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Pact members involved in Screen Yorkshire diversity initiative
Pact members Duck Soup Films and Rockerdale Studios are two of the production companies taking part in the inaugural edition of Screen Yorkshire's Beyond Brontës screen industries training programme.
This week, the regional agency announced the first 50 young people who will benefit from its new initiative. The successful applicants are all aged between 18 and 24, and come from a wide range of backgrounds within Bradford, Leeds, York, Barnsley, Calderdale, Harrogate, Kirklees, Selby and Wakefield.
Working closely with local industry, Beyond Brontës offers targeted support, designed to reflect the growing opportunities for young people who wish to enter the screen industries in the region. As well as training and mentoring, the participants will benefit from paid internships, work experience and shadowing opportunities at established regional production companies, including Duck Soup Films and Rockerdale Studios.
Lizzie Warham at Duck Soup Films commented: "We think Beyond Brontës is a great programme that will help to create a level playing field for young people who wish to pursue a career in film & TV and we're pleased to be working with Screen Yorkshire to offer placements to participants."
Developing talent to foster a diverse, skilled workforce is a central part of Screen Yorkshire's growth strategy and Beyond Brontës is part of a package of regional initiatives designed to help secure continued growth in film & TV production.
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"We want to challenge and disturb the audience": meet graphic design studio Alliage
Going about its daily business, the Brussels-based studio meets every day of the week and you will rarely see its two founders working separately.
Run by Lucile Martin and Julien Pik, Alliage is a Brussels-based graphic design studio formed through unity. Alongside a close relationship between the two founders, this collaborative approach can even be found in the name – with an 'alloy' (translated in French to 'alliage') denoting a metal made by combining two or more metallic elements, particularly in order to give greater strength or resistance to corrosion.
Having first met during their studies, Lucile was on board for what could be deemed a "classic course of artistic studies." Drawing from a young age, she then went on to graduate from a Baccalaureate in art, to then studying graphic design at Hear, Strasbourg – formerly Arts Décoratifs de Starsbourg. At this time, Julien was taking part in an Erasmus trip in Brussels, studying design and typography while Lucile was completing her Master's. "This is how we met and became good friends," says Julien. Shortly after graduating, the two went their separate ways in Parisian fashion and publishing, but due to a certain amount of job dissatisfaction, the two broke free, following dreams of starting their own studio. "At some point, I met Guillaume Kidula, who happens to organise a small music festival in Brussels (schiev festival) and who asked me to design the 2018 edition," explains Julien. "He gave me the liberty to work with whoever I wanted, so I asked Lucile to join me knowing that she was tired of her Parisian experience. It was a beautiful, intense and epic adventure, so we decided to keep working together."
Going about their daily business, the duo meet every single day of the week and you will rarely see them working separately. "The way we work together is very organic, while having our own single approach to design," says Julien. Based on solidarity and vital strengths in communication, they embark on briefs fuelled by an honest approach to sharing their dislikes and solutions. "Working together means being complementary and knowing how to compose," says Lucile. "I like to paint while Julien cares for mathematics." Despite hailing from different backgrounds and methods of working, they both aim for one direction: that is, a natural workflow and to complete a project with ease.
Alliage: chiev 2019
Primarily working with small events and filing commissions for the nightlife industry, the studio's founders believe that everything needs to be done and consumed in a fast-paced environment – yet this is taken with a pinch of salt. "We are asked to produce short-term visuals, such as stories," says Julien. "We have no issues with these formats, but are often frustrated by working to a strict 24-hour exposure time." This tends to happen quite frequently with single events such as parties in clubs or in smaller venues. "What we think is the most exciting part of our job is when we create visual identities – this is for numerous reasons, one being that these are long-term, concrete designs." The past months have seen Alliage lend their design skills to various projects, including work for Psst Mlle, a venue that promotes the female scene in Brussels, as well as a re-design of The Word Radio (which launches this month). "It's so stimulating to imagine a brand's imagery from top to bottom," he explains. "There's more space and time to think of the best possible outcome for the project."
Additionally, the duo cites a recent favourite project as one for schiev festival, an event in sync with a celebration of their studio's first year working full-time. As the first project taken on by the studio, it's a heartwarming reminder to the reasons why they launched it in the first place. With complete creative freedom, the two asked the question of: "How can we make the audience stay and read?" As a response, they proceeded with a readable typeface and aesthetic, juxtaposed with an experimental yet recognisable identity. "The cryptic visual takes up the whole spaces while the name, date and place are written in small white characters on a grey background," says Lucile, "and it worked."
As a whole, Allliage tends to gravitate towards projects that echo with freedom, plus the ability to test the founder's design skills. Symbolic of the studio's tastes, but also of today's high-speed media consumption, Julien concludes: "People consume images so quickly though the internet and social media, they don't take the time anymore. For that matter, we want to build visuals that challenge or disturb the audience."
GalleryAlliage
schiev 2018
Alex Ayed exhibition, Tunis
carré vert, Paradis
Connecting Europe
Global Orgasm, Psst Mlle
First Year, Psst Mlle
The Word Mag
Women from Mars, Psst Mlle
www.alliage.work
Ayla was an editorial assistant back in June 2017 and continued to work with us on a freelance basis. In November 2019 she joined the team again, working with us as a Staff Writer on Mondays and Tuesdays. She's contactable on aa@itsnicethat.com.
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According to the patch,the contemporary replace for Rocket League fixes various Neo Tokyo collision issues,which prompted uncommon bounces in the Arena.Neo Tokyo,a cyber-themed punk exercise area,became added to the physics-based football-meets-driving exercise remaining month as part of the largest update made yet for Rocket League,Polygon stated.
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COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. — Before Talen Horton-Tucker heads to Iowa State to start a promising college basketball career, the former Simeon star participated in the USA Basketball U18 national team tryouts in Colorado Springs.
One of 33 players in his age group vying for only 12 spots on the U18 national team, Horton-Tucker was cut from the competitive tryouts over the weekend. The 6-foot-4 Horton-Tucker won't be traveling to Canada to represent the United States this summer. But even though Horton-Tucker was cut from the team, he made a strong impression on many of the scouts and coaches in attendance.
Registering a startling 7-foot-1 wingspan and showing his unique versatility on the wing, Horton-Tucker showed flashes of strong play during his time at the tryout. USA Basketball is often searching for specific skills to fill out its roster, however, as Horton-Tucker was ultimately left off the team.
"He's one of the guys who stood out the most to me at USA in Colorado Springs," Mike Schmitz of ESPN's Draft Express said of Horton-Tucker.
"I think he's going to be an instant impact guy [at Iowa State] just because of his feel, his physicality. Obviously, he's long. I just think with his maturity and his ability to think the game with those physical tools, he'll have an impact, I would imagine, as a big-time starter right away."
"It's crazy. Just being able to do something like this before college, it's a blessing," Horton-Tucker said of his USA experience.
"Just seeing myself as a college basketball player. Competing against the best guys every day and just preparing myself for every situation."
Although Horton-Tucker drew some strong reviews for his play, there were also some things he'll need to work on before he arrives in Ames for freshman year.
The thin air of Colorado Springs can quickly make life difficult on participating players. This was something scouts noticed, in particular, with Horton-Tucker. Getting in even better shape for college is likely the next step for Horton-Tucker before he begins at Iowa State.
"I think he has to get himself in better shape. I think he weighted around 240 pounds. So, probably just trimming down 10-to-20 pounds," Schmitz said. "I was surprised though. I thought he was one of the better players there. Just trimming down, finishing around the rim a little better. And for a guy who can pass as well as he can, sometimes he has a tendency to just jack a quick three. So just picking his spots a little bit better."
During a busy few weeks of basketball in Chicago, Horton-Tucker has been putting in workouts all over town. A gym rat who can often be found watching basketball when others are working out — Schmitz said Horton-Tucker was watching NBA Draft workouts at UIC in May — Horton-Tucker is doing everything he can to improve his game. Sometimes, Horton-Tucker will work out at Simeon. During other times, he'll get a workout in with his uncle at anywhere an open gym can be found in Chicago.
Since the NBA offseason is also in full effect for most of the league, Horton-Tucker has worked out some with former Simeon star and Milwaukee Bucks forward Jabari Parker.
"I'm really close with Jabari. We just worked out. I was just at his house and we were playing in the city right before I left for here. It's always been great playing with guys like that," Horton-Tucker said.
Working out with a local legend like Parker gives Horton-Tucker a measuring stick for the next levels of basketball as he's hoping to come in and compete for heavy minutes right away at Iowa State.
"His steps were a lot bigger because he was the No. 1 player in the country and did all of these great things. He won two gold medals. But just being able to look up to somebody that I can call on a regular basis, giving me info on things I need to do to get better for college and the next level is big," Horton-Tucker said of Parker's influence.
Horton-Tucker is planning on getting to school later this summer as he continues to build a relationship with his fellow local Cyclone incoming freshmen — Corliss big man George Conditt and Hinsdale South wing Zion Griffin. The Chicagoland trio are all hoping to make an impact at Iowa State as early as next season as the Cyclones are trying to be more competitive in the always-loaded Big 12.
"They just want me to come in ready. They already think I'm ready to play college basketball skill-wise. But as my body gets better, and I mature more, things will come easier," Horton-Tucker said.
"Obviously everybody wants to start but just coming in and working is my focus."
As Horton-Tucker embarks on the next step of his basketball journey, he also can look back fondly at his memorable career at Simeon. Although he has a chip on his shoulder after not winning Mr. Basketball or a state title, Horton-Tucker has taken comfort in his legacy for being on one of the better Illinois high school teams of the past decade.
"I feel like I had the best senior year. Even though I didn't win a state championship, I won three city championships. I think I left a really good legacy at Simeon. I'm just happy for my teammates. I think there's like seven of us going to college [for basketball]," Horton-Tucker said.
"You know, even though we came up short we were still great."


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This past Monday, we had an update on our revised Oregon Health Education Standards and Grade Level Maps (found at: http://www.ode.state.or.us/search/page/?=3813). We talked about the Healthy Kids Learn Better (HKLB) Coalition's advocacy efforts heading into legislative session. The HKLB Coalition is our statewide Coordinated School Health advocacy group, sustained over 15 years. We spent some time reviewing the HIV Funding Opportunity from CDC. And, we did some visioning for the cadre. I'm attaching a few photos below.
Hub = kids and Newton's Law of Inertia- anything at rest stays at rest until MOVED. We need to push school, family and community to be part of the school health movement.
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1957 ( JP ) · Japanese · Drama, Romantic, Criminal · G · 133 minutes of full movie HD video (uncut).
Jun'ai monogatari, full movie - Full movie 1957. You can watch Jun'ai monogatari online on video-on-demand services (Netflix), pay-TV or movie theatres with original audio in Japanese. This movie has been premiered in Australian HD theatres in 1957 (Movies 1957). The DVD (HD) and Blu-Ray (Full HD) edition of full movie was sold some time after its official release in theatres of Sydney.
Movie directed by Tadashi Imai.
Screenplay written by Yôko Mizuki.
Commercially distributed this film, companies like Toei Company.
This film was produced and / or financed by Toei Tokyo.
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 Адашев Данило Федорович (імовірно 1520 — †1561) — російський військовий діяч; брат Адашева Олексія Федоровича.
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 Адашев Олександр Іванович (справжнє прізв. — Платонов) (1871—1934) — актор і театральний педагог, викладач Одеської театральної студії (згодом Одеський український театральний інститут імені Марка Кропивницького), викладач в театральній школі Київського театру ім. Лесі Українки.
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Reach for Infinity
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HUMANITY AMONG THE STARS What happens when we reach out into the vastness of space? What hope for us amongst the stars? Multi-award winning editor Jonathan Strahan brings us fourteen new tales of the future, from some of the finest science fiction writers in the field. The fourteen startling stories in this anthology feature the work of Greg Egan, Aliette de Bodard, Ian McDonald, Karl Schroeder, Pat Cadigan, Karen Lord, Ellen Klages, Adam Roberts, Linda Nagata, Hannu Rajaniemi, Kathleen Ann Goonan, Ken MacLeod, Alastair Reynolds and Peter Watts. Author bio: Jonathan Strahan is a multiple award-winning editor and anthologist. He is also the reviews editor of Locus. He lives in Perth, Western Australia with his wife and their two daughters. He has previously edited two SF anthologies: Engineering Infinity and Edge of Infinity, and he also publishes the celebrated fantasy anthology series Fearsome.
Author Bio: Ken MacLeod
Ken MacLeod is an award-winning science fiction writer. His novels have won the Prometheus Award and the British Science Fiction Association Award and have been nominated for the Hugo and Nebula Awards. He is the author of more than a dozen novels. He graduated from Glasgow University with a degree in zoology and in 2009 was writer in residence at the ESRC Genomics Policy and Research Forum at Edinburgh University.
Author Bio: Karen Lord
Karen Lord was born in Barbados in 1968. She holds a science degree from the University of Toronto and a PhD in the sociology of religion from the University of Wales.
Author Bio: Jonathan Strahan
Jonathan Strahan is the editor of more than forty books, including the Locus and Aurealis award–winning anthologies The Starry Rift, Life on Mars, The New Space Opera (Vols. 1 & 2), the bestselling The Locus Awards (with Charles N. Brown), and the Eclipse and the Best Science Fiction and Fantasy of the Year anthology series. He won the World Fantasy Award for his editing in 2010 and has been nominated four times for the Hugo Award for editing. He has also won the Aurealis Award three times, the Ditmar Award five times, and is a recipient of the William Atheling Award for his criticism and review. He has been the reviews editor for Locus: The Magazine of the Science Fiction and Fantasy Field since 2002.
Author Bio: Ian McDonald
Ian McDonald is the author of highly acclaimed science fiction novels. He has been a three-time winner of the British Science Fiction Association Award and has won the Locus Award, the Theodore Sturgeon Award, the John W. Campbell Memorial Award, and others. His book Time Was was a finalist for the 2019 Philip K. Dick Award for distinguished science fiction.
Author Bio: Greg Egan
Greg Egan is a computer programmer and the author of the acclaimed science fiction novels Permutation City, Diaspora, Teranesia, Quarantine, and the Orthogonal trilogy. He has won the Hugo Award as well as the John W. Campbell Memorial Award. Greg's short fiction has been published in Interzone, Asimov's, Nature, and elsewhere. He lives in Australia.
Author Bio: Hannu Rajaniemi
Hannu Rajaniemi was born and raised in Finland, but now lives in Edinburgh, Scotland, where he is a founding director of a financial consultancy, ThinkTank Maths. He is the holder of several advanced degrees in mathematics and physics. Multilingual from an early age, he writes his science fiction in English.
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Peter Watts is a science fiction writer and a marine-mammal biologist. In addition to a number of accolades for science fiction—including the Aurora, Hugo, and Shirley Jackson Awards—Watts has won minor awards in fields as diverse as marine mammal research and documentary filmmaking. He lives in Toronto.
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Karl Schroeder was born in Brandon, Manitoba, and is the second science fiction writer to come out of the small community. He now lives in Toronto with his wife and their daughter.
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Aliette de Bodard is an award-winning author. Her novellette Children of Thorns, Children of Water was a finalist for the 2018 Hugo Award. She is a half-French, half-Vietnamese computer and history geek who lives in Paris and has a special interest in ancient non-Western civilizations, particularly those of Vietnam, China, and Mesoamerica.
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Adam Roberts is a staff correspondent for the Economist. For four years he was the publication's Johannesburg bureau chief, reporting from Madagascar, Congo, South Africa, Ethiopia, Sierra Leone, and—illegally—from Zimbabwe, as well as from many areas in between. He has also reported from Southeast Asia, the Balkans, Europe, and the United States. A former student of international politics at Oxford University and the London School of Economics, he is now based in London.
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Pat Cadigan is a science fiction, fantasy, and horror writer, a three-time winner of the Locus Award, a two-time winner of the Arthur C. Clarke Award, and a winner of the Hugo Award. Cadigan wrote the novelizations of Cellular, Jason X, Lost in Space, and two episodes of The Twilight Zone. She lives in Schenectady, New York.
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Ellen Klages is the author of two acclaimed historical novels, The Green Glass Sea, which won the Scott O'Dell Award and the New Mexico Book Award, and White Sands, Red Menace, which won the California and New Mexico Book awards. Her story, "Basement Magic," won a Nebula Award, and "Wakulla Springs," co-authored with Andy Duncan, which was nominated for the Nebula, Hugo, and Locus awards, won the World Fantasy Award for Best Novella.
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Author Bio: Alastair Reynolds
Alastair Reynolds is a bestselling author and has been awarded the British Science Fiction Award and the Locus Award, along with being shortlisted for the Hugo Award, the Arthur C. Clarke Award, the John W. Campbell Memorial Award, and the Theodore Sturgeon Award. He was born in Barry, South Wales, and studied at Newcastle and St. Andrew's Universities to ultimately earn a PhD in astronomy. A former astrophysicist for the European Space Agency, he lives in the Netherlands, near Leiden.
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For over 25 years, Acana has brought innovative products for dogs. The brand is one of the best foods brands for dogs there are on the market. They care about your dog as much as you care, making them happy and healthy. Their most important ingredient is protein, which is excellent for dogs that are carnivorous by nature. Using fresh ingredients grown locally, they assure the best quality.Also, they have a strong commitment to local communities, supporting sustainable productions.
Acana is committed 100% to bringing natural food to your dog. The formula they are using is rich in protein content making it a real meal to nourish your pet. That is paramount since dogs are carnivorous by nature. We must not feed them with vegetables only, or with dog food that comes with a high vegetable content. That will ensure that our pets lack the right nutrients to grow healthy and live the for the longest time.
Besides being made mostly from meat content, Acana has fresh meat with a variety of options for your pets. They will be nourished with many different types of meat to enrich their meals in every serving. The inclusion of a high content of fresh meat also ensures that no artificial substances are damaging your dog's digestive system. But most of all the fact that Acana is using meat that is obtained the traditional way will benefit your dog extensively.
The Acana brand is a certified dog food producer. They meet all pet food standards and current regulations. It is easy to digest, and even the pickiest breeds accept it quickly. The energy your dog gets out of Acana is incredible.All the natural ingredients of the Acana food will ensure your dog gets the fewer carbohydrates and other glycemic content that are not good for his health. You cannot trust a company that gets food full of fillers that add nothing but fat to your dog. The issues rarely come immediately, but with time, they accumulate fat and get other health problems arise. Most cheap dog foods do such tricks, and you must beware of using them.
The ingredients in all Acana Dog Food are the best quality locally grown ingredients. It is real food for your beloved pet. Depending on the variety you chose, the proteins can come from chicken, fish, lamb, beef, or pork. Next, we will go through all the ingredients in the Acana Dog food, to let you know how they have mixed the ingredients to make them count for your dog's nutrition. Here are the insights.
The meat made out of fish comes from fresh pieces of the best quality. It is 24% herring meal in combination with 23% steel-cut oats, and 10% fresh Pacific herring, with a small amount (6%) of fresh flounder.
Essential oils are the best of the meals that are made of fish. They will benefit your dog's coat and skin, keeping them shiny and beautiful. The regular meal has 6% oil, including herring oil, and cold-pressed canola oil.
When the meat is made out of chicken, it has 25% chicken meal, 23% steel-cut oats, 5% fresh chicken meat, and another 5% of raw chicken giblets including liver, kidney, and heart. If the main ingredient is lamb, then it includes 23% of lamb meat meal, 22% of steel-cut oats, 5% of fresh Angus beef, 5% of fresh Yorkshire pork, and a 5% of lamb fat. These combinations give the right amount of nutrients to your dog, balancing all there is to take from the meat of different origins.
Other ingredients in the formula are fresh silver hake, red lentils, green peas, green lentils, garbanzo beans, yellow peas, oats, sun-cured alfalfa, lentil fiber, and dried brown kelp. They also add fresh ingredients like pumpkin, butternut squash, parsnips, green kale, spinach, carrots, red apples, Bartlett pears, cranberries, and blueberries. All these elements add vitamins, minerals, and fiber, which is essential for the absorption of nutrients for your dog.
Some supplements added to the natural ingredients of the formula to enrich your dog's meal in the Acana food are Vitamins A, B5, D3, and E. also, it has chlorine chloride, zinc, and chelate. All these will eliminate any deficiency your dog may have, making him grow healthy and vigorous.
In sum, all the previous ingredients give your dog the essential vitamins, minerals, and amino acids they would find in the wild. To prepare them for the pet's life, they are also given some botanical ingredients, which are the perfect complement in Arcana Dog Foods.
Our analysis only covers in detail the regular food line of Acana. However, the philosophy for all their formulas is the same regarding quality and a number of fresh ingredients and real protein sources they give to your pet. Either it is a preparation for a puppy, for a large breed, for a senior, or for a very active dog, they all have the same amount of natural, fresh, and real protein ingredients. The difference is the balance to fulfill particular needs regarding vitamins and minerals.
The Acana Dog Food compared with other options is of a higher quality and with the right mix of ingredients so that you have a healthy dog.
Unlike other dog foods that mostly contain fillers, Acana can be considered light. It is perfect for dogs that are overweighed, since it provides nutrients, reducing the level of hunger your pet usually has. That way, he will eat better, and meals of better quality. Giving your dog fewer carbs also will help. But most of all, the boost of energy your dog receives from the Acana Dog Food will make him move all over the place, burning those excessive calories. All these benefits are hardly found in other brands. They don't understand how to nourish your dogs and focus mostly on filling his hunger, not in feeding his body.
Another benefit of Acana over other dog foods that are very popular on the market is that they have a no grain policy. The producers of Acana Dog Food are acutely aware of the harm grain fillers can do in the long run. This is why they avoid them so that there is no risk for your dog of any kind.
The main drawback when you give Acana Dog Food to your pet is that it will initially affect your budget if you had not considered the cost of truly high-quality food for your dog. It is more expensive than other brands that sell similar packages but with lower quality and mostly fillers to lower the price tag. Acana doesn't do that. They have not entered the price war in dog food, maintaining their quality.
Another drawback is when you are not sure which is the right formula for your dog. Some options are straightforward, like puppy and senior. However, how do you know your dog needs the sport and agility formula, or the light and fit? There is no clear notice on how to make a choice. Most people chose just the standard, disregarding that other formulas could be better for their dogs.
Finally, the many flavors in the Acana Dog Food can be an issue. Some dogs are not willing to change the flavor, and when we change it without further notice, our dog will stop eating. In that case, it is not the formula what is wrong, but the flavor that your dog doesn't like. The problem there is that despite you can go back to the previous, there is no refund on dog food, and therefore, you would have to give away an absolutely good pack of meal that your dog didn't like. Most customers give Acana Dog Food a good customer review. Few state that their dogs were not eating, and it is because they chose the wrong flavor.
When you change your dog's regular diet to the Acana Dog Food, some users report having issues like vomiting. Since Acana is a very different kind of meal, your dog may go through a sort of detox period. During this time, he will free the toxins that have filled his body for years eating other kinds of food. To avoid severe discomforts, add Acana Dog Food to his diet slowly, letting his system readjust to the healthy diet.
If your dog pet has a particular health condition, like liver or kidney problems, should not eat dog food rich in protein content. This is because protein makes the most use of these organs, causing an increased stress that can worsen their condition. That doesn't mean that your dog should not eat proteins. In fact, if your pet is in perfect health, it will benefit out of a high protein diet extensively. The problem is for those dogs that are not well, and need to recover. In such cases, you must find a different menu than the one Acana Dog Food has to offer.
For other health conditions, the Acana Dog Food has proved to be an excellent aid to recover good health. The high nutritional content, plus the few added vitamins and minerals are the key to preserve your dog in good health and recover in case of a problem.
If you look for a retail store to get Arcana Dog Food, make use of the store locator at Acana website. It will identify your current location, and show you a map with the most convenient locations near your area. In case you don't find any nearby store, or if you want to get Acana Dog Food at your doorstep without going out yourself, another choice is to order it online.
Your dog pet deserves only the best dog food. And that is precisely what Acana Dog Food can provide to your beloved pet. The fact that he is correctly nourished and preventing overweight and unwanted diseases is priceless. The money you are saving with other cheaper options will soon go away in medical bills. But all the pain you and your dog will experience is something that cannot be paid with any money in the world. If you think it that way, the price of the Acana Dog Food will not seem as much as it does when you make a direct comparison with other products of the same kind.
We highly recommend you to change your dog's diet to Acana. Just do it slowly, and take lead steps. Buy a small package of Acana Dog Food to find out if it is the right flavor for your pet. Then, introduce it slowly to his diet to make a smooth change.


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Understanding intellectual property
1. An overview
In part one of his talk, Peter Drahos briefly discusses property in general and its importance for how societies function before examining so-called 'intellectual property rights', which include patent, trademark and copyright laws. He reflects on their benefits and costs, their justifications and their impact on societies, including conferring the private power of taxation. Finally, he uses the example of copyright to amplify his arguments that we should be sceptical about having more of them and, indeed, would benefit from having less.
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The running order for the video is as follows:
Introduction. 0 - 1 minute 54 seconds
Part 1. Questions about intellectual property: 1 min 54 sec - 4 min 15 sec
Part 2. What are intellectual property rights?: 4 min 15 sec - 15 min 37 sec
Part 3. Justifications for intellectual property: 15 min 37 sec - end
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Peter Drahos (2011): 'Patents, practical ethics and scientists', Prometheus, 29:3,
345-352. Available here.
Peter Drahos (2012): 'The US, China and the G-77 in the era of responsive patentability', Queen Mary Journal of Intellectual Property, Vol. 2 No. 4, pp. 315–328. Available here.
See books by Peter Drahos listed in the column on the right. Intellectual Property, Indigenous People and Their Knowledge is available as a free download here
Carlos M Correa (2000): Intellectual Property Rights, the WTO and Developing Countries - The TRIPS Agreement and Policy Options, Zed Books, London and Third World Network, Penang.
Graham Dutfield (2003): Intellectual Property Rights and the Life Sciences Industries - A Twenthieth Century History, Ashgate, Aldershot and Burlington
Christopher May and Susan K Sell (2006): Intellectual Property Rights - A Critical History, Lynne Rienner, Boulder and London.
IPRsonline.org is an internet portal on Intellectual Property Rights (IPRs) and Sustainable Development. It contains a selection of relevant online documents and resources related to IPRs and sustainable development including a guide to IPRs, proposals submitted to the WTO, discussion papers classified by topics, latest news on IPRs, and links to listservs and relevant institutions working on IPRs.
Intellectual Property Watch provides a news service about IPRs across the world.
The South Centre follows developments in IPRs from a developing countries perspective.
Peter Drahos is a Professor in the Regulatory Institutions Network at the Australian National University and holds a Chair in Intellectual Property at Queen Mary, University of London. He is a member of the Academy of Social Sciences in Australia.
He holds degrees in law, politics and philosophy and is admitted as a barrister and solicitor. He has published widely on a variety of topics including contract, legal philosophy, telecommunications, intellectual property, trade negotiations, international business regulation, indigenous people and intellectual property, energy governance and climate change.
His publications include A Philosophy of Intellectual Property, Dartmouth, 1996; Global Business Regulation, Cambridge University Press, 2000 (with John Braithwaite); Information Feudalism: Who Controls the Knowledge Economy?, Earthscan, 2002 (with John Braithwaite); Global Intellectual Property Rights: Knowledge, Access and Development, Macmillan, 2002 (with Ruth Mayne); The Global Governance of Knowledge: Patent Offices and Their Clients, Cambridge University Press, 2010; and, Intellectual Property, Indigenous People and Their Knowledge, Cambridge University Press, 2014.
Global Business Regulation was awarded the Hart Socio-Legal Studies Book Prize for 2000, the American Sociological Association's Prize in the Sociology of Law 2002 and the Grawemeyer Award in Ideas Improving World Order, 2004.
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I then need to render many of these styled notes at specific coordinates in a custom component.
I would think the View.paint method would be helpful here, but I'm not able to create a usable View object.
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majorSpans = {int[0]@2322}
minorAllocValid = false
minorOffsets = {int[0]@2323}
minorSpans = {int[0]@2324}
tempRect = {java.awt.Rectangle@2325}"java.awt.Rectangle[x=0,y=0,width=0,height=0]"
children = {javax.swing.text.View[1]@2326}
nchildren = 0
left = 0
right = 0
top = 0
bottom = 0
childAlloc = {java.awt.Rectangle@2327}"java.awt.Rectangle[x=0,y=0,width=0,height=0]"
parent = null
elem = {javax.swing.text.DefaultStyledDocument$SectionElement@2328}"BranchElement(section) 0,35\n"

Note that parent = null and nchildren = 0.  This means there's nothing really useful there.  I can hack together something by calling JTextPane.getUI().paint, but the text pane needs to be visible, and this feels like the wrong way to do it.
Is there any way to get a visual representation of the RTF content without rendering the actual JTextPane?

A: This code sort of works, but seems less than ideal.  Is there a better way to do it?  Also, what's a good way to render the text somewhere other than 0,0 on the graphics?
private static void testRtfRender() {
    String s = "{\\rtf1\\ansi\n" +
            "{\\fonttbl\\f0\\fnil Monospaced;\\f1\\fnil Lucida Grande;}\n" +
            "\n" +
            "\\f1\\fs26\\i0\\b0\\cf0 this is a \\b test\\b0\\par\n" +
            "}";

    JTextPane pane = new JTextPane();
    pane.setContentType("text/rtf");
    pane.setText(s);

    final Dimension preferredSize = pane.getUI().getPreferredSize(pane);
    int w = preferredSize.width;
    int h = preferredSize.height;

    pane.setSize(w, h);
    pane.addNotify();
    pane.validate();

    // would be nice to use this box view instead of instantiating a UI
    // however, unless you call setParent() on the view it's useless
    // What should the parent of a root element be?
    //BoxView view = (BoxView) pane.getEditorKit().getViewFactory().create(pane.getStyledDocument().getDefaultRootElement());
    //view.paint(d, new Rectangle(w, h));

    BufferedImage img = new BufferedImage(w, h, BufferedImage.TYPE_INT_ARGB);
    final Graphics2D d = img.createGraphics();
    d.setClip(0, 0, w, h); // throws a NullPointerException if I leave this out
    pane.getUI().paint(d, pane);
    d.dispose();
    JOptionPane.showMessageDialog(null, new JLabel(new ImageIcon(img)));
}

A: Check out the ScreenImage class which allows you to create a BufferedImage of any Swing component. It should also work for Swing components that are not visible, but yes you do have to do the rendering first.

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Apple News+ wrangled more than 200,000 subscriptions in first 48 hours, report says
Posted: April 2, 2019 9:55PM
in iOS edited April 2
While Apple has yet to reveal numbers for last week's Apple News+ launch, a report on Tuesday claims the service saw more than 200,000 people sign up for a trial subscription in its first 48 hours of availability.
Citing sources familiar with the matter, The New York Times reports the figure represents more users than Texture, the magazine app Apple acquired to build Apple News+, had at its peak.
Dubbed "Netflix for Magazines," Texture was purchased by Apple in 2018, sparking speculation that the tech giant would leverage the app's framework for a branded subscription news offering. Those guesses were rendered correct last week when Apple debuted Apple News+, a for-pay news service that presents users access to some 300 magazines for $9.99 per month.
In addition, Apple's news product includes the Los Angeles Times and limited access to the The Wall Street Journal, the latter considered a crown jewel in terms of newspaper content.
Notably absent from Apple News+ are major publications like The Washington Post and The New York Times, but not for want of trying. According to a report this week, Apple SVP of Internet Software and Services Eddy Cue frequently visited both publications prior to launch in attempts to strike an amicable deal.
The NYT has been particularly critical of Apple's bundle pricing, saying the product puts publications at risk of subscriber cannibalization for minimal financial gain. Last week, The Times CEO Mark Thompson cautioned against distributing first-party content through third-party services, and likened services like Apple News+ to Netflix.
"We tend to be quite leery about the idea of almost habituating people to find our journalism somewhere else," Thompson said. "We're also generically worried about our journalism being scrambled in a kind of Magimix (blender) with everyone else's journalism."
Some outlets, like The New Yorker, are attempting to balance the tables by offering only a portion of their content on Apple News+, with full subscriptions purchased through their standalone platforms providing total access. The WSJ is taking a similar tack and provides Apple News+ users access to all business and financial news, searchable in the app, alongside a curated selection of general, political and sports stories.
According to today's report, Rupert Murdoch, who purchased the The Journal in 2007, was a key factor in its inclusion in Apple News+. Murdoch is looking to expand the paper's demographic beyond Wall Street types by presenting more general interest, sports and lifestyle coverage, the report said. Perhaps not coincidentally, articles from those sections will be highlighted on Apple's service.
The jury is still out for me. There are several magazines available that I already subscribe to the print version. I just have to add up the print subscriptions to see if I'll save any money. Then there are magazines I like but seem pricey to me. Those would include National Geographic and Scientific American, both of which are part of the News+ collection. Time will tell. It would seal the deal if Apple were to offer a discounted yearly subscription like they do Apple Music.
JWSC	Posts: 444member
With the number of high quality magazines available I will definitely be signing up. The New Yorker, in particular, is chock full of some of the best writers in the world - bar none. The WaPo and NYT can suck it - we get enough free articles from them each month anyway. My main concern, being fully employed and all, is the amount of time I have to read it all.
mknelson	Posts: 352member
JWSC said:
Heh - have you ever seen the comments section on FlipBoard when there's a Satire by Andy Borowitz… people get triggered by the title and miss the line at the top where it says "Satire"
kevin kee	Posts: 1,041member
Will the service be available in Australia? At the moment we have normal News not News+. I definitely will pay for the subs if that means I can get to access quality papers/magazines without paying extra for individual ones. Keeping up with >10 subs are no fun.
spice-boy	Posts: 832member
200,000 suckers and counting.....
eliangonzal	Posts: 490member
spice-boy said:
Says someone who is oversubscribed to multiple services but doesn't see what the big deal is because mommy and daddy are paying for it all.
chasm	Posts: 1,588member
I guarantee you that the cost of your subscriptions is around or more than $10/month, which is what it would cost you to subscribe to both the ones you mention AND as many more as you can find in their collection, even just to look at an article or two in a different mag. From a cost perspective, New+ is a no-brainer and ironically the publishers likely get MORE of your money out of it than they do going through other online sub services.
I think for a lot of people it's mainly a matter of if there are more than one or two mags they want to read in there, and whether or not they have the time to do magazine reading (a general plague of the publishing industry overall). I love the idea of being able to dip in and out at will of any of their magazines or newspapers. If they've written on a topic I'm interested in — and Apple's human curators will help me find those. If you enjoy reading in-depth journalism, I think News+ is an easy decision to at least try.
Don't look for a discounted yearly subscription anytime soon — Apple's already lost some publishers on this because the cost is so low, and you're already getting a hell of a deal even if you only ever read the two mags religiously and just "skim" some of the others.
christopher126	Posts: 4,296member
Hmmmmmm. Usually not critical of Apple's attempts at something new. It must be very difficult to wrangle so many disparate magazines to sign on.
My first impression is, it's not for me.
I get the WSJ, Time, The Atlantic, Air & Space, Trail Runner, SCUBA, and Foreign Policy. I enjoy The Economist as well.
Reading on a tablet is not the way I like to do it. (I recycle everything!)
How much did Apple pay to acquire Texture? I can't see to find it anywhere?
dm3	Posts: 152member
Is 200k supposed to be a lot? Hundreds of millions of iPhone users and 200k is going to move the needle?
NY1822 said:
Never been announced AFAIK, and Texture had never mentioned their valuation either. Complete unknown to us normals but it couldn't have been much I wouldn't think.
mdriftmeyer	Posts: 7,280member
Subscribing was a no brainer for me.
You must be fun at parties.
rob53	Posts: 2,044member
dm3 said:
That's 200K in the FIRST 48 hours, so yes, that will move the needle. It will be interesting to see how many of them actually subscribe. Just because there are millions of iPhone, iPad, and Mac users (yes, it's available on all three platforms) doesn't mean all these users even know News+ was even released or updated their software to even be able to use it. Yes, 200K trial activations is a huge deal.
matrix077	Posts: 718member
I'm just waiting for the right time to have more available time to use my first free month.
bestkeptsecret	Posts: 3,324member
rob53 said:
And it's US only, so even more impressive.
ILoveTech	Posts: 3member
Don't mean to spoil the fun guys. But here's my first hand experience working with the News+ app.
Downloaded and subscribed to free trial using iPhone.
I mostly work on iPad Pro, so downloaded the same on there and then tought to use it on iPad while I work.
Disappointedly, I was presented with a pop-up saying, you are already subscribed to News+ ... bla bla bla.... There was no way to read articles on iPad Pro. it was just the pop-up.
Then I tried the same on my Mac, can't read. It was only on my iPhone. So maybe I made a few mistake so I clicked the re-subsribe option from the iPad Pro's pop-up. Apple charged me $9.90, though I am in trial period.
Next, was just the feed with different magazines, newspaper, etc. Nothing as a welcome screen to select interest; similar to Apple Music or Spotify.
My Articles category decides what are your favorite articles. You cant add any magazine in collections. If you click ten different magazines and read none of them, they end up in your My Articles section.
Okay, fine. I want to remove certain magazines from My Articles category. Sorry, you can't do it. Apple will delete it after 30 days or when you device is running low on storage.
Fine, I can deal with that too. Tried reading magainze, some were properly formatted for iOS, while most of them were just a scanned copy of the physical magazine. Missing text at the corners, poorly aligned, etc.
To me, it was an awful experience using the News+ app.
crowley	Posts: 5,909member
You get a month free. No one is a sucker for trying something out at no charge.
n2itivguy	Posts: 67member
Considering Family Sharing, to me, that seems like a lot in just two days. If we already had the $10/mo charge, that'd be a cool $2mil right out of the gate.
eliangonzal said:
I'm afraid we have never met so your comment is completely wrong. I put myself though college working 2 jobs in the summers and part time work during the school year. I have owned my own business for the past 20 years and own a home in Europe and New York City. I also know not to act like a "mean girl" in public forums with people I disagree with.


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Fashionistas who love big bling will adore this eyeglasses choice. A dazzling array of crystals adorns the temples of the sparkly frame. Stainless steel offers a lightweight feel while the adjustable nose pads and spring hinges provide durability and comfort. Grab attention at every angle with this high fashion glasses option.


While this photo is not the most spectacular shot in the world, it documents something rather funny. One for the "Boing Boing" category, so to speak.
For some reason, the folks over at the Kinlay House Hostel in Cork thought that the emergency exit signs don't need to be too large, and don't have to be hung up at eye level either.
Rather, it looks like the emergency signage was conceived for dwarfs, as the signs were tiny (maybe 2×3 inches?) and just a few inches off the ground.
– small things are best photographed up close, from a low standpoint, and with other objects in the frame to give something to compare the sizes with (although I didn't quite manage here as I didn't feel like crawling around on the dirty floor to check the framing).


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Lift Every Voice is an album by jazz saxophonist Charles Lloyd recorded in February 2002 by Lloyd with Geri Allen, John Abercrombie, Marc Johnson, Larry Grenadier and Billy Hart. The album represents Lloyd's response to the 9/11 terrorist attacks.

Reception
The album received wide critical acclaim. The Allmusic review by Richard S. Ginell awarded the album 4½ stars and states "The result is one of the most unusual and deeply spiritual recordings in Lloyd's always-unusual career, one that says more with fewer means". The All About Jazz review by Mark Corroto stated "Lloyd's belief in humanity and reliance on the healing and redemptive qualities of music propels this compassionate recording".

Track listing
All compositions by Charles Lloyd except as indicated.

Disc One:
 "Hymn to the Mother" - 15:00
 "You Are So Beautiful" (Bruce Fisher, Billy Preston) - 4:05
 "Amazing Grace" (John Newton) - 4:46
 "East Virginia, West Memphis" - 9:40
 "What's Going On" (Renaldo "Obie" Benson, Al Cleveland, Marvin Gaye) - 5:09
 "Angel Oak" - 3:35
 "Te Amaré" (Silvio Rodríguez) - 6:49
 "I'm Afraid" (Duke Ellington) - 7:41
 "Hafez, Shattered Heart" - 4:43

Disc Two:
 "Rabo de Nube" (Rodríguez) - 7:07
 "Blood Count" (Billy Strayhorn) - 5:08
 "Go Down Moses" (Traditional) - 10:39
 "Beyond Darkness" - 7:51
 "Nocturne" - 6:13
 Wayfaring Stranger" (Traditional) - 8:40
 "Deep River" (Traditional) - 6:27
 "Lift Every Voice and Sing" (James Weldon Johnson, John Rosamond Johnson) - 3:10
 "Prayer, The Crossing" - 14:03

Personnel
Charles Lloyd - tenor saxophone, flute, tarogato
Geri Allen - piano
John Abercrombie - guitar
Marc Johnson - double bass (CD1 #1, 3-7; CD2 #1, 3, 5, 9)
Larry Grenadier - double bass (CD1 #2, 8; CD2 #2, 4-8)
Billy Hart - drums

References

2002 albums
ECM Records albums
Charles Lloyd (jazz musician) albums