[Goanet-News] Goa news for September 8, 2013

2013-09-08 Thread Goanet News Service
Goa News from Google News and Goanet.org Visit http://www.goanet.org/newslinks.php for the full stories. *** Would have checked Gujarat riots better, Goa CM Manohar Parrikar says - Times of India ing, has said he could have done a better job of controlling the 2002 riots than his Gujarat

Re: [Goanet] [Goanet-News] Goanet Reader: Indians of Another Colour, Or why Goans are More than Just Portuguese (Hartman de Souza, kafila.org)

2013-09-08 Thread Anthony Fernandes
If I am reading you right, you are saying it was right to be Indian and being a Portuguese was/is not the ways of a Goan.I say, bah, humbug My parents also travelled and worked/lived in Kenya and Tanzania, and they would never have desired an Indian passport, if it were not forced onto

[Goanet] Seminar: New Age, a challenge? - by Fr. Rosario Rocha SJ

2013-09-08 Thread Shannon Pereira
Kindly pass on this message to those who would be interested. Thanks ** * * ** *New Age, A Challenge?* *(By Prof. Dr. Fr. Rosario Rocha SJ) * *Provincial of the Goa Jesuit Province*** *At Pedro Arrupe Institute, Raia.* *September 14th (Sat: 5pm - 7:30pm) to 15th (Sun: 9am - 2pm)*

[Goanet] Fwd: Song for the day.....

2013-09-08 Thread Gabe Menezes
...This is for B - special request! Manuel and the Music of the Mountains - Games that lovers play http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cwPjJUeAnFo -- DEV BOREM KORUM Gabe Menezes.

[Goanet] War comes to Syria's quiet Christian hinterland

2013-09-08 Thread Gabe Menezes
*http://tinyurl.com/ksdotmg* -- DEV BOREM KORUM Gabe Menezes.

[Goanet] Fresh water problems due to rising sea levels

2013-09-08 Thread Tim de Mello
The Editor Navhind Papers and Publications, Navhind Bhavan, Panaji, Goa 403001 7th September 2013 Dear Sir: Re: Fresh water problems due to rising sea levels Experts currently meeting is San Juan, Puerto Rico are sounding a new alarm about the effects of climate change for parts of

[Goanet] Some movies to watch..

2013-09-08 Thread JoeGoaUk
Some movies to watch during this festive season Watch in theatre to enjoy it fully I Assassination  of former Indian Prime minister Rajive Gandhi The Plot, the Conspiracy, the foreign hands, rebels, LTF, Tamil tigers, Sri Lanka, Prabakaran, Bomb, decoding of messages etc I remember, back in UK,

[Goanet] ADVOCATE GENERAL ATMARAM NADKARNI MUST GO

2013-09-08 Thread Aires Rodrigues
Despite a week having elapsed since that infamous Supreme Court judgment on the NEET issue pertaining to the post graduate students at the Goa Medical College, the Advocate General of Goa Atmaram Nadkarni has yet not put in his papers. Such heavy and loaded language in which the Goa Government

Re: [Goanet] US Taxpayers

2013-09-08 Thread Vivian A. DSouza
Following up on the thread about taxes paid in the USA and Canada by Merwyn Lobo and Jim Fernandes. My feeble geriatric mind is truly befuddled. Merwyn states that he is a Canadian tax payer. But he also files USA tax returns. Presumably this is possible because (though he always finds

[Goanet] Roland Francis: Going To Church - Stray Thoughts of a Toronto Goan

2013-09-08 Thread Eddie Fernandes
By Roland Francis. Source www.goanvoice.org.uk Daily Newsletter, 8 Sep. 2013. Growing up as a Goan Catholic in the usual rigid mould that was cast for a boy or girl of that time, a notable part of my childhood and early teens was devoted to religious based activities. There was the Sunday mass

[Goanet] Offtopic: Tum Bin Jaoon Kaha

2013-09-08 Thread Frederick FN Noronha फ्रेड्रिक नोरोन्या *فريدريك نورونيا
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vB-LbcwwSHI#t=240 Tum Bin Jaaoon Kahaan was a Hindi television serial that aired on Zee TV in 2003/2004. The show was based on a popular Indian novel November Rain, which was the first Indian novel in English to be made into a daily prime time television series. --

Re: [Goanet] US Taxpayers

2013-09-08 Thread Mervyn Lobo
Vivian A. DSouza wrote: And if Mervyn has a US Social Security number, although he now lives in Canada and is a  Canadian citizen, when he gets to retirement age he will probably claim U.S. Social Security payments as well  ? Bwana D'souza, I have contributed to the US Social Security

[Goanet] Show me your testimonials

2013-09-08 Thread Camillo Fernandes
To all Konkanni speaking Goans - ENJOY THIS TESTIMONIAL There was our good ole Goan Gabru who met his friend Santan at the tinto one evening.. Arre, Gabru, Boro morre! Where u men, no sign so long... You were trying for job no, at the Taj. What happened? Arre, Santan... Kitem

[Goanet] Collecting US benefits.

2013-09-08 Thread eric pinto
when he gets to retirement age he will probably claim U.S. Social Security payments as well  ? --     One collects a regular benefit at 65 after  paying into the system for ten years, at least. It is around 8%

[Goanet] DEFENCE FORCES SHOULD VACATE PANJIM

2013-09-08 Thread Stephen Dias
To, The Editor, Navhind Times, Dear Sir, Kindly take up this article and request to publish in your editorial page..or My Take column. Regards, Stephen Dias D.Paula (Social Activist and earlier resident since birth at Portais –Panjim) . Mob: 9422443110 Date: 8th Sept. 2013

[Goanet] Awards for teachers

2013-09-08 Thread Nelson Lopes
Awards for teachers The Govt, of Goa has increased the awards from two to eight. More teachers are now in the fray, which makes it a wider group of recipient aspirants The prize money is raised to Rs25000= from Rs5000= in the past with a citation, a special felicitation and a reward for

[Goanet] Happy Ganesh Chathurthi - A NDTV Teacher's Day Special Gift for All of You!

2013-09-08 Thread augusto pinto
A very happy Ganesh Chathurthi to all of you! I guess most of you will be very busy living it up, preparing for and now fervently singing bhajans and eating neurios, and ros, and what not so you might have missed the NDTV Teacher's Day Special The NDTV Dialogues: Educating India But not to worry

[Goanet] Zee TV on Shripad Yesso Naik's term in Parliament (Hindi)

2013-09-08 Thread Frederick FN Noronha * फ्रेड्रिक नोरोन्या * فريدريك نورونيا
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XWk4spwFjaM -- FN Land +91-832-240-9490 Cell +91-982-212-2436 f...@goa-india.org

Re: [Goanet] Collecting US benefits.

2013-09-08 Thread Jose Colaco
Eric Pinto, perhaps, referring to Mervyn Lobo wrote thus : when he gets to retirement age he will probably claim U.S. Social Security payments as well ? COMMENT: 1: He who contributes or is legally compelled to 'contribute', has every legal right to 'collect'. 2: Please do not advise me

[Goanet] Parrikar said we are slaves in our thinking

2013-09-08 Thread Ana Maria Fernandes
Absolutely right. though we are baptised christians we are still left with out old traditional beliefs. How many of us put liquor bottles, cigerettes in the coffin of the dead ? how many of us give bikareamchem jevon more because to give solace to the dead and before we start the jevon we keep

[Goanet] Parrikar said we are slaves in our thinking

2013-09-08 Thread Dr . Ferdinando dos Reis Falcão
GREAT work Ana Maria Fernandes, good work by you. Keep it up. That is exactly what Catholic religion is. You have given love where it was needed. Every one of us is troubled by the way things are going on; but it has not been deemed that one can solve all the problems. Each one is destined to a

[Goanet] A night to remember, Saturday, October 12, 2013, 6:30pm

2013-09-08 Thread George Pinto
Goa Sudharop cordially invites you to its grand A Night in Goa dinner-dance event with popular musicians Tania/Andre from Goa. Tania/Andre are visiting the San Francisco Bay area as part of their North American tour. Net proceeds from the event will benefit Goa Sudharop's YOU EYE youth project

[Goanet] Re-purposing mining excavations

2013-09-08 Thread Albert Peres
There is a agricultural endeavor that seems to be re-purposing mining land located north east of Goa at a place called Virdi. https://maps.google.ca/maps?q=15.65742,74.06373ll=15.647503,74.081583spn=0.021613,0.02605num=1t=hgl=caz=15 Google maps list labels the place as being Jain Plantation.

[Goanet] Goa news for September 9, 2013

2013-09-08 Thread Goanet News Service
Goa News from Google News and Goanet.org Visit http://www.goanet.org/newslinks.php for the full stories. *** Why Goa is looking to go upmarket and banish Brits and backpackers - The Guardian ime state, the hedonistic hippy haven whose promises of sun, sand, cheap beer and drugs transformed it

[Goanet] Fwd: Song for the day.....

2013-09-08 Thread Gabe Menezes
This is for L**a, who also needs cheering up! Konkani song - SORGAR RAJEANT (With Lyrics) BY Lorna http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3DaXVDCOf7o -- DEV BOREM KORUM Gabe Menezes.

[Goanet] America's War Children

2013-09-08 Thread Jim Fernandes
As America gears up to fight in yet another war, many folks - both within and outside the country must be wondering why the US needs to get involved in  Syrian conflict. Some of you are quite right in saying, why do we have to care if those idiots in Syria want to kill themselves?   Then there

[Goanet] What are Hypnagogic Hallucinations? (with pictures)

2013-09-08 Thread Con Menezes
Sounds familiar to some of you? http://www.wisegeek.org/what-are-hypnagogic-hallucinations.htm

[Goanet] 39th Tiatr Competition, 38 participatin groups..

2013-09-08 Thread JoeGoaUk
39th Tiatr Competition 2013 Organised by Kala Academy of Goa Starts Sept. 23 and ends 30th Dec.2013 38 participating groups, looks like there were 39, one withdrawn? Top Prize Rs. 1,00,000 Tiatr Academy offers upto Rs.15,000 per group + a copy of DVD recording of their tiatr Plus 75% of the gate

[Goanet] Tennis at 40

2013-09-08 Thread PAES
  Tennis at 40 Flushing Meadows never saw a man winning a Grand Slam title (his 3rd on it) ever, at 40. In fact no one ever did anywhere else in the world, before Leander walked away with it along with Radek Stepanek yesterday. That’s a PAES for you. Bennet Paes Assolna, Goa

[Goanet] Quebec Goan Association: Moonlight in Goa .. on Saturday 26/10/2013

2013-09-08 Thread Flora Marlow
Moonlight in Goa. Event on Saturday, 26/10/2013 Contact: Flora Almeida Marlow President: Quebec Goan Association (514) 779-0203