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Gideon pacifies the Ephraimites. (1-3) Succoth and Penuel refuse to relieve Gideon. (4-12) Succoth and Penuel punished. (13-17) Gideon avenges his brethren. (18-21) Gideon declines the government, but given occasion for idolatry. (22-28) Gideon's death, Israel's ingratitude. (29-35)
Verses 1-3 Those who will not attempt or venture any thing in the cause of God, will be the most ready to censure and quarrel with such as are of a more zealous and enterprising spirit. And those who are the most backward to difficult services, will be the most angry not to have the credit of them. Gideon stands here as a great example of self-denial; and shows us that envy is best removed by humility. The Ephraimites had given vent to their passion in very wrong freedom of speech, a certain sign of a weak cause: reason runs low when chiding flies high.
Verses 4-12 Gideon's men were faint, yet pursuing; fatigued with what they had done, yet eager to do more against their enemies. It is many a time the true Christian's case, fainting, and yet pursuing. The world knows but little of the persevering and successful struggle the real believer maintains with his sinful heart. But he betakes himself to that Divine strength, in the faith of which he began his conflict, and by the supply of which alone he can finish it in triumph.
Verses 13-17 The active servants of the Lord meet with more dangerous opposition from false professors than from open enemies; but they must not care for the behaviour of those who are Israelites in name, but Midianites in heart. They must pursue the enemies of their souls, and of the cause of God, though they are ready to faint through inward conflicts and outward hardships. And they shall be enabled to persevere. The less men help, and the more they seek to hinder, the more will the Lord assist. Gideon's warning being slighted, the punishment was just. Many are taught with the briers and thorns of affliction, who would not learn otherwise.
Verses 18-21 The kings of Midian must be reckoned with. As they confessed themselves guilty of murder, Gideon acted as the avenger of blood, being the next of kin to the persons slain. Little did they think to have heard of this so long after; but murder seldom goes unpunished in this life. Sins long forgotten by man, must be accounted for to God. What poor consolation in death from the hope of suffering less pain, and of dying with less disgrace than some others! yet many are more anxious on these accounts, than concerning the future judgment, and what will follow.
Verses 22-28 Gideon refused the government the people offered him. No good man can be pleased with any honour done to himself, which belongs only to God. Gideon thought to keep up the remembrance of this victory by an ephod, made of the choicest of the spoils. But probably this ephod had, as usual, a teraphim annexed to it, and Gideon intended this for an oracle to be consulted. Many are led into false ways by one false step of a good man. It became a snare to Gideon himself, and it proved the ruin of the family. How soon will ornaments which feed the lust of the eye, and form the pride of life, as well as tend to the indulgences of the flesh, bring shame on those who are fond of them!
Verses 29-35 As soon as Gideon was dead, who kept the people to the worship of the God of Israel, they found themselves under no restraint; then they went after Baalim, and showed no kindness to the family of Gideon. No wonder if those who forget their God, forget their friends. Yet conscious of our own ingratitude to the Lord, and observing that of mankind in general, we should learn to be patient under any unkind returns we meet with for our poor services, and resolve, after the Divine example, not to be overcome of evil, but to overcome evil with good.
Judges 8:1-9 . THE EPHRAIMITES OFFENDED, BUT PACIFIED.
1. the men of Ephraim said unto him, Why hast thou served us thus?--Where this complaint was made, whether before or after the crossing of the Jordan, cannot be determined. By the overthrow of the national enemy, the Ephraimites were benefited as largely as any of the other neighboring tribes. But, piqued at not having been sharers in the glory of the victory, their leading men could not repress their wounded pride; and the occasion only served to bring out an old and deep-seated feeling of jealous rivalry that subsisted between the tribes ( Isaiah 9:21 ). The discontent was groundless, for Gideon acted according to divine directions. Besides, as their tribe was conterminous with that of Gideon, they might, had they been really fired with the flame of patriotic zeal, have volunteered their services in a movement against the common enemy.
2, 3. he said unto them, What have I done now in comparison of you?--His mild and truly modest answer breathes the spirit of a great as well as good man, who was calm, collected, and self-possessed in the midst of most exciting scenes. It succeeded in throwing oil on the troubled waters ( Proverbs 16:1 ), and no wonder, for in the height of generous self-denial, it ascribes to his querulous brethren a greater share of merit and glory than belonged to himself ( 1 Corinthians 13:4 , Philippians 2:3 ).
4. Gideon came to Jordan, and passed over--much exhausted, but eager to continue the pursuit till the victory was consummated.
5. he said unto the men of Succoth--that is, a place of tents or booths. The name seems to have been applied to the whole part of the Jordan valley on the west, as well as on the east side of the river, all belonging to the tribe of Gad (compare Genesis 33:17 , 1 Kings 7:46 ; with Joshua 13:27 ). Being engaged in the common cause of all Israel, he had a right to expect support and encouragement from his countrymen everywhere.
6. the princes of Succoth said, Are the hands of Zebah and Zalmunna now in thine hand--an insolent as well as a time-serving reply. It was insolent because it implied a bitter taunt that Gideon was counting with confidence on a victory which they believed he would not gain; and it was time-serving, because living in the near neighborhood of the Midianite sheiks, they dreaded the future vengeance of those roving chiefs. This contumelious manner of acting was heartless and disgraceful in people who were of Israelitish blood.
7. I will tear your flesh with the thorns of the wilderness and with briers--a cruel torture, to which captives were often subjected in ancient times, by having thorns and briers placed on their naked bodies and pressed down by sledges, or heavy implements of husbandry being dragged over them.
8. he went up thence to Penuel, and spake unto them likewise--a neighboring city, situated also in the territory of Gad, near the Jabbok, and honored with this name by Jacob ( Genesis 32:30 Genesis 32:31 ).
9. he spake . . ., When I come again in peace, I will break down this tower--Intent on the pursuit, and afraid of losing time, he postponed the merited vengeance till his return. His confident anticipation of a triumphant return evinces the strength of his faith; and his specific threat was probably provoked by some proud and presumptuous boast, that in their lofty watchtower the Penuelites would set him at defiance.
Judges 8:10-27 . ZEBAH AND ZALMUNNA TAKEN.
10. Now Zebah and Zalmunna were in Karkor--a town on the eastern confines of Gad. The wreck of the Midianite army halted there.
11. Gideon went up by the way of them that dwelt in tents on the east--He tracked the fugitives across the mountain range of Gilead to the northeast of the Jabbok, and there came upon them unexpectedly while they were resting secure among their own nomadic tribes. Jogbehah is supposed to be Ramoth-gilead; and, therefore, the Midianites must have found refuge at or near Abela, "Abel-cheramim," "the plain of the vineyards."
12. when Zebah and Zalmunna fled, he pursued after them--A third conflict took place. His arrival at their last quarters, which was by an unwonted path, took the fugitives by surprise, and the conquest of the Midianite horde was there completed.
13. Gideon returned from battle before the sun was up--He seems to have returned by a nearer route to Succoth, for what is rendered in our version "before the sun was up," means "the heights of Heres, the sun-hills."
14. he described--wrote the names of the seventy princes or elders. It was from them he had received so inhospitable a treatment.
16. he took . . . the thorns of the wilderness and briers, and with them he taught the men of Succoth--By refusing his soldiers refreshment, they had committed a public crime, as well as an act of inhumanity, and were subjected to a horrible punishment, which the great abundance and remarkable size of the thorn bushes, together with the thinness of clothing in the East, has probably suggested.
18. Then said he unto Zebah and Zalmunna, What manner of men were they whom ye slew at Tabor?--This was one of the countless atrocities which the Midianite chiefs had perpetrated during their seven years' lawless occupancy. It is noticed now for the first time when their fate was about to be determined.
each one resembled the children of a king--An Orientalism for great beauty, majesty of appearance, uncommon strength, and grandeur of form.
19. They were my brethren, even the sons of my mother--That is, uterine brothers; but, in all countries where polygamy prevails, "the son of my mother" implies a closeness of relationship and a warmth of affection never awakened by the looser term, "brother."
20. he said unto Jether his first-born, Up, and slay them--The nearest of kin was the blood-avenger; but a magistrate might order any one to do the work of the executioner; and the person selected was always of a rank equal or proportioned to that of the party doomed to suffer ( 1 Kings 2:29 ). Gideon intended, then, by the order to Jether, to put an honor on his son, by employing him to slay two enemies of his country; and on the youth declining, he performed the bloody deed himself.
22, 23. the men of Israel said unto Gideon, Rule thou over us . . . Gideon said unto them, the Lord shall rule over you--Their unbounded admiration and gratitude prompted them, in the enthusiasm of the moment, to raise their deliverer to a throne, and to establish a royal dynasty in his house. But Gideon knew too well, and revered too piously the principles of the theocracy, to entertain the proposal for a moment. Personal and family ambition was cheerfully sacrificed to a sense of duty, and every worldly motive was kept in check by a supreme regard to the divine honor. He would willingly act as judge, but the Lord alone was King of Israel.
24-26. Gideon said unto them, I would desire a request of you--This was the contribution of an earring (singular). As the ancient Arabians (Ishmaelites and Midianites being synonymous terms, Genesis 37:25 Genesis 37:28 ) were gorgeously adorned with barbaric pearl and gold, an immense amount of such valuable booty had fallen into the hands of the Israelitish soldiers. The contribution was liberally made, and the quantity of gold given to him equalled about $25,000 in to-day's measure.
26. ornaments--crescent-like plates of gold suspended from the necks, or placed on the breasts of the camels.
collars--rather, "earrings," or drops of gold or pearl.
purple--a royal color. The ancient, as well as modern Arabs, adorned the necks, breasts, and legs, of their riding animals with sumptuous housing.
27. Gideon made an ephod thereof, and put it in his city, . . . Ophrah--That no idolatrous use was in view, nor any divisive course from Shiloh contemplated, is manifest from Judges 8:33 . Gideon proposed, with the gold he received, to make an ephod for his use only as a civil magistrate or ruler, as David did ( 1 Chronicles 15:27 ), and a magnificent pectoral or breastplate also. It would seem, from the history, that he was not blamable in making this ephod, as a civil robe or ornament merely, but that it afterward became an object to which religious ideas were attached; whereby it proved a snare, and consequently an evil, by perversion, to Gideon and his house [TAYLOR, Fragments].
Judges 8:28 . MIDIAN SUBDUED.
28. Thus was Midian subdued before the children of Israel--This invasion of the Arab hordes into Canaan was as alarming and desolating as the irruption of the Huns into Europe. It was the severest scourge ever inflicted upon Israel; and both it and the deliverance under Gideon lived for centuries in the minds of the people ( Psalms 83:11 ).


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The taking of Jerusalem. (1-10) Jeremiah used well. (11-14) Promises of safety to Ebed-melech. (15-18)
Verses 1-10 Jerusalem was so strong, that the inhabitants believed the enemy could never enter it. But sin provoked God to withdraw his protection, and then it was as weak as other cities. Zedekiah had his eyes put out; so he was condemned to darkness who had shut his eyes against the clear light of God's word. Those who will not believe God's words, will be convinced by the event. Observe the wonderful changes of Providence, how uncertain are earthly possessions; and see the just dealings of Providence: but whether the Lord makes men poor or rich, nothing will profit them while they cleave to their sins.
Verses 11-14 The servants of God alone are prepared for all events; and they are delivered and comforted, while the wicked suffer. They often meet with more kindness from the profane, than from hypocritical professors of godliness. The Lord will raise them up friends, do them good, and perform all his promises.
Verses 15-18 Here is a message to assure Ebed-melech of a recompence for his great kindness to Jeremiah. Because thou hast put thy trust in me, saith the Lord. God recompenses men's services according to their principles. Those who trust God in the way of duty, as this good man did, will find that their hope shall not fail in times of the greatest danger.
Jeremiah 39:1-18 . JERUSALEM TAKEN. ZEDEKIAH'S FATE. JEREMIAH CARED FOR. EBED-MELECH ASSURED.
This chapter consists of two parts: the first describes the capture of Jerusalem, the removal of the people to Babylon, and the fate of Zedekiah, and that of Jeremiah. The second tells of the assurance of safety to Ebed-melech.
1. ninth year . . . tenth month--and on the tenth day of it ( Jeremiah 52:4 , 2 Kings 25:1-4 ). From Jeremiah 39:2 , "eleventh year . . . fourth month . . . ninth day," we know the siege lasted one and a half years, excepting the suspension of it caused by Pharaoh. Nebuchadnezzar was present in the beginning of the siege, but was at Riblah at its close ( Jeremiah 39:3 Jeremiah 39:6 ; compare Jeremiah 38:17 ).
3. sat--expressing military occupation or encampment.
middle gate--the gate from the upper city (comprehending Mount Zion) to the lower city (north of the former and much lower); it was into the latter (the north side) that the Chaldeans forced an entry and took up their position opposite the gate of the "middle" wall, between the lower and upper city. Zedekiah fled in the opposite, that is, the south direction ( Jeremiah 39:4 ).
Nergalsharezer, Samgarnebo--proper names formed from those of the idols, Nergal and Nebo ( 2 Kings 17:30 , Isaiah 46:1 ).
Rab-saris--meaning "chief of the eunuchs."
Rab-mag--chief of the magi; brought with the expedition in order that its issue might be foreknown through his astrological skill. Mag is a Persian word, meaning "great," "powerful." The magi were a sacerdotal caste among the Medes, and supported the Zoroastrian religion.
4. the king's garden--The "gate" to it from the upper, city above was appropriated to the kings alone; stairs" led down from Mount Zion and the palace to the king's garden below ( Nehemiah 3:15 ).
two walls--Zedekiah might have held the upper city longer, but want of provisions drove him to flee by the double wall south of Zion, towards the plains of Jericho ( Jeremiah 39:5 ), in order to escape beyond Jordan to Arabia-Deserta. He broke an opening in the wall to get out ( Ezekiel 12:12 ).
5. Riblah--north of Palestine (see Jeremiah 1:14 , Numbers 34:11 ). Hamath is identified by commentators with Antioch, in Syria, on the Orontes, called Epiphania, from Antiochus Epiphanes.
gave judgment upon him--literally, "spake judgments with him," that is, .brought him to trial as a common criminal, not as a king. He had violated his oath ( Ezekiel 17:13-19 2 Chronicles 36:13 ).
6. slew . . . sons . . . before his eyes--previous to his eyes being "put out" ( Jeremiah 39:7 ); literally, "dug out." The Assyrian sculptures depict the delight with which the kings struck out, often with their own hands, the eyes of captive princes. This passage reconciles Jeremiah 32:4 , "his eyes shall behold his eyes"; with Ezekiel 12:13 , "he shall not see Babylon, though he shall die there."
slew all . . . nobles--( Jeremiah 27:20 ).
8. burned . . . the houses--( Jeremiah 52:12 Jeremiah 52:13 ). Not immediately after the taking of the city, but in the month after, namely, the fifth month (compare Jeremiah 39:2 ). The delay was probably caused by the princes having to send to Riblah to know the king's pleasure as to the city.
9. remnant--excepting the poorest ( Jeremiah 39:10 ), who caused Nebuchadnezzar no apprehensions.
those . . . that fell to him--the deserters were distrusted; or they may have been removed at their own request, lest the people should vent their rage on them as traitors, after the departure of the Chaldeans.
rest . . . that remained--distinct from the previous "remnant"; there he means the remnant of those besieged in the city, whom Nebuchadnezzar spared; here, those scattered through various districts of the country which had not been besieged [CALVIN].
10. left . . . the poor . . . which had nothing--The poor have least to lose; one of the providential compensations of their lot. They who before had been stripped of their possessions by the wealthier Jews obtain, not only their own, but those of others.
11. Jeremiah's prophecies were known to Nebuchadnezzar through deserters ( Jeremiah 39:9 , 38:19 ), also through the Jews carried to Babylon with Jeconiah (compare Jeremiah 40:2 ). Hence the king's kindness to him.
12. look well to him--Hebrew, "set thine eyes upon him"; provide for his well-being.
13. Nebuzara-dan . . . sent--He was then at Ramah ( Jeremiah 40:1 ).
14. Gedaliah--son of Ahikam, the former supporter of Jeremiah ( Jeremiah 26:24 ). Gedaliah was the chief of the deserters to the Chaldeans, and was set over the remnant in Judea as one likely to remain faithful to Nebuchadnezzar. His residence was at Mizpah ( Jeremiah 40:5 ).
home--the house of Gedaliah, wherein Jeremiah might remain as in a safe asylum. As in Jeremiah 40:1 Jeremiah is represented as "bound in chains" when he came to Ramah among the captives to be carried to Babylon, this release of Jeremiah is thought by MAURER to be distinct from that in Jeremiah 40:5 Jeremiah 40:6 . But he seems first to have been released from the court of the prison and to have been taken to Ramah, still in chains, and then committed in freedom to Gedaliah.
dwelt among the people--that is, was made free.
15-18. Belonging to the time when the city was not yet taken, and when Jeremiah was still in the court of the prison ( Jeremiah 38:13 ). This passage is inserted here because it was now that Ebed-melech's good act ( Jeremiah 38:7-12 , Matthew 25:43 ) was to be rewarded in his deliverance.
16. Go--not literally, for he was in confinement, but figuratively.
before thee--in thy sight.
17. the men of whom thou art afraid--( Jeremiah 38:1 Jeremiah 38:4-6 ). The courtiers and princes hostile to thee for having delivered Jeremiah shall have no power to hurt. Heretofore intrepid, he was now afraid; this prophecy was therefore the more welcome to him.
18. life . . . for a
put . . . trust in me--( Jeremiah 38:7-9 ). Trust in God was the root of his fearlessness of the wrath of men, in his humanity to the prophet ( 1 Chronicles 5:20 , Psalms 37:40 ). The "life" he thus risked was to be his reward, being spared beyond all hope, when the lives of his enemies should be forfeited ("for a prey").

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Exhibition Paper workshop of Côme Perché at the Horta Museum in Brussels – from 16 May to 1 June 2014
The Horta Museum chose to invite, for Artists Tour, Côme Perché who gives a poetic interpretation of the nature using paper-folding. He makes use of all qualities of the paper's fibre to create a world superbly stylized and intensely alive that human, animals or plants figures occupy. The creations of Côme Perché find themselves next to plaster models of plants of the XIXth century, shells or stuffed insects. The whole installation aims to awaken children's fantasy, as well as reaching adults by its singular beauties.
Exhibition in the framework of Artists Tour Saint-Gilles & Forest under the patronage of M. Charles Picqué President of the asbl (association) Musée Horta and Burgomaster of Saint-Gilles
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European Night of Museums – 17 May 2014
Enjoy the European Night of Museums next Saturday 17 mai to discover or rediscover the Museums members of our Network!
The Musée de l'Ecole de Nancy and the Villa Majorelle offer especially a varied and interesting programme not to be missed: presentation of an educational project realized with school classes, a guided Majorelle tour, the exhibition "The artists of the Ecole de Nancy and the First World War" and many more… Free entrance!
Intervention of the RANN as a Cultural Route of the Council of Europe in Forlì – 12 May 2014
Recently certified as a Cultural Route of the Council of Europe, the Réseau Art Nouveau Network participates on 12 May 2014 to the conference "How to create an ATRIUM tourist product steps forward" organised by another Cultural Route, Architecture of Totalitarian Regimes in Urban Managements (ATRIUM).
A great occasion to visit the exhibition "Liberty a style for modern Italy" at the Musei San Domenico in Forli until 15 June 2014! The Savings Bank Foundation of Forlì, in collaboration with the Municipality of Forlì offers once again an innovative interpretation of an extraordinary period in the history of Italian art, the Liberty style.
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Travelling exhibition The Nature of Art Nouveau 1 at the Kunstmuseet KUBE in Ålesund – from 22 March to 10 May 2014 - LAST DAYS!
Organised by the Réseau Art Nouveau Network in the framework of the European project "Art Nouveau & Ecology" (2010-2015) supported by the Culture 2007-2013 programme of the European Commission, the exhibition comprises two identical concurrent exhibitions and has begun its journey to all partner cities in October 2013.
After Helsinki, the exhibition The Nature of Art Nouveau will be presented in Ålesund at the Kunstmuseet KUBE, second step of its European journey, from 22 March 2013 until 10 May 2014.
This exhibition is free and bilingual Norwegian-English.
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The double of the exhibition "The Nature of Art Nouveau" 2 will be presented in Terrassa at the Sala Muncunill from 9 May 2014!
12th Modernista Fair in Terrassa – from 10 to 11 May 2014
The great holiday of the modernism in Catalonia
You will relive through Terrassa and Catalonia of 1900 in a week-end full of activities.
The second weekend of May
The Terrassa Modernista Fair - Fira Modernista - has become one of Catalonia's leading tourism events, and in May each year it offers more than 100,000 visitors a weekend full of cultural and culinary events, activities for kids, shows, exhibitions etc. It is the great annual Modernisme festival in Catalonia and has become the shop window for a period which has left a lasting impression on Catalan character and landscapes through the arts, architecture and industry. Terrassa has preserved and enhanced some extraordinary architectural heritage and is one of the Catalan, Spanish and European capitals of industrial Modernisme.
Circus - Art and craft fair – Gastronomy - Street shows – Dance – Concerts - Tourism routes Carnival giants - Children's activities - Classic cars - Puppets – Music… in the historical centre of the city.
More information: Town Hall of Terrassa - Tourist Office Raval de Montserrat, 14 - 08221 Terrassa Téléphone: + 34 93 739 7019 E-mail: firstname.lastname@example.com Website: www.visitaterrassa.cat or www.terrassa.cat/turisme
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Do not miss the guided tours about Joaquim Vancells on 10 and 11 May!
Exhibition The Splendour of Old Europe at the Sprudelhof in Bad Nauheim – from 2 May bis 1 June 2014
Art Nouveau Architecture in Detail
On Friday 2. May 2014 the Jugendstilverein Bad Nauheim has opened the photo exhibition "The Splendour of Old Europe" in Bathhouse 3, Sprudelhof Bad Nauheim.
The exhibition shows works of Prof Peter Schubert, photographer, author and curator and, until 2013, press spokesman, publisher director and curator in Stift Klosterneuburg, Vienna. The images are a selection of the artists extensive picture archive, which came into being during his frequent journeys through European countries and cities influenced by Art Nouveau, as for instance Prague, Budapest, Bratislava, but also in Lower Austria.
Peter Schubert, a specialist for the period about 1900 edited 56 books with photographs.
The exhibition is open from 3. May until 1. June, Tuesday to Friday from 14.00 – 18.00 , Saturday and Sunday from 11.00 – 18.00 in bathhouse 3, Sprudelhof, Bad Nauheim
A new presentation for the MNAC in Barcelona – September 2014
The 19th- and 20th-century gallery rooms at the Museu Nacional d´Art de Catalunya (MNAC) are closed to the public since 1 April 2014 to undergo a period of museum refurbishment work that will culminate with a new look presentation for the works by the end of September.
This new presentation will extend to the 1950s and cast more of a critical and complex eye on all artistic production work from the period: photography, posters, film, architecture, the decorative arts, sculpture and painting, with greater focus on the rooms dedicated to Modernisme, the International Exposition of 1929, the 1930s and the Civil War.
A selection of masterpieces from the period will be on display in MNAC´s temporary exhibition hall from 17 June to 31 August 2014. Source: Art Nouveau European Route
Reopening to the public of The Casa Vicens in Barcelona in 2016
Casa Vicens, located in Carrer de les Carolines in Barcelona´s Gràcia district, will open its doors to the public in 2016. The major Andorran banking firm MoraBanc recently purchased the building and plans to turn it into a house-museum after its restoration.
Casa Vicens was the first important commission that Antoni Gaudí i Cornet received in 1883, shortly after completing his architectural studies. The opening of the building, declared a National Heritage Cultural Site, will mark the recovery of another Modernista gem for the city of Barcelona.
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Travelling exhibition The Nature of Art Nouveau 2 in Nancy – from 20 December 2013 to 13 April 2014 - Last days!
After Brussels, the exhibition "The Nature of Art Nouveau" is presented in Nancy at the Palais du Gouvernement, second step of its European journey, from 20 December 2013 until 13 April 2014 and is accompanied with the exhibition "Florilège" (Anthology) from Nancy.
Nature was the major inspiration source of Art Nouveau at the end of the 19th century. Through all over Europe blows a new creative wind. In Nancy, the naturalistic inspiration peaks in the poetic creations of Gallé, Daum, Prouvé, Majorelle… "The Nature of Art Nouveau" evokes the sources and the development of this inspiration trough European examples, and "Florilège" (Anthology) illustrates by new pieces the vision of Nancy…
Do not miss the last days of the exhibitions in Nancy and the great closing week-end with lots of surprises on 13 and 14 April 2014! Programme of the closin week-end in French
These two exhibitions will be both free and bilingual French-English.
More information about the exhibition The Nature of Art Nouveau More information about the exhibition Florilège Press pack of the exhibition The Nature of Art Nouveau in French and English Press pack of the exhibition Florilège Poster of the exhibitions Do not forget that the double of the exhibition "The Nature of Art Nouveau" is presented in Alesund since 22 March until 10 May 2014!
Exhibition Florilège (Anthology) at the Palais du Gouvernement in Nancy – from 20 December 2013 to 13 April 2014
"Florilège" is a selection of pieces coming from the main artists in Nancy, with as common point a decor inspired by nature. It illustrates by examples from Nancy the intention developed in the exhibition "The Nature of Art Nouveau" organized by the Réseau Art Nouveau Network, thanks to an interlocked scenography created by Gaetano Sposimo, from the Idéa Viva company (Paris).
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Exhibition Art Nouveau in the Treasuries of Subotica at the Municipal Museum in Subotica – until April 2014
The temporary exhibition of the Municipal Museum of Subotica titled "Art Nouveau in the Treasuries of Subotica" presents art nouveau painting, sculpture, applied art, handicraft and industrial products from public collections of Subotica on an exhibition area of 200 m2. It intends to call attention to Art Nouveau objects preserved in public collections of the town, as well as to highlight the fact that the art nouveau style should not be noticed only in the monuments of architectural heritage in Subotica.
The centenary of finishing the construction of the Art Nouveau Town Hall designed by Marcell Komor (1868–1944) and Dezső Jakab (1864–1932) served as the occasion for preparing the exhibition in September 2012. This exhibition covers all the phases of Art Nouveau: the early period (from 1890's to the turn of the 19th and 20th century), the mature (1900–1914) and the late (from 1914 to 1930's) phases of the style.
The objects are presented within several smaller subject matters: characteristic items of male and female spheres of middle-class homes (fashion, bringing up children, personal hygiene, collections – okimono from Japan, medals –, the culture of reading, listening to music, concept of spare time, relaxation, engagement in fine arts, photography), as well as several characteristic scenes and phenomena of public life (coffee-house, cinema, concerts, Japanese fashion, spa life in Palić etc.).
The exhibition is open to visitors until April 2014.
Cycle of lectures Oficis del Modernisme at MMCAT in Barcelona – from 26 February to 14 May 2014
The Museu del Modernisme Català presents the second edition of conferences and workshops as a continuation of the course which began in 2012. About some of the crafts that modernist era revitalized with great success, the museum offers learning through new masters as forging, sgraffito, carving wood, ceramic, and applied cloisonée. The cycle is presented by experts of each subject, and includes a visit to new workshops in the city of Barcelona where currently merge ancient techniques with modern technologies and trends.
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Exhibition Two Female photographers in Ålesund around 1900 at Jugendstilsenteret in Ålesund – from 06 June 2013 to 06 June 2014
The master Margrethe Svendsen and her assistant Petrine Wiik Welcome to the vernissage on June 6th 2013 at six o´clock at the ten years day since the opening of the center! The photographers presented in this exhibit are Margrethe Svendsen and her assistant Petrine Wiik. The works shows a variety of motifs of the townscape in Ålesund from the time before and after the great fire in 1904, in addition to motifs from the rebuilding period, where we can see new buildings in the style of Art Nouveau being built alongside with temporary housing and barracks.
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Event Budapest100 in Budapest – from 26 to 27 April 2014
Budapest100 is a unique organic program mobilizing the entire city which was initiated by OSA Archivum and KÉK in 2011. Its ultimate goal is to start a tradition and to draw our attention to the buildings surrounding us and the human values that are around us every day.
All buildings the construction of which is connected to 1914 in any way had the possibility to join the event; mostly will be then Art Nouveau buildings.
More information and programme of the event
Application of the RANN to become a Cultural Route of the Council of Europe – on 11 April 2014
The Cultural Route of the Council of Europe (CRCE) is a label attributed by the Council of Europe to routes or cultural ensembles recognized as important in the heritage field and the cultural integration within Europe.
Gathered around a quintessentially European artistic movement with an undeniable heritage value, the Réseau Art Nouveau Network members presented their application to the Council of Europe, in order to become a real recognized Route, with the aim of enhancing the Art Nouveau heritage.
The last phase of the application process will take place next 11 April, let us keep our fingers crossed so that the Réseau Art Nouveau Network becomes a recognized Cultural Route!
More information about the Cultural Routes of the Council of Europe and the European Institute of the Cultural Routes
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Toi Hutchinson drops out of race to replace Jesse Jr., backs Robin Kelly
BY LYNN SWEET Twitter: @lynnsweet February 16, 2013 8:28PM
State Sen. Toi Hutchinson. File photo. | Matt Marton~Sun-Times Media
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State Sen. Toi Hutchinson pulled out of the Democratic primary to replace disgraced former Rep. Jesse Jackson Jr. on Sunday, threw her endorsement to chief rival former State Rep. Robin Kelly, with that move consolidating African-American and progressive political support for Kelly: Lynn Sweet's blog.
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The two schools put on quite a show, but in the end the Ruleville Central Lady Tigers and the East Side High School Trojans came away with the region championship. The Lady Tigers defeated the Trojanettes 46-37 in the girls title game, while the Trojans defeated the Tigers in an overtime thriller 54-53.
The boys game had all the fans in the packed house on their feet. Ruleville dominated the first part of the contest as the team led 18-8 early in the second quarter and ended up taking a 24-15 lead at halftime.
Through out the second half, East Side chipped away at the lead. During a 70 second stretch, John Paul Davis scored six points including two points on a vicious slam dunk to give the Trojans a 39-38 lead with 4:57 left in the game.
Ruleville battled back as Demarcus Bracey hit a basket and was fouled. He made his free throw to give the Tigers a 41-39 lead with 4:09 left to play. East Side ended up getting some help from one of its young players as freshman Bobby Jones, Jr. hit two clutch free throws to tie the game up at 41-41. The Tigers battled back again as Tyquan Rule and Bracey scored some key points toward the end of regulation, but East Side's Davis delivered another dunk with 13 seconds left on the clock to tie the game up at 47-47, sending it into overtime.
In the overtime period, Davis brought the thunder again with another slam dunk to put the Trojans up 49-47. Ruleville's Xavier Appleberry hit two key baskets to tie the game twice, but East Side continued to get clutch play from Jones as he scored two points with a short bucket off the glass to give the Trojans a 53-51 lead with 1:05 left to play. The Trojans' defense battled hard the rest of the way. Trailing 54-53, the Tigers went for one final shot but it hit off the rim and the Trojans celebrated with the championship. The Trojans improved to 20-9, while the Tigers fell to 17-7.
"I'm just so proud of these guys," Trojans head coach Leroy Cotton said. "They've given a good effort all year long. I'm just proud. In the last three ball games, we've been down, but every time we've fought back."
Davis and Jackson scored 14 points each to lead the Trojans, followed by Clarence Stewart with 10 points, LeAndrew Banyon with eight points and Jones with six points. Cory Tuner led the Tigers with 10 points, followed by Appleberry and Rule with eight points each.
In the girls championship game, the Ruleville Central Lady Tigers came out aggressive and took it to the East Side Trojanettes. Ruleville played good defense and jumped out to a quick 13-2 lead with 55 seconds left in the first quarter. The Trojanettes chipped away at the lead. With 5:40 left in the second quarter, East Side's Carvacier Sanders hit a 3-pointer to tie the game at 15-15. From there on, the Lady Tigers buckled down and regained the lead. Charshayla Morgan, Brunetta Cockrell and Shakira Singleton scored some clutch points in the second quarter to help the Lady Tigers take a 25-19 lead going into the lockerroom at halftime.
In the second half, the Tigers played great defense as the Trojanettes had a hard time scoring points. East Side senior LaShyra Cotton, who scored a game-high 21 points, tallied 15 in the second half, but the rest of the team was held to a mere four points in the half. Ruleville was able to get the lead up to as much as 15 points in the fourth quarter and was able to secure the region championship. Ruleville improved to 17-7, while East Side fell to 24-4.
"Our problem all year is we've tried to contain LaShyra Cotton, and that can't happen," Lady Tigers head coach Chiquita Primer-Bracey said. "She's a phenomenal players hands down, but once the other players start scoring that's where we've had our problems. You'll have LaShyra Cotton with 20 and then you'll have three other players with 10 or 15 points. That's what we aimed to stop tonight and that's what we did."
Cockrell led the Lady Tigers with 17 points including 12 in the second half, followed by Singleton with 12 points and Robrieka Finn with nine points.
For East Side, Sanders and Errica Blair scored eight points each.
The North Half Playoffs for the girls will begin Monday, while the North Half Playoffs for the boys will be on Tuesday. In Monday's action, East Side (No. 2 seed) will host Booneville (No. 3 seed, Region 1) at 6 p.m., while Ruleville (No. 1 seed) will host Kossuth (No. 4 seed, Region 1) at 7 p.m. In Tuesday's action, East Side (No. 1 seed) will host Ripley (No. 4 seed, Region 1) at 7 p.m., while Ruleville Central will host Alcorn Central at 7 p.m.


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A little over 10 years ago, gynecologist Lauren Streicher, MD, had just begun writing her first book, The Essential Guide to Hysterectomy. When researching the history of the procedure, she came across fascinating information about the treatment of hysteria in the 19th century – mainly, the common practice of doctors masturbating female patients to orgasm to "cure" their condition.
Soon after, Dr. Streicher, an assistant clinical professor at Northwestern University's Feinberg School of Medicine, was invited to speak at a women's convention. She suggested that her topic focus on vibrators; the hosts didn't go for it, assuming the audience would be offended. Dr. Streicher went ahead with a tamer lecture, but asked the crowd, "How many of you would like to learn about vibrators next year?"
"The place went wild," recalls Dr. Streicher. "Women were on their feet, clapping and cheering. I went to the conference organizers and said, 'I think they're telling you what they want to hear.'"
A year later, she gave her first talk on vibrators, "Good Vibrations: The History and Modern Use of Sex Toys." Among the dozens of lecture topics that Dr. Streicher offers, "Good Vibrations" has become one of the most requested. In addition to discussing the vibrator's history in the doctor's office, her lecture touches on the proliferation of home vibrators throughout the 1920s, including Sears Roebuck catalogs featuring vibrators for sale.
"The normalcy of it – that it was thought to be a part of a woman's general health – surprises women today," says Dr. Streicher.
When the roaring '20s came to a close, vibrators became something of a taboo subject, but recently, their use is on the rise. A study in the 2009 Journal of Sexual Medicine shows that 52.5 percent of women use a vibrator, and 80 percent of those women use a vibrator with a partner. Today, sex toys are easier to find than ever before – all a woman has to do is walk into her neighborhood drugstore.
"Even five years ago, that was unheard of," says Dr. Streicher. "But we still have a ways to go. In fact, in Alabama, Virginia and Mississippi, it's illegal to buy or sell a vibrator." And, she adds, the generational gap is huge. While women in their 20s and 30s often chat about vibrator use with friends (thank you, Sex and the City), women over 50 are reluctant to discuss it openly.
"Often the women who would most benefit from having a vibrator are those who don't even know where or how to get one," says Dr. Streicher. So, in both the lecture hall and the exam room, she's taken spreading the word about vibrators into her own hands.
After discussing the vibrator's history, her "Good Vibrations" lecture delves into the importance of vibrator use today, and its medical benefits. "I tell them that I'd recommend a vibrator to women who have problems with intercourse after surgery or radiation, have a partner with erectile dysfunction, are struggling with post-menopausal hormonal changes, or feel that they need clitoral stimulation to be sexually satisfied," says Dr. Streicher. "Women appreciate hearing this information from a gynecologist, who can talk about it matter-of-factly."
While many may think that discussing sexual dysfunction falls exclusively on a sexual therapist or psychologist's shoulders, Dr. Streicher disagrees. "Much of what a gynecologist does is addressing sexual issues, so vibrators certainly come under that umbrella," she says. "Plus, while most women don't have their own sex therapist or psychologist, they all have a gynecologist."
Dr. Streicher makes a point of bringing up sexual function, including toys, with patients. It's the rare gynecologist who will broach the subject, but Dr. Streicher hopes the continued lifting of the social stigma surrounding vibrators will make it more common practice.
"I've had a few patients who are shocked and appalled when I bring it up," she admits. "But most women are excited and relieved that I've introduced the topic and therefore given them permission to talk about it." If Dr. Streicher has her way, those conversations between women and their doctors, partners and friends will continue to become commonplace occurrences.
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A new study in Journal of the American Medical Association found the number of women between the ages of 25 and 39, being diagnosed with advanced staged breast, has increased from 1.5 per 100,000 in 1976 to 2.9 per 100,000 in 2009.
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So why the increase? Dr. Parkinson thinks it may be because women are no longer doing self breast exams.
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'Tis the season for tears | The extraordinary, untold story of Marta Vieira da Silva
Dois Riachos, Brazil | Marta Vieira da Silva, proclaimed by FIFA on Dec 18 as the best player in women's soccer, has been on the road for much of the past six years. Beginning at 14, when she followed a path from the nordeste to Rio de Janeiro, seeking opportunity with Vasco da Gama, she has played around the world for age-group and the full Brazilian national team and now, professionally, for Umeå IK in Sweden. The journey took her to the Zurich Opera House last Monday night—welcomed by women in heavy mascara and period dress as part of a tribute to Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart—back to Rio on Wednesday, to a firetruck-led cavalcade in Alagoas capital Maceió on Thursday, then home to the Sertão scrubland for a holiday respite.
Yesterday, Dec 27, she had foot imprints taken for the hall of fame at the Museu dos Esportes Edvaldo Alves Santa Rosa at the Estádio Rei Pelé in Maceió (see video from Globo.com).
Such jarring intersections must be common for the 5-foot-3 (1.6m), left-footed playmaker. Already, at 20, she has a worldly bearing and pulls the prodigy's trick of seeming older. Her story has been pieced together in English-language sources, from which one can skim that, in a provincial town in Brazil's Northeast, Dois Riachos (meaning "two streams"), she battled from as young as 7 "for her right to play her tricks in the street games with the boys" (Rob Hughes, "Good Taste Barely Survives a Night at the Opera," International Herald Tribune, Dec 19).
The non-English materials to which one must turn for a fuller picture, especially the 2005 documentary produced by Sveriges Television (SVT), Marta—Pelés Kusin (Marta—Pelé's Cousin), show Marta's background in its complexity: the perennially water-challenged "backlands" area, more than 1,000 miles northeast of the country's political and tourist centers, that provides her cultural backing and character; the ever cycling narrative of displacement and reunion; and the negotiations with identity required by excelling as a woman at a male-dominated sport, accentuated by knowing that soccer for women in Brazil was banned until 1979—seven years before Marta's birth.
The Sertão, in which Dois Riachos is situated, is the world's most populous semi-arid region. "Some 10 million people live in a rural area that includes 1,209 municipalities in nine states," writes Ricardo Funari ("Drought and Hope in the Sertão," Hemisphere: A Magazine of the Americas [Latin American and Caribbean Center, Florida International University], summer 2005, 30).
The Swedish documentary, reported by Björn Nordling and photographed by Mattias Pettersson, opens with the blond interlopers seeking Marta by automobile on the semi-arid ground spotted with caatinga, the forest of thorns that shows as white in satellite images. In the midst of hard, colored earth, bare land is commandeered, lines drawn, goal nets erected, and soon Marta is joking with and watching players from Centro Sportivo Alagoano, with whom she started her career. There is no grass. A public-address announcer's voice—cries of gol—blasts from coned speakers atop a white van.
At other moments Marta, accompanied by Astrud Gilberto's "Beach Samba," plays futebol de salão, or futsal, on a hard court. The footage recalls the grainy home movies of Ronaldinho, aired as part of an advertising campaign during last summer's World Cup, playing the small-ball, small-sided variant of feints and ball trickery, in which the sole and heel are as important as the instep. For innumerable Brazilian players, futsal has helped develop close control and technical skills. For women, futsal sometimes offers the only chance to play the national game.
Also in the SVT documentary, Marta attempts a brief roda, the circle that forms the basis of the Brazilian martial art capoeira, with countrywoman and Umeå teammate Elaine. Marta demonstrates knowledge of these traditional cultural forms, playing guitar during a documentary outtake and singing a ballad in Portuguese (see excerpt at the SVT website). Capoeira, seen as a fusion of music, dance and self-expression prefiguring the Brazilian attraction to futebol arte, developed within Afro-Brazilian slave societies, nurtured in particular in the Northeast within breakaway communes (quilombos) beginning in the 17th century. Banned by Brazilian authorities late in the 19th century, capoeira eventually returned and attracted a spiritual following. Modern-day academies in Brazil and elsewhere emphasize the art's place in personal transformation and in helping practitioners to take a more active role in life.
"Sometimes some students come to class, they didn't even say hi," says Mestre Curisco, organizer of a Seattle academy. "You gotta try to get them into a conversation. Sometimes they need a little more love, attention, like a friend. … You gotta express yourself."
Whether Marta sought expression through these pursuits, or whether they were passed to her as part of daily life, is not known. She has said that she began playing football naturally, not as a conscious decision ("Marta Blends Speed and Technique," FIFA.com, 29 Nov 06). One wonders how she would have fared in Dois Riachos had she not been brilliant—better than the boys and men in her age group—at her game. Economic and educational opportunities are limited. The land hoarding of the colonial-era latifúndio system has yet to be fully addressed by President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, himself from a neighboring state, Pernambuco, to the north.
In Futebol: The Brazilian Way of Life (Bloomsbury, 2002), Alex Bellos recalls visiting a sugar estate in Alagoas in 1999, 10,000 people operating a latifúndio the size of Manhattan. "Most of the estate's inhabitants," Bellos writes, "cut the cane with their hands and were earning about £10 for a seven-day week. Not slavery, but almost." He notes that to its status as the world's leading exporter of sugar and coffee, Brazil leads the globe in sending footballers abroad: 850 per year as of 2005.
Marta has joined the outward flow, but she had little choice. Brazil has no professional league for women, only a loose network of state-based amateur teams playing on an ad hoc basis. With the Women's United Soccer Association in the United States—a vehicle for Brazilian stars such as Daniela, Katia, Pretinha and Sissi—having gone bankrupt in 2003, Marta joined Umeå in 2004. On arrival in the northeastern Swedish town some 170 miles south of the Arctic Circle, she juggled a ball next to prodigious snowbanks. In her most recent match, a 6–0 victory over Norway's Kolbotn IL in a UEFA Women's Cup semifinal on Nov 12, she scored twice, once with each foot, in steadily falling snow (see highlights from SVT). Umeå play Arsenal of London in a two-leg final, 21 and 29 Apr 07.
Marta—Pelés Kusin deliberately juxtaposes the frigid Swedish surround and Marta's native Sertão. In Umeå she drives a car from club sponsor Volkswagen, her name and number emblazoned on the side; she laughs through Swedish-language exercises in a computer lab; she appears to catch her first fish, accompanied by much screaming. Whether or not she feels completely at home, she has flourished as striker. She scored 20 goals in 22 games in the 2006 season, second in the league, with Umeå dominating the Damallsvenskan table. Umeå cruised through the 12-team league unbeaten, 21 points clear of Djurgården of Älvsjö. They scored 74 goals and allowed 11. The only setback was a loss in the Swedish Cup final.
With Fabiano Farah as her agent—Farah also represents Ronaldo—Marta earlier in the year sent feelers to clubs in Germany, Sweden and the United States. Shek Borkowski, manager of FC Indiana of the Women's Premier Soccer League, confirmed that the Goshen-based side with an international roster had been in contact with Farah. Two weeks ago, however, Umeå announced that Marta would re-sign through the 2007 season for an amount believed to range between $75,000 and $85,000 over 10 months ("Så mycket tjänar Marta i UIK," Västerbottens-Kuriren, Dec 14).
The typical forró trio, consisting of zabumba, accordion and triangle, in sculpture form in Caruaru, Pernambuco. The term "forró" encompasses various forms of dance music in northeastern Brazil. Marta "wakes up listening to that music," said goalkeeper Andreia in 2003.
The tears that came from Marta on arrival at Galeão–Antônio Carlos Jobim International Airport in Rio on Dec 20 and at the Dec 27 hall-of-fame induction ceremony in Maceió nevertheless show that her passion is to play for the Seleção, when she can best express her dearly held cultural and family connections. Part of the curse of having to play abroad is the resulting tug between club and country. Umeå, for example, barred Marta from participating in the FIFA U-20 Women's World Championship in Russia in August, the last year of her eligibility for the age-group event. Brazil finished third.
But Marta's club hardly presents her biggest hindrance. That may be, curiously, her home country, which despite its cultural riches and gifts of authenticity creates difficult conditions for women trying to break out of the gender trap. On a personal level, Marta had the constraints of family and region to deal with. In the SVT documentary, Marta's mother, Tereza Vieira, confirms that Marta's brother José would hit her to try to prevent her from playing. Tereza intervened. Lack of facilities and supervision was a reality for everyone. Children pictured in Marta—Pelés Kusin play football in an uneven streambed—perhaps one of the dry streams that gives Dois Riachos its name—beneath a highway overpass.
As to the broader reality of women's football in Brazil, the joke goes that God, while blessing the country with the world's greatest footballers, added the worst administrators to the mix. One must wonder what the Confederação Brasileira de Futebol could have been thinking following the women's team's silver medal at the 2004 Olympic Games. From that day, 26 Aug 04—on which Brazil outperformed the USA but lost in extra time, 1–2—to 28 Oct 06, the opening round of the 2006 Peace Queen Cup in South Korea, the full women's side did not play a competitive international. They have reached the 2007 Women's World Cup in China, but lost to Argentina, 0–2, on Nov 26 in the final of the CONMEBOL qualifying tournament.
For more than two years, therefore, the senior women's program in Brazil was moribund, especially troubling since several members of the Seleção do not have club teams to play for. After receiving the player-of-the-year award last week, Marta rapped the CBF for failing to promote the women's game. She has joined a chorus of detractors, including the former wearer of the women's No. 10 jersey, Sisleide do Amor Lima, or Sissi. In an interview with FIFA in March, Sissi said there had been no change to the administrators' lack of interest in women's soccer:
The only way that the girls could actually get to play was by going back to school or by playing futsal. There is so much talent in the country, and we proved that in Athens. But if you asked somebody on the street in Brazil who Marta was, hardly anyone would know that she's the number two player in the world. It's all down to chauvinism, since everything is still focused on the men's game.
Sissi's passion was such that she ripped the heads off her dolls in order to play football, an important metaphor in a sporting culture that still tries to position female players as objects of the male gaze ("Sissi: 'My Dream Is to Coach Brazil,' " FIFA.com, 1 Mar 06). This is done subtly, such as in media reports that emphasize "the anecdotal and esoteric features of … 'fragile' women's football," according to Sebastião Votre and Ludmila Mourão, faculty members at Universidade Gama Filho in Rio de Janeiro, in a 2004 article ("Women's Football in Brazil: Progress and Problems," in Soccer, Women, Sexual Liberation: Kicking Off a New Era, ed. Fan Hong and J. A. Mangan [Frank Cass, 2004], 254–67). Or, more overtly, women can be set aside as ornaments, as adjuncts to the competition.
Cabruêra's "Canção Pra Ninar," representing the Mangue Beat movement, accompanies video from the documentary Peladão—Soccer Teams and Beauty Queens. The film concerns the annual Amazonas event translated as the "Big Kickabout." Teams are required to field entrants in the football tournament and the parallel beauty pageant. (Calabash Music, 26 Dec 06)
The linkage is most obvious in the annual Peladão, the grassroots tournament based in Manaus along the River Amazon. Several hundred teams enter, with the interesting caveat that they must also sponsor an entrant in a companion beauty contest. If a team is eliminated, it can return to the competition as long as its beauty-pageant contestant continues to advance. The women are scrutinized on local television and anoint themselves with almond oil before parading for the cameras. The pairing of women's sexuality and football takes on a regional context, writes Bellos in Futebol:
The Amazon hardly has an event that doesn't include an ambassadorial role for attractive young women. The carnival has its queen, as do the festival days of saint Peter, Anthony and John in June. And each rainforest municipality has a queen tied to its principal agricultural product. Coari has a banana queen, Maués has a guaraná queen, and so on for oranges in Anori, milk in Autazes, açaí in Codajás and cupuaçu in Presidente Figueiredo. It seems only natural that football has one too.
Marta, in the broad cultural frame of Brazilian life, takes on, at 20, the shape of a new model for Brazilian womanhood. She does this almost in antithesis to the images that Votre and Mourão assemble from coverage of women's football in the 1980s, that of women players as samba dancers, hair decorated in beads and dressed in appealing colors. O Jornal Alagoas, the local newspaper based in Maceió, refers to Marta in its coverage of recent events as a craque, a term of near reverence that carries the connotation of "star" but, more important, something like "a player of substance." Whether Marta's tearful, affecting statements before the glitterati in Zurich will mean additional transformations in Brazilian life and wider influence for the magical player from the Sertão will be a story to follow throughout her career.
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Globo.com presents a feature on Marta'a life in Umeå ("A vida de Marta na pequena Umea"), including a brief tour of her Umeå apartment, or "crib." Via YouTube, one can view the Dec 18 FIFA gala, the women's portion, including a Marta highlights package, moronic pre-award Q&A and operatic serenading.
After her arrival in the Sertão on Dec 21, Globo.com ("Marta já foi reserva no time onde começou") catches up with her before a match involving Centro Sportivo Alagoano, kitted out in blue-and-white stripes. Back in Sweden, Marta carries enough cultural cache to have had a soccer-playing dog named in her honor (see our report on soccer and dogs, 20 Jul 06). SVT has the video.
The influences of the nordeste on Brazilian music—itself part of the cultural dynamic that includes futebol—are chronicled in a six-CD set, Musica Tradicional do Norte e Nordeste 1938, reviewed in the New York Times (Larry Rohter, "Long-Lost Trove of Music Connects Brazil to Its Roots," 25 Jan 07).


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Those of you who've been around for a while know that I cannot stand baseball movies. This is akin to leprosy if you are a baseball fan. Not adoring the slimy dog in Sandlot is no way to make friends who like baseball or even ones who don't, it seems. I have yet to meet someone else who thinks that dog is slimy, but I'm holding out hope.
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