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ARAB TIMES, FRIDAY, MAY 27, 2016
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Technology
‘Offer you can’t refuse’
‘History Here alerts you on interesting places’
Microsoft’s Windows 10 push comes to shove for some users
Road-trip apps to make miles fl y by
League Champions, including their Inter-national Academy Manager, Tony Massie.
*They will be delivering a certifi ed Celtic Coach Education program on Saturday, 6-8pm, Sunday, 6-8pm and Monday, 8- 9.30pm. Certifi cates will only be awarded to coaches attending all 3 sessions.
Places are limited - register at Bayan offi ce any evening 5-8pm.
CoursesIslamic and Arabic courses: Islamic and Arabic courses are being offered at the Enlightenment into Islam Center start-ing from 5:00-7:00 pm.
Registrations can be done at the main offi ce — Women’s Committee in Qurtoba.
For more information contact: 24322684, 25362693, 97743327 and 25362681.
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IPC Arabic Conversation Course:
IPC Rawdah Ladies Section will com-mence the Arabic Conversation Course. The students must have successfully completed at least 3 levels of Arabic. Placement test will be taken by those who took Arabic class outside IPC.
Class is every Friday from 9-11 am, starting from Sept 11, 2015. Register now!
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IPC Islamic Courses registration: ‘Say: O my Lord, let me grow in knowl-edge’. IPC is offering Islamic courses in English (for ladies only). Muslims and non-Muslims are welcome.
1. Tilawa Surah Ar-Rad and Surah Ibrahim — Sundays at 5:30-7:00 pm; 2. Principles of Tafsir (part 2) - Sundays at 7:00-8:30 pm; 3. Tajweed 3 - Tuesday, at 5:30-7:00 pm; 4. Jesus in Surah Mariam
(part 2) - Tuesdays at 7:00-8:30 pm.Instructor: Sr Zeinab Hassan AshryPlace: IPC - Women Section Al-Raw-
dah, Area 3, Street 30, House 12, opp 4th Ring Road. Email: [email protected], Telephone: 22512257.
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Islamic classes in French: The En-lightenment into Islam is offering Islamic Classes in French for ladies. Timings 4:30 to 7 pm. Every Wednesday. Please register at the offi ce (Women’s Section), 2nd fl oor. For more information please contact us. Telephone 25362684, 99789954, 99507076, 97743327. Fax 25342573 (at-tention — Enlightenment into Islam)
EmbassiesECI registration of NRIs: The Election Commission of India (ECI) is in the pro-cess of registration of NRIs as overseas
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whom came every week, loved the stories and so did the parents. (Truth be told, so did the readers!)
So, due to popular demand, we’re going to launch CS21 Story Time, held in two locations. We’ll be doing Story Time at the Yarmouk Culture Centre on set Wednesday afternoons for all the kids in the neighbourhood (and anyone else who wants to come). We’ll also have Story Time at Amricani Cultural Centre on set Saturday afternoons. The schedule for both is shown below.
Of course, this means we need 32 volunteer readers.
Will you be one of them? Ideally, the book will be read twice,
once with minimal interruptions, followed by a more interactive reading. The fi rst reading is designed to help kids get com-fortable listening to stories. The second reading, with questions and prompts like “what happens next?,” “what do you think she sounds like?,” and “why did he do that?,” promotes the development of criti-cal thinking, creativity, and communica-tion skills. Most important, we want both the kids and the reader to have fun.
It’s good for children to hear lots of different voices, so if you have an hour to spare one Saturday or Wednesday, please volunteer. You can email [email protected]; mailto:[email protected] and let us know when you can’t do it. You can also let me know if you have a favourite children’s book you want to read. If not, we have a pretty good selec-tion you can choose from in the Reading Room.
On behalf of all the children who will enjoy Story Time, thanks for your support.
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TIES Center events: TIES Center announces following events – Tajweed and Recitation: Learn and practice the art of reciting the Holy Quran (tajweed). The instructor will also answer questions related to the meaning of the Arabic words and verses.
Every Sunday & Tuesday @ 10 – 11:30am; every Monday @ 5-6:30pm.
The TIES Center is the social and edu-cational hub for English Speaking expats in Kuwait. For more information, please call 25231015 or e-mail [email protected] or visit www.tiescenter.net.
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Bridge game: Bridge tournament is be-ing held every Sunday and Wednesday at 20:00 hours, played at the Graduates Club, next to Kuwait Engineering Society. In-terested Bridge pairs or individual players please contact Mohammed Merchant, Tel: 24815622, 24841158, 99612287.
Sports Kwt-Brits football supporters: A new football supporters website for British expats living and working in Kuwait has been set up by an Everton supporter, Trevor Powell. The Kuwait Brits Football Supporters Association (KBFSA) site aims to provide contact information for supporters of each others’ whereabouts and also in the future hopes to organise social events such as quizzes and even five-a-side matches on a home international teams basis. We need expats to register their support and hence we can then start to cast around for a suitable meeting venue. The site can be accessed at www.kbfsa.co.uk.
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Free fi tness classes: Free fi tness classes at B.FIT studio in Salmiya! Classes include Zumba, Masala Bhangra workout, aerobics, toning & much more. Contact +965-65077062 for further infor-mation. Hurry and enroll now!”
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FBC tournament: Filipino Badminton Committee (FBC) is inviting all bad-minton enthusiast in Kuwait to join their regular badminton tournament being held every Friday from 8 am to 7 pm at Kuwait Disabled Sports Club, Bin Khaldoun Hawalli. Over 10 badminton courts are now available for badminton practices and tournament and it is open for all nationalities and from different badminton organizations. Exclusive-private court are also available on per hour rental. For more information, please contact Dr Chie Umandap – 97197268
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Football coaching workshops: Inter-ested in Coaching/professional develop-ment?
This weekend Everton Academy, Bayan will be welcoming three top coaches from Glasgow Celtic F.C., the Scottish Premier
This image released by Marvel Comics shows ‘Captain America: Steve Rogers #1’ comic book by Nick Spencer and Jesus Saiz. The new comic book hit stands on Wednesday, May 25. (AP)
This April 22, 2008 fi le photo shows the Mount Rushmore National Memorial near Keystone, SD. (AP)
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By Anick Jesdanun
Hitting the road this summer? Forget Yelp and those hotel
booking apps — they’re useful, but boring. Instead, pack along these apps to liven things up along the way. You might even learn something.
Discover the quirkyConsult Roadside America’s
database of offbeat tourist attractions, and you could marvel at a giant map of Chicago painted on a skyscraper or visit the post offi ce that straddles Texarkana, Arkansas, and Texarkana, Texas.
The iPhone app costs $3 and lets you unlocks one geographic “re-gion” out of seven across the US and Canada. Pay $2 apiece for more, or an additional $6 for all of them — a better deal if you travel a lot.
A companion iPhone app, Roadside Presidents, focuses on birthplaces, graves and other sites related to the nation’s commanders-in-chief. There’s Mount Rushmore , of course, but the $3 app can also lead you to the New York site where George Washington took the presidential oath or an eatery Barack Obama visited in Boulder, Colorado.
Learn somethingAs you make your way across the
US, History Here, produced by the History Channel, will alert you about nearby places where interesting things happened.
That can be serious, such as the Rodney King trial in Simi Valley, California, which led to rioting in Los Angeles after the acquittal of four white police offi cers charged with beating a black motorist. For something lighter, how about the New York apartment where baseball legend Mickey Mantle lived?
The free app sends location-based notifi cations to iPhones and Apple Watch. There’s an app for Android, but you must open it to see what’s nearby.
Are they here yet? Are they here yet?
Folks you’re visiting can track you with Glympse for iPhones, Android and Windows phones. The free app sends your friend or relative a Web link to track your whereabouts. That person doesn’t need the app. By de-fault, your location is shared for a half
hour, but you can make that longer or shorter.
The iPhone’s Find My Friends feature does something similar, but sharing is continuous. Glympse lets you choose with whom and when to share, and for how long.
The slower way thereThe best route isn’t always the
quickest, something mapping apps don’t understand. For scenic drives, visit http://myscenicdrives.com . There’s no app, so you can use this free service on Windows and BlackBerry phones as well as more common iPhones and Androids.
Enter your city or ZIP code to see what’s nearby, or just search by state for gems such as California’s Big Sur coast and Kansas’ Wetlands and Wildlife National Scenic Byway .
Distracting the kidsSearch the app store, and you’ll
fi nd lots of apps devoted to classic road-trip games, such as who can fi nd the most out-of-state license plates. The $2 Family Car Games app for iP-
hones gives you more than a hundred options searchable by diffi culty level and categories, such as singing.
Most of the games aren’t directly related to travel, but will help pass the time until your next rest stop. The travel-related ones include spotting those license plates and trying to fi nd words on billboards starting with each letter of the alphabet.
The nice thing is these games aren’t meant to be played on your phone. Once you look up a game, you can put the phone away and just hang with your travel companions.
Where in the world are we?The GeoGuessr app isn’t so help-
ful while traveling, but it’s great for seeing what you’ve observed and discovered along the way. It shows you a Google Street View image of some location in the world. You then navigate for clues from road signs or vegetation, then guess where you are. Play alone or challenge friends.
The iPhone app is free, but make sure you don’t spell it “GeoGuesser,” or you’ll get a similar game that costs $2. You can pay to focus the game on specifi c countries or cities. To avoid paying or to use other phones, visit http://geoguessr.com .
Warning: GeoGuessr is addictive, especially on a lazy Sunday afternoon at the bar. (AP)
In this April 24, 2012 fi le photo, President Barack Obama greets people at The Sink Restaurant and Bar, in Boulder, Colo. (AP)
SAN FRANCISCO, May 26, (AP): Microsoft really, REALLY wants you to upgrade to Windows 10.
Since last summer, the tech giant has pushed and prodded PC owners to upgrade their machines to its latest Windows version. While the upgrade is currently free for most consumers with Windows PCs, critics say the company’s heavy-handed nudg-ing amounts to an “offer you can’t refuse.”
Microsoft initially offered Win-dows 10 as an optional upgrade — that is, one that users had to choose themselves. Then, earlier this year, the company reclassifi ed it as a “rec-ommended” update. Some Windows 10 holdouts cried foul, since many PCs are set up to automatically install recommended updates, which are usually important security fi xes. Sud-denly those machines would automat-ically install Windows 10 as well.
At one point, some PC owners complained, Microsoft began sending
on-screen messages prompting them to download and install Windows 10. The catch: Where most such pop-up windows have buttons marked “OK” and “Cancel,” this message displayed two buttons that both led to an up-grade (“Upgrade Now” and “Upgrade Tonight”). To avoid the upgrade, die-hard resisters had to click a red “X’’ in the upper-right corner that closed the window.
Notifi cationsMicrosoft then revised the notifi ca-
tions, citing customer feedback. A new version tells PC owners they are scheduled for a “recommended” upgrade to Windows 10 at a specifi c time in the near future, and bears a prominent “OK” button. To reject or reschedule the change, users have to fi nd and click a less conspicuous link in small type. But clicking the “X’’ no longer blocks the upgrade.
Some PC users reacted as though Microsoft had left a horse’s head in
their bed.“Deceptive” and “a nasty trick”
is how Brad Chacos, an editor at PCWorld, put it in a column after his wife unwittingly clicked the “X’’ and later found her machine was no longer running Windows 7, which she had wanted to keep.
“Deploying these dirty tricks only frustrates long-time Windows users who have very valid reasons to stick with operating systems they already know and love,” wrote Chacos, who added that he uses and likes Windows 10 personally. His wife, though, is now shopping for a Mac.
Microsoft says it isn’t trying to be sneaky. In blog posts and offi cial statements, the company says it shows users at least two notifi cations before it activates Windows 10. It also al-lows any PC owner to reverse the installation and go back to their old software if they do so within 31 days.
“We understand you care deeply about what happens with your device.
This is why - regardless of your upgrade path - you can choose to
upgrade or decline the offer,” Micro-soft executive vice president Terry
Myerson wrote in a blog post.Even so, Microsoft clearly wants
to get as many PCs and other devices running Windows 10 as it possibly can. The company says it wants users to have the latest security features and other improvements. Microsoft also makes more money from Windows 10 features that increase usage of Bing, the company’s ad-supported search engine. And it wants to convince programmers there’s a big audience for software apps that are compatible with Windows 10 on PCs, tablets, smartphones and other gadgets.
Microsoft announced earlier this month that 300 million devices are running Windows 10 — a faster adoption rate than either of the two previous Windows versions.
Most buyers of new PCs will fi nd Windows 10 already installed. But Microsoft says its offer of a free up-grade for old machines is ending July 29 — and that means more notices and prompts are likely.
In this April 29, 2015 fi le photo, a Dell laptop computer running Windows 10 is on display at the Microsoft Build conference in San Francisco. (AP)
Shocking twist
Captain Americaa Hydra member
By Jesse J. Holland
Two words no one ever expected Captain America to say? “Hail
Hydra.”The new “Captain America: Ste-
ve Rogers” comic book hits stands Wednesday featuring the return of the original Captain America, Steve Rogers, but with a shocking twist: in the fi nal pages Rogers throws a fel-low hero out of a plane to his death and says “Hail Hydra,” the salute of the longtime Marvel Comics terrorist group Hydra.
The patriotic hero’s apparent heel turn, following months of sitting on the sidelines, is the highlight of the new No. 1 issue written by Nick Spen-cer and drawn by Jesus Saiz, and the book’s editor, Tom Brevoort, wants people to know they aren’t falling back on any of the old comic-book switcheroos — a clone, a life model decoy or a Steve Rogers from another dimension — for this reveal.
“That’s the real dude, and you’ll fi nd out the whys and wherefores in the second issue,” Brevoort said.
Refl ectedCaptain America has always re-
fl ected the era he’s lived in, and add-ing this level of complexity to Steve Rogers’ character just refl ects where we are as a country, Brevoort said.
“In the zeitgeist of the moment that we’re in, in the middle of sort of a very volatile election cycle where there’s a lot of strange things going on in the world of politics, and the world and the country, it feels kind of appropri-ate, kind of right timing-wise, that you could get a revelation like this and it not feel out of step with where the nation happens to be in the moment,” he said.
Captain America has been the focus of three movies from Marvel Studios: “Captain America: The First Avenger”, “Captain America: The Winter Soldier” and the current “Cap-tain America: Civil War.” As a comic book character, he’s gone through several changes in the last few years, including Rogers dying in the comic book’s “Civil War” event and being resurrected; and being replaced as by former sidekicks Bucky and the Fal-con as the offi cial Captain America.
Conjunction“Captain America: Sam Wilson”
will run in conjunction with “Captain America: Steve Rogers,” with stories Brevoort called “two sides” of the same coin. Rogers’ new status also helps explain why Wilson, the fi rst black Captain America, is keeping the identity and the shield.
“Twenty-four hours ago people were asking the question of ‘Steve is back. Why do you need Sam Wilson? When is he going to go back to being the Falcon?’” Brevoort laughed. “And suddenly today, 24 hours later, people kind of go, ‘Oh, now I see something that I didn’t see before.’ And now sud-denly there is an interesting friction between these two titles.”
Any change in Captain America al-ways brings controversy, and Internet leaks meant hate email from irate fans has already started, he said. “It speaks both to the strong connection that peo-ple have for Steve Rogers as an indi-vidual or even Captain America as an idea,” he said. (AP)
