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Technology is slowly making their presence felt in sports. The latest trend in sporty self-improvement: sensors that analyse your physical form and give instant feedback.

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By Seth Stevenson

I’ve made peace with the notion that I’ll never run point for the Celtics in the NBA Finals, shoot a 63 on Sunday at Augusta, or

bagel Rafa in straight sets on Roland Garros clay. I’ll forever be a sad-to-middling weekend athlete. And yet I like to imagine that I still can be better.

I’m not alone. Millions of plodding, athletically challenged, wannabe jocks out there scour YouTube clips for coaching tips, enroll in lessons from local pros and buy bizarre and, frankly, embarrassing instructional aids.

The latest trend in sporty self-improvement: sensors that analyse your physical form and give instant feed-back. These consumer devices — packed with teensy accelerometers, gyroscopes and Bluetooth transmitters — promise to track the speed of your golf swing, the shape of your tennis stroke and the backspin on your jump shot.

I wondered: Could technology help? I tested a few products to see.

One must acknowledge a fundamen-tal weakness with these sports sen-sors: Simply knowing, say, how fast you swing your 7-iron does not at all trans-late into hitting a golf ball straight and true. Improving in an athletic endeav-our requires a collection of tiny, subtle adjustments. Tweaks to your stance, rhythm, balance, alignment, fluidity. Only a trained eye will be able to watch the whole motion and identify its weak link.

Still, while they won’t immediately launch you onto the front of a Wheaties box, some of these sensor products are useful. Herewith, my rankings on the country club ladder, ordered from worst to first:

Babolat Play Pure Drive tennis racket, $399.

There’s something pleasingly sci-fi about a tennis racket with a mini-USB

port hidden in its handle. Pop open the Babolat’s butt cap and it’s hard not to feel you’re peering into the future of sports. The promise is obvious: Play a set or two, plug the racket into your laptop, and download an instant, detailed analysis of your performance. I couldn’t wait to take this thing out for a spin.

Sadly, the reality was far less fun. Despite repeated efforts, I couldn’t get this thing to work. Scads of online reviews confirmed my suspicions: The Babolat is buggy. Though my computer recognised the racket, it failed to locate any data from my on-court sessions. I called up Babolat, which acknowledged the bug, promised me it’s working on a long-term fix and gave me instruc-tions for a short-term workaround. I followed those instructions closely, yet the racket still failed.

Even if the Babolat had performed smoothly, I see a core problem with its model. What if you prefer a racket

with a larger or smaller head size? What if you’d like to be able to swap in, mid-set, a backup racket with a different string tension? Or what if, heaven forbid, you break a string? Because the sensor is buried within the handle, and the handle is non-transferable, you’re forced to play with this particular $400 racket if you wish to record your data. Seems like a fatal flaw. And one that could be easily obviated — as demonstrated by our next competitor.

Zepp golf and tennis sensor, $149.95.

The Zepp can be used — in tandem with various mounting accessories — to analyse a tennis shot, a baseball swing or a golf stroke. I first tried it with ten-nis. It slips into a rubbery housing that stretches over the butt of any racket, even a cheap one. The sensor doesn’t get in the way of your grip. I soon for-got it was there.

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Unlike the Babolat Play, the Zepp offered some actual results. I eas-ily paired it with my phone using Bluetooth. The Zepp tennis app imme-diately downloaded a snapshot of the set I’d played.

There were interesting nuggets in the data. The Zepp tallied 254 shots over the hour I was on the court, of which 58 percent were forehands and 35 percent were backhands. It showed that I struck my groundstrokes with consistent power over the course of the set, while my serve lost oomph toward the end as I got tired and my shoulder grew grumpy.

But I wasn’t convinced the details were totally accurate. The Zepp said 47 percent of my forehands were sliced, which couldn’t be right — I know I hit all but a few of these strokes either flat or with topspin. More damning, it claimed I hit a total of only 16 serves over the course of the set, which is sim-ply impossible. I hit nearly that many in a single long game that featured multi-ple deuces. Zepp acknowledged the flaw and said it’s working on better serve recognition.

Over at the Chelsea Piers driving range, I slipped the Zepp into a mount that lets you affix it to your golf glove. Then I hit a slew of balls, alternating between a driver and a 7-iron. The sensor tells you your club speed (mine ranged from 77 mph to 103 mph as I cycled through differing levels of frus-tration and physical anger) and com-pares the tempo of your backswing to your follow through (mine mostly hov-ered around 2.5:1, meaning it took me 2.5 times longer to draw the club back than to swing it forward).

It also creates a beautiful animation of your swing, which you can rotate to view from different angles. This was the most intriguing feedback for me, as it let me compare the plane of my swing to the ideal plane that Zepp suggests. According to the sensor, I swing too horizontally (like a merry-go-round) and should get more vertical (like a Ferris wheel). By watching the ani-mated playback of my swing immedi-ately after each drive, I nudged myself toward a more upright swing plane. The problem: These more vertical swings produced terrible results — wicked slices that veered off my club into the side netting of the driving range.

Perhaps a seasoned golfer with good form and self-knowledge could use the Zepp to experiment with nuanced adjustments. But for a duffer like me (personal best round: 106), the Zepp’s feedback was like sparks thrown on damp kindling. I didn’t know how to use its suggestions, and I wanted the help of a golf pro to spot basic flaws in my form. Perhaps in concert with some human instruction, the Zepp could be a handy device. The coach could point out my best swing, recording its data on the Zepp, and then I could check future swings against that ideal when I prac-ticed alone. By itself, the Zepp wasn’t enough to improve my game.

3Bays GSA Pro, $181.30.This slick little sensor didn’t inter-

fere with my grip. It’s mounted to a fixed spot on the base of the golf club. To me, that seemed likely to offer more consistent results than the Zepp approach, in which you wear the sensor on your hand and then tell the device the approximate angle of your grip.

I loved the ability to follow through on a drive, step over to my phone and immediately watch my swing recreated in vivid animation — with stats on my club-head speed, impact force, tempo

and so forth. The GSA Pro seemed trustwor-thy: When I purposely sped up or slowed down my swing, or changed its arc, the device rec-ognized the difference.

My favorite feature: The sensor informed me I was almost always hitting the ball with the club face too open (instead of square on) and that my swing path was too outside the ball. This is genuinely useful and actionable knowledge. But again, putting it into play would be much easier if I had a pro by my side to coach me through the necessary adjustments, instead of guessing how best to achieve them.

94Fifty Smart Sensor basketball, $249.95.

I had high hopes for the 94Fifty, which embeds sensor technology and a Bluetooth transmitter inside a stand-ard basketball. The ball can measure how fast you dribble, how hard you dribble, how quickly you release a shot after receiving a pass, the arc of that shot and the backspin on the ball each time you shoot it. You can’t use the 94Fifty during a game (the ball won’t

know which player did what, and it can’t automatically switch between analyzing ball handling and shooting), but the accompanying app is perfectly designed to lead you through individual drills. I tried it out with friends before our weekly Wednesday evening game.

The sensor seems highly accurate. It tallied my dribbles, told me the precise revolutions per minute on my jump shot and recognized whether that shot more closely resembled a rain-bow or a clothesline. As a diagnostic exercise, this seemed hugely useful: It was evident that everybody in my game was dribbling the ball with inad-equate force, shooting at too flat an angle and not launching the ball with enough backspin — all of which rang true. Further proof: The better shoot-ers in my game had the highest arcs and the most spin.

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The sensor informed me I was almost always hitting the ball with the club face too open (instead of square on) and that my swing path was too outside the ball. This is useful and actionable knowledge. But again, putting it into play would be much easier if I had a pro by my side to coach me.

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UCQ environment club conducts beach clean-up

The University of Calgary in Qatar’s environ-ment club recently spent a day at the beach for a good cause. Club 3R members gathered

at Golden Beach Mesaieed near the Sealine resort to gather discarded containers and other trash.

“It was quite surprising to see the amount of gar-bage we collected in a span of one hour. Plastic bot-tles were one of the most common items we cleaned from the beach. I believe many people are not aware of the repercussions of littering. They don’t realise the impact it has on the beach’s appearance, the habitat of sea animals, and as well as the impact on the population’s health. We are all probably guilty of leaving an item while on the beach, not aware that small garbage items can collectively be harm-ful, stated Club president Reem Jumah.

“We collected about 15 bags of garbage. The stu-dents worked so hard. I’m proud of them for being good role models. The beach was quite dirty, and it’s sad that people don’t pick up after themselves,” Marie-Claude Toriida, Club mentor, stated.

The beach cleaning activity also attracted new people who are now committed to the club,

including Refka Ouattas. “Cleaning the Golden Beach at Sealine was such an enjoyable event for me. Not only have I spent a lovely afternoon with my friends, but we also had a blast collecting all

the garbage we found. It’s quite sad to know that people throw that much rubbish at the beach, but it also taught me to be more careful in the future.”

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It is an honour for any musi-cian to perform at the prestig-ious Carnegie Hall in New York City. Built in 1891, the venue has

hosted the most renowned performers of music. Recently, four students from American School of Doha (ASD) par-ticipated in a concert featuring Honors Concert Band, Symphony Orchestra and Concert Choir at Carnegie Hall.

This concert was the result of a five-day session for the 2014 American High School Honors Performance Series (HSHPS). Each student was nomi-nated to audition for the performance series, which is equivalent to an “All-American” athletic status.

With over 10,000 singers and instru-mentalists auditioning and a video audition process involving months of preparation, only 500 students were selected.

ASD High School Instrumental teacher Mark Seay was eager to point out that, “Only the finest musicians were selected, with odds being less than one in 10 of all those that auditioned.”

Choir Director Bob Krebs noted that it was unusual for one school to have four students selected.

Those chosen included Sen Huang (grade 11, clarinet — Honor Band), Tope Akinade (grade 11, clarinet — Honor Band), Jebreel Samples (grade 11, tenor saxophone — Honor Band) and Marylou King (grade 12, soprano — Honor Choir).

During the visit, the students were put to the test with rigorous rehearsals.

Marylou King said: “For me, as a vocalist, it put a lot of pressure on my voice and a lot of strain... but at the same time it helped build my voice.”

Led by some of the finest directors in the United States, the participants had two days of preparation for the concert.

When asked about the rehears-als, Tope Akinade said: “We had long rehearsals but it was worth it

because we all performed so well.” Singers and musicians from only two

schools were chosen from the Middle East and these students represented Qatar.

Sen Huang had the special honour of serving as Concert Master, a responsi-bility that he was very keen to accept, as it meant that his audition landed him the number one seat of all the clarinetists. As Sen reflected on the experience: “I put so much work into it. I learned a new concerto, which was a really difficult piece, and just knowing that it paid off was just such a good feeling.”

“Imagine the thrill of being seated

onstage at the prestigious Carnegie Hall in New York City, next to other talented, young musicians who were equally intent about performing to the utmost of their abilities. Imagine the elation of a standing ovation from the audience of 2,804 and the knowl-edge that the experience has ena-bled you to perform at a new level of excellence.

“The American School of Doha would like to congratulate these stu-dents for their hard work and dedi-cation and for their representation of ASD and Qatar,” a school spokes-person said.

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“You’re ready to play and you know your music, but when you’re in Carnegie Hall... and the conductor raises his baton and you play your first note, it really hits you. All of our incredible work is going into this one moment and as the concert goes on you sort of hurt because you want to just hold on to those notes.”

Jabreel Samples, ASD grade 11 student

Four ASD students perform at Carnegie Hall

Qatar Steel takes part in Qatar Projects as associate partner

Qatar Steel participated as associate part-ner in the Qatar Energy and Infrastructure Conference (Qatar Projects) held at Grand

Hyatt Doha recently. The conference was organised by Meed. The two-day event attracted over 400 local, regional and international delegates, including high-ranking dignitaries and senior executives in the industry, engineering, construction, consultation and other sectors. Over 85 top speakers, including project owners and senior officials from the public and private sectors, spoke at the conference.

Ali bin Hassan Al Muraikhi, Managing Director and General Manager, Qatar Steel, said: “Qatar Projects is one of the most important and stra-tegic conferences that tackle present and future

projects in Qatar, and it is a good business oppor-tunity for meeting and communicating with the attendees, exploring business opportunities and

discussing with them future business relations and partnerships.”

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SLMQ Blood Donation Campaign

Sri Lankan Majlis Qatar (SLMQ) will conduct a blood donation camp on Friday at Sri Lankan School, Doha. The camp is being conducted for the

second year in association with Stafford Sri Lankan School in Doha.Sri Lankan Ambassador Jayantha Palipane is expected to attend the occa-

sion as a guest of honour.“SLMQ welcome all Sri Lankans living in Qatar to participate and be part of

this life-saving exercise. All donors will be honoured with a participation cer-tificate from SLMQ,” a spokesperson said. For more information, call 55984958.

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‘Tree Week’ campaign launched at Q-Chem

Qatar Chemical Company Ltd (Q-Chem), in collaboration with the Ministry of Environment

(MoE), launched a ‘Tree Week’ cam-paign at the company’s facilities in Mesaieed Industrial City yesterday.

The initiative supports the “One Million Trees Campaign” announced by the ministry during the COP18 con-ference in December 2012. Q-Chem has decided to plant hundreds of trees at the plant site to expand its green belt. This will contribute to building a natural windblown sand barrier and increase the reuse of treated water for irrigation.

“This is a true win-win situa-tion,” said Ahmed Ibrahim Al Emadi, Q-Chem General Manager. “Our aim in this campaign is to expand the

culture of giving and caring for the environment in our Q-Chem family. Each employee now has a nameplate attached to the tree he or she has planted. Our employees’ participa-tion is outstanding and beyond expec-tations,” he added.

A similar campaign will be organised

at the company’s joint venture RLOC plant site in Ras Laffan Industrial City today. During the second phase, the total number of trees at both locations will touch 500.

Last year, during the first phase, 1,000 trees were planted at the Mesaieed and Ras Laffan locations in

2013. Q-Chem, in coordination with the Ministry of Environment, aims to plant more trees to reach a total of 2,500 in 2014.

The ‘Tree Week’ campaign is in line with Q-Chem’s goal of attaining zero treated industrial water discharge.

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Qatar Steel officials at the conference.

McDonald’s served more than 23,000 free Egg McMuffins to

customers across Qatar on March 17, during National Breakfast Day. National Breakfast Day saw more than 400 crew members in 26 McDonald’s restaurants across the country serve thousands of custom-ers in just four hours.

In the GCC alone, 230,000 Egg McMuffins were redeemed.

Kamal Saleh Al Mana, Managing Director of Al Mana Restaurants

& Food Co, commented: “We are absolutely thrilled by the positive response to National Breakfast Day across Qatar. The goal of the celebration was to demonstrate to our busy consumers that a packed schedule shouldn’t compromise a nourishing start to the day; the volume of participation we observed during this year’s event tells us we were successful in not only meeting, but exceeding this goal.”

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McDonald’s serves 23,000 free Egg McMuffins

Philips demonstrated the latest innovations in kitchen appliances during the Qatar International Food Festival.

PLUS | TUESDAY 25 MARCH 20146 ARCHAEOLOGY

During the organised excavations in Mesopotamia, which began in the middle of the nineteenth century, small cylindrical and round shaped stones engraved with various motives

was found. As excavations continued, archaeolo-gists began to realise that those peculiar finds in different shape and subjects were used as personal seals. Since then, they have been called cylinder seals and stamps seals.

More discov-eries, however, indicated they were first used in Mesopotamia in the middle of the fourth millen-nium BC for more than one purpose.

For exam-ple, they were used as personal stamps, jewellery or as amulets. Archaeologist also realized that after the inven-tion of writing during the end of the fourth mil-lennium BC, symbols and then cuneiform writings were added to the subject’s matters of both kinds of seals.

Modern archaeology on the other hand, began in the Arabian Gulf in 1953 when a Danish archae-ological team started to conduct excavations in Bahrain Island supporting the idea that Dilmun land is in fact Bahrain Island. However, when the Danes extended their excavations to the entire western coast of the Arabian Gulf they realised the land of Dilmun must have been extended from Failka Island (Kuwait) to Bahrain Island.

The writer, however, after he has conducted excavations and field survey in northwestern parts of Qatar Peninsula, believes that the land of Dilmun has always extended from the head of the Arabian Gulf to the eastern shores of Qatar Peninsula. Whatever comes beyond that border was the Land of (Magan) which was the main source of copper, stones, incenses, myrrh and many other raw materials commodities to Mesopotamia through Dilmun Land.

Through the courses of excavations, conducted by the Danes whom they cease their excavations in the Arabian Gulf states in the year (1970) or by those who came after them. They realized that Dilmun land which its name appeared in Mesopotamian texts for the first time at end of third millennium B.C. Have had also used cylinder and round seals to ratify transactions through the ages as Mesopotamian land. In addition, to that they realized those seals were provincial rather than influenced by multi successive cultures of Mesopotamia and beyond.

As for Dilmun land in the epics of the Sumerians, we find for example in the Epic of Gilgamesh that the Hero Gilgamesh passed through Mound Mashu in Lebanon to reach the Land of Dilmun where his grandfather used to live.

In verses of the Sumerian legend The Promise of the God Enki to the Goddess Ninhursag read these moving words “For Dilmun, the land of my lady’s heart, I will create long water ways, rivers, and canals, whereby water will flow to quench the thirst of all beings and bring abundance to all that lives.”

In the Sumerian Epic Deluge on the other hand, we read this important piece of poem.. “the Gods have decided to destroyed mankind by means of flood. But (Ziusudra) the grandfa-ther of Gilgamesh the pious God- fearing king is forewarned of the God Enki, the God of wisdom who advises him to construct a huge ship. This he does, and thus finds safety and shelter from

the destructive deluge which lasted seven days and seven nights,

In the eighth day the sun God Utu appears and Ziusudra prostrates himself and brings scarifies to him. Finally both Gods An and Anlil grant him eternal life and apparently place him in Dilmun Land the place where the sun rises…….

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Dilmun seals and Dilmun land

Dr Munir Taha

Stamp seal shows three gazelles and one bull. They are very common scenes in Dilmun seals. Dated back to the beginning of third Millennium BC.

The date-palms fronds (barsati) camp built at Al Bahrain Fort by the Danes in 1953.

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Hot Spinach Sauce

Ingredients:• 200g Spinach• 2 Tomatoes• 4 Green Chilies• 6 Curry Leaves• 2 tsp Urad Dal• 2 tsp Chana Dal• ½ inch Ginger• 2 tsp Tamarind Paste / 1 Lemon• 50 ml Water• 1 pinch Asafetida• 3 tbsp Oil• Salt to taste Method:Wash tomatoes and spinach thoroughly.Heat pan and add oil. After the oil is heated add urad

dal and chana dal. Roast them till they achieve a light brown colour.

After roasting, add curry leaves, asafetida, green chilies, ginger (small pieces). Fry them for two minutes. Then add tomatoes (pieces) and fry them for two minutes and add finely chopped spinach.

Mix the mixture continuously and let it cook for 2 min-utes. Cook Spinach to just remove it’s rawness.

After the spinach is cooked, turn off the gas and let it cool down. Then grind the mixture to make the sauce.

Now add lemon juice in it and 50ml of water. Mix it well and pour it in a bowl.

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For blending:• 1/4 cup of grated coconut• 1 small bunch of coriander leaves (cilantro)• 1 onion or a few shallots • 1 tsp of red chilli powder• 1 tsp of curry powder

Method:Heat the ghee in your pressure cooker pan. Add the sliced onions and sauté until

it lightly browns.Then add the cubed tomatoes and the green chillies, slit lengthwise .Add the chopped spinach and mix well.Let it cook for a while. Do not add water, the spinach will let out water .Blend the ingredients with some water and make it a smooth paste.Add this to the spinach mixture and mix well. Transfer the spinach rice mixture to the pressure pan and add salt. Add about 2.5 cups water, close and cook for about 15 minutes.Open and stir for two minutes and garnish with roasted cashew nuts and serve hot. Lakshmi

Spinach Rice

Ingredients:• 6 cups spinach, fresh shredded • 1 cup uncooked rice • 1 cup chicken broth • 1 cup water • 1 medium onion, chopped • 1 cup mushrooms, sliced• 2 cloves minced garlic • 1 tbsp lemon juice • 1/2 tsp dried oregano• 2 tbsp oil.• Pinch of salt.

Method:Combine rice, broth, water and bring to boil Simmer till cooked.In a skillet, cook onion, mushrooms, garlic in oil until tender. Add lemon juice and

oregano. Add spinach, cheese, mushroom mixture, freshly ground pepper ,pinch of salt. cook for 1 minute.

Fluff the cooked rice with a fork and add to the spinach mixture. Toss gently until spinach wilts.

Serve hot. Rukhsar Rafiq

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Spinach and Cheese Dumpling

Ingredients:• One cup cold mashed potato• 1/2 cup semolina• 1 cup spinach leafs chopped• 1/2 cup ricota cheese• 1 egg• Pinch of grated nutmeg• 1/2 tsp black pepper• Salt to taste

Method:Mix well all the ingredients in a bowl. Take walnut size pieces

of the mixture and roll each other back.Make 28g of gnochhi in this way.Bring a large pan of water to boil. Reduce to a simmer and drop in the gnocchi.They will sink at first but as they cook they will rise to the

surface.This process will take about 2 minutes, then simmer for 1

minute.Transfer the gnocchi with the Parmesan cheese.Grill under a high heat for 2 minutes.Mean while heat 6 tablespoon butter in a pan,1/2 lemon rind

and 1 tablespoon of lemon juice.Pour some of this butter over each portion of gnocchi and serve

hot garnished with the chopped fresh basil. Riffat Taihrak

Spinachy Horsegram Kebabs

Ingredients:• 1 cup finely chopped spinach• 2 cups horse gram• 1 cup bengal gram (channa dal)• 2 tbsp bread crumbs

• 1 tsp dry mango powder• 1 tbsp garam masala powder• 1 tsp chilli powder• 10 pods garlic• 2 inch piece ginger• 1 medium-sized finely chopped onion• 6-8 green Chillies• 1 tsp chat masala powder• 1 beaten egg• Salt to taste• Oil for frying

Method:Soak horse gram and bengal gram separately for 10-12

hours.Boil both the grams along with salt, ginger, garlic and 2-3

green chillies in a pressure cooker for 6-8 minutes. Allow to release the steam. Drain water thoroughly.

Grind the boiled grams with the powdered masalas. Add finely chopped onion, spinach, chopped green chillies. Mix well. Put beaten egg and bread crumbs.

Heat oil in a flat frying pan. Prepare round flat kebabs and shallow fry. Turn and cook till done. Serve hot with green chilli sauce and tomato ketchup.

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Spinach Lasagna

Ingredients:For tomato sauce:• 1 tbs olive oil• 1 medium onion, chopped• 4-5 cloves garlic, finely chopped• 2 tbs tomato paste• 1 cup hot water• 4 tomatoes, chopped• 1 tsp dried oregano• 2 tbs fresh basil leaves, roughly chopped• ½ tsp saltFor spinach filling:• 3 cups fresh spinach, chopped• 1 cup ricotta cheese• ¼ cup cream cheese• 1 medium egg, well beaten• 1 cup mozzarella cheese, shredded• 1 cup emmental cheese, shredded• 1 cup parmesan cheese, grated• ½ pack (250g) oven ready spinach lasagna sheets

Method:To prepare tomato sauce: In a large frying pan, heat

olive oil and sauté onions until soft. Add garlic and tomato paste and sauté for an additional one minute. Add hot water, tomatoes, salt, oregano, fresh basil and allow to simmer for 30 minutes. Turn heat down to low and keep warm.

To prepare spinach filling: Combine spinach, ricotta cheese, cream cheese and egg and mix until well combined.

In a separate bowl combine mozzarella and emmental cheese together. Preheat oven to 200 degree.

Spoon over 3-4 tablespoons of the tomato sauce on the bot-tom of a baking dish. Add a layer of lasagna sheets, sprinkle 1/3 of the spinach filling, 6-7 spoons of tomato sauce and 1/3 of the cheese mixture, layer another row of lasagna sheets and repeat for the remaining ingredients.

Sprinkle the top with grated parmesan cheese and bake in the oven for 30-40 minutes until fully cooked and cheese is slightly golden on the top.

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Spinach Biriyani

Ingredients:• 1.5 cups of rice, washed• 1 large bunch of spinach, washed and coarsely chopped• 1 tomato, cubed• 1 onion, sliced• 2 green chillies .• 2 tsp ghee or oil• 1/2 tsp or cumin• 10 roasted cashew nuts, for garnish (optional)

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No breather for Amitabh after ‘Bhoothnath Returns’

Megastar Amitabh Bachchan is on a pro-

motion spree for his forth-coming film Bhoothnath Returns and after the film’s release on April 11, he will get busy with other projects.

“The Bhoothnath Returns promotions now take up all my spare time and travel. There is much to be done and there are time con-straints. Radio, television, print, channel shows, visits to cities, premieres,” the 71-year-old, who will make appearance on shows like Boogie Woogie and Comedy Nights with Kapil, posted on his official blog srbachchan.tumblr.com.

He also mentioned that “there is a mountain of film scripts” that need to be read and decided upon.

In the coming months, he is looking forward to “R Balki’s rather unusual and exciting film with Dhanush and Akshara starting work next month, TV serial shooting in progress and we hope that it comes on soon, Shoojit Sarkar’s film Piku with Deepika (Padukone) and Irrfan Khan, starting work by June-July, simultaneously starting preparations for Kaun Banega Crorepati (KBC)’”.

“And in between KBC to find days and time for Vidhu Vinod Chopra’s production, with Farhan Akhtar. There are a few more that have been green signalled — an Abbas Mustan film, a Rumi Jafri film and a few more with other distinguished directors and two offers from overseas,” he further posted.

Amitabh also has a desire to show his skills on the stage.“Amongst all this, there shall be a desire to perform on stage with reci-

tations from my father’s works, and to be able to take it on an extended form to cities within and without India. Then there is all the charity and philanthropic work, which shall involve personal looking into, to ensure proper execution and delivery,” he posted.

Recently he was a bit under the weather. He underwent a CT scan and was advised bed rest for a few days, but now Big B is raring to go.

“Health issues shall always remain - we are perishable entities, are we not? ... but for the moment the one that had jolted me recently has been taken care of ... sufficiently taken care of, to enable me to start gyming again ... felt good after a two-hour session,” he posted.

Abhishek Kapoor to direct Mahabharata film

Rock On!! director Abhishek Kapoor will go behind the camera to bring Mahabharata on the big screen, and the narrative will be divided into

two movies. Currently, Kapoor is ready to roll the cameras for Fitoor, but Mahabharata will become his focus of attention soon after.

“Abhishek will be directing Mahabharata soon after he shoots for Fitoor. Mahabharata will come in two parts. While the first part will end with a crucial scene of Pandavas and Kauravas, the second part will see the war. The film will go on floors by 2015,” said a source close to the film’s development.

Disney India will bring the movie to celluloid.“It is gearing up to recreate the magic of the greatest ever epic from

Indian mythology on the big screen, at a scale never seen before in Indian cinema,” read a statement.

The live action movie will be written by Ashok Banker.“We intend to tell the story in a manner it deserves to be told on screen,

and are thrilled to have the incredibly talented Abhishek Kapoor at the helm, with one of the most knowledgeable and talented writers on the subject, Ashok Banker scripting it,” said Siddharth Roy Kapur, managing director, Disney India.

The film will go into pre-production after the completion of Kapoor’s Fitoor, starring Katrina Kaif and Aditya Roy Kapur.

By Lisa Richwine and Chris Michaud

Dystopian thriller Divergent, the story of a society that divides people based on personal-

ity traits, dominated weekend movie charts with $56m in US and Canadian ticket sales, kicking off a new franchise for Hunger Games producer Lions Gate Entertainment Corp.

Walt Disney Co family comedy Muppets Most Wanted finished in sec-ond place, nabbing $16.5m from Friday through Sunday, according to esti-mates provided by Rentrak. Animated Mr. Peabody & Sherman, produced by Dreamworks Animation Inc took the No. 3 slot with $11.7m.

Divergent is adapted from a popular series of young adult novels by new-comer author Veronica Roth. Ahead of the weekend, forecasters had predicted the film would debut with between $50m and $68m in North American (US and Canadian) ticket sales.

Shailene Woodley stars in Divergent as Tris Prior, a teenager who doesn’t fit in to a faction because she has multiple dominant personality traits, making her a threat to the government. She chooses to join the Dauntless faction of warriors who defend the society’s inhabitants. British actor Theo James plays Four, Tris’ mentor and love interest.

The debut of Divergent fell short of the box office heights of two other young adult franchises. Hunger Games started with a massive $152.5m in March 2012 while Twilight opened with $69.6m in November 2008.

Lions Gate said Friday it was confi-dent Divergent would become an impor-tant franchise for the company and it was moving ahead with the second film in the series, called Insurgent” which will reach theaters in March 2015.

Noting that the Divergent opening

was shy of blockbusters Hunger Games and Twilight, Jeff Bock, senior box office analyst at Exhibitor Relations Co, said “$56m is a great opening for any film, and virtually locked down the proposed trilogy.”

“This is something to build on for the series, and with the cast expected to be in high demand, the Divergent legacy will continue to grow,” Bock added.

Richie Fay, the studio’s president of domestic distribution, said, “We’re very pleased with the outcome for the franchise launch.”

The movie’s A+ CinemaScore grade from the under-18 audience bodes well for the coming weeks as spring break and Easter school holidays approach, Fay said, noting, “The young adult audience has been underserved in the last couple of weeks.”

The company spent $85m to pro-duce Divergent, plus $40m to $45m on marketing, according to a person with knowledge of the film’s budget. The studio has recouped about $70m of the cost through international licens-ing deals, the person said.

Muppets Most Wanted, a sequel to a 2011 Muppets movie, stars Ricky Gervais, Tina Fey and Ty Burrell alongside Miss Piggy, Kermit the Frog and other classic Muppet characters. In the new film, Kermit is imprisoned in a Russian gulag in a case of mis-taken identity, while an evil impostor travels with his muppet friends on a European tour.

Mr. Peabody and Sherman brought its global sales through three weekends to $172m . The movie was distributed by 20th Century Fox.

Rounding out the domestic charts, Greek warrior sequel 300: Rise of an Empire landed in fourth place with $8.7m, while the independent faith-based new release God’s Not Deadpulled in $8.6m to claim the No. 5 spot.

Warner Brothers, a unit of Time Warner, released 300: Rise of an Empire.

And fast-paced, car-chase action movie “Need for Speed,” inspired by the videogame of the same name, earned $7.8m, falling from third to sixth.

Wes Anderson’s quirky The Grand Budapest Hotel climbed one spot to sev-enth with just under $6.8m.

And eighth place went to Non-Stop, the Liam Neeson action movie set on a long-haul flight. The film added

another $6.3m to its total earnings.Falling to ninth was hit animated

film The Lego Movie, inspired by the children’s toy building blocks, which took in $4.1m.

And rounding out the top 10 with $3.1m was The Single Moms Club, the latest offering from prolific actor-director Tyler Perry, about five struggling mothers who set aside their differences to bond in a sup-port group. Agencies

HOLLYWOOD NEWS

Gibson likely to fight for daughter’s custody

Actor Mel Gibson is reportedly consid-ering going to family law court here in

an attempt to get more custody of his four-year-old daughter Lucia with the former girlfriend Oksana Grigorieva.

Gibson’s move follows an incident involv-ing law enforcement and Grigorieva’s eldest son with ex-007 Timothy Dalton, multiple sources have confirmed, reports radaron-line.com.

The site kept the allegations or details of the police investigation under wraps as Alexander Dalton is a juvenile.

But a source said: “Oksana is terrified that Mel is going to go to court and ask Judge Scott Gordon to give him sole custody of their daughter, Lucia, because of a recent incident. Oksana thinks Mel will try and use this to show the judge that she is an unfit mother.”

It’s a setback for the Russian beauty, who recently filed for bankruptcy.

Harding wanted to go solo for long time

Girls Aloud singer Sarah Harding says she wanted to launch a solo career for

a “long time”.The 32-year-old star made it big along-

side Cheryl Cole, Nadine Coyle, Nicola Roberts and Kimberley Walsh in Girls Aloud, and since the band split last year, Harding thinks it’s the “right time” for her to forge her own legacy in the music industry.

Contactmusic.com reports that when asked whether it’s daunting going solo, she said: “Yeah, of course! But it is something that I have wanted to do for a long time and I think now is the right time (hopefully!).”

Sarah, who is performing a showcase gig at the O2 Academy Islington in north London March 26, will miss the “banter”

she shared with her former bandmates and the support they gave one another during performances.

“(I will miss) being part of a team and having them there to back you up on stage and the banter,” she told Bang Showbiz in an interview.

Kids first, career second: Julia Roberts

Oscar-winning actress Julia Roberts says her children will always come before her career.

The Pretty Woman star is a mother of nine-year-old twins Hazel and Phinnaeus and six-year-old Henry and only accepts one movie a year, so she can spend most of her time with her family, reports contactmusic.com.

“I make one film per year and that’s a good balance. My older kids have just turned nine and my son is six; they still need me. My family takes up a lot of my time and my creative energy, but I’m lucky to have worked enough already to allow myself to take time off,” said Roberts, who made her acting debut in late 1980s.

“When I see my friends struggling to juggle both, I feel very privileged. I act less, but better; I’ve always been demanding (of a role), now I’m dif-ficult,” she added.

When asked about her family life, the 46-year-old said: “(It’s) the same as every other stay at home mom. Sometimes, there are wet bath towels strewn all over the house, dinner isn’t ready and the kids haven’t finished their homework...”


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Critics praise Ankhon Dekhi; poor show at box officeSunny Leone-starrer Ragini MMS 2 had a good start at the ticket counters

and experts are also recommending Lakshmi and Ankhon Dekhi as a must see.

Critics and viewers have, however, given Gang Of Ghosts, which released on Friday along with the other three, a cold shoulder.

Directed by Bhushan Patel, Ragini MMS 2 has collected about `160m in two days. “Ragini MMS 2 has a solid start at the ticket window. Despite India versus Pakistan cricket match making a dent in business, Friday total is impressive. Ragini MMS 2 (earned on Friday) `84.3m, Saturday `75m. India business only,” tweeted trade analyst Taran Adarsh.

The movie hit the screens on March 21, a day when most of the people were glued to their television sets to watch the India-Pakistan match in Bangladesh as part of ICC World Twenty20 tournament.

Gang Of Ghosts, also a horror film with comic elements, neither made the audiences roll with laughter on the floor nor gave them goose bumps.

“Gang Of Ghosts was meant to be a laugh-riot. But it hardly makes you laugh. Poor show,” Nahta posted on Twitter.

The Satish Kaushik directorial, made on a budget of `150-`160m, collected about `10m in two days, said Rajesh Thadani of Multimedia Combines.

Quirky drama Aankhon Dekhi, directed by filmmaker-actor Rajat Kapoor, has been lauded for its content, but its chances of box office success seem to be bleak. “In two days, it must have collected less than `1.5m,” Thadani said.

Nahta is also not expecting it to hit the bull’s eye. He tweeted: “Ankhon Dekhi is not commercial but has superb acting, ambience of mid-class family and excellent dialogues.”

Nagesh Kukunoor’s Lakshmi opened to rave reviews, but commercially it’s not so viable. One hopes word of mouth helps the film as celebrities are laud-ing the movie on child prostitution, inspired by a real life story. IANS

HEALTHPLUS | TUESDAY 25 MARCH 201410

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Obese? Blame it on fat cells’ expansionYou have heard about obesity or accumulation

of fat but do you know that nutrition is not the only factor driving obesity in our kids?

According to researchers, the mechanics of ‘cel-lular expansion’ plays a pivotal role in fat pro-duction. To understand how obesity develops, researchers used state-of-the-art technology to analyse the accumulation of fat in the body at the cellular level. “We wanted to find out why a seden-tary lifestyle results in obesity, other than making time to eat more hamburgers,” said professor Amit Gefen from Tel Aviv University’s department of biomedical engineering.

“We found that fat cells exposed to sustained, chronic pressure — such as what happens to the buttocks when you are sitting down — experienced accelerated growth of lipid droplets, which are mol-ecules that carry fats,” Gefen added.

Contrary to muscle and bone tissue, which get mechanically weaker with disuse, fat depots in fat cells expanded when they experienced sustained loading by as much as 50 percent. This was a substantial discovery.

The researchers discovered that, once it accu-mulated lipid droplets, the structure of a cell and its mechanics changed dramatically.

Using a cutting-edge atomic force microscope and other microscopy technologies, they were able to observe the material composition of the transform-ing fat cell, which became stiffer as it expanded. This stiffness alters the environment of surround-ing cells by physically deforming them, pushing them to change their own shape and composition.

“When they gain mass and change their com-position, expanding cells deform neighbouring cells, forcing them to differentiate and expand,” he explained. This proves that you are not just what you eat. You are also what you feel - and what you are feeling is the pressure of increased weight and the sustained loading in the tissues of the buttocks of the couch potato.

If you can learn to control the mechanical envi-ronment of cells, you can then determine how to modulate the fat cells to produce less fat, Natan Shaked, a researcher said. The team is now creating a platform to develop new therapies and technologies to prevent or even reverse fat gain, said the research published in the Biophysical Journal.

Depression, anxiety may lead to teeth loss

Dental decay and tooth loss may not be simple medical problems and psychological issues such

as depression and anxiety are linked to these con-ditions, research suggests. “Tooth loss from caries (dental decay) and periodontal disease (when the gums detach from the teeth) is an outcome from complex, chronic conditions,” said the research.

“Several bio-psychosocial factors are involved, including accessing care. Individuals reporting den-tal anxiety may avoid dental care and individuals with depression may be negligent in self-care,” said R Constance Wiener from West Virginia University.

For the study, researchers used a data of 451,075 respondents and selected those who were 19 years or older, and had complete data on depression, anxiety and tooth loss.

The researchers found that depression, anxiety and a combined category of depression or anxiety were significantly different in tooth loss than in the participants without such conditions.

Agencies

By Gabriella Boston

Core, core, core. Yes, we hear it ad nauseam: “You need to strengthen the core” or the other favorite, “It’s all about the core.”

But what does it really mean?There is no clear medical definition of core, but fit-

ness trainers use the term to describe the muscles of the trunk — front and back.

“Many people associate ‘core’ with abs and maybe lower back, but from a more global perspective, it includes all the supportive muscles of the spine,” says Robert Gillanders, an endurance athlete and physi-cal therapist at Sports + Spinal Physical Therapy in Washington.

“And part of the reason the core muscles are so important is because the spine is not a fun-damentally stable structure,” he says. So the expression “grow a spine” should really be “build some core.”

Core muscles are important for athletic performance, in par-ticular, because they ensure effi-cient transfer of energy from the powerful lower body to the less bulky upper body, says Stephen Burgett, a personal trainer certi-fied by the National Strength and Conditioning Association.

In other words, if you are a golfer or baseball player, you know that your swing doesn’t originate in the arms — it comes all the way from the ground up. And if you have a strong core, that power is more likely to stay intact all the way up from your toes through your fingertips, generating a pow-erful swing.

“Same thing for a runner. If they don’t have good core strength and can’t stay upright at the end of a race, they will lose a lot of efficiency and force,” Burgett says.

Todd Miller, a professor in the Department of Exercise Science at George Washington University, calls the core the “mechanical link between the upper and lower body.”

So: how to train the core? All three experts agree that traditional crunches are

not the way to go. “They are overrated,” says Burgett. “And the way many people do them, there is way too much range of motion and they end up complaining about back pain.”

And, he says, the key to functional fitness is to find a way to build muscle that supports daily activity — of which crunching in a fetal position probably is not one.

“When is a crunch position a useful position?” he asks rhetorically. “You wouldn’t be in that position unless you were sick or being beaten up.” Instead, Burgett works on exercises such as side-lying planks to help build the lateral muscles of the trunk and single-leg bridges with hip extensions to work the back and glutes.

Gillanders approves.It’s important to comprehend the many dimensions

and layers of core muscles, he says. If you were doing only crunches, for example, you would be neglecting those lateral muscles of the core as well as muscles of the back.

In the trunk, like elsewhere in the body, there are big, small, front, back, side, surface and deep muscles — and for the best outcome for fitness and wellness, he says, all of them need to be worked to “fire appropriately.”

For example, there are the rectus abdominis (the

six-pack) and underneath them are the transverse abdominis (equally important but not visible to the naked eye). Then there are the big back muscles such as the erector spinae and the much smaller and local muscles such as the sectional muscles between the vertebrae.

It’s a lot to keep track of, but it’s important to do so, Gillanders says, because if you overtrain certain muscles and underwork others, the body becomes less adept at moving efficiently.

Gillanders points out that the smaller, more local muscles often require subtle movements — like “bring-ing the navel toward the spine” or “bracing with the

pelvic floor” — that don’t necessarily fit the idea of “workout exercises.”

“Connecting with those movements is a form of men-tal gymnastics,” Gillanders says.

Miller says that doing “abs” in isolation is completely unnecessary if you are looking to improve core strength.

“If you have a properly designed resistance training program with lunges and squats you don’t need to do abs,” Miller says.

Think of exercises such as lunging and squatting with overhead weights. This type of work strengthens the core because it requires the core to stabilize the body.

But let’s face it, it’s almost swimsuit season, and some people want to go for the six-pack look. How to get there? “Eat less,” says Miller half-jokingly, adding that everyone has a six-pack — it’s part of our anatomy. It’s just a matter of how much fat is layered on top.

There is no such thing as spot-reducing fat, he says, so it’s overall dietary — and exercise — changes that create a calorie deficit that ultimately will reveal the six-pack. Working the abs to create more bulk will also help reveal them.

And here is where Miller has an admission to make.“I do crunches,” he says. “But I do them to look good.

And if the goal is to have good-looking abs, then sure, by all means do the crunch machine. But it’s for show more than anything else.”

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TECHNOLOGYPLUS | TUESDAY 25 MARCH 201412

By Shane Hickey

Angry Birds was the big-gest selling app in the Apple online store when in November 2011 it was

pushed off its perch by a 12-year-old schoolboy’s creation.

Harry Moran’s Pizzabot, a rework-ing of Space Invaders, also drove down a release from the Call of Duty series when it debuted on the chart, lead-ing to the Irish boy being dubbed the youngest successful app developer in the world. More remarkable was that the game was produced as a home-work assignment from his local com-puter club.

Harry is one of thousands of chil-dren aged between five and 17 across 27 countries who have learned com-puter skills though a network of vol-unteer-led CoderDojos, after-school clubs that teach coding, website devel-opment and game creation among other skills.

The 220 clubs that have sprung up worldwide over the last two and a half years started when James Whelton, now 21, saw demand for his after-school meetings teaching HTML and CSS expand beyond the corridors of Presentation Brothers College in Cork, in Ireland’s South-West Region.

By that stage, the young Irishman had been earning money building web-sites for local businesses for six years and was the first person in the world to hack a new iPod, in turn building up his reputation among online peers. It was a distant cry from his more solitary early years. “I say to people that some kids have friends when they were growing up, I had keyboards,” he said.

“I saw that computing was a very real thing just through the feeling and pure ecstasy of solving a problem, or getting people to visit a website and seeing that it was a sustainable thing.

“People heard that I could hack because I had my track record as an academic underachiever and people thought that if that idiot Whelton can programme, then anyone can. I think my friends were interested and we organised a get-together. It was now cool in a lot of people’s eyes.”

Whelton’s online reputation resulted in an invitation to speak at the Dublin Web Summit in 2011, on the same day that he was due to sit his mock final maths exam, where he met Bill Liao, an Australian entrepre-neur who wanted to take the classes further.

In 2011, the CoderDojos — named

after martial arts training areas or “dojos” — began to spread, around Ireland and then abroad. There are 37 in the UK, 10 in Japan, four in India and one each in Panama, Bolivia, South Africa and Brazil.

IT professionals give up their time to help children learn to code, at the same time encouraging the children to eventually become tutors themselves.

The classes are held in universities and company offices empty at week-ends — among other venues — in what is called “an open-source, volunteer-led, global movement” where children under the age of 12 have to be accom-panied by an adult. Rules are thin on the ground, apart from: “Be Cool — bullying, lying, wasting people’s time and so on is uncool.”

“The idea of a computer club is not new, you are just essentially throw-ing people in a room and trying to teach them. But what you are teach-ing them — helping others, being open and transparent — was what defined us,” Whelton said.

“There were a lot of philosophies we liked around the dojo — when you go to one you get help, work in teams,

practise what you have done, show off what you have done. The more senior you get, the more you mentor young people.

“We applied a lot of these logics and principles to a coding club. We thought that if we influenced how we taught kids programming we could get to make more apps that were open source. We could get them to make apps for social causes and for good.”

The appetite for the computing dojos grew quickly. The Dublin class was frequently booked up in less than a minute, while word soon spread to Japan and the US, where dojos were also set up.

Their success comes from working

with a generation of children who have had access to computing since they were a young age, while at the same time not having to adhere to traditional classroom teaching struc-tures, said Whelton. Some of the measurements of the clubs’ successes are how previously insular or isolated children come out of their shells in the classes, he said.

“Screw creating the next Mark Zuckerberg. I want to see kids who become passionate about program-ming and go into medicine and poli-tics, go into whatever field and use their skills to solve problems there and completely revolutionise it. I think that is infinitely more powerful to our society,” Whelton said.

The CoderDojo movement is reflec-tive of discontent within the IT indus-try that governments are not doing enough to teach children proper computing skills, limiting lessons to how to use word processing and spreadsheets.

“I felt that if we could identify our-selves as an entity outside govern-ment, we could operate independently. We are more powerful outside govern-ment,” said Whelton.

“It is pretty mind-blowing to me. It is a lot of stress and I think that because you want to do well for these people, you push yourself more and more. When you are working in non-profit your metric is impact, how much we do. If I have to get myself pumped up to talk to people, that is when I have to pull up the feelings of parents and the impact of what it has done [for] their child.”

Whelton, who spent his early days on the project hopping between friends’ couches, was named by Forbes magazine as one of 30 people under the age of 30 to watch. A foundation was recently set up to manage the CoderDojo movement. His next goal is to make himself redundant from his position as figurehead of the move-ment. “I’m not the wick nor wax but the spark,” he said.

The Guardian

Rise of open-source coder generation

SkitchA useful tool for visual thinkers

Plenty of people use the note-taking service Evernote, but the company has another great productivity app, Skitch.

Skitch is best for more visual think-ers and lets you annotate pictures you take with elements such as drawings, arrows and text. That means that instead of telling someone to “choose the second item in the third drop-down menu from the right,” you can just take a snapshot and circle the option in question.

You can share your edited snaps over email, by text, on Facebook and Twitter or in Evernote, if you have an account.

The app works best with an Evernote Premium subscription, which also gives you the handy option of annotating PDFs within Skitch — good for layout and other critiques on the go.

But even without hooking into its sister app, Skitch is a useful tool for more efficient communication.

Works on iOS, Android and computers

Irish 21-year-old who founded CoderDojos after-school clubs tells of huge impact on young worldwide.

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Hoy en la HistoriaMarch 25, 1949

1655: Dutch astronomer and mathematician Christiaan Huygens discovered Saturn’s largest moon, Titan1924: Greece was officially declared a republic1995: WikiWikiWeb, the world’s first user-editable website, was created. The Wikipedia site is descended from it1997: Treasure hunters found the wreck of a Spanish galleon that sank in 1654 with a cargo of gold bars and silver coins, now worth $4bn

Hamlet, directed by and starring Laurence Olivier, won five Oscars. Adapted from Shakespeare’s play, it was the first British film ever to win the award for Best Picture

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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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12:00 World Of

Athletics

12:30 Nba Inside Stuff

13:00 Nba Basketball

Indiana @

Chicago

15:00 Italian League

Lazio V Milan

16:45 Short

Programme

17:00 90 In 30

17:30 Atp Magazine

18:00 Tennis Atp 1000

Miami

02:00 Serie A Show

02:30 90 In 30

03:00 Nba Basketball

Oklahoma @

Dallas

08:00 News

09:00 Al Jazeera

World

10:30 Inside Story

11:00 News

11:30 The Stream

12:30 Viewfinder

Latin America

13:00 NEWSHOUR

14:30 Inside Story

15:00 Indian Hospital

16:00 NEWSHOUR

17:30 The Stream

18:00 NEWSHOUR

19:30 Artscape -

Poets of

Protest

20:00 News

20:30 Inside Story

21:00 NEWSHOUR

22:00 News

22:30 The Stream

23:00 Al Jazeera

World

16:00 Road To 2014

Fifa World Cup

17:00 Monday Night

Football

18:00 Sports News

18:15 Epl Profile Man

Untd

18:30 Epl Football

Today

21:00 UEFA Champions

League Magazine

Show

21:30 This Is Paris

22:00 Premier League

Man United V

Man City

12:00 Storage Wars

13:00 Pawn Stars

14:00 Ancient Aliens

15:00 Pawn Stars UK

16:00 Pawn Stars

19:00 Storage Wars

20:00 Pawn Stars

21:00 Pawn Stars UK

22:00 Pawn Stars

22:30 Storage Wars

23:00 Storage Wars

Texas

11:00 The Wild Girl-

PG15

13:00 Another

Harvest Moon-

PG15

15:00 Remember

Sunday

16:45 Pitch Perfect

18:45 The Host

21:00 Alex Cross

23:00 On The Road

12:00 The New Guy

14:00 Rookie Of The

Year

16:00 From Prada To

Nada

18:00 Ghostbusters

20:00 A Few Best Men

22:00 Slums Of

Beverly Hills

13:15 Gold Divers:

Under The Ice

14:30 Auction Kings

16:10 Fast N' Loud

17:00 Ultimate Survival

18:40 You Have Been

Warned

19:30 One Man Army

20:20 How Do They

Do It?

20:45 How Stuff's

Made

21:10 Auction Kings

21:35 Container Wars

22:00 Dual Survival

22:50 Survive That!

23:40 Yukon Men

13:10 How The

Universe Works

14:00 Kings Of

Construction

15:20 Food Factory

16:10 Mega Builders

18:45 X-Machines

20:30 Junkyard Wars

22:10 Food Factory

22:35 How Tech

Works

23:00 Stuck With

Hackett

13:15 Eastenders

13:45 Doctors

15:05 New Tricks

15:55 Vicar Of Dibley

17:10 Eastenders

17:40 Doctors

20:00 Upstairs

Downstairs

20:50 Mistresses

21:40 Omid Djalili Show

22:10 Five Daughters

23:00 Weakest Link

14:30 Tommy & Oscar

16:00 Gabe The

Cupid Dog

18:00 Arthur

Christmas

20:00 Freddy Frogface

22:00 Tommy & Oscar

23:30 Gabe The

Cupid Dog

MALL

1

Mr. Peabody & Sherman (3D/Animation) – 2.30pm

Only Lovers Left Alive (2D/Horror) – 4.30pm

Balyakalasakhi (2D/Malayalam) – 7.00 & 11.15pm

Sabotage (2D/Action) – 9.15pm

2

The Starving Games (2D/Comedy) – 2.15 & 4.00pm

Minuscule: Valley Of The Lost Ants (2D/Animation) – 5.45pm

Villa 69 (2D/Arabic) – 7.30pm

Haunt (2D/Horror) – 9.45pm


3

Frozen (3D/Animation) – 2.30pm


Need For Speed (3D/Action) – 6.15, 8.30 & 11.00pm

LANDMARK

1



Balyakalasakhi (2D/Malayalam) – 7.00pm

Sabotage (2D/Action) – 9.00 & 11.15pm

2



Need For Speed (3D/Action) – 6.15, 8.45 & 11.15pm

3






ROYAL

PLAZA

1



Gang of Ghost (2D/Hindi) – 7.00 & 9.15pm


2


Need For Speed (3D/Action) – 6.30 & 11.15pm


3


Minuscule: Valley Of The Lost Ants (2D/Animation) – 4.00 & 5.45pm




13:00 Do Dil Bandhe Ek

Dori Se

13:30 Ek Mutthi

Aasmaan

14:00 Doli Armaano Ki

14:30 Jodha Akbar

15:30 Sapne Suhane

Ladakpan Ke

16:00 Aur Pyaar Hogaya

16:30 Qubool Hai


17:30 Pavitra Rishta

18:30 Ek Mutthi Aasmaan


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



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

15:00 Good Luck

Charlie

15:25 Gravity Falls

15:50 Austin & Ally

16:10 Violetta


17:20 Austin & Ally

17:40 Gravity Falls

18:10 Jessie

20:05 Jessie


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

13:30 Arrested

Development

15:00 Trophy Wife

15:30 The Daily Show

Global Edition

16:00 Colbert Report

Global Edition

16:30 The War At Home

17:00 Late Night With

Seth Meyers

18:00 The Simpsons

18:30 Raising Hope

19:30 Trophy Wife

20:00 Tonight Show

Starring Jimmy

Fallon

21:00 The Daily Show

With Jon Stewart

21:30 Colbert Report

22:00 The Big C

23:00 Legit

23:30 Late Night With

Seth Meyers


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IN FOCUS

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by Oscar Rialubin

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Sheikh Khaled bin Khalifa Al Thani, CEO of Qatargas

Sheikh Khaled Al Thani is the CEO of Qatargas and the Director of Ras

Laffan Industrial City (RLIC). In addition, he serves as the Chairman and Managing Director of Qatar Real Estate Investment Company (Al Aqaria Real Estate). He is also a Board Member of Qatar First Bank. He holds a MA in Business Administration and a BA in Computer Science from Pacific Lutheran University in the USA.

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: Until 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

It was put on auction as a cam-era that made it to the moon and back. And it had its price — nearly

$760,000.The Hasselblad 500 sold over the

weekend is described by Vienna auc-tioneers Galerie Westlicht as part of the equipment carried by the 1971 Apollo 15 mission, the fourth manned mission to land on the moon.

Galerie Westlicht identifies the

new owner as Japanese businessman Terukazu Fujisawa. It says the owner of an electronics chain placed his win-ning bid of €550,000 by phone. Bidding started Saturday at €80,000 — just over $110,000.

Gallery spokesman Stefan Musil describes the Hasselblad as the only camera ever brought back from the moon, but some experts question that claim. AP

Camera used on moon landing sold for $758,489

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