Re: [Goanet] The rock solid Christian moral code

2006-07-04 Thread Bosco D'Mello
On Mon Jul 3 20:45:16 PDT 2006 George Pinto wrote: By sheer coincidence I met Theo Bebdo today outside the Aldona church today. His name Theo from the word theist. RESPONSE: George, in your travels you seem to have hung around North Goa only. This is a disservice to South Goans. You are a

[Goanet] Query about newkerala.com (was: Re: Goanet Digest, Vol 1, Issue 22)

2006-07-04 Thread Frederick \FN\ Noronha
Yeah. http://www.newkerala.com/ happens to be a site with a whole lot of India-related news online. You can't blame them if our newspapers in Goa tend to be very sossegado! (Gomantak Times has a lot of news, no website. Herald has a Drupal-based website which is meant more for communities and

[Goanet] World Cup; Germans favourites, Portugal least favoured...

2006-07-04 Thread Gabe Menezes
World Cup Betting Odds Germany 9/5 France 23/10 Italy 3.5/1 Portugal6.3/1 -- DEV BOREM KORUM. Gabe Menezes. London, England ___ Goanet mailing list Goanet@lists.goanet.org

[Goanet] Goanet News Bytes * July 4, 2006 * Heavy rains hit Mumbai ... No to guided touris in Bom Jesus Basilica...

2006-07-04 Thread Frederick Noronha (FN)
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[Goanet] Job Vacancy Urgent - Receptionist

2006-07-04 Thread W.F.
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[Goanet] Final response to Fred Noronha's Salwar Khameez post

2006-07-04 Thread Jose Colaco
From Fred Noronha 1: As usual, Jose Colaco is shifting the debate to some trival point, questioning historical accuracies, and moving away from more substantive issues. 2: My basic point is that we *patriarchal males* are very eager to discuss the exploitation of women from *other*

[Goanet] WORLD CUP

2006-07-04 Thread Ricardo Nunes
Gabe, Thanks for the polite rebuke on the poor quality of my English. It is not my stepmother tongue. How should I 'portuguese' and write? Arjun On 7/4/06 3:30 AM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Message: 9 Date: Mon, 3 Jul 2006 07:30:12 +0100 From: Gabe Menezes [EMAIL

[Goanet] Goanet News: Goa tourism goes Down Under, to woo Aussies during their winter

2006-07-04 Thread Goanet News
GOA TOURISM GOES DOWN UNDER, TO WOO AUSSIES DURING THEIR WINTER By Pamela D'Mello [EMAIL PROTECTED] Goa is attempting to tap into the Australian travel market and into medical tourism to tide over its June to September lean season patch. State tourism minister Dr Wilfred de Souza held initial

Re: [Goanet] Florianos response to Vivek - Jose Colaco butts inuninvited!

2006-07-04 Thread Floriano
Dear Vivek, On a positive note, I am glad that you consider my response as NO THAPOT. I, and by virtue of being one of the founders of the GSRP, the GSRP are doing our very best, all within our means, to do what we feel we must do for Goa as Goa's responsible sons and daughters. And, we do not, I

[Goanet] Dual Citizenship: Did you get yours ??

2006-07-04 Thread JoeGoaUk
I looks like mine (OCI) is granted after nearly 6 months (don't know why such a big delay, where it says it normally takes 30 days after the acknowledgment date i.e. 10th Jan.2006 This is what displayed when check online for my status: File(Acknowledgment) No:GBRLX Online

Re: [Goanet] Goans in Goa rejoicing with Portugal win?

2006-07-04 Thread cornel
Hi Vidyadhar To be fair, it is not unreasonable for people anywhere to cheer a good football side purely on sporting grounds. However, I think you are insinuating that it seems odd that the Goans should cheer the Portuguese side because of the former colonial connection. Let me offer a

[Goanet] Goans sing as Portugal advance to last four

2006-07-04 Thread Constantino Xavier
Goans sing as Portugal advance to last four Sun Jul 2, 2006 10:39 AM IST By Sanjay Rajan CALANGUTE, GOA, India (Reuters) - Residents in the western Indian enclave of Goa took to the streets on Saturday night to celebrate Portugal's World Cup quarter-final victory and the former colony is

Re: [Goanet] Women of a lesser God - response to Cornel

2006-07-04 Thread Elisabeth Carvalho
Dear Cornel, I wonder if Mrs Noah had to wear a Salwaar Kameez :)) Then again maybe her main responsibility was herding those animals into the ark, while Noah set about collecting the wood to make it. But for Mrs Noah, the earth would be an arid and desolate place. I totally agree, we must give

[Goanet] FIFA : Viva Portugal

2006-07-04 Thread Miguel Braganza
Dears, The subject line above is a thread that started with my posting. 'Viva' in Goa colloquially means 'cheers'. One hears it at wedding functions...kazar, bikareachem jevonn, portovnnem, xim...mouthed by people who do not know a word of Portuguese and who do not know that Antonio de Oliviera

[Goanet] ROAD SAFETY IN GOA

2006-07-04 Thread N Chandrasekharan
Dear Goanetters, I am confident that none of you have the concern for your own safety! My talking about road safety is only barking at the wrong post! THANKS A MILLION TIMES AND MAY YOUR TRIBE INCREASE NC ___ Goanet mailing list

Re: [Goanet] FIFA : Viva Portugal

2006-07-04 Thread Mervyn Lobo
On Mon Jul 3 07:09:57 PDT 2006 Frederick FN Noronha wrote: Even if this is only day-dreaming, it would have been great if under-dogs Angola had to win, by some miracle. Fred, The best game in the tournament, by far, was the USA/Ghana match. African teams have improved tremendously in

[Goanet] Goa Suraj and Florianos response

2006-07-04 Thread Vivek
Dear Floriano, I think when a person speaks with conviction and from his heart he forgets political correctness and the need to be glib with words. Your acerbic style of speaking is indeed refreshing at times! There are however some points that I feel i must bring up. I think that you are

[Goanet] About FIFA, viva, Lusotalgia, Lusophobia, troot and the lies liars tell

2006-07-04 Thread Jose Colaco
Paulo Colaco Dias wrote thus to Fred Noronha:Yours is definitely a vivid mind Fred Earlier in the day, wrt the meaning of the word Viva in FIFA:Viva Portugal, Frederick FN Noronha wrote thus Technically yes. But the connotation varied. Forty years back, few people said the term

[Goanet] San Joao ani Mirg Fest

2006-07-04 Thread Gilbert Lawrence
The Mirg Festival among Hindus, celebrates the onset of the monsoon and occurs a day prior to the San Joao festival. Both signifiy a new crop-planting year. So IMHO, the Church wrapped itself around a pre-existing rural-agricultural festival; and gave the native practices some Christian

Re: [Goanet] India's Game is Cricket - Not Hockey !

2006-07-04 Thread Mario Goveia
--- CARMO DCRUZ [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Lest you have forgotten, India's game is field hockey and we have won the Olympic Hockey Gold medal in 1928 (Amsterdam), 1932 (Los Angeles), 1936 (Berlin), 1948 (London), 1952 (Helsinki), 1956 (Melbourne), 1964 (Tokyo) and 1980

Re: [Goanet] FIFA : Viva Portugal

2006-07-04 Thread Mario Goveia
--- Paulo Colaco Dias [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Given that there are now only 4 European teams and from those 4 teams Portugal holds the highest world ranking (latest FIFA rankings May 2006) http://www.fifa.com/en/mens/statistics/index/0,2548,All-May-2006,00.html I think there is a very

Re: [Goanet] The destruction of Hindu temples to build Churches-my final comments

2006-07-04 Thread Mario Goveia
--- Vivek [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Dear mario: I dont think there were any absurdities in my post. What i wanted to convey was that evidence as Gilbert and others demand for the atrocities committed on native population during the inquisition is very hard to find. Mario responds:

Re: [Goanet] Goans in Goa rejoicing with Portugal win?

2006-07-04 Thread Frederick \FN\ Noronha
Hi Gadgil, With Portugal, the responses -- both of likes and dislikes -- tend to be far deeper than is the case with our British colonial cousins. Agreed. But then, Goa is a far smaller place, Lisbon ruled (part of) the area for as long as 451 years, brought about some very far-reaching changes in

[Goanet] Goa news for July 5, 2006

2006-07-04 Thread Goanet News Service
Goa News from Yahoo! News and Goanet.org Visit http://www.goanet.org/newslinks.php for the full stories. *** Preet Mandir loses Goa license (IBN live) Mumbai: The Goa government has cancelled the in-country adoption license of the Goa branch of Preet Mandir, a child adoption agency, following

[Goanet] FIFA : Forca Portugal

2006-07-04 Thread Goa
Semi-final two Munich Wednesday, 5 July Kick-off: 2000 BST Cristiano Ronaldo and Luis Figo are doubts for Portugal's semi-final on Wednesday against France in Munich, after training separately on Tuesday. But

[Goanet] Sack the Baffled Cops, Incompetent Officials, Ministers, MPs from Calangute/Goa

2006-07-04 Thread CARMO DCRUZ
Hi Everyone, I read with disgust the gruesome murder of hotelier Anuj Joshi in Calangute or Saligao (see baffled article below). If this murder is not resolved in an expedient manner, and the pertpetrators are not brought to justice expediently, all the baffled cops, elected officials, ministers,