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Abortion Information
Before an Abortion
If you think you might be pregnant and are trying to make a pregnancy decision, there are many choices facing you. It can be overwhelming. You might be considering options such as abortion that you have not previously thought about. At our center, we are here to help you weigh those options and offer you the support you might need. There are some important things to think about if you are considering abortion and we are here to help you regardless of your situation.
Before having an abortion, it is important to have your pregnancy confirmed. There are many reasons that you could have missed your period or that you are experiencing other symptoms of pregnancy. Taking a pregnancy test is a good first step. Visit us or contact us and you will be able to schedule an appointment. During your appointment, we will perform or refer you for a pregnancy test, help you with any questions you might have, and support you as you move forward.
If you have had a positive pregnancy test, it is important to have an ultrasound to confirm your pregnancy and give you important information you need before you make a pregnancy decision. An ultrasound will provide information such as, if your pregnancy is viable (a living baby with heartbeat), the gestational age of your pregnancy, and if the pregnancy is growing inside your uterus. All of this information affects the choices available to you.
Contact us today. We would be glad to talk with you about your options and schedule or refer you for your ultrasound. Everything at our center is confidential so your privacy will never be compromised.
The Abortion Pill, Medication Abortion, RU-486, Medical Abortion, Chemical Abortion[1]
The abortion pill – Approved by the FDA through 10 weeks of pregnancy but availability is often extended beyond that limit.
The abortion pill goes by many names, including medication abortion, early medical abortion, RU-486, Mifeprex (mifepristone) and misoprostol, and chemical abortion. When used beyond the first trimester, laminaria (small rods) may be used to dilate the cervix and sometimes digoxin is injected into the baby during the abortion process.
Note: Mifepristone is approved by the FDA for use up to 10 weeks after your last menstrual period, but abortion providers may choose to offer the procedure later than that. Misoprostol has not been approved for use in pregnancy.
The abortion pill regimen typically requires taking two drugs; the most common drugs used are mifepristone and misoprostol. Mifepristone lowers progesterone to unsafe levels in pregnancy. Progesterone is a hormone that plays an important role in sustaining a pregnancy and in a baby's development. In a chemical abortion, mifepristone is followed by misoprostol, which is meant to cause uterine contractions with symptoms of severe cramping and bleeding. When and how these medications are administered may vary based on the laws in your area, and the procedures of the clinic you choose. Women who choose the abortion pill are often responsible for self-managing some (or all) of the procedure, so it's important to gather as much information as possible as you make a decision about your pregnancy.
In order to make sure you're safe, here are a few things you can do ahead of time:
- Make sure that you are pregnant. Have you had a pregnancy test yet? If so, have you had an ultrasound? Some women seek abortion unnecessarily before confirming they are pregnant.
- Did your ultrasound confirm that your pregnancy is growing inside your uterus? The abortion pill will not typically end an ectopic pregnancy, and your life could be in danger if you do not receive immediate treatment for an ectopic pregnancy. .
If you're not sure whether you are pregnant, we offer free pregnancy testing.
- Know how far along you are. Always ask for a doctor or other qualified medical professional (registered nurse or sonographer) for an ultrasound to make sure you're pregnant and within the 10 weeks the FDA requires.
Not sure where to get an ultrasound? Call us today. We can help.
- Learn about the procedure. Ask the abortion provider what their procedure is for chemical abortion.
Our center can offer education about abortion.
- Know your options. Making an abortion decision is not easy, and you do have alternatives. Educating yourself on all options is empowering.
Whenever you need us, we can help.
- Stay Safe. Seek medical attention after an abortion if you have any of these symptoms:
- Heavy bleeding — soaking two or more pads an hour for two hours
- Severe abdominal or back pain
- Fever lasting more than 24 hours
- Foul-smelling vaginal discharge
- If you've already taken the abortion pill, contact us for support resources.
- If you have recently taken the abortion pill and are having regret, it may be possible to undo the effects of abortion drugs. Learn more here.
Surgical Abortion (Aspiration Abortion, Dilation & Evacuation Abortion)
A surgical procedure removes the fetus from the uterus through the vagina. The procedure is typically done using suction or an instrument called a curet. Different processes are used depending on the gestational age of your pregnancy. If you are unsure how far along you are, contact us for a free ultrasound to confirm your dates.
The type of surgical abortion you have will depend on how far along you are. Suction abortion (also called vacuum aspiration) is the most common while Dilation and Evacuation (D&E) is another kind of in-clinic abortion procedure often used for pregnancies late in the second trimester.
Here are some steps to a typical surgical abortion:
- Depending on how far along you are, dilators (rods) might be used to open the cervix prior to the abortion.
- You will be on the exam table in the same position used for a pelvic exam, with your feet on stirrups while lying on your back.
- The abortion provider will insert a speculum into the vagina.
- The vagina and cervix will be cleaned with an antiseptic solution.
- A numbing medicine (local anesthetic) will often be injected in the cervix.
- Sometimes other medicines for pain or sedation will be given by mouth or through a vein.
- The abortion provider will grasp the cervix with an instrument to hold the uterus in place.
- Your cervix will then be opened (dilated) with a small instrument.
- A tube (cannula) will be inserted into the cervical canal, and suction will be used to remove the baby and pregnancy tissue from the uterus. During this process, the uterus will contract which will cause cramping. Some women also may have nausea or sweating or feel faint.
- Sometimes a dilation and curettage (D&C) procedure is needed after a vacuum aspiration if all of the tissue has not been removed. D&C uses a sharp surgical instrument to clear tissue from the uterus.
In order to make sure you're safe, here are a few things you can do ahead of time:
- Make sure that you are pregnant. Have you had a pregnancy test yet? If so, have you had an ultrasound? Some women seek abortion unnecessarily before finding out that they are pregnant.
- Know how far along you are. Always ask for a doctor or other qualified medical professional (registered nurse or sonographer) to provide an ultrasound to confirm your dates.
Not sure where to get an ultrasound? Call us today. We can help.
- Learn about the procedure. Ask the abortion provider what procedure will be used for your abortion. You can ask as many questions as needed to understand the process.
Our center can offer education about abortion. Please contact us today for an appointment.
- Know your options. Making an abortion decision is not easy, and you do have alternatives. Educating yourself on all options is empowering.
- Stay Safe. Seek medical attention after an abortion if you have any of these symptoms:
- Heavy bleeding - soaking two or more pads an hour for two hours
- Signs of infection such as headache, muscle aches, dizziness, or a general feeling of illness. Severe infection is possible without fever.
- Severe pain in the abdomen
- Hot flushes or a fever
- Vomiting lasting more than 4 to 6 hours
- Sudden abdominal swelling or rapid heart rate
- Vaginal discharge that has increased in amount or smells bad
- Pain, swelling, or redness in the genital area
- Bleeding lasting longer than 2 weeks
- New, unexplained symptoms
- No menstrual period within 6 weeks
- Signs and symptoms of depression.
Whenever you need us, we can help.
Next Steps
If you are thinking about your pregnancy decision, you are not alone. There are many options available to you. At our center, we are here to talk with you about any choices you would like to discuss including abortion, adoption, or parenting. As with any medical procedure, it is important to understand what the abortion entails, side effects, possible risks, complications, and alternatives. If you are ready to talk to someone about your situation, contact us and we can provide you with confidential help.
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American Association of Pro-Life Obstetricians and Gynecologists. (2022, November). The reversal of the effects of mifepristone by progesterone. AAPLOG Practice Guideline, 6, 1-5. https://aaplog.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/01/PG-6-Reversal-of-the-Effects-of-Mifepristone-by-Progesterone.pdf
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American Pregnancy Association. (n.d.). What is hcg?. https://americanpregnancy.org/getting-pregnant/hcg-levels/
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Mayo Clinic. (2021, October 19). Dilation and curettage (D&C). https://www.mayoclinic.org/tests-procedures/dilation-and-curettage/about/pac-20384910#std120864-sec
Mayo Clinic. (2022, March 12). Ectopic pregnancy. https://www.mayoclinic.org/diseases-conditions/ectopic-pregnancy/symptoms-causes/syc-20372088
Mayo Clinic. (2022, July 29). Medical abortion. https://www.mayoclinic.org/tests-procedures/medical-abortion/about/pac-20394687
Mayo Clinic. (2021, December 03). Symptoms of pregnancy: What happens first. https://www.mayoclinic.org/healthy-lifestyle/getting-pregnant/in-depth/symptoms-of-pregnancy/art-20043853
Option Line. (n.d.). Abortion safety checklist. https://optionline.org/options/abortion-overview/abortion-safety-checklist/
Option Line. (n.d.). Considering abortion. https://optionline.org/options/abortion-overview/
Option Line. (n.d.). Medication abortion. https://optionline.org/options/abortion-overview/medication-abortion/
Option Line. (n.d.). Surgical abortions. https://optionline.org/options/abortion-overview/surgical-abortions/
Option Line. (n.d.). What are my pregnancy options?. https://optionline.org/options
Option Line. (n.d.). When should I take a pregnancy test?. https://optionline.org/pregnant/pregnancy-tests
Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration. (2023, April 24). Depression. https://www.samhsa.gov/mental-health/depression
Tufa, T. H., Prager, S., Lavelanet, A. F., & Kim, C. (2020). Drugs used to induce fetal demise prior to abortion: A systematic review. Contracept X, 2, 100046. doi: 10.1016/j.conx.2020.100046
U.S. Food and Drug Administration. (n.d.). Questions and answers on mifepristone for medical termination of pregnancy through ten weeks gestation. https://www.fda.gov/drugs/postmarket-drug-safety-information-patients-and-providers/questions-and-answers-mifepristone-medical-termination-pregnancy-through-ten-weeks-gestation
Villines, Z. (2023, February 21). Signs of womb damage after abortion. Medical News Today. https://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/signs-of-womb-damage-after-abortion#is-it-possible


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This site is devoted to finding homes for huskies and sled dogs that come through the Fairbanks Animal Shelter in Fairbanks, Alaska. Many of these dogs are well trained sled dogs that would make someone else a great working dog or many of the dogs will make great pets. We are committed to finding the dogs the best possible home where they will be cared for and loved. We will work with matching what YOU want in a dog and what is available from the shelter.
The Fairbanks shelter sees thousands of dogs come through its doors every year. Often people think that if someone else has turned in a sled dog (or any dog for that matter!) it is not a "good" dog. We have found in working with the shelter huskies that this is definitely not the case. Many dogs are turned in from kennels that simply don't have the time to work with individual dogs. Other kennels simply can't afford all the dogs that they have created and they bring their excess to the shelter. We are starting to see more and more pointer mixes in the area due to the huge breeding influx of the german and english pointer into the husky bloodlines. These dogs often take several years to mature but we are seeing more 1 and 2 year olds that people don't want to work with.
We work on a small scale promoting and working with individual dogs. If you see a dog on this web site you are interested in please do not hesitate to email or call.
We are looking for forever homes for all the animals.


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British author Alan Shadrake, whose book Once a Jolly Hangman: Singapore Justice on the Dock, was recently released, has been detained in Singapore on charges including criminal defamation and contempt of court.
His book contained an interview with Darshan Singh, pictured above, the now retired head executioner at Singapore's Changi Prison.
The book also features interviews with local human rights activists, lawyers and former police officers on various cases involving capital punishment in the city-state, which carries out the death penalty by hanging.
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'Bad' crypto projects should not be bailed out says Binance founder CZ
Binance founder and CEO Changpeng "CZ" Zhao argues that "bad" crypto projects should be left to fail and not receive bailouts from crypto firms with healthy cash reserves.
In a June 23 blog post, CZ said that firms that have been poorly operated, poorly managed or have released poorly designed products shouldn't receive bailouts — and should instead be left to crumble:
"In short, they are just 'bad' projects. These should not be saved. Sadly, some of these 'bad' projects have a large number of users, often acquired through inflated incentives, 'creative marketing, or pure Ponzi schemes."
"Further, in any industry, there are always more failed projects than successful ones. Hopefully, the failures are small, and the successes are large. But you get the idea. Bailouts here don't make sense," he added.
The comments come amid recent moves by crypto billionaire Sam Bankman Fried and his firm Alameda Research to bail out companies and projects with recent liquidity troubles such as Voyager Digital with a revolving loan of 350 million USD Coin (USDC) and 15,250 BTC, which is worth $464.48 million at time of writing.
CZ went on to note however, that Binance could look to support some cash-light firms that either have "problems but are fixable" or are "barely surviving but have great potential."
"Many projects have come to us who want to engage and talk. Again, in real life, these categories are not clear labels. All projects view themselves as the third category, and we need to look at each project in detail to decide. There is some subjectiveness to it," he said.
A number of firms are undergoing liquidity issues as a result of the current bear market, while others are reeling from exposure to potentially insolvent firms and projects such as Three Arrows Capital and Celsius.
Related: Cristiano Ronaldo to get football fans into Web3 with Binance partnership
The comments from the Binance CEO echo similar sentiments from U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) commissioner Hester Peirce on Tuesday, who argued against crypto bailouts altogether.
In an interview with Forbes on June 21, the crypto-friendly commissioner known as "Crypto Mom" argued that instead of bailing out struggling firms, it's better to "let these things play out" to create a more sustainable industry.
"When things are a bit harder in the market, you discover who's actually building something that might last for the long, longer term and what is going to pass away," she said.
Centralized Binance
On June 23 CZ stated during an interview with Bloomberg Business week the mission of his company is to support autonomous blockchain-based projects that can operate without a central authority or leader, as opposed to the traditional centralized model.
The CEO also referred to his own company as an "organization" and his employees as "team members," as part of this mission of decentralization.
However, the publication cited comments from supposed anonymous former Binance employees saying that the company may not be as decentralized as claimed, stating that CZ has the sole authority over the company and its business decisions.
"At the end of the day, he's the holding company," a former employee told the publication.
The angle of the Bloomberg article may require a pinch of salt, given that CZ has never explicitly stated that Binance was a decentralized company despite his advocacy for the concept. Although the Binance Smart Chain does claim to be a decentralized eco-system but has drawn valid critiques over a lack of such in the past.
While CZ has taken aim at poorly managed companies this week, the management structure of Binance has also been brought into question.


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The Federal Housing Finance Agency announced a new baseline conforming loan limit for Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac in 2021: $548,250.
This is a 7.5% increase from 2020's limit of $510,400 and marks the fifth consecutive year of increases from the FHFA. In 2016, the FHFA increased the Fannie and Freddie conforming loan limits for the first time in 10 years, and since then, the baseline loan limit has gone up by $131,250.
The conforming loan limits for Fannie and Freddie are determined by the Housing and Economic Recovery Act of 2008, which established the baseline loan limit at $417,000 and mandated that, after a period of price declines, the baseline loan limit cannot rise again until home prices return to pre-decline levels.
For high-cost areas, where 115% of the local median home value exceeds the baseline conforming loan limit, the maximum loan limit is higher than the baseline loan limit. HERA establishes the maximum loan limit in those areas as a multiple of the area median home value, while setting a "ceiling" on that limit of 150% of the baseline loan limit.
Median home values generally increased in high-cost areas in 2020, driving up the maximum loan limits in many areas. The new ceiling loan limit for one-unit properties in most high-cost areas will be $822,375 — or 150% of $548,250.
Freddie Mac on the state of housing affordability
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Special statutory provisions establish different loan limit calculations for Alaska, Hawaii, Guam, and the U.S. Virgin Islands. In these areas, the baseline loan limit will be $822,375 for one-unit properties.
These increases in the baseline loan limit and the ceiling loan limit will drive the maximum 2021 conforming loan limits higher in all but 18 counties or county equivalents in the U.S.
Click here to see a map of the new conforming loan limits across the U.S.


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Welcome to the Lionfish Derby and Rodeo site! The non-native Indo-Pacific lionfish has no predators in the Atlantic ocean and is wreaking havoc on our reefs by explosively reproducing and eating dangerously high numbers of important, native species such as juvenile grouper, snapper, parrotfish, grunts and crustaceans.
Our objective is to raise awareness and help control local lionfish populations by holding competitions to capture lionfish and put them on the menu. They are delicious to eat. We must become their predator!
We are always looking for volunteers.
Lionfish Derby Headquarters:
Palm Beach, Florida
Watch Scourge of the Lionfish on PBS. See more from Saving the Ocean.


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Keywords: italy | padania | lega nord | lega piemontese | lega liguria | lega lombarda | emilia | friuli | liguria | lombardy | marche | aosta valley | piedmont |
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First of all, the secessionists want to found a federal
republic, composed by many lands and/or peoples: Lombardi,
Piemontesi, Liguri, Trentini, Veneti etc. more or less one people
for each of the Northern Regions of Italy. Every 'people' has its
own flag: that's why on 'independence day' there were a lot of
different flags.
Giuseppe Bottasini, 19 September 1996
Lega Nord is a federation of many regional movements. Both the
symbol and the boss of Lega Nord are those of Lega Lombarda. Lega
Nord is not the only autonomist movement of Northern Italy,
neither the oldest: e.g. Liga Veneta is older that Lega Lombarda;
in Alto Adige there is the Süd Tirol Volks Partei, that is an
autonomist (but not indipendentist) party.
Currently, according to the official site of Lega Nord at <www.leganord.org>. Lega
Nord is formed by the following regional movements:
Lega Nord Alto Adige-Südtirol
Lega Nord Emilia
Lega Nord Friuli
Lega Nord Lombardia (Lega Lombarda)
Lega Nord Liguria
Lega Nord Marche
Lega Nord Piemont
Lega Nord Romagna
Lega Nord Toscana
Lega Nord Trentino
Lega Nord Trieste
Lega Nord Umbria
Lega Nord Valle d'Aosta
Lega Nord Veneto (Liga Veneta)
Note that the names of these movements changed after joining Lega
Nord: e.g. Lega Nord Liguria was named "Union Ligure",
Lega Nord Toscana was "Alleanza Toscana".
For the Region "Trentino-Alto Adige" there are two
movements, because Trentino is the Italian spoken part and Alto
Adige is the German spoken one. Also for the Region "Emilia
Romagna" there are two movements, maybe for historical
reasons but currently there are no differences between these two
Note that there are also Umbria and Marche, even if these Regions
are not in the Po Valley and belong to Center Italy.
Giuseppe Bottasini, 30 August 2000
I received news from Italia. 41 issue of thed Quaderni Padani,
supplement of "La Libera Compagnia padana", show a
"official chart" of the historic Padania (inspired by
the League leader Gianfranco Miglio) with several flags pictured
by Alberto Filippi. Luckely Filippi can be contacted by Massimo
Bonini, corresponsal of Flag Report for Padania, and one of the
better padanian flags expert , who recently discovered a new
historical flag for Italia: the Flag of the repubblica Cremasca
(one of the republics proclaimed following the arrival of the
french troops) whose details will are issued in Flag Report 31.
The chart show the countries that belong to Padania: Arpitania
(Aosta, Small Arpitania and Manfra, and a portion of Walser
lands), Occitania Piamontesa (with the Valdese valley), Piamonte
(enclosed two regions populated by Walser and Valsesia), Liguria
(enclosed Seborga and Briga), Insubria (enclosed remaining Walser
lands, Ossola Valley, and Valtellina), Austrasia, Emilia,
Romagna, Veneto (enclosed tewo cimbri regions), South Tirol and
Trentino (enclosed a small enclave of Cimbri), Ladinia (enclosed
Sappada), Friule (enclosed Slavia -Slovenian regions- a three
Carinziani small regions) and Trieste (enclosed Gurizie and two
small regions populated by
slovenians). Curiosely in the "Cartina Ufficiale"
theres not the Padanian flag, but the Vessilio de San Giorgio
(red cross on white) and the "bandiera di mare" that is
the Lombardy swallow tailed flag with a square red hoist part
bearing the venecian lion of St. Mark
In the Filippi pictures theres many well know flags, but also
some new flags:
Arpitania has (at less) four flags in use: the well know flag of
Apitania for the whole territory (not pictured); the flag of
North Arpitania (Aosta and West Walser lands) or Great Arpitania;
the flag of the Small Arpitania; and the flag of South Arpitania
or Munfra. In great Arpitania its used also the flags of Aosta
and Walser In Small Arpitany theres used also the flag of
Piamontese-provenzale. In South Arpitania its used also the flag
of Small Arpitania In Valttellina (a Valley in North Italia)
theres also a flag in use. Autonomist from Emilia have adopted a
new flag an call now their region also Southern Lombardy (Wester
Lombardia is called Insubria and Eastern Lombardia is called
Austrasia). Autonomist from Eastern Lombardy/Austrasia have
adopted also a new flag. Sappada region, a land in Veneto with
carinthian population, has flag own. I found a flag for
Sappada in the web that has same colours but different
arrangement, and I presume that, as habitual, theres at less two
flags: the one from the Leghistes (League fans) and the one from
the remaining autonomist people. Slovenians in Italy have a flag
in use. A banner of arms is displayed in Gorizia. Theres two flag
for Cimbri And finishing, a flag for Valcamonica, a territory in
North Insubria. Theres not flag for the Carinziani (the carintian
people in Friule) excluding the flag of Sappada (Ploden) that is
located in Ladinia region. The plate show at side the (Austrian)
Carintian colours but at less three small separate regions have
Carinziani population and
we can expect three more flags later
Also I received photos of two more flags:
-The autonomist flag of Piacenza used by the Leghiste (League
fans) that call the region Piaseinza Celtica
-The autonomist of the region (Province) of Turin. This flag was
manufactured in several exemplars but manufacturer made a mistake
and all the flags currently in use have a color that is wrong
according the official design, but I assume that for the real
flags the mistake will are not corrected until the next path of
manufactured flags (from other flag manufacturer, surely!). While
we have two flag: the prescribed but not used one, and the
really used one.
Jaume Ollé, 1 September 2002
Lega Nord is certainly a flag-loving and flag-using party.
However, in a number of cases these flags are really existing on
paper only (or in silico). In a number of years researching
Italian political flags I have never seen the flag of Umbria or
Marche or Romagna, as shown here.
I've been to Valle d'Aosta this year and I haven't seen this
Valdostanian flag either (only the well-known bicolour).
Certainly in use are: Piemonte, Lombardia, Trentino, Toscana,
Veneto, Friuli Venezia Giulia (the flag is actually for Friuli
only) and Emilia.
I am not really sure (i.e. perhaps in use, but rarely) about
And I haven't seen this particular version of the South Tirolean
flag either. Not even the local Lega Nord branch is using this
flag (I have visited them twice).
M. Schmöger, 11 October 2008
Valdostani use a red - black flag.
Giuseppe Bottasini, 19 September 1996
Val d'Aosta - white cross and the upper two quarters red; the
lowers black.
Jaume Ollé, 29 December 1998
This is the flag of Val d'Aosta/Aosta Valley used by
autonomists of Lega Nord. I saw it in some Lega Nord meeting.
M.C., 3 October 2000
see also: Aosta Valley Region
image by M.C., 29 September 2000
Emilia - quartered flag, 1 and 4 blue cross on yellow; 2 and 3
red cross on white; above is a blue stripe with red label and
three golden lys.
Jaume Ollé, 29 December 1998
The Lega Nord flag of Emilia Romagna - the blue cross on
yellow is traditional of Emilia, St.George cross is typical of
Emilian (and Padan) municipal heraldry.
M.C., 29 September 2000
I think that the 2nd and 3rd parts of the flag (argent, a
cross gules, a chief azure charged with three fleur-de-lys or)
are the CoA of Bologna.
Victor Lomantsov, 30 September 2000
see also: Emilia-Romagna Region
image by M.C., 28 September 2000 (for another version
click here)
Friuli uses a blue flag with a golden eagle.
Giuseppe Bottasini, 19 September 1996
Friuli - blue (dark) with golden eagle tongued and armed red.
Jaume Ollé, 29 December 1998
The so-called "Acuile tal Friul" (Friul's Eagle),
symbol of this nation from 3rd April 1077, when in Pavia Enrico
IV, Emperor and King of Germany gave to Patriarca
Sieghard d'Aquileia the title of Duche. But the first eagle
on flag in Friul was seen in XIV century; it was
the symbol of Patriarca Baltram de St. Genie's; that
eagle was taken as a model for the
several future graphic elaboration. The eagle painted as a
fresco with the Boemia's Lion on Palace de' Puppi and the one on
Palace of san Giacomo place in Udine, are dated during
the government of Patriarca Nicolo' di Lussemburgo (1351-1365).
The ore eagle in blue field is also the CoA of Aquileia and
Udine's province.Nowadays are used two different version
of the "Acuile"; the first one has
proportions 1:1 and it is the most used one, not only
by autonomist political parties, but also by common people.
The second one is the one officially adopted by Lega Nord Friul,
proposed by G.Oneto in 1992.
M.C., 28 September 2000
see also: Friuli - Venezia Giulia Region
image by M.C., 28 September 2000
Ligurian's flag is the red cross on a white backgrounf. On the
top left, there's an image of St. George while he's killing a
Carlo Stagnaro, 5 March 1999
The red cross with St. George killing the dragon is only a
party flag of Lega Nord Liguria.
Francesco Murialdo, 18 November 1999
The exact denomination is "Union Ligure" and the
flag is really the S.George one, as shown above. See <members.xoom.it/liguriaind/movaut.htm>.
Giuseppe Bottasini, 30 August 2000
This is a better version of the same flag sent by the famous
padanist Carlo Stagnaro. The flag used by Ligurian autonomists is
a modern elaboration of St.George flag. The Red Cross
was adopted by Genova in December 1138, when the city
produced its first coins with this image; in the same
period St. George became the new patron (the old was S. Lorenzo).
In 1198 a red flag with St.George on an horse while
killing a drake was adopted by the admiral of Galera
Capitana of Genova's navy; on land a similar vexill is
reproduced in 1227 as "Vexillum Universitatis
Januensis" (Flag of Genova University). Probably, in XIII
century, when the city was in peace with Venice, the flag was
used "in association" (?) with San Marco's Lion. Then
the cross was charged with latin iscriptions "Justicia"
or "Janua"; in XVIII the heraldic style created a white
flag with the complete CoA of Genova in the middle. The flag
ceased to be used in the traditional versions from 1798
(Napoleonic occupation), and re-proposed by some eminent padan
vexillogigists some years ago; Gilberto Oneto
proposed this flag in his book "Bandiere di
Liberte'" in 1992. Flag proprtions are 12 (5-2-5) : 20
M.C., 28 September 2000
see also: Liguria Region
image by M.C., 29 September 2000
Lombardi uses the flag of Milano
(white with red cross) with the blue medieval warrior
superimposed on it, that is the flag of Lega Lombarda, the main
part of the secessionist party Lega Nord.
Giuseppe Bottasini, 19 September 1996
Lombardy - the well known red cross on white.
Jaume Ollé, 29 December 1998
This flag is listed under number 53 at the chart "Flags
of Aspirant Peoples" [eba94]
as : "Lombard League (Lega Lombarda) - Lombardy,
North Italy."
Ivan Sache, 19 September 1999
The medioeval warrior is Alberto da Giussano, the Lombard
leader ofn Compagnia della Morte in Lega Lombarda that defeated
the Emperor Federico Barbarossa in Legnano Battle (29th May
1176). The profile of this popular hero, symbol of the modern
Lega, was designed by Umberto Bossi ispirated by the statue of
Alberto da Giussano in Legnano (MI). For more information visit
the site of "Alberto da Giussano" at <albertodagiussano.virtualave.net>.
The San Marco lion superimposed exists in some variants:
1) with the book with the inscription, from upper left to
down-right: "P A X E";
2) with a sword on his right leg and the book under his paw,
symbolizing a period of war;
M.C., 29 September 2000
The cross fimbreated white is the flag of the "Lega
Lombarda", not of Padania: in the Middle Age it was a league
that joined 36 cities of Northern Italy (the
"Commons"), during the war against the German Empire.
The name "Lega Lombarda" and its symbols has been
retaken in the '80s by a political party led by Umberto Bossi,
which aims vary from a federal system in Italy
("devolution") to a secession of the northern Italy
(called "Padania"). The red cross in white field then
stands only for the historical and political "Lega
Lombarda", not for all the peoples of Padania.
Fabio Facoetti, 26 June 2003
The flag of the political party "Lega lombarda" is
the red cross on white background with the warrior superimposed.
Paolo Montanelli, 4 July 2003
see also: Lombardy Region
image resized from <www.leganord.org>,
located by Jan Mertens, 5 October 2008
Marche - blue (dark) with golden horse-knight with sword, all
pointed to the hoist; in the fly, near the upper corner, a golden
maltese cross
Jaume Ollé, 29 December 1998
(film added 8 Apr 2008 by "telepadaniatgnord") showing
the Marche flag. However the entire emblem, including the cross,
is rendered in yellow.
Jan Mertens, 11 October 2008
see also: Marche Region
image by Giuseppe Bottasini, 19 September 1996
The Piemontese flag is quite obvious: a white cross on red
field (Savoia) with an azure lambel. It is the official flag of
Regione Piemonte.
Giuseppe Bottasini, 19 September 1996
Piemont: white cross on red with blue label and all bordered
blue (dark).
Jaume Ollé, 29 December 1998
This flag is listed under number 50 at the chart "Flags
of Aspirant Peoples" [eba94]
as :"Piedmont (Piemonte) - North Italy."
Ivan Sache, 19 September 1999
Nowadays el Drapo' is used with and without the blue edging. The
simpliest one is used by Padan Indipendentist Movements).
M.C., 24 August 2000
see also: Piedmont Region


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About Anna C. Nova
"We are bringing the best and most famous music by Russian diva Anna C. Nova to the US" (Novasongs)
Anna C. Nova – the artist. music producer, songwriter, Project Maker, the owner of music production and publishing company (ACN Music & Publishing) as well as record label (ACN Music). Anna originally was born in Russia (city Saratov, popul. over 2 mln. people) and became the very first breakthrough of Russian artist, songwriter and music producer as well as made a great career in the international music industry.
Anna started her professional activity in Germany in 1998 when she got an offer to co-operate with recording studio Studio 33 owned by Luis Rodriguez (co-producer of Dieter Bohlen) as the songwriter and arranger. Anna worked for already well known in Germany 2Eivissa, Fun Factory as well as for beginners as Anna & John, Joelly. Having got a very good experience as the studio producer in 2000 Anna founded her own recording studio and production company. Lately in 2003 both companies were registered in American music information resource Billboard. In Germany Anna studied international copyright low and music publishing business.
The first Nova's CD album "PARADISE" was released in Germany in 2002 on Playbones Records (Hamburg) and was holding top positions in "Music on Demand" chart (German Telecom) within 2002. Having become a great success, the world information music resource HitQuarters named Anna C. Nova as the first Russian producer of the international level for project "PARADISE" and the very first breakthrough of pop artist from Russia on the international market.
In 2001 Annd got an offer from music publishing company Mento Music Group to become its official representative in Russia and A&R Manager. For that period Nova discovered and brought to the European market various Russian stars most of them lately was signed to major European record companies.
Since 2003 Anna has been concentrating on songwriting and producing activity for the other artists. Being well experienced project maker Anna produces in various music styles from fashioned pop, dance, trance, rock, hip hop, R&B till gospel and classic. Nova writes and makes very different music and projects from easy going till highlight epotage. And she says, that she always prefers to create a special projects what is able to open the strongest and unique potentiality of the artist, the projects with strong idea what can make people think and gives positive vibes.
In 2003 Anna C. Nova founded in Russia international action "Music Bridge", which has been also aimed on presentation of Russian artists in the international music industry. Since that time Anna represented to American public 12 original music projects/artists: Multi, RoxyLight, Alexa Andra Project, Lighter, Aleger, Dasha Stapen, Elena Cherkasova, Diviana, Numerland. In 2006 CD album "Best of Nova" compiled of 10 songs written and produced by Anna and performed by her ACN Music artists, was released in USA on Novasongs label (Goettel Publishing, Los-Angeles). "Best of Nova" got 5 stars from American critics and became number 1 in various internet charts in USA. Anna's songs and music production roster has grown up to 300 her original songs and most of them was recorded by international artists and by now is doing very well in the international charts.
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I've been wanting to link up with Green Bean's Spot the Pollinator series, but haven't had a chance to take many photos of pollinators. But then I remembered the miracle we witnessed during June 2012 in our last home. And which, incidentally, I have never posted about (except a brief mention in this post on Green Phone Booth).
Two years ago, my kids and I got to watch a hummingbird build her nest right under the (plastic fake wood) lattice over the back patio of our rental home. We then watched that hummingbird sit on the eggs in her nest. I had never seen hummingbird wings as anything other than a blur before this experience. Eventually we saw little tiny hummingbird heads poking their heads over the edge of the nest as their mama brought them food.
I'm not a nature photographer. I had to stand on a stool to get these photos (while not scaring the bird away). I was thrilled I got any decent shots at all. |
And then one amazing day, we watched those new babies take flight: watched them hop out of the nest onto the branches of nearby vines, take a short flight across the yard to the top of a bush near the back fence, and then fly right out of the yard never to return. It was such wonderful luck that we saw the babies leave the nest. It was a miracle I got any of it on camera. I thought about taking that nest when we left that rental but left it, hoping another hummingbird might someday get to use it.
Hummingbird chicks contemplating leaving the nest. |
The fact that we got to watch so much of this drama unfold is, I realize in retrospect, a result of how much time I spent with my kids outside then.
One of the babies hopped over to this branch before flying across our backyard to a nearby bush. |
Keep your yard pesticide-free and pollinator-friendly and watch the miracles unfold!
Can you spot the pollinator? My kids are looking right at it (top left of bush). The first photo of this post is a close up of this shot. |
What miracles have you witnessed in your own backyard?
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Children's Diaries during the Holocaust
Of the millions of children who suffered persecution at the hands of the Nazis and their Axis partners, a small number wrote diaries and journals that have survived. These young writers documented their experiences, confided their feelings, and reflected on the trauma they endured during these nightmare years.
Very few of the millions of children persecuted during the Holocaust wrote diaries and journals that have survived.
Each diary reflects a fragment of its author's life.
Taken together, the diaries provide readers with a varied and complex view of young people who lived and died during the Holocaust.
When World War II ended in 1945, six million European Jews were dead, killed in the Holocaust. About 1.5 million of the victims were children.
Of the millions of children who suffered persecution at the hands of the Nazis and their Axis partners, only a small number wrote diaries and journals that have survived. In these accounts, the young writers documented their experiences, confided their feelings, and reflected on the trauma they endured during these nightmare years.
The Diary of Miriam Wattenberg
The diary of Miriam Wattenberg ("Mary Berg") was one of the first children's journals which revealed to a wider public the horrors of the Holocaust.
Wattenberg was born in Lódz on October 10, 1924. She began a wartime diary in October 1939, shortly after Poland surrendered to German forces. The Wattenberg family fled to Warsaw, where in November 1940, Miriam, with her parents and younger sister, had to live in the Warsaw ghetto. The Wattenbergs held a privileged position within this confined community because Miriam's mother was a US citizen.
Shortly before the first large deportation of Warsaw Jews to Treblinka in the summer of 1942, German officials detained Miriam, her family, and other Jews bearing foreign passports in the infamous Pawiak Prison. German authorities eventually transferred the family to the Vittel internment camp in France, and allowed them to emigrate to the United States in 1944. Published under the penname "Mary Berg" in February 1945, Miriam Wattenberg's diary was one of the very few eyewitness accounts of the Warsaw ghetto available to readers in the English-speaking world before the end of World War II.
The Diary of Anne Frank
Anne Frank, who wrote her diary in hiding with her family and a handful of acquaintances in an attic warehouse in Amsterdam, is the most famous child diarist of the Holocaust era.
Born Annelies Frank in Frankfurt-am-Main, Germany, on June 12, 1929, she was the second daughter of businessman Otto Frank and his wife Edith. When the Nazis seized power in January 1933, the Franks fled to Amsterdam in order to evade the anti-Jewish measures of the new regime. Anne had received an autograph book for her twelfth birthday and began to use the volume as her diary, keeping a detailed account of events that took place in the "secret annex." Acting on an anonymous tip, the German Security Police discovered the Franks' hiding place on August 4, 1944, and deported the inhabitants of the annex via Westerbork to Auschwitz.
In late October or early November 1944, Anne and her sister Margot arrived with a transport from Auschwitz to Bergen-Belsen, where both succumbed to typhus in February or March 1945. Following the war, Anne's father, Otto Frank, the sole survivor of the group, returned to Amsterdam in the summer of 1945, where former employee Miep Gies gave him Anne's diary and some further papers which she had found in the annex after the arrests. The diary first appeared in the Netherlands in 1947. Published in English in 1952 as The Diary of a Young Girl, the wartime journal of Anne Frank has become one of the world's most widely read books, transforming its author into a symbol of the hundreds of thousands of Jewish children murdered in the Holocaust.
Categories of Diaries and Journals
The prominence of Anne Frank's diary served for a time to eclipse other in situ works written by children during the Holocaust. Nevertheless, as interest in the Holocaust has increased, so has the publication of many more diaries, shedding light on the wartime lives of young people under Nazi oppression.
Young journal writers of this period came from all walks of life. Some child diarists came from poor or peasant families. Others were born to middle-class professionals. Some grew up in wealth and privilege. A handful came from deeply religious families, while others grew up in an assimilated and secular community. A majority of child diarists, however, identified with Jewish tradition and culture regardless of their degree of personal faith.
Child diaries and journals from the Holocaust era can be grouped into three broad categories:
- Those written by children who escaped German-controlled territory and became refugees or partisans;
- Those written by children living in hiding; and
- Those maintained by young people as ghetto residents, as persons living under other restrictions imposed by German authorities, or, more rarely, as concentration camp prisoners.
Refugee Diaries
Refugee diaries were often composed in the late 1930s or early 1940s by children of assimilated Jewish parents from Germany, Austria, or the Czech lands. Many of these diaries address the issue of displacement, as all of these child writers had sacrificed the familiarity of home in order to seek refuge among strangers in distant countries.
Some writers, like Jutta Salzberg (b. 1926 in Hamburg, Germany), Lilly Cohn (b. 1928 in Halberstadt, Germany), Susi Hilsenrath (b. 1929 in Bad Kreuznach, Germany), and Elisabeth Kaufmann (b. 1926 in Vienna, Austria; d. 2003), fled with siblings or parents. Others, such as Klaus Langer (b. 1924 in Gleiwitz, Upper Silesia), Peter Feigl (b. 1929 in Berlin), Werner Angress (b.1920 in Berlin, Germany; d. 2010), and Leja Jedwab (b. 1924 in Bialystok, Poland), arrived alone in a strange land.
Child diarists who emigrated by legal means often described the tremendous bureaucratic difficulties involved in securing a safe haven and in obtaining the necessary visas and papers required for emigration. Diarists who fled illegally portray the harrowing journey through dangerous terrain and the constant fear of being apprehended.
Regardless of their means of escape, however, refugee diaries reflect the painful and confusing loss of home, language and culture; the devastating separation from family and friends; and the challenge of adapting to life in an unfamiliar and sometimes alienating world.
Diaries Written in Hiding
Like Anne Frank, some young people lived in hiding to evade the German authorities: in attics, bunkers, and cellars throughout eastern and western Europe. These writers—among them Otto Wolf (b. 1927 in Mohelnice, Czechoslovakia) in the Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia; Mina Glucksman, Clara Kramer (b. 1927 in Zolkiew), and Leo Silberman (b. 1928 in Przemysl) in Poland; and Bertje Bloch-van Rhijn, Edith van Hessen (b. 1925 in The Hague), and Anita Meyer (b. 1929 in The Hague) in the Netherlands—reflect the difficulties and dangers of their concealment.
These children remained physically concealed for a significant portion, or for the entirety, of their time in hiding. Youngsters often had to remain silent or even motionless in their hiding places for hours at a time. Both children and their protectors lived in constant fear lest a raised voice or a footfall should rouse the suspicion of their neighbors.
Other young people in concealment, like child diarists Moshe Flinker (b. 1926, The Hague; d. 1944, Auschwitz) in Belgium and Peter Feigl in France, hid in plain sight, passing as non-Jews through the dubious protection of false papers and an assumed identity. These children had to adapt swiftly and completely to their new identities and environments. Young people learned to answer to their fictive name, and to avoid language or mannerisms that might betray their origins.
As most Jewish children were hidden by individuals or by religious institutions who embraced faiths different from their own, youngsters learned to recite the prayers and catechism of their "adopted" religion in order to avert the suspicions of both adults and their peers. One false word or gesture was sufficient to endanger both the child and his or her rescuers.
Diaries written in ghettos, camps, or occupied areas
Children and young people residing in ghettos in German-occupied Europe wrote the majority of diaries that have surfaced from the era of the Holocaust. Ghetto diaries often reflect the segregation, isolation, and vulnerability of their authors. They capture the extreme physical suffering and deprivation experienced by their authors and present the complex hardships and adversities that Jews faced in their struggle to survive. In ghetto diaries, the reader finds a firsthand account of the terror and violence of Nazi persecution, but also reads about young people who attempted to transcend their circumstances through study, creativity, and play.
The former sites of many ghettos in German-controlled eastern Europe, particularly in Poland and the former Soviet Union, have yielded many diaries and journals written by children. Renowned among them are the diaries of Dawid Sierakowiak (b. 1924 in Lódz; d. 1943, Lódz ghetto) and two anonymous teenagers from Lódz. Few complete diaries have been found from the Warsaw ghetto, but the fragmentary notes of Janina Lewinson (b. 1926, Warsaw; d. 2010) survived and were later incorporated in her latter-day memoir. Irena Gluck (b.1926- d. c. 1942), Renia Knoll (b. 1927), and Halina Nelken (b. 1924 in Kraków) wrote diaries in the Kraków ghetto, while Dawid Rubinowicz (b. 1927 in Kielce; d. 1942 at Treblinka), Elsa Binder, and Ruthka Leiblich (b.1926; d. c. 1942 in Auschwitz) wrote diaries recording persecution in their communities.
A number of wartime diaries came from ghettos in the Baltic countries: Yitskhok Rudashevski (b. 1927 in Vilnius; d. 1943, Ponary Woods) and Gabik Heller from the Vilne ghetto in Vilnius, Lithuania; Ilya Gerber (b. 1924; d. c. 1943) and Tamara Lazerson (b.1929 in Kaunas) from the Kovno (Kovne) ghetto, in Kaunas, Lithuania; and Gertrude Schneider (b. 1923 in Vienna), a German-Jewish girl incarcerated in the Riga ghetto.
Quite a large number of diaries survived from Theresienstadt in Bohemia (now the Czech Republic), among them the writings of siblings Petr Ginz (b. 1928 in Prague; d. c. 1944, Auschwitz) and Eva Ginzová (b.1930 in Prague), Alice Ehrmann (b. 1927 in Prague), Helga Weissovà (b. 1929 in Prague), Helga Pollackovà (b. 1930), Eva Roubickovà (b. 1920), and Paul Weiner (b. 1931 in Prague).
Many diaries were written by children outside the walls of the ghetto. Sarah Fishkin (b. c. 1924; d. c. 1942) for example, kept a diary in occupied Belorussia (today, Belarus) in the town of Rubezhevichi. Riva Goltsman described the first unsettling six months of occupation in Dnepropetrovsk, in Ukraine. Leon Wells (b. 1925 in Stojanov by Lwów-today: L'viv) kept a diary as a young member of a Sonderkommando unit in the Janów Street forced-labor camp in Lvov (Lwów), while Günther Marcuse (b. 1923 in Berlin; d. 1944, Auschwitz) recounted his experiences in a forced-labor camp at Gross-Breesen, once a vocational training farm for Jewish youngsters hoping to emigrate from the Reich. Isabelle Jesion wrote her diary under German occupation in Paris, while Raymonde Nowodworski (b. 1929 in Warsaw; 1951 in Israel) portrayed her life in Centre Vauquelin, a children's home run by the L'Union générale des israélites de France (UGIF).
Each diary reflects a fragment
Diaries by children, teenagers, and young adults during the era of the Holocaust reflect a great variety of personal backgrounds and wartime circumstances. Their authors often addressed themes such as the nature of human suffering, the moral and ethical dimensions of persecution, and the struggle of hope against despair. Each diary reflects a fragment of its author's life, but, taken together, the diaries provide readers with a varied and complex view of young people who lived and died during the Holocaust.
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Critical Thinking Questions
- Why are diaries an important part of the historical record?
- What makes children's diaries distinct? What can we learn from them?
- How are some of these accounts different from that of Anne Frank?


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I AM angry with the Mizrahi elite. Very angry indeed.
Mizrah is the Hebrew word for East. Eastern Jews are those who lived for many centuries in the Islamic world. Western Jews are those who lived in Christian Europe.
The words are, of course, misnomers. Russian Jews are "Westerners", Moroccan Jews are "Easterners". A look at the map shows that Russia is far to the East of Morocco. It would be more accurate to call them "Northerners" and "Southerners". Too late, now.
Westerners are generally called "Ashkenazim", from the old Hebrew term for Germany. Easterners were usually called "Sephardim", from the old Hebrew term for Spain. But only a small part of the Easterners are actually descended from the flourishing Jewish community in medieval Spain.
IN TODAY'S Israel, the antagonism between Mizrahim and Ashkenazim is growing stronger from year to year, with vast political and social repercussions. It is no exaggeration to see this as the determining phenomenon of current Israeli society.
Before I continue, allow me to state (once again, I am afraid) my personal part in this.
My last few years in Germany, before we fled, were spent in the shadow of the ascent of the Swastika, the last half year already under Nazi rule. I came to hate Germany and everything German. So when our ship reached the port of Jaffa, I was enthusiastic. I was just ten years old, and the Jaffa of 1933 was in every respect the exact opposite of Germany – noisy, full of exotic smells, human. I loved it.
As I learned later, most of the early Zionist "pioneers" who arrived in Arab Jaffa hated it on sight, because they identified themselves as Europeans. Among them was the founder of Zionism, Theodor Herzl himself, who did not want to go to Palestine in the first place. On his only visit here, he hated its Oriental character. He vastly preferred Patagonia (in the Argentine).
Fifteen years later, during Israel's war of independence, I was promoted to the lofty rank of squad-leader and had the choice between new immigrant recruits from Poland or Morocco. I chose the Moroccans and was rewarded by them with my life: when I was lying wounded under fire, four of "my Moroccans" risked their lives to get me out.
It was then that I got a foretaste of things to come. Once, when we got a few precious hours of leave, some of my soldiers refused to go. "The girls in Tel Aviv don't go out with us," they complained, "for them we are blacks." Their skin was just a little bit darker than ours.
I became very sensitive to this problem, when everybody else still denied its very existence. In 1954, when I was already the editor-in-chief of a news-magazine, I published a series of articles that caused a huge stir: "They (expletive) the Blacks". Those Ashkenazim who did not hate me before, started to hate me then.
Then came the riots of "Wadi Salib", a neighborhood in Haifa, where a policeman shot a Mizrahi. My paper was the only one in the country to defend the protesters.
A few years later the small group of Mizrahim started an unruly protest movement, expropriating the American term "Black Panthers". I helped them. Golda Meir famously exclaimed: "They are not nice people".
Now, many years later, a new generation has taken over. The Internal conflict dominates many aspects of our life. The Mizrahim make up about half the Jewish population of Israel, the Ashkenazim form the other half. The division has many manifestations, but people don't like to talk about them openly.
For example, the great majority of Likud voters are Mizrahim, though the party leadership is predominantly Ashkenazi. The opposition Labor Party is almost completely Ashkenazi, though they just elected a Mizrahi leader, in the vain hope that this will help them to overcome the profound alienation of the Mizrahim.
MY OPPOSITION to the treatment of the Mizrahim was primarily a moral one. It sprang from the desire for justice. It also sprang from my dream that all of us, Ashkenazim and Mizrahim, would eventually be submerged in a common Hebrew nation. But I must confess that there was another motive, too.
I have always believed – as I believe now – that there is no future for Israel as a foreign island in the Oriental sea. My hopes go much further than just peace. I hope for Israel's becoming an integral part of the "Semitic region" (an expression I invented long ago).
How? I have always entertained a monumental hope: that the second or third generation of Mizrahim will remember its heritage, the times when Jews were an integral part of the Muslim world. Thus they would become the bridge between the new Hebrew nation in Israel and its Palestinian neighbors, and indeed the entire Muslim world.
Being despised by the Ashkenazim as "Asiatic" and inferior, would it not have been natural for the Mizrahim to reclaim their glorious heritage, when the Jews in Iraq, Spain, Egypt and many other Muslim countries were fully integrated partners in a flourishing civilization, at a time when Europeans were mainly barbarians?
Jewish philosophers, mathematicians, poets and medical doctors were partners of that civilization, side by side with their Muslim counterparts. When the persecution and expulsion of Jews and the inquisition were facts of life in Europe, Jews (and Christians) enjoyed full rights in the Muslim world. They were accorded the status of "Peoples of the Book" (the Hebrew Bible) and fully equal, except for being exempted from army service and paying a tax instead. Anti-Jewish incidents were rare.
When all the Jews were expelled from Christian Spain, only a small minority immigrated to Amsterdam, London and Hamburg. The vast majority went to Muslim countries, from Morocco to Istanbul. Curiously enough, only a handful settled in Palestine.
HOWEVER, WHEN masses of Oriental Jews arrived in Israel, my hopes were dashed. Instead of becoming the bridge between Israel and the Arab world, they became the most ardent Arab-haters. The centuries of Muslim-Jewish culture were erased, as if they had never existed.
Why? Being despised by the "superior" Ashkenazim, the Mizrahim started to despise their own culture. They tried to become Europeans, more anti-Arab, more super-patriot, more right-wing.
(Though one Mizrahi friend once told me: We don't want to be a bridge. A bridge is something people trample on.)
Yet no one can escape from himself. Most Mizrahim in Israel speak with an Arab accent. They love Arab music (presented as "Mediterranean" music), and have no love for Mozart and Beethoven. Their features are different from European ones. All the more reason to hate the Arabs.
The erasing of the Eastern-Jewish culture is all-encompassing. Israeli children of Eastern descent have no idea of the great writers and philosophers of their heritage. They don't know that the Christian Crusaders who conquered the Holy Land butchered Muslims and Jews alike, and that Jews defended Jerusalem and Haifa shoulder to shoulder with their Muslim neighbors.
Rabbi Moses Maimonides – the great Rambam – is well known, but only as an important rabbi, not as the friend and personal physician of Saladin, the greatest of Muslim heroes. The many other medieval Sephardic intellectuals are hardly known at all. None of them appears on our paper money.
YET I am an optimist, in this respect also.
I believe that a new Mizrahi intelligentsia will search for its roots. That with the rise of its social status, social complexes will give way to a normal patriotism. That a fourth or fifth generation will come forward and struggle not only for equality, but also for peace and integration in the region.
As our Arab friends would say: Inshallah.
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It's tax time, and here in the United States you're guaranteed a faster refund if you're due one by filing your taxes electronically. The trouble is that there are dozens of tools that can help you e-file. Some of them help you maximize your deductions and make sure nothing's overlooks, and others just make the filing process quick and easy. Here are five of the best tax preparation tools, based on your nominations.
Earlier in the week we asked you which services you trust to file your taxes accurately, quickly, and easily. You guys definitely had some favorites, but here are the top five nominees.
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The poll is closed and the votes are counted! To see who took the top spot, head over to our hive five followup post to find out which service was crowned the winner!
TaxAct (Basic: Free, Deluxe: $9.95, Ultimate $17.95)
TaxAct combines a feature-rich filing program with an easy-to-follow online guide and tutorial that will make filing even complicated taxes easy and straight-forward. You can file entirely online, or download the Windows app and run it locally. It's not as popular as some of the bigger names, but it's product has been steadily improving over the years, and that's earned it a decent following. You'll have to deal with regular nags to upgrade to the deluxe version for extra features or access to prior year's returns (which the service has if you've filed with them previously, but won't let you access until you pay up), but the decision is ultimately yours. The Deluxe package gives you access to prior years and more granular filing options, while the Ultimate package includes everything available in Deluxe and will file your state return as well. If you have trouble with your return after filing with TaxAct, they'll pay any penalties or fines you may incur due to improper filing fees.
FreeTax USA (Basic: Free, Deluxe: $5.95)
FreeTax USA is one of the newer free filing services to enter the mix, but it boasts over 7 million returns filed to date, and its rock bottom price beats TaxAct, which used to hold the "cheapstake's choice" award. The basic service is completely free, entirely online, and walks you through the filing process with an online tutorial that the service promises minimizes mistakes and maximizes your return. All of the features you would expect are available, including PDF copies of your return, the ability to pay or get your refund electronically via direct debit/deposit, and the option to file individual deductions and make granular changes if your taxes are more complicated than most. If you choose to file your state return at the same time, you'll only have to pony up $9.95 to do it, but $5.95 more gives you the full Deluxe package, which opens up the ability to amend your return later if you have to and gives you access to FreeTax USA's audit support services if the IRS doesn't like what they see on your return.
H&R Block At Home (Basic: $19.95, Deluxe: $44.95, Premium: $64.95, Premium & Business: $79.95)
H&R Block At Home is an extension of the company's in-office filing services, and the company has an impressive spread of software packages with different features at different price points. All of the packages come with H&R Block's audit defense services (as in, they'll send an actual lawyer to help and represent you if you're audited by the IRS) and robust customer support that, in addition to being able to answer questions about the software, can actually answer tax questions and help you with your return. You likely won't need help with the software anyway—the package is easy to use, has audio and video walkthroughs and tutorials, and is designed to be so robust that you won't need much help filing, especially if your taxes are simple. The major difference between the spread of suites is the level of depth required, and whether you own a home, a business, rental property, need special forms, or have exceptionally complicated taxes to file. H&R Block's tools are available online, for Mac, or for Windows.
TurboTax (Basic: Free, Deluxe: $29.95, Premier: $49.95, Home & Business: $74.95, Business: $129.95)
Intuit's TurboTax is clearly the juggernaut in personal tax filing tools. The service guarantees that whether you use their online tool or their Mac or Windows applications, you'll get your largest possible return, guaranteed. TurboTax has been called all sorts of things, from confusing and difficult to muddle through to simplistic and easy to use, so your mileage may vary, especially depending on the complexity of your returns. Even so, TurboTax was one of the first tools to offer truly robust self-filing services and tools for people who were worried their taxes would be difficult but still didn't want to pay a professional. If you get stuck, you can always call TurboTax's support team for personalized advice on how to get through the trouble you're having, and their team will even help you make sure you haven't made any other errors or mistakes while you're filing. For many people, their customer support alone is reason enough to invest in TurboTax year over year.
Hire an Accountant or CPA (Variable Cost)
Many of you noted that you didn't bother with your taxes, and you didn't trust software packages or online applications to handle your tax returns. You'd rather hire someone to make sure you cover all of your bases and get the biggest possible refund—or set up your finances so you're not overpaying your taxes in the first place and have to get a return at all. Some of you noted that you had family members who were accountants and you make them do the dirty work for you (hey—be nice to them, you know how it feels to be the family's tech support, don't you?) and others noted that between property ownership, being self-employed, or just having made too many life changes in recent years, you were better off not stressing and letting someone else handle it entirely. It's worth noting though that not all accountants are CPAs, and not all of them are the same, so make sure you do your research before trusting someone with your money.
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Now that you've seen the top five, it's time to put them to an all out vote to determine the winner.
One honorable mention this week go to UFile, one of the leading income tax filing services for our Canadian friends.
Remember, the Hive Five is based on reader nominations—did your favorite not make the cut? Let us know which one it is and why you prefer it to the others in the comments below.


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Aaron Hernandez Murder Case Points to 2012 Double Homicide as Possible Motive
Hernandez being investigated in connection with a July 2012 drive-by shooting.
June 28, 2013 — -- Investigators working on the murder case against Aaron Hernandez are focusing on whether the victim was killed because he might have had information about a double homicide in 2012 that investigators suspect might also be tied to Hernandez, sources have told ABC News.
Hernandez, a star tight end with the New England Patriots until his arrest this week, is now being investigated in connection with a July 2012 drive-by shooting in Boston that left two men dead, according to sources.
Prosecutors in Attleborough, Mass., charged Hernandez Wednesday with the execution-style murder of his friend Odin Lloyd.
In two court hearings this week, they laid out gritty details of the killing that was allegedly carried out by Hernandez and two other men, and said that bullets matching those used in the Lloyd killing were found in an apartment leased by Hernandez.
They have not, however, given any hint of a motive in the killing and have sealed documents relating to the case. Prosecutors and investigators declined to comment on the motive when contacted by ABC News.
The possible motive emerged as one of Hernandez's alleged accomplices appeared in a Connecticut court today. Carlos Ortiz of Bristol, Conn., was arrested Wednesday as a fugitive on weapons charges pending in Massachusetts that investigators say are related to the killing of Lloyd.
During a brief hearing, Ortiz, 27, was turned over to Massachusetts authorities to be taken to Attleborough.
Ortiz's court appearance followed an overnight of quick-moving developments: Investigators late Thursday returned to Hernandez's luxury home to search the building yet again, this time in the hunt for evidence associated with the 2012 double slaying, sources said.
Another man tagged an "accomplice" was apprehended today in Florida after prosecutors issued a wanted poster, saying he was "armed and dangerous" and wanted for "accessory after the fact of the murder of Odin Lloyd."
Authorities said that man, Ernest Wallace, turned himself in shortly before 1:30 p.m. in Miramar, Fla., as a group of detectives from a handful of agencies in Massachusetts were developing leads on locations where he might have fled.
Bristol County Assistant District Attorney William McCauley said Thursday there is "an overwhelming amount of evidence demonstrating" Hernandez's guilt in the June 17 killing of Lloyd.
"As the victim was shot, he attempted to defend himself by putting up his arm," McCauley said. "The first round struck him in the outside of his forearm, traveled through the inside of the forearm and entered his body."
Lloyd, McCauley said, "began to turn and he was shot in the back two times."
After that, Hernandez and his two accomplices "shot him twice through the chest," once on each side of the chest, McCauley said.


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George W. Bush's Legacy on Africa Wins Praise, Even From Foes
The George W. Bush Presidential Library dedication brought together five living presidents who have been at odds about much of the 43 rd president's foreign policy legacy, particularly the Iraq war. But they all agreed on, and offered effusive praise for, Bush's work on Africa.
From the historic peace agreement between Sudan and South Sudan in 2005, to Bush's work on HIV/AIDS and malaria, all the presidents, regardless of party, thanked No. 43 for his involvement in African policies and issues.
Jimmy Carter - who now runs the Carter Center, a non-profit organization whose mission is to fight for human rights, conflict resolution and global health in the world's most impoverished countries - laid out Bush's accomplishments, including increasing aid to the continent by more than 640% by the time he left office.
"Mr. President, let me say that I'm filled with admiration for you and deep gratitude for you about the great contributions you've made to the most needy people on Earth," said Carter.
At more than $5 billion a year in humanitarian aid to Africa, President Bush has given more assistance to the continent than any other president. His administration's aid was largely targeted to fight the major global health issues facing the continent, HIV/AIDS and malaria.
In 2003 Bush founded the President's Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief (PEPFAR), which guaranteed $15 million to be spent over the course of five years on prevention, treatment and research on HIV/AIDS. Under the Bush administration, the U.S. was also a leader in contributing to the Global Fund on AIDS.
Though there was controversy over some of the qualifications for PEPFAR funds -up to 20% was to be spent on abstinence-focused prevention programs, and the funds could not be used for needle-sharing programs - most HIV/AIDS activists credit the program for being instrumental in turning the tide on AIDS.
Before PEPFAR, an estimated 100,000 people were on anti-retroviral drugs in sub-Saharan Africa. By the time Bush left office in 2008 that number had increased to about 2 million.
In 2005 Bush started a $1.2 billion initiative to fight malaria. He defended the request for funding in 2007, saying, "There's no reason for little babies to be dying of mosquito bites around the world."
At Thursday's ceremony, President Clinton said in his travels throughout Africa he had "personally seen the faces of some of the millions of people who are alive today" because of Bush's policies.
Even some of Bush's most ardent critics have admitted that his foreign policy legacy on Africa continues to have a lasting effect.
U2 front-man and activist Bono, who criticized Bush on the Iraq War, nonetheless expressed his admiration for the Republican president on an appearance on the Daily Show last year, telling Stewart that Bush did an "amazing" job in the fight against the spread of HIV/AIDS in Africa.
"I know that's hard for you to accept," Bono said to a surprised crowd and host, "but George kind of knocked it out of the park. I can tell you, and I'm actually here to tell you that America now has 5 million people being kept alive by these drugs. That's something that everyone should know."
Since leaving office the former president and his wife, Laura, have continued to stay active in global health issues in Africa, now taking on cancer. The George W. Bush Institute has launched the Pink Ribbon Red Ribbon initiative to try and bring together both public and private investment to fight cervical and breast cancer in Africa and Latin America. The couple launched the program on a visit to Zambia and Bostwana in July of last year.


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CajunMama wrote:nutkin517 wrote:flamingosun wrote:Has anyone heard from Southerngale lately?
I was wondering about her too. I believe she was in Pinewood, I want to say? I know there were pictures from there with street signs under water.
She lost everything. She had even moved her vehicles twice and they still got flooded out. It's going to be a long long road for her and her family
That's so, so sad. It is unfortunately the story for so many people around here.


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'Dead Man Down' Review
A few titters wafted through the screening of 'Dead Man Down' as the WWE Studios logo came up on the screen. "Prejudice!" I thought. "Who is to say that Vince McMahon's new(ish) venture can't produce a quality piece of filmed entertainment?" Turns out all skepticism was justified.
'Dead Man Down,' a tiresome, predictable slog through every "in too deep" crime story cliché you've ever seen has as much subtlety as the average Face or Heel shouting into the mic during a Monday Night Raw. This is a dull movie that only perks up when it veers into the laughable, as when Noomi Rapace's character intentionally spikes Colin Farrell's character's two-years-in-the-making vengeance plot because she "had a moment," but then bounces back into plan five minutes later anyway. Yes, I'm getting ahead of myself.
Colin Farrell plays Victor, a thug and part of Terrence Howard's security team. Howard, a drug kingpin (but, also, real estate developer?) is being run ragged by mysterious packages and the deaths of members of his crew. The movie opens with a shoot out at a rival gang leader's. Howard is convinced he's convinced he's the taunter because they both cross their sevens.
This opening action sequence (not particularly well shot) is one of only three moments of action in a film that is otherwise a never ending series of phone calls, discussions and people moping around empty rooms waiting for something to happen.
One key plot point which vanishes from view for oddly long sections is the story arc of Noomi Rapace. She plays Beatrice, a French beautician (living with mom, Isabelle Huppert, who bakes cookies) overcome by anger after a disfiguring accident. With scars over half her face (yet still fetching) she wants to see the drunk driver who injured her made dead, and when she catches wind that her building-mate (Farrell) is also a killer, she threatens to expose him if he won't do her bidding.
It's all quite ridiculous, and that's before the big reveal that it's Farrell who's out to get Terrence Howard. In a wonderful moment that's indicative of the screenplay's level of sophistication, Howard expresses how this may come as a shock to a sleepier audience member: "but you saved my life earlier? Why would you do that if you wanted me dead? Unless you wanted to kill me yourself!" Shockingly, this is not the least subtle moment in J.H. Wyman's illiterate scrawl of a script. That award has to go to the moment when the mourning Farrell, while projecting home movies of his murdered daughter onto photographs of the men he plans to kill, listens to her explain why she feels safe enough to go to sleep. "Because Daddy takes care of all the monsters . . ." the li'l moppet repeats FOUR TIMES. Gimme a break.
The halfway point of the film features some more mid-level choreographed killings, the only breath of life in this chore of a movie. Why Farrell, an immigrant and engineer whose wife and child were killed by Howard's mob, has the ability to morph into Batman isn't explained. And nobody's asking, because anyone still watching will just be thrilled finally something's happening.
Slowly, ever so slowly, the movie marches toward its conclusion, with stray characters frantically making more phone calls, tracking UPS deliveries and dragging everyone around the most geographically screwed up New York City on film. (Rapace gets her hair wet in what's either a Riverdale or Nassau County suburb, then is on a lower Manhattan street the next shot, and then is on the subway and her hair STILL isn't dry!)
Even though much of this movie was shot in New York (some of it looked like Philadelphia to me, but I can't confirm) it never felt like New York because the entire movie is false. It's a dopey premise filled with idiotic characters doing a whole lot of nothing until finally there's a big generic fight at the end.
Some might defend 'Dead Man Down' and say "eh, it's fine for what it is." But what, really, is it? Who is this movie for? I would accept a silly premise if it were action-packed like 'Taken' or, heck, even 'The Expendables.' No one, unless they've never seen a motion picture before, is going to have any sort of emotional connection to these characters. Everyone is sleepwalking. Huppert is at least out of place enough to be odd and F. Murray Abraham blesses us with a funny voice, but they are hardly in it. I can see people renting this over VOD. I can also see a lot of people turning to the person next to them on the couch and asking "do you want to finish this?"
'Dead Man Down''s director, Niels Arden Oplev, is one of the few people whose European original film ('The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo') is actually worse than the Hollywood remake. I think it is fair to say I am not eagerly anticipating what he's got coming up next.
'Dead Man Down' opens in theaters on March 8.
Jordan Hoffman is a writer, critic and lapsed filmmaker living in New York City. His work can also be seen on Film.com, Badass Digest and StarTrek.com.


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On a visit to Italy in 2016, I noticed the integral strand of the bicycle in the social fabric weave of normal Italian. Some were fashionable by brand, some by wear, but from what I could gather, the bicycle was a normal choice of transport. It was not a phenomenon that needed to be accommodated in the public transport system, such as in my own country. It seemed like it was the system. As I walked through parts of Rome, Cremona and to a lesser extent, Milan, I found them locked up in the streets, waiting patiently to take the rider to where they wanted to go. Maybe, the bicycle's important thread in the fabric of society was accentuated by my viewing of the 1948 film "Ladri di Biciclette" (Bicycle thieves).
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