[Goanet] Alignment of North-South expressway

2006-07-10 Thread Sachin Phadte
I have heard from a friend of mine who stays near Colva that the alignment of the expressway is between the railway line and the coast. Is there anyone on the list who can confirm it? Also, if anyone knowledgeable about the traffic, environment, etc., may also wish to comment. Sachin Phadte _

Re: [Goanet] The rock solid moral code & Agnostics

2006-07-10 Thread Elisabeth Carvalho
Dear Darling Gilbert, The first thing you should stop doing is using the slash when you refer to atheists and agnostics. There is a difference between the two. The words are not synonymous. An Agnostic simply acknowledges that it the beyond the realm of our current knowledge to know anything abou

Re: [Goanet] Cause of War, Confict and Violence

2006-07-10 Thread cornel
Hi Aristo Many thanks for letting us know what prompted your question on Conflict and Wars. After my quick reply, I began to feel that the reasons were greater than I had imagined but that immediate my response was better than none to your important question that affects us all. It struck me th

[Goanet] [JudeSundayReflections] Sunday Reflections - Fifteenth Sunday of the Year

2006-07-10 Thread Jude Botelho
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Re: [Goanet] FRIDAY BALCAO:Migration and family planning:factors for Goa's population growth ?

2006-07-10 Thread Frederick \"FN\" Noronha
Hi Elisabeth: You're slanting the debate by saying, "We are given to understand that migration into Goa is not an issue in Goa." Nobody has said this. It *is* a huge issue in Goa, as in almost all other parts of the globe. It is just a few voices who are questioning whether these issues are the on

Re: [Goanet] On what's good for Goa and Goans

2006-07-10 Thread Joe Vaz
Floriano Lobo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Now, take for instance our brush with (some) the Press in Goa. Politics in Goa has, over too long, pampered the press to such an extent that it (press) has forgotten its responsibilities as the FOURTH ESTATE, like the other three, the Executive,

[Goanet] Women buying sex in Goa too!

2006-07-10 Thread Frederick \"FN\" Noronha
The subject-line should read: Women *too* buying sex in Goa too! I'm not so sure thought that "buying" sex necessarily means enjoying it. To me, this is another means of the capitalist society's more-is-better sales pitch; and we know it isn't necessarily true. But it keeps both men and women in t

[Goanet] THOUGH TO SHARE

2006-07-10 Thread Cyril Pereira
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Re: [Goanet] Fake morality

2006-07-10 Thread Santosh Helekar
--- Mario Goveia <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Mario asks: > > Santosh, > This is a false choice because of what appears to be > two fictitious hypotheticals, stated without any > context or perspective, which you should provide > before asking such a half-baked question. > Sorry, that question

[Goanet] Signatures supporting Roman script submitted to President of India

2006-07-10 Thread tskk
DALGADO KONKNNI AKADEMI c/o Rhythm House, Below City Hospital, Opp Meenakshi Hotel Margão, Goa - 403 601 Phone: 2714299 July 10, 2006 Sir, Kindly give publicity to the following press release. Best wishes, Wilson Mazarello President Signatures supporting Roman script submitted to Presiden

[Goanet] The rock solid Christian moral code

2006-07-10 Thread Gilbert Lawrence
Hi Elisabeth, I pledge to always remember that... As a woman, you have a God-given right to keep changing your mind.:=)) You can oscillate between a "full blown buffet agnostic" and a "borem supurlem Catholic." Don’t be guilty! The guys call it "provisional knowledge". (very intellectual!) The G

[Goanet] A Changing Mass for U.S. Catholics

2006-07-10 Thread Cecil Pinto
A Changing Mass for U.S. Catholics By LAURIE GOODSTEIN and CINDY CHANG Published: June 16, 2006 Roman Catholic bishops in the United States voted yesterday to change the wording of many of the prayers and blessings that Catholics have recited at daily Mass for more than 35 years, yielding to Va

Re: [Goanet] On what's good for Goa and Goans

2006-07-10 Thread Elisabeth Carvalho
Dear Joe, Excellent post! I really enjoyed reading it. It's always perplexed me though whether journalists can be truly objective. Don't they bring their own biases into reporting, not just the editorials but reporting too. Christian Amanpour of CNN is often critical of the US. Dan Rather made a fo

Re: [Goanet] Goa Suraj and migrant voting rights./response to Fred

2006-07-10 Thread Elisabeth Carvalho
Dear Fred, The point I was trying to make about India, which has been misinterpreted is that, immigration into India is not an issue. There aren't large numbers of people trying to get into India. The one time, we did have a huge influx of refugees from what was then E.Pakistan, we "liberated" the

Re: [Goanet] The rock solid Christian moral code

2006-07-10 Thread Elisabeth Carvalho
Dear Gilbert, If you are lying (or as the Americans say laying) in bed on a lazy weekend and thinking of rapid-fire responses to my "AC-DC" stances (incidentally, AC-DC is a disparaging term used for homosexuals. I think on that account I restrict myself to the main-menu, no cafeteria business ther

[Goanet] What else could this list also mean ??

2006-07-10 Thread JoeGoaUk
What else could this list also mean ?? 1. England/France 2. Argentina/Uruguay 3. Germany(W) 4. Italy 5. Brazil - Mr. X may have visited these countries so far... - Visited once to England and France, twice to Argentina etc etc What else could the above list also mean ?? [EMAIL PRO

[Goanet] QUOTE FOR TODAY

2006-07-10 Thread borg costa
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Re: [Goanet] The rock solid Christian moral code

2006-07-10 Thread Frederick \"FN\" Noronha
Hi Gilbert, With due respect, this is unfair... you're poking fun at Elisabeth's gender, on account of a fact you got wrong. Elisabeth is the best judge of what *she* believes in. And the best we can do is take her word for it! FN On 10/07/06, Gilbert Lawrence <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi Elisa

[Goanet] Goa news for July 11, 2006

2006-07-10 Thread Goanet News Service
Goa News from Yahoo! News and Goanet.org Visit http://www.goanet.org/newslinks.php for the full stories. *** SirLankans Goa flights from October (Gulf Times) SRILANKAN Airlines, the largest foreign carrier operating to India, is adding Goa to its destination in the country from October. http:/

Re: [Goanet] The rock solid Christian moral code

2006-07-10 Thread Gabe Menezes
On 10/07/06, Elisabeth Carvalho <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Dear Gilbert, > If you are lying (or as the Americans say laying) in > bed on a lazy weekend and thinking of rapid-fire > responses to my "AC-DC" stances (incidentally, AC-DC > is a disparaging term used for homosexuals. I think on > that

[Goanet] Moral code and Mahatma Gandhi

2006-07-10 Thread Gilbert Lawrence
The reason Gandhi had no problem with caste was his desire that (Indian) society should be based on DUTY AND SERVICE (SEVA) rather than on the (modern) concept of RIGHTS AND WANTS. Hence with MG's model (old Indian social model), it did not matter that your duty and seva was predetermined at b

Re: [Goanet] On what's good for Goa and Goans

2006-07-10 Thread Frederick Noronha
For long, I have been a critic of the media in Goa, and how it works here. This is reflected in the reality that I hardly ever got the space to work with the Goa media in any significant way, except when the media itself here has been short of staff, or wanted a nightwatchman to 'run the show' for

Re: [Goanet] On what's good for Goa and Goans

2006-07-10 Thread Joe Vaz
Elisabeth Carvalho <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Dear Joe, Excellent post! I really enjoyed reading it. It's always perplexed me though whether journalists can be truly objective. Dear Elisabeth: Thanks for your kind words. You make valid o

Re: [Goanet] FRIDAY BALCAO:Migration and family planning:factors /response to Fred

2006-07-10 Thread Elisabeth Carvalho
Dear Fred, No offense taken. I am glad of the traction this topic has gotten on the forum albeit some emotional. It's difficult not to be emotional when discussing a subject that has to draw a fine line between human rights, civil rights and economic realities. We have some of Goa's finest minds,

Re: [Goanet] Talking Photos: A Quiz ? (Your chance to win free stay at countryside, Goa) update/Clarification

2006-07-10 Thread JoeGoaUk
A clarification: It seems there is a confusion in understanding 'Crows or Crore ' So, what is Crore (e.g Rs. 2 Crore , Rs. 4 Crores etc etc) Rs.100 thousands = Rs.1 lakh Rs.10 lakhs = Rs.1 million Rs.100 lakhs = Rs.10 millions = Rs.1 crore (or 1 Crow ?) Rs.1000 millions = Rs.100 crore = Rs.1 Bill

Re: [Goanet] Go-Suraj and migrant voting rights/response to Fred

2006-07-10 Thread Mervyn Lobo
Elisabeth Carvalho <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Come election time, parties from across the board go > around slums and barter votes for water and > electricity connections, etc. This is no different > from buying votes by promising sundry favours to > special interest groups, persons or communitie

Re: [Goanet] Women buying sex in Goa too!

2006-07-10 Thread cornel
Hi Elizabeth Yes of course, it was Rousseau rather than Voltaire. Many thanks. I am happy to learn that you are a truly liberated woman. And of course, man has constrained women sexually under the guise of morality for one significant reason. A man can never be certain as to who the father of a

[Goanet] Nurse-Training Opportunity

2006-07-10 Thread Gilbert Lawrence
This came to me. Please check it out, Regards, GL PASS THIS ON If you know of anyone between 18-28 years old, interested in the Nursing field, University of the District of Columbia (UDC) is offering FREE tuition, FREE books, a $250 monthly stipend, and guaranteed job placement as a Nurse at

Re: [Goanet] Floriano's Sunday Ramblings-10 and -Vivek's response

2006-07-10 Thread Floriano Lobo
- Original Message - From: "Vivek" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Sent: Sunday, July 09, 2006 9:26 PM Subject: [Goanet] Floriano's sunday rambling Foriano says: "And come to think of it, it is not surprising that some ex-pat Goans have taken it on themselves to lecture us at Goa Su-Raj on th

[Goanet] Goa's art

2006-07-10 Thread George Pinto
tory below on the Getty museum returning art to Greece. http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20060710/ap_en_ot/greece_getty_antiquities Regards, George ___ Goanet mailing list Goanet@lists.goanet.org http://lists.goanet.org/listinfo.cgi/goanet-goanet.org

[Goanet] re Frederico Noronha on Women buying sex in Goa too!

2006-07-10 Thread Jose Colaco
Frederico Noronha on Women buying sex in Goa too! wrote the following (excerpted): 1: The subject-line should read: Women *too* buying sex in Goa too! 2: I'm not so sure thought that "buying" sex necessarily means enjoying it. 3: To me, this is another means of the capitalist society's more-i

Re: [Goanet] Women buying sex in Goa too!

2006-07-10 Thread Elisabeth Carvalho
Dear Fred, So many questions, all about sex and some about software roped in. I once sat next to a petite German Fraulein, who told me this was her third trip to Goa. Wow! I thought, Goa must be paradise for Germans. She punctured my thoughts by telling me that she was hoping Joaquin was "still w

Re: [Goanet] Goa Suraj and migrant voting rights./response to Fred

2006-07-10 Thread Frederick \"FN\" Noronha
On 10/07/06, Elisabeth Carvalho <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Dear Fred, > The point I was trying to make about India, which has > been misinterpreted is that, immigration into India is > not an issue. There aren't large numbers of people Haven't you heard of North East India? Haven't you heard of

Re: [Goanet] Gabe right about Brazil. Thoughts on Zinedine Zidane.

2006-07-10 Thread Mario Goveia
--- Gabe Menezes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Question: Again what game are you on about? France > did not play Germany!! Or did I have one too many > Stellas? > Mario replies: > Gabe is right, with or without his favorite Stellas. > Thierry Henry's goal off a Zinedine Zidane free kick in a pri

Re: [Goanet] Cause of War, Confict and Violence

2006-07-10 Thread Mario Goveia
--- Aristo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I would like to know what YOU feel is the PRIMARY > root-cause of War, Confict and Violence in > contemporary society, and how is it in > contrast with historical wars. Is it due to: > 1) Fundamentalism & Bigotry (Religious, Cultural, > Racial, Ideological

Re: [Goanet] The rock solid Christian moral code (2)

2006-07-10 Thread Mario Goveia
> --- Gilbert Lawrence wrote: > > > > If you call Buddhist and Jains as atheists, then > > we definitely have a semantic problem. > > Mario adds: > Gilbert, Santosh is correct. Buddhists and Jains are atheist organizations, but they have all the essential moral features of a theistic religion. S

Re: [Goanet] Virtues of abstinence - response to Mario

2006-07-10 Thread Elisabeth Carvalho
Dear Mario, This is what is wrong with your premise. That it is unrealistic and because it does not take into account the realities of human nature, it fails. Abstinence, might have been a great virtue when the average marriage age was around 16. It's not difficult to abstain for a few adolescent

[Goanet] Misleading adverts...

2006-07-10 Thread Frederick Noronha
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[Goanet] Goencho Ulo: UNDRAN GHORAK UZO GHATLO!"

2006-07-10 Thread domnic fernandes
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[Goanet] The Mollekars of Veling

2006-07-10 Thread Valmiki Faleiro
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