Caribbean Loses Alton Ellis and Byron Lee

During the last few weeks, Jamaica, the Caribbean and the world have lost two giants in music.
Alton Ellis, the "Godfather of Rocksteady", defined an era, when little was known about Jamaican music outside the ghettos of Trench Town. Ellis released over 35 albums and bridged the transition from Ska to Rocksteady to Reggae (Raygay); in a career that spanned 50+ years. He scored major hits with such memorable tracks as "Girl I've Got a Date", "Cry Tough" and "Get Ready - Rock Steady", which was the first song to refer to the name of the newer genre. His music has been reworked by King Yellowman, Biggie, Tupac, KRS1 and most recently Sean Paul who scored a major hit with the rework of Ellis' "I'm Still In Love With You" from his multi-platinum album "Dutty Rock". A true pioneer, Ellis toured regularly until his death in London in October 2008.Byron Lee will probably be remembered best, as the leader of the Dragonaires and their Calypso hits of the last 30 years, but he is also an important part of the machinery that shaped and developed Jamaican music to what it is today. Byron Lee started out playing Ska in the late 1950's and was credited with creating the 1st touring showcase of Jamaican talent, that took little known acts throughout North America and the Caribbean. He has been credited with bringing the music of "downtown" into the homes of "uptown" Jamaica. Lee eventually bought WIRL records from early music pioneer Edward Seaga, and formed Dynamic Sounds which, at the time, became the most well equipped recording studio in the Caribbean, recording such legends at The Rolling Stones and Paul Simon.After playing at Carnival regularly during the 1970sand 1980s, Byron Lee brought Trinidad carnival to Jamaica in 1990. With the support of Carnival artists Jamaica Carnival was a huge success bringing together "uptown" and "downtown" culture in one massive street party of 500,000 people. With Jamaica Carnival, Byron Lee effectively did for the Eastern Caribbean what he had done for Jamaica some years before - packaging and showcasing their culture on a large scale.

Guyana's Jonestown Tragedy To Be Revisited

The 30th anniversary of the Jonestown massacre in Guyana is set to be revisited with a documentary premiering on Sunday, November 9th at 9 p.m. EST.The documentary, titled 'Witness to Jonestown,' will air on MSNBC and will take an insider's look at an unforgettable American tragedy. Co-produced with Peacock Productions, the two-hour documentary will be the first offering from MSNBC Films.Through exclusive, rarely-seen footage that was shot inside the Peoples Temple on the eve and day of the disaster, the film will provide an intimate first-hand account of this unimaginable catastrophe, a press statement said.In 'Witness to Jonestown,' viewers will be introduced to many members and relatives affected by the massacre and see archival and present-day interviews with surviving and former Peoples Temple members, who will attempt to answer the questions of how and why 900 Americans would follow one man to their deaths.Among them are: Stephan Jones, the son of the Peoples Temple leader, Reverend Jim Jones; Grace Stoen, whose attempts to reclaim her son from the Temple outraged Jones; Terri Buford, in her first in-depth television interview since she defected from the Temple's inner circle; and Tim Carter, who witnessed the deaths of his wife and child in Jonestown before he escaped through the South American jungle.NBC News lost two of its own journalists at Jonestown. Their survivors and those of Congressman Leo Ryan will also be included. While NBC's own Fred Francis and The Washington Post's Charles Krause, who was wounded at the airstrip, provide chilling remembrances and insight as the first television and print journalists to arrive on scene and witness the horrific aftermath.

Here is a sneak preview of "Witness to Jonestown"

Barack Obama elected 44th President of USA

‘Change has come to America,’ first African-American leader tells country.

Barack Obama, a 47-year-old first-term senator from Illinois, shattered more than 200 years of history Tuesday night by winning election as the first African-American president of the United States. A crowd of 125,000 people jammed Grant Park in Chicago, where Obama addressed the nation for the first time as its president-elect at midnight ET.

“If there is anyone out there who doubts that America is a place where anything is possible, who still wonders if the dream of our founders is alive in our time, who still questions the power of our democracy, tonight is your answer,” Obama declared. “Young and old, rich and poor, Democrat and Republican, black, white, Hispanic, Asian, Native American, gay, straight, disabled and not disabled, Americans have sent a message to the world that we have never been just a collection of red states and blue states,” he said. “We have been and always will be the United States of America.
“It’s been a long time coming, but tonight, because of what we did on this day, in this election, at this defining moment, change has come to America,” he said to a long roar.

The win by Obama, son of a black father from Kenya and white mother from Kansas, marked a milestone in U.S. history. It came 45 years after the height of the civil rights movement led by Martin Luther King. In a campaign dominated at the end by a flood of bad news on the economy, Obama's leadership and proposals on how to handle the crisis tipped the race in his favor. Exit polls showed six of every 10 voters listed the economy as the top issue.

Obama will be sworn in as the 44th U.S. president on January 20, 2009. He will face a crush of immediate challenges, from tackling an economic crisis to ending the war in Iraq and striking a compromise on overhauling the health care system.

Know Your Guyanese Proverbs

1. One, one dutty build dam = Every little bit adds up.

2. Never cuss bridge that you cross = Be grateful for favors from anyone because someday you may need another.

3. Yuh can't suck cane and blow whistle = Do not try to carry out two tasks at the same time.

4. All skin teeth nah laug = Just because someone smiles with you doesn't mean that you are friends.

5. Lil boy nah climb ladder to turn big man = Only time can make you what you will be.

6. Clath ah easy fuh dutty but hard fuh wash = Having achieved a goal, it is difficult to retain it.

7. Yuh can't drink mauby and belch beer = If you put little effort in a task you can expect very little success.

8. Rain ah fall ah roof yuh put barrel fuh ketch am = There is an opportunity for everyone and you must try to grasp it.

9. Nah put all two foot in river if yuh want see how he deep = Do not jump into a venture before you make sure that it is worthy.

10. If yuh eye nah see, yuh mouth nah must talk = You must see for yourself before you talk.

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Facebook Face Off!

Before you post those party pics, consider just who might be checking out your online profile. (Hint: Your boss?!)

These days you can define your relationship with your latest love or add a new friend and reunite with an old one without ever stepping away from your keyboard. Isn't technology fab? There's just one problem: when it comes to online profiles, your friends aren't the only ones checking your status updates.

Set it Straight

If the scandalous photos from your best friend's wild bachelorette weekend are too good not to post ASAP, then at least -- for her sake and yours -- make sure your profile and photos are set to private. On Facebook and MySpace, as well as other similar sites, limiting access strictly to your friends is just a simple click away.

For Your Eyes Only

Afraid that your most recent post might be offensive? Follow this rule: If you wouldn't want your boss or your mom to see it -- then it probably shouldn't be on the Internet. And that's not just for those party pics either. Blogging about your bad habits and little secrets is never a good idea -- that's what the little black journal next to your bed is for. So, ponder before your post!

Sleep On It

You've just walked through the door, which means you finished your last margarita less than half an hour ago, and your computer is crying for some attention. Don't even think about it. If the stories still seem hilarious in the light of day, then there will be plenty of time for dishing all the dirty details in the morning.

Down to Business

Online profiles don't just have to be about socializing and showing off your latest crush. Creating a personal website or a profile on a networking site like LinkedIn can help you promote yourself to employers and co-workers. Add a link to it on your resume and voila! You look oh-so-technologically-advanced.

More men than women find happiness online

Poll: Men enjoy activities on the computer, while women prefer family time

By Miral Fahmy

SYDNEY - For men, bliss is often just a mouse-click away while quality time with family is guaranteed to put a smile on women's faces, according to an Australian study of what makes people happy.
The "Happiness Index" study, which polled more than 8,500 Australians aged 18-64 years, showed rest and relaxation were the most enjoyable activities while physical exercise was least likely to make people happy.
"Australians are made happy on a week-to-week basis, not by possessions and achievements, but by entertaining experiences and by meaningful interactions with others," said Karen Phillips, managing director of The Leading Edge, the business consultancy that conducted the survey over a week in August."This index gives insight into the way we tick, with the results being useful to Australian businesses who want to better communicate with their customers," she added.Both men and women — or 63 percent of overall respondents — picked relaxation as the activity that made them happiest, but that is where the similarity between the sexes ends.
Just over half of men said happiness meant surfing the Internet, playing online games or accessing social network sites such as Facebook, compared with only 39 percent of women.
Fifty-five percent of women said having meals and spending time together as a family made them happiest, compared to 45 percent of men. Women are also more likely than men to have been made happy by their pets.More men than women, 48 percent versus 40 percent, found happiness being intimate with another person while 38 percent of men, and only 28 percent of women, said drinking with friends brought them joy.More women than men said reading a good book, eating comfort food or buying gifts made them happy.But Phillips said the survey also debunked several gender stereotypes, finding that shopping for new clothes and shoes made only 30 percent of women happy and that more men and women with children cited sex and romance as making them happy than singles.

HAVE YOUR SAY !

Blog Action Day is an annual nonprofit event that aims to unite the world’s bloggers, podcasters and videocasters, to post about the same issue on the same day. Our aim is to raise awareness and trigger a global discussion. Global issues like poverty are extremely complex. There is no simple, clear answer. By asking thousands of different people to give their viewpoints and opinions, Blog Action Day creates an extraordinary lens through which to view these issues. Each blogger brings their own perspective and ideas. Each blogger posts relating to their own blog topic. And each blogger engages their audience differently.First and last, the purpose of Blog Action Day is to create a discussion. We ask bloggers to take a single day out of their schedule and focus it on an important issue.By doing so on the same day, the blogging community effectively changes the conversation on the web and focuses audiences around the globe on that issue.Out of this discussion naturally flow actions, advice, ideas, plans, and empowerment. In 2007 on the theme of the Environment, we saw bloggers running environmental experiments, detailing innovative ideas on creating sustainable practices and focusing audience’s attentions on organizations and companies promoting green agendas. In 2008 we aim to again focus the blogging community’s energies and passions, this time on the mammoth issue of global poverty.In 2008, the Blog Action Day theme is Poverty. Bloggers are free to interpret this as they see fit. We invite bloggers to examine poverty from their own blog topics and perspectives, to look at it from the macro and micro, as a global condition and a local issue, and to bring their own ideas, views and opinions on the subject.

In recognition of BLOG ACTION DAY 2008, GUYANA LIME wishes to come on board and help to spread the awareness of the 2008 theme POVERTY. With such involvement, Guyana Lime wishes to invite all its visitors to actively participate in all discussions and posts from now until October 15th 2008. As such, please feel free to post your responses to the following questions below :

1. Do you believe that Poverty undermines the ability to achieve sustainable development?

2. What are the root causes of Poverty?

3. How can we put a stop to Poverty?

Air quality test team finds asbestos at UG, forced to flee

A team began testing the air quality at the University of Guyana (UG) Turkeyen Campus on Friday, after the Education Ministry agreed to have that exercise undertaken, but the testers fled soon after when they found asbestos material on the ground.
Last Friday, a team headed by the contractor of the A&E Consultancy visited the campus to test the air. The team started work but quickly left the campus after members observed that there was asbestos material on the ground. The consultancy company was hired by the ministry following repeated requests by the UG Asbestos Technical Committee.
The ministry agreed to test air quality on the Turkeyen campus, but it is now refusing to have the floors of the affected buildings lacquered, which sources say is necessary to hold down unseen fibres. Sources yesterday told Stabroek News that advisors to Minister of Education, Shaik Baksh, have staunchly opposed the lacquering of the floors. They are only in favour of painting of the walls, which has already begun. “But it is important that the floor be lacquered so as any asbestos fibre that maybe present will be paste down and not affect anyone,” a source said yesterday.
Reports are that the company has the equipment to conduct the test and it was the same company that was used to test the air at asbestos affected schools. After the air testing team left the campus, a ministry team visited to remove the asbestos material on the ground.
Yesterday they commenced painting the walls, but the air testing team has no intention of returning until the floors are lacquered as its members do not want to expose themselves to any danger.
Stabroek News understands that the further delay may affect the commencement of the new academic year and students and staff members are becoming worried.
Earlier this year Deputy Registrar of UG, Vincent Alexander, had announced that the $200 million exercise was expected to last two months and it would see asbestos removed from some 15 buildings at the Turkeyen Campus. The entire campus was shut down. The administrative staff was moved to the Dennis Irving dormitory at Goedverwagting and summer classes were held at the Tutorial High School. Library services are meanwhile being facilitated at the university’s office in Pere Street, Kitty.
The asbestos problem was highlighted in the news in the middle of last year following protests from staff members of the Faculty of Social Sciences. Hector Edwards, Head of Business and Management Studies, told this newspaper at the time that he and staff members were not prepared to continue working in their building as they were exposed to the asbestos.
He said the issue was pending for a number of years and the administration was doing nothing.After their protests, Edwards and his staff were moved to another building. The university administration then took samples and sent them to be tested at a Canadian laboratory, Resource Environmental Associates (REA), for confirmation last year.

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Recipe Of The Day " Samosa"

Ingredients for samosa pastry (Indian samosa recipes):

Flour: 2 cups
Salt: Half Tsp
Water: Four Tbs
Oil: Three Tbs
Ingredients for samosa stuffing:
Potatoes: Five (boiled)
Onion: One (finely chopped)
Oil: One Tbs
Peas: One cup (shelled)
Ginger: One Tbs (grated)
Coriander: Three Tbs (green, finely chopped)
Green Chili: One (finely chopped)
Coriander seeds: One Tsp (powder)
Water: As required
Lemon Juice: Two Tbs
Cumin seeds: One Tsp
Cayenne pepper: 1/4 tsp
Garam masala: One Tsp
Oil

Method of preparation for Samosa pastry:

First mix the flour and salt. Add four tbs of oil to it and mix it well. Add water and make stiff dough out of it. Add water slowly or you might ruin whole thing. Knead the dough till it becomes smooth. Keep the ball for minimum 30 minutes untouched in a plastic bag.

Method of preparation for Samosa stuffing:

First, peel the potatoes and cut it into small pieces. Keep it aside. Take a frying pan and add four tbs of oil to it. Heat it at medium flame. Add onion to it when oil is hot and fry it well till it turns brown. Add coriander, ginger, peas, green chili, and water to it. Cover it up and lower the heat. Keep it in this condition for few minutes till the peas are coked. Add more water if required. Now add garam masala, potatoes, salt, cumin, cayenne, coriander seeds and lemon juice to it. Stir it till it is cooked.

Method of preparation for Samosa:

You will have to knead the dough again for a minute. Now make small balls out of it. Roll the ball into round shape. Cut it into two halves. Now make cone out of it overlapping the seams. Fill the cone with stuffing and close it after applying little water at the edges.
Heat the oil in a frying pan. Oil should be deep enough to fry the samosa completely. Now fry the samosa in medium flame. Turn the samosa and fry it fully till golden brown. Enjoy it with sauce or chutney.

When Will UG Reopen?

The new academic year for the University of Guyana will commence later than is usual because the final stage of the asbestos removal is yet to be ironed out. Stabroek News understands that a high ranking meeting, involving all the major players at the university was held with Minister of Education, Shaik Baksh, but no decision was taken on the way forward. Classes should have commenced at the institution next week. At issue is the quality testing of the air at the university following the removal of the dangerous material. Sources told Stabroek News that the university's Asbestos Technical Committee is strongly advising that a quality test of the air at the university be done. It is also calling for the floor of the affected buildings to be waxed and the walls painted to rule out the possibility of any of the asbestos material remaining on the surfaces. However, Baksh has also been reportedly advised by a team, headed by government engineer, Walter Willis, that the campus is safe; that everything was done correctly during the removal of the material and there is nothing to fear. It was also pointed out that no air test was done at the secondary schools where asbestos material was removed. However, sources said the normal regulation is that the air is tested following the removal of asbestos. "We are concerned about the 5,000 students and 600 staff members... We are concerned that a lot of young people's lives could be destroyed in their prime by being exposed to the cancerous material," one source said. The minister was informed that the equipment to test the air is available in Guyana and there is a local contractor who can get it done. Baksh is expected to study both reports and make a decision soon. Earlier this year Deputy Registrar of UG, Vincent Alexander, had announced that the $200 million exercise was expected to last two months and it would see asbestos being removed from some 15 buildings at the Turkeyen campus. The entire campus was shut down. The administrative staff was moved to the Dennis Irvine dormitory at Goedverwagting and summer classes were held at the Tutorial High School. Library services are being facilitated at the university's location in Pere Street, Kitty. The asbestos problem was highlighted in the news in the middle of last year following protests from staff members of the Faculty of Social Sciences. Hector Edwards, Head of Business and Management Studies, had told this newspaper that he and staff members were not prepared to continue working in their building as they were exposed to the asbestos. He had said the issue was pending for a number of years and the administration was doing nothing. After their protests, Edwards and his staff were moved to another building. The university administration then took samples and sent them to be tested at a Canadian laboratory, Resource Environmental Associates (REA), for confirmation during July 14-15, 2007.
Source: http://www.stabroeknews.com/news/ug-opening-awaits-decision-on-air-testing-after-asbestos-removal/

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