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Interest in the smart city concept has grown exponentially over the past few years, with research being done in the Internet of Things (IoT) and urban domains to improve smart city offerings. Moving cities’ old systems online will make them vulnerable to cyber attacks. What are the challenges the smart cities pose for the governance of the cities and safety of people?

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Students of Birla Public School bagged Middle East Zonal Gold Medal of Excellence for their performance in International Maths Olympiad. The picture shows

winners with Principal A K Srivastava and other school officials.

BPS excels in International Maths Olympiad

Bangladesh MHM

students get

scholarship

Bangladesh MHM School and Col-

lege students Intesar Mahmud

and Maliha Ahmed of Grade-V got

scholarships in Primary Comple-

tion Examination held in November

2015 under the Directorate of Pri-

mary Education, Bangladesh. Some

17 students got GPA- 5.00 out of 93.

Principal Mohammad Jashim Uddin

congratulated all the toppers and

advised to work hard to repeat the

result in the next public examination.

He thanked all the teachers for their

guideline, counselling and dedicated

service to the students.

COVER STORY

04 | SUNDAY 24 APRIL 2016

By AP Muhammed Afsal

The Peninsula

Most cities in the world were

planned in the days when

computers didn’t even exist.

Their massive transit, power,

water, waste management and traffic

signalling systems were put in place

int that era. Now things are changing:

Interest in the smart city concept has

grown exponentially over the past few

years, with research being done in the

Internet of Things (IoT) and urban do-

mains to improve smart city offerings.

Around 80 cities around the world are

expected to become smart by 2025.

Obviously, moving cities’ old sys-

tems online will make them vulnerable

to cyber attacks. What are the chal-

lenges the smart cities pose for the

governance of the cities and safety of

people?

According to a report published

in MarketWatch.com, San Diego us-

es around 400 applications, some of

them are decades old and may not be

up-to-date. The city is hit by an av-

erage of 60,000 cyber attacks a day.

Every month, New York City faces

about 80 million cyber threats, from

phishing to attacks meant to over-

whelm websites. In 2008, a 14-year-

old schoolboy hacked the tram sys-

tem in the Polish city Lodz, derailing

four vehicles. A cyber espionage cam-

paign, identified by security company

Symantec in 2014, sought to sabotage

energy grids, major electricity firms

and petroleum pipeline operators

across the US and Europe. A worker

at a wastewater treatment plant in

Queensland, Australia, accessed its

networks 46 times over four months

in 2000 to spill more than 200,000

gallons of sewage into parks, rivers

and hotel grounds. So, hackers can

tamper with traffic control, street

lighting, city management systems,

public transportation, cameras, smart

grids, wireless sensors that control

waste and water management and

mobile or cloud networks.

There’s a risk of indirect attacks,

too. For example, If someone wanted

to impact a bank street, he wouldn’t

have to necessarily hack a bank or af-

fect them; he could turn off the sub-

ways, and if people couldn’t get to

work, the bank wouldn’t open.

This and much more were dis-

cussed in the Cyber security Weekend

organised by Kaspersky Lab in Baku,

the capital of Azerbaijan last week.

As in every development, profits

and fashion come first, then come

“unforeseen consequences” that were

actually quite foreseeable, but re-

mained ignored for some reason, says

Mohammad Amin Hasbini, Senior Se-

curity Researcher, Global Research &

Analysis Team, Kaspersky Lab.

What are the challenges the smart

cities’ information systems face in re-

lation to cyber security? Hasbini sees

four primary challenges: First, large

number of technologies and solutions

that have to inter-operate and com-

municate with each other. Inter-op-

erability and inter-communication be-

tween various systems means that

hackers may try to exploit weakness-

es in one system to seize control over

another.

For instance: exploiting an on-

board Wi-Fi system in a modern pas-

senger jet to get a grip on its avionics

– then extrapolate this on a city-wide

scale. Unless the networks are isolat-

ed from each other properly, this is a

possibility. Secondly, uneven quality of

different embedded technologies of

different generations. Thirdly, remote

and onsite exploitability of smart

city information systems. Finally, the

hugeness of data to analyse and store.

Mohammad Amin Hasbini speaking at the event

Smart cities: Letting the genie out of the bottle?

Street lamps in Amsterdam have been upgraded to allow municipal councils to dim the lights based on pedestrian usage.

What is a smart city?A smart city is an urban devel-

opment vision to integrate multi-

ple information and communica-

tion technology solutions in a se-

cure fashion to manage a city’s

assets (local departments infor-

mation systems, schools, libraries,

transportation systems, hospitals,

power plants, water supply net-

works, waste management, law

enforcement, etc) The goal is to

improve quality of life, improve

the efficiency and meet residents’

needs. The system allows offi-

cials to interact with the commu-

nity and the infrastructure and to

monitor what is happening in the

city, how the city is evolving, and

how to enable a better quality of

life. Through the use of sensors

integrated with real-time moni-

toring systems, data are collect-

ed from citizens and devices and

then processed and analysed.

The information and knowledge

gathered are keys to tackling in-

efficiency.

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The possible hackability of the

smart cities systems is well illustrated

by a recent research of video surveil-

lance systems in a couple of cities. The

urban CCTV network proved to have

a number of weaknesses, from slop-

py set up and unprotected labelling

of the hardware to unencrypted da-

ta transmittance. “All of these prob-

lems, along with many others, should

be considered ahead of the ‘smarten-

ing’ of every city. ‘Retrofitted and add-

ed cyber security’ (adding newer tech-

nologies to the old ones) is not an op-

tion for the smart cities concept. Risks

are too dire to build ‘seven cities of

cyber-Troy’ upon each other. Cyber se-

curity should be considered early on,

at every possible level from the be-

ginning of smart cities,” Hasbini con-

cludes.

Songdo IBD

Built on 1,500 acres of land re-

claimed from the Yellow Sea off

Incheon, about 56km from the South

Korea’s capital Seoul, is the first smart

city built from scratch on 600 hec-

tares district is the largest private real

estate development in history. The dis-

trict was planned to contain 80,000

apartments, 5,000,000sqm of of-

fice space and 900,000sqm of retail

space. Computers have been built into

the houses, streets, and offices as part

of a wide area network. The Songdo

IBD was part of former President Lee

Myung-bak’s effort to promote green

and low-carbon growth as an avenue

for future development after 60 years

of reliance on export-oriented man-

ufacturing. The Songdo IBD is being

developed as a sustainable city with

more than 40 percnet of its area re-

served for green space, including the

park of 40 hectares, 26km bicycling

lanes, numerous charging stations for

electric vehicles and a waste collec-

tion system that eliminates the need

for trash trucks.

Amsterdam

The Amsterdam Smart City initia-

tive began in 2009 currently includes

79 projects collaboratively developed

by local residents, government and

businesses. These projects run on

an interconnected platform through

wireless devices to enhance the city’s

real time decision making abilities.

To promote efforts from local resi-

dents, the city runs the Amsterdam

Smart City Challenge annually, accept-

ing proposals for applications and de-

velopments that fit within the city’s

framework. An example of a resident

developed app is Mobypark, which al-

lows owners of parking spaces to rent

them out to people for a fee. The data

generated from this app can then be

used by the city to determine parking

demand and traffic flows in Amster-

dam. A number of homes have also

been provided with smart energy me-

ters, with incentives provided to those

that actively reduce energy consump-

tion.

Barcelona

Barcelona has established a

number of projects that can be con-

sidered ‘smart city’ applications within

its CityOS strategy. For example, sen-

sor technology has been implement-

ed in the irrigation system in Parc

del Centre de Poblenou, where re-

al time data is transmitted to garden-

ing crews about the level of water re-

quired for the plants.

Barcelona has also designed a new

bus network based on data analysis

of the most common traffic flows in

Barcelona, utilising primarily vertical,

horizontal and diagonal routes with

a number of interchanges. Integra-

tion of multiple smart city technolo-

gies can be seen through the imple-

mentation of smart traffic lights as

buses run on routes designed to op-

timise the number of green lights. In

addition, where an emergency is re-

ported in Barcelona, the approximate

route of the emergency vehicle is en-

tered into the traffic light system, set-

ting all the lights to green as the vehi-

cle approaches through a mix of GPS

and traffic management software.

Smart city data analytics helped implement

a new bus network in Bercelona.

A view of Songdo from 29th floor

observation deck of G-Tower.

COMMUNITY

06 | SUNDAY 24 APRIL 2016

Indian Association of Bihar &

Jharkhand (IABJ), Qatar organised

an International Mushaira (poetry

symposium) to celebrate Bihar Di-

was 2016 recently at Radisson Blu Ho-

tel (Giwana Hall). The Mushaira was

presided over by famous Urdu poet

Iqbal Ashhar. Dinesh Udenia, the First

Secretary at Indian Embassy, was the

chief guest while Khalid Ghamdi, Chair-

man Alumasa Group, and guest po-

ets Nomaan Shouque and M R Chish-

ti were the guests of honour. The pro-

gramme was initially conducted by

Mushaira coordinator and local poet

Iftekhar Raghib and the guest poet Na-

deem Farrukh joined him.

The function opened with recita-

tion of verses from the Holy Quraan by

Mohammad Jamal Nasir followed by

the Urdu translation of presenter’s fa-

ther and IABJ Joint Secretary Moham-

mad Afzal Nasir. The Chief Patron of

IABJ and Chief Organiser Syed Shakeb

Ayaz welcomed the dignitaries, guests

poets, members of IABJ board of pa-

trons, representatives of various Urdu

organisations, sponsors and a huge

number of poetry loving audience. IA-

BJ President Sajjad Alam proposed a

vote of thanks.

IABJ Treasurer Ghufran Moham-

mad presented brief introduction of

IABJ. The event was managed by the

event company Media Plus. IABJ Ex-

ecutive Members presented flowers

to all participating poets, Chief Guest

Dinesh Udenia, Guest of Honour Kha-

lid Ghamdi, dignitaries and IABJ Pa-

trons including Dr Mohammad Al-

eem, Third Secretary at Indian Em-

bassy, Shakeb Ayaz, Hasan A Chougle,

Azeem Abbas, Syed Abdul Hye and

Nilangshu Dey.

The guests of honour Nomaan

Shouque and M R Chishti were pre-

sented Shad Azimabadi Award and

Ramdhari Singh Dinkar Award respec-

tively for their contribution to Urdu lit-

erature. At the function IABJ released

it’s multilingual annual magazine Un-

nati and souvenir for the mushaira in

English, Urdu and Hindi.

Besides Ashhar, Shouque and

Chishti other famous poets from In-

dia and Qatar who participated in

Mushaira were Imran Partapgarhi,

Nikhat Amrohvi, Shola Tandvi, Usman

Minai, Nadeem Farrukh, Chandni Shab-

nam, Jalil Nizami, Iftekhar Raghib, Maq-

sood Anwar Maqsood and Wazir Ah-

mad Wazir. The Mushaira was attended

by a large number of Urdu enthusiasts

of different nationalities.

IABJ organises International Mushaira

Indonesian women hold charity bazaar

The Women’s Organisation of the In-

donesian Embassy in Doha organ-

ised a one night charity bazaar and

culture festival recently. The event was

attended by 1,187 residents of Qatar,

including those from the Asean com-

munity in Doha. The “Untukmu Indo-

nesiaku (for you, my Indonesia)” festi-

val was held at the embassy and co-

incided with the commemoration of

Kartini Day. The Kartini Day is to cele-

brate the life of an Indonesian heroine

R A Kartini, a pioneer in the area of ed-

ucation for girls and women’s rights for

Indonesian. During the festival, the In-

donesian community presented tradi-

tional foods, drinks, dances and songs.

There were 12 performances from the

community. A portion of the bazaar’s

proceeds is to be donated to the For-

eign Ministry of Indonesia.

MARKETPLACE

| 07SUNDAY 24 APRIL 2016

A large number of Qatargas

employees participated in the

third annual Qatargas beach

clean-up held yesterday at Al

Ghariya beach, 85km north of Doha.

Qatargas launched the annual

beach clean-up day initiative in 2013

in coordination with the Ministry of

Municipality and Environment, as part

of the company’s continued commit-

ment towards promoting environmen-

tal protection and preserving the natu-

ral beauty of Qatar for generations to

come.

This year’s beach clean-up activity

witnessed the participation of a large

number of Qatargas employees.

Azzam Abdulaziz Al-Mannai, Qa-

targas Public Relations Manager said:

“We would like to thank all our employ-

ees who participated in the beach

clean-up activity for setting aside a

few hours from their weekend holi-

day to participate in this worthwhile

activity. This is a clear demonstra-

tion of their personal commitment to-

wards environmental protection. We

also greatly appreciate the continued

support from the Ministry of Munici-

pality and Environment.”

“Initiatives aimed at promoting envi-

ronmental protection form an integral

part of Qatargas’ Corporate Social Re-

sponsibility Programme. Our efforts in

this area are fully aligned with the ob-

jectives of the Environmental Develop-

ment pillar of the Qatar National Vision

2030.”

A long stretch of the beach at Al

Ghariya was cleaned as part of the

event. This involved the collection

and removal of several bags of rub-

bish and debris including plastic bot-

tles and plates, cans, wood and sev-

eral other items.

Al Ghariya is a popular beach, vis-

ited by several people, especially dur-

ing the weekends. The sandy beach

and shallow water provide a beautiful

and relaxing atmosphere. So, in ad-

dition to helping protect marine life,

the removal of litter and debris from

the beach will also make it a cleaner,

more beautiful place for visitors.

Qatargas is totally committed to

the management of the environ-

ment in which we operate. As a re-

sponsible energy operator, Qatar-

gas is keen to promote pioneering

environmental solutions to further

improve the environmental per-

formance of our LNG and other pro-

duction facilities.

Qatargas organises beach clean-up day at Al Ghariya

The Bedaya Center for Entrepre-

neurship and Career Develop-

ment (Bedaya Center), a joint

initiative by Qatar Development Bank

and Silatech, concluded its week-long

entrepreneurship camp organised for

children aged 10 to 14 years. Titled

“Entrepreneurship Spring Camp”, the

campwas organised in collaboration

with the children’s library ‘Maktaba’

and held within its premises.

On the first day of the camp, the

young participants were engaged in

several activities and courses, which

were simplified to suit their age.

These courses offered an overview of

entrepreneurship, team building as-

pects and project ideas that could be

implemented. The second day com-

prised learning effective marketing

concepts like promoting merchan-

dise in different marketing scenari-

os and the techniques of presenting

projects.

The third day started with brand

building exercises like design aspects

and the best ways to use social net-

working for supporting the brand. They

also learnt the principles of finance and

pricing.

On the fourth day each group

learned how to take photos of their

products and create short promo-

tional films. They also participated in

sporting activities in a session run by

Evolve entitled “Healthy body Healthy

Mind”.

On the last day they designed a

booth and sold their products to visi-

tors who welcomed the idea and were

impressed by the positive results.

Reem Al Sowaidi, General Manager

of Bedaya Center, said: “The main ob-

jective of the “Entrepreneurship Spring

Camp” is to teach basic skills to young

campers and instil in them the value

of self-employment. Besides teaching

them the skills to communicate in pub-

lic and breaking the fear barrier, we take

responsibility through a set of integrat-

ed methods. This provides them with

the skills to deal with the needs of the

market & commodities and learn the

best ways to market and promote their

products, which will help them attract

customers.”

Sarah Champa, Founder of Makta-

ba, said: “We are honoured today to

have Bedaya Center as a new part-

ner who supports our mission. And

though we focus on inspiring kids and

their families to love reading & learn-

ing, we also seek to encourage them

to learn new things.”

Bedaya Center and Maktaba hold Entrepreneurship Spring Camp

08 | SUNDAY 24 APRIL 2016

FOOD

By Joe Yonan

The Washington Post

Baked pasta is like an old friend

I lost touch with for no good

reason. Every time I get reac-

quainted, I think: “It’s been too

long. Why don’t we do this more of-

ten?”

There’s really nothing quite as com-

forting as this combination of starch

and cheese, bubbling hot, with a crispy

topping. And yet I don’t find myself

turning to it all that often — perhaps

because it seems like a bit of a pro-

duction (with multiple pans and lots

of cleanup), and perhaps because the

serving amounts tend to be in the

eight-or-more range, too much for my

two-person dinner table.

Then, one recent night, I had a crav-

ing. I had all my favourite makings in

the house: roasted vegetables, cooked

beans, dried pasta, canned tomatoes,

cheese. It would come together more

easily, so why not? We tried to control

ourselves, portionwise, the first night,

then had it for multiple lunches and

follow-up dinners. By the end of the

run, as satisfying as it had been at the

start, the dish had gotten a little tire-

some.

When I wanted to dive back in, I

found a recipe from the great and

powerful Alton Brown that featured

an appealing approach that solved

some of my issues. You use the same

big cast-iron skillet to roast cauliflower,

make a sauce and bake the assembled

dish, so it’s down to two cooking ves-

sels (including the pasta pot). And it’s

a smaller batch - not overwhelming in

the leftovers department.

I took a few liberties, adding white

beans for a protein boost and switch-

ing to a smoked cheddar for extra flavor.

The results proved this old friend needs

to come back into my life for good.

Baked pasta with roasted cauli-

flower and white beans

4 to 6 servings. MAKE AHEAD: The

roasted cauliflower and the cooked

pasta can each be refrigerated for up

to 5 days before you proceed with the

recipe. Bring to room temperature be-

fore baking.

Adapted from a recipe by Alton

Brown on altonbrown. com.

Ingredients1 large head cauliflower (1 ½ to

2 pounds)1 tablespoon extra-virgin olive oil½ teaspoon fine sea salt, plus

more as needed4 large cloves garlic, chopped½ teaspoon crushed red pepper

flakesOne 14-ounce can no-salt-add-

ed diced tomatoes and their juices, preferably fire-roasted, such as Muir Glen brand

One 15-ounce can (1 ½ cups) no-

salt-added cannellini beans, rinsed and drained

8 ounces dried penne or rigato-ni pasta

1/3 cup grated Parmigiano-Reg-giano cheese

1 cup (4 ounces) smoked ched-dar cheese, shredded or grated (may substitute smoked Gouda or smoked mozzarella)

¼ cup plain bread crumbs

StepsPreheat the oven to 400 degrees.

Remove and discard the cauliflow-

er core and leaves. Break the florets

into bite-size pieces. (You should have

about 6 cups.) Toss the florets with

the oil and the ½ teaspoon of salt in a

large (10-to-12-inch) cast-iron or other

heavy, ovenproof skillet. Roast, stirring

a time or two, until the cauliflower is

lightly browned and barely tender, 20

to 30 minutes.

Meanwhile, bring a large pot of

water to a boil over high heat. Add a

generous pinch or two of salt.

Once the cauliflower is done, trans-

fer the skillet to the stove top over

medium heat. Stir in the garlic and

crushed red pepper flakes; cook un-

til the garlic is tender, 3 to 4 minutes,

then stir in the tomatoes and their

juices and the beans. Cook until heat-

ed through, a few minutes, then re-

move from the heat.

Add the pasta to the boiling wa-

ter; cook according to the package

directions (al dente). Use a large slot-

ted spoon or skimmer to scoop out

the cooked pasta, letting it drain be-

fore transferring it to the skillet mix-

ture. Stir in the Parmigiano-Reggiano

and smoked cheddar cheeses; taste,

and add salt as needed. Top with the

bread crumbs.

Return the skillet to the oven; bake

until the cheese is melted and bub-

bling and the bread crumbs are gold-

en brown, 15 to 20 minutes. Let the

baked pasta cool for 5 minutes be-

fore scooping it into individual bowls

for serving.

Nutrition | Per serving (based

on 6): 360 calories, 17 gramme pro-

tein, 49 gramme carbohydrates, 11

gramme fat, 5 gramme saturated fat,

25mg cholesterol, 650mg sodium, 7

gramme dietary fibre, 5 gramme sug-

ar.

Pasta with cheese sized to please

| 09SUNDAY 24 APRIL 2016

FASHION

By Virginia Postrel

Bloomberg

Attracting celebrities, fashioni-

stas and worldwide press at-

tention, the Metropolitan Mu-

seum of Art’s Costume Insti-

tute gala is the red-carpet event of

the season. This year the accompany-

ing exhibit is sponsored by that well-

known fashion brand, Apple. Last year

the money came from Yahoo.

To the cynical eye, the sponsor-

ships recall the 19th-century marriag-

es in which an American heiress wed a

European aristocrat, giving the bride a

pedigree and the groom a fortune. Sil-

icon Valley brings the bucks. New York

and Hollywood supply the cachet.The

alliance of fashion and technology can

be an awkward one. Each tribe tends

to look down on the other.

“You have the world of technolo-

gy, which has seen fashion as below

it: We’re the geeks, why would we do

clothes or shoes?” says Dolly Singh,

the founder and CEO of Thesis Cou-

ture, a Los Angeles-based startup that

is re-engineering high heels. “And then

you have the world of fashion, where

the highest tier of fashion has always

snubbed their nose at technology. ‘Oh,

they want to put lights and gadgets on

everything — how ridiculous is that?’”

For designers willing to work close-

ly with technologists, however, digit-

ally driven production techniques are

enabling new aesthetic and functional

forms. Unlike wearables, which incor-

porate computing into garments and

accessories, here the fashion, not the

technology, is the focus. Take the cen-

trepiece of the Met’s “Manus x Machi-

na: Fashion in an Age of Technology,”

opening on May 5.

A Karl Lagerfeld wedding gown

made of neoprene, it features an elab-

orately embroidered train whose de-

sign was hand drawn, scanned into a

computer and pixelated. Translated in-

to rhinestones and pearls, the pattern

looks traditionally baroque at a dis-

tance but digitized from closer in. “For

me technology is a creative tool — it’s

not a functional end product,” says

Andrew Bolton, the Costume Insti-

tute’s head curator, in an interview in

the exhibit catalog. “The show focus-

es on ‘fashion in an age of technolo-

gy,’ not fashion and technology per se.

It examines materials and techniques

that have had realistic — and practical

— applications within fashion, such as

laser cutting.”

The current “#techstyle” (say it

aloud) exhibit now showing at the

Boston Museum of Fine Arts also high-

lights such techniques. Some standout

pieces, such as a silver laser-cut leath-

er dress by Giles Deacon and a digit-

ally printed dress from Alexander Mc-

Queen’s “Plato’s Atlantis” collection,

represent high-end versions of proc-

esses that have already transformed

the look and feel of everyday clothes.

Others resemble haute couture sculp-

tures. The exhibit’s inspiration piece is a

skirt and cape ensemble that appears to

be covered in rubbery barnacles. Com-

bining hard plastic and soft silicone, the

outer shell was 3-D printed in panels,

which were then sewn onto an inner lin-

ing. “It’s still in many ways a hand-craft-

ed garment, but it’s a hand-crafted gar-

ment using the best of the new technol-

ogy,” says curator Michelle Finamore.

To create the ensemble, the Dutch

fashion designer Iris van Herpen

worked with MIT Media Lab’s Neri Ox-

man, whose publications feature titles

like “Multi-Scale Thermal Stability of a

Hard Thermoplastic Protein-based Ma-

terial.” Such joint ventures are growing.

“To execute these garments and acces-

sories designers need the specialists,

the people with technological skills --

the coding, the programming, how to

work the 3-D printer,” says

Finamore. “The designers who are

successful have really collaborated

with the people who know the medi-

um and know the process in-depth. It’s

not just saying, ‘This is the silhouette

and I need to achieve it. Somebody fig-

ure it out.’ It’s working together from

the start to conceive and execute the

garment.”

At Thesis Couture, Singh used the

connections and team-building skills

she’d developed at Space X and Oc-

ulus VR to bring scientists, engineers

and materials specialists from outside

fashion together with shoe experts, in-

cluding an orthopedic surgeon and tra-

ditional shoemakers. Their goal: to re-

invent the stiletto using advanced ma-

terials and structural engineering.

Beginning with a mold of Singh’s

foot, Thesis built a computer mod-

el to identify how to make a shoe that

wouldn’t put so much of the body’s

weight on the ball of the foot. “It took

us two years to figure out what that ge-

ometry is that will give us that magic

weight shift,” from the usual 80 percent

or so to around 50 percent, Singh says.

A key technology was 3-D printing,

which enabled the company to test

many iterations of its shoe parts before

investing in expensive molds and tool-

ing. Without 3-D printing, says Singh,

“I never would have gotten around

the capital chicken-and-egg prob-

lem. You’d have to have lots of mon-

ey so you can cut lots of metal.” Fol-

lowing the Tesla pattern, Thesis plans

to release a limited edition of 1,500

pairs priced at $925 this fall, with three

models priced from $350 showing in

the winter and shipping in the spring.

Whether a stiletto designed by

rocket scientists can span the chasm

between the fashion and tech com-

munities remains to be seen. Like the

museum exhibits, however, Thesis un-

derscores the growing connections be-

tween the two worlds. And for all their

mutual disdain, the fashion and tech-

nology tribes share a willingness to ex-

periment in pursuit of the new.

Digital couture is now actually a thing

For designers willing to work closely with technologists, however, digitally driven production techniques are enabling new aesthetic and functional forms. Unlike wearables, which incorporate computing into garments and accessories, here the fashion, not the technology, is the focus.

10 | SUNDAY 24 APRIL 2016

HEALTH & FITNESS

By Anna Gorman

The Washington Post

Flora Yang is small, spry and

not afraid to tell you her age:

“90-something.” She walks twice

a week at the Mazza Gallerie

mall in Northwest Washington and

says mall walking keeps her young and

fit.

Health officials are starting to no-

tice that effect too and say more malls

should open their doors to walkers.

The Centres for Disease Control and

Prevention has put out a guide saying

the mall is a perfect place for seniors

to get in their steps.

It’s no secret that getting up and

moving makes people healthier and

reduces the risk of heart disease,

stroke and diabetes. But unpredictable

weather and unsafe streets sometimes

get in the way, especially for seniors.

That’s where shopping malls come

in.

Mall walking began decades ago,

when heart doctors began recom-

mending it to their patients, said Basia

Belza, a professor at the University of

Washington’s nursing school. She esti-

mates that hundreds of programs ex-

ist around the country, but they aren’t

widely known. “They are the best-kept

secret,” Belza said.

The CDC’s resource guide, released

last year, encourages malls to expand

walking clubs and set up new ones.

The guide, co-authored by Belza, said

indoor shopping centers are ideal for

walking because their level surfac-

es make seniors less likely to slip and

fall. Malls are also well-lit and have wa-

ter fountains, restrooms and places to

rest. And seniors can walk in malls re-

gardless of the weather.

The U.S. Surgeon General cited mall

walking last year in a national call to

action to improve the nation’s walka-

bility and to get more people moving.

Mall walking clubs are often part-

nerships between a shopping center

and providers, hospitals and commu-

nity groups that serve seniors. They are

typically free for walkers, and some in-

clude organized warm-up exercises,

health screenings and lectures about

healthy eating.

Sibley Memorial Hospital in Wash-

ington runs the walking club at Mazza

Gallerie. In addition to helping seniors

get exercise, participating in the club

reduces their isolation, said Marti Bai-

ley, director of the hospital’s senior as-

sociation.

“It’s so much more than walking,”

Bailey said. “It’s walking, talking, shar-

ing life together in a real way. It’s the

beauty of the walking club.”

Bailey said such clubs are more im-

portant now than ever, given the ag-

ing of the population and the number

of seniors living with chronic diseases.

Yang says she believes she was

the first member of the Mazza Gal-

lerie walking club. She said she start-

ed walking there in 1992, back when

she could carry her granddaughter in

her arms. Soon, she said, people start-

ed walking with her, and the numbers

grew. She has benefited greatly, she

said. “Still I can fight you,” she said,

chuckling.

Members of the club come and

go. Ann Morales, the secretary of the

group, pulled out a photo of its walk-

ers from several years ago. “This is the

doctor who used to be here,” she said.

“He passed away. . . . Marlene, Flora are

here. We haven’t seen this lady for a

long time.”

On the mornings that they gather,

the seniors start with a blood pressure

check by a retired doctor.

“Let’s take a peek,” Aric Schichor

said as he wrapped the cuff around

Yang’s arm. “140 over 80.”

Then Yang stood up and headed

down the hall, holding hands with an-

other longtime walker, Marlene Jordan.

“My doctor says I need a cane,” Jordan

said. “I don’t think I need it.”

“I’m her cane,” Yang said, giving her

a squeeze.

The group strolled past a T.J. Maxx

and a jewelry store and turned the

corner at a Subway sandwich shop.

Seven times around made a mile.

Helga Fox, 87, has been walking

with the group for a few years. She

lives in a condo with a fitness center,

but she prefers to come here. She likes

the company. “It’s a nice way to start

the day,” she said.

Most of all, Fox said, she appreci-

ates being able to visit with the doc-

tor. She has hypertension and feels

better after having her blood pressure

checked.

Walking groups also benefit the

malls, which have struggled to attract

people as more consumers turn to on-

line shopping.

Nicole Schade, a spokeswoman for

Mazza Gallerie, said the walkers there

often visit the stores, see a movie or

grab breakfast.

“We have seen an uptick in busi-

ness thanks to the mall walking pro-

gram,” Schade said.

Walk the malls for better health

| 11SUNDAY 24 APRIL 2016

ENTERTAINMENT

By Ann Hornaday

The Washington Post

After exploding into the pub-

lic consciousness in the 2011

hit Bridesmaids, Melissa Mc-

Carthy became known for a

particular brand of slapstick, raunchy

comedy, cultivating a crude, coarse,

socially inept persona that grew less

appealing with every iteration.

Last year’s Spy proved a delight-

ful exception: Finally, McCarthy could

prove what a nimble, likable actress

she is, and the film bubbled and

squeaked with low-key, feminist op-

timism.

With The Boss, McCarthy has sadly

reverted to form, playing yet another

selfish, cluelessly narcissistic character

given to pratfalls and prodigious pro-

fanity streaks.

Here she plays Michelle Darnell, the

47th richest woman in America, who

resembles a cross between Suze Or-

man, Martha Stewart and McCarthy’s

reliably unpleasant alter ego. After

a promising opening number — set

at one of Darnell’s self-improvement

rock shows — this sludgily paced vehi-

cle kicks into its natural gear, lurching

from one set piece to the next with

workmanlike, if frequently clumsy, ef-

ficiency.

The plot is predictably schemat-

ic: After doing time at a Club Fed-

like state prison for insider trading,

Michelle seeks to reinvent herself, en-

listing her long-suffering assistant

Claire (Kristen Bell) to help get her

back on her feet. When she accompa-

nies Claire’s daughter to a club meet-

ing and hears how much money there

is in cookie sales, the light bulb goes

on. Michelle dragoons her team into

developing a similar group in which

profit-sharing will take the place of

badges and in which unsavoury talk

about sexuality and a hair-pulling,

tush-kicking, bloodletting street rum-

ble are by no means out of the ques-

tion.

Impeccably coiffed and cosmeti-

cized, and dressed in a series of inex-

plicably burkalike turtlenecks, McCa-

rthy projects undeniable zing in The

Boss, which was directed and co-writ-

ten by her husband, Ben Falcone. Bell

does her best to remain respectfully

bland as Michelle’s sweet-natured, pa-

tient foil, while Peter Dinklage seems

to be channelling his lamest Derek

Zoolander as an oily competitor with

whom Michelle shares some dubious

personal history.

In fact, credit for the most nota-

ble performance in The Boss should

probably go to newcomer Eva Pe-

terson, a somber-faced, leggy beau-

ty who delivers a commanding, dead-

liest-of-deadpan performance as

one of Michelle’s new young prote-

ges. She’s a standout in what is oth-

erwise a thinly constructed excuse to

watch McCarthy engage in her sig-

nature lowbrow physical gags (an

errant fold-out couch, a slip down

some stairs, a sushi-induced stroke)

and breathtakingly blue dialogue —

here given extra shock by usually be-

ing uttered in the company of angelic

tween girls.

Presumably, The Boss will give

McCarthy’s core audience exact-

ly what they expect from a woman

who in five short years has become

her own cheerful, aggressively dis-

tasteful brand. Although her charis-

ma is still undeniable, there’s also no

denying that McCarthy is capable of

much more than she’s allowing her-

self to do here. There comes a point

when every force of nature starts to

look just plain forced.

Ratings Guide: Four stars master-

piece, three stars very good, two stars

OK, one star poor, no stars waste of

time.

Acting like this won’t win any Brownie points

12 | SUNDAY 24 APRIL 2016

By Troy Ribeiro

IANS

Film: Fan

Cast: Shah Rukh Khan, Waluscha de

Sousa, Shriya Pilgaonkar, Deepika Amin,

Yogendra Tiku, Sayani Gupta

Directed by: Maneesh Sharma

Rating: ***1/2

In a star-struck country, where hero

worshipping is a norm, Fan is an in-

sightful film looking into the obses-

sive, delusional behaviour of a star

admirer and his love for his matinee

idol. It is a reality check for both, stars

and their fans.

Basically, the film is a battle of wills

between Gaurav Chandna, the fan,

and Aryan Khanna, the star.

Delhi-based Gaurav is the reign-

ing heart-throb Aryan’s doppelganger

and a die-hard fan. It is his dream to

meet his idol. So crazy is he that he fol-

lows the same trail as his idol to Mum-

bai and goes to any lengths to protect

his star. How he meets his star and the

disillusionment that follows, forms crux

of the tale.

The story written and directed by

Maneesh Sharma, is uncomplicated,

but of course exaggerated and zooms

into a noire zone, pushing the bound-

aries of acceptability. The first half of

the film is well-balanced and taut. It is

the second half that is far-fetched, and

though thrilling, strains.

Although treated as a dramatic thrill-

er, the film is more of drama than a

thriller. Narrated from Gaurav’s point of

view, the film brings to fore, the prag-

matic issues of stardom and how stars

deal with their crazy fans.

Your heart bleeds for Gaurav, but at

the same time makes you realise that

one needs to be rational.

The pace of the film though

racy, drags in parts, especially in the

stretched action sequences, which is

well-choreographed.

With well-etched characters, the

performance of each actor is note-

worthy. The film belongs to Shah Rukh

Khan, who in a dual role, is a treat for

his fans. In both his characters, Gaurav

and Aryan, he is distinct in his sartorial

style, speech and mannerisms. With his

overt histrionics, sincerity and simplicity,

his obsession is palpable. He steals the

show as Gaurav. As Aryan, Shah Rukh

Khan is merely an extension of himself.

Of the rest of the supporting cast,

Deepika Amin and Yogendra Tiku, as

Gaurav’s parents are fairly competent.

Waluscha de Sousa as Aryan’s wife and

Shriya Pilgaonkar as Gaurav’s love in-

terest Neha, in small roles make their

presence felt. With great production

values, the sets are realistic and the lo-

cales impressive.

Visually, Director of Photograohy

(DOP) Manu Anand’s images are im-

pressive. He captures the hysteria of

the fans and their gawking at their star,

with precise acuteness. His frames

seamless mesh with the computer

generated images.

It is in the initial scenes where the

shots with grainy images are chaot-

ic and thus, disorienting, but once the

narration settles, the visuals are realis-

tic and appealing.

Namrata Rao’s razor sharp edits

are crisp and note-worthy. She aptly

layers the visuals and Andrea Guerra’s

background score to make the film a

sound and visual delight. Interestingly,

despite with no songs in the narration,

Fan keeps you entertained with Shah

Rukh’s gusty performance.

ENTERTAINMENT

Fan: Insightful and thrilling

The story written and directed by Maneesh Sharma, is uncomplicated, but of course exaggerated and zooms into a noire zone, pushing the boundaries of acceptability. The first half of the film is well-balanced and taut. It is the second half that is far-fetched, and though thrilling, strains.

Jeet Ganguly composes album for TV show

Composer Jeet Ganguly has col-

laborated with singers Palak

Muchhal and Jubin Nautiyal to

compose the music album for the up-

coming TV show Nagarjun: Ek Yoddha.

The album will comprise three

songs of different genres. The entire

album will be composed by Ganguly.

“I’m very selective and particular

about working on TV shows. In spite

of the fact that I have composed mu-

sic for more than 100 Bengali films,

this is my second TV composition on

television,” Ganguly said in a state-

ment.

“When I heard the concept of the

show, I fell in love with the story. I

have put more efforts in this compo-

sition than I usually do even for films,”

he added.

Nagarjun: Ek Yoddha, which will be

aired on Life OK, will feature actors

Anshuman Malhotra and Pooja Baner-

jee in the lead as Arjun and Noorie.

| 13SUNDAY 24 APRIL 2016

TECHNOLOGY

By Chuck Culpepper

The Washington Post

At its nadir last spring, the

remote-controlled tackling

dummy of Dartmouth stood

discarded at a dumpster. A

student, Molly Stifler, spotted it. She

knew her boyfriend, Elliot Kastner,

had worked an eon on it. The project

had stalled a year before, and now

the dummy leaned against the dump-

ster in front of trash bags, surround-

ed by unwanted boards and yester-

year’s furniture. It — he? — looked mel-

ancholy.

Stifler called Kastner.

If football winds up saved 100

years from now, and if the dashing

Dartmouth tackling dummy has any-

thing to do it, it will have coursed to

importance through a dumpster, a

last-ditch Plan B, a wee-hour catas-

trophe and a bevy of human turns,

coincidences and defeats. It will owe

much to one engineering school that

disdains boundaries and preaches

failure, and to two engineer-athletes

who, at 23, chose to spend their sum-

mer of 2015 poor in sleep and rich in

metal shavings. And it will owe its ori-

gins to a coach’s child chasing around

the cat and dog with his joystick-con-

trolled toy car.

Look now: The dummy with the

five-second 40-yard dash is famous —

not what you’d expect from a foam-vi-

nyl-and metal sort devoid of charisma.

It spent last fall and this spring help-

ing the Ivy League champion football

players at Dartmouth hone tackling

techniques with the aim of reducing

concussions because, by tackling it at

practices, they could refrain from tack-

ling each other. It got a fresh round of

publicity last month when Ivy League

coaches voted unanimously to elimi-

nate full-contact hitting from practices.

It has gone to Michigan State’s spring

practice and bamboozled some Spar-

tans, who briefly acted as if they had

seen an extraterrestrial.

It appeared on The Late Show with

Stephen Colbert. It has inspired the

dean of Dartmouth’s Thayer School of

Engineering to needle other deans at

convention dinners with the question:

“So, how many of you have had one of

your design projects end up on ‘The

Late Show with Stephen Colbert’?”

It has snared its own trademark. It

has secured a manufacturer to make

replicas even if the sale price remains

uncertain. It has commanded its own of-

fice in a woodsy office park three miles

from campus, in Lebanon, New Hamp-

shire, where it often stands — two of

them, actually — in a front corner. Its

two main inventors, former Dartmouth

defensive lineman Kastner and former

Dartmouth rugby player Quinn Connell,

painstakingly perfect it, thinking and

toiling and writing stuff on the atri-

um window. This MVP (“Mobile Virtu-

al Player”) has a director of marketing

(the outstanding former Dartmouth re-

ceiver Ryan McManus) and an intern

(Colin Keffernan).

It even has business cards, though

it lacks the hands to dole them out.

At least two NFL teams have cold-

called about it. Kansas State assistant

coach Collin Klein, a 2012 Heisman Tro-

phy finalist, mailed a card now tacked

above a desk at the Lebanon office

that reads, “The technology you work

with will make our players and game

better.”

The fundraising clearly has accel-

erated. Downstairs in the parking ga-

rage, a spiffy new manufacturing ma-

chine has arrived from California. Con-

nell, that rare individual who can play

rugby, build kayaks and teach calcu-

lus, proclaims himself “the most excit-

ed I’ve been” and says, “This basically

can turn a hunk of metal into whatev-

er you want.”

It’s a long, halting way from Buddy

Teevens seeing his kid operate a toy car

with a joystick and forming a big Hm-

mm. “And I’m not sure how my mind

works sometimes,” said the 59-year-

old-but-looks-younger Dartmouth

football coach, “but I thought, What if

we put that on a dummy?”

It became a summer of double shifts

in the shop, evenings at the drawing

boards and computers, midday work-

outs instead of lunches, Kastner briskly

eating microwavable meals with card-

board as utensil. Come early August, as

Currier put it, they “didn’t have anything

that was worth putting on the field that

anybody would notice.”

They went to a Plan B, essential-

ly a simplification. Come Aug. 19, they

were trucking a new version of the

dummy to a field when they came

across rugby player Madison Hugh-

es. They asked Hughes to tackle it.

Upstairs in his office above the field,

Teevens saw it move and said, “Son of

a gun.” Across the world, Connell’s ed-

ited video of Hughes tackling the MVP

got 30,000 views and then, during a

one-hour car ride, reached 100,000,

at which point Connell, Kastner and

Stifler stopped the car to holler out

the windows.

Come August 26 at 2am, hours be-

fore CNN and all media creation would

arrive for a morning demonstration,

Kastner was making final adjustments

to a dummy when, from across the

room, Connell heard a ping, then odd

silence. A key metal plate had broken,

and Kastner stood somberly holding its

two parts. Connell recalls “head in the

hands” and “sink to the floor,” but also

laughter. “If it had all gone as planned,”

he says, “what’s the challenge you’re

going to overcome?” They failed to wal-

low, called somebody to open the shop

early, went home in their usual coat of

metal shavings, showered, slept an hour

and returned at 6am. About four hours

later, they rushed two dummies out to

meet members of the media and the

Dartmouth team. The time was right.

Football people yearn for solutions.

Come April, there would be dizzy-

ing progress, even though Connell spent

the fall teaching calculus and all else on

a mobile high school coursing through

Latin America, stopping to conduct con-

ference calls about the MVP dummy at

pay phones in rural Colombia. Come

April, Kastner would say, “I think it’s slow-

ly dawning on us that this is a real prod-

uct that’s going to be used by teams

we’ve kind of grown up watching.”

Remote-controlled tackling dummy to save football

The fundraising clearly has accelerated. Downstairs in the parking garage, a spiffy new manufacturing machine has arrived from California. Connell, that rare individual who can play rugby, build kayaks and teach calculus, proclaims himself “the most excited I’ve been” and says, “This basically can turn a hunk of metal into whatever you want.”

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AL KHORKali (Malayalam) 11:30am, 2:00, 4:30, 7:00, 9:30pm & 12:00midnightTheri (Tamil) 12:00noon, 6:00pm & 12:00midnightThe Jungle Book (2D/Drama) 12:30, 2:45, 5:00, 7:15, 9:30 & 11:45pmSarrainodu (Telugu) 3:00 & 9:00pm

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As a war between rival queen sisters Ravenna and Freya escalates, Eric and fellow warrior Sara, members of the Huntsmen army raised to protect Freya, try to conceal their forbidden love as they combat Ravenna’s wicked intentions.

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CINEMA PLUS

The Huntsman: Winter’s War (Action) 2D 10:00am, 12:00 noon, 12:20, 1:50, 2:20, 2:40, 4:40, 5:00, 6:30, 7:00, 7:20, 9:20, 9:40, 11:20, 11:30pm & 12:00midnight 3D 11:30am, 4:10 & 8:50pmPrecious Cargo (2D/Action) 10:00am, 12:00noon, 2:00, 4:00, 6:00, 8:00, 10:00pm & 12:00midnightCriminal (2D/Action) 10:00, 12:20, 2:40, 5:00, 7:20, 9:40pm & 12:00midnight Fan (2D/Hindi) 11:30am, 2:30, 5:30 & 11:15pmBennesbeh Labokra Chou (Arabic) 8:30pmDemolition (2D/Action) 11:30am, 3:30, 7:30 & 11:30pmThe Ones Below (2D/Action) 1:30, 5:30 & 9:30pmThe Boss (2D) 10:00am, 12:00noon, 2:00, 4:00, 6:00, 8:00, 10:00pm & 12:00midnightThe Jungle Book (2D/Drama) 10:00am, 12:10, 2:20, 4:30, 6:40, 8:50 & 11:00pmThe Jungle Book (3D IMAX/Drama) 11:00am, 1:10, 3:20, 5:30, 7:40, 9:50 & 11:50pm

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EASY SUDOKU

15SUNDAY 24 APRIL 2016

Yesterday’s answer

Easy 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

MEDIUM SUDOKU

ALL IN THE MIND

CROSSWORD

BRAIN TEASERS

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

APPLE, APRICOT,

ARTICHOKE, ASPARAGUS,

AUBERGINE, BANANA,

BEAN, BEETROOT,

BROCCOLI, CABBAGE,

CARROT, CAULIFLOWER,

CELERY, CHERRY,

CUCUMBER, DATE,

EGGPLANT, FIG, GRAPE,

GRAPEFRUIT, LEEK,

LEGUME, LEMON, LIME,

MANDARIN, MELON,

MUSHROOM, OKRA, OLIVE,

ONION, ORANGE, PARSNIP,

PEA, PEACH, PEAR,

PINEAPPLE, POTATO,

PRUNE, PUMPKIN,

RHUBARB, SPINACH,

SPROUT, SQUASH,

STRAWBERRY, TARO,

TOMATO, TURNIP, YAM.

A. Increased speed (11)

A. Dialects (7)

A. Entirely (3)

A. Vacuous (7)

B. Armed robbers (7)

B. Stringed instrument (5)

C. Vegetable (7)

C. Hoard (5)

C. Auto (3)

C. Circus performer (5)

C. Snake (5)

D. Inactive (7)

E. Ahead of time (5)

E. Malevolent (4)

K. Rope fastening (4)

L. Departing (7)

R. Dried grapes (7)

R. Responded (7)

R. Majestic (5)

S. Fusillade (5)

S. Vicious (6)

S. Scandinavian buffet (11)

T. Topic (5)

T. One of three (7)

V. Assorted (7)

W. Author (6)

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TV LISTINGS

The first letter of each answer is written next to its clue in

alphabetical order. One letter has already been entered. Can

you find the words then fit them correctly into the grid?