[Goanet]Helga Gomes to participate in Antartica Expedition
## # If Goanet stops reaching you, contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] # # Want to check the archives? http://www.goanet.org/pipermail/goanet/# # Please keep your discussion/tone polite, to reflect respect to others # ## From: "Eddie Fernandes" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Thursday, December 09, 2004 6:15 PM Subject: [Goanet]Helga Gomes to participate in Antartica Expedition For a photograph of Helga and the link to the full report see: http://www.goanvoice.org.uk/newsletter/2004/Dec/issue2/ Helga Gomes has been selected by the National Science Foundation of the USA to participate on the next US Expedition to Antarctica. She is scheduled to leave for the Antarctic from New Zealand on the 10th of December on a 45 day expedition. Helga,[EMAIL PROTECTED] was born in Nairobi, Kenya and was raised in Verna, Goa. She is the daughter RESPONSE: Congratulations to you Helga - keep warm! Cheers, Gabe.
[Goanet]High Mast lamps illuminate Galgibaga!!
## # If Goanet stops reaching you, contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] # # Want to check the archives? http://www.goanet.org/pipermail/goanet/# # Please keep your discussion/tone polite, to reflect respect to others # ## Meanwhile the water pipeline that was laid some four years back through Galgibaga still remains a pipedream. tony martin __ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com
[Goanet]Is there a market for Konkani films?
## # If Goanet stops reaching you, contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] # # Want to check the archives? http://www.goanet.org/pipermail/goanet/# # Please keep your discussion/tone polite, to reflect respect to others # ## Is there a market for Konkani films? Yes. Definitely, as Konkani tiatr, too, in a commercial venture. And if it can sustain itself, then why not films? Rajendra Talak, Producer and director, Aleesha. Yes. Konkani films will sustain in the market since we have a wider market for Konkani films, Mangalore, North and South Kanara I would say, it possible we have to explore the market. Damodar Mauzo, Script writer, Aleesha and Sood. * No. To produce Konkani film, you require an expenditure of approximately 40-50 lakhs and by screening it in Goa and the Konkani speaking belt, you can hope to recover up to 20 lakhs. Should the government support us by subsiding the balance of the cast, the Konkani films cam sustain themselves, else it is very difficult. Sanjeev Prabhudessai, producer, Sood *** Hi Goanetters, your comments please... = http://www.goa-world.net/poems http://www.goa-world.net/poems/lino __ Do you Yahoo!? The all-new My Yahoo! - Get yours free! http://my.yahoo.com
[Goanet]10 DEC 2004: GOACOM DAILY NEWS CLIPPINGS
## # If Goanet stops reaching you, contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] # # Want to check the archives? http://www.goanet.org/pipermail/goanet/# # Please keep your discussion/tone polite, to reflect respect to others # ## GOACOM DAILY NEWS CLIPPINGS Dec 10, 2004 FEATURE: Goacom-Goanow Feature on the Feast of St Francis Xavier at http://goacom.com/goanow/sfxfeast/SFXfeast2004.htm IT'S GOA NEXT YEAR: Union Minister for Information and Broadcasting and Culture S Jaipal Reddy on Thursday (December 9) announced that Goa would be the venue for the IFFI next year also, adding that the infrastructure facilities be further augmented and expanded in the State. However, the suspense continued over Goa's choice as the permanent venue. Reddy was speaking at the closing ceremony of the 35th IFFI 2004 at the Kala Academy, Panaji. He said that Goa provided unique opportunities and added impetus to the event. (GT) PARRIKAR FEELS SATISFIED, RELIEVES; "I am feeling very satisfied and relieved," was how the Chief Minister Manohar Parrikar reacted to Union I&B Minister Jaipal Reddy's statement that IFFI would be held in Goa next year. On the question of funds, he said the Central government had never promised the state funds for IFFI. Grants were expected from the Planning Commission. (H) 'BEAUTIFUL CITY' EXCELS; The critically acclaimed movie by Iranian filmmaker Asghar Farhadi, Beautiful City, swept two of three prizes of the Asian Competition section of the 35th IFFI while debutant Thai director Ekachai Uekrongtham (Beautiful Boxer) took home the third. (GT) DELEGATES, LOCALS MADE IFFI SUCCESSFUL: The Director of IFFI Goa 2004, Neelam Kapur, has said that the ten-day festival has been a success with high involvement of the delegates and local people despite handicaps like lack of adequate world-class theatres. She said only five movies could be screened per day instead of 10-12, and every movie had to be screened only once instead of twice. She said that 25 per cent of the seats were reserved for the members of the public. (H) A SEA OF PEOPLE: Thousands of people turned up for the musical programme at Campal grounds marking the end of the 10-day IFFI on December 9 night. Pop stars Remo Fernandes and Hema Sardessai and percussionist Bondo and Vaishali Samant regaled the music lovers for more than three hours. (H) GOVT AID FOR PRE-PRIMARY VERNACULAR SCHOOLS: After primary schools, the State government is now offering financial assistance for vernacular language run pre-primary schools in the state of Goa. The government has formulated a new scheme for supporting pre-primary schools imparting education in Konkani and Marathi languages. (H) UNDERGROUND POWER CABLE: Power Minister Digambar Kamat stated the work of laying the underground power cable for Margao city has been already tendered and awarded to the Larsen and Toubro Company while for Panaji city, it would be tendered soon. The estimates for laying underground cables for Mapusa, Vasco and Ponda towns has been also prepared and would be taken up in the third phase under the centrally-sponsored Accelerated Power Development Programme. (GT) GOAN GIRL FACES HARROWING ORDEAL: When 24-year-old Flory Nevidita D'Souza of Fortavaddo in Betim opted to take up housework in Kuwait, she was hopeful of a bright future. Instead, she was mercilessly beaten black and blue by her boss when she refused to be drawn into prostitution and after repeated death threats barely got away with her life, after relatives paid a huge sum to secure her release. (H) PEDESTRIAN INJURED: One Sebastian Francis Colaco, aged around 40 and hailing from Peddem-Canacona, was injured when a motorcycle dashed against him at Chaudi, Canacona. (GT) WOMAN FOUND MURDERED: An unknown woman aged around 40 years was found murdered at Mardol-Farmagudi on December 9. (GT) REHAB CENTRES: Setting up of government rehabilitation centres for alcoholics seems to be the need of the hour according to psychiatrists in the state. (H) "PARMAL" RELEASE: The latest issue of Goa Heritage Action Group's flagship publication "Parmal" will be released at the Museum of Christian Art, Old Goa, on December 11 at 5 pm. The volume contains articles on humankind's collective memory (Bojan Djuric), an examination of Catholic Religious Orders in Goa (Olivinho Gomes), essay on early Portuguese influences on Goan architecture (Ketak Nachinolkar), Goa's slave trade (Teotonio R de Souza). WESTERN MUSIC CONCERT: A western music concert presented by Fundacao Oriente and Pro Musica will be held at the Chapel of Our Lady of the Mount, Old Goa, on December 12 at 11 am. The Ensemble will play works by Bach, Beethoven, Gluck, Kreisler, E Grieg and B Bartok. Contact: Tel 2230728 or 2436108. (H) SUN, SAND, RUSSIAN WOMEN AND HIV: The coastal belts of Goa - North and South - are already
[Goanet]FW: Re: CM Manohar Parrikar for Person of the Year 2004 award
## # If Goanet stops reaching you, contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] # # Want to check the archives? http://www.goanet.org/pipermail/goanet/# # Please keep your discussion/tone polite, to reflect respect to others # ## From: fausto <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: 'Philip Thomas' <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Fri, 10 Dec 2004 10:22:31 +0530 Dear Mr. Thomas I am not the author of the report which you question in your post in GOANET (reproduced below). The question that should be considered (wrt Manohar Parikar)is not whether IFFI was a success or not, but the manner in which he implemented the project to have the infrastructure in place on time. According to me it was a wonderful piece of project planningwhich probably would make an interesting case study for MBA aspirants. Not many projects in India, including those in the private sector, are executed on time. And this is not the only instance of projects being completed on time by Parikar. No, I am not a BJP fan, nor do I admire all of Parikar's traits. But I do believe that he should be given his due when he deserves it. F. Dias Your Two small questions: 1) Which of the projects listed under d) were taken up and completed in 2004? 2) Whose invention is this Person of the Year award? What are the eligibility criteria for nominations? Does the person have to be practically a superman as made out in the opening remarks of the posting? And btw, who specifically has ruled that IFFI 2004 is a "success" that too before it has even ended!? --- Outgoing mail is certified Virus Free. Checked by AVG anti-virus system (http://www.grisoft.com). Version: 6.0.708 / Virus Database: 464 - Release Date: 6/18/04 _ Searching for your soulmate? Zero in on the perfect choice. http://www.astroyogi.com/newmsn/astrodate/ Try MSN Astrodate now!
RE: [Goanet]Chickens coming home to roost!
## # If Goanet stops reaching you, contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] # # Want to check the archives? http://www.goanet.org/pipermail/goanet/# # Please keep your discussion/tone polite, to reflect respect to others # ## From: Mario Goveia <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said Gabe and Tim, I think both of you need to catch up on the history of WW-II and see what it takes to liberate entire regions, . . . === I would just like to leave this discussion with two quotes which summarizes my feelings very adequately: "What does it matter to the dead, the orphans, and the homeless whether the mad destruction is wrought under the name of totalitarianism or the holy name of liberty or democracy?" --Mohandas K. Gandhi (About the British occupation of India) If we have the self-respect, the patriotism, the tenacious purpose, and the power of organisation that are necessary to drive the British out from their entrenched position, no lesser foreign power will dare after that, undertake the futile task of conquering or enslaving us. --Mohandas K. Gandhi Tim de Mello [EMAIL PROTECTED] CANADA
[Goanet]Re: IFFI - some thoughts for the last day
## # If Goanet stops reaching you, contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] # # Want to check the archives? http://www.goanet.org/pipermail/goanet/# # Please keep your discussion/tone polite, to reflect respect to others # ## Dear Lillian: I assume you wrote this poem since your name appears below. In addition to the many valid reasons opposing the IFFI, you have captured some of the "activist's mind" regarding these events - one that speaks for justice in this world. You and Goa Desc do a great service (even if often unappreciated and unheralded) by showing the injustices which exist and by fighting for the common person through consumer forums in Goa. Most (if not all) the comments we have read in cyberspace to date did not address the issues you point out in the excerpt below. Most of the adverse comments have been about the excessive cost of the IFFI, the wrong priorities for Goa, the lack of transparency, the lack of benefits for the locals, the lack of Konkani films, etc. Your comments add a new dimension to a growing list of IFFI opposition. Salute! George --- Goa Desc <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > IFFI > Lad-ies and gentle-men, > Put you-r hand-s to-gether and wel-c-o-m-e > The 35th International Film Festival Of India Goa 2-0-0-4 > Being held from the 20th of November to 9th December. > Let your body swing to the vibrations of con-sume-rism, > Let your feet tap to the jingle of cap-ital-ism, > Fine tune your tastes to cultural imperialism, > And finally a big welcome to all of you, to the land of Lulled social > consciousness. > > 3/12/04 > > Lillian D'Costa
[Goanet]Looking for........
## # If Goanet stops reaching you, contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] # # Want to check the archives? http://www.goanet.org/pipermail/goanet/# # Please keep your discussion/tone polite, to reflect respect to others # ## Paulo Fonseca of Angolan Nacionality- Husband, Arceline Margarida Fernades Of Indian Nationality (Mapusa Goa) Both residing in Angola, they remaind Marcelina Fernades, Felix Fernades residing At Feira Alta House Number 140 Mapusa Goa that they are missing you somuch, please write to us by the following address: Instituto Nacional de Estatistica Luanda Angola CP1215 Phone 091205008 or by my email: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[Goanet]FAREWELL TO KUWAIT
## # If Goanet stops reaching you, contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] # # Want to check the archives? http://www.goanet.org/pipermail/goanet/# # Please keep your discussion/tone polite, to reflect respect to others # ## FAREWELL TO KUWAIT One of the well-known Konkani stage artistes and a good singer Victor de Calangute bids farewell to Kuwait in this week. During his last 25 years of acting in Kuwait he has delighted the Konkani audience very much, his songs in female role were admired the most since most of his songs he rendered as a female. Though recently he put on with extra weight yet earlier especially at Keefan Hall where he performed more 15 years ago he as a singer was most sought after tiatrist. Many of the tiatro goers in Kuwait used to go for tiatros only because of Victor de Calangute, such was his strenght and pull as a singer. While in Kuwait he served the Konkani stage well and thru this he also served Konkani and its promotion. Always smiling face and humble, he remained non-controversial figure. Henceforth, Kuwait audience will miss him very much. By his leaving Kuwait for good, Kuwait Konkani Stage will lose yet one more popular Konkani Stage artiste. On behalf of myself and all my colleagues and like minded friends, I wish Victor de Calangute all the best and hope he will keep on stage acting in Goa too. May God Bless you Victor. A. Veronica Fernandes, Kuwait. _ Express yourself instantly with MSN Messenger! Download today it's FREE! http://messenger.msn.click-url.com/go/onm00200471ave/direct/01/
[Goanet]Goa netters getogether /Melinda Coutinho Powell
## # If Goanet stops reaching you, contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] # # Want to check the archives? http://www.goanet.org/pipermail/goanet/# # Please keep your discussion/tone polite, to reflect respect to others # ## Vincent Andrade wrote: To F.N.: " Members reading this could also put forth their confirmation so that everyone knows who all are attending." Hi F.N., Just confirming my attendance at the Goanet meet on 21st Dec.I too,would love to put a face to a name. Melinda Coutinho Powell
[Goanet]Chickens coming home to roost!
## # If Goanet stops reaching you, contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] # # Want to check the archives? http://www.goanet.org/pipermail/goanet/# # Please keep your discussion/tone polite, to reflect respect to others # ## From: "Mario Goveia" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Thursday, December 09, 2004 4:29 PM Subject: RE: [Goanet]Chickens coming home to roost! Gabe and Tim, I think both of you need to catch up on the history of WW-II and see what it takes to liberate entire regions, and how many major losses were suffered by the Allies in the early YEARS (not just a few months) of that war. Read about how many YEARS it took to pacify and democratize and rebuild Germany and Japan. Read about which country's taxpayers and armed forces have provided these countries with national security to this day. RESPONSE: Well, I hope you are correct and I also hope that the U.S.A., having gone into Iraq will not pull out when the going gets tough, like they did in Vietnam. What would your response be, if and when the U.S.A. and the American people decide enough is enough? Cheers, Gabe.
Re: [Goanet] [konkaniforum] DALGADO KONKNNI AKADEMI
## # If Goanet stops reaching you, contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] # # Want to check the archives? http://www.goanet.org/pipermail/goanet/# # Please keep your discussion/tone polite, to reflect respect to others # ## --- "Fausto V. D'Costa" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: We are to be blamed for what has happened to Konkani. What is our contribution to Konkani? Last one month atleast 5 Roman Konkani books have been published. How many of us read the existing roman periodicals? Now DKA will come out with 11 Konkani books, for whom to read? COMMENTS; Unless The K.books are plugged/advertised & reviewed how is the public(goans)to know of their existence.As it is reading is the least of one's pastime,and so extra effort is needed to encourage it,specially if it's konkanni(in roman script),which has received step-motherly treatment so far. v.f. __ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com
[Goanet]Submission for the WildGoa newsletter. HURRY!
## # If Goanet stops reaching you, contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] # # Want to check the archives? http://www.goanet.org/pipermail/goanet/# # Please keep your discussion/tone polite, to reflect respect to others # ## Dear friends, WildGoa is an e-group that consists of over 280 like minded people from all over the world that have an interest in Bird watching, Wildlife, Conservation, Nature & the Outdoors, particularly in Goa. Besides post & mails by members, every 2-3 months we send out a newsletter filled with stories, news, information & more.. The only criterion is that it has to be related to Goan flora, fauna or nature. The 5th and final newsletter of this year will be out soon. We encourage our readers and those interested to participate in the submission of material for the newsletter. There is no membership or age requirement for submissions. Remember to include a short self introduction. Submission can include: Photographs Short Stories Funny/Interesting Incidents Queries News Web links & more Deadline for submission is 11th September 2004, 11.45pm. Hurry, Clinton.. WildGoa Moderator To learn more about WildGoa, visit our home on the net at: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/wildgoa/ Membership to WildGoa is FREE. To Join WildGoa, simply send a blank mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] or [EMAIL PROTECTED] --- Outgoing mail is certified Virus Free. Checked by AVG anti-virus system (http://www.grisoft.com). Version: 6.0.805 / Virus Database: 547 - Release Date: 12/3/2004
[Goanet]Helga Gomes to participate in Antartica Expedition
## # If Goanet stops reaching you, contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] # # Want to check the archives? http://www.goanet.org/pipermail/goanet/# # Please keep your discussion/tone polite, to reflect respect to others # ## For a photograph of Helga and the link to the full report see: http://www.goanvoice.org.uk/newsletter/2004/Dec/issue2/ Helga Gomes has been selected by the National Science Foundation of the USA to participate on the next US Expedition to Antarctica. She is scheduled to leave for the Antarctic from New Zealand on the 10th of December on a 45 day expedition. Helga,[EMAIL PROTECTED] was born in Nairobi, Kenya and was raised in Verna, Goa. She is the daughter She is the daughter of Jacinto Gomes and Aida Rocha Gomes and is married to Joaquim Goes. She is presently a Senior Research Associate at the Bigelow Laboratory for Ocean Sciences, Maine USA Helga is currently working on Global Climate Changes and Ocean Ecosystems. and has research projects funded by NASA and the National Science Foundation (NSF). --- Outgoing mail is certified Virus Free. Checked by AVG anti-virus system (http://www.grisoft.com). Version: 6.0.749 / Virus Database: 501 - Release Date: 9/1/2004
[Goanet]Query about events happening in Goa, Dec/Jan
## # If Goanet stops reaching you, contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] # # Want to check the archives? http://www.goanet.org/pipermail/goanet/# # Please keep your discussion/tone polite, to reflect respect to others # ## If anyone has the information, kindly send it to Virginia. Virginia, please could you check up with the local guide called FindAll? See http://www.findall-goa.com Rgds, FN Frederick Noronha (FN)Nr Convent Saligao 403511 GoaIndia Freelance Journalist P: 832-2409490 M: 9822122436 http://www.livejournal.com/users/goalinks http://fn.swiki.net http://www.ryze.com/go/fredericknoronha http://fn-floss.notlong.com On Mon, 6 Dec 2004, virginia sequeira wrote: Dear Mr. Fred, I am planning to go on vacation to Goa on 10th December with my family hence shall appreciate if you could let me know the happenings in Goa in December / January 2005 and send me by mail before 9th December please. Thanks Virginia
RE: [Goanet]Chickens coming home to roost!
## # If Goanet stops reaching you, contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] # # Want to check the archives? http://www.goanet.org/pipermail/goanet/# # Please keep your discussion/tone polite, to reflect respect to others # ## Gabe and Tim, I think both of you need to catch up on the history of WW-II and see what it takes to liberate entire regions, and how many major losses were suffered by the Allies in the early YEARS (not just a few months) of that war. Read about how many YEARS it took to pacify and democratize and rebuild Germany and Japan. Read about which country's taxpayers and armed forces have provided these countries with national security to this day. I hope you both don't think that Iraq would have been better off under Saddam's brutal heel. If you do, I know some Iraqi Shia and Kurds, who escaped his brutality but lost family members, who would like to talk to you face-to-face. Gabe, Since you live in a country where much of the population opposed the liberation of Iraq (I'm not sure why) but the government decided to join the coalition anyway, I understand that you must get some perverse satisfaction when things seem to be not going well for the liberating forces. You then send us articles from the most virulent left-wing and anti-American publication in the UK as if this lends some credibility to whatever point you are trying to make. It does not. All it does is give us another example of the Guardian's biased position. If the Guardian's opinion had prevailed, Saddam Hussein would still be brutalizing his people, filling his mass graves, planning to re-constitute his dormant WMD programs which could have ended up in the dangerous hands of Al Qaeda with disastrous results for whomever they decided to use these against, and he with France, Russia and China, would still be looting the oil-for-food program, building palaces and protectibg Saddam with their vetoes in the UNSC. Unlike conventional warfare of a previous age, where the first attack was usually against a military target, attacks with WMDs would wipe out large sections of the civilian population. At Halabja, Saddam's forces wiped out some 5,000 innocent Kurds in a single day. With the suicide mentality we saw on 9/11, no national leader can risk even the possibility of such a first attack, as long as Al Qaeda is a viable threat. This is what drives much of geopolitics today. And while Iraq was not involved in 9/11, the subsequent investigation showed regular and close links between Iraq and Al Qaeda. Critics claim otherwise without explaining how Al Qaeda cells can be active around the world, but only not in Iraq, a country that harbored terrorists like Abu Nidal, Abu Abbas, Ansar al Islam, etc. and compensated the families of suicide bombers in Israel. Tim The Globe and Mail has probably failed to inform you that Sen. Biden is an opponent of the Bush administration, is very bitter that his friend, John Kerry, was soundly defeated last month, and vacillates between opposing the war to demanding more resources for the troops. Unfortunately for him, since tha Vietnam debacle the US does not allow politicians to conduct wartime operations. The comments of Sec. Rumsfeld were an honest assessment, which has been pounced upon by only those who opposed the war in the first place. The others are too busy assisting in correcting whatever problems exist. The soldier's complaint was a valid one, and production of armored Humvees has gone from 15 a month to 500, so he will soon get what he needs. With perfect 20/20 hindsight one can always claim that things should have been done differently. That's the advantage of being an armchair critic. Many of these problems have been caused by the unexpected ferocity of the Sunni Baathist's resistance to their impending loss of power to the Shia and the Kurds, over whom they enjoyed decades of brutal domination from a minority position. More was also expected from the Shia and Kurds in terms of assisting the coalition. They have so far left much of the heavy lifting to the coalition, but are slowly but surely getting trained to defend themselves and beginning to see that they need to be more aggressive if they want their budding democracy to succeed. The Globe and Mail has also probably NOT told you that 14 of Iraq's 18 provinces have little or no conflict and major reconstruction projects in roads, schools, electric grids, water treatment plants, hospitals, etc. is going on at a fast pace. Think about it. Regardless of all the details that we can argue about till the cows come home, regardless of whether you like President Bush or not, regardless of what you think happened to the WMDs that have never been accounted for, this war is about bringing freedom and democracy to a Muslim nation of 25 million people that was brutalized by
[Goanet]Wilson Coelho's invitation
## # If Goanet stops reaching you, contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] # # Want to check the archives? http://www.goanet.org/pipermail/goanet/# # Please keep your discussion/tone polite, to reflect respect to others # ## Hi, I have created an account for myself and another one for you -- to send free text (SMS) messages to mobile phones. Can you please click on the link below to complete your sign-up. Don't worry it is quick. :-). http://www.sms.ac/registration/Intro.aspx?InviteId=mkagb2j09000uga8nug8386cwq160f6trrnq53ex711oe If you're already a member of SMS.ac, click here: http://www.sms.ac/login.asp?referer=addafriend&inviteid=mkagb2j09000uga8nug8386cwq160f6trrnq53ex711oe Thanks, Wilson
[Goanet]CONSUMERS ALERT:No power supply in some Bardez Villages
## # If Goanet stops reaching you, contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] # # Want to check the archives? http://www.goanet.org/pipermail/goanet/# # Please keep your discussion/tone polite, to reflect respect to others # ## - Documented by Goa Desc Resource Centre Ph:2252660 Website: www.goadesc.org Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Press Clippings on the web: http://www.goadesc.org/mem/ --- -- CONSUMER ALERT:No power supply in some Bardez Villages -- PUBLIC NOTICE -- The public/consumers of areas befalling under the jurisdictions of Village Panchayats of Calangute, Candolim, Sinquerim & Fort Aguada & who are presently fed from the existing 33/11KV, 1x6.3MVA substation at Candolim are hereby informed that shut down which was arranged on the 6th, 7th & 8th of December 2004 for the installation of one additional Power Transformer at the Candolim Substation is cancelled with immediate effect as the contractor viz, M/s Power Grid Corporation of India who is undertaking the said work had not completed the preliminary works for the installation. The shutdown is therefore rescheduled for the period from 8:00 hrs to 17:00 hrs on the days 10th, 13th & 14th of December 2004. Hence, the public/consumer of the above specified areas are hereby informed that there shall be no power supply during the said period. The public of the above specified areas are requested to co-operate with the Electricity Department during the above specified days. Inconvenience caused is highly regretted. sd/- Executive Engineer Electricity Department Division VI, Mapusa DI/837/04 --- Advert. in Herald 8/12/04 page 15 --- --- GOA CIVIC AND CONSUMER ACTION NETWORK --- an initiative of GOA DESC RESOURCE CENTRE to promote civic and consumer rights in Goa --- GOACAN Post Box 78 Mapusa, Goa 403 507 Tel: 2252660 mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] website: www.goacan.org ---
[Goanet]Goa Govt. Planning Board Sub-Committee on Administrative Reforms
## # If Goanet stops reaching you, contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] # # Want to check the archives? http://www.goanet.org/pipermail/goanet/# # Please keep your discussion/tone polite, to reflect respect to others # ## - Documented by Goa Desc Resource Centre Ph:2252660 Website: www.goadesc.org Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Press Clippings on the web: http://www.goadesc.org/mem/ --- - Goa Govt. Planning Board Sub-Committee on Administrative Reforms - Official Gazette - Government of Goa Notification No. DPSE/III/PB-M/80-XII/2003/5229 Read: 1) Notification No. DPSE/III/PB-M/80-XII/2002 Dated October 22, 2002 2) Corrigendum No. DPSE/III/PB-M/80-XII/2002 Dated November 7, 2003 3) Addendum No. DPSE/III/PB-M/80-XII/2002 Dated November 26, 2003 On recommendation of the Planning Board, Government of Goa is pleased to appoint the following sub-committees of the Planning Board with immediate effect. (c) Sub-Committee on Administrative Reforms 1. Shri Dilip Karambelkar, Editor, Tarun Bharat Mumbai, A-36, Shiram Industrial Estate, GD Ambekar Marg, Opp. Wadalla Udyog Bhavan, Wadala East, Mumbai. 2. President, Goa Chamber of Commerce & Industry, Panaji - Goa. 3. Prof. M.S. Kamat, Madhukunj, Ground Floor, Behind P & T Colony, Alto Porvorim, Goa 403 521 4. The President, Goa Small Industries Association, 205, Shiv Towers, Patto Plaza, Panaji. 5. Shri S. Shanbhogue, Member Secretary Jt. Director, DPSE, Panaji, Goa The following shall be the terms of reference of the above three Sub-Committees: The Sub-Committee on Education, Employment and Human Resouce Development and the Sub-Committee on Environment will look into the macro level issues related to plan formulation and monitor the achievement of the underlying objective(s) of the schemes and analyze their effectiveness, usefulness and benefits to the society. The Sub-Committee on Adminstrative Reforms will review the entire gamut of rules, procedures etc. followed in Government Departments and suggest ways and means to make them simpler and people friendly. The Sub-Committees will float new ideas and concepts to enhance the efficiency of the existing schemes/ programmes and also suggest new programmes, which may be taken up. The Sub-Committees may co-opt any other member of the Planing Board for their functioning, if considered necessary. The Sub-Committees will regulate their own procedures and the Member Secretary of the respective sub-committee shall make arrangements to hold the meeting and shall provide secretarial services and secondary data as may be required and shall co-ordinate with the concerned Departments as per the requirements of the committees. The Sub-Committees may call for the relevant information from any Government Department, undertake visits to departments/development projects, hold discussions and seek clarifications from the Secretaries/Heads of Departments in regard to the matters concerning the work entrusted to the Sub-Committees. The Sub-Committees shall submit their recommendations to the Chairman, Planning Board with 6 months of starting their deliberations. The observations and suggestions of the Sub-Committees will be discussed in the Planning Board meetings. The outstation non-official members will be permitted to draw airfare (both ways) for attending the Sub-Committee meetings. While in Goa, the outstation members (whose normal place of residence is outside Goa) will be treated as State Guests. Each non-offic ial member will be paid a sitting fee of Rs. 200/- per day for attending the Sub-Committee meeting. The member Secretary of the concerned Sub-Committee will be responsible for timely defray of all expenses inculding T.A. etc. of the members of the Sub-Committees. All expenses in relation to holding meetings/deliberations of the Sub-Committees and operations incidental thereto will be met by the Directorate of Planning, Statistics and Evaluation. By order and in the name of the Governor of Goa. S.K. Tewari, Director & Member Secretary (Planning Board). Panaji, 22nd September 2004 Source: Official Gazette Series II No. 28 dated 7/10/04 page 663 - === GOA DESC RESOURCE CENTRE Documentation + Education + Solidarity 11 Liberty Apts., Feira Alta, Mapusa, Goa 403 507 Tel: 2252660 mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] website: www.goadesc.or
[Goanet]'Alisha', and a film by Tripura priest at IFFI
## # If Goanet stops reaching you, contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] # # Want to check the archives? http://www.goanet.org/pipermail/goanet/# # Please keep your discussion/tone polite, to reflect respect to others # ## Regional films attract attention at IFFI Wednesday, December 8, 2004: (Goa): The Goa film festival saw the screening of a Konkani film Alisha, the first to be screened at IFFI in the 35 years of its existence. Two slots were reserved for Konkani films. The second film awaits Censor Board clearance and may make it to the festival on the last day. People's story Alisha is set in Goa's mining industry which is at the core of its economy. The film was completed in 51 days at a cost of Rs 45 lakh. "Don't consider Alisha to be a character. Alisha is a feeling in every Goan. Keep Goa beautiful. Maintain the balance between ecology and economy of Goa," said Rajinder Talak, the film's director. "I think with this film people will feel that you can make films in Konkani," said Debu Deodhar, the film's cinematographer. The 12-lakh strong Konkani-speaking audience in Goa is small as different dialects are spoken in the Konkan belt in Karanataka, Mumbai and the tip of Kerala. The state's Chief Minister Manohar Parrikar now says a film policy will be announced by December end, which will provide 50 per cent financial subsidy to the films. Cinema with purpose Another first at IFFI is a feature film from Tripura in the prestigious Indian panorama. The film Mathia is in Tripura's main tribal language, spoken by 7 lakh people. Mathia explores the phenomena of witch hunting through the lens. The film has been directed by Kerala-born Joseph Pulinthanath, a student of literature and a Catholic priest. "If the story prevents even one death, it would have served its purpose," Pulinthanath said. Like the Goa Government, the Tripura Government too is now in the process of finalising its film policy. http://www.ndtv.com/ent/newstory.asp?section=Movies&slug=Regional+films+attract+attention+at+IFFI&id=3199 Frederick Noronha 784 Near Convent, Sonarbhat SALIGAO GOA India Freelance Journalist TEL: +91-832-2409490 MOBILE: 9822122436 http://fn.swiki.net http://www.livejournal.com/users/goalinks fred at bytesforall.org http://www.bytesforall.org
[Goanet]Workers Rights are Human Rights
## # If Goanet stops reaching you, contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] # # Want to check the archives? http://www.goanet.org/pipermail/goanet/# # Please keep your discussion/tone polite, to reflect respect to others # ## "HUNGER CREATES HISTORY, HUNGER DESTROYS HISTOR" Jean-Paul Sartre. French Philosopher. Greetings of Human Rights Days! Workers Rights are Human Rights!! Thank you for your Support, Thought and Action for our First Action Alert (http://www.mail-archive.com/goanet@goanet.org/msg18440.html)to demand justice for Albert Rodrigues. A Britist corporate Travelpack office in Goa has continued his salary deduction in to the second month. Total amount deduction have reached to Rs. 930/- ( Nine Hundred and Thirty only). we repeat to refreash memory:- The cost of living table explains the daily expense as per the price rise. Breakfast-- 30/- lunch---50/- dinner---50/- transport---30/- personal saving---30/- total--200/- Rs. 6000/- per month. His monthly salary is Rs. 3380/- under paid by 2440/- Besides financial loss to Albert Rodrigues, the agony of going through mental torcher is intense. How can you measure damage caused to his psyche due to company's arrogance? Will it be in thousands, millions or billions of Pounds? Travelpack must pay up these damages. Since libertion of Goa. There is on going transformation of different sectors. From Natural Economy it is moving to market economy-- to the ruin of common people. In capitalist system transaction is in cash. So notes and coins are rulers of the world. Inflation is its loyal companion. Goa being publicized by the "hippies" in late sixties-- after Vietnam War. Now it is world famous tourist destination. It is popular among domestic as well as foreign tourist who comes in search of Sun Sea and Sand. Now let us see who is benifiting through this tourism industry. There were locals who had built small Guest Houses attached with Restaurants, some have invested in purchasing vehicles taxis or motor bikes and they were having a pleasent and economically rewarding summers. But ever since corporate intrusion in Goa's Tourism Business they have suffered. The main objective of corporate is to maximise [profit] to their accounts-- even at the cost of eliminating small businesses and exploiting workers. Same is the case of Transnational Leisure corporate Travelpack. They are middle person in charter flight operation and stay providers. whos Head office is in U.K. with number of outlets in India, U.K and U.S.A. choosing Goa as a Hub of entire operation. There are approximately 135 employees employed in Travelpack Goa office. Because of rise in advance technology all these workers are selling their brains and expertise which they have gained from different Universities including Goa University. This is boon for corporates in maximising their profits. Taking the case of 135 employees who work on all odd shifts. This indicates that they are willing to WORK to satisfy their 'Hunger'. Life of 135 workers is nothing less then dead-well. They work as per U.K. timing (what is day in India is night in U.K. and vice-versa). These 135 workers kill their sleep by sitting in a dark room to maximise corporate profits. For uneducated person there is a requirement of Rs. 6000/- per month. But the case is exactly reverse. These University degree holders are being paid Rs. 3500/- per month. Dress code is long sleve formal shirt, formal pant and a long rope fastened round the neck called "Tie". All these companies requirement is at the workers own cost. For food, transportation and little saving one require Rs. 6000/- per month as per todays cost of living. Every moment there is a cry of 135 employees. there is no social life for workers, there is no health care fascilities, there is no Bonus. one cannot attend any personal phone calls, one cannot leave their chair and table, cannot even turn their necks as there are -cameras installed which kills the liberty of workers - In Democratic Country-India. No one knows where the front screens of the installed cameras are located- whether on planet Saturn, Jupiter, Pluto or even Mercury- perhaps only Sun knows!! Thanks to ruthless exploitation, these University educated workers voice only one slogan "Advanced Technology is good because it is maximising profit of corporate and Jail for Working class!" Though India has got Independence from British colonial rule, but it is invisibly looted by U.K., U.S corporates in the name of Outsourcing. Workers have began to create History and Destory History. In the same fashion as that of East India Company few centuries ago. Travepack addresses. [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL
[Goanet]considering the paedophiles
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Dear Goanet-Team,
Your article considering the paedophiles was well
researched - on the one hand.
On the other hand: Even if there was a second case
with a fat German raping a minor (10 years) shouldn't
let us forget one thing:
Since living in India since 7 years after visiting and
traveling it for 20 years, I read the newspaper before
the tourists are coming:
>From Septmeber till end of October there were endless
- small - reports of raping or abusing of children,
girls mostly. In Goa.
Normally those stories had allways a value of 5-6
lines in Herald or the other 2 papers in Goa.
2 days ago I read about a father who allegedly raped
his 16 year old daughter.
In all those cases in the papers it was always a
related man, an uncle, a cousin...or the neighbour.
And they were Goans. Not from Karnataka or
Maharashtra. (You can make out by the namnes easily.)
When a foreigner like the monsters from foreign origin
was involved, then the story was big and YOU too
forget to think about two things: In 90 per cent of
child-rape or -abuse it is the father, the uncle, the
neighbour is the criminal. That is known all over the
world.
2. If You catch one Goan in Goa or one French in
France raping a child - 99 per cent at least in Goa
will never be unearthed. Because silence is golden,
some people think in India. So be aware what is going
on with Goans and Child-abuse as well. For the sake of
the children.
And PLEASE: Don't mix things up for sensation: In
Herald one Ezuardo lamented about everything, starting
with raping, everything bad done by foreigners:
Spoiling the beach (in fact in Goa-North they are half
black from oil), prostitution (as if the foreigners
would have built Baina or special "Ayurveda-massage").
Foreigners use sexy speach (and Goans sometime, or
this eve-teasing here?) The behaviour of us ("aliens")
is bad, this man mumbled in herald 2 weeks ago on half
a page. Most of tourists are nice, those ones living
here since long have good relationships with their
Goan friends and neighbours. For sure there are some
people in the costal belt, drinking to much or sing
loud at night. But those ones are a minority and the
visitors from Gujarat or Bombay are much more feared
by beachshack-owners than Germans or so. They shout
and are rude, some of them - ask Your fellow
countrymen on the beach.
"Zen or the art od driving" in Goa makes many foreign
visitors stay at home after 6 p.m.-full flashlights,
some murderers pretendeing to be bus-driver. Kids on
Enfields and so one running like hell. I could go on
but I like that place to much and the big majority of
the people. So I won't go on. Because most of the bad
situation in Goa was NOT created by the people (of Goa
or other countries) but by few bureaurocrats,
politicians - as You know better than me...
At least: Try to avoid to mix some misbehaviour of few
foreigners with sensational rapes of children.
But if the State got the rapists: Try them and forget
them in Fourt Aguada at least for one decade. Or
two...
Best wishes,
Claudius Simon
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Re: [Goanet]Chickens coming home to roost!
## # If Goanet stops reaching you, contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] # # Want to check the archives? http://www.goanet.org/pipermail/goanet/# # Please keep your discussion/tone polite, to reflect respect to others # ## > > Also the troops in Kuwait awaiting to be sent to the front lines in Iraq > gave Sec. Rumsfeld a grilling today. Asked about the poorly armoured > Humvees, his response was: > > "As you know, you have to go to war with the Army you have, not the Army you > want," Rumsfeld said. > > He added, "You can have all the armor in the world on a tank, and it can > [still] be blown up." > > Encouraging words? I think not! > This reminded me of the following fw: "Madonna said today that we should pull all of our troops out of Iraq. Donald Rumsfeld said, 'No, I think we better wait and hear what Britney Spears has to say about it first.'" -Jay Leno
[Goanet]Attention CyberGoans: San Francisco Bay Area
## # If Goanet stops reaching you, contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] # # Want to check the archives? http://www.goanet.org/pipermail/goanet/# # Please keep your discussion/tone polite, to reflect respect to others # ## I need to correct the address of the restaurant in my message from yesterday. The correct address of the restaurant is: Saravana Bhavan 1305 South Mary Avenue, Sunnyvale, CA, 94087 TELEPHONE : 1-408-616-7755 All the other details below stand. Thurs, Dec 9, lunch at noon. Regards, George *** OLD MESSAGE Mervyn Lobo of "2.0" fame is visiting the San Francisco Bay Area and we are meeting for for a no-host lunch this Thursday, Dec 9, at the restaurant below along with Marlon. If there are any other cyberGoans who would like to join us, you are most welcome. We are honored to have Mervyn here. You do not need to RSVP, just show up. Dec 9, Thursday, 12 noon at: Saravana Bhavan 600 W El Camino Real Mountain View, California, 94040 Phone: 650/625-0460 Regards, George Pinto
[Goanet]London/Dubai: Leanne Fernandesl loses battle with leukaemia
## # If Goanet stops reaching you, contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] # # Want to check the archives? http://www.goanet.org/pipermail/goanet/# # Please keep your discussion/tone polite, to reflect respect to others # ## For photographs of Leanne see http://www.goanvoice.org.uk/newsletter/2004/Dec/issue2/ Headline: Brave schoolgirl loses battle with leukaemia By Meraj Rizvi Source: Khaleej Times (Dubai). 9 December 2004 at http://www.khaleejtimes.com/DisplayArticle.asp?xfile=data/theuae/2004/December/theuae_December199.xml§ion=theuae&col Full text: DUBAI — Leanne Fernandes, grade five student of The Modern High School(TMHS), Dubai, passed away yesterday at a London hospital after battling with leukaemia for over two years. The 10-year-old student was undergoing treatment at Great Ormond Street Hospital in London for a while where she was to undergo a bone-marrow transplant operation. But, due to her critical condition, doctors were unable to perform the surgery, funds for which were generated by her school in Dubai. Leanne was on a life support system as her condition deteriorated yesterday and passed away early yesterday morning. The news of her death was received in the afternoon by the school principal, Darryl Bloud .“Mr Fernandes, Leanne’s father, informed me over the telephone from London about the tragic demise of Leanne,” the principal said. “We are completely devastated and have cancelled all the celebrations lined up for the Children’s day on December 15. Instead, a memorial service will now be held on the same day at 11.30am and will be open to all the students and teachers of TMHS and well-wishers of the family,” disclosed Bloud, who was yet to break the news to his students who had left for the day. Bloud recalled Leanne’s last visit to the school on September 27, 2004, when she was in Dubai for a few days. Leanne appeared very happy and in her report read out to the students during the school assembly, Leanne expressed happiness on the support and love received from her school and her classmates. The school had last year raised funds to help Leanne fight her battle with leukaemia and undergo the bone marrow transplant operation. Her brother who is a grade six student of TMHS was flown to UK in November for the operation, which could never take place due to medical complications and her deteriorating health condition. Leanne’s parents who were by her side when she died, plan to fly the body to Goa in India for her final rites on December 16. Forwarded by Eddie Fernandes
[Goanet]Alto-Porvorim Sat 11 Dec Consumer Rights Awareness Prog.
## # If Goanet stops reaching you, contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] # # Want to check the archives? http://www.goanet.org/pipermail/goanet/# # Please keep your discussion/tone polite, to reflect respect to others # ## - Documented by Goa Desc Resource Centre Ph:2252660 Website: www.goadesc.org Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Press Clippings on the web: http://www.goadesc.org/mem/ --- Alto-Porvorim Sat 11 Dec Consumer Rights Awareness Prog. On the occasion of the 2nd Anniversary of the formation of the Socorro Civic and Consumer Forum, the Forum is organizing a Public Awareness Programme on Consumer Rights. This is also part of the ongoing Consumer Rights Awareness Fortnight being observed by the Goa Civic & Consumer Action Network (GOACAN) beginning on the 6th of December and ending on the 20th of December, 2004, the Consumer Rights Day being observed in Goa. The program will be held a Casa Urbina (Clergy Home) ground, opposite Ferns Stores, Alto Porvorim on Saturday, 11 December 2004 at 4pm. The main item of the evening will be a demonstration and talk by the Mr.N.M. Naik Controller, Dept. of Legal Metrology on the under-weighing of goods and the violation of the Packaged Commodities Rules. Mr. Roland Martins, Coordinator of GOACAN will also address the gathering and chair the interactive question-answer session. The programme is open to all residents of Socorro, Porvorim, Alto-Porvorim and surrounding areas. --- Socorro Civic and Consumer Forum press release. Email: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> --- === GOA DESC RESOURCE CENTRE Documentation + Education + Solidarity 11 Liberty Apts., Feira Alta, Mapusa, Goa 403 507 Tel: 2252660 mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] website: www.goadesc.org -- Working On Issues Of Development & Democracy ===
[Goanet]Goanetters' Get-together
## # If Goanet stops reaching you, contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] # # Want to check the archives? http://www.goanet.org/pipermail/goanet/# # Please keep your discussion/tone polite, to reflect respect to others # ## Alas, I am back in good ole Blighty; the heat and mosquitoes was getting to me. I am uncomfortable with all the heat rash. Still I enjoyed my stay albeit without Stella - Castle beer and Fosters are rather nice too. Things to do for expats in Goa. Get a couple of hair cuts one when you arrive and one just before you leave. Cost Rupees 20 plus Rs10 tip. Buy all your medicines in Goa. Eat well at all the good restaurants. I had a double crown bridge - cost me RS2000. It would have cost me 10 times as much in London. Buy all the joss sticks you want - really cheap. Buy locally made papads.yummy. Buy bebinca from Longinhos 1 kg for Rs130. Get mum to make her famous recipe Dodol. Jerome and Anastasia's invite to SFX function was appreciated - thank you. SFX body it seems to me is deteriorating. I distinctly remember a tuft of hair on one side in 1974 - now all gone. 1984 and now 2004. Maybe time to shelve expositions (my opinion). Buy malaria tablets in Goa - a whole lot cheaper. Remember to start taking at least two days before the trip and five days after the trip. Have a nice holiday for those about to embark. cheers, Gabe, From: "Bosco D'Mello" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Thursday, December 09, 2004 2:19 AM Subject: [Goanet]Re: Goanetters' Get-together RESPONSE: I'm sure your enjoying your sojourn in Goa and I hope you are getting by ok without our Belgian blonde.;-) Hope you will attend the Goanetters meet and tell us who she is. I do recollect her posting here some time ago..in the last century !! Wot ?? five years already !!! Best wishes - Bosco
[Goanet]Goan survies Saudi Attack - update
## # If Goanet stops reaching you, contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] # # Want to check the archives? http://www.goanet.org/pipermail/goanet/# # Please keep your discussion/tone polite, to reflect respect to others # ## Visited Mr. Neves in the ICU of Fakieh hosptial which is just side of US Consulate in Jeddah. He was struck on the left hand and belly with bullets. He has minor injuries on his whole body. Mr. Neves is still in ICU but recovering. Most of the papers gave different names, but he is well known as Neves Gonsalves among the Goans here and Goa. Eddie Verdes Jeddah/KSA
Re: [Goanet]Goanetters' Get-together
## # If Goanet stops reaching you, contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] # # Want to check the archives? http://www.goanet.org/pipermail/goanet/# # Please keep your discussion/tone polite, to reflect respect to others # ## hi FN Any idea who all are coming? If possible could you give us the list of persons who have confirmed their attendence. I live in Mangalore - and if the crowd is substantial I too could drive down for a day just to put a face to the ones who post/chat on Goacom. Members reading this could also put forth their confirmation so that everyone knows who all are attending. Thanks a ton in advance. Warm Regards Vince - Original Message - From: v.f. <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Thursday, December 09, 2004 9:49 AM Subject: Re: [Goanet]Goanetters' Get-together
[Goanet]White Muslim
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White Muslim
By Brendan Bernhard, LA Weekly
Posted on December 7, 2004, Printed on December 7, 2004
http://www.alternet.org/story/20681/
How to Become a Muslim
Five days before 9/11, Charles Vincent bought his first Koran. Six weeks
later, while
smoke was still pouring from the remains of the World Trade Center, he
formally
converted to Islam in the mosque attached to the Islamic Cultural Center on
96th
Street and Third Avenue in New York City. A blond, blue-eyed 29-year-old
from
Torrance, Calif., he readily admits that he chose an unlikely moment to fall
in love
with the world's most newsworthy religion. But in the three years since, his
devotion
to Islam has only deepened. Like a growing number of white Americans and
Europeans, he has discovered that Islam is not just the religion of those
"other"
people.
"Every day I'm more surprised than the day before," he told me one evening
in
October, breaking his Ramadan fast in a harshly lit fast-food restaurant a
few blocks
from the 96th Street mosque. "The last religion I wanted to belong to was
Islam. The
last word that came out of my mouth was Allah. Islam pulled me out of the
biggest
hole I've ever been in."
Dressed as he is in an Islamic-style tunic and a white kufi, or cap, with an
untrimmed
ginger beard sprouting from his handsome, classically Californian face,
Vincent may
look unusual, but he certainly isn't alienated, or for that matter, alone.
In the United
States, there are estimated to be roughly 80,000 white and Hispanic Muslims,
along
with a far greater number of African American ones.
In France, there are perhaps 50,000, according to a secret government
intelligence report leaked to the French newspaper Le Figaro. (A Muslim
resident of the racially mixed Belleville district of
Paris told me that out of every 100 Muslims one sees there, 30 are former
French
Catholics.) The report stated that conversion to Islam "has become a
phenomenon [in
France] that needs to be followed closely." A recent study commissioned by
Jonathan
("Yahya") Birt, a Muslim convert and the son of a former director-general of
the BBC,
put the figure in Britain at a more modest 14,000, and there are similar
estimates for
Spain and Germany. More people are converting on all sides of the globe
from
Australia and New Zealand to Sweden and Denmark. At the moment the number of
converts can only be called a trickle, but it is steady and gathering in
power.
Becoming a Muslim is surprisingly easy. All you need to do is take shahada
say, La
ilaha illa Allah, Muhammadur rasoolu Allah ("There is no true God but God,
and
Muhammad is the Messenger of God") in front of a Muslim witness (or,
according to
some people, two witnesses) and, bingo, you're a Muslim. That done, you are
required to pray five times a day, donate a certain amount of money to
charity, fast
between sunrise and sunset during the month of Ramadan, and, health and
finances
permitting, make at least one haj, or pilgrimage, to Mecca during your
lifetime.
Of course, there's the small matter of why a non-Muslim would first choose
to
convert to a religion increasingly associated with dictatorial governments,
mass
terrorism, videotaped beheadings and the oppression of women. One reason
might
be disillusionment with wall-to-wall entertainment, jaded sexuality,
spiritual anomie
and all the other ailments of the materialistic West. Another might be
protest. A few
days after George Bush's re-election, critic James Wolcott joked on his blog
that, in
tribute to the president's (and the Christian right's) victorious
pro-religion agenda, he
was going to convert to Islam, not least because "fasting during Ramadan
should be
wonderfully slimming, enabling me to get into the Carnaby Street paisley
shirt that
was a bit binding the last time I tried it on." A few days later he
announced he was
putting his conversion on hold following a long discussion with his editor,
Graydon
Carter, who had pointed out that another Vanity Fair writer was thinking
along the
same lines and two Islamic converts on the same perfumed masthead might be a
bit
much.
In fact, had one of the Vanity Fair scribes been serious about going down to
the
mosque to offer his services to Allah, no one at the mosque would have
blinked an
eye. Recently I was present as Heriberto Silva, a Catholic teacher of
Spanish literature
at the City University of New York, took shahada and became Abdullah Silva,
Muslim,
during Friday prayers at the 96th Street mosque. A frail 60-year-old bundled
into an
old parka, a thick volume titled "A History of the Arabs"
[Goanet]Re: [konkaniforum] DALGADO KONKNNI AKADEMI
## # If Goanet stops reaching you, contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] # # Want to check the archives? http://www.goanet.org/pipermail/goanet/# # Please keep your discussion/tone polite, to reflect respect to others # ## I agree with Rene's statement. We are to be blamed for what has happened to Konkani. Nor are we ready to mend our ways. What is our contribution to Konkani? Last one month atleast 5 Roman Konkani books have been published. How many of us read the existing roman periodicals? Now DKA will come out with 11 Konkani books, for whom to read? Goencho Avaz - Sahiteache Jhele published by late Felicio & Fr. Freddy are dumped in the press. Who cares to read or buy? Him sogllim utram, kornneo kainch nant. Porgottnneo kaddtteleankuch hanv mhonntta tachi somzonni mellot. KUTTUMB Kan'nadd Konknni satolleak pordexant thavn ekach mhoineak 300 vorgonnidor mevleat. Ghoddot oxem modhem? Rene, kitem tori korum-ia, punn koxem korum-ia ani koxem ies mellom-ia? Let's come out with some practocal solutions. If roman konkani publications have more sale, then they will have more advts. Konkani publications primarily requires readers. Let's work in that direction first. I shall write again. Fausto Rene wrote:- I am sure Tomazinho will not mind me saying ...that , IF we Goans are serious in DKA not slowing down once again and coming to a stand still , we need to keep MOVING ... running whilst others walking ! Rommi Konkani has lost to other languages ...we already seem to have come to a stand still. I wrote on this forum and to Tomazinho - but to date I have not received a Reply ! But then ...this happens all the time does it not ? Lets not put the BLAME on others , we are responsible for what has happened to KONKANI. I said this before and I repeat once again , we need an Umbrella organistion that will embrace all ROMMI KONKANI organistions world wide . Without which I personally feel we will make NO progress. I now need to consider my position as the moderator of the WORLD GOAN KONKANI FORUM. I will write once again soon. rene barreto === > > > > > > > Yahoo! Groups Sponsor ~--> > $4.98 domain names from Yahoo!. Register anything. > http://us.click.yahoo.com/Q7_YsB/neXJAA/yQLSAA/tr8qlB/TM > ~-> > > > Yahoo! Groups Links > > <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: > http://groups.yahoo.com/group/konkaniforum/ > > <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: > http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/ > > > >
[Goanet]09 DEC 2004: GOACOM DAILY NEWS CLIPPINGS
## # If Goanet stops reaching you, contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] # # Want to check the archives? http://www.goanet.org/pipermail/goanet/# # Please keep your discussion/tone polite, to reflect respect to others # ## GOACOM DAILY NEWS CLIPPINGS Dec 09, 2004 FEATURE: Goacom-Goanow Feature on the Feast of St Francis Xavier at http://goacom.com/goanow/sfxfeast/SFXfeast2004.htm GOVT CONSIDERING JULIANA'S PLEA: The state government is looking into the legal aspects for conducting a second autopsy on the body of Dempo Sports Club's Brazilian football star Cristiano de Lima Junior, who died under tragic circumstances after colliding with Mohun Bagan goalkeeper Subrata Paul during the Federation Cup final in Bangalore on December 5. According to government sources, Juliana, wife of the deceased footballer approached the government for another autopsy, apparently dissatisfied with the initial post-mortem report from Victoria Hospital, Bangalore, indicating cardiac arrest as cause for the death. (GT) LS MOURNS CRISTIANO'S DEATH: Members in the Lok Sabha on December 8 voiced grief over the sudden death of Brazilian striker Cristiano Junior, and demanded an inquiry into lack of medical facilities on the ground. (NT) CURTAINS COME DOWN ON IFFI TODAY: Curtains will come down on the much publicized ten-day IFFI Goa 2004 on December 9. The official concluding ceremony will be held at the Dinanath Mangeshkar auditorium, Kala Academy, at 5.30 pm for which the Union Minister for Information and Broadcasting, Jaipal Reddy, will be the chief guest. Preeti Zinta will be the guest of honour. The highlight will be the awards (Golden Peacock, Silver Peacock and Special Jury Award) presentation ceremony.To facilitate participation of the members of the public, a musical programme has been organised at the Sports Authority of Goa grounds, Campal, beginning at 6.30 pm. This will feature pop stars Remo Fernandes, Hema Sardesai and percussionist Bondo. (H) IFFI'S NEW BREATH OF LIFE: There was near unanimity that Goa is a wonderful place to hold the IFFI. It's been the best attended film festival in a long time, with a large number of delegates from all the major Indian film centres. Many of the delegates were reeking of alcohol and would head to the bars in the surrounding market area in between screenings.Shifting to Goa has probably saved the IFFI from a slow oblivion. (Joseph Zuzarte in Herald) IFFI: GOVT PLANS: The State government has plans to recruit at least three persons having vast experience and international contacts in organizing film festivals.The film-bazaar stall managers said they have been informed about the next year's date. Besides, top film makers and film stars have backed Goa as an ideal local to hold IFFI.Sources said nearly Rs.2.5 crore were incurred on hospitality on the invited guests. Of this, the ESG has managed to raise nearly Rs.90 lakh through sponsorship. (NT) FERVOUR MARKS PANAJI FEAST: Though the high profile international film festival seemed to cast its shadow on the local feast, the citizens partook in the festivities in and around the Church with the usual fervour and enthusiasm. For the residents, the celebration of the feast of Immaculate Conception began at the crack of dawn with the masses commencing at 5.30 am and followed by services on the hour till 9.30 am. (GT) CROCODILE IN QUARRY: After the leopards, a crocodile has now sent shivers down the spine of locals in a residential area of Gogol in Margao. They have sighted a crocodile in a water-filled old stone quarry in the locality close to the eastern by-pass road. (H) INTEREST-FREE LOAN FOR JOURNALISTS: Keeping in mind the needs of the journalists in an environment where technology is crucial, the state government has announced a scheme to provide (accredited) journalists based in Goa interest-free loan for the purchase of a computer system, so that it becomes convenient for the media personnel to have easier access to what has today become the basic technology in their profession. (NT) AIR, DD STAFF DEMAND PAY PARITY: A gate meeting was held in front of the All India Radio studios on December 7 by the Akashvani and Doordarshan Administrative Staff Association, Goa Zonal council, from 1.30 pm to 2 pm to demand pay parity with other disciplines. (GT) CLEANLINESS DRIVE: Assumpta Convent high schools Scouts & Guides camp was held from November 25 to 27 at Majorda Church grounds. Various activities such as a cleanliness drive was held during the camp. (H) SKY BUS COACH REINSTALLED: One of the repaired coaches of the Sky Bus projects was installed on December 7, paying the way for future trial runs, which will begin shortly. (GT) BOARD OFFICERS BEHAVIOUR FLAYED: The Higher Secondary Teacher's Association, Goa, has expressed resentment over the autocratic style of functio
