26 FEATURE
THE PRESS AND JOURNAL
Wednesday, February 11, 2015
People
BY STEPHEN WALSH
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Sophie Niven, far left, has made many friends on her travels as
an aid worker
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must contain a digit: a two-cell
block contains the digits 1 and 2, a
three-cell block contains the digits
1, 2 and 3; and so on. The same
digit must not appear in
neighbouring cells, not even
diagonally.
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EACH number in our Codeword grid represents a different
letter of the alphabet.You have three letters placed to
start you off. Enter them in the appropriate squares in the
grid, then use your knowledge of words to work out which
letters should go in the missing squares. Check off the
alphabetical list of letters as you identify them.
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Anew, lawn, news, newt, sawn,
sewn, sinew, slaw, slew, stew, swain, swan, swat,
sweat, swine, tawse, twin, twine, wail, wain, waist,
WAISTLINE, wait, wane, wanes, want, wants, waste,
weal, wean, weans, welt, went, west, wile, wiliest, wilt,
wilts, wine, wise
FUTOSHIKI
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SOLUTIONS TO ALL TODAY’S
PUZZLES WILL APPEAR IN
TOMORROW’S EDITION
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FILL the blank
squares so each row
and column contains
all the numbers 1
to 5. Use any given
numbers and the
symbols telling you
if the number in the
square is larger (>)
or smaller (<) than
the number next to it.
Yesterday’s
solution:
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Yesterday’s
solution: 1
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x
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=
10
=6
–
+
÷
–
= 16
÷
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=
50
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1 Stick head of eel inside, filleted (5)
4 Isabel mishandled descent (6)
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10 Revolting male hoots off‑puttingly (9)
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ALL the digits from
1 to 9 are used in
this grid, but only
once. Can you work
out their positions in
the grid and make
the sums work?
7 x 1 – 4
+
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÷
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SET SQUARE
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THERE is just one simple
rule in Sudoku. Each row
and each column must
contain the numbers 1 to 9,
and so must each 3 x 3
box. This is a logic puzzle,
and you should not have
to guess.
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Yesterday’s solution:
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QOME F X Z Y I TWD H
A L P CURN VGS B J K
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“Life’s unfair for everyone.
So at least that’s fair, then.”
Ricky Gervais.
I A A
A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z
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“The more Old Etonians the better,
I think. The two or three who are
playing at the moment are
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geniuses you get, the better. It’s
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do with where they come from.”
Veteran actor Sir Michael
Gambon.
SUDOKU - Medium
Yesterday’s solution:
Seat with a view, looking
down on Stonehaven
harbour.
Photograph: JENNIFER
OFFICER, OF STONEHAVEN
“If he wants breakfast in bed, tell
him to sleep in the kitchen.”
Best-selling author Kathy Lette.
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“The BBC is virtually run
by women. It’s a cabal.”
Actress Julie Walters,
pictured.
“I do feel that, in the world today,
we are very wary of laughter.”
Michael Palin.
NONOGRAM
HOW many words of four
letters or more can you make
from this Nonogram? Each
word must use the central
letter, and each letter may be
used once only. At least one
nine-letter word can be found.
We found 56 words - can you
do better?
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on a health and sanitation
project, before helping to train
student volunteers for a year
and completing a small placement in Bolivia.
After finishing her studies,
she worked with Unicef in
London for a few months, but
was soon back on the frontline of aid work, helping with
the flood response in Pakistan.
She now works for Medair
in the Philippines, helping in
the wake of Typhoon Haiyan,
in 2013, and, most recently,
Typhoon Hagupit, which hit
the country in December.
“I’ve met so many people
living in poverty, people who
don’t have access to the most
basic things, like clean water,
health treatment, an education, a safe home to live in,
people who struggle every day
to make enough to feed their
families – the things we take
for granted.
“It’s not right; it’s heartbreaking, and we need to do
more to change this system of
injustice.”
At the end of her second
year at university, Ms Niven
travelled to Nepal to help out
Ms Niven continued: “A lot
of families were able to find
pieces of their house that had
been destroyed, and rebuilt
unstable structures with what
they could find, but they are
still living in shacks that are
completely unsuitable for living, and which will be destroyed again if there is another strong typhoon.
“I met one family who had
dug a pit in the ground and
put a tarpaulin over it, and
were living there. I work in
this field to help communities
like these, who have lost so
much, having already had so
little.
“And that’s why Medair is in
the Philippines, building typhoon-resilient houses for
these people.
“It’s hard to see the difficulties that people face on an ongoing basis. There’s a lot of joy
in the communities that we
serve – everyone knows how
to smile in the Philippines.
But there is suffering, too. I’ve
met too many families who
are just living in unacceptable
conditions.
“I would encourage people
who have an interest in humanitarian work to get involved. It can really save and
change people’s lives.”
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eflecting on her time as
an aid worker, a northeast woman said:
“Some of the people I’ve met
and the things I’ve seen will
stay with me always.”
Sophie Niven got a taste for
volunteering at Glasgow University, where she studied English literature and psychology.
She has since gone to the
aid of underprivileged people
in locations such as Nepal, Bolivia, Pakistan and the Philippines.
The 27-year-old, who attended Kemnay Primary and
Kemnay Academy after moving to Fetternear at the age of
five, said it was an early
awareness of the plight of underdeveloped nations that inspired her to get involved in
international charity work.
She said: “When I was
younger, I remember seeing a
lot of images that stuck with
me, of people going hungry
and having so little.
“I couldn’t understand our
affluence in relation to the
poverty; I still can’t fully grasp
the injustice. I think that
sense of injustice is why I
wanted to work in this field.
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Easing the heartbreaking plight of the world’s poor
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Wednesday, February 11, 2015
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5 Sound of sheep upsetting table (5)
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YESTERDAY’S SOLUTIONS
CRYPTIC - ACROSS: 1 Emerald 5 Wisp 8 Own up 9 Roasted 11 Iffy
12 Westward 15 Peril 16 Siren 19 Alderney 21 Tate 23 Origami 25 Kudos
26 Rare 27 Affairs DOWN: 2 Minefield 3 Ropy 4 Larder 5 Was 6 Steer
7 Posit 10 Antrim 13 Alexander 14 Sierra 17 Relief 18 Terse 20 Larva 22 Skua
24 Gee QUICK - ACROSS: 1 Spatial 5 Beet 8 Inbox 9 Oppress 11 Tail
12 Unspoilt 15 Virus 16 Gnash 19 Ice cubes 21 Pike 23 Plateau 25 Spurs
26 Soar 27 Needles DOWN: 2 Publicise 3 Taxi 4 Around 5 Bar 6 Easel 7 Misty
10 Piping 13 Institute 14 Suture 17 Refuse 18 Beast 20 Cello 22 Used 24 Tar
6 Great happiness about toenail (7)
7 Girl from Los Angeles on ship (4)
ACROSS
1 Trap (5)
Girl’s baby gets role appearing with US singer (5,6)
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Sea‑bound area (6)
Without goal, tear clothing (7)
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Photocopy (9)
Lack of openness in book (7)
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Part of a circle (3)
Architect’s sound bite (5)
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Dirt‑free
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Wander, after opening gambit, to some trees (5)
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smaller
in the wash (6)
Canoe wrecked in the sea (5)
14 Equestrian’s footwear (6,5)
He worked among the lesser fellows (4)
QUICK
CLUES 18 Improve, amend (6)
20 Of ebb and flow (5)
23 Poorly (3)
24 Lawlessness (9)
25 Dairy product (6)
26 Straighten (5)
8 Material left in advance (5)
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2 Abundant (5)
3 Italian red wine (7)
5 Direct with the helm (5)
6 Unfavourable to (7)
7 Chop up (4)
8 Baked clay slab (5)
9 Common stuffing (7,4)
15 Drifting frozen mass (3,4)
16 Concerning vision (7)
17 Theme park’s water slide (5)
19 Off‑white gemstones (5)
21 Carrying out (a task) (5)
22 Metal in brass (4)
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