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Application developers often want to target sets of messages to particular consumers. They can do so either by targeting each set of messages to a unique physical destination or by using a single physical destination and registering one or more selectors for each consumer.
A selector is a string requesting that only messages with property values that match the string are delivered to a particular consumer. For example, the selector NumberOfOrders >1 delivers only the messages with a NumberOfOrders property value of 2 or more.
Creating consumers with selectors lowers performance (as compared to using multiple physical destinations) because additional processing is required to handle each message. When a selector is used, it must be parsed so that it can be matched against future messages. Additionally, the message properties of each message must be retrieved and compared against the selector as each message is routed. However, using selectors provides more flexibility in a messaging application.


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California's 3,000 raisin producers are undoubtedly the happiest of the lot of more than 8,000 grape growers statewide.
Barring a catastrophic weather disaster or a total collapse of traditional raisin markets, survivors of one of the raisin industry's most challenging decades are assured of at least back-to-back profitable years and likely at least a third.
Three years of prosperity are rare.
California's 600 table grape growers have certainly been successful over time. Last year they shipped almost 100 million boxes of fresh market grapes worldwide. However, table grape prices are spot market vulnerable.
California's 4,500 wine grape growers are optimistic that 2011 will be an economic turnaround season for them after almost a decade of uncertainties. However, optimism has turned to despair more than once in the recent past. Price offerings this year for San Joaquin Valley lower priced wine grapes are reflecting an escape from economic malaise. Unfortunately, the same cannot be said for premium wine grape producing area. There remains uncertainty on the higher end of the scale.
Raisins, though, are coming off a near historic 2010 with equally promising 2011 and 2012 seasons ahead.
Raisins have been part of California's viticultural history since the late 1800s and part of the American diet just as long. Raisins were elevated to American iconic status with the famous Dancing Raisins a decade ago.
California raisin producers are bunched together within a 100-mile radius of Fresno, Calif. This interwoven group of growers enjoyed one of its best years ever last season, receiving not only $1,500 per ton from raisin packers for their dried crop, but it was all up front money with 100 percent 'free tonnage.' Similar unprecedented results are expected this season with hopes of a three-peat in 2012.
The Raisin Bargaining Association (RBA) negotiated a $1,500 per ton, two-year contract with packers last year. The bargaining association that represents roughly one-third of the industry's growers is looking for a "modest" field price increase in 2012. The other two-thirds of the industry are split between independent packers and another piece of Americana, the raisin cooperative Sun-Maid Growers of California.
The RBA's negotiated price is the price setter for the industry each season.
RBA president and Caruthers, Calif., third-generation raisin grower Monte Schutz expects another 100 percent free tonnage crop this season. He has never seen back-to-back full crop payment years in his 30 years of producing raisins. The $1,500 price is not a record, but it is exceeded only by a $1,600 price more than 30 years ago when the majority of the crop was ruined by rain.
Free tonnage
The raisin industry is governed by a volume control federal marketing order. Each year directors of the Raisin Administrative Committee estimate production and compare it to anticipated sales. This sales projection is translated by the percentage of the field price growers receive from packers upon delivery of their crop. This is called free tonnage. For example, if the crop is estimated at 100,000 tons and the RAC estimates domestic sales will be 75,000 tons, then the free tonnage would be 75 percent. The remainder of the crop would be put into a reserve pool and sold to packers at prices typically below the field price. These raisins could be used for the federal school lunch program or into subsidizing export raisin sales.
The free tonnage figure is critical each year because that is the money growers receive when harvest is completed. Hopefully, it is enough to pay production costs and guarantee a profit for the year. For example, if the free tonnage is 75 percent on a $1,500 field price, a grower would receive $1,275 per ton upon delivery. If the free tonnage is 100 percent, that would represent an additional $225 ton or $450 per acre upon delivery on a typical 2-ton crop.
This volume control mechanism has provided stability to the raisin industry, which for years has been victimized by the vagrancies of the wine grape and concentrate industry, according to marketing order supporters.
"The raisin industry is subject to whatever other people decide not to do," explains RBA Chief Executive Officer Glen Goto.
The quandary revolves around the price wineries pay for Thompson seedless grapes for concentrate or wine. If the fresh green price is high enough, many growers will harvest grapes for delivery to wineries. If not, the option is to dry the grapes for raisins.
"The raisin industry really has no control over production when growers can say, 'If the winery price is not good enough, we can always make raisins,'" said Schutz. This decision is often made just ahead of fall harvest. This uncertainty, Goto and Schutz contend, is why the marketing order is important to the industry.
Although the marketing order has provided some stability, it has not saved thousands of growers and vineyards.
Raisin acreage decline
Raisin acreage and the number of raisin producers has declined dramatically over the past decade, due to the inherent uncertainty of both the raisin and wine markets and the availability of more profitable and economically settled crops like almonds and pistachios. Raisin grape acreage has dropped by almost 100,000 acres in the past 10 years. It's now a little more than 200,000 acres and is still falling by 2 percent to 4 percent per year, according to Goto. This reflects growers who tear out vineyards and do not replace them with more vines.
"It is much more expensive to plant a vineyard than an orchard," said Goto, adding that almonds and pistachios have been consistently more profitable than raisin grapes for several years. Not counting land costs, a grower can easily spend $10,000 per acre or more to establish a trellised vineyard versus $6,000 to $7,000 for an almond orchard. The difference is basically the cost of hardware to put in a vineyard.
Schutz farms 350 acres of raisins — all Thompson seedless. He grew up working his family's vineyards. These are good times for him and his fellow raisin producers.
At current prices, Schutz is able to continuing farming without incurring new debt. Good raisin returns also allow him to look at new equipment, repairing or replacing stakes and end posts and replacing trellising wire. He can also incorporate compost and other soil amendments over the winter.
"The price of raisins has been a very positive thing for the community. Our local tractor dealer is very busy, and that is good. Farmers can afford to buy things they have not been able to for several years," he said. He added that growers were able to afford compost or other soil amendments last winter.
Surviving for Schutz has been a matter of cutting costs. One of the biggest cuts has come in harvesting expense. Goto said Schutz was one of the earliest to mechanically harvest onto a continuous paper tray for drying.
Harvesting expense
"In 2003 labor costs shot up because we had a labor shortage," Goto said. "That is when Monte and other growers really started looking at machine harvest." Today, Schutz and Goto estimated 30 percent to 40 percent of the valley's raisin crop is mechanically harvested.
"Frankly, I should have done it a year earlier," he said.
It takes about 20 people to mechanically harvest 20 acres. That includes 15 to cut canes and four to mechanically harvest and mechanically pick up the dried raisins. Schutz says it takes 40 to 45 people to hand harvest the same acreage.
That alone saves at least $300 per acre.
Schutz machine-harvests about 75 percent of his acreage. The rest is still hand harvested and laid on individual paper trays to dry and later rolled and boxed by hand. Production in some blocks is not high enough to justify machine harvesting. Plus, Schutz' does not want to put his entire crop in peril in case of mechanical failure.
The switch to machines has also lessened the labor need Valley-wide at harvest time. Goto said when the industry was 100 percent hand-harvested, it would take 40,000 to 50,000 laborers over a two month period to harvest, lay and gather up the valley's dried raisins. That has been reduced to a stable 20,000 to 30,000 workforce at the height of the late summer and early fall harvest season.
Schutz' vines are in 12-foot rows with 7 feet between vines. They're trellised with 18-inch crossarms. He has been using drip irrigation since the 1980s.
Sun-drying raisins is all about watching the calendar. Schutz wants his field dried crop out of the weather by Sept. 22. Ideally, he wants to begin harvest at 19 Brix. However, "In reality, you look at when you want the raisins ready to pick up and back it up 30 days or so and start picking."
Mechanical harvesting
The first step in mechanically harvesting grapes for raisins is cutting canes. Ideally, Schutz wants to cut canes 14 days before he plans to machine harvest. The minimum is 10 days.
This cane cutting begins the dehydration process on the vine before the machine gathers the grapes to finish drying on continuous paper trays unrolled between the vine rows.
"The longer the grapes can dry on the vine, the better the shatter will be when they are harvested by the machine. There is also much less juicing at harvest the longer they are on the vine," Schutz said.
Shatter is when the drying grapes separate from the stems. The more shatter, the easier it is to clean the raisins before boxing and shipment to the processor.
The dry down ratio to produce raisins is about 4 tons green to 1 ton dry.
Schutz averages about 2.3 tons of raisins per acre. He says his farming area is located among the industry's higher producing regions.
Goto and Schutz said the RBA will likely ask for a field price of about $1,600 per ton for the 2012 crop to cover increased production costs, primarily related to higher energy and fertilizer costs.
"Raisin sales continue to be good, and we do not anticipate a burdensome carryover from the 2010 crop into 2011, even though the 2010 crop came in a little bigger than was initially forecast," Goto said.
The final 2010 crop on Aug. 1 should weigh in at about 330,000 tons. Goto does not expect the carry over to be above 100,000 tons. This compares to about 90,000 tons carried into the 2010 season. These raisins are used to carry the industry from Aug. 1 until the new crop is processed in the fall.
"We are not swimming in raisins," said Schutz, who is also vice chairman of the Raisin Administrative Committee. "The historical average carryover is about 120,000 tons."
It is going to take a hefty price from wineries to convince growers to go green. Wineries have been shopping a $250 per ton green price.
"They may be shopping, but I have not heard of any buying," said Nat DiBuduo, president of Allied Grape Growers, the state's largest wine grape marketing cooperative. Last year Allied released many of its growers from harvesting green to make raisins when Thompson green prices fell short of matching the profit potential for raisins.
"We have indications that the Thompson price will need to be close to that $250 or more before the Thompson grower will not make raisins. There still seems to be plenty of demand for Thompson seedless," he added.
The next step in the production process is counting bunches to get an idea of the potential crop size.
"We'll do those in a couple of weeks," said Goto. That will provide more insight into this year's crop size. The crop has been slowed by cold spring weather. However, the irrigation water supply outlook from wells and surface deliveries has been bolstered by above average rainfall from the cold, wet weather.
Overall, the Thompson seedless/raisin industry is perhaps as healthy as it has been in a couple of decades.
Marketing order value
However, the industry is not without issues. One of them is the value of the marketing order. In recent years, several commodity marketing orders have been dissolved, most notably citrus' pro rate system, the tree fruit agreement and pistachios. The raisin industry several years ago dissolved its joint grower/processor marketing promotion commission. It has since been replaced by a similar commission funded solely by growers.
Goto acknowledged that there are some who contend now that the supply and demand of raisins is balanced, the RAC is no longer needed.
"I think that is pretty short sighted. We need to have this tool at the ready," said Goto. He noted that the almond industry, one of the most financially lucrative crops in the state, still has its volume control order. It just has not been used with the remarkable sales of California almonds worldwide.
"We are looking at the RAC to see if changes are needed to modernize it," Goto said.

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The story of Jesse Sapolu could have been a sad memoir, a cautionary tale for the toughest of men.
Simply put, Sapolu risked his life to play football.
The choices he made against the reality of a heart defect could have served as a warning for others. Instead, Sapolu, a Costa Mesa resident who starred as an offensive lineman for the San Francisco 49ers, serves as an inspiration. That was his primary intent.
The Sapolu story is not sad at all. You can read about him in his new book, "I Gave My Heart to San Francisco."
These days everything seems to be happy in Sapolu's life. His beloved 49ers are in Sunday's Super Bowl XLVII playing for their sixth NFL championship against the Baltimore Ravens.
Sapolu, the 49ers alumni coordinator, left for New Orleans Thursday morning. On Thursday night, a photo of Sapolu with San Francisco Coach Jim Harbaugh was posted on his Facebook page: Jesse Sapolu's Men In The Trenches.
Sapolu's book was released in October. The timing proved to be seemingly perfect as it came during the 49ers' return to greatness.
Sapolu is a busy man, promoting the book and his 49ers. He also runs a football camp for linemen and works as a motivational speaker.
He was at the Pro Bowl in Hawaii last weekend.
He appeared on ESPN Wednesday night. He still took time to speak with me before leaving for the Super Bowl.
In my brief dealings with Sapolu, I've recognized a humble man.
That character is seen in his book, too. He played the game for his name, but he also played for everyone else who dealt with a heart condition, especially the kids, he said.
He had several requests to write a book after retiring. But he said a tragic moment occurred that set the plans in motion.
Sapolu saw his youngest son Roman, a center at Oregon State, deal with the death of his friend, Fred Thompson, who died after collapsing while playing basketball. Thompson's death came from complications of an enlarged heart, Sapolu said.
"I came back from open-heart surgery so that other kids can have the opportunity that I have," Sapolu said, talking about the surgery he had in 1997 and returning to play his final season.
In his book, Sapolu writes about his upbringing, his motivation, his passion for the game of football and his love for his family and friends among other topics. He had plenty of motivation during a career that spanned 15 years and featured four Super Bowl rings, nine appearances in the NFC title game, two Pro Bowl appearances and two All-Pro selections.
What an amazing career, full of triumphant stories, all while dealing with an abnormal heart, a torn aortic valve. There were times, he admits, when pride and determination ruled his decision making.
He never wanted to tell anyone about his enlarged heart.
Concussions and contact to the head are the hot topics for football players during and after their careers. Sapolu dealt with that along with his heart condition.
But his motivation overcame his fear of death. He was passionate about playing for a dynasty. He was determined to be the best and prove he was much more than an 11th round draft pick (289th overall in 1983).
His greatest joys came from being an integral part of championship teams.
He laughed when the topic was brought up about the 49ers' Randy Moss telling the media that he is the greatest wide receiver to ever play the game.
"On our teams, No. 1, we had great athletes," Sapolu said of the teams he played on. "No. 2, the great athletes were unselfish players. We put the team first above everyone else. Anyone who sounded selfish, we had a chemistry that we would shut it down fast.
"I got a call earlier from a reporter about the Randy Moss-Jerry Rice thing. Sometimes when you are in front of the media, you let the moment get to you, and I think from the teams we played on, we never let the moment get to us. If you're going to become an all-star it would have to come with the team and not on yourself."
So who is the greatest receiver of all time in Sapolu's opinion?
"It's without a doubt Jerry Rice. Not only based on statistics, but on the big games, three championships. I think Randy realizes this is his swan song. I would put him in the top five. I wouldn't say he's the best and 99% of reporters would know Jerry is the greatest ... Jerry is actually considered the greatest player at any position."
Sapolu also sounded off about 49ers former owner Eddie DeBartolo Jr., who is a Hall of fame finalist, saying that he absolutely should be in the Hall of Fame.
Sapolu disagreed with the anti-gay comments made by San Francisco defensive back Chris Culliver.
"I think it's a still work in progress," Sapolu said about the perception of homosexuals in the game. "[Football] would be the toughest atmosphere for any athlete with that orientation. Will time change that? I believe so. When you get to a point when you're secure with yourself, as long as that person doesn't push his lifestyle on you, then he should be a teammate. It's going to take time, especially because it's football. It's a man's game."
Sapolu felt bad for Culliver.
"This is unnecessary attention that doesn't need to be there in the biggest game of the year, the biggest game of his life," Sapolu said. "Unless you're there in the Super Bowl you don't realize all the reporters there. Sometimes people don't handle it the way you should handle it. [Players] need to realize everything you say will be scrutinized."
Sapolu, of course, picked the 49ers to win, by at least 10 points, he said, if they are playing at their best, which he expects.
He said it's too early to tell if the 49ers are headed toward another dynasty-type era, but he likes what he sees.
"We have good young team," Sapolu said. "We have a young defense that's only going to get better. We have a young quarterback, who is mesmerizing. The sky's the limit and everything is looking up but there are no guarantees. As long as we have Coach Harbaugh there, it can be great."
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Union Pacific, the nation's largest railroad company, is a choice place to assess the gap between the dream and the reality of what's commonly called the "Internet of things." Like a lot of technology movements, the Internet of things is easy to describe but hard to execute. It means putting sensors on all manner of machines to collect data, linking them over wired and wireless networks, and then applying data analytics to assess when a train's wheel needs replacing, a power plant needs fixing, a soybean field needs watering, or a patient needs reviving.
Union Pacific and other companies are doing some of that kind of analytics today. Companies that succeed in the future will have to do much more of it, so it's critical to know the barriers and constraints--which brings us to Union Pacific headquarters in Omaha, Neb.
UP has been in the same business for 150 years, hauling railcars full of coal, grain, manufactured goods, and people across the plains and mountains of the Western U.S. To run the railroad of the future, it's putting more emphasis on a new skill: predicting the future.
[Union Pacific CIO Lynden Tennison is among the IT leaders speaking at the InformationWeek 500 conference. Register to attend Sept. 10. ]
For example, UP would like to be able to predict when a wheel is going to fail weeks before it causes a 1.5-mile-long, 20,000-ton coal train running at 70 miles per hour to derail, risking lives, causing delays, and losing the company money. UP has been using technology to predict and prevent derailments for well over a decade. It has placed infrared sensors every 20 miles on its tracks to take about 20 million temperature readings of train wheels a day to look for overheating, a sign of impending failure. It has trackside microphones to listen for growling bearings in the wheels. For its biggest and heaviest coal trains, it even shoots ultrasound images--like those used to see a fetus in the womb--to look for flaws inside wheels.
Data is sent via fiber-optic cables that run alongside UP's tracks back to its Omaha-area data centers. There, complex pattern-matching algorithms flag the outliers, letting experts decide within five minutes of taking a reading whether a driver should pull a train off the track for inspection, or perhaps just slow it from 70 to 35 mph until it can be repaired at the next station. Using all of these technologies, UP has cut bearing-related derailments by 75%.
But the railroad isn't content. Slowing a train to half speed slows the entire network, since the trains behind it on the tracks must slow as well. Stopping a train at a station midroute is a lot better than stopping it out on the track, or having a derailment, but it still bungs up the network.
CIO Lynden Tennison would love to someday get rid of all of those wayside sensors and instead put tiny sensors, called motes, directly on the wheels, bearings, door locks, and more, and collect the data wirelessly. That way, UP could predict weeks out when most repairs are needed and do them when a train is between deliveries and at a major hub. But there's a long list of obstacles to achieving this dream network:
Wireless coverage isn't everywhere. Sensors are too expensive. Unlimited data can't be instantly analyzed, even by today's computers. Algorithms can't replace human judgment. Location data is incomplete. Batteries are too short-lived. "Those are all things that will come," Tennison says.
Until then, he and his team of 2,000 IT pros keep pushing today's technology to make UP a smarter railroad, testing the limits of the Internet of things as they go.


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Understanding HIV-Related Lab Tests I: Complete Blood Count and Blood Chemistry
October 26, 2015
Table of Contents
Lab Tests Are Important Tools
Having regular lab tests (blood and sometimes urine tests) is a necessary part of caring for your health. If you are living with HIV (HIV+), lab tests are especially important tools that help you and your health care provider keep track of how you are doing in the following areas:
Immune System Status
HIV Infection
Overall health
The Basics
When you are first diagnosed as living with HIV and when you first start taking HIV drugs, it is important that you get "baseline" blood tests that give a picture of your health at that moment. Later tests can be compared against these results to see how things are going, and if they are changing. Most lab tests should be done every three to six months, or as often as your health care provider recommends.
Because different labs use different equipment, test results from different labs can vary. Therefore, it is a good idea to have your tests done at the same lab each time. If you get an unexpected result on one test, your health care provider will probably want you to get a second test to see if the results are the same as the first one. Try not to worry too much about a single unexpected result -- usually trends over time are more important.
Most lab reports show the normal range of results from each test and highlight any of your results that are outside the normal range. The ranges listed below are general and may not be exactly the same as your lab. Look at your lab report for the normal ranges they use.
Complete Blood Count
Blood is made up of different types of cells including red blood cells, white blood cells, and platelets. The complete blood count (CBC) is a test that measures the amount of these cells in a sample of your blood. CBCs are especially important for people living with HIV because some HIV drugs and infections can cause changes in your red or white blood cell counts.
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Candidate presented by: Ms. Sandra Robinson, director, Educational Opportunity Program
Dr. Arnold L. Mitchem is an internationally recognized leader in advancing the cause of equal educational opportunity. His pioneering work in this field began when he became the founding director of Marquette's Educational Opportunity Program (EOP) in 1969. Under his leadership, EDP gained a national reputation as a model for providing services to help students overcome barriers that traditionally impede access and success in higher education.
During his tenure as EDP Director, Dr. Mitchem was a driving force in the formation of state and regional organizations of similar programs across the country and in promoting availability of federal funding to support this
In 1986 he became the first President of the Council for Opportunity in Education (COE), a national organization to advance the interests of students from backgrounds that impede success in higher education. COE's particular legislative interest is the Federal TRIO Programs, which are designed to provide support services to first-generation college students, low-income students, disabled students, and students who are members of groups underrepresented in higher education. As President of COE, Dr. Mitchem has played a pivotal role in shaping the legislation and regulations that govern these TRIO programs, in garnering broad bipartisan support for their continued funding, and in providing mechanisms to promote widespread adoption of best practices at colleges and universities across the country.
Dr. Mitchem graduated from of the University of Southern Colorado, studied European History as a Woodrow Wilson Fellow at the University of Wisconsin, and received his doctoral degree in foundations of education from Marquette University.
He is a member of the Executive Committee of the European Access Network and of the National Advisory Committee of the Woodrow Wilson National Fellowship Foundation and a trustee of both the Center for Applied Linguistics and the National College Access Network. He is a former trustee of the College Board; and Past President of the Committee for Education Funding, a Washington-based coalition of national education associations that includes the American Council on Education and the Council of Chief State School Officers. He was the first President of the Mid-America Association of Educational Opportunity Program Personnel and is a former member of the First National Inroads Board of Directors.
He has been awarded honorary doctorates from Saint Louis University, the University of Massachusetts-Boston, CUNY-Lehman College, Marycrest College in Iowa, Lewis University in Illinois, and the University of Liverpool, England. He has been named Martin Luther King Jr. - Cesar Chavez - Rosa Parks Professor at Michigan State University and Ralph Metcalfe Chair at Marquette University. He is also the recipient of the 1988 Marquette Educator Alumnus of the Year Award, the Arturo Schomburg Distinguished Service Award from the Association for Equality and Excellence in Education, Inc., and the 2002 Human Relations Award from the National Association for College Admission Counseling.
Because of his leadership in shaping Marquette's EOP as a national model for educational opportunity programming and because of this lifelong commitment to opening the doors of higher education to all students, regardless of background or privilege, Reverend President, I hereby recommend Arnold L. Mitchem for the Marquette University degree of Doctor of Letters, honoris causa.


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read about a similar incident before.... that *tension* in the lines is what makes these little things work. Have never had to use it, but i clean it every now and then. Maybe a sharpening is in order (i have pretty good knife stones, any one of my kitchen knives can shave hairs off my arm... unless my wife touched them at which point they are useless)
Its hard to cut one of these lines when they are not in tention even with a diver's knife serrated or not.


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Sam I am
Amidst all the Khabi-disaster, Sam Gagner was recently interviewed by Jason Gregor (check out the article on Oilersnation.com), and Steve Tambellini also spoke about him a bit.
Gagner mentioned he worked hard to lose a bit of weight in the off-season (yes, I said lose weight… I guess he wanted to lose some of the "baby fat" that he felt only slowed him down.. go figure). Jason Gregor noted that you could see it in Gagner's face even that he lost that baby fat, and also that he appeared to be quicker on ice. Seems weird to comment on, but Gagner felt that by shedding the extra weight it would help him gain a bit of speed, and it does look like that may be the case. In addition, Gagner has been working on his shot and his conditioning. Jason Gregor also asked him if he had been working on his faceoffs, to which he said it was difficult to work on something like that, but he had been working on his strength (which he commented would assist in faceoff ability).
Steve Tambellini spoke about Gagner and threw out the best "morsels" of info on Gagner, such as how he looks in better shape and leaner (due to his change in training to more cardio/endurance training). The biggest morsel was that he'd have a "prominent role and prominent ice time". To me that means he's going to get a good look at #1C this year. Now before people get too excited, that doesn't mean that he'll get it and have to do nothing to keep it (i.e. not earn it). But, it's good to hear that we can expect that the guy I consider to be our #1C of the future to be given the chance to take that spot if he wants it enough.
The journal also had a good interview with Gagner, which I'll quote here:
"Obviously, I have a lot to learn to be a first-line centre, but I want to be a guy who's looked upon to play in all situations," said Gagner.
"I'm willing to take the steps to be that guy and I've always been taught if you put the work in you'll be rewarded."
He's had one clear goal this summer: trim down a bit to get even quicker.
"My main focus this summer was getting faster and I've dropped weight," said Gagner, who played at just under 200 pounds last season, is currently 193 and would like to get closer to his rookie weight of 190. "When you're coming into this league, everyone's telling you to put on weight … you get caught up in it, but I've worked this summer to lose pounds, to work on my fast-twitch, work on my speed with my trainer. I hope to see dividends from that."
Three pounds to go.
"If I get to 190, I won't get knocked around at that size and I think I can get in and out of places quicker."
Now all this stuff could sound just like the usual unfounded buzz we hear around this time, but I think Gagner was had a decent end half to his season despite battling a hip injury (he stated it would flare up from time to time because he never gave it time to heal). There are also still some concerns in the defensive zone, but I think playing with a guy like Penner will help though, in that regard. I honestly think this is Sam Gagner's big year (OK, not THAT big, so settle down… I mean, it's the start of where people think – "Oh yah, I'm seeing the #1C now..") IF he gets the top center role (more so on the powerplay). I said my prediction below earlier this week to a friend of mine, and he thought I was crazy, but I'm thinking he should get significant ice time on the top line as well as power play.
So behind all the Khabibulin hoopla and the hype surrounding the rookies (Magnus Paajarvi, Taylor Hall and Jordan Eberle, in particular), Gagner has been quietly working hard to be come a better player, and I think we're going to see that this year if he gets top billing. If he's put at center for a couple of rookies, I think that changes things (although granted, I think he'll still get top PP time and that will help keep the numbers up). Anyways, without further ado…
Prediction: 60 points – 20 goals, 40 assists (if he plays close to a full season).


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Each connection service is available at a particular port, specified by host name (or IP address) and port number. You can explicitly specify a static port number for a service or have the broker's Port Mapper assign one dynamically. The Port Mapper itself resides at the broker's primary port, which is normally located at the standard port number 7676. (If necessary, you can use the broker configuration property imq.portmapper.port to override this with a different port number.) By default, each connection service registers itself with the Port Mapper when it starts up. When a client creates a connection to the broker, the Message Queue client runtime first contacts the Port Mapper, requesting a port number for the desired connection service.
Alternatively, you can override the Port Mapper and explicitly assign a static port number to a connection service, using the imq.serviceName.protocolType. port configuration property (where serviceName and protocolType identify the specific connection service, as shown in Table 6–1). (Only the jms, ssljms, admin, and ssladmin connection services can be configured this way; the httpjms and httpsjms services use different configuration properties, described in Appendix C, HTTP/HTTPS Support). Static ports are generally used only in special situations, however, such as in making connections through a firewall (see Connecting Through a Firewall), and are not recommended for general use.
In cases where two or more hosts are available (such as when more than one network interface card is installed in a computer), you can use broker properties to specify which host the connection services should bind to. The imq.hostname property designates a single default host for all connection services; this can then be overridden, if necessary, with imq.serviceName. protocolType.hostname (for the jms, ssljms, admin, or ssladmin service) or imq.portmapper.hostname (for the Port Mapper itself).
When multiple Port Mapper requests are received concurrently, they are stored in an operating system backlog while awaiting action. The imq.portmapper.backlog property specifies the maximum number of such backlogged requests. When this limit is exceeded, any further requests will be rejected until the backlog is reduced.


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Engadget took time out to sit down with Bryan Biniak, VP and General Manager of Global Partner and App Development at Nokia, to ask about app development on Windows Phone. Since today was also the UK launch of JobLens, as well as a new partnership with Entrepreneur First to help fuel mobile innovation in young minds seeking to start new businesses.
Biniak explained how the Windows Phone ecosystem is growing quickly and most-wanted apps are more the question of "when?" and not "if only."
"We're not having a single conversation with anybody, of any material application that's out there, that isn't going to be coming to the platform. It's not a matter of if -- I had those conversations, the "if" conversations, before -- all of our conversations now are "when." It's maturing, and it's time to come in. By the end of the year, there'll be very few, if any key applications that aren't in the development pipeline... or published."
While there are gaps in the catalogue of apps for Windows Phone, developers who support the platform have shown consumers that just because an app isn't official, doesn't mean it's not worth the time checking out. A perfect example of this would be 6Sec by Rudy Huyn, an unofficial Vine app. That said, it's always good to have the backing of larger brands.
Biniak also touched on Google, who has displayed a lack of will to support Microsoft's mobile platform, ignoring its own consumers who utilise Google products and own a Windows Phone. "They are doing themselves a disservice by not being on every screen," explains Biniak. "That will get resolved over time, but as consumer demand builds, they're not going to have an option."
Microsoft and Nokia have managed to secure partnerships and deals for Windows Phone that have introduced unique experiences for consumers. The Windows Phone Store will continue to grow with official and popular apps arriving, which are already available on other platforms. Many companies and developers are already looking at Windows Phone as yet another screen to get their work published on. As Biniak rightfully stated, it's simply a matter of when?
Source: Engadget; thanks, cyber_k9, for the tip!


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Volume XXXVII — No. 6
Bethel College and Seminary, St. Paul, Minn. Thursday, Dec. 8, 1960
Festival of Christmas To Be Produced
Dec. 9, 10, 11; 'Rejoice Evermore' Is Theme
Highlighting the holiday season at
Bethel will be the fourth annual
presentation of the Festival of
Christmas. This year the schedule
has been expanded to include three
production dates, Friday and Sat-urday,
Dec. 9 and 10 at 8 p.m.
and Sunday afternoon, Dec. 11 at
3, in the fieldhouse.
Presented against an illuminated
background, the program will fea-ture
a 150-voice festival chorus,
as well as smaller groups, includ-ing
an orchestra, college choir,
male chorus, women's choir, and
guest soloists.
"Rejoice Evermore" is the theme
for the three-part 1960 festival.
Opening the program will be an
overture, J. S. Bach's Christmas
suite, "Dulci Jubilo". Also in the
introductory portion of the pro-gram
is a choral prelude, "All
Hail to Thee 0 Blessed Morn" by
Nicloai, and the processional,
"Hail to the Lord's Anointed" by
The first section of the program,
entitled "Rejoice and be Glad" in-cludes
"The King Shall Come" by
Felter, who is a Minnesota com-poser,
currently a professor at the
University of Minnesota; "Break
Forth, 0 Beauteous Heav'nly
Light", J. S. Bach; "Let Carols
Ring", a Swedish carol by Black.
Audience participation in Han-del's
"Joy to the World" will open
"Rejoice all ye Lands". Native
carols from many countries will be
sung, representing the Ukraine,
Italy, England, France, Spain,
Germany, and America.
"Christmas Cantata" by J. S.
Bach comprises the last portion
of the program. Featured soloists
are contralto, Helen Marie Nel-son;
tenor, Richard Edstrom; bass,
William MacKinney.
There is no admission charge
for Festival of Christmas, but
there will be a free-will offering
Julius Whitinger, chairman
of the department of fine arts and
general chairman for the entire
program, expressed appreciation to
the following for their contribu-tions:
Eugene Johnson, associate
professor of art, art work; Ann
Friberg, senior art major, art as-sistant;
Jeannine Bohlmeyer, in-structor
of English, script; Robert
Berglund, instructor of music, dir-ector
of college choir; Sheldon
Fardig, associate professor of mu-sic
and education, director of the
male chorus; Thelma Fredrickson,
senior music major, pianist; Ro-bert
Peterson, seminary student
and assistant in fine arts, director
of the women's choir; Ron Pier-son,
junior music student, pub-licity;
C. Howard Smith, assoc-iate
professor of music, organist
and director of publicity.
Lastrumental casemble practices for Festival of Christmas.
Pianist Scheduled
L. Weigle Announced as Speaker For Concert
Tonight at 8:30
On King James Version in Convo. Jan. 12
Advent Song
Now the baby cries for silence,
For the clay obscures the depth.
Care ye not that I suffer and
Ah wassail, white, and gifts for
And once a maid gave birth in
a stall.
Care ye not that I suffer and
Today with his timely grin
Tradition tomorrow stretches
Care ye not that I suffer and
So merrily season's greetings
The ears and eyes from the
xmas mob.
Care ye not that I suffer and
—.Phil Caldeen
ABC Sponsors
Essay Contest
"What Do You Most Want
the United States to Do At
Home and Abroad in the Six-ties
?" This, according to the
American Broadcasting Radio
network, is the selected topic
for an essay contest open to
all university and college un-dergraduates.
The contest runs through Dec.
28. Each contestant may submit
any number of entries, each
with a maximum of 600 words.
The winner, one man and one
woman, will be flown to New
York on Jan. 18 to participate
in various events especially
planned for the winners. The
next days, Jan. 19-20 will be
spent in Washington, D.C. cov-ering
the inauguration day
In observance of the 350th an-niversary
of the King James Ver-sion
of the Bible, the convocations
committee will present Luther A.
Weigle, Ph.D., dean emeritus of the
Yale Divinity School, in two lec-tures
relating to that edition of
the Scriptures on Thursday, Jan.
12, 1961, at 10 a.m. and 8 p.m.
While Dr. Weigle has been identi-fied
also with the Revised Stan-dard
Version of the Bible, he is
one of the acknowledged scholars
of our day in his familiarity with
the King James Version. His pre-sentations
will be an historical ap-proach
to that version, including
the political and religious reaction
to the King James Version out of
the pages of history.
Rev. Weigle is a noted Lutheran
minister and one of the foremost
religious educators in the United
States. In addition, he has been
prominent in many national and
international Protestant organiza-tions.
Dean Weigle retired in 1949
after 21 years as Dean of the Yale
Divinity School. Among his major
activities since his retirement has
been his chairmanship of a group
of Biblical scholars who issued the
Revised Standard Version of the
Bible—an edition which has sold
millions of copies since then.
Dean Weigle has been the visit-ing
speaker for endowed lectures
at many different colleges and
seminaries, including the Hebrew
Union college in Cincinnati. He
has received thirteen honorary de-grees
and is the author of The
Pupil and the Teacher, a text-book
for training Sunday School
teachers which has sold almost
one million copies.
Ministers, Faculty
The Twin Cities Ministerial
association and the Bethel fac-ulty
and administration will
have their annual Christmas
dinner on Dec. 12 at the Beth-lehem
Baptist church in Minne-apolis
at 6:30 p.m.
Hans Richter-Haaser will be
featured at the St. Paul auditorium
theatre tonight at 8:30.
European cities have often plac-ed
Richter-Haaser in the same
category of greatness as Giese-king,
Backhaus and Schnabel. His
all-embracing musical background
and training have earned him the
respect and unstinted praise of
Europe's leading conductors, cri-tics
and fellow artists. Under von
Karajan, Boehm, Paray, Jachum,
Fricsay, Sawallisch and many
other leading conductors, he has
won international fame in the con-certo
field. Recitals in London,
Paris, the Hague and other Euro-pean
capitals, at the Edinburgh
Festival, and as far afield as In-donesia
have consistently been
great successes.
Tickets may be purchased at the
Field-Schlick ticket office or the
Minneapolis downtown ticket of-fice.
Single tickets are $1.50 to
Carole Lundquist
Wins Oral Contest
First prize of the oral interpre-tation
contest held on Nov. 21
went to Carole Lundquist for her
presentation of a selection from
Carl Sandburg's book, "The Peo-ple,
Yes." Second prize went to
Mary Lou Wick for her presenta-tion
of "What To Do" by James
M. Brown; and third prize to Anne
Embry, who did a selection from
Mark Twain's "Roughing It."
There were 22 contestants. The
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Editor Lois Bradshaw
Asst. Editor Sharon Dickau
News Editor Marie Hokuf
Feature Ed.____Sharon Bergstrom
Sports Ed. Arnie Doerksen
Business Mgr._ Richard Kreider
Adviser Lewis Barrett
"WELL I LOVE YOU BECAUSE YOU'RE gAlEer, BECAUSE YOU'RE
KIND, BECAUSE you'RE CONSIDERATE, BECAUSE YOU'VE WRITTEN
T4-IF ONL-Y TERM PAPER6 I'VE EVER AAANA6EP to 6E1 AN IAIION.
remember sure that what will add to stature is
fact, what will add to weight is opinion.
MATHESES: Socrates (that sage) says "Know
thyself"; Heraclitus' monad concept, all-compre-hending,
Anaxagoras, Heroditus, Sophocles and
Agamemnon, along with many others all support
this final unity of understanding and expression.
DIDASKOLOS: Skill it requires to choose well from
the words of other men. A partial knowledge
will make an imperfect thought. A bubble spoils
the most beautiful vase.
MATHESES: But we need to envisage the ultimate
and propel the amorphous mind into "realms of
light" and such.
DIDASKOLOS : Truly a summation of thoughts—
clear, purposeful, intelligent, selective—sur-passes
any dreams of wanderings or pointless
MATHESES: In other words, we look for perspic-uity
beyond pusillanimity, proverbs beyond par-ticulars,
purity beyond polemic, and purpose be-yond
(ah) peregrinations.
(Editor's note: The following
poem was written for and publish-ed
in the College Poetry Anthol -
by Rich Nelson
The sun, a lazily-thrown basket-ball,
Slips slowly past the rim of the
It will travel through space
And repeat its familiar cycle.
The spectators will see it pass
Until they one by one leave or
Until the game is finally over.
But Who keeps score?
As Christians We Are Debtors Both
To Christ's Birth and the Hope of Glory
Students Need New Self-
Direction in Eating Practices
by Phil Caldeen
A teacher and his disciple discuss a serious
matter concerning the style of those who write and
speak. At a time when papers and finals prevail,
this dialogue may interest those either perplexed
or confident.
DIDASKOLOS: Pose the problem early in your dis-course
lest the reader-hearer venture too far
and o'erlook that which is important and cen-tral.
Clarity above all is the goal.
MATHESES: Indeed such relevance the pursuits of
the more recondite and yet essential often ob-viates.
DIDASKOLOS: The limitations of a discourse can
be found even in the first few sentences and so
one finds out quickly whether the path is straight
or serpentine.
MATHESES: Aha, I sense allegory in the word
serpentine. Is there evil intent ? What about
innate proclivities and mythopoeic pantheons ?
DIDASKOLOS: Do not venture into side issues;
by Jim Nelson
Christmas, ostensibly to the church, is the yearly
celebration of the birth of the Savior, Jesus Christ,
the incarnation of God. This was a coming for the
purpose of salvation. Shortly after Jesus' birth
Simeon's desire to see the Messiah was fulfilled,
and with joyous gratitude for this privilege he ex-presses
the purpose for the babe in his arms: "for
mine eyes have seen thy salvation . . a light for
revelation to the Gentiles, and glory to thy people
Israel (Luke 2:30-32)."
This was a crisis event for all mankind, for God
had broken into history, manifest in the flesh, for
the purpose of dealing with man's sin. This was to
have a radical effect on man for "the true light
that enlightens every man was coming into the
world (John 1:9)." This event had repercussions
beyond that of bringing salvation; it also meant
the judgement of man. "And this is the judgement,
that the light has come into the world, and men
love darkness rather than light (John 3:19)."
Simeon reveals this sense of the crisis of judge-ment
that this child is to have on men as he speaks
to Mary: "Behold, this child is set for the falling
and rising of many in Israel . . . that thoughts out
of many hearts may be revealed (Luke 2:34-35)."
The thoughts of people would be revealed as they
faced the question of what they would do with
Jesus. The coming of Jesus into the world demanded
decision, which led to either salvation or judgement
for men.
In light of the teaching of the entire New Testa-ment
the coming of Jesus nineteen-hundred and
sixty years ago was only the fulfillment of a be-ginning
yet to be fulfilled at another coming, His
second coming. The fact of God intersecting history
that night in Bethlehem for the purpose of salva-tion
was the earnest of a greater coming when
His salvation would find its completion in the
coming when His salvation would find its comple-tion
in the coming to earth again of His Son. Look-ed
at from this perspective the "tidings of great
joy" would be tempered, for the truth of Christ's
coming was for judgement as well as salvation;
and this should be a sobering effect in our witness
to the world with its superficial and uncompre-hending
joy during the Christmas season.
In our preparation for Christmas, the celebrat-ing
of Christ coming to earth, there should also
be a preparing for His second coming, the coming
that will complete the work that began when God
became man at Bethlehem. As it was at His first
coming, so will it be at His second—either salva-tion
or judgement for man. Jesus has told us to be
prepared and watchful servants in light of His
coming to earth again (Mark 13:35 - 37)." In this
there presses upon us the "blessed hope" that com-menced
with the "tidings of great joy" and which
will be complete when that joy is fully revealed.
As Christians we live as grateful debtors to
Christ's birth in Bethlehem, and as debtors to the
hope of His coming again, the hope of glory. Let
us lift our eyes from the merriment of earthly cele-bration
to the final purpose of our Lord's coming,
the reward of the "crown of righteousness . . . to
all those who have loved His appearing (II Tim.
Letter to the Editor:
Stapp Family
Dear Friends at Bethel:
We want to thank you for the
kindness and love you have shown
us during the past weeks. There
are many ways in which this was
done — your prayers — the special
prayer meetings held for Dave —
the beautiful memorial service in
chapel — the many, many cards
and words of comfort — the beau-tiful
flowers — and the memorials
sent in Dave's memory.
We also want to thank all those
who gave blood and designated it
for Dave. This was very much ap-preciated.
All this has meant so
much to us and has helped us in
"walking through the valley of
the shadow of death."
We miss Dave and wish we could
have kept him, but this was not
God's Will and we know He makes
no mistakes.
It is hard to think of Dave not
being at Bethel this year, but to
us he will always be a part of
Thank you again for all you
have done and may the Lord be
more precious to each one of you
as He is to us.
Love in Christ,
Mr. and Mrs. Ralph Stapp
and Lynne.
A present issue of concern on our campus is that of the compul-sory
meal plan. Since the beginning of the semester there has been
much student discussion involving this policy. Most concern has been
shown by those upperclassmen living off-campus.
Recently a senate-sponsored open forum attempted to organize stu-dent
opinion in this area. The basic issue was clarified and supported
by a cross-section of Bethel students (75 in attendance). The question
asked is, "Should an upperclassman living off-campus be required to
purchase a meal ticket merely because he matriculates at Bethel ?"
Various reasons can be given to validate the change in policy that
the students request. However, the primary reason we would present
is that we feel this compulsory meal policy is inconsistent with other
policies that assume we are mature, responsible adults. We refer to
such policies as the program of independent study for upperclassmen,
off-campus living accommodations for sophomores, juniors, and seniors,
and non-compulsory chapel attendance. We are allowed self-direction in
these areas; we would request that this same policy be extended to
our eating practices.
— Marilyn J. Benson
School Spirit Entails More
Than Student Support at Games
by Bruce Leafblad
Student Senate President
Every year one of the subjects which is certain to become a topic
of much discussion is that of school spirit. And it is usually found that
the great majority of students agree that school spirit at Bethel is at
a relatively low level. Why is it that every year we hear the same old
story, but our level of achievement in this area seems to remain un-altered,
for the most part ? Could it be that we are all too willing to
talk about the matter and few are concerned enough to try to do some-thing
about it ? Or are we expecting too much in the way of external
expression towards athletic events and the like ? Maybe the atmosphere
of the college campus requires that we be more mature and dignified,
more intellectually sophisticated in our attitudes. I think not!
At a recent basketball game, a certain group of Bethel "beatniks"
made an attempt to engender a greater degree of enthusiasm and ex-pression
of school spirit at the game. These students concluded, how-
_ever, that their goal was futilely impossible to reach. Do our students
not care if we win or lose ? Do we have any real pride in our school and
in the athletic teams which represent us in contests ? Or are all of
these things directly related to a deeper, more complex problem ? I
think so!
To me, school spirit is not something which we relate only to ath-letic
events or social events. It is much more basic than that. It in-volves
our attitudes towards every phase of our experience at Bethel.
We must realize that each of us is an integrated personality and one
area of our lives is not isolated from all others; each area, each atti-tude
has its own distinct effect upon all others. Our school spirit is
shown not only by our participation at ball games, but also by our
support of other school events, our chapel attendance, our attitude
toward the classroom and studying, our attitude towards our teachers
and the administration, our attitude towards the policies and the pro-gram
of the school—all of these and many more attitudes are demon-strative
of our true school spirit. It seems to me that the problem lies
in this area: what causes us to have the attitudes we have towards
these various things ? I do not think that our problem is an isolated
case of not cheering at ball games, or the like. Granted, there are cer-tain
steps which could be taken to alleviate problems in specific areas
of concern, but more than this, we need to look at the whole of school
spirit and then attempt to affect changes and corrections that will make
for a school spirit of the finest type which can be evidenced in all our
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'Indians and Chinese are Brothers'
Has Become An Abused Cliche
Speech Contests
(cont'd. from p. 1)
judges were L. Ryberg, assistant
professor of Spanish and English;
Q. T. Smith, instructor in speech;
and C. Weintz, instructor in Eng-lish.
Mr. Smith expressed his ap-preciation
to Dr. George Shapiro
of the University of Minnesot&
speech department for his honor-arium
of $85 which he donated to
make a prize of that amount pos-sible.
The winners of the oratory con-test
held on Nov. 22 are Cal Mor-tensen,
first prize, Bob Hunt, sec-ond
prize, and Keith McConnel,
third prize.
There were six contestants in
the oratory contest and the judges
were; J. Bohlmeyer, instructor in
English, J. Hoeltke, and R. Curtis,
assistant professor of speech.
Cal Mortensen, winner of Ora-tory
Will Travel
Bethel debators will travel to
Grand Forks, N. D. with Q. T.
Smith, debate coach, to the annual
University of North Dakota debate
conference, Dec. 9 and 10. Allen
Penner, Leon McCleerey, Richard
Sorvig, and Calvin Mortensen are
scheduled as members of the team.
All major colleges from North
Dakota, South Dakota and Minne-sota
are expected to participate in
six rounds of competition. One of
the final rounds will be broad-cast
to the Grand Forks area.
The North Dakota tournament
is the first in a series of upper
midwest invitational tournaments.
Compiled records from all the
tournaments are the basis of sel-ecting
a team to the regional eli-mination
tournament in Omaha,
Neb. in the spring of 1961. The
winner at Omaha is sent to de-bators'
ultimate goal, West Point.
from the Oberlin Review
by Peg Eaton
(Miss Eaton spent two years
in India)
"Indians and Chinese are bro-thers"
has become an abused cli-che
in India, and the brunt of
many bitter jokes. Indian policy
toward China has not changed. The
Five Principles of Coexistence still
function, as evidenced by the Chou-
Nehru talks in April this year,
and by the concurrent presence of
Indian historians and cartograph-ers
in Peking for consultations on
the Sino-Indian border disputes.
Individual Indians, however, are
not entirely optimistic about the
relations between the countries.
Two incidents invariably are cited
as cause for mistrust: the Tibetan
uprising in March, 1959, during
which the Dalai Lama and 13,000
Tibetan refugees fled to India and
the Chinese assumption of control
over 12,000 square miles of the
Indian border.
During my two years stay in
India, I witnessed a change in
sympathies in the English Ian-college,
London defeated Trinity
college, Hartford and University
college, London triumphed over
New York university.
The program, recorded simul-taneously
at CBS New York and
Broadcast House London each
Thursday, is aired on CBS the
following Wednesday at 10 p.m.
The contest between Westfield
Women's college, London and Wes-leyan
university was heard No-vember
The program was conceived last
summer by Philip French, British
producer of the show, who con-tacted
college presidents in the
U.S., and Eugene King of WCBS.
King was associated with the last
program of this type ten years
ago when British universities met
teams from the Boston area.
Recording is expected to con-tinue
through Christmas, but
names of all participating colleges
and universities have not yet been
guage press. In 1958 and early
1959, many enthusiastic accounts
of trips to China described indus-trial
activity, population control
and pest extermination. The tone
of such articles was approving
and even envious. Now however,
technical progress is largely ig-nored,
and China is portrayed as a
border gobbling monster. In May,
some journals went so far as to
blam ethe Chinese for the sum-mit
Indian students, often involved
in the politics of their native reg-ions,
tend to view the existence
of an outside menace as a factor
which could unite India. And
China has certainly become a
greater menace than Pakistan.
students clamor for selection to
the National Cadet Corps. Some
sort of compulsory national ser-vice
may soon be instituted for all
students, both men and women.
If these pugilistic attitudes con-flict
with a vision of the spiritual,
spinning India be not dismayed.
India has a history of assimilating
diverse and apparently contradic-tory
points of view. Religious
thought still plays its part in mold-ing
the Indian public opinion.
When the Dalai Lama toured India
after his mysterious escape from
Lhasa, people thronged to the
great God-King.
The Ambala Tribune noted an-other
implication of the Dalai
Lama's reception : "The highly
probable explanation of such a re-ception,
and one which is much
more important in terms of for-eign
policy, is Nehru's wish to ex-press
indirect disapproval of
China's stand over Tibet . . .
through this oblique condemna-tion."
Some condemnation is not so
oblique. When Chou came to Delhi,
his movements were unusually cir-cumscribed.
He did not parade
through the streets as do most
visitors. Socialist demonstrators,
waving flags and shouting names,
had been herded into local jails
a short time before his arrival.
The press, the people and in par-ticular
the Socialists, were very
skeptical that the meetings on the
border issues would achieve any-thing
at that time.
After congenial moments before
cameras and a mildly worded joint
statement, Chou left Delhi, noth-ing
achieved. The Chinese Com-munists,
earlier considered by the
Indian intelligentsia to typify a
new Asian nationalism, have lost
face. As one disillusioned Indian
Socialist observed, "Somewhere ...
Marxism has gone wrong. Lenin
wrote a famous thesis on imperial-ism
as the last phase of capital-ism.
Someone should write another
thesis on Communism as the first
phase of a new imperialism."
But such individual comments
should not be construed by power
bloc addicts to indicate a shift in
India's non-alignment policy. Al-though
million of Indians greeted
the U.S. president last December
with much more warmth and en-thusiasm
than they accorded the
Soviet Premier some time later,
Indian governmental policy does
not reflect these personal senti-ments.
Rather, recognizing her
heritage of peaceful meditation
and heeding the pragmatic de-mands
of development, India re-fuses
to widen the power rift by
taking sides.
NEW YORK, N.Y. (UPS)—The
British Broadcasting Corporation
(BBC) and WCBS New York are
cooperating in production of a
weekly series entitled "Interna-tional
Each week panels from one Bri-tish
and one American university
are questioned on art, literature,
history, political science and cur-rent
events. The show is moderat-ed
by Rooney Pelletier in London
and Joseph Dembo in New York.
The contest, intended largely as a
meeting ground for exchange of
views and customs, is followed by
a discussion period. No money is
awarded the winner.
To date five contests have been
aired and the score is 3-2 in favor
of America. American universities
took the first three contests;
Columbia university defeated
Kings college, London Rutgers
downed the London School of
Economics and Vassar won out
over the University of Reading.
The Britishers turned the tide at
number four and went on to win
number five. Bedford Women's
BBC and WCBS Cooperate
To Produce 'International Quiz'
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Monday, Dec. 12, will climax
this season's volleyball tourna-ment
as three teams, Dukes,
Squires, and Peasants, play for
first place. In the feature game
of the evening the Dukes will
meet the Squires, both teams hav-
Girls' B.B.
Team Prepares
For Opener
The Bethel girls have invaded
basketball-land in an effort to ex-tend
their feminine supremacy to
sports. Approximately twenty
girls turned out for the prelimin-ary
practices, displaying great po-tential.
Returning from last year's squad
are three first stringers: Nancy
Gustafson, Joy Hegstrom, and
Laurie Giejer and Eunice Murra,
who saw much action last year.
These oldtimers will be aided
greatly by the talents of many
of the new students. Carol Peter-son,
new to the school, but an old
hand at the game, and Jan Peter-son,
also a newcomer, will be
fighting for top positions.
Coach John Holmberg is very
pleased with this year's promising
team and anticipates a winning
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On Dec. 3 the Bethel Royals en-countered
a fleetfooted Wisconsin
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89-66. The Royals starting
lineup, John Peterson F, Truman
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was unable to match the speed and
accuracy of the Falcons who scor-ed
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by the Royals in the first half.
The Royals entered the third
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game, the Bethel five dribbled,
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Falcon lead to fifteen points. Al-though
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Falcons 39-36 in the second half,
the game ended 89-66 for River
Heading the scoring column for
Bethel were Truman Turnquist
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5; Bob Larson, 5; Jan Kol-brek,
3; Lee Bajuniemi, 2; and
Roger Olson, 2. Johnson and Koep-nick
were high scorers for River
Falls with 28 points and 24 points
ing five wins and one loss. The
Peasants, who also have five wins
and one loss, think it's a big joke
as they encounter the Jesters who
defaulted last week. A win for
the Pages would qualify them for
the third place or a possible tie
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time the alert opposition had re-gained
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and promptly proceeded to pour
it on increasing their lead to 25
points at the game's end.
Bright spots on the floor for
the Royals were Truman Turn-quist
who rang up a total of 21
points and 9 rebounds, John Pet-erson
who came off the back-boards
with 14 rebounds, and
freshman guard Jan Kolbrek who
hit the hoop for seven points.
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Bethel's patterns. Nevertheless,
there is no reason to doubt that
smoother floor play and improved
shooting could still make our
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The basketball boys found rough
competition in their initial road
game of the year as they bowed
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Blessed with children, Struggling for more Week of November 19th
This thread is for women that have children who are trying to have more and struggling with infertility (IF). You fall into the IF category if you have been trying for more than a year or if you have known fertility issues. Some have secondary IF and some have primary IF. Some of us are TTC naturally and some need treatments of some type. All are welcome!
We also have women who are praying to make it. Due to prior losses or IF they don't feel like they should join a due date board till after the first 12 weeks. We are truly happy to support you as you transition. Please just keep in mind that we are a group of woman struggling with IF and be sensitive to that as you post. If you put a pregnancy ticker or smiley in your signature, please turn off your signature when you post in this thread. Thank you!
Please note: When your information needs to be updated, please highlight the area that needs to be updated. This will make it easier for me to update you.
If you'd like to be added please post your info using the format below. Please note: I remove names if you are inactive for one month. This really helps keep the list more manageable, if you would like to be added back, just repost your info.
Women TTC:
Screen name: twinmomstl (Real Name): Ashley
Age: 28, DH 31
Children and ages: Identical twins Gavin and Dominick (Aug. 2008)
Diagnosis: anovulation (I'm thinking PCOS but I don't have enough cysts for them to call it that)
Treatment: Starting Clomid next cycle
Next Appt: January
Cycles TTC another: Since Dec. 2010
Screen name: MyGlorylife (Real Name): Minda
Age: 33, dh is 36
Children and ages: 10 kids, 7 natural born, 3 step: dd13, dd11 1/2, ds10 1/2, dd 10, ds 9, dd8, ds7, ds5 1/2, ds almost 4, ds 2
Losses: 9/98 5 wks, 10/98 7 weeks, 05/2000 twins 1 at 10 weeks and one at 12, 04/04 twins 1 at 9 weeks, 1 at 11 weeks, 8/2008 DS's twin at 4 months (but scan showed twin had dies around 10 weeks), 7/2012 4weeks
Diagnosis: Currently TTC post V-Reversal that was done in 6/2012, 7 yrs after V was originally done.
Cycles TTC another: 5 months this including the mc in july
Screen name: KotzurK (Real Name): Kelsie
Age: 29, DH 28
Children and ages: Noah (Dec 2007)
Losses: Sept 06 twins 8 weeks, Feb 11 molar twins 8 weeks, Aug 12 triplets 10 weeks (Also lost DS's twin at 16 weeks)
Diagnosis: PCOS, cervical cancer (in remission) and male factor
Treatment: Injections (Bravelle and Menopur) Ovidrel and IUI
Next Appt: Tomorrow. Another baseline ultrasound and labs
Cycles TTC another: Since Sept 2010, including losses
Screen name: ChihuahuaMama13 (Real Name): Samantha
Age: 26, DF 28
Children and ages: Gabe (Jan 2011)
Losses: none
Diagnosis: Possible PCOS, otherwise unexplained
Treatment: On 1000mg/day Metformin, and trying Bona Dea; tried Soy Iso (made cycles about 2 weeks longer) and B6 with no results
Next Appt: First fertility specialist appt is November 12th at 3pm
Cycles TTC another: Since April 2011
Screen Name (Real Name): Carriek38 (Carrie)
Age: 33, soon to be 34
Current Children and age: Elliott, 2.5yrs
Losses: 02/12 CP, 05/12 6wks, 10/12 CP
Diagnosis: no known fertility issues, same-sex couple
Treatment and meds: Gonal F, Lupron, trigger shots, IUIx5
Next Appointment: Unknown...moving on to IVF
Screen Name (Real Name): Hope4More (Mel)
Age: 32
Current Children and age: Jake, 2 years old
Losses: 10/19/12 8w0d
Diagnosis: PCOS, was told at 14 years old I would never have children, I do not ovualte EVER without intervention
Treatment and meds: DCI, Vitex, inositol, progesterone
Next Appointment: November 5 or 6, follow up for D&C.
Screen name (Real Name): SlyFoxy (Robin)
Age: me- 40 soon be 41 ,hubby-47 Happily married 20 years
Children and ages: 2 girls 14 years old & other 20 months took 12 years to get our 2nd
Losses: None
Diagnosis: DH did have LSC but after 25mg Clomid they are prefect now. Me- Endometriosis, surgery remove mild endometriosis in 6/2010. Got pregnant after had endometriosis removed in 2010
Treatment 3 cycles of 2.5mg 3-7 Femara,opk testing, BD'ng with IUI, Endometriosis, surgery to remove mild endometriosis again 10/2012. Starting 2.5mg Femara 4-8 opk testing day, BD'ng then IUI when get peak on CBFM. Plus RE started me on a new prenatal vitamin with xtra iron
Cycles TTC another: 1 1/2 yr TTC#3
Screen name (Real Name): Itsajoi (Jena)
Age: me - 25, hubby - 25
Children and ages: boy, 27 months
Losses: may 2012
Diagnosis: none yet...
Treatment: nada
Next Appt: the 24th of this month
Cycles TTC another: since summer 2011...about 14 or 15 cycles
Screen name (Real Name): Melmonkey (Mel)
Age: me - 34, hubby - 35
Children and ages: girl almost 18 months
Losses: Sept 5 2012
Diagnosis: unexplained
Treatment: Clomid 50mg cd 3-7
Next Appt: don't have one, hopefully in the next few months we'll be doing OB/Gyn appts again!
Cycles TTC another: AF showed Dec 2010....we have not prevented since then....
Screen Name (Real Name):lalakiwi7 (Liesl - pronounced leesal)
Age (SO): 27 and hubby is 27, Happily married for 7 yrs. Together for 12.
Current Children and age: Noah is our oldest miracle man, adopted- 6yrs old. Frances is our first born who is 3.
Lost child: early losses 7/2011 & 11/2007 and DS-Haven (12 weeks) 7/2012
Diagnosis: Stage four endometriosis. Re-occuring losses. 2ndary infertility
Treatment and meds: ASA, MV, Decadron, Femera, HCG trigger, Progesterone post O and Lovenox with BFP
Next Appointment: Will be a follie scan CD 12 once I start AF again.
TTC: Since Francy was a baby... almost three years.
Screen name: kricket24 (Real Name): Kristen
Age: 30
Children and ages: (DS#1) Dakota 04/04/2003 and (DS#2) Colton 06/04/2009
Losses: Identical Twins, May 1, 2008. I was 9 weeks along, DH and I believe they would have been baby girls.
Diagnosis: Unexplained Secondary Infertility (I believe it's a progesterone/ovulation issue)
Treatment: Hoping to do IVF in Oct/Nov! For now I'm taking prenatals, B-Complex & Omega 3's.
Next Appt: Seeing an RE for our first IVF appt tomorrow night! 9/27 @ 6pm
Cycles TTC another: No birth control since DS #2 was born, started TTC a little over a year ago.
Screen name (Real Name): QuicksilverNHS (Marie)
Age: me - 28, DH - 29
Children and ages: 1DS-3y
Losses: Chemical in 2007. 12 week loss in 2008. Chemical in 2010. 15w loss in 2011. 23 week micropreemie live-birth/loss in Oct 2011. 9 week loss in 2012.
Diagnosis: unexplained---tests all "normal"
Treatment: 200mg Endometrin suppository (100mg 2x/day), baby aspirin, extra folic acid and B6.
Next Appt: Pending approval with MFM. Hopefully by Oct 1.
Cycles TTC another: 1. DH came home from deployment and 3.5 weeks later, I got my BFP. We have ZERO problems getting pregnant...its staying that way that doesn't work well at all.
Screen Name (Real Name): 3 Ladybugs (Jennifer)
Age: 35
Current Children and age: 3 lost children (July, August 2006, January 2007),M/C 9/2007, 1 living son 9/2008, M/C and lost frostie 7/2012
Diagnosis: Unexplained infertility to start with, now in menopause due to chemo, also had pelvic radiation that complicates things a bit.
Treatment and meds: Have 3 frozen embryos (my last 5 bits of hope), low dose aspirin, prenatal vitamin with low Vit. E, Estrace (orally and vaginally), progesterone in oil, and Prometrium. Have port cath flushes every 6-8 weeks.
Next Appointment: 9/5 Ultrasound and bloodwork, 9/10 FET, Beta 9/15, Oncologist on 10/17
Cycles TTC another: Got cleared to do my FET back in 11/10 pending oncologist telling my RE I didn't have cancer... turns out I did. So have been waiting since then to get to this point. It took 2 years 7 months for first cycle after cancer, now working on second cycle.
Name: flynnsmom/ Lilo (real name)
Current children: 3 year old DS
Losses: I think several very early MCs
Diagnosis: none yet
Next apt: none yet
Cycles TTC: on and off for 3 years as frustration permits. During an 8 yr. marriage have only prevented 6 months
Screen Name (Real Name): School123 (Lizzie)
Age: 35 my Dh is 36
Current Children and age: DD1 11, DS1 age 8, DS2 age 2.5
Lost Children and dates: 9 mc
Diagnosis: secondary infertility, unexplained
Next appointment: None
Cycles TTC another: too long, then decided we were done, then surprise +HPT, then another mc
Screen Name (Real Name): meeshkasheeba (Tina)
Age: 28 (DH 28)
Current Children and age: DS1 6 DS2 3
Lost Children and Dates: 8 Wk Miscarriage Jan, '07
Diagnosis: stage IV endometriosis, adenomyosis, and PCOS
Treatment and meds: multiple surgeries, Lupron x 6mo started 5/3, metformin, gluten free diet, and a slew of vitamins
Next Apt: Monday 10/15 ultrasound to see progress for the adenomyosis
Cycles Trying: 26 (counting my 6mo of Lupron TX)
Screen Name (Real Name): jacquelinemarie82 (Jacqueline)
Age: 30
Current Children and age: Jasmine, 2 years old (2/10/2010)
Lost Children and Dates: N/A
Diagnosis: male infertility
Treatment and meds: Clomid / IUI cycle #3
Next Appointment: Currently in 2ww
Cycles TTC another:
Screen Name (Real Name): carlaross (Carla)
Age: 36, DH 39
Current children and ages: Zach 17, Jarrod 16, Griffin 2 (12-28-09)
Diagnosis: DH had vasectomy '99 (previous marriage), reversal 3/09. Immediately (9 days after surgery) and had my LO 12-28-09. Never used birth control, began TTC another immediately after 1st PPAF, 8/10. After 15 cycles, we began a fertility workup and were devastated to find out he has complete scarring of the reversal site and a zero sperm count.
Cycles TTC another: since Aug 2010
Next appointment: January 9 (with my ob/gyn to begin my fertility workup and discuss options)
Screen Name (Real Name): slimy72 (Laurel)
Age: 30 Dh 32
Current Children and age: DS 4 1/2yo
Lost Children and Dates: 2003, 2004, 2005, 2006, Sept. 2011, Sept. 2012
Diagnosis: Endometriosis, do not ovulate regularly. Dh- MS, Celiacs, Ulcerative colitis.
Treatment and meds: Clomid, provera, prometrium, baby aspirin and a host of supplements and vitamins. Laprascope '09, lupron shots '09, trying out acupuncture and chiropractic right now too.
Next Appointment: Consult in late November with RE, waiting for him to hear back from another specialist on some odd test results.
Cycles TTC another: 4 1/2 yrs for DS, 3 1/2 yrs so far for #2.
Screen Name (Real Name): sdavis514 (Sarah)
Age: 32 (DH 33)
Current Children and age: one DS age 5
Lost Children and Dates: none
Diagnosis: We were NTNP for 4 years, diagnosed with PCOS in 2003 and put on clomid from 9/04-1/05, no results, took break and became pregnant with DS with no intervention in Aug 2006. Recent blood work suggested no insulin resistance.
Treatment and meds: BCP, starting meds soon for IVF
Next Appointment: 10/25 for endo biopsy and mock transfer
Cycles TTC another: NTNP for 4 years, Actively TTC since Jan 11
Screen Name (Real Name): JCPACandMommy (Carissa)
Age: 31 (DH 35)
Current Children and age: one DS age 4.5Lost Children and Dates: Oct 25, 2012 Blighted Ovum and Ectopic on Right Ovary at 6w3d
Diagnosis: PCOS as of Jan '12 but I am ovulating RE said I have Old Ovaries and No PCOS?
Treatment and meds: Past: Femara 5mg once daily CD4-8,Metfomin 500mg 3x dialy, Prenatal Daily, HCG trigger ~CD12
New Treatment: Follistim CD 3-8, Estrace CD8-11, Ovadril Trigger CD9, IUI CD11, Endometrin CD 15 on
Next Appointment: Nov 21 F/U from MC and D&C with Methotrexate x2
Cycles TTC another: Mirena Out April 5, 2011 was NTNP till Aug, then active TTC since then with No luck we are on Cycle #18
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Screen Name (Real Name): love4leon (Rebecca)
Age: 38 (DH 38)
Current Children and age: Winnie 5 years
Diagnosis: Endometriosis (Me) DH diagnosed with Low sperm count, low motility, and liquidation. 5/11 diagnosed with testicular cancer. Finished chemo August 2011
Treatment and meds: IUI done 1/2/2011, 2/5/2011, 3/2011, 4/2011 Clomid days 5-9, trigger shot and IUI on 2/14/2012,IVF starts June- Egg retrieval June 20th. Have 8 Day 5 embryos waiting for us.
Next Appointment: November 26th for u/s
Cycles TTC another: 3 years
12 weeks: January 11, 2013
Screen Name (Real Name): amyltc (Amy)
Age: 29 my Dh is 33
Current Children and age: DD1 Allie, age 6, DD2 Hannah age 4
Lost Children and dates: none
Diagnosis: Endometriosis, surgery to remove 9/14/10, mostly unexplained infertility
Next appointment: December 12th, 8 week u/s
Due Date: July 25th
12 weeks on: January 10th
Cycles TTC another: about 3.5 years
Screen Name (Real Name): finleyjudemommy (Susan)
Age (DH): 47 (ME) 36
Current Children and age: B/G twins 6 and YDD 4
Lost Children and dates: M/C March 04, M/C June 09, Chemical Feb 10 and stillborn October 10
Next appointment:
Will be 23 weeks on Friday. Due date is Feb 8 although will be induced before that. We have opted not to find out the gender.
Screen Name (Real Name): ingrid5699 (Ingrid)
Age (DH): 41 (ME) 37
Current Children and age: Patrick, 5 years, Aurelia 3 years
Lost Children and dates: triplets Nov. 2004, baby B May 2006, latest little angel 2'12, chemical pregnancy 6'12
Diagnosis: Me: endometriosis and immunological issues, DH: male factor
Treatment and Meds: fresh IVF #10 done, too many meds to list
Cycles TTC another: never prevented after DD was born 12'08, 4 fresh IVFs, 1 FET this time around (and 2 FETs with nothing to transfer)
Due date: May 30th
Will be 12w Nov 15th
Screen Name (Real Name): yellowitchgrl (Sarah)
Age: 30 (husband 34)
Current Children and age: Andrew-7, Luke-4
Lost Children and Dates: Zach (15w, 7/09), Toby (12w, 12/09), Simon (14w, 6/11)
Diagnosis: I'm perfectly healthy, so are the babies (except they're dead)
Treatment and meds: Praying and some extra folic acid (my idea, not docs)
Next Appointment: Not bothering.
Cycles TTC another: Not trying, but not preventing either
Screen Name (Real Name): Psylion (Alanna)
Age (DH): 37 (ME) 38
Diagnosis:high FSH and DOR
Treatment and meds: this will be our third injectables cycle with iui, the first two were with letrozole and menopur and this one is just menopur and metformin
Current Children and age: Sequoia is 4 1/2
Lost Children and dates: early MC 2/12
Next appointment: ?
Cycles TTC another: we only prevented a few months since DD was born
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Screen Name (Real Name): GracieMak'sMama (Sara)
Age: 22 (DH 23)
Current Children and age: one DD age 2(almost)
Diagnosis: Unexplained Infertility
Treatment and meds: Natural diet
Cycles TTC another: Almost a full year.
EDD: Oct 9th
12 weeks: 3/26
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Screen name (Real Name): Fleece Be With You (Jessica)
Age: 24
Children and ages: Hunter, born 9-18-09
Losses: none
Diagnosis: Celiac disease (unconfirmed, but a safe assumption at this point)
Treatment: Very limited version of GAPS diet, digestive enzymes, vitamin supplements
Next Appt: Seeing my chiropractor next week to look into my cortisol/adrenal issues.
Cycles TTC another: We haven't been preventing since Hunter was born.
Screen Name (Real Name): Harmony96 (Andrea)
Age: 33 (DH 31)
Current Children and age: DD (5), DS (29m)
Lost Children and Dates: ^i^ DS 11/27/11-12/24/11
Diagnosis: No official diagnosis, but currently having short luteal phases (6-7 days). Probably is just what my body "does" for its first few postpartum cycles.
Treatment and meds: Prenatal, folic acid, iron, several other supplements. Also trying to eat right and exercise (and hopefully lose about 15 pounds, but none of that has happened yet).
Next Appointment: N/A
Cycles TTC another: Lost baby was a c-section, had VBAC consult in March '12 and was told we could go ahead and try again if we felt ready.
Screen Name (Real Name): Hannah Elise (errr.. Hannah... hehe)
Age: 23, and dh is 22
Diagnosis: non-celiac gluten intolerant, malabsorption of nutrients
Treatment and meds: Gluten-free diet. Supplementing with Metagest (stomach acids and enzymes to improve proper digestion), aloe vera gel, and probiotics. Current Children and age: Asher (aka "Wee Goon"), 12.5 months
Cycles: 12/4/11, 1/12/12, 2/11/12, 3/20/12
Screen Name (Real Name): Vegan Princess (Cindy)
Age (SO):32
Current Children and age: Child 1: 2.5 yrs
Lost Children and dates: Chemical pregnancy (11/10), miscarriage at 9.5 weeks (5/11), possible chemical pregnancy (9/11)
Diagnosis: Diminished ovarian reserve for me. Moderate or severe male factor (depending on who you ask) for DH
Treatment and Meds:Beginning 2nd IUI cycle w/5mg femara, ovidrel trigger and prometrium. Will do this cycle and one more IUI and then meet with doctor to discuss IVF or using donor egg. - Moved to IVF
Next appointment: Follicle scan on 9/ 29. IUI on 10/1 or thereabouts. Will meet with RE to discuss game plan again in November.
Cycles TTC another: Had IUD removed 4/10 but really have been trying since 6/10.
Screen name (Real Name): heatherlovesCD's (Heather)
Age: me - 33, hubby - 38
Children and ages: boy 6, Twins girl/boy 4, Twins boy/boy 22 months.
Losses: March '07
Diagnosis: severe male factor infertility
Treatment: IVF/FET, 1 fresh IVF cycle = 1 boy. FET's = 1 early m/c, 2 sets of twins, 1 BFN
Cycles TTC another: I don't keep track. We have been TTC since 11/10.
Due date: Oct 15th
Date I'll be 12wks: 4/2/12
Screen Name (Real Name): Sillyutalktome (Jeanette)
Age: 30 (DH 29)
Current Children and age: Dd - M - 6/08
Lost Children and Dates: Etopic 7/09 (8 weeks) Possible chemical 6/10
Diagnosis: tubal infertility & male factor
Treatment and meds:1st IVF 10/18/11 BFN, FET planned for January
Screen Name (Real Name): Wordmama (Lucy)
Lost children: 8 early miscarriages, Libi (8 week ectopic, March 2011)
Diagnosis: Damaged right tube for me, poor morphology for DH
Treatment and meds:Prayer, maca, zinc
Cycles TTC another: Over a year
EDD: June 18, 2012
Screen Name (Real Name): Dewberri (joy)
Lost Children and dates: Dec. 2010 (6 wks); June 2011 (Kayle(e), 11wks)
Diagnosis: ANA, nonspecific
Treatment: Aspirin daily, Progesterone till 10 weeks
EDD: June 14, 2012
Screen Name (Real Name):Liz*RN*BSN (Elizabeth)
Lost Children: 5 early m/c
Diagnosis: PCOS, Recurrent Miscarriage, Factor 5 Leiden Clotting Disorder
Treatment and meds: Lovenox, Baby Aspirin, Metformin, PNV, Endometrin TTC: Over 1 year
Screen Name (Real Name): Meldo (Melissa)
Losses: 1
Diagnosis: DH has low sperm count/motility. Both of our kids were IVF/ICSI babies.
Cycles TTC another: It's our 8th (and last) IVF cycle.
EDD: May 1, 2012
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Woke up slightly neasous today and cried to silent night on the radio. That's GOTTA be a sign, right??? Lol.
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I WILL WARRIOR ON... This mama misses her three baby angels (10.19) (1.29) (4.18)
I have given my cross to Jesus, who has a special talent for overcoming them, even if it means giving His own life...
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Joining this group. . I'll put all my info in this afternoon when I get home <3
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Have my progesterone draw set up for December 10th! Hopefully mid-December I'll be starting our first round of Clomid!
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Re: Blessed with children, Struggling for more Week of November 19th
Hope everyone is doing good today.
AFM: Started having some mild cramping today but trying to think anything much about it. Called the doctors office earlier today an wanted to double check about starting my Prometrium tomorrow night an make sure I heard my doctor right of using it down low. The nurse said that was correct an I go for my progesterone check Friday an tomorrow is my birthday then turkey day be here. Me an DH been doing what doctor said for us to do over the weekend on Bd'ng an DH has loved it.
Ladies I'll be thinking of all of you an praying we see lots of BFP very soon. To the ones still waiting to try I'll also be praying for you too.
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Re: Blessed with children, Struggling for more Week of November 19th
Hey everyone, reading along, but I haven't replied much, I know I am in no position to complain, but I'm kinda shocked at how hard this has been so far, I just keep worrying so much about losing this baby. I have no signs that anything is wrong at all, I just think its because of how long it took us to get here. Anyway my first appointment is on the 12th of December, and I'm hoping we can see a little bean and a nice strong heartbeat, then I think I'll relax.
I'm praying for all of you to get a nice BFP here soon!
Amy, mom to Allie-1/06, Hannah-4/08, and Lucy-12/13 always missing baby 'M' (7 weeks)
Sometimes mama/auntie to N (5/09) and Z (8/10)
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Re: Blessed with children, Struggling for more Week of November 19th
Oh and you can move me to pg and praying to make it
Screen Name (Real Name): amyltc (Amy)
Age: 29 my Dh is 33
Current Children and age: DD1 Allie, age 6, DD2 Hannah age 4
Lost Children and dates: none
Diagnosis: Endometriosis, surgery to remove 9/14/10, mostly unexplained infertility
Next appointment: December 12th, 8 week u/s
Due Date: July 25th
12 weeks on: January 10th
Cycles TTC another: about 3.5 years
Amy, mom to Allie-1/06, Hannah-4/08, and Lucy-12/13 always missing baby 'M' (7 weeks)
Sometimes mama/auntie to N (5/09) and Z (8/10)
Yarns, YYMN and patternsHERE
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Formerly: WrapHappy
Re: Blessed with children, Struggling for more Week of November 19th
Screen name: MyGlorylife (Real Name): Minda
Age: 33, dh is 36
Children and ages: 10 kids, 7 natural born, 3 step: dd13, dd11 1/2, ds10 1/2, dd 10, ds 9, dd8, ds7, ds5 1/2, ds almost 4, ds 2
Losses: 9/98 5 wks, 10/98 7 weeks, 05/2000 twins 1 at 10 weeks and one at 12, 04/04 twins 1 at 9 weeks, 1 at 11 weeks, 8/2008 DS's twin at 4 months (but scan showed twin had dies around 10 weeks), 7/2012 4weeks
Diagnosis: Currently TTC post V-Reversal that was done in 6/2012, 7 yrs after V was originally done.
Cycles TTC another: 5 months this including the mc in july
Last edited by MyGlorylife; 11-19-2012 at 05:13 PM.
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Conferences were today. Everyone loves my new science program, so that bodes VERY well for my job (we are not tenured, but have to be rehired every fall). Sucky part: my last conference laughed at my story about DS, and said 2 1/2 is a great distance between 2 kids, when are we having another. Today is one month since June was born at 8 weeks. Talk about a punch in the gut. I stayed ok there, but cried for the 20 minute ride home. What a kick in the teeth. I just couldn't bring myself to tell her- I KNOW she'd feel awful, and there's no sense in two people feeling that way, KWIM? It's not like she meant to hurt me.
Ugh. I need hugs and liquor tonight. Alas, I won't HAVE liquor, just drink hot cocoa and pretend...
Wife, WAHM, born-again Christian, proud mommy to my loving, energetic son (4) and blessed, miracle daughter
God gave us our RAINBOW baby !
I WILL WARRIOR ON... This mama misses her three baby angels (10.19) (1.29) (4.18)
I have given my cross to Jesus, who has a special talent for overcoming them, even if it means giving His own life...
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