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From: Frederick Noronha (FN) [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: goanet@goanet.org
Any suggestions on how to increasing participation levels among the
'silent Goanetter'? Thanks in advance for any great ideas. FN
In recent discussions with a wide range of people in Goa, I found
Good article Leo. Enjoyed it. Brought back memories, especially on the
eve of my departure for Goa. At my age now I dont think I will be able
to climb trees, much less the hills.
The Pope has offered theological reasons for the Church's prohibition
of women priests in Christifidelis Laici and other documents. He has
emphasized that this restriction represents the mind of Christ, who could
have chosen women as apostles if he wanted to. He has also said that this is a
Marcus (Vaz) Goa-ent aplea bolaikicho ilaz (medical test) kortalo tea sumanant.
Tor to koso hea kariakoramant Kuveitt hajir zalo?
KHK Karbhareanim zaiteo fottaxeo marloleot teo hea boroinarant dek'kor keleat
mhunn spoxtt zata.
Saddea panxim ? Hea khuinchea vorseant asleat tea disa?
A/C
In this Penguin India book (James Surowiecki: The Wisdom of the Crowds.
Why the Many are Smarter than the Few) the author makes an interesting
point. He argues that if you want to solve a problem, don't turn to an
expert, turn it over to a group.
That's why Goanet works (sometimes), I guess!
GL responds:
If Goans really want to do something for women and THEIR women, do what we will
do next month. Have a Goan mother-daughter dinner. The husband /fathers are the
cooks and the waiters at the dinner. Single women are not excluded as they are
somebody's mother and daughter.
No
IS MICKEY MOUSE AT HOME? LOOKING BACK AT GOA'S DOMESTIC ARCHITECTURE
By Heta Pandit
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Goa is a plural society that is in a state of social, cultural and creative
turbulence. I have said this in a recent publication (Seminar-Amchem Goem,
November 2004) and at the risk of repeating
http://www.navhindtimes.com/stories.php?part=newsStory_ID=042432
Village culture thriving in Goa: Benegal
NT Staff Reporter
Panaji, April 23: Noted film maker, Mr Shyam Benegal today said that
Goa is different from the rest of the country in many ways especially
because it has managed to
Mario Goveia [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
If push come to shove maybe we can just take all
that
Canadian oil. All it would take would be the police
force of a decent sized city to do that.
Mario,
But would you also wipe out the liberal dictatorship
and install democracy? :-)
Mervyn3.0
Mario,
The Brit's name you could not recall is Anthony Flew. I had to read his
texts as an undergraduate. I found them rather teleological to say the
least.
Cornel
An Interesting post. Do we have any contact details where information
can be found with details of the ship and its facilities and who the
booking agents are..
--
David Futers [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Newbiggin by the Sea http://www.futers.org
Northumberland
NE64 6NL UNITED
Strange it seems —the RC Church that
discriminates against women (no women ordination)
and treats them like Taliban -- has canonized
women ?
It does not cost to criticize, without realistic
thought.
JV
--- Mario Goveia [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
George Pinto [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
--- Mario Goveia [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I wish I could remember the name of a famous Brit
philosopher, a lifelong proactive atheist, who
turned 80 recently, who was moved to publicly
announce that he had finally concluded that there was
a higher
being because he could find no other explanation
Very interesting. Welcome back. You had to have
known that JP-II had packed the College of Cardinals
with fellow conservatives. so the choice of Papa Ratzi
was almost a cinch. Benedict XVI has written that he
would rather see a smaller Church than compromise core
principles, so growth for its
Goa, Bangalore on Hotel Hindusthan list
A STAFF REPORTER
Long innings
Calcutta, April 24: Hotel Hindusthan International (HHI) plans to expand
into the markets of Bangalore and Goa in the next couple of years.
The property at Bangalore is acquired while the one at Goa is a
Steel majors in expansion mode as mkts take toll
Press Trust of India / New Delhi April 24, 2005
With the BSE Sensex having come down nearly 5% since the start of the
year, stocks of steel majors SAIL and TISCO have lost their sheen on the
bourses even as some steel companies are into
Absence from Goanet makes the heart grow fonder! I was away in the Far East
for a while and am only just catching up with Goanet posts. Re the new
Pope/Catholicism etc, I strongly believe in gender equality and am most
disappointed that the Catholic Church continues to see women as second-class
Narain finishes 14
April 24, 2005 20:22 IST
India's Narain Karthikeyan finished more than a lap ahead of teammate
Tiago Monteiro as he steered his Jordan car to 14th position in the San
Marino Grand Prix in Imola on Sunday.
Renault's Fernando Alonso took the honours, beating seven-time world
http://in.rediff.com/money/2005/apr/25forbes.htm
The world's best airports
Lisa DiCarlo, Forbes | April 25, 2005
Travel preferences are a very personal thing. Some people don't mind driving
two hours out of their way if it means a cheaper ticket. For others, getting
in and out quickly is the
There are no cheap (charter) flights to Goa from Europe in August because
the monsoon rains are at their heaviest. However, if you travel via Bombay
or Delhi you can get to Goa as there are several airlines operating from the
above two cities.[Cornel, April 25]
But scheduled airline tickets to
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/south_asia/4480233.stm
India rail minister to face trial
Mr Yadav says he is innocent
A court in India has charged federal Rail Minister Laloo Prasad Yadav with
embezzling millions of dollars when he was chief minister of Bihar state.
The so-called fodder scam, in
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/south_asia/4470367.stm
Lee Kuan Yew's India rethink
By Kaushik Basu
Professor of economics, Cornell University
Mr Lee caused a stir with his upbeat views on India
When it comes to crafting national economic policy, few political leaders in
the world have had the
A Herald Report
BY MELVYN MISQUITA ANIL SHANKHWALKAR
PORVORIM, APRIL 24 -- When patients went to the Sub-Health Centre
(SHC) at Virlossa in Penha-da-Franca during the last three months,
they were advised to carry with them a bottle of dettol.
We were told to bring a dettol bottle with us as the
Tollygunge hold Sporting
April 25, 2005 20:52 IST
Sporting Clube De Goa's title aspirations hit a speedbreaker as their
fantastic six-match winning run came to an end after being held to a 2-2
draw by Tollygunge Agragami in a crucial ninth National Football League
match in Kolkata on
BBC - April 25,2005
The Pope has been holding the first audiences of his papacy
Pope Benedict XVI has revealed at an audience with pilgrims that he
prayed to God during conclave to spare him the destiny of becoming
Pope. He had thought that at 78 his life's work was finished and I was
expecting
Diana,
Touche. Everyone who is familiar with the inner
workings of how most nuns conduct their business and
dedicate their lives to helping people where the
rubber meets the road as opposed to pontificating
from an ivory tower, most without any interest in
being priests and being bossed around by
On April 19 I had posted Bottlenecks in the Sky from Business Standard in
which the author called for a wholistic view to relieve the constraints
operating on civil aviation. However the author seemd to have
ignored/overlooked the most important constraint which we in Goa are
familiar with --
I don't have the answer to your question about
fractions, Marlon. I recently agreed with George that
even Papa Ratzi is a cafeteria Catholic at some level.
I believe practicing Catholics unconsciously use the
standards of on balance and baby and bathwater,
and use the tenets of the Church and a
George Pinto [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Mario Goveia replies:
George, a learned and highly educated person like
you
Not true. Please take my word.
Mario replies:
Folks, take my word, George is both learned and
educated, as well as a deep thinker, sometimes to the
point of almost drowning,
NAIROBI INSTITUTE PRESENTS . THE PARTY OF THE CENTURY.
Dear Members and Friends of the Nairobi Institute
The Nairobi Institute, formerly the Goan Institute,
Nairobi, will be celebrating its 100 years anniversary
on the 11th of June 2005. The celebrations will
feature a week of fun filled
On the lighter side...Cafeteria Catholic Goans are the ones
who enter the 'Cafeteria Xannu' to have a cup of tea,
as the Padr Vigar starts his sermon for Sunday Mass :)
Regards
Eddie Verdes
Is this Pope good news for India?
By: Priscilla Mehta
http://www.mid-day.com/news/city/2005/april/108061.htm
In multi-religious India, a papal election would normally be no reason for
concern.
Not this time. For Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger - now Pope Benedict XVI - as
Prefect of the
http://www.epw.org.in/showArticles.php?root=2005leaf=04filename=8525filet
ype=html
EPW Commentary April 16, 2005
Offer of F-16 Aircraft
India Needs an Effective Air Force, Not a Bloated One
With many plans on the table for the IAF to make major acquisitions, it is
necessary to consider the
World Book Day went largely unnoticed in Goa. Who reads here anyway?
Writers meeting up at the Fundacao Oriente were lamenting this fact, and
also the reality that Goa's publishing sector is very tiny
(self-publishing is booming though, perhaps because of this!)
Indian Express (April
What's more the local bodies and ZP members appear totally ignorant of the
significance of the district Planning Committee in the absence of any single
agency to co-ordinate with these bodies.
Incidentally, the lone meeting of the district Planning Committee took place
on July 20 last year, but
Monday at 07.38
Dear Friends
I am fwd-ing to you what I received this morning: the TIME issue about the
new Pope.It is very interesting indeed, with various articles,his photos and
a place where the reader is requested to vote: Was the choice correct? wong?
too early to say? DO give your vote
A
Some more crap posted on Goanet!
B. Colaco
Timeline
1187 First Konkani inscription
1209 Jnaneshwari is written in Konkani
1548 Portuguese destroy all Konkani works...
25-04-03
Dear Friend,
To say I love you! is easy. To really mean: I love you!, in the
words of Dostoevsky, is as hard as hell. Part of the explanation
for it being hard is that if we love, we obey the commands and
wishes of our beloved. This applies to our
Hello Bela,
There are no cheap (charter) flights to Goa from Europe in August because
the monsoon rains are at their heaviest. However, if you travel via Bombay
or Delhi you can get to Goa as there are several airlines operating from the
above two cities.
In the past, I often travelled to Goa
Hey Fred,
Your obssesion for the word goan baffles me.
There is loads of info on the Mphasis scam and I am tracking this news
closely as a good buddy of mine Heads the Largest BPO operation in
Pune.
There were 12 people arrested in this scam and this news has been in
the print media and TV
Rates being mentioned are Rs 9100 per person for a two-nights
Mumbai-Goa-Mumbai cruise, Rs 18,3000 per person for a 4 nights
Mumbai-Lakshadweep-Goa-Mumbai cruise and Rs 3600 for a one night 'weekend
getaway' around Mumbai.
There's some fine print though: rates are adult sharing a twin
Report from the All-India Scrabble Tournament held at Verna, Goa on 23rd and
24th April, 2005
by Fleur Dias
It was competitive sport at its best at the All-India Open Scrabble
Tournament held on the 23rd and 24th April, 2005 at the PC College of
Engineering, Verna, Goa. Organised by Fr. Agnel
HEART 2 HEART - APRIL 25 (Herald)
BY ETHEL DA COSTA
Whose LIFW is it anyway?
Lights, dazzle, diamonds and its showtime folks at the Lakme India Fashion
Week 2005, Delhi. A heady eclectic mix of the ethereal, over the top glam,
excess cleavage, the earthy and the wannabe. From socialites by the
Standing on the steeple and pontificating to the people, airing profound
thoughts with a superior air, massaging their delicate egos, bossing
everyone around, crushing any different opinion ruthlessly and doing
constant whitewashing jobs are perhaps tasks best left to the men, while we
women get
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