Steff

Deferred money is guaranteed... just has to be paid sooner if he's traded.

http://www.nydailynews.com/front/story/250657p-214541c.html 'I always knew I wanted children' At 57, career gal is now ready to start a family BY NICOLE BODE DAILY NEWS STAFF WRITER Heavily pregnant Aleta St. James, who'll turn 57 this week, takes it easy in her West Side flat yesterday. Aleta St. James is expecting the best gift of her life for her 57th birthday this week: newborn twins. St. James, a motivational speaker and the eldest sister of Guardian Angels leader Curtis Sliwa, is set to shatter conventional limitations of childbirth tomorrow when she is slated to deliver a baby boy and girl at Mount Sinai Hospital, just three days shy of her birthday. That would make the Manhattan mom-to-be - who conceived through in-vitro fertilization - the oldest American woman to give birth to twins. "The reason that I wanted to carry these children rather than adopting them is that I knew that I could give them - while they were in the uterus - a tremendous amount of love, a tremendous amount of support. I wanted to give them that start," St. James told the Daily News yesterday while lying on her side on her king-size bed in her apartment. "I don't think of myself with a number. I don't think, 'Oh, I'm going to be 60.' I think, 'I'm going to take these kids to school,'" she added. The single, first-time mom has wanted a child all her life - but said she was always too busy with her career and traveling to slow down for motherhood. That all changed three years ago, when she started a grueling, $25,000 journey through fertility treatments, various medical procedures and countless doctor visits. After an unsuccessful attempt at getting pregnant naturally, she turned to Mount Sinai gynecologist Dr. Jonathan Scher and Dr. Jane Miller, director of the North Hudson IVF, a fertility clinic in New Jersey. "Of course I had concerns," said Miller, who added that St. James is the oldest patient she has ever worked with. "I am not an advocate of people this age getting pregnant. Just because it could be done, doesn't mean it should be done." But Miller said St. James sailed over all the qualifying factors - stellar health, financial stability and a huge social support network. St. James was implanted with a donor egg that was fertilized by an ex-boyfriend. Since discovering the good news of her pregnancy, St. James said her nine-month experience has been surprisingly smooth - aside from a bout of sciatica spurred by the extra 50 pounds loaded onto her petite frame. She already has picked out names for her little ones - Francesca for her, Gian for him. Her cozy West Side apartment is packed with baby toys, books and clothes. St. James gamely lumbered around her apartment yesterday, two days before her scheduled C-section, stopping to catch her breath after just a few steps between her couch and the nursery. "I'm ready," she said with great determination, resting her swollen frame against the living room wall. And she has a band of supporters ready to lend a hand with the diapers, feeding and the host of other trials set to come her way. "I really can't think of anyone more capable of taking on that responsibility to show other women who never thought that they could have kids, it's all very possible," said Sliwa, a radio host. "She'll be a great mother." St. James said she's not frightened in the least of what the delivery will bring - not even when she calculates that she'll turn 70 before her kids start high school. "When you're older, you have a lot of wisdom," she said. "What you lack in energy, you make up for in wisdom." Miracle procedure is not for all The number of older women turning to in-vitro fertilization is on the rise - but that doesn't make it safe for everyone, experts warn. In the past two decades, the number of women older than 40 who are having children has more than doubled, according to the National Center for Health Statistics. But having a child at an older age can increase odds of premature delivery, gestational diabetes, hypertension and other problems, fertility experts say. The in-vitro fertilization process involves taking eggs from the mom-to-be or an egg donor, stimulating them with hormones and combining them with sperm in a petri dish. The fertilized embryos then are transferred into the mother's uterus, where, if all goes according to plan, they take hold. While older women are more prone to medical problems, they also are more likely to seek medical advice, noted Dr. Jane Miller, a fertility expert. Moms who have broken age taboo Satyabhama Mahapatra of India gave birth to a boy in April 2003 at age 65. Janet Bosher of Britain bore twins at age 58 in September 2002. Barbara Brennan, 53, of Tennessee delivered twins as a surrogate mother for her daughter in May 2004.

Like I said.. something seriously wrong with that picture..

Civilians received more than emergency workers..? Something is seriously wrong with that picture.. :headshake

You would not believe some of the stuff they do.. and even moreso who they do it for..

Because I felt like it was newsworthy. Is there a problem?

Considering all the client does is order them around and sign on the dotted line.. I agree. Some clients are A1 Assholes.. some aren't. Most are. And Critic.. you would not believe how many of those silly things you list above that agents really do. One player I know quite well has his agent rent his hotel rooms in his home city and buy his condoms for his extra-marital flings... the really sick part.. the agents wife and the clients wife are best friends.

As usual... correct Rex.

According to Arn Tellum, 10% is the industry standard. He doesn't know anyone who gets less than 7%, and many get up to 12%.

http://nypost.com/news/regionalnews/33655.htm KID-SEX SHOCKER By LEONARD GREENE and DAN MANGAN -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- November 8, 2004 -- A 29-year-old Connecticut woman — accused of sexually assaulting an 8-year-old boy for months — says she considers the little neighbor her "boyfriend" and hopes to marry him someday, authorities said yesterday. "I don't want anyone but you!" Tammy Imre allegedly wrote in a letter to the boy, who was a playmate of Imre's 7-year-old daughter. "Now tomorrow it's supposed to rain, you can come over [and] we can (you know what)." The Stratford woman's letter was discovered Sept. 21 by the boy's older brother, who gave it to their mother, authorities said. Their mom went to the police the next day. "They [the letter's contents] were grown things that should not have been said to a little boy," the 8-year-old's mother told The Post yesterday. "My instincts were to go over and bust her door down." Police arrested Imre on Friday at her Birch Drive home, which is just across the street from the boy's house. A divorced blonde who works as a secretary and was once an aspiring actress, Imre is charged with two counts of sexual assault and one count of risk of injury to a minor for the alleged sex incidents. She faces more than 20 years in prison if convicted. The case comes months after one of the nation's most infamous kiddie-sex offenders — Mary Kay LeTourneau — was released after prison for seducing a sixth-grade male student. She went on to have two children with the boy, who is now an adult. Imre is scheduled to be arraigned today in Bridgeport court, and is being held on $100,000 bond. Imre readily admitted to police that she had a long-term sexual relationship with the boy, the Connecticut Post reported. Imre told police, "I can't give a number, but it was a lot," referring to the number of sexual encounters with the boy, according to the newspaper. At least one of those encounters reportedly was witnessed by Imre's 7-year-old daughter, who told police she had seen the boy and her mom doing "disgusting" things, the paper said. The boy's mother told The New York Post that she believes Imre began having sex with her son about six months ago, when he was still 7 years old. Imre would have sex with him in her home, while her daughter was downstairs watching television, said the boy's mother. "I didn't suspect anything," the mother said, adding that she and Imre used to walk each other's children to the school bus stop and that Imre and her daughter attended the boy's eighth birthday party in September. "She didn't only ruin my son's life, she ruined her daughter's," the mother said, noting that Imre's daughter has been taken away by a social services agency.

Probably just following orders... :rolly

Mike.. that "Depends" I'm sure.. LMAO! Happy Birthday you crazy young man!!

I've been to every one that I've lived in Illinois for. My streak was 8 before we moved to Florida.

I go to opening day every year. This will be my 14th in a row.

FWIW... Ozzie and Urbina are VERY close friends. In Detroit he came to the Ritz and had dinner and drinks with Ozzie till the wee hours of the morning. Him and Garcia hung out even longer. It was mentioned more than a few times that he could have been on the Sox if not for Koch.. and how he would love to play for Ozzie. The situation with his mom definitely takes center stage though. Urbina is the type of guy that would quit baseball until she is found.

Little girls... afraid of the cold..

You think it seems like a long time away..? The winter flies by for us. I have no idea how we do it.. but we seem to be more busy from Novermber to March than in the summer. Probably because we plan those 50+ games. We're doing 2 vacations over the next 3 months, and 2 weekend trips to Florida so that makes the time go faster also.

5 months from today..

OK.

Apparently not. http://www.allheadlinenews.com/articles/1099587662

Anyone else hearing the AIDS rumor..?

Well... since Arafat never named a successor... I forsee chaos.

I guess Isreali radio is saying he's dead.. his people are denying.

Heard it on the radio, but no links from the internet.. Anyone else hearing this?

Ahhh.. you heard it. :rolly Anyone else hear it.. or is Jeckle the only one..?? I bet you could probably find us a link on that.. eh, Jeckle?