[Goanet] Young Gaurs overpower experienced FC Bardez

[Gabe Menezes]

https://www.heraldgoa.in/Sports/Sports/Young-Gaurs-overpower-experienced-FC-Bardez-/126502.html
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[Goanet] AIFF REPORT: DSK Shivajians Pip Bengaluru FC To Reach First-Ever NPC Final

[I-League Media]

Dear Colleagues,

Please find the report of Nike Premier Cup India 2018 semi-final between
DSK Shivajians and Bengaluru FC on February 6, 2018.

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*DSK Shivajians Pip Bengaluru FC To Reach First-Ever NPC Final*

*GOA:* It was jubilation for DSK Shivajians FC and heartbreak for Bengaluru
FC as the Shivajians knocked out BFC to reach the Nike Premier Cup final
for the first time ever.

*READ MORE:*
http://i-league.org/u15-news/dsk-shivajians-pip-bengaluru-fc-to-reach-first-ever-npc-final/

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[Goanet] Fishing boats versus private vehicles: battle for parking on Badem shores

[Sebastian]

http://bharatmukti.blogspot.in/2018/02/fishing-boats-versus-private-vehicles.html

There has been continues violation of Fisheries Department directions dated 
14/10/2014 bearing reference number DF/GB/Ramp/Assagao Badem/ BAR 
6/2014-15/3686. Order is signed by ousted Director of Fisheries Shamila 
Monteiro and till date remained unimplemented. Neither Anjuna Police Station 
nor Assagao Panchayat seems to have no respect for Fisheries Department even 
though most of them like eating fish. Not sure as to the reasons behind silence 
on this issue by Goa Fisheries Minister Vinoda Palyenkar.  

Fisheries department constructed the Ramp for use of fishing boats and repair 
of fishing nets but currently has been used by buses and cars for parking 
purposes. Fisher people are not able to carry on their work efficiently due to 
this. BMM calls for the immediate resolving of this problem.

[Goanet] AIFF REPORT: Minerva Make It To Their Third Final In As Many Years

[Shoubhik Mukhopadhyay]

Dear Colleagues,

Please find the report of Nike Premier Cup India 2018 semi-final between
Minerva Punjab FC and Aizawl FC on February 6, 2018.

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*Minerva Make It To Their Third Final In As Many Years*

*GOA:* Defending champions Minerva Punjab FC fought off the challenge of
Aizawl FC by beating them 4-2 in tie-breakers to seal the final date with
DSK Shivajians in the third season of Nike Premier Cup.

*READ MORE:* 
*http://i-league.org/u15-news/minerva-make-it-to-their-third-final-in-as-many-years/
*

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AAAwJkvbjoPV8LJf8nAUXC-ga?dl=0

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[Goanet] AIFF REPORT: Chennai City Face An Uphill Task Against Rejuvenated Mariners + Minerva Confident To Get A Positive Start At ‘New Home’

[AIFF Media]

Dear Colleagues,

Please find the previews of Chennai City FC v Mohun Bagan and Minerva
Punjab FC v Shillong Lajong on February 7, 2018.

--

*Chennai City Face An Uphill Task Against Rejuvenated Mariners*

*COIMBATORE*: A rejuvenated Mohun Bagan travel to Coimbatore to take on
relegation-threatened Chennai City FC in the 2017-18 Hero I-League at the
Jawaharlal Nehru Stadium on Wednesday (February 7, 2018).

*READ MORE:*
http://i-league.org/i-league/chennai-city-face-an-uphill-task-against-rejuvenated-mariners/

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*Minerva Confident To Get A Positive Start At ‘New Home’*

*CHANDIGARH:* Stakes will be touching the sky when Minerva Punjab will host
Shillong Lajong at their newly-built stadium Tau Devi Lal Stadium in
Panchkula tomorrow (7th February 2018).

*READ MORE:*
http://i-league.org/i-league/minerva-confident-to-get-a-positive-start-at-new-home/

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Re: [Goanet] AIFF REPORT: Bengaluru FC & DSK Shivajians Are Gearing Up To Qualify To First-Ever Final + Aizawl Have A Tough Task To Cut Out Against Defending Champions Minerva

[Bernice Pereira]

Please delete my name from your mailing list. Thanks

Sent from my iPhone

> On 05-Feb-2018, at 6:22 PM, AIFF Media  wrote:
> 
> Dear Colleagues,
> 
> Please find the previews of Nike Premier Cup India 2018 semi-finals -
> Bengaluru FC vs DSK Shivajians and Minerva Punjab FC v Aizawl FC on
> February 6, 2018
> 
> --
> 
> *Aizawl Have A Tough Task To Cut Out Against Defending Champions Minerva*
> 
> *GOA:* Defending champions Minerva Punjab FC will look to defend their
> crown as they take on Aizawl FC in the semi-finals of the Nike Premier Cup
> 2018 which is organized by the All India Football Federation.
> 
> *READ MORE:*
> http://i-league.org/u15-news/aizawl-have-a-tough-task-to-cut-out-against-defending-champions-minerva/
> 
> --
> 
> *Bengaluru FC & DSK Shivajians Are Gearing Up To Qualify To First-Ever
> Final*
> 
> *GOA:* Bengaluru FC and DSK Shavjians are familiar foes in the age-group
> football and they run into each other in their semi-final clash of the Nike
> Premier Cup India 2018 which is organised by the All India Football
> Federation and underway in Goa.
> 
> *READ MORE:*
> http://i-league.org/u15-news/bengaluru-fc-dsk-shivajians-are-gearing-up-to-qualify-to-first-ever-final/
> 
> --

[Goanet] AIFF REPORT: Minerva Make It To Their Third Final In As Many Years

[AIFF Media]

Dear Colleagues,

Please find the report of Nike Premier Cup India 2018 semi-final between
Minerva Punjab FC and Aizawl FC on February 6, 2018.

--

*Minerva Make It To Their Third Final In As Many Years*

*GOA:* Defending champions Minerva Punjab FC fought off the challenge of
Aizawl FC by beating them 4-2 in tie-breakers to seal the final date with
DSK Shivajians in the third season of Nike Premier Cup.

*READ MORE:* 
*http://i-league.org/u15-news/minerva-make-it-to-their-third-final-in-as-many-years/
*

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AAAwJkvbjoPV8LJf8nAUXC-ga?dl=0

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[Goanet] AIFF REPORT: Mechac’s Strike Helps Churchill Sink Aizawl

[Shoubhik Mukhopadhyay]

Dear Colleagues,

Please find the report of Churchill Brothers FC Goa v Aizawl FC on February
6, 2018.

--

*Mechac’s Strike Helps Churchill Sink Aizawl*

*GOA:* Churchill Brothers continued their resurgence in the 2017-18 Hero
I-League as they trumped defending champions Aizawl FC, who were down to
ten men in the end by a solitary goal at the Tilak Maidan Ground in Vasco
on Tuesday (February 6, 2018).

*READ MORE:*
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Re: [Goanet] Bar Longuinhos Margao.

[E DeSousa]

 Roland Francis  writes:
"Fifty to sixty years ago this was the place everybody went to after a trip to 
the Margao market.

Loja Moosa for canned provisions,  Marchon?s right there in the old market for 
alcohol or perhaps Casa Filu a little distance away and following that 
Longuinhos for a midday beer and snacks."
Nicely done Roland Francis.
Fifty to sixty years ago would be the  time frame when I rode my bicycle for 
five years  to the old Instituto Abade Faria in Margao for the "Quinto Ano de 
Liceu" where along with  many other subjects I learned English as my third 
language.Though a bit young to hang out at Marchon's my mother would 
occasionally take me there for "cafe e pasteis".
Looking back, those were very good days.

Best Regards,
E. DeSousa

[Goanet] Dr. JACK DE SEQUEIRA STATUE AT THE ASSEMBLY COMPLEX

[Stephen Dias]

Dr. Jack de Sequeira:

Deemed Father of Opinion Poll


STEPHEN DIAS
DONA PAULA

Dear Raj Narain
Editor
Goan Observer

Request to publish.
Best regards

Stephen
6.2.2018



The raging debate surrounding the installation of the statue of Dr. Jack de
Sequeira at the Assembly Complex at Porvorim, has taken an ugly turn with
even leaders like Uday Bhembre stating that there were many groups that
fought the Opinion Poll. Is it not a fact that Dr. Jack de Sequeira was the
Leader of the Opposition and that Dayanand Bandodkar who was the Chief
Minister then had wanted the matter about the merger to be voted in the
Assembly where the MGP had a comfortable majority? What would have happened
if the voting in the Assembly had then taken place and merger with
Maharashtra would have happened? Would the 40 MLAs including the CM,
Ministers and MLAs would have been representing Goa Assembly? Why is that
the MLAs are not unanimous in getting the statue of Dr. Jack de Sequeira
installed in the Assembly Complex as the Father of the Opinion Poll? For
the sake history it may be emphasized that many leaders in India were
involved in the Freedom movement in India, including amongst many other
Jawaharlal Nehru, Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose, Sorojini Naidu, Dadabhai
Naoroji, Gopal Krishna Gokhale, Bhagat Singa, Sri Aurobindo, Lokmanya Tilak
and many, many others. Still all of them did not oppose when Mahatma Gandhi
was selected as the Father of the Nation and so today Mahatma Gandhi is the
Father of the Nation. Why do our 40 MLAs now do not realize that Dr. Jack
de Sequeira should be given that honour for having contributed greatly to
the Opinion Poll. The 40 MLAs should bow down their heads in gratitude to
Dr. Jack de Sequeira for his yeoman contribution towards the Opinion Poll
which was the cornerstone in Goa today having become a state in the Indian
union.
END

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Re: [Goanet] Dr. JACK DE SEQUEIRA STATUE AT THE ASSEMBLY COMPLEX

[Dan Driscoll]

Right on! I'm a Canadian, but I resided in Goa for about thirty years (1984
- 2012) having married a Goan National of 'old family' (in Canada) in 1970.
I spent many pleasant hours in a hospitality facility managed by Jack
Sequeira family members, not recalling exact name, but at end of Ourem
Creek Road, Panaji, near the beautiful art galleries. I think the Statue
could go there, if Porvorim doesn't get it. It could even go next to Faria
in Panjim itself.

I'm a great admirer of works by Aurobindo; and I'm aware that Sri
Vivekananda actually came to Goa, for consultation with spiritual leaders
there.

Goa, in my opinion, is greatly deserving of 'SPECIAL STATUS' in the Indian
Republic---somewhat resembling what has been done for Quebec Province in
the Canadian Federation of Provinces. I even went to the point of sending
to my friend Professor Antonio da Costa (in Miramar) a DVD of Canadian Film
documenting Pierre Elliott Trudeau's leadership in resisting 'Independence'
but pointing to 'Special Status'. *BUT*, not just 'commercial zone stuff;
that was there already, during the Opium Wars. What Goa needs is 'open
sesame to Global, particularly for 'Intellectual Properties' & Music.

I think it may be time to make some definitive moves on the National
Political Chessboard.

On Tue, Feb 6, 2018 at 11:45 AM, Stephen Dias 
wrote:

> Dr. Jack de Sequeira:
>
> Deemed Father of Opinion Poll
>
>
> STEPHEN DIAS
> DONA PAULA
>
> Dear Raj Narain
> Editor
> Goan Observer
>
> Request to publish.
> Best regards
>
> Stephen
> 6.2.2018
>
>
>
> The raging debate surrounding the installation of the statue of Dr. Jack de
> Sequeira at the Assembly Complex at Porvorim, has taken an ugly turn with
> even leaders like Uday Bhembre stating that there were many groups that
> fought the Opinion Poll. Is it not a fact that Dr. Jack de Sequeira was the
> Leader of the Opposition and that Dayanand Bandodkar who was the Chief
> Minister then had wanted the matter about the merger to be voted in the
> Assembly where the MGP had a comfortable majority? What would have happened
> if the voting in the Assembly had then taken place and merger with
> Maharashtra would have happened? Would the 40 MLAs including the CM,
> Ministers and MLAs would have been representing Goa Assembly? Why is that
> the MLAs are not unanimous in getting the statue of Dr. Jack de Sequeira
> installed in the Assembly Complex as the Father of the Opinion Poll? For
> the sake history it may be emphasized that many leaders in India were
> involved in the Freedom movement in India, including amongst many other
> Jawaharlal Nehru, Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose, Sorojini Naidu, Dadabhai
> Naoroji, Gopal Krishna Gokhale, Bhagat Singa, Sri Aurobindo, Lokmanya Tilak
> and many, many others. Still all of them did not oppose when Mahatma Gandhi
> was selected as the Father of the Nation and so today Mahatma Gandhi is the
> Father of the Nation. Why do our 40 MLAs now do not realize that Dr. Jack
> de Sequeira should be given that honour for having contributed greatly to
> the Opinion Poll. The 40 MLAs should bow down their heads in gratitude to
> Dr. Jack de Sequeira for his yeoman contribution towards the Opinion Poll
> which was the cornerstone in Goa today having become a state in the Indian
> union.
> END
>
> Sent from my Samsung device
>

[Goanet] Konkani poetry... East African sportspersons and musicians

[Frederick Noronha]

* You could appreciate Konkani poetry even if not too fluent in the
language. Come, tune in to recordings of some charming poetry sessions via
WhatsApp and build your language skills too. Get in touch to join (via
mobile +91-9822122436 or via email fredericknroon...@gmail.com) and I'll
add you to the WhatsApp group.

* The story of Goan sportspersons and musicians in East Africa. Check out
this Facebook group: https://www.facebook.com/groups/330935877414030/

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[Goanet] Switzerland is the world’s most-corrupt country

[Fidibus]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yOd6zgBDe64

https://www.taxjustice.net/2018/02/02/financial-secrecy-index-2018-watch-listen/

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[Goanet] Fwd: Song for the day....Ben E. King - Will you still love me tomorrow

[Gabe Menezes]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hpo4MD331yw

G



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[Goanet] LETTER TO THE EDITOR (KEEPING APPROACHING LENT SEASON IN MIND)

[Augustine Coelho]

From: "Augustine Coelho"Sent: 
Mon, 05 Feb 2018 23:49:48To: "Joaquim 
Fernandes","Joaquim 
Fernandes","Daily 
Navprabha",,"goadoot","Daily
 
Pudhari",,"goanobser...@gmail.com
 
editor",,,,,"goadesc","prudentmediagoa","goaworldtoday","miguelbraganza","joegoauk","Benedict
 Lobo","Edward Verdes&qu
 
ot;,,,,"Bevinda
 Collaco","Violet 
pereira",, 
                       
                      
                      
    Subject: LETTER TO THE EDITOR          
                      
                      
                      
      
From, 
 
; AUGUSTINE
 
COELHO  House
 No. 892,  
 
Naika-Vaddo,&
 
nbsp; Aldona,
 
Bardez,  Goa.
 403 
508. &nbs
 
p;   
 Date: 
06/02/2018 To,The
 Editor,Panjim, Goa. Dear Sir, Kindly publish this letter in your 
esteemed daily.  Is it permitted or even tolerable to place a 
‘Resurrected Image of Christ’ on the wooden Cross behind the Main 
Altar ? At the Mass, we are at the foot of the cross, Mass does not represent 
Holy Thursday, and it does not represent Easter Sunday. It is an actual 
sacrifice of the cross. Also, looking at the Crucifixion of Our Lord's 
suffering is important for each of us because in our suffering looking up at 
the Crucifix gives us support when things are heavy on our own souls. I have 
seen in several Churches the Ri
 sen Christ; it makes me sad, because before the glory, comes SUFFERING and our 
young Catholics and perhaps even converts are not learning this. The Mass is a 
commemoration and re-enactment of Calvary, the Crucifixion, and the 
Sacrifice.   The Modern Churches views the mass as a community 
meal, a representation of the last supper. They do not see the mass as a 
sacrifice. They think the image of Christ Crucified is "depressing" 
and they repeat the protestant talking point that Traditional Catholics want to 
"put Jesus back on the cross". They forget that Holy Scripture says, 
1 Corinthians : [23] “But we preach Christ crucified, unto the 
Jews indeed a stumblingblock, and unto the Gentiles 
foolishness”. Most Catholic Churches which were built before the 
‘radical changes’ of Vatican II would never have such a choice of 
Religious Decoration placed behind a Main or High Altar. The Proper & More 
Appropriate Decorat
 ion would be that of a Calvary scene, even that of Our Blessed Lady, or a 
particular Saint in the back ground - in order to ‘highlight’ the 
true meaning of the Mass - as a ‘Sacrifice’  which is what 
happens at every True & Valid Mass - though in an ‘Unbloody 
Manner’.  Unlike the Protestants theirs is more of a happy meal 
!!! Thanking you, Yours truly, Augustine Coelho.E-mail:- 
augustine18coelho@rediff.comTel.: 9225909023 Attachment – Image of 
‘Resurrected Christ’on the wooden Cross behind the Main 
Altar.  

[Goanet] The oddities sent into space.

[Con Menezes]

   
http://www.bbc.com/news/av/world-42968358/the-oddities-sent-into-space?ocid=global_bbccom_email_06022018_top+video

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[Goanet] Goan cuisine is finally getting its place in the sun and in top restaurants.

[Con Menezes]

   Vivek Menezes  Oct 2017.  
https://scroll.in/magazine/853305/viva-vindaloo-goan-cuisine-is-finally-getting-its-place-in-the-sun-and-in-top-restaurants

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[Goanet] The Head Dresser

[PAES]

TheHead Dresser

This young man is a Startup. He claims tobe a HEAD DRESSER, not a Hair Dresser. 
Quite obvious, seeing the island of hair built in the middle of theboy’s shaven 
head.

Then he goes on: “Hair Dressers are ofyesterday, and the Barbérhave long been 
put out to pasture.” 

Sign ofevolving times at a hair-raising speed!

 

 

[Goanet] Indian government watchdog reaches deal over ponzi scheme proceeds on Gold Coast Australia.

[Con Menezes]

   
http://www.smh.com.au/world/indian-watchdog-reaches-deal-over-ponzi-scheme-proceeds-on-gold-coast-20180206-p4yzjk.html

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[Goanet] The Jews of India

[Roland Francis]

Their 2000 year long stay in India has been as much a story of their deep 
assimilation as it has been of India’s welcoming, tolerance and total absence 
of anti-semitism.

Once the hub of India’s Jewry, Cochin Jews today number no more than 4 or 5 
from the ten to fifteen thousand once. Most of their synagogues have closed, 
lacking the ten men required to say the Shabath prayers. When the last man in 
the neighbourhood leaves for Israel or dies, the synagogues, cemeteries and 
prayer halls are given to the local municipality.

There are three origins of Indian Jews. Baghdadi, Cochini and Bene Israeli. The 
Baghdadi Jews came for trade and to a lesser extent to flee from the Persian 
and Muslim persecution in the Middle East of the time. They prospered in India, 
living mainly in Bombay and Calcutta and were the most wealthy of the three, 
leaders in philanthropy of whom the most well known were the Sassoons who built 
various institutions and edifices in these two cities under British rule.

The Cochini Jews settled in the Cochin and surrounding Kerala coast area. Some 
of them came to trade in spices and others to flee from the turmoil of the 
Inquisition in Spain and Portugal and pogroms in other European countries where 
anti-semitism rolled over the lands in waves. The Raja of Travancore welcomed 
the Jews, as did his neighbouring kings. Being small principalities rather than 
kingdoms, their only revenue came from the sea trade and the activities of the 
incoming Jews vastly contributed to their treasuries. The community consisted 
of black Jews and white Jews based on their origin countries and each with 
their own synagogues and neighbourhoods in Cochin.

The last and most populous of the three were the Bene Israelis (sons of Israel) 
who came also for trade and settled on the Konkan and Gujarat shores. From the 
25,000 Jews remaining in India today, there are only 5,000 left, most of them 
in Bombay, Poona and a few interior Maharashtra small towns. Their richer 
forbears built a synagogue and adjacent hall wherever they clustered - even in 
the remotest small towns. Some of the buildings have become derelict and their 
few worshippers have to travel for the shabath prayers to the synagogues in the 
nearest larger towns.

The Bene Israelis took to the Marathi language, the Hindu dress and 
(non-religious) culture of their village, while still maintaining their 
religious customs, rituals and feasts. Their surnames were Maharastrian 
surnames but their first names were always Jewish like David, Sarah, Abraham, 
Rebecca, Solomon and Ruth. Their traditional occupation in the village was 
oil-grinding resulting in quite a few of their surnames being Telkar (oilers or 
oil grinders).

In their centuries of existence in India, their held on firmly to their 
Indianness, thinking of themselves as Indians first and Jews afterwards. 
Although they were favoured under the British for their commercial acumen and 
given preferential treatment for jobs like Parsis and Goans and land to build 
their religious places and schools, the rest of the country was not envious of 
their circumstances, always treating them as one of their own. The word 
anti-semitism was completely absent in India’s history.

After the state of Israel was formed and the country’s Law of Return for all 
Jews, no matter where they came from, promulgated, a few young Jews from India 
emigrated. Those were days of hardship and lack of jobs in their country, but 
they discovered that the situation in Israel was not much better. The young 
country was in a hard-scrabble position, living in the kibbutz was not like the 
comfort and friendliness of home and surrounded by hostile Arab countries, all 
young and healthy Israelis were drafted in the fighting forces for a minimum 
two years. Racism was rampant. The richer and more powerful Ashkenazi 
(European) versus the poorer Sephardic (Asian) Jews. The Indians faced 
discrimination they had never felt before.

Some of them returned to India. Their parents became even more determined to 
stay put and a wave was halted. However with American aid, development 
accelerated in Israel. Democracy strengthened, racism ebbed. With hard work and 
steely determination, the Sabras (those born in Israel) took charge and the 
country pushed ahead, all throttles open. Wars were won, cities built, deserts 
turned into lush farmlands, factories built and high-tech and security 
inventions flowed through speedily like a running brook.

The restless Jewish youth in India changed their objectives from mere 
employment to a pride in a country that was built almost from scratch steeped 
with their Jewish pride. This time they went in droves and this time family, 
except for the oldest, followed them.

The tide had turned. An exodus begun. Two thousand years of living in freedom 
among their hosts had come to an end, not out of harassment and persecution but 
out of a choice, carefully made.

Years after being born in