[Goanet] Why Won’t God Talk
Matt Dillahunty is a good debater and thinker and is the host of The Atheist Experience in Austin, Texas for many years. He knows his Bible thoroughly as a Southern Baptist before he turned atheist. This is a light-hearted question and answer session where he puts on his Christian hat and then redirects to logic and reason. https://youtu.be/6StKgAA_jak Roland. Toronto.
[Goanet] FITZ DeSOUZA IS DEAD
Dr Fitz DeSouza passed away on Monday, 23 March 2020 in North London. He was surrounded by all his family: wife Romola, sons Mark & Roy, and daughters Veena & Maya. I have known Fitz since the later 1970s & early 1980s when I taught at Nairobi University. He had studied at the London School of Economics. He became politically active around the time of Kenya's independence and made a deep impression on Kenya's political leaders. Unsurprisingly, he was appointed Deputy Speaker in Kenya's Parliament. For more, let me quote from the email sent yesterday by his younger daughter Maya announcing the death of her dad: " We will always remember him as a warm, kind and caring person, with a great sense of humour and love of recounting stories of the past. He had a strong sense of duty and loyalty, and desire to do the right thing for others and society as a whole. He had an unwavering love for East Africa in particular Kenya where he spent most of his life, and dedicated so much energy and time, and also of course had a firm attachment to his ancestral homeland, Goa, too and was pleased to visit regularly over the years. He really enjoyed spending time with his friends and family all over the world and was immensely grateful to all your company and help in the last few years - in Nairobi, Goa and London. " We are pleased that we had the opportunity to celebrate the publication of his Memoirs - FORWARD TO INDEPENDENCE, in London last July along with his 90th birthday. It was a day that brought him great joy and pride, and we know how much the Kenyan independence movement meant to him and his great respect for all those who played a part in it, the main subject of his book. " Eddie From: SHIRLEY DSA Sent: Wednesday, March 25, 2020 7:44 AM To: Eddie Subject: Re: Fitz de Souza Hi Dad Yes he was a great age and lived a long and full life. The funeral will be a private affair as mandated by the current rules. Lisa has been working from home for the past couple of weeks and Ken is working from home as of this week. It’s quite a change for all concerned. We have had A couple of COVID-19 cases in our patient group so they have been isolated. As of yesterday there have been 58 cases at UCLH. New ITU beds are being created in operating theatres. Many others have been tested. As yet there is no staff testing (not enough kits) but we have had new stocks of personal protective equipment (PPE) delivered. The hospital is well managed luckily with a consultant physician at the helm as CEO. The difficult part is making decisions about so-called ceilings of care- in other words who should or shouldn’t get access to intensive care if they deteriorate. Also trying to advise patients about their risk from COVID-19 depending on their status, such as whether they have ever been treated with chemotherapy, or whether they are on watch and wait. Staff are going off into self isolation if symptomatic, which drops the numbers so people are being redeployed within the hospital. I have developed a dry throat and a cough since yesterday but no fever so will work from home today as we are most certainly not allowed to be around the hospital if symptomatic. I’m glad Roland got in touch and has arranged to drop things off as needed. I did read the article that you mention as well as a number of others both on the ICH website and media lens. Shows the current rotten system in its true light. Keep well Shirl On 25 Mar 2020, at 00:10, Eddie wrote: Dear Shirl, If I recall right, Fitz was born in 1929. So death was to be expected any time. I’ll send email condolences to Maya, as hers is the only email that appears in your notice. I guess you would go for his funeral but with the Virus raging, the funeral will probably be confined to immediate family. Rol got back to me and said he will drop provisions requested at the front entrance. He had phoned and I told him, not to come up. Just buzz my flat button and leave. Hope all is well at your place. It must be a bit scary for Lisa to take the tube daily to Central London & back. Of course, you and Ken do a similar thing. This Corona fellow is vicious as ever. It’s now the US turn to host the Virus. Already 50,000 infected. But Trump keeps challenging the medics !! So full of himself. Read the following commentary if you have the time: http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/54067.htm Dad From: SHIRLEY DSA Sent: Tuesday, March 24, 2020 9:41 PM To: Eddie D'Sa ; RDSA Subject: Fwd: Fitz de Souza For your info Shirley From: Maya De Souza [mailto:mayadesouzab...@googlemail.com] Sent: 24 March 2020 12:59 To: romola de souza; justin and veena; Roy de Souza; mark de souza Subject: Fwd: Fitz de Souza Dear friends and family We are sorry to be the bearers of sad news especially in these difficult times, but our dear husband, father, father-in-law and grandfather (respectively), Fitz (F.R.S) de Souza, has
Re: [Goanet] Let us pray for the world
Tom, I/m not quite sure who you are but, Thank You for your message. Even though many folk are sceptical of prayer, we folk who do believe in a God, do realize that much more than we know can be achieved by the power of Prayer ! Joe On Wednesday, March 25, 2020, 7:53:06 a.m. EDT, Tom wrote: Received this from a friend please pray for the eradication of Corona Virus in the world. May God Bless us all.
Re: [Goanet] [Goanet-News] Chef Floyd Cardoz dies of Covid-19 in NYC
Thanks for sharing Pamela. Sad to hear the news. I remember meeting him a few years ago at the Goa LitFest when he interviewed Odette Mascarenhas, at the launch of her book (which I had designed). Regards, Nisha From: Pamela D'Mello Sent: Wednesday, March 25, 2020 7:01 PM To: goa...@goanet.org ; gn-n...@goanet.org Subject: [Goanet-News] Chef Floyd Cardoz dies of Covid-19 in NYC https://scroll.in/latest/957233/coronavirus-chef-floyd-cardoz-co-owner-of-bombay-canteen-dies-of-covid-19-in-new-york-city --
[Goanet] Travel in the Age of Contagion
Thank you for posting the Essay 'Travel in the Age of Contagion'. Enjoyed reading it! Peter Message: 5 Date: Wed, 25 Mar 2020 15:14:22 +0530 From: V M To: V M Subject: [Goanet] Travel in the Age of Contagion (Mint Lounge, 21/3/2020) Message-ID: Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" https://www.livemint.com/mint-lounge/features/travel-in-the-age-of-contagion-1158512510.html
[Goanet] home delivery of essentials at chinchinim
CHINCHINIM VILLAGE TAKES STEP TO HOME SUPPLY ESSENTIALS and prevent panic buying during lockout *STAY AT HOME. ISOLATION SOCIAL DISTANCE EVERYWHERE* The very abrupt lockdown of 21 days has led to panic buying by Villagers of Chinchinim On 24 March groceries shops were opened at night and had to be stopped by police due to mad rush and congregation sec 144. Chinchinim -Deussua Panchayat in collaboration with civic authorities are putting measures in place to ease demand and supply of essential commodities and advised to STAY AT HOME. 1- VOLUNTEERS solicited to enroll within one Km radius with details as follows Name, Fathers name, date of birth,area of operation, history of illness one ID Pan, Aadhaar etc SELF declaration on recent travels, and cold, fever, cough in last week Police will issue pass and for transit vehicle 2-Inventory taken of stocks available with 11 stores and fair price societies 3- Supply thro’ volunteers in area in due time after indent with registered phone number and supplies rationed to reach everyone. 3-A list of senior citizens is prepared who may need aid of supply 4- Borkar Super stores at Chinchinim will deliver home supply after shortly getting stocks. Indent on whatsapp only with relevant details 9225989804, 9225989807, 9881248124, 9822106111 ,7720060278 Contact Panchas for other phone numbers MORE STEPS ARE IN THE PIPE LINE TO MAKE EASE STAY AT HOME Nelson Lopes with information /inputs from deputy sarpanch
[Goanet] essential supply at home at Chinchinim
*STAY AT HOME. ISOLATION SOCIAL DISTANCE EVERYWHERE* The very abrupt lockdown of 21 days has led to panic buying by Villagers of Chinchinim On 24 March groceries shops were opened at night and had to be stopped by police due to mad rush and congregation sec 144. Chinchinim -Deussua Panchayat in collaboration with civic authorities are putting measures in place to ease demand and supply of essential commodities and advised to STAY AT HOME. 1- VOLUNTEERS solicited to enroll within one Km radius with details as follows Name, Fathers name, date of birth,area of operation, history of illness one ID Pan, Aadhaar etc SELF declaration on recent travels, and cold, fever, cough in last week Police will issue pass and for transit vehicle 2-Inventory taken of stocks available with 11 stores and fair price societies 3- Supply thro’ volunteers in area in due time after indent with registered phone number and supplies rationed to reach everyone.
[Goanet-News] Chef Floyd Cardoz dies of Covid-19 in NYC
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Dear Frederick, Hope you are fine and doing well. I send here a bunch of episodes on the History of Christianity. I feel it can be useful to your lessons in the University. Please, see at least one, to confirm my impression. If you want you can spread these videos. Here are: Videos on the History of Christianity: They are in English, with subtitles in Portuguese. Extremely interesting, many people, may take advantage to improve their cultural knowledge and on Christianity, mainly in these days of shutdown. Each parte is of around 25 minutes with a break after it. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ng8dume3V6k To know who's the lecturer, see: http://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_E._Woods,_Jr. Best regards, Eugenio Monteiro
[Goanet] Chef Floyd Cardoz dies of Covid-19 in NYC
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[Goanet] Let us pray for the world
Received this from a friend please pray for the eradication of Corona Virus in the world. May God Bless us all.
[Goanet] [Photo Blog by Rajan Parrikar] Isolation
Photo Blog by Rajan Parrikar has posted a new item, 'Isolation' Echoes of an earlier time. Abandoned farms in the Westfjords of Iceland. You may view the latest post at https://blog.parrikar.com/2020/03/25/isolation/ Warm regards, Rajan Parrikar parri...@yahoo.com
[Goanet] STORY OF LOCKDOWN IN THE CITY
I pass Sao Paulo at Taleigao market often, especially when I don't want to go to Panjim market as it is crowded. Yesterday a new INNOVA vehicle with a registration number plate of HIGH COURT BOMBAY IN GOA stopped there and 2 of the 4 occupants got down and went to check the shops which were open, but not to buy anything. I observed this carefully because the market was completely open. I thought they were inspecting the city and found most of the shops in Panjim closed but not Taleigăo. Also I think the occupants seated in this vehicle were Judges or higher officials of Goa Administration. Earlier I saw police and they were not wearing masks. Then we heard that the lockdown would continue. I called Minister for Civil Supplies Govind Gaude who assured me that essential commodities, even including fish, would be available and a Circular will be issued. He listened to my suggestions about police not gathering in large numbers without masks as they are supposed to give a good example. Today after the PM's announcement last night, our CM Pramod Sawant did his job to ensure the lockdown is successful. Today 25th March morning, a Police jeep was parked at Taleigăo market with one person and SIREN ON continuously. I appreciate the police's strict action in making this lockdown successful. Police did their work well by standing in places where the chances of breaking the lockdown was there. I was happy that they came with minimum number of police personnel to give the crowd a good example they did not gather in large numbers and wore masks. This probably has been advised by Mr. Gaude who had said he would inform DGP and Chief Secretary to do the needful which today seems to be done. However, not everything was perfect. The PM had assured us that essential services like milk, food, bread and petrol would be available. Most of the pharmacies except Welness in St Inez and Apollo as well as 24 hour chemist shops remained closed. Also all shops, fish market, tea-shops, restaurants, observed the lock down and were closed. The main milk stores opposite pharmacy college received a stock of milk but police spoke to him and he shut his shutters disappointing the huge line standing in queue upto the Petrol pump near Mother Theresa's home. (See the photo below) It may have opened later after I left. STEPHEN DIAS Sent from my Samsung device
[Goanet] Travel in the Age of Contagion (Mint Lounge, 21/3/2020)
https://www.livemint.com/mint-lounge/features/travel-in-the-age-of-contagion-1158512510.html An unfamiliar sound assaulted my ears this past week, on the daily sunset walks I take along Miramar beach in Panjim, the capital city of India’s smallest state. An established epicentre of budget tourism, these sands are usually always thronged with delighted holidaymakers this time of the year, with the waters similarly congested by “party boats” – each one holding hundreds of revelers dancing to pounding Bollywood anthems. But now there’s none of that cacophony, only the seemingly deafening crashing of waves. We had forgotten how loud the ocean is, all by itself. The tourists are gone from Goa, disinvited by the global coronavirus emergency. After neighboring Karnataka and Maharashtra went into lockdown earlier this week, chief minister Pramod Sawant declared “I urge people to avoid travelling without necessity, and not to attend or organize large functions. Schools, colleges, pubs, movie halls, public swimming pools, spas, boat cruises and casinos will remain compulsorily closed until March 31.” Compliance has been spotty. Sawant himself promptly proceeded to address large indoor political gatherings. But things will certainly change the moment the state registers its first confirmed case of the dreaded infection. That moment of reckoning is inevitable. Epidemiologists predict 60% of India’s population will be infected over the next year, with millions of potential fatalities. Many experts draw analogies to the impact of World War II, with its huge consequences for every aspect of our lives. A couple of days ago, when I reached out to the eminent author Amitav Ghosh, who has been dividing his life between India and the USA for decades, he wrote back, “This is clearly a pivotal moment: it is impossible to imagine the world going back to the same 'normal' as before. Tourism has been, for many years, the world's biggest industry. There can be no doubt that that will change, and along with that a lot else will change too.” Ghosh is correct that travel and tourism has consistently outpaced other sectors of the global economy, to become an essential engine of growth for many countries. According to the 2019 Economic Impact report of the World Travel and Tourism Council (WTTC), it accounted for 10.4% of global GDP and 319 million jobs, or 10% of total employment. With regard to this country, the numbers are even more remarkable. India ranks third in the world (out of 185 nations) in the WTTC 2018 Power Ranking, which assesses growth in the sector, alongside its contributions to GDP. Every bit of that has come to a grinding halt in 2020, after India joined many other countries in shutting its borders to foreigners. Earlier this week, President Macron of France (the world’s most popular international tourism destination) announced, “concretely, all trips between non-European countries and the European Union (EU) will be suspended for 30 days.” Spain (which ranks second in global popularity with tourists) had already previously declared its intention to ban visitors, unilaterally if necessary. Meanwhile, the United States has implemented an historic prohibition against travellers from 28 countries across Europe, including the UK and Ireland, to go along with its previous “Muslim ban” against seven Islamic-majority nations. In all this, some interesting and occasionally comical ironies have emerged. Turkey, so often callously rebuffed by the EU, closed its borders to citizens from several of its members. A range of African nations, including Ghana, Kenya, Tanzania, Morocco and Libya, banned flights from Europe, which is diametrically opposite from the way these restrictions are usually applied. On a relatively positive note, the Islamic State (ISIS) terrorist group issued “sharia directives” urging its members to steer clear from the western countries where it has been responsible for several bloody attacks, with the decree that “the healthy should not enter the land of the epidemic, and the afflicted should not exit from it.” If suicide bombers are too afraid to leave home, what hope for the rest of us? Pondering this question, my mind turned inevitably to the writers of classic travel literature that has kept me beguiled since I first encountered them in my teens: Robert Byron, Martha Gellhorn, Bill Aitken, Naipaul, Chatwin and many others. After all, travel is so much more than tourism. As another all-time favourite, Pico Iyer once wrote, “We travel, initially, to lose ourselves; and we travel, next, to find ourselves. We travel to open our hearts and eyes and learn more about the world than our newspapers will accommodate. We travel to bring what little we can, in our ignorance and knowledge, to those parts of the globe whose riches are differently dispersed. And we travel, in essence, to become young fools again — to slow time down and get taken in, and fall in love once more.” Iyer is our contemporary
[Goanet] Dr KOCH .......& TB
Message: 7Date: Tue, 24 Mar 2020 10:53:55 +0530 The GOACAN RESOURCE CENTRE in their message
[Goanet] Konkani saying, "Fest korta ganv, Prijentichem nanv"
Its easy to blame others inspite of they not being responsible for the happenings. John F. Kennedy spoke his famous words, "ask not what your country can do for you, ask what you can do for your country."
[Goanet] Today's Online Eucharistic Feast celebration in Konkani
Today is the feast day of the Annunciation of Our Lord. Many of the faithful are unable to physically partake in the Holy Eucharist celebration due to circumstances prevailing. The faithful are welcome to celebrate the Eucharist in Konkani with the Archbishop of Goa at the link mentioned below. https://youtu.be/OLWtKtJameI Dev boro dis dium
