Re: [Goanet] MANDOVI MEMORIAL CROSS..03-12-1901

2020-12-04 Thread Roland Francis
Not trying to be personal in any way but just stating an illustrative example: Do your children count (rather than vaguely remember) all the good times you did things for them or do they remember the one shitty time you hurt them really bad. Roland. > On Dec 4, 2020, at 4:20 PM, Frederick

Re: [Goanet] MANDOVI MEMORIAL CROSS..03-12-1901

2020-12-04 Thread Frederick Noronha
Roland, you're not counting those who reach safely? Maybe, just maybe, you're being a tad unfair? FN On Sat, 5 Dec 2020 at 02:38, Roland Francis wrote: > Imagine! The saint was sleeping. > People who were going to worship, and pray to him, were sent to a watery > grave. -- FN* फ्रेड्रिक

Re: [Goanet] MANDOVI MEMORIAL CROSS..03-12-1901

2020-12-04 Thread Frederick Noronha
]This seems to have been written by the Prof Vasco Pinho with some details from the late Fr Nascimento J Mascarenhas, if one goes by info available on the Net [https://blog.parrikar.com/2009/12/20/december-03-1901]: The Ethnic Goan People & Diaspora 18 March · GOA'S WORST FERRY DISASTER by Fr.

Re: [Goanet] MANDOVI MEMORIAL CROSS..03-12-1901

2020-12-04 Thread Roland Francis
Imagine! The saint was sleeping. People who were going to worship, and pray to him, were sent to a watery grave. Roland. > On Dec 4, 2020, at 2:39 PM, Francesca Fernandes > wrote: > > Just thought of sharing this msg, I dont know who wrote it. It was sent to > me by a friend. Very

[Goanet] MANDOVI MEMORIAL CROSS..03-12-1901

2020-12-04 Thread Francesca Fernandes
Just thought of sharing this msg, I dont know who wrote it. It was sent to me by a friend. Very interesting. Must read. Goa ferry accident MANDOVI MEMORIAL CROSS..03-12-1901 A major disaster occurred on December 3, 1901, at 7:00 am. The motorized launch 'GOA' capsized while crossing the Mandovi

Re: [Goanet] Anyone remembers drinking piyush in Goa?

2020-12-04 Thread Naguesh Bhatcar
The original Cafe Central near the Municipal garden, had a permanent board that said, "Piyush Taiyar Ahe" -"पियुष तैयार आहे" Naguesh Bhatcar From: Goanet on behalf of Frederick Noronha Sent: Wednesday, December 2, 2020 4:30 PM To: Goanet Subject: [Goanet]

[Goanet] Cyberattacks

2020-12-04 Thread Roland Francis
Sorry that Associated Press link didn’t work in my previous message. I am forced to copy another similar article. The global pandemic has seen a huge rise in people working from home, shopping online, and generally being more digitally connected than ever. There are plenty of good things that

[Goanet] Cyberattacks, The New Terror

2020-12-04 Thread Roland Francis
Don’t throw way your landlines, your faxes and your pigeons. As hospitals cope with a COVID-19 surge, cyber threats loom BURLINGTON, Vt. (AP) — By late morning on Oct. 28, staff at the University of Vermont Medical Center noticed the hospital’... Read the full story Roland.

[Goanet] St Francis Xavier - Stray Thoughts

2020-12-04 Thread Roland Francis
Hi Sonia, Just to clarify the following: > Roland my dear. I understand your agony at being fed a stale bun and > lukewarm coffee at your dismal Jesuit School. 1. The school was not ‘dismal’. It was a rather high end Bombay school. 2. The ‘dismal’ part referred only to the breakfast on feast days

Re: [Goanet] St Francis Xavier - Stray Thoughts

2020-12-04 Thread Frederick Noronha
On Fri, 4 Dec 2020 at 14:07, Sonia Gomes wrote: > Roland my dear. I understand your agony at being fed a stale bun and > lukewarm coffee at your dismal Jesuit School. By the time we were in school, in the late 1970s, the Jesuits had already sworn by an "option for the poor". They were into

Re: [Goanet] St Francis Xavier - Stray Thoughts

2020-12-04 Thread Sonia Gomes
Absolutely Roland! Remember we have been given the freedom of choice. The priests could have and should have had a better conscience, considering that these parents were working extremely hard and all that mattered to them was that their children did well. Thank you for your good wishes Sonia On

Re: [Goanet] St Francis Xavier - Stray Thoughts

2020-12-04 Thread Roland Francis
Thank you Sonia for your post. Best wishes of Christmas and the season to you too. You said: Where was God when all those atrocities were happening to the inmates of the concentration camps? And there was an answer, 'Where was Man?' I reply: Quite my point. You don’t require a god to steer

Re: [Goanet] Goa's Green Generation Next, (Mint, 4/12/2020)

2020-12-04 Thread Venantius J Pinto
Brutal. In my sad opinion, Goa is truly being regarded as a Conquest. Venantius On Fri, Dec 4, 2020 at 7:15 AM V M wrote: > > https://www.livemint.com/news/india/inside-the-race-to-save-mollem/amp-11607008178992.html > > On 7 April and again on 15 April, even as “the world’s strictest >

[Goanet] Obscene Video Row: Poonam Pandey bail hearing on 5th December in Margao

2020-12-04 Thread GOACAN RESOURCE CENTRE
--- Do GOACAN a favour, circulate this email to your family members, relatives, neighbours and friends. Help other CITIZENS to be better informed. --- Poonam Pandey bail

[Goanet] Implications for Tourism in Goa: Meet the ‘salty’ Poonam Pandey who turns controversy into currency.

2020-12-04 Thread GOACAN RESOURCE CENTRE
--- Do GOACAN a favour, circulate this email to your family members, relatives, neighbours and friends. Help other CITIZENS to be better informed. --- Meet the ‘salty’

[Goanet] St FRANCIS XAVIER

2020-12-04 Thread Adolfo Mascarenhas
A certain individual named Francis residing in Canada had a stray thought. It was loaded with innuendos about forced conversion actually did not use the word INQUISITION ...seems unaware that it was started in France, was more meant for the Jews(Pre Hitler !!!) ::: On THURSDAY I attended the

[Goanet] Schedule for Saturday 5th December 2020

2020-12-04 Thread CCR TV
CCR TV GOA Channel of God's love✝ You can also watch CCR TV live on your smart phone via the CCR TV App Available on Google PlayStore for Android Platform. Click the link below. https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=ccr.tv4 Email ID: ccrgoame...@gmail.com Schedule for Saturday 5th

Re: [Goanet] Remembering Piyush drink in Goa

2020-12-04 Thread Tony de Sa
Dear Bernice, Cafe Remanso, in the Municipal building opp the Social Welfare Department in Panjim serves Piyush. They have a large cubical jar in which it is kept. IMHO, Cafe Remanso is the third best bhaji puri place in Panjim after Cafe Real and Cafe Bhonsale. Cafe Central was once the best

[Goanet] Rise against ‘anti-environment’ projects: Goa Archbishop

2020-12-04 Thread Gabe Menezes
https://www.canindia.com/rise-against-anti-environment-projects-goa-archbishop/ -- DEV BOREM KORUM Gabe Menezes.

[Goanet] The Story of Flooding in the Language of Trees (Dhaka Tribune. 4/12/2020)

2020-12-04 Thread V M
https://www.dhakatribune.com/opinion/op-ed/2020/12/04/op-ed-the-story-of-flooding-in-the-language-of-trees We all know climate change is massively disrupting weather patterns all over the world, with especially devastating effects in our South Asian countries. But a new study released earlier

Re: [Goanet] St Francis Xavier - Stray Thoughts

2020-12-04 Thread Sonia Gomes
Roland my dear. I understand your agony at being fed a stale bun and lukewarm coffee at your dismal Jesuit School. Braz Meneges in his trilogy has highlighted every aspect of his terrible hunger. To be blunt, the food offerings were little better than what the inmates of a concentration camp got.

[Goanet] Join us at a free webinar with the team of CSE's honey investigators

2020-12-04 Thread Vikas Khanna
Dear Friend, Webinar: THE HONEY TRAP Time: Dec 4, 2020 04:00 PM in India Yesterday, we broke the story of honey -- how most of the honey being sold in Indian markets is actually adulterated with sugar syrup. This honey is being sold under very big brands, names we have learned to trust

[Goanet] Freddy Mercury's school....

2020-12-04 Thread Frederick Noronha
This Panchgini school which Freddy Mercury once studied in seems to today have a number of Goan sounding names. What gives? https://www.peterspanchgani.org/school-management.php *St. Peter's School* (formerly the *European Boys' School*) is a private all-boys boarding school

Re: [Goanet] Remembering Piyush drink in Goa

2020-12-04 Thread Bernice Pereira
I’m not sure if that place still exists, because Goa has undergone a transformation (more of an upheaval) since you left. About Orchata, some people still make it. Sent from my iPhone > On 03-Dec-2020, at 8:03 PM, Carlos Peres da Costa > wrote: > Frederick Noronha´´s posting on Piyush

[Goanet] Goa's Green Generation Next, (Mint, 4/12/2020)

2020-12-04 Thread V M
https://www.livemint.com/news/india/inside-the-race-to-save-mollem/amp-11607008178992.html On 7 April and again on 15 April, even as “the world’s strictest lockdown" shuttered India behind closed doors, the National Board for Wildlife proceeded with two highly consequential meetings via

[Goanet] Frustrations in personal life

2020-12-04 Thread Nelson Lopes
Frustrations writh large Some Bollywood actresses may have gained fame, prominence,popularity perhaps by the couch .They cannot be termed as an epitome of beauty per se nor possessing talent unparalleled. Just being an actor popular and visible on the silver screen is not entitlement of

[Goanet] Schedule for Friday 4th December 2020

2020-12-04 Thread CCR TV
CCR TV GOA Channel of God's love✝ You can also watch CCR TV live on your smart phone via the CCR TV App Available on Google PlayStore for Android Platform. Click the link below. https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=ccr.tv4 Email ID: ccrgoame...@gmail.com Schedule for Friday 4th