[Goanet] WHEN WILLOUR PANAJI BE A SMART CITY?
For Panaji to evolve as a Smart City we need Smart persons with integrity and sound knowledge in planning on board the Imagine Panaji Smart City Development Limited (IPSCDL) which is the official vehicle steering the projects being planned for the City. It is dismaying that not a single Goan architect or planner has been taken on board. While promising that Panaji City which includes Ribandar would develop as a very Smart City, those in Power have over the years miserably failed to address and redress even the basic and vital issues pertaining to disposal of garbage, sanitation, public transport and proper parking facilities. Uninterrupted power and water supply seems to still be a very far dream. Health, Education and Housing should have infact been areas of focus. While in the Opposition Panaji MLA Babush Monserrate had accused the IPSCDL of being a big den of rampant corruption and had demanded a public discussion on projects being undertaken. Accordingly Chief Minister Pramod Sawant had summoned a public interaction of IPSCDL with the citizens of Panaji on 28th May 2019 at the Menezes Braganza Hall in Panaji but at the last minute abruptly cancelled it while publicly assuring us all that it would very soon be rescheduled. It is now over two long years and that meeting has still not been held. Ironically Babush Monserrate and his Mayor son are now Directors of that very IPSCDL. We need to know where those crores being drained under the guise of making Panaji a Smart City are being deviously funneled. Unless there is transparency and accountability in the functioning of IPSCDL, with a truly genuine and concerted effort to improve the city’s crumbling infrastructure, our now sinking Panaji will only be further submerged. Adv. Aires Rodrigues C/G-2, Shopping Complex Ribandar Retreat Ribandar – Goa – 403006 Mobile No: 9822684372 Office Tel No: (0832) 2444012 Email: airesrodrigu...@gmail.com You can also reach me on Facebook.com/ AiresRodrigues Twitter@rodrigues_aires www.airesrodrigues.in
[Goanet] Goa News 26tg June 2021.
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Re: [Goanet] Lethargy
On Wednesday, June 23, 2021, 01:15:48 p.m. CDT, Roland Francis wrote: Just my observation. Goanet Readers over the years have become a fairly lethargic lot. Years ago there were active, though sometimes aggressive to the point of obnoxious, responses to what posters wrote. Nowadays the aggression has completely receded but replies to the posts have also become comparatively rare even accounting for the direct replies from responder to writer. It’s like posters writing to nobody, nowhere. Even though many posts earn themselves the Delete button, about 20 percent of posts are good enough to be read and commented upon. Again I say, just my observation. -- Bwana Roland, I had to go to the archives to see what I had missed (I have blocked a whole lot of people) but a quick glance seems to indicate that you are the most prolific poster here - even if the majority of your posts are not about Goa. The only person who is more active, is the moderator, who mostly posts links to direct members away from this site. Aires is about the only person who pens original thoughts about Goa - which seem to be non-controversial. But you are correct, no one seems to read or reply to what is written here. I see only one poster who writes on current and historical Goan/Indian affairs. His articles are here, thankfully, because he cc's them. Then again, maybe no one is reading those articles either as even the excellent ones do not garner public compliments. Instead of complaining about lethargy, I suggest that you should take the initiative and lead Goanet (in a different direction). You can start with a compliment ;-) Mervyn
[Goanet] [Photo Blog by Rajan Parrikar] Elliðaey
Photo Blog by Rajan Parrikar has posted a new item, 'Elliðaey' World's loneliest house. Elliðaey is part of Vestmannaeyjar, the archipelago just off the south coast of mainland Iceland. The isle is uninhabited, and the only house on it is a hunting lodge run by Elliðaeyjarfélag. Beyond Elliðaey is seen the glacial volcano Eyjafjallajökull. You may view the latest post at https://blog.parrikar.com/2021/06/25/ellidaey/ Warm regards, Rajan Parrikar parri...@yahoo.com
Re: [Goanet] Missing posters
Hi Eric, Thanks for remembering me. Have been very busy for the last 6 years or so with more responsibilities. Cannot keep up with Goan forums any more. WhatsApp groups have also taken over. Cheers, Santosh On Thu, Jun 24, 2021 at 1:20 AM eric pinto wrote: > > It is quite regrettable to see today's indifference to both what should > endear us and many unfortunate facts of Goa > life. There is a case to be made for the element of 'information overload' > that can overwhelm, I know I endure it. > Time and the Great Reaper have taken a toll, it pained to be reminded > today that Alfredo is not with us to inform > and entertain : he was a specially painful loss. > Our late friend out of the Bahamas served as an entertainer of a > variety some of us may not have savoured. He > will be remembered, nevertheless. He was responsible for hounding our voice > out of Lisbon, along with a few more. > May both rest, together and afar in the yonder. > Santosh Helekar is specially missed : his was a voice of reason and > compassion. I would include him in the invitation to > Merwyn, both of whom now take in the the joys of Texas sunshine. > Franky's 'Flash Gordon' now thrives in a new repository where soliciting > for the good things in life may be more lucrative > and find and an even more gullible audience. His hideous assaults on > correspondents matched the diagnosis : I recall > in suffering the mindless venom directed at the Panjim 'gentry' > Bosco D'Mello used to be a reassuring voice out of Toronto ,one to be > missed. > Thank you, Roland, but remember the Alamo and, yes the Titanic is back. > > > > From: Roland Francis > > Goanet Readers over the years have become a fairly lethargic lot. > > Years ago there were active, though sometimes aggressive to the point of > obnoxious, responses to what posters wrote. > > Nowadays the aggression has completely receded but replies to the posts have > also become comparatively rare even accounting for the direct replies from > responder to writer. It?s like posters writing to nobody, nowhere. > > > -- * No offense meant. But let the chips fall where they may. *
[Goanet] Schedule for Saturday 26th June 2021
CCR TV GOA Channel of God's love✝ You can also watch CCR TV live on your smartphone via the CCR TV App Available on Google PlayStore for Android Platform. Click the link below. https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=ccr.tv4 Email ID: ccrgoame...@gmail.com Schedule for Saturday 26th June 2021 12:00 AM Rosary - Joyful Mysteries 12:24 AM Wisdom Reflections -12 - Rachol Professors 12:49 AM Novena Prayer to St Joseph Vaz 12:51 AM Hymn - Mhojea Deva Tum Sorv- Fr Seville Antao OFM(Cap) 12:53 AM Talk: Voch ani Tum-vui Tuxench Kor - Manisha Pereira 12:57 AM God's Gift to Mankind - Poem by Daniel F. de Souza 1:00 AM Mass in Konkani for Friday 1:45 AM Konkani Bhas - Bhag 5 - Fr Pratap Naik sj 2:00 AM Saibinnichi Ruzai - Sontosache Mister 2:26 AM Devachem Utor - 1 Korintkarank - Avesvor 12 - Vachpi Orlando D'Souza 2:35 AM Ximpientlim Motiam - Bhag 24 - Noxib - Fr Pratap Naik sj 2:46 AM Inner Healing - Talk by Dr Silvia Noronha 3:13 AM Our Father - Spanish 3:25 AM Devache Dhonniponn amchea Jivitant - Talk by Orlando D'Souza 3:50 AM Adoration SJVRC 4:20 AM Health Matters - Cancer Treatment - Dr Jean Louis De Menezes 4:44 AM Song - With Jesus I rock - Avalon Lobo 4:49 AM Importance of Prayers and God's Word - Godfrey Pereira 5:20 AM Music - Maria Maria - Ivy Ferrao 5:24 AM Abundant Life - Can we pray with Whatsapp? - Prof Nicholas D'Souza 5:46 AM Music - Bavarth - Fr Eusico Pereira 5:51 AM Alcoholism - Eddie Fernandes interviews Socorro Coutinho - Testimony 6:18 AM Bhokti Lharam - Bhag 5 6:25 AM Atmik Margdorxon - Ek Niyall 1 - Br. Malvino Alfonso OCD 6:36 AM Katholik Quiz - Sant Francis Xavier conducted by Shenaya Pereira 6:50 AM Song - You Raise Me Up - Darin Fernandes 6:57 AM Sokalchem Magnnem - Saturday Wk 2 & 4 7:00 AM Konkani Mass from Archbishop's House followed by Jivitacho Prokas 7:45 AM Morning Prayer - Saturday Wk 2 & 4 7:50 AM Music - Stuthi 2 followed by Povitr Atmeak Dispottem Magnnem 8:23 AM Bhajan - Tu Sakshat Parmeshvaru - Fr Glen D'Silva sfx 8:32 AM Song - Bangaracho Danth - By Normansez 8:40 AM Rosary of St Joseph Vaz 9:02 AM Devachem Utor - 1 Korintkarank - Avesvor 12 - Vachpi Orlando D'Souza 9:11 AM Mother Mary - Talk by Fr Eremito Rebelo 9:26 AM Growing in Jesus - Talk by Dr Silvia Noronha 10:02 AM Pray for Goa 10:08 AM Ximpientlim Motiam - Bhag 147 - Titanic - Fr Pratap Naik sj 10:17 AM Devacho Mog - talk by Victor Mascarenhas 10:40 AM Devacher Viswas - Talk by Orlando D'Souza 11:08 AM Bhajan - Namo Visvachiye Dipti - Fr Glen D'Silva sfx 11:15 AM Intercessions (English) 11:30 AM Mass in English from Panjim Church followed by Daily Flash 12:15 PM Youthopia - Joash Mendonca - TT Umpire interviewed by Tancia Pires 12:43 PM Hymn - Deva Mhojea Deva - Fr Ronaldo Fernandes 12:49 PM Santam-Bhoktanchim Ladainh 1:00 PM Sessions - Pastoral Letter 2020-21 - Fr Bolmax Pereira 1:14 PM Abundant Life - Simple Life - Prof Nicholas D'Souza 1:39 PM Pray for Goa - 2 1:45 PM What's Cooking - Episode 9 - Rechado, Mocktail, Linen Art 2:12 PM Faith Magic of Heart - Talk by Sr Shilpa 2:25 PM Hymn - I have decided to follow Jesus - Fr Seville Antao OFM(Cap) 2:27 PM I am the Good Shepherd - Talk by Lavinia Gonsalves 2:50 PM Divinity of Jesus Christ - Talk by Sheela Alvares 3:12 PM Global Goan Virtual Choir 3:23 PM Hymn - St Francis Xavier H.S. - Bhatpal 3:29 PM Deivik Kaklutichi Magnneam 3:38 PM Holiness in the Pauline Family - Maggiorino Vigolungo - Talk by Sr Lissy Kurian 3:53 PM Our Father - Garo 4:00 PM Rosary - Joyful Mysteries 4:23 PM Bhagevont Zuze Vazache mozotin Bhurgeancher Magnnem 4:25 PM Couples Prayer (Konkani) 4:30 PM Senior Citizens Exercises - 1 4:57 PM Bhurgeanlem Angonn - Bhag 10 5:00 PM Praise ad Worship - Brian Colaco 5:28 PM Mary, Our Mother for all intercessors - Ivy Ferrao 6:07 PM Angelus - English 6:09 PM Psalm 118 - Read by Alfwold Silveira 6:16 PM Intercessions (Konkani) 6:30 PM Konkani Mass from Archbishop's House followed by Jivitacho Prokas 7:15 PM Tell me a story - Eps 28 - Joseph sold by his brothers 7:28 PM Magnificat (Konkani) 7:30 PM Saibinnichi Ruzai - Sontosache Mister 7:56 PM Song - Thankful 8:00 PM Talk on Ven. Fr. Agnel by Fr Hilario Fernandes, sfx 8:32 PM Health Matters - A Tobacco-free world - Dr. Eugene Rent 9:00 PM Devachem Utor - 1 Korintkarank - Avesvor 13 - Vachpi Orlando D'Souza 9:05 PM Adoration - DCLA 1 9:35 PM Ratchem Magnem 9:53 PM Concert - Indian Naval Band - Kala Academy 10:55 PM Nokhetram Eps 10 - Michael Gracias chats with Tiatr Team Ghorcho Bhedi Bhailo Chor 11:24 PM Obedience, Submission and Accountability - Talk by Savio Mascarenhas Donations may be made to: Beneficiary name : CCR GOA MEDIA. Name of Bank : ICICI Bank Branch Name: Panaji Branch RTGS/NEFT Code : ICIC015 Savings Bank Account No : 262401000183
[Goanet] Goan, Goes, Goanese?
Why _Goanese_ is sometimes used to describe Goans: http://www.linglish.net/2008/10/22/so-many-nationality-suffixes/ Send your comments to goa...@goanet.org -- _/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/ _/ FN * फ्रेड्रिक नोरोन्या * فريدريك نورونيا +91-9822122436 _/ See a different Goa here, via _/ https://youtube.com/c/frederickfnnoronha _/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/
Re: [Goanet] Did you use the MacAfee anti-virus software?
Aha! I could have asked "Will you use..." But then, who would know the answer? FN On Fri, 25 Jun 2021 at 16:22, Tony de Sa wrote: > Why the past tense? Because McAfee is no longer in the land of the living > does not mean that the company does not exist. I have been using McAfee > Antivirus for the past six years or so. I have found their after sales > service excellent. > > There was a time when my computer was hit by a ransomware attack. The > demand for ransom was in bitcoins and every file of mine was corrupted. So > I simply decided to delete all my files. I wanted to check if my computer > was clean thereafter. One message on their messaging app got me a call from > the USA to sort my problem out. > > Another time, when it was time to renew my subscription, I didn't do it as > the price was very high so I simply purchased a new subscription. I had > difficulties installing it so I used the McAfee website help centre. The > response was almost immediate. > > Prior to that, I was using Kaspersky which was not very responsive to any > help. When I bought Kaspersky from an online retailer, it would not install > because the serial no was not being accepted. It took me days to sort it > out and that too, Kaspersy with great condescension told me they were doing > me a favour! > > Viva. > > Tony de Sa > > Conquer yourself rather than the world > > Rene Descartes > -- _/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/ _/ FN * फ्रेड्रिक नोरोन्या * فريدريك نورونيا +91-9822122436 _/ See a different Goa here, via _/ https://youtube.com/c/frederickfnnoronha _/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/
[Goanet] Tracking the Delta Variant (Dhaka Tribune, 25/6/2021)
https://www.dhakatribune.com/opinion/op-ed/2021/06/25/op-ed-tracking-the-delta-variant Earlier this week on June 23, the American epidemiologist Dr. Eric Feigl-Ding tweeted “Right on cue…#DeltaVariant has arrived in the low #Vaccination states of America and setting off sharp increases in #Covid19 cases again.” He pointed out that the new coronavirus variant had rocketed from 10% of all cases in the USA to 31% at frightening speed, “A tripling in one week!” Feigl-Ding said that “UK missed the oncoming train of #DeltaVariant until it was too late” and warned, “Let’s not repeat Britain’s failure, America.” When this particular epidemiologist tweets, people pay very close attention. That is because Feigl-Ding – who was previously on the faculty of Harvard Medical School and the Harvard Chan School of Public Health – has been proven right many times, most notably from the beginning of last year when Covid-19 had still never been detected outside China. Back then on Jan 25, 2020, he tweeted “HOLY MOTHER OF GOD – the new coronavirus [is] thermonuclear pandemic level bad.” Then, “I really hate to be the epidemiologist who has to admit this, but we are potentially faced with…possibly an unchecked pandemic that the world has not seen since the 1918 Spanish Influenza. Let’s hope it doesn’t reach that level but we now live in the modern world with faster ✈️+ than 1918. @WHO and @CDCgov needs to declare public health emergency ASAP!” Feigl-Ding summarized, “so what does this mean for the world??? We are now faced with the most virulent virus epidemic the world has ever seen.” But that was then. At this point, what could possibly be so alarming in the US, where 56% of adults are already fully vaccinated? It is the Covid-19 mutation B.1.617.2 that first surfaced in India last year, then exploded nationwide in the first half of 2021 to overwhelm all public health systems. What happened here is now playing out everywhere. The Delta Variant’s nastiest, most contagious and potentially most deadly wave of infections is inexorably stalking the world. To be sure, none of this was unexpected. Dr. Feigl-Ding himself blew the whistle hard on June 8, when he warned the Delta variant was already “ravaging UK despite high vaccinations because it has immune evasion properties” and “is worrisome because study after study shows it has one of the worst antibody neutralization profiles against the current vaccines.” That data is stark and scary. The original Covid-19 variant that swept the world was neutralized almost 80% with just one dose of the Pfizer or AstraZeneca/Oxford vaccines, and well above 90% after both. But against the Delta Variant, that protection plummets to around 30%, and two doses still leaves a huge window of vulnerability. When it comes to AstraZeneca/Oxford specifically – the best and often only option across South Asia – even full vaccination yields only 60% protection. This is precisely why March, April and May have been such horrific months in India, with the death toll estimated in the millions, far beyond state and society’s capacity to cope, or even accurately calculate. There’s no doubt that situation was massively bungled by the fatal convergence of misgovernance, apathy, denial and poor choices at both state and national levels. But there’s also no doubt this new threat is fiendishly destructive and evasive: RT-PCR tests regularly fail to detect it, the symptoms vary greatly to mask its presence, and it whips at high speed between children and adults so that entire families and communities become seriously ill at the same time. All this is awful news on multiple fronts. We now know that the only way forward out of the collective pandemic predicament is for literally everyone to be vaccinated, including children. This leaves South Asia in particularly bad shape, because we don’t even have one vaccine approved for non-adults. It also means that masks and travel protocols including hard boundaries are here to stay, quite possibly forever. No scientist or epidemiologist wants to admit it, but it’s almost certain there’s already some Covid-19 mutation circulating that isn’t affected by any existing vaccine or treatment protocol. If we are incredibly lucky, it won’t emerge while we are still trying to cope with the Delta Variant, but no one can say for sure. Thus, while it can seem as though several lifetimes and many different paradigms have waxed and elapsed since the shocking weeks last year, when the world went abruptly into an unprecedented lockdown, the Delta Variant has amply demonstrated that we are still rooted at square one. The stakes remain the same, and all the basic lessons that we learned back them continue to apply in equal measure. You know the drill: isolate, stay at home, mask up properly, and avoid the virus in every way because your life – and that of our family, friends and communities – continues to hang on the safety of your next breath.
[Goanet] Did you use the MacAfee anti-virus software?
Why the past tense? Because McAfee is no longer in the land of the living does not mean that the company does not exist. I have been using McAfee Antivirus for the past six years or so. I have found their after sales service excellent. There was a time when my computer was hit by a ransomware attack. The demand for ransom was in bitcoins and every file of mine was corrupted. So I simply decided to delete all my files. I wanted to check if my computer was clean thereafter. One message on their messaging app got me a call from the USA to sort my problem out. Another time, when it was time to renew my subscription, I didn't do it as the price was very high so I simply purchased a new subscription. I had difficulties installing it so I used the McAfee website help centre. The response was almost immediate. Prior to that, I was using Kaspersky which was not very responsive to any help. When I bought Kaspersky from an online retailer, it would not install because the serial no was not being accepted. It took me days to sort it out and that too, Kaspersy with great condescension told me they were doing me a favour! Viva. Tony de Sa Conquer yourself rather than the world Rene Descartes
[Goanet] IS PANAJI SO INTELLECTUALLY BANKRUPT?
With an 8th Std Babush Monserrate as MLA, an under-educated Rohit Monserrate as Apprentice Mayor and now with Kabir Makhija besides Kishore Sastry on faked expertise as co-opted Counncillors at the Corporation of the City of Panaji (CCP), the sagging intelligence quotient on public display does not augur well for Goa’s capital City. Section 9 (b) of the CCP Act makes a provision to nominate up to five Councillors being persons having special knowledge or experience in municipal administration, engineering, architecture, archaeology, heritage etc. The appointment of Kabir Makhija and Kishore Sastry as co-opted Councillors is in total breach and violation of the CCP Act as both do not meet the requirement of the necessary special knowledge or experience in the required fields. Mayor Rohit Monserrate while proposing to nominate Kabir Makhija and Kishore Sastry as co-opted Councillors falsely stated that they were experts in the field of Engineering and Urban Administration respectively. The provision for co-opted Councillors is for CCP to get advice and guidance of experts and not to be misused to politically rehabilitate former Councillors. Kishore Sastry lost the recent CCP polls held in March this year while Kabir Makhija’s ward being reserved for women was contested by his sister who was also defeated. In fact the bio-data submitted by Kabir Makhija and Kishore Sastry does not make any mention of them having any expertise in Engineering and Urban Administration while Kishore Sastry in his biodata has stated that his educational qualification is I.T.I in Electrical and that he speaks Kannada. So his only possible contribution to the CCP would be to act as interpreter between the English only speaking Mayor and the Kannada speaking municipal workers. As far as my friend Kabir Makhija is concerned as stated by him in his biodata he is rightly a proficient athlete and has excelled as a Model on the ramp, but this is not what a sinking Panaji now desperately requires. Kabir Makhija and Kishore Sastry should have upheld their self respect and not frantically craved for a position they do not qualify for. Co-opted councilors are supposed to be persons with vast experience in the fields specified in the CCP Act so that they could through their long experience and enhanced knowledge contribute their ideas at meetings and deliberations of the Corporation. The appointment of these two councilors is a farce and as well as a fraud committed on the people of Panaji. In the current pandemic the CCP has excelled in swiftly appointing the Co-opted Councillors. The Mayor on 7th April moved a note to the Commissioner proposing the two names while immediately on 9th April the then CCP Commissioner Sanjit Rodrigues wrote to the Director of Urban Development proposing the names while the file after being hurriedly cleared though objections were raised by senior bureaucrats at the Secretariat a notification was issued on 28th April notifying them as co-opted Councillors. We as voters have failed Panaji. The 2022 Assembly elections would be an opportunity to prove that we have brains up there and that we are no duffers. Adv. Aires Rodrigues C/G-2, Shopping Complex Ribandar Retreat Ribandar – Goa – 403006 Mobile No: 9822684372 Office Tel No: (0832) 2444012 Email: airesrodrigu...@gmail.com You can also reach me on Facebook.com/ AiresRodrigues Twitter@rodrigues_aires www.airesrodrigues.in
