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The apartment is located in the middle from Uffizi Gallery and Santa Croce Square in the aristocratic Via De Giraldi. The Santa Croce neighbourhood provides a rare glimpse of "old" Florence with lively markets and tiny leather and artisan workshops, including the flea market (Mercato delle Pulci) at Piazza dei Ciompi. The apartment is close to Piazza della Signoria, Palazzo Vecchio and Ponte Vecchio, not forgetting the magnificent Santa Croce church and museum. You will also enjoy the largest selection of boutique shops, bars and typical restaurants and pizzerias within the city. Three of the finest and most expensive restaurants, Cibreo, Pinchiorri and Alle Murate are located nearby. By night, Santa Croce becomes one of the liveliest parts of town and with its pedestrianised streets and illuminated buildings it transforms into the perfect venue for an after-dinner glass of wine or evening stroll. For those choosing an apartment in this area Santa Croce offers several food stores, supermarkets, laundrettes and individual gift shops as well as being adequately served by the local public transport service.
This beautiful studio apartment for rent in the heart of Florence is composed by one bedroom, one bathroom and a kitchen fully equipped (also microwave). Iron and Iron board are provided.
All bed and bath linens are provided.
Air conditioning and high-speed Wifi (fastweb).
Sleeps up to two people.
You have to pay 30€ cash at the check-in for the final cleaning.
For the late check-in (after 9 p.m.) you have to pay 20€ more. After midnight 40€ more
Perfect location in the very centre of Firenze.
Everything as you seen in the picture and Federico make your arrival and departure very easy.
Appartamento in posizione fantastica, raggiungibile velocemente a piedi dalla stazione. Federico è stato molto cortese e disponibile nell'aiutarci per un piccolo problema al riscaldamento che è stato subito sistemato.
Federico's place was great! Located very close to everything and the apartment itself was perfect for two; it had everything we needed. It was a bit loud over the weekend and the AC was a bit touchy, but both are minor and we would definitely recommend staying here. Federico was also flexible with our check in time which was greatly appreciated!
Very professional and efficient.
The street is busy , being so close to piazza but you have to understand : everybody is on vacation.
The flat was very good, right in the middle of Firenze, excellent location. We had a small problem with the wifi but Federico was quick to answer and help us. Definitely a great option for those visiting the city! Would surely stay there again if i ever go back to Firenze :)
Awesome apartment in a perfect part of town. Easy access to most attractions. The place was a good size, clean and the wifi worked well. Would stay here again.
The apartment is situated right in the middle of everything. It is clean and all of the facilities work well. We had a no real issues except not being able to close the shutters (as the latches had been painted over). This is only a minor thing though.
Federico was a very welcoming host. He met us at the apartment a few hours before check in which helped us out a lot.
I would recommend this apartment.
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Hello! I'm Federico! I have travelled extensively and I know what paople look for when they're searching for a place to stay. I was born and raised in Florence and I know the city inside and out. Therefore I can provide you with any advice you may be looking for: dining, museums, sites, nightlife, etc. I'm always available and easly reachable by phone ore e-mail.
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From The Subtleties of the Inimitable
Mulla Nasrudin by Idries Shah
Mulla Nasrudin was very ill, and everyone thought that he was going to die.
His wife dressed in mourning clothes and started to weep and wail.
Mulla Nasrudin alone was unperturbed.
'Mulla,' asked one of his disciples, 'how is it that you can face death with such calm, even laughing from time to time, while we who are not going to die are in torment lest you leave us?'
'Quite simple,' said Nasrudin. 'As I lie here looking at the lot of you, I say to myself, "They all look so terrible that I am almost sure the angel of Death will mistake at least one of them for his prey when he comes visiting -- and leave old Nasrudin here a while longer ... "'
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BEMIDJI -- Would you rather curl up with a good book or a warm kitty? At one local business, you don't have to choose. Kat's Book Nook has been a foster home for cats through the Beltrami Humane Society for three years, having first brought Baylynn to its premises in 2011. Now, there is Katniss, a beautiful soft cat who is believed to be about 3-years-old. "She's an amazing cat," said Katrina Kaplan, who opened Kat's Book Nook in 2010. Cats and bookstores go hand-in-hand, Kaplan said, noting that, historically, bookstores frequently had their own felines on site to keep the mice away.
BEMIDJI -- TrekNorth is ready for its closeup. TrekNorth Junior & Senior High School will be among a handful of schools highlighted tonight in a national news show. "Nick News...
BEMIDJI -- It was a choice Maea Wall did not want to make -- and now she doesn't have to. The Bemidji School Board on Monday voted unanimously to delay...
BEMIDJI -- The annual holiday concert featuring the Bemidji High School choirs will have an international flair this week, thanks in part to one of its members. Jacob Friis-Hasché, 16,...
EDUCATION: School board to talk graduation: Scheduling conflict with regional track and field competition could impact some seniors
BEMIDJI -- Discussion regarding the date and time of Bemidji High School's graduation this spring is expected to continue Monday during the regular meeting of the Bemidji School Board. The meeting will begin earlier than usual as the board will convene at 5 p.m. due to to the Bemidji High School holiday choir concert that at 7:30 p.m. that same evening at the BHS auditorium. The School Board meets in the boardroom at district headquarters in the Downtown Education Center, 502 Minnesota Ave.
BEMIDJI -- School administrators on Tuesday said normalcy is returning at Bemidji High School following two days' worth of heightened security. What started as name-calling between members of two student groups escalated last week, prompting the district to increase security at the high school and Bemidji Middle School. "Any time there is a threat, and we think that there is any credibility at all, we have to go and check it out, to make sure that things are going to be safe for the kids and for the staff," said Jim Hess, superintendent of Bemidji Area Schools.
BEMIDJI -- "Everlasting" is not only the name of Martina McBride's newest album, but it can be applied to her musical career also, as the popular female vocalist approaches her 25th year on the mainstream music scene, having racked up 20 top-10 hits and six No. 1 singles in that timeframe. McBride, a three-time Female Vocalist of the Year from the Country Music Association, will perform in concert on Dec.
BEMIDJI -- Brock McCrory knew he wanted to join Bemidji Middle School's robotics team as soon as he heard about it. "I was always interested in it, but there was nothing at the middle-school level," he said.
BEMIDJI -- The reinvention of Northwest Technical College achieved another benchmark as administrators Monday unveiled the college's master academic plan, the framework around which the school's curriculum will be restructured. "I think this has the potential to be transformational," said Richard Hanson, president of NTC and BSU in an afternoon press conference at NTC. "... Transformational in the sense of cementing these relationships with the community, transformational in the sense of creating new pathways between two-year schools and four-year schools ... and transformational ...
BEMIDJI -- As the effort to establish a YMCA in Bemidji continues to gain momentum, supporters are reaching out to the community in hopes of attracting financial support for the next phase of the project. There currently are two tasks at hand: securing 501c3 nonprofit status and completing a feasibility study. Both require funding.


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How to tame your vines?
Dear Garden Folk,
I foolishly planted my cukes, squash and zucchini in a smallish spot. I garden in a community plot and am concerned that my vines will creep into my tomato patch and into my neighbors plot Is there a way to manipulate the vines?
The zucchini will stay put, it will just get big. The cukes sprawl and are best trellised as coarlb suggests. The squash can be trained. Use some stiff wire like fence wire and bend it into a U shaped staple, about 5-6" long. train the vine where you want it to go, and secure it in place with the wire staple, pinning the vine against the ground. Give it a bit of space to allow for growth/expansion. Keep training this way and you can pretty much make it go where ever you want.
Once you get your cukes started they will climb by themselves. Zucchini and yellow squash do not have tendrils to help them climb. Also, the ones I have grown would be to big to hold themselves up on a cage. I think M_lorne was talking about training your squash along the ground.


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Sadiqullah Khan
An Artist
I am born to be you, an earth's smile in a flower
A stream, a rock, a tree of life, an inventor
I am blood spilled on canvas, I dip my fingers
In the ink-pot of my heart, I give tongue
To your chains. Tongues that lick your desire,
Your narcissus self. I am a mirror.
I dwell deep in your dreams, the ones
Forgotten, the ones making you hysterical.
To know you, I have slept with the bones,
Grappled with angels of hell, I lived many nights
In cold, I burned my oil for myself. I killed myself.
I wrote you to the eternity; I wept in anguish
I was torn apart between agony and ecstasy
I made you into a marble statue, a stone carving
I sang you in poems. I prayed for you, into my possession
I meditated you, broke conventions, fought evil
On the cross, beheaded, amputated, stoned
Barefoot, in the streets, gazing moon
I extinguished the wish of wanting you
"The ashes of my youth, in the Ganges
Of your love" so was the holiness of my love.
Now I look upon my hands and with my thoughts
-The illusion is not unlike the promises of Providence
After death- The illusion is akin to a mirage.
The least, "In the end, I deserved a few good lies"
And I think very often that what a dread
This meaningless life had been, these past years.
Topic of this poem: love
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Crouching Boy is a sculpture of the great Renaissance Italian painter and sculptor Michelangelo, preserved today at the Hermitage Museum in Saint Petersburg, it is the only work by Michelangelo in the Hermitage Museum.
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This dining set will add a bright touch of color to any dining area. The set includes a white shaker table matched with either 4 red, yellow, blue or white dining chairs. This Simple Living five-piece Camden dining set's scooped seats and scalloped backs inject a whimsical, school-house feel into your home's interior design scheme. Use the table in your dining room to create a quaint, casual mealtime environment, or place the table and chairs in your eat-in kitchen to provide additional seating for unexpected dinner guests.
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This table and chair set is beautiful, much more than expected for the price. It is solidly built and yellow chairs are perfect for my kitchen. I'm not going to lie, the chairs were a bit tricky to assemble, but once I got the hang of it, they went together quickly and smoothly. I would recommend this table and chair set strongly, great purchase.
Took awhile to get the chairs put together, but once we did the first two, the next two were easy. Just one hole wasnt pre-drilled properly, but we made it work and its fine. Really a great little kitchen set for the price. It was packaged really well, so came in perfect condition, with no nicks at all.
Even though I measured the table was a bit smaller than I expected. Nice quality though. The chairs went together fairly fast after the first one, but they are not balanced very well. Once you sit down they don't wobble though, so I can live with it. Nice for the small area in our small dining room.
I am quite impressed with this dining set. It is strong, beautiful and meets my apartment needs perfectly. If I could change one thing about it, I would say I wish it was a bit bigger. Though I did measure it out so I would have an idea of how it would look in my dining room, I still think it is a bit on the smaller size. Two people fit great, four people would probably be crowded. All in all, I really am happy with this purchase.
This set looks great in my kitchen but was really an ordeal to put together. The instructions are very complex and the chairs have a lot of screws. Plan to spend a long time putting this together and use a power drill.
Once you get the hang of one chair, the rest are easier to put together. Furntiure is lovely, but not very sturdy. Good for the price.
I was in need of a table for our VERY tiny dining room. I wanted something a little different than just brown wood. It is really pretty and fits beautifully in our dining room. I got the yellow chairs and they are not as yellow as I thought they would be, they sort of look like a blonde wood color, but I like them anyway. It looks great. The table is a simple design. I'm not sure what people are talking about when they say the chairs were difficult to assemble. I did it by myself no problems. Be sure to use all the locking washers and DO NOT use a power drill because you will strip out the screws trying to drill into these. You need to put a little muscle behind using a screw driver but not bad. The only thing that was funky was when I opened the box with the table in it the hardware was strewn everywhere and I had a difficult time finding all the pieces, but I did find them eventually. Would recommend this for those on a budget or with those in a small house or apartment.
The set looks great, but the chairs are not sturdy at all. Luckily, I live alone and seldom host people for dining so the chairs are not really used. But I am sure that they would be destroyed if I had a family or used them often. But they are cute and the red brightens my day.
I ordered the dining set on July 4th. It is now July 25th and I still haven't been able to finish putting it together. When it arrived, the table was split in half. They sent me a new one in about a week. No problem. But when I opened the box with the chairs, there was no hardware. I emailed about the problem. They said they would send a new hardware kit. They did not tell me it was going to be in with the new table. I kept emailing saying I never got it and they did not respond. Finally I opened the table and found 2 random bags of parts. It seemed like just random junk thrown into bags. There were many extra pieces that obviously did not belong to this set. I started building the chairs and found I only had enough correct pieces for 2 out of the 4 chairs. I emailed again with pictures of exactly what I needed and how many. A week later I got a box of washers in the mail. Definitely NOT what I needed!! I called the long distance number on that box and got a real live helpful person. They said they will send me another hardware kit. In 5-7 more days. I really hope it shows up this time. Just super disappointed. Will not use overstock.com again.
We bought this table after we remodeled our kitchen. We had a round table and it was too big. This table is the perfect size. The chairs were really tricky as neither my husband nor I are "handy". We prefer the chairs we already had, so we will sell the new ones with our old table. Fortunately, they all match our pickled cabinets.
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Your messages are very informative and posted under the SPFD patch. Are you an employee of the SPFD?
"Although the IAFF has certainly fallen short of telling their locals to stop harassing their firefighters who volunteer during their off-duty hours, we are encouraged that Mr. Shaitburger's letter states that the IAFF does not support actions that would jeopardize the ability of a career firefighter to maintain active membership in volunteer organizations," said NVFC Chairman Philip C. Stittleburg.
"We look forward to working with the IAFF to address the article in their Constitution that allows firefighters to be brought up on charges simply for belonging to their local volunteer fire company.
Article XV of the IAFF constitution says that a firefighter may be reprimanded, fined, removed from office, suspended or expelled for advocating or encouraging any labor or any other rival organization, or acquiring or maintaining membership in any such organization including volunteer fire departments or associations.
In recent months there have been many reports that local IAFF affiliates are threatening to take action against their members if they do not stop volunteering in their local communities. The NVFC has received reports from concerned firefighters in Maryland, Virginia, New York, California, Oregon, Washington State, Florida, and Ontario, Canada.
In his letter, Schaitburger states, "The IAFF does not support actions that would jeopardize the ability of a career firefighter to obtain or maintain active membership in a volunteer organization. This is a personal choice."
Stittleburg added, "We hope that union leadership will make it clear that their locals should not force firefighters to choose between union membership and community service."
St. Paul started taking applications today, so I thought I'd give the thread a bump. Good luck everyone!
Does anyone have any idea on an estimated number of applicants will be applying? Or better yet, number of applicants taking the written? Last examination numbers..?
Thanks, good luck all!
Does anyone know who the test consultant will be for the exam? Has anyone received the study guide yet?
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Just sent in my application, $25 application fee, as well as signed up for one of the free tutorials, now the waiting game begins. Hoping everyone that is going through the hiring process with St. Paul and is on this forum can keep in touch and keep updated! Good luck!
SPFD17....some of the information you have given is a little off. It's ok though as you are still only a Senior in HIGH SCHOOL and will graduate this year 2010!
As far as Volunteering while being a Career firefighter for St. Paul, they have writing in their Union Contract that does not allow this. What the disciplinary action would be I do not know for sure. My guess the worse thing they could do is kick you out of their union.
As it states you do have to hold a current MN EMT Certification at the time of appointment. However, Minnesota is pretty good with reciprocity. Especially, if you have NREMT as I do believe MN EMT courses follow NREMT and give the NREMT test. Upon completion of NREMT test you get both the MN Certification and NREMT Certification. At least that is how it was about 7 years ago when I took it. Thank You to MN Truckie for the link that you can use to verify this information for sure.
Once you fill out your application and send in the $25 fee, they will then mail you the study material for the test. Who will be giving the test I couldn't tell you.
Here is a link directly to the cities page:
Good luck. St. Paul is a great city and and a very good fire department.
Thanks, hoping you can help.
The city lists sessions on there site: http://www.stpaul.gov/index.aspx?NID=1845
Received my testing packet and it looks like they chose to go with E.B Jacobs FSBA. Good luck all....
Saint Paul Fire is having an informational forum on January 9th, 2010 from 1:00 - 3:00 PM.
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Saint Paul, MN 55117
There is also a second St. Paul Fire Department forum on January 12, 6:00pm-8:00pm.
Central High School
275 N. Lexington Pkwy
Saint Paul, MN 55104
The info forum I attended on the 9th of Jan. was also attended by Chief Butler, and the volunteering question was asked. Chief Butler responded that is was allowed to volunteer and still be a FT FF with St. Paul. From talking to people I know, the IAFF voted the "no volunteering" (if you will) clause out of their contracts. You are right about the EMT, I took the test last year, and MN won't issue a card until you pass the NREMT, so upon passing the NR, I got an NREMT and a Minnesota EMSRB card.
Here is a link to the Memorandum of Understanding from Saint Paul Firefighters Local 21s contract about Volunteering.
So there is or is not 5 points given to residents? The pdf online says there is but this forum says that it is in the process of a city council vote?
Any ideas?
Residency Points: Applicants who live in Saint Paul on the application deadline, AND have lived in the City for one year prior to the application deadline, will receive 5 additional points on their final passing score. Documentation will be requested at the time of the physical performance exam.
I just submited my application to SPFD and I was wondering if anyone could tell me if all goes well with the written test and I was invited back for the physical agility if the SPFD would except a CPAT certification that is less than 6 months old instead of taking their PA?
The reason I ask is Im being confident I will make it through the steps, but I live in Virginia and if I could provide a copy of a current CPAT cert and they except it, it would save me at least one round trip plane ticket.
If not I will do what I have to do to make it up there of course.


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Dr. Raj P. Vallabhaneni graduated from the J.j.m Med Coll, Rajiv Gandhi Univ Hlth Sci, Davangere, Karnataka in 1988. He works in Painesville, OH and 1 other location and specializes in Cardiovascular Disease and Interventional Cardiology. Dr. Vallabhaneni is affiliated with Tri-Point Medical Center and West Medical Center. He speaks Arabic, English and Tagalog.
Gender: Male
Languages Spoken: Arabic, English, Tagalog
Cardiovascular Disease, Interventional Cardiology
Medical School: J.j.m Med Coll, Rajiv Gandhi Univ Hlth Sci, Davangere, Karnataka; Graduated 1988
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Tuesday, Jan. 22, marks the 35th birthday of Roe v. Wade, the case in which the Supreme Court decided that any state or federal laws restricting or outlawing abortion were in violation of a constitutional right to privacy. Roe made it legal for women all over the United States to exercise the control over their bodies and their reproductive lives that they should have had all along.
I wish it were possible to raise a glass, give a birthday toast, and claim that Roe didn't look a day over 29, but alas, this is a bittersweet bash. A mere three and half decades after her birth, Roe shows her age: She's been weakened, knocked around, had big bites taken out of her. Beginning with the 1976 Hyde amendment that cut off Medicaid funding for abortions, which made it difficult for poor women to obtain the medical services to which they had every legal right, and continuing through this past spring, when a conservative Supreme Court banned late-term abortions with no exception for the health of the mother, Roe's existence has been in constant jeopardy from the moment it came into law. And, of course, it's not just Roe that gets buffeted and bruised by these attacks; it's everything the ruling stands for — the fundamental premise that women are human beings, as valuable under the law as men, conscious, capable and responsible for making decisions about their bodies, their reproduction and their lives.
So no, this particular party is not, cannot be, a raucous celebration. It's tempting to wish, in fact, that we didn't have to mark this birthday at all, that these basic rights were so ingrained, so not up for further debate, that their being granted so late would now seem simply a chronological aberration in the course of enlightenment thinking, rather than a leap that we must still recognize as a surprising accomplishment.
Today, in honor of Roe v. Wade, Salon publishes the thoughts of some of those who remember life before Roe and some who were born into a post-Roe world, who have grown up to see what they should rightly have trusted was bedrock equality erode under their feet. All these women see a tempestuous future for Roe; yet they, and we, take a moment to pay tribute to the decision that changed all of their lives. — Rebecca Traister
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Gloria Feldt: "It's time to establish reproductive rights in a human and civil rights framework"
On Jan. 22, 1973, I was oblivious to the Roe v. Wade decision. A young wife and mother of three, I was taking a bilingual teaching course in McAllen, Texas, near the Mexican border — a border frequently crossed then by desperate U.S. women seeking the illegal abortions that were readily available, though often dangerous, there. The big news that day was President Lyndon Johnson's death, which relegated Roe to a media footnote even in Texas, where the case originated, argued by 27-year-old Austin attorney Sarah Weddington (who had crossed that border herself while a struggling college student).
The following year, I decided to learn more about the fledgling local affiliate of Planned Parenthood. I quickly realized I'd had the good fortune to join the single most important social justice cause in human history — because the right to make one's own childbearing choices, and to have our bodily integrity protected, profoundly affects every human being.
Roe's outcome made so much sense. But after three and a half decades defending it, I'm convinced that Roe alone is important but clearly not sufficient. According to Jeffrey Toobin, author of "The Nine," the right to privacy was the best precedent the Supreme Court had in those days before gender-equality law. Today, despite a ringing affirmation of Roe's privacy application to gay rights in Lawrence v. Texas, both the rhetoric and the laws on women's reproductive rights have been pushed so far backward by other high court decisions that Roe's fragile shell affords women but limited protection.
That's why the next phase of this long trajectory toward women's full civil rights requires us to build a movement from the ground up once again — state by state, vote by vote, until we pass federal laws such as the Freedom of Choice Act, laws that will be upheld by a Supreme Court reshaped by presidents who respect women's moral capacity and human right to make our own childbearing decisions.
Vote early and often, my friends.
Gloria Feldt is the author of "The War on Choice: The Right-Wing Attack on Women's Rights and How to Fight Back."
Lynn M. Paltrow: "If Roe is overturned, these laws mean women who have abortions would be charged with murder"
While Roe is vulnerable, few recognize there are already laws in place that, in effect, declare that women, upon becoming pregnant, lose their civil and human rights. More than 30 states and the federal government have "unborn victims of violence" acts, fetal homicide, and other laws that treat fetuses as separate persons in some circumstances. This year, Colorado and several other states may have ballot measures designed to grant the status of legal personhood to the unborn under their state constitutions. Fetal-rights laws generally claim to protect pregnant women from third-party attacks, yet are primarily used to justify actions that deprive women of the right to informed consent, bodily integrity and life itself. In the name of fetal rights and protection, pregnant women have been forced to have unnecessary C-sections (in one case both the woman and fetus died), been civilly committed to mental hospitals and drug treatment programs, been arrested as child abusers for using marijuana to cope with morning sickness, and been charged and, in some cases, convicted of murder for suffering an unintentional stillbirth. These fetal-rights laws do not make abortion itself illegal. But make no mistake: If Roe is overturned, these laws mean women who have abortions will be charged with murder, not illegal abortion. Moreover, if the unborn are legal persons, then states already have the means, through their civil commitment and child protection laws, to police and imprison women to ensure that they do not have abortions. It should be clear, then, that those who defend the right to choose an abortion and those who defend a woman's right to mother-friendly childbirth must unite to defend women's human rights — not just Roe or reproductive rights.
Lynn M. Paltrow is the executive director of the National Advocates for Pregnant Women.
Cristina Page: "This has become white noise for the average American"
I wish young women knew this whole conflict isn't even about abortion. We've repeated the same debate, redrawing the battle along the same lines, for so long that its real sense has gotten lost. If the debate here were actually about abortion, there would be at least one "antiabortion" group in the United States that supports contraception, the only proven way to prevent abortion. Instead, we have the "right to life" movement investing its talents, immense resources and time in efforts to scale back Americans' access to pregnancy prevention. If this debate were actually about abortion, self-described "antiabortion" activists would be interested in investigating the policies that have succeeded in making abortion less necessary. Why doesn't National Right to Life lead pilgrimages for its policy staff to the places on earth that have achieved the lowest abortion rates in the world? The reason so-called antiabortion groups won't employ any proven strategies is because preventing abortion is simply not their goal.
I wish young women knew how deeply their way of life offends the right-to-life establishment and how set this establishment is on changing our lifestyle, either by criminalizing the things that make it possible (the most common forms of family planning) or filling our heads with fears and lies (abstinence-only curriculum). Today, 95 percent of us have sex before marriage, 85 percent of couples have sex once a week (decidedly not for baby making), 90 percent use some form of artificial birth control. The "right to life" movement is dedicated to stopping this.
What surprises me about the current state of reproductive rights is how much it has all become white noise for the average American. The abortion debate has become the political equivalent of living next to the train tracks — after a while, you no longer feel the shake as the train powers by. As long as the pictures aren't falling off the walls, Americans don't pay much attention to which direction the train is heading — or what rights it is carrying away with it. It's all political white noise until the pharmacist won't fill your prescription, or until you need the now-banned partial birth abortion because your very-much-wanted pregnancy is gravely deformed and now threatens your ability to get pregnant ever again, or your 16-year-old daughter just missed her period. It's then that the white noise can become the soundtrack for your personal nightmare.
Cristina Page is the author of "How the Pro-Choice Movement Saved America" and a spokesperson for Birth Control Watch.
Frances Kissling: "You made your choice, now pay for it"
On Jan. 22, 1973, as Roe was announced, I was working in an abortion clinic in New York City. One of my tasks was to decide which women got free or reduced-fee abortions. The clinic standard was 10 percent free. A first-trimester abortion cost $150, and an abortion between 16 and 24 weeks, including a hospital stay, was $350.
Five years later I was writing about Rosie Jimenez, a Mexican-American college student and single mother who died from a back-alley abortion in Texas. Medicaid funds for abortion had just been cut off. Her best friend, Paulina, who was with her in the hospital, told this story: The doctor treating her was at her bedside trying to determine the cause of the massive infection that had turned her skin a dark greenish brown and caused blood to seep from her eyes. "Did you or didn't you?" he asked. "You are very sick. You may not pull through. It would be easier to treat you if you told us the truth. Just squeeze once if you did and twice if you didn't." Rosie didn't pull through. While she is the only known fatality from the cutoff of federal Medicaid funding for abortions, hundreds of thousands of women have used the rent money or had a baby they couldn't care for because they couldn't pay the price.
Three years ago I spoke at the annual fundraiser of the Jane Fund, one of a few dozen kitchen-table groups that scrounge around trying to find money to pay for abortions for women who can't afford them. One of the members told the story of a woman who needed an abortion and was 26 weeks pregnant. They needed to find $10,000 for the abortion and plane fare to Kansas for the woman and her mother. Sending a 16-year-old to Kansas by herself to have a 24-week abortion would be inhumane. Last week, I asked a clinic director what abortions cost these days. About $400 on average if you are 10 weeks or less pregnant. The cost then goes up by the week, about $100 a week till you hit 16 to 18 weeks. Then the sky's the limit and supply and demand take over. When I e-mailed her she was at a providers' meeting. She had just gotten a quote from one of them. For an abortion at 24 weeks — $10,000.
I am worried about many things related to abortion — will it be legal? How can we reduce the need? Will it always be stigmatizing? But more than anything I am worried about how much it costs and how little we are doing about that. I want to see those of us who are pro-choice match the personal commitment anti-choice people make to help women continue their pregnancies with equal help for women who can't afford abortion. In the short term, I will be happy when every reproductive rights and women's rights organization pays for a few abortions a month or a year. When every foundation funding advocacy or research spends 5 percent of its grant-making budget on those groups who sit around their kitchen table and really help the most marginal and desperate women pay the far too costly price(s) they pay for abortions.
Frances Kissling is a 2007-8 fellow at the Radcliffe Institute of Advanced Study, Harvard University.
Amanda Marcotte: "It's not much of a right if you can't use it"
The 35th anniversary of Roe v. Wade has a shadow hanging over it, which is the impending possibility that the increasingly conservative Supreme Court may overturn the landmark decision. If that happens, we'll see a separation of states into "free" states with legal abortion and "panty sniffing" states without it. Unfortunately, my home state of Texas — where Roe was conceived by some uppity Texas broads at an Austin garage sale — will be firmly in the panty-sniffing category. But the overturning of Roe would be, pragmatically speaking, just an extension of the already successful movement to strip most women of access to a legal, safe abortion. The organized intimidation and legal harassment of abortion providers has left us with a country where 87 percent of counties have no abortion provider, and many women who need the service desperately can't afford to get it. It's not much of a right if you can't use it.
Still, I find reason to celebrate the anniversary of Roe, even in light of this deprivation. Because Roe was a cultural landmark that was about a lot more than abortion rights; it was about women's right to autonomy and dignity. Anti-choicers might want to roll the clock back to 1972, but that will take a lot more than simply outlawing abortion.
Amanda Marcotte is the executive editor of Pandagon.net and a columnist and podcaster for RH Reality Check.
Jennifer Baumgardner: "We start by telling the truth about what has happened to us"
To me, the most surprising thing 35 years after Roe is the shame and isolation both women and men still feel while going through common (though complex and often life-changing) reproductive experiences. Whether deciding to end a pregnancy, having difficulty getting pregnant, suffering a miscarriage, or being a birth mother who places a child in adoption, the things that happen to us in that sphere are hotly debated as issues but too rarely heard about as personal stories. That's why I'm so impressed by films like Penny Lane's "Abortion Diaries" or Faith Pennick's "Silent Choices," Ann Fessler's book "The Girls Who Went Away," and the spate of after-abortion resources activists are creating, like the talk line Exhale.
I'm happy that current work by many feminists is loosening up the way we can approach abortion. We can admit it, for instance, if our abortion was an easy decision with no moral quandaries, and we can admit if the abortion we chose still makes us cry. I hope and believe that 35 years from now, reproductive rights and justice will not be reduced to whether abortion is legal (though it will be legal) but will encompass all of the issues identified in the late-'60s by pro-woman activists and the issues spearheaded by the young activists today. Thus, the movement of the future will secure access to contraceptives and abortion, sex education, patient empowerment, birth practices that view the well-being of the mother as interdependent with the well-being of the baby, to name a few! And this movement will also support the rights of gay, bisexual and trans-people to adopt, create and raise children.
How are we going to get from here to there? We'll start by telling the truth about what has happened to us — which, to be honest, is where feminist revolutions usually start.
Jennifer Baumgardner is the creator of the I Had an Abortion project and the author of "Look Both Ways: Bisexual Politics."
Kate Michelman: "There is no shame in being responsible. Roe offered a spark of hope"
I remember vividly the day, 35 years ago, that Roe v. Wade was handed down. I was a mother of three. Just four years before, I had been abandoned by my husband and forced onto welfare. I had made the agonizing decision to terminate an unplanned pregnancy, which in 1969 involved convincing a hospital review board that I would be an unfit mother to a fourth child. That degrading experience — on top of the humiliation of losing my husband, my economic security and my social status — had felt like society's final message to me that I was not a person of worth and value.
Seeing the headline that morning validated for me that there is no shame in being responsible. Roe offered a spark of hope, took me another step along my own personal journey to a greater sense of self, and sharpened my determination to dedicate my life to women's reproductive rights. That was my personal experience. But, writ large, that was the experience of a generation of women. Roe offered a tantalizing and galvanizing signal that attitudes about women could change, and that the sense of shame that society imposed on women could lift.
Looking back, we can remember and honor that moment as consequential. But today's movement needs to understand that the post-Roe generations have a different life experience. They believe that women have an assured place, and assured rights, and expect society to reflect that back to them. To be sure, sexism is still alive and with us — but today's women expect to overcome it. As a movement, we need to harness that energy and experience.
Yet millions of women are still marginalized. For them, the gains of the women's and reproductive rights movements remain a distant reality. We need to see reproductive rights in the broader context of achieving, at last, a full complement of women's rights for all women. These include a commitment to paid family and medical leave; a revocation of those aspects of welfare reform that penalize women with children and those who become pregnant while on public assistance; inclusion of abortion, family planning and emergency contraception for all women in all national healthcare schemes and for women on Medicaid; and comprehensive, confidential high-quality sexuality education and reproductive healthcare for adolescents.
Kate Michelman is the former president of NARAL Pro-Choice America and the author of "Protecting the Right to Choose." She currently serves as a senior advisor to Sen. John Edwards.
Shelby Knox: "This isn't the legacy the women who fought for reproductive rights had in mind"
It's a perilous time to be a young woman: Your abstinence teacher says you aren't responsible enough to take the pill, emergency contraception is available only if your pharmacist deems you morally fit, and even if you are lucky enough to live in one of the 13 percent of counties that have an abortion provider, you may still have to take a letter home to daddy and ask him to sign off on your choice.
This isn't the legacy the women who fought for reproductive rights had in mind. In fact, the vanguard of this movement supported the repeal of any and all laws regarding abortion. They were fighting to have this medical procedure treated like any other — without the interference of the law, the state, and most importantly, family members. Roe v. Wade was supposed to be the first step to a more generalized change of consciousness, one that saw women as completely equal.
Celebrating the anniversary of that momentous decision should be a time to think about the steps we can take to build upon the legacy of the women before us.
Shelby Knox is a speaker, activist and organizer working with progressive organizations to promote sex education, women's rights and youth empowerment. She is the subject of the documentary "The Education of Shelby Knox."
Pamela Merritt (aka Shark-Fu): "What would a world united by choice look like?"
I was born one month after Roe and have lived my entire life in a nation at war with itself. As an activist in my local community, I can see that the battle is not academic but alive and hot and hard-fought on all sides. So today, on the 35th anniversary of Roe v. Wade, I'm trying to imagine what it would be like to live in a nation united in support of choice.
I imagine young people being taught comprehensive sex education and growing up empowered to make decisions about their sexual health. I see a reduction in the infection rates for sexually transmitted diseases and an increase in the understanding of risk and the demonstration of responsibility. I envision my fellow women of color talking openly about HIV/AIDS prevention, testing and treatment within our communities. I see women and men embracing the philosophy of family planning, and I see children, families and communities benefiting from that.
In the pro-choice world of my imagining I see positive outcomes and healthy communities, but in the world of my reality I see the ramifications of anti-knowledge policies, misinformation and legalized dogma: medical treatment denied, communities limited by fear and lives at risk.
So the struggle continues even as I pause to imagine what I'm fighting for, which is the world that will result from a commitment to choice. Until that dream is realized, may we all find inspiration in the spirit of Roe.
Pamela Merritt publishes as Shark-Fu at AngryBlackBitch.com; she is also a contributing member of Shakespeare's Sister (an award-winning group blog) and a regular contributor to NPR's "Tell Me More" with Michel Martin.
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The daughter of former New York Yankees manager Joe Torre made a quick-thinking save Wednesday when she caught a baby who had tumbled off of a second-floor Brooklyn apartment's fire escape, the baseball great has confirmed. Cristina Torre did not respond to a request for comment. Police said a 44-year-old woman caught a 1-year-old boy who fell from a fire escape outside a Brooklyn apartment building but did not identify the bystander. They said the baby somehow climbed out of the apartment onto the fire escape and tumbled from above. That's when Torre caught the baby as she walked on the sidewalk below. The baby is in stable condition, police said, while the parents were charged with reckless endangerment and acting in a manner injurious to a child under 17.
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The consensus price target is a mean average of the most recent price target set by each analyst that has set a price target for the stock in the last twelve months.Ratings Breakdown: 2 Sell Rating(s), 4 Hold Rating(s)Consensus Rating:Hold (Score: 1.67)Consensus Price Target: C$3.55 Analysts' Ratings History for IAMGOLD Corp (TSE:IMG) Show: All Ratings For This Stock Only the Most Recent Rating From Each Brokerage DateFirmActionRatingPrice TargetDetailsShare3/5/2015Dundee SecuritiesLower Price TargetSellC$3.00 -> C$2.50View 2/20/2015TD SecuritiesLower Price TargetHoldC$4.00 -> C$3.75View 1/27/2015Canaccord GenuityBoost Price TargetSellC$3.00 -> C$3.25View 11/14/2014TD SecuritiesLower Price TargetHoldC$3.50 -> C$3.00View 10/21/2014TD SecuritiesLower Price TargetHoldC$4.00 -> C$3.50View 10/7/2014TD SecuritiesLower Price TargetHoldC$5.00 -> C$4.00View 10/6/2014Canaccord GenuityLower Price TargetHoldC$5.00 -> C$4.25View 8/20/2014Goldman SachsBoost Price TargetC$3.00 -> C$3.30View 7/10/2014TD SecuritiesBoost Price TargetHoldC$4.50 -> C$5.00View 7/9/2014RBC CapitalLower Price TargetSector PerformC$5.00 -> C$4.50View 5/8/2014MackieLower Price TargetHoldC$4.80 -> C$4.00View 5/8/2014CormarkUpgradeReduce -> Market PerformView 2/27/2014Morgan StanleyBoost Price TargetUnderweightC$0.25 -> C$4.00View 2/25/2014Canaccord GenuityBoost Price TargetHoldC$5.00 -> C$5.50View 1/23/2014National Bank FinancialLower Price TargetOutperformC$7.50 -> C$6.25View 1/23/2014NBFLower Price TargetC$7.50 -> C$6.25View 1/22/2014Canaccord GenuityDowngradeBuy -> HoldView 1/13/2014Canaccord GenuityUpgradeHold -> BuyC$6.00 -> C$5.00View 11/26/2013Morgan StanleyDowngradeUnderweightView 11/8/2013CIBCReiterated RatingSector PerformC$6.00View 11/7/2013HSBCDowngradeOverweight -> NeutralC$6.20 -> C$5.30View 11/7/2013BarclaysDowngradeEqual Weight -> UnderweightC$7.00 -> C$5.00View 11/7/2013RBC CapitalLower Price TargetSector PerformC$7.50 -> C$7.00View 11/7/2013Canaccord GenuityDowngradeBuy -> HoldView 11/7/2013TD SecuritiesDowngradeBuy -> HoldC$7.50 -> C$6.00View 11/6/2013ScotiabankLower Price TargetSector PerformC$6.50 -> C$6.00View 10/24/2013Canaccord GenuityInitiated CoverageBuyView 10/10/2013Roth CapitalInitiated CoverageBuyC$5.50View 9/20/2013Goldman SachsInitiated CoverageSellC$3.00View 9/13/2013RBC CapitalReiterated RatingSector PerformC$7.50View 8/22/2013RBC CapitalLower Price TargetC$11.00 -> C$10.00View 8/22/2013National Bank FinancialLower Price TargetC$18.00 -> C$14.00View 8/14/2013ScotiabankBoost Price TargetSector OutperformC$5.25 -> C$6.50View 8/14/2013CIBCBoost Price TargetSector PerformC$5.50 -> C$6.00View 8/14/2013RBC CapitalBoost Price TargetSector PerformC$7.00 -> C$7.50View 8/14/2013TD SecuritiesLower Price TargetBuyC$8.00 -> C$7.50View 8/13/2013BMO Capital MarketsBoost Price TargetMarket PerformC$5.00 -> C$5.75View 7/9/2013Credit Suisse Group AGDowngradeOutperform -> NeutralView 7/8/2013ScotiabankLower Price TargetC$6.50 -> C$5.25View 6/26/2013Credit Suisse Group AGLower Price TargetC$6.50 -> C$3.50View 6/26/2013CSFBLower Price TargetUnderperformC$6.50 -> C$3.50View 6/14/2013Global Hunter SecuritiesInitiated CoverageBuyC$7.50View 6/13/2013Societe GeneraleLower Price TargetC$5.00 -> C$4.90View 4/11/2013Societe GeneraleDowngradeHold -> SellC$8.40 -> C$5.40View (Data available from 4/1/2013 forward) Earnings History for IAMGOLD Corp (TSE:IMG)DateQuarterConsensus EstimateActual EPSRevenue EstimateActual RevenueRelease LinkConference CallDetailsShare8/14/2014$0.02$0.02ViewN/AView 5/8/2014$0.02$0.03ViewN/AView (Data available from 1/1/2011 forward) Dividend History for IAMGOLD Corp (TSE:IMG)No dividend announcements for this company have been tracked by Analyst Ratings Network Insider Trading History for IAMGOLD Corp (TSE:IMG)Transaction DateInsider NameTitleBuy/SellNumber of SharesAverage Share PriceTotal TransactionSEC LinkShare3/10/2015Benjamin Richard LittleInsiderBuy3,500C$2.24C$7,840.00 3/9/2015Benjamin Richard LittleInsiderBuy3,500C$2.42C$8,470.00 1/13/2015William PuglieseDirectorSell100,000C$3.70C$370,280.00 12/15/2014Richard James HallDirectorSell4,900C$3.18C$15,582.00 (Data available from 1/1/2013 forward) About IAMGOLD Corp IAMGOLD Corporation (IAMGOLD) is a mining company. 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Commonwealth Games silver medallist Prakash Nanjappa emerged victorious to be crowned the Champion of Champions at the ongoing 58th National Shooting Championships here on Thursday.
Manavaditya Rathore, son of Olympic silver medallist Rajyavardhan Rathore, today clinched the gold medal in junior men's trap at the 4th Asian Shotgun Championships here on Tuesday.
The country's only individual Olympic gold medallist, Abhinav Bindra, has been elected chairman of International Shooting Sport Federation's (ISSF) Athletes Committee, becoming the first Indian to receive the honour.
Awarded the rare 'Diploma of Honour' by the International Shooting Sport Federation, NRAI president Raninder Singh says shooting in India has gone beyond iconic names, giving him hopes of achieving a top-five finish in the discipline at the 2016 Rio Olympics.
The 24th edition of All India G V Mavalankar shooting championship was on Sunday inaugurated at the Rifle Club in Khanpur area here.
Indian shooters failed to impress on the third day of competitions in the 51st Shooting World Championship as trap ace Manavjit Singh Sandhu missed out on a final berth by a whisker while Rahi Sarnabot and Anisa Sayyed disappointed in women's 25-m pistol here today.
Lucknow boy Jitu Rai on Tuesday became the first Indian shooter to qualify for the 2016 Rio Olympics after bagging a quota place with an impressive silver medal-finish at the 51st Shooting World Championships, here.
Her plan to make a camouflaged entry into her native state Gujarat was put to rest when a crowd flocked in hordes to greet Lajja Gauswami at the airport and the Commonwealth Games medallist, in hindsight, is only "happy" about the "positive" developments around shooting.
With shooters bringing laurels at major international meets, the National Rifle Association of India (NRAI) has emerged as the biggest beneficiary of government grants in the last three years.
Olympic medallist Vijay Kumar has missed out on a berth in his pet event - rapid fire pistol - for the upcoming Asian Games but he is still part of the strong 43-members squad, which will be spearheaded by shooting ace Abhinav Bindra.
The National Rifle Association of India (NRAI) on Tuesday made a change to the Indian shooting squad for the upcoming World Championships, bringing in pistol shooter Pushpanjali Rana in place of Annuraj Singh.
The National Rifle Association of India on Wednesday ordered an inquiry into the incident involving detention of a coach-cum-manager attached with an Indian junior team for allegedly trying to smuggle in prohibited ammunition at the Indira Gandhi International Airport here.
After winning three medals in the ISSF World Cups in Munich and Slovenia recently, in-form Indian shooter Jitu Rai today achieved the world`s number one ranking in air pistol event.
Transiting from anonymous to well-known, shooter Jitu Rai is "very hopeful" of a podium finish in the upcoming Commonwealth Games, the confidence emanating from the historic back-to-back medals, including a gold, he had shot in the ISSF World Cup recently.
Owing to his run of poor form, Asian Games gold medallist Ronjan Sodhi has failed to break into the 30-member Indian squad for the upcoming Commonwealth Games, which will see top shooters such as Abhinav Bindra and Vijay Kumar gunning for podium finishes.
The protesting shooting coaches today agreed to sign the contracts, which was mandatory for them to get salaries on monthly basis, after their meeting with the NRAI and SAI officials here.
Putting the blame on unhappy shooting coaches, the SAI today said they were being paid on pro-rata basis since they have not signed the contract with them which was mandatory for getting salary on monthly basis.
Allowing the plea of 2004 Olympics silver medallist shooter Rajyavardhan Singh Rathore, the Delhi High Court on Wednesday ordered the National Rifle Association of India (NRAI) to hold elections within eight weeks for four members from the category of life members in Wide Life Association.
A junior shooter has been suspended by the National Rifle Association of India (NRAI) for misbehaving with a woman in the hotel staff during a training camp in Italy recently.
Taking serious note of the sexual harassment complaint that a woman shooter has filed against two of her own team members, the Sports Ministry has promised "stringent action" against the accused.
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