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ManDenied$100,000Jackpot BecauseFriendPushedTheButton
Jan Flato said when he allowed his friend to hit the but- ton on the slot machine for luck, he had no idea that move would cost him $100,000.
Flato said he was with his friend, Marina Navarro, and was playing video poker at Seminole Hard Rock Hotel and Casino in Fort Lauderdale, Florida, when he hit it big.
Lights flashed and the pay line showed that he had won the $100,000 jackpot -- or so he thought.
When it was time to collect the winnings, he received some bad news.
Once managers of
the casino analyzed the video, it showed that Navarro pushed the button, which made her the right- ful winner of the jackpot.
Seminole spokesman Gary Bitner couldn't say much, but did reiter- ate the rule when it comes to gambling: "The person who pushes a slot machine button or pulls the arm is the person who wins the jackpot."
Flato said Navarro took the money.
Weeks later, she allegedly sent Flato a text message ask- ing, "Still hate me?" He responded, "How could you do that to me?" And her response? "I
miss you."
Navarro said Flato became distressed when they found out the jackpot wasn't his. "Jan all of a sudden went ballis- tic," she said. "He started screaming in front of everybody."
Navarro then said Flato sent her threatening text messages. One message read, "Having me as an enemy...not good," followed by "We'll see who made the big mistake. It won't be me."
Navarro said she offered Flato some of the winnings, but after the texts he sent, she rescinded the offer.
"My Fertility App Made Me Too Stressed To Conceive"
By Suzanne Bearne
When Kathy Beaumont started trying for a baby two years ago, she turned to the many fertility apps on the market to discover when would be the best time of the month to conceive.
She took her tem- perature every day and logged it in an app called Fertility Friend, but soon found herself suc- cumbing to a fertili- ty-obsessed frenzy.
"I constantly ana- lyzed the analytics section of the app to see how my month looked and whether there was a temper- ature spike that indi- cated I was ovulat-
ing," says Kathy, 32, a freelance travel copywriter.
"I based when we actively tried for a baby solely on when the app and ovula- tion kits told me I was ovulating."
But after six months of "trying", Kathy still hadn't fallen preg- nant.
"Some months I think we must have missed the window of opportunity entirely," she explains, "either because I'd built up to it so much that the pressure made me too stressed to conceive, or because the app wasn't accurate."
She decided to quit using the apps "for the sake of my sani- ty" and became pregnant the follow- ing month.
"They definitely serve a purpose," she concedes, "but they aren't the be-all and end-all."
But for some women, they are.
Londoner Sara Flyckt, 35, started using an app called Natural Cycles four years ago after hearing about it in a Swedish podcast.
It analyses the body's temperature to determine whether or not the
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