[Goanet] OFFTOPIC: Money, happiness and eternal life - Greed (Deutsche Welle)

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https://youtu.be/PudZNM276CY
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[Goanet] OffTopic: Queens Message, Canadian Coverage

[AF P]

Full Message BBC about 5-minuites long:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wE4Cmr1j0tA

CBC News pre and post coverage: Journalists respond.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sAmH36G1Xv8

Yup! Canada still love the Queen and (mostly) our Commonwealth buddies...

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[Goanet] OffTopic: Canada - At grocery stores, things are different, very different

[AF P]

https://www.thestar.com/news/gta/2020/04/04/at-grocery-stores-things-are-different-very-different.html?li_source=LI_medium=star_web_ymbii

Article includes prices...

Also In Canada:
-- Stores close 2-hours early so stock can be filled without customers
in the store, before it happened mostly continuously through out the
day
--  Line-ups happen outside the store in a marked parking lot...lots
of space, but a pain of it rains
-- Some store are moving to no cash handling
-- Some store have erected plexiglass shield for cashiers
-- All the self check-outs are open, fewer cashiers
-- Lots of surface cleaning going on in stores
-- Some sections are closed, ie grab-and-go, nobody in offices, so no
one is grabbing on the run, fresh desserts bakery, deli counter that
provided sliced preserved meat and cheese, custom sandwiches, soups,
closed, etc. No eating at store cafe tables...take out only
-- Most people are wearing masks and gloves (most Canadians are
prepared as they regularly carry thin cotton or wool winter gloves in
the fall, winter, and spring )
-- Seniors, mothers, and people with disabilities are not asked to
wait, but immediately asked to head to the door
-- Many shops, at least last week, provided extra thin plastic gloves
for people picking up produce and meat
-- Lots of comfort food moving, waffles, ice-cream, frozen pizza, cookies
-- Lots of ingredients are moving, flour, rice, milk. Indians are
making milk sweets at home

Generally grocery items are going faster than before because far more
people are eating 3-4 meals at home ie no coffee shops, work lunches,
fast food, or school cafeteria, etc

After the first two weeks, I did not see much big shopping going on.
Most people were getting the basics and a few comfort items and moving
on... I would say many of the luxury items and discretionary items
were being left behind. A sign that there is a drop in wages coming
in...

All local buses are temporary free in my area due to the emergency, so
may people are walking for added exercise and if it looks empty taking
the bus back.

Most people have access cars, and designate one person to do the
shopping. On my street I notice many seniors living independently are
having friend or family drop the shopping on the porch. Many shoppers
are doing WhatsApp and FaceTime while in the store, so you realize
they are purchasing for someone else...

Tough times? No

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[Goanet] offtopic Canada - Technology allows me to work from home.

[AF P]

AP News

Canada shuts Parliament, Trudeau in quarantine, no travel
By ROB GILLIEStoday

TORONTO (AP) — Canada shut down Parliament and advised against all
nonessential travel outside the country Friday while Prime Minister Justin
Trudeau governed remotely from his home, in self-imposed quarantine after
his wife tested positive for the new coronavirus.

Dr. Theresa Tam, the chief public health officer, also advised more social
distancing, no handshakes and kisses, while the Canadian government advised
cancelling large events like concerts and Transport Minister Marc Garneau
said cruise ships with more than 500 people will not be able to dock in
Canada until July 1.

Overseas flights returning to Canada will also be restricted to a small
number of airports.

Canada’s House of Commons voted to shut down for at least five weeks to
help ensure lawmakers do not contribute to the spread of the virus.

The moves came a day after Trudeau’s wife tested positive. The prime
minister himself has been in self-imposed quarantine.

“I will remain in self isolation for 14 days. I want to be clear. I have no
symptoms and I feel very well,” Trudeau said at a news conference outside
his residence in Ottawa.

“Technology allows me to work from home.”

All parties in Parliament agreed to the suspension, which means lawmakers
will miss two weeks of sessions since they had previously planned to be
away next week and two weeks in April. The House is scheduled to next meet
on Monday, April 20.

“This just shows you how seriously our government and members of the house
are taking this,” Government House leader Pablo Rodriguez said.

Part of the deal for closing Parliament for five weeks was ratifying the
new replacement for the North American Free Trade Agreement. Rodriguez said
lawmakers have passed legislation to ratify the U.S.-Mexico-Canada
Agreement, and the Senate was expected to follow suit later Friday.

The suspension of the House of Commons means the federal budget won’t be
presented March 30 as Finance Minister Bill Morneau had promised, but would
come at a later date.

Trudeau was quarantining himself at home because his wife, Sophie Grégoire
Trudeau, tested positive for the new coronavirus after returning from
Britain. He said Friday his wife has mild flu-like symptoms but is doing
fine. He said neither he nor their three children are showing symptoms.

Trudeau said significant stimulus will be announced soon.

“I know that you are worried,” Trudeau said.

“Nobody should have to worry about paying rent, buying groceries.”

Trudeau was spending the day in briefings, phone calls and virtual meetings
from home, including speaking with other world leaders and joining a
special Cabinet committee discussion on the coronavirus. Trudeau spoke with
U.S. President Donald Trump and British Prime Minister Boris Johnson on
Thursday.

He said his kids are also in self isolation and have been playing with
LEGOs. He said his wife has been talking to family and friends on the phone.

Trudeau himself had not been tested because he was not showing symptoms,
his office said. The doctor’s advice to the prime minister is to continue
daily activities while self-monitoring.

Canada’s central bank also announced it is cutting its overnight rate
target by half a percentage point to 0.75 per cent in response to the
pandemic. The bank already cut by half a point on March 4 due to the virus.

Canadian Finance Minister Bill Morneau said a $10 billion Canadian (US $7.1
billion) credit facility program will also be available to business and
significant stimulus package is coming.

“We are going to do whatever it takes to protect Canadians and keep our
economy strong,” Morneau said.


7 hours ago
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[Goanet] OffTopic: Rex Murphy interviews Jordan Peterson (Canadians on Canadian TV)

[Albert Peres]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S0P6H7cm0E4

Rex Murphy (REXTV) interviews Jordan Peterson
Nov 12, 2019

An open conversation with Rex Murphy about the modern state of 
education, politics, identity, and new media. Recorded in early September.


'For those international viewers, unfamiliar with Canadian media, it 
will be useful for you to know that Rex Murphy is one of Canada's 
premier journalists: tough, truthful, politically correct, and possessed 
of a singular style and character. It was both an honor and a pleasure 
to meet him. I highly recommend his channel.' - JP


Podcast available at http://bit.ly/RexJordan

Table of Contents:

00:10 – Introduction
00:34 – Confrontation with University, how did it happen
5:39  – Why do universities turn their back on reason and turn the 
language “upside-down”

7:41 – Brief remark about current state of journalism
10:05 – What are we afraid of in an attempt to preserve freedom of speech
11:52 – An appalling case of J Yuniv
14:10 – Mob mentality on Twitter
17:41 – Jordan Peterson’s negative and positive experience of social 
resonance

22:40 – Things that have deeply affected Jordan
26:48 – Jordan’s mission and the new media
33:18 – Things some of the media don’t understand about their audience
35:15 – Regressive experiments of the academic community
38:10 – Identity politics - reversion to tribalism
39:18 – Restoration of fundamental civilizational axioms
43:35 – Why are we inheriting guilt for the past
45:10 – Free speech on university campuses
47:27 – Positive changes we encounter
50:13 – Rhetoric of the instigators
52:19 – Trump is a social response
54:50 – Any other important observations?
57:07 – Exchange of gratitude

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[Goanet] OffTopic: Toronto are plentiful if you know where to look.

[AF P]

https://www.blogto.com/eat_drink/2018/10/cheap-eats-toronto/

Cheap eats in Toronto are plentiful if you know where to look. There are a
ton of places in town where you can get a good roti, sandwich or shawarma
that tastes great and won't break the bank.

-- Top 100 cheap eats in this photo gallery.

and the BEST Of ALL...All the operations are checked regularly by Municipal
Food Inspectors and all staff must have or be supervised directly by a
person with a Food Handlers Certificate.

Inspections results and history are listed here:
https://www.toronto.ca/community-people/health-wellness-care/health-programs-advice/food-safety/dinesafe/

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[Goanet] Offtopic Article: They’re immigrants... So why are they supporting far-right parties that want to reduce immigration?

[Albert Peres]

They’re immigrants to Canada. So why are they supporting far-right 
parties that want to reduce immigration?


By Omar MoslehStar Edmonton andMelanie GreenStar Vancouver
Sun., Oct. 27, 2019

https://www.thestar.com/edmonton/2019/10/27/theyre-immigrants-to-canada-so-why-are-they-supporting-populist-parties-that-want-to-reduce-immigration.html

Photo: Kulbir Singh Chawla greets fellow protesters during the United We 
Roll convoy at Parliament Hill in February. After moving to Canada from 
India, Chawla experienced what he calls a political awakening. He now 
calls himself a Canadian nationalist and attends yellow vest rallies, 
where he wears a matching yellow turban.

Edmonton

Kulbir Singh Chawla really doesn’t like when he’s connected with a 
customer service representative with a foreign accent.


This, despite having a accent himself.

“Here in Canada, I would say don’t even employ Kulbir,” Chawla said of 
customer service jobs.


“Because I still don’t have that Canadian way of (speaking) fully.”

The most recent federal election saw a small but distinct cadre of 
people of colour and immigrants such as Chawla supporting and in some 
cases even running for far-right populist parties such as the People’s 
Party of Canada, the National Citizens Alliance and the Canadian 
Nationalist Party.


All of these parties wanted to reduce immigration and scrap Canada’s 
official multiculturalism policy.


Despite being an immigrant himself, Chawla says he supports these policies.

Chawla, an industrial engineer, came to Canada from India with his wife 
and daughter in 1999. He currently lives in Nova Scotia and calls 
himself a Canadian nationalist. When he first moved here, he considered 
himself left-leaning, but over the past two decades, he’s experienced 
what he calls a political awakening.


It led to him attending yellow vest rallies at the movement’s peak, 
where he would wear a matching yellow turban. And people would call him 
racist.


“The left media would say this is a racist movement. And there I am with 
my turban. And it just breaks their narrative,” he said.


He was first drawn toward the Conservatives, then toward far-right, 
fringe parties such as the National Citizens Alliance, which in addition 
to advocating for lower taxes and the abolishment of the Bank of Canada 
Act, wants to reduce immigration levels to about 50,000 a year. Chawla 
previously ran for the National Advancement Party of Canada, the NCA’s 
predecessor, in Calgary Midnapore in a 2017 byelection.


He says some reasons his political stance shifted are political 
correctness and liberal “indoctrination” about issues such as white 
supremacy and racial profiling (the former he says doesn’t exist, the 
latter he believes is valid in some cases).

Kulbir Singh Chawla takes part in a yellow vest rally.

“It started with the yellow vest movement … It’s come up as a big, I 
will say wake-up movement for Canada and Canadians. It brought them 
together as well. So there’s a great deal of populism and nationalism 
going on,” Chawla said.


He compares nationalism to working for a corporation; the ultimate goal 
should be the betterment of the company, rather than advancing one’s own 
personal fortune. The same goes for living in a confederation.


It’s where his deep distaste for call centres that employ people with 
accents stems from. He said he believes it hurts Canada both 
economically and in terms of its national identity.


In particular, he is opposed to customer service being outsourced to 
other countries, for economic reasons — it takes jobs out of Canada and 
hurts the country’s GDP. It inspired him to create a Change.org petition 
urging the government and corporations to “Create call centres in Canada!”


But he acknowledges there’s an important cultural component as well.

“When I come here, if I found my own type of people speaking on the call 
… then it’s no different from being in India,” he said.


“We immigrants came to Canada for a whole different outlook on life. And 
we find it’s all changing, back to the same old Punjabi style.”


For parties such as the People’s Party of Canada that were accused of 
harbouring racist candidates and policies, there’s an obvious benefit to 
having candidates and supporters of colour, says Akaash Maharaj, a 
former senior resident at Massey College and CEO of the Mosaic 
Institute, an organization that helps bring together immigrants who have 
come to Canada from countries affected by conflict.


“There has been an effort by extreme right parties to try and play a 
game of blackface and brownface to inoculate themselves against 
accusations of racism by demonstrating that they have at least one or 
more members of their parties or candidates who are not white,” Maharaj 
said.


But the allure of anti-immigration policies for immigrants themselves is 
more complex.


“On the face of it, it looks absurd and I think it is absurd ... I 
wouldn’t say it’s widespread,” Maharaj said. 

[Goanet] OffTopic: Video: Happiness: Capitalism vs Marxism. Debate

[Albert Peres]

Dr. Jordan Peterson debates Slavoj Zizek - Happiness: Capitalism vs Marxism

Friday Apr 19 2019 7:30 PM Sony Centre for the Performing Arts, Toronto, 
Ontario, Canada


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GF2sOycQb30=youtu.be

2.5 hours

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[Goanet] OffTopic: 3 Things That Shocked Me About India (videos)

[Albert Peres]

3 Things That Shocked Me About India
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dhqS2D84PwY

I Went Drinking in Mumbai's Worst Slum
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLIvXbONfyd8s-K40MiJifSLRmNUJ36YJP

Plus: 103-videos about adventures in India by Blogger Harald Baldr 
(Norwegian Traveler)


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[Goanet] Offtopic: the DNA of YouTube India and “Culinary Ambassador”

[Albert Peres]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b-ePCZh-L4Q

Create your own recipe for success | Sanjay Thumma | TEDxHyderabad

He is the known as the DNA of YouTube India and “Culinary Ambassador” 
for The Indian Federation of Culinary Associations, IFCA India. Sanjay 
Thumma, better known as Vahchef, is among the top 10 YouTube stars from 
India. YouTube honoured him the lifetime views in the YouTube channel 
which has reached up to over 290 million viewers.


vahrehvah.com is the most watched chef across the globe. However, what 
is it that pulls so many viewers towards Sanjay? Is it his ability to 
cook alone, or is it his skill to touch the heart of his viewers? 
Sanjay, at many points in his life had to Rethink how his culinary art 
impacted individuals and made a difference to their lives. Following 
your passion can be extremely rewarding. When you put your heart and 
soul into your passion, the returns are higher than expected and you 
establish your brand, effectively. Experience his passion in this talk!


Sanjay Thumma better known as Vahchef, is an admirable Indian Chef and 
Entrepreneur in culinary arts in Indian cooking. He is among the top 10 
YouTube stars from India. YouTube honored him the lifetime views in the 
YouTube channel which has reached up to over 290 million viewers. 
vahrehvah.com is the most watched chef across the globe as Sanjay, 
shares an inseparable bond with his audience. In fact, YouTube calls him 
DNA of YouTube India.


Recently, Vahchef is assigned as a “Culinary Ambassador” for The Indian 
Federation of Culinary Associations, IFCA India This talk was given at a 
TEDx event using the TED conference format but independently organized 
by a local community. Learn more at https://www.ted.com/tedx




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[Goanet] OffTopic: PC Presidents Choice Loblaws Grocery, Canada - New Product in Aisle 6

[Albert Peres]

When you go to bed during a summer night and the windows are open, 
you'll now literally hear a crop chirping outside...and you listen 
carefully, you just may hear a crop of 2-billion rumbling inside...



PC 100% Cricket Powder, Poudre de Crillions

https://www.presidentschoice.ca/en_CA/products/productlisting/pc-100-cricket-powder.html

113 g each: UPC: 60383196622

Made with crickets farmed right here in Canada, this 100% cricket powder 
is a nutritious, versatile food that is high in protein and an excellent 
source of vitamin B12. Finely ground with a mild taste, it can be added 
to smoothies, sauces, chili, curries and baking batters.


CAUTION:
PEOPLE WHO ARE ALLERGIC TO CRUSTACEANS AND SHELLFISH MAY HAVE AN 
ALLERGIC REACTION TO CRICKETS.



Recipes:
https://www.presidentschoice.ca/en_CA/recipes/recipeslisting/no-bake-chocolate-coconut-cricket-bars.html

https://www.presidentschoice.ca/en_CA/recipes/recipeslisting/strawberry-banana-cricket-powder-smoothies.html

And for the Indians:
https://www.presidentschoice.ca/en_CA/recipes/recipeslisting/chana-masala-with-cricket-powder.html

Nutrition:
Per Serving (Per 2 1/2 tbsp, 19 g
% of Recommended Daily Value
Calories 90 cal 
Fat 3.5 g   5   
Saturates + Trans   8   
Saturates 1.5 g 
Trans 0 g   
Cholesterol 65 mg   
Sodium 60 mg3   
Potassium   
Carbohydrate 2 g1   
Fibre 1 g   4   
Sugars 0 g  
Protein 13 g
Vitamin A   0   
Vitamin C   0   
Calcium 2   
Iron6   
Vitamin B12 100


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PC Dairy-Free Kefir Probiotic Fermented Coconut Milk

https://www.presidentschoice.ca/en_CA/products/productlisting/pc-dairy-free-kefir-probiotic-fermented-coconut-milk.html

1 L each: UPC 060383206901

Get all the same probiotic benefits of our original kefir in this 
dairy-free coconut milk version. Made with 12 different bacterial 
cultures, this delicious and creamy beverage provides 2 billion 
probiotic live active cultures per 188 mL serving. Enjoy it by the 
glass, with cereal or in smoothies.


Note:
Suitable for vegetarians.

Nutrition:
Per Serving (Per 3/4 cup, 188 mL )
% of Recommended Daily Value
Calories 80 cal 
Fat 3.5 g   5   
Saturates + Trans   15  
Saturates 3 g   
Trans 0 g   
Cholesterol 0 mg
Sodium 5 mg 1   
Potassium   
Carbohydrate 11 g   4   
Fiber 0 g   0   
Sugars 7 g  
Protein 1 g 
Vitamin A   0   
Vitamin C   0   
Calcium 0

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[Goanet] OffTopic: Francis First Pontiff to Write (Computer) Code

[Albert Peres]

Pope Francis Makes History by Becoming the First Pontiff to Write Code

As well as writing code, the pope held video conferences with young 
people from around the world at the ‘Programme for Peace’ project launch 
last week.


by Ross Kelly, Junior Staff Writer @rossk_1992
https://digit.fyi/pope-francis-writes-code/

Computer history was made last week when Pope Francis helped write a 
line of code for a United Nations development app.


At an event organised by the Scholas Occurrentes foundation in Vatican 
City, the pontiff joined three young women to write the code. As well as 
becoming the first pope to code, he called on students around the world 
to learn computer science for world peace.


The event marked the launched of the ‘Programming for Peace’ project, 
which aims to introduce students from disadvantaged communities to 
computer science and to help use their tech talent for “ethical” purposes.


The three young women, Matilde Fabrega Vivanco from Chile; Nicole 
Rodriguez from New York; and Liuren Yin from China, are learning 
computer science in school. Vivanco helped the pontiff in adding the 
last line of code to the app.


The app the trio wrote aims to show how technology can be used to 
advance the United Nations’ Sustainable Development Goals.


The goals are the UN’s blueprint to “achieve a better and more 
sustainable future for all” – which address global challenges such as 
poverty, inequality, climate and justice. A key focus of the scheme is 
to improve education and innovation around the world.


A commemorative plaque shown on the app screen was blessed by Pope 
Francis, which read: “Computer science empowers young people to create 
peace in their communities. Everyone should learn how to harness 
technology, to use their creative power for peace.”


As well as writing code, the pontiff held video conferences with young 
people from around the world and spoke to children who had participated 
in a number of technology programmes promoted by Scholas.


Hadi Partovi, co-founder of Code.org, was present at the launch of the 
Programming for Peace project, live-tweeting the events as they unfolded.


During the event, Partovi commented: “In the 21st century, computer 
science is a fundamental subject that all students should learn. Schools 
should teach computer science to prepare students for the future, 
empower children with creativity and teach how to harness technology and 
creativity.”


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[Goanet] OffTopic: NASA - First person on Mars is 'likely to be a woman'

[Albert Peres]

NASA head says first person on Mars is 'likely to be a woman'

By Christina Maxouris, CNN
Tue March 12, 2019
https://www.cnn.com/2019/03/12/us/nasa-woman-on-mars-trnd/index.html

Forget everything you've learned about men and Mars. Chances are the 
first person to land on the red planet will be a woman, the head of NASA 
said recently.


Jim Bridenstine was a guest on the science and technology radio show 
"Science Friday," when he teased that a woman is "likely to be" the 
first person on Mars. The NASA administrator did not identify a specific 
person, but said women are at the forefront of the agency's upcoming plans.


Bridenstine responded "absolutely" to a question from a Twitter user who 
asked whether women will be included in the agency's next trip to the 
moon. In fact, he said the next person on the moon is also likely to be 
a woman. "These are great days," he said.


NASA will also have its first all-female spacewalk at the end of the 
month, when astronauts Anne McClain and Christina Koch will get to float 
around in space. The spacewalk will last about seven hours, according to 
the NASA website.


Both McClain and Koch were part of the 2013 astronaut class, half of 
which were women. They came from the second largest applicant pool NASA 
ever has received -- more than 6,100. The most recent class of flight 
directors was also 50% women, NASA said.


NASA has come a long way since 1978, when the first six women joined 
NASA's astronaut corps. Today, women comprise 34% of active NASA 
astronauts, according to the agency.


"NASA is committed to making sure we have a broad and diverse set of 
talent and we're looking forward to the first woman on the moon," 
Bridenstine said.


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[Goanet] OFFTOPIC: India Proposes Chinese-Style Internet Censorship

[Frederick Noronha]

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/02/14/technology/india-internet-censorship.html
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[Goanet] Offtopic: The richest man in history was an African king, not.Bill Gates

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https://culturacolectiva.com/history/mansa-musa-richest-man-in-history?fbclid=IwAR3L-jrJ19Ff8VlQVij8uB05rpg_GssCNzxxBzjjKSv2hiuypHJvB4ohu0o


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[Goanet] OFFTOPIC... For bibliophiles

[Frederick Noronha]

Can we build a network of Goa books online?
Try  https://inventaire.io/welcome
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[Goanet] OFFTOPIC: Why women go off sex

[Frederick Noronha]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_-5Pmry8rVk

[Goanet] offtopic: Estonia's e-residency

[AF P]

https://www.nytimes.com/paidpost/estonia/how-estonia-is-using-e-residency-to-support-entrepreneurs.html

In 2014, Estonians asked: If their country could serve citizens and
residents entirely online, why not open up their digital borders to more
people? This new population wouldn’t need citizenship or physical
residency, but would still be issued an Estonian digital ID card, enabling
them to operate within Estonia’s digital business environment without
physically being in the country. This would allow more people to establish
and manage an E.U. company entirely online, helping democratize
entrepreneurship globally.

E-Residency Explained: What,Why and How?

Anyone can apply for e-Residency online, regardless of citizenship or
location. Applicants undergo background checks by the Estonian Police and
Border Guard Board and, if approved, are invited to pick up an e-Residency
starter kit containing a digital ID card and PIN codes used for online
authentication and digital signatures.

The benefits? Many expats and digital nomads like e-Residency because they
can run their businesses entirely online in English, from anywhere they
are. Others appreciate being able to run an E.U. company with lower costs
and less hassle. This includes a significant number of entrepreneurs
already living in E.U. countries where business costs and barriers can be
much higher. Finally, many use e-Residency because it’s trusted and can
make doing business globally easier. Thanks to Estonia’s digitized business
environment, anyone can look up who owns a company established by an
e-resident and how it has paid taxes, a transparency valued by
location-independent entrepreneurs. They can access the E.U. market,
connect with like-minded entrepreneurs and use e-services unavailable to
companies registered locally, such as payment providers.

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[Goanet] OFFTOPIC... but might be of interest

[Frederick Noronha]

Christian Brothers promise action if member found guilty of sexual abuse
http://india.ucanews.com/news/christian-brothers-promise-action-if-member-found-guilty-of-sexual-abuse/38462/daily

J withdraws order to purchase religious books for educational institutions
http://india.ucanews.com/news/jk-withdraws-order-to-purchase-religious-books-for-educational-institutions/38453/daily

BJP fields former pastors for Mizoram elections
http://india.ucanews.com/news/bjp-fields-former-pastors-for-mizoram-election/38449/daily
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[Goanet] OFFTOPIC: This Couple’s Quest for Natural Living Has Resulted in a Mini Forest and an Energy Efficient Home

[Frederick Noronha]

https://www.thebetterindia.com/57389/energy-efficient-house-natural-farm-medicine-free-life-couple-live-life-closest-nature/?fb=reshare
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[Goanet] OFFTOPIC: The best way to respond to negative feedback: Take a breather....

[Frederick Noronha]

The best way to respond to negative feedback: Take a breather. You might
want to react immediately. But those who take a few days, or weeks, to
digest are more likely to improve, according to research by organisational
psychologist Tasha Eurich. Negative feedback challenges our self-image,
which can feel like a psychological assault. Take some time to interpret
(and reinterpret) what you’ve heard, ask someone you trust for their take
and remember that there’s more to you than this bit of criticism.

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[Goanet] OFFTOPIC: This is ...

[Frederick Noronha]

[Please don't watch if you might be offended]

This is India (BrahminGangstaRap)
http://www.funnyordie.com/videos/84d8a01dbc/this-is-india-brahmin-gangsta-rap-video

This is Nigeria (FalzTheBadGuy)
https://filmmakermagazine.com/105417-watch-falz-the-bad-guys-childish-gambino-riff-this-is-nigeria/

... and the plagiarised :-)
This is America (ChildishGambino)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VYOjWnS4cMY

Coming soon: This is Goa by

[Goanet] OFFTOPIC: Starting a New Business? Here’s The 6 Biggest Mistakes You Should Avoid

[Frederick Noronha]

* You choose the wrong name
* You buy for the sake of buying
* You have no marketing strategy
* You work in isolation
* You underprice
* You give in to distraction

https://www.redinfographics.com/starting-new-business-heres-6-biggest-mistakes-avoid/


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[Goanet] OFFTOPIC: IIT professor sacrifices his luxury life to stand for poor tribals

[Frederick Noronha]

... with a Houston or US link too:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nhPpBSbt15c


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[Goanet] [OFFTOPIC] Deborah Herald is in the news again...

[Frederick Noronha]

http://www.forbesindia.com/article/recliner/deborah-herold-from-tsunami-survivor-to-champion-cyclist/43647/1

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[Goanet] Offtopic: Ikea Canada 'It's a Wonderful World' ...video

[Albert Peres]

Shot in Toronto and includes subtle imagery of the real modern world in 
every scene...including the last one, Ikea's inexpensive, good design, 
for everyone.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KWTnLRZCs5c=youtu.be

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[Goanet] OFFTOPIC: Why Modi government's GST has hit a wall Businesses are getting a sinking feeling as Goods and Services Tax is touching the dreaded fault line.

[Frederick Noronha]

http://www.dailyo.in/politics/gst-complex-dysfunctional-economy-sinking-feeling-gstn-bjp-finance-ministry/story/1/19528.html

[Goanet] OFFTOPIC: 10 SKILLS That Are HARD to Learn, BUT Will Pay Off FOREVER!

[Frederick Noronha]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2wPeC4CLkLU

#1 Speaking up
#2 Being honest with yourself
#3 Having confidence
#4 Listening
#5 Managing your time
#6 Stop whining
#7 Staying present in the moment
#8 Being consistent
#9 Getting enough sleep
#10 Have empathy

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2wPeC4CLkLU
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[Goanet] Offtopic: USA: “If I gotta give her up, we’re gonna make it count.”

[Albert Peres]

Mother of Heather Heyer urges action: “If I gotta give her up, we’re 
gonna make it count.”


http://shareblue.com/mother-of-heather-heyer-urges-action-if-i-gotta-give-her-up-were-gonna-make-it-count/

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[Goanet] Offtopic: Call for Papers. Expressions of Lusofonia - International Conference. Oct 2017 Toronto

[Albert Peres]

Call for Papers

http://portuguese.dlll.laps.yorku.ca/conference-2018/call-for-papers/

Expressions of Lusofonia - International Conference
Expressões da Lusofonia – Encontro Internacional

October 25, 26 and 27, 2018
York University, Faculty of Liberal Arts & Professional Studies – 
Toronto/Canada


Call for papers (PDF)

Chamada de trabalhos (PDF)

INTRODUCTION

In a world of super-diversity, of migratory movements and social, 
political, economic, and technological upheavals, the Portuguese 
language has taken on a global position. This reality is clearly 
manifested on the internet, in large part due to the constant growth of 
the Lusophone communities around the world and the intensification of 
local and diasporic relationships. Today, perhaps more than ever, 
Portuguese language is a unifying factor and a predominant source of 
identity in those countries where it is an official language, as well as 
their expatriate communities.  In addition, the interest in the 
Portuguese language is visible in its value as a transnational language 
in the global economy, a value evidenced in the growing demand in Asia 
and Latin America.


The Lusophone world has created several congregational structures at 
various levels (The International Institute of Portuguese Language, the 
Community of Portuguese-Speaking Countries, the Observatory of the 
Portuguese Language, to name a few), which have produced synergies and 
movements between its transnational communities, thus contributing to 
Lusofonia´s rising international visibility.


This international conference seeks to gather researchers from various 
fields interested in the Lusophone world, whose research falls within 
York University’s Faculty of Liberal Arts & Professional Studies mission 
- namely, within the disciplines of Social Sciences and Humanities, 
though not exclusively.


This conference will take place in one of the world’s most multicultural 
cities, where several communities from Lusophone countries and regions, 
such as Portugal, Brazil, Angola, Cape Verde, Mozambique, Macau, and 
Goa, co-exist harmoniously within the Toronto’s cultural fabric. York 
University’s iconic Faculty of Liberal Arts & Professional Studies is 
the largest in Canada. This is one of the two Canadian universities that 
offer a degree in Portuguese & Luso-Brazilian Studies (BA or Honours 
Minor), which will celebrate ten years of existence in 2018. York 
University also hosts the Canadian Centre for Azorean Research and 
Studies (CCARS), the Associação de Estudos Lusófonos/Lusophone Studies 
Association and Projeto de História Luso-canadiana/Portuguese Canadian 
History project.


This conference aims to promote interdisciplinary dialogue about the 
following themes: 1) the revaluation of the status and role of the 
Social Sciences and Humanities in university curricula; ii) the 
internationalization of Lusophone studies; iii) the presence of language 
and Lusophone cultures in various professional/disciplinary areas; iv) 
the teaching of foreign languages in higher education, especially 
Portuguese; v) the relationship between universities and local 
communities; vi) the interaction between businesses and universities as 
creators of professional opportunities within the Lusophone world; vii) 
experiential education and its role as promoter of synergies among 
surrounding communities; viii) new methods of teaching and learning, and 
pedagogical projects (flipped classroom, active, collaborative and 
meaningful learning/teaching; inter-comprehension); ix) teaching of 
culture, history, and Lusophone literatures; x) youth/student 
involvement and/or engagement in academic and social initiatives.


We hope that this conference tackles broad topics such as:

What synergies have been established between researchers of the 
Lusophone world?

What is the status of Lusophone studies internationally?
What has been the development of Portuguese language within the 
contexts of second and third language learning?
Which Lusophone literary, cultural, and artistic expressions have 
found a place among different publics?


FORMAT AND NORMS FOR THE PROPOSALS

There will be three format options:

Poster - dimensions -  Width and Height:  24” x 36” or 60.96 cm x 
91.44 cm; printing at author’s expense; summary of 250 words maximum; 
key-words (max of 5)

Presentation - summary of 250 words maximum; key-words (max of 5)
Panel – summary of 300 words maximum; key-words (max of 7) – in 
this case, it is up to the panel coordinator to collect all 
contributions and present a collaborative group proposal; the text of 
the proposal must include a brief of the individual proposals as well as 
the institutional information of all participants.


Conference languages: Portuguese, English, French and Spanish

Proposals must be sent electronically to lusoc...@yorku.ca and include 
the following information:


Authors; institutional affiliation; email contacts; title 

Re: [Goanet] Offtopic: Law makes it legal for atheist doctors and nurses to refuse care to religious

[Mervyn Lobo]

Albert Peres wrote:Sorry, I can't treatment this man. I know him well. He 
claims to be 


religious but is in practice he is a hypocrite. This violates my 
personal beliefs. I am an Atheist. He is a danger to society. An 
abomination. He believes in the supernatural. He partakes in pointless 
rituals of self aggrandizement. He promotes propaganda and supports 
brainwashing activities. He is cruel. Let him depend on his God, and 
succumb to his God's wishes... next.
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AP,
There is a saying in Alabama which goes, 'Thank God for Mississippi.' 
The reason is that Alabama ranks 49th in the US - with regards to education, 
poverty, medical care, etc. 
The doctor who will not treat a sick man, will remain poor - both in spirit and 
pay.
Mervyn



   

[Goanet] Offtopic: Law makes it legal for atheist doctors and nurses to refuse care to religious

[Albert Peres]

Sorry, I can't treatment this man. I know him well. He claims to be 
religious but is in practice he is a hypocrite. This violates my 
personal beliefs. I am an Atheist. He is a danger to society. An 
abomination. He believes in the supernatural. He partakes in pointless 
rituals of self aggrandizement. He promotes propaganda and supports 
brainwashing activities. He is cruel. Let him depend on his God, and 
succumb to his God's wishes... next.


AP


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New law makes it legal for atheist doctors and nurses to refuse care to 
religious patients


http://thaumaturgical.com/new-law-makes-legal-atheist-doctors-nurses-refuse-care-religious-patients/

JACKSON, MS – A new law in Mississippi has made it legal for doctors and 
nurses to refuse care to certain patients on religious grounds .


The law allows medical staff to refuse treatment to members of the LGBQT 
community on the grounds that it violates their religious beliefs. It 
would serve to reason this would also pertain to atheist doctors and 
nurses who could refuse to treat patients who are religious.


“No, no, no. This isn’t the point of the law at all,” said an angry 
senator Frank Danforth (R). “The law is supposed to protect doctors and 
nurses who follow the teachings of God and our Lord Jesus Christ from 
having to treat patients who practice an unholy lifestyle.”


Many doctors and nurses in Mississippi are against the law, but have 
expressed that will also follow it to the letter and refuse treatment to 
patients who they feel are bigoted against certain lifestyle choices.


“Of course not all religious people are against LGBQT’s, just like not 
all atheists are against religion,” said Dr. Susan Jewer, atheist. “But 
if medical professionals are allowed to refuse care on religious 
grounds, I am more than happy to oblige.”


To date, there have been no reports of atheist doctors or nurses taking 
advantage of the new law.


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[Goanet] OffTopic: Pakistan announces state funeral for Dr Ruth Pfau (RC Catholic Nun)

[Albert Peres]

The Express Tribune > Pakistan

PM announces state funeral for Dr Ruth Pfau
https://tribune.com.pk/story/1478344/pm-announces-state-funeral-dr-ruth-pfau/

Dr Pfau is a nun from the Society of Daughters of the Heart of Mary

August 10, 2017

With her efforts, in 1996, the World Health Organisation declared 
Pakistan one of the first countries in Asia to have controlled leprosy. 
PHOTO: FILE


With her efforts, in 1996, the World Health Organisation declared 
Pakistan one of the first countries in Asia to have controlled leprosy. 
PHOTO: FILE


In recognition of services rendered by the late Dr Ruth Pfau, Prime 
Minister Shahid Khaqan Abbasi has announced a state funeral for the nun 
from Germany who made eliminating leprosy from Pakistan her life’s mission.


Dr Pfau, who established the country’s leprosy control programme and the 
Mary Adelaide Leprosy Center, was dubbed the Mother Teresa of Pakistan. 
She passed away in a Karachi hospital at the age of 87 Thursday morning.


“The entire nation is indebted to Ruth Pfau for her selfless and 
unmatched services for eradication of leprosy [in Pakistan],” Abbasi 
said in a statement.


She, the PM added, gave new hope to innumerable people and proved 
through her illustrious toil that serving humanity knows no boundaries. 
“We are proud of her exemplary services and she will remain in our 
hearts as a shining symbol in times ahead.”


Dr Pfau, a nun from the Society of Daughters of the Heart of Mary, came 
to Pakistan when she was 29 in 1960 and decided to stay after she 
witnessed the suffering of the country’s leprosy patients.


With her efforts, in 1996, the World Health Organisation declared 
Pakistan one of the first countries in Asia to have controlled leprosy. 
She was awarded the Hilal-e-Pakistan in 1989 and Hilal-e-Imtiaz in 1979 
by the government of Pakistan.


Her funeral mass will be held on Saturday, August 19, at 11am at St 
Patrick’s Cathedral and will be buried in the Christian Cemetery (Gora 
Qabristan).


PPP moves resolution in NA
Meanwhile, lawmakers from the Pakistan Peoples Party moved a resolution 
in the National Assembly to acknowledge Dr Pfau’s services.


“We, the members of the National Assembly express our deepest sorrow at 
the passing away of Dr Ruth Katherine Pfau, a great humanist who spent a 
lifetime dedicated to public service in Pakistan,” read the resolution, 
which was moved by Nafisa Shah.


“This house resolves that her rich legacy of selflessness, hope and 
perseverance be commemorated through a befitting state funeral. This 
house further resolves that a care foundation be set up in recognition 
of her services by the government of Pakistan.”




http://vocations.ca/communities_dioceses/sisters/daughters_heart_mary/

Founded in France in 1790 by a Jesuit, Father Pierre de Clorivière and a 
lay woman, Adelaide de Cicé, our mission is to bring the Gospel message 
of Jesus out in the midst of the world, witnessed through our own lives 
of service to the Church and God’s people.


The Society of the Daughters of the Heart of Mary is an international 
congregation of women who profess vows of Chastity, Poverty, and 
Obedience and live religious life without a distinctive sign or title. 
We live contemporary and often hidden lives patterned after that of Mary 
of Nazareth, with community life through a common spirituality and 
prayer life.


Mission
Commitment to serve people of all social backgrounds, ages, ethnic 
groups, religions and traditions remains constant. Ministries are broad 
and diversified.



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[Goanet] OFFTOPIC: ‘Rhinestone Cowboy’ and Other Great Hits

[Frederick Noronha]

‘Rhinestone Cowboy’ and Other Great Hits to Remember Glen Campbell By
https://thewire.in/166347/listen-rhinestone-cowboy-great-glen-campbell-hits/
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[Goanet] OFFTOPIC: To Kolkata, From Baghdadi Jews, With Love

[Frederick FN Noronha * फ्रेड्रिक नोरोन्या * فريدريك نورونيا]

To Kolkata, From Baghdadi Jews, With Love
https://thewire.in/160286/from-baghdad-with-love/

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[Goanet] OFFTOPIC: Why (or why not) politics might be better in Meghalaya....

[Frederick FN Noronha * फ्रेड्रिक नोरोन्या * فريدريك نورونيا]

https://www.thequint.com/social-buzz/2017/01/02/shillong-congress-mukul-sangma-when-meghalaya-chief-minister-sang-a-beatles-track-with-opposition-ministers

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[Goanet] OFFTOPIC: Caste, migration, politics... in an Indian state

[Frederick FN Noronha * फ्रेड्रिक नोरोन्या * فريدريك نورونيا]

Not Goa, but could be relevant here too
A rather insightful talk
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_vBvExh7-QY
(Delivered some time in the past, but still very insightful)

[Goanet] OFFTOPIC: How genetics is settling the Aryan migration debate

[Frederick FN Noronha * फ्रेड्रिक नोरोन्या * فريدريك نورونيا]

How genetics is settling the Aryan migration debate
http://www.thehindu.com/sci-tech/science/how-genetics-is-settling-the-aryan-migration-debate/article19090301.ece

Too early to settle the Aryan migration debate?
http://www.thehindu.com/opinion/op-ed/too-early-to-
settle-the-aryan-migration-debate/article19265947.ece

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[Goanet] OffTopic: From Canada. Engineer to become Governor General

[AF P]

OTTAWA—

Julie Payette (age 53), Canada’s second woman in space, will be Canada’s
next governor general, the CBC has reported.

An engineer born in Montreal, Payette was selected as a Canadian astronaut
in June 1992, going on to make two space shuttle flights and becoming the
first Canadian on the International Space Station.

Sources say Trudeau informed the Queen during an audience with her last
week of his recommendation to the post.

Current Gov. Gen. David Johnston’s term is set to expire in September,
after Stephen Harper extended it by two years ahead of the 2015 federal
election.

The identity of his replacement has been a closely guarded secret. Payette
would become the 29th person to hold the position.

An engineer born in Montreal, Payette was selected as a Canadian astronaut
in June 1992, going on to make two space shuttle flights and becoming the
first Canadian on the International Space Station. Payette hung up her
flight suit in 2013 to become chief operating officer of the Montreal
Science Centre as well as vice-president of the Canada Lands Company.

Traditionally, the viceregal job rotates between anglophones and
francophones, with all indications pointing to a francophone filling the
portfolio beginning this fall.

Johnston, who had a long career in academia, was chosen for the position
off a short list presented to Harper by an ad hoc committee of experts
struck with the express task of selecting a non-partisan person with
constitutional knowledge.

At the time, Harper had a minority government and so who held the post of
governor general was essential to maintaining the stability of government.

The names of those on the selection committee weren’t published until after
Johnston’s nomination, but Harper would go on to make the committee a
permanent body, saying a process to ensure a non-partisan approach to
appointments was important.

When asked late last year how he’d pick the next governor general, Trudeau
was noncommittal about what process he would use.

“I’m not going to change things just to reinvent the wheel,” Trudeau said
in a year-end interview with The Canadian Press.

“If there is a good process that we can improve by making (it) more open
and transparent and more diverse, that I will probably do.”

Johnston is currently on a visit to China, and is expected to have an
audience with the Queen next week when he travels to the U.K. for Canada
150 events, likely marking the last time he will sit face-to-face with the
monarch he represents.

In his farewell speech on Canada Day, Johnston said he has learned much in
his seven years on the job.

“These are challenging but exciting times,” he said.

“And together we can show the world what a great country looks like. To me
it looks like Canada, a country that strives, always, to be smarter and
more caring — to do better, together.”

With files from The Canadian Press

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[Goanet] Offtopic: re: for Toronto Canadians. More links

[AF P]

This film gives insight into the success of small scale Indian community
and business development in the Diaspora.

Gerrard Street Village (Little India, or Gerrard India Bazaar) is the grand
old lady of the Indian retail storefronts and restaurants in Canada. There
are now numerous South Asia areas in the GTA (Greater Toronto Area) among
the 100's of other multi-ethnic neighbourhoods.

These neighbourhoods are not ghettos but remarkably well organized,
internationally integrated, vibrant areas. They are places where people
dream hard and work hard.

I'm sure this is similar to every city in the Western World.

TVO (TV Ontario) page:
http://tvo.org/video/documentaries/little-india-village-of-dreams

doc website:
http://villageofdreams.ca/villagers/

Youtube Channel:
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCmblcUlwWmp_NeBatiRVvdQ

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LNYtaTFJF1E=PLtYu78DIFGNa5j3S0hXn4BKrq_
kwaxEbO

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KF2YtEhCGzw=
PLtYu78DIFGNa0QLOPUKnd9An7ktB5vUiW

The Naaz Theatre - How Little India Began
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LNYtaTFJF1E=PLtYu78DIFGNa5j3S0hXn4BKrq_kwaxEbO

Udupi Palace - Hubert D'Mello
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ufKGicFsrYc

BIA Website:
http://www.gerrardindiabazaar.com/

Happy Diwali:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7d8srEaLRN4

(BTW ...notice in the wide and camera pan shots there is not a single piece
of trash on the streets...that's Canada for you. Nice)

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[Goanet] Offtopic: Article: Progressives are stumped.

[AF P]

https://georgelakoff.com/2017/07/01/two-questions-about-trump-and-republicans-that-stump-progressives/

They are asking these questions over and over again on social media, TV,
and radio:

1) Why don’t Trump supporters turn against Trump even though he is doing
things that hurt them? (like taking away their healthcare)

2) Why do Republicans hate the Affordable Care Act, and why are they so
transparently acting to give wealthy people a tax break by making
healthcare unaffordable?
Here is the short answer: *All politics is moral*.

George Lakoff has retired as Distinguished Professor of Cognitive Science
and Linguistics at the University of California at Berkeley. He is now
Director of the Center for the Neural

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Re: [Goanet] Offtopic: St Stanislaus under fire for staging

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On 16 June 2017 at 00:46, Albert Peres  wrote:

> Catholic school St Stanislaus under fire for staging apology service for
> victims of abuse
>
> By the National Reporting Team's Lorna Knowles and Alison Branley
> http://www.abc.net.au/news/2017-06-15/catholic-school-under-
> fire-for-staging-apology-service/8621990
>
> One of Australia's oldest Catholic boarding schools is under fire for
> turning an apology to victims of child sexual abuse into a religious
> service.
>

For a moment, I was thinking it was St Stanislaus, Bandra, a school many a
Goan has been part of... specially in the past! FN
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[Goanet] Offtopic: St Stanislaus under fire for staging

[Albert Peres]

Catholic school St Stanislaus under fire for staging apology service for 
victims of abuse


By the National Reporting Team's Lorna Knowles and Alison Branley
http://www.abc.net.au/news/2017-06-15/catholic-school-under-fire-for-staging-apology-service/8621990

One of Australia's oldest Catholic boarding schools is under fire for 
turning an apology to victims of child sexual abuse into a religious 
service.


At least 160 students of St Stanislaus College in Bathurst were abused 
by paedophile priests and staff over three decades, between the 1970s 
and 1990s.


The school plans to host an "Apology Service of Sorrow and Hope" on 
Friday night but victims say asking them to attend the school – where 
the abuse happened – and incorporating the apology into a religious 
service would trigger painful memories.


The head of the school, Dr Anne Wenham, said the event was intended as a 
genuine commitment to say sorry to victims.


"There will be prayers as part of this service. Sensitive to the 
experiences of our guests, we will be praying to God for forgiveness for 
the sexual abuse that took place at this college by former members of 
staff and for healing and hope for the many survivors," Ms Wenham said 
in a statement.


But leading child protection advocate, Hetty Johnstone from Bravehearts, 
said it was cruel and insensitive to expect victims who were betrayed by 
people of faith to participate in a religious service.


"To force a survivor into an institution where they've been harmed to 
hear an apology is totally bereft of any kind of understanding about 
what's happening for survivors," Ms Johnstone told the ABC.


"You've got these people still sitting in these positions of power and 
authority who just don't get it. Who don't really want to apologise, I 
don't think.


"They'll do it on their terms but not on the survivor's terms."

Jason Thorpe was sexually abused by serial paedophile Brian Spillane at 
the school in the 1990s, when he was 14. Spillane is one of a dozen 
people connected to the school who have been convicted of child sexual 
assault.


Mr Thorpe told the ABC he found the idea of an apology service insulting.

"I don't want a liturgy. It's kind of like an insult, I feel. I mean to 
go to church knowing that the perpetrator was that church — that would 
bring back for me, memories. Just to acknowledge to say 'you were 
wronged, you were hurt' — that would be good," Mr Thorpe said.
Sexual abuse survivor Jason Thorpe in a wheelchair and mother Deirdre 
Kinghorn walking along a path
Photo: Sexual abuse survivor Jason Thorpe said the idea of an apology 
service was insulting. (ABC News)


Mr Thorpe's mother Deirdre Kinghorn said she was worried about the 
impact on her son.


"It was priests and brothers that did the damage, so why have a church 
service that will trigger something in him?" Ms Kinghorn said.


"We've had 20 years of hell with him, keeping him sane, keeping him 
even and it's going to trigger [him], it's not worth it."


Ms Kinghorn said families members would have preferred an apology in a 
neutral, informal setting.


"Just to have a get-together, a cup of tea and a snack, a buffet and get 
to know each other and perhaps say sorry that way," she said.


"Not go to the school and say 'Well we're sorry'. It doesn't mean a thing."

Carole Nielsen's son Tor was also abused by Spillane and later became 
the whistleblower on abuse at the school.

Brian Spillane arriving at court.

Photo: Former priest Brian Spillane is one of a dozen people connected 
to the school who have been convicted of child sexual assault. (AAP: 
Dean Lewins.)


Ms Nielsen said she was furious about the planned apology service.

"To have a religious ceremony where a lot of the boys were abused in 
prayer meetings to me was just astonishing," Ms Nielsen said.


"At worst, it's sinister and at best, it's just total ignorance. I don't 
think you can have any sort of reconciliation unless you have a degrees 
of empathy or compassion for the people that you're trying to reconcile 
with and I don't think any of that's been displayed by this apology".


NSW Greens MP David Shoebridge said it appeared the school had learned 
nothing from the lessons of the royal commission.


"We've heard story after story, case study after case study which shows 
how badly institutions have responded in the past," Mr Shoebridge said.


"You would've thought the church and this school would have learnt the 
lesson, but instead they're still disrespecting the victims. They're 
still prioritising their own needs."


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[Goanet] Offtopic: BBC Local London Radio

[Albert Peres]

BBC London Radio via the internet.

http://bbclondon.radio.net/

http://www.bbc.co.uk/radiolondon
http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio/player/bbc_london

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[Goanet] Offtopic: Labour's Keith Vaz holds Leicester East in 2017 general election

[Albert Peres]

How Leicester East voted in 2017

Sujata BAROT – Independent: 1,753
Nitesh DAVE - Liberal Democrats: 1,343
Ian FOX - Independent: 454
Edward YI HE – Conservative: 12,688
Keith VAZ - Labour: 35,116
Melanie WAKLEY - Green: 1,070

Speaking after his victory, Mr Vaz said: "Jeremy Corbyn did a great job 
despite all the criticism."


He added: "If Theresa May does not increase the number of seats for the 
Conservative Party then I think she would have to consider her position, 
as would any sitting Prime Minister."


Mr Vaz added that the national result would also have a significant 
impact on the pending Brexit negotiations.


Read more at 
http://www.leicestermercury.co.uk/keith-vaz-holds-leicester-east-and-praises-jeremy-corbyn-s-campaign/story-30380626-detail/story.html#jHOLiO02pOWc5IxM.99



Turnout: 67.73%

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[Goanet] Offtopic: Need a vacation? Think...Canada. Obama did.

[Albert Peres]

Need a vacation? Think...Canada. We've been expecting you...


http://montrealgazette.com/news/local-news/barack-obama-justin-trudeau-grab-bite-to-eat-in-st-henri-after-speech

https://twitter.com/DomenicFazioli/status/872575386588237824/photo/1

Barack Obama's appearance on Little Burgundy's gourmet restaurant strip 
coincided with a non-rainy night to ensure that people lined up on both 
sides of the street to catch a glimpse of the former U.S. president, as 
police and Obama’s security detail kept a close watch.


Obama had dinner with Prime Minister Justin Trudeau immediately after 
giving a speech at the Palais des congres, organized by the Board of 
Trade of Metropolitan Montreal, where Obama delivered a message of hope 
to a sellout crowd.


With the ominous black SUVs parked outside, people thought the duo would 
be eating at Joe Beef, but they ended up at Liverpool House.


'Even Obama couldn’t get a table at Joe Beef', someone in the crowd joked.

A couple of hours later, the two politicians emerged from the restaurant 
looking relaxed and, with big smiles on their faces, waved to the 
cheering onlookers on Notre-Dame St. before Obama got into his black SUV 
and left the scene.


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link includes photos and live tweets

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[Goanet] OffTopic: Beaches in Canada

[AF P]

Clean, safe beaches to visit across Canada this summer
http://globalnews.ca/news/3457825/clean-safe-beaches-to-visit-across-canada-this-summer/

Yes we have beaches in Toronto (walking distance), many across
Ontario. Not called the Great Lakes for nothing.

June, July, August...amazing.

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[Goanet] OFFTOPIC: Qissa e Parsi: The Parsi Story

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http://www.ucanindia.in/news/qissa-e-parsi-the-parsi-story/34806/daily

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[Goanet] Offtopic: USA Regular Senate Intel Commitee

[AF P]

Acting FBI director McCabe testifies in Comey's place at Senate intel hearing

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VgdzH9d-JO0=youtu.be=1h38m51s

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[Goanet] Offtopic: The most dangerous organization in human history

[AF P]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fJ3cbtZ-UM8

Published on Apr 26, 2017
http://democracynow.org

As President Trump prepares to mark 100 days in office, we spend the
hour with the world-renowned linguist and dissident Noam Chomsky. Amy
Goodman spoke to him on Monday night at the First Parish Church in
Cambridge, Massachusetts.

The conversation addressed climate change, nuclear weapons, North
Korea, Iran, the war in Syria and the Trump administration’s threat to
prosecute WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange.

Amy Goodman began by asking him about the Republican Party.

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[Goanet] OFFTOPIC-DOCU: Haiti, Egypt, Turkey, human migration, attractiveness, Canada's millionaire immigrants....

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Haitians Have Been Left To Fend For Themselves
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aj-NMxbim3A

The Collapse Of Tourism In Egypt (2012)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=azdp_aZSZ3E

Is Turkey Becoming a Dictatorship?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=39jtpb4ySb8

Great human odessy
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jALNCPeoqTw

What women find attractive
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PoKA-a5vEEc

Canada's millionaire immigrants
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fTPym5VHI4c

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[Goanet] OFFTOPIC: Create, play and print beautiful sheet music https://musescore.org/

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Create, play and print beautiful sheet music


Getting Started

   - Lesson 1 - Score Setup 
   - Lesson 2 - Working with MuseScore
   
   - Lesson 3 - Note Input 
   - Lesson 4 - MIDI Keyboard Input
   
   - Lesson 5 - More Input Ideas
   
   - Lesson 6 - Text, Lyrics and Chords
   
   - Lesson 7 - Tablature and Drum Notation
   
   - Lesson 8 - Repeats and Endings, Part 1
   
   - Lesson 9 - Repeats and Endings, Part 2
   
   - Lesson 10 - Articulations, Dynamics and Text
   
   - Lesson 11 - Layout and Parts
   

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Re: [Goanet] OFFTOPIC - International Threat

[Mervyn Lobo]

Santosh Helekar wrote:


It is fairly obvious that Trump has all of the worst possible
character flaws that any human being can ever have. There are two nice
euphemistic Konknni words that best describe him - rostad and ordinar.
He is therefore also attractive to people who have similar attributes.
Unfortunately, such people succeed in dirty politics and privately
owned fraudulent businesses. Above all, he is a pathological liar as
Bernie Sanders never fails to mention. That is why those who believe
anything he says or promises are ignorant fools. But I believe he is
powerless in doing any major harm as a result of his ignorance and
mendacity. The system as a whole is too resilient. ---
Doc,The title of this tread ought to be changed as Trump is no longer a threat. 
He is now doing what comes naturally to him.
Yesterday, the nerveless Republican leader stepped into the cowboy boots of 
George 'Mission Accomplished' Bush (43) and has assumed the role of accuser, 
judge and executioner of people outside the US.
I feel that Trump's first salvo was based on faulty military er, intelligence. 
It was from the same source as 'the Iraqis are ready to attack in 30 minutes' 
slop receptacle. I fully expect Trump to wake up at 3.30 am and inform us that 
the military had fed him grits for breakfast. He will then provide the real 
deal twit i.e. the American made poison gas shells were actually fired from a 
facility that houses the Iranian nuclear development program. 
We live in interesting times.
As for your comment of him being powerless (I think you meant in the USÉ) - the 
elected Republican sorority have already made this abundantly clear to him. 
What is not so clear - to many - is that George Bush 45, is capable of causing 
magor economic turmoil to his country. 45 shot to fame for his 
puissance/compassion for firing people. I fully expect 45 to out do 43 in the 
employment sector.  
Lastly, I have $2 to bet that before the dust settles, 45, like 43, will bring 
the US economy to its knees. 
MervynBTW, can someone explain to me how cutting taxes and increasing govt 
expenditure will make a country strongÉ My native country has been trying that 
formula for the past 50 years

   

Re: [Goanet] OFFTOPIC - International Threat

[Jim Fernandes]

More wishful thinking from sore losers.

How immature this dude really is! 

Now he is crying 'the sky is falling down' regarding the failure of a passage 
of the health care law! Nobody expects 100% smooth sail in politics. This is 
what democracy is about. I have said before, the Republicans can only work to 
make it better. Not the other way around. 

I am still a big fan of Obamacare even though the law did not manage to rein in 
insurance premiums - something I was really banking on. Even with more people 
insured. the existing law did not bring down premiums. Without additional help 
from the federal government, the law will definitely collapse in the coming 
years, as it needs financial support from the federal government to continue 
subsidizing the premiums for lower income groups. Get yourself educated on the 
negative pitfalls of Obamacare. The law needs changes - not a complete re-write.

Look up here on what I wrote back in 2010 regarding Obamacare. I even had the 
foresight to say that the law would need tweaking in the future. Reading this, 
you will notice I am neither pro-Democrats nor pro-Republicans:
https://www.mail-archive.com/goanet@lists.goanet.org/msg59841.html

One of the things I know of Trump is that he hates to lose. The guy is a 
fighter - not a nincompoop. He has zero characteristics of some of the sore 
losers on GoaNet. I am sure, some day he'll sign a modified health bill that 
will be great for Americans and when he does that, I'll give this loser a nice 
opportunity to slap this post back on his sorry face.

There has never been a single political event where this dude's forecasts have 
been right.

Jim Fernandes
Scarsdale, NY.

On Thu, 6 Apr 2017 02:18:07 + (UTC), Mervyn Lobo  
wrote:

> Santosh Helekar wrote:My bet is on section 4 of the 25th amendment of the 
> U.S. constitution
> 
> 
> - president unable to discharge. But more likely he will hobble along,
> and stumble and bumble. Immoral loud mouth bullies are invariably
> mentally weak. They always end up embarrassing themselves, unable to
> accomplish anything. -
> 
> Santosh,dj Trump opened his Presidential record with his biggest 
> embarrassment ever. 
> After wailing for 7 years that they would repeal and replace Obamacare on day 
> one, the Republicans got together and gifted their fresh leader pie in the 
> face - as the Master negotiator could not put together a deal with members of 
> his own party.
> By the time you read this, the lionhearted Chinese leader will have already 
> made a deal with Trump that is to Trump's advantage. Let me make this clear, 
> the Chinese have already gifted Trump licences that are very difficult to 
> obtain in China and will offer him more goodies. 
> Some in the US will believe Trump when he tweets that he got the best deal 
> with China :-)
> One thing that I give dj credit for is that he is unaware of how much money 
> the US owes China. I really am looking forward to seeing China explain to 
> Trump that the US economy will collapse if China refuses to finance US 
> capital expenditure (or military adventures).
> Mervyn
> 

Re: [Goanet] OFFTOPIC - International Threat

[Santosh Helekar]

Mervyn,

It is fairly obvious that Trump has all of the worst possible
character flaws that any human being can ever have. There are two nice
euphemistic Konknni words that best describe him - rostad and ordinar.
He is therefore also attractive to people who have similar attributes.
Unfortunately, such people succeed in dirty politics and privately
owned fraudulent businesses. Above all, he is a pathological liar as
Bernie Sanders never fails to mention. That is why those who believe
anything he says or promises are ignorant fools. But I believe he is
powerless in doing any major harm as a result of his ignorance and
mendacity. The system as a whole is too resilient. Here is a nice
editorial from Los Angeles Times:

http://www.latimes.com/projects/la-ed-conspiracy-theorist-in-chief/

Cheers,

Santosh

Mervyn wrote:
>
>Santosh,dj Trump opened his Presidential record with his biggest embarrassment 
>ever.
>After wailing for 7 years that they would repeal and replace Obamacare on day 
>one, the Republicans got together and gifted their fresh leader pie in the 
>face - as the Master negotiator could not put together a deal with members of 
>his >own party.
>By the time you read this, the lionhearted Chinese leader will have already 
>made a deal with Trump that is to Trump's advantage. Let me make this clear, 
>the Chinese have already gifted Trump licences that are very difficult to 
>obtain in >China and will offer him more goodies.
>Some in the US will believe Trump when he tweets that he got the best deal 
>with China :-)
>One thing that I give dj credit for is that he is unaware of how much money 
>the US owes China. I really am looking forward to seeing China explain to 
>Trump that the US economy will collapse if China refuses to finance US capital 
>>expenditure (or military adventures).
>Mervyn



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Re: [Goanet] OFFTOPIC - International Threat

[Mervyn Lobo]

Santosh Helekar wrote:My bet is on section 4 of the 25th amendment of the U.S. 
constitution


- president unable to discharge. But more likely he will hobble along,
and stumble and bumble. Immoral loud mouth bullies are invariably
mentally weak. They always end up embarrassing themselves, unable to
accomplish anything. -

Santosh,dj Trump opened his Presidential record with his biggest embarrassment 
ever. 
After wailing for 7 years that they would repeal and replace Obamacare on day 
one, the Republicans got together and gifted their fresh leader pie in the face 
- as the Master negotiator could not put together a deal with members of his 
own party.
By the time you read this, the lionhearted Chinese leader will have already 
made a deal with Trump that is to Trump's advantage. Let me make this clear, 
the Chinese have already gifted Trump licences that are very difficult to 
obtain in China and will offer him more goodies. 
Some in the US will believe Trump when he tweets that he got the best deal with 
China :-)
One thing that I give dj credit for is that he is unaware of how much money the 
US owes China. I really am looking forward to seeing China explain to Trump 
that the US economy will collapse if China refuses to finance US capital 
expenditure (or military adventures).
Mervyn

 
 




    

Re: [Goanet] OFFTOPIC - International Threat

[Jose Colaco]

On 5 April 2017 at 01:46, Santosh Helekar  wrote:

" But more likely he will hobble along, and stumble and bumble".


COMMENT:  In these potentially difficult times, I wish him and ALL
Americans.the very best. I am hopeful.

jc

Re: [Goanet] OFFTOPIC - International Threat

[Jim Fernandes]

It's laughable to see that the losers still don't seem to understand what it 
means to lose big! 

Let's put it this another way  My side is running the White House. In the 
meantime, what does your side do? Hillary is tending to a little tomato patch 
in her backyard! That should keep the losers busy for some time ...

Take heart ... you are not the only losers in town. Even the pollsters in the 
UK and the US lost big. Mervyn should use his EXTRA buck or two to spread some 
tomato paste (made with Hillary's tomatoes) and cover his sorry black eye as a 
form of "Gauntti" treatment! 

Don't bet against me ... you already lost ... and lost real big! LOL!!!

Now ... may I have that cigar?

Cheers,

Jim Fernandes
Scarsdale, NY.


On Wed, 5 Apr 2017 03:22:21 + (UTC), Mervyn Lobo  
wrote:

> Santosh Helekar wrote:
> 
> 
> Nice article here:
> 
> http://foreignpolicy.com/2017/04/03/is-trump-russias-useful-idiot-or-has-he-been-irreparably-compromised/
> 
> ---
> Santosh,
> As I was fishing over the weekend, someone walked up with a T-shirt that read,
> 'Make 1984 fiction again.'
> dj Trump and the clowns are only getting started and I am already in love 
> with this show.
> MervynPS. I have a dollar to bet that the ending would be Trump pointing at 
> himself and saying, "Your fired."  I have two dollars to bet that Trump will 
> fire himself with a tweet.
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
>

Re: [Goanet] OFFTOPIC - International Threat - 2

[Jim Fernandes]

Hello?

Robots taking away American jobs? 

Yes, you are right ... only to some extent. But you are missing the bigger 
picture!

Someone has to build and maintain those robots in America! And the builders and 
maintenance workers of those robots won't be the Chinese. The Chinese don't 
have the brains to innovate. They can only steal and copy American technology. 
This would mean more higher paying 'Robotics' jobs for Americans. Guess what 
... the yanks could also export those robots or the goods the robots produce at 
a competitive price back to the Chinese - only if them Chinese reciprocated and 
opened up their markets to yanky companies.

The fact of the matter is that the US is already seeing lesser number of 
illegals crossing from the southern border. That means less free-loaders eating 
my tax dollars.

More American companies have already announced increased hiring and investments 
in the US. Just today, we got a second ADP jobs report since Trump came in. The 
numbers are awesome! Wall Street is mad in love with Trump. Businesses in the 
US and the population in general are seeing increased optimism [except for the 
Lefty press and a few grumbling losers on GoaNet :( ]. Have you missed the fact 
that the stock markets are shooting into the stratosphere since Trump kicked 
Hillary out and into retirement?

The H-1B visa's are greatly restricted to disallow entry of cheap foreign 
labor. Trump's administration will only let in top talent for top salaries. 
This is great news for new immigrants as well as local Americans. I am already 
seeing increased compensation for folks in my line of business after going 
through a period of stagnation for years!

Really awesome news to cheer about!

Jim Fernandes
Scarsdale, NY.



On Wed, 5 Apr 2017 07:39:36 +0100, Gabe Menezes  wrote:

> For what it's worth my two centsI don't think Trump will be able to
> bring back jobs. A case in point is the Carrier plant in USA. So big deal
> United technologies sacrificed 60 mm for the sale of 60 billion. At the end
> of the day the plant will be made of efficient with robots and the work
> force will be reduced.
> 
> The moot point is that Robots are taking jobs, Only infrastructure projects
> could create jobs.
> 
> I accept that the metrics in the USA changed and people wanted change, the
> Russians did not change the outcome perhaps! Did they interfere with the
> elections in collusion? That would be unacceptable and bring this thing
> round on your heels.
> 
> 
> 
> -- 
> DEV BOREM KORUM
> 
> Gabe Menezes.

Re: [Goanet] OFFTOPIC - International Threat

[Santosh Helekar]

Mervyn and George,

My bet is on section 4 of the 25th amendment of the U.S. constitution
- president unable to discharge. But more likely he will hobble along,
and stumble and bumble. Immoral loud mouth bullies are invariably
mentally weak. They always end up embarrassing themselves, unable to
accomplish anything. It might be better that way. Here is another nice
piece by the conservative writer Jennifer Rubin:

https://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/right-turn/wp/2017/02/14/hillary-clinton-never-would-have-dreamed-about-doing-that/?utm_term=.7e8333bd4468

Cheers,

Santosh

On Tue, Apr 4, 2017 at 11:02 AM, Santosh Helekar  wrote:
> Nice article here:
>
> http://foreignpolicy.com/2017/04/03/is-trump-russias-useful-idiot-or-has-he-been-irreparably-compromised/
>
> Cheers,
>
> Santosh
>
>
*
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[Goanet] OFFTOPIC - International Threat

[Gabe Menezes]

For what it's worth my two centsI don't think Trump will be able to
bring back jobs. A case in point is the Carrier plant in USA. So big deal
United technologies sacrificed 60 mm for the sale of 60 billion. At the end
of the day the plant will be made of efficient with robots and the work
force will be reduced.

The moot point is that Robots are taking jobs, Only infrastructure projects
could create jobs.

I accept that the metrics in the USA changed and people wanted change, the
Russians did not change the outcome perhaps! Did they interfere with the
elections in collusion? That would be unacceptable and bring this thing
round on your heels.



-- 
DEV BOREM KORUM

Gabe Menezes.

Re: [Goanet] OFFTOPIC - International Threat

[Mervyn Lobo]

Santosh Helekar wrote:


Nice article here:

http://foreignpolicy.com/2017/04/03/is-trump-russias-useful-idiot-or-has-he-been-irreparably-compromised/

---
Santosh,
As I was fishing over the weekend, someone walked up with a T-shirt that read,
'Make 1984 fiction again.'
dj Trump and the clowns are only getting started and I am already in love with 
this show.
MervynPS. I have a dollar to bet that the ending would be Trump pointing at 
himself and saying, "Your fired."  I have two dollars to bet that Trump will 
fire himself with a tweet.







   

Re: [Goanet] OFFTOPIC - International Threat

[Jim Fernandes]

Impeachment? Seriously?

Go ask people in the rust belt or those folks in the middle of the country what 
they thought of Trump. They love the man! The Lefty media and the impotent 
Democratic party lost big in what most pollsters thought they had the election 
in the bag. The losers can't get over the fact that they got rotten eggs on 
their shameless faces and are now trying to cook up stuff that has zero bearing 
on what most people care about  Jobs.

I am unable to comprehend the Lefty claim that somehow Russian is responsible 
for Trump's shellacking of Clinton. Instead doing some soul searching why 
Hillary lost or why Americans voted Trump to be their President, the Lefties 
are now desperately trying to find a scapegoat. Are American's stupid to be 
swayed by Russia to vote for Trump? Americans went to the polls without 
anybody's help and voted with a clear mind, for a leader they thought who most 
likely represented their interests.

It is the fault of the Democratic party to side with Clinton instead of Bernie 
Sanders. The crooked party elites, didn't want to see a Jew running their 
country. So they connived to oust poor Bernie. Now learn to live with the loss 
and burn the next 4  err ... 8 years twiddling your thumbs.

More recently, the new Democratic party leader forced everybody on their staff 
to resign. This is a good start. They got to re-calibrate their expectations 
and re-focus their energies on helping Americans get back to well paying jobs. 
Instead of focusing on creating jobs that can make people get off of welfare, 
the Democrats are focusing on keeping people on welfare and spoon feeding these 
unfortunate folks by way of food stamps, medicaid and other social programs, so 
that they stay addicted to their current state, in hopes of locking on their 
votes.

This is a terrible strategy. I have moved away from it ...

Tell me what your guys are doing to create well paying jobs for Americans and 
we can go from there. Don't waste your time talking nonsense such as 
"impeachment", where the losers have virtually zero power in Washington. 

If you still care to do so, here's what you need to first have in the bag and 
the Democrats have neither:
1. A simple majority in the House of Representatives - the Democrats don't.
2. You need at least 67 votes (out of 100) in the US Senate - the Democates 
don't even command a simple majority.

Keep dreaming ... friggin' losers.

Jim Fernandes
Scarsdale, NY.


On Tue, 4 Apr 2017 20:05:46 + (UTC), George Pinto <georgejpi...@yahoo.com> 
wrote:

> Odds growing for possible Trump 
> impeachmenthttps://www.yahoo.com/news/odds-grow-possible-trump-impeachment-110004479.html
> 
>   From: Santosh Helekar <chimbel...@gmail.com>
>  To: goanet <goanet@lists.goanet.org> 
>  Sent: Tuesday, April 4, 2017 11:11 AM
>  Subject: [Goanet] OFFTOPIC - International Threat
>
> Nice article here:
> 
> http://foreignpolicy.com/2017/04/03/is-trump-russias-useful-idiot-or-has-he-been-irreparably-compromised/
> 
> Cheers,
> 
> Santosh
> 
>

Re: [Goanet] OFFTOPIC - International Threat

[George Pinto]

Odds growing for possible Trump 
impeachmenthttps://www.yahoo.com/news/odds-grow-possible-trump-impeachment-110004479.html

  From: Santosh Helekar <chimbel...@gmail.com>
 To: goanet <goanet@lists.goanet.org> 
 Sent: Tuesday, April 4, 2017 11:11 AM
 Subject: [Goanet] OFFTOPIC - International Threat
   
Nice article here:

http://foreignpolicy.com/2017/04/03/is-trump-russias-useful-idiot-or-has-he-been-irreparably-compromised/

Cheers,

Santosh

   

[Goanet] OFFTOPIC - International Threat

[Santosh Helekar]

Nice article here:

http://foreignpolicy.com/2017/04/03/is-trump-russias-useful-idiot-or-has-he-been-irreparably-compromised/

Cheers,

Santosh


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[Goanet] OFFTOPIC - Debacle

[Santosh Helekar]

Here is a beginning of a series of nice articles about collusion:

https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2017/02/michael-flynns-disaster/516285/

Cheers,

Santosh

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[Goanet] offtopic: Hans Rosling dies aged 68. Making data sing

[AF P]

Hans Rosling dies aged 68

Statistician and development champion, whose gift for making data sing
brought his innovative ideas to a worldwide audience, dies after
year-long illness

Last modified on Tuesday 7 February 2017 21.20 GMT
https://www.theguardian.com/global-development/2017/feb/07/hans-rosling-obituary

It was his first Ted talk that thrust renowned Swedish academic Hans
Rosling into the international spotlight in 2006, billed as the man in
whose hands data sings. Since then, the statistician more likely to
illustrate an idea with a few multi-coloured lego bricks than a
PowerPoint has been described as everything from a data guru to a Jedi
master of data visualisation.

He died on Tuesday, aged 68, after a year-long illness, surrounded by
his family in Uppsala, Sweden.

A professor of international health at Sweden’s Karolinska Institute,
Rosling liked to call himself an “edutainer”. A talented presenter,
whose signature animated data visualisations have featured in dozens
of film clips, the statistician used humour and often unlikely objects
such as children’s toys, cardboard boxes and teacups to liven up data
on wealth, inequality and population.

Rosling’s work featured in a BBC4 documentary on The Joy of Stats, and
he presented Don’t Panic – the Truth about Population on BBC2. He was
also involved in founding the Swedish chapter of Medécins Sans
Frontières, according to Swedish media reports. When the Ebola
outbreak led to states of emergency being declared in Liberia and
Sierra Leone in 2014, Rosling went out to Monrovia to work with the
Liberian government on their emergency response, tracking cases and
pinpointing missing data.

Time magazine included him in its 2012 list of the world’s 100 most
influential people, saying his “stunning renderings of the numbers …
have moved millions of people worldwide to see themselves and our
planet in new ways”.

But in an interview in the Guardian, in 2013, he was dismissive about
his impact on knowledge. Asked what had surprised him the most about
the reaction he had received, he said: “It’s that I became so famous
with so little impact on knowledge. Fame is easy to acquire, impact is
much more difficult. When we asked the Swedish population how many
children are born per woman in Bangladesh, they still think it’s four
to five. I have no impact on knowledge. I have only had impact on
fame, and doing funny things, and so on.”

Claire Provost, a former Guardian journalist who interviewed Rosling
in 2013, said: “Given the timing, with all the talk about fake news,
alternative facts, concern over misinformation and
propaganda-by-numbers, Rosling stood for the exact opposite – the idea
we can have debates about what could or should be done, but that facts
and an open mind are needed before informed discussions can begin.”

Daniel Ek, the CEO of Spotify, tweeted: “I am deeply saddened by the
news of the passing of my friend, @HansRosling. Few Swedes had an
impact such as his.”

Sweden’s deputy prime minister, Isabella Lövin, wrote on Facebook: “ …
For the world, Hans Rosling was a great fighter for the right to
health, for reducing maternal mortality and for supporting fragile
countries damaged by conflict. He challenged the whole world’s view of
development with his amazing teaching skills. He managed to show
everyone that things are moving forward … I think the whole world will
miss his vision and his way of standing up for the facts –
unfortunately it feels like they are necessary more than ever at the
moment – so the loss is even more painful.”

A statement was posted on Gapminder, the foundation he co-founded with
his son and daughter-in-law in 2007: the venture was named after
London Underground’s “mind the gap” notices in reference to bridging
the divide between statistics and their interpretation. “We are
extremely sad to announce that Professor Hans Rosling died this
morning. Hans suffered from a pancreatic cancer which was diagnosed
one year ago. He passed away early Tuesday morning, February 7, 2017,
surrounded by his family in Uppsala, Sweden.

“Eleven years ago, the three of us, Hans Rosling, Ola Rosling & Anna
Rosling Rönnlund founded Gapminder. In 2007 Hans decided to “drop out”
of university to work only 5% as professor at Karolinska Institute.
That was a great decision. The 95% he worked for Gapminder made him a
world famous public educator, or ‘edutainer’, as he liked to call it.

“Across the world, millions of people use our tools and share our
vision of a fact-based worldview that everyone can understand. We know
that many will be saddened by this message. Hans is no longer alive,
but he will always be with us and his dream of a fact-based worldview,
we will never let die!”

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Re: [Goanet] OFFTOPIC - A Clarifying Moment

[Santosh Helekar]

Jose colaco1 at gmail.com  wrote on Tue Jan 31 05:38:28 PST 2017
>
>I am sure you read my views on Cohen. I respect his views on the Middle East 
>as much as I respect Tony Blair's. Not very sure Why my normally very astute 
>colleague (Dr. Helekar) referred us to his spiel, that too in the Atlantic.
>

Here is another nice offtopic article from The Atlantic, which is a
very could magazine with great liberal and conservative writers:

https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2017/01/trump-administration-jobs/514805/

Cheers,

Santosh

On Tue, Jan 31, 2017 at 9:37 AM, Santosh Helekar  wrote:
> Here is more clarity for Goanetters to prepare themselves for the global 
> threat:
>
> http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2017/01/31/donald-trump-our-america-first-president-is-profoundly-un-american.html
>
> Cheers,
>
> Santosh
>
>
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Re: [Goanet] OFFTOPIC - A Clarifying Moment

[Santosh Helekar]

Here is more clarity for Goanetters to prepare themselves for the global threat:

http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2017/01/31/donald-trump-our-america-first-president-is-profoundly-un-american.html

Cheers,

Santosh


On Mon, Jan 30, 2017 at 4:13 PM, Santosh Helekar  wrote:
> MD mmdmello at gmail.com  wrote on Mon Jan 30 08:29:38 PST 2017
>>
>>Jeb's supporters financed the Trump  'golden showers' dossier compiled by 
>>British James Bond'000' Christopher Steele, but Jeb lost interest after he 
>>lost the primary against Trump then Democrats wanted it
>>
>
> Here is another clarifying moment on the global threat:
>
> http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2017/01/27/mystery-death-ex-kgb-chief-linked-mi6-spys-dossier-donald-trump/
>
> Cheers,
>
> Santosh
>

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[Goanet] OFFTOPIC: Fr Fred Sopena, SJ, passes away at 91

[Frederick FN Noronha * फ्रेड्रिक नोरोन्या * فريدريك نورونيا]

http://www.ucanindia.in/news/spaniard-jesuit-who-loved-india-dies-at-91/33963/daily

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Re: [Goanet] OFFTOPIC - A Clarifying Moment

[Santosh Helekar]

MD mmdmello at gmail.com  wrote on Mon Jan 30 08:29:38 PST 2017
>
>Jeb's supporters financed the Trump  'golden showers' dossier compiled by 
>British James Bond'000' Christopher Steele, but Jeb lost interest after he 
>lost the primary against Trump then Democrats wanted it
>

Here is another clarifying moment on the global threat:

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2017/01/27/mystery-death-ex-kgb-chief-linked-mi6-spys-dossier-donald-trump/

Cheers,

Santosh


On Sun, Jan 29, 2017 at 11:05 PM, Santosh Helekar  wrote:
> https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2017/01/a-clarifying-moment-in-american-history/514868/
>
> Cheers,
>
> Santosh



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[Goanet] OFFTOPIC - A Clarifying Moment

[Santosh Helekar]

https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2017/01/a-clarifying-moment-in-american-history/514868/

Cheers,

Santosh

[Goanet] OFFTOPIC: Inside Story - Trump's first week at work: the report card

[Frederick FN Noronha * फ्रेड्रिक नोरोन्या * فريدريك نورونيا]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gr8xbIzR1hU

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[Goanet] OFFTOPIC: It's time to Even It Up India!

[Frederick FN Noronha * फ्रेड्रिक नोरोन्या * فريدريك نورونيا]

*It's time to Even It Up India! (a campaign by Oxfam)*



*Demand** from the Indian government an Inclusive Economy. *

Eight billionaires own the same wealth as half the world’s population.
That’s right – 8 individuals own as much as the poorest 3.6 billion people.
Meanwhile, every day 1 in 8 people go to bed hungry. *In India, 57
billionaires have the same amount of wealth as the bottom 70% of India*.
The richest 1% of Indians have 58% of total wealth. Such extreme inequality
is outrageous.

Families living in poverty around the world are forced to suffer low wages,
inhumane working conditions, and a total lack of even the most basic public
services. The poorest and marginalized people in our societies have been
hit hardest – particularly women. Governments are doing too little to help.
Meanwhile the extremely wealthy make billions from a system bent in their
favour.

*It doesn’t have to be this way*. We can choose another future. A future
where the government can act to help everyone, where people are put before
profits, and everyone is given a fair chance. We can help end poverty, and
the rich and powerful need to play their part.

Sign the open letter to the Indian Government and the world's billionaires

https://actions.oxfam.org/india/en/actions/it-time-even-it-india/

See the Oxfam report on the issue: An economy for  the 1%


https://www.oxfamindia.org/sites/default/files/bp210-economy-one-percent-tax-havens-180116-en_0.pdf

[Goanet] OffTopic: Obama’s Secret to Surviving the White House Years: Books

[Albert Peres]

Obama’s Secret to Surviving the White House Years: Books
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/01/16/books/obamas-secret-to-surviving-the-white-house-years-books.html?_r=0

Not since Lincoln has there been a president fundamentally shaped — in 
his life, convictions and outlook on the world — by reading and writing 
as Barack Obama.


Last Friday, seven days before his departure from the White House, Mr. 
Obama sat down in the Oval Office and talked about the indispensable 
role that books have played during his presidency and throughout his 
life — from his peripatetic and sometimes lonely boyhood, when “these 
worlds that were portable” provided companionship, to his youth when 
they helped him to figure out who he was, what he thought and what was 
important...


Transcript: President Obama on What Books Mean to Him
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/01/16/books/transcript-president-obama-on-what-books-mean-to-him.html

Transcript: President Obama on What Books Mean to Him
JAN. 16, 2017

Michiko Kakutani, the chief book critic for The New York Times, 
interviewed President Obama about literature on Friday at the White 
House. Here are excerpts from the conversation, which have been edited 
and condensed.



These books that you gave to your daughter Malia on the Kindle, what 
were they? Some of your favorites?


I think some of them were sort of the usual suspects, so “The Naked and 
the Dead” or “One Hundred Years of Solitude,” I think she hadn’t read yet.


Then there were some books I think that are not on everybody’s reading 
list these days, but I remembered as being interesting, like “The Golden 
Notebook” by Doris Lessing, for example. Or “The Woman Warrior,” by 
Maxine [Hong Kingston].


Part of what was interesting was me pulling back books that I thought 
were really powerful, but that might not surface when she goes to college.


Have you had a chance to discuss them with her?

I’ve had the chance to discuss some. And she’s interested in being a 
filmmaker, so storytelling is of great interest to her. She had just 
read “A Moveable Feast.” I hadn’t included that, and she was just 
captivated by the idea that Hemingway described his goal of writing one 
true thing every day.


What made you want to become a writer?

I loved reading when I was a kid, partly because I was traveling so 
much, and there were times where I’d be displaced, I’d be the outsider. 
When I first moved to Indonesia, I’m this big, dark-skinned kid that 
kind of stood out. And then when I moved back from Indonesia to Hawaii, 
I had the manners and habits probably of an Indonesian kid.


And so the idea of having these worlds that were portable, that were 
yours, that you could enter into, was appealing to me. And then I became 
a teenager and wasn’t reading that much other than what was assigned in 
school, and playing basketball and chasing girls, and imbibing things 
that weren’t very healthy.


I think all of us did.

Yeah. And then I think rediscovered writing and reading and thinking in 
my first or second year of college and used that as a way to rebuild 
myself, a process I write about in “Dreams From My Father.”


That period in New York, where you were intensely reading.

I was hermetic — it really is true. I had one plate, one towel, and I’d 
buy clothes from thrift shops. And I was very intense, and sort of 
humorless. But it reintroduced me to the power of words as a way to 
figure out who you are and what you think, and what you believe, and 
what’s important, and to sort through and interpret this swirl of events 
that is happening around you every minute.


And so even though by the time I graduated I knew I wanted to be 
involved in public policy, or I had these vague notions of organizing, 
the idea of continuing to write and tell stories as part of that was 
valuable to me. And so I would come home from work, and I would write in 
my journal or write a story or two.


The great thing was that it was useful in my organizing work. Because 
when I got there, the guy who had hired me said that the thing that 
brings people together to have the courage to take action on behalf of 
their lives is not just that they care about the same issue, it’s that 
they have shared stories. And he told me that if you learn how to listen 
to people’s stories and can find what’s sacred in other people’s 
stories, then you’ll be able to forge a relationship that lasts.


But my interest in public service and politics then merged with the idea 
of storytelling.


What were your short stories like?

It’s interesting, when I read them, a lot of them had to do with older 
people.


I think part of the reason was because I was working in communities with 
people who were significantly older than me. We were going into 
churches, and probably the average age of these folks was 55, 60. A lot 
of them had scratched and clawed their way into the middle class, but 
just barely. They were seeing the communities in which they had invested 
their 

[Goanet] Offtopic: CBC News. Can you spot the fake news headline? Test

[Albert Peres]

http://www.cbc.ca/news/world/quiz-can-you-spot-the-fake-news-headline-1.3934368

via CBC News Canada


Quiz: Can you spot the fake news headline?
Think you can tell truth from fiction? Try your luck with our quiz

CBC News Posted: Jan 13, 2017 4:11

'You are fake news," an angry U.S. president-elect Donald Trump told a 
CNN reporter at a news conference Wednesday, bringing the very real 
issue of false reporting into the spotlight again.


CNN disputed Trump's claim, saying it stood by its recent reporting on 
allegations about Russia's influence in Trump's presidential campaign.


Indeed, there is a distinction to be made between actual news 
organizations and satirical or entertainment sites that publish stories 
devoid of fact. But many readers find it difficult to separate fact from 
fiction.


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[Goanet] Offtopic: Video Last days of the greatest country

[Albert Peres]

https://streamable.com/0rexi

Absolutely no doubt he earned it...


response...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=STJv9191ftQ

preamble:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LjKZhSCTwp4




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[Goanet] Offtopic: Creativity and self-promotion can be two opposing forces - Economist

[Albert Peres]

Creativity and self-promotion can be two opposing forces
Prospero Jan 10th 2017, 12:30

by I.M. More

IN THE early 1900s, a young woman named Agatha Miller had a dream of 
becoming a concert pianist. The only obstacle in her way was her 
crippling stage fright. Haunted by nightmares of the piano turning into 
a church organ or its keys sticking together, her anxiety made her ill 
and she could not perform. She chose another vocation and, under her 
married name, Agatha Christie became the world’s best-selling novelist. 
Yet her “miserable, horrible, inevitable shyness” continued to plague 
her throughout her life. She refused to speak in public, found 
conversation awkward and parties hell, but her artistic pursuits drew 
her into the limelight. This is the contradictory and fraught world of 
the shy artist. And in an age of 24-hour media and celebrity, it is an 
increasingly hostile one.


Shyness and creativity often go hand in hand. The brooding musician, 
reclusive writer and antisocial genius are stereotypical creative types. 
There is inevitably a common connection between the deep feeling and 
introspection that leads to great art and the sensitivity that manifests 
itself as social anxiety. In “Shrinking Violets”, Joe Moran’s field 
guide to shyness, he talks about the refuge that the shy find in the 
arts. Creating and performing can act as compensation for not being able 
to communicate in other ways. Some, like Lady Gaga or David Bowie, have 
used performance as a kind of protection, inventing bold, flamboyant 
alter-egos. Both have described themselves as being painfully shy in 
their youths. There are many who talk of acting as an escape from 
shyness; some feel more comfortable performing than having everyday 
interactions. Mr Moran points to the existence of the German word 
Maskenfreiheit: “the freedom that comes from wearing masks”.


In previous generations it was easier to keep a public persona and a 
private life separate. But today, thanks to the internet, celebrity 
culture and social media, the shy artist has less private space to 
withdraw to. To feed the ever-hungry media beast, there are 
unprecedented invasions of privacy: topless photos taken using drones 
and personal photos being downloaded from the cloud. Unwanted attention 
aside, there is so much “noise” out there that to be heard as an artist, 
there is a greater need for self-promotion.


This is true even in writing, traditionally the least performative of 
the arts. You can no longer just write—the writer has to be part of the 
product, talking at book fairs and smiling from book jackets. A website 
offering marketing tips for introverts has emerged as a sanctuary for 
the publicity-shy writer. There is even a section “For Those We Lose 
Along The Way”, for writers who have been so scarred by their forays 
into the world of publishing that they give up completely. It is an 
conundrum that has come to the fore with the “unmasking” of Elena 
Ferrante—a woman who said in an interview that she wanted “to liberate 
[herself] from the anxiety of notoriety” in order to write her best and 
most honest work. The investigative journalist who did the unmasking 
felt that the fact she gave interviews (through her publishers), and put 
allegedly autobiographical details in a recently released collection, 
meant that her identity was a matter of public interest.


Many performers struggle with the kind of attention that fame brings. 
Pink Floyd became disillusioned with the god-like status imposed upon 
them, a fundamental part of the idea of alienation explored in their 
concept album “The Wall”. Those like Kurt Cobain were aware of their own 
growing narcissism: “I don’t care what you think unless it is about me.” 
Others feel they’re being rewarded for the wrong thing—their audience 
not really appreciating what makes them special. Marilyn Monroe was 
described by Arthur Miller, her final husband, as “a poet on a street 
corner trying to recite to a crowd pulling at her clothes”. Cobain, 
Monroe, and both David Gilmour and Syd Barrett from Pink Floyd are all 
described as shy.


Adding to the problem is the fact that shyness can so easily be 
misconstrued. As Mr Moran says, it is often read as “displaced 
aggression or narcissism”. Googling “shy artists” does not return a list 
of artists necessarily viewed as shy: Kristen Stewart, Elton John, Brad 
Pitt, Steven Spielberg. When shy artists retreat into themselves, it can 
be viewed as rude, moody and ungrateful and the claim of not wanting 
attention can seem contrived. The act of “running away” or “hiding from 
the spotlight” is often seen as a publicity stunt. This was already a 
problem in the 1930s. When Agatha Christie had a breakdown and tried to 
escape, she was chased “like a fox” by the press. They, as well as the 
curious public, were convinced it was a ploy for attention. When Sia, a 
musician (pictured), is asked why she chooses the (admittedly rather 

[Goanet] OffTopic: Meryl Streep. Speech The Golden Globes-2017

[MD]

Peres, why is it 'classic' ?

News on her 'speech' on NYTimes:
Turning attention away from her and toward Donald J. Trump, Meryl Streep
used her acceptance speech for the Cecil B. DeMille Award at the Golden
Globes to call out the president-elect for mocking a disabled New York
Times reporter in 2015, and warned that a free press would need to be
defended. Ms. Streep campaigned for Hillary Clinton in the 2016 election
(whom Trump 'trumped'-M.) Link:
http://www.nytimes.com/2017/01/08/arts/television/meryl-streep-golden-globes-speech.html
.
Perhaps what she deeming as free press is the twisted MSM supporters of the
Dems who cannot yet believe that Trump won against loser Clinton.
Trump's response:
President-elect Donald J. Trump dismissed Meryl Streep as “a Hillary lover”
early Monday morning after the actress, in a speech at the Golden Globes
award ceremony, denounced him as a bully who disrespected and humiliated
others.
Link:
http://www.nytimes.com/2017/01/09/movies/trump-meryl-streep-golden-globes-speech.html
NY Times together with WAPO, CNN and whole bunch of Media outlets are
heavily biased.

MD'Mello

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Meryl Streep Speech The Golden Globes 2017

Published on Jan 8, 2017

Classic...

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[Goanet] OffTopic: Meryl Streep. Speech The Golden Globes 2017

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NxyGmyEby40

Meryl Streep Speech The Golden Globes 2017

Published on Jan 8, 2017

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[Goanet] OFFTOPIC: And Americans wonder why ISIS exists....

[Frederick FN Noronha * फ्रेड्रिक नोरोन्या * فريدريك نورونيا]

And Americans wonder why ISIS exists.  When are we going to realize that
our country is a world bully?  That everywhere we 'visit', we destroy
civilizations, not free them.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BxHEI603bF4

[Goanet] OffTopic: What (free) software can be useful for university students?

[Albert Peres]

https://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/5j07pe/what_free_software_can_be_useful_for_university/

What (free) software can be useful for university students?

Scroll 

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[Goanet] OffTopic: Adding a lot of masala to the call

[Albert Peres]

And in Canada...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aZCXZo9Z8pk

Video: Host of Punjabi HNIC makes English NHL broadcast debut

...Nine seasons on Punjabi TV, adding a lot of masala to the call

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[Goanet] (Offtopic) America is a very big and very resilient country

[Albert Peres]

The US system is is designed so no one can dictate...they can only 
influence and build through and via coalitions... Don't worry. The sun 
will come up again tomorrow. Just as there are still Bluebirds over the 
white cliffs of Dover...


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[Goanet] Offtopic: Coming soon: Budget long hall flights...

[Albert Peres]

Coming soon: Budget long hall flights...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NlIdzF1_b5M

(Caution longish Ad at the end)


And the classic:

Containerization: The Most Influential Invention That You've Never Heard Of

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F-ZskaqBshs

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[Goanet] OffTopic: Pink ladoos handed out at 2 hospitals to promote gender equality (Canada)

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Pink ladoos handed out at 2 hospitals to promote gender equality

By Muriel Draaisma, CBC News Posted: Oct 11, 2016 10:32 AM ET Last 
Updated: Oct 11, 2016 3:43 PM ET


http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/toronto/pink-ladoo-project-hospitals-1.3799621

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Pink ladoos handed out at 2 hospitals to promote gender equality
Sweet treat made of flour, sugar to celebrate birth of baby girls

Harbir Singh, Canadian campaign director for the Pink Ladoo Project, 
says volunteers are handing out pink ladoos at two hospitals in the 
Toronto area on Tuesday to promote gender equality. The sweet treats 
will celebrate the birth of girl children, she said.


Harbir Singh, Canadian campaign director for the Pink Ladoo Project, 
says volunteers are handing out pink ladoos at two hospitals in the 
Toronto area on Tuesday to promote gender equality. The sweet treats 
will celebrate the birth of girl children, she said. (CBC)


A group of women distributed a South Asian sweet treat at two Toronto 
area hospitals on Tuesday — in the hopes of birthing a new tradition to 
celebrate baby girls.


The group handed out ladoos, a sweet made of flour and sugar and rolled 
into balls, which are typically given to mark the birth of a baby boy. 
On Tuesday, the ladoos, given out at Brampton Civic Hospital and 
Etobicoke General Hospital, were coloured pink in part to mark the UN's 
International Day of the Girl Child.


Related story: Indo-Canadian couples choosing sons over daughters: study

It was all part of the Pink Ladoo Project, an international movement 
designed to eradicate gender-biased South Asian practices, customs and 
traditions.


Harbir Singh, the Canadian director of the Pink Ladoo Project, told 
CBC's Metro Morning that members of the South Asian community distribute 
ladoos during periods of celebration.


"Families travel door to door and go to their families and friends 
throughout the community and distribute this sweet as a celebration," 
Singh said Tuesday. "Traditionally, it's only been for boy children. 
What we have done is coloured this ladoo pink to represent gender 
equality for the girl child." No sweets handed out when girls born


Singh, a mother of two daughters, aged two and six, said the tradition 
was followed in her family and it was part of what she calls "male 
preference culture." When she was growing up, Singh said celebrations 
were held for her older and younger brothers, but not for her — and 
these traditions made her question her value in the family.


"Traditionally, growing up in a South Asian family, I never saw anyone 
come to our door and celebrate the birth of a girl child, or hand out 
any sweets, or book large parties with their families and their friends 
to celebrate. That was an issue that impacted me as a child," she said.


"Therefore, I have become involved in this as an adult. I want to raise 
awareness and I want to address this issue of male preference culture so 
my two daughters never have to have this conversation."


Another tradition that affected Singh as a child is that she was told 
from a young age that she was born into one family but would belong to 
the family of her husband when she married.


"You are sent a message very early that your true home will be your 
husband's home," she said. "That affected me as a child. I felt that I 
was a part of my family. I felt a lot of difficulty with connecting with 
this part of the culture, so I want to change that."


Campaign manager Baljot Grewal has witnessed gender inequality firsthand 
while studying dentistry in India the last five years. "I've become more 
aware of the value that's being given to women by men and society in 
these cultures," she said. "Men are seen as the breadwinner and the 
carrier of the family name. Historically, they have been deemed more 
important than women and it's time to change that."

Pink ladoos to promote change

Grewal hopes the campaign sparks a needed conversation. "I want people 
to start asking why we're not celebrating girls the same as boys and why 
a dedicated day is needed to raise awareness," she said. "We've been 
doing a lot of explaining to families today who don't know about the 
imbalance. Education is key."


Singh said distributing pink ladoos at local hospitals is a small way to 
promote larger change within South Asian families by creating a positive 
tradition that celebrates girl children.


The event is a way to counter traditions, cultures and rituals 
associated with male preference culture, she said.


"We are starting with this one small step, but hoping we will inspire a 
much larger conversation," she said.


She said the group believes that if a family celebrates the birth of a 
girl child, and there is awareness of gender equality at birth, then 
that family is more likely to have other conversations about sexist 
traditions as the girl grows up.


She said her older daughter, for example, now thinks pink ladoos are 
handed out when girl children are born. 

[Goanet] Offtopic: Akala and Frankie Boyle Discuss Structural Racism in Britain

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http://www.filmsforaction.org/watch/akala-and-frankie-boyle-discuss-britains-structural-racism/

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[Goanet] OffTopic: (United Kingdom.) What a difference four months makes

[Albert Peres]

Have I Got News For You - Series 52 Trailer

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1o4lmIM6UhM=youtu.be

'...That's ridiculous, you're not a proper fortune teller.'

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[Goanet] OffTopic: Great thing about cities (example Toronto)

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The great thing about cities. In Toronto we could all wear the same 
clothes and yet look very different... same with big cities around the world


http://www.uniqlo.com/ca/en/uncommonthread/index.html

Advertising from a new Japaneses clothing company, UNIQLO, that has 
opened up here.


Models stages shots no doubt, but this ethnic mix is what our Downtown 
streets look like everyday of the week.


Photos off the top of my head:
  -- behind the Air Canada Centre, under one of the on ramps to the 
Gardner Expressway (there may be some retouching in this shot...the wall 
and grass wedge upper-right side);

  -- Dundas Station Subway Station platform at the Eaton Centre;
  -- The parking lot at Sound Academy Night Club, Polson Street;
  -- Gooderham and Worts Distillery Building, Distillery District;
  -- West Rail Path bridge over Yonge Street, between St Clair Avenue 
and Davisville Avenue, the rail track is removes and now part of the 
bike and walking trail;
  -- Ontario Food terminal, either the vegetable cool-room building or 
the parking lot


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[Goanet] Offtopic: The difference between American and Canadian Television

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The difference between American and Canadian Television...

American Television:
News Anchor completely loses it during live broadcast. MSNBC
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A3BHujm3cpY

Canadian Television:
Maralee Caruso loses it during live broadcast. CTV News, Winnipeg
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KjutcygwzkA=youtu.be

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[Goanet] Offtopic: Land area converter

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http://www.eandg.in/areaConverter.php
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[Goanet] Offtopic: Parenting... and over-parenting

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Julie Lythcott-Haims: How to raise successful kids - without over-parenting

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7Nd2ORQOSfw

What Teens Need Most From Their Parents
http://www.wsj.com/articles/what-teens-need-most-from-
their-parents-1470765906
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[Goanet] Offtopic: What Kashmir is to Bollywood...

[Frederick FN Noronha * फ्रेड्रिक नोरोन्या * فريدريك نورونيا]

... houseboats, flowers, gardens and songs... and where people are
increasingly terrorists. (This point comes up around 56 mins.)

A very insightful (in discomforting) discussion on Kashmir. Not on-topic
here, but definitely not without relevance to many parts of India.
Including the reigns of power at New Delhi. FN
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[Goanet] Offtopic: Journalism...Still the best career in the world.

[Albert Peres]

Peter Mansbridge: 25 Years as Anchor of The National

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JS-M2xsbLHM
Published on May 2, 2013

It has been 25 years since Peter Mansbridge first hosted The National. 
Here is a look back at a quarter century of memorable moments.


He is retiring this year...

Retro rookie:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fSn93BTh-vY



No formal training. He learned quickly, on the job...

Mansbridge worked as a ticket agent for Transair at Churchill Airport in 
Churchill, Manitoba. In 1968, Mansbridge was discovered by Gaston 
Charpentier, a station manager for the local Canadian Broadcasting 
Corporation (CBC) radio station CHFC, when he heard Mansbridge making a 
flight announcement.


Charpentier hired the 19-year-old Mansbridge as the host of CHFC's late 
night music program.[7] In 1971, Mansbridge moved to Winnipeg to 
continue as a reporter for the CBW radio station and in the next year, 
he joined CBWT-TV as a reporter.



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[Goanet] OffTopic: The trouble with Mother Teresa. Also in the Toronto Star today (GTA)

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The trouble with Mother Teresa

https://www.thestar.com/opinion/commentary/2016/09/01/the-trouble-with-mother-teresa.html

As the Catholic Church prepares to canonize the famous nun, questions 
remain about just how good she was.


By Michael Coren
Thu., Sept. 1, 2016

My first job in journalism was at the New Statesman magazine in Britain 
in the early 1980s. I was new and shiny and one of the first people I 
met was a man who was not new and shone in an entirely different way. 
Christopher Hitchens – he didn’t like “Chris” – was as generous as he 
was gifted. But he didn’t suffer fools or frauds.


One of the most famous of the latter was, in his opinion, a woman who is 
about to be acknowledged as a saint by the Roman Catholic Church. Mother 
Teresa, born in Albania as Anjezë Gonxhe Bojaxhiu, and someone whom to 
many embodies the best in Christianity. Hitchens disagreed, wrote a book 
about her called The Missionary Position and insisted that she was a 
force for evil rather than good.


I would not be as bold, and could not be as brilliant, as the exquisite 
Hitch but Good God – and I do believe Him to be good and great – he had 
a point. Hitchens’ argument, among others, was that Mother Teresa 
provided sub-standard medical care, took money from dictators and 
criminals and often cozied up to them, pushed her faith on the 
vulnerable and sick and encouraged western Catholic journalists to paint 
her as divine.


There are indeed many unanswered questions about the level of aid the 
poor of Calcutta actually received and it’s beyond dispute that Teresa 
was heavily funded by brutes such as Jean-Claude Duvalier of Haiti, who 
stole a fortune from his own people while they lived in poverty. Not 
only did she take the man’s cash, she lionized him as a great leader. 
She also praised the repugnant Albanian despot Enver Hoxha and laid 
flowers at his grave and welcomed donations from British publisher and 
criminal Robert Maxwell.


The case of the anti-pornography zealot and businessman Charles Keating 
is particularly disturbing. He gave millions of dollars to Teresa and 
the use of his private jet when she visited the United States. Although 
he was sent to prison for more than four years for fraud, and thousands 
of people were hurt by what he did, Teresa refused to refund any of the 
money he had donated.


There are also ideological and systemic problems. She campaigned against 
contraceptive use in a country ravaged by over-population and it almost 
goes without saying that she vehemently opposed abortion rights. Her 
motivation was conservative Catholic rather than progressively human. “I 
think it is very beautiful for the poor to accept their lot, to share it 
with the passion of Christ,” she said. “I think the world is being much 
helped by the suffering of the poor people.” That is not how the poor 
feel as they watch their babies die in their arms.


It’s important to emphasize that there are countless Catholic and other 
Christian groups performing outstanding work in India and elsewhere who 
do not adopt Teresa’s reactionary views and dubious ways, and do not 
have or want the public relations machine that she enjoyed. Some of the 
most successful social programs in India are funded internationally by 
western governments who also urge family planning, LGBTQ equality and 
divorce rights, all opposed not only by the new saint but by her church. 
More than this, the bulk of the good and selfless work being performed 
in India is by Indian Hindus and Muslims, not white Christians.


The ceremony announcing to the world that Mother Teresa can be prayed to 
and revered will take place in a Vatican in possession of wealth through 
paintings, manuscripts, statues and investments that is beyond 
comprehension, and in spite of a few utterly cosmetic changes by Pope 
Francis there is no indication that this will ever change. The glaring 
juxtaposition between what the tiny Albanian woman was at least supposed 
to represent and the Roman reality is, frankly, scandalous.


It was another Catholic, the Brazilian archbishop Dom Helder Camara, who 
said, “When I give food to the poor, they call me a saint. When I ask 
why the poor have no food, they call me a communist.” But he and his 
liberation theology were not popular with a Papacy that embraced a woman 
who refused to ask the right questions, apologized for the culprits and 
ignored the causes.


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[Goanet] Offtopic (somewhat): Chetan Bhagat: One Indian Girl

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http://www.firstpost.com/living/details-of-chetan-
bhagats-new-book-one-indian-girl-are-out-be-afraid-be-
very-afraid-2965904.html

Details of Chetan Bhagat's new book 'One Indian Girl' are out. Be afraid,
be very afraid

FP Staff  Aug 19, 2016 17:57 IST

Guys, guess what!

Chetan Bhagat is back with a new book. The writer floored us with this
tweet this morning:

Then came a tweet with the new book title — and a teaser trailer:

The teaser trailer summarises the protagonist's character traits, which
might (or might not) have been inspired by an Ekta Kapoor soap.

Here's a synopsis of the book for you:

Hi I am Radhika Mehta and I'm getting married this week.
I work in a top investment bank.
Thank you for reading my crazy story
However let me warn you.
You may not like me too much.
One, I make a lot of money
Two, I have an opinion on everything.
Three, I have had sex before.
Now if I were a guy, you'd be cool with all this.
Since I am a girl,
these things don't make me too likeable, do they?

In an interview on his blog, Bhagat tells us why he's written this book:

"One Indian Girl is about an Indian girl who is intelligent and successful,
because of which she finds it difficult to get love," says the writer of
Two States. "I have wanted to write a book in female first person for the
past several years. Not only that, I wanted that book to be about women,
and deal with feminism. To do all this as a male writer was a huge
challenge."

The book will be out on 1 October 2016.

On that note, here is an excerpt from the book, made available on Bhagat's
blog. Yeah, you can thank us later!

Prologue

Some people are good at taking decisions. I am not one of them. Some people
fall asleep quickly at night. I am not one of them either. It is three in
the morning. I have tossed and turned in bed for two hours. I am to get
married in fifteen hours. We have two hundred guests in the hotel, here to
attend my grand destination wedding. I brought them here. Everyone is
excited. It is the first destination wedding in the Mehta family.

I am the bride. I should get my beauty sleep. I can’t. The last thing I
care about right now is beauty. The only thing I care about is how to get
out of this mess. Because like what often happens to me in life, here I am
yet again in a situation where I don’t know what the fuck is going on.

Chapter 1

“What do you mean not enough rooms?” I said to Arijit Banerjee, the lobby
manager of the Goa Marriott.

“See, what I am trying to explain is...” Arijit began in his modulated,
courteous voice when mom cut him off.

“It’s my daughter’s wedding. Are you going to shame us?” she said, her
volume loud enough to startle the rest of the reception staff.

“No, ma’am. Just a shortage of twenty rooms. You booked a hundred. We
promised eighty then. We hoped to give more but the chief minister had a
function and…”

“What do we tell our guests who have come all the way from America?” Mom
said.

“If I may suggest, there is another hotel two kilometers away,” Arijit said.

“We have to be together. You are going to ruin my daughter’s wedding for
some sarkaari function?” my mother said, bosom high, breath heavy - classic
warning signs of an upcoming storm.

“Mom, go sit with Dad, please. I will sort this out,” I said. Mom glared at
me. How could I, the bride, be doing all this in the first place? I should
be worried about my facials, not room allocations.

“The boy’s side arrives in less than three hours. I can’t believe this,”
she muttered, walking to the sofa at the center of the lobby. My father sat
there along with Kamla bua, his elder sister. Other uncles and aunts
occupied the remaining couches in the lobby - in a Mehta takeover of the
Marriott. My mother looked at my father, a level two glare. It signified:
‘Will you ever take initiative in life?’

My father shifted in his seat. I re-focused on the lobby manager.

“What can be done now, Arijit?” I said. “My family is all here.”

We had come on the morning flight from Delhi. The Gulatis, or the boy’s
side, would take off from Mumbai at three p.m. and land in Goa at four p.m.
Twenty hired Innovas would bring them to the hotel by five. I checked the
time. 2:30 p.m.

“See, ma’am, we have set up a special desk for the Mehta-Gulati wedding,”
Arijit said. “We are doing the check-ins for your family now.”

He pointed to a makeshift counter at the far corner of the lobby where
three female Marriott employees with permanent smiles sat. They welcomed
everyone with folded hands. Each guest received a shell necklace, a set of
key cards for the room, a map of the Marriott Goa property and a ‘wedding
information booklet’. The booklet contained the entire programme for the
week, including the time, venue and other details of the ceremonies.

“My side will take fifty rooms. The Gulatis need fifty too,” I said.

“If you take fifty, ma’am, we will have only thirty left for them,” Arijit
said.

“Where is Suraj?” I said. ‘We will manage last minute’ is what he told me.

[Goanet] OffTopic: Review of CBC includes comparison with BBC (Canada)

[Albert Peres]

Document compares CBC, BBC as Liberals review public broadcaster
Liberal review of CBC's future includes comparison with BBC

http://www.cbc.ca/beta/news/politics/cbc-bbc-melanie-joly-liberal-radio-canada-1.3717008


-- CBC's mandate "is anchored more explicitly in the idea of building a 
shared national consciousness and identity," unlike the BBC which is 
focused more on "sustaining citizenship and promoting cultural excellence."


-- The BBC is more outward-looking, with a mandate "to bring the UK to 
the world," while CBC's international service is an add-on rather than a 
core purpose.


-- The British government has an arm's-length procedure for appointing 
BBC directors, unlike the CBC.


Would be interesting to review Australia and New Zealand as well...

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[Goanet] Offtopic... Goan diaspora oral history via Canada

[Frederick FN Noronha * फ्रेड्रिक नोरोन्या * فريدريك نورونيا]

Juliet Rebello - Oral Biography
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yu1w_MjhXAM

Beneath the African Sun4 3 1
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6Y4n45RcDhY
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[Goanet] Offtopic: List of Portuguese words of Germanic origin

[Frederick FN Noronha * फ्रेड्रिक नोरोन्या * فريدريك نورونيا]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Portuguese_words_of_Germanic_origin

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Re: [Goanet] OFFTOPIC: Konkani course

[Venantius J Pinto]

What is off topic? Curious to know.

—Venantius J Pinto

On Wed, Aug 3, 2016 at 9:40 PM, Frederick FN Noronha * फ्रेड्रिक नोरोन्या *
فريدريك نورونيا  wrote:

> KONKNNI COURSE FOR BEGINNERS AT THOMAS
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> STEPHENS KONKNNI KENDR, PORVORIM
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> THOMAS STEPHENS KONKNNI KENDR, ALTO PORVORIM, will conduct
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> half day Konknni Course for beginners in Devnagiri and Romi script from
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> August 16, 2016 to September 16, 2016. The timings are either from 10
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> am to 12:30 pm OR 2.15 p.m. to 5.15 p.m. Since the seats are limited,
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> you are requested to book your seat by calling the office during office
> hours
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> ( 2415864).
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