[Goanet] ..about bogus immigration ads Massages or sex ads etc our news paper responsibilities

2006-09-16 Thread JoeGoaUk
..about bogus immigration ads Massages or sex ads our news paper responsibilities I fully agree with you FN when you say Newspapers should have some responsibilities too. It seems our newspapers (like our politicians) do any thing for money and for them every little counts or for that

Re: [Goanet] Will any Goan....re casteism and boycotts

2006-09-16 Thread Mario Goveia
--- Carvalho [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Mario's idea of writing to the newspapers is a good one but I don't expect too many writers in Goa to take it up, since one can't bite the hand that feeds the golden goose, to mix my proverbs. Mario observes: Oh, I get it. Writers, whose idealistic

[Goanet] Dom Moraes residence

2006-09-16 Thread Ana Maria de Souza-Goswami
If I remember correctly Dom stayed for many years at Colaba at Leela Naidu's residence when he was married to her. Its one of those lanes off the main Colaba Causeway because Nirmal (my late husband) and myself were invited to their residence. Cheers Ana Maria de Souza-Goswami

[Goanet] Goa Sudharop: 2007 - Year of the Environment

2006-09-16 Thread George Pinto
Goa Sudharop is pleased to announce that its theme for 2007 is Year of the Environment, focusing on environmental issues as it relates to Goa and Goans. We encourage you to join us in our efforts. Goa Sudharop is a volunteer based organization, for more information see www.goasudharop.org.

Re: [Goanet] (no subject)

2006-09-16 Thread Filomena Giese
Dear Edwin (dropping the formalities in true Goanet fashion), Thanks for replying. Goa Sudharop is not about leadership but about cooperative effort. We support various projects in education, safety, environment etc. that our team in Goa recommends to us. We advertise the projects or needs and

Re: [Goanet] Will any Goan....re casteism in the Church - confraria is still supreme ??

2006-09-16 Thread Peter D'Souza
Hi Mario, I must disagree with you on this one. There is a great deal of information available that seems to support Selma's views. The paper you cite ignores the history of the Roman Catholic church in regards to celibacy (or lack thereof), especially when it comes to the papacy. Peter -- Here

Re: [Goanet] Will any Goan ......re gaunkaris

2006-09-16 Thread Nasci Caldeira
Hi all, In reply to what Selma has said below, I only wish to say that I agree, that in some village Communidades' juisdictions, the gaunkars who are merely Chardos like maybe myself, they simply lord it over and think of themselves as Bamon or neo Bamon etc of high caste. To add to that these

Re: [Goanet] Wonder if Goa will remember....

2006-09-16 Thread Radhakrishnan Nair
Dear Mr Ribeiro, Thank you very much for the details, sir! I always found your writings incisive and inspiring. Now I know the background. My only wish is that you appear more frequently on Goanet. With regards best wishes, RKN ___ Goanet mailing list

[Goanet] Goan caste system...reply to Mr Ino Lobo

2006-09-16 Thread Andrew
Goan caste system...reply to Mr Ino Lobo Ingrid Mathews, Milton Keynes, UK It is real pity to see one Mr Ino Lobo, who calls himself a real Goan now in UK to be so frustrated at me for pointing out at the dirty caste system. Me and everyone do understand his frustration for no reasons and

Re: [Goanet] Sleeping with windows open

2006-09-16 Thread Frederick \FN\ Noronha
Is sleeping with windows open the only basis of judging how peaceful, just, and sustainable a society is? Or, is the cleanliness of the hospitals a better indicator? This is not a defence for post-1961 prone corruption and misrule, but one can't overlook that a semi-Fascist dictatorship has pros

[Goanet] Xavier's student is Infosys ambassador

2006-09-16 Thread St. Xavier's College of Arts, Science Commerce - Mapusa -
XAVIER’S NEWS FEATURES E-SERVICE (XNFES) Xavier's student is Infosys ambassador St Xavier's Media Cell Mapusa, Sept 9: Mark Rocha, a Third Year student of St Xavier's College, Mapusa has been selected as a campus ambassador for IT giant Infosys' campus ambassador programme. He will train at

[Goanet] Another Kaneo .. or is it .. Hot Air?

2006-09-16 Thread Gilbert Lawrence
Hi Fred, I attempted to bring to Goanet readers some of the advances and pitfalls in practice patterns in my filed of expertise. I appreciate the thanks I recieved both publicly and privately from the goanetters. I wished other specialists would have used this opporutnity to undertake a

[Goanet] we want Roman Script in Konkani! By Lambert Mascarenhas

2006-09-16 Thread Stephen Fernandes
I am neither a writer nor reader of Konkani. The Konkani I speak, hybrid with Portuguese words, strained to my regret and shame, is not even fluent and easy. If a Konkani publication is gifted to me I cannot understand most words in a sentence. Thus I must be considered as a person with no bias,

Re: [Goanet] Goanet Reader: Inconvenient truths about Goa, 2006... Degredation and the downward spiral (Filomena Saraswati Giese)

2006-09-16 Thread Nasci Caldeira
I Nasci, wants to add and expound a bit more on what Dr Philomena has very nicely compiled in this post, and not necessarily criticize it! In my senior's submission to Goa Sudharop, I mentioned that Goa of today is 'Un Livable' compared to what it was in my youth and when I last lived in Goa. I

Re: [Goanet] Casteism in newspapers/response to Mario

2006-09-16 Thread Carvalho
Dear Mario, Please don't be a contrarian because this is a free forum and obviously posts are free. If you had to pay $1 per post, perhaps you would think more carefully about what you write. Can any newspaper in the US run classified ads saying only whites need apply for jobs, or only women

[Goanet] AICHEA DISAK CHINTOP - Setembrachi 17vi, 2006!

2006-09-16 Thread domnic fernandes
Anbhog aslolo budh dita. Dekun tachi ttika marinaka ani mhunnonaka: Tum kitlo boro tor! (An experienced person lends advice. Therefore, don’t criticize him and say: As if you are any better!) Moi-mogan, Domnic Fernandes Anjuna/Dhahran, KSA

Re: [Goanet] Re celibacy within Church/response to Mario

2006-09-16 Thread Carvalho
Dear Mario, I think I told you before, I have an extremely firm grip on whatever I write. If you are going to insult me, you're going to have to be smarter than the coterie of cheerleaders who have proclaimed you as their leader and exalted you to the position of Wisest Man on Goanet. Please

[Goanet] Mervyn bees wrong

2006-09-16 Thread Cecil Pinto
Mervyn Lobo wrote: Whats this I hear? Where do you find a beehive? Go to the hill tops of Colvale or Siolim at night and follow your nose to the stone pit where they crushed cashews for urak. Remove the corrugated iron sheet. Start running. -- Dear Mervyn, I sent my convent

[Goanet] Forget power, land... look to education first, IT sector tells Goa

2006-09-16 Thread Frederick \FN\ Noronha
Forget power, land... look to education first, IT sector tells Goa From Frederick Noronha Panaji (Goa), Sept 16: Tiny Goa needs to address its limited educational capabilities if it is to come anywhere near its big dreams of luring IT players to this region, Infosys director T.V. Mohandas Pai

Re: [Goanet] New garbage dumping site

2006-09-16 Thread Mervyn Menezes
Yahoo! Messenger Version 8. Get it NOW -- next part -- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://lists.goanet.org/pipermail/goanet-goanet.org/attachments/20060916/87abdb1f/attachment.html ___ Goanet mailing list Goanet

Re: [Goanet] Casteism in newspapers/response to Mario

2006-09-16 Thread Mervyn Lobo
Carvalho [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Dear Mario, Please don't be a contrarian because this is a free forum and obviously posts are free. If you had to pay $1 per post, perhaps you would think more carefully about what you write. Selma, You don't know how close to the truth you are. Can

Re: [Goanet] Another Kaneo .. or is it .. Hot Air?

2006-09-16 Thread Santosh Helekar
I am sorry that Gilbert thinks that I have distorted one of his claims, made a mistake on one, and fabricated another one. Because of this dispute he has gone on and said several negative things about me, and implied that I am a fool. But I am grateful to him to have at least been generous enough

[Goanet] Governor’s pleasure is others’ pain - part II

2006-09-16 Thread JoeGoaUk
Fancy eating meat at Goa Sadan (Delhi), watch out!! You might end up eating dog meat. Our Goa Governor S.C. Jamir makes frequent visit there (Goa Sadan) and his aides demanded the Goa Sadan cook dog meat for Jamir which is his speciality. The dogs are killed elsewhere it seems and meat is

[Goanet] The Wife's Duty To Her Husband Briefly Told

2006-09-16 Thread Roland Francis
The author of this article that ran in the Toronto Star of Dec 12, 1985 is a man after my own heart. Strong-willed and outspoken female posters of Goanet including but not restricted to Selma, Helga, Filomena et al, please note. THREE THINGS FOR EVERY WOMAN TO CONSIDER 1. A determination which

[Goanet] Re-constitute GSPCB : SGF

2006-09-16 Thread airesrod
The Save Goa Front has demanded the immediate re-constitution of the Goa State Pollution Control Board currently headed by Dr. L.U.Joshi. The Front has stated that the current Goa State Pollution Board has lost all autonomy and has miserably failed to exercise its independent authority in

Re: [Goanet] Will any Goan....re casteism and boycotts

2006-09-16 Thread Frederick \FN\ Noronha
Whoa, Mario. Do go slow. Don't try to act as judge, jury and executioner all rolled into one... that too, without knowing the facts adequately. * Firstly, publications in Goa pay their writers very poorly -- in a situation of considerable politicking. That's why, anyone who can make it would

Re: [Goanet] [ilug-goa-announce] ECAP... getting started

2006-09-16 Thread Frederick \FN\ Noronha
Braving a Saturday full of rains, the ILUG-Goa team participated in ECAP2006, the Exhibition of Computers and Allied Products, at the Hotel Mandovi. While the crowds were lower than usual, it was interesting to see the number of young people clued in about GNU/Linux, coming up with very specific

[Goanet] Hockey Olympian Feroze Khan dead at 100

2006-09-16 Thread CARMO DCRUZ
Dr. Shaikh, Balbir Singh-ji Its a shame - 1928 Hockey Olympian Feroze Khan's death at 100 was not mentioned in detail in the Indian Press and the Chinese Press covered it. This atttitude needs to change if we are to create a greater paradigm shift in the subcontinent. see link:

Re: [Goanet] Re celibacy within Church

2006-09-16 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Selma and Mario, Isn't Google great? However, in my searches, I get another reason for enforced celibacy in the Roman Catholic priesthood. One of self preservation which also explains their vehement opposition to same-sex marriage. This link, albeit from a Lutheran perspective, implies that

[Goanet] Jazz at Prive

2006-09-16 Thread Jazz Goa
Prive (used to be Athena), Mumbai's premium nightclub presents India's premier jazz ensemble 'Jazz Junction' every Wednesday 9pm onwards. Besides local virtuosos the band will feature accomplished international artistes each Wednesday. live jazz promoted by

Re: [Goanet] Myths and Misinformation regarding Cancer

2006-09-16 Thread Santosh Helekar
I think Gilbert is right about his description of the surgical treatment of ovarian cancer, as he should be. The only minor point of contention might be his rejection of the term aggressive. The nice thing about modern medical research, or rather, scientific research in general, is that the latest