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Even if we know how to make strong passwords, it’s difficult to keep track of them all between every bank account, retailer and app demanding its own unique log-in. So how can you escape password hell? Or at least snap out of your apathy before a hacker steals your information?

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By Hayley Tsukayama

We can probably all agree that the password sys-tem, as it stands today, just isn’t working. With the constant security

breaches in the headlines, we’re told regu-larly to beef up our passwords. But even if we know how to make strong passwords, it’s a pain to keep track of them all between every bank account, retailer and app demanding its own unique log-in.

So how can you escape password hell? Or at least snap out of your apathy before a hacker steals your information? We’ve

ranked your options from the most low-maintenance to the most rigorous — for people who want to go the extra mile.

None of the following suggestions are per-fect, by any means — just tips for staying sane in a crazy system. But it turns out that there are some surprisingly easy solutions for this very modern problem. And what-ever you do, remember: Anything is safer than using the same password over and over again. Even if it’s a really good one.

Easy (aka, lazy) methodsThere are some fairly easy ways to keep

track of, or even streamline, your list of passwords. These methods are fast but not

that secure in the scheme of things. Apply large amounts of common sense before proceeding.

1. Write them down.Alright. This might sound crazy right

off the bat. But one really easy way to keep track of your passwords is to write them down — on paper. Yes, conventional wisdom has said for years that that’s a bad idea, and you’re in huge trouble if you lose your list. But with so many accounts to juggle nowa-days, chances are that you’ll be tempted to reuse your passwords if you can’t remember all of them. So, writing them down isn’t so nutty.

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Ideally, yes, you should memorize your most important passwords. But even security expert Bruce Schneier has recommended writing down pass-words and treating that list like you would any other valuable document, which is to say with a high degree of security — no sticky notes on your monitor that say “conglomeratebank.com: jdoe/password123.”

There are definitely bad ways to do this. Getting into an account nor-mally means having to know three things: the location of the account, a username and a password. If you can manage it, don’t put all three of these pieces of information in the same place. Similarly, don’t do silly things like keeping your bank account password next to a credit or debit card that has your bank’s name on it.

What if you want to write eve-rything on a spreadsheet stored on your computer? The same rules and risks apply. And if you want to put that file in the cloud, the stakes are even higher. A cloud spreadsheet is not the place for your most sensitive accounts. If you must do this, con-fine your cloud spreadsheet to the accounts you would be reasonably okay with getting hacked. And at a minimum, name the file something other than “Passwords.”

2. Rely on a major company such as Facebook, Twitter or Google to log-in.

Another easy option is to place

your faith in a company like Google, Facebook or Twitter and use their networks to log in to other sites whenever possible. You know those “Log in with Facebook” buttons?

That’s what we’re talking about here. It won’t work for every site, but social network log-in is widespread enough that it could definitely cut down the amount of passwords you have. If you do opt for this method, though, make sure that the password you use for your social network of choice is rock-solid.

3. Reset your password — every time.

And finally, one simple — admit-tedly inconvenient — method is to go through the “Forgot your pass-word?” spiel each time you log into some sites. That’s too much of a pain for sites you use frequently, such as your email or your bank. But it’s not a bad fallback strategy for those serv-ices you use less often and are most likely to forget anyway — such as the account you made at a retailer’s web-site to get free shipping that one time.

AdvancedTo move to the next tier, you’re

going to have to commit to spend-ing some money or some time — in most cases both — to dealing with this imperfect system.

1. Password managersThere are a number of services

that will help you manage your pass-words, such as 1Password, LastPass or Dashlane, though you’ll have to pay a fee for some features. These serv-ices all differ slightly but work on the same basic principle: Each is an online storage locker of your passwords, all hidden behind a single password that only you know (meaning you can’t recover your master password from anywhere but your brain). Password managers also offer other perks, such as a place to store secure notes, credit card numbers or information for filling in websites. You just have to install the programs into your Web browsers to record your login infor-mation as you surf.

Password managers are conven-ient, and will even randomly generate strong passwords, such as “eG7nIs-0daud3Taw,” for your accounts and then remember those crazy things for you in their vaults. To access your various passwords as you surf, all you have to do is click on a handy button on your browser and choose which account you need to fill in your information.

Each has its strengths and weak-nesses. Dashlane is probably the easi-est to use and the prettiest to look at. LastPass is compatible with a wide range of devices. And 1Password, is comprehensive but expensive.

How much do they cost? 1Password has a one-time $50 cost for Mac or Windows, $18 for iOS and $10 for a full version of the app on Android

devices. LastPass and Dashlane are free, but if you want to sync across multiple devices — say your cellphone and your computer — you’ll need to upgrade to the premium versions. LastPass costs $12 a year; Dashlane costs $30 a year.

The two main downsides to pass-word managers are that one, yes, you’re still storing everything in one place and depending heavily on that service’s security. And second, you’re helpless if you don’t have access to your locker for some reason — for example, if your employer doesn’t let you download software onto your work computer.

2. Isolate your information.Not that into paying? Another

option is to create an email account that’s linked to just your most sen-sitive online accounts — financial accounts, namely — and don’t use it for anything else. The fewer ways that criminals can link your various accounts to build a profile of you, the better. Having a separate email account makes it harder for criminals to connect the dots they need to crack security questions, like those that ask for your maiden name or your pets’ name. So maybe they won’t figure out that the Judy Smith whose banking password they just obtained is the same as the Judy Smith who lists her maiden name and pets’ names in her Facebook profile.

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Don’t do silly things like keeping your bank account password next to a credit or debit card that has your bank’s name on it.

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Four Qatari students were spon-sored by Total to participate in the annual Total Summer School

in Paris, which this year took place in late June. The students joined 120 international students taking part in roundtable discussions, presentations and workshops to voice their ideas on energy-related issues and challenges. In addition, they met Total’s senior managers and recruiters at the com-pany’s headquarters. On their return, all four students shared their posi-tive experiences, and expressed their appreciation to have been a part of such a unique and diverse programme.

“It was such an amazing experience, I learned so many new and unexpected things,” said Ghalia Al Noaimi, who studies Environmental Science at Qatar University. “The crew, the stu-dents and the work environment was all perfect in order for us to learn and achieve. It was intense but fun at the

same time, everybody was so helpful, and I enjoyed it very much.”

Ghalia was accompanied by three other students, Nada Al Sulaiti, who studies marketing at Qatar University; as well as Ali Al Buainain and Almaha Al Hammadi, who study International Politics and Culture and Politics at Georgetown University, respectively.

Prior to their departure, the stu-dents met Guillaume Chalmin, Managing Director of Total E&P Qatar and Group Representative. Guillaume Chalmin briefed them on Total, its his-tory and its operations in Qatar and worldwide. “Our commitment to sup-port the Qatar National Vision 2030 through Qatarization has inspired us to create a variety of initiatives to benefit local students. At the Total Summer School the students have the opportunity to be exposed to a diverse multicultural environment, while dis-cussing major energy issues alongside

international experts and other stu-dents from all over the world. We are delighted that the students had a posi-tive experience.”

Yousef Al Jaber, Head of CSR and Institutional Affairs at Total, added: “Total Summer School is a great opportunity for Qatari students to

visit Total’s headquarters in Paris and explore the energy sector at an international level. We will continue to support this successful program by sending Qatari students every year, to further their interests in the oil and gas sector as a whole”.

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Qatari students excel at Total Summer School

Ali Al Buainain, one of the four Qatari students, taking part in a team project discussion with other students.

Students at Total Summer School in Paris.

Home Centre unveils ‘Dream Offer’

Home Centre has launched their ‘Dream

Offer’. The promotion enti-tles customers to avail a complimentary orthopaedic mattress and two pillows on the purchase of a bed. The offer can be availed on individual queen and king size beds or bedroom sets, worth QR 2,250 or higher. Upgrades on the compli-mentary gifts will also be available for customers who can pay the difference for a mattress or pillows of their choice.

The promotion will be running at all Home Centre stores in Qatar till August 23. The Peninsula

MES student diesMES Indian school 11th grade student Jamaludheen H a s h i m passed away last night due to a tragic car acci-dent in his native place Pa v a r a t t y of Trissur D i s t r i c t , Kerala, India. His father Mohamed Hashim works with Gulf Office Solutions in Doha and his younger brother Amjith is studying in 6th grade in the same school. The Peninsula

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By Daniel Yi

OK, riding a motorcycle is not safe. I know that because I’ve tried to argue otherwise with pretty much every non-rider

in my life — my mother, my dad, my wife, my boss. And I usually don’t get past the part where they sigh and roll their eyes.

Like most non-riders, they think lane-splitting is crazy. Yes, I am that guy squeezing his motorcycle in between cars, riding the stripes and occasionally giving you an unsolicited cure for the hiccups. California is the only state that does not outlaw the practice, though that could change. The California Highway Patrol and the Department of Motor Vehicles used to issue guidelines on how to split lanes safely, but recently have withdrawn them.

That’s too bad. I do apologize to car drivers out there for the scare, but seriously, it is safer and better for all of us. I promise.

I have been riding motorcycles for 25 years. Although motorcycle riding is inherently risky, I believe you can make it safer. That’s why I am a strong proponent of lane-splitting.

I usually drive my car to work. It is a grueling hour and a half on the 405 between the South Bay and Irvine. Plus, it’s not exactly a safe drive. A couple of months ago, I was in my car when I noticed a Cadillac following way too close during the morning rush hour. Sure enough, when the traffic came to a complete stop around Seal Beach, the Cadillac slammed into my rear bumper. The damage was about $400 in repairs.

The same trip is closer to an hour

on my Triumph Speed Triple. And If I am riding, I assure you I am safer splitting lanes.

Why? It’s a simple case of phys-ics and mass. A motorcyclist can react better to what’s in front than to a threat from behind. Whether I split lanes or not, I cannot eliminate driver error, but I can take precautions against what’s in front of me.

Also, more than a quarter of all motorcycle accidents involve motor-cycles being hit from behind in traffic jams, according to a recent article in the Los Angeles Times. This occurs partly because motorcycles can stop faster than cars, and many of the cars following motorcycles don’t account for this. There doesn’t seem to be any definitive studies on how safe lane-splitting itself is, but motorcycle safety experts agree that lane-splitting is safer than the alternative.

When splitting lanes, I make sure that both lanes to the right and left of me are traveling at about the same low speed or stopped. When one lane is much faster, it is too tempting for a driver on the slower lane to make a quick move to the faster lane. In that case, I pull into the faster lane and ride along with the flow of traffic.

The guidelines the DMV is about to un-publish recommend traveling no more than 10 mph faster than the flow of traffic when splitting lanes. Splitting lanes is about avoiding traffic jams, so if any one lane is travelling at 50 mph, there should be no need to split lanes. Also, I am always scanning the driv-ers’ heads looking for sudden move-ments. From the high vantage point of a motorcycle and travelling between cars, it is relatively easy to see inside

the cars ahead. A quick jerky move-ment often signals a lane change and I can react by slowing down or stopping.

But even when lane splitters take these precautions, drivers can be unpredictable. With terrifying fre-quency, I see drivers darting across double yellow lines, veering while putting on makeup or reading the newspaper (yes, that did happen on the 405) and treating turn-signals as an optional accessory.

I’ll be the first to admit that too many of my fellow motorcyclists take unnecessary risks. About a year ago, I was on the Harbor Freeway coming home from downtown Los Angeles. It was rush hour and traffic was at a standstill near the LA Coliseum. I was splitting lanes when I noticed in my side mirror another rider quickly gaining on me. The etiquette among motorcyclists is that when faster rid-ers get behind you during lane-split-ting you always let them pass. I pulled to the side and he careened by me, engine revving. He had to have been going at least 60 mph through what was essentially a parking lot. About two miles down the road, I saw rider and motorcycle sprawled in the middle of the freeway. Luckily, he seemed to have survived, as drivers helped him stumble to the side of the road.

But that guy crashed not because he was splitting lanes. He crashed because he was careless and irresponsible.

There’s another reason for lane-splitting that is hard to understand unless you’re a rider yourself: It’s hard to be in warm weather on a motorcycle when you’re stuck in Los Angeles traf-fic. Here’s how I describe the feeling to non-riders: Get a small charcoal grill

and light it up on your driveway during a hot summer day. Straddle that grill wearing jeans. Wait. Put on a leather jacket while you are at it. Now you get an idea of what it is like to be stopped in traffic on a motorcycle in 80-degree-plus weather with a searing engine between your legs.

If you are a car driver, you may be asking yourself, what do I care about making it safer or more comfortable for motorcyclists? In a 2012 study, two-thirds of drivers interviewed said they disapproved of lane-splitting, and seven percent actually admitted that they had swerved to block a motorcy-cle. Yikes!

Here’s what’s in it for you, Mr or Mrs Car Driver. Splitting lanes during a traffic jam effectively increases the number of lanes on the road so that motorcycles can clear through and not increase the total of number of vehicles stuck on the road. I know your misery would love my company, but really, how does that help you get home faster?

The DMV and the California Highway Patrol are now withdrawing their safety guidelines for motorcycle lane-splitting because they don’t want to be encouraging the practice — even though it is legal and even though experts, including many CHP officers, agree that it improves safety and eases traffic congestion.

I am sorry, but discouraging lane-splitting is just dumb. And that’s com-ing from a guy who rides down a traffic jam with little more than a helmet and leather jacket for protection.

Yi is a motorcyclist and recovering journalist living in the South Bay in California.

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By L V Anderson

With all due respect to William Carlos Williams, no one should be eating plums cold

from the icebox. Forgive me, but a chilled plum is an inferior plum — like all cold edibles, it will hurt your teeth and numb your tastebuds. Should you find yourself in possession of a perfect specimen, soft and full-to-bursting with sweet juice, eat it at room tem-perature, for crying out loud.

You’re unlikely to be able to discern perfection from the outside, though. The plum is more fickle and harder to read than its fuzzy cousin, the peach. A plum that feels tender and heavy might yield sour mush, not succulent flesh. A bite into a plum is an invitation to be disappointed.

It’s better to dispense with the drama and cook plums instead of eating them raw — that way you can smooth over their imperfections and draw out their juice. Just a few minutes in a saucepan or skillet will bring tart pink liquid seeping out of plum slices, regardless of how moistureless they seemed to begin with. You can keep cooking them until you have a rough compote, but it takes only a little extra effort to make them the centerpiece of an elegant summer dessert.

Upside-down cake might not seem elegant — it’s best known for its mara-schino-cherry-studded pineapple vari-ation, an icon of post-war American cooking — but it can be, when you use a not-too-sweet batter made tender with olive oil and yogurt. (You can use a more neutral oil if you insist, but

you should try making dessert with extra-virgin olive oil at least once — its slightly bitter edge provides a hint of intrigue in otherwise unadventurous baked goods.)

Upside-down cake is tradition-ally crowned with a sparse coating of fruit, but I like a higher fruit-to-cake

ratio. There should be enough batter to bind the fruit together, but not so much that the plums become an after-thought. Between the tender crumb and lacquered fruit, you’ll find a thin layer of moist, gooey batter — half cake, half fruit, all good.

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Plum and Olive Oil Upside-Down Cake

Yield: 9 to 12 servingsTime: 1 1/4 to 1 1/2 hours, largely unattended

IngredientsOil or butter for greasing the pan1/3 cup plus 2 tablespoons olive oil1 1/2 pounds plums, sliced2/3 cup plus 2 tablespoons brown sugar1/2 cup whole-milk Greek yogurt1 large eggGrated zest of 1 lemon1 teaspoon vanilla extract1 teaspoon almond extract1 1/4 teaspoons baking powder1/2 teaspoon salt1 cup all-purpose flour

Method:Heat the oven to 350 degrees F and grease an 8- or

9-inch square or round pan. Put 2 tablespoons of the olive oil in a large skillet over medium heat. When it’s hot, add the plums and cook, stirring occasion-ally, until they’re tender and swimming in juice, 5 to 7 minutes. Add 2 tablespoons of the brown sugar and cook until it dissolves, 1 to 2 minutes. Remove from the heat.

Put the yogurt, the remaining 1/3 cup olive oil, the egg, the lemon zest, the vanilla, and the almond extract in a medium bowl. Whisk to combine, then whisk in the remaining 2/3 cup brown sugar, followed by the bak-ing powder and salt. Add the flour and stir just until combined.

Transfer the plum mixture to the greased pan and spread into an even layer. Spread the batter evenly over the fruit, and bake until the cake is golden brown and a knife inserted into the center of the cake comes out mostly clean, 50 to 60 minutes.

Cool thoroughly, then run a knife around the edge of the cake to loosen it from the pan, place a large plate over the pan, and invert the cake. Serve at room temperature.

(Store leftover cake in an airtight container in the refrigerator for up to a few days.)

How to make the best

Plumcake

BOOKS 7

Whisk yourself back in time, if you will, to 1978. A young man, fresh from success at his O-levels,

has decided he wants to do English at A-level. It should involve, surely, little more strenuous activity than reading books, which he’d be doing anyway; and besides, he knows the language, so it will be a break from the other A-levels he has elected to do, viz French and German. And then, too late for him to back out even if he had wanted to, he is handed a reading list for the summer holidays.

I cannot now remember that whole reading list; as the memory of those days recedes in the distance, I remem-ber only two: Middlemarch and Waiting for Godot. Middlemarch I had vaguely heard of. And there had been a school production of Waiting for Godot a year or two beforehand, with an intriguing-looking poster, but if anyone thought that I, as a 13- or 14-year-old boy, was going to stay after school to watch a play, then they must have been nuts.

A couple of years later, that is, by the time of these particular summer holidays, I was coming round slowly to the idea of culture as a desirable thing, despite some concerted efforts by certain teachers to put me off. I was a conscien-tious young man; but also, unfortunately, an indolent one. (Plus ca change, you might say.) This meant that it took a large part of the summer holidays before I got round to doing any of the reading I was meant to do, although I had spent a lot of them worrying about it. In the end, I had a week left.

Reader, you cannot imagine the effect it has on the adolescent mind of having to read Middlemarch in a

week. I thought 120 pages a day would be a doddle; but 120 pages of densely printed Victorian prose, about lives I was not even remotely familiar with, were not. I managed it, but it was a pale, exhausted and trembling hand that picked up the - thankfully - scanty pages of Godot.

Almost immediately I felt even more comforted. There were only five char-acters; and one of them the author hadn’t even bothered to name. This boded well. As did the first line of the stage directions: “A country road. A tree. Evening.” Three words, two words, one, like a countdown; or, if you prefer, a little hint of the way Beckett was to strip down his own works to their bones.

From the first page, I was mesmer-ised and astonished. Here was a mind that seemingly took everything and nothing seriously at the same time. I can still recall my impressions from the very first page on: the oddness of the name Estragon, yet its strange har-mony with Vladimir; the dry wit of the stage directions (“he broods, musing on the struggle”); the strange mixture of comedy and menace - how Vladimir says “(admiringly) A ditch!” when he learns that Estragon slept in one, and then asks “And they didn’t beat you?” “Beat me? Certainly they beat me.” Something in the tone made it clear that this was not to be referred to again - but not to be forgotten either.

The line “Our being born?” as a sug-gested answer to the proposal “Suppose we repented” struck a chord with the kind of adolescent who considers “I never asked to be born” an acceptable rebuke; as did the breezy evocation of suicide

(“Hand in hand from the top of the Eiffel Tower, among the first”); and then the first big belly laugh of the play: “The Bible ... I must have taken a look at it.”

In short, I was hooked. Here was an author who was irreverent, scatologi-cal, yet profound; and also completely uninterested in the conventions of lit-erature yet able, just through language, to sustain our interest despite nothing actually happening. As I discovered more of Beckett - both through my own efforts and those of the kind of inspirational, sympathetic English teacher you used to get so often (hello, Richard Jacobs, if you’re out there) - I followed him through his own journey, and by the time I was writing about him at university I was reading the texts - Ill Seen Ill Said, Worstward Ho - as they were published. And as I discovered the details of his life, first from the semi-authorised biogra-phy by Deirdre Bair, I realised that not only was his work exemplary, so was his life. Here was someone who had purged himself of vanity, both his own and the world’s; a man of unimpeachable integ-rity in both work and life.

To say Godot changed me is in one

sense perhaps not strictly accurate. For it would not have spoken to me so directly if I had not already been in a state to receive it. Beckett is regarded by many as a fiercely intellectual author, but I suspect that is because some people don’t know the differ-ence between being smart and being intellectual. I later discovered that Beckett was indeed fiercely intellec-tual, but that he had left the academy behind him, loathed the obfuscation of jargon, and was certainly never the kind of posturing intellectual who gets asked their opinions for the television networks. But from my exposure to Beckett at just the right age, I also ended up learning about, and learning to love, Dante, Joyce, Proust, and every conceivable spin-off or tangent from those great authors. And I suppose that it’s because of Godot that I do what I do for a living. And these days, I even like the occasional Victorian novel.

Nicholas Lezard is a literary critic for the Guardian, and the author of The Nolympics and Bitter Experience Has Taught Me

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How Waiting for Godot changed me

Samuel Beckett was irreverent yet profound, and able to sustain my interest despite nothing happening. Nicholas Lezard was mesmerised.

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Samuel Beckett

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BOLLYWOOD NEWS

By Lisa Richwine and Chris Michaud

The return of the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles earned $65m in ticket sales at US and Canadian movie theatres

over the weekend, easily winning a box office battle with Marvel’s outer space hit Guardians of the Galaxy.

Ninja Turtles, a reboot of a franchise born in 1980s comic books and popular-ised in TV cartoons, rang up another $28.7m in international markets for a global debut of $93.7m, according to distributor Paramount Pictures which wasted no time in announcing a sequel, set to open June 3, 2016.

Guardians, which ruled the box office universe a week ago with a record opening for August, collected $41.5m during its second weekend, accord-ing to estimates from research firm Rentrak. New tornado-chasing thriller Into the Storm landed in the No. 3 slot with $18m.

Forecasters had predicted a tight race between Guardians and Ninja Turtles. But the hard-shelled rep-tile heroes, brought back to TV on a Nickelodeon show in 2012, crushed expectations for a domestic total of around $40m.

Megan Fox stars in the film as a reporter who becomes a close ally of the four pizza-loving turtles who

emerge from the sewer to fight crimi-nals in New York City. The movie cost $125m to make.

“This exceeded all our expecta-tions,” said Megan Colligan, head of domestic marketing and distribution at Paramount Pictures, a unit of Viacom Inc as is Nickelodeon Movies, which together released the film.

“Families came out in a very big way” while teenagers were drawn to the film’s incredible action sequences,” said Colligan, explaining how the film’s box office performance was driven far beyond the expected fan base of 25 to 35-year olds.

Global sales for Guardians reached $313m, distributor Walt Disney Co said. The film stars Chris Pratt and Zoe Saldana as galactic warriors who lead a rag-tag band of heroes including a talking raccoon and a human-like tree.

While Turtles and Guardians have provided a late boost to summer ticket sales, the season remains 16.5 percent behind last year’s record pace with a total of $3.465bn since May 2, against $4.15bn for the same period a year ago, according to Rentrak.

The weekend’s No. 3 film, Into the Storm, takes place in a fictional Midwest town hit by the strongest tornadoes ever seen.

The movie, released by Time Warner

Inc’s Warner Bros, cost $50m to make.Food romance The Hundred-Foot

Journey debuted with $11.1m at domes-tic theatres, finishing fourth. The movie stars Helen Mirren as a French restaurateur who feuds with the Indian

family that takes over the defunct res-taurant across the street.

Hundred-Foot Journey was produced by Steven Spielberg’s DreamWorks Studios, Oprah Winfrey’s Harpo Films and Participant Media. Disney distrib-uted the film.

French action film Lucy, starring Scarlett Johansson as a drug mule with telekinetic powers, was fifth with $9.3m in its third week in theaters.

New music drama Step Up All In, about an epic dance contest in Las Vegas, earned $6.6m at North American (US and Canadian) theatres over the weekend, taking sixth place. The movie was released by Lions Gate Entertainment Corp.

Seventh place with $5.7 went to Hercules, starring Dwayne “the Rock” Johnson.

Get On Up, a biopic about US soul singer James Brown, dropped to eighth place from third, bringing in $5m its second weekend out.

Dawn of the Planet of the Apes, the critically praised latest installment in the sci-fi film series about apes co-existing with humans, drew $4.4m for ninth place.

Disney’s Planes: Fire & Rescue, the computer-animated movie about a talking plane that helps firefighters save a national park, made $2.4m, leav-ing it in tenth place. Agencies

HOLLYWOOD NEWS

Entertainment crosses `350m over weekend

Actor Akshay Kumar’s latest slapstick comedy Entertainment

continues to entertain the masses. In the opening weekend, it has collected over `350m in India.

“#Entertainment Fri 111.6m, Sat 115.3m, Sun 140m. Total: (`) 366.9m nett. India biz,” trade analyst Taran Adarsh tweeted.

“#Entertainment has decent weekend, but weekdays are crucial!” he added.

Directed by debutant duo Sajid-Farhad, the movie also features Tamannaah Bhatia, Sonu Sood and Johnny Lever.

It is named after a Golden Retriever who plays an important character in the film.

Entertainment is co-produced by Ramesh S Taurani of Tips Industries Ltd and Jayantilal Gada.

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Williams yet to use his £1.75m pad

Singer Robbie Williams is said to have never stayed in his £1.75m house here despite splurg-

ing on its renovation.The “Candy” hitmaker bought the house, previ-

ously owned by late filmmaker Michael Winner, in December 2013. It is said that despite it’s huge price tag, he prefers to stay in hotels when he performs here, reports femalefirst.co.uk.

“The house has a staff in place ready to wel-come anyone who wants to stay there, but Robbie himself has opted for hotels when he’s been in London, instead of making the journey out to West London after work commitments in town,” said a source.

“He bought it for the family and plans to use it one day, but to be in such a big place alone when he’s missing them has no appeal.

“He’s told all his friends and family they can stay there any time they like, but it’s not something he’s actually done himself yet.

“It’s just easier to crash in a hotel, not worry about anything and then go on to the next gig or jump on a place to the next country,” added the source.

Daughter pays tribute to Whitney Houston

Bobbi Kristina Brown, daughter of the late music icon Whitney Houston, has paid tribute to her

mother on her 51st birth anniversary.Houston died in February 2012 and the daugh-

ter took to Twitter to pay a tribute to mark the milestone on August 9, reports femalefirst.co.uk.

She wrote: “#HappyBirthdaymommy! #HappyBirthdayWhitney! #AllAugustAllWhitney #iloveyou! @nickdgordon @mwhitaker10 #Family.”

Bobbi, whose father is “My prerogative” hit-maker Bobby Brown, hinted earlier that she was planning to start her music career.

She tweeted: “Think about it.. She had 1babygirl, lungs and a GORGEOUS unforgettable voice.. Who do you think ONLY has HER vocal chords.. ? (sic).” She is also rumoured to be getting help with her career from Mariah Carey and former “American Idol” judge Randy Jackson.

Jackson likely to release new album

Singer Janet Jackson is reportedly set to release her new album after six years. Her

last one was “Discipline”, which came out in 2008.The singer will pay tribute to her late brother

Michael Jackson, with plans to cover one of his tracks for the record, reports contactmusic.com.

“The label is really pushing Janet and they have made her a priority act for the year, which means a big budget,” a source told The Sun on Sunday newspaper.

“It’ll be the first album she’d release since Michael died in 2009, so she felt it was fitting to include a nod to him. If it sells well she will look at doing a world tour in 2015,” the source added.

Meanwhile, songwriter Jamie McGrone has hinted at his involvement in the “project”.

He took to Instagram and revealed his “team” would be working on the record, but refused to go into any more detail on what exactly they would be working on.

“Guess whose team is going to New York to work on the new Janet Jackson project,” he posted.

Dimpleji pampers me: Deepika Padukone

Actress Deepika Padukone says she enjoys a unique camaraderie with her

co-star Dimple Kapadia who treats her like a daughter and takes her for outings.

“What I feel for Dimpleji and my equation with her, I can’t describe it in words. She took me for lunch and shopping while we were shooting for Cocktail,” said Deepika at the Finding Fanny song unveiling. The two feature in the quirky comedy’s cast.

“She pampers me and spoils me. She treats me like her daughter,” added the young actress.

The film is coming out on September 12 and Deepika says that it can be described as a “different” movie rather than bold.

“I will not call it a bold film, it’s a different film. When I saw the promos first, I found it to be different. It’s refreshing, it’s quirky and cool,” she said.

Arjun Kapoor, Naseeruddin Shah and Pankaj Kapur join Dimple and Deepika in the cast of the film directed by Homi Adajania.

The best part about Finding Fanny is that Deepika got a chance to speak in her mother tongue.

“I completely enjoyed being part of the film as I also got to speak in my mother tongue — Konkani,” she said.

“It’s a nice feeling when you have a command over your language. We are used to shooting in Hindi, but speaking in English was a different experi-ence altogether.”

Arjun said that the film would whet the appetite of those who crave to see something different on the big screen.

“Everyone complains that we don’t do anything different, so with this film I have tried something different.

“It was just an instant decision. I got an opportunity to work with vet-erans who made us a better actor.”

Hema excited about working with Sippy

Actress Hema Malini and director Ramesh Sippy together gave hits like Andaz, Seeta Aur Geeta and Sholay. Now the two are teaming up again

after over four decades for a romantic comedy and Bollwyood’s Dream Girl says this could be “another important film in my career”.

Titled Shimla Mirchi, the film will reportedly tell the story of a single mother, played by Hema Malini, and her daughter (Rakul Preet Singh), who fall in love with the same man.

“In the midst of all that is happening in parliament and my constituency (Mathura), this film offer came to me. Normally, I wouldn’t have said yes, given my gruelling schedule in parliament and my obligations in my con-stituency. But this film is not the usual run-of-the-mill stuff,” said Hema.

She fell in love with the script. “It’s light-hearted comedy with a very unusual role for me. I am sure it will turn out to be something very special. Also, the offer came from Rameshji who is returning to direction after many years. I couldn’t say no to him.

“Some of my most important films, be it Andaz, Seeta Aur Geeta or Sholay have been with Rameshji. I get a feeling this new film with Rameshji would be another important film in my career.” Their last film together was 1972 hit comedy Sita Aur Geeta, about twin sisters.

How does Hema intend to find the time to shoot for Shimla Mirchi?“Just like I’m doing everything in my life,” she shot back.While life lends itself to a hectic pace from city to city for Hema, she

won’t compromise on her basic health precautions.“I have to eat and sleep on time, and properly. That is non-negotiable,”

she said adding that she was more than contented with life.“Everything I’ve wanted has been mine. I wanted my two daughters to

be happily married. When Esha and Ahana got married, I didn’t get two sons-in-law. I got two sons. My two sons-in-law are the sons I never had.”

Sippy’s last highly acclaimed directorial venture was the 1985-release Saagar, which marked the come-back of Dimple Kapadia on the silver screen after a long gap. Shimla Mirchi will go on floors in mid-September.


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High caffeine may lower ear ringing sensation in women

If you are a woman and suffering from ringing or buzzing sound in the ear when there is no

outside source of the sounds, increase your tea and coffee intake.

According to new research, women with a higher intake of caffeine had a lower incidence of unexplained ear ringing. Higher caffeine intake is associated with lower rates of tinnitus in younger and middle-aged women, it added.

The study followed more than 65,000 women. Researchers tracked self-reported results regarding lifestyle and medical history from these women, aged 30 to 44 years and without tinnitus in 1991.

After 18 years of follow up, researchers iden-tified 5,289 cases of reported incident tinnitus.

“We observed a significant inverse association between caffeine intake and the incidence of tin-nitus among these women,” said Gary Curhan, a physician-researcher at the Channing Division of Network Medicine at Brigham and Women’s Hospital (BWH) in Boston, Massachusetts.

Significantly, researchers found that when compared with women with caffeine intake less than 150 milligrams/day (one and a half 8-ounce cups of coffee), the incidence of reported tinnitus was 15 percent lower among those women who consumed 450 to 599 mg/day of caffeine.

The majority of caffeine consumed among the women was from coffee and the results did not vary by age. “We know that caffeine stimu-lates the central nervous system and previous research has demonstrated that caffeine has a direct effect on the inner ear in both bench sci-ence and animal studies,” Curhan noted.

Researchers note that further evidence is needed to make any recommendations about whether the addition of caffeine would improve tinnitus symptoms.

The research appeared in the journal American Journal of Medicine.

Diabetes drug may even benefit non-diabetics

A study involving over 180,000 people has shown that patients treated with the widely

prescribed diabetic drug metformin can live longer than non-diabetics.

The drug has anti-cancer and anti-cardiovas-cular disease benefits and can offer surprising health benefits to non-diabetics also, indicates a promising research.

“What we found was illuminating. Patients treated with metformin had a small but sta-tistically significant improvement in survival compared with non-diabetics,” claimed Craig Currie, professor at Cardiff University’s school of medicine.

“Those treated with another common diabe-tes drug called sulphonylurea had a consistently reduced survival compared with non-diabetic patients,” he said, adding that this was true even without any clever statistical manipulation.

The life expectancy of these cohorts was also compared against non-diabetics who were matched based on criteria that included age, gender, same general practice, smoking status and clinical status.

The findings indicate that metformin could offer prognostic and prophylactic benefits to people without diabetes, the study, published in a leading journal Diabetes, concluded.

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By Dorene Internicola

Whether it is running, swimming, weight lift-ing or aerobics, fitness experts say the centre

of all exercise routines is the core — the abdominal, back and muscles around the pelvis — which is the seat of stability, strength and power.

Adding in exercise routines to strengthen the core can help the runner go faster, the basketball player jump higher and the every-day exerciser more easily do routine tasks from loading the car to clean-ing the tub.

“The core is everything except for arms, legs and head,” said Daniel Taylor, co-author with Greg Brittenham of the new book Conditioning to the Core.

It is the mainstay of the body, according to Taylor, who is the head strength and conditioning coach at Siena College in upstate New York.

“People need to get away from saying ‘I’m going to do abs today’ and take a larger view,” said Taylor, whose book contains more than 300 exercises, rang-ing from planks, squats and lunges to medicine ball and kettlebell throws presented in progressive routines.

“A lot of times people get stuck in one or two rou-tines and get good at them,” he said. “You’ve got to make things more challenging to keep progressing.”

Taylor said everything is linked to the core.

“If you jump it’s transferred to the core. If you want to be a better rec-reational running, strengthening the core will help because your anchor is better,” he explained.

The body’s girdle is how New York City-based personal trainer JR Allen describes the core.

Celebrity trainee Allen, whose clients include singer Mary J Blige, said even the breath is involved in core work.

“It’s not about sucking in the stom-ach but about tightening,” said Allen, owner of 2 Day Be Fit. “If you watch a boxer before a punch, he’ll make a whistling sound. That’s to engage the transverse abdominals (the front and side muscles of the abdominal wall).”

Allen, a former body builder takes a personal approach to training.

“One of my favourite things to do is agility drills,” he said. “Squat jumps, alternating lunges with jumps

and power skips: those types of dynamic movements target your core.”

Taylor said a mere 20-minute core workout, involv-ing as few as four rotating exercises in a circuit, serves as a good warm up for most activities, from lifting weights to playing basketball.

“You don’t have to destroy yourself. You don’t have to do it for hours, you don’t need to exercise for a thousand repetitions. But if you keep doing it you’ll be stronger, better toned, with better pos-ture,” he said. “And maybe your running times have improved.” Reuters

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TECHNOLOGYPLUS | TUESDAY 12 AUGUST 201412

By Jack Schofield

A very old cliche says Microsoft gets things right the third time, which could be true for the new smart, silver

Surface Pro 3.Where last October’s Surface Pro

2 was merely tweaked and speed-bumped, the third version answers almost all the complaints made about the February 2013 original.

Compared with the Surface Pro, the Pro 3 has a 40 percent bigger 12in screen with 50 percent more pixels, but it’s also a third thinner at 9.1mm and 120g lighter at only 800g, with a solid build quality.

Where the original Surface kick-stand had one rest angle, and the Surface Pro 2 had two, now it has a range of 22 to 150 degrees. Its detach-able Type Cover keyboard is also thin-ner, but it now has backlighting and a 63 percent bigger trackpad.

The new squarer screen (with its 3:2 ratio) is more balanced than the old design, with the relocated Windows Key at the bottom of the screen mak-ing it easy to use held vertically.

The touchscreen technology has been improved to make it much easier to use the Surface Pro 3 as a replace-ment for a notebook and pen. Just click the pen-top and the tablet almost instantly turns on with a blank page in OneNote.

The size and weight are impres-sive for a full PC. It is thinner than an Apple iPhone 4S and the screen alone only 120g heavier than the original iPad.

The Surface Pro conceptLike the the original Surface Pro,

the Pro 3 is a multifunction device. With the Type Cover attached it’s a Windows 8.1 laptop; but it works well too as a graphics tablet.

The Surface Pro 3 works as a desk-top replacement if you add the docking station, supporting full size USB key-boards and mice, and multiple display screens.

The drawbacksEvery multifunction device — even

the humble smartphone — involves making some compromises compared with buying several dedicated devices. Most obviously, while the Surface Pro 3 is small for a full-spec laptop, it’s big for a tablet.

The laptop compromise depends on keyboard quality and “lappability”. Although the Type Cover is very nice for something so thin, it’s not as good as the keyboards fitted to decent lap-tops. It will work with any standard PC keyboard, but those don’t provide such a neat, portable package.

Using the original Surface Pro on one’s lap was a challenge. The new ver-sion is much better because you can raise the keyboard and vary the angle of the kickstand.

However, the tablet form factor means it will never be as comfortable as a laptop. The weight isn’t under the keyboard, spread across your thighs; it’s in the screen, and the kickstand means you need a couple of extra inches beyond where a laptop hinge would be.

I don’t need “lappability” (I take

trains with tables, or use the Surface Pro 3 in tablet mode with on-screen keyboard), but if I did, I’d go for a hybrid laptop with a detachable screen.

As with all thin laptop designs, there’s also some compromise on per-formance. Chips in ultra-thin PCs can’t run as hot as they can in spacious desktops, which means you won’t get the same continuous speed for movie editing or playing heavyweight games. In normal use, I barely got the Surface Pro 3 warm, but it’s obviously going to get hot if you stress it.

The nigglesThe Surface Pro 3 is a major advance

on the Surface Pro, but it’s not per-fect. The most annoying thing is the Windows key, which has been moved to the right hand side of the screen, where it is all too easy to press by acci-dent. If I owned a Surface Pro 3, I’d be looking for a tweak to turn it off.

While the Type Cover is usable – and vastly better than the Touch Cover, which has been dropped for the Surface Pro 3 – I’d still like a better option. Perhaps one day Logitech will provide one.

The Surface Pro 3’s 12in screen is the right size: not too big for a tablet but not too small for a laptop. The 2,160 x 1,440 resolution screen means you can’t see individual pixels, but it makes Windows 8 features very small. In fact, they’re not very finger-friendly even with the standard 150 percent scal-ing. (For comparison, the MacBook Pro with Retina Display does 2560 x 1600 on a 13.3in screen, but it’s twice as thick and much heavier.)

There’s a USB 3 port, which is par-ticularly useful if you plan to get a third-party USB 3 hub, but perhaps it could have had a Thunderbolt port. Maybe next time?

Finally, there’s the four-cell, 42 watt-hour battery. Microsoft reckons you’ll get about nine hours of use for light work with Wi-Fi on, and most people should find it lasts all day. (If not, the charger is tiny.)

Some laptops last longer, because they have bigger and heavier batteries, but some sacrifices come from being ultra-thin and ultra-light.

Pricing (in UK)The Surface Pro 3 costs from £639

in UK, including the £44.99 pen. The Type Cover costs an extra £109.99 and the Docking Station £164.99.

VerdictMicrosoft describes the Surface Pro

3 as “the tablet that can replace your laptop”. That’s definitely true, though people who work with it mostly on their lap (which is bad for your spine), would be better off with a traditional laptop.

It also says “the new 12-inch Pro 3 is the best of a laptop, best of a tablet”. However, there are high-end Windows tablets with touch screens, better key-boards and better battery life, albeit they’re not as thin or as light.

There are also much slimmer and lighter tablets – such as the Sony Xperia Z2 tablet and iPad Air – though they are not full PCs. It all depends what you need.

The Surface Pro 3 wins if you want both a laptop and a tablet in a single device, and it becomes unbeatable if you also want pen operation and/or a tough device.

The Surface Pro 3 should be the first choice for pro photographers and some graphics professionals, and a variety of field workers. It would also suit people who spend a lot of time on planes. But those are not mass markets.

For business it takes large enter-prises years to change, and they’re still deploying Windows 7, not Windows 8. It would be a terrific device for educa-tion as well, but schools can’t afford it.

So, while the Surface Pro 3 is lovely prestige product, and much better than the Surface Pro 2, I don’t think it’s going to give Lenovo, or Apple, any sleepless nights. It has a strong appeal, but it doesn’t look wide enough.

Pros: Works as a touch-tablet, ultraportable laptop (with Type Cover), a pen-operated slate, and a desktop PC (with Docking Station)

Cons: Compromised weight, battery life and “lappability” compared to sepa-rate devices (fewer compromises than the Surface Pro 2), expensive if you don’t need the features

Redesigned to remove almost all the problems, except the most fundamental one: do you really want one device to replace both a tablet and a laptop?

Surface Pro 3: Most lappable tablet yet

COMICS & MORE 13

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Greensburg

18:30 X-Machines

19:20 The Gadget Show

19:45 How Stuff's Made

20:10 Mythbusters

21:00 Prototype This

21:50 Punkin Chunkin

2011

22:40 What's That

About?

23:30 Alien Mysteries

NOVO

1Suniya Fi Masr (2D/Arabic)

– 10.00am, 12.15, 2.30, 4.45, 7.00, 9.15 & 11.30pm

2

Lucy (2D/Action)

– 10.00am, 12.00noon, 2.00, 4.00, 6.00, 8.00, 10.00pm & 12.00midnight

3

Dawn Of The Planet Of The Apes (Adventure)

3D – 11.00am, 4.00 & 9.00pm 2D – 1.30, 6.30 & 11.30pm

4

Earth To Echo (2D/Adventure)

– 10.30am, 12.30, 2.30, 4.30, 6.30, 8.30 & 10.30pmThe Purge: Anarchy (2D/Thriller) – 12.20am

5

Barbie And The Secret Door (2D/Adventure)

– 10.40am, 12.20, 2.00, 3.40 & 5.20pmKick (2D/Hindi/Action) – 7.00 & 10.00pm

6

Planes: Fire & Rescue (2D/Animation)

– 10.00, 11.45am, 1.30 & 3.15pmIt's Entertainment (2D/Hindi) – 5.30, 8.15 & 11.00pm

7

Earth To Echo (2D/Adventure)

– 10.00am, 1.40, 5.20 & 9.00pmA Long Way Down (2D/Comedy)

– 11.50am, 3.30, 7.10 & 10.50pm

8

Transformers: Age Of Extinction (2D/Action)

– 11.00am, 4.15 & 9.30pmLucy (2D/Action) – 2.30, 7.45pm & 12.20am

9Transformers: Age Of Extinction (IMAX 3D/Action)

– 12.30, 3.30, 6.30, 9.30pm & 12.30am

10Lucy (2D/Action)

– 10.45am, 12.45, 2.45, 4.45, 6.45, 8.45, 10.45pm & 12.30am

MALL

1

Kick (2D/Hindi) – 2.00pm

Jigarthanda (2D/Tamil) – 4.45pm

Transformers: Age Of Extinction (3D/Action) – 7.45pm

Vikramadithyan (2D/Malayalam) – 10.45pm

2

Earth To Echo (2D/Adventure) – 2.15pm

Planes: Fire & Rescue (3D/Animation) – 4.00pm

Suniya Fi Masr (2D/Arabic) – 6.00pm

Dawn Of The Planet Of The Apes (3D/Action)

– 8.00pm

Transformers: Age Of Extinction (3D/Action) – 10.30pm

3

A Long Way Down (2D/Comedy) – 2.15pm

Lucy (2D/Action) – 4.15 & 9.00pm

Vikramadithyan (2D/Malayalam) – 6.00pm

Dawn Of The Planet Of The Apes (2D/Animation)

– 11.00pm

LANDMARK

1

Vikramadithyan (2D/Malayalam) – 2.00 & 8.00pm

Jigarthanda (2D/Tamil) – 5.00pm


2





– 9.00pm

A Long Way Down (2D/Comedy) – 11.30pm

3


Lucy (2D/Action) – 3.45 & 11.30pm


– 5.30 & 8.30pm

ROYAL

PLAZA

1

Earth To Echo (2D/Adventure) – 2.00 & 3.45pm


– 5.15 & 8.15pm

Lucy (2D/Action) – 11.30pm

2


It's Entertainment (2D/Hindi) – 4.00 & 11.15pm



3

A Long Way Down (2D/Comedy) – 2.30 & 4.30pm


– 6.30 & 11.00pm

Lucy (2D/Action) – 9.00pm


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Test to reveal if your coffee is fake

Is your cup of hot coffee brimming with ingredients like starch syrup that are neither sweet nor flavour-

ful? Worry not as a test to detect counterfeit coffee is here.

According to a significant study, growing coffee shortages may increase the chance of having fillers in your coffee in the future.

With new test, it is now possible to know with 95 percent accuracy if coffee is pure or has been tampered with corn, barley, wheat, soybeans, rice, beans, acai seed, brown sugar or starch syrup, researchers said.

These extra ingredients, though not harmful, make ground coffee go farther and increase profits for pro-ducers. “With a lower supply of coffee in the market, prices rise and that favours fraud because of the economic gain,” said lead researcher Suzana Lucy Nixdorf from State University of Londrina in Brazil.

The test uses liquid chromatogra-phy and statistical tools.

This gives the team a much closer look at the ingredients in an unbiased way, according to Nixdorf.

Chromatography is a powerful ana-lytical technique that is very sensitive and highly selective.

“Because much of the coffee is com-posed of carbohydrates, researchers could develop a ‘characteristic fin-gerprint’ when using chromatogra-phy that separates out the real coffee compounds,” Nixdorf noted.

The added, unwanted grain fillers generate different levels of sugars than the natural ingredients, so they are easy to identify.

According to researchers, after roasting and grinding the raw mate-rial, it becomes impossible to see any difference between grains of lower cost incorporated into the coffee, especially because of the dark colour and oily texture of coffee.

“Our test quickly finds coffee con-taining unwanted fillers before the beverage reaches stores and restau-rants,” researchers said.

The findings will be part of the 248th national meeting and exposition of the American Chemical Society (ACS), the world’s largest scientific society, this week.

‘Sponge’ plastic to soak up CO2, reduce pollution

You have blamed plastics all along for increased pollution but researchers have now

made a material - inspired by the

plastics used in food containers - that soaks up carbon dioxide (CO2).

Researchers believe that the mate-rial might ease our transition away from polluting fossil fuels and toward new energy sources, such as hydrogen.

“The key point is that this polymer is stable, it’s cheap, and it adsorbs CO2 extremely well. It’s geared toward functioning in a real-world environ-ment,” said Andrew Cooper from University of Liverpool in Britain.

“In a future landscape where fuel-cell technology is used, this adsorb-ent could work toward zero-emission technology,” he added.

The material, which is a brown, sand-like powder, is made by linking together many small carbon-based molecules into a network and the idea to use this structure was inspired by polystyrene, a plastic used in styro-foam and other packaging material.

The new material would be a part of an emerging technology called an integrated gasification combined cycle (IGCC), which can convert fossil fuels into hydrogen gas, the researchers said. But the IGCC process yields a mixture of hydrogen and CO2 gas, which must be separated.

The sponge works best under the high pressures intrinsic to the IGCC process.

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Events in Qatar

Alif by Sabah ArbilliWhen: Till September 17Where: InterContinental Doha The City What: Specifically created for Ramadan and Eid, Arbilli uses his gift for calligraphy art to create this collection of works centred around Alif – the first letter of Arabic alphabet and the first letter in the revelation of the Quran. The exhibit will remain on display in the lobby area of the hotel. Free entry

Trapeze Exhibition and Acquisitions Program When: August 15; 10am-10pm Where: Katara Art Studios - Bldg 19 What: The exhibition features the work of Qatari artists and their efforts to achieve a balance between reviving the heritage and traditions and preserve the cultural and popular memory, between their aspirations as artists yearning for the future enlightened by their country rising to the top ranks in various fields. The exhibition is a panorama of arts as all Qatari artists of different creativity areas are invited to participate in Trapeze and present their artworks, and the organizing committee will select some of the most exceptional woks.Free entry

Building Our Collection: An Insight Into Museum Art Collecting When: Till August 30Where: Museum Of Islamic Art What: The exhibition looks at why MIA collects Islamic art, and how the museum’s collecting practices shape our understanding of Islamic art through artistic and cultural connections between different regions of the Islamic world. The majority of featured objects have never before been on display.Free entry

Splash & Dash When: Till August 31Where: Aspire Zone What: Aspire will make two of its best facilities available for the community from July 2 until August 31, every Sunday and Wednesday from 7:30pm until 11pm. Aspire Dome Swimming Pool and the Indoor Athletics Track will host swimming and running open sessions. The online registration is open until August 31.Tickets required (more info at www.aspirezone.qa)

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