[Goanet]Birthday Calendar

[Marshal Albuquerque]

Hi, 

I am creating a birthday calendar for myself. Can you please click on the link 
below and enter your birthday for me. Don't worry it is quick, and you don't 
have to enter your year of birth:-). 

  http://www.BirthdayAlarm.com/bd2/44175475a404698010b622365782c448061900d904 

Thanks, 
Marshal

Re: [Goanet]Besides, 'Dol Mojea Bai..' what else you remember??

[Gabriel de Figueiredo]

--- JoeGoaUk <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> 
> INTUN INTUN BOS RE MORA, PIPAM KARA,
> PIPAM SANDDUN MOR UDDLO GHARA 
 
One of those songs (or lullabies if you may) taught to
me by my Dad ...

Each line (except the last) had to elicit a response
(Umm, Umm, Ummm) from me:

Ek asloló, undir bapuló
Chunir boisun, chuna hataló
Hatam, hatam, kantó fumbóló
Tê vaten ek, barbêr votáló
Aga mujea, babêr-á-mamá
Add tuzo vakôr, kadd muzo kantó
Katam katam, vakôr-u mólló
Undir-mam mallar ponn ghelló, undir-mam mallar ponn
ghelló ...


Another song taught by my mum (whilst juggling oranges
or lemons), in Portuguese:

Lá vai uma, lá vão duas,
Três pombinhas a vôar
Uma é minha, outra é tua 
Outra de quem apanhar.

Cai, cai cai cai
Quem mandou-te escorregar,
Cai, cai cai cai
Quem mandou-te levantar.


Cheers,

Gabriel de Figueiredo.
Melbourne - Australia.

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Re: [Goanet]NEWS-SPORTS: Eight Goa Pro clubs oppose AIFF's move to ban foreigners in leagues

[Gabriel de Figueiredo]

--- "Frederick Noronha (FN)" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
wrote:

>
http://www.navhindtimes.com/stories.php?part=news&Story_ID=060438
> 
> Eight Goa Pro clubs oppose AIFF's move to ban
> foreigners in leagues
> 

I see no reason to ban foreigners in league games -
most European players that play in league games accept
foreigners in their teams.  It not only adds a certain
flavour to the game, it can also go to improve the
performace of the other players too, in trying to
emulate the prowess of the foreign player. 

Cheers,

Gabriel de Figueiredo.
Melbourne - Australia.

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Re: [Goanet]RE: VERDICT BYE POLLS JUNE 2005 GOA

[Gabe Menezes]

On 06/06/05, JOHN KENNEDY <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> This Elections show that people of GOA trust Christians, Such trust will
> not be betrayed, Please MLA's do not breach the people. Show what you
> can do to Goa. Be a hero, Develop Goa.
> 
> Bless you all, Make GOA a safe place for our Children> 


RESPONSE: Please don't make this into Christian trust outcome. The
fact of the matter is that the voters in Goa do not trust the
Christian candidates. The past several years have shown the amount of
graft that has taken place, tacitly carried out by Christian MLA's.

The outcome was simply, that Goans preferred to choose the lesser of
the two evils - believe me both parties are corrupt to the core. The
Christian Goans were rightly concerned about being marginalised. If
ever Parrikar and his ilk would like to come back they should take
note of the concerns of the minorities. Will they? Never in a million
years.


-- 
Cheers,

Gabe Menezes.
London, England

[Goanet]Rane new C.M.

[Gabe Menezes]

http://www.zeenews.com/links/articles.asp?aid=221273&sid=NAT
Panaji, June 06: Pratapsinh Rane has been elected leader of the
Congress Legislature Party and will be the new Chief Minister of Goa,
AICC General Secretary Margaret Alva said here today.

Notably, Congress, which came under attack during the political
turmoil in Goa three months ago, has stormed back to power in the
state.

Winning three of the five byelections on its own and with its ally NCP
bagging one seat, the Congress-led United Legislature Party raised its
tally to 21 in a House of 39 in Goa which came under President`s rule
in March after two controversial confidence votes that unseated BJP
and placed Congress in power.

BJP won the fifth seat and raised its tally to 17. It also has the
support of UGDP MLA.

Rane and Goa PCC Chief Ravi Naik are expected to meet Governor S C
Jamir in the evening and stake claim to form the government.

Congress allies NCP and MGP would be part of the new government, Alva
said adding that they had already received letters of support from NCP
and that from MGP (Maharastrawadi Gomantak Party) was expected by
evening.

Comment: The Congress Wallahs, surely are lacking in talent. Isn't
this man the same person who hobnobbed with the BJP?

-- 
Cheers,

Gabe Menezes.
London, England

[Goanet]Re: Unchrisitan

[Salus Correia]

Kevin Saldanha wrote:

Dear Salus and all his Christian friends,

One quote that sticks in my head from Eckhart Tolle's book - The Power 
of Now - is  "You have found God the moment you realise that you no 
longer need to seek him" on page 147.  I have!


The God he refers to is an internal peace rather than an external 
supernatural deity.  I would appreciate you NOT intervening on my behalf 
with any of your supernatural deities unless it makes you feel better, 
in which case you would be praying for yourself.

__


Thanks Kevin, glad you are happy with your beliefs.  I have no quarrel 
with you on that account.  You are a free agent, free to do what you 
please, or believe what you want.


As far as para #2 goes, Goanet is an open forum for members to voice 
their opinions.  So for your information, I have not intervened on your 
behalf.  I do appreciate and understand your capabilities on that 
account.  As far as praying for others go, NO ONE can stop me or others 
from praying for your well being and conversion to the TRUTH as we 
believe it.  So starting now, I have begun praying for you, and this is 
a clarion call to all other like minded Goanetters to do the same.

[Goanet]Pratapsing Rane 'unanimously' elected Goa CM for seventh term

[Goanet News]

Pratapsing Rane 'unanimously' elected Goa CM for seventh term

Panaji, Goa, June 6: Sixty-six year old Pratapsing Rane will be the next
Congress chief minister, the party announced after a two-hour meeting Monday
afternoon, a day after the Congress won four of five bye-election assembly
seats here.

On Sunday, the impasse in the Goa assembly was lifted, when the Congress and
its NCP allies won four out of five seats that went to vote. President's
Rule is expected to be shortly lifted in Goa, and the assembly removed from
a state of 'suspended animation'.

Rane was "unanimously elected", party general secretary in charge of Goa
affairs Ms Margaret Alva announced in state-capital Panaji. In Congress
style, his name was proposed by Luizinho Faleiro -- another contender for
the post -- and Dayanand Narvekar.

Together with Rane and Faleiro, the name of 'Bahujan Samaj' (intermediary
caste) leader and ex-CM Ravi Naik was also being suggested as another
possible chief ministerial candidate.

Some have been promoting the argument that the Congress needed a Hindu chief
minister to take on the BJP's growth in Goa, while Catholic-background
politicians have also been controversial, mainly for reasons to do with
corruption or unacceptability among a wider group of politicians.

Congress said nothing about when its Cabinet would be announced, or who
would be the deputy chief minister or ministers. But the party will meet
Governor S C Jamir, incidentally appointed by the Congress itself, and stake
their claim.

Mr Rane, taking up his record seventh term in office in an instability prone
state, said he would review the past decisions of the BJP government, retain
the good ones and review those that needed review. There would be no
witch-hunt he said.

Incidentally, some of Rane's partymen had only months earlier accused him of
taking a soft stance towards the BJP, and his family being a beneficiary of
the saffron's party munificience in office. But Rane came out more strongly
against that party when its members and allies started deserting it since
earlier this year.

Rane told journalists here that there was no major problem in cabinet
formation.

Letters of support from two Nationalist Congress Party MLAs and one of the
MGP (Maharashtrawadi Gomantak Party) to the Congress are expected.

Earlier, it was expected that Ms Alva would be authorised to ake a decision
in Delhi, but the two-hour meeting decising on Pratapsing Rane came as a
small surprise in a party where many leaders are known for their
over-ambition.

Rane ruled Goa for the entire decade of the 'eighties, giving the state a
fairly positive direction then. But, when he returned in the 'nineties, he
got caught up in some controversies, in part due to the activities of son
Vishwajeet.

Hailing from a Rajput family that had settled in Goa from a region around
Rajasthan in Northern India a few centuries earlier, the Ranes are located 
mainly around a region of north east Goa around Sattari, where they have been 
both respected and feared local feudatories of rulers across the centuries.


Some of the Rane ancestors went down in local lore for alternatively battling 
the Portuguese rulers, and also entering into peace-pacts with them, while 
building a reputation as stern rulers and warriors in the region. ENDS

[Goanet]Thalasaemia & Payers

[afra dias]

Hello All,
Quote:
"Afra has been known to write crap on this forum before.  In fact jc has just 
brought out some of her 'tosh'!!!  We who have faith, do so because we have 
met our Saviour, and not for any of the reasons that Afra mentions.  Is she or 
does she think she is an authority on every subject?  Or is this just a case 
of sensationalisation, seeking attention?  I just wonder!

All I can say is that we need to hold her and other like minded persons in our 
prayers, so that they may be enlightened some day.  Each one's faith or belief 
is their own personal thing, and no one has tried to impose it on Afra or 
anyone else.  So I fail to understand the acidity in her thoughts against 
those who believe.  Maybe it was her lack of faith and total trust in God that 
has led her to think that God had failed her.  Well, lets all say a prayer for 
her.  And finally I wont be surprised if someone else rises to her rescue!  
Well we will pray for those persons too!!!

And finally, please understand that you do not have to respond and always have 
the last word!"

Afra wrote:
My intention is not to have the last word.
People who pray do, they always say 'I will pray for you' and leave.
That is precisely what I meant, THEY are the people who want the last word in, 
therefore CONTROL FREAKS.
"If nothing on earth works - MY prayers will".(superstition and control). 

About Thalasaemia; it was not Attention Seeking.
If in Greece the couple who are getting married have to have a 
compulsory 'Test Certicicate', why do the bishops in India want to have a 
compulsory HIV test? and not Thalasaemia?
That was my question.
Is this attention seeking?
To tell people that in India there is such a thing as Thalasaemia.
And Dr Santosh says - "Is this a wind-up"?
Is Dr Santosh a Medical Doctor, or is HE a wind-up.
Afra Dias. (London)

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[Goanet]VIVA CONGRESS VIVA BABUSH

[sunil monteiro]

Whichever party succeeds to form the Government its immaterial to Goa, but 
its time the voters learn from past bad experiences. Its time the voters 
question the elected leaders if they  continue changing sides and pulling 
down governments. Its time voters seek apology from elected leaders should 
they continue misbehaving. The elected leaders should not be allowed to do 
what they feel like doing , when they seek votes they approach like rats, 
but once elected no respect  and importance given to the each and every 
vote. Once they reach the secretariat the voter is forgotten and if only the 
Goan voter could now be more cautious, wise, vigilant, and above all bold to 
speak out against the wrong doings of the elected leaders.


Why i chose the subject as VIVA CONGRESS, is because i support and prayed to 
the lord almighty that congress comes back to power.I have never benefitted 
from Congress or BJP as i am a business men, but the only difference, BJP 
are purely communal anti catholic, imposing fear in the minds of people, you 
try talking against BJP's negative policies , they transfer you to the 
border or in a remote place, BJP supporters don't work during the day all 
nasty stuff is done during the night under the nose of the Police, as many 
young boys were employed in police during BJP's rule, i am still interested 
to know what happened to the FONTAINHAS ISSUE???


I would like to thank from my heart to Mr. Babush Monseratte, if it wasn't 
him today congress would never be able to form the Government. Everybody 
picks on negative sides of Babush not positive as one rightly said GOOD 
THINGS ARE NEVER REMEMBERED AND BAD THINGS ARE NEVER FORGOTTEN, but who 
cares the world has two sides of a coin a saint and a sinner.


Until next time Woof.woof..woof..woof.

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[Goanet]Fw: A Good Goan?

[floriano]

- Original Message -
Sent: Monday, June 06, 2005 4:52 PM
Subject: A Good Goan?



Goa is a literate State.  Unfortunately Goans have shown that they have no
political taste. And, as things stand today, the feeling is that a Good Goan
is a Dead Goan.

Alberto Leitao
Varca- Goa.

Re: [Goanet]Problems with sancharnet.in (and/or hotmail) - Address Hijacking

[Gabriel de Figueiredo]

--- Philip Thomas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

> 1.  few days.> [David Futers,
> May 19]
> 
> Recent mails from my hotmail address (which I use
> for goanet postings) to
> two sancharnet.in addresses (one a reply to an email
> from sancharnet.in and
> the other a test message to sancharnet.in) have
> bounced giving the reason
> "Possible Virus Detected  unknown.text". However a
> test message to yahoo
> went through without a problem.
> 
> 2.  from the Emirates>[David
> Futers, May 28]
> 
> Again recently I got a returned mail message in my
> hotmail account informing
> me that a message (which I never sent!) to an ""ae"
> address (Arab Emirates?)
> had bounced.
> 
> Anybody know what could be happening? Thanks.
> 
> P.S. During April I saw a sudden upsurge of junk
> mails in my hotmail account
> which I invariably delete without opening. One of
> them was always the same
> size 73kb even though it seemed to have different
> origins each time. This
> has since subsided considerably though stray junk
> mails (of other sizes)
> still come in. The sancharnet.in mail to which I
> replied (above) was from a
> known person.

Address hijacking. 

Some crooks have recently sent me a barrage of emails
in German with very similar headings from addresses
purporting to be from UK (*.co.uk), India (*.com.in)
etc.  In fact, my old work email address was hijacked
in one of these, as I received "undelivered" mail to
addresses I have never sent.  

A couple of years ago, I was astonished to have
received an automated warning from a Govt organisation
stating that I had sent a virus in a message to an
address I didn't know existed.  

A few months ago I received a very irate message from
an antagonist in this forum stating that I had sent
him a virus - I hadn't. 

Anybody know if there is a "cure" for this?

Gabriel de Figueiredo.
Melbourne - Australia. 

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[Goanet]Re: Holiday Offer

[Daniel_Soares]

Cecil,

Your testimony to the many Goans who have helped you succeed in business by
referring clients to you without expecting any form of remuneration brouight
tears to my eyes. We so  often hear the generalization that Goans are like crabs
in that they don't like to see another Goan succeed nor do they help other Goans
in need and it is easy to let oneself believe a lie or a generalization because
of a personal experience. Yet, here you have provided us with examples to the
contrary of selfless acts by Goans worldwide.

I am convinced that stories like these inspire others to be selfless. Thanks for
that wonderful post and for the many times you have had me in tears (laughing)
at the office. Your posts are one of the reasons I am still subscribed to
Goanet.

Keep up the good work and by best to Beatrice and the kids.

Dan Soares
Aldonkar in Long Island, NY

[Goanet]Portuguese-era Mapusa market in dire straits

[Goa Desc]

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---
Portuguese-era Mapusa market in dire straits
---
by Jerry Santamaria

Mapusa town, the commercial hub of North Goa, has always
been considered as one of the best shopping centres in the State.
The almost-50-year-old market complex designed and planned
during the erstwhile Portuguese era clearly spells out the broad
and long term planning on the part of the then city fathers.

However, even though the market has been expanded by the
civic authorities over the years, the market continues to be
chaotic on account of haphazard and short term planning.
Roads and public passages in the market area are seen flooded
with hawkers and roadside vendors hindering the smooth
movement of people and vehicles.

Footpaths are also transgressed upon with shopkeepers
displaying their goods and other stuff in places meant for public
movement. Though the High Court ruling on footpath
encroachments came as a major relief to the public, the
situation seems not to have improved, thanks to the
negligent and lethargic attitude on the part of the civic
authorities in enforcing the High Court guidelines.

The Mapusa fish market which was constructed amidst
much fanfare to streamline sale of fish in a more systematic
manner also continues to be in a sorry state of affairs. Despite
providing platforms for sale of fish, one finds fisher folks
conducting their business on passages thereby causing
inconvenience to the public.

The municipal officials have posted market inspectors to
supervise and ensure smooth functioning of the market.
However, the market inspectors claim that there is little that
they can do to imbibe discipline amongst traders on account
of limited powers and shortage of manpower at their disposal.

The market complex also lacks certain basic public amenities
like drinking water facility and proper public toilets. The only
public drinking water facility which was installed near the
Shakuntala statue is non-functional.

Similarly, the public toilets within the market complex are either
ill maintained or non-operational. The congestion in the market
often provides a better opportunity for pick pocketers to smoothly
conduct their criminal activities.

Though there has been a demand from merchants to have a
police outpost established in the market area, nothing seems
to have been done in this regard despite written memorandums
being submitted by the merchants to senior police officials.

The sewerage system in the market is far from desirable.
The open gutters abutting the fish market emanate stench
and foul smell which pollute the place. The problem is further
aggravated with dumping of garbage in the nearby fields.

Regular flooding of market during monsoons is an annual
phenomena which the city fathers have been neglecting.
The merchants association which has been monitoring the
development of the market claim that the municipality is
responsible for the mess prevailing in the Mapusa market.
--
HERALD 4/05/06 page 4
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an initiative of GOA DESC RESOURCE CENTRE
to promote civic and consumer rights in Goa
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[Goanet]FOLLOW UP:Police Sub Inspector dismissed for misconduct

[Goa Desc]

-
Do GOACAN a favour, circulate this email to your
family members, relatives, neighbours and friends.
Help others be BETTER INFORMED,
The time is come for the people of Goa
to ORGANISE not AGONISE !!
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---
Mapusa PSI dismissed for misconduct
---
Another police sub-inspector (PSI) recruited during the BJP
regime, was dismissed from service for unsatisfactory conduct.
PSI D K Sawant, who was attached to the Mapusa police station,
is the second PSI to be dismissed from service following the
earlier dismissal of Ponda PSI Ramkrishna Mangueshkar,
who was held responsible for the disappearance of diesel from
17 barrels that were seized in a raid.

PSI Sawant, who had been suspended following an inquiry into
complaints received against him by the Mapusa Merchants
Association for his misconduct and threats of extortion, was
issued his termination letter by the department late in the evening
on June 2.

It may be recalled that PSI Sawant had accompanied a delegation
of officials from the science and technology department to verify
the gauge of the polythene bags being used by the Mapusa traders
in the bazaar.

A trader who had a stock of bags beyond the prescribed limit of
20 microns, got into a verbal argument with the PSI, alleging that
the police were seeking to extort more money from him and began
abusing the police.

This infuriated PSI Sawant, who publicly assaulted the trader
(who was bleeding with a cut on his eye) and later had him admitted
in the GMC, Bambolim as well as the ENT hospital, Mapusa for
medical treatment, claiming him to be an accused in a case.

The trader, then, complained to the Mapusa Merchants
Association as well as to then North Goa SP Sharad Aggarwal,
who conducted an inquiry into the matter and forced the PSI to
tender his written apology.

"But there had been other complaints against the probationary
officer, PSI Sawant including reporting drunk for duty that led to
his dismissal from service," disclosed DIG Mishra.

Incidentally, some years ago, the same PSI, it was alleged,
as a student activist, was part of a group that had blackened
the face of a Congress leader, sources informed.

Meanwhile, two inquiries are presently in progress as to the
conduct of two female police officers (one PSI and the other,
an ASI). While the lady PSI is said to have stolen some flower
vases during the IFFI event from the INOX complex, the Assistant
sub-inspector (ASI) is reported to have asked for a bribe of Rs 500.
---
HERALD 4/05/06 page 3
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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
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Re: [Goanet]RE: anyone knows -TEACHER PHILO GONCALVES -SALCETTE -MOLLAR -GOA

[joao pereira]

Hi John ,

Teacher Philo Gonsalves still leave in utorda mollar
and she is my neigbbour.I wil try to find the
telephone for you soon.

tha
lare

--- JOHN KENNEDY <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

> 
> Was she teaching in St Anthony High School Majorda.
> 
>  
> email:  [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Web:  www.dubal.ae  
> 
>  
> 
> -Original Message-
> From: Michael Dsouza
>  
> 
> Hello Brothers and Sisters,
> 
> My name is Michael and currently live in USA.
> 
> Wanted your help in finding the number for a teacher
> name Philo
> Goncalves. She was my teacher when I was in school
> and wanted to get in touch 
> with her.
> 
> She lived at mollar, utorda Salcette Goa
> 
> Hope you can help 
> 
>  
> 
> Michael Dsouza
> 
> 
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[Goanet]Sania progresses in Birmingham

[Eustaquio Santimano]

Sania progresses in Birmingham
Our Correspondent | June 06, 2005 17:15 IST

Sania Mirza's preparations for Wimbledon got a rousing start, as she swept  
past Claudine Schaul of Luxembourg in the first round of the DFC Classic  
International Women's Tennis tournament in Birmingham on Monday.


The Indian teen sensation, who is ranked 75 in the world, beat Schaul 6-2,  
6-0.


The 21-year-old Schaul, ranked 166, failed to put up any resistance and  
went down in just 56 minutes.


In the second round, Sania will take on Serbia and Montegremo's Jelena  
Jankovic, who had a bye into the second round.


Some of the top players competing in the tier-II tournament are: Wimbledon  
champion Russia's Maria Sharapova, Australian world no. 8 Alicia Molik,  
Russian Elena Likhovtseva and Slovakia's Daniela Hantuchova among others.


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[Goanet]India finish fifth in Azlan Shah

[Eustaquio Santimano]

India finish fifth in Azlan Shah
June 05, 2005 17:25 IST

India prevailed over hosts Malaysia 2-1 with a 76th min golden goal to  
finish fifth at the Azlan Shah Cup hockey tournament at the Bukit Jalil  
stadium in Kuala Lumpur on Sunday.


Prabhjot Singh scored the match winner after the two teams were locked 1-1  
at the break and full time.


Malaysia with an earlier comprehensive tournament win against India topped  
up with Friday's triumph over Pakistan, took the field all fired up.


They took the lead in the third minute when striker Hairul Nizam Ab Rani,  
set up by skipper Kuhan, when into the clear past Len Aiyappa and Bimal  
Lakra to beat Indian goalkeeper Devesh Chauhan.


India controlled the opening session's play as their forwards propelled  
onslaughts from both flanks. Rajpal Singh and Prabhjot had the nip and  
stick work to constantly disturb the Malaysian defence.


The scores could have been level in the 10th minute but Prabhjot inside  
the circle misses an excellent Ignace Tirkey cross. Shortly after, Arjun  
Halappa pushed wide a Deepak Thakur pass.


India, however, got the equaliser from their first penalty corner in the  
20th minute when Aiyappa's forceful dragflick had no answer to make it 1-1.


India forced two more penalty corners in the first half but were unable to  
make the crossover with the lead.


It was again India who held sway in the second period, even though  
Malaysia put up a good resistance.


Malaysia frittered away two good chances also when Robert Alacantara and  
Mohd Fairuz Ramli missed the mark with only Chauhan to beat.


India had a goal disallowed from a penalty corner two minutes from the  
end. The indirect from Aiyappa was deflected in by Thakur but the  
Malaysians hotly disputed the verdict.


The Pakistan umpire Rana Muhammad Liaqat reversed his decision leading to  
frayed tempers amongst the players.


Eventually, Thakur and Jiwa Mohan were shown the Red card as the game went  
to the extra time.


Fortunately, India did not have to wait long to get the golden goal, even  
though they wasted two penalty corner chances.


Prabhjot Singh found the all-important goal after the initial spadework of  
Rajpal and Halappa.


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[Goanet]Re: Goanet digest, Vol 1 #2251 - 14 msgs

[livia/jorge de abreu noronha]

 Re: Besides, 'Dol Mojea Bai..' what else you remember?? (Gabriel de
Figueiredo)

I think it went as "Intum Intum Bos re Mora, pilam (chicks) Kadda, pilam
kaddun mor ubhun ghela".

I recall holding baby's tiny hands and clapping:  "doni bobe ani donim
bobulam
  bobeank pitt kaloilam, pitt assa punn ghodd na
  posrear otolo konn nam, babalo (baielo) papa ghara nam"

and again when the "Kavllo" sat on the window sill crowing:

"Kam, Kam re kavllea, babalea (baelea) papac dekhlolo
oi re oi, to taka pipitam (sweets) ghetalo, tim tajea mogachea babac (baiec)
mhunttalo"

"Gonnin, gonnim, paktte aloi, satoi ganv bhoun io
Pilanchi panji gheun io ge, pilanchi panji gheun io."

Imagine all the above lullabyes related with our Goan birds and with mother
nature. I am happy to tell you that the last song always pacified my
children and grandchildren as well and put them immediately to sleep.

 Just a stray thought, to quote our Raj Narayan, my daughter went down to
Goa with her husband  (paclo) and small baby, and they were caught in the
confusion of the invasion of Kuwait by Saddam and so had to travel by bus
from Goa to Bombay and Bombay airport was a mess, their flight to London
delayed, etc. etc., having missed the connecting flight to Lisbon. The baby,
just a year old, usually peaceful and cheerful, decided that it had had
enough of all this and started howling, wanting to bring down the Heathrow
Airport. As related to me by my daughter, her husband took him from her arms
and started "lulling" him and singing "gonni, gonni." and the baby
immediately quietened down and went to sleep. To date we do not know what
words he used because she herself does not know the words except for the
first line which is pronounced by her with a very Portuguese accent".

Some more later.

Livia

[Goanet]GOA CM & DY CM swearing in ceremony 7/6/2005

[godfrey gonsalves]

Given the piquant situation for the Indian National
Congress,   though with 18 seats in its kitty ,
following yesterday's results it is in reality the
Nationalist Congress Party with   2 seats and
Maharashtrawadi Gomantak Party with 1 seat that will
dictate terms for the functioning of this non BJP
Government for the remaining period of the term until
May end 2007 (or before in case the BJP decides to
fuel in an unprecedented  mid term poll as their
numbers recede from 17 + 1  to 15 + 1, notwithstanding
the assurances of ex CM Mr Manohar Parrikar last
evening that they accept the verdict and will warm the
Opposition benches for the rest of the term.

Obviously therefore the several Chief Ministerial
aspirants have to reckon with this ground reality. 

Hence it was the choice of Dr Wilfred Anthony De
Souza's NCP MLA from Saligaoand that of Mr
Ramkrishna (Sudin ) Dhavalikar the MGP MLA from Madkai
 to agree to only Mr Pratapsing Raoji Rane MLA Poriem
to be the Chief Minister of Goa and there were other
pro Rane MLAs within the INC which agreed to his
candidature while others had to give a pretence of
support.

The swearing in ceremony is slated for 10 a.m
tommorrow 7th June 2005.  Alongwith Mr Rane, Dr
Wilfred De Souza will also be sworn in as the Deputy
Chief Minister and Mr R Dhavlikar will be sworn in as
a Minister.  

Portfolios will obviously follow later as Mr Rane may
be required to test his majority on the floor of the
Assembly if the Governor so redeems.

There is no cause for heart burning among the others
Chief Ministerial aspirants among the INC MLAs as
given the numbers the NCP MGP hold the key to the
survival of the Government.

Earlier in the day rumours were doing the rounds that
Mr Digamber Kamat would not relent without a Deputy
Chief Minister post if not the Chief Minister; but
this is obviously wishful thinking; following the
dismal performance of Mr Kamat a three times elected
MLA (he polled a mere 1377 votes mainly from non Goans
Moslems and Catholics from the underdeveloped
unhygienic surrounding suburbs of central Margao)
against a fresher a 29 youth of the BJP (young enough
to be called his son) and with the amended Anti
Defection law there is no alternative for Mr Kamat or
the others MLA's to bargain for portfolios as the only
option would be to resign re-contest or defect with
2/3 members from the INC which is a difficult
proposition as of now unless the younger members
headed by Mr Atnasio (Babush) Monseratte could stage a
midnight coup of sorts given his potential financially
and a never say die personality. But as of now Mr
Monserate will definitely not prefer to  do any thing
that would rock the boat because this bye - election
was indeed a nerve wrecking victory despite his
efforts and drive.

There were several MLAs who discreetly spat venom at
the thought of Mr Luisinho Faleiro being made the CM
but this even was stalled by a sensitive High Command
who ratified the decision to elect Mr Rane as the
Congress Legislative Party (CLP ) leader this morning.

The same goes with the others INC MLAs, who will have
to reluctantly accept the portfolios given by Mr Rane
, as the moment the INC MLAs play truant NCP and MGP
MLA's may withdraw support to the 18 member INC and
the Assembly will have to be dissolved.

This none of the INC members will dread at this
juncture.

In any case all bodes well for the state which has
seen an unfortunate break down of development activity
from January 27th, 2005 until today, Unfortunately
with the monsoons are expected to lash Goa in the next
48 hours which means all developmental activity will
cease until September end.

Clearly the first half of the financial year will turn
out to  be a waste for the State.

GODFREY J I GONSALVES
BORDA MARGAO GOA
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[Goanet]Goan dances around the world

[Cecil Pinto]

Mervyn Lobo wrote:
I am going "Cecil" and will try to take a poll on
Goanet.
Is there any Goan man here who would accept an
invitation to go for the following dance? A dance
where the invitee has just one restriction. That
restriction is that you can dance with anyone you want
to, but are barred from dancing with the most
desirable woman at the function.
If there is someone who would go for such a dance,
please let me know.

-

Dear Mervyn,

I would go for such a dance. I don't care much for dancing and prefer good 
music, good drinks and good conversation - while watching others dance.


Cecil
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[Goanet]GOVERNOR Mr S C JAMIR"s - 3 mth rule lack lustre

[godfrey gonsalves]

As the curtain comes down on the three month old
Presidents rule 4/3/2005 to 6/6/2005, this writer
interacted with a number of citizens in both the North
and South Goa Districts to ascertain their views on
era of Presidents Rule in the State.

The impressions are collated here below


a) The Governor of Goa is seen as a man of impecccable
credentials.  His honesty integrity and his keeness to
gudnerstand the nitty gritty of the State socio
economic scenario and solve the problems of the down
trodden is significant.

b) The bureaucracy under the regime did not measure up
to the expectations of the CM (read common man).
Despite the absence of the legislative assembly
members (under suspended animation) who the
bureaucrats often blame for interference they bungled
in the matters of CET exams and were not sensitive to
the aspirations of the concerned students

c) The general impression was that either the
bureaucracy were not responsive to the administration
or hoodwinked the office of the Governor.  A case in
point is the River Princess issue which resulted in
the suspension of the Director of Tourism, and the non
disclosure of forensic report by the DGP.

d) The attempts of the Governor to meet the people
were not taken to kindly i) the top heavy security
almost  a heavily regimented and garrison scenario ii)
the general cases pertaining to land matters did not
get the deserved attention -- no doubt there may have
been exceptions -- but one swallow does not an autumn
make;

e) Whether it was the Police the general
administration there was no fear among the government
staff --- late coming early going and a sabattical
were resorted to;

f) the Governors visit to a mine in North India ---
stage managed by a scion of an Industrial House who
eventually joined the INC placed the visit in bad
light
reflecting a pro-INC attitude of the Governor;

g) the Governors lunch (after the meet the people
programme at the Collectorate )at the residence of an
ex Attorney General of Goa in Margao reportedly close
to the ruling INC came in for a measured criticism

h) the visit to Hospicio Margao did not remedy
situation as it did when the then Governor J F R Jacob
indulged in spring cleaning which earned the
appreciation of the masses.

i) an impression was gaining that the bureaucracy
knowing the short term tenure of Presidents Rule was
not responsive to the Governors queries -- adopting a
wait and watch attitude

j) transfers of Police and then reversing some gave an
impression that fair play was not the criteria;

k) there was no down fall in the crime rate --- and a
free for all situation prevailed -- unlike in earlier
periods of Presidents Rule.

l) the Governors messages conveyed at every given
opportunity to the bureacracy to be sensitive to the
aspirations of the people was viewed merely as a
sermon from the pulpits in Churches as this advise
never percolated into the mindset of the over bloated
bureaucracy who continue to this date as obstructors
instead of being facilators to resolve peoples
problems

m) in conclusion while it is true that no new
enactments etc could be put into force during the
tenure -- atleast if the officers in the
administration were directed to clear up all the
pending matters affecting the public in a given time
frame  and the same logically implemented with
desired results --- there would be reason for
appreciating the role of the Governor

n) The bureacracy continued to maintain its lethargic
care to hoot attitude and accountability was lacking
as before.

The people however hope that with  a new Government on
the anvil with secular credentials the Governor would
continue to inculcate in them the spirit to serve the
people rather than themselves (nothwithstanding the
fact that the politicians will have to "make up" for
lost years (over 51 months) they were out of power.

One plea made by a senior citizen a retired Government
officer is that the Governor should pull up the
administration - those involved  for
dereliction of duties  based on complaints
recieved in his office --- and news and views
appearing on the print and visual media  and
pursue them to their logical conclusion.


GODFREY J I GONSALVES 
BORDA MARGAO GOA
[EMAIL PROTECTED]











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Re: [Goanet] Thalasaemia & Payers

[Santosh Helekar]

--- afra dias  wrote:
>
>And Dr Santosh says - "Is this a wind-up"?
>

Afra,

Please don't put words in my mouth. The above quote is
not a quote from me. I have never used the word
"wind-up".

>
>Is Dr Santosh a Medical Doctor, or is HE a wind-up.
> 

I am a medical doctor. What is a wind-up? 

Cheers,

Santosh

[Goanet]Prayers

[Cecil Pinto]

--- Kevin Saldanha <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
>I would appreciate you NOT intervening on my behalf
>with any of your supernatural deities unless it makes
>you feel better, in which case you would be praying
for >yourself.
>
I do not appreciate or endorse Afra's attacks against
believers, but I too would humbly ask Salus and other
like-minded people not to pray for me.
Cheers,
Santosh

==


Dear Salus,

Santosh and Kevin have specified that they don't want you to pray in their 
behalf. Can I have their share? Please pray for me and add into my account 
the prayers meant for Kevin and Santosh too. And, Salus, anytime you want 
me to pray for you just send me an e-mail. Make sure it is an important 
request though, and specify all details. My prayers are rare but powerful. 
God listens to the prayers of sinners!


Cecil

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Re: [Goanet]Pratapsing Rane 'unanimously' elected Goa CM for seventh term

[Gabe Menezes]

On 06/06/05, Goanet News <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Pratapsing Rane 'unanimously' elected Goa CM for seventh 
> term..


... Mr Rane, taking up his record seventh term in office
in an instability prone
> state, said he would review the past decisions of the BJP government, retain
> the good ones and review those that needed review. There would be no
> witch-hunt he said.

RESPONSE: I am sure the people of Goa are not expecting a witch hunt.
The people of Goa, though, would like to have accountability of what
took place. An audit is called for. To give a clean bill of health, to
the previous Governments profligate spending would imply that Shri
Rane is repaying some debt to Shri Parrikar.

If this is to be the modus operandi, then Goa will go to the dogs, as
there will be no accountability and no charges to answer when
Governments change. A case of you scratch my back I'll scratch yours!

[Goanet]Warm heart of Babush?

[graceful]

>I would like to thank from my heart to Mr. Babush Monseratte, if it wasn't 
him today congress would never be able to form the Government. Everybody 
picks on negative sides of Babush not positive as one rightly said GOOD 
THINGS ARE NEVER REMEMBERED AND BAD THINGS ARE NEVER FORGOTTEN, but who 
>cares the world has two sides of a coin a saint and a sinner.

Would you like to elaborate the role of Babush in the Miramar sex scandal?

Samir Kelekar

Re: [Goanet][OFFTOPIC] Canada... and America

[Mario Goveia]

Mario replies:

Hey, Fred, what kind of "neutral" point of view
describes the War of 1812 as being fought against
"Canada", which did not even exist at the time?  And
what kind of "neutral" point of view would say that
"Canadians", who did not exist, thought the US "lost"
that War against "them", even though the British, with
whom that war was really fought against had
surrendered after the Battle of Lake Erie?

Not only is this version not neutral, it is patently
bogus.

Nice try, though, Fred.


--- "Frederick Noronha (FN)" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
wrote:

> Would this sort out the America vs Canada issue on
> Goanet? It's from 
> Wikipedia ( http://en.wikipedia.org ) where they
> advocate a NPOV, or 
> neutral point of view. FN
> 
>Canada
> 
> In Canada, Anti-American sentiment can first be
> traced to the American
> Revolution. French Canadians felt that the
> mainly Protestant thirteen
> colonies would never recognize French culture
> and the Catholic religion,
> and Aboriginal groups feared the loss of the
> protection they had been
> granted through treaties with Britain. When the
> rebelling colonies tried
> to invade Quebec and "liberate" their neighbors
> by force, some Canadians
> began to think Americans were arrogant, violent,
> and dangerous. These
> feelings were only reinforced by the sudden
> migration of thousands of
> United Empire Loyalists from the thirteen
> colonies.
> 
> During the War of 1812, Canadians' fears were
> suddenly realized when an
> American force invaded Upper Canada. Many people
> died, and to this day
> many Canadians feel the Americans lost the war,
> but are too proud to
> admit they could ever lose to Canada (even
> though the US was fighting
> against Britain, and Canada as a distinct
> identity did not exist at the
> time, and the generally accepted result of the
> war is status quo ante
> bellum).
> 
> In fact, the American threat was one of the
> reasons that Canada was
> formed in 1867. After many attacks against
> Canada by the Fenian
> Brotherhood stationed in the US, and the
> expansion of the US westwards,
> Canadian and British authorities felt their land
> was threatened. These
> fears were not unfounded as the American
> government was then pursuing a
> program of Manifest Destiny.  Since
> Confederation, Canadians have never
> forgotten the perceived American threat to
> Canadian culture.
> 
> A feeling of companionship with the US arose
> during World War I and World
> War II that brought Canada and the US closer
> together politically and
> economically. The formation of NATO, NORAD, and
> NAFTA cemented this
> relationship.
> 
> Today, few Canadians would consider themselves
> "Anti-American", but more
> might call themselves anti-American-government,
> although Canadians
> jokingly refer to the supposed ignorance of
> Americans about foreign
> culture, especially Canada. Many Canadians have
> more liberal attitudes
> than most Americans, and consequently they
> consider certain American
> views on the welfare state, feminism, abortion,
> capital punishment,
> relations with Cuba, the environment, same-sex
> rights, the war on drugs,
> immigration, the "Star Wars" program, and the
> war in Iraq as either too
> conservative or an overreaction.
> 
> As former Canadian Prime Minister Pierre Trudeau
> once remarked on
> relations with the United States, "Living next
> to you is in some ways
> like sleeping with an elephant. No matter how
> friendly and even-tempered
> is the beast, if I can call it that, one is
> affected by every twitch and
> grunt." Virtually all Canadians partake in
> American culture; the most
> popular television programs, movies, and music
> in Canada are frequently
> American. However, mostly good-natured deriding
> of Americans permeates
> Canadian culture; the massively popular Canadian
> TV show Talking To
> Americans is evidence of this phenomenon, as are
> Canadians beer
> commercials, in which Americans are often the
> butt of the joke. Since in
> such culture Canadians are often comparing
> themselves favorably to
> Americans, whereas Americans generally don't
> compare themselves with
> Canadians at all, this is viewed as an
> inferiority complex by some.
> 
> Recently, Canada and the US have also argued
> incessantly over economic
> issues such as the soft-wood lumber trade issue,
> where a large tariff is
> imposed on Canadian manufacturers- with no
> regard to the NAFTA regulaions
> that prohibit the tariffs. Another issue is the
> Alberta beef
> / mad cow case, where the US has stopped the
> import of beef because of
> cases of mad cow, and is slow to reopen the
> border.
> 
> [edit]
> 
> 
>
>
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anti-American_sentiment_in_various_countries
> 
>
...

Re: [Goanet]Goan dances around the world

[Mervyn Lobo]

Cecil Pinto <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I would go for such a dance. I don't care much for
> dancing and prefer good music, good drinks and 
> good conversation - while watching others dance.


Cecil,
You would be very popular any Goan dance here in
Toronto. Organizers just love, and actively court,
those who do what you describe above. 

Before you pack your bags let me tell you why you
would be so welcome here. The entrance fee to any Goan
dance allows the organizers only to recoup the costs
of hiring the hall and band. The profits of any
function, depend on bar sales (minimum $4.00 for a
beer.)

Mervyn3.0
BTW, when I ask the guys who stand by the bar why they
don't dance, they give me one of the following
replies:
1) The Goddess of Liberty/Mother of my children has 
allowed me to come here only so that I can meet my
friends. If she comes to know I danced with anyone, I
won't be allowed in/out of the house again.
2) "Actually, I am going somewhere else soon. It's a
real fun place, wanna come?" 










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[Goanet]Problems with sancharnet.in (and/or hotmail) - Address Hijacking

[Jen Lewis]

> --- Philip Thomas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> 
> > 1.  > few days.> [David Futers,
> > May 19]
> > 
> > Recent mails from my hotmail address (which I use
> > for goanet postings) to
> > two sancharnet.in addresses (one a reply to an email
> > from sancharnet.in and
> > the other a test message to sancharnet.in) have
> > bounced giving the reason
> > "Possible Virus Detected  unknown.text". However a
> > test message to yahoo
> > went through without a problem.
> > 
> > 2.  > from the Emirates>[David
> > Futers, May 28]
> > 
> > Again recently I got a returned mail message in my
> > hotmail account informing
> > me that a message (which I never sent!) to an ""ae"
> > address (Arab Emirates?)
> > had bounced.
> > 
> > Anybody know what could be happening? Thanks.
> > 
> > P.S. During April I saw a sudden upsurge of junk
> > mails in my hotmail account
> > which I invariably delete without opening. One of
> > them was always the same
> > size 73kb even though it seemed to have different
> > origins each time. This
> > has since subsided considerably though stray junk
> > mails (of other sizes)
> > still come in. The sancharnet.in mail to which I
> > replied (above) was from a
> > known person.
> 
> Address hijacking. 
> 
> Some crooks have recently sent me a barrage of emails
> in German with very similar headings from addresses
> purporting to be from UK (*.co.uk), India (*.com.in)
> etc.  In fact, my old work email address was hijacked
> in one of these, as I received "undelivered" mail to
> addresses I have never sent.  
> 
> A couple of years ago, I was astonished to have
> received an automated warning from a Govt organisation
> stating that I had sent a virus in a message to an
> address I didn't know existed.  
> 
> A few months ago I received a very irate message from
> an antagonist in this forum stating that I had sent
> him a virus - I hadn't. 
> 
> Anybody know if there is a "cure" for this?
> 
> Gabriel de Figueiredo.
> Melbourne - Australia. 
-
Hey,
I too received a lot of junk mails in German around the same time at my yahoo 
address...
and also an accusation from some Goan person asking me to clean my 
message() which
supposedly had been infected.
I replied enquiring what email he was talking about and he apologized saying the
following >>>

"Sorry about the mail.  May be someone played a prank. 
There was  a message in my mail box.  When I tried to
open the attachment, my server flashed the following
message.
Scan result:  Virus "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" found.  The file
attached to this message was infested with a virus
that we were unable to clean.  Note:  Not all viruses
can be cleaned.  Please contact the message sender and
request that they send a virus-free version of this
attachment.
Believing that the message was genuine and in order
not to block a potential correspondent, I did not mark
it as 'spam' and, instead, sent you the reply.  Since
the 'reply', which was sent to the original sender,
reached you, it is obvious that some unscrupulous
person is misusing your ID.
Please beware.
signed 
(a very Goan name)"

The worst part was it came to me as reply to > > ---
[EMAIL PROTECTED] !!!

There has definitely been an upsurge in the number of junk mails this year. I 
didnt think
much of it, just kept deleting it...Guess that the more people who have your 
email id,
the more probablity of you receiving viruses and spam...as some viruses 
propagate through
the address books.

(And I use Norton Antivirus-2005, a firewall and an antispyware software on my 
laptop & computer)

*~Jen 
Birmingham UK
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/VascokarsUnited/

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Re: [Goanet]Fw: A Good Goan/Dead Goan?

[carlos6143]

floriano/alberto wrote:
Subject: A Good Goan?
Goa is a literate State.  Unfortunately Goans have shown that they 

have no
political taste. And, as things stand today, the feeling is that a 

Good Goan

is a Dead Goan.



Floriano,

There are good Goans in Goa, they prefer to stay away from the others. 
they play by the rules,they work hard, and they mind their own 
business. How many are there, you may need to help me there!  Is Goa a 
literate corrupt state?


Regards,
Carlos

[Goanet]Re: Besides, 'Dol Mojea Bai..' what else you remember??

[Alfred de Tavares]

Gabriel,

Do you have your Pappa's "Xikri pikari..."?

Alfred

[Goanet]SHRI PRATAPSINGH RAOJI RANE IS THE NEW CM OF GOA

[Bonefacio Lopes]

Dear Shri Pratapsingh Raoji Rane,

Congratulations on being elected as the Chief Minister of Goa.I would also 
like to congratulate Shri Luizinho Faleiro for taking this initiative of 
proposing the name of Mr. Rane.

We learn from Mistakes and this is an opportunity for you and your congress 
party to rectify , learn from the previous mistakes and move ahead in a 
positive direction.

My requests to all those newly elected MLA's and existing ones, please please 
for the sake of Goa/ Goans and for fear of God do not play musical chairs this 
time, let Mr. Rane rule until 2007, be contented with what you get, its common 
sense not all can be elected as CM's.

Mr. Rane kindly ensure that corruption, crimes, unemployment, rising prices, 
cleanliness, medical facilities, and above all a clean stable, strong, 
helpful, concerned about GOA and GOANS  government will be operated. 

One slight mistake from you or your MLA's/Ministers in playing the musical 
chair game will prove disastrous not only to you but to Congress at large and 
it will be difficult for you and the party to come back to power, the BJP is 
just waiting for wrong move from you and their right chance so please follow 
the path which our clean Prime Minister Mr. Manmohan Singh is following.

Hope better sense prevails this time.

God must have heard our prayers.

Thanks

Bonefacio

[Goanet]CONG-(RATS)RESS

[avertano teles]

Congs.to Congress.
 
Abstain from sex, play safe sex, and always use a condom as aids /and related 
diseases can catch up and finish you.
 
Rane should have to do just that, should abstain from annoying his fellow 
colleagues think XEMBOR times , has to play it safe otherwise his KODEL will 
go, and this time his CONDOM will be very trusted close associates whom he can 
play the game of politics very well otherwise diseases like going for bye 
elections, jumping from one party to another and mocking the entire meaning of 
democracy will finish him and his party.
 
The politics which rane thinks some years back while a CM and today's politics 
is totally different. Goa politics has changed tremendously and one can 
question how many CM's we had in fourteen years. THis is a question one must 
ask at the time of interviews.
 
Bye Bye 
 
Monteiro

[Goanet]TO DR,. Joaquim De souza---DON'T WORK TO DESTROY OTHERS

[newton]

REPLY TO ,---FROM HERE AND THERE---TO DR,. Joaquim De souza---DON'T WORK
TO DESTROY OTHERS ;-

It is true fact that we Goans  are proud to do this than rather see or feel
proud that  a Goans who has shot fame and brought glory to the state .I
still find it hard to belive why we Goans cannot change for the best ,and do
your best to help the other Goan brotheren to scale new heights ,than rather
be jealous to see him/her doing better in life IT IS TIME THAT ALL GOANS
WAKE UP TO THIS CALL OF LENDING YOUR SUPPORT OR TO REACH OUT TO ALL OUR
GOANS WHETHER IN OUR OWN COUNTRY OR IN ANY PART OF THE WORLD.  THE DAY SHALL
COME WHERE WE CAN SAY WE ARE PROUD TO BE GOANS WITH A BIGS AND SINCRE HEART.

[Goanet]74.20 percent students pass HSSC exams in Goa

[Goa's Pride www.goa-world.com]

74.20 percent students pass HSSC exams

Goa Board of Secondary and Higher Secondary Exams today announced the results 
of HSSC exams conducted in March/April 2005 at 13 centres in the state.

Of the 11169 candidates appeared for the exams in the whole category, 8287 
candidates have been declared successful, giving a pass percentage of 74.20 %. 

 
AppearedPassedPass Percentage
Boys
62014071  65.65 %

Girls
61014677  76.66 %


Highest scores  Arts   Commerce Science Vocational
Boys474/600479/600  565/600 703/800

Girls   518/600545/600  547/600 702/800

Last date for applying for photocopies: June 16, 2005 @ Rs 250/-

Last date for verification in absentia/presentia: July 4, 2005 @ Rs 75/- and 
Rs 350 respectively.

Results are available on the following websites: www.goaeduboard.org , 
www.goaresults.nic.in

The students in distress may contact the help line on phone No. 2731371 for 
counseling and guidance. However, no information about results will be 
available on this phone.

The reasons for keeping the results  in reserve are stated in the consolidated 
result sheets of the schools.

The students failing in one subject may appear for the supplementary 
examination to be conducted by the Goa Board in practical on July 9, 2005 and 
theory exam on July 17, 2005.

The last date for submission of application is June 16, 2005.

The last date of submission of forms with late fees is June 20, 2005.

The last date to receive time bared applications is June 24, 2005. students 
should contact the heads of the institute for further details states the press 
note issued by the board.


courtesy: www.digitalgoa.com


View this short film:
http://www.JourneyOfAttraction.com

[Goanet]Re: Cornel on impressive qualifications unrecognised in Kenya et..?UK

[cornel]

Hi Jose,
Sorry I couldn't get back sooner to your very interesting questions to me.

Subject:  Re: Cornel on impressive qualifications unrecognised in Kenya 
et..?UK

> < She also went on about her impressive teaching qualifications. However,
> her face dropped sharply when I told her that her teaching qualifications
> were not recognised in Kenya, let alone in the UK>

> My dear Cornel,
> Now, why on earth would impressive teaching qualifications be unrecognised
> in Kenya, let alone in the UK ?
>
The answer to this question is quite simple really. The woman in question 
tried to impress me about her "impressive qualifications" when she had no 
clue about what I knew/did professionally. Sadly, her qualifications were 
not in the least bit impressive by my yardstick. This is because the highly 
competitive relevant Kenya teaching qualification, required success in the 
Cambridge School Certificate Examination for entry purposes plus interview 
etc. It was also of two-years' duration of full-time study. In contrast, the 
pertinent one as in the Zanzibar case did not meet the entry criterion 
above. Also, it was of a shorter duration. Thus for purposes of recognition, 
one was not comparing like with like. The woman in question, of course, had 
known this fact but it was nevertheless painful for her to be told so and to 
be 'found out' re her fantasy world.

Indeed, many students from the former Tanganyika and Zanzibar who had the 
requisite qualifications for entry, travelled, mainly to Nairobi (where 
boarding facilities were available at Highridge) for their teaching 
certificate course.

> And are the folks in Kenya using the same yardsticks as the folks in the 
> UK?
>
The Kenya two year course, as above, was the equivalent of the UK two-year 
teacher training course. Consequently, many Asian serving certificated 
teachers from Kenya, seeing the political writing on the wall, got their 
qualifications recognised by the UK Department of Education, quite early on, 
to allow them to teach in the UK. This worked well for only a short while 
however. Firstly, there was a requirement that individuals with such DES 
recognition would soon start work in the UK and complete a probationary 
period. Secondly, it ceased to be acceptable when the UK two-year 
certificate course became a three-year one. Thus, many who felt secure with 
their pieces of paper saying their qualifications from Kenya were 
recognised, found that while they waited in Kenya to make it to the UK, the 
change here, effectively made worthless the recognition obtained earlier. 
This difficulty was accentuated further when the three-year certificate 
course ceased to exist, as such, and was replaced by a three or four year 
(classified) honours degree level course. The only way therefore that, our 
trained people from Kenya  could teach in the UK  was to undertake further 
study at their own expense if they were  not resident here for three years 
prior to the commencement of study. This included studying, for a one year 
diploma or(with exemption), for  two years, on a shortened teacher training 
programme and thus obtaining a  degree, or by undertaking a specific subject 
three-year degree course and further study for one more year for the 
professional teaching qualification. Understably, this challenge was enough 
to put most excellent experienced teachers from Kenya to turn their work 
orientations elsewhere. As I was in the UK well before many of the later 
arrivals, I knew exactly what was happening at this juncture. Many contacted 
me to see if there was any way out of the dilemma that they then faced. 
Unfortunately, there was little that could be done to alleviate the problem.

> If the person truly does have impressive qualifications, Is this
> "non-recognition in Kenya, let alone in the UK " not a form of economic
> discrimination and prejudice?
>
The question has been answered above and I can't see how one could attribute 
the ground reality to a "form of economic discrimination and prejudice" in 
this instance. Those who arrived to take up teaching posts prior to the 
structural changes described above, faced no problems of recognition of 
their Kenya qualifications.

> For many years - employers in the UK and US et Australia, NZ and South
> Africa tried  to "not recognise" Indian degrees .
>
I do know well about the earlier situation of the non recognition of 
qualifications from India. It often reflected the demand and supply 
situation here. Sometimes, to my knowledge, excellent people from India, and 
elsewhere, were  disadvantaged under blanket rules prevailing at different 
times and interpreted by bureaucrats who did not know better. But it may be 
of interest to you that I personally introduced a scheme for such teachers 
to undertake a part-time shortened degree course at my university which then 
led to a one-year Postgraduate Certificate in Education (PGCE). This then 
allowed them to teach in the UK. I had published a c

[Goanet]Fwd: Java for Indo Swiss

[Clinton D'Souza]

Hi All,

There are openings for java developers and a team leader at INDO SWISS in 
Panjim GOA..

Although a lot of companies are hiring. Possibly there would be some one from 
Goa, but not necessarily so, who might take interest and apply.

The requirement is urgent...

Attached is a .PDF file  with a detailed description
of the requirement.

For further information, contact the contact person
given in the .PDF file.

Thanks & Regards,
Clinton

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[Goanet]Goan Folk Song for Rain

[Cecil Pinto]

Excerpts from "Tales and Tellers of Goa"
by V.S. Sukthanker (1974 - Price Rs. 12.50)

Published by
Atelier Sukathanika

--- Page 80 --- excerpt ---

There are certain social and religious customs and beliefs among the Goan 
Christians, whose origins can be traced to their Hindu forefathers. 
Curiously enough, these customs and beliefs are no longer held by the Goan 
Hindus themselves, due to the change and sophistication that has come in 
the modes of their religious worship and in the pattern of their social 
life. The following song is an interesting example of this. This song is an 
invocation to a rain bringing nymph, Kalinguin, which literally means 
"Water-melon Nymph". The additional names of Christian saints and the 
Mother of Jesus must have been added to give this song a Christian colour. 
This is sung in Goa by young Christian children when the rains fail. They 
carry heavy stones on their heads as a penance, and go in a procession from 
one end of the village to the other, singing this invocation to the 
Water-melon Nymph in chorus -

9 - Dongravoile Kalinguini

Paus ghal re saibini!
Sant Anton cor caridade!
Paus dee shetank!
San Pedro chavi kad,
Paus ghaluni Jesu Maenk!
Dongravoile Kalinguini,
Paus ghal gue saibini!


O, Water Nymph of the high mountain!
Pour down rain for us O, Mother,
Pour down rain!
O, Saint Anthony of the lake!
Send rain for our fields,
Send rain O, for our fields!
O, Saint Peter, use your keys!
Let Mother of Jesus, send us rain!
O, Water-melon Nymph of the high mountain
Pour down rain for us O, Mother,
Pour down rain!

[Goanet]Re: The Vow

[AUDREY DAVER]

What a beautiful, heart-tugging  story The Vow is.. So much depth and
lucidity in expressing the old man's anguish and longing for his son,
ad also the reaching out and response of the Padre to those emotions
of Camil. In fact you yourself feel like reaching out and hugging
Camil to comfort him.
 
One read through the story half expecting that the Padre would in fact
turn out to be Jose, but the ending of the story is unexpected and
novel, leaving one happy that Camil's faith was not betrayed. Lovely.
 
Audrey R Daver
New Delhi 

[Goanet]View From The Outer Harbour (06-06-2005)

[Thalmann Pereira]

View  From  The Outer Harbour

By: Thalmann Pradeep Pereira

LIGHT  UP THE  LAMPS  ! !

So the by-elections are over and the results are also out. No doubt, much 
newsprint will be utilised to analyse the results and much public time will be 
spent in discussing the outcome. The main political parties will also be 
anxiously going through the booth-wise results to find out trends and patterns 
of voting behaviour. Government-formation will also be high on the cards. A 
pretty busy and hectic schedule for BJP, Congress and NCP, without of course 
forgetting MGP and UGDP.

The moment President’s Rule is lifted and the Goa Assembly is revived from its 
suspended animation, the High Court’s doors will also be knocked in respect of 
Filipe Neri Rodrigues’ signature, Mathany Saldanha’s political party’s whip, 
and the voting rights of Rajendra Arlekar and Dayanand Mandrekar. We may also 
have some more election petitions by the losing candidates of the 5 by-
elections. The Supreme Court would also be looking into questions of “office 
of profit” and “corrupt practices” with stay applications appended. A pretty 
heavy and hectic judicial calendar it will be.

And the common citizens of Goa will also be very busy with their own heavy and 
hectic schedules of waking up in the morning, brushing their teeth, having 
breakfast, catching buses, toiling the whole day and returning home dead tired 
in the evening to have dinner, watch a little TV and go off to bed: only to 
get up the next day, brush the teeth, have breakfast, catch the bus……

There will of course be the daily newspaper, with its banner-headlines, to 
give some comic relief in an otherwise drab routine, and also the cinema with 
its 3-hour Hindi song-and-dance-and-drama to act as a soothing balm. There 
will also be the usual claims that Goa is now the No. 1 state in the whole 
world!

There will also be some people fretting about why things do not change. And 
there be a few activists with placards in hand to protest against injustice. 
And, above all, there will be articles in the press and sound-bytes on TV 
analyzing everything and telling the common citizen that he has only himself 
to blame for his sorry plight and that the next time elections come, he should 
think before acting.

And there may be a few more by-elections, if not in Vasco and Siolim, then in 
some other constituency where the current legislator perceives the grass to be 
greener on the other side of the fence. And perhaps, we can expect more 
forgeries of signatures, more pandemonium at Porvorim and more parades at Dona 
Paula. And trust the pundits to blame it all on the Common Man!

It is futile to expect the Common Man to revolt unless the objectives and the 
path of the revolt are spelt out first, at least with a minimal clarity. “The 
fault lies in the stars”. If the star had not shined above Bethlehem, the 
Three Wise Men, despite all their wisdom, would have had nowhere to go. Even 
God could not have pushed Man out of his lethargy, if He had not put up a 
shining star on the blue banner of the sky.

The “politicians”, it is said, make hay while the sun shines. The five by-
elections have showed us how low they can stoop to put up an artificial sun in 
the sky, so that they can make hay even in the night! It is high time that all 
the democratic-minded persons in Goa come forward to pool their meagre 
resources, in order to put up at least one artificial star on the horizon, if 
only to remind the Common Man that there were also shepherds on the meadows of 
Bethlehem.

Till the next Monday, then, Happy Thinking!

   [EMAIL PROTECTED]
   “Harbour Times” (06-6-2005)

[Goanet]Problems with sancharnet.in (and/or hotmail) - Address Hijacking

[Philip Thomas]

Summing up of problems and affected persons:

1. Problem of bouncing from sancharnet.in: David Futers; Philip Thomas.

2. Address Hijacking/Identity Theft: Gabriel de Figueiredo; Jen Lewis;
Philip Thomas.

3. Spam Tsunami: Gabriel de Figueiredo, Jen Lewis; Philip Thomas.

4. Complaints from goanet: NIL  (so far!)

[Goanet]Re: [OFFTOPIC] Canada... and America

[Bosco D'Mello]

On June 6, 2005, Mario Goveia wrote:

> Hey, Fred, what kind of "neutral" point of view describes the War
> of 1812 as being fought against "Canada", which did not even exist
> at the time?  And what kind of "neutral" point of view would say that
> "Canadians", who did not exist, thought the US "lost" that War 
> against "them", even though the British, with whom that war was really 
> fought against had surrendered after the Battle of Lake Erie?

RESPONSE: Using the same logic you probably believe that Indian soldiers never
fought in either of the WW ?? And that India Gate at the end of Rajpath is a
farce that honours Indians who died in battle. And that all people born in
present day India prior to 1947 are infact ... British ??

At one time you stated (and I could be mistaken) that the US never attacked any
country. Well the US did declare war on the Great Britain June 12, 1812. In that
war the offensive actions of the US failed in every attempt to capture Canada.

> Not only is this version not neutral, it is patently bogus.

RESPONSE: I guess for you everything is bogus except when you say it. So in
order to prevent any further arguing between our two peoples let's conclude that
not only was there no Canada in 1812 but neither was there Ohio. Nevertheless
you can now proudly fly the burgee.

I'm glad Fred didn't quote The Globe and Mail or your buddy Haroon Siddiqui.

I hope you are not going to ask me if I was refused a "green card" too;-)

Bon nuit!!

Best - Bosco

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[Goanet]Fight Back - Moira citizens stop Forest Dept truck dumping debris

[Goa Desc]

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family members, relatives, neighbours and friends.
Help others be BETTER INFORMED,
The time is come for the people of Goa
to ORGANISE not AGONISE !!
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Moira residents join hands to protect environment

Even as Goa and the world at large celebrated World Environment Day
yesterday, citizens of Moira stopped a Forest Department truck illegally
dumping debris on the roadside in land belonging to the Communidade
of Bastora on the National Highway-17 junction near Taricodde, Mapusa.

The citizens could be taking a cue from the Governor, Mr S C Jamir's
World Environment Day message, which was published yesterday
and said: Conservation of environment purity is not the concern of
the government alone, but of all conscientious citizens.

Members of the Moira Civic and Consumer Forum, led by Mr Karl
Pinto de Souza, who actually saw and stopped the garbage dumping,
immediately summoned Mapusa police to the site and later gave a
written complaint. Besides Mr de Souza, the complaint has been
signed by 8 other persons including the Moira Sarpanch,
Ms Vizilia de Sa, Mr Mathew Pereira, Colvale-based environmental
activist and others.

According to Mr de Souza, he was driving home around 2 p.m. when
he saw the truck belonging to the Forest Department, Government
of Goa bearing registration number GA-01 G-7577 disgorging "tiles,
mud, stones and rubble" and also remnants of a demolished toilet
along the roadside. Mr de Souza immediately stopped the truck driver,
Mr Vithu Kaluji from Dhargal, summoned the police and citizens
from both Moira and Bastora.

The Mapusa police arrested the truck driver and charged him with
Section 34 of the Police Act, which pertains to causing public nuisance.
The truck was also seized. However, the driver later secured bail
and the truck was also released.

"Garbage and other debris is regularly being dumped along the
roadside on the Moira-Bastora stretch. This is the first time we
actually caught the culprits. It is a sorry state of affairs that the
very people who are entrusted to protect the environment, are
actually destroying it," said Mr de Souza. He said an official from
the Social Forestry, Mr Prabhu arrived at the site and apologised
to the assembled citizens.

The citizens forced the labourers on the truck to re-load the debris
onto the truck. Mr de Souza said that citizens also elicited a
promise from Mr Prabhu to provide them with 1000 saplings, which
will be planted along the periphery of the garbage segregation site
on the Moira hill.

When contacted, Mr Prabhu said the debris was of a demolished
toilet in the Mapusa Municipal garden. He said the daily wages
driver was clearly instructed to dump the debris in the department's
Pirna plantation. The driver had noticed another dump near the
Tarricode junction and thought he could also dump the debris there.
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to promote civic and consumer rights in Goa
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[Goanet]NOT QUITE WRIGHT, NEAR WRONG .. AND BEST BET?

[Philip Thomas]

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/06/03/AR2005060301
461.html

The Wrongs of the Wright Rule

By George F. Will
Sunday, June 5, 2005; Page B07



1. If memory serves me, the original plan at Defence controlled HAL in
Bangalore a dozen years ago was to have only short haul flights when the new
airport was ready. Something like the Wright Amendment(s).

2. However, nowadays there is no mention of short haul flights at HAL
airport when BIAL is coming up in 3 years. Perhaps Defence had a change of
heart in the interim. Or the BIAL operator got tough for the sake of its
viability.

3. Remember that during this time, CIAL came up in Kochi as a private-public
partnership and moved out completely from the Navy airfield that was on an
island. There may have been no other option in this case as the island
topography did not permit the required expansion to accommodate wide bodied
civilian aircraft. The high cost, big delay green field option may have come
into being to bypass Defence constraints in Indian cvil aviation. This has
become the de facto standard in our airport planning. Wrongly so, in my
opinion.

4. In the case of Dabolim/Mopa, the options may be some sort of Wright-type
rules for Dabolim and/or Mopa; or an effective joint-use agreement  at
Dabolim while Mopa evolves gradually into a viable civilian airport. The
latter may be the best bet.

[Goanet]Goanet News Bytes * June 7, 2005 * Mumbai Goan makes it in hockey

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IN TODAY'S EZINE: A Goan makes it big to the world of Indian hockey Rane
sworn-in as CM Citizens take action against pollution at Moira. Food
tips from nearby Maharashtra  Documentary on Baina, showing today in
Goa And more. Read on. 

MUMBAI-BASED GOAN ADRIAN D'SOUZA who has been showing
great promise under the bar, is the new golden boy of
Indian hockey. The 20-year-old goalie raises the bar for
Indian hockey, and has also been appointed the Indian
captain for the Junior Hockey World Cup. Said his
school coach Joseph Monteiro: "He is one of the most
talented boys I have trained and would definitely make
it big." He was a prolific scorer for his St Anne's 
Bombay school, writes ZENA COSTA, Margao in Gomantak Times.

IT'S LEFT TO CITIZENS TO TAKE ACTION? It may have been the
World Environment Day, but it meant little for a driver of
a forest department truck, who was arrested on charges of
dumping a truck-load of garbage on the national highway
on the Mapusa-Bastora-Moira junction. Karl Pinto De Souza,
driving home on Sunday afternoon, noticed the dumping of
tiles, mud and stones and rubble in progress. Other members
of the Moira Civic and Consumer Forum and comunidade also
gathered at the site and stopped the dumping. It is learnt
the range officer tried to work out a compromise by offering
to clean up a whole stretch of garbage at Moira, if the
complaint was withdrawn. But the residents of Moira were
determined to punish the guilty, as they felt this would
set an example to others to protect the environment and
save the landscape. (Herald)

o Pratapsing Rane was sworn-in as chief minister of Goa at 10.07 am
  today. Dr Wilfred de Souza took oath as deputy CM, while
  Sudin Dhavalikar of the MGP did so as a Cabinet minister. 
  (Source Digitalgoa.com)
o EARLIER REPORTS: Rane to be sworn-in as CM today. Dr Willy, 
  Dhavalikar to be administered oath. Alva to head co-ordination panel. (H)
  Pratapsing Rane to be sworn-in for the seventh time. (GT)
o Anti-Goa BJP decisions will be reviewed: Rane

Rane's tenures as chief minister:
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16 Jan 1980-07 Jan 1985
07 Jan 1985-30 May 1987
30 May 1985
09 Jan 1990-27 Mar 1990
16 Dec 1994-29 Jul 1998
02 Feb 2005-04 Mar 2005  Source: Herald

o Senior BJP leader likely to be arrested in forgery case. (GT)
o Speaker may restrain Matanhy from voting. (GT)
o Tension in Bastora over illegal construction near Satpurush temple
  at Tolleacho Bandh. (GT)
o Loliem, Canacona, tense after assault on BJP worker 
  Bushan Prabhugaonkar. (GT)ks
o Cuncolim Sunday bazaar shifted near municipality building. (GT)
o BJP MLAs Arlekar and Mandrekar move Supreme Court (H), over their
  disqualification (in May-end) for contesting elections while
  holding 'offices of profit'.  
o 74% pass HSSC exams. Of 11,169 candidates, 8287 passed their exams. (H)
  Girls out-do boys yet again for Higher Secondary School Certificate exam GT
o Computer teachers take to the streets yet again. (H)
o Villagers voice fears over plans for setting up a sponge iron plant
  close to the Water Treatment Plant at Selaulim Dam, Sanguem. 
  (Alfred Fernandes, Herald)
o Moira villagers pledge to protect and nurture trees. (H)
o Water, mining among issues discussed at Collem meet. (H)
o Goa College of Home Science, admission open for FYBSc (Home Science)

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DEATHS & OBITUARIES
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CANSAULIM: Joaquim Jose Dias, artist. b 1962. Son of Constancio Pedro/
Angelina Dias, brother/in-law of late Minguel, Moses, Luis,
Succorina/Lawrence. 

CARANZALEM: Mrs Ancilla Braganza of Kerant. B 1914. Wife of late Henry
Charles Braganza, mother/in-law of Ramola/Frank Antao, Virendra/Laura,
Nirmal/Elmira, Arun/Fiel. Grandmum of Vikram/Anna, Rajiv/Desiree, Vivek,
Arlief, Reena, Elita, Vrinda, Tristan and Janine. 

CUNCOLIM: Maria Rosalina Moraes (Rosy) of Veroda. b 1940. Wife of Peter a
Moraes, mother of Arthur (Kuwait)/El

[Goanet]Pray for me, for I have sinned

[Marlon Menezes]

Hold it right there Cecil! I believe I am a bigger
sinner than you, Kevin and Santosh and therefore
request that I be given priority in Salus' prayer
allotment. Given the number of character
assassinations, email hijackings, server hackings,
mail bombings and identity impersonations I have been
involved in, I think I am pretty much right up there
in my cyber mortal sin count. I confess I am also
guilty of arson thanks to the numerous flame wars I
have started, not to mention mention the numerous
drownings thanks to the flood of email spam I have
sent various of my unfortunate victims.

Salus, can you provide me with details on the type and
number of prayers you plan to perform for me?  I would
like to have it for my records. If I get sent "down
there", I can use this as evidence to strengthen my
case to god that you brayed for me. Do not let me down
or should I say, do not let me go down - or else.

Marlon

--- Cecil Pinto <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Dear Salus,
> 
> Santosh and Kevin have specified that they don't
> want you to pray in their 
> behalf. Can I have their share? Please pray for me
> and add into my account 
> the prayers meant for Kevin and Santosh too. And,
> Salus, anytime you want 
> me to pray for you just send me an e-mail. Make sure
> it is an important 
> request though, and specify all details. My prayers
> are rare but powerful. 
> God listens to the prayers of sinners!
> 
> Cecil