Re: [Goanet] Is your job safe? RBC

2013-04-08 Thread Albert Peres
It looks like when the temporary work visas expire, the majority of jobs will end up in India, where RBC has operations. And likely, if it is a successful model, RBS will follow as they also have extensive operations in India. Now rather than speaking to my local teller, and they are all immig

[Goanet] Is there any doctor in the house?

2013-04-08 Thread Dr . Ferdinando dos Reis Falcão
JoeGoaUk joegoauk at yahoo.co.uk on Sun Apr 7 11:07:03 PDT 2013 wrote: Is there any doctor in the house? Looks like I need an orthopaedic doctor / advice …. RESPONSE: I am not an Orthopaedic doctor; but from your Xray it is clear that your leg is above the knee. Stop standing on your head

[Goanet] Fw: A Gracious Gift - Four Corners

2013-04-08 Thread Con Menezes
Subject: Organ donations ..stories of the families, both donors & recipients who went through these situations. Some people might find a few of the. scenes disturbing. http://www.abc.net.au/4corners/stories/2013/04/08/3729893.htm

[Goanet] GOA-MLAS - who drove without helmets to be issued challans!

2013-04-08 Thread Mario Andrew Rodrigues
http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/goa/Goa-MLAs-who-drove-to-Assembly-complex-without-helmets-to-be-issued-challans/articleshow/19440608.cms The above news is welcome. The above could happen only because someone wrote, voiced it . And for this , I would like to thank the person, party. On

[Goanet] Fw: Please take a few minutes to watch this. It will make your day

2013-04-08 Thread Con Menezes
A talent contest that will tug at your heart and make you cry. Yes , the contest judges felt that way!! Please take a few minutes to watch this. It will make your day. http://www.youtube.com/embed/W86jlvrG54o?rel=0

Re: [Goanet] Is your job safe?

2013-04-08 Thread Jim Fernandes
Oops! You are right. --- On Mon, 4/8/13, Gabe Menezes wrote: > From: Gabe Menezes > Subject: Re: [Goanet] Is your job safe? > To: "Goa's premiere mailing list, estb. 1994!" > Date: Monday, April 8, 2013, 11:29 AM > Surely you mean Royal Bank of Canada > not RBS which stands for Royal Bank of >

[Goanet] Goa news for April 9, 2013

2013-04-08 Thread Goanet News Service
Goa News from Google News and Goanet.org Visit http://www.goanet.org/newslinks.php for the full stories. *** Cong slams Badal govt for holding 'vichar manthan' in Goa - Times of India JP-s-Goa-trip-will-do-no-good-to-Punjab-Manpreet/SP-Article1-1039433.aspx">SAD-BJP's Goa trip will do no good to P

[Goanet] Fight for Oil: 100 Years in the Middle East

2013-04-08 Thread Frederick FN Noronha * फ्रेड्रिक नोरोन्या * فريدريك نورونيا
For a society which has had close links with the Middle East for a large part of the last century, this seldom focussed-on but stranger-than-fiction story is something that we in Goa need to be aware of: Fight for Oil: 100 Years in the Middle East Part I: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0ybsEhlT2D

[Goanet] Dr Manmohan Singh, Hon'ble Prime Minister of India and Mr S Gopalakrishnan (Kris), President of CII - Exclsuive Photo's

2013-04-08 Thread Cecil Pinto
Dear Members of the Press, Please find attached pictures of Mr S Gopalakrishnan (Kris), the newly elected President of CII who called on Dr Manmohan Singh, Hon'ble Prime Minister of India today in New Delhi. The discussion focused on the role of Indian industry on improving the overall economic

[Goanet] The Goa Project - Live coverage

2013-04-08 Thread D'Souza, Avelino
Correction: The Goa project was covered live by NH7 here: http://live.nh7.in/ ( First 7 pages) ~Avelino

[Goanet] Lizards out of reach, goats may salvage Goa's ghumat

2013-04-08 Thread Venantius J Pinto
We will keep applying laws without looking at contexts. Any intelligent system works out a process, and yes again, a system to hold to certain tradition. Talks its out, raises farms etc. Many among the ones who feign modernist values and tropes within it, are the same who eat ghorpad (rem. Tanaji

[Goanet] Fwd: [SAI] "Africans in India" at the Schomberg Center through July 6

2013-04-08 Thread Venantius J Pinto
The Habshis. Most Goans even from 60s Bombay do not know this term. I would see then at the Urs in Wadala. (Fwd from SAI.) ++ vjp Africans In India: From Slaves to Generals and Rulers Now through Saturday, July 6, 2013 Program Locations: Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, Latimer

[Goanet] No-confidence motion moved against Karapur-Sarvan sarpanch

2013-04-08 Thread samir umarye
-- Samir Umarye Bicholim: Seven panch members of the 11-member Karapur-Sarvan village panchayat have moved a no-confidence motion against sarpanch Aaryan Shyam Gaonkar. The notice signed by Rajesh Mohan Naik, Jayashri Tulsidas Tari, Mahesh Anant Sawant, Divya Dattaprasad Kharkande, Keshav Madhuk

[Goanet] DO NOT FORGET DR JACK SEQUEIRA

2013-04-08 Thread Bernado Colaco
How can I forget Dayananda Balkrishna Bandodcar. While visiting my home in 1969 he took my cricket book away.  BC It is appropriate that the Goa Government has decided to name the Goa Engineering College after Goa?s first Chief Minister late Dayanand Bandodokar. But successive governments despi

[Goanet] [JudeSundayReflections] 3rd Sunday of Easter

2013-04-08 Thread Jude Botelho
7-Apr-2013 Dear Friend, In life we realize that people are rewarded for their successes and punished for failures. Hence we equate living with being always successful. But our common experience tells us that we can't always succeed, we are bound to make mistakes sometimes. However, in our fai

[Goanet] Fresh fish straight from Panjim Market today

2013-04-08 Thread JoeGoaUk
Fresh fish straight from Panjim Market today   Butter Fish or Somdaye http://www.flickr.com/photos/joegoauk70/8632062594/in/photostream   Sovai sovai Sungttam Sovai, fokot 800 Rupia http://www.flickr.com/photos/joegoauk70/8632065140/in/photostream/   Mannkio or Calamari Squids http://www.flickr.com

[Goanet] Special Status for Goa

2013-04-08 Thread Lionel Messias
Will Goa ever get Special Status or will it remain forever a debate for heated discussion only. Read the cover story 'Goa uninvited to the (special) party' on this week's (April 8-14) www.goanspirit.com. We also take a trip to Tiracol to further report on a land grab in progress. It's titled: 'Nee

[Goanet] Poor in things, rich in soul

2013-04-08 Thread Gabe Menezes
Poor in things, rich in soulApr 5th 2013, 15:15 by S.A. | MUMBAI - - - Sukhi, Jambur, 2005 ALL IMAGES COURTESY KETAKI SHETH/ PHOTOINK - Street game and Honest Buggy Band, Bhavnagar, 2007 1 / 13 KETAKI SHETH clearly remembers her first encounter with the Sidi, India’s small and

[Goanet] Fwd: THIS WEEK AT AF PANJIM

2013-04-08 Thread Karine Christophe
*Dear Friends,* *THIS WEEK AT AF PANJIM* * * ** Paint reverse Workshop- Wednesday 10th April at 3.00pm* *Alliance Francaise, Panjim is organising a creative workshop for children and adults of reverse writing and painting on a support original plexiglass conducted by** **Anaka** **from Pondic

Re: [Goanet] Is your job safe?

2013-04-08 Thread Gabe Menezes
Surely you mean Royal Bank of Canada not RBS which stands for Royal Bank of Scotland! On 8 April 2013 05:29, Jim Fernandes wrote: > The scumbags are at it again. > > Canadians should take their money out of RBS in masse and put it > elsewhere. Or the least they can do is, find a legal "excuse"

[Goanet] UNSCRUPULOUS ONLINE BUSINESS

2013-04-08 Thread john eric
I saw a NAAPTOL advertisement (AD) for Car Stereo in reputed Times of India, and so I ordered COD, which was delivered within 10 days. The on/off switch for a start was defective and after fitting an external switch, the item itself was not working. The complaint/return system was good. However

Re: [Goanet] Can well being of stray dogs supersede wellbeing of humans ?

2013-04-08 Thread Vivian A. DSouza
Well said Aires ! While I am an animal lover, the proliferation of stray dogs in Goa is alarming and needs to be controlled by destroying such animals.  They pose a danger to humans and to domestic pets.  I cannot walk anywhere without a stick to defend myself against stray dogs, some of which m

[Goanet] Goa news for April 8, 2013

2013-04-08 Thread Goanet News Service
Goa News from Google News and Goanet.org Visit http://www.goanet.org/newslinks.php for the full stories. *** Kunal Khemu promotes Go Goa Gone, Saif shoots elsewhere? - Indian Express oa-gone-directors-to-make-a-romcom-with-saif-ali-khan/383735-8-66.html">'Go Goa Gone' directors to make a rom-com w

[Goanet] Journalist returns award, says golf course story 'failed'

2013-04-08 Thread Mayabhushan
http://in.news.yahoo.com/journalist-returns-award-says-golf-course-story-failed-072318666--finance.html Journalist returns award, says golf course story 'failed'[image: IANS India Private Limited] By Indo Asian News Service | IANS India Private Limited Panaji, April 8 (IANS) T

[Goanet] 3 youngsters from Porvorim drowned at Tillari river..

2013-04-08 Thread JoeGoaUk
One was answering SSC exams 2 of the 3 bodies found late evening yesterday   With pics http://www.flickr.com/photos/joegoaukextra4/8630789104/in/photostream/ In Goa, Dial  1 0 8 For Hospital, Police, Fire etc

[Goanet] Is there any doctor in the house?

2013-04-08 Thread JoeGoaUk
Is there any doctor in the house? Looks like I need an orthopaedic doctor / advice   I have this pain in my knee I wanted to put this up some 3-4 years ago   Prognosis: I first notice this pain in my knee  early 40s. Only when I seated at one place for long which had no room to extend my leg such a

[Goanet] Dream reading: Scientists in Japan decode sleeping minds | News | The Week UK

2013-04-08 Thread Con Menezes
http://www.theweek.co.uk/technology/52343/dream-reading-scientists-japan-decode-sleeping-minds

[Goanet] A Sleep Aid Without the Side Effects - ScienceNOW

2013-04-08 Thread Con Menezes
http://news.sciencemag.org/sciencenow/2013/04/a-sleep-drug-without-the-side-ef.html?ref=hp

Re: [Goanet] Would You Celebrate World Health Day At Goa Medical College?

2013-04-08 Thread J. Colaco < jc>
On 7 April 2013 04:22, muriel&mario wrote: Dear Netters, Today, 7 April, is World Health Day. Video Volunteers' Community Correspondent Sulochana Pednekar brings you a 3 and a 1/2 minute, video peep into the nursing care, in only one ward at Goa Medical College (GMC). RESPONSE: My dear M & M,

[Goanet] A Sensitive Message to GOANS By: MSSG - MOVEMENT for SPECIAL STATUS for GOA.

2013-04-08 Thread floriano lobo
A Sensitive Message to GOANS By: MSSG - MOVEMENT for SPECIAL STATUS for GOA. Late Jawaharlal Nehru, both before and after 19th. December, 1961, had assured the Goan people that Goa's unique character would be protected. To quote Nehru: "GOA'S INDIVIDUALITY SHOULD REMAIN AND WHENEVER THE TIM

Re: [Goanet] DO NOT FORGET DR JACK SEQUEIRA

2013-04-08 Thread floriano lobo
Dear Aires, Not to offend you, but Dayanand Bandodkar was the man of vision, maybe, not for GOA as a whole but in part w.r.t. mineral ore, before he came into direct contact with the communal wiper called JANARDHAN SHINKRE from Maharashtra. The entire episode of Bandodkar's rule of GOA, we

[Goanet] More on The Goa Project

2013-04-08 Thread D'Souza, Avelino
The Goa Project, India's first Collaborative 'Unconference' By Sinead McManus In the perfect setting of Marbela Beach Resort, North Goa - The Goa Project, an experimental platform for diverse people to meet, solve problems, build relationships, and enable new collaborations, kicked off its first

[Goanet] Is your job safe?

2013-04-08 Thread Jim Fernandes
The scumbags are at it again. Canadians should take their money out of RBS in masse and put it elsewhere. Or the least they can do is, find a legal "excuse" to terminate RBS license to operate in Canada. Smart Canadians should take this message to Twitter / Facebook or other social avenues and

[Goanet] REVIEW: Goa, The Army, and migration.... (FN in Gomantak Times)

2013-04-08 Thread Goanet Reader
Goa, The Army, and migration -- Bash on Regardless Lt. Gen. WAG Pinto, PVSM (Retd) Pune, March 2011. Rs 300. Pp 146. March 2011. -- Review by Frederick Noronha f...@goa-india.org This book comes from a prominent retired Army-man, "one of our Army's foremost battlefield commanders", and a sol