[Goanet] Montenegro to Monteblanc

2024-03-22 Thread Eric PInto

Re: [Goanet] FROM GOANVOICE: Eddie Fernandes Announces Goan Voice 2.0

2024-01-03 Thread Eric PInto
Thank you Eddie. It has been a long stretch and we enjoyed every moment with you.    You did sacrifice.   Eric Pinto. On Tuesday, January 2, 2024 at 05:59:22 PM EST, Goanet Reader wrote: Eddie Fernandes Announces Goan Voice 2.0 The New Year will witness the transition of Goan Voice

[Goanet] Fw: NYTimes.com: The Secrets Hamas Knew About Israel’s Military

2023-10-14 Thread Eric PInto
Hamas gunmen surged into Israel in a highly organized and meticulously planned operation that suggested a deep understanding of Israel’s weaknesses. Here is how the attacks unfolded.

[Goanet] The Mahar Line

2023-08-27 Thread Eric PInto
When can i break past

Re: [Goanet] My posts

2023-07-12 Thread Eric PInto
On Tuesday, July 11, 2023 at 02:10:11 PM EDT, Roland Francis wrote: Who is the Resident Turnip?  Roland Francis416-453-3371 Remains anonymous behind a screen. But he has it for me. Mindless because the site is starved for material.  E.

[Goanet] My posts

2023-07-12 Thread Eric PInto
It is very clear that our resident turnip is repelled by my musings. I can guess hisaffiliations and suspect he was rubbed the right way by mine. I mean the right way.

[Goanet] moderator volunteer

2023-07-08 Thread Eric PInto
Would you consider making Eddie Ray a volunteer

[Goanet] Fw: Your message to Goanet awaits moderator approval

2023-07-07 Thread Eric PInto
Hey monkey moderator, suggest you volunteer to deal with the criminal chief minister - Forwarded Message - From: "goanet-ow...@lists.goanet.org" To: "ericpin...@yahoo.com" Sent: Thursday, July 6, 2023 at 11:56:56 AM EDTSubject: Your message to Goanet awaits moderator approval Your

Re: [Goanet] [Schedule for Thursday 6th July 2023

2023-07-06 Thread Eric PInto
It was all that mattered in life, to my mother and her mother. This was in spite of the fact that they were pretty well blessed materially and had much else to live for.     So I do not grudge it to them and will not seek gain from mocking their efforts to earn a comfort in religion. It does

[Goanet] Fw: Recent Church appointments

2023-07-04 Thread Eric PInto
Recent Church appointments. Rev. Elias Frank has been named the new Bishop of Asansol. He taught Canon Law at the Pontifical University of Rome. He was born in Mangalore.  Rev. Louis  Mascarenhas is the new Bishop of Allahabad. He was born in Udupi, Mangalore.  Archbishop George Panamthundil

[Goanet] When concrete crumbles

2023-06-26 Thread Eric PInto
In the US portland cement sells for pennies. Not so in India. That is reflected in what goesinto a batch of concrete at building sites. The roof of a house collapsed in Goa. It had been built only ten years earlier and a study uncovered shoddy material in construction.   The structure in Bombay

[Goanet] Diabetes in Goa

2023-06-23 Thread Eric PInto
The middle class pays the price of a diet that is high in fat based calories and traditional consumption of rice which isknown to spike insulin flow from the pancreas.   Inclement weather and the heat keep us from outdoor activity which would have otherwise provided the exercisewhich is known

[Goanet] Fw: NYTimes.com: The Immigrant Experience in a Danish Butter Cookie Tin

2023-06-14 Thread Eric PInto
The Immigrant Experience in a Danish Butter Cookie Tin Ubiquitous in immigrant households, the cookie tin might be a more apt metaphor for our journeys than the melting pot.

[Goanet] Christians in Pakistan

2023-06-12 Thread Eric PInto
Google Pakistani Christian : How a community was born.

[Goanet] Fw: Goan Voice Newsletter: Tuesday 28 Feb. 2023

2023-02-28 Thread Eric PInto
| | | 25 Feb: Matters India. Icon of Catholic laity in Karnataka honoured. Catholic bishops and leaders of other religions in Karnataka have honoured Ronald Colaco, a Catholic layman who has made a name in business and philanthropy… Colaco has funded several Church projects and

[Goanet] The New York Times : You must have more sex.

2023-02-15 Thread eric pinto
Writes Magdalena Taylor, in a guest column. Sex is good, sex is healthy, it is an essential part of our social fabric.  It is a critical part of our social fabric, but in the midst of a loneliness epidemic, we are not having enough sex. It is a critical part of our social well being. Less time 

[Goanet] Antakia, not Antaka.

2023-02-11 Thread eric pinto
Public TV did a five part series titled "From Jesus to Christ"  Paul had moved to the Jewish home turf around Jerusalem from Roman occupied Tarsus/Antioch to trade. He was shunned by the Pharasees, I wish the documentary was available elsewhere.Turkey had invaded Syrian Idlib to retake Sunni

[Goanet] Antioch to Antaka to Ashes

2023-02-10 Thread eric pinto
A documentary portrayed sites in Antioch and the cobblestones Paul had trodden, as he proclaimed the newsof a new Saviour of his fellow Jews. That town is now Antaka, and the province is in the Turkey of  today, not Greece.  Quakes are a bane of those contiguous nations and both both send army

[Goanet] Rajan's California, religion, race, hate.

2023-02-10 Thread eric pinto
It was his home for twenty years, and generous source of funds.When a Sikh immigrant named Bhagat Singh opened a grocery store, the state immediately ordered him to close, on grounds he was not a Caucasian.  His appeal took him to the Supreme Court which in 1922 ruled his 'Hindoo

[Goanet] : GOA ON 15th AUGUST 1947

2023-02-09 Thread eric pinto
Pretty Panjim mansion. From: Murad Ali Baig     Murad's father was the nawab of a small kingdom near Delhi. The Hindu elite of  Panjim also speak Portuguese and he told me he felt like an outsider. He owns an apartment in Miramar.

[Goanet] How a German missionary changed the way houses were roofed in western India

2023-02-09 Thread eric pinto
https://scroll.in/magazine/1042123/how-a-german-missionary-changed-the-way-houses-were-roofed-in-western-india

[Goanet] . . . grinding Goa’s uniqueness into oblivion."

2023-02-03 Thread eric pinto
Yes, the carrion from India has descended on Goa, changing our beloved homeland's very soul. And of course Goa's government is doing all it can to grab its own wrongful share of the ensuing loot. But are they really at the base of the change that has overtaken Goa?  No no no no no. It is we

[Goanet] Konkani Mass rate improved.

2023-02-02 Thread eric pinto
It rises to twenty five thousand for a Mass, and not the mass mentioned earlier. A bounty of twenty thousand offered for access to a Konkani mass composed in Goa. It will be performed by our Symphony Orchestra.Victor Ribeiro may compete. --

[Goanet] Konkani Mass needed.

2023-02-02 Thread eric pinto
A bounty of twenty thousand offered for access to a Konkani mass composed in Goa. It will be performed by our Symphony Orchestra.Victor Ribeiro may compete.

[Goanet] BOMBINO EXPRESS Freight and Courier svc

2023-01-16 Thread eric pinto
It is based in Andheri and is Parsi owned. A letter to India is $38 compared to110 at FedEx.  NY Jamaica is 718 553 2008  Jackson Hts is 718 205 6688There are offices in Europe.A friend tells me the are very reliable.

[Goanet] The Chinês Clandestinos of Lisbon

2023-01-08 Thread eric pinto
 Planning a trip to Lisbon? Visit these secret underground restaurants and Lisbon's tastiest secret. These Chinese home restaurants are a mainstay of Lisbon’s eclectic Mouraria neighbourhood An Asian supermarket in Lisbon, Portugal.  By Raul Dias "Once you’ve exited the Martim Moniz metro

[Goanet] A double happy to Frederic.

2022-12-26 Thread eric pinto
Much effort is also devoted to the Saligao Club and Parish affairs and we must applaud Frederic forhis work. I am not sure how he is able to combine it with his own career and being a family man.   We owe him a large vote of thanks.

[Goanet] Check this out.

2022-12-20 Thread eric pinto
Benedictine Monastery,  Mt. Kenya Safari Club. >From Karachi to Christ the King Cemetery, Markham, Ontario. | | OBITUARY | | Death: Peter De'Mello, Nanyuki, Kenya | | 15 Dec: Nanyuki, Kenya. PETER DE'MELLO. The family will hold a Memorial service on Thursday, 22nd December 2022 at

[Goanet] Business news

2022-12-20 Thread eric pinto
Tata Air to acquire 150 Boeing 730 jets.Adani gets the right to redevelop 600 Dharavi slum acres.  He will, no doubts, have accessto public funds from banks and LIC  We have to fear for the safety of Communidade acres.

[Goanet] Festive Season

2022-12-19 Thread eric pinto
Christmas Day on a Sunday feels even more special, so hoping it is the same for theGoanet family as the year comes to a close.   I recall when the forum came alive with messages and memories return of some of the voices from the past, more so of those who left for a better world.

[Goanet] Need snacks delivered, Saligao, Saturday evening.

2022-12-16 Thread eric pinto
For a hundred, contact me. Speak to FN if you live in town.    Eric Pinto.

[Goanet] Earlier solstice sunsets, as the planets axis tilts further.

2022-12-16 Thread eric pinto
It came at 4.28 over my latitude's location, 40 North.  It was at 4.35, twenty years ago: and then the Ice Age arrived.  It peaks in three thousand years, when only the equator will  know two hours of light.  At that point, the ice cap, a mile high, will cover Kashmir, all of Europe and North

[Goanet] New Era Pirates

2022-12-15 Thread eric pinto
They have few resources, no manufacturing capacity and little by way of enterprise skills.They do possess the guile that gave them limitless access to our resources, mostly illgotten gains.  In the case of Goa, under invoiced mineral exports literally stole the land we stood on.   Indians

[Goanet] The Royals, Abdul, Edwina, et al.

2022-12-15 Thread eric pinto
Abdul, no doubt there, was poisoned off. The 'Family' was not going to tolerate his presencearound Victoria for much longer.   As for the gay blades, Edwina and Javhar, they did what homo sexual protocol has called forsince the start of time: they faked a romance to fend suspicion.     'Murder

[Goanet] DSa paradox

2022-11-29 Thread eric pinto
Eddie Dsa is a London based crusader for a cause that is not easily discerned. But no matterwhat, his ramblings do not belong on Goanet : this is no home for the loner. He combines his anti Church invective with the domain of a right wing US group that uses religion as a coverto get a tax

[Goanet] Eddie Fernandes in Goa

2022-11-25 Thread eric pinto
Lira and Ed are visiting Goa. We have thrived on his postings over the years.A little fish curry will be in order. And a peg. Or two.He is at 77 4409 4961.    Eric.

[Goanet] Hog anesthesia

2022-11-25 Thread eric pinto
A fellow needed to clip the hoofs of a 200 pound hog in Alabama. So he dopes a loaf of bread with four cans of beer and the drunk keels over in minutes.  Now if only the law called for a little feni or toddy in Goa.

[Goanet] Thimayya Naik, Albuquerque and St. Catherine

2022-11-25 Thread eric pinto
Tino de Sa writes that it happened today, the Feast Day of St Catherine, in 1510, thatAlbuqerque defeated Adil Shah of Bijapur on the Mandovi River, to seize Goa from him.   Timoja had invited Portugal and then assisted in running Goa until he fell out with localHindu leaders and returned to

[Goanet] On smoking meat, in Goa.

2022-11-21 Thread eric pinto
Wikipedia explains that smoking alone is not sufficient to act as a preservative,  meat also has to be salted and dried : it makes me smile because watching chunks of freshly butchered pork dry in the sun was my job, at the age of six. They were salted earlier. under a heavy rock, in a tub.

[Goanet] Horse 'tales'

2022-11-20 Thread eric pinto
I just watched a documentary on the 'management' of horses in the wild in the state of Montana. Fifty state prison inmates run a farm that turn very dangerous beasts into horses with a potential of becoming valuable race horses. The 'Program' costs seventy million, possible when taxes are

[Goanet] Swindon in the news

2022-11-15 Thread eric pinto
The New York Times reports the downturn of the city goes back to the closure of the GreatWestern Railroad Company that manufactured locomotives: shades of our own GIP Railroad.  Locals who cannot afford to heat their homes can spend the day at a community center thatoffers snacks and a

[Goanet] Iceland, bugs et al.

2022-11-15 Thread eric pinto
They use volcanic steam to generate power, then transmit it to Scotland via sub sea cables.The island is essentially the top of volcanoes that rose from the Atlantic's ocean bed. It attractedsettlers from Norway only a thousand years ago: Rajan chose to visit much later.   Plumes from a belcher

[Goanet] Rajan and Frederic, Goa patriots.

2022-11-15 Thread eric pinto
Your indignant voices reverberate on parallel tracks, but echo the sounds of hurt thatrustle with our breaths. Hope for our land is now drifting away, evidencedby a drop in messages posted here by what once was enthusiastic audience.   Frederick's co-homeland of Brazil went down the tube,

[Goanet] Ray Doctrine.

2022-11-15 Thread eric pinto
Many of us here share a nominal affiliation to a religious group that in turn once dominated the social scene of the province we call home. But Goanet is not about promoting kindred causes or, for that matter, dismantling them.    The man's religion is not the Catholic Church. It is filthy US

[Goanet] Tesla times

2022-11-07 Thread eric pinto
Our former Trump fan, 'Jonny', had promoted Tesla's stock very vigorously, at ten.It ran up to four hundred. If he did not unload, it might still not be to late, at two hundred.

[Goanet] Political Parties

2022-11-06 Thread eric pinto
The Eddie Ray 'person' must be cognizant of the fact that they exist to seek powerand exercise power. Without them, a mafiosi group emerges and seizes control. A good example of such tyrannies is today's Kremlin, China, Venezuela, Zimbabwe.   India is an emerging RSS mafia kleptocracy in the

[Goanet] The Eddie Ray/Dsa phenomenon

2022-11-05 Thread eric pinto
I am curious about the link, if one exists. Will he elaborate.Anyone here familiar with him, encounter el hombre del sombre.

[Goanet] Britain today.

2022-10-26 Thread eric pinto
The system in England was always shameless. They bought and sold seats which were knownas pocket boroughs. Great misery followed the war, no coal or oil for heat, mass starvation lf not for free grain from India, Canada and Australia. They voted for Attlee in desperation andhe introduced

[Goanet] PM Sunak

2022-10-25 Thread eric pinto
He operated a hedge fund and made a billion. His wife is worth two, and her fatherhas given away five.   So why is he a Tory star: because he bought the party, his smartest hedge. In a countrywhere it is legal for members of parliament to trade favours, he bought their allegiance, cash for

[Goanet] White Pope Francis

2022-10-24 Thread eric pinto
Has turned the tables on the closed minded epoch of his German predecessor andbrought sea changes to the mind set and thinking of the Faith.  This is the man who rode a bicycle through the alleys of Buenos slums, handing out his paycheck when Bishop of the city. He rejected all the pomp of his

[Goanet] Old pics: Vintage Panjim

2022-10-22 Thread eric pinto
Click on a pic and start a slide show  vintage photos of Goa see Goa vintage photographs - Google Searchor to narrow your search to Panjim  see Panjim vintage photographs - Google Search | | | | Panjim vintage photographs - Google Search | | | | | | | Goa vintage

[Goanet] Bedekar and Ferns, Pickles

2022-10-21 Thread eric pinto
The only brands once stocked by Indian owned grocery stores. US supermarkets carried the iconic Sun Brand date and mango made by the Bombay Marine LinesParsi concern, J. Poonjiaji Sons.    Sun was deprived of its trade mark and I do not understand the reason for that,but the name now glows on

[Goanet] House for sale in Moira

2022-10-19 Thread eric pinto
Nice place. Will throw in Molly, a pet pig.

[Goanet] Mervyn and Roland

2022-10-17 Thread eric pinto
Roland had humored and educated us over the years. Mervyn had done so,once.Compare that to the filth just inflicted on us by one Miguel Barretto.

[Goanet] Sunset over Goa, and Goa Net.

2022-10-16 Thread eric pinto
To the Marathi truck driver's son, Goa is a source of funds to be funneled into his Maratha real estate holdings.   We have more than a fair share of shiny temples, it is his province that is home to ant mounds and shoddy stone heaps. He could turn his ill gotten gains to arty piles,the way

[Goanet] The site is near moribund

2022-10-16 Thread eric pinto
Reduced to a masthead for the wacky church TV broadcaster, Roland has probably been antagonized,and now someone conjures up a label of 'implicit destination' to describe a message.

[Goanet] Defender of the Faith

2022-10-10 Thread eric pinto
The Sovereign was King of England - Defender of the Faith.Henceforth, Charles will be defender of All Faiths.And Henry the VII will roll in his grave, along with the the Rev. Victor Harijan Borde.

[Goanet] Goan in Ukraine

2022-10-07 Thread eric pinto
Errol Pinto lives in New York. He is intensely anti - Trump and believes that evil creatureis in league with Putin. So he traveled to Poland at his expense to help in refugee camps.  They discovered he had a corporate background and shipped him to Ukraine. He is basedin a Trade Ministry office

[Goanet] rev v Bevda

2022-10-02 Thread eric pinto
The Satara hill native is best advised to keep his distance from Goa affairs.

[Goanet] Rev. Borde Poona/Satara Harijan operative.

2022-10-01 Thread eric pinto
He is as much in arms against the Goa elite as he sides with the US politicalundignified. He found a useful weapon to hurl upon the group that once treatedhis social group with less than enough respect and is playing it up with all theammo he can muster.     His group in the US is now openly

[Goanet] Borde leads the charge of the medically paranoid.

2022-09-30 Thread eric pinto
A certain Rev. Victor Borde has used the stage of a rag publication that styles itselfthe Church Militant to attack the Diocese of Goa and the Cardinal. The priest is in employ of the Diocese of Poona, but I do not know if he has earned the imprimatureof his bishop.    He has launched a fierce

[Goanet] Hindus and Muslims, and Amos Noronha (O Heraldo, 25/9/2022)

2022-09-25 Thread eric pinto
https://www.heraldgoa.in/Edit/By-invitation/Hindus-and-Muslims-and-Amos-Noronha/194396 There are many odd, disturbing and worrisome aspects to the unexpected, unprecedented flare-up - on ostensibly Hindu-Muslim lines - in the ancient city of Leicester in the UK, and also the sheer mystery of

[Goanet] The lost tale of a Goan goldsmith in Lisbon and what it says about Portugal’s colonial conquests

2022-09-25 Thread eric pinto
 a Goan goldsmith in Lisbon and what it says about Portugal’s colonial conquests https://scroll.in/article/1030699/the-lost-tale-of-a-goan-goldsmith-in-lisbon-and-what-it-says-about-portugals-colonial-conquests

Re: [Goanet] Do Not Succumb To Pandemic Madness

2022-01-07 Thread Eric Pinto
A priest who died last week came to my home, forty years ago, and asked me to pay for a ten classroom school building. He insisted I attend his service the next morning. At the altar he asked members to greet me at the door. Every single one of them, walked out the side doors. Fifty years later,

Re: [Goanet] Christmas Hampers for 3L

2021-12-16 Thread Eric Pinto
Rightly stated, Roland. On Thu, Dec 16, 2021 at 12:08 PM Roland Francis wrote: > With things being in Karnataka State as now, it may be a minor miracle > that the BJP’s lumpen elements will not waylay you on your way to > distribute the Christmas gifts, accusing you of conversion! > > Roland. >

[Goanet] Notes : The Church in Bombay.

2021-10-24 Thread eric pinto
           With thanks to Rev. Joseph Velinkar SJ. of the Heras Institute Of History. Although India was within the jurisdiction of the  Patronage power of the king of Portugal, Rome and the Office of Propagation of the Faith, or Propaganda, decided to appoint Vicars Apostolic in areas that

[Goanet] China - Discover Truth from the Facts

2021-10-23 Thread eric pinto
From: Glenn Desouza DeSouza,      China now has 70% of the world’s bullet trains – America will get its first in 2032. Over 2,800 pairs of bullet trains run daily connecting over 550 cities in China.  Shanghai to Beijing can be covered in 4.5 hours while the fastest train covering New

[Goanet] Notes : The Church in Bombay.

2021-10-22 Thread eric pinto
           With thanks to Rev. Joseph Velinkar SJ. of the Heras Institute Of History. Although India was within the jurisdiction of the  Patronage power of the king of Portugal, Rome and the Office of Propagation of the Faith, or Propaganda, decided to appoint Vicars Apostolic in areas that

[Goanet] Rev, Eduardo Britto, Dilli, Timor.

2021-10-14 Thread eric pinto
I was reading up on the Portuguese presence in Bengal when I came upon this information, The Padre Eduardo Britto was born in Cuncolim and arrived in Timor in 1947 along with twenty odd fellow priests. He served in several parishes with great admiration. The governor Abilio Soares installed his

[Goanet] A second part from Grandof

2021-10-11 Thread eric pinto
One, Franco, was enough : Dead, buried and then reburied with little ceremony.  Please spare us from a second.

[Goanet] google Flashback Cotton Mary

2021-10-10 Thread eric pinto
I went to see my Darling, Last Saturay Night !!..she sang that I recall, and also Irene good Night.   Steven A Pinto  

[Goanet] When a college needs to recruit in Bombay

2021-10-10 Thread eric pinto
St. Andrews College in Bombay is run by the diocese. An announcement in this week's Examiner seeks tofill the position of an assistant professor.   It states that the advertisement was approved by the University of Bombay. It further suggests a preferencefor candidates with ' knowledge of

[Goanet] google Flashback Cotton Mary

2021-10-09 Thread eric pinto
  She had tickled us with her version of  You are My Sunshine in the 60's, moving around a widefoot print of Bombay.  And one day she was gone.    This is dedicated to Roland Francis of  Assagao and Benaulim: thank you Rolly for roiling us with all those memories of 'yester' year.

[Goanet] The Church in Canara : Padroado turf once.

2021-10-08 Thread eric pinto
With thanks to Michael Lobo of Mangalore. Rosario Cathedral, Mangalore, was known as the Churchof “Nossa Senhora de Rosario” for centuries after its foundation by thePortuguese in the late 16th century.  So too the parish church at Coondapur, whichis of almost equal vintage.   In the year

[Goanet] 100, the magic number

2021-10-06 Thread eric pinto
Arab oil is up, to $100 a barrel, and so is Ambani oil : he is the patriot who paid next to nothing for the lease  on the Krishna basin property. Now iron ore is down $100 over the last 30 days, from 200 to 100 a ton. Will the patriots like Adani who produce much of our steel give users a piece

[Goanet] A New Way to Defend Taiwan

2021-10-06 Thread eric pinto
Stephen Bryen October 3, 2021 Updated: October 3, 2021biggersmaller Print A New Way to Defend Taiwan (theepochtimes.com) Commentary Among military strategists, there is debate about whether American aircraft carriers, generally thought to be critical for the relief of Taiwan, are vulnerable

[Goanet] Pathan freedom fighters fight on

2021-10-03 Thread eric pinto
Pakistan has been shattered by killings across the length of the country by Pathan patriots. Scores of soldiersbelonging to the the terror State have lost their lives. the latest in the seventy  long year war of liberation.    Imran's army finally buckled and announced yesterday they would

[Goanet] : Lusitanian in Hind by Aravind Adiga (2013)

2021-10-02 Thread eric pinto
John de Figueiredo reviews the article. He is a US based physician.   Arrival of thePortuguese in Goa: Mr. Adiga states that the “start of thePortuguese rule in Goa” was “brutal”. Was it really “brutal”? Goans and otherIndians invited the Portuguese to occupy Goa and end the rule of

[Goanet] On lobster

2021-10-02 Thread eric pinto
Once a poor man's food, suggests Roland. He is right. When we dissected in a college lab in 1965, there was a charge of half a rupee, whilst the frog came free. The tail survived intact, and I once brought home a dozen.  " Not in my kitchen " was my mother's response. Our maid was Bassein

[Goanet] Can you believe it, said the KItchenette ad : Joyce Fernandes cookbook

2021-10-02 Thread eric pinto
It is in the 2001 edition of the Verna bestseller,  Home Style Cooking. " The lowest prices for beef, just Rs. 35 for a kilo of the finest regular cuts. Can you believe it ! "   I no longer can, I am sorry to say. Joyce has brought a ray sun to many a home, over the decades, and we thank her,

[Goanet] Xavier Institute of Engineering, Bombay.

2021-09-18 Thread eric pinto
I suggest you google for more information. From humble beginnings in the city, it moved on to the large campus on what used to be the Mahim salt marsh.   A brainchild of three Catalonia Jesuits, it was actually built by the Rev. Arthur Borges, a brother of thelate surgeon of renown.   

[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

[Goanet] WHAT WE NOW KNOW ABOUT RACE

2021-09-16 Thread eric pinto
Africans crossed the Sinai around sixty thousand years ago. They evolved into three broad physical types,  Turkcic, Coptic and Keltic in the plains and hills aroundthe Black Sea. The Copts were further refined into today's Europeans in the Kavkas mountains ofArmenia, Georgia and the lesser

[Goanet] US Pork output.

2021-09-14 Thread eric pinto
Annual US output is 110 million hogs, with 28 million tons of meat sold every month. Tyson slaughters 8000 hogs an hour in a typical plant.  They are in the process of switching to carbon dioxide gas from electric prongs, to  knock them unconscious.  Employees pay ten cents a pound : a lot of

[Goanet] Toilet trained creatures

2021-09-14 Thread eric pinto
Our traditional  house pets are self taught. I am not convinced hogs and cattle could ever learn to exercise restraint of any kind. Bloomberg rents terminals for 2000 a month, they need editorial material filler,  even if it is cow cakes. Hope Filomena spent a few stimulating summer weeks in the

[Goanet] When dogs howl

2021-09-03 Thread eric pinto
Joao could use a muzzle too.  They do not leave one in disgust, the way some commentators do.

[Goanet] Abo polemics,,Oscar de Goa

2021-09-03 Thread eric pinto
Suggest you not inflict your read on Goana on the rest of us. For starters, you ought to compose your meandering semantics in a language you actually familiar with, then have an acquaintance refit the message. We are not inclined to sift through your verbiage.   It does appear you have a

[Goanet] Abo polemics

2021-09-01 Thread eric pinto
Suggest you not inflict your read on Goana on the rest of us. For starters, you ought to compose your meandering semantics in a language you actually familiar with, then have an acquaintance refit the message. We are not inclined to sift through your verbiage.   It does appear you have a

[Goanet] The downside of using a second language

2021-08-28 Thread eric pinto
And accompanied pitfalls and hurdles. We see it in errors of composition and syntax that jars. Our friends who publish can employ the the services of their children to edit. Flowery Konknni and quaint Portuguese are both  in the transliterated English used by them.  My father was raised on the

[Goanet] Mauritius. Our money at work.

2021-08-24 Thread eric pinto
Population 1.2 million  Percapita income 11,000 dollars Output essentially sugar, some textiles. So how does cane garner millions in income - it does not.  It is flight capital at work, a gift from places like India from where there is liitle reason to flee. Tax rates are very low in India

[Goanet] Mangalore moments

2021-08-19 Thread eric pinto
- Forwarded Message - From: eric pinto To: Eric Pinto Sent: Thursday, August 19, 2021, 05:43:00 AM EDTSubject: Fw: A Momentous Anniversary   the 31st of December, 1878 – and marked the arrival of the Italian Jesuits, who had been entrusted by Pope Pius IX and his successor

[Goanet] Its not what it seems

2021-08-18 Thread eric pinto
Nail on the head, Rolly.  If Frump could climb into bed with North Korea, he could with the Taliban. He twistedarms to get the Taliban spokesman released from  Pakistani prison, then treated the whole bunch to steaksin Quatar for a year.    I nominate the Tolly and Trump for Nobel Peace.   

[Goanet] Otelo Nuno Romão Saraiva de Carvalho, RIP

2021-08-16 Thread eric pinto
I believe he passed away recently.    So was Dª. Carlota Joaquina da Silva de Oliveira Pegado the mother of Fernanda Aurea Pegado Romão who married Augusto Saraiva de Carvalho (1912-1969)? If that's the case then it seems to match for Otelo Saraiva de Carvalho.Augusto Saraiva de Carvalho,

[Goanet] Bone setters vs orthopedics.

2021-08-15 Thread eric pinto
Severed nerves : no remedy.Severed vessels, usually detected when too late to halt gangrene and loss of a limb.I saw bone sepsis amputations of a young Aldoncar go from the wrist to the elbow, over a few years.   Bone surgeons should not play fire fighters. My Parsi companion had trained in

[Goanet] When Pakistan claimed the Andaman and Nicobar islands

2021-08-14 Thread eric pinto
https://www.livehistoryindia.com/story/cover-story/when-pakistan-claimed-the-andaman-and-nicobar-islands/    - - -  

[Goanet] The Andamans

2021-08-14 Thread eric pinto
Had a Goan bishop. He has retired now. The Victoria Cross was awarded for action seen, as the site puts, in the invasion of rhe Andamans in 1879.

[Goanet] Linken Fernandes

2021-08-14 Thread eric pinto
A dime, for a tracker.

[Goanet] Grant Road Lanes

2021-08-14 Thread eric pinto
Sir Robert Grant was born in India to English parents.  As governor of Bombay. he promoted the idea of a medical college for natives, and found a promoter in Sir Jamsetji Jeejeeboy. The Golden Wafer Lane was home to Lavy Pinto, the Asian Games 100 meter gold medalist.  The same structure housed

[Goanet] LOOKING FOR GLORIA. AGE 75. REWARD $500

2021-08-13 Thread eric pinto
Your mother and you lodged with the Ferrao family, Lamington Road,  1960. Call 718 767 3411  New York.

[Goanet] Remembering the violinist-lawyer who founded the Bombay City Orchestra

2021-08-13 Thread eric pinto
https://scroll.in/magazine/1001344/remembering-the-violinist-lawyer-who-founded-the-bombay-city-orchestra

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