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Shorts can have a bearing on your performance due to fit and comfort but they also provide protection from the elements and falls. I looked at 4 pairs of top brand shorts – 2 light weight and two heavier duty waterproofs.
POC Flow Shorts
POC are known for their quality and tendency to size garments on the big side and these shorts are no exception.
The fabric is sturdy and hard wearing and provides good protection from the elements. Sizing wise you're likely to need a size smaller than you'd expect though the velcro waist adjustment straps give a decent amount of 'fine tuning'. There's a slight rise on the back of the waist band but this is pretty much a standard cut and leg length gets my approval.
The pockets are a good size and deep but the one let down for me is the lack of zips – getting to the end of a ride to find your missing your phone or car keys isn't a happy place to be. Another thing that I'm sure will make some people think twice about them is they don't come with inner shorts (this isn't an issue for me as I'm too lazy to pedal far enough to need them).
Overall, despite the pockets, I really liked these shorts to the point I bought a pair. Good looking, sturdy shorts which provide protection from the elements and the ground (should you need it).
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Royal Racing Storm Shorts
Royal Racing's Storm shorts were the second pair of heavier shorts I tried and, like the POCs, I liked these alot.
I preferred the look of these to the POCs with sizing being spot on, good length legs and a decent rise on the rear of the waistband to keep your backside covered. The pockets are well sized and have zips to stop any items going missing unexpectedly. Velcro waistband adjustment straps give plenty of room for manouevre and when coupled with the ratchet fixing at the front can be tailored to fit all shapes and sizes.
As with the POCs some may be put off with the absence of inner shorts but the big issue for me was that the pair I tried had a weird fit at the back – looked a bit like I had a turtles head which isn't a good look for anyone on the trails. I tried adjusting them this way and that and shifting the waist band to different heights on my waist but I couldn't shake that bulge.
Overall, I really like these shorts and would have rated them (and bought them) above the POCs but for the weird fit at the back. They're well made and will give you decent protection from the elements and look great providing you're a different shape to me.
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Chain Reaction Cycles – 5/5 over 5 reviews
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Fox Racing Attack Ultra Shorts
I generally have a lot of time for Fox products and, though I knew this style of short wasn't what I'd normally buy, I had high expectations.
I like the design of the shorts to look at and leg length is good though when they're on they're a bit tight for my liking. Getting into to them is initially a bit of a squeeze too as they only have a poppered fastening at the front.
There's good adjustment from the velcro waist tabs and the 4 way stretch fabric is light and breathable. For me, the fabric is too flimsy (I could see these lasting all of 0 minutes if I fell off in a slate quarry) and the breathing holes look a bit like someone in the office at Fox has been trying out their new hole punch.
You only get one pocket, it's pretty small and is oddly situated half way down your right thigh. On the redeeming side though they come with a good quality inner short but I feel this is tarnished a bit as you cant get them out unless you cut them out (the tabs holding them in place have scissor marks on them). I think this risks putting a few people off.
Overall these shorts are a tale of two sides for me – some things I really like about them and some things I really don't. On balance I think there'll be plenty of people that give them a thumbs up but they're not for me.
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Chain Reaction Cycles – 4.2/5 over 5 reviews
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Troy Lee Designs Ace Shorts
They're the most expensive shorts on test here and come from a well respected manufacturer but…..well…..read on…..
As with most Troy Lee Designs stuff, sizing tends to be on the small side and these shorts don't buck that trend. Even with the right waist size though the shorts are tight fitting and come up short on the leg length – if you wear knee pads beware the dreaded short/knee pad gap!
The material is thin and flimsy though the vent holes are edged. Front fastening is by a popper and velcro? and the pockets are small though you do get zips on two of them.
The outer short quality carries on to the inner shorts which look flimsy and there are comments on other websites about them ripping fairly easily.
Erm…..not really sure what to say about these other than, in my opinion, they're not that good and when you consider the price…..
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|Lightning Jihad
I have identified, on a number of occasions, the Islamic nations that will eventually attack Israel from the north in a vicious, lightning Jihad, naming a grouping from which they are likely to be drawn. Three nations who won't join in this initial attack against Israel, have been moving into their biblically predicted positions since the Yom Kipper War of 1973 – First Egypt, then Jordan, and now Saudi Arabia.
In Prophecy Update Number 11, issued early in 2001, I indicated the growing mistrust of Egypt, Jordan, and Saudi Arabia by their fellow Islamic nations. I continually indicated that their brother Arab countries would not let these three be privy to the behind the scenes secret meetings between the terrorists and their sponsoring Islamic nations, at which plans are developed for the surprise Jihad, which would be launched after a brief period of false peace. In last years Prophecy Update Number 32, I went into detail to make a scriptural case as to why Saudi Arabia would not join the confederation of Arab nations that eventually drive Israel into the Negev. Again, in last years Prophecy Update Number 46 I presented a scriptural case to show why Jordan would not join the Islamic federation in their southward plunge. And, finally, in Prophecy Update Number 50 I presented a scriptural case to prove that Egypt would not be among those that come against Israel in the initial Jihad.
There is still a ways to go before the Biblical false peace comes to Israel, and intense fighting between the Israelis and terrorist groups will continue for awhile, but several factors are presently working in the Middle East that may well allow the Saudi peace proposal of Prophecy Update Number 56A, after concessions on both sides, to bring a false peace to the Middle East.
There is a growing fear among all the Islamic nations that an all out war will develop between the Palestinians and the Israelis.
They know that the Israelis will make mince meat out of the PA, and then drive them completely out of the West Bank and Gaza.
They also know, after the experiences of three previous wars with Israel, not to get directly involved in the present conflict, particularly with Israel's big brother, the U.S., on a terror hunting posse, and looking for an opportunity to be justified in the United Nations for blasting them.
And now, the real reason for the Saudi Arabian proposal for peace – They, like all the other Islamic nations, don't like the Palestinians any more that the Israelis, and they sure don't want to have them flooding into their countries after they are driven out of the West Bank and Gaza. They have no desire to become welfare agencies for the troublesome sort of people the Palestinians have shown themselves to be in other countries.
There is a constant threat of more and more of their vast complex of terrorists and associated activities being exposed by the U.S. war on terrorism.
Ariel Sharon is making hay while the sun shines. I have great admiration for him and for Benjamin Netanyahu. They have a true picture of the reality of the situation. Sharon has been taking advantage of the U.S. abrupt awaking to terrorism to do a little rat killing on his own. He has been penetrating into many of the terrorist cities I identified as weapon storage zones in my earliest updates in 2001, which may be found in our archives at the top of this Update. His objective is to kill or capture as many of the terrorist leaders as possible, and to destroy as many weapon storage zones as he can locate.
Sharon's actions are getting the attention of the terrorist groups and their sponsoring nations. The terrorist war of the U.S. is affecting both the terrorists and the nations that sponsor them.
The terrorist and their sponsoring nations are beginning to see that their objective to drive Israel into the Mediterranean Sea, through terrorism and three wars, has not met with success under the 54 year status quo. And, for the first time, the status quo is becoming a really severe problem for their economies. I believe they are about to change the status quo, after much consternation and wrangling, to ride toward the same objective on a different horse – The Saudi peace proposal.
A false peace, according to the scriptures, MUST come to Israel before the attack from the north. Of that I am certain! The initial attack will be by Islamic nations. Of that I am certain! Jerusalem will fall, two-thirds of the Israelis will perish in the conflict, and one-third will be driven into the Negev. Of that I am certain! I have previously given the Scriptures that support this in our archives at the top of this update. But I am not certain that the Saudi peace proposal is the one that will bring in the false peace. I think it may well be the vessel for peace, but so many others have gone down the drain in the past, that I am certainly not going to stick out my neck on it. However, I am certainly going to be watching the Arab Summit Meeting this month to see how individual nations react to it, and how it fares overall.


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Wednesday, 3 December 2014
apricot jam recipe
I make apricot jam every year. There is nothing like homemade apricot jam, have you tried it? It is delicious, like golden summer in a jar. I savour mine all year on my toast until that last precious jar runs out.
Because of the timing of the apricot season it is a tradition that marks for me the last weeks of the year when everything is on fast forward and the lovely slow days of summer holidays beckon. Its always hard to fit a batch of jam into that crazy mix, but its imperative, because I'm away after that and its my only chance for a year of jamminess.
On the weekend I made my annual batch of apricot jam. It was quick and easy and worked beautifully. The jam gods were smiling on me.
I looked at those lovely glowing jars, and I thought about all the people I know who love apricot jam, and the smiles on their face when I gift a jar, and I decided to make another two batches. In my experience small batches work best, I've been burned trying to double or triple up so I don't do it anymore.
So jam making is really not that hard. And if you haven't made jam before then apricot is the perfect place to start. My recipe is cobbled together from a few places, jam recipes are basically half fruit/half sugar. This year I based my quantities and most of the technique on Stephanie Alexander's recipe from the Cooks Companion (here on Nigella's site).
This is how I make it.
Apricot Jam
1.5kg apricots, quartered, seed and stem removed.
1 cup water
1.5kg sugar
juice from half a lemon, abt 2tbsp
Take the apricots and rip them open to remove the stone and stem, then rip them into smaller pieces. You can do this with a knife but I find it quicker and easier with my hands (that photo above of neatly cut apricots is from another year!).
Put those apricots in a big stock pot. You want a big pot for jam so when it bubbles up it doesn't overflow.
Add the juice of half a lemon, about two tablespoons, and one cup of water. Put the pan on to simmer till the apricots are soft, about twenty minutes.
Meanwhile warm the sugar in a low oven (about 100 degrees celsius) for about ten minutes, till its warm to the touch. You don't have to do this but its a simple step and it keeps the jam from cooling.
Take the stones from about half the apricots and crack them open to reveal the kernels then wrap these kernels in a piece of muslin or light cotton (vintage sheets make a good muslin bag) and throw into the pot. The kernels help impart pectin which is the magic setting ingredient. The lemon juice does this too.
Once the apricots collapse squish them up a bit and add the warm sugar, stirring so it mixes through.
Then turn the heat up to high and bring to a rapid boil. You want your jam really hot so it reaches setting point. This takes about 15-20 minutes. Keep stirring so it doesn't burn on the bottom of the pot. I use the Sally Wise hint about adding a couple of stainless steel forks to the pot to help avoid sticking.
Don't walk away and leave the jam at this point. You do not want to burn your jam!
I test jam set by putting two saucers in the freezer and when I think the jam is set I take one out and smear a bit on a my very cold saucer. Leave for a moment and then run your finger through the jam and if it doesn't flood back in where your finger has been, and if you can sort of push the jam so it wrinkles up then your jam is set. Don't worry if it doesn't seem fully firm when you put it in jars as this process continues as it cools. Keep trying this every few minutes swapping the saucers back into the freezer until you have success.
Checking set is really the only tricky bit in this process, but you get more confident about it as you make more jam. You can also put a tablespoon of jam in a small bowl and put it in the fridge, this should set a bit and show you are on the right track.
I watch the jam as it boils and there is a point where you see the bubbles change texture, they look stronger, more toffee like. The foamy watery layer has died down and you can see the sugars turn glossy.
To sterilise my jars I put them sitting upright in a big stock pot with watering covering, lids off but in the pot as well. Bring them to the boil and boil for at least ten minutes. Its easy to have them on another hotplate as you make your jam so they are ready at the same time. Turn the burner off when they are done and take them out with tongs when you are ready to bottle.
Remove the muslin bag and forks, and jar up the jam while its warm. This helps to seal the jars. I save my jars obsessively all year round, I like the recycling aspect, and I love a mishmash of jars, but you could buy some from a kitchen shop if you wanted them all to match!
Now stand back and admire your beautiful golden orange apricot jam. Perfect on a piece of pane di casa from the local bread shop!
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Indian Kashmir under curfew amid separatist strike
Associated Press - February 9, 2014
Many parts of the Himalayan region were under curfew, with major roads blocked by razor wire and barricades, as authorities sought to prevent anti-India protests and possible violence, Inspector General Abdul Gani Mir said. Wireless Internet services were shut down.
Shops and businesses remained closed in Srinagar, the main city in Indian Kashmir. Most people stayed indoors while police and paramilitary soldiers patrolled the lakeside city's deserted streets.
Authorities detained about 200 known activists and placed their leaders under house arrest, a police officer said on condition of anonymity because he was not authorized to speak with reporters.
Still, a few dozen pro-independence activists chanting "We want freedom" and "Return the bodies of our martyrs" tried to stage a rally in central Srinagar, prompting authorities to haul them in to a police station for several hours, another police officer said on condition of anonymity.
Kashmiri separatists, who have long demanded the region be given independence or be allowed to merge with neighboring Pakistan, were incensed last year when Mohammed Afzal Guru was secretly hanged on Feb. 9 in a New Delhi jail for involvement in a 2001 Parliament attack that killed 14 people, including five gunmen.
Most people in Kashmir believe Guru was not given a fair trial, and the covert execution led to days of violent anti-India protests in the Muslim-majority region, where anti-India sentiment runs deep.
The execution refreshed anger sparked in 1984, when pro-independence leader Mohammed Maqbool Butt was hanged in the same New Delhi jail after being convicted of killing an intelligence officer.
Since 1989, an armed uprising and an ensuing crackdown in the region have killed an estimated 68,000 people. Separatists renewed demands over the weekend that the two men's remains, buried within the jail compound, be returned to the region for burial.
"The shutdown is called for pressing our demand for return of the mortal remains of our martyrs," separatist leader Syed Ali Geelani said in a statement issued before he was detained at Srinagar's airport Saturday after returning from New Delhi.
Kashmir is divided between Hindu-dominated India and Muslim-majority Pakistan, but is claimed by both nations.
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A lone goat at the Harishchandra Ghat eats marigold garlands that once adorned the bodies dipped into the Ganges River for final ritual baths before cremation in Varansi, India. The Harishchandra Ghat (also known as the Harish Chandra Ghat) is the smaller and more ancient of the two primary cremation grounds in Varanasi, on the banks of the Ganges River.
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On April 10, 1942, a day after the Fall of Bataan, the forlorn, famished and emaciated USAFFE soldiers would be dealt with inglorious and ignominious ordeal: the infamous Bataan Death March. And it begun in this side of Bataan Peninsula.
A smaller number of Filipino-American forces were herded in the town of Bagac and forced to participate the Bataan Death March on April 11, 1942.
The Bagac prisoners of war (POWs) had just passed the KM1 post. Today, the Filipino-Japanese Friendship Tower stands at the junction near the first kilometer mark.
Finally but sadly, the Battles of Bataan and Corregidor had finally ended in a former house in this lot at 5PM on May 6, 1942 when Corregidor had fallen and Lieutenant General Jonathan M. Wainwright, the commander of the US Army Forces in the Far East (USAFFE), surrendered to Lieutenant General Masaharu Homma, head of the 14th Army.
At KM19, the USAFFE soldiers was approaching the Final Battle Site. On Good Friday, April 3, 1942, the Filipino-Americans had gone through a hellish day brought about by heavy fire from the enemy line.
In this coastal barangay of Lamao in Limay on April 9, 1942, Major General Edward P. King, Jr., commander of the USFIP Luzon Forces, surrendered his command to the Colonel Motoo Nakayama, the senior operations officer of the 14th Army under Lieutenant General Masaharu Homma, overall commander of the Japanese forces invading the Philippines.
From January 27 to February 2, 1942, a bloody confrontation happened in Barrio Capot and Capot Hill. Called Battle of Trail 2, the elements of the I and II Philippine Corps held back the hostile attacks of the Japanese and forcing them to pull out and fall back to their line. But at this point, there was a reversal of fortune.
On April 7-8, 1942, remnants of the II Philippine Corps withdrew from the Pilar-Bagac Line. Reinforced by the entire Luzon force reserves, they launched a last ditch heroic effort to save Bataan. A few days later, it was but a gloomy reminder as the POWs passed by in this battleground.
At the junction of the Bataan Provincial Expresway and the National Road in the town of Orion is a stark reminder of the indescribable sufferings of the Filipino-American forces at the hands of their sadistic captors.
Approximately the midway point of the Death March is the town proper of Orion. But the ordeal seemed to have no end.
At the 1948 London Olympics, the first after the Second World War, Delfo Cabrera of Argentina won the men's marathon event at 2:34:51.6. But for the captured Filipino and American soldiers who have passed the 42-km mark, they were still under constant badgering by the merciless Japanese.
"Sealed in blood the permanent ties of friendship and cooperation between the Philippines and the United States." Thus says a marker in front of Bataan Capitol which was dedicated on April 9, 1952, or ten years after the Fall of Bataan, "to the memory of the gallant Filipino and American soldiers as well as civilians, who fought and died side by side in the defense of democracy."
The Abucay-Morong Line or the Main Battle Position was established along this point of Abucay. Three weeks later, it was abandoned when the assault was unrelenting. Then by mid-April, those soldiers who fought all the way to Mariveles and Bagac passed by Mabatang, captured but unbowed, temporarily defeated but permanently hailed as heroes.
In between KM62 and KM63, the people of Hermosa risked their lives to provide food and shelter to Filipino and American soldiers during the long, arduous Death March.
The food and drinks secretly given by the courageous people of Hermosa had at least helped the prisoners of war.
On January 6, 1942, the first major USAFFE battle in defense of Bataan took place in Layac Junction, Dinalupihan. More than three months later, the remaining participants in the Battle of Layac Junction returned albeit as prisoners of war.


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I miss those times when I was still taking a Shakespeare subject, and one of the stories that I will never forget is Midsummer Night's Dream. You know, the one about the political nobles, middle class workers and laborers and supernatural beings unified in a unique and amusing comedy story. Instead of the conventional love triangle, it becomes a love quadrangle for Lysander, Hermia, Helena and Demetrius!
One interesting fact about this play is that it incorporates three distinct plots embodied in three different worlds which tie up a unified theme or idea. The three worlds include (a) young lovers in the court of Theseus (b) world of Oberon and Titania and (c) the artisan's world. The comedy starts when they all meet in the woods where laws are totally suspended, and a character named Puck messes up with them. A tangled love affair!
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The dune lakes of South Walton were created by wind and waves thousands of years ago and are constantly evolving. They're unusually shallow, with an average depth of about five feet, and the dunes surrounding them can get as tall as 30 feet high. Water in the dune lakes is brackish, meaning it contains a widely varying mix of salt and fresh water.
Occasionally, the water level in a dune lake reaches a critical level due to rainfall and inflows from streams. At that point, the lowest elevation of the beach gives way (locals call it a "blow out"), sending lake water into the Gulf via a temporary waterway called an outfall. Depending on tidal flows and wind conditions, saltwater from the Gulf may enter the lake along with saltwater plants and animals. The exchange between Gulf and dune lake continues until it reaches a natural equilibrium, and the connection closes again.
Because of those ever-changing water conditions, the lakes are known to be a biologically diverse, critical habitat to a wide variety of plants and animals, as well as an important natural estuary between the Gulf and upland areas.
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Deer Lake Park boasts a diversity of plants and wildlife. Rare plant species include Cruise's golden aster, Godfrey's golden aster, Gulf Coast lupine, large-leafed jointweed, oak scrub and spoon flower. Fishing, hiking and swimming are just a few of the activities enjoyed in Deer Lake State Park.
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Investigation of yak exploitation and identification of domestic buffalo bones by ZooMS
Yak exploitation is an important human adaption strategy on the Qinghai-Tibetan Plateau. However, yak bones have rarely been found in ancient sites. Thus, the analysis of lipid absorbed in pottery would be the main way to determine the yak dairy products used by ancient people. When and where the domestic swamp buffalo is the difficulty of differentiating morphologically the bones of extinct Bubalus Mephistopheles and swamp buffalo. Since Southern China is not favorable to the preservation of ancient DNA, ZooMS could have the potential to identify domestic buffalo bones.
Yaks (Bos grunniens) have thrived on the hostile Qinghai-Tibetan Plateau (QTP) and adjacent highlands (Wiener, et al., 2003), and the domesticated yak is known as an "all-around" animal due to its contributions of milk, butter, meat, bone, fiber, labor, and especially dung for fuel and hides for making tent shelters. Since the yak has played an important role in enabling ancient people to conquer the QTP and for cultural development in the QTP, investigating the origin and spread of the domestic yak is very crucial to reconstruct human adaptations in this area.
It is difficult to identify yak bones if the skeleton is incomplete (Olsen, 1990). Consequently, only a few yak bones have been positively identified, making it difficult to study the origin and spread of the domestic yak from a zooarchaeological perspective (Flad, et al., 2007). Since milk could not be expected from wild animals, milk residue in pottery has been used to trace the origin and spread of bovine/ovine domestication (Evershed, et al., 2008), and gives solid evidence for early horse domestication (Outram, et al., 2009). Furthermore, proteomics could differentiate yak, cattle and goat milk (Yang, et al., 2013). Therefore, it is feasible to use proteomics and lipid analysis to identify yak milk residue in pottery.
Domestic water buffalo (Bubalus bubalis), derived from the wild buffalo (Bubalus arnee), is an integral component of traditional Asian rice cultivation agriculture. This water buffalo includes two subspecies: the river type (Bubalus bubalis bubalis) and the swamp type (Bubalus bubalis carabensis). The water buffalo found in China and Southeast Asia is mainly the swamp buffalo and is used as draught animal. In China, ancient bones of Bubalus arnee have never been reported, and only one other extinct wild buffalo (Bubalus Mephistopheles) was identified in the Holocene. According to modern DNA analysis, the domestication of swamp buffalo occured earlier in Thailand than in China. Thus, the swamp buffalo would have been introduced from Southeast Asia (Yindee, 2010). However, when and where swamp buffalo was introduced into China remains unclear.
Until now, it has been difficult to differentiate swamp buffalo from wild buffalo (Bubalus Mephistopheles) if the horn was not found. Furthermore, DNA does not preserve well in ancient bones excavated from Southern China due to the acidic soil environment (Yang, et al., 2008). On the other hand, ZooMS analysis for bone collagen has been successfully applied to differentiate ancient animal species (Buckley and Collins, 2011). Thus, ZooMS could be used to differentiate buffalo bones between Bubalus Mephistopheles and swamp buffalo.
Related publications:
[1] Yang, Y., Bu, D., Zhao, X., Sun, P., Wang, J., Zhou, L., 2013. Proteomic analysis of cow, yak, buffalo, goat and camel milk whey proteins: quantitative differential expression patterns, Journal of proteome research 12, 1660-1667.
[2] Buckley, M., Collins, M.J., 2011. Collagen survival and its use for species identification in Holocene-lower Pleistocene bone fragments from British archaeological and paleontological sites, Antiqua 1, e1.
[3] Yindee, M., 2010. REPRODUCTION AND GENETIC DIVERSITY OF THE SWAMP BUFFALO, p. 63.
[4] Outram, A.K., Stear, N.A., Bendrey, R., Olsen, S., Kasparov, A., Zaibert, V., Thorpe, N., Evershed, R.P., 2009. The earliest horse harnessing and milking, Science 323, 1332-1335.
[5] Evershed, R.P., Payne, S., Sherratt, A.G., Copley, M.S., Coolidge, J., Urem-Kotsu, D., Kostas Kotsakis, M.Ö., gbreve, 2008. Earliest date for milk use in the Near East and southeastern Europe linked to cattle herding, NATURE 455, 528-531.
[6] Yang, D.Y., Liu, L., Chen, X., Speller, C.F., 2008. Wild or domesticated: DNA analysis of ancient water buffalo remains from north China, Journal of Archaeological Science 35, 2778-2785.
[7] Flad, R.K., Yuan, J., , Li, S., 2007. Zooarcheological evidence for animal domestication in northwest China, Developments in Quaternary Sciences 9, 167-203.
[8] Wiener, G., Han, J., Long, R., 2003. The Yak (2nd edtion), Bangkok: The Regional Office for Asia and the Pacific of the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations.
[9] Olsen, S.J., 1990. Fossil ancestry of the yak, its cultural significance and domestication in Tibet, Proceedings of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia, 73-100.


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You Have To Leave Things That You Love
Words by Naomi Jeffreys
"You have to leave things that you love" Kristen Wiig, Bridesmaids, Saturday Night Live
The Rabbit Film Section is a student run Blog, written by students, for students, but the beauty of a blog is its universality, so literally anyone can be made aware of the University of Essex.
Everyone, at some point of their life has to leave something they love, someone they love in order to progress, to grow as humans.
In a sense, we change just like any character in any Film, we have our own 'character arc', but, unlike Films, it is not written down on paper, in black and white, instead, we have to figure it ourselves.
Which is rather wonderful, first year is going to be tough because everything is new, unknown. But that doesn't necessarily have to be a bad thing, embrace it, embrace the madness because those three (or four) years will fly by.
First year is the opportunity to make good friends, have fun and learn in the subject which you love. Join societies, don't be afraid to talk to people, because Freshers Week is the only time of the year where you can approach someone and it not be odd.
Independent Film is the theme of the issue which is out during Freshers Week, which seems rather appropriate because you will be independent and please do embrace it.


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Lessons Learned: Optimizing SQL
Part of the SearchOracle.com Lessons Learned series, this week's lesson covers SQL query optimization.
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How does Oracle work with SQL?
What is SQL tuning?
When do I use explain plan?
Which is better: Index or full table scan?
What SQL tuning tools are available in 10g?
How does Oracle work with SQL?
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You have to understand a bit about Oracle's optimizer and how it chooses an execution path/plan for your SQL statement. The optimizer looks at various scenarios for how to accomplish what your SQL statement is requesting and costs each one. This cost is basically a number that the optimizer uses to determine how expensive a particular execution path is. The higher the number, the less likely the optimizer is to choose that path for executing your statement. Out of all possible scenarios it reviews, the optimizer will choose the path which has the lowest cost.
What you give the optimizer to work with is the key. If you pass the optimizer a poorly constructed SQL statement, then you handicap your efforts right from the start.
Excerpted from Karen Morton's "Optimizing SQL."
What is SQL tuning?
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SQL tuning is the process of ensuring that the SQL statements that an application will issue will run in the fastest possible time. Just like there may be ten different ways for you to drive from work to your house, there may be ten different ways to execute a query. Normally, you are in a hurry to get home so you take the fastest way. Once in a while, you may find a new way that is even faster. You didn't consider this route before because it was not very intuitive. SQL tuning is similar. Tuning SQL statements is finding the fastest route to answer your question, even if that route is not very intuitive.
Excerpted from Brian Peasland's "What is SQL tuning?"
When do I use explain plan?
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Explain plan is a tool that you can use to have Oracle explain to you how it plans on executing your query. This is useful in tuning queries to the database to get them to perform better. Once you know how Oracle plans on executing your query, you can change your environment to run the query faster.
Before you can use the EXPLAIN PLAN command, you need to have a PLAN_TABLE installed. This can be done by simply running the $ORACLE_HOME/rdbms/admin/utlxplan.sql script in your schema. It creates the table for you. After you have the PLAN_TABLE created, you issue an EXPLAIN PLAN for the query you are interested in tuning. The command is of the form:
EXPLAIN PLAN SET STATEMENT_ID='somevalue' FOR some SQL statement;
You need to use a statement_id and then give your SQL statement.
Excerpted from Brian Peasland's "What is explain plan in Oracle?"
Which is better: Index or full table scan?
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Full tables scans don't always equate to "bad queries." If the optimizer is choosing an FTS over using an index, it thinks that it has chosen the optimal plan for your query. Now, if you are seeing a difference in the response time under each scenario, here are a couple of things to look at that will effect how the optimizer makes decisions.
There are a few init.ora parameters that you may want to look at modifying which will effect the choices the optimizer makes. They are:
1. optimizer_index_caching: you can change this from its default of 0 to something higher, let's say 50. This will cause the optimizer to assume that it will find 50% of index blocks in the cache.
2. optimizer_index_cost_adj: you can change this from its default of 100 to something lower, let's say 50. This lets you tune optimizer behavior for access path selection to be more or less index friendly, that is, to make the optimizer more or less prone to selecting an index access path over a full table scan. The default makes FTS and index use equal.
3. optimizer_mode: set this to FIRST_ROWS. That way, the optimizer will attempt to select a plan that will minimize response time.
Excerpted from Karen Morton's "Are left outer joins messing up the optimizer?"
What SQL tuning tools are available in 10g?
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Automatic Workload Repository (AWR) defaults to a collection interval every 30 minutes and collects data that is the foundation for all of the other self-tuning features. AWR is very much like STATSPACK, especially the level-5 STATSPACK collection mechanism where top SQL is collected every hour, based on your rolling thresholds for high-use SQL. In addition to the SQL, AWR collects detailed run-time statistics on the top SQL (disk reads, executions, consistent gets) and uses this information to adjust the rolling collection threshold. This technique ensures that AWR always collects the most resource-intensive SQL.
Excerpted from "Don Burleson's favorite Oracle10g new features."
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Consider the spirit of Australia through ardent imaginings from hand and heart.
The land is an ongoing source of inspiration for David Lancashire, who sees Australia as powerful and mythical. Taking the iconic kangaroo as his leitmotif, he links spirit and country, people and place, and tradition and modernity. These clever Roos hop from symbol to story to allegory.
Transforming the familiar into surprising abstractions, Lancashire's collages piece together maps, type, textures, drawings, and imagery of flora and fauna, among other ephemera. His techniques have a sophisticated primitivism and seemingly effortless natural quality that produce a striking immediacy. Vibrant and playful, these kangaroos are imbued with personality and meaning, both implicit and explicit, their various elements allowing for multiple discoveries and interpretations. In essence, Lancashire's Roos make head and tail of Australia.
David Lancashire is a distinguished graphic designer and artist with a career of more than 40 years. He has a long-standing interest in Australian culture and has collaborated with notable Aboriginal people, such as the late Gaagudju Elder and poet Bill Neidjie, as well as Indigenous nations, including those from Kakadu, the Pilbara and Thursday Island.
This book is a detailed visual study of Lancashire's working materials and process, and features reproductions of every Roo piece to date. Accompanying the images is an incisive essay by Andrew Ashton, a leading Australian designer and visual commentator.
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The Unlimited Potential of Online Mental Health Tools
New technology is becoming vital for providing easy-to-access mental health care, says a top mental health expert from London, UK. Writing in the Journal of Mental Health, Professor Til Wykes of King's College London states there is a "huge potential" for digital technologies to improve mental health care access.
But Professor Wykes adds, "There are still barriers to overcome such as how we increase adherence to e-therapies and how we can overcome the digital divide." The field is still in its infancy, says the expert, but the different ways in which the technology could be used for patient benefit are "hugely exciting." For example, Wykes's colleague Dr. Paul Wicks, also of King's College London, says, "Any smartphone today is more powerful than the best home computer of a decade ago."
But while we have greater access to mental health tools, apps, and games than ever before, there is wide variation in quality, so the experts looked at the best e-mental health interventions available. A German online system for people with eating disorders, using email and moderated forums to provide counseling, was found to have high user satisfaction (82 percent of 238 individuals) and frequently led users to seek professional support.
Over half of the users (57 percent) said this was the first time they accessed professional help, and 50 percent of these went on to seek other forms of support after registering for the online program. Most of those individuals stated that they would have not done so without the online service.
Early findings on a therapeutic video game called Playmancer, which "takes elements of personal therapy and supplements them with game-like elements and biofeedback," suggest that it may benefit impulse control disorders such as gambling, by helping users develop more appropriate coping strategies for negative emotions and in response to stress.
The games' developers believe that the nature of video games (i.e., they are intensive, promote concentration, are immersive and are engaging) combined with biofeedback can create "novel therapeutic opportunities." For instance, it can identify areas of the game that a user finds difficult or stressful, and offer coping styles in a low-pressure environment.
A very recent study of the self-help intervention Psyfit ("mental fitness online") found that it can "effectively enhance well-being," at least in the short term. The service, based on positive psychology, was examined in a two-month trial of 284 mildly to moderately depressed adults seeking self-help. Although the dropout rate was nearly 40 percent, well-being scores were significantly raised and small improvements were seen in users' general health, vitality, anxiety, and depression symptoms.
The internet also has a great potential for reaching groups of individuals to take part in research. A team of self-harm researchers quickly recruited 243 international respondents by posting in online forums. Online research studies can aid long-term studies, or even allow service users to design and execute research themselves.
Observing online drug forum communities can provide insight into compounds consumed and methods of administration in order to better inform clinical knowledge, treatment and approaches to prevention. This is especially important as new recreational drugs are constantly emerging, often rendering professional literature out of date.
Professor Wykes concludes that the opportunities offered by digital technologies and the internet "could help address some of the most difficult problems faced by mental health services including delivery costs, limited clinical workforce, access to services and continuity of care."
The article is one of a series in the Journal of Mental Health on e-mental health interventions, that is, the use of the Internet and new media to support and improve mental health conditions and care.
In Dr. Wicks's article, he points out, "It does not seem to have taken that long for the Internet to have gone from a hobby on the fringes of society in the early 1990s to today's ubiquitous system that affects many elements of people's lives, including their mental health."
But users now have a unique chance to connect with each another and share information and experiences, as well as benefit from computer-guided therapies that are recognized as providing significant clinical benefit.
Nevertheless, the real potential of internet-based mental health support in the future is unclear. "One thing seems certain though," writes Dr. Wicks. "In order to understand mental health problems in the context that service users (particularly young adults and adolescents) experience them, we must pay closer attention to developments online and make time to participate and engage in the connected world.
"If we do that," he concludes, "we are bound to have another interesting decade ahead of us."
Schmidt, U., Wykes, T. E-mental health: a land of unlimited possibilities. The Journal of Mental Health, 3 August 2012, doi:10.3109/09638237.2012.705930
Wicks, P. E-mental health: a medium reaches maturity. The Journal of Mental Health, August 2012, doi:10.3109/09638237.2012.682268
Bolier, L. et al. An internet-based intervention to promote mental fitness for mildly depressed adults: randomized controlled trial. The Journal of Medical Internet Research, 16 September 2013, doi: 10.2196/jmir.2603.
Collingwood, J. (2018). The Unlimited Potential of Online Mental Health Tools. Psych Central. Retrieved on March 28, 2020, from https://psychcentral.com/lib/the-unlimited-potential-of-online-mental-health-tools/
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Santa Monica, Calif.-based start-up Mobcrush has raised $4.9 million for its mobile-gameplay livestreaming app. The company, which started in August of 2014 and has 12 employees, currently has their app in closed beta testing. With a model much like rival Twitch, Mobcrush will focus on natively streaming from your mobile device. The company is said […]Read more
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This week I've got a guest poster – my very own fiancee! I love my comics, but I really wanted someone with The Knowledge of comic books to say something about what they think the best comics of all time are. His preference for comics is very cape-and-cowl stuff; he really likes his Superheroes. Now I know I'm not really that widely versed in comics to make a post like this stand out, as I've read maybe less than 20 different volumes of comics. But my better half really does devour comics as easily as some people eat a packet of Kitkats, so I asked him to part with his Knowledge in order to bring us this list!
Without further ado, starting with…
6. The Death of Captain Marvel by Jim Stalin
"Lots and lots of comics have made me cry… but this was the first one to really squeeze out those tears. He's so iconic, and to have a superhero die like that… well now it's pretty common and they never stay dead for long.
I guess it was also cool to make way for a new guy to take up the mantel. But this was shocking, and it also has really cool art and a cool cover too!"
5. Spiderman vs. Venom
"Spidey vs. Venom is a collected volume of stories in this arc… and boy what an arc it is! David Micheline and Todd McFarlane (of Spawn fame) do a really great job with this – it adds more depth to the character of Venom. This run of comics really adds a more human side to Eddie Brock; he's not just some weirdo infected by the symbiote.
It's also cool to finally find more out about the symbiote itself."
4. A Death in the Family
"It's one of those Batman comics everyone knows. It's just… one of the most shocking. Most gruesome. Very poignant, because it's the first Bat Family death, really. Something like this… I mean in the 80's comics got darker anyway and the Batman ones really paved the way for that I think, this being one of the examples of that.
It's obviously cool because it's got the whole Bat Family in too, which is nice to see (if under dire circumstances) and features lots and lots of villains. Superbly better than The Dark Knight Returns or Long Halloween."
3. V For Vendetta
"It's a classic… and one of the first really obviously political comics I read. I think you've got to have something by Alan Moore on your list if you do one of these. I mean, he's a genius in the comic book world. Everything he writes has an agenda.
Loved the art style, loved the symbolism, loved it. Really hated the film though of course it went a long way to contributing to the Anonymous movement which I think is cool in some ways and… not so cool in others. Amazing that a comic book has actually contributed to something of a social movement though!"
2. Volumes 1-10 Batman New 52 Run
"There was a lot said about the New 52 but honestly? Some of my favourite Batman comics have come out of this.
I loved all the new origin stories, loved the writing. Some of the greatest Batman stories are in here and I guess some people have missed out because they're really not into the New 52. But seriously, some stuff needs a reboot now and again. The universes get so convoluted it's hard to keep up. You can't just pick up wherever you want because you're missing out on so much backstory.
At least these gave people a chance and I really liked how it took elements from things like A Death in the Family and became darker and more exciting."
1. The Killing Joke
"Might be done to death and on so many lists but… it's still amazing to me. I think it's just so many things to so many people and that's why I have to put it at number one. Not just my number one comic of all time, but the best comic ever.
It's a great origin story. It's great writing. It's got other cool origin stories in it (see: Barbara Gordon).
And it's got an ending which really divides the fanbase which I love. Something which creates opinion and discussion is always good in my book."
So there we have it! My future hubby's top 6 comics of all time! What are your favourite comics and why? Let me know in the comics or on Facebook!


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This thing looks like a dildo made of wood, with decorated carvings all around. It sounds hollow, so maybe you could break it open and see if anything is inside?
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Taking a summer river trip for a week or two has been a long-standing tradition for Mississippi River boaters. The number of people currently doing it has declined, but three friends from Princeton, Iowa remain dedicated to the tradition and maintain that a two-week houseboat trip is the best getaway there is. So good, in fact that they have been taking trips almost every year since 1998.
The trio includes Rick and Darlene Suiter, owners of Diamond Blue, and their good friend John Nelson. They also take Sophie, Suiter's Cockapoo. The boat is a 1979, 53-foot Stardust they rebuilt specifically for traveling and that extensive effort was profiled by this magazine in May of 2005. Prior to the rebuild, they purposely sunk it so they wouldn't lose it in a flood. Then Rick cut the cabin off with a chainsaw so he could start with a bare hull.
Earlier he had completely rebuilt a 1975, 47-foot Matticraft to be 'liveaboard friendly' and that was featured in the February 2000 issue of Houseboat magazine.
On the Stardust, Rick, a retired iron worker, focused on the general construction while John, a retired builder and woodworker, crafted all the interior cabinetry. He used lightweight butternut locally harvested to keep the weight down and even crafted foam-core counters. He traded his labor for a lifetime of being able to use the boat.
Darlene, who is retired from the insurance industry, managed the finances and made sure the boat had the essentials she wanted.
Game Plan
Besides trimming the boat's weight, there were several other design goals. A major criteria was a minimum draft for easier beaching and navigating low water. The hull has a very shallow V with an aft keel that Rick extended forward so it would dig into a beach for stability. Twin 305hp engines are connected to heavy-duty outdrives spinning 20-inch props and with the drives up, it only draws 14 inches.
It has three, 33-gallon water tanks, a 200-gallon fuel tank and a 150-gallon holding tank. These, like many of the boat's components, are re-purposed but high quality products.
Last summer's trip from their home port upstream to Wabasha, Minn., was a total of 530 miles over 18 days. Running around 8 mph and averaging a few hours a day, they burned just under 400 gallons of fuel at a cost of $1,410.24. John says he spent more on a recent four-day trip to Colorado than he did on the river trip.
They managed that by buying a minimal amount of marina fuel only when they needed to pump out and take on water. Instead, they tied to city docks and shuttled five-gallon gas cans on their bicycles to nearby gas stations. The bikes are also used for grocery getting, exploring and trips to favorite places like a pawn store in one town.
For exploring the river and for fishing, they have always carried a 1942 Old Town Canoe. Originally canvas and cedar, Rick rebuilt it to epoxy-coated cedar, then fabricated a jib crane to launch it.
Their basic travel plan is to have a completely flexible agenda. Over the years they have marked and graded the beaches on their river charts and have developed favorite places to stop. But beaches sometimes degrade and new ones appear so between that, the weather, what they feel like doing, how long they want to stay in one spot and time for exploring or maintenance work, they poke along as the mood strikes them.
They generally stop in the mid-to-late afternoon, but if a beach they had in mind is dirty, crowded or simply not to their liking, they move on. If it is dark by dinner time, they simply use a headlamp while grilling.
Their beach rating system includes several factors topped by water depth and sand quality. Beaches generally get deeper, cleaner and have more constant water levels the farther downstream they are from a dam. They are usually deeper on the upstream end. They try not to get too close to railroad tracks and avoid beaches accessible by car. They won't stay overnight in the sandy lagoons the United States Army Corps of Engineers create as dredge disposal sites because they are too busy, too noisy and have poor air flow.
Because of the river current and wakes from tows and other boats, they power onto the beach as far as they can, then set upstream and downstream lightweight aluminum anchors Rick fabricated. They only use a center anchor if a storm is predicted.
Dish Soap Routine
Once tied in they usually go for a swim, jump, or do flips off the upper deck, and walk to the upper end of the beach and float downstream, partially to check the water depths along the way. Bathing with Dawn dish soap, their all-purpose cleaner, is part of the routine.
For access to the boat, there is a large ladder that slides out under the swim platform and a custom center section of the front rail that swings down to become a boarding ladder.
Sophie has her own 12-inch by 8-foot boarding ladder on the side of the front deck. That lets her clean her feet well enough that "she gets most of the sand off," according to Darlene.
Cleared for Take Off
John builds and flies electric radio-controlled planes and brings along a couple of his amphibious airplanes and gliders so he may fly one of those. He also flies them alongside the boat while they travel.
They found an unusual use for one of his planes last summer when the cabin's temperature climbed into the high 80s. He fired up the plane and used the prop wash as a fan.
They like beaches for a variety of reasons.
"You can only go so fast for so long and you can only drink so much beer, but you can sit and watch people all day long," says Rick.
Plenty To See
They also run into interesting situations while beaching, like when a Corps of Engineers dredge crew set up their equipment right next to them. It was impressive, they say, as the 20-plus crew members assembled and joined 500-foot long, 22-inch diameter pipe sections into a huge snake that deposited the dredged material from a sharp bend in the river to a location about one-half mile away. Monitoring the crew's communication added to the experience.
Eventually the commotion got too much so they moved further away, but still in observation range.
They also stayed on a beach where locals had constructed a water slide on top of a sand dike. They had dug a furrow in the top, lined it with plastic, then pumped water to the top so they could slide down on donut tubes. Rick said it was a blast.
Not Always Smooth Sailing
Occasional maintenance issues are part of river trippin'. One lock they went through was so loaded with weeds that an engine intake got plugged and caused the engine to overheat and shut down. They limped out of the lock on the other engine but then that one also died. They anchored until the engines cooled and re-started, then moved away from the lock before Rick dove under the boat to clear the intakes.
While beaching on another trip they accidentally drifted down over a wing dam—submerged rock piles that jut out perpendicular to the shore—and the drives got hung up on it. Getting off was enough of an intense, harrowing experience that Darlene demanded to be taken to a marina.
While there, Rick realized they were taking on water and after pumping and inspecting found that a quarter-inch plug had been knocked out of the keel. So John calmly whittled a plug from pressurized wood, Rick tapped it in and the problem was solved. Two years later Rick realized the plug was still there. They say that is one of the few times they have stayed in a marina.
Rick ducks into the engine room a couple times a day.
"I like working on the boat while we are out there," he says.
Knowing "stuff happens," they carry a supply of spare parts including a starter, carburetor kit, spark plugs, belts, impellers and a water pump.
Darlene handles the food preparation, then they all share cooking and clean-up chores. At night they sometimes make a fire on the beach. It is a treat when one of the large excursion boats slides by, lighting up the night.
Full Moon Cruising
They have learned that if you "moon" a passing tow, your boat will get lit up all night by the powerful spotlights from other tows as the pilots pass along word of your actions.
Evenings frequently end with a domino game with the bragging rights' results carefully recorded in their daily log. They might listen to one of John's audio books while enjoying ice cream or popcorn popped in a stove-top, hand-cranked popper.
"Every boat needs a WHIRLEY POP," asserts Rick.
Mornings are leisurely, big-breakfast affairs before they mosey on.
Making Memories
In addition to their logs and numerous photo albums, they keep a special "River Life" scrapbook that highlights some of the more unusual things, places and people they have run across.
It includes pictures they took under the I-35W Saint Anthony Falls Bridge in Minneapolis just a couple days before it collapsed. They think those may be the last pictures ever taken from that angle.
There are photos from the time they were awakened in the middle of the night by the derailment of three engines and five railroad cars. A huge boulder had broken free, rolled down a hill and dislodged part of the tracks just above the beach where they were staying.
They have photos of a cleverly designed portable drink blender that used a weed-eater motor for power, for use on a beach.
Also included are a number of pictures of the unusual, homemade vessels they have seen floating down the river.
These three people have long had deep connections to the river and to houseboats. Combining these two favorite things lets them enjoy their favorite kind of relaxing and enjoyable summer vacations.
Rick sums it up best, "If you are a river person, you just have to spend time there."
In His Blood
Rick Suiter's family history is closely and famously connected to the Mississippi River. At one time in the 1800s, there was a 14-mile treacherous stretch that steamboat and log raft pilots feared, known as the Rock Island Rapids, that ran from Rock Island, Ill., to LeClaire, Iowa. Phillip Jacob Suiter, Rick's third great-grandfather, became the first pilot licensed as a "rapids pilot." He would board a boat, guide it through the stretch, then either return on another boat or race back to pilot another going the same way.
He guided a young engineer named Robert E. Lee through the area while Lee was mapping it. He later testified for Abraham Lincoln in the famous Effie Afton trial that pitted the steamboat and railroad companies against each other as they argued about a bridge built over the river.
John Halford Suiter, Rick's second great-grandfather, was the only pilot able to navigate the rapids in 1864 during a period of historically low water.
John Wright Suiter, Rick's first great-grandfather, was also a river pilot. So was John Franklin Suiter, Rick's grandfather. One of the last boats he piloted was named the Ellen, so Rick and Darlene used that name for their liveaboard.
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The third largest island in the archipelago.
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Early Years
Anderson was born in Camden, Ohio, on September 13, 1876, to Irwin McClain Anderson and Emma Jane Smith. He spent most of his childhood in Clyde, a small Ohio town that would later inspire some of his best short stories. He attended Wittenberg Academy (Springfield, Ohio) after serving in the Spanish-American War (1898), and earning the equivalent of a high school diploma in 1900. In 1904 he married Cornelia Lane, with whom he eventually had three children.
After several mostly unsuccessful attempts at a business career, Anderson suffered what historians have since described as a nervous breakdown, likely brought on by marital and financial problems. For several days in November 1912, a disoriented Anderson wandered the streets of Cleveland, and early the next year he decided to leave his wife and children. It was clearly a painful chapter in Anderson's life, but also one that, according to literary and social critic Irving Howe, he would transform in his memoirs "into a moment of liberation in which he abandoned the sterility of commerce and turned to the rewards of literature."
Refitted as a man of letters, Anderson settled in Chicago, writing advertising copy and ingratiating himself to other writers and artists of the so-called Chicago Renaissance movement (1910–mid-1920s), including Theodore Dreiser and Floyd Dell. In 1916 he divorced his wife Cornelia and married Tennessee Mitchell. In 1919, Anderson completed what most scholars consider to be his masterpiece, Winesburg, Ohio. During the early 1920s, he wrote three more novels, two short-story collections, and an autobiography. Apparently still restless for a lifelong companion, he divorced Mitchell and married Elizabeth Prall in 1924. Anderson lived in New York and New Orleans (his best-selling 1925 novel Dark Laughter was partially set in the Crescent City), visited London and Paris, and helped to launch the careers of both William Faulkner and Ernest Hemingway.
In Virginia
Anderson gave ownership of the newspapers to his son Robert in 1929, and began a tour of southern factory towns with Eleanor Copenhaver, a Marion native who worked in the Industrial Program of the YWCA. (He divorced Prall in 1932 and married Copenhaver on July 6, 1933, and the two remained together until his death.) Spurred on by Copenhaver's social activism, Anderson produced several critical reports on how Americans were enduring the Great Depression: Perhaps Women (1931), Puzzled America (1935), and the last work published during his lifetime, Home Town (1940). Although he covered a great deal of geography in these works, many scenes describing factory conditions clearly appear to have been set in Virginia. During this same period he produced a number of short stories set in southwestern Virginia that were eventually published in the compilation Death in the Woods and Other Stories (1933) and in his novel Kit Brandon (1936). In 1941, while en route to South America to write about labor conditions there, Anderson accidentally swallowed a toothpick and contracted peritonitis, an acute infection of the abdominal lining. He died in Colon, Panama, on March 8, 1941, and is buried in Marion, Smyth County, Virginia.
Although he spent most of his life outside Virginia, Anderson developed a deep affection for the state that manifested itself in many of his writings. In his early fiction and nonfiction, Anderson often wrote about the country's transformation from its small-town, agrarian roots in the late 1800s into a modern, industrialized society in the 1900s, using midwestern settings as stand-ins for the larger culture. Living in and touring the South in the late 1920s and 1930s, Anderson witnessed the economic changes of the Great Depression and the traumatic toll those changes took on the people of that region. The South in the 1930s became for Anderson what the Midwest had been only a few years earlier: a microcosm of the nation.
These years were not the high-water mark of Anderson's literary abilities. Instead, he peddled the same sort of material nationally in such magazines as Outlook, Today, and Vanity Fair, pieces that bore titles like "A Mountain Dance," "These Mountaineers," "Jug of Moon," and "Virginia Justice" (all of which are reprinted in Southern Odyssey). He later reworked several of these sketches to include in Hello Towns! and Death in the Woods and Other Stories. His last novel, Kit Brandon, tells the rambling tale of its title heroine, a woman from the mountains of southwestern Virginia who is involved in bootlegging, the illegal production and sale of whiskey.
Although still primarily regarded as a Midwesterner, Anderson called Southwest Virginia his home for the last sixteen years of his life. Ripshin provided him a launch pad to reconnect with small-town values, gain a newfound appreciation of the land, and begin his final years as a chronicler of depression-era America. In his writing about both the Midwest and the South, however, the physical locale is ultimately of secondary interest to him. As Anderson writes in Puzzled America, "What charms you about all of this traveling about America is not the scenery but the people met."
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Time Line
September 13, 1876 - Sherwood Anderson is born in Camden, Ohio.
1919 - Winesburg, Ohio, what many critics consider to be Sherwood Anderson's masterpiece, is published.
1926 - Sherwood Anderson, with money made from his 1925 best-seller, Dark Laughter, purchases Ripshin, a farm outside of Marion in southwestern Virginia.
June 6, 1933 - Sherwood Anderson marries Eleanor Copenhaver, a Marion native who works in the Industrial Program of the Young Women's Christian Association.
1940 - Home Town is published, the last of Sherwood Anderson's novels to be published in his lifetime.
March 8, 1941 - Sherwood Anderson dies in Panama after accidentally swallowing a toothpick and contracting peritonitis. He is buried at Round Hill Cemetery in Smyth County.
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Further Reading
Cite This Entry
- APA Citation:
Dunne, R. Sherwood Anderson (1876–1941). (2015, October 28). In Encyclopedia Virginia. Retrieved from http://www.EncyclopediaVirginia.org/Anderson_Sherwood_1876-1941.
- MLA Citation:
Dunne, Robert. "Sherwood Anderson (1876–1941)." Encyclopedia Virginia. Virginia Humanities, 28 Oct. 2015. Web. READ_DATE.
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Our company was asked to design an electrical clipper-stapler device. This idea was first proposed many years ago, but due to technical problems did not receive much of attention and so was forgotten for a long period of time.
The new requested device was supposed to work as a dual purpose device, i.e., working as an already existing electric stapler plus an additional electric clipper. Since such a device could be of extensive use in any office, the client intended to follow a Kickstarter campaign for its prototyping and production and so requested to have the design.
- The device had to be unique and designed from scratch.
- The design had to have two slots, one for its stapling and the other one for its clipping function.
- The clipper, as well as the stapler, was to be capable of clipping 15 sheets of paper.
- A mechanism had to be considered for including a bunch of paper clips in a way that they could be easily charged.
- The final product was to be working without any falter of cling
- The first version was requested to be powered by the mains while the other versions were to be powered by a battery.
- The device was supposed to be robust and durable for at least 5 years.
- The aestheticism of the device was to be considered.
Due to complexities in designing such a device that needed a careful integration of mechanical and electronic work, two teams including a team of mechanical engineers as well as a team of electronic engineers were assigned to do the work. The mechanical engineering team was responsible to offer a solution for the mechanical part including a mechanism that could provide the best solution in compliance with the given requirements while making use of the existing space within the enclosure. The solution also had to use the minimum mechanical including the gears, to increase its robustness. The electronics team had to make its design according to the mechanics for stapling and clipping.
Main features of the design
- Two slots were created in the front face of the device with the upper slot providing the clipping function and the lower slot providing the stapling function.
- In order to facilitate the charging and discharging the paper clips
- On the top of the device, a place for inserting the clipping cartridge was created. The cartridge was designed to be level with the top of the device and had the capacity to contain 70 paper clips.
- Some major components of the device were considered to be made of hard plastic. This would make the product robust and durable under any environmental condition.
Main parts of the design
- Power Supply: the supply was to convert the mains voltages to 5Vdc for the board
- Clipper Sensor: composed of photodiodes and phototransistors to sense the paper
- Paper clips Sensor
- Clipper Solenoid: The duty of this part was sending a signal once a paper was inserted in the clipper slot. Upon receiving this signal, the MCU would order the clipper motor to clip the papers.
- Paper clips Solenoid
- Micro-switches
Performance of the system
The overall performance of the electronic part of the system was as below:
The system made use of a diode light at the openings of both the stapler and the clipper slot. When the light beam was cut by inserting a paper at either of the slots, the electronic circuits activated the corresponding motor and the act of clipping or stapling was initiated. The details were as follows
- Once the sensors sensed the diode's light, both motors (stapler and clipper) were off meaning that there was no paper at either of the slots.
- When the clipper sensor did not sense the diode's light, the clipper motor was turned on and the clipping action was done. It should be mentioned that before the clipping is done, the papers were to be tightly pressed so that all of them could be clipped. In order to resolve this issue, two bumps were added on the two sides of the clipper slot. These two bumps were attached to each other by the force of a vertical spring. Once the papers were pushed into the clipping slot, these two bumps would take them and keep them pressed. The steps taken to do the clipping was as below:
- The motor forced the lowest clip in the cartridge to the front to take the paper
- Before getting the paperclip reaching the rim of the papers, a small mechanical pusher was designed to push the front rim of the clip and open it, making it ready to take all the papers.
- The clip was then further pushed to take all the papers in the slot.
- The motor was turned off and the bunch of clipped papers was ready.
- When the stapler sensor did not sense the diode's light, the stapler motor was to turn on.
The final design took about 4 months before getting ready for submission to the client for the prototyping. After several design revisions, the final version was prepared in compliance with all requested requirements. It was composed of 44 mechanical pieces and components plus an electronic board. It was finally delivered to the client and met his satisfaction.


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1 Corinthians 13:12–13
At present we see indistinctly, as in a mirror, but then face to face. At present I know partially; then I shall know fully as I am fully known. So faith, hope, love remain, these three; but the greatest of these is love.
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Main Street Macon invites the community to the annual Main Street Macon Christmas Parade!
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