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Mr. Peabody revs past Speed, 300

The Dutch football club Faja Lobi KDS plays all its home matches on an artificial turf on the roof top of a supermarket store parking lot.

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BY ARMSTRONG VAS

The idea of football match on the roof top of a building will be shot down as bizarre and impossible in most places.

But not for innovative Dutch. They have made it happen.

Welcome to the Netherlands city of Utrecht, home to Faja Lobi KDS, an amateur club playing in the sixth level of eight-tier amateur division of Dutch Football League. The club plays all its home matches on the artificial turf on the roof top of a parking lot of a super market store.

The football field at Faja Lobi KDS is one of the several innovative ideas which the Dutch are using in various walks of life as they aim to utilize the limited land resources in the best possible way in a small country spread over an area of 33,800 sqkm and with a population of 16,839,786.

The idea to construct a football

pitch materialises out of a necessity say officials of IKEA, the company that constructed the artificial turf pitch on the roof top.

In the beginning of 2012, IKEA and the city of Utrecht in the Netherlands gave the go-ahead for the expansion of the IKEA store in Utrecht. The project was special because due to the limited space available in the area, different elements had to be arranged in a multilayered way, especially the solution for the two fields with FIFA 2 classification for soccer club Faja Lobi KDS on the roof of the IKEA parking house, says John van de Weg of Knevel Architecten.

The soccer fields have been executed with light layers for water storage instead of a traditional heavy package between the roof deck and synthetic turf top layer. Windbreak cloth is placed up to a height of seven meters along the roof edges around the soccer fields, he adds.

The out-of-the-box concept is one of the several initiatives the three-time FIFA World Cup runners-up have launched in football.

The country known for its tulips, chess and wind mills have devised innovative solutions in many walks of life — water control to protect half the country against the risk of flooding is one of them.

Living in a densely populated delta below sea level, the Dutch were forced centuries back to develop knowledge and experience in finding high-quality, sustainable and affordable solutions to protect delta areas and enable life.

Innovations have had an impact on football too. The Dutch football is also pioneers of the influential tactical Total Football which spiced up the Jogo Bonita at the 1974 World Cup.

The country home to top clubs like Ajax, PSV Eindhoven and Feyenoord is set for yet another wave

of technological advances in football.The countries top clubs all have

integrated new innovative training methods to excel and break new grounds.

Ajax, where Total Football took birth, is using SmartGoals in their training methods at their youth academy.

SmartGoals as a coaching tool, which will be officially launched next month, aims to make training a fun filled one.

Fun is the key aspect of SmartGoals. Fun equals motivation and motivation equals development. It improves skills like; overview, technique, speed, coordination, reaction and communication. That is why SmartGoals are suitable for everyone at every level. The First team of Ajax Amsterdam uses a prototype of SmartGoals twice a week, says Ralf van Oosterhout of SmartGoals.

Dutch innovations Dutch innovations on football pitchon football pitch

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SmartGoals helps to create fast dynamic football with your team. SmartGoals can be used to devise complete training sessions with warming-up exercises, moves and skills training, passing and receiving, positional games, fitness training, finishing exercises and small team matches, Van Oosterhout explained.

Everyone can work with the SmartGoals, no computers, laptops or tablets are required. With the SmartRemote controlling the SmartGoals is as easy as zapping through the channels of your TV, he added.

It excites players, it challenges players and you can use it in so many ways at every level, says Rene Meulensteen coach at Fulham FC.

Ajax are not the only club which is using the technology advances in their pursuit for excellence, PSV Eindhoven is the other one.

At the PSV Field Lab a bib enables heart rates to be monitored in real time.

The potential applications of real-time positioning and heart-rate reading go beyond cleverer training and improved soccer schooling.

The system can easily and automatically determine the speed and even the acceleration of the players. A new feature of this Field Lab at PSV is the bib that enables heart rates to be monitored in real time. Previously this data could only be read after the training session, says Peter Rovers, Manager Marketing, Media, Merchandising and Business Development at PSV Eindhoven.

It allows the club trainers, to

adjust the physical exertion training programme to the individual. It’s all a matter of cutting the programme to the strain a particular person can accommodate. It helps reduce injury due to overexertion, the official added.

The research is investigating how top soccer players use their eyes, and it has become clear that the talent that younger soccer players possess can be revealed to a large extent to where they look during the game, Rovers said.

This could result in being able to recognise talent that much more quickly. PSV expects these advances

to help the club’s youth development players make the move to the first team more quickly, and then the investments will be rewarded, he added.

The Dutch are continuously on the lookout for innovation in all walks of life and researchers attached to universities young and old are constantly working on projects to give the country an edge in various sectors.

At the sports and medicine department of Utrecht University a group of researchers is working on the project to identify the cause of the hamstring injuries, the common one for football, and to take preventive steps to minimise or reduce the hamstring injuries.

The country also aims to mix sports and technology for the greater success in international sports events and also an active lifestyle for its citizens.

It has set up an Olympic Plan to gain a structural position among the world’s top ten sporting nations by 2028. As part of the plan, they have set up innovative field-labs/InnoSportLabs, which mix science and technology for sports excellence.

InnoSportLabs has been launched in 12 sports namely athletics, archery, bobsleigh, volleyball, table tennis, handball, wheelchair basketball, badminton and boxing, while the football and hockey one is at the construction stage.

A field-lab/InnoSportLab for sport innovation is a research and development location in a real-life sports setting. Businesses can

co-create and/or install new product prototypes or production models in the field-lab where the end-users can use and test them as part of regular sports activity. A lab manager and embedded scientist are part of the set up, informed Florence Bongers Project Manager at IPC Sports and Technology.

Although no football specific InnoSportLabs has been set up yet, the plan is to have one in the near future as Dutch clubs aim to gain an edge in the highly competitive winner takes its all football market.

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The Dutch are continuously on the lookout for innovation in all walks of life and researchers attached to universities young and old are constantly working on projects to give the country an edge in various sectors.

SmartGoals

SmartGoals are small gates that use wireless technology to communicate with each other in combination with motion sensors. Lights indicate which SmartGoals players have to run, dribble, pass or score through. Players

can only score in the SmartGoals with illuminated lights. After scoring the lights of that particular SmartGoal go out and the lights on a new, random SmartGoal will illuminate. Players have to react to the different SmartGoals that light up ñ forcing them to keep a good overview and react quickly to the new scoring opportunities.

The youngest amateur players love playing with SmartGoals, just because itís more fun to train with SmartGoals than other common training.

The concept SmartGoals is designed by two students Industrial Design (Chris Heger and Sjef Fransen) and their teacher Mark de Graaf. They wanted to add more fun in training with the use of technology. Since January 2013 Ajax trains with a prototype of SmartGoals.

PSV Field Lab

At De Herdgang, the training complex of PSV in Eindhoven, a youth team can be seen

regularly wearing special bibs with a transponder, a transmitter that communicates with a number of electronic beacons positioned around the periphery of the pitch. Since the communication involves several of these beacons, the computer can calculate the position of the players to an accuracy of five centimetres. With each point measured being coupled to a point in time, the system can easily and automatically determine the speed and even the acceleration of the players. This kind of technology helps to determine the position, clear tactical skills can be imparted to the players retrospectively.

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GES IB students invite businesses, universities to attend Careers Fair

International Baccalaureate (IB) students from The Gulf English School have been working hard to

attract leading names in business and academia in Qatar to the school’s sev-enth annual Careers Fair, which will take place at the school in Gharaffa on March 25.

The fair, which is planned and organized by GES IB students, is sponsored by and will feature organi-sations including RasGas, Ezdan Real Estate, Al Faisal Holding, Aamal, Baladiya, Al Ahli Hospital and Gelato, as well as Qatar Foundation and Qatar University.

Participation in the Fair is open to all organisations in Qatar. Schools and students from across Qatar can attend and talk face-to-face with future employers and education providers.

IB student Dareen Aloufi said: “IB students have been working hard in teams for three months to attract the best international companies and uni-versities in Qatar to participate in the seventh annual GES Careers’ Fair.

“As students, we want to display our drive and determination and our decision-making skills, which are important attributes to employers and universities in this demanding 21st Century world. We also want to moti-vate and inspire younger pupils to fol-low our lead and work hard to achieve future success. The work behind organizing this event is summed up in the GES motto – Learners Today, Leaders Tomorrow.”

Organisations who wish to take part can mail Dalia.baraka@gulfenglish-school.com. The Peninsula

The Kids Valley at Birla Public School celebrated its Graduation Days

recently at the school. The students cel-ebrated the Day with songs and dance performances. The young Graduates wore peacock blue gowns and hats and proudly marched down the aisles as they were felicitated with their Graduation Scrolls.

On the first day IIlham Aifouni, Managing Partner of My Gym, was the Chief Guest. C V Rappai, Chairman, Aarti Oberoi, Finance Director, A K Shrivastava, Principal, and Shirly Rappai, Senior Vice Principal of Birla Public School attended the function.

IIham in her address exalted the par-ents to give the children the right values and congratulated the young graduates.

The second day was attended by Gope Shahani, Management Committee Member, Birla Public School, and Komal Shahani. Shahani praised the efforts of the teachers, parents and young graduates. The Peninsula

Parent Teacher Meeting of Pakistan Education Centre (PEC) was held recently at the school premises. The annual result for the session 2013-2014 was decalred at the meet-ing. Nargis Raza Otho, Principal, attended the meeting along with the faculty and administrative staff of the school. Parents were allowed to see their children’s answer papers and speak individually with the respective teachers. Result cards of students were handed over to their parents.

Kids Valley Graduation Day

The Next Generation School celebrates Pakistan Day

The Next Generation Kindergarten and Primary School (TNG) organised a

function to mark Pakistan Resolution Day recently .

Malik Mohammad Farooq, charge d’ Affaires at the Pakistan Embassy, officially inaugurated the event. Rashid Nizam, community welfare attaché, founding direc-tor of TNG Riyaz Ahmed Bakali, CEO Shagufta Bakali and Principal Qudsia Asad were also present on the occasion.

A number of stalls offering games, cultural dresses and traditional Pakistani dresses were setup during the occasion.

Food stalls offering haleem, Kashmiri tea, biryani, dahi bhalay, katlama and different varieties of kebabs attracted huge crowds.

Students, dressed in traditional Pakistani attires presented national

songs, which were well received by the audience.

Speaking on the occasion Riyaz Bakali thanked the parents and stu-dents for attending the event. Farooq said he was happy to see that stu-dents were celebrating Pakistan Day with zeal and fervour.

Event partners were Intercontinental Hotel, Al Prince Jewelers and Time and Tune Watches. Giveaways were also given by Qatar Stars League, Museum Of Islam Art, Ministry of Interior and Al Qatariya Toys and Co.

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Parent-Teacher meeting at PEC

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ASD students to stage Beauty and the Beast

The Middle School Drama department at the American School of Doha (ASD) is

bringing to life Beauty and the Beast. When you walk into the ASD thea-tre you are magically transported to 18th century provincial France, gothic castle and all.

Beauty and the Beast, a musi-cal based on the book by Linda Woolverton, tells the story of a prince transformed into a horrible beast as punishment for being selfish and of Belle, a young woman who is imprisoned in his castle.

Beauty and the Beast, helmed by ASD teacher and veteran director, Jen Loría, who last year directed Guys and Dolls, once again trans-forms middle schoolers, many of whom have never acted before, into believable characters who give heartfelt, tangible performances.

For tickets contact Fine Arts Department at the American School of Doha on 44991230. The Peninsula

Trinity Talent Qatar, a talent agency, held a fashion show in collaboration with LIWA stores at the Ezdan Mall recently. More than 60 guests and several mall customers watched the event. The brands showcased included Suite Blanco, M&CO, Gant, Nautica, Collezione, Gocco, and Menbur.

Fashion show at Ezdan Mall

Max unveils Spring/Summer collection

The overriding trend for the season is influenced strongly by Fendi’s Spring/Summer show with a huge sports influence. This trend has taken the

fashion world by storm. With sports inspired silhou-ettes, sleeve details and embellishments, curved hems, jogger shapes and tennis skirts Max interprets this new trend. The Bomber Jacket is the ‘new’ Blazer making your spring look more casual, relaxed and sporty.

Besides the influential sports trend Max also bought into other big trends that influence this season such as, classic monochromatic prints with, floral and pastel touches.

“Our key colour as analysed off the runway is mimosa, hot pink and ultra blue (cobalt blue). Candied pastels, ink, seaweed mandarin and lilac also compliment these key colours. Also pertaining to colour this season is the mix of classic colours such as mandarin and blue; yellow, black and white; aqua and yellow. These combinations create a statement when worn together be it for colour blocking or a geometric lined statement you’re making,” a company spokesperson said. The Peninsula

Qatar Petroleum’s Industrial Cities Directorate recently organised an environmental initiative called the “Turtle

Beach Clean-Up Day,” which was held at Ras Laffan Industrial City’s northern beach.

The event attracted the participation of over 700 vol-unteers from QP, its subsidiaries and joint ventures such as RasGas, Oryx GTL, Ras Laffan Olefins Company, Ras Girtas Power Company, Qatar Gas Transport Company (Nakilat), Nakilat-Keppel Offshore & Marine Ltd., and Nakilat Damen Shipyards Qatar Ltd., as well as from other companies including Archirodon, JGC Corporation, Oryx Engineering Solutions, Seashore Engineering, Qatar Engineering & Construction Company, Descon Engineering, Shaqab Abela Catering Services, Consolidated Contractors

Company, Gulf Contracting Company, Teyseer Group and Chiyoda Almana Engineering.

The event was aimed at cleaning and preserving one of the best nesting spots in Qatar for hawksbill turtles.

“This beach is a valuable nesting site for hawksbill tur-tles; hence, the importance of this initiative, which owes its success to the cooperation of all partners and the collective efforts of the volunteers. We have a comprehensive and consistent strategy for environmental protection, ranging from very ambitious plans, such as the zero liquid-waste discharge in the sea, to more simple but valuable endeavors, such as restoring the beauty of our beaches and safeguarding their fauna,” said Abdulaziz Jassim Al Muftah, Director of QP’s Industrial Cities Directorate. The Peninsula

Turtle Beach Clean-Up Day

PLUS | TUESDAY 18 MARCH 20146 ARCHAEOLOGY

Continued from last week

As the excavations proceeded within an area of 3x2m and half meter in depth, 165 bronze arrowheads, four bronze serpents, three bronze fish hooks, four bronze awls, two bronze needles, three miniature bronze

daggers, and one bead made of semi-precious stone were found.

As the excavations continued in different directions of the mound, more objects made of different materials were unearthed. The major-ity of them seemed to be associated with serpent motifs or serpents made of bronze or pottery.

These findings left no doubt that this specific area was a temple dedi-cated for worshipping serpents nearly three thousand years ago.

The excavations also revealed more antiqui-ties associated with ser-pents and objects for daily use. Chief among them were two complete small spouted vessels decorated with ser-pents motives, pottery lids with handles or knobs in the form of serpents, different sorts of stone beads, a pendent in a form of a camel rider, fragments and large pottery sherds belonging to storage jars.

In addition to the above mentioned materials, broken stone vessels decorated with symbol of serpents, small bronze knives, fish hooks, incense burners, iron arrow-heads and bronze heads were also found.

In conclusion, within that small area nearly one thou-sand objects were unearthed. All of them seem to be suitable for displaying at any international museum.

The news of the discoveries spread all over the UAE and the Gulf countries through media. Thereafter visitors of all kinds and blunders used to pay us visits through the day.

Headlines like “The people of the (UAE) used to wor-ship (Snakes) Three Thousand Years Ago” started to appear in local newspapers. Consequently, a number of people who read these reports resented the idea. In other words, they rejected the reality of the discovery.

Luckily after conducting more excavations in differ-ent parts of the UAE and the Gulf, more temples and things associated with materials discovered at the temple found at Al qusais were found everywhere in the Gulf. Due to these discoveries people slowly but surely began to accept the reality. In this respect, one might say people worshiped the might of a creature, but not the creature itself to avoid the unpredictably of its might.

After closing the excavations and comprehensive documentations of all the materials found dring these excavations I returned back to Cambridge University for writing my PhD dissertation. The serpent skulls found during the excavations were handed over to the Department of Archaeology and Anthropology for analy-sis. After their analysis majority of them appeared to be of cobras.

In January, 1981, I submitted my dissertation to the Board of Graduate Students. Few days later I decided to return back to UAE to do more excavations at Jumarah site, which attributed to early Islamic periods.

When I arrived in Dubai, I decided to visit the Mound of Serpents, the two settlements and other sites were we worked. To my great surprise, I found all of those sites turned into buildings, streets and roundabouts...

What a day and what a surprise…. The Peninsula

Discovery of first temple in the region

Dr Munir Taha

Pottery lid - Mound of Serpents (1979)

Al Qusais town

FOOD 7

Citrus Punch

Ingredients:• 1 orange• 1 lemon• 1 cup cubed watermelon• 5 seedless black grapes• 2 cups fresh milk• Sugar or sweetener to taste• Pinch of salt• Pinch of nutmeg powderFor Decoration• Lemon slices• Few mint leavesl Method:Separately extract juice from the fruits, strain and keep aside.Now put milk, salt, sugar and nutmeg in a blender. Add all

the juices.Blend thoroughly. Serve in juice tumblers. Decorate with mint leaves and lemon slices. Top it with crushed ice.

Shubhartho

Summer Refresh Juice

Ingredients:• 3 lemons peeled and sliced• 5 cups water• 1 small bunch of mint• 4 tbsp sugar• 1/2 inch ginger piece• 5 ice cubes.

Method:In a blender blend water and sugar, drop mint leaves and blend,

then lemon, ginger and ice. Mix to combine all flavoursIf you want filter the juice and serve chilled. Sumithra Karthick

Papaya Summer Cool Juice

Ingredients:• 1 cup ripe papaya, peeled, seeded and cubed• 3/4 cup cold water• 3 tbsp honey• 2 ice-cubes• 1 tsp fresh lime juice

• 1 tsp fresh mint juice• black salt to taste.

Method:Place papaya cubes, fresh lime juice, mint juice, honey, cold

water, black salt, and ice cubes in a blender.Blend till smooth. Papaya Summer Cool is ready.Pour it in serving glass. Serve chilled. Lakshmi

Singaporean Diet Pepsi

Ingredients:• 2 (cubed) bananas • 2 (cubed) mangoes • 1 cup (cubed) de-seeded watermelon• 1 cup (cubed) pineapple• 2 tbsp honey• ½ cup coconut milk• ¼ cup Rooh Afza (available in Indian stores)• ½ cup soda water • ½ cup crushed ice• Mint leaves for decorationg

Method:Blend all the fruits to a smooth mixture with honey, add ½ cup

of soda and keep in the refrigerator.Add Rooh-Afza to the coconut milk and Whisk the mixture well.Pour the fruit mixture into glasses; drizzle the Rooh-Afza mix-

ture over the fruit mixture.Decorate with mint leaves and serve. Amarnath Prabhakar

Red Blush

Ingredients:• 80 grams cherries, pit removed• 2 cups watermelon flesh, seeds removed• 4 strawberries washed and green stem removed• 1 big tomato• 1 medium beetroot ends cut and peeled• 1 small handful basil• ice cubes to serve

Method:Pass all the ingredients through a juicer and extract juice.Or blend all the ingredients till smooth, pass through a sieve.Pour into 2 glasses and serve with ice cubes. Zuhaib Ahmed

Pineapple, Papaya and Aloe Vera Juice

Ingredients:• 3/4 cup pineapple cubes• 3/4 cup papaya cubes• 1/4 cup finely chopped aloe vera• 1 tsp lemon juice• 1 tsp honey• Crushed ice for serving

Method:Add the pineapple cubes, papaya cubes and aloe vera blend in

a juicer till smooth.Strain the juice using a strainer.Add the lemon juice and honey and mix well.Add some crushed ice in 2 individual glasses and pour equal

quantities of the juice over it.Serve immediately. Rifash

Verry Berry Appy Juice

Ingredients:• 3 medium strawberries chilled• 1 tbsp blueberries chilled• 1 tbsp cranberries chilled• 1 tbsp raspberries chilled• 4 medium apples or 2 cups fresh apple juice chilled• Ice cubes for serving along.

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Glowing Green Smoothie

Ingredients:• 1½ cups water• 1 head romaine lettuce, chopped• ½ head of large bunch or ¾ of small bunch spinach• 3–4 stalks celery• 1 apple, cored and chopped• 1 pear, cored and chopped• 1 banana• Juice of ½ lemonOptional:• 1/3 bunch coriander (stems okay)• 1/3 bunch parsley (stems okay) Method:Add the water and chopped head of romaine and spin-

ach to the blender. Starting the blender on a low speed, mix until smooth.

Gradually moving to higher speeds, add the celery, apple and pear. Add the coriander and parsley if you choose. Add the banana and lemon juice last.

Garnish with fresh whipped cream, cookies and banana slices.

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Method:Chop the apples into small pieces or thin slices.Turn the juicer on. Make sure the jug is beneath the spout. Add the apple and extract

juice from it. Then pour the juice into the blender.Add 1 tablespoon of cranberries, 3 strawberries, 1 tablespoon of blueberries, and 1

tablespoon of raspberries to the blender.Close the lid and blend for 15-20 seconds. Pour into glass and serve with ice-cubes. Rafeeq

Chilled Banana and Almond Milk Shake

Ingredients:• 4 bananas• ½ litre milk• 10 finely chopped almonds• 1 tsp roasted white cumin powder• ½ cup sugar• Ice as required

Method:Peel 4 bananas and finely chop them. In a blender, add ½ cup sugar and chopped bananas

with ½ litre milk and blend together. Separately crush ice into small crystals. Also slightly fry 10 finely chopped almonds. Pour the blended milk shake into a glass, add in ice 1 tsp roasted white cumin and fried almonds and serve.

Aysha

Broccoli Spinach Cucumber Juice

Ingredients:• 1/2 head of broccoli• 2 cups of spinach• 2 apples• 1/2 inch of ginger root• 2 mini cucumbers

Method:Wash all of fruits and vegetables and then cut them into juicer-appropriate chunks so

you don’t overwhelm your juicer. Put everything in your juicer – I started with one apple and then moved onto juice the

two cups of spinach. I then juiced one of the mini cucumbers and then did the broccoli.Finally, I added the ginger root and finished juicing with the last apple.I think that alternating like this with something like a cucumber or apple which has more

juice sometimes helps to keep things moving and helps to avoid clumps of pulp in your juicer.Once you have juiced all of your fruits and vegetables, stir your juice so that all of the

different juices are well mixed. Najma Rafiq

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BOLLYWOOD NEWS

I work for my audience, not critics: Kher

His audience’s views are more impor-tant to him than of the critics, says

actor Anupam Kher.His recent release Total Siyappa was not

well received by the critics and neither was the earlier film Gori Tere Pyaar Mein.

But the actor, who has managed to pull off some unbelievable roles in films like Saaransh, Daddy, and Maine Gandhi Ko Nahin Mara, said: “I don’t work for critics, I work for my audience. It’s difficult to please everybody, but for me, life is a journey and not a destination.”

Anupam’s next release is Gang of Ghosts and he will also be seen in O Teri.

Pawan Kumar: Pay only if you like the content Filmmaker Pawan Kumar, who rose to

prominence with his Kannada inde-pendent film Lucia, is testing the waters with an alternative distribution system where the audience will pay for a film only if they like the content.

“How do we know if what we are pay-ing for is worth the money? As an answer to such opinion, we are testing this new model. You can watch the Making of Lucia documentary for free and pay for it only if you like it,” Pawan posted on Facebook page.

He says if the experiment works out, it will benefit independent films.

“The results from the experiment can help us make ‘indie’ films and work out an alternative distribution method to release it. We don’t have to depend on theatres alone to reach out to you,” he posted.

Pawan, who collected over `5m through crowd-funding to make Lucia, is planning to remake it in Hindi. Meanwhile, Lucia is being remade in Tamil featuring Siddharth in the lead.

Gul Panag says no to Holi celebration

Bollywood actor Gul Panag, the AAP’s Lok Sabha candidate in Chandigarh, stayed

away from Holi celebration to promote water conservation.

“In solidarity with the residents of Chandigarh who are suffering from acute water shortage, I will not be playing Holi,” Gul tweeted.

“Celebrate a vibrant, safe and environ-mentally friendly Holi with natural colours (not chemicals) and ensure the safety of women and children,” she added.

By Ronald Grover and Chris Michaud

Mr. Peabody & Sherman won the weekend box office derby with $21.2m in ticket sales, outpacing both last

week’s winner 300: Rise of An Empire and video game turned car racing movie Need for Speed.

The animated Mr. Peabody & Sherman, which opened a week ear-lier in the No. 2 spot, overtook last week’s winner, the Greek-era action film 300: Rise of an Empire which col-lected $19.1m from Friday to Sunday, according to studio estimates.

Need for Speed settled for third place on its opening weekend with ticket sales of $17.8m at US and Canadian theatres.

Tyler Perry’s The Single Moms Club, the weekend’s other new movie, was fifth behind Non-Stop, selling $8.3m worth of tickets. The Liam Neeson airliner thriller made $10.6m.

The stunt-filled Need for Speed, star-ring Aaron Paul of the AMC televi-sion series Breaking Bad, had hoped to capitalise on the video game fran-chise’s appeal to a young audience, but fell short of Hollywood’s forecast of a $22m-to-$25m opening weekend. Paul stars as a street racer who seeks revenge after being framed for the death of a close friend.

“The tracking had shown the younger audience was as hot as could be,” said Dave Hollis, executive vice president of film distribution at Walt Disney Studios, which released the film produced by Steven Spielberg’s Dreamworks studio.

“So when they didn’t show, yes it

leaves us disappointed,” said Hollis. “But the good news is the folks who did come really liked it,” he noted, citing mov-iegoer polls, and adding that the studio was hopeful that strong word of mouth with approaching school and Easter holidays would stoke the box office.

The film, which cost about $66m, took in about $63m globally during its opening, Hollis said.

Mr. Peabody & Sherman, which fea-tures the talking dog Mr. Peabody and his adopted boy, Sherman, is the latest animated film from Hollywood to enjoy a strong audience reception following Disney’s Frozen and The Lego Moviefrom Warner Brothers.

The film, based on the Peabody’s Improbable History segments in the 1960s animated TV show starring the characters Rocky and Bullwinkle, has taken in more than $63m since its opening on March 7 and had the relatively unusual experience of mov-ing up into the top box office spot on a weekend other than its opening one.

300: Rise of an Empire, a blood-splat-tered sequel to the 2006 blockbuster 300 about the war between Greeks and Persians, has generated $78m since its March 7 opening, according to box office tracking service Rentrak.

The film, based on a graphic novel by author Frank Miller and produced by Legendary Pictures, stars Australian actor Sullivan Stapleton as the Greek leader Themistocles and French actress and model Eva Green as the ruthless commander of the Persian forces. It added another $41m this weekend in foreign markets.

In a limited run, Veronica Mars, star-ring Kristen Bell in a film adaption of

the TV series that ran on the UPN and The CW networks from 2004 to 2007, collected ticket sales of $2m at 291 theatres.

The film was financed with $5.7m in contributions from more than 91,000 fans of the show who responded to pleas from Kirsten Bell and the show’s creator Rob Thomas through crowd-sourcing platform Kickstarter.

The Grand Budapest Hotel, Wes Anderson’s whimsical caper film star-ring Ralph Fiennes, Bill Murray and Owen Wilson, continued to chalk up impressive ticket sales with $3.6m at just 66 theatres. Last week it set an

industry record $200,000 per screen average over three days playing in only four theatres.

Walt Disney distributed Need for Speed. Warner Brothers, a unit of Time Warner, distributed 300: Rise of an Empire, The Lego Movie and Veronica Mars.

Fox, a unit of Twenty-First Century Fox, distributed Son of God, and Mr. Peabody & Sherman. The Grand Budapest Hotel was distributed by Fox Searchlight, a unit of Fox.

Lionsgate released Tyler Perry’s The Single Moms Club.

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Lupita Nyong’o’s dad harassed, arrested for democratic support Oscar winner Lupita Nyong’o’s father says that his family was constantly

harassed because of his dedication to promote democracy in their native Kenya. Her father, politician and academic Peter Anyang’ Nyong’o, has revealed for the first time the extent of the threats he and his family came under for his support of an underground democratic party.

Upon their return to the African country in 1987 after several years in exile in Mexico, the family had to constantly move to ensure their safety.

Nyong’o said: “It was a very insecure time. We were moving from one place to another, which was not good for Lupita and (her brother) Peter Jr.

“I was being picked up (arrested) monthly and weekly. It would depend on the period. It was as often as they wanted. It was mainly psychological for me, although it was physical for others. You could not wash for days, you were harassed, threatened, you couldn’t sleep and it becomes unbearable.

“We were traumatised. The children were too young to understand, and it would not have been advisable to explain because you could be causing them unnecessary trauma.”

The actress, who wowed critics and audiences in her Academy Award-winning role in 12 Years a Slave, has regularly mentioned her uncle on the awards season circuit, dedicating her Critics’ Choice Movie Awards Best Supporting Actress win to her late relative. It soon emerged that Nyong’o’s beloved uncle Charles disappeared in 1980. It is believed he was murdered due to his opposition to then Kenyan President Daniel arap Moi’s regime.

Aniston’s book makes Jolie nervous?

Actress Jennifer Aniston has got an offer to release a tell-all book with details of the past and the news is reportedly making Angelina

Jolie nervous. Aniston’s ex-husband Brad Pitt and Jolie are now partners.Jolie and Pitt grew close to each other while filming the 2005 film Mr &

Mrs Smith, during which time the latter was married to Aniston.“Angelina’s worked hard to build up her image as a humanitarian and

separate herself from the public outcry when she got together with Brad. She felt the whole ‘Team Jen’ and ‘Team Ange’ thing had finally died a death and that the perception of her being a husband stealer was in the past, but then she heard about the book offer,” a source told Now magazine, reports contactmusic.com.

Aniston, now engaged to Justin Theroux, knows that the part where she will recount the deatils of her breakup with Pitt will be tough to write, said the source. “If Jen does sign a book deal, she knows the chapter on Brad and Ange will be the hardest for her to write — but it will also be the one everyone will be after. Jen doesn’t want to spark any new rows, but there’s so much history involved that it’s inevitable,” the source added.

It’s easy to work with Clooney: Dujardin

Actor Jean Dujardin finds it easy to work with George Clooney and says that the latter’s modesty and passion for work is enviable. Dujardin

featured in Clooney’s directorial venture The Monuments Men. The French actor was amazed by the Hollywood actor-director’s dedication to work while shooting the movie which also stars Cate Blanchett, Matt Damon and Bill Murray, reports contactmusic.com.

Asked how he fitted in among the A-list cast, Dujardin said: “By being a clown, it’s the best way to bond, humour... You have people who never stop like John Goodman and George, he’s like a locomotive. He needs harmony. He’s still amazed by his status and his enjoyment of the scenery, the work. He’s not blase.”

The actor has fond memories of the first time Clooney contacted him about the film. “George Clooney sent me an email two years ago, I was in my bathing suit at the time. He said, ‘I’m making a film called The Monuments Men and there’s a French guy role in it, do you want to come have fun with us?’ I sent him back a mail saying, ‘It’s not possible, leave me alone - I’m on holiday’, with a photo attached of me with my hair sticking up everywhere.

“He sent me back one of him with long hair in the 1980s so I said, ‘Okay, you win, I’m coming.’ I then told him it was going to take me a good 15 days to understand his script. It’s always very easy (working) with George,” he added.

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Mr. Peabody revs past Speed, 300

Queen reigns over Bollywood box officeQueen is giving tough competition to recently released Bewakoofiyan —

while the Kangana starrer has hauled in `210m and is still going strong at the box office, the weekend earning of Sonam Kapoor’s film is just `47.4m, say trade pundits.

Rajesh Thadani of Multimedia Combines summed up the films’ perform-ances: “Queen is doing an outstanding business and it’s still going houseful in many theaters. Though Bewakoofiyan released this Friday, yet the business of Queen has not been affected.”

Directed by Vikas Bahl, Queen, an atypical drama, came out on March 7 along with much talked about Madhuri Dixit-Juhi Chawla’s gritty hinterland drama Gulaab Gang and Yami Gautam and Ali Zafar’s romantic comedy Total Siyapaa.

Madhuri and Juhi in Gulaab Gang created a lot of pre-release buzz, but thanks to word of mouth publicity Queen, which offered a tailor-made role to Kangana, left it behind in the race at box office. Even cross-border love story Total Siyapaa failed to impress critics and audiences.

After it exceeded the expectations of all and sundry in its release week, Queen is giving a tough competition to Yash Raj Films’ release this week Bewakoofiyan, a comedy that also stars Ayushmann Khurrana.

Thadani said: “Queen is doing well in the multiplexes universally and is growing universally with each passing day. The collection of Bewakoofiyan is not up to the mark.” IANS

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Environmental factors linked to intellectual disability

Scientists have linked autism and intellectual disability in newborn males with genetic

changes that could result from harmful envi-ronmental factors, a study said.

An analysis of 100 million US medical records said that autism and intellectual dis-ability rates are correlated at the county level with incidence of genital malformations in new-born males, an indicator of possible congenital exposure to harmful environmental factors such as pesticides.

Autism rates - after adjustment for gender, ethnic, socioeconomic and geopolitical factors - jump by 283 percent for every one percent increase in frequency of malformations in a county. The intellectual disability rates increase 94 percent. Slight increases in autism and intel-lectual disability rates are also seen in wealthier and more urban counties.

The study, published by scientists from the University of Chicago March 13 in PLOS Computational Biology, confirmed the dramatic effect of diagnostic standards, reported Science Daily. Incidence rates for autism and intellec-tual disability on a per-person basis decrease by roughly 99 percent in states with stronger regulations on diagnosis of these disorders.

“Autism appears to be strongly correlated with rate of congenital malformations of the genitals in males across the country,” said study author Andrey Rzhetsky, professor of genetic medicine and human genetics at the University of Chicago.

“This gives an indicator of environmental load and the effect is surprisingly strong.”

“We interpret the results of this study as a strong environmental signal,” Rzhetsky said.

“For future genetic studies we may have to take into account where data were collected, because it’s possible that you can get two identi-cal kids in two different counties and one would have autism and the other would not.”

Overweight kids? Half of the parents can’t see itRemain alert before telling your neighbour

that their kids have grown overweight.They may genuinely feel offended and ask

you to shut up as 50 percent of parents can not recognise the problem of overweight in their children, a research shows.

“One out of two parents of a child with overweight in Central and Northern Europe perceived their child’s weight as normal. In Southern Europe, the same figure was 75 per-cent,” the results showed.

Four out of 10 parents of children with over-weight or obesity are even worried that their child will get too thin. “Many parents simply do not see the increase in growth, and are depend-ent on objective information from, for instance, child welfare centres and school health care to act,” explained Susann Regber from University of Gothenburg in Sweden.

The research was part of a European study that comprised a total of 16,220 children in the ages 2-9. “How parents perceive their child’s weight status is of major significance to being able to promote a healthy weight development,” Regber added.

According to the researchers, the parents’ insight into obesity in children indeed grows in pace with the child’s age and higher BMI in the child. Agencies

By Andrew M Seaman

Disparities between rich and poor in who sur-vives major cancer sur-geries may have more

to do with the hospitals where they’re treated than with indi-viduals’ wealth or lack of it, a new study suggests.

Researchers found that even the wealthiest patients at hospi-tals treating primarily poor com-munities tended to fare worse after major cancer surgeries than the poorest patients at hos-pitals treating primarily wealthy communities.

“We know people in the lower socioeconomic status have worse outcomes, but it’s always harder to get at the underlying mecha-nism for those worse outcomes,” Dr Amir Ghaferi said.

Ghaferi is the study’s sen-ior author from the Center for Healthcare Outcomes and Policy at the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor.

Several studies have found that a person’s risk of death after major cancer surgery is linked to economic status, Ghaferi and his colleagues write in JAMA Surgery.

Poor people who have part of their stomach removed because of cancer, for example, are 55 per-cent more likely to die than their richer counterparts, the research-ers note.

Economic status is often an indicator of other factors, how-ever. Those include a person’s general health or the quality of the healthcare available in their community.

While a hospital’s quality is

often measured by how many of its patients experience complica-tions during their stays or after operations, the authors of the new study used a measure known as failure to rescue or FTR.

FTR identifies patients who die after major complications follow-ing surgery, because the hospitals were unable to “rescue” them.

“If you do develop a complica-tion, it’s very important how that complication is recognised and ultimately treated,” Ghaferi said.

For the study, he and his col-leagues used data spanning the years 2003 to 2007 from Medicare, the US health insur-ance programme for the elderly and disabled.

They identified 596,222 people who were 65 years old or older and had a major surgery for can-cer during that time. Those peo-ple were then matched with US Census data to estimate their socioeconomic status.

As in other studies, the researchers found that the poor-est patients were more likely to die and experience complications after their surgeries, compared to the richest patients.

They also found that about 27 percent of the poorest patients were recorded as FTR, compared to about 23 percent of the richest patients.

Overall, the poorest patients were about 20 percent more likely to be FTR, compared to the rich-est patients.

The disparity held after researchers took into account patient characteristics like employment, education and other health conditions.

But after taking into account the hospitals where the proce-dures were performed, researchers found that most of the increased FTR risk among the poorest patients disappeared.

The likelihood of FTR among patients of any economic sta-tus was higher at hospitals that serve mostly poor communities, compared to hospitals that serve mostly wealthy communities.

The new study can’t say which aspect of care at the hospitals may be most closely linked to FTR rates, but Ghaferi said a number of factors could be involved.

“When it comes down to it, your surgical care doesn’t happen within a silo,” he said. “It happens within the greater system of a large or small hospital.”

He added that he believes much of the increased risk of FTR may come from the attitude a hospital and its staff have toward patient safety.

“I have for a long time been worrying that part of the dispar-ity is that poor folks tend to get their healthcare in poor health systems,” Dr Otis Brawley said.

Brawley, who was not involved in the new study, is chief medical officer of the American Cancer Society in Atlanta.

“If you have the opportunity to pick the hospital you can go to, you should go to a hospital that has a high volume of doing the operation you need,” he said.

He added, however, that poor people living in urban areas may have few options.

SOURCE: bit.ly/1cXioxH JAMA Surgery, online March 12, 2014.

Reuters

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Post-surgery survival linked to hospital

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TECHNOLOGYPLUS | TUESDAY 18 MARCH 201412

By Natasha Baker

Fashionistas envious of cloth-ing, shoes and accessories worn by strangers or seen on websites can turn to new apps

for hassle-free shopping to find, and buy or rent, similar items.

Like the music app Shazam, which identifies songs based on sound clips, new fashion apps use photos and image recognition technology to find similar clothing.

“People see items they like on the street but can’t really go up to the person wearing them and ask where they got them,” said Daniela Cecilio, the chief executive of London-based startup Asap54.

“Or they might see items they like on Instagram, Tumblr, Facebook or Twitter, but can’t really click through to buy them,” she added, referring to the social media websites.

With the Asap54 app for iPhone, which was launched last month, users take a photo of an item, or upload an existing one, and describe what it is to help the app identify it. The app recommends something similar from more than 150 retail partners across the United State, Europe and other countries.

The Style Eyes app for iPhone and Android also uses a photo to find the desired or a similar item, which can be purchased from its catalog of 600 retailers in Britain and 300 in the United States.

Mark Elfenbein, chief digital officer of Toronto-based start-up company

Slyce, said its image recognition tech-nology integrates with retail brands so shoppers can find things by taking a photo with their iPhone or scanning an image from their desktop.

“The way brands are trying to com-municate with customers is changing. Historically, they would lure customers to their stores or websites, but now we’re seeing that brands want to cre-ate transactions in other places too,” Elfenbein said.

The technology recognises informa-tion such as how far apart buttons are, and fabric and stitching to help power visual searches.

But image recognition is still inexact and depends on the quality of the photo and other factors, such as lighting. To overcome the drawbacks Elfenbein said, Slyce uses a mix of technology and crowdsourcing to improve its search results.

Other apps making shopping easier

include Pounce for Ios, created by BuyCode Inc. It allows consumers to buy items directly from retail adver-tisements from stores such as Lord & Taylor and office supply company Staples, Inc by hovering their smart-phone camera over an image.

With the eBay Fashion iPhone app users in the United States and Britain can upload an image to find similar items available for sale on eBay.

For consumers more interested in renting than buying, Rent the Runway’s iPhone app uses a photo of an item seen in a store to find some-thing similar that customers can rent instead.

Reuters

Apps aid fashionistas to find desired clothing

By Adam Jourdan

Japan’s Nikon Corp has moved to allay consumer fears in China after being criticised on a closely watched consumer show that said the camera maker had sold

defective products in China and denied local consumers fair treatment in aftersales service.

The firm, which had sales of 118bn yen ($1.16bn) in China in 2013, said it was taking the report “very seri-ously” and had moved to improve its after-sales network in China, according to its official microblog sites.

Criticism in Chinese state media can have a long-lasting impact, particularly in cases of corruption and food safety scandals, which have hit some firms over the last year, including French foodmaker Danone to British drugmaker GlaxoSmithKline.

An annual investigative special on China Central Television (CCTV) called “3.15” said late that some of Nikon’s D600 cameras had black specks on the lens, and accused the firm of refusing requests to replace the defec-tive products.

The show suggested that Nikon consumers in the United States receive better treatment, echoing the attack in last year’s show on smartphone maker Apple Inc’s China warranties, which prompted a rare apology from the giant US tech firm.

“From today, based around an attitude of responsibil-ity towards our users, Nikon will continue to offer our

customers in the China market a high-quality, standard-ised global service,” Nikon said in Chinese on the country’s Twitter-like Weibo.

The “3.15” expose often spooks multinational firms and their public relations teams into crisis mode, but this year left other big international firms relatively unscathed, choosing to focus on smaller, domestic players.

A short segment warned consumers about the dangers of online payments, coming after China’s central bank halted the mobile payment processes of IPO-bound Alibaba Group Holdings and Tencent Holdings Ltd.

Last year “3.15”, one of the most widely watched shows in China, singled out Apple for its after sales service and German carmaker Volkswagen AG over gearbox issues.

Fast-food outlet McDonald’s Corp, supermarket chain Carrefour SA and home products firm Procter & Gamble Co have also previously come under the show’s spotlight.

Nikon has launched a “3.15” campaign, while German carmaker BMW said it would recall an unspecified number of vehicles proactively in China after months of consumer complaints.

State TV exposes like “3.15”, however, remain danger-ous for firms in China, and marketing experts said that without damage control the impact could be significant.

KFC parent Yum Brands Inc has struggled to quell anger over Chinese media reports in late 2012 about exces-sive antibiotic use by a few KFC suppliers in China.

Reuter

China consumer show targets camera maker Nikon

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Hoy en la HistoriaMarch 18, 2009

1584: Ivan IV, the first Russian ruler to assume the title of Tsar, died. His cruelty and oppression earned him the nickname Ivan the Terrible1844: Russian composer Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov was born1949: The North Atlantic Treaty Organization, or NATO, was formed1970: General Lon Nol proclaimed the Khmer Republic in Cambodia after Prince Norodom Sihanouk was deposed in a coup while abroad

British film actress Natasha Richardson, 45, wife of Irish actor Liam Neeson, died from head injuries sustained in a skiing accident in Canada

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

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The captain Alqoub�an

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Let me see your identity card Arinee houwwiyatouk

Pay at the cashier's ofce Idfaç çala aloundooq

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How many kilos am I allowed to carry with me?

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I feel dizzy Ašçouro bidowar

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How to play Hyper Sudoku:A Hyper Sudoku

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ACROSS 1 Sails fixed to bowsprits

5 Reform Party candidate of 1996

10 What cats often do in the spring

14 Grounded birds

15 Psychoanalyst Fromm

16 Designed for flight, for short

17 “It just can’t be predicted”

20 Sermon subject

21 Vintner’s dregs

22 Some farm machines

23 Puts forward as fact

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26 “False!”

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42 An end to sex?

43 Shake hands (on)

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49 How bettors may act

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64 Muscular firmness

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39 Left Coast airport letters

43 Brand owned by Whirlpool

45 Closing bell org.

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47 Headed for sudden death, say

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51 Surround on all sides

52 Packaging abbr.

53 Louisville’s river

54 Sherilyn of “Twin Peaks”

55 Blood type determinant

57 Hartford insurance company symbol

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20:45 Rugby 6

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World

16:15 Premier League

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16:30 UEFA Champions

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17:00 Monday Night

Football

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18:30 Premier League

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22:00 UEFA Champions

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13:00 Storage Wars

Texas

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Texas

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22:00 Pawn Stars

22:30 Storage Wars

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10:45 The Hobbit: An

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15:00 Rise Of The

Guardians

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PG15

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23:00 Insidious

14:00 Asterix And

Obelix

16:00 4 Wedding

Planners

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Cowslip

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17:50 Wheeler

Dealers

18:40 You Have Been

Warned

19:30 Sons Of Guns

20:20 How Do They

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21:35 Container Wars

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22:50 Survive That!

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13:10 How The

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15:45 How Tech Works

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20:30 Junkyard Wars

22:10 Food Factory

22:35 How Tech Works

23:00 Stuck With

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16:25 Weakest Link

18:10 Being Erica

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Force Of Execution (2D/Action) – 11.15pm

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300: Rise Of An Empire (3D/Action) – 3.00 & 9.15pm

Recoil (2D/Action) – 5.00pm

Non - Stop (2D/Action) – 7.00pm

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Only God Forgives (2D/Thriller) – 4.30pm

Non - Stop (2D/Action) – 6.30 & 11.00pm

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Force Of Execution (2D/Action) – 7.00pm

Red Sky (2D/Action) – 9.15pm

Cabin Fever: Patient Zero (2D/Horror) – 11.15pm

ROYAL

PLAZA

1

Mr. Peabody & Sherman (3D/Animation) – 2.00 & 3.45pm

Queen (2D/Hindi) – 5.30 & 8.15pm

Nimirndhu Nil (2D/Tamil) – 10.45pm

2

Recoil (2D/Action) – 2.30pm

Only God Forgives (2D/Thriller) – 4.30pm

Non - Stop (2D/Action) – 6.30pm

300: Rise Of An Empire (3D/Action) – 9.00pm

Force Of Execution (2D/Action) – 11.00pm

3

Red Sky (2D/Action) – 3.00pm

Frozen (3D/Animation) – 5.00pm

300: Rise Of An Empire (3D/Action) – 7.00pm

Cabin Fever: Patient Zero (2D/Horror) – 9.15pm

Non - Stop (2D/Action) – 11.15pm

13:00 Do Dil Bandhe Ek

Dori Se

13:30 Ek Mutthi Aasmaan

14:00 Doli Armaano Ki

14:30 Jodha Akbar

15:00 Snack Attack

16:00 Aur Pyaar Hogaya

16:30 Qubool Hai

17:00 Doli Armaano Ki

17:30 Pavitra Rishta

18:00 Bollywood

Business

18:30 Ek Mutthi Aasmaan

19:00 Do Dil Bandhe Ek

Dori Se

19:30 Jodha Akbar

20:00 Pavitra Rishta

20:30 Sapne Suhane

Ladakpan Ke

21:00 Qubool Hai

21:30 Aur Pyaar Hogaya

22:00 Doli Armaano Ki

22:30 Do Dil Bandhe Ek

Dori Se

13:00 Good Luck

Charlie

13:25 Austin & Ally

13:45 A.N.T. Farm

14:10 Jessie

14:35 Dog With A Blog

15:25 Gravity Falls

15:50 Austin & Ally

16:10 Violetta

17:00 Dog With A Blog

17:20 Austin & Ally

17:40 Gravity Falls

18:55 A.N.T. Farm

20:05 Jessie

20:30 Good Luck

Charlie

21:15 Gravity Falls

21:40 Shake It Up

22:00 Austin & Ally

22:25 A.N.T. Farm

22:50 Good Luck

Charlie

23:10 Wizards Of

Waverly Place

13:00 Better Off Ted

14:00 Raising Hope

14:30 The Crazy Ones

15:30 The Daily Show

With Jon Stewart

16:00 Colbert Report

16:30 The War At Home

17:00 Late Night With

Seth Meyers

18:00 The Simpsons

19:00 The Mindy Project

19:30 Modern Family

20:00 The Tonight Show

Starring Jimmy

Fallon

21:00 The Daily Show

With Jon Stewart

21:30 The Colbert

Report

22:00 Veep

22:30 South Park

23:00 Legit

23:30 Late Night With

Seth Meyers

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

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

• There was talk on social media about the five-day crackdown on counterfeit products by the Ministry of Interior and Interpol. The campaign ‘Shaheen’ was the first of its kind in the Middle East and led to 147 people being referred to authorities for investigation and confiscation of 51,000 electrical and other products. People praised efforts and demanded that the drive continue to protect consumers and free the local market from counterfeits.

• Parents demanded that schools reactivate the educational call service before the third term of examinations to enable students to get support from teachers if they face difficulty while preparing for tests. They said the service will also encourage them not to resort to private tuition.

• Many people praised the Ministry of Municipality and Urban Planning for its effort to inspect and monitor food outlets. They demanded that the ministry continue efforts and cover all type of eateries in various parts of the country.

• Female teachers transferred from the Ministry of Education to Independent schools on local contracts said the agreements did not provide for annual tickets and urged Supreme Council of Education to provide tickets as done in case of external contracts.

• Some people demanded that authorities increase the number of private hospitals to provide services within the National Health Insurance Scheme. They said the second phase of the scheme begins next month to cover all citizens and will lead to more pressures on existing hospitals which have joined the plan.

• Some people expressed surprise over the increasing cost of treatment at private hospitals and wondered whether the health insurance system has caused it.

• People urged authorities to speed up work on Sealine Road. They said it is used during the camping season but work and diversions there are causing delay to people though the distance is not much.

IN FOCUS

Museum of Islamic Art.

by Mohamed Rizwan

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Nasser Al Khori, Program Liaison,Qatar Foundation — QFI

Nasser joins QFI after hav-ing completed a summer internship with the organ-

ization in Washington. Nasser completed a Bachelors of Science degree in Business Administration from Tepper School of Business at Carnegie Mellon University. Currently, Nasser works with Qatar Foundation (Doha, Qatar) full-time acting as QFI’s point-of-contact to QF, member organi-zations, and to the Supreme Education Council (SEC).

Who’s who

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iD by Cirque ÉloizeWhen: April 2: 8pm; April 3: 8pm; April 4: 3.30pm, 8pm; April 5: 1.30pm, 6pmWhere: The Theatre, Qatar National

Convention Centre

What: A mix of circus arts and urban dance by Cirque Éloize, an affiliated company of Cirque du Soleil directed by Jeannot Painchaud. Tickets: QR95 - QR1,500, Available at Virgin Megastores (Villagio and Landmark) or online at www.virginmegastore.me

Behind the Veil When: March 9 - April 12; 10am-10pmWhere: Katara Building Number 12 What: A tribute to the grande dame of photography, Eve Arnold, and celebrates her legendary career that spanned nearly half a century as a photojournalist social commentator and documentor. She is known for her portraits of Hollywood heavy weights such as Joan Crawford and Marilyn Monroe.Free Entry

Halal Hal Qatar Festival When: Mar 22-31; 10am-10pm Where: Katara’s Southern Area

What: This carnival will present three main activities: Al-Mazaiyn: A show of beauty for goats and sheep, there will be prize for the first 5. Al-Mazad (public sale): Selling groups of livestock through auction. Al-Izab: Group of barns, each contain different kind of livestock, the visitor will be able to know it and see it closely. Free Entry

Radiant When: Until Mar 29Where: Museum of Islamic Arts What: The Museum of Islamic Arts in partnership with East Wing, presents a photographic exhibition featuring artwork by German artist Antje Hanebeck. Free Entry

Massimo Banzi: Crossing Boundaries When: Mar 26Where: VCUQatar AtriumWhat: Massimo Banzi is the co-founder of the Arduino project. He is an interaction designer, educator and open source hardware advocate. He has worked as a consultant for clients such as: Prada, Artemide, Persol, Whirlpool, V&A Museum and Adidas.Free Entry

Kings and Pawns When: March 19 - June 21Where: Museum of Islamic Arts What: This exhibition uncovers the history of board games in the Islamic world, from India to Spain between 7th and 20th century. King and Pawns features game-boards, Persian and Arabic chess manuals, paintings and illustrated manuscripts.Free Entry

Events in Qatar