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Individuals perform examinations on human specimens for the purpose of obtaining information for health care providers to aid in the diagnosis, treatment, and monitoring of patients. Individuals may perform waived, moderate and high complexity testing. Each individual must demonstrate the skills required for proper performance of preanalytical, analytic, and postanalytical phases of testing. Once competency is demonstrated, direct supervision is not required for specimen processing, test performance or result reporting. Supervisory or director work review is required on critical patient test results, results outside of analytic detection limits, and delta checks based on patients' clinical result variability. Individuals may work in one or more laboratory disciplines (i.e., chemistry, hematology, blood bank, etc). Individuals may be supervised by the department manager or senior technologist. Employees providing direct patient care must demonstrate competencies specific to the population served.
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Condition: A downed runner or collapsed athlete is a participant who cannot stand or walk without help either during an endurance athletic event or at the completion of the event.
Background: More than 500,000 athletes participated in marathons in the United States in 2011, and exercise-associated collapse is the most common medical problem during these events. This type of exercise-associated collapse may be caused by numerous underlying conditions, including cardiovascular problems, temperature-related illness, electrolyte imbalance, asthma or allergy, muscle cramps, injury of muscle/bone, or seizures.
Risk Factors: Although cardiac fatalities are rare, the incidence increases with longer distance events. Other risk factors for collapse include illness such as heart disease, medications, inadequate training, warmer temperatures, increased humidity, concurrent illness, excessive water intake, inadequate water intake, weight gain, a race time of greater than 4 hours, and low body mass index.
History and Symptoms: The presenting symptoms of the downed runner vary depending upon the underlying cause of the collapse. In addition to collapse, the symptoms may include headache, dizziness, weakness, moist skin, rapid or slow heart rate, altered mental status, seizures, shivering, decreased or difficulty breathing, nausea, muscle cramping, lightheadedness, itching, hives, chest tightness, muscle pain, and swelling.
Physical Exam: The physician covering a running event will perform a physical exam to address life-threatening issues, such as consciousness, breathing, heartbeat, bleeding, or broken bones. Then, the underlying medical conditions can be assessed. The physician will focus on the vital signs, such as temperature, blood pressure, heart rate, and oxygen levels, as well as breathing rate and sounds, alertness, balance, speech, muscle strength, and reflexes.
Diagnostic Process: Blood or urine tests for sodium and sugar levels, hydration, or kidney function may be performed. X-rays, MRIs, or ultrasounds may be used to diagnose injuries upon transfer to the hospital. An ECG can be used in the case of abnormal heart rhythms.
Rehab Management: Management will depend on the underlying cause of collapse in the downed runner. Following stabilization, athletes will be moved to a medical tent for further treatment and then either sent home or transferred to a hospital for additional tests or treatment.
Other Resources for Patients and Families: Many long-distance races have race expos at packet pick-up, providing a good time for medical staff to inform athletes about preventive strategies to avoid serious medical problems. On-line resources are also available for training and injury/illness prevention for recreational athletes.


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The Emir of Kano is a well respected traditional position among the Hausas and is considered the most respected traditional ruler in the Northern part of the country. And it is currently being ruled by Muhammadu Sanusi II.
lThe current Emir of Kano is the former Governor of the Central Bank of Nigeria, HRM, Sanusi Lamido Sanusi.
Below are a few things you need to know about the current Emir;
Muhammadu Sanusi II CON, born Sanusi Lamido Sanusi was born on the 31st of July 1961
He is the 14th Emir of Kano
Emir Sanusi was a banker and former governor of the Central Bank of Nigeria
He was appointed on 3 June 2009 for a five-year term, but was suspended from office by the then President of NigeriaGoodluck Jonathan on 20 February 2014 after he accused the government of a $20 billion fraud in the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC)
Sanusi is the grandson of Muhammadu Sanusi I, the 11th Fulani Emir of Kano
Sanusi received two awards from The Banker magazine: Central Bank Governor of the Year (worldwide) and Central Bank Governor of the Year for Africa
Time magazine listed him on its list of the 100 most influential people of 2011
In 2013, Sanusi was honoured at the third Global Islamic Finance Awards (GIFA) in Dubai for his advocacy in promoting Islamic banking and finance during his tenure as governor of Nigeria's central bank.
Sanusi received his primary education at St. Anne's Catholic Primary School in Kakuri, Kaduna from 1967 to 1972, where he obtained his First School Leaving Certificate. He then attended King's College, Lagos, where he graduated in 1977. Sanusi was offered provisional admission to Ahmadu Bello University (ABU) in Zaria, where he obtained a bachelor's degree in economics in 1981
In 1985, Sanusi was hired by Icon Limited (a subsidiary of Morgan Guaranty Trust) and Barings Bank. He joined the United Bank for Africa in 1997, working in the bank's credit and risk-management division, and rose to the position of general manager.
In September 2005, Sanusi became a board member of the First Bank of Nigeria as an executive director in charge of risk and management control.
He was appointed Group Managing Director (CEO) in January 2009. At this time, Sanusi was chairman of Kakawa Discount House (where he was a board member of FBN Bank)
He was the first person from northern Nigeria to be appointed CEO of FBN
On 1 June 2009, during the presidency of Umaru Musa Yar'Adua, Sanusi was nominated governor of the Central Bank of Nigeria; his appointment was confirmed by the Nigerian Senate on 3 June 2009, during a global financial crisis
Sanusi obtained a degree in Sharia and Islamic Studies from the African International University in Khartoum, Sudan in1997
Lamido Sanusi net worth may be estimated to be $80 million.
The Emir is married to Hajia Sadiya, Hajia Maryam and they have 12 children for him.
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How to Choose a Barbell
Editor's note: This is a guest post from Jerred Moon.
"How on earth can you break a barbell?"
That was the question I was asking myself standing in my driveway with, well, a broken barbell…
Years ago, when I purchased my first barbell I didn't put much thought into type or quality. They are just barbells…right? That thinking (or lack thereof) led to my first barbell breaking within 24 hours of purchase.
Well, with broken barbell in hand I decided it was time to uncover some of the basics as to what makes a good, durable barbell. What I found was that they can range from $200 to $2,000, and they are a little more complicated than your average sporting goods store would have you believe. A barbell serves as the foundation of true strength training. You can get by without a lot of things, but you cannot get by without a barbell.
Buying the right bar will help you to avoid big issues — they can warp, bend, rust, and break. The most common bar mishaps are bending from missed lifts, and sleeves popping off from, more or less, cheap manufacturing. Today, I want to make you an informed consumer of the barbell.
Barbell Basics
Before you can truly make an informed decision you need to know exactly what a barbell consists of — its "anatomy."
A commonly used barbell has a 28-29 mm diameter shaft for men and 25 mm for women. Barbells come in all shapes and sizes, but the standard length is 7.2 ft for men and ~6.5 ft for women. They weigh ~44 pounds for men (20 kg) and ~33 pounds for women (15kg).
First, you have the bar itself, or shaft. It's put through a machining process to get it to the right length and diameter. On the shaft, you have what is called knurling. Knurling is simply the rough, cross-hatched pattern you see on a barbell. Knurl is very important and is mainly for grip. It is machine-pressed and can be extremely rough, or smooth, depending on the manufacturer. It is important to feel the bar to get an idea of what you like (unless you buy online — in that case, look at reviews), but most top-end bar manufacturers have a good knurl. Where knurling can differ, even on top-end bars, is where the knurl does and does not exist. Some bars have knurling that extends all the way to the sleeves, and some bars have a gap of no knurling where the bar meets the sleeves. Sometimes bars will have center knurling and sometimes they won't. You have to decide what you want and what you are most comfortable with.
If, say, you like Olympic lifting and you prefer a wide snatch grip, I suggest getting a bar with knurling that extends to the sleeves (if that sentence made no sense, then don't worry about knurling going to the sleeves).
If you are often shirtless or do high-rep front squats and presses (CrossFit anyone?), you may want to go with no center knurling. If you regularly squat heavy weights and need the bar to grip the back, get the center knurling.
Furthermore, the markings on the knurl indicate which type of bar you are using. I recommend a dual marked bar for general purpose use. However, the outermost marking indicates an Olympic lifting bar and the inner marking indicates a powerlifting bar, and we'll talk more about those in a minute.
It comes down to how it meets your needs and style of fitness.
Next, we have the sleeves.
The sleeves are simply where you put the weights. They are created from drawn-overmandrel (DOM) tubing, a machine process that makes the sleeves straight and strong. The biggest thing you are looking for in the sleeves is the rotation, or how the sleeves spin on the shaft. Unless you are extremely picky, or a professional lifter, the difference in bearings or bushings aren't that important. Bushings are a low friction material placed between the shaft and the sleeve — they are more affordable, and they are what you will find on most bars. Needle bearings spin more smoothly, and are actual bearings between the shaft and the sleeve. Generally, bearings are on the high end bars. Bushings will save you a lot of money, and work perfectly fine, without having to go high-end. But, if you want the premium, then go bearings. Bearings are better — you aren't paying more without reason — but the difference would only be noticed at the professional and elite levels.
Sleeves are also connected by bolts or snap rings. I will make this one very easy for you. Snap rings only! Stay away from bolts on a bar! Bolts = broken in 24 hours.
Also, know barbells come in many finishes — chrome, zinc, black oxide, unfinished, and even stainless steel — but also know that the finish is primarily an aesthetic preference. Stainless steel does provide an advantage because it is rust and corrosion free, forever.
Barbell Strength
At this point, you already know more than your average gym-goer, but let's make you a true barbell connoisseur.
The strength of a barbell is very important. You need to know the terms I am about to go over because when you shop for a barbell, this is the information manufacturers will give you. If you have no idea what the numbers are referring to, how do you know what to buy?
Bar strength is reported in three areas: tensile strength, yield strength, and test.
Tensile strength is the maximum load your bar can support without fracturing or breaking. So high tensile strength = good bar. This will be your primary determining factor.
Yield strength is basically how much weight the bar can handle before it will become deformed — that is, it won't return to perfect straightness. Breaking and deformation are very different. Unfortunately, you will be hard-pressed to find a manufacturer that provides yield strength information.
There is also test, which means the bar has been loaded and tested with weights at which there was no bending or breaking, so the higher, the better. It's best if you can find a manufacturer that will give you a tensile strength rating, which is reported in pounds per square inch (PSI).
Now you know the terminology, but what is a "good" rating? Here is a starting point for the most important factor — tensile strength ratings:
<150,000 PSI = Ehh
150,000-175,000 PSI = Good
175,000-200,000 PSI = Better
>200,000 PSI = Best
A bar in the good range is perfectly acceptable and will last a very long time. Considering cost and quality, most people do not need more than the "good" level bar.
If you are getting into sport weightlifting, there are differences in Olympic lifting bars and powerlifting bars:
Olympic weightlifting bars have more of a whip, or spring, to accommodate the sport.
Powerlifting bars are very stiff, as powerlifters prefer no surprises or major fluctuations during a big lift.
Barbell Plates
Next, you have to think about plates. Unless you plan on competing at the professional level, plate quality is not as vital as the quality of your barbell.
Price can vary greatly with plates. You can get 300 lb. of iron at a garage sale for $30 or you can spend $3,000+ on a couple hundred pounds of certified competition bumper plates.
The most frequently asked question is whether to purchase bumper plates or iron (metal) plates, and that depends on the type of lifting you plan to do. If you like powerlifting (squat, bench press, and deadlift), then you will be just fine with iron plates. If you are dropping the bar frequently during CrossFit workouts or practicing the snatch and clean and jerk in Olympic weightlifting, you'll need bumpers.
Personally, I prefer a blend of iron and bumper plates in my arsenal, and I'll explain why and some considerations in just a minute. First, let's talk bumper plates.
When it comes to bumper plates, what you are paying for is the thickness of the plate and how much they bounce when dropped.
Here is a quick breakdown of their categories:
Black bumpers ($): Thick with a big bounce
Colored bumpers ($$): Thick with less bounce
Olympic training bumpers ($$$): Thin and dead bounce
Competition bumpers ($$$$$$$): Thin and dead bounce + certified weight to the gram
They all should be 450mm disks with a 50mm opening. Economy black bumper plates are going to be good enough for 95% of people; 4.9% will want/need colored bumpers or Olympic training bumpers, and .1% will need certified Olympic competition bumpers. Colored plates generally follow a color coding, and some companies do follow the color code of the International Weightlifting Federation, but not all do. The official color coding can be found at the IWF website.
I like to have around 300 lb. of cheap iron plates along with another couple hundred pounds of black bumpers. I use the bumpers for when I am going to be dropping the weight, and I use a combination of iron and bumpers if I am doing a heavy back squat.
You'll be hard pressed to find bumper plates at a garage sale, so you will need to order them online, but iron plates are a completely different story.
For iron, here's where you use the power of Craigslist to find a lot of weight for pennies on the dollar. People are constantly moving, giving up on at-home fitness, and letting plates sit in their garage and rust. That's a win for us! The easiest way to shop for plates is to put it on autopilot using a combination of Craigslist and IFTTT; you can read about how that works here. Basically, you set up a program that will notify you when plates come up for sale in your price range.
Most people are looking for a general, high-quality bar, and there are plenty out there that are suitable for all training and that will last for a long time. So, unless you are planning on becoming an Olympian, I would stay away from the "Cadillac" bars. You can get a good barbell that will meet all of your needs for around $250, and the near-perfect bar for around $500.
That can seem like a lot of money for a barbell, but it is the heart of your training, and you will be using it day-in and day-out. Don't get a bar that will bend or fail while you are using it.
Get a bar that will last a lifetime. It is an investment in your fitness and your health!
And that, gentlemen is all you need know about plates, weights, and barbells.
Now, let's start your story differently than mine.
"How on earth can this barbell withstand this abuse?"
That will be the question you are asking yourself while standing in your driveway with, well, an amazing barbell.
Jerred Moon is a strength & conditioning addict, wanna-be adrenaline junkie, loving husband and proud father. He runs a fitness website for the "other guys" called End of Three Fitness and is also the creator of the One Man One Barbell program.
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When it comes to the most important words in the language, right up there with Thank You, I Love You, Please, and Dinner is Served… is No.
You already know this, but we all (maybe especially us girls) need reinforcement now and then.


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Kate's and Helen's "hospitality" and "internationalism" exchange on Twitter crystalized a still unverbalized, miasm-like unease that had been hovering over my field of impressions. Perhaps MOOC ratings should include hospitality ~ not a directory of courses but a Guide Michelin.
Anyone who has been around a few moocs, can't help noticing that some are more hospitable than others, cyber Cheers, even if everybody doesn't know your name. More global content in readings, acknowledging and celebrating demographics, accommodating participants due north and south and across pond and a cosmopolitan atmosphere would make them less provincial and more accommodating to guests not part of US (mostly higher) education cyber circles. Perhaps looking at the ones we've found most congenial, where we've enjoyed our sojourns, and what they have in common would be the place to start. My personal list would include POTcert, Carol Yeager's CMC11, Vance Steven's Multiliteracies (and EVO in general), a fistful of cmoocs and even an independent off-forum FB group for an xmooc.
Wonderful post which I'll reference over at the connectivist facebook page if you don't mind:-) Being involved in so many moocs and other classes is becoming a bit like spinning too fast so I'll ask if if you are in the OLDs MOOC or the EVO Mentoring or the classes? If not I'll reference you there too.
Aside from the cheesy namedropping I really liked this post and thank you pulling something living out of the MOOC MOOC wreckage that happened in my mind. I'll send this on to my wife too who just started her first MOOC and was mentioning how inhospitable the environment was.
Thanks Vanessa and Scott for dropping by and for taking the time to not only to read my post but to add a comment too. I have to say that I've not been around many MOOCs before, just POT Cert really, but the idea of a Michelin Guide for MOOCs that indicate the type of "hospitality" participants might expect seems like a pretty neat idea to me.
FYI Scott, I've just started over in OLDS MOOC.
See you at OLDS MOOC. I'd tell you how to find me but I'm not sure myself:-) Think our cloudscape "The PEERs – p2p learning online" Going to be difficult to finish POTCERT but the course is exactly what our college needs to faculty online and that's important to our students. Hospitality is certainly another useful thing to incorporate into my operational skills. Most of our encounters with teachers coming into our department are not happy and some of this MIGHT be our conditioned response to their petulant behaviour 🙂 I suppose we could be nice if we practice?
Helen ~ I shared your post with Laura Gibbs, who teaches Latin and Classics online at/for the University of OK and is in a different. We'd noticed that gap too so I thought she'd appreciate it…and she did. Said that was critical to getting a good start with an online class even if she sometimes feels like a Wal-Mart greeter but that it pays off in… part of it is making sure your guests know where to find everything.
A mooc hospitality guide reviewer would probably, like a Michelin reviewer, need to be anonymous.
Scott, how does the EVO Mentoring seem? EVO is a hospitable bunch. The Webheads session is a good place to direct people for basics and tech refreshers. ESL oriented (but not limited to higher ed) so I figure composition, writing, languages, etc are close enough.
I looked in on and noticed you in a moocmooc collaborative writing session but nowhere else. So much there just did not feel right. I never quite got my bearings or a sense of settling in either. Not much connection making either., but a few Not Cheers but one of those bars where nobody knows your name or asks. I was happy to see some whose blogs I follow ~ Kate Bowles (Music for Deck Chairs) in particular.
Been thinking about hospitality and wondered if their might be room for a form of "tough" hospitality we could use in our office? Like "put back the 'distance' in Distance Learning and piss off out of our office and CALL IT with your problems!" This has been a hard week and nice isn't in me.
Mentoring is fine but I keep getting distracted by the portfolio course and OLDSMOOC. Have signed up for a peer to peer project at OLDS which fits a bit with mentoring and I can also use it as an ongoing journal on life in college. The complexities of dealing with people are endlessly fascinating and I have to agree the Mentoring crowd are calming me down. But will it last?
Is there a way to build hospitality into online courses? We were told to edit out the personal in a series of courses but aside from our students, a few teachers and two of us in our office, no other staff at any level has taken online courses and really should cork it with their comments. So maybe I should ask: how can we sneak hospitality into our courses?
Yes, the concept's definitely got a lot going for it, I'm certain. Apparently the concept of hospitality has long been part of the philosophy of cosmopolitanism (Kant & Derrida). What's more, not only might it be used as a concept in designing online courses but also as a frame of mind to adopt when reading texts produced by people from other cultures or groups. According to Rizvi (2009) a cosmopolitan outlook can help to foster a "critical global imagination". I'll have to look into this.and explore it further.
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A fun interview with Liberty Coin in Del Mar, CA. They started the conversation with a quote from Dr. Edwin Vieira that helps squarely frame the civil rights nature of gold and silver in the political machinery. From there I got a little feisty. Enjoy! A copy was uploaded to YouTube with Part I, Part II and Part III.


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Objective: To evaluate the incidence and durability of compensatory hypertrophy with solitary kidneys in the setting of those with multicystic dysplastic kidney or Wilms tumor status post nephrectomy.
Radiology 2019 Mar 1;290(3):769-782. Epub 2019 Jan 1.
From the Department of General Pediatrics, Adolescent Medicine and Neonatology, Center for Pediatrics, Medical Center-University of Freiburg, Mathildenstr 1, 79106 Freiburg, Germany (C.G.); Department of Pediatric Radiology, Jeanne de Flandre Mother and Child Hospital, University of Lille, Lille, France (E.F.A.); Department of Pediatric Radiology, University Hospital of Leuven, Leuven, Belgium (L.B.); Department of Pediatrics, University Hospital of Cologne, Cologne, Germany (K.B.); Department of Bioengineering, IRCCS Mario Negri Institute for Pharmacological Research, Bergamo, Italy (A.C.); Department of Pediatrics II, University Hospital Essen, Essen, Germany (M.C.); Department of Pediatric Kidney, Liver and Metabolic Diseases, Hannover Medical School, Hannover, Germany (D.H., D.F., L.P.); Division of Nephrology, Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pa (E.A.H.); Department of General Pediatrics, University Children's Hospital, Münster, Germany (J.K., A.T.); Department of Pediatrics and Center for Molecular Medicine, University Hospital of Cologne, Cologne, Germany (M.C.L.); Department of Pediatric Nephrology, University Hospital of Leuven, Leuven, Belgium (D.M.); PKD Research Group, Laboratory of Pediatrics, Department of Development and Regeneration, GPURE, KU Leuven, Leuven, Belgium (D.M.); PKD Research Group, Department of Development and Regeneration, Catholic University Leuven (KU Leuven), Leuven, Belgium (D.M.); Academic Nephrology Unit, Department of Infection Immunity & Cardiovascular Disease, University of Sheffield, Sheffield, England (A.C.M.O.); Department of Nephrology, Fundació Puigvert, Autonomous University of Barcelona, IIB Sant Pau, REDINREN, Barcelona, Spain (R.T.); University College London Great Ormond Street, Institute of Child Health, London, England (P.J.D.W.); and Division of Pediatric Nephrology, Center for Pediatrics and Adolescent Medicine, Heidelberg University Hospital, Heidelberg, Germany (F.S.).
Rare cases of ectopic ureter: Analysis from a single centre with review of the literature.
Turk J Urol 2018 Nov 21:1-6. Epub 2018 Nov 21.
Department of Urology, Institute of Post Graduate Medical Education and Research, Kolkata, India.
Objective: Purpose of our study was to aggregate and analyse rare cases of Ectopic Ureter (EU), their association with other anomalies, clinical features, diagnosis and management.
Management of antenatally detected kidney malformations.
Early Hum Dev 2018 11 10;126:38-46. Epub 2018 Sep 10.
Comparison of the renal dynamic scan performed with 99mTc-L,L-EC and 99mTc-MAG3 in children with pelviureteric junction obstruction.
Prenatal Evaluation and Postnatal Follow-Up of Ureteral Ectopic Insertion in Multicystic Dysplastic Kidneys.
Fetal Diagn Ther 2018 Jul 10:1-8. Epub 2018 Jul 10.
Service de radiologie, Hôpital d'enfants Armand-Trousseau APHP, Université Pierre et Marie Curie, Paris, France.
Objective: To emphasize the need for analyzing the pelvis when a unilateral multicystic dysplastic kidney (MCDK) is observed at prenatal ultrasonography (US) because of possible associated ectopic ureteral insertion.
A refractory hypertensive patient with fibromuscular dysplasia and multicystic dysplastic kidney.
J Med Ultrason (2001) 2018 Oct 23;45(4):657-660. Epub 2018 May 23.
Department of Pediatrics, Iwate Medical University School of Medicine, 19-1 Uchimaru, Morioka, 020-8505, Japan.
Continuous erector spinae plane block for an open pyeloplasty in an infant.
J Clin Anesth 2018 06 21;47:47-49. Epub 2018 Mar 21.
Clin J Am Soc Nephrol 2017 Dec 16;12(12):1962-1973. Epub 2017 Nov 16.
Background And Objectives: Joubert syndrome is a genetically heterogeneous ciliopathy associated with >30 genes. The characteristics of kidney disease and genotype-phenotype correlations have not been evaluated in a large cohort at a single center.
Outcomes of prenatally diagnosed solitary functioning kidney during early life.
J Perinatol 2017 12 26;37(12):1325-1329. Epub 2017 Oct 26.
Objective: To evaluate outcomes of congenital solitary functioning kidney (SFK) in early childhood.
Hydronephrotic kidney with multiple extra-renal calyces.
Ann R Coll Surg Engl 2017 Nov 19;99(8):e219-e220. Epub 2017 Oct 19.
Urology, Great Ormond Street Hospital , London UK.
Analysis of renal blood flow and renal volume in normal fetuses and in fetuses with a solitary functioning kidney.
Prenat Diagn 2017 12 21;37(12):1213-1218. Epub 2017 Nov 21.
Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, KU Leuven, Belgium.
Objective: To evaluate renal blood flow and renal volume for the prediction of postnatal renal function in fetuses with solitary functioning kidney (SFK).
J Matern Fetal Neonatal Med 2018 Nov 2;31(21):2923-2929. Epub 2017 Aug 2.
d Department of Nephrology, Cleveland Clinic Akron General and Akron Children's Hospital , Akron , OH , USA.
Purpose: Neonatal renal cystic diseases have a great impact on the morbidity and mortality of the affected neonates and infants. A good insight into the pathophysiology, diagnosis and treatment options of various neonatal renal cystic diseases aid in early diagnosis and intervention, thereby preventing complications.
Large Multicystic Dysplastic Kidney Mimicking a Large Cystic Renal Neoplasm.
J Clin Diagn Res 2017 May 1;11(5):PD03-PD04. Epub 2017 May 1.
Additional Professor, Department of Radiology, Sanjay Gandhi Post Graduate Institute of Medical Sciences, Lucknow, Uttar Pradesh, India.
Natural History of Contralateral Hypertrophy in Patients with Multicystic Dysplastic Kidneys.
J Urol 2018 01 20;199(1):280-286. Epub 2017 Jun 20.
Purpose: We evaluated predictive factors for compensatory hypertrophy and renal outcomes in a large cohort of patients with multicystic dysplastic kidneys.
Is it Always Necessary to Treat an Asymptomatic Hydronephrosis Due to Ureteropelvic Junction Obstruction?
Indian J Pediatr 2017 Jul 3;84(7):531-539. Epub 2017 May 3.
Department of Pediatric Surgery, Maulana Azad Medical College and Associated Lok Nayak Hospital, New Delhi, 110002, India.
Cyst-to-kidney volume ratio in the sonographic diagnosis of unilateral multicystic dysplastic kidney in children.
Department of Radiology, Mersin Women's and Childen's Hospital, Mersin, Turkey.
Aims: To evaluate the usefulness of the cyst-to-kidney volume ratio determined by ultrasonography (US) in unilateral multicystic dysplastic kidney (MCDK) in children.
Diagnostic and therapeutic challenges of an ambiguous cystic kidney disease in a resource limited setting: a case report.
BMC Res Notes 2017 Mar 1;10(1):114. Epub 2017 Mar 1.
Health and Human Development (2HD) Research Group, Douala, Cameroon.
Background: Unilateral renal cystic disease is a rare condition that shares morphological similarities with multicystic dysplastic kidney, the former often distinguished from the latter on some clinical and histopathological grounds. However serious diagnostic and therapeutic dilemmas set in when there is a considerable overlap in the distinguishing features between these entities.
[Value of MRI in prenatal diagnosis of abnormal fetal kidneys].
Department of Radiology, Tianjin Central Hospital of Gynecology and Obstetrics, Tianjin 300100, China.
Skeletal dysplasia with bowing long bones: Proposed flowchart for prenatal diagnosis with case demonstration.
Department of Obstetrics, Paulista School of Medicine - Federal University of São Paulo (EPM-UNIFESP), São Paulo, Brazil.
Objective: Skeletal dysplasia with bowing long bones is a rare group of multiple characterized congenital anomalies.
Materials And Methods: We introduce a simple, practical diagnostic flowchart that may be helpful in identifying the appropriate pathway of obstetrical management.
Bladder agenesis, ectopic ureters and a multicystic dysplastic horseshoe kidney in one twin newborn with normal amniotic fluid index in utero.
BMJ Case Rep 2016 Dec 8;2016. Epub 2016 Dec 8.
Vanderbilt University, Nashville, Tennessee, USA.
Double trouble: pelvi-ureteric junction obstruction and renal cell carcinoma in right to left crossed fused ectopia.
BMJ Case Rep 2016 Dec 1;2016. Epub 2016 Dec 1.
Department of Urology, All India Institute of Medical Sciences, New Delhi, India.
Laparoscopic pyeloplasty: Initial experience with 3D vision laparoscopy and articulating shears.
J Pediatr Urol 2016 Dec 24;12(6):426.e1-426.e5. Epub 2016 Oct 24.
Diagnostic and Surgical Approach to Prenatally Detected Urinary Tract Anomalies.
Multicystic dysplastic kidney: Assessment of the need for renal scintigraphy and the safety of conservative treatment.
Actas Urol Esp 2017 Jan - Feb;41(1):62-67. Epub 2016 Sep 22.
Urología Infantil, Hospital Universitario y Politécnico La Fe, Valencia, España.
Objectives: To assess the need for implementing renal scintigraphy in the diagnosis of the multicystic dysplastic kidney (MCDK) and the safety of its conservative treatment.
Diagnostic accuracy of midtrimester antenatal ultrasound for multicystic dysplastic kidneys.
St George's, University of London & St George's University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust, Molecular and Clinical Sciences Research Institute, London, UK.
Objectives: To establish the diagnostic accuracy of obstetric ultrasound at a tertiary fetal medicine center in the prenatal detection of unilateral and bilateral multicystic dysplastic kidney (MCDK) in fetuses in which this condition was suspected, and to undertake a systematic review of the relevant literature.
J Pediatr Urol 2016 Dec 29;12(6):394.e1-394.e7. Epub 2016 Jun 29.
University of Texas Southwestern and Children's Medical Center, Dallas, TX, USA.
[Computed tomography imaging in ureteropelvic junction obstruction--case report].
Vesico-amniotic shunting for lower urinary tract obstruction in a fetus with VACTERL association.
Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Iwate Medical University School of Medicine, Morioka, Japan.
Robotic-assisted Laparoscopic Pyeloplasty: Analysis of Symptomatic Patients With Equivocal Renal Scans.
Urology 2016 Jul 10;93:92-6. Epub 2016 Mar 10.
Department of Urology, University of Kansas Medical Center, Kansas City, KS.
Objectives: To review the objective and subjective success rates of robotic-assisted laparoscopic pyeloplasty in symptomatic patients with radiographic findings suggestive of uretero-pelvic junction obstruction (UPJO), but equivocal renal scans (diuretic T1/2 <20 minutes).
Copy number variations in multicystic dysplastic kidney: update for prenatal diagnosis and genetic counseling.
Prenat Diagn 2016 May 2;36(5):463-8. Epub 2016 Apr 2.
Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Drum Tower Hospital, Medical School of Nanjing University, Nanjing, Jiangsu, China.
Objective: To assess the clinical implication of chromosomal microarray analysis (CMA) in prenatal diagnosis of MCDK.
Unilateral Fetal Renal Abnormalities: Are They Really Isolated?
J Ultrasound Med 2016 Mar 18;35(3):561-4. Epub 2016 Feb 18.
Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Weill Medical College of Cornell University, New York, New York USA.
Objectives: Our objective was to describe the association between unilateral fetal renal abnormalities and other major anomalies that were not apparent in the second trimester.
Re: Multicystic Dysplastic Kidney: Is an Initial Voiding Cystourethrogram Necessary?
J Urol 2016 Feb 4;195(2):477. Epub 2015 Nov 4.
Outcome after prenatal diagnosis of congenital anomalies of the kidney and urinary tract.
Eur J Pediatr 2016 May 25;175(5):667-76. Epub 2016 Jan 25.
University Children's Hospital Zurich, Steinwiesstrasse 75, CH-8032, Zurich, Switzerland.
Virtual pathological examination of the human fetal kidney using micro-CT.
Ultrasound Obstet Gynecol 2016 Nov 6;48(5):663-665. Epub 2016 Oct 6.
UCL, Institute of Child Health, London, UK.
Incidence and Spectrum of Renal Complications and Extrarenal Diseases and Syndromes in 380 Children and Young Adults With Horseshoe Kidney.
3 Department of Neurology, Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center, Cincinnati, OH.
Objective: The objective of our study was to evaluate the incidence and spectrum of renal complications and of extrarenal diseases and syndromes in children with horseshoe kidney (HSK).
Outcomes of endopyelotomy for pelviureteric junction obstruction in the paediatric population: A systematic review.
J Pediatr Urol 2015 Dec 22;11(6):328-36. Epub 2015 Oct 22.
Department of Surgery, Alder Hey Children's Hospital, Liverpool, UK.
Introduction: Dismembered pyeloplasty is the gold standard treatment for pelviureteric obstruction (PUJO) although endourological techniques are also employed. Outcomes and success rates for paediatric endopyelotomy are variably reported.
Isolated Renal Sinus Lymphangiectasia-Close Mimic of Pelviureteric Junction Obstruction and Hydronephrosis.
Urology 2016 Jan 19;87:e11-2. Epub 2015 Oct 19.
Department of Radiodiagnosis, Sree Balaji Medical College and Hospital, Chennai, Tamilnadu, India.
Laparoscopic Pyeloplasty for Ureteropelvic Junction Obstruction Following Open Pyeloplasty in Children.
2 Department of Surgery and Urology, Children's Mercy Hospital , Kansas City, Missouri.
Objective: Few studies have evaluated the role of laparoscopic dismembered pyeloplasty in the setting of recurrent ureteropelvic junction (UPJ) obstruction following open dismembered pyeloplasty in the pediatric population. We present our experience at a single institution.
Should we offer prenatal testing for 17q12 microdeletion syndrome to all cases with prenatally diagnosed echogenic kidneys? Prenatal findings in two families with 17q12 microdeletion syndrome and review of the literature.
Prenat Diagn 2015 Dec 9;35(13):1336-41. Epub 2015 Nov 9.
Clinical Genetics Department, University Hospitals Leicester NHS Trust, Leicester, UK.
Objective: The objective of this study is to report the prenatal ultrasound scan findings in four fetuses from two families postnatally diagnosed with 17q12 microdeletion syndrome on microarray CGH and review the literature.
Dermoid Cyst in a Multicystic Dysplastic Kidney: A Case Report and Literature Review.
Urology 2015 Nov 2;86(5):1001-3. Epub 2015 Sep 2.
Urologic Consultants, Helen Devos Children's Hospital, Grand Rapids, MI.
[Efficiency evaluation of diuretic renography in the operative or conservative treatments of unilateral ureteropelvic junction obstruction patients].
Department of Nuclear Medicine, Peking University First Hospital, Beijing 100034, China.
Objective: To analyze the efficiency of diuretic renography in the management of unilateral ureteropelvic junction obstruction (UPJO) patients, by observing the affected kidney relative renal function (RRF) and drainage in the period of follow-up.
Conservative Management of Segmental Multicystic Dysplastic Kidney in Children.
Urology 2015 Nov 12;86(5):1013-8. Epub 2015 Aug 12.
Objective: To assess the clinical characteristics and natural course of segmental multicystic dysplastic kidney (MCDK).
Update on Multicystic Dysplastic Kidney.


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Q: C++ map to track when the end of map is reached Currently I have a map that prints out the following
map<string, map<int,int> > mapper;
map<int,int>::iterator inner;
map<string, map<int,int> >::iterator outer;

for(outer = mapper.begin(); outer != mapper.end(); outer++){
    cout<<outer->first<<": ";
  for(inner = outer->second.begin(); inner != outer->second.end(); inner++){
      cout<<inner->first<<","<<inner->second<<",";
  }
}

As of now this prints out the following
  stringone: 1,2,3,4,6,7,8,
  stringtwo: 3,5,6,7,
  stringthree: 2,3,4,5,

What i want it to print out is
  stringone: 1,2,3,4,6,7,8
  stringtwo: 3,5,6,7
  stringthree: 2,3,4,5

how can i check for the end of the map inside my inner map?
  Any help would be appreciated Thank you

A: Change your output line to print the comma first and only if it is not the first element:
if (inner != outer->second.begin())
    std::cout << ",";
std::cout << inner->first << "," << inner->second;

A: I'd change it to use std::copy, which I'd use along with an infix_ostream_iterator.
Edit: I'd also note for the record that what you're doing looks an awful lot like an std::multimap. If you don't want to use a multimap, it still looks like a lot simpler way to go would be something like:
std::ostream &operator<<(std::ostream &os, std::vector<int> const &v) {
    std::copy(v.begin(), v.end(),
              infix_ostream_iterator<int>(os, ","));
    return os;
}

std::map<std::string, std::vector<int> > mapper;

std::copy(mapper.begin(), mapper.end(),
          std::ostream_iterator<std::vector<int> >(std::cout, "\n");

A:   for(inner = m->second.begin(); inner != m->second.end(); inner++){
      cout<<inner->first<<","<<inner->second;
      if (next(inner) != m->second.end()){
          cout<<",";
      }
  }

Edit: It has been pointed out that map::iterator doesn't support addition, and that a suitable substitute is a nonstandard next function. I've updated the above code, and here's my own version of next.
template<typename T>
T next(T incrementable)
{
    return ++incrementable;
}

A: You could store the result in a string for example and trim the last character after the for.

A: You need to modify your inner loop so that it prints the comma separator at the start for each iteration other than the first, something like:
// inside the loop
cout << ( inner == outer->second.begin() ? "" : "," ) << inner->first << "," << inner->second;

A: You have specified how you want to solve your problem technically 'finding the end of the loop' but the formatting you are trying to resolve can be managed in other ways.
Unroll the inner loop, and move the seperator.
for(m = mapper.begin(); m != mapper.end(); m++){
    cout<<m->first<<": ";

  if( inner = m->second.begin() != m->second.end() ) {
    cout<<inner->first<<","<<inner->second;
    ++inner
    for(; inner != m->second.end(); ++inner){
      cout<<","<<inner->first<<","<<inner->second;
    }
  }
}

This means you don't have to do a in if test in each iteration of the loop

A: Change your inner loop to this:
if(outter->second.size()) {
    inner = outter->second.begin();
    while(true) {
        cout<<inner->first<<","<<inner->second;
        if(++inner != outer->second.end()) {
            cout<<",";
        } else {
            break;
        }
    }
}

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When I discovered the wonders of couponing late last year, I became obsessed with it.
I started religiously picking up newspapers and cutting each coupon out, sorting them into their appropriate section in my coupon pouch complete with dozens of dividers for every category of products.
A couple months later, however, I realized I was becoming a hoarder. I had three big boxes filled almost wholly with bottles of shampoo and conditioner, tubes of toothpaste, dental floss, and deodorant (what the majority of coupons seemed to be for). Although I snagged each item for a rock-bottom price—most of them having had cost me as little as 50 cents apiece, I wasn't sure I could use what I had in even a couple years' time.
There were other frustrations. One was that I was spending hours a week maintaining my coupons without even using the majority of them. It required monumental effort to not only cut out and sort them, but to periodically go through them and discard expired ones.
Further, when going through couponing sites' product-coupon matchups, I often didn't have the required Sunday newspaper inserts since my local newspaper didn't carry all of them, or I didn't have enough of them inserts—two instead of five.
Then there was the in-store experience. I was not only checking product sales against my paper coupons, but scouring multiple rebate apps like Ibotta to check for the best deals. I was also trying to coordinate those with in-store promotions such as Rite Aid's and Walgreens' spend X amount to get X amount of points deals. I was spending as long as an hour and a half in stores. It took FOREVER. I think I ticked off cashiers and people in line behind me several times, and employees often didn't understand their own store's coupon policy which made things more difficult. Sometimes things weren't in stock and items weren't priced at what couponing sites like The Krazy Koupon Lady said they were at their local stores—negating all the time spent printing out and/or gathering coupons needed for the deal, writing down the coupon-product combinations, and hunting down down the items.
When there were mistakes with my receipt, cashiers often were more annoyed with having to go through the hassle of complicated returns, and I often was only saving a few dollars by going back. It was often far more trouble than it was worth.
After growing increasingly disenchanted with couponing at Walgreens and Rite Aid stores, I tried shopping through their websites, and my life became easier.
It saves a lot of time and is far more pleasant not having to go to the physical store. I don't have to deal with employees who can be unfriendly and unknowledgeable about promotions and couponing policies. I can take my time shopping without having to move out of the way for people or worry about whether security thinks I'm up to something fishy.
Both stores have digital coupons you can load through the website (or app, when you're shopping in-store). It's far easier to look through coupons from the site at home than in-store, plus it doesn't eat into my cell phone data.
You still earn points online, and the checkout shows you when you have enough eligible items in your cart to be eligible for the point promotions before paying (this is unclear in-store).
When a coupon is available for an item, this will be indicated next to the product's image—a huge time saver!
Their online stores often have promotions like 20% off your entire purchase with a promo code. Plus, you can start your online shopping trips from cash back shopping portals like Ebates or BeFrugal to get an additional 5–10% off. So if you could have saved more using paper coupons, or by using rebate apps (which generally don't work with online purchases), these two factors can make up for the difference.
I also sometimes shop at Target, which is a special case doesn't allow you to use Cartwheel coupons online. However, I still often prefer to shop online and wait for good sales, combining them with promo codes, going through cash back portals, and using my Target Red Card (which is hooked up to my main checking account) to get 5% off and free shipping on everything.
I'm definitely relieved to put those insane couponer days behind me.


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Dialing Changes to Allow New Three-Digit Number for National Suicide Prevention Lifeline Will Impact Two Virginia Area Codes
RICHMOND – The toll-free National Suicide Prevention Lifeline (NSPL) is a critical emergency resource and can be reached, day or night, at 800-273-8255. Starting in July 2022, the NSPL will also be getting its own three-digit dialing number – 988 – as approved by the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) earlier this year. Dialing 988 will therefore directly reach the NSPL.
Before that can happen, dialing changes will be necessary in two Virginia area codes – 804 and 276 – starting in late April 2021.
In the Richmond region (area code 804) and the Southwest Virginia region (area code 276), 988 is an existing working prefix (i.e., the first three numbers dialed after the area code) for local exchanges in those area codes that currently permit seven-digit dialing to make a local call. To prepare for 988 becoming a national number for the NSPL, 10-digit dialing (area code + phone number) will be required to make local calls in those two geographic regions.
Virginia is not alone. There are 81 area codes in 36 other states that must also prepare for 10-digit dialing to accommodate the 988 national number roll-out.
The State Corporation Commission, the FCC and the telephone industry will be reminding consumers of this change in the 804 and 276 area codes over the next 18 months. The timeline for implementation is as follows:
April 24, 2021 – permissive 10-digit dialing begins for all local calls
October 24, 2021 – mandatory 10-digit dialing required for all local calls
July 16, 2022 – 988 for NSPL is active
Very little else will change for telephone users inside the 804 and 276 area codes. The NSPL is – and will always be – available at 1-800-273-8255. Other three-digit services – like 211, 711, 811, and 911 – are not affected. Telephone numbers, coverage areas, local call boundaries, and area code numbers remain the same.
The Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration estimates that roughly four percent of Virginia adults live with serious mental health conditions. While the holiday season brings joy and relaxation to some, it also may mean stress and sadness for others. During the holiday season and beyond, it is particularly crucial to be aware of available mental health resources such as the NSPL hotline (800-273-8255) and suicidepreventionlifeline.org. As always, 911 is available for emergency situations.
For more information about phone service changes regarding the NSPL's upcoming 988 number, visit the FCC website at fcc.gov/suicide-prevention-hotline.
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Harrow London Borough Council
First acts announced for Under One Sky festival
Karan's Bollywood Masterclass are set to take to the main stage on September 21.
John Shammas
Karans Bollywood Masterclass is preparing for Harrow's Under One Sky
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Excitement is mounting among the members of an outstanding Bollywood dance group as they prepare to take to the stage.
Harrow 's favourite day of the year is approaching, when thousands of people will flock to Byron Park, in Belmont Road, Wealdstone, to take part in celebrations marking the 60th anniversary of the borough being a part of London.
A feast of beautiful food, dance, music and all sorts of activities will all help to make Under One Sky a day to remember.
For Karan's Bollywood Masterclass, Sunday, September 21 cannot come soon enough, as it is one of the first acts to be confirmed as part of the line-up.
Harrow's 'Under One Sky' cultural festival
Nishi Pangali, head of the group since its inception seven years ago, said: "We have performed at Under One Sky twice in the past, and it is a really great day.
"Bollywood dance is quite commercial, and can be enjoyed by people of all nationalities so we really think it will be special."
The dance teacher has entered her senior students for the show.
"The ages will range from 16 to 30, so for the younger ones it is a really great opportunity to perform in front of a large number of people.
"What is very rewarding is seeing dance students grow not only as performers, but as people. For many people it is just a hobby, but we see many of our students mature with us. When they come as children, at first they may cry or whinge, but after a while they see a group of 30 managing to do it, and eventually say to themselves: well if they can do it, so can I.
"That's quite powerful for building character, and performing on the main stage is a great chance for those who have been with us for a while to show how far they have come."
During the 30 days leading up to Under One Sky getwestlondon will be packed with all the latest news, announcements and build-up for the event, so be sure to take a look each day.
Councillor Sue Anderson (Labour), Harrow Council's portfolio holder for community, culture and resident engagement, said: "Under One Sky is already promising to be a spectacular community event, where there will be something for everyone in the borough.
"We are already seeing a fantastic line-up of acts, consisting of community groups, sports, vintage cars and much more."
Send your favourite memories and pictures of either Under One Sky or from Harrow's past 60 years to john.shammas@trinitymirror.com.
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Memory Analysis has come a long way and it is imperative that a good Incident Responder realize the valuable information that can be obtained in analyzing memory.
I have been conducting Incident Response investigation for a few years now and have always used Volatility as my tool of choice. I like it because first off it is open source and I have found it to be very user friendly in identifying possible malware and being able to understand the results that are being retrieved from memory.
As a consultant for Guidance Software's Federal Sector I interact and train quite a few agencies on the deployment and use of Encase. I have been getting a lot of requests from agencies that have a young Incident Response (IR) team with little or no experience to incorporate memory analysis training in with the normal Encase training. In creating a training program for this I got to thinking how I can train a young team on how to use memory analysis tools with Encase. I have been using the "File Viewer" in Encase for quite some time to view different files with third party tools. So I decided to try this with Volatility and some "batch" scripts to come up with some training tools that can be used with EnCase. With that said I am going to go through how I created the batch scripts and how they work with the File Viewer in EnCase. My assumption going in is the user already has Volatility installed on their system. I will go into a little of how I installed Volatility but not in detail since there is a very good instruction on the volatility site which can be accessed at http://code.google.com/p/volatility/w/list. This process will only work if you import a raw memory image, not an E01 file.
To install Volatility I would suggest you go to the above listed site and browse over to the Wiki and look at the Full Installation for Volatility. Obviously you will need python, Distorm, and Pycrypto installed along with the latest version of Volatility. If you follow the instructions on the Wiki you should get it installed with no problem. The only thing I did different was that I did not use the SVN function. Instead I manually downloaded the latest version by going to http://code.google.com/p/volatility/downloads/list. From here I downloaded the Volatility 2.0.tar.gz and used the compression tool 7-zip to extract it to the root of my "c:" drive.
Once you have everything installed and volatility setup on your system you will need to ensure you also download the python script "malware.py." This script is not part of the default installation of Volatility but can be downloaded at http://malwarecookbook.googlecode.com/svn/trunk/malware.py. Once downloaded make sure you copy it into the plugins sub-folder in the Volatility folder. This script is a multi-script written by the author of "Malware Cookbook" and is free for distribution. To ensure the malware.py is working properly you will need to open a command prompt and run the following: python vol.py –h. You should see a listing of all plugins and the very first one should be "apihooks" with the word [malware] next to it. If you do not see that then something went wrong and you need to try it again. Now let's move on to EnCase and the batch scripts.
As you can see the viewer is very basic. The Name is whatever you want to call the viewer; in this case I called it "ImageInfo" which is the name of the volatility plugin. In volatility 2.0 you need the profile of the image to run the plugins so this is the 1st plugin that must be run.
The application path is where we call the cmd.exe (command prompt) and the command line is telling the command prompt to open and stay open and then go to the batch files and run the imageinfo.bat.
As you can see there is a folder called "Volatility" which holds the individual batch files corresponding to the volatility plugins.
5. Check for signs of a RootKit.
echo Dump DLLs from specific processes.
echo Please enter the image profile for the memory image.
echo Please enter the dump directory you want to use.
echo Please enter the REGEX pattern you would like to search for.
echo Dumps process to executable sample.
echo Please enter the PID info you would like to search for.
echo Dump every memory section into a file.
echo This completes this script. Please review your results and proceed to the next multi-script.
The first thing this script does is browse over to the default location of your volatility folder. If this is different, then you would need to change the location in each batch script. It will run, and then tell you what plugin it is about to run, and ask you for user input if needed. Once you input the imageinfo information then you will not need to do that again as the script knows what that is for the remaining plugins. Once all the user input is received it will then execute vol.py, and run the plugin.
The -f option tells volatility where the image is located and in this case the %1 tells it to run the highlighted image that was just copied to the temp directory. I have setup all the batch files to create a text file and place it in a temp directory located at "C:\temp\". Each text file will be named after the name of the batch script so if you do not want a text file then just delete that portion of the script. Below is how the temp directory will look after running the scripts.
As you can see by this batch script it will run a plugin and then ask you for certain information. So you will need to run these multi-scripts in a certain order so you have the required information for the scripts that require user input. I have labeled these scripts 1-8 inside of Encase so a user will know which order to run these scripts.
So if you would like to use this process for your investigations or a way to learn volatility then I have placed the "Viewer.ini" file and the "bat_files" at https://www.dropbox.com/sh/f52w8cw9cfj1ewh/GWkHmnt7_m just copy the ini file to the default location for the Encase config folder. For Version 7 it is at C:\Users\morgan\AppData\Roaming\EnCase\EnCase7.03.0232-2\Config\. For Version 6 it is at C:\Program Files\EnCase6.19.4\Config\.
For the "Bat_File" just unzip that into the root of your volatility folder c:\Volatility\ and make sure you create a temp folder at the root of c:\. Once you have done all that then you are ready to go.
I hope this was informative and helpful in some way to the readers and younger Incident Responders out there. The old dogs I am sure will have their opinions on this but I wrote this because I believe the Multi-Scripts are helpful in allowing a beginner to learn what plugins to run and what information is needed by other scripts. Version 7 allows a user or agency to create a module (Enpack) to be used on the Evidence Processor, so when you launch the Evidence Processor, if Volatility, or any other memory analysis solution were to be packaged in a module, there would be an option for Memory Analysis that would give the user the option of which plugins should be run. Thanks for taking the time to read this post and I hope this gave some insight of how powerful Encase can be.
Great batch files. Would you consider posting your batch files for Regripper?


The Great Gatsby director Baz Luhrmann was forced to wrap up filming on the movie ahead of schedule after he was injured on set.
The Sydney Morning Herald reports that the Australian director allowed the cast and crew to break for Christmas a day earlier than planned after he was hit in the head by a camera crane and had three stiches.
We were on quite a cramped set and he was ducking under the crane. He struck his head on the weights on the end of the camera crane. He split open his head and we had to get the doctor.
Baz Luhrmann's big-screen adaptation of The Great Gatsby will open in theatres on Christmas Day 2012.
Leonardo DiCaprio will play the film's lead role, while Tobey Maguire will play the character Nick Carraway and Carey Mulligan is set to portray Daisy Buchanan. Other members of the film's cast include Wedding Crashers star Isla Fisher and Australian actor Joel Edgerton.
The Great Gatsby has been adapted for film many times before, with the most famous version being Jack Clayton's 1974 offering. Robert Redford took on the lead role of Jay Gatsby, with a script written by Francis Ford Coppola.


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module Api
  module V1
    module Data
      module AgricultureProfile
        class MeatConsumptionSerializer < ActiveModel::Serializer
          attributes :location_id, :year, :meat_consumption_1, :meat_consumption_2,
                     :meat_consumption_3, :meat_consumption_4, :meat_consumption_per_capita_1,
                     :meat_consumption_per_capita_2, :meat_consumption_per_capita_3,
                     :meat_consumption_per_capita_4, :iso_code3

          def iso_code3
            object.location&.iso_code3
          end
        end
      end
    end
  end
end

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Q: CStdioFile Undeclared Identifier I am unable to compile my code when using a CStdioFile type.  I have included the afx.h header file but I am still receiving errors.  What I am trying to do is write a cstring that contains an entire xml document to file.  This cstring contains comments inside of it, but when I use other objects such as wofstream to write it to file, these comments are striped out for some reason.  So that is why I am trying to write this to file using CStdioFile now.  If anyone can help me out as to why I cannot compile my code using CStdioFile, or any other way to write a cstring that contains xml comments to file, please let me know!  Below is my code using CStdioFile:
CStdioFile xmlFile;
xmlFile.Open( "c:\\test.txt", CFile::modeCreate | CFile::modeWrite | CFile::typeText );
xmlFile.WriteString( m_sData );
xmlFile.Close();

And my errors:
error C2065: 'CStdioFile' : undeclared identifier
error C2065: 'modeCreate' : undeclared identifier
error C2065: 'modeWrite' : undeclared identifier
error C2065: 'typeText' : undeclared identifier
error C2065: 'xmlFile' : undeclared identifier
error C2146: syntax error : missing ';' before identifier 'xmlFile'
error C2228: left of '.Close' must have class/struct/union type    type is ''unknown-type''
error C2228: left of '.Open' must have class/struct/union type    type is ''unknown-type''
error C2228: left of '.WriteString' must have class/struct/union type    type is ''unknown-type''
error C2653: 'CFile' : is not a class or namespace name
error C2653: 'CFile' : is not a class or namespace name
error C2653: 'CFile' : is not a class or namespace name
error C3861: 'xmlFile': identifier not found, even with argument-dependent lookup
error C3861: 'xmlFile': identifier not found, even with argument-dependent lookup
error C3861: 'xmlFile': identifier not found, even with argument-dependent lookup

A: Are you really including <afx.h>?  Is it the right axf.h (you'd have to have something pretty odd going on on your system for it to not be)?  What compiler version are you using?
This small program compiles and runs fine with VS2010 and VS2008:
#include <afx.h>
#include <tchar.h>

int main()
{
    CStdioFile xmlFile;
    LPCTSTR m_sData = _T("Testing 123\n");

    xmlFile.Open( _T("c:\\temp\\test.txt"), CFile::modeCreate | CFile::modeWrite | CFile::typeText );
    xmlFile.WriteString( m_sData );
    xmlFile.Close();
}

What happens with it on your system?


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Q: Как создать разворачивающуюся ленту? Я ищу способ запрограммировать разворачивающуюся ленту.
Итак, у меня есть этот код здесь:

.ribbon {
  position: absolute;
  top: 20px;
  right: 0;
  padding: 15px;
}

.ribbon-content {
  position: relative;
  width: 100%;
  height: 100px;
  border: 1px solid #DDD;
}

.ribbon.base {
  background: #666666;
  color: #fff;
  border-right: 5px solid #666666;
}

.ribbon.light {
  background: #ecf0f1;
  color: #2c3e50;
  border-right: 5px solid #dde4e6;
}

.ribbon.dark {
  background: #131313;
  color: #fff;
  border-right: 5px solid #464646;
}

.ribbon.base-alt {
  background: #9cd70e;
  color: #fff;
  border-right: 5px solid #c6f457;
}

.ribbon.red {
  background: #e91b23;
  color: #fff;
  border-right: 5px solid #f2787d;
}

.ribbon.orange {
  background: #ff8a3c;
  color: #fff;
  border-right: 5px solid #ffc7a2;
}

.ribbon.yellow {
  background: #ffd800;
  color: #fff;
  border-right: 5px solid #ffe866;
}

.ribbon:before,
.ribbon:after {
  content: '';
  position: absolute;
  left: -9px;
  border-left: 10px solid transparent;
}

.ribbon:before {
  top: 0;
}

.ribbon:after {
  bottom: 0;
}

.ribbon.base:before {
  border-top: 27px solid #666666;
}

.ribbon.base:after {
  border-bottom: 27px solid #666666;
}

.ribbon.light:before {
  border-top: 27px solid #ecf0f1;
}

.ribbon.light:after {
  border-bottom: 27px solid #ecf0f1;
}

.ribbon.dark:before {
  border-top: 27px solid #131313;
}

.ribbon.dark:after {
  border-bottom: 27px solid #131313;
}

.ribbon.base-alt:before {
  border-top: 27px solid #9cd70e;
}

.ribbon.base-alt:after {
  border-bottom: 27px solid #9cd70e;
}

.ribbon.red:before {
  border-top: 27px solid #e91b23;
}

.ribbon.red:after {
  border-bottom: 27px solid #e91b23;
}

.ribbon.orange:before {
  border-top: 27px solid #ff8a3c;
}

.ribbon.orange:after {
  border-bottom: 27px solid #ff8a3c;
}

.ribbon.yellow:before {
  border-top: 27px solid #ffd800;
}

.ribbon.yellow:after {
  border-bottom: 27px solid #ffd800;
}

.ribbon span {
  display: block;
  font-size: 16px;
  font-weight: 600;
}

New: I'm a new feature.

Теперь мне нужно как-то  изменить код, чтобы отображалось только слово - New.
Когда я навожу курсор на  слово, лента должна выдвигаться влево, пока не будет виден весь текст.
Когда я увожу курсор с ленты, она должна убираться обратно.
Возможно ли это с плавной анимацией? Мне нужно быть уверенным, что вся лента выдвигается, потому что длина текста может быть разной.
Свободный перевод вопроса How can I create a foldable ribbon? от участника  @Mr. Jo.

A: Я бы упростил ваш код, как показано ниже, тогда им будет легко управлять с помощью анимации ширины:

.ribbon {
  --c:red;   /* Color */
  --s:20px; /* Size */
  --p:10px; /* padding*/

  padding:var(--p);
  border-left:calc(var(--s)/2) solid transparent;
  display:inline-block;
  background:
    linear-gradient(to top    right,transparent 48%,var(--c) 50%) border-box,
    linear-gradient(to bottom right,transparent 48%,var(--c) 50%) border-box,
    var(--c) padding-box;
  background-size:var(--s) 100%;
  background-repeat:no-repeat;
  color:#fff;
  margin-bottom:5px;
}

.ribbon > span {
  display:inline-block;
  white-space:nowrap;
  max-width:0px;
  transition:0.3s all;
  overflow:hidden;
  vertical-align:bottom;
}
.ribbon:hover > span {
  display:inline-block;
  white-space:nowrap;
  max-width:180px;
  transition:1s all;
}

body {
 text-align:right;
}

  NEW: Some text here

  NEW: Some long long  text here

  NEW: text

Свободный перевод  ответа от участника  @Temani Afif.


... my group is. A session ago they finally learned what is behind some "inconsequential" facts the were bothered by. Basically the know thier home island belongs not to Toril, but to Abeir and acts as conduit and nexus between those to. It is not clear, which part is tied to which world and PCs know that i 10 years ahead a disaster of cataclysmic proportions will come: Wave will collapse, Spellplague will fall upon the world and Abeir will come back to Toril. (These are loose facts I burrowed from Fourth Edition Fogotten Realms, but use Pathfinder system and Third Edition timeline). So, heroes decided to seek advicce of sage and had an intriguing conversation with Elminster. He suggested them to speak to the greatest wizard of all time, Karsus. The know he was doom of Netheril and are keen to find way back in time. I'm fully prepared to it and look forward, but I'd like to ask for an advice.
I plan to show my group Netheril era as young and vibrant world, not weighted down by everyday blight. I want it to be an epic stage. Towers will be tall and slender, castles will fortresses, bridges will pan for eternity, forest will be untouched by woodsman axe etc. What I'm looking forward, is elements that define epic, what details will create an such atmosphere? Throw me some ideas, please.
Hey Palladine! We had a very similar discussion about how to represent Blackmoor at its height (not during the setting of the D20 Blackmoor era, but more toward the period just before it is destroyed). You might be able to troll the Blackmoor forum for some ideas there.
One idea was to take elements from some of the high fantasy/sci-fi tv series that are out there today - Caprica was specifically mentioned as being a good fit for Blackmoor. Ancient Netheril may actually have a lot in common with the Blackmoor of that period, so Caprica might work just as well. I'd also search the net for some of the older Tolkien artwork - Gondolin (elves) and Numenor (men) come to mind, as does Menegroth (dwarves). I think you could pull some really nice visuals from that art. Just do a Google image search for each of those names and you'll see what I mean.
If you have any Eberron material you might also be able to use some of the Sharn materials (City of Towers). That city has a pretty high magic feel to it and much of it could be modified to be floating rather than just crazy tall towers.
Get right down to it, could look at materials involving Atlantis. Elric stories, too, are a good source.
Keep in mind that there were really two Netherils, not one. Low Netheril was the land now occupied by the big desert. High Netheril was the floating city-states of the two dozen or so nigh immortal arch-wizards. The two were vastly different places.
Low Netheril was very similar to the modern Realms. It was not too dissimilar to the Heartlands: rolling farmlands surrounding fortified towns and cities, with a somewhat higher number of wizards dwelling in towers. Cities were separated by open wilderness inhabited by magic-fearing barbarians, savage goblin-kin, and monsters. By the time Karsus was born, Low Netheril was all but a memory, the farmland consumed by the encroaching desert. Only the southern third or so was still fertile; the rest was in decline, was abandoned, or was destroyed by marauding orcs.
High Netheril was still thriving at that time, largely ignoring the plight of the people below. Netheril was certainly a realm of spendor and plenty, for the rich and magical. As I understand it, there was an enormous gulf between the haves and have-nots, symbolized by the separation of high and low Netheril.
Karsus, from what I understand, was a spoiled man-child. Really, if you want someone more a "shining beacon of Netheril", it'd be Ioulaum. And he was alive when Netheril was at its height, the Golden Age, instead of when it was in its death-throes.
Thanks a lot for ideas, folks. You really helped me.
As for Eberron, I don't have those books, but will google some information. You mentioned Caprica, it is on my "must see" list, so I'll look for it. Quite surprising source of inspiration, but also interesting too.
What you made me ralize, it were those "two Netherils", night_druid. Thank you very much. For now my PCs are searching for Karsus, as he is most well known archwizard of Netheril. But soon they will find out, he made a great leap in knowledge after seizing an library and notes of his master, who disappeared in mysterious circumstances. I hope his will lead them to search for him (in other words Ioulaum) and means to get there (or should I write than? ). So with these I wll have an opportunity to present them low Netheril as you described it: rolling hills, grasslands, fields heavy with crops, untamed forest etc and present them glory of floating cities.
But for now, the were granted tenday in great library of Candlekeep and may begin search. I'll post session report shortly.
Palladine wrote: I'll post session report shortly.
One of the things that has intrigued me about the Arcane Age Campaign Setting, was that it had a thing in it about casting spells that were "too high to cast" in later eras.
I've always wanted to see that converted to 3e. Maybe you could convert that to Pathfinder RPG rules and have the PCs see someone cast an "impossible" spell. It might also be good to put the PCs in a position where they can see an artefact being created (something also impossible in their own time).
In the 3e play era, there is a glass ceiling on spellcasting (because of the abuse of a Netherese spellcaster) but you could actually have the PCs do something that creates (or destroys) some sort of epic artifact that they may be interacting with in their own time.
I think that sort of thing might be useful if you want to allow the PCs to attempt to change the Spellplague. Imagine, for example, an object that could save the life of Eilistree. If the players could create such a thing, or alter something that was destined to kill another god, or move items from one part of the world to another part, they could start to destabilise the events that are going to cause the 4e timeline to happen.
EDIT: One thing that might be fun, would be to pick a random bit of "treasure" that the PCs picked up some time before this adventure and make one of their journeys into the past cause a ripple effect that changes that item into something a lot more magnificent. If you did something like that you could make the players believe that they "won" no treasure from an adventure into the past. But you could actually cheat and sneak a treasure boost (of equal value) into items they think they already understand.
Big Mac wrote: One of the things that has intrigued me about the Arcane Age Campaign Setting, was that it had a thing in it about casting spells that were "too high to cast" in later eras.
You know, when I actually looked at the Arcane Age, 10th to 12th level spells, they really aren't all that. Stuff that you cast maybe one or twice a lifetime. There's really only maybe two that you would want to cast more than once. I think 3e actually came up with some better high-level spells than Netheril.
One of them had never been cast at all, actually (Mavin's Volcano). I think they existed more as DM tools than as actual powers PCs were supposed to get. The boxed set really needed some more genuinely *useful* 10th and 11th level spells, IMO, although I suppose you could port some true dweomers (from DM's Option: High Level Campaigns) and some Dark Sun psionic magics over.
Report from last session is on my blog, but be warned, heroes are still in "present" times.
Really interesting high level spells were presented in Dragon Kings accessory, but to cast them you also needed to be psionic. But, one of them rise city, was idea behind scroll, the acquired in ape's city. Basically it can bring a hole city back to life for one night. From what I see, my heroes will try to communicate with Karsus (unless the find out it is Iolaum, they should reach to).
A great plain, stretching from one side to the other. Horizon closed with shady and misty form of mountain. All colors are bright and most of them are blue, red, gold, tone pink. Forest are untamed and untouched by woodsman axe. Lakes are crystalline, silent and misty, valleys are green and shadowy but not sinister. Unicorns roam the forest, pegasi fly the skies, humans are just, polite and good. The work hard, live happy and are wise. Households are clean, brad and full of light. Cellars full of fine meats, bread, milk, wine and beer. Fields are full of crops and herding animals, quietly grazing down the gleaming stream. And one day a shadow falls, a huge floating city arrives to trade, to teach. It is a place full of magic, high towers, arching bridges, standards and flags, golden domes, paved wide streets, noble knights and powerful wizards.
While I know Netheril was not idyllic, I'd like to present it like this. Partially due to convention I run (I call it "Disney Fantasy"), partially to create difference between "good, old, glory times" and gritter reality heroes will face.
Big Mac you gave me a idea. Heroes will be presented with powerful artifact (or better, with information of his parts and they will have gather them). They will take it with them but it's magical power will disrupt time tunnel and throw them into the future, just before the Spellplague.
Look to Steve Crisp images, covers of Yes albums, listen to some Rhapsody of Fire music.
Palladine wrote: Report from last session is on my blog, but be warned, heroes are still in "present" times.
Looks like you had fun. Shame that one of your PCs died.
Palladine wrote: Really interesting high level spells were presented in Dragon Kings accessory, but to cast them you also needed to be psionic. But, one of them rise city, was idea behind scroll, the acquired in ape's city. Basically it can bring a hole city back to life for one night. From what I see, my heroes will try to communicate with Karsus (unless the find out it is Iolaum, they should reach to).
Well, I suppose, if you were setting things in the past, you could do what AuldDragon was suggesting and make 10th and 11th level spells that duplicate these magic/psionic spells while bypassing the need to know psionics.
You could even build some new spells that would be more useful to PCs (if they were going to stay back in the era of Netheril.
Night Druid thinks the spells are not so useful, but I was looking at Dragonlance (where the gods of magic brought in the Orders of High Sorcery to stop the "danger of magic") for inspiration and thinking that the "illigally high" spells could perhaps be ones that are potentially as dangerous as wild magic.
So you could throw game balance out of the window and add in some spells that do world shattering things*.
* = And say that these spells only work before the date when magic changes.
It is your campaign. If you want to do a Disney Netheril, then that is fine. There is a difference between people pointing you at the correct canon and telling you that you shouldn't divert from that canon. It seems like the way you are changing Netheril will aid your story, so maybe that will improve your game.
** = I mean this in the Ben Kenobi sense. Darth Vader was under the belief that he could "end conflict and bring order to the galaxy". I don't suppose he thought that using Sith powers to attempt good deeds would fail. So you could always show a Disney Netheril, but give it a tinge of evil.
Disney Netheril actually sounds like it could be a lot of fun. As I said, I'd be tempted to go with a "dark Disney Netheril" (perhaps taking some inspiration from the Kingpriest of Istar - from Dragonlance). In Dragonlance, Istar went wrong because "good got cocky and decided to destroy evil". In the Arcane Age, I think that "wizards got cocky and decided to steal magic from the gods".
If I was fluffing out one of these "doomed places" I would be very tempted to look to 1930s Germany for inspiration for how beautiful architecture could be, how strong and fit the menfolk could be and how beautiful and graceful the womenfolk could be. I am not sure if I would go as far down that route as modifying these Jurassic Reich miniatures into fantasy dinosaur riders, but I'd drop as many hints as possible, that these people were sure that they were the chosen people of the gods.
Palladine wrote: Big Mac you gave me a idea. Heroes will be presented with powerful artifact (or better, with information of his parts and they will have gather them). They will take it with them but it's magical power will disrupt time tunnel and throw them into the future, just before the Spellplague.
Hmm. You have made me think of the film Twelve Monkey's now. You could actually give the PCs the ability to pick up Netherese things that are so powerful that they could be used to cause the Spellplague. There could even be a Netherese spellbook (or maybe even a scroll) that contains a spell that goes by that name!
Maybe the cause and solution of the Spellplague could be found within one of the Nether Scrolls. Maybe you could even find a way to link in the sarrukh, as they are said to have created the Nether Scrolls and were involved in a big battle during the Spellplague.
Maybe the Spellplague could be a last resort "doomsday weapon" that would allow Sseth worshipers to destroy Set (or at least his presence within Realmspace). Something like that, might allow you to tie in 4e canon and Arcane Age canon and create a logic for creating something that mortals could use to start the Spellplague (and therefore give the PCs a chance to find and destroy that thing). The Nether Scrolls page claims that the scrolls can not be destroyed. So if you created a fanon "51st Scroll" then that would probably also be something that could not be destroyed. Maybe the PCs will need to do something else to "remove" the scroll from play.
My heroes are still in present time. The were granted entrance to Candlekeep library and searched for informations about Netheril and in the meantime discovered somebody is forging books. It is a grave sin in Library and potentially punishment could fall upon criminal and clerics, so the went to look after him. It quickly became obvious he is a Cyric's follower and from about 8 suspects (other scholars) they picked three to follow. Soon they meet with him in great hall during sneaky night escapade, fought him valiantly and defeated. All this while doing research! What they learned, that Karsus was most powerful but not wisest, he was like a spoiled child (thanks for nailing the coffin in right words night_druid) and acquired some knowledge of floating cities.
Now they would like to talk with Iolaum. The want to locate temporal gates (mentioned in Empire of Magic), and want to know who unleashed earth elemental upon Candlekeep.
Going back to portraying Netheril.First of all I will transport PC's to some lowlands. They will have to wait for floating domain. I think of battle with an orc horde (all time classic, they have not appeared in my campaign yet), where heroes will be leaders of defense. But there will be a moment of introducing netherese magic. One spell of that school heroes already have. It is a potent one, that can bring a city back to life for one night. It is inspired with R.E. Howard's "Devil in Iron" and resurrection of Dagonia. There are some really interesting high level spells both in Netheril: Empire of Magic and Dragon Kings (yes, I will remove psionic requirements, basically they are for NPC, afterall). But I don't want to restrict myself to spells only. I think of what makes a Netheril unique, outstanding and awesome. What are the key factors of epic, magical empire? What I mean, Arabian flavor is composed of: genies, bazaars, flying carpets, sisha pipes, evil wezzires and minarets, right?
So, what are key words for Arcane Age? I'm still struggling with naming them.
Sorry, if my post is little chaotic.
I'm looking forward to the next instalment of this.
Palladine wrote: So, what are key words for Arcane Age? I'm still struggling with naming them.
I'm not sure what words you are trying to find, but if you can describe things in another way, maybe someone can work it out.
I've played in plenty of games when the mutual paranoia of the players was a lot worse than the plans the GM had for us.
If any of the players have seen that film, they will think they have figured out some sort of secret.