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Tiger Shroff pays tribute to MJ in ‘Munna Michael’
MARKETPLACE | 3 LAW | 7 ENTERTAINMENT | 11
Q-Tickets wins ‘Fastest Growing Company of
the Year’ award
New rules for Residence Permit
transfers
www.thepeninsulaqatar.com
TUESDAY 4 OCTOBER 2016 @peninsulaqatar @peninsula_qatarEmail: [email protected] thepeninsulaqatar
11
A discovery about sustainability
P | 4-5
The Greater World Community’s off-the-grid properties are the only Earthship Biotecture homes available for sleepovers. The welcome at Earthship is much more elaborate - and academic - than at traditional lodgings. And Earthships appear in all 50 states in the US and more than 20 countries.
| 03TUESDAY 4 OCTOBER 2016
CAMPUS / MARKETPLACE
Q-Tickets wins ‘Fastest Grow-
ing Company of the Year’
award At Arabian Business
Awards 2016, The judging
panel praised the success of Q-Tick-
ets as Qatar’s local ticketing solution
provider.
Q-Tickets, a world class ticketing
solution company based in Doha, and
www.Q-tickets.com, a web based tick-
eting platform, is fully owned and op-
erated by Q-Tickets W.L.L under the
leadership of Founder & Manging Di-
rector Dr. Tejinder Singh, who is also
recognised as “Entrepreneur of the
Year 2016” by Arabian Business for
the glittering successes of his busi-
nesses in Qatar.
“We are now pleased to announce
that Arabian Business has named Q
Tickets (www.Q-tickets.com) as the
“Fastest Growing Company of the Year”
at the Arabian Business Qatar Awards
2016,” said Dr Tejinder Singh, Found-
er & Manging Director, of Q Tickets
(www.Q-Tickets.com).
The Arabian Business Qatar
Awards reward the most success-
ful and innovative companies and in-
dividuals in Qatar and represent the
hallmark of success for individuals
and companies. Q Tickets (www.Q-
tickets.com ) captured the “Fastest
Growing Company of the Year” prize
after a highly competitive selection
process, which included submissions
from the top companies in Qatar. Q-
tickets visionary leadership, innova-
tive organizational strategies and a
creative team has set the brand apart
from the other candidates and posi-
tioned them as the best in class tick-
eting solutions in the nation.
In bestowing the organization
with this extraordinary honour, the
judging panel praised Q-Tickets agility
adaptability and the level of engage-
ment within the local market, which
played a pivotal role in expansions
within Qatar.
“We are both humbled and proud
to have been presented with the
‘Fastest Growing company of the Year’
distinction at the Arabian Business
Qatar Awards 2016. This esteemed
recognition showcases our vision of
becoming the single largest platform
for movies, events, sports and tour-
ism in Qatar.Over the years, we have
worked with various partners local
and international for making various
partnership success stories. We have
engaged within the scope of provid-
ing world class ticketing solutions and
flared best in class as a partner.” said
Dr. Singh.
Q-Tickets wins ‘Fastest Growing Company of the Year’ award
Siemens and QF team up to develop national talentS
eeking to inspire and devel-
op promising Qatari talent, the
second edition of a training
and knowledge transfer pro-
gramme has commenced at Siemens
in Qatar.
The ‘Qatar Foundation and Siemens
Talent Training Program’, a collabora-
tive effort between Siemens and Qa-
tar Foundation for Education, Science
and Community Development (QF), will
see anumber ofpromising QF employ-
ees participate in the comprehensive
internship programme.
Building on the success of the first
edition, the six-month internship offers
participants unparalleled exposure to
some of the key projects beingexecut-
ed by Siemens in Qatar, focusing on
electrification, automation and digitali-
sation. The participants, including Ab-
dulla Al Fadala, Shaikha Khalifa Al Sow-
idi, Abdulwahab Al Yousef and Mooza
Al Sowaidi, will receive comprehensive
training from mentors and will shad-
ow senior managers throughout their
internships. This will give them the
unique opportunity to learn first-hand
about the latest technologies from Sie-
mens and the inner workings of a mul-
tinational corporation, while also con-
tributing to significant projects that
directly support the Qatar National Vi-
sion 2030.
“It’s impressive to witness the com-
mitment and dedication of the interns.
They bring to the table valuable contri-
butions to some of our major projects
and deliver strong results,” said Diet-
mar Siersdorfer, CEO of Siemens in the
Middle East and UAE. “This collabora-
tion between QF and Siemens epit-
omises how a company like ours can
contribute to skills transfer, while also
learning from the interns’ local knowl-
edge and unique insights.”
Mohammed Abdulaziz Al Naimi,
Chief Operations Officer, QF, added:
“The ‘Qatar Foundation and Siemens
Talent Training Program’ reflects our
wider vision to empower our nation’s
greatest asset; its people. We, along-
side Siemens, are delighted to provide
this six-month internship for our em-
ployees, as training within the work-
place offers an excellent opportuni-
ty for developing the skills and knowl-
edge necessary to build a sustainable
economy.”
Participant Shaikha Khalifa Al Sow-
idiis involved in multiple projects and
plays an important role within the Hu-
man Resources team. Al Sowidi is re-
sponsible for helping introduce Siemens
to the youth in Qatarby driving the com-
pany’s collaboration with non-profit or-
ganisations dedicated to educating local
youth. Her favourite aspect of working
at Siemens is “the innovation-driven en-
ergy and friendly working environment”.
COVER STORY
04 | TUESDAY 4 OCTOBER 2016
A discovery about sustainability in the New Mexico desert
By Andrea Sachs
The Washington Post
I have never felt so righteous about
flushing. At most eco-lodgings, I
experience a pinch of guilt over
pressing the handle, worried that
I am loosening the stopper on
our finite water reserves. That’s not
the case at the Greater World Commu-
nity near Taos, N.M. The world’s larg-
est off-the-grid subdivision considers
the toilet a friend of Mother Earth. The
blackwater from the bowl hydrates the
yards of its 70 residences, including
several rental properties available to
overnight visitors. If you see a tropical
bloom in the New Mexico desert, you
can lay your thank-you flowers before
the porcelain throne.
“It’s just simple homesteading stuff,”
said Ryan Halpin, who works in Earth-
ship Biotecture’s rental division and
is building a Bachelorship for himself.
“It’s a conscientious lifestyle.”
Earthship Biotecture is a supermod-
el of sustainable living. The construc-
tion firm’s houses are based on the en-
vironmental innovations and Seussian
designs of American architect Michael
Reynolds. The oft-called Garbage War-
rior, who built his first Earthship home
in 1988, discovered his calling on the
side of the road. A glint of trash led to
an of-this-world experience.
“Using the empty cans as building
materials was a flash of inspiration for
everything that later followed,” said
Kirsten Jacobsen, Earthship’s educa-
tion director.
Earthships appear in all 50 states
and more than 20 countries. The
homes are built for a wide spectrum
of individuals and environments, such
as a family residence in Guatemala, an
emergency shelter in post-earthquake
Haiti and a planned resort on an envi-
ronmentally fragile island in Indonesia.
The Taos-area community is the only
site in the world that is open for tours
and available for sleepovers. In July, I
booked an eco-pad for the night out of
curiosity - and to be prepared in case
Cormac McCarthy’s “The Road” turns
out to be a work of nonfiction.
“These are the ways people are go-
ing to have to live in the future,” said
Kirsten, who owns an Earthship styled
after a Manhattan loft.
The structures embody a string of
self-hyphenates: -sufficient, -reliant,
-sustaining, -empowering. (The “ship”
in the company’s name represents
the concept of autonomy.) Reynolds’s
blueprints rely heavily on nature’s re-
sources and humankind’s drinking and
driving habits. He uses discarded tyres
packed with dirt for the exterior walls
and recycled bottles and cans for the
interior structures.
Buried cisterns collect melted
snow and rain; the filtered water flows
through sinks in the bathroom and
kitchen. Instead of air conditioning,
the walls absorb the heat, and knee-
high vents expel cool air from subter-
ranean depths. In the winter, the struc-
ture emits the stored toastiness like a
space heater. No doubt, a weatherman
reporting from inside the Taos commu-
nity would grow bored: Today, like yes-
terday, and tomorrow, will be a pleas-
ant 72 degrees.
“It has the stability of a cave,” Kirst-
en said. “You are never going to freeze
or die from heat.”
From what had I read and heard,
I could survive an apocalypse inside
my one-bedroom fortress, which was
named Lemuria. (The inventory chang-
es as the homes are sold and built; five
houses are available for rent.) In ad-
dition to the cord-cutting power and
self-sustaining water supply, each
abode contains its own greenhouse. I
could forage for figs, bananas, pine-
apple, broccoli, rosemary and chives
in my fluffy socks. Or if the zombies
weren’t looking, I could dash over to
my neighbour’s place for supper. The
Phoenix, a three-bedroom that sleeps
six, dedicates one-third of its space
to food production. Its tropical jungle
supports parakeets and cockatiels (not
for consumption) and a garden burst-
ing with fruits and vegetables, includ-
ing grapes, artichokes, lemons, melons,
kale, squash, hot peppers and mush-
rooms that cling to a log. Chickens cluck
around the back yard, which features a
sunken den with a grill for coop-to-ke-
bob meals. An indoor fishpond once
contained a robust stock of tilapia be-
fore a group of guests threw a fish fry.
Now, the littlest survivors swim laps
with koi. For the dairy course, the staff
is considering resident goats.
Earthship Biotecture is a supermodel of sustainable living. The construction firm’s houses are based on the environmental innovations and Seussian designs of American architect Michael Reynolds. The oft-called Garbage Warrior, who built his first Earthship home in 1988, discovered his calling on the side of the road. A glint of trash led to an of-this-world experience.
COVER STORY
| 05TUESDAY 4 OCTOBER 2016
“You are the power company, the
water company, the sewage-treat-
ment plant and the food production,”
Ryan said. “You control a lot of your
life, instead of relying on others.”
From the road, Earthship Biotec-
ture resembles Tatooine, with a few
alterations: lizards instead of krayt
dragons, for instance, and Priuses in
place of Jawa sandcrawlers. Most of
the adobe houses are built low and
are camouflaged by the 630 acres of
khaki-coloured terrain.
Check-in is between 2:30 pm and
4 pm. I was punctual partly out of fru-
gality: The confirmation letter warns
late arrivals of a possible $20 hourly
charge. When I drove up, several peo-
ple were standing on the roof of the
visitors’ centre, inspecting the solar
panels. I parked by a sign informing
guests that the community is drone-
free. On my way into the visitors’ cent-
er, I passed tomato and melon plants
suspended from buckets. Netting cov-
ered several pieces of heavy fruit, pro-
tecting guests’ toes. Inside, a gallery
with a film, slide show and informa-
tional panels explained Earthship’s
practices and principles. The lessons
don’t stop at the bathroom door; a
sign informs loo-goers that the water
is reused four times.
The visitors’ centre is part of a
complex of buildings that includes an
academy for students and the Earth-
ship Village Ecologies project, a sus-
tainable testing site where worker-
bee interns live and learn.
Drop-in visitors pay $7 for a self-
guided tour of the public areas; as a
renter, I could come and go for free. I
met the bearded and blue-eyed Ry-
an inside the center and followed the
Wisconsin native in his car. We passed
two entrances to the community be-
fore turning onto a bumpy unmarked
road. I would need glow-in-the-dark
bread crumbs to find my way home
again.
The welcome at Earthship is much
more elaborate — and academ-
ic — than at traditional lodgings. Ryan
started his overview by charging up a
dirt incline to the roof, where he point-
ed out the solar panels and water-cap-
turing system. Back on crusty ground,
we entered the 1,400-square-foot
house through a side door surround-
ed by the bottoms of beer and wine
bottles. The colourful circles shim-
mered like a sea glass. I stepped into a
lush garden lining the windowed hall-
way and started to sweat in the hu-
midity. Ryan yanked on a rope, open-
ing a skylight and ushering in fresh air.
I trailed Ryan from kitchen to liv-
ing room to laundry room (off-limits
to guests) to bedroom to bathroom.
Along the way, he knelt by various
mystery boxes and strange cabinets,
explaining the operating systems. I
tried to grasp the sustainable jargon
— greywater planter cell, power-organ-
ising module, thermal mass — but I
eventually gave my mind a hall pass
to wander. After Ryan left, however,
I realised how much I had retained.
I remembered which faucets were
for drinking and which ones were for
washing, and how to turn on the Ap-
ple TV. I knew better than to search for
the coffeepot, iron and blow dryer, be-
cause they didn’t exist: traditional ho-
tel amenities are power hogs. When
I turned on the faucet, I recognised
the groaning noise as the greywater
pump, not the angry remonstrations
of the God of Wastefulness. “We’re
trying to show people that they don’t
have to majorly change their lifestyle
to live like this,” Kirsten said. “It’s like a
high-end Taos hotel.”
Before settling in for the night, I
made a food run to Taos. (With no
walking dead on the horizon, I didn’t
want to poach the emergency food
supply.) After storing my groceries in
the Sun Frost fridge, I set out for a
neighbourhood stroll. The residents
are a slice of regular life: teachers, ar-
chitects, IT professionals, business-
folk. Their homes are private and well-
spaced, but by craning my neck just
so, I could be a bit nosy. I noticed whir-
ring wind generators that resembled
outsider-art sculptures and admired
entryway mosaics. One house had a
trampoline, a zero-carbon approach
to exhausting children. A house in its
infancy looked like a landfill, with piles
of bottles and tyres.
As the sky darkened, my imagina-
tion started to light up with the eyes
of snakes and coyotes. I hustled back
to Lemuria and climbed a small hill
overlooking the desert. I watched the
split screen of lightning bolts to my
right and triple rainbows on my left.
A jack rabbit hopped down my drive-
way and disappeared into the yard.
He was still there when I returned to
the house, nibbling away at the curi-
ous patch of greenery.
The night passed peacefully. I
cooked dinner on the propane stove-
top, watched Netflix and contemplat-
ed a serious life change. According to
a notebook on the coffee table, the
utility-bill-free life of Lemuria could
be mine — for $275,000. (Update: The
house sold a few weeks after my vis-
it.) I went to bed and gazed at the sil-
very stars through the southern-fac-
ing wall of slanted windows. I awak-
ened at dawn to watch the sun rise
and recharge my ship.
I had to check out by 11 am, and
the possibility of a dawdler fee pushed
me out of bed. However, before leav-
ing, I made sure to water the plants
with a flush and a rinse.
The homes are built for a wide spectrum of individuals and environments, such as a family residence in Guatemala, an emergency shelter in post-earthquake Haiti and a planned resort on an environmentally fragile island in Indonesia.
06 | TUESDAY 4 OCTOBER 2016
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Yesterday’s answer
Conceptis Sudoku: Conceptis Sudoku is
a number-placing puzzle based on a 9×9
grid. The object is to place the numbers
1 to 9 in the empty squares so that each
row, each column and each 3×3 box
contains the same number only once.
Yesterday’s answer
MEDIUM SUDOKU
ALL IN THE MIND
CROSSWORD
BRAIN TEASERS
Can you find the hidden words? They may be horizontal,vertical, diagonal, forwards or backwards.