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By NEMS Daily Journal
Alzheimer's 101 set for July 31 in West Point
North Mississippi Medical Center-West Point and the Alzheimer's Association Mississippi Chapter will present a free program on Alzheimer's disease on July 31.
The "Alzheimer's 101: Understanding the Basics of Alzheimer's Disease" will begin at noon at the Henry Clay Retirement Center Parlor, 133 Commerce St., in West Point.
Sara Murphy, outreach coordinator for the Alzheimer's Association Mississippi Chapter, will be the guest speaker.
Alzheimer's 101 is one of over a dozen programs provided by the Alzheimer's Association which alert and educate the public about this debilitating disease.
A light lunch will be served. To register for the free program, call Brenda Johnson at (662) 495-2339 or Anne Comer at (662) 495-2141.
The Yoga Center moves to donation only
In an effort to make yoga more widely available, the Yoga Center in Tupelo has become a donation-only studio.
Owner Robyn Gibson and the four instructors wanted people to be able to take care of themselves – body, mind and spirit – regardless of their economic circumstances.
There will be no set price for scheduled classes, no monthly fees. Students are asked to pay what they can afford.
For more information and class schedules, visit www.the yogacentertupelo.com.
Note cards sale to benefit Project Hope
The Festival of Hope is six months away, but teams are already working to raise money for local cancer, heart disease and diabetes patients.
The Green Street Gang team is selling notecards based on "Faith • Hope • Love" T-shirts they created for Project Hope.
A set of $8 notecards with envelopes is $10. The proceeds will go to Project Hope, which grants the money to organizations working to help fight the three diseases in North Mississippi.
Contact Genie Alice Causey at NMMC Marketing at firstname.lastname@example.com for ordering information.
Candy Classic tourney rallies Corinth in July
The 33rd Corinth Candy Classic Tennis Tournament will welcome juniors and adults July 24 through July 29.
The USTA-sanctioned event will be held at the Corinth High School Tennis Complex. Proceeds from the event will benefit St. Jude Children's Research Hospital. The junior tournament will run July 24-July 26. The adult division will be July 27-29.
All participants should register online at www.mstennis.com. Juniors must register by July 21; adults must register by July 23.
A courtside lunch for junior players on July 24; a courtside supper for adult participants is set for July 28.
The tournament honors the late Candy Hammond, the daughter or Doug and Martha Hammond, who lost her battle with childhood cancer.
For more information or assistance with registration, call (662) 287-4561 or (662) 284-5475.


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I'm pretty sure this is my favorite recipe I've made all summer. The flavors are unique and fresh and it's the perfect dish to bring to a potluck dinner on the beach!
For the quinoa
1/2 cup quinoa
1 cup water
For the fruits and veggies
½ cup fresh blueberries
½ cup cubed ripe mangoes
½ cup cubed cucumbers
1/2 tablespoon dried cranberries
For the lemon basil dressing
1½ tablespoons extra virgin olive oil
2 tablespoons lemon juice
1/4 teaspoon lemon zest
10 Basil leaves, chopped finely
Salt and pepper
Place the quinoa and water in a medium skillet and bring to a boil. Then reduce heat, and simmer covered for about 15 minutes or till the quinoa is cooked. Remove the lid, and fluff the quinoa with a fork. Let it cool to room temperature.
While the quinoa is cooking, combine the fruits in a bowl and refrigerate till you are ready to serve the salad.
Whisk together all the dressing ingredients, except the chopped basil. Refrigerate till you are ready to serve. Chop and add the basil to the dressing just before serving. If you add it earlier, it will go black.
Add half the dressing to the quinoa and mix gently.
Assemble the salad just before serving – toss the quinoa, fruits and cucumbers together. Serve other half of the dressing on the side. Serve immediately.
The original recipe can be found here at Veggie Belly.
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B.C. Premier visits Terrace and Kitimat
WITH A growing emphasis on trades training by all levels of government, First Nations and industry, Northwest Community College in Terrace is becoming a popular photo opportunity stopping spot for visiting politicians.
That's certainly going to be the case tomorrow when B.C. Premier Christy Clark visits the college campus here.
It's one of three stops in Terrace and Kitimat planned for the premier as the days count down to the official start of the provincial election campaign.
The last visiting politician to stop in at the college was federal natural resources minister Joe Oliver just last month.
Clark, just like Oliver, will tour the college's trades building.
The premier is also to speak at a luncheon hosted by the Terrace and District Chamber of Commerce and will then visit the Kitimat Valley Institute training facility in Kitimat.
She'll also be speaking to members of the Kitimat Chamber of Commerce.


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Now that were in the middle of all the election excitement, it seems a good time to retell a story of the first election ever held in the Hurricane Precinct near VanBurensburg.
At this early day, Montgomery County and a portion of Fayette County were within the environs of what was then Bond County.
Perrysville, while located in what is known as Seminary Township, Fayette County, was, in those days, the county seat of Bond County. The seat of government was later moved to Greenville, and within a few years the log cabin village of Perrysville was abandoned.
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BzzzZ - Feed Frogs with Mosquitoes
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Funny puzzle-action game. Your goal is to catch mosquito with the same colored frog. Otherwise frog will change it's color. For the right mosquito you will get a golden tooth. These teeth will be your ticket to the next level. Sounds simple? Try it! But dont forget it's puzzle.- Action Mixed With Puzzle
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Portland, Ore.'s trade show business was thriving back in 1997, when the city hatched plans to double the size of its Oregon Convention Center to 368,000 square feet, the largest in the Northwest.
Today, $116 million in bricks, mortar and carpeting later, Portland's trade hall is struggling. It lost $5.5 million last year on $15.3 million in revenue. Occupancy since the expansion has fallen from 71% to 43%. The Wood Technology Showcase, a Portland event for 34 years and one that expansion boosters cited as needing the enlarged venue, has been postponed because of lagging attendance. The same run-down buildings and third-rate restaurants that always surrounded the center, like Burgerville and a deli that sells sushi and Beanie Babies, are still there.
"We haven't set our sights on being profitable," says Oregon Convention Center's executive director, Jeffrey Blosser. "These are challenging times in our industry."
Challenging? The business is a mess, plagued by a taxpayer-funded burst of expansion and a continuing dearth of customers. Over the last decade cities' annual capital spending on centers has doubled to $2.4 billion, according to a study by the Brookings Institution. The projects are frequently backed by expensive feasibility studies from consultants that rarely give a thumbs-down. Forty-four new or expanded halls are in the works, in hot spots such as Las Vegas and not-so-hot spots like Albany, N.Y. Seven million square feet will be built in the next few years, adding to the 64 million square feet now standing.
Unmentioned at ribbon-cutting ceremonies is that the space will be impossible to fill. The biggest 200 shows, a rolling list measured by Tradeshow Week, are using the same amount of space they did in 1992. Attendance has fallen at most centers, even those with new space such as in Indianapolis, Chicago and Atlanta. The thriving destinations, Orlando, Fla. and Las Vegas (which just announced a $400 million expansion), are stealing smaller shows away from other cities, stuffing in several at a time. The smaller trade halls are discounting, even giving space away.
A common excuse of the convention center builders is that Sept. 11 cut travel. But trade show attendance peaked in the mid-1990s. Something more fundamental is going on: Shows in general are far less relevant. Consolidation in industries like manufacturing, retail and technology has left a smaller pool of exhibitors. And far more trade now gets done in China, which is rapidly adding shows and square footage of its own.
Newell Rubbermaid pulled out of the International Home & Housewares Show in Chicago in 2001 to target retailers more directly. It opened a sales office near Wal-Mart in Bentonville, Ark. Since 2001 the Nike Swoosh hasn't appeared on booths at any of the big retail shows like Magic Marketplace or the Super Show. Oracle no longer spends big bucks on trade show booths.
So why is the concrete getting poured in Jackson, Miss., Peoria, Ill. and Spokane, Wash.? Politicians, playing local hero, are incapable of finding reasons not to build. Even when voters reject new taxes, as in Portland, Pittsburgh and Columbus, Ohio, new space goes up anyway, backed by hotel taxes or bond issues.
Portland's story is particularly telling. Prior to the 1998 city election Portland's visitors association estimated the center had missed out on $17 million in convention business over six months because the center was too small. The regional tricounty government proposed an $82 million general obligation bond to pay for the expansion, but taxpayers overwhelmingly nixed it. So Multnomah County floated a separate bond backed by higher taxes on hotel rooms and car rentals, allowing the expansion to proceed. In the meantime new, rival centers were going up all along the West Coast.
The expansion was completed in 2003, with eco-friendly touches like an outdoor "rain garden." City fathers boasted of landing the 2005 National Square Dance Convention and its 10,000 high-steppers.
The euphoria was short-lived. Apart from big auto and gardening shows, last year's schedule was packed with what the industry dubs "smerfs," which stands for social, military, educational, religious and fraternal groups. These visitors typically pack four travelers in a hotel room and don't have corporate credit cards to blow on expensive meals.
By the end of 2004 the center's finances were in bad shape. To get 34 decent-size shows, the center had to indirectly waive rental fees for the organizers of 10 of them. The building would have lost $15,000 a day if not for $6 million in tax subsidies. Hotels are 60% occupied, as fewer than 30% of convention-goers last year came from outside Portland.
The fix, says center director Blosser, is a new 600-room convention hotel, backed by the city. "We lose a lot of shows because we don't have a big hotel. But it doesn't pencil out for a private company; a hotel here would need help," he says. Blosser commissioned Strategic Advisory Group, an Atlanta consultancy that specializes in convention center and hotel studies, to assess the idea. SAG says the new hotel will bring in annual spending of $116,000 per room.
Maybe Blosser should run those numbers past the folks in St. Louis. In 2003 St. Louis followed a $270 million convention expansion with a 1,081-room, $265 million adjacent hotel, paid for with public and private money. Hospitality Consulting Services projected 800,000 room-nights per year citywide with the addition of the Renaissance hotel. Instead St. Louis is getting only 400,000. A nearby McDonald's closed shop. The neighborhood remains lackluster, punctuated by a store peddling gold chains and a discount sneaker outlet.
In August Moody's downgraded the city's $50 million hotel bonds even deeper into junk. The development group will likely have to drain the $5.7 million left in its reserve fund to service the debt and come up with additional money from stakeholders like Kimberly-Clark. "The assumptions that go into feasibility studies are the problem," says Anne Van Praagh of Moody's. "The outside firms have no financial stake in the business."
Robert Canton, director of PricewaterhouseCoopers' convention and tourism practice, offers this defense: "We don't recommend to build or not to build. We're just being asked if there is a potential demand."
The answer is almost always yes. Out of 75 potential projects reviewed by the firm that Oregon hired, only 4 were deemed completely unfit. SAG partner Jeffrey Sachs says that is evidence of his shop's "objectivity." "You lose clients if you shoot down projects. They've already made up their minds by the time they come to us," he says.
Where do the experts get their rosy predictions? "We have to make a lot of assumptions. This industry isn't tracked very well," says Sachs. The most oft-cited data come from Tradeshow Week, which is owned by Reed Elsevier, a British company that also produces 430 trade shows. Its primary measure of the industry's health is its annual list of the 200 best-attended shows, making for a convenient survivor bias, and based solely on data from show managers who have an interest in masking serious declines.
Advisers' conclusions often fly in the face of logic. Consulting firm Convention, Sports & Leisure was hired by Cincinnati in 1999 to ask meeting planners what they thought of the city as a show destination. Only 39% answered positively, trailing perceptions of Kansas City (60%), Boston (56%) and Nashville (62%). CSL subtly encouraged construction by suggesting the city could improve its image. Cincinnati is under way with a $160 million expansion. A study for Minneapolis done by Coopers & Lybrand in 1994 went so far as to suggest that obvious obstacles to success like frigid temperatures and location could be overcome by "specific marketing efforts."
The slump is good news only for show managers. The Quilts Market show is getting space at Kansas City's soon-to- be-expanded center for no cost, and hotels are paying for the show setup. "I definitely had the upper hand in negotiating," says Quilts Market operations chief Wilma Hart.


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In it, but not of it. TPM DC
GOP Rep. Lee Resigns After Craigslist Photos Surface (VIDEO)
"It has been a tremendous honor to serve the people of Western New York. I regret the harm that my actions have caused my family, my staff and my constituents. I deeply and sincerely apologize to them all. I have made profound mistakes and I promise to work as hard as I can to seek their forgiveness.
"The challenges we face in Western New York and across the country are too serious for me to allow this distraction to continue, and so I am announcing that I have resigned my seat in Congress effective immediately."
A resignation triggered by a sex scandal could conceivably make for a competitive special election, though at this point it is obviously far too early to know for certain.
Lee was first elected in an open-seat race in 2008, winning by a margin of 55%-41%. His district voted for John McCain by 52%-46%, down from a 55%-43% vote for George W. Bush in 2004.
In the Republican year of 2010, Lee was easily re-elected by 74%-26%.


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This thing demands a PFD and MFD, anyone know some GPU and willing to teach me? I've tried a number of times on my own to no avail.
Damnit worst pageking ever
This thing demands a PFD and MFD, anyone know some GPU and willing to teach me? I've tried a number of times on my own to no avail.
Damnit worst pageking ever
I had to have the American engine start in like 4th gear, in 1st it just flipped over
My favorite car, Land Rover forward control 101
You may say it is a simple car therefor easy. Well, it was easy but I love it. I love all Land Rovers!
Love the forward control.
Visclip didn't record right.
That's an epic plane, and I know some basic EGP.
Working on a Vespa. So many prooppppssss. First project in like a month.
Dear Jesus that could be simplified immensely with HL2 props.
How do you plan to keep the vehicle upright? not with the keep upright tool... At least I hope.
Looking amazing though! Please tell me that you'll be putting a 1 cylinder engine in it!!!
edit- update on the Landy. Now has a I8 engine!
EGP is too slow to update. Need full GPU.
Nevermind, necessity is the mother of forcing oneself to learn something. I managed myself
I'm thinking of adding a smaller sidecar to it, so I don't need to worry about balance too much.
Also White, tried building it generally just using HL2 props, but none of them really fitted it properly. It does use a couple HL2 props here and there though.
Marlin with wing geometry, pusher-prop nacelles, and new GPU MFDs
I see in the shadow one skinny prop. I imagine it will be using fin tool and thrusters? Very cool!
Balto, I feel the need to point out that that design is called a Martin boxwing, because it was/is being developed by Lockheed Martin. Everything else looks great though!
How do you all accomplish those engines? Been trying to and never got around to figuring it out.
proper wing geometry hnnng
Thing I made yesterday.
how are you getting those shocks to not lag slightly behind the movement of the bike?
even with parenting and all that jazz, I never got a pivoting shock to extend and work quite right
Its 100% holograms. The front has two holograms, one at the top, and the other is that black bar in the front wheel. These aim at each-other using the atan function(if you simply use toAngle, they will flip when pitch passes 90 or whatever), the shock aesthetics are parented to them. The bottom one raises on the Z axis based on ranger distance. The rear uses trig to angle the swing arm instead of ranger distance, and the same method as above for the shocks.
meanwhile on toshkent
I'm currently trying to re-invent the pod racer, it's a nice little experiment
It would be awesome to see someone try the same thing :P
that's insanely hot. the pod itself where the person sits is a little tad bland though.
Yeah, that's because the engines already take up about 300 props.
The Marlin bit was actually completely unrelated to the boxwing, marlin being the name of the aircraft and boxwing the design classification I am familiar with the design's origins, I just cited the "box wing" element of the design name and not Lockheed Martin (though Lockheed martin is awesome)
Damnit, now I have to go back to GPU and make a vector art skunkworks skunk and place it on the engines.
Actually it will be fin and only fin.
You are seven degrees of awesome. Not only did you answer my question but solved two persistent wire problems I had on other WIPs and I think I now know how to fix the treads.
Sized appropriately.
Np. If you need further help, send me a PM.
i wasnt aware that changing gears sounds like a wet fart
Can I claim first to do this please?
Probably not, but this was a fun little project. I took one of my already-working engines and I mashed some holograms into it. The crankshaft is made of 17 holograms that are parented to the flywheel. Each camshaft has 14 holograms, and rotates counter the other at half the speed of the crankshaft. The 3 gears are also holograms, though I need to code in a belt or something to link them. Big thanks to NutsAndy and Biggles for a bit of help with maths and the concept.
I just noticed that I'm missing the front bearing on the left camshaft. How odd. I also still need to get some actual valves in there (4/cylinder). Those are going to be a pain.
would be cooler if it was made from props and actually functioned
It's one of my fully functional 4 cylinder engines; I just slapped some holograms on it.
Anyway, backstory: me and a couple of guys were horsing around on GGG, playing helicopter bumpercars. Eventually someone had a great idea: Build a shitty airboat plane. So I did. The only problem is it flies really, really well and naturally. I love this thing now.
Is it just me or does the game run faster if I run a dedicated server on my computer that I play on instead of single player?
*Quick update on my piece-O-crap airplane.
- Completely redone the bodywork (made it all symmetrical) and gave it a cheerful little nose
Edit: Sorry for oversized, low quality pictures :<
it would make sense if you have a multicore processor, since they both run in separate processes and are actually handled properly by the OS. See, when you join a Singleplayer game, Source basically creates a local server and throws you in it. That's a bastardization of what's going on, but since Source doesn't properly support multicore CPUs, it would theoretically be more efficient to run the server and the client in separate processes and let the OS handle them instead of letting Source do it on one process.
gmod has proper multicore support, enable multicore rendering you div
I was informed that Source's multicore utilization was a tacked-on feature and, as such, not able to handle processes as well as a program or OS that natively supports multicore processing. I can back this up since, as far as I know, coding for proper multicore support requires completely rewriting code or someshit, which I doubt the Valve team did between 2004 and 2007.
I'm pretty sure Source's multicore support treats all the cores of a processor as one big fast core instead of the individual cores, but that's coming from someone who doesn't have the background knowledge to know if all that is wrong or not.
Also, you don't have to be such a dick about things.
It is tacked on but that doesn't mean it's ineffective; I get an extra 30fps on my crap box with multicore enabled. Also as a programmer I don't see why it'd take valve more than 3 years to squeeze some extra fps out of their engine. It's complicated, but it's not as bad as you might think.
(also as a programmer whenever i post here i never have content to show because e2s aren't contraptions )
That thing is badass.
Gmod also has proper multi-core crashing.
about 80-90 props at the moment.
Looking pretty darn nice, a tad long though. Nice job.
I was planning on doing that with an engine powered dozer for the accessories. Nice. That's fucking sweet.


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The types of courses available in Toad Rally will increase to seven different types of courses, expanding the fun! In the new additions, Purple and Yellow Toads may also come to cheer for you.
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Overview: Commando's classic 8-bit arcade action is now available on smartphones.
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You are a one man army. Armed with a sub-machine gun and a limited supply hand grenades, players battle through legions of enemy troops in this classic vertical scrolling shooter.
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DRAGON BALL Z DOKKAN BATTLE v3.0.1 [Mods]
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Overview: Get on your boat and go on a fishing trip all around the world. Catch big rare fish, upgrade your gear, and build your collection!
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Meganoid (2017) v1.01
Requirements: 2.3 and up
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Meganoid is a challenging platformer, generating new levels on every play session.
Find many items to enhance your character and his abilities while you descend down into the Meganoid space ship. Do you rush for the exit, or do you take your time to collect everything there is, barely escaping the security drones that will hunt you down if you linger.
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- A platformer with "roguelike" elements. Consumables, alternate routes, procedural generation, and many devices and gadgets add depth to the challenging gameplay of the original Meganoid
- A lot of collectible items that will change the main character's abilities to navigate the world. Find a jetpack to start flying around, find anti-gravity-boots to perform double jumps, and much more.
- Hidden bonus area's to find and unlock. Often providing you with a short-cut or very rare and powerful items.
- A hackable game world. Finding green key-cards allows you to modify how certain elements of the game act and respond to you. Stop rocket-launchers from working, make rockets fly less far, make destroyed robots drop extra lives.
- Unlock the database with info on all the items and enemies you encounter to be better prepared on your next try.
In true Meganoid tradition, you'll die a lot in many different ways, but you'll learn to overcome the difficulties, learn how the Meganoid world operates, and eventually get to the bottom of it!
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Controlling Trigger Execution When Bulk Importing Data
A trigger is a special form of stored procedure that is executed automatically when a user modifies data in a table or view. Executing triggers can affect the performance of a bulk import operation. For example, a trigger that sends an e-mail message each time a record is imported reduces the speed of a bulk import operation, and creates a flurry of e-mail.
When bulk importing data, you can control whether triggers are executed (fired) by the bulk-import operation. A bulk-import operation should execute triggers only for a table with INSERT and INSTEAD OF triggers that support multiple row inserts. For more information about these triggers, see DML Triggers.
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When triggers are disabled, a schema modify lock might be taken to update the metadata. This can interfere with other commands (such as an online index build) or transactions. For example, a snapshot isolation transaction accessing the target table might fail due to concurrent DDL changes. |
If triggers are enabled, they are executed once for each batch.
During a bulk-import operation, behavior depends on the command used for the operation. By default, the bcp command and BULK INSERT (Transact-SQL) statement disable triggers. In contrast, for the INSERT ... SELECT * FROM OPENROWSET(BULK...) statement, the default is to execute triggers.
The following table summarizes the default behavior.
Bulk import command | Default behavior |
bcp | Disable triggers |
BULK INSERT | Disable triggers |
INSERT ... SELECT * FROM OPENROWSET(BULK...) | Execute triggers |
Each of the bulk-import commands provides a qualifier that allows you to change how triggers are handled, as described in the following sections.
By default, the bcp command and the BULK INSERT statement do not execute triggers. However, you can enable triggers by using the following qualifiers:
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bcp | -h "FIRE_TRIGGERS" | Hint |
BULK INSERT | FIRE_TRIGGERS | Argument |
If FIRE_TRIGGERS is specified for a bulk-import operation, it executes any INSERT and INSTEAD OF triggers that are defined on the table for all rows inserted into the table.
For more information, see bcp Utility and BULK INSERT (Transact-SQL).
By default, the OPENROWSET bulk rowset provider executes triggers. You can disable triggers by using the following qualifier:
Command | Qualifier | Qualifier type |
INSERT ... SELECT * FROM OPENROWSET(BULK...) | WITH(IGNORE_TRIGGERS) | Table hint |
If this hint is specified, triggers are not executed by the OPENROWSET bulk rowset provider. For more information about the IGNORE_TRIGGERS hint, see Table Hints (Transact-SQL).
SQL Server 2005 and later versions use row versioning for triggers and stores the row versions in the version store in tempdb. Before you can bulk import a large batch of data records using triggers, you may need to expand the size of tempdb to accommodate the impact of the triggers on the version store. For more information, see Row Versioning Resource Usage.


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Gross Indecency: The Three Trials of Oscar Wilde
The Trials of Oscar Wilde: Deviance, Morality, and Late-Victorian Society
Oscar Wilde's Last Stand: Decadence, Conspiracy, and the Most Outrageous Trial of the Century
Wilde thought he was the symbol of his age. In fact he was a prophet of the century to come. He died in pain and penniless in a cheap Paris hotel room in 1900 at the age of forty-six, perhaps of a prison injury to his ear. Had he lived he might now be remembered as England's most articulate—and most extreme—theorist of modernism, of the evolution, that is, of the Romantic idea that the objective world is, as he called it, "fictional," while reality is created by the "critical" imagination in its various artistic forms. There is no telling what plays he might have written had he lived another thirty years. Wilde thought of Christ as a kindred spirit. He called him the "precursor of the romantic movement in life," an artist who spoke permanent truths to the beliefs and customs of the day. "The highest criticism," he wrote, perhaps with Christ in mind, "is the record of one's own soul." Wilde was an absolutist of subjectivity, an apostle of what in degraded form is now called self-realization, and thus a hero of the present age, admired by the antinomian young and the subject of many academic articles and books. Gross Indecency, a highly praised play based on Wilde's three trials, has been playing to full houses in New York for a year. Another play about Wilde, written by David Hare and starring Liam Neeson, will soon arrive here from London.
Though Wilde believed that art and morals should remain separate, his aesthetic creed implies a moral corollary. "The supreme vice is shallowness." He meant taking the world at second hand rather than creating from one's sympathetic imagination a personal reality. "I think the realization of oneself is the prime aim of life," he said at his trial. Three years before his death, as his brutal incarceration was ending, he wrote a long letter, eventually published under the title De Profundis, to his sometime lover and treacherous friend, Alfred Douglas. "I treated Art as the supreme reality," he told Douglas, "and life as a mere mode of fiction." Wilde hated and defied the fiction of the closet. Within his own circle he made no secret of his sexual preference. "In art as in politics," he had told an American lecture audience, "there is but one origin to all revolutions, a desire on the part of man for a nobler form of life, for a freer method and opportunity of expression,…[one that] will create a new brotherhood among men…." But at his trial for committing acts of gross indecency, his courage failed him. He lied about his sexual encounters.
This was his tragic hour. It could not have been avoided. He was not shy about declaring his sexuality. He was terrified of prison and disgrace, despite the bravado with which he joked about the advantages of incarceration during his trials. His loss of nerve cost him his supreme moment of self-realization. He was found guilty as charged nevertheless. Christ on the…
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Floyd Mayweather is still capable of beating the top fighters and will return to the ring soon, according to his trainer and uncle Roger Mayweather.
The five-division world champion has not fought since May when he defeated Miguel Cotto in a unanimous points decision to take the WBA light middleweight crown and extend his record to 43-0.
He served two months of an 87-day prison sentence for domestic abuse from the 1stof June and Roger Mayweather admits his charge may have lost some of his pace and power.
But he is still convinced that the world's top two welterweights, Filipino legend Manny Pacquiao or unbeaten American Timothy Bradley, are still no match for the 35-year-old.
"He's going to get back in the ring," the elder Mayweather said to Jenna J of doghouseboxing.com/On The Ropes Radio. "Floyd's still better than 90% of the (boxers) out there. Floyd would still whoop Pacquiao, he would still whoop Timothy Bradley. He would do that for sure.
"When you talk about 'if Floyd can do what he did before,' well, maybe he can't do what he did before, but he can do well more than what they can do. You saw what he did to (Victor) Ortiz, didn't you, you saw him whoop (Miguel) Cotto, didn' you? And I did not see Floyd test positive for steroids in him, did he? All right then, I think he can put a little more hurt on someone.
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Now that Dessa is almost 2 years old, we can really see how our efforts at raising her bilingual are paying off. She doesn't speak super clearly yet but definitely uses a lot of Spanish and English words. She also understands everything we say to her in either language. It's a great relief to finally get some assurance that our efforts haven't been in vain. For so long it was a one way convo and it was hard to see if what I was doing was having any impact. It's a lonely road sometimes when you're raising a bilingual child in a community that's, um, not so diverse.
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Are you all for teaching your child both English and Español? While there are many obvious benefits to speaking more than one language, parents should take note: recent findings show that children who are bilingual before the age of five are more likely to stutter than those who only speak one language before this age. Not only that, but bilingual tots also have a harder time correcting their speech down the line.
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We have been writing about H1B visa related stuff for a very long time on this blog and tracking H1B visa updates with graphs and analysis. Few of THE Most commonly asked question on the blog are:
- I have applied for H1B on April 1st. Still my status is "Initial review", How long does USCIS take ?
- USCIS received my H1B petition three months ago, still no response. I am worried. Can you tell me how long will they take ?
- My employer says they filed in June, still no reply from them? How long will they take?
- What is H1B visa processing time ?
- Can I contact USCIS and upgrade my H1B visa processing ?
- Will upgrading to Premium get me decision quicker? I filed as regular processing.
- Does USCIS have any turnaround time on regular processing application? Why do they take so long?
I can keep on writing various versions of the questions. Let me share few things which I have replied to over and over again on the blog comments. If you know the answers to above, do not read any further…it is just for those who do not know anything. If you do not the various H1B application statues, read : H1B Statuses RFE, Approval, Denial and How to check
What is Regular Processing in context of H1B Visa Filing ?
If an employer filed H1B petition with USCIS by standard process and does not include extra fee to have the petition adjudication( decision ) to be one faster, then that petition is treated to be filed under regular processing.
What is Premium Processing in context of H1B Visa Filing ?
If an employer pays extra premium processing fee to USCIS to have the H1B petition adjudication to be one ( decision ) within 15 calendar days, then that petition is treated to be filed under premium processing. H1B premium processing is a way to expedite processing your application. It costs additional $1,225( fee increased in Nov 2010 ) and the turnaround time is 15 calendar days. The goal of premium processing is that USCIS will have a decision of your case within 15 days.
How long does USCIS take to process H1B visa petition Regular processing ?
There is no correct answer to this question. The answer to this question depends on the case and filed location. Every case in unique and every location has its own processing times. The typical duration for processing any H1B visa application can take anywhere from 2 to 6 months. The best case scenario is : H1B visa approval decision can take less than 2 months. The worst case scenario for the decision from USCIS can be as long as 6 months or more.
Does USCIS have any turnaround time/ SLA requirements for H1B processing?
Unfortunately, there is no defined turnaround time/ SLA requirement for USCIS to respond to H1B petitions filed with them. Remember, H1B petition is just one of the type of visa application of what USCIS handles. They have lot of activities that they handle and did not set any SLA for processing of H1B visa petitions for regular processing. The SLA applies to only petitions filed under premium processing.
Any higher approval chances in Premium processing ?
No, applying for H1B premium processing will not increase your chances for getting H1B petition approved. It just expedites the processing time. So, do not be mislead by the fact that $1,225 will increase chances. Read 5 H1B Visa Myths you need to know
Should you apply for Premium H1B Visa Processing ?
Honestly, unless there is a need, you do not need to apply for premium processing. Think of it logically, you cannot work until October 1st…why waste money ? I understand the decision part for preparation and other stuff. Unless, there is a need there is no point. H1B transfers usually apply for premium because of two reasons, first they can work right away and need not wait till October 1st and secondly they are changing between companies, you do not want to be stuck with old employer during this time. You can consider doing premium, when you are at the end of September. To add, USCIS suspended H1B Premium Processing for FY 2018 , so technically you cannot file H1B under premium processing for 2018 season.
Applied for H1B Petition in April , Still USCIS status says "Initial review ", What should I do ?
Well, unfortunately, there is nothing you can do but wait for USCIS to process your application. As I said above, it can take anywhere from 2 to 6 months. All you can do is wait. Do NOT panic that you are not getting any response from USCIS. As long as your application was filed properly and the company is good, you should get approval.
Here are few things you can do:
- If you are really curious, you may apply for H1B visa premium processing anytime. You can pay $1,225 and upgrade your case. Your employer has to do the premium processing through the attorney. You cannot do it on your own.
- Some say, I do not know personally, you can ask your attorney to call USCIS and ask the status. One of our blog readers said, they had success and their application decision was done in a week after calling. Although, there is no guarantee. Worth a shot.
- You can check the particular service center where your petition was filed and get approximate processing times to get an idea. You can do this on USCIS website it is under bottom where you check your case status.
- Just wait. I understand the anxiety…but there is no go.
How long does H1B transfer take ? Any difference in processing time ?
In fact, there is no difference between a regular H1B petition and transfer except the transfers are not considered towards cap. So, the processing times are same. Anywhere from 2 to 6 months. For current processing times, read this article : How to check H1B visa processing times at USCIS Service centers
Is there any H1B tracker where users added their case and I can get an idea of times ?
You can check out the average H1B Visa processing times using our H1B Visa Tracker ( below link). All the data on our tracker page is contributed by users like you. Please add your H1B case by registering. It will help others get an idea.
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Comments about Sony 32GB Wi-Fi Tablet S:
Very comparable with ipad functionality that makes it a good choice. Certain innovative design need to be standardize similar to the Vaio - power supply adapter, USB connector, video output, adjustable or more sensitive fidelity microphone, need calibration program for touch pad pointing even with stylus. Wi-Fi intermittent weak connection even within 4 feet of access point. Although ergonomic design is great, it is touch sensitive on side margins when holding tablet. Need up/down arrow control on keyboard, since editing text touch points on a line above or below (calibration?). portability and readability is its greatest feature. I believe a platform sleeve/cover would help when handling to perform operations such as typing or reading an ebook for longer periods.
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Can't believe no one has reviewed this yet.... Bad crashes on gingerbread and ice cream updates fixed this, but bad flickering on ice cream update... Seems to be software because other tablet upgrades have the same problem.... Wish Sony would fix this as its getting awfully annoying now. A great fathers Day present from my 2 daughters.... Glad I raised them with beauty, good hearts, and a knack for good technology... Lol
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I feel I did a lot of good research before I selected this tablet. I picked Android so that I would be able to have some features (like Flash) that I cannot get with an iPad. In addition, I appreciate that this tablet is lighter than an iPad and that the wedge shape easily fits in my hand. I have had a lot of fun with the built in applications, such as Pinball and the remote controls. On a down side, I felt I needed to buy an extra one of the proprietary power cords - one for work and one for home (rather than assume I'd always remember to carry it. This did add to the cost, but I can tell you I am glad I did. The wedge shape is wonderful, but some applications assume that I will always hold the tablet in my right hand, which is not true; those applications refuse to rotate. Lastly, some features, like the favorites screen, are not intuitive and I have given up trying to use it. I would suggest that you buy the STM sleeve with strap for quick and easy portability and put a microfiber cloth in the bag (all tablets need regular removal of fingerprints). Overall, I think the postives outweight the negatives, I find myself using my tablet just about every day, and I would recommend this tablet to you.
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I just bought it and i love it. better then ipad 2
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Updated to ICS within the first hour and have been impressed at every step. If I was forced to find a flaw: it would be with the many stores you have to join to get the movies, books,music and games. It would make more sense to join a "superstore" and then pick and choose what I need. Google drive makes it easy to keep all my work up to date on all devices.
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By DrZ12345
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I purchased this tablet in December and it is OK BUT has dismal battery life. I tried to compensate by purchasing a 12 volt adapter. SURPRISE! There is none. wished I had purchased a real tablet rather than this poor excuse for one. Sony service has matched the product.
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Perhaps it's time for Sony to consider customization of tablet devices, similar to customizing Vaio laptops. It just seems to me that every review I read, people have vastly different needs, such as myself. I'm fine with wi-fi only, because I don't plan to use it outside the house. That's why I have a smartphone. Some people require lower speeds, but higher capacities. Others require pure performance. There are screen protectors for a reason, people. Stop mentioning "scratched glass" in your cons when you just didn't spend the extra cash to protect your purchase. The proprietary power supply is also a major complaint, which I do understand and agree with. Seems foolish to not allow for USB charging, as most smartphones today have a USB that plugs into a wall adaptor. It's much more convenient and adaptors can be found for just about any other connection, using USB. I really do hope that Sony acts on much of the advice given to them here, by their customers. Many improvements can be made on the next model, but there are also a lot of features I'm very excited to use when I commit to a tablet purchase! I would recommend this product for select users, but certainly not for all. For Sony's first attempt at tablets, I must say it is pretty impressive, but still lacking for my particular wants.
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Bought this device in 32gb model,im mostly happy with the device but only one thing thats bother me a lot,its all about the battery! Whenever I use wifi, the battery drains 1% for each 2 minutes! Did I get a faulty device or everyone is the same? I didnt choose other tablets in the market as I believe Sony would produce a good product but now it shattered my believes. what happen to your motto Sony? 'make.believe'. Im trully disappointed by this battery issue and yes I do have the latest firmware running on it. Btw im writing this review on my 4th day of purchasing this tablet. I might take this tablet back to store for a check,thats what warranty for.
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"Body Ritual among the Nacirema" Horace Miner [1 - footnotes are at the end of this document]
© Reprinted by permission of the American Anthropological Association from American Anthropologist 58:3, June 1956.
Not for sale or further reproduction.NOTE TO EDUCATORS & OTHERS: Feel free to link to this page! Tell me if you would like a link back to a URL, as these scholars have. Last updated: 1.2.12.
Most cultures exhibit a particular configuration or style. A single value or pattern of perceiving the world often leaves its stamp on several institutions in the society. Examples are "machismo" in Spanish-influenced cultures, "face" in Japanese culture, and "pollution by females" in some highland New Guinea cultures. Here Horace Miner demonstrates that "attitudes about the body" have a pervasive influence on many institutions in Nacirema society.
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[503 begins ->] The anthropologist has become so familiar with the diversity of ways in which different people behave in similar situations that he is not apt to be surprised by even the most exotic customs. In fact, if all of the logically possible combinations of behavior have not been found somewhere in the world, he is apt to suspect that they must be present in some yet undescribed tribe. The point has, in fact, been expressed with respect to clan organization by Murdock (1949: 71).[2] In this light, the magical beliefs and practices of the Nacirema present such unusual aspects that it seems desirable to describe them as an example of the extremes to which human behavior can go.
¶ 1 Professor Linton [3] first brought the ritual of the Nacirema to the attention of anthropologists twenty years ago (1936: 326), but the culture of this people is still very poorly understood. They are a North American group living in the territory between the Canadian Cree, the Yaqui and Tarahumare of Mexico, and the Carib and Arawak of the Antilles. Little is known of their origin, although tradition states that they came from the east.... [4] ¶ 2 Nacirema culture is characterized by a highly developed market economy which has evolved in a rich natural habitat. While much of the people's time is devoted to economic pursuits, a large part of the fruits of these labors and a considerable portion of the day are spent in ritual activity. The focus of this activity is the human body, the appearance and health of which loom as a dominant concern in the ethos of the people. While such a concern is certainly not unusual, its ceremonial aspects and associated philosophy are unique. ¶ 3 The fundamental belief underlying the whole system appears to be that the human body is ugly and that its natural tendency is to debility and disease. Incarcerated in such a body, man's only hope is to avert these characteristics through the use of ritual and ceremony. Every household has one or more shrines devoted to this purpose. The more powerful individuals in the society have several shrines in their houses and, in fact, the opulence of a house is often referred to in terms of the number of such ritual centers it possesses. Most houses are of wattle and daub construction, but the shrine rooms of the more wealthy are walled with stone. Poorer families imitate the rich by applying pottery plaques to their shrine walls. ¶ 4 While each family has at least one such shrine, the rituals associated with it are not family ceremonies but are private and secret. The rites are normally only discussed with children, and then only during the period when they are being initiated into these mysteries. I was able, however, to establish sufficient [504 begins ->] rapport with the natives to examine these shrines and to have the rituals described to me. ¶ 5 The focal point of the shrine is a box or chest which is built into the wall. In this chest are kept the many charms and magical potions without which no native believes he could live. These preparations are secured from a variety of specialized practitioners. The most powerful of these are the medicine men, whose assistance must be rewarded with substantial gifts. However, the medicine men do not provide the curative potions for their clients, but decide what the ingredients should be and then write them down in an ancient and secret language. This writing is understood only by the medicine men and by the herbalists who, for another gift, provide the required charm. ¶ 6 The charm is not disposed of after it has served its purpose, but is placed in the charmbox of the household shrine. As these magical materials are specific for certain ills, and the real or imagined maladies of the people are many, the charm-box is usually full to overflowing. The magical packets are so numerous that people forget what their purposes were and fear to use them again. While the natives are very vague on this point, we can only assume that the idea in retaining all the old magical materials is that their presence in the charm-box, before which the body rituals are conducted, will in some way protect the worshiper. ¶ 7 Beneath the charm-box is a small font. Each day every member of the family, in succession, enters the shrine room, bows his head before the charm-box, mingles different sorts of holy water in the font, and proceeds with a brief rite of ablution.[5] The holy waters are secured from the Water Temple of the community, where the priests conduct elaborate ceremonies to make the liquid ritually pure.
¶ 8 In the hierarchy of magical practitioners, and below the medicine men in prestige, are specialists whose designation is best translated as "holy-mouth-men." The Nacirema have an almost pathological horror of and fascination with the mouth, the condition of which is believed to have a supernatural influence on all social relationships. Were it not for the rituals of the mouth, they believe that their teeth would fall out, their gums bleed, their jaws shrink, their friends desert them, and their lovers reject them. They also believe that a strong relationship exists between oral and moral characteristics. For example, there is a ritual ablution of the mouth for children which is supposed to improve their moral fiber. ¶ 9 The daily body ritual performed by everyone includes a mouth-rite. Despite the fact that these people are so punctilious [6] about care of the mouth, this rite involves a practice which strikes the uninitiated stranger as revolting. It was reported to me that the ritual consists of inserting a small bundle of hog hairs into the mouth, along with certain magical powders, and then moving the bundle in a highly formalized series of gestures.[7] ¶ 10 In addition to the private mouth-rite, the people seek out a holy-mouth-man once or twice a year. These practitioners have an impressive set of paraphernalia, consisting of a variety of augers, awls, probes, and prods. The use of [505 begins ->] these objects in the exorcism of the evils of the mouth involves almost unbelievable ritual torture of the client. The holy-mouth-man opens the client's mouth and, using the above mentioned tools, enlarges any holes which decay may have created in the teeth. Magical materials are put into these holes. If there are no naturally occurring holes in the teeth, large sections of one or more teeth are gouged out so that the supernatural substance can be applied. In the client's view, the purpose of these ministrations [8] is to arrest decay and to draw friends. The extremely sacred and traditional character of the rite is evident in the fact that the natives return to the holy-mouth-men year after year, despite the fact that their teeth continue to decay. ¶ 11 It is to be hoped that, when a thorough study of the Nacirema is made, there will be careful inquiry into the personality structure of these people. One has but to watch the gleam in the eye of a holy-mouth-man, as he jabs an awl into an exposed nerve, to suspect that a certain amount of sadism is involved. If this can be established, a very interesting pattern emerges, for most of the population shows definite masochistic tendencies. It was to these that Professor Linton referred in discussing a distinctive part of the daily body ritual which is performed only by men. This part of the rite includes scraping and lacerating the surface of the face with a sharp instrument. Special women's rites are performed only four times during each lunar month, but what they lack in frequency is made up in barbarity. As part of this ceremony, women bake their heads in small ovens for about an hour. The theoretically interesting point is that what seems to be a preponderantly masochistic people have developed sadistic specialists. ¶ 12 The medicine men have an imposing temple, or latipso, in every community of any size. The more elaborate ceremonies required to treat very sick patients can only be performed at this temple. These ceremonies involve not only the thaumaturge [9] but a permanent group of vestal maidens who move sedately about the temple chambers in distinctive costume and headdress. ¶ 13 The latipso ceremonies are so harsh that it is phenomenal that a fair proportion of the really sick natives who enter the temple ever recover. Small children whose indoctrination is still incomplete have been known to resist attempts to take them to the temple because "that is where you go to die." Despite this fact, sick adults are not only willing but eager to undergo the protracted ritual purification, if they can afford to do so. No matter how ill the supplicant or how grave the emergency, the guardians of many temples will not admit a client if he cannot give a rich gift to the custodian. Even after one has gained and survived the ceremonies, the guardians will not permit the neophyte to leave until he makes still another gift. ¶ 14 The supplicant entering the temple is first stripped of all his or her clothes. In everyday life the Nacirema avoids exposure of his body and its natural functions. Bathing and excretory acts are performed only in the secrecy of the household shrine, where they are ritualized as part of the body-rites. Psychological shock results from the fact that body secrecy is suddenly lost upon entry into the latipso. A man, whose own wife has never seen him in an excre- [506 begins ->] tory act, suddenly finds himself naked and assisted by a vestal maiden while he performs his natural functions into a sacred vessel. This sort of ceremonial treatment is necessitated by the fact that the excreta are used by a diviner to ascertain the course and nature of the client's sickness. Female clients, on the other hand, find their naked bodies are subjected to the scrutiny, manipulation and prodding of the medicine men. ¶ 15 Few supplicants in the temple are well enough to do anything but lie on their hard beds. The daily ceremonies, like the rites of the holy-mouth-men, involve discomfort and torture. With ritual precision, the vestals awaken their miserable charges each dawn and roll them about on their beds of pain while performing ablutions, in the formal movements of which the maidens are highly trained. At other times they insert magic wands in the supplicant's mouth or force him to eat substances which are supposed to be healing. From time to time the medicine men come to their clients and jab magically treated needles into their flesh. The fact that these temple ceremonies may not cure, and may even kill the neophyte, in no way decreases the people's faith in the medicine men. ¶ 16 There remains one other kind of practitioner, known as a "listener." This witch-doctor has the power to exorcise the devils that lodge in the heads of people who have been bewitched. The Nacirema believe that parents bewitch their own children. Mothers are particularly suspected of putting a curse on children while teaching them the secret body rituals. The counter-magic of the witch-doctor is unusual in its lack of ritual. The patient simply tells the "listener" all his troubles and fears, beginning with the earliest difficulties he can remember. The memory displayed by the Nacirema in these exorcism sessions is truly remarkable. It is not uncommon for the patient to bemoan the rejection he felt upon being weaned as a babe, and a few individuals even see their troubles going back to the traumatic effects of their own birth. ¶ 17 In conclusion, mention must be made of certain practices which have their base in native esthetics but which depend upon the pervasive aversion to the natural body and its functions. There are ritual fasts to make fat people thin and ceremonial feasts to make thin people fat. Still other rites are used to make women's breasts larger if they are small, and smaller if they are large. General dissatisfaction with breast shape is symbolized in the fact that the ideal form is virtually outside the range of human variation. A few women afflicted with almost inhuman hypermammary development are so idolized that they make a handsome living by simply going from village to village and permitting the natives to stare at them for a fee. ¶ 18 Reference has already been made to the fact that excretory functions are ritualized, routinized, and relegated to secrecy. Natural reproductive functions are similarly distorted. Intercourse is taboo as a topic and scheduled as an act. Efforts are made to avoid pregnancy by the use of magical materials or by limiting intercourse to certain phases of the moon. Conception is actually very infrequent. When pregnant, women dress so as to hide their condition. Parturi- [507 begins ->] tion takes place in secret, without friends or relatives to assist, and the majority of women do not nurse their infants. ¶ 19 Our review of the ritual life of the Nacirema has certainly shown them to be a magic-ridden people. It is hard to understand how they have managed to exist so long under the burdens which they have imposed upon themselves. But even such exotic customs as these take on real meaning when they are viewed with the insight provided by Malinowski [10] when he wrote (1948: 70): ¶ 20 Looking from far and above, from our high places of safety in the developed civilization, it is easy to see all the crudity and irrelevance of magic. But without its power and guidance early man could not have mastered his practical difficulties as he has done, nor could man have advanced to the higher stages of civilization.[11]¶ 21
REFERENCES CITEDLinton, Ralph
1936 The Study of Man. New York, D. Appleton-Century Co. Malinowsli, Bronislaw
1948 Magic, Science, and Religion. Glencoe, The Free Press. Murdock, George P.
1949 Social Structure. New York, The Macmillan Co.
1 From "Body Ritual among the Nacirema," American Anthropologist 58 (1956): 503-507. [Sourcetext as PDF: <http://tinyurl.com/792mf5g>.] Footnotes were added by Dowell. [BACK] 2 George Peter Murdock (1897-1985), famous ethnographer. [BACK] 3 Ralph Linton (1893-1953), best known for studies of enculturation (maintaining that all culture is learned rather than inherited; the process by which a society's culture is transmitted from one generation to the next), claiming culture is humanity's "social heredity." [BACK] 4 Missing text as follows:
According to Nacirema mythology, their nation was originated by a culture hero, Notgnihsaw, who is otherwise known for two great feats of strength - the throwing of a piece of wampum across the river Pa-To-Mac and the chopping down of a cherry tree in which the Spirit of Truth resided. [BACK]
5 A washing or cleansing of the body or a part of the body. From the Latin abluere, to wash away. [BACK] 6 Marked by precise observance of the finer points of etiquette and formal conduct. [BACK] 7 It is worthy of note that since Prof. Miner's original research was conducted, the Nacirema have almost universally abandoned the natural bristles of their private mouth-rite in favor of oil-based polymerized synthetics. Additionally, the powders associated with this ritual have generally been semi-liquefied. Other updates to the Nacirema culture shall be eschewed in this document for the sake of parsimony. [BACK] 8 Tending to religious or other important functions. [BACK] 9 A miracle-worker. [BACK] 10 Bronislaw Malinowski (1884-1942), famous cultural anthropologist best known for his argument that people everywhere share common biological and psychological needs and that the function of all cultural institutions is to fulfill such needs; the nature of the institution is determined by its function. [BACK] 11 Did you get it? In any case, try analyzing Malinowski's statement in the context of what has come to be known as [Aurthur C.] "Clarke's Third Law": "Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic." [BACK]
Note: each link opens a new page....
- To Prof. John A. Dowell's Nacirema assignment.
- To Prof. Angi Caster's "Microbial Coordinated Study" page.
- To Prof. Rob Gargett's "The Subversive Archaeologist" blog.
- To Prof. Giles Harrison-Conwill's Cultural Crash Course page.
- Julie Peggar's Gaze Ethnographic Consulting: Stores from the World.
- To Prof. Werner Hammerstingl's splash page in Swinburne University, Austrailia.
- To Mr. Bob Stepno's Other Journalism Weblog.
- To Prof. Arnold Perey's website, A New Perspective.
- To Prof. Will Barratt's Homepage.
- To the U of Pittsburgh's "Minority Health & Health Equity Archive" page.
- To Prof. Phil Bartle's Home Page for Sociology at Camosun.
- To California State Polytechnic U's Interdisciplinary General Education page.
- To Cyberbrook's ThinkLinks page.
- To Martijn de Koning Research Pages / Onderzoekspaginas
- To ClassroomTools.com.
- To Prof. P. Kerim Friedman's shared blog, "Anthro Classics Online," from National Dong Hwa University in Hualian, Taiwan.
- To Christina Brooks' Introduction to Archaeology page.


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