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G o a n e t - N e w s B y t e s MAY 15, 2005 DATELINE: GOA / d8 Founded in 1994 e88~88e e88~-_ /~~~8e 888-~88e e88~~8e _d88__ by Herman 888 888 d888 i 88b 888 888 d888 88b 888 Carneiro "88_88" 8888 | e88~-888 888 888 8888__888 888 --------------- / Y888 ' C888 888 888 888 Y888 , 888 http://www.goanet.org Cb "88_-~ "88_-888 888 888 "88___/ "88_/ Y8""8D Full details about Goanet are at http://www.goanet.org You can subscribe to the Goanet/GoanetDigest via that site. To unsubscribe from this list, contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] If you find this ezine useful, please recommend it to your friends and others from Goa. To sign-up http://newsfromgoa.swiki.net http://www.goanet.org * http://www.goanet.org * http://www.goanet.org [][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][] IN TODAY'S EZINE: Goa students win an Intel prize, while the state does well in national sailing too. On the job front, there's a mix of scams and genuine opportunities. Strange statistics from the AGCL. A tribute to Abbe Faria, with yet another translation nearly two centuries later, of his work. Finally, what's the meaning of 'Goa'? YOUNG STUDENTS FROM GOA WIN US AWARD: Two students from Goa's Jawahar Navodaya Vidyala, the Central government-funded model schools for bright rural kids, won a prize at the Intel International Science and Engineering Fair, at Houston, US. Suvrata Desai and Mallika Dhillon Desai, both 16, won the prize for their project 'traditional spices as bio-pesticides'. (PTI) o Job frauds are preying on the people of Goa -- whether it is jobs for nursing, openings in Cyprus or Venezuela or even the Ukraine, offerings to employ women as maids and BPO (business process out-sourcing) type jobs. (H) o Murder cases on the rise in Margao. (NT) THE GOA TOURISM Development Corporation seems to have lost its way. It has been more involved in sponsoring celebrity photographers, film stars, singers and wine festivals in recent times, instead of spending its money developing budget tourism, which is its real role. (Goa Messenger, issue of May 1-15). o Ful-na-Paklli, the 'creativity for a cause' group, has announced rural events at Capao-Vanxim, near Divar today. o St Inez Fete at Church Grounds, May 15 from 6 pm onwards. (NT) o World Museum Day on May 18. (NT) o Women entrepreneurs, seminar cum exhibition, Kala Academy May 16-17. Organised by http://www.mennenfinance.com o Different panels of the Bicholim Urban Co-op Bank are canvassing for votes. There's big money in small cooperatives! o Daffodil Immigration of London is inviting "highly skilled" people to the UK to work, "under the new HSMP scheme". http://www.daffodilimmi.com o Goa organised a pulse polio campaign on Sunday, May 15. (NT) o Pre-monsoon work in Salcete village areas may commence during the monsoons, thanks to the model code of conduct! (H) Don Bosco Crafts Institute, Loutolim is offering courses for students who opted out of formal schooling -- electrical, woodworking, welding & metal fabrication, plumbing, tile laying and auto-mechanic. Students placed on jobs after completion. Admission open year-round. Courses also open to girls -- short term in Computer Office Assistant and Home Nursing. Training and equipment also given in Bee Keeping and Honey Production. Outside jobs also undertaken -- metal fabrication, carpentry, electrical and plumbing, executed with precision and quality. Contact Don Bosco Crafts Institute, Loutolim Ph 2858218 or [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] This is a Salesian -run institution. Sea Scan Maritime at St Inez launches its Saloon Catering Course from June 1. Phone 242 3409/10 QUOTE: "It was by chance (that I came to know the work of the Goan writer Adeodato Barreto.) I found this very odd. I'd heard of the relationship between Goa and Portugal, but I never knew about Indo-Portuguese literature, and so it seemed interesting. I started reading the text and I noticed the use of strange vocabulary, such as 'bule-bule' and 'mogarim', the mixture of Konkani and Portuguese. It caught my attention, particularly the mixture of Catholic and Hindu elements, written in Portuguese... I was able to study the literature since the arrival of the Portuguese in Goa to the 1960s. It was then that I discovered what a peculiar form of literature had developed in Goa. -- Brazilian scholar Everton Vasconcelos Machado, who was recently in Goa. (H) "The other day, I received an email from a gentleman from Panjim who wrote 'On May 3, World Press Day, I read an article in The Times of India, where (actress) Mallika Sherawat claims that she has more balls then men.' Of course he had to add, 'the press in Goa lacks it'." -- Robin Abreu, Editor, in the Herald. 25 eco-conscious people, some certified divers, observed Dive To Earth Day, April 22, by sailing out to Sao Jorge Island, which is popular among tourists, and spending the day cleaning the beach and water around the island. The team, under the Barracuda Diving India, then returned to Panjim with about 30 bags full of polystyrene, glass, aluminium foil, rubber, plastic etc and safely disposed off the waste after sorting and separating it into different bags, catalogued before disposal. Sao Jorge Island is an abandoned Navy outpost, which also has a lighthouse, according to Venkatesh Charloo of Barracuda. (Goa Messenger) World of politics ----------------- o Nirmala Sawant, the former Goa Congress president who was sidelined in the Cumbharjua constituency (to make way for ex-BJP party-hopper Pandurang Madkaikar) filed her nomination papers for the June 2 bye-elections. These elections are crucial for Goa, as they will fill five vacant seats, and probably decide which party, or coalition, will rule Goa next. o BJP alleges poll code violations by Congress nominees. Ex-CM Manohar Parrikar told chief electoral officer Rajiv Yaduvanshi that candidates in Taleigao, Cumbharjua and Margao constituencies were making blatant and unlimited use of money and muscle power. (NT) [The irony may be lost here, but all three were key players in Parrikar's own BJP government not long ago.] GOA'S POLITICIANS have achieved the dubious distinction of being the first to exploit every known loophole in the Constitution. (Sigmund de Souza, in Goa Messenger) o BJP has also alleged that Salcete joint mamlatdar Agnel Fernandes was "caught red-handed" by their workers, while including names of several "bogus voters" without proper scrutiny. (NT) o BJP state chief Rajendra Arlekar blames South Goa MP Churchill Alemao and Mormugao MLA Karl Vaz for instability in the Mormugao municipality. (NT) o Janata Party fails to rope in rebel Congress(wo)men. After failing with Nirmala Sawant, Somnath Zuwarkar and Sanjay Bandekar, the party headed by Kingfisher beer baron Vijay Mallya managed to file just one candidate -- Nilkanth Bhomkar, the sarpanch of Old Goa. (H) o Flamboyance amiss as Mickky files nomination. (H) --------------------------------------------------------------------- DEATHS & OBITUARIES --------------------------------------------------------------------- A 16-year-old girl working as a maid-servant committed suicide and her body was traced in the Kurpe river. Nutan Gaunker was working at Curchorem, and took the drastic step after a heated argument with her mum. (NT) BENAULIM: Precilla Soccorina Goes of Mazilvaddo, b 1986. FYBA student of Rosary College Navelim and student of the Nursing School, Verna. Daughter of Francis Xavier Goes (A/C taxi driver) and Celina. Sister of Valencio Savio and Joyfon Gregorio Goes. Deeply mourned by all her relatives. PANJIM-ALTINHO: Indira 'Minakshi' Keni, b 1941. Wife of Pundalik 'Bhai' Keni, mother of Shruti (Chandarani) Rohan Hede, sister of Mrs Shakuntala Divakar Lolyekar and Datta Damodar Naik. Expired on May 14 after brief illness. QUEPEM: Srinivas Malbu Gauns Dessai, range forest officer of Soil Conservation, Ponda Division. Expired on Saturday at Camasai, Xeldem. ST INEZ: Pravina Rajesh Doshi, 54, wife of Rajesh Jayantilal Doshi, mother/in-law of Hemang, Hema and Karan. Vishal Building, near Military Hospital. TODAY MARKED THE first death anniversary of Konkani writer Felicio CArdoso and Fr Freddy J Da Costa, the editor of Gulab, who died in a Karnataka road accident, 2004. --------------------------------------------------------------------- GOA SPORTS --------------------------------------------------------------------- TRISHA, SHELDON MAKE IT A CLEAN SWEEP FOR GOA: In the national sailing championships at Dona Paula's Hawaii Beach, Goa's Sheldon D'Mello won both races to emerge as overall winner in the regatta fleet. Goa's Trisha Sabir won both races to become the first girl to emerge as overall sub-junior national sailing champion. (H) Indian hockey ace Dhanraj Pillay asked the "invisible" Goa Hockey Association to keep egos aside and work to putting the game back on the track in the state. "So many hockey Olympians have come down to Goa and there is no GHA official to have a word with. It simply amazes me," Pillay told reporters. (H) Don Bosco Oratory Fatorda walked away with an impressive 4-0 win over Parish Youth Nuvem in the Calangute Panchayat Cup, at the new Poriat Grounds.(H) Goa United Sports Academy scored a thumping 8-0 win over Quitula Sports Club in the Air India GFA Under 16 football tournament at Duler Grounds. Dempo drew with Vasco 1-1. --------------------------------------------------------------------- GOANET POLL --------------------------------------------------------------------- Last week's, Goanet.org's Poll question was "How often do you visit Goa?" Of the 186 responses here is the breakdown: 6% - Visit? I live in Goa 35% - Once a year 43% - Once every two years 12% - Once every five years 2% - Once every ten years 2% - I don't intend to visit Goa This week's Goanet Poll question: What is the most serious environmental issue Goa is currently facing? To vote, click here: http://www.goanet.org/modules.php?op=modload&name=NS-Polls&file=index&pollID=8 --------------------------------------------------------------------- WORLD OF BUSINESS --------------------------------------------------------------------- AUTOMOBILE CORPORATION OF GOA LTD IN THE NEWS: ukkaram Bhagat is bullish on Auto Corporation of Goa ... Excerpts from CNBC-TV18's exclusive interview with Mukkaram Bhagat of Ask Raymond James and Shankar Sharma of First Global: On Buying interests: Bhagat: I like Auto Corporation of Goa a lot. It is a Telco associate company which builds bus bodies. It is going at very low valuations below 10 times on a one year forward basis. Return on capital is currently 45% plus and I think the bus segment is going to be a huge play going forward like you saw the car product emerging in the last 6-7 years with the high race coming in place. Next years onwards, the bus segment is really going to boom and this is the only listed play you have in terms of a bus body building company which has very low capital and high ROI. http://www.acglgoa.com Honda Sattari, GOA 403 530 INDIA +91 832 2370223-26/2370257 Automobile Corporation of Goa Limited. The Company's principal activities are to manufacture, assemble and press all types of sheet metal components including ferrous and non-ferrous metals. The Company also manufactures bus bodies and component parts. The manufacturing plants are located in Goa. Pressed Parts, Components and Assemblies accounted for 78% of fiscal 2001 gross revenues and Bus Bodies and Components, 22%. * Chairman - S. V. Salgaoncar Managing Director - N. R. Menon ICON Press Release: AGCL financial benchmarks available. SAN DIEGO, Calif. - ICON Group International Ltd., today released a study global on labor productivity and financial benchmarks for Automobile Corporation of GOA Ltd. (BOM: ACGO). The methodologist for this unique study is Philip Parker, Eli Lilly Chair Professor of Innovation, Business and Society at INSTEAD (Fontainebleau, France and Singapore). Professor Parker states, "We are intrigued by the wide variations in basic financial and productivity measures between Automobile Corporation of GOA Ltd. and other Motor Vehicles and Passenger Car Bodies Manufacturing companies. The Earnings Before Interest And Taxes (EBIT), for example, varied from -3.39 to 28.36. We see this type of variation in the hundreds of ratios that we estimate." GOA SHIPYARD LIMITED has invited bids for the sale of its property at Chicolna, in South Goa. Quote: "A newly developed housing complex of plot area 91,675 sq metres with a Phase I built-up area of 9651 sq metres in the form of 171 flats (1BHK and 2BHK) is available for sale on 'as is where is' basis. The plot with a view overlooking the sea is situated at Chicolna village at South Goa and is situated at 4 kms from the Goa airport and 3 kms from the Bogmalo beach". Details at http://www.goashipyard.com " Times of India, Times Property, May 14, 2005. (Just a thought, what went wrong? And was the land acquired under the Land Acquisition Act, which offers the owners a pittance as compensation?) --------------------------------------------------------------------- FROM HERE AND THERE --------------------------------------------------------------------- What does 'Goa' mean? Speciality Definition: Goa http://www.websters-dictionary-online.org/definition/english/Go/Goa.html From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia * Goa is a state of south-western India; see Goa (state) * The city of Goa, former capital of Portuguese India is now called Old Goa * The current capital of Goa state, formerly "New Goa", is now Panaji * Goa is a genre of music; see Goa trance music * A Goa is a type of antelope; see Goa (antelope) SAD REALITY ABOUT HOSPITALS IN INDIA: Hospitals in India, including Goa -- competitive but inaccessible: Even as many Indian hospitals invite a foreign clientele to world-class treatment facilities, the poor have to contend with a different and unregulated private sector, says Abhijit Das. India is emerging as a favoured destination for a new kind of tourism -- medical tourism. While states like Goa and Kerala are trying to woo the foreign tourist with their natural splendours, many Indian hospitals are trying to invite a foreign clientele with five star hospitality and world-class treatment facilities. The slow trickle of foreign patients' promises to turn into a flood; this industry is reported to be growing at 15% annually. http://www.indiatogether.org/2004/mar/hlt-status04.htm --------------------------------------------------------------------- A TRIBUTE TO ABBE FARIA --------------------------------------------------------------------- BOOK ON ABBE FARIA: Veteran translator and practising hypnotherapist Laurent Carrer, PhD, has translated Abbe Faria's French 1819 book 'On the Cause of Luicid Sleep' in an English-language work titled 'Jose Custodio De Faria: Hypnotist, Priest and Revolutionary'. Carrer, Ph.D. is a French native who has lived in the U.S. since 1978. He is certified by the American Translators Association and has begun translating important works of the French pioneers of hypnosis, making them pertinent to our times by providing relevant commentary and biographical background. He lives in Encinitas, California with his wife Rebecca and cat Rimsky. Abbe Faria is Goan, and a fascinating figure in world history. His nineteenth century book was republished at the start of the 20th century, and, now, almost a century later, comes out again! Excerpt: Faria's contributions to the field of hypnosis: * Experimented with hypnosis, a state he called "lucid sleep," on more than five thousand individuals. * Questioned Mesmer's theory of magnetic fluid and believed that "magnetic fits" were not only unnecessary to healing, but potentially harmful. His own approach was to keep his subjects in a state of calm, and he believed the magnetic fit to be "a state contrary to the normal development of nature." * Held the original view, though uncomfortably caught between Mesmerists, skeptics and religious opponents, that hypnotic phenomena were not due to magnetism, trickery or the Devil but to the expectancy and cooperation of the patient. * Discovered the suggestive method of inducing and interrupting trance verbally. * Observed and described numerous hypnotic phenomena, now well known, and gave them psychological explanations. * Postulated that ordinary sleep and the hypnotic state are of similar nature (a theory that was later adopted by the School of Nancy, but has now been proven wrong). 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