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World
Goa Day Special
August
20, 2003
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World-wide
Goans set to celebrate World Goa Day
From
Navhind Times
Posted on Goanet - August 12, 2003 by Joaquim Fernandes
Suffused in a mix of love and nostalgia, Goans across
the globe are gearing up to celebrate World Goa Day
on August 20. The date marks the inclusion of Konkani
in the 8th Schedule of the Indian Constitution by
both houses of Parliament in 1992. While talk of the
event in Goa seems muted, a virtual fever is building
up in cyberspace among the Goan communities now thriving
in the United Kingdom, the United States, Canada,
Australia, Portugal, Spain, Kenya, Tanzania and some
countries of the Middle East.......
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Full
text at:
http://www.goacom.com/news/news2003/aug/msg00045.html |
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Message
from Goa Day founder, Rene Barreto
Writing in the official
website [www.goaday.com]
of World Goa Day, London-based Mr Rene Barreto,
convenor of the event, says, on Goa day this year,
thousands of Goans will once again remind themselves
of the need to work to preserve our culture, music,
history, language, cuisine, and art for our children,
the non-Goan community, and for posterity.? For
Names of organizers of World Goa Day see .... http://www.goaday.com/org.php
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Music
for Goa Day "Proud to be Goan"
Words and Music by Basilio Magno from Spain.
Click here to download MP3 file
http://www.goasudharop.org/goaday/proudgoa.mp3
Facts
on Goa:
Goa,
a former Portuguese territory, for more than 450 years is
often described as 'The Rome of the East'. It has over the
past decades, become the dream holiday destination, for
many a foreign tourist. More than 40 years after the departure
of the Portuguese, Goa is perhaps the most westernized of
all the states in Modern India. The majority of Goans are
very bohemian. Easy going in nature, enjoying a typical
'tropical lifestyle'; including the 'siesta', which is usually
from 1pm to 4pm, the hottest part of the day. Music, dance,
drama, food and feni, are a few of the things most Goans
are passionate about. For
more information click
Here
Recipes
for Goa Day
Sweet
Sannas & Sorpotel
Main Course : Chicken
Cafreal, Mackerel
Reichado & Veg
Pulao
Side dish of Salad
: Yoghurt
Salad
Dessert: : Caramel
Custard
More
about World Goa Day --- link to http://www.goaday.com
Newsline
Canada
Blackout
in Ontario- Canada Bungles
OTTAWA
- No power in crucial government offices. Conflicting, erroneous
statements by top officials. Telephone information lines
crashing. It wasn't a promising performance for a national
emergency system weathering its first major test since the
Sept. 11 terrorist attacks. How bad was it? Aides to Prime
Minister Jean Chretien wrote an initial statement by hand,
using candlelight to see what they were doing, because his
Ottawa office didn't have an emergency generator.
See: http://www.goacom.com/news/news2003/aug/msg00066.html
Blackout
of 2003 - Reasons:A failure to contain problems with three
transmission lines in northern Ohio
WASHINGTON
Aug. 17 -
A failure to contain problems with three transmission lines
in northern Ohio just south of Cleveland was the likely
trigger of the nation's biggest power blackout, a leading
investigator says. Alarm systems that might have alerted
engineers to the failed lines were broken, according to
FirstEnergy Corp., the Akron, Ohio-based utility that officials
said owned at least two of the three lines.
see: http://www.goacom.com/news/news2003/aug/msg00067.html
Indian
(Goan) priests in demand for Catholic missions in the West
A quiet process of reverse evangelisation is on, as more
and more Indian priests of Goan origin are heading abroad
to fill up a vacuum left by declining vocations in the West.
http://www.goacom.com/news/news2003/aug/msg00065.html
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