[Goanet] Talking Photos: Welcome to GOA - The Beauty of Day & Night

2006-10-07 Thread JoeGoaUk
Talking Photos: Welcome to GOA - The Beauty of Day & Night Panjim Church, Mandovi Bridges, Miramar Beach, Old GMC http://www.flickr.com/photos/joegoauk4/262834774/ [EMAIL PROTECTED] for Goa & NRI related info... http://in.groups.yahoo.com/group/GOAN-NRI/ Konkani Songs, Goan Photos,

Re: [Goanet] Goa trounced by tiny Cabo Verde

2006-10-07 Thread Frederick \"FN\" Noronha
Sigh! What depressing news If only the Portuguese had stayed on a decade or two or three more! But have faith. We could still bring them back via the football field at least. FN On 06/10/06, Bernado Colaco <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Like I have mentioned in the previous post, Goa took a > hi

Re: [Goanet] Moderations and beyond

2006-10-07 Thread Frederick \"FN\" Noronha
Hi Cornel, I'm saying this absolutely in my personal capacity... and you'll know why shortly On 06/10/06, cornel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I'd like to suggest that when the moderators want to end a particular thread > on Goanet, a week's notice be given so that contributions are not inevita

Re: [Goanet] Today's "latest research"

2006-10-07 Thread Mervyn Lobo
Gilbert Lawrence <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I compliment you for wanting to expose fallacies > posted on Goanet, especially the ones posted by some > not in your camp. But should you not start with > yourself? Gilbert, Santosh has never posted fallacies on Goanet. In fact, every post of his i

Re: [Goanet] [Goanet-news] Dom Moraes: Another link ... Goan family mishap in the US ... Deepa Fernandes ... Lata Mangeshkar ...

2006-10-07 Thread iggy
Dear Fred After a long time. I recently have added one more member to my large family a baby boy. The lusofonia Games are going on in Macau. We had a Rosary knowing they would be Goans from Goa in Macau. So the Goan officials Mr Prabhudesai- Director of Sports, goa, Mr GuruDatta Bhakta -SAG and

Re: [Goanet] Today's "latest research"

2006-10-07 Thread Santosh Helekar
Gilbert, I don't know why I have to stand on your shoulders. With all due respect, I do not consider you better or more accomplished than anybody else on Goanet. Regarding your post, I have problems with the science in it. I don't care about the language. I have already pointed out some of the fla

Re: [Goanet] FRIDAY BALCAO:Tackling suicide and mental illness in Goa

2006-10-07 Thread Alfred de Tavares
My dear Roland, My cousins, Jovita & Benito, both priests were recently in Sweden collecting data on these topics for utilizing respected Swedish methods in the field in the centers the have organized in Bangalore to prempt suicide and to help those who have served their sentence in jail readjust

Re: [Goanet] In search of this Flower 'AGA BOCHKE' (Tiger's Paws?) ---- I

2006-10-07 Thread Agnelo Mascarenhas
It's a Gloriosa superba. A vine belonging to the lily family. handle with care, all parts of the plant are toxic. one of its sanskrit names is garbhapatani, an abortifacient. regards agnelo > Message: 2 > Date: Fri, 6 Oct 2006 09:12:20 +0100 (BST) > From: JoeGoaUk <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Subject:

[Goanet] Alfred Rose... and the 'seventies

2006-10-07 Thread Frederick \"FN\" Noronha
All India Radio has been seen as long having a bias towards playing a lot of Alfred Rose... and I'm currently tuned into a song of his of the 'seventies. He talks about taking a new year's resolution not to drink foreign liquor, or use foreign blades for shaving and even foreign clothes. It took

[Goanet] Goanet Reader: Papal Reflections (Rudolf C Heredia)

2006-10-07 Thread Goanet Reader
Papal Reflections Pope Benedict was to initiate an inter-religious dialogue on faith and religion, but a contentious quote from a Byzantine emperor cannot be the basis for such a dialogue. The basic premise for an inter-religious conversation is that it must begin with a critique of one's own tra

[Goanet] FW: RE: PONNOS (Pake v/s Agullim)

2006-10-07 Thread Arnold Noronha
From: JoeGoaUk <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Arnold Noronha <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: RE: PONNOS (Pake v/s Agullim) Date: Fri, 6 Oct 2006 23:10:39 +0100 (BST) >thanks. >Waghot we say vagullim or agullim and the same name for a type of fish with >long tail >(vagullea sole -dried fish very coo

[Goanet] Your characterizaton of local Goans

2006-10-07 Thread Arnold Noronha
Dear Mike: This refers to your post appearing in Goanet on October 4. While commending your enthusiasm and genuine interest in Goa's prosperity and good name, I take exception to your maligning indigenous Goans for being lackadaisical and disinterested in the goings-on in their Homeland. As I

[Goanet] SGF:PUBLIC MEETING AT CUNCOLIM TOMMORROW

2006-10-07 Thread airesrod
The Save Goa Front(SGF) will hold a public meeting on Sunday 8TH October at 10.30 am at the White Hall, Opp Church at Cuncolim. The meeting will be presided over by former Deputy Collector of Margao Mr. Suresh Pilarnkar and will be addressed by prominent social activists. The meeting is a part o

Re: [Goanet] Hello All

2006-10-07 Thread Frederick \"FN\" Noronha
On 06/10/06, Chandrakantha n.s <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Ah! I also wish to know if Alister Miranda and Father Salvador are > part of this network, If you are or if anyone knows them I kindly > request you to give me their email address and contact numbers, I do > have Alister's contact number

Re: [Goanet] The Great Goan Kashti is The Traditional Dress and The National Flag of Goa !

2006-10-07 Thread Roland Francis
I would be willing to pay the airfare of Joe Goauk from Goa to Florida if he would be willing to take a low angle frame of Carmo in kashti along with Mario Goveia also in kashti, standing on the verandah of a condo on the Atlantic seaboard gazing out on the ocean in a faraway thoughtful manner, and

Re: [Goanet] Moderations and beyond

2006-10-07 Thread Gabe Menezes
On 06/10/06, cornel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I'd like to suggest that when the moderators want to end a particular thread > on Goanet, a week's notice be given so that contributions are not inevitably > cut off midstream. > > I also propose a discussion on THE BENEFITS AND NON-BENEFITS OF THE >

Re: [Goanet] What is Goa's traditional dress?

2006-10-07 Thread Frederick \"FN\" Noronha
On 04/10/06, Cecil Pinto <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > A friend of mine asked me this question and off the top of my mind I > replied that since the Kunbis were the original inhabitants of Goa it > would seem that the Kunbi dress is Goa's traditional ethnic dress. > Anyone got ideas on this? > > Che

[Goanet] The magic of Xenn

2006-10-07 Thread Arnold Noronha
Dear Dominic: Cordial thanks for your heartwarming account of life in Goa with the focus on "Xenn". I'm impressed by your bucolic humility and sense of nostalgia. You're a genuine dyed-in-the-wool "Son of the Soil". You earn bonus points for inserting equivalent Konkani words strategically in

Re: [Goanet] GOANS of KENYA - MOMBASA_newsletter

2006-10-07 Thread Alfred de Tavares
And pray, what is this 'Naik' buisiness? AT >From: "Jorge/Livia de Abreu Noronha" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >Reply-To: "Goa's premiere mailing list, estb. 1994!" > >To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,"Goa's premiere mailing list, estb. 1994!" > >Subject: Re: [Goanet] GOANS of KENYA - MOMBASA_newslette

[Goanet] SGF HARDENS STANCE ON LEGAL NOTICE SERVED BY JOAQUIM ALEMAO'S PA

2006-10-07 Thread airesrod
The Save Goa Front(SGF), in its reply to the legal notice has challenged the Mr. Milton Barretto, Personal Assistant to the Urban Development Minister Mr. Joaquim Alemao to go ahead with the proposed case of defamation. Mr. Milton Barretto had earlier this week served a legal notice on Save Goa Fr

Re: [Goanet] Moderations and beyond

2006-10-07 Thread cornel
Hi Fred Thanks for your comments on the wisdom of cutting short some threads by the moderators without notice. I take your point about the problems of providing a deadline but am not sure that it would inevitably produce even more boring repetitious posts on a theme. I think I had in mind some a

[Goanet] AICHEA DISAK CHINTOP - Outubrachi 8vi, 2006!

2006-10-07 Thread domnic fernandes
Kitlo ruchnaslolo don disamcho sontos hea sonvsaracho! (How tasteless are the passing pleasures of this world!) Moi-mogan, Domnic Fernandes Anjuna/Dhahran, KSA _ Express yourself instantly with MSN Messenger! Download today it's FR

[Goanet] Battlo zalear kabar zalo! Police li[n]es

2006-10-07 Thread Miguel Braganza
Expert was deputed to examine,dispose Battlo’s grenade: Army HERALD NEWS DESK PANJIM, OCT 7 – Contrary to the police version, Army authorities have asserted that their expert was indeed deputed to the Goa Police for examination and disposal of the grenade recovered from Tariq Ahmed Battlo. It may

[Goanet] The History of Traditional Marian Prayers

2006-10-07 Thread John DSouza
The History of Traditional Marian Prayers Posted by: "gorettiali_nee_dsouza" @yahoo.com on Karachi Anthonian groups website Fri Oct 6, 2006 11:41 pm (PST) The History of Traditional Marian Prayers The Angelus The name of this prayer derives from the first Latin word ('angel'). The Angelus w

[Goanet] re; the first Goans

2006-10-07 Thread Eugene Correia
Dr. Carmo D'Crus wrote: Well here are the facts of Our History - Goa was a beautiful, idyllic place with sun-kissed beaches that was originally inhabited by the Kunbis, Gavdas, Kannadigas, etc for a few centuries. Vindhya mountains. Well, i would like to request Carmo to let us know his refe

[Goanet] Floriano's Sunday Ramblings-22 [Of catching the notorious 22 in the 'Catch-22" Retirement Net]

2006-10-07 Thread Floriano
I have had a long week to stitch and fortify the retirement net for the most notorious of our Goa's Legislative Assembly's ' never-say-bye' People's Representatives. Call it the 'Catch 22' problem. Needless to say that I have enjoyed reading what our top three masterminds, nh! the 'do-gooder

[Goanet] HEART-TO-HEART: Give Back When You Receive

2006-10-07 Thread Ethel Dacosta
HEART-TO-HEART By Ethel Da Costa Give Back When You Receive There was once a huge dragon in China who went from village to village killing cattle and dogs and chicken and children indiscriminately. So the villagers called upon a wizard to help them in their distress. The wizard said, "I cann

[Goanet] At CROSS purposes

2006-10-07 Thread Miguel Braganza
Dears, A unique exhibition of more than 500 crosses of different shapes and sizes will be on show at Fundacao Oriente , near Dr.Bhandare's Hospital, fontainhas-Panjim, from 12 to 20 October, 2006, between 10 A.M. and 7 P.M. everyday. The exhibition entitled THE CROSS CODE is organized by we

[Goanet] Propagation of a Falsehood

2006-10-07 Thread Arnold Noronha
Frederick: One of Goanet's "causes celebres" in vogue these days appears to be "Propagation of a Falsehood". Observing the proceedings of this vitriolic, verbal donnybrook has piqued my appetite for bizarre belligerence and drollery. The raging polemic manifesting platitudes galore, incongruou

[Goanet] Passing the baton

2006-10-07 Thread Valmiki Faleiro
PASSING THE BATON By Valmiki Faleiro Brave women! The cornerstone of hearth and home. Indeed, of society. Hailing from across our shallow categorizations of class, caste, creed and colour. Mothers who, in the face of varying degree of adversity, fought back and triumphed. To raise the family in

[Goanet] KONKAN CURRY: Life is constant change!

2006-10-07 Thread Miguel Braganza
Life is constant change! The most common cause of death is life, for never has an inanimate object been known to die! Images fade away, icons are broken, ice melts, waters evaporate but only living creatures die. Death is an irreversible process. It is final. Whether it is Jessica Lal or Priyad

[Goanet] Exercise Improves Cancer Survival

2006-10-07 Thread Gilbert Lawrence
Hi Mario and others who have responded on this thread, It is very gratifying to see posts on a thread that 'builds on a post' rather than correspondence that just tries to zap a post. As Mario has pointed, the zapping usually comes from readers who do not / cannot / refuse to understand and fo

[Goanet] Attending a Hindu wedding in the USA

2006-10-07 Thread Gilbert Lawrence
Last weekend we attended a Hindu wedding reception in our town in upstate New York. The reception was at the Country Club. Gracing the occasion were seven of eight grandparents of the bride and groom. That was great. They were from Goa, Bangalore and Mangalore. Also present were guests who we