[Goanet] TIMOR LESTE

2006-05-27 Thread Anthony and Nolette de Souza
It's no big deal that Australia has sent troops to reestablish order in Timor Leste for, during the Second World War, the Timorese saved hundreds or Aussies fighting the Japanese. Australia is merely returning the favour. Martinho _ Do n

[Goanet] Re: Da Vinci Code': Christians catch the fundamentalist

2006-05-27 Thread Aristo
Cornel & George, I very much agree with the both of you. So I don't have anything interesting to add by contradicting. But I would like to add to why I think Christians are more prone to evangelisation. Right from Catechism, when we are too young to make an informed choice, we are brainwashed

[Goanet] Football tournament

2006-05-27 Thread Vincy Quadros
To, The Editor, Dear Sir, Kindly publish the following news item through your network. Thanking you, Yours faithfully, (VINCY QUADROS) Working President, Goa ***

Re: [Goanet] Answer to Noronha's Da Vinci Code article

2006-05-27 Thread Bernado Colaco
One imagines if the same faith was met by the Talmud or the Koran. Would Dan Brown do it? BC -- --- [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Maybe you can forward this message to C. Noronha. > I think we all have to > remember that this is a page-turning novel, a > detective story. Send instant mes

[Goanet] Interview with Dr. Filomena Sarawati Giese

2006-05-27 Thread George Pinto
Fred, thanks for your interview with Dr. Filomena Sarawati Giese. See http://www.goanet.org/post.php?name=News&list=goanet-news&info=2006-May/date&post_id=001617 As one of the founders of Goa Sudharop and World Goa Day (it was her idea), she has had a remarkable impact in the Goan community and p

RE: [Goanet] TIMOR LESTE

2006-05-27 Thread Bernado Colaco
Macau is not polarised and is flourishing. Do not condone incompetence and failure like that of Goa and other countries of forced decolonisation. BC == --- Paulo Colaco Dias <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Fred, I agree with the opinion of Damien Kingsbury. > >

[Goanet] Aitaracheo Kaskutleo: Tuka add nanv koxem favlem?

2006-05-27 Thread lino dourado
  Tuka add nanv koxem favlem?   Tanchea ghora samkara toranzachem (grapefruit) zhadd aslem mhunn tea ghorabeak ‘toranzkarager’ mhonnlear vollkotalim. Pondra vorsam meren dona bhitorlem, kalsanv vo  ched’di porian ghalinaslo mhonn taka, ‘nagddo Juze’ hea add nanv dilem. Mazra porim ratch

[Goanet] Teaching, Educating and Learning

2006-05-27 Thread Miguel Braganza
Teaching, Educating and Learning Do not let your schooling come in the way! By Miguel Braganza The Higher Secondary School results are just out and the SSC results will soon follow. By the end of this month, what will be later remembered as the "best years of our lives" will be over for many t

[Goanet] “Governor’s pleasure is others’ pai n”: Rejoinder

2006-05-27 Thread sandeep heble
Sub: Letters to Editor Rejoinder to the news report “Governor’s pleasure is others’ pain” that appeared in the Gomantak Times issue dated 24-05-2006. We, the members of the “Evening Badminton Club” were surprised, nay shocked, to read the news report in the Gomantak Times dated 24-05-2006 titled

[Goanet] OUR LAW KEEPERS HAVE TURNED OUT TO BE LAW BREAKERS

2006-05-27 Thread airesrod
At a time where the crime barometer is on a steep ascending mode, an independent police force would have been a solace. But with political interference in the selection, promotion and transfer of our law enforcement officers, the police are obviously unable to deliver. There should be an ongoing

[Goanet] Road carnage -- GOVT. MUST ACT !

2006-05-27 Thread Valmiki Faleiro
Road carnage -- GOVT. MUST ACT ! By Valmiki Faleiro A Government committed to the welfare of its citizens will not sit pretty when two citizens die and eight suffer injuries in 10+ road accidents, every (average) day. Goa does have a Government -- legislature and executive, twin arms that mak

[Goanet] Now read Bible in Konkani; release on June 4 n be in Strong faith in God.

2006-05-27 Thread Stephen Fernandes
Now read Bible in Konkani; release on June 4 BY GILBERT D’MELLO OLD GOA, MAY 27 — While the liturgy and other documents of the Church in Goa have been available in Konkani since Vatican II, the church, however, still found itself in need of bringing out the entire Bible in the maim-bhas. This sacre

[Goanet] Re: The right of Christians in India to prostelize (revised)

2006-05-27 Thread Gilbert Lawrence
The author of the following post "agrees" with me. Yet there is little in the first paragraph of the post with which I agree. That makes a bulletin board interesting. The fact that any institution or government or country last for a long time suggest that it was / is valuable, useful, productiv

[Goanet] Goa news for May 28, 2006

2006-05-27 Thread Goanet News Service
Goa News from Yahoo! News and Goanet.org Visit http://www.goanet.org/newslinks.php for the full stories. *** Goa tourism dept to go ahead with golf course plan (Business Standard India) In order to attract 'high standard' and 'up market' tourists in Goa, the state tourism department is going ah

Re: [Goanet] Just curious

2006-05-27 Thread Gabe Menezes
On 27/05/06, Anthony M Barreto <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: I must thank the gentleman who brought the 10th wedding anniversary of Cecil and Beatrice to our attention on goanet. Cecil has two well known e-mail IDs and yet the subsequent wishing on goanet that followed escapes my simple mind. I am a

Re: [Goanet] WE ARE ALL GOANS

2006-05-27 Thread Mario Goveia
--- Gabe Menezes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 24/05/06, cornel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Mario > > I have very mildly clashed with Ricardo > previously on Goanet. If my memory > > serves me well, it was over his contention that, > but for the Portuguese, all > > Goans would have been of T

Re: [Goanet] WE ARE ALL GOANS

2006-05-27 Thread cornel
Mario Thanks for considering me contentious on Goanet. That is indeed a compliment. Contentious views are welcome on Goanet as per the moderators. You also refer to intemperate language which I do not recognize in my post. Cornel - Original Message - From: "Mario Goveia" <[EMAIL PROTEC

[Goanet] Misc. Goa News 27/05/06

2006-05-27 Thread JoeGoaUk
High Security Number Plates Soon: Goa will be the first State in the Country to introduce high security number plates. Transport Department has completed tendering process and would be supplied to vehicles owners by July this year. RTO also to provide its own vehicle to all license seekers durin

[Goanet] Just curious

2006-05-27 Thread Anthony M Barreto
I must thank the gentleman who brought the 10th wedding anniversary of Cecil and Beatrice to our attention on goanet. Cecil has two well known e-mail IDs and yet the subsequent wishing on goanet that followed escapes my simple mind. I am aware that curiosity killed a cat. But it is also true that

[Goanet] Goan links science, spirituality by OBE

2006-05-27 Thread D'Souza, Avelino
Goan links science, spirituality by OBE HERALD NEWS BUREAU PANJIM, MAY 26 - A Goan engineering student at Florida International University in USA is set to present on the controversial out-of-body experience at the 25th Meeting of the Society for Scientific Exploration at Utah Valley State College

[Goanet] ADC- May 27

2006-05-27 Thread Edward Verdes
"Poilem bhurgem, bhurgem num; Dusrem bhurgem, bhurgem. Tisrem bhurgem, satisfasanv, Choutem bhurgem tentesanv, Panchvem bhurgem maldisanv"Konkani Proverb The first child is not a child, the second child is a child. The third child is satisfaction, The fourth is a havoc, and the fifth a curse.

[Goanet] GOA FOR A CHEAP BEER

2006-05-27 Thread Gabe Menezes
http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/tm_objectid=17140623&method=full&siteid=94762&headline=goa-for-a-cheap-beer--name_page.html GOA FOR A CHEAP BEER GOA and Bulgaria are the cheapest places to go on holiday, a recent survey by tour giant Thomas Cook reveals. However Brazil, a new package holiday desti

[Goanet] Goanet Reader: One off -- where children learn to love books (by Reena Kamat)

2006-05-27 Thread Goanet Reader
ONE OFF: WHERE CHILDREN LEARN TO LOVE BOOKS By Reema Kamat Imagine this. You are a worm. A squirming, wriggling one. Only, you’re the good kind. Your domain is the enchanted forest. It has shelves for paths that you can walk on and books for trees that you can clamber on. Books in all shapes, siz

[Goanet] Japanese Catholics donate statues of St Francis Xavier to Goa and Malacca

2006-05-27 Thread D'Souza, Avelino
Japanese Catholics donate statues of St Francis Xavier to Goa and Malacca AsiaNews.it 27 May, 2006 To mark the 500th anniversary of the saint's birth, a Catholic association of Kagoshima has commissioned a group of bronze statues to recall the encounter of the protector of missionaries with the

[Goanet] CA/PS XX: THE MILITARY'S TRUE COLOURS

2006-05-27 Thread Philip Thomas
http://www.voiceofsandiego.org/site/apps/nl/content2.asp?c=euLTJbMUKvH&b=412 359&ct=2494735 It's Miramar By ROB DAVIS Voice Staff Writer Tuesday, May 23, 2006 An airport authority committee chose Marine Corps Air Station Miramar as the best site for a new international airport to replace Lindber