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With my first we planned a natural hospital birth, it didn't quite turn out the way I hoped, but it was not a really bad experience, I learned a lot. I woke up around 5 am on Aug 26th (the 42 week mark) I had been having light contractions all night but they kept stopping, these felt different and I realized that I lost the plug. I woke my husbamd and we went for a walk (whic we had done until about 2 or 3 the night before), around noon we headed to the hospital, contractions were about 2 min apart. We got there and were told yes it was labor, but I was only a 2. I really didn't know the time from that point on, I moved around a lot, used the ball, used the shower. The next day my doula suggested having my waters broken to move things along, I agreed, being worried that if I didn't I would get stuck with pitocin. Things did intensify at that point and around 2:30p I felt the urge to push, but was told not to because I was a 9, so for the next hour or so I tried not to. Then the nurse said I only had a lip left and she would help me push past it. Finally I could push and it was a great relief, after about 2 1/2 hrs the lip was gone (crazy), and my DR. finally showed up, along with about a dozen nurses. 1 more hour of pushing and my beautiful boy was born.
Stephen Angelus
August 27 5:27p
9lbs 2oz 21 1/2in
I learned a lot in that birth, to rest when I could, to eat when I could, and that I didn't want to go back to the hospital. I ended up with a few things I didn't want, but I made it without pitocin or pain medication so I knew I could again
This is my latest, copied from when I wrote it just after...
Labor began around 2p Saturday, once my husband got home around 5 we called our midwife and doula to let them know something might be happening. We ran a couple errands and got dinner at the mall, our birth tub was set up at my parent's house as we are in an upstairs apt. and didn't feel comfortable with birthing there. So even though things seemed slow (which I expected, the last was 36hrs) we went ahead and went over there. Things were light enough for me to sleep off and on all night, and the next morning I woke up to much stronger contractions. Angel went with my parents to church, and Stephen and I walked and tried different positions for the next few hours. It seemed like things were stopping and I was getting really upset and emotional, right about that time my parent's came by with Angel on their way to lunch and a movie. I played with Angel for a few minutes, then he fell asleep on daddy. Oddly enough after that I spent some time discussing shoes with my mom, as I relaxed and laughed the contractions started coming back. Once they left they were really starting to pick up, as long as I stayed calm and joking with Stephen, we had lunch and went for a walk. That afternoon I laid down for a nap and when I got up again things once again picked up. By early evening I didn't want to talk any more, and was just focused on the labor. My midwife and doula came around 6p. The midwife found that she was at like -4 station and OP so she helped me find positions to turn her so she could descend more easily. She checked an hour later and she was about 0. So progress was being made! Then my doula made dinner for us, and I could only take 1 bite every couple minutes b/c of the contractions getting stronger. I also started feeling back pain around this time and the doula got a hot pack out which really helped. Around 9p my midwife suggested I try to sleep and that she would go home for awhile. She said she expected to hear from me at 3 am, stating that babies really seem to love that time. My doula stayed a little longer, she helped us try some pressure points and then we went for a walk. Things started to slow down again, so I took that as a sign to rest rather than get discouraged this time. I laid down at about 10 and slept off and on until 2:45 am (monday), I went to the bathroom and by the time I walked back to the bed, the contractions were coming harder and faster than they had at any point before. I woke up Stephen and let him know I needed to walk. By 5a the midwife and an assistant midwife came back (and brought breakfast, I loved being able to eat!), I ate between contractions which was getting more and more difficult. By 6a my doula came back and for a couple of hours I labored in whatever position seemed best at the time, not really able to talk at all. Around 8:30a I had the midwife check me and my cervix was so far up she couldn't even tell dilation, but she and my doula kept assuring me that these things work themselves out and sometimes it just waits till the end and happens all at once. I really felt like laying down for a while so through the next several contractions I was side lying with Stephen in front of me to hold on to and my doula holding hot packs on my back. At one point I really felt the need to get up and use the restroom, standing up I started shaking really hard even though I didn't feel cold. The contractions were so strong that I had to stop at least 8 times in the 10 feet to the bathroom. At this point I was still shaking, I was nauseous, and crying (so fun). When Stephen was helping me out of the bathroom my doula asked if I wanted to get in the water now, which sounded wonderful. Shaking and stopping every step or so I made it into the birth tub. Ahhhh........... the contractions were just as strong but the water helped relax my body so that they weren't so painful, and the water just felt so good! The contractions were right on top of each other, and I got on my knees and leaned on the edge while Stephen changed to join me. Once he was in I resumed the same position and leaned on him. I turned on my back for a while, and my midwife discovered I was a 8! I started saying "I can" with every breath out, after I panicked a little, to keep myself calm, I also found it easier to be on my knees again. After a while I felt the urge to push, and it was discovered that there was a slight lip of cervix left and the waters broke (this happened with my first and it tooks hours to push past it), my midwife helped push it back, after 3 pushes I asked her to move her hand b/c it was burning. She held up her hands and told me to feel, just inside I could feel her head! I wanted to turn on my back again, and once there pushing really started, in only a couple pushes she was crowning and they asked me to make short grunts with the next few contractions to slow it down. I supported the top with my hands and the midwife held my perineum to help with tearing. A couple more pushes and her head was out, she had me pause for a moment to check for the cord then another push and she was out! We lifted her onto my chest (the cord barely reached) and they said it was 10:12, I thought it was evening, so I looked at the window and it was still morning! Only 2 hours after my last check! She didn't want to nurse right away, so after the cord was cut Stephen took her out to dry off and I got cleaned up. Then we had some time together skin to skin and she did nurse really well, and we just got to be together for a while.
Even though this labor was 8 hours longer than my last, I felt so much better after. Being able to eat and drink what I wanted, not having my movements restricted, and no IV's or cords. And most importantly being in a comfortable environment surrounded by people who believe in birth. I will never give birth in a hospital after this! It was wonderful!
Rhiannon Jo
Born peacefully in the water @ 10:12 am July 2nd
8lbs 12oz 21 1/2 inches long
wow...it is amazing the power of educating ourselves and empowering ourselves to birth how, when, and where we want, when we are safely able too....
thank you for sharing both of your stories!
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Rachel ~ WOHM partner to lovely SAHD since 04/14/06 , Mom to beautiful daughter Margali born 02/19/08
All through that day I had these mild surges where the muscles of my belly would tighten for a bit and then go slack every 15 minutes. They would last about 30-60 seconds and were in no way painful or even uncomfortable. I had had them off and on for the last month or so, but that day they had been going on fairly regularly. I was sitting in my chair with my feet up watching TV when suddenly about 7:15 pm, the surges changed. They felt like really bad menstrual cramps and were lower and intense and about 5 minutes apart.
I was feeling a lot of pressure and it was really intense in my thighs and hips so I told my husband I wanted him to work on sending me into meditation (we were doing Hypnobirth) and do this exercise called the passive pelvic rock where he puts counterpressure on my hips. We went into the bedroom with the lights low and he started doing the passive pelvic rock and was doing the beginning meditation where he sends me under (basically counting down and getting more and more relaxed as he counted down). Both things really helped, but the surges started getting closer. We both got paranoid because it seemed like things were progressing really fast so we decided to go to the hospital. We were so excited! Thankfully, my husband had already gotten everything into the car many days before. We had the hospital bag, the birth ball, blankets and pillows all in the car already. The only thing we needed to grab was my bag and I got out my iPod because we had recorded meditations on it that I could use in the car.
I was able to put myself into meditation in the car using my iPod. I was really calm in the car, just focused very inward and not really watching what my husband was doing (he was apparantly speeding and trying to drive as safe and as fast as possible, hee!)..I kept my eyes closed most of the drive so I could focus on the meditation
By the time we got to the hospital the surges were about 2 minutes apart lasting about a minute, but still not too bad in intensity. I calmly got out of the car. My husband went to the back of the car and got the hospital bag, the blankets, pillows, the birth ball and my bag. We got to the hospital at about 8 pm. I said I was in labor. They asked me how far apart and I told them 2 minutes with 60 second contractions. I felt calm, but wanted them to hurry because I was feeling like things were a bit urgent, but they were so calm. I was slightly irritated about that. They took us to our labor and delivery room and told me to get into my gown and they would send someone in to check me and see how dilated I was. My husband said later that because I was so calm, one of the nurses was saying they would probably be sending us home, heh, little did they know (that's some forshadowing there).
While I was changing my other birth partner J arrived. I kept telling them I was having pain in my hips. I find this to be interesting because the pain was more in my thighs, but I kept saying hips and thinking I was saying thighs. I was bending over on all fours over the birth ball rocking back and forth when the nurse came in and told me I had to get up on the table so she could check me and they could monitor the baby. I told the nurse I had requested a moblie unit and she said there was nothing they could do becuase they had 5 other people in labor right then and were really busy. She sounded rather frazzled and seemed a bit irritated with my request. I was grumpy about her response but didn't really know what to do about it.
I was dubious about having to sit on the bed for 20 minutes while they monitored me, but things weren't too bad yet, so I got on the table and she checked me. I was @ 4 cm and 100% effaced and the baby was at 0 station.
Then things started getting a LOT more intense, the surges were coming VERY fast and were becoming more unbearably intense, this was about 8:30 pm. I was trying to lay on the table so they could get their stoopid 20 minutes of monitoring, but the surges were getting so bad I couldn't stand it and I wanted to be up and walking so bad.
I started yelling and writhing about which would shake the monitor loose and they would have to start the stoopid 20 minutes over again, I was getting so mad and was starting to think there was NO WAY I could do this. I felt like I was being tortured. My husband and J were trying to put me in meditation but all I could think about was how much I was dreading the next surge and how awful they were while they were going on. J was trying to read one of the scripts to me that I had told her worked well and I could hear her, but I just couldn't relax enough between to let it help.
Here's the part I was ashamed of & took me a long time to forgive myself for. Long about 9:15 pm I started feeling like I just couldn't do it, and I started pleading w/ J and my husband to get me the nurse to get me an epidural. I thought I had hours and hours of this to go and there was just no way a human being could deal w/ this. All this time I was still being monitored and having to lay on the bed and I was yelling about how torturous it was to be on the bed and how I just couldn't be on the bed and how much longer, etc.
Since we'd only been there about an hour & 15 minutes and they were so busy and it was my first baby and all, the nurses weren't coming to check me because they thought I would be hours and hours yet in labor. I kept pleading with J and my husband to help me and get me an epidural. They tried to talk me out of it, telling me I could do it and I didn't need it and it was not what I had wanted before, but I just couldn't handle the pain anymore.
J got the nurse and told her I wanted an epidural, by this time I had started dealing w/ the surges by screaming at the top of my lungs (unfortunately I'm a trained opera singer) through each one. Finally they came in, and I had said screw the monitors and had stood up. I tried to keep the monitors on my belly, but I just couldn't do it with all that was going on. My husband was holding me and I was dancing a bit back and forth like some kind of freaky labor waltz when my water broke all over. I was horrified thinking it was pee and kept saying I was sorry.
Standing up helped A LOT and the surges weren't as bad, but they were still incredibly intense. When the nurse finally came in we told her my water had broken and that I wanted an epidural. She said, �Are you sure because your birth plan says you don't want one.� And I said, yes yes yes, I want one. She made me get back in the bed because she said if I was going to get an epidural, I would have to have an IV and I had to be in the bed to get an IV. So I got in the bed and tried to hold still, they put in the IV and she checked me again, now remember they checked me about 8:30 and I was at 4 cm, she checked me again after the IV, this was around 9:30-9:40 and I was at 9 cm.
She asked me if I still wanted the epidural because I was almost there and I told them yes because I just wanted it to stop. So I was on the table yelling @ the top of my lungs w/ every surge and everyone was trying to get me to relax more and calm down, but I just couldn't.
Finally the epidural guy got in there and the nurse checked me and she said I was at 10 cm w/ just a lip left to go. I seem to remember that she kept checking me throughout this stage and was saying, now she's at 9, now she's at 10, now she's fully dilated. Then I suddenly felt like I needed to push, and I said, I want to push, I want to push. The nurse told the epidural guy to go away since it was WAY too late, heh. And told me not to push yet because the doctor wasn't there. Not only was my doctor not there, but there was no doctor there. I was like, I HAVE to push, but they said no no no! The nurse said "Well, I have delivered baby's before and I will again if I have to but I would really rather not" but then told me to go ahead if I really had to push and prepared to deliver if she had to. I was trying to hold back and not push.
Then, the doctor on call walked in and they said, now you can push! The first push I was still yelling so it didn't do anything, very ineffectual. The nurse said "do it this way, hold your breath and put all your energy down there and push towards your bottom" so I did and the head came out with push 2. They told me to stop and then go ahead again. J asked if I wanted to touch the baby's head and I remember saying no because I felt I needed to focus on what I was doing and that it was very important. I pushed one more time and out she came! The massive feeling of relief as she came out was overwhelming. I remember saying, �Oh my god that feels good� when she came out. They put her immediately on my stomach and started rubbing her. I believe that's about when my doctor walked in and said, well I missed all the action. I believe I giggled at him. The baby looked so wonderful to me and then I started shaking uncontrollably. I think I looked frightened or said something because Jenny said, �It's okay, it's normal, it's supposed to happen, it's frim hormones� and I calmed down. She told me it was because of the rush of hormones and that everyone pretty much gets it. My doctor said 7 pounds 4 ounces which made me feel very good. I was also so happy that fate or whatever it is made it so I could have the unmedicated birth I really wanted.
My doctor went down to take over from the other doctor and sewed me up because I tore second degree and he also delivered the placenta. He showed me the placenta which is a very cool organ! And Margali was born @ 10:03 pm. Her first APGAR was 8 and her second was 9. How wonderful! I was tired and sore, but felt beautifully calm after I had her. I felt like I could just about take on the world but instead J left and my husband and I just sat together and gazed at our daughter in awe as she got to know us and know the world.
wow that is an amazing story Bikil
DO not feel bad for wanting an epi....it all worked out in the end
I also refused to touch my daughters head b/c I was so focused in in "labor land" deeply, but they all said awww c'mon you have too! Amazing...
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Jeremiah's Birth Story
The quick stats:
Jeremiah Allen - Boy
41 weeks, 6 days, born on May 9 at 6:50pm, at home
10 pounds, 10 ounces, 21 inches long
The Story:
My midwife and I felt that Jeremiah was getting on the big side and we agreed to try a little herbal assistance. She came to the house around 3ish and I took some Black Cohosh. Without even realizing I was contracting, I thought I was just having braxton hicks contractions, I went from 2 centimeters to 5 centimeters in a few hours (5:15ish). When suddenly I started to feel the contractions and strong. They went from nothing to full on contractions two minutes apart for about half an hour. Then they started to blend (no break between), about every 4-5 I would get a 30 second break. Things continued to progress quickly.
At about 6:20ish, I was on the birth stool and Jeannie decided to see where I was as I had a lot of pressure. That was actually the bulging bag of waters I was feeling. I was a tight 6 at this point. I decided to get in the tub and it helped for a few. I climbed out and laid on the bed. I started crying "I can't do this, I just need 4 minutes to get a grip!" Jeannie reminded me that I can and Keith said it too. So I went from crying I can't to "I can". I then got on the floor on my hands and knees. I said the pressure was bothering me. They (there were two midwives and an assistant) asked me if I needed to push. I said no and then the next contraction came and I said "I'm pushing!!"
I reached down to feel the baby's head was right there as I lunged my right leg forward. I knew he felt huge. Even Jeanne blurted out "It's a very big head" She helped to maneuver his head and shoulders as I pushed. I felt like I was tearing in half especially towards my anus. But I instinctively knew that if I stopped (lost momentum) he might get stuck. Jeanne said his hand was on his face and moved it saw a loose cord around the neck and unlooped it. She also didn't want me to stop pausing. At this point I looked at two my children who were in the room. My 6 year old girl Jessie was leaning over Jeanne's shoulder watching with a smile and a tear streaming down her face. Jacob {9} was crying happy tears.
I felt his shoulders pressing and I just pushed past them and then he was there, in my arms. He passed meconium on his way out and I'm assuming that during pushing my waters broke or maybe before he crowned. This all was less than 7 minutes. He was so fat, I mean rolls everywhere. I looked at Keith who was crying and said "We did it!" Everyone was crying even the midwives. Jeanne told us later this was the largest baby she's ever caught. He was born at 6:50.
I was sitting on the chucks pads with in just breathing him in. Jeanne said when I ready she'd like to get me on the bed to check me out. The placenta was still pulsing but the cord was long enough to maneuver me on my bed. I was actually I little scared to find out the damage. But it wasn't bad. She said I had some big skidmarks and a lot of little fissures. It took about 15-20 minutes for the cord to stop pulsing and then Keith cut it.
The kids climbed in bed with us to admire their new sibling. The midwives both said Jeremiah is the largest baby they had delivered.
I need to add on that having had four previous pitocin births, this was so beyond different, empowering and awesome. I don't know if this is connected but for the first time ever my milk came in at less then 24 hours. I had always had to wait until the 4-5 days. I have never felt so good and relaxed though I admit my bottom was horribly painful the first two days but I think that is easily attributable to a nearly 11 pound baby.
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- Mar 2008
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I am feeling great now! Especially since we've made huge progress breastfeeding after such a rough start. I had some serious PPD issues but I swear like a miracle that fog and stress is just gone! I will get my posts about the struggle to breastfeed and share them later.
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- Apr 2008
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Rachel ~ WOHM partner to lovely SAHD since 04/14/06 , Mom to beautiful daughter Margali born 02/19/08
I would love to hear your story! I had issues @ the beginning of breastfeeding too (see thread called "Nipple Shield") & would love to hear your experiences.
Glad things are going better. It's so funny when everything just clicks! That happened for me at about 7-8 weeks & it was just all of a sudden. I realized we were all in sync & it was just amazing! Major congrats to you!
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Mom to Liam (b. 7-06) and Seamus (b. 8-08 ) Co-leader API Frederick
My son Liam was born on July 14 at 6:30 pm weighing 7 lb 12 oz and around 19". .
At 34 weeks, I went in to have a NST done since I wasn't feeling much movement at all. Apparently, I was 2 cm dilated and in labor. I had no clue. The MW recommended tributaline since they wouldn't stop after every other course of action she could do in the hospital. The shot was awful, but oh well. I was on bed rest for two weeks after. They were very paranoid about me going into real labor early. I wasn't.
From 34 to 38 weeks I had prodormal labor. From 36-68 weeks each contraction would last more than an hour and be very intense (not painful) and I'd get a few each day. At 38 weeks, after much acupuncture work including some light induction work to see if we could get real labor going since we couldn't stop the very annoying and tiring prodormal labor, I went to see my MW for a routine appointment. The hour drive was killer. I was told I was 5 cm dilated with bulging waters and in labor. I didn't have a clue. My DH and I called our parents, got a bite to eat and went to the hospital around 6:30 pm. My labor never really picked up and stalled out. I was discharged around 11 pm to a local hotel where my parents were staying.
Only July 14, I went to a chiropractor after a yummy breakfast. My son was posterior which was holding up the labor according to the midwife. After a great adjustment, my DH, my mom and dad went to Circuit City to have my dad's XM radio installed. I labored there for about 1.5 hours, then went to a local mall for a bite to eat before going to the hospital. While in the mall, it got very intense and I could barely eat my food. DH said "We're going to the hospital now." And so we did. The 5 minute drive was killer! I got there and was 7 cm dilated and dilating fast. Just past 8 cm, my water still hadn't broken and was making me extremely uncomfortable. I could feel my water bulging too. So, I waited for a bit then I allowed the MW to break it. I felt so much better after. I got in to a tub, relaxed, hit transition, then decided to push.
After 1.5 hours of pushing in bed, then finally on a nice birthing stool, my lil Liam came out one hand first, and the other by his head, then his head and body. It was amazing. I loved every minute of it. He swallowed some fluid on the way out so they did suction him, which made him not want to nurse too much in the first 24 hours. No biggie at this hospital. While being wheeled to our recovery room, I was talking to the nurse who was amazing and said "I can't wait to do that again!" She laughed and said she never hears that. We had a great hospital stay, rooming in most of the time, and lots of breastfeeding support by all the nurses too.
Columbia's birth
I spent months and months being terrified of giving birth for the first time. I was terrified of an episiotomy, of having incompetant or just unsympathetic medial staff, of being in pain in labor for countless hours. So, starting late, about 28 weeks I started doing some hard-core research. I read Birth Without Violence, Birthing From Within and Magical Beginnings Enchanted Lives and Spiritual Midwifery (every expectant mom should read this book) among others. I drafted a detailed birth plan but realized that the things I was afraid of (unnecessary pain, prolonged labor, episiotomy, c-section, separation from my baby, being bullied) could be avoided or the chances greatly reduced by just not giving birth with drugs and not going to a hospital. I found a terrific midwife and opted for a home birth at my parents house. They live about fifteen minutes away. At 35 weeks I was 2cm dilated and 75% effaced so I was taking it easy and cut back work to part time because we were concerned about me going into labor. However, I made it the whole forty weeks. When my due date rolled around I was 4cm and 100% effaced. Columbia was very low and all was ready. We were all thinking any day now. Scott (my boyfriend) and I had our bags mostly packed except for a few things like toothbrush etc. I was planning on at least 24 hours in labor because I knew that for a first time that was perfectly normal. I had all sorts of techniques and support systems in mind. Melissa (midwife) her assistant Carrie, Scott and my mother would be at the house for the birth. My due date was Saturday, May 24th. I had pretty much stopped having any warm up contractions. Melissa told me it was because my body had everything pretty much done, I just had to go into labor. So as I said my due date arrived and then another day passed. And another and another and another and another. I LOVED being pregnant so I wasn't in any rush to get it over with but by the next Thursday I was starting to wonder. I mean really, with how ready I obviously was what was holding it up? I went to bed the Friday after my due date still not having any contractions or other signs of impending labor. At 3:30am Saturday, May 24th I woke up and felt my first real contraction. I wasn't positive that it was one at first. It was so different from everything I'd felt before. I spent about fifteen or twenty minutes in the bathroom making sure it wasn't just constipation. I started timing them and they were five minutes apart and starting to get stronger and I knew that it was probably time for me to have a baby. So, I woke Scott up and told him this might be it. I wanted to wait a bit longer before calling anyone or getting dressed because it was about 4am and I sure didn't want to alert everyone for a false alarm. Besides, I figured I had many hours ahead a few minutes wouldn't make a difference. A few minutes was all it took for Scott to be positive and he began to get his things packed up. By about ten minutes after Scott getting up I was having to stop what I was doing completely during each contraction. It took forever to get the few things I needed together and Scott was helping me, calling my mom and the midwife, getting his things into the car and warming it up and then helping me get dressed. I was trying to talk to Scott to tell him it wasn't really going like I thought it would. By the time we were getting in the car (about 4:30am) there was absolutely no break in contractions. I had enough presence of mind to grab a roll of paper towels as we walked out the door and Scott was on the phone with Melissa the whole time giving her reports. I remember being in the house and thinking, they aren't pausing, they're supposed to be at least two minutes apart and they aren't stopping! This is transition. I knew it was from reading about it but my mind wouldn't really accept it. I mean people don't just wake up in labor and go into transition half an hour later. But we hadn't even pulled out of the driveway when I had to pound on the door and scream it was so intense. At this point Melissa suggested she just come to us but I gasped out that Scott should just drive and hurry. I did not want to have the baby at my house where we weren't prepared and where my roommate was sleeping. We had been on the road a couple of minutes and my contractions let up. I was glad for about ten seconds but as soon as they did I had to push. Oh, no! I started panting and fighting and doing everything I'd read about to NOT push and slow it down. Soon after that Melissa told Scott to pull over and check for the head crowning. Thankfully it wasn't. But Melissa decided there was a good chance we wouldn't make it there so she left my parent's place and headed toward us. My mom jumped in car with her and we met them half way down Columbia Falls Stage Road, about five minutes from my parent's house. I was so relieved to see Melissa's headlights coming towards us. I didn't even realize she was meeting us on the way until Scott said, "We are almost at the hill, I see you!" Thank god! Not pushing was the hardest part of the whole labor. Melissa had arrived at my parent's, unloaded her equipment and then had to jump back into her car and just head to us. So, her emergency stuff like oxygen was still at the house. But it was definitely the right choice because she would've been too late if she'd taken the time to pack it back up. Anyway, we pull over and she jumps out of her car and comes to my door. I put my right leg on the door and my left on the dashboard. Melissa checked me and said the baby's head was RIGHT THERE. She listened to his heartbeat and she comforted me and told me to go ahead and push. That was more of a relief than I can even describe. I never realized that pushing is not a choice on your part. Your body pushes, you either help it or not but it will do what it has to no matter what. Melissa was giving directions, having everyone get blankets so we could warm them over the vents on the dash, having my mom call home to get Carrie to bring to the emergency equip as soon as she got there, while still focusing on me and the baby, she was incredible. It all took maybe fifteen minutes. Carrie arrived with the oxygen etc about a minute before he was born. I pushed a couple of times and out he came. It was 5am. I had a fair amount bruising and a tiny tear but no stitches. He was put on my chest and we were wrapped up in blankets while Melissa made sure he was breathing well and we were both alright. Scott cut the cord while I cuddle our son. We were never separated for a moment. We stayed for maybe ten minutes after he was born to deliver the after birth and then Melissa drove us the rest of the way to my parent's to make sure she was able to keep an eye on us. We had already decided to name him Columbia (actually Columbia Michael Ulrich Scott Gregory Brown) but how ironic for him to be born on Columbia Falls Stage Road. Everyone got to the house and we settled into bed and snuggled and Columbia nursed and it was heaven. He was 7lbs 3oz, 19in long. Melissa confessed that it has always been a secret desire of hers to deliver a baby in a car. A couple of hours later I told Scott it went too fast for me to really get into it (like a roller coaster the first time) and I would go back and do it again if I could but I wouldn't change a moment of it. It was intense and unexpected but it was also flawless and amazing. And I think it demonstrates very well that birth is a natural occurence not a medical emergency like we are programmed to believe. We women are made for it and our bodies are so much more capable than we give them credit for. I can't believe that after so much preparation and buying supplies and getting ready for a long labor it was all irrelevant. Even the pain wasn't bad. Not saying it wasn't strong but just that even that felt right. There was not a negative moment. I am definitely never selling that car. I have to say one of the very best things was getting to stay at my parent's house in comfortable surroundings, with people who loved me for the next week. It would have been so stressful to just be sent home a few hours later. My mom cooked great food and took care of us and that left Scott free to just focus on helping me and loving up the baby.Last edited by Asher; 06-26-2008, 02:06 PM.
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Rachel ~ WOHM partner to lovely SAHD since 04/14/06 , Mom to beautiful daughter Margali born 02/19/08
Oh what an amazing birth story! Sounds like you had a similar labour to mine (look up above there to see it). We were all prepared for a big long labour too! Hee! Thank you for sharing that!


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Friday 9 January, 2009 - Billion Tree Campaign Patron and UNEP Champion of the Earth Prince Albert II of Monaco has begun a month-long expedition to Antarctica to assess the impact of global warming on the South Pole."This is one of the most sensitive regions in the world," Prince Albert said. "Everything happening at the South Pole, like the North Pole, has repercussions everywhere on the planet." The Prince will pay to offset the greenhouse gas emissions from his own visit by investing in renewable energies. Since acceding to the throne in 2005, the Prince has made environmental awareness a key goal of his principality. He has thrown his support behind a wide range of green causes, including the UNEP Billion Tree Campaign alongside Nobel laureate Wangari Maathai. The Campaign is catalyzing a massive tree-planting movement around the globe, with the goal to plant 7 billion trees - one per every person on the planet - by the end of 2009. For this and other efforts to safeguard the planet, Prince Albert received UNEP's prestigious Champion of the Earth Award in 2008.The Prince's South Pole itinerary includes visits to scientific outposts and meetings with climate change experts from 18 countries to get an overview of the latest research. He will visit a range of scientific stations including the US research bases at Patriot Hill and Amundsen-Scott, the French-Italian base Concordia, Russia's Vostok and Novolazarevskaya, Australia's Davis station, the Belgian base Princess Elisabeth and Norway's Troll.The trip's other objective is to raise worldwide public awareness of the effect of global warming and other environmental change on the Poles.Christian Nellemann, senior officer for UNEP's GLOBIO Programme, said: "The growing environmental efforts of prominent state leaders, like that of Prince Albert II, are very important in raising the understanding in society and among politicians, of the huge risks we are facing with climate change." UNEP's Polar Programme, based at the Grid-Arendal research centre in Norway, works on early warning and assessment of the polar environments. The Programme also focuses on communicating the key role of the polar regions for the global climate.


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Angels Landing is one of the best known unique hiking trails in America. We've seen a lot of pictures and video of Angels Landing and the trail that leads to the top of this remarkable sandstone fin, but we've never seen a video as good as this one. This video captures the real views and… Read More


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Women's apparel retailer J.Jill goes public
Online sales for J.Jill are growing and hit $228 million for the 12 months ended Oct. 29.
Women's apparel retailer J.Jill goes public
Online sales for J.Jill are growing and hit $228 million for the 12 months ended Oct. 29.
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One thing I've noticed about the web is the tendency to order information far more than before. Comparisons are made that much easier with easy access to data and technology, allowing us to quickly filter and rank results.
While this is very helpful in making decisions, there will always be an element of subjectivity in the results.
And so it was with interest that I read the latest edition of Internet Retailer, which was promoting the Hot 100 as "the world's best retail web sites".
According to their editorial letter, each site goes through a rigorous selection process involving a 16-strong team of specialists instructed to look for e-commerce sites that "have broken new ground that other e-retailers can learn from".
On the basis that address validation technology is now a standard feature for many U.K.-based e-commerce websites, helping to improve user experience and trust in the checkout process as well as to confirm shipping details, I decided to carry out my own research to see how many of the Hot 100 web sites used this type of service.
Personalising country web sites
One of the main trends that I've noticed in recent years is the shift in focus of U.S. retail web sites to take advantage of the opportunities to sell internationally.
Not so long ago it was relatively common to find U.S. web sites with shipping address forms that included obligatory fields for U.S. states, making it impossible to enter a correct foreign address, sending the signal to overseas buyers that the company wasn't interested in their business. However, this is now changing.
To help personalize the information to overseas buyers more than 20% of the Hot 100 included IP location services to identify the origin of the incoming request and to show a relevant "country-specific" web site.
A typical message on the Nordstrom website, for example, identified that my request was coming from the U.K., informed me about the shipping and charging methods, but also allowed me to change the origin country in case the U.K wasn't correct.
Geolocation services were also used to provide a better delivery experience by allowing the customer to identify their nearest store based on ZIP code for either personal collection or for delivery from the store. Lowes.com, a building supplies company, provided a good example of this approach.
Validating shipping details
On the addressing side, many of the Hot 100 appeared to be sensitive to how shipping details are captured within their forms, although the extent to which these web sites helped in the process varied widely.
86% of the Hot 100 websites, for example, assisted their customers with their address entry, although for many this was just restricted to a simple U.S. state dropdown list, with over 69% of all listed web sites adopting this approach.
While this method enables the retailer to standardize their U.S. state data and to potentially confirm state tax rates at checkout, it is of relatively limited use to the consumer and does little to validate shipping details. It also gives a messy feel for the web site.
A slightly more sophisticated approach, which a limited number of retailers have taken, is to use ZIP code validation to autopopulate both the city and state fields. But this method again requires the customer to manually complete the rest of their address and doesn't validate for shipping purposes.
37 of the Hot 100 websites included complete address validation, typically where the address entered by the customer was checked against the U.S. Postal Service or other reference address databases in the background. Thirty-three of these retailers, or almost 90%, validated the address details in a "cleanse-type process" after the information had been manually entered, whilst only four had software which autocompleted the address and verified at the point of entry.
The method of validation in the cleanse-type process ranged from a simple message that informed the customer that there appeared to be a problem with the address details to a more sophisticated approach which suggested alternative valid addresses to choose. Hayneedle.com uses the latter method and whilst also providing ZIP+4 validated addresses, still provides too many options to confuse or frustrate the customer, especially if their address isn't listed.
Whilst I wasn't aware of any of these validation processes halting the checkout, there seemed to be lots of potential for customer frustration and of course the possibility of a lost sale.
Interestingly, though many of these online retailers seemed to be sensitive to the amount of personal data that they were asking potential customers to enter, with almost half (48%) providing a more restricted "guest checkout" and, even more surprisingly, two of the Hot 100 websites provided Facebook-only login to their websites.
I personally doubt whether this is the sign of things to come, however, as it limits the potential market for the web site to Facebook users who are less sensitive to their personal information.
In my case I didn't venture beyond their home page.
In summary, the points which stood out most for me in analyzing the Hot 100 list are that U.S. retailers are becoming far more internationally focused and that they are sensitive to the information that they capture on their customers. However, currently their main focus appears to be on validating address details to limit returns and customer service issues from poor shipping rather than providing a better, faster way for their customers to enter their address data.
On which note, I would be interested to hear from any retailers with views on either cart abandonment resulting from poor data capture processes or shipping returns arising from inaccurate customer addresses.
Retailers can respond to these comments from Postcode Anywhere CEO Guy Mucklow by e-mailing Natalie Green at firstname.lastname@example.com.
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From Thomas Jefferson Encyclopedia
Early in November 1772 - when he had a wife, a month-old child, and an unfinished house - Thomas Jefferson acquired a family pet. For five shillings he bought a mockingbird[1] from one of the slaves of his father-in-law, John Wayles. It was the first in a procession of singing birds that would always be part of Jefferson's household.
He purchased two more from the same Tidewater source the following year, evidence that the wild mockingbird - a conspicuous presence at Monticello today - was then absent from Jefferson's mountaintop. Twenty years later, it finally arrived in the wake of the westering population. Writing from Monticello in May 1793, Thomas Mann Randolph informed Jefferson in Philadelphia of the advent of the first resident mockingbird, and Jefferson responded with his well-known tribute to Mimus polyglottos: "I sincerely congratulate you on the arrival of the Mocking bird. Learn all the children to venerate it as a superior being in the form of a bird, or as a being which will haunt them if any harm is done to itself or it's eggs. I shall hope that the multiplication of the cedar in the neighborhood, and of trees and shrubs round the house, will attract more of them: for they like to be in the neighborhood of our habitations, if they furnish cover."[2]
The mockingbirds Jefferson purchased in the 1770s came with only a stock of songs from the woods and fields of Charles City County. He must have provided additional musical instruction himself. If he in fact carried a bird to France in 1784, it may have added to its repertoire some sounds common to mockingbirds imported from America. After their month-long transatlantic voyage they interspersed their first European performances with long imitations of the creaking of the ship's timbers.
At least two of the birds in the President's House, however, had already received singing lessons when Jefferson purchased them in 1803 - for ten and fifteen dollars, the usual price of a "singing" mockingbird. Jefferson's butler, Etienne Lemaire, was apparently proud of their serenades, which included popular American, Scottish, and french tunes, as well as imitations of all the birds of the woods.
Jefferson's weather memorandum book reveals that he had at least four mockingbirds:
1806 Jan. 22. "N.O. [New Orleans] mockg. bird begins to sing."
1806 Feb. 19. "2d. Mockg. bird sings."
1806 Feb. 25. "The old bird begins to sing."
1808 Jan. 23. "Orleans bird sings."
1808 Jan. 31. "The old mock. bird sings."
1808 March 2. "The middle aged bird sings."
and finally, on March 3, "Dick sings." A name at last, although it is rather disappointing after the Celtic and Gallic ring of Cucullin and Fingal, Bergère and Armandy, Jefferson's horses and sheepdogs. Dick is unquestionably the "favorite" mockingbird whose cage Margaret Bayard Smith described as suspended among the roses and geraniums in the window recesses of the presidential cabinet.
Jefferson, she continued, cherished the favorite "with peculiar fondness, not only for its melodious powers, but for its uncommon intelligence and affectionate disposition, of which qualities he gave surprising instances. It was the constant companion of his solitary and studious hours. Whenever he was alone he opened the cage and let the bird fly about the room. After flitting for a while from one object to another, it would alight on his table and regale him with its sweetest notes, or perch on his shoulder and take its food from his lips. Often when he retired to his chamber it would hop up the stairs after him and while he took his siesta, would sit on his couch and pour forth its melodious strains."[3]
In the spring of 1809, after Jefferson made his final southward migration, he wrote to Lemaire from his retirement at Monticello: "My birds arrived here in safety, and are the delight of every hour."
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1772 November 2. "Pd. Martin at Forest for mocking bird 5/."[4]
1773 July 9. "Pd. Jame for two mockg. birds 11/6."[5]
1781 April 5. "Pd. Jame for mocking bird £18."[6]
1785 June 21. (Jefferson to Abigail Adams). "...I heard there the Nightingale in all it's perfection: and I do not hesitate to pronounce that in America it would be deemed a bird of the third rank only, our mockingbird and fox-coloured thrush being unquestionably superior to it."[7]
1787 May 21. (Jefferson to Martha Jefferson Randolph). "...Endeavor, my dear, to make yourself acquainted with the music of this bird [nightingale], that when you return to your own country you may be able to estimate it's merit in comparison with that of the mocking bird."[8]
1803 May 31. "Gave Joseph Daugherty ord. on J. Barnes for 10. D. to buy a mockg. bird & cage."[9]
1803 November 17. "Pd. Steele for a mocking bird 15.D."[10]


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Leinster scored a crucial 77th-minute penalty try to come from behind to defeat Connacht 16-13 at the RDS in Dublin.
Leinster scored a crucial 77th-minute penalty try to come from behind to defeat Connacht 16-13 at the RDS in Dublin.
Despite going into the encounter with just one win in the league all season, Pat Lam's side went into the interval 13-9 ahead through Kieran Marmion's try and eight points from the boot of Dan Parks.
In a lacklustre first half, Ian Madigan's three penalties was the home team's response before the break as they struggled to break down a resilient Connacht.
However, when Ronan Loughney and Marmion were sin-binned towards the end of the match, the pressure resulted in a penalty try being awarded.
The visitors went into the game in bottom position in the Pro12, but they made a bright start to proceedings and took an early 6-0 lead through the boot of Parks.
Although Madigan immediately reduced the deficit with a penalty of his own, the hosts were surprisingly poor defensively. And a mistake on their own try-line allowed the impressive Marmion to snipe and touch down.
The conversion from their stand-off was successful and they opened up a shock 13-3 advantage.
Matt O'Connor's men then moved up a gear stretching the Connacht rearguard but, despite enjoying the majority of possession, successive Madigan three-pointers were their only reward before half-time.
Both teams had opportunities to add to the score at the start of the second period, but the respective kickers missed a chance each at goal.
With ten minutes remaining Loughney was sin-binned for the Galway-based outfit before the pressure told further on the away side when Marmion was also yellow carded. And it was no surprise to see a penalty try awarded just two minutes from the end as Leinster somehow snatched the win.
The scorers:
For Leinster:
Try: Penalty
Con: Madigan
Pens: Madigan 3
For Connacht:
Try: Marmion
Con: Parks
Pens: Parks 2
Yellow Cards: Loughney, Marmion
Leinster: 15 Rob Kearney, 14 Fergus McFadden, 13 Luke Fitzgerald, 12 Noel Reid, 11 Dave Kearney, 10 Ian Madigan, 9 Eoin Reddan, 8 Jamie Heaslip (capt), 7 Sean O'Brien, 6 Kevin McLaughlin, 5 Quinn Roux, 4 Devin Toner, 3 Michael Bent, 2 Sean Cronin, 1 Jack McGrath
Replacements: 16 Aaron Dundon, 17 Jack O'Connell, 18 Martin Moore, 19 Mike McCarthy, 20 Shane Jennings, 21 Isaac Boss, 22 Jimmy Gopperth, 23 Zane Kirchner
Connacht:15 Gavin Duffy, 14 Tiernan O'Halloran, 13 Robbie Henshaw, 12 Craig Ronaldson, 11 Matt Healy, 10 Dan Parks, 9 Kieran Marmion, 8 George Naoupu, 7 Jake Heenan, 6 Mata Fifita, 5 Craig Clarke, 4 Michael Swift (capt), 3 Rodney Ah You, 2 Sean Henry, 1 Brett Wilkinson
Replacements: 16 Dave Heffernan, 17 JP Cooney, 18 Ronan Loughney, 19 Aly Muldowney, 20 Andrew Browne, 21 Paul O'Donohoe, 22 Darragh Leader, 23 Fionn Carr
Referee: David Wilkinson (IRFU)
Assistant referees: Mark Patton, Barrie O'Connell (both IRFU)
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Who do you think is the next opponent in straw hat pirates in New world?
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Who do you think is the next opponent in straw hat pirates in New world?
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Probably some evil-doers at the fishman Island i guess
Probably someone at fishman island or a new enemy as soon as they enter the New World. I think the enemies they face upon entering the new world will be either a new one we don't know, a supernova, or some marines. I don't think they'll face a yonkou right off the bat.
Signature by me.
They'll all have those. It's a new era for them.
But if you asked, who will they have trouble during their trip to and at Fishman Island then it can be anything.
Hmm it's been awhile since they straight up fought against another pirate crew. Lately it was all just WG or Marines or Shichibukai. So maybe they'll fight some new crew here? I dunno. But whoever they fight I think it'll be someone new.
A dude with Saw's for hands, or a guy with a Peg Leg that shoots Needles outah his eyes or something like that.
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Rich countries bully poor countries into accepting unfair trade rules at a multilateral or bilateral level. This impacts on the fight to win global justice for people and the planet.
The Trade Justice Movement is a coalition of more than 60 members organisations. We campaign for trade justice - not free trade - with the rules weighted to benefit poor people and the environment.


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Lots of Talk, Not Much Action
For various reasons, I have been pretty much out of the Royals' loop for the better part of the past two weeks. Here's what I apparently missed:
- Ned Yost views Jarrod Dyson as the best lead-off option on the team and that no one else really fits the role. Of course, even Ned intimates that Dyson has little chance to make the roster. I pointed out the void of a true lead-off hitter within the organization earlier this month. Is it good or bad to have an opinion much the same as the Royals' manager?
- Chris Getz's head is okay now. Although I kind of have a weird fascination with Getz, that feeling will last exactly as long as it takes the Royals to call up Mike Moustakas. At that point, Getz will either stop playing or start taking time away from a far superior hitting Mike Aviles. When that happens, fascination will no longer describe my feelings towards this player.
- Everett Teaford's truck was stolen. That's a shame.
- Joakim Soria wants a new nickname. I can see his logic, given what is going on in his native Mexico, but color be completely bored with this topic. Nicknames, at least non-sarcastic ones, have never really been all that interesting to me and maybe, just maybe, when you are as good as Joakim Soria we could just refer to him as, well, Joakim Soria.
- A number of pitchers had 'the ball come out of their hands real good' and a similar number of position players reported to camp 'in the best shape of their lives'.
- Of course, as Craig detailed yesterday, Jason Kendall confirmed my feeling that he is pretty much of a clown (not the funny type, mind you). Listen, I don't have any fond feelings for Nick Wright, but there was nothing in his questioning of Mike Moustakas that warranted intervention from anyone. I guess we can thank Kendall for making just another 'softball question-cliche answer' standard baseball interview something interesting. Certainly, what Kendall did is no worse than what George Brett did to a young television reporter on the golf course last year (or was it two?). The difference is that George Brett is in the Hall of Fame and Jason Kendall never will be: nobody said life was fair.
I guess all this column really does is remind all of us how non-eventful this time of year can be. All that changes on Sunday as the games start. You can make the argument that spring training stats do not matter, but spring training games certainly do.
Count me as ready for some actual baseball.
And finally, the Ned Yost over/under stolen base contest. In Tuesday's Kansas City Star, Yost talked about the Royals renewed emphasis on baserunning (the team has been a woeful unit on the base paths the past few years) and in that article offered up the following thoughts on stolen base abilities:
- Mike Aviles: 25 to 30
- Lorenzo Cain: 25
- Alcides Escobar: 40
- Jeff Francouer: 15
- Chris Getz: 40
"You just have to know how to do it. You just have to work at it." (Ned Yost via Kansas City Star)
Alright, which of the above (if any) reach those numbers? And how many caught stealing do they incur getting there?


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Football has been very, very good to us.
Even though 2013-2015 were 3 losing season's, we can console ourselves with this fact-
# of Super Bowl victories since 1985:
1-Chicago, St. Louis, Tampa Bay, Indianapolis, New Orleans, Seattle
2-Washington, Green Bay, Pittsburgh, Baltimore
3-San Francisco, Dallas, Denver
4-New York Giants!!! & NE
Let's make it 5 in 2016 so we can be on a LINE all by ourselves again!!!
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Creeping through the jungle
Children's Gallery 9 December 2006–1 April 2007
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John Olsen 'Tree frog' 1973, lithograph, Collection of the National Gallery of Australia © John Olsen. Licensed by VISCOPY, Australia
Creeping through the jungle takes visitors on a journey of exploration through the tropical rainforests of Australia, the Pacific, Southeast Asia, and Central and South America. The exhibition opens in the Children's Gallery at the National Gallery of Australia on Saturday 9 December 2006.
The exhibition features a broad range of art media including prints by William Robinson and other Australian artists, a life-sized cassowary made of plant fibres and feathers and a wooden sow from Papua New Guinea. Several big cats prowl the exhibition, including a Mayan burial urn that has a jaguar sitting upright on the lid. These big cats guard the treasure at the end of the journey – a small collection of exquisitely modelled golden birds and animals made by the Tairona and Sinu people of Columbia.
Creeping through the jungle encourages children to learn about the animal, bird, insect and plant life of the rainforests and to think about their own place in the world and the environment. The works of art in this exhibition stand testament to the remarkable influence of the natural environment over artists through the centuries, and draw children into an appreciation of art through their delight in the creatures of the forest.
The Children's Gallery is dedicated to exhibitions drawn from the national collection, aimed at maximising the enjoyment and enrichment of a visiting child's experience. These exhibitions encourage and challenge children to be engaged and stimulated by art and are supported by a range of interactive activities.
Creeping through the jungle is curated by the Department of International Painting and Sculpture. The exhibition is supported by a range of public programs made possible through partnership with the National Zoo and Aquarium.
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Structural Regulation as Antidote to Complexity Capture
Robert F. Weber
Georgia State University College of Law
March 8, 2012
American Business Law Journal, Vol. 49, Issue 3, Fall 2012
University of Tulsa Legal Studies Research Paper No. 2012-01
This article proposes a new way of thinking about the ways in which market complexity threatens the future viability of financial regulation. It examines financial complexity in the context of the ample literature on complexity from the physical and social sciences that has, to date, been underappreciated in law and economics scholarship. According to this physical and social science literature, complexity means something more than "very complicated" or "difficult to understand."
Regulators, like all agents charged with tasks, are limited by their bounded rationality. But in conditions of complexity, the problem of regulators' bounded rationality emerges as less of an obstacle to be overcome than a structural impediment to effective policy. To the extent regulators rely on industry itself to provide the information they require to make a good-faith effort at performing their statutory mandates, they risk complexity capture — a soft, hegemonic capture of even virtuous, public-regarding regulators who are resistant to traditional capture efforts by industry.
This article's contribution to the financial regulatory literature is to investigate financial market complexity in detail, drawing on recent research by complexity scientists. But highlighting the inherent difficulties of regulating complexity is only a diagnostic, preliminary step. This article proposes further a model of structural regulation — as opposed to behavior-based regulation — as an antidote to complexity capture. It is hoped that this article, by developing the notion of complexity capture and demonstrating the problems associated with continued reliance on industry-provided information and/or highly particularized systems of behavioral regulation, also makes a modest contribution to efforts to theorize a regulatory approach to combat the instability that complexity necessarily entails.
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Keywords: financial regulation, capital adequacy, administrative law, living wills, resolution, complexity capture, regulatory capture, safety and soundness, banking law, feedback effects, network effects, normal accidents
Date posted: March 8, 2012 ; Last revised: February 18, 2013
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In English Zodiac, the Mesha Rashi in Hindu Astrology is known as Aries. In April 2009, people born in Mesha Rasi will have a mixed period. There will be rise in expenditure this month. You will taste success in your professional arena. Stress will create some problems in your life this month
Don't be impatient at your workplace. Try to be disciplined. You will have disagreements with your colleagues. The ideal way to calm down is to listen to others before putting forward your ideas. You will need to make practical decisions. Business people will have a good month and you will be lucky in many deals.
There will some financial crisis and the best way to avoid major problems is by not being spendthrift. Think only about saving money this month and avoid lending money – it will be hard to get it back. Be alert and as chances of theft are high.
In relationships, drop all sort of jealousy otherwise it will harm your relationships. Couples should think about future and not of all those issues that you had in the past. Ideal period for those trying to get into a relationship.
Stress related problems will hamper your progress. Health of a family member will upset you.
(As per the demand of several readers – this monthly astrological prediction is specifically prepared for this blog by an astrologer. The blog only translated it from the regional language into English and we are not astrologers.)
Please note that Astrological predictions should not be your guide in life and it should not be given undue importance. Belief in that supreme power plus determination, hard work and trust in your abilities can override any prediction.


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Skip to comments.Is the H1N1 Swine Flu Vaccine Safe?
Posted on 10/20/2009 8:51:41 AM PDT by Ben Mugged
What do we really know about the 2009 H1N1 swine flu vaccine? What do we really not know?
Questions about the safety of the vaccine persist. Surf the Internet or flip through TV stations and you'll encounter a multitude of myths and a whole lot of hype.
What are the facts? Straightforward answers follow these questions:
Is the 2009 H1N1 swine flu vaccine safe?
Isn't the 2009 H1N1 swine flu vaccine too new to trust?
Why should I believe what government scientists say about swine flu?
Doesn't the H1N1 swine flu vaccine contain thimerosal?
The 1976 swine flu vaccine wasn't safe. Why should I trust this one?
We don't really know what drugmakers are putting in the swine flu vaccine, do we?
Is the 2009 H1N1 swine flu vaccine safe? The hype: Don't worry, the swine flu vaccine is perfectly safe for everyone.
The myth: Don't take it: We have no way of knowing whether the swine flu vaccine is safe.
The facts: No vaccine is 100% safe for everyone. People with allergies to eggs, for example, can't take flu vaccines because eggs are involved in the manufacturing process.
And flu vaccines cause mild but common reactions. About one in three people get a sore arm from the shot, some with a little redness or even swelling. Some 10% to 15% of people feel tired or get a headache; some may even run a low fever.
And vaccines can trigger rare but serious reactions, even among people with no apparent allergies or sensitivities.
So if vaccines aren't 100% safe, why risk them?
(Excerpt) Read more at webmd.com ...
My wife is a clinical pharmacist and is getting both the regular flu shot and H1N1.
I just got my regular flu shot 10 minutes ago.
They are both safe.
I'll pass.
I made the decision, not to take the shot....................now it is irrelevant, I just had H1N1.
I know this doesn't apply to today's flus or flu vaccines, but about 8 years ago I got the seasonal flu shot. A few days or a week later, I came down with the worst flu of my life... I could barely get out of bed for days. I have no idea if if I "caught the flu" from the flu shot or if the vaccine just didn't do the trick...
Under normal circumstances, I would not be concerned and I would get the vaccination without worry.
However, I trust absolutely NOTHING that comes from the Obama administration, period.
Their incompetence and total lack of integrity has set new records...... all bad.
Although in a much different context,Reagan once said, "Trust, but verify".
With Obama and his tribe, I say, "Trust absolutely nothing from that bastard".
They aint stickin that needle in MY H1N1.
I'm with you...100%.
Same here. Instead, I'm boosting my immune system to help prevent flu or swine flu, or anything else that comes along. I don't remember the last time I was sick.
I wonder why the Obama daughters did not take the vaccine????
Does O know something we don't know?
If it can be shown that there is more vaccine going to liberals and commie-enabling -12bama voters, then I'll consider getting in line.
I asked my physician why the FDA did not approve the swine flu vaccine. He told me they did approve it. I checked. He was right. It was approved after they waived all of the qualification testing.
This is as hoaky as it gets. Next question: Why were the qual tests waived?
wrong, man you drank the koolaid didn't you ...
Grow up.
So far, I'm going to take my chances with this year's seasonal flu and H1N1. I don't plan to get either vaccine...
You mean like his claim that both are safe? The H1N1 that was supposedly tested via a mock vaccine and some that will be made in china, I grew up along time ago, that's why I no longer drink koolaid ...
The testing will be done on the general population, that's all.
I survived the flu shot and the H1N1 flumist. Do I get some koolaide too?
The novel H1N1 vaccine is the same thing as the seasonal vaccine that has been tested and widely used for years. It's simply a monovalent version, while the seasonal is trivalent (targeting one virus vs. three).
The World Health Organization predicts which three flu strains will be most likely before a given flu season, and its recommendations are followed for the seasonal flu shot. Every year it selects an H1N1 strain, an H3N2 strain, and a B strain. The base of the flu vaccine is always the same, only the viral material targeted changes based on the WHO's recommendations. This year, WHO made its recommendations in February, then the swine flu outbreak occurred in April.
Since it was too late to alter the seasonal flu schedule, a "new" vaccine had to be developed for novel H1N1. But it's not really new at all: It's the same base as the seasonal flu shot, but with a different strain of H1N1 and no material from H3N2 or B. Had WHO waited a few months, or had the swine flu outbreak occurred earlier, novel H1N1 would have been included in the seasonal shot.
So there's really no reason for substantial tests. The base of the vaccine has been proven throughout the world for a number of years, and the same experience tells us that altering the targeted flu strain does not cause any unexpected changes. It simply changes which strain the vaccine protects against. (And I don't think seasonal vaccines are regularly tested, although I could be wrong.)
Let's see where you're at in a month, then we'll know ...
Can you point me at a reference? By the way, you know why the vaccine is not produced in America? Hillary Clinton drove the commercial manufacturers out of business.
I am not trying to convince folks either way. I only want them to make an informed decision not one based on innuendo and rumor.
Dr. Scythian obviously has a doctorate in pharmacology like my spouse.
The difference is that he printed his from the internet.
I hear he's also a reverend and has his MBA.
Dr. Scythian.
FWIW - I work in clinical trials for a global company.
Getting the shot myself as soon as I can find a dose of it.
I am hardly an expert and you should by no means take this as a fact but it is my understanding that it takes a least a week for the flu vaccine to be effective. I also understand that there is a lag time between the time you "catch" the flu and become symptomatic so there's a good chance (if the above is true) that you already had the flu when you got the shot.
I mention this because the same thing happened to me many years ago so I dropped getting the shot. Then after having the flu for a couple of years in a row I started the shots again, getting them as early in the season as they were available, and haven't had the flu since.
I understand your decision and by no means am I trying to change your mind, I only mention this just in case you want to do more research because yeow, those couple of cases of flu I had were brutal and it took me weeks before I got back to whatever passes for normal for me.
I'll be here, I've received the flu vaccine every year for the last 25 years.
The flu shot cannot give you the flu, on the other hand, it takes a few weeks to build up the protective antibodies.
It sounds like bad timing.
How were your symptoms?
I never get sick - never had the flu (nor the flu shot), colds never settle in (I may have a day of post nasal drip/sore throat that goes away), rarely get stomach illnesses, or if I do they are more mild than the rest of my family, so my immune system is great.
Anyway, that said, about a month ago I got a bad sore throat, slight fever (I never have a fever either), lots of fatigue for a couple days running, and the sore throat turned into a horrendous mostly dry cough that lasted for several weeks. I STILL have a cough - feel fine, but traces of the cough and some slight mucus remain. And I never got congested in my face.
Weirdest few weeks I've ever had with regard to illness. So I'm curious as to what it actually was (I didn't go to the dr). I've joked that it was swine flu, but maybe it was. :)
On one hand not getting sick with the viruses is a blessing, on the other hand, people who never feel sick are statistically at slightly higher risk for cancer.
I kind of get a kick out of all the products to "build up the immune system", if they were actually making the immune system more potent, they would cause more symptoms with the inevitable viral infections which we all get.
Based on your description, I would not be surprised in the least if you did have the flu.
This year I had 3 days of flu, even my fingers hurt, then a week with no symptoms and felt fine.
Now a deep cough but no fever, from what I understand it is the secondary fever you have to watch for.
Now I am 43 ,in the bracket to get this severely, my flight surgeon ( 75)told me , I'm the prime target for this, the emergency rooms and ICU in NM are full........half are pre-existing the other half, the sickest half are like me.
My wife, who is older has only the cough.
I hope this helps.
I won't take either.
It does help, thank you. I'd be curious to know how long your cough lasts. If mine is the same, deep is certainly a good word for it. I have read that lots of H1N1 patients have lingering coughs. I'm 41 and in that same bracket, but maybe my immune system saved me from the worst of things like usual.
And speaking of age brackets, my 6 & 8 yr old didn't get sick at all, my 12 yr old coughed for several days, but my husband got pretty sick, felt bad longer, and still has traces of cough too.
Maybe it WAS H1N1. Although even if I could check at this point, I hear that they're seeing so many cases that they're not doing the specific test anymore.
That's a little disconcerting. :) Has anyone investigated why that might be?
The same type of immune reaction that makes you ill with a virus is involved in killing cells that are turning malignant. The effect is minimal, I wouldn't lose any sleep over it.
The professor was talking about it as a trade off for all of those days in misery with colds.
Well, I am going to get to test out my hypothesis about your flu and the timing of your flu shot. I recieved my vaccination 1 week ago today, my son just came down with a fever and flu symptoms.
It is now a mad race between my immune system and the virus I probably have been exposed to for the last 2 days.
I'm going to be pretty bummed if I get the flu, it would be the first time since Reagan was president.
I think you misunderstood - I've never had a flu shot.
I'm posting from my phone, I thought you were the one that got the flu a couple of days after getting the vaccine. My mistake.
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Logitech may have it's own set of accessories for its Revue Google TV box, but the best peripheral may just be that Android phone you already have, which can be turned into a full-fledged remote control with the Logitech Revue app that's just hit the Android Market. Like other similar smartphone remote apps, it will give you both a trackpad and a keyboard in addition to the usual remote control buttons, and it's thankfully free to download. Hit up Android Market to find it right now, or head on past the break if you'd prefer to download it QR code-style.
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Note that Apple has done this for Apple TV already. And there are multiple ways to turn your iPhone into a TV remote using Apps.
The two screen experience for Social TV just got a whole lot more interesting. Who's going to build the first Social TV app that also controls content and perhaps pushes and pulls content to others?
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