wwwhisper is an add-on for authorizing access to Node.js, Ruby on Rails and other Ruby Rack based applications on Heroku.
The add-on provides a web interface to specify emails of users that are allowed to access your web application. Each visitor is presented with a login prompt and asked to enter his or her email address. A link with an access token is sent to the entered email. The link is valid for 30 minutes and for a single successful login. If the visitor owns an email address that is allowed to access the application, opening the link grants access and establishes a browser session that is valid for 30 days or until the access is revoked.
Integration with wwwhisper service is provided via Ruby Rack and Node.js Connect middleware. This minimizes integration cost. There is no need to modify your application code and explicitly call the wwwhisper API.
wwwhisper can be attached to a Heroku application via the CLI.
--admin is an optional parameter that specifies who should be allowed to initially access the application. If --admin is not given, or if the add-on is provisioned via Heroku web UI, your Heroku application owner email is used. Later you can use the wwwhisper admin site to grant access to others.
Once the add-on has been added a WWWHISPER_URL setting will be available in the app configuration and will contain the URL to communicate with the wwwhisper service. This can be confirmed using the heroku config:get command.
All Ruby applications need to add the following entry into their Gemfile.
And then update application dependencies with bundler.
For a Rails application put the following line at the end of config/environments/production.rb.
The line makes wwwhisper the first middleware in the Rack middleware chain. You can take a look at a commit that enabled wwwhisper for a Rails based Typo blog.
For other Rack based applications add the following two lines to the config.ru.
You can take a look at a commit that enabled wwwhisper for a Sinatra application.
Order of Rack middleware matters. Authorization should be performed early, before any middleware that produces sensitive responses is invoked. Rails allows to check middleware order with a command.
wwwhisper by default inserts an iframe to HTML responses. The iframe contains an email of a currently logged in user and a logout button. If Rack is configured to compress responses, compression middleware should be put before wwwhisper, otherwise the iframe won't be inserted.
Visit https://yourapp-name.herokuapp.com/ you should be presented with a login page. Sign-in with your email. Visit https://yourapp-name.herokuapp.com/wwwhisper/admin/ to specify which locations can be accessed by which visitors and which (if any) should be open to everyone.
It is usually convenient to disable wwwhisper authorization for a local development environment. If your application uses a separate config file for development (for example config/environments/development.rb in case of Rails) you don't need to do anything, otherwise you need to set WWWHISPER_DISABLE=1 environment variable.
If you use Heroku Local to start a local server, execute the following command in the application directory.
To use the wwwhisper service locally, use the wwwhisper admin to allow logins from a local address. Go to the Site settings menu and add the local address (for example http://localhost:8080) to the list of allowed addresses. Next, copy the WWWHISPER_URL variable from the Heroku config to your local config.
If you use Heroku Local, execute.
wwwhisper works with Node.js applications that use Express or Connect frameworks. To configure the add-on, add the following line into the dependencies section of the package.json.
Next, add the following lines to the application main source file.
// may be named differently in your source file.
// a logout iframe into HTML responses use.
Make sure wwwhisper middleware is put before any middleware that produces sensitive responses. You can take a look at a commit that enabled wwwhisper for an Express application.
wwwhisper can be removed via the CLI.
wwwhisper support and runtime issues should be submitted via one of the Heroku Support channels. Please CC help@wwwhisper.io.
Any non-support related issues or product feedback is welcome at help@wwwhisper.io. Issues and feature requests can be also reported via github.
It is recommended to access wwwhisper protected applications over HTTPS.
wwwhisper authorizes access to content served by your Heroku application. If you put sensitive content on external servers that do not require authorization (for example public Amazon S3 bucket), wwwhisper won't be able to restrict access to such content.
wwwhisper is open source, see the project repository for a detailed explanation of how it works.


Becoming a member of Reclaim the City is easy. The first step is to attend a chapter meeting.
Woodstock Chapter Meets at Cissie Gool House on Mountain Road opposite the Greek Orthodox Church, every Thursday at 7pm.
Sea Point Chapter meets at the Methodist Church on Main Road, every second Thursday at 7pm.
An Inner City Chapter will be established soon.
Pay the annual membership fee of R50.00 and receive a membership card.
Must abide by Reclaim The City's Constitution.


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Home » Multi-Conveyor receives second ACUITY Safety Achievement Award
Multi-Conveyor receives second ACUITY Safety Achievement Award
KEYWORDS ACUITY Safety Achievement Award / award / conveyor / safety
Multi?Conveyor LLC was presented with the ACUITY Safety Award for businesses that exemplify the partnership with ACUITY that helps ensure a safe work place.
The plaque was presented by Gwendolyn Arps, Sr. Loss Control Representative at ACUITY, to Joe Miller, Operations Manager, Janice Wuestneck, Safety Coordinator, and Ed Doe, Owner of Multi?Conveyor LLC in Winneconne, Wisconsin. The award presentation was also accompanied by Tom Paroubek of the Paroubek Insurance Agency of DePere.
Ms. Arps of ACUITY adds, "Only 3% of our entire business sector of clients even qualify for this impressive honor. It is hard enough for most companies to qualify for an initial award much less a prominent successive recognition. "
At Multi?Conveyor, safety is taught to every employee working on the manufacturing floor or in the offices of the entire 60,000 sq. ft. facility. Factors that qualified Multi?Conveyor for this award include absolute minimal employee loss?time accidents, a meticulous working environment, and a genuine concern for the well?being of their employees. Multi-Conveyor's safety record also contributed towards an excellent EMR (Experience Modification Rate), a rating used by the insurance industry to determine worker's compensation rates.
At Multi?Conveyor, we pride ourselves on keeping our employees' best interests at heart which is why we take time and effort for education safety," says Ms. Wuestneck. "We are very excited to be recognized for a second Safety Achieve Award". Jan not only spearheads policies but also oversees OSHA requirements for the company.
"The ACUITY Safety Award is a testament to the commitment to the overall work ethics practiced by our employees as they apply safety principles and continue their dedication to the programs we've put in place," explains Joe Miller, Operations Manager. "In our industry, workplace safety hazards are subject to continual change based on our current projects. It requires a great deal of skill and effort by our Safety Team to continually identify and react to new situations."
ACUITY, headquartered in Sheboygan, is a property and casualty insurer that operates in 23 states, generates over $1.2 billion in revenue through 1,000 independent agencies, and manages nearly $3 billion in assets. Named the #3 large company to work for in America, ACUITY employs over 1,000 people.
For more information about Multi-Conveyor, visit www.multi-conveyor.com.
Multi-Conveyor receives third ACUITY Safety Achievement Award
Multi-Conveyor receives fourth ACUITY Safety Achievement Award
Multi-Conveyor receives consecutive ACUITY Insurance Safety Achievement Award
The Austin Company receives second Gold Safety Award from Liberty Mutual

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RAD MARKET New Release Announcement!
With the upcoming tour final for the GazettE at MAKUHARI MESSE on the 27th of September, the band has also announced new goods under their designer label "BLACK MORAL". The online release is set to go live on the day of the concert at 1pm JST, so no matter where you are in the world, you can get your hands on the items!
The release includes items such as new shirts, a tank top, sneakers, card cases, smart phone cases, an FC only bracelet and their signature bear.


In a previous article, we wrote about the particular style of music called retrowave, which grew out of the desire to hybridize something old-fashioned with modern trends. Therefore, today's piece will be about a rather comparable style of music which has emerged in a somewhat similar way.
Electro Swing has descended from the swing jazz that originated way back in the '20s, in the United States of America, and dominated the music scene until the late '40s. One of the main features of this music is that it was usually played by large jazz orchestras that had a lot of wind instruments and a strong rhythm section.
But let's travel a bit closer to our own time and talk about the modernized electronic version of this genre. The initial steps in this direction were made in the early '90s when such musicians as G-Swing, Mike Dixon, Doop, and Gabin began mixing house music with the elements of swing jazz.
In this time period, the term "electro-swing" first appeared in the music press. However, this phase was rather short-lived because, by the late '90s, the popularity of the genre had subsided as it went into a version of the underground, having turned into a local sub-genre of house music. It should be noted that even during its years in obscurity, the genre continued to take shape, slowly but surely. In 1999, a single called "Get a Move On", released by Mr. Scruff, set the genre's direction.
In 2005, Max Fuderer finalized the formation of the genre. He decided that the time for remixes was over and, after acquiring the pseudonym Parov Stelar, started to release original songs in which he employed a live, jazzy sound. These innovations allowed the genre to find a place in the global trends of the early 21st century. Actually, the absolute majority of bands that play in the style of electro swing are followers of Parov Stelar, in one way or another.
By 2011, the popularity of the genre began to fade, but it managed to leave a legacy in the form of a full-fledged and independent musical movement. Although electro-swing didn't achieve mass popularity, it brought forward a significant number of immensely talented and fascinating musicians.
Perhaps this is one of the best albums by this particular band as well as of the entire genre.
One of the bands that followed in Max Fuderer's footsteps, particularly respecting the sound that he discovered. It would be fair to say that the quality of their music is on a par with the music composed by the pioneer of the genre.
This band was formed long before the emergence of electro-swing. Initially, they played a modernized version of jazz interwoven with other genres. The members of the band have a simple name for this style – Nu Jazz. However, this term contains the string of experiments with the sound that can't go unnoticed by a seasoned music lover.
This band's music has a lot more in common with its electronic roots than with the jazz ones, though the influence of the latter is also quite meaningful. The band hasn't yet released a full album, but you will be able to find a lot of their singles and remixes on various websites.
I have already mentioned this band in this article, so now I would like to give you a chance to listen to their complete album. It is not a representative of pure electro swing per se, but their music has played an important role as one of the stages in the experiment that is the hybridization of jazz and electronic music.


What Does an Albion South Beach Hotel Room Include?
The minimalist bedrooms of this hotel are comfortable and well-equipped. Guests can play their favorite tracks or movies at night using the entertainment center in the room. There are petite and deluxe rooms to accommodate all needs, and penthouses feature private terraces. Satellite televisions feature several HD channels. Free Wi-Fi and coffee in the morning makes visitors' stay enjoyable.
Guests can take advantage of the on-site fitness center, with new, state-of-the art equipment . The outdoor swimming pool is open all day. The lobby bar has several unique, must-try cocktails and snacks, a large outdoor sitting area, and great service all day.
How Much Will a Stay at Albion South Beach Hotel Cost?
Room prices range between $120 and $180, depending on the size of the accommodation and the season.
What Activities Are Popular Near Albion South Beach Hotel?
This great family hotel is only a few minutes walk from the beach. The Holocaust Memorial Miami Beach is also within walking distance. Visit Jungle Island for a day packed with family friendly activities. Take a walk in Collins Park on hot summer days. Book a child or adult activity at the 21st Street Recreation Center, where you can play volleyball and ice hockey. Golfers can visit the Bayshore Municipal Golf Course.
One of the cheapest hotels in Miami Beach, the Albion South Beach is suitable for families and couples on a budget.
93% were unhappy with the valet service.
"Picture perfect view room" "A/c broke"
"Free wi-fi" "Wi fi would not work"
"A/c didn't work" "Air conditioner did not work"
"Pool was old" "Pool bit old"
"Large breakfast buffet selection" "Free breakfast buffet"
"There was no restaurant" "Only hot food"
92% did not enjoy the desserts.
Completely renovated in 2005, this landmark 1939 hotel just off Lincoln Road and a block away from the ocean is a minimalist chic haven of 100 guest rooms.
An Art Deco landmark located two blocks from the beach and steps from the upscale Lincoln Road Mall, the 100-room Albion is one of South Beach's best bargains.
The Rubells are big-deal art collectors in Miami (not to mention kin to the late Steve Rubell of Studio 54) and they have an impressive, tourable warehouse in the Wynwood Art District.


In keeping with Gramophone's tradition of supporting various charitable organizations throughout the years, we were excited to end the year with our "Gramophone in the Community" campaign which allowed our Employee's whom volunteer or were personally impacted by these organizations throughout this past year, to nominate and request contributions to their charities.
• "For the Love of a Veteran, Inc." which provides assistance to homeless Veterans and Military families in need as well as filling and sending 'love from home' care packages to our US service men and women deployed throughout the world.
• "St. Jude Children's Research Hospital and the Shriner's Hospitals" which provide a vast array of medical care and services to children and their families. St. Jude will also not charge for any child in need of their services which relieves at least a partial burden from their families as they go through treatments and procedures at their locations.
• "New Hope Ministries Center – Hanover (PA)" which provides daily meals for those in need, provides food and products to families for their annual Thanksgiving and Christmas Blessing Events as well as providing basic daily necessities like soap, shampoo, diapers, etc. to those in need throughout the year.
Gramophone is blessed to be able to support not only these wonderful charitable organizations but to support and appreciate our Employees who volunteer their own time and talents to them as well.


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L'équipe de Tunisie des moins de 17 ans est une sélection de joueurs de moins de 17 ans au début des deux années de compétition placée sous la responsabilité de la Fédération tunisienne de football. Elle n'a ni remporté de coupe d'Afrique des nations ni de coupe du monde.

Histoire

Parcours en coupe d'Afrique des nations des moins de 17 ans
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 1997 : Non qualifiée
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Parcours en coupe du monde des moins de 17 ans
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 1995 : Non qualifiée
 1997 : Non qualifiée
 1999 : Non qualifiée
 2001 : Non qualifiée
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 2005 : Non qualifiée
 2007 : Huitièmes de finale
 2009 : Non qualifiée
 2011 : Non qualifiée
 2013 : Huitièmes de finale
 2015 : Non qualifiée
 2017 : Non qualifiée
 2019 : Non qualifiée

Palmarès
 Coupe d'Afrique des nations des moins de 17 ans :
  en 2013
 Championnat d'Afrique du Nord des nations de football des moins de 17 ans :
  en 2008, 2009, 2012 et 2017
  en 2006, 2007, 2010, 2015, 2016 et 2021
  en 2012, 2014, 2018, 2018 et 2022
 Championnat arabe de football des moins de 17 ans :
  en 2012

Joueurs connus
 Hamdi Marzouki
 Khaled Fadhel
 Youssef Msakni
 Nour Hadhria
 Bilel Ifa

Articles connexes
 Équipe de Tunisie de football

Tunisie
Equipe - 17 ans

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I'm not sure, probably about this much (makes the 'okay' sign with hand).
This is a common theme with initial nutrition consults. A lot of people don't even know where they are starting from!
Why is it important to know your starting point? Because that is directly correlated and significantly causes your current body weight.
Not losing weight, but not gaining? – then you are averaging your calories around your maintenance level.
Slowly gaining weight? You are slowly consuming more calories than you need.
No clue how this is happening? Let's look at a few areas where calories can rack up without keeping them in check.
What's another Tbsp? 85 calories.
1 oz. vs. 2 oz.
107 calories vs. 214 calories.
What is the daily difference???
Small differences can make BIG differences. Know your portions, especially with higher fat foods. Knowledge is power, awareness is key.


"STEAL MY SUNSHINE" (PETER RABBIT 2018 FILM VERSION)"
"REMEMBER THE NAME (PETER RABBIT 2018 FILM VERSION)"
"I PROMISE YOU (EZRA'S DEMO)"
This is such an adventurous, boisterous and charming score by Dom!
IMO he topped Free Birds with this one (and I thought Free Birds was one of the best RCP animated scores ever, apart from the terrible fuzz and distortion that plagued a number of tracks, especially the last third of the album).
So happy to finally have a Dom Lewis score released; it's been a while.
SIDE NOTE: Hybrid, do you know why Dom's previous 3 or 4 scores (I'm talking Fist Fight, Rough Night, DuckTales, etc.) haven't had releases?


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How will this shuttle affect our lives in five to 10 years?
American City & County Associate Editor Jason Axelrod recounts riding in an autonomous shuttle and ponders how the technology will change our lives
Written by Jason Axelrod
Do you remember the thoughts you had when you learned about the first iPhone in 2007? I remember feeling astounded.
I'd received my first cell phone as my 15th birthday present from my parents just over one year earlier. It had the two features that topped my wish list: a flip phone with a color display. I could communicate with anyone, anywhere! I was enthralled.
Seeing Apple co-founder Steve Jobs unveil the iPhone in January 2007 though, brought me to another level of amazement. A pocket-sized touchscreen computer with a built-in phone and iPod? With my Motorola RAZR in hand, the iPhone just seemed unfathomable.
Sandwiched in that amazement was a vague feeling that this was more than just a cool new gadget. The iPhone felt like a really big deal.
I experienced that same feeling a few weeks ago at the Peachtree Corners, Ga., City Hall, when a shuttle with no driver chauffeured me around a parking lot.
The shuttle seated seven other people and looked like a Walt Disney World ride disguised as a public bus. It crawled at about 10 miles per hour around a simple yet track-less route along the small lot.
But there was no steering wheel or driver. Instead, the shuttle had a monitor that the "operator" stood a few feet behind. At one point, the bus gently stopped for pedestrians to walk through a crosswalk, all with no input from the operator whatsoever.
That vague, premonitory feeling returned as I filmed the ride on my iPhone. This shuttle felt like a really big deal. But this time, I wasn't only marveling about what the technology in front of me could do at the moment.
Instead, I was thinking about what this shuttle would be able to do in five years. Or 10 years. How would this change our lives and society, like the iPhone and Droid phones had?
Cities and counties are at the front line of these vehicles' development. After all, manufacturers need realistic environments to test their technology. Several have taken charge — Las Vegas, Peachtree Corners, Columbus, Ohio and Contra Costa County, Calif., already have autonomous or connected vehicles rolling around in their jurisdictions.
Following these cities' examples can offer governments benefits in city planning, economic development, fleet management, fostering resilience and more. There is plenty of room for more governments to work with the autonomous and connected vehicle industry, and there will be plenty more demand from this industry for partnership with local governments.
Even in their nascent stages, autonomous vehicles and connected vehicles have already become buzzwords. As 5G access grows, they will only grow in prominence and prevalence — much like BYOD and MDM did for smartphones.
"Every so often, a revolutionary product comes along that changes everything," Jobs said at the Jan. 9, 2007 iPhone keynote. "One's very fortunate if you get to work on just one of these in your career."
May your government be one of the fortunate ones to work with autonomous or connected vehicles. Because this is a really big deal.
Jason Axelrod is the Associate Editor of American City & County. Reach him at jason.axelrod@informa.com.
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Big wireless network operators like AT&T and Verizon are hungrily eying your neighborhood street light as the perfect home for their 5G small cell transmitters. After all, those light poles already offer a reliable source of electricity, and they're often located in just the right place to push 5G signals into your home or office. […]


Fail to Fix a Fail.
With so many wrong ways to put on condoms, everyone who uses them will probably slip up at some point during their sexual history. The worst thing to do when it happens, whether the condom's inside out, broken or on too tight, is just to ignore it and keep going. To repeat the last page: The deceptively simple solution of fixing a wrong-side-out condom by taking it off and flipping it the right way has its own major flaw. Once flipped, one partner's bodily fluid is on the outside, ready for contact with the other's. As many as 30 percent of people who accidentally start a condom off inside out make this mistake [source: Sanders et al.].
The best thing to do any time something goes wrong while putting on a condom is to throw that condom away and get a new one. It's a pretty good reason to keep extra condoms around (as long as they're not in a wallet, in a glove box or right next to the heating vent).


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Rapid Litigation Management Ltd. v. Cellzdirect, Inc. (Fed. Cir. 2016)
Kevin Noonan
McDonnell Boehnen Hulbert & Berghoff LLP
As we have had the occasion to say before regarding subject matter eligibility, "[o]ne swallow does not a summer make, nor one fine day . . . ," but the Federal Circuit may have engendered a glimmer of hope that it will once again take up its mantle of patent law expertise regarding the proper judicial interpretation of Section 101, in its decision in Rapid Litigation Management Ltd. (formerly, Celsis Holdings, Inc.) v. Cellzdirect, Inc.
The case arose following summary judgment in the District Court that the claims were invalid under Section 101. The invention was directed to methods for producing pure cultures of mature hepatocytes to be used "for testing, diagnostic, and treating purposes." Hepatocytes in the prior art were disadvantageous for these purposes because they "can only be obtained from liver resections or non-transplantable livers of organ donors, and their lifespan is short" and consequently "[s]upply is thus erratic, making availability limited and unpredictable." Cryopreservation was a known technique in the art that enabled hepatocytes to be preserved for later use, but the method had limitations. These included damaging the hepatocytes and thus lowering yield as well as being "unsuitable for preparing multidonor hepatocyte pools" (which were desirable, inter alia, because "hepatocytes from different donors generally have different metabolic properties, [and] researchers desired to pool hepatocytes from various source livers to create a hepatocyte preparation approximating average liver cells"). The "conventional wisdom" was that "hepatocytes could be frozen only once and then had to be either used or discarded."
The inventors found, contrary to the art, that certain hepatocytes in a hepatocyte population could be thawed multiple times and retain viability. This was the basis for the U.S. Patent No. 7,604,929 claiming methods for producing populations of multiply frozen hepatocytes; claim 1 is representative:
1. A method of producing a desired preparation of multi-cryopreserved hepatocytes, said hepatocytes being capable of being frozen and thawed at least two times, and in which greater than 70% of the hepatocytes of said preparation are viable after the final thaw, said method comprising:
(A) subjecting hepatocytes that have been frozen and thawed to density gradient fractionation to separate viable hepatocytes from non- viable hepatocytes,
(B) recovering the separated viable hepatocytes, and
(C) cryopreserving the recovered viable hepatocytes to thereby form said desired preparation of hepatocytes without requiring a density gradient step after thawing the hepatocytes for the second time, wherein the hepatocytes are not plated between the first and second cryopreservations, and wherein greater than 70% of the hepatocytes of said preparation are viable after the final thaw.
The commercial product produced by these methods, LiverPoolTM, comprises "multi-cryopreserved, pooled hepatocyte preparations" useful for "a variety" of research uses.
Original plaintiff Celsis In Vitro sued original defendant Life Technologies, Inc., which filed a summary judgment motion of invalidity under Sections 101 and 112. The District Court granted summary judgment on Section 101 grounds (and did not reach the Section 112 issues), using the Supreme Court's Mayo/Alice "two-step" analysis. According to the District Court, the claim was "directed to an ineligible law of nature" (the "discovery" that hepatocytes could be subjected to multiple freeze/thaw cycles) under step 1. The District Court found the claim failed to recite an "inventive concept" because it simply "reapplied a well-understood freezing process").
(It may be by now past mentioning that the application of the Supreme Court's Mayo/Alice precedent would have more clarity and more predictability if the inferior courts (and the PTO) took the Supreme Court at its word and determined whether the "something more" in step 2 was novel and non-obvious. For example, in this case subjecting hepatocytes to additional freeze/thaw cycles was novel because the prior art taught it could not be done, and for similar reasons the method was non-obvious (and certainly yielded unexpected results sufficient to overcome prima facie obviousness in any event). Similar considerations would have produced similar results contrary to the District Court's decision in Ariosa v. Sequenom.)
Plaintiff appealed.
The Federal Circuit vacated and remanded, in an opinion by Chief Judge Prost joined by Judges Moore and Stoll. In the Court's opinion, the inquiry need not extend past step 1 of the Mayo/Alice test, because according to its opinion, the District Court erred in finding that the claims were directed to a law of nature. On the contrary, according to the opinion "the claims are simply not directed to the ability of hepatocytes to survive multiple freeze-thaw cycles[; r]ather, the claims of the '929 patent are directed to a new and useful laboratory technique for preserving hepatocytes." Viewed in this way, (being a "constructive process," directed to achieving "a new and useful end") "is precisely the type of claim that is eligible for patenting" according to the panel. The opinion acknowledges that the inventors "discovered" the capacity for hepatocytes to undergo multiple cycles of freezing and thawing, "but that is not where they stopped, nor is it what they patented." Quoting Judge Bryson's opinion in Myriad, this opinion states that "as the first party with knowledge of" the cells' ability, they were "in an excellent position to claim applications of that knowledge."
The panel then distinguishes these claims from the claims recently at issue before the court in In re BRACA1- & BRCA2-Based Hereditary Cancer Test Patent Litigation ("Myriad III"), Sequenom, and Genetic Technologies, Ltd. v. Merial. The opinion characterizes each of these cases as ones where the natural law is used to "identify" genetic information (Genetic Technologies) or cffDNA (Sequenom) or genetic mutation (Myriad III), in the latter case expressly characterizing the claim as comprising an "abstract mental process." In contrast, according to the opinion, "[t]he end result of the '929 patent claims is not simply an observation or detection of the ability of hepatocytes to survive multiple freeze-thaw cycles"; rather, the claims result in "a better way of preserving hepatocytes." These claims are like "thousands of others" reciting methods to produce a desired outcome, such as "to produc[e] things or . . . treat[] diseases." The panel recognizes that interpreting claims as the District Court was persuaded to do (wherein the claim "describe[s] the natural ability of the subject matter to undergo the process") does not mean the claim is "'directed to' that natural ability." Otherwise, according to the panel:
[W]e would find patent-ineligible methods of, say, producing a new compound (as directed to the individual components' ability to combine to form the new compound), treating cancer with chemotherapy (as directed to cancer cells' inability to survive chemotherapy), or treating headaches with aspirin (as directed to the human body's natural response to aspirin).
Turning to claim 5, which further recites pooling hepatocytes from multiple donors (which was deemed to not be possible in the prior art) the panel is even more vigorous in defending its eligibility, because it "results in a preparation that is both new and vastly more useful for research than hepatocyte preparations made by conventional methods" (thus incorporating elements of utility into the subject matter eligibility calculus). The panel rejects defendants' reliance on the Supreme Court's Funk Bros. v. Kalo Inoculant precedent on the basis that the Court ruled on product claims, and expressly stated that "it was not "presented [with] the question whether the methods of selecting and testing the non-inhibitive strains are patentable," and the panel avoids the question of whether claims to the composition would be patent eligible under Funk Bros. (regardless of the differences between mixing to strains of bacteria in a bag (as in Funk Bros.) and manipulating hepatocytes to that do not occur in such a state in nature to produce a mixture that would appear to satisfy the requirement in Diamond v. Chakrabarty of being "a product of human ingenuity 'having a distinctive name, character [and] use.'")
The panel relies on firmer limitations on subject matter eligibility precedent by citing the portions of the Supreme Court's opinion in Myriad that expressly stated that "[i]t is important to note what is not implicated by [the] decision," specifically methods as before the panel in this case. The panel draws the analogy directly, stating that "[h]ere, the inventors developed an innovative method of manipulating hepatocytes, a particular kind of liver cell which, prior to this invention, had been very difficult to preserve for future use. [] The claims are thus distinguishable from those held unpatentable in Myriad." Similarly the panel distinguished the claims in Sequenom, because the panel in that case held the claims were "directed to" the cffDNA itself despite reciting a method for detecting such DNA and making a diagnosis on the basis of that detection.
The panel then considers the claims' satisfaction of step 2 of the Mayo/Alice test, and relying on Diamond v. Diehr (as cited in Mayo and Alice) finds that the claims "'improve[] an existing technological process,' [and thus] are sufficient to 'transform[] the process into an inventive application' of the patent-ineligible concept": "The claimed method is patent eligible because it applies the discovery that hepatocytes can be twice frozen to achieve a new and useful preservation process" says the panel, citing Mayo's reliance on Diehr that "an application of a law of nature or mathematical formula to a known structure or process may well be deserving of patent protection."
Finally, the opinion addresses the argument that the steps of the method were "well-understood, conventional and routine" by stating that it is not the case that "all process claims that employ only independently known steps will be unpatentable" but that the claims must be considered "as a whole," i.e., "both individually and as a 'ordered combination.'" Again relying on Diehr, the opinion states that "a new combination of steps in a process may be patentable even though all the constituents of the combination were well known and in common use before the combination was made." Here, subjecting hepatocytes to multiple freeze-thaw cycles was not "routine and conventional" according to the Court (a conclusion supported by the prosecution history of the '929 patent (and reexamination) and the Examiners' conclusions to that effect therein).
In a coda the panel reassured that it was uncontested that the claims did not preempt the natural law (noting that defendants had already "engineered around the patent") and thus this Supreme Court concern was not implicated in its decision.
In addition to the aforesaid glimmer, it should be noted that the patent-eligible claims here share another similarity to the claims in Diehr not shared by the claims in Mayo or Sequenom or Genetic Technologies or in Myriad III (at least for some of the claims): these claims are related to methods for producing a tangible thing (hepatocyte cultures), not diagnostic information. This distinction remains the one constant between those claims invalidated under Section 101 under recent Supreme Court precedent. Only cases like Funk Bros. and American Fruit Growers v. Brogdex involve patent ineligible tangible products, and in these cases the products were pre-existing (and as noted by the panel did not include method claims). The question remains unanswered whether the tangible/intangible distinction is at the root of the Supreme Court's disaffection with diagnostic methods claims, and perhaps it will take a case that squarely puts this distinction before the Court before we will ever find out.
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Women's basketball: Terry overcomes Flint water crisis to play for Bonnies
(Photo Credit: Craig Melvin/GoBonnies.com)
By Chuckie Maggio @chuckiemaggio
Jalisha Terry and her Hamady High School teammates were in disbelief.
It was March, playoffs time in high school hoops, and they still had to brush their teeth with bottled water and carry cases of water up the stairs just to take a bath or shower. They were being tested for lead poisoning.
They were still facing one of the biggest water crises in United States history.
To cut costs in spring 2014, Flint, Mich. changed its water source from Detroit water, which was sourced from Lake Huron, to water from the dirty Flint River.
The move had demoralizing effects on an already decaying city. The Flint water was contaminated with dangerous lead due to aging pipes. According to the United Way, an estimated 6,000 to 12,000 kids have been exposed to the drinking water. In January, President Barack Obama declared the city to be in a federal state of emergency. Criminal charges have been filed against nine people as a result of the crisis.
"We went deep into the season and almost made it to states, and it really hit me, because it was going on for months," Terry said. "It was like, 'this is still happening?' That's when it hit me, 'something's gotta happen, it's getting out of hand. It's been happening all season, it shouldn't be that long.' It was definitely hard for us, the whole team."
In a story by Bleacher Report's Greg Couch on life as a young athlete in Flint, Terry's father, James, said she was experiencing headaches "all the time." Her mother, Lisa, noted that she had been moody, but acknowledged, "Everyone is moody, though. Is it the water?"
A natural resource so many take for granted was the biggest concern in the seventh largest city in Michigan.
"Being an athlete in Flint, it was hard because we had to take showers everyday after practice, and just waking up was hard for me," Terry said.
"It was kind of hard, but ever since I've been here I've just been so happy and glad that I actually get to be in a different place like this, and I'm glad that they offered me so I could get away from what was happening in Flint."
Perhaps the most incredible fact of Terry's journey through adversity is that she was still Michigan's Associated Press Class C Player of the Year. She averaged 20.5 points, 5.2 steals and 4.8 assists in a stellar senior season.
After former SBU coach Jim Crowley took the Providence job, Terry reopened her recruitment, and as a four-star recruit, there were plenty of potential destinations if she chose to leave.
Coach Jesse Fleming realized how important it was to establish a connection with the talented player, and his reaction struck a chord with her.
"I think that things happen for a reason, and opening up my recruitment, I feel like it wasn't a good idea," Terry said. "And Coach Jesse called me and even offered to come all the way to Flint to see me. I was like, this coach really cares. And he watched me before, watched me play in high school, so I feel more comfortable. And coach Andi (Mulcahy) was already here, and I've been close with her, so I felt like I should stay."
"I hope she's still happy with her decision… we're thrilled to have her here," Fleming said.
"Jalisha's a kid, I can yell at her and everything and the kid's gonna come back the next day and stay with a smile on her face," he continued. "That's the character that she has. She's seen the good and bad side of life at a young age, and I think getting coached hard isn't something that affects her very much. She's just been such a positive kid for us, and we're expecting a lot out of her."
Terry lists being more vocal as her biggest room for improvement, while taking care of the ball, driving to the basket and being a good teammate are her perceived strengths.
"Transitioning from high school to college has been a lot different," she said. "It's intense, faster, you have to be smarter. Practice lately has been longer as well, too, but I think I was kind of ready for it. It's been intense, but it's all going to pay off; it's worth it."
SBU provided Terry with an escape from the distress of her hometown, but her family and friends are still there, and she said there is still a lot of work to do.
"They say it's better but no one believes it," she said. "Some famous people from Flint have actually donated water or money, but when something happens right then and there it's noticed, and then it kind of dies off. I still think it's a problem. We need to take action, not just other people but the city itself. They actually have to fix the pipes. I'm not blaming it on anyone, but they have to do something, because I'm here in Olean but my family's still back there.
"We still need more attention. We need something to happen so we can be satisfied and comfortable with where we live."
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Nuit Blanche 2011 Guide: Zone A
By Torontoist
Your crack Torontoist all-night art lovers have studied the Nuit Blanche program with care. Here are our picks for the most promising installations of the night.
"A City Sleepover" by Jessica Rose will take over Lower Bay Station.
Tell YOUR Story – Rebecca Singh, Hendrik Scheel, David DeGrow, Caitlin Weld
Canada's Smallest Theatre (601 Christie Street)
Theatre and creative artist Rebecca Singh, who's been at Nuit Blanche every year so far (with popular past exhibits like Bouncing Brides and SMASH! Droppin' Stuff), has teamed with Berlin designer Henrik Scheel for this new participatory event. At Wychwood Artscape Barns (where Singh is a resident artist), they'll have a stage set up for participants to get up and tell a short story throughout the night. While the stage will be open to all, they've programmed a few "pros" throughout the night to keep things moving, including Singh's previous Nuit Blanche collaborator Cathy Gordon, and a satellite hook-up with Toronto-based artists Colleen MacPherson and Nina Gilmour, who will tell their stories from the concurrent Nuit Blanche in Paris, France. (Steve Fisher)
Night Light Travels – Ben Chaisson, Beth Kates, Lynda Hill, Jody Kramer
Studio 174 (601 Christie Street)
Unless you're an insomniac, a night watchman, or a freelance journalist, you'll probably be up way past your bedtime during the evening of Nuit Blanche. But remember when it was a big deal to stay up past 8 o'clock, and suddenly what used to be so mundane became extraordinary and magical in the dark of night? Participants can relive that feeling as local theatre designers and husband-and-wife-team Beth Kates and Ben Chaisson transform the Wychwood Theatre into a cosmic dreamscape, with their signature lighting, sound, and projection installations that interact with the movements of the audience. (Carly Maga)
Compostela – Brett David Potter, Toronto Choral Artists
Church of the Redeemer (162 Bloor Street West)
A collaboration between video artist Brett David Potter and the Toronto Choral Artists, Compostela seeks to explore the sacred and the sublime, combining Potter's interactive video installation with live choral performances. The exhibition is inspired by the centuries-long religious pilgrimage to Santiago de Compostela, where the bones of St. James are allegedly enshrined. While seasoned Nuit Blanchers may rightfully be conditioned to fear the words "interactive video installation" in the context of all-night contemporary art things, the multimedia incorporation of composer Jody Talbot's tactile, a cappella composition "Path of Miracles" promises to elevate the experience beyond mere projections. (Kelli Korducki)
A City Sleepover – Jessica Rose
Lower Bay Station
The mystique of Lower Bay subway station always draws in crowds during Nuit, so expect a packed house for former Toronto Life art director Jessica Rose's sleepover in the popular movie set. For full participatory effect, it is recommended that anyone planning to spend the night here bring their own pyjamas, sleeping bag, and toothbrush. If you're dropping by for a quick visit (lines permitting), don't step on anyone slumbering on the platform floor. We suspect the piece will prove tempting to weary souls as 4 a.m. rolls around. (Jamie Bradburn)
Medicine Walk – U of T Aboriginal Studies Program
Kahontake Kitikan Garden (east side of Hart House, U of T)
University of Toronto's Aborginal Studies program will reclaim traditional Native land just east of Hart House for the night, with students using songs, recitations, and rituals to collectively bring the past into the present, and integrate Native culture into the present day. The night's performances will culminate in a 6:30am sunrise ceremony, as Nuit Blanche concludes and the night's participants and adventurers go in search of their neglected beds. (Steve Fisher)
Erratic – Germaine Koh
Yonge Street: starting at Bloor at 7 p.m., ending at the waterfront at 7 a.m.
Sure, you could transport a glacial boulder from northern Ontario down Yonge Street from Bloor Street to the shoreline in minutes with a dumptruck. But where's the art in that? As a tribute to manual labour and slow, natural processes that shape our physical landscape, that boulder will be rolled by hand along the same route over a 12-hour period. Vancouver-based artist Germaine Koh's piece will contrast the pace of nature and human work with mechanization of tasks. Alas, this exhibit is not sponsored by Rolling Rock beer. (Jamie Bradburn)
The Crown of the Bell – Rose Bolton, Marc de Guerre
Chalmers House (20 St. Joseph Street)
Another combined sound-video installation, The Crown of the Bell by artists Rose Bolton and Marc de Guerre aims to fill the Canadian Music Centre's historic Chalmers House with the sound of ringing bells in a bid to return the clangers "to their historical role as a symbol of civilization by creating a peaceful refuge in the chaos of the city night." Yes, this sounds flaky to us too; nevertheless, with proper utilization of the Victorian house at hand, this could very well wind up being one of the zone's most haunting sensory experiences. (Kelli Korducki)
Limelight, Saturday Night – Sans façon
Grosvenor Street west of Yonge Street
Brought to you by the art collaborative known as Sans façon, Limelight: Saturday Night is a simple concept whose delightfulness or banality depends entirely on participation by you, dear nightwalkers. So embrace your exhibitionist tendencies and head over to Grosvenor Street, just west of Yonge, where you will find that theatre spotlights have replaced two boring old streetlights, turning the road into an open stage for impromptu musical numbers, makeout sessions, and breakdance battles. Alternatively, it could just serve as a spotlight for drunken swaggering or annoying soapboxing. But that's part of the beauty of Nuit Blanche—you never know what you'll find unless you show up, and no one can predict when the night's showstopper might happen. (Laura Godfrey)
Will You Love Me Tomorrow? – Kevin Schmidt
Multiple locations along Yonge between Bloor and Gerrard
An interesting side effect of constricting the borders of the zones is an inevitable merging of installations, especially the mobile ones. So on Yonge Street, it will be boulder meets busker as Germaine Koh's Erratic will take place alongside Kevin Schmidt's Will You Love Me Tomorrow?, a performance installation which places hired local street musicians in various stations along the strip singing songs ab0ut the thrill of the party and the sorrow of the morning after, reflecting upon what Nuit Blanche has become—one big, long, unusually cold street party. (Carly Maga)
Map by Max Hartshorn/Torontoist.
Including: Yorkville, The Annex, Yonge and Bloor, and Wychwood.
Including: Yonge-Dundas Square, City Hall, and The Distillery District.
Including: Parkdale, Liberty Village, and West Queen West.
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Yoga, paddleboarding and a stunning Castle retreat on Scotland's West Coast.
Discover the wild beauty of Scotland on this 5 day adventure on the West Coast armed with your SUP.
Take to the wild rivers and locks of scotland for an adventure that will see you glide past picturesque spots, exploring the West Coast of Scotland from a completely new perspective.
Once you're done on the water, retreat to your very own castle, where you'll enjoy afternoon tea and cake, a hearty evening feast by your own private chef for a well-deserved rest between days out on the water.
Wake to morning yoga and a full day out on your board, seeing the best of Scotland's wild side.


Don't Forget to Reuse When Possible!
Boxboard - Cereal, shoe, cracker boxes, etc. Remove plastic liners.
Corrugated cardboard - Flatten, remove tape and string.
No soda or beer holders/cartons.
No waxed paper or waxed cardboard.
Aluminum, tin/steel cans and lids and aluminum foil - Labels are ok.
Milk & juice cartons (tent top), drink boxes - Remove straws & caps, flatten.
Plastic bottles, jars, and tubs. Remove pumps and wraps. Caps, labels, and detergent spouts may be left on.
No paint cans or other metal objects.
No plastic bags, containers over 2.5 gal., motor oil jugs, chemical or Styrofoam containers or flower pots.
Can be recycled at the Call2Recycle boxes at transfer stations, Town Halls in Erving, Gill, and Sunderland, or brought to the FCSWMD office. Goodwill and Salvation Army take clothes, shoes, and housewares.
Donate to libraries. Some book stores buy used books. Accepted by many dry cleaners in the region. May be accepted in scrap metal locally.
supermarkets. Some package shipping businesses will accept these for re-use.


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$107M Arts and Culture Plan Means 10yr Hold on New Open Space & Housing Projects
KPCW | By Sean Higgins
Published April 2, 2021 at 5:18 PM MDT
Park City Municipal
At Thursday night's city council meeting in Park City, councilors got a look at what the city could be giving up if the $107 million arts and culture district got the go-ahead.
It's been one of the biggest remaining questions about the proposed arts and culture district in Park City: How does spending $107 million on one project affect everything else the city might want to do in the next 10 years?
At Thursday's city council meeting, discussion about the district centered on that very issue.
In short, if the city went ahead with the project in its current form, there's not much else that could get accomplished in the next decade, said Senior Financial Data Analyst, Erik Daenitz.
"We believe you would not be able to sustain our historical level of open space acquisition or affordable housing expense," he explained. "Stated more generally, what that really means is that big and medium size projects would be difficult to do, you would be constrained on. In the ARST/TRT hybrid strategy that we've talked about, there would be significant constraints through 2031."
Daenitz did specify that current projects would be sustained, but adding anything else in the realm of open space or affordable housing would be very hard to accomplish.
With the countless numbers, acronyms, and spreadsheets that go along with financial discussions, it can be a tall order to keep track of everything, especially for a project as ambitious as the arts and culture district is.
To help simplify what was being discussed, Councilor Nann Worel framed the dilemma in a way many people can understand: buying a house.
"If I was gonna go out and buy a home, I would figure out how much I had to spend and then, if I wanted to spend more than that, I would have to look at if I spend that, what can't I do?" Said Worel. "Or if I buy a less expensive home, what opportunities does that open up for me? That's kind of the level I'd like to have this discussion, where if we choose to spend $107 million or whatever it is, then we can't do x, or if we figure out what a budget is at a lower level, what can we get for that budget?"
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If the proposed development at the base of PCMR is built, there could be a steady flow of revenue to the city's capital fund starting around 2025.
An intriguing slide presented on Thursday showed the potential tax revenue generated to the city's capital fund if the PEG development at the base of Park City Mountain Resort is approved. According to the finance team's model, the PCMR development could start bringing in money around 2025, increasing to around $1.5 million per year as the project nears completion, adding another interesting variable to the council's decision making.
Councilor Tim Henney told KPCW the council will only be getting deeper into the finance aspect of the project as discussions continue.
"We're getting into the, I would say, the real meat of it and what we'd want to avoid is we don't want to cut into the bone of all the other capital projects and that's the big concern and I think everybody shares that concern and that's what you're hearing from the community and everybody on the council shares that concern," Henney said.
The next city council meeting is scheduled for April 15th.
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Sean Higgins covers all things Park City and is the Saturday Weekend Edition host at KPCW. Sean spent the first five years of his journalism career covering World Cup skiing for Ski Racing Media here in Utah and served as Senior Editor until January 2020. As Senior Editor, he managed the day-to-day news section of skiracing.com, as well as produced and hosted Ski Racing's weekly podcast. During his tenure with Ski Racing Media, he was also a field reporter for NBC Sports, covering events in Europe.
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The Rising Cost of Add-Ons and DLC
Posted on October 10, 2014 by Sean Cleaver
Somewhere along the line, we lost faith as gamers that we were getting all that we paid for. Downloadable Content (DLC) has become a sticking point for many consumers who believe part of the game they paid for has been held back so the publisher/developer can milk some more heard earned coin from your digital pocket. This is regardless of the price, although this in itself has become more of a sticking point since the Next Generation consoles and game development costs have pushed the price of games up significantly in the past 24 months.
It also seems the higher costs appear to be based around publishers Activision and EA over most other publishers. How do I get that? Well I could have done some very deep research but the truth is that I didn't have to. Here's a list of Season Passes on the PS3 Playstation Store… Yes, there's a dedicated section for them:
Call of Duty Ghosts – £34.99
Alien Isolation – £24.99
Defiance – £24.99 (It is worth noting that Defiance is now a free-to-play game)
Sniper Elite 3 – £24.99
Destiny – £34.99
Battlefield 4 Premium – £39.99
GRID Autosport – £24.99
Assassins Creed 3 – £25.99
Assassins Creed 4 Black Flag – £15.99
Little Big Planet 2 DC Comics – £19.99
Borderlands 2 – £19.99
I've only selected some here. There are a lot that are free or that have dropped in price like The Last of Us. But it is easy to see why people are beginning to get angry when they are paying arguably the cost of a new game (based on internet retail prices) for DLC. This is a new area for retail where the availability of internet speed has basically made the retail space redundant for them to sell this extra content and they can price it as accordingly as they want.
Why do I mention the retail space? Because before DLC was the done thing, it was Add-Ons. In some cases they are still called that but the distinction for me in the current gaming industry vernacular would suggest that Add-Ons are physical copies of this extra content. This is something that has been in gaming for many, many years. Sonic and Knuckles was one of the first physical game add-ons although this was also a game in itself. Westwood had several different releases for the Command & Conquer series. Heroes of Might and Magic, Grand Theft Auto: London 1969, Half-Life… The list can go on and on.
The biggest cash cow for this is undoubtedly the one that completely changed the market. It didn't give the game much extra other than things to use in the game, and some extra spaces but that didn't stop its rise to being one of the most profitable franchises in gaming history. The Sims had seven expansion packs which roughly retailed around $24.99/£19.99 from what I remember (I am looking for confirmation on prices and will update the article if they come). The Sims 2 had eight expansion packs and ten extra content packs. Although these all did add things to the games, if you had them all you would have spent well over $300 on getting them all. It's hardly EA's fault really. They had a product that people were willing to throw monumental amounts of money at and they said "fair enough", and provided them with ways to do that. Regardless of your thoughts on EA, it was good business. And if the cost of their packages had an effect on the industry and kept prices stable then it would have been great. I suppose you could argue that historically, additional content for a game in the form of an expansion pack, or more common nowadays a season pass, has roughly been around half or 2/3 of the original game's retail price.
That is possibly the problem though. There doesn't seem to be any industry standard as to what a recommend retail price for add-ons or DLC should be. Partially because the content can vary so much as to what you get and partially because the publishers have to decide on the offset of profit versus development cost recovery. That's sadly just business, any business. Regardless if us as gamers want to hear it, we should know that behind the art we love is a business that needs to survive under the insurmountable pressure of rising costs and international market difficulties. Don't worry, I'm not looking for an argument or defending any one company here, but it needs to be said that there is a business behind us being provided with this entertainment.
The problem with that business is that the regulation on it appears to be quite sketchy. PS Store, Wii Store, Xbox Live are all digital retail spaces. Physical retail stores (supermarkets, specialist retailers, etc) will also sell this content by code card. So there must be some portion of this that has to be compliant with fair pricing across the board. But the consumer does seem to get a bum deal out of all of this. When you buy Battlefield and Call of Duty (the latter arguably having the possibility to have the best selling game of the year, as it always does), you are paying around $44.99/£38.99 on average for the retail game and now with the next generation, that's more like $64.99/£59.99. You expect to pay some money for some extra content but the amount of content that these games are providing, with mostly extra maps and gameplay modes (which the game must be ready to support at launch otherwise it'd be a major code rewrite), can cost a massive amount of money to the consumer in total. That's not to say that you don't get a lot of extra stuff though. In the case of Call of Duty Ghosts from Activision, the Onslaught, Devastation, Invasion and Nemesis packs (the Dynasty map is pictured), gives you 16 extra maps and some extra weapons along with episodic content for the Extinction series. In the case of Battlefield 4 from EA there are five extra packs, China Rising, Second Assault, Naval Strike, Dragon's Teeth and Final Stand, making an additional 20 maps, three new game types and a load of extra weapons.
So much is available that the season passes seems to be the obvious way to get it all for a cheaper price. In the case of those two games (you can see the prices above on the Playstation Store list for the most recent releases) the season passes are nearly the price of another game. These are all for extra maps which you have no idea if you'd enjoy and in a way are forced to buy in order to continue your full enjoyment of the game. Why? Because someone WILL buy them and so will many others and if that stops your online enjoyment with everyone playing the new stuff you haven't got then you either buy it or ditch the game. In the case of Xbox and Call of Duty, and Playstation with Destiny, these expansions are mostly exclusive to that console and the expansions are the selling point. Which when you think about it is a completely ridiculous concept when you just want to buy a game and could arguably be damaging to the industry. But again that is just business. Look at how television handles exclusivity of certain shows/licences to get subscribers to their packages or advertisers to their viewers, and how that's damaged the public broadcasting sector.
The price of those season passes you could argue is roughly in line with the price idea I made earlier and that the model is still fairly accurate; Half or 2/3's of the original game's retail price. But in the case of these games, like Destiny, we have no idea what we are getting for these season passes and if they quantify the amount of money we're spending on them for the entertainment value we receive, regardless of work being put in. The two Destiny add-ons that are coming don't appear to give us new planets or places to visit, but additional missions and story in the existing worlds. In fact we know so little about them that our cynicism is being unintentionally qualified. Watch_Dogs was another example of not knowing what the game will give us. We have a few extra modes for the in-game mini-games and now a new single player story add-on. But how much content is there that takes the developer more money than was already spent on the game at launch? How much money are these companies looking to make from the post-launch additional content? And how justified is it to market your game or your console's exclusivity based on these maps/modes/skins/extras? Our cynicism is based around a game already having the additional content spaces ready and that the content we buy is merely assets for it, updates for it or just a patch that unlocks it. Before when this content was physically brought, we were kind of assured that there must be more than we had before otherwise what would be the point in having a new disk for it?
The rising cost of Add-Ons and DLC can partially be paired to the rising cost of games in general. But as the internet and journalism has begun to open the debate on this, and the gaming consumer becomes like any other consumer in a tricky economic climate, that being incredibly savvy and questioning, the conversation is only just beginning. Also with certain games being re-released with everything included some 12-18 months later for the same price as the original game, or with updated graphics for the new generation as well, this will add more focus on what makes good sense to a consumer. With the Christmas period around the corner and the publishers needs to release games on a yearly basis to maximise profit, we'll see how this new generation handles the consumer when we feel that we are not getting enough for what we're shelling out. I predict that some games will be guilty of doing less with their content in this regard and we can probably make predictions as to who will be more guilty than others. But in the next 12 months we'll see how people will react to paying nearly 75% of the cost of the game for extra in that game, and I'm sure we'll find out how much of that could have been included at launch.
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An aspiring actor named Sam had been the captain of his high school football team. Hoping to broaden his avenues into the business, he added these specific sporting skills to his resume. "What I got really surprised me," Sam said. "Producers were looking for a young guy who could run around and catch a chicken–which is not easy to do by the way!" In fact, Sam's football experience helped him land a recurring role in a popular weekly series…and it all started with his ability to catch a cagey chicken.
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What special skills do you have? Do you consider yourself a Nerf basketball champion like Bart does? Bart listed this specific skill on his special skills form and this caught the eye of casting directors looking for someone who could toss crumpled paper into a waste basket with deadly accuracy. Bart turned out to be the Michael Jordan of that particular skill.
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Canada's System of Justice
Proposed Legislation
Proposed changes to Canada's Criminal Code relating to conversion therapy
Government introduces legislation to ban conversion therapy practices in Canada
LGBTQ2 Secretariat
Infographic: Proposed changes to Canada's Criminal Code relating to conversion therapy
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On November 29, 2021, the Minister of Justice and Attorney General of Canada introduced a bill to criminalize so-called conversion therapy practices in Canada. Conversion therapy is a practice that seeks to change an individual's sexual orientation to heterosexual, to change an individual's gender identity to cisgender, or to change their gender expression to match the sex they were assigned at birth.
This bill is similar to former Bill C-6, which was adopted by the House of Commons in the previous Parliament, but with one important difference. It expands on the previous proposed legislation to protect all Canadians—regardless of their age—from the harms of conversion therapy practices and to promote the dignity and equality of lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer and Two-Spirit (LGBTQ2) persons.
These strengthened protections would reflect what the Government heard throughout the parliamentary process for former Bill C-6.
Professional associations such as the Canadian Psychological Association, the Canadian Psychiatric Association and the Canadian Paediatric Society have denounced conversion therapy as it is a practice that is harmful to LGBTQ2 persons, especially minors. The 2019-2020 results of the Sex Now Survey indicate that 10% of sexual minority men who responded to the survey were subjected to conversion therapy. Results from the survey also showed that lower income, Indigenous, racialized and gender-diverse persons are disproportionately represented among those exposed. Compared to those who were not exposed to such practices, those who were exposed reported greater experiences of isolation. According to the 2011-2012 results of the Sex Now Survey, exposure to conversion therapy practices is positively associated with negative psychosocial health outcomes such as loneliness, regular illicit drug use, suicidal ideation and suicide attempt.
Conversion therapy in Canada's Criminal Code
Proposed Criminal Code offences related to conversion therapy
The proposed legislation would define conversion therapy as any practice, service or treatment designed to change a person's sexual orientation to heterosexual, gender identity to cisgender, or gender expression to match the sex assigned at birth, or designed to repress or reduce non-heterosexual attraction or sexual behaviour, or gender expression that does not match the sex assigned at birth, or to repress non-cisgender gender identity.
The Bill proposes to create 4 new offences that would prohibit:
causing another person to undergo conversion therapy (a hybrid offence with a maximum penalty of 5 years imprisonment on indictment)
removing a minor from Canada to undergo conversion therapy abroad (a hybrid offence with a maximum penalty of 5 years imprisonment on indictment)
profiting from conversion therapy (a hybrid offence with a maximum penalty of 2 years imprisonment on indictment)
promoting or advertising conversion therapy (a hybrid offence with a maximum penalty of 2 years imprisonment on indictment)
This bill would also authorize courts to order the seizure of conversion therapy advertisements or their removal from computer systems or the Internet.
These proposed new offences would not criminalize interventions that assist a person in exploring or developing their personal identity, provided that they are not based on the assumption that a particular sexual orientation, gender identity or gender expression is preferable to others. This includes interventions that relate to one's gender transitioning. They also would not criminalize activities that do not amount to practices, treatments or services, such as expressions of personal views on sexual orientation, gender identity or gender expression.


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Abubakar Atiku was endorsed by former president, Olusegun Obasanjo, and General Overseer of Living Faith Church Worldwide also known as Winners Chapel, Bishop David Oyedepo, was also present at the meeting, the Clergy was alleged to have received a sum of ten million dollars from the presidential aspirant.
Presiding Bishop of the Living Faith Church Worldwide, (Winners' Chapel), Bishop David Oyedepo, has insisted that he never received bribe from any politician.
The fiery cleric, who was last week criticized for attending the reconciliation meeting between PDP presidential candidate, Atiku Abubakar and former president Olusegun Obasanjo, maintained that he belonged to no political party.
He, however, stated that he was a peace mediator.
There is no party without winners in it, if you get to any party and you don't see any winner in it you better check out of there, even the one that have not being formed winners are there.
"Our goal is to secure the glorious destiny of our nation by paying whatever price it require. I have never taken any dime from any political candidate in my life, I am a mediator.


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est une comédie dramatique américaine réalisée par Alan Brown, sortie en 2004.

Synopsis
Un jeune étudiant séduit la femme de l'un de ses professeurs...

Fiche technique
 Titre :
 Réalisation : Alan Brown
 Scénario : Alan Brown
 Musique : Stewart Wallace
 Photographie : William Rexer
 Montage : Trevor Ristow
 Décors : Kelly McGehee
 Costumes : Marie Abma
 Production :  et Mickey Liddell
 Pays d'origine :
 Langue originale : anglais
 Format : couleurs - 1,85:1 -  - Dolby Digital
 Genre : comédie dramatique
 Durée : 83 minutes
 Date de sortie : 2004
 Certification : interdit aux moins de 12 ans lors de sa sortie aux États-Unis

Distribution
 Frances O'Connor : Elaine Walker
 Simon Baker : David Walker
 Gregory Smith : Chet Becker
 Bryce Dallas Howard : Heather
 Joanna Adler : Melissa
 Sabrina Grdevich : Lilian
 Ari Graynor : Naomi

Liens externes

Film américain sorti en 2004
Comédie dramatique américaine
Film tourné en Floride
Film tourné dans l'État de New York
Film tourné au New Jersey


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Willie Smith: Alto Sax All-Time Great – His 48 Finest 1934-1956
By John White
"With detailed discographies and informative notes by Digby Fairweather this is - apart from the brutally truncated JATP and Just Jazz performances – an overdue and fitting tribute to an unfairly neglected musician"
Together with Johnny Hodges and Benny Carter, Willie Smith (1910-1967) was one of the most influential and prolific alto saxophonists of the swing era. In conversation with Stanley Dance, he said of Hodges and Carter "I used to steal their stuff off the records". But he was never simply a copyist. With a driving style and distinctive instrumental voice, Smith was equally at ease as a section boss in big bands or in small groups – some of which he led himself.
Curiously, and unlike his mentors, Smith was largely forgotten in the 10 years before his premature death from cancer. He was absent from many of the jazz reference books and under-represented in the record catalogues, so this compilation, despite some flaws, is to be welcomed.
Born in Charleston, South Carolina, Smith (William McLeish) attended Fisk University (where he studied chemistry) and also met his future boss, Jimmie Lunceford. The opening tracks from 1934 with the Lunceford orchestra feature Smith as soloist and section leader. The outstanding title is Uptown Blues, on which he floats (with shades of Johnny Hodges) above the ensemble in a haunting and melancholy solo. Faster numbers include Blue Blazes and Avalon, again demonstrating the military precision and (un-military) swing of the Lunceford band, with a mischievous Smith peeking out at intervals. In contrast, How High The Moon has him delivering a short rabble-rousing solo to a noisy audience at a JATP concert Los Angeles in 1945.
Smith remembered his JATP years with affection. "No music to read! Easy. Go out on the town every night. Big deal." Unfortunately, none of his compatriots – including Howard McGhee and Illinois Jacquet – are heard on this and other JATP excerpts, or after his famous introduction to Stardust at a Lionel Hampton Just Jazz Concert in Pasadena in 1947.
After (reluctantly) leaving an increasingly irresponsible Lunceford in 1942, Smith found a happier home in Harry James's company that would last for 16 years, The band's bassist Red Kelly recalled that Willie "was the heart and soul of the band. He would grab a band all by himself on alto saxophone and swing it!" I'm Confessin' and a lazy Tuxedo Junction verify this observation. Needless to say, James and Smith rise to, and above, the challenges of such titles as Cotton Tail, Perdido, East Coast Blues and a scorching and extended New Two O'Clock Jump.
Although there is only one example (Please Be Kind) from Smith's short tenure with Ellington – to replace Johnny Hodges – he can he heard on some 1950s concert performances on other compilations. That said, Please Be Kind and Caravan (with Ellington and Strayhorn on piano and organ) are immensely satisfying. Small group, and Smith-led 1945 sessions with Dodo Marmarosa, Barney Kessel, Red Callender and Jo Jones, produced a breakneck Smith composition, Not So Bop Blues, an alternating slow/fast ravishing version of Tea For Two, and a poignant Sophisticated Lady. Four recordings by The Keynoters feature Nat King Cole as pianist (disguised as "Lord Calvert") with Callender and Jackie Mills on drums. Their interpretations of The Way You Look Tonight, I Can't Believe You're In Love With Me, My Old Flame and Airiness A La Nat (all from 1946) have Smith in excellent and restrained form, with reflective and supportive solos from the piano player.
With detailed discographies and informative notes by Digby Fairweather this is – apart from the brutally truncated JATP and Just Jazz performances – an overdue and fitting tribute to an unfairly neglected musician, who, Hughes Panassié noted, blended "a powerful execution [with] an indomitable fire. As soon as he gets into a solo, he is seized by an impetuousness and a burst of force and ideas". Ecoutez, les enfants, and you shall hear.
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CD1: Rhythm Is Our Business; Sophisticated Lady; Rose Room; Sleepy Time Gal; Avalon; Ain't She Sweet?; Uptown Blues; Blue Blazes; What's Your Story, Morning Glory?; Blues In The Night; I'm Confessin'; How High The Moon; September In The Rain; You Oughta Be In Pictures; Willie, Weep For Me; Moten Swing; It's Been A Long, Long Time; I Never Knew; All The Things You Are; I've Found A New Baby; Skylark; Windjammer; Who's Sorry Now?; The Way You Look Tonight (77.25)
CD2: I Can't Believe That You're In Love With Me; My Old Flame; Airiness A La Nat; I Got It Bad And That Ain't Good; Zanzibar; Keb-Lah; East Coast Blues; Cotton Tail; Stardust; Tuxedo Junction; Not So Bop Blues; Tea For Two; Sophisticated Lady; New Two O'Clock Jump; Deep Purple; Please Be Kind; Caravan; Indian Summer; Coronation Hop; Paradise; Cool Blues; The Young Man With A Horn; Perdido; I Was A Little Too Lonely (79.56)
Smith (as, cl) on all tracks with:
CD1: Jimmie Lunceford & His Orchestra, Harry James & Sextet, JATP (WS solo only), Willie Smith & His Orchestra, Harry James & His Orchestra, Willie Smith & His Six/Sextet, The Keynoters.
CD2: Ivie Anderson & Her All Stars, Juan Tizol & His Orchestra, Harry James & His Orchestra/Octet, Lionel Hampton and His Just Jazz All Stars (WS solo only), Harry James & His Octet Willie Smith & His Quintet, Duke Ellington & His Orchestra, Duke Ellington/Billy Strayhorn All Stars, "The Coronets" (Billy Strayhorn & His All-Stars), "The Keynoters", Gene Krupa & His Sextet, JATP (WS solo only), Harry James & His Orchestra, Nat King Cole & Quintet.
Personnel include Juan Tizol, Trummy Young, Les Paul, Dodo Marmarosa, Charlie Shavers, Ivy Anderson, Gene Krupa, Teddy Wilson, Andre Previn, Quentin Jackson, Britt Woodman, Howard McGhee, Lucky Thompson, Billy May, Barney Kessel and Nat King Cole. New York and Los Angeles, 1934-1956.
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