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Really, WTF does it matter what the stupid thing's called? It's a global Twenty20 tournament - nothing else matters in the slightest. I$C$C can call it whatever they think will do them most help.
It matters a great deal, and yes, there are things that matter other than the name of the tournament. Open your eyes about Richard and push past your hate of Twenty20, if this is the World Cup then obviously it'll be more important and prestigious than just a tournament, much in the same way the World Cup is in relation to the Champions Trophy.
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Really? Always thought this was the first World Cup. Don't tell me this is the Champions Trophy of Twenty20.
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Sanz, I think your dig at Jot was uncalled for. He just made a point that the format might be flawed.
Originally Posted by silentstriker
It matters in the same way it matters whether you are playing in a ODI World Cup or ODI Champions Trophy. Big difference in terms of the prestige.
Prestige and Twenty20 don't go together.
In your rather biased opinion.
Well Manan slags-off ODIs in his own inimitably biased way, so I thought I'd return the compliment.
Not as you are doing here. silentstriker can see why people think ODI's are important and why people enjoy them, however you seem intent on slagging-off Twenty20 cricket and claiming it can't be prestigious, which it very obviously can be.
I've never seen Manan say so much as a single positive word about one-day cricket, even the 60-over stuff.
So I like to ape him when Twenty20 is the subject between us.
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Anyway...Jot, I think the "best" format to ensure that the best team goes forward is obviously have each team play against each other and then the two best play the final.
But such a format will run too long. This format was very entertaining for me.
In view of the fact that we now know this isn't a World Cup and that the event was mainly staged to put it on the world map, so to speak, the format definitely worked.
It generated a lot of attention, got a lot of people who've never watched cricket, watching, and turned out to have some of the most exciting matches in a long time.
So, obviously, this format was the best for this particular competition, and I thoroughly enjoyed it.
All teams playing each other and the two with the most wins playing the final, still does it for me as to determining the champion.
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It's a bit difficult to find a format that's sort of in-between two extremes I think. As an organiser you want the 8 best teams to go through to the next stage and compete against each other a few times. So you've then got a situation where those 8 teams play a big round robin in some shape or form like in the ODI World Cup which is overkill really, or you have two groups of 4 and you get what happened in this competition where it could do with being a tad longer.
I think in Twenty20 you could possibly stretch to two groups of 5/6 before the semis and final. But that would then complicate the earlier stage.
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Originally Posted by Scaly piscine
If it could stretch to two groups of 5/6 it would generate more money for the host country. More fans coming, more gate money. As 20/20 can handle 3 games a day it shouldn't lengthen the tournament by too much longer. Even going with just the top 8 teams, playing 3 games a day, all playing each other at least once should be possible.
Well it depends with the money, it would sort of assure you'd get the top 8 through to the next stage, but you'd get more dead games and more games involving teams like Kenya, Bangladesh, Zimbabwe etc. which wouldn't be as attractive as other games obviously.
For the first stage:
If you had 10 teams make it through you'd have to have 5 groups of 3+
If you had 12 teams make it through you'd have to have 4 groups of 4+ or 3 groups of 5+
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Senior IOC member, Richard W. Pound (left) believes that FIFA cannot clean up its own corruption. Photo by Tine Harden.
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FIFA has lost all public confidence that it is willing to, or even capable of, handling the problems of corruption that the organisation is currently facing. So blunt was the assessment from long-term IOC member, Richard W. Pound, when he spoke about corruption in sport at today's opening session of the 2011 Play the Game conference in Cologne, Germany.
"FIFA has fallen far short of a credible demonstration that it recognises the many problems it faces, that it has the will to solve them, that it is willing to be transparent about what it is doing and what it finds, and that its conduct in the future will be such that the public can be confident in the governance of the sport. At the moment, I do not believe that such confidence exists or would be justified if it did," he said.
Pound is no stranger to corruption in sport. In 1998 and 1999 he oversaw the clean-up of corruption within the ranks of the IOC after the Olympic Games in Salt Lake City. Based on this experience, he encouraged FIFA to get assistance from third parties unconnected to the organisation in order to inspire public confidence in the attempts to clean up FIFA.
"When we did that in the IOC, the IOC was able to borrow credibility from these independent third parties, in whom the public already had confidence. Their judgment in approving the reform package put forward carried far more weight than similar statements made by the IOC itself," Pound explained.
"If I were an independent advisor to FIFA today, I would counsel it to take similar measures. The risk of not doing so is that no one will believe the outcomes of whatever process it may be implementing. A good part of the problem, of course, is that we simply do not know what is being done," he said.
Pound's assessment of FIFA's inability to inspire confidence in its commitment to better governance came in a longer speech about the general need for responses to corruption in sport. He placed the responsibility for responding squarely with the sports organisations themselves and argued that the IOC should be the main driving force.
"On an issue such as corruption in sport, governments will not lead. They may follow, if a persuasive case is made out, or if public opinion insists. To make this message more compelling, however, the IOC will first have to drive change within the sports organisations," Pound said.
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It was a photo that anyone might have taken. In the years leading to Sept. 11, 2001, Americans took to the skies like never before, numbering in the millions, taking in the bird's-eye view above the clouds. Katie Weisberger, a freshman in the photography program at New York University, was flying back from her home in Richmond, Virginia. She had a Nikon 35 mm film camera at the ready when the twin towers came into view.
Weisberger has always loved seeing the world through a lens. School reinforced that habit, sharpened her eye. What particularly prompted her to take roll after roll from her window seat was an utterly lovely April day dawning in New York.
"It was very early morning, and I just remember it being really beautiful, watching the sun rise and taking photographs," Weisberger recalls. "I had no idea I took that photo. It was on the negative."
That photo — developed at a drugstore or photo lab — was a horizon shot, layers of blue sky streaked with a barely perceptible reddish haze and oceans of roiling clouds that submerged all of New York except for the twin towers. That one heartbreakingly glorious moment stood out, between a picture just of clouds and another of the entire city. Then, she stowed the prints away.
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She would pull them out five months later. Weisberger, who spent the summer waitressing in Boston, was beginning her sophomore year at NYU, in the Department of Photography and Imaging. "I was getting ready for school. It was maybe my second day of class," she recalls. Her dormitory was located southwest in the Village, close to the World Trade Center. When she and her boyfriend at the time, Ryan, walked outside, they looked up and right through a hole burning in one of the towers.
"We kept walking and didn't know what to make of it," she says. They continued on, stopping on Sixth Avenue for orange juice and a bagel. There, they saw the second plane hit. "Crowds of people just stopped in their tracks. And at that moment, I realized that it was terrorists." Shell-shocked, she and her boyfriend — who was booked on a flight later that day — said goodbye, and she headed to her first day of dance class. For two surreal hours, the teacher taught the fully attended class as if nothing had happened. As if two hijacked Boeing 767s hadn't crashed into one of New York's greatest landmarks just blocks away. At the end of class, a woman came in, announcing, "'The towers have fallen. I don't know if you know what happened.'"
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Weisberger didn't have her camera equipment on her, not for dance class, but she didn't take photos that day, nor much at all after 9/11. There were too many others documenting the devastation, capturing bits and pieces of the unfathomable.
Instead, she remembered her photo, in storage under the bed. She knew people would want to see it, and when the storefront exhibit "Here Is New York: A Democracy of Photographs," sought out contributors, she turned in her print. Hers became No. 1621 in an exhibit that would eventually comprise 5,690 images and travel the world. In the 2008 book "After Photography," NYU photography teacher and author Fred Ritchin noted:
Interestingly, the best-selling image from the exhibition (the proceeds from the photos, which were selected by interested buyers without at first knowing who made the image, went to charity) was by Katie Day Weisberger, a student who had, a few months before the attacks, photographed the World Trade Center towers emerging from the clouds while seated in a passing airplane.
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That image of the twin towers, rising above a sea of clouds into blue skies, would also be featured on CNN, in the PBS documentary "Faith and Doubt at Ground Zero," and in the Hartford Courant's first 9/11 anniversary edition. The Connecticut paper defied newspaper design principles by wrapping the horizontal image across the front and back pages. Years later, the technique would be used on the cover of Don DeLillo's 2007 novel, "Falling Man." The title conjured up a more despairing icon, a man caught plummeting headfirst in a fatal dive from the falling towers, but it was Weisberger's photograph that made the cover. A New York blogger, in a 2010 series of posts on book-cover design, pondered the image:
In "Falling Man," postmodern master Don DeLillo takes on the strange disconnect experienced by many Americans following 9/11. The cover photo reflects that with the eerie view from above the clouds, as if from the point of view of a ghost. The vertical drop of the "A Novel" text emphasizes the book's title, based on the name given to a performance artist that appears from time to time in the book, a mysterious man that reenacts the disturbing image taken of a suicide jumper on the day of the World Trade Center attacks.
Weisberger, the mother of a 2-year-old, now lives in Colorado and works as a freelance photographer. She can understand how a photo taken with such a young, hopeful spirit could be viewed as eerie in the light of 9/11. She has always been drawn to skies as an artistic theme ("I appreciate the simplicity, openness and the beauty … [their] potentiality"), but Weisberger can't shake the unease that an idyllic day can cause. "Every time I see a perfectly clear sky," she admits, "there's a feeling of 'the air's too clean and the weather's too perfect to believe.' I think of Sept. 11."
But the clarity of that lovely April day, the quality of that sunlight, the "childlike quality of, I don't know, wanting to experience something by way of camera," still stand out.
"There has obviously been so much violence and politicking as a result of Sept. 11, and pertaining to the events of that day," Weisberger states. "I think it's important to be able to take a step back and see that regardless of everything that happened following that day and how one might feel about what has happened, there was a day 10 years ago during which a terrible thing happened that touched all of our hearts very deeply. I hope that my photograph helps people recall the heartbreaking simplicity of that fact, and at the same time the inherent beauty of life."
Clarity in the haze of memories
Other details have become a hazier in the intervening years. She can't remember the airline she was on when she took the photo, although surely she wouldn't have needed to take off her shoes or measure her carry-on liquids in ounces in order to get through security. She thinks she was coming from her home in Richmond, Virginia — she could've hugged her parents goodbye at the boarding gate, before security fears did away with prolonging farewells until the last possible moment, before boarding. She can't remember the flight she took in the days following 9/11, perhaps surrounded by seats left empty by Americans who had lost their faith in the skies.
Yet 10 years later, she also remembers how New Yorkers came together. "The most memorably and meaningful part of Sept. 11 was the obvious and immediate care that every single person in Manhattan –you know throughout the U.S. and the world, but more specifically Manhattan — took of each other," Weisberger says. She remembers buying breakfast for people forced out of their homes by the blast and living in her dorm. How her boyfriend stood in line for five hours to give blood, only to be turned away because so much had been donated. And how New Yorkers stood together, cheering on the workers who brought up the rubble from the towers. "I'll remember that in times of crisis, goodness does come out."
That also is the legacy of Katie Weisberger's chance shot, No. 1621.
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On Saturday I was in Szeged, the city of sunshine, during a cold and mostly atmospherically dreary weekend. But I found it to be that much more peaceful, and that much more like your average hometown than when I was there a few months ago. (That is if your hometown has countless colorful—if not Mediterraneanesque—shops and cafes, the architecturally inspiring Dóm square, a handful of confectionaries where university students and young couples enjoy cappuccinos and ice cream and late night conversations. A hometown that can cite its first inhabitants as mammoth hunters around 23,000 BCE, and on a bit, became a darling of the Roman Empire, stood up to a clash of Turks, was washed-away by the governing river (down to 5%) and then built up again, and was recently awarded the Europe Prize, which is the "highest distinction that can be bestowed on a European town.") That kind of hometown I mean.
But it had a quieter feel than it did in late July and early August. Probably because the 15,000 University of Szeged students were back to their studies, along with the other city-folk returned from summer holidays. The distinguished elders were again gazing out their flat windows, sweeping leaves from the stairways. Paprika was drying in widows and the Pick factory was operating at full steam.
On Saturday night, after ice cream and kávé, we walked around town as the rain sprinkled down. But we weren't the only ones undeterred by the weather. People were still everywhere talking, gossiping, taking pictures of József Attila and other heroes in sculpture form. A group of young women started dancing next to the fountain in the city center, despite the wind gusts blowing the water in every direction. Brahms' Hungarian Dance No. 5 was broadcasting from the speakers. Another young woman, walking alone, sauntered next to the marble stairs and started to dance as well. When we turned around, we saw a man swaying with his small dog. It was utterly bizarre and utterly perfect. The season, the un-sunned city was casting a spell.
On Sunday, we went to the Votive Church (of Our Lady of Hungary–Magyarok Nagyasszonya). It's a twin-spired church on the Dóm square, and for a few minutes we were entirely alone there. The mass had ended about an hour before, and perhaps the weather, or perhaps just luck with silences recently, no one was touring around and taking pictures. I had a chance to sit in a back pew and just gaze, breathe, ponder.
Building on the cathedral, which can accommodate 5,000, started in 1913 (is part of 20th century Hungarian Ecclesiastic architecture inspired by Italian Romanesque cathedrals) but wasn't finished until 1930, on account of WWI). I didn't take many pictures of the exterior of the church, but both exterior and interior are ornamental and symbolic, depicting everything from apostolic images, ancient elements and trades, papal seals, and relics of the saints and monarchs.
Whether the light inspires piety, a generous heart, or a resurgent historical curiosity, it's easy to see why people would want to visit it, or are proud to call it home.
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Hi Jess!!
You look wonderful in the picture-a little cold though. I have to tell you, I read your blog a couple times a week. Your messages are so descriptive that I feel like I'm actually there. Keep up the good work.
CC wants to know what the kaze (?) is. It's the word after ice cream. Oh and by the way, how is the ice cream? I see you mention it a lot.
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oh man, have you had a hungarian tell you about the centuries-long dispute over Transylvania yet? It's amazing. And there I was, just thinking it was fodder for Dracula. Apparently it's gorgeous.
Also, I'm ridiculously behind on my emailing. New crushes do that, sometimes.
Aunt Sue and CC–It was a little bit cold, but still very lovely fall at the same time! Kave is coffee. You can order an "american coffee" here, but most people drink cappuccinos or espressos! And ice cream–unfortunately it is delicious everywhere and everyone eats it all of the time. I suppose there are worse things in the world to do than eat ice cream, though!
I'm hoping to go to Transylvania soon. The pictures I've seen are amazing, though there is, as you mention as well, a long standing rift between Hungarians and Romanians, which doesn't help travel plans. But I would really love to go and see the mountains–especially in the fall–I'm sure it will be gorgeous.


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Casalena began developing Squarespace for his personal use while attending the University of Maryland.[2][3] He started sharing it with friends and family members[2] and participated in a "business incubator" program at the university.[3] He launched Squarespace publicly in January 2004,[3][4] initially funded by $30,000 from his father, a small grant from the university, and 300 beta testers who paid a discounted rate.[3][5][6][7] At that time, Casalena was the company's sole developer and employee, and worked out of his dorm room.[3][6]
By the time Casalena graduated in 2007, Squarespace was making annual revenues of $1 million.[4] He moved to New York City, began hiring, and had 30 employees by 2010.[4][7] That year, Squarespace received $38.5 million in its first round of venture capital funding, enabling it to hire more staff, continue to develop its software,[8] and double its marketing budget.[2] From 2009 to 2012, it grew an average of 266% in yearly revenue.[9] In April 2014, it received another $40 million in funding.[10] By 2015, it had reached $100 million in revenue and 550 employees.[4]
Squarespace has purchased Super Bowl advertising spots in 2014,[2] 2015,[11] 2016,[12] 2017[13] and 2018.[14] Its 2017 ad won an Emmy Award for Outstanding Commercial.[13] In 2017, it signed a sponsorship deal with the New York Knicks to add the Squarespace logo to their uniforms.[15]
After the Unite the Right rally in 2017, Squarespace received a petition with 58,000 signatures and removed a group of websites for violating its terms of service against "bigotry or hatred" towards demographic groups.[16][17] In 2017, it raised an additional $200 million in funding, boosting its value to $1.7 billion.[18] This funding was earmarked for reacquiring interests from investors.[18]
In 2018, Squarespace partnered with the Madison Square Garden Company to launch the "Make It Awards", which award $30,000 to entrepreneurs (4 winners, totaling $120,000).[19]
Squarespace is managed by CEO and Founder Anthony Casalena. Other key executives are:[20]
Nicole Anasenes, Chief Financial Officer & Chief Operating Officer
Andrew Bartholomew, Senior Vice President, Strategy
John Colton, Senior Vice President, Engineering
Raphael Fontes, Vice President, Customer Operations
Natalie Gibralter, Vice President of Product, Consumer Products
Mary Good, Chief People Officer
David Lee, Chief Creative Officer
Kinjil Mathur, Chief Marketing Officer
Product / business model
As of 2016, Squarespace hosts more than one million websites.[4] Its users employ pre-built website templates, and a variety of drag and drop widgets to add elements such as text and images.[8] Its developers also create custom templates that are sold to users.[8] On-screen instructions walk users through things like search engine optimization and setting up e-commerce.[4]
Squarespace was initially built for creating and hosting blogs.[5] E-commerce features, such as an integration with Stripe for accepting credit card payments, were added in 2013.[21] In 2014, more commerce features were added; a mobile version of the service was released; a separate facility was added for developers writing custom templates and features;[22] and a logo-creation app was introduced in partnership with icon designer Noun Project.[23]
In 2011, Squarespace was upgraded to version 6, with new templates, a grid-based user interface, and other enhancements.[8] Version 7, which went live in 2014, replaced its coding backend with a drag and drop interface,[24][25] and added integration with Google Apps for Work and Getty Images.[10] In 2016, Squarespace started selling domains, putting it in more direct competition with GoDaddy;[26] and added an analytics dashboard[27] and PayPal integration.[28]
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^ a b "How Squarespace became a multimillion dollar publishing giant". TechRepublic. June 30, 2016. Retrieved January 7, 2018.
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^ a b Evelyn Rusli (July 13, 2010). "Squarespace Raises $38.5 Million From Accel, Index Ventures". TechCrunch. Retrieved January 7, 2018.
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^ a b Warren, Christina (October 7, 2014). "Squarespace Ramps up its Tools to Compete with Wordpress". Mashable.
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^ "Key and Peele turn Squarespace's Super Bowl ad into an event". USA TODAY. January 1, 2016. Retrieved January 26, 2018.
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^ "Website host Squarespace to remove a 'group of sites' after violence at Charlottesville white nationalist rally". Washington Post. August 17, 2017. Retrieved January 7, 2018.
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^ Brownlee, John (January 22, 2014). "Squarespace Makes Designing A Logo Dead Simple". Co.Design. Retrieved February 13, 2018.
^ Nudd, Tim (October 20, 2014). "Squarespace's Radical Update Is Like a Blank Canvas. So Its New Ads Are, Too". Adweek.
^ Rhodes, Margaret (October 7, 2014). "The New Squarespace is a UX Dream that Eliminates the Backend Entirely". Wired.
^ Ungerleider, Neal (April 15, 2016). "Now Competing To Be The Master Of Your Domain: Squarespace". Fast Company. Retrieved January 7, 2018.
^ Ha, Anthony (June 14, 2016). "Squarespace introduces new analytics for its commerce-focused customers". TechCrunch. Retrieved January 7, 2018.
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Self-collapse lithography; molecular chips; select dep blog.
The University of California at Los Angeles (UCLA) has developed a technology called self-collapse lithography.
The technology, reported in the journal Nano Letters, resembles the combination of nanoimprint, selective removal and a chemical lift-off process. More specifically, though, the technology provides insights into patterning using a chemical lift-off lithography technique.
In the flow, researchers first devised a substrate. The substrate is patterned with conventional lithography techniques at feature sizes blow 30nm, according to UCLA. Then, a chemical composition is applied on the substrate. The chemical composition self assembles into a pattern formed by the original lithographic technique. This is called a self-assembled monolayer (SAM) process.
Following those events, an elastomeric stamp is applied to the SAM layer. The stamp is based on a polydimethylsiloxane (PDMS) material.
The roof of the stamp collapses on the surface, according to UCLA. Then, the stamp is raised, which, in turn, selectively removes various SAM molecules on the surface. This is sometimes called a chemical lift-off process.
Columbia University has made a breakthrough in the field of molecular electronics.
Using a scanning tunneling microscope (STM) technique, researchers have deposited and formed a single cluster of geometrically ordered atoms. The cluster is made up of 14 atoms, which has a diameter of about 0.5nm.
Then, they wired the core atoms to two gold electrodes. This enabled researchers to characterize its electrical response by applying a voltage on the structure.
A group has launched a new blog that provides the latest research into the world of atomic-level processing for IC manufacturing.
The site, called Atomic Limits, provides the latest on selective deposition, atomic layer etch (ALE) and other subjects. In one of its latest postings, the site reported the latest finding from the recent 2nd Area Selective Deposition workshop (ASD2017).


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javax.xml.crypto.dsig

接口 SignedInfo

所有超级接口:
XMLStructure

public interface SignedInfo
extends XMLStructure

W3C Recommendation for XML-Signature Syntax and Processing 中定义的 XML SignedInfo 元素的表示形式。XML Schema Definition 的定义如下:

<element name="SignedInfo" type="ds:SignedInfoType"/>
<complexType name="SignedInfoType">
<sequence>
<element ref="ds:CanonicalizationMethod"/>
<element ref="ds:SignatureMethod"/>
<element ref="ds:Reference" maxOccurs="unbounded"/>
</sequence>
<attribute name="Id" type="ID" use="optional"/>
</complexType>

调用 XMLSignatureFactory 类的一个 newSignedInfo 方法可以创建 SignedInfo 实例。

从以下版本开始:

1.6

另请参见:
XMLSignatureFactory.newSignedInfo(CanonicalizationMethod, SignatureMethod, List),
XMLSignatureFactory.newSignedInfo(CanonicalizationMethod, SignatureMethod, List, String)

方法摘要

 CanonicalizationMethod
getCanonicalizationMethod()

          返回此 SignedInfo 的规范化方法。

 InputStream
getCanonicalizedData()

          在执行签名或验证操作后,返回规范化的签名信息字节。

 String
getId()

          返回此 SignedInfo 的可选 Id 属性。

 List
getReferences()

          返回一个或多个 Reference 的不可修改的列表。

 SignatureMethod
getSignatureMethod()

          返回此 SignedInfo 的签名方法。

从接口 javax.xml.crypto.XMLStructure 继承的方法

isFeatureSupported

方法详细信息

getCanonicalizationMethod

CanonicalizationMethod getCanonicalizationMethod()

返回此 SignedInfo 的规范化方法。

返回:
规范化方法

getSignatureMethod

SignatureMethod getSignatureMethod()

返回此 SignedInfo 的签名方法。

返回:
签名方法

getReferences

List getReferences()

返回一个或多个 Reference 的不可修改的列表。

返回:
一个或多个 Reference 的不可修改列表

getId

String getId()

返回此 SignedInfo 的可选 Id 属性。

返回:
id(如果未指定,则返回 null)

getCanonicalizedData

InputStream getCanonicalizedData()

在执行签名或验证操作后,返回规范化的签名信息字节。此方法对调试很有用。

返回:
包含规范化字节的 InputStream;如果尚未签名或验证此 SignedInfo,则返回 null

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MARIE LYNN HAAS
dance projects +
human erratics
old post road
wastescapes
adjacentpossible_
green mountain project
visual improvisation
emergent forms film
the recall form
emergent improvisation
written research +
izzy's room
accidental entrepreneur
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16MM FILM BY TORI LAWRENCE & CO.
https://www.torilawrence.org/
A collaboration between filmmaker Tori Lawrence and dancers Emily Climer, Ellie Goudie-Averill, and Marie Lynn Haas. Together they create site specific works by developing improvisational scores for the dancers, musicians, and the camera. They have been shooting movement-driven footage on 16mm film in and around the landscapes of Rochester, Vermont since the summer of 2018.
Tori Lawrence is a choreographer, filmmaker, and educator who creates site-specific multimedia performances and dance films. Her recent screendance projects have been filming and hand-processing super 8mm and 16mm analog motion picture film. Her environmentally-based work inspires an imaginative and sustainable way of looking at, thinking about, and using space. She's currently collaborating with San Francisco-based choreographer Sara Shelton Mann on a new performance installation set to premiere in 2021. Tori has been a dance lecturer at Middlebury College, the University of Kansas, and a guest artist at Franklin & Marshall College, Wilson College, Drexel University, and Connecticut College. She's been awarded residencies and fellowships at Yaddo, Djerassi, Chez Bushwick, Ucross Foundation, Charlotte Street Foundation, Dance Ireland, and Budapest's Workshop Foundation. Her projects have been funded by New England Foundation for the Arts, Dance Films Association, Vermont Arts Council, and Lighton International Artists Exchange.
Originally from the Midwest, Ellie Goudie-Averill is a dance artist and educator who works with dancers of all ages on technique and performance. Since graduating with her MFA in Dance Performance from the University of Iowa, she has served as a professor at Temple University, Bucknell University, the University of Kansas, Franklin & Marshall College, and Connecticut College. In the past, she has danced professionally for Susan Rethorst, Lucinda Childs, Bronwen MacArthur, Group Motion. Ellie is a regular collaborator and dancer with Tori Lawrence + Co. in dance films and site-specific works and has been with the company for seven years. She currently teaches at Keene State College and at the School for Contemporary Dance and Thought/Hawley Street Ballet in Northampton, MA. Ellie's dance reviews and other dance writings have appeared online at thINKingDANCE and BAC Stories.
Emily Climer is a dancer and writer based in Brooklyn, NY. She has recently shown her choreography as part of Sundays on Broadway (NYC), Split Bill at Triskelion Arts (NYC), The Third Barn (PA), and the School for Contemporary Dance and Thought (MA). As a performer, she has worked on projects by Mina Nishimura, Emma Rose Brown, Susan Sgorbati & Elliot Caplan, Tyler Rai, and Tori Lawrence & Co. Emily regularly collaborates with improviser Marie Lynn Haas, as well as teaches Susan Sgorbati's Emergent Improvisation. She is an administrator for Cathy Weis Projects. In addition to her dancing, Emily writes and edits materials for emerging readers as part of the Humanities Team at Great Minds, an education non-profit. She has a BA from Bennington College and an MFA from the University of Iowa.
film stills by Tori Lawrence
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Is Ice a Mixture or Compound?
All matter around us is classified as either a mixture or substance. Combinations of two or more substances are mixtures, and compounds are bonded elements. Do we classify ice as a mixture or compound?
Ice is a compound, not a mixture. Ice is water frozen into a solid state and comprises two elements — hydrogen and oxygen. However, impure water creates ice that's considered a mixture. For example, if you freeze seawater, you have a mixture of water, salt, and several other substances.
This article will evaluate the unique characteristics of ice in great detail to see why it's a compound. I'll also go over the advanced processes that can change its state and natural composition.
What Makes Pure Ice a Compound?
Pure ice is a compound because it's frozen water. H₂O, water's chemical formula, shows that the liquid consists of two hydrogen atoms and one oxygen atom. You can decompose water into these elements through electrolysis. Water, frozen or not, meets the definition of a compound.
Here's a short Youtube demo that'll help you understand why water is a compound:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IOD6PmT6V1g
When water is exposed to extremely cold temperatures, it freezes and forms ice but remains the same at the molecular level.
The French chemist Joseph Louis Proust first put forth the Law of Constant Composition in about 1800.
According to this principle, the elemental composition of pure compounds cannot change. On that basis, the chemical components of ice and liquid water are the same.
Impact of Changes in Temperature
Pure ice transitions from a solid to liquid state at 0°C (32°F) at sea level. You can use this to tell whether your ice is a pure compound or not.
Scientists refer to this temperature as:
The melting point when the ice is changing from ice to water due to the increase in temperature.
The freezing point when water is transitioning to a solid state due to the decrease in temperature.
Moreover, you can tell whether your ice is a compound if it boils at 100°C (212 °F) at sea level.
How to Alter the Melting and Boiling Points
Here are a few factors that affect the melting and boiling points of water:
Remember that the atmospheric pressure in your home greatly determines the melting and boiling point of water. If you're in a place where the atmospheric pressure is too low, water will boil at a lower point. Below sea level, where atmospheric pressure is extremely high, the boiling point will be incredibly high.
You can change the melting or freezing point of ice or the boiling point of water by adding impurities like salt. Salt lowers the freezing point of water. That's the reason we put salt on roads in the winter. The melting point drops. The ice melts quickly and gives way for oncoming road users.
Suppose you understand the factors that influence the melting or freezing and boiling points. In that case, you can determine that water is pure by evaluating the impact of temperature.
How Is Matter Classified?
All matter is classified into pure substances and mixtures. A pure substance is composed of a single type of molecule, for example, water. A mixture contains many different substances. A good example of a mixture is air.
To better understand why ice is a compound, let's go over the differences between pure substances, elements, compounds, and mixtures:
Pure Substances
Elements and compounds are the only pure substances available. They are difficult to break down into their components without using special chemical methods like electrolysis.
As mentioned earlier, one of the best ways to identify a pure substance is to look at its boiling and melting points. Like other pure substances, compound ice has a precisely defined boiling and melting point.
But you can also use chromatography to establish the purity of this substance. If the ice is pure at the end of this process, it'll only produce a single substance. However, if it's a mixture, you'll end up with at least two substances.
A chemical element is a pure substance made of the same atom. Apart from nuclear fusion, you cannot change an element into another substance. Currently, scientists have discovered 118 elements.
Here are a few examples you're probably familiar with:
Carbon (C)
Oxygen (O)
Hydrogen (H)
There are metallic and non-metallic elements. Metallic substances are further divided into magnetic and non-magnetic metals.
Compounds consist of elements bonded together in a fixed ratio. It's much easier to separate the components of compounds than elements. For example, scientists can separate hydrogen atoms from oxygen fairly easily.
Unlike pure substances, each component of a mixture retains its unique chemical identity. Besides, the compositions of mixtures significantly vary depending on whether it's homogeneous or heterogeneous.
Heterogeneous Mixtures — The composition of heterogeneous mixtures is not definite. There might be more of one compound than the other.
Homogeneous Mixtures — The composition of the homogenous mixture is definite. You can't see the components of the mixtures. For example, if you put a small amount of sugar in your tea and stir it, it becomes a homogeneous mixture.
Why Does Ice Float on Water?
You now know that ice and water consist of the same elements. But this might appear untrue given that ice floats on water, demonstrating a difference in density. The fact that ice crystals always fight for more space is responsible for this.
Water molecules always prefer getting along with each other due to the force of cohesion. However, in the frozen state, molecules require more space. Hydrogen bonds link the elements like acrobats. The molecules are stacked together with their legs and arms outstretched, creating additional space between the molecules.
Due to the increased space between the molecules, ice expands when it freezes. This characteristic makes water the only non-metallic compound that contracts when it melts.
Ice floats on water due to the decreased density. A simple way to prove this is to consider how ice in the deep oceans and lakes melt. The water froze when the weather was extremely cold. Since ice floats, it's exposed to the sun during the day, which keeps the Earth's water cycles undisrupted.
Impure Ice Best for Keeping the Earth's Temperatures Constant
Impure ice or water can absorb large amounts of heat before the temperature rises.
This property enables water in the oceans to control the rate at which the Earth's temperature and atmosphere change. The frozen water naturally occurring in the cooler parts of the solar system also help with regulating Earth's temperature.
The ability of water to keep our temperatures constant is visible in oceanic regions. They always experience gradual temperature shifts.
On the other hand, deserts become cold extremely quickly in the evening since there's virtually no water vapor in the atmosphere. The same applies during the day as the deserts get hot quickly when the sun begins to rise.
Now you know why ice is a compound and appreciate how that affects its characteristics. You can determine that your ice is pure if it boils at 100°C (212 °F) or freezes at 0°C (32°F). That's because impurities can alter the boiling and freezing points.
Moreover, most ice on the Earth's surface is a mixture. They are formed from impure seawater. So, if you want to classify ice as either a mixture or compound accurately, you need to consider whether the liquid was pure before it transitioned into ice.
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Strange Like Home: A Review of Kristin Bock's Glass Bikini
March 17, 2022 - Books, Reading, Review, Small Presses, Writing
By Kelly Weber
An ominous sense of a strange, sometimes nightmarish broken mirror reality pervades Glass Bikini, Kristin Bock's new collection. As the speaker says in "Broken Mirror": "There is little warning / when the countdown begins. / A great mirror falls…" In Bock's prose poems, tenderness often feels inextricably enmeshed with danger; it's a setting where "Our arms, [are] rifles. The trees are enormous / rifles no one can wrap their rifles around." Here the body is distorted, disoriented, transformed, broken. In uncanny poems of doll parts, scissors, and flesh, Glass Bikini explores the crisis of personal autonomy in a world that constantly strips away bodies' agency. Here systems of control constantly violate bodily autonomy, constantly falsely assure us everything is okay. In Bock's narratives, the wondrous gives way to the horrifying, which tries but fails to provide frameworks of understanding. These narratives, though, are an evocative even visceral attempt at agency—an agency troubled by the speaker's transforming others into dolls or getting dragged back and forth. Glass Bikini is as unsettling as it is vivid and imaginative in conjuring these parallel agentive universes.
These tensions are exemplified in the poem "Belief Is a Default Setting," in which the speaker in part considers the nature of narratives:
From cadavers, grow new body parts. Use architecture to reanimate. Make
rooms that have valves like doorways….
Dolls provide a framework, a narrative to explain your body. Feel a lack of control. See patterns in static, patterns in the stock market, in toast, in clouds, in invisible princesses. See meaning where there is none…
To grow a new body part from a cadaver is a standard horror genre trope—a narrative we have been trained to read—but the poem troubles such an easy reading, especially in the context of the other poems in this collection. Here the cadaver takes on sinister implications: where did the cadavers come from? How did this body die? Within what systems of control? This growing of new organs from the bodies of the dead feels like a loss of agency, especially when, later in the poem, the brain is sliced open and downloaded to create a "good representation of personality" and consciousness is awoken in the reconstructed body commanded to "bear to live" this way. This consciousness has no choice but to live with belief as a default setting. The doll provides a narrative, but such frameworks ultimately only hold the meaning the mind chooses to read there. To be a body is ultimately to have no control. Beneath the incredible imagery of doorways like valves is the unsettling truth that we have no choice within our seemingly mechanistic need to find meaning. And when the body in this poem is reconstructed, it is never clear who is doing the reconstructing and who is reconstructed: the speaker uses the imperative "Grow body parts" and provides instructions to slice open the brain, but the speaker then commands: "Wake as if from a long sleep." The operator has become the operated upon. The framework we have to understand the poem suddenly shifts. Such shifts, and the vulnerability of the speaker or body caught at the center of them, occur again and again throughout Glass Bikini.
As a result, the speakers of some of these poems exert agency by transforming themselves or others. In the poem "Binding Spell," for example, the speaker—a definite "I" speaker, in contrast to the speaker without a personal pronoun in "Belief Is a Default Setting"—changes their body and the body of a "you," an intimate thou, combines them into a "we." "I make a doll of you. I make a doll of me. I stuff us full of feathers, / fingernails and fur," the poem opens. It feels like a return to "Belief Is a Default System": a horrifying callback to the doll as a way to understand the body. The transformation of both the self and the beloved into dolls is a way of containing, of holding meaning. The speaker goes on to describe how they "wire our wrists, / our knees, our navels, our tongues, our flirting shadows. / I pierce your red wax heart with a bouquet of pins….I hobble you." Intimacy is distorted and rendered as the fastening of the two bodies together, to the point that the beloved is kept permanently at a remove. Within the world of this poem, desire becomes something that can remove agency. Yet there's a strange tenderness here, too: "I know it hurts to bear your palms to the world. / There's no better way to reach me when I'm burning on the other side." Despite these two dolls being grafted and bound together, the poem ends on a note of trying to reach the other and of the recognition of the beloved's pain and vulnerability. How are lover and beloved constantly trying to reach across and close a gap between oneself and the other, in spite of this vulnerability and in spite of the ways they are already grafted to one another? What does agency look like for lover and beloved together?
Bock's poems raise these questions as uncanny mirrors: we recognize a truth in them at once tender and unsettling, but ultimately the images remain mysterious to us. In a way, all good poems do this, but the prose poems of Glass Bikini make especially astute use of the form's potential for fantastical realities, albeit contained within a prosy box's unassuming form.
Other uncanny and frightening power imbalances recur throughout Glass Bikini, such as the gendered dynamics in the way a daughter is dragged "down a rock face by [her] father"; and in "Alice's MMA Fight with the President," where Alice falls "feet first into a hot cup of entrails" to engage in a bloody battle with the President. The title and exclamations throughout the poem suggest a kind of dark humor, but the President finally headlocking a bleeding Alice while the refs do nothing to intervene sounds like an all too familiar "wonderland." In "Gaslighter," the speaker offers more and more of her body parts year after year to a friend who reassures her that "No…you're / sitting right here beside me, it's just your head inside the bag and it's beautiful." Though the images are distorted in both of these poems, the realities mirrored in them are clear indeed. Intimacy often becomes a trap when agency is removed. The prose poem form itself becomes not only a way to contain these weird realities with incredible tension, but also within a familiar seemingly innocuous intimacy—it's just an everyday prose paragraph! We hardly notice the trap full of teeth inside.
In Glass Bikini, Kristin Bock beautifully offers us poems rich with strange, monstrous imagery that both warns and reaches—reaches after, reaches toward, reaches across, like a funhouse Psyche in the underworld. Like Jose Hernandez Diaz's prose poems in the excellent The Fire Eater, Bock's poems use the unit and rhythm of the sentence, turning the seemingly familiar prose line into something that—like a beloved—we realize we hardly know at all, all to conjure entire strange worlds for us. Buttons, mouths, planets, static, mermaids, and drones populate worlds uncomfortably recognizable that we can't look away from. To spend time in the poems of The Glass Bikini is to linger in a dream before waking: a strangeness that feels so completely like home.
Kelly Weber
Kelly Weber is the author of We Are Changed to Deer at the Broken Place and The Dodo Heart Museum. Their work has appeared or is forthcoming in Big Other, Hayden's Ferry Review, Southeast Review, Brevity, The Missouri Review, The Journal, Passages North, Colorado Review, Seneca Review, and The Rumpus, and elsewhere. She holds an MFA from Colorado State University and lives with two rescue cats.
Announcing the Finalists for the 2021 Big Other Book Award for Poetry Finalists!
Five Nonfictions, by Michael Martone


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A new light at British Land
By Anthony Hilton for MailOnline
BRITISH Land's conversion is one of the most dramatic since St Paul's. This week, it paid an eye-watering amount of money for Pillar, and yesterday it followed this up with a series of announcements on reporting and transparency designed to lay to rest its reputation as an agnostic about the benefits of box-ticking corporate governance.
New chief executive Stephen Hester was an investment banker before his stint as finance director of Abbey, so he is attuned to telling shareholders what they want to hear.
He might yet need those skills because the Pillar deal was so expensive it has been prompting comparisons with the purchase of Arlington by BAE Systems, then still known as British Aerospace. That sensational price was subsequently seen to have signalled the top of the market in the last cycle. Pillar's purchase might turn out to be have signalled the peak of this one.
Hester seems to accept that the price is high because he labelled the purchase as strategic - City code for one where the bidder has paid too much. The other oddity of the deal, according to those involved, was that no one saw chairman John Ritblat at any stage - the first time in 30 years he has failed to put in an appearance when company money was being spent. The price paid, the governance issues and his non-appearance all say the same thing - the torch has passed to Hester.
Ritblat has never been one to play second fiddle. The betting must surely be that he will soon decide to resign the chairmanship, sell his shares and move out.
City on its mettle
IT was back in 1978 that the London Metal Exchange last launched a new contract when it began trading aluminium futures. Since then, the market has had its share of turbulent times but it is surely a sign of the progress made under chief executive Simon Heale that tomorrow sees the launch of plastics futures. Not only is this its first new contract in two decades, it is the first ever in a non-metal.
Though you might not think so from a market standpoint, plastic is quite like metal. It is extracted from the ground (or at least the oil from which it is made is). It is processed, and what is produced from cracking the naphtha are standard-grade plastic pellets. It is from these that fabricators produce the vast range of materials from light switches to food wrappers that are so much a part of modern life.
The LME contracts will focus on two standard grades of plastic where - at the end of the initial stage of production - it is effectively a commodity: polypropylene, to be known as PP, and linear low-density polyethylene, LL.
The industry structure is also quite similar to that of metals - a very few primary producers, a large number of intermediate converters and a vast array of end-users.
Most of all, though, plastics are like metals in that the price goes all over the place, driven by the price of oil, by the level of economic activity and by supply and demand. Some years it moves by as much as 60% and typically it will rise or fall by 30%, putting a huge risk on the businesses which depend on it, one which until now they have not been able to hedge.
So here is the LME providing a timely reminder that, although we think of the City as a financial market place, its origins are rooted in the real world. The new LME contract is the only mechanism for hedging plastics anywhere in the world - previous attempts to establish a market on the internet foundered because of the lack of transparency - and is a timely reminder of the underlying vitality and creativity of the London markets.
Smooth operator
LEGAL & General's long board meeting yesterday and a lot of activity in Friends Provident shares inevitably promoted the thought that the two might be related. It is possible but unlikely, given how well L&G is managing to grow organically.
Insurance mergers bring in their wake systems-integration nightmares that L&G could do without, and neither does it need to bring in management from outside. Indeed, the main business at the board was to confirm Tim Breedon, current head of the investment division, as chief executive when David Prosser retires next March.
The news should please the market because Breedon is very much committed to the low-cost, efficient, keep-it-simple model Prosser has drilled into the group in the last decade. Smooth management succession is one of the most convincing signs of a well-managed business. No surprises here then.
• Anthony Hilton is the Evening Standard Financial Editor


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This recipe is one of LPP's favorites and it is so easy!
I have modified it from the original recipe for several years now...the original had butter and I substitute chicken broth instead.
It is a terrific crockpot recipe that pleases everyone.
Dump into crockpot and cook on low for 5ish hours...until chicken is done and sheds easily.
Shred chicken and add 1 - 8oz. brick of cream cheese.
Continue to cook on low until cream cheese melts.
I add enough milk to get the consistency I like...1/4 - 1/2 cup or so.
Serve over pasta...LPP likes wide egg noodles best.


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Becker, George C. / Fishes of Wisconsin
Silverside family - atherinidae, pp. 767-773 ff. PDF (2.7 MB)
Silverside Family
Only one species of silversides is known from Wisconsin. It is a strictly
freshwater form with an extensive range over the eastern United States.
Hubbs (1921) suggested that its "habitat reactions" were inherited
its marine ancestors and hence were developed in the sea.
Twelve species of silversides in eight genera are listed from the United
States and Canada (Robins et al. 1980). Of these, 10 occupy typical salt-
water coastal or estuarine habitats. Most silversides are small fishes. They
include the well-known California grunion, a spectacular fish which
during high tide is thrown up onto the beach sands to spawn. Rosen
(1964) demonstrated that the silversides, halfbeaks, and killifishes were
closely aligned families, probably with a common Eocene ancestry in the
fresh and brackish waters of Australia, from which they spread around
The members of this family have scaled heads, two dorsal fins (the first
small and spiny), pectoral fins high on the body, and both pelvic and
anal fins each with a small spine. The swim bladder is present, but loses
its pneumatic duct connection with the pharynx (physoclist).
Copyright 1983. The entirety of this book is available for viewing by the public as an Open Access text through the cooperative efforts of George Becker, the University of Wisconsin Press, and the UWDCC. This Work is copyrighted to the Board of Regents of the University of Wisconsin System. Any use of this material falling outside the purview of "Fair Use" requires the permission of the University of Wisconsin Press.


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Discussion in 'I care for a person with dementia' started by sinkhole, Feb 10, 2019.
Does anyone here have any experience of Tramadol withdrawal symptoms?
My mother was on 100mg four times a day for at least 10 years and it abruptly stopped when she was admitted to hospital in early January on the advice of a consultant there (who said nobody over the age of 65 should be prescribed it!). It was replaced with Paracetamol, which I don't think was adequate at all and then she started taking Donepezil for the dementia at the beginning of February, which has possibly compounded the problems.
She is currently experiencing extreme anxiety and stomach/bowel issues, which was not unexpected but they are quite severe, to the extent that an ambulance had to be called yesterday to check there wasn't something more serious going on (seemed to be reasonably OK as they didn't admit her).
I'm trying to manage all of this remotely as I don't live anywhere near her but she has a live-in carer now who is doing the best she can in the circumstances.
I have organised a meeting with the GP on Tuesday to do a full meds review but I'd like to be as prepared as I can for that as I have very little confidence in that practise. The last 'meds review' they carried out lasted a grand total of 5 minutes and the GP prescribed Promethazine, which is an anti-histamine, which he claimed would help.
Any advice or experience of these particular meds would be useful.
I have a small amount of experience with this. A friend who worked for me was abusing tramadol habitually. Eventually we managed to get him into a rehabilitation program. They put him on methadone replacement therapy.
Now I have no idea how much 100mg four times a day is. He may have been using a lot more. But before he was able to start the methdone he had to be clean of tramadol for 24 hours. I can tell you it messed him up pretty bad. High levels of nausea, stomach cramps and anxiety as you described.
Tramadol is an opiate. And if your mother has been using it for so long I'm a bit surprised that they've taken her off it without a suitable replacement or decreasing her dosage. You might want to ask the doctor about this.
It's also important that if you have any tramadol left DO NOT be tempted to her give her any, even to ease her suffering. The body builds up tolerance to opiates but also loses it quickly. Giving her any could lead to accidental overdose.
I'm no doctor. So definitely consult with a professional.
Thanks. Yes, we are having a meeting with the GP tomorrow and I'll be making sure I get some proper answers to these questions and more as it seems irresponsible for the hospital to withdraw a drug like this without consulting the GP first or at least putting a plan in place to manage the withdrawal.
The trouble is there seems to be no joined up thinking in the NHS and it's left to the patient or their family to sort out the mess. I suspect your friend must have been taking a lot more than a 'normal' dose and I'm sure methadone isn't the answer for my mum but I'm also pretty sure paracetamol isn't a suitable replacement to manage the pain an opioid was originally prescribed for.
Tramadol is no longer a popular drug of choice for pain and I think maybe due to problems with dependency and abuse, but I don't think it should have been stopped abruptly without weaning your mum off it and paracetamol is nowhere near as strong. I also think the guidelines suggest not to use it in the over 65s but if your mum has been on it for years without problems then it would be strange for a dr to suddenly just stop it, and definitely not to replace it with something stronger than paracetamol, which is often effective alongside other pain killers.
We had a different GP visit today and review the medication and it actually went very well. She's going to prescribe Butec patches for the pain relief and gave us a couple of suggestions which gave me some confidence that they might actually want to help my mum (which was not evident with the last two GPs I've met from that surgery).
The memory clinic is also going to visit tomorrow as we felt someone from that team needs to see her now and make sure the donepezil isn't doing more harm than good.
All things considered, a better day than a lot of others we've had recently!


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The Responsibility Of Objectification In Women
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On Psychological Oppression By Sandra Lee Bartky
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