[Goanet]MM replies

2005-02-22 Thread margaret mascarenhas
- Original Message - Sent: Tuesday, February 22, 2005 12:09 AM > Hello Margaret Mascarenhas > > This refers to your vicious personal attack against me > in Goa Today. > > I could have ignored your rambling diatribe but > silence is often tantamount to acceptance of guilt so > I will try t

[Goanet]Re: has the services improved at Goa Airport overnight to get 9001 certification?

2005-02-22 Thread Philip Thomas
[Feb 21] But it is strange that Goa get's 92% of international charters to India but none (that we know of) of the international scheduled flights. Seems like some nasty conspiracy to let the charters in but keep the airlines out. *

Re: [Goanet]Loyola wins cricket title!Finally we have overcome the hump

2005-02-22 Thread kurt fernandes
It's great to hear my old school has won in a sport other than basketball or football.Cricket started at Loyolas in the late 70's and every Saturday mornings we used to carry our kit to school and race down Comba road to Police Quarters ground Gosh there was so much open space and so much time back

Re: [Goanet] 15 million years ago

2005-02-22 Thread Santosh Helekar
--- afra dias wrote: > >ARE U SAYING THE SAME THING AS THE BIBLE SAYS? - >THAT, THE WORLD IS 6356 YEAR OLD? and that there were >no CREATURES before that? > No. I am saying that 15 million years ago corresponds to the middle of the Miocene epoch. The land masses of the Earth had nearly assumed

Re: [Goanet]Piri-Piri Chicken

2005-02-22 Thread Dr. Ambert Pimenta
U can say Nando's is the most happening restaurant in South Africa. Its costs a million rand to own a franchise ...their peri-peri chicken is one of the best available. They have a range of peri peri sauces , mild, medium , hot and extra peri-peri... Wonder if they are coming to India ?? Dr. Amber

[Goanet]New research on * Goan MP's in the Portuguese Parliament*

2005-02-22 Thread Teotonio R. de Souza
It was approved yesterday and with the highest qualification an MPhil dissertation of a Portuguese lady researcher, Susana Costa Pinho (with MA in Political Science and working presently as Journalist) on the Representatives of Portuguese India in the Portuguese Parliament (1822-1892) I had the

[Goanet]Tsunami - My Experience

2005-02-22 Thread JoeGoaUk
Dear all, Just come back from Nagapatinam (near Madras, Tamil Nadu, India). I have now got a clearer picture. Tsunami-the killer wave, very very big or giant wave comes out of the sea all of a sudden with just sea water and rolls back with men, animals and properties. The First such wave hit aroun

Re: [Goanet]Piri-Piri Chicken

2005-02-22 Thread Gabe Menezes
On Mon, 21 Feb 2005 20:42:06 -, Eddie Fernandes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Folks, > > Chicken Cafreal is recognised as a traditional Goan dish and as Gabe > writes, owes its origins to Portuguese Africa. > > However, the person credited with introducing it to Goa is the late Gines > Viegas

Re: [Goanet]15 million years ago

2005-02-22 Thread Gabe Menezes
On Mon, 21 Feb 2005 22:10:40 -0500, afra dias wrote: > Dear Goanetters, > Santosh says. > > "15 million years ago there were no human beings in Greece or anywhere else, > asAfra seems to imply. > Without Thalassemia people would not have been wiped out or "off", as Afra > says. > > Thalassemia h

[Goanet]TOI report on a book about bull****

2005-02-22 Thread Philip Thomas
Last week there was a report in Times of India (Mumbai) about a 67 page book by an emeritus professor of Princeton University titled "On Bullshit". The author, Professor Harry G. Frankfurt (76) found that "Even the most basic and preliminary questions about bullshit remain not only unanswered but

[Goanet]Females condoms for HIV/AIDS Goa.

2005-02-22 Thread Gabe Menezes
http://www.newkerala.com/news-daily/news/features.php?action=fullnews&id=75974 India to make female condoms available in more states: [India News]: New Delhi, Feb 22 : India is planning to offer subsidised female condoms in nine more high birth rate and high HIV/AIDS prevalent states after succes

[Goanet]Re: Piri-Piri Chicken

2005-02-22 Thread jose colaco
On Mon, 21 Feb 2005 Eddie Fernandes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: However, the person credited with introducing it to Goa is the late Gines Viegas (ex-Tanzania), when he opened O Coqueiro in Porvorim. His version was using a green chilli and coriander paste Gabe Menezes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: RESPO

Re: [Goanet]Abortion and the Church

2005-02-22 Thread Mario Goveia
Milad Meah <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > The Church says NO ABORTION - what are they doing > about it.!. > Mario replies: I don't know about "The Church" or the Greeks but Mother Theresa's Sisters of Charity have a life-affirming approach to an unwanted pregnancy. They will help a young woman th

[Goanet]Catholic Goans and Caste

2005-02-22 Thread cornel
Hi Gilbert, I am sorry I could not get back to you sooner because of travel/business but I was very conscious that I had to read your response to me and reply asap. However, on now reading your points to me, I got a distinct feeling that you were presenting, with great respect, an incredibly li

[Goanet]Re: Censorship via abuse - Do not do unto others...

2005-02-22 Thread Mario Goveia
Jose Colaco <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I was convinced that India was quite a democratic place. The following from Tehelka...does not make happy reading. > Mario replies: I'm not sure why we are confusing Tehelka with democracy. Tehelka is all about exposing corruption, and would be unable to

Re: [Goanet]Re: Piri-Piri Chicken

2005-02-22 Thread Eddie Fernandes
Folks, Chicken Cafreal has become the term used for marinated chicken that has been barbecued, roasted, grilled, fried, etc. The term originated from the Kaffirs or, in Portuguese, Cafres. It was the signature dish of O Coqueiro in Porvorim and Charles Sobraj is understood to have frequented th

Re: [Goanet] 15 million years ago

2005-02-22 Thread Santosh Helekar
--- Gabe Menezes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >The earliest fossil found, of perhaps present day >man is around 3.5 million years old. There were two >found one named 'Lucy' and the other then Kenya one. > Just a small correction. The 3.5 million year-old fossils are not of present day man. They

[Goanet]26 Feb Rally In Panjim to Mark Anti-Patents Day for Drugs

2005-02-22 Thread Goa Desc
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[Goanet]Re: Goans, Caste, George ani amcho Gilbertobab

2005-02-22 Thread George Pinto
Gilbert's confusion continues, some responses below... --- Gilbert Lawrence <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > And if the Ribandar situation and others have taught us any thing; it is to > keep out from something specific 8,000 miles away. The Ribandar issue has taught us if we live 8,000 miles aw

[Goanet]Goa Tourist Taxi Association says Tour & Travel agents are killing us

2005-02-22 Thread Goa Desc
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[Goanet]Goanet News Bytes * Feb 22, 2005 * Floor test on Feb 28, 2005

2005-02-22 Thread Goanet News Service
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[Goanet]Re: the Resurrection of Mario Goveia

2005-02-22 Thread jose colaco
Mario Goveia <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes Dear Mr. Goveia, So good to hear from you. Trust that you are well rested after your holiday in Goa. Hope you did not imbibe too much of that smelly stuff. In any event, I notice that you have returned to your normal routine of spouting out lies. In th

[Goanet]Margaret and Naked Goa

2005-02-22 Thread Anthony M Barreto
Margaret it is true that YOU would have saved us and a lot of other people some trouble if you had made it clear in response to my first mail that you never agree to edit before reading, free or otherwise. Instead you chose to say sure. (Presumptions, assumptions and impressions can lead to problem

[Goanet]Re: the Resurrection of Mario Goveia

2005-02-22 Thread Mario Goveia
Jose Colaco <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > In any event, I notice that you have returned to > your normal routine of spouting out lies. > > In the not too distant past, you were lying (a la > Goebel et McCarthy) about other people. > > Your lying-self pasted all kinds of false tags > upon other peo

[Goanet]REVIEW: Ruediger Dorn's Goa

2005-02-22 Thread Frederick Noronha (FN)
http://boardgameblog.blogspot.com/2005/02/goa-review.html Tuesday, February 22, 2005 Goa - The Review The spice trade was big in the 1600s. The seafaring colonial powers of the time competed to found colonies where the exotic spices thrived. The spices brought money, and the money brought fame an

[Goanet]Re: the Resurrection of Mario Goveia

2005-02-22 Thread Santosh Helekar
--- Mario Goveia <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >Jose, the only lie that I will admit to is that I >called you "learned". You are far too facile with >the use of the terms "lie" and "liar", maybe because of >your personal usage of what these terms mean. > Could somebody give this guy his prize and

Re:[Goanet] Goans, Caste, George ani amcho Gilbertobab

2005-02-22 Thread Santosh Helekar
George Pinto <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >Interestingly, some Goan Catholics who network and >email each other take the cowardly approach of private >communication to hide their indefensible views without >realizing some of their emails eventually end up in my >in-box! They are best ignored and no

[Goanet]Taxi's

2005-02-22 Thread David Futers
A very interesting piece on the taxi situation in Goa. My question is what is the charge per Km for a taxi and do you pay for double the distance unlike in the UK where you only pay one way, i.e. if the distance to the destination is 20Km and you do not retain the taxi do you have to pay for 40Km.

[Goanet]Today's cyber emails

2005-02-22 Thread George Pinto
Today's cyber emails have had an unusual flavor. To summarize for those who missed them A caste-free Catholic chicken resurrected in Naked Goa and was subsequently censored via abuse. Gilbert indicated USA chickens should stay away from Goa 8,000 miles away. Tehelka’s related story on ch

[Goanet]Re: Goans and Caste

2005-02-22 Thread Gilbert Lawrence
Hi Santosh, So very nice to hear from you. By all means you can take full credit for that compliment. You were the only one who stood there and carried on a civil and educational (for both of us and others) dialogue on Goa's Inquisition from which we all learnt. You did not feel defensive and ...

[Goanet]Re: Goans and caste - response to Cornel

2005-02-22 Thread Basilio
> My response, in this article to you is clearly in sorrow. How on earth can a > seemingly 'educated' and professional Catholic fellow like you (and I will > include Basil Monteiro here) possibly defend the indefensible on caste? Can > you not see that you could never have the moral highground ag

[Goanet]KGTS Condolence Meeting Held

2005-02-22 Thread
KGTS Condolence Meeting Held A condolence meeting was held by the Kuwait-Goa Tiatristanchi Sonvstha (KGTS) on 20-02-05 at the Royal Terrasse, Salmiya-Kuwait to offer prayers on the untimely demise of Mr. Francis Peter Thomas D'Souza - popularly known in Konkani theatre circle as "Bab Peter" - who

[Goanet]Re: Goan Observer Online

2005-02-22 Thread Floriano
sorry for the delay in responding to your mail you can send your sub amount either thru draft or other options pl eill the form on our site and we will activate your account in advance awaiting your payment rajan floriano <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: - Original Message - From: "Nasci

[Goanet]Re: London/Delhi £ 99 return - Dep. 11 Jan: 1-4 week stay

2005-02-22 Thread EDDIE ANTAO
HI EDDIE. DO YOU HAVE ANY FLIGHTS GOING FROM LONDON TO GOA IN THE MONTH OF NOV AND DEC 2005 EDDIE ANTAO ** Greet your loved ones in Goa with flowers! http://www.goa-world.com/goa/expressions/ EXPRESSIONS - The Flower Shop. World famo

[Goanet]KGTS Condolence Meeting Held

2005-02-22 Thread
KGTS Condolence Meeting Held A condolence meeting was held by the Kuwait-Goa Tiatristanchi Sonvstha (KGTS) on 20-02-05 at the Royal Terrasse, Salmiya-Kuwait to offer prayers on the untimely demise of Mr. Francis Peter Thomas D'Souza - popularly known in Konkani theatre circle as "Bab Peter" - wh

[Goanet]Goa news.

2005-02-22 Thread Tom de Sousa
Dear Sirs, i am very pleased to receive your regular news about Goa. I find it very satisfying to read all the news which are unbiased and also very informative. keep up the good work. Regards, Tom de Sousa in Hong kong. ** Greet your l

[Goanet]Re: 15 million years ago

2005-02-22 Thread Peter D'Souza
>Dear Goanetters, >Santosh says. > >"15 million years ago there were no human beings in Greece or anywhere else, >asAfra seems to imply. >[...] >Santosh" > >ARE U SAYING THE SAME THING AS THE BIBLE SAYS? - THAT, THE WORLD IS 6356 YEAR >OLD? and that there were no CREATURES before that? > >Sincere

[Goanet]Re: Piri-Piri Chicken

2005-02-22 Thread Peter D'Souza
From: "Dr. Ambert Pimenta" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >U can say Nando's is the most happening restaurant in South Africa. Its >costs a million rand to own a franchise ...their peri-peri chicken is one of >the best available. They have a range of peri peri sauces , mild, medium , >hot and extra peri-peri

[Goanet]RE-REPLY TO NAGUESH KARMALI

2005-02-22 Thread Sanny Vaz
Yesterday I just gave you a brief but today comes the had part of it, when you say NRIs its related to all and I mean all, yes most of us goans are working abroad some in the Gulf, some on ships, some in the UK, USA, Canada, Australia, Germany, and even in the African Continent, but did you ever

[Goanet]Racket by Imigration officials

2005-02-22 Thread Assis Fernandes
There is a new racket at the Goa Imigration .Tourists leaving Goa who have legitimate tickets to stay for over four weeks are bieng charged in Foreign currency a fee between £30 &£40...  to leave Goa.No receipts are given,if asked they are told that boarding on flight for which they have checked

[Goanet]Fundamentalists blamed for Spate of Christian Attacks in India

2005-02-22 Thread John M Pimenta
From: John MChristian Today -London( http://www.christiantoday.com/) Fundamentalists blamed for Spate of Christian Attacks in IndiaPosted: Monday, February 21 , 2005, 10:00 (GMT) The Secretary General of the Catholics Bishops Conference of India, Bishop Percival Fernandez has

Re: [Goanet] Goans and Caste

2005-02-22 Thread Santosh Helekar
--- Gilbert Lawrence <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >You were the only one who stood there and carried on a >civil and educational (for both of us and others) >dialogue on Goa's Inquisition from which we all >learnt. You did not feel defensive and >...

[Goanet]Ek Kovita: Visor

2005-02-22 Thread lino dourado
VISOR Panvlam vochun kallokant buskeleant Uzvaddachi ponti pettoun vatt melloi Kallzant niddukaeche rukh kirlaileat Ixttagotichem nattem zhoddun mog dhakoi Kitlo kal porian dusmanachem voddem Mellea korneachea somdirant gheun bhonvtolo? Kitlo kal porian soitanache

[Goanet]Wakeup and feel the heat!

2005-02-22 Thread D'Souza, Avelino
Goa Today has lost all sense of modern civility. Goa Today in its blind quest to soar its fast depleting fortunes has embarked on a path of ruthless, cheap and indecent exposure. Goa Today has propped Margaret Mascarenhas to fire her lethal salvos to a fellow author and writer Tony Martins. The

[Goanet]9th Edition of Curtorcares United 7-a-side Football Tournament on 25/2/05 in Kuwait

2005-02-22 Thread <>
9th Edition of Curtorcares United 7-a-side Football Tournament As part of the 10th anniversary grand celebrations of Curtorcares United, a one day 7-a-side football tournament will be held under the auspices of KIFF, sponsored by NGEECO-SIEMENS on Kuwait's National Day on Friday, 25th February 2

[Goanet]HERALD on Goa Airport ISO Certificate

2005-02-22 Thread Philip Thomas
Yesterday the HERALD carried a report on the ISO certificate accorded to Goa airport. This news was earlier reported on Goanet on the basis of another paper's story. However, the HERALD had some additional dope which is of interest. Not only did it mention the 9th rank and the 92% share of charter