text:
package resultdb

import (
	"sort"
	"testing"

	. "github.com/smartystreets/goconvey/convey"
	"google.golang.org/grpc/codes"

	. "go.chromium.org/luci/common/testing/assertions"
	"go.chromium.org/luci/resultdb/internal/testutil"
	"go.chromium.org/luci/resultdb/internal/testutil/insert"
	"go.chromium.org/luci/resultdb/pbutil"
	pb "go.chromium.org/luci/resultdb/proto/v1"
	"go.chromium.org/luci/resultdb/rdbperms"
	"go.chromium.org/luci/server/auth"
	"go.chromium.org/luci/server/auth/authtest"
)

func TestValidateQueryTestExonerationsRequest(t *testing.T) {
	t.Parallel()
	Convey(`Valid`, t, func() {
		err := validateQueryTestExonerationsRequest(&pb.QueryTestExonerationsRequest{
			Invocations: []string{"invocations/x"},
			PageSize:    50,
		})
		So(err, ShouldBeNil)
	})

	Convey(`invalid predicate`, t, func() {
		err := validateQueryTestExonerationsRequest(&pb.QueryTestExonerationsRequest{
			Invocations: []string{"x"},
		})
		So(err, ShouldErrLike, `invocations: "x": does not match`)
	})
}

func TestQueryTestExonerations(t *testing.T) {
	Convey(`QueryTestExonerations`, t, func() {
		ctx := auth.WithState(testutil.SpannerTestContext(t), &authtest.FakeState{
			Identity: "user:someone@example.com",
			IdentityPermissions: []authtest.RealmPermission{
				{Realm: "testproject:testrealm", Permission: rdbperms.PermListTestExonerations},
			},
		})

		insertInv := insert.FinalizedInvocationWithInclusions
		insertEx := insert.TestExonerations
		testutil.MustApply(ctx, testutil.CombineMutations(
			insertInv("x", map[string]interface{}{"Realm": "secretproject:testrealm"}, "a"),
			insertInv("a", map[string]interface{}{"Realm": "testproject:testrealm"}, "b"),
			insertInv("b", map[string]interface{}{"Realm": "otherproject:testrealm"}, "c"),
			// The invocation c doesn't have any included invocation.
			insertInv("c", map[string]interface{}{"Realm": "testproject:testrealm"}),
			insertEx("a", "A", pbutil.Variant("v", "a"), pb.ExonerationReason_OCCURS_ON_OTHER_CLS, pb.ExonerationReason_NOT_CRITICAL),
			insertEx("c", "C", pbutil.Variant("v", "c"), pb.ExonerationReason_OCCURS_ON_MAINLINE),
			insertEx("c", "D", pbutil.Variant("v", "d"), pb.ExonerationReason_UNEXPECTED_PASS),
		)...)

		srv := newTestResultDBService()

		Convey(`Permission denied`, func() {
			_, err := srv.QueryTestExonerations(ctx, &pb.QueryTestExonerationsRequest{
				Invocations: []string{"invocations/x"},
			})
			So(err, ShouldHaveAppStatus, codes.PermissionDenied)
		})

		Convey(`Valid with included invocation`, func() {
			res, err := srv.QueryTestExonerations(ctx, &pb.QueryTestExonerationsRequest{
				Invocations: []string{"invocations/a"},
			})
			So(err, ShouldBeNil)
			actual := res.TestExonerations
			sort.Slice(actual, func(i, j int) bool {
				return actual[i].Name < actual[j].Name
			})

			expected := []*pb.TestExoneration{
				{
					Name:            "invocations/a/tests/A/exonerations/0",
					TestId:          "A",
					Variant:         pbutil.Variant("v", "a"),
					VariantHash:     pbutil.VariantHash(pbutil.Variant("v", "a")),
					ExonerationId:   "0",
					ExplanationHtml: "explanation 0",
					Reason:          pb.ExonerationReason_OCCURS_ON_OTHER_CLS,
				},
				{
					Name:            "invocations/a/tests/A/exonerations/1",
					TestId:          "A",
					Variant:         pbutil.Variant("v", "a"),
					VariantHash:     pbutil.VariantHash(pbutil.Variant("v", "a")),
					ExonerationId:   "1",
					ExplanationHtml: "explanation 1",
					Reason:          pb.ExonerationReason_NOT_CRITICAL,
				},
				{
					Name:            "invocations/c/tests/C/exonerations/0",
					TestId:          "C",
					Variant:         pbutil.Variant("v", "c"),
					VariantHash:     pbutil.VariantHash(pbutil.Variant("v", "c")),
					ExonerationId:   "0",
					ExplanationHtml: "explanation 0",
					Reason:          pb.ExonerationReason_OCCURS_ON_MAINLINE,
				},
				{
					Name:            "invocations/c/tests/D/exonerations/0",
					TestId:          "D",
					Variant:         pbutil.Variant("v", "d"),
					VariantHash:     pbutil.VariantHash(pbutil.Variant("v", "d")),
					ExonerationId:   "0",
					ExplanationHtml: "explanation 0",
					Reason:          pb.ExonerationReason_UNEXPECTED_PASS,
				},
			}

			So(actual, ShouldResembleProto, expected)

			Convey(`And with missing included invocation`, func() {
				testutil.MustApply(
					ctx,
					// The invocation missinginv is missing in Invocations table.
					insert.Inclusion("a", "missinginv"),
				)
				res, err := srv.QueryTestExonerations(ctx, &pb.QueryTestExonerationsRequest{
					Invocations: []string{"invocations/a"},
				})
				So(err, ShouldBeNil)
				actual := res.TestExonerations
				sort.Slice(actual, func(i, j int) bool {
					return actual[i].Name < actual[j].Name
				})
				So(actual, ShouldResembleProto, expected)
			})
		})

		Convey(`Valid without included invocation`, func() {
			res, err := srv.QueryTestExonerations(ctx, &pb.QueryTestExonerationsRequest{
				Invocations: []string{"invocations/c"},
			})
			So(err, ShouldBeNil)
			actual := res.TestExonerations
			sort.Slice(actual, func(i, j int) bool {
				return actual[i].Name < actual[j].Name
			})
			So(actual, ShouldResembleProto, []*pb.TestExoneration{
				{
					Name:            "invocations/c/tests/C/exonerations/0",
					TestId:          "C",
					Variant:         pbutil.Variant("v", "c"),
					VariantHash:     pbutil.VariantHash(pbutil.Variant("v", "c")),
					ExonerationId:   "0",
					ExplanationHtml: "explanation 0",
					Reason:          pb.ExonerationReason_OCCURS_ON_MAINLINE,
				},
				{
					Name:            "invocations/c/tests/D/exonerations/0",
					TestId:          "D",
					Variant:         pbutil.Variant("v", "d"),
					VariantHash:     pbutil.VariantHash(pbutil.Variant("v", "d")),
					ExonerationId:   "0",
					ExplanationHtml: "explanation 0",
					Reason:          pb.ExonerationReason_UNEXPECTED_PASS,
				},
			})
		})
	})
}


text:
Freak Show & Tell: Kelsey Does Not Need Your Forgiveness
by Tara Ariano
Every week, television documentaries present us with so many unusual people, with so many strange and/or disturbing problems, you might find it hard to keep up with all of them. That's where I come in! Here's an unflinching look back at TV's Week in Freak Shows.
Couples Therapy (VH1)
Who Is This Now? Kelsey.
Why Are We Watching Her? She's trying to close the book on her relationship with Ghostface Killah.
How Did She Get Here? Kelsey brought Ghost to an in-patient couples therapy program to work on their issues, only to learn once she arrived that he'd been dating another woman since before he met Kelsey, and was still seeing her, so they broke up.
What's the Grossest Thing We See? When Kelsey tries to get some closure on the ugly way Ghost decided to spring her other girlfriend on him, Ghost magnanimously tells Kelsey he forgives her. Kelsey, understandably, is confused as to what he might need to forgive her for, and he replies that he's no longer angry that she brought him on this show. But that's not the only indignity Kelsey experiences in this episode: When she reveals to some of her fellow patients that she doesn't masturbate, Jon Gosselin and his girlfriend Liz Janetta give her the gift of a vibrator.
What Have We Learned? Apparently, Jon doesn't understand it would be weird to give Kelsey a sexual aid so that, whenever she uses it, she thinks of him.
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TV Shows – Full Episode Video – Reality TV Shows
Hoarding: Buried Alive (TLC)
Who Is This Now? Blane.
Why Are We Watching Him? He and his family are getting ready to undertake a major cleanup of their hoarded house.
How Did He Get Here? His mother, Lea, used to have a part-time side business buying various consumer goods and reselling them online. But when she started dating a man who sounds like he might have had a compulsive shopping issue, she hoarded the house full of items to sell and, later, with the usual hoarded items (which is to say: undifferentiated worthless crap).
What's the Grossest Thing We See? Because Lea filled his bedroom with stock for her online business, Blane, who looks to be somewhere between the ages of 10 and 13, shares not just a bedroom but a bed with his grandmother.
What Have We Learned? Lea's family is a lot more permissive about close relatives sharing intimate space than, say, mine is?
Preachers' Daughters (Lifetime)
Who Is This Now? Megan.
Why Are We Watching Her? Her wild ways have been deemed worthy of documentation for TV.
How Did She Get Here? Her father is a clergyman, so that she's not particularly pious is all the more noteworthy for its irony (which I doubt are the exact words with which the premise of this show was pitched to Lifetime).
What's the Grossest Thing We See? Megan's father, Jeff, emotionally tells us, early in the episode, that he recently lost his well-paid job manufacturing custom machinery, a position he's held for 28 years. He believes that now is the right time for him to go into ministry full-time, though it will lower the family's income considerably — among other things, they'll have to sell the family home and move into a smaller one. So when Jeff and his wife, Darleen, sit Megan down to say her father's lost his job and that there will be less disposable income — "God has brought us to this point," Jeff says — Megan replies by asking, "Is he gonna provide the money to go tanning?"
What Have We Learned? God does not subsidize tanning.
Watch the full episode here.
Filed Under: TV, Tara Ariano, Preachers Daughters, Lifetime, Couples therapy, vh1, TLC, Hoarding: Buried Alive
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Freak Show and Tell: The Mommy Issues Finally Rear Their Head on 'Married at First Sight' September 2, 2014
Video on Demand Report: 'Draft Day' Doesn't Quite Make the Team August 29, 2014
Freak Show and Tell: A Classic Retroactive Premarital Pregnancy Condemnation August 27, 2014
Video on Demand Report: Catch Up With the Second Second 'Spider-Man' August 22, 2014
The State of Scary TV: 'The Returned' and 'Ash vs Evil Dead' Join 'The Walking Dead' in Offering High-Quality Horror October 29, 2015
Ash vs. Bruce Campbell: The B Movie Legend Returns to 'The Evil Dead' October 28, 2015
Watch Barack Obama and Zach Galifianakis Hash Out the Issues on 'Between Two Ferns'
Who's That Guy? Glenn Fleshler, a.k.a. Errol Childress of 'True Detective'!

redpajama_set_name: RedPajamaCommonCrawl


text:
package org.wso2.carbon.event.core.internal.delivery.inmemory;

import org.wso2.carbon.event.core.subscription.Subscription;
import org.wso2.carbon.event.core.exception.EventBrokerException;

import java.util.Map;
import java.util.List;
import java.util.ArrayList;
import java.util.concurrent.ConcurrentHashMap;

/**
 * this class is used to keep the details of the subscription storage. Simply this contains
 * maps to keep the subscrition object deatils with the topic details
 */
public class InMemorySubscriptionStorage {
    /**
     * map to keep the subscription details with the topics. This is important in finding subscriptions
     * for a pirticular topic when publishing a message to a topic.
     */
    private Map<String, Map<String, Subscription>> topicSubscriptionMap;

    /**
     * keep the subscription id with the topic name. This is important when subscribing the resouces.
     */
    private Map<String, String> subscriptionIDTopicNameMap;

    public InMemorySubscriptionStorage() {
        this.topicSubscriptionMap = new ConcurrentHashMap<String, Map<String, Subscription>>();
        this.subscriptionIDTopicNameMap = new ConcurrentHashMap<String, String>();
    }

    public void addSubscription(Subscription subscription) {
        String topicName = getTopicName(subscription.getTopicName());
        Map<String, Subscription> subscriptionsMap = this.topicSubscriptionMap.get(topicName);
        if (subscriptionsMap == null){
            subscriptionsMap = new ConcurrentHashMap<String, Subscription>();
            this.topicSubscriptionMap.put(topicName, subscriptionsMap);
        }
        subscriptionsMap.put(subscription.getId(), subscription);
        this.subscriptionIDTopicNameMap.put(subscription.getId(), topicName);
    }

    public List<Subscription> getMatchingSubscriptions(String topicName) {
        topicName = getTopicName(topicName);
        List<Subscription> subscriptions = new ArrayList();

        List<String> matchingTopicNames = getTopicMatchingNames(topicName);
        for (String matchingTopicName : matchingTopicNames){
             if (this.topicSubscriptionMap.get(matchingTopicName) != null){
                 subscriptions.addAll(this.topicSubscriptionMap.get(matchingTopicName).values());
             }
        }
        return subscriptions;
    }

    public void unSubscribe(String subscriptionID) throws EventBrokerException {
        String topicName = getTopicName(this.subscriptionIDTopicNameMap.get(subscriptionID));
        if (topicName == null){
            throw new EventBrokerException("Subscription with ID " + subscriptionID + " does not exits");
        }
        Map<String, Subscription> subscriptionsMap = this.topicSubscriptionMap.get(topicName);
        if (subscriptionsMap == null){
            throw new EventBrokerException("Subscription with ID " + subscriptionID + " does not exits");
        }
        subscriptionsMap.remove(subscriptionID);
        this.subscriptionIDTopicNameMap.remove(subscriptionID);
    }

    public void renewSubscription(Subscription subscription) throws EventBrokerException {
        String topicName = getTopicName(subscription.getTopicName());
        Map<String, Subscription> subscriptionsMap = this.topicSubscriptionMap.get(topicName);
        if (subscriptionsMap == null){
            throw new EventBrokerException("There is no subscriptions with topic " + topicName);
        }

        Subscription existingSubscription = subscriptionsMap.get(subscription.getId());

        if (existingSubscription == null){
            throw new EventBrokerException("There is no subscription with subscription id " + subscription.getId());
        }

        existingSubscription.setExpires(subscription.getExpires());
        existingSubscription.setProperties(subscription.getProperties());

    }

    private List<String> getTopicMatchingNames(String topicName) {
        List<String> matchingTopicNames = new ArrayList<String>();

        if (topicName.equals("/")) {
            matchingTopicNames.add("/#");
        } else {
            String currentTopicName = "";
            String[] topicParts = topicName.split("/");
            int i = 0; // the first part if the split parts are "" since always topics start with /
            while (i < (topicParts.length)) {
                currentTopicName = currentTopicName + topicParts[i] + "/";
                matchingTopicNames.add(currentTopicName + "#");
                if (i == (topicParts.length - 1)||i == (topicParts.length - 2)) {
                    matchingTopicNames.add(currentTopicName + "*");
                }
                i++;
            }
        }
        matchingTopicNames.add(topicName);
        return matchingTopicNames;
    }

    private String getTopicName(String topicName){
        if (!topicName.startsWith("/")){
            topicName = "/" + topicName;
        }

        if (topicName.endsWith("/") && (topicName.length() != 1)){
            topicName = topicName.substring(0, topicName.lastIndexOf("/"));
        }
        return topicName;
    }
}

redpajama_set_name: RedPajamaGithub


I have a requirement to count the number of times an exception occurs against a staff name and display on a dashboard. I need to count nulls as this shows as a green tick. Problem is that the data I am working with comes straight from a database which has some challenges, one of which is that there are sometimes erroneous duplicate exception_IDs.
This is all working beautifully but now I have a requirement to exclude certain exceptions based on dept. Where there are 2 exceptions with different exception_IDs and different depts but the same account no, I need to exclude one.
Are you able to post a sample workbook of how your data is set up (So Your Question Didn't Get Answered...)?
I don't think I can reproduce the complexity but I will make as close a mockup as I can. It might take me a while but I'll get back to you as soon as I can. Thanks.
Hi Tracy. It just wasn't possible to recreate all the complexities of this database. Thanks anyway.


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Gov. Inslee's statement on the passing of former Supreme Court Justice Robert Utter
"Robert Utter was a sailor, pilot, husband, father, a man of faith and one of the great legal legends in Washington state history.
"In 23 years on Washington's Supreme Court, Justice Utter rightfully earned a reputation for taking strong stands on the most important constitutional issues of our time. He was unafraid of controversy and stood strong for what he believed — even resigning from the Supreme Court over his deeply held belief that the death penalty was being unequally applied.
"Justice Utter fought tirelessly for those who felt disenfranchised and powerless, including children, victims and battered women. His work makes lives better every day in Washington.
"Judge Utter embraced all this world had to offer and strived every day to make sure others were afforded that same opportunity. His legacy and his work will be long remembered and talked about. Trudi and I send our deepest condolences to his family and loved ones."


We started The Left Handers Club back in 1990 in response to requests from customers to produce a newsletter and campaign on behalf of left-handers. Our aims from the beginning were to get more left-handed products made and raise awareness of the issues facing left-handers – particularly left-handed children in school.
Left-Handers Club membership is completely free and as a member you will receive our unique "backwards" calendar, with days running right to left – which left-handers often find easier to read .
You will also get access to a free Membership Certificate which you can personalise with your own name for printing.
We value your privacy and will never give out, lease or sell any of your personal details. All newsletters contain an unsubscribe link which you can click to remove yourself if you wish, although not many people do!
My 6 year old is left handed and both myself and his Dad are right handed. I am looking into everything I can that will help my son and seeing what options are there are for him, such as writing aids etc.
My funniest moments are when I go for a Chinese meal.with friends who are all right handed and whoever is sitting next to me and I have a sort of chopstick fencing match when the ends clash as we eat. I try to get the end seat if it's a square table but when it's a round one there is no escape!
There aren't enough things for the growing population of left handers !
Hi Jackie – what were you looking for that you couldn't find on our site?
Sounds wonderful. I'm am a retired teacher K-12 and have taught for over 20 years. I also adopted 3 kids and married a man who are all left handed to one degree or another but I am the only one truly lefty in the family.
It's very good to know some things about myself that I often wondered about!
When I did my nurse training in university there were single chairs with a writing desk attachment that we had to use. Inevitably they were always positioned on the right side meaning my elbow kept falling through the gap on the left ( and proper) side. Oh the difficulties out there for us lefties!
After 63 years without paying attention to my left-handedness…except when seating with a group at a table, in which I always choose a left corner so I don't bump elbows while cutting my food, I have finally taken the plunge and bought some scissors.
I am so impressed I am going to order just about everything you sell and have a left-fest!
Thank you. I wish you also sold power tools, like drills. The torque is dangerous.
I have just married a 75 year old lefty and he can't understand why nail clippers, scissors, peelers etc never work for him. I just showed him this site and he is excited to try some new gadgets!
I know the old seating dilemma! Nothing worse than colliding with a righty. Also, asking to change seats and having to go into detail, because they don't get it. I try and take a left corner seat or head of the table. Being a lefty has helped me develop a good sense of humor!
Just like to get what you have on sale (or otherwise) for left handers. My questions are about pens and other stationary, I can't understand what's better with a left handed pen versus a right handed pen, plus some other stuff I kind of question.
You have a lot of cool stuff, just wonder, outside of kitchen knives and stuff like that I wonder if your really looking after left handers, like a left handed ruler? I don't understand, I'm more than willing to get left handed note books and stuff like that, just it seems left handers are kind of a weird bunch to cater to. Love your scissors though, I got them threw Amazon though, I'd rather like dealing with you guys though.
Being left handed I have gone through lots of troubles and many time I found myself in problems.When I was learning in my school days doing additions,substractions was big task for me even I had understand rules of these and other mathematical operations.many people forced to me to be right handed.Handling some objects challeng me.I love music too much but could'nt have managed to do career in this lovely field.I am studying science now.
Hi..I m so happy to join this club and I am very proud of being a left hander although it makes some difficulties in day today activities. Thank u for accepting me.
Other than being necessary to shift gears as a truck driver I really don't use my right hand for much in daily living!
National Left Handers Day was founded 8/13/1976 that is my exact DOB.!
Got a smile out of your information on twins. I have an identical twin and of course I was the lucky one and blessed with being left-handed! Her children are lefties and mine are right-handed, but my grandson is left-handed. My dad was also a lefty and we both were somewhat dyslexic. He earned 2 doctorates by possessing an incredible photographic memory. (Due to his tendency towards dyslexia). My dad helped me accommodate and was great to play catch with. I have one brother as well who is left-handed. I am glad the legacy of left carries on!
I remember when I was in 3rd grade I tried writing with my right hand because I didn't want to be different. The teacher noticed my troubles of attempting to be a righty and made me switch back.
Yes…that's a common trait among left-handers. Can't remember where I read it but it's a real thing.
It has also been suggested that I am an INDIGO person. Need I go on ?
I have for decades wondered if my mother may have forced me to be right handed. My grandfather was left handed and everything I do besides write, I do better left handed. It has always been something I have wondered about until I found this site and other people's comments. Many of their problems I also have, and especially the people who know they were forced to be right, is very helpful for me to find more information about it. Thank you for this site!!
What I can be proud of it , is that I'm left handed and I'm born on 13 August 1980 the same day is national day of women in my country . Such an amazing coincidence .
Wow great find. This site will enable me to help my little grandson to learn to write big thanks.
Really me too, I'm not going to lie it's kind of hard to be left handed when everyone in my family thinks it's really wearied to be left handed.
Dear Madam/sir. Not sure if I qualify for this membership of such an illustrious club. I was born left handed,living in the countryside where superstition was rife a left hander was considered to be at least unlucky at best: or work of the devil at worst. So one of the cheesemakers/cooks made it her mission to rid me of this awful curse. (she was a Methodist) She largely succeeded as she was on hand for meals etc., I do not know left from right & have to think about it. But my big revenge is that I still throw left handed!!
Please excommunicate me if I am not eligible for your club, but do remember that if I am accepted you will be heaping revenge on our departed cheesemaker/cook. Amy was her name if you wish to insert pointed objects into dolls on my behalf.


text:
Tensions in Iran after nuclear deal grow in hostility
World » World. Main
Tensions between the Iranian president, Hassan Rouhani, and more conservative authorities over the country's nuclear agreement and its future are turning increasingly bitter, punctuated by public exchanges and growing signs of an anti-American backlash, including arrests.
Mr. Rouhani is insisting that the nuclear deal signed in July not only will create the basis for an end to Iran's prolonged economic isolation, but could be the start of new relations with the United States under certain conditions. Yet even his cautious statement of optimism has provoked a stormy reaction.
The tensions, which political analysts foresee lasting into next year at least, are in some ways an expected outcome of the nuclear agreement, which rolls back Iran's atomic program in exchange for a broad lifting of sanctions. Many hard-liners opposed the accord as a submission to foreign powers, especially the United States. With the supreme leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, endorsing the agreement, they turned their criticism directly on Mr. Rouhani and his aides.
The losing side's reaction has been harsh, as seen in a series of arrests of Iranian journalists and at least one Iranian-American accused of collaborating with Western powers or worse. Even some prominent conservatives who mistrust the United States but see practical benefits in having a better relationship with it have been criticized.
The reaction has been stoked in some ways by Ayatollah Khamenei, who while endorsing the accord has also warned of what he calls an American desire to infiltrate Iran's culture, economics and politics.
"Khamenei is pre-empting any possible attempt to improve the official image of the U.S., which would threaten his and the regime's identity," said Cliff Kupchan, an Iran specialist and chairman of the Eurasia Group, a political risk consultancy in Washington, in an advisory to clients emailed last week.
Mr. Kupchan said in the advisory that, at least for the next several months, he expected that "the surge in arrests, anti-U.S. rhetoric and possible new discrimination against U.S. consumer goods will hurt Iran's investment climate."
» US officials rule out Israel peace deal before Obama leaves office
» 5 Iranian journalists detained in ongoing crackdown
» Iran agrees to join Vienna summit on Syria crisis
» Bloomberg: Credit Agricole said to be near $800 mln sanction settlement
» Iranian parliament passes bill approving nuclear deal
» Russia threatens to deploy nuclear missile system to Kaliningrad


Jesus' death, burial, and resurrection brings us to that good news that He is alive. When I saved I thought Jesus was here to help me be a better Christian. Every step I took forward was followed by two steps back. And that left me with two questions: How can I call myself a Christian but experience so little power for change? How can I be so sincere and eager, yet struggle so much with temptation?
* What is the final step to server the Lord? What is the difference between spirit and flesh?
* How do we have a conversation about worldly affairs without being offensive or insensitive?
* I've been a Christian over 40yrs. But I'm in a real dilemma… I have a sin that really has a hold on me. What am I to do?
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Taking inspiration from the designer's awe of the powerful organic movement and forms found in nature, REIGNE's bespoke collection references nature's alluring shapes, textures and colours to create wearable one-of-a-kind pieces of art.
In 2011 when the designer's first baby was born, Dana felt a remarkable urge to share the beauty of Mother Nature with her newborn son.
Over the course of baby Liam's first four years, Dana spent much of her time exploring their hometown of Melbourne, Australia and its surrounding areas with her baby, and travelling the globe to accompany her husband Zac on his business trips. It was these daily encounters with nature and diverse travel scenes coupled with the experience of seeing the simple beauty of nature through a child's eyes that formed the essence of REIGNE's bespoke collection.
"Once one sees nature through the eyes of a young child, the world becomes a magical place. Whether it be the richness of colour during the Autumn season, the sound made when a child scrunches fallen leaves in his hand, the reflections in puddles of water or the smell of spring rain – inspiration is truly everywhere".
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About Faces, in Art and in the Brain
Look at the four images below. You probably recognize each image as a face, all of the faces mean something to you, and each produces some reaction. In some cases, you clearly recognize the person portrayed, such as George Washington. In other cases, such as the abstraction by Pablo Picasso, you may understand that a face is being depicted but realize that it does not look like any real person. Faces have long been considered special as social signals, and, from prehistoric amulets to many modern painters, faces are central to art. Now, we have striking new neurologic evidence that faces are special in the brain, as well. As you view the faces on this page, just as when you look at the faces of people around you, you are engaging a part of your cerebrum that seems to be dedicated to facial perception, and there is a measurable increase in blood flow to an area in the brain's right hemisphere called the fusiform facial area (FFA).
Author: Robert L. Solso, Ph.D.
Faces and Survival
Almost all creatures, from dogs to canaries, gorillas to penguins, salamanders to crocodiles, kangaroos to spiders, and certainly members of our human family, manifest the same formula for facial composition: a forehead, two eyes, a nose, a mouth, and a chin that are in the same relative positions. Why was nature so consistent in composing faces? Essentially, the arrangement optimizes survival: the eyes located high for a commanding view of the world, the nose turned down to avoid the rain, and the mouth situated to ingest food that has been perused by the nose and eyes above it.
Faces are usually the first thing we notice in other people. Faces tell us more about a person than any other physical attribute and have always been socially important to humans. More often than not, we evaluate each other from first impressions based largely on facial expressions. In general, faces we find attractive or trustworthy, we bond with; faces we find offensive or deceitful, we avoid. Just below this behavioral act, however, lies a more profound reason for our response to faces.
Throughout the long course of human evolution, recognizing and evaluating people on the basis of their faces made an important contribution to survival. Knowing whom to trust and whom to suspect saved many of our ancestors from needless bloodshed, so they could live to obtain food and mate another day. As cooperative societies emerged and people relied on each other for working together in hunting, food gathering, or constructing shelter, it was helpful to rely on bodily and facial expressions as much as on words to comprehend intentions and emotions. The formation of alliances, vitally important in what we might call the "hive-life" of social people, depended on communicating trustworthiness, which could be done, in part, through the always conspicuous face. Ability to read faces became a tool for human survival.
Darwin's dog: a facial display clearly understood by an antagonist. © Steve McCurry / Magnum Photos
Charles Darwin's classic book, The Expression of the Emotions in Man and Animals,1 pointed out that facial gestures, as well as some postures, were part of the survival kit of some animals. Discussing aggressive expressions of animals, Darwin wrote: "When a dog is on the point of springing on his antagonist, he utters a savage growl; the ears are pressed closely backwards, and the upper lip is retracted out of the way of his teeth, especially of his canines." Species from menacing cobras to laughing baboons to play-acting birds such as the common killdeer (which tries to draw predators away from its nest with cries of "killdeee, killdeee" and a "broken wing" charade) have survived another day by demonstrating aggressive or distracting behaviors.
According to Paul Ekman, facial expressions of emotion—anger, happiness, disgust, surprise, sadness, fear—are universal across cultures. Anne Solso, courtesy of Robert L. Solso
The Universality of Facial Expression
Human facial expressions are also designed to arouse reactions from others. The early work of Darwin (who took full advantage of the British Empire's broad geography) indicated that people all over the world both express and perceive facial expression in similar ways. These early observations were confirmed recently by Paul Ekman, Ph.D., of the University of California Medical School at San Francisco, who enlarged Darwin's observations, using more sophisticated methods.2,3 Traveling to exotic locations such as Papua New Guinea where the residents had little contact with outsiders, Ekman showed the natives photographs of people expressing anger, happiness, disgust, surprise, sadness, and fear and asked them to say what emotion was being expressed. He found wide general agreement in the emotions identified, which he interpreted as meaning "our evolution gives us universal expressions, which tell others some important information about us." In these universal signals we are able to read another's emotions, attitudes, and truthfulness. Of course, exceptions abound, such as the everyday deceptions put forward for our benefit by, for example, actors on stage and salespeople who have learned to mimic genuine facial expressions. Although culture shapes the nuances of facial expressions, nature seems to endow us with a limited number of basic emotions and ways to convey them, much like a language, which is basically the same everywhere it is used but is subject to local dialects.
Learning from Face Blindness
If nature has furnished us with special adaptive skills for facial expression, how are these skills manifested in our brains? Do we have neural systems just for reading faces? Both clinical medicine and cognitive neuroscience can help to answer these questions.
Since ancient times, physicians noticed that some patients exhibit a type of visual agnosia (a-gnosis, "non-knowledge") in which visual information in general is not understood. Related to this problem is another more specialized condition in which a person is unable to process facial information. The 19th-century French neurologist Jean Martin Charcot recognized a type of "face blindness" in an otherwise healthy person who had difficulty recognizing a close friend by his face. In the mid-20th century, this disorder was given the name "prosopagnosia," which literally means "facial non-knowledge."
In classic cases of prosopagnosia, the person's behavior is striking. He notes and understands all other types of sensory information—such as what type of perfume someone might be wearing, what color scarf she has on, and the sound of her voice— yet, cannot recognize even a close relative by that person's face. One celebrated case of prosopagnosia is reported by the physician Oliver Sacks, M.D., in his popular book The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat.4 Sacks's patient could recognize his wife if she wore a well-known hat or some other familiar item, but, by facial information alone, he was mystified as to the identity of this nice lady visitor.
Prosopagnosia's narrow and specific deficit suggested to scientists that either a specialized part of the brain was involved in facial perception or some general impairment existed in the way the brain put together perceptual components to compose the gestalt of an object such as a face. A first hypothesis was that prosopagnosia was caused by brain lesions, trauma, or damage to the temporal lobe. We now know that the neurologic reason for this selective blindness is that a cluster of specialized cortical cells vital for facial processing are damaged, making normal facial identification difficult but sparing vision for other things (such as a hat). Scientists learned through postmortem examinations and, more recently, neuroimaging studies that a specialized part of the right hemisphere is involved in facial processing. We can understand this better by looking at how visual information in general is processed by the brain.
A normal view of a face (top), and the same face as a prosopagnosiac might see it. Anne Solso, courtesy of Robert L. Solso
Visual Processing in the Brain
Understanding the neuronal pathways involved in vision—from the eye to the brain to the achievement of object recognition—once seemed terribly complicated, engaging a multitude of perceptual and cognitive elements. Now, we have a good overview of this visual processing system. It begins when sensory information from the eye enters the primary visual cortex in the posterior part of the brain, activating a series of neurons upward in the dorsal stream and downward in the ventral stream. Each pathway has a distinct function in processing. The dorsal stream largely identifies where an object is; the ventral stream is involved in identifying what an object is. In the ventral stream, forms, colors, and faces are found. We call this process "the streaming of visual information," although the metaphor of streams is an oversimplification of a brain teeming with cross-circuit communication in which object identification and the rules of processing are intricately entwined.
Some areas of the brain show increases in blood flow, indicating stepped-up activity, when we process visual information. Information travels from the primary visual cortex, labeled PVC, in two streams, dorsal ("where") and ventral ("what"). The red areas, especially the fusiform gyrus, are most active in recognizing faces. Anne Solso, courtesy of Robert L. Solso
On the hilly topography of the brain is a region called the occipitotemporal cortex, which processes visual information. Located within that region is a specific outcropping called the fusiform gyrus, or the fusiform facial area (FFA). By means of measuring regional cerebral blood with positron emission tomography (PET) and functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) scans, scientists have discovered that this part of the brain is active when people look at faces. The exact nature of the FFA is still being studied, with some researchers hypothesizing that faces are conceptualized as holistic configurations, while others suggest that faces are processed as a composite of features.
This divergence of opinion is part of a larger debate in neuroscience. On one hand, it has been suggested that the brain consists of domain-specific modules that are specialized for carrying out explicit functions, such as processing sensory events (in this case, faces)—the so-called "Swiss Army knife" model. Others, however, argue that the brain consists of more general mechanisms that are broad enough to handle a variety of different processing operations (for example, faces but also other visual signals). Faces, according to this latter view, would acquire their special status through repeated exposure. The considerable evidence gathered using neuroimaging, specialized electroencephalograms, and other techniques to study the processing of faces and face facsimiles favors the domain-specific hypothesis: faces are unique and seem to occupy a distinct cerebral space or module.
Inverted Faces
Look at the face to the right. Do you recognize this popular figure? Now, turn the page and see how much easier it is to recognize him when the picture is upright.
Do you recognize this well-known person? © Douglas Kirkland / Corbis
This phenomenon is called the facial inversion effect. Because inverted faces convey the same information as upright faces— all features and relationships are identical, only the orientation differs—one might expect similar visual processing patterns and cerebral involvement. But experiments show that different cortical locations are involved in processing inverted faces, providing further evidence that the FFA is a module dedicated to the processing of upright faces. Frank Tong, Ph.D., showed subjects a series of upright and inverted faces and objects similar to the ones below and used fMRI to measure cerebral blood flow, an indication of neurologic activity.5 Looking at the upright faces produced a considerable increase in cerebral blood flow, whereas the inverted cartoon of Mickey Mouse and the cow produced less activity.
These upright and inverted figures were used to test brain activity when recognizing faces. Both upright faces on the left showed increased blood flow to the FFA, while the inverted Mickey Mouse and the cow on the right did not. Courtesy of Robert L. Solso
Curiously, people with prosopagnosia tend to do relatively better identifying inverted faces than upright ones, which suggests that upright normally viewed faces are processed by a different cluster of neurons than are inverted faces. Processing inverted faces seems similar to processing other complex visual stimuli, for example, a painting of a pastoral scene by Monet— that is, it appears to involve a partial decomposition of a whole face into components.
Notice how much easier it is to recognize a face, in this case Arnold Schwartzenegger, when it is presented in an upright position. © Douglas Kirkland / Corbis
Further evidence that upright faces are processed by a specialized brain module, while inverted faces are processed by an analysis of components, is found in the "Thatcher Effect," so called because a particularly off-putting picture of the former prime minister of Britain was used in an experiment that demonstrated it. Here, we illustrate the effect below with Tom Cruise. At first glance, there is nothing peculiar about this picture, but, if you turn it right side up, you will see it is grotesque.
Invert this picture of Tom Cruise for a startling view. © Peter Kramer / Getty Images
Inside the Artist's Mind
The depiction of human faces has been a theme of artists from ancient Egyptian wall paintings, to early Hebrew and Christian representations, to Renaissance portraits, to modern abstract paintings. Some contemporary artists present us with distorted faces such as the disturbing portrait by Francis Bacon on the next page. This "face" stymies our psychological need to understand the emotion being conveyed as well as processing by the neurologic cluster in our brain's FFA to make sense of what we see. In frustrating our normal propensity to understand and process, Bacon forces us to look deeper into the picture.
Francis Bacon distorts the most important part of this painting, Study of a Man Talking (1981). Looking at the man's disfigured face, we are baffled as to who he is and what he might be thinking or saying.Francis Bacon, Study of a Man Talking, 1981. Oil on canvas, 78 x 58 inches. Hess Collection, Napa (California), Bern, © 2004 Estate of Francis Bacon / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York
We know little about the way an artist's brain works while painting a face—although, if attention to faces involves increased blood flow to the FFA, then common sense would tell us that artists throughout the ages must have experienced a veritable flood in that brain region. Although facial perception is associated with increased blood flow to the FFA, expert facial artists may actually show less blood flow as contrasted with novice painters.
Here we see the stages of visual-cerebral processing when we look at Raphael's Madonna of the Meadow (1506). First, we focus on different parts of the painting such as the faces, colors, forms, and perspective. These visual images are initially processed by the primary visual cortex in the rear of the brain and are then routed dorsally and vertically. Form, color, and faces (see Mary's face) appear to be processed in the vertical stream.[top] Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna, Austria © Erich Lessing / Art Resource, NY, [bottom] Anne Solso, courtesy of Robert L. Solso
Consider a famous artist such as Raphael, arguably the most important portrait painter of the Renaissance. What cerebral activity might be going on as he composed Madonna of the Meadow (1506)? From recent discoveries in cognitive neuroscience, it is possible to recreate the activity of Raphael's brain as well as the activity of those who view this classic piece of art.
Look first at the exquisite faces painted by Raphael. Now, consider the areas of the brain activated by various components of the painting. A visual scene is viewed bit-bybit as our eyes focus on one part and then move (in little jumps called "saccades") to another point, and so on. In the case of Madonna of the Meadow, one might focus on the face of Mary, then on the colors, then on a geometric form, and then on cues to perspective, such as distance. Each of these features has specific loci in the cortex as shown in the dorsal ("where") and the ventral ("what") streams. Note the location of Mary's face in the FFA.
Although looking into Raphael's brain with the use of modern imaging techniques is impossible, we can apply such techniques to today's artists. Several years ago, I undertook a project called "The Artist's Brain" to see what cerebral structures might be involved in the production of art. Initially, I tested the feasibility of the study by modifying an MRI machine so I could copy a portrait of a face while having my brain scanned. The results indicated that successful data could be collected this way, and a detailed study was launched in which a leading portrait painter drew a series of faces while undergoing fMRI analysis.
Humphrey Ocean, named by the National Portrait Gallery in London as one of the foremost portrait artists of the 20th century, consented to having his brain scanned as he drew a series of faces. Measures of his brain activity6 were contrasted with a control subject who had no particular training in art. The results are shown on the next page. It appears that a novice artist requires greater cerebral "effort," as indicated by increased regional cerebral brain flow in the FFA than does an experienced portrait painter, who spends hours each day over years looking at and analyzing faces. Perhaps Ocean is so well practiced at facial perception that he is less likely than a novice to ponder the features and gestalt of a face. Furthermore, if Ocean's brain is especially efficient at processing faces, he may be able to allocate more cerebral effort to deeper aspects of a person's face. My preliminary results did indicate that Ocean showed greater activation in the right frontal area (see upper right two scans) than did the novice painter, which suggests that the expert painter used "higher order" cognitive processing. In effect, he could be "thinking" a face, as well as "seeing" it.
This sketch of a face was drawn by Humphrey Ocean while a functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) scan of his brain was made. Courtesy of Robert L. Solso
Scans of Humphrey Ocean's brain (top) show more activity in the right prefrontal cortex and less in the FFA (lower right of brain) while he draws a portrait than comparable scans of a non-artist. Courtesy of Robert L. Solso
The Important Function of Faces
Our faces, which we take so much for granted as we shave or apply makeup each morning, are a powerful and privileged component of our nature, with an important role in evolution, social life, and art. For centuries, artists implicitly understood this significance of the face by arousing our perceptions and reactions with portraits of all kinds. With modern techniques we are now beginning to understand how the brain's structure and operation reflect the centrality of faces in daily lives—a lesson first learned many thousands of years ago on the Serengeti Plains as early humans grappled with urgent issues of self-preservation based on the non-linguistic gestures of other humans.
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It's official, Badgers face LSU in 2014
August 23, 2013 By Bill Scott
Here's a copy of the press release sent out by the UW-Sports Information Staff today.
MADISON, Wis. — After months of speculation, it is finally official. The Wisconsin football team will face LSU in the AdvoCare Texas Kickoff on Aug. 30, 2014 at Reliant Stadium in Houston, Texas. The game is the final missing piece to the Badgers' 2014 schedule, which is now complete.
"This is a tremendous opportunity for us to open next season against one of the best programs in the country," UW head coach Gary Andersen said. "We want to compete at the highest level and on a national stage and this game is a great example of that."
The game will be played in prime time and televised nationally on an ESPN network. Reliant Stadium is the home to the NFL's Houston Texans. The Texans currently have four former Wisconsin players on their roster, including 2012 NFL Defensive Player of the Year J.J. Watt.
Wisconsin and LSU have played twice previously, with the Tigers prevailing both times. LSU won, 38-28, on Sept. 25, 1971 at Camp Randall Stadium and was victorious again the following season, 27-7, in Baton Rouge. The 1972 game marks the last time UW played an SEC team during the regular season.
The 2014 game vs. LSU will be the first of two neutral-site season-openers against high-profile SEC teams for the Badgers. UW will kick off the 2015 season against Alabama at Cowboys Stadium.
Complete 2014 Schedule
Aug. 30 vs. LSU
Reliant Stadium, Houston, Texas
Sept. 6 Western Illinois
Sept. 13 BYE
Sept. 20 Bowling Green
Sept. 27 USF
Oct. 4 at Northwestern
Oct. 11 ILLINOIS
Oct. 18 BYE
Oct. 25 MARYLAND
Nov. 1 at Rutgers
Nov. 8 at Purdue
Nov. 15 NEBRASKA
Nov. 22 at Iowa
Nov. 29 MINNESOTA
Dec. 6 Big Ten Championship Game
Lucas Oil Stadium, Indianapolis, Ind.
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The New Breed of Sweet IPAs
Last night, reclining on the roof of an undisclosed warehouse in the inner Southeast beneath an exploding sky, I poured out a measure of the new Deschutes Fresh Squeezed IPA. It's one of the many IPAs out now that harnesses the intense fruitiness of new American hops, in this case Citra and Mosaic. The name and tagline tell you everything you need to know about the beer's nature: "no fruit was harmed in the making of this beer."
When you have been tasting beer for decades, your mind has a tendency to become enclosed by habit. IPAs have evolved in increments, from screamingly bitter, mildly grapefruity versions of the 90s to the increasingly aromatic, dank, dry-hopped incarnations in the mid aughts to now, when bitterness is dialed pretty far back in favor of vividly fruity IPAs. Since it has gone in increments, I have mainly just revised my old mental model to accommodate for new trends. IPAs are bitter beers rich with aromatics and hop flavor. The formula may change, but these facts remain the same.
But last night, one of the roof-sitters--not a beer geek--sampled Fresh Squeezed IPA and remarked: "Wow, that's a sweet beer."
He's right. Deschutes put 60 bitterness units in this beer, but it has a ton of caramelly body (it's closer in color to Newcastle than Pilsner Urquell) that adds a lot of sugars to the mix. Layer those intensely fruity new-variety hops on top and you add a level of juiciness the mind tracks as purely sweet. From a sensory perspective, these aren't bitter beers at all--they are actually sweet.
Even when the beer is stronger, has less sugars and more bitterness, the purity of the fruit flavors gives these beers a distinctly sweet character. Boneyard and Gigantic make juicy IPAs that were, in Oregon, the harbingers of the sweetening trend. Hop-growers have been going crazy bringing new products to the market, and what people seem to love most are the tropical fruit flavors. (Hops with resiny, dank qualities or piney character seem to be fading, trendwise.) I saw this in Europe, too, where breweries have more ready access to New Zealand hops, which also have saturated fruit flavors--though they tend toward berry and lychee.
I was feeling somewhat oppressed by the heavy, ganja-like hopping that was most popular a few years back--those beers were a sensory and alcoholic kick to the head. These new IPAs, sweet with the sunshine of fruit and often more sessionable, are right up my alley.
Labels: Deschutes, IPA, trends
Jesse Adams 10:03 AM, July 05, 2013
Well said! I couldn't agree more, especially with "These new IPAs, sweet with the sunshine of fruit and often more sessionable, are right up my alley."
Anonymous 10:18 AM, July 05, 2013
Maybe it's the Corn Dextrose everyone is adding?
vasili 12:47 PM, July 05, 2013
The Dextrose would dry the beer out, as it's an easily fermentable sugar. It is really the opposite of what Jeff is talking about, used mostly for boosting alcohol without leaving the body all grain brewing would. Sweetness would be a combination of creating more complex sugars average beer yeasts can not ferment as well as hop variety choice and de-emphasizing the bittering additions for late kettle additions that retain more of the flavor of hops.
Anonymous 1:27 PM, July 05, 2013
Isn't that basically an India Red Ale?
Vasili 5:23 PM, July 05, 2013
I think the only hard and fast criteria there is that it is "Red". Interpretations could be dry or sweet in either category, relative to each other. I suppose they could likewise be Lighter or Darker; or edge closer to Red, but just because it has more body doesn't mean it is darker. You can achieve that with mash temps, Carapils or Dextrin malts. I think "red" is typically the (heavier) use of mid range color/caramel malts. Trying to create clear lines between some of these styles can get silly. For example India Session Ale? Delicious? yes! I would think so even if they called it pale ale. Jeff is picking up on a trend to back off the bittering (early) hop adds. not radical stuff, but distinct from how many had been making them.
Jeff Alworth 6:09 PM, July 05, 2013
I'm with Vasili here. It's the shift from early kettle/high BU hopping to late kettle/high flavor and aroma hopping, all combined with these new ultra-fruity hop varieties that didn't exist even five years ago.
Reds--that's a whole nother deal, isn't it? (A style in flux or no style, not sure which.)
Pete Dunlop 8:52 AM, July 06, 2013
Fresh Squeezed IPA definitely isn't a red, but it's darker than many current IPAs...reminiscent of an English-style IPA in color. I tasted it for the first time last night and it wasn't quite what I expected. Bitterness is definitely in the background and it is mildly sweet. I thought it would be a golden, citrusy hop bomb.
Clearly, the trend toward late addition hops and dry-hopping has transformed the IPA. I think RPM set the bar for these fruity, not-so bitter IPAs. RPM is a good deal lighter in color than Fresh Squeezed, and not as sweet...it relies on flavor and aroma, not bitterness. On that subject, Vasili recently created Citra IPA, a terrific late addition hop bomb that was to die for. It lasted about a week in the pub. Fantastic stuff.
Unknown 4:19 PM, July 06, 2013
I had many Double-Wide IPAs this past week...I'm not ready to give up my mouth blasting piney, bitter, fruity IPA. Adding another type of IPA (sweet if you will), only makes life better! Cheers to the craft!
Eric 9:56 PM, July 08, 2013
While I love the danker IPAs, the newest citrus blast IPAs are a ton of fun. I wrote about the Odell Imperial Peach IPA, and while it does have peaches in the mix, the hops clearly complement them and were chosen to massively boost that profile. It was awesome.
http://www.focusonthebeer.com/2013/04/a-beer-worth-buying-odell-brewings-tree.html
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This small piece of yellow metal is believed to be the first piece of gold discovered in 1848 at Sutter's Mill in California, launching the gold rush.
James Marshall was superintending the construction of a sawmill for Col. John Sutter on the morning of January 24, 1848, on the South Fork of the American River at Coloma, California, when he saw something glittering in the water of the mill's tailrace. According to Sutter's diary, Marshall stooped down to pick it up and "found that it was a thin scale of what appeared to be pure gold." Marshall bit the metal as a test for gold.
In June of 1848, Colonel Sutter presented Marshall's first-find scale of gold to Capt. Joseph L. Folsom, U.S. Army Assistant Quartermaster at Monterey. Folsom had journeyed to Northern California to verify the gold claim for the U.S. Government.
The gold samples then traveled with U.S. Army Lt. Lucien Loeser by ship to Panama, across the isthmus by horseback, by ship to New Orleans, and overland to Washington. A letter of transmittal from Folsom that accompanied the packet lists Specimen #1 as "the first piece of gold ever discovered in this Northern part of Upper California found by J. W. Marshall at the Saw Mill of John A. Sutter."
By August of 1848, as evidence of the find, this piece and other samples of California gold had arrived in Washington, D.C., for delivery to President James K. Polk and for preservation at the National Institute. Within weeks, President Polk formally declared to Congress that gold had been discovered in California.
In 1861, the National Institute and its geological specimens, including this gold and the letter, entered the collections of the Smithsonian Institution. The Marshall Nugget remains in the collections as evidence of the discovery of gold in California.
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Let's Talk About 'The Fault in Our Stars'
Tim Falkenberg June 16th, 2014 - 4:47 PM
The following is a full spoiler discussion of The Fault in Our Stars. You have been warned.
mxdwn Movies is proud to feature guest writer Laura Baltzer for this discussion of The Fault in Our Stars, director Josh Boone's adaptation of the popular novel by John Green.
Tim: Ok, so baselines: I have not read the book. You have. Did you like the book?
Laura: Definitely liked the book, though it doesn't necessarily go on my top ten list. I read it a while ago and then listened to it on audiobook just last week so it was very fresh in my mind.
Tim: And does the movie measure up?
Laura: For sure. All the emotional moments you're looking for the movie to hit are there. Of course there are going to be things that the movie doesn't have time for or has to show differently, you can't be in Hazel's head as much as you can be in the books, but I thought this actually made the film more compelling at times. Shailene Woodley's great acting helped a lot with that.
Tim: So a couple things there I think we can start with. I didn't really like the movie (and I'm sure we'll get more into why as we go), but I did think Shailene Woodley was the best part of the film. I liked her in The Descendents but was still looking to be convinced she could carry a movie. Safe to say that I am now. Second, the voiceover. It wasn't obtrusive ever, but there was a lot more than in your average film.
Laura: I think it's a trend you see in a lot of the adaptations of books into films. Like I was saying before, there are emotional moments and lines in the books that the audience really wants to see when they go to a film like this and in the book they're in Hazel's head so the movie has to do the same. I thought it was compelling because it seemed much more like a conversation than your typical voiceover might. A lot more like this is me (Hazel) telling you how I feel instead of telling you what is happening.
Tim: It's really funny that you say that, because on the surface it would violate the cardinal rule of filmmaking: show don't tell. What I think the narrative does do well is hide most of its exposition in scene, but getting back to the idea that Hazel is sort of telling you how to interpret her story, I think that's part of why this movie felt manipulative to me. It's got all the ingredients of something people should just eat up in a romance.
Laura: I know the romance is the thing they chose to focus on, but I was actually most moved by the family elements. I think that's something that made it a lot more personal. Did you feel that the romance overrode the other, perhaps less cliche, elements?
Tim: Hazel's family did feel very realistic to me, I just didn't find much significant narrative there. I guess you can dig into the part where Hazel is haunted by the memory of her mother telling her it was ok to die, but that was such a small piece of the story. The romance stuck out a lot more, and it did feel very…let's say convenient. A lot of it I traced back to Augustus' character. He's like the dude version of a manic pixie dream girl.
Laura: Yes, I won't lie and say that the romance is some unique love story for the ages.
Tim: I also have to ask, does Augustus come off as as much of a douchey creeper in the book as he does when he's introduced in the movie?
Laura: I don't think so. I've heard other people who haven't read the books say this, so you're not alone. For some reason when you've read the book, maybe it's the fact that you know what's coming, but his actions make a lot more sense.
Tim: He actually won me over at least a little bit by the end (the character, not the actor so much) in that I appreciated the moments where he suddenly wasn't, I don't know, perfect? But that's not even quite the right way to describe it. The character is so much a facade for a lot of the story, that I only started to accept that front after I got a chance to see a few of the cracks in it. But yes, he does come off very odd and wooden at first.
Laura: It's hard to distinguish whether it is genuine love for the character or my hormones that are forcing me to disagree with you, but I loved every bit of Ansel Elgort's time on the screen. Back to the fact that this is an adaptation, one of my only gripes was the handling of the character of Peter Van Houten (Willem Dafoe). Not that I thought Willem Defoe didn't do an amazing job, I just thought his character wasn't given enough time to give us as much of an emotional connection as happens in the book. As a non-book reader what was your reaction to his scenes?
Tim: Oh, I didn't buy most of the parts with his character. It worked a tiny bit when it's finally revealed that Augustus's email is the first he's responded to, but I kept wondering how he and his assistant could afford to spend so much time and money on a couple of kids they've never met when he must get tons of fan mail. A lot of the time it seemed like they were the only ones who had ever written him to tell him they liked his book, and that never made sense to me. I mentioned earlier that the story felt both convenient and manipulative. Stuff like this was why. Even though the story is about two people with cancer who have been handed very tough draws in life, there's all this stuff that seems to work out just so without much effort on their part. And then the final scene with Van Houten, the one at Augustus's funeral, could he not have squeezed it in that the letter he was trying to give Hazel was from Augustus? Maybe I'm completely off base, but that felt very Hollywood-y.
Laura: These could be things that as a book reader I fill in automatically and so didn't have a problem with. There is more time to explain the letters and little things like that that a movie will kind of glaze over. The scene with Van Houten at the funeral was also disappointing for me but more because I felt we didn't get enough time with him to explain more of what his character was feeling. In the book there is a sense of forgiveness and understanding that comes about in Hazel that I thought was such a beautiful moment and really wrapped up the Van Houten story arc.
That's what it really comes down to for me with this film. Summer movies are all about the big world-ending traumatic events and the larger than life hero that saves the day, but this movie is just the opposite and I think that's why it's gaining so much traction in the box office.
Tim: Sure, this movie is about the small moments, but at least for me, they're a bunch of moments that ring hollow. They all feel a bit forced, a bit too fortuitous for their own good, like it's all leading somewhere because of the hand of the writer or the director, and it robbed the movie of it's significance for me. Which is kind of ironic because the movie doesn't seem to believe that very many things have a lot significance, but at the same time desperately wants to convince us that some few things do.
Laura: Young adult fiction can sometimes feel like emotional manipulation for people which is, understandably, a big turnoff. I think this has something to do with the first person nature of a lot of YA lit. Since the movie is taking its cues from just such a book, you're going to get a lot of the same reactions. You get so into the main characters head when it's in first person so much that it feels like you have blinders on to everything else. If you don't connect to the main character, it's going to feel wrong. If you do connect to the main character it's going to feel like you're on the journey with the character. Are you young, female, middle class, and don't have all your shit figured out? You'll probably connect with Hazel. If you said no to three or more of the above, probably not so much.
Tim: Ok, but I said no to one of those. I think some of what I'm reacting against is the sense that there ought to be more going on and there isn't. Of course, Hazel and Augustus are dealing with life-heavy stuff. But the narrative that's presented here is A) love is important, and B) oh look, we fell in love. There's a depth to the way the subject is addressed that I was missing, even though some of the moment to moment stuff felt "real." The scene where the have dinner in the fancy restaurant? Sure, I've been there before. But what exactly am I supposed to take from that? Where is it leading narratively and why?
Laura: So it felt real, just not original?
Tim: More like it felt self-important, I think. Like it believed in a significance to its own narrative that I never found. You can tell someone about the lunch you had today, for example, and it may sound delicious, but so what? And like we've already said (I think?) it's not always an issue on the small scale. Those little interactions convey something. I just had trouble adding them up.
Laura: For me it worked. Those little interactions that didn't seem to mean much mean a lot because they're trying to tell us something that's right in front of us, right in those little meaningless moments. That love is the point. It's the reason that those moments matter. That's what it all added up to at the end.
Tim: Fair enough. And since it's already made back about six times its production budget, I think it's fair to assume there are some people who agree with you.
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THE PARISHES surveyed within this volume were all significantly affected by that area of low-lying moorland now commonly known as the Somerset Levels, (fn. 1) here forming two wide valleys north and south of the Polden Hills. The hills lie as a long and now mostly green ridge pointing north-west from the centre of Somerset towards the river Parrett and the sea. They never quite reach 100 m. O.D. along the 12 km. between Ashcott and Puriton, but their modest height is enhanced by the steepness of their flanks. Within 1 km. on the south scarp and 2 km. on the more gradual north the land falls abruptly to the 15 m. contour and continues to fall in the broad valleys, to 4 m. O.D. in several places in the south and to 3 m. in the north. (fn. 2) A significant proportion of the land thus lies below the high water mark; sluices, locally known as clyces, are needed to prevent incursion of sea water and pumps transfer surplus water from moors first to ditches, then to rhynes, and finally to rivers. The level of the water table is crucial and a continuing matter for discussion between farmers and environmentalists.
The northern valley, named after the river Brue which flows through it, is divided between smaller moors, heaths, and levels which together occupy an area in places some 7.5 km. wide. Its topographical origins eastwards are the smaller rivers which come from the Mendips north-east of Glastonbury, more than 30 km. from the mouth of the Brue at Highbridge and the middle reaches of the Brue itself in the moors south and south-east of Glastonbury. Much of the valley south of the Poldens is known as Sedgemoor or King's Sedgemoor, though further east by a variety of local names, and was formed by the early courses of the rivers Cary and Parrett. It similarly runs inland south and south-east well beyond the confines of the parishes in this volume.
Within that general framework there is local variety. The deepest peats, more than 7 m. thick, occur in the moors furthest inland. (fn. 5) The raised bog formed only in the central Brue valley. Elsewhere, both north and south of the Polden ridge, a complex and ever changing mosaic of reedswamp, open shallow water, and alder carr woodland existed. The variation was probably caused by different drainage conditions, the raised bog forming because there was no channel to remove rainwater. In consequence, turf cutting has been significant in the north for several centuries, continuing on a more limited scale into the early 21st, while until the drainage of Sedgemoor in the late 18th century the gathering of turf, sedge, and rushes was of equal importance. (fn. 6) In both valleys the grazing of animals, especially in summer, was central to the economy.
Extensive flooding occurred in the eastern end of the Brue valley depositing a brown 'Upper Wentlooge' estuarine-marine alluvium over a large area around Godney between the mid to late Bronze Age and the early Iron Age. (fn. 7) The flooding was probably caused by a rise in sea level forcing marine or brackish conditions up from the Axe valley into the Brue. The onset of the wetter conditions is associated with the construction of some wooden trackways, (fn. 8) although such structures had been created almost continuously in the area since the early Neolithic.
Turf cutting, a significant occupation in the Brue valley.
There is no uniform pattern of settlement, but on the northern slope of the Poldens the villages are on the spring line and are closely spaced. The similar grid layouts of Shapwick, Catcott, Edington, and Chilton Polden, and their regular boundaries raise the possibility of conscious planning, presumably by Glastonbury abbey as owner and possibly at some date in the 10th century. (fn. 13) Elsewhere the earliest phases were largely nucleated but, as at Alstone in Huntspill, Pedwell in Ashcott, and Low Ham in High Ham, secondary settlements were of pre-Conquest origin. Interspersed were, of course, the sites on the 'islands' in the marsh such as Andersea in Westonzoyland and Greylake in Middlezoy. Drainage and reclamation, notably in the 13th century, led to spectacular expansion, particularly at Westonzoyland, and to the creation of isolated hamlets like Withy, anciently part of Shapwick, on recovered marsh, or Moorland in Middlezoy beside the embanked Parrett. Farmsteads of early origin such as Pathe and Thorngrove in Othery and Middlezoy are found on spurs running into the marsh from nucleated settlements.
The main concerns in the Levels were the two linked problems of flood prevention and the reclamation of land for cultivation and improvement. The success of both in the Middle Ages was due to the fact that Glastonbury abbey was owner of most of the land in question and could both initiate major works and ensure their maintenance, and could also encourage their tenants to undertake smaller scale reclamation. Examples of ditching and embanking by tenants are to be found in nearly every parish in this volume and its successor and are particularly significant around the 'island' of Sowy covering the parishes of Westonzoyland, Middlezoy, and Othery; along the low ridge called Nidons running between Chilton Polden and Shapwick; around the 'island' of Meare; and in the gradual division of Hearty Moor in West Pennard.
The largest single medieval drainage undertaking was the diversion of the Brue to flow westwards, perhaps largely through natural channels, from Meare Pool to join the river Parrett either flowing into a pill which reached deep inland, (fn. 15) or by means of a channel which had to be cut through the clay belt. (fn. 16) The work was carried out in the later years of the 12th century for the responsibility for maintaining all the watercourses between Glastonbury and the sea was placed on named individuals among whom were Ralph de Sancta Barbara of Brentmarsh (fl. 1189) and Robert de Ewyas, lord of Huish in Burnham (d. 1198). (fn. 17) The construction of the bridge over the cut in the clay belt, known as the high bridge, which has been associated with the same work, could well have been contemporary with it for a Reynold atte Brigge was described as ancestor of a man who held adjoining land at the end of the 13th century. (fn. 18) Reed beds at Meare Pool in the mid 13th century (fn. 19) may suggest that the new outflow was, at least initially, a success.
The Sowy parishes before inclosure.
Those crops from High Ham were principally grain from one of the few parishes in this volume where arable cultivation did not begin its significant decline in the later Middle Ages. Inclosure and demesne leasing may be said to have been deliberate policy on Glastonbury abbey estates before the end of the 15th century, but the pace of the former was governed by local considerations. Open field arable persisted significantly in, for instance, Cossington, High Ham, and Shapwick into the 18th century.
Inclosure of King's Sedgemoor 1795.
View south from the Polden ridge.
The Henley - Pedwell Drove connecting High Ham with Ashcott and Glastonbury.
Site of the battle of Sedgemoor formed in 1927.
The South Drain came to be, for a short time, a commercial canal linking Glastonbury with the sea at Highbridge, an enterprise soon overtaken by a railway along a similar route. The railway was an important factor in the modest success of both towns. Highbridge, only partially covered in this volume where its southern suburb South Highbridge overflowed into Huntspill, enjoyed the commercial success of improved agriculture as well as maritime trade and railway engineering.
1. Subject to study by the Somerset Levels Project whose Somerset Levels Papers, produced by J. M. Coles, B. J. Orme, and others, were published between 1975 and 1988.
2. O.S. Map, 1/50,000, sheet 182 (1974 edn.).
3. Geol. Surv. Map 1/50,000, solid and drift, sheets 279, 296 and parts 263 and 295.
4. Som. Levels Papers, i. 5; B. Storer, The Natural Hist. of the Som. Levels (1985), 11-17; M. Cox, The Peat Moors Visitor Centre (1993), 8.
5. Soil Surv. Map 1/50,000, Thickness of Peat in the Som. Moors (by D. W. Cope and G. J. N. Colborne), 1981.
6. Hants R.O. 44 M69 L 17/43.
7. R. A. Housley, V. Straker, D. W. Cope, Arch. in the Severn Estuary, 10 (1999), 17-18.
8. H. Godwin, 'Prehistoric wooden trackways . . .', Proc. Prehist. Soc. 26 (1960), 1-36.
9. Som. Levels Papers 15, 15-17.
10. J. Grove and R. Brunning, 'The Romano-British Salt Industry in Som', Arch. in the Severn Estuary 9 (1998), 61-8.
12. Som. C. C. Sites and Mons. Rec., site 11171.
13. N. J. Corcos, 'Early estates on the Poldens...', Proc. Som. Arch. Soc. cxxvii. 47-54.
14. e.g. the perambulations in the early 16th-cent. surveys under Abbot Bere: B.L. Eg. MSS. 3034, 3134; P.R.O., LR 2/202, ff. 158-9.
15. S. Rippon, Severn Estuary: Landscape Evolution and Wetland Reclamation (1997), 213.
16. M. Williams, Draining of Som. Levels (1970), 67-71.
17. S.R.S. lxiii, p. 544; Surveys of Glastonbury, ed. Stacy, 81; Sanders, Eng. Baronies, 43.
18. S.R.S. xlviii, p. 27.
19. B.L. Add. MS. 17450, ff. 145-7.
21. B.L. Add. MS. 3321, f. 232v.
22. Williams, Draining Som. Levels, 84, 86-110.
24. W. E. Tate, Som. Enclosure Acts and Awards (1948); Williams, Draining Som. Levels, 131-52.
25. Williams, Draining Som. Levels, 237-40.
26. Som. Levels and Moors, Consultative Rep. of Survey (1981); Som. Levels and Moors Strategy: Framework for Implementation (1984); Brue Valley Wetland Feasibility Study, Final Rep. (1993); The Avalon Marshes: a vision for the future (1994).
27. Fines Imposed in 1497, ed. A. J. Howard, 16-17, 27-8, 33-6, 39.
28. D. Underdown, Som. in Civil War and Interregnum, 107-8, 136-7.
29. S.R.S. lxxix; R. Dunning, The Monmouth Rebellion, 31, 39- 45; below, Huntspill.


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Statistics released by one of Australia's leading general insurance providers -- AAMI -- revealed that kangaroos are responsible for nine out of 10 road accidents involving animals.
AAMI analyzed almost 20,000 reported road claims made in 2015 and found that kangaroos accounted for 88 percent of the accidents, while wallabies (6 percent), wombats (3 percent) and dogs (2 percent) made up the most common animal collisions in Australia.
Kangaroos are large marsupials that are found only in Australia. They are well known for their ability to jump and carry their babies, called joeys, in their pouch. Estimates of Australia's kangaroo population vary between 30 and 60 million. They can be spotted in the wild in most rural parts of Australia.
AAMI spokesman, Michael Mills, said collisions between vehicles and animals on Australian roads jumped by 68 percent in winter, peaking in the period of June and August, with a major spike in July.
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Robbie Williams talks his lack of OBE on The Jonathan Ross Show
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Singer Robbie Williams rued his lack of OBE in a hilarious appearance on ITV programme The Jonathan Ross Show on Saturday. He appeared on the talk show to promote his new Christmas album, The Christmas Present, which was released on Friday. The former Take That star shared the guest sofa with actor and author David Walliams, whose new book The Beast of Buckingham Palace came out on Thursday. As the conversation turned to visits to the palace, Jonathan asked David, "You must have been to the palace many times?"
Robbie's new album The Christmas Present came out this week
The Little Britain star joked, "Many, many, many, many, times thank you Jonathan, yes." Then he added more seriously: "But you only see bits of it," to which Robbie interjected: "I've seen all of it." "Did you get an award or something?" David asked him, and the 45-year-old shook his head. "Yeah no, no awards. Gary Barlow OBE, Robbie Williams, nothing," he deadpanned. "Why do you think that is, why do you think the Queen hates you?" David teased. Robbie replied: "Obviously not flavour of the day. You organise a jubilee for her on the roundabout outside the house, OBE straight away. Robbie Williams, no."
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The singer completed a successful residency in Las Vegas earlier this year
Jonathan then turned to David and said: "But it took you ages to get one." "Have you got one?" Robbie asked. The dad-of-one grinned as he replied: "I don't like to mention it but I do have an OBE," he said, yelling the second part of the sentence as the audience cheered and applauded. Robbie might not have been awarded any honours from the Queen quite yet, but he has a lot to be proud of regardless. He shares three young children with his wife Ayda Field and his career is seeing a resurgence, with a Vegas residency earlier this year and an upcoming ITV special to look forward to.
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Called It's Not The Robbie Williams Christmas Show, the one-off concert was filmed earlier this month at the newly restored Alexandra Palace Theatre and will air in December. Robbie said in a statement: "I'm so excited to be working with ITV on this very special programme. I'll be bringing new songs from my Christmas album The Christmas Present, as well as the classic hits, to this beautiful and iconic venue."
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