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Budapest: A triptych city

Budapest offers a wealth of choices for lovers of music, art and architecture in a beautiful setting on the Danube river, which bisects the city on the midpoint of its journey from the Black Forest to the Black Sea. A few tips for getting the most out of a trip to Budapest.

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By Marton Dunai

It's well known that Budapest is the marriage of two cities — Buda and Pest — but how many outsiders realise Hungary's historic and culture-filled capital is really a merger of three?

For the better part of two millennia, there were three adjacent towns in the area, united by bureau-crats in 1873. Residents of the triptych city still proudly identify with noble Buda, working class Pest or ancient Obuda, where the Romans pitched their tents.

Budapest offers a wealth of choices for lovers of music, art and architecture in a beautiful setting on the Danube river, which bisects the city on the midpoint of its journey from the Black Forest to the Black Sea.

Here are tips for getting the most out of a trip to Budapest.

The views from either side of the Danube are breathtaking at any hour but there is much to be seen indoors as well. Over the past decade, Budapest has developed a reputation for major art and photography exhibitions, as well as more esoteric fare.

This fall, exhibits include the painters Chagall, Caravaggio and Canaletto, the trail-blazing Hungarian photographer Robert Capa and American beat poet Allen Ginsberg.

Chagall is at the National Gallery in the Castle District (www.mng.hu), "Caravaggio to Canaletto" is at the Museum of Fine Arts (www.szepmuveszeti.hu), Capa's haunting images are at the Hungarian National Museum (www.hnm.hu) and the Ginsberg show is at the Ludwig Museum (www.ludwigmu-seum.hu).

After gorging on art, visitors can sample world-class operas, award-winning rock festivals and some of the best nightlife in Europe, including the now famous cafes in semi-abandoned buildings in the historic quarter that feature colourful settings and clientele.

To get an overview of Budapest, book a Danube cruise. Some operators offer dinner on board and one uses an amphibious bus that goes directly from road to river. (www.riverride.com)

Online listings of shows, concerts and events are mostly in the notoriously impenetrable Hungarian language (if you have a translator at hand, www.est.hu and www.port.hu work well) but samplings in English can be found at www.funzine.hu and www.welovebudapest.com. Printed guides are available at hotels.

Music, Arts & CultureCommunist mementos are everywhere and, with

retro in full swing, there is plenty of old-school design all around.

If you want to see what public space looked like before

the collapse of

communism in 1989, take a taxi to Momento Park on Balatoni Way in the 22nd district for a collection of colossal Cold War statues. (www.mementopark.hu)

With the greyness of communism fading into his-tory, Budapest shelved high-rise plans and retained its quaint architecture, opting to renovate and pre-serve the turn-of-the-century Austro-Hungarian feel with some spectacular results.

A recent example is the Franz Liszt Academy of Music on Franz Liszt Square, a world-renowned institution that reopened for concerts after a pains-taking renovation brought out its Art Deco beauty in full. (www.zeneakademia.hu/en)

If you yearn for an old-school cup of coffee before a show, don’t miss the slightly kitschy but very impressive stuccos of the grand cafe at the Boscolo Budapest hotel, a short tram ride east along the great boulevard that rings the Pest side.

Budapest also has a cutting edge. One of the new-est additions to the Danube is the Balna (Whale), a fish-shaped glass building that connects two wings of a former shipping office on the river bank. Its contemporary exhibition hall, cafes and shops are open year round. (www.balnabudapest.hu)

Budapest: A mix art,music and architecture

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Volcanic activity in low-lying Hungary means an abundance of hot springs. The Romans knew this and the Ottomans built bath houses that stand to this day.

The city's vibrant markets are famous for a reason. Go on a Thursday to sample the freshest produce from the countryside but any day will give you a taste of how ordinary Hungarians never lost touch with the farmer's market.

Just around the corner from the Whale is the aptly named Great Market Hall, designed by Gustave Eiffel of Eiffel Tower fame. The steel structure exudes a whiff of Paris, with more than a soupcon of Hungarian paprika.

Also listed on maps as Central Market Hall, its stalls brim with spicy red Hungarian sausage, pale pink goose and duck livers and hundreds of other items in vibrant hues.

In the same area is the Budapest Music Centre, where recording stu-dios and smaller-scale shows share the space, mostly on the jazz side of the musical spectrum. (www.bmc.hu)

The Budapest Spring Festival attracts top classical talent in March (www.btf.hu). Other revered halls of classical music - including the Opera (www.opera.hu) and the Palace of Arts (www.mupa.hu) - usually have more on offer than a single visit could accommodate. The 20-year-old Sziget Festival has offshoots that turn up nearly every weekend over the sum-mer. (www.sziget.hu)

Also in summer, the spectacular O.Z.O.R.A. trance festival - billed as a "psychedelic tribal gathering" - brings hordes of visitors and artists to Ozora, a village about 130 km (80 miles) southwest of Budapest. Next year, the event runs from July 29 to August 3. (www.ozorafestival.eu)

Breakfast, Lunch & DinnerBudapest has been experiencing a

seismic culinary change, and about time it did.

The traditional fatty, unimaginative fare - served while Gypsy bands play ersatz Gypsy tunes - is easy to skip. Instead, jump into the exciting foodie scene that has taken hold, from the list of ingredients and ways of cooking.

The inner 6th and 7th districts east of the Danube are home to so many restaurants and clubs - with new ones opening so frequently - that even locals find it hard to keep up. Those who live in the area often com-plain about the noise, always the sign of a good party. Across the Danube and to the northwest, the original Obuda town was mostly destroyed and the narrow old streets replaced by Communist-style apartment blocks.

An exception is the Main Square area, where the Uj Sipos restaurant occupies a centuries-old building and serves the kind of paprika-laden fish soup that Hungarians like so much.

Eat it spicy. (www.ujsipos.hu)The once fairly forlorn Raday Street

in the 9th district has transformed into "restaurant row" with one eat-ery after another offering everything from pizza and hamburgers to sauteed goose liver and chicken paprika.

Gozsdu Court in the 7th district is a car-free area with about a dozen restaurants. You should find whatever you like, from Michelin stars at Onyx (www.onyx.hu) to a burger with live music at Goodbar (www.facebook.com/goodbarbudapest).

If you are lucky or well-connected, you can also take part in the new craze of home restaurants. There are so many foodies that finding a din-ner should not be impossible but plan ahead.

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Hungary means an abundance of hot springs. The Romans knew this and the Ottomans built bath houses that stand to this day, renovated

in a splendid way and open to the public.

Rudas Baths is probably the most breathtaking. On the west side of the Danube near Elizabeth (Erzsebet) Bridge, it offers massages, scrubs and diets in an elegant environment of octagonal pools with limestone domes. (www.rudasfurdo.hu)

Another tourist target, with good reason, is the Gellert, an Art Deco hotel at 4 Kelenhegyi Way with a nicely restored Secessionist bath house. It is also on the west side of the Danube, near Liberty (Szabadsag) Bridge. (www.gellertbath.hu)

In winter, soak in the hot waters of the Szechenyi Baths in City Park, where you can mingle with old folks playing chess on floating boards - especially on a weekday morning - while steam rises into the icy air. The outdoor pool is popular in warmer months. (www.szechenyifurdo.hu)

Cinetrip has become an interna-tional hit by organising parties where people dance to electronic music with stunning visuals in the pools of a downtown spa. The pay system is waterproof, too. (www.cinetrip.hu)

Another entertaining option is going underground to check out one of the spectacular caves that the ther-mal water carved. Start with Palvolgyi Cave at 162 Szepvolgyi Street in the 2nd District. Not for the claustropho-bic. If you are into movies, visit one of three major film studios that have opened near the city in recent years. Start with a tour of Korda Studios in the town of Etyek, about 30 km (19 miles) west of central Budapest. (www.kordafilmstudios.hu)

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Twenty-five years of excellence was the American School of Doha’s (ASD) motto for its silver jubilee.

The school has grown from a villa that housed 88 students to its current 24-acre site providing preK-grade 12 education to 2,100 students from over 75 countries. It is an independent, US-accredited, college preparatory school. The students have multiple options such as earning an International Baccalaureate Diploma or taking a full array of Advanced Placement courses concurrent with achieving a standard US diploma.

The school had a four-day celebration for its 25th birthday. The festivities were intended to honour the founders, students, faculty, staff, parents and com-munity, and to thank them for their support in the development of the school.

Day one witnessed “Founders’ Day”, a tribute to the school’s founders. The event showcased the school’s history through words and presentations. A sculpture in honour of the founders, donated by Occidental Petroleum Qatar Ltd (Oxy Qatar), was unveiled. “We are ASD” was another highlight of the event; the new ASD song was performed for the first time live by ASD’s orchestra and choir. It was written and composed by Robert and Lisa Krebs, both from ASD’s faculty.

The school was established in 1988 by the US Embassy and Sheikh Mohamed bin Hamad bin Abdullah Al Thani, a former education minister. The event was attended by the founder, Dr Joseph Ghougassian, a former US ambassador to Qatar and the first chairman of the Board of Trustees. Diane Douglass Quinn, the first principal of the school, attended as well.

Day two featured “The ASD Story”, an event attended by the full ASD community, H E Dr Mohammed Abdul Wahed Ali Al Hammadi, Minister of Education and Higher Education and Secretary General of the Supreme Education Council, and Sheikh Faisal bin Qassim Al Thani. Dr Susan L Ziadeh, US Ambassador to Qatar and Chair of the ASD Board of Trustees, and members of the Board of Trustees and directors attended as well.

The ASD history was told in four chronological parts, each designated by a song popular in its era.

Day three witnessed the 25th Anniversary Gala Dinner, organised by the Parent Teacher Association. Patricia Sands, soprano and high school theatre teacher, rendered an opera aria.

On the fourth day, a golf tournament organised by the ASD Alumni Association was held at Doha Golf Club. The Peninsula

American School of Doha marks 25th anniversary

Dr Joseph Ghougassian and the panel of guests.

Students rendering a song.

Delhiude Charithra Padangaliloode, a travelogue in Malayalam by Doha-based author Amanulla Vadakkangara, has been released by Norka Roots vice chairman C K Menon. Long-time Doha resident and president of CIGI Qatar, M P Shafi Haji, received the first copy. The ceremony was attended by Dr Wandoor Aboobacker, chairman, Scholars International School, R O Abdul Qader, Vice Chairman, Bhavan’s Public School, K K Usman, Incas Advisory Board Chairman, Joppachan Thekkekkut, Director of Pravasi Welfare Board, and Shukkur Kinalur, Managing Director of Acon Group.

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Pakistan Welfare Forum (PWF) Qatar, working under the aegis of the Embassy of Pakistan, has

made a donation to the Philippines Embassy in support of the victims of typhoon Haiyan.

A cheque for QR20,000 was handed over to Philippine Ambassador Crescente R Relacion by a four-member delegation from PWF comprising founder execu-tive members Mohammed Idrees Anwar, M Israr Malazai, Ahmad Hussain and Muhamad Ajmal at the Philippines Embassy. Community Welfare Attaché of the Embassy of Pakistan, Rashid Nizam, was present on the occasion.

Speaking on the occasion, Ahmad Hussain said, “The Pakistani

community in Qatar is pleased to sup-port our Filipino brothers in this hour of need and to make them feel that they are not alone when they are hit by the worst calamity of their history.”

Rashid Nizam acknowledged that the donation was small but should be considered as a token of goodwill from the Pakistani community. “It reflects our deep concern and pain at the suffering being faced by our Filipino brothers at this time of grief.”

PWF offers financial support to deserving and needy Pakistanis liv-ing in Qatar, especially in the areas of education, social welfare and health. PWF also runs the Education for All programme. The Peninsula

PWF donates aid to typhoonvictims in Philippines

PWF members presenting the donation to the Philippine envoy.

Salam Stores hosts its first ‘outlet’ sale

Salam Stores has launched its first outlet sale. The pop-up sale is located on the first floor of The

Gate Mall and will offer discounts on a range of apparel for men, women and children. Designers featured in this promotion include Temperley London, Polo Ralph Lauren, Hugo Boss, Givenchy, Just Cavalli, Canali, Paul & Shark, Moschino, La Martina, Paul Smith, Diesel and many more. As a lim-ited edition concept, the outlet sale will run until December 5 only, represent-ing a ‘must visit’ for those looking to find gifts for friends and family ahead of the holiday season.

Of the new outlet sale initiative, Khoury, Managing Director of Salam Group, said: “It is our privilege to enjoy a position as Qatar’s leading fashion and lifestyle store, a role that requires us to ensure we constantly innovate and create retail experiences that are fresh and exciting. The Salam outlet sale is something new and will allow our valued customers a chance to pur-chase designer items at sufficiently reduced prices.”

Four Seasons Hotel Doha wins Condé Nast award

Condé Nast Traveler has announced the results of its 26th annual Readers’ Choice Awards and

Four Seasons Hotel Doha was recog-nised as the number two Top Hotel in the Middle East.

“This award is a great recognition as it comes directly from travellers, our guests. It is a true testament to the unique Four Seasons experiences that our team creates each and every day through their relentless passion to always be the very best in everything they do,” said Rami Sayess, regional vice president and general manager of Four Seasons Hotel Doha. Agencies

A newly formed community club, Sri Lanka Malay Association of Doha (SLMAD), will hold a sports day on Friday at the Al Wakra

family beach. The day-long event will begin at 8am, according

to the organisers. A game of Sepak Takraw, Malaysia’s national sport,

will be held at 3pm as a special feature of the event.

Sepak Takraw differs from the similar sport of vol-leyball in its use of a rattan ball and only allowing players to use their feet, knee, chest and head to touch the ball.

Ancestors of Malays of Sri Lanka initially came from Indonesia and later from the Malay Peninsula, and SLMAD represents the community in Doha.

The Peninsula

Ooredoo yesterday announced the winners of its Ooredoo Mobile App contest.

In total, 80 lucky customers won an iPhone 5 each in the raffle, after sim-ply downloading the Ooredoo Mobile App, which is available for Apple iOS, Android and BlackBerry, and regis-tering their details.

The contest was launched in October to celebrate a milestone that the Ooredoo App had reached: becoming the most downloaded app produced in Qatar, after hitting

more than 100,000 downloads since its launch in April 2013.

People can download the app for free and start accessing a range of services on their mobile phone, such as paying Shahry bills, topping up Hala accounts and managing their Nojoom account.

In addition, customers can search residential and business phone direc-tories, find and reserve an easy-to-remember number, download monthly bills as a PDF file and even change their Shahry package.

The Ooredoo App provides cus-tomers another platform to interact with the company, and works in par-allel with the Ooredoo helpline at 111, staff at Ooredoo shops and interactive self-service features on the Ooredoo portal.

Since its launch, the Ooredoo app has received glowing reviews across all platforms, and topped the charts from its first week on both the App Store and Google Play in the “Utilities” as well as the “Overall” ranking.

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Maersk Oil Qatar launches new Qatarisation strategy

Maersk Oil Qatar has announced a new approach to how it attracts, develops and retains Qataris with the launch of a new

Qatarisation Strategy aimed at boosting the number of locals in leadership positions.

A high-profile recruitment campaign targeting degree-holding Qataris; a new, two-year Qatari Development Programme for those early in their careers and a Career Orientation Review Scheme overseen by a new in-house coach form part of Maersk Oil Qatar’s new Qatarisation Strategy.

Lewis Affleck, Maersk Oil Qatar Managing Director, said: ‘Qatarisation is a core business priority for us and a priority for me personally. We need to continue to attract and develop the best and the brightest so we maintain the right blend of experience and expertise.”

Sheikh Faisal Al Thani, Maersk Oil Qatar’s Deputy Managing Director, said: “We have doubled the number of Qataris at Maersk Oil in the past five years and seen a 23 percent rise in those with a bachelor’s degree, but we are constantly seeking to improve and we recognise that we can do more to develop Qataris and ensure they develop into leader-ship positions.”

Sheikh Jassim Al Thani, Maersk Oil Qatar’s Head of Qatarisation, said: “We have searched for the best ideas, regardless of where they come from, to further improve our Qatarisation efforts. We have listened and learned from our own employees and the best minds from inside and outside Maersk Oil. I’m con-fident our new Qatarisation Strategy will focus our efforts and ensure we succeed.”

In a separate move driven by the new Qatarisation Strategy, Maersk Oil Qatar has

employed a certified coach to oversee the devel-opment of Qataris.

Julie Zawadzki, Qatarisation Development Advisor at Maersk Oil Qatar, said: “My role is to support Qatari employees and their line managers to ensure that career development and progress is maintained. This is a new approach for Maersk Oil Qatar, but the model has been used successfully elsewhere to help people unlock their full potential.”

The Peninsula

Maersk Oil Qatar officals.

Qafac highlighted the importance of industrial initiatives in successful implemen-tation of CSR programmes at a CSR conference held recently. “The business -as-usual approach cannot be sustained and we have to look for innovative ways for sustainable growth,” Nadeem, a senior environment engineer at Qafac, said while discussing ways to control GHG emissions at the industrial level.

Masraf Al Rayan honoured the bank’s long-serving staff in a ceremony held recently at Sharq Village & Spa. The event was attended by the group chief executive officer, senior executives and employees of Masraf Al Rayan. Group Chief Executive Officer Adel Mustafawi presented awards and certificates to 61 staff who completed five years in service in 2013.

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The Chartered Accountants of Sri Lanka, Qatar Chapter, which is affiliated to the Sri Lankan Embassy, recently hosted a technical seminar on “Qatar Tax Law and Use of Double Taxation Treaties” at Best Western Hotel — Doha. The president of the chapter, Saman Fernando, deliv-ered the welcome address, and senior tax manager at Ernst & Young, Jennifer O’Sullivan, who was the guest speaker, briefed those present on Qatar’s tax sys-tem, use of double taxation treaties and current practices. Seen in the picture are members of Chartered Accountants of Sri Lanka, Qatar Chapter with Jennifer O’Sullivan.

WHEELS 7PLUS | WEDNESDAY 27 NOVEMBER 2013

By Christoph Rauwald

Starting next year, the chances are that the next Porsche you see will be a sport-utility vehicle. The maker of the iconic 911 sports car is accelerating expan-sion beyond its traditional niche with

the new Macan, which debuted at this week’s Los Angeles Auto Show. Vying with the Range Rover Evoque for wealthy suburban moms, the compact model will probably become Porsche’s best seller by 2015 as SUVs account for a majority of the brand’s sales, according to estimates from IHS Automotive.

To lure drivers seeking a more practical vehicle, Porsche is outfitting the Macan with features like an electronic trunk hatch and as much as 1,500 litres (53 cubic feet) of cargo space. The model, which goes on sale April 5 in Germany, has a start-ing price of €57,930 ($78,190) for the 340-horse-power Macan S version, 24 percent cheaper than a comparably equipped Porsche Cayenne SUV.

“One doesn’t need sports cars to be pre-mium,” said Arndt Ellinghorst, an analyst with International Strategy & Investment Group in London. “There will always be the 911, but the growth is happening elsewhere.”

The goal is to boost Porsche’s total deliveries by 38 percent to more than 200,000 vehicles in the coming years. The Stuttgart, Germany-based carmaker’s growth and outsized profits are a key part of parent Volkswagen AG’s effort to overtake General Motors Co and Toyota Motor Corp as the world’s largest carmaker by 2018.

Celebrities including actor Patrick Dempsey and comedian Jerry Seinfeld attended the Macan’s premiere in Los Angeles. Maria Sharapova, who

was one of the presenters and has a 911, said the Macan might become her “new favourite” Porsche because of its compact size.

The Macan S will cost $49,900 when it goes on sale at US dealers in the first half. The Turbo ver-sion will start at $72,300. The carmaker expects sales to be about evenly split between the US, Asia and Europe, spokesman Nick Twork said.

The shift into pragmatic vehicles for suburban shopping trips is a reaction to volatile sports-car demand. Sales of the 911, the brand’s flagship, tum-bled after the financial crunch and have yet to recover to pre-crisis levels, according to figures from industry consultancy IHS.

“Porsche has the potential to move into a somewhat lower- priced segment, but it has to be careful to not overdo it,” said Stefan Bratzel, director of the Center of Automotive Management at the University of Applied Sciences in Bergisch Gladbach, Germany.

Porsche’s expansion will add pressure on Tata Motors Ltd’s Land Rover. The upscale SUV brand, which already competes with the Cayenne, entered the compact SUV market in 2011 with the aggres-sively styled Evoque, helping to spur record sales. The base version is 34cm shorter than the Macan and starts at €33,400 in Germany.

SUV demand continues to grow around the world, especially in China where street racers are less popular. In Europe, the Macan is seen as an option for everyday use in crowded streets.

“I’m waiting for the Macan,” said Andreas Bauer, 50, who runs a heating company outside Frankfurt and owns a Cayenne as well as a 911. “When my wife drives around town with the kids, the Cayenne is a bit too big.”

Together with the Cayenne, which is 16.5cm

longer than the Macan, SUVs will account for 64 percent of Porsche sales in two years, while the share of sports cars including the Boxster roadster will drop to 24 percent of the brand’s deliveries, according to IHS. Sports cars accounted for the majority of Porsche sales before the introduction of the Panamera coupe in 2009.

The growth drive has clear benefits for Volkswagen. Porsche accounted for 22 percent of the Wolfsburg, Germany-based company’s €8.56bn in operating profit in the first nine months, even though it sold just 1.6 percent of the group’s vehi-cles. A push for volume will be forgiven if the com-pany stays true to its sports-car heritage.

“As long as it allows them to continue producing the Porsches we really love, it can only be a good thing,” said Ian Fletcher, a London-based analyst with IHS Automotive.

Porsche hasn’t neglected performance when designing the Macan, whose name stems from an Indonesian term for tiger. The €79,826 Turbo vari-ant accelerates to 100km (62 miles) per hour in as little as 4.6 seconds, beating the base version of the 911 and the top-of-the-line Cayenne Turbo S.

Porsche invested €500m to add an assembly line for the Macan at a factory in the eastern German city of Leipzig. The plant has a capacity to make 50,000 cars a year, equivalent to a quarter of the brand’s sales goal. Executives shrug off concerns the SUV will water down the carmaker’s image.

When the Cayenne was introduced in 2002, “there were calls back then that Porsche was dilut-ing its profile,” said Siegfried Buelow, head of the Leipzig plant, which also makes the Panamera. “Today, we work three shifts a day and are strug-gling to keep up with demand.”

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nderbelly o

f to

uris

m in c

oast

al G

oa, it

s dir

ecto

r s

aid

. S

peakin

g

to r

eporte

rs

aft

er t

he s

creenin

g o

f th

e fi

lm a

t th

e 4

4th

Inte

rnati

onal F

ilm

F

est

ival of In

dia

(IF

FI)

, dir

ecto

r L

axm

ikant

Shetg

aonkar,

a local here, als

o

said

that

the fi

lm is

packed w

ith r

eal refe

rences.

The m

ovie

’s s

tory r

evolv

es

around t

he p

erso

nal st

orie

s of

seven c

harac-

ters,

who i

nclu

de a

cto

rs

from

France, G

erm

any a

nd G

oa, as

als

o B

engali

star P

aoli D

am

.“I

have

been

research

ing th

is

film

fo

r

nearly

th

ree

years.

I spok

e

to

a

lot

of

sta

keh

old

ers

like beach shack

help

ers

and c

hild

rig

hts

acti

vis

ts.

Their

sto

rie

s and

experie

nces

are a

part

of

the fi

lm,”

S

hetg

aonkar s

aid

.T

he

dir

ector

said

the fi

lm m

ir-

rors

the r

ealiti

es

on

m

ost

tou

r-

ist-freq

uen

ted

beach

es

of

Goa,

and t

hat

Baga B

each w

as

a m

eta

phor f

or just

about

any b

each a

nd c

oast

al

com

munit

y in t

he s

tate

.In

the fi

lm,

Paoli p

lays

a g

irl

sellin

g b

eads

an

d o

ther t

rin

kets

on

the

beach. H

er c

haracte

r f

alls

in love w

ith a

foreig

ner,

and a

mig

rant

boy f

alls

in love w

ith h

er.

The a

ctr

ess

said

she w

as

impress

ed b

y r

eal

life

trin

ket

sellers,

young

wom

en w

ho s

poke E

nglish

, G

erm

an a

nd e

ven R

uss

ian w

ith a

plo

mb a

nd

wit

h p

roper a

ccents

while d

ealing w

ith f

oreig

n b

uyers.

HO

LLY

WO

OD

NE

WS

Last

Veg

as s

eque

l with

Tom

Han

ks, W

ill S

mith

?

La

st V

ega

s dir

ecto

r J

on T

urte

laub h

as

express

ed i

nte

rest

in m

akin

g a

se

quel

to t

he r

ecentl

y r

ele

ase

d b

uddy c

om

edy w

ith a

cto

rs

Tom

Hanks

and W

ill S

mit

h p

layin

g k

ey r

ole

s.T

urte

laub w

as

recentl

y a

sked if he w

as

explo

rin

g a

n o

pportu

nit

y t

o m

ake

a s

equel to

the m

ovie

, and h

e s

aid

: “A

bso

lute

ly”.

“There’s

a s

uperst

itio

n in H

ollyw

ood: you d

on’t

talk

about

a s

equel unti

l th

e fi

rst

one’s

a b

ig h

it, but

when it

com

es

up e

veryone g

ot

alo

ng s

o w

ell, it

w

as

a b

ig l

ove f

est

wit

h a

ll t

he a

cto

rs

and I

thin

k e

veryone w

ould

love t

o

com

e b

ack f

or a

sequel,”

he s

aid

in a

sta

tem

ent.

La

st V

ega

s st

ars

Robert

De N

iro,

Mic

hael

Dougla

s, M

organ

Freem

an

and K

evin

Kline.

The d

irecto

r b

elieves

he h

as

a g

am

ut

of acto

rs t

o c

hoose

from

if th

e s

equel

falls

in p

lace. “T

here a

re s

till a

mazi

ng a

cto

rs

and a

ctr

ess

es

out

there, as

well. If

I c

ould

get

Tom

Hanks

and W

ill

Sm

ith i

nto

the m

ovie

that

would

be g

ood,” h

e a

dded.

Just

in B

iebe

r as

ked

to b

ehav

e

Sin

ger J

ust

in B

ieber w

as

reporte

dly

ask

ed t

o b

ehave b

y t

he a

uth

orit

ies

of

the h

ote

l in

Auckla

nd w

here

he w

as sta

yin

g.

His

m

an

agem

en

t w

as

reporte

dly

made t

o s

ign a

con-

tract

to a

void

him

from

creati

ng a

ny

proble

m.

Th

e

19-year-old

w

as

recen

tly

sta

yin

g at

the L

an

gh

am

H

ote

l in

th

is N

ew

Zeala

nd c

ity a

nd w

as

not

allow

ed t

o t

ake g

irls

back t

o h

is s

uit

e.

He w

as

als

o r

est

ric

ted f

rom

eati

ng

in a

lavis

h b

an

quet

room

, reports

dailyst

ar.

co.u

k.

His

managem

ent

was

made t

o s

ign

a c

ontr

act,

whic

h w

ould

ensu

re t

hat

the s

inger d

oes

not

create

any p

rob-

lem

for t

he h

ote

l an

d o

ther g

uest

s st

ayin

g t

here.

“Just

in w

ill

be t

hrow

n o

ut

if h

e

doesn

’t fo

llow

th

e rule

s,”

said

a

source.

“They d

on’t

care w

ho h

e i

s. H

is m

anagem

ent

were m

ade t

o s

ign a

con-

tract,

whic

h i

nclu

ded a

long l

ist

of

dem

ands,

sto

ppin

g h

im f

rom

party

ing

and d

istu

rbin

g o

ther g

uest

s,”

the s

ource a

dded.

Cyru

s, R

odm

an le

ast i

nflue

ntia

l peo

ple:

Pol

l

Sin

ger M

iley C

yrus

and form

er b

ask

etb

all s

tar D

ennis

Rodm

an h

ave b

een

nam

ed t

wo o

f th

e least

influenti

al cele

brit

ies

of

2013

by G

Q m

agazi

ne.

Fem

ale

first

.co.u

k r

eports

that

the e

dit

ors

at

the U

S p

ublicati

on

have

com

piled a

lis

t of

the 2

5 s

tars

who t

hey b

elieve a

re u

nin

spir

ing t

o t

he

gen

eral

public,

noti

ng t

hat

this

year “

has

been

a b

ad y

ear f

or i

mpote

nt

megalo

mania

cs.

”In

the n

um

ber o

ne s

pot

on t

he lis

t is

Rodm

an, w

ho h

as

garnered a

ttenti

on

for h

is c

ontr

oversi

al fr

iendsh

ip w

ith N

orth

Korean leader K

im J

ong U

n.

Edit

ors

call R

odm

an

a “

Q-l

ist

cele

brit

y w

illin

g t

o c

om

mit

borderlin

e

treaso

n just

to h

ang o

ut

wit

h a

dic

tato

r w

ho h

imse

lf a

spir

es

to b

e a

Q-l

ist

cele

brit

y.”

US

chef

Paula

Deen c

om

es

in a

t num

ber t

wo f

ollow

ing h

er r

acia

l sl

ur

con

troversy

earlier t

his

year a

nd A

meric

an

politi

cia

n A

nth

ony W

ein

er

rounds

out

the t

op t

hree.

Meanw

hile, pop s

tar C

yrus,

who t

urned 2

1 S

atu

rday,

ranks

sixth

on t

he

list

for h

er p

rovocati

ve a

nd r

acy p

erfo

rm

ances

over t

he p

ast

few

month

s.A

lso m

akin

g t

o t

he lis

t are W

ill S

mit

h a

nd h

is f

am

ily,

Just

in B

ieber a

nd

Ryan R

eynold

s.B

y K

illia

n Fo

x

Neb

rask

a i

s th

e fi

rst

film

you’v

e dir

ecte

d t

hat

you d

idn’t

have

a h

and

in w

riti

ng.

How

did

it

com

e about?

Tw

o d

udes

who p

roduced E

lecti

on

fo

r m

e m

any y

ears

ago s

how

ed m

e t

he

scrip

t an

d a

sked i

f I

kn

ew

som

eon

e

who w

ould

be r

ight

to d

irect

it. I

said

, “H

ow

about

me?”

But

I did

n’t

wan

t to

do it

rig

ht

aft

er S

idew

ays

because

I

did

n’t

want

to d

o a

second r

oad m

ovie

in

a r

ow

, so

I r

etu

rned t

o i

t aft

er T

he

Desc

en

da

nts

.

You

gre

w u

p in

Neb

rask

a a

nd t

his

is

your

fourt

h fi

lm s

et t

her

e [a

fter

C

itiz

en R

uth

, E

lect

ion

an

d A

bout

Sch

mid

t].

Is i

t a c

ase

of

“film

what

you k

now

”?I

like fi

lmin

g t

here. It

’s fi

lmin

g w

hat

I kn

ow

but

als

o fi

lmin

g w

hat

I don

’t

know

, because

I d

on’t

know

those

rural

areas

very w

ell. O

ther A

meric

ans

know

N

ebrask

a a

s a p

lace t

hey e

ither d

riv

e

through o

r fl

y o

ver,

and if th

ey h

appen

to d

riv

e t

hrough it,

they s

ay,

“B

oy,

that

state

is

flat.”

Om

aha, w

here I

grew

up,

is t

he P

aris

of

Nebrask

a.

Is i

t im

port

an

t fo

r yo

u t

o p

ut

Neb

rask

a o

n t

he

map?

No.

I don

’t w

ork f

or t

he c

ham

ber

of

com

merce.

Nobody t

hin

ks t

o a

sk

Woody A

llen, w

hy d

o y

ou s

hoot

in N

ew

Y

ork

? It

’s j

ust

where I

’m f

rom

. I

still

live t

here h

alf

the t

ime.

Th

e fi

lm i

s about

a f

ath

er a

nd

son

’s

jou

rney

fr

om

M

on

tan

a

to

Neb

rask

a t

o c

laim

pri

ze m

oney

...

Som

e o

f m

y inst

ructi

on t

o t

he a

cto

rs

was

info

rm

ed b

y t

he fact

I have a

gein

g

paren

ts w

ho c

an

driv

e m

e c

razy

but

whom

I m

ust

cate

r t

o, esp

ecia

lly w

ith

regards

to t

he d

uti

ful so

n a

nd h

ow

he

conducts

him

self

.

I’ve

n

oti

ced

th

at

you

r ch

ar-

act

ers

oft

en m

ove

in

in

tere

stin

g w

ays

. J

ack

Nic

hols

on

tak

es l

ittl

e sh

uffl

ing s

teps

in A

bout

Sch

mid

t.

Geo

rge

Clo

oney

has

a g

oofy

run i

n

Th

e D

esce

nd

an

ts, and B

ruce

Der

n

sham

ble

s aro

und in t

his

film

. D

o yo

u

pay

part

icula

r att

enti

on t

o t

he

way

peo

ple

walk

?

I do. A

s dia

logue-d

riv

en a

s m

y fi

lms

may b

e,

I’m

only

ever r

eally t

hin

kin

g

about

sile

nt

com

edy,

an

d s

o I

lik

e t

o

see fi

gures

in s

pace a

nd s

hoot

them

fu

ll-f

ram

e, as

Chaplin w

as

shot.

Would

you h

ave

bee

n a

t ea

se i

n

the

sile

nt

era?

To h

ave b

een a

dir

ecto

r i

n t

he l

ate

te

ens

and 2

0s

in H

ollyw

ood: m

an, th

at

would

have been

fu

n.

It w

as on

e of

those

great

cauld

rons

of

creati

vit

y —

w

e w

on’t

see t

he lik

e o

f it

again

.

Was

Neb

rask

a a

lways

goin

g to

be

bla

ck a

nd w

hit

e?Y

es.

How

did

th

e st

udio

fee

l about

that?

Oh,

they w

ere c

om

ple

tely

again

st

it. E

veryone w

as

again

st i

t except

me

and t

he c

inem

ato

grapher.

They a

ctu

-ally p

ut

their

foot

dow

n a

nd I

walk

ed

aw

ay from

the p

roje

ct.

The c

ost

of it

all

was

a h

ighly

shrin

k-w

rapped b

udget.

What

att

ract

s yo

u t

o t

he

form

at?

Nin

ety

per cen

t of

the m

ovie

s I

watc

h a

re i

n b

lack a

nd w

hit

e.

It l

eft

cin

em

a o

nly

for c

om

mercia

l reaso

ns

— it

never left

fine-a

rt

photo

graphy. I

can’t

have a

career a

s a fi

lm d

irecto

r

and n

ot

make a

t le

ast

one b

lack-a

nd-

whit

e p

ictu

re. M

y a

rgum

ent

was:

can

you a

bso

lute

ly p

rove t

o m

e t

hat

few

er

people

saw

Ma

nh

att

an, R

agin

g B

ull

and

Sch

ind

ler’

s L

ist

because

they w

ere i

n

bla

ck a

nd w

hit

e?

Road t

rips

recu

r in

your

film

s.

Have

you b

een o

n a

ny

life

-changi

ng

road t

rips?

I drove from

LA

to O

maha just

a few

w

eeks

ago. I

made it

in t

hree d

ays.

Had

I had t

he t

ime, I

would

have s

tretc

hed

it t

o a

week, but

I had a

dia

beti

c c

at

on

the b

ack s

eat

so I

had t

o g

et

on w

ith it.

Whic

h o

f yo

ur

film

s do y

ou g

et

most

com

pli

men

ts o

n?

Ele

ctio

n [

his

1999 c

om

edy a

bout

a

hig

h-s

ch

ool

ele

cti

on

sta

rrin

g R

eese

Wit

hersp

oon].

More

than S

idew

ays

?O

h,

yeah

. F

rom

fi

lm people

, it

’s

alw

ays

Ele

ctio

n. E

ven m

y m

oth

er,

she

saw

N

eb

rask

a an

d said

, “Y

eah

, it

’s

prett

y g

ood,

but

why c

an’t

you m

ake

one m

ore lik

e E

lect

ion?”

Did

the

urg

e to

mak

e m

ovie

s co

me

earl

y?T

he u

rge t

o b

e a

round t

hem

did

. I

did

n’t

kn

ow

I w

an

ted t

o m

ake t

hem

unti

l a lit

tle b

it late

r, b

ut

from

the a

ge

of

five I

was

head o

ver h

eels

in

love

wit

h m

ovie

s and w

atc

hed e

veryth

ing.

Did

you h

ave

a f

orm

ati

ve v

iew

ing

exper

ience

?C

hapli

n’s

M

od

ern

T

imes.

L

ate

r,

Bun

uel

was

quit

e

infl

uen

tial,

an

d

late

r a

gain

, K

urosa

wa.

Seve

n S

am

ura

i is

probably

the fi

lm I

’ve s

een t

he m

ost

. It

’s b

etw

een t

hat

and T

he G

ood

, th

e B

ad

a

nd

th

e U

gly

an

d T

he G

od

fath

er

Pa

rt

II a

nd 8

1/2.

Com

ing f

rom

Om

aha,

as

the g

randso

n o

f G

reek i

mm

igrants

, it

w

as

a d

ista

nt

dream

to b

ecom

e a

film

dir

ecto

r. A

fter c

ollege I

applied t

o fi

lm

school, a

nd w

hen I

got

in, I

knew

I h

ad

to t

ry i

t, e

ven i

f I

fell fl

at

on m

y f

ace.

An

d t

hen

I f

oun

d I

had j

ust

en

ough

tale

nt

to b

e a

ble

to b

uild o

n.

Plu

s, I

m

ade c

om

edie

s, a

nd n

ot

a lot

of people

m

ake c

om

edie

s.

You s

trik

e m

e as

a d

irec

tor

who’d

en

joy

work

ing

wit

h t

he

sam

e act

ors

aga

in a

nd a

gain

, but

you r

are

ly d

o.

Why

not?

I w

ould

love t

o h

ave a

sto

ck c

om

-pany,

but

I fin

d t

hat

the p

arts

don

’t

len

d t

hem

selv

es.

The s

creen

pla

y h

as

to d

riv

e t

he b

oat.

You

’re

qu

ite

rigoro

us

abou

t m

atc

hin

g act

or

wit

h p

art

. G

eorg

e C

loon

ey w

an

ted t

o p

lay

Jack

in

Sid

ewa

ys [

playe

d b

y T

hom

as

Haden

C

hurc

h]

and y

ou t

urn

ed h

im d

ow

n.

It’s

all

about

the screen

pla

y.

I’m

w

illing t

o t

ake less

money w

ith w

hic

h

to m

ake t

he fi

lm i

n o

rder t

o h

ave t

he

proper c

ast

ing, as

I se

e it.

Do

you r

ead r

evie

ws

of y

our

film

s?S

om

eti

mes.

The s

mart

ones.

Do y

ou v

alu

e fi

lm c

riti

cism

an

d

are

you

con

cern

ed a

bou

t it

s dec

line?

Roger E

bert

said

som

eth

ing lovely

: a

film

crit

ic is

there t

o t

ell a

film

snob t

o

go s

ee a

certa

in p

opula

r fi

lm, and t

o t

ell

a p

opula

r a

udie

nce t

o g

o s

ee a

certa

in

rarefied fi

lm.

Good c

rit

ics

help

brin

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11FITNESS / HEALTH PLUS | WEDNESDAY 27 NOVEMBER 2013

How to tell if you are having a heart attack?

You’ve seen enough heart attacks in the movies that you’re pretty sure you know what one looks like, right? The

person gasps for air, feels a sudden sharp pain in the chest, falls to the floor . . .

Nope. The “Hollywood-style heart attack” is misleading, Paige Fowler writes on the web-site of Men’s Health magazine, citing a study of 900 heart attack patients. Researchers at Trinity College in Ireland found that just over a third had cinematic symptoms; the others experienced slower, subtler signals of trouble: gradually growing pain in the chest and left arm, shortness of breath, a sense of fatigue.

The reason this matters is that speedy treatment is key to heart attack survival “and even a 90-minute delay could be disastrous,” cardiologist Prediman K Shah says in the article. So the magazine advises — especially if you have risk factors for heart disease — watching out for heart attack cues that are not quite as dramatic: a cold sweat, a sudden feeling of nausea and symptoms that feel like heartburn. If in doubt, call emergency — and chew an aspirin to attack that possible blood clot.

FDA approves J&J hepatitis C pill

US regulators approved the use of Johnson & Johnson’s Olysio, also known as simeprevir, as a treatment

for chronic infection with the liver-destroying hepatitis C virus.

Olysio, a protease inhibitor that blocks a specific protein needed by the virus to rep-licate, is to be used in combination with interferon, given by injection, and ribavirin, another pill.

Hepatitis C affects about 3.2 million Americans, killing more than 15,000 each year, mostly from illnesses such as cirrhosis and liver cancer.

The often-undiagnosed virus is transmitted through contaminated blood. Infection rates have dropped since the early 1990s, due in part to the introduction of blood and organ screening. Still, many older adults remain at risk, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, which has called for baby boomers to be routinely tested for the virus.

Olysio is a member of the same class of drugs as Merck & Co’s Victrelis and Vertex Pharmaceuticals’ Incivek. The FDA approved both those drugs in 2011.

Olysio was shown in clinical trials to cure patients with a shorter duration of treatment.

Drugmakers have been racing to develop more effective, easier-to-tolerate antivirals to treat hepatitis C. Wall Street analysts have forecast annual sales of billions of dollars for new drugs that would allow doctors to skip use of interferon, which can cause severe flu-like side effects.

The FDA is slated to decide by December 8 on Gilead Sciences’ application for sofos-buvir, a member of a different class known as nucleotide analogue inhibitors, or “nukes,” designed to block a different enzyme the virus needs to copy itself.

Agencies

By Dorene Internicola

Few workout tools are more versatile than kettlebells, the ancient market counterweights

that were hoisted by Russian strongmen and now can be found in weight rooms at gyms across the country, fitness experts say.

But kettlebells, which come in varying weights, are often thought mistakenly to be the preserve of strongmen and extreme athletes.

Steve Cotter, a former Kung Fu competitor and the founder and director of the International Kettlebell and Fitness Federation, said part of the problem was that the kettle-bell was marketed as a hard-core tool that implied intensity.

“It prevents beginners from giving it a shot,” said Cotter in an interview.

But the San Diego-based author of “Kettlebell Training: 95 exercises for strength, toning, stamina and weight loss,” said novices should not be deterred.

“If you only have 30 minutes a day to commit to exercise, the kettlebell is an all-in-one, hand-held gym,” he said.

The key to kettlebell train-ing, Cotter added, is incremen-tal progression. He recommends starting off with light weights, using one or two basic moves like the swing, during which the exerciser moves the ket-tlebell between the legs like a

pendulum, forward and up and then back and down.

Normal, healthy women might begin with an eight-kilogram (17.6-pound) kettlebell, he said, while men can start with 16-kil-ograms (35.2 pounds).

“It sounds pretty heavy, but it’s not the same approach as a dumbbell because you’re swing-ing it, relying on inertia,” Cotter explained. “It’s more on the endurance side.”

Because the center of mass extends beyond the hand, the kettlebell allows for ballistic, or fast, swinging motions that combine cardio-respiratory, strength, and flexibility training.

The result is an all-around, functional fitness workout that mimics everyday activities such as shoveling snow or working in the garden, he said.

Amy Dixon, who teaches Kettlebell Power, a group class at an Equinox Fitness center in Los Angeles, said the workout is beneficial because it puts the body through so many ranges of motion.

“Your body is completely inte-grated, so you’re moving every-thing,” said Dixon, the creator of “Raise Some Bell - The Ultimate Kettlebell Core Workout” DVD.

She calls it “one of the best pieces of equipment that’s been around for centuries.”

For Richard Cotton, spokes-man for the American College of Sports Medicine, the appeal of the kettlebell is its practicality.

“Kettlebells are inexpensive. They don’t take up a lot of space, and they enable a variety of exercises,” Cotton said. Unlike free weights, which tend to be linear, kettlebells work across all planes, he explained.

“I think they’re here to stay among a wide population ... I could even see senior kettlebell workouts, so long as they take it easy,” said Cotton, who advises people to progress slowly, start-ing with light weights.

Cotter stresses that there’s nothing mystical about working with kettlebells. But lifting with the back is incorrect, he said. The back should be flat, with creasing at the hips.

“There’s no boredom to it,” he said. “Every workout can be dif-ferent, and it feels almost like dancing.” Reuters

Kettlebells swing to a full body workout

“It sounds pretty heavy, but it’s not

the same approach as a dumbbell because you’re

swinging it, relying on inertia. It’s more on the endurance

side.”

TECHNOLOGYPLUS | WEDNESDAY 27 NOVEMBER 201312

By Brian Fung

Ten years ago, the word “smartphone” didn’t exist. By necessity, neither did the word “dumbphone.”

In a decade, we might talk about all of our appliances in similar ways. From ovens to garage doors to insulin pumps to vehicles, many of our devices are going to be connected to the Internet in the same sense that our phones are now. Certain such products are already on the market; one company, SmartThings, sells devices that help consumers control their lights and locks while they’re not at home, for example.

Eventually, these items will respond to signals from one another independ-ent of human input. Your bathroom scale might tell your refrigerator that you’re overweight, and your fridge might start recommending healthier recipes.

That could be great, but it also vastly expands the universe of things that could go wrong, particularly when it comes to privacy. This might seem obvious, until you consider that many of the businesses that make these devices have never really needed to worry about securing their products before.

Take dishwashers. At heart, they’re very simple machines. But a hacked dishwasher might start running on overdrive, going through multiple cycles, wasting gallons of water and costing you extra and possibly flood-ing your house. Although the folks who make dishwashers may be fantastic engineers, or even great computer pro-grammers, it doesn’t necessarily imply they’re equipped to protect Internet users from the outset.

“It’s not just that the consum-ers don’t understand the technol-ogy,” said Jeff Hagins, co-founder of SmartThings, at a US Federal Trade Commission workshop. “It’s also that the people building it don’t understand it.” Hagins added, hypothetically: “Just because I know how to write PHP [pro-gramming] doesn’t mean I understand these vulnerabilities at all.”

The same holds true for the auto industry, where many companies have begun to experiment with new tech-nologies that let cars communicate with one another. Tadayoshi Kohno is a researcher at the University of Washington who’s spent a lot of time deliberately hacking into cars to test their vulnerabilities.

“Very often we see sectors of the broader industry that are not compu-ter science experts starting to integrate computers into their systems and then start to integrate networks into those systems,” said Kohno. “Because they don’t have experience being attacked by real attackers, like Microsoft and so on, their level of security awareness... appears to be dated.”

Hacking is just an extreme case. Short of that, there are all kinds of security problems that could crop up in an Internet of Things situation. Many of these devices are pumping out vast amounts of data. According to Hagins, a modest 10,000 households have SmartThings installed. Together, those homes produce 150 million data points a day. The information may be relatively mundane, such as battery levels or temperatures, but as with any kind of data, in the aggregate it can produce extremely detailed profiles of your behaviour.

As early as 2010, Siemens said it was capable of using its smart meters

to learn some pretty incredible things about our energy usage: “We, Siemens, have the technology to record it every minute, second, microsecond, more or less live... From that we can infer how many people are in the house, what they do, whether they’re upstairs, downstairs, do you have a dog, when do you habitually get up, when did you get up this morning, when do you have a shower: masses of private data.”

Securing that data is something that even big-name tech companies struggle with. So how do we fix that?

One difference between data-hungry businesses like Google and your future home network of Internet-enabled objects is that some of those devices may not need to talk to each other over the public Internet, said the Electronic Frontier Foundation’s Lee Tien. If they’re connected to the same Wi-Fi network, maybe those devices won’t

need to transmit data across the Web.“Utilise but keep the data within the

home boundary,” Tien suggested. “Keep the interesting variations within the home boundary. How much detail do we need and how much data needs to leave the home, actually?”

That raises another potential prob-lem, though. If your home Wi-Fi pass-word is all that stands between a spy or hacker and your networked devices, you wind up with a single point of failure.

“You’re relying on the end user hav-ing a secure Wi-Fi connection,” said Craig Heffner, a security researcher at Tactical Network Solutions. “You’re trusting that stuff to have been engi-neered properly.”

That leaves you pretty much right where we began — at the mercy of the manufacturer.

WP-Bloomberg

My Talking Tom (free)Outfit7’s Talking Friends apps — including two

previous Talking Tom Cat apps — have been down-loaded more than 1.2bn times, and are still used by 170m monthly active users. They’re huge, especially among kids. This latest app adds more features: it turns Talking Tom into a proper virtual pet who has to be fed, entertained and even taken to the loo. Whether parents will be as impressed by the in-app store selling gold coins for up to £69.99 at a time remains to be seen.

ARTPOP (free)Lady Gaga’s new album is finally out, along with

its companion app for smartphones and tablets. Contrary to expectations, you don’t get to mon-key around with ARTPOP’s songs within the app. Instead, you can listen to them (if you’ve already bought them) while also creating and sharing

animated GIFs from the ArtHaus section. There’s the promise of streaming DJ sets and videos to come next year.

CyanogenMod Installer (free)This is very definitely something for experienced

Android users only: an app to use the CyanogenMod tool to “root” your Android device and install your own flavour of operating system, rather than the one provided by your handset maker and/or operator. You need a Windows PC to complete the installa-tion process, mind.

Toca Cars (£0.99)Children’s app-maker Toca Boca has been

steadily increasing the number of apps it has on Android, with Toca Cars the latest to come out.

It’s a very fun sandbox app that sees kids driv-ing a cardboard car round a cardboard virtual world, knocking houses and scenery out of the way willy-nilly. Better still, children can then lay out their own town (before knocking it out of the way willy-nilly).

Camera Awesome (£1.87)More than 20 million people have downloaded

the iOS version of Camera Awesome, apparently. Now it’s available on Android too, with just as impressive a range of photography features focused on taking better snaps, not just on sharing them. You can dig as deep as you like into the app’s shoot-ing and editing tools to improve your mobile pho-tography skills, and despite the complexity, it’s very easy to use.

By Stuart Dredge/ The Guardian

Security overlooked as consumer products share data online

Android apps for the day

COMICS & MORE 13

Hoy en la HistoriaNovember 27, 1893

1919: A massive meteor landed in Lake Michigan in the United States1992: Austria’s famous Lipizzaner horses were saved when fire damaged Vienna’s Hofburg Palace2007: Zimbabwe’s dire economic situation led three international airlines to end direct flights to Harare2009: Golfer Tiger Woods’ life unravelled following a minor traffic accident, which led to costly sex scandal revelations

Following a 20-year campaign for women’s suffrage, a general election in New Zealand was the first in the world in which women were allowed to vote

Picture: Getty Images © GRAPHIC NEWS

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

APUKWA, CHIBIABOS, GITCHE MANITO, HIAWATHA, KABEYUN, KABIBONOKKA, KEEWAYDIN, KENABEEK, KWASIND, LAUGHING WATER, MEGISSOGWON, MINJEKAHWUN, MINNEHAHA, MONDAMIN, MUDJEKEEWIS, NAWADAHA, NOKOMIS, OSSEO, PONEMAH, PUKWANA, SHAWONDASEE, SHINGEBIS, TAWASENTHA, TUSCALOOSA, WABASSO, WABUN, WAWBEEK, WENONAH, WYOMING, YENADIZZE.

LEARN ARABIC

Baby Blues by Jerry Scott and Rick Kirkman

Zits by Dennis Young and Denis Lebrun

Hagar The Horrible by Chris Browne

Invitations

Welcome Ahlan wa sahlan

Come in Tafa��al

I like your visit Tasourounee ziyaratouk

You are invited to lunch Innaka madçoo ila al�a�a'

Where do you like to spend the holiday?

Ayna tou�ibbou an taq�ee alçou�la?

I have invited the friends Laqad daçawtou ala�diqa'

You are invite to a dancing party Innaka madçoo ila �aflatin raqi�a

Can I see you again? Hal asta�eeçou an araka �aniatan?

Are you busy? Hal anta maš�ool?

Let us drink coffee together tomorrow morning

Linatanawal alqahwa maçan �adan �aba�an

Good-bye Ila lliqa'

Note: ç = ‘a’ in ‘ag

PLUS | WEDNESDAY 27 NOVEMBER 2013

HYPER SUDOKU

CROSSWORD

CROSSWORDS

YESTERDAY’S ANSWER

How to play Hyper Sudoku:A Hyper Sudoku

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ACROSS 1 Automaker David

Dunbar Buick, by birth

5 Apple quantities

10 Expression of despair

13 A really good offer, say

16 Chase Field team, on scoreboards

17 Former New York City attraction with a revolving dance floor

18 Track hostilely

19 Tool time?

20 Cold comfort?

22 It has pins at one end

23 Football Hall-of-Famer Grimm

26 “The Last of the Mohicans” girl

27 Rank

28 Pumice feature

29 There are eight in “Old MacDonald Had a Farm”

30 Some concerned with 5-Downs: Abbr.

31 +2

33 Serious offense against God

34 Hit home

37 Mil. authority

40 Game with forks and pins

41 Goes out, in a card game

42 James of “Elf”

43 Giant of legend

44 ___ Trophy (golf tourney)

45 Rather

46 Having a catch

48 Skips

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51 To come

54 Abbr. in auto

ads

55 Challenges catchers, in a way

56 Change a shade?

57 ___ life

58 Staff sign

DOWN 1 Streaked

2 Delta preceder

3 Brooks Robinson and Frank Robinson

4 Sawbuck

5 Candle-lighting occasion

6 Say 1 + 1 = 3, say

7 Cote call

8 Speed units

9 Penultimate match

10 Number of tears?

11 “Parliament of Whores” humorist

12 Mardi Gras setting, with “the”

14 It may do your bidding

15 Horror film

effect

21 Offshoot

24 Mid 13th-century pope

25 Forgo modesty

in a job

interview

28 Bill add-ons

29 Drama honor

31 Creations in Word, informally

32 Shop quotes: Abbr.

33 Some strains

34 Reaped, in a way

35 Couples may be in it

36 Image receivers

37 Hit the bars, say

38 Comes due

39 Fatherhood confirmer, maybe

42 Bill splitter?

44 ___-pop

45 Hit accidentally

47 Give lip to?

49 What-___

52 Top-Flite holder

53 Cartoonist Foster

1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12

13 14 15 16

17 18

19 20 21

22 23 24 25 26

27 28 29

30 31 32

33

34 35 36 37 38 39

40 41 42

43 44 45

46 47 48 49

50 51 52 53

54 55

56 57 58

B A N A N A S P E A C O A TO P E N E R A A D S O R B SF A V I C O N P I T S T O PF R A N K S I N A T R A

T E T E H A N S E LR A D I I Y O U Y O W Z AE N T R E E N A P S A I DA G R A E X T R A T I N YM O A N L I E W A R N E DE R I C S S T D B A S S IR A N O U T R E A R

N I S S A N S E N T R AA B U T T A L A P A I R O FC A R R E R A D E S C A N TE M B A S S Y A R T E M I S

How to play Kakuro:The kakuro grid, unlike in sudoku, can be of any size. It has rows and columns, and dark cells like in a crossword. And, just like in a crossword, some of the dark cells will contain numbers. Some cells will contain two numbers.However, in a crossword the numbers reference clues. In a kakuro, the numbers are all you get! They denote the total of the digits in the row or column referenced by the number.Within each collection of cells - called a run

- any of the numbers 1 to 9 may be used but, like sudoku, each number may only be used once.

YESTERDAY’S ANSWER

14

EASY SUDOKUCartoon Arts International / The New York Times Syndicate

Easy Sudoku PuzzlesPlace a digit from 1 to 9 in each empty cell so everyrow, every column and every 3x3 box contains allthe digits 1 to 9.


CINEMA / TV LISTINGS 15

TEL: 444933989 444517001SHOWING AT VILLAGGIO & CITY CENTER

12:30 Golf World

13:30 Scottish Premier

Highlights

14:00 Omni Sport

14:30 Inter Channel

15:30 Beach Soccer

16:30 Nba Basketball;

La Lakers @

Washington

18:30 Boxing:

Pacquiao V Rios

19:30 Futball Mundial

20:00 Uefa Champions’

League; Cska

Moscow V

Bayern Munich

22:00 J League

Highlights

22:45 Uefa

Champions

League;

Manchester City

V Plzen

08:00 News

09:00 Empire

10:30 Inside Story

11:00 News

11:30 The Stream

12:00 News

12:30 Life Apps

13:00 NEWSHOUR

14:30 Inside Story

15:00 Al Jazeera

World

16:00 NEWSHOUR

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17:30 The Stream

18:00 NEWSHOUR

19:00 News

19:30 People &

Power

20:00 News

20:30 Inside Story

21:00 NEWSHOUR

22:00 News

22:30 The Stream

23:00 Witness

14:00 Football League

18:00 Sports News

18:15 English Premier

League Profile:

Manchester

United


League Football


League Season

Review 2012/13


League

Netbusters

22:00 Uefa Champions

Bayer Leverkusen

V Manchester

13:00 Do Dil Bandhe

Ek Dori Se

15:00 Pavitra Rishta

16:30 Qubool Hai

17:00 Punar Vivah


18:00 Bollywood

Business

19:30 Jodha Akbar


22:00 Punar Vivah

22:30 Do Dil Bandhe

Ek Dori Se

13:00 A.N.T. Farm

15:00 That's So

Raven

15:25 Gravity Falls

17:00 Dog With A Blog

18:30 Good Luck

Charlie

20:30 My Babysitter's

A Vampire

22:00 Austin And Ally

23:10 Wizards Of

Waverly Place

14:00 The Year Dolly

Parton Was My

Mom

16:00 Tower Heist

18:00 Who Framed

Roger Rabbit

20:00 A Few Best

Men

22:00 The Sitter

13:15 Car vs Wild

15:20 Finding Bigfoot

17:00 Ultimate

Survival

17:50 Dirty Jobs

18:40 Mythbusters

19:30 American Guns

20:20 Storage

Hunters

20:45 Property Wars

21:10 How Do They

Do It?

22:00 You Have Been

Warned

22:50 Treehouse

Masters

23:40 Mythbusters

13:20 Call Of The

Wildman

13:50 Meet The

Sloths

14:15 Meet The Sloths

16:30 My Cat From

Hell

17:30 Most Extreme

20:15 Bondi Vet

22:35 Cheetah

Kingdom

23:00 Outback

Rangers

13:00 Good Day For

It

15:00 My Own Love

Song

17:00 The Makeover

19:00 Jeff, Who Lives

At Home

21:00 Dark Tide

23:00 Looper

01:00 The Bang Bang

Club

13:00 Beethoven's

Second

14:30 Quest For A Heart

18:00 Bushwhacked

20:00 Flushed Away

22:00 A Very Fairy

Christmas

23:30 Ugly Duckling

And Me

INNOVATIONS

LIVE SHOWS Airing Time Programme Briefs

SPIRITUAL HOUR

6:00 - 7:00 AM A time of reflection, a deeper understanding of the teachings of Islam.

RISE 7:00 – 9:00 AM Today, Scott and Laura speak to author Frances Gillespie who will be speaking about her recently published series on Qatar National Explorer.

INTERNATIO-NAL NEWS

1:00 PM The latest news and events from around the world.

DRIVE 3:00 – 4:00 PM A daily afternoon show broadcast at peak travel time. It is a lighthearted show, filled with news and information and in today’s episode, we focus on ‘literature and the latest releases’ with guest, book enthusiast Hind Francis.

LEGENDARY ARTISTS

6:00 – 7:00 PM The show tells the story of a celebrity artist that has reached unprecedented fame. Throughout the episode the artists’ memorable performances/songs will be played to put listeners in the mood.

Repeat Shows

INNOVATIONS 10:00 – 11:00 AM A LIVE weekly show hosted and produced by Scott Boyes. The show talks about all the newest and exciting advancements in the world of science and technology.

FASHION 7:00 – 8:00 PM A weekly show hosted and produced by Laura Finnerty. The show brings together the latest fashion trends along with exciting interviews with local and international designers.

MALL

1

Gori Tere Pyar Mein (2D/Hindi) – 2.30 & 8.15pm

Irandam Ulagam (2D/Tamil) – 5.15pm

The Pact (2D/Horror) – 11.00pm

2

Killer Joe (2D/Crime) – 3.00pm

The Hunger Games (2D/Action) – 5.00, 8.00 & 11.00pm

3

The Hunger Games (2D/Action) – 2.30pm

Free Birds (3D/Animation) – 5.00pm

Killer Joe (2D/Crime) – 6.45pm


Nadodi Mannan (2D/Malayalam) – 10.30pm

LANDMARK

1

Nadodi Mannan (2D/Malayalam) – 2.30 & 11.30pm


Gori Tere Pyar Mein (2D/Hindi) – 8.30pm

2The Hunger Games (2D/Action)

– 2.30, 5.00, 8.00 & 11.00pm

3

Killer Joe (2D/Crime) – 3.00 & 7.00pm


The Pact (2D/Horror) – 9.00 & 11.15pm

ROYAL

PLAZA

1

Sing Saab The Great (2D/Hindi) – 2.30pm

Nadodi Mannan (2D/Malayalam) – 5.15pm


Gori Tere Pyar Mein (2D/Hindi) – 11.15pm

2


The Hunger Games (2D/Action) – 5.00, 8.00 & 10.45pm

3

The Hunger Games (2D/Action) – 2.30pm



Killer Joe (2D/Crime)– 9.00 & 11.30pm


PLUS | WEDNESDAY 27 NOVEMBER 2013 POTPOURRI16

Editor-In-Chief Khalid Al Sayed Acting Managing Editor Hussain Ahmad Editorial Office The Peninsula Tel: 4455 7741, E-mail: [email protected] / [email protected]

IN FOCUS

A view of the setting sun from Barwa Village signal.

by Srikanth

Send your photos to [email protected]. Mention where the photo was taken.

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

Mohanna Nasser Al Nuaimi,Group Chief Human Resources Officer, Ooredoo Group

He is also a member of the Ooredoo Group Management Committee, and is a Member of the Board. Before

being appointed as Group Chief Human Resources Officer in 2008, Mohanna had been Executive Director of Group Human Resources and Senior Manager of Human Resources Services and Policies of Group Human Resources. Before joining Ooredoo, Mohanna had worked as head of HRA and HRD and as a senior engineer for the Qatar General Electricity and Water Corporation from 1992 to 2005. He holds a BS in Mechanical Engineering from Qatar University. He is responsible for Group lead-ership programmes and Global Mobility.

Who’s who

• Some residents of Al Kharaitiyat have

complained about excavation that has

been going on in their area for two

years. The work, most of which is not

related to infrastructure projects, is

blocking access to their homes.

• A number of school operators and

parents have urged the Supreme

Education Council to reduce the

number of educational streams in

schools and retain only the streams

most preferred by students and their

parents. This can be uniformly applied

to all schools.

• There is talk on social networking

sites about the prison sentences

given to employees of the Ministry of

Municipality and Urban Planning who

were found guilty, along with three

managers of spare parts firms, of

committing fraud. A court sentenced

them to five years in prison and

ordered them to return QR9.771m to

the treasury. They have been dismissed

from their jobs at the ministry.

• Some people have demanded that

the authorities campaign against

the mushrooming massage centres

and apply strict restrictions on them.

Many believe the massage centres are

encouraging immoral activities and are

a threat to Qatari social values and

traditions.

• Some people have demanded that the

authorities provide people with special

needs special ID cards to help them

access services more easily, and to

facilitate procedures for them.

• Several poultry farm owners are

complaining of lack of support to their

projects despite the high demand for

their products. They point out that

owners of other livestock are getting

support from the government.

If you want your events featured here, mail details to [email protected]

Jack and the BeanstalkWhen: Nov 28, 7pm; Nov 29, 2.30pm, 7pmNov 30, 2.30pmWhere: Qatar National Theatre

What: Doha Players are bringing the magic of the traditional pantomime with lots of laughter and especially written for the audiences of Qatar. There will be lot of audience participation. Tickets: QR75 (adults and children). Available at the restaurant of THE One in Landmark Mall and from THE One in Villaggio.

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

Ajyal Youth Film Festival When: Nov 26 - Nov 30; 4pm-10pm Where: Doha Film Institute What: The first Ajyal Youth Film Festival builds on DFI’s history of community-based programming. Ajyal continues to foster film appreciation among hundreds of young jurors and enhances film education by engaging families and educators through cinema.Free Entry

Omar Khalifa – “Infinite”When: Until Dec 15; 10am-10pmWhere: Katara Cultural Village What: This outdoor installation examines ‘the nature of being’. Using digital multiple exposure techniques, an image is crafted that gives a of other-worldliness and depth of perspective through the human form. Free Entry

Noon Reports:Qatar to South HookWhen: Till November 27, 10am - 10pm Where: Katara Gallery 2 - Bldg 18 What: British artist Ben Barbour travelled on the ‘Al Karaana’ Q-Flex LNG tanker from Ra’s Laffan, Qatar, to the South Hook terminal in Milford Haven, South Wales, documenting the twenty-day journey through drawing, writing and photography. Free Entry

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