[Goanet] India's midnight evacuation from Kabul (AFP)
Aloha, https://www.france24.com/en/live-news/20210818-escorted-by-taliban-india-s-midnight-evacuation-from-afghanistan Maybe you can view the videoclip also, I couldn't: https://www.capitalfm.co.ke/news/2021/08/escorted-by-taliban-indias-midnight-evacuation-from-afghanistan/ My forecast - for what it's worth: the situation will stabilise within a small number of days, evacuations will happen in much more ordently manner and a relative normalcy will be restored. The Talibans will re-establish their rules but in a less dogmatic manner as during their first iteration. Afghans wishing to leave the country will be more or less allowed to do so, and the 'West' wil be only too happy to declare them undesirable as 'everything is back to normal' ... Ciao Ciao, p+2D!
Re: [Goanet] Who’s Next?
In Matthew 23:27, Jesus may have been describing the Catholic Church: “Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, you hypocrites. You are like whitewashed tombs, which appear beautiful on the outside, but inside are full of dead men’s bones and every kind of filth." (https://bible.usccb.org/) The Church in Goa, at least, is honest in its approach to life generally: follow the money. A more apt illustration of this attitude I cannot think of than this nugget from the Bishop's Palace (no less) not too long ago. The holy and venerable Archbishop, Felipe Neri Ferrao, put this gloss on the Church ditching the Catholic tenants of Vanxim to sell their land to a moneybag from Bangalore instead: What the church did in Vanxim "was morally wrong, but legally correct!" Ahh! How much spiritual comfort the Vanshikars must have received from this pearl of realpolitik delivered to them directly from God's representative on earth!
[Goanet] SHIFT STATE FLAG HOISTING FUNCTIONS TO THE SECRETARIAT AT PORVORIM
Despite our State Secretariat having moved to Porvorim over two decades ago, the Independence Day State flag hoisting function strangely continues in front of the Old Secretariat at Panaji. In public interest, the Government should hold it at Porvorim instead of inconveniencing the public by holding it at Panaji. On every Independence Day the road opposite the Old Secretariat in Panaji is closed for traffic and unnecessary hassle is caused to the commuting public. People have to also face this brunt of traffic diversions due to the rehearsals held some days prior to the event. It is most improper to close a very busy road when there is an alternative and far more appropriate venue. Along with the Independence Day, the Republic and Liberation Day functions could also be held at Porvorim. It would be good for security reasons too. Besides, in every State such functions are always held at the Government Secretariat which is the Sat of Power. May better sense prevail and these State functions be held at the sprawling Secretariat Complex in Porvorim to ensure that the public are saved from needless traffic chaos in an already very congested Panaji. Adv. Aires Rodrigues C/G-2, Shopping Complex Ribandar Retreat Ribandar – Goa – 403006 Mobile No: 9822684372 Office Tel No: (0832) 2444012 Email: airesrodrigu...@gmail.com You can also reach me on Facebook.com/ AiresRodrigues Twitter@rodrigues_aires www.airesrodrigues.in
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[Goanet] {Dilip's essays} Steven Weinberg - Death of a Star (1933 - 2021)
Aug 17 So just days before Shaastra's issue with my review of "Shape" aired, the editor got in touch again. This time, he asked if I would write an obituary for the Nobel Prize winning physicist, Steven Weinberg, who had just died. I agreed, but a little hesitantly, because I knew very little about his work (despite living in Austin, where he was a professor from 1982 onwards, from 1984-1991). Plus the ed wanted the obit in two days. Tough ask. But learning about Weinberg turned out to be a fascinating exercise in many ways. Here's my obit: https://shaastramag.iitm.ac.in/obituary/steven-weinberg-death-star-1933-2021 yours, dilip --- Steven Weinberg - Death of a Star (1933 - 2021) Possibly Steven Weinberg's most famous scientific paper was published in 1967. Even today, "A Model of Leptons" is regularly described as "seminal" and "iconic", the theory it lays out "simply written" and "neatly constructed" and "elegant". Yet "A Model of Leptons" is just three pages long. That startling fact might just be a measure of this theoretical physicist and astronomer who died on July 23 2021. The paper offered a theory that explained interactions between fundamental particles of physics, and suggested that it would be useful to search for three specific ones (later to be called the W, Z and Higgs particles). It predicted that the Z particle, in particular, would generate "weak neutral currents". You don't need to know what all these terms mean to understand the impact they had on the conduct of science in the years since, though it took a few years for physicists to fully grasp the implications of the paper. Once that happened, by 1976 it had become the most-cited research paper in high-energy physics, and it stayed atop that list for an astonishing 30 years. Over a half-century later, it remains relevant and important: One estimate is that today, it is cited by other scientists three times a week. Truly, some of the most ambitious efforts in experimental physics were inspired by Weinberg's succinct three pages. At CERN, the European Organization for Nuclear Research in Switzerland, for example, scientists first found evidence of those "weak neutral currents", found evidence of the W boson, and in 2012, used the Large Hadron Collider to show that the Higgs boson exists - a discovery that made headlines even in non-academic papers. "It's what keeps you going as a theoretical physicist," Weinberg once said about that experimental confirmation of his theories at CERN, "to hope that one of your squiggles will turn out to describe reality." Steven Weinberg was born in New York in 1933. Science was an early passion, which is why, as a teenager, he studied at the well-known Bronx High School of Science. He graduated at 17 and went from there to Cornell University to earn an undergraduate degree in 1954. Three years later, he completed a PhD at Princeton University. In the years after that, he was on the faculty at the University of California, Berkeley, then at Harvard University from 1966, winning the Nobel Prize in 1979. In 1982, he moved to Austin and set up a theoretical physics group at the University of Texas, staying there for the rest of his life. Besides the Nobel, he collected a slew of other scientific awards. Last year, he won the $3 million Breakthrough Prize in Fundamental Physics, sometimes called the 21st Century Nobel. It recognized his "continuous leadership in fundamental physics, with broad impact across particle physics, gravity and cosmology, and for communicating science to a wider audience." Those lines capture some of the essence of the man. While that 1967 paper was ground-breaking and eventually led to the Nobel, he remained an accomplished, influential physicist throughout his career. What's now considered the "Standard Model" of particle physics helps us understand how matter and forces in our universe are linked to each other, and the model owes a lot to Weinberg's work. He showed that it was possible to combine electromagnetism with what's called the "weak interaction" between particles. He always claimed that he didn't actually start work with a plan to unify these forces. But at the time, physics was in a state of some chaos and uncertainty - a strong force here, a weak one there, these particles over here, but how did they fit together? Viewed in a certain way, one of the particles would have to be very massive. But viewed another way, the theory needed the particle to lack mass altogether. What was the theoretical framework in which contradictions like this coexisted - if they were actually contradictions to begin with, if they were not actually resolved? What might help us find a degree of consistency in it all? Weinberg's work sought to answer such questions. Yet as vital as the Standard Model is to physicists' understanding of the universe, Weinberg believed - as other physicists do as - that there is an overarching theory in physics that will explain so much that we still
[Goanet] {Dilip's essays} See how they run. And jump. And throw.
Aug 17 For a fourth (and last) offering for today, this is my math column last Friday in Mint. I wanted to dig a little into all the phenomenal performances I had watched during the Tokyo Olympics - or at least some of them - and find ways to put them in some perspective. How fast were those sprinters actually running? What did it take to pull off a world-record triple-jump? How fast was that javelin travelling as it soared to gold? And much more. Didn't get to all of it, but at least some. Take a look: See how they run. And jump. And throw. https://www.livemint.com/opinion/columns/see-how-they-run-and-jump-and-throw-11628788555983.html (Friday Aug 13). Definitely let me know what you think. cheers, dilip PS: Faint musical reference. What? --- See how they run. And jump. And throw. The day after Neeraj Chopra's mark of 87.58 that won gold in Tokyo, an interesting tidbit landed in my inbox. No, not the clever quip about how he missed the Delhi University admission cutoff of 97.5 anyway. Instead, it was a quick diagram and calculation, scribbled on a piece of paper, working out how fast the javelin was travelling when it left Chopra's hand. Yes, it's possible to work that out, and it's a rather startling number. But before we get to that, take a look at some other numbers the Olympics generated. Start with the people usually described as the fastest in the world after their respective gold medals - the winners of the 100 metre dash, Italy's Marcell Jacobs and Jamaica's Elaine Thompson-Herah. Thompson-Herah finished in a phenomenal 10.61 seconds. Only one woman has ever run faster - Florence Griffith-Joyner (FloJo) who ran 10.49 seconds in 1988. Jacobs' time was 9.80 seconds - fast, but other men have run faster, all the way to Usain Bolt's 2009 world record of 9.58 seconds. But exactly how fast were these two running as they breasted the tape? The quick answer is to divide 100m by their times. That gives us their average speeds. Thompson-Herah ran at 33.93 kilometres per hour (kmh); Jacobs, 36.73kmh. Yet a little thought will tell you these numbers can't be right, especially in a race as short as the 100m. We do call those their average speeds. But it should be obvious that Jacobs and Thompson-Herah were not running 30+kmh through the whole 100m. After all, they started from zero, they accelerated for a while and only hit their all-out full speeds a few seconds into the race. If you watched the coverage of the races, you'll have seen some slick graphics that show this acceleration. Absent that, let's make the possibly reasonable assumption that the runners accelerated smoothly for the first 50m of the race, and ran flat out, at their peak speeds, for the last 50m. There are well-known and relatively simple equations that relate acceleration, speed, time and distance. I won't spell them out here. But use them with the numbers and assumptions above, and we find that Thompson-Herah reached 51.35kmh. Jacobs, 55kmh. There in Tokyo, the fastest woman and man in the world ran faster than some cars in our traffic-bound cities ever manage. Now you might argue with the 50m assumption above. Perhaps these remarkable athletes accelerated to their peak speeds more quickly, perhaps by the 30m mark? This would mean lower peak speeds. Still, the same equations apply, giving us 44.1kmh for Thompson-Herah, 47.8kmh for Jacobs. Still pretty fast, even for cars. If we ever get precise figures for how long - distance or time, it doesn't matter - it takes these athletes to reach their peak speeds, we can do these calculations again. I'd bet we'll find Thompson-Herah at somewhere nearing 40kmh, Jacobs 3-4kmh faster. In both cases, slightly slower than the numbers above. The reason for that is what a longer race tells us. (Without losing track of the point of this exercise, I'll stick to the women from here on.) Turn now to the 200m race. The great Thompson-Herah won that race too, completing a rare double-double - she won the same two races at the 2016 Rio Olympics as well. Her time in Tokyo was 21.53 seconds. Again, this was the second-fastest any woman has ever run 200m, and again, the fastest is FloJo, with her 21.34 seconds at the Seoul Olympics in 1988. We can divide 200m by Thompson-Herah's 21.53 seconds to get her average speed through the race: 33.44kmh. But again, that doesn't account for her acceleration at the start. Assuming once more that she took the first 30m to reach her peak speed, we find that she ran at 38.5kmh over the remaining 170m. Do you see a puzzle here? Assuming the same 30m acceleration phase at the start, we have her running 44.1kmh for the 100m, but 38.5kmh for the 200m. If Thompson-Herah can touch 44.1kmh, why didn't she maintain that speed in the 200m race? If she had, she'd have obliterated not just FloJo's world record, but the men's world record - Usain Bolt, 19.19 seconds - as well. For she'd have finished the race in 18.78 seconds. But she didn't. One possible lesson: she r
[Goanet] Here is a Singer appealing to Muslim ...
Incredibly a friend in Toronto sent our network a piece My life is Yours (Love Story) :: is played with musical instruments in the Middle East , she sings in Arabic but they are transliterated in English Script Arabic Christian Song-Middle East (With English Lyric translation) I am tempted to take it to the Rotary Club meetingyou do not require force in culture , Music or dance https://youtu.be/dEFFF6nQZGQ Your reactions would be most interesting
[Goanet] “Experience” Tourism
From the Washington Post: After visiting Roman aqueducts and St. Peter’s dome, some American tourists sit to listen to a man abused by a Catholic priest. It’s known as ‘Experience tourism’ — mass tourism touching on “controversial,” enriching topics— and it’s increasing in demand. The Goa Tourism Board can capitalize on this idea with the following: In the Margão Jardim, put Churchill in front of tourists giving them free English lessons. In any village coconut grove, demonstrate how to turn coconut trees to grass. On the Benaulim beach teach Portuguese fishermen tourists how to preserve their cod coming from long distances, with Formalin. On the campaign trail let Arvind Kejriwal give free electricity to budget tourists cooking meals and Pappu Sawant free water after eating. At the Mamlatdars Office show throngs on how to quickly flip land record titles like the Great Houdini and at the Collector’s Office change the names of all tourists in a snap and let them happily leave with Portuguese passports. The list of what can be done to keep tourists coming is endless. Roland. Toronto.
[Goanet] It’s Not What It Seems
It’s difficult to believe the Americans didn’t know the Taliban were making secret deals with Afghan Security Forces all over the place, to make the puppet government capitulate. This may be a WhatsApp forward, a hypothesis of someone in the know, a complete flight of fertile fancy or just another conspiracy theory. Personally the last para tells me it comes from the keyboard of anti terrorist but also America-hating Muslim political interests. The whole of it seems plausible enough given the history of the CIA but only unfolding events will tell. Quote America made a strategic deal with the Taliban under Trump after studying the Afghans and their politics for over a decade and finding out that the corrupt government they helped install there was deliberately milking America and not really ready to build the modern democratic secular country that America wanted. The classified part of that agreement reached last year with the Taliban in Doha is what happened in the past few weeks, is still happening and will unravel more and more in Afghanistan in the coming days, weeks, months and years. Biden only implemented an American policy envisioned by Obama and articulated and kicked off by Trump. That policy is that America decided to return Afghanistan to what they saw as a new Taliban, one that will cooperate with them against Al Qaida, ISIS, Iran and other strategic rivals of the West in that part of the world. Why do you think Biden left untouched the man Trump appointed to oversee the implementation of the deal, to continue in office till this minute? What you're seeing unfolding in Afghanistan is in essence a CIA and Pakistani ISI operation clothed in Taliban garb. That is why American journalists and other US and Western citizens are still in various parts of Afghanistan unmolested up this minute. That is also why the Taliban entered Kabul without a fight. That is why they have so far stayed away from the airport and are even cooperating with the US military to direct traffic in and out of the airport since yesterday. That is why till this minute, they have not forcefully entered the US or any other Western nation's evacuated embassy compounds, but are rather guarding them. That is why till now they are yet to form a government but are rather still consulting with other entrenched interests, including the US at Doha and within the country. If the US doesn't want the American military hardware, especially Blackhawk helicopters and three survelance drones that are now in Taliban hands to be so, all it will take is just some sorties by the US Air Force and all of them will become pieces of scattered metal. But that has not happened and will not happen because there was a deal on what they will leave and what they will not leave behind. All what they cannot leave behind are already out of the country or firmly in American hands inside the country at the moment. Forget the political sound-bites coming from US politicians and media. The chaos was planned ahead of time and is being stage-managed to cover the real thing, which is the deliberate displacement of an incapable government to make way for a devil that has agreed at Doha to become CIA's play tool against Iran, China and Russia in exchange for power in a country where America has zero political and economic interests. So be calming down and watch events unfold in the months and years to come. Strategic covert operation is far different from traditional diplomatic foreign policy. The former is what happened and not by shape or manner, the latter. Trump knows. Republicans know. Russia knows. China knows. Iran knows. Turkey knows. The Gulf countries know. EU knows. Britain knows. The silence and the scattered expressions of outrage from a few European nations that you're hearing, are all part of the game. American politicians, who were in the know, know. Those who were not previously briefed and needed to be brought up to speed now are being briefed. Biden will never address America till the process is completed. Even when he does, the real thing will never be said in the speech. The guys who ran or are currently running American foreign and domestic policies, including Trump and Biden, are no crazy fools. Sadly, they always succeed in playing those, unwilling to look deeper and ask critical questions before concluding on issues like this, for fools and such folks always fall for their tricks anyways. Sadder even, the Muslim Ummah that were woefully traded for power by the power hungry Talibans are the ones that are all over the place rejoicing out of ignorance. Unquote. Roland. Toronto.
[Goanet] After the "fall" of Kabul... two perspectives, one from Delhi
Kabul Airport Horror After Taliban Takeover | Where Will Millions Of Afghan Migrant https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-Q3hcxySfbE India opens borders for Hindus, Sikhs and Afghan Partners as Taliban takes over (Barkha Dutt) https://youtu.be/8BGp3oFpnV4 -- _/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/ _/ FN * फ्रेड्रिक नोरोन्या * فريدريك نورونيا +91-9822122436 _/ See a different Goa here, via _/ https://youtube.com/c/frederickfnnoronha _/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/
Re: [Goanet] Traditional bone-setters... in Goa
The south has bone setters known as ‘aat katai-pi’ or ‘paio kad-pi’ meaning hand or leg removers. Their talent is determined when they are born (as in how they got out of the …). Am not super clear on this but Joe-UK-Siolim-Arossim may throw mo light. One goes to them as ones leg is twisted (muscle twist or what ever the medical term is). In Concani, knows as ‘piao gonk-lo’. So depending on the circumstance…. you climbing into thy neighbors bedroom window mistakenly thinking the neighbor’s wife invite you for what gwd knows….then your have to get out hastily….in the process twist the leg….whoosh…. The process is you go for three days…always around the same time (mine after sunset). The person basically massages the hurting part either with their hand or leg…..applying oil. Not sure it’s coconut oil….or some other. They sometimes boil bark of odd tree, soak your feet and then massage or do it after, I do not remember….to ease the swelling. After three days, one is fine and free to climb into the neighbours….. Now, not all such folks are talented/gifted. I would suggest asking old-timers/knowledge-keepers. They do not charge but you give what you wish. In my footballing days, I was a frequent customer in my native Navelim….the person used her hand and fixed my leg every time! On Sun, Aug 15, 2021 at 1:10 AM Frederick Noronha < fredericknoron...@gmail.com> wrote: > *Traditional bone setters, Goa* Just wanted to know if anyone of you has > had a first-hand experience with the traditional bone-setters in Goa, the > healers who operated out of places like Santa Cruz (Kalapura) and Mapusa, > etc. I know that we might sometimes dismiss such healers as "quacks", but > there is also obviously a lot of traditional knowedge that goes into their > work. Please share your comments, thanks > -- > _/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/ > _/ FN * फ्रेड्रिक नोरोन्या * فريدريك نورونيا +91-9822122436 > _/ See a different Goa here, via > _/ https://youtube.com/c/frederickfnnoronha > _/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/ > -- "Explanation Destroys Art."
[Goanet] {Dilip's essays} Why geometry is gorgeous
Aug 17 In June, the editor of a new science magazine from IIT Madras, Shaastra ( https://shaastramag.iitm.ac.in/) wrote to ask if I would write a book review for them. The book? "Shape: The Hidden Geometry of Absolutely Everything", by the brilliant mathematician Jordan Ellenberg. Of course I said yes - I had heard about the book and was thrilled at the chance to read it closely and write a review. The new issue of the magazine went on air last week, with my review: Why geometry is gorgeous, https://shaastramag.iitm.ac.in/book/why-geometry-gorgeous Read the rest of the magazine too! And consider subscribing. cheers, dilip --- Why geometry is gorgeous A review of Shape: The Hidden Geometry of Absolutely Everything, by Jordan Ellenberg My late mother-in-law was a gorgeous woman. She was also a professor of psychology, a well-known writer in Marathi and the spirit behind a group of women who sang and told stories about Sant Dnyaneshwar. She rounded out her interests and personality with a love for geometry. Every now and then I'd offer her some intriguing puzzle that had foxed me. Her eyes would light up, she'd settle into a chair and she'd plug away, invariably beating me to the solution - me, the guy with engineering and CS degrees. There's something of that polymath spirit in this book, which is why, as I read it, memories of her cropped up every now and then. I think she would have delighted in greedy algorithms, or prime numbers and cicadas, or the "geometry of our way of speaking"; delighted, in other words, at how Jordan Ellenberg shows us geometry everywhere, how he gives geometry new shape and dimension altogether. I do use those words "shape" and "dimension" deliberately. The challenge writers face - "how can I give my reader something to think about?" - is in some ways the mirror-image of the anticipation their readers bring along - "what am I going to get out of this book?" On nearly every page in "Shape", you can sense Ellenberg tussling with and relishing that challenge. He seeks above all to take an ancient discipline - his book starts with the great Euclid's "Elements" - and offer you new ways of looking at it. Those then offer you new ways of looking out at our world. Yet I can almost hear your brow furrowing: "But this is geometry he's talking about! What new ways?" Well, this is no longer about congruent triangles and the sums of angles and proving some possibly obscure little truth from "first principles", satisfying though that may be. Ellenberg goes beyond that - waaay beyond - to all manner of subjects he sees geometry in, so much so that after a point he stops mentioning the subject. For by then he's writing about geometry almost as a way of thinking, of reasoning about the world. In fact, he drops a broad hint that this is where he's headed as early as page 2: "Geometry is still there when the rest of our reasoning mind is stripped away." One way I could give you a sense of what Ellenberg means is the sheer range of the subjects he explores. Here's a sample: Cicadas and primes, how sets in tennis are won and lost, the "purely abstract space of the English language", the new Pepsi logo, and nefarious efforts to define electoral constituencies. There's geometrical thinking in all of that, and Ellenberg positively delights in opening doors, and minds, to this smorgasbord. For example, early on Ellenberg tells us of a 1904 lecture that he calls "the first glimmer of a new geometric theory that was about to explode into physics, finance, and even the study of poetic style: the theory of the random walk." Yet the speaker wasn't a mathematician. It was the Almora-born doctor, Ronald Ross, who won the Nobel Prize in Medicine in 1902 for his research into how malaria is transmitted. His lecture was titled "The Logical Basis of the Sanitary Policy of Mosquito Reduction". In such a lecture, just what was geometric? Ross was speaking of ways to eliminate mosquitoes. What if you marked out a circle and drained all the water bodies inside it? Mark a large enough circle and you might just produce a mosquito-free, thus malaria-free, region. Ross wondered about a mosquito born outside this circle: "During its life it wanders about ... After a time it will die. What are the probabilities that its dead body will be found at a given distance from its birthplace?" Not that Ross was on hands and knees scouring his circle for dead mosquitoes. But he was asking a thoroughly mathematical, or geometric, question. Given a mosquito's unpredictable wanderings - an instance of what came to be called a random walk - what is the chance that it will turn up in the centre of our marked circle? Or put it like this: how large would the circle have to be for this probability to become negligible? Because that's how we'll know how efficient our efforts to free the region of malaria have been. Think of mosquito flight lines and turn angles, and suddenly the insect's meandering is a geometric construct tha
[Goanet] Goa 1961 : Liberated or Conquered ?
B C dated August15 I have no intention to stand up as an apologist for any goondagiri neither in Goa or India or in any part of the world but all empire builders and patriots/nationalists who wished to maintain their nations on solid footing , used, from time immemorial, the same strategy. Did not , the Grande Professor da Universidade de Coimbra, use the same tactics to stop his nation from descending into chaos with the help of monteiros of PIDE ? Back home, did not the luso-goans or mestissos ( later a.k.a. catholic bamons ) control with the same technique for 451 years, the canarins do Grande Estado Portugues das Indias Orientais ?
Re: [Goanet] An Antidote To Depression
In the meanwhile, they kept a lot of people "in business" as well! FN On Tue, 17 Aug 2021 at 21:25, Roland Francis wrote: > If you ever feel useless, just remember a superpower took 4 Presidents, > trillions of dollars, millions of lives and 20 years to replace Taliban > with Taliban. > > Roland. > Toronto. > > -- _/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/ _/ FN * फ्रेड्रिक नोरोन्या * فريدريك نورونيا +91-9822122436 _/ See a different Goa here, via _/ https://youtube.com/c/frederickfnnoronha _/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/
[Goanet] Schedule for Wednesday 18th August 2021
CCR TV GOA Channel of God's love✝ You can also watch CCR TV live on your smartphone via the CCR TV App Available on Google PlayStore for Android Platform. Click the link below. https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=ccr.tv4 Email ID: ccrgoame...@gmail.com Schedule for Wednesday 18th August 2021 12:00 AM Rosary - Glorious Mysteries 12:28 AM Tagore's (and our) prayer for India - Nicholas D'Souza 12:55 AM Hymn - I Believe 1:00 AM Mass in Konkani for Tuesday 1:45 AM Building Confidence - A talk by Ankitta do Rego 1:55 AM Ask Dr Sweezel - Which side is preferabe to sleep? 1:57 AM Bible Project - Public reading of Scripture 2:00 AM Saibinnichi Ruzai - Orkache Mister 2:26 AM Devacha Utor - 2 Timotak - Avesvor 2 - Vachpi Orlando D'Souza 2:33 AM Through Mary to Jesus - Eps 4 - Fr Jude Carrasco S.J. 2:54 AM Bhokti Lharam - Bhag 10 3:00 AM Loneliness of Jesus - Dr Brenda Nazareth Menezes 3:36 AM Youtsing - All Goa Virtual Choir - Part 1 4:27 AM Career Guidance -ITI - Montfort College 5:07 AM Biblical Hidden Heroes - Eps 10 - DCBA 5:10 AM Amchea Bapa Sorginchea - Domnic Rodrigues 5:41 AM Music - Jezu Novem Ietolo - Fr Eusico Pereira 5:47 AM Apologetics -Mary - Adv. F.E. Noronha 6:24 AM Talk on Glory in Tribulation by Eliot Gonsalves 6:42 AM Ximpientlim Motiam - Bhag 41 - Soinik - Fr. Pratap Naik sj 6:51 AM Hymn - Deva Mhojea Deva - Fr Ronaldo Fernandes 6:57 AM Sokalchem Magnnem 7:00 AM Feast of St Roque, Verna 8:00 AM Morning Prayer 8:05 AM Bhajans 5 8:27 AM Hymn -Xelliank Hanv Dar - Fr Seville Antao OFM(Cap) 8:30 AM Our Father - Oraon 8:34 AM DYC Promo 8:40 AM Axa, Devacho Pattlav Korunk Amkam Vhodd Addkhol - Fr Edson Fernandes 8:57 AM Devacha Utor - 2 Timotak - Avesvor 2 - Vachpi Orlando D'Souza 9:05 AM Sorg - Fr Henry Falcao 9:35 AM Magnificat (Konkani) 9:37 AM Tagore's (and our) prayer for India - Nicholas D'Souza 10:05 AM Prayer to the Holy Trinity - Prof. Nicholas D'Souza 10:07 AM Prayer for Laity - Giorgio Mazzola 10:24 AM Alcoholic Anonymous - What Causes Alcoholism? - Fr Clifford Castelino 10:43 AM Hymn - Maie Kaklutin Ge Bhorlole - Assencia Fernandes 10:48 AM Pastoral Letter 2021-22 - Talk in Konkani- Fr Mariano D'Costa 11:12 AM Bhurgeanlem Angonn - Bhag 5 11:16 AM Intercessions - English 11:30 AM Mass in English from Cruz Milagres 12:15 PM Angelus - English 12:17 PM Testimony - Neville Fernandes 12:30 PM What's Cooking - Episode 10 - Goan Stew 1:02 PM Goal Post Ep 4 - Savio Medeira interviewed by Jovito Lopes 1:30 PM DYC Promo 1:34 PM On the Third Day - Eps 8 - Raising of Seedlings - Priyanka Parab and Miguel Braganza 2:00 PM Song - Amchem Daiz - Brijesh Vaz - Ashley Fernandes 2:04 PM Blessed to have a Royal Mother - Maria Ana da Costa 2:30 PM Prayer over Expectant Mothers - St Joseph Vaz 2:32 PM Poem - Dan by Sandhya Fernandes 2:35 PM Career Guidance - Don Bosco Night School 3:00 PM Prayer for Vocations 3:01 PM Bhogsoneakui Vell- Kall Assa - A talk by Mathew Fernandes 3:20 PM Bhajan - Tu Paramananda - Fr Glen D'Silva sfx 3:30 PM Deivik Kaklutichi Magnneam 3:40 PM DYC Promo 3:44 PM Holiness in the Pauline Family - Blessed Joseph Timothy Giccardo - Sr. Flora Fernandes 4:00 PM Rosary - Glorious Mysteries 4:27 PM Bhagevont Zuze Vazachem Novena Magnnem 4:30 PM Senior Citizens Exercises - 1 4:57 PM Prayer to St. Joseph by Pope Francis 5:00 PM Praise and Worship - Magno Menezes - SJVRC 5:33 PM Spring Cleaning our Soul - Edith Melo Furtado 6:01 PM Aimorechen Magnnem 6:06 PM Tell Me a Story - Eps 36 - Moses Leaves Egypt 6:13 PM Bible Project - Acts of the Apostle - Ch 21 - 28 6:18 PM Intercessions - Konkani 6:30 PM Feast of St Roque, Verna 7:30 PM Saibinnichi Ruzai - Orkache Mister 7:56 PM DYC Promo 8:00 PM Ximpientlim Motiam - Bhag 155 - Gaddi Ponkchor - Fr Pratap Naik sj 8:10 PM The Church - The Body of Christ - Dr Sarita Nazareth 8:40 PM Jezu doyall, ami - I doyall zaum -ya -- Fr Joseph Silva 9:00 PM Adoration - St Jose de Areal - Lindinha D'Cunha 9:31 PM Ratchem Magnem 9:44 PM Devacha Utor - 2 Timotak - Avesvor 3 - Vachpi Orlando D'Souza 9:52 PM CCR TV Concert - Highlights 2 - Magician 10:27 PM Use of Charisms and Intercession - Talk by Sr Elsis Mathew MSMI 11:09 PM Health Matters -Plastic Surgery - Dr Yuri Dias Amborcar 11:35 PM Parish of the Week - Verna 2 Donations may be made to: Beneficiary name : CCR GOA MEDIA. Name of Bank : ICICI Bank Branch Name: Panaji Branch RTGS/NEFT Code : ICIC015 Savings Bank Account No : 262401000183
[Goanet] {Dilip's essays} The power of population for economies
Aug 17
A few Indian states are considering laws to tackle the growth of their
populations. Predictably, these include limits on the number of children a
couple can have. Much easier to put that kind of futile measure on the
books than to address, picking one, educating women.
After I heard about this, I thought I'd write my Friday mathematics column
around ideas on population, showing thereby how wrong-headed these proposed
measures are.
The power of population for economies,
https://www.livemint.com/opinion/columns/the-power-of-population-for-economies-11628184138539.html
(Friday Aug 6).
Let me know your thoughts.
cheers,
dilip
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The power of population for economies
Give me a rupee for every time I have heard "demographic advantage" applied
to India in the last several years, and I'd be sitting on a small fortune.
Invariably, the mentions are tinged with pride, as if we've suddenly
transformed into a commendably and overwhelmingly young nation.
Truth is, we used to be even younger and are getting steadily older. But
that's a story for another time.
Over 200 years ago, the Reverend Thomas Robert Malthus wrote in his "Essay
on Population": "The power of population is indefinitely greater than the
power in the earth to produce subsistence for man." Ever since, that bleak
vision has influenced plenty of scientists.
Malthus addressed an age-old and ongoing wrangle. For population often sets
off furious intellectual battles, whose antagonists barely speak to each
other.
In one corner are pessimists - usually biologists - who believe that the
human population is increasing so rapidly that we will end in catastrophe.
In the other corner are optimists - usually economists - who believe that
humanity stands a good chance of solving its population problems.
Biologists see a newborn as another hungry mouth. Economists see two tiny
hands that will one day contribute to economic growth.
Pessimists worry about exceeding the capacity of the earth to support us
all. After all, there are animals that endure sudden collapses when their
populations rise beyond a limit. Does mankind face the same fate? Optimists
remind them that no such collapse has ever happened to humans. Economic
growth can both feed billions of humans and slow the population explosion,
and don't families in prosperous societies have fewer children? Pessimists
see growth itself as the problem. The world cannot keep adding 80 million
people a year, as it does today, forever.
Which is right: optimism or pessimism? "It is hard to think of a question
more fundamental to our crowded world", Charles C. Mann wrote in a
revealing article ("How Many is Too Many?" The Atlantic, February 1993).
Demographers often cite a figure called the Total Fertility Rate (TFR).
This is the number of babies a woman will have, on average, in her
lifetime. 2 is replacement level: if every woman had two babies, children
will exactly replace their parents and eventually the population will level
off. (Because some children die, replacement level is usually taken as 2.1).
TFR has recently been in the news in India. For example, Uttar Pradesh has
just announced measures to "control" its population growth. Its draft
Population (Control, Stabilisation and Welfare) Bill proposes penalties for
couples who have more than two children, like denying welfare schemes and
even the PDS to them. Apart from the bureaucratic nightmare these kinds of
measures will set in motion, it's not even clear they are effective. In any
case, UP's TFR was 2.7 in 2016 - likely lower now - which, while higher
than replacement level, is a significant drop from over 4 at the turn of
the century. It still trails India as a whole - 2.22 in 2018 - but it has
indeed been decreasing.
Why? Because what we call development - healthcare, jobs, education
especially of women - inevitably lowers the TFR. That's the lesson, the
world over, of the last half-century.
In 1968, the United Nations Population Division studied TFR trends in
different parts of the world. In the developing world, the TFR was at a
then-alarming 6.0. The most likely scenario, UNPD projected, was that this
figure would fall to 5.1 by 1985; and even this modest drop was greeted
with much skepticism at the time. But in 1985, the TFR in developing
countries was down to 4.2. As a whole, they had done twice as well as UNPD
had estimated, pulling TFR almost halfway to replacement level in 17 years.
That downward trend continues. Given their massive populations, India and
China dominate TFR calculations for the developing world: today, China's
TFR (about 1.69) is well below replacement level and India's is not far
above.
Good news? Certainly population optimists like to quote TFR trends. But
consider the not-so-good news too: since 1968, the Earth has added over 4
billion more people. Sure, it's likely that future TFR figures the world
over will be the lowest in history. Even so, today's children will replace
themselves, and their children
[Goanet] Who’s Next?
On July 20th, Archbishop Jose Gomez announced the resignation of Monsignor Jeffrey Burrill, the General Secretary of the US Conference of Catholic Bishops (USCCB), referencing Burrill's presence on gay dating apps like Grindr. His position as the General Secretary of US Conference of Catholic Bishops allowed Burrill to hold and organize various administrative functions within the conference. A report from the Catholic news site The Pillar claimed to have found evidence that the monsignor engaged in and maintained "serial sexual misconduct, while he held a critical oversight role in the Catholic Church's response to the recent spate of sexual abuse and misconduct scandals." The report linked his phone data to him, which showed daily use of Grindr from 2018 until 2020. This use even happened in his office at the USCCB and USCCB-owned residences. Roland. Toronto.
[Goanet] An Antidote To Depression
If you ever feel useless, just remember a superpower took 4 Presidents, trillions of dollars, millions of lives and 20 years to replace Taliban with Taliban. Roland. Toronto.
Re: [Goanet] Egyptian Gospel Song
Thanks, I'll check it out! On Tuesday, August 17, 2021, 04:46:43 AM GMT+4, Roland Francis wrote: It helps that the singer is pretty too! My life is Yours (Love Story) :: Arabic Christian Song-Middle East (With English Lyric translation) https://youtu.be/dEFFF6nQZGQ Roland. Toronto.
[Goanet] Otelo Nuno Rom?o Saraiva de Carvalho, RIP
Otelo Saraiva de Carvalho expired a couple of weeks (25 July 2021)in Portugal. He was a military man and was behind the ending of dicatorship during the 25 April 1974 revolution. BC I believe he passed away recently.? ? So was D?. Carlota Joaquina da Silva de Oliveira Pegado the mother of?Fernanda Aurea Pegado Rom?o who married Augusto Saraiva de Carvalho (1912-1969)? If that's the case then it seems to match for Otelo Saraiva de Carvalho.Augusto Saraiva de Carvalho, his father, and his mum met in Louren?o Marques/Maputo, as Otelo (interesting name, from Hamlet?) was born there...?Augusto Saraiva de Carvalho was the "Portuguese jurist, lawyer, publicist and politician who, among other functions, was a deputy, Minister of Finance, Minister of Justice and Minister for Public Works, Commerce and Industry. He was one of the main drivers of the reformist movement of Janeirinha."?https://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Augusto_Saraiva_de_CarvalhoProbably like you did,? :-) he studied Law at Coimbra it seems that his maternal??grandmother Mrs. Carlota Joaquina de Silva Oliveira Pegado was of goan origin - from Marg?o.. .
[Goanet] Bad Detective
no devils and no angels exist other than ourselves don’t look in the wrong places what does joao want to say?
