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Post by lagatta on May 26, 2023 20:07:19 GMT
Thanks Kerouac. And a neighbour gave me some hands-on help.
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Post by lagatta on May 24, 2023 20:22:13 GMT
I can't hear the SOUND on any of these videos.
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Post by lagatta on May 20, 2023 15:47:28 GMT
I'm thinking of attempting a mole verde, as the grocery near me has a sale on pepitas. Ideas?
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Post by lagatta on May 6, 2023 22:28:02 GMT
I think Livia rolled over,snuffing out my response... Anone who can find it is welcome to contribute.
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Post by lagatta on Apr 17, 2023 14:43:54 GMT
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Post by lagatta on Feb 19, 2023 23:30:23 GMT
What on earth is an "obvious non-Hispanic?
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Post by lagatta on Feb 19, 2023 1:36:41 GMT
Now Jimmy Carter is dying...at home with palliative care, as he wanted.
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Post by lagatta on Feb 19, 2023 0:49:22 GMT
Can someone help me delete repetitive or irrelevant segments? Since I was ill, I find this difficult...
Are they nuts down there, or simply cruel?
The Florida fetal sadism doing everything to torture a couple who really want their baby...
Abortion Florida couple unable to get abortion will see baby die after delivery
Doctors’ interpretation of state law prevents procedure, family tells Washington Post, despite baby’s fatal illness desantis holds pen surrounded by women Ron DeSantis signs Florida's 15-week abortion ban into law last year. Photograph: Paul Hennessy/SOPA Images/REX/Shutterstock Maya Yang Sat 18 Feb 2023 19.51 GMT Last modified on Sat 18 Feb 2023 19.52 GMT
In a few weeks, a Florida couple will have to bid farewell to their child shortly after the baby is delivered, a gut-wrenching reality created by the US supreme court’s elimination of nationwide abortion rights last year.
Because of a new Florida law that bans abortion after 15 weeks except under certain circumstances, Deborah Dorbert has become one of many women having difficulty accessing necessary abortion procedures after the supreme court overturned the rights granted by the landmark 1973 Roe v Wade decision.
A report by the Washington Post chronicles how Dorbert and her husband, Lee Dorbert, are expecting their second child and have been told by doctors that the baby has been diagnosed with a fatal fetal abnormality known as Potter syndrome. But, they have said, the doctors could not perform an abortion because of their interpretation of a Florida law that took effect after the supreme court overturned Roe v Wade.
Potter syndrome is a rare condition related to a fetus’s development in the uterus. The syndrome is a result of abnormal kidney growth and function, which affects how much amniotic fluid surrounds the fetus during pregnancy.
It has been deemed a “doubly lethal diagnosis” because babies with malfunctioning kidneys can’t remove deadly toxins from their bodies and can in turn experience renal failure. Additionally, the absence of amniotic fluid in a womb causes a baby to be born without the ability to breathe.
According to Florida’s Reducing Fetal and Infant Mortality law, which was implemented last July, abortions are prohibited after 15 weeks of gestation, with a few exceptions, including one that would allow for a later abortion “if two physicians certify in writing that the fetus has a fatal fetal abnormality and has not reached viability”. Matthew Kacsmaryk, a federal judge in Texas appointed by Former US President Donald Trump. The ‘rogue’ Trump-appointed judge with abortion pill’s future in his hands Read more
Last November, when the couple’s baby was diagnosed with the syndrome, a maternal fetal medicine specialist told the Dorberts that some parents choose to continue to full term while others opt to terminate the pregnancy through surgery or preterm labor.
The doctor added that he would consult with health system administrators regarding the new law, the Washington Post reports. The Dorberts eventually decided that they would like to terminate the pregnancy as early as they could because babies with the syndrome often die before they are born or end up suffocating within minutes or hours after their delivery.
Deborah Dorbert told the outlet that she recalled the specialist saying that the termination might be possible – but not until between 28 and 32 weeks.
Then, after the specialist consulted with health system administrators regarding the new law, the couple was told that they would have to wait to terminate the pregnancy until the 37th week of gestation – or near full term.
According to a text message Deborah Dorbert received from the coordinator at a maternal fetal medicine office that she visits often, the specialist made his determination after having legal administrators “look at the new law and the way it’s written”, the Washington Post reported.
“It’s horribly written,” the message added.
Despite the specialist telling the couple that other states had fewer restrictions on abortion access, the Dorberts told the Post that they were overwhelmed by travel costs and had only left their state a few times.
The couple, who have not learned the baby’s sex because its legs were crossed or the umbilical cord was in the way during each scan, eventually opted to provide palliative care to their child after the baby is born.
“That’s been very important to us, understanding that we do have that control back at least in some of these decisions,” Lee Dorbert told the Washington Post.
Nevertheless, the new law – which punishes physicians who violate it with penalties including license revocation, hefty fines and five years or more of jail time – has left the couple angry and frustrated.
“It makes me angry, for politicians to decide what’s best for my health,” Deborah Dorbert told the Washington Post. “We would do anything to have this baby.”
“We have never really understood,” Lee Dorbert said, adding: “We were told there was an exception … Obviously, [it’s] not enough of an exception in some cases.”
Despite the pain that the Dorberts and couples in similar situations are experiencing, the state’s Republican governor, Ron DeSantis, has maintained a staunch anti-abortion stance.
Earlier this month, DeSantis said that he would sign a six-week abortion ban if one passed.
“We’re for pro-life,” DeSantis said. “I urge the legislature to work, produce good stuff, and we will sign. That’s what I’ve always wanted to do.” Topics
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Post by lagatta on Feb 5, 2023 13:47:28 GMT
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The big picture Photography The big picture: hope in 60s Harlem Mario Carnicelli, Grocery Shopping, Harlem, 1966. Grocery Shopping, Harlem, 1966. Photograph: Mario Carnicelli/David Hill Gallery, London
On a trip away from his native Italy, young photographer Mario Carnicelli found a carefree side to life in Harlem after the riots Tim Adams
Mario Carnicelli won a photography competition in his native Italy in 1966 and the prize was a trip to America to take pictures there. He was 29 and he knew the US only through films and music. Travelling between Chicago, Detroit, Dallas and New York, Carnicelli was struck both by the continued segregation of society and the ways that was being challenged. The civil rights movement was at its height – the Selma to Montgomery march had taken place the previous year, shortly after the assassination of Malcolm X – and Carnicelli became focused on the ambitions and struggles of Black Americans.
His pictures were not published at the time, and after a subsequent decade working as a photojournalist Carnicelli gave up that career to open a camera shop in Florence. The photographic record of his voyage lay undiscovered until he closed the camera store in 2010 and asked a curator to go through the transparencies and prints in his cellar.
This picture, taken in Harlem and included in a new exhibition devoted to the streets of New York, was among those slides. Much of Carnicelli’s work had been in documentary black and white, but it is his colour pictures that most bring that lost New York alive. The emotion and politics of this image are all about its ease. Newspaper front pages of the Harlem riots – in which these same streets had become an international shorthand for racial conflict – were still vivid in pictorial memory. Carnicelli’s camera found different possibilities. The carefree normality of mother and daughter out shopping, the green-for-go light of the crosswalk, the military-looking vehicle waiting patiently in line, the glorious life-loving red of the little girl’s jacket and shoes, all combined to present a tentative picture of hope. The place that the city might one day become.
Streets of New York is at David Hill Gallery, London W10 until 3 March Topics
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Post by lagatta on Feb 5, 2023 13:31:16 GMT
Speaking of minorities along borders, Masha was Kurdish, a restive people in many countries in that general area.
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Post by lagatta on Feb 5, 2023 13:19:59 GMT
Livia, half Larry's size, is surprisingly effective. Yes, she was an alley cat.
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Post by lagatta on Jan 31, 2023 16:24:38 GMT
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Post by lagatta on Jan 31, 2023 16:16:10 GMT
Well, it proves that black cops can be as stupidly murderous as white cops, but that is hardly a surprise.
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Post by lagatta on Jan 25, 2023 14:41:24 GMT
The Newhart video is hilarious ... even though coffee isn't American.
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Post by lagatta on Jan 1, 2023 0:56:11 GMT
Moi aussi. Did you know that Canada, especially the Prairies that resemble the Ukrainian wheatfield flag, is one of the most Ukrainian countries on Earth? Only Russia, and obviously Ukraine, are home to more Ukrainians. Zelensky looks ten years older now. .
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Post by lagatta on Dec 30, 2022 16:23:19 GMT
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Post by lagatta on Dec 28, 2022 2:16:52 GMT
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Post by lagatta on Dec 5, 2022 14:44:40 GMT
Wonderful! A nerd's paradise.
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Post by lagatta on Dec 5, 2022 3:01:52 GMT
We had an Afghan patriarch here,in a neighbourhood a bit east of mine. He plotted with wife no. 2 (patriarchy has always required female accomplices) to dispose of wife no. 1 (and their three daughters, from adolescent close to age or majority to little girl, by drowning them in a canal lock west of here. Yes,patriarch and second wife will rot in jail.
I have progresive Iranian friends here who are thrilled aout the progress made, but obviously wary.
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Post by lagatta on Nov 20, 2022 23:58:42 GMT
Yet another 69.
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Autumn
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Post by lagatta on Nov 14, 2022 19:33:18 GMT
I forget the actual name of those cool-climate rainforests, as in fumobici's photo. Lovely.
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Post by lagatta on Oct 16, 2022 2:46:30 GMT
I've wantedt to proclaim "Truss Liz" since this mess started, but these days I had a worrying dream abou the fascist Meloni in Italy.
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Post by lagatta on Oct 10, 2022 3:09:26 GMT
I'm not at all fond of beer, nor of mixed drinks.Certified wino.
Puglia is lovely, but I drank mostly white wine there, by the sea and a short ferry to Greece. I just did a round trip, as a graduate student with little cash for holiday lodgings.
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Post by lagatta on Oct 10, 2022 2:48:19 GMT
Who is this guy and where is he from?
I'm not remotely vegetarian, but an orgy of such rich food would transform my Parisian visit to old friends to a hospital visit...
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Post by lagatta on Sept 12, 2022 15:31:39 GMT
Meanwhile, I can't get the sound to work on my very ordinary HP portable. Never had such problems before; very annoying.
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Post by lagatta on Sept 8, 2022 16:52:55 GMT
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Post by lagatta on Sept 8, 2022 0:18:12 GMT
¥œs, I saw that in media here, Funny , all the Emmanuels I know here are men, not women. then there is "Manu"...
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Post by lagatta on Aug 31, 2022 23:56:19 GMT
That is most unfair to Marx.
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Post by lagatta on Aug 21, 2022 13:00:21 GMT
With the effective ban on abortion in the US, the Christofascist branch of the fundie family has once again proven themselves also capable of great harm.
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Post by lagatta on Aug 21, 2022 12:48:53 GMT
Obviously you know that Québec has become miliantly secular in the meantime; even the Papal visit drew smaller audiences than expected, even though the current Pope is generally liked here for his interest in ecology and social justice, thus the choice of his Papal name.
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