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Otonomo in talks to merge with UK auto-tech rival Wejo
Exclusive: Two auto-tech companies, which began publicly trading after SPAC mergers last year, and have since lost most of their value, could be set for a merger. Israeli auto-tech company Otonomo Technologies (Nasdaq: OTOM) is in talks with its UK rival Wejo Group (Nasdaq: Wejo) about a possible merger, according to market sources.
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No comment on the matter has been received from Otonomo.
If such a merger were to be completed, Otonomo would be valued at $150 million, significantly higher than its current market cap of just $52 million but 96% lower than its valuation of $1.26 billion, when its SPAC merger was completed in the summer of 2021.
Otonomo, founded by CEO Ben Volkow, has developed a platform and commercial arena for data collected from connected cars. Wejo is engaged in the same field and completed its SPAC merger at a company valuation of $800 million and currently has a market cap of $92.5 million. General Motors invested in Wejo before it went public and the company also collaborates with other companies including Microsoft, Palantir and Renault.
Operating in a market worth $61 billion
Market sources believe that a merger between Otonomo and Wejo would create a company with a stronger balance sheet and more extensive market and together they would address a market that is expected to be worth $61 billion in 2030. Both companies have complementary customer bases, and the merger would help reduce costs.
Both companies are still only setting out in their operations. Wejo has postponed publication of its third quarter results and Otonomo this week reported revenue of $2 million in the third quarter, compared with $161,000 in the corresponding quarter of 2021. Since the start of 2022, Otonomo's revenue has totaled $4.9 million compared with $657,000 in the corresponding period of 2021.
But while Otonomo's revenue has risen, its loss has widened to $37 million in the third quarter of 2022 and $116 million in the first nine months of the year. On a non-GAAP basis, the company's operation loss was $13.4 million in the third quarter of 2022 and $41.6 million in the first nine months of the year – both bigger losses than in 2021.
Wejo reported revenue of $2.1 million in the first half of 2022 and a loss of $95.7 million.
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TextAnna Cafolla
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Is how we react to music industry mental health changing?
Zayn's recent admission reminded us that world famous musicians aren't superhuman, but our inconsistent treatment of mental health issues says something about our own humanity
Zayn Malik, like 60 million other people in Europe and 1 in 4 people in the UK, deals with anxiety. The Bradford boy, who made the risky jump across the cavern of pop when he left One Direction to launch his solo career; who faced the world with a banger-against-the-odds debut single and an arena of his peers to perform his second, also struggles with something millions of us do.
Last week, the musician candidly addressed his own mental health, after making the decision to cancel his performance at London's Capital Summertime Ball. Posting on Instagram, he wrote: "My anxiety that has haunted me throughout the last few months around live performances has gotten the better of me... With the magnitude of the event, I have suffered the worst anxiety of my career."
Malik apologised to fans for pulling out of the gig, promising to make it up to them at a later date. Further, he offered support and solidarity for those who were also dealing with anxiety.
Celebrity status isn't a forcefield; it may separate us when it comes to power and wealth, but mental illness strikes capriciously. Being followed by 20 million people on Twitter doesn't stop Malik experiencing that same creeping panic, sweating golf balls or that tight feeling deep in your chest. And as one of the most high-profile young men of our time, it's refreshing to see him speak so frankly and publicly about a struggle that deeply affects him, and probably a number of his fans. After all, men in the UK between the ages of 20 and 49 are more likely to die from suicide than any other cause. And though the narrative that surrounds mental health has shifted into the mainstream focus in the last few years, partially thanks to prolific figures making their struggles known, society is still learning to treat mental health with the same consistent rigor.
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— Gigi Hadid (@GiGiHadid) June 12, 2016
Malik's girlfriend, model Gigi Hadid, responded to his admission with her own open letter, posted to Twitter. She publicly applauded her boyfriend for his bravery, showing us exactly how we should support people dealing with anxiety. She wrote: "Z – I've seen the battles you go through and the way you fight to get to a place that allows you to get up there for your fans.
"Your bravery in those times makes me proud, but your honesty last night proved what you're all about, being real. Human recognises human. You made the best of a situation and have given your fans an opportunity to understand you better as a performer. Those who can find compassion now are the ones that deserve to watch you grow. We are all here to support you and make each experience easier. Your talent and good heart will never lead you wrong."
Hadid's response highlights the empathy that anyone dealing with mental health issues deserves. Supporting a person's right to put themselves first, and placing importance on self care creates a safe, understanding environment. Sharing the letter publicly makes a stand for a humanity that sometimes forgets artists are humans themselves, rather than laser-beaming, Pillowtalking robots. They're people first, and tearing musicians down for the frivolity of a cancelled live show, a tour, or a delayed album, when they're really at their lowest, is pretty shitty.
Or, in Justin Bieber's case, a series of cancelled meet and greets can bring on an avalanche of scorn and spite for someone who's obviously mentally exhausted. The Purpose singer only a few months ago took to Instagram to announce he wasn't going to continue with fan meetups and pictures. Bieber was firm: he wasn't going to sacrifice his own emotional stability to meet people's expectations. The pressure was too much, and he took a stand for himself. Not that this mattered to many press outlets who called his decision "obnoxious" and "upsetting". It was an easy route to take: talk shit about a young star who's had troubled past experiences and awkwardly grown up in front of the world. There's a tiny minority of us who will ever experience a modicum of fame or the obstacles that Bieber will. We know he's not infallible, but we still take cheap shots at someone who's genuinely suffering.
The strenuous, cyclical nature of touring, writing and releasing wears people down, and no wonder. In her documentary, The F-Word and Me, Charli XCX explains that she cancelled her 'Charli and Jack Do America' tour in 2015 for "selfish reasons". Having been on the road for almost 18 months, the singer found herself feeling trapped and not herself. She apologised profusely to mixed reactions, some angry at what seemed like a rushed decision that left fans in the lurch, others supportive of her need to be creative. Her statement highlighted how she felt she was looking after her happiness at the expense of her fans, showcasing the pressure on musicians, usually female, to keep themselves in check and act as role models. And if selfish is the terminology we use when you're at breaking point and need to do what's right for you, then be bloody selfish.
Headlines invasively speculating on little evidence
Across the pop microcosm, we've built stars up as easily as we've snuffed them out. There are artists we'd rather laugh at than seriously question if they need help and support. It's totally LOLs to drink out of a mug that states 'If Britney can get through 2007, you can get through today' but society will ignore the reality that was enforcing a peroxide, bubblegum-and-not-much-else pop singer archetype on a woman, as well as constant tabloid surveillance, which drove her to breakdown.
Female musicians in particular have faced down the barrel of a media shootout, with outlandish speculations that only work to isolate and perpetuate the notions of 'hysterical' women. When Rihanna cancelled shows back in 2012, and when she posted a series of selfies, outlets gasped in horror in headlines about supposed narcissistic personality disorder. When Miley Cyrus first stepped out from under the Hannah Montana, sparkly teen queen umbrella, people outwardly asked had she had a psychotic break.
And while back in the '00s we were happy to laugh off manic episodes as gossip site fodder, today's society seems more willing to armchair diagnose celebrity depression, anxiety and supposed bipolar disorders. Kanye West is a frequent patient, and the Twitter arena is the grotty doctor's office. Every time there's a new, albeit odd, tweet from the rapper, he spawns thousands of digital prescriptions from people who think they know the ins and outs of a very nuanced health issue. Musing over Kanye, using throwaway words like 'insane' and 'crazy' and 'probably manic depressive' only serves to perpetuate the stigma for non-celebrities, and particular those who are already marginalised and sidelined when it comes to mental health due to race, class and gender. After all, black men are 17 times more likely to be diagnosed with a mental disorder, but only a fifth of people from BME communities feel comfortable discussing it. Relentlessly diagnosing online behaviour from afar also creates the narrative that people who are mentally ill have a set of behaviours, when really, it's more than just a set of bullet points on the NHS website. Even recently, after cutting her set in Brooklyn short, Grimes had to ask Twitter not to speculate on her mental health.
Although I don't think it's naïve to think we're getting better at providing an unwaveringly empathetic and strong narrative around mental health. Though preceding Kehlani's suicide attempt was Chris Brown's abhorrent takedown of the singer on social media, decent fucking people prevailed to offer her the love and understanding she deserved. We've reached a stage where male musicians, like Malik and Bieber, are setting the rules with conversation that surrounds male mental health despite our still-warped concepts of masculinity, in a world where 1 in 8 men suffer from a common mental disorder. What's also important to remember is that, though celebrity admissions like Malik, Demi Lovato, Lady Gaga or Miley Cyrus are super brave, these artists owe us nothing. Blanket confessionals aren't part and parcel of the fan/artists relationship, and they aren't always totally indicative of everyone who lives with mental health issues' experiences. It intersects across fame, across class and elitism, race and gender identity. And people deserve compassion and respect just for existing sometimes.
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Release Date: 1990Rating: PGStream: NetflixDuration: 1h 30mGenre/Style: Kids
Insidious and hidden witches walk among us. Now it's time for Luke to stop their plan to kill all children once and for all. A timeless adaptation of the Roald Dahl best seller The Witches, with a perfect performance from Angelica Houston.
There are many Roald Dahl books that have been adapted into movies. If asked you would probably first point to things like Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, the BFG, or Matilda. One that is oft-whispered of by those it terrified at the time is the dark comedy, The Witches.
It was released in 1990 as a co-Jim Henson production. The movie follows a young orphan boy called Luke (Jasen Fisher). He, along with his grandmother (Mai Zetterling) stumbles upon a secret plan by the insidious and hidden witches that stalk among us. They lay in hiding in all places, almost impossible to spot unless you know what to look for.
They always wear gloves as they have hideous claws, they scratch their heads incessantly and they all wear wigs to hide their withered baldness. With no toes, they have to wear clumpy shoes, and you can watch out for the faint purple glow in the eyes. The terrifying Grand High Witch (Anjelica Houston) rules over them all. Then Luke overhears her plan to kill all children once and for all by poisoning chocolate bars with a potion that turns anyone who eats into a mouse.
So far, so Dahl. But what sets The Witches apart is it is genuinely disturbing. Anjelica Houston portrays the arrogant and evil Grand High Witch with total aplomb. She sneers and threatens in a powerful performance that is scary enough to adults, never mind the intended audience of children!
The Jim Henson element comes in during a shocking moment. Houston peels off her own face to reveal the warty and diseased looking visage underneath, complete with a huge hook nose. These scenes alone are worth watching the movie for. Houston lights up the screen in every scene she is in. Similarly, the animatronic mice are well done. There isn't much to age the movie considering the special effects are all in camera rather than CGI.
Most of the movie is set in a traditional English hotel, managed by Rowan Atkinson. This allows for some comedic 'snobby' parts to be layered in nicely. However, there is little change in setting throughout. This is in contrast to other Dahl stories that are set in all sorts of wondrous places.
The child actors are rather brash but it works fine for the Dahl-esque larger than life approach. Especially when the adults are doing such a fine job. The camera work delights in skimming over low angles, tilting to maximise the revulsion of the witches, and filling the screen with cackling harpies galore.
The movie may be over 20 years old but it is an often over-looked classic that struck the balance between scary and engaging. I really doubt that, if released today, this movie would have got its current PG rating! It didn't make much at the box office at the time (good luck marketing this!) but that was a crying shame. It's short, fun, and for the most part, has a typical Dahl fatalistic approach. Adults are mostly unreliable so it is up to children to do what needs to be done.
The ending is somewhat of a tone breaker. Dahl himself disowned the film as he disliked the changed ending so much. But as much as it feels nonsensical and tacked on it doesn't ruin the 90 minutes that came before it.
I distinctly remember being scared to the core when I watched The Witches as a child. And even as an adult it makes my skin crawl in places (locking children into paintings, anyone?). So whilst this underappreciated gem is on Netflix you should hide in a corner and watch as the masks drop to reveal the disgust underneath.
Words by Michael Record
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Anjelica Houston's mesmerising performance
Great Jim Henson effects
Genuinely scary
Perhaps too short?
Limited setting
Child actors may grate
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Legg Mason Partners Fund Advisor, LLC Announces Distributions for the Month of August 2020
By: Legg Mason Inc. via Business Wire News Releases
August 14, 2020 at 08:00 AM EDT
Legg Mason Partners Fund Advisor, LLC announced today that certain closed end funds have declared their distributions for the month of August 2020.
The following dates apply to the distribution schedule below:
Change from Previous Distribution(a)
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(a) Previous distribution adjusted for the 1-for-5 reverse stock split.
The distributions may be treated as dividend income, return of capital or a combination thereof for tax purposes. This press release is not for tax reporting purposes. In early 2021, after definitive information is available, the Funds will send stockholders a Form 1099-DIV, if applicable, specifying how the distributions paid by the Funds during the prior calendar year should be characterized for purposes of reporting the distributions on a stockholder's tax return (e.g., dividend income or return of capital).
Each Fund completed a 1-for-5 reverse stock split on July 28, 2020 for common stockholders of record as of the close of business on July 27, 2020. As a result of the reverse stock split, every five outstanding shares of common stock were automatically converted into one share of common stock.
On July 31, 2020, Franklin Resources, Inc. ("Franklin Resources") acquired Legg Mason, Inc. ("Legg Mason") in an all-cash transaction. As a result of the transaction, Legg Mason Partners Fund Advisor, LLC, previously a wholly owned-subsidiary of Legg Mason, became a wholly-owned subsidiary of Franklin Resources.
For more information about the Funds, please call 1-888-777-0102 or consult the Funds' website at www.lmcef.com. Hard copies of the Funds' complete audited financial statements are available free of charge upon request.
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Executive interview: Antonio Neri, HPE
We speak to the man taking over from Meg Whitman as CEO of HPE about how he will continue the company's turnaround
Published: 04 Dec 2017 10:00
"It is an incredible honour to get the chance to lead this fantastic company – I grew up in this company for the last 22 years," says Antonio Neri, HPE's president and next CEO.
In an interview with Computer Weekly during HPE Discover in Madrid, Neri, who will take over as HPE's CEO in 2018, says he uses events like Discover to speak to customers.
Since the announcement of his new role, Neri says he has spoken to more than 50 customers. "I spoke to 50 directly on day one," he says. "I just reach out. Most of them I know directly, and I told them I am very excited to continue working with them. They appreciate this. The personal touch makes a huge difference. It is something I learnt from Meg. I spend time with customers and partners and also some investors as well."
During the Discover conference, HPE executives often dropped in the term "more relevant" to describe the company's commitment to its customers and partners.
When asked what HPE means by being "more relevant", Neri says: "Relevant is about when a customer has a business problem, they reach out to you first as a trusted adviser and they know you have the solutions to deliver the outcomes they are looking for. For me, the first thing a customer should think about is Hewlett Packard Enterprise as their trusted adviser."
To achieve this, Neri believes the company needs to ensure it has a strong brand, innovation and has the best people working for it.
It is HPE's stated ambition to put itself at the heart of hybrid IT. Neri says: "We believe the world will be hybrid. Customers want to leverage IT in a simple way. We will make the CIO the service broker of the future."
Multi-year roadmap
HPE Next is the multi-year roadmap led by Whitman to reposition the company, refocus its product strategy around the hybrid cloud, edge computing and digital transformation services and re-engineer HPE's back-end operations to support new ways of working with customers and partners. Neri says HPE is in "full execution mode" of its Next strategy to transform the company.
"HPE Next will be part of our DNA going forward," he adds. "Today we have an umbrella programme, but the reality is we are shaping the culture of the company. Change will be the way we drive our business and the way we organise ourselves."
Given that employees may be worried about continual change due to the massive disruption to jobs that has occurred as Whitman transformed HPE, Neri says: "In the IT industry, change is constant. Change is part of us. This is the best time to be in the industry because you can be part of the change and be the one shaping that change. The people who come to work at HPE want to make a contribution. As long as we create an environment where people can grow, they will be fine."
Before Whitman joined HP in 2011, most of the people from director-level and above were hired externally. Neri says: "Today, 65% of posts are filled internally. I am an example and it is the culture we want to establish."
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He adds: "I am a prime example of someone being given the opportunity to grow in the company." Neri started at HP 22 years ago as a customer service engineer in Amsterdam, supporting customers directly. "I never lost my north star," he says. "My north star is the customer, and I had the opportunity to work across the company and eventually get to become CEO."
When the young Neri was interviewed for the customer technician job at HP all those years ago, the interviewer probably asked him about his career aspirations. "I would definitely never have dreamt of becoming CEO of the company, but I had big ambitions," he recalls. "At the time, I was probably a little bit over-qualified for the job. I loved the opportunity to join the company and it has been a rapid progression. As people in HPE know, I never applied for the job of CEO. The board asked me to be Meg's successor. You have to aspire big to accomplish big things."
Asked which industry leaders inspire him, Neri says: "In the end, what really stands out is the culture of the company. It is not just about leaders. I think Satya Nadella is doing a wonderful job at Microsoft. He went to the heart of the company and changed the way things are being done. Meg and I have been going through the journey to transform HPE. Culture is so important. It is a team sport."
Changing the IT back-end
Neri is committed to back-end modernisation of HPE's IT, which is an important aspect of the company's Next strategy to become more relevant to customers.
"Our systems were designed for a company that was more like a supermarket than a company in the technology space," he says. "When you do that, you can't meet the needs of everyone. Now we have an opportunity to tailor the processes and the systems to make them relevant to what we do at HPE. We are going to drive more consumption-based models. The processes in IT to achieve this are very different from processing an order, building it and shipping it. It is a different experience for the customer."
Neri wants to rearchitect HPE's back-end business processes end to end, then select appropriate platforms to run new forms of customer engagement. He claims to know every single system at HPE. "I worked in the printers business, the PC business, the server business and the infrastructure business," he says. "So I know all the flaws."
The Brexit question
"I am sorry for you guys," says Neri, when asked about Brexit. HPE has a major footprint in the UK, including a world-class research facility in the form of HP Labs in Bristol and works closely with several universities. "The UK will continue to be an important market for us," he says. "The reality of Brexit has an impact on the UK economy. But we are committed to the country and we will help UK customers transition and deal with the impact of Brexit, which I think will be significant over time."
One of the key requirements of the new system he has in mind is to establish a core set of data. "All the acquisitions from Compaq and Digital to EDS drove complexity," he says. "I don't have one single view of the customer. I will now start with a clean set of master data and one global ERP system so I can take care of products, solutions and services and have one e-commerce platform sitting on top of this."
Over the next few years, as the IT is replaced, Neri hopes HPE will be able to execute its strategy much more quickly. The end result will be a single view of the customer, which will shape HPE's culture and support its partners, who Neri says complement the company by working in ways it cannot do itself.
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TYSONS, Va. - Jan. 21, 2019 - PRLog -- Casepoint(https://www.casepoint.com), a leading legal technology enterprise, announced four key hires to the business development, client service, and marketing teams as the company continues its expansion. Casepoint welcomes Lana Schell Pellegrino and Haze Moss joining as Directors of Account Management, Manoj Sharma as Director of Client Services, and Athena Strasel as Digital Marketing Associate.
"Hiring Lana, Haze, Manoj, and Athena plays an important role in Casepoint's next phase of growth as the company gets ready to launch a newly architected version of its eDiscovery solution as well as a new transformative legal technology platform," said David Carns, Casepoint's Chief Strategy Officer.
Lana Schell Pellegrino has defined a global reputation as an eDiscovery professional with over 16 years of experience in the legal industry. She has played pivotal roles at Clearwell, Content Analyst, and Relativity where she oversaw significant revenue growth and channel partnerships. Lana's comprehensive professional experience also includes consulting and guiding Fortune 500 corporations and Am Law 250 firms in eDiscovery, information governance, and legal operations. Lana was one of three founding members of Women in eDiscovery (WiE) and helped grow WiE for ten years. Since its inception in 2007, WiE has grown to thousands of members across 28 chapters around the world. Lana's extensive experience building strong client relationships and developing commercial strategy will assist in expanding Casepoint's market share and enriching client engagement.
Haze Moss joins Casepoint's sales team with over 10 years of experience in the legal industry. Haze and a business partner started, grew, and sold their thriving consulting company, Bridge City Legal, to DTI in 2011. As co-owner at Bridge City Legal, Haze focused heavily on business development and business operations. He continued to work in this capacity for both DTI and with the later DTI acquired company, Epiq. Haze's deep understanding and background in information security, eDiscovery obligations, and business risks enable him to provide results-oriented strategies to both his corporate and legal clients. Haze's many years of successful client management, profitability growth, and entrepreneurial mindset will be invaluable in helping Casepoint grow as an organization while expanding Casepoint's presence to the Pacific Northwest.
Casepoint expanded its client service and digital marketing teams as well. Casepoint recently hired Manoj Sharma as Director of Client Services to support its continued growth. He brings a 12+ year track record in the eDiscovery industry directing customer support, cloud services, and technical operations at firms like OpenText, Guidance Software, and CaseCentral. He was brought on to support Casepoint's ever growing list of clients. Athena Strasel was also recently hired to support Casepoint's digital marketing team. Athena will focus on elevating brand awareness and developing marketing strategies. She joins Casepoint from ONE Discovery, where she assisted in building brand awareness for a new business entity and providing operational and documentation support for their enterprise eDiscovery software solution.
Casepoint is a technology company focused on the digital transformation of litigation discovery. Casepoint's cloud-based eDiscovery platform removes significant barriers from the discovery process, enabling legal teams to focus on the art of litigation. Features of Casepoint include a full-strength review platform with artificial intelligence pre-installed, cloud analytics and collections, and robust data processing capabilities all in a single technology platform. Based in the United States and with offices in three continents, Casepoint is repeatedly chosen by leading law firms, multinational corporations, and public sector clients for their largest, end-to-end discovery needs. Casepoint is smarter eDiscovery. For more information, go to www.casepoint.com.


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Software for the Digital Darkroom
I'm shooting in Raw format because of the advantages (white balance after the fact, 12bit working space instead of the 8bits of the JPG format). I need a software, which allows me to quickly select the "good" photos and provides some basic image editing features. The situation gets a little more complicated, since most of the time I'm working under Linux.
So, I guess the optimum would be Adobe Lightroom for Linux, but Linuxer's let's face it, this will never happen. For really professional digital darkroom work you'll need to be running either Windows or MacOS X.
Anyway, I still would like to stay with Linux or use a mixed Linux/Windows approach. What functions do I need? The software should allow me to walk through the photos very quickly and make the selection about the keepers, the maybe's and the files to delete. Apart from the basic raw development functionality, some basic image editing should be possible (cropping, rotating, possibly conversion to black and white). This are the functions, which would be needed to process 90-95% of my photos and which would mean, that for these photos I wouldn't need a full blown graphics package like Photoshop.
He is a list of packages, which I've used.
dcraw and ufraw as plugin of Gimp. Well, they get the job done to convert the picture from camera raw to something else or load the picture into Gimp, but that's it. There are no options to walk through the photos quickly and if you want to do some basic image editing, you'll need to load the image into Gimp. There are still more options for Linux like digikam, but I haven't used them enough so say something about them, but i.e. digikam has a very active community and new releases appear frequently.
RawShooter Essentials. The company was bought by Adobe. RawShooter Essentials is no longer available and I guess features from RawShooter Premium have found their way into Lightroom. Anyway, I found that the reviewing system of RawShooter Essentials worked very well for me. This basically worked by providing the rating of 1 to 3 stars, a general- and a delete flag all bound to key for quick selection Judging from the Lightroom screencasts, which I've seen, this system is one of the features, that made it from RawShooter into Lightroom. Apart from the basic developments adjustments RawShooter Essentials provided no further basic editing capabilities or any means to rename the raw files according to a pattern.
Digital Photo Professional. This is the software, which comes with the camera and is not too bad, somewhat similar to RawShooter. Renaming of raw files is possible, although the provided pattern could be somewhat richer. Editing is only possible in terms of cropping. The review system is also a bit more limited compared to RawShooter Essentials in that only 1 to 3 stars can be awarded to a picture. Deletion is only directly possible. DPP provides a side by side comparison of before/after result.
LightZone Linux Edition, which recently has been updated to version 2.4. The Linux edition is available for free, at least at this point in time. At home I can also only use the older version 2.1, since 2.4 requires a processor with SSE2 extensions, which my old AMD2800+ doesn't provide. From this whole bunch of raw converters, I think Lightzone offers the best image editing capabilities. Uwe Steinmüller of Digital Outback Photo is pretty enthusiastic about Lightzone.
What sets this program from the others apart, is the capability of non selective photo editing. It is similar to Photoshop in that multiple non-destructive editing layers are stacked, but the definition of the areas, which there changes are applied is not defined by masks, which operate on a bit by bit level, but by regions. These regions are defined by drawing polygons or through bezier or spline curves. Within the region you define a graduation area, where the particular effect is applied from 0 to 100%. After defining the regions, you can very easily move the control points of the region with the mouse.
Another aspect, where Lightzone is pretty unique is the application of Ansel Adams zone system. While you would use a "Curves" adjustment layer in Photoshop, you use the Zonemapper or the Tonemapper to improve the tonality of the image. The Zonemapper creates a new layer, which is sectioned into 12 zones as defined by Ansel Adams. You can then move the zones with the mouse to improve contrast and tonality. With the Tonemapper sliders allow you operate on the highlights, shadows or details.
With version 2.4 they also introduced a new black & white conversion tool. This is the best I've ever used. With other picture editors most of the time, you will probably use the channel mixer to create a black & white rendition of your picture. You move the red/green/blue slider until you reached a pleasing conversion with a combination of all three sliders. I found this pretty painfull. With Lightzone you have a color circle, where you can freely move the cursor. Depending on the postion of the cursor, the percentages of the base colors are used for the conversion. I found this a lot more intuitive and could produce a better result than with ordinary color mixers.
With 2.4 a rating system was introduced as well, I haven't used it yet. The Windows/Mac version already reached version 3.0.1. Hopefully this version will be also available for Linux some time in the future. So, to sum it all up, Lightzone is a very interesting tool, which makes a full blown picture editor redundant most of the time.
Bibble The cool thing about Bibble is, that a native Linux version is available. If you purchase the Pro license, you can use the program on all three platforms. Bibble has everything I need, except selective editing. A rating system is there, cropping and rotating tools, a black & white conversion tool, a nice highlights recovery tool, a powerful queueing system for you work flow, the ability to output the result into more than one format during final conversion. Bibble also supports a plugin system for third party tools. There are a number of add-ons available. The renaming of the camera files during operation of the "Download" queue is also supported. All in all, a very nice package. The only things, that could be a bit better is the panel and views management, which I haven't yet completely understood or mastered. And the redisplay after some changes could be a bit quicker.
Adobe Lightroom And then there is Lightroom. If you surf the Web then you very quickly get the impression, that Lightroom is the tool of choice for the Pros. But then these Pros will also have Photoshop. And Pros will have a lot more pictures to process than me. And for them any second saved pays off. I've seen some video tutorials on the Web and Lightroom does indeed has the best review/rating system off them all, allowing quick side by side comparison, organizing similar pictures into stacks and so on.
The introductory price of about 200 Euro is also affordable for an amateur. Unfortunately some time ago I already invested into IMatch, so the library module of Lightroom would be somewhat useless for me or I would have to transfer the data somehow, but I actually don't want to do that work. For those times where I need IMatch it works good enough me through a VMWare virtual machine, but Lightroom would be used much more frequently and it bother me a lot to boot into Windows either in a VM or the complete PC.
So, what I did I want to achieve with this lengthy article? I think while writing this and trying some of the described tools, I finally found my personal solution. When I started I was nearly on the verge to order Lightroom, but all things considered the situation on Linux is not that bad as I wrote at the beginning. My solution therefore will be, that I'm going to purchase BibblePro. The Pro license allows the usage on all platforms and it is cheaper compared to Lightroom (129 Euro). What could make the picture processing on Linux even more feasible is the availability of a color control solution. I've learning in an interview (pushlished in a Happyshooting Podcast with Christoph Gamper, European General Manager of Colorvison, that the Spyder2 solution, either the Spyder2express or the Spyder2 Suite, are available for Linux on request. This fact is not advertised on their Web site.
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25 years ago this week, Rush released their 14th full-length studio album – or their second album for Atlantic Records, if you prefer to look at it that way – and found themselves back in the top 5 of the Billboard Top 200 Albums chart for the first time in a decade.
Roll the Bones was co-produced by the band with the assistance of Rupert Hine, who'd worked with Rush on their previous album, Presto. While Roll the Bones wasn't quite as critically acclaimed as its predecessor, that probably didn't bother the band too much, given the obvious commercial success. In addition to the album's sales, four of its songs proved to be substantial hits on the US Mainstream Rock chart, including "Bravado" (#13), the title track (#9), "Ghost of a Chance" (#2), and the biggest hit of all, "Dreamline," which topped the chart.
No matter what kind of song you choose to play, you're betting your life on it, for good or ill, and what you believe is what you are," wrote Neal Peart, in his remarks about Roll the Bones in the tour program when the band was on the road in support of the album. "No one can ever be sure, in this best of all possible random universes.
"That's why the essence of these songs is: if there's a chance, you might as well take it," continued Peart. "So what if some parts of life are a crap shoot? Get out there and shoot the crap. A random universe doesn't have to be futile; we can change the odds, load the dice, and roll again ... For anyone who hasn't seen Groucho Marx's game show You Bet Your Life, I mean that no one but Groucho knows the secret word, and one guess is as good as another ... Anything can happen. That is called fate."
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The Father in Primitive Psychology is a 1927 book by Polish anthropologist Bronisław Malinowski, describing the role of the father in the family of the  Trobriand islanders.

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Panoramic view of ancient Carthage. Tunis, Tunisia, North Africa
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UN Special Rapporteur: Israel Must Abandon Plans to Relocate Bedouins
United Nations (UN) Special Rapporteur Makarim Wibisono, today, repeated his call for the Israeli occupation to abandon its plans for the forced relocation of Palestinian Bedouins in the West Bank.PNN reports that Wibisono condemned Israeli plans for the forcible removal of several Bedouin communities from their lands in the West Bank, saying that he was "alarmed at indications that the roll-out of plans, which in their full effect are believed to entail the forced eviction and forcible transfer of thousands of people, contrary to international human rights law and international humanitarian law, now appears imminent".
Together with UN Special Rapponteurs, Wibisono expressed concern and urged the Israeli government to reconsider and halt its plans. However, he did not receive a response from the occupation.
In March 2015, Wibisono made a report to the Human Rights Council which indicated that around two-thirds of those who would be affected by the forcible removal are children.
He also expressed his concern that the implementation of these plans would 'further undermine the territorial intergrity of the Occupied Palestinian Territories (OPT).
United Nations officials had previously become alarmed at the rapid progression of these plans, especially concerning the removal of Abu Nar residents.
Wibisono has received no response to his requests to visit Israel and the OPT, and in light of this intends to undertake his second mission to the region this month. He has said that he wishes to meet with victims, witnesses and all concerned parties to discuss the human rights situation in the West Bank, East Jerusalem and Gaza.
This Israeli project has been nicknamed 'E1′, and according to the United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) and the UAWC follow up, will seize 1460 acres currently the home of around 12,500 Bedouins living in 46 communities. The project will "give" about 450 Square meters for every Bedouin family, with restricted permits of use; they can build only one story for housing, and another one of 25 square meters as a forage store for their livestock. This allocation is horrifically inadequate and may push families to sell their sheep, become workers in the settlements and transform them into consumers instead of producers.
See: E1 Project Aims to Eliminate Palestinians from C Areas for further background information.
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Джефф Линдсей (, настоящее имя Джеффри П. Фрейндлих; род. , Майами) — американский драматург и романист, известный своими романами о Декстере Моргане. Многие из его ранее опубликованных работ созданы вместе с женой Хилари Хемингуэй. Его жена — племянница Эрнеста Хемингуэя. Линдсей окончил частную среднюю школу Рансом-Эверглейдс в Майами в 1970 году и колледж Миддлбёри в Вермонте в 1975 году.

Первая книга в серии «Декстер» — «Дремлющий демон Декстера», которую автор первоначально хотел назвать Pinocchio Bleeds по совету своей средней дочери, но позднее изменил название из-за несогласия издателя, была включена в первоначальный список номинаций на премию Эдгара Аллана По в категории лучший первый роман автора. Однако он был исключен из списка после того как выяснилось, что Линдсей выпустил несколько книг в 1990-х под псевдонимом Джеффри П. Линдсей.

В 2006 году на канале Showtime вышел первый сезон сериала «Декстер» по мотивам романа «Дремлющий демон Декстера». Линдсей сыграл эпизодическую роль в десятом эпизоде третьего сезона «Декстер». Сериал был закрыт после восьмого сезона в 2013 году. В 2021 вышел мини-сериал Декстер: Новая кровь, действия в котором происходят 10 лет спустя после окончания оригинального сериала.

Библиография

Нехудожественные произведения
 Hunting with Hemingway: Based on the Stories of Leicester Hemingway (2000)

Художественные произведения
 Tropical Depression: A Novel of Suspense (1994)
 Dream Land: A Novel of the UFO Coverup (1995)
 Time Blender (1997)
 Dreamchild (1998)

Цикл «Декстер» / Dexter Series

 Дремлющий демон Декстера / Darkly Dreaming Dexter (2004)
 Добрый друг Декстер / Dearly Devoted Dexter (2005)
 Декстер во мраке / Dexter in the Dark (2007)
 Декстер в деле / Dexter by Design (2009)
 Деликатесы Декстера / Dexter is Delicious (2010)
 Двойник Декстера / Double Dexter (2011)
 Последний Дубль Декстера / Dexter's Final Cut (2013)
 Декстер мертв / Dexter Is Dead (2015)

Примечания

Ссылки

 Random House Dexter web site
 Fantastic Fiction Author Page

Персоналии по алфавиту
Писатели США
Родившиеся в Майами
Выпускники Миддлбери-колледжа


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What is the Freestyle? It's basically a soda fountain on steroids. On a slick display embedded in a large shiny console, you are given the choice of around twenty "basic" drink options -- not only soda pops like Coke Zero, Barq's, and Mr. Pibb, but others like Minute Maid lemonade, Dasani water, and Seagram's seltzer. The menu doesn't stop there, however. Once you've navigated the first screen, you then have the choice of additional flavorings. You can have the classic (natch) Fanta Orange, or infuse it with grape, lime, fruit punch, raspberry, cherry, peach, or strawberry flavor. Caffeine free Dasani lemon water with a touch of lime, or how about raspberry Sprite Zero? No problem. In all there are, by some counts, 146 total taste combinations.
Navigating this choice architecture with two sons both in their "tweens" is a true joy of fatherhood. (The answer to the question that some of you are asking is yes, I usually acquiesce and let my kids drink pop at Meatheads, though for the record I always try to steer them toward unflavored water or lemonade.) But the Freestyle is more than that, and even more than just a new growth initiative for Coca-Cola , who has found that this sugar-fueled labyrinth can make the consumption of their products more "cool."
The Freestyle is also a window into the world of decision making in our modern world.
The Freestyle experience is hardly tyrannical (though watching strangers take their time choosing lime or peach in their Sprite can grate). But social psychologists have well documented the phenomenon of "decision fatigue." All decisions are mental work, and in a technologically-integrated and finely-spliced global division of labor, we are making more decisions than ever. It is, in the literal sense, exhausting.
Among the important elements of our lives -- such as with education, health, and wealth -- we are drowning in possibilities. Our children have any number of public, private, and parochial options -- far more than previous generations. Needless to say, in medicine the difficulty of sourcing the appropriate care provider is a personal and political challenge. And with investing, we have never seen so many opportunities: Tens of thousands mutual funds, tens of thousands hedge funds (including now many "liquid" versions available to casual investors), and more than a thousand exchange traded funds. And these are just the managed solutions from the experts, above and beyond just buying stocks and bonds directly.
One study by Vanguard showed that the more choices offered by a employer's retirement plan, such as a 401(k), the less likely it was for an employee to participate at all, even when the employer offered matching funds (i.e., free money) for those contributions.
The big decisions lurk astride the many tiny choices that fill our days. I've noticed in the past few months that throwing out my garbage at lunch involves a series of stressful sorting decisions. Multiple recyclable and non-recyclable bins host various sorts of garbage with inevitable taxonomic challenges. What are the little things that you find exhausting to deal with? We all have our Calgon moments.
Is there any way out? Not entirely. Choice sets aren't shrinking. It's no shock that PepsiCo is developing their "Fusion" and "Touch Tower" consoles to compete with the Freestyle. The reach of superstores like Amazon and search engines like Google , which give us effectively countless possibilities, are on the rise, not in retreat. Nor is human biology changing. To Professor Schwartz's point, we are wired to crave choices.
Still, a few things help us cut through. One, for better or worse, is a supply side phenomenon: Brand. A major reason why the concept and power of brand seems so prominent nowadays is that it is an information workaround, not just a glossy logo or tag line. It is a shortcut -- less work -- to expect that Apple , J.P. Morgan , or Coca-Cola will satisfy our wants versus lesser-known competitors. What we also know however is that branding is hardly a magnanimous exercise. Caveat emptor, indeed.
On the demand side, we fortunately have a preternatural ability to choose what we perceive to be good enough, what Nobel laureate Herbert Simon famously called "satisficing." When there are three or more bins at a Starbucks or a lunch spot, I'll usually just group my trash into a couple piles and hope that I'm being reasonably green. The modus operandi of good enough is especially appropriate for more complex products and services in which gathering, sorting, and analyzing all of the relevant choices is just impossible: cars, schools, doctors, and the like.
Finally, it's easy to say but tough to execute on being a goal-oriented chooser. Wandering into that center section at Costco Wholesale can be fun. But it's also a bit dangerous for my wallet. Who knew I was such a fan of sweater vests or needed a new dictionary? But that area is there for a reason; it is a different choice experience than the one that surrounds you on four sides with floor-to-ceiling shelves of, well, everything. You gain reprieve from your not-so-fun scheduled shopping by engaging in a lottery-like experience, even when it gets expensive.
On more serious matters, like investments, knowing your goals is critical, but often hard to achieve partly because the investments business is a consumer products business. Thus, we often strive to do things like "beat the market" when that dumb idea has very little to do with reaching our financial objectives. Further, you will be faced (sometimes pleasantly) with the equivalent of a Coke Freestyle -- new shiny technology that allows you to customize the user experience. We do tend to value the new over the old. And sometimes what we want is a function of what we are being sold. As economists would put it, preferences can be endogenous to the supply function. Going to the store with a pre-written checklist sounds great, but human nature doesn't entirely work that way.
In future posts, I'll dive into a number investment product categories to hopefully bring some light to the increasingly complex choice architecture of the modern investment industry. As a macro theme, I will always contend that choosing investments without a theory of choice is a dangerous way to allocate capital.