The Brazilian Post - English - Issue 81

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TBP reproduces an interview with the Brazilian theologian Leonardo Boff on the Pope’s resignation

Feb 26th – March 11th 2013

Cuban blogger Yoani Sánchez has been in Brazil recently and sparked heated debates

LONDON EDITION

www.brazilianpost.co.uk • Issue n. 81

LONDON FASHION WEEK BEYOND THE CATWALKS

The International Fashion Showcase brought together different approaches from 27 countries and The Brazilian Post looks into what Latin American designers are creating, as well asking how Brazil’s fashion industry is being promoted on a global scale Journey Through the Landscape: Artwork by Jungla

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Front Page TRENDY

Latin American approach diversify the London Fashion Week

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By Kate Rintoul

wice yearly Somerset House and its surrounding area become a hive of sartorial activity. Fuelled by black coffee, Marlboro lights, champagne before noon and series of ironic headpieces London’s fashion elite meet en masse for the exhibition and catwalks of London Fashion Week.

Civilians (ie anyone who doesn’t know or care about the coming season’s ‘must have’ item) are subjected to a week of photos of models looking fabulous in leather and fur (Autumn/Winter), florals (Spring/Summer) and slightly worse for wear in slightly-soiled American Apparel jersey as they leave another after party.

In the years since the global economic crisis there has been a marked change in the world’s fashion weeks.

Not only did this coincide (or perhaps feed into) the rise of the fashion blogger, who’s gutsy approach has in some way democratised the small world of fashion but designers and organisers have also looked beyond the expensive 15 minute catwalk shows. Some designers have opted not to have public events, spending a fraction of the budget producing fantastic fashion films, others give presentations in empty shops or basements and those responsible for the fashion week schedule have found ways to diversify what they do and present alternative events.

Such was the thinking when the British Fashion Council (BFC) and British

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sk about the taste of a crab in London, and Brazilians living here will tell you “it is one of the most delicious food” this is the experience in the country with the green-yellow flag, according to the newest member of The Brazilian Post team. Shaun Cumming decided to kick off of his column: A Gringo’s View (http://brazilianpost.co.uk/shaun).

Shaun is a British journalist, in love with Brazil, who will share some of his impressions of Brazil that often, those from there don’t know how to express.

London Fashion Week once again took over the British capital. We have

Council joined forces in 2012 for the first International Fashion Showcase in London in part of the lead up to the Olympics. With 17 countries and 80 designers from Bosnia to Vietnam included, the event was a great way of bringing ‘under the radar’ fashion to London.

Such was the success of the event that it was held again this year with 27 countries picked by the BFC to be part of the event with exhibitions held in their London embassies. While the countries involved were equally diverse from Sweden to the Philippines there was a definite Latin American feel to this year’s event with Argentina, Bolivia, Panama and Uruguay all included.

“The shows offer a collective welcome to everyone with an interest in fashion, whether professional or not.

London has developed its reputation as a supporter of the future of fashion by being open to ideas and innovation from everywhere - as a city we are multicultural, our art colleges are a magnet for international students and we are always thrilled to be able to get the first glimpse of the new”, said Sarah Mower MBE who is BFC’s Ambassador for Emerging Talent and lead on the event’s selection panel.

One of this year’s highlights was the Argentinean exhibition, A Journey Through the Landscape (which can be seen at the British Council until 8 March).

The work of nine designers and two artists, Chiacio and Gianonne take you on a trip through their creative and physical landscapes, with each piece giving you a

A Journey Through the Landscape little more insight into the contemporary Argentine aesthetic. All of the pieces are striking some, like those created by Julia Schang Vitón and Agustina Dubié are more wearable for the UK (word on the street is that several buyers were interested in purchasing their work to sell here). Other works on display are wonderful examples of the country’s unique climate, environment and influences, with many of the designers interested in using interesting materials that we do not always associate with Latin America such as wool and leather.

Oh and the phenomenal tapestries by Chiacio and Gianonne are incredible pieces of contemporary modern art that

say a lot personally about the makers but also the country in which they choose to live and work.

The International Showcase is clearly a brilliant opportunity for Latin American designers to promote themselves to a European audience. The rigorous selection process that includes members of the BFC, high profile buyers, fashion curators, editors and academics is in itself a good way of getting yourself noticed by those with influence. For many though, this will not be there first experience in London with an increasing number of emerging designers choosing to come here to study.

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EDITORIAL both criticism and praise for one of the most important fashion week in the world, that sae the inclusion of parts of Latin American countries. You can also discover the trends for next season, with the impressions of Zaza Oliva.

In this edition, our Travel section, discusses the TripAdvisor awards which selected the 10 best beaches in the world, through millions of reviews and quotes given by international tourists who use the site. Brazil was the only one with two beaches among the top 10.

As we reported several times already in TBP, the demand of Brazilian students for UK universities is rising. From this

perspective, Birgminham City University (BCU) took a step forward in partnership with the agency UK Study. The Brazilian Post will be in holding a presentation in London of the BCU courses and opportunities for international students.

Read more on page 5.

In the community section, to congratulate the 24 years of work of the Brazilian’s oldest trade in London, Casa Brazil, The Brazilian Post pays tribute to Itamara Dall Alba, owner of the store.

Last but by no means least the TBP Guide holds several options to help you have some fun in London. Besides photos of parties, the gastronomic tips

from the chef Saul Caliari and Sacred Chat, that on this edition talks about meditation.

That’s how we seek to produce a newspaper consistently, with current information, entertainment and news straight from the source, produced by our team in different parts of the world! This is our commitment to you, the reader!

Keep in touch!

Ana Toledo ana@brazilianpost.co.uk Editor in Chief

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PERSPECTIVE

Consequence assessment and the decision of Benedict XVI

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t the beginning of February, when the Brazilian Carnival in full, the resignation of the command of the Catholic Church by Pope Benedict XVI was reported. Much has been said and interpreted about the reasons that led Benedict XVI to this decision and talk of who his successor should be.

Last week, more controversy was revealed by the Italian newspaper La Repubblica, which published a story saying that the Pope decided to relinquish his post on account of embezzlement and strength of the “gay lobby” within the Vatican.

To find out more about the Pope’s decision and the issues surrounding him, The Brazilian Post reproduces some excerpts from the interview given

by Brazilian theologian Leonardo Booff to Folha de São Paulo, released by the theologian in full on his personal blog.

To access the full interview, visit www. brazilianpost.co.uk What did you think when you heard of the resignation of Benedict XVI? From the beginning I felt very sorry for him, because I knew him, especially his shyness, I imagine the effort that must be done to greet people, and embrace them. I was sure that one day he would take advantage of any occasion sensible as the limits of his physical health and a weaken mental disposition, to resign.

Although it proved to be an authoritarian pope, was not attached to the position of Pope. I was relieved because the Church is without spiritual leadership to inspire hope and cheer. We need another profile; pastor more than a teacher, not a man of the Church- institution but a representative of Jesus who said, “If anyone comes to Me I will not send you away” (Gospel of John 6.37), regardless of your sexulaity.

What have you learnt about the personality of Benedict XVI? I met Benedict XVI in my years of study in Germany between 1965-1970. I’ve been to many of his lectures but I was not his student. He read my doctoral thesis: The place of the Church in a secular world “and liked it enough to find a publisher. After working together in the international journal Concilium, whose directors met every year in the week of Pentecost somewhere in Europe, I edited it in Portuguese. That was between 19751980. We talked themes of theology, faith in Latin America, especially on St. Bonaventure and St. Augustine, which he is a specialist and even today and I often read them.

Then back in 1984 we were in a confrontational moment: him as my judge in trial of ex- Holy Office, against my book Church: Charism and Power

Brazilian theologian Leonardo Booff

“(Voices 1981). He subjected me to a time of “obsequious silence”, I had to quit teaching and was forbidden to publish anything. After that I never met him again. As a person he is very polite, shy and extremely intelligent.

Pope John XXIII said that the Church cannot become a museum but a house with windows and doors open. Do you think that Benedict XVI perhaps attempted to turn the Church back into something like a museum?

He reintroduced the Latin Mass, chose garments from Renaissance popes from the past, maintained the habits and palatial ceremony. His vision was as a restorer and nostalgic for a synthesis between culture and faith that there is very visible in his native Bavaria, which he explicitly commented. When in the University where we both studied in Munich, he saw a poster advertising me as a visiting professor to lecture on new frontiers of liberation theology, he asked the dean to postpone the day of the event, already set, sine die. His idols are theological St. Augustine and St. Bonaventure who always maintained a distrust of all that came from the world, tainted by sin and in need of being rescued by the Church. It’s one of the reasons for his opposition to modernity that sees the perspective of secularism and relativism and outside the field of

influence of Christianity which helped form the Europe.

How will the church will change, in your view, on the doctrine on condom use and sexual morality in general?

The Church should maintain its beliefs but it should renounce the status of exclusivity, as if it were the sole bearer of truth. It should be understood within the democratic space, where your voice is heard along with other voices and you respect and even are willing to learn from them. When defeated in their views, the church should offer its experience and tradition to improve where it can improve and lighten the weight of our existence. In the background the Church needs to be more human, more humble and have faith in the sense of not being afraid. What opposes faith is not atheism, but fear.

Fear paralyzes and isolates people from others. The Church must walk together with humanity, because humanity is the true people of God. What a future pope should do to prevent the emigration of so many faithful to other churches, especially Pentecostal?

Benedict slowed the renewal of the Church encouraged by the Vatican Council II. He does not accept that there are breaks in the Church. Once you chose

a linear view, you reinforce the tradition.

It happens that the tradition from the eighteenth and nineteenth century opposed to all modern achievements, democracy, religious freedom and other rights. He tried to reduce the Church to a fortress against this modernity and saw the Vatican Council II as the Trojan horse through which they could enter.

So there has been a great centralisation of everything in Rome under the direction of the Pope who, alas, has to drive a Catholic population of the size of China. That option brought great conflict between the Church even integer episcopates as German and French and contaminated the internal atmosphere of the Church with suspicion, creating groups, emigration of many Catholic community and accusations of relativism and parallel magisterium.

In other words in the Church you didn’t live a more frank and open fraternity, a spiritual home common to all.

The profile of the next Pope, in my opinion, should not be that of a man of power and institution. Where there is power love disappears mercy is non existent. It should be a pastor, neighbour of the faithful and of all human beings, no matter their moral, political and ethnic situation. The new pope should take as his motto the words of Jesus which I have already quoted above: “If anyone comes to me, I did not send you away” because welcomed everyone from Magdalene as a prostitute until a theologian like Nicodemus.

He shouldn’t be seen as man of the West who is now an accident in history but a man of vast globalised world feeling the passion and the suffering cry of the Earth devastated by consumerist greed. There should be a man of certainties but one that would encourage everyone to seek the best ways. Logically orientated in the Gospel without proselytizing spirit, with the awareness that the Spirit always comes before the missionary and the Word enlightens everyone that comes into this world, he should be a deeply spiritual man and open to all religious paths together to keep alive the sacred flame that exists in every person: the mysterious presence of God. Finally, he should be a man of profound kindness, in the style of Pope John XXIII, with tenderness for the humble and firmly prophetic to denounce those that promote exploration and makes violence and war instruments of domination of others and the world. That in the negotiations that the cardinals do in the conclave and tensions trends, prevail a name with similar profile. How the Holy Spirit there does is mystery. It hasn’t another voice and another head than that of the Cardinals. Be the Holy Spirit be with them.

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POLITICS

Campaign for the presidential election of 2014 is on the way

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here is still more than a year until the next presidential election in Brazil, but we can already say with certainty that the campaign for the presidential chair has begun with the old war between Brazil’s Workers’ Party, PT and The Brazilian Social Democracy Party, PSDB. On 20 February, in a speech commemorating the tenth anniversary of the PT in government, former President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva countered the criticisms that had been made days earlier by his predecessor, former President Fernando Henrique Cardoso, and likely PSDB candidate for the election next year, Senator Aecio Neves.

“The response the PT should give is to say that they can prepare, add whoever they want. Cause if they have questions, we will answer with the reelection of President Dilma,” Lula said to loud applause from the audience. Lula also said he is not afraid of comparisons between PT and PSDB, including recent debates on corruption.

According to information from the newspaper O Estado de S. Paulo, the former president Fernando Henrique Cardoso will tour the country to promote the candidacy of Aecio Neves, representing a rematch, albeit behind the scenes, between Cardoso and Lula after the elections of 1994 and 1998, which the candidate of PSDB won.

Neves’ assumption of the defence speech of the Cardoso government, who are now presenting themselves

Lula and Dilma in celebration of PT as responsible for the stabilisation of Brazil’s economy, is in itself a change in strategy of the PSDB. In the last three elections both José Serra (2002 and 2010) and Geraldo Alckimin (2006) chose not to openly defend Fernando Henrique Cardoso, due to his low popularity that came with the presidency. PSDB leaders believe that now, due to the fact that the Brazilian economy not growing as expected, is the ideal time to rescue the figure of the creator of the Real Plan.

Lula will also tour the country, especially the Northeast, to further consolidate the figure of Dilma Rousseff as the perfect continuator of his vision.

Dilma has high levels of popularity, and if the election were today, it seems that she would win. The unprecedented inclusion of people into the middle class and excellent supply of jobs, coupled with greater purchasing power of the population, are the biggest banners of PT and Rousseff for 2014.

Remember, however, that a third

force can enter the contest: Marina Silva. Former senator of PT, the environmentalist received about 20 million votes in 2010, when she ran for the Green Party (PV), and is gathering signatures for the creation of a new party, the Sustainability Network, by which to contest the presidential election of 2014. Another strong name that can enter the contest is Eduardo Campos, Governor of Pernambuco State and national president of PSB.

NEGOTIATION

Brazil looks for investment in New York and London

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he finance minister, Guido Mantega, was in New York in February for a forum on Brazil infrastructure and investment opportunities.

The same investment options were presented to businessmen in Sao Paulo earlier this month. Now, in addition to New York, London is also to stage discussions on the macroeconomic and investment opportunities in Brazil with the lecture circuit coming to the capital on 1 March.

Besides presenting investment opportunities, the lectures will serve to answer questions about projects, auctions and how interested entrepreneurs should proceed, according to information

disclosed in a statement by the press service of the Ministry of Finance.

Included in the range of projects are the expansions of the infrastructure of roads, railways, ports and airports, as well as developments in the areas of energy and oil exploration.

The National Treasury Secretary Arno Augustin has also said the government is studying measures to increase the participation of private banks in financing large infrastructure projects. “We are always studying the extension of this mechanism. We think that private sector participation in longterm investments important,” said the secretary.

In the range of projects are the expansion of the infrastructure of roads, railways, ports and airports

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Community EDUCATION AND CARRER

British universities look for more and more Brazilians

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ntering in a higher education institution in the UK is not an impossible challenge for Brazilians students anymore.

The opportunities, as The Brazilian Post has always been pointing out, are more and more achievable, because both the better income level of the majority of the Brazilians and the interest of the British universities on attract students from Brazil.

Visiting Brazil last year, the UK Prime Minister, David Cameron, signed a number of bilateral cooperation agreements with President Dilma Rousseff. As well as partnerships involving economic and cultural areas, agreements were also reached in the education sector. Under the Science Without Borders Program, three agreements were signed. One of them

extends the number of Brazilian students who will benefit from scholarships to study in UK universities to 10,000 by 2015.

In that occasion, in an interview for TBP, the Marketing Director of UK Study agency, which has partnered with over 40 UK universities, Luciano Baldauf told that he can see a change in the profile of Brazilians coming to study in the UK. “Previously, many Brazilians came to study English. With Brazil’s growth in the global economy, many families and students themselves have realized that studying a specialized course abroad is one of the best investments in a future professional career back in Brazil, this has meant that the demand for higher education and post graduate opportunities here in the UK has grown significantly,” Luciano told.

Luciano also remembered that

“nowadays even the under and post graduates here in the UK can be paid for part time or freelance jobs so students can work legally for the duration of the visa, which has greatly facilitates the financial aspect, with a more rapid investment return”.

In this way, the UK Study and the Birmingham City University (BCU) has put their forces together to attract foreigners’ students, manly from Brazil.

With around 23,500 students from 80 different countries, BCU is one of the largest universities in the UK and its popularity has grown significantly in recent years.

Its six academic faculties offer over 350 courses, from foundation level, through undergraduate degree programmes, to taught Master’s courses and research doctorates. About a third of

BCU has students from 80 different countries its students study part-time, combining employment with our professionally relevant courses, improving their career prospects.

More information about opportunities for foreigners’ students to study in a higher education institution you can find by accessing the web pages www.bcu.ac.uk or www.ukstudy.com.

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PROFILE

Itamara Dall Alba: Plans developed into new challenges ID: A moment to remember: My marriage.

A fear: Water.

One flaw: Perfectionism.

A quality: Perfectionism.

A vice: Handbags and shoes.

A song: Stand by me.

A book: A Woman of Substance Barbara Taylor Bradford.

A film: The Bridges of Madison.

A drink: English tea A dish: Barbecue.

A restaurant: Nobu Restaurants.

A place to go: Bora Bora.

A place to return to: Paris.

The most beautiful city: Brugges What attracts in someone interesting? Sincerity and objectivity.

What is the defect easier to forgive? Depending on the reason any error is forgivable.

The best gift I received: All those bring good memories.

The best gift ever offered: a smile

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ife is a series of decisions coupled with surprises. Of course, different for each person.

After marrying, Itamara moved to London with plans to stay here for five years to study and travel. However, life surprised and in less than two years, his goals became impossible to achieve as planned and the idea of leaving London and returning to Brazil was considered, but not implemented. Today, nine years later, the gaucha Itamara Dall Alba talks about how she feels at home in the land of the queen and proud to be for 24 years leaving London more yellow-green with his shop, Casa Brazil.

The simple fact of being in London and discovering you can get by without speaking the English language, surprised Itamara since her arrival in the British capital. “I experienced a culture shock when I got here. London is a Tower of Babel where you find every nationality you can imagine, and even then, you can live here without speaking English to begin with.” Though she did add that it is essential to speak the language of the country you live in if you want to integrate with the local culture.

to someone who needed in a time When asked about what continues to surprise her in London, Itamara said it was the diversity. “I go out to visit something and always consider myself a tourist. Even if it is not the first time you are visiting a place is never the same.

You always have something new to see in London, “she says.

Greenwich is symbolically a special place for the gaucha for two reasons: “London was the beginning of a new life completely from scratch, without speaking English, no family, friends.

Greenwich is the ground zero and from there you can get out by the Thames and see London along the way, “she explains.

For Itamara finding different people, making contacts is what makes London a place of opportunity. “For me, happiness is the fact of London be a land of opportunities that are possible in everyday life here,” she says.

During her time in the English capital, as all the people who leave Brazil, the sad moments are inevitable and speaking with emotion, she says that the harsdest time in London was the loss of her husband, Regis Juarez.

And so, in the “land of opportunity”, life turned her plans into new challenges she faced with courage for today could celebrate the continuation of a work that began in 1989 with Juarez in Casa Brazil.

At this time, a major goal was to publicise Brazilian culture, importing books and other literature, as in the case of magazines from publisher Abril, which they are exclusive distributors throughout Europe for 20 years. “Being a pioneer is an example and gives support to serve the market, the Brazilian community and with all the many different nationalities who are also our customers’ celebrates Itamara highlighting the considerable increase in the number of customers of other nationalities.

Today we can say that Casa Brazil is not just a store; it’s more than that, because the role of leading Brazilian culture is supplemented with social supports and monitors the day-to-day of Brazilians who live far away. “We are always involved in cultural, social (Happy Child), organising events, lectures of different topics. The Casa Brazil is always open to partnerships in other areas, “she says.

when I was not feeling able to smile.

A talent that would like to have and have not: Swimming, painting…

A beautiful woman: Catherine Zeta Jones.

A handsome man: Richard Gere.

A dream fulfilled: Know several countries.

A Miss: My father.

Prefer surprise or be surprised?

The two things.

Can not live without: Dona, my dog.

Someone I should know: My husband, Régis Juarez.

Family: Homesick.

Things that loves London: Freedom and privacy.

Things you hate about London: transit.

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By Vivian Hidalgo

Continued from page 02 >> Bolivian born Vivian Hidalgo came to London in 2009 after six years working as an interior designer in Barcelona to complete her Masters in Graphic Design at the London College of Communication.

As a result Hidalgo’s work is a perfect fusion of Latin American and European, old and new, analogue and digital.

Inspired and immersed in Andean culture and heritage, Hidalgo utilises the design knowledge learnt in London to create digital designs of traditional Andean woven textiles. She then digitally prints the designs onto silk to create a selection of scarves and accessories.

Instantly recognisable to anyone who has been to Bolivia or Peru, these bright, geometric designs have become a great calling card for Hidalgo, who had a solo exhibition at the Bolivian embassy throughout the International Fashion Showcase. “It was by chance that I started working the embassy. During the Olympics in London I attended a party and wore one of my scarves. Someone from the embassy recognised the pattern and was intrigued by it. Because they are woven Andean textiles are often quite rough and hard to work with so you don’t see them applied to fashion.” The embassy first commissioned Hidalgo to create a unique scarf for one of its Ambassadors, which also included other Andean iconography and was then asked to be their representative in the International Fashion Showcase.

Asked if she thinks there is pressure on Latin American designers to come to Europe to establish themselves, Hidalgo says that the same opportunities are not available at home and that in coming to Europe these emerging designers have something “different”, eventually she hopes to split her time more evenly between Bolivia and the UK as she would like to spend more time researching Andean culture and bringing it to a wider audience.

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A Journey Through the Landscape Being part of the BFC’s showcase has been an important experience for Hidalgo, present at the exhibition each day she has enjoyed speaking to editors, buyers and representatives fashion institutions. She is also continuing her work with the embassy and though it is not 100% confirmed is in discussions about collaborating with a designer to create the formal dress for the Bolivian athletes for the Olympic Games in Rio. Which brings us on to an important point, where can we learn more about emerging Brazilian talent? Brazil has not been included in the International Showcase in London so far, this is probably down to a few reasons, the growing strength of Sao Paulo fashion week and events planned for Brazil’s own cultural Olympiad are the most notable.

Though this omission does seem surprising, especially when you consider that country’s with well known fashion industries like Sweden (home of H&M) were included and that surely, in the run up to Rio 2016 now, more than ever is a great time to cash in on interest in Brazil and bring its cultural products to a wider audience. Either Brazil has not been allowed to enter its designers, decided not to for its own reasons, or the British Fashion Council have not selected them, either way this raises questions over how Brazil’s fashion industry is promoted on a global scale.

Stephen Whelan freelances for Dazed and Confused and heads up White Lodge as Executive producer, specialising in producing fashion and luxury films for a range of clients from Louis Vuitton to Kenzo.

Whelan is very interested in Brazil’s current fashion climate. Not only does its emerging middle class provide an increasingly affluent audience for luxury goods but his husband is also from Brazil, and as a result he spends a lot of time there.

Whelan thinks there are several factors that make it hard for Brazil to be seen as a credible contender for fashion acclaim. “It has a lot to do with Brazil’s geography to an extent. It’s such a massive country that it’s incredibly hard to solidify permeating brands. To become an upper tier brand like Luis Vuitton or Prada, brands that are so well known that their aura extends across the globe, you need to be first establish yourself nationally and then expand globally. To execute this you need a huge amount of investment and also a sophisticated marketing strategy”.

Whelan is looking to both incorporate Brazilian taste and aesthetics into his

approach but also to work with the country’s designers, recently discussing a collection film with Brazilian-born designer Barbara Casasola. Having studied at Central St Martins and Milan’s Institute Maragoni, Cassasola is currently based in Spain. “It’s a common trait in fashion generally that international talent tends to gravitate towards Europe and the grand houses in France and Italy”, Whelan added. “London is often the proving ground and creative hotbed for emerging designers, but mainland Europe is generally the end goal, that elusive in-house Creative Director role at the top of the food chain.”

While it has long been the case in fashion and indeed art that those looking to reach the top echelons of their industry will travel and study abroad, this necessity for exciting young designers to be in Europe seems a little outdated. Perhaps this will change as the Bric countries increasing look to meet national demand for luxury goods by producing their own brands alongside consuming the European super labels.

However, Whelan remains reticent on when this change might occur in Brazil. “While it is gaining momentum, Sao Paulo fashion week still has a lot to do to be heard on the global fashion stage. Fashion Weeks fight for precedence on the strength of their designers and national brands. Paris and Milan are still the centers of couture with London fighting for third place with New York and Brazil is just not on that scale, yet.”

The biggest challenges according to Whelan are for designers to try and overcome the concentration of wealth in Brazil to gain national identity and to find a suitable area to market their brands. “Television is a huge means of building an all-pervasive brand but in Brazil current TV advertising has such a low aesthetic and tabloid-level editorial values. Luxury brands probably wouldn’t want to have their product placed between a bate cabelo game show and a novella! It is down to Brazilian designers to define what their own home grown fashion will look like and how they will present it to the world.”

With this in mind, it seems more important than ever for Brazilian and other Latin American designers to consider and widen their reach at home and build upon the positive changes that are happening there. Equally Latin American editors, experts and representatives should be doing more to support these emerging designers and

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build their brands.

It is perceived that Latin America’s fashion industry is still in its infancy as these countries have had bigger issues to worry about but with fashion contributing billions to global GDP and the cult of the fashion designer living strong, a greater sense of confidence and self assuredness is needed. After all wouldn’t it be great to see more than an impeccably toned and stunning model in swimsuit as an icon of Brazilian fashion?

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Latin America FREEDOM OF SPEECH

Too much noise for nothing Cuban blogger Yoani Sánchez has been in Brazil recently but while she sparked heated debates, essential issues were left out

Doesn’t matter who gives money to Yoani; the point is how Cuba will face its problems

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By Guilherme Reis oani Sánchez is becoming a well known voice of defiance.

On her blog Generación Y (Generation Y), Yoani makes her opposition to the government in Cuba.

Not surprisingly, this makes her popular with those people and companies that still think the cold war echoes on and see Cuba as a communist threat. Yoani is as equally criticised and disliked by those who support Cuba’s government.

Thanks to the support of major media outlets around the world (mainly in Latin American countries), Yoani has been transformed and promoted as Cuba’s most important voice in defence of freedom of speech.

Yoani has been in Brazil recently for a range of events and, as the press there didn’t have anything better to discuss, the country has seen a huge succession of a totally inane debate over the character of Yoani, both from the left

and right side of the political spectrum.

At her first engagement in Brazil, the screening of a documentary in Feira de Santana, a countryside city of the Bahia State, Yoani’s presence triggered a massive protest of Cuba supporters, which led alarmists to cancel the event.

Sniffing a story and a chance to criticise those who support Cuba, Brazil’s big media companies and its spokespersons (who are totally aligned with anti-Cuban Capitalist ideals and with what we can call as a US development desire), waded in casting supporters of Cuba as totally antidemocratic, adding that everything espoused by Castro’s regime is bad, reckless and behind the times.

Ok, so nothing new there then. After all, what can we expect from the Latin American bourgeois media companies, modelled on US mentality? And, in this case, those people who unnecessarily prevented the screening gave them all the reason to use the old argument that

everyone against Yoani is in support of the Cuban dictatorship.

On the other side of the argument, there were several articles from those on the left, arguing that Yoani is being paid by the US to publicly criticise Castro’s government. Such articles questioned how Yoani funds her world travel in which she decries Cuba’s government.

Now I reach the point, all this focus on who or who isn’t paying her ignores the fact that the protection of freedom of speech is highly pertinent as Cuba is at a point of transition. She must be free to use the internet to write whatever she wants about her country. She must be free to leave Cuba and live whenever she wants to live. Why is that wrong? It is easy to believe that Yoani criticises Cuba just because she receive money from the US and not because she has real questions against the regime.

The truth is that on more than 20 occasions, in denying Yoani free passage to travel abroad the Castro regime has

actually helped her to reach a much bigger audience around the world.

In reality, those who support the Cuban regime have little to worry about, Yoani has little to add to debates that have not been in the public realm for years. In her appearance at the Brazilian Congress, Yoani had nothing new to say that Cuban opposition voices haven’t already said.

Those people who support Cuba, should not ignore the reality and recognise the problems the country faces.

Greater reflection and knowledge will not necessarily cause Cuba to neglect its revolutionary purposes.

Changes and reforms are already taking place in Cuba. What must be known and discussed now is what shape they will take, if they will fully restore capitalism in Cuba within tight control of the Cuban bureaucracy, or if they will permit reforms and changes within the Revolution. These must incorporate the entire population to decide which direction the country should take.

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Feb 26th – March 11th 2013

Technology KNOWLEDGE

The future of education is digital Innovative projects use the web to democratise learning

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By Rafael Cabral nline platforms offering costfree higher education courses in all areas of knowledge, bearing the stamp of the world’s most prestigious universities.

This is the goal behind the so-called MOOCs (Massive Online Open Courses), who have promised to completely alter how we see and deliver education.

While the UK has long been a good example with many undertaking Open University courses and learning from home, digital education has grown considerably in recent years and has enabled students to learn from each other through interactive tools. This has largely been down to the wider blending of our online and offline worlds, in many areas this freedom of access has meant that knowledge no longer the exclusive realm of specialists but is accessible to hardworking people interested in learning who only need an internet connection.

An important spokesperson and pioneer of the movement is Salman Khan, an American financial analyst

with a degree from Harvard. Khan started making interactive video lessons to help his cousin and was surprised with millions of views after posting them on YouTube. As a result, he became a full time educator and founded Khan Academy (www.khanacademy.org), a website where 4,000 lessons with subjects from medicine to astronomy can be accessed and that currently tots up 6 million page views per month in 200 countries.

Khan criticises traditional education, believing it is too general, boring and incomplete. “The old classroom model simply doesn’t fit our changing needs.

It’s a passive way of learning, while the world requires more and more active processing of information”, he explains in his book, The One World Schoolhouse.

Khan’s successful journey attracted substantial investments and set an example to conventional universities, who were once criticised for failing to adapting quickly enough to incorporate digital innovations.

“The democratisation of higher education through the internet will change the role of universities and

the way we teach and learn”, stated Anant Agarwal, creator and president of edX (www.edxonline.org), a nonprofit website founded by a partnership between two of the biggest names in education in the US - Massachussetts Institute of Technology (MIT) and Harvard, who has already expanded to work with four more major partners in this area.

Opened to the public in the end of 2012, edX holds access just a few comprehensive and thorough courses.

“These are the best courses, created by the best teachers, in the best universities in the world. We are very proud to say the free online courses offer the same difficulty and strictness as the original ones”, says Agarwal, who is also a computer sciences professor at MIT. This adaptations are also good for university budgets, a seminar that would be listened to 50 people now reaches 500 thousand or more and th site also promotes the institutions to international students. A student who found the course online can be very impressed with its excellence and, if the financial resources allow, decide to enrol to study at the institution.

Another project linked to universities, so far, the biggest and most widely publicised, is Coursera (www. coursera.org), created in 2011 by Andrew Ng and Daphne Koller, both professors at Stanford. The website currently offers a diverse range of courses from 62 institutions, from music production by the renowned Berkley to a guide of robot building by Georgia Institute of Technology (both in the USA).

The curriculum consists of video lessons with embedded tests, timebased tasks and a final project, although the teaching methods and assessment criteria vary. The courses begin and end in pre-established dates to enhance

Could the Massive Online Open Courses be the future? interaction between the students, who are also encouraged to enter debate in the internal forums. Just like offline schools, only those who succeed at handing in coursework on time and obtain good grades receive the final certificate. Another innovation Coursera are developing this year are the paid alternatives such as a career service that links the best students with possible employees and a system of verified certificates, that will soon count as common university credits.

With this free access and opportunity, there is no excuse anymore.

If you’ve always wanted to learn something and never had the chance, if you have curiosity about a new subject, or even if you want to see if you have the intellectual rigour to study at University without mounting up huge debts, now is the best time to do this. So switch on and get down to work.

Learning online Coursera:

Khan Academy:

edX:

Udacity:

The biggest and most famous platform offers a huge variety of courses and a vibrant community of students, many of whom are Brazilian.

Currently has twenty-three courses.

The majority of them are Maths-related or technical, but it is also possible to find Law and History lessons.

The videos simulate a blackboard and the content is drawn, followed by an audio of a professor explaining the subject in-depth.

Focused on technology-related topics such as website programming, artificial intelligence and entrepreneurship.

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Economy BY

CHRISIANO HOLANDA www.chrisholanda.com c.mail@me.com

What’s News Bumi Vote Is Defeat for Rothschild

Shareholders of Bumi, mostly rejected proposals to throw out most of the Indonesian coal miner’s board and senior management team. The vote was a defeat for financier Rothschild.

Stocks Extend Declines

In the US major benchmarks fell after a pair of sour economic readings piled on top of investor worries about the possibility of an earlier-than-expected end to central-bank stimulus.

CFTC: Exchange Leaked to Broker

U.S. regulators charged a division of CME Group and two former employees of the futures-market operator for revealing private information about trading activity to an outside party.

MOBILE BROADBAND

4G Auction Raises Less Than Expected

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he U.K.’s long-awaited auction of superfast mobile bandwidth has raised £2.34 billion ($3.61 billion) for the government, considerably less than Chancellor George Osborne had expected to pocket for the treasury.

The nation’s communications regulator Ofcom announced five fourthgeneration mobile spectrum winners after more than 50 rounds of bidding.

The winners were mobile operators Vodafone, Everything Everywhere, Telefónica UK (O2), Hutchison 3G (3), and telecom operator BT Group, Niche Spectrum Ventures.

The additional spectrum will allow the operators to upgrade their existing 3G networks, enabling smartphone, computer tablet and laptop users to download data some five times faster than is currently possible.

The auction had been delayed due to infighting between the mobile operators and threats of legal action over allegations of unfair advantages for smaller operators. As a result the UK is lagging behind many countries and regions, including the US, Germany, Scandinavia and parts of Asia.

VISAS

You’re not welcome

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isas are a frustrating necessity for the international traveller. But some countries’ labyrinthine forms and hefty fees seem designed to dissuade all but the most determined tourists.

Take Britain, who requires Chinese tourists to fill in a ten-page form with biometric registration requirements—in English. Unsurprisingly, they have stayed away in their droves. Only 18% of Chinese visitors to Europe make it to Britain, but two-thirds visit France, a member of the Schengen travel zone where visas are both easier to get and are 40% cheaper. Chinese tourists are big spenders who shell out an average of £1,618 ($2,500) each, twice as much as the typical American.

VisitBritain, the country’s tourism trade body, complains that the government’s visa policies are costing the country £2.8bn.

Elsewhere, ordinary travellers bear the brunt of tit-for-tat diplomatic measures. American visitors to Brazil pay a $160 visa fee, levied in retaliation for America’s exclusion of Brazil from its visa-waiver programme. Neighbouring Chile and Argentina cheerily call their fees “reciprocity charges”.

Other countries appear to want to deter all tourists. Sudan’s government says it has intentionally made its visa application

process expensive and opaque. The Himalayan kingdom of Bhutan, famous for measuring “gross national happiness”, levies a $250 daily tariff on visitors in an apparent effort to discourage hordes from spoiling its pristine scenery.

Indeed, poorer countries charge some of the highest fees. Americans who fancy a trip to Burkina Faso, say, must cough up almost $200. Whether these countries benefit from charging visa fees at all is debatable. It is probably safe to assume that the 2,500 British visitors who paid £50 to enter Sierra Leone in 2011 generated far less revenue for the country’s economy, and created fewer hospitality jobs, than the 111,000 visitors who paid nothing to enter Gambia.

Of course, a tourist’s best bet is a passport that enables as much visa-free travel as possible. Anyone lucky enough to have a Danish, British or American passport can visit at least 166 countries without a visa, according to Henley & Partners, a consultancy. By contrast, Chinese passport holders, who are expected to account for half of all global tourism growth over the next 20 years, currently enjoy visa-free travel to only 41 countries. But spare a thought for the plucky Afghan traveller, who has visa-free access to just 26 countries—none of which have direct airline connections from Kabul.

Mr. Osborne in his half-yearly budget statement in December had assumed the bidding would raise £3.5 billion, while Ofcom had set a reserve price of £1.3 billion.

In contrast, a similar auction in the Netherlands at the end of last year raised €3.8 billion ($5.09 billion), far outstripping the €400 to €500 million expected.

Ofcom Chief Executive Ed Richards said the sale would lead to “faster and more widespread mobile broadband, and substantial benefits for consumers and businesses across the country.”

Vodafone, the world’s second-biggest mobile operator in revenue behind China Mobile, spent the highest amount, forking out £791 million for additional bandwidth.

EE, the UK’s biggest mobile operator by revenue, spent £589 million on the auction. EE, which is jointly owned by Deutsche Telekom and France Télécom, had a head start over its rivals by launching the UK’s first 4G network in an initial 10 cities at the end of October.

Telefónica, which operates in the U.K. under the O2 brand, spent £550 million on the auction, while Three spent £225 million. BT was a surptise

4G will allow download five times faster than is currently possible entry into the sale, shelling out £186.5 million. The spectrum winners plan to launch their 4G networks later this year.

A BT spokesman said the spectrum would help the company “deliver fast wireless broadband” to its customers in and outside the home. At present, BT uses WiFi to deliver broadband, and 4G will allow the company to build on that strength, he added.

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Feb 26th – March 11th 2013

Sport CRIME IN SOUTH AFRICA

Oscar Pistorius: from a legend to murder O

Por Jamie Jubon scar Pistorius was granted bail after a hearing into the murder of his girlfriend Reeva Steenkamp.

The famous blade runner was originally charged with her murder before being given a reprieve by a jury in Pretoria, and must now appears in court again in June.

The story has sent shockwaves around the world as Pistorius, seen by so many sports fans as a huge inspiration, saw his reputation in tatters as he stood accused of this brutal murder.

The fact that he has been given bail though has given hope to so many of his fans worldwide that this terrible tragedy may well have just been an unfortunate accident.

His girlfriend was shot and killed in Pistorius’ family home in Pretoria, South Africa. It was alleged that Pistorius had fired four shots through a locked bathroom door, hitting his girlfriend three times.

The prosecution claimed that the blade runner had put on his prosthetic leg and intentionally shot her through the locked door in a pre-meditated attack.

Pistorius’ argument was that he thought his partner was in bed with him and that it was indeed an intruder inside his bathroom, an argument that in the end led to him successfully being granted bail.

In another astonishing twist in the case, the chief investigating officer Hilton Botha, was taken off the case after it was revealed that he himself was facing seven outstanding charges of attempted murder.

The case will recommence on 4th June when Pistorius will again fight to clear his name.

Whether or not he is found guilty in the summer, he now has to deal with the death of his long-term girlfriend, for which he is accused of being responsible for, and you wonder how the career of Oacar Pistorius will ever be able to recover.

His story was one of the most inspirational of any sportsman.

After having both of his legs amputated at just 11 months old, he went on to become the most famous Paralympian of his generation, incredibly competing in the regular Olympic Games in London last summer.

In the 2011 World Athletics Championships, he became the first disabled athlete to win a medal at an ablebodied track event, a phenomenal achievement.

At the Paralympics in London, he won gold medals in both the 400 metres and the 4 x 100 metres relay, during which time he set world records in both. This was after becoming the first ever athlete suffering from a double leg amputation to compete at the summer Olympics.

Last summer’s events in London truly catapulted Pistorius to worldwide fame, and it seems like a world away now to think of the adulation he received, as he stands accused of a brutal murder.

He didn’t come close to winning either of the events he competed in at London 2012, but the fact he competed at all gave thousands of disabled athletes hope and provided them with inspiration that no matter what life throws at you, if you persevere and work hard you can achieve your goals.

That was the legacy of Oscar Pistorius, until this horrible court case.

We can only hope that a man idolised by so many is eventually found not guilty, and that his legacy can somehow be retrieved.

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WORD OF MASTER?

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tay at Santos until the end of his career.

This was the advice that Pele gave to Neymar during an interview with Globo TV. On crutches as he recovers from hip replacement surgery performed last year, Pele said the young number 11 is not yet ready to face European football and does not see the exit to another country as essential.

“He is not ready, especially where they say he was going to play, because he can’t speak another language. I think for him Italy, Germany and England would not be good countries. Portugal, Spain and France would be better, because they play more technical football.” Pele then gave his advice to the young player: “I played all my life in Santos [except for the Cosmos, the United States, at the end of his career] why do you have to leave?

Stay in Santos,” suggested the King of Football.

Once again, just as he did in the interview with the newspaper O Estado de S. Paulo, Pele also made criticisms of Neymar. The script was the same: “I think Neymar is a little excited with the euphoria of being a player with great expression, his vanity and occasional forgetting the team is worrying,” though he also spoke in defence of the player.

“You see that a lot of people criticising: ‘Ah, when you put Neymar against European team, or when he plays for Brazil, he not the same’. This is no concern, because Messi on the Argentina squad is not the same, because the team has not had a chance to gel together. If Neymar joined the right team where everyone cares about what happens to one another it would be good.”

Ready or not?

Pele says Neymar is not ready to play in Europe

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Feb 26th – March 11th 2013

DEMOCRACY AND PARTICIPATION

Brazilian community in the UK is organised to create Citizenship Council

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Por Roberta Schwambach nother official meeting and once again the room of the Brazilian Consulate in London was full with many ‘new faces’.

This event, held in mid February was called to create a Citizenship Council in London. So how will this new council benefit Brazilians in the UK? When we think of citizenship, we think about community and participation.

With approximately 180,000 Brazilians across several UK cities, the diversity of this community is great: from their lives before they were here, their routines, goals and dreams in the land of the Queen. Equally they also have things in common, including similar problems and questions, making these easier to solve and more transparent is one of the goals of the Council of Citizenship.

The Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Brazil has proposed to create a Board of Citizenship in every city of the world that Brazilians are living, with the

goal of creating a consular network, establishing dialogue/ Civil Society abroad, as well as planning projects to benefit the local Brazilian community.

The Council of Citizenship also aims to facilitate the exchange of ideas and information gathering, by the Consular Authority, about the needs, problems and interests of the Brazilian community in order to improve strategies of consular assistance.

In London, many Brazilians took up the challenge to exercise their right to tell the Brazilian government what it could do to improve their lives here, but in 2011 low voter turnout (the minimum was 500 votes) prevented the formation of the Citizenship Council. Some say the process lacked transparency, others put the blame on disbelief in the representative system. After three meetings, it was agreed to create a new model, that is more participatory and will be consolidated at a seminar, which is being widely publicised so that the community

understands and participates in the formation of the Citizenship Council.

The idea is to create thematic groups (in the areas of health, social welfare, human rights, arts and culture, environment, education, gender issues, government relations, governance and ethics). These will be debated with specific projects designed and implemented to benefit of the Brazilian community living in the UK. The board should also contain a communication commission (responsible for

disseminating information and initiatives that are relevant and useful to the community). The members’ participation is voluntary and the terms are for two years, its shares must comply with the statute, which will also be discussed and approved at this seminar.

To find out more about these developments, you should attend the next meeting at the Consulate on 8 March, 7pm. This next preparatory meeting for the seminar at which will be the Council will be formed.

Council of Representatives The Council of Representatives of Brazilians Abroad (CRBE) remains an advisory body, with elected representatives. The division of the CRBE is by world regions (Europe, Africa, the Americas, etc.) and its members seek to show major issues affecting the Brazilians who live there to the

Consulate. The mandate of two years, ended in late 2012, and a meeting to discuss its accountability will be held on 7 March, from 6pm to 8pm, at the Consulate of Brazil in London. This event is open to participation by all and can be a good opportunity to better understand what the council of represents.

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‘Sound track of an unnamed movie’

As the Brazilian musician Domenico Lancellotti releases his first solo album, Cine Privê, The Brazilian Post brings an interview with the son of the samba legend Ivor Lancellotti.

Domenico speaks about his new work, his experience playing in the London and his partnership with João Brasil.

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Domenico Lancellotti acaba de lançar seu primeiro disco solo, Cine Privê, e conta em entrevista exclusiva ao The Brazilian Post detalhes sobre seu novo trabalho, que ele define como “uma trilha sonora de um filme sem título”, além de contar como foi sua experiência de tocar em Londres e sobre a parceria com João Brasil. Vire a página e aproveite a leitura! >> Mais na página 16

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Feb 26th – March 11th 2013

Domenico Lancellotti, the son of Brazilian samba legend Ivor Lancellotti, released his début solo album Cine Privê on 25 February. This charming, melodic and experimental album is probably the first time ever that Stereolab, Tom Ze and Jorge Ben have all been used in comparison to the same artist. Built on consistently intriguing rhythms and sonic textures, Cine Privê is reminiscent of the meditative yet swinging quality of Joao Donato’s mid-seventies albums.

We can say that the album Cine Privê, as the musician said to The Brazilian Post, is a “sound track of an unnamed movie”, and this was a work that took three years to be finalised. “I make music because I wouldn’t know how to live without a work in progress, I think of an album as a unity, I like to think about the sound, the music’s order, the relation between them”, Domenico said.

“I’ve always listened to movie tracks, foremost Italian ones from 60’s and 70’s, and in one moment I saw that this album could be from an imaginary film, this was natural. When I’m composing, I always think about the relation of the sound with the image that it can produce in the others. I see the album as living, being part of daily life, developing itself each day, and also, I don’t have money to record and finalise all at the same time!”, he added.

‘London made a school’ About his relationship with the British capital, Domenico said that the public in London always had welcomed his concerts with his former band pretty well and that he likes contact with British, and from other nationalities, when he is in London.

“London is a very musical city; it made a school, a style that I like very much.

Foremost, the public here is really open and kin to the music that I produce”.

During the Olympic Games last year, Domenico Lancellotti was invited, with other 29 artists from several areas, to be part of the Rio Occupation. That time he made a partnership with João Brasil, what resulted in recording, in Brazil, the EP Taksi at Audio Rebel. The first concert with João Brasil in London was in The Tanks, at Tate Modern, and they prepared a special set for this event, “as it worked very well, we decided to develop the Taksi project”, with this project, both of them will take part on the Sónar, in Sao Paulo.

He said that Taksi is “basically an improvisation duo with electronic instruments, and on the moment of doing it, they remix ideas from the carioca funk, rock, samba, noise, at the end, we don’t care about having a style”. Taksi concerts are being recorded by video with the help of Leando Lima, as well as the first recordings in Audio Revel. When we asked him if the objective is to make a documentary, he says “Leando came up with this idea, he made some good images from our presentation, and I hope he gives some continuity for this work”.

Domenico Lancellotti, filho da lenda do samba Ivor Lancellotti, lançou no dia 25 de Fevereiro seu álbum sólo, Cine Privê. Melódico e experimental, o disco é provavelmente o primeiro em que Stereolab, Tom Zé e Jorge Ben foram revisitados pelo mesmo artista. Ritmos e texturas sonoras fazem com que o trabalho lembre os álbuns de João Donato, que nos anos 1970 inovava com músicas meditativas e swingadas, o que faz com que o álbum de Domenico seja uma viagem sonora.

Podemos dizer que o disco Cine Privê, como o próprio artista o definiu em entrevista ao The Brazilian Post, é “uma trilha sonora de um filme sem título”, um trabalho que demorou três anos para ser finalizado. “Faço discos porque não saberia viver sem um trabalho em desenvolvimento, penso num álbum como uma unidade; gosto de pensar no som, na ordem das músicas, a relação entre elas”, revelou Domenico.

“Sempre fui um ouvinte de trilhas para cinema, sobretudo as italianas dos anos 60 e 70; em determinado momento vi que poderia tratar este disco como uma trilha para um filme imaginário, isso foi muito natural, sempre penso na relação de imagem com o som quando estou compondo. Acredito no disco dentro da vida, fazendo parte do dia a dia, se desenvolvendo pouco a pouco, até porque não tenho dinheiro para gravar e finalizar tudo de uma tacada só!”, completou o músico.

‘Londres fez uma escola’ Sobre sua relação com a capital britânica, Domenico contou que a receptividade do público londrino a seus shows com o +2 e com Adriana Calcanhoto foi muito boa e que, sempre que aqui esteve, conheceu muitos músicos ingleses e de outras nacionalidades. “Londres é uma cidade muito musical, que fez uma escola, um estilo que gosto muito. Além de ter um público aberto e instigado à música que faço”, disse.

Durante os Jogos Olímpicos de Londres, no ano passado, Domenico Lancellotti foi convidado, juntamente com mais 29 artistas cariocas de diversas áreas, para participar do Rio Occupation. Na ocasião, firmou parceria com João Brasil, o que rendeu lá no Brasil a gravação do EP Taksi, no Audio Rebel. A primeira apresentação com João Brasil em Londres foi no The Tanks, no Tate Modern, e eles prepararam um set especial para a ocasião. Como deu certo, resolveram desenvolver o projeto Taksi, com o qual os dois vão participar do Sónar em São Paulo.

Domenico explicou que Taksi é “basicamente um duo de improvisação com instrumentos eletrônicos, na hora do combate entra na sopa várias ideias como funk carioca, rock, samba, noise, enfim, não nos preocupamos em ter um estilo”. As apresentações de Taksi, assim como a primeira gravação no Audio Revel, estão sendo documentadas em vídeo pelo cineasta Leandro Lima.

Questionado se o objetivo é montar um documentário, Domenico diz que “o Leandro apareceu com esta ideia, fez belas imagens da nossa apresentação e espero que dê continuidade”.

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Agora sim, o ano começou!

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omo é do conhecimento geral, é depois do Carnaval que o ano começa no Brasil. No entanto, para as celebridades, o Carnaval é a grande vitrine e, depois dele, tudo volta a ser o mesmo marasmo.

Volta e meia alguma “celebridade” faz algo interessante... Ou não! Não é à toa que selecionamos, novamente, as chamadas de celebridades mais chatas e sem noção nos web sites de fofocas – minha gente jornalista, se não é notícia, não publiquem, por favor! Ao menos, sempre existe a Kristen Stewart e o Bierber pra gente tirar onda!

As manchetes que você não deveria ler!

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k, é fato que tirar onda com as celebridades é o maior propósito desta coluna! Mas tem horas que a minha diversão se esvai quando as notícias encontradas pelos setores de fofoca são chatíssimas. Muito pior que ler sobre as bobagens que as celebridades fazem, é ler as bobagens que os jornalistas escrevem. Aqui vai a seleção: - Em manhã ensolarada, Giulia Gam passeia de bicicleta na praia... (E???).

- William Bonner compra chiclete de vendedor ambulante antes de peça (Que absurdo! Chiclete?

No ambulante?).

- Glória Maria passeia pela orla do Arpoador com visual discreto (Nossa, gente, será que ela esqueceu o chapéu de penas em casa?).

- Sabrina Sato aparece dormindo de boca aberta em foto de amigo (Sabia que a Sabrina abre a boca não só pra falar besteira? Verrrrrrrrrrrdade!).

E o melhor: - Com discurso sem nexo, Bial tira o foco dos protagonistas no melhor paredão (E alguma vez teve nexo?).

Porquê algumas vezes eu respeito os britânicos

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empre achei meio ridículo o visual das “periguetes” inglesas, mas devo confessar que, às vezes, eles até mandam bem, como essa votação pré-Oscar, realizada anualmente pelo site MenKind. Segundo a enquete, Kristen Stewart, 22, estrela da saga Crepúsculo, foi considerada a atriz menos sexy do mundo.

Segundo um porta-voz do web site, a enquete da publicação “sempre mostra o que os homens britânicos pensam. E tem mostrado que a sensualidade é mais importante do que a aparência.

Eles não se sentem atraídos por atrizes voláteis e mal-humoradas, assim como pelas rainhas de gelo.

E eles não querem ver estrelinhas doentiamente magras nas telonas”.

Devo dizer que, apesar de não concordar

Eee soninho bããão hahaha exatamente com o fato de não “gostarem de malhumoradas” - afinal, quem eles iam namorar aqui, se não fosse com as mal-humoradas, isto é, você conhece alguma inglesa bem-humorada? –, devo dizer que os rapazes ganharam uns pontinhos comigo!

O carma de Kristen e dos vampiros

P Vergoinha: Valesca Popozuda em turnê pela Europa...

ois é, dizem que aqui se faz, aqui se paga, certo? Depois de ter traído o ex-namorado Robert Pattinson publicamente, a moçoila anda em um mau momento. Além de ter terminado, novamente, o namoro com o galã e ter sido considerada a menos sexy atriz hollywoodiana dentre os britânicos (será que Pattinson, britânico, percebeu?), ela ainda ganhou o troféu Framboesa de Ouro de 2013 na categoria Pior Atriz.

Não só ela, claro. Crepúsculo: Amanhecer - Parte II foi o grande vencedor da premiação! O filme levou sete estatuetas: pior filme, pior diretor (Bill Condon), pior atriz (Kristen Stewart), pior ator coadjuvante (Taylor Lautner), pior casal na tela (Lautner e a atriz de 12 anos Mackenzie Foy), pior elenco e pior sequência.

O único que se safou da maldição vampiresca foi Robert Pattinson (o rapaz anda sortudo, hein?), que “perdeu” o prêmio para outro veterano dentre os piores, o ator Adam Sandler, pelo filme Este É o Meu Garoto, filme que também levou o prêmio de pior roteiro.

Chocada! Kristen Stewart é considerada atriz menos sexy do mundo por britânicos

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Feb 26th – March 11th 2013

MATTER OF TASTE

I don’t like crab, but caranguejo is delicious

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A few years ago, one my best friends in Brazil, Vitor, invited me to his families’ beach house in a small town called Manguinhos in Espirito Santo state. The main purpose of the trip was to teach me how to surf, which was only half successful. After the day’s workout by surf, and under the searing heat, Vitor’s family had invited me back to their house for a churrasco. Food - now this was something I needed no lessons in.

You can imagine my disappointment to learn that crab was on the menu. But Brazilian crab was a new experience for me, decided to give them a try. ‘Perhaps Brazilian crabs are different’, I thought.

They are! At first, Vitor had to show me how to eat them. You have to use hammers to crack the shell and legs. The

legs are peeled and then sucked as if they are straws.

I was immediately impressed.

There was no bitter taste - the meat is beautifully seasoned, naturally salty. It bursts with flavour. It’s also very soft, much more like fresh fish than lumps of string. And they are not at all boring. In fact, there are lots of different ways to eat crab in Brazil. Including the leg straws, the meaty claws, and then there’s the body. Admittedly, they are not the easiest food in the world to eat. You have to eat several to have had a proper meal, but this adds to the fun.

Now, every time I return to Brazil I visit a restaurant in Vitoria called Ilha do Caranguejo, or island of crabs. This is one of the few places that sells crab all year

round. One of the best things about places like this is that eating crabs becomes a social event; people share their favourite ways to eat crab and the best places to eat them. My personal favourite is, after the legs and claws are finished, mixing the content of the head of the crab with farofa and vinaigrette, and then eating with a spoon.

Back in the UK, I still don’t like crab, but dream of taking a journey back to the island of crabs. And there’s a lesson here, too. Every time I’m in Brazil, local people say you need to go to France or Italy to taste good food. No! Please, I beg you, Brasileiros, to stop this talk. The most delicious, most enjoyable and most varied food in the world is from Brazil, and it’s time to start telling the world.

Texto de Shaun Cumming Traduzido por Marielle Machado

Mas depois que eu fui para o Brasil, tudo mudou.

Há alguns anos atrás, um dos meus melhores amigos no Brasil, Vitor, me convidou para passar uns dias na casa de praia de sua família, em uma pequena cidade chamada Manguinhos, no Estado do Espírito Santo. O principal objetivo da viagem era me ensinar a surfar, o que não deu muito certo. Depois de passar o dia tentando surfar, e sob um calor escaldante, a família do Vitor me chamou de volta para casa para um churrasco. Comida - agora sim algo que eu não preciso de aulas.

Você pode imaginar a minha frustração ao saber que no menu tinha caranguejo. Mas caranguejo brasileiro era uma experiência nova para mim, então eu decidi dar uma chance.

“Talvez os caranguejos brasileiros sejam diferentes”, pensei. E eles são!

Para começar, Vitor tinha que me mostrar como comê-los. Você tem que

usar martelos para quebrar a casca e as pernas. As pernas são descascadas e depois sugadas como se fossem canudos.

Fiquei imediatamente impressionado. Não tinha aquele gosto amargo - a carne é bem temperada, naturalmente salgada. É uma explosão de sabor. É também muito macia, mais parecida com peixe fresco do que pedaços de fibra. E eles não são nada sem graça. Na verdade, há muitas maneiras diferentes de comer caranguejo no Brasil.

Incluindo os canudinhos de pernas, as garras de carne e, em seguida, tem também o corpo. Certamente eles não são o alimento mais fácil do mundo de comer. Você tem que comer vários para ficar realmente satisfeito, mas é aí que está a graça de tudo.

Agora, toda vez que eu volto ao Brasil eu vou a um restaurante em Vitória chamado Ilha do Caranguejo.

Este é um dos poucos restaurantes que vende caranguejo o ano inteiro. Uma

das melhores coisas sobre lugares como este é que comer caranguejos acaba se tornando um evento social, as pessoas compartilham suas maneiras favoritas de comê-los e os melhores lugares para isso. O meu jeito favorito é, depois das pernas e garras, misturar o conteúdo da cabeça do caranguejo com farofa e vinagrete, e comer assim com uma colher.

De volta ao Reino Unido, eu ainda não gosto de caranguejo, mas sonho em fazer uma viagem de volta para a ilha dos caranguejos. E há uma lição aqui também. Toda vez que eu estou no Brasil, as pessoas dizem que você tem que ir para a França ou a Itália para provar boas comidas. Não! Por favor, eu imploro, brasileiros, parem com esta conversa. A comida mais deliciosa, mais agradável e mais variada no mundo é a do Brasil, e é hora de começar a dizer isso ao mundo.

By Shaun Cumming ’ve never been a fan of crabmeat here in the UK. It tastes bitter. The smell is also unpleasant. Its dry and ‘stringy’ texture sticks to the top of the mouth.

And no matter how British people try to prepare crab, it’s boring.

‘Crab sticks’ are particularly disgusting.

They have all of the above unpleasantness, but are also covered in a strange orange paint. And I notice some of the supermarkets mixing crabmeat into a pate with salmon, which makes it slightly more appetizing.

But crammed into a can as of it were a tuna steak? The thing is, I love almost all types of seafood, but I just can’t stand crab.

But then I went to Brazil, and everything changed.

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u nunca fui fã de carne de caranguejo aqui no Reino Unido.

Tem um gosto amargo. O cheiro também é desagradável. A carne é seca e a textura meio fibrosa gruda na parte superior da boca. E não importa como os britânicos tentem preparar caranguejo, sempre fica sem graça.

“Crab sticks” (kani) são particularmente nojentos. Eles têm todas as qualidades acima, mas são também cobertos por uma estranha tinta laranja. E eu já notei que alguns dos supermercados misturam carne de caranguejo com um patê de salmão, o que a torna um pouco mais apetitosa.

Mas imprensados em uma lata como se fosse atum? A verdade é que eu amo quase todos os tipos de frutos do mar, mas eu simplesmente não suporto caranguejo.

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TRAVELLER’S CHOICE

Top 10 beaches in the world…

2 in Brazil

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remote beach in Sicily, Italy, has been named the best in the world, in a survey that took the opinions of hundreds of beach lovers in the Tourist Choice Awards. The Conigli (rabbits) beach won this annual title that is based on millions of reviews and quotes given by international tourists who use the TripAdvisor website. Brazil was the only country with two beaches in the top 10.

With white sands and turquoise waters, Conigli on the island of Lampedusa, on the Sicilian coast, was described as a pristine nature reserve, accessible only by boat and as one of the few places in the Mediterranean where there are nesting sea turtles. In recent years, the island of Lampedusa has hit the headlines, becoming known as the stop gap of illegal immigrants travelling from North Africa to mainland Italy.

Second place on the list went to Grace Bay, Providenciales, in the Caribbean archipelago of Turks and Caicos.

Whitehaven beach in the Australian state of Queensland, was third.

Fourth place went to Brazil’s Sancho Bay, Fernando de Noronha with Lopes Mendes beach, Ilha Grande taking seventh.

One surprise on the list was the inclusion, in tenth place of Rhossili Bay in Sawnasea (Wales), in place of other better known beaches of Hawaii, the Caribbean and more exotic locations. With 5 km of sand, bordered by dunes, this beach is very popular with British surfers, hikers and paragliders.

A TripAdvisor representative said the award is based on the quality and quantity of the traveller reviews and notes written about the beaches over the last year with quality of nature and experience seeming to rank highly.

What’s your favourite beach? Do you think the right beaches won? Tell us what you think @BrazilianPost_ #beaches and Facebook Brazilian Post

Check out the whole list: Rabbit Beach, Lampedusa - Italy 2. Grace Bay, Providenciales - Turcos and Caicos Island 3. Whitehaven Beach, Queensland - Australia 4. Sancho Bay, Fernando de Noronha - Brazil 5. Flamenco Beach, Culebra - Porto Rico 6. Las Catedrales Beach, Ribadeo - Spain 7. Lopes Mendes Beach, Ilha Grande - Brazil 8. Horseshoe Bay Beach, Southampton Parish - Bermuda 9. Eagle Beach - Aruba 10. Rhossili Bay, Swansea – Wales

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Rabbit Beach, Lampedusa - Italy

Sancho Bay, Fernando de Noronha - Brazil

Lopes Mendes Beach, Ilha Grande - Brazil

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Rhossili Bay, Swansea – Wales

ma remota praia da Sicília, na Itália, foi apontada como a melhor do mundo, segundo uma pesquisa feita por viajantes. A praia dei Conigli (dos coelhos) venceu esse concurso anual baseado em milhões de resenhas e cotações dadas por turistas internacionais que usam o site TripAdvisor. O Brasil foi o único com duas praias entre as 10 melhores.

Com águas turquesas e areias brancas, essa praia da ilha de Lampedusa, próxima à costa siciliana, foi descrita como uma reserva natural intocada, só acessível de barco, e como um dos poucos lugares do mar Mediterrâneo onde há desova de tartarugas marinhas. Nos últimos anos, a ilha de Lampedusa tem sido mais conhecida como local de desembarque de imigrantes clandestinos vindos do norte da África para a Itália.

O segundo lugar na lista ficou com a baía de Grace, em Providenciales, no arquipélago caribenho de Turcos e Caicos. A praia de Whitehaven, no Estado australiano de Queensland, ficou em terceiro.

No Brasil, foram citadas a Baía do Sancho, em Fernando de Noronha (PE), na quarta colocação, e a praia de Lopes Mendes, na Ilha Grande (RJ), em sétimo. Uma surpresa na lista foi a inclusão, na décima colocação, da baía de Rhossili, em Sawnasea (País de Gales), substituindo praias do Havaí, do Caribe e de locais mais exóticos. Com 5 km de areia e delimitada por dunas, essa praia britânica é muito frequentada por surfistas, excursionistas e praticantes do paraglider.

Uma representante do TripAdvisor disse que o prêmio se baseia na qualidade e quantidade dos comentários dos viajantes e nas notas dadas às praias por intermédio do site durante um período de doze meses.

Veja a lista completa: 1.

Praia dei Conigli, Sicília - Itália 2. Baía Grace , Providenciales - Turcos e Caicos 3. Praia de Whitehaven, Queensland - Austrália 4. Baía do Sancho, Fernando de Noronha - Brasil 5. Praia Flamenco, Culebra - Porto Rico 6. Praia de las Catedrales, Ribadeo - Espanha 7. Praia de Lopes Mendes, Ilha Grande - Brasil 8. Praia da baía de Horseshoe, Southampton Parish - Bermuda 9. Praia Eagle - Aruba 10. Baía de Rhossili Bay, Swansea – País de Gales

London by Night | 20 |

Feb 26th – March 11th 2013

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David Bowie: Style Hero The fame, the fascination, his evolution as a rebel, along with his lyrics are in the spotlight in the V&A’s major Spring exhibition devoted to Bowie, which includes stage costumes and instruments. Exploring Bowie’s career as a musical innovator and cultural icon, the exhibition shows the influence of the singer on fashion, music and art throughout his career.

By Cibele Porto A fama, o fascínio, a evolução do rebelde; tudo isso juntamente com suas letras de música estão sob os holofotes, em meio aos trajes de palco e instrumentos, na principal exposição da primavera 2013 no V&A Museum.

Explorando a carreira de David Bowie como inovador musical e ícone cultural, a exposição mostra a influência do cantor na moda, música e arte ao longo de sua carreira.

When: From 23 March Where: V&A Museum, Cromwell Rd, SW7 2RL Tickets: From £9

Quando: A partir de 23 de março Onde: V&A Museum, Cromwell Rd, SW7 2RL Ingressos: A partir de £9

Flowers, Love And Money It is no secret that one of the great passions of the British is gardening. The history of cut flowers from the seventeenth century to the present day is the theme of the exhibition at the Garden Museum in Lambeth. This exhibition at one of London’s lesserknown museums takes in the history of flowers in Britain, starting with the flower market in Covent Garden (responsible for the boom of this type of trade) through to their place in the simple decoration in homes, to large modern arrangements for weddings and other occasions. Close to Tate Britain and Westminster, this is a great place to take in some quintessentially British culture.

When: Until 28 April Where: Garden Museum, Lambeth Palace Rd, SE1 7LB Tickets: £7.50

Midnight Tango At Phoenix Theatre Set in a late-night bar in downtown Buenos Aires, Midnight Tango captures all the sensuality, elegance and drama of the tango as a young couple meet, dance and fall in love over the course of an evening. Strictly fans will be delighted to see Vincent Simone and Flavia Cacace, along with Russell Grant and others bringing the world’s best tango to the London stage with a fantastic live soundtrack. Arlene Phillips, UK choreographer and former Strictly judge also produced the show.

Situado em um bar de fim de noite no centro de Buenos Aires, o tango da meia-noite captura toda a sensualidade, elegância e drama do tango com um jovem casal que se encontra, dança e se apaixona durante uma noite encantadora. As estrelas do programa Strictly Come Dancing, juntamente com Russell Grant e demais bailarinos trazem o melhor do mundo do tango aos palcos, com trilha sonora ao vivo. O espetáculo é produzido pela coreógrafa britânica Arlene Phillips.

When: Until 2 March Where: Phoenix Theatre, Charing Cross Road, WC2H 0JP Tickets: From £10

Quando: Até 2 de março Onde: Phoenix Theatre, Charing Cross Road, WC2H 0JP Ingressos: A partir de £10

Não é segredo para ninguém que uma das grandes paixões dos ingleses é a jardinagem. A história das flores de corte a partir do século XVII até os dias de hoje é tema desta exposição no Garden Museum. A começar pelo mercado de flores em Covent Garden (o responsável pelo boom desse tipo de comércio), passando pela função de simples decoração em casas até grandes arranjos em casamentos e demais ocasiões.

Quando: De 14 de fevereiro a 28 de abril Onde: Garden Museum, Lambeth Palace Rd, SE1 7LB Ingressos: £7.50

Entertainment | 22 |

Feb 26th – March 11th 2013

Valentina wearing a Neon tights

Custum made sneakers

Huisshan Zhang ‘s lace dress

Cool couple

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Huisshan Zhang’s lace shirt

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Aí está um pouquinho de tudo o que rolou no último London Fashion Week, e o que está e continua super em alta? O neon, animal print, a renda, o vintage, High street x High Labels continuam com muita força, mas o que me chamou a atenção para o novo, foram os macacões muito usados pelas blogueiras e fashionistas.

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Lian wearing American Apparel neon hat x Zara’s animal print coat

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Amber is wearing all intage x Prada’s bag

white socks x Vivienne Westwood sandals Wendy wearing dungaree, he’s back for the summertime trends

Mike wearing all Vintage

Sophie on animal print pants

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Feb 26th – March 11th 2013

SACRED CHAT

My Inner Space

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here is nothing mysterious or difficult about meditation. Many people find themselves unable to practice this art thinking that the dedication and spirituality of an Eastern monk is required.

Meditation is actually just a sophisticated version of something that many of us do quite naturally from time to time - that is, getting immersed in thought. Taken to extremes you can reach the same level of spiritually as a Buddhist monk, however, it is easy to achieve beneficial levels of relaxation without having to go so far.

Just like a cluttered desk, the mind can be covered with so much information that we become unable to function efficiently. Experiences, worries, regrets,

negative images, memories, actions, emotions, analyzes, hopes and fears can muddle our minds. We are constantly adding other distractions and our true inner self becomes increasingly buried.

Meditation is not intended to stop thinking altogether (this would be extremely difficult), but to help us to put order in the confusion. Through meditation we can begin to focus on positive thoughts and positive ideas to find out about our true selves.

When immersed in thoughts, there is a tendency to dream of a better future. Or we can think about a problem and immediately begin a series of constructive solutions. Meditation aims to do the same, but in a more intentional approach.

To relax the mind through meditation, we can arrange the desks and experience a renewal of the inner self. This will result in identity, clarity and freedom, in a cascade of thoughts filled with revelations.

The knowledge of who we really are is the essence of our potential well-being.

If this sense of personal identity is based on the opinions of others or the pressures that people put on us, then our selfesteem escape our control, swaying to the desires and whims of others.

Such is our dependence on external action that we might as well say that we have no time for internal reflection. We are losing our sense of purpose if we are not constantly in action. But it is precisely in these circumstances that our real needs are more obscured. The time spent

arranging the inner self is time gained in clarity and contentment.

Meditation can gently get us out of this emotional dependency and put us back in charge of our lives. Helping us to restore a true relationship with ourselves, it gives us a firm ground on which we establish strong and balanced relationships with others.

By focusing on yourself, meditation is not selfish, since your goal is to improve yourself so you can live a happier and healthier life, which has an impact on everyone around you. While meditation has assumed different forms in different cultures and philosophies, their essence is the same - finding inner peace so that our adventures in the outside world can be calm and have a purpose. (www.innerspace.org.uk)

que sonhar acordado poderia nos levar a vagar aleatoriamente pela tangente. Ao relaxarmos a mente através da meditação, podemos organizar as escrivaninhas e experimentar uma renovação do eu interior. Isso resultará em identidade, clareza e liberdade, numa cascata de pensamentos repletos de revelações.

O conhecimento de quem realmente somos está na essência do nosso potencial de bem-estar. Se esse senso de identidade pessoal estiver baseado na opinião dos outros ou nas pressões que as pessoas nos fazem, então nossa auto-estima escapará ao nosso controle, oscilando ao sabor dos desejos e caprichos dos outros.

A meditação pode, suavemente, nos tirar dessa dependência emocional e nos colocar de volta no comando de nossa vida. Ajudando-nos a restaurar um relacionamento verdadeiro conosco, ela nos oferece um chão firme no qual estabelecemos relacionamentos fortes e

equilibrados com os outros.

Tal é a nossa dependência da ação externa que podemos muito bem afirmar que não temos tempo para a reflexão interna. Sentimo-nos perdendo nosso senso de propósito se não estamos constantemente em ação. Contudo, são precisamente nessas circunstâncias que nossas necessidades reais mais ficam obscurecidas. O tempo gasto organizando o eu interior é tempo ganho em clareza e satisfação.

Ao focar no eu, a meditação não é egoísta, já que seu objetivo é nos aperfeiçoar para que possamos viver uma vida mais feliz e saudável, que tenha impacto sobre todos à nossa volta. Embora a meditação tenha assumido formas diferentes em diferentes culturas e filosofias, sua essência é a mesma – encontrar a paz interna, de modo que nossas aventuras no mundo externo possam ser calmas e ter uma finalidade. (www.innerspace.org.uk)

Meu Espaço Interior

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ão há nada de misterioso ou de difícil em relação à meditação.

Muitas pessoas se acham incapazes de praticar essa arte por pensarem ser necessária a dedicação e a espiritualidade de um monge oriental.

Qualquer coisa que percebamos como difícil pode, naturalmente, acabar sendo difícil numa profecia auto realizável. Mas a meditação é uma versão sofisticada de alguma coisa que muitos de nós fazemos de forma bastante natural de tempos em tempos – ou seja, ficar imersos em pensamentos. Se nos aplicássemos à disciplina, poderíamos, sem dúvida, nos tornar tão eficazes espiritualmente quanto um monge budista. No entanto, podemos conseguir níveis benéficos de relaxamento sem precisar ir tão longe.

Assim como uma escrivaninha em desordem, a mente pode ficar coberta com tanta informação que nos tornamos incapazes de funcionar eficientemente.

Amontoamos em nossa mente

experiências, preocupações, remorsos, imagens negativas, memórias, ações, emoções, análises, esperanças e medos.

Toda vez que fazemos ou dizemos alguma coisa, ou que nos fazem e dizem alguma coisa, somamos outra distração, e nosso verdadeiro eu interior vai ficando cada vez mais enterrado.

Não é intenção da meditação nos fazer parar completamente de pensar (isso seria extremamente difícil), e sim nos ajudar a pôr ordem na confusão.

Com a meditação podemos começar a nos concentrar em pensamentos positivos e a descobrir ideias positivas a nosso respeito.

Quando imergimos em pensamentos, há a tendência de sonhar com um futuro melhor. Ou podemos refletir sobre um problema e imediatamente dar início a uma série de soluções construtivas.

A meditação pretende fazer o mesmo, mas de um modo mais intencional. Ela mantém o foco no assunto, ao passo

Food | 25

Tandoori Chicken

Frango Tandoori

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By Saulo Calliari

chose this recipe because it is delicious, simple and adored by most Indians. England’s and her cuisine was influenced largely by Indian culture, in 19th century, when most of India was part of the British Empire, bringing many recipes and spices to Europe.

This dish takes its name from the oven in which it is traditionally cooked, the tandoor. This unique oven reaches more than 400°C and there are reports of its use in Mesopotamia more than 10,000 years ago. The tandoor is also used to bake a variety of Indian breads including delicious naam bread, which used to be served with perfectly roasted meats.

The great secret of a good Tandoori Chicken is the spices and I am going to teach how to make a great mix.

Ingredients: • • • • •

1 kg of chicken in pieces (thighs and drumsticks or a whole chicken quartered) 200 ml natural yogurt 4 tablespoons mixed spices Tandoori (recipe at the end) Juice of 2 lemons 3 tablespoons vegetable oil or clarified butter (ghee)

Preparation:

Place the chicken pieces, yogurt, oil and seasonings in a bowl and mix well. Cover and leave to marinate in the fridge for at least 24 hours.

Preheat the oven to 200°C, remove the chicken from the marinade, not shaking off too much excess and place on a rack or tray. Bake in the oven for about 30 minutes. Serve with naan bread, rice and a cucumber and mint salad.

Enjoy!

Recipe of Tandoori spice mix: • • • • • • • • • • • •

2 tablespoons coriander seeds 1 tablespoon cumin seeds 1 teaspoon mace 1 teaspoon cloves 1 teaspoon ground cinnamon 1 tablespoon Asian green mango powder (amchur) 1 teaspoon cayenne pepper 1 tablespoon black salt (kala Namak) 1 teaspoon sea salt 1 tablespoon ground ginger 1 tablespoon turmeric powder 3 tablespoons annatto powder

Preparation:

Grind all the spices in coffee grinder or pestle and mortar until fine. Store in a sterilised jar, in a dark cupboard for up to a year.

By Saulo Calliari

ensei nesta receita por ser deliciosa, simples e adorada pela maioria dos indianos. A Inglaterra e sua culinária foram influenciadas amplamente pela cultura indiana; isto ocorreu em meados de 1856, quando a maior parte da Índia estava sob o controle da Companhia Britânica das Índias Orientais e muitas das receitas e temperos vieram para a Europa.

Este prato leva o nome do forno em que é feito, tandoor. Este utensílio chega a mais de 400 graus Celsius e existem relatos de seu uso na Mesopotâmia a mais de 10 mil anos atrás. Neste forno é feito uma diversidade de pães indianos incluindo o delicioso pão naam, que por sinal acompanham perfeitamente as carnes assadas nele.

O grande segredo de um bom Frango Tandoori são os temperos e vou ensinar como fazer uma ótima mistura.

Ingredientes: • • • • •

1 kg de frango em pedaços 200 ml de iogurte ou soro de coalhada seca 4 colheres de sopa de mistura de temperos Tandoori (receita no final) Suco de 2 limões 3 colheres de sopa de óleo vegetal ou manteiga clarificada

Modo de preparo:

Coloque em um bowl os pedaços de frango, o iogurte, óleo, temperos e misture bem. Deixe marinar em geladeira por 24 horas ao menos. Asse em churrasqueira de carvão ou forno tandoor por cerca de 30 minutos. Sirva com pão naam, pita ou similar.

Receita da mistura de temperos Tandoori: • • • • • • • • • • • •

2 colheres de sopa de coentro em grão 1 colher de sopa de cominho em grão 1 colher de chá de macis 1 colher de chá de cravo da Índia 1 colher de chá de canela em pó 1 colher de sopa de manga verde asiática em pó (amchur) 1 colher de chá de pimenta caiena 1 colher de sopa de sal negro (kala namak) 1 colher de chá de sal marinho 1 colher de sopa de gengibre em pó 1 colher de sopa de cúrcuma em pó 3 colheres de sopa de urucum em pó

Modo de preparo:

Moer todas as especiarias em moedor de café ou pilão e peneirar até ficar fino.

Guarde por até um ano em vidro escuro.

Boa refeição!