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#include "config.h"
#include "NetworkStorageSession.h"

#include <wtf/MainThread.h>
#include <wtf/PassOwnPtr.h>

#if PLATFORM(MAC)
#include "WebCoreSystemInterface.h"
#else
#include <WebKitSystemInterface/WebKitSystemInterface.h>
#endif

namespace WebCore {

NetworkStorageSession::NetworkStorageSession(RetainPtr<CFURLStorageSessionRef> platformSession)
    : m_platformSession(platformSession)
    , m_isPrivate(false)
{
}

static OwnPtr<NetworkStorageSession>& defaultNetworkStorageSession()
{
    ASSERT(isMainThread());
    DEFINE_STATIC_LOCAL(OwnPtr<NetworkStorageSession>, session, ());
    return session;
}

void NetworkStorageSession::switchToNewTestingSession()
{
    // Set a private session for testing to avoid interfering with global cookies. This should be different from private browsing session.
    // FIXME: It looks like creating a new session with the same identifier may be just creating a reference to the same storage. See <rdar://problem/11571450> and <rdar://problem/12384380>.
#if PLATFORM(MAC)
    defaultNetworkStorageSession() = adoptPtr(new NetworkStorageSession(adoptCF(wkCreatePrivateStorageSession(CFSTR("Private WebKit Session")))));
#else
    defaultNetworkStorageSession() = adoptPtr(new NetworkStorageSession(adoptCF(wkCreatePrivateStorageSession(CFSTR("Private WebKit Session"), defaultNetworkStorageSession()->platformSession()))));
#endif
}

#if PLATFORM(WIN)
static RetainPtr<CFHTTPCookieStorageRef>& cookieStorageOverride()
{
    DEFINE_STATIC_LOCAL(RetainPtr<CFHTTPCookieStorageRef>, cookieStorage, ());
    return cookieStorage;
}

void overrideCookieStorage(CFHTTPCookieStorageRef cookieStorage)
{
    ASSERT(isMainThread());
    // FIXME: Why don't we retain it? The only caller is an API method that takes cookie storage as a raw argument.
    cookieStorageOverride() = adoptCF(cookieStorage);
}

CFHTTPCookieStorageRef overridenCookieStorage()
{
    return cookieStorageOverride().get();
}
#endif

NetworkStorageSession& NetworkStorageSession::defaultStorageSession()
{
    if (!defaultNetworkStorageSession())
        defaultNetworkStorageSession() = adoptPtr(new NetworkStorageSession(0));
    return *defaultNetworkStorageSession();
}

PassOwnPtr<NetworkStorageSession> NetworkStorageSession::createPrivateBrowsingSession(const String& identifierBase)
{
    RetainPtr<CFStringRef> cfIdentifier = String(identifierBase + ".PrivateBrowsing").createCFString();

#if PLATFORM(MAC)
    OwnPtr<NetworkStorageSession> session = adoptPtr(new NetworkStorageSession(adoptCF(wkCreatePrivateStorageSession(cfIdentifier.get()))));
#else
    OwnPtr<NetworkStorageSession> session = adoptPtr(new NetworkStorageSession(adoptCF(wkCreatePrivateStorageSession(cfIdentifier.get(), defaultNetworkStorageSession()->platformSession()))));
#endif
    session->m_isPrivate = true;

    return session.release();
}

RetainPtr<CFHTTPCookieStorageRef> NetworkStorageSession::cookieStorage() const
{
#if PLATFORM(WIN)
    if (RetainPtr<CFHTTPCookieStorageRef>& override = cookieStorageOverride())
        return override;
#endif

    if (m_platformSession)
        return adoptCF(wkCopyHTTPCookieStorage(m_platformSession.get()));

#if USE(CFNETWORK)
    return wkGetDefaultHTTPCookieStorage();
#else
    // When using NSURLConnection, we also use its shared cookie storage.
    return 0;
#endif
}

}


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Ascent of Women: A look at how women's conditions have improved globally
Reviewed by ROSEMARY COUNTER
"Now, at last, is the time for women," declares Sally Armstrong, Canadian journalist – and teacher and activist, three-time Amnesty International Award winner, member of the Order of Canada – in her new book, Ascent of Women. Globalization has made female emancipation not just an inevitability, but an economic necessity: "The world can no longer afford to oppress half its population," she writes.
It's a popular theme that shows no sign of slowing: Hanna Rosin's The End of Men analyzed women's new dominance of academia and economics; Caitlin Moran was labelled "the new face of feminism" after the publication of her essays in How to Be a Woman ; and Madeleine M. Kunin's The New Feminist Agenda explored a new revolution of women and work.
But Armstrong, with a quarter-century of journalistic experience (her assignments range from reporting on wife abuse in Bangladesh to child rape in Kenya to war crimes in Sarajevo) brings an on-the-ground perspective that the others do not. Despite all she's seen, Armstrong somehow remains optimistic, delivering her message like a powerful speech: "Today, women are becoming a force so powerful that everyone from presidents to pollsters is beginning to see us in a new light."
But as usual, she admits, nothing is consistent or uncomplicated. And unlike her other works, 2003's Veiled Threat: The Hidden Power of the Women of Afghanistan and 2008's Bitter Roots, Tender Shoots: The Uncertain Fate of Afghanistan's Women , this book's broad global topics make for no easy answers. Of these "bizarre contradictions in women's circumstances," she asks, "How is it that women continue to step boldly forward in one instance and slide two steps backward in the next?"
In Ascent of Women , there are no shortages of stories on either front. In Saudi Arabia, for example, enrollment of girls in school is rising more than 8 per cent a year. Women in Kenya have organized and launched a precedent-setting lawsuit against their government for not protecting them from rape. Female protestors in Tahrir Square toppled their dictator, demanding – and receiving – rights, access to work and free information and good health care.
Go where Armstrong goes, however, and women's lives can feel as hopeless as they ever were. Among her bleaker assertions, she reports that conservative estimates say 30 per cent of women on this earth experience violence daily; 130 million women alive today have been mutilated by genital cutting (no mention of North American labiaplasties, mind you); in Swaziland, where women bear the brunt of the AIDS epidemic, 31 per cent of women have tested HIV-positive.
Scary stats as such are familiar but foreign-feeling to many Western feminists, because it's not often we're also given names and stories to personify the problem. A warning here: Armstrong's interviews are graphic and often soul-crushingly sad. In Saudi Arabia, eight hundred girls were trapped by police inside their burning school because, without their head scarves, they weren't dressed properly to escape; Gowramma, an "untouchable" in rural India's caste system, cannot drink from the village's water supply; 10-year old "Siffy," gang-raped and left for dead in the Congo jungle, lives in crippling fear and trauma. "The monsters are outside," Siffy says.
A lesser writer might succumb to pity for her subjects – this reader certainly shed some tears of guilt and sadness – but Armstrong never does. "They aren't victims, they're victors," she writes definitively.
For every tragic, no-hope-for-humanity-level injustice in Ascent to Women , there's a corresponding story of triumph – ever creative, even in the most unjust corners of the world. In Cairo, protesters who were subjected to "virginity tests" (a.k.a. rape) created the website HarassMap to plot incidences from ogling to assault. In Liberia, women demanded peace with Ghana – refusing to have sex with their husbands until an agreement was signed. Two weeks later, it was.
Whereas some feminists shy away from critiquing other cultures, wary of offending or demonizing, Armstrong believes they can, and should, wage war on "not cultural, [but] criminal" practices. Armstrong especially doesn't censor her feelings on Islam. "[This] is the same culture that prescribes a woman wear black garments that absorb blazing heat so she will avert the eyes of men who strut about in white robes that deflect the heat."
With some exceptions – a few pages on the Shafia family murders, polygamy in Bountiful, B.C., and violence in Aboriginal communities – Canada is largely portrayed as an idyllic land of feminist do-gooders. Ample Canadian examples, a welcome alternative to the usual American emphasis we're used to, include everyone from June Callwood to Doris Anderson to Michele Landsberg. In opposing Afghan president Hamid Karzai, even Stephen Harper appears as some kind of guerrilla prince. "Leaders from the international community lined up to condemn [President Karzai]," writes Armstrong, "and to stand together on the line that Harper had drawn in the sand."
But if Sally Armstrong sees resistance and progress where the cynical do not, it's not only admirable, it's a necessary precondition for changing the world. How she has seen the worst and still believes in the best is nothing short of inspiring. Change is not only possible and sustainable, she says, it's already happening. "There's a new generation at work and new hope in the air," writes Armstrong. Ascent of Women is proof of that hope that you might hold in your hands.
Rosemary Counter is a Toronto-based writer and reviewer.
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I'm trying something new — music in the background while I write, a soundtrack to inspire. So I pick Simon & Garfunkel.
And I instantly discover the problem with this sytem: I stop and sing.
I mean, can you blame me? Here is their genius: they make me feel what they feel, with intensity. I mean, I promise I have never "taken comfort from the whores on 7th avenue" — my comfort vice is ice cream — yet when they do declare, I do declare along with them.
How do they DO that? How do they get me in that moment with them when I have nothing in common with that experience?
It's not that the details don't matter. They matter a lot. They paint the picture. What doesn't matter is if I have or haven't experienced those details myself. What I'm sharing with them is not the experience of say, taking a bus across America, but the universal feeling of wishing and yearning. That's what I sing along with. That's what I need to write like.
I hum their tune and some Boxer part of me wants to break out of my mold, wants to write and punch my way to glory. Another line plays and I think, aha, I can relate to that one. "All my words come back to me in shades of mediocrity…like emptiness in harmony…" Those clever devils even got a good line out of writer's block.
Next to me is today's newspaper, with stories that crush the heart. Earthquake in Taiwan. Libya is the new Syria. Syria is still Syria. It's easy to ask, what kind of a world do we live in? And this morning I'm happy to be reminded that we live in a world of beauty, too. Enjoy.
This is totally how we sweep around my house.
Of course not. This is STOMP, which I saw for the first time when I wasn't all that much older than my kids are now. It blew my mind when I saw it. Nothing had ever been so downright funky-to-the-beat, imagination-en-fuego as this. It is deservedly an international juggernaut of a show, with permanent companies running in London and New York.
It has been in L.A. before and I've missed it. Not this time — I'm taking my boys this Wednesday (yes, a school night, yes, a test the next day), and I cannot wait to watch their minds blown. Especially my budding drummer. There is a chance that I will be the most excited of all of us, that I will embarrass them by shrieking like the Beatles are on stage. All I can say is, that's a chance I'm willing to take. Look out kitchen drawers, look out mops and buckets, look out whatever we will get our hands on. It's gonna be epic.
Hanukah Games — Yiddish Password Rules!
And on the 6th night of Hanukah, the Jews played Yiddish Password.
When I was a little girl, my grandmother tried to teach me Yiddish. Do not be fooled. Although she was a first generation American born in Bensonhurst, Brooklyn to eastern European Jewish immigrants (known to me as "Big Grandma" and "her husband"), she was a thoroughly modern Lilli. Our first lesson took place in the leather seats of her Porsche 911. "Vus es dus?" she intoned, pointing. "Dus es a stickshift." That's as far as the formal training got. I suspected her qualifications at that point.
Our Hanukah parties have a flair all their own. We used to spend hours playing football or softball on the field just outside their home. But calmer heads prevailed, and now a certain gang spends hours around Liz and Mitch's poker table, betting and bluffing like schizophrenic Martians. Pair of 2s? All in!
Mitch has become the entertainment maven for these events. For many years he printed out lyrics for Adam Sandler's The Hanukah Song, until the children protested that it was embarrassing to hear their parents singing "and smoke your marijuanica!" After a couple years more, we heeded their complaint and switched to singing the Maccabeats' Hanukah versions of pop songs like Taio Cruz's "Dynamite" ("I throw my latkes in the air sometimes") and Fun's "Some Nights" ("StandFour").
One exceptional year we got to crawl through an elaborate maze built by Mitch and their son Nathan. What had begun as a haunted Halloween maze crafted from cardboard boxes and duct tape in the garage, became the "in search of the first temple" maze for Hanukah, complete with a narrative about Alexander the Great conquering Jerusalem, a battle scene (using skeletons from Halloween), and a Temple Wall the kids could draw on. It was epic, until my niece got left inside and Great uncle Larry had to crawl in to rescue her. Mitch reports that he would have kept the maze but the boxes attracted termites, so that First Temple was also lost forever.
Which brings us to Yiddish Password, this year's invention, which required far less physical labor than the maze. You may recall the old game show: in teams of two, one person sees a word that their teammate has to guess, and gives their teammate clues to help them guess. The shtick? All the words were Yiddish.
Mitch has generously put his game on YouTube, so do yourself a favor and try it. You will be surprised at how many Yiddish words you know, and how many words you never realized were Yiddish ("stick shift" was not among them). Schlemiel. Putz. Schlock. Schmuck. We've got all the best put downs. It's a great language teacher, better even than Grandma Lilli could have concocted, but best of all is the laughter you'll generate. Watching my father act out "schlemiel" was one of the funniest things I've seen. Meshugenah mishepuchim. Happy playing, and happy Hanukah.


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The best thing that ever happened.
George Skinner.
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British pharmacopoeia (veterinary) 1993
The 2007-2012 Outlook for Calcium Supplements in India
Report of the librarian for the session 1977-1978.
Sew No More
Extraordinary Touches for an Ordinary Day
Direct mail and the law.
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Today was another amazing day for these Butterflies. They were great in circle while we talked about germs. And did a super job for the fire drill. From there, it only got better.
There was a rush on the art table where we had set up large water color pats in warm colors. I had some small paint palettes for them to mix colors in and at least ten of the kids worked with the colors to create color mixes, designs, or paintings.
Play dough is still a gathering place and a great observation source for me. Conversations start out, grow into exchanges, adding others who are interested in joining. Today was no different with anywhere between one and six kids working at any one time.
The water table has soapy warm water and whisks, egg beaters, and cups and pitchers allowing for various experimentation. The dry table now has wood pellets with the bicycle box and tubes. Because the tube openings are about five feet from the floor, the ladder is set-up next to it and we also decided on a chair so that more than one person could fill the tubes at a time. I love watching as they manipulate their bodies various ways until they discover the position that has the best balance and comfort. This is an opportunity for them to learn about their bodies and what they can do. They are also stretching, watching below while pouring above, and maintaining balance through it all. They were also having to problem solve whose turn it was on the ladder and waiting for their turn.
The kitchen was home to some famous cooks and sisters. Lucy, Aesa, and Lillian were dressing, cooking and maintaining a nice home for much of their free time. Definitely an opportunity to test out jobs and how they feel.
Outside, Otto, Aria, and Avery were looking for and eating any ripe tomatoes they could locate. We moved the vines around to get a closer look and found quite a few ready to eat. We pulled one carrot, but it was only about one to one and a half inches long so the guineas had it for a treat.
My thanks to Ali and Kaci for all of their help today.


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Smithsonian Institution, Office of Special Events (1880)
Smithsonian Institution, Office of Special Events and Protocol (1418)
Smithsonian Institution, Office of Special Events and Conference Services (1316)
National Air and Space Museum. Office of Special Events (801)
Smithsonian Institution. Office of Special Events and Protocol (789)
National Museum of American History. Office of Special Events (718)
Smithsonian Institution. Center for Folklife and Cultural Heritage (483)
Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars. Office of Special Events (340)
Exhibition Collectors Historical Organization (244)
Orth, Edward J. (244)
Cooper-Hewitt Museum. Office of Membership and Special Events (192)
Freer Gallery of Art and Arthur M. Sackler Gallery. Office of Special Events (184)
National Museum of Natural History. Office of the Director (179)
National Museum of the American Indian, Office of Special Events (164)
Custom Craft (163)
Rice, Moses P. (163)
Scurlock Studio (Washington, D.C.) (163)
Scurlock, Addison N. (163)
Scurlock, George H. (Hardison) (163)
Scurlock, Robert S. (Saunders) (163)
Smithsonian Institution, Office of the Secretary (104)
Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden. Department of Administration and Museum Support Services (87)
National Museum of American History. Office of Special Events. (86)
Music, Sports and Entertainment, Division of, NMAH, SI (71)
Sidney, Corinne Entratter (71)
Sidney, George (71)
Freer Gallery of Art and Arthur M. Sackler Gallery. Communications and Marketing (70)
Los Angeles Institute of Contemporary Art (65)
Stanley Home Products (56)
Beveridge, Frank Stanley (55)
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Jamaican Americans (5)
Limba (African people) (4)
Absaroke Indians (2)
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East Indian Americans (2)
Anacostia (Washington, D.C.) (13)
National Air and Space Museum Archives (3208)
Ralph Rinzler Folklife Archives and Collections (500)
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National Air & Space Museum Technical Reference Files: Events / Events, Air Expositions, Meets, Races, Shows, and Special Flights, by Date / 1902 Nancy, France, Aerial Navigation Conference / 1902 Nancy, France, Aerial Navigation Conference
1902 Paris, Salon de l'Automobile, Aeronautical Exhibits
National Air & Space Museum Technical Reference Files: Events / Events, Air Expositions, Meets, Races, Shows, and Special Flights, by Date / 1902 Paris, France, Salon de l'Automobile, Aeronautical Exhibits / 1902 Paris, Salon de l'Automobile, Aeronautical Exhibits
1902 Rome, Italy, Aeronautical Conference
National Air & Space Museum Technical Reference Files: Events / Events, Air Expositions, Meets, Races, Shows, and Special Flights, by Date / 1902 Rome, Italy, Aeronautical Conference
National Air & Space Museum Technical Reference Files: Events / Events, Air Expositions, Meets, Races, Shows, and Special Flights, by Date / 1902 Rome, Italy, Aeronautical Conference / 1902 Rome, Italy, Aeronautical Conference
1903 Sussex Downs, UK, International Kite Competition
National Air & Space Museum Technical Reference Files: Events / Events, Air Expositions, Meets, Races, Shows, and Special Flights, by Date / 1903 Sussex Downs, UK, International Kite Competition
1904 St Louis, Exposition and Aeronautical Competition
National Air & Space Museum Technical Reference Files: Events / Events, Air Expositions, Meets, Races, Shows, and Special Flights, by Date / 1904 Saint Louis, MO, Exposition and Aeronautical Competition / 1904 St Louis, Exposition and Aeronautical Competition
1905 Brussels, Belgium, Exposition International De Liege
National Air & Space Museum Technical Reference Files: Events / Events, Air Expositions, Meets, Races, Shows, and Special Flights, by Date / 1905 Brussels, Belgium, Exposition International De Liege / 1905 Brussels, Belgium, Exposition International De Liege
1905 Brussels, Belgium, La Fête Aeronautique
National Air & Space Museum Technical Reference Files: Events / Events, Air Expositions, Meets, Races, Shows, and Special Flights, by Date / 1905 Brussels, Belgium, La Fête Aeronautique
1906 Berlin, Aeronautical Fair, Meetings, and Balloon Race
National Air & Space Museum Technical Reference Files: Events / Events, Air Expositions, Meets, Races, Shows, and Special Flights, by Date / 1906 Berlin, Germany, Aeronautical Fair, Meetings, and Balloon Race / 1906 Berlin, Aeronautical Fair, Meetings, and Balloon Race
1906 Brussels, Belgium, l'Aéro Club de Belgique Fête Aérostatique
National Air & Space Museum Technical Reference Files: Events / Events, Air Expositions, Meets, Races, Shows, and Special Flights, by Date / 1906 Brussels, Belgium, l'Aéro Club de Belgique Fête Aérostatique


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Q: Salesforce Survey Responses does not add Amount Used licenses I am trying to figure out the payment and licensing mechanism of Salesforce Survey
I want to know when does the Maximum survey responses allowed for an org Usage-based Entitlements adds 1 to the Amount Used sum
I am creating a survey invitation, sending it and responding, but still nothing happens, the Amount Used sum is empty:

What am I doing wrong?
Eventually I want to know if I add manually records to the Survey Response object (by dataloader) does that count to licenses or not

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2016/12/12 - 1 in 6 US adults say they have taken psychiatric drugs, report says — (The Bennington Banner)
2016/10/23 - Overdose death of toddler is 4th this year — (The Milwaukee-Wisconsin Journal-Sentinal)
2016/04/15 - Lawyers for Molly Martens make new claims in Corbett murder case — (Evoke.ie)
2016/01/05 - Motive remains a mystery as police close case of Oakland quadruple homicide-suicide — (Portland Press-Herald)
2015/11/19 - Drug Pipe Found in Truck That Killed Four Ball Players — (Bloomberg)
2015/09/14 - Her brain tormented her, and doctors could not understand why — (The Washington Post)
2015/04/15 - 8 Women Share What Happened When Antidepressants Killed Their Sex Drive — (The Huffington Post)
2015/02/15 - Appeal of Court Termination of Parental Rights — (Justia.com)
2015/01/01 - Contra Costa County foster youth's mysterious death under investigation — (San Jose Mercury News)
2014/12/24 - Pennsylvania ex-Marine shot ex-wife, 'chopped' her family, poisoned himself: autopsies — (New York Daily News)
2014/12/01 - Should Suicidal Students Be Forced to Leave Campus? — (The New Yorker)
2014/07/31 - Nick Cutter's Death Exposes Neglect Scandal at Miami VA Hospital — (Miami New Times)
2014/03/20 - Man charged in death of girlfriend's baby; child had mom's antidepressants in her system — (The Republic)
2014/03/10 - Together We Can Stomp Out Antidepressant Induced Suicide And Violence — (JonnysLaw.org)
2014/01/06 - Litany of drugs, ammo and ID's seized from slain attorney's Uptown Dallas condo — (CultureMap Dallas)
2013/09/16 - Navy Yard shooter was defense contractor; 13 killed in rampage — (Associated Press)
2013/04/09 - Prescribed Drugs 'To Blame Over Spate Of Violence Among US Soldiers' — (The Telegraph)
2013/03/27 - News brief: Centralia standoff target's cause of death concluded to be suicide — (Lewis County Sirens)
2013/03/12 - Left Hanging: Suicide in Bridgend — (davidhealy.org)
2013/02/27 - Resigned Detention Deputy Arrested After Investigation — (Polk County Sheriff's Office)
2012/11/22 - THE DEATH OF FRANCES MCKEOWN — (Report By The Prisoner Ombudsmanfor Northern Ireland)
2012/10/08 - Depression meds found in Accent Signage shooter's home, police say — (MPR NEWS)
2012/10/08 - Lawsuit Against The NHLPA By The Late Derek Boogaard's Family Signals Legal Concern For The NHL —(Ruling Sports)
2012/10/03 - Mother Forgives Husband For Stabbing Their Twin Daughters To Death While Driven Crazy By Prozac And Is Fighting To Have Him Freed From Jail — (Daily Mail)
2012/05/17 - Mary Kennedy Death — (TMZ)
2012/03/29 - Plane Crash Victim Was Sioux Falls Doctor — (Keloland.com)
2011/11/08 - Kim Richards Spills the Beans on Her Drug Issues—(Gather)
2011/10/31 - Trial Begins For Okmulgee Woman Charged With Death Of Child — (Newson6.com)
2011/10/14 - Ex-wife feared Seal Beach suspect as unbalanced — (CBS News)
2011/08/03 - Antidepressant Risk for Seniors Varies by Class — (MedPage)
2011/06/15 - Logan mom pleads guilty to drugging daughters — (4Utah.com)
2011/06/13 - Antidepressant use and risk of adverse outcomes in older people — (BMJ) / Murder-suicides in Elderly Rise — (WebMD)
2011/06/08 - Westminster DUI Lawyer May is charged with DUI — (Wenatchee World)
2011/05/20 - One Death, Two Stories: Jail officials, family relate different stories surrounding inmate death — (Fredericksburg Patch)
2011/05/05 - Brother's Keeper: One Family, Two Suicides — (Alicia Patterson Foundation)
2011/02/03 - Bob Ward murder case: Diane Ward ingested many anti-depressant drugs, defense expert says — (Orlando Sentinel)
2010/08/18 - Simon Monjack Autopsy Report: Cause of Death Oddly Similar to Wife Brittany — (Gather News)
2010/04/01 - Eric Jasinski jailed for not deploying to Iraq — (Courage to Resist Newsletter)
2010/03/04 - Pilots in crash may have been impaired — (Tulsa World)
2009/05/04 - 'I'm messed up': Iraq war veteran says PTSD led him to crime, prison—(The Tribune-Democrat)
2009/05/04 - 'I'm messed up': Iraq war veteran says PTSD led him to crime, prison—(The Tribune-Democrat)
2009/04/27 - Those grieving after a suicide forever wonder what they could have done to save a life—(ledger-enquirer.com)
2008/09/29 - The Last Tour – A decorated marine's war within — (The New Yorker)
2008/08/26 - Michael TAYLOR v. STATE of Missouri — (FindLaw)
2008/02/07 - Sandy officer's DUII arrest surfaces — (The Sandy Post)
2007/12/15 - Marine gets sentence of time served — (The San Diego Union-Tribune)
2007/10/30 - Kids sedated before fatal Salt Lake County fire — (Deseret Morning News)
2007/10/15 - Iowa Woman Accused of Drugging Salsa — (Google.com)
2007/10/10 - Who was Asa Coon? — (Cleveland.com)
2007/03/22 - State of Utah vs. Leonard Preston GALL — (FindLaw)
2007/03/18 - Heavily medicated teen shoots, kills step-mom — (The Lahontan Valley News)
2006/10/27 - Husband killed himself and wife after marriage break-up — (Get Reading)
2006/01/30 - Douglas Richardson v. Glaxosmithkline — (United States District Court, W.D. Tennessee)
2005/05/11 - Woman Who Killed Sons, Self Gave Warning Of Intent — (The Denver Channel)
2005/02/26 - Details emerge in Epping deaths — (Seacoast Online)
2004/04/05 - Why Did Julie Take Her Life? — (People.com)
2003/10/06 - Jealous boyfriend tells of death struggle — (the Yorkshire Post)
2002/05/22 - Pharmacologist testifies that drugs may have led to pipe bomb killings — (Pittsburgh Live)
2002/04/14 - Mother saw no signs of trouble before ex-husband shot children — (Chicago Daily Herald)
2000/12/29 - Suspect (in Wakefield murders) was taking drugs for depression — (Boston Herald)
2000/08/01 - What Happened to Caitlin? — (Glenn and Mary McIntosh)
2000/06/21 - EXPERT REBUTS DRUG DEFENSE — (Daytona Beach News-Journal)
2000/04/08 - Woman Burns Down Own Home — (The Nashua Telegraph)
1997/10/06 - Toxicologists Wrestle With Chemical Puzzle; 400 Scientists Gather This Week At Snowbird for Annual Meeting; Toxicologists Gather for Their Annual Meeting — (The Salt Lake Tribune)
1995/12/10 - A LIVING TESTAMENT — (The Miami Herald)
1991/11/17 - The Sam Kastanis Case — (HBO)


Your first step in expressing concern is to set aside a time and a place to talk to the student where you know you will have some privacy and will not be disturbed. You should approach the student as an interested, concerned human being rather than as an authority figure who knows what is best for the student. You might begin by describing the specific behaviors that have raised your concern.
It's important that you describe specifically to the student the behaviors that have raised your concern. You should avoid global statements like, "You've been acting strange lately." Such statements give the student no real information and may lead him or her to feel judged, self-conscious, or defensive.
If, after describing the behaviors that concern you, the student does not seem willing to talk, you may want to tell the student about the services available at the Counseling Center and McKinley Mental Health and how to use them or contact either the Counseling Center or McKinley Mental Health and ask for advice about how to proceed. Either way, you should make it clear to the student that you can be available if the student changes his or her mind and wants to talk at a later time.
When you are referring students for professional counseling, you should be prepared for resistance. Students sometimes feel they should be able to work things out on their own. They may react as though you are implying that they are "crazy" or "sick" if you suggest counseling. Your approach to the student and your personal attitude about counseling are extremely important at this point. It will help if you are familiar with the services of the Counseling Center and McKinley Mental Health and can describe them matter of factly and with confidence.
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In the past decade, cryptography has done more to damage the security of digital systems than it has to enhance it. Cryptography burst onto the world stage in the early 1990s as the securer of the Internet. Some saw cryptography as a great technological equalizer, a mathematical tool that would put the lowliest privacy-seeking individual on the same footing as the greatest national intelligence agencies. Some saw it as the weapon that would bring about the downfall of nations when governments lost the ability to police people in cyberspace. Others saw it as the perfect and terrifying tool of drug dealers, terrorists, and child pornographers, who would be able to communicate in perfect secrecy. Even those with more realistic attitudes imagined cryptography as a technology that would enable global commerce in this new on-line world.
Ten years later, none of this has come to pass. Despite the prevalence of cryptography, the Internet's national borders are more apparent than ever. The ability to detect and eavesdrop on criminal communications has more to do with politics and human resources than mathematics. Individuals still don't stand a chance against powerful and well-funded government agencies. And the rise of global commerce had nothing to do with the prevalence of cryptography.
For the most part, cryptography has done little more than give Internet users a false sense of security by promising security but not delivering it. And that's not good for anyone except the attackers.
The reasons for this have less to do with cryptography as a mathematical science, and much more to do with cryptography as an engineering discipline. We have developed, implemented, and fielded cryptographic systems over the past decade. What we've been less effective at is converting the mathematical promise of cryptographic security into a reality of security. As it turns out, this is the hard part.
Too many engineers consider cryptography to be a sort of magic security dust that they can sprinkle over their hardware or software, and which will imbue those products with the mythical property of "security." Too many consumers read product claims like "encrypted" and believe in that same magic security dust. Reviewers are no better, comparing things like key lengths and on that basis, pronouncing one product to be more secure than another.
Security is only as strong as the weakest link, and the mathematics of cryptography is almost never the weakest link. The fundamentals of cryptography are important, but far more important is how those fundamentals are implemented and used. Arguing about whether a key should be 112 bits or 128 bits long is rather like pounding a huge stake into the ground and hoping the attacker runs right into it. You can argue whether the stake should be a mile or a mile-and-a-half high, but the attacker is simply going to walk around the stake. Security is a broad stockade: it's the things around the cryptography that make the cryptography effective.
The cryptographic books of the last decade have contributed to that aura of magic. Book after book extolled the virtues of, say, 112-bit triple-DES without saying much about how its keys should be generated or used. Book after book presented complicated protocols for this or that without any mention of the business and social constraints within which those protocols would have to work. Book after book explained cryptography as a pure mathematical ideal, unsullied by real-world constraints and realities. But it's exactly those real-world constraints and realities that mean the difference between the promise of cryptographic magic and the reality of digital security.
Practical Cryptography is also a book about cryptography, but it's a book about sullied cryptography. Our goal is to explicitly describe the real-world constraints and realities of cryptography, and to talk about how to engineer secure cryptographic systems. In some ways, this book is a sequel to Bruce Schneier's first book, Applied Cryptography, which was first published ten years ago. But while Applied Cryptography gives a broad overview of cryptography and the myriad possibilities cryptography can offer, this book is narrow and focused. We don't give you dozens of choices; we give you one option and tell you how to implement it correctly. Applied Cryptography displays the wondrous possibilities of cryptography as a mathematical science—what is possible and what is attainable; Practical Cryptography gives concrete advice to people who design and implement cryptographic systems.
Practical Cryptography is our attempt to bridge the gap between the promise of cryptography and the reality of cryptography. It's our attempt to teach engineers how to use cryptography to increase security.
We're qualified to write this book because we're both seasoned cryptographers. Bruce is well known from his books Applied Cryptography and Secrets and Lies, and from his newsletter "Crypto-Gram." Niels Ferguson cut his cryptographic teeth building cryptographic payment systems at the CWI (Dutch National Research Institute for Mathematics and Computer Science) in Amsterdam, and later at a Dutch company called DigiCash. Bruce designed the Blowfish encryption algorithm, and both of us were on the team that designed Twofish. Niels's research led to the first example of the current generation of efficient anonymous payment protocols. Our combined list of academic papers runs into three digits.
More importantly, we both have extensive experience in designing and building cryptographic systems. From 1991 to 1999, Bruce's consulting company Counterpane Systems provided design and analysis services to some of the largest computer and financial companies in the world. More recently, Counterpane Internet Security, Inc., has provided Managed Security Monitoring services to large corporations and government agencies worldwide. Niels also worked at Counterpane before founding his own consulting company, MacFergus. We've seen cryptography as it lives and breathes in the real world, as it flounders against the realities of engineering or even worse, against the realities of business. We're qualified to write this book because we've had to write it again and again for our consulting clients.
How to Read this Book
Practical Cryptography is more a narrative than a reference. It follows the design of a cryptographic system from the specific algorithm choices, outwards through concentric rings to the infrastructure required to make it work. We discuss a single cryptographic problem—one of establishing a means for two people to communicate securely—that's at the heart of almost every cryptographic application. By focusing on one problem and one design philosophy for solving that problem, it is our belief that we can teach more about the realities of cryptographic engineering.
We've both published books before, and we know that publishing is an imperfect science. Try as we might, this book will not be error-free. We're sorry, but it's simply the way things are. (Oddly enough, cryptographic systems have the same problem; we'll talk about that in a few chapters.) While we've endeavored to make this book as perfect as possible, we have a procedure for ensuring that the inevitable errors get corrected.
Before reading this book, download the current list of corrections.
If you find an error in the book, please check to see if it is already on the list.
If it is not on the list, please alert us at schneier@schneier.com. We will add the error to the list.
We think cryptography is just about the most fun you can have with mathematics. We've tried to imbue this book with that feeling of fun, and we hope you enjoy the results. Thanks for coming along on our ride.
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Cedars-Sinai Kidney Renal Cell Carcinoma
Rachel's Stage 2 Renal Cell Carcinoma Kidney Cancer Story
Rachel R., Renal Cell Carcinoma, Stage 2
Cancer details: > 90% of malignant kidney tumors
1st symptoms: Excessive fatigue, blood in urine, sharp abdominal, back pain
Treatment: Laparoscopic nephrectomy (surgical removal of kidney)
2 Comments on Rachel's Stage 2 Renal Cell Carcinoma Kidney Cancer Story
Rachel shares her stage 2 kidney cancer story, renal cell carcinoma, and how she made it through surgery and recovery.
In her story, Rachel highlights how she navigated quality-of-life issues, including the importance of having caregivers, the value of sharing her story, and transitioning to survivorship. Thank you for sharing your story, Rachel!
Name: Rachel R.
Renal cell carcinoma in right kidney
Staging: 2
1st Symptoms:
Excessive fatigue
Blood in urine
Sharp abdominal and back pain
8 cm mass on right kidney
Laparoscopic nephrectomy
What were your first symptoms?
When did you go to the doctor?
What happened at urgent care?
Getting the CT scan
Getting the cancer diagnosis
Another CT scan (with contrast dye)
Describe the CT scans
Seeing different specialists
Processing the cancer diagnosis
How did you break the news to your loved ones?
Treatment Decisions
Did you get a second opinion?
How did you choose treatment centers?
Did you feel like you had to self-advocate during your treatment?
How long did your treatment plan last from start to finish?
Was chemo ever brought up?
Was there anything particularly surprising that happened during treatment?
Processing the news of surgery
Preparations for surgery
Dealing with anxiety before surgery
The plan for the nephrectomy (kidney surgery)
Having support during the wait
Describe the actual nephrectomy (surgery)
Waking up from surgery
How long did you stay in the hospital?
Physical recovery
How long did it take to start feeling like yourself again?
Changing your diet
Did your doctor specify any foods to include?
Biopsy results from kidney mass
Open communication with your doctor
No evidence of disease
Follow-up protocol
Emotions & Support
How did you deal with emotions in front of your family?
What part of the whole experience was the hardest?
What helped you through the toughest times?
How important was it for you to have your parents care for you after surgery?
How did you ask for help when you needed it?
How did you handle the stress of your job through treatment?
"New normal" after cancer
A message you want to give someone going through this
How does it feel to share your story?
This interview has been edited for clarity. This is not medical advice. Please consult with your healthcare provider for treatment decisions.
I just want to say that if you feel like your journey is not worth sharing, that's not true. I've had people reach out to me and share their stories and share that they have found strength from me.
No matter what your journey looks like, own it and share it with other people because it absolutely will help someone.
Rachel R.
My first symptoms were so across the board. The night before I actually went to the hospital, I was feeling super fatigued. I just had low energy. It was the summertime, so I thought it was because of the heat and being out in the sun.
The next day, I still felt more tired even after a full night's sleep. Then it started turning into stomach pains — really sharp pains in my lower abdomen. Then there were shooting lower back pains on that same side.
I remember having to use to restroom in the morning, and the toilet was completely red with blood. At that point, I still didn't really realize because there was no real indicator that anything else was wrong up until then. I thought it had something to do with my menstruation or something since I also had lower back and stomach pains.
I started sweating really profusely. I had this huge puddle of sweat underneath my feet. I started getting really nauseous and dry heaving. I was trying to throw up, but nothing was coming out. It was just bile.
At that point, obviously everything combined, and I knew something was wrong. Everything kind of hit me all at once.
I was visiting my parents at that time. My mom said, "Just put a heating pad on your stomach. You probably ate something weird last night."
I was essentially screaming at her and said, "No it's not just a stomachache." The pain was getting worse and throbbing more intensely. She decided to take me to urgent care that morning.
When I was at urgent care, they said that I most likely had kidney stones. They could see that I was in a lot of pain, so they sent me to the ER because they didn't have pain medicine that was strong enough to help me.
Luckily, the ER was about a mile down the road. When I went there, they also said I most likely had kidney stones. They said they would do a CT scan just in case to rule out anything else but said I should be out of there in a couple of hours with some medication to let the stones pass.
I had gone in the morning, and it was now late afternoon. So much time had passed, and no one else had come to see me. Finally, the doctor came in and said that they found an abnormal mass, and they would need to keep me there to do further testing.
They had put me on a morphine drip to help with the pain that I was in. As I was waiting for the doctor, the pain was finally starting to go away, so that was helping.
The doctor came in at the ER and told me that they examined my scan and saw a mass on my kidney. Then they started asking me about cancer.
It was kind of leading to that point. No one had officially said, 'You have kidney cancer.' But that was always the assumption.
They kept me there at the hospital overnight, and while I was there, they had me do another CT scan. The first scan didn't have any contrast. This second scan was with contrast.
I think the contrast is basically like a dye, where the doctors can see things more clearly and see where the exact outline of the tumor is. Because of that, they were able then show it to the kidney specialist.
I remember when I was still down in the emergency room for my first CT scan, I started to get really emotional because it's a very cold room.
You are laying down, about to go under this buzzing machine, and it just seemed very intimidating. The technician is behind the glass screen, so you just feel really alone.
I'm not sure if it's like this at all hospitals, but when you look up at the ceiling, there's a mural they've put up there. It was a sunny sky with some clouds. I guess it was supposed to be a peaceful mural for people to see right before they're about to go in.
I remember at that very moment, I felt like my life was all sort of going past my eyes. I remember feeling like something was wrong. I was thinking, "Why would they want to take a scan?"
I just felt like the process was a lot longer than I had initially thought, so I just knew something was wrong.
The scan itself was very quick. It was maybe 5 minutes, if that. You go in, you hold your breath when they take the actual scan, and they reposition you so they can get different areas.
They scanned my abdomen area, as well as my chest area. The scan was very easy, but I think it was all of the emotions — everything the scan signified that was the difficult part for me.
There was a urologist that saw me, as well as an oncologist. The urologist was the one that was my main point of contact.
He was the one that said, "It looks like the mass is about 7.5 to 8 centimeters large." He said there was no way they could say absolutely it was cancer, but he said there was a 99.9% chance it was cancer.
He said they could only say for certain that it was cancer after they take it out and do the pathology on it and exam the tumor itself. But when your doctor says it's 99.9% cancer, I just kind of figured that that's what it was.
At first, there was no real emotional response. I just said, 'Okay.' Nothing had really hit me yet.
I was very logical about trying to figure out what the next steps would look like. My mom was starting to get really emotional, and my brother was really sad.
I think I felt that I needed to be strong for the people around me because I knew if I lost it, then they would get even more emotional. I just held it in.
My dad was working at the time, so my mom and brother went home to help him with something. At this point, it was later in the day, and I was alone at the hospital.
That's when I started bawling, and the emotions all came out. I started calling all my friends. They were really crucial to my support, especially in the beginning.
Within 24 hours, I went from thinking everything was fine to now, 12 hours later, I have cancer. Everything was just really hard to process.
I was crying on the phone with my friends, and some of them were saying, "There's still a small chance it's not cancer."
That honestly didn't really help me, but obviously I knew that it was coming from a good place. They were trying to support me.
I honestly don't think I was even looking for anyone to give me answers or really say anything. I just needed to get all the emotions out there, because this was all literally within the same day that I got the symptoms, my unofficial diagnosis, and everything.
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I told my close friends first. I called them. I texted them. I also have a very large support system on social media. As a profession and as of last year, I became a blogger and a content creator full-time. A lot of people I talk to are through direct message on Instagram.
I ended up posting a photo while I was in the hospital of myself saying that I had cancer and the initial thoughts on what I was feeling. In that moment, I felt really positive and strong.
In hindsight, I really did, but in that moment I felt like I had to put on a strong face.
The doctors that saw me at this hospital said they wanted to schedule the surgery right away. They said for kidney cancer, at least what they could see in my case, it was slow-moving, but they definitely wanted to schedule it for the near future.
They wanted to see me later that week. It was happening a little suddenly, so I decided I wanted to go home and see another doctor. They had said there's no other diagnosis that another doctor would give me, but of course, if I would feel more comfortable seeing someone else, then I should do that.
I ended up getting 2 other opinions.
Both of those doctors said they agreed with the original diagnosis. Then it was a matter of which doctor I felt the most comfortable with and who I felt like was more empathetic, who took their time with me, and answered my questions.
I went with the third doctor I saw because I felt like he was really patient and wanted to take the time with me and make sure I had all the information that I needed.
He wasn't rushing me out or saying, 'Let's get this done ASAP.' He said it was definitely something to act on, but he was a lot calmer in his approach.
I went to Cedars-Sinai here in Los Angeles. I felt like I was really taken care of. I felt like even though my doctor was so established — he was the head of Urology when I was there — he was giving me the care and attention that I needed. I felt that he really cared about his patients, so that's why I decided to go with him.
With the doctor I chose, I didn't feel like I ever need to stand up for myself. That's the reason I chose him.
With the 2 doctors I saw before him, I think they felt like, "Oh it's just a simple surgery, no big deal." This is their world, so they see things very clearly. There wasn't any emotional connection with me.
That's when I decided something didn't feel right and decided I need to stand up for myself, so I went somewhere else until I found my doctor. Every situation is different, but it was really important for me to have a doctor that cared and wanted to make sure I was comfortable.
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I was diagnosed with cancer — the unofficial 99.9% diagnosis — at the end of August. I acted quickly in terms of seeing all the surgeons and getting the other opinions.
I had my surgery on September 11th. I was in the hospital for 3 days or so afterwards. The time from getting the diagnosis, to surgery, [and] to going home from the surgery was less than a month, and recovery took at least 2 months to start feeling more like myself again.
They said that they would have to look after the surgery to see if they got everything out. From the scan, it looked like my tumor was contained to my kidney, but they wouldn't know until they actually got in there.
This might be misinformation on my part, but I think a doctor told me at some point that chemo is the least effective treatment for kidney cancer.
I don't think chemo was on the table for me. I think it was more of a wait-and-see situation after the surgery. They just wanted to make sure it was contained.
The recovery time was a bit shocking for me. I assumed that after a couple of weeks, I'd regain my strength. I knew I wouldn't go run a marathon or anything, but I thought that I would be able to function day to day.
I was surprised at how long the recovery time was. Because everything happened really quickly for me from symptoms to surgery, I think the recovery was the time I could finally process my emotions.
I would say, use that recovery time to be patient. Don't ask, 'Why is this taking so long?'
Use that time to process because you will have time to rest and heal. That was helpful for me, to be able to reflect.
I was extremely nervous. My doctor said they most likely would have to take out my whole right kidney. Because the tumor was so large, there was no part of my kidney they could salvage.
I thought, "Can people function with just one kidney?" I'd seen medical dramas on TV, and it seems like people just donate them, so it seems like living with one is okay. It's funny that I looked to entertainment and TV to help me find answers.
My doctor said that I might need to change my diet for recovery, but ultimately long-term for my life, I could go on like normal. Now I just need to go to check-ups and regular scans.
Pre-op was essentially a liquid diet and not getting to eat anything. Before surgery, I had to get an EKG to check and make sure my heart was healthy and normal since I was going under general anesthesia.
I got a physical from another doctor just to get the okay from him. That was kind of it. To get all of those different results in took about a week or so. Once I got that okay from the doctors and my blood results and scans looked good, the doctor felt comfortable to move forward.
I felt like one wrong incision while I'm under and something catastrophic could happen. I'd be under anesthesia, so there were all these unknowns and things that were out of my control. That was hard for me.
I had so much anxiety thinking that I wouldn't wake up. Even up until the surgery, I remember telling the nurse and medical team, 'Tell my mom I love her.'
I wanted those to be my last words in case something was to go wrong, so I think the anxiety was definitely in full force leading up to that date.
Before surgery, a friend of mine suggested I watch a documentary called "Heal." I rented it, and it definitely helped me with my mindset. It didn't remove the anxiety, but it did help me get momentary perspective on how I should be thinking.
Essentially, it had to do with how our thoughts really affect our physical being. It was kind of just about remembering to have positive thoughts to help with internal healing. I tried to keep reminding myself of that. It did help in certain moments.
I started to really get into meditation and breathing exercises. I got into taking a moment for myself.
I had moved back in with my parents because they were taking care of me, and I would walk to the community park. I'd take even just 5 minutes to do my breathing exercises before I had to go home, where I couldn't show any anxiety or emotion. Everything had to be okay.
I had to act like I was still a normal person. That time in the park was my little sanctuary, where I could let all the anxiety out in a safe space.
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It's basically making small incisions in your abdomen with a robot. Because they use a robot, the incisions are smaller than they would be if it were a surgeon physically making each of the cuts. Leading up to the surgery itself, you just kind of wait around.
In that moment, you have to just be as calm as you can. You're in the waiting room while they're prepping the operating room. For me, my surgery wait time actually took a lot longer than it was supposed to.
It got pushed back by a couple of hours because the robot that they use is only in specific rooms. The surgery before mine was taking a little longer than expected, so I had to wait.
If you are in a situation where you could have to go to surgery, just know that that could happen. Maybe bring a book or something that calms you. Having someone with you is important. We were waiting together.
When you're actually in the operating room itself, there's a whole team. I was surprised to know that there were so many. There were 2 residents assisting, a couple of nurses, my doctor, and the anesthesiologist. There were at least 5 or 6 people in the room at all times. You're never alone with just one person.
Know that if anything went wrong, all of the key people that need to be there are there. If you're nervous about the anesthesia and the dosage you're getting, know that the anesthesiologist is there throughout the whole surgery, monitoring your levels.
That was a concern for me. I kept thinking, 'What if they give me too much?' But they're there the whole time and can adjust things if they need to. Just know that you are well taken care of.
The surgery itself took around 4 hours. When you wake up, you're groggy. They told me beforehand that I'd be passing a lot of gas and feel very airy inside because of the way the surgery is done.
The robot they use for the surgery has 5 or 6 arms, and one of them is for pumping air into your abdomen to make space for the doctors to work
Immediately after, I was still knocked up on all the different medications that they had put me on. I didn't necessarily feel pain until later that evening. In the middle of the night, I remember having to call the nurse to give me more pain medicine.
When you're in the hospital, they give you around-the-clock pain medication, but sometimes you might need a little bit extra. You can just let the nurse know how much pain you're in, and they can see and dose out the medication so that you're not taking too much of a certain thing. They monitor that for you for the next couple of days post-op.
The doctors also let me know that it would be really difficult for me to pass a bowel movement. They said I would feel constipated from all the medication and trauma that's going on in the body. They give you medication to deal with that.
You won't be getting up to use the bathroom. They connect you to a bag so if you did have to use the restroom, you could. You're pretty immobile for that first day. You won't even feel yourself needing to go pee, so the catheter takes care of that.
[It was] 2 nights and 3 days. I wanted to stay a third night, but the whole team said it would be better if I went home. I think it was just the fear I had creeping up again. I wanted to be around medical professionals because the what-ifs were kind of paralyzing for a little bit.
The doctors and everyone wanted to get me out of there. Not because they didn't want to take care of me, but they said that my recovery would go a lot quicker and smoother if I did it at home.
In hindsight, I totally agree, but at the time I thought it was too fast. I thought, 'What if something goes wrong?'
I was also just very afraid of the pain. At the hospital, you just ring for a nurse, and they'll take care of you immediately if you're in a lot of pain. I wouldn't really have that at home, so I was nervous about that.
My doctors told me to just get as strong as I could while I was in the hospital. I had a nurse's assistant come in every day, multiple times a day to help me walk. There were little goals we had, like walk around the bed, to the door, [and] down the hall. If I needed to sit down, he would bring a chair for me.
You kind of take that at your own pace, but the important thing they told me was to just try.
I'm really glad they pushed me because at the time, I just did not have that kind of energy.
You feel like you can't walk because you're hurled over. It's hard to stand up straight, so it's really helpful all around. Since they had me moving, though, that's when I started to feel pain. I was sore from that.
It made it easier when I was at home, though, because I remembered what it felt like to move around at the hospital. That way it didn't feel unfamiliar at home.
It took me a solid 2 months until I felt like I could walk on my own or stand up straight. During those first 2 months after surgery, everything was so painful. It felt like I was never going to be able to walk normal again.
When you're in these moments, you don't really see the end. I felt like the present was going to be my forever. It felt so painful to walk, sit up, and even eat.
I lost my appetite after surgery, but my doctor had told me to over-consume. He said I needed more calories because my body needed that extra fuel to recover.
The first couple of times seeing my doctor, he said it was normal to be sleeping all day. I was sleeping 15 hours a day. He reassured me that it was just because my body had just been through major surgery and that it would take time to feel normal again.
I think it was also the fact that now I only have 1 kidney, and at that point, my 1 kidney was having to learn to function as 2. It was just a lot to recover from. My doctor wanted to make sure I knew it was okay that I was tired all the time, that I couldn't walk normally for 2 months, and that I would get better.
Any time I lose my appetite, I know something's not right. I remember not wanting to eat anything at all. Nothing sounded appetizing at all. I was at my parents' house, and my mom would ask what I wanted.
My doctor told me I needed to eat almost double what I normally would in order for my body to recover. I really had no desire for anything, so that was really a struggle.
They did say in the hospital that I should up my protein for the immediate future. They didn't necessarily say what kind or any specific recipes. They left it open for me, but they said I needed extra protein to get better.
During surgery, they took a biopsy, and they examined the mass. The doctor told me it would take 7 to 10 days to get the results back.
When I went into the doctor the first time after surgery, he confirmed that it was in fact renal cell carcinoma. It was stage 2. He was less concerned about the staging.
I specifically asked about it, but for him, it was important to make sure it hadn't spread. Whether it was stage 1 or 2 didn't really concern him as much as knowing that he got all of it.
What I love about my doctor is that he's so open with communication. He would actually call me and check on me.
He called one day to see how I was feeling, and he told me my test results over the phone before the appointment because he wanted me to have all the information.
He didn't want to worry me for nothing. I knew my results before I went in, but when I got there, he had a printout of the official diagnosis and results on paper.
I knew in the hospital after surgery when my doctor told me it hadn't spread that I would be okay. I knew there wasn't any further treatment needed, but I didn't actually absorb that information until I held the piece of paper at the follow-up. I always felt like it wasn't real because it wasn't on paper.
When they told me in the hospital, I thought it might change. Then he called me, and I still didn't believe it. I think I just needed to see it on paper in order to believe I was cancer-free. That was less than 2 weeks after surgery.
I don't know if I've actually heard the word "remission." I think it's more that he removed the tumor, I'm healing well, and now we just have to monitor.
Because I'm on the younger side and don't have a family history of cancer, he wants to be a little more cautious in my case. The standard is to get scans once a year, but for me, I get them every 6 months for the next couple of years.
With my family dynamic, I've always felt that I'm the middle person: the mediator, the strong one, the piece that connects 2 family members together. I've always felt like I'm a bridge for them in a lot of ways.
I grew up with a mentality that said I had to constantly be strong, and I carried that with me into getting sick as well. When I saw my dad, who rarely gets emotional, break down, I thought, "There's no way I can get into that mindset, too."
He would be hugging me, bawling, and saying, "How could our Rachel have cancer?" I would comfort him, and I would tell him, "Don't worry. I won't have it anymore soon. Surgery is going to get it."
I felt like I had to take on a parental role in some ways because I had to be strong for my parents.
Surprisingly, it wasn't the pain. It was more the emotional impact of it all. Dealing with denial at first, and then anxiety and fear and anger.
I'm really health-conscious, so that's where the anger came in because I thought I was being healthy. I didn't understand why I was sick. Feeling the need to be strong and feeling isolated from people on top of all of that was really hard.
Those emotions all intertwined, and I could feel 10 emotions in one second. I was very overwhelmed, and I think that was the hardest part of the process.
For anyone that is dealing with that, having an outlet is super important.
Whether it's having a support group of other people with a similar diagnosis or confiding in a friend or family member, it's important. I would suggest confiding in someone who isn't always looking for a solution or saying, "It's going to be okay." Those things weren't very helpful for me. Going to the right people, who have an open ear, is really crucial to the healing process.
It sounds silly for people who aren't in it, but since Instagram is such a big platform for me to connect with people, that was really helpful. I would tell people through my Instagram stories how I was feeling. To get direct responses from even strangers sharing their stories with me, too, was the most helpful.
Then having friends make an effort to drive down to see me was really encouraging. I had times where I would get in the car and before I even said hello, I would start crying because they were a safe space where I didn't have to be so strong anymore. Having space to freely feel was really important.
It was incredibly helpful. My parents have a 2-story, and I couldn't go up the stairs. I slept on the sofa downstairs, and my mom would sleep on the floor next to me. I was scared and didn't want to be alone, so knowing that she was there as my support was amazing.
I will say, though, as I got stronger and time went on, my parents got used to taking care of me. There were conversations about how I needed to move back and be closer to them.
They were being very overprotective, but I was getting stronger. It reminded me of the first time I moved out in my 20s. There was resistance back then, and it felt similar.
I felt very comfortable asking my mom for help. We're very close. That didn't feel strange, but I felt bad about my friends.
I didn't want people to drive an hour or longer in traffic to come see me. It was weird internally, though, because I didn't want to ask them to do that, but when they didn't, I would feel sort of resentful.
I put myself in a mental space of wanting to get some kind of reaction. I was so hesitant to ask for help, but I wanted people to help me anyway.
Being clear with people and letting them know that you do need support is going to be the most healing thing you can do. I know that's so hard to do.
I blog and create content on Instagram as a full-time job. That's very picture-intensive and requires me posting photos. When you're in this situation where you can't really walk and need help going to the bathroom, it made it really difficult to navigate.
When you're thinking of what photos to post but you're not really happy or don't want to take a photo, it's hard.
This is why I think it's so important to have an emergency fund. I felt like I would still be okay to pay for living expenses because I did have savings. I didn't feel like I had to rush back into work to get a paycheck.
Being really clear with those who you work with is key. If you can find a way to work, that's fine, but I would say minimizing the time you spend thinking on work. The minute I started trying to think about work, I would feel very overwhelmed. I couldn't focus on work and recovery at the same time.
Give yourself space. Work is not everything. Your health is everything.
I feel like so much has changed. Your perspective does a 180. I remember going to a specific outing with a group of friends that I hadn't seen in months. I remember feeling very strange and like an outsider.
I listened to certain conversations they were having that were so similar to conversations they'd been having before my diagnosis.
"So-and-so did this or said this." I would totally have partaken in that before diagnosis, but going through what I've gone through, listening to that just didn't really seem to matter anymore.
Things that used to be important just weren't anymore. Adjusting to that was difficult because nothing had changed with other people, but so much had changed for me.
I felt like I had become a new person in a lot of ways. Not everyone has a shift in perspective because not everyone has had the journey that I have.
So, my new normal includes a fresh understanding of where other people are coming from.
I was diagnosed with stage 2 kidney cancer, renal cell carcinoma. My message to someone in a similar situation that I was in is to give yourself the space to feel your emotions, to really understand what's going on with you.
Be present and don't shut your emotions out. I went through a lot of denial in the beginning. Because of that, all of my emotions came later. It would've been helpful for me to really try to understand what was going on, not to try to fix the situation or look for solutions. Things are out of our control in a lot of ways.
Understand that it's okay to be angry, it's okay to cry, and it's okay to not be strong in front of people you think you have to be strong for. Really allow yourself to feel everything that you need to.
It's up to the other people around you to support you in the way that you need. Don't think about their emotions so much; think about what you need.
I wasn't quite sure if me talking about my cancer diagnosis and surgery would be helpful for people. I know so many people who have had to deal with treatment that lasted for years, and sometimes that doesn't even work.
I wasn't sure if I had an impactful journey because there's so many people that have it so much worse. I almost felt selfish for taking the space to talk about my journey because it's straightforward.
No matter what your journey looks like, own it and share it with other people, because it absolutely will help someone.
Thank you for sharing your story, Rachel!
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Laura F., Renal Cell Carcinoma (Clear Cell), Stage 4
1st Symptoms: Severe headaches
Treatment: Partial nefrectomy (surgical removal of one kidney), Gamma Knife brain radiation, stereotactic body radiation therapy (SBRT), nivolumab (Opdivo), Avastin, cabozantinib
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Cardi B Likes Tweet About Lawsuits In Wake Of Nicki Minaj Suing Blogger
Sep 14 2022 5:34 pm By Cole Blake
Cardi B says that people want to make her out to be a villain.
Cardi B says that people want to make her out to be a "villain so bad" after an Instagram page shared a screenshot of her liking a tweet about lawsuits in the wake of Nicki Minaj suing a blogger who called her a "coke head." The liked tweet said that people only had a problem with suing bloggers when Cardi was the one doing it.
In response to the screenshot shared by The Neighborhood Talk, Cardi wrote: "I don't care what y'all say cause I bet the same people commenting were the same ones calling me weak, sensitive, and saying I needed tougher skin when a woman lied on my health, father, my mother, and harassed all my friends and family."
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She continued: "THIS is what I was fighting for while others laughed. Should we also talk about how people had their publicists verifying those platforms that did these things to me? Oh, Kyle let's start posting all the shady shit people been liking about me and Megan too. Love ya! Byeeeeee."
Cardi even echoed the tweet she liked on Twitter afterward, writing, "It's cool when they do it, it's a problem when I do it."
"They want to make me a villain so bad …but I'll be that !!!!!" she added, referring to The Neighborhood Talk's post.
Cardi had filed a defamation suit against YouTuber Tasha K back in 2019 and went on to win the case. In January 2022, she was awarded $1.5 million in punitive damages, $1 million for general damages, and $1,338,753.47 in litigation expenses, according to CNN.
It was reported by TMZ on Wednesday that Minaj was suing Marley Green, who goes by "Nosey Heaux" online, for alleging that the rapper has a drug problem. Minaj confirmed the report on social media afterward.
Check out Cardi's post below.


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When you're not being heard by your own side, it's time to make noise.
Black Lives Matter and Black Immigration Network activists shout down Martin O'Malley and Bernie Sanders during the presidential candidates' forum at Netroots Nation on Saturday, July 18.
When protesters from the Black Lives Matter movement disrupted the presidential candidates' forum at an annual gathering of progressives from both grassroots movements and the professional left, a predictable response was heard from many white liberals and progressives: Why are you picking on us? We're your allies!
If movement needed any more fuel, it was granted as much by the mysterious death, just days before, of Sandra Bland, which occurred while she was in custody of the sheriff of Waller County, Texas. Her arrest seems to have been prompted by her defiance of a state trooper's order to put out her cigarette after he pulled her car over for Bland's alleged failure to use her directional signal while changing lanes.
The trooper's dash-cam video shows the officer pointing a Taser at her, promising to "light [Bland] up" if she didn't obey his order to get out of the car after she refused to extinguish her smoke. After she emerges from the car and is handcuffed, she is made to move to a place (conveniently?) out of the camera's view, and she is heard accusing the trooper of slamming her head to the ground.
It is noteworthy that Bland herself was an activist in the Black Lives Matter movement, and that she challenged the police officer's authority to tell her how to behave—a constitutionally protected right, by the way. Instead of writing Bland a ticket and sending her on her way, the cop arrested her under the charge of assaulting an officer, and tossed her in the slammer. Three days later, she was dead; authorities described her jailhouse death as a suicide.
The following weekend, Netroots Nation convened in Phoenix, bringing together the many strands of the progressive coalition under one roof, where the capstone event was a forum to which all the Democratic presidential candidates were invited. Hillary Clinton declined the invitation; but Martin O'Malley, the former governor of Maryland and two-term mayor of Baltimore, and Bernie Sanders, the sitting U.S. senator from Vermont, showed up to field questions from José Antonio Vargas, the gay journalist and immigrants-rights activist.
O'Malley was the first to stumble when protesters began shouting the slogans "Say her name!" and "Black lives matter!" Of course they do, O'Malley said. "White lives matter. All lives matter." As Jamelle Bouie writes at Slate, this was perceived as protesters as dismissive—because it was. White people are not targeted by the state with anywhere near the same level of frequency as black people experience.
Just watch that dash-cam video again, and you'll hear Bland say that she pulled over because the officer was tailing her, and she was thinking he wanted to pass her. She apparently neglected to put on her blinker when she did so, and that gave him the pretext on which to write her a ticket. In other words, she evidently committed the sin of driving while black. My understanding is that this is not unusual.
Add to that the fact that she wound up dead—did I mention that she wound up dead?—at a time when the frequent unjust killings of unarmed black people by police have been documented through a steady stream of harrowing smart-phone videos, and the protesters' sense of urgency should be understandable. But it wasn't to many, including the two presidential candidates.
Acquitting himself even worse than O'Malley—who at least stuck around to meet with reporters—was Sanders, who seemed to take the protest as a personal affront, seeing as he had been on the right side of that civil rights thing back in the day. His prescription for fixing the problem was no prescription at all: Make public colleges free for everybody. But Sandra Bland was a college graduate, and that did not stop a Texas state trooper from writing her a ticket on what appears to be a contrived reason, and then arresting her once she had insulted his authority and his manhood, even though her right to do both those things is supposed to be constitutionally protected.
Once Sanders left the stage, he canceled his meetings with reporters, apparently because he too felt his authority and manhood threatened by the protesters, who were mostly women.
Amid the fallout from Sanders's tone-deaf responses, many in his cult-like and largely white following questioned the protesters' motives and choice of venue for airing their grievances. Never mind that their man handled himself badly; it was all the protesters' fault for being rude, for not appreciating Bernie's correctness on every issue, for not thinking strategically. Others in the greater progressive and liberal communities complained of a self-destructive bent in the left wing, essentially imparting the message that if the black protesters would only behave, the white people who front the Democratic Party would take care of them.
All of these responses prove just why the Netroots presidential forum was exactly the right place for the women of Black Lives Matter to have staged their protest: A lot of white progressives just don't get it. Sure, they're against those killings of black people, and all. So shouldn't that be enough?
Watch the dash-cam video of Sandra Bland's arrest, and it becomes very clear why it's not.
Until we all do get it, the kind systemic change needed to protect the rights and lives of black people is virtually impossible. Black people alone do not comprise a powerful enough chunk of the populace to make this a top issue for the general election; shaming candidates while they stump for primary votes is an effective way to push a solution to the targeting of African Americans by the state onto the agenda of Democratic presidential hopefuls.
Radical action is rarely polite. Ask the activists who disrupted church services in order to be heard about the way in which AIDS was ravaging their communities. Ask anyone who has ever walked a picket line. Radical action is about demanding to be heard in the loudest possible way. By the time an issue has achieved the level of urgency to require radical action, courtesy has already proven to be ineffective.
Did I mention that she wound up dead?


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from __future__ import unicode_literals

from django.db import migrations, models

class Migration(migrations.Migration):

    dependencies = [
        ('website', '0061_auto_20190908_1636'),
    ]

    operations = [
        migrations.AddField(
            model_name='lecture',
            name='is_registration',
            field=models.BooleanField(default=False),
        ),
    ]

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Apple finally fixes its TV remote
Product of the Day
A new "revolutionary" design comes to the Apple TV 4K (4th gen) remote, which makes it look more like the 3rd generation remote.
After years of awful, inaccurate swipe navigation, Apple has revised its Apple TV remote to use buttons instead.
Old remote's symmetrical design meant many users were holding the device upside down when picking it up in the dark. The clickpad was also, to put it lightly, problematic because one would often over- or undershoot when navigating the device.
Navigation was so bad that a Swiss TV company gave its customers a different remote that it had developed, in place of the included Apple TV remote.
The new remote addresses these issues with an indented, 5-button navigation layout, which has a tactile feel when selecting menu options. For those who liked the clickpad, the centre button still functions as a trackpad, offering users a choice between button and gesture navigation.
The outer ring of the clickpad supports an intuitive circular gesture, which turns it into a jog control, making it ideal for finding a scene in a movie or show. It also has a power button that controls a TV's power, and another for mute, making it the only remote needed while watching TV.
More controls on the new remote have translated into a much better viewing experience. The new remote will come with the new Apple TV 4K. It will also be available separately for $59, and is compatible with the previous-generation Apple TV 4K and Apple TV HD.
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The Undergraduate Research Opportunities Program (UROP) Fall Call for Proposals has been announced with an extended deadline of November 10, 2003. UCI Undergraduate students from all disciplines who are currently involved in faculty-mentored undergraduate research or creative projects are encouraged to apply.
Proposal packets can now be submitted online by providing appropriate information about the undergraduate researchers, their faculty mentors and additional details related to the proposed project. These required data elements are summarized in one document (formerly known as UROP Proposal Cover Sheet). In addition, submitters will be asked to upload additional documents including the proposal, and a personal statement for each undergraduate group member, as applicable.
For each undergraduate researcher directly involved in the proposed project, you need to provide his/her name, UCI student ID number, major(s), title and number of units for each research-related course he/she is enrolled in, expected graduation date, educational goals, career goals, research interests and prior research experience (if any), current mailing address, phone number, e-mail address, and an electronic version of his or her personal statement. A personal statement outlines the student's background, future plans, and how the research experience will impact his/her education and future career.
For each faculty member directly involved in mentoring the proposed project, you need to provide his/her name, home department, e-mail address, phone number, and UCI address.
You will be asked to provide details about the proposed project, including: title of the project, IRB or IACUC approval and protocol numbers (if applicable), funding request total, other funding you might have received in support of this project, and a Department Accounting Contact's name, phone number, and e-mail address. You will also be asked to upload an electronic version of the proposal, which includes a topic or thesis statement, the background or introduction, the objective or significance of your project, methods, expected results, specific responsibilities of the student(s), project's timeline, and budget details and justification. With your permission, we will download a copy of your transcript, therefore, you do not need to provide it to us. For more details on how to prepare a proposal, please review the Proposal Guidelines and for examples, review the Sample Proposals.
Please note that in the case of group projects, only one submission per project is needed. A confirmation via e-mail will be sent to the undergraduate researcher(s) and faculty mentor(s) once the submission has been received. This confirmation will provide a secure link that would allow students and faculty mentors to access and update the submission. In addition, faculty mentors will be asked to upload one letter of recommendation per project, which would evaluate the student's performance to date and capacity to complete the proposed activities.
Proposals are evaluated based on the intellectual merit of the student�s research, a complete application, the level of support from the faculty mentor, student transcripts, and available funding. Successful applicants will be notified by the end of Fall or Spring Quarter, depending on the cycle you have applied for, and may begin to make expenditures immediately or cover expenses you incurred during the quarter of submission.
Your award letter will indicate the method that you will be awarded the grant. Funds will be either transferred to a departmental account or will be awarded directly to you as a stipend. For awards that will be transferred to departmental accounts, please contact your faculty mentor and the appropriate departmental business manager to expend the funds for your project. If you submitted a Fall Proposal, then all funds must be expended by June. If you submitted a Spring Proposal, all funds must be expended by the end of the following June.
A final report on the project activities and findings is required of all UROP Fellows. Instead, students can submit a paper for possible publication in The UCI Undergraduate Research Journal. A student is also required to present at the following year's UCI Undergraduate Research Symposium. For more examples or more help, browse through some Sample Proposals and our Researcher Handbook.


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import React, {Component} from 'react';

import {Icon} from '../Icons/Icon.js';
import {Telephone} from './Telephone.js';

export const Location = ({loc, t, noTelephoneLink = false}) => (

      <Icon fa="fa fa-map-marker" style={{verticalAlign: 'top'}} />
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          {loc.description}

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      ) : (

{t('match.club.locationUnknown')}

      )}

    <Telephone number={loc.mobile} noLink={noTelephoneLink} />
    {loc.website ? (<Website site={loc.website} description={t('match.club.websiteKnown')} />) : null}

);

Location.propTypes = {
  t: PropTypes.func.isRequired,
  loc: PropTypes.object.isRequired,
  noTelephoneLink: PropTypes.bool,
};

class Website extends Component {
  static propTypes = {
    site: PropTypes.string,
    description: PropTypes.string
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  render() {
    if (!this.props.site) {
      return null;
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    return (

        <Icon fa="fa fa-external-link" />
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    );
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}