[Goanet-News] Goa news for December 1, 2009

2009-12-01 Thread Goanet News Service
Goa News from Google News and Goanet.org Visit http://www.goanet.org/newslinks.php for the full stories. *** Increase green cover in mining belt: Prez - Herald Publications arming/Global-warming-eroding-Goa-beaches-Governor/articleshow/5261239.cmsusg=AFQjCNEAHBIUeQbs74lxddFa1meS_vdEzwGlobal

[Goanet-News] Goanet Reader: The Goan behind the revolution in Asian skies (Anoop Babani, in Business India)

2009-12-01 Thread Goanet Reader
B U S I N E S S I N D I A ! November 29, 2009 Overseas Indian New age airline for a new age Asia Tony Fernandes acquired a loss-making carrier in 2001 and transformed it into Asia's largest budget airline. Scurrying air-hostesses in bright red uniforms, young managers in jeans and sports

[Goanet] Big City Band arrives in Dubai

2009-12-01 Thread Benedict Lobo
** Dubai:The Big City Band , one of Indias most celebrated dance band arrived here today to perform at the St. Francis Xavier Nite 2009 to be held on 3rd Dec, Feast of the patron saint of Goa.The event is scheduled to be held at Astoria Hotel Bur Dubai.Headlining the entertainment industry for

Re: [Goanet] Minaret ban (was: fat chance)

2009-12-01 Thread Patrice Riemens
Date: Tue, 1 Dec 2009 13:05:13 +0530 From: Frederick Noronha fredericknoro...@gmail.com To: Goa's premiere mailing list, estb. 1994! goanet@lists.goanet.org Subject: Re: [Goanet] From the Fat-Chance Department SWITZERLAND: Muslims Targeted in the Name of Minarets By Ray Smith

Re: [Goanet] Goanet Digest, Vol 4, Issue 1263 (3-IDIOTS on CHRISTMAS DAY - 25-12-2009 (Marcos))catholic men as drunkards and catholic women selling alcohol in various Hindi movies.?? Who is responsibl

2009-12-01 Thread pcheryl
Dear Marco, 'catholic men as drunkards and catholic women selling alcohol in various Hindi movies.' You have brought up a very interesting debate . 'What who do you define as anti Christ'? Does being a critic of some ones or portraying some one in poor light make you anti the person

Re: [Goanet] X-mas and X'tian

2009-12-01 Thread Frederick Noronha
The only taboos against using the word X'mas are stylistic, I guess :-) FN QUOTE The -mas part came from the Latin-derived Old English word for mass. The X in Xmas is from the Greek letter Chi, which is the first letter of Χριστός, Christ in Greek (see below). Xmas is frowned upon in modern

[Goanet] CRZ - A Candy or a Yardstick

2009-12-01 Thread Freddy Fernandes
CRZ - A Candy or a Yardstick ? Over the last two years or so we have been hearing a lot about the Coastal Regulation Zone or the CRZ, this particular edifice has given nightmares to the coastal residents of Goa, the very mention of CRZ in whatever terms gets the coastal residents all spooky

[Goanet] swiss referendum

2009-12-01 Thread anil desai
Rajan Parrikar wrote: To Goanet - Goans should take a leaf out of the Swiss book and ban new mosques and muezzin calls that the migrants want to bring to Goa. The most visible structure in the Chimbel slum - visible to the naked eye from the Mandovi bridge - is the mosque. r My Dear Rajan,

[Goanet] Digambar Kamat - 10 years of service to Goa

2009-12-01 Thread Antonio Menezes
Digambar Kamat has been a cabinet minister and now a Chief Minister of Goa in the last 10 years for which we should all congratulate him for the onerous burden he has willingly accepted on behalf of the people of Goa. It has been a serious business all the way and if we believe in the Goan media

[Goanet] Hindu/Christain Harmony

2009-12-01 Thread TABP
HINDU/CHRISTIAN  HARMONY By: Bennet Paes     In good ol’ days when Ramesh Naik was a young lad, his father faithfully took him to church on 3rd December of each year to offer thanks to “our Goemcho Sahib”. Ramesh is as good a friend of mine, as those good ol’ days.   Today, at the stroke of 2 (a

Re: [Goanet] Malaika: A konkani Song?

2009-12-01 Thread J. Colaco jc
Mervyn Lobo wrote: FN, This is really disappointing. There is no Goan who would claim that Malaika is a Konkani song. You were sent the opportunity to give a yes/no reply to my simple question, the answer which each and every Goan should know, but you could not get yourself to do the right

[Goanet] Skin color gives clues to health

2009-12-01 Thread Con Menezes
Complexion reveals how good your health is. More here.. Con http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2009-11/s-scg111609.php

[Goanet] For publication in keeping with the church theme of Mario and others

2009-12-01 Thread Xanno Moidecar
AND IN GOEM OUR CHURCH …. I blame Constantine. He fundamentally changed the church from the creation of Christ to the caretaker of an empire. Christianity was never meant to be the religion of the rich and the powerful. Its philosophy is not of this world. Its teachings hark time and

[Goanet] Expat Indians find it tough to return

2009-12-01 Thread Samir Kelekar
http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/World/Indians-Abroad/articleshow/msid-5286531,curpg-2.cms

[Goanet] swiss referendum

2009-12-01 Thread Joao Barros-Pereira
*swiss referendum* *Tue Dec 1 02:35:59 PST 2009* To Goanet -Goans should take a leaf out of the Swiss bookand ban new mosques and muezzin calls that themigrants want to bring to Goa. The most visiblestructure in the Chimbel slum - visible to thenaked eye from the Mandovi bridge - is the mosque.

Re: [Goanet] swiss referendum

2009-12-01 Thread floriano
What Anil has said is revelation to me as I haven't, even by mistake, read about Narendra Modi demolishing hindu temples in such large numbers. Therefore I googled and this is what I have found. If this is true and it must be, I say cheers to Modi floriano goasuraj PS: Some guts

[Goanet] Just Loving Life: The Spirit That's Uniquely Anglo-Indian (SAR News) Was: Re: Malaika: A konkani Song?

2009-12-01 Thread Frederick Noronha
Guys, Relax! I'm appealing to friends at the GoaMusician [http://groups.yahoo.com/group/goamusician] network to render Malaika into Konkani. Till that time, FR's very interesting and useful work will be fair game for those wanting to take digs for other reasons :-) 2009/12/1 J. Colaco jc

[Goanet] Subject: Declare publicly Alto-Dabolim project is essential,

2009-12-01 Thread alwin fernandes
Dear Arwin, Thanks very much for keeping us informed on what's happening in Goa although you are away from Goa. As we get into the month of December (particularly if you will be down in Goa), there is an urgent need to create an immediate awareness on the irrevocable damage and harmfulness

Re: [Goanet] Catholics be warned

2009-12-01 Thread Mario Goveia
Date: Mon, 30 Nov 2009 21:21:39 -0500 From: J. Colaco jc cola...@gmail.com I will let you research for yourself what severe restrictions current law places or does NOT in the second trimester until viability is reachedwhich, you may or may not know - is usually 8 weeks after the second

Re: [Goanet] From the Fat-Chance Department

2009-12-01 Thread Mario Goveia
2009/12/1 Rajan P. Parrikar parri...@yahoo.com: Goans should take a leaf out of the Swiss book and ban new mosques and muezzin calls that the migrants want to bring to Goa. The most visible structure in the Chimbel slum - visible to the naked eye from the Mandovi bridge - is the mosque.

[Goanet] The Konkan Coast Challenge

2009-12-01 Thread armstrong augusto vaz
http://www.footballclubofcanacona.org/index.htm The Konkan Coast Challenge will begin on December 12 2009 and finish ten days later. On each of those ten days, Dan will run approximately one and half marathons on his epic 380 mile coastline journey towards Chaudi in Goa – the home of the

[Goanet] Animal in Bhopal

2009-12-01 Thread Venantius J Pinto
Hi People, Dec 3, MMIX is the 25th anniversary of the Bhopal Gas Tragedy. Union Carbide, Bhopal Timeline: http://www.himalmag.com/Continuing-disaster_nw3930.html Animal in Bhopal, by Indra Sinha; shortlisted for Animal's People for the Man Booker 2007. The cover and the story were illustrated by

[Goanet] Goanet Reader: The Goan behind the revolution in Asian skies (Anoop Babani, in Business India)

2009-12-01 Thread Goanet Reader
B U S I N E S S I N D I A ! November 29, 2009 Overseas Indian New age airline for a new age Asia Tony Fernandes acquired a loss-making carrier in 2001 and transformed it into Asia's largest budget airline. Scurrying air-hostesses in bright red uniforms, young managers in jeans and sports

[Goanet] Goa news for December 2, 2009

2009-12-01 Thread Goanet News Service
Goa News from Google News and Goanet.org Visit http://www.goanet.org/newslinks.php for the full stories. *** Increase green cover in mining belt: Prez - Herald Publications arming/Global-warming-eroding-Goa-beaches-Governor/articleshow/5261239.cmsusg=AFQjCNEAHBIUeQbs74lxddFa1meS_vdEzwGlobal

[Goanet] Subject: Malaika: A konkani Song?

2009-12-01 Thread MD
I think this subject has been discussed earlier. Malaika definitely is not a Konkanui song. (It is like ye ye Katrina is a SriLankan song though they use its tune in SriLanka) For more on Malaika, click on below website: http://www.dewani.ca/malaika.htm No comments on 'ex-Africander sitting in

Re: [Goanet] Malaika: A konkani Song?

2009-12-01 Thread Mervyn Lobo
J. Colaco wrote: I understand that some politicians make  statements without any regard for the truth. I suppose, some Journos attended the same school as those lying politicians. Doc, The situation here is often described as the 'axis of weasels.' The politician can only get away without

[Goanet] floodlights at fatorda

2009-12-01 Thread armstrong augusto vaz
http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_RbiPbQTar_Y/SRM-Z5aKfII/AuY/47f4rA4ffZY/s1600-h/list.jpg the Sports Minister and his godforsaken dept. has funds to travel but not repalce the Floodlights needed to hold an INTERNATIONAL Soccer match in the state. Despite the presence of two prominet soccer

[Goanet] Melanie Silgardo

2009-12-01 Thread Frederick Noronha
Would anyone know of the recent work of the poet Melanie Silgardo? She was one of the founder members of the poetry publishing house Newground, Bombay. In 2005, a news item said Eunice de Souza (the Mumbai-based poet and novelist) and Silgardo (then London-based) had jointly edited The Puffin Book

[Goanet] Subject: Investigative Commissions In India

2009-12-01 Thread MD
Investigative Commissions In India. We have a spineless central government, who has it's own skeletons in the cupboard, and a Mr. Nice Prime Minister. His response on the 26/11 was pathetic, for that matter, the Paki PM was more impressive, could express himself in a much better way. What we

[Goanet] Abuse of Children and Communion-The Irish Case

2009-12-01 Thread MD
Ignorance is no excuse. Each religion has rules and regulations. If a person does not abide by them, they are answeravle to God. The Catholic church can not monitor actions of each of it's priests. But preiest are clearly told what is expected of them. Similar activities are going on in other

[Goanet] Hindu Christian harmony by Bennet Paes

2009-12-01 Thread Bernice Pereira
Goa was one state where both communities lived in complete harmany and we can go back to those days if we strive hard enough.  In my home in Anjuna during Christmas time, villagers from both communities sat on large mats spread in our dining room making neuris and other sweets. Mandos and zotis