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The yearlong search for Malaysia Airlines Flight 370 has turned up no sign of the plane, but that doesn’t mean it’s been unproductive.

It has yielded lessons and discoveries that could benefit millions, including coastal

Australians, air and sea travelers and scientists trying to understand ancient

changes to the earth’s crust.

LESSONS FROM LESSONS FROM MH370 SEARCHMH370 SEARCH

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By Nick Perry

The yearlong search for Malaysia Airlines Flight 370 has turned up no sign of the plane, but that doesn’t mean it’s been unproductive. It has yielded lessons and discoveries that could benefit millions,

including coastal Australians, air and sea travelers and scientists trying to understand ancient changes to the earth’s crust.

The knowledge gained so far is of little com-fort to family and friends of the 239 people still missing from the plane, which vanished last March 8 during a f light from Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, to Beijing. While f inding the plane remains the top priority for searchers and investigators, what they’re learning along the way may prove valuable long after the search ends.

Benefits of the work so far include:

New Underwater MapsIn the Indian Ocean west of Australia, where

experts believe the plane crashed, scientists have been mapping the sea floor to aid in the search for wreckage.

Previous maps relied on satellite data, which gave only rough estimates of the ocean’s depth. Now, using sonar readings from ships, scientists have mapped an area the size of Nebraska and have discovered previ-ously unknown trenches and underwater mountains that rival the height of any on Australia’s surface.

Searchers are getting even more detailed sonar readings using small underwater vehicles called “towfish” that are towed just above the sea floor.

Scientists from around the world are eagerly antic-ipating the release of the three-dimensional maps and data once the search is completed.

Better Tsunami PredictionStuart Minchin, a divisional chief at Geoscience

Australia, said that when the maps are released and further analysed, they will give scientists a better understanding of areas that during earthquakes are susceptible to underwater landslides, which can cre-ate or exacerbate tsunamis.

He said the information will help scientists pin-point areas along Australia’s west coast that are par-ticularly vulnerable to tsunamis and enable better warnings and predictions for coastal residents.

Improved Search And RescueKnowing the topography of the ocean floor also

helps scientists predict ocean currents, said Minchin. That can help with everything from predicting where a disabled boat might drift in a search-and-rescue mission to understanding how marine species spread to new areas. He said it can even help scientists understand how heat is distributed through the ocean, which could be used by meteorologists to help fine-tune weather forecasts.

No plane, many discoveries in yearlong search for Flight 370

A fast response craft from the Australian A fast response craft from the Australian

Defence Vessel Ocean Shield search for Defence Vessel Ocean Shield search for

debris of the missing Malaysian Airlines debris of the missing Malaysian Airlines

flight MH370 in the southern Indian Ocean.flight MH370 in the southern Indian Ocean.

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Better Plane TrackingOne thing the airline industry

learned from Flight 370 is that more tracking is needed, even for planes expected to fly over land for their entire journeys.

The International Civil Aviation Organization, which is part of the United Nations, has proposed that airlines be required to get position updates from each of their planes every 15 minutes. That requirement is expected to be in place by November 2016.

A more stringent requirement would seek updates every minute if a fire is detected or the plane makes an unu-sual move, such as suddenly dropping or climbing in elevation. That would apply only to jets manufactured after 2020.

Australian Transport Minister Warren Truss said that his govern-ment’s airspace agency will work with Malaysia and Indonesia to test a new method, which would enable planes to be tracked every 15 minutes, rather than the previous rate of 30 to 40 minutes. However, even if such a sys-tem had been in place for Flight 370, it would not have made it possible to track the plane because transponder and other equipment were switched off.

Because investigators still don’t know what happened to Flight 370, airlines have no information to help them update their mechanical systems or flight-training techniques.

Improved Multinational SearchesCapt Chris Budde, maritime opera-

tions director for the US Navy 7th Fleet, said that when it helped out on a multinational search for another missing plane in December, things went more smoothly thanks to les-sons learned from the hunt for Flight 370.

The latter search was for AirAsia

Flight 8501, which plunged into the Java Sea near Indonesia, killing all 162 people aboard.

Budde said tasks like establishing common radio frequencies between nations and determining who to con-tact onshore for search assignments were completed more efficiently after Indonesia studied and learned from Malaysia’s experience.

“These events are tragic, but they do help build cooperation and regional stability as militaries work together,” he said.

He said the US Navy fleet also managed to modify its technology on the fly in the search for Flight 370, by tweaking its sonar equipment to detect, at short range, pings from an airplane’s black boxes. It was able to use that tweak a second time in the search for the AirAsia plane, he

said, albeit without success in either instance. Possible Satellite Improvements

The search exposed some of the limitations of satellite images, said Joseph Bermudez Jr, the co-founder of Longmont, Colorado-based AllSource Analysis. Over the long term, he said, it may prompt companies to improve the technical capabilities of their sat-ellites — for instance, by having them detect different and enhanced light wavelengths.

Many people assumed that, like in the movies, they could scour satellite images to see the plane veering off course or spot its wreckage. In reality, Bermudez said, commercial satellites aren’t generally aimed to take images over remote stretches of ocean and when they do, the images are often unclear and need experts to decipher

them.He said there was such high inter-

est in the plane’s disappearance that amateurs around the world studied satellite images on crowd-sourcing websites to identify between 2 mil-lion and 3 million possible sightings of the plane or its debris.

“Not one of them was correct,” he said. He added that people need to be better trained in reading such images before they are turned loose on the task. Improved image quality, he added, could also help.

A Window Into HistoryRobin Beaman, a marine geologist

at Australia’s James Cook University, said the underwater maps will help show scientists how Earth’s crust stretched and pulled apart millions of years ago, a process that is continuing today and is slowly pushing Australia away from Antarctica.

“It’s fitting the pieces of the puz-zle back together. And it’s not just an academic exercise,” Beaman said. “The great gas resources for Australia are in the west, and if you fit that jigsaw back, you get more of a picture of how those gas resources were created.”

Dave Gallo, the director of special projects at Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution in Massachusetts, said less than 8 percent of the underwater world has been explored.

“It’s more daunting than looking on Mars because there’s no light,” he said. “So we’re in a completely unknown world in mountains that are the most rugged on earth. There’s no maps, so it’s all basic, pure explora-tion with a mission that not only are we exploring, but we’re also looking for an aircraft.”

Minchin said that everybody involved in the search continues to hope the plane will be found.

“If not, there is a silver lining,” he said. “The data will be useful to sci-ence for many years to come.”

Scott Mayerowitz and Kristen Gelineau contributed to this report. AP

Workers help secure a Phoenix underwater

mapping robot before transportation on the

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IIS students win essay contestIdeal Indian School won the inter school essay writing com-

petition organised by SKIA Qatar in connection with World

Cancer Day at Bhavan’s Public School recently. The topics

were ‘How can I be a Role Model in preventing cancer?’ and

‘ Cancer journey of a close acquaintance – Impact on your

personality and life.’ Fareeha Noor won the third position

in category-1 (grades 7-9) and Akif Jabir won the second

prize in category–2 (grades 10-12). Prizes were awarded

to the winners during the awareness programme held at

ICC, Ashoka Hall.

Georgetown University in Qatar recently hosted the Georgetown - ESADE Global Executive MBA (GEMBA)

programme participants during their fourth residency module which included site visits to Bangalore and Doha.

Leveraging the expertise and the alliance of Georgetown’s McDonough School of Business and Walsh School of Foreign Service and ESADE Business School, Spain, in global business strat-egy and management, policymaking, international relations and leader-ship, the Georgetown - ESADE Global Executive MBA (GEMBA) is a world-class Master’s programme which was created for professionals who have a current international role and at least eight years of postgraduate experience.

Across fourteen months and through six residency modules which include site visits to six countries and ten cities, the program participants learn through immersion, interaction and network-ing with colleagues and organisations in advanced and emerging economies.

Georgetown University campus in Doha served as a link in connecting the international delegation of 52 program participants from 17 countries with prominent practitioners from the lead-ing organizations in Qatar for “Special Topic” and “Academic Briefing” ses-sions to discuss current business and

management challenges faced by vari-ous sectors in the region.

Yousuf Al Kaabi, who is the Manager of IT Project Management Office at Sidra Medical & Research Center and one of the Georgetown - ESADE Global Executive MBA (GEMBA) pro-gram participants, commented on the experience by saying that the Doha site visit provided the students with valu-able insight into Qatar’s economy at a very relevant time.

“The fact that Georgetown decided to bring their Global Executive MBA to Qatar shows the important role that Qatar is playing on the world economic and political stage,” noted Waleed Khan, Assistant Director for Marketing at Georgetown University School of Foreign Service in Qatar, who is also one of the 52 programme participants, emphasizing on the sig-nificance of the Doha site visit.

The Doha leg of module four

focused on the topics of Managing Human Capital and Doing Business in the MENA region and featured lecturers from the Qatar Faculty of Islamic Studies and Silatech in addition to Georgetown University. Adding benefit to the programme, Doha site visits included Al Jazeera Network, Qatar 2022 Legacy Pavilion and a tour of one of Qatar’s major gas plants.

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The participants attending

one of the talks.

SDC conducts prize distribution ceremony

Skills Development Centre (SDC), the centre of Fine Arts & Performing Arts located at Salata Jadeed, conducted a

prize distribution ceremony for the essay and arts competitions organ-ised in association with Ministry of Environment and ‘Koodu’ Nature Society Qatar Chapter as part of Qatar National Environment Day.

More than 600 students had par-ticipated in the competitions from various Indian schools. Fukushima Daiichi nuclear disaster in 2011 and its impact on air, land and sea was the topic of Essay where ‘Our nature’ was given for drawing competitions. The topics were given in advance to the students so that they can explore and acquire more knowledge about the issues. It also helped in conveying

the message to their parents as well. Legendry Wild life Photographer T N A Perumal distributed the prizes to the winners. Renowned painter Dr

Sreekumar, Dileep Anthikad, Technical Advisor and Liaison Officer, Ministry of Environment, and P N Baburajan, SDC Managing Director were present

during the occasion. A theme based dance performance

by SDC students were an highlight of the evening. The Peninsula

Prize winners with

the guests and

SDC officials.

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The Ritz-Carlton, Qatar Museums launch Cultural Indulgence Project

The Ritz-Carlton Doha has partnered with Qatar Museums to promote Qatar as a key tourist destination for

visitors through a dedicated Cultural Indulgence Project. The project was launched at the Ritz-Carlton, Doha with a concierge workshop focusing on educating and training hotel concierges from across the country, empowering them to promote the cultural offerings of Qatar Museums to hotel guests.

“We are committed to promoting Qatar as a unique, cultural destination and are always supportive of such ini-tiatives, which in turn will enhance our guest experience and create ever-last-ing memories for our visitors,” said Zee Bassila, Cluster Director of Sales and Marketing at The Ritz-Carlton, Doha.

Targeting hotel guests and visitors interested in discovering more about the heritage of country, the Cultural Tourism Unit has created a ‘Cultural Indulgence Booklet’ which includes a variety of information about Qatar,

including its heritage and development. “Qatar is a country with huge tour-

ism potential and invests enormously in education, sports, health, arts, and more importantly its heritage and cul-ture. We aim to spread this cultural

awareness and position Qatar as a world-class cultural hub with deep cultural roots, in line with the Qatar Tourism Authority’s vision,” said Maja Knezevic, Head Cultural Tourism Unit at Qatar Museums. The Peninsula

Oryx Rotana Doha gets new executive chef

Oryx Rotana announced the appointment of its new Executive Chef Sanguk Lee (pictured),

overseeing all dining venue as well as hotel catering and private events.

Originally from South Korea, Chef Lee brings more than 20 years’ of international experience to his role. He graduated with a degree in hospitality management from London Metropolitan University and has worked in properties based in London, Ukraine and Oman.

“I want to re-energise our kitchen and our restaurants by further enhancing our guest expe-rience. My aim is not only to attract more guests but also to preserve Oryx Rotana’s patrons,” said Chef Sanguk Lee Lee started at the Oryx Rotana early in 2015 and will take over for former Executive Chef Rainer Muller, who accepted a position at the Amwaj Rotana in Dubai, UAE.

“Chef Sanguk Lee’s undeniable passion for food will surely comple-ment our continuous commitment to providing our guests with excep-tional dining experiences,” said Kevork Deldelian, general manager, Oryx Rotana Hotel. The Peninsula

Indonesian community in Qafco marks anniversaryThe Indonesian Ambassador Deddy Saiful Hadi with Labour Attache Agus Widayat attended the ‘13 Years Excitement of

KOMIQ’ event recent;y. KOMIQ stands for the Indonesian Community in Qafco. Starting with a few families of Indonesian

engineers and technicians, the community has grown to approximately 250 families residing in the LG Camp. Deddy in

his speech urged the Indonesian diaspora to demonstrate good work ethics and be accommodating to various customs

and culture of fellow expatriates.

PLUS | TUESDAY 3 MARCH 20156 RECIPE CONTEST

WINNER

Rice Noodle Crispy SaladIngredients:

• 2 cups rice noodles • Oil for deep-fryingFor the dressing• 1/2 cup grated jaggery• 1 1/2 tsp imli pulp (tamarind) • 2 tbsp roasted peanut powder• 1 tsp black salt (sanchal) • 1 tsp chilli powderTo be mixed into a salad• 1/2 cup grated carrot • 1/2 green and red shredded cabbage• 1/2 cup thinly sliced spring onions whites• 1/5 cup finely chopped greens spring onion• 1/4 cup thinly sliced yellow,red and green capsicum• Salt to taste

Method Deep-fry the rice noodles in hot oil. Drain on absorbent

paper and keep aside.Combine all the ingredients with ¾ cup of water in a

small pan and simmer till the mixture thickens.Keep aside to cool. How to proceedPlace the fried noodles on a serving plate, top with the

salad and pour the dressing over it.Serve immediately. Joshi K D

Delicious Dal and Fruit Salad

Ingredients:• 1 cup Bengal gram ( Chana daal )• Seeds from 1 large pomegranate• 3 ripe bananas, chopped• 2 small ripe guavas, chopped (optional)• Juice of half a lemon• 3 tbsp mint leaves, finely chopped• 2 tbsp coriander leaves, finely chopped• 1-2 tsp freshly ground black pepper• 1 tsp chaat masala (optional)• Salt, to taste

Method:Soak the daal in about 3 cups of water for about 3-4 hours.

Before making the salad, keep the soaked daal on the stove and

bring to a boil. Then lower the heat and simmer for 10-30 minutes

till it’s tender but still has some bite left to it.

When done, mix with the rest of the ingredients and serve. This

protein rich salad with creamy banana, ruby red pomegranate

and a tangy lemon dressing is delicious, filling and refreshing. Ayesha Banu

Birds Nest Egg Salad

Ingredients:• 1 egg• 3 cups chow mein noodles or any• 1/4 tsp garlic• SaltEgg salad• 6 hard cooked eggs, chopped• 1/3 cup mayonnaise• 1/3 cup finely chopped celery• 2 tblsp finely chopped onion• 2 tblsp minced fresh parsely• 1tsp ground mustard• 1/2tsp lemon juice• Salt for taste • Lettuce leaves

Method:In a bowl, beat egg. Add chow mein noodles, garlic, salt. Stir to

coat. Drop 1/3 cup of the chow mein batter onto a greased baking

sheet. Using fingers, shape each into a nest. Bake at 350degrees for 11 minutes or until set. Cool for 2 minutes and cool it.

In another bowl, combine the egg, mayonnaise, celery, onion, sparsely, mustard, lemon juice and mix well. Just before serving put a spoon full of salad in the baked nest which you made and place each one of them on the lettuce leaves. Serve cold.

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Asian Sesame Salad

Ingredients:• 1/3 cup light soy sauce

• 2 tbsp sesame oil

• 350g firm tofu, cut into cubes

• 2tbsp soya oil

• 1 cup broccoli florets

• 1 carrot, peeled, cut into ribbons

• 1 cup baby corn cut into 1” slices

• 6-7 button mushrooms

• 1tsp toasted sesame seeds

• Salt to taste

• Pepper to taste

Method:Mix soy sauce, sesame oil, salt and pepper in a bowl. Marinate

the tofu, babycorn, broccoli, mushroom halves in the marinade

for 10 minutes.

Remove tofu and vegetables from marinade, reserving marinade.

Heat 1tbsp oil in a large, nonstick frying pan over medium-high

heat. Add tofu. Cook, turning, for 3 to 4 minutes or until golden

brown. Transfer to a bowl.

Heat 1tbsp oil in another pan and toss the broccoli, mushrooms,

and baby corn for a minute till lightly colored.

Add reserved marinade and carrot to tofu. Toss to combine.

Sprinkle sesame seeds and serve.

Muznah Sada

Cashew Chicken Rotini Salad

Ingredients:• 1 package (16 ounces) spiral or rotini pasta

• 4 cups cubed cooked chicken

• 1 can (20 ounces) pineapple tidbits, drained

• 1-1/2 cups sliced celery

• 3/4 cup thinly sliced green onions

• 1 cup seedless red grapes

• 1 cup seedless green grapes

• 1 package (5 ounces) dried cranberries

• 1 cup ranch salad dressing

• 3/4 cup mayonnaise

• 2 cups salted cashews

Method:Cook pasta according to package directions.

Meanwhile, in a large bowl, combine the chicken, pineapple,

celery, onions, grapes and cranberries. Drain pasta and rinse in

cold water; stir into chicken mixture.

In a small bowl, whisk the ranch dressing and mayonnaise. Pour

over salad and toss to coat. Cover and refrigerate for at least 1

hour. Just before serving, stir in cashews.

Hawwa

Multi Grain Salad

Ingredients:• 1/4 cup chickpeas

• 1/4 cup white peas

• 1/4 cup red kidney beans

• 1/4 cup black-eyed beans

• 1/4 cup green gram

• 300 grams baby potatoes

• 1 large onion finely chopped

• 2 tomatoes finely chopped

• 2 cucumbers cut into cubes

• 1 tbsp green chillies finely chopped

• 2 lemons

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• 2 tbsp pomegranate seeds

• Coriander leaves

• 1 tsp flax seeds powder

• 2 tbsp chat masala

• 1 tbsp roasted cumin powder

• 1 tsp pepper freshly ground

• salt and sugar to taste

• 1 tbsp extra virgin olive oil

Method:Boil and peel potatoes and keep aside.

Boil all the grains separately with salt and keep aside. Take a large mixing bowl. Put the

boiled grains,potatoes, cucumber,tomatoes,onion. Fold in lightly. Now add the powdered

spices and lemon juice. Add salt, sugar and lemon juice according to taste. Mix well. Garnish

with pomegranate seeds,green chillies and coriander leaves. Keep in the refrigerate for 10

minutes. Serve

cold as starter or along with main course.

Riniki Ghosh

Sour And Spicy Calad

Ingredients:• 1 can of black beans, rinsed and drained (or 1 1/2 cups of freshly cooked black beans)

• 1 1/2 cups frozen corn, defrosted (or fresh corn, parboiled, drained and cooled, or

grilled and cooled)

• 1/2 cup chopped green onions (including onion greens)

• 2 fresh jalapeño peppers, seeded and minced,

• 3 fresh plum tomatoes, chopped in small pieces.

• 1 avocado peeled, seeded, and cut into chunks

• 1/2 cup chopped fresh cilantro

• 2 tbsp lime juice (about the amount of juice from one lime)

• 3 spoons of black olive sliced.

• 1 tbsp olive oil

• 1/2 to 1 teaspoon of sugar (to taste)

• Salt and pepper to taste

MethodIn a large bowl, gently combine the black beans, corn, chopped green onions, minced

jalapenos, chopped tomatoes, lime juice, and olive oil. Gently fold in the chopped avocados.

Add salt and pepper to taste. Sprinkle with sugar to taste, enough to balance the acidity

from the tomatoes and lime juice. Chill.

Right before serving, add the chopped fresh cilantro. Harshal S

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By Vijay Joshi

It is no secret that the Taj Mahal is a monument of love, built by a Mogul emperor as the final resting place for his beloved queen who died giving birth to their 14th child in 1631.

What’s less known is that the white-marbled tomb was not her first resting place after death.

Queen Mumtaz Mahal in fact died some 900km (555 miles) away in central India’s Burhanpur town and was buried there, in a rose-tinted sandstone pavilion in her favorite deer park. The once opulent and richly decorated pavilion is now a sad, crumbling ruin, thanks to neglect and apathy by authorities and Burhanpur’s own 200,000 residents.

And it’s not the only gem in the treasure chest of this town, which even most Indians could not identify on a map.

Behind its dirty, unpaved streets and open garbage dumps, Burhanpur hides an abundance of magnificent Islamic monuments dating back to 15th century. Once an important trading and military outpost, Burhanpur slipped into margins of history in less than two cen-turies and is now nowhere to be found in any tourist advertisement.

On a recent trip, we found in Burhanpur the ruins of a riverside palace; airy pavilions with intricately carved pillars; grand stone mausoleums with latticed windows that throw filtered beams of dusty light on the graves inside; a royal bath house with cheerful paintings of birds and flowers; austere and imposing mosques with incredibly fine calligraphy, and a fort on a cliff with a mind-boggling view of the undulating plains below.

Each one of the town’s treasures is a reminder of India’s rich multicultural history and the contribution that about 800 years of Muslim rule made to the pre-dominantly Hindu country’s heritage.

Many of the monuments in the town are in utter neglect. Infrastructure as basic as toilets and roads to the sites is missing. Open drains run along some impor-tant tombs, which are ravaged by overgrown shrubs. Mountains of garbage greet visitors.

“Every monument here tells a story. Every stone here says ‘come to me and listen to what I have to say’ but there is nobody to listen or to take care of them,” lamented Hoshang Havaldar, 60, who has lived all his life in Burhanpur, and runs one of only two decent hotels in the town.

Burhanpur was ruled by the founding Faruqi dynasty from 1400 to 1599 and by the fabled Moguls from 1600, when Emperor Akbar conquered it. His grandson, Emperor Shah Jahan, ran his military campaigns against southern kingdoms from Burhanpur, accom-panied by his wife Mumtaz.

She died while giving birth to their 14th child and was buried in a pavilion facing a small palace in a deer park.

Today, the Ahukhana, as the park was called, and its two buildings are one of the most dilapidated among Burhanpur’s treasures.

The sprawling park is locked up with no caretaker. Its rusty metal gates are tied by a chain loose enough to leave enough space for humans or animals to slip through. The grounds are overgrown with shrubs and weeds. Wild goats and cows roam freely. All that remain of the one-story pavilion are pillars and walls, some art work on them still visible. Its ceiling is no more.

For about six months, Mumtaz’s body remained in the pavilion while Shah Jahan made plans to build the Taj Mahal on the banks of the nearby River Tapti.

But unfortunately Burhanpur’s geography, geology and hydrology conspired against his plans.

According to historians, Shah Jahan wanted the mon-ument to be of white marble, which was only available in the faraway Makrana, making transportation dif-ficult. River Tapti’s breadth was a little narrow where he envisaged the mausoleum — meaning it would not be reflected fully in the water on moonlit nights. Finally, the rock-bed just wasn’t right to hold up a building of that mass. As it turned out, Agra on the banks of majestically wide River Yamuna and not too far from Makrana, was the perfect choice.

Mumtaz’s body was disinterred and taken to Agra, then the imperial capital of the Mogul empire that ruled

India from 15th to 19th centuries. And so Burhanpur faded away.

One of the most beautiful monuments in Burhanpur is the tomb of Bilquis Jahan, the wife of Shah Jahan’s son. It is known as the Kharboozi Gumbaz, or Melon Dome, because of its distinctive dome and bulging walls that look like the fruit. An unimposing structure, it nevertheless stands out because of its shape and stun-ning interior — every corner of its walls and roof is decorated with murals in floral pattern, its colours as fresh as they were centuries ago.

But to get there we had to walk through a graveyard, where a horse lay dying in a ditch while little boys played nearby.

Burhanpur, located in Madhya Pradesh state, was the reason for our trip, but not the destination. Our 10-day trip cut an arc through the vast state, stopping at four other places of Islamic and Hindu culture that carried in their stone monuments stories of love, valor and devotion.

The last stop was the 10-11th century Khajuraho group of Hindu and Jain temples, a Unesco World Heritage site.

Their distinctive steeple domes are made of inter-locking blocks of finely carved stone, and the outer walls of temples dense with sculptures of Hindu gods and goddesses, scenes of court life, and a profusion of sculptures. But we will save that story for another day.

If You Go...Burhanpur: Located in Madhya Pradesh state, about

180km (110 miles) from Indore, the city with the nearest airport. The drive from Indore takes about four hours. Madhya Pradesh State Tourism runs a hotel, Tapti Retreat, for $30-$40 a night: http://www.mptourism.com/web/Burhanpur/Burhanpur.asp AP

Queen Mumtaz Mahal died in central India’s Burhanpur town and was buried there, in a rose-tinted sandstone pavilion in her favourite deer park. The once opulent and richly decorated pavilion is now a sad, crumbling ruin, thanks to neglect and apathy by authorities and Burhanpur’s own 200,000 residents.

Taj Mahal endures, but its birthplace slowly crumbles

A cow grazes on the

grounds near Mogul

Queen Mumtaz Mahal’s

first resting place after

death in Burhanpur, India.

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I love awards: Usha Uthup

Usha Uthup, popular for singing hit songs like “Darling” and “Koi yahaan naache naache”, says she loves awards. “I love awards. I think

it’s truly a recognition and that’s what we all are working for. When an award is given to me, it’s a recognition. I hope I get an award and I love it,” Usha, known for her powerful and unique voice, said.

“At least I am honest about it. Everybody feels it, but not all are willing to say it. My fruit is when the audience reacts and I love that,” she added.

However, while many lyricists and singers are of the opinion that the lyrics don’t make any sense these days, Usha says it’s a trend.

“I am not an authority of any kind to opine about lyrics. There are lot of artists who are saying horrible things about the music, but I have always been a positive thinker and a compulsive optimist. I do believe if given a chance it will become a classic,” she said.

“The audience is not a fool... Why feel so bad about it? Let it come. It’s a trend,” she added.

Marriage should happen organically: Ranbir Kapoor

Questions about marriage have dogged Ranbir Kapoor for a long time, but the actor says the time is yet to come and that he would want

it to be a natural progression.“I am very happy in my life right now. I’ve not decided when I will get

married. I think marriage is something which should happen organi-cally,” Ranbir, who is said to be dating Katrina Kaif, said here when asked about his marriage plans.

He says age has nothing to do with the “right time” to settle down.“I’m not the kind of person who will say that ‘I am 32 now, let’s get

married’ or ‘The time is running out’. The day I would want children, the day I feel me and my partner feel that ‘it’s an organic thing now so get married’, is when I will get married,” he added.

Kareena says no to filmmaking

At a time when actors are exploring new arenas of the glamour industry — be it

fashion, production, direction or turning into a singer, actress Kareena Kapoor says she stays away from all such offers to focus on her pas-sion — acting.

“I have been offered to start my own fashion line, but right now I don’t want to deviate from films as acting is my passion. And I don’t think I can wear a producer’s hat as there is a lot more that goes on than just adding your name.

“I don’t think I have that kind of time or level to take that responsibility. Moreover, I’m not interested in any part of filmmaking apart from acting,” Kareena, who is married to actor Saif Ali Khan, said during her visit to the capital for the launch of Magnum ice-cream.

Meanwhile, the 34-year-old is prepping up for Kabir Khan’s Bajrangi Bhaijaan and Udta Punjab, a film on prevalent drug menace in Punjab.

Udta Punjab is being helmed by Abhishek Chaubey. Kareena said that though she strives to work with new people, the script is the deal-breaker for her.

“I love to work with new people. I’m working with directors that I have never worked with before — whether it’s Kabir or Abhishek or Rajkumar Gupta. They are people that I have never worked with in 15 years of my career.

“So I always try to work with new people, but according to the script that I like,” she added.

Both the films are expected to treat cinema-lovers with a different storyline. In Bajrangi Bhaijaan, Kareena will be seen with Dabangg star Salman Khan, while in Udta Punjab she stars alongside her former beau Shahid Kapoor.

HOLLYWOOD NEWS

Velvet-blue spacesuit for Brightman

British singer Sarah Brightman will fly to the International Space Station (ISS) dressed in a velvet-blue space suit bearing the Union

Jack. The details of the costume of the next space tourist were disclosed by Alexander Yarov, director general of the Kentavr-Nauka company which for the past 40 years has been the main designer of “space” clothes for Russian cosmonauts,

“During a short space flight, Sarah Brightman intends to wear a spacious polo-style shirt, a light suit, a ‘Kentavr’ space suit intended to minimise the pressure of space load during the flight and a ‘Bracelet’ elastic belt,” Yarov said.

Sarah Brightman is going to fly into space on September 1. If her space endeavour is successful, she will be the eighth space tourist in his-tory. The singer has already paid $52m for her space flight. Incidentally, the British singer has announced that she is going to sing on board the ISS to the accompaniment of an orchestra which will perform on Earth.

Uma Thurman hates boring children

Kill Bill star Uma Thurman says she would have found it “intoler-able” if any of her children were boring.

The 44-year-old, who has daughter Maya, 15, and son Levon, 12, with her former husband Ethan Hawke, and two-year-old Luna with her former partner Arpad Busson, told Britain’s HELLO! Magazine that her children are more “smarter” and “better behaved” than her, reports femalefirst.co.uk.

“They’re much smarter than I am and better behaved. And, thank god, they’re funny, too,” she said.

“It would be intolerable to me to have a humourless, boring child - I’d have to send it back,” she added.

Thurman says she never had any problem with “disciplining” her children, because she thinks they are “so smart and intelligent” that she never had trouble communicating with them.

Kim wants Beyonce to be neighbour

Reality TV star Kim Kardashian

reportedly wants singer Beyonce Knowles to be her neighbour and move to the Hidden Hills here.

According to a source, the 34-year-old wants to cement her new friendship with Beyonce by convincing her to move to Hidden Hills, reports female-first.co.uk.

“Bey doesn’t do sub-urbs — especially one populated by B-list

actors and reality stars but Kim is being really pushy,” US OK maga-zine quoted the source as saying.

Earlier, Beyonce and her husband Jay Z decided to move from New York City to Los Angeles for the sake of their three-year-old daughter Blue Ivy. They even enrolled her in a private school there after seeking advice from close friend and actress Gwyneth Paltrow.

The source added: “One reason Bey is excited for the move is to expand her social circle. She wants to be hobnobbing with A-listers and tech people.”

The couple recently started renting a $150,000-a-month mansion in Holmby Hills here because they have been unable to find their dream house yet.

By Chris Michaud

Will Smith’s new action drama Focus booted Fifty Shades of Grey for its perch atop US and

Canadian weekend box office charts, racking up $19.1m in ticket sales.

But the weekend was largely seen, fairly or not, as a referendum on Smith’s star power. Focus, written and directed by the Crazy, Stupid, Love duo Glenn Ficarra and John Requa, is Smith’s first film since 2013’s After Earth, the sci-fi flop in which he co-starred with his son, Jaden.

Smith has been frank about the sting of that film’s box-office performance. “I can’t allow the box-office success, or lack thereof, to determine my self-image,” he said in a recent interview.

But Focus, made for about $50m and co-starring Margot Robbie of The Wolf of Wall Street, was never intended to be a summer-sized blockbuster. It had been predicted to make around $21m.

“This is a mid-budgeted film with a result that matches,” said Jeff Goldstein, head of distribution for Warner Bros., who added that winter storms accounted for a drop of $1-2m. “There’s no question we got hammered because of inclement weather in the South and the Midwest.”

Focus, overwhelmingly appealed to adults, with 88 percent of its audience

older than 25 — not a good sign for Smith’s appeal to a new generation of moviegoers who weren’t around for his triumphs in Independence Day.

Nevertheless, there aren’t many stars who could do better with a drama in late February. And Focus should play well internationally, where Smith’s popularity remains strong.

“This still goes on his balance sheet as a number one debut,” said Paul Degarabedian, senior media analyst for box-office data firm Rentrak. “He can still draw an audience, particu-larly with a film that’s not aimed at the young crowd.”

Kingsman: The Secret Service, an adaptation of a popular comic series which stars Samuel L Jackson and Colin Firth about a spy agency’s train-ing program and a global threat by a tech genius, also outpaced Grey to claim second place with $11.8m.

Third place on a weekend that saw business hampered by rough winter weather in the south and midwest again went to the family-friendly The SpongeBob Movie: Sponge Out of Water, based on the popular television show about a talking animated sponge. It sold $11.2m in tickets.

Grey, the smash hit adaptation of the best-selling novel which stars James Dornan and Dakota Johnson as the couple, took in $10.9m, landing in fourth from Friday through Sunday,

according to studio estimates. The film is closing in on $148m at the domestic box office since opening just over two weeks ago.

Rounding out the top five, The Lazarus Effect, which stars Mark Duplass and Olivia Wilde as research-ers trying to resurrect the dead, took the No. 5 spot on its opening weekend with $10.6m in sales.

“This was a rather slow weekend at the box office,” said Paul Dergarabedian, senior media analyst at box office track-ing firm Rentrak.

Some of last Sunday’s Oscar winners saw slight bumps at the box office.

Best-picture winner Birdman (Or the Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance) added some 800 screens to bring in $2m over the weekend, pushing its total past $40m. Still Alice, for which Julianne Moore won best actress, added 553 screens and earned $2.7m. It’s now made $12m for Sony Pictures Classics.

“The severely inclement weather in the south and midwest threw off our number,” said Jeff Goldstein, executive vice president of domestic distribution for Warner Bros, the Time Warner unit that released Focus.

“When you look at the markets not hit by weather, we did really well,” Goldstein said, adding that the film had played especially well with younger audiences, where “word of mouth will really help.”

International box office would further boost the film’s fortunes, Goldstein said.

Comcast Corp’s Universal Pictures released Fifty Shades of Grey. Kingsman: The Secret Service was released by 20th Century Fox, the unit of 21st Century Fox. The SpongeBob Movie was distrib-uted by Paramount Pictures, a unit of Viacom Inc.

Kevin Costner sport drama McFarland, USA, about a student cross-country team from immigrant families took in $7.8m in its second week for the sixth spot.

Controversial war-drama American Sniper had $7.7m in box office sales for the seventh spot.

The Iraq war film directed by Clint Eastwood set box office records and has pulled in $331.1m so far.

The film’s portrayal of late Navy Seal Chris Kyle stirred up debate over its depictions of Arabs.

The Duff, a teen comedy about high school cliques featuring Mae Whitman, slipped three spots to land in eighth with $7.2m.

Critically-acclaimed drama Still Alice, starring Julianne Moore as a linguistics professor diagnosed with Alzheimer’s disease, took in $2.7m to land in ninth.

Hot Tub Time Machine 2, about a mag-ical hot tub that sends its users into the future, sold the tenth most tickets, bringing in $2.4m.

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HEALTH / FITNESS 11

Have fish, soak up some sun for healthy brain

Eating enough sea fish and outdoor activities affect the levels of brain chemical serotonin that plays a role in ameliorating the symptoms associated with a broad array of brain disorders, new research has found.

Many clinical disorders, such as Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD), Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD), bipolar dis-order, schizophrenia and depression share as a unifying attribute low brain serotonin.

“In this paper we explain how serotonin is a critical modulator of executive function, impulse control, sensory gating, and pro-social behaviour,” said Rhonda Patrick from Children’s Hospital Oakland Research Institute (CHORI).

“We link serotonin production and function to vitamin D and omega-3 fatty acids, suggest-ing one way these important micro-nutrients help the brain function and affect the way we behave,” Patrick added.

Vitamin D is mostly produced by the skin when exposed to sun, and those who do not eat enough fish are likely to have marine omega-3 deficiencies.

The study explains that low vitamin D and marine omega-3 deficiencies interact with genetic pathways, such as the serotonin path-way, that are important for brain develop-ment, social cognition and decision-making, the researchers added.

Chronic fatigue syndrome is a biological illness

Researchers have found evidence that chronic fatigue syndrome (CFS) is a result

of immunological dysfunction, meaning it is a biological illness and not a psychological disor-der as commonly thought. People with CFS or systemic exertion intolerance disease experience extreme fatigue and difficulty concentrating due to headaches and muscle pain.

“We now have evidence confirming what millions of people with this disease already know, that CFS is not psychological,” stated lead author Mady Hornig, director of transla-tional research at the Center for Infection and Immunity, Columbia University.

“Our results should accelerate the process of establishing the diagnosis after individuals first fall ill as well as discovery of new treat-ment strategies focusing on these early blood markers,” Hornig added.

The researchers identified distinct immune changes in patients diagnosed with chronic fatigue syndrome, known medically as myal-gic encephalomyelitis (ME/CFS). They used immunoassay testing methods to determine the levels of 51 immune biomarkers in blood plasma samples collected through two multicenter stud-ies that represented a total of 298 ME/CFS patients and 348 healthy controls.

They found specific patterns in patients who had the disease for three years or less that were not present in controls or in patients who had the disease for more than three years.

Short duration patients had increased amounts of many different types of immune molecules called cytokines. The association was unusually strong with a cytokine called interferon gamma that has been linked to the fatigue that follows many viral infections, including Epstein-Barr virus (the cause of infectious mononucleosis).

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By Casey Seidenberg

Adolescence is a critical time of life for nutri-tious eating — only during infancy does the

body grow and develop more.Think about a typical tween or

teen girl. She is going through a growth spurt or two, her levels of physical and mental activity are high, and she’s either begin-ning or in the thick of puberty. Menstruation changes her iron needs, increased estrogen produc-tion can cause new food cravings, and her hormone development relies on certain nutrients. In other words, a lot of changes are transpiring, and I would argue that this girl’s choice of foods is vital.

Fat has become a bad word, especially among girls. This com-menced when I was a teen. We were trained that fat makes us fat, and we should avoid fat as if our lives depended upon it. But the opposite is true: A girl’s health depends on eating plenty of fats — but by this I mean good fats.

I don’t want to crush any hopes, but good fats are not found in beef bacon and potato chips. Sorry. And they are not trans fats, which are found in processed cakes and cookies made with shortening, chips made with hydrogenated oil, and most fried and fast foods. The fats we want our girls to eat come from whole foods that haven’t been altered by food processing plants.

Where can girls find these good fats?• Raw nuts and seeds• Fish, especially wild salmon,

mackerel and sardines• Avocados• Olives• Olive oil• Flaxseed oil (ideal in salad

dressings)• Coconut oil (for roasting or in

a smoothie)• Grapeseed oil — great for sautes• Walnut oil — ideal for baking• Grass-fed butter

Healthful fats from these sources should make up 25 per-cent to 35 percent of your daily calorie intake. I am not saying that your daughter count fat grams or calories to reach that exact per-centage; rather, she should grasp the big picture. A significant por-tion of the food she eats should contain healthful fats. Though you may have avoided them growing up, she should not.

Explain to your daughter that good fats will not make her fat. Instead, they are essential for brain health, mood stabilization and proper hormone develop-ment. And they are a concen-trated source of sustained energy — energy that girls need to perse-vere through a long day at school and for sports, music or other extracurricular activities (not to mention their social lives).

There’s a lot more to tell your daughter: Fats slow the absorption of carbohydrates and other parts of a meal into the blood, keeping her satiated, and curbing cravings.

Fats play an essential role in hormone development, which is fundamental during puberty — it

can affect everything from lifelong fertility to mood stabilization and the ability to manage stress.

Furthermore, without fat as a catalyst, the body is unable to digest and absorb the fat-soluble vitamins A, D, E and K. Fat is needed to con-vert beta-carotene to Vitamin A.

And these vitamins are no joke: Vitamin A is essential for healthy skin, Vitamin D for immunity, Vitamin E is an antioxidant, and Vitamin K plays a role in blood clotting. Therefore, eating a col-ourful salad without nuts, seeds, avocado or oil is limiting the nutri-tional benefits of that salad.

Good fats are essential to brain development: The healthy brain is about 60 percent structural fat, and the most prevalent structural fat is DHA, one of the omega-3 fatty acids. (DHA is an essential part of healthy human breast milk too, which suggests that it is intended for babies to consume a lot of it during the first year, a time of unmatched brain growth .)

Finally, on a more superficial note, good fats build cell mem-branes that are essential for healthy hair and skin.

Let’s begin giving healthful fat the good name it deserves, so our girls start eating it. And before you conclude this chat with your daughter, explain that rising estro-gen levels sometimes make girls crave sweets. Help her understand that this is normal, and there are alternatives to sugar that will make her feel energised rather than sluggish and moody. Moms, if only somebody had shared this news with us when we were teen-age girls; we might have saved our-selves, and our own mothers, from a few really bad moods.

Seidenberg is co-founder of Nourish Schools, a Washington, DC-based nutrition education com-pany.

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“Fat has become a bad word, especially among girls. We were trained that fat makes us fat, and we should avoid fat as if our lives depended upon it. But the opposite is true: A girl’s health depends on eating plenty of fats — but by this I mean good fats.”


How to talk to your daughter about fat

TECHNOLOGYPLUS | TUESDAY 3 MARCH 201512

By Samuel Gibbs

HTC has launched the new One M9 smartphone, a fol-low up to its the award-win-ning flagship phone from

2014, which is faster, lighter and with a more powerful camera, but bets on extensive customisation options to win new users.

The new One M9 has a solid alumin-ium unibody design found in previous One flagship devices but now with a two-tone colour scheme and a slimmer, lighter body.

It uses Qualcomm’s latest and most powerful octocore processor, the 64-bit Snapdragon 810, has 3GB of RAM,

32GB of storage and a microSD card slot. It also has a new 20-megapixel camera, shifting the company’s low-light specialist “Ultrapixel” camera to the front for selfies.

But HTC’s big bet for this genera-tion is in customisable software. The One M9 runs Google’s latest Android 5 Lollipop, but uses HTC’s custom “Sense 7” interface.

This customised version of Android is a trademark of HTC, offering use-ful additions to the standard Android experience without adding too much clutter.

With this new version of Sense HTC has added the ability to customise almost every aspect of the phone, from

the icons to the backgrounds, colours, typeface, sounds and other elements of the user interface.

These themes can be automatically generated from a user’s background or lockscreen photo, downloaded from the theme store or manually created using HTC’s theme generator, and offers a level of customisability only previously achievable through the use of third-party custom software, such as Cyanogen.

Sense Home – HTC’s application launcher that has its BlinkFeed social news aggregator built in – will now learn its owner’s app usage pattern, dynamically presenting apps it thinks the user will need at different times of the day and locations. It might suggest a train timetable app in the morning for the commute, or a TV remote app for when at home in the evening.

Some third-party application launchers, such as Yahoo’s Aviate, already do something similar.

Android smartphone manufacturers have struggled to differentiate them-selves from competitors, all using the same software. HTC is hoping that premium materials and strong design coupled with extensive software cus-tomisability will be enough to set it apart from Samsung, Sony, Motorola and LG, as well as cheaper Chinese rivals. The HTC One M9 will be avail-able in the UK from 31 March, while its One M8 will remain on sale at a cheaper price – a move HTC hopes will help put it in a stronger position to increase its market share in 2015.

HTC also announced the Grip fitness tracker with built in GPS – a part-nership with sportswear manufacturer Under Armour that will be available only in the US initially.

Under Armour recently acquired popular fitness tracking apps Endomodo and MyFitnessPal as part of its push into digital health.

The Guardian

HTC bets on customisation with new One M9Are extensive user software theming, new 20-megapixel camera and lighter all-metal design enough to differentiate a smartphone?

By Alex Hern

Samsung has announced “Samsung Pay”, a collaboration with MasterCard which sees the Korean firm make a renewed attempt to establish a footing the mobile payment

market.The feature will let MasterCard cardholders

with a new Samsung Galaxy S6 make in-store transactions with their mobile phone, similar to existing mobile payment systems such as Google Wallet and Apple Pay.

But where those services use near-field com-munications (NFC) technology to make contact-less payments in shops which have newer payment terminals, Samsung Pay is also compatible with older magnetic-stripe card terminals, according to MasterCard’s Ed McLaughlin, the company’s

chief emerging payments officer.The company has incorporated technology

acquired from American start-up LoopPay to enable the backwards compatibility, which could prove an important factor in encouraging adop-tion in North America, where growth of newer chip-and-pin and contactless payment standards has been slower than in much of the rest of the world.

But the incorporation of LoopPay’s technol-ogy also means that Samsung Pay will initially be limited to the brand-new Samsung Galaxy S6, since it requires special hardware which isn’t present in earlier Samsung phones. Until LoopPay was acquired, this hardware requirement posed a difficult problem for the business, which had been forced to encourage users to purchase special phone cases or use a compatible key-fob accessory.

MasterCard’s McLaughlin said “This is an exciting time for payments. As consumers are increasingly relying on their mobile devices in their everyday lives, we are excited to work with an industry leader like Samsung to deliver new

payment options to our cardholders around the world.”

Announced at Barcelona’s Mobile World Congress conference alongside the Galaxy S6 mobile phone, Samsung Pay is not the company’s first foray into mobile payments. At the same event last year, the company announced a collaboration with PayPal to build that firm’s payment technol-ogy into the Samsung Galaxy S5, then the newest Samsung mobile phone. The PayPal deal let users authenticate payments, both online and in-store, using the Galaxy S5’s fingerprint reader.

And before that, Samsung phones with NFC chips were compatible with Google Wallet, a mobile payment service which lets users of Android phones make contactless payments by hooking their credit and debit cards up to Google’s cloud services.

But the latest relaunch follows the entry of Apple into the mobile payment market, with the compa-ny’s Apple Pay technology. Apple Pay introduced lit-tle new to the market, but galvanised public interest in the technology and created space for competitors to promote their own efforts. The Guardian

Samsung reveals Samsung PayLatest mobile payment initiative from Korean firm announced in conjunction with MasterCard.

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Hoy en la HistoriaMarch 3, 2014

1875: The first performance of Bizet’s opera Carmen took place in Paris1985: Britain’s miners voted to return to work after a year-long strike, widely seen as an act of defiance against Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher1990: Venezuela suspended foreign debt payments after widespread rioting2005: U.S. adventurer Steve Fossett completed the first solo nonstop flight around the world

The trial of athlete Oscar Pistorius began in South Africa. The Paralympic gold medallist was charged with shooting dead his girlfriend in February 2013

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

ACCOMPLICE, ALIBI, ARREST, BAIL, CHARGE, CLUE, COPS,CRIME, CRIMINAL, CROOK, DETECTIVE, EVIDENCE, EXTORTION, FELON, FINE, FORGERY, FRAUD, FUGITIVE, GANGSTER, GUILTY, HOMICIDE, HOODLUM, ILLEGAL, INNOCENT, JAIL, JUDGE, JURY, LARCENY, LAWYER, MOBSTER, OFFICER, OUTLAW, PATROL, PENALTY, PERPETRATOR, POLICE, PRISON, PRIVATE EYE, PROOF, ROBBER, SHERIFF, SLEUTH, SUSPECT, THIEF, WITNESS.

Baby Blues by Jerry Scott & Rick Kirkman

Zits by Jerry Scott & Jim Borgman

Hagar The Horrible by Chris Browne

LEARN ARABIC


Commerce

Salesman Ba'iç

Dollar Dolar

Money-changing �irafa

Paper money Çoumla waraqiyya

Coin Çoumla maçdaniyya

Cash Naqdan

Money Mal/Faloos

ç = ‘a’ in ‘agh’ when surprised

HYPER SUDOKU

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1Kingsman: The Secret Service (2D/Action)

– 10:35am, 1:00, 3:30, 6:00, 8:30 & 11:00pm

2Focus (2D/Comedy)

– 10:30am, 12:45, 3:00, 5:15, 7:30, 9:45 & 11:55pm

3The Spongebob Movie: Sponge Out of Water

(2D/Animation) – 10:00am, 12:00noon, 2:00 & 4:00pmThe Wedding Ringer (2D/Comedy)

– 6:00, 8:00, 10:00 & 11:55pm

4Zarafa (2D/Animation) – 10:45am, 12:30 & 2:15pmSerena (2D/Action) – 3:45, 6:05, 8:15 & 11:00pm

5The Protector 2 (2D/Action)–10:15am, 2:45 & 11:50pm

The Atticus Institute (2D/Horror) – 7:15pmClash of Empires: Bloodlines (2D/Action)

– 12:35, 5:00 & 9:30pm

6The Boy Next Door (2D/Thriller) – 10:20pmBoys of Abu Ghraib (2D/Drama) – 3:40pm

Youm Maloush Lazmah (2D/Arabic)

– 10:50am, 1:15, 5:40, 8:00pm &12:15am

7Captain Sabertooth & The Lama Rama Treasure

(2D/Action) – 10:00am, 2:15, 6:30 & 11:00pm & 12:15am; Fort Bliss (2D/Action)

– 12:00noon, 4:15 & 8:30pm

8The Spongebob Movie: Sponge Out of Water

(2D/Animation) – 3:15 & 5:10pmDragon Blade (2D/Action)

– 10:20am, 12:50, 7:10, 9:30 & 11:50pm

9Focus (IMAX 2D/Comedy) – 11:30am, 1:40, 3:50,

6:00, 8:10, 10:20pm &12:30am

10Focus (2D/Comedy)

– 10:00am, 12:10, 2:20, 4:40, 6:50, 9:20 & 11:40pm

MALL

1Zarafa (2D/Animation) – 2:15pm

Serena (2D/Drama) – 4:00pm

Captain Sabertooth & The Treasure of Lama

Rama (2D/Action) – 6:00 & 7:45pm

The Protector 2 (2D/Action) – 9:30pm

Still Alice (2D/Drama) – 11:30pm

2 Fort Bliss (2D/Drama) – 2:45pm

Combustion (2D/Action) – 5:00pm

Focus (2D/Comedy) – 7:00 & 11:15pm

Ab Tak Chhappan (2D/Hindi) – 9:00pm

3 Fireman (2D/Malayalam) – 2:00, 6:30 & 11:00pm

Youm Maloush Lazma (2D/Arabic)

– 4:15 & 8:45pm

LANDMARK

1 Serena (2D/Drama) – 2:30pm


Youm Maloush Lazma (2D/Arabic) – 6:30pm

The Protector 2 (2D/Action) – 9:00pm


Rama (2D/Action) – 11:15pm

2 Zarafa (2D/Animation) – 3:00pm

Focus (2D/Comedy) – 5:00, 7:00 & 11:15pm

Youm Maloush Lazma (2D/Arabic) – 9:00pm

3 The Protector 2 (2D/Action) – 2:30pm

Fort Bliss (2D/Drama) – 4:30pm


Rama (2D/Action) – 7:00pm

Fireman (2D/Malayalam) – 9:00pm


ROYAL

PLAZA

1


The Protector 2 (2D/Action) – 5:00 & 9:15pm


Rama (2D/Action) – 7:15 & 11:30pm

2

Zarafa (2D/Animation) – 3:00pm


Focus (2D/Comedy) – 7:00 & 11:15pm


3 Serena (2D/Drama) – 2:30pm

Fort Bliss (2D/Drama) – 4:30pm

Youm Maloush Lazma (2D/Arabic)–6:45 & 9:00pm


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13:05 Auction

Hunters: Pawn

Shop Edition

13:30 The Liquidator

13:55 Baggage

Battles

14:20 Yukon Men

15:10 Fifth Gear

16:00 Fast N' Loud

16:50 How It's Made

17:40 Alaska: The

Last Frontier

18:30 The Island With

Bear Grylls

19:20 When Fish

Attack

20:10 The Liquidator

21:00 The Island With

Bear Grylls

21:50 Survive That!

22:40 Rival Survival

23:30 Alaska: The

Last Frontier

13:50 Treehouse

Masters

15:40 Tanked

16:35 Africa's Super

Seven

17:30 Rogue Nature With

Dave Salmoni

19:20 Secret Life Of

Pets

20:15 Tanked

21:10 Africa's Outsiders

22:05 Treehouse

Masters

23:00 Secret Life Of

Pets

13:00 My Name Is Earl

13:30 Dads

14:00 Melissa & Joey

15:00 Two And A

Half Men

16:30 Welcome To

The Family

17:00 Late Night With

Seth Meyers

18:30 Melissa & Joey

19:00 The Simpsons

19:30 Marry Me

21:30 The Nightly

Show With

Larry Wilmore

22:00 Web Therapy

13:00 Barbie As The

Island Princess

14:30 The Legend Of

Sasquatch

16:00 Barbie In The

Nutcracker

18:00 Escape From

Planet Earth

22:00 The Legend Of

Sasquatch

23:30 Barbie In The

Nutcracker

12:00 Stand Off

14:00 Jesus Henry Christ

16:00 Austenland

18:00 Seeking A Friend

For The End Of

The World

20:00 Ride Along

22:00 Pineapple

Express

13:00 Rescue Ink

14:00 Expedition Wild

15:00 Prehistoric

Predators

16:00 World's

Toughest Fixes

17:00 Air Crash

Investigation

18:00 Breakout

20:00 World's

Toughest Fixes

21:00 Air Crash

Investigation

22:00 Breakout

23:00 Mad Scientists

13:00 The Ellen

DeGeneres Show

14:00 Franklin & Bash

15:00 Crisis

16:00 Emmerdale

16:30 Coronation

Street

17:00 The Ellen

DeGeneres

Show

18:00 Franklin & Bash

19:00 Criminal Minds

20:00 Bones

21:00 The Voice

23:00 True Detective

00:00 Crisis

01:00 The Voice

13:00 The Good

Witch's

Wedding

15:00 The Wicked

Within

17:00 Inescapable

19:00 Suspension Of

Disbelief

21:00 White Bird In A

Blizzard

23:00 Maniac

01:00 Inescapable

13:00 Last Passenger

15:00 Red Sky

17:00 The Sapphires

19:00 Upside Down

21:00 AmeriQua

23:00 Riddick

01:00 Ashes

03:00 The Sapphires

12:00 Bandhan

12:30 Hello Pratibha

13:00 Jamai Raja

13:30 Kumkum Bhagya

14:00 Qubool Hai

14:30 Jodha Akbar

15:00 Kasamh Se

16:00 Hum Paanch

17:00 Maharakshak

Aryan

17:30 Neeli Chatri

Waale

18:00 Servicewali Bahu

18:30 Bandhan

19:00 Hello Pratibha

19:30 Jodha Akbar

20:00 Jamai Raja

20:30 Kumkum Bhagya

21:00 Qubool Hai

21:30 Satrangi Sasural

22:00 Doli Armaano Ki

22:30 Jodha Akbar

23:00 Best of Fear Files

00:00 Kumkum Bhagya

13:05 Good Luck

Charlie

13:30 Dog With A Blog

14:20 H2O: Just Add

Water

14:55 Liv And Maddie

15:20 Binny And The

Ghost

15:45 Girl Meets World

16:10 Violetta

17:00 Gravity Falls

17:25 Hank Zipzer

18:15 Jessie

18:40 Dog With A Blog

19:30 Violetta

20:20 Binny And The

Ghost

20:45 H2O: Just Add

Water

21:35 Jessie

22:00 Gravity Falls

22:25 Sabrina: Secrets

Of A Teenage

Witch

13:25 Come Dine With

Me

13:50 Beat My Build

14:40 Bargain Hunt

16:15 Masterchef: The

Professionals

16:45 Nigel Slater's

Simple Suppers

17:10 Antiques

Roadshow


Me

20:10 Nordic Cookery

With Tareq Taylor

20:35 Bill's Kitchen:

Notting Hill

21:00 Vacation Vacation

Vacation

22:20 Antiques

Roadshow


Me

23:35 Baking Mad With

Eric Lanlard

08:00 News

08:30 Counting the

Cost

09:00 Al Jazeera

World

10:30 Inside Story

11:00 News

11:30 The Stream

12:30 Earthrise

13:00 NEWSHOUR

14:00 News

14:30 Inside Story

15:00 Wukan Votes

17:00 News

17:30 The Stream

19:00 News

19:30 Soapbox

Mexico

20:30 Inside Story

21:00 NEWSHOUR

22:30 The Stream

23:00 Al Jazeera

World


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A flower seen in Al Khor community.

by Parth Patel

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Winter on New Hampshire’s Lake Winnipesaukee means ice fishing, hockey tournaments and, if the ice is strong enough, aeroplanes.

After being grounded by bad ice and worse weather for most of the winter, the Alton Bay Seaplane Base and its ice runway are open.

Dozens of pilots from all over the Northeast took advan-tage of a rare, sunny, storm-free Saturday to touch down on the frozen lake, the only ice runway in the lower 48 states approved by the Federal Aviation Administration.

“How many times can a non-amphibian plane land on water?” asked pilot Ken Ortmann of Rochester, New Hampshire.

Another pilot, Angela Leedy, flew three hours from Pittstown, New Jersey, to try out the runway.

The 3,000-foot airstrip is popular with pilots, said air-port director Paul LaRochelle, who keeps it plowed when the ice is strong enough.

As he directs pilots to park he advises them not to use their brakes: “You’ll just skid,” he said.

Sometimes there are mishaps. Last March, an experi-mental plane clipped a snowbank and landed hard. The pilot was unhurt.

AP

New Hampshire lake’s ice runway a hit with pilots

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Events in Qatar

Family Art Workshops When: Till March 31, 2015 Where: Katara Art Studios - Bldg 19What: Katara Art Studios is hosting a series of Diverse Family Art Workshops from September 2014 to March 2015. They invite families to attend with their children aged between 5 years old to 10 years old.The cost of each workshop is QR150

Here There ExhibitionWhen: Till March 30, 2015; Opening hours Sunday-Wednesday 10:30am – 5:30pm, Tuesday closed and Thursday 12pm – 8pm.Where: Al Riwaq Exhibition Hall What: The Qatar Brazil 2014 Year of Culture closes with a grand finale event as QM Gallery Al Riwaq presents Here There, a showcase of works by artists from Qatar and Brazil.Free entry

Yousef Ahmad: Story Of Ingenuity ExhibitionWhen: Till March 28Where: Qatar Museums Gallery Katara What: The exhibition highlights Qatari artist Yousef Ahmad’s body of work through a precise selection of his most striking artworks from his early works in 1970s until today. From the early oil paintings that include the historic depiction of Al Zubarah Fort, to his mixed media calligraphic pieces to his new conceptual artworks presenting his ability of developing an innovate artistic style.Free entry

Tasmeem Doha 2015: 3ajeeb!When: March 8 - March 12 Where: VCUQatar What: Tasmeem Doha is a biennial international conference focusing on unique and contemporary themes in art and design. The 2015 edition will focus on the theme of ‘playfulness’ expressed by the Arabizi word 3ajeeb! (ahh-jhee-b).This year’s festival will feature:3 Studio days + 2 Shawarma Sessions with artists, designers, musicians, writers, tinkerers, and playful thinkers1 Day Off to sit back and enjoy presentations by world-class speakers1 Festival Day of exhibitions, playful interactions and performancesFree, but need to register. Go to www.tasmeemdoha.com for details

Handcrafts Workshops And Outdoor MarketWhen: Till March 26-27; 4pm to 10pmWhere: Katara Art Studios – Bldg 19 What: The Cultural Village Foundation — Katara in cooperation with the Ministry of Labour & Social Aairs is organising Handcrafts Workshops and Outdoor MarketFree entry

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