[Goanet] Eric Pinto - Parrikar on Goa coal route.

[Vivian A. DSouza]

What did he do or promise or  not do regarding the coal route ?
He promised to get rid of the casinos in the Mandovi, but once being elected to 
power, did just the opposite and increased the number of casinos.
Politicians promise you what you want, but once in power, do just the opposite. 
 That is why politics is the last  resort for scoundrels !

[Goanet] Christmas In Pyjamas

[Roland Francis]

It’s a pyjama moment. For the first time in my long and satisfying life I am 
going to have to endure a Pyjama Christmas.

Not for this year the midnight mass followed by the late-night, early-morning 
drinking session of my youth, with friends. Not the late morning visits to 
families and friends with close relationships, rewarded by Christmas sweets and 
of course Christmas drinks.

Not for this year the Christmas night dance with merriment and top bands 
playing live music. The only dancing will be in the drawing room in pyjamas and 
thank heavens for small mercies - roasted turkey, aged sorpotel and lovely 
fluffy idlis made by the friendly neighbourhood Saravana Bhavan.

The thoughts of the season will linger, pyjamas or not, with the Christmas tree 
my wife single-handedly puts up every since we were married.

No problem. A small price to pay for all the happiness over the years that 
makes me during this year’s Christmas season, appreciate it all.

Roland.

Re: [Goanet] [Goanet-News] Diversity & Inclusion Panel Discussion - with A Goan Perspective

[Hyacinth Desouza]

Good Morning, Please include me in your future emails to this address.  I have 
not received any since three months,  God bless everyone  Jacinto Hyacinth 
Desouza


From: Goanet-News2  on behalf of Selwyn 
Collaco 
Sent: Wednesday, September 23, 2020 7:47 PM
To: goa...@goanet.org ; gn-n...@goanet.org 

Subject: [Goanet-News] Diversity & Inclusion Panel Discussion - with A Goan 
Perspective

The Goan Overseas Association to host a Diversity & Inclusion online Panel
Discussion on Set. 24th A wide range of topics including some of our own
prejudices or rather the ugly truth for some of us. Join our amazing group
of panelists, a group of remarkable and accomplished individuals who will
be providing you valuable insights on this very important subject and
answering questions from all attendees.
Date: Sept. 24th
Time: 7:30 pm

Flyer:
https://www.facebook.com/goatoronto/photos/a.83785007554/10157601517222555/

To Join:
Facebook Live
https://www.facebook.com/goatoronto/posts/10157592776772555


Youtube:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VoDdl5PUJhY


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[Goanet] Schedule for Tuesday 8th December 2020

[CCR TV]

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Schedule for Tuesday 8th December 2020

12:00 AM
Rosary - Sorrowful Mysteries

12:25 AM
Hymn - Sant Antoni Ixtta- Fr Seveille Antao OFM Cap

12:30 AM
Prophetic Intercession 1 - Cyril John

12:55 AM
Biblical Hidden Heroes - Eps 9 - DCBA

1:00 AM
Mass in Konkani for Monday

1:50 AM
Make Goa a Zero Waste State - Gayatri Parsekar , SFX School. Siolim

2:00 AM
Saibinnichi Ruzai - Dukhiche Mister

2:25 AM
Fuddarache Dive -  Ester Noronha interviewed by Michael Gracias

3:03 AM
Bhokti Lharam - Bhag 17

3:10 AM
Youtsing - All Goa Virual Choir - Part 2

4:07 AM
Catechism for Confirmation - 15 - DCC

4:36 AM
Tinted Canvas - Rachol Seminary

4:56 AM
Dev Amkam Kiteak Pekhoita - Dominic Rodrigues

5:25 AM
Show me your ways O Lord - A talk by Edmund Antao

5:54 AM
Katholik Bhavarth - Talk by Adv. F.E. Noronha

6:48 AM
Ximpientlim Motiam - Bhag  119  -  Futtkeponn - Fr Pratap Naik sj

6:53 AM
Pope's Message to Seafarers (Konkani)

6:57 AM
Sokalchem Magnnem   - Ankvar Maria Ranni ani Avoi/Mai

7:00 AM
Praise and Worship -   Magno Menezes  - SJVRC

7:26 AM
Morning Prayer  - Our Lady Queen and Mother

7:29 AM
Song - He stood in the way - Song by Alfwold Silveira

7:35 AM
Blessed are the Poor in Spirit - Talk by Adv. F. E. Noronha

8:05 AM
Fatherhood - Talk by Kenneth D'Sa

8:36 AM
Catechism for Confirmation - 15 - DCC

9:00 AM
Live Feast Mass Panjim Church

10:20 AM
Seby Wings -Gazzlo

10:23 AM
Ximpientlim Motiam - Bhag  118  -  Upay - Fr Pratap Naik sj

10:30 AM
Mass at Verna Chapel  - Vincent Rebello

11:50 AM
Poem - Lockdown Naka !  Ek Sandex - Dominic Araujo

11:55 AM
Magnificat (English)

11:57 AM
Hymn - Papia tum re Nirbhagia - Fr Seville Antao OFM(Cap)

12:00 PM
Mass in English Dominicans, Orlimm followed by Daily Flash

12:50 PM
Intercessions (English)

1:04 PM
Amchea Bapa Sorginchea - Domnic Rodrigues

1:35 PM
Povitrponn - Talk by Ivy Ferrao

1:55 PM
Prayer of Grandparents - English

1:59 PM
Literally Goa - Vatsala Mendonca interviewed by Frederick Noronha

2:28 PM
Jivitacheo Vankddeo Vatto Nitt Korum-ia- Talk by Fr Henry Falcao

2:57 PM
Conversion of St Paul - Talk by Dr Brenda Nazareth Menezes

3:23 PM
Bhurgeanlem Angonn - Bhag 2

3:25 PM
Angelus - English

3:27 PM
National Anthem - Goa University Choir

3:30 PM
Divine Mercy Chaplet (E)

3:40 PM
Jezu doyall,  ami - I doyall zaum -ya -- Fr Joseph Silva

4:00 PM
Rosary - Sorrowful Mysteries

4:24 PM
Reflection on the Gospel - Dominicans

4:30 PM
Senior Citizens Exercises - 14

4:55 PM
Our Father - Malayalam

5:00 PM
Intercessions (Konkani)

5:12 PM
Borie Khobrieche Porgottnnar Zaum Ya -  Fr Edsom Fernandes

5:29 PM
Holy Spirit - Talk by Godfrey Pereira

5:53 PM
Gonvllik Chitticher 2020-21 Boska 10 - Fr Barry Cardozo

6:13 PM
Sant Antonichim 13 Vizmitam - Fr Jose D'Souza OFM Cap

6:30 PM
Feast Mass from Carmona

7:40 PM
Saibinnichi Ruzai - Dukhiche Mister

8:06 PM
Why did Jesus become incarnate , crucified and resurrected? - Talk by Dr
Sarita Nazareth

8:39 PM
Psalm 84 - Read by Alfwold Silveira

8:45 PM
Adoration - Jivitacheo Vankddeo Vatto Nitt Korum-ia -  Fr Henry Falcao

9:30 PM
Ratchem Magnem

9:45 PM
Ask Dr Sweezel - Why do I keep getting an ankle sprain even after Treatment?

9:48 PM
Abundant Life - Peer Pressure - Prof Nicholas D'Souza

10:36 PM
On the Third Day - Eps 3 - How to Avoid Synthetic Pesticides - Nelson
Figueiredo

10:58 PM
Jezucho Zolom Mojea Kallzant - Talk by Orlando D'Souza

11:30 PM
Our Journey Through Covid 19 - A Testimony

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[Goanet] MANDOVI MEMORIAL CROSS..03-12-1901

[Bernado Colaco]

 Derrepente utloh. The government in power is non inclusive. You have to 
maintain the cross with your own efforts. 
BC
==

Thanks for the  interesting note
It is sad to  note that cross is in terrible shape. Can someone awaken the
government to maintain it decently.  That  I would presume, is the least
we  could do to remember the victims of that  tragedy.

By Xri Falcao cidade:

  

[Goanet] Fwd: Havn saiba poltodi vettam

[Gabe Menezes]

Hanv Saiba poltodi vettam



https://youtu.be/dQhkB_8dO_Y


-- 
DEV BOREM KORUM

Gabe Menezes.

[Goanet] {Dilip's essays} Count your friends, and theirs

[Dilip D'Souza]

December 7 2020

As you've certainly heard, we're getting ever-closer to a Corona vaccine.
There's Pfizer with its vaccine that needs to be stored at remarkably low
temperatures. There's India's Serum Institute, which has just applied for
"emergency-use authorization" for the vaccine it is working on.

Question arises: on whom will we administer it first? Past and future US
Presidents have offered to be publicly vaccinated as soon as one is
available, but apart from that, how do we choose?

There's some interesting mathematical theory that offers a pretty plausible
answer to that question. That's what I tried to explore in my column for
Mint last Friday, December 4:
https://www.livemint.com/opinion/columns/count-your-friends-and-theirs-11606989796107.html

As always, I'd love to hear your reactions.

yours,
dilip


---

Count your friends, and theirs


It was a sociologist who noticed and commented, in 1991, on a strange fact
of our lives that actually has mathematical underpinnings. His name was
Scott Feld, and his "Friendship Paradox" is so counter-intuitive that it's
a good bet you won't believe it applies to you. Most of us, it asserts,
have on average fewer friends than our friends have.

Think about that for a moment. Most of us tend to believe of ourselves that
we are pretty congenial and have plenty of friends. We may even be right in
thinking so. Yet Feld asks me to believe something sobering: that most of
my friends likely have more friends than me. What's the matter, is there
something wrong with me?

Actually, not at all. One way to look at this is that between Alka who has
dozens of friends, and Altaf who has only a few, it's more likely Alka is
my friend. Alok who has no friends is, by definition, not my friend; Altaf
with only his few may not count me as one. Thus on average, there's a good
chance my friends have more friends than I do. Or think of just three of us
- you, me and our common friend Tricia - and let's say you and I don't know
each other. So now I have one friend, as do you (Tricia, for both of us),
but she has two (you and me).

If that reasoning doesn't persuade you, there is mathematics that can do
the job. Some of it involves the famous Cauchy-Schwarz inequality. I
mention that name neither to impress you nor to try explaining here what it
is, but instead to underline that there is some serious mathematics
involved in this paradox.

I also mention it because the Friendship Paradox is connected to the
pandemic that has currently blanketed our world, which no doubt you've
heard about.

In particular, it crops up in certain analyses of the best way to use a
vaccine for Corona, when one eventually appears. For at least to begin
with, there will only be limited quantities of this vaccine. How do we
decide whom to use it on? Do we say "first come first served"? Do we choose
older people, assuming they are the most vulnerable? Or younger people,
because any nation needs its youth to survive? Or those with co-morbidites,
because they are in greater danger from the virus than the rest of us? Or
those without co-morbidities, because we want the healthy to stay healthy
and contribute? You get the point. Pick nearly any group within a
population, and someone can make a plausible argument for that group to get
the vaccine first.

So how do we decide? One strategy that's getting some attention is based on
the understanding that our personal relationships make ours a highly
connected world. If I'm infected, I'm likely to pass on the virus every
time I meet my myriad friends; and if I meet many of them together, I'll
spread it even faster, wider. Conversely, if I've been vaccinated and I
meet my friends for dinner afterward, that's one less meeting that will
spread the virus. The more such meetings where the infection doesn't
spread, the less the chance the infection will spread. So in a highly
networked world, it makes sense to identify and vaccinate people who have
more links to other people - more friends, in a word - than others. Are you
starting to see the link, pun intended, to the Friendship Paradox?

Now the analysis of networks like these is a venerable area of research in
computer science. Identifying people who have more friends than others is
no different from identifying nodes in a network that have more links than
others. So it's just the kind of thing computer scientists might seek to do
with networks they have built or are modelling. Still, doing that with a
virtual network in a CS lab is one thing; how do you do it for the
gargantuan and intricate social network that is the world we live in? How
do you find people who have more friends than others?

During the SARS outbreak in 2003, three Israeli scientists - Reuven Cohen,
Shlomo Havlin and Daniel ben-Avraham - tried to address just that dilemma
("Efficient Immunization Strategies for Computer Networks and Populations",
arxiv.org, 10 December 2003). They pointed out, first, that "in order to
arrest epidemics ... many 

[Goanet] {Dilip's essays} What did one sand dune say to the other?

[Dilip D'Souza]

Dec 7 2020

Apologies for being late with my last two columns for Mint! Upside (?): you
get two to read today.

The first was prompted by news I read some months ago about how sand dunes
"communicate" (in a manner of communicating). This delighted me, perhaps
especially because one of the notches on my belt is that I once climbed a
huge sand dune.

What struck me was how the researchers referred to the dunes, because that
brought to mind how another thinker referred to his imaginary cars. And
that's really the theme of my Mint column for Friday November 27.

What did one sand dune say to the other,
https://www.livemint.com/opinion/columns/what-did-one-sand-dune-say-to-the-other-11606444804358.html

Thoughts welcome. Accounts of sand dune climbs also welcome.

cheers,
dilip

---

What did one sand dune say to the other?


In September 1991, I climbed a sand dune. No ordinary dune, this was an
enormous one in Sossusvlei, Namibia. Someone told me before I started that
it was 400 metres tall. It’s actually only about 350m, but I don’t think
that extra 50m mattered in any real sense. Because slogging ever upward
through that pile of sand that day remains one of the hardest things I’ve
ever done. So much so that when I finally reached the top, I couldn't
immediately admire the gorgeous view, or enjoy the breeze. Instead, I
leaned over and threw up into the sand.

What made it worse was my travelling buddy, a genial German by name Jan.
Though we had started the climb together, he chugged up the dune like it
was a stroll in the park. He reached the top a good half-hour before me,
and when I was able to look around after throwing up, I saw him sitting on
the ridge, and of all things, he was smoking a cigarette, actually looking
like he had just, yes, had a stroll in the park. Not the most encouraging
sight.

But this is not a Namibia travelogue, it is a mathematics column. Why have
I started with spectacular Sossusvlei and the dune there that's popularly
known as “Big Daddy”?

Because I have just learned that sand dunes “communicate” with each other.
Not that Big Daddy whispered to one of the other dunes: “Hey, this creep in
a pink shirt is throwing up all over my ridgeline!” Nothing that
anthropomorphic (though hold that thought). More seriously, some scientists
at the University of Cambridge have "experimental evidence that dunes
interact over large distances without the necessity of exchanging mass"
("Wake Induced Long Range Repulsion of Aqueous Dunes", Karol A. Bacik and
colleagues, Physical Review Letters, 4 February 2020). This happens
courtesy of winds that are constantly shaping and re-shaping the dunes.
Winds blow swirls off the first dunes they encounter, and these swirls tend
to push away the more “downstream” dunes, the ones the wind reaches later.
This way, the “upstream” dunes effectively repel others, and this
"dune-dune repulsion" prevents collisions between them. The scientists
believe this explains “the observed robust stability of dune fields in
different environments.”

Stability indeed: Sossusvlei is spectacular, but it hasn't changed much
over the years. It has always been an enormous field of dunes, Big Daddy
the largest of them. But even so, individual dunes are known to move
("migrate"). How does that happen, and what does that mean for a group of
dunes? The Cambridge results will help us understand.

How did the scientists learn this about dunes? First, they built a circular
track enclosed in a tank for experimental dunes. This allowed them to
observe the dunes' behaviour continuously, instead of being restricted to
the time the dunes takes to move off a linear viewing platform. They put
two identical piles of sand close together on the track. Then they directed
a stream of air at the sand. This shaped the piles into mini-dunes, and
with the continuing flow of air, the mini-dunes started moving.

As you might expect, dunes move at speeds inversely proportional to their
size: smaller dunes move faster than larger ones. So when the researchers
blew their simulated wind at the two identical dunes on their track, they
expected that they would move at the same speed. In tandem, as it were. But
this is not what happened; at least, not at the start of the experiment.

To start, the front dune — the one the wind struck first — moves faster
than the one behind. But as time passes, the front dune slows down, until
both are moving at about the same speed. What's more, the front dune breaks
up the flow of air so that it forms swirls, like the wake of a boat. These
"turbulent structures" move on to strike the second dune, effectively
making it move faster, pushing it away. So the distance between the two
dunes steadily increases, until they are as far apart as they can get on
the circular track: diametrically opposite each other.

It’s as if the two dunes “didn’t like each other”, the lead
scientist, Karol Bacik, toldCNN.

Now it's not that Bacik undertook this research because people think dunes
are 

[Goanet] Parrikar on coal route

[eric pinto]

 

He did, didn't he? 



     

[Goanet] Random Thoughts by One Anti SFX Goan In Canada

[Tony de Sa]

Prof. Adolfo wrote" Goa is a model of Religious Harmony Even Hindu
Politicians
were present for the Services.

Probable reasons for H politicians attending the service:
1. Fear that not to do so would incur wrath of the Saint - call it an
insurance policy!
2. To massage the Catholic vote bank.

Just my interpretation.

Tony de Sa

Re: [Goanet] Imagine you own the the mines we gift free to Vedanta, Chowgules, Salgaoncars, Fomento... Linken Fernandes

[Linken Fernandes]

http://epaper.heraldgoa.in/fullview.php?edn=oHeraldo=OHERALDO_GOA_20201207_3_4