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Every technological benefit comes with
a cost in the form of a threat to privacy.
Yet not paying that price has its own
cost: an inability to participate in some of
technology’s greater achievements.
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COVER STORY
| 03THURSDAY 7 JANUARY 2016
Gadgets will keep getting smarter, like it or notSmarter devices offer lots of
benefits — but they’ll also chal-
lenge our notions of priva-
cy. Our cars, our homes, our
appliances and even our toys: Things
around us are going to keep getting
smarter. In 2016, we’ll entrust even
more of our lives and their intimate de-
tails to machines — not to mention the
companies that run them.
Are we ready for that?
You might, for instance, like the idea
of turning on your TV with a spoken
command — no more fumbling for the
remote! But for that to work, the TV
needs to be listening all the time, even
when you’re not watching. And even
when you’re discussing something ex-
tremely personal, or engaged in some
other activity to which you’d rather not
invite eavesdroppers.
How much should you worry? May-
be your TV never records any of your
casual conversations. Or maybe its
manufacturer is recording all that, but
just to find ways to make the TV bet-
ter at understanding what you want it
to do. Or maybe it retains everything it
hears for some other hidden purpose.
You may never know for sure. At
best, you can hope the company keeps
its promises on privacy. More impor-
tant, you have to trust that its compu-
ter systems are really secure, or those
promises are suddenly worthless. That
part is increasingly difficult to guaran-
tee — or believe — as hacking becomes
routine.
And here’s the chief quandary: Eve-
ry technological benefit comes with a
cost in the form of a threat to privacy.
Yet not paying that price has its own
cost: an inability to participate in some
of technology’s greater achievements.
Because smart gadgets thrive on
data — data about you and your hab-
its, data about what large numbers of
people do or say or appear to want in
particular situations — it’s difficult not
to share pretty much everything with
them. Doing otherwise would be like
turning off your phone’s location serv-
ices, which disables many of its most
useful features.
Kids will be able to talk to more toys
and get personalized, computer-gen-
erated responses. Does the “don’t talk
to strangers” rule apply if the stranger
is the Hello Barbie talking doll or Di-
no, the dinosaur powered by IBM’s
Watson artificial-intelligence system?
Cars will work with GPS technology
and sensors in parking meters, roads
and home appliances to help route you
around traffic and turn on your living-
room lights as you approach the drive-
way. But that can also generate a de-
tailed record of your whereabouts.
Thermostats from Nest and others
will get smarter at conserving energy
when you’re away. Potential burglars
might find that information handy.
Home security cameras are getting
cheaper and more plentiful, but they’re
sometimes insecure themselves, es-
pecially if you set them up clumsily.
There’s already a website devoted to
showing video from cameras with no
passwords. Though they are mostly
outdoor or business cameras, one was
trained on a baby’s crib, and another in
a living room. Wearable health devices
will track your heart rate, fitness levels
and more — and share achievements
with friends and family. But slacking off
may carry a heavier cost than those ex-
tra holiday pounds, particularly if your
insurance company yanks discounts for
meeting fitness goals.
Software from Google and Face-
book will get even more refined to help
you cut through the noise. That’s great
if Facebook is showing you posts from
friends you already interact the most
with, but will a long-lost friend’s plea
for help go unanswered because you
don’t see it?
The pending onslaught of priva-
cy trade-offs might seem trivial when
it comes to a talking — and listening
— Barbie. But maybe it’s less so when
your phone knows enough about you
to remind you it’s time to leave for an
important interview (if the alternative
would be losing a shot at that job) or
your smart home can really tell you if
you turned off the oven before leaving
for an international trip.
“The encroachments on our privacy
are often self-inflicted in the sense that
we will accept the trade-off one bit at
a time,” says John Palfrey, co-author
of “Interop: The Promise and Perils of
Highly Interconnected Systems”.
And these trade-offs can be quite
subtle. Technological advances typical-
ly offer immediate, tangible benefits
that, once you’ve put enough of them
together, can indeed revolutionize dai-
ly life. Can you imagine living your life
without a smartphone? A few years
from now, you might goggle at the
thought of managing your day without
constant advice from Siri or “OK Google.”
As for the risks, they’ll tend to be dif-
fuse, abstract and often difficult to as-
certain even if you’re paying attention
— and most people won’t. In a study
released Wednesday, the Pew Re-
search Center says about half of Amer-
ican adults have no confidence that
they understand what’s being done
with their data, and about a third are
discouraged by the amount of effort
needed to get that understanding.
In short, convenience usually wins.
Shiny new things are inherently attrac-
tive, and it takes a while for some of
us to get uneasy about the extent to
which we may be enabling our own
surveillance.
This holiday season’s Hello Barbie
talking toy won’t listen in until your kid
presses its belt buckle. Though it does
store conversations between kids and
their dolls to improve speech-recogni-
tion technology, its maker says there’s
little personal information tied to those
conversations — no first or last names,
no ages, no gender.
Of course, kids might simply tell
their toys personal details about them-
selves. ToyTalk employees who review
such conversations to improve the
technology are trained to immediate-
ly delete anything sensitive, but they
aren’t charged with actively monitor-
ing stored discussions.
How much should you worry? Maybe your TV never records any of your casual conversations. Or maybe its manufacturer is recording all that, but just to find ways to make the TV better at understanding what you want it to do. Or maybe it retains everything it hears for some other hidden purpose.
CAMPUS/COMMUNITY
04 | THURSDAY 7 JANUARY 2016
Phoenix Private School gets Read Write Inc badge
The Phoenix Private School has
been recognised and accred-
ited as the first International
school to hold a Read Write Inc
badge.
The Phoenix Private School has
been given the title of Official Read
Write Inc.School as the school has
spent the last two years working tire-
lessly to improve its students’ read-
ing, writing and comprehension to
take them from ‘reading for compre-
hension’ to ‘reading for pleasure’ a
press release issued by the school
said.
“We use the highly successful Read
Write Inc. Phonics programme to teach
our children to read, write and spell.
Our children do well in the phonics
screening check and by Year 2, the ma-
jority are fluent readers with the best
chance of success in the KS1 tests”, the
press release quoted one school offi-
cial as saying.
“Ruth Miskin Training recognise us
for teaching the Read Write Inc.pro-
gramme with fidelity and passion –
we know what it takes to make literacy
pleasurable and rewarding for our chil-
dren” the official added.
This badge recognises the schools
raise standards in reading and writing
for our children, all teachers, including
Principal Naveed Iqbal expertly trained
by Ruth Miskin Training and the school
gain the latest programme updates
through regular visits from our Ruth
Miskin trainer
Read Write Inc Phonics is an inclu-
sive literacy programme for all chil-
dren learning to read. It is aimed at
children reading at below the mas-
tery expected skills in reading and
teaches synthetic phonics. Children
learn the 44 common sounds in the
English language and how to blend
them to read and spell. The scheme
includes both a reading and a writ-
ing focus.
Reading is the key that unlocks the
whole curriculum so the ability to effi-
ciently decode is essential.
The RWI sessions are expect-
ed to occur each day with no excep-
tions, as the continuity and pace of the
programme is key to accelerating the
progress of children’s reading develop-
ment.
The school is on its journey to be-
coming the first Read Write Inc model,
and are able to support other schools
in the region with implementing the
programme.
Filipino actor Richards to perform at QNCC tomorrow
Filipino actor, TV host and
recording artist Alden Ri-
chards (pictured) is in
Doha for his first solo show in
Qatar to be held tomorrow at
the Qatar National Convention
Center (QNCC).
Richards is known as the
half of the phenomenal love
team in the Philippines called
‘AlDub’ which shot to fame in
a segment in the longest run-
ning noontime show in Philip-
pine television show Eat Bula-
ga.
The segment called “Kalye-
serye” (Street Series) which is
a soap opera parody in which
Richards and Yaya Dub deliv-
er live improv acting and dub-
smash was a big success cross-
ing over television and social
media resulting to a huge in-
crease in viewership.
It made social media history as fans from all over the world delivered
39.5m tweets in 24 hours with the hashtag #ALDubEBTamangPanahon
during a weekend show last year shattering the 28.4m record of last year’s
Superbowl and the 35.6m tweets for the Brazil vs Germany World Cup
game in 2014.
NIS celebrates annual day
Noble International School celebrated its 9th annual day at Al Wak-
rah Sports Club (indoor stadium) recently. The programme was
inaugurated by Captain Ramanan Ravi Kumar, Defence Advisor,
Indian embassy, at the function presided over by Hussain Mo-
hammed, the Managing Director of Noble Indian Education Society.
The students of NIS-KG celebrated the day with the theme “Global
warming” which focused on saving the environmental Mother Nature and
avoiding various pollutions like Air, Water, Land. “The seven stages of man”
which spot lighted on the various stages and the different roles of human
being in life by NIS-Primary and Preparatory students.
Pradap Felix, Principal of NIS, read the school Annual report in which
the special events and various competitions conducted within the school
premises were given a furtive glance. The students who secured proficien-
cy awards in academics were honoured in the fete as well.
COMMUNITY
| 05THURSDAY 7 JANUARY 2016
Al Khor Pakistani community’s Sohni Dharti organised Seerat Ul Nabi (PBUH) Conference yesterday. Children of all age
groups participated in “Tilawat of Holy Quran” “Naat Sharif” and speech competitions.
Sri Lankan Majlis elects new leaders
Sri Lankan Majlis Qatar (SLMQ),
held its sixteenth Annual Gen-
eral Meeting (AGM) recent-
ly and elected office-bearers
for 2016. The AGM started with the
recitation of the verses from the ho-
ly Quran and followed by the elec-
tion of SLMQ Executive Committee
for 2016.
Hazim Hamza was elected as the
president of SLMQ for 2016, while
Mohamed Najad as the vice presi-
dent, while, Mohamed Lafir as gen-
eral secretary, Riza Mohamed as
treasurer, Kamil Aarif as projects co-
ordinator, Sahal Alavi as public re-
lations coordinator, together with
Mohamed Aroos, Ahamed Rila, Mo-
hamed Mushthak, Shahard Nazir
and Mohamed Mafais were selected
as executive members.
The outgoing President Nazeem
Yakoob addressing the gathering,
congratulated the incoming Presi-
dent and pledged his uncondition-
al support to continue the servic-
es that SLMQ has been doing in the
past.
The new president, Hamza, ex-
pressed gratitude to the member-
ship for the trust bestowed upon
him and his unswerving desire to
take the Majlis to new heights.
The meeting was held at Abdul-
lah Bin Zaid Al Mahmoud Islamic
Cultural Center (FANAR).
112 Mall of Qatar staff to attend Ooredoo Marathon
The annual Ooredoo Marathon is set
to witness a strong contingent from
The Mall of Qatar, when 112 employ-
ees will join some of the world’s
best marathon athletes and thousands
of amateur runners. Now in its fourth
year, the Ooredoo Marathon will take
place tomorrow. The marathon will fea-
ture a range of courses for runners at all
levels of experience, including a full mar-
athon, half-marathon, 10km, 5km and a
special children’s 3km fun-run.
The Mall of Qatar has been encour-
aging its employees with the compa-
ny’s commitment to team spirit by pro-
moting sport for a worthy cause.
“We are thrilled by the support of
our MOQ employees at the Ooredoo
Marathon, with two of our team mem-
bers participating in the half marathon
and one running the full marathon in
this key event in Qatar’s sports calen-
dar of 2016. It is a fantastic opportuni-
ty for our participants to be engaged
in a competitive mode and challeng-
ing spirit.” said Naomi Sargeant, Direc-
tor of Marketing of Mall of Qatar.
Tennis stars greet fans at ExxonMobil stand
One of the highlights for visi-
tors of the Qatar ExxonMo-
bil Open is the possibility of
seeing their favourite play-
ers up close. Once again, ExxonMobil
Qatar has made special arrangements
for fans to meet beloved players at the
company’s stand, located in the tour-
nament’s Public Village.
So far, Tomas Berdych, Dustin
Brown and Jeremy Chardy have made
appearances at the stand, where they
were greeted by a long line of en-
thused fans waiting to meet themand
get autographs.
The stars posed with some of their
admirers, and made sure they went
away with signed tennis balls as a me-
mento of what was an unforgettable
experience.
As the tournament proceeds, many
more of this year’s star-studded list of
players are expected to drop in and
meet their fans.
ExxonMobil Qatar has been the ti-
tle sponsor of the Qatar ExxonMobil
Open for 22 years, in partnership with
the Qatar Tennis Federation. Since the
start of their collaboration, the Exx-
onMobil Qatar stand has been one of
the highlights of the tournament and
a much sought-after spot at its Public
Village. Each year, the stand is carefully
and creatively designed so that it is ap-
pealing to visitors of all ages.
In line with the Qatar National Vi-
sion 2030, ExxonMobil is committed to
providing the State of Qatar with the
energy to drive human potential; to
support research, safety, health and
the environment; and to nurture its
thriving society.
Sohni Dharti holds Seerat Ul Nabi meet
MARKETPLACE
06 | THURSDAY 7 JANUARY 2016
Masraf Al Rayan honours long-serving employees
Masraf Al Rayan, a leading
bank in Qatar and the re-
gion, continued its tradition
of recognising the bank’s
long-serving staff at a ceremony held
on Tuesday at the Sheraton Hotel-Do-
ha. The event was attended by Dr Hus-
sain Ali Al Abdulla, Chairman and Man-
aging Director; Adel Mustafawi, Group
CEO; senior executives and employ-
ees and staff of Masraf Al Rayan and Al
Rayan Investment.
The ceremony began with the rec-
itation of verses from the Holy Quran,
followed by a speech by Mustafawi, in
which he welcomed the attendees, not-
ing the importance of cultivating the
sense for belonging to this institution
which has become a financial and eco-
nomic icon contributing in the develop-
ment and growth of this beloved country.
Mustafawi also reminded Masraf
Al Rayan’s employees that manage-
ment doors are always wide open to
ideas and suggestions that may con-
tribute to achieving the strategies
and objectives of the bank and en-
hance its standing locally, region-
ally and globally. He also highlight-
ed the notion of maintaining the cul-
ture of teamwork to sustain progress.
Mustafawi then presented the awards
and certificates to the staff that have
completed 5 years in 2015, serving
Masraf Al Rayan in acknowledgment of
their loyalty to the bank.
Tiziana Terenzi unveiled four inspiring fragrances recently at Blue Salon.
The stellar creations are inspired by the moon and astrology. The liter-
ary tradition states that all lost items, or items that have gone astray
end up on the moon. The moon is the place where dreams and tears, love
and reason, days of idleness and unfinished deeds are kept in precious glass
ampoules. These bottles are quite similar to those used to contain Tiziana
Terenzi’s precious essences today. After years of toil spent seeking and pre-
serving rare components, Tiziana Terenzi presented four fragrances, An-
dromeda, Ursa Major, Draco & Cassiopea, that embody the brand’s most
complex project yet; Tiziana Terenzi’s Luna.
Officials during the product launch.
New Tiziana Terenzi fragrances at Blue Salon Students for Road Safety
hailed for campaign
Qatar’s General Directorate of
Traffic has praised Maersk
Oil Qatar’s social investment
road safety programme for help-
ing address road deaths and inju-
ries in the country. More than 4,000
students experienced Students for
Road Safety coaching in its state
of the art driving simulator and in
schools and community events in
2015.
Brigadier Mohammed Saad Al
Kharji, the Director of the General
Directorate of Traffic at the Ministry
of the Interior, said: “The Students
for Road Safety programme is a sol-
id partnership between the General
Directorate of Traffic and Maersk Oil
Qatar. The past year has been the
most successful to date for Students
for Roads Safety. ”
Sheikh Faisal bin Fahad Al Thani,
Deputy Managing Director of Mae-
rsk Oil Qatar, said: “Maersk is com-
mitted to Qatar for generations to
come and there is no better exam-
ple of this than Students for Road
Safety, a programme that is effect-
ing grassroots behaviour change
among 12 to 18 year-olds in schools
and at community events. I’m proud
that our partnership with the Gen-
eral Directorate of Traffic has result-
ed in more than 4000 students be-
ing educated on positive road be-
haviours in 2015 alone.”
FOOD
| 07THURSDAY 7 JANUARY 2016
A star chef is taking on school lunches
By Tim Carman The Washington Post
After serving as Noma’s chef
de cuisine for three years and
maintaining the standards that
earned it a top spot among the
world’s best restaurants, former Wash-
ingtonian Daniel Giusti will leave the
Copenhagen fine-dining destination at
the end of the year and return to the
District of Columbia to launch his next
project.
The big reveal: It won’t be a restaurant.
Back in Washington in January, Giusti,
31, plans to make a radical turn into school
food service. Consider that for a moment:
The chef who has fed the world’s elite
some of the most meticulously prepared
dishes anywhere — at a restaurant where
the tab can top $800 for two diners —
now hopes to feed schoolchildren for
$3.07 each, which is the amount the US
Department of Agriculture reimburses
schools for every free lunch served. It’s
an abrupt and ambitious about-face for
Giusti, who credits his boss, Noma chef
and owner Rene Redzepi, for daring him
to think big.
“This place has shown me you can
do anything. I know that’s a cliche,” says
Giusti during a phone call from Copen-
hagen. “But for me to be here now and
to have the job that I have now... I have
made myself believe that anything is
possible.”
Giusti understands that his career
change might sound naive: A fine-dining
chef launches a company to tackle an
area of food service that is tied up not
only in politics but also in limited budg-
ets, tough nutritional standards, finicky
kids and long-term contracts with estab-
lished providers.
“There’s a whole host of challenges
that make it very, very difficult” to change
the system, says Sam Kass, former White
House senior policy adviser for nutrition
policy and a chef himself.
“But at the same time, there’s a cul-
ture of thinking in the school nutrition
world that is a problem in itself,” adds
Kass, now a senior food analyst for NBC
News. “Someone coming from the out-
side with new ideas is good.”
If anyone has the fearlessness to face
the formidable task of improving public
school meals, it’s Giusti. This is the guy
who in 2011 abruptly left 1789, the fine-
dining flagship of the Clyde’s Restaurant
Group where he had become executive
chef at 24, to take an unpaid appren-
ticeship at Noma with no promise of a
full-time gig. By January 2013, Giusti was
running Noma, replacing another Ameri-
can, Matt Orlando, as the chef de cuisine.
Redzepi and Orlando passed over more-
experienced cooks to select Giusti to lead
the kitchen.
“He’s young, but he has sort of this
old soul in him. He’s way too mature for
his age,” Redzepi told me about Giusti.
“He’s just a very natural leader [who] is
not afraid of making decisions, which is
one of the biggest factors in becoming
a head chef, because you have to make
decisions constantly.”
Giusti assumed chef de cuisine duties
while Noma was the No. 1 restaurant in
the world, according to the arbitrary but
influential list compiled by San Pellegrino
and Acqua Panna. Noma would fall to
No. 2 later in 2013 but regain the top
spot in 2014. Noma now sits at No. 3 on
the list, which makes Giusti a high-profile
target for investors who want to open
a restaurant with him. But for better or
worse, the chef has little interest in his
own place, partly because he has already
worked at one of the best.
For years, even as famous chefs and
celebrities angled for reservations at
Noma, Giusti has had other ambitions be-
sides feeding the 1-percenters. One has
been to figure out a way to provide good-
quality food to the masses at prices they
can afford. Ultimately, he determined that
unless a restaurant chain could compete
with McDonald’s on price point, it would
just be adding more calories to the mar-
ketplace without improving the American
diet much.
Then Giusti started looking into the
National School Lunch Programme, that
surreal battleground where pizza sauce
is considered a vegetable and the School
Nutrition Association advocates against
reducing salt levels in the students’ diet.
This is the arena, Giusti thought, where
someone could have real impact: He
could feed American schoolchildren high-
er-quality food, teach them something
about cooking and food, and perhaps
even set them up for a lifetime of better
dietary choices.
Giusti has been researching the peo-
ple and organisations already committed
to improving school meals. He has talked
repeatedly with Kass, who has become
something of a mentor. Giusti has also
investigated the pioneering work of Betti
Wiggins in Detroit, Ann Cooper in Boul-
der, Colorado, and Revolution Foods, a
group that started with just one charter
school in Oakland, California, and now
serves more than one million meals per
week in 15 states.
Although Giusti says he respects the
work of those who aim to fix the system,
he wants to take a different approach.
His company, Brigaid, would build whole
new kitchens or improve existing ones at
schools and then hire professional chefs
to work full-time in them. Brigaid would
differ from other chef-oriented programs,
such as first lady Michelle Obama’s Chefs
Move to Schools, in that Giusti’s crew
would be working daily to address the
issues, not once a week or once a month.
“One of the biggest problems is that
there are no kitchens in schools, and all
food is prepared elsewhere,” Giusti says.
Such a model, of course, would re-
quire serious capital investment. Neither
kitchen equipment nor experienced chefs
come cheap. Giusti says he has investors
interested in Brigaid. Plus, he says, he
wants to start small, just as Revolution
Foods did. He hopes to have a pilot pro-
gramme in place with a school district
by fall 2016.
Giusti started looking into the National School Lunch Programme, that surreal battleground where pizza sauce is considered a vegetable and the School Nutrition Association advocates against reducing salt levels in the students’ diet.
FASHION
08 | THURSDAY 7 JANUARY 2016
IANS
It’s time to amp up the style quo-
tient with muffler this winter. Ditch
the boring scarves for thick, chunky,
faux fur or super wide wrap muf-
fler with tassels.
Aastha Bahl, designer of brand Mis-
tletoe, lists out some trends in mufflers
to make this winter super fashionable:
The cable knit muffler: Thick,
chunky and warm, these mufflers are a
staple for the winter wardrobe as these
are classic. Cable knit snoods are very
versatile too. Wear these in off-white,
beige or any pastel colour to up your
style quotient.
The faux fur muffler: These are su-
per hot this winter. Available in a variety
of colours like black, white, beige and
dark brown, they can make a casual
outfit look chic and look great with
evening wear.
The pashmina reversible jac-quard muffler: This particular style
looks great with ethnic or western out-
fits. Long lengths are popular. They are
also great as wraps for an evening out.
The knitted ruffled muffler: This is
perhaps the cutest style in mufflers. The
muffler looks like a circular ruffle that
is knitted and drapes incredibly well.
These can be used as a centre piece
accessory for a monochrome look.
The short narrow muffler/neck tie: This particular style is reminiscent of
the 1970s. These are super long (think
till the ankles) in length and look best
either in multi colours or solids. Due to
their narrowness, they have a delicate
feel and can make any outfit look su-
per chic.
The super wide wrap muffler with tassels: This is perhaps the most ver-
satile muffler which also works like a
wrap due to its width. The tassels give
it a distinct boho feel. It’s available in
a variety of patters like Aztec prints,
Indian (American Indian) tribal prints,
checks, and in solid colours which are
hot this season.
Wrap it around the neck in style
HEALTH & FITNESS
| 09THURSDAY 7 JANUARY 2016
Anxious people fare better in crisisIANS
The brain devotes more process-
ing resources to social situations
that signal threat than those that
are benign and anxious people
process those threats using regions of the
brain responsible for action, says a study.
The study that may help explain
the apparent “sixth sense” we have for
danger found that “low anxious” people
process the threats in sensory circuits,
responsible for face recognition.
It was previously thought that anxi-
ety could lead to oversensitivity to threat
signals. However, the new study showed
that the difference has a useful purpose.
Non-clinical anxiety shifts the neu-
ral ‘coding’ of threat to motor circuits,
which produce action, from sensory cir-
cuits, which help us to recognise faces,
the researchers explained.
Facial displays of emotion can be am-
biguous but the researchers managed to
identify what it is that makes a person
particularly threatening.
They found that the direction a per-
son is looking in is key to enhancing our
sensitivity to their emotions.
Anger paired with a direct gaze pro-
duces a response in the brain in only
200 milliseconds, faster than if the angry
person is looking elsewhere.
”In a crowd, you will be most sensitive
to an angry face looking towards you,
and will be less alert to an angry per-
son looking somewhere else,” said lead
author Marwa El Zein from the French
Institute of Health and Medical Research
(INSERM).
Similarly, if a person displays fear and
looks in a particular direction you will
detect this more rapidly than positive
emotions. Such quick reactions could
have served an adaptive purpose for
survival.
For the study, electrical signals meas-
ured in the brains of 24 volunteers were
analysed while they were asked to decide
whether digitally altered faces expressed
anger or fear.
”In contrast to previous work, our find-
ings demonstrate that the brain devotes
more processing resources to negative
emotions that signal threat, rather than
to any display of negative emotion,” El
Zein noted.
The study appeared in the journal
eLife.
Learn more about anxiety disorders from US websiteBy Sarah Maraniss Vander Schaaff
The Washington Post
The US National Institute of Men-
tal Health offers more information
about anxiety disorders at nimh.
nih.gov. Under “Health & Educa-
tion,” the website describes these signs
and symptoms of generalized anxiety dis-
order, or GAD:
People with GAD can’t seem to get
rid of their concerns, even though they
usually realize that their anxiety is more
intense than the situation warrants. They
can’t relax, startle easily and have dif-
ficulty concentrating. Often they have
trouble falling asleep or staying asleep.
Physical symptoms often include fatigue,
headaches, muscle tension, muscle
aches, difficulty swallowing, trembling,
twitching, irritability, sweating, nausea,
light-headedness, having to go to the
bathroom frequently, hot flashes and
feeling out of breath.
GAD develops slowly. It often starts
during the teen years or young adult-
hood. Symptoms may get better or
worse at different times, and often are
worse during times of stress.
When their anxiety level is mild, peo-
ple with GAD can function socially and
hold down a job. Although they don’t
avoid certain situations as a result of
their disorder, people with GAD can have
difficulty carrying out the simplest daily
activities if their anxiety is severe.
As for obsessive-compulsive disor-
der, the institute says that people with
this condition generally have repeated
thoughts or images about things such
as germs, dirt or intruders; acts of vio-
lence; hurting loved ones; sexual acts;
conflicts with religious beliefs; or being
overly tidy.
In addition, some people with OCD:
Do the same rituals over and over, such
as washing hands, locking and unlock-
ing doors, counting, keeping unneeded
items or repeating the same steps again
and again. Can’t control their unwanted
thoughts and behaviours.
Don’t get pleasure when perform-
ing those behaviors or rituals, but do
get brief relief from the anxiety that
the thoughts cause. Spend at least an
hour a day on the thoughts and rituals,
which cause distress and get in the way
of daily life.
Ways to help
Mental Health First Aid, a program
coordinated by the National Council for
Behavioral Health and the Maryland
and Missouri health departments, is
an eight-hour course that gives people
the skills to help someone who is de-
veloping a mental health problem or
experiencing a mental health crisis. The
website is mentalhealthfirstaid.org/cs.
The Anxiety and Depression Asso-
ciation of America has compiled a list
of myths about anxiety with an accom-
panying reality check at its website at
aada.org.
ENTERTAINMENT
10 | THURSDAY 7 JANUARY 2016
Guns N’ Roses and LCD Soundsys-
tem, two of the most influential
bands in recent decades, will
both get back together for the
Coachella music festival in April.
Coachella, which takes place over two
consecutive weekends in the California
desert, confirmed the long-rumoured
reunions as it announced its lineup late
Monday.
The concerts are expected to mark the
first time that the original lineup of Guns
N’ Roses — including singer Axl Rose and
guitarist Slash — have performed together
since July 1993 in Buenos Aires.
The Los Angeles-based hard rockers
confirmed the dates on their website with
a video of a giant concert reminiscent of
the band’s heyday.
Rose is heard — with a profanity added
— singing one of the most famous lines
from the band’s repertoire: “You know
where you are? You’re in the jungle, baby.”
Guns N’ Roses have kept playing in
name in recent years but without Slash,
who has long said it was too difficult to
work with Rose.
The singer, who rarely gives interviews,
had been scheduled to speak Tuesday on
the late-night talk show of Jimmy Kimmel.
But Rose’s name inexplicably disap-
peared Monday from Kimmel’s list of
guests on the show’s website.
With Rose’s sweeping vocal range and
raw anger coupled with Slash’s intricate
metal guitar, Guns N’ Roses became an
instant sensation.
Appetite for Destruction from 1987
remains the top-selling debut album by
a group in the United States, where it has
been certified as selling 18 million copies.
But Guns N’ Roses have released just
one album in the past two decades — Chi-nese Democracy, which came out in 2008
after persistent delays and without Slash.
LCD Soundsystem, a younger band
from New York, was influential in devel-
oping the hard-edged electronica scene of
the 2000s that brought a new alternative
aura to dance music.
The band — best known perhaps for
the track Daft Punk Is Playing at My House,
a tongue-in-cheek homage to the promi-
nent French electronic duo — had broken
up in 2011 with a concert at Madison
Square Garden that was heralded with a
live album and documentary.
LCD Soundsystem reunited in its own
idiosyncratic way on December 24 when
it suddenly released a track entitled Christ-mas Will Break Your Heart, with the band
writing on Facebook that it was a “de-
pressing Christmas song” that had been
on the back burner for the past eight
years.
LCD Soundsystem will headline
Coachella on the festival’s two Fridays —
April 15 and April 22 — with Guns N’ Roses
performing on the Saturday nights.
The Sunday headliner of the three-
day festival — whose lineups for the two
weekends are generally identical — will be
Calvin Harris, one of the biggest names in
dance music.
Other acts confirmed for Coachella in-
clude Ice Cube, a member of pioneering
gangsta rappers N.W.A. in the late 1980s
who — until the release of a biopic last
year on the group— may have been better
known to young festival goers as an actor.
Other Coachella 2016 notables in-
clude the often camera-shy Australian
experimental artist Sia, English singer
Ellie Goulding, psychedelic folk rocker
Sufjan Stevens and electronic act Major
Lazer, best known for the massive 2015
hit Lean On.
Rising stars on the lineup include Hal-
sey, a virtual unknown two years ago who
is selling out arenas with introspective
songs and the millennial generation an-
them New Americana, and rare Coachella
country attraction Chris Stapleton, who
worked for years behind the scenes at
Nashville before winning acclaim for his
solo debut.
Coachella, launched in 1999, has
emerged as one of the world’s most fa-
mous music events alongside Glastonbury
in Britain amid a rapid rise of festivals in
North America.
But while last year’s festival quickly
sold out, resale prices were comparatively
modest as critics said the 2015 lineup
lacked Coachella’s usual headline-grab-
bing power. The 2015 headliners were
Australian hard rock veterans AC/DC, ga-
rage rocker Jack White and chart-topping
Toronto rapper Drake.
Filmmaker Christopher Nolan will
direct the upcoming film Dunkirk,
which focuses on the evacuation
of the retreating British troops from the
beaches of the northern French city dur-
ing the Second World War.
According to sources, Mark Rylance,
Kenneth Branagh and Tom Hardy are in
talks to join the cast of the film, reports
variety.com. Nolan and his casting de-
partment earlier began testing teenagers
in London for lead roles. “We are thrilled
to be continuing our collaboration with
Christopher Nolan, a singular filmmaker
who has created some of the most criti-
cally acclaimed films of all time,” said Greg
Silverman, president, Creative Develop-
ment and Worldwide Production.
Christopher Nolan to direct action thriller Dunkirk
Rising stars on the lineup include Halsey, a virtual unknown two years ago who is selling out arenas with introspective songs and the millennial generation anthem New Americana, and rare Coachella country attraction Chris Stapleton.
Guns N’ Roses reunion set for April
ENTERTAINMENT
| 11THURSDAY 7 JANUARY 2016
Disability Rights Group condemns Wazir directorIANS
Disabled Rights Group (DRG),
led by disability rights activist
Javed Abidi, on Tuesday con-
demned “Wazir” director Bejoy
Nambiar’s remarks on “limiting” megastar
Amitabh Bachchan’s persona in a wheel-
chair. The film’s team has apologised for
hurting sentiments, if any.
DRG demanded an apology for Nam-
biar’s “disparaging” statement wherein
he spoke about Amitabh’s portrayal as a
paralysed chess grandmaster.
Nambiar had said: “Right from the
beginning, we knew that the protagonist
had to be on a wheelchair. Casting Mr.
Bachchan, who has got such a strong
persona, and limiting him in a wheel-
chair, was a big task for us to get used
to.”
This has spelt trouble for Nambiar.
DRG on Tuesday issued a statement
that Nambiar’s comments are “dispar-
aging and extremely condescending
towards people with disabilities, and
highlights complete lack of knowledge,
extremely archaic and derogatory per-
spectives that he has on disability”.
On their part, the team of “Wazir”—
Nambiar, as well as the film’s co-writers
Vidhu Vinod Chopra and Abhijat Joshi—
has apologised, but also clarified that “no
malice” was ever intended.
Nambiar told IANS: “I have no clue
(about the issue)...that’s the character
he’s (Amitabh is) playing... what is so
wrong in what I’m saying?”
Joshi said: “Absolutely nothing
offensive was meant, that can bassured.
There’s not one percent malice towards
anyone”, while Chopra said: “How can he
have malice? Our character is that (para-
lysed). Amitabh Bachchan is playing that.
We don’t mean malice.”
Chopra, who is also a producer of the
movie, said they “apologise if somebody’s
sentiments are hurt”.
DRG’s convenor Javed Abidi, a wheel-
chair user for over 30 years, had said
that he was “extremely shocked to read
Nambiar’s statement”, which reflected a
“regressive image of a person with dis-
ability in his mind”.
He expressed hope that “no matter
what, from now onwards and upto the
release of the film and beyond, in all the
publicity and promotion of the movie,
acute care must be taken that this kind
of derogatory language is not used ever
again”.
”Wazir”, which also stars Farhan
Akhtar and Aditi Rao Hydari, is re-
venge saga and a thriller with a unique
friendship at its core. It is releasing
tomorrow.
Celebrity wishes galore as Deepika Padukone turns 30D
eepika Padukone, who has mesmerised
the audience as Mastani in Sanjay Leela
Bhansali’s film Bajirao Mastani, turned 30 on
Tuesday. The actress has received birthday wishes
galore from her friends and colleagues in the Bol-
lywood fraternity.
Celebrities like Abhishek Bachchan, Riteish
Deshmukh and Mika Singh, among others, have
wished the “Piku” actress a year full of luck and
happiness.
Deepika, who is the daughter of former World
No.1 badminton player Prakash Padukone, made
her acting debut in 2006 as the pivotal character
of the Kannada film Aishwarya. She then essayed
a double-role in her first B-Town release Om Shanti Om, which helped her win a Filmfare Award for Best
Female Debut.
The 2012 box office-hit “Cocktail” marked a turn-
ing point in her career. Her other films include Yeh
Jawaani Hai Deewani, Chennai Express and Happy New Year. She was also lauded for her perform-
ances in the tragic romance Goliyon Ki Raasleela Ram-Leela.
Here is what tinsel town had to say:
Abhishek Bachchan: @deepikapadukone happy
birthday Madame! Have a stellar year. Big love.
Neil Nitin Mukesh: @deepikapadukone Happy
Birthday. God bless you with loads and loads of
Happiness always. Dino Morea: Praises of #Mastani
will be heard for decades to come - go Dips! Happy
birthday gorgeous @deepikapadukone
Ritesh Sidhwani: Happy birthday @deepika-
padukone have a super year ahead wish u loads
of happiness success peace and love.
Mika Singh: Happy birthday to the most beauti-
ful, hot, intelligent, greatest dancer, the sweetest..
No.1 actress @deepikapadukone. God bless you
always.
TECHNOLOGY
12 | THURSDAY 7 JANUARY 2016
Four exciting trends at this year’s Consumer Electronic ShowBy Hayley Tsukayama The Washington Post
CES, one of the tech industry’s
biggest annual consumer elec-
tronics shows, kicks off in Las
Vegas this week. The show
draws exhibitors and press from across
the globe to share and show off what the
industry has planned for the coming year.
The show officially runs from Jan. 6 to
Jan. 9, but companies get things started
a couple of days early for the press. Mon-
day night brings the first sneak peeks of
what will be at the booths of the major
show, which drew 3,600 exhibitors last
year.
Here are four major themes to watch
as we head into the show.
Autos: Cars continue to hold their
place as the tech gadget that compa-
nies appear to be the most interested in,
as they still represent a largely untapped
market for advanced connected technolo-
gies. Whether you’re talking about more
advanced infotainment systems or new
concepts for self-driving cars, there will
be a lot on display at this year’s show.
As a hint to the continued importance
of cars at the show, there are two ma-
jor automotive execs who will be giving
keynote presentations: General Motors
chief executive Mary Barra and Herbert
Diess, the chief executive of Volkswagen
Passenger Cars.
There have already been some auto
announcements tied to the show: Ford
has announced that Toyota will begin
using the American firm’s “SmartDevice-
Link” software - a base for automotive
infotainment and connectivity systems
- in its cars. Other automakers includ-
ing Peugeot Citroen, Honda, Mazda and
Subaru are also considering adopting the
software, Ford said in a press release. Ex-
isting infotainment companies such as
BlackBerry’s QNX Software Systems and
UIEvolution are also going to integrate
Ford’s software into their own systems.
Ford also announced that it will support
both CarPlay and AndroidAuto.
Bending reality: Both virtual reality
and augmented reality will get their turn
in the spotlight this year. Whether you’re
interested in the immersive world of VR
or the blend of real and digital elements
that augmented reality offers, there will
be plenty of booths to visit this year, with
40 exhibitors expected for virtual reality
technology alone.
Major companies in the space, includ-
ing Sony, HTC and Samsung, will all be
showing off their technology. But eve-
ryone has been waiting for Oculus, the
Facebook-owned company that really
brought the idea of a personal virtual re-
ality into the mainstream again, to finally
launch its own consumer version of its
headset. On Monday the company an-
nounced that it will start taking pre-orders
for its Oculus Rift headset on Jan. 6.
That means we shouldn’t have to wait
too long to see how virtual reality versus
augmented reality plays out on the mar-
ket - or indeed how quickly consumers
will jump on the bandwagon.
That’s entertainment: Those looking
to CES to act as a crystal ball should look
carefully at some of the entertainment-
related developments expected at the
show as well. This ain’t just about televi-
sions anymore, though there will surely
be some new and impressive screens over
which to drool. Again, looking at the list
of keynote speeches alone should tell
you that entertainment is a big part of
the show, with speeches coming from
Netflix chief executive Reed Hastings
and YouTube chief business officer Rob-
ert Kyncl.
The way that we access entertain-
ment - movies, music, games and more
- is changing, and the lines between tech
companies and entertainment companies
are getting blurrier. With that in mind, you
can bet that there will be as much talk
about content as there is about gadgets
at booths this year.
More smart everything: Never you
fear, there’s no end in sight to the trend
we’ve seen over the past several years
of putting “smart” technology into eve-
ryday objects. We don’t yet know what
this year’s new hilarious and questionably
useful smart object will be, but there’s no
doubt that one will appear.
That said, there seems to be a greater
focus on not only creating new smart ob-
jects, but also the best ways to connect
and secure them. Headed into the show,
analysts have said that they are hearing
exhibitors talk more about the interoper-
ability, security and privacy of the Internet
of Things. While there have been a lot of
early adopters willing to tinker with smart
thermostats, lightbulbs and wearables,
the adoption of such technologies may
slow down if most consumers don’t see
the point of these gadgets - or feel safe
using them.
From a regulation point of view, secur-
ing the Internet of Things is a hot topic
for both the Federal Trade Commission
and the Federal Communications Com-
mission - and, as usual, both agencies are
sending top officials to the convention to
discuss the future of these technologies.
A Tipron robot projector by Cerevo is displayed during “CES Unveiled,” a preview
event of the 2016 International CES trade show, in Las Vegas, Nevada.
Uday Parshionikar (left), Founder and CEO of Perceptive Devices, demonstrates
the Smyle gesture control software as he plays Angry Birds during “CES Unveiled”.
SCIENCE
| 13THURSDAY 7 JANUARY 2016
New-age chip offers super performance
By Sourabh Kulesh IANS
Oracle’s state-of-the-art SPARC
M7 microprocessor, the world’s
first silicon-based memo-
ry intrusion detection and a
high-speed encryption chip, offers data
security and memory protection without
performance degradation and is cost-ef-
fective, a top executive of Oracle India
has said.
With the new microprocessor that
has taken data security to an entirely new
level, the global software and cloud major
Oracle is three to five years ahead of its
competitors and have received a good
response from the Indian companies, he
added.
”Traditionally, whenever we provide
security, it results in a performance deg-
radation and cost increase. We have
architectured this microprocessor in a way
in which the application integrity checks
are happening at a crypto-level,” Amit Mal-
hotra, head (systems LoB), India systems
at Oracle, told IANS in an interview.
Oracle introduced 32-core, 256-thread
SPARC M7 at the “OpenWorld 2015” con-
ference in San Francisco in October this
year. “The security is always on with the
first-ever hardware-based memory intru-
sion detection. It detects cyber threats
real-time and shut and eliminate bugs,”
Oracle’s executive chairman and chief
technology officer Larry Ellison announced
during the launch.
”This processor has 32 cores while
everybody else in the market is offering
only 16 or less cores. Each core has eight
threads, so you are getting 256 threads
with M7. Most of the applications are writ-
ten in JAVA and each JAVA application
uses one thread at a time, so because
of the high-core density, you get better
performance,” Malhotra explained.
Other microprocessors try to optimise
performance by reducing security features
but with the high number of threads in
M7, the workload on the main cores is
not affected by the security aspect and
the performance degradation does not
happen.
“With SPARC M7, the performance is of
the roof with its ‘always on security’ and
the price is almost 1.8x lower than our
previous inventions,” he noted.
Apart from the “always on” security
and no performance degradation, this
microprocessor also helps in memory pro-
tection. For any application to write in the
processor, some memory is needed in the
system. When malicious software comes
in, it sits on the top of the application and
through this application, it accesses the
memory infecting the whole database.
“We have offered a lock and key
mechanism in this microprocessor. The
lock is with the processor and the applica-
tions have the key. So only the application
that has a key can access the memory. A
malicious software on top of the applica-
tion cannot access the memory because
it does not have an access to the key,”
Malhotra explained.
On a question about how SPARC M7 is
going to change the data security scene
for the Indian companies struggling at the
online security front, Malhotra said this
microprocessor is in the innermost layer
of the server so it is the most effective
means to stop malware intrusion.
”All the security layers are at the top
(and you can have many security levels).
But when a malware enters is inside,
through those security layers, there is no
stopping of it from accessing the memory,”
the Oracle India executive pointed out.
“We are going inside and the malware,
which breached the security levels, will not
get access to memory until it has access
to the key. Obviously, the inner you go, the
more effective it is,” he added.
He also said the entry of “embedded
security right in hardware” will stump their
closet rivals when it comes to data security
as they, with the technology they have,
are three to five years ahead of every-
body else.
Replying to a question about the re-
sponse in the local market, he said that the
Indian companies have reacted positively
to the microprocessor.
”We have received an immense initial
response from the Indian customers and
retailers in the form of a flood of queries.
Soon we will start shipping M7 microproc-
essor to Indian customers,” Malhotra said.
“We have been able to pack security
and memory in Silicon. Some of the impor-
tant SQL queries — which are needed to
improve performance and which till now
softwares have been doing — have been
put in the chip level itself. So the security
is in the chip and all the SQL algorithems
are in the chip,” Malhotra explained.
The high number of threads in M7, the workload on the main cores is not affected by the security aspect and the performance degradation does not happen.
“We have offered a lock and key mechanism in this microprocessor. The lock is with the processor and the applications have the key. So only the application that has a key can access the memory. A malicious software on top of the application cannot access the memory because it does not have an access to the key.”
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Stepdad, Brad Whitaker, is a radio host trying to get his stepchildren to love him and call him Dad. But his plans turn upside down when the biological father, Dusty Mayron, returns.
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CINEMA PLUS
EASY SUDOKU
15THURSDAY 7 JANUARY 2016
Yesterday’s answerEasy Sudoku Puzzles: Place a digit from 1
to 9 in each empty cell so every row, every
column and every 3x3 box contains all the
digits 1 to 9.
Yesterday’s answer
How to play Hyper Sudoku:A Hyper Sudoku Puzzle is solved by filling the numbers from 1 to 9 into the blank cells. A Hyper Sudoku has unlike Sudoku 13 regions (four regions overlap with the nine standard regions). In all regions the numbers from 1 to 9 can appear only once. Otherwise, a Hyper Sudoku is solved like a normal Sudoku.
HYPER SUDOKU
Yesterday’s answerHow to play Kakuro:The kakuro grid, unlike in sudoku, can be of any size. It has rows and columns, and dark cells like in a crossword. And, just like in a crossword, some of the dark cells will contain numbers. Some cells will contain two numbers.
However, in a crossword the numbers reference clues. In
KAKURO
ACROSS
1 Content of hate mail
6 Duel unit
10 With 66-Across, place on a keyboard to find all the letters in 16-, 28-, 46- and 60-Across
13 Adventurously follow one’s heart, say
14 Brand name that sounds like a cheer
15 Bone-dry
16 Everything you can perform
18 Beekeeper in a 1997 movie
19 Marvel’s Thor, Captain America or Iron Man
20 One working with an anchor
22 Place for une île
23 Fowl poles?
25 Prefix with liter
28 Business owner
32 Apples since 1998
34 Didn’t sit on one’s hands
35 G.I.’s address
36 Title for a Benedictine
37 Bankroll
39 Sugar suffix
40 Rustic expanse
41 Beehive State athlete
42 Verdi aria for a baritone
44 Players “planted” in a bracket
46 Time without end
49 ___ prof.
50 Midsize Nissan
51 Defib expert
53 One shouldn’t drink to this
55 “Is it worth the gamble?”
59 Explorer of kidvid
60 Apt example of this puzzle’s theme
63 They’ve split
64 Complain loudly
65 Some Deco illustrations
66 See 10-Across
67 First name in Jellystone Park
68 Town, in Germany
DOWN
1 Miles of “Psycho”
2 Mountain road sign abbr.
3 “Fuhgeddaboudit”
4 Occasion for amateurs to do stand-up
5 Unite
6 D-worthy
7 Iraq’s Mosque of __ (pilgrimage site)
8 Roller coaster unit
9 Urban renewal targets
10 Serves up whoppers
11 Stackable snack
12 Use a spyglass
15 Multipart composition
17 Maryland athlete, informally
21 Songs most often played by D.J.s
23 Mythical predator of elephants
24 Choose not to participate
25 Prepared fancily
26 Ham it up
27 Ones working with an anchor
29 Curie discovery
30 Maureen Dowd pieces
31 Insult kiddingly
33 Halloween haul
38 Exquisite design
43 ___ Maria (liqueur)
45 Humble oneself
47 Fund-raisers’ commercials, e.g.
48 “That really hurt!”
52 Sticks in the mud
53 River of Hesse
54 Love letter
sign-off
55 Carnegie ___ (famous eatery)
56 Slangy lead-in to “way”
57 Walter ___ hospital
58 Formerly, once
61 Ming formerly of the N.B.A.
62 Source of fatback
ANSWER TO PREVIOUS PUZZLE
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CROSSWORD
a kakuro, the numbers are all you get! They denote the total of the digits in the row or column referenced by the number.Within each collection of cells - called a run - any of the numbers 1 to 9 may be used but, like sudoku, each number may only be used once.
BRAIN TEASERS
Hoy en la HistoriaJanuary 7, 2015
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Islamist extremists attacked the French satirical newspaper Charlie Hebdo in Paris, killing 12 people including the editor and four well known cartoonists
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