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July 25th, 2006
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Global Food Blog Report #25
#1: From Malaysia, Tham Jiak on Tastes of YesterLife:
If one's life can be determine by food preferences, I believe that I might be an Indian in my past life. As much as I love Chinese cuisines, I am strangely drawn towards Indian food, my five senses transfix on the myriad of spices, smells, tastes and textures. Indian cuisines are complex. Even the simplest cooking involves clever blends of various spices. But of course, there are some simplicities, such as its roti (bread), which ranges from easy to long preparation and the choice itself is numerous! Every roti is different from one another; some made with rice flour, some gram flour and many more that I have yet to learn and discover. Continue reading…
#2: Madrid Fusion 2006 goes to New York City!
The French Culinary Institute in New York City, winner of IACP´s School of the Year Award 2006, is celebrating it´s new home, the International Culinary Center, this coming October. And what a way to celebrate! During two days, the new center will be hosting culinary demonstrations by 10 of the most prominent Spanish chefs, including Ferran Adriá, Juan Mari Arzak and Martín Berasátegui. If you missed Madrid Fusión 2006, now is your chance for this unique experience. For more information visit Spain´s 10.
#3: From Singapore, Piggy's Cooking Journal on her cooking adventures in Krabi, Thailand.
During one of the free and easy days, I came across the Krabi Thai Cookery School when I walked pass a tour agency. It seems like this school is quite popular with tourists, as the poster mentioned that it's recommended by Lonely Planet. There are two classes in a day, and I opted for the afternoon class, which starts from 2pm and ends at 5pm. I paid 1000 baht (About SGD42) to the agent and I was told that transport will be provided as well, sounds good to me! Read on….the report is fantastic!
#4: From Panama & Colombia: An Organic Corn Lab, including recipes, great photos, a video and some very interesting stories. In Spanish, In English.
#5: From Trinidad & the U.K., Trinifood shares her adventures on growing garlic !
I was so excited when I dug up these lovely garlic bulbs! I got the cloves at last year's Hampton Court Palace Flower Show from the Garlic Farm'sstall.
I've bought their garlic at Borough Market before, and since I know how good that Isle of Wight garlic is, I thought I'd give planting some a shot.
I planted them in November and waited patiently until last week to harvest them. It feels great to hold something you've planted in your hands. Continue reading…
Russia: Disagreements Over Beslan Memorial
Founder of PravdaBeslana.ru Marina Litvinovich (LJ user abstract2001) writes (RUS) about one of the problems that survivors and relatives of those who died in Beslan in September 2004 have to deal with now:
Orthodox Christianity in Beslan
I've always been amazed by how the local authorities in North Ossetia and Beslan can breed problems where there shouldn't be any. Right now the authorities, with active support from the Orthodox Church, are planning to tear down the School and build an Orthodox church where the gym used to be.
Discussions on the School's future have been going on for a long time in Beslan. Many variants have been proposed - the most adequate one, to my mind, is a memorial in place of the gym. Christians, as well as Muslims, as well as atheists, and also just kids, who were not yet consciously considering religion, died in the School. (The number of Muslims who died in the School can be determined by the way the graves are turned at the cemetery: their gravestones are facing another direction.) To my mind, the construction of an Orthodox church on the spot where they died may lead to conflicts.
And the conflicts have already taken place: a few weeks ago we accidentally witnessed the setting in the center of the gym of a wooden Orthodox cross blessed by an impressive delegation of the Orthodox clergy. A couple days later, I learned that one man who'd lost family members in the School took the cross down. After that, they screwed the cross into the gym's floor.
Brazilians Debate an Overexposed Crime in the Mainstream Media and Blogosphere
Suzane von Richthofen, 22, her former boyfriend Daniel Cravinhos and his brother Cristian have each been found guilty of murdering her parents in October 2002 and have been sentenced to nearly 40 years in prison. The case has caught worldwide attention because Manfred von Richthofen, the murdered father, was the great-nephew of the First World War German flying ace known as the Red Baron. But for Brazilians the historical reference is just a minor detail in this tale of romance, intrigue and violence across different social classes.
Como a Copa do Mundo já acabou, como as eleições são só em outubro, como a novela das 8 ainda não teve um assassinato misterioso que só será desvendado no penúltimo capítulo depois de muita especulação de um sem-número de apresentadores homossexuais de programas vespertinos, o povo brasileiro encontrou no caso Richtofen uma maneira de preencher suas vidas…Por que o caso Richtofen provocou mais discussão do que a máfia dos sanguessugas? Talvez porque Suzane e os Cravinhos tenham mexido com a família, uma instituição ainda sagrada aos olhos do brasileiro. Ao auxiliar no assassinato dos pais, Suzane violou uma ordem social intocável, destruiu de maneira vil a relação pais/filhos.
Crítica: República Federativa von Richtofen - Chapéu de Côco
De um lado os irmãos pobres que socialmente são suscetíveis à marginalidade, não é verdade? Do outro a menina rica que foi iludida e acabou cometendo um crime. Pobre menina rica, se deixou convencer a matar seus pais, tão ingênua, tão menina… Esse caras malvados!
A justiça é igual para todos - Apenas Opinião
Lebanon Resistance & Unity
The war that Israel is waging against Lebanon remains the primary issue discussed by bloggers blogging about Lebanon this week. This roundup does not do justice to the amount of posts that contain analysis, updates, personal experiences, reflections and photos of the situation in Lebanon. But it gives a feel of what things are like.
Amal prays to God to save Lebanon in her unique way:
Perpetual Refugee writes a very touching post about how he watched, in real time on TV, his neighborhood being bombed and his grandfather’s house destroyed.
And in another post titled: “From the killing fields. Silence”, Perpetual Refugee writes:
I try and imagine the 371 stories of each fatality of this current genocide. I try and remember how beautiful a summer it was in Lebanon. How children played in the streets at all hours of the day. The sounds of innocence echoing through the valleys of Lebanon’s countless villages. How the restaurants were full of foreign people in love, I mean totally in love with the host country that has so generously welcomed them into her heart. How each person I had spoken with just one week ago had so positively looked to the future of a nation that just earned a hard fought independence. A confident Lebanon. A proud Lebanon. A Lebanon so full of promise.
And now, as I watch high rated news telecasts projecting images of destruction. Images of genocide. I don’t hear anything. Just silence. Mixed in with ads for McDonald’s and Ford automobiles interspersed between the funerals.
Global Voices: Finalist for “Innovations in Journalism” Award!!
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Congratulations to everybody who contributes to Global Voices! We are one of seven finalists for the 2006 Knight-Batten Awards for Innovations in Journalism. Here is how the press release begins:
Participation, Transparency, New Story-Telling Tools
Distinguish 2006 Knight-Batten Award FinalistsCOLLEGE PARK, Md. – Seven new ways to connect people with news – from showing every Congressional vote, to warning where hurricanes will strike, to blogging the world – are the winners of this year's Knight-Batten Awards for Innovations in Journalism.
“The hallmark of this year's entries was the use of basic technology to add value to the process of journalism and not just the packaging,” said Jan Schaffer, executive director of J-Lab, which administers the awards program.
“News organizations are getting beyond the veneer of pretty production and are letting citizens into the inner working of news, helping them navigate through it, participate in it and react to it.” “
Click here to continue reading the rest of the press release. (Note it was revised after the initial release and we updated it here at 23:00GMT July 25th.)
For more info: Click here to view the list of this year's finalists. You can also see info about the finalists for 2005 and 2004. Click here for the award's advisory board.
Here is how I described Global Voices to the judges in our application:
Global Voices Online is your guide to the most interesting and globally relevant content in online citizens’ media outside North America and Western Europe. At a time when the international English-language media ignores topics that are important to large numbers of the world’s citizens, GVO aims to redress some of the inequities in media attention by leveraging the power of citizens’ media. Tens of millions of people around the world are sharing information, opinions, images, sounds and video online. We focus on the “bridge-bloggers:” those not merely talking to their friends about their pets and social lives, but who seek to engage a broader global audience in a conversation about what is important to them. But how can the wider global audience find these voices? If we are curious about the views of Saudi Arabian youth, how do we find out who has credibility and respect in the Saudi blogosphere? How does an American find out what the Russian language LiveJournal writers are saying about recent events in Belarus? GVO attempts to provide a solution to the worldwide Internet information overload. We are, in effect, an edited aggregator run by a core international team of 15 multilingual bloggers who select, explain, contextualize and translate conversations and citizens’ reporting that emerges from their regions. An additional group of 80-plus volunteer authors contribute even more in-depth perspective on the blog buzz in their countries. GVO’s new podcast editor has now taken the same curation model to audio with the newly-launched Global Voices Show, bringing you – literally – voices and perspectives from podcasters across the globe. In January 2006 we launched a new partnership with Reuters, introducing Reuters readers to the best of global online citizens media with tailored country-specific GVO feeds on pages devoted to specific countries and regions.
An excellent example of the way Global Voices and Reuters are working together to amplify citizens media can be found on this Reuters.com special Mideast Crisis page, where commentary from the region's bloggers appears alongside news coverage and analysis from Reuters journalists. The GV and Reuters editorial teams continue to explore new ways to combine the best of citizens media and news agency journalism toward a common goal: a better informed public discourse about the important issues of our world.
Global Voices is a non-profit project housed at Harvard's Berkman Center for Internet & Society. We are grateful to everybody there for putting up with me and Ethan as we worked to get this project off the ground. In addition to generous financial support from Reuters, Global Voices has received project-specific funding from the Dutch NGO Hivos. And we are eternally grateful to the Macarthur Foundation - who gave us the seed grant that made everything possible.
Most importantly, thanks to all the bloggers around the world who are working with passion and dedication to help us understand their countries and regions in completely new ways. Global Voices exists to serve you and to amplify your voices. We hope you'll let us know what we're doing right and what we could do better… and that you'll help us improve. If you have any thoughts feel free to post them in the comments section of this post.
Continue on for the rest of our application…
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Much Ado About Lay Fung in Peru
The case of “Lay Fung,” [often written “Lay Fun”] a 4-year old Rottweiler watchdog that had been accused of murdering a suspected car thief in the parking lot he was entrusted to watch over, quickly turned into a media sensation throughout Peru and the country's bloggers were eager to voice their opinions.
As Wolfgang Becker described July 16 on Living in Peru:
Since last Tuesday “Lay Fung” sits behind bars. He is accused of causing the death of a man entering a parking lot he was ordered to guard. His future remains up in the air. Some think that he should be put to death, others maintain the Rottweiler dog was just doing his job. A judge will have to decide his destiny within the next days. In the meantime he remains in his narrow A-46 cell at an anti-rabies center in Chacra Ríos.
The 4-year old Rottweiler is currently undergoing medical tests to determine if he has rabies. If the tests turn out positive, it will be his sure death sentence. In either case, the director of the dog center Mónica Villanueva said that he will be injected with a supersaturated toxic which will keep him asleep
Many legal experts believe that the law protects the animal in these cases, therefore it is unlikely that Lay Fung is executed. Although the Peruvian law dictates that all dogs who kill or injure people or other animals must be sacrificed, there is also the exception from the rule: different measures apply when dogs are defending their owners or private property.
Franco Cedillo Crisosto is among the many supporters of the watch dog:
Links for Tue, 2006-07
Sun Bin discusses about public servant's pay scale: “Instead of arguing against the raise, I would rather argue for a mechanism of firing incompetent staff...”
A student Li Wen-zhen has been sitting at CKS memorial Hall for more than a month to protest against Taiwan president Chen Shui-bian's suspected corruption. Six days ago, he started hunger strike: “Either ah Bian step down or I fell down”. The incident remind FDL in China times of the past student movement in Taiwan; he urges other students to show their support to Li and tell him and the society that he is not alone (zh).
ESWN translates a post written by Zeng Jinyan (zh) about civic rights activist ‘Knight Errant' Peng's experience in dealing with national security people.
Ohmynews‘ Citizen reporter Saenam Kim reports about Korean's attitude towards blood donation and its blood donation certificate system.
Song Sung-young, a korean farmer and a citizen reporter of Ohmynews hosted his newly met french friends in his house. He has some vivid descriptions of how Childish English vs. ‘Frenglish' communication worked out.
Days in Daechuri shows a series of pictures on how young people are remodelling the broken house in Daechuri: “Korean government said they are planning to drive all of the daechuri people out and tear down their houses soon. Keeping the houses from being destroyed is the most important struggle in July.”
Curzon in Coming Anarchy blogs about the trend in Americanization of East Asian legal education in Japn and South Korea.
Akhtamar of ArmYouth Blog reports from Havlabar, Tbilisi's Armenian Quarter.
Nessuna reports that the opening of Microsoft's representative office and the passage of a new copyright law may encourage the adoption of open source software by Armenian companies.
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