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defined('MOODLE_INTERNAL') || die();

require_once($CFG->libdir.'/tablelib.php');

/**
 * Base class for quiz reports that are basically a table with one row for each attempt.
 *
 * @copyright 2010 The Open University
 * @license   http://www.gnu.org/copyleft/gpl.html GNU GPL v3 or later
 */
abstract class quiz_attempts_report extends quiz_default_report {
    /** @var int default page size for reports. */
    const DEFAULT_PAGE_SIZE = 30;

    /** @var string constant used for the options, means all users with attempts. */
    const ALL_WITH = 'all_with';
    /** @var string constant used for the options, means only enrolled users with attempts. */
    const ENROLLED_WITH = 'enrolled_with';
    /** @var string constant used for the options, means only enrolled users without attempts. */
    const ENROLLED_WITHOUT = 'enrolled_without';
    /** @var string constant used for the options, means all enrolled users. */
    const ENROLLED_ALL = 'enrolled_any';

    /** @var string the mode this report is. */
    protected $mode;

    /** @var object the quiz context. */
    protected $context;

    /** @var mod_quiz_attempts_report_form The settings form to use. */
    protected $form;

    /** @var string SQL fragment for selecting the attempt that gave the final grade,
     * if applicable. */
    protected $qmsubselect;

    /** @var boolean caches the results of {@link should_show_grades()}. */
    protected $showgrades = null;

    /**
     *  Initialise various aspects of this report.
     *
     * @param string $mode
     * @param string $formclass
     * @param object $quiz
     * @param object $cm
     * @param object $course
     */
    protected function init($mode, $formclass, $quiz, $cm, $course) {
        $this->mode = $mode;

        $this->context = context_module::instance($cm->id);

        list($currentgroup, $students, $groupstudents, $allowed) =
                $this->load_relevant_students($cm, $course);

        $this->qmsubselect = quiz_report_qm_filter_select($quiz);

        $this->form = new $formclass($this->get_base_url(),
                array('qmsubselect' => $this->qmsubselect, 'quiz' => $quiz,
                'currentgroup' => $currentgroup, 'context' => $this->context));

        return array($currentgroup, $students, $groupstudents, $allowed);
    }

    /**
     * Get the base URL for this report.
     * @return moodle_url the URL.
     */
    protected function get_base_url() {
        return new moodle_url('/mod/quiz/report.php',
                array('id' => $this->context->instanceid, 'mode' => $this->mode));
    }

    /**
     * Get information about which students to show in the report.
     * @param object $cm the coures module.
     * @param object $course the course settings.
     * @return an array with four elements:
     *      0 => integer the current group id (0 for none).
     *      1 => array ids of all the students in this course.
     *      2 => array ids of all the students in the current group.
     *      3 => array ids of all the students to show in the report. Will be the
     *              same as either element 1 or 2.
     */
    protected function load_relevant_students($cm, $course = null) {
        $currentgroup = $this->get_current_group($cm, $course, $this->context);

        if ($currentgroup == self::NO_GROUPS_ALLOWED) {
            return array($currentgroup, array(), array(), array());
        }

        if (!$students = get_users_by_capability($this->context,
                array('mod/quiz:reviewmyattempts', 'mod/quiz:attempt'),
                'u.id, 1', '', '', '', '', '', false)) {
            $students = array();
        } else {
            $students = array_keys($students);
        }

        if (empty($currentgroup)) {
            return array($currentgroup, $students, array(), $students);
        }

        // We have a currently selected group.
        if (!$groupstudents = get_users_by_capability($this->context,
                array('mod/quiz:reviewmyattempts', 'mod/quiz:attempt'),
                'u.id, 1', '', '', '', $currentgroup, '', false)) {
            $groupstudents = array();
        } else {
            $groupstudents = array_keys($groupstudents);
        }

        return array($currentgroup, $students, $groupstudents, $groupstudents);
    }

    /**
     * Add all the user-related columns to the $columns and $headers arrays.
     * @param table_sql $table the table being constructed.
     * @param array $columns the list of columns. Added to.
     * @param array $headers the columns headings. Added to.
     */
    protected function add_user_columns($table, &$columns, &$headers) {
        global $CFG;
        if (!$table->is_downloading() && $CFG->grade_report_showuserimage) {
            $columns[] = 'picture';
            $headers[] = '';
        }
        if (!$table->is_downloading()) {
            $columns[] = 'fullname';
            $headers[] = get_string('name');
        } else {
            $columns[] = 'lastname';
            $headers[] = get_string('lastname');
            $columns[] = 'firstname';
            $headers[] = get_string('firstname');
        }

        // When downloading, some extra fields are always displayed (because
        // there's no space constraint) so do not include in extra-field list.
        $extrafields = get_extra_user_fields($this->context,
                $table->is_downloading() ? array('institution', 'department', 'email') : array());
        foreach ($extrafields as $field) {
            $columns[] = $field;
            $headers[] = get_user_field_name($field);
        }

        if ($table->is_downloading()) {
            $columns[] = 'institution';
            $headers[] = get_string('institution');

            $columns[] = 'department';
            $headers[] = get_string('department');

            $columns[] = 'email';
            $headers[] = get_string('email');
        }
    }

    /**
     * Set the display options for the user-related columns in the table.
     * @param table_sql $table the table being constructed.
     */
    protected function configure_user_columns($table) {
        $table->column_suppress('picture');
        $table->column_suppress('fullname');
        $table->column_suppress('idnumber');

        $table->column_class('picture', 'picture');
        $table->column_class('lastname', 'bold');
        $table->column_class('firstname', 'bold');
        $table->column_class('fullname', 'bold');
    }

    /**
     * Add the state column to the $columns and $headers arrays.
     * @param array $columns the list of columns. Added to.
     * @param array $headers the columns headings. Added to.
     */
    protected function add_state_column(&$columns, &$headers) {
        $columns[] = 'state';
        $headers[] = get_string('attemptstate', 'quiz');
    }

    /**
     * Add all the time-related columns to the $columns and $headers arrays.
     * @param array $columns the list of columns. Added to.
     * @param array $headers the columns headings. Added to.
     */
    protected function add_time_columns(&$columns, &$headers) {
        $columns[] = 'timestart';
        $headers[] = get_string('startedon', 'quiz');

        $columns[] = 'timefinish';
        $headers[] = get_string('timecompleted', 'quiz');

        $columns[] = 'duration';
        $headers[] = get_string('attemptduration', 'quiz');
    }

    /**
     * Add all the grade and feedback columns, if applicable, to the $columns
     * and $headers arrays.
     * @param object $quiz the quiz settings.
     * @param bool $usercanseegrades whether the user is allowed to see grades for this quiz.
     * @param array $columns the list of columns. Added to.
     * @param array $headers the columns headings. Added to.
     * @param bool $includefeedback whether to include the feedbacktext columns
     */
    protected function add_grade_columns($quiz, $usercanseegrades, &$columns, &$headers, $includefeedback = true) {
        if ($usercanseegrades) {
            $columns[] = 'sumgrades';
            $headers[] = get_string('grade', 'quiz') . '/' .
                    quiz_format_grade($quiz, $quiz->grade);
        }

        if ($includefeedback && quiz_has_feedback($quiz)) {
            $columns[] = 'feedbacktext';
            $headers[] = get_string('feedback', 'quiz');
        }
    }

    /**
     * Set up the table.
     * @param table_sql $table the table being constructed.
     * @param array $columns the list of columns.
     * @param array $headers the columns headings.
     * @param moodle_url $reporturl the URL of this report.
     * @param mod_quiz_attempts_report_options $options the display options.
     * @param bool $collapsible whether to allow columns in the report to be collapsed.
     */
    protected function set_up_table_columns($table, $columns, $headers, $reporturl,
            mod_quiz_attempts_report_options $options, $collapsible) {
        $table->define_columns($columns);
        $table->define_headers($headers);
        $table->sortable(true, 'uniqueid');

        $table->define_baseurl($options->get_url());

        $this->configure_user_columns($table);

        $table->no_sorting('feedbacktext');
        $table->column_class('sumgrades', 'bold');

        $table->set_attribute('id', 'attempts');

        $table->collapsible($collapsible);
    }

    /**
     * Process any submitted actions.
     * @param object $quiz the quiz settings.
     * @param object $cm the cm object for the quiz.
     * @param int $currentgroup the currently selected group.
     * @param array $groupstudents the students in the current group.
     * @param array $allowed the users whose attempt this user is allowed to modify.
     * @param moodle_url $redirecturl where to redircet to after a successful action.
     */
    protected function process_actions($quiz, $cm, $currentgroup, $groupstudents, $allowed, $redirecturl) {
        if (empty($currentgroup) || $groupstudents) {
            if (optional_param('delete', 0, PARAM_BOOL) && confirm_sesskey()) {
                if ($attemptids = optional_param_array('attemptid', array(), PARAM_INT)) {
                    require_capability('mod/quiz:deleteattempts', $this->context);
                    $this->delete_selected_attempts($quiz, $cm, $attemptids, $allowed);
                    redirect($redirecturl);
                }
            }
        }
    }

    /**
     * Delete the quiz attempts
     * @param object $quiz the quiz settings. Attempts that don't belong to
     * this quiz are not deleted.
     * @param object $cm the course_module object.
     * @param array $attemptids the list of attempt ids to delete.
     * @param array $allowed This list of userids that are visible in the report.
     *      Users can only delete attempts that they are allowed to see in the report.
     *      Empty means all users.
     */
    protected function delete_selected_attempts($quiz, $cm, $attemptids, $allowed) {
        global $DB;

        foreach ($attemptids as $attemptid) {
            $attempt = $DB->get_record('quiz_attempts', array('id' => $attemptid));
            if (!$attempt || $attempt->quiz != $quiz->id || $attempt->preview != 0) {
                // Ensure the attempt exists, and belongs to this quiz. If not skip.
                continue;
            }
            if ($allowed && !in_array($attempt->userid, $allowed)) {
                // Ensure the attempt belongs to a student included in the report. If not skip.
                continue;
            }
            add_to_log($quiz->course, 'quiz', 'delete attempt', 'report.php?id=' . $cm->id,
                    $attemptid, $cm->id);
            quiz_delete_attempt($attempt, $quiz);
        }
    }
}


After several itinerant decades, a couple puts down roots in historic Paris Hill.
Hillcrest blends original details with modern touches, like a pot-filler faucet over the stove, custom coffered ceilings, and a granite fireplace surround.
An updated guest room doubles as a craft room, with hooked wool rugs made by Deb Gillis. Triple-hung windows in the office provide access to a second-story porch. In the living room, original maple flooring was stained black for added contrast. The master bath was inspired by an Irish castle and features an Italian lava soaking tub.
The couple's many moves have helped make Deb a skilled interior designer and decorator. For Hillcrest, she collaborated with architect David Matero, contractor Gus Fillebrown, and consultants like Lighting Concepts to design nearly every part of the home. She was inspired by design sites like Houzz, hotels she and John have stayed in on business trips, and even Diane Keaton's bright and cheery kitchen in the 2003 rom-com Something's Gotta Give.
Spacious and sun-drenched, the Hillcrest kitchen, Deb's favorite room, is built for the person who loves to cook. Located in a new ell, it's anchored by a large island with its own dishwasher and crisper drawers. A breakfast nook, reminiscent of one in Deb's childhood home, sits under four large south-facing windows. The kitchen flows into the dining room so Deb can interact with her guests as she cooks. Last Christmas, more than a dozen friends and family milled around in the warm flicker of the ground floor's two fireplaces. Christmas carols played from the Sonos speakers in the ceiling. The lights were dimmed to the "entertaining" setting. Outside, a clear winter sky made the broad, snow-covered yard glow. Inside, Deb scanned the party. Her guests seemed, she thought, "as comfortable here as I did." The Gillises were home, finally.
My dream home…I love Maine and I love that home.
Is it possible to get this in print? My son and daughter-in-law just bought and I'd love to give this to them as a gift?


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Joseph Balash, of Alaska, to be an Assistant Secretary of the Interior, vice Janice Marion Schneider.
Samuel H. Clovis, Jr., of Iowa, to be Under Secretary of Agriculture for Research, Education, and Economics, vice Catherine E. Woteki.
Daniel Alan Craig, of Maryland, to be Deputy Administrator, Federal Emergency Management Agency, Department of Homeland Security, vice Joseph L. Nimmich.
Mark T. Esper, of Virginia, to be Secretary of the Army, vice Eric K. Fanning.
Kathleen M. Fitzpatrick, of the District of Columbia, a Career Member of the Senior Foreign Service, Class of Minister-Counselor, to be Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the United States of America to the Democratic Republic of Timor-Leste.
Anthony Kurta, of Montana, to be a Principal Deputy Under Secretary of Defense, vice Laura Junor, resigned.
Robert L. Wilkie, of North Carolina, to be Under Secretary of Defense for Personnel and Readiness, vice Jessica Garfola Wright, resigned.


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U.S. Cyber Insurance Market Booms Following Data Breach Worries: Report
Most traditional commercial general liability policies do not cover cyberrisks, but cyber incidents were ranked as the third-highest global business risk in 2016, Allianz's Risk Barometer determined. The average cost of a breach in the United States reached $7 million in 2016, a Ponemon Institute survey cited in a new Insurance Information Institute (I.I.I.) report found.
U.S. insurers are becoming more skilled at underwriting and pricing stand-alone cyber insurance policies as businesses show a greater interest in protecting themselves from data breaches and attacks, according to the I.I.I.
"More than 60 carriers offer stand-alone cyber insurance policies, and it is estimated the U.S. market is worth over $3.25 billion in gross written premiums in 2016, with some estimates saying it has the potential to grow to $7.5 billion," said Dr. Robert Hartwig, special consultant to the I.I.I.
A stand-alone cyber insurance policy typically offers the following coverages, the I.I.I.'s report explains:
Liability—Covers the costs (e.g., legal fees, court judgements) incurred after a cyberattack, such as data theft, or the unintentional transmission of a computer virus to another party, causing them financial harm.
Crisis Management—Covers the cost of notifying consumers about a data breach that resulted in the release of private information, and providing them with credit monitoring services, as well as the cost of retaining a public relations firm or launching an advertising campaign to rebuild a company's reputation.
Directors & Officers (D&O)/Management Liability—Covers the cyber liability risks faced individually by a company's key decision makers while acting on behalf of the company.
Business Interruption–Covers loss of income due to an attack on a company's network that limits its ability to conduct business.
Cyber Extortion—Covers the "settlement" of an extortion threat against a company's network, as well as the cost of hiring a security firm to track down the blackmailers.
Loss/Corruption Of Data—Covers damage to, or destruction of, valuable information assets as a result of "viruses, malicious code and Trojan horses," the white paper states.
Criminal Rewards—Covers the cost of posting a criminal reward fund for information leading to the arrest and conviction of a criminal who has attacked a company's computer systems.
Data Breach—Covers the expenses and legal liability resulting from a data breach.
Identity Theft—Provides access to an identity theft call center in the event of stolen customer or employee personal information.
Cyber risks are still challenging for insurers to underwrite due to the constantly changing range of perpetrators, targets and exposure values; a lack of historical actuarial data; and the interconnected nature of cyberspace, which makes it difficult for insurers to assess the likely severity of cyberattacks.
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There are many ways to learn the difference between "there", "their" and "they're". Help your child determine the difference with this practise sheet!
On this year three reading and writing worksheet, kids complete sentences by replacing two words with a matching contraction from the word box.
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Theater review: 'Pippin' at Playhouse on Park in West Hartford an amazing musical
Bonnie Goldberg
"Pippin" is being staged at Playhouse on Park in West Hartford through Aug. 21.
Meredith Longo / Contributed photoShow MoreShow Less
WEST HARTFORD — There's clearly magic in the air when as Pippin returns from college after graduation, and confronts his father Charlemagne about how to achieve a meaningful life.
Playhouse on Park in West Hartford will be using theatrical sleight of hand to present "Pippin," the son of the king's quest for fulfillment, in this amazing musical playing through Aug. 21.
Pippin (Shannon Cheong) is the vulnerable and impressionable lad who wants to fly free, hoping to find his "corner of the sky." Not content with the small life he feels he is trapped in, he seeks change and experiences.
The script is based on a book by Roger O. Hirson and music and lyrics by Stephen Schwartz. It is cleverly directed and choreographed by Darlene Zoller.
Thao Ngyuen, with full regalia, plays the Leading Player, the tempter/narrator who has the power to control the directions and misdirections that Pippin pursues.
Pippin is many things to many people. His name signifies one of the Hobbits who join Frode on his quest to follow the Fellowship of the Ring. Or it could mean a yellowish apple with a rare wine-like flavor or even a computer created by Apple to play CD games.
In this instance, Pippin is the son of one of the world's greatest emperors, Charlemagne, played by Gene Choquette.
Enter Pippin, with all his wide-eyed idealism, who is actively searching to discover a life that is not commonplace, but completely fulfilling.
He enlists the aid of his gruff and self-absorbed father, his alluring stepmother Fastrada (Kate Wesler), who only wants to promote the well-being of her progeny Lewis (a battle-ready Brad Weatherford); and the Leading Player, who could easily be mistaken for the devil or an angel.
Another important person in Pippin's world is his grandmother Berthe (SuEllen Estey), who sings him a lovely song about not worrying and just living, "No Time at All," which the audience is invited to share.
A love interest is introduced with the widow Catherine (Juliana Lamia), and her child Theo (played by Ryan Byrne) and his prized duck, but Pippin, who has already tried to find his way in the arts, religion, and unseat his father, is still not satisfied.
An outstanding and energetic ensemble includes Dalton Bertolone, Leyland Cockerl-Patrick, Rae Janeil, Teagan La'Shay, Oleode Oshotse, Stephanie Reuning-Scherer, Kristen Schoen-Rene and Julia Solecki.
Noted for sensational songs such as "Magic To Do," "Corner of the Sky," "Glory," "No Time At All," "Morning Glow" and "Love Song," the show is sure to amaze viewers under the musical direction of Colin Britt.
For tickets ($40 to $50), call Playhouse on Park, 244 Park Road, West Hartford, at 860-523-5900, Ext. 10, or go online at playhouseonpark.org. Performances are Tuesday at 2 p.m., Wednesday and Thursday at 7:30 p.m., Friday at 8 p.m., Saturday at 2 and 8 p.m. and Sunday at 2 p.m.
There is a talk-back with the cast on Sunday.
Keep your eyes glued on the imaginative center ring as Pippin rides off into the world to capture his destiny in every magical and mysterious way possible.


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What were some of the effects on the tattoos from the holocaust?
Painful memories is all
Germany in WW2
How did the Axis Forces win World War 1
What is the difference between a Concentration camp and an Extermation camp
What where the Nazi's
How was the final solution supposed to be carried out
Q: What were some of the effects on the tattoos from the holocaust?
Why did Jews have tattoos in the Holocaust?
They were forcibly tattooed by the Nazis, as an indelible form of identification.
What are some negative effects of the holocaust?
death, loss of personal property, mental trauma
How were Holocaust victims marked?
When people were taken to concentration camps, they were marked by the Nazis with tattoos, placed on the inside of their right arms. The tattoos were numbers, meant to be a form of identification.
What are the Effects of nuclear Holocaust on living things?
Every thig is wiped out.
Why were the tattoos given to the inmates during the holocaust?
Mostly to determine who they were. Nazi guards would have roll call in the morning and used the tattoos to determine who they (prisoners) were. If the guards did not see a certain tattoo, they would know who was missing.
What were some affects of malnutrition during the holocaust?
Malnutrition, physical labor, and the stress during the Holocaust caused many effects on the people. These effects lasted for many years after the war. Some of these effects were headaches, depression gastrointestinal issues, fatigue, and moodiness.
What effects did the war have on the Holocaust?
it made the Holocaust easier to hide. the volume of pows accelerated the need for the Holocaust
Does rkelly have tattoos?
Yes he have some tattoos
Why did the people in the holocast have tattoos?
Those who were victims of the holocaust, and those who are survivers have tattoos because it was a form of identification. The tattoos have serial numbers, so the nazi rulers at the concentration camps didnt have to know they by names, just by numbers.
What effects did the Holocaust have on Europeans and Americans?
the effects were that it caused about 6 millon people dead
What are the causes and effects of the holocaust world war 2?
hitler hated the homosexuals, jews, and mentally ill. those are some of the causes and the effects are a lot of people died.
What were the effects of the Jewish Holocaust?
many Jewish people died
What were the effects on Jews because Hitler coming to power during the Holocaust?
I think the answer is that the effects on the Jews were racism.
What are some popular arm tattoos?
There are many popular arm tattoos, varying in size and style. Some of the most popular tattoos are female names, tribal tattoos, animals, and mythical creatures.
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Beyond Usque ad Coelum et ad Iferos: Determining land ownership in West Virginia following Faith United Methodist v. Morgan
caitlinmgraham October 8, 2013 Student Contributor Articles
Author: Bradley Dunkle, Associate Member, University of Cincinnati Law Review
In June, the Supreme Court of Appeals of West Virginia decided Faith United Methodist Church v. Morgan, ruling that the word "surface," when used in a land conveyance involving a "split estate," is not presumed ambiguous, and does have a definite and certain meaning. This ruling ended 90 years of conflicting methods for West Virginia courts evaluating "surface only" transfers by directly overruling Ramage v. South Penn Oil Co. and leaving the Williams v. South Penn Oil Co. standard as the sole method for interpretation.[1] The holding in Faith United Methodist provides a definition of "surface" for judges, but does not adequately resolve the issue of determining the intent of the conveyance.
The West Virginia state legislature adopted the Horizontal Well Act as a way to regulate the expanding natural gas industry and provide guidance for property owners and developers alike.[2] Although the Act provides causes of action and regulatory protections for property owners, many property owners still have issues because they do not hold their property in fee simple absolute.
Generally, a landowner holding a fee simple absolute owns their land from the heavens to the center of the earth. However, in the case of a "split estate," the fee simple absolute is split, with one party retaining "surface only" rights while another owns mineral or some other subterranean rights.[3] In some places, this law of property is easily applied; however, in many mineral-rich and natural-resource-rich states across the country, the existence of "split estates," where some underground rights have been transferred to another party, complicates this property rule.
Defining "Surface"
In Faith United Methodist, the West Virginia Supreme Court was faced with defining "surface only" in a land conveyance.[4] In 1907, a deed conveyed "the surface only" land because the coal and mining rights had been conveyed previously. Many "split estate" conveyances occurred in the distant past, sometimes decades or centuries earlier.[5] The question presented was whether this statement meant that residual rights were retained by the conveyer for the other subterranean minerals and resources, as the plaintiffs contended, or, as the defendants claimed, that all remaining interests in the land were conveyed.[6] This case illustrates a common theme faced in surface rights cases examined by the Supreme Court of Appeals of West Virginia: many conveyances fail to clearly indicate the extent of the transfer; often the full subterranean rights are not clearly transferred or retained, and other disputes arise in the future.
Two methods for determining the meaning of "surface only" were used interchangeably in West Virginia courts prior to Faith United Methodist: the Williams view and the Ramage view.[7] The Williams definition, adopted in 1902, stated that "surface only" had a "definite and certain meaning."[8] Under Williams, "surface only" meant "only that portion of the land which is or may be used for agricultural purposes.[9] However, in 1923, the court adopted the Ramage view, stating that ambiguity always exists with the use of "surface."[10] According to the Ramage court, the word "surface" in a conveyance is always subject to the intent of the parties; therefore, the term could never carry a definition capable of universal application.[11]
The Faith United Methodist court overruled Ramage, seeking to establish uniformity in drafting and hoping to confine future conveyances to the "four corners" of the document as much as possible. In doing so, it accepted the basic principle set forth in Williams, but tweaked the standard slightly. The court held that "surface" in a conveyance means, "the exposed area of land, improvements on the land, and any part of the underground actually used by a surface owner as an adjunct to surface use (for example, medium for the roots of growing plants, groundwater, water wells, roads, basements, or construction footings)."[12]
The implications of this decision will likely extend well beyond future conveyances, as more landowners explore their rights and gas developers continue to seek contracts for drilling rights. A belief exists that the extraction of natural gas from Marcellus Shale is still in its infancy. With this in mind, deeds with ambiguous conveyances from many years ago will continue to be challenged.[13] The court's ruling in Faith United Methodist will certainly provide some clarity in interpreting what has been conveyed in many land deeds involving "split estates."
Problems with the Faith United Methodist Definition
The Supreme Court of Appeals of West Virginia overruled Ramage and redefined Williams to provide much needed guidance to lower court judges deciding property disputes as the number of such disputes will no doubt increase due to the expansion of horizontal drilling. However, without the flexibility provided by Ramage, many landowners might not be able to profit from the expansion of natural gas mining. Ramage allowed a court to immediately place itself in the position of the parties to determine the intent of the conveyance. [14] Faith United Methodist ignores the intent of the parties, many of which conveyed "surface" rights before the new definition came into being.
The court in Faith United Methodist stated that the Ramage holding needed to be overruled primarily because it violated to fundamental public policy concerns: 1) without a definite definition of "surface" drafting land conveyances was especially complicated; and 2) the holding went against the intention of the parties by looking beyond the "four corners" of the conveyance. The court emphasized the criticisms of Ramage in law review articles, and the instances in which the West Virginia Supreme Court and courts around the nation ignored the ruling. [15] However, the court's issues with Ramage are not resolved by the ruling in Faith United Methodist, and the concerns of the court about Ramage are not as damaging as they might first seem.
First, the definition of "surface" will likely change again in future as the shale industry continues to expand. Williams provided a definition of "surface." This definition failed to last as developments in construction techniques and public opinion changed. In Faith United, the court developed a new definition of "surface" in order to better serve modern conveyances. Chances are that this definition will have to be changed again in order to serve future meanings of "surface." Second, by directly overruling Ramage, the court failed to recognize that some conveyances may have been created with the understanding that the Ramage approach would be controlling. Drafters may have intended conveyances to be governed by Ramage, and the court's ruling in Faith United failed to allow for this possibility.
The court also failed to acknowledge the advantages of Ramage in defining conveyances that are often complex but involve less sophisticated parties. A number of gas leases and other conveyances involve, and will likely continue to involve, an unequal balance of power. Individuals conveying their property may not fully understand the extent of their conveyance. A conveyance of a property's "coal rights" does not define what party retains the other mineral rights with the property.[16] Using the Ramage approach allowed a judge to more accurately ascertain the intent of the parties in determining the meaning of other ambiguous terms of the contract.
The court's ruling in Faith United Methodist was meant to simplify the interpretation of land conveyances and followed one of the most basic principles in contract law: the Parol Evidence Rule.[17] However, because of an un equal balance of power in these kinds of conveyances, many contracts fail to show the intent of the parties through the "four corners" of the documents, and many more are so many years old that the conveying parties could have never imagined the land's present value. The court's ruling in Faith United Methodist will greatly limit the leeway of trial judges to interpret the intent of parties who convey "surface" rights. With the expansion of shale gas drilling in West Virginia, this could mean many landowners could miss out on the full value of their property because they unintentionally conveyed those rights.
[1] Faith United Methodist Church v. Morgan, 745 S.E.2d 461, 467 (W.Va. 2013).
[2] W.Va. Code §22-6A-1 and W.Va §22-6A-2(a)(1) (2011).
[3] See Rachel Heron & Shaun A. Goho, The Interpretation of Surface Easements in Severance Deeds as a Limit on Hydraulic Fracturing Practices, 19 Buff. Envt'l. L.J. 73 (2012) (citing John G. Sprankling, Owning the Center of the Earth, 55 UCLA L. Rev. 979, 980-81 (2008)).
[4] Faith United Methodist, 745 S.E.2d at 461.
[5] See Faith United Methodist, 745 S.E.2d at 464
[6]Faith United Methodist, at466-67.
[9] Williams v. South Penn Oil Co., 52 W.Va. 181, 43 S.E. 214 (1902).
[10]Faith United Methodist, 745 S.E.2d. at 467..
[11] Ramage v. South Penn Oil Co., 94 W.Va. 81, 118 S.E. 162 (1923).
[12] Faith United Methodist, 745 S.E.2d at 481-82.
[13] George Hohmann, Full Potential of Shale Gas Untapped, Charleston Daily Mail, Jan. 17, 2013, http://www.dailymail.com/Business/201301160197.
[14] Ramage, 94 W.Va. 81, 100, 118 S.E. 162 (1923).
[15] Faith United Methodist, 745 S.E.2d 461, 471-475 (W.Va. 2013).
[16]See Id. at 482
[17] See Restatement (Second) of Contracts §213 (1981)
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package com.dremio.dac.service.search;

import static com.dremio.dac.service.search.SearchIndexManager.*;
import static com.dremio.datastore.SearchQueryUtils.*;
import static com.dremio.exec.ExecConstants.SEARCH_SERVICE_RELEASE_LEADERSHIP_MS;
import static com.dremio.service.namespace.NamespaceServiceImpl.DAC_NAMESPACE;
import static com.dremio.service.scheduler.ScheduleUtils.scheduleForRunningOnceAt;

import java.time.Instant;
import java.util.ArrayList;
import java.util.Arrays;
import java.util.HashMap;
import java.util.List;
import java.util.Map;
import java.util.concurrent.ExecutorService;
import java.util.concurrent.TimeUnit;
import java.util.stream.Collectors;
import java.util.stream.Stream;
import java.util.stream.StreamSupport;

import javax.inject.Provider;

import com.dremio.common.WakeupHandler;
import com.dremio.dac.proto.model.collaboration.CollaborationTag;
import com.dremio.dac.service.collaboration.CollaborationTagStore;
import com.dremio.datastore.KVStoreTuple;
import com.dremio.datastore.LocalKVStoreProvider;
import com.dremio.datastore.SearchTypes;
import com.dremio.datastore.api.Document;
import com.dremio.datastore.api.FindByCondition;
import com.dremio.datastore.api.ImmutableFindByCondition;
import com.dremio.datastore.api.LegacyIndexedStore;
import com.dremio.datastore.api.LegacyKVStoreProvider;
import com.dremio.datastore.indexed.AuxiliaryIndex;
import com.dremio.exec.ExecConstants;
import com.dremio.options.OptionManager;
import com.dremio.service.namespace.NamespaceException;
import com.dremio.service.namespace.NamespaceService;
import com.dremio.service.namespace.NamespaceUtils;
import com.dremio.service.namespace.proto.NameSpaceContainer;
import com.dremio.service.scheduler.SchedulerService;
import com.dremio.services.configuration.ConfigurationStore;

/**
 * Search Service - allows searching of namespace entities using a separate search index
 */
public class SearchServiceImpl implements SearchService {
  private static final org.slf4j.Logger logger = org.slf4j.LoggerFactory.getLogger(SearchServiceImpl.class);

  static final int MAX_SEARCH_RESULTS = 50;

  public static final String LOCAL_TASK_LEADER_NAME = "searchservice";

  private final Provider<NamespaceService> namespaceServiceProvider;
  private final Provider<OptionManager> optionManagerProvider;

  private final Provider<LegacyKVStoreProvider> storeProvider;
  private final Provider<SchedulerService> schedulerService;
  private final ExecutorService executorService;
  private WakeupHandler wakeupHandler;
  private SearchIndexManager manager;
  private CollaborationTagStore collaborationTagStore;
  private ConfigurationStore configurationStore;
  private AuxiliaryIndex<String, NameSpaceContainer, SearchContainer> searchIndex;

  public SearchServiceImpl(
    Provider<NamespaceService> namespaceServiceProvider,
    Provider<OptionManager> optionManagerProvider,
    Provider<LegacyKVStoreProvider> storeProvider,
    Provider<SchedulerService> schedulerService,
    ExecutorService executorService
  ) {
    this.namespaceServiceProvider = namespaceServiceProvider;
    this.optionManagerProvider = optionManagerProvider;
    this.storeProvider = storeProvider;
    this.schedulerService = schedulerService;
    this.executorService = executorService;
  }

  @Override
  public void start() throws Exception {
    LegacyKVStoreProvider kvStoreProvider = storeProvider.get();
    final LocalKVStoreProvider localKVStoreProvider = kvStoreProvider.unwrap(LocalKVStoreProvider.class);
    // TODO DX-14433 - should have better way to deal with Local/Remote KVStore
    if (localKVStoreProvider == null) {
      logger.warn("Search search could not start as kv store is not local");
      return;
    }

    searchIndex = localKVStoreProvider.getAuxiliaryIndex("catalog-search", DAC_NAMESPACE, SearchIndexManager.NamespaceSearchConverter.class);
    collaborationTagStore = new CollaborationTagStore(storeProvider.get());
    configurationStore = new ConfigurationStore(storeProvider.get());
    manager = new SearchIndexManager(namespaceServiceProvider, collaborationTagStore, configurationStore, searchIndex);
    wakeupHandler = new WakeupHandler(executorService, manager);

    // important to schedule once and schedule it back
    // since option value can change dynamically
    schedulerService.get().schedule(scheduleForRunningOnceAt(
      getNextRefreshTimeInMillis(),
      LOCAL_TASK_LEADER_NAME, getNextReleaseLeadership(), TimeUnit.MILLISECONDS),
      new Runnable() {
        @Override
        public void run() {
          wakeupManager("periodic refresh");
          schedulerService.get().schedule(scheduleForRunningOnceAt(
            getNextRefreshTimeInMillis(),
            LOCAL_TASK_LEADER_NAME, getNextReleaseLeadership(), TimeUnit.MILLISECONDS),this);
        }
      });
  }

  @Override
  public List<SearchContainer> search(String query, String username) throws NamespaceException {
    final Stream<NameSpaceContainer> namespaceResults = searchNamespace(query);

    return createSearchEntities(namespaceResults);
  }

  /**
   * Takes a list of NameSpaceContainers and creates SearchEntities from them.
   *
   * @param namespaceResults list of namespace search results
   */
  List<SearchContainer> createSearchEntities(Stream<NameSpaceContainer> namespaceResults) {
    final List<SearchContainer> results = namespaceResults.map(input -> {
      return new SearchContainer(input, null);
    }).collect(Collectors.toList());

    fillCollaborationTags(results);

    return results;
  }

  /**
   * Takes a list of SearchContainer and fills in the collaboration tags.
   *
   * @param results list of SearchContainer with no tags
   */
  private void fillCollaborationTags(List<SearchContainer> results) {
    final LegacyIndexedStore.LegacyFindByCondition findByCondition = new LegacyIndexedStore.LegacyFindByCondition();
    final List<SearchTypes.SearchQuery> searchQueries = StreamSupport.stream(results.spliterator(), false)
      .map(input -> {
        return newTermQuery(CollaborationTagStore.ENTITY_ID, NamespaceUtils.getId(input.getNamespaceContainer()));
      }).collect(Collectors.toList());

    findByCondition.setCondition(or(searchQueries));

    final Map<String, CollaborationTag> hash = new HashMap<>();

    collaborationTagStore.find(findByCondition).forEach(input -> {
      hash.put(input.getKey(), input.getValue());
    });

    // fill in
    results.forEach(input -> {
      String id = NamespaceUtils.getId(input.getNamespaceContainer());
      if (hash.containsKey(id)) {
        input.setCollaborationTag(hash.get(id));
      }
    });
  }

  /**
   * Searches the namespace store using the auxiliary index.
   *
   * @param query the search query to run
   * @return the namespace store results for the search query
   */
  Stream<NameSpaceContainer> searchNamespace(String query) {
    // exact query matches are boosted 10 fold
    final List<SearchTypes.SearchQuery> queries = new ArrayList<>(getQueriesForSearchTerm(query, 10));

    if (query != null) {
      // split the trimmed query by space
      Arrays.stream(query.trim().split(" ")).forEach(term -> {
        queries.addAll(getQueriesForSearchTerm(term, 1));
      });
    }

    final FindByCondition findByCondition = getFindByCondition(queries);
    Iterable<Document<KVStoreTuple<String>, KVStoreTuple<NameSpaceContainer>>> entries = searchIndex.find(findByCondition);

    return StreamSupport.stream(entries.spliterator(), false).map(input -> {
      return input.getValue().getObject();
    });
  }

  protected FindByCondition getFindByCondition(List<SearchTypes.SearchQuery> queries) {
    final ImmutableFindByCondition.Builder builder = new ImmutableFindByCondition.Builder()
      .setCondition(or(queries));

    // Note: Reproducing the behavior of the legacy version of FindByCondition, which sets the page
    // size to be the limit if the page size is smaller than the limit.
    if (FindByCondition.DEFAULT_PAGE_SIZE < MAX_SEARCH_RESULTS) {
      builder.setPageSize(MAX_SEARCH_RESULTS);
    }
    builder.setLimit(MAX_SEARCH_RESULTS);
    return builder.build();
  }

  private List<SearchTypes.SearchQuery> getQueriesForSearchTerm(String term, int boostMultiplier) {
    final String lcTerm = term == null ? "" : term.toLowerCase();
    final String lcWildcardQuery = String.format("*%s*", lcTerm);

    final List<SearchTypes.SearchQuery> queries = new ArrayList<>();

    // exact name matches
    queries.add(newBoost(newTermQuery(NAME_LC.getIndexFieldName(), lcTerm), 5 * boostMultiplier));

    // exact tag matches
    queries.add(newBoost(newTermQuery(TAGS_LC.getIndexFieldName(), lcTerm), 4 * boostMultiplier));

    // exact path segment matches
    queries.add(newBoost(newTermQuery(PATH_UNQUOTED_LC.getIndexFieldName(), lcTerm), 3 * boostMultiplier));

    // wildcard searches
    queries.add(newBoost(newWildcardQuery(PATH_UNQUOTED_LC.getIndexFieldName(), lcWildcardQuery), 2 * boostMultiplier));
    queries.add(newBoost(newWildcardQuery(TAGS_LC.getIndexFieldName(), lcWildcardQuery), 2 * boostMultiplier));

    // these are the least important boost wise
    queries.add(newBoost(newWildcardQuery(DATASET_COLUMNS_LC.getIndexFieldName(), lcWildcardQuery), boostMultiplier));

    return queries;
  }

  private Instant getNextRefreshTimeInMillis() {
    long option = optionManagerProvider.get().getOption(ExecConstants.SEARCH_MANAGER_REFRESH_MILLIS);
    return Instant.ofEpochMilli(System.currentTimeMillis() + option);
  }

  private long getNextReleaseLeadership() {
    return optionManagerProvider.get().getOption(SEARCH_SERVICE_RELEASE_LEADERSHIP_MS);
  }

  @Override
  public void close() throws Exception {
  }

  public void wakeupManager(String reason) {
    if (wakeupHandler != null) {
      wakeupHandler.handle(reason);
    }
  }
}

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Rituals: A Faye Longchamp Archaeological Mystery #8
Mary Anna Evans
Faye Longchamp doesn't believe in ghosts. But she's an archaeologist—dead people are her life. While working in Rosebower, a rural New York town founded by Spiritualists, Faye is surrounded by ...
Faye Longchamp doesn't believe in ghosts. But she's an archaeologist—dead people are her life. While working in Rosebower, a rural New York town founded by Spiritualists, Faye is surrounded by people who talk to the dead on a regular basis. When the most influential Spiritualist in town, Tilda Armistead, invites Faye and her project assistant to commune with the dead, she can't say no. Curiosity is also a cherished part of an archaeologist's life. An hour after her crystal ball shows Faye things no rational mind can explain, Tilda is dead. The evidence says that someone trapped Tilda in a small room, nailing its one door shut before setting Tilda's Victorian home afire. There is no possible way for Tilda to have escaped the blaze, let alone drive for miles before finding Faye and dying in her arms. Yet Tilda did. How? And why? In this bizarre community—one not far from Seneca Falls where women's rights activists once convened—it is sacrilegious not to believe in spooks. Plus spiritual tourism is a main Rosebower income stream. And here is Faye, surrounded by people who had reason to kill Tilda. Tilda's estranged daughter may be the heir to the Armistead fortune. The daughter's husband is a stage magician with a long history of making things vanish—and he's sinfully sexy. A rich developer would like to turn Rosebower into a Disneyland complete with real ghosts, a project which Tilda fought with her considerable political clout. And then there is the town's famed root doctor whose mysterious herbal potions are consumed by Rosebower and customers far and wide, plus the museum owner who hired Faye's company to assess his questionable collection. Anywhere but Rosebower, these people would be dismissed as crazy. As Faye watches the psychics and charlatans jockey for power, and sends an SOS to her shrewd husband Joe, Tilda's sister, Myrna, is slowly dying. Will Rosebower reveal its secrets, and the Armisteads their history, to Faye before more goes up in flames?
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The dark liquid rose in the syringe. Experience had proven that injecting more than its full volume of three cubic centimeters was impractical under these circumstances. This was unfortunate. A higher dose would have served the purpose better.
Caution for patient safety would ordinarily require certain safeguards. Injecting an air bubble into someone's bloodstream could have…consequences…but only if the person wielding the hypodermic needle cared whether the patient lived or died. The hollow needle encountered only slight resistance before emptying itself into the softness beneath. That was its job, puncturing. The job of the syringe was to deliver its secret cargo.
Soon, it would do so again.
"Hey, Mom?"
Ignoring her impulse to do a victory dance every time Amande called her "Mom," Faye Longchamp-Mantooth turned to her adopted daughter and said, "Hmm?"
"I'm exhausted. How come I'm so tired when all I did was sit at a desk all day? And it's only Monday."
"Well, we did work six days straight last week."
Faye stopped walking. She grabbed her hips with both hands to stabilize them while she twisted her torso hard to the left, then to the right. It was the only way she knew to stretch out the little twinge in her lower back that had lingered since she was pregnant with Michael. He was two now, so she guessed the little twinge would be with her for life.
Amande grabbed Faye's shoulder and rubbed her fist hard over those sore back muscles. It helped.
"You're good at that. I'm glad I keep you around." Faye didn't tell her that her neck hurt, too. Otherwise, she'd soon be enjoying a full body massage on a public sidewalk in downtown Rosebower, New York. "My grandmother was a secretary, so all her workdays were like the one we just spent. Every night, she walked in the house and announced, 'I feel like I've been beat with a stick.'"
"That's exactly what it feels like!" Amande gave Faye's lower back a final punch. It felt good, but it almost sent Faye face down onto the concrete. Her new daughter was a big, beautiful six-footer and Faye was a flyweight. "It feels like I've been beat with a stick."
Since Faye and Amande had a contract to do cultural resources management for a tiny historical museum that had been run by amateurs for a century, they'd spent the past week hunched over piles of unfiled papers and undocumented artifacts. There was no end in sight.
"Welcome to the world of the small-time consulting archaeologist, Sweetheart. Sometimes you get to work outside, digging up cool stuff. And sometimes you spend your time indoors with old, dusty junk. It all pays the bills."
"Then we'll sit inside and try not to sniff too much dust. It could be a lot worse," said Amande, who had lived most of her life in a world where the bills didn't always get paid.
Faye wasn't sure there was another teenager alive who brought such a sunny disposition to a summer spent working for her mom. Her own disposition swung daily from sunny to dark. She loved having this chance to be alone with her daughter, but she missed her husband Joe and their son Michael so fiercely that it kept her awake some nights. Knowing her as he did, there had been nights when she'd picked up the phone and it had rung in her hand before she'd even poked in Joe's number.
"Oh, my dears, I am so glad I caught you before you went back to that dingy hotel room."
Myrna Armistead's voice approached from behind, but slowly. She didn't look as perky as usual but, at Myrna's age, she was lucky to be traipsing the sidewalks at any speed. Faye had enjoyed watching this aging spinster's awkward overtures for Amande's friendship. Even past eighty, the mothering instinct is powerful, and Myrna wasn't choosy. She'd barely known forty-two-year-old Faye a week, but she had already tried to mother her a few times. Faye had let her.
"Tilda and I would be honored if you'd both join us for dinner. And a spiritual reading afterward, if you like. My sister tells me the spirits are thick around the two of you. Good spirits," she added quickly, when she saw the alarm on Amande's face. "They are the essences of all the people who have loved you. Tilda has the sense that you both have many loved ones who have passed over, maybe more than you have left on this side of The Great Divide. Let her help them talk to you."
Welcome to Rosebower, Faye thought, where hearing voices did not result in heavy medication and a quick trip to an in-patient unit. The little Victorian-era town was located smack-dab in the western New York cradle of Spiritualism, and it was full of people who were certain they could talk to the dead. To Tilda's credit, she had a reputation for utter honesty. Her psychic readings involved no faked floating tables or Ouija boards or mysterious rappings. Tilda's reputation seemed to be based on the fact that people believed her when she talked.
Why shouldn't they? Faye liked the woman's lined, honest face. If Tilda were to give Faye a message from her great-great-grandmother Cally Stanton, she would be inclined to believe it, despite the fact that Cally had been dead for nearly eighty years. Faye was a scientist, which made it hard for her to believe that Tilda could really talk to the dead, but she had seen some strange things in her life. She didn't want to have dinner with Tilda and Myrna and her long-dead kin tonight, but not because she didn't believe. Faye was just dog-tired.
Amande, too, had been dog-tired thirty seconds before, but there was now a light in her eyes that told Faye it would be hours before she saw her bed. "A spiritual reading? That's like a séance, right?"
Because Faye had lacked the energy to say no to a teenager who smelled adventure, she was now using a fresh-baked honey-yeast roll to wipe up the puddled juices of Tilda's succulent pot roast. Scooping up the last bites of home-grown beets and tiny green peas, Faye leaned back in her chair, unable to do anything but sigh. She was way past dog-tired now, but she was happy. Myrna, whose pudgy face was as warm and sweet as the honeyed bread, sat beside Faye, rubbing her own round belly.
"I'm sure that meal was tastier than you would have gotten at the old Vandorn house where you're staying. Remember it, Tilda? Father's friend lived there and we used to visit when we were little. Somebody has made it into a hotel. Imagine! So many people who touched our lives have passed over. But when you cook, Sister," she said, "I feel like Mama has come back from the dead."
"She has, Dear. She's here now."
Tilda's barely perceptible smile lit a face so narrow that it called to mind Faye's mother's old-timey criticism of the looks of a too-thin woman: "That woman's hatchet-faced."
There was a softness to Tilda's eyes and her short white hair that made up for her straight-edged face and whip-thin body. Faye respected her, for sure, and she thought she'd like her as much as she liked Myrna, once she got to know her better.
Tilda glanced around the room as if there were friendly spirits sitting in each of the eight extra chairs surrounding her awesomely handcarved mahogany table. If Faye hadn't been so contented and full of beef, she might have rolled her eyes at the idea of spirits who had nothing better to do than watch them eat. This would have made her hate herself for disrespecting the cook who made such an incomparable pot roast.
"Would anybody like some candy?" Myrna handed a box of goodies around the table. "I can't cook like Tilda, but I do like sweets. Here, take all you like."
Faye thanked her and took a big bite of the dark gelatinous thing in her hand. It was licorice. Acrid, medicinal, noxious licorice. Somehow, the fact that the licorice had been dipped in chocolate made the flavor even worse. Could one actually spoil chocolate?
Faye locked eyes with Amande. Her daughter hated licorice, too, but the girl wouldn't want to hurt Myrna's feelings any more than Faye did. Faye responded to her daughter's "Help me!" look by surreptitiously depositing the uneaten portion of her candy into a paper napkin and slipping it into her purse. There was no help for the stomach-turning mess in her mouth, so she swallowed it whole. Amande followed suit.
To distract the ladies from Amande's waste disposal, Faye asked Tilda about the house's antiques. It was stuffed to over- flowing with Victorian rosewood settees and hand-crocheted antimacassars, and its walls were hung with portraits of generations of Armistead ancestors.
As Tilda started to answer her, Myrna interrupted. Faye had the feeling that this happened a lot. "There are things in this house that belong in the museum where you're working. See—" "Not while there's an Armistead alive," Tilda said flatly, proving that she'd learned long ago the secret to being heard in Myrna's presence: Speak loudly and feel free to interrupt. "Some of these pieces are original to the house, and it was built in 1836.
They belong in the family."
As twilight deepened outside the dining room's many-paned windows, Tilda moved around quietly, lighting a collection of spherical antique oil lamps made of all colors of glass. Faye judged that they were all antique and hand-blown. Their flickering light suited the old house better than the electric bulbs in the converted gasoliers overhead would have.
"See those chairs? There have been more than family butts in them." Myrna was whispering in Amande's ear, but the whispers of a woman with failing ears don't conceal much. "See that swivel-seat chair made out of cast iron? The one in front of the secretary desk?"
Amande did, and so did everybody else in the room. "Elizabeth Cady Stanton sat there, not long after she delivered the keynote address at the convention for women's rights in Seneca Falls, not far from here. Lucretia Mott visited on another occasion. She sat there." Myrna pointed at a slender chair with original horsehair upholstery.
Myrna had a rapt audience. Amande scampered across the room and fondled the horsehair. "Mom's taking me to Seneca Falls while we're here. She says we have to make a pilgrimage to the place where women put their demands in writing, just like men. After that, I'm supposed to vote every chance I get, as soon as I turn eighteen. Next year." The last two words were delivered with an emphasis that said, "And I can't wait."
"I like your mom," Tilda declared. "It's good to exercise our rights. And to remember the people who got them for us. Shall we spend some time with their spirits? Would you still like a reading?" Faye had to admit she was curious. Also, Myrna was mutter- ing, "Where's that candy? The little girl and her mother may want some more," and Faye was in all-out licorice-avoidance mode. She would have endured the most cringe-inducing fake séance if doing so would have spared her a second dose of that candy. "Yes," Faye said. "We'd be honored if you would do a reading for us, Tilda."
Myrna led them into a room tucked under the stairs while Tilda took a private moment to prepare. Since the builders of grand old homes like this one took their stately staircases seriously, there was room for a large square area under the second floor landing, with a narrow, sloping extension beneath the steps. The underside of each stair could be seen, rising stepwise one-by-one. For an odd moment, Faye felt trapped inside the surrealist art of M.C. Escher with its impossible staircases to nowhere.
A chair, old and threadbare, was tucked under the stairs. Behind it was a dark area where an adult would have to stoop and then crawl. The square portion of the room was almost completely occupied by a round table. In its center sat a crystal ball, not large but utterly clear, glinting atop an ornate stand of tarnished goldtone metal.
Myrna busied herself with a pile of folding chairs stacked in the depths of the slant-roofed space. She could barely carry a single chair, so Faye and Amande rushed to help. Once they were in place, Myrna beckoned them to sit, chatting like someone who hadn't met anybody new in years.
"We do this every night, just the two of us. It's important to tend our bonds with family members who have passed over. Mother. Father. Tilda's dear husband Edwin. Not to mention all the family we never met on this plane at all. There are so few of us Armisteads left. Just the two of us, really, and Tilda's daughter Dara. We have some distant cousins-by-marriage in Texas—not Armisteads, but kin on Mother's side—but we could never ever go there."
"Why not?" Faye asked. "Airplanes fly back and forth to Texas every day." Tilda and Myrna seemed to have financial means to make the trip, if they really wanted to go.
"I could go, but I don't like to leave Tilda. She doesn't travel." Myrna leaned so close that Faye could see her reflection curving across the surface of the crystal ball. For some reason, the distorted image made Faye look up at the uncomfortably low ceiling. It seemed to be sinking even lower.
"Tilda really doesn't travel," Myrna went on. "She hasn't left Rosebower since Edwin died. I think there are even parts of Rosebower that are too far from home for Tilda."
Rosebower was a postage stamp-sized town built long before cars came along. It was physically impossible for two places in Rosebower to be far apart. Tilda must have a fearsome case of agoraphobia.
Myrna was still spilling her sister's secrets. "The only reason we have a car is to make it easier for Tilda to get her groceries home." "The grocery store's only three blocks away," Amande pointed out. "She could walk over there every morning and bring home enough food for the day. Cars are expensive. There's no reason to pay for insurance on a car you don't need."
Amande knew what she was talking about. She had lived most of her childhood with no motorized transportation but a boat. She was such a reasonable girl, but the human mind is not always reasonable.
"Tilda thought it over and decided that it scared her to think about driving a car to the store once a week, but it scared her more to think about being forced to walk there every single day. Even after all these years, that car wouldn't have two thousand miles on it, except for the fact that Tilda let her daughter Dara drive it a little when she was a teenager. I think maybe the odometer reads about five thousand now."
"The chrome-yellow '72 Monte Carlo out front? It's only got five thousand original miles?" Life without a car had given Amande a motorhead's heart.
"I bet Tilda would let you take it for a spin. She leaves the keys in it."
Amande looked ready to forget the séance, so she could sprint outside and ogle the classic car before dark. She kept her seat, though, because Tilda had entered the room. An air of stillness entered with her, but Myrna couldn't let the stillness settle without sneaking in a little more family lore.
"Tilda was…is…the most gifted medium of her age, just as Father was before her. She still takes the occasional client, but she must really like you girls. She doesn't do this for everybody." Windowless and claustrophobic, the tiny room made Faye feel disoriented even before Tilda, still silent, lit a low oil lamp and placed its open flame under the crystal ball. Faye grew curious, despite her skeptical nature. The ball, lit from below in a way she'd never seen in the movies, glowed as if from within. At the risk of ruining the spiritual tone of the evening, Faye indulged her own geekiness, leaning in to examine it. When she tried to look through the crystal, images of objects on the other side were inverted.
Faye understood the optical principle at work, but its effect was hypnotic and unfamiliar. When Tilda daubed her palms with scented oil and rubbed them over the crystal ball, warmed by flame, Faye thought, This is interesting. None of the fortune-telling gypsies on Scooby-Doo ever did that.
The fragrance of the heated oil was already rising on warm air when Tilda lit a misshapen lump of incense. She placed it on a ceramic tray that was painted with intricate geometric patterns, holding the burning incense in front of her face with both hands and drawing the aroma in through her nose. Combined with the perfumed oil, it filled the room with a fragrance that was too strong to be pleasant, yet wasn't oppressive.
"Join hands, please," Tilda said in a commanding voice. After three deep breaths, she said, "You were not always mother and daughter."
Faye's mental fraud detector gave Tilda demerits. She was certain that Myrna knew she'd adopted Amande recently, and it was obvious that Tilda immediately heard any gossipy tidbit that Myrna discovered.
"Amande's mother sent you to her. She knew that you would care for her child."
The curmudgeon inside Faye who bore a grudge against Justine snorted. If Amande's mother had cared so much, why had she walked away from a toddler and never come home?
Then Faye's internal fact checker reminded her that Justine had died only a few days before Faye got the job that took her to Amande. From a Spiritualist's perspective, death had finally given Justine the chance to manipulate events in her daughter's favor. She'd never had a shot when she was alive. Justine's life had been hard from birth to grave.
Faye's fraud detector, always fair, removed one demerit from Tilda's side of the ledger.
Tilda closed her eyes and took more easy breaths. "The two of you are bound by more than blood. Your ancestors are happy that you found one another. Your mothers have found each other on the other side, and they share your joy."
Well, that was an unprovable bit of feel-good psychobabble. Faye was about to issue another skeptic's demerit when she noticed an uncountable number of orbs of light flickering in her peripheral vision. The orbs were all colors, pure and beauti- ful, without a tone of gray in any of them. The lights danced. They passed through objects and human bodies. They couldn't possibly be real, not in a physical sense, but she couldn't stop looking. Could anyone else see them?
Myrna and Tilda were looking only at the uplit crystal ball, but Amande's eyes were darting from the lamplight to the room's dark corners and back again. The girl wasn't just confused by what she saw. She was scared.
Faye gave her daughter's hand a squeeze. Then Tilda men- tioned their mothers again and a shadow fell over Amande's face. "Your mothers are both here. They have not let go of the pain of living. You should know that your fathers left of their own accord. Your mothers did not send them away."
Tilda had nailed that one, almost. Faye wasn't sure she'd say her father had left of his own accord. More accurately, the draft board had said, "Here's a one-way ticket to Vietnam," but Tilda was right that her mother hadn't sent him away.
About Amande's father, she knew exactly nothing, because Justine had never told anyone who he was. Justine had aban- doned her daughter after a year of single motherhood and she was dead now, so there was no one to ask. There never would be. If Faye were to ever muster a grain of sympathy for Justine, it would be because she could imagine being a lonely teenaged mother with no help in sight.
The glowing lights flitted around the room, reflecting in Tilda's glasses and throwing a luminous glow on Amande's dark curls and her honeyed-brown skin. Faye wanted to ask Tilda whether the orbs were supposed to be the souls of dead people, but she was too relaxed to make the effort.
Even if they were ghosts, they didn't scare her. They hovered near the four women at the table, flirting with the idea of touching them, then passing right through their bodies, always at the heart.
Faye tried to decide what color her mother's orb would be, or her grandmother's, or her father's. What about Douglass? What color was his soul? He had been a rock for her, almost a father, someone she could trust to protect her when needed and to let her go when the time came. Two glowing orbs, cool green and deep blue, flew in tandem past her cheek, and she heard Douglass' voice rumble in her ear. "He sent me, you know. Your father sent me to take care of you. And now we're both here."
Then she felt herself enfolded by woman-arms, more than two of them. Her mother and her grandmother were there, both of them, but they were silent, because there was nothing about their love for her that she didn't already know. She wanted to stay there with them, but she looked at her daughter's face and saw a tear streaking down her cheek. The tear brought Faye back to herself.
"Stop it." She half-rose from her chair, breaking her hold on Myrna's hand. "Stop it now. We've had enough."
Stupid. How stupid could she be?
Amande didn't have Faye's memories of being a cherished child. There had been only one stable force in Amande's life before Faye and Joe came along, and that was Miranda, the step-grandmother who had raised her. Hardly a year had passed since Amande learned that her runaway mother had succumbed to cancer. Days after receiving that tragic news, Miranda had been knifed to death.
It was too soon for Amande to be reminded of the grand- mother she'd lost and the birth mother she'd never known. It was simply too soon.
There were arms around Amande now, real ones, as Myrna reached out for the shaken girl, who was already cradled against Faye's chest.
"I'm so sorry, Dear," Myrna said. "Sometimes this happens. Sometimes, it hurts to touch the ones we miss so terribly. The pain will get better. You'll be glad later, I promise. These experiences freshen the bonds and bring our loved ones closer. But there's no need to rush things, now that you know what's possible. Any time you feel like talking to your mother…or anybody, really…you come back here. Tilda can help you."
Tilda hadn't spoken yet. While they talked, she'd turned her drooping eyes from one face to another, as if hoping someone would tell her what had happened. If Tilda were to ask Faye that question out loud, the only answer she'd get would be, "Hell if I know."
Faye wished for Joe. Every last gram of her was a scientist, so she would never stop looking for rational explanations for even the strangest events. Her husband, on the other hand, was sometimes content to let things be. He also possessed a comfort with the power of nature that was rooted in his Creek heritage, and his intuition was so keen that he often seemed psychic when he'd done nothing more than pay attention.
Faye's own Creek heritage was so diluted by her African and European blood that she rarely felt a connection like Joe's to her American roots. Joe was her spiritual touchstone.
Joe would be able to help her make sense of this experience under Tilda's staircase. If Faye had thought Tilda possessed psychokinetic powers that could magically snatch Joe out of Florida and bring him to her, Faye would have willingly braved another session around the crystal ball. But not with Amande. Faye knew she was wishing for the impossible, but she didn't ever want to see another tear on that vulnerable cheek.
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Fluorescence Microscopy Journal Club
Asymmetric packaging of polymerases within vesicular stomatitis virus
by Jeffery Hodges, Xiaolin Tang, Michael B. Landesman, John B. Ruedas, Anil Ghimire,
Manasa V. Gudheti, Jacques Perrault, Erik M. Jorgensen, Jordan M. Gerton, Saveez Saffarian
Biochemical and Biophysical Research Communications 2013, 440, 2, pp. 271-276
The vesicular stomatitis virus (VSV) a prototypical negative sense single-stranded RNA virus commonly used in the study of viral evolution and pathology. The study of viral behavior and structural organization in such viruses as VSV serves as a building block for the broader understanding of retroviral virus families, such as rabies and HIV. Furthermore, VSV has been targeted for its ability to be genetically modified for use in vaccines for Ebola and rabies, as well as its ability to be used in a variety of oncology treatments.
VSV is a bullet-shaped virus approximately 180 nm long by 80 nm wide, and contains multiple copies of L and P polymerase proteins that are used in transcribing and replicating the N-RNA of the virion. The polymerase engages with promoter sites located at the 3' end of the RNA strand, determined previously by CryoEM, located at the bullet end of the virion. The authors use a combination of sub-diffraction techniques, namely super-resolution optical microscopy and atomic force microscopy (AFM) to determine the location and quantification of these polymerase proteins within the manifold of the virus to determine its spatial relationship to the transcriptional promoter site of the viral genome.
A series of super-resolution optical localization microscopy experiments on the VSV virus were conducted to measure the relative distance of the L and P proteins to the surface of the virus. This was accomplished by a novel combination of recombinant viruses encoding for the fluorescent protein eGFP for use in conventional diffraction-limited imaging to use as a center-of-mass marker for either the L or P protein, coupled with a super-resolution image of the virus membrane to determine the structural manifold of the VSV virus, leading to the conclusion that the placement of the L and P proteins being near the blunt end of the virus.
Verification of this phenomenon was corroborated via AFM in a fluorescent-free assay where the surface stiffness of the VSV virus was directly measured. The increase in the protein load at one end of the virus or the other will directly relate to a differing stiffness value for the virus surface, with the AFM being used as an active force sensor. These finding agreed well with the findings determined from imaging the virions with optical super-resolution techniques.
In conclusion, the authors determine that the L and P proteins, and hence the polymerase for the N-RNA, are packaged asymmetrically within the volume of the VSV virus. This has direct consequences for transcription events after viral entry into a host cell, and the knowledge of the location of the polymerase with respect to the position and layout of the N-RNA can help further the modeling of the replication of these viruses once they infect a host cell. This paper is a nice example of using super-resolution localization microscopy to determine not only spatial location but quantification as well of labeled protein, as well as incorporating another microscopy technique to further validate the optical results.
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The All Party Parliamentary Group for Children (APPGC) has launched an inquiry into local authority run children's social care asking how services are responding to reduced funding and increased demand.
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Tim Loughton MP, co-chair of the APPGC, said: "With the introduction of widespread reforms, a new inspection framework and changes to demand and resourcing, there is an urgent need to establish how local services are adapting to the new climate.
"Of course local authority providers face barriers to delivering effective services for children, but they also innovate and we hope this inquiry will provide a means of sharing that learning, as well as showing where policy and legislation must change."
While the focus of the inquiry will be on children's social care services in England, the inquiry will seek to draw upon evidence from across the UK in order to share examples of effective practice during a time of new challenges such as radicalisation and child sexual exploitation.
The APPGC will hear evidence from local authority leaders and service providers and will also draw on the experiences of children, young people and families themselves.
Baroness Howarth of Breckland, co-chair of the APPGC, said: "Over the next months, we will hear from local services about exactly how the needs of families, children and young people are changing and whether the resourcing is adequate to meet these challenges. With so many children who are facing difficulties depending on these services being effective and timely, these questions must be answered urgently."


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The Tarkwa Bankyim Odikro, who is not a miner, but a friend to the concerned youth and GGL Tarkwa mine workers whose livelihood was being threatened called on the management of the mining company to maintain its ownership mining status to retain workers.
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The Washington Redskins released quarterback John Beck after the 2012 NFL Draft, that saw the Redskins draft not one but two quarterbacks. It didn't take long for the former Redskins quarterback to get another shot with another NFL team. Beck has signed a deal with the Houston Texans, according to a report.
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McClain notes that Beck is familiar with the Texans offensive system, having played for Mike Shanahan. Kubiak's offensive system is virtually identical to what Shanahan runs, as both worked together with Denver Broncos. The Texans had wanted a veteran quarterback after dealing with injuries last season.
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Matthew William (Matt) Sorum (Mission Viejo, 19 november 1960) is een Amerikaans drummer en percussionist. Sorum is vooral bekend om zijn zevenjarige periode bij de band Guns N' Roses (1990-1997). Sinds 2002 is hij drummer van de band Velvet Revolver, waar onder anderen voormalig Guns N' Roses-leden Duff McKagan (bas) en Slash (gitaar) deel van uitmaken.

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Clash detection is a crucial part of a BIM modeling process. The purpose of this process is to find where elements of separate models "clash" or occupying the same space, or in 4D BIM modeling, a time sequence that is out of order.
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Q: Is it possible to access DLLs generated with RTW in MATLAB? Given a DLL compiled using Real Time Workshop, is it possible to then take that DLL and address it using for instance the loadlibrary() function?
Attempts to-date have yielded that the DLL 'is not a valid Win32 application.'

A: What you can do is, generate the code, write wrappers for it and create a DLL in and IDE. For example if you wanted to create a dll in visual studio, you would generate your code, and then import all of the files in the code generation report.
a. generate code using ert.tlc "Create Visual C/C++ Solution File for the realtime Workshop embedded Coder"
Set up your project paths as follows:
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        ModelName.c/cpp
        ModelName_data.c/cpp
        ert_main.c/cpp
        ModelName.h
        ModelName_private.h
        ModelName_types.h
        rtwtypes.h
    c. Include director paths
        $(MATLAB_ROOT)\simulink\include
        $(MATLAB_ROOT)\extern\include
        $(MATLAB_ROOT)\rtw\c\src
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Good tutorial for creating dlls MSDN
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms235636.aspx
I am running MatLab 2010, and visual studio 2010.

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