Re: [Goanet] (no subject)

2014-08-05 Thread eric pinto
      Fifty million 'Christians' killed each other in two  'Great' wars.  e. On Tuesday, August 5, 2014 4:59 AM, Michael fernandes fernandesmichae...@yahoo.in wrote: CHRISTIANS IN CHRIST I am an Indian, and a Christian am I. My forefathers were Hindus, of the days gone by. I am proud of

Re: [Goanet] Any Goans living in ~ Toledo, Ohio?

2014-08-04 Thread eric pinto
        The Aldona Noronhas have owned the Deluxe Hotel   in Bombay's Ballard Estate for eighty years. A family    member married Dr. Sydney Fernandes and moved to    Toledo forty years ago. It is also home to Mario Goveia   and his wife Dr. Crystal.        The Deluxe, where I picked up free

Re: [Goanet] Thanks Goanet.......'The Kadambas, the Royals of south India, Our proud heritage, the secrets of Velliapura'.

2014-08-04 Thread eric pinto
       Dear Siyona,  the destruction was the work of individual    colonialists. Many were not ethnic Indians, they were originally    marauders from Uzbeg country and beyond. Sadly, religion can be used to rouse the rabble.  The Moghul Empire spawned satraps  who were generals with their own

[Goanet] Last Kadamba King (eric pinto)

2014-07-28 Thread eric pinto
On Monday, July 28, 2014 3:00 AM, Siyona G Gaunkar siy...@ymail.com wrote:    Not sure of a link to the raja, but will accept a knighthood !    Good luck to Siyona, she is doing a great job.       eric.

[Goanet] NY Times calls Kashmir Pashtun

2014-07-27 Thread eric pinto
      We say and spell it Sarswat in Devnagair, but misspell    it Sarasawat in the Roman script.        It is a large province in the Afghan state of Kashmir,    stolen by Britain, then sold to Gulab, then split into an   an Indian half and a Pakistan half.   With Taliban’s Revival,

[Goanet] Last Kadamba King

2014-07-27 Thread eric pinto
On Saturday, July 26, 2014 8:12 AM, MD mmdmello@   wrote   Someone correct me if I am wrong. The Kadamba king, Tribhuvanamalla (Sova (Sovi?) Deva (son of Vishnuchitta) ruled from 1216 to 1238, lost his kingdom when he was defeated by the Yadavas of Devagiri in about 1237-38. His

Re: [Goanet] Congratulation and hats off to Mr.Vishnu ‘SURIYA’ Wagh, MLA

2014-07-25 Thread eric pinto
On Thursday, July 24, 2014 7:55 PM, Count Bonzo of Macau wrote:  Velim in Salcete, South Goa. According to Mr.Venkatesha Upadhiaya a cremation stone of 1396 where  Queen VILMA-  DEODITA wife of Kadamba Sonny DAVID cremated in Velim by her Nephew  OZZIE. After the death of Goa Kadamba

[Goanet] 'Bleeding' Madras.

2014-07-25 Thread eric pinto
   Another colonial gift to the language !      The Madras Club was in the news recently when they  turned away political honchows who turned up wearing  their lungi skirts.      My brother took me there to lunch in the early seventies,  soon after they first admitted non-whites. It was a tea

Re: [Goanet] Fw: Goan Recipes

2014-07-24 Thread Eric Pinto
On Wed, Jul 23, 2014 at 2:23 PM, eric pinto ericpin...@yahoo.com wrote: On Wednesday, July 23, 2014 1:40 PM, Frankie Ferrao frankie_fer...@hotmail.com wrote: Dear All, In answer to numerous requests………. As always, my services as an expert taster are always at your disposal

[Goanet] To enroll

2014-07-23 Thread Eric Pinto
thanks.

[Goanet] Fw: Goan Recipes

2014-07-23 Thread eric pinto
  collection of Goan recipes.   Better than most recipe books… http://www.goaholidayhomes.com/goan-dishes.php    

[Goanet] Making a difference in Assam - wonderful video !

2014-07-21 Thread eric pinto
     http://www.wimp.com/plantsforest/

[Goanet] UK Goan butt groper.

2014-07-21 Thread eric pinto
      He faces four years of hungry times on the moor.    UK prison food budget now 2 pound sterling a day. Inmates     lose weight rapidly on three spoon curry meal rations. Buddy    will miss the hospital cafeteria. He clearly merited an insanity    defence.       Young DM walks around a

Re: [Goanet] From: ericpin...@yahoo.com Re: Make India drought-proof-CSE's Fortnightly News Bulletin (July 2, 2014)

2014-07-02 Thread eric pinto
     Summer is here, time for the NJ Turnpike and Florida   beckons !  Mostly built in the 1950's and 60's, Carter and  Goan engineer Patrick De Corla gave us the newest, the   east-west Route 78, in the 90's.        The canal system goes back to the 1880's, under two former presidents.         

[Goanet] : Goan Surnames

2014-06-26 Thread eric pinto
 enlightening   blog  on Goan  surnames.  While Hindus shortened family names, Catholics expanded their own By Valmiki Faleiro. We checked Goan Hindu Brahmin (GSB) surnames last Sunday. Let us today look at those of other castes … and how GSBs warded off threats to their surname identities!

[Goanet] Finally, find out: was the zero really reinvented...

2014-06-26 Thread eric pinto
Finally, find out: was the zero really reinvented in India? A new collection of essays examines the most popular stories Indians tell each other about the nation's history. Google+ makes sharing on the web more like sharing in real life. Learn more.Join Google+

[Goanet] VACANCY INFO

2014-06-25 Thread eric pinto
On Wednesday, June 25, 2014 5:47 AM, The Walsh Construction Company renil...@dca.ufcg.edu.br wrote: JOB OPENING IN WALSH CONSTRUCTION COMPANY CANADA. Walsh Construction Company have immediate employment opportunities that intend to invite you as skilled individuals/expatriates to render

[Goanet] Moomba Magic.

2014-06-24 Thread eric pinto
          At the end of the day, Rolly, it is not the Hafeez Contractors   but the Khooda hafeez gods in the form of Pawar and Thackray   who transformed the city.           We have no infrastructure to speak of courtesy of mister ten   billion Swiss dollar 1980's CM Pawar. He vacuumed us clean.  

Re: [Goanet] Global Goans: Squandering opportunities for state and country

2014-06-21 Thread eric pinto
  The Menezes insinuation is accurate, sadly.  Our achievers  abroad are seen as interlopers, as best, traitors as worse.     'True' Indians in similar situations are feted. On Saturday, June 21, 2014 6:35 AM, Gabe Menezes gabe.mene...@gmail.com wrote: A Goan CEO for Portugal?

[Goanet] Our West Coast - An early visitor.

2014-06-15 Thread eric pinto
     Afanasy Nikitin made land in 1469, at Alibagh, just south  of Bombay. A Russian, he had sailed out of Oman six weeks earlier, on a voyage that covered the Malabar coast.      An impressive monument to him now stands in Revdanda town, built jointly by Russia and the Government of Maharashtra.  

Re: [Goanet] purchase of book

2014-06-12 Thread eric pinto
Hi KIt,  Nice memories of Dolly Lobo and Bobby. I operated the Dr. Francis Heredia clinic for six months when he was terminally ill.  John hit me  for 50K green over 20 years at the Heras. I also created the Roque Inter-Religion with 10K after his death.      The 'book' is a review, I am one of

[Goanet] Dust in the works - your desktop.

2014-06-01 Thread eric pinto
   When mine flopped recently, I thought I  faced a trip to the dump.    Turns out it was a case of dust build up,  large hair-like clumps driven in by the fan.    A friend opened the outer case, then detached   a flat glass piece - about five inches - and wiped  it clean. It must hold a circuit. 

[Goanet] More on Cavel, Bomoi. Thanks, Rolly.

2014-05-08 Thread eric pinto
   From Portuguese India,  1498-1739.   By Luis Assis Correia.        In Bombaim, the village of Cavel was the  first centre of Christianity. Cavel is the Portuguese rendition of Kolwar 'a Koli hamlet,' inhabited by thye Koli tribe, who were converted by the Franciscans. Through their

[Goanet] FR. Frazer Mascarenhas.

2014-04-28 Thread eric pinto
      So Socrates provoked a discussion, and some !       I am concerned for students at the college:  I see job resumes dropped in a bin with added relish, by the likes of Ambani.   eric. - On Thursday, April 24, 2014 12:03 PM, Jimmy

[Goanet] FR. Frazer Mascarenhas.

2014-04-27 Thread eric pinto
On Thursday, April 24, 2014 6:38 PM, eric pinto ericpin...@yahoo.com wrote:       So Socrates provoked a discussion, and some !       I am concerned for students at the college:  I see job resumes dropped in a bin with added relish, by the likes of Ambani.   eric

[Goanet] Fr Frazer Mascarenhas

2014-04-24 Thread eric pinto
      So Socrates provoked a discussion, and some !       I am concerned for students at the college:  I see job resumes dropped in a bin with added relish, by the likes of Ambani.   eric. - On Thursday, April 24, 2014 12:03 PM, Jimmy de

[Goanet] Nehru and Menon

2014-01-25 Thread eric pinto
    JC - The Moraes 'book' describes the early careers of the three young   law graduates - Nehru, Menon and Frank. It took them to the law   'clinic' of the Communist member of parliament, Saklatvala, where   they catered to the poor of the East End.     Frank also spent time in the Jinnah law

[Goanet] Goanet - Gracias and Goa.

2014-01-24 Thread eric pinto
  That outback hemp must be potent !  If you must know, he was born and raised in Karachi. From: Oscar Carmino Lobo Where was Cardinal Gracias raised and educated? If in Mumbai, he would have played a role in the so called liberation with the backing of his parishioners. Political gain

[Goanet] Agony and Ecstasy - Priests.

2014-01-22 Thread eric pinto
    Rolly, at the school today, stared at the old German portraits: There with their grace, go I.  And you.  Some of it hurts.  Dear old Hetting was Dutch, as was Gense. They escaped the 1914 deportations. eric. From: roland.francis Subject: [Goanet]

[Goanet] District Attorneys

2014-01-22 Thread eric pinto
  They do not answer to their two superiors, the Attorney General (Law Minister)     and the governor.  One DA sent Nixon's Attorney Gen., Mitchell, to prison.     The DA of New York State prosecuted the last governor and forced him     to resign.    Numerous members of the clergy

[Goanet] Xavier lunch.

2014-01-22 Thread eric pinto
  Fr. Terassa, yesterday, now 82. The last of the Mohicans, we were    on the soccer ground once!  Visit, Steve has restored the pretty lobby.    Dad's punt was played out on Dalal Street ! I remember yours'.    Grand dad would actually end up in Kandahar. His 'pilfers' helped     get

[Goanet] Nehru and Menon

2014-01-22 Thread eric pinto
    Eugene - I am a long way from NY, where the book sits on   a shelf.   Menon and Nehru were lovers: end of story.   Menon did not have a Delhi home. The two were in criminal   violation of statutes that govern sexual relations in India.     The book in contention was yet

[Goanet] Gracias and Goa

2014-01-22 Thread eric pinto
The Cardinal was outspoken in his support of a free Goa,   and he had Nehru's confidence.     We expect he remembered Salazar's attempt to block his   appointment and name his own man to succeed Roberts.     Nehru had reminded Lisbon that

[Goanet] Menon and Nehru

2014-01-21 Thread eric pinto
   Much influence over live-in lover, yes, unilateral campaign, no.     Nehru had summoned his Cambridge companion, Frank Moraes,     to Delhi, and categorically asked him if he could count on the     support of Bombay's Catholic intelligentsia for the military

[Goanet] World War 1914, and the years roll on.

2014-01-21 Thread eric pinto
amongst the best of his peers, who put in a daring bid to buy the Eiffel tower for scrap got away with it. On 16 January 2014 15:33, eric pinto ericpin...@yahoo.com wrote:                 I am  To throw caution to the       wind with the stakes he employed only points to a mind

Re: [Goanet] The Flight And Fall Of Kingfisher Airlines

2014-01-16 Thread eric pinto
               I am reminded of the French Candian who appeared       out of nowhere with a bid for the giant retail chain, Macys.               He borrowed billions, even as the Wall Street Journal       claimed that cash flow in the best of times would not cover       payments. The US was then

[Goanet] DR. PROENÇA remembered by a New Yorker.

2014-01-13 Thread eric pinto
On Monday, January 13, 2014 8:49 AM, eric travers etworl wrote   i am freezing my bumbles in New York this winter! What happened to JACK Proenca? He saved Puri's brothers hand by getting him on a plane to Bombay.   Treated us hippies to patio sing-songs in the

Re: [Goanet] At the Goa Book Club - Broadway Book House Meeting: Some Sidelights

2014-01-10 Thread eric pinto
          Do not accept the Khalil renunciation.     India now enforces piracy regulations: using an Indian     front name for 'author' circumvents the law.         Khalil used Bharad. His silence speaks volumes.  eric On Thursday, January 9, 2014 8:26 PM, augusto pinto pinto...@gmail.com

[Goanet] Indian super-rich colonise London

2013-12-18 Thread eric pinto
December 18, 2013 11:22 AM, Errol Pinto wrote: Catching up with old issues of The Economist in the Atacama desert. http://www.economist.com/news/britain/21582254-indias-super-rich-elite-are-colonising-heart-former-british-empire-passage Bagehot A passage to Mayfair India’s super-rich

[Goanet] Grand Coalition

2013-12-10 Thread eric pinto
               The Delhi outcome signals an end to business as usual            on our political stage. I cannot picture AA teaming up with either            of the two collections of knaves. They will need to team up            on the road to larceny.  Reliance will sleep easy, with only          

[Goanet] Fw: schadenfreude

2013-12-08 Thread eric pinto
quietly; did not really fight. On Sun, Dec 8, 2013 at 6:10 PM, eric pinto ericpinto2@y ………...former Beatle George Harrison was sued for plagiarism because the melody of his song My Sweet Lord was too

[Goanet] Dr. Barad

2013-12-07 Thread eric pinto
   Sorry folks !  Sorry Dr. Barad.  There was a reverential  to her in the forwarded article: it was obviously outdated.   I too now believe we should put this to rest. Some of us did not see eye to eye with our friend, but a forum profits  from a diversity of opinions.  Dr.B did educate me on 

[Goanet] Education, marriage, and mom.

2013-12-07 Thread eric pinto
              The grandmother syndrome is a powerful urge in      women past middle-age.  Fifty percent of Jewish women in      the 'eligible' group are unmarried professionals. The joke      is that the bribe to a daughter to produce a child starts with a BMW   and then notches up to an

[Goanet] Rare Pictures of GOA

2013-12-07 Thread eric pinto
Peninsular India: Old Goa If the Pacific Ocean was once a Spanish Lake, then the Indian Ocean during the 16th Century belonged to the Portuguese. The administrative center of this Portuguese Lake was Goa. What did it look like? Most of the city of that time has been obliterated, partly by

[Goanet] More on Rolly's Canadian hospitality.

2013-12-06 Thread eric pinto
         When a Goan grandmother was admitted to hospital   in a psychotic state, it was discovered her presence in the    country was not formal. Both her adult children were similarly   handicapped, medically. The Toronto authorities held her  in an asylum for three years.           A

[Goanet] Dr. Barad

2013-12-06 Thread eric pinto
     I think there is more here than meets the eye.    I very much doubt if any of his 'books' saw sales of any    kind. It must have cost him personally to have a few     vanity copies printed.       I suspect a voodoo inspired need, further abetted by the    wife, to appease society, and salve

Re: [Goanet] DR UG Barad

2013-12-04 Thread eric pinto
                First I hear of this escapade: our Freddy best positioned       to attempt an expose.   eric.         On Wednesday, December 4, 2013 11:51 AM, Garner Thomson gar...@garnerthomson.co.uk wrote: I would very much appreciate comments on the fact that a book, Get Anyone Do

Re: [Goanet] Goa and goans

2013-11-29 Thread eric pinto
           The unique Anna Manifesto has now covered chapters   over a decade of soulful reporting. It is Abrahamic of old and   latter day Paul, Stalinist and Gandhian, Keynes and kangaroo.            I cannot place a finger on the nature of the pathology, but   that is exactly what it reflects.

[Goanet] Hail to Unity.

2013-11-28 Thread eric pinto
            We could take a leaf from Germany: it was announced this week that the long time antagonists, the Social Democrats and the Christian Democrats would form a grand coalition.             Both our 'grand' parties have pigged at the trough for long, both public and private.  Companies have

Re: [Goanet] Hail to Unity.

2013-11-28 Thread eric pinto
...@gmail.com wrote: On 28 November 2013 14:38, eric pinto ericpin...@yahoo.com wrote:             We could take a leaf from Germany:             It is time for our 'patriots' to sing Bharat Uber Alles for a change.  German Gabe, please translate.    eric. RESAPONSE: How on earth could we have India

Re: [Goanet] Freedom Fighters

2013-11-28 Thread eric pinto
        Rolly - i knew guys who refused to pay at eating places because i am Vietnam.  He now personified that war. Only, this 'fighter' is not likely to admit that he was stoned on cheap smokes and barely performed  in the field.        The cause in Goa cannot be questioned.         The

[Goanet] Virgin Atlantic Air - Better pricing.

2013-11-27 Thread eric pinto
     Business is now termed Premium Economy, and the seats are  wider than those in business elsewhere. They are not flat bed, but  they do incline very comfortably. Meals are gourmet.      First is now called Upper Class.      Business return NY - Bombay in January is just $2300.      London -

[Goanet] New life for flowers.

2013-11-27 Thread eric pinto
  Families in NY send them to hospitals after the church Funeral Service.  I tip children to sneak them away to the asilo.    Sardinia should have brightened a little girl's day.    eric.

[Goanet] Alexandre D'Souza - Aldona/Canada.

2013-11-25 Thread eric pinto
http://tinyurl.com/qc2khv8

Re: [Goanet] Experience at Jet Airways….

2013-11-25 Thread eric pinto
      Gabe - Merv - Santosh,  I have come to the conclusion  that these underpaid, disgruntled emps get their free perk and thrill when they 'hurt' who they perceive  as an affluent 'foreign' or NRI Indian.      Never mind the spiffy togs, they really are underpaid.   eric.         On Monday,

Re: [Goanet] Experience at Jet Airways - MODERATORS

2013-11-23 Thread eric pinto
         Francis, the talking mule, had fascinated us when  we were kids, at the movies.       I do hope we have now had the last word on the  subject. It is Thanksgiving week over North America, when we talk giblets over turkey.  On Friday, November 22, 2013 10:15 PM, Mervyn Lobo

Re: [Goanet] Experience at Jet Airways - MODERATORS

2013-11-22 Thread eric pinto
          The CIA shipped 800 mules from the army farm    in Georgia to Karachi, then overland to Afghanistan     where they lugged small arms to guerillas who fought   the invading Russian army.          The donkeys won the war. They were then eaten. On Friday, November 22, 2013 3:36 PM, Jim

Re: [Goanet] Off topic: ECB considers negative interest rates

2013-11-21 Thread eric pinto
         Gabe - Swiss foreign deposits are hit with an annual  fee of two percent, so negative interest !          One is far ahead paying 30% in income tax at home, then collecting 10% in bank interest on the balance, in India.          Income disparity has gone just too far, worsened in the 

Re: [Goanet] Energy Balance (Off topic))0

2013-11-15 Thread eric pinto
           Time for a truce.  Hope Merv lets this die down with      with a re-telling of the facts, as he sees them.            No more name calling !          eric.  On Friday, November 15, 2013 1:04 AM, roland.francis roland.fran...@ymail.com wrote: A notoriously inaccurate

[Goanet] How Oliver Cromwell dismissed the English Parliafriment

2013-11-13 Thread eric pinto
*How much this speech mirrors our despicable state of affairs:* *Oliver Cromwell MPs speech on the dissolution of the Rump of the Long Parliament, given to the House of Commons, 20 April 1653.* *It is high time for me to put an end to your sitting in this place, which you have dishonored by

[Goanet] Western Mineral rights

2013-11-10 Thread eric pinto
           Two thousand pounds of copper go into a new home built      in Europe/US.   Almost all of it comes from the Congo, Chile and Peru.     When Lumumba grabbed the the Congolese mines, four Western intelligence      agencies joined to split Katanga province and install Tshombe in power.    

[Goanet] Dr. Grandma

2013-11-08 Thread eric pinto
       Playing doctor is an important part of the of the grandma act.      An aunt treated a son's high fever with a laxative.  He had typhoid       fever, know to cause intestinal ulcerations.  The laxative's violence       resulted in perforations, peritonotis and the boy's demise.     

[Goanet] a better place to live

2013-11-03 Thread eric pinto
        We do provide nicer living to the Punjab's army brass; and their children,    pretty much guaranteed a similar bright future in the forces. One simply cannot    beat being at a state of permanent war with every neighbour, around the compass.         Billions now on a naval base in

[Goanet] Seven Sisters/Shell/Imperial Oil.

2013-11-03 Thread eric pinto
    Frederick -  mixed feelings here.   Imperial/BP in Quetta/Dharan, then    the Arabs in the second half of the twentieth possibly account for a third of our income/assets in Goa.     eric. From: Frederick FN Noronha  Fascinating story! FN The Secret of

[Goanet] Real ghosts !

2013-11-02 Thread eric pinto
           You are right, Alfred, Porvorim was not a Manhattan Mascarade !         The goblins were the real thing, the corpse was not make-believe.                        Still in a cloud, and also trying to get over the loss of           Engr. Sylvestre.  Thanks to Floriano and Valmiki,

[Goanet] A mile-long Treat !

2013-11-01 Thread eric pinto
       Over fifty thousand revellers in outlandish costumes paraded down   a Manhattan avenue for several hours.  Two million came to watch, many    thousands visiting from every continent in the world.       One word best defined the mood of the day -'happyness.'  It was a sea  of humanity,

[Goanet] Engr. Sylvester Noronha, Aldona/Dona Paula.

2013-10-31 Thread eric pinto
    I knew him for his humaneness and openness.  He was kind and useful to the diocese and the community. We had cooperated on several projects.           Rest in Peace.                   eric.

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

[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

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

2013-10-25 Thread eric pinto
      Babylon's  'kurro' to our kullov/kuddov, and I assumed it was  Gabe's friends in HongKong who wrestled with 'flied lice.'      Ninty khandis of paddy were delivered from Mayem every winter, to become free picking for a hundred and fifty odd chickens.     Merwyn's foxes treated themselves to

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

2013-10-24 Thread eric pinto
           The 'kurru' appeared in Akkad in a system that was refined  later by Naram Sin.  It was volume based, around sixty liters.            Both Mesopotamia and Persia lay claim to the distance measure, 'farsang,'  the length a person could walk in a day, about five miles. I see a connection

[Goanet] Macau man.

2013-10-21 Thread eric pinto
     Just a very angry man, perhaps.    eric.

Re: [Goanet] Macau man.

2013-10-21 Thread eric pinto
   Not fossil, not mummy,  a very lively, homem bon-vivant  in a swinging city, no less.     Wrapped in that petrous Goa basalt, he is tough as nails. He does petrify me, however: but then Gabe has long embraced 'perfidious Albion' and so we can half-embrace him too.   eric. On Monday, October

[Goanet] Alien labels.

2013-10-21 Thread eric pinto
    Japan grants citizenship to the foreign spouses of her natives.  It comes with a small catch: the person must acquire and register   a Japanese name.      A child born in Portugal can only carry a Portuguese name at  the registry. A visitor, like a trader or diplomat, is issued a birth

[Goanet] ASIAN SENSATIONAL VICTORIES

2013-10-06 Thread eric pinto
           Immense and horrendous suffering followed the conquests.  Natives were worked      to death in chain gangs.  Thousands of Fillipinos were doused with gasoline and torched,     in coliseum style frivolty.             Goans suffered huge personal losses in Burma, many paid with their

[Goanet] Offtopic: Fighting a loosing battle

2013-10-04 Thread eric pinto
    Dom Ferdi - so you let loose/lose, not sure which !     Will fix Jimmy his favourite fish: it is favorite in our parts.    Hong Kong pomfret is down to two dollars, from last year's four.   eric. From: Dr. Ferdinando dos Reis Falcão drferdina...@hotmail.com

[Goanet] NYTimes.com: Why the Health Care Law Scares the G.O.P.

2013-10-02 Thread eric pinto
. Thanks to Merwyn for the post.  We are watching a scene of extreme tragi-comedy unfold in real time. There are real victims here, and the  latter day SS encourages its minions to carry arms.      Most Republicans in congress are millionaires: their medical plan is free! The disadvantaged and

[Goanet] Bombay - Nostalgia.

2013-09-26 Thread eric pinto
 -   http://mumbaiboss.com/author/roshni-bajaj-sanghvi/ Of  Velvet Curtains And Pink Gin SEPTEMBER 23, 2013 7:53 AM BY ROSHNI BAJAJ SANGHVI

[Goanet] Thank Roland for Dhobi Talao writeup.

2013-09-23 Thread eric pinto
     Originally posted by him.  Thanks also for long stint  on Goan Voice.   Much enjoyed.     eric. From: Ana Maria de souza-Goswami anamari...@dataone.in To: goanet@lists.goanet.org Sent: Sunday, September 22, 2013 10:16 PM Subject: [Goanet] Dhobitalao -

[Goanet] Get that visa !

2013-09-19 Thread eric pinto
             A large stone inscription marks the church altar in Malacca,   built around 1650.  It is in memory of the Goan priest who built it,   'natural de Benaulim' is how he is described.  I have forgotten the name.   Mascarenhas, perhaps.  The Eurasians speak Portuguese: you will not

[Goanet] When religion is 'rice,' and agnostic.

2013-09-17 Thread eric pinto
     My Christian grandmother, when her chickens had sprung 30 eggs a month on    a diet of USAID wheat in 1965 -   they are possessed by an American devil.       --- .               A friend wrote an editor -      

[Goanet] The Anglo-Portuguese Treaty of 1878 - Impact on Goa.

2013-09-17 Thread eric pinto
          Excerpts from a paper by Dr. Teresa Albuquerque of the Heras Institute, St. Xavier's College, Bombay, dated  September, 1990.  We are grateful to Prof. Albuquerque. -           The

[Goanet] History of Bandra

2013-09-16 Thread eric pinto
      Pre-script: Portgal had gifted Bandra to a soldier, Homem. He had agreed to manage of battery of cannons to defend against Omani pirates. Homem in turn willed the town to the Carmelites who used all revenues to support St. Paul's College in Old Goa.        

[Goanet] In bad Sao Paolo !

2013-09-16 Thread eric pinto
  At gun point: my brother's car, wallet, phone and glasses off his nose.  Relieved he was permitted to keep his trousers.      eric. This is not the first time! Nascy is falling for it time and again! I have reported this to the Met as there is a contact

[Goanet] Help to buy and send two books from the US

2013-09-15 Thread eric pinto
       Ring will split, Santoshbab willing.    eric. From: eric pinto ericpin...@yahoo.com To: Goa's premiere mailing list, estb. 1994! goanet@lists.goanet.org Sent: Saturday, September 14, 2013 1:45 PM Subject: [Goanet] Help to buy and send two books from

[Goanet] US BOOKS

2013-09-15 Thread eric pinto
       Happy to pick up in NY and ferry - December.    Lord Ring likes home made wine !      eric.

[Goanet] Mango: The New Diabetes Cancer Buster

2013-09-14 Thread eric pinto
   Mango: The New Diabetes Cancer Buster   Do you believe in this ? The leading guy who did the research is a PhD fella and not a doctor ! All these while I thought blood sugar will dramatically increase with consumption of Mangoestry this and then measure your blood sugar !Looks

[Goanet] Help to buy and send two books from the US

2013-09-14 Thread eric pinto
Courier, Sir Ringadoo, available.      eric. From: Frederick FN Noronha  Dear all: Can anyone help me on this one please? I need someone to buy and despatch to Goa a couple of reasonably-priced books from the US. In return I will send two books from Goa.

[Goanet] Hindu Suria.

2013-09-12 Thread eric pinto
         Things looking bleak for them, Rolly.   Once home to 80,000 Christians,  Aleppo has none left, today.  Very little remains of the historical city, just rubble.          If the Galilee is special to the Christian ethos, much as Bam in Iran is to Zarusthrans and Medina to Muslims, then

[Goanet] Tidyness abroad.

2013-09-11 Thread eric pinto
     In little towns, litter, rare, does get picked up. Harry Pickles, 75, retired Birmingham police officer, walks around Assagao with a long-handle tong and bag, picking up native thrash.      eric. Camillo Fernandes camillofernandes at hotmail.com on Tue Sep 10 23:54:01 PDT 2013 wrote:

[Goanet] Setting an example.

2013-09-11 Thread eric pinto
     Our friend will remain anonymous.    eric. Re your posting on GoaNet.. For several years in my vaddo of      , i roamed the streets picking up litter, mostly paper and plastic packaging flung from buses, and

[Goanet] Collecting US benefits.

2013-09-08 Thread eric pinto
when he gets to retirement age he will probably claim U.S. Social Security payments as well  ? --     One collects a regular benefit at 65 after  paying into the system for ten years, at least. It is around 8%

[Goanet] US citizens - No fence sitters.

2013-09-06 Thread eric pinto
 Vivian has the facts.   The paranoia dates back to the revolution. Every last Philadephia native was hounded to, and over the Canadian border.  My own Township of Flushing defied Washington, the Council voting 'loyal to the king'  unanimously.  Washington had them arrested, deported to Canada

[Goanet] Syria’s Christians Risk Eradication

2013-09-06 Thread eric pinto
Another related viewpoint Ranjit = Syria’s Christians Risk Eradication A post-Assad Islamist regime threatens to re-enact the Armenian genocide. By PHILIP JENKINS • September 4, 2013 U.S. policy towards

[Goanet] Old scores !

2013-09-06 Thread eric pinto
      Any child born in the US is a citizen, a birth right: but not Canadian   offspring.  There are towns along the long border which share facilities  like hospitals.  No hard feelings around when an infant is born on the  wrong side of the border: back home to sing the right anthem.      I am

[Goanet] Goanathlete!!

2013-08-24 Thread eric pinto
                        yesteryear ' s Goan Olympian athlete Mary D'souza.       http://goenchimathi.wordpress.com/2013/08/08/62-years-later-mary-dsouza-pioneer-of-women-athletics-in-india-will-finally-be-honored/      

[Goanet] Barclays expects rupee at 61 in 6-12 months

2013-08-23 Thread eric pinto
     The key, Gabe, inflows have gone dry.   The latter day Roths only back winners.   eric. -- India should be able to almost fully fund its current account deficit in the 2014 financial year unless capital inflows surprise further on      

[Goanet] The Rupee...

2013-08-23 Thread eric pinto
           Half of Bihar coal smoulders below ground.  We should have  let the Armenians stay on.  Same story in Luzerne, Pennsylvania.     Goa ore smelted in Japan and the West accounted for the steel  in twenty percent of the cars built there: to think that Tata Steel  was the Asia's first !    

[Goanet] Blame the US.

2013-08-21 Thread eric pinto
     Seven days of shudder linked to rates rising again in the US. The Times has a nice analysis. Expect more.  'Cheap' money had  also been invested outside the US, this will end as the printing stops.   Turkey was named as a major victim.   My bonds took an haircut.     eric.

[Goanet] Geo-Hysteria

2013-08-09 Thread eric pinto
     It ends when Victoria's many pairs of drawers are peddled on Petticoat Lane.  It commenced when Kachmiri was hawked to Gulab.  Pashtun's overlook little. From: Gerald Fernandes c  Admittedly HISTORY is partly responsible for the intransigence of

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