[Goanet] Rumblers decorate NH66

[Nelson Lopes]

Rumblers decorate NH66
NH authorities  are paranoid in decorating NH66  with unscientific rumblers
to avoid traffic accidents.  Three unrecorded   accidents and one fatal at
Dandeavado site.The victim has no one to take up cudgels for negligence
and sue for  deadly rumbler strips that is the cause
EE dodges contact and ignores  correspondence from CM and deputy Collector
and has the audacity  asking aggrieved residents to seek legal redress. The
MLA has secretively demaned it and then   foolishly raising  issue in the
Assembly  for optics in an attempt to shift blame.
Refuses to provide  a copy of the said requests. The nuisance of sound
pollution is 24x7 is due  unbearable  vibrations   disturbing peaceful
sleep  of senior citizens afflicted with age related ailments .The sound
does not dissipate  in heavily crowded  residential area   and effect is
felt around 150 metres radius and more so  at nights Citizens are protected
by sound pollution act after 10 pm  and is the same not applicable to us ?
Accidents at site is not 24 hours but noise is.The EE is arrogant not  to
stick to his suggestion  of widening acquired land by two metres to clear
the blind spot a measure huddle.There are no measures to check speed,.
overtaking  etc.THE drivers use pedestrian footpath to circumvent rumblers,
leaving  no place at all.The provision of dividers .blinker , Zebra
Crossing  has added  much needed The violation of Zebra Crossing  violatios
is a  serious offence but  crossing  rumblers  is at own risk  .Besides
all  the  3 internal connecting  roads have hump type speed breakers
.precautions to stop and proceed.The rumblers in the vicinity are too many
 on a stretch of 2km  that  are causing injuries, damage to vehicles  The
residents have appealed with sound reasons   by representing and peaceful
demonstration. One wonders absence of such measure at St Sebastian Chapel
.Navelim and Cuncolim which are much more risky more crowded  due to
institutions  Church, municipality   and market complex.At Navelim the
underpass and signals are not  functional.The representation to Panchayat
is  largely supported by hired ,  non residents  in the vicinity  Frequent
requests to solve the issue by  signals even by Panchayat are deliberately
ignored only to harass senior citizens by cheap alternative. Another
alternative for bypass is vociferously  opposed by the same  group from the
area  due to presumed  inconvenience to them  even though no habitats are
affected.The authorities refuse to justify  exclusive , selective
preference for rumblers  at the site in comparison with other more
dangerous  junctions as aforementioned .Reintroducing inspite of sound and
valid  suggestions is arrogance of the authorities.My personal experience
of road travel abroad, such crude , unscientific measures are non existent
Rumblers  are an illusive measures  which are not assuring  safety of
pedestrians as no arrangement for  monitoring  of violations and
deterrentsare inplace
.

Nelson Lopes
Chinchinim
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Chinchinim
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Chinchinim
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[Goanet] A Tale Of Two Bottles (Johnnie Walker, Black Label)

[Roland Francis]

A little background to the tale. 

In Ontario, unlike in most states in the US and some provinces in Canada as 
well, the distribution of liquor is solely by the government.

The agency is called The Liquor Control Board of Ontario and its retail stores 
are called LCBO outlets. 

The LCBO is a hugely profitable enterprise whose profits are in the billion 
dollar range and most of it is turned over to the Ontario government to chip in 
for health care funding and other public purses. 

The stores are spacious, clean and offer varieties of wine, beer and spirits 
from all over the world. Prices are on the high side but knowing about the 
destination of their profits, few complain. Their ordering systems are well 
organized and if they don’t stock a particular king of alcoholic beverage, you 
are allowed to order it from a source country with personal quantity 
limitations and LCBO fees attached so that you don’t get it at dirt cheap 
levels. 

Of late there have been a few robbery incidents late night in remote store 
locations, which had caused the LCBO to ask all its employees to let those 
customers who steal, even blatantly, to walk away without confronting them. 

Now to get to the Toronto Police Services. The force is well paid, overpaid 
many think. The lowest rank constables pull in about $80K annually and a 20 
year service Constable assuming no promotions in between, earns at least 150K+. 
Detectives and Sergeants of course earn much more. They can retire after 20 
years if they want to, at which point they are entitled to  a pension of about 
60%, of a figure based on the best 5 years average of their salaries plus all 
health and other benefits. In a word, to say they are overpaid could be an 
understatement. 

Here begins the story:
A few days ago, two customers enter a store, steal two bottles of black label 
and walk away. Store cameras record them and the police arrive after they are 
long gone. 

Our jokers probably have a record, so police have no problem apprehending them. 
The police find the two bottles and take them off the perpetrators. Instead of 
booking the stolen liquor at the police station, they take it to their homes to 
have a celebration. 

The LCBO had geo tagged the two boxes and exactly located where they were. The 
Ontario Provincial Police which has jurisdiction on highways and outside the 
metro area were called in. They obtained search warrants, raided the two homes 
of the constables and found the bottles. 

This geotagging is a new thing. Almost nobody knew about it until now that it 
is news. 

One of the two officers had 27 years of service and the other 5. Repercussions 
are now in the works. 

Reminds me closely of a Tolstoy story we learnt in middle school about a man in 
Russia, greedy for land who went to moan and complain to the king about his 
lack of it. 
OK says the king, tomorrow you set out and all the land you will cover from and 
back to your house until the sun sets, is yours. 
At day break so as not to miss a minute, he sets out and walks a considerable 
distance by noon. He covered all the land he could possibly need. It was a 
blistering hot day, but he thought to himself, I’ll walk a little more, after 
all it is fertile and precious land and I’ll still reach back home by dusk. 
He took a short break and set out again, walking and walking until it was 
sunset. 
As the last rays of the sun went down and he was back, he collapsed from 
fatigue. 
His family buried him in a six by two hole in the ground. That was all he 
needed. 

How much land does a man need? Tolstoy asks.

Roland.
Toronto.

[Goanet] Fwd: Megan Fernandes, renowned poet from Canada and Tanzania and Goa

[Mel de Quadros]

oks 
June 26, 2023 Issue 
Megan Fernandes’s Map of Desire
In “I Do Everything I’m Told,” the poet creates her own geography, a
spatial record of erotic life.

By Kamran Javadizadeh

June 19, 2023
[image: A woman laying on the floor in the middle of a city.]
For Fernandes, place isn’t desire’s terminus; it’s a way to locate lives
unlived.Illustration by Juan Bernabeu
Save this story

Where, in a poem, is “here”? Suppose a poem depicts a scene. When you read
it, do you feel yourself transported there? Or do you feel in the presence
of the poet at her desk, recalling the scene and telling you about it?

For Megan Fernandes, “here” often seems to designate a city. There’s New
York City, where she lives, but also Mumbai, Los Angeles, Paris, Shanghai,
Hong Kong, Nairobi, Guatemala City, Madrid, Lisbon, Palermo, Philadelphia,
Miami, Venice, Dar es Salaam, White Plains, Phoenix, Zurich, Vienna, and
London: twenty cities named across the forty-nine poems of her third
collection, “I Do Everything I’m Told” (Tin House). The book bears the
dedication “For the restless.” Fernandes, who comes from a Goan family by
way of Tanzania, counts herself among them.

And yet the proliferation of these cities imbues them with a sense of
unreality; the poems don’t so much feel set in the cities as gesture toward
them from some other, unspecified place. In one poem, which seems to occur
in the aftermath of a breakup, Fernandes writes, “There is no home / and
nothing to return to, just a series of shadows, partial signs of presence:
a flickering.” One would be hard pressed to locate that flickering on a
map; its only location seems to be the here and now of lyric enunciation:
“I say things and then unsay them. It was love. It was not love. It is
raining. It is not raining.” In another poem, she addresses a would-be
lover with what could well be an address to us: “We put the art between us
because the art exists / and we do not.”
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Why, then, the book’s relentless geography? If “we” do not exist, if only
“the art” does, why insist on telling us where we are? Poets have long
invoked place names as objects of desire—an Ithaca to which one is bound to
return, an Eden from which one has been exiled, a Kyoto for which, even in
Kyoto, one longs. For Fernandes, though, place is not desire’s terminus.
Instead, the names of cities allow her to drop pins on a map of desire, to
create a spatial record of an erotic life, its traffic, its compulsions. In
the poem “Sagittarius,” she boards a plane bound for Zurich and promptly
falls in love with her seatmate, a stranger to whom, in the poem’s final
lines, she cannot help submitting: “Come see me in Vienna, you say. And I
do. / Because I believe so much in being led.” That belief sometimes looks,
as Fernandes describes it in the book’s title poem, like “kink or worship
or both”—like desire that wrenches her out of the course of her life. And
sometimes it looks like the annihilation of desire. “I just want,”
Fernandes writes, “to be dwarfed / by everything / these days.”

But a belief in “being led” also leaves behind a trail, and Fernandes
studies the map she’s made. “One winter,” Fernandes tells us, “I became
very quiet / and saw my life.” She wants to know whether that life coheres
as narrative, whether between the points of its global itinerary there
exists something like a constellation. Fernandes tests this question in a
crown of sonnets that appear in the book’s second section. (A crown is a
sequence in which the last line of each sonnet is recast as the first line
of the next; a final sonnet ends with the initial line of the first,
closing the circuit.) Each sonnet in Fernandes’s crown addresses a beloved;
each is titled for the city in which the love affair in question seems to
have transpired.
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While their form suggests coherence and closure, these are sonnets of
“False Beloveds,” as Fernandes puts it in the section’s title. “Don’t take
it personally,” she tells the beloved of “Shanghai Sonnet”: “I am young and
nothing is sacred yet.” In a traditional crown (John Donne wrote one about
the stages of Christ’s life), that line would be repeated at the start of
the following sonnet. But “Brooklyn Sonnet,” next in the sequence, begins,
“You are young and nothing is sacred yet.” Where the crown offers
continuity, Fernandes leaps from one city to the next. “In love, the rules
are meant to be broken,” “Los Angeles Sonnet” begins. Playing fast and
loose with the conventions of a verse form allows for a performance of
being unbothered by eros: “In role-play and foreplay, I break
character / and make things as unsexy as possible.”

But bet

[Goanet] Schedule for Thursday 22nd June 2023

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Schedule for Thursday 22nd June 2023

12:00 AM

Rosary - Luminous Mysteries


12:27 AM

Poem - Kaklut by Sandhya Fernandes


12:30 AM

Kolakarachi bhett - Silverio, Nerissa & Victor interviewed by Meena Goes


12:56 AM

Our Father - in Akan-Twi Ghana


1:00 AM

Mass in Konkani for Wednesday


2:30 AM

Saibinnichi Ruzai - Uzvaddache Mister


2:56 AM

Devachem Utor - Stotram - Avesor 71 -Vachpi Orlando D'Souza


3:01 AM

Poem - Durbollkay - Manisha Pereira


3:05 AM

Concert - Mhozo Tallo Aikar 2022 - Part 2


4:06 AM

Prayer to the Holy Trinity - Prof. Nicholas D'Souza


4:10 AM

Activists of Goa - Caroline Collasso interviewed by Daniel F. de Souza


4:56 AM

Novena Prayer to St Joseph Vaz


5:00 AM

Career Guidance - Training for Civil Service Examinations


5:22 AM

Bible Project - Public reading of Scripture


5:25 AM

Ximpientlim Motiam -Bhag 251 - ABRAHAM LINCOLN - Fr Pratap Naik sj


5:33 AM

Prayer to the Holy Trinity - Prof. Nicholas D'Souza


5:35 AM

Play - Attraversiamo - Tyron Souza & Marvin Fernandes


5:46 AM

Zaanvai - Talk by Orlando D'Souza


6:19 AM

Poem - Dan by Sandhya Fernandes


6:21 AM

Dev Amkam Kiteak Pekhoita - Dominic Rodrigues


6:50 AM

Song - Upkari Padrinche - Myran Travasso


6:55 AM

Sokalchem Magnnem Brestar - Week 1 & 3


7:00 AM

Praise & Worship - Magno Menezes - SJVSRC Old Goa


7:14 AM

Morning Prayer - Thursday Wk 1 & 3


7:17 AM

Devachem Utor - Stotram - Avesor 72 -Vachpi Orlando D'Souza


7:21 AM

Hymn - Sant Antoni Ixtta- Fr Seveille Antao OFM Cap


7:25 AM

Falling In Love - Pornography -Hosted by Judie D'Cunha


7:53 AM

Our Father - Aramaic


8:00 AM

Agree or Disagree - Debate on Sound hosted by Frederick Noronha


9:00 AM

Bible Project - Gospel of Luke - Ch 1 - 2


9:05 AM

Breaking Barriers through Dialogue - Communidades


9:52 AM

Tell Me a Story - Eps 120 - Elijah's new apprentice


10:00 AM

How reliable are the words of the Bible? - Edmund Antao


10:28 AM

Magnificat (English)


10:30 AM

Borem Korath - Talk by Cassino D'Costa


10:57 AM

Saint Teresa of Avila - Quote


11:00 AM

Through Mary to Jesus - Eps 6 - Fr Anderson Fernandes S.J,


11:20 AM

Intercessions - English


11:27 AM

Angelus - English


11:30 AM

Mass in English


12:15 PM

Daily Flash


12:18 PM

Bhagevont Zuze Vazache mozotin Piddestam Khatir Magnnem


12:20 PM

Amchea Bapa…3 - Domnic Rodrigues


12:45 PM

Catholic Quiz - Ven Fr Agnelo de Souza conducted by Mysticka Deniz


12:57 PM

Poem - Sopnam by Michael Koola


1:00 PM

Activists of Goa - Rajendra P. Kerkar interviewed by Daniel F. de Souza


1:41 PM

Song - Thankful


1:45 PM

Literally Goa - Sharmila Pais interviewed by Frederick Noronha


2:14 PM

Hymn - Sant Antoni Ixtta- Fr Seveille Antao OFM Cap


2:20 PM

Wisdom Reflections -12 - Rachol Professors


2:45 PM

Synodal Journey with Mary - Fr Ashley Alphonso


2:57 PM

Atmik Ekchar


3:00 PM

Bhokti Lharam- Bhag 20


3:07 PM

Prayer : Benedictus


3:10 PM

Bhajan - Namo Visvachiye Dipti - Fr Glen D'Silva sfx


3:17 PM

My Music Videos - Jezu Mhojo Raja - Myran Travasso


3:23 PM

Ganesh Chaturthi and Church Teachings - Fr Melito DCosta


3:30 PM

Divine Mercy - English 4


3:49 PM

Saint Teresa of Avila - Quote


3:50 PM

Ximpientlim Motiam -Bhag 251 - ABRAHAM LINCOLN - Fr Pratap Naik sj


4:00 PM

Rosary - Luminous Mysteries


4:27 PM

Prayer : Benedictus


4:30 PM

Senior Citizens Exercises - 9


5:00 PM

Novenas Pilerne Day 8


6:30 PM

Aimorechen Magnnem


6:33 PM

Bhurgeanchem magnnem aplea avoi-bapaik


6:35 PM

Abundant Life -Sin is worth leaving - Prof Nicholas D'Souza


6:57 PM

Atmik Ekchar


7:00 PM

Zaanvai - Talk by Orlando D'Souza


7:29 PM

Poem - Sopnam by Michael Koola


7:30 PM

Saibinnichi Ruzai - Uzvaddache Mister


7:56 PM

Bhurgem Zaunchem Asa Team Avoiancher Bhagevont Zuze Vazache Mozotin Magnnem


8:00 PM

Importance of Teaching and Preaching - Talk by Colin Calmiano


8:48 PM

Hymn - St Thomsa H.S. Cansaulim


8:52 PM

Devachem Utor - Stotram - Avesor 73 -Vachpi Orlando D'Souza


9:00 PM

Adoration - Padre Pio Friary


10:05 PM

Ratchem Magnem


10:15 PM

Pope's Intention in English


10:20 PM

Mea Culpa - Anjuna


11:39 PM

Entrepreneurship - Chef Cheryl Susan Gomes - interviewed by Basil D'Cunha


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[Goanet] Fwd: Megan Fernandes, renowned poet from Canada, Tanzania and Goa

[Mel de Quadros]

oks 
June 26, 2023 Issue 
Megan Fernandes’s Map of Desire
In “I Do Everything I’m Told,” the poet creates her own geography, a
spatial record of erotic life.

By Kamran Javadizadeh

June 19, 2023
[image: A woman laying on the floor in the middle of a city.]
For Fernandes, place isn’t desire’s terminus; it’s a way to locate lives
unlived.Illustration by Juan Bernabeu

Where, in a poem, is “here”? Suppose a poem depicts a scene. When you read
it, do you feel yourself transported there? Or do you feel in the presence
of the poet at her desk, recalling the scene and telling you about it?

For Megan Fernandes, “here” often seems to designate a city. There’s New
York City, where she lives, but also Mumbai, Los Angeles, Paris, Shanghai,
Hong Kong, Nairobi, Guatemala City, Madrid, Lisbon, Palermo, Philadelphia,
Miami, Venice, Dar es Salaam, White Plains, Phoenix, Zurich, Vienna, and
London: twenty cities named across the forty-nine poems of her third
collection, “I Do Everything I’m Told” (Tin House). The book bears the
dedication “For the restless.” Fernandes, who comes from a Goan family by
way of Tanzania, counts herself among them.

And yet the proliferation of these cities imbues them with a sense of
unreality; the poems don’t so much feel set in the cities as gesture toward
them from some other, unspecified place. In one poem, which seems to occur
in the aftermath of a breakup, Fernandes writes, “There is no home / and
nothing to return to, just a series of shadows, partial signs of presence:
a flickering.” One would be hard pressed to locate that flickering on a
map; its only location seems to be the here and now of lyric enunciation:
“I say things and then unsay them. It was love. It was not love. It is
raining. It is not raining.” In another poem, she addresses a would-be
lover with what could well be an address to us: “We put the art between us
because the art exists / and we do not know

Why, then, the book’s relentless geography? If “we” do not exist, if only
“the art” does, why insist on telling us where we are? Poets have long
invoked place names as objects of desire—an Ithaca to which one is bound to
return, an Eden from which one has been exiled, a Kyoto for which, even in
Kyoto, one longs. For Fernandes, though, place is not desire’s terminus.
Instead, the names of cities allow her to drop pins on a map of desire, to
create a spatial record of an erotic life, its traffic, its compulsions. In
the poem “Sagittarius,” she boards a plane bound for Zurich and promptly
falls in love with her seatmate, a stranger to whom, in the poem’s final
lines, she cannot help submitting: “Come see me in Vienna, you say. And I
do. / Because I believe so much in being led.” That belief sometimes looks,
as Fernandes describes it in the book’s title poem, like “kink or worship
or both”—like desire that wrenches her out of the course of her life. And
sometimes it looks like the annihilation of desire. “I just want,”
Fernandes writes, “to be dwarfed / by everything / these days.”

But a belief in “being led” also leaves behind a trail, and Fernandes
studies the map she’s made. “One winter,” Fernandes tells us, “I became
very quiet / and saw my life.” She wants to know whether that life coheres
as narrative, whether between the points of its global itinerary there
exists something like a constellation. Fernandes tests this question in a
crown of sonnets that appear in the book’s second section. (A crown is a
sequence in which the last line of each sonnet is recast as the first line
of the next; a final sonnet ends with the initial line of the first,
closing the circuit.) Each sonnet in Fernandes’s crown addresses a beloved;
each is titled for the city in which the love affair in question seems to
have transpired.

While their form suggests coherence and closure, these are sonnets of
“False Beloveds,” as Fernandes puts it in the section’s title. “Don’t take
it personally,” she tells the beloved of “Shanghai Sonnet”: “I am young and
nothing is sacred yet.” In a traditional crown (John Donne wrote one about
the stages of Christ’s life), that line would be repeated at the start of
the following sonnet. But “Brooklyn Sonnet,” next in the sequence, begins,
“You are young and nothing is sacred yet.” Where the crown offers
continuity, Fernandes leaps from one city to the next. “In love, the rules
are meant to be broken,” “Los Angeles Sonnet” begins. Playing fast and
loose with the conventions of a verse form allows for a performance of
being unbothered by eros: “In role-play and foreplay, I break
character / and make things as unsexy as possible.”

But between each sonnet and the next there also appears an erasure of the
sonnet we’ve just read. As words are stripped away, nonchalance also fades,
leaving in its wake something hotter and raw. “Paris Sonnet” is addressed
to a misogynist:

[Goanet] How the Portuguese influenced our food....

[Frederick Noronha]

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[Goanet] It's Tomorrow - XCHR History Hour - Book Discussion by Dr. Jason Keith Fernandes and panelists, on Thursday, 22nd June 2023

[XCHR Info]

Dear Friends,

It's Tomorrow!!!

A Gentle Reminder!!!

Xavier Centre of Historical Research, Porvorim cordially invites you to the
History Hour Book Discussion of *Citizenship in a Caste Polity: Religion,
Language and Belonging in Goa, *authored by *Dr. Jason Keith Fernandes**, *
on *Thursday**, 22nd of June, 2023 at Xavier Centre, at 6 P.M**.*  (Tea
will be served at 5:30 P.M.). *Adv. Cleofato Almeida Coutinho*, *Dr. Fleur
D'Souza*, and *Prof. Shailendra Mehta* will be the panelists of the Book
Discussion, moderated by *Prof. Amita Kanekar.*


You and your friends and colleagues are cordially invited to the
History Hour Book Discussion. Kindly refer to the attached flyer and poster
for further details.

Regards,

Malcolm Barreto, S.J.
Administrator, XCHR
Xavier Centre of Historical Research
B B Borkar Road, Alto Porvorim, Goa 403521, India.
Tel: +91-832-2417772 (Office)

*www.xchr.in* 
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