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module Grape
  # Represents a path to an endpoint.
  class Path
    def self.prepare(raw_path, namespace, settings)
      Path.new(raw_path, namespace, settings).path_with_suffix
    end

    attr_reader :raw_path, :namespace, :settings

    def initialize(raw_path, namespace, settings)
      @raw_path = raw_path
      @namespace = namespace
      @settings = settings
    end

    def mount_path
      settings[:mount_path]
    end

    def root_prefix
      split_setting(:root_prefix)
    end

    def uses_specific_format?
      !!(settings[:format] && settings[:content_types].size == 1)
    end

    def uses_path_versioning?
      !!(settings[:version] && settings[:version_options][:using] == :path)
    end

    def has_namespace?
      namespace && namespace.to_s =~ /^\S/ && namespace != '/'
    end

    def has_path?
      raw_path && raw_path.to_s =~ /^\S/ && raw_path != '/'
    end

    def suffix
      if uses_specific_format?
        "(.#{settings[:format]})"
      elsif !uses_path_versioning? || (has_namespace? || has_path?)
        '(.:format)'
      else
        '(/.:format)'
      end
    end

    def path
      Rack::Mount::Utils.normalize_path(parts.join('/'))
    end

    def path_with_suffix
      "#{path}#{suffix}"
    end

    def to_s
      path_with_suffix
    end

    private

    def parts
      parts = [mount_path, root_prefix].compact
      parts << ':version' if uses_path_versioning?
      parts << namespace.to_s
      parts << raw_path.to_s
      parts.flatten.reject { |part| part == '/' }
    end

    def split_setting(key)
      return if settings[key].nil?
      settings[key].to_s.split('/')
    end
  end
end

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Certainly, one of the holiest men in the Bible is Daniel, who risks death just so he can offer prayers to the Lord from the upper room in his house. This story proves that faith in God can turn certain defeat into victory: God Is with Me in My Rough Times, by JESSIE.
The story of an untrained holy man (David) against a seasoned warrior has inspired many analogies in books and in the press: any time a "little guy" takes on a "machine," we think of David and Goliath. In students' worlds, this translates as such: The Chess Club and the Football Team, by ZACH.
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2018 : Year of broadcasters' animated IP romance
Latest News Year Enders
What a year it has been for the Indian animation industry! Especially, for the broadcasters, as kids literally make their world go around! The kids genre in India is growing everyday and big names in the business, like Sony YAY!, Discovery Kids, Cartoon Network, Nickelodeon have made a mark with their slate of IPs and interesting lineup of shows. 2018 has witnessed an upward spurt in viewership in the kid's category with animated IP rush enabling the numbers to rise by 10 per cent (from average 499 GRP to 550 GRP). The channels focused on children as audience observing their growing influence on choices, preferences and consumption habits. Fresh debuts for children in the competitive space of TV shows, have actually helped in growing the audience which indicates that more children are opting to watch new programming. In fact, most of them have developed their in-house team of animators and creative artists to stay a step ahead in the league.
The emerging trends this year clearly reflected that flagship shows and localising content in regional languages pay dividends. Kids' entertainment channels prosper on the dominance of flagship shows. 70 per cent of airtime and 80 per cent of GRP for leading channels in India comes from one leading show. Thus reiterating the fact that building a long-term relationship with toon characters, around whom shows, merchandise, and digital engagement are built, is the most effective manner to engage with young audiences. Keeping this in mind, Sony YAY! has adapted and developed kids' shows suited to their preferences and such trends help further validate their approach. The consumption patterns that have significantly grown this year, further ensures our focus on homegrown toon characters. SPN kids genre business head Leena Lele Dutta mentioned, "We evaluate concepts on merits and not on who it is coming from. It is a matter of chance that the statistics so far has been skewed towards the broadcaster created IPs and not the ones which have come from production houses." Kids generally treat their favourite characters as their best friends. Thus, they prefer watching them on multiple platforms. Digital platforms has notably increased in 2018 with content going digital. That has helped many broadcasters fulfill every kid's demand, where they focus on curating content especially for their respective online channels.
Guru Aur Bhole
The response for shows like KickO and Super Speedo, Guru and Bhole, Honey and Bunny, Prince Jai and Powerful Viru, Fab 5 has been fantastic so far. In the last one year, Sony YAY!'s reach has grown by 57 per cent and the channel has grown to 17.2 million viewers in August 2018 according to BARC, India U+R, 2-14 All NCCS, 24 hours and Universe size 185 Million. Their regular focus group studies have shown the tremendous love that kids have for KickO and Honey and Bunny. Dutta added, "Kids are engaged on all the digital platforms through games, shows, contests on social media and so on. That creates a strong affinity towards their favourite toons. Building upon toon characters and developing them as digital properties have had our audience respond enthusiastically. Using social media also helps in strengthening this relationship. We've got to keep kids engrossed by offering them the best of everything." Sony YAY! is the first kid's channel to have five original content shows in one year of the launch, KickO and Super Speedo being the most successful one. Also they have many more in the pipeline and have already created 52 episodes of each show and the second season of 52 episodes of one of them, is under production.
Nickelodeon too, has always identified white spaces and launched characters that are groundbreaking. Each of their local home-grown IPs from Pakdam Pakdai, Motu Patlu, to Shiva and Gattu Battu, they have all introduced kids to new genres of entertainment. With the launch of its fifth IP, Rudra-Boom Chik Chik Boom, the franchise has forayed into the untapped genre of magic in the country, emerging as a franchise with the widest array of local IPs. With a local content library of over 350 hours, Nickelodeon is now poised as a franchise with the largest and most versatile homegrown content library in the category. Viacom18 head of kids entertainment cluster Nina Elavia Jaipuria noted, " We have been focused at creating an entire ecosystem for kids that extends beyond television with our successful portfolio of iconic 'Made in India IPs'. The launch of Rudra has added further depth to our portfolio and has provided impetus to our objective of engaging kids and creating a dynamic kids ecosystem."
Turner's IPs such as Roll No. 21, has also enjoyed quite a limelight with local flavours, new treatment and smart execution as it is the number one show on Cartoon Network in India. This just reaffirms that authenticity is the key to the success of any show. Turner India executive director and network head – kids, South Asia, Krishna Desai also reflected on the same line, "Being at the forefront of kids' entertainment, we are looking at producing IPs and characters that are not only location-based but also have the ability of resonating with viewers across the globe." Similarly, Discovery Kids too, looks back at 2018 with lot of satisfaction as they ticked all major KPIs that they had set for themselves. But success didn't come easily. More than year's hard work in IP development, production, strategy and consumer understanding went behind this. Their aim was to take Discovery Kids from ninth position (in the 12 channel kids genre), to the top tier of the league. The launch of Little Singham and Bandbudh Aur Budbak helped Discovery Kids increase its ratings by more than 500 per cent (8 Million TVTs in first week 1 to 42 Million TVTs in week 50) from the beginning of the year. Infact, Discovery Kids emerged as the fastest growing kids channel in the industry and is now consistently amongst the top five channels week on week in the category.
Discovery Kids business head Uttam Pal Singh said, "We followed a bold approach and to take a contrarian view on all aspects of the product reinvention – consumer research and understanding, to programming, distribution, marketing and putting together the right team. Basically, we did things differently and we did it at scale – we made moves which are not the norm in the industry. I am happy that the strategy worked in our favour." Little Singham has also whipped up huge advertiser interest with the growing popularity including FMCG brands like Dabur Red Paste, Britannia Cakes, Dettol, Flipkart, and Heinz- Glucon D and B. This IP has worked wonders for the broadcasting company as advertisement partnerships and generation of revenue is directly proportional to each other. This brings our focus to licensing and merchandising deals these biggies get into, to establish their IPs and themselves as a bigger brand in a better way. With local original shows gaining popularity, there's an inherent demand for agencies to provide holistic licensing and branding solutions to enter domestic and neighbouring markets for expansion, co-productions, increasing awareness of IP rights, symbiotic business deals and increasing consumer demand from a young Indian population with heavy pockets, L&M has gained tremendous significance. According to a recent report (World Trademark Reviews' 'The rise of licensing in India', May 2018), retail licensing in India is estimated at $1.26 billion of which, entertainment licensing is valued at $406 million.
Amongst the leaders in the L&M business in India are- Disney India, Turner India, Viacom18, Green Gold Animation, Cosmos-Maya, Toonz Animation and a clutch of selected agencies like Dream Theatre. The products range from food items, apparels, toys, board games, 'Back to schools' products (tiffin boxes, pencil boxes, backpacks, stationery products, sports it items and so on), books and more. The domestic breakout in the sector, came with the massive nationwide popularity of Chhota Bheem along with other local characters such as Motu Patlu, Little Singham which has helped propel the industry forward. Infact, Chhota Bheem is one of the most sought brands in the South Asian markets. Says Cosmos-Maya CEO Anish Mehta, "There are more than 400 million kids in India which is a huge opportunity in the L&M sector. Chhota Bheem and Motu Patlu are strong cases of Indian IPs which are bringing about this sort of a co-existence between the two businesses and we are currently focused on developing the successor to this legacy." In 2011, Chhota Bheem had around 10 active licensees and has grown to 60 active licensees over the years, Chhota Bheem has been licensed by more than 150 brands and the brand is currently present in more than 12 countries and growing. They also had a successful licensing deal with Global Village, Dubai for two years. Comments Green Gold Animation CEO Rajiv Chilaka, "The last 10 years Bheem has seen a lot of milestones in the L&M circle. We have been in the top league and the biggest licensor when it comes to toon character- licensing not only in merchandise but also in events, mobile gaming, e commerce, CSR initiatives and more. We're keen to explore more licensing opportunity beyond the boundaries of our country."
Besides L&M, marketing strategies are equally lucrative to gain traction to these IPs and shows. For instance, Sony YAY! celebrated Teacher's Day this September, by bringing the second season of their flagship initiative, Heroes Behind the Heroes by acknowledging few eminent personalities across myriad fields such as Indian tennis player Sania Mirza, choreographer Terence Lewis, Indian film director, producer and screenwriter Subhash Ghai, Nobel Peace Prize recipient and Kailash Satyarthi and Indian Sarod player Ustad Amjad Ali Khan Bangash. This event was promoted by their successful IP- KickO. They also collaborated with Domino's Pizza, a huge brand in itself, to celebrate their second birthday with children from Hope Foundation. The channel treated the kids to a host of fun activities starting with a screening of an episode from KickO and Super Speedo and unlimited pizzas. Similarly, Nickelodeon also conducted school contact programmes across 1000 schools and a dozen cities from Chennai to Chandigarh, to bring alive the magic into the classrooms with some fun games that encourage kids to focus and believe in the magic they possess, through their homegrown IP, Rudra.
Little Singham also won the Best IP award at Indian Licensing Expo (ILE) and they just launched the second season on Ganesh Chaturthi. "This has been the most important milestone we have achieved- that Discovery Kids has been able to connect with kids audience like never before – this bond is very special for us, " Pal Singh stated. Animation in India anticipates a bigger and better 2019 with some really exciting stuff. Streaming powerhouse Netflix has taken up popular IP Chhota Bheem to create an original series Mighty Bheem. Also, Indian animation industry is now creating a buzz in the global market by showcasing themselves in international forums like MIPCOM, ATF and many more. The industry has all the capabilities for all-encompassing viewership, with animated content being made not only for kids but also for grown-ups to enjoy. They definitely have huge potential of crossover to other territories. With the Indian broadcasters getting into local productions in a bigger way, we can be confident of Indian animation standard being at par with global counterparts with extraordinary local characters and content being created, loved and cherished. Amen to that!
Tags: animation, Animation 2018, Anish Mehta, Bandbudh Aur Budbak, Cartoon Network, Chhota Bheem, Cosmos Maya, Discovery Kids, Fab 5, Gattu Battu, Guru and Bhole, Honey and Bunny, KickO and Super Speedo, Kiran Desai, Leena Lele Dutta, Little Singham, Mighty Bheem, Motu Patlu, Nickelodeon, Pakdam Pakdai, Pogo, Prince Jai and Powerful Viru, Rajiv Chilaka, Rudra-Boom Chik Chik Boom, Shiva, Sony YAY!, Uttam Pal Singh
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Philadelphia Eagles Lock Up Another Soon-To-Be Free Agent With A Big Money Deal
By Travis Pulver on February 29, 2016 in Articles › Sports News
A few years ago, when the Philadelphia Eagles money-whipped Chip Kelly away from the comfortable confines of the University of Oregon, they assumed the future was going to be bright. It didn't turn out that way, but even though they will be going into next season with a first time head coach and a huge question mark at quarterback, the future is not without promise.
The Eagles have a number of talented young players on the roster, and have been hard at work before free agency begins trying to lock up their free agents and soon-to-be free agents.
Free safety Malcolm Jenkins recently became the latest player to sign a new, big money deal with the team. While he was not scheduled to become a free agent until after next season, the Eagles went ahead and extended him with a new four-year deal worth $35 million, with a signing bonus of $7.5 million and $21 million guaranteed.
Should his play drop off and his value drop, the team could cut him loose after the 2017 season and before the 2018 season begins. His signing bonus, 2016 salary, and 2017 salaries are guaranteed, and another $5 million will become guaranteed once the '18 season officially starts.
By locking up Jenkins through 2020, the Eagles will have one of the more diverse secondary players in the league on the roster. He began his career as a cornerback, and has played both free and strong safety. Since joining the Eagles two seasons ago he has not missed a defensive snap, intercepted five passes, returned two for touchdowns, batted down another 29 passes, and made 233 tackles.
Pro Football Focus named him to its All-Pro team last season as its first team free safety.
With Jenkins' contract, the Eagles have committed $194.01 million to five players since the season ended (Brent Celek–$13 million; tight end Zach Ertz–$42.5 million; Lane Johnson–$56.26 million; Vinny Curry–$47.25 million). So far the only veteran to be released has been wide receiver Riley Cooper.
The team still has a couple key free agents they have yet to sign, safety Walter Thurmond and quarterback Sam Bradford. Jenkins hopes the team resigns Thurmond, but there hasn't been any news about negotiations between him and the team.
Bradford's situation will be tougher to sort out. He was terrible for the first seven games last season, but appeared to get it together in the second half of the season. While he is expected to resign with the Eagles, but the question will be for how much. His injury history will make any team interested in him concerned, but it is also hard to justify extending paying a guy big money based off of half a season of good play.
Defensive end Fletcher Cox has been rumored to be discussing an extension with the team as well. Cox is not scheduled to become a free agent until after next season, but the team would rather not let him test free agency. According to the rumor mill, discussions have focused on a multi-year deal worth around $100 million, but it remains to be seen whether a deal is going to be done this off-season.
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Vallotton, FelixAdministrator2021-08-25T16:37:56+02:00
1865 Lausanne – 1925 Paris
At the age of 17 Félix Vallotton left his hometown Lausanne and moved to Paris to study at the private art school Académie Julian. His first steps as a young artist were in painting, with which he introduced himself to the public in the Paris Salon for the first time in 1885, earning an enthusiastic response. Vallotton's teacher, Jules Lefebvre, was a great supporter for the first few years. In 1888, when his father was no longer able to send his son monthly money, Vallotton began selling graphic sheets, writing exhibition reviews and obituaries for newspapers, as well as taking a job as a restorer. Nevertheless, Vallotton was not doing well financially. These troubles, coupled with the stressful city life, eventually lead to psychological and physical suffering.
In 1900, his aunt took him on a trip to Venice, Trieste, Vienna and Prague, which gave Vallotton new energy and revived his passion for art. Since 1892, the artist had been in contact with the Nabis around Bonnard, Denis and Vuillard. Although one can see the contact to the group of artists in his extensive, colour-contrasting paintings from this period, Vallotton always remained the so-called "Nabis étranger", who cultivated a deep friendship only with Vuillard and did not dedicate himself entirely to the categorical views of the association. Instead, at the turn of the century, he devoted himself exclusively to the perfection of printmaking, with which he finally achieved his artistic breakthrough. This was followed by illustrations for renowned French magazines, for the German Jugend through his connection to Julius Meier-Graefe, but also for publications in England and the USA, and Vallotton illustrated the books of international writers.
The glorious success of his graphic prints gradually led to financial relief. This also enabled the artist to devote himself more to painting again. From 1900 his painting style changed and became more personal and intimate, often depicting portraits of his wife or interiors of his own apartment. After he already had an acclaimed involvement in exhibitions at the Vienna Secession in 1899 / 1900, numerous exhibitions followed in France, Germany, Austria, Italy and Vallotton's homeland Switzerland.
But the outbreak of the First World War also meant a slackening of the artist's success. Among the reasons for this were a few biting caricatures at the expense of the Germans, which were disapproved of by potential buyers. As a result of this rejection, the sensitive artist developed a depression and increasingly suffered from health problems. Although the business with his art recovered after the end of the war, Vallotton's health did not. On 29 December 1925, Félix Vallotton died as a result of an operation.
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Welcome to version 2.0 of the EPTS Event Processing Glossary which includes about 20 additional terms, a modest extension of version 1. Since version 1.1 of the Glossary of event processing terminology was published nearly two years ago there has been a demand to add additional commonly used terms.
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The purpose of the EPTS glossary of terms is to facilitate industry use of event processing technology by providing a common language for developing applications and software infrastructure that use event processing concepts.
The glossary is presented according to the logical order of the terms. An index with an alphabetical listing is available at the beginning of the document for convenience.
This glossary covers a small set of basic terms related to event processing. It will be frequently periodically updated with additional terms in response to suggestions from the event processing community for improvements and additions.
It is tempting to introduce two separate terms such as event and event object. However, in any discussion longer than a paragraph or two, this becomes intolerably clumsy and one finds the distinction being misused, forgotten or dropped altogether. For example, using the two separate terms would dictate that ?event processing (see below) should be ?event object processing. The best solution is to overload the word ?event. The context of each use becomes the indicator of which meaning is intended. This has been standard practice in the field of event-driven simulation for the past thirty years. It was the approach taken by the physicists of the early 20th century in discussions of relativity where ?event also has two meanings. We have chosen to follow their example in the knowledge that it did not lead them into ambiguity problems.
Anything that happens, or is contemplated as happening.
A social or historical happening, e.g., the abolition of slavery, the battle of Waterloo, the Russian Revolution, and the Irish potato famine.
An object that represents, encodes, or records an event, generally for the purpose of computer processing.
Events are processed by computer systems by processing their representations as event objects. The same activity may be represented by more than one event object; each event object might record different attributes of the activity. In many event processing systems, for example simulation systems, events are immutable. In such systems, a modification or transformation of an event must be achieved by creating a new event object and not by altering the original event. Deletion would entail removing an event from further processing.
Overloading: Event objects contain data. The word ?event is overloaded so that it can be used as a synonym for event object. In discussing event processing, the word ?event is used to denote both the everyday meaning (anything that happens) and the computer science meaning (an event object or message). The context of each use indicates which meaning is intended.
An event that does not happen in the physical world but is imagined, modeled or simulated.
Note: A virtual event can refer to either an event object or a thing that happens.
A class of event objects.
All events must be instances of an event type. An event has the structure defined by its type. The structure is represented as a collection of event attributes (below).
A component of the structure of an event.
Note: An event attribute can have a simple or complex data type.
Computing that performs operations on events, including reading, creating, transforming, or discarding events.
Note: The overloaded meaning event object processing is intended in this context.
A process that creates an ordered ascending sequence of values of type Time with a uniform interval between them.
Note: Each value is produced at a tick (or clock tick). The length of the interval between clock ticks is called a chronon (the clock's granularity).
The time value attributes of an event.
A time value attribute of an event recording the reading of a clock in the system in which the event was created or observed.
An event can contain timestamps according to one or more clocks. For example, it can contain both its creation time according to a clock where it was created and its arrival time at a system location according to a clock at that location.
In systems with multiple clocks, the issue of clock synchronization is an ongoing topic of research. Not all timing attributes are timestamps. Timing in derived events, for example, may be derived from timing of the source events.
A period of time bounded by two timing attributes called the interval's start time and end time.
An event that happens at a point in time.
Note: If they are recorded, the start and end times of an instantaneous event are the same.
An event A is a cause of another event B, if A had to happen in order for B to happen.
Note: This is a definition of computational causality. It requires A to be necessary for B to happen. For example B's father is a cause of B, but so is B's mother. Other definitions of causality are possible, e.g., probable cause. The meaning and definitions of intentional or philosophical causality have been debated in countless books on philosophy.
An event that summarizes, represents, or denotes a set of other events.
A complex event can be an event object or anything that happens, depending on the context.
All derived events are complex, but not all complex events are derived from event objects (they may arise from other sources).
An event that is regarded as complex in one application might be viewed as a simple event in another application.
A complex event can convey additional information that was not present in any of the events that gave rise to it.
The relationship between a complex event and the other events that it denotes, summarizes, or otherwise represents.
Note: This definition applies to the use of abstraction in an event processing context. The term abstraction is used elsewhere in computer science in other ways.
An event that is generated as a result of applying a method or process to one or more other events.
An event reporting that company B has entered the bidding to take over A with probability 0.9, might be derived from an event reporting that the price of company A's stock has jumped 10% in 5 minutes.
The absence of an event, say in a given time interval, can lead to a derived event reporting that the first event did not happen.
A derived event is an event object.
A derived event is a kind of complex event, although not all complex events are derived.
A derived event that is created by combining a set of other simple or complex events (known as its members) using a specific set of event constructors such as disjunction, conjunction, and sequence. A composite event always includes the member (base) events from which it is derived.
A composite event is an event object – something that happens cannot be a composite event.
A composite event is a kind of complex event.
A derived event is not a composite if its method of derivation lies outside a specified set of allowed constructors.
The terminology "composite" and "constructor" originated in the field of Active Database research.
Events are related by time, causality, abstraction, and other relationships. Time and causality impose partial orderings upon events.
Regarding the relationships of composite, derived and complex events: A composite event or a derived event is a complex event. The converses are not necessarily true.
The term aggregate event is sometimes used for some forms of composite or derived event.
An event that is not viewed as summarizing, representing, or denoting a set of other events.
All events are either simple or complex. Simple event is the complement to complex event.
Simple and complex are relative terms. A simple event to one observer may be complex to another.
An event object that records a real-world event.
Note: A raw event may represent a simple real-world event (e.g., the phone rang) or a complex real-world event. For example, the stock market crash of 1929 was a complex real world event that can be recorded by a complex raw event.
A model that represents the relationships between events that are at different levels of abstraction with respect to each other.
Note: A complex event is usually at a higher level in the hierarchy than the events that it denotes, summarizes, or otherwise represents.
Computing that performs operations on complex events, including reading, creating, transforming, abstracting, or discarding them.
Note: CEP ultimately creates complex events even if some or all of the source events are simple events. See also the definitions for event stream processing (ESP), event streams, and event clouds, below.
An event processing agent that sends events.
Any means of conveying event objects.
A channel can carry events of multiple types.
Events transported by a single channel may be consumed by multiple event consumers (the channel is said to fan out).
Events transported by a single channel may originate in multiple producers and be delivered to one consumer (the channel is said to fan in).
An event form or descriptor, some of whose parameters are variables. An event template matches single events by replacing the variables with values.
A template containing event templates, relational operators and variables. An event pattern can match sets of related events by replacing variables with values.
Note: Event patterns can often be specified graphically.
A set of related events resulting from an event pattern where the variables are replaced by values.
Send (John, See the NYT today, 15.00 EST) and Receive(John, See the NYT today, 12.05 PST).
A Boolean condition that must be satisfied by the events observed in a system.
A service level agreement limiting the time taken to complete a mortgage transaction from the time an application is received.
Finding instances of an event pattern.
The process of deciding whether a set of events is an instance of a pattern is called matching.
Discovery deals with finding new patterns, whereas detection deals with matching a given pattern.
A prescribed method for processing events.
Whenever three timeouts have happened, send an alert to the network manager.
If more than ten shopping carts have been active for more than five minutes, then activate the website reaction time monitor and display an amber alert on the dashboard.
Whenever IBM trades 2% above its 1 hour VWAP and then within 15 minutes trades 5 points below, then buy 1000 shares IBM.
Note: Event processing rules may be prescribed in many different ways, including by finite state machines, UML diagrams, graphical methods, Java code, SQL code, ECA (event-condition-action) rules or reactive rules that are triggered by event patterns (below).
A rule that prescribes actions to be taken whenever an instance of a given event pattern is detected.
An entity that processes event objects.
An EPA may perform different kinds of computation on events such as filtering, aggregating, and detecting patterns of events.
An EPA can be recursive – it can be an EPN consisting of multiple EPAs and channels.
Event source and event sink are roles that an EPA may play. An EPA could act in both roles – it could be an event producer at one moment and an event consumer at another time.
A high level computer language for defining the behavior of event processing agents.
An IT discipline that encompasses event governance, event policy management, and the design, development, testing, deployment, maintenance, and administration of events, event models, event metadata, and related aspects of systems that process events.
A linearly ordered sequence of events.
An event stream may be bounded by a certain time interval or other criteria (content, space, source), or be open ended and unbounded.
A stream may contain events of many different types.
A bounded segment of an event stream.
The events in the last ten minutes – i.e., a ten-minute moving window.
Note: Windows define subsequences of an event stream typically to focus the event processing on specific data or to improve event processing performance; however, they may also have other uses.
Computing on inputs that are event streams.
Applications that use stock market feeds as inputs and process events in their order of arrival to compute running average stock prices, volume weighted average prices over time windows, etc.
The terms ESP and CEP are conceptual classifications. They can be useful in delineating philosophies of event processing and intended applications, but do not specify precisely the underlying capabilities of event processing engines.
A partially ordered set of events (poset), either bounded or unbounded, where the partial orderings are imposed by the causal, timing and other relationships between the events.
Typically an event cloud is created by the events produced by one or more distributed systems.
An event cloud may contain many event types, event streams, and event channels.
CEP usually refers to event processing that assumes an event cloud as input, and therefore can make no assumptions about the arrival order of events.
A set of event processing agents (EPAs) and the channels they use to communicate.
The runtime deployment of an event processing network may be distributed across multiple physical networks, computers, and software artifacts.
An EPN can be an EPA, i.e., EPAs and EPNs can be recursive.
A method of communication in which messages are delivered according to subscriptions.
Subscriptions define which messages should flow to which consumers.
Event processing applications may use publish-and-subscribe communication for delivering events. However, publish-and-subscribe is not definitional to event processing – other communication styles may be used.
An agent that sends events that are disseminated by a publish-and-subscribe protocol.
An agent that submits a subscription for publish-and-subscribe communication.
Note: In most publish-and-subscribe systems, the consumer must be the subscriber. However, in some systems, the subscriber can be a third party.
The behavior of a device, software module or other entity whose execution is in response to the arrival of events from external or internal sources.
An architectural style in which components are event driven and communicate by means of events.
Architecture is the fundamental organization of a system embodied in its components, their relationships to each other and to the environment, and the principles guiding its design and evolution (from IEEE).
An architectural style is a coordinated set of architectural constraints that restricts the roles/features of architectural elements and the allowed relationships among those elements within any architecture that conforms to that style (from Roy T. Fielding).
Cause: An event A is a cause of another event B if A had to happen in order for B to happen.
Clock: A process that creates an ordered ascending sequence of values of type Time with a uniform interval between them.
Complex event: An event that summarizes, represents, or denotes a set of other events.
Complex-event processing (CEP): Computing that performs operations on complex events, including reading, creating, transforming, abstracting, or discarding them.
Composite event: A derived event that is created by combining a set of other simple or complex events (known as its members) using a specific set of event constructors such as disjunction, conjunction, and sequence. A composite event always includes the member (base) events from which it is derived.
Constraint (event pattern constraint): A Boolean condition that must be satisfied by the events observed in a system.
Derived event (synthesized event, synthetic event): An event that is generated as a result of applying a method or process to one or more other events.
Event: Anything that happens, or is contemplated as happening.
Event (event object, event message, event tuple): An object that represents encodes or records an event, generally for the purpose of computer processing.
Event abstraction: The relationship between a complex event and the other events that it denotes, summarizes, or otherwise represents.
Event attribute (event property): A component of the structure of an event.
Event channel: Any means of conveying event objects.
Event cloud: A partially ordered set of events (poset), either bounded or unbounded.
Event consumer (event sink): An event processing agent that receives events.
Event driven: The behavior of a device, software module or other entity whose execution is in response to the arrival of events from external or internal sources.
Event-driven architecture (EDA): An architectural style in which components are event driven and communicate by means of events.
Event hierarchy: A model that represents the relationships between events that are at different levels of abstraction with respect to each other.
Event management: An IT discipline that encompasses event governance, event policy management, and the design, development, testing, deployment, maintenance, and administration of events, event models, event metadata, and related aspects of systems that process events.
Event pattern: A template containing event templates, relational operators and variables. An event pattern can match sets of related events by replacing variables with values.
Event pattern detection: Finding instances of an event pattern.
Event pattern discovery: Finding new event patterns.
Event pattern triggered reactive rule: A rule that prescribes actions to be taken whenever an instance of a given event pattern is detected.
Event processing agent (EPA) (event processing component, event mediator): A software module that processes events.
Event processing language (EPL): A high level computer language for defining the behavior of event processing agents.
Event processing network (EPN): A set of event processing agents (EPAs) and a set of event channels connecting them.
Event producer (event source, event emitter): An event processing agent that sends events.
Event stream: A linearly ordered sequence of events.
Event stream processing (ESP): Computing on inputs that are event streams.
Event template: An event form or descriptor some of whose parameters are variables. An event template matches single events by replacing the variables with values.
Event timing: The time value attributes of an event.
Event type (event class, event definition, or event schema): A class of event objects.
Instantaneous event: An event that happens at a point in time.
Pattern instance (event pattern instance): A set of related events resulting from an event pattern by replacing the variables by values.
Publish-and-subscribe: A method of communication in which messages are delivered according to subscriptions.
Publisher: An agent that sends events that are disseminated by a publish-and-subscribe protocol.
Raw event: An event object that records a real-world event.
Relationships between events: Events are related by time, causality, abstraction and other relationships. Time and causality impose partial orderings upon events.
Rule (in event processing): A prescribed method for processing events.
Simple event: An event that is not viewed as summarizing, representing, or denoting a set of other events.
Subscriber: An agent that submits a subscription for publish-and-subscribe communication.
Time interval: A period of time bounded by two timing attributes called the interval's start time and end time.
Timestamp: A time value attribute of an event recording the reading of a clock in the system in which the event was created or observed.
Virtual event: An event that does not happen in the physical world but is imagined, modeled, or simulated.
Window (in event processing): A bounded segment of an event stream.
Acknowledgements We are indebted to many correspondents who have made contributions, suggestions and comments over the past year. They are too numerous to mention individually, but we owe them our thanks.
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Column: Churches' role in anti-slavery movement was understated
Bruce Ervin
This guest column was written by Pastor Bruce Ervin, of First Christian Church in Bloomington.
Laura Lane's laudatory piece on Sheriff Brad Swain's abolitionist Quaker ancestors ("Ties to History," in the Feb. 28 issue of The Herald-Times) inadvertently understates the role that the churches played in the American anti-slavery movement. In her reference to an anti-slavery meeting at Pendleton Baptist Church in 1843 that featured Frederick Douglass as one of the speakers, she says, "It was during a time when churches served not only as religious venues, but also gathering sites for such events."
In order to set the historical record straight, it should be pointed out that churches were gathering sites for anti-slavery events precisely because they were religious venues. The tendency in recent years to equate Christianity in general, and evangelical Christianity in particular, with right-wing political causes obscures the fact that many 19th century evangelical Christians were anti-slavery activists. It was not just something that they did on the side, it was deeply embedded in their faith. Quakers, Presbyterians, Congregationalists and Methodists, in particular, were engaged in such left-wing activism.
Documents at the Monroe County History Center indicate that in Bloomington, it was especially the Covenanters who played a leading role in the anti-slavery movement. This religious community lives on today as the Reformed Presbyterian Church at the corner of First and Lincoln streets. Furthermore, the Bloomington Free Methodist Church, at the corner of Grimes and Lincoln, is part of a denomination whose birth in 1860 was due, in part, to the faith-based anti-slavery convictions of its founders. That's one reason why those founders called their new church the Free Methodist Church. Indeed, it's appropriate that both congregations are located on Lincoln Street, because President Lincoln was a man of deep faith who believed that God was guiding the nation through the fiery trial of the Civil War in order to emancipate the slaves; or, as he put it, to bring forth "a new birth of freedom."
A local story illustrates the ways in which the Bloomington churches cooperated in the anti-slavery movement. By the 1830s, Bloomington had become an important stop on the Underground Railroad. An escaped slave named Tony, seeking the safety of the "station" south of town, had been captured by bounty hunters before he could reach the safe house. A group of Indiana University students who were slavery sympathizers were guarding Tony for the bounty hunters. When some Covenanters tried to free Tony, the students proposed to shoot the abolitionist Christians.
It was at this point that Austin Seward came upon the scene. Mr. Seward was the blacksmith who had created the fish atop the courthouse. More importantly, for the purposes of this story, he was a charter member of the Christian Church (parent congregation of both First Christian Church and North Central Church of Christ). Brother Seward, feigning a spirit of helpfulness, explained to the students that the Covenanters in question were prominent citizens in town and their absence would not go unnoticed for long, so it would not be prudent for the students to kill them. Shortly thereafter Tony was spirited away from his captors and sent safely on his way to Canada.
One could go on to talk about the role of churches, in Bloomington and elsewhere, in the Progressive Movement at the turn of the 20th century, the civil rights and anti-war movements at mid-century, and the engagement of people of faith in progressive causes today. It's not that some Christians just happen to be involved in left-of-center political activities. These Christians are involved in such activities precisely because they are followers of a revolutionary itinerant preacher named Jesus.


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Contacting editors via email can be the best way to have your work seen. Be sure to know the publication before you approach them, and then send through an email with a story/photo feature idea that you believe will fit their publication perfectly. Make sure your pitch is relevant, straight to the point and time sensitive; most print publications will have issues ready months in advance so it's worth checking their advertising cut-off dates in order to work out what type of content they'll be after at what time of year. Pitching a summer photo feature when they're working on winter destinations won't get you very far!
One of the facets of my photography is the one that involves fashion, travel, tradition, culture, history and last but certainly not least, storytelling. Despite searching for similar work on the internet, I wasn't able to find an equivalent for such a production. Sure, there are many extremely talented photographers who specialize in awesome fashion and glamour imagery, and some who even go to striking artistry with fantastical extremes in makeup and elaborate backgrounds (such as the well known Japanese photographer Haseo, as an example).
Readers of The Travel Photographer blog know of my current long term involvement in documenting Chinese Opera of the diaspora; an involvement that will culminate into the production of a coffee-table book bearing the same title. It is for this reason that the blog has been recently populated with posts with excellent work of Chinese opera by travel and documentary photographers.
Setting goals and thinking about the reason you want to be a travel photographer sounds like a pretty easy step to skip but believe me, you want those goals to look back at one day. When you've had a bad few months without work, when you're knee deep in mud because you took the term 'getting the shot' a bit too far…you want to be reminded of why you're doing it.
To Thuvan Dihn he explained that he had been but testing an invention of his own with which his flier was equipped--a clever improvement of the ordinary Martian air compass, which, when set for a certain destination, will remain constantly fixed thereon, making it only necessary to keep a vessel's prow always in the direction of the compass needle to reach any given point upon Barsoom by the shortest route.
Devansh Jhaveri is a freelance photographer based in Ahmedabad, India. He has been published in newspapers across India, and his photographs were used as book covers for books by Penguin Books. He has been widely exhibited by Pix Delhi, at the Delhi Photo Festival, the Chennai Salon, and the Asahi Shimbun in Japan. He has also been part of two personal solo shows named Trespass and Distortions. His latest series "The Red Dress Project" was exhibited at the British Council Delhi and will be traveling to other cities this year.
In comparison, the religious self-mutilations performed by the devotees during the Vegetarian Festival in Phuket are considered to be extreme and shocking. The entranced devotees who perform these acts of religious self-mutilation are called mah song. They wear elaborate costumes, enter into trances and ask the gods to enter their bodies. Men or women (they are usually celibate) puncture their faces with hooks, spears and knives amongst other sharp implements.
If the instability of the freelance photographer's way of life isn't for you, you can always find a day job that involves traveling. Then you can go to lots of places, be paid for it through your job, and do travel photography in your spare time. Jobs like flight attendant, global salesperson, English teacher (or a spy!) are just several of many professions that let you visit your dream locations, without being too risky on the financial side.
Some of these 'singalong' parlors still exist, faded and tired but otherwise unchanged, offering a taste of popular and cheap entertainment from a past era. How these survive in anyone's guess. The parlors usually have an organist (who can also play a guitar) and a handful of habitual customers who sing Cantonese songs...and occasionally Western oldies such as "Sealed With A Kiss" by the Canton Singing House organist.
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1590s, "act of appointing," from Latin destinationem (nominative destinatio) "purpose, design," from past participle stem of destinare "determine, appoint, choose, make firm or fast," from de- "completely, formally" (see de-) + -stinare, related to stare "to stand," from PIE root *sta- "to stand" (see stet). Modern sense (1787) is from place of destination, where one is "destined" to go.
That would point to the Lakers as another possible destination for a trade. — Brett Martel, The Seattle Times, "Agent: Anthony Davis tells New Orleans that he wants a trade," 29 Jan. 2019 Will and Kate reportedly chose the island of Mustique as the destination for their trip, which coincides with George's fifth birthday. — Kayleigh Roberts, Marie Claire, "Prince George Is Reportedly Celebrating His Birthday on a Private Island, NBD," 22 July 2018 The sitter can accompany a child to the airport, on the plane and to a destination. — Kay Manning, chicagotribune.com, "Considering having a child fly solo? Here's what to know," 29 June 2018 According to their leaked Save The Date invitation, the couple have chosen France for a picturesque, destination wedding in 2019. — Lucy Wood, Marie Claire, "Sophie Turner and Joe Jonas Were Absolutely the Cutest at the Grammys After Party," 11 Feb. 2019 But clicking though the digital album of a destination wedding has its own distinct appeal. — Christian Allaire, Vogue, "The Most Extravagant and Enviable Destination Weddings in Vogue," 11 Jan. 2019 The jet continued to its destination and landed safely. — Dominic Gates, The Seattle Times, "Lion Air pilots struggled against Boeing's 737 MAX flight-control system, black-box data shows," 27 Nov. 2018 Following their gorgeous destination wedding in Italy last spring, the couple jetted off to Ecuador to do community-building work for the charity organization WE—and famously invited Drew's twin brother Jonathan along! — Taysha Murtaugh, Country Living, "Property Brothers' Drew Scott on Balancing Work and Married Life With Wife Linda," 19 Nov. 2018 What has quickly become a year-round destination, Beaver Creek offers the unique experience of a lifetime for anyone looking for adventure, fun, and inspiration. — Discover Magazine, "One-on-One with Executive Chef Kevin Erving," 6 July 2018
Lyn's last tip is to have your own website. "Show off your work on Instagram and Facebook, but do ensure you have a good, easy to use website too. It should have some of your best work (with lots of keywords!), any specialities, and awards/competitions you have won, and your contact details. It's too easy to get carried away, add thousands of images, and forget the basics. Keep it simple."
However I didn't realize that he had done lovely work documenting a rural Chinese opera troupe in Sichuan featured on the International Business Times..thus providing me with valuable inspiration for my own long term book project involving Chinese opera of the Diaspora. My primary focus in this project is on the "rural" or provincial troupes who perform their art during Chinese celebrations and religious observances.
The setting for the photo shoot which resulted in the slideshow was the beautiful Lin Ben Yuan Family Mansion and Garden (林本源園邸) in the Banqiao District, Taipei. It was a residence built by the Lin Ben Yuan Family, and is the country's most complete surviving example of traditional Chinese garden architecture. It can be traced back to 1847 when it was built for storing of rice crop whose location was more convenient for the increasingly wealthy Lin Ben Yuan family. A few years later, it became the family's main residence.
That's a terrible route. You should be able to fly to Heathrow and then it's only 12 hours to Cape Town. We don't spend 36 hours in the air. Hawaii to Atlanta is 9 hours and then 18 hours on one flight to Joburg. The best time I've ever had is 34 hours door to door total travel time from Kona to Joburg but it's not fun. I've met people on the Atlanta flight that do it every month. They normally work for some charity or in Oil & Gas. With that many miles they get business or first so that makes it a lot easier but I'm sure it still takes its toll. I enjoyed looking at your work. I need to spend more time on the road.
Similar to geishas, the "sing-song" girls (also known as 'flower girls' were trained from childhood to entertain wealthy male clients through companionship, singing and dancing in special sing-song houses. While the practice of concubinage was officially made illegal, it has recently been popular amongst the wealthy in China as a result of the country's prosperity.
"Back when we started Wanderlust, we would invite photographers in with their portfolios. Nowadays, although we do commission some work, we increasingly use online stock libraries to find images for this website and for our magazines. On the one hand, they libraries have a wide range and make it very easy to search. On the other hand, we can find ourselves wading through pages of very average shots that don't offer anything different or fresh. And, so often we struggle to find what we need due to poor tagging by the photographers."
Hi Claire, thanks for your message. That's correct, it's not possible to upload photos from your computer to Instagram however it's quite popular to get around this by emailing the photos to yourself, then opening the email on your phone and storing the attached image in your phone's library. This then allows you to post to Instagram. Alternatively there are a number of apps or plugins that allow you to upload to Instagram, most however will require payment. This is one I suggest looking at 'LR/Instagram' but I can't promise anything as I don't personally use this method.
Lyn's last tip is to have your own website. "Show off your work on Instagram and Facebook, but do ensure you have a good, easy to use website too. It should have some of your best work (with lots of keywords!), any specialities, and awards/competitions you have won, and your contact details. It's too easy to get carried away, add thousands of images, and forget the basics. Keep it simple."
Rosalynn Tay is a travel and fashion (as well as editorial) photographer based in Singapore, and is a peripatetic traveler whose fondness of travel led her to photograph in countless countries. She travels to Sri Lanka, Japan, Mongolia, Bangladesh, China, Malaysia, Siberia, Morocco and even ventured to North Korea. She is a graduate of Spéos, the internationally recognized photography school in Paris. She's also a committed Leica user, and has exhibited her work (Ethiopia -solo- and LeicaXhibition -group).
Travel photography as a genre is one of the most open in terms of the subjects it covers. Many travel photographers specialise in a particular aspect of photography such as travel portraits, landscape or documentary photography as well as shooting all aspects of travel. Much of today's Travel Photography style is derived from early work in Magazines such as National Geographic magazine from photographers such as Steve McCurry. This genre of photography entails shooting a wide variety of subjects under varied available conditions, e.g. low light photography indoors, available ambient light photography for exteriors of buildings and monuments, shooting on the streets where sometimes conditions may be hostile, capturing moments which rarely recur, capturing the magic of light while shooting landscapes, etc.
The third image is of Jinru Lee; a student and part-time model in Georgetown (Penang Island, Malaysia). It was made in late August 2018 under the sweltering sun of Penang, and inside the Cheah Kongsi Clan House Temple on Lebuh Armenian. I was in Penang to photograph the various Hokkien operas during the Hungry Ghost festival, and took the opportunity to set a photo shoot in its streets for a forthcoming audio slideshow (aka photo film) titled "The Phantom of the Opera".
Some libraries already have enough travel shots, but the big online stock libraries are always looking for fresh images, and want to offer as much as variety as possible. So, if you want to submit to a particular library, check you have a good range of high-quality images that are different from the library's current selection (and as good as, or better!). Libraries will also take a cut of the money you make from selling your images, typically 50%.
When I was just eight years old I would flip through the pages of National Geographic and imagine being a photographer in Africa. I was captivated by the faces and places that seemed worlds apart from my typical Middle American hometown. Fast forward years later, and I'm living the dream as a travel photographer working throughout Africa and Europe. If you've ever wanted to travel the world with your camera, here's my advice to help you get started and thrive in professional travel photography.
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The Beijing style of opera, widely known as Peking Opera, was popularized under the Qing Dynasty, which was brought down by the Chinese Revolution of 1911. It had ample support from the court and spread because it was sung in a language widely understood across China, while regional varieties such as Cantonese, Shanghainese and Sichuanese opera stuck to their own dialects and songs.
I was eagerly planning to revisit some of the neighborhoods with lòngtáng on my forthcoming trip to Shanghai and add to my inventory of candid photography, but was disappointed to read that large areas of Laoximen; one of the most well known of these neighborhoods, are being demolished by the city's government in the name of modernizing the area and raising living standards.
Approaching a new client can be a lot easier if you happen to be visiting that region, or if it's where you are based. Start local and contact businesses who you regularly use or that have less than desirable images on their website…put together a proposal and they'll more than likely say yes if it benefits them! If they're just starting out on social media you can offer to create a library of social media images they can use over a 3-6month period to generate interest in their product/region.
The image of Sapphire Kiu; a Hong Kong-based model (above), was made in early December 2018 on the famous (or infamous, depending on your point of view) Temple street, and will be part of a forthcoming audio slideshow (aka photo film) titled "The Songstress of Temple Street". It will tell the story of Qin Yi, a famous Shanghai singer in the 1930s, who "returns" to Hong Kong where she started her career. Some of the images were made in Temple's Street Canton Singing House and the Tin Hau Temple.
Stock photography: Shooting for stock photography is a subject for a different article (or five of them) but you can see stock agencies as the middle man between provider (the photographer) and buyer (magazines and websites). In order for news agencies or image bank websites to send you on assignment, you're required to be a contract photographer. Each organization has its own contract and demands. But some photo agencies will be willing to pay for your independent travel images if they are sellable. Do not expect large amounts. But hey, it's better than nothing.
Once a black image is created, I clicked on File> Add Layer(s) From File, and used the Quick Mask tool (yellow arrow on left) to "paint" a line around Gui Lian. The Quick Mask tool wasn't sufficiently precise in blacking out all of the targeted areas, so I also used the Masking Brush tool (red arrow) and went over these areas on complete the task....a task that took me no more than 12 minutes; well within my range of tolerance. I then pumped up the saturation using Iridium Developer tools...a task that took under a minute.
I introduced myself, telling Chan I had read articles about him. He didn't seem surprised at all, and brought a photo book -carefully wrapped in plastic- to show me more photos and a write up about him, along with other craftsmen in Hong Kong. I had seen Sunset Survivors; a book that tells the stories of Hong Kong's traditional tradesmen and women through imagery and interviews. It covers a number of curious professions that are quickly falling into obscurity, from fortune telling to face threading and letter writing to bird cage making in the streets of old Hong Kong.
Knowing how to use your camera is essential to success as a travel photographer because more often than not, it's those spur of the moment shots that generate the goods. If you can quickly adapt to the surroundings and know what settings to change in a split-second in order to capture a moment, you're in with a pretty good shot of becoming a professional photographer.
This is a wonderful write-up. My wheels are turning and although you've told me just where to start, I feel overewhelmed already. I've been shooting for a while now, self taught, but have realzed the several areas I need to streghten, from techincal, to the business side of things. I have so many questions. Ultimately, i feel in love with travel photography when I took my first international and solo trip to the Philippines about 5 years ago. I love to just capture whats happening around me, the people, the culture, the food. And I absolutely love to talk to people about travel, inspire them to try it themselves. I just started taking myself seriously as a photographer 3 years ago. However, I feel lost on how to get the type of clients I want and the type of work I want. In the mean time I just shoot for me. who to reach out to, how to find them, what to say. And putting together that PDF portfolio. Are my best my best? and so on. This one page has already helped and Ill be reaching out to you via email. in the meantime here are some links to my work.
This was a really informative article Hillary :) Just wish I found it sooner because just a week ago I went to the Grand Canyon to snap some photos. I didn't have this article to help, but I found a similarly useful article that provided some kind of checklist of things to do before traveling. If anyone's interested, here's what helped me out before I went to the canyon: http://www.adoramapix.com/blog/2016/10/16/photography-101-packing/#.WFH9...
Whether at home or abroad, when you know the ins and outs of a particular location, you can provide photography tours and location-specific workshops to serve both tourists and serious photographers. In Greece I found a professional photographer offering pricey photo tours in Santorini, a popular island with stunning viewpoints that are difficult to locate. Part of this photographer's service was to unveil these secret locations. Back in Holland, photographer Michiel Buijse offers nighttime photography workshops in Amsterdam, helping photographers shoot stunning long exposures along the historical canals. Consider what you can offer in a location you know well.
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In contrast with most of my peers, I seldom use Photoshop and have never used Lightroom. However, I rely on three post-processing/editing apps as my tools of choice...these are Color Efex Pro (originally of Google and now part of DxO Software, Iridient Developer (the raw image format processing software for macOS, and well known for its ability to process Fujifilm X-Trans raw files), and lastly ON1 Photo Raw ( a raw processor, photo editor and plug-in collection all in one).


With an estimated five million tonnes of wood waste generated in the UK each year, BWRP aims to reduce the amount going to landfill. Operating as a social enterprise, it works with a team of around 40 dedicated volunteers to collect, repurpose and sell wood that would otherwise go to waste – helping to benefit both the community and the environment.
BWRP has consistently saved over 500 tonnes of wood from landfill every year. Collected waste wood is either transformed for re-sale, used to make bespoke custom furniture in the workshop or sustainably recycled and used for heat reclamation at power stations, replacing coal for electricity production. The business operates a successful volunteer programme that enables social inclusion and learning – and is vital in operating a sustainable business model.
BWRP volunteers include the long-term unemployed, those with substance abuse problems, individuals with a learning disability or mental health issues. BWRP aims to offer an inclusive, sociable and practical environment where volunteers can gain work experience, knowledge and confidence to better their personal situation and employment prospects.
Ben Moss, co-founder and director of Bristol Wood Recycling Project, said: "We moved into our new premises a year ago to help us expand our growing business of reusing and recycling waste wood, building furniture and offering employment and volunteering opportunities. Purchasing our site – which is the purpose of the bond offer – will help us achieve that and provide security for the long term.
To develop the bond offer, BWRP is working with Triodos Bank, Europe's leading sustainable bank, which has its UK head office in Bristol. Last year, Triodos became the first UK bank to launch an investment crowdfunding platform.
Dan Hird, head of Corporate Finance at Triodos Bank, said: "We are proud to be supporting Ben and the team at Bristol Wood Recycling Project. The business has an excellent reputation and its work in reducing and recycling waste wood, as well as its volunteer programme, make it an ideal fit with Triodos Bank's mission to make money work for positive social, environmental and cultural change.
The minimum investment in the bond is £50 and the offer is expected to fill quickly after its launch on 28th January. The bonds are open to anyone that registers on the Triodos site (www.triodoscrowdfunding.co.uk) and will pay interest of 4% gross per year. The bond has a six-year term and is repayable in full on 15th March 2025. As with all investments, interest payments are not guaranteed, and capital is at risk.
The bonds are also eligible to be held in an Innovative Finance ISA, which allows investors to earn interest tax-free within each personal ISA allowance (currently £20k).
Last year, BWRP business moved from the site on Cattle Market Road that it had rented for 13 years and relocated to new premises in St Philip's. The new, larger site has brought many benefits for the business – it has two entrance points, enabling separate access for collections and for clients, and boasts a self-contained yard that provides the ideal space for storing the waste wood collected. The workshop in the new premises is also over twice the size of the previous work shop, with a larger office space too.
The additional space on offer at the new site gives BWRP the capacity to continue to expand its operations, with a strong six-year business plan for growth. Purchasing the site using the capital raised through the crowdfunding bid will result in significant annual premises cost savings, as well as securing the site long term.
For more information on the Bristol Wood Recycling Project bond and to register interest, visit triodoscrowdfunding.co.uk.
An investment in Bristol Wood Recycling Project bonds is not covered by the Financial Services Compensation Scheme. Bristol Wood Recycling Project's ability to pay the interest and repay the bonds is not guaranteed and is dependent on the continued success of its business model. These bonds are unquoted securities with a fixed repayment date and although the bonds are transferable, investors should be aware that they may not be able to access their capital during the life of the bond.
Bristol Wood Recycling Project published an offer document dated January 2019. Applications can only be made on the basis of, and subject to, the terms and conditions of the information contained in the offer document which includes the terms and conditions of the Triodos Crowdfunding website. Bristol Wood Recycling Project is a private company limited by guarantee, registered in England with registered office at Unit 4, William Street, St. Philips, Bristol, BS2 0RG (registered number 05081319).
BWRP is a social enterprise which was founded in 2004 to address the amount of wood waste going to waste locally. The company works to benefit both the community and the environment by transforming waste wood into products for resale through an inclusive volunteering programme.
That the business remains self-financing.
BWRP is a company limited by guarantee which is owned and managed by fourteen employees and volunteers who are members. It operates as a co-operative being owned and controlled by its members and is a member of co-operatives UK. All 14 members have an equal stake in the company and are jointly responsible for the strategic direction of the company.
Investments offered on the crowdfunding platform are not readily realisable, which means that they may be difficult to sell and you may not get back the full amount invested. Investments are not covered by the Financial Services Compensation Scheme (FSCS) and your capital is at risk and returns are not guaranteed. Repayment of capital and interest or payment of dividends will be dependent on the success of the organisation's business model and past performance isn't a reliable indicator of future performance. You should always read the offer document in full before deciding whether or not to invest as it will cover risks specific to an individual investment. You can read more about the general risks associated with making these types of investments here. If you are unsure if any of these investments are right for you, you should contact an Independent Financial Adviser.


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Middletown's Godwin drafted in 3rd round by Buccaneers
Meghan Montemurro
Middletown's Chris Godwin has a new home.
The Tampa Bay Buccaneers selected Godwin, a wide receiver out of Penn State, in the third round Friday night as the 84th overall pick in the NFL Draft. The Delaware native was the 11th wide receiver chosen in the draft.
The 6-foot-1, 209-pound Godwin joins a talented offensive group in Tampa Bay. He should fit in perfectly with Tampa Bay. Led by quarterback Jameis Winston, Godwin joins a receiving corps that features Mike Evans and former Eagle DeSean Jackson. The Bucs used their first-round pick on Alabama tight end O.J. Howard, clearly putting a priority on drafting playmakers.
Godwin ran a 4.42 in the 40-yard dash at the NFL Combine and performed well overall at the event.
His performance during his three-year career at Penn State left his name throughout the Nittany Lions' record book. He was the eighth player in school history to record more than 2,000 career receiving yards, finishing No. 4 all-time with 2,404 yards. His 18 total touchdowns were tied for fourth most in the program's history.
In 2016, Godwin tallied three 100-yard receiving games and caught 11 touchdowns – second most in a single season – for the Nittany Lions. Godwin put on a show in his final collegiate game, hauling in nine catches for 187 yards and two touchdowns against the University of Southern California in the Rose Bowl.
Contact Meghan Montemurro at mmontemurro@delawareonline.com. Follow her on Twitter at @M_Montemurro.
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The Commission on Narcotic Drugs' censorship of a representative from the UN Working Group on Arbitrary Detention sets a first and dangerous precedent legitimising ongoing frictions between drug control and human rights agendas.
Most countries fail drug policy test according to new Index
First-ever accountability tool assesses and ranks countries' drug policies against key UN-system recommendations.
As the UN celebrates the 60th anniversary of the global 'war on drugs', experts highlight its devastating impacts
Despite some progress, in most parts of the world, governments remain wedded to draconian policies that continue to have catastrophic impact on communities and have resoundingly failed in their stated purpose of eradicating illicit drug markets.
UN green lights medicinal cannabis but fails to challenge colonial legacy of its prohibition
Although welcoming the removal from Schedule IV, drug policy experts expressed serious concerns that cannabis will remain in Schedule I of the 1961 Single Convention on Narcotic Drugs.
After failing to respond to widespread violations in the Philippines, the United Nations risks being complicit in the unfolding human rights crisis
The resolution passed by the Human Rights Council on the situation in the Philippines does not fully acknowledge the extent of human rights violations in the Philippines.
As moves towards legal cannabis accelerate, drug policy experts call for responsible regulation of emerging markets
The IDPC Principles for the Legal Regulation of Cannabis make clear that the legal regulation of cannabis must include a series of comprehensive interventions to ensure compliance with human rights and social justice goals.
UN World Drug Report shows flourishing global drug market but remains silent on policy failures and human rights abuses
Following the release of the UN World Drug Report, IDPC notes with concern that the UNODC is still unable to acknowledge the failure of decades of drug policies based on prohibition and punishment, and how these approaches fuel systemic human rights abuses such as racism, police violence and state-sponsored killing campaigns.
Punishment-led drug policies compound pandemic devastation
As a result of stigma and criminalisation people who use drugs face extraordinary barriers to accessing health care, and experience or endure higher rates of poverty, unemployment and homelessness as well as underlying health conditions.
Over 100 human rights groups urge the UN to intervene to stop executions of drug offenders in Bahrain
HRI, IDPC and INPUD condemn plans to execute two people for drug offences in Bahrein.
How can we end the war on drug users? Ask the 50 jurisdictions worldwide that have decriminalised drug use!
A new web-tool shows that 49 countries and jurisdictions across the world have adopted some form of decriminalisation for drug use and possession for personal use. Experts say the number of jurisdictions turning to this policy option is likely to increase in the coming years.
Report launch: Latin America's overuse of pretrial detention is disproportionately affecting women
A new report released today shows how harsh drug policies have spurred the overuse of pretrial detention in Latin America, disproportionately affecting women.
United Nations & world leaders condemned for failure on drug policy, health and human rights
Hundreds of health professionals, academics, drug policy and human rights experts, frontline workers and people who use drugs released a statement calling on world leaders to urgently address the health and human rights crisis among people who use drugs.


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Obama's Plan To Use National Security To Beat Romney
Obama's decision to play offense on foreign policy marks a "real, significant shift" in our politics, says an Obama advisor. Just another "shiny object," a Romneyite fires back.
By Michael Hastings and McKay Coppins and Zeke Miller
Michael Hastings BuzzFeed Staff McKay Coppins BuzzFeed Staff Zeke Miller BuzzFeed Staff
Posted on September 11, 2012, at 7:32 a.m. ET
One of the most aggressive parts of President Barack Obama's acceptance speech last week included a series of jokes mocking Mitt Romney's foreign policy chops — indicating a breezy confidence rarely seen in Democratic candidates.
"Wasn't it great," one staffer said to BuzzFeed after the speech. "I'd like to see Romney try to come back at us after that."
Another top campaign official would make a similar point, if in a more subdued fashion.
"For the first time in a very long time, a Democrat has a clear advantage on national security issues," Michele Flournoy, a national security campaign advisor and former Defense Department official said. "This is a real significant shift in our political system."
Voters, Flournoy went on to say, "consistently prefer President Obama over Mitt Romney on this issue by double digits."
Indeed, Obama holds a 12 point lead over Romney when likely voters are asked which candidate would better handle foreign policy issues as president in the latest CNN/ORC poll. That's up from a margin of just three points before the Democratic convention. And Chicago thinks that will pay off. "Even if 3, 4, 5 percent of the American people vote with national security foremost in their – national security issues foremost in their mind," Flournoy said, "We want them to be voting for the President, given his strong record."
Just yesterday, the campaign brought out former NATO Supreme Allied Commander Europe and 2004 presidential candidate Gen. Wesley Clark to attack Romney failing to include a mention of Afghanistan in his acceptance speech. "It reveals a severe lack of understanding of the job of president... and frankly it's unbecoming of someone who wants to be the Commander in Chief," he told reporters on a conference call Monday afternoon. "They're not an item on a laundry list, they're a priority."
All of this marks a significant historical shift in Democratic Party politics.
Since the end of the World War Two, Democrats have usually found themselves playing defense on national security. Harry Truman — the man who dropped two atomic bombs on Japan — was later accused of "losing China" when he decided not to back Chiang Kai-shek. His Republican opponents never let him forget it. The fear of losing another Asian nation to Communism was one of the reasons Truman got involved in the Korean War. In 1960, John F. Kennedy flanked Nixon to the right on the nuclear arms race. In 1964, Lyndon Johnson--also using the nuclear issue-- would be the last Democratic president of the century who was able to successfully use national security to his advantage. The famous "Daisy," with a mushroom cloud as its backdrop, signalled that voters just couldn't trust Barry Goldwater to keep the country safe. But since Johnson quit in '68 due to anger over his handling of Vietnam; McGovern's rout in '72; the humiliating final scenes from Saigon; Jimmy Carter's inability to free U.S. hostages in Tehran; Bill Clinton's draft dodging and non-dope smoking; and finally, John Kerry's "for it before I was against" stance on the Iraq War their Republican opponents have more or less been able to caricature them as a party of the feckless.
Surprisingly, it's been Obama who has changed this perception. Even in 2008, both Hillary Clinton and John McCain tried to take advantage of Obama's lack of foreign policy experience, playing off voter fears of the Democratic stereotype. Though the attacks didn't cost Obama the election, polls showed still showed that voters trusted the Republican Vietnam war hero McCain more than the Democrat's one-term senator from Illinois.
Instead of weakness, however, the Obama administration has projected strength. On the campaign trail, crowds become electrified when the president or his surrogates mention the killing of Bin Laden. The president talks about ending the war in Afghanistan, and protecting veterans.
Romney, on the other hand, has fumbled. The past six weeks have seen a rocky overseas trip, followed by his failure to mention U.S. troops or the war in Afghanistan in his acceptance speech. And although foreign policy hasn't been much of an issue in 2012 so far, the Obama campaign sees an opening to make it one. While still acknowledging that the election isn't going to be decided by national security — the president and his campaign have gone all out to put doubts into the electorate about Romney's ability to handle foreign affairs.
Privately, Obama allies will make case that Romney and Ryan possess an almost Palin-esque naivete to the world. Publicly, too: Senator John Kerry linked Romney's comments on Russia as the number one geopolitical threat with Palin's comment on seeing that country from Alaska. Romney appears "reckless" and "out of touch," as one campaign official put it. All of this is laying the groundwork for what could be one of the most pivotal moments of the campaign—the final presidential debate, just two weeks before the election. The topic: foreign policy. Though Chicago is already lowering expectations for all the debates, they do feel the president has a clear leg up on this one. President Obama, officials say, can discuss the killing of Bin Laden, ending the war in Iraq, bringing troops home from Afghanistan, the toughest sanctions on Iran so far, and what the foreign policy community perceives as a successful intervention in Libya.
The Romney campaign, however, doesn't think national security is a winning issue for Obama.
Romney foreign policy advisor Robert O'Brien called the Obama campaign's tactic a transparent ploy to distract from the sagging economy, including a recent jobs report that was "a disaster for them."
"It doesn't surprise me that they're raising foreign policy because it's another distraction from the Administration's terrible economic record," O'Brien told BuzzFeed. "They're going from one shiny object to the next."
O'Brien scoffed at the Obama campaign's claims of foreign policy strength, and pointed to what he sees as serious vulnerabilities. Obama's "reset" with Russia has been a "failure" O'Brien said, and "his administration should be embarrassed by it."
O'Brien conceded that the Bin Laden killing was great—"yes he gave the order and the Navy SEALs carried it out"—but said there was "not really another success story to point to." And, he cautioned not to underestimate Romney's foreign policy credentials.
"The Governor is an extraordinarily well-traveled businessman, he lived overseas as a young man, he speaks French, he understands the world and he's written extensively about foreign policy and national security," he continued. "The idea that he's this naive guy at 65 years old, given his experience heading the Olympic Winter Games and everything else, I just don't think that's going to play."
Contact Michael Hastings at amy+252855@buzzfeed.com.
McKay Coppins is a senior writer for the BuzzFeed News politics team, and the author of The Wilderness, about the battle over the future of the Republican Party.
Contact McKay Coppins at mckay@buzzfeed.com.
Contact Zeke Miller at oldemployee@buzzfeed.com.