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ACVIM Brain Camp Online
With the global impact of COVID-19 and the postponement the 2020 ACVIM North American Neuroscience Course (Brain Camp) until summer 2021, we understand that this is an extremely challenging time for residents and has been very disruptive to resident training. As a result, we will be delivering a portion of the ACVIM North American Neuroscience Course (Brain Camp) as an online program starting in August.
The ACVIM Brain Camp Online program will consist of 19.5 hours of content, divided into three courses of 6-7 hours each. The material will be delivered as 1-hour RACE-approved modules containing pre-recorded lectures, proceedings and assessments. Attendees can access modules from any device and at their own pace. Each course will conclude with a 1-hour live Q&A with the presenters. The Q&A session will also be recorded to watch later for attendees who are unable to join the live portion. Attendees will continue to have access to the modules through June 30, 2021.
The ACVIM Brain Camp Online courses and launch date are as follows:
1. Advanced Diagnostic Imaging – NOW AVAILABLE
This 6-hour course is a review of magnetic resonance imaging and other advanced imaging modalities used to evaluate the nervous system in veterinary patients. It is recommended the MR physics be reviewed prior to the course. The Live Q&A with the Advanced Diagnostic Imaging Presenters session was hosted and recorded on Monday, August 24, 2020. The recorded session is available in a supplemental Module 7 in the ACVIM Online system.
2. Electrodiagnostics –NOW AVAILABLE
This 6.5 hour course provides an overview of the theory and practice of electrodiagnostic testing to include BAER, EMG, NCV, RNS, and EEG. The Live Q&A with the Electrodiagnostics Presenters session was hosted and recorded on Tuesday, September 22, 2020. The recorded session will be available in a supplemental Module 7 in the ACVIM Online system.
3. Neuropathology – NOW AVAILABLE!
This 7-hour course provides a foundation in a variety of veterinary neuropathology topics for those interested in both clinical and research areas. The Live Q&A with the Neuropathology Presenters session was hosted and recorded on Thursday, October 22, 2020. The recorded session will be available in a supplemental Module 7 in the ACVIM Online system.
Register for an individual course or for all three! Registration fees are established per course as follows:
ACVIM / ECVIM / ECVN candidates: $180.00
ACVIM / ECVIM / ECVN Diplomates, ESVN members: $180.00
Non-members: $300.00
Registration fee includes 6 hours of pre-recorded content and 1 hour of live Q&A with the presenters.
RACE application status
This program has been submitted and approved for 19.5 hours of continuing education credit in jurisdictions which recognize AAVSB RACE approval. Please see course tabs below for RACE approval status for each individual course.
For additional questions, please contact us at Learning@ACVIM.org.
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Audience: ACVIM, ECVIM, ECVN Diplomates and candidates CE Hours:
up to 19.5
Type: On demand lecture and live Q&A
Date: On Demand through June 30, 2021
Course Leader
Sheila Carrera-Justiz, DVM, DACVIM (Neurology)
Clinical Associate Professor & Service Chief, Neurology
Dr. Sheila Carrera-Justiz received her DVM from the University of Florida in 2005. She completed a rotating small animal internship at the University of Missouri and a neurology specialty internship at the Veterinary Specialty Hospital of San Diego. She completed a residency in Neurology and Neurosurgery at Tufts University in 2010 and became a board-certified specialist of the ACVIM that same year. Dr. Carrera-Justiz spent four years in private practice at the VCA West Los Angeles Animal Hospital before moving back to Gainesville, Florida to be a Clinical Associate Professor at the University of Florida, where she has been since 2014.
Advanced Diagnostic Imaging Speakers
Jay Griffin, DVM, DACVR
Associate Professor, Radiology
Dr. Jay Griffin graduated from Texas A&M College of Veterinary Medicine in 2004. Following graduation, he completed a rotating small animal internship at the University of Tennessee before working for two years as an emergency veterinarian. He completed his radiology residency at Texas A&M in 2010 and attained ACVR board certification shortly thereafter. He is currently an Associate Professor in Radiology at Texas A&M, where he also serves as the Radiology Service Group Leader. Dr. Griffin's major clinical and research interest is MRI of the brain and spinal cord. He is passionate about teaching practical things and serving veterinarians.
Silke Hecht, Dr. med. vet., DACVR, DECVDI
Professor, Radiology
Dr. Silke Hecht received her veterinary degree in 1998 and her Doctorate (Dr. med. vet.) in 2001 both from Ludwig-Maximilians-University in Munich, Germany. She completed her residency in Diagnostic Imaging at Tufts University in 2005. She is a Diplomate of the American College of Veterinary Radiology (ACVR) and the European College of Veterinary Diagnostic Imaging (ECVDI). Dr. Hecht has been with the University of Tennessee College of Veterinary Medicine since 2005 and is currently a professor of Radiology. Her areas of interest include MRI, neuroimaging, oncologic imaging. She has over 80 peer reviewed publications, has written 25 book chapters, and is the Editor of a Textbook on Veterinary Radiology.
Matthew D. Winter, DVM, DACVR
Vice President, VetCT North America; Clinical Associate Professor, Diagnostic Imaging
Dr. Matt Winter graduated from the Cornell University College of Veterinary Medicine in 1998. After three years of dairy, equine and small animal practice, he completed a residency in Diagnostic Imaging at the Cummings School of Veterinary Medicine at Tufts University. He was part of the faculty at the Iowa State University (2004-2007). In 2016-17, he served as the Executive Vice President of Veterinary Education at the North American Veterinary Community. Dr. Winter is currently Vice President of North America and Director of Education for Veterinary Consultants in Telemedicine, a global teleradiology and telemedicine company, and continues to serve as Clinical Associate Professor of Diagnostic Imaging at the University of Florida College of Veterinary Medicine where he has been since 2007.
Electrodiagnostics Speakers
George M. Strain, PhD
Dr. George M. Strain is Professor of Neuroscience at Louisiana State University School of Veterinary Medicine. He received his Bachelor of Science in electrical engineering (Illinois), his MS in biomedical engineering and PhD in physiology and biomedical engineering (Iowa State), followed by postdoctoral training in neurophysiology and neurology at the UCLA School of Medicine. He has provided electrodiagnostic services in the teaching hospital for 42 years, has published extensively on electrodiagnostic testing, deafness, epilepsy, and other areas of veterinary neurology, and is the author of Deafness in Dogs and Cats. His current research emphasis is on the molecular genetics of pigment-associated deafness in dogs.
Colette Williams, PhD
EDX Consultant
Colette Williams has spent nearly four decades performing and teaching electrodiagnostics (EDX), including: EMG, MNCV/SNCV, REP STIM, late waves, BAER, EEG, and SEP. She has contributed an EEG chapter to Blackwell's Five-Minute Veterinary Consult and co-authored EDX chapters in Tobias's Veterinary Surgery: Small Animal and Ettinger's Textbook of Veterinary Internal Medicine. She also has over 40 publications and is a reviewer for several journals. Colette consults for numerous universities and specialty practices. Her mission is to encourage the use of these techniques in veterinary medicine and to raise the standards to the level of those in human medicine.
Neuropathology Speakers
Serena LM Craft, DVM, DACVP (Anatomic Path)
Dr. Serena Craft is a clinical assistant professor at the University of Florida. Originally from Washington state, both she and her husband accepted residencies in anatomic pathology in 2010 and have been here at Florida ever since. Dr. Craft has a wide range of interests from neuropathology to ocular pathology. Her current neuropathology interests are in lysosomal storage diseases, degenerative CNS diseases, and CNS neoplasia. She enjoys collaborating on research, clinical cases, and teaching neuropathology to the neurology residents.
Jey Koehler, DVM, PhD, DACVP (Anatomic Path)
Residency Coordinator, Anatomic Pathology; Section H, Surgical Biopsy Service
Dr. Jey Koehler did her undergraduate work at Auburn University and received her DVM from Louisiana State University in 1996. She was engaged in private practice in small animal medicine and surgery for 11 years before returning to Auburn University for combined residency in anatomic pathology and PhD in Biomedical Science. Dr. Koehler currently serves as the residency coordinator for anatomic pathology and section head for the surgical biopsy service. She teaches pathology of the endocrine and nervous system in the veterinary curriculum, as well as graduate courses in neuropathology, oncologic histopathology, and surgical pathology. She is a member of the C.L. Davis-S.W. Thompson, DVM Foundation's Board of Directors, and is the course director as well as a lecturer in the organization's internationally-renowned Descriptive Veterinary Pathology course.
G. Diane Shelton, DVM, PhD, DACVIM (SAIM)
Professor, Department of Pathology
Dr. Diane Shelton graduated from University of California Davis School of Veterinary Medicine followed by an internship at Michigan State University and a residency at the University of Pennsylvania. She completed a PhD in Comparative Pathology and board certification in internal medicine. Dr. Shelton completed a post-doctoral fellowship at the Salk Institute for Biological Studies with an emphasis on experimental and naturally occurring myasthenia gravis. In 1990, she established the Comparative Neuromuscular Laboratory in the School of Medicine, University of California, San Diego, an international reference center for spontaneously occurring neuromuscular diseases. Currently she is Director of the CNL and Professor, Department of Pathology at UCSD.
Advanced Diagnostic Imaging (August)
Electrodiagnostics (September)
Neuropathology (October)
Content Launch Date: Monday, August 3, 2020
Live Q&A with the Presenters: Monday, August 24, 2020, 8:00 am PDT / 10:00 am CDT / 11:00 am EDT.
This 6-hour course is an intense review of advanced neuroimaging, primarily focusing on magnetic resonance imaging. Computed tomography spinal radiography, myelography and clinical cases are incorporated into the course. Important points of physics and disease syndromes will be emphasized.
By the end of this course you will:
• Understand basic and advanced MRI sequences, artifacts, and how to correct them
• Have a basic understanding of MRI of common intracranial pathologies
• Have a basic understanding of MRI of common spinal pathologies
• Have a basic understanding of the role of survey radiography, myelography and CT in veterinary neuroimaging
Agenda: click here
Live Q&A with the Presenters
The Live Q&A with the Advanced Diagnostic Imaging Presenters session was hosted and recorded on Monday, August 24, 2020. The recorded session is available in a supplemental Module 7 in the Advanced Diagnostic Imaging course in the ACVIM Online system.
RACE Application Status:
This program has been approved for 6.0 hours of continuing education credit in jurisdictions which recognize AAVSB RACE approval.
Content Launch Date: Tuesday, September 1, 2020
Live Q&A with the Presenters: Tuesday, September 22, 2020, 8:00 am PDT / 10:00 am CDT / 11:00 am EDT.
This 6.5 hour course is designed to offer an intense, high-level review of clinical veterinary electrophysiology and electrodiagnostic testing aimed at the neurology resident. Topics will include brainstem auditory evoked responses, electromyography, nerve conduction studies, evaluation of the neuromuscular junction, and electroencephalography.
• Have an understanding of electrophysiologic theory
• Have a basic overview of electrodiagnostic testing for neurological disorders
• Have a basic understanding of diagnostic testing for neuromuscular disorders
The Live Q&A with the Electrodiagnostics Presenters session was hosted and recorded on Tuesday, September 22, 2020. The recorded session will be available in a supplemental Module 7 in the ACVIM Online system.
Content Launch Date: Thursday, October 1, 2020
Live Q&A with the Presenters: Thursday, October 22, 2020, 8:00 am PDT / 10:00 am CDT / 11:00 am EDT.
This 7-hour course provides an intense overview of veterinary neuropathology. There will be a focus on CNS neoplasia, as well as spinal cord pathology.
Obtain working knowledge of the patterns of disease of neoplasia, infections, and degenerative diseases affecting the central nervous system of domestic animals.
Become familiar with the histopathology of common diseases of the central nervous system of domestic animals
The Live Q&A with the Neuropathology Presenters was hosted on Thursday, October 22, 2020. The recorded session will be available in a supplemental Module 7 in the ACVIM Online system.
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Chapter 13 - The Ice Angel Looms
'Keep the torch covered with your fingers stupid!'
'Yeah sorry, just got to be careful about bumping into seats. Don't wanna make a lot of racket, sound carries on still nights like this.'
'Most of the dudes are dead to the world by now. Big Friday night, big Saturday. Any teachers staying over in school are still out partying or back crawling into bed to crash. This is a good time to do business without getting hassled. Sunday morning they gotta get themselves straight for Monday assembly.'
'What about the staff assigned to weekend ground patrol?'
'Playing cards, watching the box or listening to music as usual, you know that. Anyway the last thing they'd expect is someone taking a walk inside the Chapel. What are we gonna do? Pray? We just have to make sure we aren't spotted getting back to our dorms, that's why the others are keeping watch as usual. Quit with the nerves Beresford, we've done this plenty of times, nuthin's ever happened before. Whitey's keeping tabs on things outside. He'll open up to let us out when we're ready.'
'How long have we got until the pick-up?'
'Twenty minutes. This'll be quick. Come on, there could be a drop as well and I like to keep track of what's coming in.'
'Is it the new stuff? We gettin' the Angel Ice tonight?'
'Keep your cool, If not this time, soon. The stuff's gonna be hard to ship into the country, coming all the way from South America, but it'll arrive and when it does we'll be the storehouse for a while until things chill. Gotta keep it totally secret, get it? No one, but no one's to knows its coming into Hopewell. Anyone lets that out, they end up iced, by me!'
'Can we try a shot when it gets here?'
'Beresford, you totally nut-case? You know there are no drugs in this school. Nobody does drugs here. Not them, not us! We got an agreement.' Tony Ichema, The Ice Man, who Priscilla had nicknamed Sandpaper Voice halted, his hand resting on the timber railing of the pulpit where Priscilla and Monique were crouching.
'Anybody gets tempted, they're wiped out, get it!'
'Yeah sure, I get it, but Monkey and Whitey... '
'Monkey and Whitey do what I tell 'em. Just like you. We got an operation happening here, that's all. We get paid to keep it running. That means control, Man. Like, don't you get it by now? We keep the school clean! No one sets up a scam without us knowing and shutting 'em down. We're good for Hopewell, even if we have to keep minor pests like that bullying first-year bitch Annie Sole in cotton wool. If she didn't have connections, I wouldn't be bothering with any of them little girls, but our side says that we have to take care of her or else her side might get twitchy. And both sides want in on the big action. And the big action is out on the streets where it's always been. So, what we do! We look after her. Keep her happy. This in turn keeps her Big Guys happy and lets them get on with other business away from where she is. We don't want any trouble with other dealers. No drugs in this school is part of the agreement. You want to sample, get out on the streets with all the other suckers and end up like them.'
'They reckon Angel Ice makes you feel like you can fly, like you own the world, like you can see all the dudes everywhere and laugh at them,' Beresford whispered. 'Like you're really an angel, that you can see God and look down on everybody, even the Devil. I've seen... '
'What have you seen stupid! Been on the Internet? You want to get dead do ya? Angel Ice is brand new and loaded with dynamite. Our Family have got an exclusive on this for Australia. It's gonna bust the party dance scene wide open. Only one guy, this smart brain in Cidade de Deus knows how to make it.'
'In where?'
'The City of God. Some dump in Rio de Janeiro, in Brazil dummy, South America. That's why it's called Angel Ice. Godfather knows all about it.'
'Aw yeah, Godfather. You talk with him?'
'Kind of. I get told about him when I stay with the Old Man.' Sandpaper Voice wrapped an arm around Beresford's shoulders. 'Smart, that you should be in awe. Godfather can take any of us out any time, just like that!' He smacked his hand on the railing inches from Monique's face. 'Anyhow, there's this Dude in Rochina Four that has a working lab kicking out the stuff; produces plenty, even enough to get as far as Australia.'
'What's Rochina Four?'
'A slum suburb there. The Dude's a doc and an industrial chemist; some kinda scientist, he's The Man. In the daytime he runs a clinic for drug dopes, but at night he experiments. He's one very rich son of a bitch. Makes it both ways, getting them straight and getting them hooked. Exports hot little items like Krank and Tweak, and now his own special new baby, Angel Ice. This stuff is for crazies who believe in God and Holy Hooley! They'll take it by the truckload. Some will get on it and enjoy the ride and some'll try to walk on water or off the top of buildings. Splat! That's what'll happen, and they'll never know. Not our problem. Their choice. Not our choice. Just remember, we touch nothing that comes in or goes out. You want to fool around with anything, even Grass, I get Monkey to whack you. Maybe even the Big Guys step in. You know what happens then; lonely boy, missing his family, messed up exams, messed up mind, hangs himself from tree.
Good bye Beresford.
The guys know how this thing works. Nuthin's changed. We play by the rules and none of us gets hurt. We got a nice little shuttle service that works for our Big Boys in Melbourne and from here all over the country. When the Angel Ice arrives it stays untouched until we're told, then it goes out again and everybody gets rich, except our guys get richer selling it off to the rest.'
'This Dude, what's his name, and how'd he get started?'
'You're asking questions again that you don't need ta know Neil. Come on, this is wasting time, we've got stock to move.'
'Moni? You hear what he said? So that's why Annie is getting taken care of. Her family's on one side and these goons are on the other!'
'Of certain! His hand was just so close to my face! Quickly! Follow them!'
Monique and Priscilla slipped from the pulpit and hurried after the two youths. It was only a matter of a few paces until they reached the door that led into the rear of the chapel. Cautiously pushing it open, Priscilla managed to glimpse a section of the timber panelling at the rear sliding up into place.
'Well-oil-beef-hooked! she exclaimed, 'It really is a false wall! Come on, let's take a closer look.'
'What is it that you just said? And if I think it was what I thought you said then it sounded very naughty,' said Monique, close on her heels.
'It's told to you the other way around and you're meant to say it backwards, I learnt it from Henry, naturally,' Priscilla whispered, smirking in the dark. 'Gee, lucky we have these Night-Sight goggles.'
'Courtesy of a certain little Dogie. Seems like you are going into a coal mine after all,' came Harry's voice from their Hand Activators. 'Now careful how you do it. There are gradients for each of the Senses, and right now you're both still operating on the "No Touchy, No Feely" mode. Means that they can't detect your physical bodies by brushing against you, but now you also have a certain loss of tactile presence. In other words, you don't "feel" so good.'
'Yeah right Harry, nobody likes a smarty you know,' said Priscilla.
'I do, especially the red ones,' came Harry's quick reply.
'Hoo boy! The dog's a real riot. Now, just got to see how this works, no handles or levers, nothing to pull or drag... '
'Perhaps those are not required,' suggested Monique, placing her palms firmly against the panelling and drawing them down. It took some extra effort because of the "No Feely" mode, but eventually with Priscilla's help, the ancient timbers slowly began to move.
'It works on counterweights in the wall cavity, just like sash windows,' said Monique as the upper edge of the panel appeared, allowing them to pull it down with relative ease. There was a soft knocking sound behind the wood, but otherwise the operation was silent.
'Seems like the old miners and settlers of the past knew what they were on about,' said Harry. 'They may not have had modern technology but certainly understood how to conceal their fruits of labour.'
'But whatever for?' asked Monique, peering inside and observing wooden steps that led down a narrow shaft.
'Gold and other valuable goods, I expect,' said Harry's voice from the Hand Activator. 'Prospectors coming in from the outlying areas, waiting overnight to bring their spoils over the Yarra river and into Melbourne Town. They needed a safe holding place for their wealth, to protect it against Bush Rangers and the light-fingered of those times.'
'Wow, Ned Kelly and Captain Thingy ?' said Priscilla.
'Sure, Captain Thingy, or Thunderbolt or Lightning or whoever he really was. Anyway, from what I have learnt of your country's history there were enough outlaws and vagabonds about to warrant protection. And what did the miners do? Well, put it all back underground of course until they were ready to cross the river and get their gold into the banks. That's all ancient history, now there's another kind of wealth down there: illegal, dangerous poison that kills people, with something else even deadlier coming soon, and it's in your school. What are you both going to do about it?'
'Well, well... We're going down there to get the lay of the land... sorta,' said Priscilla, looking over Monique's shoulder.
'Sorta. Hmm, seems risky with those two juvenile gangsters roaming about. Keep everything de-activated now, and try not to let them walk through you, it's an unpleasant feeling when that happens to your molecular structure.'
'Thank you for the warning, Monsieur Harry,' said Monique, descending the ladder. 'It sounds positively revolting. Come on Priscilla. We want to catch them in the act.'
'Do we?' said Priscilla wrinkling her nose and following.
At the bottom of the steps the girls could see a pale glow of light at a bend just beyond.
'Ohh, it's narrow and smells,' said Priscilla.
'And the smells are not only of the earth,' Monique answered, probing forward.
A few paces along crumbling wooden timbers set into the floor, brought the girls to a cavern-like room, and there they could see a pair of shadowy figures lit by the glow of five candles in holders placed about the interior. Boxes and stacks of plastic-wrapped packages on rough timber shelves were illuminated by the soft, still light.
'Ready to roll?' said The Ice Man.
'Just about, this weed is the last.'
'Right, throw it into the bag and lets get going.' Sand Paper Voice began blowing out the candles, while flicking on the torch he carried and gathering up several satchels.
'They're coming this way, quick we have to get back upstairs and close the panel before they discover it's open!' said Priscilla.
Re-tracing their steps the girls hastened up the ladder and darted into the narrow wash room beyond.
'Oh! All this noise of creaking boards will give us away,' said Monique, as she and Priscilla struggled to grasp the panel and raise it.
'No it won't,' came Harry's confident reply from their Activators, 'the field around you obliterates any sounds you make. You're cool. Now get up to the Chapel door and try to slip through as they leave.'
'Easier said than done,' muttered Priscilla, struggling to run the short distance past the pulpit and down between the rows of forms that led to the Chapel door.
'Come on,' said Monique, supporting her all the way. 'They are already out of the wash room.'
Inside, at the Chapel door, it was a gathering of four, although two of them had no idea that Priscilla and Monique were standing as close as they dared to.
Sandpaper Voice, shielding the glow of the torch he carried, dialled a number on his mobile phone, let it beep and then cancelled. 'No connection, no answer. Just a signal. Won't be long.'
Moments later, the padlock rattled and the Chapel door opened.
'All clear. No one in sight,' said a voice that Priscilla recognised immediately. 'That's Whitey!'
'Quick!' said Monique, shuffling forward and pushing Priscilla in front of her, 'squeeze between them, now!'
'Priscilla had the distinct feeling of a cork being popped as she was propelled between the door and Beresford. She stumbled forward, almost falling down the steps, but managed to stay upright and get out of Monique's path as she too exited alongside The Ice Man.
Grasping each other, together again at the bottom of the steps, the two girls stood shivering in the cold night air.
'What was that?' said Beresford brushing at his arm. 'Felt like something soft fluttering against me.'
'You still twitchy Neil?' muttered Whitey, sarcastically, as he pulled the door shut and clicked the padlock. 'What's buggin' you?'
'Cool it Whitey, I felt somethin' too,' said Sandpaper Voice. 'Probably just the breeze or moths, anyway let's get going. Monkey still at the Quad keeping watch?'
'Yep, he'd let us know if any-body's out on the prowl. Every thing's cool. Want a hand with the stuff?'
'Yeah, grab hold of these while I make a call.'
The three youths began to hurry off on the shortcut that led to the gravel path and the gate in the wall, as The Ice Man again used his mobile to signal.
'Come on Moni, we have to follow them and see what happens,' said Priscilla, starting forward.
'Of course, but are you feeling up to it Cilla?'
'Better, now that we're out of there, hurry, we don't want to miss what happens next.'
Minutes later the pair arrived at the gate to find Sandpaper Voice already unlocking it. 'Nothing like having your own key to your own padlock,' he was boasting.
'Right on Tony, and the dopey teachers never bother to check,' smirked Whitey.
'Yeah, they just think it's all secure without looking closely or even trying a key,' said Beresford, hefting his bags through as the gate creaked open.
Outside, at the curb, Priscilla and Monique could see the outline of a black car and hear the idling of its engine.
'Vito. Right on time. Hanging around a few blocks away waiting for the call, as usual,' said Sandpaper Voice. 'C'mon youse two, get them bags into the boot.'
'What should we do now?' asked Monique.
'Take the licence number? I don't know?' said Priscilla in a quandary.
In the meantime, the two hefting the satchels had deposited them into the boot of the car while Sandpaper Voice was busy conducting a conversation with the driver through the passenger door. Then he turned back to the others saying, 'Done deal. Maybe it gets here next drop. Right Whitey, lock us out and let Monkey off the hook. Neil, you coming with me and Vito. Get in!'
The driver leaned over and opened the rear passenger door.
Beresford seemed hesitant. 'Where are we going?'
'Time you got to meet some people. Come on Neil, you're always nosey. Want to find out how things work? Here's your chance. Don't blow it. You've been on the waiting list for a while. Maybe big things coming. Let's just you and me and Vito head off for a cruise. Whitey and Monkey can take care of everything here. No, not in the back, you can ride up front.' He indicated the seat alongside the dark figure of the driver.
'You sure this is alright?' said Beresford in a tremulous voice, as he entered the vehicle.
'You're gonna have the time of your life,' said Sandpaper Voice, bending into the cabin.
'What are you doing!' said Monique, as Priscilla scrambled into the rear of the car through the still open door.
'Going along for the ride! Come on, they don't know we're here, can't see us or anything, now or never!' said Priscilla, shuffling over to make room.
Monique threw caution to the wind against her better judgement, persuaded by the danger her friend was placing herself in, and followed. Seconds later, Sandpaper Voice shut the rear door and slid into the front seat, effectively sandwiching Beresford between himself and the man at the wheel.
The car pulled away from the curb and drove slowly, making turns left and right through the dark of night and the empty streets. Priscilla and Monique sat rigidly in the back as the journey continued out through Camberwell and Hawthorn and then Kew.
'Where we going exactly Tony?' said Beresford, breaking the silence in the front seat.
'Fitzroy,' answered Sandpaper Voice, 'the scenic route. City looks cool at this time in the early hours. No one around, no cops, no traffic. Relax, enjoy the trip.'
In twenty minutes they were turning off the Chandler Highway onto Yarra Boulevard. The way ahead was deserted and the car began to pick up speed as it negotiated the first bends.
'This is a very winding road,' said Monique concernedly, gripping Priscilla's hand.
'It gets windier,' Priscilla answered, her voice rising.
In a matter of moments the car was rocketing along the straight ways and breaking sharply into the bends.
'Is this really the way to Fitzroy?' asked Beresford, somewhat stiffly as if he was beginning to realise that something wasn't right.
'Sure it is, I told you it's the scenic route,' answered Sandpaper Voice throwing his arm around Beresford's shoulders.
The car gathered speed, screeching through the bends and racing along with such motion that it began to rock violently from side to side, often cornering on two wheels.
'Why are we going so fast!' cried Beresford, as the vehicle, at dangerous speed, spun out and corrected before screaming away again toward the next bend.
'Just a little lesson about keeping control, Neil. That's what it's all about. And finding your limitations. You wanted to know a lot and now your learning. Stay cool, we haven't got to the best part yet,' shouted Sandpaper Voice, his fingers digging into Beresford's shoulder.
At that moment another vehicle, lights dimmed, appeared out of nowhere on the wrong side of the road heading straight for them. Vito, the driver, veered across the road and rocketed past the oncoming vehicle, then corrected, brakes screeching, just before they were all plunged into the trees down the slope beyond. As this happened Priscilla was thrown violently against the rear passenger door when the car spun about, almost facing the direction it had come from. Then, while Vito dragged the steering wheel around and revved the motor, she was thrown back against Monique and then again away so that she struck the passenger door a second time as the car fish-tailed up the road, over-correcting and correcting finally into the drivers control.
'Ohh!' shouted Priscilla, the wind almost knocked out of her.
At that moment, Sandpaper Voice jerked his head around and stared straight at her, his eyes boring into hers. 'What are you doing here, Little Girl?' he snarled, letting go of Beresford and reaching over to grasp Priscilla by her collar. 'This kid must have sneaked in when we were talking Vito,' he said over his shoulder.
For a moment Priscilla was so stunned that she couldn't understand what had happened, then she realised, the activator, I've double-hit the buttons against the door and now they can see and hear me!
'Oh-bloody-hell,' muttered Priscilla, shaking uncontrollably under the pressure of The Ice Man's grip. 'look, I just, I just... was kind of sleep walking or something... '
'Then why the shades kid?'
'The shades? Oh these,' said Priscilla reaching up to touch the Night-Sight goggles, 'like I said, sleep-walking, I guess I put on these sunnies without knowing what I was do... '
'Cut the crap Little Girl, you expect us to believe ya?' snarled The Ice Man.
'Look, I don't know what's going on, please just let me go. I won't say anything... '
That's right sweetheart, you won't, and we are gonna let you go,' answered Sandpaper Voice, and then, back over his shoulder he said, 'Don't know how you got in, but I do know how you're gettin' out. What do you think Vito? We gonna help this Little Girl?'
The driver nodded, staring ahead and working the car through the bends at high speed again so that it shifted wildly from side to side, the brakes squealing into the sharp turns of the road.
'There's a good place not too much further,' said Sandpaper Voice, his fingers tightening on Priscilla's collar. 'Give me your piece Vito.'
The driver took a hand off the wheel and, reaching into his jacket, withdrew a gun as he pulled the car hard across the road so that it ripped into the gravel where the tires bit and the vehicle slewed perilously toward the edge before grinding to a sharp halt.
Sand Paper Voice, The Ice Man, released his grasp and wrenched the pistol out of Vito's hand, pointing it directly at Priscilla. 'Time to say bye-byes Little Girl... '
'No!' shouted Beresford, swinging wildly about and grasping Tony's arm. 'You can't just shoot her!'
In that split second Priscilla re-acted automatically, opening the door and throwing herself out of the car so that she tumbled onto the verge at the edge, then there was no verge, and she plummeted into a void beyond, her scream whipped away by the sudden rush of air that seared her lungs.
'You stupid bastard!' said Tony Ichema, wrestling control of the gun away from Beresford. 'I wasn't going to shoot the kid, just push her off into the river. You know what happens, people lose their footing and fall, get drowned all the time. Looks like she's taken care of that for us... '
'Tony, Tony! Sorry, sorry, I did... I didn't know what you were thinkin', I just got scared that you might make a bad mistake!' Beresford answered, visibly shaking.
'Don't be such a wimp, you weak... ' The Ice Man took in several gulps of air and gave the handgun back to Vito who pocketed it. 'Come on, come on Neil, outta the car!' he exclaimed, throwing open the passenger door. 'Got a torch Vito?'
Vito opened the glove box and handed a flashlight to The Ice Man as he dragged Beresford out by his jacket, drawing him close to the edge and playing the torch back and forward through the ferns that lined the cliff face.
'There, there! Look Neil! See! See that kid floating face-down in the river?' said Tony Ichema, the emotionless Ice Man. 'She's dead meat! And that's you pal, if you stuff up again!'
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Alopecia Areata is a hair loss condition characterized by the rapid onset of hair loss in a sharply defined area. Any hair-bearing surface can be affected, but the most noticeable surface is the scalp.
The reason alopecia areata occurs is not completely known. In some cases it is associated with other diseases, but most of the time it is not.
Current evidence suggests that alopecia areata is caused by an abnormality in the immune system. This particular abnormality leads to autoimmunity. As a result, the immune system attacks particular tissues of the body. In alopecia areata, for unknown reasons, the body`s own immune system attacks the hair follicles and disrupts normal hair formation.
The characteristic patch of alopecia areata is usually round or oval, and is completely bald and smooth. "Exclamation-mark" hairs may be seen at the margin of the patch. These are broken, short hairs that taper at the base. Pulling slightly on these hairs causes them to fall out. Some people may experience a slight burning or tingling in the area of hair loss.
The progress of alopecia areata is unpredictable. Some people lose hair in only a small patch. Others may have more extensive involvement. Alopecia totalis is the loss of 100% of scalp hair. Alopecia universalis is the loss of 100% of body hair.
-Many treatments are promoted which have not proven to be of benefit.
Alopecia Areata being an auto-immune disease needs immunity correction. homeopathy discerns that the body has within it a controlling and defending force and power .it is only when this fighting power or resistance is disturbed, do we fall ill. The disease is thus not an affection of the parts but a disorder in the patient as a whole .Since one patient differs from another each requires a different medicine based on his individual and mental symptoms.


How can I protect my child from getting the enterovirus that causes respiratory illness?
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The abovementioned malicious scripts all follow a similar routine: upon execution, it checks for the date on the target system then generates a URL based on the date obtained. It then creates an IFrame, which would redirect the user to the generated URL. The URL then leads to the download of a malicious file, which in turn downloads an MBR rootkit.
Steps on how to identify and fix files infected by TROJ_SNOWAL.A can be found in the Virus Encyclopedia.


Our Dermatologists at Skinn Clinics Australia provide services in Ballarat. Offering skin specialist evaluation for medical and surgical dermatology in Ballarat including Ballan, Beaufort, Talbot, Avoca, Maryborough and Daylesford VIC areas.
Reasons to See a Ballarat Dermatologist?
Acne is a very prevalent and persistent skin condition that usually begins in adolescence. It is believed that acne affects at least 85% of the population at some point during their lives and while acne isn't just limited to teenagers, those aged 15 to 25 are most prone to suffer from the condition.
Acne occurs when too much oil and dead skin cells obstruct the opening of your skin pores, which enables bacteria to grow. Your associated oil (sebaceous) glands become blocked and inflamed. Pimples, whiteheads, blackheads and infected pus-filled spots develop on the face, neck, back and chest because this is where oil glands are biggest and most active.
Acne can be painful, disfiguring and uncomfortable. If the area continues to become infected then bigger, redder, deeper and irritated nodules or cysts may develop and lead to scarring on your face, chest or back (keloid scarring).
Melanoma can occur anyplace on the skin, even the soles of the feet. They develop quickly, and if not dealt with, they may spread to the lower layers of skin where cells can escape and be carried to other parts of the body or lymph vessels, this is called metastasis.
The most common type of eczema is also known as atopic dermatitis, a chronic skin disorder that causes very dry and itchy areas of skin when the skin loses its moisture. These patches can be anywhere on the body but are mainly on the lower and upper limbs. Without moisture, the skin becomes weak and can't provide a protective barrier for the body. Skin becomes very easily aggravated and responds with a dry rash in the weak areas.
Stay clear of likely triggers such as wool or synthetic fibers, dust and dust mites, pollen, and cosmetics and sometimes food allergies.
There are many treatment solutions for psoriasis. As a result of new and exciting research, and new treatments are being developed all the time. Severe psoriasis is now becoming a distant memory.
UVA rays also destroy the elastic collagen skin fibers, leading to aging of the skin, wrinkling, and colour changes. It is, therefore, important to use a sunscreen which effectively blocking these UVA rays, preventing skin cancer and minimizing aging signs of the skin.
Basal Cell Carcinoma (BCC)– Are usually red, red-white or pearly in colour and may bleed. They don't typically hurt or itch. This kind of skin cancer tends to grow slowly and doesn't generally spread to other parts of the body. Nevertheless, if left untreated BCCs will get bigger and progress deeper into the skin and damage nearby tissue. This may make treatment more challenging and increases the possibility of the skin cancer coming back.
Newer treatments for some types of pre-cancers or premature cancers include various anti-cancer creams, although many cancers will need to be removed surgically to be cured.
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Once upon a time, community banks were more than happy to leave the chore of choosing technical devices and running networks to their chief technology officers. Now, however, as technology steadily assumes front and center stage in the success of community banks and is integrated across every department and process, the role of technology leaders is becoming both more strategic and much higher profile.
Several recent in-depth industry studies have provided observations on the changing role of chief information officers across various business sectors, including banking.
Tech dispersion. With success could come turf wars. An April study by Avanade— "What's Creating Tension Between IT and Business Leaders?"—found that 68 percent of companies report their IT departments are contributing more to accomplish business objectives than they did three years ago. At the same time, budgetary and critical technology decisions are increasingly being made outside the traditional IT department.
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Building bridges. One increasingly prominent way for community bank chief information officers to help formulate strategy is to collaborate more closely with marketing heads and with others. In a July study "Cutting Across the CMO-CIO Divide," Accenture, the accounting and consulting firm, found that 43 percent of marketers and 50 percent of senior IT officers believe that their relationship has improved since 2013. However, the study found that even though the relationship between technology and marketing chiefs is stronger than ever, many companies are still struggling to deliver the Holy Grail: effective integrated digital marketing.
The willingness for technology and marketing officers to join forces is a positive development indeed. In PricewaterhouseCooper LLP's sixth Annual Digital IQ Survey, released earlier this year, 70 percent of top-performing companies say that they have a strong relationship between technology and marketing officers, compared with just 45 percent for companies not in the top-performing echelons.
"Failing to involve the [technology leaders] in market-facing innovation—where digital technology is a primary driver—is counterintuitive," according to Andrea Fishman, a PwC advisory principal.
Mobile confusion. For many technology leaders, their myriad role changes have created a bad news/good news story. On the bad news side of the ledger, 43 percent of senior technology officers in the Accenture study note that marketing requirements and priorities change too often. What's worse, they are grappling with the sudden surge in use of mobile devices.
A 2014 study by MobileIron Inc., titled "The Changing Mobile Landscape in Financial Services," dubs 2014 "the year of the mobile majority." The mobile software developer makes its declaration because it says half of all respondents believe that the majority of their employees will be using email and apps on mobile devices within the next 12 months.
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Medicaid is a complicated area of law with which most people have little experience. Because healthcare issues addressed by Medicaid are of the utmost importance, it is advisable to enlist the help of an attorney to ensure things go smoothly. A seasoned attorney can explain the benefits available and the nature of the application process. At Estate & Elder Law Services, we listen carefully to your concerns, ask vital questions to determine whether you qualify for Medicaid assistance, then work diligently to help you apply for benefits.
Establishing eligibility is key. Although the program is geared toward those with low incomes, you need not be poor to qualify. Proof of income is required, but you do not have to provide information about your assets or other resources. Many people who assume they do not qualify for Medicaid benefits can successfully apply. One method for doing so is to set up an irrevocable trust, known as a Miller trust, and to have your income, or the part of income in excess of the limit for eligibility, deposited into the trust.
Medicaid also offers long-term care benefits that cover the cost of a skilled nursing facility or nursing home. The program is available to Delaware residents who are elderly, infirm or disabled and covers room, board and services at a nursing facility or nursing home that has a contract with Delaware Medicaid. Payment is only made after all other coverage is exhausted, including health insurance from your employer or union and workers' compensation. To qualify, your monthly income cannot exceed the limits set by the program. Unlike basic medical services, your financial resources and assets are considered for long-term care eligibility. However, you are permitted to keep certain assets that do not count toward eligibility limits.
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Book Summary: The title of this book is How to Play Bebop, Vol 2 and it was written by David Baker. This particular edition is in a Paperback format. This books publish date is Jan 01, 1988 and it has a suggested retail price of $12.99. It was published by Alfred Music and has a total of 76 pages in the book. The 10 digit ISBN is 0739014854 and the 13 digit ISBN is 9780739014851. To buy this davidsons principles and practice of medicine pdf David Baker How to Play Bebop Volume 1 PDF. A three volume series that includes the scales, chords and modes necessary to play bebop music. A great introduction to a style that is most influential in today's music. The first volume includes scales, chords and modes most commonly used in bebop and other musical styles.
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The first volume includes scales, chords and modes most commonly used in bebop and other musical styles. The second volume covers the bebop language, patterns, formulas and other linking exercises necessary to play bebop music. A great introduction to a style that is most influential in today's music.
2/08/2014 · I have a couple of the Baker books and I got something out of them. At the time the bebop scale was new to me and just learning that scale and the way to use a maj 7 chromatic on a dominant chord was valuable.


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by Katherine Hamilton
1:32 PM EDT, Tue September 22, 2020
CAPE CORAL, Fla. – Northeast Cape Coral and North Fort Myers residents can expect a traffic shift on Littleton Road between NE 24th Avenue and Corbett Road soon, according to the Cape Coral Police Department.
Beginning early on September 24, the intersection of Littleton Road and NE 24th Avenue will shift to the south at Kismet Parkway, and new stop signs will be installed on NE 24th Avenue. Drivers traveling on NE 24th Avenue should be prepared to stop at the new intersection at Kismet Parkway and Littleton Road. Residences on Old Littleton Road will remain accessible from the new roadway.
This new segment includes a roundabout at the Littleton Road and Corbett Road intersection.
Drivers should know:
The roundabout will partially open during this shift with temporary signals located at the roundabout entrances on eastbound Littleton Road, westbound Littleton Road, and northbound Corbett Road to control when vehicles enter the roundabout.
The traffic signals allow one movement at a time, allowing crews to continue work in the area.
The signals will be removed as work progresses.
Motorists traveling westbound Littleton Road to southbound Corbett Road must continue west on Littleton Road through the roundabout and make a U-turn before NE 24th Avenue to return east to Corbett Road.
During the next few months, a contractor will be completing roadway tie-ins underground utility work, light pole installation, pond construction and sod. Crews will continue working on Kismet Parkway building the eastbound to northbound turn lane.
The Littleton Road-Kismet Parkway realignment project is a joint venture between the Lee Board of County Commissioners and the City of Cape Coral. The estimated $2 million cost will be paid from impact fees and contributions from the City of Cape Coral, according to CCPD.
The project will realign Kismet Parkway and Littleton Road at Northeast 24th Avenue. The new intersection will be a four-lane divided roadway with streetlights at the intersection of NE 24th Avenue and at the roundabout.
There will be a 4-foot on-road bike lane on each side of the road. In addition, there will be a 6-foot sidewalk on the north side of the road and an 8-foot sidewalk on the south side of the road.
The project is expected to be completed in mid-December.
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#ifndef ARRAY_LIST_H
#define ARRAY_LIST_H

/**
 * @file  array_list.h
 * @brief Generic Array List
 */

#ifndef ARRAY_LIST_INITIAL_CAPACITY
#define ARRAY_LIST_INITIAL_CAPACITY_EXPONENT 5 ///< default array list init capacity (2^5 = 32)
#endif

/**
 * @brief Array list chunk structure
 */
struct array_list {
    struct array_list *next; ///< Pointer to the next chunk
    int arc;                 ///< Length of the chunks array
    void *arv[];             ///< The chunks array
};

/**
 * @brief Array list iterator structure
 */
struct array_list_iterator {
    struct array_list *current_chunk; ///< Pointer to the current chunk
    int current;                      ///< Index of current element in chunk
};

/**
 * @brief Insert value into array list.
 *
 * If *al is NULL, allocate new array list and expand it to the right size.
 * The size of the array list grows while beeing used in
 * 2^n (1, 1, 2, 4, 8, ...).
 *
 * \param al Pointer to the pointer of the array list struct
 * \param idx Index of the array, at which the element is inserted
 * \param elem Pointer to payload/value
 *
 * \return Nothing
 */
void array_list_set(struct array_list **al, int idx, void *elem);

/**
 * @brief Get value from array list.
 *
 * \param al Pointer to the pointer of the array list struct
 * \param idx Index of the array, at which the element is inserted
 *
 * \return Pointer to the payload/value
 */
void *array_list_get(struct array_list *const *al, int idx);

/**
 * @brief Initialize a new array list iterator.
 *
 * \param al Pointer to the pointer of the array list struct
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 * \return Pointer to the initialized array list iterator
 */
struct array_list_iterator *array_list_iterator_init(struct array_list *const *al);

/**
 * @brief Get the next array list element from iterator.
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 * \param it Pointer to the array list iterator struct
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 * \return Pointer to the element
 */
void *array_list_iterator_next(struct array_list_iterator *const *it);

/**
 * @brief Frees an array list.
 *
 * \param al Pointer to the pointer of the array list struct
 * \param elem_free Pointer to a function that frees the payload element
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 * \return Nothing
 */
void array_list_free(struct array_list **al, void (*elem_free)(void *));

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Le glacier du Finsteraar, en allemand , est un glacier des Alpes bernoises en Suisse.

Géographie

Il naît à  d'altitude sur le versant sud-est du Finsteraarjoch, puis coule dans la vallée de l'Unteraar. Il reçoit le glacier du Strahleg sur sa rive gauche. Il est ensuite rejoint par le glacier du Lauteraar et donne naissance au glacier de l'Unteraar.

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Discussion in 'Mac Pro' started by alphaod, Nov 4, 2009.
I'm up for upgrading again. I have an external drive that's currently running on FW800, but I have too many FW800 drives, so instead of daisy chaining all my drive, I wish to run said enclosure via eSATA. Unfortunately I have run out of PCIe slots. My decisions is to replace the Areca ARC-1212 I currently have with something with eSATA on it. It needs to be bootable obviously. Maybe if I don't have to rebuild the RAID that would be even better. Any recommendations?
GTX 285 in Slot 1, Areca ARC-1212 in Slot 2, USB 2.0 card in Slot 3, RAID battery in Slot 4.
Yes I know I can remove the battery, but that would make my RAID-5 risky. I don't want to just double stick the battery somewhere. I could remove the USB card, but I'd run of USB ports.
You'd need to move the battery from slot 4 to another location in the system, not remove it alltogether. You might have to splice the wiring to extend the length (depending on where you can place it), and I'd recommned using velcro or zip ties. A peice of plastic sheet might be needed to prevent shorts, especially if it's on a case surface or against some other board.
It might be a little tough, but I think it's doable, and won't require you to buy anything.
That's one thing I don't care for about PCI bracket mounted batteries. They can get in the way. I usually remove them from the bracket.
A pic of your internals might give me a few ideas as to where you can locate it.
If you pull the ARC-1212, you'll lose the data. It's a proper hardware controller, and the initialization process on any software RAID (or another brand of proper RAID card), will wipe the data. So restoration from backups is an absolute necessity if you do this.
If you have to do this, you might be better off from a larger port count card (8 port). Not exactly inexpensive, but not terrible either, assuming you plan to sell the old card. I'd think you'd easily get $300USD for it, as they sell for ~$350.
When it comes to PCIe slots, it's not something I really worry about but if you really need one for professional applications, then you need one. There's a company out there whom cater for this and manufacture a expensive but useful solution. Enter's magma, formerly Second Wave. Though, Nano's solution is wayyyyy cheaper!
I don't want to redo my array until I upgrade all my internal drives (and then I can get a newer card). Let's say I relocate the battery to right on the aluminium next to my video card (on top of the CPU section).
I'd prefer inexpensive, but not super cheap that it would be a POS. Needs to support both OS X and Windows, but not necessarily bootable. RAID support with a proper cache and such would be nice to have. I might not use that feature now, but I would in the future. I'd like to avoid having to loop an internal cable to the outside (since I wouldn't have anywhere to route it and I'm not going to drill a hole in my chassis), so I would prefer something with purely external connections (mix and match is fine too).
What would you recommend for the card?
It's the only that can be booted from on a Mac AFAIK (has both EFI 32 & 64 firmware). And for that reason, it's not cheap ($230USD).
It may actually make more sense to get a larger RAID card, and swap. Once you sell off the ARC-1212, it might actually be less expensive than the cost of the Highpoint card. The next size up in the same series is the ARC-1222 ($525USD, and all the ports are internal). You'd have to run a cable out the empty PCI bracket (still moving the battery off the bracket). Cost seems about the same (use the cable that comes with it, so no need to buy one).
The ARC1680LP would work (it has both an internal and external MiniSAS port on it). So no need to run a cable out the back of the system, but it requires a cable you don't have, or is included with the card. And at ~$660USD (newegg), the Highpoint is less expensive in terms of immediate need.
Your situation blows. Apple can't make anything easy it seems.
If you can lose the boot capability, you can add a Mac compatible eSATA card for ~$25USD (cards that use the SIL3132 chip). It's the "Bootable" aspect that's raking you over the $$$ coals.


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PSALM 67 The nation's prosperity, and the church's increase.
The nation's prosperity, and the church's increase.
Their Savior and their God?


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Q: setof/3 does not seem to be removing duplicates I'm attempting to find the complement of a list, given a list L1, and a universal list L2 with the following code:
complement(L1, L2, Res):-
    setof(X, (nth0(N, L2, X), not(member(X,L1))),Res).

However, my results include duplicates and are not given in list form as I'd prefer:
23 ?- complement([1,3], [-1,1,3,5,2,4,2,55,1,0], Res).
Res = [-1] ;
Res = [5] ;
Res = [2] ;
Res = [4] ;
Res = [2] ;
Res = [55] ;
Res = [0].

I figured it's probably due to Prolog's built-in backtracking but I'm not sure how to work around this to go about formatting the result correctly and getting it to remove any duplicate items in the result.

A: You get a warning from your code, about N being a singleton, and setof/3 requires that each variable 'universally quantified' get declared.
So, you have two problems that go away together: replace nth0/3 by member/2:
complement(L1, L2, Res):-
    setof(X, (member(X, L2), not(member(X, L1))), Res).

edit
symmetric difference could be
symdiff(L1,L2,Diff) :-
    setof(X,(eldiff(L1,L2,X);eldiff(L2,L1,X)),Diff).
eldiff(L1,L2,X) :-
    member(X,L1), \+member(X,L2).

if L1 and L2 are ordered sets, much better to use ord_symdiff

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Theres so much to do at Artshed Arts, come and join in the fun!
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This morning we have a princess workshop running in the main workshop, this means we are limited on space for drop-in crafts, after 1pm today it will be access all areas!!!!
With lots of drop-in crafts from 10am-4pm - we'll be making spooky masks, lots of halloween painting on pottery to choose from as well as decoupage and pebble bugs, and much more!
Beaded Pompom tassel gift tags drop-in workshop Saturday 3rd November 10am-1pm @artshedarts why not hey?!
This 4 week course is open to all levels of experience in fused glass, its perfect if its completely new to you or if you've created lots of things in fused glass in the past but don't have the facilities at home or you're wanting to get back into this craft, we welcome you to come along.
Your tutor Jessica Townsend-Melton is an excellent practicing artist with many prestigious exhibitions up her sleeve!
She will teach techniques, inspire and guide you through some great Christmas projects, perfect for getting creative, learning a new craft leading up to Christmas and creating some lovely gifts along the way too.
Additional pieces of work may be created in the classes at an additional cost based on size and firing calculations.
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Join us in this Christmas workshop making Magic Fairy and Elf Doors!
You will be taught lots of pottery techniques to prepared, cut out and decorate a magical door to have fired in our kiln. The price for this workshop includes the opportunity to come back at a time that suits you to paint your door in lovely colours ready to be glazed and fired for you well in time for Christmas.
Suitable for ages 5+ if accompanied by a helping adult. 8yr+ will be able to do it themselves and adults are very welcome to make one too but you must ensure to book yourself a place.
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Germany: Free marketeers made to walk plank, Pirates gain
Duroyan Fertl
Elections in the German state of Saarland on March 25 have dealt a heavy blow to the federal coalition government of Chancellor Angela Merkel.
Merkel's Christian Democratic Union (CDU) kept its 12-year hold on power, holding steady at 35.2% of the small state's voters. But Merkel's allies at a federal level ― the neoliberal Free Democratic Party (FDP) ― were wiped out at the state polls.
The FDP's share of the vote dropped from 9.2% in 2009 to 1.2%, well below the 5% required to enter parliament.
Nationally, the FDP is polling at barely 3% ― down from a high of 14.6% at the last federal elections. It was booted out of five state parliaments last year, a trend that seems set to continue.
The centre-left Social Democratic Party (SPD) increased its vote by 6% to 30.6% – not enough to dislodge the CDU from government, but enough to force it into a power-sharing "grand coalition".
The vote for the anti-capitalist party Die Linke ("The Left") dropped from 21% to only 16.1%, giving it 17 seats in parliament.
This relatively poor result came despite Saarland being home to Die Linke's popular and outspoken former leader Oskar Lafontaine, once dubbed "the shadow Chancellor" for his ability to influence German politics.
While an SPD-Die Linke coalition government is a mathematical possibility, the SPD steadfastly refuses to work with its left-wing rivals, especially in western Germany.
The bad blood between the two parties is due less to Die Linke's partial origin in the former ruling party of East Germany ― the Socialist Unity Party ― than to the role of Lafontaine.
Lafontaine ― a former leader of the SPD and Treasurer in the Schroeder government ― led a split from the party in 2005 that helped form Die Linke and has remained stridently critical of the SPD's anti-social attacks on welfare and workers' rights.
The Green Party – which had been in Saarland's government alongside the CDU and FDP – almost suffered the same fate as its small allies.
Support for the Greens dropped slightly to 5% of the vote ― enough to scrape into parliament with just two seats.
By far the biggest winner from the election was Germany's newest political outfit, the Pirate Party, which began in the campaign to protect internet freedom.
The Pirates were still riding high after their shock success in Berlin's elections last year, where they won 8.9% of the vote and entered a German parliament for the first time.
In Saarland, the Pirates ― led by 22-year-old Jasmin Maurer ― stormed into the state legislature with 7.4%, enough for four seats.
Derided as a protest party and nicknamed "the Twitter politicians", the Pirate Party appealed to many voters disillusioned with a political mainstream widely perceived to be corrupt.
The Pirate Party in Saarland also campaigned for open government, an issue which struck a nerve in one of Germany's most indebted states.
The result has raised questions about the ongoing viability of the CDU-FDP coalition government at a federal level.
Federal elections are due next year. The likely annihilation of Merkel's coalition allies means that if she is to survive politically, she may have to enter another grand coalition with the SPD on a national level.
The SPD looks unlikely to cooperate, having suffered a political backlash after the last such coalition, and has declared that it would prefer to form a "Red-Green" alliance with the Greens.
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Q: Heroku how to setup resque web on a rails 3 app? I have followed some guides on how to setup resque on heroku, but they are out dated.
My config.ru:
require File.dirname(__FILE__) + '/config/environment'
require 'resque/server'

Resque::Server.class_eval do

  use Rack::Auth::Basic do |email, password|
    user = User.authenticate( email, password )
    user && user.admin?
  end

end

app = Rack::Builder.new {
  use Rails::Rack::Static

  map "/resque" do
    run Resque::Server
  end

  map "/" do
    run ActionController::Dispatcher.new
  end
}.to_app

run app

In lib/tasks/resque.task:
require 'resque/tasks'

task "resque:setup" => :environment do
  ENV['QUEUE'] = '*'
end

desc "Alias for resque:work (To run workers on Heroku)"
task "jobs:work" => "resque:work"

I have added this to my gemfile:
gem "resque"

Then in initalizers/resque.rb:
ENV["REDISTOGO_URL"] ||= "mydatabaseurl"

uri = URI.parse(ENV["REDISTOGO_URL"])
Resque.redis = Redis.new(:host => uri.host, :port => uri.port, :password => uri.password, :thread_safe => true)

I am using to redistogo nano heroku addon.
On Heroku the app crashed with the error:
/app/config.ru:16:in `block (2 leve
ls) in <main>': uninitialized constant Rails::Rack::Static (NameError)

The rails version is 3.2.11

A: It's not able to find the constant Static in the namespace Rails::Rack.
Try Rack::Static


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What Would Happen if Women Were In Charge of the Global Economy?
by William Greider
This post first appeared at The Nation.
Federal Reserve Board Chairwoman Janet Yellen (L) and International Monetary Fund Managing Director Christine Lagarde (R) speak about global finance during last week's conference at the International Monetary Fund. (Photo: International Monetary Fund/flickr CC 2.0)
If women were in charge of banking regulation, could they save us from the Wall Street cowboys who crashed the global financial system?
That provocative question was the implicit subtext for an all-day conference of banking and financial officials in Washington last week, held at, of all places, the soberly serious International Monetary Fund. The IMF's managing director, as it happens, is a woman — Christine Lagarde of France — and she appeared alongside an even more powerful woman — Janet Yellen, chair of the US Federal Reserve System. Neither of them was in charge when the system crashed in 2008.
The IMF event was not a rump rally of feminists who somehow crashed the halls of power. But all of the 18 speakers on various panels were women, prominent as bank regulators or financial authorities. The one-sided gender line-up was not exactly an accident. The men in suits could hardly miss the message.
But just in case they did, IMF Director Lagarde prompted them with a droll question: "What would have happened if Lehman Brothers had been Lehman Sisters?"
What she meant was that different values might have prevailed if women had held the controlling positions at the brokerage or were the government regulators enforcing prudent standards. Women, as Lagarde has observed, worry more about financial exclusion. Worldwide, 42 percent of women have no access to financial services. Only a measly 3 percent of bank CEOs are women.
More to the point, Largarde said research shows women are more risk-averse — a quality utterly missing in the reckless banks and brokerages rushing like lemmings to the cliff. Women in charge might have asked tougher questions.
Fed Chairwoman Yellen stayed away from the gender question. But Lagarde has invoked "Lehman Sisters" numerous times since the financial collapse and disappointing recovery.
"It takes a great deal of will power to direct the French economy," Largarde wrote in 2010 when she was France's finance minister. "I am not doing this for women but as a woman I am, perhaps, more keenly aware of the damage that the crisis has done through greed, pride and a lack of transparency…. I am determined to do everything within my power to change the rules of the game and do my best to ensure that a crisis such as this can never happen again."
What women want, she wrote, is to be judged, like men, on the basis of their deeds. She added what Eleanor Roosevelt had to say on the subject. "A woman is like a tea bag — you never know how strong it is until it's in hot water."
One of the conference speakers, Brooksley Born, is a courageous example. Born was nearly drowned by "hot water" dumped on her by Robert Rubin, Alan Greenspan and Larry Summers during the Clinton administration. As a regulator she was trying to impose some limits on dangerous derivatives. The men hammered her, blocked her and effectively drove her out of government.
Years later, after the crash had vindicated her warnings, Born was not embittered but still advocating fundamental reforms. Rubin, the former Treasury secretary, blamed his own failure to act on the absence of "political will" in Washington.
"Of course," Born observed dryly, "it might have made a difference if the secretary of the Treasury had taken a position." The audience applauded for this woman who in crisis had not been wrong nor risk averse.
In a sense, the noisy demonstration for Brooksley Born fulfilled an implicit objective of the Institute for New Economic Thinking that sponsored the IMF event. INET recruited the all-female line-up of emerging leaders in banking and finance. The institute was co-founded and funded by investor George Soros and others, and it set out to sweep worldwide in search of new ideas and new economists who are breaking free of the old orthodoxy that failed.
INET President Robert Johnson has been organizing conferences around the world, educating and recruiting and encouraging political actors to abandon the old garbage. For some years, Rob Johnson was a key partner of Soros in global investing (also an old friend and valued source of mine).
INET is a long-term proposition obviously — an attempt to envision and promote a financial system that serves society rather than exploiting and abusing it, that restores and nourishes people and families instead of subverting them.
"The old boys' club did not prove to be a committee to save the world." Johnson told the conference audience, referring to the boastful media label once worn by the Rubin-Greenspan-Summers political machine. "The aftermath of the financial crisis is a bitter wilderness and we have been lost and have to find out way."
From personal experience and his far-flung travels in the global economy, Johnson found hope increasingly in the fresh new players in the system who used to be excluded outsiders — smart and serious women who are already thinking about how to change the way the world works.
A few years ago, Johnson spoke at a gathering of political activists where his friend Arianna Huffington was posing the questions. She asked him: "If you could wave a magic wand and do one thing to make the financial system better, what would it be?" Johnson had a quick answer: "Only women get to regulate finance." The audience laughed and clapped. But Johnson added some details to demonstrate this was not a frivolous thought. "Brooksley Born, Sheila Bair, Janet Yellen and Elizabeth Warren. If they had been running financial regulation since 1990, we would not have had this crisis!''
The Institute for New Economic Thinking launched its ambitious efforts on that wishful proposition.
"The way forward was hiding in plain sight," Johnson said. "And they happened to be women."
William Greider, a prominent political journalist and author, has been a reporter for more than 35 years for newspapers, magazines and television. He is the author of the national bestsellers One World, Ready or Not (1998), Secrets of the Temple (1989) and Who Will Tell The People (1992). Greider's most recent book is The Soul of Capitalism: Opening Paths to A Moral Economy (2003).
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Hartford Police Union Hopes Private Funding Will Save Mounted Unit
By Vinny Vella
Alexander Prince Cordero, 6, of Hartford, was inching closer to Toohey, the horse when Officer Marcel Washington of the Hartford Police Mounted Unit, right, offered to let him pet the horse while on patrol in Bushnell Park. (STEPHEN DUNN, Hartford Courant)
HARTFORD — The Hartford Police Union is spearheading efforts to save the city's mounted patrol unit, the victim of budget cuts, through private donations, officials said this week.
A total of $20,000 to cover the costs of maintaining a reduced version of the unit — two horses instead of the current four — has been pledged by two "local businesses with a statewide, even global footprint," said Sgt. Richard Holton, the union's president. Holton declined to identify the businesses until "it's a done deal."
For that to happen, the city council would have to pass a resolution accepting the money, according to council President TJ Clarke.
Clarke said Friday that the union has discussed the proposal with him and his colleagues, but that nothing formal has been filed.
"It might be in our interest, but it's hard to say right now," Clarke said. "I know there's some public outcry about the unit, but we'd have to see what everybody's appetite for it is."
Police Chief James Rovella declined to comment at length on the proposal. He said he plans on meeting with Mayor Luke Bronin and union officials in the coming days to discuss the donated funds.
There's a precedent for private money coming to the aid of the mounted unit, one of only two of its kind, with Bridgeport, left in the state. In 2014, as it teetered on the brink of dissolution, the unit was saved by donations from downtown businesses.
Holton said that the businesses, which are not based in Hartford, putting up the money this time offered to contribute to the department after hearing that the unit would be disbanded by money-saving recommendations made in Bronin's 2016-17 city budget.
Bronin, traveling back to the city from the Democratic National Convention in Philadelphia on Friday, was unavailable to comment.
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In the budget, the mayor called for 21 officers from specialized units to be folded back into patrol, including one of the mounted officers.
At the time, the mounted unit, which patrols the city's major parks and their surrounding neighborhoods, consisted of four horses and three officers: one officer set to be transferred, one out on medical leave after falling from his horse, and another longtime officer set to retire in August, police said.
Not long after the budget was passed May 23, the union began seeking ways to keep the unit intact, according to Holton.
"This is a great public relations unit for the public and the city, especially for community policing," he said. "There's no better icebreaker than having mounted officers speaking with people in the neighborhood, and it's a great tool in getting people interested in becoming more involved with the department."
Since the fiscal year began July 1, the unit has been operating on a reduced basis, caring for the horses at the police stables in Keney Park as the department made the transition, according to Rovella.
[Related] Hartford police charge man in July shooting death »
Part of that transition involved what to do with the horses. Two of them are unfit for service, one because of arthritis, the other because of behavioral issues, Rovella said.
The plan was to send them back to the farm that raised them. And the remaining two became the focus of the union's efforts to keep the unit active.
Though the donations would cover the cost of keeping the two horses, Rovella stressed that continuing to staff the unit may be difficult.
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Upcoming retirements will soon drop the number of sworn officers to the 380s, he said. And he needs as many officers patrolling the city as he can get.
To boost its patrol ranks, the department has reduced the officers attached to the Police Athletic League program and the Animal Control Unit. On top of that, the force is operating at the "bare minimum" for captains, lieutenants and sergeants, Rovella added.
But its not just uniformed personel that are struggling: The seven civilian layoffs built into the department's budget halved its records division.
"There's a lot of pain going around," he said. "To put that in perspective, we've cut everybody across the board."


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In a bid to circumvent his restricted access to various social media networks, former US President Donald Trump launched his own communication platform meant to serve as a place to "speak freely and safely." The platform had been dubbed, "From the Desk of Donald J. Trump."
The communication blog launched by the former president as a place where he could share his statements with the larger public has been permanently shuttered less than a month after going live, it was recently revealed.
Jason Miller, a senior Trump aide who serves as the former commander-in-chief's spokesperson, confirmed on Wednesday that the platform was now defunct. He told CNBC that the page "will not be returning," and that "it was just auxiliary to the broader efforts we have and are working on."
Miller later relayed to the outlet that the departure stemmed from Trump getting ready to join another social media platform.
Trump was famously booted off of Facebook and Twitter in early January, after hundreds of people, including his supporters, opted to storm the US Capitol in an effort to halt congressional lawmakers from certifying the results of the US election.