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Get your free subscription at: http://lists.goanet.org/listinfo.cgi/goanet-sports-goanet.org ------------------------------------------------------------------------ GOANET HIGHLIGHTS BY CORNEL DACOSTA There is a 'raging controversy' over the issue of public holidays in Goa/India. Readers of the Goan Voice (UK) will be quite surprised, as I was, to discover that, there are so many angles to perceive what such public holidays represent, and how difficult it is to determine how many there should be in a calendar year so as to please as many people as possible. In a short perceptive piece titled Hands Off, Pravin Sabnis provides a discussion on the merits, or not, of human touch upon others. He explores the problem of touch by way of physical punishment on erring students by teachers, the loving touch upon others and misconstrued touch deemed to be sexual harassment. On Goanet we have an interesting presentation of Michael Moore's recent prize winning film Sicko at the Cannes Festival. The film, now on general release, severely castigates the American health system. It also praises the socialised health care systems of several European countries. Posters on Goanet are keen "to hear the positive and negative experiences of health care from those living in Canada, UK, France etc". Hopefully, GV(UK) readers will oblige in this respect. In several hilarious pieces but with some serious underpinnings, find out from [the] Hit and Make approach to Konkani Vocabulary Building, how new words are accommodated into Konkani. Not only do we find details of many unusual terms, but there is also absorbing commentary on their origins and usage. Zena Costa tells us about the achievement of Goa's Steffie Cardozo (18) who won a gold medal for the Shot Putt in the Federation Cup National Athletics Championship in Madurai. I am sure we will want to wish Steffi well in future competitions. Finally, several recent posts on Goanet had informed readers about the difficulty of obtaining labour in Goa for building work as well as in running restaurants, hotels etc.This was linked to an in-depth discussion about the mobility of capital and labour in thriving economic conditions. Likewise, UK media has told us a lot about Polish workers such as plumbers, builders and others who have made a beeline to the UK and indeed undercut British wages. The paradox now is that Poland itself suffers from an acute shortage of labour and has had to make arrangements for substantial replacement labour from India. Will this have a further deteriorating impact on Goa? Please visit the Goanet archives at http://lists.goanet.org/pipermail/goanet-goanet.org/ To subscribe to Goanet send an email to [EMAIL PROTECTED]