[Goanet] greetings

2015-12-23 Thread Nelson Lopes 
Dear Administrator and staff
The gift of christmas are.
People we cherish
joys we celebrate
memories of relations we cherish.
Thanks for all the exposure you give round the year and over the years for
my humble views
Nelson Lopes Chinchinim

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[Goanet] Thank you for your support

2015-12-23 Thread George Pinto 
Hello friends,

As we come to the end of 2015, Goa Sudharop would like to thank all of you for 
your support during the year. Two free eye camps in Goa in the next few days 
will complete our activities for the year - our 15th successful year since 
inception in 2000.

We are looking forward to seeing you all at the New Year's Eve dance in the San 
Francisco Bay Area on Dec 31 to say goodbye to 2015 and welcome 2016. See 
http://www.goasudharop.net/upcoming-events/
We are excited about 2016 and begin the year with two major workshops in Goa on 
Jan 16 and 17 for 200 girls ages 11-15 who plan to go to college.  The 
workshops encourage girls to study Science, Technology, Engineering and Math in 
college and are being held in collaboration with CISCO, Greenlight 4 Girls and 
the Center for Incubation and Business Acceleration. See details at 
http://greenlightforgirls.org/g4g-day-goa-2016/
We encourage you to make a year-end tax-deductible (for USA residents) donation 
to Goa Sudharop so we can continue our volunteer activities for the development 
of Goa and Goans.  No Goa Sudharop volunteer or staff is paid and we do not pay 
rent so 100% of your donation goes to the projects and activities.  Please 
donate generously at the "DONATE NOW" button at http://www.goasudharop.net/
Wishing all of you a wonderful holiday season and a very Happy New Year to you 
and your families

Thank you.

Goa Sudharop
http://www.goasudharop.net/upcoming-events/

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[Goanet] Mapusa eats into parts of 4 neighbouring villages of Camurlim, Colvale, Guirim and Canca

2015-12-23 Thread Goa Desc 

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Help other CONSUMERS to be better informed.
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Mapusa eats into parts of 4 neighbouring villages

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[Goanet] Photos live beyond language: Abeer Hoque (Goa Streets)

2015-12-23 Thread V M 
http://www.goastreets.com/photos-live-beyond-language-abeer-hoque/

Abeer Hoque is a Nigerian-born Bangladeshi American writer and
photographer. Her first book of fiction, The Lovers and the Leavers,
2011, is a collection of linked stories, photographs, and poems. Her
memoir Olive Witch, about growing up in Nigeria, the US and
Bangladesh, will be published in 2016. She’s also working on a novel
‘Memory Alone’, and a collection of travel themed erotic short stories
‘F Is for Fire’. Streets met up with her at the Goa Arts & Literature
Festival last weekend.


P- How do you look at photographs and poetry?
A-My photographs became more structured and arty after 2001. They live
beyond language, they are connective. They can be shared with street
children. A photograph might just freeze the surface of something. You
can’t always do that with poetry. The chapter ‘Repeat After Me’ in my
book of poems and photos ‘The Long Way Home’ focuses on pattern and
detail, which I find to be as evocative of transformation and
belonging as the traditional portrait setting. The chapter ‘This Is a
Window’ traces lifestyle through the lens of architectural elements.

P-How did your journey as a writer begin?

A-It’s been a long road. I wrote for 15 years before I got published.
In the summer of 2005, armed with a one way ticket to Bangkok, I left
San Francisco to go travelling for a year, which turned into seven. I
spent two years on and off, in Bangladesh and India, funded in part by
a Fulbright Scholarship. I researched and wrote my novel The Lovers
and the Leavers, published by Bengal Lights Books in 2014 and Harper
Collins India in 2015. The rest of the five nomad years, my pitch
perfect if penniless gypsy life took me to over 30 countries on five
continents.

P- Was the book the Long Way Home pre-planned?
A-I love cities as much as the wild and empty places. They display
elements of decay and anachronism, that rot that can sometimes lead to
re-growth, sometimes to ruin. I knew halfway through my gypsying that
I was going to make a book, though it took a while to figure out what
it would look like.

P-Do photographs inspire the compositions of poems, or is it vice versa?
A- I am interested in unfamiliar and intimate angles of the known by
zooming in or shooting in low light. I don’t want so much to remove
place from the equation, but re-imagine it. I look up my photo
collection, which inspire poems. But, I would like to do it the other
way round.

P- Do you use Photoshop?
A- No. I believe a good photographer is one whose first click captures
the image.

P- Who is your favorite poet?
A- Rumi the 13th century Persian Sufi poet. He wrote erotic poetry, he
was the first to write about joy in a joyful way.

P- What are your views on women writers in Bangladesh?
A-There aren’t many women writers. As a woman writing in Bangladesh, I
have to worry about concerns about writing erotic stories. I’m still
struggling about how the people and my parents will deal with it.

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[Goanet] [Photo Blog by Rajan Parrikar] Christmas 2015

2015-12-23 Thread Rajan Parrikar 
Photo Blog by Rajan Parrikar has posted a new item, 'Christmas 2015'

Gleðileg Jól, Feliz Natal, Merry Christmas!

The Cristo Rei monument in Almada overlooking the city of Lisboa, Portugal.


You may view the latest post at
http://blog.parrikar.com/2015/12/24/christmas-2015/


Warm regards,
Rajan Parrikar
ra...@parrikar.com

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Re: [Goanet] How many of you gone digital (TV)?

2015-12-23 Thread Jim Fernandes 
Wow! Digital TV? At the end of 2015? Digital set top box? What's a set top box?

There's so much free stuff on the INTERNET that we don't have time for TV 
anymore. Here's what the new generation of Americans are doing  (including 
my kids):

Basically, I saw that my kids don't watch TV like they used to. Their iPhones 
and iPad devices are all they care about! We give them Wi-Fi, Netflix and 
access to App Store; they won't bother us for hours! My wife ain't got time 
even for basic channels. And me? I decided to experiment without cable TV. So 
far ... so good.

1. I got high speed INTERNET (monthly fee) - which I hooked to a top quality 
wireless router (one time cost).
2. Bought a sleek indoor TV antenna (one time cost). The indoor antenna is 
almost invisible and the broadcast channels all come for FREE. The same antenna 
feeds multiple TV sets (by using a splitter). Occassionally, watch shows like 
Nova on PBS.
3. Land line? Sounds ancient tech, right? But it's ideal for me. Whether I am 
in Colva or New York. The number remains the same. Magic Jack gives VoIP away 
for ridiculously low $3/month.
4. Netflix (< $10/month)
5. There are tonnes of free channels out there - depending on your interest.

The only channel I miss is CNN. But I hear SlingTV has it, so I may opt to 
spend an extra $20/month. But for now, my monthly cable is cut by 65%!

The cable industry calls us "Cord Cutters" ... Google it and you can read more 
about the trend.

Buh-Bye cable TV!

With the above information, there's money to be made. Can you see how?


Jim Fernandes
Colva / New York.




On Tue, 22 Dec 2015 04:28:38 + (UTC), JoeGoaUk  wrote:

>  
> How many of you gone digital TV?
> Last date  to switchover is 31.12.15
> When we call our local operator last, they say out of stock and that it would 
> cost Rs.2000 plus Rs.50 extra per month (350pm) 
> For basic free to view channels package, I think it should cost Rs.100 or 150 
> p.m, thats what I remember reading somewhere.
> Don't know if free to view package includes Goa news channels
> Nor We know whats on offer with Sonali Cable
> 
> Go Digital, Get Set Top Box
> Today's advert
> https://www.flickr.com/photos/joegoauk73/23899598935/
...
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[Goanet] Fw: the 10 healthiest foods on the planet and their uses

2015-12-23 Thread Camillo Fernandes 


The 10 healthiest foods on the planet and their uses :



Lemons

Brocolli

Dark chocolate

Potatoes

Salmon

Walnuts

Avocados

Garlic

Spinach

Beans









http://www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/food/article-3370118/The-10-healthiest-foods-planet-revealed-yes-CHOCOLATE-allowed.html

[http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2015/12/22/09/2F90ADAB0578-0-image-a-23_1450777965982.jpg]

The top 10 healthiest foods on the planet 
revealed
www.dailymail.co.uk
Inexpensive and easy-to-source, these fruit, nuts, fish and vegetables are 
often overlooked in favour of more exotic 'superfoods'. But they all contain 
extraordinarily high levels of vitamins.





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[Goanet] EVERY PLAYER IS ASSIGNED TO DO A JOB: EUGENSON LYNGDOH + PIXS (SIX ATTACHMENTS).

2015-12-23 Thread AIFF Reports 
Dear colleague,


Please find below a quote copy from the Media Interaction with 2015 AIFF
Player of the Year Eugenson Lyngdoh.


Also find attached six pictures:


*2015 AIFF Player of the Year Eugenson Lyngdoh insists on Football being a
Team Game.*


*'Spiderman' Subrata Paul adjusts his Wall.*


*Every Player is assigned to do a job, says Eugenson Lyngdoh.*


*India play Sri Lanka in their first match on December 25.*


*2015 has been nothing short of a fairy tale for Eugenson Lyngdoh.*


*India play Sri Lanka in their first match on December 25.*


Request you to credit AIFF Media for the pictures used.


*For all updates of the National Team and exclusive pictures please follow
our Official Twitter Handle @AIFFMedia. You will find live updates of all
of India’s matches (across all age-groups) and all other relevant updates
on our Official Twitter handle.*


*Also follow and like the Official Page of Indian Football Teams on
Facebook at **https://www.facebook.com/TheIndianFootballTeam*



*For more information, feel free to contact Mr. Nilanjan Datta, Media
Officer, AIFF, on +91-9873185150.*


Regards,
AIFF Media Team





*Every Player is assigned to do a job: Eugenson Lyngdoh*


By Nilanjan Datta,
AIFF Media Team


*TRIVANDRUM:* “Congratulations Eugene,” quips a journo as the 2015 AIFF
Player of the Year steps into the room. Eugene, shy as ever off the field,
quips back “Thank You.” The tone was meek, as if the Midfielder had
committed a wrong in winning the Award.


“I am looking forward to the SAFF Suzuki Cup. It’s the first Tournament I
will be playing in my Country apart from the World Cup Qualifiers. Like as
any other Player playing in this Tournament from all the other Countries, I
want to win it too. That stays our priority,” Eugene was much at ease
saying it at one breath.


The Indian National Team toiled hard during their sole practice session
early morning. Though the Sun wasn’t that scorching, the Players sweated a
lot and it was high intensity, a fact which must have pleased National
Coach Stephen Constantine for sure.


Referring to a query as to whether the National Team lacks creative Players
in the midfield, Eugene dismissed it saying: “I think we have a lot of
creative Players. Every Player is assigned a job and the job of the Player
is to perform it on the field. It’s all about what the Coach wants, the
game plan, the strategy and performing tactically.”


Eugene who was voted the 2015 AIFF Player of the Year by the I-League
Coaches, however, maintained that it’s the not “right age for him to
venture playing abroad.”


“I am a bit old now (28). I need to admit it. Maybe I could have given it a
thought some years earlier. Maybe at that time I could have had a chance,”
he stated.


“If you look at Gurpreet (Singh Sandhu), he is at the right age and he has
been doing extremely well. He has been there for quite some years yet so
young,” he opined.


2015 has been nothing short of a fairytale for Eugene. Despite having
played I-League for long, it was in April 2015 that he broke into the
National squad. He had an impressive domestic season with his Club and won
the AIFF Player of the Year Award, that too after being nominated for the
first time.


“It was so satisfying when I got my first National Cap against Nepal.”


Whom do you idolize, someone queried back.


“Climax  Lawrence, Rocus Lamare and Rennedy Singh,” pat came the reply.


“It’s easy to be working with someone like Venkatesh (Shanmugam). He is
always there to talk about his experience and helps and guides all of us.
We all look up to him,” he talked straight.


“There’s so much competition in the squad now. Constantine (Stephen) wants
to give an opportunity to all. There are boys in the squad who are not even
part of an I-League Team. It’s been a very nice experience for me with
Constantine. The competiveness of the State League Players will certainly
help develop Indian Football further.”


“We are a Country which has so much talent. But Football is a Team Game. So
it’s not possible for a single individual to script glory. Each of us is
supposed to be doing what we are expected to do,” he declared.


India play their first match against Sri Lanka on November 25.




Media Department, AIFF.
Alternate: me...@the-aiff.com
Website: www.the-aiff.com

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[Goanet] : Easy listening selection........Christmas carol

2015-12-23 Thread Con Menezes 
 O little town of Bethlehem  
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sI7_TGZaOIE

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[Goanet] Goacom Newsclips on 23 December 2015

2015-12-23 Thread goacom newsclips 
Goacom Newsclips

GHRC censures govt, orders relief to Colvale undertrials 

The Goa Human Rights Commission (GHRC) has pulled up the state governmen...
Click here to read more...  http://bit.ly/1U4dB3B

Mercury drops to the lowest of the season 

The mercury dropped to the lowest of the season after many false starts...
Click here to read more...  http://bit.ly/1OiQxJZ

Tito’s life-size statue unveiled at Baga

A life-size statue of late Tito Henry de Souza, who started the Tito’s 
restaurant...
Click here to read more...  http://bit.ly/1m6zPra

‘Knowledge of English essential for those seeking jobs on cruise liners: 
seafarers 

Seafarers of  Salcete,  on Tuesday,  said  the knowledge of English is 
essential  for those seeking...
Click here to read more...  http://bit.ly/1U4ewRq

Over 6,000 Goa police personnel, families to get medical insurance 

Good news is in store for police personnel as the director general of police 
(DGP) T N Mohan...
Click here to read more...  http://bit.ly/1J48906

Let’s make Goa cleanest state in India by 2016: Governor 

Governor Mridula Sinha has called upon people of Goa to cooperate in the Swachh 
Bharat Mission 
Click here to read more...  http://bit.ly/1PkNmXh

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[Goanet] Virtual home hospitals.

2015-12-23 Thread Con Menezes 

 
https://www.newscientist.com/article/dn28343-home-sweet-home/

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Re: [Goanet] Elano's arrest was unwarranted

2015-12-23 Thread angel 

Was Zidane arrested for headbutting
Materaazi? Were Voller & Rijkaard arrested for kicking one another? Was
Subroto Paul arrested when he punched Christiano Junior which even resulted
in his death?
Sandeep, please answer, was Elano arrested for anything that happened on the 
field?


The rules are clear when players do not play for the ball instead of the 
men. The rules are also clear on team officials flirting with the referee, 
and all the spectators as well as millions of TV viewers saw the Chennian 
Manager walking out of the field at half time with his hands around the 
referee. Clearly the rules were flaunted.

Orlando

-Original Message- 
From: Sandeep Heble

Sent: Tuesday, December 22, 2015 5:27 PM
To: goa...@goanet.org
Subject: [Goanet] Elano's arrest was unwarranted

It was a bit silly on the part of the Margao Police to register an FIR for
what transpired in the heat of the moment during the Indian Super League
Football Finals between FC Goa & Chennaiyin FC. Incidents of non serious
nature like elbowing & head butting are common occurrences in football and
what happens in the stadium must remain in the stadium.

The team management went overboard to take the matter up before the Police
when they could easily have brought this up before the match officials or
the disciplinary committee which is the proper authority to deal with such
incidents. FIFA have their own disciplinary code and regulations and one
does not lodge a Police complaint against a foul that occurs at a stadium,
either on field or off it.

Football is a contact sport where players get physically as well as
emotionally drawn into all the excitement. Passions & tempers run high & at
times, such incidents do occur. Was Zidane arrested for headbutting
Materaazi? Were Voller & Rijkaard arrested for kicking one another? Was
Subroto Paul arrested when he punched Christiano Junior which even resulted
in his death? Such incidents are sad, they shouldn't happen but they do and
that is what makes football one of the most debated, popular & interesting
sports in the World.

The incident which reportedly occurred in the dug-out has left a sour taste
to an otherwise exciting finals. It was clearly an error of judgment on the
management's part to get the Chennai captain Elano Blumer arrested for
unintentional elbowing its co-owner. The FC Goa team also boycotted the
match presentation which was sad. In a game, one has to win & one has to
lose and this should be accepted sportingly & graciously. The FC Goa
management needs to sort this matter out at the earliest & make amends.
Football is a religion in Goa & forgive & forget should be the best way
out.

Sandeep Heble
Panaji - Goa
9326129171

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[Goanet] Goa news for December 23, 2015

2015-12-23 Thread Goanet News Service 
Goa News from Google News and Goanet.org
Visit http://www.goanet.org/newslinks.php for the full stories.

*** ISL: Boycott, arrest of Elano leaves FC Goa facing heavy
sanctions - Times of India
wner Shrinivas Dempo. "Hats off to the ISL for pulling off a
tournament like this. They have done a great job, as I always
said. The marketing and organisation have ...
http://news.google.com/news/url?sa=t=R=us=AFQjCNGdyxLtsbHJ6U4oYKVofqDbXUh6dw=c3a7d30bb8a4878e06b80cf16b898331=52779013208359=C-t5VoDoB5PE3QG_yKr4Dg=http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/sports/football/indian-super-league/top-stories/ISL-Boycott-arrest-of-Elano-leaves-FC-Goa-facing-heavy-sanctions/articleshow/50276848.cms

*** Referee, Materazzi's brutal tactics to blame for ISL loss:
FC Goa - IBNLive
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http://news.google.com/news/url?sa=t=R=us=AFQjCNFPLcMyRpvDuSiCLlzSPG8tpfaXzg=c3a7d30bb8a4878e06b80cf16b898331=52779010290009=C-t5VoDoB5PE3QG_yKr4Dg=http://www.ibnlive.com/footballnext/news/referee-materazzis-brutal-tactics-to-blame-for-isl-loss-fc-goa-1180051.html

*** Goa CM Parsekar refutes charges, says only trying to save
jobs in mining industry - The Indian Express
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*** Remo Fernandes is a Portuguese national: Goa Police - Times
of India
tar is a foreign national as he has obtained a Portuguese
passport. The Agacaim Police is probing the case of verbal abuse
of a minor ...
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*** Goa court refuses lie detector test on minor in priest death
case - Hindustan Times
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*** 50 reasons you need to go to Sunburn Goa - Dancing Astronaut
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*** FC Goa hold back players for SAFF, AIFF fumes - The Indian
Express
5VoDoB5PE3QG_yKr4Dg
http://news.google.com/news/url?sa=t=R=us=AFQjCNEMIkQKBwFQU1zTlONBcMqEltv3yw=c3a7d30bb8a4878e06b80cf16b898331=52779013903262=C-t5VoDoB5PE3QG_yKr4Dg=http://indianexpress.com/article/sports/football/fc-goa-hold-back-players-for-saff-aiff-fumes/

*** Bored of Goa? Here are 6 reasons why you should go to Diu
for your next beach ... - IBNLive
NLiveHere is some good news for all the beach fans, we have one
more place to visit other than Goa. Yay! Goa may have sun and
surf, food galore and a happening night life, but Diu is the
place you need to be in if you are tired of the excess Goa
boasts of.http://news.google.com/news/url?sa=t=R=us=AFQjCNHJoKINUHl7UebEy7p8WO3fRvI0iA=c3a7d30bb8a4878e06b80cf16b898331=C-t5VoDoB5PE3QG_yKr4Dg=http://www.ibnlive.com/news/buzz/bored-of-goa-here-are-6-reasons-why-you-should-go-to-diu-for-your-next-beach-vacation-1180368.html

*** I-League update: Sporting Clube de Goa eye Goa League glory,
in search of ... - Goal.com
al.comThe Oranjes, who had to toil hard to avoid the drop last
season, are eager to ensure a good start this time around.
Sporting Clube de Goa, who are still leading the pack in the
closely fought Goa Professional League, are still on the lookout
for their ...http://news.google.com/news/url?sa=t=R=us=AFQjCNGzFA4qaw56Zb-4Sv8nsq9mJYGmvQ=c3a7d30bb8a4878e06b80cf16b898331=C-t5VoDoB5PE3QG_yKr4Dg=http://www.goal.com/en-india/news/1064/i-league/2015/12/22/18585992/i-league-update-sporting-clube-de-goa-eye-goa-league-glory

*** Goa Cong wants Regional Plan 2021 draft to be changed -
Business Standard
siness StandardGoa Congress today demanded that the state
government should denotify the present draft of land use plan,
commonly known as Regional Plan (RP) 2021, and formulate a new
one taking all stakeholders into confidence. "We demand that the
existing draft of ...http://news.google.com/news/url?sa=t=R=us=AFQjCNHmBVe04mzxz_BcpUWopTJn02f_CQ=c3a7d30bb8a4878e06b80cf16b898331=52779013571427=C-t5VoDoB5PE3QG_yKr4Dg=http://www.business-standard.com/article/pti-stories/goa-cong-wants-regional-plan-2021-draft-to-be-changed-115122200402_1.html


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[Goanet] MERRY CHRISTMAS & A HAPPY NEW YEAR 2016

2015-12-23 Thread Savio Lobo 
*WISHING YOU A SPIRIT-FILLED CHRISTMAS*

*AND*

*A NEW YEAR FILLED WITH GRAND ADVENTURES *

*AND*

*GREAT EXPECTATIONS FULFILLED BEYOND COMPARE *
*Savio Lobo.*
Architect, Mumbai.

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[Goanet] Easy listening selection...........Sophia Loren

2015-12-23 Thread Con Menezes 




  Mambo Italiano.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s3Nr-FoA9Ps

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[Goanet] Fwd: Participation in Make in India Week

2015-12-23 Thread Goa IT Professionals 
Dear members of the press,

We would like to keep you informed of the message we have conveyed to the
concerned departments of Govt of Goa.

Regards,
Goa IT Professionals
Dear members of IPB and Govt of Goa,

The country's biggest investment pitch, the *Make In India week*, will be
held from *13 Feb to 18 Feb in Mumbai*. It is expected to attract about *1000
companies from various sectors and delegates from 60 countries*. The week
will feature a States Pavilion which will let states promote themselves as
investment destinations.

More details on the event can be found at
http://www.makeinindia.com/mumbai-week.

We are notifying the concerned departments well in advance. Goa Govt is
expected to have the administrative framework in place for participating in
such events. Our IT Policy is expected to be ready before the summit.

While other states would be participating in this event, Goa cannot afford
to lose out on the opportunity. Let the world feel the idea of Goa as an
Industrial Investment destination. The need to attract sustainable and
eco-friendly industries to Goa and provide employment to Goan youth within
the state is too important to be ignored.

Goa IT Professionals would be more than *willing to provide any
assistance* that
is requested in making this effort a success. We can help in
conceptualizing the presentation, booth or any other form of participation.

-- 
Regards,
Goa IT Professionals
www.goaitpro.org

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[Goanet] LET US BE THERE WHERE REMO FERNANDES FAILED

2015-12-23 Thread Aires Rodrigues 
The 17 year old accident victim Helan D’Souza who was recklessly knocked
down on 1st December by the speeding car driven by Remo Fernandes’s son
Jonah continues recuperating in Ward No 105 at the Goa Medical College in
Bambolim.


Rev. Fr Savio Barreto, the very proactive Director of Basilica of Bom Jesus
at Old Goa who has been a pillar of strength and hope to this poverty
stricken victim and her family has been kind enough to arrange a bank
account opened in the name of Helan D’Souza so that people around the world
desiring to help can directly pitch in.


The bank details are


HELAN FADRIK DSOUZA

Account No 0321108064163

CANARA BANK, OLD GOA

IFSC CODE CNRB321

MICR CODE 403015014


The minor girl may have been heartlessly abandoned by Remo Fernandes but
let us help her in whichever way we can. Kindly meet Helan directly in Ward
No 105 at Goa Medical College or send your contribution directly into her
above bank account. Let us be generous as Helan requires all our help
possible. Thank you for being there for her in her crisis.

Aires Rodrigues

Advocate High Court

C/G-2, Shopping Complex

Ribandar Retreat,

Ribandar – Goa – 403006

Mobile No: 9822684372

Office Tel  No: (0832) 2444012

Email: airesrodrigu...@gmail.com

 Or

   airesrodrig...@yahoo.com

You can also reach me on

Facebook.com/ AiresRodrigues

Twitter@rodrigues_aires


www.airesrodrigues.com

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[Goanet] The Good Old Bad Days (Augusto Pinto)

2015-12-23 Thread Goanet Reader 
Augusto Pinto: Afterword
pinto...@gmail.com

[From the Afterword to Paul Melo e Castro's *Lengthening
Shadows*, a two-volume set of translations of Portuguese
short stories written by Goans.]

  You could see, hear and smell Goa Portuguesa even
  as late as 1970. That was the year my parents,
  along with my nine-year-old self, returned from
  Kenya to live in our 'ancestral house' in the Goan
  village of Sangolda.

At night those sights, sounds and smells became more
pronounced. At home the quality of the light would change
depending on whether you used the simple kerosene lamps
improvised from old medicine bottles that flickered an
orangish flame; or you were rich enough to own a petromax
lamp which you had to pump every now and then to increase the
glow. Or better still you had one of those sophisticated
Aladdin lamps with the long elegant glass chimneys. Of course
in the towns electricity made everything different; but the
difference was most pronounced when one could afford neither
kerosene nor candle, but made do with a little oil in a pontti.

In the air, the whiff of smoke from those lamps mingled with
that of burning firewood in the kitchen, and the aroma of the
food cooking there. And there was also the pleasant odour of
that age-old natural disinfectant -- cowdung paste -- which
would be plastered on the floor of our houses to constitute
its flooring.

Also at night the sounds of nature could be heard distinctly:
from the staccato non-stop chirping of crickets, to the
whooey howls of the jackals in the fields whom we listened to
till we nodded off to sleep, until we woke up to the
twittering of the birds and the crowing of the cocks early in
the morning. Then, we'd encounter the sows and their piglets
crying 'oink oink', hurrying us up in the ubiquitous pig
toilets of those times.

All these sights, sounds and smells which sound romantic now
but were a nuisance then, were to disappear, at first
gradually and later rapidly, as villages were electrified and
all the modern conveniences which the West was familiar with,
from fans to fridges to fast food, started becoming
commonplaces of middle class life over the years.

  From the late 1980s onwards, change continued at a
  bewildering pace with trees and hills being cut
  down to make way for concrete jungles, first in the
  towns and beach belt parts of Bardez, Ilhas and
  Salcete (the Portuguese Old Conquests) but later
  on, thanks to the tourism and real estate booms,
  even in comparatively remote New Conquest areas of
  Pernem and Canacona.

Indiscriminate mining had begun by this time to wreak havoc.
The agrarian economy declined and Goa rapidly transformed
itself into a modern service-oriented one and mining,
tourism, the bureaucracy and remittances from emigrants
became the mainstays of Goa's economy. All these changes
affected the Goan's way of life immensely.

Imperceptibly in the meanwhile, Goa Portuguesa became history
and the quaint artefacts of the times like the grinding
stones and pestles and the bullock carts and the palanquins
from the houses of old that produced those once familiar
sights and sensations, got consigned to the museums or,
worse, the garbage heaps of Goa, when they weren't eaten by
termites or consumed by rust.

*

But what about the people and the society of Goa Portuguesa?
What sort of lives did our parents and grandparents and
great- grand-parents live? Were they happy and contented or
otherwise?

  Myths, some diametrically opposed, abound about
  this Goa of old. There are those who look at
  Portuguese rule, beginning with the Inquisition, as
  one of undiluted horror and misery, one where civil
  liberties (especially for Hindus) were curtailed
  and one where Goans lived a life of fear from a
  police state, until the action of the Indian Army
  in 1961 regained paradise for us.

  Others think the Goa that is gone was already a
  Garden of Eden, at least in the sense that it was a
  more innocent place. These nostalgics yearn for the
  days when Goa had a very ordered if unequal
  society, and not the chaos and tumult that is the
  present. That yearned-after Goa was definitely
  greener and had a lot less of the big concrete
  boxes on the hillside style of architecture that
  exemplifies the word 'Modern'. It was also
  protected from all sorts of predators (or so these
  nostalgics thought) and everyone admitted that
  although the air was pure and the land was
  beautiful, it was poor and undeveloped.

What's the truth? And is there a single truth? Probably not,
for there probably never was any one single past, but a range
of different pasts which were not black and white or even
grey, but a kaleidoscope of colours

[Goanet-News] The Good Old Bad Days (Augusto Pinto)

2015-12-23 Thread Goanet Reader 
Augusto Pinto: Afterword
pinto...@gmail.com

[From the Afterword to Paul Melo e Castro's *Lengthening
Shadows*, a two-volume set of translations of Portuguese
short stories written by Goans.]

  You could see, hear and smell Goa Portuguesa even
  as late as 1970. That was the year my parents,
  along with my nine-year-old self, returned from
  Kenya to live in our 'ancestral house' in the Goan
  village of Sangolda.

At night those sights, sounds and smells became more
pronounced. At home the quality of the light would change
depending on whether you used the simple kerosene lamps
improvised from old medicine bottles that flickered an
orangish flame; or you were rich enough to own a petromax
lamp which you had to pump every now and then to increase the
glow. Or better still you had one of those sophisticated
Aladdin lamps with the long elegant glass chimneys. Of course
in the towns electricity made everything different; but the
difference was most pronounced when one could afford neither
kerosene nor candle, but made do with a little oil in a pontti.

In the air, the whiff of smoke from those lamps mingled with
that of burning firewood in the kitchen, and the aroma of the
food cooking there. And there was also the pleasant odour of
that age-old natural disinfectant -- cowdung paste -- which
would be plastered on the floor of our houses to constitute
its flooring.

Also at night the sounds of nature could be heard distinctly:
from the staccato non-stop chirping of crickets, to the
whooey howls of the jackals in the fields whom we listened to
till we nodded off to sleep, until we woke up to the
twittering of the birds and the crowing of the cocks early in
the morning. Then, we'd encounter the sows and their piglets
crying 'oink oink', hurrying us up in the ubiquitous pig
toilets of those times.

All these sights, sounds and smells which sound romantic now
but were a nuisance then, were to disappear, at first
gradually and later rapidly, as villages were electrified and
all the modern conveniences which the West was familiar with,
from fans to fridges to fast food, started becoming
commonplaces of middle class life over the years.

  From the late 1980s onwards, change continued at a
  bewildering pace with trees and hills being cut
  down to make way for concrete jungles, first in the
  towns and beach belt parts of Bardez, Ilhas and
  Salcete (the Portuguese Old Conquests) but later
  on, thanks to the tourism and real estate booms,
  even in comparatively remote New Conquest areas of
  Pernem and Canacona.

Indiscriminate mining had begun by this time to wreak havoc.
The agrarian economy declined and Goa rapidly transformed
itself into a modern service-oriented one and mining,
tourism, the bureaucracy and remittances from emigrants
became the mainstays of Goa's economy. All these changes
affected the Goan's way of life immensely.

Imperceptibly in the meanwhile, Goa Portuguesa became history
and the quaint artefacts of the times like the grinding
stones and pestles and the bullock carts and the palanquins
from the houses of old that produced those once familiar
sights and sensations, got consigned to the museums or,
worse, the garbage heaps of Goa, when they weren't eaten by
termites or consumed by rust.

*

But what about the people and the society of Goa Portuguesa?
What sort of lives did our parents and grandparents and
great- grand-parents live? Were they happy and contented or
otherwise?

  Myths, some diametrically opposed, abound about
  this Goa of old. There are those who look at
  Portuguese rule, beginning with the Inquisition, as
  one of undiluted horror and misery, one where civil
  liberties (especially for Hindus) were curtailed
  and one where Goans lived a life of fear from a
  police state, until the action of the Indian Army
  in 1961 regained paradise for us.

  Others think the Goa that is gone was already a
  Garden of Eden, at least in the sense that it was a
  more innocent place. These nostalgics yearn for the
  days when Goa had a very ordered if unequal
  society, and not the chaos and tumult that is the
  present. That yearned-after Goa was definitely
  greener and had a lot less of the big concrete
  boxes on the hillside style of architecture that
  exemplifies the word 'Modern'. It was also
  protected from all sorts of predators (or so these
  nostalgics thought) and everyone admitted that
  although the air was pure and the land was
  beautiful, it was poor and undeveloped.

What's the truth? And is there a single truth? Probably not,
for there probably never was any one single past, but a range
of different pasts which were not black and white or even
grey, but a kaleidoscope of colours

[Goanet] Blind CEO - An inspirational story

2015-12-23 Thread Camillo Fernandes 

http://www.rediff.com/getahead/report/achiever-the-blind-ceo-who-built-a-50-crore-company/20151222.htm

[http://im.rediff.com/getahead/2015/dec/22bollant-lead.jpg]

The blind CEO who built a 50 crore 
company
www.rediff.com
Visually impaired Srikanth Bolla is the CEO of Hyderabad-based Bollant 
Industries, an organisation that employs uneducated disabled employees to 
manufacture eco-friendly, disposable consumer packaging solutions. | The blind 
CEO who built a 50 crore company





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