[Goanet] off topic: Arthur C. Clarke chooses his own seven wonders

[Albert Peres]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rNWL855ibMA

Arthur C. Clarke, the great science fiction writer and visionary, 
chooses his own seven wonders in a special edition of the 1995 BBC TV 
series. Filmed in Sri Lanka.


Filmed 1995, interview now 20 years old

Arthur Charles Clarke
Born16 December 1917 Minehead, Somerset, England, UK
Died19 March 2008 (aged 90) Colombo, Sri Lanka


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[Goanet] Fwd: Song for the day...

[Gabe Menezes]

Ray connif new york new york-escandalo-besame mucho-brasil

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WesDkphsQsY

G



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DEV BOREM KORUM

Gabe Menezes.

[Goanet] Spreading reading... writing from Sweden... books for children... Bookaroo.in... ZQ channel

[Frederick FN Noronha * फ्रेड्रिक नोरोन्या * فريدريك نورونيا]

Andrea, loving books and spreading reading in Goa...

Andrea, who ran the Hungry Minds bookshop for children at Rua Abade Faria
(Margao, Goa), talks of her experiences there.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xr7sEPnVl5I

Children's writing, from Sweden (Martin Widmark)

Martin Widmark talks about writing for children in Sweden, and his own
work. He has himself authored some 90 titles for children.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iIe0HZ66J3Q

Belinda on books 
Dr Belinda Viegas-Mueller, an author of children's (and general) books
herself, shares some thoughts at visiting the Eureka bookshop at the
bookaroo.in event for children, held for the
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SDMAwyadWu4

Bookaroo.in comes to Goa 
Telling children stories, and teaching them to love books.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uNxGIQk_yTM

ZQ... a channel for kids in India

ZQ... a channel for kids in India
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pftuwEdXM0Q
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[Goanet-News] Spreading reading... writing from Sweden... books for children... Bookaroo.in... ZQ channel

[Frederick FN Noronha * फ्रेड्रिक नोरोन्या * فريدريك نورونيا]

Andrea, loving books and spreading reading in Goa...

Andrea, who ran the Hungry Minds bookshop for children at Rua Abade Faria
(Margao, Goa), talks of her experiences there.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xr7sEPnVl5I

Children's writing, from Sweden (Martin Widmark)

Martin Widmark talks about writing for children in Sweden, and his own
work. He has himself authored some 90 titles for children.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iIe0HZ66J3Q

Belinda on books 
Dr Belinda Viegas-Mueller, an author of children's (and general) books
herself, shares some thoughts at visiting the Eureka bookshop at the
bookaroo.in event for children, held for the
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SDMAwyadWu4

Bookaroo.in comes to Goa 
Telling children stories, and teaching them to love books.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uNxGIQk_yTM

ZQ... a channel for kids in India

ZQ... a channel for kids in India
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pftuwEdXM0Q
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[Goanet] Church rushes to help flood-hit Chennai

[Robin Viegas]

From: b sabha 


http://www.ucanindia.in/news/church-rushes-to-help-floodhit-chennai/30876/daily
Church rushes to help flood-hit Chennai | UCAN India
With over 269 dead and millions marooned, Caritas looking to help most needy .
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Chennai residents sit on wooden pallets in floodwaters Dec. 3. Thousands of 
rescuers raced to evacuate residents from deadly flooding after record rains 
lashed the city killing 269 people. (Photo by STR/AFP)
Chennai:

Caritas is rushing to aid people in Chennai, where rains and floodwaters have 
marooned most of the southern Indian city, killing hundreds and displacing 
millions.

Two days of heavy rains through Dec. 2 brought double the normal rainfall the 
Tamil Nadu state capital normally receives during its entire two-month rainy 
season.

This led to the immediate overflowing of reservoirs and the city's Adyar river, 
submerging homes, roads, rail lines and the airport, and cutting off most of 
the city's 6.5 million people from the rest of India.

"It is terrifying to see waters touching three floors in some areas. It was 
like a tsunami from the skies," Subramaniam Sundaram, a college professor in 
the city told ucanews.com.

Binek Krishna, a student rescue volunteer, added that now only boats can be 
used in city roads.

The federal government has declared Chennai "a disaster area" and pressed into 
service rescue teams from police, armed forces and the National Disaster 
Response Force.

Local residents have formed their own rescue teams and fishermen plied their 
boats to rescue people. Some 479 relief camps, mostly marriage halls, schools 
and colleges have been set up to help the displaced.

Churches, mosques, malls and cinema theaters also have opened their facilities 
to help and shelter them.



Toll more than reported

While media reported 269 people died due to the flooding, "the actual toll 
would be much higher" as people in adjoining districts also are affected, John 
Arokiaraj, Caritas India officer responsible for Tamil Nadu, told 
ucanews.com.

"The entire city is underwater. We are sure several deaths have gone 
unreported. It will take a lot of time to understand the actual death toll and 
cost of damage," said the volunteer coordinating the church's relief work in 
the area.

Caritas India, the social service agency of the Indian Catholic bishops' 
conference is working with local Chingleput Diocese, the two major local 
archdioceses of Madras-Mylapore and Pondicherry-Cuddalore to provide food, 
clothing and essential materials.

"Our effort will be to bring basic support to the neediest of families who may 
be sheltered in school buildings and other government-managed camps," said 
Father Frederick D'Souza, Caritas India executive director.

Caritas is looking to help some 4,000 families in such camps with local 
diocesan partners prioritizing dalit and other marginalized groups, Arokiaraj 
said.

Caritas is also coordinating with state and other agencies to avoid duplication 
and ensure efficiency, he added.

Local parishes, Christian communities and institutions are also doing what they 
can to shelter and help the affected people, he said.


El Nino effect

Media reports quoted meteorological officials saying that the city received 
double the normal rainfall of the season in two days with some areas 
experiencing 50 centimeters of rain on a single day.

"No city can be prepared for such heavy rainfall and a 350-year-old city like 
Chennai, which developed without any planning, definitely cannot face such a 
tragedy," Raja Raman, a local resident told ucanews.com.

While the city copes with the disaster, environmentalists are pointing to 
global warming, the El Nino effect and poor local infrastructure in 
exacerbating the disaster.

Source: 
UCAN

[Goanet] Goa news for December 8, 2015

[Goanet News Service]

Goa News from Google News and Goanet.org
Visit http://www.goanet.org/newslinks.php for the full stories.

*** Goa rallies to best Dynamos, tops table - The Hindu
mproved Goa team topped the league stage of the 2015 Hero Indian
Super League with 25 points, while Dynamos finished fourth. The
two will meet again on Friday in the first semifinal and
Atletico De Kolkata will take on ...
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*** In Goa, Cong and BJP spar over Parrikar's birthday
celebrations - The Indian Express
K8c8s5jJJpe1xxA=c3a7d30bb8a4878e06b80cf16b898331=52779004696841=jCRmVuC_CpSi3wH67ILQCA
http://news.google.com/news/url?sa=t=R=us=AFQjCNGGgVcaai1EBU9nqPzRqFickcTX5g=c3a7d30bb8a4878e06b80cf16b898331=52779004696841=jCRmVuC_CpSi3wH67ILQCA=http://indianexpress.com/article/india/india-news-india/in-goa-cong-and-bjp-spar-over-parrikars-birthday-celebrations/

*** Navy Using Security Ruse to Takeover Goa Islands: Congress
Lawmaker - NDTV
quandering-lands-of-Goa/articleshow/50059582.cms">'Parrikar
squandering lands of Goa'
http://news.google.com/news/url?sa=t=R=us=AFQjCNECG0WFQJjYKlyJnAIn0rMF_sP2GQ=c3a7d30bb8a4878e06b80cf16b898331=52779004349783=jCRmVuC_CpSi3wH67ILQCA=http://www.ndtv.com/india-news/navy-using-security-ruse-to-takeover-goa-islands-congress-lawmaker-1251519

*** First double-decker Goa-Mumbai Shatabdi starts operations -
Business Today
umbai double-decker air-conditioned Shatabdi train, which will
run thrice a week between Goa's Madgaon railway station and the
Lokmanya Tilak Terminus (LTT) in ...
http://news.google.com/news/url?sa=t=R=us=AFQjCNH_GUXqG3dQL-gsPH3PGMarszMqUQ=c3a7d30bb8a4878e06b80cf16b898331=52779004804890=jCRmVuC_CpSi3wH67ILQCA=http://www.businesstoday.in/current/economy-politics/first-double-decker-goa-mumbai-shatabdi-starts-operations/story/226829.html

*** ISL: Romeo Fernandes scores twice as FC Goa beat Delhi
Dynamos 3-2. - IBNLive
NLive53': FC Goa had been given a wonderful opportunity to get a
goal but John Arne Riise made great block on the line to deny
Reinaldo. The keeper had made a tame clearance and the ball fell
to the Brazilian who tried to curl it into the empty net. Riise
...http://news.google.com/news/url?sa=t=R=us=AFQjCNHdUzaQ_9LYql-wDdAMg8763hJbgQ=c3a7d30bb8a4878e06b80cf16b898331=jCRmVuC_CpSi3wH67ILQCA=http://www.ibnlive.com/footballnext/news/isl-romeo-fernandes-scores-twice-as-fc-goa-beat-delhi-dynamos-3-2.-1173470.html

*** Mhadei to rock KBM's Yuva Mahotsav on Sat-Sun in Panaji -
Goa News
a NewsAlmost 13 years ago, in 2002, the activists of Goa Yuva
Mahotsav had taken the Mhadei Jyot all over Goa, creating
awareness over the issue of Mhadei and Karnataka's move to
divert Goa's lifeline (also called Mandovi river in Panaji) at
the cost of Goa ...http://news.google.com/news/url?sa=t=R=us=AFQjCNFaw8N-ltjrr6_UVsszVJ0nGygUVA=c3a7d30bb8a4878e06b80cf16b898331=52779005329922=jCRmVuC_CpSi3wH67ILQCA=http://www.goanews.com/news_disp.php?newsid=6459

*** Congress takes on Goa government in Rajya Sabha over
allocating land for ... - Economic Times
ease basis, although the Defence Minister says that they ...http://news.google.com/news/url?sa=t=R=us=AFQjCNFU8rsd1ItGc_vC9f8wXkqXs4cvVA=c3a7d30bb8a4878e06b80cf16b898331=52779005243078=jCRmVuC_CpSi3wH67ILQCA=http://economictimes.indiatimes.com/news/politics-and-nation/congress-takes-on-goa-government-in-rajya-sabha-over-allocating-land-for-defence-expo/articleshow/50078482.cms

*** Paragliders cock a snook at North Goa collector's order -
Times of India
mes of IndiaMAPUSA: TOI, in its November 19 edition, raised
questions whether Goa had learnt anything from past mistakes to
prevent possible terror attacks. The answer seems to be' No'.
TOI, on Monday, witnessed paragliders flying freely, this time
defying the ...http://news.google.com/news/url?sa=t=R=us=AFQjCNEuHRK7jqoZB_qQS5hdji0jW18hGw=c3a7d30bb8a4878e06b80cf16b898331=jCRmVuC_CpSi3wH67ILQCA=http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/goa/Paragliders-cock-a-snook-at-North-Goa-collectors-order/articleshow/50082864.cms

*** ASI to incorporate AV centre at some Goa heritage sites -
Times of India
f-the-art facilities, including an audio visual (AV) centre,
Wi-Fi and better toilet facilities for tourists at some of Goa's
heritage sites under the Adarsh ...http://news.google.com/news/url?sa=t=R=us=AFQjCNEtNFPMxjnFDsgHSvu0Btsmn3Y4Ng=c3a7d30bb8a4878e06b80cf16b898331=jCRmVuC_CpSi3wH67ILQCA=http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/goa/ASI-to-incorporate-AV-centre-at-some-Goa-heritage-sites/articleshow/50068126.cms

*** Let Jack Sequeira and Bhau come together to save Goa: Dr
Oscar - Goa News
a NewsGoa has politically been divided between coastal and
hinterland Goa due to two agitations  the Opinion Poll in 1966
and Official Language agitation in 1986, pointed out Dr Oscar at
the meeting. 

[Goanet] Goacom Newsclips on 8 December 2015

[goacom newsclips]

Goacom Newsclips

Feast of Immaculate Conception today

Goa's towns and villages are set to celebrate the feast of ...
Click here to read more... http://bit.ly/1OQS6St

Power minister defies Govt’s reply to High Court 

 There seems to be no end to the Power Minister’s desire to act on his whims
Click here to read more... http://bit.ly/1PT6g8Z

GFDO wants govt out for ‘U-turn on RP’ 

Flaying the ruling BJP state government for its recent U-turn made in its 
2012...
Click here to read more... http://bit.ly/1N8nAmi

Robotics labs installed in 11 schools in state 

With an aim to bring joy of building robots, and challenge-based learning to 
students,...
Click here to read more... http://bit.ly/1PT6A7B

SLP on Digambar bail to come up in SC today 

 The Supreme Court on Tuesday will hear Crime Branch’s application seeking...
Click here to read more... http://bit.ly/1m7SD8Z

Goa’s biomedical waste to be treated at Hubbali 

Biomedical waste generated in Goa will now be treated at the Hubbali-Dharwad...
Click here to read more... http://bit.ly/1lpUpSX

Click below link to read more articles
http://bit.ly/1UH2EGq

Re: [Goanet] GFDO Press Note

[Vivian A. DSouza]

One of the newspapers in Goa published the wealth of various politicians.  
These folks aresupposed to be of modest income.  How come they have become 
"crorepatis" after entering politics ?  I wonder, I 
wonder...  Politics is indeed a lucrative profession.
  From: Edwin/Diana Pinto 
 To: goanet@lists.goanet.org 
 Sent: Monday, December 7, 2015 3:43 PM
 Subject: [Goanet] GFDO Press Note
   
December 7, 2015



 GFDO said that the BJP government seems to have conveniently forgotten that it 
was voted into power based on its 2012 election manifesto, which clearly stated 
that “Regional Plan will be scrapped and a new one to be drawn up with people’s 
participation in a transparent manner”. This was later reinforced in the 
Governor's address to the Assembly. Therefore, it is unacceptable that the BJP 
government should propagate and declare intention to notify the same Regional 
Plan 2021, which it so vehemently opposed and attacked during the Digambar 
Kamat led Congress dispensation. Since the BJP government has now obviously 
decided to stage a U turn and go against the manifesto based upon which it was 
elected, it is morally obliged to resign and seek a  fresh mandate from the 
people of Goa based upon its new found adherence to RP 2021, which it had 
strongly rejected along with the people of Goa before the 2012 elections.



In the past three and a half years of its rule in the state of Goa, the earlier 
Parrikar and present Parsekar led BJP state governments have clearly 
demonstrated a calculated lack of will and intention to establish a people and 
environment oriented Regional Plan, even as it freely facilitated the 
acquisition by vested interests of large swathes of precious Goan land and 
community resources. The government’s lack of seriousness with respect to the 
Regional Plan is once again obvious from its timing in opening up the Regional 
Plan to the people in December, which is the peak of Goa’s tourism season and 
the height of the state’s festive season.



The importance of putting in place a Regional Plan that does not go against the 
laws of nature has been very effectively showcased in the Chennai disaster, 
which has been brought about by reckless building and encroachments upon river 
canals, lakes, water bodies and natural drainage paths. GFDO urges the people 
of Goa to learn from the lessons of Chennai and closely monitor and question 
the actions of the BJP state government, which is brazenly relaxing norms for 
CRZ and eco-sensitive zones and granting Environment Clearances for projects 
like the proposed Mopa Airport and Tiracol golf course without any 
justification whatsoever. It appears that the government is committed to 
releasing corporate and vested interests from the healthy restraints imposed by 
the rule of law. Devising strangely anarchic laws that subvert the rule of law 
by empowering the government to legalise illegal encroachments thus creating 
strategic vote banks that will ultimately disempower Goans who are stakeholders 
in the land is yet another way this government is moving to undermine democracy 
in the state.



Whilst expressing solidarity with Claude Alvares and Goa Foundation, GFDO said 
that the Parsekar government needed to explain why the NGO needed to be 
investigated. Did it find concrete anomalies in its funding and functioning 
that would demand an investigation or is it the unwritten policy of this BJP 
government to create an atmosphere of intimidation and intolerance by harassing 
and browbeating into submission any NGO or citizen who ventures to question its 
actions? The people of Goa have many questions that need answers. 



For GFDO

Fr. Eremito Rebelo

Convenor

[Goanet] The ‘Bismarque Moment’ By Albertina Almeida

[Robin Viegas]

From: b sabha 


From: Roger D'Souza >

http://www.heraldgoa.in/Edit/Opinions/The-%E2%80%98Bismarque-Moment%E2%80%99/96386.html

The ‘Bismarque Moment’
The death of Bismarque Dias under suspicious circumstances, is signaling 
different things to different people that can all be woven together in what can 
be called a moment. The dead Bismarque is more dangerous than a living 
Bismarque, a poster reads.

03 Dec, 2015,

Indeed an activist like him committed to a vision and a cause is invincible, 
even in death, or more so in death. Repression begets revolt. The premature 
malicious feeding by the State through the media, about how Bismarque’s death 
came about, has inspired community investigations, speculation and reflection.
It is the ‘Bismarque Moment’. Sprouting from a mysterious death that has taken 
away someone who would steadfastly mobilize and stand by people as they inched 
forward with their concerns. A moment that has therefore caused mass 
mobilization of people and triggered debates on contemporary people’s concerns 
to counter this move of suppressing Bismarque in death. A moment that can weave 
a beautiful tapestry of Bismarque’s qualities of compassionate engaging, 
thinking, provoking, empathizing, innovating, of unassuming abandon.

This moment emerges at a time when the world is weathering the commodification 
of people and nature, and suffering assaults on land, culture and ideas. It is 
a moment where there is no space for blind presumptions and assumptions, no 
canards, no room for State manicuring. It is a moment of community mobilization 
and inquiry and speculation and reflection.

The visual image of Fr Bismarque that stays with me, is that of him in a 
T-Shirt and three-quarter trousers in front of the statue of Cristo Rei at 
Santo Estevam, with open arms signifying, it would seem, a gesture of 
unassuming abandon and adoration of nature. In envisioning, there is need for 
such abandon. As has rightly been said: If sometimes we don’t get lost, we may 
never find our way.

The ‘Bismarque Moment’ unravels unique weapons in our collective struggle 
against the assault on land and ecological rights, and the mission for special 
status from a peoples’ perspective. Bismarque’s weapons were those of mass 
instruction and construction. They included a guitar, lyrics and renderings of 
song, books of law and history, a Kindness Manifesto, nostalgic engagements 
with nature, visions of justice. It is quite clear that his weapons are 
substantially different from the weapons of mass destruction that destroy both 
the weapons’ users and the people they target. The battle grounds? Various 
courts, and tribunals such as the Administrative Tribunal, the National Green 
Tribunal, church pulpits, church steps, public open spaces, elections.

At a time when thoughts and ideas are under assault, these weapons were a 
hard-hitting way of fighting back. “What will you do, if the rivers stop 
flowing for you? What will you do, if the birds stop singing for you? What will 
you do, if the trees stop breathing for you? What will you do? What will you 
do? What will you do?” he implored the world around to think, through song and 
guitar accompaniment. What will you do? An imploring moment that is intertwined 
with the glocal moment. Bismarque’s Kindness Manifesto released prior to the 
2012  elections, which he contested from the Cumbharjua constituency, tells you 
that he believed in being glocal, that is, thinking globally from the local, 
and acting locally. There is not a single mention of Goa in the central text. 
It is a global vision, but a political statement to be acted on locally.

Bismarque’s kindness was not without its share of protest. The Khariwado 
residents’ houses were under threat of demolition in 2011. The State hung 
provisions from Criminal Procedure Code on their heads, much like Section 144 
recently. Bismarque consulted and was their guide. The Khariwado residents 
simply blocked the traffic into the Mormugão Port Trust harbour, by 
strategically positioning their trawlers, and most importantly circumventing 
the law as it is perceived by the State. This was a classic ‘Bismarque Moment’. 
Strategic positioning, that could foreground both the threatened homelessness 
and consequent loss of livelihoods of the fisher people at Khariwado, and the 
mighty forces of globalization operating through the Mormugao Port Trust, and 
challenge them.

The ‘Bismarque Moment’ has therefore also transitioned into a moment about 
questioning the propriety of introducing section 144 of the CrPC, or still 
having it on the statute book, in this day and age, in the name of ‘public 
order’ and ‘war against terror’. So public order in the eyes of the State is so 
clearly a seeming peace with the turmoil sought to be swept under the red 
carpet of IFFI. Terror is about people ‘conspiring’ to get together and raise 
their voices 

Re: [Goanet] Off topic: Video Q/A "Do you believe in god?"

[Mervyn Lobo]

Albert,God works in mysterious ways. 
Being dispatched to heaven/hell while in church, praying, is the ultimate call.
A few months ago, a gunman entered a church in Charleston, South Carolina and 
shot dead a lot of people who were praying. No one else in that city was killed 
that day. In other words, the most desirable place to be Charleston that day, 
was in church.  
Mervyn


 From: Albert Peres 
 To: "Goa's premiere mailing list, estb. 1994!"  
 Sent: Sunday, December 6, 2015 9:25 PM
 Subject: [Goanet] Off topic: Video Q/A "Do you believe in god?"
   
Neil deGrasse Tyson when asked, "Do you believe in god?"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3sApQ80QRiE

-- 
Albert Peres

afpe...@3129.ca
416.660.0847 cell

[Goanet] DEFENCE MINISTER MANOHAR PARRIKAR’S BIRTHDAY BASH: COMPLAINT FILED BEFORE GHRC

[Aires Rodrigues]

A complaint has today been filed before the Goa Human Rights Commission
over the 60th birthday celebrations of Defence Minister Manohar Parrikar
scheduled to be held on 13th December at the Sports Authority of Goa (SAG)
ground in Panaji.



Taking strong exception to Manohar Parrikar’s birthday celebrations being
held on the SAG ground, it has been stated in the complaint that the
Government not only has a constitutional but a moral obligation to see that
the Sports ground is exclusively used for sports and fitness purpose and
not for hosting of birthday celebrations and political parties, even if the
same is supported by the Government.



Citizens of Goa and more particularly the sportsmen and senior citizens of
the State have a fundamental right for unobstructed use of the SAG ground,
and the usage of the ground for holding of Manohar Parrikar’s birthday is
violative of Article 14 and 21 of the Constitution of India.



The Bharatiya Janata Party which is currently the ruling party in Goa is on
13th December hosting at the SAG ground, the 60th Birthday celebration of
Defence Minister Manohar Parrikar,  despite that being the  only ground
left in Panaji, it is now being sought to be used for a political party
organized birthday celebration function by erecting stages and pandals.



The SAG ground is developed and maintained by the Government primarily and
solely to be used for sports and recreational activity on a daily basis
with coaching in various sports. That ground which is also used by health
conscious citizens including senior citizens for exercises will be
inaccessible to the public for a few days on account of Manohar Parrikar’s
birthday celebration.



Besides with around fifty thousand people expected to attend that birthday
bash it is definitely going to damage the grass on the ground, which damage
is going to take months to repair besides the people attending are likely
to litter and answer nature’s call thereby further damaging the ground.



The congregation of such a massive crowd of fifty thousand people and
vehicles in the already very congested Panaji city will cause a disruption
of normal life and endanger the lives of the citizens in violation of their
Human Rights on account of VIP and VVIP movement on the roads disrupting
traffic and causing inconvenience amongst others to the old and infirm with
the basic human rights of the local citizens being deprived and denied, all
on account of one birthday bash.



Seeking the intervention of the Goa Human Rights Commission, it has been
sought that the Chief Secretary, North Goa Collector and Director General
of Police be directed to explain as to how e in violation of Human
Rights they are allowing such a mega event in the city which could
otherwise been held at other places including the Stadium near Goa Medical
College at Bambolim or the Shyama Prasad Mukherjee Stadium, but surely not
the SAG Ground at Campal.



Aires Rodrigues

Advocate High Court

C/G-2, Shopping Complex

Ribandar Retreat,

Ribandar – Goa – 403006

Mobile No: 9822684372

Office Tel  No: (0832) 2444012

Email: airesrodrigu...@gmail.com

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[Goanet] Fw: How-big-pharma-creates-disease

[Con Menezes]

  3 min. video  
https://www.ihealthtube.com/video/how-big-pharma-creates-disease

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[Goanet] Easy listening selection........Andrea Bocelli.

[Con Menezes]

Funiculi Funicula   
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[Goanet] This is for Goans working in the Gulf...

[Gabe Menezes]

...get your money out ASAP, you might get caught out with a devaluation!

http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2015-12-08/when-abu-dhabi-resembles-frontier-market-you-know-oil-is-hurting
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DEV BOREM KORUM

Gabe Menezes.

[Goanet] what an idea of misplace adventure

[Nelson Lopes]

Misplaced adventure, what an idea

Central Govt, in attempt to wooing its central govt. employees has
announced largesse of unimaginable , unnecessary magnitude.  Accordingly,
special leave will be sanctioned for a week with Rs 20,000= for adventure
sports.  This is a very tall order in its inception. Is it designed to
promote selective private enterprise engaged in adventure sports like
mountain climbing , sking etc. or with an eye on general elections after
drubbing in Delhi and Bihar? This coming back at the  VII pay commission to
be implemented from January 2017, May be our own defense Minister can be
credited with this idea often used in Goa of no claim on arrears ,from date
of announcement of commission for the very first time, in the
implementation of past pay commissions. It is expected that timid employees
will suddenly develop courage and daring, which in turn will refresh their
lethargically attitudes and hopefully transfer the same to their dynamic
work situations. It is a very tall order of expectations The Govt. in order
to mop up resources is continuing to increases cess, resented by general
public and opposition. The Govt is aware of false claims of leave allowance
(LTC), to birthplace and outside. The facility should have been necessarily
combined with normal leave permissible,. Accumulation of earned leave and
encashment should be immediately withdrawn, if the employees are to be
recharged. In the West the employees have to compulsorily enjoy the leave
of about 15 days in a year

Nelson Lopes Chinchinim

[Goanet] From Souza & Paul to albums eaten by termites... (Savia Viegas)

[Goanet Reader]

FROM SOUZA & PAUL TO ALBUMS EATEN BY TERMITES
Stories that the photographs leave behind for Goa

By Savia Viegas
saviavie...@hotmail.com

The photographic image played a central role in the visual
history of the changing world of the 1840s. It was a world
that was colonially inscribed; its geographies redefined and
culturally re-conglomerated. It was a world of centres and
peripheries linked by power, trade and colonisation.  These
new political groups had intense activities that linked the
axis to the margins and these fringes to each other wherein
goods, flora and fauna were relocated. People too moved
across immense distances either for work opportunities or
propelled by destiny.

The invention in 1839 of two methods of permanently-capturing
images on metal or paper -- daguerreotype or producing an
image on paper which was tonally and laterally reversed --
changed the way images were made and produced. The photograph
was a response to a social and cultural hunger for accurate
and real-looking images, whose origins Naomi Rosenblum, the
photography historian, locates in the Renaissance. From then
on, the processes, techniques and subjects of photography
have changed and evolved.

As Coco Fusco, director of Graduate Studies for the Visual
Arts, Columbia University writes: "We are increasingly
reliant on photographs for information about histories and
realities that we do not experience directly. By looking at
pictures we imagine that we can know who we are and who we
were."

This Exhibition seeks to offer a perspective of the history
of Goa mirrored through a clutch of old photographs. As we
view the images in this exhibition, questions will crop up in
the minds of some of the viewers:

* Why are the common people not in these photographs?
* Why there are no photographs of Muslim families and
  those of minorities?

Colonialism has left its tell-tale marks on our societies,
creating different cultural metaphors for different cultural
groups, changing and evolving with the passage of time. These
photographs reflect these stark imprints of times gone by,
exposing and delving into some common trends. In each
Photograph, the identifiable and defined cues as the camera
faced its subjects: the distance between the photographer and
the posers in the foreground, the pose, clothes and other
cultural artefacts coupled with the objects, human and
inanimate, in the background, all reflect the unique
aesthetics and conventions of the times.

  The Estado of the Portuguese empire was a tiny
  stretch of shoreline spread across three zones in
  western India namely Goa, Daman and Diu. These
  pockets situated away from each other on the rim of
  the Indian Ocean sustained on trading. Its
  gentrified populace, their short and long
  migrations to British India, parts of Africa
  Inglesa (British, East Africa) or the Portuguese
  colonies across the globe, coupled with the support
  of wealthy Hindu merchants afforded the Portuguese
  empire its holding power and Goa its singular
  importance in the network of the Portuguese
  colonial empire.

Photography as an image-making tool travelled to the Indic
colonies of Britain in 1840, as early on as just a year after
its invention in England and France. But it came to be used
in Goa, only some decades later. The chemical collodion, used
for manufacturing blasting gelatin and imported under great
surveillance, was a crucial ingredient in photograph
processing.  In the British colony, the technology was
marshalled as a recording tool and used exclusively by the
State and the elites, thereby putting photography off-limits
for the common people for a long time.

The first photographers to establish themselves in Goa were
the Bombay-returned Souza & Paul duo who set up their photo
studio shop in Nova Goa (Panjim) in 1884. This very
successful team -- partners, according to some; brothers,
according to others -- aided the elite gentry, created albums
documenting the state and even served the colonial government
in Goa in their capacity as police photographers.

  The photographs of Souza & Paul appropriated the
  imperial gaze, focusing more on locations than
  people, and undoubtedly were created for the
  consumption of viewers both, from Portugal and from
  the colonies. The central icons of their work are:
  the celebrated Panjim jetty with docked boats and
  gentrified people wearing urbane European clothing,
  showing an ordered populace without any hint of
  compulsory dress codes; wide avenues suggestive of
  well-laid-out inhabited city; and the belfries of
  cathedrals and church towers illustrating a visual
  hierarchy of indexical signs for the rationale of
  colonialism.

But, even before the arrival of Souza & Paul, there is
evidence to suggest that the Estado 

[Goanet] Claude Alvares..Goa's finest jewel being targetted by Government and Mining Mafia

[Robin Viegas]

From: b sabha 

From: Roger D'Souza >


http://www.heraldgoa.in/Goa/Mining-MLAs-fielded-by-mining-daddies-to-target-Claude-Alvares/96441.html


Mining MLAs fielded by mining daddies to target Claude Alvares
A similar probe should be ordered on how mining MLAs got funds and manpower to 
fight their assembly elections

04 Dec, 2015, (Herald)

So the brutal might of the state has been unleashed on one man, whose 
organisation has single-handedly fought against the destruction of Goa and its 
resources and stood in the way of its abject loot and plunder, under the 
tutelage and duly abetted by the ruling party in government.

The orchestrated, and cowardly move, by the mining MLAs to contemplate an 
inquiry against Goa Foundation, (specifically targeting its icon Claude 
Alvares), stating that it could be done by the Crime Branch, the CBI or SIT, is 
borne out of frustration and also fear that Goa Foundation’s interventions in 
court, may well put a stop to all anti people projects backed by this 
government.

If the government decides to probe the Goa Foundation, for being “anti 
national” and to wants to trace its source of funds, a similar probe must be 
made of the growth of assets and wealth of the mining MLAs. The probe should 
also cover the source of funds received by these MLAs to contest their 
elections and check if mining companies, who these MLAs are batting for, funded 
their elections with money and manpower. Nilesh Cabral, Ganesh Gaonkar, Subhash 
Phaldesai and Pramod Sawant, are you prepared for a probe into who funded your 
assembly elections? Claude Alvares is prepared for a probe into his source of 
funding, the results of which will embarrass you. Goa waits for your replies.

These MLAs have no interest in the resumption of mining for the sake of the 
mining affected. They want resumption of mining (illegal or otherwise) to 
further their personal business interests in mining and for the sake of their 
big mining daddies. They want mining which was stopped by their Chief Minister 
in September 2012 to start because their businesses have stopped. It was the 
petition of the same Goa Foundation which led to the Supreme Court ordering the 
start of mining but through a controlled process, under the MMDR Act so that 
the State gets full value of its minerals and not mining sharks.

Goa Foundation has challenged the manner in which the State undertook renewals 
trying to beat the MMDR ordinance which cancelled all renewals. The renewals 
were done under a mining policy which was notified (on January 20) after the 
last of the renewals were done on January 12, the day the MMDR ordinance came 
into effect. Goa Foundation went to court against this fraud, and not to 
prevent mining resumption.

The mining MLAs consider this act as anti-national. If national interest is 
‘self interest’ of mining companies, then Goa Foundation has surely gone 
against this kind of ‘national interest’. May God give them strength to commit 
more such acts.

As an aside consider this. When Goa’s warrior priest, Father Bismarque suddenly 
died and there were enough unanswered questions and indications, which 
indicated that he was killed, it took a citizens’ campaign with a demand from 
the family to transfer the case to the Crime Branch after allowing the 
supremely inefficient Old Goa Police to botch up the case in the first ten 
days. In this case, all it  took a mere request by one mining belt MLA Nilesh 
Cabral, perfectly timed to coincide with the decisive  hearing in the Supreme 
Court challenging the legality of the mining lease renewals, for the Chief 
Minister to say he would consider initiating an inquiry against Goa Foundation.

The government is only lowering itself to the last possible point of even 
contemplating equating the Goa Foundation and its founders to the likes of 
those facing criminal charges of grabbing land in the Serula Comunidade (Dilip 
Parulekar), taking bribes from Louis Berger to facilitate a consultancy 
contract for a sewerage and pipeline project (Digambar Kamat & Churchill 
Alemao) or grabbing land in the GIDC and buying huge amounts of land in Kerala 
from ill gotten wealth (Babu Kavlekar). Across political lines, corruption is a 
disease and the targets are those who are fighting this.

At the same time there is an absolutely fit case for a probe against this very 
government for the manner in which the State Environment Impact Assessment 
Authority, issued a prior Environment Clearance to Leading Hotels for their 
Tiracol project. This manipulation has been exposed by Herald many months ago 
and we shall do so again to remind the people of Goa. The way the land has been 
seized from the Tiracol farmers, via negative declarations extracted from them, 
violates the basics of the Tenancy Act. The State is a partner in this 
violation and the matter is in the National Green Tribunal. Yet the State 
Government 

[Goanet-News] From Souza & Paul to albums eaten by termites... (Savia Viegas)

[Goanet Reader]

FROM SOUZA & PAUL TO ALBUMS EATEN BY TERMITES
Stories that the photographs leave behind for Goa

By Savia Viegas
saviavie...@hotmail.com

The photographic image played a central role in the visual
history of the changing world of the 1840s. It was a world
that was colonially inscribed; its geographies redefined and
culturally re-conglomerated. It was a world of centres and
peripheries linked by power, trade and colonisation.  These
new political groups had intense activities that linked the
axis to the margins and these fringes to each other wherein
goods, flora and fauna were relocated. People too moved
across immense distances either for work opportunities or
propelled by destiny.

The invention in 1839 of two methods of permanently-capturing
images on metal or paper -- daguerreotype or producing an
image on paper which was tonally and laterally reversed --
changed the way images were made and produced. The photograph
was a response to a social and cultural hunger for accurate
and real-looking images, whose origins Naomi Rosenblum, the
photography historian, locates in the Renaissance. From then
on, the processes, techniques and subjects of photography
have changed and evolved.

As Coco Fusco, director of Graduate Studies for the Visual
Arts, Columbia University writes: "We are increasingly
reliant on photographs for information about histories and
realities that we do not experience directly. By looking at
pictures we imagine that we can know who we are and who we
were."

This Exhibition seeks to offer a perspective of the history
of Goa mirrored through a clutch of old photographs. As we
view the images in this exhibition, questions will crop up in
the minds of some of the viewers:

* Why are the common people not in these photographs?
* Why there are no photographs of Muslim families and
  those of minorities?

Colonialism has left its tell-tale marks on our societies,
creating different cultural metaphors for different cultural
groups, changing and evolving with the passage of time. These
photographs reflect these stark imprints of times gone by,
exposing and delving into some common trends. In each
Photograph, the identifiable and defined cues as the camera
faced its subjects: the distance between the photographer and
the posers in the foreground, the pose, clothes and other
cultural artefacts coupled with the objects, human and
inanimate, in the background, all reflect the unique
aesthetics and conventions of the times.

  The Estado of the Portuguese empire was a tiny
  stretch of shoreline spread across three zones in
  western India namely Goa, Daman and Diu. These
  pockets situated away from each other on the rim of
  the Indian Ocean sustained on trading. Its
  gentrified populace, their short and long
  migrations to British India, parts of Africa
  Inglesa (British, East Africa) or the Portuguese
  colonies across the globe, coupled with the support
  of wealthy Hindu merchants afforded the Portuguese
  empire its holding power and Goa its singular
  importance in the network of the Portuguese
  colonial empire.

Photography as an image-making tool travelled to the Indic
colonies of Britain in 1840, as early on as just a year after
its invention in England and France. But it came to be used
in Goa, only some decades later. The chemical collodion, used
for manufacturing blasting gelatin and imported under great
surveillance, was a crucial ingredient in photograph
processing.  In the British colony, the technology was
marshalled as a recording tool and used exclusively by the
State and the elites, thereby putting photography off-limits
for the common people for a long time.

The first photographers to establish themselves in Goa were
the Bombay-returned Souza & Paul duo who set up their photo
studio shop in Nova Goa (Panjim) in 1884. This very
successful team -- partners, according to some; brothers,
according to others -- aided the elite gentry, created albums
documenting the state and even served the colonial government
in Goa in their capacity as police photographers.

  The photographs of Souza & Paul appropriated the
  imperial gaze, focusing more on locations than
  people, and undoubtedly were created for the
  consumption of viewers both, from Portugal and from
  the colonies. The central icons of their work are:
  the celebrated Panjim jetty with docked boats and
  gentrified people wearing urbane European clothing,
  showing an ordered populace without any hint of
  compulsory dress codes; wide avenues suggestive of
  well-laid-out inhabited city; and the belfries of
  cathedrals and church towers illustrating a visual
  hierarchy of indexical signs for the rationale of
  colonialism.

But, even before the arrival of Souza & Paul, there is
evidence to suggest that the Estado 

[Goanet] Lead contaminated products.

[eric pinto]

Remedies banned by  New York City: Jambrulin, Laxmivilash Ras, Maha 
Sudarshan,Gungullu.    Do not use advisory: Kajal, kohl, surma, all cosmetics.