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Washington state continues to face a critical teacher shortage. To address the problem, state policymakers and district administrators are looking at "grow-your-own" teacher strategies, which seek to identify and support current paraeducators and limited certificated teachers who are interested in
In recognition of Native American Heritage Month, we're excited to share some of the important work being conducted in the Northwest region and beyond to promote success for American Indian and Alaska Native students and to increase awareness of the contributions of Native people, past and present.
Education Northwest's board of directors announced that it has unanimously chosen Patty Wood as the organization's chief executive officer.
As we observe Hispanic Heritage Month, we are deeply inspired by the five Latinx educators who are sharing their stories with us in 2019.
Education Northwest proudly announces the addition of Jeff Strickler as chief operating officer.
Discover what's new in a statewide curriculum on the Native American experience in Oregon.
"The health of my community, and of Indian Country in general, depends on policymakers with personal experience."
"For me, learning about my own culture is a lifelong process, but I definitely believe we should be telling our own story whenever possible."
According to Karen Martin, a teacher and instructional coach in Alaska, the Northwest Rural Innovation and Student Engagement (NW RISE) Network builds connections.
For Black History Month, we recognize the leadership of nine role models from the Pacific Northwest connected to our public schools, higher education and the development of young people.
Accelerated learning can improve students' postsecondary outcomes, and a new study finds that one in three Oregon public high school students participated in this kind of coursework.
Dr. Steve Klein, a nationally recognized leader in career and technical education (CTE) and workforce development will join Education Northwest on September 24. Klein has more than 25 years of experience leading large-scale research, evaluation, policy analysis and technical assistance projects
In May 2018, we explored educator networks in the Northwest that enhance professional development and student engagement.
Read how the NW RISE network that connects educators in rural schools across the Northwest inspired a new network in a remote Alaska school district the size of West Virginia.
Preparing students for their next steps in life is at the core of every high school's mission. We're featuring programs and practices that help educators empower students toward their next steps on our blog, website and social media. Here are some of the thought pieces, actionable tools and
West Valley School District students can earn industry certificates in seventh grade and journeyman credentials in high school. What can other districts learn from West Valley's thriving CTE model?
Check out the practices and programs that help educators engage English learners with compelling, grade-appropriate language and content that we featured in March 2018.
Many areas of the country are facing severe teacher shortages. In February, we took a close look at how education stakeholders in our region are addressing this problem.
Education Northwest is taking an opportunity to look at Black History Month through the lens of the future by honoring six outstanding student leaders from across the region.
Here is a sampling of the research-based resources and conversations we shared: Stopping the Spread of Math Anxiety Math anxiety goes a lot deeper than simply disliking math. Students who experience this form of anxiety have an acutely negative emotional response to situations that involve math.

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This morning, the Supreme Court handed down a 5–3 decision striking down three key provisions of Arizona's SB 1070 law, and effectively limiting the scope of the law's "show me your papers" provision requiring law enforcement officers to determine the immigration status of anyone they have "reasonable suspicion" to believe is in the country illegally. Here are four key takeaways from this decision:
1. Arizona Does Not Get To Have Its Own Immigration Policy: For decades the backbone of American immigration law has been an understanding that the United States has one immigration policy set by our national government, not fifty different immigration policies set by fifty different states. Today's decision leaves this basic framework in place. In the words of Justice Kennedy's majority opinion, "[i]t is fundamental that foreign countries concerned about the status, safety, and security of their nationals in the United States must be able to confer and communicate on this subject with one national sovereign, not the 50 separate States."
2. Arizona Cannot Create New Crimes Targeting Immigrants: SB 1070 criminalizes "willful failure to complete or carry an alien registration document," it makes it a crime for undocumented immigrants to work or seek work, and it authorizes police to arrest anyone the officer has "probably cause to believe" can be deported. All of these provisions were struck down by the Court. Notably, Justice Kennedy's opinion acknowledged how forcing immigrants into the shadows can lead to their exploitation: "making criminals out of aliens engaged in unauthorized work — aliens who already face the possibility of employer exploitation because of their removable status — would be inconsistent with federal policy and objectives."
3. Arizona Cannot Detain People Simply Because They Might Be Undocumented: Although the opinion does not strike down the "show me your papers" provision, it significantly lessens the harm caused by this provision. SB 1070 provides that "[a]ny person who is arrested shall have the person's immigration status determined before the person is released," but the Court warns the state not to apply this provision literally if it wants to avoid running headlong into the Constitution:
Detaining individuals solely to verify their immigration status would raise constitutional concerns. And it would disrupt the federal framework to put state officers in the position of holding aliens in custody for possible unlawful presence without federal direction and supervision. The program put in place by Congress does not allow state or local officers to adopt this enforcement mechanism.
But §2(B) could be read to avoid these concerns. To take one example, a person might be stopped for jaywalking in Tucson and be unable to produce identification. The first sentence of §2(B) instructs officers to make a "reasonable" attempt to verify his immigration status with ICE if there is reasonable suspicion that his presence in the United States is unlawful. The state courts may conclude that, unless the person continues to be suspected of some crime for which he may be detained by state officers, it would not be reasonable to prolong the stop for the immigration inquiry.
Although the Court technically does not reason a decision on this question, under today's opinion, prolonging a person's detention simply to verify their immigration status is almost certainly not allowed.
4. Obama's DREAM Initiative Is Legal: Finally, as Judd Legum notes, the opinion strongly hints that the Obama Administration's directive allowing undocumented college students and veterans to remain in the country is lawful. Indeed, on page 17 of the opinion, the Court explicitly lists "a veteran" or a "college student" as two examples of undocumented immigrants who should not experience "unnecessary harassment."
In the end, the Obama Administration got 85 percent of what it asked for from the Supreme Court today, plus an unexpected lift to its newly announced immigration directive. Three of SB 1070's four challenged provisions were struck down, and the remaining provision was significantly limited. Moreover, it is possible that a subsequent challenge could invalidate show me your papers for good. The Court leaves open the possibility that future constitutional challenges to this provision could strike it down.


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The Choice of Educational TypeAlstadsæter, Annette; Kolm, Ann-Sofie; Larsen, Birthe (København, 2005)[More information][Less information]
Abstract: This paper examines the effect of taxes on the individuals' choices of educational direction, and thus on the economy.s skill composition. A proportional labour tax induces too many workers with high innate ability to choose an educational type associated with high consumption value and low effort. This increases the skill mismatch and aggregate unemployment in the economy. The government can correct for this distortion by use of differentiated tuition fees or tax rates. JEL codes: J64, J68, H21, H24 Keywords: Unemployment, matching, education, optimal taxation, tuition fees URI: http://hdl.handle.net/10398/7562
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Fort Myers, FL (SportsNetwork.com) - Mike Napoli's three-run shot was one of three Boston longballs in a 10-5 Grapefruit League victory over St. Louis on Monday. Dustin Pedroia hit a two-run homer and Ryan Lavarnway added a solo shot for the Red Sox. Pedroia and Napoli both knocked in three runs to fuel the offense. John Lackey picked up the win despite giving up six hits and five runs over five innings. He fanned three and walked two. Daniel Descalso drove in two runs, while Kolten Wong added three hits and an RBI for the Cardinals. Tyler Lyons was touched for five runs on as many hits in his 1 1/3 relief frames. Starter Shelby Miller worked the first 3 2/3 frames and yielded three runs and three hits with three walks.
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When you join March for Babies you stand with thousands of people across the country who share your commitment to building a brighter future for us all.
You raise money to expand programs and educate medical professionals to make sure that moms and babies get the best possible care. You advocate for policies that prioritize their health. You fund research to find solutions to the biggest health threats. And you support moms through every stage of the pregnancy journey, even when everything doesn't go according to plan.
March with us to lead the fight for the health of all moms and babies. Because when a society supports every family, we all win. When we come together, even the toughest problems can be solved.
Julie and Jevon McBride welcomed their daughter Juliana Charolette Madison McBride to the world after only 25 weeks and 4 days of pregnancy. She was born weighing just 1 pound, 11 ounces. Juliana spent months in the hospital. The first 10 weeks of her life were in a NICU, before she was transferred to a second hospital for neurosurgery.
When her parents first saw their newborn daughter they were in awe at how tiny she was and how she fought to live from day one. Every day of Juliana's life in the NICU was emotional for her parents, who have shed many tears. Like most new parents, they never knew that love could be this strong.
Today Juliana is thriving, and that's thanks to people like you who march and raise money to support the pioneering research and care that saves lives. Thank you for joining the McBrides and countless others at March for Babies this year, next year and as long as it takes to help every mom and baby get the best possible start.
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Libido and/or lack of libido was a major topic of conversation at the recent Life Beyond Cancer Foundation's Retreat in Austin, Texas. Many of the women there were angry at their oncologists for not telling them about the side effects breast cancer treatment might have on their sex life. While we know a diagnosis of breast cancer may result in the loss of our breasts, few of us know we may also lose our sexuality. As one of the women at the Retreat asked, "Why didn't my oncologist warn me that after cancer treatment, I would no longer have any desire for sex? I do it for my husband, and I know he wants more sex, but since menopause, it's painful, and I'm just not interested anymore. Why didn't my oncologist tell me that?"<PREVIEWEND>
Many oncologists tell their estrogen positive breast cancer patients that cancer treatment may push them into premature menopause--hot flashes, night sweats and weight gain--but they fail to tell us menopause may cause our vaginal tissues to become dry and paper thin. As a result, our vaginal opening may atrophy and become smaller, and our tissues become less pliable which results in painful penetration by our sex partner. What's worse, we feel guilty that we're not interested and don't want sex like we used to, and we worry our partners may look elsewhere to satisfy their needs. Could menopausal libidos and painful sex be a contributing factor as to why some men have historically taken up with younger and juicier women?
If we deconstruct the word "menopause," we get "men-o-pause," which implies we've reached a point in life where we've pushed men, and perhaps sex, to the sidelines. Our mothers' generation suffered through menopause and any resulting lack of sexual desire in silence, but we are not our mothers. We're not prepared to go through the rest of our lives as female eunuchs. We're not only conscious of the effect our lack of libido may have on our sex partner, but we miss our sexuality. We're not afraid to say that we like sex; we like pleasing our partners, and we like having orgasms. Sex feels good, and it's fun! What a dirty trick that just at the time when our children have left the nest, and we have more time and money to travel and enjoy our partner, mother nature saddles us with men-o-pause.
For years men have made it clear they want to remain sexually active until the day they die. Whats more, their sexuality is often more important than whether they survive their cancers or not, as exemplified by one of James' ski buddies, who was diagnosed with prostrate cancer and chose not to receive any treatment. In other words, he chose his sexual health and a shorter survival as opposed to living longer with the very real possibility of sexual impotency and/or incontinence.
Trust me, I'm more than OK with the fact that men can sire children ad nauseum while my days of having babies are behind me, but I'm not OK with the fact that I don't have a good sexual libido/self-moisturizing alternative except for hormone replacement therapy. Before James died, I decided to look into solving this problem. I spent countless months talking to gynecologists, oncologists, researching alternatives to estrogen and meeting with prominent chemists around the country. Just when I caught a glimmer of hope, a way to moisturize my dry and withered vaginal tissues, the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) stepped in and crushed my bubble.
Because the FDA defines a personal internal moisturizer as "intended to affect the structure or function of the body," such a product must go through the FDA. Unless I was willing to spend years and years and millions and millions of dollars taking my product through clinical trials, it would never be anything more than a fantasy... and not one of the sexual ilk. If I didn't go through the FDA, no reputable laboratory in the country would develop and/or manufacture such a product and if I somehow found one, here or abroad, the FDA could slap us with an injunction, shut us down and sue us for all the tea and orgasms in China.
So for now, we must make do with less than perfect herbal and over-the-counter remedies while we take a page from our male counterparts and raise our voices until we have a safer solution than hormone replacement to our problem.
PS: You didn't really think I was going to leave it at that, did you? Next week, we'll talk about some practical things you can do to help the situation.
PPS: To all of you who emailed and called, asking about Goldie, I thank you for your kind wishes and prayers. I'm over the moon to report she seems to have gotten rid of the incredible, mind-boggling amount of lace she consumed, but it wasn't easy. We'll leave it at that. From now on, I'm going to put her in the bathroom when I leave the house and take away all the towels and bathmats and soap. Goldie girl will only get a bare tile floor and a stainless steel bowl full of water until I feel like I can trust her again, but then again, hello! She's a dog! That's what they do... Oy vey!
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Carlisle is a town in Massachusetts. It was formed in 1780 and was previously called Acton/Billerica/Chelmsford/Concord. It can be found in Middlesex county and is a part of the Northern registry of deed district. For more information, contact the county at 66 Westford St., Carlisle 01741. On the attached map, Carlisle is shown as 20 in Middlesex county.
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Welcome to the monthly meeting of the io9 Book Club. In August, we read Maureen McHugh's After the Apocalypse. Jump into comments to get started talking about it!
For those unfamiliar with the io9 book club, here's how it works: You read the book. We create a special book club post on io9 when the meeting is in session. That would be the post you're reading right now. Then everybody talks about the book in comments for a few days, starting right now.
McHugh will be stopping by to talk to you about the book this Friday, September 8, from 12-1 PM Pacific Time. I'll put up a separate post calling for questions on Thursday, so look for that if you want to ask her something!
So, what did you think of the book?
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Checking in on… the WCCPosted by rtmsf on February 23rd, 2010
Michael Vernetti is the RTC correspondent for the West Coast Conference.
Standings (through games of 2/20/10)
- Gonzaga 10-2 (22-5)
- Saint Mary's 9-3 (22-5)
- Portland 8-4 (17-9)
- San Francisco 7-5 (12-15)
- Loyola Marymount 6-6 (15-13)
- Santa Clara 3-9 (11-18)
- Pepperdine 3-9 (7-21)
- San Diego 2-10 (9-19)
San Francisco or Loyola Marymount?
Figuring out who is going to seize fourth-place in the regular-season WCC standings and a first-round bye in the March 5-8 conference tournament in Las Vegas is the compelling storyline in the last week of conference play. LMU, finally at full strength after months of nursing various players through injuries, completed the most impressive and surprising week in recent conference history by topping both Gonzaga (74-66) and Portland (77-68 in OT) at home. Not surprisingly, three of the restored Lions contributed mightily to the wins: redshirt freshman Ashley Hamilton with 17 against Gonzaga and 12 against Portland; junior guard Larry Davis, a transfer from Seton Hall, with 12 and 10; and sophomore guard Jarred DuBois with 10 and 10. They were joined by another transfer, forward Drew Viney from Oregon, with 16, and junior forward Kevin Young with 11, to place all five starters in double figures against Gonzaga. With all that offensive firepower, however, it was tough man-to-man defense that did in Gonzaga, as LMU held the powerful Zags to 34.4% shooting overall and a puny 25.9% in the second half.
San Francisco had only one game last week, edging Bay Area rival Santa Clara 71-68 in overtime on the road to hold onto fourth place, but will be hard-pressed to keep the Lions at bay this week. While the Dons must travel to the frenzied atmosphere of Gonzaga's McCarthey Athletic Center on Thursday (Feb. 25) to face a wounded giant smarting from both the LMU loss and an equally-surprising 81-77 loss to San Francisco in January, LMU heads down the road to San Diego. Bill Grier's Toreros, struggling with the loss of senior guard De'Jon Jackson, have offered little resistance to anyone in recent weeks, and LMU should be able to maintain its momentum at the Jenny Craig Pavilion. Thus, San Francisco and LMU could find themselves knotted at 7-6 in the standings after Thursday's games, heading into the season-ending weekend. Both have tough contests on Saturday, with the Dons taking on a Portland squad looking to bounce back from its disappointing loss to LMU and the Lions facing an equally-motivated Saint Mary's in Moraga.
The Gaels benefitted most directly from LMU's upset of Portland, as that loss moved Saint Mary's one game in front for second place and a bye to the semifinals of the WCC tournament. Saint Mary's must defeat struggling Pepperdine on Thursday and LMU on Saturday to assure that precious semifinal bye that guarantees they will only have to play twice in Las Vegas. That is a major consideration for Randy Bennett's Gaels, who go only seven deep and are down to three guards with the early-season loss of Wayne Hunter to a torn ACL and the pre-season loss of freshman Tim Harris to a torn hamstring. The Gaels' backcourt trio of junior Mickey McConnell and freshmen Matthew Dellavedova and Jorden Page has provided yeoman service so far, but showed signs of fatigue in recent losses to Gonzaga and Portland. Saint Mary's bounced back somewhat with a grind-it-out 61-49 victory over San Diego last week, but will have to suck it up to finish off the season with two more wins.
Gonzaga, despite the upset by LMU, does not seem in danger of surrendering its top spot and missing an opportunity to win a tenth straight WCC crown. San Francisco will come to Spokane pumped up by its January upset of the Zags, but Mark Few's team has usually responded to adversity with a strong bounce-back. The Dons may face the wrath of a wounded warrior Thursday night, while Santa Clara faces an equally unpromising fate in the Zags' season-ender on Saturday. With Saint Mary's just a game behind in the loss column, look for Gonzaga to hold off both San Francisco and Santa Clara and head to Las Vegas with the top seed.
Portland has a shot at second place if it can also defeat San Francisco and Santa Clara and Saint Mary's stumbles against Pepperdine and/or LMU. If Portland and Saint Mary's tie for second with identical 10-4 records, Saint Mary's would get the semifinal bye on the strength of a higher RPI, but if the Gaels fall to Pepperdine the nod would go to Portland even if Saint Mary's beats LMU because Pepperdine is so low in the standings. There is a lot riding on the last week of conference play.


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Patterson High School became the latest political battleground in the effort to rebuild Baltimore's decrepit school infrastructure this week, with students throwing their support behind a proposed bottle tax that could help raise about $300 million for facility upgrades.
The Baltimore Education Coalition led City Council Vice President Edward Reisinger and education advocates from around the city on a tour of Patterson on Thursday, where broken boilers and sweltering, cramped and ill-equipped classrooms offered a glimpse into the district's $2.8 billion list of repairs.
"We're tired of being in classes that feel like slave ships," said Patterson sophomore Asjuanae Duboyce. "It's not a good look for our school. That's why a lot of kids drop out of school."
At each of the five stops on the tour through the school, students handed each visitor a penny, symbolizing the 5-cent bottle tax that MayorStephanie Rawlings-Blakehas proposed to help fund school facility improvements.
The tax, which would increase from 2 cents to 5 cents and generate $10 million annually, has faced opposition from retailers and the beverage industry, and will likely face a tough reception in the council's Taxation and Finance Committee.
The tax fits into the mayor's plan to devote $23 million annually in new funding that would allow the system to float as much as $300 million in bonds.
On Thursday, members of the education coalition highlighted the council members who were invited but missing from the tour, namely Councilman Carl Stokes, who chairs the Taxation and Finance Committee, council President Bernard "Jack" Young and Councilman James Kraft.
"We teach and preach accountability to our kids, but the adults around them don't model that," said Rashawna Sydnor, the parent of a city schools student. "The bottle tax calls on all of us to put our money where our mouth is, literally and figuratively."
During a visit to a stuffy classroom whose broken and opaque windows offered no relief from the unusually high February temperatures, advocates made impromptu calls to the offices of the council members, questioning their support on speaker phone.
A spokesman for Young, whose chief of staff answered the call, said Young has been at the forefront of this issue since last year, when his legislation created a designated fund for school facilities.
"He's on the same side as the advocates who are pushing for reform as it relates to school construction," said Lester Davis, Young's spokesman. "He's been at the table for a long time, and he is completely supportive of modernizing Baltimore City school buildings.
"As it relates to these pieces of legislation, they will get a speedy hearing, and he's been saying that from the beginning."
Two bills related to the bottle tax are expected to be introduced to the council Monday, Reisinger said.
One bill would extend the bottle tax — which is currently scheduled to end in July 2013 — and increase it from 2 cents to 5 cents per beverage.
The second bill would divert the revenue from the bottle tax to an education fund established by a vote last year, said Reisinger, who is the mayor's floor leader and tasked with shepherding her agenda.
The bills would head to the council's Taxation and Finance Committee and would require the committee's approval before moving to the full council.
Culminating the Patterson tour, Reisinger sat among a panel of his colleagues who were represented by a posterboard with the members' pictures taped on them, where he pledged his and the mayor's support.
"Walking through this school — every child deserves an A-plus for just being here," Reisinger said, adding that he fully supports the bottle tax. "I think some of my colleagues need to come to this school ... instead of worrying about some liquor store making a profit."
City schools CEO Andrés Alonso has also recently proposed a facilities plan that would use the mayor's bottle tax revenue to borrow up to $1.2 billion for a rapid overhaul of the district's infrastructure.
The plan — which would require the schools chief to borrow six times the current bonding authority — is championed by education advocates but has not received full public backing from the mayor and clashes with her plan to rebuild the system on revenue rather than debt.
For those waiting for a plan to come to fruition, it doesn't matter where the money comes from.
"When you walk into our school, it's like a ghost town," said Breshae Goodin, a Patterson sophomore who likened her school building to a prison. "When we go into the bathroom, it looks trashy."
"I don't think it's fair that the best parts of this school are for visitors to the main office," said classmate Larry Jones. "The line has to be drawn somewhere, and that is when it interrupts our learning."
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Salaam and Greetings of Peace:
Sunday, December 10th would have been the 91st birthday of Dr. Javad Nurbakhsh (12/10/1926 – 10/10/2008), the late and much beloved Master of the Nimatullahi Sufi Order, may God sanctify his secret. In his memory, this poem is dedicated.
Love is the answer
to every question
An ocean emerging
from a drop
This you taught us by your
every word, every action,
The revealed science
of the heart, the key
to the door of the spirit
that is never locked
To serve the One,
serve all, you said,
Eat but a little,
Feed the soul instead
As long as life
remains, and then
The drop returns
to the Ocean again,
Of Love, of Love, of Love
Ya Pir! Ya Hayy!
Ya Haqq!


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Hold your horses on that upcoming iPhone 5, because whispers about next year's iPhone 6 are already slipping out.
Quietly updating its original story with a new tidbit, the Wall Street Journal reports that its heard Apple "has been experimenting with features such as a new way of charging the phone." Currently, iPhones are charged through a 30-pin to USB via a computer or an electrical plug. Although the detail is vague, we're already wondering if Apple is thinking of ditching the wires to charge, like something along HP's
Palm Pre wireless charging TouchStone technology.
Pre owners will know all about the TouchStone. Essentially, it's a dock that uses magnetic induction to charge the smartphone. All you need to do is place the smartphone on the dock, and it begins to charge — no need to plug in any cables. Pull the smartphone off and it stops charging. It's as easy as that.
As Apple blog TUAW notes Apple's move to untether its iOS devices from iTunes and move everything into the iCloud could support the company's decision to completely cut the cords — even for charging.
Take the iPhone 6 news with a huge grain of salt, as it's still way to early to determine if the rumor has any weight. Real iPhone 6 news will make its way out when the iPhone 5's been on the market for a few months. For now, don't let any talk of an iPhone 6 stop you from picking up an iPhone 5 this September, if you've been holding out for Apple's next smartphone.
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One-stage excision of inflamed sebaceous cyst versus the conventional method
Ge Bu JunI; Huang QiI; Chanseet GolapII
Im.D.; Department of General Surgery, Tongji Hospital and Tongji University, Shanghai, People's Republic of China
IIm.b. B.S. (postgraduate student, general surgery, final year); Department of General Surgery, Tongji Hospital and Tongji University, Shanghai, People's Republic of China
OBJECTIVE: The aim of this trial was to determine whether one-stage excision of inflamed sebaceous cysts is preferable to the conventional method.
METHODS: A group of 166 patients underwent primary resection of an inflamed sebaceous cyst followed by 5 days' administration of antibiotics. A further 185 patients underwent conventional treatment consisting of initial antibiotic administration and incision and drainage of the lesion, followed by elective surgical excision 1 - 2 months later when the inflammation had subsided. Duration of antibiotic exposure, morbidity and cost were compared between the two groups.
RESULTS: One-stage excision of inflamed sebaceous cysts decreased the duration of antibiotic exposure, reduced morbidity and is more economical.
CONCLUSION: This study strongly suggests that, provided cases are appropriately selected, primary resection of inflamed sebaceous cysts has advantages over conventional treatment.
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The International Air Transport Association issued the statement after consultation with the WHO and the U.N. aviation agency ICAO, following the case of a man who died of Ebola after taking a flight from Liberia to Nigeria with a stopover at Lomé.
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Last month we introduced our readers to a brief history of the relationship between Fine Arts and the modern Olympics, an often overlooked aspect of the Games. Moments before submitting our article, we had a researcher contact us inquiring about the sculptures and in order to fulfill his research request, staff searched our photograph collection and found out more information on the sculpture program.
In 1980 the National Fine Arts Committee organized a broad spectrum of visual and performing arts activities which took place in Lake Placid during the Winter Olympics. One such exhibition was a series of permanent sculptures placed strategically throughout the community. Created by young, emerging artists, the Public Sculpture commissions addressed traditional notions of sculpture in a modernistic way. The works aimed to memorialize the events and experiences of the Olympics, without directly referencing physical context, place, or time. The result is a trail of sculptural monuments throughout the community which provide both locals and tourists lingering mementos of the 1980 Games over 30 years later.
To begin a journey on the Olympic Art Trail, we suggest one first head towards Old Military Road, near the Olympic Ski Jumps. In a vacant lot across from the cemetery stands the sculpture "30 Below" by Nancy Holt. This 30 foot, red brick, open-ended tower sets an imposing scene on the surrounding landscape. Holt attempts to deal with the idea of "monument" by focusing the entire universe on this particular spot in Lake Placid. More literally, the tower was erected at this particular location based on cosmological coordinates and compass points, while its arches are aligned with the North Star. As an interactive sculpture, viewers are encouraged to enter the tower. Once inside, the viewer's perspective changes from that of an expansive, open field, to that of a narrow confinement, almost as if looking through a lens or the wrong end of a telescope.
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The next stop on the Olympic Art tour is the Lake Placid Center for the Arts (LPCA). In the middle of the parking lot stands Linda Howard's "Maya." An attempt to probe the levels of consciousness and meditative states, this brushed aluminum steel sculpture stands alone and appears to be quite simple but becomes more complex as the viewer examines it. There is also a smaller sculpture on the LPCA grounds, and though often overshadowed, should not be overlooked. Created by Ken Stepman, this untitled sculpture represents a jungle-gym like structure and embodies the spirit of the Olympic Winter Games.
After that, travel down Main Street, toward Peacock Park, along the shores of Mirror Lake. In between the toboggan chute and the village beach house stands Joel Pearlman's black metal sculpture "High Peaks." Using welded steel, Pearlman explores the concept of a "monument" through contrast between artificial and natural. The towering structure reflects the trees which surround it; while the smaller, welded on sections curve outward to imitate branches. The more geometrical features of the piece depict the disparity between the natural and the man-made.
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JACKSONVILLE, Fla. – The new attorney for Michael Dunn, the man accused of shooting into an SUV and killing 17-year-old Jordan Davis last month after an argument over loud music, said Monday the teen's SUV left the scene, then returned after the shooting.
Cory Strolla spoke to reporters after Dunn appeared in court to enter a not-guilty plea on an upgraded charge of first-degree murder.
A grand jury indicted the 46-year-old last week on the charge and also handed down three counts of attempted first-degree murder because there were three other occupants in the SUV, along with a charge of shooting into an occupied vehicle.
Police said Dunn fired into the red Dodge Durango that Davis (pictured, below) and three of his friends -- Tevin Thompson, Leland Brunson and Tommie Stornes -- were sitting in at a Gate gas station in Baymeadows. Dunn's lawyers are considering using a "stand your ground" defense because they say the boys pointed a shotgun at Dunn. Police have not confirmed that claim, nor did they find a weapon in the SUV.
Strolla said the SUV carrying Davis and the other teens left the scene after the shooting, then went back. Even if no weapon is ever found, the claim will allow the defense to argue that if there were a gun, the teens had time to get rid of it before police arrived.
"I fully expect the evidence to show that that SUV took off and left the scene and came back," Strolla said. "As a matter of fact, from the reports I've seen, that red SUV pulled right back in to the same exact spot it was."
"The ballistics will show that if a gun was fired from just a few feet away from where my client's car was, and those boys told the police they never left the scene? That's obviously a false report to police," Strolla added. "When a vehicle leaves the scene as everybody knows, the evidence is completely changed, the crime scene is changed."
John M. Phillips, the attorney for the Davis family, also confirmed he's heard the SUV left the scene.
"What would you do if someone was shooting 10 rounds at you?" he said.
The state attorney's office didn't offer any confirmation as to the movement of the SUV that night, only saying the facts will come out when the discovery material is released.
Strolla said the case will come down to character and credibility.
"Our position is that Michael Dunn has character. He has credibility," Strolla said. "He is a law-abiding citizen. He has never been involved in an act like this in his life. He's never had to draw his weapon. He's never had to fire his weapon."
"I've heard all the talking heads in the national news and regional news talking about, 'How could he do that? He did this. He did that,'" Strolla added. "Unless you walk in that man's shoes, you're put in a position where you believe somebody is about to put a shotgun at your head and pull the trigger and get out of a car to do it, then no one has the right to say, 'Why did he do something?' That's going to be for the experts and that's going to be for the jury."
Investigators say after opening fire, Dunn got in his car and drove back to his hotel. He wasn't arrested until the following day at his home in Brevard County.
Strolla said Dunn is "in as good a spirits as can be, knowing you're charged with first-degree murder for defending yourself and believing that somebody is trying to kill you."
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Davis' parents were also in the courtroom Monday for Dunn's arraignment. It was the first time they've seen him in person.
"You just feel like, I want him to look over at me, I wanted him to look at me to understand that he's taken my life away, taken Jordan's mother away from him, and I just want to let him know I wanted him to really stare at me, which he didn't do," Davis' father, Ron Davis, said. "I want him to really stare at me and know that we're his parents and we're here for Jordan, and as callous as he may think that the act is, it wasn't callous to us, that it was a great deal -- it meant a great deal to us."
"I've seen him on television many many times, but to see him physically standing there before us, I feel so sorry for him," added Lucia McBath, Jordan Davis' mother. "I feel so sorry for him because he has to bear this burden for the rest of his life."
Dunn's next pretrial date is Feb. 6. He's being held in the Duval County jail without bail.
Prosecutors said they're not seeking the death penalty.
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Horiz.antropol. vol.4 no.se Porto Alegre 2008
Sports: an anthropological perspective1
Arlei Sander DamoI; Ruben George OlivenII; Simoni Lahud GuedesIII
IUniversidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul Brasil
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IIIUniversidade Federal Fluminense - Brasil
Translated by Letícia Maria Costa da Nóbrega Cesarino
Translated from Horizontes Antropológicos, Porto Alegre, v.14, n.30, p. 7-17, July/Dec. 2008.
In Quest for Excitement, Norbert Elias and Eric Dunning refer to a discussion held among themselves, in the 1950s, about the relevance of treating sports as a subject worthy of the social scientist's interests. At the time, in spite of being already at the edge of retirement, Elias was a lesser-known sociologist who had taken pains to be appointed a professor at the University of Leicester. Dunning, on his turn, was an economics student who had been drawn to sociology by his German master. During the half century since this encounter took place, Elias has become one of the most prestigious intellectuals in the West. His works were translated into several languages, including the above mentioned Quest for Excitement, coauthored with Dunning. This book is dedicated to the process of sportification, and has been consecrated as one of the chief works in the sociology and anthropology of sports. Thanks to this and other vital works, discussions on the legitimacy of addressing sports as an object for the social sciences have become increasingly rare. But until the early 1990's, reservations against the study of sports, leisure, body, spectacle and similar phenomenon were quite common. Today, discussions have turned to how to theorize the sports field, and which aspects are most interesting for empirical investigation.
The prestige of well-known names such as Elias, Bourdieu and Hobsbawn, besides Eduardo Archetti and Roberto Da Matta in Latin America to mention just the most quoted in specialized scholarship is an authoritative claim for assuaging prejudice against the incorporation of sports among conventional research topics. If such distinguished scholars have dealt with sports seriously, many others felt encouraged to follow their lead. A new, markedly interdisciplinary research field slowly came into being, and is proving to be a promising avenue inasmuch as studies have not been limited to issues brought up by the canonic thinkers. New themes have been and are being suggested, many of them being shaped by society's broader demands (as is the case with studies on soccer) and often by national theoretical traditions. No doubt a lot remains to be done, but an expressive corpus of accumulated knowledge and an extensive bibliography have indeed been made available during the last couple of decades.
In tune with this burgeoning field, Horizontes Antropológicos offers an issue especially dedicated to sports. Assuming that it may be read by scholars unacquainted with the specialized sports literature, this introduction will briefly chart what is sport and how the social sciences have approached it. Although seemingly obvious, such questions should be clarified, if only to make clear the gap between interest in sports and interest in making sense of them in other words, the distance between those who love sports and those who look at it from the perspective of the anthropology of sport.
In contrast with disciplines aimed at direct intervention such as biomechanics, medicine, physiology or sports marketing, which are in one way or another engaged in the promotion of the phenomenon itself, anthropology has no commitment to enhancing performances, nor to the organization, jurisdiction, modernization and, above all, the ideology and mythology of sports. Even though the anthropological perspective is also a kind of discourse about sports, and as such is one among many ways of looking at it, the production of discourses interferes less directly in the phenomenon itself. The anthropological perspective is characterized by the analysis and interpretation of phenomena. Its concerns are typically anthropological, that is, directed toward the analysis of meanings pertaining to the practice and enjoyment of so-called sportive activities in their social and historical contexts. Anthropologists are interested in probing into how sports celebrations and celebrities are produced, or to which extent sports players are and are not similar to other media pop stars and national heroes (two types with which the former have a lot in common), and so forth. The legitimacy or significance of such constructions are not judged, even though anthropologists are continuously incited to do so, be it by the media (itself part of the field under analysis) or by colleagues from neighboring disciplines who do not have a clear view of how the topic is approached by anthropology.
The definition of sport entertained here is vital for demarcating the anthropological specificity. Although there are many others, the most frequent definition in contemporary literature, including the studies published here, draws on the work of Norbert Elias. For him, sports are competitive bodily practices invented by the British during the second half of the nineteenth century as a reconfiguration of games, fights, and other local practices. This rendition allows for a relatively precise cut separating modern competitive practices from those belonging to other times and places. Both share some correspondence, but never continuity as used to be assumed by traditional diffusionist historiography. As has been remarked by both Roger Chartier's introduction to Sport et Civilisation (French version of Quest for Excitement) and Christian Bromberger's 'sport' entry for the Dictionnaire d'Ethnologie et Anthropologie), Elias's definition strongly associates the emergence and diffusion of sports to the context of mid-nineteenth century Britain.
Indeed, Elias treats sport as more than a modality of body use. To classify certain practices as 'sportive' implies an acknowledgement of their connection to modern, civilized, disciplined, codified, spectacularized ideas. It is this set of ideas that marks the difference between boxing a sport and street fight only a fight , even if the bodily techniques involved are quite similar. Boxing has evolved into a sport from other kinds of fight, street fight certainly included. What makes it a sport is the fact that meaning is attributed to the dispute which encapsulates certain ethic and aesthetic values. The rules perform this function; to carry on the boxing example, they prevent the opponents from fighting to death. For Elias, sports, as other activities he calls mimetic, play a central role in the civilizing process inasmuch as they provide spaces for controlled tension in societies which tend to exclude "excitement" from most of its other dimensions. Sports rules therefore do not stand above the society that created them; they emerge along with enforcement agencies and a proper juridical system the so-called sports courts or tribunals that are specific to each sports modality. The public's desire of watching increasingly refined performances demands exclusive dedication from athletes, barring them from pursuing parallel activities, as was the case when amateurism was prevalent. Conventional patronage has declined in the West since its apogee in the Roman Empire today, the public itself pays the athletes, directly or indirectly. As in all business sectors, a sophisticated market system has been created around this basic exchange. In other words, the space of sports became more complex as it spread in a global scale and intersected with other economic, political, and religious spaces.
It is not possible to grasp the meanings of sports, with their manifold modalities and variations (think, for instance, of the various ways of practicing soccer), without taking the contemporary world's social and cultural complexity into account. Modernity, industrialization, laicization, and parlamentarization (as a mode of arbitrating conflicts based on verbal confrontation rather than war), Elias claimed, lay at the roots of the creation and dissemination of modern sports from nineteenth century England. Since then, sport has become at least partially autonomous. If a soccer team had been formerly compared to work at a factory, today it is the teamwork in collective sports that is used as a metaphor by business administrators, as Alain Erhenberg recalled in Le Culte de la Performance. Codification and rules have considerably changed the function and meaning of sports in the nineteenth century, just as mediatization and spectacularization have transformed it further along the twentieth century. Slowly, sports achieved its own sacralization itself a typically modern movement as in pre-modern contexts (above all, in traditional societies) fights and games were encompassed by other activities which also lent them meaning and significance, such as religious celebrations or preparation for warfare.
When sports first became autonomous during the early half of the twentieth century, criticisms also emerged. They intensified after World War II, when the sports industry flourished along with another phenomenon whose growth was also staggering, namely, the cultural industry. Influenced by certain Marxist currents such as the Frankfurt School, sports critics denounced abuses by certain political leaders, backed by the specialized media and the subservience of athletes and spectators. Such criticisms at times caustic and at others superficial, for ignoring the complexity of the social phenomenon or for their stereotypical use of certain concepts (such as alienation) had nonetheless fairly positive effects on disciplines such as physical education and education. In contrast to the engaged discourse of sports commentators and pundits, almost always ready to extol the value of sports, it has become increasingly common to find professional educators concerned about the excesses of the cult of high performance and its sequels: doping, extreme competition, violence, exclusion of amateurs (under the label of 'incapable'), and so forth. In countries such as France and Brazil, a significant number of (especially physical) education researchers have been circulating amidst social scientists. This has been productive for both. Some of the articles published in this issue of Horizontes Antropológicos exemplify this traffic across disciplines: besides been written by educators, their bibliographical references are indeed trans-disciplinary.
The appropriation of mass sports shows by sports executives and managers as well as professional politicians, always interested in great spectacles, has indeed influenced the Frankfurt-inspired sociology's position. Criticism of sports has not disappeared; it is being increasingly refined and less prone to blindly iterate previous dogmas such as that enjoyment of sports walks hand-by-hand with political alienation. For various reasons, among which its focus on peripheral or liminal phenomenon, ethnology has been more tolerant in its treatment of festivities and agonistic games. As shown by Paola Ricciardone's interesting review in Antropologia e Gioco, almost every classic ethnography has dedicated some attention to social forms resembling sports, be it for their function or meaning. Common examples include competitive or cooperative games, preparatory exercises for war, bodily suffering (especially those undergone by young men as part of rites of passage), and ludic activities in general.
Uses of the body as common in traditional societies as in modern sports were the object of interest by Marcel Mauss in the 1930's. Even though sports were not included in this classic and quite Durkheimian typology, Mauss's reflections nonetheless suggest that they may fall under the umbrella of his notion of bodily techniques. In Manual of Ethnography, Mauss asserted that sport is less a traditional and effective way of making use of one's own body than a particular technical domain to be studied from the perspective of material culture. Even though such debate could still be fruitful, it is more pressing to note that sports, along prophylaxis and bodily aesthetics, are key areas in which technologies of sacralization of the body have flourished. As a marathoner's effort whose goal is not to build up some material object but to provide a fleeting spectacle, almost a self-inflicted sacrifice , technologies of palliative care (or perhaps pure waste) reiterate that we are more than practical reason, as Marshall Sahlins would put it.
Moreover, the rise of the social sciences in Brazil has been deeply connected to anthropology's affairs, particularly the discipline's growing interest in urban groups since the seventies. Since soccer is such a pervading presence in the daily lives and imaginary of Brazilian urban working classes, it is no surprise that it has become a focus of redoubled interest. Pioneer studies by Roberto DaMatta, José Sérgio Leite Lopes and Simoni Guedes, among others, paved the way for an expanding wave of thesis and dissertations from the 1990's on. Conflicts between fan clubs, which lay at the origin of European sociological literature on soccer, have also been important in Brazil. Other common themes are relations between soccer and national identity (with a focus on the aesthetical dimensions of "art-soccer", the country's style of play), and the place of Blacks in this universe. In recent years, various studies have emerged inquiring into the training and transfer of players from Brazil to other countries (especially in Europe) in terms of debates about social and economic advancement, migration, human trafficking, exploitation of minors, and others. Taken together, these connect the anthropology of sports to other characteristic themes in the social sciences.
Horizontes Antropológicos regularly publishes in its Espaço Aberto section an interview or a piece by a renowned author. This time we did it threefold. This issue brings an interview with Eric Dunning, whose partnership with Norbert Elias has been mentioned with regards to this productive encounter and to how Elias's perspective is still relevant. Conducted, translated and presented by Édison Gastaldo, Dunning's interview is a petit bijou Horizontes offers its readers.
We are also publishing first-hand a French translation of Christian Bromberger's "Sportive practices and spectacles from the Perspective of Ethnology". Bromberger is one of the most influential anthropologists in the field of anthropology of sports. This is a modified version of a conference presented in October 2002 in Toulouse, France, during the First Congrès de la Société de Sociologie du Sport de la Langue Française. His piece, presented here by Arlei Damo, explores the contributions that studies on small-scale societies the expert niche of ethnology and ethnography may bring to an understanding of sports phenomena as they spread globally. Bromberger also argues from an inverted perspective, that is, what challenges sports present to anthropology.
To close the Espaço Aberto section on a high note, we have chosen a piece by Eduardo Archetti. In this case, it was about acknowledging and paying homage to this lively, generous and sensitive Argentinean anthropologist who adopted Norway as his second home and met an untimely death in 2005, at the height of his intellectual stamina. Given his contribution to the anthropology of sports, we could not fail to include Archetti in this section. Pablo Alabarces was trusted with introducing Archetti to the readers of Horizontes. In the article published here, Archetti deals with the pibe (boy) and potrero (field) as representational building blocks of Argentineaness by means of soccer. It highlights the centrality of representations about the "skilled boy" (personified by players such as Maradona, Ortega, Aimar, Messi, among others), the potreros (makeshift soccer fields also used as pasture), and the "creole" style (the way Argentineans represent their appropriation of soccer). This piece is an invitation to Archetti's oeuvre, which includes a classic not yet translated to Portuguese: Masculinities Football, Polo and the Tango in Argentina.
Even though the title of this Horizontes issue privileges the term 'sport', the reader will quickly notice that articles in this section all deal directly or indirectly with soccer. This is explained by the fact that soccer is an outstanding sport in terms of its broad diffusion and intersection with other kinds of social facts. For Brazilians and South Americans, soccer is not just a sport, and that is why there are more social scientists studying soccer than any other sport. This is also why it prevails in this issue of Horizontes. "Rodar: a circulação dos jogadores de futebol brasileiros no exterior" (Rodar: the circulation of Brazilian soccer players abroad) by Carmen Rial is the result of multi-sited ethnography among Brazilian players in different European countries, mainly Holland, Spain, and France. It is also of interest to those working on topics such as immigration, globalization, human markets, among others. Rial went after these expatriated athletes and their families in order to understand the ways their identities are reconfigured while abroad. Major highlights of her analysis are that most of them came from the popular classes (even though not from their poorest strata), and that their displacement from Brazil does not follow the kin and friendship networks so common among other immigrants.
Rial's player informants show quite peculiar profiles in terms of the broader soccer spectrum. They are successful athletes, even though not always pop stars. Besides earning wages much higher than the national average for both soccer players and other professionals from the popular classes, these athletes make up a select group which recognizes itself and is recognized as endowed with a 'gift' a category that has already deserved significant debate within anthropology. In "O dom de jogar bola" (The gift of playing soccer), Sérgio Giglio, Márcio Morato, Sérgio Stucchi and José Julio de Almeida draw on Mauss and other contemporary contributions to show that the gift is a basic category in the universe of soccer. Its meanings are attached to cosmologies that are broader than those attending to the coldness of technique and of high performance efficacy. Representations of the gift saturate sportive activities with magic and superstition so argue the authors of "O dom de jogar bola".
The distance is long however between the acknowledgment of a soccer gift by family and neighbors, and the polishing of such 'brute talent' in specialized centers and talent is indeed one, even though not the only, meaning of the gift. If this process is successful, the polished talent will revert into (sometimes huge) financial gains. This is a dream for many boys and a reality for only a few. And even the latter have all the profession's peculiarities to deal with, among which an inevitable early retirement. As other professionals whose bodies are the privileged locus of investment from which to make a living (such as prostitutes and models), soccer players live under the specter of exhausting such capital. From the time they turn 30 on a time when many other professionals are in fact beginning their careers after various specializing stages players "hang up their playing cleats". Not that they wish to "quit the ball"; it is rather "the ball that quits them", as they like to say. "Difícil reconversão: futebol, projeto e destino em meninos brasileiros" (Hard reconversion: soccer, project and destiny among Brazilian boys) deals not only with early retirement, but with cases in which, pressed by scarcity of supply or excess of demand, athletes are forced to reconvert while still within their projected career not rarely in its beginnings, as soon as their training is completed. In their contribution, Camilo de Souza, Alexandre Vaz, Tiago Lisboa and Antonio Jorge Soares tackle these questions drawing on fieldwork where they followed the trajectory of two boys, mates at a "soccer school" whose careers ended up meeting different outcomes.
From the players we move to the fans, and from Brazil to Argentina. In "El 'aguante' y las hinchadas argentinas: una relación violenta" (The aguante and Argentinean soccer fan clubs: a violent reaction"), Pablo Alabarces, José Garriga Zucal and María Verónica Moreira discuss, based on long-term ethnography, the native category aguante common among Argentinean soccer fans. El aguante is a native term denoting a moral and aesthetic attitude that distinguishes and specifies the way of being of certain fan clubs. They claim to sustain a disposition to fight, be it for the team they support or against fans from other clubs or (even regularly) against the state repressive apparatus. Avoiding the prejudices and stereotypes commonly attached to these fans, the authors seek to unveil the political uses and meanings of such combative attitude. In this sense, the manifestation of aguante is understood as a performance aimed at affirming certain belongings which are not limited to soccer. These would include, for instance, a connection between the aguante and (popular) class dispositions, or its relation with broader cosmologies such as certain representations of traditional masculinity.
Also doing fieldwork among Argentinean hinchas (fans), Gastón Gil discusses the role of club managers in the escalation of soccer disputes. "La pasión según Aldosivi el 'otro' y los combates por la identidad" (The passion according to Aldosivi the 'other' and struggles for identity) presents a dispute between fans of two clubs in Argentina's third-division league. Their teams' low ranking does not prevent fans from investing intense physical and mental energy in elaborating strategies to publicly affirm their differences. Gastón Gil goes on to argue that the managers play a key role in mobilizing fanatic groups for disputes which are banal in their motivations but often severe in their consequences, even though managers themselves are rarely involved directly in such conflicts.
In contrast to the other contributions, Enrico Spaggiari approaches community soccer, in some quarters known as várzea and in others as amateur soccer. "Ganhar jogo, pagar jogo e ganhar visita: prática futebolística em um bairro rural" (To win the game, pay the game, and receive a visit: soccer practices in a rural neighborhood) probes into the sociability of soccer an aspect understudied by a research field that has so far been concentrated on its spectacularized or urban manifestations. Drawing on fieldwork in a rural neighborhood of São Bento do Sapucaí, São Paulo State, Spaggiari unearths the local codes guiding reciprocity in the community soccer circuit. The permute of matches, which commits the local team to pay back the visit, is vital not only for the maintenance of such circuit, but to provide leisure in areas that lack entertainment options. In this context, the ludic dimension of events made possible by the permute of matches is equally or more important than the competitive aspect.
Finally, Luiz Henrique de Toledo glosses the football association's rules from the perspective of some of anthropology's classic approaches of structuralist, structural-functionalist, and configurational inspirations. "Jogo livre: analogias em torno das 17 regras do futebol" (Free play: analogies around soccer's seventeen rules) shows how rules which together account for the stability of the dispute and for the aesthetic configuration of the game by restricting certain uses of the body, have distinct logics which may be grouped according to "anthropo-logic" or "socio-logic" perspectives. In other words, more than a set of codes aimed at leveling the contenders' playing field, rules reflect certain ethic and aesthetic codes. When it is suggested that referees be more rigorous when penalizing foul play, or that new rules be created for that end, an adjustment is being made in the competitive dynamics to certain sensitivity patters of the broader society. Conversely, when referees are oriented to avoid penalizing for certain infringements so that the game may "flow better" or "be less interrupted", a change in the game's dynamics is being proposed that is consequential for aesthetic patterns a clear sign that we are increasingly less tolerant toward wasting time. To think about why and for what end sports rules were elaborated may be indeed a good anthropological exercise, as Toledo shows.
The group of papers assembled here naturally does not intend to provide a final answer to the questions raised by sports, but it does aim at contributing to render such questions more complex. The ground gained during the last couple of decades by the increasing quantity and quality of research has guaranteed to sports in general, and soccer in particular, space for debate in national and Latin-American academic forums such as the ABA (Brazilian Anthropological Association), RAM (Mercosul Meeting of Anthropology), ANPUH (Brazilian History Association), ANPOCS (Brazilian Association for Graduate Studies and Research in Social Sciences), SBS (Brazilian Sociological Society), ALAS (Latin American Sociological Association), among others. But there are still challenges to be faced. The first is perhaps the continuance of such forums and of their trans-disciplinary character, without losing sight of dialogue with the disciplines' specificities, including their respective expertises. It is impossible to advance our understanding of a sportive field if its relations for instance to politics, art, religion and the economy are downplayed. A second challenge is to cross national and South-American borders in order to tighten relations with the international production. A third would be to broaden the array of questions, encouraging research on other sports and even on other soccers.
Sports are widely known as an opportunity for fantastic images, captured by increasingly sophisticated cameras. But instead of the realism of such images, we preferred to use as our cover theme Candido Portinari, one of the masters of Brazilian painting. The painting Soccer is one among the many Portinari has dedicated to the ludic and festive world of child play. Even if sports have incorporated the lexicon of the market, science, labor and so many other fields customary to adult seriousness, it is worth recalling that athletic performances are aimed at the entertainment, excitement, and sociability of their publics. Few images could better express the idea that sports are an aesthetic production, geared toward the satisfaction of symbolic needs.
1 This article was written as the introduction to number 30 of Horizontes Antropoológicos published in 2008.


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A parking lot greeter in our church expressed that concern: "We've got to figure out how to actually connect every guest with another person. Our polite hellos or glad-you-cames just aren't adequate."
Why not challenge every member of your church to use these tips to connect with guests:
1) Make a personal commitment to intentionally "connect" with one guest every Sunday. Ask God to make you aware of visitors. Be diligently alert -- in the parking lot, foyer, nursery, hallway, worship service -- to notice them. If you accidentally welcome someone who isn't a guest, no problem -- you've found a new friend.
2) Once you've met a newcomer, pray for God's guidance. Smile, greet the guest warmly and introduce yourself. Pay careful attention to the person's name. Repeat it. Write it down. You will want to speak his or her name the next time you see each other.
3) Chat casually and purposefully. You may ask, "Is this your first time to worship here?" Ask nonintrusive questions such as, "Did you just move to town?" or "What brought you to church today?" Warning: Never ask, "Are you a native here?" That reeks of cliquism that can leave guests feeling they aren't welcome unless they're from your town.
4) As you chat, listen carefully to find things you have in common. Most importantly, offer friendship. Make a plan to get together during the week. For example: Invite them to join you for lunch, meet for coffee or be your guest at an upcoming church event.
5) Give guests your email or phone number and ask for their contact info. Call them Tuesday to remind them of the kids' Wednesday program or on Saturday to say, "I hope you come back again tomorrow. I'll save you a seat."
6) Help the guest connect with at least one other person at church. As you converse, think of someone who has a common interest, such as children's ages, similar life stage, employment, neighborhood, hobbies or background. Then make the introduction.
7) Say these words before the guest departs: "We want you here!"
I listened as two young couples bemoaned their search for a church home. Both had researched and visited multiple churches when they moved to a new city. They'd been welcomed, but not connected. One stated, "If just one person would invite us for coffee or show any true interest in us, we'd definitely join!" When we don't bother to make true connections, we can exclude guests.
Jesus said, "I was a stranger and you welcomed me." As God brings guests to your church, will you intentionally connect with them? Eternity will be impacted.
Diana Davis is the author of "Fresh Ideas" and "Deacon Wives" (B&H Publishing) and wife of North American Mission Board Vice President for the South Region Steve Davis. Get Baptist Press headlines and breaking news on Twitter (@BaptistPress), Facebook (Facebook.com/BaptistPress) and in your email (baptistpress.com/SubscribeBP.asp).
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A gang of rapists who savagely assaulted a woman on a bus in New Delhi last month tried to run her over after the attack which left her fatally injured, reports said yesterday, citing a police account of the incident.
Her boyfriend, who was beaten up and thrown off the bus after the woman had been repeatedly raped, managed to pull her to safety just in time, police are set to allege in a 1,000-page charge sheet to be presented in court today.
The 23-year-old female medical student, whose ordeal has brought simmering anger about widespread sex crime in India to the boil, bit three of her attackers as she attempted to fight them off, local newspapers and TV reports said.
These injuries on the suspects, as well as forensic evidence such as blood, semen and hair samples and the testimony of the injured boyfriend, are expected to form the main evidence against the accused, reports and police sources said.
Five men have been arrested and are expected to formally face murder and rape charges today in a fast-track court set up to try them.
Indian Home Minister Sushilkumar Shinde said on Tuesday that the suspects risked the death penalty if found guilty and the case against them appeared very strong.
A sixth suspect is thought to be aged 17, meaning he would face a juveniles' court, but he is undergoing a bone test to determine his age, a spokesman in the Delhi police control room told reporters.
"The woman and her friend were stripped and thrown out of the bus," the Indian Express reported on Tuesday. "Her friend pulled her away when he saw the bus reversing to run her over."
The Times of India newspaper said the charge sheet was likely to begin with details on how the driver of the private vehicle, who allegedly took part in the rape, got his group of friends together and set out for a joyride.
One of the charges against the accused relates to the destruction of evidence, the paper said, since the driver had tried to wash the bus and had burned the clothes that were snatched from the victim.
The woman died at the weekend after a 13-day struggle to survive injuries so grievous that her intestines had to be removed. She also underwent three major surgeries and suffered a cardiac arrest before being flown to Singapore.
The brutality and horrific nature of the attack has led to protests in the capital and elsewhere, and has prompted calls for the death penalty for the rapists.
Meanwhile, lawyers hearing the case at the Saket District Court in south New Delhi said they would refuse to defend the men accused of taking part in the assault and murder.
"We have decided that no lawyer will stand up to defend the rape accused as it would be immoral to defend the case," said Sanjay Kumar, a lawyer and a member of the Saket District Bar Council.
Kumar said the 2,500 advocates registered at the court have decided to "stay away" to ensure "speedy justice," meaning the government would have to appoint lawyers for the defendants. Another lawyer at the court confirmed the boycott.
In 2008, Indian lawyers also refused to defend a gunman who took part in attacks on Mumbai which killed 166 people, leaving him with a government-appointed lawyer. He was executed in November last year.
The government, which has faced a wave of public anger over the rape, on Tuesday set up a special 13-member committee to look into safety issues and review the functioning of Delhi police on a regular basis.