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BY FAZEENA SALEEM
Dipendra Kawari did not know what was in store for him when he took up a watchman’s job in Qatar in 2006. For the past six years, the
45-year-old worker from Nepal has lived in small concrete block rooms close to construc-tion sites in Doha.
“I live in this type of rooms wherever my company is constructing a building. Earlier, I was in Abu Hamour and other areas,” said Dipendra, who is now living in the Hilal area.
The room he lives in has no electricity or water supply, not even proper sanitation facili-ties. He depends on the nearest mosque for drinking water and to charge his mobile phone. The phone provides him some light inside the room at night.
During summers, Dipendra rigs up a make-shift hut out of wood and cloth next to this room as it is too hot to sleep inside the con-crete structure. He earns QR700 a month and sends the major portion of his salary home, with plans to give his four daughters in marriage.
“I have gone home only once during these six years, and then also the company deducted my salary. I have commitments to my family, so I continue to work here,” said Dipendra, who is illiterate and could not read his job contract.
The Peninsula visited some of the places where watchmen at construction sites live,
and found that their condition was no different from that of Dipendra.
Most small construction companies here provide their watchmen accommodation with poor living conditions. Some companies let their watchmen stay inside small shelters made to keep equipment. Others are allowed to stay in a small portion of the building once construction starts. A sleeping mattress, a bag of clothes and a few pots and pans make up all the possessions of these workers.
“I’m working for this company for five years. Accommodation is moved to wherever a build-ing is being constructed. We are not given any permanent place to stay,” said Bikash, a watchman at a construction site in the Matar Qadeem area.
Without basic amenities, their day-to-day life is a challenge. They can’t afford to eat out on their meagre income, and cooking inside their rooms is also difficult.
“There is power supply when work is going on, then it stops as it is a temporary connec-tion. We can use the water brought to con-struct the building, but for drinking water we go to the nearest mosque,” Bikash said.
“We have to cook in daylight, that too inside this room. We cook, eat and sleep here,” he said.
Life for these watchmen is tougher than that of other construction sector workers, who work for about eight hours and then go back to their accommodation.
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Our whole life here is confined to these shelters. We work and live here. Friday is supposed to be a holiday, but it makes no big difference as we have to look after the equipment and the building all the time.”
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“Our whole life here is confined to these shelters. We work and live here. Friday is supposed to be a holiday, but it makes no big difference as we have to look after the equipment and the building all the time,” said Bikash.
“If something is lost, we will be questioned and blamed first, so we are here most of the time. Some weekends, we go to a friend’s accommodation during the day and return quickly,” he added.
Most of the watchmen at construction sites in Doha are from Nepal or Bangladesh. They are paid less than QR1,000 a month, and many work for several years in Qatar, often without going home on vacation.
“We have hardly anything left after sending money home and buying food. So it’s better to remain here than go on a vacation,” said Mahmud, another construction site watch-man in the Matar Qadeem area.
According to a construction industry professional, poor living conditions are common among these watchmen, espe-cially those working for small companies. The big com-panies hire personnel from security firms to guard their construction sites.
“Some lucky ones get a job with the same company which owns the building. They get their visa changed and are also paid more. But this happens only in a few cases. The others work in the same routine and most of them don’t go on vacation,” he said.
(Names have been changed as the workers requested ano-nymity.) The Peninsula
PLUS | TUESDAY 25 DECEMBER 20124 COMMUNITY
The Global Ucmas, Malaysia conducted its 18th Ucmas International Abacus &
Mental Arithmetic Competition in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, recently. Around 3,000 students from differ-ent parts of the world took part in the competition.
The competition tested the caliber of students in two categories – Visual Competition: To test the speed and accuracy of calculation, where in stu-dents have to solve 150 to 200 arith-metic calculations including addition, subtraction, multiplication and divi-sion of varied difficulty level depend-ing on their level of training and Listening Skill Competition: Where irrespective of the level of training, students are required to calculate mentally (addition and subtraction) with increasing level of difficulty as the rounds progress.
Twenty-three students from vari-ous schools in Qatar took part in different levels of the International Abacus Championship.
Students from Qatar secured the third position in the Arab World and fifth worldwide.
Aged between 5 and 13, the stu-dents were trained extensively for four months by Ucmas Abacus, a pro-gramme which helps children calcu-late fast and accurately with abacus.
Saad bin Saffer was declared a ‘Champion’ in the basic level of the Visual Competition. The Peninsula
Qatar students shine at international abacus and mental arithmetic meet
The winning students from Qatar with Ucmas-Qatar officials.
Bazm-e-Urdu Qatar (BUQ), the oldest Urdu liter-ary organisation in Qatar, organised its annual
Mushaira (poetry symposium) at Asiana Restaurant, recently.
Syed Muhammad Sabih Bukhari,
BUQ patron presided over the pro-gramme. Dr Faisal Hanif, founder of Guzergah-e-Khayal Urdu Forum and patron of BUQ, and Shahab Shahrwardi, an Urdu poetry enthusiast, were chief guests while Rana Muhammed Ayub, a member
of board of patrons was the guest of honour. Iftekhar Raghib, the gen-eral secretary of BUQ welcomed the guests and poets, while Afroz Alam, a Doha-based poet con-ducted the programme.
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Bazm-e-Urdu Qatar organises annual poetry symposium
Bazm-e-Urdu Qatar members and guests at the annual poetry symposium.
Loukas Kyprianou with Ioannis Kasoulides
Georgetown SFS-Q student interns with European Parliament
Georgetown University School of Foreign Service in Qatar (SFS-Q) secured a summer 2012
internship at the European Parliament in Brussels for one of its third-year students, Loukas Kyprianou. The out-standing Cypriot student was chosen for the once-in-a-lifetime opportu-nity, despite the fact that his age did not fulfill the minimum requirement for the internship at the European Parliament in Brussels. “They told me I was chosen because I was studying at a world-renown institution for politi-cal studies which is of great impor-tance in a region,” Loukas said.
As part of the internship, Loukas worked with one of the highest-ranking members of the Cypriot delegation to the European People’s Party (EPP) Member of the European Parliament (MEP) Ioannis Kasoulides, who previously held the positions of Member of Cypriot Parliament, Government Spokesperson and Minister of Foreign Affairs. Through this expe-rience, Loukas is now able to secure a job with the Cypriot embassy in Qatar. The Peninsula
Vodafone Qatar appoints head of fixed services
Vodafone Qatar has appointed S i m o n e
Eliantonio (pictured) as the new Head of Fixed, as the company ramps up its entry into the Fixed services market in Qatar.
Eliantonio joins Vodafone Qatar from Vodafone Group Technology Networks where he was the Principal Manager for Fixed Mobile Convergence Service Delivery.
Niraj Singh, Director of Vodafone Business Services at Vodafone Qatar, commented “I am delighted to wel-come Simone to Vodafone Qatar who brings with him a wealth of expertise in the fixed services field. I look for-ward to working with him to deliver Vodafone Groups’ world class fixed services to homes and corporates in Qatar.” The Peninsula
5COMMUNITY PLUS | TUESDAY 25 DECEMBER 2012
Grand Hyatt Doha celebrated a year of success with many awards. Grand Hyatt Doha
was awarded ‘Best Business Hotel in Doha’ at the Business Travellers Awards ceremony held on April 29. The Business Traveller Awards are voted for by readers of the magazine with the results authenticated by an independent audit.
Trip advisor granted Grand Hyatt Doha the award of excellence, which is given to hotels with the best guests’ experience.
The Grill Restaurant was awarded “The Best Brunch in Doha” by Time Out Doha. In addition to the awards the property’s Sales and Marketing team have exceeded expectations by performing the best in the competition throughout 2012.
In October, Grand Hyatt Doha
partnered with Qatar Cancer Society in a fundraiser to raise awareness for breast cancer.
In December 2012, Grand Hyatt Doha hotel was the host of the press conference announcing the launch of the nation-wide campaign “Think Again”; the new awareness campaign aims to dispel myths around Cervical Cancer organised by The Qatar Cancer Society (QCS) and GlaxoSmithKline (GSK).
Grand Hyatt Doha was the hotel sponsor of the “Back to Business” networking event; Qatar’s number one networking business event which hosted over 700 guests from different Qatari business communities.
Grand Hyatt Doha marked Global Earth Hour 2012 by a special candle-light dinner. In addition, to help chil-dren learn about nature; Grand
Grand Hyatt Doha celebrates year of success
Grand Hyatt Doha sales and marketing team.
Maersk Oil Qatar has launched Maersk Oil High Achievers Scholarship Programme
targeting high achieving Qatari stu-dents pursuing higher education in the Engineering, Law and Business Administration disciplines.
Sheikh Faisal bin Fahad Al Thani, Deputy Managing Director of Maersk Oil Qatar, said: “The Maersk Oil High Achievers Scholarship Programme has been tailored to become one of our most valuable contributions targeting our young and ambitious. It is our way of acknowledging our brightest and most hardworking students deserving the means and opportunities to attend the best universities - and knowing
that the knowledge and expertise they will acquire will benefit our country for a very long time to come is beyond gratifying to us”.
“We’ve implemented many initia-tives to help our recruitment, retention and employee development - but also to achieve our goal of providing our employ-ees with a good work-life balance. As a result of our efforts 180 Qatar nationals now work for Maersk Oil Qatar, which represents around 25 percent of our total workforce,” added Sheikh Faisal.
“We’re working hard with local schools and universities to encourage the youth of today to take science and engineering disciplines – so they can join us in the future” added sheikh Faisal.
The programme is open to all Qatari students entering higher education for the first time and to those already enrolled in lead-ing institutions. Selection will be assessed on the grade point aver-age, area of study, to be on the list of the Supreme Education Council universities, reputation of prospec-tive university, and to pass the com-pany’s internal tests .Recipients will be announced in June and December of every year.
For more information, students can enquire directly at the Qatarisation Office at Maersk Oil Qatar where fur-ther and specific advice will be given.
The Peninsula
Maersk Oil launches Achievers Scholarships for Qatari students
Global Compact Network - Qatar chooses Al Sadd as Steering Committee Member
The Global Compact Network in Qatar has selected Al Sadd Sports Club as a member of the
Steering Committee of the network. The step transpired after the official acceptance of Al Sadd by the UN-Global compact last October. This nomination confirms the efforts of Al Sadd Club in the area of social responsibility that manifested itself in the framework of an integrated and consistent strat-egy through four various areas: mar-ketplace, workplace, community, and environment.
Inclusive of this decision was the appointing of Dr Mohammed Jassim Al Meslamani for General Secretary of the Global Compact Network in Qatar. The local network will be officially launched next February to coincide with the 4th Corporate Social Responsibility Conference. The role of the members is to provide advice, create plans and strategies for the deployment and devel-opment of social responsibility therefore setting forth a culture in Qatar.
In this regard, Jassim Al Rumaihi, the General Secretary of Al Sadd Sports Club commented: “We appre-ciate the selection of Al Sadd Club as a member of the Steering Committee of the Global Compact Network - Qatar. And we confirm our continuing responsible approach towards society like the international sports clubs”.
Dr Mohammed Al Meslamani , the General Secretary of Qatar’s Global Compact Network, said: “The selection of Al Sadd Club is a recognition of their social responsibility efforts and active participation to establish the Global Compact Network in Qatar. This choice assures the progress of Al Sadd in the transition of its responsibilities from the voluntary commitment to the actual accession within the UN-Global com-pact professional system.” The Peninsula
Maersk Oil Qatar officials at the launch function.
Hyatt Doha organised in 2012 a 30 square meters tree-planting event for Bonaparte School in Doha
to provide a greener environment for children.
The Peninsula
PLUS | TUESDAY 25 DECEMBER 2012 FEATURE6
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HEALTH 7
Health Tipsfrom DOCTOR
You may be wondering how does the sleeping posture of baby matters, as long as the baby is sleeping well. The sleeping posture for babies less
than one year old and more so for babies less than six months is of paramount impor-tance because by adopting one sleeping posture the risk of one extremely frustrating and dreadful condition can be minimized if not avoided. The name of this condition is “Sudden Infant Death Syndrome” (SIDS) or cot death. As the name indicates, it is a condition where a healthy baby dies suddenly in cot after sleep for no appar-ent reason.
Who are most vulnerable?1. Babies less than six months.2. Low birth weight babies. 3. Premature babies.4. Sleeping on stomach.5. Smoking mothers.6. Multiple birth babies like twins.After extensive research it has been sug-
gested that the following preventive measures are to be taken namely.,
1) Always put the baby to sleep on its back. Do not put the baby to sleep on its stomach. Side sleeping is unstable and should be avoided. This single most important step has drasti-cally reduced the incidence of this dreadful condition.
2) Do not allow baby to sleep with other chil-dren or adults and do not put them to sleep on sofas.
3) Avoid soft bedding materials. Babies should be placed on firm, tight fitting crib mat-tress with no comforter. Use a light sheet to cover the baby. Do not use pillows, comforters and quilts in the crib.
4) Make sure that the room temperature is not too hot. The room temperature should be comfortable for a lightly clothed adult. A baby should not be too hot to touch.
5) Keep baby in smoke free atmosphere.6) Pacifiers at the time of sleep after one
month of age are helpful as pacifier might allow airway to open more or prevent the baby from falling into deep sleep. A baby that wakes up more easily may automatically move out of a dangerous position.
Lastly, a request is being made on behalf of Healthspring world clinic’s Pediatric depart-ment to share this information with your near and dear.
Dr E V Kumar Specialist – Paediatrics
Healthspring World Clinic
Best sleeping postures for babies aged less than one A
mother in Britain, who was so desperate to stop her cancer-stricken son having to undergo conventional medical treatment that she went into hiding with him, lost a
court battle to prevent him receiving radiotherapy.The case of Sally Roberts (pictured), 37, a New Zealander living in Brighton, southern England, and the plight of her seven-year-old son has made headlines in Britain.
Roberts wants to try alternative treatments first, including immunotherapy and photodynamic ther-apy for her son Neon. She has been told the boy needs treatment fast but fears the side-effects of conventional medicine.
Doctors treating the boy had warned that with-out radiotherapy he could die within three months
Judge David Bodey told the High Court in London the life-saving radiotherapy treatment could start against the mother’s wishes, the Press Association reported.
“The mother has been through a terrible time. This sort of thing is every parent’s nightmare,” the judge said.“But I am worried that her judgment has gone awry on the question of the seriousness of the threat which Neon faces.”
The story of the sick blue-eyed blonde boy came to public attention earlier this month when Roberts prompted a nationwide police hunt by going into hiding with Neon for four days to stop him from undergoing the treatment.
The mother’s relentless battle in court also cast a light on the dilemmas parents can face when deal-ing with the illness of a loved one, considering the short-term and long-term risks of a treatment and handling conflicting medical information available at the click of a mouse.
Roberts said in court she had researched on the Internet her son’s condition - a fast-growing, high-grade brain tumour called medulloblastoma - and sought advice from specialists around the world because she did not trust British experts.
She feared radiotherapy would stunt the boy’s growth, reduce his IQ, damage his thyroid and potentially leave him infertile.
Earlier this week, a judge ruled that Neon could undergo emergency surgery to remove a tumour which had resisted an initial operation in October,
despite opposition from his mother, who found he appeared to be recovering after what she said was a “heartbreaking” stay in hospital.
“EXPERIMENTAL AND UNPROVEN”
Surgeons said Neon’s operation had been success-ful but that radiotherapy was needed to ensure no residual tumour was left behind.
Neon’s father Ben, who lives in London and is separated from Roberts, has sided with his son’s doctors. But his wife suggested exploring several alternative treatments, including immunotherapy, which mainly consists of stimulating the body’s immune system to fight cancerous cells, and pho-todynamic therapy, which uses a photosensitizing agent and a source of light to kill malignant cells.
The hospital treating Neon slammed “experi-mental and unproven” methods which entered “unchartered territory”. The hospital, which cannot be named, also questioned the credentials of some of the private specialists contacted by Roberts’s team.
The court heard that at least one of these could not even correctly spell medulloblastoma.
Radiotherapy is used to prevent cancer from spreading or striking back after surgery but it can damage nerve tissue and healthy brain cells.
Long-term side effects tend to be more common in children, whose nervous systems are still devel-oping. Reuters
Mother loses legal fight in UK to stop son’s cancer radiotherapy
PLUS | TUESDAY 25 DECEMBER 2012
Renal denervation, a minimally invasive sur-gery, can lower blood
pressure (BP) that refuses to yield to drugs, according to the results obtained from a study that was conducted over a year-long period.
The findings build on results released in 2010. It showed that six months of treating the arteries around the kid-neys with radio waves lowered drug-resistant high BP.
Results show that risk of heart attack and stroke could be reduced by 40 percent.
Renal denervation involves inserting a catheter through an artery located near the groin. Once there, a tip at the end of the catheter emits a radio frequency to deactivate hyperactive sympathetic nerves in arteries that deliver blood
supply to the kidneys. These nerves contribute to high BP, the journal Circulation reports.
Murray Esler, professor and senior director at the Melbourne-based Baker IDI Heart and Diabetes Institute, who led the study, said the findings could have significant public health implications in the treatment of resistant hypertension, which is often a cause for heart attack and stroke.
High BP is a major health problem worldwide, causing debilitating health problems and even sudden death. It is estimated that 30-40 percent
of the population suffer from high BP and of that group, 15 percent are resistant to tradi-tional therapies, according to the Heart Institute statement.
The results are drawn from Symplicity HTN-2, an ongo-ing, multi-centre, international study sponsored by device manufacturer Medtronic to evaluate renal denervation for the treatment of hypertension.
The study found that 83 per-cent of the treatment group experienced a drop in hyper-tension at six months, and nearly 79 percent of the group maintained such reductions at 12 months.
Critically, the study found that the participants’ kidneys were not damaged or function-ally impaired and there were no ill effects on long-term health from the procedure. IANS
Minimally invasive surgery could cure high BP: Study
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wit
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er
fam
ily. S
he w
as
recentl
y s
pott
ed s
upporti
ng local busi
ness
es
by p
ickin
g u
p
trin
kets
in a
num
ber o
f sm
all s
hops
on t
he C
arib
bean isl
and.
She w
as
mobbed b
y locals
as
she b
row
sed b
outi
ques
in B
rid
geto
wn.
Actr
ess
Lin
dsa
y L
ohan, w
ho f
eatu
res
in “
Scary M
ovie
5”,
is
appar-
entl
y a
nnoyed w
ith t
he p
roducers
for i
nse
rti
ng a
joke a
bout
her
probati
on in t
he m
ovie
.T
he m
ovie
’s n
ew
clip t
hat
rele
ase
d o
n F
rid
ay s
how
s th
e t
rouble
d 2
6-y
ear-
old
actr
ess
scream
ing i
n h
orror w
hile w
atc
hin
g a
fake n
ew
s clip o
f her
probati
on b
ein
g r
evoked. B
ut
Lohan s
ays
the c
lip, w
hic
h m
irrors
her r
eal
life
trouble
s, w
asn
’t a
pproved b
y h
er.
It w
as
suppose
d t
o s
how
her w
atc
hin
g o
ne o
f her o
ld m
ovie
s H
erb
ie:
Fu
lly
Loa
ded.
Accordin
g t
o t
mz.
com
, producers
ass
ured L
indsa
y t
hat
she’d
have t
he
final sa
y o
n w
hat
jokes
went
in -
- so
she w
as
livid
when s
he s
aw
the p
ro-
bati
on joke inst
ead.
“Lin
dsa
y f
eels
this
final jo
ke w
as
meant
as
payback f
rom
producers,
all
because
they b
lam
e h
er f
or h
old
ing u
p t
he s
hoot
and t
rash
ing h
er t
railer.
S
he p
lans
to s
peak t
o h
er t
eam
this
week o
ver t
he a
lleged b
reach o
f con-
tract,”
said
a s
ource.
The w
ork
ing s
crip
t fo
r t
he m
ovie
is
said
to m
ake f
un o
f L
ohan a
nd h
er
mult
iple
brush
es
wit
h t
he law
.
Sin
ger
Lad
y
Gaga’s
perfu
me
Th
e
Fa
me,
wh
ich
sh
e la
un
ch
ed
this
year,
h
as
been
nam
ed as th
e m
ost
popula
r i
n t
he c
ele
b-
rit
y
scen
t m
ark
et
in
Brit
ain
by
Th
e
Fragrance S
hop.
It w
as
als
o n
am
ed
the
coun
try’s
best-
sellin
g c
ele
brit
y f
ra-
gra
nce t
his
Chri
stm
as.
It
got
19 percen
t of
sale
s in
the c
ountr
y’s
hig
h s
treet
stores,
reports
conta
ctm
usi
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hile B
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ney S
pears’
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idnig
ht
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sy is
on t
hir
d s
pot.
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er p
erfu
mes
in t
he t
op 1
0 lis
t in
clu
des
Madonna’s
Truth
or D
are a
nd
pop g
roup S
teps’
Guilty
Ple
asu
re.
BO
LLY
WO
OD
NE
WS
Rih
anna
don
ates
$1.
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to h
ospi
tal
Sca
ry M
ovie
5’ p
rodu
cers
ann
oy L
ohan
Gag
a’s
The
Fam
e na
med
m
ost
popu
lar
perf
ume
by
Jake
Co
yle
Quenti
n T
aranti
no e
nte
rs a
West
Villa
ge I
talian
rest
aurant
through t
he b
ack, a q
uie
t arriv
al
for a
film
maker w
ho is
anyth
ing b
ut
stealt
hy.
More t
han m
ost
any o
ther d
irecto
r w
ork
ing
today,
Taranti
no’s
movie
s are p
ropelled b
y a
cease
less
urge t
o e
nte
rta
in,
both
the a
udie
nce a
nd h
im-
self
. In
ric
hly
com
ic d
ialo
gue, gle
efu
lly s
pla
ttered v
iole
nce
and v
ibrant
bom
bast
ic c
olo
ur,
they a
nnounce t
hem
selv
es
brash
ly.
His
la
test,
D
jan
go U
nch
ain
ed,
a k
ind of
Spagh
ett
i W
est
ern s
et
in t
he a
nte
bellum
South
, is
braze
n e
ven b
y
Taranti
no s
tandards.
Sta
rrin
g J
am
ie F
oxx a
s a s
lave t
aken
un
der t
he w
ing o
f a b
oun
ty h
un
ter (
Chris
toph W
alt
z),
the fi
lm’s
str
ange m
ix o
f su
rrealist
com
edy,
blo
ody a
cti
on
an
d b
ruta
l depic
tion
s of
slavery m
ake D
jan
go a
rguably
T
aranti
no’s
most
audacio
us
movie
yet.
“There is
a c
om
mit
ted s
how
man a
spect
to m
y fi
lm t
hat
I relish
in,” s
ays
a s
weats
hir
t-cla
d T
aranti
no a
s he s
ett
les
in
behin
d a
table
. “I
want
the a
udie
nce t
o h
ave a
wild e
xperi-
ence a
t th
e m
ovie
s and k
now
that
they l
eft
their
house
and d
id s
om
eth
ing w
ith t
heir
nig
ht.
I lik
e t
ortu
rin
g t
hem
fr
om
tim
e t
o t
ime, but
als
o g
ett
ing t
hem
off
.”D
jan
go U
nch
ain
ed n
ot
only
plu
nges
Taranti
no b
ack into
th
e r
acia
lly s
ensi
tive t
errit
ory t
hat
has
brought
him
crit
i-cis
m i
n t
he p
ast
, it
ess
enti
ally e
xplo
des
it. T
he n
-word i
s use
d m
ore t
han 1
00 t
imes
in t
he fi
lm. T
wo e
specia
lly v
io-
lent
scenes
of
slavery —
one a
Mandin
go b
raw
l, t
he o
ther
involv
ing a
dog —
even T
aranti
no c
alls
“traum
ati
sing.”
It’s
a r
evenge f
anta
sy t
hat,
dependin
g o
n y
our p
ersp
ec-
tive, m
akes
this
eit
her t
he r
are fi
lm t
o h
onest
ly p
rese
nt
the u
glin
ess
of
slavery,
or o
ne t
hat
treats
atr
ocit
y a
s a
backdrop f
or g
enre m
ovie
irreverence. It
’s p
robably
both
.“I
f th
e o
nly
purpose
of th
is m
ovie
was
to m
ake a
shock-
ing e
xpose
about
slavery ...
that
would
be w
ell a
nd g
ood. Y
ou
could
definit
ely
do t
hat,”
says
Taranti
no. “B
ut
this
movie
w
ants
to b
e a
lit
tle m
ore t
han just
that.”
It’s
iron
ic t
hat
Taran
tin
o i
s n
ow
un
leash
ing a
movie
boast
ing o
f his
toric
al realism
aft
er h
is last
film
, In
glo
uri
ou
s B
ast
erd
s (t
he h
it o
f his
career,
wit
h g
lobal
box o
ffice o
f $321.
5m
an
d e
ight
Osc
ar n
om
inati
on
s) r
ew
rote
his
tory
by k
illing H
itle
r. D
jan
go, si
milarly
revels
in t
he c
ath
arsi
s of
seein
g t
he e
vildoers
of
his
tory g
et
their
com
euppance.
“Wit
h b
lack a
udie
nces,
they laugh, th
ey just
get
it,” s
ays
Taranti
no. “P
art
of
the h
um
our i
s st
em
min
g o
ut
of: ‘
We
were a
fraid
of
these
idio
ts?’
”T
aranti
no’s
tw
o-p
art
Kil
l B
ill and D
ea
th P
roof w
ere a
lso
revenge t
ale
s, o
nly
for w
om
en h
unti
ng p
atr
iarchal
stere-
oty
pes.
Yet
from
the b
ante
r o
f P
ulp
Fic
tion t
o t
he r
om
ance
of
Jack
ie B
row
n, race h
as
cle
arly
em
erged a
s a d
om
inant
them
e in T
aranti
no’s
film
s.“I
t’s
the m
ost
im
porta
nt
subje
ct
in A
meric
a, both
from
a h
isto
ric
al
persp
ecti
ve a
nd i
n o
ur d
ay t
o d
ay l
ives,
” sa
ys
Taranti
no. “T
here a
re a
whole
lot
of w
hit
e fi
lmm
akers
that
mig
ht
wis
h t
o v
entu
re i
nto
this
area b
ut
they’r
e a
fraid
. T
hey’r
e a
fraid
of
bein
g c
rit
icis
ed.”
Taranti
no w
as
mem
orably
chast
ised b
y S
pik
e L
ee a
fter
the n
-word laden J
ack
ie B
row
n for b
ein
g “
infa
tuate
d”
wit
h
the e
xpress
ion. T
aranti
no s
ays
he w
as
“done w
rong”
by L
ee,
and t
hat
while h
e d
oesn
’t c
are w
hat
Lee t
hin
ks
of
Dja
ngo,
likin
g it
would
be “
a n
ice o
live b
ranch.”
Dja
ngo U
nch
ain
ed,
whic
h W
ein
ste
in C
o i
s r
ele
asin
g,
has
made a
n e
ffort
to r
each o
ut
to t
he b
lack c
om
munit
y.
Three o
f th
e fi
lm’s
sta
rs
— F
oxx, L
eonardo D
iCaprio
(w
ho
pla
ys
a v
illa
inous
Mis
siss
ippi pla
nta
tion o
wner)
and K
erry
Wash
ingto
n (
Dja
ngo’s
wif
e in n
eed o
f resc
ue)
— g
race t
he
cover o
f a r
ecent
issu
e o
f V
ibe m
agazi
ne. O
prah W
infr
ey
has
en
dorse
d i
t, t
hough s
he a
lso c
alled i
t “p
rovocati
ve”
and “
twis
ted.”
Taranti
no is
prepared f
or a
ny c
om
ing c
ontr
oversy
.“N
ot
to s
ound t
oo f
ull o
f m
yse
lf, but
I guess
I h
ave t
he
should
ers
to c
arry it,”
he s
ays.
“Y
ou just
have t
o b
e a
ble
to
walk
the w
alk
and c
arry it.
I’ll ta
ke t
he s
tones
that
com
e
my w
ay for it.
There m
ight
be s
om
e c
ontr
oversy
rig
ht
now
but
then t
hat
goes
aw
ay. F
rankly
, it
’s a
very s
hort
am
ount
of
tim
e in t
he c
ourse
of
a lif
e o
f a m
ovie
.”F
or T
aran
tin
o,
whose o
wn
person
al
film
school
was
fam
ousl
y h
ad a
s a v
ideo s
tore c
lerk
in L
os
Angele
s, insp
i-rati
on a
lways
starts
wit
h o
ther fi
lms.
Dja
ngo U
nch
ain
ed
was
moti
vate
d b
y S
paghett
i W
est
erns,
parti
cula
rly
those
of
the I
talian d
irecto
r S
ergio
Corbucci, w
hose
1966 fi
lm
Dja
ngo is
a g
odfa
ther t
o “
Dja
ngo U
nchain
ed.”
Sam
uel Ja
ckso
n, w
ho d
esc
rib
es
his
conniv
ing h
ouse
serv-
ant
characte
r a
s th
e futu
re “
most
hate
d b
lack p
ers
on in t
he
his
tory o
f cin
em
a,” h
as
work
ed o
n n
earl
y a
ll o
f T
aranti
no’s
film
s. H
e s
ays
Taranti
no’s
inte
rest
in r
ace c
om
es
less
from
life
than f
rom
the m
ovie
s.“I
t’s
not
like Q
uenti
n g
rew
up in t
he h
ood,” s
ays
Jackso
n.
“He w
ent
to a
lot
of B
laxsp
loit
ati
on fi
lms
and h
is c
om
pute
r-
like k
now
ledge o
f cin
em
a a
llow
s him
to g
o t
o t
hat
space.”
Sti
ll,
actu
all
y
reen
acti
ng
life
on
a
pre-C
ivil
W
ar
Mis
siss
ippi
pla
nta
tion
was
jarrin
g f
or s
om
e o
f th
e c
ast
. F
oxx s
ays
wallow
ing in t
hat
worl
d w
as
som
eti
mes
pain
ful.
“You s
top a
nd t
hin
k, ‘W
ow
, th
at’s
what
they d
id t
o u
s.
They m
ade u
s anim
als
,’” s
ays
Foxx. “S
o w
hat
am
I?
They’r
e
giv
ing m
e E
via
n w
ate
r a
nd h
eate
d t
ents
. It
’s lik
e: O
K, I’m
tr
ippin
g a
lit
tle b
it.”
Aft
er t
he fi
rst
screenin
g o
f D
jan
go d
rew
a p
osi
tive r
eac-
tion, F
oxx b
reath
ed a
sig
h o
f relief. T
he fi
lm h
as
since b
een
nom
inate
d f
or fi
ve G
old
en
Glo
be a
wards
inclu
din
g b
est
dram
ati
c p
ictu
re.
It h
as
als
o d
riv
en s
om
e b
lack v
iew
ers
to t
ears.
Though
producer H
arvey W
ein
stein
had s
uggest
ed b
reakin
g t
he
length
y fi
lm into
tw
o p
arts
lik
e K
ill B
ill, T
aranti
no w
ante
d
to p
rese
rve it
as
one e
xperie
nce, to
hopefu
lly h
ave t
he s
am
e
stric
ken m
ovie
goers
cheerin
g b
y t
he e
nd.
“What
I te
ll p
eople
, I
say:
You’r
e n
ot
goin
g t
o h
ave
the s
am
e r
eacti
on t
o t
his
movie
as
a w
hit
e p
erso
n w
ould
because
they d
on’t
have t
hat
struggle
,” F
oxx s
ays.
Taranti
no, 49, has
alw
ays
been p
arti
cula
rly a
ware o
f his
film
makin
g legacy,
as
if im
agin
ing h
is s
helf
in a
vid
eo s
tore.
He s
ays
that
he e
xpects
to s
top m
akin
g m
ovie
s by t
he t
ime
he’s
about
60, not
wanti
ng t
o d
ilute
his
film
ography w
ith
less
er fi
lms
of old
age. H
e t
akes
the long v
iew
on “
Dja
ngo,”
too, know
ing it
won’t
seem
conte
nti
ous
when, in
a y
ear,
it’s
on c
able
TV
in t
he a
fternoon: “I
t becom
es
less
contr
overs
ial
by b
ein
g m
ade. It
alr
eady e
xis
ts.”
His
tory,
in t
he e
nd, has
noth
ing o
n m
ovie
his
tory.
“I’m
alw
ays
aw
are I
’m w
atc
hin
g a
movie
when I
’m w
atc
h-
ing a
movie
,” T
aranti
no s
ays.
“A
s great
as
the m
ovie
is,
I’ve n
ever f
orgott
en I
was
watc
hin
g a
movie
. It
’s n
ot
the
win
dsh
ield
of
your c
ar.”
AP
Da
ba
ngg 2
, th
e l
ast
big
rele
ase
of
2012
, se
em
s to
cap t
he y
ear o
n a
profita
ble
note
. T
he S
alm
an K
han-s
tarrer o
pened w
ith a
record-
breakin
g c
ollecti
on o
f `2
11m
on t
he fi
rst
day a
nd t
rade p
undit
s predic
t it
will ente
r t
he `
1bn c
lub.
Raje
sh T
hadan
i of
Mult
imedia
Com
bin
es
said
that
Da
ba
ngg 2
has
opened “
excepti
onally w
ell a
t th
e b
ox o
ffice o
n F
rid
ay”
and o
n S
atu
rday
“collecte
d a
round `
170m
and is
goin
g h
ouse
full o
n S
unday”.
Accordin
g t
o h
im, it
is
a r
ecord b
reakin
g o
penin
g a
nd t
hat
Da
ba
ngg 2
has
broken t
he r
ecord o
f R
ow
dy
Ra
thore
that
opened w
ith `
151m
.A
sequel to
Abhin
av K
ash
yap-d
irecte
d 2
010
blo
ckbust
er D
ab
an
gg, th
e
part
two,
said
to b
e m
ade a
t a b
udget
of `5
00m
, m
ark
s A
rbaaz
Khan’s
dir
ecto
ria
l debut
an
d r
epeate
d t
he l
ead p
air
of
Salm
an
an
d S
on
aksh
i S
inha, w
hile P
rakash
Raj repla
ced S
onu S
ood a
s th
e v
illa
in.
Brijesh
Tandon s
aid
: “I
n D
elh
i and U
ttar P
radesh
, D
ab
an
gg 2
has
col-
lecte
d a
round `
34m
on F
rid
ay w
hic
h w
as
quit
e e
xpecte
d f
rom
Salm
an’s
film
. W
e h
ope t
he fi
lm g
ets
big
ger a
nd b
ett
er t
onig
ht.”
Anand V
erm
a o
f D
T C
inem
a info
rm
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Banana and Pecan BreadIngredients:
• 100 gms butter, softened.
• 150 gms sugar
• 2 large eggs, beaten
• 3 ripe bananas
• 75 gms pecan nuts, coarsely chopped
• 225 gms self raising flour
• 1/2 tsp baking powder
• 1/2 tsp ground mixed spice/pumpkin spice
Method:Preheat oven to 160 degrees celsius. Grease a medium loaf
tin and keep ready.
Cream the butter and sugar together in a large bowl until light
and fluffy. Add eggs one at a time, beating until well combined.
Peel, mash and add bananas to the creamed mixture. Then
add the pecan nuts and beat together.
Sift together flour, baking powder and spice and fold into the
banana mix. Spoon into the tin and bake for about 40 mins or
until a skewer inserted into middle comes out clean.
Cool and Remove from tin. Serve as a tea bread with cream
cheese/ jam or as a dessert with whipped cream.
Ayesha
Banana Crispy Ingredients:
• 2 raw bananas
• 2 tsp of red chilly powder
• ½ tsp of turmeric powder
• 1 pinch of asafetida
• 1 tsp of coriander powder
• 2 tsp of gramflour (besan)
• 1 tsp of suji (semolina)
• 1 tsp of ginger garlic paste
• ½ tsp of green chilly paste
• ½ cup of coriander leaves
• 1 lemon juice
• Salt to taste, oil to fry
Method:Remove banana peels and cut banana into half and again
cut (long) into medium slice, add chilly powder, turmeric pow-
der, asafetida, coriander powder, ginger-garlic-green chilly
paste, salt, lemon juice and coriander leaves and marinate
it for 15-20 minutes.
Mix gram-flour and suji together. Add a pinch of salt to it.
Take a pan and pour some oil to shallow fry. Take a mari-
nated slice banana coat it with the above mixture and shallow
fry 2-3 slice and serve hot.
Namrata Tawde
Banana Spice CakeIngredients:
• 2¾ cups Sifted flour
• 2 teaspoon Baking powder
• 1 teaspoon Baking soda
• 1 teaspoon Salt
• ¼ teaspoon Cloves
• 1½ teaspoon Cinnamon
• ¾ teaspoon Nutmeg
• 2/3 cups Shortening
• 1 1/3 cups Sugar
• 2 Eggs, well beaten
• 1 2/3 cups Mashed bananas
• 2 teaspoon Vanilla
Method:Sift flour, baking powder, soda, salt and spices together
three times.
Cream shortening with sugar until fluffy.
Add eggs and beat thoroughly.
Add sifted dry ingredients and bananas alternately in small amounts, beating well after each addition.
Stir in vanilla.
Pour into greased pans and bake in a 350 degree oven for
35 minutes
Mir Afroze Ali
Banana Berry ginger CrunchIngredients:
• 5 bananas
• 350 gms frozen or fresh raspberries
• 250 gms ginger biscuits
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• 140 gms demerara sugar
• 140 gms butter melted
Method:Heat oven to 160C/gas 4. Thickly slice the
bananas into a wide, shallow 20cm circular
dish. Scatter the raspberries over the top.
Crush the biscuits until reduced to crumbs.
Put the crumbs into a saucepan. Stir in the
sugar, then the butter, making sure all the
crumbs are well coated. Scatter evenly over
the fruit.
Bake for 20-25 mins, until just beginning
to colour. Leave to stand for at least 10 mins
for the topping to crisp up.
Serve with cream or custard.
Tejas K
Egg-Banana PancakesIngredients:
•1 cup all-purpose flour
•1 tablespoon white sugar
• 2 teaspoons baking powder
•1/4 teaspoon salt
•1 egg, beaten
• 1 cup milk
•2 tablespoons vegetable oil
•2 ripe bananas, mashed
• 2 shakes of cinnamon
•1/2 teaspoon pure vanilla extract
Method:Combine flour, white sugar, baking powder,
cinnamon and salt. In a separate bowl, mix
together egg, milk, vegetable oil, vanilla and
bananas.
Stir flour mixture into banana mixture; .
Heat a lightly oiled griddle or frying pan
over medium high heat. Pour or scoop the
batter onto the griddle, using approximately
1/3 cup for each pancake. Cook until pan-
cakes are golden brown on both sides; serve
hot.
Vijayalakshmi.K
WINNER
Banana-Coco GranitaIngredients:
• 1 fresh young Coconut
• 250 gms ripe Banana
• 1 drop of Banana essence
• 200 gms White Sugar
• 1 tbsp Lemon juice
• Lemon zest from one lemon
• Mint leaves to garnish
Method: Make an incision from the coconut, take out the juice
and pour in a blender.
Cut into half the husk and scrape the coconut meat.
Cut banana into small slices and add coconut meat,
lemon zest, lemon juice, sugar, and finally banana essence.
Blend, transfer into a pan and bring to boil. Strain the
mixture and transfer in a container and keep for one hour
and half in a freezer.
Using a fork scrape the Granita and keep in a glass and
garnish with leaves.
Marietta Pueda
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Located on the ground level of the Al Maha Twin Tower, West Bay,
Spice Boat will open doors to public on January 11. The multi-cuisine res-taurant can accommodate 70 people indoor and another 120 in the open air dining area.
Indian actress Mallika Sukumaran and her sons, actors, Indrajith and Prithviraj are promoters of this fine dining restaurant.
Spice Boat will serve Indian, Mexican and Italian delicacies. The Peninsula
FROM LEFT: Sreekanth Manikoth, Vice chairman, COO, Spice Boat, Supriya Prithviraj, Prithviraj Sukumaran, Director, Spice Boat, Sheikh Ahmad Ali Faleh Naser Al Thani, Chief Patron, Spice Boat, Indrajith Sukumaran, Director, Spice Boat, Mallika Sukumaran, Executive Chairman and CEO, Spice Boat, and Poornima Indrajith at a press conference to announce the launch of Spice Boat, a multi-cusine restaurant, at Al Maha Twin Tower, West Bay.
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11FOOD
By Joe Yonan
I’ll cook, you clean. That’s something single folks don’t get to say unless they’re hanging out with friends. When the sole beneficiary of your
kitchen time is looking back at you in the mirror, you become cook and dishwasher in one.
This double duty can affect your appe-tite. Not your appetite for good food, but your appetite for recipes that require you to use this pan and that pot and that dish, recipes that make you think too much about the cleanup part and not enough about the cooking — and eating — part. And that’s before you’ve even so much as reached for a cutting board.
I’m guilty of writing those recipes from time to time. I get excited about a tech-nique or a combination, and one pan leads to another. Even the simplest of dishes, such as pasta with a quick pan sauce, can violate the one-pot rule. At least the stock-pot I boiled the pasta in usually needs little more than a good rinsing afterward. Some of my favourite dishes, though, are far more streamlined. Stir-fries, soups, sand-wiches, salads and pizza typically use just one cooking implement — if that. And then there are the single-pan dishes that seem much more complex than they really are.
Which brings me to paella. I can hear the cries already: Paella for one? Blasphemy! “Paella is a sociable dish,” writes Alberto Herraiz in a cookbook called, simply, Paella (Phaidon, 2011). And indeed, exhibition-size paellas abound; Jose Andres and his Jaleo team make an annual appearance at a DC market, among other places, to make paella for, oh, 300 or so of their closest friends. It involves tubs of chicken, bushels of vegetables, gallons of stock, bag upon bag of short-grain rice and an oar-size stirrer.
When my sister and I travelled to Spain almost a decade ago, we made a pilgrim-age to the birthplace of paella. There, we tasted an iconic iteration of it in a seaside restaurant outside the city. The standard offering served two. Just two. As Spanish cooking authority Penelope Casas writes in Paella! (Holt, 1999), “Although it makes a splendid party dish (for which most of the preparation can be done in advance), it is just as appropriate for quiet nights at home.”
Hear, hear. The day after we tasted that revelatory paella in Valencia — the pan was bigger around than I had expected, the rice shallower (and crispy on the bot-tom), the other ingredients sparser — we bought carbon-steel paella pans outside the city’s fabulous Mercado Central. Since then, I’ve made paella for dinner parties at least a few times a year for six or eight guests, not 300. But I also like to go to the other extreme. Paella may be sociable, but sometimes I’m not, so I make paella for one. It’s satisfaction, not precision, I’m after. Paella delivers, especially for a rice fiend like myself.
Once I figured out the right amounts, everything else fell into place: one-third cup of Bomba, Calasparra or Arborio rice;
a cup of seafood or vegetable broth, usually of my own making. The technique is the same as for the larger paellas.
In some ways, paella has more in com-mon with risotto than with most baked rice dishes, such as pilafs. You build flavour by sauteing garlic, onion (or, in single-serving style, shallots) and a spice such as Spanish smoked paprika in olive oil, then you coat the rice in this mixture, helping seal it so it doesn’t leak starch and get mushy. The short-grain rice slowly swells as it absorbs the broth on the stove top, never covered, but rather than constantly stirring and gradually adding broth, you pour in all the hot liquid at once and occasionally swirl the pan as the paella gently bubbles. You finish it in the oven, still uncovered, then cover with foil only once it’s out, letting the rice finish cooking as the paella rests and cools. To get that crispy layer on the bottom, you put it back on the stove top for a final couple of minutes.
My favourite personal paella for a while used squid, scallions and cherry tomatoes. Now that I’m eating a mostly vegetarian diet, it has been helpful to remember that in Spain, paella includes all manner of ingredients. What unites them is the rice and the pan.
I flipped through Paella! and Paella and found ideas in both. Herraiz’s book, which has a nifty cover made to look and feel like the cloth bag that traditional Bomba rice is sold in, has very few vegetarian recipes. But I did see a mullet and roast pumpkin paella that inspired me to use small cubes of butternut squash, cooking them in the rice instead of roasting them separately. Casas’ book has a take on a simple vegetar-ian paella that features spinach, chickpeas and pine nuts; I simplified it even further and used the very non-Spanish flavour of Madras curry instead of my beloved smoked paprika. Traditionalists would be horrified, but Herraiz is not one of them; his book, in fact, includes a recipe for a “Return to India” paella that uses not just curry powder, but tamarind paste and coconut milk. Perhaps I could be forgiven.
One thing most Spaniards would prob-ably not forgive is my choice to make my personal paellas in a small steel pan I bought in Paris. It’s not considered techni-cally correct to refer to any dish as paella, in fact, if it’s made in anything but that traditional, shallow pan. The word, like a Moroccan tagine, refers to both the pan and the dish. But my paella pan is too big for a single-serving approach, so I and the Spaniards are just going to have to agree to disagree.
Or so I thought. My paella pan is 13 inches in diameter, making it appropri-ate for four or six. The paella for two we ate in Valencia came in a 10-inch pan. I’ve always assumed that was the small-est size available. But recently I logged on to LaTienda.com, a favourite source of all things Spanish, and noticed that I was wrong. There, for just under $13, was a carbon-steel paella pan measuring just under eight inches, designed to serve one. I clicked, I bought and I felt blasphemous no longer. WP-Bloomberg
Spinach and Chickpea Paella
This is a hearty portion, so it can serve two with
the addition of a salad.
Ingredients
• 1 cup homemade or no-salt-added vegetable broth
Kosher or sea salt
• 1 tablespoon pine nuts
• 2 teaspoons extra-virgin olive oil
• 1/2 teaspoon Madras curry powder
• 1 large or 2 small shallot lobes, thinly sliced
• 2 cloves garlic, thinly sliced
• 1/3 cup uncooked arborio, bomba or other
short- grain rice
• 1 cup (about 2 ounces) packed baby spinach
leaves, chopped
• 1/2 cup cooked chickpeas, drained (or if
canned, use no-salt-added, drained
and rinsed)
• 2 tablespoons roasted red peppers, cut into strips
Method:
Preheat the oven to 400 degrees.
Combine the broth and salt to taste in a small
saucepan over medium heat until barely bubbling
at the edges; reduce the heat to very low and cover.
(Or mix the broth and salt in a microwave-safe glass
measuring cup, microwave on HIGH until boiling,
about 1 minute, and cover to keep hot.)
Sprinkle the pine nuts into a small (8-inch)
cast-iron or other heavy, ovenproof skillet over
medium heat. Cook, shaking the pan frequently to
toss the pine nuts, until they are brown and fragrant,
a few minutes. Immediately transfer them to a small
plate so they don’t continue cooking and burn.
Return the skillet to medium heat and pour in the
oil. Once the oil is hot enough to shimmer, sprinkle
in the curry powder and let it sizzle and bloom for
a few seconds, then add the shallot and garlic and
saute until tender, a few minutes. Add the rice and
cook, stirring, for another minute or two, until the
rice grains are well coated. Add the spinach and
chickpeas and cook, stirring, until the spinach wilts,
a minute or two.
Pour in the hot broth and bring to a low boil.
Reduce the heat to medium-low so the liquid is
gently bubbling. Taste the liquid and add salt as
needed, then cook, swirling the pan occasionally to
keep the rice hydrated, until the rice has swelled and
absorbed much but not all of the liquid (it should be
slightly soupy), 8 to 10 minutes.
Scatter the red pepper strips on top of the paella.
Transfer to the oven and bake, uncovered, until the
rice is al dente, or mostly tender but with a little
resistance at the center of the grain, about 10 min-
utes. Remove from the oven, cover with a lid or
aluminum foil, and let it sit for about 5 minutes.
Uncover and return it to the stovetop over medium-
high heat and cook for 2 minutes, to brown and crisp
the bottom. Scatter the toasted pine nuts on top.
Spoon the paella out onto a plate, or eat it from
the pan.
It never hurts to have a plan for a single pan
PLUS | TUESDAY 25 DECEMBER 2012
PLUS | TUESDAY 25 DECEMBER 2012 TECHNOLOGY12
By Terence Chea
Engineer Dallas Goecker attends meetings, jokes with colleagues and roams the office building just like other employees at his company in Silicon Valley.
But Goecker isn’t in California. He’s more than 2,300 miles away, working at home in Seymour, Indiana.
It’s all made possible by the Beam — a mobile video-conferencing machine that he can drive around the Palo Alto offices and workshops of Suitable Technologies. The 5-foot-tall device, topped with a large video screen, gives him a physical presence that makes him and his colleagues feel like he’s actually there.
“This gives you that casual interaction that you’re used to at work,” Goecker said, speaking on a Beam. “I’m sitting in my desk area with everybody else. I’m part of their conversations and their socialising.”
Suitable Technologies, which makes the Beam, is now one of more than a dozen companies that sell so-called telepresence robots. These remote-controlled machines are equipped with video cameras, speakers, microphones and wheels that allow users to see, hear, talk and “walk” in faraway locations.
More and more employees are working remotely, thanks to computers, smartphones, email, instant messaging and video-conferencing. But those tech-nologies are no substitute for actually being in the office, where casual face-to-face conversations allow for easy collaboration and camaraderie.
Telepresence-robot makers are trying to bridge that gap with wheeled machines — controlled over wireless Internet connections — that give remote workers a physical presence in the workplace.
These robotic stand-ins are still a long way from going mainstream, with only a small number of organisations starting to use them. The machines can be expensive, difficult to navigate or even get stuck if they venture into areas with poor Internet connectivity. Stairs can be lethal, and non-techies might find them too strange to use regularly.
“There are still a lot of questions, but I think the potential is really great,” said Pamela Hinds, co-director of Stanford University’s Center on Work, Technology, & Organization. “I don’t think face-to-face is going away, but the question is, how much face-to-face can be replaced by this technology?”
Technology watchers say these machines — some-times called remote presence devices — could be used for many purposes. They could let managers inspect
overseas factories, salespeople greet store custom-ers, family members check on elderly relatives or art lovers tour foreign museums.
Some physicians are already seeing patients in remote hospitals with the RP-VITA robot co-devel-oped by Santa-Barbara, California,-based InTouch Health and iRobot, the Bedford, Massachusetts-based maker of the Roomba vacuum.
The global market for telepresence robots is projected to reach $13bn by 2017, said Philip Solis, research director for emerging technologies at ABI Research.
The robots have attracted the attention of Russian venture capi-talist Dimitry Grishin, who runs a $25m fund that invests in early-stage robotics companies.
“It’s difficult to predict how big it will be, but I definitely see a lot of opportunity,” Grishin said. “Eventually it can be in each home and each office.”
His Grishin Robotics fund recently invested $250,000 in a startup called Double Robotics. The Sunnyvale, California,-company started selling a Segway-like device called the Double that holds an Apple iPad, which has a built-in video-conferencing system called FaceTime. The Double can be controlled remotely from an iPad or iPhone.
So far, Double Robotics has sold more than 800 units that cost $1,999 each, said co-founder Mark DeVidts.
The Beam got its start as a side project at Willow Garage, a robot-ics company in Menlo Park where Goecker worked as an engineer.
A few years ago, he moved back to his native Indiana to raise his family, but he found it difficult to collaborate with engineering colleagues using existing video-conferencing systems.
“I was struggling with really being part of the team,” Goecker said. “They were doing all sorts of wonderful things with robotics. It was hard for me to participate.”
So Goecker and his colleagues created their own telepresence robot. The result: the Beam and a new company to develop and market it.
At $16,000 each, the Beam isn’t cheap. But Suitable Technologies says it was designed with features that make “pilots” and “locals” feel the remote worker is physically in the room: powerful speakers, highly sen-sitive microphones and robust wireless connectivity.
The company began shipping Beams last month, mostly to tech companies with widely dispersed engi-neering teams, officials said.
“Being there in person is really complicated — commuting there, flying there, all the different ways people have to get there. Beam allows you to be there without all that hassle,” said CEO Scott Hassan, beaming in from his office at Willow Garage in nearby Menlo Park.
Not surprisingly, Suitable Technologies has fully embraced the Beam as a workplace tool. On any given day, up to half of its 25 employees “beam” into work, with employees on Beams sitting next to their flesh-and-blood colleagues and even joining them for lunch in the cafeteria.
Software engineer Josh Faust beams in daily from Hawaii, where he moved to surf, and plans to spend the winter hitting the slopes in Lake Tahoe. He can’t play pingpong or eat the free, catered lunches in Palo Alto, but he otherwise feels like he’s part of the team.
“I’m trying to figure out where exactly I want to live. This allows me to do that without any of the instability of trying to find a different job,” Faust said, speaking on a Beam from Kaanapali, Hawaii. “It’s pretty amazing.” AP
Telepresence robots letemployees ‘beam’ into work
Bo Preising, Suitable Technologies’ vice president of engineering, talks with fellow engineers, Josh Faust, center on screen, and Josh Tyler, on screen at right, both using a Beam remote presence system in Palo Alto, California.
Senior software engineer, Josh Faust, seen on screen, navigates his com-pany’s office using a Beam remote presence system.
COMICS & MORE 13
Hoy en la HistoriaDecember 25, 1818
1926: Emperor Hirohito acceded to the throne of Japan1989: Romanian dictator Nicolae Ceausescu and his wife were executed for genocide after a secret trial 1990: British ScientistTim Berners-Lee made the first internet communication via the World Wide Web 1991: The Soviet Union officially ceased to exist with the resignation of President Mikhail Gorbachev
The Christmas carol Silent Night, now translated into over 140 languages, was sung for the first time at the Church of Saint Nikolaus in Oberndorf, Austria
Picture: Getty Images © GRAPHIC NEWS
ALL IN THE MIND 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.
Baby Blues Jerry Scott and Rick Kirkman
Zits Jerry Scott and Jim Borgman
Hagar The Horrible Chris Browne
HOW TO USE DEMONSTRATIVE ADJECTIVES IN QUESTIONS:
Hal, Hazha Kitabuka?Na’am, Hazha Kitabee
La,Hazha,Mush kitabi
Hal ,Hazhi’hi sayyaratuki?
Hal zhalika Baituka? = = = = = =
Hal Tilka Sayyaratuki? = = = = = =
GENERAL QUESTIONS WITH DEMONSTRATIVE ADJECTIVES: Man Hazha? Man hazhi’hi? Who is this?
Ma hazha? Ma hazhi’hi? What is this?
Liman Hazha al kitab?Liman Hzhi’hi as’sayyara
Whose book /car is this?
Hal anta.Fee..Doha?Hal anti..Fee Qatar..?
Are you in Doha/ Qatar?
Hal Huwa......? Hal Hiy’ya.....?
Remark : we can ask about many things in this way, for example, adjectives , nationalities, places: fee, Huna, Hunak, /In, here, there,.. etc.
LEARNARABIC
PLUS | TUESDAY 25 DECEMBER 2012
PLUS | TUESDAY 25 DECEMBER 2012
HYPER SUDOKU
CROSS WORD
CROSSWORDS
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.
ACROSS 1 Patriot Allen with the
Green Mountain Boys 6 Things “bursting in air”11 With 17-Across, value
of some opinions14 Pageant headgear15 Sans-serif typeface16 Many, many years17 See 11-Across18 *Some reddish-orange
caviar20 Work unit21 Silent performer22 Renders null23 *Major road27 Steve of “The Office”28 Prisoner31 *Nancy Pelosi was the
first person ever to have this title in Congress
35 Hypothetical cases38 French king39 Driver’s licenses and
such, in brief40 *Parliamentary
procedure47 Big supermarket chain
48 See 26-Down52 February occasion,
some of whose honorees can be found in the answers to the five starred clues
56 Four straight wins to start the World Series, e.g.
58 Tidy59 Ash holder60 *Really hunger for62 Had title to64 Buckeyes’ sch.65 Snoozed66 World, in Italian67 Mind-reading skill, for
short68 Part of the body above
the waist69 Show of overwhelming
love
DOWN 1 “And so on, and so on” 2 ___ del Fuego 3 Where airplanes are
repaired
4 “A work of ___ is a confession”: Camus
5 “If I Ruled the World” rapper
6 Fundamental 7 Commercial suffix akin
to “à go-go” 8 Distance runner 9 Blast sound10 Ljubljana dweller11 Dish marinated in
sweetened soy sauce12 Lumber13 Low bills19 “___ Rae” (Sally Field
film)21 Not very spicy24 Not masc.25 State south of Ga.26 With 48-Across,
leader of the House of Representatives, 1977-87
29 Turner who founded CNN
30 Hesitant sounds32 Dog sound33 Cow sound
34 Francis Drake, Isaac Newton or Mix-a-Lot
35 Needle36 PETA target37 What a ramp does41 White-feathered wader42 Purposely ignore43 Surgery sites, for short44 Word before know and
care45 Suffix with differ46 Hi-___ monitor49 “No idea”
50 Texas city on the Rio Grande
51 The “L” of L.B.J.53 Bury54 Areas explored by
submarines55 Keep one’s ___ the
ground56 ___ gin fizz57 Scaredy-cat61 ___-Jo (’88 Olympics
track star)62 Meditation sounds63 “Holy moly!”
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13
14 15 16
17 18 19
20 21 22
23 24 25 26
27 28 29 30
31 32 33 34
35 36 37 38 39
40 41 42 43 44 45 46
47 48 49 50 51
52 53 54 55
56 57 58 59
60 61 62 63
64 65 66
67 68 69
R O A S T E R S T U S H E SO N T H E L A M I N L O V EC A L A M I N E M A R L E EO P A P A S T I E S D A SC A S C O H A I R O O R TO R T H L O N I W A N D A
A G O R A N A T T E RS W A P O U T S E R M O N ST I G E R S T H E M EA S N A P A R O D A G O GT H O U I M U S I L O N AE B S R H Y T H M S R B IP O T S I E H O O L I G A NE N I G M A I N R E P O S EN E C T A R S E A S O N E D
How 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 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.
YESTERDAY’S ANSWER
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EASY SUDOKUEasy Sudoku PuzzlesPlace a digit from 1 to 9 in each empty cell so everyrow, every column and every 3x3 box contains allthe digits 1 to 9.
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Magida El Roumi ConcertWhen: 10 Jan 2013, 8pm - 11pmWHERE: Katara Amphitheater WHAT: Internationally renowned Lebanese singer Magida El Roumi will perform a unique concert in Katara’s Amphitheater, singing from her new album and a bouquet of her gold hits.
Yan Pei-Ming“Painting the history”When: 9am-8pm, Till Jan 12, 2013Friday 3pm to 9pmWHERE: QMA Gallery, Bldg 10 WHAT: Curated by Francesco Bonami, this exhibition profiles three types of history-makers and highlights the power of painting as a medium for recording historical events. Free entry
Forever NowWhen: Till March 31, 2013; 11am-6pmWHERE: Mathaf: Arab Museum of Modern Art WHAT: Forever Now proposes new readings based on the works of five artists from Mathaf’s permanent collection. This exhibition unpacks new narratives that posit a unique understanding of five diverse artists: Fahrelnissa Zeid, Jewad Selim, Saliba Douaihy, Salim Al–Dabbagh and Ahmed Cherkaoui. Free entry
Art of Travel WHEN: Till Feb 11, 2013(Sun, Mon, Wed: 10:30-5:30; Tue: closed; Thu, Sat: 12noon-8pm; Fri: 2pm-8pm)WHERE: Al Riwaq Hall next to the Museum of Islamic Art WHAT: A watercolour album dated 1590 was commissioned by Bartholomäus Schachman, mayor of Gdansk in 1604. It documents what he saw during his travels through the Ottoman Empire in 1588-89, depicting costumes and people, scenes of everyday life, festivals and ceremonies. The pages of the album are on display along with related artworks and documents providing visitors with a fascinating and vivid view back in time to the 16th century. Entry: Children Free, adults QR:25
Mathaf Student ArtExhibition: Transform When: Till Jan 13, 11am - 6pmWhere: Mathaf, Museum of Modern Art What: Exhibition showcases students’ work, ranging from installations, videos, paintings and mixed media sculptures to photographs.
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