[Goanet-News] WhazzupGoa: Boat show... ancient art talks... Pheroze Mistry on solo violin

2009-12-14 Thread Frederick Noronha
Dec 05-27, 2009 10 am to 7.30 pm Darya Sangam Media Promotion Pvt. Ltd. Exhibition Free Dec 10-14, 2009 10 am to 7.30 pm Darya Sangam Media Promotion Pvt. Ltd. Boat Show Invitees Dec 12, 2009 10 am to 11.30 pm DMKM KA-PDS Naval Symphonic Band Concert Passes Dec 12, 2009 3.30 pm to

[Goanet-News] Goanet Reader: Understanding the old laws (Frederick Noronha, GT, The Printed Word)

2009-12-14 Thread Goanet Reader
THE PRINTED WORD/Frederick Noronha -- Understanding the old laws Ave Cleto Afonso, who lectured in Philosophy at the Dhempe College till not long ago, came out last month with a book on the family and succession laws of Goa. The former journalist and scholar talks

[Goanet] NY institute selects GIM for India programme

2009-12-14 Thread Goanet News Service
NY institute selects GIM for India programme HERALD REPORTER PANJIM, DEC 13 Goa Institute of Management (GIM) has been selected by the prestigious Aspen Institute, New York, as part of its Teaching Innovation Programme – India (TIP – India) an international consortium of key influencers in

[Goanet] [JudeSundayReflections] Fourth Sunday of Advent

2009-12-14 Thread Jude Botelho
13-Dec-2009 Dear Friend, Whenever we hear good news, something extra special that is going to happen or has happened, we cannot keep it to ourselves; we want to share it with someone, with anyone who is ready to hear us. Joy shared is joy doubled. Yet, what gets shared more often is bad

[Goanet] End of life care - part 2 / 5

2009-12-14 Thread Gilbert Lawrence
Need for a different mind-set is vital (part 2 of 5)   Oncological (cancer) care has much to offer in cancer cure and significantly improves the length of survival. When these goals are beyond reach, cancer care should be coordinated  with Palliative Medicine which is a board-certified

[Goanet] God and You

2009-12-14 Thread Albert Desouza
Albert writes:- God has given us the ten commandments. The first three binds us to God whereas the last seven binds us to other human beings. Many times we take the literal meaning of the commandments. One of the commandment says Thou shall not steal It does not only mean that you should not

Re: [Goanet] Questionable logic and claims about medical cures

2009-12-14 Thread Santosh Helekar
--- On Mon, 12/14/09, Ivo da C.Souza icso...@bsnl.in wrote: ***Was it suicide? The neuroscientist is trying to bluff the readers and me... The above accusation is false. Here is the statement by Victorbab that the concerned patient committed suicide: when he could not take the pain and the

[Goanet] Mobile mortuaries became a reality in Salcete

2009-12-14 Thread Mario
MARGAO, DEC 12 Mobile mortuaries became a reality in Salcete with the Mickky Pacheco Charitable Trust on Saturday commissioning the mortuaries coinciding with the birthday of Tourism Minister, Mickky Pacheco. The Trust has placed orders for as many as five mobile mortuaries, of which two were

Re: [Goanet] Mobile mortuaries became a reality in Salcete

2009-12-14 Thread floriano
We shall fall short of congratulating Mickky Pacheco for the generational shift in managing deaths at home, though:- 1. People who have no means or no faith to have the bodies of their dear ones preserved at the government managed mortuaries can do so at home, thanks to Mickky's magnanimous

Re: [Goanet] Virgin coconut oil

2009-12-14 Thread Ivo da C.Souza
From: Santosh Helekar chimbel...@yahoo.com Fr. Ivo wrote: Homeopaths are not giving you statistics of the cures that they have achieved so far. They go on curing people without any fuss... Even people who are gullible enough to believe that plain sugar pills can cure serious diseases

Re: [Goanet] Fast unto death

2009-12-14 Thread From PAES
Mervyn, 1) When the Goan drunkard drank 10 beers, his intention may or may not have been to kill himself, but if he had declared the former and if that had become known to the authorities, he ought to have been arrested before he got into his car. However, if his intention was not to kill

[Goanet] Re. Goa RIP

2009-12-14 Thread J. Colaco jc
re this comment from me: Brilliantly stated, my dear Mario. Nunes wrote: [1] Hyperbole is the coin of sycophants. [2] It is discernment, or rather the lack of it. [3] If one's frame of reference is rating rhinestones, baubles and the like ' brilliant', and mind you these while flashy remain

[Goanet] Fast unto death

2009-12-14 Thread Samir Kelekar
Suicide or fast unto death --- call it by whatever name, but in a philosophy where man determines his/her own destiny (and not some external God who decides it), it is not just perfectly allright, but even important than one decides when one dies. The concept of Samadhi originates from the

Re: [Goanet] Fast unto death

2009-12-14 Thread augusto pinto
Bennet Paes wrote: My contention is that any act that intentionally leads to one's death, or for that matter to anyone else's death, is criminal and should be punishable under the law. I wonder what Mr. Paes thinks about a bloke named Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi. Just wondering Augusto --

Re: [Goanet] NRP?

2009-12-14 Thread Gabriel de Figueiredo
Navio da República Portuguesa? NRP being a similar designation to HMS? - Original Message From: Frederick Noronha f...@goa-india.org To: Goa's premiere mailing list, estb. 1994! goanet@lists.goanet.org Sent: Mon, 14 December, 2009 5:42:48 AM Subject: [Goanet] NRP? Just

Re: [Goanet] Goa to host India�s first carbon neutr al wedding

2009-12-14 Thread Gabriel de Figueiredo
FN, Who said anything about planting trees in a rural setting? Plant them where you are - make sure you have enough space for trees when you are building a house. The context in which I said whatever I said was in the context of a couple getting married. Right.  This means a house, in the

[Goanet] PAI TIATRIST - 138TH BIRTH ANNIVERSARY CELEBRATED

2009-12-14 Thread godfrey gonsalves
The 138th birth anniversary of Joao Agostinho Fernandes Pai Tiatrist Father of Konkani theatre  was celebrated this evening at the Pai Tiatrist Indoor Auditorium Margao with a grand  3 hrs musical extravaganza by several tiatrists and a large audience.   The function was organised by the

[Goanet] Divide and Rule ...?

2009-12-14 Thread Joao Barros-Pereira
The following article appeared in the Navhind Times, Mon 14. It is a real shocker! To end the long saga of finalisation and notification of the Regional Plan 2021, it could be notified part by part or even village by village, informed top government officials. And if this view of some

[Goanet] Talking Photos: Today, I saw Shalini Mardolkar for the first time

2009-12-14 Thread JoeGoaUk
Talking Photos: Today, I saw Shalini Mardolkar for the first time   Who will not remember ‘Claudia’ or for that matter who has never heard the most popular lullaby ‘Dol Mhojea Bai’? If you still don’t remember then see the links below (in the end)   For the first time, I see  70 year old (or

Re: [Goanet] Re. Goa RIP

2009-12-14 Thread Mario Goveia
From: J. Colaco Dear Bosco, I am surprised by your above post. Date: Sun, 13 Dec 2009 18:17:22 -0500 From: Bosco D bos...@canada.com I was surprised by your post too. Mario responds: Jose had agreed with me that it is only through democratically changing the laws in Goa and democratically

[Goanet] The Zero-Sum Game meets reality

2009-12-14 Thread Mario Goveia
Date: Sun, 13 Dec 2009 17:27:39 -0800 (PST) From: Rajan P. Parrikar parri...@yahoo.com To the outsider who may react indignantly to this, I ask: Where do YOU get the nerve to expect us Goans to sacrifice our quality of life to accommodate you? You talk about the Indian constitution. Did

[Goanet] Where can I find Goanese Konkani speakers in the

2009-12-14 Thread Michael Ali
Dear Bosco, There are a lot of Konkani speakers in the US but mainly concentrated in the tri-state area ( Goan Association of Hudson Valley and the New Jersey Goan Association) in the east and several in the California area on the west. There is also a large community in Florida and Texas.

[Goanet] Goanet Reader: Understanding the old laws (Frederick Noronha, GT, The Printed Word)

2009-12-14 Thread Goanet Reader
THE PRINTED WORD/Frederick Noronha -- Understanding the old laws Ave Cleto Afonso, who lectured in Philosophy at the Dhempe College till not long ago, came out last month with a book on the family and succession laws of Goa. The former journalist and scholar talks

[Goanet] Goa news for December 15, 2009

2009-12-14 Thread Goanet News Service
Goa News from Google News and Goanet.org Visit http://www.goanet.org/newslinks.php for the full stories. *** Goa Police yet to summon accused in Russian rape case - Press Trust of India inds-13-bruises-on-goa-rape-victims-body/106628-3.htmlusg=AFQjCNF9e1b8JlA6-UoHC7PDvHxfAhSJCwTest finds 13

Re: [Goanet] PAI TIATRIST - 138TH BIRTH ANNIVERSARY CELEBRATED

2009-12-14 Thread Jim Fernandes
Maybe I was totally out of touch with Goa. What exactly is the meaning of Pai Tiatrist? It cannot be translated as Father of Tiatrists. If this was the case, a better term would be Tiatristancho Pai. I had NEVER heard of this term when I grew up in Goa and had never heard of the man they

[Goanet] IF TRUTH BE TOLD

2009-12-14 Thread From PAES
  By: Bennet Paes  Many, many years ago when God sent an angel and took my little sister away from us, it was heart-breaking to see my mother sob bitterly for days together. My father weathered the agony with less visible emotions, but hastened to commemorate the loss by placing an

Re: [Goanet] Goa to host India�s first carbon neutr al wedding

2009-12-14 Thread marlon menezes
What Fred is actually saying is that as far as the environment in concerned, it is better that humanity remains of limited economic means - after all, the poorer you are, the less likely you are to over consume and thus emit less carbon. Unfortunately given Fred's leftist leanings, he also

[Goanet] Meet Claudia of 'Nirmonn'

2009-12-14 Thread JoeGoaUk
Meet Claudia of 'Nirmonn' http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IkZXdYHEVhk   joego...@yahoo.co.uk for Goa NRI related info... http://in.groups.yahoo.com/group/GOAN-NRI/ For Goan Video Clips http://youtube.com/joeukgoa In Goa, Dial  1 0 8 For Hospital, Police, Fire etc The INTERNET

Re: [Goanet] Fast unto death

2009-12-14 Thread J. Colaco jc
2009/12/13 Mervyn Lobo mervynal...@yahoo.ca: Lets take the case of the Goan drunkard who has 10 beers and then crashes his car/motor-bike into the nearest coconut tree, killing himself. My QUESTION is: How are you going to punish this guy? ANSWER: I'd remind him of the modified Nunes principle:

[Goanet] When does Indian citizenship end?

2009-12-14 Thread manuel tavares
This is precisely the dilema which a lot of Indians who resided and some who still reside in Kenya. Most of them were businessmen who took up Kenyan Citizenship. I once had a discussion with one such person and his analysis was thus We Indians are Physically in Kenya, Finalcially in the U.K.

[Goanet] Who is a Goan?

2009-12-14 Thread soter
Ave Cleto Alphonso's recently published book defines who is Goan. Does Frederick Noronha now understand why a Bihari or a Delhiwala and a Gujarati cannot become a Goan in the ture sense? oster

Re: [Goanet] Fast unto death

2009-12-14 Thread From PAES
Augusto: In my opinion, fasting unto death is the beginning of an act of suicide in slow motion. And in my opinion, suicide, or attempted suicide, or for that matter fast-unto-death, is cowardly,immoral and illegal. It is also so under the present Indian law. But it so happens that, at the

[Goanet] 'Israelis in Goa disastrous for tourism'

2009-12-14 Thread Mario Goveia
Date: Mon, 14 Dec 2009 01:16:50 -0500 From: Goanet News Service n...@goanet.org 'Israelis in Goa disastrous for tourism' By JAMIE ROMM Dec 13, 2009 15:21 | Updated Dec 13, 2009 23:50 Excerpt: A book published by the Council for Social Justice and Peace, an arm of the Roman Catholic Church in

[Goanet] Impotent Congress Governance

2009-12-14 Thread Dr. U. G. Barad
Read more by clicking the link provided here under: http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/delhi/Delhis-posh-Sainik-Farms-an-un authorised-colony-Govt/articleshow/5295545.cms Best regards, Dr. U. G. Barad OR read the message provided here under: The government on Thursday said that posh

[Goanet] Salgaoncar alleges every Goa minister is corrupt

2009-12-14 Thread Samir Kelekar
http://oheraldo.in/pagedetails.asp?nid=31141cid=26 Salgaoncar alleges every Goa minister is corrupt

Re: [Goanet] Fast unto death

2009-12-14 Thread From PAES
In my opinion, hardly any. Bennet --- On Mon, 14/12/09, J. Colaco jc cola...@gmail.com wrote: From: J. Colaco jc cola...@gmail.com Subject: Re: [Goanet] Fast unto death To: Goa's premiere mailing list, estb. 1994! goanet@lists.goanet.org Date: Monday, 14 December, 2009, 7:44 PM

[Goanet] Photography Exhibition @ Art Chamber - Galeria de Belas Artes

2009-12-14 Thread Goanet AE
Kaleidoscope of Goa Photography Exhibition (Dec 18/09 - Jan 6/10) Assavri Kulkarni Rudolf Ludwig Art Chamber Galeria de Belas Artes Castelo Vermelho, 115/A Gauravaddo Calangute, Goa www.artchambergoa.com FLYER: http://picasaweb.google.ca/GoanetBlog/ArtExhibitions#5415329644175382882

[Goanet] Mushtifund duo triumph at Big Q

2009-12-14 Thread Goanet News Service
Mushtifund duo triumph at Big Q TNN 15 December 2009, 06:23am IST PANAJI: In the end, Raj Kunkolienkar and Shaswant Salgaonkar proved that they are the sharpest youngsters in the state. As the Times of BSNL Big Q, the biggest inter-school quiz competition, came to an end on Monday at the

[Goanet] IFFK League moves into the 6th Round

2009-12-14 Thread Goa World
IFFK League moves into the 6th Round INDIAN FOOTBALL FEDERATION - KUWAIT The weather wet and pleasant, the pitch an absolute beauty to play on and the atmosphere in and around the stadium was electric with IFFK members in full attendance. This was the scene on the eve of the 6th round matches

Re: [Goanet] NY institute selects GIM for India programme

2009-12-14 Thread Victor Rangel-Ribeiro
Could this be the very prestigious and internationally known Aspen Institute in Aspen, Colorado? Regards, Victor From: Goanet News Service Goa Institute of Management (GIM) has been selected by the prestigious Aspen Institute, New York, as part of its Teaching Innovation Programme India

[Goanet] Goan Government Giveaways

2009-12-14 Thread Plastino DCosta
Goan Government Giveaways By Plastino D'Costa Most Goans blame our corrupt leaders for squandering Goa's wealth and hold them responsible for the sorry state of affairs today. But truth to tell, to some extent ordinary Goans must also learn to take the responsibility, as they are equally

Re: [Goanet] Fast unto death

2009-12-14 Thread Gabe Menezes
2009/12/14 J. Colaco jc cola...@gmail.com ANSWER: I'd remind him of the modified Nunes principle: Thou shalt not have that much of an interest in de beers good wishes as always jc Well if you believe in diamonds then you should be long on De Beers. http://www.debeersgroup.com/

[Goanet] Food Park Through The Back Door

2009-12-14 Thread Freddy Fernandes
Food Park Through The Back Door Self preservation by camouflage, is the basic instinct of nature, chameleon is a marvel of this natural instinct, this creature has the ability to mould and blend with it's natural surroundings, that, it is sometimes impossible to locate. The creature uses

[Goanet] End-of-life care 3 / 5

2009-12-14 Thread Gilbert Lawrence
End-Of-Life: Cost of Care (part 3 of 5)   Statistics on the cost of cancer care are eye-opening: A third of the cost of treating cancer occurs in the final year, 78% of which occurs in the final month of life.  An unsettled issue is: Should the cost of end-of-life care be discussed with

Re: [Goanet] Re. Goa RIP

2009-12-14 Thread john menezes
Goa R.I.P. Regarding the Response of B to Mario Goveia which reads:' Was Goa liberated in 1961 due to a groundswell of political support and organization within Goa? ' I have two comments: (1) On August 15, 1955 India send into Goa around 10,000 'peaceful' slogan shouting Indian satyagrahis

[Goanet] Last rites for Goa

2009-12-14 Thread soter
Micky's charitable Trust is already preparing for the final rites of Goans by commissioning of five mobile mortuary units. The last rites have have been pre-administered by the priest. The Tourism minister really has foresight and knows where Goa is going. While the migrant tourists rush in,

[Goanet] Gymnastic Exercises by Little Penguins Students

2009-12-14 Thread ICG-Programmes
All are cordially invited to Programme: Gymnastic Exercises by students of Little Penguins Primary School, Panaji Date: 16th December 2009 Time: 10 am to 11 am Venue: The International Centre Goa - Dona Paula The above programme is part of the Goa Libre - Celebrating 48 years of Goa's