[Goanet] GOA CIC LEENA MEHENDALE HAS LIED TO THE PEOPLE OF GOA

2013-10-26 Thread Aires Rodrigues
Leena Mehendale has publicly lied to the people of Goa minutes after having been sworn in as Goa’s Chief Information Commissioner. After her swearing in ceremony earlier this week Leena Mehendale made a false statement that the Supreme Court had clarified that the State Information Commission cou

[Goanet] Link: The world needs more engineers. Start them early.

2013-10-26 Thread Albert Peres
http://www.youtube.com/user/arvindguptatoys/videos Good site but so few views... great toys for boys and girls. The world needs more engineers. Start them early. Example: Generator made from CDs and simple found materials http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=noF5q4-77XI (in marathi with english sub

Re: [Goanet] Old-style measurements... paileo, kudov, khandi

2013-10-26 Thread eric pinto
I recall sacks on three bullock-carts. They filled a structure that was  known as a 'gottho,'  which was rebuilt as a guest residence, this year.         Trippers welcome.    Eric. 90 khandis, by my friend's count, would be 9000 kgs (at 90-100 kgs per khandi

Re: [Goanet] Old-style measurements... paileo, kudov, khandi

2013-10-26 Thread Frederick FN Noronha * फ्रेड्रिक नोरोन्या * فريدريك نورونيا
90 khandis, by my friend's count, would be 9000 kgs (at 90-100 kgs per khandi). Is he wrong? Or a mixup here? FN On 26 October 2013 00:37, eric pinto wrote: > Ninty khandis of paddy were delivered from Mayem every winter, > to become free picking for a hundred and fifty odd chickens. > _/_/_/_

[Goanet] OHERALDO' HEADLINE NEWS OF 26 OCTOBER, 2013 - A Serious Note

2013-10-26 Thread floriano lobo
RE: OHERALDO' HEADLINE NEWS OF 26 OCTOBER, 2013 http://www.goasu-raj.org/gen/news/3224.asp PPS: PEOPLE FOR POLITICAL SANITY PS: If the people refuse to become politically 'SANE', politics will remain dirty + more. ONLY DAB

[Goanet] Fwd: Song for the day…..

2013-10-26 Thread Gabe Menezes
Another one from strictly.. This Could Be the Start of Something Big-Steve Allen, Steve Lawrenc http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=05pU6l4PEJw -- DEV BOREM KORUM Gabe Menezes.

[Goanet] Portugal voted Best Country in the World

2013-10-26 Thread Gabe Menezes
If you believe this you could believe anything! Please also read the comments…. http://en.mediamass.net/world/pt/best-country.html -- DEV BOREM KORUM Gabe Menezes.

[Goanet] Gypsy Kings rock Goa!

2013-10-26 Thread Jazz Goa
Thursday Night Live at the Sofala at Nerul in Goa has established itself as not only the ultimate entertainment destination in India but internationally as well. Los Angeles based Gypsy All Stars band  featuring members of the Gypsy Kings family took the huge improvised poolside stage to rock Go

[Goanet] Campal Vendalism ?

2013-10-26 Thread JoeGoaUk
6in1 http://www.flickr.com/photos/joegoaukdirtypanjim9/10484029574/sizes/h/ More here http://www.flickr.com/photos/joegoaukdirtypanjim9/10484069254/in/photostream/ http://www.flickr.com/photos/joegoaukdirtypanjim9/10484046096/in/photostream/ http://www.flickr.com/photos/joegoaukdirtypanjim9/104840

[Goanet] PRESS INVITE (Monday 28th October 2013) (Please Disseminate Widely)

2013-10-26 Thread Dolphy Dsouza
URGENT PRESS INVITE Justice for All Campaign End Impunity, Ensure Accountability Supported by: Justice P.B Sawant (retired) Supreme Court of India, Justice Hosbet Suresh (retired) Bombay High Court, Justice S.H.A Raza (retired) Lucknow Bench, Allahabad High Cour

[Goanet] Recommendations on Sports Policy by the Goa RTI Forum

2013-10-26 Thread Sandeep Heble
Recommendations on Sports Policy by the Goa RTI Forum Background: The Goa Sports Policy 2009 was implemented to encourage young children to pursue sports alongside academics. Though the Policy promised much and was meant to encourage young athletes to achieve sporting excellence through various i

[Goanet] TAG’s ‘ 3rd Competion In Acting in Konkani’.

2013-10-26 Thread Tiatr Academy Goa
*Press Note* *For favor of publication*** * * *TAG’s ‘ 3rd Competion In Acting in Konkani’.* Every year TAG organizes a competition in Acting in Konkani with the perspective for improving acting abilities. * * The 3rd Competition of Acting in Konkani will be held on 10th November, 2013, 3.

[Goanet] ELECTION COMMISSION SHOULD QUOTE THE LAW UNDER WHICH INSTRUCTIONS ARE ISSUED- Shantaram

2013-10-26 Thread Shantaram Naik
SHANTARAM NAIK M.P 26/10/2013 Chairman, Parliamentary Standing Committee of the Department of Personnel, Public Grievances, Law and Justice, 2137, Near Swami Math, Gogol, Margao GOA 403 602 0832-2759555 09868181344 09422439990 ***ELECTION COMMISSION SHOULD QUOTE THE LAW UNDER WHICH *

[Goanet] The Joy of the Journey

2013-10-26 Thread Roland Francis
There was a time when long distance travel on the Indian Railways was an event to be looked forward to. If British achievement in India was to be measured on only one criterion, it would be the the excellent network of railways they built. Often sacrificing shorter routes and therefore lower tra

[Goanet] Subject: Old-style measurements... paileo, kudov, khandi

2013-10-26 Thread augusto pinto
I don't think the smaller measurements preceeding paileo, kudov and khandi have been mentioned. These are the nice sounding an'nati, gin'nati, solgem and pod. Probably only museums have these measures which used to be a feature of many houses in the past. I know a family friend from Pilerne, Mrs P

[Goanet] how to end corruption

2013-10-26 Thread Nelson Lopes
CORRUPTION NOT TO END It appears as if the issue of corruption is new, Both the Congress and BJPare going hammer and tongs on the corruption issues. Each one is capitalising on the miss deeds of the other. Corruption has always existed in the past, but that in the high places was never exposed, as

[Goanet] Shillong Xarant Romi Konknnichi Khobor

2013-10-26 Thread dale luis menezes
http://daleluismenezes.blogspot.in/2013/10/shillong-xarant-romi-konknnichi-khobor.html D www.daleluismenezes.blogspot.com --- "To leave error unrefuted is to encourage intellectual immorality" Karl Marx ---

[Goanet] Pako, Pake, Fruit bats, flying foxes, figs etc

2013-10-26 Thread JoeGoaUk
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[Goanet] MICA

2013-10-26 Thread eric pinto
            Mentally Ill Chemical Abusers.   Wine, women and song, and    narcotics in this new flower world of mania.  It is nicotine in the  case of schizophrenia, they chain smoke.    eric. From: Gerald Fernandes    Researchers say alcoholism and anxiety co

[Goanet] 12 Goans in the Lusosphere, from Brazil to Timor (Herald)

2013-10-26 Thread Constantino Xavier
Bom dia, Today, in the special Semana da Cultura Indo-Portuguesa supplement for the Herald, I offer a review of 12 Portuguese-speaking people of Goan origin that can help reconnect India and the Lusosphere: Alick Nilesh Barreto, Dilip Loundo (Brazil); Jorge Barreto Xavier, Eugenio Viassa Monteiro,

[Goanet] 3rd Anniversay Issue of Xit-Koddi

2013-10-26 Thread Bahrain Goans
3rd Anniversary Issue OfXIT-KODDIE-newsletter of Bahrain GoansAvailable Online NowClick On The Link And Read At Your Leisure https://sites.google.com/site/bahraingoans/Xit-Koddi---Oct-2013

Re: [Goanet] A GENETIC BASIS FOR ALCOHOLISM : SHOULD GOA TAKE THE LEAD AND ESTABLISH A CHAIR AT GOA UNIVERSITY OR GOA MEDICAL COLLEGE?

2013-10-26 Thread Santosh Helekar
Gerry, It is premature to conclude anything from this study for two reasons: 1. These are old results obtained in rats that need to be confirmed in humans, and because of racial differences, they need to be confirmed in Indians, in order to be applicable to us. The report you are referring to w

[Goanet] This from a Sensitive GOAN - The Hen is coming home to lay the EGGS

2013-10-26 Thread floriano lobo
FYI http://www.goasu-raj.org/gen/news/3225.asp PPS: PEOPLE FOR POLITICAL SANITY PS: If the people refuse to become politically 'SANE', politics will remain dirty + more. ONLY DABOLIM - NAVY GET OUT WITH MOPA - SPECIAL S

[Goanet] OHERALDO' HEADLINE NEWS OF 26 OCTOBER, 2013 - A Serious Note

2013-10-26 Thread floriano lobo
RE: OHERALDO' HEADLINE NEWS OF 26 OCTOBER, 2013 http://www.goasu-raj.org/gen/news/3224.asp PPS: PEOPLE FOR POLITICAL SANITY PS: If the people refuse to become politically 'SANE', politics will remain dirty + more. ONLY D

Re: [Goanet] how to end corruption

2013-10-26 Thread floriano lobo
No, I do not agree to your solution. The only way corruption can end in Goa is through AK-47 and lead aka Pb. Cheers floriano goasuraj - Original Message - From: "Nelson Lopes" To: "Goa's premiere mailing list, estb. 1994!" Sent: Saturday, October 26, 2013 7:08 PM Subject: [Goanet] h

Re: [Goanet] Subject: Old-style measurements... paileo, kudov, khandi

2013-10-26 Thread Alfred de Tavares
Good... you guys are edifying our posterity in these weights & measures of millenia past. Soon our neonati generations will not know about this paraphernalia, essential to our goneby existence...&, good God forbid, such daily-requisite materials viz. pencils, slates, erasers, chalks, blackboard

[Goanet] Goa news for October 27, 2013

2013-10-26 Thread Goanet News Service
Goa News from Google News and Goanet.org Visit http://www.goanet.org/newslinks.php for the full stories. *** Sporting Clube de Goa vs Rangdajied United FC Report - Goal.com India winners in an I-League sixth round encounter against Rangdajied United at the Duler stadium. Goals from Ogba Kalu Nnan

[Goanet] Fwd: Hymn for the day…...

2013-10-26 Thread Gabe Menezes
Susan Boyle burst on the scene in 2009, when the World was in a Financial crisis - Britain's got talent. She has since reputedly made £30 mil. Here is one she sang - perhaps in anticipation of Papa Francis…..dedicated to St. Francis of Assisi. Susan Boyle make me a channel of your peace http://

Re: [Goanet] Fwd: Song for the day…..

2013-10-26 Thread Venantius J Pinto
Thanks Gabe. vjp On Sat, Oct 26, 2013 at 3:54 AM, Gabe Menezes wrote: > Another one from strictly.. This Could Be the Start of Something Big-Steve > Allen, Steve Lawrenc > > http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=05pU6l4PEJw > > > > -- > DEV BOREM KORUM > > Gabe Menezes. >

[Goanet] Sekyaya replays Asian-Ugandan saga on screen (Uganda, Sunday Monitor)

2013-10-26 Thread Frederick Noronha
Sekyaya replays Asian-Ugandan saga on screen Patrick Sekyaya during the shooting of the movie. By Edgar R. Batte Posted Saturday, October 19 2013 at 01:00 The movie. The Ugandan is a feature film about Raman, an Indian survivor of Idi Amin’s regime. In this riveting story of lies, love and xe

Re: [Goanet] The Joy of the Journey

2013-10-26 Thread Roland Francis
Gentlemen (at least one of you is), "Tigers in Canada?" - Tim de Mello and Mervyn Lobo. If you were thinking about Royal Bengals you would be right. If you are referring to sabre-toothed Siberians and their smaller cousins the Caspians, you would be wrong. Chinese laborers were indeed attacked

Re: [Goanet] The Joy of the Journey

2013-10-26 Thread Tim de Mello
Roland: Nicely written but IMHO some artisitic licence taken a bit too liberally. "It was as if they wanted to leave their footprint on the Indian landscape much after they were gone . . ." The British had no intention of leaving India. re: Canadian railways "Every mile of track that the Chines

Re: [Goanet] The Joy of the Journey

2013-10-26 Thread Mervyn Lobo
On Saturday, October 26, 2013 9:43:41 AM, Roland Francis wrote: > The Canadian rail system was built on the Indian model magnified larger than  > life so as to cover the enormously wider areas. Financed by Scottish bankers > and  > laid by Chinese coolie labor, its mighty reach makes up for the ne

Re: [Goanet] A GENETIC BASIS FOR ALCOHOLISM : SHOULD GOA TAKE THE LEAD AND ESTABLISH A CHAIR AT GOA UNIVERSITY OR GOA MEDICAL COLLEGE?

2013-10-26 Thread Mervyn Lobo
Santosh wrote: >It is premature to conclude anything from this study for two reasons: > >1. These are old results obtained in rats that need to be confirmed in > humans, and because of racial differences, they need to be confirmed  > in Indians, in order to be applicable to us. ---