[Goanet]OPEN GOVERNMENT NEEDS OPEN DISCUSSION.

2003-09-16 Thread airesrod
A strong, vocal and constructive opposition is the key to the success of any democracy. Unfortunately in Goa most voices of opposition have been stifled and silenced thanks to the shrewd and tactical manoeuvring by our IIT genius, Chief Minister Manohar Parrikar who spends most of his time monitori

[Goanet]NEWS: Indian American Christians hail Staines case convictions

2003-09-16 Thread Frederick Noronha (FN)
Indian American Christians hail Staines case convictions >From Indo-Asian News Service Washington, Sep 16 (IANS) Indian American Christians have hailed the conviction of key accused Dara Singh and 12 others for the shocking killings of Australian missionary Graham Staines and his two sons. The F

[Goanet]Media-politician nexus in Goa: Shiv Kumar

2003-09-16 Thread Frederick Noronha (FN)
I don't agree with all of Shiv Kumar's reading of the situation... but this over-view might help as a starting point for discussion. FN -- Forwarded message -- This is being sent on behalf of [EMAIL PROTECTED] as part of the mailing list that you joined. List: Mediaah URL: http:/

[Goanet]The art of trolling: don't get hauled in...

2003-09-16 Thread Frederick Noronha (FN)
URL : http://www.urban75.com/Mag/troll.html There are some individuals out there who don't just enjoy winding up people on newsgroups and bulletin boards - it's their lifestyle choice! Using every know disruptive trick in the book, these troublesome types are absolute masters of the

Re: [Goanet]Re: Your recent posting

2003-09-16 Thread Frederick Noronha (FN)
Liladhar, At which university in the US are you based? FN On Sat, 6 Sep 2003, Liladhar R.Pendse wrote: > Thank you for your kind words and correct feedback. > You are absolutely right in what you have said here, > however I strongly believe that two wrongs do not make > one right. Or Perhaps I am

[Goanet]A history lesson

2003-09-16 Thread Agnelo Mascarenhas
I almost bought the S.H.I.T. myself. the story itself seems plausible, however methane generation might require anaerobic conditions. whatever be the merit of the story, one thing is certain, the word shit derives from an Indo-European root skei- or sek- to cut. the equivalent Skt. root is skandha

[Goanet]Marlon's comparison - Miguel & Dave

2003-09-16 Thread Cecil Pinto
On Mon, 15 Sep 2003 09:20:01 -0700 (PDT) Marlon Menezes wrote to Miguel Braganza. [ I suggest you take your rage on the charter operators offline(or vice versa) rather than attack individuals like Dave who have done more for Goa than you ever have or ever will.] Since I have not quite been follow

[Goanet]My Comments.

2003-09-16 Thread Gabe Menezes
I had remarked before on the Goanet and made an observation that Journalists were afraid to report on any transgressions and inefficiencies by the C.M. and his Government, rightly so, for fear of loosing their jobs. It has at last come to light that this true, with the removal of Tara Narayan, whet

[Goanet]hi

2003-09-16 Thread Bosco - Goanet Volunteer
On Mon, 15 Sep 2003 21:28:48 -0700 (PDT), virginia sequeira <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Hi there, Can anybody tell me when the last exposition of St.Francis Xavier in goa held. Thks ## # Send submissions for Goanet to [EMAIL

[Goanet]Re: OPEN GOVERNMENT NEEDS OPEN DISCUSSION.

2003-09-16 Thread Bosco - Goanet Volunteer
On Tue, 16 Sep 2003 12:59:18 +0400, "Seb dc" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Bravo to Aires Rod for being so open about his views. I wish all goans should follow suit to make our tiny Goa free from all hassles. I hv posted the hot debate about this journalism to most of my friends here. Hope someth

[Goanet]Re: Giving Back something to Goa and the Goan People

2003-09-16 Thread Bosco - Goanet Volunteer
On Tue, 16 Sep 2003 09:41:43 -0700, "renebarreto" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Hi Lionel, How are you getting on ? Must be busy getting ready for the new seasoon. Rene > “Giving back something to Goa and the Goan People!” > Few people can have as much reason to be grateful to Goa than myself.

[Goanet]A preview of how tourists are looted in Goa

2003-09-16 Thread Goa Desc
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[Goanet]GOA'S STRAY CATTLE: Police claim helplessness

2003-09-16 Thread Goa Desc
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[Goanet]New association to take up rights of disabled in Goa

2003-09-16 Thread Goa Desc
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[Goanet]OPEN GOVERNMENT NEEDS OPEN DISCUSSION.

2003-09-16 Thread Gabe Menezes
From: "airesrod" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Tuesday, September 16, 2003 9:08 AM Subject: [Goanet]OPEN GOVERNMENT NEEDS OPEN DISCUSSION. > A strong, vocal and constructive opposition is the key to the success of any > democracy. Unfortunately in Goa most voices of oppositio

[Goanet]WORLD GOA DAY PORTUGAL 2

2003-09-16 Thread renebarreto
Cont 2/2 >>> ORGANIZING COMMITEE - Associagco Cultural de Amigos de Goa, Damco e Diu Represented through Prof. Doutor Domingos Xavier Viegas - Associagco Fraternidade Damco-Diu e Simpatizantes Represented through Padre Antsnio Colimco - Associagco Recreativa e Cultural Indo-Po

[Goanet]WORLD GOA DAY PORTUGAL:

2003-09-16 Thread renebarreto
A great MESSAGE ! ...from our Youngest WORLD GOA DAY coordinator , Constantino Hermanns Xavier. He expresses his feelings without any reservation , I do hope his POSITIVE message will be accepted by all of us as a way forward , more so by the Younger Goans. JOIN me in wishing them a great

[Goanet]Message from Margaret Mascarenhas

2003-09-16 Thread Cecil Pinto
Dear Everybody, Goan Journalist Ethel D'Costa will be organising a free open-air peace concert and women's art exhibition in remembrance of Daniel Pearl, South Asia Bureau Chief for the Wall Street Journal, who lost his life in a particularly horrific way to terrorists in Pakistan. The event wi

[Goanet]Re: Goanet digest, Vol 1 #443 - 16 msgs

2003-09-16 Thread Francesca Alphonso
Just to let you know that there will be a St Jaciinto Island community dance on the 28th September in north london. I'm not entirely sure how to post a message on the digest emails so, this preliminary and vague one to test the waters. Can I post a message about this online? Francesca Alphonso

[Goanet]Mario Miranda on OT

2003-09-16 Thread Arup Bhanja
Hi all, Just to buzz in - Mario Miranda - the celebrity cartoonist from goa is featured on this Sep'03 edition of Outlook Traveller with a beautiful and dreamy article on Brazil. Fantastic read - specially after I found out some great dishes that I missed last time I was in Calangute! Gotta visit

[Goanet]Liladhar Pendse... at UCLA

2003-09-16 Thread Frederick Noronha (FN)
Interesting. Which department? What field are you studying? Do you know of any other researchers working on Goa at UCLA? FN On Tue, 16 Sep 2003, Liladhar R.Pendse wrote: > Hi Mr.Noronha: > > I study at the University of California at Los Angeles > (UCLA). I am forwarding you UCLA's website. It

[Goanet]Dengue fever claims 8 year old Ponda girl

2003-09-16 Thread Herman Carneiro
[5] India (Goa) Date: Sun 14 Sep 2003 Source: Navhind Times Sun 14 Sep 2003 [edited] Dengue fever claims 8 year old Ponda girl - An 8 year old girl succumbed in Manipal Hospita

Re: [Goanet]Marlon's comparison - Miguel & Dave

2003-09-16 Thread Marlon Menezes
Cecil, Miguel deserves no such apology, thanks to his attacks on Dave and tourists in general. If he has issues with the charter tourism business, he should take up the matter with the industry rather than attack innocent tourists. For the record, over the last 10 years, Dave, a now retired briti

[Goanet]Film Festival - Is the Goan audience mature enough for similar stuff?

2003-09-16 Thread Cecil Pinto
Real Bodies Bare All on the Big Screen By LINDA LEE TORONTO In the new British movie "The Mother," which was shown here at the Toronto International Film Festival last week, the title character, a woman in her 60's who has an affair with her daughter's boyfriend, says: "When I was 30 I would ha

[Goanet]Goans need a change

2003-09-16 Thread lazarus demello
Aires rod.has openely criticised in a positive way the functioning of the Govt in goa.Keep it up aires, may god be with you,I cannot say I am with you because my condition does not permit for health reasons,Mr. Gabe menezes commented on aires article which sounded very strange. Mr. Gabe wherever y

Re: [Goanet]Re- Brits are comming

2003-09-16 Thread Frederick Noronha (FN)
On Mon, 15 Sep 2003, Marlon Menezes wrote: > Miguel, > > Are you in anyway related to Ole Xac? While he > advocates throwing out the "Indians" from Goa, you > seem to be advocating throwing out the tourists. Since Marlon, I don't think Miguel has advocated "throwing out the tourists". You are a

Re: [Goanet]Re- Brits are comming

2003-09-16 Thread Tariq Siddiqui
--- "Frederick Noronha (FN)" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Some critics have termed tourism (particularly > international tourism to > the Third World, fuelled by collapsing local > currencies) as a new form of > colonialism. Those critics must be smoking pot. -Tariq

Re: [Goanet]Re- Brits are comming

2003-09-16 Thread Eddie Fernandes
There can be no doubt that it is Miguel who ought to apologise to David Futers for asking him not to visit Goa every year. I have met Dave Futers several times over many years and his selfless dedication to Goa puts me to shame. I would urge anyone who doubts this to check http://www.f-w-a.demon.

[Goanet]WHAT'S COOKING... Chicken Shaslik

2003-09-16 Thread Daisy & Lino Rodrigues
Hello everyone, Hope you all had a good week. After a very hectic week of chauffeuring my kids around to school and soccer games and other activities and a string of catering jobs, I am basically pooped! But as promised, here I am again with yet another yummy recipe to please your palate. This

[Goanet]INTERVIEW: De-mystifying HIV/AIDS via the wires...

2003-09-16 Thread Frederick Noronha (FN)
DE-MYSTIFYING HIV/AIDS VIA THE WIRES: MOIRA ENGINEER FITS INTO A NEW ROLE... --- Karl de Souza <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> lives in a quiet part of Moira village, but does an unusual job along the North Goa beach belt. This computer e

[Goanet]highest national award ever received by a Goan journalist, Joaquim Fernandes

2003-09-16 Thread renebarreto
GOENKARS ! CONGRATULATIONS to Joaquim Fernandes for being awarded the * SAROJINI NAIDU PRIZE * Joaquim , YOU make us Proud ! rene barreto 0 Navhind reporter gets Sarojini Naidu prize NT Staff Reporter Panaji Sept 16: In the highest

Re: [Goanet]Re- Brits are comming

2003-09-16 Thread Bernado Colaco
--- Marlon Menezes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Miguel, > > Are you in anyway related to Ole Xac? While he > advocates throwing out the "Indians" from Goa, you > seem to be advocating throwing out the tourists. > Mr. Menezes, Please do not 'lift' my name in vain. My cause is for the total cont

[Goanet]Charter flights to Goa

2003-09-16 Thread Bosco - Goanet Volunteer
On Tue, 16 Sep 2003 13:35:01 +0100, "Travel" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Dear Mr Fernandes I have just been viewing your site and would ask if you could please include our company's details for flights to Goa. Our details: Take Flight Travel 71A High Street Beckenham Kent BR3 1AW T: 0870 5561 5

[Goanet]Save Goa

2003-09-16 Thread Bosco - Goanet Volunteer
On 16 Sep 2003 13:00:49 -, "Philip Neri DeSouza" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Dear Rene and Goans world-wide, I have been following with interest the reports of the Goa Day celebrations held worldwide. The report of Victor Rodrigues dated Sat, 06 Sep 2003 from Houston, Texas, included a messag

[Goanet]Cookbook

2003-09-16 Thread Bosco - Goanet Volunteer
On Tue, 16 Sep 2003 15:34:01 -0400, "Fred Maciel" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: How do I go about ordering this Cookbook. I checked Penguin on the Web and could not find any reference to Penguin.India Thanks ## # Send submissio

[Goanet]Journalists in Goa

2003-09-16 Thread Vivian D'Souza
It is clear from reading "between the lines" Fred's posting on Journalists in Goa, that he himself and other Journalists who have become free-lancers may have been victims of the pressures placed on Journalists who dare to publish the truth. Before lambasting journalists in Goa, we must understand

Re: [Goanet]Re- Brits are comming

2003-09-16 Thread Marlon Menezes
Well Fred, I reproduce below comments made to Dave by Miguel. Please read it again and tell me if this does sounds like a welcoming message to Dave or to tourists in general. Regarding your broader comments of equating tourism to new colonialism, you (and others) seem to going down the well worn

[Goanet]RE: Rauls and neo-Rauls anim "private postings"

2003-09-16 Thread Gilbert Lawrence
Remarks: When arguing with a "stupid person", make sure that he does not think the same of you. IMHO Goanet administration has lost control on both the quality and the quantity on the postings on a subject on GoaNet. Even the Bhaji-puri khobor in the Aldona fish market has better class, value and

[Goanet]India's controlled press.

2003-09-16 Thread EdgarStmartins
I have in the past written on this topic. India claims to be a democracy and for a democracy to function, a free and independent press is a prerequisite. The strength of Western democracies rests on the pillars, one of them being a free press. I had recently listened to an Australi

Re: [Goanet]Cookbook

2003-09-16 Thread Goann
The book is available through Amazon.com and is actually quite a comprehensive cookbook.

[Goanet]Re: [Goanet-news]WHAT'S COOKING... Chicken Shaslik

2003-09-16 Thread LYDIA RODRIGUES
dear daisy, tks for yre email i will forward the menu to my wife to prepare hope it is tasty. tks keep in touch. love joseph From: Daisy & Lino Rodrigues <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Frederick Noronha <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: [Goanet-news]WHAT'S COOKING... Chicken Sh

Re: [Goanet]WORLD GOA DAY PORTUGAL 2

2003-09-16 Thread Miguel Braganza
Dear Constantino Xavier, That is a great job by a young person. No problem in shifting the Goa Day a month behind the rest of the world celebrations. In fact 20 Sept would have been better in Goa, too.August is very rainy here.We keep the date because Konkani was recognized officially as a 'langua

Re: [Goanet]My Comments.

2003-09-16 Thread Miguel Braganza
Dear Gabe, How we wish life was as simple as we imagine it to be ! 1. Rajan Narayan was good at his job as a fearless writer. As an Editor he has sidelined journalists who might have given him a run for his money.Norman Dantas[who briefly even replaced him at the Herald] is just one of the many.

[Goanet]GOA -a BUILDERS HAVEN

2003-09-16 Thread godfrey gonsalves
Most of the Public Notices issued by theMunicipalities in Goa are merely issued as abundant caution. The Municipal Administration can faithfully implement these notices only if the Councillors and the Minister of Urban Development show political will. Take the latest notice issued on the 9th insta

[Goanet]RE: [Goanet-news]WHAT'S COOKING... Chicken Shaslik

2003-09-16 Thread Clara D'Souza
Hi Daisy Thanks for the recipe. To day being the weekend I will try it out . Looks easy and quick to prepare. Clara D'Souza Dubai -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Daisy & Lino Rodrigues Sent: Wednesday, September 17, 2003 1:24 AM To: Fre

[Goanet]Airport Tax

2003-09-16 Thread R.PACHECO
So--600 charter flights are expected!  Why don't the Dabolim Airport Authorities  introduce an Airport tax of say 20 rupees per head.This should be a one time fee only.That revenue could generate income to subsidies urgently required renovations.That Dabolim Airport is a definitely sore sight

Re: [Goanet]Journalists in Goa

2003-09-16 Thread Bernado Colaco
> > > Kudos to Aires Rodrigues and Floriano Lobo for > having > the guts to speak out and expose the misdeeds of the > politicians. Unfortunately, their message has a > narrow audience limited to cyberspace. > > Vivian A. D'Souza > > After Edgar and myself critcized Fred, it now seems that sk

Re: [Goanet]Marlon's comparison - Miguel & Dave

2003-09-16 Thread Miguel Braganza
Dear Marlon, Thanks for the information on Dave Futers. Which organization? Which schools in Goa? If he is doing a good job in Goa,he is welcome here...by charter or otherwise. I was only responding to his posting tangentially attacking my earlier postings. I stand by assertion that British charte

[Goanet]Recipes Required

2003-09-16 Thread Alvi Monteiro
Hi, I have tried this chicken shaslisk and turned out to be mouth watering. Could you send me some yummy recipes like how to make chicken xacutti, chicen curry(without using coconut), pulao, amot tik, beef red curry, caldin, sambarachi koddi... Also, i am desperately looking out for reci

[Goanet]GOA SUICIDE WATCH:Tilamol resident commits suicide

2003-09-16 Thread Goa Desc
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[Goanet-news]17 SEP 2003: GOACOM DAILY NEWS CLIPPINGS

2003-09-16 Thread Joel D'Souza
GOACOM DAILY NEWS CLIPPINGS 17 Sep 2003 GOVT CONSTITUTES GEDC: Goa Education Development Corporation has been constituted by the government with the ordinance constituting it being issued by Governor Kidar Nath Sahani on 8 September. The first Education Estate will be set up by this Corporation at