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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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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.

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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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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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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

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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.

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Hoy en la HistoriaJanuary 7, 2015

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