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Nigel De Jong gave City the lead in the 31th minute, and then Edin Dzeko put the visitors ahead after Gerrard's goal, which came after Micah Richards was ruled to have handled the ball in City's area.
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Age: 19-24
Skin: Acne-prone, Fair-Medium, Not Sure
Hair: Brown, Wavy, Fine
Eyes: Hazel
I really loved this. It's creamy, easy to use, and lasts forever. It holds my make up in place, and I felt like it made my eyeshadow "pop" more. I tried using it under my eyes before foundation, and it always creased so that didn't work.
Unfortunately I won't repurchase this or anything from MAC, because they test on animals.
Age: 18 & Under
Skin: Normal, Olive, Not Sure
Hair: Brunette, Other, Other
Eyes: Brown
Best eye primer/ color corrector out there. Highly recommend
Age: 18 & Under
Skin: Acne-prone, Medium, Not Sure
Hair: Brunette, Other, Other
Eyes: Brown
When I swatched this in the MAC shop I was actually so surprised by the formula, it was really creamy and smooth, the colour is really nice for my medium asian skin (well in my opinion it is). In australia it is quite pricey, 35aud to be exact but I really wanted to try it out so I bought it. I've been using it for a few days already and so far my eyeshadow hasn't budged at all. I have pretty normal eyelids that only ever get oily when I don't have eyeshadow/eyeshadow primer on them so I don't have any opinion on the oil control on this product since it's never a concern for me, although judging by the finish (which is matte) and the texture of it, it would have really nice oil control. The packaging is a little difficult to get the product out of because I have acrylic nails and the packaging is that typical mac glass pot (like their eyeliners, only bigger) and I can't dip my finger in directly or else my acrylic nails will just scrape the product out (which is messy and unhygenic). I feel like using a spatula to get the product out would be the best option if you were really strict on the hygiene, I also think that I will need to get a spatula once the product gets more used up because my finger wont be able to reach the product properly without my nails getting all up in it. The only problem I have run into with this product is it transferring onto my lashes throughout the day (because I have monolids and my lashes touch my lid pretty much every time I blink/look up) so there was some transferring of the pinkish colour onto my lashes, which wasn't a very good look, but then I instantly realised that this happened because I didn't put any eyeshadow on top of it so it wasn't set yet. If you want to use it as an eyeshadow base but still want to use the painterly colour as the base colour for your lids as well, I really suggest using a translucent powder to set it so it doesn't transfer onto lashes. Overall it's a really great product with really nice pigmentation and for me it's like a 2 in 1 product, it primes my lids as well as providing me with a base colour for my eyelids. I would probably repurchase again, depending on whether it dries out fast or not (I don't know yet since I got it less than a week ago)
Age: 36-43
Skin: Combination, Fair-Medium, Not Sure
Hair: Brunette, Other, Other
Eyes: Other
MAC must have.
I was surprised by the durability of this product! It does not creases. It lasts a long time, even using it every day.
I would try other shades, but it is pricey.
Age: 19-24
Skin: Dry, Fair, Not Sure
Hair: Brunette, Other, Other
Eyes: Green
This was one of my first items that I purchased from MAC which was quite a while ago. The colour is a neutral pinky beige colour. I always use this underneath my eyeshadows as a base/primer or sometimes i would wear it on its own with just a light brown eyeshadow in the crease, liner and mascara. Its a great product and I find that it does make my eyeshadows last a lot longer too and brings out the colour a lot more too.
Its one of my favourite products from MAC and I would really recommend this.
Age: 25-29
Skin: Oily, Fair, Cool
Hair: Brunette, Straight, Fine
Eyes: Brown
I have been using mac paint pots for awhile but recently purchased this shade. The reason I never purchased it before was because when I swatched it, it was dark and I felt that it wouldn't look right on my eyes. Anyway they were out of the other color I needed so I went ahead a picked this up. It actually works really good with my skin tone. It covers up the redness and veins on my eyelids and isn't too dark. I even put this under my eye as a concealer base to help it stay longer. I will repurchase this shade from now on.
Age: 25-29
Skin: Normal, Fair, Not Sure
Hair: Brunette, Wavy, Fine
Eyes: Grey
I use this mostly as a base for my eyeshadow and actually as a small spot concealer! I like the texture of it and it works perfectly as a base.
Age: 19-24
Skin: Dry, Fair-Medium, Not Sure
Hair: Brunette, Other, Other
Eyes: Blue
I have oily, but not excessively oily lids. Gave this product a good year worth of trial and error.
I believed this to be a eye shadow primer. For that it is HORRIBLE. It doesn't help keep it on pretty much at all. I read somewhere to set it with a neutral shade before shadows, didn't work. I read somewhere to use a little more product then your expecting, didnt work.
It is pink so it covers veining in eyes well so if you use it for that it may work for you, but even then it started to come off within 4 hrs. May also work for ppl with dryer lids, but from what I've heard if you have dry lids the ELF primer is amazing. I'd probably try that first if you fit into that category. Don't automatically waste youre money on this.
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Love this product, but I don't feel it works as a primer at all. I definitely creases but the colour is lovely.
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Eyes: Blue
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This year has been a whirlwind of a year. Last year about this time, my dh and I decided to take the plunge and move from Chicago to Tulsa, OK to be closer to his family. We couldn't sell our house due to the market so we've been renting our old house out and then we have a 1 year lease on a home in Tulsa that we have been living in.
When we first arrived, we had a certain amount in savings to "make it" for so long without having jobs. I found a part time job and my dh found a job but was working mainly on commissions. Neither of us was having any luck finding a job to pay our bills and we were running out of money. We both lost our jobs in Dec/Jan of this year and thought we were basically f'ed. We considered letting our home go into foreclosure, declaring bankruptcy, etc. Our tenant was not paying her rent and we were out of savings. However, my dh found a job in Feb (albeit another commission only job) and the tenant ended up paying for both Feb & Mar rent after we threatened her with eviction. At the end of Feb, I found a fairly good temp to hire position where I currently am now. I have not been hired on and the pay at this point is lower than what I need to cover my bills. I'm hoping to be hired on in the next month and ask for a raise at that time.
My dh on the other hand has left his commission position. It was costing more for him to work and pay daycare than it was to have him stay at home. So as of last week he is a stay at home dad until he finds something worthwhile to go to.
Right now, if we have him stay home, me work full time, and both go give plasma twice a week, we have enough money to pay our bills for the time being.
I gave you all that background to say, dh is not happy here. He wants to go back home to Chicago. Basically, he wants to wait it out here until our lease and our tenant's lease is up in August and then go back home to the house we own in Chicago. I'm not going to lie, it sounds appealling to me as well, because it's something I know, we love our old neighborhood, and my ds's old school. I feel like we've been here 9 months and things are still not how we imagined they would be.
Big issue though is that we don't have jobs there anymore! I have the potential to call up my old employer and get a job there again and I do have contacts there and would hopefully be able to find something quickly, but obviously it would be a huge adjustment again and we have no savings left. We've just this month been able to pay all our bills and not be stressing about it.
WWYD? Life would be "simpler" so to speak going home because we wouldn't be landlords anymore, but no jobs as of yet.
Life here has been hard, and stressful on both our marriage and personal lives. My ds has been having a lot of issues with the schools down here. His old school worked wonders with him to help him with learning disabilities and ADHD and I've had nothing but resistance at his school here in Oklahoma.
While it has been nice, to be closer to dh's family, they are a loud bunch and get together every weekend with the expectation that we would do the same. The fact of the matter is dh and I quiet people that are very much homebodies and find ourselves fighting each weekend to get some quiet family time with just ourselves and the kids. In Chicago, we had nearly every weekend to ourselves.
If we made the decision to go home, the next three months would be preparing for that. I would be hitting up my contacts at home and getting in touch with potential jobs. Dh would even have the opportunity to go up there and stay with my parents who live in the area for job interviews, etc.
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R&B star Alicia Keys is urging fans to hand over their favourite inspirational photos for inclusion in her latest video.
The Fallin' hitmaker is filming the promo for her track New Day and she wants her loyal followers to be involved with the project.
She has asked them to submit a meaningful photo on image sharing website Instagram and the best will make it into her video.
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Cadavers preserved through plastination display the inner-workings of the human body at the new exhibit: Our Body, The Universe Within, at the Echo Lake Aquarium and Science Center in Burlington on Friday April 13, 2012. / EMILY McMANAMY, Free Press
The plastinated human bodies on display this spring and summer at Burlingtons ECHO Lake Aquarium and Science Center have drawn crowds wherever theyve been exhibited, and ECHO officials hope for the same result in Burlington.
The origins of the bodies, however, are shrouded in a degree of uncertainty in a trail of paperwork leading all the way to China, numerous interviews and a review of documents show. In recent interviews, ECHO officials could not provide clear evidence that consent was ever given by the individuals on display, and the man listed as the shows medical consultant says that certainly was not the case.
Nonetheless, ECHOs leaders said they were satisfied with the level of documentation about the source of the bodies, which are of indeterminate age and are not identified by name.
ECHO, partnering with the University of Vermonts College of Medicine for the five-month show, has relied on a statement from the Chinese supplier of the bodies that asserts the individuals are not executed prisoners. This statement quotes Chinese practice for body donations, which states donors or their families are clearly told the bodies will be used for medical research and educational purposes. The statement does not indicate whether the individuals in the show had the ability to withhold their consent.
ECHO is the premier family-oriented science center in the state and region, operating in a building that bears the name of Vermonts senior U.S. senator, Patrick Leahy. ECHO Executive Director Phelan Fretz told the Burlington Free Press that the human bodies on display offer an extraordinary experience to visitors and notes that the exhibition is soberly educational in tone. The ECHO show does not tell visitors to the show where the individuals lived, how they died, or how they came to be placed on exhibit.
ECHO and its board are satisfied that the partially dissected individuals were acquired legally, Fretz said. And, he said, Everything we know is that informed consent was given.
The Our Body and similar shows have been banned or faced restrictions over the consent issue in some jurisdictions including Hawaii and Seattle. New York state a few years ago, under the leadership of then-Attorney General Andrew Cuomo, forced a financial settlement with one exhibition company because clear consent to display the bodies did not exist.
That issue was raised locally by Tsering Yangkyi Cummings, who is originally from Tibet. She wrote the Burlington Free Press of her concerns shortly after the April 14 opening of the show, following a front-page article that did not raise the issue of consent.
Cummings said she and her husband, Chris, saw a similar show a few years ago in Montreal and subsequently heard allegations often discussed in media reports of recent years that those being displayed were political prisoners. It is disappointing that ECHO failed to do their homework and fully disclose the origin of the bodies, the couple said in an email to the Burlington Free Press. By having this display, ECHO (even blindly/unknowingly) takes a stand in support of the Chinese government and its ill practices towards human freedoms.
FreePressMedia, which publishes the Burlington Free Press, partners with ECHO and is a media sponsor of the show.
When the Free Press first asked ECHO who the individuals on display are and whether they consented to be part of a commercial exhibition, ECHO described the documentation it had scrutinized as confidential.
In a subsequent interview, the person listed by the ECHO shows marketing company as its medical consultant, Dr. Walter Hofman of Pennsylvania, told the Burlington Free Press hed concluded after examining the bodies and the documentation in 2007 that the consent of the individuals to be displayed was unnecessary, because they are under the aegis of the Chinese government. The individuals died in Chinese prisons or other institutions, he said hes concluded.
At that point, ECHO provided copies of the documentation on which it relied as the show was being put together over a period of two years.
A cadaver cut into cross-sections is displayed at the new exhibit: Our Body, The Universe Within, at the Echo Lake Aquarium and Science Center in Burlington on Friday April 13, 2012. / EMILY McMANAMY, Free Press
No consent forms
Asked whether ECHO had evidence that contradicted Hofmans assertion and whether his contention that they could have been prisoners was a concern, ECHOs Fretz responded in writing, All the materials we received from Dr. Hofman and the ASTF indicate the specimens were secured legally and appropriately.... Nothing we have received from Dr. Hofman, or the exhibit company, indicated the specimens were prisoners.
ECHO spokeswoman Gerianne Smart said ECHO has not spoken directly with Hofman.
While Fretz said ECHO believes consent was given, Smart acknowledged that the science center has no direct evidence that is true.
We saw no consent forms, she said. The (statement) said informed consent was given for medical research and exhibition. I was assuming this was legitimate.
Certainly, Smart said when asked if ECHO had been aware before opening the show of ethical questions raised elsewhere. We believe the specimens were acquired through appropriate legal means. We went with that. We had to go with what we had.
The UVM College of Medicine, which has provided medical specialists for Thursday night lectures on the bodies and parts in the show, said in a statement it has seen no evidence that the bodies in the show were obtained improperly.
Frederick Morin, dean of the College of Medicine, in response to further questions from the Burlington Free Press, said, All the evidence we have seen indicates that the anatomical specimens in Our Body were acquired legally and appropriately, even by Vermont standards, and we have seen no evidence to the contrary.
Human bodies, Morin said, deserve to be treated with dignity and respect.
ECHOs Smart said the College of Medicine was provided the same documentation that Studio 2 gave ECHO.
ECHO Executive Director Fretzs responses paralleled those of other institutions that have mounted the show and were interviewed by the Free Press. He said that beyond the documentation provided by the company that provided the bodies, ECHO vetted the exhibition by speaking with sister organizations concerning the extraordinary experience it provided their guests. ECHO and ECHOs board, he said, were impressed with the quality (and) non-sensational presentation of the bodies by the vendor, the Minnesota-based company Studio 2 Productions.
Studio 2 will receive a substantial portion of the gate receipts from the show, Fretz said.
Heidi Pinchal, the spokeswoman for Studio 2, described the documentation on the source of the bodies as confidential. She said ECHO had been provided with evidence that Studio 2 had a clean provenance on the bodies. They were donated for purposes of medical education. The documentation, she said, is confidential information that we allow each institution to vet.
Tracking the documentation
The complete documentation Studio 2 provided ECHO is contained in two records:
An affidavit marked confidential on the stationery of The Universe Within Touring Co., based in Boca Raton, Fla., prepared in August 2007 by Hofman, the shows medical consultant. He is currently the coroner and medical examiner for Montgomery County, Pennsylvania, located just outside of Philadelphia.
Hofman said in the affidavit he examined all of the bodies then on display with the Our Body show at the New Detroit Science Center (since closed for financial reasons) and the Orlando Science Center. At no time did I see any evidence of any trauma or physical abuse associated with torture or execution. he said in the affidavit.
The document continued: It is my understanding that all of the anatomical specimens contained in the Our Body exhibit were obtained legally, consistent with the Laws of China and the United States. The Hofman affidavit did not provide documentation of the legal source of the bodies or provide consent documentation for those on display.
A document, dated April 17, 2008, from the Anatomical Sciences and Technologies Foundation, Hong Kong. The statement describes the ASTF as a non-profit organization headquartered in China and affiliated with the Chinese Society for Anatomical Science in Beijing.
It says the bodies come from various accredited Chinese universities, medical schools, medical institutions, research centers and laboratories for the goal of the ASTF. It provides no documentation of its assertions.
The five-page document says the ASTF has granted the Universe Within Project, Ltd., Hong Kong, the worldwide rights to present, market and exhibit an exhibition of anatomical specimens known as Our Body: The Universe Within the show currently at ECHO.
The specimens, died of natural causes, are not executed prisoners as sometimes, wrong mentioned in several medias, the translated document states. There was never found any evidence of trauma or bodily injury caused by torture or execution as stated by forensic pathologists.
The Chinese Society for Anatomical Science describes itself on its Web page as being under the leadership of the Communist Party of China national academic organization. Its members, the self-description says in poorly translated English, persist in seeking truth from facts to promote anatomical grow to accelerate the realization of the socialist modernization of our country to make the contribution.
The Society in Beijing did not respond to an email request for an explanation of its relationship with the Hong Kong foundation and for a more detailed explanation of the source of the bodies on display at ECHO.
Heres what Hofman, who examined the bodies five years ago, said in two interviews:
Initially, he said the individuals had been prisoners in China, an assertion for which he provided no evidence. These are bodies that are the property of the Chinese government, he said.
In a second interview, he said some of the bodies could have come from Chinese institutions. In Hofmans understanding, consent by the individuals to be displayed is a non-issue. It has nothing to do with consent, he said. The individuals didnt give permission to be used as exhibits. They are on lease.
Hofman is listed as medical consultant in the $10 book produced by Studio 2 that ECHO has for sale in conjunction with the show. He said he was unaware that he was cited in that way and said he has not seen the book.
Pinchal, the Studio 2 spokeswoman, initially told the Free Press that the bodies are on loan to us but said later that Studio 2 has them on a lease arrangement. She would not discuss the lease arrangement, saying that Studio 2 is a private organization. Their financial information, she said, is not available to the public.
Cadavers on display at the new exhibit: Our Body, The Universe Within, at the Echo Lake Aquarium and Science Center in Burlington on Friday April 13, 2012. / EMILY McMANAMY, Free Press
Experiences elsewhere
Pinchal was previously the vice president for marketing of the Orlando Science Center and helped to arrange the Our Body exhibit there in 2006 the first such exhibit under that name according to Jeff Stanford, who currently holds the marketing position.
Pinchal subsequently began working for the company marketing the display.
Stanford said the Orlando center relied on documents and affidavits saying the bodies were obtained legally before mounting its very successful exhibit. We did talk to peer institutions about how they had done, he said, and we talked to community leaders to get feedback. It went before our board of directors. There was a lot of discussion, both internally and externally.
The exhibit, he said, doubled attendance for the year it was at the Orlando Center.
In 2010, the Our Body exhibit was featured at the Stark Center for Physical Culture and Sports at the University of Texas, Austin. In a news release in April 2010, Dr. Terry Todd, the centers director, described it as a stunning presentation that is central to our mission to help the public appreciate the value of exercise and healthful living practices.
Todd told the Free Press that UT legal examined Studio 2s documentation and did not raise any objections to the show. He said the Stark Center also spoke to other institutions which had hosted the show. They all indicated they had done some checking and were satisfied, he said.
Asked whether those on display had consented to be displayed, Todd said, Other people spent more time examining that. No one had any problems with that. Whatever questions needed to be asked, were asked.
The Our Body show has also appeared at the Rochester Museum and Science Center, the L.A. County Fair in Pomona, California and the Arizona State Fair, where fairgoers were cautioned that the show does contain actual human bodies, with eyes and genitals intact.
Human rights advocates
The origins of the bodies have proved to be of concern to human-rights advocates and others concerned about freedoms in China.
Tsering Yangkyi Cummings, the Tibetan immigrant, told the Burlington Free Press, I would not trust any certified body coming from China, no matter what kind of documentation they may claim to have.
Her concerns were echoed by Harry Wu, who was imprisoned for 19 years in the Chinese laogai, that countrys vast forced labor program. Wu now heads the Laogai Research Foundation and Museum in Washington, D.C.
This is not like a computer show, Wu said of the Our Body show. This is showing a human. Who are these people?
Wu told the Burlington Free Press that even if Chinese law approved the display of the bodies without explicit consent, the origin of the bodies should be of concern to Americans. They even deserve their rights, he said of the dead persons in the display.
What is Chinese law? he said. They can do whatever they can do. If the body was offered by Chinese police, I do not know where the body is from. If American want to see it, fine, but this is not like a computer. It was alive sometimes. Approved by the government? What government? The Chinese government. I think if all these plasticized bodies is black, blacks would protest.
The Our Body show was shut down by judicial order in France in 2009 after two human rights groups objected to the display.
In 2008, then-New York Attorney General Andrew Cuomo reached a settlement with Premier Exhibitions, another company displaying plastinated Chinese individuals. The settlement required the company to refund the cost of admission to those disturbed by the murky provenance of the bodies.
The settlement also required the exhibitor to post a sign saying they were not able to confirm that the bodies and parts being displayed were not, or did not belong to, Chinese victims who may have been victims of torture and execution.
Despite repeated denials, Cuomo said as the settlement was announced, we now know that Premier itself cannot demonstrate the circumstances that led to the death of the individuals. Nor is Premier able to establish that these people consented to their remains being used in this manner. Respect for the dead and respect for the public requires that Premier do more than simply assure us there is no reason for concern.
That settlement drew praise from Wus Laogai Research Foundation. Assistant Director Kirk Donahoe said that it meant that it is now less likely that Premier and its competitors will obtain specimens from China for display not just in New York, but anywhere in the United States.
In 2009, also in reaction to the lack of documentation Premier Exhibitions was able to provide, Hawaii banned the exhibition for profit of human bodies.
Congressmans intervention
U.S. Rep. Todd Akin, from St. Louis, introduced a bill in 2010 to prohibit the importation of plasticized human bodies, on human rights grounds, following a request from Wu.
His statements and concerns informed our concerns, said Steve Taylor, Akins spokesman, noting that several companies now have such displays in the United States. Its been my experience that reputable organizations contract (for the shows) seemingly without considering these concerns, he said. Its the standard of documentation that has proven problematic. Theres little to disabuse us of the notion it could be a body of a political prisoner.
The Akin bill did not pass.
In Seattle, however, the City Council in July 2010, responding to concerns about whether informed consent was provided by those on display or their families, prohibited the public commercial display of dead human bodies without evidence of informed consent specific to the public exhibition.
According to Bodies on Display, a Laogai Research Foundation report in July 2010, the San Francisco County health department closed a Universe Within show after then-County Supervisor Fiona Ma became concerned about leaks of body fluids. After her election to the State Assembly, legislation requiring clear documentation of consent by those on display or their relatives passed the Assembly and state Senate but was vetoed by then-Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger.
The Laogai Foundation quoted Ma in its report: As a Chinese-American, she said, I know that few people in China would voluntarily donate their organs or bodies due to the strong cultural and traditional preference of leaving their body intact for burial after death. So when I saw the exhibit, I knew something was wrong.
Cadavers on display at the new exhibit: Our Body, The Universe Within, at the Echo Lake Aquarium and Science Center in Burlington on Friday April 13, 2012. / EMILY McMANAMY, Free Press
Since the 1980s, the Laogai Foundation says in the summary of its report, the Chinese government has directly profited from the trade in organs harvested from executed prisoners. The advent of plastination ... has allowed the Chinese Communist regime to profit from the dead in another way. (China said in March it would no longer harvest organs from executed prisoners.)
In Pittsburgh earlier this year, Elaine Catz, an 11-year employee of the Carnegie Science Center, resigned when the center scheduled a seven-month show called Bodies... The Exhibit, staged by Premier Exhibitions the company Cuomo dealt with in New York.
We dont know how these people died or why they died, she was quoted as saying by the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette. Before we put our stamp of approval on it, there should be a high burden of proof on Premier.
Canadian international human rights attorney David Matas failed in his attempt in 2011 to close a display of plastinated bodies at the MTS Centre, a sports venue in Winnipeg. Theres big money to be made from this, he told the Burlington Free Press. The (marketing) companies turn a blind eye to the sources. Its not up to me to prove the sources; its up to them to prove the origin. Anyone who accepts these bodies from China is accepting the word of the police, and thats just not acceptable.
Matas said it is not a coincidence that the exhibit has now appeared in a small town like Burlington. Comparable exhibits ran into trouble in big cities, he said. Theyre looking for soft targets.
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key server should know the keymessage is from who.
So I think app can generate a token based on account infor of user in web portal.
Thus the generateKeyRequest may change to generateKeyRequest(KeySystem,initData, token),then the CDM can bind the token into keymessage before return the keymessage to app.
BTW: in 8.2 use section
first question also mention about it.
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> key server should know the keymessage is from who.
> So I think app can generate a token based on account infor of user in web
> portal.
That is one possible scenario, but not all scenarios will involve such a token.
> Thus the generateKeyRequest may change to
> generateKeyRequest(KeySystem,initData, token),then the CDM can bind the token
> into keymessage before return the keymessage to app.
Such binding assumes that the key system / CDM can support it.
> BTW: in 8.2 use section
> first question also mention about it.
The answer to the question says, "The application can add this to the license request (sent via XMLHttpRequest in the examples) or send it to the CDM via generateKeyRequest() to be included in the license request." The last part of the sentence is referring to combining it into initData somehow (in a key system-specific way). It is TBD how well such combination will work.
The intent was to not bake a specific scenario that not all key systems would support into the API. Still, we could consider adding some additional parameter if the combination doesn't work well or we want to ensure that the initData returned by the needkey event is always the same as the value passed to generateKeyRequest(). (It's not clear that the latter will always be the case anyway, especially depending on the outcome of [1].)
[1] https://www.w3.org/Bugs/Public/show_bug.cgi?id=17673
Discussed in telcon: http://www.w3.org/2012/07/10-html-media-minutes.html#item06
Resolving LATER. Today we have a single binary initData blob that can combine application specific data including (but not limited to) user token. We should review this later once we have more implementation experience to understand if this is a common scenario for which a single binary blob is inconvenient.
I would like to reopen this bug. It would be useful to be able to have the application specify additional parameters (e.g. username, sessionNonce, etc.) when calling createSession(). These could then be incorporated into the key request in a CDM specific manner. This is important in cases where TLS is not being used for the authentication channel (perhaps due to scaling issues) and the authentication is instead passed in-band with the CDM key request, secured using CDM-specific mechanisms.
How about something like an array of name-value pairs?
I proposed an alternate mechanism which does not require a new parameter to be added and seems to be more in keeping with the spirit of this spec here: http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-html-media/2012Oct/0076.html
Assuming everyone is ok with this -- I would like to see the example code and FAQ item added to the spec. I am happy to provide the text if needed.
I believe we should close this bug and use Bug 24082 to drive the conversation. I am resolving MOVED.


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VATICAN CITY, MAY 30, 2001 (Zenit.org).- Here is a translation of John Paul II´s address at today´s general audience.
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1. "In the morning thou dost hear my voice; in the morning I prepare a sacrifice for thee, and watch." With these words, Psalm 5 is presented as a morning prayer and, therefore, is well placed in the liturgy of Lauds, the song of the faithful at the beginning of the day. The background tone of this supplication is marked by the tension and anxiety over the dangers and afflictions that lie ahead. However, confidence in God is not diminished, ever ready to sustain his faithful so that he will not stumble in the path of life.
"No one except the Church possesses such confidence" (Jerome, Tractatus LIX in Psalms, 5,27: PL 26,829). And St. Augustine, recalling attention to the title given the Psalm, a title that in its Latin version states: for her who receives the inheritance, explains: "this refers, therefore, to the Church, which receives eternal life as inheritance through our Lord Jesus Christ, so that she possesses God himself, adheres to Him, and finds her happiness in Him, in keeping with what is written: ´Blessed are the meek, for they shall inherit the earth´" (Matthew 5:4). (Enarr. in Ps., 5: CCL 38,1,2-3).
2. As often happens in the Psalms of "supplication" addressed to the Lord to be delivered from evil, there are three characters who enter the scene in this Psalm. Here, first of all, God appears (verses 2-7), the "You" par excellence of the Psalm, to whom the person praying turns with confidence. A certainty emerges in face of the worries of an exhausting and perhaps dangerous day. The Lord is a consistent God, rigorous in confronting injustice, alien to any compromise with evil: "For thou art not a God who delights in wickedness" (verse 5).
A long list of evil people -- the boastful, the foolish, evildoers, liars, the bloodthirsty and the deceitful -- pass before the Lord´s eyes. He is the holy and just God and he is on the side of the one who walks on the path of truth and love, opposing the one who chooses "the paths that lead to the kingdom of darkness" (see Proverbs 2:18). The faithful one, then, does not feel alone and abandoned when he faces the city, entering society and the tangle of daily affairs.
3. In verses 8-9 of our morning prayer the second character, the man of prayer, presents himself with an "I," revealing that his whole person is dedicated to God and to his "great mercy." He is sure that the doors of the temple, namely, the place of communion and divine intimacy, bolted by the godless, are opened wide before him. He enters therein to experience the safety of divine protection, while outside, evil rages and celebrates its apparent and ephemeral triumphs.
From the morning prayer in the temple, the faithful one receives the interior drive to face an often hostile world. The Lord himself will take him by the hand and lead him on the streets of the city, indeed, he will "make straight the way," as the Psalmist says, using a simple but thought-provoking image. In the Hebrew original this serene confidence is based on two words (hésed and sedaqáh): "Mercy or faithfulness" on one hand, and "justice or salvation" on the other. They are the typical words that celebrate the covenant that unites the Lord with his people and with every faithful individual.
4. Here, finally, the dark figure of the third character of this daily drama is outlined in the horizon: They are the "enemies," the wicked, who were already in the background in the preceding verses. After the "You" of God and the "I" of the man of prayer, there is now a "They" that indicates a hostile mass, symbol of the evil of the world (verses 10-11). Their physiognomy is sketched on the basis of the word, the fundamental element in social communication. Four elements -- mouth, heart, throat, tongue -- express the radicalness of the malice inherent in their choice. Their mouth is full of falsehood, their heart constantly plots wickedness, their throat is like an open sepulcher, quick to wish only death, their tongue is seductive, but "is full of mortal poison" (James 3:8).
5. After this harsh and realistic portrait of the perverse one who attacks the just man, the Psalmist invokes divine condemnation in a verse (verse 11), which Christian liturgy omits, thus hoping to be conformed to the New Testament revelation of merciful love, which also offers the possibility of conversion to the wicked.
At this point the Psalmist´s prayer comes to an end full of light and peace (verses 12-13), after the dark profile of the sinner just drawn. A wave of serenity and joy envelops the one who is faithful to the Lord. The day that now begins in front of the believer, although marked by effort and anxiety, will always have the sun of divine blessing on him. The Psalmist, who knows profoundly the heart and style of God, has no doubt: "Thou dost bless the righteous, O Lord; thou dost cover him with favor as with a shield" (verse 13).
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The Lovely Bones, director Peter Jackson's long-awaited take on Alice Sebold's beloved novel, is a stupefyingly bad movie, the kind of big-screen debacle that makes you wonder if its entire creative team wasn't suffering through some hideous, collective blockage of talent all throughout filming. You can feel it going wrong in the first minutes, when a car's quick swerve results in an unconvincing and inappropriately comedic loss of a hubcap, but the shock of Jackson's endeavor is that practically nothing in it goes right. Tonally, just about every scene here feels a little bit off, and the rest feel way, way off; it's almost as if Jackson, screenwriting collaborators Fran Walsh and Philippa Boyens, and a (usually) wildly gifted cast purposely set out to make the absolute worst Lovely Bones adaptation possible.
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Offhand, I can't think of an acting team more oddly matched, and strangely inspired, than Tommy Lee Jones and Benicio Del Toro. Talk about your odd couples: Jones, with his clipped, no-bullshit gruffness that gives way to a kind of mellow humor, and Del Toro, with his loopy line readings and eloquent silences (you're always wondering what, exactly, is going on in his head). When both men are at the top of their game – Jones in Lonesome Dove or The Fugitive, Del Toro in Traffic or his brief, brilliant turns in The Pledge and Fearless – they're marvelously vibrant performers, so even if you're dreading yet another routine action picture, the chance to see this duo play opposite one another might be reason enough to sit through The Hunted. The movie, directed by thriller veteran William Friedkin, winds up being little more than a violent screen adaptation of "Where's Waldo?", but Jones and Del Toro, at least, give it some punch.
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Despite a dwindling base for new monks and a housing project on his doorstep, Tadat is confident the Vedanta Society will hold on to the monastery and that "we'll carry on." Tall and slender, he exudes grace and deep peacefulness, but he is obviously loath to be "confronted by this worldly aspect," to have to deal with developers, politicians, lawyers and reporters.
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The Vedanta Society now has a two-pronged legal strategy. First, they hope to prove that the residential project violates the original Trabuco Canyon specific plan—the one the supervisors approved in the 1991 that only allows one home per every four acres. The supervisors had to amend the law to approve the project. Second, the monks are locking arms with environmentalists and federal and state agencies that contend development will spur mudslides, further pollute the creek, and disrupt endangered species and native plants, given that the land is part of the main wildlife corridor from Cleveland National Forest to the coast.
Unfortunately, such fights involve hiring lawyers.
"It's been expensive, yes," Tadat says. "Money is being drained from the Vedanta Center in Hollywood."
But in the same breath, he mentions that all churches are burdened with financial woes these days. Whatever happens, he says, they will eventually put all this behind them, turn inward, and continue their lifelong endeavor to "realize God and serve mankind."
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At that courtyard fountain, the one with the sculpture of Swami Vivekanada staring into the middle distance, Divine pauses on his way to the sanctuary where he will conduct the noon worship.
"We're just some guys trying to live our way of life," he says. "It's really hard for us to get into the worldly, political life. A lot of this stuff is hard to prove."
Though he has been here such a short time, Divine is the main liaison between the monastery and the coalition of environmental groups fighting overdevelopment in what marketers call Saddleback Meadows.
"It may just be too late and too much money to fight," he says. "But if people realized what was up here, that there is a place like this where they can get away from it all, maybe they would support us against this project. People can come up here and just visit. Many do."
Members of different churches pray here. Along the Shrine Trail, Muslims conduct daily meditations. Native Americans burn sage. A South County Catholic school regularly brings a comparative religion class.
It makes a certain amount of sense that the monks are crusading with environmentalists. Like gnatcatchers, Riverside fairy shrimp and Pacific Coast sage, their religion is threatened.
"We are," says Divine, "the ultimate endangered species."
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The noonday sun is bright today, but inside the sanctuary, it's dark. The dome ceiling immediately brings to mind the night sky. Folding chairs against the wall, cushions on the floor and the only artificial source of light point toward a portrait of Sri Ramakrishna, the same one that's inside the lecture hall.
Divine lived here for nine months before he was allowed to conduct the noon worship. Though he has witnessed the same ceremony every day for a year, he relies on a notebook filled with intricate instructions to get through it. "If you mess up, they let you know," he says. "Immediately."
First, he must cleanse himself with special soaps. Then follows a strict regimen to cleanse and feed Sri Ramakrishna, involving flowers, grasses, other plants, candles, incense, bells, purified water and an offering of food. Divine completes each step in order, using a certain hand for each task. It takes a couple of hours to complete.
Because I was not praying or meditating or chanting with the other monks, my thoughts soon turned outdoors, where strong winds battered the dome's exterior. Were it not for those gusts, there would be no evidence inside this dark, quiet place that a world exists outside this room. Too soon, it will become obvious.
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Cynthia Ann Dietrick is charged with possession of a controlled substance, endangering the welfare of children and theft for taking her boyfriend's son's doses of Ritalin on two occasions in September and replacing the pills "with Ibuprofen or Amoxicillin," according to an affidavit of probable cause filed by state police at Kiski.
Ritalin is a stimulant often prescribed to treat people diagnosed with attention deficit hyperactivity disorder.
According to Trooper David Williams of the Kiski barracks, Dietrick's boyfriend telephoned state police in mid-September when his son, who is only described as under age 18, forgot to take his daily prescription before leaving for school. The father told police that on Sept. 15, he noticed pills were still in a cup that he regularly leaves for the child.
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Nine days later, the boy again forgot to take his pills and telephoned his father to ask him to bring the dosage to school. When the man looked in the cup, he discovered the prescription pills were missing.
When he called police on Sept. 24, he told Williams that Dietrick never went to drug rehabilitation. Dietrick's preliminary hearing is scheduled for Nov. 25 before Washington Township District Judge Jason Buczak.
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Area roundup: Placer girls cruise past Colfax volleyball team in league matchBy: Journal sports staff
Another Pioneer Valley League match, another sweep for Placer. Raquel Quirarte had a team-high 11 kills, Kirstin Schauble chipped in with seven kills and five aces, and the visiting Lady Hillmen beat Colfax 25-14, 25-23, 25-13 Thursday night. "As always, Colfax came out hard and fought until the end," said Placer coach Jennifer Wright, whose team improved to 15-2. "We were just stronger all around than them tonight." Colfax (8-8, 2-1 PVL) was led by Maddi Ittner (five blocks, seven kills, two digs), Sophie Satterlee (14 assists, two kills, two blocks, four digs) and Stephanie Scott (five kills, one block, six digs). Despite the loss, Colfax coach Vicky Satterlee said, "It was an excellent, high-quality match. A lot of good effort today." Satterlee was pleased with the passing of Carrie Fitzgerald and strong all-around play by Taylor Avilla for the Falcons, who beat Foothill 25-8, 25-9, 25-10 Tuesday. Colfax returns to the court Tuesday to play at Center. Kellen McDonald had five kills Wednesday for Placer, which hosts Bear River Tuesday at 6 p.m. in a battle of league unbeatens. Girls golf Placer 243, Lincoln 286 — Hannah Gregg fired a 34 on the par-36 Turkey Creek course Thursday to lead the Lady Hillmen (10-4, 10-PVL) to victory. She was followed by Madi Holm (42) and Brooke Griffin (54) of Placer, which hosts Bear River at the Ridge Tuesday. Bear River 277, Center 284 — Jessica Pisenti shot a match- and personal-best 38 at Cherry Island Golf Course Thursday to lead the Bruins to a win. Shelby Lampson (47) and Olivia Naves (61) followed Pisenti on the par-37 course. Bear River (3-4 PVL) plays Placer Tuesday at the Ridge. Girls tennis Del Oro 8, Woodcreek 1 — Kylee Webb (6-4, 7-5), Macey Bailey (6-0, 6-0), Ashley Brenning (6-1, 6-2), Belle Champlin (6-0, 6-1) and Tara McNabb (6-1, 6-1) recorded singles wins for the visiting Golden Eagles (8-4, 4-2 SFL) on Thursday. Doubles teams of Gracie Berry and Elena Hansen (6-0, 6-1), Sarah Silva and Emily Friesen (6-2, 6-2), and Rachel Lewis and Jenna Vmerzel (6-4, 6-2) triumphed for Del Oro, which plays at Rocklin Tuesday. Boys water polo Del Oro 14, Roseville 8 — Keenan Finney had five goals and Alex Henrikson added three Thursday for the visiting, victorious Golden Eagles (4-3 Sierra Foothill League), who travel to Granite Bay Tuesday. Football Placer freshmen 49, Mesa Verde 0 —The Hillmen won big in Auburn Thursday night.


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It's time to get serious about marketing to Hispanics online.
With the recent election of Antonio Villaraigosa as mayor of Los Angeles, a historic event Newsweek rewarded with a "Latin Power" cover story, it's fitting to ask an obvious and overdue question:
Are marketers prepared and ready to market to the nation's burgeoning Hispanic population? Do we even have a clue? Will we?
Census Bureau data released last week reveal the Hispanic population is growing faster today than in the past decade. Nearly one in seven people in the U.S. identify themselves as Hispanic, and this group alone accounted for half of U.S. population growth since 2000. Remarkably, a third of this population is under 18, suggesting Hispanics are not only a promising demographic for marketers but also a powerful, nascent political force.
Most of us remain vastly out of touch with this fast-growing segment of the population. You needn't look further than brand Web sites and online strategies to reach this easy conclusion.
From Packaging Latino Politicians to Hispanic CPG-Product Packaging
I'd be the first to raise my hand on the ignorance front, but I can probably get away with a little bluffing on the subject. My first real job after college was serving as press secretary and legislative consultant to Art Torres, a dynamic state senator representing the San Gabriel Valley and Latino-dominant East L.A. At the time (1989), Torres was seriously considering running for mayor of Los Angeles, an office no Latino had occupied since 1872.
Torres ultimately pursued other ambitions, but over the next few years we pursued an aggressive agenda of issues pertaining to California's exploding Latino population, from immigrant education and school dropout prevention to economic development and environmental protection in minority-dominant communities. In the process of giving voice to underserved communities, Torres turned out to be a relentless innovator. Indeed, my own fate in online marketing was signed, sealed, and delivered when Torres hosted the nation's first ever "interactive" legislative hearing in 1993, allowing average citizens to call a toll-free number to provide "live" feedback while watching a televised legislative hearing.
From a marketing perspective, keeping Torres competitive required equal diligence to the front page of La Opinión, the nation's largest Spanish-language daily, and to the front page of the Los Angeles Times. It also required sensitivity to subtle yet important ethnic identity nuances within the government-created term "Hispanic." So polarizing was the term, the Los Angeles Times' editorial style guide allowed only "Latino."
Business school later facilitated an almost-surreal shift from California ethnic politics to managing Hispanic marketing for Procter & Gamble's billion-dollar Bounty brand, but many challenges remained the same. My first P&G assignment involved back-to-back focus groups in Miami and Los Angeles, which uncovered remarkably distinctive differences in awareness, trial, and consumption around consumer products.
Newer immigrants, for example, relied more on word of mouth from relatives and other "familiars" when trying new products. And let's not confuse Cuban Americans with Mexican Americans. Bounty didn't have the resources to tailor messaging to all Hispanic subgroups, yet understanding the core difference was critical to prevent stupid or embarrassing generalizations.
The Road Ahead, Including Online
Are marketers prepared for this exciting new target audience? The good news is marketing dollars are up, many Hispanic/Latino agencies are finally getting the respect they deserve, and portals such as AOL and Yahoo are laying impressive foundations to serve advertiser needs in this segment. Univision's recent squeeze on English-language networks is serving as a refreshing wakeup call regarding the growth and importance of this market.
The bad news is most brands still struggle with how to organize for success in "ethnic marketing." P&G often ebbed and flowed on whether so-called ethic marketing should be centralized at the corporate level or left within the scope of individual brands. It's a Catch-22. Brands theoretically do what's best for business and exploit all growth opportunities. Yet, corporate programs must look well beyond short-term brand volume needs to more holistic, long-term strategic considerations.
Either way, now's the time for CMOs to step up to the plate and take Hispanic marketing well beyond Cinco de Mayo promotions.
Online should play a critical role in this ramp-up. There's enough data on the table from Pew Hispanic Center and sufficiently abundant activity in the blogosphere and consumer-generated media to suggest Hispanics are online at dramatically higher levels than digital divide theory suggests.
A great starting point is to take a hard, critical look at multicultural or bilingual content on Fortune 1000 Web sites. ATM machines and product packaging seemingly bend over backwards to provide bilingual messaging, yet sites act as though folks speak (or prefer) only English. If interactive marketing's promise is all about targeting and relevancy, why are Web sites so out of touch? Consider:
Interactive is only a small part of the broader Hispanic marketing mix, but it may just be the fastest path to learning and wisdom. If we're to stay competitive with the rapid changes in today's marketplace, we must listen, learn, then listen again.
Los Angeles' election of a Latino mayor should serve as a long-overdue catalyst.
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Pete Blackshaw, whose professional background encompasses public policy, interactive marketing, and brand management, is executive vice president of strategic services for Nielsen Online, a combination of Nielsen BuzzMetrics, a firm Pete helped cofound, and Nielsen//NetRatings. One of Pete's key focuses is helping brands interpret, manage, and act on consumer-generated media (CGM). A former interactive marketing leader at P&G and founder of consumer feedback portal PlanetFeedback.com, Pete cofounded the Word of Mouth Marketing Association (WOMMA). He authors several blogs, including ConsumerGeneratedMedia.com, and is the author of an upcoming book from Random House, "Satisfied Customers Tell Three Friends, Angry Customers Tell 3000: Running a Business in Today's Consumer-Driven World."
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