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Tuesday, May 29, 2012
Interview with Chris Wyatt, Youtoo TV
How do you create and test a product which takes videos, photos, and other information--in real time--and broadcasts that to a television network? In the case of Chris Wyatt, CEO of Dallas-based Youtoo (www.youtoo.com), you buy an entire cable network, and develop your software and products around it. Wyatt--a serial entrepreneur who last built and sold GodTube.com to Salem Communications--told us the story behind how his company is developing the technology to connect the online world of the web and mobile, and plumbing it into live, television updates, and how the whole cable network ownership was just a way to test and demonstrate the idea. Youtoo is backed by a number of investors, including Mark Burnett, the reality show producer who created the whole reality show industry via his shows Survivor, The Apprentice, The Voice, and many others.
What is Youtoo?
Chris Wyatt: Youtoo is a technology company which has been in stealth mode for the last four years. What we do, is we have developed the first, interactive television system that bridges a mobile phone, the web, and television. What we did in Q4 of last year, is we launched Youtoo TV and Youtoo.com, as well as the Youtoo app. If you're in one of 177 television markets, you can find us as a cable channel as Youtoo TV, 24/7. At the same time, we have a social network companion on mobile phones, including Android and iPhone. We are the world's first social television network, where, from the web, or mobile, you can record broadcast quality video, which is aired on television within minutes. We can not only post video to television, but also five other types of data sets, including voice, text, and more. With all of that said, we didn't design the software and system to make Youtoo.com and Youtoo TV a cable network and social network, what we did, is we did it as a test bed and development site, so that we could license the technology on a private label basis to large, major broadcasters, as well as cable networks and local broadcasters.
What was the inspiration behind Youtoo?
Chris Wyatt: My background is that I'm a former network television executive out of Hollywood, notably for CBS, and spend thousands of hours on programming daytime and reality shows for CBS. I was hired in 1997 as part of a five man startup team which was one of the first social networks, Communities.com, when I left Hollywood to find the interaction of TV and the Internet. Communities.com reached a 2 billion valuation and had a successful exit. That was a journey that took sixteen years. I moved to Texas in 2006, and wanted to try to get back to television. I launched by second, direct-to-consumer social network, Godtube, which was called the Christian answer to YouTube. We were the media darling of Wall Street, and after 4 months we raised $30M at a valuation of $180M dollars, and had a huge successful exit. I sold me interest in that company shortly after that, and bought two cable television networks, which is how we got started. So, it took sixteen years to get to today, with the whole idea of creating interactive television and combining it with a social network.
Wasn't it expensive to buy a cable network, and why buy your own network?
Chris Wyatt: We knew that there was no way that any network would let a technology company come into the back end of their broadcast infrastructure, and test in a live environment. Very much like a technology company buys servers and mobile phones to develop their product, we had to buy a platform to develop ours. In this case, we had to buy a television network to develop the technology, because no one in their right mind with their network would let us develop and test our product. Now, we're meeting with all of the major networks, and all the major cable networks, and we're over run with customers and trying to keep up. There are two dozen shows in the fall which will be using our technology, so that they can put people on TV and have them interact with the program. Every day on Youtoo TV, we are putting 300 to 500 people on television. There's now literally 90,000 user videos on television, and we've seen close to 400,00 social interactions on television, whether that it through a tweet or text to television, a pictures on television, or a text message scrolling on the bottom of the screen, or a feature of their profile pictures form MySpace or YouTube. To get to that point, we had to have a network so that we could create this software and develop it and have it function, and so that we could show it to companies to sell it.
It really sounds like you are trying to bridge the world of the Internet and television?
Chris Wyatt: This has been a sixteen year journey for you, and I've always sat at the intersection of television and the Internet. This is the future of television, which is what the tagline of the company was going to be. Unfortunately, another company took that, but the best way to describe it, is when I show Mark Burnett the technology, he told me "this is obvious." He meant, this was the obvious next evolution in the technology, and someone had to do it. There had to be that one person, one company would could put both Silicon Valley and Hollywood under one roof, and put it together.
What's the future of your cable TV network?
Chris Wyatt: Now that we've developed the technology, we're actually looking to divest or sell it. It was never our goal to run a television network in parallel. Right now, I'm sitting in the lobby of talk shows and their offices, and talking about bringing this technology into their shows. Our goal has always been to license this, and we want to not only be platform agnostic but broadcaster agnostic. We did not buy a cable network to run a cable business. What we want to be, is platform agnostic, broadcast agnostic, and work whether you're on Android, iOS, or Microsoft, or if you're a local broadcast station, cable station, or major network. We're an application services provider, and technology services is what we're in business to do.
That's why you see we recently released on Facebook. Now, you can be on TV from inside Facebook. What that means, is you can record your broadcast quality video right there, and get to television from Facebook. In the fall, there are about two dozen shows that will be using our technology inside Facebook as a private label service. You will not see Powered by Youtoo TV. You'll be able to try out for a reality show from the convenience of your home, enter singing and talent competitions. We'll be making an announcement about that very soon. If you think about it, we give a sports network can have a post-game wrap-up show, where you can be the armchair quarterback. After a presidential debate, you can give instant feedback, and provide a people meter much like Nielsen, or an applause meter where you can see how candidates are doing. For a reality show, you can let speakers say what they are actually thinking about and have live voting. We've got one network signed up, who has yet to announce this, with a dating program, where people can submit the videos they make on their computer, mobile device, or Facebook, and submit it to be on the show. Think of a millionaire matchmaker where you can submit a 30 second video and maybe get a date. That's what we're seeing right now.


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Shovel Ready: Excerpt from hardboiled dystopian thriller by Adam Sternbergh
Adam Sternbergh's debut novel, Shovel Ready, "has the grimy neon feel of Warren Ellis's Transmetropolitan combined with a touch of Philip K. Dick's gonzo cyberpunk," says Austin Grossman, author of You and Soon I Will Be Invincible. Read our exclusive excerpt.
About Shovel Ready: Spademan used to be a garbage man. That was before the dirty bomb hit Times Square, before his wife was killed, and before the city became a blown-out shell of its former self.
Now he's a hitman.
In a near-future New York City split between those who are wealthy enough to "tap in" to a sophisticated virtual reality, and those who are left to fend for themselves in the ravaged streets, Spademan chose the streets. His new job is not that different from his old one: waste disposal is waste disposal. He doesn't ask questions, he works quickly, and he's handy with a box cutter. But when his latest client hires him to kill the daughter of a powerful evangelist, his unadorned life is upended: his mark has a shocking secret and his client has a sordid agenda far beyond a simple kill. Spademan must navigate between these two worlds—the wasteland reality and the slick fantasy—to finish his job, clear his conscience, and make sure he's not the one who winds up in the ground.
The way it happened was, it started as business software. Some kind of fancy teleconferencing gimmick. Clunky helmets, silly goggles, but once you plug in, it was pretty amazing. 3D around a table. Avatars that look surprisingly like you. Pick a tie, any color. Your choice. Dreams really do come true.
That was maybe ten years back.
And if we've learned anything in this once-proud world, it's that once someone figures out how to do something as miraculous as that, it's only a matter of time before someone else soups it up so you can use it to suck a horse's cock. In pretend land.
Or run a brothel. Or be a holy Roman emperor.
In pretend land.
Soon people were running around, half-centaur, or space-alien furry, or Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, or what have you. Fucking Chewbacca.
Literally fucking Chewbacca.
Then they got rid of the helmets and goggles and made the whole thing about a thousand times more convincing and all you had to do was get in a bed. But beds are expensive. From basic model to deluxe silver bullet. The basic ones are just tricked-out cots, but the top end are like shiny half-coffins, personal escape pods, with a bunch of touch screens to guide you into the dream, sensors to put you under. Full immersive experience.
As real as real.
That's the pitch.
As for the specs, I can't tell you. I'm not an IT type. And I've only been in a bed a few times.
Not the deluxe kind either.
Anyway, they figure out that this is clearly where the money is. But the bandwidth required is huge. So they build another network, call it the limnosphere, everything shifts, and they leave the boring old Internet for the rest of us. Internet goes to seed, of course, but the rich don't care, because the rich are now lost in the limnosphere. It's like the Internet but better, much better, because it's an Internet you can live inside. Or the rich can. The costs are astronomical, of course, but then again, that's why they call them the rich.
After that, the math is pretty easy. Thirteen hours in first class from New York to Tokyo, or slip into a bed and hold your meeting in minutes, with you at the head of the board table, glowing like a gladiator pumped up on steroids and Cialis. Drop twenty thousand on diminishing returns at the plastic surgeon, mending the same old curtains, or spend it on a month-pass to the limnosphere, sashaying down Park Avenue like Marilyn Monroe's prettier sister. With a leopard's tail.
In pretend land.
Still, it was just part of life for the first while. An addictive, maddening, seductive, destructive part of life, but part of life. They called it limning, or tapping in, or going off-body, or whatever, and most people dipped in and out. For the first while.
But after the second attacks and the dirty bomb? Then the rich just up and disappeared. White flight, except they didn't go anywhere. They just drew the curtains and retired to their beds full-time. Hire a nurse to check your vitals, sign up for the weekly feed-bags, station armed guards to watch the gates, and goodnight moon. Goodnight stars. Goodnight world.
That was maybe five years ago.
My point being, usually how this works is I get a name, find an address, let myself in quietly, and introduce myself politely to an old man's atrophied body in a coffin that's already half-assembled. Even if the old man is only thirty. Feed-bags will keep you alive, but they won't help you keep your youthful glow. Or your hair. When you start limning full-time and go on permanent bed- rest, you pretty much leave your body behind.
So you lie there, half-mummified and lightly drooling. And unfortunately for you, someone back here in the nuts-and-bolts world has decided they can't let that grudge slide after all. And they found my number. And I found you.
Quick slit with the box-cutter and it's all over.
Except maybe not. Not in the dream. There is a theory, unprovable I guess, that when you die, there's a last little burst of neural activity. The brain's last helpless, hopeless little sigh. Normally, this would be your blown kiss to a cruel world as you exit, stage left.
Yes, I did a play in high school. Mitch in Streetcar, if you must know. Would have made a better Stanley.
But if you're in the limnosphere, in the dream, at that last moment, this little burst of brain activity loops. Your final seconds skip forever like a record. Even after they unplug the mummy and cart it to the furnaces. You remain as a data burp, hiccupping, some tiny line of code still in the dream. And you don't know this. That's the theory. You're just stuck in that last moment, an eternal right fucking now, endlessly repeating for however long the batteries of this planet hold their juice.
No one knows if it's true, of course, because how would you test it? They say they have programmers combing the code for these little hiccups, but most of their resources are on other things. Like developing newer, better, more tactilely realistic horse cocks.
But it's true enough that some people try to game it. After awhile they're not happy enough with just the dream. They pick a program, their ultimate fantasy. Movie star. Fuck your neighbor. Crowd roar when you take the podium on Inauguration Day. Or sight the podium in your rifle-scope. I don't know. That one fantasy you can never say out loud to anyone. The one moment you would happily live in forever.
They time it out to the second. Hire someone to stand by. Lean in. Make sure the lids are fluttering. Clock hits zero. Put you down.
Sounds weird, I know. But then again, people used to hang themselves while jerking off.
Funny thing is, most people choose real-life memories. Your husband turns around in the airport, back from the war, and it's really him. Your miracle mother comes out of her coma. You cut class and the bedroom door swings open and your high-school crush finally drops her dress. What people want is to live in that heart-swell of I can't believe this is happening, over and over again.
Black-market agencies sell this service. Split-second timing. Our watchers are the industry's best. Results guaranteed.
If they fail, who's going to tattle? You're lost in a loop somewhere, your needle bobbing on the inner edge of the record, at the far shore of a vast ocean of black.
So you better hope they loop the right moment.
Because if they miss, that person standing over you, watching you fall into the dream, if they miss, even by a moment, half a moment, or just a breath, then you're stuck, and your husband never turns around and you never know if he made it, or your mother stays sunk in her coma with you anchored bedside worrying, or you stare at that bedroom door forever, knob trembling, wondering what's about to come in.
I choose not to believe it. Seems too convenient, and besides, if I buy that, then I might believe I'm not ending someone. I'm just pausing them, maybe in the happiest moment they've ever had.
That seems cheap. It's a cop-out. So I think of it the other way.
Most of them have already given up on this world, the nuts-and-bolts world. This party's over and they've moved on to the after-party. They've left their bodies behind.
I'm just sweeping up.
Shovel Ready
Text © 2014 Adam Sternbergh. Permission to run excerpt granted by Random House LLC. All rights reserved.
Photograph: Jeff Lazell
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I'm writing this at the dining room table. The street lamps dim glow reminds me of Gregory Crewdson's cinematic photographs. Blue quiet with an edge of mystery. Inside a small New England town, something is about to happen and does right at the moment the shutter clicks.
It's barely 9 pm. I'm googly eye tired and snapping myself awake. I wanted to pop in and share this rustic tomato tart with you and to say hey, thanks for joining me in this little space that started five years ago.
Hooray for five. I love that you're here.
Before I land face forward onto the keyboard, I'll leave you with a heap of tomatoes and a tiny bit of work to be done in the kitchen. Believe me, it's worth it! I can't think of a better way to celebrate than with pie. More to come.
Rustic Tomato Tart with Vegan Chevré
makes 4 to 6 servings
rustic tart dough
2 cups unbleached all-purpose or whole-wheat pastry flour
1/4 teaspoon sea salt
12 tablespoons cold, vegan or dairy butter, cut into small pieces
1/3 to ½ cup ice water as needed
for the sun-dried tomato paste
1 cup sun-dried tomatoes (re-hydrated in warm water for 15 minutes, drained, then tossed with a little olive oil, a pinch of dried oregano and thyme)
1/4 cup pine nuts
2 garlic cloves
1 teaspoon sea salt
2 tablespoons extra-virgin olive oil
for the tart filling
10 stalks fresh oregano, leaves picked and roughly chopped
1/3 cup fresh chopped chives
10 ounces plain almond chevre or goat's milk chevre, sliced into rounds
1 pound ripe tomatoes, thinly sliced
10 stalks fresh thyme
2 tablespoons olive oil, plus extra for brushing on the tart dough
sea salt
freshly ground black pepper
To make the rustic tart dough, mix the flour and salt together in a bowl. Cut in the butter by hand or using a mixer with a paddle attachment, leaving some pea-sized chunks. Sprinkle the ice water over the top by the tablespoon and toss it with the flour mixture until you can bring the dough together into a ball. Press it into a disk and refrigerate and let the dough chill for 15 minutes.
To form a galette, roll it out on a lightly floured counter into a 14-inch irregular circle about 1/8-inch thick. Fold it into quarters and transfer it to the back of a sheet pan or a cookie sheet without sides. Unfold it. It will be larger than the pan.
Preheat the oven to 425°F.
To make the sun-dried tomato paste, put all the sun-dried tomatoes, pine nuts, garlic cloves, and salt into the bowl of a food processor and process to a rough paste. While the machine is running, drizzle in the olive oil adding just enough to create a smooth consistency.
To assemble the tart, spread the sun-dried tomato paste over the prepared tart dough, leaving a 2-inch border around the edge. Sprinkle with the oregano, chives, and chevre; arrange the tomatoes on top in an overlapping pattern. Cover the tomato paste with fresh tomatoes. Drop the thyme stalks over the tomatoes and drizzle with a little olive oil. Fold the edges of the dough over the tomatoes, folding the dough over every inch or so. Brush the top lightly with olive oil.
Bake the tart 25 to 30 minutes, until the crust is golden and the tomatoes collapse into tender goodness.


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"A Link to the Past this aint; but that doesn't mean it's not great!"
Before I begin, I want to clarify 2 things. One, I'm a LTTP fanboy, it's far and away my favorite Zelda title. Second, I don't shell out 10's because I like a game, I shell out 10's when a game is GOOD enough to DESERVE it. That said.. it's review time.
Story - 5/10
Egh.. I guess Zelda stories are never going to be any good. The game starts as the Picori Festival begins. The Picori are little kinda elven people that only children can see. They brought the gift of the Picori Blade (think Master Sword), to banish evil to the humans. You later find out these are the Minish People. The winner of a swordfighting tourney gets to touch the sacred blade, and this year's winner is a young wizard named Vaati. Naturally Vaati turns out to be evil, and uses the opprotunity to turn Princess Zelda to stone. So.. the point is to restore Zelda and save Hyrule.. again. You reforge the blade using 4 elements that you must collect, and then go after Vaati. Not much on the story. Considering that every Zelda game has the same basic story framework since LTTP, it's not great, but oh well.
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Sweet. The style of Wind Waker brought to 2D. Everything's fluidly animated, bright and colorful, and no slowdown. Perfect for this kind of Zelda game. Nice special effects, such as large bosses, scaling and rotation, transparencies, fog, translucent light. It all looks wonderful! Better than LTTP!
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My only small gripe about the gameplay is that I would had loved to see the L/R buttons mappable to items instead of the Roll (useless) and the Kinstone Fusion (which you only need on occasion really). They could had auto-switched to "Lift" and "Fuse" but, this isn't a huge issue at all. Add in all of the quests and areas of the game where you must shrink down to Minish size and back again to solve puzzles or meet new people, and you're talking about something that is extremely fun to play overall.
Overall - 9/10
Simply awesome. Aside from rather bland sound effects, the game is totally polished from start to finished. Everything feels solid and nothing feels added in. The controls are tight, the puzzles are well thought out, the bosses are innovative, and the result is extremely satisfying. You'll have fun finding all the Kinstone fusions, sneaking into people's houses as a Minish, and taking on normal-sized enemies when you're the size of a pin! If you like 2D Zelda, Capcom has put out something so fresh, yet so familiar, that this truly is a no-brainer.
Reviewer's Rating: 4.5 - Outstanding
Originally Posted: 06/29/05
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Refused a waterbirth!(88 Posts)
Hi girls,
well just had a midwife call round today after a home assesment yesterday for my homebirth and after monthes of planning I've just been told that I can't use my pool at all, as there is only 1 midwife trained in waterbirths.
I'm absolutely furious! I've talked about my home waterbirth to every midwife I've seen at every antenatel appointmentt and not once has anyone even hinted that this might not be possible.
I'm 36+3 and waited to order my pool from made in water until monday this week and it arrived yesterday and now the following day I'm told I can't use it. As you can imagine I had plenty to say to the midwife who is now going back to her supervisor to discuss it again taking into account that I've already received and paid for my pool! But she's off on annual leave now so won't find out til at least Monday and I know what the answer will be.
Not sure what to do now as I've been planning this for months and had my heart set on using the pool for labour and delivery! HELP!!!!
Hmmm, I gave birth in Walsall Manor and guess what, the pool wasn't available/no trained midwife on shift.
Am definatley not surprised to hear this is Sandwell hospital though.
Well tbh if when the time comes and I don't want to get out, I'm not going to. Even my midwife has said there's nothing they can do about it.
Hopefully guidelines should come tomorrow or monday...I just can't believe that I know more about waterbirth from watching tv than the midwives do!
This makes me sooooo angry!
I hope you get what you want Alicemamma.
Out of interest, how would they plan on getting you out for delivery if you refused??
AM - I am glad there has been progress but I am horrified that you have been asked to agree to get out the water for delivery.
I have been at many waterbirths and yes, women sometimes do come out. My experience has been more the opposite - women go in the water and say that they plan to get out but when the time comes they do not WANT to.
It is very much instinctive. At our unit often women have not thought of labouring in the pool when they come in then decide to try it.
When we first started. the request had to come from the woman. We had about 3 waterbirths a year.
Then we changed our policy and offered the pool to women who came into hospital in labour (normal pregnancy).
Last year we had 100 waterbirths.
You will feel much better about it all once you read the guidelines.
The SOM will support the midwives if the are nervous about you delivering in water - she will not tell you that you must come out. If she does, she should reconsider who shge is there for!
I have thought about that, I rang walsall manor and altho they do have a birthing pool in their delivery suite, they wouldn't support a home water birth either. I them rang b'ham womens hospital who do support home water births but typically I live to far away for them to cover me.
I do feel a lot about things now my hormones have calmed down since wednesday. I'm def labouring in my pool and have agreed to get out to deliver which I've heard a lot of women do anyway. I was just so upset about being bullied by that midwife. It was like the only answer she wanted was me to back down and she was going to keep on pushing me til I backed down. But that was why my own midwife ended the "discussion" and once outside told the other midwife to back off.
So hopefully that should be the end of it now, I'll just have to wait til d-day comes!
Can you not change hospitals AM? You have a strong case I reckon.
Thats a great tip..I'll have to get dh to hunt one out.
I live in west bromwich and come under Sandwell General & District Hospital altho I wish I'd booked in under Walsall Manor now as it has a lot better reputation and a higher star rating.
My midwife asked dh if he could go and get a condom so that she could put it over her sonicaid.
(Ever tried to find the condoms when you havn't used one for 9 months!!!!)
So yes, just get the condoms ready alicemamma. Where are you by the way as some of the places you have mentioned seems fairly close.
I also have a 2 1/2yr old but she is a very good girl for me so I'm not too worried about her.
When I go into labour she'll go round grandma & grandad's who only live 5 mins away. She loves spending time with them and I normally have to drag her home.
Been looking thru my delivery pack, didn't realise how much stuff there is! Suddenly feeling very real now there's only 2 1/2weeks to go!
AM - at least it sounds as though you have someone from the midwifery team on your side.
I'll be keeping everything crossed that you and the baby can hold on for a week.
Think you have done incredibly well to keep fighting, I'm due about the same time (at home hopefully but no water this time) and have a 2 1/2 year old in tow. Not sure if I would have found the strengh, could barely make it to the park this afternoon
This might sound odd, but I am sure I read in Sheila Kritzinger's "Birth your way" that you could put the doppler into a condom to use underwater if necessary. I just cant find the page now...
Thanks mears for clearing that up for me, I've never heard that before. I've also ordered a copy of those guidelines, thanks for the link
I've just had my own midwife brip my delivery pack round and she's apologised for the behaviour of the other midwife that came yesterday. She even admitted that the midwifes behaviour was intimidating and bullying. She went to her SOM this morning and basically told them that I know what I'm doing, I'm not going to put myself or my baby at risk and they should just leave things as they are....me labouring in the pool and getting out to deliver.
Feeling much better now and just praying that I don't go into labour next week as my midwife is on holiday and the evil midwife from yesterday in on call.
Just waiting to speak to the sure start midwife on monday who might be able to get a waterproof sonicaid for me to use.
Once again, thank you so much for all of your support..cyber flowers & chocs to you all
Alicemama - I've just seen this again - this is just awful. Would it be time to try plan B - get in touch with a different hospital and see if they will support you in the birth you want? I know that you absolutely shouldn't have to do this, but in the next couple of weeks you need to feel supported not bullied. I'm fuming on your behalf.
Wow Mears you shock me with how often the heartrate should be monitored and for how long. I now actually do not doubt that this was done for me but I was so much in my 'bubble' concentrating I obviously didn't notice. It is fab to have you on here to offer a professional pespective!
AM - Just to reiterate the SOM who came to see me was definately on my side to try and achieve the kind of birth I wanted. I wish I had tracked her down sooner in my case so get on to them at your hospital. Really Good Luck.
AM - I'm so sorry that you are having to go through all this now and can't believe the bullying tactics that are being employed. There is great advice on here already that I can't really add to but I wanted to let you know that my thoughts (and righteous fury!) are with you.
Hope you have the strengh to keep fighting, keep the chocolate levels up!
alicemama - please find out who the Supervisor of Midwives (SOM) is at the hospital (there will be more than one). He/she is not the Head of Midwifery but is responsible for ensuring that midwives have the ability to care for women safely and in a manner of their choosing!
I am a SOM at my hospital. When we had a home waterbirth request recently, we made sure the midwives got a training seminar on the subject. There is absolutely no excuse for midwives not be be able to do this - they can get access to plenty of literature and they should be able to contact other units for advice.
The SOM will support you in your request and support the midwives . An underwater doppler should be bought for use because it is better than disrupting the flow of labour by asking you to lift your bump out the water.
The heartbeat should be listened to every 15 minutes after each contraction for 1 full minute in the first stage of labour. In the second stage it should be listened to after each contraction for 1 full minute.
I am sure I posted a link to midwifery guidelines earlier in the post. Send away for them - they are not expensive and they are very good. It means you will be armed with all the info you need about waterbirth.
Oh NO!! How dare they!! I am very on your behalf. Get everything in writing. I had a few (unrelated) issues surrounding the birth of my second child and complained and had the supervisor of midwives and her boss come to my home. They were very sympathetic but the important thing was that they put EVERYTHING in writing to me in a letter detailing the points made and what action they were to take. I was definately not monitored after every contraction when I had my waterbirth with dd1 two and a half years ago. That is utter crap. You could just be in a bath FFS. I am so angry on your behalf. They are taking your choices away and have no right to. I really hope you have the strength to get this resolved. Good Luck
I feel very angry on your behalf. Pls look after yourselves. I am having difficulty with my midwife myself and recognise this bullying type behaviour. However, as others have already said, this is about YOU AND YOUR BABY they are there to help you and you are not there for them. If they are incompetent/rude/poorly trained you need to get another midwife. If you don't trust your midwife you are much more likely to end up with medical intervention, C-section, assisted delivery etc. Definitely try to get a doula to stand up on your behalf! Also, be careful with heart rate monitoring, latest research suggests that women who undergo a lot of monitoring are much more likely to end up with a C-section, because the baby might be in distress. However, unless there is a clear issue with meconium it is quite difficult to assess from heart rate monitoring alone whether the baby is in distress or not. I have decided that I will decline heart rate monitoring/vaginal examinations/giving birth against hospital timelimits given that every woman is different and given that no body has been able to give me any evidence that the outcome for mother and baby are better of all these interventions. To me it seems all a power issues with midwives and doctors wanting to run the show and feeling that they are sidelined if they haven't got a piece of equipment or paper in their hand. Good luck! And I really think that you should try to get another midwife, you don't want to end up with that bitch, this is disgraceful after all the tax we are paying for the NHS!
All the best.
I'd say you won't know what they can do unless you ring them - might be nothing, might just be some tips, might be a full-scale hitman organisation
Ask the midwives you saw today to put in writing all they said though - definitely.
And have a nice cup of tea and a sit down with a biscuit too - you deserve it
dont let them, it is your baby your body and YOUR choice , i dont wish any harm to you or your darling unborn but if you were to go into labour and refuse to go hosp what will they do then ????
get in the pool and they will have to look after you wont they!!!!!!
aaaaawwwwwww GOOD LUCK and keep calm i can see you getting what you want you are determined and im sure they will come round xxxxxxxx
NO they don't have a pool or plans for one, so thats their excuse for not having trained midwives.
I was thinking of ringing aims back but I'm not really sure what they can do to help?
AM, it's pretty common behaviour from what I've read - have AIMS been back in touch with you?
Just thought - the hospital doesn't have a birthing pool or plans for one, does it?
I know that when the actual time comes I might not to use the pool anyway but I want that to be my choice, not theirs.
Its also the way they are going about this...I feel lied to, manipulated and bullied.
I know nobody here actually knows me but I'm not the kind of person that cries easily, especially in front of other people but thats how bad this is all getting to me....Perhaps they're just trying to stress me out that much that my bp goes sky high and I end up in hospital anyway
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Ember's fire station is where Ember, Dalmatian, Red and Chili Pepper reside. It is located on the grasslands of Central Lalaloopsy Land.
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It almost resembles a normal house. It is orange, has a huge hose going around the entire building, and even has a red fire alarm bell. She has a grill and a trampoline nearby as well as some extra hoses and a small river flows out of one of her giant hoses. Ember's home most likely acts as Lalaloopsy Land's fire station, which gives her the responsibility of using her long and winding hose to douse any sudden fires that might occur.
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So I tout myself as an inverted gamer. It's a pain going into every single game and change the Y Axis every single time, and when doing death for death in online games, having to change every with my friend, it's a pain. I think allot of inverted gamers have this issue.
However... unlike many inverted gamers however, I wasn't always an inverted gamer. I'm about to tell you what happened and I want someone to try and explain what happened.
So I used to be a... verted? gamer? Sure. So It was about 2 years ago, in the summer. I was really into Fallout 3 and Red Dead Redemption at the time. So I had been playing Fallout 3 (no inverted) and switched to RDR, when I did I went to aim and for some reason I couldn't aim, not vertically at least. After several minutes I finally checked the options and turned on inverted controls and al was right. So I thought, maybe Fallout 3 was inverted and I didn't realize. I checked Fallout 3 and it wasn't inverted, it was normal.
So in the time span of a few minutes, my mind decided that it shall forever more be inverted in controls... This was when I was 17, almost 18. So if someone can explain what happened that'd be great haha. I didn't bump my head in that few minutes, I just switched game disks and bam... inverted... Every game I own I had to change to inverted controls so it wasn't another game that did it...
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Recap: Minato used dirt on Orochimaru to make him stop using Minato's sons as a way to bring him down. Kyuubi tried to find out how to make Itachi trust him, but Itachi told him that he'd have to figure it out on his own. Sasuke and Naruto defined their relationship status as boyfriends.
Chapter 25: Epilogue
All love that has not friendship for it's base is like a mansion built on quicksand ~ Ella Wheeler Wilcox
4 Years Later
It was the last time that Minato could run for mayor and everyone was gathered in the Namikaze's house, hoping that their gathering would turn into a celebration party. It was nerve wrecking for Minato; though it was likely that he would win, he always got nervous when the results were about to be announced. "I'm sure that you'll win," Itachi told the oldest Namikaze.
"Thanks," Minato replied. "I hope you're right," he smiled.
"People in this city love you," Itachi reminded him. "Plus it's not like you have very good competition," he gave something that was between a smirk and a smile. "If what happened during your last election didn't make you lose, I don't think that you'll lose this one," he pointed out. Minato just smiled and nodded in response.
Kyuubi walked over to them, wondering why it seemed like the two stopped talking when he came over. "What are you two talking about?" Kyuubi asked as he wrapped his arm around Itachi's shoulder.
"You," Itachi smirked, messing with the redhead. "Your father was just telling embarrassing stories about you," he continued before picking up his drink and taking a drink. He seemed so nonchalant about it that it made Kyuubi think that he was telling the truth. "I wouldn't have believed it if he hadn't shown me the pictures," he added.
"Dad please tell me that you didn't tell him about the streaking incident," he pleaded, his hand moving from Itachi's shoulder to run through his hair. "I told you that I was drunk, you didn't have to take pictures of it," he told him. "It was a dare and didn't mean to run into the wrong house afterwards. I mean it's bad enough that the old lady called the cops, you don't have to tell Itachi too," he said, clearly embarrassed by the thought of his father telling stories about him.
"Kyuubi he was messing with you," Minato told him calmly. "I didn't tell him embarrassing stories about you," he informed his son. "We were talking about the election," he said as he stood up from his seat at the kitchen counter. "Now if you excuse me, I'm going to mingle with my colleagues," he added before walking away.
Kyuubi's eyes had widened at that point, "Damn it." He looked at Itachi and said, "Forget I said that." Itachi chuckled, but didn't say anything.
Meanwhile, in the living room, Naruto and Sasuke sat on couch. "You look so thrilled to be here," the blond commented as he looked at his boyfriend.
Sasuke was just staring at the TV, interested at the party around him. "You know how I feel about people," he said, not amused with Naruto's sarcasm.
"We'll be out of here shortly after the results are announced," Naruto promised. "So can you at least pretend like you're having a good time?" he asked.
"Yeah, whatever," Sasuke mumbled, not happy about having to possibly talk to other people. Sasuke was saved though, as the TV interrupted all talking by announcing that the results were in.
The man droned on about the other elections going around the city, before finally announcing the results for mayor. "The winner for the Mayor of Konoha is Minato Namikaze," he announced. The room cheered and congratulated the blond man.
"I'm exhausted," Kyuubi said as he sat down on Itachi's couch. They had just gotten back from the election party and both were just ready to relax. It was surprising how easily just talking to people could wear a person out.
Itachi walked into the living room with two drinks in his hand, he set them on the table in front of Kyuubi as he sat next to the redhead. "Are you going to go home or stay here for the night?" he asked. The question didn't really need to be asked, they both knew what the answer would be.
"I'll stay here," Kyuubi answered, causing Itachi to nod. After a moment of silence, Kyuubi said, "Let's go to bed. I don't know about you, but I'm tired." Once again, Itachi nodded. They both stood up and made their way to Itachi's bedroom.
In the bedroom, Itachi started to strip off his shirt. Kyuubi just watched him, staring at the man's body. No matter how many times he saw it, he still found himself amazed by how beautiful the man was. Kyuubi walked over to him, wrapping his arms around Itachi's bare midsection. "Thank you for coming tonight," he said softly.
"You don't have to thank me," Itachi said. "That's the kind of things boyfriends are supposed to do," he pointed out, moving Kyuubi's hair out of his face.
"True, but I know how you aren't particularly fond of meeting new people," he sad as he started to kiss the other man's neck. "Unless it's business oriented of course," he continued. He stopped kissing his neck and looked into his eyes, "I feel as if I should make it up to you."
"I thought you were tired," Itachi smirked.
"You should know that I'm never too tired when it comes to sex," he answered lustfully. "So let's get the rest of those clothes off of you," he smiled as he pulled him towards the bed.
Naruto and Sasuke had left the party soon after the results were announced. Naruto knew that Sasuke wasn't a partier, so he got them away from the party as soon as he could. However, he expected a special thank you in return, which was how they ended up naked in their bed. Sasuke was lying on his stomach, his eyes closed and head on the pillow, turned away from the blond. Naruto was turned sideways, propped up on his elbow as his other hand ran up and down Sasuke's back.
"If you're trying to make it so that I can't fall asleep you're succeeding," Sasuke said as he turned onto his back and looked at the blond.
"Good," Naruto said with a smile. His eyes wandered over what he could see of Sasuke's body. The blanked began at the bottom of the other man's back and was bunched up so that it ended high on his thigh. "Remember when I asked you to pose nude for me?" he asked.
"Where did that come from?" Sasuke asked, wondering why Naruto was bringing it up. "That was four years ago," he pointed out.
"I know, but looking at you like this makes me want to take a picture," he replied. "Would you let me take a picture?" he asked.
"Why do you need a picture? You can see me naked any day you want," he said, which was his way of saying no.
"What if I asked you to marry me?" he asked. "Would you let me take a picture of you naked then?" he asked with a grin.
Sasuke quickly sat up, looking at him in surprise. "What are you trying to say Naruto?" he asked cautiously.
The blond sat up with a smile on his face as he said, "Marry me." Sasuke was shocked and it showed. "I'm serious," Naruto said.
Sasuke was speechless, he never expected Naruto to propose. He thought that moving in together was as far as their relationship would go, no matter how long it lasted. He just nodded, finding it difficult to form words. He pulled him into a kiss.
"So I take that as a yes," Naruto grinned.
"Yeah, that's a yes," Sasuke said with a rare smile spreading across his face.
"And what about posing nude for me?" Naruto joked as pushed Sasuke onto his back. He was hovering over him, lust filling his eyes.
"Only if I get a naked photo of you," Sasuke replied before pulling Naruto down for a kiss.
"I think that can be arranged," the blond grinned and then leaned down to innate another kiss. "You ready for round two?" he asked as his kisses started going elsewhere.
"Always," Sasuke replied eagerly.
The End.
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