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The first puzzle, made by 42-year-old Arthur Wynne, appeared on December 21, 1913 and was
an instant success. Now crosswords feature in nearly every newspaper in the world.
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By Merl Reagle
On a snowy evening in the early 1900s, a newspaper editor at the New York World was hunched over his desk
trying to think of something special for the Christmas issue.
Remembering the small word squares he’d solved as a young Brit in Liverpool, he drew a diamond-shaped grid with numbered squares and num-bered clues. It contained 32 words, and his simple instruction read: “Fill in the small squares with words which agree with the following definitions.”
The puzzle appeared on December 21, 1913, and what 42-year-old Arthur Wynne had created was the first cross-word puzzle.
It was an instant success. Mail poured in. Readers didn’t mind that the first puzzle contained some very unusual words, such as NEIF, TANE, NEVA and NARD. Or that the word DOVE appeared twice, once clued as”a bird” and once as “a pigeon.” Or that
the most unusual word was DOH, defined as “the fibre of the gomuti palm,” a clue that, if it appeared today, would elicit much the same reaction from solvers as it would from Homer Simpson.
Seeing the crossword’s popular-ity, Wynne pushed for the newspaper to copyright it, but his bosses, who included two of Joseph Pulitzer’s sons, considered the crossword a passing tri-fle. New York Times editorials labelled them a waste of time.
After just a few years, Wynne’s interest waned. He still made cross-words, but he also accepted reader sub-missions, becoming the country’s first crossword editor as well. By 1921, after eight years as captain of the crossword, Wynne handed the wheel to someone else.
That someone was a Smith grad named Margaret Petherbridge, a World secretary who had hopes of being a journalist. Like almost everyone on the staff, she was utterly uninterested in the crossword and simply picked the
ones that had interesting shapes. She never tried solving one.
However, the paper’s most popular columnist, Franklin P Adams, was an avid fan and began leaving his solved puzzles on Petherbridge’s desk, with the mistakes highlighted. Because the grids were a pain to create, the paper’s typesetters did their best to kill the crossword, running the clues in ever-decreasing tiny type and omitting some altogether.
After a year, Petherbridge had been shamed enough. She decided to try to solve a puzzle — and couldn’t. Rather than feel Adams’s glare, she set about organising the puzzles in her files. Within months she had devised rules for crossword creators — amazingly, a list still followed today. She simplified the numbering system (Wynne had always numbered the ending square of each word as well as the starting square), stressed the use of common English words (obscure foreign terms had crept in), limited the black squares to one-sixth of the grid and, in essence,
standardised the crossword puzzle.From then on, puzzles that had a
high degree of craftsmanship were first to be chosen. The crossword finally looked like a feature that was here to stay.
Then, in 1924, two Columbia grads decided they wanted to get into pub-lishing. Crossword puzzles were more popular than ever, yet there had never been a collection in book form. So they enlisted Petherbridge and two col-leagues to compile one: The Cross Word Puzzle Book. It sold 400,000 copies in only a few months.
Two more books followed, selling two million copies in two years. The two young publishers were Dick Simon and Max Schuster, and the first crossword book launched their careers.
And Petherbridge’s career. With the books, crosswords became a national phenomenon. Petherbridge married in 1926, becoming Margaret P Farrar, and under that name she would go on to edit the Simon & Schuster crossword series for 60 years.
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Crossword craze peaked over time. Commuter trains started putting dictionaries in every car. The Los Angeles Public Library had to enforce a limit on how long you could use the dictionary.
She called it her “inadvertent pro-fession.” When she started in the 1920s she never expected such a seemingly genteel activity to be so controversial. The crossword craze killed mah-jongg virtually overnight. (Mah-jongg deal-ers put this note in the New Yorker: “Roses are red, violets are blue, we’d like to cut your throats for you.”)
There was a crossword-related news story in the New York papers almost every week: A Baptist preacher con-structed a crossword for a sermon. A man refused to leave a restaurant until he finished a crossword and had to be escorted out by police. A Cleveland woman was granted a divorce because her husband was obsessed with cross-words. A Budapest waiter explained in a crossword why he was committing suicide; police were unable to solve it.
The Broadway show Puzzles of 1925 had a skit in which crossword fans were depicted as patients in a sanitar-ium. Commuter trains started putting dictionaries in every car. The Los Angeles Public Library had to enforce a limit on how long you could use the dictionary. England’s Queen Mary became a crossword fan. The Chicago Department of Health declared that crossword solving was beneficial to health and happiness. And thesaurus author Peter Roget was declared “the patron saint of crossworders.”
All the while, the Times called cross-word solving “a temporary madness,” serving “no useful purpose whatso-ever,” and an “epidemic” that would soon be over.
In 1942 the Times finally gave in and hired Margaret P Farrar as its first crossword editor.
So whatever happened to Arthur Wynne?
As readers of The Washington Post
may know, I make the crossword for the Post magazine every Sunday. I live in Tampa, Florida, but in this age of instant everything, I just attach the puzzle in an email and click “send.”
Such technology has made my puz-zling life much less puzzling. And it was while surfing the Web in the 1990s that I found Wynne’s grainy Associated Press obit from the January 17, 1945, Toronto Daily Star. It was one paragraph:
“Clearwater, Fla. (AP) — Arthur Wynn, credited with inventing the cross-word puzzle, died Sunday. . . . Wynn was born in Liverpool, England, and came to the US 50 years ago to enter the newspa-per business.”
First, I was stunned that the man who had invented a feature that was in nearly every newspaper in the world, even in 1945, was given such short shrift. Second, that they spelled his
name wrong. And third, that he died in Clearwater. There I was, a lifelong puzzle guy in Tampa, reading that the man who invented the crossword puz-zle had died 25 miles from where I was sitting.
Or, standing, since I had bolted out of the chair. I asked an editor friend at the St. Petersburg Times (now the Tampa Bay Times) to check its archives for articles. There were precious few, with nothing new.
I did know what most of us in the crossword world knew. Excellent books have been written about the crossword’s early days: The Compleat Cruciverbalist, Creative Cruciverbalists and What’s Gnu?
I knew that when Wynne was a boy he loved word games and the violin. He wanted to be a newspaperman, but his father, a newspaperman himself, forbade it. At 19, Arthur packed one bag and his violin, and with $30 in his pocket sailed to the United States. (Strangely, this mirrors my own life: At 20 I was a puzzle fan, played the organ and piano, and worked as a newspaper copy editor.)
Wynne found a newspaper job in Pittsburgh and played the violin in orchestras. Then he got the job at the World. He moved to Cedar Grove, New Jersey, and commuted every day. After inventing the crossword he became a frequent customer at New York’s famous Palm restaurant, where a wall caricature of him remains to this day. He worked for the Hearst papers in the 1930s. In 1941 he moved to Clearwater for health reasons and died four years later.
And that became the puzzle with no answer: Where was he bur-ied? Somewhere in Tampa Bay? If so, is there a gravestone? Or was
he transported to a family plot in Liverpool? Fifteen years later I still had no answer.
The break came in July this year. While surfing the Web, my wife, Marie, found the hometown obit of Wynne’s oldest daughter, Janet. It mentioned that there was another daughter living in Clearwater. Wynne had married a third time to a much younger woman and had fathered a child at 62. That daughter’s name was Catherine Wynne — they called her Kay — and she was 11 when her father died.
Her married name was Kay Wynne Cutler. She had turned 80 in April and was living in Clearwater. It took Marie only minutes to find her number and call. A bright-sounding woman answered. The conversation lasted 15 minutes. We tried not to show that we were giddy as kids in an ice cream par-lour. We agreed to meet.
Kay walks with a cane but is sharp. She laughs easily. She brought articles about her father. As far as she knows she is the only one in the family who is a crossword fan.
She had the answer to my “grave” question. There was no burial site because there was no burial. Her father had been cremated. Kay says she was too young to know, but she thinks his ashes were scattered in the Gulf of Mexico. At the time, she was a stu-dent at Anona Elementary, a happy accident for the daughter of a puzzle creator — the name of the school is a palindrome.
Kay said her father used to say that he never made a penny off the cross-word puzzle. In this, the 100th anni-versary of his invention, I hope he can settle for recognition.
Reagle is a professional puzzle author.WP-Bloomberg
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Students of Qatar Petroleum’s Mesaieed International School (MIS) recently celebrated their success in international examinations and their academic performance in school. The students received their certificates and awards for achieving excellent results in their (I) GCSE, AS and A-level examinations in the presence of Maliq Omer Al Dafea, Chairman of the MIS Board of Governors, Eid Mubarak Al Muhannadi, Operations Manager-Gas Operations and MIS Board Member, and Nawaf Hamad Al Khalifa, Head of Personnel Administration and MIS Board Member. Also present during the awarding ceremony were Kevin John Massey, headmaster, and Jane Elizabeth Goldsack, head of secondary education at MIS. Mohamed Ghonim was presented the Student of the Year award and a certificate for being the best student in Qatar for IGCSE Computer Studies.
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UCQ graduates 49 nurses
Fourty-nine University of Calgary–Qatar students received their Bachelor of Nursing
degrees in a celebration at the Qatar National Convention Centre yesterday.
“The Qatar healthcare system is now richer with the addition of this batch of nurses who are equipped with the skills and knowledge to deliver world-class healthcare to the people of Qatar,” said Dr Kim Critchley, Dean and CEO.
“This is our largest graduating class ever. It is becoming clear that many more people are considering nursing as a career,” Critchley added.
“You are the future of nursing, founded on knowledge and faith, dedication, commitment and hard work and pol-ished with compassion and quality care. Earning a bachelor’s degree in nursing is your first step toward an endless path of knowledge. I urge you to continue learning and adding to your knowledge. I know that you have acquired world-class knowledge and skills during your studies at UCQ and I believe that you will positively change healthcare when you practice those skills,” Dr Nabila Al Meer, Deputy Chief of Continuing Care and Supreme Council of Health Nursing Affairs, said in a keynote address.
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IIS supports typhoon victimsIdeal Indian School has made a donation of QR31,329 to Qatar Red Crescent in aid of typhoon victims in the Philippines and Somalia. The contribution was collected from staff and students. Principal Syed Shoukath Ali handed over the cash to Munzer Ibraheem, an official from Qatar Red Crescent, in a ceremony organised in the school premises yesterday. The heads of the kinder-garten, junior, boys’ and girls’ sections were present on the occasion.
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MAK-Qatar, a group of expats from Kerala engaged in sports and socio-cultural activities, has conferred edu-cation excellency awards on toppers in various exams. Dubai-based phi-lanthropist Dr K P Husain, Chairman, Dr Husain Charitable Trust, inaugu-rated the event and MAK President M Thahir was present. Hanan Faisal, Hadiya Abdussamad, Muhammed Sameeh Manikoth, Muna Nisar, Rania Samad, Hamad Yoonus P T, Shalina Abdul Hameed T T, Sheikh Karippali, Muhammed Basil, Basim Haris, Samah Mohammed Salih, Ashfaq Abdurahiman and Hamad Yoonus P were honoured.
Reception for Prof Yaseen Ashraf
Farook College Old Students Association (Fosa Qatar) will hold a reception in
honour of Prof Yaseen Ashraf, a former head of the English depart-ment at Farook College in Kerala and a prominent media person-ality. The function will be held at the Friends Cultural Centre auditorium in Doha on Saturday at 7pm, a press release said yester-day. All former students of Farook College in Qatar have been invited to attend. The Peninsula
Society of Sri LankanQuantity Surveyorsmarks 10th anniversary
The Society of Sri Lankan Quantity Surveyors (SLQS) Qatar celebrated their 10th anni-versary at a get-together on November 21 at
Crowne Plaza Business Park Hotel. The society was started in 2003 and is affiliated to the Sri Lankan Embassy. It has more than 500 members and is the largest Sri Lankan professional group in Qatar.
The chief guest at the event was Sri Lankan Ambassador Jayantha Palipana, who was accom-panied by his wife. The Director, Development, of Institute of Construction Training and Development, Sri Lanka, was the guest speaker at the event.
Country representatives from Royal Institute of Charted Surveyors, Australian Institute of Quantity Surveyors, Institute of Quantity Surveyors Sri Lanka, and Chartered Institute of Builders were present at the event.
Two Sri Lankan guest artists, Rookantha and Chanraleka, along with local band Shayara gave a musical performance.
Ten founder committee members in Qatar were awarded with mementos and certificates in recog-nition of their service of establishing the society
10 years ago. On behalf of SLQS Qatar, President Susantha Kumarage and General Secretary Lalantha Amarasekera of the incumbent commit-tee thanked all who supported to make the annual event a success.
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Pakistan’s renowned classical and ghazal singer Tina Sani regaled lovers of Urdu music and poetry
with her performance at Intercontinental Hotel (The City) recently.
The event — an exclusive evening of pure music and poetry — was organised by Pakistan Professional Forum Qatar (PPFQ).
Sani, who was performing in Qatar for the first time, opened her reper-toire with Faiz Ahmed Faiz's famous poem Bimar Ko Bewaja Qarrar Aa Jae.
She also presented Parveen Shakir's
ghazal Abb Bhalla Chor Ke and Ahmed Faraz's ghazal Suna Hai Baatoon Se Phool much to the excitement of the audience.
Later, she presented all-time favour-ites of Faiz such as Anokha Ladla, Mujh Se Pehli Si Muhabbat Mere Mehboob Na Maang, Dasht-e-Tanhai and Hum Dehkain Ge Lazim Hai Hum Bhi Dehkain Ge.
Sani offered her apologies for not presenting Allama Iqbal's Shikwa Jawab-e-Shikwa due to time con-straints. “I promise that I will render
it when I come back to Qatar again,” said Sani, who entered the professional world of singing in 1980. In recognition of her valuable contribution to music spanning over nearly three decades, Tina was conferred the highest civil-ian award in Pakistan, the President’s Pride of Performance, in 2004.
Earlier, Malik Muhammad Farooq, charge d'affaires at the Pakisan embassy, praised PPFQ members for organising a cultural programme. Assuring every support to such events by the embassy, Farooq stressed the
need for holding cultural events more frequently.
The acting chairman and president of PPFQ, Adnan Kirmani, thanked Pakistan embassy, Commercialbank and other sponsors for supporting the event. He also highlighted future pro-grammes of the forum, including a free medical camp and a seminar on Islamic finance. PPFQ General Secretary Shabber Ali conducted the programme and rendered his poetry, which was well received by the audience.
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Tina Sani regales audience with classical hits
Tina Sani (left) rendering an old classical hit as the audience listens.
Senior Contract Adviser, Contract Department Senior Contract Adviser, Contract Department of Ashghal, Ahmad Ali Al Ansari, lighting a of Ashghal, Ahmad Ali Al Ansari, lighting a traditional Sri Lankan oil lamp in the presence traditional Sri Lankan oil lamp in the presence of Sri Lankan Ambassador Jayantha Palipana of Sri Lankan Ambassador Jayantha Palipana and other officials.and other officials.
PLUS | THURSDAY 28 NOVEMBER 2013 MARKETPLACE66
Exoda was honored by Alcatel-Lucent with the ‘Special Recognition Award for SMB Business’ during Gitex 2013. This recognition is the result of Exoda’s efforts to drive Alcatel-Lucent’s SMB business. Elie Abi Nader, General Manager, Exoda, commented: “This recognition from Alcatel-Lucent is an excellent motivation for our team and will spur us to achieve more. The award is highly significant in Exoda’s growth to reach even greater heights.”
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Doha Marriott to host Spa Event today
Indulge in a little pampering at the Doha Marriott’s upcoming Spa Event. Doha Marriott’s Spa will
open up today for an evening of guilt-free self-indulgence where guests and visitors will have an opportunity to sample a selection of spa highlights.
“Come along and claim your compli-mentary skin care consultation, or enjoy a refreshing back, neck and shoulder massage. The evening will include a full programme of events, the opportunity to purchase Spa membership at a spe-cial discounted rate, and a full tour of the Spa’s facilities. Additionally, there will be a prize raffle draw giving you the chance to win some amazing gifts,” a hotel press release said.
The Spa team of professional mas-seurs, instructors and specialists will be available throughout the event to answer questions. The event will start at 6pm, with light refreshments avail-able throughout the evening.
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In collaboration with Qatar Diabetes Association, Wyndham Grand Regency Doha recently
celebrated World Diabetes Day, a global event that unites millions of people around the world to raise awareness about diabetes.
To mark this day, celebrated every November 14, the hotel’s lobby was decorated with blue flowers and the hotel facade glowed in blue, a colour that is associated with
the worldwide event and diabetes awareness. In addition, employees and associates from both establish-ments came together wearing a pin representing the World Diabetes Day logo, a blue circle, to express their support for people with dia-betes and those who are working to raise awareness and prevent the spread of the disease.
“At Wyndham Grand Regency Doha, World Diabetes Day is one
of the leading awareness activities that we encourage our employees to participate in through our ‘Count On Me!’ initiative, by which we pledge to be responsive, respectful and deliver great experiences. It is important for us to take action to better understand diabetes and sup-port world initiatives for this noble cause,” said Ayman Lotfy, the hotel’s general manager.
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The World Travel Awards have selected La Cigale Hotel to host their 20th anniversary grand
final ceremony. The event will take place on Saturday, November 30 in Al Wajba ballroom, and will include more than 700 guests, among them ambas-sadors and leading travel, tourism and hospitality professionals.
World Travel Awards Group Senior Vice President Kevin Taylor said: “We are thrilled to take World Travel Awards to Doha, Qatar for the second time, and to have La Cigale Hotel as host is an extra delight for us. Over the years the World Travel Awards win-ners shield has become trusted by the travel industry and leisure and busi-ness travellers as signifying excellence in quality of product and service, and we
are looking forward to the next twenty years.”
Housni El Yaman, Director of Sales and Marketing at La Cigale Hotel, said: “La Cigale Hotel is privileged to host the World Travel Awards Final gala ceremony at its unique Al Wajba ball-room — a venue that has hosted many prestigious events.”
“This was one of the most success-ful years for La Cigale since its launch in 2007. We were presented several awards and we are looking forward to winning additional titles this Saturday during the event,” he concluded.
The event will feature top artists from the Middle East such as Lebanese artist Maya Diab, the Enana dance group and electric violinist Micah.
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La Cigale to host WTA 20th anniversary gala ceremony
Porsche Design and BlackBerry have announced the new, all-touch Porsche Design P’9982 Smartphone from BlackBerry.
The P’9982 is fashioned from high-quality materials and features a customized version of the BlackBerry 10.2 Operating System.
The P’9982, which extends the Porsche Design luxury brand’s range of modern luxury smartphones, features a satin fin-ished frame forged from stainless steel, complemented by a hand-wrapped Italian leather back door.
Distinguishable by its special series of PIN numbers, owners of the P’9982 will
be instantly recognisable in the exclu-sive world of Porsche Design smartphone owners. The smartphone carries Porsche Design’s iconic styling uniquely through the BlackBerry 10 experience to give users an exquisite handset purpose-built to excel at mobile communications, mes-saging and productivity.
“Engineered luxury meets powered performance – what has been true for the first Porsche Design smartphone is even truer for the all-touch P’9882,” said Juergen Gessler, CEO of Porsche Design Group.
“Once again the collaboration with
BlackBerry has led to a device that imple-ments our iconic style credo without com-promises. With the P’9982 we extend our range of modern luxury smartphones and establish ourselves as a market leader in this segment.”
“The new all-touch P’9982 smartphone combines a unique design from an iconic brand with the power of BlackBerry 10,” said Nick Horton, Managing Director of Middle East and North Africa at BlackBerry. “Every aspect of this smart-phone has been purposely designed and built for a powerful premium experience.”
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WHEELS 7PLUS | THURSDAY 28 NOVEMBER 2013
By Jason H Harper
Who said modesty and fun can’t go hand in hand? Mazda’s latest 3 sedan and hatchback start at a humble price of around $17,700, and top out at less
than $30,000 with all the options. (Those $100 all-weather floor mats? Bring ‘em on.)
Jamming over narrow, bumpy Michigan roads, the Mazda 3 doesn’t seem scrappy or harsh, like many compact cars. Rather, it hums along smoothly over ragged ridges of bad pavement, showing off a supple suspension that’s so good as to be unlikely. Mazda has sprinkled engineering magic dust into that charming chassis: it rides as well as cars twice its price.
The 2014 model year is the third generation of the 3, and it’s an especially important car for Mazda, which is a niche player compared to Japan’s behe-moth brands, Toyota and Honda. The 3 is Mazda’s best-selling model in the US. So the all-new car, which went on sale in September, must have a broad appeal. To achieve that, Mazda offers the compact both as a four-door sedan and a five-door hatchback, with a variety of trim levels and two engine choices.
The base sedan has a 2.0-litre four-cylinder, with 155 horsepower, standard with a six-speed manual transmission. That gets 29 miles per gallon around town, and a full 41 on the freeway.
The more expensive models are available with a 2.5-litre four-cylinder with 184 horses and 185 pound-feet of torque. The downside is that, currently, it only comes with a six-speed automatic. The extra power sacrifices some efficiency, for 28 and 37 mpg in the hatchback.
It really is a shame about the transmissions, because the more potent engine would be sweeter if
it were also offered with the manual for maximum driving fun. After all, Mazda has one of the better stick and clutch combos in the business.
Though the company says buyers can expect one eventually, that’s of little help to them today. And the automatic could use a seventh gear, making the shifts smoother and a little less noisy, one of the drawbacks to the otherwise quite refined car. It’s one of the loudest I’ve driven in some time, a combination of racket from the tires, wind and engine.
The good side of the 2.5 litre is it rarely feels underpowered, especially on secondary roads, where it happily wrings its little heart out.
There’s plenty of midrange punch, which is to say it’s easy to surge from 35 to 55 mph. Steering on the car is good, and the Mazda negotiates through both curves and tight spaces with precision. While it isn’t pint sized like a Fiat 500 or Smart, it fits easily into narrow parking spots.
My test car was a Grand Touring hatchback with
a base price of $26,495 and $29,185 as tested. It was painted a flashy black that nicely complimented the gray rims on the 18-inch wheels.
The hatchback has the more captivating of body styles. It’s quirky, with a long, bulbous hood and a cabin placed further aft than one typically finds in a front-wheel-drive car. The sides are shapely, with an interesting interplay of contours. Compared to the last generation, the new look wins hands down.
(The compact segment used to be a barren desert design-wise, but has taken a serious turn for the better with competitors like the Ford Focus and Hyundai Elantra.)
The hatchback has plenty of room. It’s easy to pop luggage or groceries into the hatch, and I spent two hours in the rear seat with minimal complaint. My knees weren’t jammed against the seat backs, nor was my head jack-hammered into the roof liner.
Few buyers will ever buy a Mazda because of the fine qualities of its materials. The new interior design is clean and efficient, with a minimum of button clut-ter. However, you won’t spend much time running your hand over the leather-trimmed seats or plastic.
Plenty of electronic safety equipment is on offer, including blind-spot monitoring with rear cross-traffic alerts which come standard on the upmarket trim levels. There’s also an available lane departure warning and forward collision warning system if you’re into that kind of thing.
The car looks good, even adequately expensive, and doesn’t stint on the technology. But it’s really the overall drivability and ease of use that makes the new 3 as the new potential king of the compact cars. Pop it into sport mode and you may find yourself looking for the long way around to do errands.
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The 2014 Mazda 3 S Grand
Touring hatchback at a glance:Engine: 2.5-litre four-cylinder with 184 horse-power and 185 pound-feet of torque.Transmission: Six-speed automatic.Speed: 0 to 60 mph in about seven seconds.Gas mileage per gallon: 28 city, 37 highway.Price as tested: $29,185 in US.Best features: Good design, peppy engine.Worst feature: Loud.Target buyer: The shopper who wants a compact with some pizazz.
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ice t
o t
he h
ead.
Aft
er t
hat,
Els
a
most
ly h
ides
in h
er r
oom
for f
ear o
f hurti
ng p
eople
, and t
he g
irls
becom
e
est
ranged.
But
on
Els
a’s
coron
ati
on
day,
the
new
queen b
ecom
es
frig
hte
ned —
one
of her t
rig
gers
for s
ponta
neous
ice c
re-
ati
on
— a
nd s
he a
ccid
en
tally f
reeze
s th
e f
jord a
round t
he c
ast
le a
s sh
e s
ends
Arendelle into
an e
ternal w
inte
r. E
lsa
flees
am
id a
ccusa
tion
s of
wit
chcraft
, and t
he m
ajo
rit
y o
f th
e m
ovie
is
spent
wit
h A
nna, w
ho h
as
alw
ays
adored h
er
sist
er,
as
she s
ets
out
to fi
nd t
he q
ueen,
brin
g h
er h
om
e a
nd g
et
her t
o c
ancel
the p
erm
afr
ost
. A
long for t
he r
ide a
re
the b
url
y K
ris
toff
and h
is p
et
rein
deer,
S
ven
, plu
s on
e o
f E
lsa’s
creati
on
s, a
ta
lkin
g s
now
man n
am
ed O
laf.
An
na i
s m
uch m
ore o
f a c
on
tem
-porary
rom
-com
h
eroin
e
than
an
Arie
l-th
e-m
erm
aid
type. S
he’s
clu
msy
, aw
kw
ard a
nd a
bit
of a d
ork
(alt
hough
she d
oes
a m
ean r
obot)
. B
ut,
refr
esh
-in
gly
, sh
e’s
no d
am
sel
in d
istr
ess
, not
even
durin
g th
e fi
lm’s
la
te scen
es
when s
he fi
nds
herse
lf i
n a
desp
erate
si
tuati
on.
Kris
ten
Bell,
who s
hot
to f
am
e a
s
the s
punky d
ete
cti
ve in V
ero
nic
a M
ars
, fe
els
lik
e t
he p
erfe
ct
pic
k t
o v
oic
e s
uch
a characte
r. A
nd she can
sin
g,
too,
alt
hough n
ot
quit
e a
s tr
ansc
endentl
y
as
Broadw
ay s
tar I
din
a M
en
zel, w
ho
voic
es
Els
a a
nd h
as
no t
rouble
hit
ting
the h
igh n
ote
s in
the s
om
eti
mes
cheesy
, alw
ays
soarin
g s
oundtr
ack. R
isin
g s
tar
Josh
Gad a
lso d
oes
mem
orable
voic
e
work
as
Ola
f, t
he b
rain
less
rube o
f a
snow
man
who’s
alw
ays
wan
ted t
o g
o
to t
he b
each.
The m
ovie
, w
hile d
azz
ling t
o look a
t,
may b
e a
lit
tle long for s
om
e s
mall c
hil-
dren. B
ut
its
surpris
ing a
nd p
oig
nant
endin
g, w
hic
h s
ubverts
so m
any f
air
y
tale
ste
reoty
pes,
feels
lik
e i
t can
cels
out
the m
ovie
’s s
mall fl
aw
s and d
rag-
gin
g m
om
en
ts.
Fro
zen m
ay b
e a
nod
to t
he p
leasu
res
of
vin
tage D
isney a
nd
old
fair
y t
ale
s, b
ut
there’s
noth
ing o
ut-
date
d a
bout
it.
WP
-Blo
om
ber
g
HO
LLY
WO
OD
NE
WS
Pri
yanka,
Dee
pik
a co
me
toget
her
for
K
offe
e w
ith
Kar
an
Priy
anka C
hopra a
nd D
eepik
a P
adukone s
hot
for K
aran J
ohar’s
talk
show
K
off
ee W
ith
Ka
ran r
ecentl
y. P
riy
anka t
weete
d a
pic
ture o
f th
e t
hree-
som
e t
ogeth
er a
nd w
rote
: “A
nd it’s
wrap o
n s
om
e f
abulo
us
Koff
ee... T
hank
you D
eepik
a P
adukone for h
avin
g m
y b
ack a
nd K
aran J
ohar for h
avin
g u
s.”
The f
ourth
seaso
n o
f th
e c
hat
show
goes
on a
ir o
n D
ecem
ber 1
on S
tar
Worl
d. S
uperst
ar S
alm
an K
han w
ill
featu
re i
n t
he o
penin
g e
pis
ode a
long
wit
h h
is fath
er S
alim
Khan. It
would
be S
alm
an’s
first
appearance o
n K
off
ee
wit
h K
ara
n s
ince it
began in 2
004.
Pra
bhudhev
a’s
dan
ce m
esm
eris
es S
RK
Prabhudheva i
s sa
id t
o h
ave g
rooved
so w
ell f
or f
orth
com
ing B
ollyw
ood
film
Ha
pp
y N
ew
Yea
r th
at
the fi
lm’s
lead
acto
r S
hah R
ukh K
han is
mesm
eris
ed b
y
the m
ult
i-fa
cete
d s
tar’s
magic
al m
oves.
“Too m
uch f
un
to s
ee P
rabhudheva
sir m
ove o
n t
he d
ance fl
oor.
Thank y
ou
for lig
hti
ng u
p H
ap
py
New
Yea
r...lo
ve a
nd
resp
ect
sir,”
Shah R
ukh, w
ho p
lays
a k
ey
role
in t
he fi
lm, post
ed o
n T
wit
ter.
Ha
pp
y N
ew
Yea
r als
o s
tars
Abhis
hek
Bach
ch
an
, B
om
an
Ir
an
i an
d D
eepik
a
Padukone. T
he fi
lm is
dir
ecte
d b
y F
arah
Khan.
Sw
ift
finds
Pri
nce
W
illi
am ‘v
ery
funny’
Sin
ger T
aylo
r S
wif
t consi
ders
her-
self
lu
cky th
at
sh
e got
to m
eet
Prin
ce W
illiam
an
d s
ays
he i
s very
fun
ny.
“He w
as very fu
nny.
I w
as
really h
appy h
e w
as
funny,
” conta
ct-
music
.com
quote
d S
wif
t as sayin
g.
Th
e 23-y
ear-o
ld sin
ger perfo
rm
ed
at
the a
nnual
Win
ter W
hit
es G
ala
at
Kensi
ngto
n P
ala
ce i
n a
id o
f youth
hom
ele
ssness
charit
y C
entr
epoin
t.W
illi
am
an
d
his
w
ife,
Duch
ess
Cath
erin
e, are t
he c
urrent
Patr
on o
f C
en
trepoin
t, t
he l
eadin
g c
harit
y i
n
Brit
ain
supporti
ng h
om
ele
ss y
oun
g
people
aged
16-25
years.
Wil
liam
att
ended t
he e
vent
solo
as
Cath
erin
e
opte
d t
o s
tay a
t hom
e t
o m
ind t
heir
fo
ur-m
onth
-old
son, P
rin
ce G
eorge.
The 3
3-y
ear-o
ld r
oyal jo
ined S
wif
t on s
tage f
or a
n im
prom
ptu
perfo
rm
-ance w
ith J
on B
on J
ovi at
the e
vent.
Upon a
rriv
ing a
t th
e g
ala
, S
wif
t sa
id: “I
am
abso
lute
ly e
xcit
ed. I
don’t
thin
k I
have e
ver p
layed a
t a p
ala
ce b
efo
re s
o it
is r
eally w
onderfu
l. I
t’s
really w
ondrous,
I t
hin
k t
hey h
ave d
one a
n a
mazi
ng
job o
f putt
ing t
his
togeth
er.”
The c
harit
y o
rganis
ati
on p
rovid
es
a r
ange o
f accom
modati
on a
nd a
ddit
ional su
pport
in h
ealt
h, educati
on a
nd lif
e s
kills
.
Rob
bie
wor
ries
abou
t dau
ghte
r in
son
g
Brit
ish s
inger R
obbie
William
s, w
hose
daughte
r insp
ires
his
lif
e g
reatl
y,
says
his
late
st s
ingle
Go G
en
tle t
alk
s about
his
worrie
s fo
r h
is c
hild.
His
daughte
r T
heodora R
ose
is
one-y
ear-o
ld a
nd s
he i
s aff
ecti
onate
ly
know
n a
s T
eddy. T
his
is
his
first
child w
ith w
ife a
nd a
ctr
ess
Ayda F
ield
, reports
conta
ctm
usi
c.c
om
.D
urin
g a
n i
nte
rvie
w w
ith b
iographer a
nd j
ourn
alist
Chris
Heath
on
F
acebook,
he s
aid
: “(
The t
rack i
s about
bein
g)
worrie
d s
he m
ight
meet
som
eone lik
e m
e —
and w
hat
she s
hould
do if
she d
oes.
”“M
y d
aughte
r i
nsp
ires
my l
ife g
reatl
y. T
here u
sed t
o b
e a
huge h
ole
in
my l
ife t
hat
I w
rote
many a
lbum
s about.
I d
idn’t
realise
it
was
a w
ife a
nd
daughte
r s
haped h
ole
, th
ey h
ave p
lugged t
hat
gap.”
“Everyth
ing I
do,
I do f
or t
hem
now
. W
hen
daddy g
oes
to w
ork,
it’s
daddy g
oin
g t
o w
ork
, not
Rob g
oin
g t
o w
ork
. I
feel
like t
here’s
a p
urpose
to
everyth
ing.”
Wit
h h
is 4
0th
bir
thday just
around t
he c
orner,
William
s sa
ys
he’s
enjo
y-
ing lif
e a
nd h
as
no p
lans
to r
eti
re.
“I w
ant
to j
ust
go f
or a
s lo
ng a
s I
can a
nd b
e a
s rele
vant
as
I can a
nd
try a
nd m
ake r
ecords
that
touch p
eople
’s h
earts
and b
ecom
e t
he f
abric
s of
their
liv
es.
That’s
my g
oal,”
he s
aid
.
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en: D
isne
y m
akes
old
-sch
ool c
ool
By
Ca
rlo
s R
ua
no
an
d D
an
iel R
uiz
Th
ey
have
recorded
in
Am
eric
a a
nd frontm
an A
lex
Turner liv
es in L
os A
ngele
s
and a
ffects
an E
lvis
look in
their
late
st
sta
ge s
how
, but
the A
rcti
c
Monkeys r
em
ain
a B
rit
ish r
ock-a
nd-
roll p
henom
enon.
Non
e o
f th
e f
our m
em
bers —
all
from
Sheffi
eld
in n
orth
ern E
ngla
nd
is even
30,
but they alr
eady have
five a
lbum
s u
nder t
heir
belt
s a
fter
surfin
g an
In
tern
et-built fa
n base
to s
tardom
— o
ne o
f th
e fi
rst
rock
groups t
o d
o s
o.
On s
tage o
n t
heir
current
tour t
o p
ro-
mote
new
alb
um
“A
M”,
Turner s
ports
an
Elv
is P
resl
ey-s
tyle
pom
padour a
nd
sw
ivels
h
is h
ips.
Fam
ed fo
r vocals
in
flecte
d w
ith a
York
shir
e a
ccent,
his
sp
oken v
oic
e is
these
days
overl
aid
by
a C
alifo
rnia
draw
l.W
hile o
ther r
ock g
roups
of
their
gen
erati
on
h
ave m
orph
ed in
to m
ore
ele
ctr
on
ic o
r s
yn
thesi
zed s
oun
d -
fol-
low
ing t
he d
an
ce-fl
oor t
ren
ds o
f th
e
day -
the A
rcti
c M
onkeys
have g
one t
he
oth
er w
ay,
wit
h m
ore d
isto
rte
d g
uit
ar,
pow
erfu
l bass
lin
es
and M
att
Held
ers’
s si
gnatu
re p
ercuss
ion.
They h
ave c
onso
lidate
d t
heir
form
ula
on t
heir
late
st a
lbum
— w
hic
h r
anges
from
ballads
to p
sychedelic t
hem
es
—
and r
etu
rned t
o t
he t
op o
f th
e B
rit
ish
charts
.T
urner a
nd H
eld
ers
spoke in M
adrid
befo
re a sh
ow
at
the P
ala
cio
de lo
s
Deporte
s arena n
ear t
he b
egin
nin
g o
f a w
orl
d t
our t
hat
will la
st u
nti
l th
e m
id-
dle
of
next
year.
How
did
you e
scape f
rom
th
e
syn
th-f
ever w
e h
ad a
few
years
ago? Turn
er:
Oh, sy
nth
-epid
em
ic. I
did
n’t
know
it
was
goin
g o
n a
ctu
ally. W
e just
keep t
akin
g t
he t
able
ts, I
suppose
, drin
k
ple
nty
of
wate
r... I
t se
em
s like w
hen a
guit
ar b
and g
et
the s
ynth
s, i
t’s
like i
t’s
not
enough. T
hat’s
not
som
eth
ing t
hat
was
ever o
n o
ur a
gen
da.
But
I’m
not
goin
g t
o r
ule
it
out,
I’v
e g
ot
noth
ing
again
st.
You s
eem
to h
ave
str
uck
a b
ala
nce
bet
wee
n m
usi
cal
indep
enden
ce a
nd
com
mer
cial
succ
ess.
Does
it
have
so
met
hin
g to
do
wit
h b
eing
on a
mid
-si
zed l
abel
?T
urn
er:
Perhaps
it h
as
som
eth
ing
to d
o w
ith t
hat.
Lauren
ce B
ell,
from
D
om
ino,
who o
wn
s th
e c
om
pany,
was
who c
am
e t
o s
ign u
s in
the fi
rst
pla
ce.
He a
llow
ed u
s to
try d
iffe
ren
t th
ings
an
d .
.. I
thin
k w
ork
ing w
ith h
im h
elp
us
to a
chie
ve t
hat
bala
nce y
ou a
re t
alk
-in
g a
bout.
But
you f
eel
abso
lute
ly f
ree?
Turn
er:
I suppose creati
vely
, yes.
I m
ean
, I
will
ask
for h
is o
pin
ion
, it
’s
welc
om
e.
It’s
not
a s
ituati
on
lik
e y
ou
hear a
bout
wit
h a
label guy in t
he s
tudio
sa
yin
g, “I
was
lookin
g f
or t
his
or t
hat.”
You s
eem
to h
ave
a l
ot
of
resp
ect
for
your
old
songs
. H
ow
do y
ou f
eel
today
when
you’r
e pla
yin
g “
Ted
dy
Pic
ker
” or
“Danci
ng
Shoes
”?
Turn
er:
Som
e a
re m
ore e
njo
yable
th
at
oth
ers.
Som
eti
mes
it’s
tough t
o g
et
through o
ne o
f th
e o
ld o
nes
... Y
ou k
now
, you d
on’t
feel like t
hat
anym
ore. W
hen
you t
ell t
he s
am
e j
oke 6
00 t
imes,
you
won’t
hear w
hat
it is
anym
ore, but
then
som
eti
mes
like t
he 6
01s
t ti
me y
ou m
ight
see s
om
eth
ing in it
you d
idn’t
befo
re.
Do
you t
hin
k p
layi
ng
in A
mer
ica is
the
gate
way
to inte
rnati
onal su
cces
s?T
urn
er:
I don
’t k
now
because I
thin
k w
e’r
e k
ind o
f rela
tively
success
-fu
l in
tern
ati
on
ally,
you k
now
, to
nig
ht
we’r
e p
layin
g in t
his
huge p
lace a
nd t
he
sam
e t
om
orrow
.
You w
ent
to r
ecord
som
e of
your
alb
um
s in
the
Sta
tes?
Turn
er:
Orig
inally it
was
just
gett
ing
us
far a
way f
rom
this
kin
d o
f com
fort-
able
envir
on
men
t or w
hate
ver i
t w
as,
so
me v
ersi
on o
f ‘h
om
e’. T
he fi
rst
we d
id
over t
here w
as
the t
hir
d a
lbum
and a
t th
at
poin
t w
e r
eally w
ante
d t
o t
ear u
p
the r
ule
book a
nd w
ork
wit
h n
ew
people
. S
o w
e w
ent
to (
Queens
of th
e S
tone A
ge
frontm
an)
Josh
Hom
me’s
stu
dio
in t
he
dese
rt
and m
ade t
hat
“Hum
bug”
record
and t
hat
was
a m
ass
ive t
urnin
g p
oin
t fo
r t
he g
roup. I
thin
k w
e n
eeded t
o g
o
there a
nd f
resh
en u
p o
ur i
deas.
It
was
like if th
is b
and is
goin
g t
o c
onti
nue y
ou
need t
o m
ove f
orw
ard.
How
many
new
guit
ar
ped
als
and
stuff
did
Josh
ua s
how
you?
Hel
der
s: A
lot
of
machin
es,
a l
ot
of
pedals
. F
rom
what
I sa
w t
here w
as
a
lot
there.
Turn
er:
On t
he r
ecord w
e u
sed a
lot
from
his
collecti
on
. H
e h
as
got
som
e
tric
ks,
yeah.
I th
ink w
e f
ound a
lot
of
the h
and m
oves
ourse
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11FITNESS / HEALTH PLUS | THURSDAY 28 NOVEMBER 2013
By Sydney Trent
If you’re going to start standing up at your desk at work, don’t kid yourself: You’re going to attract attention. Fortunately, I have my co-worker Monica.
When we started this little experiment six months ago, we found ourselves fielding lots of questions.”Why are you standing?” some pass-ing writer or editor would stop and ask us, as we stood like sentries along one of the main newsroom thoroughfares.
“Because we don’t want to die!” Monica would answer dramatically. What did I need to add after that?
The truth is, I wasn’t worried about dying when I began conniving to get a stand-up desk. Instead, I might label it fear of the blahs.
Over the years, I had concluded that sitting all day made me sluggish, less focused. On top of that, my neck and shoulders were routinely tight, and sometimes the pain interfered with my sleep. A company nurse adjusted my workstation more than once, but inevitably I’d begin unconsciously shifting myself out of correct posture the deeper I sank into my editing zone. I was vaguely aware of the trend toward standing in the workplace, but at the time The Post didn’t offer the option.
Yet the more I read about the benefits of stand-ing at work — a lower risk of obesity, cancer and death and as well as a boost in mood and alertness — the more I wanted a stand-up desk. I learned that even regular exercise might not protect me from the damaging effects of sitting too much. To top it off, someone my weight could burn about 310 more calories a day just by standing at work.
I called the company nurse again and asked whether there was any way I could finagle a stand-up desk. It turned out none were available. But eventually, she came to visit me at my sitting desk. She raised the (helpfully, motorised) desk to its height limit and measured away. In barely a week’s time, she returned with custom-made wooden boxes, painted black, to raise my keyboard and mouse pads so I could type in the ergonomically correct position when standing. To sit, I’d have to motor the desk down about four or five inches, remove the box under the keyboard and tilt the monitor screens down slightly.
Finally, I stood at my jury-rigged desk for the first time, excited to see what difference it made, but not without some trepidation. How long, I asked myself, would I be able to hack standing up?
The answer, as it turned out, was “Not so long.” I sacrificed my love of high-heeled boots, but even in my sensible heels and with short periods of sit-ting at meetings or strolling to lunch or to chat at a reporters’ desk, my feet began to ache before the day was half over. The newsroom floor of thin carpet over concrete was just too hard. I considered keeping more-cushioned shoes in my file cabinet to get me through the afternoon, but vanity got in the way. By around 2, after about 3 1/2 to four hours of standing, I plopped into my chair for the rest of the day. (Warning: If you are among the first to stand in a sitting office, your co-workers may think you are breaking the rules if you sit. Our office manager even jokingly threatened to remove my chair.)
I was determined not to surrender, and after a few weeks I noticed I did feel more energised. Standing up, it seemed, was priming my brain for action even if it was killing my feet. I went on Amazon, ordered a mat filled with soft gel — of the sort you use for standing to wash dishes — and pretty soon I could go till about 5pm without sitting.
But that’s just when things get really busy in a newsroom. So I’d let myself sit, motoring down my desk, removing the keyboard box and adjusting the screens. It truly was a lot of work to sit now. Eventually, I brought an adjustable plastic stool from home, pulling it out from under my desk when sitting time arrived. I used my cushy old desk chair when I needed to eat lunch at my desk. I avoided wearing my favourite high-heeled boots in the winter.
When the weather was warm, I would sometimes kick off my shoes and stand barefoot on my gel mat; it felt so good, it might have been sand on the beach. In fact, I was enjoying standing at work so much that even when I worked from home, I found myself yearning for a stand-up desk.
Monica had maintained her stand-up practice, too, and on the occasions we’d be standing together, we’d joke to passersby that we were protecting the men sitting around us. Every now and then, some unschooled colleague would ask why we were stand-ing, and I’d defer. “Because we don’t want to d-i-i-e-e!” Monica would proclaim, and everyone would laugh. Unlike me, though, Monica allowed herself to sit more, especially on days when she was flaunting her stylish high-heeled boots.
And then about six weeks ago, I began to feel a fleeting numbness in the toes of my right foot. My lower calf felt alternatingly pricked and uncom-fortably warm. As I did a Web search for possi-ble causes, my imagination took flight. Did I have deep vein thrombosis? Multiple sclerosis? A tumour pressing on my spine?
I made an appointment with my doctor. He checked the blood pressure in my ankle and my upper arm. It was roughly equal, meaning periph-eral arterial disease was unlikely. He asked a bunch of questions about my personal and family health history. Then, still hunched on his stool, he looked me in the eye.
Do you feel fatigued? Not at all.Any shortness of breath? Nope.The questions continued.The doctor’s conclusion: I was standing too
much at work. Those uncomfortable sensations were probably a result of hyperextending my knee, which could put too much pressure on the fibular nerve, a branch of the sciatic nerve, which starts behind the knee and runs alongside the fibula, or calf bone. Ironically, this can also occur when you cross your legs a lot while sitting.
As it turns out, you must check your posture constantly and move around, whether you sit or stand at work, because standing all day can be as bad as prolonged sitting. A 2005 longitudinal study in Denmark found that the incidence of hospitalisa-tions due to varicose veins was higher among those who stand or walk at least 75 percent of their time at work. The risk of hardening of the arteries was dramatically greater as well, according to a 2000 study conducted by researchers at the University of California at Berkeley.
Of course, nurses and factory workers have known this for some time, but it seems to be largely forgotten in the stand-up-desk trend.
So this is a messy ending. I can’t urge you simply to “Stand and stave off premature death!” I can’t tell you you’ll most definitely feel great if you do. If you sit all day, you might even feel vindicated.
As for me, my doctor’s diagnosis of my leg pains did not prompt me to dismantle my stand-up desk. Now I follow my body’s cues. When I begin to feel lethargic or my neck or shoulders bother me, I shift
to standing, and almost immediately my muscles relax and I feel more energised. If my legs or feet later begin to ache, I’ll take the experts’ advice and elevate one foot or plop into my chair. And I try to move a lot more in general — doing shoulder rolls, shaking out my limbs, walking to chat instead of e-mailing, or visiting the water fountain down the hall.
And like my fellow sentry Monica, when I want to wear high-heeled boots, I’ll sit most of the day if I feel like it — guilt-free.
WP-Bloomberg
A stand-up desk has perils
TECHNOLOGYPLUS | THURSDAY 28 NOVEMBER 201312
By Irene Klotz
The entry of Space Exploration Technologies into the business of launching commer-cial satellites was delayed on Monday by technical glitch that sidelined the firm’s
Falcon 9 rocket.Launch of the rocket, which will carry a $100m
communications satellite owned by Luxembourg-based SES SA , was rescheduled for no earlier than Thursday, Falcon 9 product manager John Insprucker said in a launch webcast.
Previous SES satellites were launched primarily aboard Russian Proton and European Ariane rock-ets, which cost far more than the approximately $55m the company is paying for its ride on SpaceX’s Falcon booster, Martin Halliwell, chief technology officer of SES, told reporters on Sunday in Cocoa Beach, Florida.
He would not say exactly how much SpaceX undercut the competition but did note that SES received a bit of a discount by agreeing to fly on Falcon 9’s first mission to the high altitudes that communication satellites require.
The rocket had been slated to blast off from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station at 5:37 p.m. EST (2237 GMT) on Monday, but delays, including a problem that cropped up less than four minutes before a final attempt to lift off, caused the mission to miss its 66-minute launch window. That prompted offi-cials to call off the launch attempt.
SpaceX has successfully flown its Falcon 9 rocket six times previously, including on September 29, when it test-launched an upgraded Falcon 9, the model that was slated for launch on Monday.
Three SpaceX rockets carried cargo capsules for Nasa to the International Space Station, a $100bn research complex that flies about 250 miles (about 400km) above Earth. The first two Falcon 9 mission were test flights.
The company needs three successful launches of its upgraded Falcon rocket before it will be eligible to compete to carry the US military’s largest and most expensive satellites, a market now monopo-lized by United Launch Alliance, a partnership of Boeing and Lockheed Martin.
Privately held SpaceX is aiming for a much higher altitude with the SES launch, its first stab at breaking into a global satellite industry worth nearly $190bn a year.
The satellite, known as SES-8, is expected to be positioned in an elliptical orbit that reaches more than 50,000 miles (80,000 km) from Earth, about a quarter of the way to the moon.
That altitude requires less fuel for SES-8 to fly itself into its 22,369-mile (36,000-km) high opera-tional orbit, thereby extending its service life.
SES has options for three more Falcon flights, including one on the firm’s heavy-lift rocket that is under development and expected to debut next year.
SpaceX’s launch manifest includes nearly 50 other launches, worth about $4 billion. About 75 percent of the flights are for commercial customers.
“Our prices are the most competitive of any in the world,” said Elon Musk, SpaceX’s founder and chief executive. “We will force other rocket com-panies to either develop new technology that’s a lot better or they have to exit the launch market.”
SES’s Halliwell said SpaceX competitors were “shaking in their shoes.”
“There are a lot of people who hope that SpaceX is going to fail,” he said. “This is really rocking the industry.”
The global satellite industry had revenues of nearly $190bn in 2012, including nearly $90bn from television services alone, the Satellite Industry Association trade group reported in October. The US share of the market is 45 percent, the report said.
Reuters
By Natasha Baker
Home owners worried about security while they are at work or on vacation have a range of new smartphone apps
to help them remotely monitor their property and to notify them if there is a problem.
In the United States in 2012 there were more than 2 million burglaries, or about one every 15 seconds, according to government crime figures.
Large established companies and startups are offering apps that con-nect remotely to monitoring systems to help consumers keep their homes and property secure.
Viper Connect, for iPhone and Android, is an app that monitors homes and cars. The company supplies a do-it-yourself security system with motion sensors and video cameras, which can be placed around the home, and watched remotely.
“Traditionally unless a home had already been wired for security and automation, it was difficult and expen-sive for people to get the advantage of home security,” said James Turner, vice president of product development at Viper, which is owned by Directed Electronics, in Vista, California,
Thanks to wireless devices and
mobile apps that can control them, it is much easier, he said.
With the Viper Connect app home-owners can turn the security on or off remotely. If there is any motion in the home it sends a notification to the users. For an extra fee, real-time video feeds from cameras placed around the home can also be viewed.
The app can monitor up to 64 devices, including sirens, sensors and as many as eight cameras.
“Normally, when you’re a consider-ing home security system, you tend to think where are the areas in my home susceptible to break-in,” Turner said.
The starter kit, which includes two sensors, costs $229.99. Additional accessories are also available to con-trol lighting, thermostats and garage doors. The app is free but premium services, such as access to video feeds, costs $9.99 each month.
For $199, iSmart Alarm, connects to a similar system and lets users monitor their system without signing on for a monthly plan. The Oplink app, which costs $149, requires a monthly package that starts at $9.99.
AT&T also has a security app, AT&T Digital Life, for iPhone, Android and Windows Phone. Its basic package starts at $29.99 a month plus a $149.99 fee for equipment and installation. Users can monitor their
homes and remotely unlock doors to let someone in.
Most security systems will notify the homeowners, while others like AT&T Digital Life will call the police if there is a break-in.
Smartphone owners looking for a cheaper solution can turn to apps
such as Presence, a free app that lets users turn an old iOS device into a security camera that can be viewed remotely.
“It’s an emerging market and I think it will catch on rapidly in the next two to five years,” Turner said about secu-rity apps. Reuters
Apps give homeowners smart-home security
SpaceX delaysfirst commercial satellite launch
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ALL IN THE MIND Can you find the hidden words? They may be horizontal,vertical, diagonal, forwards or backwards.
BEFOG, BLOCK, BROWSE, BURY, CAMOUFLAGE, CONCEAL,DISGUISE, DREDGE, ENCLOSE, ENFOLD, ENQUIRE, ENSHROUD, ENVELOP, EXAMINE, EXPLORE, GATHER, HIDE, HUNT, INVESTIGATE, LOOK, OBFUSCATE, OBLITERATE, OBSCURE, PROBE, PURSUE, QUEST, SCAN, SCOUR, SEARCH, SECRETE, SEEK, SHIELD, STRIVE, SURF, VEIL, WRAP..
LEARN ARABIC
Baby Blues by Jerry Scott and Rick Kirkman
Zits by Dennis Young and Denis Lebrun
Hagar The Horrible by Chris Browne
With the Clothes Broadsuits Salesman
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Linen Kattan
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Give me three meters of this cloth
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Where is the �nal price of this thing?
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PLUS | THURSDAY 28 NOVEMBER 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
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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 Rainbow event
10 Given orally, at law
15 Maureen of “Tarzan the Ape Man”
16 Russian princess who was Nicholas II’s only niece
17 One of a chain owned by Wyndham
18 Platte River natives
19 “Unfaithful” Oscar nominee
20 See 26-Across
21 “Come on down!” announcer
22 Ode title opener
23 Receipt to redeem a credit
24 Place of imprisonment in book and film
26 With 20-Across, Conan’s domain
27 Worried about, in slang
32 What repeats in solemn hymns but isn’t in hymnals?
34 One who snaps
35 First-ever
36 “Indeed, mate”
38 Shaking
39 Pianist Gilels
40 Prepare for a long drive
42 Falls off
44 Maxwell rival
45 “The strain seemed doubly dear, / Yet ___ sweet”: Wordsworth
50 Butler who played Grace Kelly
51 Setting for the swing set?
53 Thor’s group
54 She told Willy Wonka “Loompaland? There’s no such place”
55 Signs of spring
56 Clear thinker’s asset
57 American tribe that lent its name to a state
58 Non-profit concerns?
DOWN
1 Monkey launched into space in 1958
2 Repeated cry from Mercutio in “Romeo and Juliet”
3 Arizona natives
4 City whose name is Spanish for “flat”
5 Mayflower man
6 100 fils
7 Winged it?
8 Activia maker
9 Standard sudoku groupings, e.g.
10 No-spin particles
11 It includes the extradition clause
12 It’s between Laredo and Nuevo Laredo
13 Performance with nearly perfect pitch?
14 What a broke person is down to
24 Feeling no physical attraction?
25 Prepare to fire into the sky
27 Kind of earring requiring twisting
28 1919–33, in German history
29 Pre-takeoff command
30 One side in the Bay Bridge Series rivalry
31 Southeast Asian observance
33 Medieval love poem
37 Mae West reputedly said this “is good to find”
38 Military hut
41 Aspartame developer
43 Tiny groove
45 Ensure
46 Sounds that make frogs disappear?
47 “Jezebel” star
48 Coeur d’___
49 They go down when it’s cold
52 ___-C
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
S C O T P E C K S S O BT H R E E F O R O N E A R IR A I N B O W R O O M D O GI R O N A G E T I S S U EA L L E Y R U S S C O R AT I E R P O R E O I N K SE E S D O U B L E B O G E Y
M O R T A L S I NS T R U C K A N O T E C M DC H E S S G I N S C A A NY E T I S E V E S O R T AT R I C K Y S I T S O U TH A N I N T H E F U T U R EE P A S T E A L S B A S E SD Y E S H E L F R E S T
How to play Kakuro:The kakuro grid, unlike in sudoku, can be of any size. It has rows and columns, and dark cells like in a crossword. And, just like in a crossword, some of the dark cells will contain numbers. Some cells will contain two numbers.However, in a crossword the numbers reference clues. In a kakuro, the numbers are all you get! They denote the total of the digits in the row or column referenced by the number.Within each collection of cells - called a run
- any of the numbers 1 to 9 may be used but, like sudoku, each number may only be used once.
YESTERDAY’S ANSWER
14
EASY SUDOKUCartoon Arts International / The New York Times Syndicate
Easy Sudoku PuzzlesPlace a digit from 1 to 9 in each empty cell so everyrow, every column and every 3x3 box contains allthe digits 1 to 9.
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CINEMA / TV LISTINGS 15
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15:30 Futball Mundial
16:00 Uefa
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Olympiakos
18:00 Uefa Europa
League: Shaktar
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20:00 Transworld
Sport
21:00 Uefa Europa
League:
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Apollon
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League: Odessa
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08:00 News
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10:30 Inside Story
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17:30 English Premier
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18:15 English Premier
League Profile:
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18:30 English Premier
League Football
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League: Tromso
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And Swansea V
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13:00 Do Dil Bandhe
Ek Dori Se
13:30 Ek Mutthi
Aasmaan
16:00 Khelti Hai Zindagi
Aankh Micholi
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Ek Dori Se
20:30 Sapne Suhane
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22:30 Silver Screen
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13:00 A.N.T. Farm
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15:25 Gravity Falls
20:50 Good Luck
Charlie
21:15 Gravity Falls
21:40 Shake It Up
22:00 Austin And Ally
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23:10 Wizards Of
Waverly Place
10:00 Mr. Destiny
12:00 Who Framed
Roger Rabbit
14:00 Elf
16:00 Mr. Destiny
18:00 Celtic Pride
20:00 High School
22:00 Under New
Management
13:15 Mythbusters
14:05 Border Security
14:30 Storage
Hunters
17:00 Ultimate
Survival
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19:30 American Guns
20:45 Property Wars
21:10 How Do They
Do It?
21:35 How It's Made
22:00 Sons Of Guns
22:50 Amish Mafia
23:40 Inside The
Gangsters'
Code
13:20 Call Of The
Wildman
14:45 Biggest And
Baddest
16:30 My Cat From Hell
17:30 Most Extreme
19:20 Growing Up...
21:10 North America
22:35 Cheetah
Kingdom
23:00 Swimming
With Monsters:
Steve
11:00 Five
13:00 Stealing
Paradise
15:00 The Odd Life
Of Timothy
Green
16:45 The Big Year
18:30 Skyfall
21:00 Warm Bodies
23:00 Hansel &
Gretel: Witch
Hunters
13:00 Flushed Away
16:00 The Apple &
The Worm
18:00 American Girl:
McKenna Shoots
For The Stars
20:00 Dr. Seuss' The
Lorax
22:00 Krazzy Planet
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Bullet Raja (2D/Hindi) – 7.15pm
Parkland (2D/Mystery) – 9.45pm
The Frozen Ground (2D/Crime) – 11.30pm
2Wadjda (2D/Arabic) – 3.00 & 7.00pm
Carrie (2D/Horror) – 5.00, 9.15 & 11.15pm
3
Delivery Man (2D/Comedy) – 2.30, 8.30 & 11.00pm
The Frozen Ground (2D/Crime) – 4.30pm
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LANDMARK
1
Bullet Raja (2D/Hindi) – 2.30pm
Naveena Saraswathi (2D/Tamil) – 5.15pm
Geethaanjali (2D/Malayalam) – 8.00pm
The Frozen Ground (2D/Crime) – 11.00pm
2Wadjda (2D/Arabic) – 2.30 & 4.30pm
Carrie (2D/Horror) – 6.30, 8.30 & 11.00pm
3
Delivery Man (2D/Comedy) – 3.00, 9.15 & 11.15pm
Ongbak 3 (2D/Action) – 5.00pm
Parkland (2D/Mystery) – 7.00pm
ROYAL
PLAZA
1
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Naveena Saraswathi (2D/Tamil) – 4.30pm
Geethaanjali (2D/Malayalam) – 7.00pm
Carrie (2D/Horror) – 9.45pm
The Frozen Ground (2D/Crime) – 11.30pm
2
Wadjda (2D/Arabic) – 2.30 & 4.30pm
Carrie (2D/Horror) – 6.30 & 11.00pm
The Frozen Ground (2D/Crime) – 8.30pm
3
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Delivery Man (2D/Comedy) – 5.00, 9.15 & 11.15pm
Parkland (2D/Mystery) – 7.00pm
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PLUS | THURSDAY 28 NOVEMBER 2013 POTPOURRI16
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IN FOCUS
Fath Al Kheir sailing off on a 27-day voyage across the GCC.
by Cheryl Dolan
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MEDIA SCAN A summary ofissues of the daydiscussed by the Qatari communityin the media.
Dr Khalid Kamal Naji, Associate Vice President for Administration (Facilities & Information Technology)
H e did his BSc in Civil Engineering from Qatar University and MSc in Civil Engineering from University of Texas-
Austin. He completed PhD in Civil Engineering from University of Florida. He had worked as Chairman of Civil Engineering, Assistant Director, Office of Institutional Planning & Development, Director, Office of the Executive Management Committee. He is the President of the PMI- Arabian Gulf Chapter Branch in Qatar since 2009. He was the founder and CEO of Al Alameia Engineering Consultants (2000-2005). He is a Remote Controlled Radio Jet Models Flying enthusiast. He won first prize in Gulf Model RC Air Racing in 2002.
Who’s who
• Some people have demanded that the
Supreme Education Council lay down
rules and impose restrictions on fee hikes
by private schools. Terms and conditions for
increasing tuition and other fees should be
very clear and adhered to.
• Some citizens and members of the Central
Municipal Council have urged the health
authorities to equip all medical facilities in
the country to treat coronavirus infections
and other communicable diseases. So far
eight cases of coronavirus infection have
been detected in the country and three of
the patients have died.
• The traffic department has been urged to
include behavioural tests in driving tests
to assess drivers’ reaction to difficult
situations, similar to such tests in Europe.
This is needed as some drivers now
routinely misbehave and do not follow the
ethical rules of driving.
• Some people have demanded that
the authorities ban a children’s game
available in the local market that poses
a risk to their health. The game involves
small magnetic balls that are used to
create different shapes, but the children
can swallow the balls, which can cause
suffocation and stomach problems, as
reported by a specialist at Hamad Medical
Corporation.
• Managers of manpower recruiting agencies
have complained about procedures at the
Indonesian embassy in Doha, saying they are
pushing up the cost of recruiting housemaids,
because of which many agencies are closing,
while others are exploiting the situation and
increasing their fees.
• Some citizens have demanded that the
authorities transport food subsidised by the
government in covered trucks to protect it
from the vagaries of the weather.
• There is discussion in the social media
about studies that found that 30 to 40
percent of divorces in Qatar are related to
financial matters.
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Jack and the BeanstalkWhen: Nov 28 - 7pm; Nov 29 - 2.30pm & 7pm; Nov 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
Art Gallery by Morilza RamosWhen: Till December 1; 10am-10pm Where: Katara Gallery 1 - Bldg 18 What: This collection presented by G-Interiors, brings the original works of Brazilian artist Morilza Ramos to Qatar, where her authentic and gracefully painted panels will be presented for the first time in Doha. Inspired by contemporary and classical themes, Ramos creates artwork that simply adds a touch of value to any environment. Free Entry
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