[Goanet News Bytes]Apr 23, 2005 * Could Goa have been warned about Apr 20 squall...
## # Don't just read the news...discuss it. Learn more about Goa via Goanet # # Goanet was setup in 1994 and has spent the last decade building a # # lasting Goan non-profit, volunteer-driven network in cyberspace. # # Visit the archives http://www.goanet.org/pipermail/goanet/ # # To join, write to [EMAIL PROTECTED] and ask to join Goanet. # ## [][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][] G o a n e t - N e w s B y t e s APRIL 23, 2005 DATELINE: GOA ... . ... .. ... .||.Founded in 1994 || || .| '|. '' .|| || || .|...|| || by Herman |'' || || .|' || || || || || Carneiro '. '|..|' '|..'|' .||. ||. '|...' '|.' http://www.goanet.org .|' To unsubscribe from this list, contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] If you find this ezine useful, please recommend it to your friends and others from Goa. To sign-up http://newsfromgoa.swiki.net [][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][] IN TODAY'S EZINE: Could Goa's squall (earlier described as cyclonic winds) have been predicted and thus inconvenienced citizens less? Margao's bridges. Plans for ex-CM Ravi Naik to become GPCC(I) chief? SQUALL WAS PREDICTED THREE DAYS IN ADVANCE: Herald's Neena Dayal reports from Vasco that while the rest of Goa was unprepared for the severe weather, residents of the Naval Base at Vasco were mentally prepared for the squally. According to members of the Naval Base at Vasco, the Indian Naval Meteorological Department at Vasco had issued warnings to the air station for squally weather, and the information had filtered down to the residents for such strong weather. While the Indian Naval Base did not issue an official warning, warning signs were there fore everyone to see that a severe squall was on the way. But what was shocking to the residents of the naval base was to see the met officials in Panjim on why the destructive squally winds of April 20 could not be predicted. (Herald) o MORE ON BRIDGES AROUND MARGAO: The Rawanfond bridge stands finally commissioned, but with just a month-and-half to go for the monsoons to set in, the Goa State Infrastructure Development Corporation has a task cut out to complete work on the Khareband and Mungul bridges across the River Sal -- linking the commercial capital of Goa (Margao) to Salcete's coastal belt. (H) o RAVI NAIK is expected to become Goa Pradesh Congress Committee's next president. (H) o Governor S C Jamir visits devastated port town fishing jetty. (GT) o Six persons hurt in Bicholim riot, between Sunni and Tabalic groups during two separate processions on Id-e-Milad, the birth anniversary of Prophet Mohammed. (NT) ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION seals Reis Magos hotel, after its owners, including a former minister (Parulekar) defaulted on the payment of loans. (GT) TUITIONS HAVE BECOME like tonics and vitamin supplements, an essential part of the students' curriculum to either make up for the deficiencies in the educational system or compliment it. But though many frown upon tuitions and coaching, as it ends up eating into the students' leisure time, the students themselves and parents cannot do without them, write journalist Preetu Nair of the Gomantak Times. GOA GOVERNMENT MULLS REVERTING TO ENGLISH MEDIUM IN SCHOOLS: The Education Department is undertaking, for the first time, a house-to-house comprehensive educational survey covering all the 2.9 lakh families in Goa, to commence from April 25. Education director ND Agarwal said the survey would provide inputs for improving the quality of education. It would focus on whether people are in favour of introducing English as a subject in Standard I. If a majority of parents are in favour of having English as a subject from Standard I, then we may introduce English as a subject in Marathi and Konkani schools, officials said.GT This is the first-ever educational survey to be held in Goa.(NT) - DEATHS OBITUARIES - SALVADOR DO MUNDO: Anthony Paulo Cardozo. Husband of Piedade Cardozo, father of Francisco Xavier Cardozo, father-in-law of Laurina. Grandfather of Lina, Lily, Hilary and Charles. MARGAO: Ligorio Gladstone 'Glady' Andrade. Husband of Ligia, father/in-law of Judith (St Joseph's Convent School Nagoa-Verna), Jose
[Goanet News Bytes]Goanet Reader: Goan Summer Fruits - Zambllam, Kannt'tam, Churnam ani Poddkovam!
## # Don't just read the news...discuss it. Learn more about Goa via Goanet # # Goanet was setup in 1994 and has spent the last decade building a # # lasting Goan non-profit, volunteer-driven network in cyberspace. # # Visit the archives http://www.goanet.org/pipermail/goanet/ # # To join, write to [EMAIL PROTECTED] and ask to join Goanet. # ## Goan Summer Fruits - Zambllam, Kannt'tam, Churnam ani Poddkovam! By Domnic Fernandes Anjuna/Dhahran, KSA [EMAIL PROTECTED] The summer has already begun in Goa and it reminds me of my childhood days when we ate several delicious summer fruits without spending a single paisa. Here are four of those fruits: 1) JAMBOLAN (ZAMBLLAM) The jambolan is a native to India. Seedlings grow slowly the first year, rapidly thereafter, and may reach 12 ft. in 2 years, and begin bearing in 8 to 10 years. Grafted trees bear in 4 to 7 years. No particular cultural attention is required. Organic fertilizer is applied after harvest but withheld in advance of flowering and fruiting to assure a good crop. If a tree does not bear heavily, it may be girdled or root-pruned to slow down vegetative growth. Jambolan is fast-growing, reaching full size in 40 years. It ranges up to 100 ft. in India, and it may attain a spread of around 36 ft. and a trunk diameter of 2 or 3 ft. It usually forks into multiple trunks a short distance from the ground. Sometimes, the main trunk of a Beddos (tree bearing small jambolan,) which is usually very tall and wide, has a cavity created by detachment of a branch. These cavities are used by gar (monitor lizard) as their dwellings. The pad'daii (woodpecker,) sanvor (magpie) and kir (parrot) also use the cavities to make their nests therein. The tree is wind-resistant and sometimes is closely planted in rows along roadsides as a windbreak. If topped regularly, such plantings form a dense, massive hedge. In Chinvar, Anjuna, on the way to Siolim, we have around 300-meter stretch of road covered with jambolan hedge; hence, the stretch is called Zambllinim. The bark on the lower part of the tree is rough, cracked, flaking and discolored; further up it is smooth and light-gray. The turpentine-scented evergreen leaves are opposite; oblong-oval or elliptic, blunt or tapering to a point at the apex; pinkish when young; when mature, leathery, glossy, dark-green above, lighter beneath, with conspicuous, yellowish midrib. The fruit, in clusters of just a few or 10 to 50, is oblong, often curved; ½ to 2 inches long, and usually turns from green to light-magenta, then dark-purple or nearly black as it ripens. The skin is thin, smooth, glossy, and adherent. The pulp is purple or white, very juicy, and normally encloses a single, oblong, green or brown seed, up to 1 ½ inches in length, though some fruits have 2 to 5 seeds tightly compressed within a leathery coat, and some are seedless. The fruit is usually astringent, sometimes unpalatably so, and the flavor varies from acid to fairly sweet. Zambllam is yet another Goan fruit delicacy which is abundantly available in every village. During the summer season, one can see scores of children as well as adults zamblli pondak (under a jambolan tree) either picking up fallen zambllam or using a manchi xintari with kelkem (bamboo stick with a hook at its top end) to shake a branch and loosen zambllam to fall, or a person climbs a tree and shakes a branch thus making ripe zambllam fall. If you see a young lad in a tree, he is definitely one of the local Goan boys, as Bomboikars or Goans living abroad mostly don't know how to climb a tree because they don't get such opportunities in Bomboi or abroad. Jambolan of good size and quality, having a sweet or sub-acid flavor and a minimum of astringency, are eaten raw and may be made into tarts, sauces and jam. Astringent fruits are improved in palatability by soaking them in salt water or pricking them, rubbing them with a little salt, and letting them stand for an hour. All but decidedly inferior fruits are utilized for juice which is much like grape juice. When extracting juice from cooked jambolan, it is recommended that it be allowed to drain out without squeezing the fruit and it will thus be less astringent. The white-fleshed jambolan has adequate pectin and makes a very stiff jelly unless cooking is brief. The more common purple-fleshed yields richly colored jelly but it is deficient in pectin and requires the addition of a commercial jelling agent or must be combined with pectin rich fruits such as unripe or sour guavas. Good quality jambolan juice is excellent for sherbet, syrup and squash. The latter is a bottled drink prepared by cooking the crushed fruits, pressing out the juice, combining it with sugar and water and adding citric acid and sodium benzoate as a
[Goanet News Bytes]Apr 24, 2005 * How the state (doesn't) work... Ola, Brazilian films
## # Don't just read the news...discuss it. Learn more about Goa via Goanet # # Goanet was setup in 1994 and has spent the last decade building a # # lasting Goan non-profit, volunteer-driven network in cyberspace. # # Visit the archives http://www.goanet.org/pipermail/goanet/ # # To join, write to [EMAIL PROTECTED] and ask to join Goanet. # ## [][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][] G o a n e t - N e w s B y t e s APRIL 24, 2005 DATELINE: GOA ... . ... .. ... .||.Founded in 1994 || || .| '|. '' .|| || || .|...|| || by Herman |'' || || .|' || || || || || Carneiro '. '|..|' '|..'|' .||. ||. '|...' '|.' http://www.goanet.org .|' To unsubscribe from this list, contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] If you find this ezine useful, please recommend it to your friends and others from Goa. To sign-up http://newsfromgoa.swiki.net [][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][] IN TODAY'S EZINE: Is the state functioning? Reports from the police, and Goa's hospitals. Facts from the courts, and more. Goa's second Brazilian film festival concluds in Panjim later on Sunday; it was held across four days at the Kala Academy's black box. COPS AND ROBBERS: GOA POLICE TRAINING IN THE NEW GAME Crooks and criminals have redined their modus operandi. They try to keep one step ahead of the long arm of the law. Has the Goa police honed its detection skills to cope with the new situation? Is it equipped to tackle the criminal? Though a few police officers have done well in the past, Weekender finds the picture not so rosy now. (Gomantak Times) Police officials reveal that though crime kits such as gloves have to be provided regularly to all police stations, in most of the stations there has been no supply of kits for over a year. (GT) GOA HOSPITALS RUN DRY FOR LACK OF 'SPIRIT'. Government medical facilities have no denatured spirit to even clean wounds. (H) GOA HIGH COURT STANDING ON A CRUMBLING CLIFF? Is the fate of the building of the Bombay High Court in Goa hanging on a crumbling cliff? At a time when a matter on hill-slope constructions is still pending before the bench, illegal excavations of hill slopes continue unabated, in fact right under the nose of the high court. Herald stumbled on a major hill-cutting at Cortim, which poses a severe threat to those residing below, and the High Court itself. (H) VILLAGE CULTURE THRIVING IN GOA, SAYS SHYAM BENEGAL: Noted film-maker Shyam Bengal released the book 'Kaleidoscope Goa -- A Cultural Atlas' by Dr Pandurang Phaldessai, and edited by Dr Nandkumar Kumar at a function on Saturday. (NT) CONGRESS LEADER DESHPRABHU CRIES FOUL OVER THE RIBANDAR BY-PASS PROJECT: The entire project was designed for an agency called MV Rao, which is closely associated with the former national president of the BJP. The contract was awarded by completely by-passing the Ministry of Road Transport and Highways, so that it could be assigned to the favoured agencies of MV Rao and other BJP cronies on the pretest of the Exposition, Deshprabhu charged. (H) OLA! FILMS FROM BRAZIL: Goa's second Brazilian film festival concludes on April 24 at the Black Box, with the screening of three films -- 'Hans Staden', 'City of God' and 'Celest and Estrela' at 11 am, 5 pm and 7.30 pm respectively. (NT) o Traffic cell to act tough against violators. (H) o Six-year-old girl dies of snake-bite, at Valikini sColony, Sanguem.(H) o Woman Parveen Md Adil (21) of New Vaddem commits suicide at Vasco. (NT) o Woman Mahadevi Natekar (42) missing from Zorint, Zuarinagar. (NT) o Disaster management plan mooted for South Goa. (NT) o BJP trated Digambar Kamat very badly, says Uday Bhembre. (NT) o Body of 25-year-old man found by Colva police on rail track. Suicide suspected. (NT) o Vasco roads pose risk to motorists. City roads are becoming death traps, specially for two-wheller riders. Accident rates have skyrocketed, and most affected are two-wheelers. (NT) o Garbage disposal raises a stink in Calangute. (NT) o Post-dreding survey across the Aguada Sand Bar will be underway from April 25 onwards. Officials have cautioned mariners. (NT) o Hanuman Jayanti to be celebrated in Goa today. (NT) o Indira Gandhi National Open University (IGNOU) with regional HQ at Bangalore has announced admission to its management programmes. (NT) o Weekender's Sunday Branch: Alex
