[Goanet] Religious Groups Found Wanting

2021-09-17 Thread Roland Francis
This report is about the UK but it is certainly occurring in other parts of the world too. A recent inquiry into a wide range of religious organizations based in the United Kingdom found a number of issues in how such organizations handle abuse allegations. The Independent Inquiry into Child

[Goanet] Inside and Outside the Ring

2021-09-17 Thread Joao Barros-Pereira
Mick Jagger sings i can get no satisfaction! in Goa people love illegal bull fights and cock fights Ladies and Gentlemen: Joe’s cock on the left Pedro’s cock on the right Joe’s cock looks angry all out attack on … Cock fighting fans say: Bull fights a lot of bull the real thing Cock

[Goanet] NO Pao, No Onions

2021-09-17 Thread eric pinto
A crude sign on the wall of the small cafe of the temple in Ponda.Onions are taboo, being considered aphrodisiacs. The Coptic prohibition of yeast/risers is universal.Where I live, Jews thrive on horrid biscuit and and bread baked in this fashion.Should I visit Egypt, my revenge will be a pound

Re: [Goanet] Roshan D'Silva, and the idea behind Pilgrim Stays

2021-09-17 Thread Roland Francis
I had read that before I made my previous post, but those are curriculum studies for Electrical Engineering subfields and nowhere does IIT claim to turn out “Telecom Engineers” unlike VJTI and a few other Bombay Engineering Colleges which do. Are you sure? Roland. > On Sep 17, 2021, at

Re: [Goanet] Roshan D'Silva, and the idea behind Pilgrim Stays

2021-09-17 Thread Frederick Noronha
Er? https://www.ee.iitb.ac.in/web/research/specializations/ee1 https://www.theweekendleader.com/Success/2652/holiday-homes.html FN ᐧ On Sat, 18 Sept 2021 at 03:08, Roland Francis wrote: > Not that it matters to your post and I could be wrong, but IIT Bombay does > not offer any

Re: [Goanet] Roshan D'Silva, and the idea behind Pilgrim Stays

2021-09-17 Thread Roland Francis
Not that it matters to your post and I could be wrong, but IIT Bombay does not offer any telecommunications specialization. There are other colleges in Bombay that offer that particular specialized engineering degree, most famous of which is VJTI. IIT does offer signal processing as a subfield

[Goanet] GSIDC PAVING PATHS TO HELL

2021-09-17 Thread Aires Rodrigues
As a regular user of Atal Setu, it can be seen that the number of potholes on this bridge is just increasing by the day. The government has announced that IIT Chennai has been entrusted the task of assessing the defects of Atal Setu. But this is no solace as hundreds of crores have been drained

[Goanet] Banana cultivation: planting and care

2021-09-17 Thread Frederick Noronha
https://youtu.be/5InF6vSZY5Y ᐧ

Re: [Goanet] Thinking of Dan Driscoll Today..

2021-09-17 Thread Roland Francis
He was definitely a nice guy from Nova Scotia in the Canadian Maritimes, married to a Goan woman who died a few years before him. After many years in Goa, he sort of returned home in Halifax to die. May have been a Jesuit or a lecturer in a Jesuit College before he married, since he was fond

[Goanet] Gander, Newfoundland

2021-09-17 Thread Roland Francis
The province of Newfoundland and Labrador (NL) is the easternmost province in Canada and was the last to embrace Confederation and join the country as late as 1949. It consists of the island of Newfoundland and continental Labrador, both home to a population of about half a million. The people

[Goanet] {Dilip's essays} Some truth behind what’s false

2021-09-17 Thread Dilip D'Souza
September 17 They shouldn't call it the birthday "paradox", because there isn't anything paradoxical in it. But they do. It's really just a consequence of basic probabilities that seems startling to most people (as it did to me, when I first ran across it): the fact that if you gather 23 people

Re: [Goanet] Uncaring Govt Pulls The Plug

2021-09-17 Thread Roland Francis
The Goa Govt is made up of nothing but a bunch of financial idiots. All they know is how to pocket bribes and commissions. The situation could have been avoided by: 1. Let your employees get their mortgage from the banks after they have passed the “stress” test. Meaning their borrowing can meet

[Goanet] Schedule for Saturday 18th September 2021

2021-09-17 Thread CCR TV
CCR TV GOA Channel of God's love✝ You can also watch CCR TV live on your smartphone 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 18th

Re: [Goanet] Goan Pao

2021-09-17 Thread Nascy Caldeira
Love it!  On Friday, 17 September 2021, 05:10:11 pm AEST, Antonio Menezes wrote: Pao, the Goan specialty bakery product, is derived from the Portuguese nasal work pao meaning bread. Till about the end of 18th century, pao was unknown in Western  India and the locals only ate the

Re: [Goanet] Me And Bobby McGee

2021-09-17 Thread Ivan Pereira
Great song, Roland !  > On Sep 16, 2021, at 23:32, Roland Francis wrote: > > A Country and Western gypsy style classic written by Kris Kristofferson and > Freddie Foster, it tells of a travelling duo of a man and his retarded woman > friend called Bobby McGee. At last tiring of her, he

[Goanet] Looking for medicines... in the garden

2021-09-17 Thread Frederick Noronha
Looking for medicines... in the garden 12 Sep: Navhind Times By Frederick Noronha. Many with an interest in plants in Goa have repeatedly focussed on this subject. One book that came my way was an English translation of Garcia da Orta's 'Colloquies on the Simples & Drugs of India'. This does not

[Goanet] Roshan D'Silva, and the idea behind Pilgrim Stays

2021-09-17 Thread Frederick Noronha
After studying telecom engineering at the prestigious IIT-Bombay, Roshan DSilva found his connection the religious to their faith, through travel. Just before the 2020 pandemic, he co-founded Pilgrim Stays, a joint venture between his Tripvillas and the ATC Publishers of Bengaluru (founded 1946,

[Goanet] Thinking of Dan Driscoll today....

2021-09-17 Thread Frederick Noronha
Missing Dan Driscoll, long-time Goanetter and a big-time Canadian supporter of everything Goan in Goa on his birthday today. Also the birthday of our activist-professor friend Ketan Govekar (who has an amazing link with activism not just in Goa, but even in complex Assam), Lalita Fernandes and

[Goanet-News] Top ten gangsters in Goa....

2021-09-17 Thread Frederick Noronha
How many of these have you heard of? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vzJlmer2Az8 ᐧ *-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*- Join a discussion on Goa-related issues by posting your comments on this or other issues via email to goa...@goanet.org See archives at

[Goanet-News] Poona, Puna, Pune... some links with Goa

2021-09-17 Thread Frederick Noronha
From the blog and posts of Michelle. Wannabe educator, environmentalist, geek, philosopher, researcher, writer, photographer, gardener, activist, ambassador for global peace and understanding! Remembering Joey, Growing Up on Ardeshir Irani Road

Re: [Goanet] Kawe (Actually Cow Way from Pugu Stat to Cornbeef .No Nobel Prize

2021-09-17 Thread Mervyn Lobo
On Wednesday, September 15, 2021, 06:36:08 p.m. CDT, Adolfo Mascarenhas wrote: Then you shock  Filomena, by telling her that a Multinational markets Cow urine is available on Amazon and eBay in every form and shape but the real money is in cow poop.? -snip- The Maasai are impressed with my

[Goanet] Goan Pao

2021-09-17 Thread Antonio Menezes
Pao, the Goan specialty bakery product, is derived from the Portuguese nasal work pao meaning bread. Till about the end of 18th century, pao was unknown in Western India and the locals only ate the unleavened bread called chapati. When the British arrived in West India by the 18th century they