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Rolled-Up £50 Note Braces Buy Sell Buy Sell Convertible Tig Extension Fiver, our successful city-boy cousin, really hates football. He's more of a rugby man, mainly because the replica shirts have a couple of buttons down the collar, allowing him to squeeze his massive ignorant braying head through it, in order to suck beer from a sanitary towel, bellow 38-verse songs about the hairs on her knocky-knacky-noo, and boast to bored women about how he bankrupted the country and he's got a penthouse flat with parquet flooring to prove it.
But family is family, and we love him, despite it all. And when we rang up in a blind panic this morning, asking if he could explain exactly what Stan Kroenke's £731m takeover of Arsenal means to the club, because when it comes to finances we simply do not care, he immediately agreed to help.
On the way over to Tig Extension Fiver's flat, the questions were buzzing through our head. Will all of Arsenal's shareholders accept Kroenke's £11,750-a-share offer, as recommended by the board, given that he's already reached agreements with some to take his personal holding to 62%? Will Alisher Usmanov take £200m for his 27% stake, given that the Russian-based oligarch has said in the past that he doesn't want to sell? And how will Kroenke pay for this, seeing most of his wealth, made as landlord of Wal-Mart stores, is tied up in assets? A leveraged buyout a-la the Glazers at Manchester United?
Sadly, none of these questions would be definitively answered today. For when the Fiver got to the flat, we found Tig Extension Fiver semi-conscious, surrounded by three empty Cristal bottles, and with what to our untrained eye looked like talcum powder smeared all around his nose and mouth, babbling about how Kroenke has got a funny bongo-film-star moustache, and that fat Alisher Usmanov is fat.
Still, at least there was an official statement from the wires to rehash. "Mr Kroenke has shown himself a man who values and respects history and traditions of this very special club we cherish," said Arsenal chairman Peter Hill-Wood, £4.7m better off after selling his shares. Yes, the same Arsenal chairman Peter Hill-Wood who declared in 2007: "Why don't we want the American at our club? Call me old-fashioned, but we don't need his money and we don't want his sort. Our objective is keep Arsenal English, albeit with a lot of foreign players. Americans are buying up chunks of the Premiership football clubs and not because of their love of football but because they see an opportunity to make money. They know absolutely sweet FA about our football and we don't want these type of people involved."
9 April: "Wot a great day ! All Barnet staff, supporters, squad n team today made me so proud. Dogs on Fire ... Mmm all those people that doubted me. Never returned my calls. Blanked me. Oh he's mad. Knifed me. And lied ! Look over your shoulders now" - Martin Allen tweets [twice - Fiver Pedantry Ed] on Saturday following Barnet's 2-1 win over Crewe.
11 April: "Barnet are now set up to not get relegated. I've got to look after myself and my family and I've got bills to pay" - after just three games in charge, with Barnet still in the League Two relegation zone, Martin Allen justifies his move to Notts County.
Having been churning out this guff for the best part of a decade and with the second legs of Big Cup's four quarter-final matches very much ahoy, the Fiver is fast running out of laboured lazy analogies with which to compare it in the hope of fulfilling our daily brief of filling up enough space before it's time to hit the giant red button marked "send".
[There is a long pause as the Fiver struggles to think of anything big that might have happened over the weekend, with which it can compare Big Cup.]
OK, how about this? If Big Cup was the Grand National, Barcelona, Schalke, Manchester United and Real Madrid would be cantering off on their second circuit, leaving Shakhtar Donetsk lying under a tarpaulin on the landing side of Becher's Brook. The green canvas screens would probably be up around Inter as concerned veterinarians tried to nurse them back to their feet. And Tottenham? They'd be the crimson-faced, scared-looking Rory McIlroy, mournfully shanking his ball through the Canal Turn, after sending yet another wayward drive all the way across the Atlantic from Augusta. Oh Rory!
Of all the teams who find themselves going into Big Cup's midweek fixtures with a deficit to overturn, Chelsea are the only ones you'd bet actual money on doing so, seeing as they're only one goal down. They head to Old Trafford where manager Carlo Ancelotti has hinted he may take to the technical area wearing a top hat, tuxedo, spats and waving a cane. "I want to try to do something special for the next game," he said. Quizzed on how many per cent of certain unquantified things Chelsea will have to give if they are to win, he continued. "To win there you have to do 100% in everything. You have to use personality, courage and you have to control the game."
With his side currently in control of the tie, United manager Lord Ferg's only major injury worry is Rafael, who was stretchered off with knee-knack at Stamford Bridge. "There is a little doubt and it is not something I want to be risking in a major game," said Ferguson, who also focused on the need for something extraordinary. "He really has to do something special tomorrow morning to change my mind about it." In the wake of his horse What A Friend pulling up in the Grand National on Saturday, Lord Ferg is anxious the same fate won't befall his thoroughbred Brazilian full-back at Old Trafford tomorrow night.
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"Liverpool supporters shouldn't get too excited about LeBron James (Fivers passim), infamous here in the USA! USA!! USA!!! for leaving a northern club that can't win anything to play for a southern team that should win something, but probably still won't. By that precedent, it seems only a matter of time before he forsakes Anfield for the Emirates" - Ryan Jones.
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Bayern Munich's president Uli Hoeness has explained what prompted his decision to sack Louis van Gaal at the weekend. "Putting [Thomas] Kraft in goal was the beginning of all this $hit," sniffed Hoeness. "That really unnerved the defence."
Tottenham defender Vedran Corluka may find himself in trouble with the FA after clashing with a home fan who was abusing him during the win over Stoke. "I told one supporter he was an idiot," admitted Corluka, who could have gone further and reprimanded the thousands of Spurs fans who were singing that Adebayor song too.
West Ham boss Avram Grant has criticised the FA for charging Carlton Cole with improper conduct over a tweet about Ghanaian fans during the recent friendly against England. "Immigration has surrounded the Wembley premises! I knew it was a trap! Hahahaha," honked Cole at the time. "I think the FA are in fighting mood," roared Grant. "But to charge Carlton with racism needs a big imagination."
And Bernard Cribbins has launched an inquiry into why his Sunderland players have been knacked so often this season. "It isn't happening on the training ground, it happens out there all the time in the match … why, why is it us?" he sobbed.
Discovering that Sunderland are in fact the new Charlton was one of the five things Alan Gardner learned from the Premier League this weekend. You can read the other four here.
Roman Pavlyuchenko's 20 blue dots with arrows on the end of them allowed Peter Crouch to concentrate on scoring [Goals - Fiver Ed] for once, reckons tactical guru Michael Cox in this week's jazzy Chalkboards column.
There may be only three waiters, a taxi driver called Manolo and a lame cow who care about Mallorca, but that didn't stop Sid Lowe dishing up tasty lines like 'He wants paella, let him have paella. That'll show him' in this week's La Liga blog on the lonely islanders.
'You wanted to take away our passion. Instead you just took away our minestrone.' Paolo Bandini continues the culinary theme in his blog on the great 'sandwich protest' against Serie A's lunchtime kick-offs.
Raphael Honigstein didn't bother mentioning food while extolling the many virtues of Hannover 96 in his Bundesliga round-up, but it's still a decent read.
And test your knowledge on 10 of the worst hairdos to ever sully football in today's all-singing, all-dancing Toni & Guy-tastic picture quiz.
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Rare copy of Bill of Rights could make stop in Pittsburgh
A rare copy of the original Bill of Rights — possibly the one George Washington sent to Pennsylvania for ratification in 1789 — will go on public display for the first time in decades in fall 2014 at Philadelphia's National Constitution Center.
One of 12 surviving copies of the first 10 amendments to the Constitution, which guaranteed bedrock American rights such as the freedom of religion, freedom of speech, the right to bear arms and the right to a fair trial, will be put on display through 2017, the Constitution Center said on Wednesday.
"The Bill of Rights is something fundamental to all Americans," said Andy Masich, president and CEO of the Heinz History Center and chairman of the Pennsylvania Historical and Museum Commission, which helped negotiate the agreement with the New York Public Library to share its copy.
"Most Americans, if you went and questioned them (about the Constitution) on the street today, would start by citing from the Bill of Rights, not the articles of the original Constitution."
This copy of the Bill of Rights became part of the collection at the New York Public Library when donated by trustee John S. Kennedy in 1896, after he purchased it from collector Dr. Thomas Addis Emmet, according to Ann Thornton, head of research libraries for New York Public Libraries. It was last put on public display in the late 1980s, but its age and fragility meant only scholars have seen it up close since then, she said.
Some scholars believe the library's copy was the one Washington distributed to Pennsylvania for ratification, since Pennsylvania's copy disappeared in the late 1800s at about the time the library acquired a copy, Masich said.
"We're pretty sure it was Pennsylvania's copy; we just don't know how it walked off," Masich said.
Thornton said the library's researchers did not reach that conclusion, noting that New York, Pennsylvania, Maryland and Georgia all lost track of original copies. Fire damaged New York's archives, but there weren't records that proved its copy of the Bill of Rights was destroyed and it could have been the copy that found its way to Emmet and Kennedy, she said.
One of the library's trustees donated $600,000 to build a special case to preserve the parchment from damage during display or moves, Thornton said.
Under the agreement, the Constitution Center can display the Bill of Rights for three years and the library will display it at the Stephen A. Schwarzman Building on Fifth Avenue as part of a "treasures gallery" opening.
Masich said the museum commission is negotiating to arrange a display of the Bill of Rights in Western Pennsylvania.
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Obama´s atrocities board keeps low profile on Syria crisis (REUTERS) By Matt Spetalnick WASHINGTON 06/01/12 7:25pm EDT)
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(Reuters) - When President Barack Obama used the Holocaust Memorial Museum as a backdrop to unveil a new advisory panel as an early warning system for human rights crises around the world, the announcement seemed well-timed for the unfolding conflict in Syria.
But six weeks later and just days after a massacre of civilians in Syria, there is little sign that Obama´s Atrocities Prevention Board is making a mark on U.S. efforts to craft a response amid international outrage over the mounting carnage.
Although the board is only in its early stages and is still hailed by rights advocates as a valuable new weapon against state-sponsored violence, its low profile on Syria underscores the limits of Obama´s options in confronting new humanitarian crises as they arise.
More than a year after Syrian President Bashar al-Assad launched a brutal crackdown on the opposition, Obama has made clear he has no appetite for launching a new large-scale military engagement in a U.S. election year, preferring instead to rely on diplomatic and economic pressure on Damascus.
Obama´s more passive approach on Syria stands in sharp contrast to his decision to join a NATO air assault in Libya last year. That was justified largely on humanitarian grounds of averting a threatened massacre of civilians in rebel areas.
It is an awkward position for a president who has touted his human rights focus, and some critics have suggested Syria could even turn into Obama´s Bosnia - a reference to former President Bill Clinton´s initially slow response to the Balkans conflict in the 1990s.
"Inaction on Syria is going to look bad" in historical terms, said Winny Chen, head of the crimes against humanity division of Human Rights First. But rights groups themselves have yet to forge a consensus on whether intervention or arming the rebels would help or just make matters worse in Syria.
In Obama´s April 23 speech at the Holocaust museum in Washington, he announced the new inter-agency advisory commission to be run out of the White House and coordinate the government´s response to crimes that "shock our conscience," such as mass killings, genocide and ethnic cleansing.
It is chaired by Samantha Power, a senior Obama adviser and outspoken expert on genocide, who is considered a "humanitarian hawk" within the administration.
The White House was tight-lipped when asked several times about the board´s activities this week.
An administration official said members had discussed Syria and would continue to do so "as long as atrocities are being committed," but played down any notion they were heavily focused on the crisis, which is being handled directly by Obama and his top advisers.
"Syria does not suffer from a lack of high-level attention, and the APB is not going to displace the other high-level policy processes that we have in place," the official said.
A humanitarian policy expert who has advised the White House agreed that Syria should not be allowed to "suck the air out of the room" in the board´s deliberations. But the expert insisted the board needed to be seen playing a significant role to cement its own legitimacy.
But that should not detract from the panel´s main goal of detecting early signs of emerging human-rights crises and driving international action before they become full-blown conflicts like in Syria, the expert added.
At the Holocaust museum event, Obama heard famed author and Holocaust survivor Elie Wiesel ask pointedly whether the world had learned anything.
"If so, how is it Assad is still in power?" he asked.
Obama reminded his audience that he was the first U.S. president to have declared preventing mass atrocities and genocide a "core national interest."
But he quickly added: "That does not mean that we intervene militarily every time there´s an injustice in the world. We cannot and should not."
It was a clear message that the use of military force against Damascus was not a viable option, and Obama has stuck to that position even as the death toll in Syria has climbed.
The White House has struggled to explain Obama´s case-by-case approach to the "Arab spring" uprisings, fears of a sectarian bloodbath that could spill across Syria´s borders and U.S. military concerns of trying to impose a "no-fly" zone on a country as well- armed as Syria.
But Republican Senator John McCain, a harsh Obama critic and 2008 presidential election opponent, remains unconvinced.
"Until we get serious about helping the Syrian people defend themselves, find safe haven, and fight back against Assad, the killing will continue, and we will be shamefully complicit, as we are now, in allowing this mass atrocity in Syria to go on and on," he said last weekend. (Editing by Peter Cooney) (© Thomson Reuters 2012. 06/01/12)
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Rio De Janeiro (UPI) Nov 10, 2011
Brazilian President Dilma Rousseff is stirring up more political trouble over violent police action to push through a face-lift in the run-up to the 2014 FIFA World Cup and 2016 Summer Olympics and over a giant dam project that defies a growing body of critics.
Rousseff wants Rio de Janeiro cleansed of slums before the two sporting events. And she wants the $11 billion Belo Monte dam complex in the Amazon to go ahead despite bitter opposition as part of her plan to fire up industrial growth and urbanization.
Both undertakings pose risks for the president in curious different ways. The latest crackdown on Rio's favelas won popular approval, despite its likely human costs, but made Rousseff new enemies in Brazil's powerful organized crime communities.
In the meantime, a court ruling won for the government much needed green light for the dam complex in the western Para state to go ahead but also bought her new opponents, who want to fight on.
Rousseff has already seen her plans for political consolidation derailed by six ministerial resignations over corruption scandals fanned by the populist and opposition media.
The super dam court ruling in the government's favor this week wasn't unexpected but it escalated the opposition campaign over the hydroelectric complex in the heart of the Amazon. The hugely unpopular project has involved long-running political quarrels, environmental protests and international interventions over the likely displacement of 16,000 indigenous inhabitants.
Rousseff says the dam complex is needed for the 11,000 megawatts of electricity -- more than 10 percent of Brazil's installed capacity -- that it will produce when completed. Opponents, who include local officials, want more consultation with the indigenous communities facing eviction.
An international campaign led by celebrities and popular figures, including "Avatar" movie director James Cameron, staged a peaceful protest by 400 campaigners at the site. More protests are planned.
In Rio, the campaign to stamp out heavily congested favelas drew little international attention but pitted the government against deadly gangs whose livelihoods depend on a contraband trade in narcotics, prostitution and weapons worth tens of millions of dollars.
In the Rocinha slum alone, targeted by police this week, more than 150,000 inhabitants face displacement. The favelas and its underground regime of organized crime have defied government efforts over 30 years to bring them into line.
Despite police reports of two key arrests, the operation failed to budge the criminal overlords. The slum's kingpin gang leader Nem gave a party to signal farewell as the police operation began, only to fall sick on a cocktail of alcohol and Ecstasy.
Unbelievably, media reports said, Nem got treated at a clinic after the bash but wasn't arrested.
The police operation continues and is set to pose another headache for Rousseff as its outcome is far from certain. Rocinha is one of about 1,000 slums yet to be cleared before the two sport events.
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Turow studied English at Amherst and went on to get an M.A. in creative writing from Stanford—where he taught for several years—and a J.D. from Harvard Law School. He was an assistant United States attorney in Chicago before joining SNR Denton in 1986. There, he remains a partner practicing criminal law.


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A super PAC aimed at boosting GOP presidential hopeful Michele Bachmann has launched an ad criticizing Texas Gov. Rick Perry and his record on spending.
"He's supposed to be the Tea Party guy?" asks the spot by Keep Conservatives United, after charging that state spending in Texas doubled under Perry's leadership.
Keep Conservatives United, which was formed by North Carolina political operative Bob Harris, says the spot will run on Fox News, CNN and CNBC in Columbia. No details were provided about the ad buy on the group's website, which announced the spot under the headline: "Donate to keep us on the air."
The ad flashes on screen a Fort Worth Star-Telegram story that found the Texas budget grew an average of 16.8% every two years from December 2000, when Perry took office, to 2011.
Perry's office told the Star-Telegram that it's not fair to gauge the governor's spending record on the total state budget, since it includes items such as federal funds that aren't under his control.
By law, a super PAC can raise and spend unlimited amounts of money in support of a candidate, but it cannot coordinate with that candidate's campaign. There are super PACs supporting President Obama as well as several of the Republicans who want to defeat him, including Perry, Mitt Romney and Ron Paul.
Catalina Camia leads the OnPolitics online community and has been at USA TODAY since 2005. She has been a reporter or editor covering politics and Congress for two decades, including stints at The Dallas Morning News and Congressional Quarterly. Follow her at @USATOnPolitics.
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Written by Ardis Oelkers
The Roosevelt County Extension Service will be hosting the "Solid Finances" webinar series conducted by Marsha A. Goetting, Montana State University family economics specialist, and Joel Schumacher, Extension economics associate specialist at Montana State University.
The series will run from Sept. 26 through Dec. 13, with a different topic for each webinar.
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Steven Johnson, the author of Everything Bad Is Good for You, recently argued a case against traditional board games. Classics such as the US game Candy Land and Battleships were described as "games of pure chance" and "moronic" on the weblog Boing Boing in comparison with the digital toys available to his children.
These archetypal board games, he argues, are substandard to their contemporary computerised counterparts because they offer no opportunity for the player to make decisions: the first rounds in Battleships are an exercise in randomness, while Candy Land simply pushes players around a track at the whim of directions described by a piece of card. Following this line of thought to its unnecessary end, these dangerous games teach our children to drop in any direction and to covet gumdrops.
Johnson trumpets computer games as products of a "much more mentally challenging kids' culture". The result is that the youngest generation have little tolerance for randomness, opting for what they've been weaned on: Super Mario Galaxy. Of this Wii release, Johnson reports: "There is more decision-making in 10 seconds of that game than there is in 10 hours of Candy Land or Sorry." Yes, and the decisions are whether to go left or right, to bounce off this mushroom or the other one and whether to hang out with Bowser or Princess Peach. But Johnson forgets one thing: it may seem as if the kiddies are in charge of their destinies, but in fact, it's the machine that has the ultimate authority. Put that in your pipe and smoke it, dystopians.
Indeed, remove the silicon processor and suddenly players have to use their own cranium to do menial tasks, such as decide whether a move is illegal or if it works within the logic of the game, rather than the immediate gratification of shooting things with fireballs. The computer brain does the thinking for you by smacking you down when you try to break your way out of the box. Yet when playing a board game, everyone needs to be more actively engaged in what's going on, particularly if their opponents are accomplished cheats.
Will being raised in a world where playthings demand decisions at every turn make children more critical and self-actualised, as Johnson suggests? Well, some research actually says kids are notably uncritical of information they find online. Perhaps this is what our computer masters have been working towards. We, the adults who grew up with Battleships, may be irrationally hooked on one-armed bandits, but at least we don't just take the machine's word for it. Or so the Magic 8-Ball says. But let me shake it again, it may change its little analogue mind.


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Vintage 1940's Classic Comet Sled Nice
It still has original paint and parts. It is as found as I did not want to degrade it by trying to wash it. I hope the photos will give you an idea of the nice over condition. It is 56 inches long and 24 inches across the handles that move freely from side to side. It is 12 inches across the runners, 13 inches on the top side. The wood is in nice condition for the age of the antique Couple small ripples in butt of sled shown in pic...maybe repairable. Rubber grips still intact and in good condition.


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Second 'Sin City: A Dame to Kill For' Trailer is Shorter But Still Sexy
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When the sequel Sin City: A Dame to Kill For hits theaters in August, it will have been nearly 10 years since the first graphic novel adaptation hit theaters. It remains to be seen if there's still an audience eager for more of Frank Miller's seedy, stylized film noir, but with an impressive cast that posts Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Eva Green, Mickey Rourke, Ray Liotta, Rosario Dawson, Josh Brolin, Jessica Alba and many more, there should be some interest at least. Now to hype things up we have a shorter trailer for the sequel, which is like a condensed version of the original teaser from last month. Watch below!
Here's a shorter trailer for Robert Rodriguez's Sin City: A Dame to Kill For direct from Dimension:
Sin City: A Dame to Kill For is directed by Robert Rodriguez who co-wrote the script with William Monahan (The Departed) and Frank Miller, creator of the graphic novel series and co-director of the first film. Dwight (Josh Brolin) is hunted down by the only woman he ever loved, Ava Lord (Eva Green), and then watches his life go straight to hell. Chronologically, this story takes place prior to "The Big Fat Kill" (seen in the first Sin City) and explains how Dwight came to have a dramatically different face. Jessica Alba, Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Mickey Rourke, Juno Temple, Jaime King, Rosario Dawson and many others star in the film being shot in 3D and Dimension Films will send the sequel to theaters on August 22nd this summer. Excited?
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Due to delays in city inspections, The Armoury, 2048 Larimer Street, has postponed its previously announced opening date of New Year's Eve. The "old world pub" now hopes to open in the second week of the new year.
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What is your due date?
Are you considering any home induction methods?
I am due tomorrow. Going to whole foods in a few minutes to get a pineapple, a few mangoes, some pregnancy tea and some blue and/or black cohosh.
My midwife is comfortable with me going to 43 weeks before stripping my membranes or breaking my water...
I've been having some contractions last night and this morning. So I'll try DTD tonight... and just relaxing. I seem to have more contractions after DS is in bed, or he's not around.
I enjoy a daily walk through the neighboring tree farm while doing nipple stim. Pineapple, this is something I have heard of. Our coop rarely sells this type of tropical fruit, but I would try if I had the option. I have been cooking spicy dinners as well and have finally been given the okay to DTD after 6 months of being banned. DP is scared to do it though. Can someone knock some sense into him for me???
Due 9/25.
Home techniques include walking, orgasm, nursing Connor, and I just was reading up on accupressure (the web of my hand is already tender!)
I've never gone past 38+5, so I'm very anxious since I'm at 38+3 today. I know only having two births to go off of doesn't exactly equal a trend, but my body has been "gearing up" for almost 3 weeks now!!!
I tried to check myself yesterday, it's really difficult to reach my cervix, but from what I could tell, it was still slightly posterior, very soft, very effaced, but I couldn't guage dilation (couldn't find the opening). I need a longer finger
My cervix still feels far back, thick and closed. I wasn't in any hurry to have this little guy until the last couple of days. He dropped last week, and it is harder to get around and do stuff. Plus, my favorite midwife is on call tomorrow and won't be again until next Tuesday. I so want her to deliver! Plus, I am on vacation from work this week and won't go back until at least 6 weeks PP. I was really hoping he'd come this week at around 39 weeks like his big brother.
I have the "Come Out, Baby" CD, but I'm not sure it would help with my cervix simply not ready yet. Otherwise, I would have listened to it today. I have been using the birth ball my doula lent me, using it as I type, lol. And I listen to the other HB tracks every night before bed. I don't plan on any other home induction-type stuff so far.
I haven't had any real contractions, just lots of BH, so here's hoping they start soon!
step-mommy to (11), mommy to (5), (3) (0)
sweet little one in Heaven ~ about 7 weeks 3 days ~ 12-28-11
not really doing anything to get it started though.
took an insanely long walk all over london on saturday and only succeeded in making myself immobile on sunday.
going for a spicy curry tomorrow night for my dds birthday. I hope the baby doesn't come tomorrow though, my 8 year old will not want to share her special day.
I am 38+3 so I know I have a ways to go. Ds was born at 4o +5. There seems to be a trend amongst my friends to go later with their second. So who knows. I do feel ready physically, mentally: not so much.
I will leave the induction techiniques to Mother nature. We can't DTD. I am nursing ds still so that could have a bearing on labor. Other than that, I am very patient and will leave well enough alone until I reach the point where I cannot birth at the birth center (42 weeks) then I will try some things.
Due 9/21 - 1 week from today.
No induction tenchniques here. Seems odd to do before I am even due! We are doing all our usual activities, though. Keeping up with 3 kids and their after-school activities keeps me plenty busy. I am still working PT from home and enjoying that.
Most things hurt, and sleep is definitely a challenge with the peeing and position changes that take 10 mins , but I am definitely enjoying all of it. I think I'm still in denial that there's a new little one coming!
I have been having BH since very early on in pregnancy, and they happen pretty much any time of day and night. I was really surprised at my MW's reaction when palpating this weekend. I got a usual BH and she said, "wow, that's a good one!!" It was just a usual BH, but I guess she was impressed with how hard my belly was.
I don't count the baby as coming any time soon. I don't get much going on until labor actually starts, but I am happy to let this little girl pick her due date!
We have SO many late-in-the-month mamas - it should be busy here the next couple of weeks!
BPP today, then we're talking medicalized birthing interventions dependant on the outcome of that.
proud mama to: DD (8/02), DS (12/03), DS (11/06), DS (9/09) and EDD 11/1
so my EDD was yesterday 9/13
not considering much (ask me in a week)
I really really hope that Confustication goes into labor right now she was due on the 6th can everyone send her the vibes!!!!!
: wife to DH, mom to DD (2004) DS (2005) DS (2007) DS (2009)
Edd: 9/28
My dd was born at 40 +6 (dates may have been off. Could have been closer to 40, not sure.
Started losing the plug on Friday, and was having contractions. DD got sick with a cold that day and now, I have the cold. Sore throat yesterday, and congestion started last night. That means we will not try to move things along and will pray for time to get better before baby comes. After that, maybe I'll have sex and stay active on my feet. Nothing else though.
My mw will let me go as long as the baby is handling pg well. I think after 42 weeks I would need to do some u/s to check on baby but if all is well she'll let me go as long as it takes. I am not sure if I am going to try any natural induction methods, besides sex, nip stim, walking etc, maybe I would consent to stripping of membranes after 42 weeks <shrug> . I am really hoping I don't get to that point!!!! The two births I knew the conception date I went to 39w6d and 40w.....I know I am due tomorrow but have no signs of labour starting!
Still pregnant yet hoping it comes soon!
Not doing anything to induce...yet.
update...the baby came on later on that evening after the original post! now its been almost a year!
Jesus loving, wife to my sweet love of 11 years , ,,, ,baby-wearing,,, ,mama to dd , ds1 , ds2 ,ds3 one on the way !
Not considering anything at this point, since I'm only 39 wks. Although I spent yesterday nesting, and was VERY uncomfortable for the first time. I couldn't find any way to sit or lie last night that didn't hurt. Contracting fairly regularly, although no pattern. I can't reach my cervix, so have no idea if anything is going on - darned short fingers.
I see my MW in a couple hours though, and she'll tell me whether he's dropped again, which I suspect he has.
Cristeen ~ Always remembering our warrior ~ Our is 3, how'd that happen?!?!
We welcomed another warrior in May 2012!!
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I have to admit, I think I was more anxious a week ago. Now that I am cleared for a homebirth, I feel much more relaxed about the 'when'. I would like for this to happen soon, since I am so uncomfortable, but at this point I supposed anything is 'soon enough' really.
I start doing acupuncture at 38 weeks (well I do it all pg, but I let them do the induction points at 38 weeks), but I firmly believe that it won't do anything until the body is ready.
I sort of thought I'd have the baby by now, because at 36 weeks I was 5 cm, effaced and baby's head was in engaged. But she's hanging on so now I'm thinking I'll have the baby close to my due date.
(Mama to West (11/07) Mabel Kelly 10/02/09)
I was due 9/5, so 41+2 today. I'm not doing anything yet, but see the MW on Wednesday and may beg for stripping of membranes. I'm really okay, but my mom has time off NOW, and I'd really like her to be able to be with us for several days before she has to go back to work.
Last pg went to 42+2 and finally got going with stripping, so I think 5 days sooner than that (Wednesday) will be plenty long enough. Come ON baby!!
I don't want to wait 'till the last day to start trying things!
So I just took some black cohosh tincture and blue cohosh and RRL tea. I'll repeat that in 4 or 5 hours. Tomorrow I'll eat the pineapple. Then I'll give it a rest until Friday and repeat.
I feel like I've done everything under the sun--sex, walking, EPO both orally and vaginally, pelvic rocks, birth ball, RRL, enema (twice), acunpunture (twice)--and yet I am still pregnant.
Next up is homeopathics (going to pick those up when I get DS from school) and stripping membranes tomorrow.
I have had two NSTs and one BPP--going back again tomorrow for one of each again. The MFM doc is very concerned about baby's size--estimated 9#4oz on Friday, which freaks me out because my #1 goal for this birth is NOT to tear again. I had a horrible vaginal tear with DS.
My MW is consulting with her backup OB today. If I am not in labor by Weds I will likely have a medical induction in the hospital by the end of the week.
hostile at this point
I have tried everything--DTD, cleaning, walking, all of it; VE--on exam LAST week I was 3 cm with an estimated fetal wt of 8+ #
I have 4 ctx a day--thats it
so frustrated
I have tried everything--grr
now I have given up
I am hoping the MW with strip my membranes this week--I am done
God bless- Confustication and all you mamas past your EDD I would be worse than I am now
So far, we're not going out of our way to do anything to bring baby out...just going about normal routines...lots of walking, etc. I'm trying to enjoy these last days of what will most likely be my last pg.
I am getting more uncomfortable and anxious to see this little one, though. Best to all those waiting with me!
Pretty relaxed, baby will come when she's ready - I'm getting lots of rest, preparing some food for freezer, also post-partum pads & other helpful things,
listening to my Hypnobabies CD's, lots of walks - just enjoying.
Sending calming vibes to anxious DDC friends here :
DH and I are starting to get impatient so we've DTD a lot this past weekend. I haven't done anything besides that and don't plan on doing more unless I am overdue.
I started having some really regular ctx on Saturday (every 8 minutes, lasting 45 seconds) and a few slightly painful ctx yesterday. At my appt last week, there was no cervical progress AT ALL so I'm hoping these ctx have helped soften and dilate my cervix even a little.
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Subject: More signs that fetus ``decides'' birth date
Organization: Copyright 1996 by Reuters
Date: Thu, 28 Mar 1996 14:20:13 PST
WASHINGTON (Reuter) - Scientists said Thursday they had added to the evidence that a fetus decides when it is ready to be born.
The latest research, on rhesus monkeys, suggests that the fetus monitors its own developing systems and sends out a signal that sets off labor in the mother.
Scientists are looking into this mechanism to help understand premature labor, which can lead to the death or disability of the baby, and also to develop better care for women who go past their expected due date.
``The possibility that, in normal human pregnancy, it is the fetal brain that controls the duration of pregnancy is an exciting one,'' said Dr. Peter Nathanielsz of Cornell.
The research was done at Cornell University College of Veterinary Medicine and Mt. Sinai Medical School and will be published in the April edition of the journal Nature Medicine.
Earlier studies of sheep had identified mechanisms in the fetuses' brains similar to those now seen in the monkeys.
A group of brain cells that controls the fetal lamb's adrenal gland, setting of a chain reaction of hormones that eventually stimulates the mother's cervix to dilate and the uterus to contract -- labor.
Monkeys have slightly different hormonal circuits than the sheep, but the scientists successfully induced early delivery of baby monkeys 80 percent of the way through the pregnancy by delivering the corresponding infusion of hormones.
Live monkeys were delivered seven days later. In the control group that received a placebo the mothers did not deliver for 20 more days.
More work must be done to learn how the human system works, but Nathanielsz said the studies were exciting.
``It would be of great survival value if the fetal brain can act as a 'computer' taking messages from several vital developing systems, such as lungs, kidneys and other parts of the brain, to compute the level of maturation and act accordingly.''
``It is absolutely essential that we learn how these natural systems work and how to help when they don't.''
and so many more...
Hang in there!
Cristeen ~ Always remembering our warrior ~ Our is 3, how'd that happen?!?!
We welcomed another warrior in May 2012!!
2012 Decluttering challenge - 575/2012
Maybe reading this might help some:
My state is not very natural birth friendly and if I don't go into labor by Weds-ish my midwife cannot attend me at home.
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It had taken me a couple months to find a suitable apartment in New York. Naively, I imagined it would be as easy as it had been in Portland, where renting requirements are lax and brokers are unheard of. I lived in three different apartments in Oregon, and with each one the rental process was similar: I walked in off the street, took a look around, hastily scrawled my information on an application form, and was approved within half an hour.
Part of the reason it took me so long to find housing in the city is because my expectations were too high. I knew I could never afford Manhattan, but I was ok with that. I figured Brooklyn was my best bet, though my understanding of the city's boroughs was decidedly lacking. I knew Manhattan well enough because I took class trips there in college, and I vaguely knew of Queens as the place Ugly Betty lived. Other than that New York City was laid out like this:
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NEW YORK (AP) A CBS News producer was fired and the network apologized after a Katie Couric video essay on libraries was found to be plagiarized from The Wall Street Journal.
The essay was removed from the CBS website and an editor's note was posted saying the item should have credited Jeffrey Zaslow of the Journal, the network said Tuesday.
The essays are carried regularly on Couric & Co., the anchor's blog on the CBS News website. Couric and producers meet once a week to decide on topics and the producers write them for Couric to read on camera.
An editor for The Wall Street Journal called CBS News to point out the similarities of the April 4 notebook item to Zaslow's article, headlined Of the Places You'll Go, Is the Library Still One of Them? The pieces talk about how libraries are seen differently by children from their parents.
"We were horrified," CBS News spokeswoman Sandra Genelius said. "It was almost verbatim."
CBS would not identify the producer fired for the transgression.
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Since I got into the computer field I have never been a very big fan of Apple products. In the recent years they have come out with some things that have made me think about this. They do have a very nice MP3 player (IPod), and the tablet would be really cool if I could afford one.
My daughter got a Zen a few years ago, and back then this was one of the best MP3 players available. It didn't only do music. It did video, pictures, podcasts, and more. A friend of our little one has an IPod, and has gotten my daughter so hyped that she is now nagging us for an IPod. I know how she is with her stuff so I think that it may be an option down the road. If we did this we would have to hunt around to find out which store has the best ipod cases that protect against water because I don't want her to have it get wet, and ruined.
She is very responsible, and even when she broke her cell phone screen she paid for the part, and I made the repair. Our little one doesn't expect us to fix something that she has broken. Maybe I got lucky having a child that understands about money, and things.
Do you have any ideas? Which IPod has worked best for you?