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Dec 15th Update: I've added who I think you should buy the Arbitrage Conspiracy through IF you are planning to buy it. If you read about his Arbitrage Conspiracy bonuses I think it will be clear why I'm recommending you buy through him.
Dec 14th Update: Based on some feedback I got from Mike below I feel the need to point out that I was NOT at the Arbitrage Conspiracy event – so the best use of this information is to make sure that the things I mention are covered in the course – and if you DO buy the course to get the best bonuses as I suggest at the end.
Basically – take this with a grain of salt…but I suggest you read it AND read the feedback which gives a useful and different perspective.
ALSO, one of my main mentors – Nikhil Parekh - someone who is brilliant at marketing and who's opinion I value extremely highly DOES recommend the course, although I wish he was giving bonuses as if you bought through him I'm sure he would have extremely helpful bonuses.
Update Dec 15, 2008: IF you ARE going to buy the Arbitrage Conspiracy I would recommend you buy it through James Schramko and get his important bonuses here:
Click here to read James Schramko's review of The Arbitrage Conspiracy and what his bonuses are.
You can ask him questions about the course at his blog there.
You can also listen to James Schramko's interview with Aymen here.
One last thing: James has worked closely with BOTH Aymen AND Nikhil so I really would be stunned if you there would be a better person for you to hook up with him.
So with that out of the way, here was my original opinion based on what limited information was available:
I'm going to tell you right now that you should NOT buy the Arbitrage Conspiracy – unless you are already a very experienced marketer – and even THEN you'll understand after reading this information why you probably STILL should not buy The Arbitrage Conspiracy.
There are extremely experienced marketer's like Jerry West telling people not to by the Arbitrage Conspiracy product and even told the guys at John Cow: 'Don't get sucked into the hype. It isn't real. I was there and I walked out after 40 minutes because the material was very basic.'
That's interesting – because if they do NOT cover one VITAL aspect of running CPA marketing – and that is keeping track of a huge inventory of CPA offer start and end dates and having an automatic way of starting a new offer when one expires you are going to go completely nuts.
My business partner and I run CPA offer through a large number of organic sites and we use an open source ad-serving solution called OpenX.org to manage that type of thing – although there are also commercial ad serving services like AdJuggler, AdSpeed, and AdButler to name a few.
One thing I don't agree with is that selling the course will bring about too much competition for the owners – that was something Charles Heflin from SEO2020 was saying. But the truth is that the amount of viable traffic for CPA offers is just enormous – and even if you use the ONE rudimentary trick of using domains as keywords they "revealed" (um, that trick has been revealed MANY times over the past several years – including by ME. LOL) there are SO many ways to go about finding them that even in ONE market you could have hundreds of people "playing well" together – and there are man, many markets where CPA offers are findable – PLUS if you really want to you can work out deals with businesses in markets where they are NOT common.
So in my opinion all of this noise about "If it's so profitable why are they selling it?" is nonsense.
BUT I would also point out that certain CPA tricks are MUCH harder for people NEWER to PPC to pull off.
For example – I one ran a test on the "domains as keywords" technique on Adwords and discovered that often the NEWER advertisers are kind of screwed. Here's what I did:
I had a friend of mine who had advertised minimally on Adwords for about a year put in the EXACT Ad, Exact Offer, and Exact Keywords (match type, etc.) going to the EXACT same landing page (this was direct-linking) and what we discovered was very interesting and should be disheartening for anyone considering buying the the Arbitrage Conspiracy:
His minimum bids we're often between .50 to $1.00 per click while MINE for the EXACT same set up were between .15 – .30 per click!
In other words, it appears that Account History has a fairly major impact on bid prices in some (maybe many) cases.
Now, you can certainly build up a great account history – but that means that you'll probably have to WAIT until you can pull off some of the more profitable tricks such as the one "revealed" in the free Arbitrage Conspiracy training…(I'm not sure why I keep using "revealed" for that domains as keywords trick – it's almost like saying I've just discovered "THE INTERNET").
So I wouldn't call Arbitrage Conspiracy a scam, but I CANNOT recommend it – especially if you are not already an experienced marketer – and if you ARE then you'd probably know everything in the course from what I'm hearing from people like Jerry West.
Anyhow, here's some information about why Jerry West doesn't recommend the Arbitrage Conspiracy product:
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I guess the one thing I would leave you with is – if you STILL plan to buy The Arbitrage Conspiracy system then look for a bonus or bonuses that cover one or all of the following:
- How to manage a huge volume of CPA offers.
- How to manage start and end dates of CPA offers.
- How to build a CPA affiliate "team".
- Strategies for establishing a high-quality Adwords Account
Update Dec 15th: I read through the full free report that was given out and it was incredibly disappointing. Not only was it "below basic level" they had the audacity to call it a "game-changing report". That stinks.
In fact you can learn more valuable information from reading the sales letter. I think the only realistic thing for you to do if you are considering this course is to hook up with someone who has more detailed knowledge about it than most of the affiliates I've seen seem to have.
The main person I'm recommending you ask questions to is James Schramko as not only does he know what he's doing when it comes to online marking, but he also has worked with Aymen AND Nikhil Parekh closely.
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In a post-Sept. 11 climate of heightened homeland security, an increase in illegal alien border crossing and smuggling activity during the last decade sparked a renewed emphasis within the federal government on safeguarding the nation's frontiers against the threat posed by terrorist and criminal elements.
Under the mandate of Congress, the U.S. Department of Homeland Security launched a program to expand border control capabilities, particularly along the southern frontier of the United States. A subsequent presidential directive to intensify border patrol enforcement operations ordered Customs and Border Protection to hire 6,000 new border patrol officers, increasing staffing strength to approximately 20,000 agents.
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Part of the large-scale DHS program to increase the number and operational capacity of border patrol stations, the new $13 million border patrol station in Eagle Pass, Texas, is one of the largest immigration processing facilities in the United States.
Eagle Pass Border Patrol Station was designed by architectural, engineering, design and planning firm HDR Inc. to deliver 21st century standards of operational safety and security in detainee processing and detention. The 39-acre campus was master-planned to accommodate future growth in staffing and detainee-processing levels.
"The number of border crossings had greatly increased in this sector during recent years, so the border patrol wanted to expand operational strength to gain more control over aliens entering the country and criminal elements operating in region," says lead designer Curt Parde, LEED AP, vice president at HDR.
Facility Name: Eagle Pass Border Patrol Station
Facility Type: Law Enforcement
Construction Budget: $13.4 million
Area: 50,000 square feet
Holding Capacity: 380 detainees
Start Date: March 2005
Completion Date: January 2007 (Phase I)
Owner/Operator: U.S. Department of Homeland Security - Customs and Border Protection
Owner Representative: Commander Norma Edwards, U.S. Army Corp of Engineers
Architect/Engineer/Project Manager: HDR Architecture Inc.
General Contractor: W.G. Yates Construction
Detention Equipment Contractor: ISI Detention Security Electronics Contractor: ISI Detention
Courtesy of HDR Architecture Inc.
The South campus' 50,000-square-foot main facility has a processing and detention capacity of up to 380 detainees and could eventually accommodate about 350 agents — the existing North station has a force strength of 200 agents.
"We can see 30 to 40 illegals per day, depending on the region and the enforcement techniques being deployed," says Agent John Luedecke, construction manager for U.S. Customs and Border Protection. "Basically, from a staffing and processing standpoint, we had run out of room."
Ordering The Plan
Faced by constantly changing crossings points and activity levels, the border patrol sought to establish a more effective moveable enforcement net through enhanced surveillance capacity and flexible operational capabilities.
The campus master plan developed by HDR — in conjunction with DHS, Customs and Border Protection, and the Army Corps of Engineers — allows for the phased addition of buildings, expansion of facilities and implementation of site improvements as needs arise and construction funding becomes available in the future.
"As a regional center of operations, the border patrol wanted a facility that could perform as needed in supporting a number of different functions and demands without similarly increasing their budget," Parde says.
Phase one of the master plan included the main building, detainee intake, processing and detention space, visitor areas and the public lobby. Campus and operational support facilities, including kennels and a vehicle fueling station, were also constructed during the first phase.
Subsequent phases of the master plan include a dedicated training building, a firing range, equestrian stables, a helipad, a vehicle maintenance and support building, a covered combination car wash and fuel island, above-ground fuel storage tanks and pumps, a parking garage, an impound lot for seized vehicles, and enhanced storm-water retention measures.
Eagle Pass combines secure detention and operations areas with an open-access public space.
Strength, Presence, Control
Eagle Pass South embodies a modern architectural character of clean lines. Adorned by curvilinear roofing elements, a pair of two-story components defines the predominantly single-story main building.
"It was a priority for the border patrol that the facility have a modern appearance rather than recreate a southwestern mission-style architecture," Parde says. "They wanted a station that would make a statement of border patrol strength, presence and control."
The first of the two-story components draws attention and directs visitor circulation to the facility's public entrance. The dominant palette of light and muted colors is compatible with the surrounding landscape.
Stucco and light-colored local limestone were selected as cladding finishes to limit heat gain in the building mass and to reduce climate-control loads in interior spaces.
Expansive glazing maximizes daylighting and views outside to evoke a sense of openness and connectedness with the surrounding landscape. A series of brise-soleil elements minimize direct sunlight and unwanted heat transfer to interior spaces during the hottest times of the day.
|Eagle Pass can accommodate up to 380 detainees with holding cells monitored from a secure control room.
In landscaping the site, the team incorporated native grasses and vegetation suited to the arid climate, while storm-water retention ponds also serve as an architectural feature.
The second two-story component, which is situated within the more secure staff portion of the facility, functions as the nerve center of the campus with direct access to both the public and detention processing areas. A mezzanine configuration houses centralized facility plant equipment on the upper level and staff amenities, including locker rooms, on the lower level.
The design team also integrated significant glazing on the staff side to maximize natural daylighting in spaces where agents must spend considerable amounts of time.
Low-E glazing was incorporated to reduce UV-light and heat transmission to building interiors, while blackout screens are used to cut interior cooling loads. Energy-efficient climate and lighting controls with occupancy sensors were incorporated to further reduce energy consumption.
Degrees of Separation
In order to enhance security and operational efficiency, HDR designed the complex with zoned areas of entry and circulation, ranging from public to secure, based on the desired level of access and movement.
Interior spaces incorporate extensive glazing elements to maximize natural daylighting for staff and visitors.
The facility is designed with three distinct circulation pathways for public, staff administrative and support operations and detention. Graduated levels of security, including video surveillance and card access controls, dictate the flow of exterior and interior circulation for each distinct component.
"The facility is basically divided into a highly secure detention area and a more accessible public side that incorporates minimal security features, such as blast- and ballistic-resistant glazing," Luedecke says. "A moderately secure central administrative and staff area links the detention and public components of the facility."
Low-security public areas are situated to the front of the complex, closest to the street frontage, while high-security areas are located to the rear and sides of the main building.
It was important for the border patrol that the front entrance, lobby and visitor areas offer free access to the public, with well-defined wayfinding and a very approachable and non-intimidating character, Talley says.
"It's the only place people can enter the facility freely and, once inside, movement from the public area to other more secure facility components is restricted," Talley says.
The processing and detention area is designed to deliver modern correctional standards of safety and security.
A secure sallyport, which can accommodate two full-size buses, marks the entryway to the high-security detention portion of the facility. The caged unloading zone, which features hydraulic doors operated from a secure control room, creates a secure area for the intake of detainees.
"The federal government specifies stringent requirements for facility components from glazing to detention hardware, so the processing and detention component of the facility is extremely secure," Parde says.
Prior to processing, detainees are searched and scanned for weapons and contraband in a secondary secure area inside the facility. Activity and movement inside the processing area and holding cells are monitored from the secure control room.
"With the increase in violent offenders, we needed to enhance safety and security, one of the primary goals of the project was to move a 21st century high-security model," Luedecke says. "In designing the detention component of the station, we looked at how prisons and jails are set up and operated."
Secure Campus
In addition to interior spaces and circulation, security was an important consideration in the design of exterior facility components and the campus site as a whole.
Stations at Carrizo Springs to the east, Del Rio to the west, and Uvalde to the north, bound Eagle Pass' area of operational responsibility, which includes more than 56 miles of river border and a permanent traffic checkpoint along the main regional artery of Highway 57.
The secure sallyport features hydraulic gates and can accommodate two full-size motor coaches.
"Staff on the ground brought a considerable degree of local knowledge and operations-specific expertise to the project and contributed a great deal to the design of security components," Talley says.
The 39-acre campus is enclosed by a perimeter security barrier, which features spans of 10-foot masonry wall and chain-link fencing. The masonry wall components engage the facility at each end of the main building.
A CCTV surveillance system, which monitors access and movement throughout the various interior components of the facility, also monitors the campus perimeter and various strategic points across the site.
In operationally sensitive areas of the facility, the design team raised windows above eye level and incorporated special glazing to improve security and limit any potential observation of operations.
"The border patrol emphasized the importance of limiting visibility into the station so that valuable knowledge about staffing levels and current operations strength in the field is not readily observable," Talley says.
The design team incorporated blast- and ballistic-resistant glazing and cladding materials into the façade to protect the facility against assault, and the main-entrance forecourt is ringed by impact-resistant bollards that protect the building envelope and its occupants against an explosives-laden vehicular attack.
Passive Measures
Several elements incorporated into the Eagle Pass site during development serve an important, albeit secondary, function as passive security measures, Parde says.
Video Surveillance: ISI Detention
Intercom/Communications Systems: ISI Detention
UPS: ISI Detention
Access/Control Systems: HID; Infographics/GE Security
Access/Control Software: Infographics/GE Security
Security Locks: Dortronics
Vehicular Access/Control Systems: Sundance
Courtesy of HDR Architecture Inc.
"The curved driveways leading from the site entrance and perimeter also ensure vehicles maintain a slow approach speed," Luedecke says.
The project team over-excavated the foundation — due to the presence of soil elements that could potentially undermine structural integrity — and built it up with a 3-foot grade beam that raises the building's floor line several feet. The elevated floor line also serves to control run-off.
A series of water retention ponds were incorporated during site development to manage and maintain predevelopment water flow and retention levels.
"The site was completely undeveloped prior to this project, so the primary function of the ponds relates to water management, but a lot of elements on this project play hand in hand and serve multiple functions," Parde says.
Several of the ponds slope away from the raised floor line of the main building to create a significant grade difference along the approach to the front entrance and public lobby.
These passive elements function like a waterless moat to provide an added layer of protection that enhances facility security against the potential threat of a vehicular attack.
"The ponds provide a barricade of sorts, like a natural berm or ditch, which limits the ability to drive a truck right up to the front door and crash it into the building or blow it up," Luedecke says.
Green Plant
Although the Eagle Pass project incorporates green elements — the design team applied the LEED checklist to facility design and site development — environmental sustainability was not an overarching consideration.
The campus features an energy-efficient central HVAC and plant configuration that is designed to generate operational efficiency and offer ease of maintenance. The centralized system also offers the ability to expand with future campus demands.
The HVAC system incorporates air-handling units that pick up water from a central chiller and is up to 50 percent more efficient than conventional refrigerant-style HVAC units, Luedecke says.
Although a single chiller unit is sufficient to meet facility requirements, the design team built 100 percent redundancy into the HVAC system by incorporating a second chiller.
The twin units can be alternated back and forth at full capacity or run simultaneously, with each unit operating at variable levels of reduced capacity to equal full system capacity.
"When we began this project in 2004, sustainability as a concept and practical consideration in the planning, design, engineering, construction and operation of these kinds of facility was not nearly as important in the mindset as it is now," Parde says.

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North Koreans gather at a rally at Kim Il Sung Square in downtown Pyongyang, North Korea, on Friday. Tens of thousands of North Koreans turned out for the mass rally at the main square in Pyongyang in support of their leader Kim Jong Uns call to arms.
SEOUL, South Korea North Korean state media said Friday that the countrys leader, Kim Jong Un, had ordered his missile units to be ready to strike the United States and South Korea, which South Korean officials said could signal either preparations for missile tests or just more blustering.
The U.S. criticized the North Korean threat, which came one day after U.S. forces had carried out an unusual practice bombing exercise with advanced aircraft across South Korea.
The United States is fully capable of defending itself and our allies, said Lt. Col. Catherine Wilkinson, a Pentagon spokeswoman in Washington. North Koreas bellicose rhetoric and threats follow a pattern designed to raise tensions and intimidate others.
The back-and-forth was viewed with worry by China and Russia. Chinas Foreign Ministry reiterated its calls for restraint. Russia was more explicit, with its foreign minister, Sergey V. Lavrov, telling reporters in Moscow that he was increasingly concerned about a situation that could get out of control it will descend into the spiral of a vicious cycle.
Kims order, which North Korea said was given during an emergency meeting early Friday, was similar to the one issued Tuesday when the Norths top military command told all its missile and artillery units to be on the highest alert and ready to strike the United States and South Korea in retaliation against their joint military exercises.
But by attributing such an order to its top leader, North Korea tried to add weight to its threat.
We believe they are taking follow-up steps, said Kim Min-seok, spokesman of the South Korean Defense Ministry, referring to increased activities of the North Korean military units. South Korean and U.S. intelligence authorities are closely watching whether North Korea is preparing its short-, medium- and long-range missiles, including its Scud, Rodong and Musudan.
He did not elaborate. But government officials and South Korean media said that there had been a surge in vehicle and troop movements at North Korean missile units in recent days as the United States and South Korea has been conducting joint military drills. The national news agency Yonhap quoted an anonymous military source as saying that North Korean vehicles had been moving to Tongchang-ri near the Norths western border with China, where its Unha-3 rocket blasted off in December.
North Korea might be preparing for an engine test ahead of a long-range rocket test, the source was quoted as saying. Scud and Rodong are the Norths mainstay short- and medium-range missiles. The Musudan, deployed around 2007 and displayed for the first time during a military parade in the North Korean capital, Pyongyang, in 2010, is a road-mobile intermediate-range ballistic missile with a range of more than 1,900 miles, according to the South Korean Defense Ministry.
In an angry reaction to the sanctions that the U.N. imposed after North Koreas launching of a three-stage rocket in December and its third nuclear test last month, the North has repeatedly threatened to strike Washington, as well as the U.S. military bases around the Pacific and in South Korea, with nuclear-armed long-range missiles.
A photo released by the Norths official Korean Central News Agency on Friday showed Kim Jong Un conferring with his top generals on what the agency called plans to strike the mainland U.S. A military chart behind them showed what appeared to be trajectories of North Korean missiles hitting major cities in the United States.
North Korea also said its leader, Kim Jong Un, finally signed the plan on technical preparations of strategic rockets of the KPA, ordering them to be on standby for fire so that they may strike any time the U.S. mainland, its military bases in the operational theaters in the Pacific, including Hawaii and Guam, and those in South Korea. KPA stands for the Korean Peoples Army.
Kim Min-seok, the South Korean spokesman, said the Norths unusual public announcement of such plans was partly psychological. Many experts and South Korean officials doubted that North Korea has such long-range missiles, much less the know-how to make a nuclear warhead small enough to mount on such rockets.
But other analysts believed that the Norths new KN-08 missiles, which were put on public display last April, were indeed intercontinental ballistic missiles, although they and Musudan have never been test-launched before. They wondered whether North Korea might use the current tensions as an excuse to launch them.
The country is barred from launching ballistic missiles under U.N. sanctions. North Koreas development of the KN-08 was one of the reasons the Pentagon cited last Friday when it announced a $1 billion plan to add more missile interceptors in Alaska to better protect the United States against a potential North Korean missile attack.MORE IN Wire NewsUNIVERSAL CITY, Calif. Full StoryTroubling as the details of the McLaren Report were, a news item out of Russia earlier this week... Full Story
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- Transportation department not changing ag policies
- Not imposing new regulations
No regulations will be proposed for any new safety requirements or changes to the rules governing the transport of agricultural products, farm machinery, or farm supplies to or from a farm.
The U.S. Department of Transportation's Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration (FMCSA) announced today that it has no intention to propose new regulations governing the transport of agricultural products.
The agency also released guidance http://www.fmcsa.dot.gov/rules-regulations/administration/rulemakings/notices/Agricultural-Guidance.pdf designed to make sure states clearly understand the common sense exemptions that allow farmers, their employees, and their families to accomplish their day-to-day work and transport their products to market.
After hearing from concerned farmers earlier this year, FMCSA initiated this review to make sure states don't go overboard in enforcing regulations on agricultural operators, and to ensure consistent access to exemptions for farmers.
No regulations will be proposed for any new safety requirements or changes to the rules governing the transport of agricultural products, farm machinery, or farm supplies to or from a farm.
"We have no intention of instituting onerous regulations on the hardworking farmers who feed our country and fuel our economy," said Secretary Ray LaHood.
"Farmers deserve to know that reasonable, common sense exemptions will continue to be consistently available to agricultural operations across the country, and that's why we released this guidance http://www.fmcsa.dot.gov/rules-regulations/administration/rulemakings/notices/Agricultural-Guidance.pdf."
This guidance — which does not impose any new rules on farmers — follows the Federal Register public notice which FMCSA issued on May 31, 2011, asking farmers, farm organizations and the public to give input on the agency's longstanding safety rules.
"We want to make it absolutely clear that farmers will not be subjected to new and impractical safety regulations," said U.S. Transportation Deputy Secretary John Porcari. "The farm community can be confident that states will continue to follow the regulatory exemptions for farmers that have always worked so well."
"FMCSA is pleased with the input we've received from the agricultural community and members of Congress. We received about 1,700 comments and the vast majority called for us to preserve the guidance that leaves states to carry out the farm exceptions as they have for many years." said FMCSA Administrator Anne Ferro.


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Attorney Jeffrey L. Weeks took the photograph of Paradise Lake near Crested Butte (at 11,250 feet) on a trek with his old dog Hiker. It is one of Weeks's favorite places. He used a Canon 40D camera, with a 14mm lens, f/10 aperture, 1/200 shutter, ISO 200. Weeks is a partner at Weeks & Luchetta, LLP, specializing in civil litigation.
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Eric "Mr. Eric Sir" Gregory moved to San Francisco in 2003 and has been taking notes and grainy photos of every unusual thing he's seen ever since. Guess he's just like that. Back in those days, Muni only cost $1 to ride, San Francisco's pizza was not "artisan," and we drank PBR because it was less than 35 cents a can rather than because it was hip. Yes, those were simpler times. Today, Eric is a software engineer, a strict pescaterian, and an award-winning[citation needed] blogger.


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my dtr is 2 weeks old and i started her on formula from the hospital. she is having difficulty with her stomach is it to late to start breastfeeding? i have tried pumping but do not even get an ounce.
my dtr is 2 weeks old and i started her on formula from the hospital. she is having difficulty with her stomach is it to late to start breastfeeding? i have tried pumping but do not even get an ounce.
It is definately not too late to start.
It can be very difficult, and the help of a good LC can be invaluable.
pump as often as you can, try to offer the breast before the bottle, even dribbling a bit of milk onto your nipple can help to start.
try taking herbal supplements to stimulate milk production, like fenugreek capsules 3x daily. there are many great herbal tea formulas available in health food stores for milk production. they usually contain fenugreek and blessed thistle, at least.
There are some meds you can try to stimulate milk production, but about that you need to talk to an LC or a doctor.
Good Luck!
It's not too late to breastfeed. You'll have to work at it, and you need to have the right information, the right kind of pump, and a good support system.
There's a board here on "Relactation" -- post your question over there for some been-there-done-that and expert advice.
Your baby is lucky to have a mom who is willing to try breastfeeding! Good luck to you!
the only reason i didnt start at the hospital was because i had c-section and was on morphine and then on codine i figured the formula would be better since i was all drugged up
Moving this to the relactation board
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"Mothers are designed to be available to their babies--to help them make the transition into this big, wide world. To teach them to trust, and love, and feel good about being alive."
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How to tell if your breastfed baby is getting enough milk!
I am so sorry you were not given the proper information in the hospital. You could have BF your daughter even having had those pain killers in the hospital. I think it is great that you want to do this for dd!
What are your goals? Would you like to bring in a full supply? Would you be ok with some BM and some formula?
Your chances of relactation are very good, but it will take work and dedication on your part. Your daughter is young and you recently delivered so those are positive factors. Do you have a support system? Father of baby, other family members, close friends? Those could help with day-to-day tasks such as laundry, housework, cooking, shopping. Most of your time will be spent pumping/feeding and it is helpful to have someone else to help out for the next several weeks.
It would be helpful to work with an LLLL and/or IBCLC (lactation consultant) if possible. I would suggest checking with the hospital you delivered and seeing if they have one on staff. Here is how to find an LLLL: http://www.lalecheleague.org/leaderinfo.html. It would also be helpful to attend LLL meetings when you can, for support as well. You will also find support here.
You would need to stimulate your breasts as often as a newborn would nurse (at least 8-12 times in 24 hours) with a hospital-grade rental pump, and also put baby to breast as often.
You could consider using a supplemental feeding system as the link above mentioned.
You should avoid pacifiers right now. All sucking should be at the breast. This will help your supply come in.
I suggest you try a lot of skin-to-skin contact. Hold baby naked during the day, bathe together, sleep together, hold in sling. Any time baby nurses is great. Even nursing while sleeping is good.
Again, the help of a local LLL and/or IBCLC will be even more valuable than us here, but we are here to help in any way we can. Please let us know if you have more questions. And take care of yourself. Lots of rest, healthy food and drink to thirst.
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Questions Swirl after Mass Shooting at Washington Navy Yard
13 Dead, 10 Injured in Early Morning Rampage
Stacy M. Brown | 9/17/2013, 11:59 a.m. | Updated on 9/18/2013, 3 p.m.
Residents in the District of Columbia and around the region continue to come to terms with a mass shooting that left 13 people dead and more than a dozen injured at the Navy Yard on Monday morning.
In the aftermath of the Sept. 16 rampage, the Federal Bureau of Investigation and other law enforcement agencies have asked the public for information and released background about the alleged shooter, 34-year-old Aaron Alexis. As details of the case are pieced together to determine a motive for the shootings, there remain a number of unanswered questions surrounding what is being called the deadliest event of its kind in the metropolitan area since 9/11.
On Tuesday morning, Mayor Vincent C. Gray (D) suggested in several interviews with national networks that the Sequester may have been a factor in Alexis passing a background check and being able to gain access to the Navy Yard.
"As I look at … sequestration, which is about saving money in the federal government, have we somehow skimped on what would be available for projects like this and then we put people at risk," Gray mused on CNN. "It's really hard to believe that someone with a record as checkered as this man's could get credentials to be able to get on the base."
Through the sequester, across-the-board budget cuts implement by Congress, forced the Department of Defense to shave $37 billion in 2013.
Others believed Alexis, a Brooklyn, N.Y.-native and Fort Worth resident, to be a victim of post-traumatic stress disorder or other documented mental health issues, which caused him, in the past, to act on violent impulses.
Navy documents show Alexis, a Navy veteran, served from 2007 to 2011 as an Aviation Electrician's Mate 3rd Class with the Fleet Logistics Support Squadron in Fort Worth, Texas. He was awarded the National Defense Service Medal and the Global War on Terrorism Service Medal.
While it is unclear what triggered Alexis' rampage, Navy and law enforcement officials agree that first responders did a tremendous job in securing, and later, evacuating employees during the crisis.
The crisis began when shots were fired at the Naval Sea Systems Command Headquarters building on-base at 8:20 a.m. Alexis is said by D.C. Police Chief Cathy Lanier to have opened fire and shot victims in Building 197 on the sprawling naval base.
"Uniformed police officers entered first and internal security engaged the suspect," she said. "There were multiple engagements and during the final gun battle, he was killed. It's one of the worst things we've ever seen in D.C. There were also multiple victims and gunfire still going on. We pulled different teams to fight." Alexis died following a firefight, and officials said an AR-15 and other weapons were beside his body.
For much of the day, the Navy base, schools, federal buildings, museums, and streets around the base were on lockdown as a result. Heavily armed military and law enforcement personnel patrolled roads, helicopters hovered low to the ground and dozens of police vehicles, ambulances and emergency vehicles blocked streets. For a short period of time, air traffic at Reagan National Airport was suspended and because of closed streets in sections near the 41-acre complex, gridlock ensued.


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Barred spiral galaxy COSMOS 2607238 is located 6.4 billion light-years away from Earth. The galaxy is part of a landmark study of more than 2,000 spiral galaxies from the largest galaxy census conducted by the Advanced Camera for Surveys aboard NASA's Hubble Space Telescope. The observations are part of the Cosmic Evolution Survey (COSMOS). Astronomers assembled this image from observations taken between fall 2003 and spring 2005 with Hubble and the Subaru Telescope in Mauna Kea, Hawaii.
Object Name: COSMOS 2607238
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20. Ke$ha - C'mon
LOS ANGELES, CA - NOVEMBER 18: Singer Kesha attends the 40th American Music Awards held at Nokia Theatre L.A. Live on November 18, 2012 in Los Angeles, California. (Photo by Jason Merritt/Getty Images)
19. Calvin Harris featuring Ne-Yo - Let's Go
HOLMDEL, NJ - MAY 20: DJ Calvin Harris spins onstage at 103.5 KTU's KTUphoria at PNC Bank Arts Center on May 20, 2012 in Holmdel City, New Jersey. (Photo by Brian Ach/Getty Images)
18. Alex Clare - Too Close
Festival goers enjoy a set by a dubstep DJ at the "Lounge on the Farm" festival near Canterbury in Kent, on July 8, 2011. Five years ago, dubstep was just another fresh but obscure strain of dance music, limited almost exclusively to a handful of nightclubs in south London. Today it is taking over dancefloors worldwide. Born out of drum'n'bass and the 2-step UK garage movement which propelled Craig David to fame, dubstep completed its journey from quirky curiosity to commercial success story earlier this month (eds: earlier in July) when DJ Fresh's "Louder" hit the top of the UK singles chart. AFP PHOTO/Leon Neal TO GO WITH AFP STORY BY JAMES PHEBY *BRITAIN-ENT-MUSIC-DUBSTEP* (Photo credit should read LEON NEAL/AFP/Getty Images)
17. Pitbull - Don't Stop The Party
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16. Calvin Harris featuring Florence Welch - Sweet Nothing
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at a taping of We Will Always Love You: A GRAMMY Salute To Whitney Houston on October 11, 2012 at the Nokia Theatre L.A. LIVE in Los Angeles, California. The show airs November 16, 2012.
14. Chris Brown - Don't Wake Me Up
LOS ANGELES, CA - SEPTEMBER 06: Singer Chris Brown accepts the award for Best Male Video onstage during the 2012 MTV Video Music Awards at Staples Center on September 6, 2012 in Los Angeles, California. (Photo by Kevin Winter/Getty Images)
13. Trey Songz - Heart Attack
ATLANTA, GA - AUGUST 26: Trey Songz attends Heineken Red Star Access Atlanta featuring Trey Songz, Kendrick Lamar and DJ MLK hosted by Affion Crockett at Opera Nightclub on August 26, 2012 in Atlanta, Georgia. (Photo by Moses Robinson/Getty Images for Heineken)
12. Alicia Keys featuring Nicki Minaj - Girl On Fire
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11. Fun. - Some Nights
attends the 2012 Do Something Awards at Barker Hangar on August 19, 2012 in Santa Monica, California.
10. Pink - Try
attends the St. John's Health Center's Power Of Pink benefiting The Margie Petersen Breast Center at Sony Studios on November 12, 2012 in Los Angeles, California.
9. Ke$ha - Die Young
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8. Justin Bieber featuring Nicki Minaj - Beauty And A Beat
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7. Swedish House Mafia - Don't You Worry Child
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6. Nicki Minaj - Va Va Voom
SYDNEY, AUSTRALIA - NOVEMBER 29: Nicki Minaj presents the ARIA for best Urban release on stage at the 26th Annual ARIA Awards 2012 at the Sydney Entertainment Centre on November 29, 2012 in Sydney, Australia. (Photo by Don Arnold/Getty Images)
5. Flo Rida - I Cry
PASADENA, CA - SEPTEMBER 16: Rapper Flo Rida performs onstage at the 2012 NCLR ALMA Awards at Pasadena Civic Auditorium on September 16, 2012 in Pasadena, California. (Photo by Jesse Grant/Getty Images for NCLR)
4. Maroon 5 - One More Night
XXX performs during the 2012 F1 Singapore on September 22, 2012 in Singapore.
3. Bruno Mars - Locked Out Of Heaven
performs onstage at the 54th Annual GRAMMY Awards held at Staples Center on February 12, 2012 in Los Angeles, California.
2. Ne-Yo - Let Me Love You
Ne-Yo poses on arrival on the red carpet for the MTV Video Music Awards in Los Angeles on September 6, 2012 in California. AFP PHOTO / Frederic J. BROWN (Photo credit should read FREDERIC J. BROWN/AFP/GettyImages)
1. Rihanna - Diamonds
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Announcement of Public Forum
Compliance monitoring reviews are designed to examine compliance with applicable state and federal requirements for the provision of special education services. The Illinois State Board of Education, Division of Special Education Services, is currently conducting such a review of West Aurora School District #129. As a part of the monitoring process, a forum has been scheduled to receive public comment regarding the delivery of special education services within the District. Comments gathered through the public forum process will be incorporated into the comprehensive compliance review process.
The public forum will be held:
Wednesday, January 21, 2004
If you require special accommodations or an interpreter in order to participate in this forum, please contact Cynthia Latimer at 630-844-4400.
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Vt, utility reach deal on bats deaths
MONTPELIER Vermonts largest electric utility is working to reduce the number of bats killed by a wind power project on Lowell Mountain and will make regular contributions to a program designed to address concerns that some property owners have about bats in their buildings, the Agency of Natural Resources said Thursday.
Last month officials from Green Mountain Power and the agency signed a memorandum of understanding, which helped the utility receive an endangered species permit to continue operating its 21-turbine Kingdom Community Wind project in Lowell.
As a condition of its original 2011 permit, GMP agreed to reduce turbine activity during the summer to reduce the number of migratory bats that are killed from colliding with the turbine blades.
Vermont has three species of migratory bats and six species of cave-dwelling bats that hibernate in the winter in local caves or mines. White-nose syndrome, the fungus that has caused up to 90 percent declines in some bat species in recent years, affects cave-dwelling bats, not the species most likely to be killed by the turbines.
As part of the agreement, GMP said it would provide $18,438 a year for the Bat Maternity Colony Technical Assistance Program, which will be administered by the Vermont Fish and Wildlife Department. The program works to reduce bat mortality by addressing homeowners concerns about bats in their houses.
Although we often hear questions about how to deal with bats in attics or barns, Vermonters regularly tell me that they are concerned about the fate of bats. They ask what can be done to help, said Vermont bat biologist Scott Darling. This program will support our efforts to safely remove unwanted bats and assist the public directly in conserving them.MORE IN Vermont NewsMONTPELIER Rep. Peter Welch, D-Vt. Full StoryVermont Attorney General Bill Sorrell plans to join the U.S. Full StoryAs Rutland prepares to welcome Syrian refugees to its community, some are continuing to voice... Full Story
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A dislocation is an injury to a joint — a place where two or more of your bones come together — in which the ends of your bones are forced from their normal positions. This painful injury temporarily deforms and immobilizes your joint.
Dislocation is most common in the shoulders and fingers. Other sites for dislocations include the elbows, knees and hips. If you suspect a dislocation, seek prompt medical attention to return your bones to their proper positions.
When treated properly, most dislocations return to normal function after several weeks of rest and rehabilitation. However, some joints, such as your shoulder, may have an increased risk of repeat dislocation.
A dislocated joint may be:
You may also experience tingling or numbness near or below the injury — such as in your foot for a dislocated knee or in your hand for a dislocated elbow.
It can be difficult to tell a broken bone from a dislocated bone. If you or your child appears to have either type of injury, get medical help right away. If possible, ice the joint and keep it immobile while you're waiting for medical treatment.
Dislocations can occur in contact sports, such as football and hockey, and in sports that may involve falls, such as downhill skiing, gymnastics and volleyball. Basketball players and football players also commonly dislocate joints in their fingers and hands by accidentally striking the ball, the ground or another player.
A hard blow to a joint during a motor vehicle accident is another common cause of dislocation, as is landing on an outstretched arm during a fall.
Risk factors for a joint dislocation include:
Complications of a joint dislocation may include:
If ligaments or tendons that support your injured joint have been stretched or torn, or if nerves or blood vessels surrounding the joint have been damaged, you may need surgery to repair these tissues.
Besides physically examining your injury, your doctor may order the following:
Treatment of the dislocation depends on the site and severity of your injury and may include:
Try these steps to help ease discomfort and encourage healing after being treated for a dislocation injury:
To help prevent a dislocation:
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Summer in Special CollectionsFriday, May 27th, 2011
Summer is a special time in Special Collections. Gone are the regular Haverford student and faculty researchers that we work with during the school year. And instead we keep busy with a steady stream of visitors, including faculty and graduate students from other institutions. And we'll soon be welcoming a group of Gest Fellows to study in the Quaker Collection. It's also a time when we employ a team of student assistants to do intensive work on a variety of special projects we don't usually have time for during the school year. This summer we have a terrific team of seven students. Together they work about 245 hours a week, and it's always exciting to see how much gets accomplished during this time. Our students this summer are working on several projects: Deanna Bailey and Patrick Lozada are processing papers from the William Warder Cadbury and Catharine J. Cadbury papers; Janela Harris and Jon Sweitzer-Lamme are processing the Morris-Shinn-Maier Collection; Christina Hurley is working on the Meeting House digitization project; Abdullah Ali Khan is working on the Friendly Association records conservation and digitization project; and Karl Moll is our "jack-of-all-trades," helping out with a number of projects including our Online Finding Aids and learning the ropes of processing College Archives materials. Like summers past, they will be meeting regularly with Professor Emma Lapsansky to discuss the historical aspects of their work. New this summer, they will be posting regularly on this New and Noteworthy blog (some have already started!) to tell you, dear reader, about their work as they go along. Comments are open on the blog, so we invite you to join in the conversation!


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Russia's Ministry of Defense held an unprecedented international conference in Moscow last week to explain "how NATO missile defense facilities … may affect Russia's forces of nuclear deterrence." Senior Russian military officials used the meeting, which included 200 participants from 50 countries, to publicly back President Vladimir Putin's decision to skip the NATO summit in Chicago later this month due to the impasse over US missile defense deployments in Europe, now the core of the NATO system. The NATO-Russia Council resolved to cooperate on missile defense during the 2010 Lisbon Summit.
The conference added little to Russia's official, political position on missile defense. Moscow had already made very clear at least some of the reasons it worries about growing NATO capability and how it would counter advanced missile defenses if they are deployed. Washington denies the system threatens Russia. Independent US experts , however, haven't been able to agree on whether Russian political statements have technical merit; they have had to make assumptions about what conservative Russian military planners are thinking. This has now changed. Last week, Russia's Ministry of Defense explained the technical argument behind Moscow's long-standing concerns. As yet, it is unclear how valid these technical assertions may be, but they could at least act as a concrete starting point for expert dialogue that could help Russia and NATO reach some kind of missile defense accommodation.
Offense-defense. The inextricable link between strategic defenses and offenses is at the core of Russian concerns over NATO deployments. On Russia's insistence, the linkage was clearly stated in the preamble of the New START treaty. It has been cited by former President and current Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev and was repeated last week by the Chief of the General Staff, Nikolay Makarov. But the connection isn't a novel idea. Western Cold War strategists have long argued that the deployment of defenses by one side would reduce the effectiveness of the other side's second-strike weapons. This would jeopardize mutual nuclear deterrence and create instability, causing an arms race or creating incentives for the first use of nuclear weapons during conflict -- and this is exactly the language being used by Russia today. Moscow sees global security as "equal and indivisible" and dependent on the mutual nuclear deterrence relationship between it and the United States. This means Washington's improvement of its security via missile defenses should not undercut Moscow's security by reducing its confidence in its nuclear weapons arsenal.
Chief of Staff Makarov described European deployments as part of a US global missile defense system that, as a whole, threatens Russian nuclear strategic forces and outlined a series of retaliatory measures if "deployed BMD assets appear to be on the rise." He warned that Russia may pre-emptively take out NATO missile defense sites in a "period of heightening tension" because the system might enable a US nuclear first strike. This classic example of crisis instability was reported as new by the New York Times and the Associated Press but was, in fact, simply an expansion on a list of possible Russian responses to NATO missile defenses that Medvedev gave in a November 2011 televised speech. Still, throughout the conference, Ministry of Defense officials stressed that Cold War thinking doesn't have to prevail, and there is still time for cooperation.
Russian officials have expressed at least six general areas of technical concerns about the NATO missile defense system:
- Legal guarantees. As a pre-condition to any cooperation agreement, Moscow wants legally binding guarantees that missile defenses will not target Russia, seeing US withdrawal from the ABM Treaty in 2001 as "a mistake." Senior US and NATO officials have repeated that the system is not aimed against Russia, but Moscow claims that changeable political winds make informal assurances worthless: "Good intentions come and go, while military capability is what stays," Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov said. Instead, President Medvedev has asked for a formal treaty outlining "specific military-technical criteria that will enable Russia to judge to what extent US and NATO action in the missile defence area correspond to their declarations and steps, whether [Russia's] interests are being impinged on, and to what extent the strategic nuclear balance is still intact." Last week, Makarov elaborated that these criteria would include the technical characteristics of missile defense components (such as interceptor numbers, speed, and radar range), their location, and their performance. This would allow for a joint understanding of NATO's deployment plans and their impact on strategic stability. Thorough verification measures would ensure security. He did not specify whether Moscow wants to place limits on certain technical characteristics of the system or simply ensure NATO is acting according to plan, thus increasing stability by allowing more time for a Russian response.
- Uncertainty. NATO says its missile defense system is flexible and adaptive and deployments would correspond to the ballistic missile threat from the south. (Because of Turkish sensitivity, NATO cannot explicitly label Iran as the threat.) It is this adaptive uncertainty, not today's capabilities, that most concerns Russia. US radars and satellites could be upgraded and integrated to work jointly with additional ally and partner sensors to seriously "beef up" the system's efficiency, Deputy Chief of General Staff Colonel-General Vladimir Gerasimov said. Colonel Evgeny Ilyin added that the mobility of sea-based assets, the numbers of deployed interceptors, and their velocities were among the other factors that, if enhanced, could pose a threat to Russia. Moscow is unsure about the NATO system's parameters but knows what they should not be.
- South, not north. Interceptor missiles deployed in northern Europe, either on the ground in Poland or on Aegis ships in the North Sea, could reach Russian nuclear missiles headed for the United States, according to Gerasimov. In 2011, Lieutenant-General Andrei Tretyak, who heads the General Staff's Main Operations Directorate, explained: "Four hundred interceptor missiles on 40 warships and a missile site in Poland. This is a real threat to our strategic nuclear forces." In a 2011 op-ed in the New York Times, Dimitry Rogozin, President Medvedev's missile defense envoy, wrote that "Russia does not want US anti-missile defenses to extend to our territory, especially to its North European part, because should a negative scenario develop, this could upset the strategic balance of forces between our country and the United States."
- Away from borders. Russian officials have expressed concerns about any deployments close to their borders because they could transform the missile shield into "something offensive that could control Russian territory as far as the Urals." Gerasimov and Ilyin's briefings showed that shooters in Poland and off the Baltic coast could catch Russian missiles headed toward the US. Earlier, Lavrov also criticized the US radar deployed in Turkey because it duplicates an existing American radar that could track missiles originating in the Middle East and could "simultaneously scan a significant part of Russia." However, the Ministry of Defense did not complain about the Turkish radar but did advertise the capabilities of its Gabala and Armavir radars -- what would likely be Russia's contribution to a joint system -- to spot and track missile launches from the south. The Russian Ministry of Foreign Affairs was also unhappy about the participation of the USS Monterey -- the first missile defense cruiser deployed as part of the European Phased Adaptive Approach -- in anti-piracy military exercises in the Black Sea last summer. The Montreux Convention restricts access of US warships to the Black Sea. Because missile interceptors would have no role in fighting pirates, Moscow saw the multi-purpose ship's presence in this "highly sensitive region" as a reconnaissance mission. However, no Black Sea scenarios were discussed at the meeting in Moscow, and neither were any NATO-Russia conflicts using conventional weapons.
- Slower shooters. Russian military planners consider the deployment of faster SM-3 Block II A/B interceptors during Phase 3 and 4 of the European Phased Adaptive Approach as most problematic. Simulations presented by Gerasimov showed that Russian intercontinental ballistic missiles could be intercepted by faster shooters fielded in Poland and even Romania. The burnout velocities of SM-3 Block II variants have not been made public, but Ilyin explained that exceeding a velocity of 5 kilometers per second "creates a real threat to the Russian deterrence capability"; this is due to the launch geometry of missiles and interceptors and the much faster speed of intercontinental ballistic missiles. Medvedev warned that the Phase 4 fast-interceptor deployments will mark a turning point: "If we do not reach agreement by 2020, a new arms race will begin."
- Match the threat. NATO and Russia approved a joint threat assessment in 2010, and a bilateral assessment between Moscow and Washington was concluded the following year, but Russia now wants objective criteria "that would allow for assessing whether the missile defense system squares with its stated aim." According to Russian military intelligence, "south-east nations" do not have longer-range missiles and have no incentives to initiate an attack on Europe with the shorter range missiles they have, as Major General Sergun, who heads the Main Intelligence Directorate of the General Staff, explained. Putin declared that because "neither Iran nor North Korea poses a threat… Today, it's missile defense that is certainly aimed at neutralizing Russia's nuclear missile potential." Sergun concluded that missile proliferation should be first addressed through preventive diplomacy, strengthening existing arms control and nonproliferation regimes, not through "building expensive BMD assets that are not always adequate to existing missile threats." Earlier, the Russian Ministry of Foreign Affairs explained that negotiations and sanctions could prevent "challenges from developing into real missile threats" but that a joint military-technical response was possible if "real threats" did develop.
Fait accompli. In Chicago, NATO will announce that its missile defense system has achieved an interim capability -- integrating US European Phased Adaptive Approach Phase 1 assets with NATO command and control. Though the alliance says it remains open to cooperation with Russia, it is forging ahead with deployments. Moscow sees these advancements as a sign that NATO is not sincere about cooperation and Russia is being presented with a "fait accompli." President Putin was more direct: "It seems to me that our partners are looking for vassals, not allies. They want to govern. But Russia cannot come into line with this."
The Moscow conference provides valuable insights into Russian military planning and is, perhaps, the start of the "constructive and unbiased dialogue with scholars and experts" that Medvedev advocated in a March speech at the Russian Council for International Affairs. The NATO-Russia missile defense standoff appears to be a narrow technical issue, but it is fueled by broader political concerns. Untangling Russian technical and political concerns is key to finding a way forward. If Moscow's objections are entirely political, then giving Russia a seat at the table might be enough; some cooperation measures could be worth pursuing for purely political reasons. It is unlikely, however, that a missile defense option with no technical merit -- that is, one that is simply symbolic -- would be politically adequate. Some of Moscow's objections to NATO's current missile defense plans could be technically valid, making political guarantees alone inadequate and perhaps justifying hardware decisions that could help turn a missile defense crisis into a missile defense agreement.
Editor's note: The author thanks Ivan Oelrich and Evgeny Buzhinsky for their insightful comments and Frank Hemmes for his discussion and research on the topic.


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Home List of Titles Polymer microstructures fabricated via laser ablation used for multianalyte protein microassay
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- Title
- Polymer microstructures fabricated via laser ablation used for multianalyte protein microassay
- Author(s)
- Filipponi, Luisa; Ivanova, Elena P.; Nicolau, Dan V.; Pham, Duy K.; Viezzoli, Andrea; Wright, Jonathon P.
- Abstract
- This paper describes a novel technique for the fabrication of a multianalyte protein microassay on the basis of the creation of microwells that locally enhance the adsorption of proteins. The microwells are fabricated via a localized laser ablation of a protein-blocked thin gold layer (~50 nm) deposited on a poly(methyl methacrylate) film. The microablation of gold induces local chemical and physical changes in the top surface of the polymer as well as a higher specific surface, which cooperate to achieve a higher and more reproducible surface concentration of proteins in microwells. The fabrication platform consists of a computer-controlled laser ablation system, comprising a research-grade inverted optical microscope, a pulsed nitrogen laser emitting at 337 nm, a programmable XYZ stage, and a picoliter pipet mounted on the XYZ stage. The microwells with diameters of 5-20 m, 1-5 m, and submicron widths are readily achieved by focusing through a 20× dry objective, a 40× dry objective, or a 100× oil immersion lens, respectively. One variant of the method uses a sequence of local ablation and "flood" coverage with protein solution. The second variant uses the microablation of the whole microassay followed by the "spatially addressable" deposition of different protein solution with a picoliter pipet mounted on the same fabrication platform. The analytical performance of the device required only a 2-7 L volume of sample and a single dilution step. The results indicate that antibody arrays can be used to identify different proteins, yielding results within a few minutes of sample addition with acceptable assay repeatability. It was observed that the microassays comprising line-shaped microstructures offer a higher reproducibility as well as offering the opportunity to encode the information (e.g. type of antibody, concentration) through a combination of vertical lines in a "bar code", "informationally addressable" mode and not in a 2D, spatially addressable mode like in the classical microarrays.
- Publication type
- Journal article
- Research centre
- Swinburne University of Technology. Industrial Research Institute Swinburne
- Source
- Langmuir, Vol. 18, no. 24 (2002), pp. 9539-9546
- Publication year
- 2002
- Publisher
- American Chemical Society
- Format
- pp. 9539-9546
- 0743-7463
- Publisher URL
- Copyright
- Copyright © 2002 American Chemical Society.
- Peer reviewed


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Spike Lee, Gena Rowlands, Debbie Reynolds to Receive Honorary Oscars
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text: I hope the Knicks lose this game. The Knicks don't need this game, but the Hawks need it, in order to regain the 8th spot in the Eastern Conference. I don't like the Nets, so I really hope the Hawks take their current playoff spot, so that the Nets don't make it.Plus, I have always been a fan of Joe Johnson, Josh Smith, and Marvin Williams, which is another reason why I hope they make it.I wish the Knicks would make the playoffs, instead, and mathematically, they're still in it, but we all know the Knicks suck, so they're better off getting a high lottery pick.Better to get a lottery pick than to see an 0-4 sweep and a guaranteed spot for Isiah as BOTH GM and coach.


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Calderon is the danger man i think. Man he is underated, could be a All-Star pick this year.
Gotta stop him dishing it out, has a great low turnover rate for a PG and can score from the permiter
Stephon Marbury
Jamal Crawford
Quentin Richardson
Zach Randolph
Eddy Curry
Toronto Raptors(18-17) vs New York Knicks(9-25)
Friday Night at 7:30pm ET on MSG
Welcome to the MSGknickz33 pregame show, the best game threads on the F*ckin internet. Im your host Jazzy Jeff and we gonna get right to talkin about Friday nights game. The struggling Raptors come in losing 6 of their last 10 games with their starting point guard TJ Ford out for the season although he insists the he'll return sometime this year. The Knicks have lost 8of their last 10 games while coach Isiah Thomas still feels like its a short matter of time before this team starts winning. The stats tell me something different: The Knicks lose by an average of 7.9 points per game with only the Minnesota Timberwolves losing by a larger margin (8.8ppg). Meanwhile, the Toronto Raptors win by an average of 1.5 points so the Knicks better come ready to play.
The Toronto Raptors
pg-Jose Calderon
sg-Anthony Parker
sf-Jamario Moon
pf-Chris Bosh
C-Rasho Nesterovic
Key Matchup: Eddy Curry vs Rasho Nesterovic
Eddy Curry has a 30 pound weight advantage on Nesterovic. He needs to work hard and play strong down low so he can get good positioning even when Zach is on the court. Nesterovic should be no match for Curry down low so we should expect Curry to easily outscore Nesterovic. Rasho should not score more then 7 or 8 points.
The Knicks keys to Victory:
- Alot of people dont know this but Toronto is the 6th best team defensively in the league so the Knicks need to play as a team on offense and step up their defense if they want to have any chance of winning this game
- Defend the Perimeter!!!! !!!! An extra set of exclamation marks, Toronto is the best 3 point shooting team in the league
- Do Not Get in the Penalty!!!! Toronto is the 2nd best free throw shooting team only behind the Dallas Mavericks
- Heads up!!! Look out for the high-flying rookie Jamario Moon, he has the ability to embarrass opposing players by dunking on them or rejecting them
Stat of the Night: The Raptors only have 2 Technical Fouls so far this season
Who's hitting all these 3's for Toronto?
Jason Kapono-50%
Anthony Parker-49.6%
Jose Calderon-40.6%
Andrea Bargnani-39.3%
Carlos Delfino-38.2%
Jorge Garbajosa-37.5%
Toronto has a very unselfish team style of play and the Knicks will have to play the same way to keep this game close. Giving Nate Robinson 30+ minutes would be a wise move, hes been on a tear the last 10 games. Lets take a look at his averages over the last 3 games:
Nates shooting percentages are excellent and its good to see Isiah giving him the minutes. His shooting is what the Knicks will need to keep them in this game. Marbury is capable of playing some good perimeter defense. Crawford will have to look to put more effort in on defense as will Zach Randolph and Eddy Curry. I think another important key to the Knicks victory is playing Balkman instead of Jeffries. Sometimes Jeffries can do some good things on defense but hes overrated in that aspect and provides absolutely nothing on offense. Its not neccessary to show his stats for the last 3 games, just look at his stats for the season.
37% fg
What about his defense? His is only averaging .5 steals and .3 blocks per game. Even if you double his minutes hes still not averaging that good of numbers for a player whos known for playing good defense. Of course playing defense is not all about numbers but he does get beat off the dribble, not like Crawford and Richardson but with his lack of offense and his overrated defense its a mystery as to why he got the contract he did and why he gets 15 minutes per game. Even Balkman can score more points then Jeffries.
Well thats gonna do it for my pregame show, I thank everyone for watching and remember to tune into MSG Friday night to catch the Knicks and the Raptors live from Madison Square Garden.
Calderon is the danger man i think. Man he is underated, could be a All-Star pick this year.
Gotta stop him dishing it out, has a great low turnover rate for a PG and can score from the permiter
o god they can shoot 3s >_>....the 1 thing we cant defend...blowout?
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Pregame prediction: Knicks will lose by 15 or more
I liked the way Steph called out the team's play and their regression this season in today's papers...
I say the knicks win this one.
Where there is hope, there can be faith
Where there is faith, miracles can occur
I don't see the Knicks winning this one. Chris Bosh can score in the paint and on the perimeter, and neither Curry or Randolph will be able to stop him. I think Randolph could match or outplay Bosh, but I don't see Crawford and Marbury stopping the 3 point shooting of Jose Calderon or Anthony Parker.Also, they will have to worry about Delfino, Kapono, and Bargnani. If the Knicks win this one, it will be a miracle. I say the Knicks lose this one, but they will play hard.
Very curious to see the Marbury/Calderon matchup tonight. Knicks will lose though with Anthony Parker and Jason Kapono dropping 3s all over the place.
Gms, coaches, players may change but as long as Dolan is in charge the results will stay the same.
man deff a blowout....the 3s gonna kill us
i actually think this ones gunna be pretty close-that it- up until ther middle of the 4th quarter when we stop playing, and then-thats when the 3's get to our d. Final Score: TOR:107 NYK:98
Damn player-centric usernames straight to hell.
I got on the Knicks at $2.75, fk it.
im very excited, my 1st game i can watch this season, god bless Da Truth.
its 10am in the morning and im cracking open a beer and getting ready to watch some NBA!!!!
If you get NBA TV, you could watch the Knicks more often. But I'm not sure if they have NBA TV where you live.
nah we dont, it sux. a lot of the links we get sent dont work but im using this channelsurfing.net and hopefully should be all good.


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Sound Off for January 16th: What are your thoughts on the President's gun control orders?
In the wake of the Sandy Hook Elementary school shooting, President Obama has proposed new rules to fight gun violence.
For immediate actions that don't require Congress, he signed 23 executive orders including one for tougher penalties on people who lie on background checks, and another that makes it easier for the government to research gun violence.
(See the full list of executive orders below.)
But Mr. Obama also wants sweeping Congressional action including bans on future sales of assault weapons and large ammo clips.
What are your thoughts on his actions today?
-- Address legal barriers in health laws that bar some states from making available information about people who are prohibited from having guns.
-- Improve incentives for states to share information with the background check system.
-- Make sure that federal agencies share relevant information with the background check system.
-- Direct the attorney general to work with other agencies to review existing laws to make sure they can identify individuals who shouldn't have access to guns.
-- Direct the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and other research agencies to conduct research into the causes and prevention of gun violence.
-- Clarify that no federal law prohibits doctors or other health care providers from contacting authorities when patients threaten to use violence.
-- Give local communities the opportunity to hire up to 1,000 school resource officers and counselors.
-- Require federal law enforcement to trace all recovered guns.
-- Propose regulations that will enable law enforcement to run complete background checks before returning firearms that have been seized.
-- Direct the Justice Department to analyze information on lost and stolen guns and make that information available to law enforcement.
-- Provide training for state and local law enforcement, first responders and school officials on how to handle active-shooter situations.
-- Make sure every school has a comprehensive emergency management plan.
-- Help ensure that young people get needed mental health treatment.
-- Ensure that health insurance plans cover mental health benefits.
-- Encourage development of new technology to make it easier for gun owners to safely use and store their guns.
-- Have the Consumer Product Safety Commission assess the need for new safety standards for gun locks and gun safes.
-- Launch a national campaign about responsible gun ownership.
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Hedge funds' best ideas for 2014: Fannie, Freddie, Tribune, GM
Among hedge-fund managers' best ideas for 2014: government-controlled mortgage companies Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, Tribune Co, which emerged from bankruptcy last month, General Motors and lending in Europe.
Speaking early this month at the annual meeting of EnTrust Capital, a New York firm that invests billions of client money in hedge funds, the managers pitched their best ideas while also gesturing toward worries about Europe and emerging markets, according to people who attended the meeting. It was closed to the press.
As MoneyBeat reported on Sunday, William Ackman finally outlined his thesis on Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac while activist investor Clifton Robbins, whose Blue Harbour Group has taken a 2.5% stake in Tribune, said there was hidden value in the media company.
Frank Brosens of Taconic Capital Advisors called General Motors his best idea for the year, saying the automaker's $4 earnings per share guidance for this year significantly underestimates the company's profitability. The estimate counts as recurring several one-time charges and assumes GM is paying high taxes, which it does not, he said, according to people in attendance.
Earnings could go even higher if GM uses some of its excess cash to buy back stock, he said.
Capitalising on turmoil was a common theme. Global consumer products companies with exposure to emerging markets have been trading at a discount, Andrew Spokes of Farallon Capital Management said, describing them as a relatively safe way to play emerging markets. Europe presents opportunities, said Thomas Kempner Jr of Davidson Kempner Capital Management and Jamie Dinan of York Capital Management, who both spoke about openings for knowledgeable lenders to step in there as banks have retreated, particularly in the shipping industry.
Third Point founder Daniel Loeb touted Japanese mobile carrier SoftBank as an attractive buy given the recent sell-off in Japanese stocks, the people said. The bet was one of his most profitable the last quarter, according to his year-end investor letter. Last year, he recommended Herbalife, whose stock price has climbed since then.
Loeb also pushed back against critics who have portrayed him and some other investors as being hostile to defined-benefit plans, in his most extended remarks yet on the topic. Responding to a question, he said he supported defined-benefit plans and wanted them to be sustainable in the long-term, so they could keep meeting benficiaries' needs.
The nation's second-largest teachers' union has alleged Loeb, a supporter of charter schools, takes investments from public pensions while supporting groups that attack traditional pensions. The American Federation of Teachers last year included Loeb on a list of about three dozen executives at investment firms the union said help lead or contribute to organisations that were hostile to those plans.
Last month, Rhode Island's State Investment Commission voted to withdraw its pension funds' investments from Third Point. A spokeswoman for Rhode Island Treasurer Gina Raimondo, who is running for governor, said the move was not driven by political considerations; others have expressed concern Rhode Island's decision to fire Third Point was a bow to union pressure.
Having sustainable defined-benefit plans was preferable to plans that end up like Detroit's, Loeb also said. In addition to borrowing to meet other needs, Detroit in recent years borrowed to meet long-term liabilities including pensions for city workers. Detroit's bankruptcy filing last year threw into question how those on city pensions and those counting on them would fare.
Defined-benefit plans are pension plans in which the employer managers the money. Defined-contribution plans are employer-sponsored retirement-savings plans that shift investment risk to employees, and include 401(k)s. Loeb said he was focused on managing investments from pensions so they'd be on stronger financial footing, according to people in attendance.
Third Point has received inquiries from investors interested in replacing the roughly $75 million Rhode Island is pulling that far outstrip that sum, a person with knowledge of the matter said. Third Point is otherwise closed.
--This story was originally published by The Wall Street Journal's MoneyBeat blog


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