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Audio vs. video podcasts – benefits and shortcomings
You've been hearing and probably using the word podcast a lot lately, but do you know what it means? It has little to nothing to do with video, yet a very high percentage of listeners consume this format via video platforms these days. Peculiar, since podcasts originated from audio and radio formats. Somewhere at the beginning of the century, any digital spoken-word record available for download was considered a podcast. Before that, dating back to the 80s, the name audio blogs would often appear on the subject.
And that's what podcasts remain today – audio shows, either streamed or downloaded. It is a media on the rise, which many statistics you can find online prove:
It is estimated that there are over 2 million podcasts available right now (compared to what Apple reported in 2018 – 550 000, it is a huge jump);
There are over 48 million episodes as of April 2021 (compared again to 2018, when that number was 18.5 million, another immense difference);
Back in 2017, famous audience-driven data agency, Nielsen, confirmed that podcasts are listened to in more than 50% of US households;
49% of podcast listening is done at home and 22% while driving;
Comedy, education, and news are the most popular podcasting genres.
As you can see, you do not need a video feed to listen to a podcast. So why is that kind even more popular, and should you have to choose between the two, which one to pick? Not to point cursors, but… The main suspect is YouTube. Following the logic: if it fits I sits, several content creators found it fitting to upload their podcasts with a video to that growing platform. The momentum was there, so some of them ended up in the spotlight, like the Joe Rogan Experience.
Let's assume you would like to start your podcast. How to choose between audio and video? My favorite answer to everything: it depends! What do you wish to achieve with your podcast? There are several factors to take into consideration here.
Round one – complexity
Video is far more complex and demanding to make. It is gonna cost you more. It doesn't matter if you're doing it yourself or ordering it from someone. It will take more time, energy, and thus, money. It is obvious: video podcasts will require more equipment. Other than microphones that you would need anyway, count in at least one camera and several lights. You would need to know how to operate those or someone who does. Finally, after recording the vodcast (video podcast), editing video on top of audio is more time-consuming than focusing on just the sound. You will have to implement additional software in your process and, if you don't know how to use it, learn or find someone who does.
But that's not all. If you desire to be a host or a recurring guest on your vodcast – you're gonna have to suit up and clean up your room (Jordan Peterson would be proud of me)! When it comes to participating in an audio podcast, you may as well do it in pajamas and a room that looks like an abandoned bunker (as long as the acoustics are good). You can check out these two podcast services to see for yourself how user-friendly the process of recording just the audio podcast can be:
Zencastr
Platforms like these offer the possibility to fully produce your podcast – from recording to editing and publishing. All by yourself – one-man show. Sorry vodcasts, the audio takes the first point for its simplicity.
Round two – audience
Humans are tactile beings. It is easier to connect with a story if you employ more of your senses. Even if nothing is happening in front of you for 3+ hours other than several people talking, it is more attractive to look at that than just listen. The popularity win of vodcasts over classic podcasts in the last decade proves this. But what are the effects of this phenomenon?
First, more audience means more content, and more content means stronger competition. Second, more audience means more people, and more people means it's harder to organically connect with them. I believe audio podcast creators have a stronger and more genuine connection with their audience than video podcasters. But ironically, it's harder to keep track of all those people on audio platforms than on video, which has significantly higher numbers.
There is a simple reason for this: the distribution system. Audio podcasts are uploaded on a domain that shares them across several platforms, leaving you clueless when it comes to details and metrics about your audience. You can't possibly know who heard your podcast on Pocket Casts, Spotify, or Soundcloud. There is no way to determine that, due to the decentralized distribution system. There are lists like Podtrac Podcast Rankings and the iTunes Top Podcasts List, but even their numbers are estimates. So if such big names in the industry work off estimates, imagine what is left to you as a single podcaster? You can read more about it here.
An even bigger issue is the lack of comment sections on these platforms, so you're unable to connect with your audience. YouTube solves both these problems singlehandedly. Not only that you get in-detail information about your audience, but you can also directly interact with them! This is a big plus when trying to build a community around your idea or a brand.
And boy, what a large community did YouTube manage to gather. Just check some of these astonishing numbers:
More than 2 billion logged-in monthly users;
It is the second-most visited website and a social media platform (the first website being Google, and a platform – Facebook);
People watch more than a billion hours of video on YouTube daily;
On average, viewers older than 18 spend 41.9 minutes on YouTube each day;
It seems that the video evens the score! Compared to the millions of audio podcasts daily listeners we mentioned at the beginning, respectfully, these numbers can make you dizzy.
Final round – accesibility
Imagine you just left your home for work, and a long commute is ahead of you. You plug in your earphones and want to listen to a podcast. You open up Spotify, and there is your favorite audio podcast already waiting for you – the next episode queued and ready to go. It is as simple as plug-and-play.
On the other side of the globe, a person similar to you leaves their home for work, plug in their earphones, and open the YouTube app. They have to scroll through or search to find the next episode of their favorite podcast because the recommended feed is flooded with suggestions. Then they have to skip several ads and carefully put their phone in their pocket or their purse since the screen cannot be locked. Due to that, somewhere mid-episode, the show gets interrupted because their phone accidentally called their aunt. Instead of finishing the podcast, they are stuck in a conversation they hadn't quite planned.
Listening to an audio podcast on a preferred audio platform is way less of a fuss than doing it on YouTube. Even if you wanted to devote yourself to watching it, still, an audio podcast allows you to finally mown that lawn while you listen to it. Vodcast requires you to engage in a complicated workaround (piracy or YouTube premium) to listen to the show with your phone securely locked. Studies have shown that people don't actively watch a whole video podcast. They usually behave like it's an audio one. So having a video in this format is more of a commodity than a necessity, making things unnecessarily complicated. Audio, touche!
The aftermath – is it that simple?
By the looks of it, the audio would be a clear winner here, wouldn't it? Well, it still heavily depends. Sure, it's easier and faster to make audio podcasts. It's even easier to listen to them, but what about the audience? It's not a factor to be so carelessly overlooked. If you're reaching for a local audience with whom you can connect on other platforms, like a website or social media, audio is probably a way to go. You can develop more organic relationships, not sacrificing much. But if you want a broader reach, more discoverability, and an opportunity to monetize your work, vodcast may be your path.
Keep in mind that someone else can help you increase the production value of your podcast, especially if you choose to include video. You can hire a professional equipped with a high-quality camera and lightning, and possibly editing skills. That all together will improve the overall technical quality of your content. The same goes for audio. Although it seems it is less work than video in post-production, it's more delicate. When you have video, you can occasionally turn a blind eye to a fault in audio quality, no pun intended. But when you solely work with audio, it's needless to say that every imperfection made during editing, mixing, or mastering will be heard by your audience. It only seems logical since they will be sharply focused on the sound.
The downside when working with professionals is some possible creative differences you may run into during your project. It's up to you to either follow up on their ideas or fight for your own. They have more experience and skill, and you know your idea better. There are no wrong answers here. Also, the obvious one, it costs more compared to you doing all the work.
In the end, only one thing matters: if you have something to say, find a way to be heard.
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This weekend I found myself among a group of people who were talking about prayer and meditation. The commonly expressed viewpoint about meditation was that, as opposed to prayer, it is very hard to do. People said, it's so hard to quiet your mind, to turn off your thoughts, to achieve that state of near oblivion that most people seem to think is the goal of the practice.
My experience is almost the opposite. Prayer does not come easily to me. More to the point, I don't think that meditation is about any of those things, no more than golf is about going out and hitting a hole in one. It's nice if it happens, but it's not why we play the game. I've been meditating for about a decade, now, and the hardest thing about it, I think, is that it requires patience and discipline. Like any practice requiring patience and discipline, the more you do it, the more of those qualities you find you possess.
Basically, meditation is a process of listening to your life. Your life in the room around you, and the places around that room, the refrigerator whirring on, a grasshopper thunking into the window, the dust dancing in the light. Mostly, you listen to that voice in your head. Or voices. Let's say "voices;" it makes my next metaphor easier. I don't mean "listen" in the sense of active empathy. I'm talking about a much more passive sort of listening. You listen to them the way you listen to people talking in a movie theatre before the show. You're not part of the conversation, it just goes on around you. Well, within you, but you know what I mean. If you start getting drawn in to the chatter, you remind yourself not to. Just let it happen.
Even at the early stage of meditation I've just described, it's surprising what can happen. One notices things. A few weeks after I first started meditating, I noticed lights floating around the room. The border of the carpet I was sitting on began to glow in a strange way. Sitting next to a room where recently an angry scene had taken place, I saw black smoke seeping under the door. I told my meditation teacher about the things I'd seen, the lights. I asked him what they were. He laughed and said, "Enlightenment." After a while they stopped occurring. I missed them at first. They had been a nice distraction from the work. You notice thoughts, ideas, feelings, patterns, urges. You get to know what is in your heart with a clarity and comprehensiveness that weren't there before. Solutions to problems and conundrums appear out of nowhere. You notice that you are somehow separate from all that, and bigger.
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Rome's Colosseum, one of the seven wonders of the world, is another one of those items for the bucket list.
Voted by 90 million people in a survey launched by B. Weber in 2007, the Colosseum has become one of the New Wonders of the World. It was evaluated by a team of experts - led by the former UNESCO Director General, Federico Mayor - as a masterpiece of unquestionable value, loved by the Romans and by the rest of the world.
The Flavian Amphitheatre, built by the Emperor Vespasian, was the venue for the games that took place in ancient Rome. Very famous were the gladiator fights, usually performed slaves or prisoners of war, trained with the aim of ferociously and bravely fighting in order to regain their freedom.
The naval battle re-enacments were also rather spectacular events: a reproduction, on artificial lakes, of Rome's famed naumachie. It was Julius Caesar that first proposed this new form of entertainment, although Titus was the first to organize it within the Colosseum, via a system that delivered the water inside and outside the space of the arena.
The genius of the ancient Romans has reached, in this impressive work, its highest expression. The innovation, in contrast to the Greek theatre, lies in its round structure, capable of accommodating a vast audience.
At 171 ft tall, it consisted of four rows with 80 arcades, each one containing 70,000 seats: these numbers convey the magnitude of this monument, the symbol of Rome, today as in the past.
Still today the Colosseum is the largest amphitheatre in the world, a precious testamant to the brilliant architectural and construction capacity possessed in Antiquity. It currently serves as venue for important events celebrating Rome's history. Visit it via the Google Street View Virtual Tour of the Colosseum.
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Colorado Sen. Bennet launches Democratic presidential bid
DENVER (AP) - U.S. Sen. Michael Bennet of Colorado jumped into the packed Democratic presidential primary on Thursday, announcing a 2020 campaign that had been stalled while he was treated for prostate cancer.
Bennet, a former head of Denver Public Schools who has carved out a reputation as a policy-oriented moderate, made his announcement on CBS' "CBS This Morning."
The son of a former ambassador to India and a Yale law school graduate who worked in the Clinton administration, Bennet worked for Republican billionaire Phil Anschutz when he moved to Colorado in the late 1990s. But when he re-entered public life, he did so as a Democrat, serving as chief of staff to then-Denver Mayor John Hickenlooper. Hickenlooper went on to become Colorado governor and now is also competing for the Democratic presidential nomination .
The presence of two moderate Coloradans who started their political careers in Denver City Hall reflects how crowded the Democratic presidential field has become. Bennet's understated style and distaste for the sound bites required in a political campaign have usually led to speculation that he'd seek a Cabinet position rather than try to become the next president. But he began moving to assemble a presidential bid late last year and planned an announcement in April. He had to pause after being diagnosed with prostate cancer this spring.
Bennet, 54, told Colorado journalist Mike Littwin that he'd resume the campaign if he was treated successfully but that he wanted to make a point by disclosing his medical condition.
"I don't want to be hysterical, but if it was left in me undetected, it could kill me," Bennet said. "It won't because I have insurance and decent medical care. The idea that the richest country in the world hasn't figured out how to have universal health care is beyond embarrassing. It's devastating."
Bennet has been a vocal opponent in the Democratic Party of the push for single-payer health care championed by Sen. Bernie Sanders of Vermont, another 2020 presidential candidate . Instead, Bennet proposes letting consumers buy into Medicare through insurance exchanges, arguing that that will be a more efficient and realistic path to universal coverage. Likewise, Bennet has pushed back against arguments by some other presidential hopefuls that Democrats should respond to Republican tactics by expanding the size of the Supreme Court, saying the party needs to avoid the same scorched-earth tactics that, he says, its main rival employs.
Despite his professorial reputation, Bennet has shown an ability to be a tough campaigner. Appointed in 2009, Bennet won his first election in 2010 by pounding his Republican rival for opposing abortion rights and comparing homosexuality to alcoholism, eking out a narrow win in an otherwise disastrous year for Bennet's party. Four years later, Bennet chaired the Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee, a position that put him in contact with a network of national donors who also can help fund a presidential campaign.
Bennet gained internet fame this year when he blasted Republican Sen. Ted Cruz of Texas for backing a bill to pay Coast Guard members during the partial government shutdown but not reopen the government. Bennet said Cruz once led a 16-day government shutdown in a failed bid to derail funding for the Affordable Care Act at a time when Colorado was experiencing catastrophic flooding, delaying relief efforts.
"When the senator from Texas shut this government down in 2013, my state was flooded," Bennet shouted. "People were killed. People's houses were destroyed. Their small businesses were destroyed, forever."
Bennet accused Cruz of crying "crocodile tears" this time around.


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The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers has awarded Morgan City, La.-based Conrad Shipyard a $9.89 million firm-fixed-price contract to build a backup wicket lifter for Olmsted Locks and Dam on the Ohio River. The crane barge will be constructed at Conrad's Morgan City shipyard, with an estimated delivery of early second quarter 2020.
Conrad built Olmsted's main wicket lifter, the James M. Keen, which was delivered in February and commissioned August 30, the same day as Olmsted Locks and Dam. The wicket lifter Keen measures 110 feet, 6 inches by 60 feet with a molded depth of 8 feet 6 inches. The Keen is equipped with a pair of John Deere generators, a wicket lifter knuckle boom crane with a 65,000-pound capacity at 55 feet and 30,000-pound capacity at 77 feet, and an extendable boom maintenance crane. Appleton Marine supplied the cranes, while Power Dynamics Innovations supplied the winches for the wicket lifter.
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September saw the start-up of the Large Hadron Collider (LHC), the world's biggest, most complex and most expensive scientific experiment ever built. Situated beneath the Franco-Swiss border near Geneva, it has been over a decade in construction. The European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN) has 15 years of experiments planned, with a price tag of 6.5 billion Euros (US$9 billion).
The LHC is the world's most powerful particle smasher. Its 27-kilometre circumference ring comprises 1,600 superconducting magnets, most weighing over 27 tonnes. Approximately 96 tonnes of liquid helium keep the magnets at their operating temperature of minus 271.3 degrees centigrade. That is colder than outer space. When operational, the various experiments will produce roughly 10 petabytes of data a year. If recorded onto data CDs, the stack would be nearly 20 kilometres tall.
The LHC accelerates protons (a type of hadron) to 99.999 percent of the speed of light. Two beams of protons, travelling in opposite directions around the ring, collide in four detectors. By examining the debris from these collisions, scientists will try to answer five important questions.
1) What gives things mass?
Under Earths gravity, you experience mass as weight. But, what exactly is mass? In 1964, Professor Higgs proposed the mechanism that gives rise to mass. The particle involved is known as the Higgs boson. It is also known as the 'God Particle', much to his disgust of the atheist Higgs.
No one has ever detected the Higgs boson. Scientists hope to detect it in the debris of the LHC collisions.
2) What is dark matter made of?
Different theories have been proposed to explain this dark stuff, predicting different results for the LHC. Therefore, the results from the LHC will eliminate some of the competing theories.
3) What was matter like at the beginning of the Universe?
Current theories describing the birth of the Universe, say it exploded into existence about 13.7 billion years ago in an event known as the Big Bang.
In the first microseconds after the Big Bang, the Universe was so hot, that matter as we know it could not exist. Instead, there would have been a soup of fundamental particles known as quark-gluon plasma. The collisions in the LHC will produce similar quark-gluon plasmas, allowing scientists to explore the nature of the very early Universe.
4) Where has all the anti-matter gone?
Everything in the Universe is made of matter. The opposite of matter, known as anti-matter, has the same properties of matter, but with the opposite electrical charge. When matter and anti-matter come into contact, they mutually annihilate.
Current theories predict that equal amounts of matter and anti-matter were created in the Big Bang, and then destroyed each other. In other words, we should not be here. However, as we self-evidently are here, there must have be a bias in favour of matter. Results from the LHC will help discover the differences between matter and anti-matter.
5) Are there extra dimensions?
We experience the universe in four dimensions, three of space and one of time. Scientists propose there are may be more dimensions that may are detectable using the LHC. At the very high energies involved in the LHC collisions, particles may travel into these other dimensions so apparently disappearing.
For a great description of how the LHC works, see the following video, produced by CERN.
The LHC is not without controversy. A few scientist worry the high-energy collisions at the LHC could lead to the destruction of the Earth. A legal challenge was mounted to try to stop the LHC from being switched on. CERN maintains, and nearly all scientists agree, that there is no danger, not least because such high-energy collisions happen all the time in the Earth upper atmosphere.
The LHC shut down shortly after start-up, when liquid helium coolant leaked from the one of the superconducting magnets. It takes a month to warm the machine up for repairs, and then a further month to cool in down again, so repairs will run into the scheduled winter break. CERN cannot afford the electricity to run the LHC during the winter.
The LHC will be up running again, spring 2009. With luck, it will begin to answer some of those questions within the year.
ESA's orbiting X-ray observatory XMM-Newton has been used by a team of international astronomers to uncover part of the missing matter in the universe.
Ten years ago, scientists predicted that about half of the 'ordinary' or normal matter made of atoms exists in the form of low-density gas, filling vast spaces between galaxies.


A mile off, and a thousand feet down.
So Tom found it; though it seemed as if he could have chucked a pebble on to the back of the woman in the red petticoat who was weeding in the garden, or even across the dale to the rocks beyond. For the bottom of the valley was just one field broad, and on the other side ran the stream; and above it, gray crag, gray down, gray stair, gray moor walled up to heaven.
A quiet, silent, rich, happy place; a narrow crack cut deep into the earth; so deep, and so out of the way, that the bad bogies can hardly find it out. The name of the place is Vendale; and if you want to see it for yourself, you must go up into the High Craven, and search from Bolland Forest north by Ingleborough, to the Nine Standards and Cross Fell; and if you have not found it, you must turn south, and search the Lake Mountains, down to Scaw Fell and the sea; and then, if you have not found it, you must go northward again by merry Carlisle, and search the Cheviots all across, from Annan Water to Berwick Law; and then, whether you have found Vendale or not, you will have found such a country, and such a people, as ought to make you proud of being a British boy.
So Tom went to go down; and first he went down three hundred feet of steep heather, mixed up with loose brown grindstone, as rough as a file; which was not pleasant to his poor little heels, as he came bump, stump, jump, down the steep. And still he thought he could throw a stone into the garden.
First, a little grass slope, covered with the prettiest flowers, rockrose and saxifrage, and thyme and basil, and all sorts of sweet herbs.
Then bump down a two-foot step of limestone.
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Flying Bach in Bangkok
Posted by Edward McCue in Bach's Works, Other Artists, World View
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For the past twenty years, the Flying Steps crew has been at the forefront of breakdancing culture. Respected worldwide and even more so in their native Germany, the entire gang of this award-winning B-boy collective was recently in Bangkok to perform as a part of a Red Bull launch. "It's our first time here. It's really special. We've been working with Red Bull for thirteen years now. We're here to represent breakdancing," said Vartan Bassil, one of Flying Steps' founders.
The crew's latest major project, Flying Bach, has been touring the world, selling more than 200,000 tickets so far, and shown at the likes of the Eurovision Song Contest and the Bachfest Leipzig. Flying Bach sees the Flying Steps choreographing and performing breakdance and contemporary dance to Johann Sebastian Bach's The Well-Tempered Clavier Book I (BWV 846-851). "We want to show how artful breakdancing is, and we chose classical music to get the sense of high culture. It's one of the biggest things we've ever done. People have told us that it's unbelievable how nicely breakdancing works with classical music," Bassil said.
Bassil, the team's choreographer, started the Flying Steps in 1993 with Kadir Memis, after he fell in love with Michael Jackson's fluid movements, which had him rewinding his VHS tapes over and over to mimic the late King of Pop's steps. "He was my big inspiration. Back then, there were no hip hop dance classes, so you had to learn everything from the TV by yourself. Then hip hop style came, and I saw a movie about breakdancing. I started to practice every day. Then I decided to become a professional dancer. I told myself it was what I wanted to do with my life," he said.
Flying Steps was born out of love for breaking and a strong sense of community. The absence of technology might have derailed the growth, but a tight-knit bond was forged since its formation, something that the Flying Steps still strongly retains even with the ongoing success. "Back in the day, there was no internet. You just had your TV and VHS tapes. So it was important for us to travel in order to see things that kids now can see on YouTube. For us, it was traveling around Europe to be a part of big jams and dance parties, learning new moves. Then you got inspired when you got back home, you started to be more creative with your dancing. Now it's more than easy, as young people can see everything on the internet, and they can start copying," said Bassil. "Sadly, the jam culture is over now. But there are more competitions now."
"Today, everybody can learn new things very fast, but you need to develop your individual character in your dancing also. There are many good dancers now, but not enough characters," added Benny Kimoto, a core member of Flying Steps.
To say that the Flying Steps have come a long way would be an understatement. They're not just your regular breakdancing crew who perform when needed. They run a company which handles a dance academy, show production, talent scouts, workshops and mentorship programs in addition to their repeated wins in the world's best breaking battles.
Bassil said he's witnessed how breaking had grown over the span of twenty years, and appreciates how the public is more familiar with breakdancing, which started on the streets, but has now moved into the mainstream dance domain. "It's now certainly more accepted than it once was. Breakdancing is featured everywhere. Now people understand that what we do is also an art form as well as a sport. It takes a lot of practice, a lot of work and a lot of heart. Breakdancing is definitely here to stay," said Bassil.
The seasoned dancer's words ring true especially in the popular music world. Stars of the biggest wattage such as Madonna, Lady Gaga and Rihanna have been using B-boys and B-girls prominently in their shows, a practice that Bassil and Kimoto take in their stride. "Two of Flying Steps' dancers were on tour with Madonna. People understand what we do is high level. The big stars will always be interested in working with all kinds of the best dancers, and also as dancers, you're interested to see the world and how the big stars operate. But in the end, you come back home after the world tour, and you have to find new challenges for yourself. You can't just stop," said Bassil.
Besides being part of the lucrative kingdoms of various pop stars, breakdancers have become more visible in reality dance contests where they are always thrown in the mix. "I don't feel that it's really real. They are not really concentrating on the dancing, but more on life stories. There are always background stories in this kind of show," he said. "Yeah, it's more about selling dramas to get more viewers, and most of the time the judges don't know much about dancing, but they are famous," said Kimoto. "In the end, the quality of the dancing is not as high as it should be. People who go on TV shows, sometimes they do it to get fame, they don't do it from the heart. For me, the best thing for an artist is to get to the high level by your ability, and then people will want to have you on TV. On the other hand, reality dancing contests are a good thing because they make the dance scene bigger and more commercial. But I'd like to see real judges who know about dancing on the shows, and the dancers should be judged on their skills not their stories or how good looking they are. It should always be about dancing."
As old hands on the breakdancing scene, Bassil and Kimoto have done plenty of judging themselves, and they both agree that they don't often look for one particularly strong criterion. In their opinion, Asian B-boys are the most technical and have the most discipline, the Americans are more creative and fun, while their European counterparts mix both aspects together. "There are so many things we look at when we judge competitions. For me, I look for complete, well-rounded dancers, and for musicality, foundations, techniques and creativity among other aspects. You can't just do the acrobatic stuff," said Kimoto. "It's not so easy to judge, but we're lucky that we've been around for a long time so we have an eye for it," Bassil said.
Still, for the Flying Steps, breakdancing is not just about competitiveness. As a cardinal rule, Bassil will never encourage anyone under his mentorship to give up dancing, even with limited skills. "The first thing is that if they have fun dancing, then there's no need to change them, or tell them to stop. We try to help and support them as much as we can. I think everybody knows his/her limit. We always tell our kids that it's important to concentrate on school first, and when they finish school, then they can start thinking about becoming professional dancers. It's a long, long way. You know, there are some talented people, and they don't want to be professional dancers. You can't force them to become one," he said. Bassil and Kimoto insist that the Flying Steps crew is still pushing the boundaries of breakdancing in the hope that their art is perceived with the same prestige as, say, ballet. It's their life-long mission.
"A lot of people used to ask why I wanted to dance for a living. All I can say to the aspiring dancers out there is believe in yourself and your dreams. Focus on your goal," said Bassil. "And work harder than anyone else," said Kimoto. "Ten times harder."


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| title: Announcing: Snap Framework v0.2.8
| author: Gregory Collins <greg@gregorycollins.net>
| published: 2010-07-08T19:11:47-0400
| updated: 2010-07-08T19:11:47-0400
| summary: Release notes for version 0.2.8 of the Snap Framework.

Hi all,

The Snap team is pleased to announce the release of Snap 0.2.8.

Changes since 0.2.7
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### Improvements:

 - Changed the way that `snap-server` handles its thread table in the `libev`
   backend. The old code was causing blackhole/lock contention on the shared
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   container type, which improved performance on the "PONG" benchmark from ~16k
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### Changes in behaviour:

 - When POST bodies come in with `Content-Type:
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   [wai](http://hackage.haskell.org/package/wai) backend for Snap, because
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Redefining the Festival of Colors
by Stowaway Magazine | Jan 16, 2014 | Banner, Features, Winter 2014 | 8 comments
Participants throw colored powder into the air during one of the throwings at the Festival of Colors in Spanish Fork, Utah.
10, 9, 8, I firmly grasp the handful of colored powder.
7, 6, 5, I pull the neckline of my T-shirt over my mouth and nose.
4, 3, 2, I tightly squeeze my eyes shut.
Crowd surfers are hoisted up by friends and strangers.
1! I join tens of thousands of people in throwing colored powder into the air. The sky is painted with bright pink, purple, orange, and yellow clouds. The clouds blend together and rain down on the participants below. Welcome to the Festival of Colors.
Participating in the Festival
Every year in the early spring, the Sri Sri Radha Krishna Temple in Spanish Fork, Utah (approximately 50 miles south of Salt Lake City), hosts one of the largest Festival of Colors events in the Western Hemisphere. On each of the two days of the festival, scheduled "throwings" of colored powder occur throughout the day. These throwings are preceded by countdowns led by an announcer over a microphone.
Throughout the festival, musicians play traditional music that features the names of God, and they lead the crowd in mantras. Participants mingle in the crowd in front of a stage where people dance, crowd surf, form conga lines, and generally have fun.
A conga line weaves through the crowd in between throwings.
Those who aren't interested in the crowd can eat authentic Indian food, visit the temple's llamas, shop among a variety of vendors, or explore the outside of the temple. The temple's interior is closed during the Festival of Colors to preserve its cleanliness.
Between scheduled throwings, it is entirely commonplace for participants to throw, smear, or sprinkle the colored powder on each other.
This colorful festival in Spanish Fork is based on the Hindu religious holiday Holi (pronounced the same as holy). The celebration of Holi began in northern India but has since spread to southern India, other South Asian countries, and even the rest of the world. Because Holi is celebrated as a two-day event in Spanish Fork, the experience is very different from what one would experience in India, where Holi is celebrated as a holiday that can span several days.
Dr. Charles Nuckolls, a professor of anthropology at Brigham Young University, explains one of the biggest differences: "In India, Holi is not a crowd process. There can be crowds, but that's not really how it works. You don't stand in place and wait for the powder to descend upon you. You could be walking anywhere and somebody pops out and throws color on you."
In Kharadi, India, people take to the streets on Holi to celebrate Hindu tradition.
Transforming Traditional Holi
In India, the Holi Festival is celebrated in conjunction with the full moon of Phalguna, which usually falls during February and March of the Gregorian calendar. Caru Das Adikari, the priest of the Spanish Fork Krishna Temple, always schedules the Spanish Fork event on a Saturday and Sunday as late as possible during spring to increase the probability of warm, dry weather. In 2014, the event takes place on March 29 and 30.
The best-known component of the Holi Festival is the throwing of colored powder or water. According to Hindu mythology, Lord Krishna (one of the ten incarnations of Vishnu, the supreme god of Hinduism) was jealous of Radha's fair complexion, so he smeared color on Radha's face. Thus, it was Krishna's playful prank that started the tradition of throwing color during Holi.
The throwing of color is the main event at the Spanish Fork celebration. Although throwing dyed water is popular in India, Caru Das felt that it would be best to ban all liquids due to Utah's much chillier climate during early spring. Even though the Color Festival is now structured around scheduled throwings, the element of spontaneous ambushes of color is still present.
In India, a bonfire is traditionally lit on the eve of Holi, known as Holika Dahan, to reenact the myth of Holika and Prahlad. According to Hindu mythology, a demon king named Hiranya Kashipu declared himself ruler of the universe. However, his son Prahlad refused to worship him and worshiped Vishnu instead. Hiranya Kashipu asked his sister Holika to carry Prahlad into a fire, knowing that Holika had a boon from the god Brahma that allowed her to be unharmed by fire. However, Prahlad's devotion to Vishnu allowed him to escape unharmed while Holika burned to death for attempting to use her boon to do harm. Thus, the bonfire represents the victory of good over evil.
A bonfire with an effigy of Holika is lit once or twice each year at the celebration in Spanish Fork, but it is easy to miss. Caru Das explains that the bonfire's low profile is partially due to worries about the safety of Holi participants and partially due to concerns from local fire departments.
A Holika effigy burns during the Festival of Colors in Spanish Fork.
Finding a New Meaning
Historically, Holi was a ritual of reversal, in which people who are stratified at the lowest level of society have an opportunity to reverse the hierarchy and symbolically abuse those who are of higher status without fear of retribution—women to men, young to old, low caste to high caste, poor to rich.
The Festival of Colors as it is celebrated in Spanish Fork retains the idea of changing the status quo but achieves this change quite differently than the traditional reversal of hierarchy. This festival breaks down normal barriers by allowing participants to interact with both friends and strangers.
Courtenay Maynes, a senior at Brigham Young University (BYU) from Vancouver, Washington, describes her experience: "As we arrived at the festival, we'd walk past people covered in colors. Random people we didn't even know were throwing colors at us and hugging us. Once we got to the temple, everyone was dancing and throwing colors at people that walked by. As we saw the 'clean' people coming in, we would throw color on them. Everyone interacted with each other even though we each came in our own group."
The powdered colors conceal aspects of personal identity that might serve to distinguish people from each other. Cori Scott, a BYU student from Hillsboro, Oregon, explains, "You can't really pick out people. Everyone looks the same, so I wouldn't be able to recognize my friends afterward unless they said something to me." Dr. Nuckolls hypothesizes that this process of concealing physical differences esta-blishes commonality among participants.
The Sri Sri Radha Krishna Temple in Spanish Fork, Utah, hosts one of the largest Festival of Colors events in the Western Hemisphere.
Ultimately, the Festival of Colors in Spanish Fork, Utah, has successfully translated many aspects of traditional Holi celebrations. Not only are many of the traditions preserved, but the underlying goal of challenging social hierarchy is also maintained.
The next time you are looking for a socially unifying experience, or perhaps just a way to release your frustration and stress, look no further than Spanish Fork, Utah.
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Jenna Hoffman	on January 17, 2014 at 12:18 am
I love how this article incorporates the new meaning of an old tradition. I've been to the Festival of Colors before, but I remember being disappointed in myself that I didn't know anything about the religious origins of the . This article does an excellent job of making the Hopi religious tradition more relevant and meaningful to those of us of different faiths. I hope that those who participate in the future will express more interest in learning about Hinduism.
Diane Cardon	on January 17, 2014 at 5:24 am
It's always fun being in Provo during the festival of colors, because there are people everywhere walking down the sidewalk all multicolored because they just came back from the festival. I finally went for my first time last year. It was nice to read a little bit of history on it.
The Purple Lady	on January 21, 2014 at 8:57 pm
Gorgeous photography! It makes me want to try it out.
McKenna	on January 28, 2014 at 1:15 am
That's true–it's good to know the history behind it. It's nice that that makes the article relevant to more people–people in Utah who go but don't know much about it, and people who may never have heard of it.
Kristin	on January 30, 2014 at 4:58 pm
I like how this article explains the mythology behind the tradition. That's so cool! The photos for this article are AMAZING. I can't stop looking at them. Incredible.
This is a great article. I'm glad that the word is getting out. Isn't it crazy that there's a huge Indian festival in a small city in Utah?
Ashley Call	on February 1, 2014 at 9:40 pm
I also really liked the inclusion of historical and traditional information about the Color Festival. The Color Festival is one of the coolest things about Provo! And actually, if you're in town for longer than the weekend of the festival, this Hare Krishna temple offers great yoga classes Tuesday and Thursday nights!
Ray Ban Aviator 3025 Precio Argentina	on August 20, 2014 at 7:33 pm
My bro saved this internet site for me and I have been reading through it for the past several hours. This is really going to aid me and my friends for our class project. By the way, I like the way you write.
Amanda Seeley	on September 5, 2014 at 5:16 am
In case anyone was wondering, the temple grounds also house some very feisty llamas. Visitors can go see them back behind the temple, but when my friend and I went last summer, the llamas didn't really seem inclined to socialize (there was definitely some hissing and spitting). The temple's Llama Fest in the summer was a fun experience, though.


In this second edition of the world's first counter-drone competition, nine international teams deployed drones of their own design.
Saturday March 16th 2019: heavy rain and strong winds. No matter for the 500 odd people who gathered in Unmanned Valley Valkenburg's Hangar 2 for DroneClash 2019. Sheltered from the elements, they were fully focused on the DroneClash arena. It was here, in this dramatically-lit goldfish bowl of sorts, that a dramatic experiment in drone and counter-drone technology was unfolding.
Click here to read the full recap, including the multiple learnings from an academic point of view.


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Haunted by the Ghosts of War
by shorty May 27, 2017
By Edward Curtin
Memorial Day, May 29th, is his birthday. He died defending his country. A true war hero, a naval officer, he risked his life to save his men. Like so many we should remember on Memorial Day, he goes before us as an exemplar of courage, real patriotism, and a witness to war's brutality.
But remembering all the war dead is like drifting on a ghost ship in a still sea of burning water. Haunted by the eerie silence of their absent presence, if we listen closely enough, we can hear such victims calling to us: Remember me, Remember me, why did it have to be?
"All warfare is ghostly," writes Norman O. Brown, "every army an exercitus feralis (a funereal exercise), every soldier a living corpse."
The world is littered with the corpses of war's victims, those of the killers and the killed, soldiers of every nation – but the vast majority are innocent civilians who never picked up a gun. The earth is so saturated with all their blood that one would expect the rivers to run red as a reminder. But that only happens in poems, as with Federico Garcia Lorca: "Beneath all the totals, a river of warm blood."
Russian soldier, in his foxhole. Stalingrad.
But what do poets know that the potentates, politicians, and mad generals don't? These killers are experts at shedding innocent blood to satisfy their blood lust and then erecting monuments to the killers. They are necrophiliacs, while all the poets do is to remind us that we will all die and that we should affirm life and love each other before we do – that war is an evil lie, as Wilfred Owen told us:
If in some smothering dreams, you too could pace
Behind the wagon that we flung him in,
And watch the white eyes writhing in his face,
His hanging face, like a devil's sick of sin;
If you could hear, at every jolt, the blood
Come gargling from the froth-corrupted lungs,
Obscene as cancer, bitter as the cud
Of vile, incurable sores on innocent tongues,—
My friend, you would not tell with such high zest
To children ardent for some desperate glory,
The old Lie: Dulce et decorum est
Pro patria mori.
But that was long ago. War's victims still fall everywhere, every day they are stilled in deserts, mountains, jungles, cities, houses, hospitals, schools, on the open roads, in bedrooms, in woods, in alleyways, crouched in basements, killed from the sky, the ground, directly, remotely, by their own desperate hands, slowly in despair. Why count the ways, why count the victims – the truth is countless.
American casualty, Vietnam.
Yet we can remember a few that we know of and weep. Victims dead and victims alive.
There is that naval officer whose birthday I mentioned. He survived the south Pacific and Indonesian jungles only to die by enemy fire in an open car on a street in Dallas, Texas. Let us celebrate and mourn President John F. Kennedy, who would have been 100 years old today, while remembering how hard he fought for peace that the killers within his own government, led by the CIA, didn't want then and don't want now. So they shot him down "over here," just as the U.S. war machine keeps killing millions "over there." George M. Cohan was right: "The Yanks are coming." They are always coming, but he was wrong to think it is ever over. It's not supposed to be ever over.
Because he knew the horror of war and grasped the systemic evil of its proponents in his own government, John Kennedy grew out of the war machine – in James Douglass's words from JFK and the Unspeakable: Why He Died and Why it Matters, when he was assassinated, JFK "was turning, Teshuvah, 'turning,' the rabbinic word for repentance," against war and toward peace as his actions in the last year of his life make clear. As a result, the "unspeakable" deep state forces murdered him. But as a military veteran, his courage in turning against the war machine has inspired many other honorable veterans to do the same.
Like others who followed Kennedy – MLK, RFK, et al. – he died in his own country as a soldier in a non-violent "war" for peace and reconciliation for all people across the world. His enemies were here at home.
Dead Waffen soldier, filmed by an American. Death can look very unreal and incomprehensible sometimes.
And "over there,"Maha Khalil, a one year old Iraqi girl, was killed in the first few months of America's criminal war against Iraq. Mrs. Ngugen Thi Tau was slaughtered by U. S. soldiers at My Lai, Vietnam. Who knows all the dead in Afghanistan, Yemen, Syria, Libya, East Timor, Indonesia, Cambodia, El Salvador, etc? Who can grasp it? Their names mean nothing to those who didn't know them, just as the endless names of the U.S. military dead (most drafted into a war they didn't want or understand) that line the Vietnam Veterans Memorial are a sad blur to those who come to look but didn't know the fallen. The same is even truer for anyone who views the Holocaust memorial in Boston where all one sees are rows and rows of concentration camp numbers; for every number a real person, each one reduced by the Nazis to seven-digits tattooed on arms. When we try to name and count war's victims, we are overwhelmed and stunned. Yet the wars persist. Like the pawns conscripted to fight them, the anonymous ghosts of all the victims murmur in our ears: Why?
Dylan sings:
Oh my name it is nothin'
My age it means less
The country I come from
Is called the Midwest
I's taught and brought up there
The laws to abide
And the land that I live in
Has God on its side.
But not all of war's victim's die. Vast numbers become "living corpses," also mostly anonymous and forsaken. Across the world wherever the American war machine has set its sights, the lame and crippled struggle on, victims of bombs and bullets, napalm and white phosphorous, nuclear radiation, small pox – all the grotesque weapons the ghouls of the weapons' industry have conjured up from hell for their paymasters. Countless living victims, yes, but the weapons industries carefully count their bloody profits, as do those who invest in these companies while turning a blind eye to their own complicity.
And the innocent, too, in great numbers. (My Lai massacre, Vietnam).
Many of the wounds of war are psychological and spiritual. And so many of the victims suffer silently. Often misused and abused by their own government, they suffer (to paraphrase Douglass Valentine in his book , The Hotel Tacloban, a son's riveting tale of his combat veteran father's haunting by war) "in an anguish so profound and so abiding that they live in torment ever after." War's terrors follow them everywhere down their nights and down their days, and they can often find no escape from the nightmare images that populate their minds, flashing in and out. It's beyond imagining the living hell of children worldwide reliving the sight of the bloodied mangled bodies of their parents at their feet, victims of bombs or death squads or perhaps "collateral damage," as if any words or reasons could undue their everlasting trauma.
We owe it the wounded, dead, and tormented war victims everywhere to memorialize them with the words:
War is a lie, and only truth will free us.
Then we must devote ourselves to ending war. Each of us is responsible.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VGWsGyNsw00
Edward Curtin is a writer whose work has appeared widely. He teaches sociology at Massachusetts College of Liberal Arts. His website is http://edwardcurtin.com/ .
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Mic Hunter May 28, 2017 - 9:31 am
Well said. Please do an article on the damage to military personnel, both women and men, who were sexually abused by their comrades.


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Abuse isn't just about bruises. Not all forms of abuse leave bruises where we can see them,Why Domestic Violence Is Not Reported in South Africa . Although physical abuse is terrifying and needs to be addressed immediately there are other forms of abuse that can cause significant damage. One type of abuse that is very difficult for outsiders to detect is financial abuse. Marriage should be a partnership but when one spouse completely dominates the finances to the point that the other spouse has no control and no options financial abuse may be occurring.
What Are Signs of Potential Financial Abuse?
Every married couple handles their finances differently. In some cases one spouse handles the majority of the finances. They manage the accounts, pay the bills and deal with creditors. That does not by itself equal financial abuse.
Financial abuse occurs when one spouse is treated like an irresponsible child and How To Stop Domestic Violence . They are cut off from funds and their knowledge about the couple's finances is severely limited. Some signs of financial abuse include:
•Strict Allowances. This isn't an amount that the spouses have agreed to limit themselves to but is instead a set amount that is grudgingly handed out from one spouse to the other and is all that will be given.
Documents, documents, documents. Written evidence is incredibly strong and can range from credit card bills showing that there is a credit card but that you aren't named on it to emails from your spouse that show the financial abuse.
Other witnesses can be incredibly powerful on your behalf. Financial abuse is hard for people outside the relationship to detect. So when someone credible comes in and tells the judge that it is happening and they can see it the judge will listen and Domestic Violence Essay .
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When you have a brief encounter with a narcissist, you might not realize that the person has a personality disorder which is typified by being very self-absorbed and lacking in empathy for others. However, when you are a target of narcissistic abuse, and are in a relationship with this person, your every day life becomes confusing and painful.
Before getting into ways you can rebuild your self-esteem, let's take a moment to describe the behavior of a narcissist for those who might not be clear about what the term means. An individual with narcissistic personality disorder goes through life with an overwhelming need to be validated all the time, and told they are wonderful, smarter than anyone else and are entitled to only the finest treatment by everyone. They take offense easily, and get angry quickly if they interpret a remark as being an insult. In their craving for attention and approval, they are usually adept at being charming when they want something from someone else, and then if they are refused will have an almost instant transformation into being very angry. They are quick to judge other people as inferior, and enjoy using phrases that are racist, demeaning and derogatory of other groups of people.
For example, a narcissist, feeling he is superior to everyone else, will commonly say things like, "The masses are asses!"
While some people like to say that a narcissist is someone with excess self-love or vanity, that really doesn't do more than give a surface definition. To know more, you have to understand a bit about how this disorder began, and it is typically stated in definitions of the disorder that it began with trauma early in childhood, during the phase when the child should have been developing a healthy sense of self. Instead, the child formed the opinion, usually as a result of abusive treatment including neglect, that he was not good enough the way he was and needed to create a "perfect" persona to show to the world to gain that all-important approval the child craved.
4. Are you still breathing? A relationship with a narcissistic abuser can feel devastating, but notice that you are still alive, and that means there is more for you to do and enjoy in this life, free from abuse. Part of your birthright is that you deserve to enjoy a life that you truly love wherein you make your dreams come true and feel happier than you ever believed possible. You can achieve this switch from victim to victorious by refusing to let the abuser win. Dismiss all those negative things he or she assaulted you with.
5. Every day, repeat this affirmation to yourself several times, out loud if possible so that you hear a voice telling you this: "I do enough, I am good enough, I am enough." Use the power of positive affirmations to build high self-esteem so that you will gradually replace those old negative statements that you accepted as true just because an abuser said them so often with great authority.
It is not an overnight process to rebuild your self-esteem when you have been repeatedly abused by a partner or parent with narcissistic personality disorder, but don't give up. Keep your focus on building a life for yourself where you only attract loving people and loving events to you, and you will soon find yourself smiling and enjoying peace of mind and glowing, healthy self-esteem.
Domestic Violence - A Defendant's Survival Guide
Domestic Violence charges are treated differently than most other criminal cases because from the outset of the charge, not the conviction, it is very likely that you will have your home and your children taken from you. We are supposed to have a criminal system where you are innocent until proven guilty but as you will discover that is not the case with Domestic Violence charges. This survival guide will help explain the system you're up against and how to get through it.
Do not plead guilty at Arraignment. Arraignment is the first formal court appearance in a criminal case. During this hearing, you will be formally notified of the criminal charge against you and given the opportunity to plead guilty or not guilty. DO NOT PLEAD GUILTY! This is obvious in cases where you do not believe you've done anything wrong but is also true in cases where you do think you've done something wrong. There is no benefit in pleading guilty up front but there may be costs in doing so.
Some inexperienced people mistakenly believe that if they plead guilty at arraignment, they will get a lighter sentence than if they plead guilty later. This is incorrect. The reverse is much more common; you will likely get sentenced harder if you plead guilty up front.
If you decide to plead guilty later, the Judge will not use the fact that you pled not guilty initially against you. By pleading not guilty at Arraignment, what you are really saying to the Judge is that you want a chance to see what evidence the Prosecutor has and if you feel it is sufficient to prove your guilt then you want a chance to negotiate with the Prosecutor for a better outcome.
Pre-Trial No Contact Orders. In most criminal cases, a Judge will issue an order directing the Defendant not have any contact with the alleged victim. In Domestic Violence cases, that order can be extended to the victim's home, place of work, and children. These orders are issued before there is a finding of guilt and can render a Defendant homeless. If you work at the same place as your spouse then you might just find yourself out of a job too. Whether or not the children were involved with the incident, you can be prohibited from seeing them.
Stipulated Orders of Continuance / Pre-Trial Diversion Agreements
These are contracts, nothing more. You make an agreement with the Prosecutor's Office to do (and not do) certain things, like entering a Domestic Violence Treatment Program and stay out of trouble. If you comply with the contract, the case is dismissed.
Reduced Charge
It is often possible to get a Domestic Violence charge re-filed as a different, less serious, charge. The factors involved are: the facts of the current case, the Defendant's criminal history, and the position of the alleged victim. Examples of reduced charges are: Disorderly Conduct or Simple Assault without the DV tag.
Only the State can bring criminal charges. With any criminal charge, including Domestic Violence, only the State can bring the charge - not the alleged victim in your case. This means that even if the person labeled "victim" wants the No Contact Order or the entire case to simply go away, they don't have the power to dismiss it; only the Prosecutor does
Joint Bank Accounts. Be aware that some Victims Advocates are advising alleged victims to drain joint bank accounts. This advice leaves Defendants in the impossible position of becoming suddenly homeless due to the no contact order and penniless.
Gun Rights. Conviction for a crime labeled Domestic Violence will forfeit your rights to own or possess firearm for the rest of your life. This is true even in cases where no gun was used, threatened, mentioned or even owned by the defendant.
Because of the nature of Domestic Violence charges, you need to find an attorney that understands the complexity of these charges and what you can do about them. If you have questions specific to your case, please give me a call. I do not charge money for an initial consultation and I can answer many questions over the phone or via email.
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Bonnie Abrams Travieso
Major/Minor: Pre-Law
Bonnie Abrams Travieso has had a solo practice in Baltimore since April 1, 2002, having practiced at Gallagher, Evelius & Jones, LLP for almost twenty years and heading its Estates and Trusts practice.She focuses her practice on estate planning, planned charitable giving and the administration of estates and trusts.
Prior to entering private practice, Bonnie served as an Assistant Attorney General for the Maryland Attorney General's Office where she was the Counsel to the Clerks of the Circuit Courts, the Registers of Wills, and the Orphans' Courts. This experience and her over twenty-five years in private practice have allowed her to develop expertise in the areas of estate and trust planning and administration.
Bonnie graduated from University of Maryland Law School cum laude where she was a member of the Order of the Coif. She has a Masters of Tax degree from Georgetown University. Immediately following her graduation from law school she was a law clerk for the Honorable Thomas Hunter Lowe (another Washington College graduate) on the Maryland Court of Special Appeals.
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Targo Commercial Finance (ehemals Heller Bank, bzw. GE Commercial Finance) ist ein Unternehmensbereich der Targobank, welche wiederum zu der französischen Genossenschaftsbank Crédit Mutuel gehört. Targo Commercial Finance bietet vor allem Factoring- und Leasing-Lösungen von ihrem Standort in Mainz an.

Hintergrund
Die Geschichte der ehemaligen Heller Bank geht auf Walter E. Heller, Sohn eines Hamburger Emigranten, zurück ins Jahr 1919. Gründungsort war Chicago/Illinois.
Die kommerzielle Finanzierungsgesellschaft Walter E. Heller & Co. wurde etwa zehn Jahre später weltweit führend im Factoring mit mittelständischen Kunden, überwiegend aus der Möbel- und Textilindustrie. Als einer der Pioniere für Factoring in Deutschland startete das Unternehmen als Heller Factoring Bank in Mainz bereits im Jahr 1964.

Zwanzig Jahre später übernahm die Fuji Bank die amerikanische Muttergesellschaft. Im Jahr 1990 erwarb die damalige niederländische Bank NMB, ein Vorgängerinstitut der heutigen ING Groep, einen 50-%-Anteil an der deutschen Tochter, die anschließend in die NMB Heller Holding integriert wurde. Im Jahr 2001 übernahm die GE Corporate Financial Services der GE Commercial Finance, ein Finanzdienstleistungsbereich des Großkonzerns General Electric, die amerikanische Muttergesellschaft Heller Financial von Fuji. Durch Übernahme der verbleibenden 50 % Anteile der deutschen Tochter von ING im Jahr 2005 wurde das Unternehmen schließlich zu einer hundertprozentigen Tochtergesellschaft.

Im Jahr 2007 erwarb GE Capital die Leasinggesellschaften Diskont und Kredit AG, Disko Leasing GmbH (DISKO) und ASL Auto Service-Leasing GmbH (ASL) von der KGAL. Die Unternehmen Diskont und Kredit und Disko Leasing wurden mit GE Equipment Finance integriert, ASL mit GE Fleet Services zusammengeführt. Seit Oktober 2008 firmiert die Heller Bank zusammen mit der Diskont und Kredit in Deutschland als GE Capital Bank.
Im Juli 2010 übernahm GE Capital zusätzlich das deutsche Factoringgeschäft der Royal Bank of Scotland (RBS) mit der RBS Factoring GmbH.

Ab Juli 2010 bot die Bank Privatkunden unter der Marke GE Capital Direkt auch Tagesgeldkonten an. Die Capital Bank stellte die Werbekampagne für das Tagesgeldkonto GE Capital Direkt jedoch ab dem 7. August 2010 aufgrund des unerwartet großen Erfolges und der damit verbundenen zahlreichen Kontoanträge zunächst ein.

Im August 2016 wurde das unter dem Namen GE Commercial Finance firmierende Leasing und Factoringgeschäft der deutschen GE Capital durch Crédit Mutuel übernommen und operiert seitdem unter dem Namen Targo Commercial Finance.
2018 wurde die Targo Commercial Finance AG auf die Targobank AG, Düsseldorf verschmolzen.

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 Commercial Finance auf der Website der Targobank

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Gegründet 1964
General Electric
Factoringunternehmen
Kreditinstitut (Mainz)


It was a night filled with excitement and anticipation at The Mill's New York studio, as we hosted a private screening of the film 'BAG MAN.' Star of the film Judah Bellamy joined us, along with directors Jonathan & Josh Baker of TWIN. Close friends, family and collaborators were in attendance. Topping off the night was a live performance by Brooklyn-based band Bird Courage, the trio that wrote the original music for the film.
BAG MAN is a short film about the unexpected journey a 12-year old African American boy embarks on. From the hustle of Harlem into the secluded countryside of upstate New York, he travels with a mysterious duffle bag in hand. On the road, we slowly discover his real intentions, and the significance of what is hidden inside the young boy's bag.
The Mill team led by Westley Sarokin created all visual effects, visible and invisible; the weapon blasts, the detonations and the technique to vaporize a human body.
The directing duo gave us a bit of behind the scenes info about the filmmaking, storytelling and the role The Mill played in it all.
Where did the idea for the film came from? Why this story?
Josh: This is actually the 2nd iteration of the story, after a failed attempt to set and shoot it in rural Africa. It ended up being way too expensive (and dangerous), and so we rewrote the story into a local one so we could shoot here in New York. We also swapped the hyena for an owl.
Jonathan: Like rural Africa, Harlem also comes with its own set of cultural preconceptions, and we liked that. Ultimately we wanted the audience to think they knew what this kid was all about, before serving them up something completely fresh and new. We designed the short to reflect a whole range of topics and genres we're into, from urban New York grit, to quiet introspective road trip films, to realistic sci-fi. It's not every day you get to create a film at this sort of level, and so selfishly we wanted to pack as much of ourselves into it as possible, while still sculpting a story that didn't feel too disjointed or transparent.
In what ways is the film true to the original vision and in what ways did it evolve/change?
Josh: It's actually VERY close to the original vision. Looking back at the storyboards and the script we had on set, there were only small additions. A few things were dropped in the edit, and others were spontaneously found on set, but it was essentially what we both had in mind. I originally wanted the boy to be about two years younger, but it was a real struggle in casting to find an innocent 10 year old that had the focus and concentration, and could bring a 'street-wise' confidence to the part. Let alone be able to hold the heavy rifle. Once we found Judah, it was pretty obvious that we had the best of both worlds.
Jonathan: Going back to the script the other day and reading the scene with the street hustler character speaking to Judah's character on the corner, I was impressed that two white-boy Australian directors managed to write his dialogue word-for word as it appeared in the final cut. Too much time watching episodes of The Wire… I guess.
What are your plans for the short film?
Josh: We haven't actually got huge festival plans for it, though it has been submitted to two major upcoming festivals that we hope it gets into. We mostly made this because we need to have some form of personal project on the go at all times. It's what keeps us inspired and excited and thinking about cool things. We also made it to broaden our commercial directing reel, and hopefully open a door or two. We don't have much sci-fi or drama – genres we're pretty passionate about at the end of the day.
Jonathan: The longer feature version idea really only became a reality once we were editing. It's something that was hard not to think about since we posed so many questions in the short film. We also know that the path to feature films by first creating a short, is very tried and tested, and so we'd better know what we'd want to do with it if somebody asked us.
Do you already have a feature written?
Jonathan: We have a feature length story planned out, and basically know the movie version we'd want to make. We've spent a bit of time taking the style and tone of the short, and fitting them into a much more layered and detailed world. It's exciting to play around with different ideas and attempt to answer a lot of the questions we asked in the short film. 'Where did he find the alien weapon?' being the obvious one.
Josh: Hopefully a feature version is something that can churn away in the background until it's no longer just in the background.
What's different about longer-form narrative than working on a typical commercial format?
Jonathan: The craft is pretty similar at the end of the day, since nothing changes about the quality or the day-to-day directing responsibilities, but it's that one step towards feature-style character exploration. You get to pour more into your characters and flesh them out. You get to hold on shots for longer, and create a different tone to what we normally play with in advertising.
Josh: The last thing we wanted to hear after we finished the short, were people saying "Yeah, you can tell you guys are commercial directors", or "You really cut this like an ad!" Directing a piece that took its time and allowed us to explore like a child explores was really important to us. We wanted to create that duality between atmospheric and visually impactful… almost two chapters that have very different emotional cores.
What part did The Mill play in the process?
Josh: The Mill team spent a lot of time developing the look of the weapon blast and how it vaporizes a human body. We knew from the start that we wanted it based around fiery embers that almost had a grace and a beauty to the way they dance on the wind. Those elements were shot at night in a backyard in Brooklyn. The Mill's compositing team did a wonderful job combining them all together into the mayhem you see in the film.
Jonathan: With a decent amount of invisible comp and paintwork, The Mill team also came up with a cool animating scope in conjunction with the weapon designers from Supervixen. It's really the big reveal of the rifle that slaps everyone to attention, and that's followed very quickly with introducing the holographic scope. It's all meant to overwhelm the viewer with a lot of unexpected visuals right at the moment they were falling asleep from the incessant walking.
Josh: It was a really enjoyable experience, because you rarely get to finesse a commercial job as much as we did with this short film. There was no official deadline for it, so we just kept pottering away in the background when we all had time to work on it. The encouraging thing is everyone remained really passionate about the project right up until we finished… it became more fun than it was an obligation, which is understandable for a room packed full of sci-fi nerds. Big thanks to The Mill for making this film real for us!
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Joseph R. Biden
46th President of the United States: 2021 ‐ present
Proclamation 10184—National Park Week, 2021
By the President of the United States of America
A Proclamation
The renowned environmentalist and author, Rachel Carson, wrote in her seminal book Silent Spring that, "Those who contemplate the beauty of the earth find reserves of strength that will endure as long as life lasts. There is something healing in the repeated refrains of nature—the assurance that dawn comes after night, and spring after winter." Nowhere is the truth of her observation more evident than in America's national parks, which are irreplaceable treasures that amaze us, inspire us, fill us with pride, and belong to all of us in equal measure.
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In Witness Whereof, I have hereunto set my hand this seventeenth day of April, in the year of our Lord two thousand twenty-one, and of the Independence of the United States of America the two hundred and forty-fifth.
JOSEPH R. BIDEN, JR.
NOTE: This proclamation was published in the Federal Register on April 22.
Joseph R. Biden, Proclamation 10184—National Park Week, 2021 Online by Gerhard Peters and John T. Woolley, The American Presidency Project https://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/node/349585
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