska city or tribe

65 ___ Lund of “Casablanca”

66 Very dry, as Champagne

67 Cicero or Caesar

68 Mets’ league: Abbr.

69 ___-Ball (arcade game)

70 English river through Nottingham

71 1974 Sutherland/Gould spoof

DOWN 1 Fountain treats

2 Paying no attention

3 Private party attender

4 Gray-sprinkled horse

5 Reeking

6 Well-mannered

7 Fork or spoon

8 Titanic’s undoing

9 Johnson of “Laugh-In”

10 French city where van Gogh painted

11 1978 Rolling Stones hit

12 Medicine-approving org.

13 Ran into

21 Actress Basinger

22 Millionaire’s boat, maybe

26 Class for newcomers to America, for short

27 Place for a soak

29 “Yeah, like that’ll ever happen”

31 Labyrinth

32 Enzyme suffix

35 Quartet number

36 Luggage

38 Yeti and the Loch Ness monster

39 ___-mo

41 Elbow poke

42 Wedding words

43 Tiredness

44 Headliner

46 One of two on a winter cap

47 Forgiveness

48 Closes tightly again

51 Trigonometric ratio

52 That: Sp.

54 10 sawbucks make one

56 Actor Hawke

59 Libel or slander

60 Caesar’s love

61 Fish propellers

62 Ozs. and ozs.

63 Home planet of Mindy’s mate in an old sitcom

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14 15 16

17 18 19

20 21 22

23 24 25 26 27

28 29 30 31 32 33

34 35 36

37 38 39 40

41 42 43 44 45 46 47 48

49 50 51 52

53 54 55 56 57

58 59 60 61

62 63 64 65

66 67 68

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N O T A B A D I D E A BALL O UF I O N A A L E R O B B G U NA V G L I M E C O R D I A LT E S T T A M I R E S O R T

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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 SUDOKUEasy 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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CINEMA / TV LISTINGS 15

0530 Real Nba

Magazine

0600 Rugby Asian 5

Nations Korea V

Hong Kong

0800 Transworld

Sport

0900 Magazine Tba

0930 Omni Sport

1000 Football Asia

1030 Uefa

Champions

League Final

Dortmund V

Bayern

1530 Cycling Giro

D’italia Day 21

1830 Coppa Italia

Final Roma V

Lazio

2130 Magazine Tba

2200 French League

Lorient V Psg

2400 Transworld

Sport

0100 Roland Garros

6:30 Counting the

Cost

7:00 News

7:30 South2North

8:00 News

8:30 News

9:00 China Rising

10:30 Inside Syria

11:00 News

11:30 Talk To Al

Jazeera

12:00 News

13:00 NEWSHOUR

14:00 News

14:30 Inside Syria

15:00 Al-Nakba

16:00 NEWSHOUR

17:00 News

17:30 Listening Post

18:00 NEWSHOUR

19:00 News

19:30 101 East

20:00 News

20:30 Inside Story

21:00 NEWSHOUR

22:00 News

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

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Ladies And Gentleman (2D/Malayalam – 5.00, 8.00 & 11.00pm

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Street Dance All Star (2D/Comedy) – 5.00 & 7.00pm

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Star Trek Into Darkness (3D/Action) – 5.00pm

Street Dance All Star (2D/Comedy) – 7.30pm

3

Star Trek Into Darkness (3D/Action) – 2.00pm

The Legend of Sarila (3D/Animation) – 4.30pm

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The Great Gatsby (3D/Drama) – 8.45pm

Fast & Furious (2D/Action) – 11.30pm

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Hey’Ya: Arab Women in Sport When: March 7-Jun 16 Monday–Thursday, Saturday: 9am-8pmFriday; 3pm-9pm (Sunday closed)Where: QMA Gallery, Bldg 10 What: The Qatar Museums Authority will exhibit ‘Hey’Ya: Arab Women in Sport’ at QMA Gallery in Katara Cultural Village. The exhibit originated in Qatar, beginning at the Arab Games’ Athletes Village in December 2011, where photographer Brigitte and documentary maker Marian Lacombe set up an outdoor studio, working with female athletes. They then travelled to 20 Arab countries from the Gulf to North Africa, documenting images and videos of 70 Arab sportswomen. Free entry

Moosa Omar ExhibitionWhen: Until June 23; 10am-10pm Where: Katara Gallery 2 - Bldg 18

What: Qatar Visual Arts Center presents a new experience of works through the Omani Artist Moosa Omar and with the participation Qatari Artists Hassan El Mulla and Maryem Al Moussa. Tickets: Free

Designed To WinWhen: Until June 23; 10am-10pm Where: Katara - Bldg 3 What: Designed to Win celebrates ways in which design and sport are combined, pushing the limits of human endeavour to achieve records and victories of increasing significance and wonder. There will be an extensive educational programme and visiting artists’ talks complementing the expo.Free entry

Disney on Ice100 years of MagicWhen: June 13-16 (Timings on website)Where: Qatar NationalConvention Centre What: A fanfare production bringing to life 65 of Disney’s unforgettable characters that span the decades, from 18 beloved stories. With Mickey and Minnie leading the fun, audiences enjoy breathtaking dance numbers.Entry: Tickets available online and at the outlets of Virgin Megastore. More info at http://www.disneyme.com.

World PressPhotography ExhibitionWhen: Until June 15; 10am-10pm Where: Katara Gallery - Bldg 18

What: The exhibition is an effort by the Qatar Photographic Society with Katara to collaboratively with the World Press Photo organization, work towards the development of a qualified photography audience and photographers in Qatar. Tickets: Free

Events in Qatar MEDIA SCAN

• There is talk about the decision of the Supreme Education Council to end the school day at 12 noon, starting from June 9.

• There are demands that the authorities pay special attention to traditional markets like Souq Dira and Souq Al Jabr and renovate them to meet the requirements of the modern age.

• There are demands that the Traffic Department not issue driving licences to those below 20 years of age, strictly monitor drivers and punish those violating rules.

• People want an effective system to put an end to accidents on February 22 road, including installation of more radars to curb speeding.

• There are complaints that the websites of ministries and other government agencies are not updated, which cause problems for those using these sites.

• Citizens have urged the authorities to launch a drive to inspect vehicles carrying medicines and other pharmaceutical products to ensure that they meet international safety standards.

• There are demands that the authorities build shaded areas in public parks, especially play areas, to shield visitors from the sun, and build more parks outside Doha to reduce the burden on parks in the city.

• It has been proposed that civic inspectors of municipalities and the Ministry of Environment be provided cool jackets so they can carry out their jobs comfortably during summer.

• People have criticised some schools for charging extra for extra-curricular activities, putting additional burden on the parents and guardians of the students.

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

IN FOCUS

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Man who helped Ohio kidnap victims gets hamburgers for life

The man made famous for putting down his Big Mac to help free three women

held captive for about a decade in a Cleveland house will never have to buy a hamburger in his home-town again.

More than two weeks after Charles Ramsey became an instant folk hero after telling his story to television reporters, Cleveland food blogger Michelle Venorsky said that 15 restaurants are offering him a free hamburger, whenever he wants it.

Venorsky floated the idea to her followers after seeing Ramsey’s first interview on TV.

“He was so entertaining...I thought he should never have to pay for another meal in Cleveland again,” Venorsky said in a phone interview.

Since his first interview on local TV, Ramsey, a dishwasher at a Cleveland restaurant, has become an Internet sensation. The restaurant produced a t-shirt with Ramsey’s face and the words “Cleveland Hero” on the front, netting $21,000 for a fund set up for the women, who were held captive for about a decade.

Reuters