With its jaw-dropping landscape, sociable populace, roaring economy, muted unemployment and diversified marketplace, it should come as no surprise that folks have relocated to this desirable destination – the same one we're fortunate enough to call home. Indeed, the technology sector gets a lot of the glory for its growth and abundance, while biotech, energy, real estate and other segments are closely followed. But backbone of it all – the banking industry – with compelling new organizational configurations, expansions, mergers and acquisitions has, too, experienced an overall upsurge in the Centennial State.
It's important to understand that the landscape in commercial banking has changed dramatically in Colorado. New banks have moved in, and some bank headquarters have moved out, changing the meaning of what it means to be a Colorado bank.
When Sunflower Bank moved its headquarters and commercial banking center to Colorado's capital city in 2017, it was with the focus that products and services should be distinctively tailored to complement the businesses within the community and region. The Denver metro area is home to approximately 80,000 small- and middle-market businesses at the time of the last census and that number is expected to keep growing. Every single one of those businesses is unique, and should be treated that way by their bank.
But striking a balance between big bank resources and the deep roots of a community bank requires a special touch.
Commercial banking is a relationship-driven business that is difficult to commoditize. Our philosophy is that businesses should right-size their bank to their business. If you are a family-owned or mid-sized business, then you should be a with a community bank – one that gets to know you and does not treat you like a number. Banks like Sunflower that have a community bank model backed by capital strength and scale are perfectly positioned to deliver this service to middle-market clients.
Businesses should be able to sit across from their bankers and credit approvers and look them in the eye. Personalized service makes it easier to tailor solutions to each operation and the people involved.
At Sunflower, dedicated market leaders strive to take care of customers' banking needs with a broad array of competitive credit and treasury management products and services to effectively support day-to-day functions and long-term aspirations of business clients.
Employees of community banks are also likely members of the community themselves. So, they tend to be better equipped to understand the specific needs of the communities and businesses they serve. Sunflower Bank encourages employees at all levels of the organization to get involved in the community and donate their time to local causes.
While national banks rely on centralized credit approvers who focus on the numbers, community banks are more likely to take an in-depth view of a credit request, looking at other factors and bringing in local perspectives to drive decisions – which can be a benefit for business owners.
Throughout the entirety of the Sunflower Bank's footprint, loans are approved by local teams that take qualitative data into account when reviewing commercial client loan requests, for a more holistic evaluation. The bank has rejected the traditional loan committee process in favor of a locally driven structure designed to both be responsive and ensure that the bank gets to know each client's business inside and out.
Denver businesses receive an even greater benefit from this model, as Sunflower Bank's Chief Credit Officer is based locally. Given the number of businesses in Denver Metro, having a chief credit officer located in the market was a high priority for Sunflower.
Whether business leaders are looking for assistance with loan consolidation, refinancing, expansion or acquisition, equipment upgrades, technology investments or other details, it's vital to find a partner.
A true partner is a bank that is willing to advise and be a partner for the future; but is also willing to have hard conversations. A bank that simplifies and supports, while being real with customers every step of the way. A bank that focuses more on the solution than the product. This is the model that Sunflower follows.
Customers also benefit from a bank that foster teams that are both experienced and warm. Its people should sincerely care about the customers, while still possessing expertise and good reputations in the market. Sunflower is proud to offer community bank customer service with large-bank solutions. When business customers call, a real banking professional – not a call center – answers the phone.
Sunflower Bank's home-base placement in Denver was no accident, it was a strategic decision made based on the economic environment found here and the potential for helping businesses grow.
As Colorado's population expands and the pace at which businesses advance only increases, Sunflower is at the center of the action. Through a balancing act of efficiency and deliberateness, innovation and strong core values, the institution's organizational structure is aligned with our commitment to get to know our customers, making business with Sunflower a win-win-win.
James G. Fullerton is executive vice president, chief commercial and specialty banking officer at Sunflower Bank. Based in Denver, he is responsible for developing and executing Sunflower Bank's commercial banking services. Fullerton has been in banking for more than 35 years. He uses his expertise to support the bank's commercial teams and clients in Colorado and beyond.


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June 2017 marked my 7th year recruiting. I am a complete busy-body, over-achiever and workaholic, so this job suits me perfectly and I'm never bored. The most fulfilling part of my job is to live vicariously through you-I am absolutely, positively envious in the best way of the exploration, adventure and self reinvention that takes place in travel nursing. I am a true believer of this industry and think everyone should experience travel nursing if they are able.
I view the recruiter-nurse relationship as a partnership above all else and like to treat it as such. My style is direct and honest; with a sense of urgency to find you a job, solve your problem, and answer your question. Lastly, I am overly transparent and good on my word always.
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I hear from many different companies and recruiters. I am very "picky" and at times difficult to please. Stephanie is the one that CONSISTENTLY, almost daily, presents different opportunities for me without giving up.
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Stephanie really stepped up and helped to pull off a miracle for me, after I was traumatized by another travel nurse company. She believed in me, got it done, and was able to provide me with an assignment that started within two weeks. I really appreciate her straight forward manner, and her compassion and efficiency.
She is not only top dog, she is my Pit Bull. She has been there for me the last 2 years, through thick and thin. Her friendship and support has kept me with Medical Solutions for almost 2 years. I have not stayed with anyone that long. I do feel as though she is my friend and that she has my back. Smoooch, Steph!
Stephanie is ALWAYS on top of things, and she is one of the quickest people to respond to my emails EVER! If there's an opening out there for me, she is almost always the first recruiter to let us know. She's delightful and smarter than the average bear! I'll take her as my recruiter any day of the week! Thanks Stephanie, for being the very best!
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The clothing chain withdraws sale of padded bikini tops for seven-year-old girls
Published on April 15th 2010.
Over the past few months we've witnessed several celebrities parading their children on their arms like newly bought Birkin bags.
The £4 bikini sets came in candy pink with gold stars and black with white polka dots. Primark has largely been accused of acting irresponsibly and encouraging the sexualisation of young girls by selling the padded bikinis.
Suri Cruise, daughter of Katie Holmes and Tom Cruise, is a three-year-old who likes wearing high heels, apparently. Katie Price recently tweeted a picture of her daughter, Princess Tiaamii, caked in mummy's make-up. It's all part and parcel it seems, of being the spawn of celebrity whilst most non-celebrity kids are quite rightly preoccupied with toys and games.
Clothing chain Primark, recently attempted to bring this mini-me behaviour to the high street by the way of padded bikini tops for seven-year-old girls. Unsurprisingly, the sale came up against much protest from children's charities, parents and politicians from all parties, who deemed it 'too much, too young'. Primark have since removed the offending garments from all stores and issued an apology today.
Prime Minister Gordon Brown commented: "There's something wrong when companies are pushing our kids into acting like little grown-ups when they should be enjoying being children."
The Liberal Democrat's spokeswoman for equality, Lynne Featherstone, also welcomed Primark's decision to withdraw the items, adding: "How on earth could they have thought that this was a good idea in the first place?"
Conservative leader David Cameron also said it was "disgraceful" but later added he too was delighted by the withdrawal.
Penny Nicholls, director of children and young people at The Children's Society, said: "We know from our research that commercial pressures towards premature sexualisation and unprincipled advertising are damaging children's well-being."
Promoting their children's fashion, Primark's website states: 'Every girl wants to look her best and at Primark we make no exception for the younger ladies. All the high fashion trends can be found in our Girlswear section, no matter what age you are.'
Their latest padded range however, has proved to be a 'trend' too far.
A Primark spokesperson said: "The company has stopped the sale of this product line with immediate effect. Primark will donate all the profits made from this product line to a children's charity, and apologises to customers for any offence caused."

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Podcast hosts from NPR, WNYC Studios, and more explain why they let themselves say "like" and "um" as much as they want.
You're a grownup with a job, plenty of good ideas, and expertise. That's why you find yourself presenting to a roomful of your coworkers, or possibly to an auditorium packed with business leaders. And yet you feel like a fifth-grader struggling to explain the plot of Inception to your biggest crush: Why are you so nervous? Was that last detail even right? Is anything in here making any sense at all?!
Relax. With a little practice, you can learn to speak more clearly, confidently, and naturally. To find out how, Fast Company asked five hosts of some of the most popular podcasts to share their speaking tips.
Lindsey Weber, who cohosts the celebrity podcast Who? Weekly with Bobby Finger, doesn't worry about those "um"s and "ya know"s either. They add "personality," she says, so it would be crazy to cut every single one of them. Part of what people like about conversational pods is that they feel natural," Weber explains–and the same is likely true of most speeches, talks, and presentations, where there's actually a risk to sounding too formal and stiff.
But preserving a natural vibe doesn't mean improvising completely. Being in the moment still takes some preparation and practice.
Even Weber and Finger, who've always done Who? Weekly off the cuff, share a very messy Google doc between the two of them. That's where, as Weber explains, "We lay out the episode's topics as well as various links and research we've done." Doing this prep work allows them to riff when it's time to record an episode. "I think the improvisation just comes with knowledge of the material," says Finger.
As cohosts, Finger and Weber serve this role for one another. "We are always telling each other to wrap it up," says Finger. "You can tell while speaking if something is going to drag for the audiences, so after recording, we usually chat about what worked/what didn't/what we should save for another episode." These quick recaps help them both retool and nail it the next time.
Using your hands can be a great way to add emphasis and force to what you're saying, but Washington knows he can get away with more when his audience is only listening to him, not watching. Before getting back into radio, Zomorodi had been doing a lot of TV, so she'd trained herself not to use her hands while speaking. But, she points out, "All that energy needs to go somewhere, and I find that I strain my voice less when I can let my body relax and emote, too." Fortunately, there are a few ways to gesture meaningfully without looking ridiculous–here are a few tips.
To get this right, Weber draws a useful distinction: "We don't really care about sounding 'professional.' I guess really the only thing we do care about–and are still working on!–is making sure we sound good. This is not the easiest thing for us," she adds, "as we aren't trained sound engineers and do our own production." Much of the time, you'll sound good simply when you sound like yourself.


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What is the difference between a data analyst and a business analyst?
In smaller companies, the job titles are sometimes interchangeable, and both describe roles that involve analyzing data and systems. However, bigger organizations employ data analysts and business analysts to do one-of-a-kind tasks, which makes the difference between the two quite important to understand.
So, if you are just getting started, or transitioning from an unrelated field, this post will help you determine which job role suits you best and decide which career path to take.
Data Analyst vs Business Analyst: What Do They Do?
What Does a Data Analyst Do?
The fundamental job of a data analyst is to tell enthralling stories with data that empower company leaders to make more informed, and better decisions. The data analyst responsibilities often include:
Design and maintenance of databases and data systems, which includes troubleshooting possible problems.
Preparing reports that communicate findings effectively to the major stakeholders and company leaders.
Mining and cleaning data for analysis preparation.
What Does a Business Analyst Do?
A business analyst uses data to inform calculated strategic business decisions. Moreover, business analysts could also hold job titles including management analyst, operations research analyst, or business data analyst. The typical duties of a business analyst include:
Communicating insights with key stakeholders and business teams.
Evaluating processes for cost, efficiency, as well as other valuable metrics.
Preparing judicious recommendations for procedures, process adjustments, and performance enhancements.
Data Analyst vs Business Analyst: Role Requirements
How to Become a Data Analyst: Education Requirements
A Bachelor's Degree in a related field is typically required for entry-level positions. Managers nonetheless strongly opt for applicants who have a Graduate Degree, like a Master's Degree in Analytics for senior jobs. Furthermore, a Bachelor's Degree in a field that has an emphasis on Analytical and Statistical Skills, such as Mathematics or Computer Science will certainly give you a competitive edge.
How to Become a Business Analyst: Education Requirements
The standard is a Bachelor's or a Master's degree. Relevant fields of study include Business, Business Administration, Accounting, Management, Economics, Marketing, Computer and Information Science, as well as Statistics. You could also go for voluntary certifications, which are widely available now. Supplementing your education with computer science, and data science courses will certainly benefit your career.
Data Analyst Skills: What Skills Does a Data Analyst Need?
Creative thinking and Analytical thinking
Simply put, a good analyst should be creative and curious. You should not only have a robust ground in statistical methods, but also a critical mindset. Those will enable you to solve issues through an analytical and creative lens.
A data analyst is usually proficient in a specific programming language and has a working knowledge of others as well. Typically, analysts use languages like SQL, Python, and R for gathering and cleaning data, visualization of data, and statistical analysis.
Data Visualization Skills
Trial and error are required for effective data visualization. A successful analyst comprehends what graphs should be used, should be knowledgeable in scaling visualizations, and know which charts will best represent the data.
Effective and Strong Communication Skills
A data analyst should be able to convey findings clearly, whether to an audience or readers, or a small team of executives. The key to your success is strong communication skills.
Business Analyst Skills: What Skills Does a Business Analyst Need?
First things first. You should be an excellent communicator to become a business analyst. That means you should be master of facilitating working meetings, listening to answers, asking good questions, and absorbing all that's being said. In today's world, communication doesn't need to be face-to-face all the time.
Therefore, you have to be a strong communicator in a virtual scenario as well.
In general, business analysts should be well-versed in SQL, Power BI, Tableau, and Microsoft Excel, among other software. Furthermore, they should have a working knowledge of the technology in analytics. Nevertheless, the need for hard tech skills, in general, is lower compared to data analysts.
So, if you want to advance your business analyst career, the remarkable market differentiator is to develop an advanced knowledge of mathematics, computer science, and data analytics.
Problem-Solving Skills
All projects encounter some problems. As a matter of fact, an entire project, in its essence, is a solution to an issue. At the topmost level, business analysts facilitate a shared comprehension of a problem, the solutions possible, as well as determine the project's scope. You'll also find business analysts in the middle of facilitating teams to resolve technical problems, especially when they involve negotiation between several technology stakeholders and organization.
It is the responsibility of a business analyst to evaluate a few alternatives before helping the team settle for one solution. When trying to determine the issue that should be resolved, a qualified business analyst should listen to the requirements of the stakeholder, consider those, and ask probing questions until the real need emerges and is understood. This is what makes evaluation and critical thinking skills paramount to new business analysts.
Data Analyst vs Business Analyst: Salary Comparison
A Data Analyst Salary: How Much Does a Data Analyst Make?
According to Glassdoor data, if you're 1-3 years into your data analyst career, you can expect an average annual pay of $55,000.
As you reach 4-6 years of experience, your compensation will also go higher ($62,000 median annual salary).
A Business Analyst Salary: How Much Does a Business Analyst Make?
If you're new to the role (with 1 to 3 years of experience), you can count on $59,000 average pay. Once you've spent more time on the job, your median annual pay can reach $69,000.
Data Analytics vs Business Analytics: Which Career Path Is Right for You?
Should you go for a data analyst job, or a business analyst job? If you are trying to weigh your options, consider the following factors:
Educational and professional background
Desired career path
Both roles would enable you to capitalize on your fondness and love of 'all things data'. Furthermore, both would appeal to your rapport in problem solving. Both careers also would perfectly work in tandem with in-depth data science knowledge.
The business analyst and data analyst roles, however, require varying focuses and sets of skills, which make it necessary to carefully choose your path. Fortunately, there are plenty of industries, such as consulting or software development with lots of opportunities for both business and data analysts.
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Keep your friends close, but keep your enemies closer. I'm not a fan of quoting cliches, but in these Machiavellian times, few phrases seem to articulate the situation better. Take the case of the recent media campaign praising Saad Hariri, Lebanon's recently resigned prime minister.
Now it's very normal to see posters praising politicians hastily strung up on light posts across Beirut. As you would expect, these are usually produced by a PR company or low budget design shop associated with the politician in question and hung up haphazardly by his supporters, illegally, often under the cover of night.
But what if the group putting up the billboards is not loyal to the politician in question, but actually allied with his enemies?
I began to wonder about this when I saw a Facebook post revealing Hariri billboards in or around neighborhoods loyal to his rivals, Hezbollah and Amal.
Mar Elias, photo: Dina J. Salem
The next day on my way to work, I noticed more of the same posters with the same font and message "#We are with you" plastered across many parts of Beirut.
From downtown:
To the corniche:
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And Hamra:
On nearly every light post, as far as the eye could see:
Yet the last few locations are not known to be strongholds of Hariri, but of other parties such as Amal and the SSNP. This was made abundantly clear during the clashes of 2008, when militants from these parties took over the streets fairly easily and strung their flags across these locations.
In the decade since, SSNP flags have appeared regularly across Hamra street and the party's annual march turned into a military-style parade a few weeks ago that saw hundreds of party faithful take over the entire of Hamra street:
SSNP march, Hamra street, Beirut, Sept. 2017
I thought about all this when I looked up at one of the posters, which had been put up so shoddily, it appeared to give Hariri a grimacing look:
I asked some tough-looking middle aged men sitting in plastic chairs below the posters if they knew who had put them up. At first one of them, a burly man in his late 40s, answered by saying "the Lebanese people put these posters up" and "it's natural for a people to support their prime minister." Sure, I replied, there is public support and then there are printing companies that print hundreds of these and distribute them in trucks. He smiled and vaguely suggested it was "political parties… all the parties," that worked together to install the posters in their respective neighborhoods.
But I pressed him further: "But only certain parties can do that in Hamra." Finally he conceded. "Yes we are the ones who put those up. The Hezb, the Harake and the Oumi Souryi." This is shorthand for Hezbollah, Amal and the SSNP.
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That's a pretty savvy, next-level media strategy isn't it, I replied. "Well the Saudis are donkeys," he said nonchalantly.
"And what about this one," I continued, pointing to the grimacing Hariri. What happened there? The man motioned to one of his cohort sitting in a chair behind us. "That's Ali's fault, I told him to fix it, he didn't know what he was doing." Then Ali shrugged and shot back: "You didn't give me enough wood to put it up properly."
I left the bickering men and tried to corroborate the story elsewhere on the block. But most people said they had not seen who had put the posters up because they found them in the morning when they opened their shops. So apparently the operation had happened overnight. But another group of men admitted laughingly that it was indeed the "Hezb, Harake and Oumi." And they thought it was pretty hilarious too.
If this is true, could the Saudis have ever imagined this outcome? Were they assuming that Hariri's resignation would have been taken at face value and that his opponents would have simply said good riddance, creating greater division in the country? Could the Saudis have imagined that Hariri's opponents would be demanding his return even more vociferously than his allies?
Of course this goes beyond billboards: the President of Lebanon and the leader of Hezbollah-traditional opponents of Hariri–have been demanding his return on a near daily basis. Even the leader of the Catholic church in Lebanon, Cardinal Bechara Rai has demanded his return, making an unprecedented visit to the Wahhabist state.
This spawned some interesting memes. Here the two are speaking in code:
The highlighted letters in the Hariri caption say: "I'm being detained" to which Rai replies: "We all know."
Perhaps the Saudis had imagined the Lebanese would react in a simplistic "sectarian fashion" where politicians or crown princes prioritize their own sect above all others. I wonder where they got that idea?
Suffice to say, Hariri's opponents and even internet trolls have successfully thrown the ball back into Saudi Arabia's court and the Saudi leadership probably didn't see this coming. But since the Saudi royal court (or whatever is left of it) has effectively declared that Lebanon is at war with them, we can only hope the disintegration of their media strategy will give them pause before pursuing further actions on the ground.
Wouldn't it be great if all wars were limited to creative media messaging, and the winner could be decided with likes and retweets instead of missiles and bullets?
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Mass Shootings Are on the Rise—and Falling
When it comes to sheer numbers, our rate for mass shootings is not what's really troubling
By Paul Campos Sept. 18, 2013
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The Overwhelming Maleness of Mass Homicide
Terrorists and Mass Shooters: More Similar Than We Thought
In the wake of Monday's Navy Yard shooting, there has been much lamentation that mass shootings are on the rise in America. "If you have been thinking that we live in an era that is more marked by this type of mass bloodshed than any era before," remarked Rachel Maddow, "I am sad to tell you you are right. It did not used to be this way, but more and more, this is part of how we live."
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The problem with this claim is that it isn't true – or to be more charitable, it's "true" in such a limited way as to be meaningless.
Maddow is defining "this type of mass bloodshed" as mass shootings in which 12 or more victims were killed. There have been 12 such shootings in the United States since 1949, and half of them have taken place in the last six years, which on its face sounds, as Maddow suggests, like a very ominous trend.
But anyone familiar with statistics should be made immediately suspicious by what statisticians refer to as the "cut point" for Maddow's analysis. Why did she choose 12 victims? The answer is because it created the appearance of a statistically significant trend, where no such trend exists.
Suppose Maddow had defined "this type" of mass shooting as one in which at least 14 victims died. Using that definition, it turns out that the rate of this type of mass shooting in America was nearly twice as high in the 25 years between 1966 and 1991 as it has been in the 22 years since (there were four such shootings in the former period, and two in the latter).
Or we could use the FBI's definition of a mass shooting: one in which at least four people, not including the perpetrator, are killed. This is a vastly larger category than the one Maddow employs: there were about 600 such incidents in the United States between 1980 and 2010. As James Alan Fox, a professor of criminology at Northeastern University points out, the rate of such mass shootings does not appear to be rising.
Speaking of statistics, here are a few others that ought to be relevant to policy makers:
*Homicide rates in the United States are lower now than they have been at almost any time in the last century, having fallen by more than 50% since 1991.
*Mass shootings, even using the very broad definition employed by the FBI, make up a tiny fraction of homicides – usually less than one percent.
*No one knows why homicide rates doubled between 1960 and 1980, or why they've declined just as sharply in the years since. Many theories have been suggested, including the aging of the population, high rates of incarceration, legalized abortion, and even declines in the percentage of lead in the environment (the latter, improbable-sounding, hypothesis has some surprisingly strong statistical support). But criminology is very far from an exact science, and these various theories remain little more than educated guesses.
Given all this, it's very difficult to say what, if anything, can be done about either gun violence in general, or mass shootings in particular. It seems unlikely that the kind of weak gun control measures that are politically conceivable in America today, such as limits on certain sorts of weapons, and tighter background checks, will make much if any difference in regard to social problems that we, at bottom, do not really understand.
That is a frustrating and somewhat depressing conclusion, especially since even today's far lower homicide rate is still vastly higher than that in almost all other wealthy industrialized nations. But it is better to admit to not knowing what to do than to do something for the sake of pretending otherwise.
Campos is a professor of law at the University of Colorado and the author of several books, including Don't Go to Law School (Unless)
Paul Campos's latest book is Don't Go to Law School (Unless).


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The Che Guevara Reader: Writings on Politics & Revolution (The Che Guevara Library) (Paperback)
By David Deutschmann (Editor), Maria del Carmen Ari Garcia (Editor)
Selected writings—speeches, essays, and letters—by one of the most widely known guerilla fighters, political theorists, and organizers, Che Guevara.
Widely revered as a true revolutionary, this collection of writings from Ernesto Che Guevara highlight his principled politics and praxis in the fight against capitalism and US imperialism. Incisive speeches, critical essays, and personal letters not only serve as a primer of the Cuban revolutionary movement, but also analyze the importance of practicing international solidarity, reflect on violent resistance, and explicate the dangerous failures of capitalism.
Accompanied by an extensive bibliography of Guevara's writing, a timeline of his life, and an all-encompassing glossary of individuals, organizations, and publications, the Che Guevara Reader provides insights into the historical, political, and cultural context for Guevara's radicalization. From some of his most famous speeches such as "Create Two, Three, Many Vietnams" to intimate, personal letters addressed to comrades around the world and his own children, this book extends Che's legacy and paints a stunning picture of a revolutionary struggling for a better world.
ERNESTO GUEVARA DE LA SERNA was born in Rosario, Argentina, on June 14, 1928. While studying for a medical degree in Buenos Aires, he took a trip with his friend Alberto Granado on an old Norton motorcycle through all of Latin America, the basis for The Motorcycle Diaries. During his travels he witnessed the Bolivian revolution in 1953; and, in Guatemala in 1954, the overthrow of the democratically elected government of Jacobo Arbenz by US-backed forces. Forced to leave Guatemala, he went to Mexico City, where he linked up with exiled Cuban revolutionaries and met Fidel Castro in 1955. Che joined their expedition to Cuba, where the revolutionary war began in the Sierra Maestra mountains. At first Che was the troop doctor, and later became Rebel Army commander in July 1957. Following the rebels' victory on January 1, 1959, he was a key leader of the new revolutionary government and also of the political organization that in 1965 became the Communist Party of Cuba.
"If I were to recommend one of Che's books to readers who want an introduction to his bold ideas, dialectical thinking and his concise yet expressive style, I would recommend this one."—Jonah Raskin, Counterpunch
Publisher: Seven Stories Press
Publication Date: June 21st, 2022
Series: The Che Guevara Library
Biography & Autobiography / Cultural, Ethnic & Regional / Hispanic & Latino
History / Latin America / South America
Political Science / World / Caribbean & Latin American


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Fanaloka (Fossa fossana) är ett rovdjur och enda art i släktet Fossa i familjen Eupleridae. Det liknar genetter i utseende. Arten förekommer endemiskt på Madagaskar.

Kännetecken

Djuret når en kroppslängd mellan 40 och 45 centimeter. Därtill kommer svansen som är 20 till 30 centimeter lång. Hanar blir ungefär 2 kilogram tung och honor når en vikt av 1,5 kilogram. De har alltså ungefär samma storlek som en tamkatt. Fanalokan har en klumpig kropp med korta smala extremiteter. Huvudet liknar med sin långdragen nos rävens huvud.

Djurets päls är gråbrun (ibland lite rödaktig) och på undersidan ljusare. På denna grundfärg förekommer 8 rader av mörka punkter på ryggens topp samt glest fördelade punkter på andra ställen av bålen. Den yviga svansen är grå med bruna tvärband. Fanalokan har förmåga att spara fettreserver i svansen.

Arten saknar en doftkörtel vid sin anus.

Utbredning och levnadssätt

Fanalokan förekommer på östra Madagaskar. Den lever både i slättlandets regnskogar och i bergsregioner med torra skogar. Arten hittas ofta nära vattendrag eller i områden som liknar marskland.

Dessa djur är huvudsakligen aktiva på natten. De vilar i håligheter i träd, mellan träklumpar på marken eller under överhängande klippor. De vistas huvudsakligen på marken men har även bra förmåga att klättra i träd. När honan inte är brunstig lever varje exemplar ensam. Nästan könsmogna ungdjur kan göra utflykter tillsammans med modern.

Fanalokan livnär sig huvudsakligen av kött. Den äter till exempel kräftor, maskar, groddjur och mindre däggdjur (gnagare, tanrekar). Det antas att den i mindre mått äter frukter.

Fortplantning

Efter dräktigheten som varar i cirka tre månader (82-89 dagar) föder honan vanligtvis en enda unge mellan oktober och januari. Nyfödda ungar har öppna ögon och kan efter några dagar gå. Efter två till tre månader sluter honan att ge di. Cirka ett år efter födelsen lämnar ungdjuret moderns territorium. En fanaloka i fångenskap levde 11 år.

Hot

IUCN listar arten idag som sårbar (vulnerable). Beståndet hotas av förstöring av djurets levnadsområde genom skogsröjning. Dessutom jagas de ibland av landets befolkning. Ett annat problem är införda konkurrenter som tamhundar och sibetkatten (Viverricula indica).

Systematik

Fanalokan räknades tidigare till familjen viverrider men ingår idag i familjen Eupleridae. Tillsammans med arterna fossa och falanok bildar djuret underfamiljen Euplerinae.

Det vetenskapliga namnet för djurets släkte är Fossa, därför förväxlas fanalokan ibland med arten fossa. Troligtvis berodde även artens vetenskapliga benämning på en sammanblandning. Enligt reglerna för vetenskapliga namn som uppställs av International Code of Zoological Nomenclature (ICZN) kan namnet inte ändras.

Källor

Tryckta källor
 Ronald M. Nowak: Walker's Mammals of the World. The Johns Hopkins University Press, Baltimore 1999, 2015 Seiten, .
 Wilson, D. E., D. M. Reeder: Mammal Species of the World. Johns Hopkins University Press, 2005, .

Externa länkar
 bilder och informationer på Animal Diversity Web (engelska)

Eupleridae
Däggdjur i etiopiska regionen

redpajama_set_name: RedPajamaWikipedia


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Czarnowiec (niem. Schwarzenberg) – osada w Polsce położona w województwie warmińsko-mazurskim, w powiecie kętrzyńskim, w gminie Reszel. W latach 1975–1998 miejscowość administracyjnie należała do województwa olsztyńskiego.

Przy osadzie Czarnowiec, na wschód od wsi Biel znajduje się pagórek o wysokości 105 m, zwany Czarnogóra.

Historia
Wieś powstała pod koniec XIX wieku. W latach dwudziestych XX wieku majątek ziemski w Czarnowcu o powierzchni 171 ha należał do Marii Wiliam.

Po II wojnie światowej w Czarnowcu powstał PGR, który przed likwidacją wchodził w skład Kombinatu PGR Sątopy z siedzibą w Sątopach-Samulewie. Kombinat PGR Sątopy powstał 1 lipca 1964 r., jako drugi w województwie olsztyńskim. W jego skład weszły gospodarstwa (PGR): Sątopy, Nisko, Wojkowo, Troksy, Mołdyty, Czarnowiec, Ryn Reszelski i Kolno. Do Zakładu Rolnego Czarnowiec należał obiekt produkcyjny w Bielu. W 1967 r. uzyskiwano średnio 3700-4000 litrów mleka od jednej krowy.

Dwór
Dwór w Czarnowcu wybudowany został w pierwszych latach XX wieku. Dwór wzniesiony został na rzucie prostokąta i posiada nakrycie dachem naczółkowym. Na elewacji wzdłużnej budowla posiada trójosiowy ryzalit o dwóch poziomach użytkowych. Na elewacji bocznej znajduje się drewniany ganek. W czasie funkcjonowania PGR w budynku znajdowały się biura i mieszkanie pracownicze. Obecnie dwór jest własnością prywatną. Przy dworze znajduje się niewielki park.

Zobacz też
 Czarnowiec

Przypisy

Bibliografia
 Mapa Schroettera 1796–1802 (Brak Czarnowca na mapie)
 Małgorzata Jackiewicz-Garniec, Mirosław Garniec, Pałace i dwory dawnych Prus Wschodnich, (Wydanie III poszerzone i uzupełnione) Studio ARTA, Olsztyn, 2001,  (str. 269 – dwór).
 Biskupiec z dziejów miasta i powiatu, Pojezierze, Olsztyn, 1969, 368 str.

Reszel (gmina)


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The Bash Street Kids (littéralement : « Les Gamins de la rue Torgnole ») est une série de bande dessinée créée sous le nom When the Bell Rings (« Lorsque la cloche sonne ») par l'auteur britannique Leo Baxendale. Elle est publiée dans l'hebdomadaire pour enfants The Beano depuis le . Le changement de nom date de 1956. En 1961, Baxendale a laissé la série à David Sutherland, qui l'anime depuis.

Annexes

Bibliographie
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Bande dessinée britannique
Série de bande dessinée
Bande dessinée se déroulant au Royaume-Uni


Our First Team face Shelbourne on Friday night at Stradbrook in the SSE Airtricity League. Kick off at 7:45pm, tickets available at the gate and online.
On Saturday, our U15s host Longford Town in Kilternan, kick off at 2pm, while our U19s travel to Cobh Ramblers, kick off also at 2pm.
Our U17s have no league match this weekend.


In this article you will find out honey benefits for the skin. Honey is not just a healthy and delicious ingredient we can use in our foods and drinks, it is also a great supplement for the skin. With more new ways women looking for to make their skin smoother and shinier, honey stands out as a great natural cosmetics option. In simple words we can say that honey is a precious liquid gold for your skin which is not much expensive like original gold but it can helps you a lot in increasing your beauty. Honey's benefits to the skin vary and below you can find some of the most important benefits with different ways to apply honey to your skin.
Honey balances the oil ratio in the skin, so it prevents your skin from being too oily or too dry. When you're skin is too oily, you might have more blackheads and pimples and if your skin is too dry you might realize that your skin peels of way more than it ought to. To prevent any of these, the easiest way is adding honey to your face mask or cream.
Another benefit of honey to your skin is that it makes your skin shinier and livelier. This results from it's great natural nutritious and again can be used in face masks. But if you want to be creative and get the most you can out of honey, you can prepare a bathing mixture with 1/4 cups of honey, 2 cups of milk and hot water. As the cherry on the top, add any other oils with great odors you like. Surprisingly, you'll see honey's benefit to the skin and the benefits of a great bath shampoo.


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Manhattan's Harkin, Keeley set fast pace en route to Centennial League sweeps
With a loaded Centennial League boys field that conceivably could produce state champions in three different classifications, Manhattan's Daniel Harkin knew he had to get out quickly in Saturday's race at the Kanza Park course.
But the pace the Indian senior set in the first mile?
"It was suicidal," Harkin said of a blistering pace of 4 minutes, 30 seconds, over that first mile.
The pace might have been faster than anticipated, but it wasn't a killer for Harkin's chances to defend his league crown against two runners — Hayden's Tanner Newkirk and Emporia's Treyson True — who had already beaten him this season. Harkin got the early lead he desired and maintained it for the duration of the race, topping Newkirk by six seconds and True by 23 seconds with his win in 15 minutes, 35.8 seconds.
"I was just trying to get a lead in that first mile and I think maybe it hurt me a little bit," Harkin said. "But I held on long enough. I knew (Newkirk) had a great sprint, so I was just trying to stay away from him at the beginning.
"It's really fun to race good competition. I think I could have gone faster, but you have to have strategy out there as good as those guys are."
Manhattan made it a clean sweep of the league titles as Harkin paced the Indian boys to the team crown. The Indians placed six in the top 12, with Max Bowyer adding a fifth, and topped Hayden by a whopping 47 points (36-83).
Things were much tighter in the girls race. Manhattan's Jenna Keeley continued her undefeated season, holding off Washburn Rural's Madeline Carter by nine seconds for the individual title, and the Indians did just enough to counter four Junior Blues in the top seven to edge them by four points (33-37) for the title.
"My strategy was to get out fast from the pack in the first mile or so," Keeley said. "And then around the two mile, pick up the pace a bit and hold on."
A strong wind was prevalent throughout both races, but it hardly seemed to hamper the leaders. In fact, both Keeley and Carter set personal-best times. Keeley topped her previous best by six seconds with her winning time of 18 minutes, 45.7 seconds, while Carter knocked four seconds off her previous best with her runner-up time of 18:54.1.
"Wind isn't ideal, but you can use it to your advantage," Keeley said. "Coming into the finish, that tailwind really helped."
After breaking the 19-minute barrier in winning last week's city meet, Carter was hoping to upset Keeley on Saturday.
"I knew she's a really good runner and I just needed to push myself to stay up with her," Carter said. "I give huge props to her. When we had our meet at the T-Town (Washburn Rural's home Sunflower Showdown), she was definitely well ahead of me. When I ran sub-19 last week, I knew I could compete well with her and that's what I did."
At that same Sunflower Showdown, Newkirk got his win over Harkin, out-kicking him down the homestretch for a one-second win. Newkirk knew Harkin would come back strong in Saturday's race and hoped he could answer the challenge.
But he admitted the blistering early pace took its toll.
"I was going to try to go out with whoever went out and first and maybe that wasn't a good idea," Newkirk said. "He really pushed me with that early pace. I was more tired than I've ever been after one mile and that got me a little frightened. I closed a bit late, but it wasn't enough."
Newkirk still had enough to easily hang on for second place in 15:41.0. True, last year's 5A state runner-up, was third in 15:58.1, while Topeka West's Lenny Njoroge was fourth in 16:10.9. Washburn Rural's Arrik White was the only other city finisher in the top 10, taking eighth (16:42.8).
Rural's girls, however, dominated the top 10. Khloi Bird backed Carter's runner-up finish with a third-place showing in 19:48.1, while Keely Wagner added a fifth (20:10.0) and Sydney Laster was seventh (20:11.6).
But Manhattan also put four in the top 10 and got a 12th from its fifth runner, while Rural's fifth finisher, Meagn Christensen, was 21st as the Junior Blues fell just short of adding a league title to its city crown.
"I'm really proud of our team," Carter said. "We've worked really hard and competed well. It's OK we didn't get first and we can learn from this and it can go either way. You never know what the next meet will hold."
Seaman placed two in the top 10 with Bethany Druse eighth (20:26.3) and Emma Schultz ninth (20:29.2).
CENTENNIAL LEAGUE MEET
At Kanza Park
Manhattan 36, Hayden 83, Emporia 91, Washburn Rural 98, Seaman 108, Topeka West 149, Junction City 160, Topeka High 203.
1. Harkin, Manhattan, 15:35.8; 2. Newkirk, Hayden, 15:41.0; 3. True, Emporia, 15:58.1; 4. Njoroge, Topeka West, 16:10.9; 5. Bowyer, Manhattan, 16:36.3; 6. Laudie, Emporia, 16:38.7; 7. Atkins, Junction City, 16:40.1; 8. White, Washburn Rural, 16:42.8; 9. Mosier, Manhattan, 16:46.0; 10. Anderson, Manhattan, 16:49.7.
Manhattan 33, Washburn Rural 37, Seaman 62, Emporia 88, Topeka High 161, Hayden 162.
1. Keeley, Manhattan, 18:45.7; 2. Carter, Washburn Rural, 18:54.1; 3. Bird, Washburn Rural, 19:48.1; 4. Knopp, Mahattan, 19:56.9; 5. Wagner, Washburn Rural, 20:10.0; 6. Henningson, Manhattan, 20:11.5; 7. Laster, Washburn Rural, 20:11.6; 8. Druse, Seaman, 20:26.3; 9. Schultz, Seaman, 20:29.2; 10. Gaul, Manhattan, 20:36.3.


Over the last few years there has been a lot of discussion about the Rising American Electorate (unmarried women, millennials and people of color) that Barack Obama tapped into in order to win two presidential elections. Back in November, Stan Greenberg cautioned that these voters weren't being engaged in the 2016 election. But in a more recent poll, he found that things had changed.
The disengagement pall has been lifted. Our focus groups with white unmarried women, millennials and African Americans showed a new consciousness about the stakes in November. In this poll, the percentage of Democrats giving the highest level of engagement has increased 10 points.
The result is that the country might be heading for an earthquake election in November.
Rather than embrace the recommendations of the RNC autopsy report following the 2012 presidential election, the response of Republicans has typically been to drill down on the idea that there are millions of white voters they can tap into who didn't show up to vote for Mitt Romney. But even Sean Trende, whose original article spurred that discussion, says that there aren't enough missing white voters available to swing an election.
Into this breach comes Grover Norquist with…what can I say…a "creative" solution. He has identified six new voting blocs that have developed over the last 30 years that won't want Hillary Clinton in the White House. Between the lines, his contention is that she is just so out of touch with what is happening in the world that she's missed them.
Either this revelation is so ground-breaking that no one in the political world is as in-touch as Norquist, or it's a load of huey put out by someone who is desperately grasping at straws rather than face the fact that his predictions about a "permanent Republican majority" are drowning in a bathtub.
I kid you not! Those are the voting blocs Grover Norquist said the Republicans can tap into in order to stop Clinton in November. We could spend some time deconstructing each one. But that would give this nonsense from Norquist more attention than it deserves. I merely point this out in order to show how vacuous Republican attempts are these days to deal with the fact that they are in the midst of alienating large swaths of the American electorate. If the best they've got to combat that reality is mobilizing people like e-cigarrette users, you know they're in big trouble.


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FMV chooses Knowit for delivery of systems to the Swedish Royal Navy
Knowit Dataunit and the Swedish Defence Materiel Administration (FMV) have, for several years, collaborated regarding system solutions for the defence sector. The new order entails an increased commitment with delivery of a "command & control" system for the Swedish Royal Navy, Neptun C2.
Neptun C2 will, in an international environment, provide staff groups within the navy with the possibility of more efficient planning and performance of operations with other nations. Neptun C2 is based on Knowit Dataunit's IT security platform Triton and is developed in collaboration with the Finnish partner Navielektro. Neptun C2 consists of software and hardware in a network.
"We are proud to have been given this assignment and look forward to continuing to develop technical solutions in the defence sector. FMV is a strategically important partner for us, with which we get the opportunity to contribute to an important societal function. The deal will also lead to a number of new recruitments," says Mats Thorstenson, CEO of Knowit Dataunit.
Knowit Dataunit has been collaborating with the Swedish Armed Forces, FMV, and the defence industry for over 25 years, and has built up competence and understanding for this field's specific requirements and challenges, thereby contributing to the creation of several products and services which are now used in the defence sector. This includes communication, surveillance and security solutions for the defence and security sectors.
The value of the order is around SEK 80 million.


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Dunkley Electorate
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The Dunkley electorate was named in honour of Louisa Margaret Dunkley; founder of the Victorian Women's Post and Telegraph Association in 1900 and campaigner for equal pay for women.
The Division of Dunkley is located south-east of Melbourne. It covers an area of approximately 140 sq km from Seaford in the north to Mornington in the south. The main suburbs include Baxter (part), Frankston, Frankston North, Frankston South, Langwarrin, Langwarrin South, Mt Eliza, Mornington, Seaford and Skye (part).
Source: Australian Electoral Commission
For more information or to download a map of the Dunkley electorate, please click here to view the profile of the electoral division of Dunkley (Victoria) via the Australian Electoral Commission website.


Through play and daily life, young children become socially adept and physically competent; they become able to lead and follow, make friends, lose friends, and restore friends. They come to know others and build the being of others. In natural ways they become able to initiate actions for their own betterment, the betterment of others, and the betterment of the community. They inquire, investigate, and represent in paint, and blocks, and clay. They come to love.
I am an emeritus educator of children and adults and a student of both. Now that I am retired I have time to create the kind of site I wish I had encountered long ago – one that had practical ideas with nothing to market. Over the years since 1970 when I started learning about schools for young children, I developed resources for early childhood educators and families. I am making available as much as I can for anyone to take forward in the way they wish. 143 pages of stuff here to explore—all aimed at what we can do to create conditions for young children in the years before common school age.
A note to navigation: Troubling Behavior, Mathematics and Design, and Connecting to Children consist of many nested pages opening up other pages beyond what is visible in the menus.


The floristic composition of the seasonally flooded and peat swamp forests of the Peruvian Amazon is poorly known in comparison to many other vegetation types in the region. But this lack of knowledge is not really due to a lack of fieldwork – there have been many environmental impact assessments related to the oil industry that incorporate floristic work as well as assorted inventories by different organisations. The problem is that these data remain hidden from public view and therefore knowledge does not accumulate and advance. This is the reason that this new publication by Euridice Honorio and colleagues at the Instituto de Investigaciones de la Amazonia Peruana is important: it provides open-access, baseline data on the structure and composition of Peruvian wetland forests. The availability of this information will help us to learn more about spatial variation in the composition of these ecosystems, as well as evaluate how they change over time.


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A Rising Tide Lifts All Boats – "Black Panther" and Philanthropy
February 23, 2018 /1 Comment/in Camfed, Child Aid, Nepal Youth Foundation, Nurse Family Partnership, OneSky, Partners in Health, Polaris, Room to Read, Save the Children /by Ben Parnes
The success of the beautiful new film, Black Panther, has many storylines.
For one, it's the most successful opening weekend for a movie directed by an African-American. It's also the first superhero movie to feature a predominantly African-American cast.
It's also both visually and narratively a beautiful multifaceted film. While it may be part of the Marvel Universe and at its most basic level, a "Superhero Movie", thanks to its detailed storyline and complex characters, it's certainly much more than that. It might seem bizarre to write a Global Grandmothers blog about a movie such as this but there is a nexus between the storyline and the Global Grandmothers' mission.
One of the most intriguing plot points is the internal struggle the fictional nation of Wakanda (the Black Panther's native country) faces on its position on foreign aid. Unbeknownst to the rest of the world, Wakanda is a very wealthy and technologically advanced nation due to its access to massive amounts of Vibranium (a fictional valuable natural resource). Over centuries, the Wakandans have maintained their luxurious way of life by avoiding any international entanglements.
T'Challa, AKA the Black Panther, played by Chadwick Boseman
Despite their national prosperity, there's pressure bubbling up within Wakanda to support humanitarian causes around the world. But naturally, many oppose this reform, as it will lead to the secret of their riches to be revealed to the rest of the world, and, in turn, potentially affect their way of life.
Much of the movie revolves around the debate on this issue and the difficult decision that T'Challa (the King of Wakanda and the Black Panther) faces. What responsibility do fortunate citizens of one nation have to support those in another? Particularly, when those in other nations may be suffering humanitarian crises, conflict, and/or war.
Writer and Director Ryan Coogler wonderfully navigates the nuances of this prescient issue. This plotline can be seen as a commentary on global politics on one hand, but also appears to address the proper role of philanthropy among wealthier nations.
'Black Panther' Writer and Director, Ryan Coogler
We here at Global Grandmothers do our best to recognize how fortunate many of us are, and with this awareness, comes a responsibility to work with others around the world who are in need. This sentiment is why we support organizations like Save the Children, who work to ensure children all around the globe have a healthy start in life. Or Partners in Health, who are committed to providing healthcare to poor and marginalized communities around the globe.
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The international community is only strengthened when the less fortunate around the globe are supported by those who can.
While the phrase 'A rising tide lifts all boats' has often referred to domestic policies, it's also an apt term for international development. As the world's tide is lifted, so too are all the world's boats. It's fantastic to see this powerful message showcased in a movie that so many young adults and families are bound to see.
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I love the link made here between the message of a "super hero" movie and the broader action of philanthropy. How clever! I saw this fabulous movie and am telling all my friends to see it. Indeed, there is more to it than CGI. As shown in the movie, sometimes those of us more fortunate need to be jolted out of our comfort to see how we can do our part to make the world a safer, kinder place…one step (or one dollar) at a time.
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Giuseppe Santoliquido, né à Seraing, est un écrivain belge d'origine italienne.

Biographie

Spécialiste de politique italienne, Giuseppe Santoliquido collabore avec de nombreux médias belges et étrangers. Il est aussi chroniqueur, essayiste, romancier et nouvelliste.

Traductions
 Solstice, recueil de Libero De Libero, Ker éditions, 2016

Essais
 Italie, une démocratie pervertie ?, Ker éditions, 2011

 Bunga Bunga, mode d'emploi : les dessous choc du système berlusconien, Renaissance du Livre, 2012

Nouvelles
 Petites musiques de nuit, recueil, Grand Miroir, 2012
 Une vie parfaite, Achève-moi, Province de Liège, 2015
 Jusqu'au bout du rêve, La fureur de lire, Fédération Wallonie-Bruxelles, 2016
Belgiques, recueil, Ker éditions, 2018

Romans

 L'Audition du Docteur Fernando Gasparri, Grand Miroir, 2011
 Voyage corsaire, Ker éditions, 2013
 L'Inconnu du parvis, Genèse édition, 2016
 L'Été sans retour, Gallimard, 2021

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Annexes

Notes et références

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Politologue belge
Date de naissance non renseignée (XXe siècle)
Naissance à Seraing
Romancier belge du XXIe siècle
Essayiste belge du XXIe siècle
Nouvelliste belge du XXIe siècle
Écrivain belge francophone


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Anti-Abortion 'Abolitionists' Wants to Charge Abortion Patients Like Murderers Now
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Mainstream anti-abortion activists have long insisted they don't want to punish people who get abortions. Now, that claim is being put to the test.
Although many states are only a few weeks into their first state legislative sessions since Roe v. Wade was overturned, legislators in Arkansas and Oklahoma have already introduced bills that would punish abortion patients. In Alabama, the state's attorney general initially said he could use a state law to punish people for ending their pregnancies, then tried to walk it back.
These kinds of tactics are forcing anti-abortion activists to confront a long-simmering tension within their movement: What are they supposed to do with people who get abortions? Typically, abortion restrictions target providers, not patients. Within the anti-abortion movement, patients are treated like victims who have been bamboozled into ending their pregnancies by the predatory "abortion industry." But now that Roe is gone and states are proposing policies to legally treat fetuses like people, that may not hold water for much longer.
"I think there are some people, and probably a fairly large group of people, for whom women's innocence is conditional and they could be persuaded that it's not real," said Mary Ziegler, a professor at the University of California, Davis, law school who studies the legal history of reproduction.
Speakers at the March for Life and National Pro-Life Summit in Washington, D.C. last weekend repeatedly suggested that only a lack of knowledge keeps abortion patients from seeing the "truth" about abortion, and that they can be converted to the anti-abortion cause. This is part of the thinking behind "sidewalk counseling," the practice of standing outside abortion clinics to convince patients not to go inside, and behind crisis pregnancy centers, facilities that try to persuade people to continue their pregnancies.
"We as pro-lifers have things in the right order, right?" Lauren Muzyka, of Sidewalk Advocates for Life, told National Pro-Life Summit attendees. "God comes first, a mother puts a child before herself. So you might say the right order, the natural law order, is God, baby, mom. But a woman in crisis mode, a woman in self-preservation mode, has all of that inverted." Muzyka suggested that attendees find out how far into a pregnancy a patient is, then give them information about a fetus' development. "We need to do everything in our power to meet her where she's at and love her into a decision for life."
But "fetal personhood," the idea that fetuses deserve the full rights and protections granted to humans who have been born—and sometimes, that a fetus' rights trump those of the person carrying them—also lies at the heart of the anti-abortion movement's argument that abortion is wrong. Assuming the perspective of an anti-abortion activist, Ziegler asked, "If we're serious about personhood, how can we not punish women?"
The Arkansas bill proposes that "all unborn children should be protected under the state homicide laws," which cwould lead abortion patients to be prosecuted as murderers. The Oklahoma bill, introduced by Republican state Sen. Warren Hamilton, would amend the state's current near-total abortion ban to remove language that currently blocks prosecutors from charging "a woman with any criminal offense in the death of her own unborn child."
This move isn't totally unexpected from Hamilton, who in 2020 announced he would introduce a bill called, in part, the "Abolition of Abortion in Oklahoma Act," which also banned abortion. He changed the name when he filed it in 2021, but the word "abolition" carries a unique weight within the anti-abortion world: A wing of activists who now identify as "abortion abolitionists" believe that abortion should be legally categorized as murder and that, because a fetus is a person, individuals who get abortions should be punished like murderers. (The anti-abortion movement, in general, is largely white.)
Ahead of his 2020 election, one of the major "abolitionist" groups, Free the States, endorsed Hamilton. Hamilton's office did not immediately respond to a request for comment on his new bill.
Bills with "abolitionist" underpinnings have popped up intermittently in recent years. In 2021, a Texas legislator introduced a bill that would threaten abortion patients with the death penalty; similar legislation was also introduced in 2017 and 2019. Those bills, which proved to be PR disasters for anti-abortion activists, never advanced very far in the Texas legislature. Republicans and leaders of national anti-abortion organizations have condemned them; Catherine Glenn Foster, head of the influential organization Americans United for Life, told Vox of the 2019 Texas bill, "It's something that I would fight back against and everyone I know in the movement would fight back against." Hundreds of people testified at a committee hearing on the bill.
Punishing people for abortions is an incredibly unpopular position. Just 14 percent of U.S. adults say women should serve jail time if they have an illegal abortion, according to Pew Research Center. Even Republicans dislike the idea; just 21 percent think that women should be jailed. Sixteen percent of adults, though, say she should pay a fine or perform community service, while another 17 percent aren't sure what should happen.
Men are also more likely than women to say that a woman should face a penalty for an illegal abortion.
Although abortion bans tend to punish medical providers, that idea is divisive, too: Only a quarter of U.S. adults support sending doctors and other providers to jail for performing illegal abortions, according to Pew.
However, abortion rights are also very popular. Three in five Americans believe abortion should be legal in all or most cases. Yet, thanks to years of dedicated and disciplined organizing, the anti-abortion movement successfully overturned Roe.
It's not that there are now more abortion "abolitionists," according to Ziegler, but those who exist are becoming better organized. They may also be set to take advantage of what Ziegler calls "the enforcement problem." Although abortion bans are now in effect in at least 13 states, those bans are proving difficult to enforce, thanks to the availability of abortion-inducing pills online and people's ability to travel across state lines for abortions.
Under current law, if a doctor performs an abortion on a person from a state with an abortion ban, that doctor isn't at risk of prosecution. (One congressman from Indiana did recently say he would support legislation to stop someone from traveling out of state for an abortion in the first place.) Frustration with that loophole may lead some activists to push to punish someone, anyone, for getting an abortion—and the patient is usually the most visible target.
"Some people are saying, 'What else are we really supposed to do?'" Ziegler said. "If the doctor or the abortion fund or whatever is in a different state or a different country and we want to stop this abortion and we don't have a national tool, the only option left is punishing the pregnant person."
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On The Waterfront: Domino Factory Gets $1.5 Billion Makeover
Construction and development projects in NYC always involve a fair share of drama, and the Domino Sugar development is no exception. Now, the shuttered factory is coming back to life with a massive makeover planned for the Brooklyn waterfront. The new owner, Two Trees Management, revealed its $1.5 billion-dollar vision for the Williamsburg site, calling for massively tall and architecturally bold skyscrapers that would redefine Brooklyn's skyline. The iconic landmark of Brooklyn's industrial past will be the centerpiece of an 11-acre mega project, creating a new neighborhood with 2,284 apartments, a public school and 630,000 sq ft of offices. Construction is expected to begin early next year, bringing 3,500 jobs to the area.
The Domino site is possibly the most prominent piece of real estate in Brooklyn. It sits at the dead center of the Manhattan facing waterfront, and it is what drivers on the FDR Drive see. This has the opportunity to be what new Brooklyn says to the world.
Eye-popping apartment buildings 55 stories and higher designed by SHoP Architects are planned — including one shaped like a giant donut and a pair of needle-thin towers connected by a three-story sky bridge.
With one mega-development, Two Trees Management owner, Jed Walentas plans do to the sleepy section of industrial waterfront what his father did in DUMBO one building at a time: construct a bustling neighborhood where people will want to live, work, and play. Instead of refurbishing old warehouses in piecemeal fashion like his dad David, or sticking to Domino's original monolithic development blueprint, Walentas wants to build a "family" of post-modern towers clustered around the landmarked refinery.
When Two Trees plunked down $185 million to buy the Domino Sugar Factory development site last summer, the already-approved plans for four-towers and 2,200 apartments were universally hated. The hulking buildings were bland and boxy, so Two Trees went to SHoP Architects and asked them to make it better.
The new high-rises dreamt up by the architects of Barclays Center are far taller, and undoubtedly more eye-catching than the original Domino design. One tower is shaped like a giant zero, another balances apartments atop offices with a hole in the middle, a third features terraced residences stacked along Kent Avenue, and the southernmost edifice is a pair of pencil-thin towers connected by a bridge that could become Brooklyn's tallest structure at 598 feet and 60 stories.
The century-old factory will retain its signature 40-foot high Domino Sugar sign. Mom-and-pop stores will fill retail spaces in the mini-neighborhood: "No Duane Reades and no Starbucks," Walentas said.
Two Trees plans five acres of parks with fun features like a floating swimming pool in the East River, a removable winter ice-skating rink like in Bryant Park, a waterfront beer garden and a kayak and canoe launch.
To create easier access to the waterfront, River Street, will be extended through the middle of the property.
Astonishing apartment buildings 55 stories tall or higher designed by SHoP Architects are also planned — including one shaped like a giant donut and a pair of needle-thin towers connected by a three-story sky bridge.
Of the 2,284 rental apartments, 660 units have been set aside as affordable housing - the same number the site's previous owners promised community groups and elected officials after fierce debate. Thirty percent of the apartments on the site would be set aside for low- and moderate-income families.
The 3.3 million-square-foot mega-project, which will take 10 years to build, requires City Council approval.
Two Trees expects to get permission to proceed by year's end and start construction early next year, with the first building opening in 2016 - an apartment house with 300 of its 600 units set aside as affordable.
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Sinclair Prices Private Offering of Senior Secured Notes of Sinclair Television Group, Inc.
BALTIMORE, Nov. 19, 2020 — Sinclair Broadcast Group, Inc. ("Sinclair" or the "Company") (Nasdaq: SBGI) announced today that its wholly-owned subsidiary, Sinclair Television Group, Inc. (the "Issuer"), has priced its previously announced private offering for an aggregate principal amount of $750 million of Senior Secured Notes due 2030 (the "2030 Notes").
The 2030 Notes were priced at 100% of their face amount and will bear interest at a rate of 4.125% per annum payable semi-annually on June 1 and December 1, commencing June 1, 2021. The 2030 Notes will mature on December 1, 2030. The private placement of the 2030 Notes is conditioned on customary closing conditions and is expected to close on December 4, 2020.
The net proceeds from the private placement of the 2030 Notes will be used to redeem the Issuer's $550 million of 5.625% Senior Notes due 2024 (the "2024 Notes") at par plus a call premium of approximately $10.3 million and to repay amounts outstanding under the Issuer's term loan with a January 2024 stated maturity date.
This press release shall not constitute an offer to sell or the solicitation of an offer to buy the 2030 Notes or any other securities, nor shall there be any offer or sale of the 2030 Notes in any state or jurisdiction in which such offer, solicitation or sale would be unlawful. This press release is neither an offer to purchase nor a solicitation of an offer to sell the 2024 Notes, and this press release shall not constitute an offer to sell nor a solicitation of an offer to buy any securities.
The 2030 Notes have not been and will not be registered under the Securities Act of 1933, as amended (the "Securities Act") or any state securities laws and may not be offered or sold in the United States absent registration or an applicable exemption from registration requirements. Accordingly, the 2030 Notes are expected to be offered and sold only (a) to persons reasonably believed to be "qualified institutional buyers" (as defined in Rule 144A under the Securities Act) and (b) outside the United States, to non-U.S. persons in compliance with Regulation S under the Securities Act.
Sinclair is a diversified media company and leading provider of local sports and news. The Company owns and/or operates 23 regional sports network brands; owns, operates and/or provides services to 190 television stations in 88 markets; is a leading local news provider in the country; owns multiple national networks; and has TV stations affiliated with all the major broadcast networks. Sinclair's content is delivered via multiple platforms, including over-the-air, multi-channel video program distributors, and digital platforms. The Company regularly uses its website as a key source of Company information which can be accessed at www.sbgi.net.
The matters discussed in this news release include forward-looking statements regarding, among other things, future events and actions. When used in this news release, the words "outlook," "intends to," "believes," "anticipates," "expects," "achieves," "estimates," and similar expressions are intended to identify forward-looking statements. Such statements are subject to a number of risks and uncertainties. Actual results in the future could differ materially and adversely from those described in the forward-looking statements as a result of various important factors, including and in addition to the assumptions set forth therein, but not limited to, STG's ability to consummate the offering of the 2030 Notes and the redemption of the 2024 Notes, the potential impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic on our business operations, financial results and financial position and on the world economy, the impact of changes in national and regional economies, the significant disruption to the operations of the professional sports leagues and the macroeconomy caused by COVID-19 may result in the recognition of further impairment charges on our goodwill and definite-lived intangible assets, our ability to generate cash to service our substantial indebtedness, the completion of the FCC spectrum repack, successful execution of outsourcing agreements, pricing and demand fluctuations in local and national advertising, volatility in programming costs, the market acceptance of new programming, the successful execution of retransmission consent agreements, the successful execution of network and MVPD affiliation agreements, the successful execution of media rights agreements with professional sports teams, the impact of OTT and other emerging technologies and their potential impact on cord-cutting, the impact of MVPDs, vMVPDs, and OTT distributors offering "skinny" programming bundles that may not include all programming of our networks, our ability to identify and consummate acquisitions and investments and to achieve anticipated returns on those investments once consummated, the impact of pending and future litigation claims against the Company, the impact of FCC and other regulatory proceedings against the Company, uncertainties associated with potential changes in the regulatory environment affecting our business and growth strategy, and any risk factors set forth in the Company's recent reports on Form 10-Q and/or Form 10-K, as filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission. There can be no assurances that the assumptions and other factors referred to in this release will occur. The Company undertakes no obligation to publicly release the result of any revisions to these forward-looking statements except as required by law.
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Do you feel worthy of Joy?
My favorite saying is "Choose Joy and Follow Bliss". To me, at this point in my life, this seems so simple. It's a conscious choice! I'm pretty sure that as recent as 2 years ago, I would have thought this was a load of crap and would have had no idea where to start that process.
Joy has been on my mind this week. I went to a fitness class the other day where the instructor was directing us to "go to our happy place" to avoid the pain that we were feeling in the current exercise. I was sitting there trying to ponder where I should escape to, when it hit me; I no longer escape, because my happy place is within me. I am centered in my inner Joy! This was shortly followed by the second thought of, holy crap, for 20 years I escaped to my happy place almost every moment of every day. I did it to avoid dealing with my life and the deep seated unhappiness I felt. I wish I could blame this on anyone other than myself, but the truth is, if I would have been seeking my Joy from the inside all along, I could have saved myself a ton of pain. I wouldn't have been seeking outside of me for things that were here within me all along.
We are afraid to feel joy because we are afraid that something awful will come and take it away in the next moment. So instead of allowing this, we shut down.
We as a species have forgotten that joy is our birth right and one of our natural ways of being. We came here to the planet of emotion, and yet, most of the time we tend to focus on the heavy, not so joyful emotions. What about wonder, bliss, joy, happiness, ect…..
It can be a challenge to remember this inner joy and even harder to experience it. The key is to start connecting with it on any level. Perhaps bringing your awareness to those simple things in everyday life that bring in this felt sense. Think of a child laughing, cat purring, sun light lazily filtering through a window. Connect with that feeling and allow it to radiate through your entire being. Inhale in the quality of joy, and on your exhale, rest in this quality. Feel it permeate your entire being.
Be so centered in your own joy this season, that it radiates out into the rest of the world. Be that big bright glowing presence in your life, and in the lives of those around. A contagious joy that spreads from heart to heart.
Give yourself permission, and know beyond a reasonable doubt that you are worthy of joy. Not just worthy, it is your birth right!


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Nikol Pashinyan: Armenia is Today Unequivocally a Democratic Country
Turkish Foreign Minister and French Lawmaker Clash Over Armenian Genocide Commemoration
STRASBOURG — Armenia is today unequivocally a democratic country with absolute freedom of expression and freedom of assembly, said Nikol Pashinyan, Prime Minister of Armenia, addressing the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE) today.
He added that "the government is continuing to enhance respect for human rights."
"We have managed to root out systemic corruption and to create real prerequisites for everyone's equality before the law," the Prime Minister added, evoking "vast political changes" in the country since "the non-violent, velvet, people's revolution" about a year ago.
However, Mr Pashinyan underlined, "our democracy needs to be reinforced with economic and institutional safeguards. The development of democratic institutions, the existence of an independent judiciary, and the creation and strengthening of anti-corruption institutions are all key areas in which we need the support of the Council of Europe."
"This is important not only for consolidating the outcomes of our political revolution, but also succeeding in our recently-launched economic revolution, aimed at encouraging the economic activity of our citizens, creating real opportunities for them, making Armenia even more attractive for investments and tourism," the Prime Minister said.
Mr Pashinyan also said that the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict remained a serious challenge for the whole region and that Armenia's government was committed to the principle of only peaceful settlement of the issue.
"I am convinced that mere dialogue between the leaders is not enough for settling the issue. It is very important to launch a dialogue between societies, as well, so that we prepare our respective societies for peace and not for war," he concluded.
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Salt Lake City—In a true example of the American dream, the Nguyen family – Vietnamese immigrants in Salt Lake City since 1992 and owners of Sapa Investment Group – is set to create the City's first Food Alley. The family opened up the first Pho restaurant in Salt Lake City and now owns five different businesses throughout the Salt Lake Valley. The family says their successful restaurant background, international research, vision and an innovative business model make a recipe for success for Food Alley.
Scheduled to open in early 2019, Food Alley will encompass 48,000 square feet located at State Street and 800 South. This $10 million investment into one of Salt Lake City's Main Street designated commercial districts is expected to bring 700 jobs. Plans are in place for 17 restaurants on the ground level–with space to house businesses from refugee entrepreneurs as part of the Spice Kitchen project. Plus 21 affordable artist lofts will be on the second level.
Already committed to Food Alley are "anchor restaurants" that include an Italian restaurant, sushi bar, ramen shop, beer bar and others. With hopes of bringing in chefs from around the country and beyond, Food Alley will also have pop-up space for traveling chefs who want to showcase their work in Salt Lake City for several weeks at a time.
The City's Department of Economic Development has been working with Sapa Investment Group on Food Alley for more than a year. The department is providing funding to Spice Kitchen through the Economic Development Loan Fund, breaking down communication barriers surrounding the proposed homeless resource center and engaging the Nguyen family in Main Street efforts.
In fact, some women staying at the homeless resource center could find employment at Food Alley. "If at the end of the work training program, they show they share our core values of accountability, commitment and trust, then we would definitely hire them," added Nguyen.