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Proactive, Reactive, & The Need To Balance Resources…
As we've recently come off a successful Series-B fundraising effort that included our original partners Khosla Ventures and Fairhaven Capital, as well as our newest partner Blackstone, it really affirmed the delicate walk we've managed over the last 18-months. With the initial $15 million in funding we received we knew what our mission was and the support structure we would need to have in place to make it happen. This consideration was not just to the staffing we would need to bring on, but the systems we would have in place to support our decision making.
I still remember the amusement I had when, fresh off an SAP implementation, I was given my laptop with QuickBooks installed. While that was fine for the first few months, that certainly wasn't going to be our longer term solution. Nor was I going to pony up the dollars for an Oracle or other similar platform. With a commitment to be surgical about our spend, we mapped out what system would be needed to support our sales efforts, service deployment, as well as our financial reporting….all of which needed to be integrated. We were trying to be as proactive as possible, but new we'd have to pivot at points along the way. We successfully brought Salesforce.com online, and with the hire of a VP of Sales, who developed the necessary criteria to report on our bookings activities. We then integrated our services management platform, which then final rolled into our financial reporting system.
However, as the business continued to mature, we found ourselves having to react to changes that forced us to pivot. We reached a point that it was necessary to extract ourselves from an early PEO commitment and bring all of our payroll and benefits administration in house. Although we did not originally commit to the HR module, the time had come to add this on and react to our expanding business. This obviously meant more time and more money…that precious commodity we were so diligently managing. We continued to walk the path of being proactive on the critical elements, but reactive on those that we could push until the moment we actually needed to spend and weren't creating any risk to the business.
Our earlier decisions on whether to spend proactively or reactively were put to the test during our due diligence efforts. Our earlier efforts to invest in systems have allowed us to continue operating in a very lean manner operationally. With myself and a one analyst, we were able to manage through the onslaught of document requests, additional modeling, and review of systems to achieve the final sign offs that led to our Series-B funding. Although there were some smaller operational elements that we could have fine-tuned in advance, it was a derivative of our decision to operate in a lean manner. Those elements are obviously being addressed moving forward, but do not affect our ability to service our employees, customers, or business partners.
Even now with a fresh round of funding, we will continue our prudence with spend and walk the delicate line of when we should be proactive or reactive. While it's always preferable to head down the path of proactive decisions, it's not always best for the company if the deployment of those resources aren't necessarily mission critical and have an extended window for return. The one certainty…this period of early stage growth will continue to be a target rich environment!
Thanks for reading…
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Our 2016 Mission to Matagorda be occurring Sunday, July 17th – Sunday, July 25th.
2016 Mission Team Log
2016 Mission Team Log
Sunday, July 17, after commissioning in the early service, we got on the road to Matagorda after Sunday School. The drive was safe and uneventful – we all arrived in Matagorda Sunday evening. Our team this year is quite a bit smaller than in past years. We didn't have enough adults to fill all of the leadership rolls. Last year we trained Matagorda youth as leaders, and some have also come and trained at Camp Crestview as leaders. Uncertainty loomed, but Our God is good and He is big!!
First Baptist Church Matagorda has been without a full time pastor for just over a year. A bi-vocational associate / interim pastor and his wife have been holding things together. When we started our ministry here, we noted the lack of adult leadership and participation in the church, and the desperate state the children were in. The time without a pastor is taking its toll, on an already difficult situation.
Each day starts out with hot breakfast for all children, youth, and adults. We enjoy lunch altogether, and send the campers home with lunch bags full of snacks and fruit. New this year – the Matagorda youth are joining us for team dinner and devotionals in the evening.
On Monday, we drove the bus to pick up children from Matagorda and surrounding communities. We had 19 campers and 7 youth helpers. Two adults came at different times to lend a helping hand. After camp, one of the children that we met 6 years ago, (now a Senior in HS) came to let us know that his dad was coaching youth soccer program at a recently restored field nearby, and we were invited. This proved to be a great time of fellowship and encouragement both within our team and between our team and the community!! AND a great opportunity to invite more kids to join us.
Tuesday, 25 campers, 11 youth helpers, and 3 adult helpers. Another great day of camp. It has been amazing to see the quick growth in leadership skills among the youth we brought with us, and the youth here in Matagorda. We had a visit from Pastor Dan and Pastor Robert during the day. We showed them around town ad introduced them the campers and helpers. One of the Mothers / adult helpers talked to the local school and hosted an open gym for us after camp. Open gym and another night at soccer – great fellowship and bridge building.
… we are typing this as children are coming in today, Wednesday … and there are many new faces in the breakfast line!! Praise God. Today is decision day. His mercies are new every morning!!
Wednesday camp – gospel presentation and decision
Wednesday after camp – Beach evangelism and distribute Frisbees w/ the gospel on them
Thursday camp – lessons and distribution of quilts, toys, t-shirts
Thursday after camp – family dinner w/ kids song presentation, gospel presentation in English and Spanish and testimonies
Friday camp – lessons followed by ice cream party and movie for all!
Picking up from where we left off…
Wednesday was another great day at camp. Our attendance was, as I alluded to in the last post, higher than it had been to date. And what a great day for it – clear Gospel presentations several times throughout the day. Testimonies shared by our adult leaders, and children and youth from Matagorda.
We had several first time commitments to Christ (PRAISE GOD!!) and MANY others commit to continue to grow closer to Him, while others still were vocal about having questions and wanting to know more about exactly what this all means. God is so good, and faithful all the time – patient and loving with each of us where we are.
After camp Wednesday – we went to the beach to hand out Frisbees (slipdisc.com) with a gospel message on them and talk to people about the Lord. BUT … we found a few surprises…. not many people are at the beach on a Wednesday afternoon…. especially when met with the signs pictured below …. but we found a few. We also made a great time of sharing testimonies within our group. Teaching our children how to, and clearly share how Jesus has impacted their lives, and His good news. One of our adults had a great time of sharing with one of the Matagorda teenagers who had been quietly, but faithfully serving with us. He later asked for his own Bible for continued growth after we left.
Thursday after camp we hosted 'family dinner' at the church and the children performed their camp songs. Many parents, friends, and neighbors came to join us. (We FILLED the fellowship hall and two classrooms!) Maria, from our team, shared her testimony in both Spanish and English. Many were moved by this! What joy the kids and youth workers had picking out their very own quilts made my our Crestview quilting club. To see the teenagers and children's faces lit with excitement and their arms wrapped tightly around the quilts, reluctant to set them down …. no words ….
Friday we rounded out the week by following camp with an ice cream party and movie for the campers. One of our adults had a great time of sharing and heartfelt discussion with an adult here. They looked together at God's plans and purposes and faithful love – even when life does not go as we plan, hope, or intend. Many tears were shed – but there joy in the LORD and that joy was made real between those two ladies. A few of the families from the community bound together to prepare and serve US a wonderful dinner of smoked meats and Spanish rice and Beans. Delicious!!
Saturday – after sleeping in a bit 😉 we made our way to the beach again. Today we found more people to talk and share with. Many Frisbees were given out and the Name of God was exalted on Matagorda beach today!!
Summary: This has been an amazing week of lives transformed, minds renewed, and hearts revived. The afternoons of open gym, and soccer and evenings with the youth leaders from here have been exceedingly fruitful.
We have been blessed beyond measure, the community has been impacted for the Kingdom, and we now prepare to leave here – encouraged about the future of Matagorda.


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HyperGrid jump to our Welcome Area at : thekaz.ddns.net:8002:TheKazLand
Upon arrival open your World Map and do a search for ChibaSea1 and set the coordinates to 202,160,24
this will drop you at the entrance to the OSPBA headquarters, go on inside inside and grab your self a Boxed copy of one ar all 3 of the free-bee MatCat hydroplanes, there are two ReadMe files in the box, please read them. We are running OpenSim 0.9 RC2 with Bullet Physics so sim border crossings are pretty much seamless, but I have to stress this 1 point, if you are wearing a Animation Overrider ( AO ) you must detach it ! Simply turning it off, will not work and cause the boat to stall, similarly if you are using your OS Viewers built in AO, you must turn that off before attempting to drive the boat.
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Starship Troopers (1959) by Robert A. Heinlein & The Forever War (1974) by Joe W. Haldeman
Written fifteen years apart, either side of the Vietnam War, these two award-winning novels both follow the adventures of infantrymen in an interstellar war as Earth fights for her survival against an implacable alien foe. But the two works could not be more different.
Heinlein's Starship Troopers, filmed ten years ago, describes a society set some centuries in the future where only those who satisfactorily complete a minimum two-year term of Federal Service are eligible to vote. The story is narrated by trooper Johnny Rico and follows his progress from enlistment, through training at Camp Arthur Currie (named for the Canadian WW1 general) and subsequent officer training, to his eventual command of a platoon. During his training, war breaks out between Earth and an arthropod life form known as the Bugs. Earth is raided and Buenos Aires is destroyed.
Starship Troopers is not a fast-paced action adventure, but if you have any interest in politics, sociology and social issues, then irrespective of your views, then this controversial book is compulsive reading.
Throughout the novel, Rico frequently recalls the words of his History and Moral Philosophy teachers, Lt-Col. Dubois and Major Reid, and through these recollections, we learn something of how the society in which he lives came into existence, and of the political philosophy which underlies it. In the later years of the Twentieth Century, law and order began to break down all over the world. People dared not venture into public places such as parks after dark. To do so was to risk attack by wolf-packs of delinquent children, armed to the teeth with chains, knives and even home-made firearms. Drug-addiction, vandalism, burglary and violent crime had become commonplace. Even school grounds and buildings provided no refuge from the mayhem. These details sounds particularly jarring now. Remember, Heinlein was writing almost half a century ago.
The 1987 war in which the USA, the Soviet Union and the UK joined forces against the Chinese Hegemony provided the catalyst that led to the birth of the Terran Federation. The Treaty of New Delhi brought about an end to the fighting, but it ignored prisoners of war, with the result that over one hundred thousand British POWS were not released. Many eventually escaped and made their way home, only to find they had no jobs to go to. With national governments collapsing, disaffected war veterans moved in to fill the power vacuum. The first actual take-over occurred in Aberdeen, where a group of veterans got together to form a vigilante committee to stop rioting and looting. They hanged a few people, including two veterans, and decided not to allow anybody but veterans to serve on their committee.
Within a couple of generations, what had started as an emergency measure had become constitutional practice. The franchise is restricted to those who have done their Federal Service because only they, through voluntary and difficult service, have proved that they place the welfare of the group above personal advantage.
In one lecture on the late Twentieth Century, Colonel Dubois gives us an insight into the philosophy that now informs the political life of the Federation. Just as a dog should be beaten in order to house train it, so should juvenile offenders be flogged to teach them right from wrong. He rails on about social workers, the lenient treatment dished out to juvenile offenders, and how do-gooders saw to it that corporal punishment in schools was outlawed. "I do not understand objections to cruel and unusual punishment", he muses. "Man has no moral instinct", he states. He claims that a human being has no natural rights of any nature and finally goes on to take a swipe at the "unalienable rights" of life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness.
Predictably, Heinlein has been accused of glorifying war and his Terran Federation described as fascist or at best a society along the lines of Plato's Republic. While Starship Troopers is first and foremost a science fiction novel, is it also a political manifesto? Does it reflect the views of its author?, or is it a "dystopia" along the lines of Huxley's Brave New World, Orwell's Nineteen Eighty-four or Ira Levin's This Perfect Day, to take three of the best examples of this sub-genre.
Novels about dystopic societies generally feature a disaffected lead character and some sort of mind control, be it the Thought Police of Nineteen Eighty-four or the tranquillising drugs of Levin's novel. But Heinlein's society is free of the latter. The freedom of speech is guaranteed. Johnny Rico, while not entirely uncritical of the society in which he lives, can hardly be described as a dissident and portrays it in a largely positive light.
In all matters other than the franchise, non-citizens, such as Rico's own parents, enjoy equal status with citizens. Rico's parents, for example, are well off. Though corporal and capital punishment are available to the judiciary, they are rarely necessary, as crime rates are low.
Federal Service itself is comparatively enlightened. Nobody has to join a fighting service, even in time of war (Heinlein strongly opposed conscription). You can quit at any time (even prior to going into combat!) and lose nothing except the possibility of earning your franchise (there are no second chances - fair enough). Even deserters are not actively pursued (though why anybody deserts in preference to resigning is not made clear).
The novel tries to justify war and emphasise the honourable traditions of the fighting services. But it does not glorify war as such.
The novel is clearly in favour of the society it describes, though whether Heinlein himself was remains an open question.
The problem with Heinlein's vision of the society of the Terran Federation is that it is idealistic and romanticised. The reality I fear would be very different. To illustrate the point, I have no doubt it would have been possible around 1930 to have written a novel painting a very attractive picture of life under a National Socialist government.
Messrs. Dubois and Reid would probably disagree, but the assertion that Man has no moral instincts is utter nonsense. "Moral instinct" is that instinct which goes beyond the needs of the self, in other words altruism. Dubois implies that altruism is the product of an advanced human society: purely something that man has invented. But this is not the case. Though the subject of altruism in the (non-human) animal kingdom is a complex subject, beyond the scope of this article, biologists do not doubt that it exists.
Paul Verhoeven's 1997 movie is a straightforward action film that bears very little resemblance to Heinlein's novel. The Terran Federation is portrayed as being openly fascist, with military officers wearing Nazi-style uniforms. Whether this is intended as a satire on militarism or even a attack on the book's original values is not clear, but as Verhoeven allegedly failed to even finish reading it, the latter is unlikely.
Starship Troopers is on the reading lists of the US Army, Navy and Marine Corps.
In contrast to Starship Troopers, The Forever War is a strongly anti-war polemic. Drawing on Haldeman's experiences in the Vietnam War, it follows the progress of trooper William Mandella from his conscription in 1996 to the birth of his son in 3143, during which time he has aged less than a decade due to the effects of relativity. The war is seen through Mandella's jaundiced eyes in the dry conversational style that is Haldeman's trademark.
Discovered in 1985, the collapsar jump has made interstellar travel possible via a network of black holes, the nearest of which, Stargate, is conveniently located half a light year from Earth. But when a colonising vessel is destroyed in the vicinity of Aldebaran, blame falls on an enigmatic alien race known as the Taurans. Colonial ships are henceforth accompanied by warships, and indeed the latter are frequently sent out alone. Finally, it is decided to garrison the "portal planets" of the nearer collapsars, and an elite group of infantry, chosen for their physical and intellectual prowess, are conscripted and sent off to engage the Taurans in ground action.
The only way Mandella and his lover Marygay Potter can get back to Earth is at the end of a combat tour - but because the effects of relativity, while they will only age a couple of years, decades or even centuries could have passed on Earth. By the time Mandella returns to Earth, it has become so alien that he and Marygay both re-enlist. There are two versions of the mid-section of The Forever War, describing Mandella's brief stay on Earth. The original was rejected as being too downbeat, but it has been re-instated in the recently released "author's cut" version of the novel.
Haldeman's conception of army life in the late Twentieth Century is percipient inasmuch that he anticipates women fighting alongside men, but the institutionalised "free love", where troopers are paired off by rota each night, now seems very dated. Haldeman has also been accused of homophobia in describing a society in which homosexuality is encouraged to cut down the birth rate, and the uneasiness felt by the few remaining heterosexuals. But the novel should be viewed in the context of the time it was written and not be berated by "political correctness" enthusiasts.
Haldeman set the novel's beginning in the late Twentieth Century to allow officers and NCOs in the book to be Vietnam veterans; he admits "most people realise we didn't get into an interstellar war in 1996" and even in the 1970s the time scale seemed rather implausible.
Haldeman finally bowed to public pressure to write a sequel to The Forever War, entitled Forever Free, though sadly it failed to live up to the original.
Starship Troopers and The Forever War are products of very different times. Starship Troopers has been described as a "cold war paranoia" novel but although the anti-communist line isn't entirely absent, this novel isn't about the Cold War; it is more inspired by America's role in World War II. While few will dispute that this was a just conflict, fewer still will not agree that Vietnam was – prior to the Iraq War - the greatest foreign policy disaster in US history. After World War II, America's fighting men were feted as heroes; by contrast those who served their country with equal courage in Vietnam (including Haldeman) were treated as an embarrassment. It is hardly surprising that while Heinlein's novel is idealistic, Haldeman's is cynical, highlighting the stupidity and utter futility of war.
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Deb began her sales career when she was barely out of her teens, selling for an office supply company, a food distributor, a communications company and for a TV commercial/video production company, before she finally landed at Business People magazine. In July 2016, she will be celebrating her 16th year anniversary as an account executive for Business People. For Deb, this job has been the most rewarding by far. Each day, she has the pleasure of meeting with companies to discover how and why they started their business, and how she can help them continue to grow. Deb has been an ambassador for the Greater Fort Wayne Inc. and currently sits on several non-profit marketing committees. She organized and launched a women's networking group (3W3) in 2005. In her spare time, she is a regular movie-watcher, animal activist, book-reader, walker, gardener, photographer and scrapbook artist. She enjoys traveling with her husband and spending time with family and friends.
|Andrea Copeland, account executive
Though Andrea has had a varied career path, a common theme prevails - sales. When you're good at something, why rock the boat, right? During her 20 year career in sales, she was a corporate travel agent, helped schools meet their goals while working at Scholastic Books, worked as an account executive for a technology company and then joined the Business People staff. Though she loved her position at Business People, she wanted to broaden her scope of experience, so in 2009 she left to join the Holiday Inn staff. There she wore many hats and gained a wealth of experience, but when a position in non-profit was presented to her, she couldn't turn down the opportunity. Though her career led her all over the Fort Wayne business landscape, she always had a desire to come back to Business People. In August of 2013, her dream came true. She rejoined the Business People staff and says that "it feels good to be home." Andrea has one son who is her pride and joy. In her spare time, she enjoys gardening. She dreams of perfecting her golf game (though she says she still has a ways to go), is always looking for the best bargain and believes that when all else fails, the perfect pair of shoes can save the day.
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Megan studied communication at IPFW and was first introduced to Business People during her sophomore year as an editorial intern. Three years later with a completed college degree and some professional experience, Megan is back - this time as an account executive! She hopes to bring her knowledge of communication and her love of people and Fort Wayne to become a great asset to the BP team. When she is not at work, she enjoys spending time with her family and working on her house. She has two dogs, Max and Bronx, who drive her crazy but she adores.
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Danielle joined Business People in September of 2012, a year after graduating from IPFW with a degree in graphic design. She continues to be an active member of Phi Kappa Phi honor society. Outside the world of design, Danielle loves the art of self-expression through other creative outlets such as writing and photography. She also enjoys reading, spending time with her friends and her annual family vacations to North Redington Beach, Fla.
|Elle Hey, graphic designer
Elle joined Business People in January 2017 as a graphic design intern during her last semester of college at the University of Saint Francis. After receiving her degree in May 2017 she joined the BP team as a full time graphic designer. At the University of Saint Francis she studied graphic design and photography, and loved being involved with the various art organizations on and off campus. She is now a proud USF alumni. In her free time she enjoys gardening, cooking and eating with her family and friends. She also enjoys learning more about art history, design, metal crafting and alternative photography techniques.
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NORD gratefully acknowledges Adam Mezoff, MD, Professor of Pediatrics, Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center and Scott Pentiuk MD, Assistant Professor of Pediatrics, Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center, for assistance in the preparation of this report.
Cri du chat syndrome (Cd CS or 5p-) is a rare genetic disorder in which a variable portion of the short arm of chromosome 5 is missing or deleted (monosomic).
The characteristic high-pitched, shrill cry associated with cri du chat syndrome is present during the first few weeks of life.The cry, which resembles the mewing of a cat, becomes less pronounced as affected infants grow older.Affected infants may also display low birth weight, growth deficiencies, diminished muscle tone (hypotonia), and microcephaly, a condition that indicates that head circumference is smaller than would be expected for an infant's age and sex.Distinctive facial features may include an abnormally round or plump (moon) face, a broad nasal bridge, widely spaced eyes (hypertelorism), crossed eyes (strabismus), downwardly slanting eyelid folds (palpebral fissures), vertical skin folds that may cover the eyes' inner corners (epicanthal folds), low-set ears, and an abnormally small jaw (micrognathia).Improper alignment of the upper and lower teeth (malocclusion) may also occur.
Additional facial features include an abnormally small distance from the upper lip to the nose (short philtrum), incomplete closure of the roof of the mouth (cleft palate), an abnormal groove or gap in the upper lip (cleft lip), and abnormal fullness of the lower lip.In addition, the fleshy mass (uvula) that hangs in the back of the throat may be spilt (bifid uvula).Affected children also exhibit delays in the acquisition of skills requiring the coordination of muscular and mental activities (psychomotor disability) and moderate to severe intellectual disability.Additional symptoms affecting different organ systems of the body can also occur.Most cases are thought arise from spontaneous (de novo) genetic errors very early in embryonic development.The symptoms of cri du chat syndrome vary from case to case.


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On the Border Mexican Grill (Nov. 22nd)
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What makes a good Mexican restaurant? The food, the service, the authenticity? At On the Border, they have a bit of everything. The food is good, the service is good, and is it somewhat authentic. I would describe it more as Tex-Mex than traditional Mexican cuisine.
A known chain restaurant, On the Border was very clean with lots of seating and a large bar. We went for lunch and had a few Margaritas (probably shouldn't have since I had to go back to work). The Margaritas are very good, and they have a large selection. I had the traditional Marg with salt, and I can attest that they do not use too much Sweet and Sour Mix. You must have at least one when you go, and no more than two if you are driving.
The food was very good. Start out with the "Guacamole Live". They bring all of the ingredients to your table and make the Guacamole in front of you. It was very good, and of coarse very fresh. They serve it with homemade tortilla chips.
For my meal I had a combo with a taco, a tamale and a Chili Renello. The tamale had a great Red sauce dumped over it and the renello was nice and crispy. All were very good, and it came with a large serving of beans and rice. It was more food than was exepected, so anticipate large portions.On the Border is more than average price, but is more than your average Mexican Restaurant. Don't expect authentic Mexican, but do be careful with the Margaritas.


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Johnny Cecotto and Josef Kral looking to confirm their improvement in Germany
The German Grand Prix, which takes place this weekend at the Hockenheim circuit, is the eighth round of twelve events that make up the GP2 Series in the 2012 season. Barwa Addax Team and official drivers, Johnny Cecotto and Josef Kral are in Germany hoping to confirm their good showing in the last Grand Prix held in Silverstone.
Johnny Cecotto had a great weekend after having qualified in second place. He took advantage of his starting position and finished in an excellent second place on the podium in the main race on Saturday. His aspirations took a knock in the second race when he was crashed into by a rival, just three corners before the end of the race, while he was lying in fourth position and which would have guaranteed even more points for himself and the team. The brave Venezuelan driver deserves a change of fortune.
Josef Král continues to show signs of the potentially great driver that he is. After having started from the back of the field, he gradually picked off all rivals in his path and even came close to scoring points in Sunday's second race. He is highly motivated for this weekend and hopes for a good result.
The team has an important challenge ahead of them this time round due to the new tyre norms. Each team has the right to two sets of soft tyres and three hard over the weekend. Although this norm had been used previously in Silverstone, the wet weather conditions throughout the weekend meant that we will have to wait for the result of this new modification. If the weather stays fine this could be the weekend.
Johnny Cecotto, Barwa Addax Team driver: "I've always liked the Hockenheim circuit very much. I've had lots of podium finishes in Formula 3. The track has a lot of fast bends and important braking points and I think our car should go very well around here. We still have a lot of work to do concerning the new tyre norms that were introduced before the Siverstone race. The problem was we were driving all weekend in England with wet weather tyres and we couldn't work with all the tyres available to us. We are well prepared for all eventualities, dry conditions or wet and I'm really looking forward to getting back to competing on this circuit after two years."
Josef Kràl, official Barwa Addax team driver: "I am looking forward to Hockenheim a lot because most of the time I was on this track I was on podium. I like the circuit and also there is always lot of fans who make really good atmosphere of this race. We worked hard on the simulator as well so I believe that we are well prepared and now we need some good luck on our side".
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After hours of anticipation and endless speculation, the wait is over: Pokémon Go has launched in the United States for iOS and Android. It can be found in the App Store and the Play Store for free.
This announcement comes after a long day of waiting after the game was released in Australia and New Zealand early Wednesday morning. After the Pokémon Company asked US and other international markets to "please wait a while," it would seem that they were merely planning a staggered released.
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Hey... I did a random search for "Dan Harvell" and the photo you used, above, was first on the list. I'm humbled to have my photo used on this post (and thank you for the proper credit, as well!). Can you believe the weather we have been having, lately? Not sure what part of Michigan you are in, but here in Grand Haven, we have hit at least 80 for the last 2 days with another day forecast. Loving the warm weather, but it concerns me what it could mean to Michigan's economy should we experience a freeze, now that everything is in bloom.ReplyDelete
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Nayantara would be essaying an action-packed role in her upcoming film titled as Imaikkaa Nodigal which has Atharvaa in the lead as the protagonist.
Atharvaa called for R. Ajay Gnanamuthu after his debut directorial venture Demonte Colony hit the bull's eye at the box-office last May. Gnanamuthu narrated a script to Atharvaa which he liked very much and asked him to go ahead and finalize the script.
Gnanamuthu spoke to a few frontline actors to take on the all-important role of an investigating cop in the film. After many actors refused, the director approached Nayantara who loved the role and had given her consent to star in the film albeit not as a heroine.
In order to prepare herself for her character in the film, Nayantara is reportedly undergoing training in stunt sequences. As such, one remains confused whether the film, as and when it is shot and is put up for release in theatres, would be dubbed as Atharvaa's film or Nayantara's!


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Okay this is getting crazy now! But I am having a lot of fun. These are listed on eBay today. I also am working on a few other new fruits and veggies to add to the collection. Be sure to keep checking back! Have a great week everyone!
Monday, March 23, 2009
My New Folk Art Avocados! New to my Primitive Folk Art Vegetable and Fruit Collection!
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"I Like Traffic Lights" (Sometimes just called "Traffic Lights") is a song sung by Terry Jones of Monty Python on the album Monty Python's Contractual Obligation Album. It is relatively long, although most of the lyrics are repetitions of the words "I like traffic lights". It is sung a capella in a monotonous, very bored, dull tone.
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After each section, the verse is repeated by backing singers, all who sound equally bored and make little or no effort to sing in time with each other. Occasionally the singer will throw in an extra "I like traffic lights" possibly indicating that he is so bored that he has forgotten how many times he has sung it.
The song ends just before the last line with a very exasperated "Oh God" but due to the nature of the lyrics it is fairly obvious what the last line would have been.
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Suspect: marijuana sale turned into robbery, then death
A 21-year-old man is suspected of pointing a handgun at Erik Aragon and shooting him during a drug transaction for marijuana, according to the arrest affidavits for the suspects facing capital murder charges.
Shawn Ezal Ramirez is one of the suspects in the murder after Aragon, 22, was found seriously injured in a business parking lot in Horizon City on Nov. 4.
Aragon was found with a gunshot wound when authorities responded to calls of a "subject down," according to the arrest reports obtained by CBS4.
Aragon later died from his injuries, according to authorities.
Two days after his death, the El Paso County Sheriff's Office took over the case, which had originally been assigned to Horizon City police, records show.
The arrest report for Ramirez states Ramirez spoke with detectives on his own free will to clear his name after people on Facebook were implicating him for the murder of Aragon.
Ramirez told investigators that he met with Aragon for "the sale of a brick of marijuana." Records go on to say that Ramirez told investigators Aragon got inside the back of his car to negotiate the sale of marijuana with a "rear passenger." Investigators said Ramirez told them that, during the transaction, the "rear" passenger shot Aragon. Ramirez told detectives he was the driver and that Aragon was thrown out of the vehicle by the "rear passenger" after the shooting, before he drove away.
Records indicate Ramirez denied shooting Aragon and falsely identified the "rear passenger" to investigators.
After the interview with Ramirez, investigators searched Ramirez's home and seized his vehicle and other items, according to Ramirez's arrest report.
Forensics tests showed evidence of blood found inside Ramirez's car. Ramirez's cellphone, a pair of red boots and a pair of jeans were taken as evidence, and all of them were found to contain blood from Aragon, the document stated.
The forensic investigation revealed that the blood found on Ramirez's clothing was inconsistent with Ramirez's story about being the driver. Investigators said the "blood splatter" on Ramirez's clothing didn't match up with where he claimed he was sitting in the car.
A fourth person interviewed by detectives was questioned during the investigation. That person told investigatorsthat, a few days after the shooting, Ramirez told them he shot Aragon during a sale to purchase weed from Aragon. The fourth person said Ramirez mentioned that suspect Marcos Damian Porras was the driver of Ramirez's car.
Detectives looked through Ramirez's Facebook page and came across a picture post showing Ramirez and Miguel Angel Ontiveros. Detectives identified Ontiveros and brought him in for questioning, according to an arrest affidavit.
During an interview with investigators on Nov. 28, Ontiveros said he went along with Ramirez and Porras to negotiate the sale of a brick of marijuana with Aragon. He told investigators he sat in the front seat, while Porras was the driver and Ramirez was a passenger in the back seat. Ontiveros told investigators that Ramirez was in the back seat of the car with Aragon, negotiating a drug deal. He said Ramirez took out a black handgun, pointed it at Aragon and demanded thatAragon empty his pockets. Ontiveros said that, as Aragon emptied his pockets, Ramirez shot him. Ontiveros told investigators Ramirez then got out of the car and pulled Aragon outside. Ontiveros said Porras then drove away from the parking lot.
The arrest affidavit goes on to say that Ontiveros and Ramirez used Clorox bleach to clean up the blood inside Ramirez's car.
Ontiveros admitted to investigators that he and Ramirez had "licked," also known as robbed, other people multiple times during drug transactions. Detectives asked Ontiveros why he thought Ramirez shot Aragon. Ontiveros said, "We got greedy."
A video of Ramirez holding a black handgun standing in front of a mirror with Ontiveros and Porras by his side was obtained by investigators when they obtained Ontiveros' phone for evidence, according to records. The video was recorded three hours before Aragon was shot. The black handgun was identified by investigators as a Glock.
Investigators have reason to believe that Ramirez is a member of Gangster Disciples, a criminal street gang. Ramirez's arrest affidavit indicates that Ramirez is known to have carried out threats using firearms.
During his interview on Nov. 27, according to his arrest affidavit, Porras told detectives he had no involvement in Aragon's murder. The affidavit says he admitted to being with Ramirez and Ontiveros at a motel and said he drove Ramirez's car around town, but didn't specify where.


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Good day, everyone! Let's talk about stereotypes!
Yes, I write LGBT characters into my stories, but before I get into an explanation, I would like to emphasize that my stories are not just "all about LGBT people" or intended to rub cisgender, straight reader's noses in a rainbow flag and sprinkle glitter all over their cornflakes!
You see, I've been asked a rather difficult question as a writer, and that is "What exactly is my intended market?"
At first glance, anyone who looks at my books might think they are "just" sci-fi stories – but nothing could be further from the truth!
In a recent interview, the following was said about my style of writing and LGBT character portrayal and content:
"Engela's eye for the quirky humor of even the darkest situations sets her writing apart from the masses. Her fiction combines oddball humor, in the tradition of writers like Terry Pratchet and Douglas Adams, with the best of traditional science fiction. A government agency regulates time and its manipulation against the efforts of a brilliant scoundrel. A retired space cop turned bounty hunter grumbles and grunts like a classic pulp noir detective. A glamorous retired intelligence agent moves to a new planet in the hopes of escaping the mystery and mayhem of her former life.
And tucked inside her stories, like a kind of stealth activism, lurks a beast almost never seen in either mainstream or science fiction: fully fleshed out LGBT characters.
Like many of us, Engela has been frustrated with the representation of LGBT characters in mainstream fiction, where gay characters are often nothing more than superficially portrayed plot devices or worse, the object of satire and ridicule. Engela's work breaks the trend. In her stories, a gay man may be the anti-hero or villain, but not because he is gay. A transwoman may fall in love with a cisgender straight man, and their relationship doesn't revolve around her gender identity. LGBT characters, in Engela's work, follow narrative arcs that occasionally intersect with their sexual or gender identity, but are more often driven by the human characteristics shared by all people—hope, fear, ambition, humor, and love." – Sarah Rutledge Fischer, Focus Mid-South Magazine.
My writing is NOT stereotypical, and my characters – regardless of their sexuality or gender – are anything but stereotypes!
This could be because I am no ordinary writer. As an individual I have quite a diverse background myself, being that I'm a transgender woman in a committed relationship with a woman – but that is just scraping the tip of the iceberg as it were, and without getting distracted too much by me waffling about my background, let's get back to the subject at hand.
Those of you reading this may be happily heterosexual or happily cisgender; or you could be gay, lesbian, bisexual, transgender (LGBT) or any other flavor or variation of the Kinsey Scale – that isn't really the issue I want to address – BUT what I would like to do is to highlight the general stereotypes the media – and writers in general tend to apply to LGBT characters – and in so doing, the negative stereotypes they cast on real-life LGBT people!
For example – in almost every single movie I've seen (or books) featuring LGBT characters, the characters are stereotypes:
- Gay men are shallow, weak, slutty, effeminate parodies – and are usually cast as hair dressers who just need to meet "the right woman" to "cure" them of homosexuality.
- Gay women are sex-objects for straight guys to get off on watching, and are really looking for a man to make them happy and 'save' them from an empty life of lust and sex.
- Bisexual people are typecast as immoral slutty individuals who can't make up their minds, so they sleep with everybody and can't form long-term committed relationships.
- Transgender women are generally typecast as prostitutes or escorts, and tend to look like men in drag. Transwomen by the way, are almost always played by cisgender women in movies and series (look up"Transface").
- Typically, LGBT people are also negatively stereotyped as the villains in stories or as people who do not contribute positively or constructively to human society – or just as secondary plot devices, usually to illustrate a negative point in the writer's agenda.
- LGBT readers are probably used to seeing LGBT characters written, presented, portrayed, and acted by non-LGBT writers and actors who typically do not possess authentic life-experiences to fuel their writing on those subjects.
None of these movies (or books) featured LGBT characters who were cast as the lead in the story, as the 'good-guy' or action hero (or heroine). Either none, or very few I've seen, feature any LGBT characters that demonstrate admirable morality or inspiring values, behavior or acts – in fact, they are almost always included as a plot device to introduce an erotic angle or a sexual interest or fetish element into the story!
None of this is anywhere near the reality of life for LGBT people!
As with any stereotype, there is only a tiny bit of truth to the bias on INDIVIDUAL levels – while the reality of the GROUP is far different, and remains ignored by the stereotype. There are LGBT people in every field of work, and in every social circle. There are gay airline pilots and members of parliament, transgender news anchors and politicians, lesbian soldiers and clergy – and well, bisexual folks are just everywhere! *wink*
All that is left otherwise, for the LGBT reader is smutty third-rate soft-porn on the LGBT shelf at the back of the book store that has no story content worth bothering to read – or a selection of autobiographies of LGBT personalities perhaps, and then of course, the countless fiction novels written by and mainly for heterosexual and cisgender readers.
In mainstream fiction – regardless of whether sci-fi, fantasy, horror, romance, or general – the average writer tends to tell stories of heterosexual cisgender characters and how they relate to others like them, getting on with the business of saving the world, winning wars, and so on, while generally ignoring LGBT readers and their interests or issues.
Sometimes this is deliberate, borne out of a personal bias or prejudice on the part of the writer. This isn't always the case – it's not always intentional – after all, how can a heterosexual person who has never had any cause to question their sexuality or gender be expected to understand the scope of issues LGBT people face?
These negative stereotypes of LGBT people in fiction – which tends to reflect the perceptions of the writers in relation to how they understand us in the real world context – reinforces the idea that if LGBT people are illustrated in these terms, then that is all that should be expected of them in real life as well!
No wonder so few LGBT people actually read books anymore!
Well, fear not!
Now there are TWO series of novels AIMED at the intelligent, discerning and open-minded reader who appreciates fiction written BY an author who is part of the LGBT community, and who has spent years campaigning for LGBT equality and human rights as an activist!
- All my novels feature LGBT characters in some form or another – and in all of them, these characters are either THE leading character, or one of the main characters.
- LGBT characters and issues are portrayed in a balanced outlook, and are not sensationalized.
- My novels feature LGBT characters as inspirational people – action heroes, military personnel, leaders, pilots, scientists, police officers, CIA agents to mention but a few.
- In my books, LGBT characters are treated just like normal everyday people – not as caricatures, or sensational elements!
My market therefore, is not just Sci-Fi/Fantasy – but LGBT-friendly Sci-Fi/fantasy!
If you're NOT part of the LGBT collective, you needn't worry that you will have some kind of 'gay agenda' rammed down your throat – the beauty of my stories is that these appear as ELEMENTS of the story – not AS the story! There are plenty of heterosexual and cisgender characters – even lead characters – in there to balance things out!
To illustrate the point, here is a brief listing of my novels and LGBT characters featured:
"Blachart" – Blachart, the Corsair nemesis of the lead character Mykl d'Angelo (straight), is a gay man. Although he starts out as a fearful villain, as the story progresses, the character becomes d'Angelo's firm friend and ally who leads him through a dangerous mission to scout the Corsair base.
"Demonspawn" – Joe Lofflin, the first officer of the ISS Darraine, an imperial warship marooned in deep space, is a gay man. After the death of Captain Blaine, Lofflin leads the crew in their efforts to survive – and the investigation into the string of mysterious deaths on a derelict alien ship they encounter, and through a thrill-packed action adventure.
"Dead Beckoning" – This story features characters from 'Blachart' and 'Demonspawn', working together to capture the last free, most dangerous Corsair leader after the fall of the Corsair base world. It also introduces Blachart's new love interest, a trans-woman by the name of Marsha – who moved to the fringes of civilization to start over as an entrepreneur business-owner.
"Black Sunrise" – This story features a transwoman (Cindy-Mei Winter), a former agent for the Colonial Intelligence Agency (CIA), who after her transition, moves to a little-known colony called Deanna. There she enlists the aid of Gary Beck, who is a bounty hunter, to help track a missing alien, and by the end of the story, the two enter into a relationship. Along the way, they meet Danielle Grauffis, a 17 year old girl just starting out in her gender transition.
"The Time Saving Agency" – Featuring mostly the same characters as in 'Black Sunrise', this story puts Gary Beck – Mei's boyfriend, at the center of the story. Aside from dealing with the heterosexual Beck's difficulty in understanding Mei's male past, the story is full of action and comedy – and time travel!
"Dead Man's Hammer" – Again featuring Cindy-Mei Winter as the lead character, this story deals with her grief and anger at what appears to be Gary Beck's death, and her quest for justice – which leads her and her friends, including the very straight Sheriff Peggy-Ann Muller, Fred the Arborian, and Dannielle Grauffis
"Loderunner" – Timaset Skooch, a private investigator, and slightly confused heterosexual male who happened to fall in love with Dory, aka Dorian Wintermuller one heavy night at a local club, is faced with his partner's choice to transition to fully female. To complicate matters still further, he has won a run-down old cargo-ship in a game of Uno, and the only choice to improve his lot open to him, is to seek his fortune running cargo across deep-space. Of necessity, he asks the local mafia contact for a little help in finding a fare to start out with. On the Celeste, he meets Victoria Somers, aka 'Vic' who is very masculine, but totally cisgender and straight, and a young transgender passenger accompanied by a sinister chaperone who turns out to be a kidnapper holding young Jaymie Vallantdorf for ransom until the Mayor of Mars City pays up. The story is a delightful interstellar romp filled with comedy, action and adventure!
There are still several more books on the way in both series, featuring several lesbian characters as well, including "Overkill" title four in the Galaxii Series, and titles five to seven in the Quantum Series: "Prodigal Sun", "High Steaks" and "The Last Hurrah".
My books are not exactly 'activism', but if you happen to end up understanding or even feeling more at ease around LGBT people better than you did before, then so much the better.
Again, my writing is NOT stereotypical, and my characters – regardless of their sexuality or gender – are anything but stereotypes!
My stories are about every day, ordinary people and extraordinary situations, told in an entertaining way – and some of them happen to be LGB or T.
You should try reading them sometime. I'm sure you'll enjoy it – whatever you are! 🙂
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As someone who has never written or read a single Romance or Erotica book, I'm not shedding any tears over the news that Scribd is dumping something like 80-90 percent of the Erotica and Romance novels available at their site, including those written by best-selling authors.
Apparently Romance fans are voracious readers, and Scribd is paying authors and publishers of such novels far more than their business model can sustain. It's not a problem with any other genres.
I've noticed whenever I search a book title in Amazon, the top results come up with book covers of men without shirts and women with their hands on the men's bare chests. The top bestsellers seem to be these types of books. So it's plain to anyone that Romance and smut are what many people are reading.
If these titles are to be reduced and their peddlers paid far less handsomely, I consider it a good thing, because if there are fewer Romance titles around, maybe some of those readers will look elsewhere, to fiction genres where the writing and the plots are far superior.
A problem with self-published authors is that so many writers are doing it; therefore, it's tough to get you and your books noticed, unless you write Romance and Erotica where the public's appetite is so powerful and all-consuming, an author is not in much danger of being ignored. But if you write books with any kind of quality to them, you struggle.
Scribd plans to eliminate Romance/Erotica that are the most popular and have the highest word counts. I blogged recently about writers who write with a certain word count in mind, no matter what, and this is a big reason why some choose to do that--an economic payoff from book subscription services such as Scribd when a lot of readers read all those words. But now Scribd is worrying about how it will make a profit in a world dominated by Romance titles and readers and authors.
If others, such as Amazon and Barnes & Noble, want to reduce their Romance holdings as well, no tears from me. Imagine all those frustrated Romance readers with noting left to read except different genres such as Science Fiction, Mystery, Literary. Poor things.


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My boy is everything and more that I could have asked for. He's always putting a smile on my face and letting me know that I'm loved and cared about. This was the beginning. Spilling my painful story to him. I'll never be more grateful than I was that day,… Read More
Recently I read a poem of my friend on Booksie, which inspired me to write this poem. I Hope you'll like this. Read More
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Darling so it goes some things are just meant to be. It is true you know, some things are meant to be. At least it is for me...read and comment i'll do the same in return. Read More
December 07, 2012
When I was ten, five large men broke into my house when my sister Liz and I were home. They threw Liz against a wall and she wasn't moving; before I could know if she was okay one of the men picked me up and carried me off into the… Read More
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This poem talks about the stereotypical fear of being rejected and the sad resignation and regret of not telling someone how you feel. You become obsessed with the reasons why you can't tell them and therefore become obsessed with the person as well. Read More
i've missed this, let me know what you think!:) also, this poem was not written literally, i don't think! Read More
I'd describe this poem basically as a little self-narrated FICTIONAL story about falling into a cannibalistic lesbian frenzy. Any questions? Read More
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April 05, 2011
Rubbing the sleep from his eyes he walked over to the televisions he had placed on his desk, all of which were hooked up to the CCTv cameras he had positioned in each of the rooms of his house. He surveyed the rooms on the screens and deciding that they… Read More
My latest poetry based on the dual personality of a person. The calm and normal one, and the one strange enough to be considered crazy. Read More
i came up with this at randome in english class bc they were saying stupid things for this poem so i put some meanint into what i said instead of just spitting out randome nonsense words. Read More
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This is the second one in the 100 theme challenge, Beast. (Yes, I am well aware that I'm no wondrous writer, but I'm trying. :P) Read More


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Moranbah Airport
The Moranbah Airport started with quite modest beginnings. It operated for many years as a very simple regional airport. The Moranbah Airport has recently undergone a major upgrade. With changes to the aviation industry in 2012 it was time for a change. The new building at Moranbah Airport was constructed alongside the existing site. The Moranbah Airport is built on a BMA Mining lease, therefore it is an Alcohol free zone.
The new Moranbah Airport has been operational since the end of June 2012. It provides a comfortable modern environment with the updated facilities. The is a local cafe situated at the Moranbah Airport to make the wait a little easier. There is no public WIFI Services available at the Airport due to a lack of local infrastructure.
The Airport is approximately 8 kms from the town of Moranbah. There are several car hire booths situated at the Moranbah Airport. You will see an area with designated bus lanes and bus pick-up or parking areas to the right when you walk out of the Airport. Local Taxi Cabs can also be booked to pick you up or drop you off. The cost is approximately $30 from Moranbah to the Airport. (Although we recommend that you confirm the cost when booking).
Car Parking
There is both short-term and long-term parking. All Parking is free on-site at this time. There is 2 hour parking directly outside the terminal. If you are required to leave your car at the Airport for any longer period there is a the original unsealed car park for any extended times. Although it is only minutes from the Carpark to the Airport, due to the volume of cars parked at the Airport, it is best to arrive early, as parking is sometimes challenging. It is not unusual to see well over 300 vehicles in the long term parking, particularly over weekends. For the ladies it is recommended to avoid wearing heels as much of the access to this carpark is across a dirt roadway, so we suggest flatter shoes. Unfortunately there is no Valet parking or additional Automotive services offered at Moranbah Airport yet.
Moranbah Weather
There is a weather station located at the Moranbah Airport to assist the pilots with local weather conditions on the ground.
To view the latest airport weather reports select the link to go to the from the Bureau of Meteorology


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LONDON (News Wires) - Shoes are necessary to complete most outfits – but humans may actually be better off without them. That's according to Daniel Lieberman, chair of the Department of Human Evolutionary Biology at Harvard University and his team of researchers, who found that shock absorbers and padding, among other shoe features, are actually making our feet weaker and more prone to injury.
The research, which studied the effects of running in sneakers versus barefoot, concluded that "protecting" feet with shoes can be harmful in the long run.
The reason is simple. Lieberman told Time magazine: "When you walk in shoes, your feet are pressing against a stiff substitute for the ground that makes the muscles in the feet have to work less than if you were barefoot."
With foot muscles that aren't properly exercised thanks to cushy soles, the risk of injury and foot issues such as flat feet increases.
However, sneakers are still a better option than high heels – which are linked to a multitude of health problems, according to The Independent.
In addition to being uncomfortable, wearing high heels can completely alter the structure of the muscles in your calves, as well as lead to joint issues and muscle pain.
And these risks only increase as you age – meaning your feet won't get used to heels over time. Shoes that are too narrow can also be detrimental to your foot health, potentially leading to foot deformities, according to research conducted by podiatrist Hylton Mez.
So what should you wear on your feet? Researchers are divided on the "healthiest" footwear as the answer can vary by the person based on factors such as age, health, weight.
Most have concluded, however, that the shoe with the most support - since ditching shoes altogether is not realistic – would be one that fits perfectly and provides a decent amount of sole support.


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misangels3 wrote:Anyone else experienced this or know someone who found out they were pregnant while taking Lupron? I went in on cycle day 19 to start my first FET. They start me on Lupron day 21 but they only had openings for appointment on day 19 of my cycle. I had ultrasound, progesterone test, and pregnancy test. Dr. said ultrasound showed no follicles that were mature on day 19 and that I must not have ovulated this cycle. Pregnancy test came back negative and progesterone was really low which he says shows I didn't ovulate this cycle. So he put me on Norethindrone 7 days to speed up process of menstruation and started me on lupron on day 21. I expressed my concerns to Dr. that I usually ovulate later in my cycles and had mentioned that during my prior IVF and he said he would be able to tell if I am pregnant or not by day 21. Soooo....on day 14 of taking Lupron (20 unit daily) I didn't get my period. I called the office they said it is normal so I went in for U/S and blood test for estrogen level and to measure thickness of lining. U/S showed 6mm lining Dr. said lining "ok" and that I had cyst on my Right ovary. Blood test came back high estrogen so they had to run pregnancy test and it came back hcg 278......OMG......Now I am totally scared. I have been on those drugs. They did not tell us to use protection or put me on BCP month prior. AFter my u/s on day 19 I said so now we have to use protection as I am starting LUpron. Nurse says yes from now on use form of birth control. We did, but the day before the u/s on day 19 we had intercourse we were not told not to and we assumed as the Dr. had assured us he would be able to tell if we were pregnant or not before giving lupron. Well the sperm must have been waiting adn I must have ovulated after the u/s within 2 days or so. They said my hcg puts me at 4 weeks along which would mean I ovulated that same day that the ultrasound was done. Also the cyst they saw was the corpus luteum on my right ovary supplying pregnancy. Weird cause they found my tube is blocked on the right side. I have severe endo and my husband low sperm motility. TTC 2.5 yrs with miscarriages. Help....please....I have read all literature on Lupron birth defects or lack of literature on lupron and pregnancy obviously...
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Hopefully it would all work out ............however I am thinking it might be ectopic as my tube is "scarred shut" per the Dr. or also it has been on my mind that my uterine lining is dangerously thin so how could it be possible to implant correctly. Also I have recurrent miscarriages so a lot has been on my mind as well as a study I read which said 30% chance of miscarriage in women who got pregnant and were taking lupron. I feel it would be a far stretch to have any sort of a happy ending. I have to wait and see what hcg comes back at on Tuesday.
I could never imagine that my husband and I would have to deal with infertility....and on top of that recurrent miscarriages, and now this. Is there a light at the end of the tunnel?
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Ten Egyptians Arrested After Clashes Break Out at Coptic Church (Video)
At least one person died during another day of clashes between Coptic Christians and Muslims in Egypt this week. The clashes broke outside St. Mark's Cathedral during a funeral procession of four Christians killed in sectarian violence earlier in the week.
Police arrested ten people including four Coptic Christians after the church was attacked.
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Egypt's prosecution has ordered the detention for four days of 10 suspects, including four Christians, accused of killing, attempted killing and causing damage to St. Mark's Coptic Orthodox Cathedral, according to a prosecution statement.
The clashes erupted last week as Coptic families were preparing a funeral procession for those who were killed in the Egyptian town of al-Khoussous the day before.
The 10 suspects were arrested for possession of firearms and weapons with blades, state broadcaster Nile TV reported, adding: "At least four Coptic activists were arrested on Friday dawn for complicity in clashes."
Christian-Muslim confrontations have increased in Muslim-majority Egypt since the overthrow of President Hosni Mubarak in 2011 gave freer rein to hardline Islamists repressed under his autocratic rule.
The state news agency MENA said one person had been killed and 84 injured in several hours of fighting at the cathedral, headquarters of the Coptic church, which was showered with stones, petrol bombs and bird-shot.
Following the ceremony, Christians started hurling rocks at police officers, a witness said.
The protesters smashed six private cars and set two on fire, prompting an angry reaction from Muslims living in the neighborhood, who threw stones at them, a witness said.
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Hundreds of Ma Ba Tha and Arakan National Party (ANP) activists took over the streets of Buthidaung town on Friday as the army continues its brutal crackdown on the Rohingya in the remote areas of the township.
The protests started at around 1.30pm local time, when the Muslims traditionally hold their special Friday congregation (Jumma) prayers.
The rally organisers shouted over loudspeakers that the Muslims must go back to Bangladesh where they came from, or they will be wiped out.
Many Ma Ba Tha and ANP activists seemed very keen to immediately take up arms against the beleaguered community, according to the statements they made over loudspeakers.
The protests come at a time when the Tatmadaw has stepped up operations in the Northern areas of the township where lack of communications mean news of atrocities committed don't reach the outside world.
The timing of the aggressive protests by the Ma Ba Tha and ANP has created suspicions that they are being backed by the military, according to local activists of Buthidaung.
In the remote northern areas of the township, many including infant children have been killed in recent months, according to testimonies of newly arrived refugees in Bangladesh.
Most of the cases have gone undocumented.
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