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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.

The Peninsula

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

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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

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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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he 2

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ld is

spendin

g C

hris

tmas

in h

er n

ati

ve B

arbados

wit

h h

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.

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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.

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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

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ger

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me

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n T

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no e

nte

rs a

West

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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,

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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

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hly

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gue, gle

efu

lly s

pla

ttered v

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nce

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ibrant

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bast

ic c

olo

ur,

they a

nnounce t

hem

selv

es

brash

ly.

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la

test,

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jan

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nch

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ed,

a k

ind of

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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

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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

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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.

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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.

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Spice Boat will serve Indian, Mexican and Italian delicacies. The Peninsula

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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

14

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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