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From: xtkmg@trentu.ca (Kate Gregory)
Subject: Re: Breast Pumping Question
Organization: Trent University, Ontario
Date: Tue, 26 Jan 1993 15:56:30 GMT

In article <1993Jan23.031150.24373@oakhill.sps.mot.com> amym@oakhill.sps.mot.com (Amy Moseley Rupp) writes:
>
>My question is:  what stimulates milk production the most, frequency,
>total number of minutes a day, continuous stimulation, etc?  Is there
>a difference between pumping, say, 4x/day every 6 hours, 6x/day every
>4 hours, or 4x/day every 4 hours, with a break at night, assuming
>the total number of minutes stays the same?

Look at it this way -- if you pumped only once a day, even if it was
for six times as long as usual, there's no way you'd get, say, 24
ounces, right? So frequency is good. Don't pump by time though. Pump
until the flow has basically stopped. If it doesn't hurt you could do
a minute or so of "dry" pumping after the flow has stopped in the
hopes that the extra stimulation would increase supply, but don't do
that if it hurts.

Also, take your cues from the child you are planning to eventually
feed directly: pump as many times a day as your child feeds. If your
child wakes in the night, you should pump in the night. I know how
horrible that is. I know all about a teary middle of the night feed,
alone in the dark and the baby isn't just peacefully nursing like
things are supposed to be, instead there's all this paraphenalia or
fuss with positions or whatnot, and the baby cries and you do too and
then when you finally get finished with that and the baby is asleep
again the last thing you want to do is go and pump but you have to.
I did that for months. It is horrible.

But look, anecdotal evidence time. I pumped every time Beth fed (and
for weeks she got only pumped milk, nothing direct from me) and
eventually she became a fully breastfed baby. An acquaintance who had
her child a week later and had exactly the same refusal to latch
problems pumped only during the day, and gave formula to make up
for the skipped pumpings, and within weeks had a fully formula fed
baby and decided not to bother retraining his suck. It takes motivation
and persistence to overcome a combined suck/supply problem, and IMO
it takes pumping in the middle of the night. I wish it didn't, for
your sake and for mine, but I'm not doing anyone any favours by
saying "don't bother pumping in the night". Bother, OK?

Kate


Newsgroups: misc.kids
From: peskin@Cadence.COM (Marjorie Peskin)
Subject: Rigid Baby update-not great news
Organization: Computer Science, Indiana University
Date: Wed, 27 Jan 93 13:10:33 EST

I posted a couple of weeks ago that my daughter Gemma was extremely
rigid and wondered if anyone else had experienced this problem with their
infant.  Although I got several replies via email, none seemed to be
right on the mark.  Well, I took Gemma back to her gastroenterologist
yesterday, and he noticed that her 'toniness' had increased.  He thought
that she might have a mild case of cerebral palsy.  Of course I
completely freaked out over this news, and went home and immediately
called my pediatrician.  After waiting several hours, some of them
accompanied by a very supportive Dena Rollo (thanks again), she finally
called back and suggested that we schedule an early intervention team
to come to the house to evaluate Gemma.  THis team would be a physical
therapist and an occupational therapist, who would do a physical evaluation
and then would suggest exercises to help Gemma loosten up.

In addition, Gemma will be going to see a pediatric neurologist at
Children's Hospital in Boston where she will have a complete neurological
workup.  Therein lays my question of the day:  Have any of you out there
had such a workup, and what should I expect?  Are any of these tests invasive?
Painful?

I know that a CAT scan/MRI will be a part of the workup, but what else
should I be aware of?

Has anyone else had a scare like this?  What was the outcome?  

Any comments would be appreciated, but please...I am scared enough, so
don't send any horror stories.  I just can't deal with them right now.

Thanks,

Marjorie
mum to Gemma and Graham, 5 months old and scarfing down solid foods!
mrp@world.std.com (home)
peskin@cadence.com (work)
Newsgroups: misc.kids
From: brighid@bass.lkw.com (Brighid)
Subject: Re: question about tax deductibility of day care
Organization: Lakewood Corporation
Date: Fri, 22 Jan 1993 14:07:12 GMT


I can't answer your questions about the dependent care account -
it isn't an option here.

Having done the rough calculations for the child care form (2441?)
associated with the 1040 (different child care form if you file
another main form), I can give you these points of information.

- The form does take dependent care accounts into effect.

- If you pay more than $2,400/yr for one child's daycare, the government
  doesn't take that into account. (Paying $5,000/yr is equivalent to
  paying $2,400.)

- The amount that you can actually take as a tax credit is some small
  fraction of the amount that you actually pay. Your income level determines
  the fraction, in part.

- Most of the finagling comes from the fact that dependent care accounts
  effectively give you a deduction (lowers income before taxes like 
  mortgage interest) and paying for it out of pocket gives you a tax credit 
  (lowers final tax bill).

You should get ahold of the correct tax form and instruction booklet. (I've 
found the IRS to be really happy to send you the correct forms, though they
can be a bit slow.) Work out the details now to give you the best tax 
advantage for the year.

I know that for a full year of child care for us, we will be able to take
something on the order of $350 off our final tax bill. Yes, peanuts. :(

good luck!

Brighid
brighid@bass.lkw.com
Newsgroups: misc.kids
From: elonich@cbnewse.cb.att.com (diane.e.pedersen)
Subject: Re: Girls names - "M"
Organization: AT&T Bell Labs, Naperville IL
Date: Mon, 25 Jan 1993 18:58:31 GMT
Summary: any Mary's anymore?


These mentions of M names have me wondering -- is there
anyone naming their daughters Mary anymore?

One of my stress-relief activities is naming future
children (although my 2-year-old seems determined to
ensure that his parents never have the stamina or nerve
to try again)

"Mary" is a major family name, on both sides of my family
(my late mother, my dad's mom, a couple of great-great grandmas,
aunts, cousins, etc.)   And my family wasn't even Catholic!

When I was a kid, there were LOTS of girls named Mary.
Now, I hardly see a birth announcement with that name.
And I never see any babies named Marie (though it's finally
cropping up again as a middle name -- remember when
every other little girl had Marie for a middle name?)

So if I named a daughter Mary, she would be Mary Pedersen,
which sounds OK, but to my generation is a name akin to
Jane Doe.  And also seems a bit plain, in this era of
Kaitlin, Jennifer, Meghan, and Nicole.  And would a Mary
automatically be assumed to be Catholic?  

-- 
Diane Pedersen
AT&T Bell Laboratories
Naperville, Illinois
att!ihlpe!elonich
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From: time@coos.dartmouth.edu (Susan M. Kennedy)
Newsgroups: misc.legal
Subject: injury lawsuit
Date: 26 Jan 93 14:03:59 GMT
Distribution: na
Organization: Dartmouth College, Hanover, NH

I think this is an unusual situation.  My son was injured during a school
activity.  He sliced his finger while carving a pumpkin, severing two
tendons an artery and a nerve. The repair was done at a local hospital by a
qualified surgeon.  He told us there was the possibility that the tendons
might adhere requiring additional surgery which turns out to be the case.
    Here's the legal question we and my son have incurred expenses,
inconvenience, pain and other risks and fears(mostly related to worries
over anesthesia)  The principal investigated the incident and in a written
statement pronounced the school (really the teacher, this was a project
involving 3rd graders with insufficient guidance and supervision) at fault
and recommended that the school pay for the medical expenses.  I called
the school superintendent to get the insurance company's name and he
would not give it to me and said that it was up to my insurance company
to deal with their insurance co. no actual offer to pay for medical
expenses were made (its up to the superintendence office to make such an
offer)  Meanwhile our Insurance Co sent a form asking if we were going to
sue. It seems that we are being forced to sue if we want to recover our
costs (deductible co-insurance, etc).  Of course if we sue we have to sue
for enough to pay the lawyer and pay back our insurance Co,  which is
obviously much more than if the school/town paid us for our out of pocket
costs and something for the various inconveniences.  Now if he does not
regain full use of the finger I guess we will have to ask for more
compensation.  I realize that with all the personal injury lawyers out
there advertising on tv etc, that this is a fairly lucrative enterprise but
isn't there a better way?
Newsgroups: misc.legal
From: bmiller@lunatix.uucp (Barry Miller)
Subject: Re: Insurance question
Organization: Lexington Public Access Unix. -KY- (606) 255-9121
Date: Fri, 22 Jan 1993 00:27:41 GMT
X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.1 PL6]

David Goldreich (dg10+@andrew.cmu.edu) wrote:
:  
: A friend of mine will be taking out auto insurance soon.  In the past
: he has gotten a couple of speeding tickets.  He is planning on 
: "forgetting" about the tickets when the insurance company asks.  
: (I don't believe he has any points or any other easy way for the
: insurance company to find out.)
:  
The courts call this type of "forgetting" fraud.  If an insured
lies on an insurance application, the insurance contract is void
from the inception of the contract.  Because it is automobile
insurance, the insurer may still find itself liable to someone
your forgetful friend runs into.  However, the company might also
be looking to your friend to repay these losses.

The insurance application is designed to give the insurer the
application it needs to assess the risk and calculate a premium.
If the information is purposefully misleading, the company has
miscalculated the risk.  That is one reason why courts will find
fraudulent insurance applications to void the policy.

Also, don't underestimate the company's ability to find out about
these tickets.

Your gut instinct is correct.  If your friend lies to an
insurance company in order to obtain insurance, he is not really
covered.  He's fortunate to have you as his Jiminy Cricket --
hope he's smart enough to listen to you.

--Barry
: 
Newsgroups: misc.legal
From: al@gtx.com (Alan Filipski)
Subject: how independent are the federal circuits?
Organization: GTX Corporation, Phoenix AZ
Distribution: usa
Date: Mon, 25 Jan 1993 18:10:08 GMT


what is the effect of a circuit court of appeals decision on similar
cases that subsequently come to federal district courts outside of that
circuit?  is the appellate court ruling usable as precedent in the same
way that a decision from inside the circuit would be, or is it somehow
less binding?


  ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
 ( Alan Filipski, GTX Corp, 8836 N. 23rd Avenue, Phoenix, Arizona 85021, USA )
 ( INTERNET: al@gtx.com      UUCP: uunet!gtx!al         PHONE: (602)870-1696 )
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From: kevin@rotag.mi.org (Kevin Darcy)
Subject: Re: Still Light On History????
Organization: Who, me???
Date: Mon, 25 Jan 1993 01:54:47 GMT

In article <1993Jan21.191146.29958@doug.cae.wisc.edu> bodoh@cae.wisc.edu (Daniel Bohoh) writes:
>In article <1993Jan21.192150.27842@hobbes.kzoo.edu> k044477@hobbes.kzoo.edu (Jamie R. McCarthy) writes:
>>bodoh@cae.wisc.edu (Daniel Bohoh) writes:
>>>
>>>You like this consistency argument, don't you?  Well, I've thought
>>>about the consistency of the pro-choice side.  I could show, for
>>
>>OK, I'll bite.  Me and drieux both want you to explain this, now.
>
>Extracted from an editorial I wrote for UW-Madison's _Badger_Herald_,
>July 3, 1991:
>
>Many arguments made for pro-choice are utilitarian arguments.  One of
>the most emotiional is the picture of a woman being mutilated by a doctor
>performing an illegal abortion.  Abortion should remain legal so it remains
>safe for all women, say the pro-choice advocates.  However, utilitarian 
>arguments fail when considering such fundamental rights as the right to
>life and the right to personal liberty.  Turning this argument around,
>let's assume that abortion is a fundamental right.  Should the right
>to choose abortion be usurped if many pro-life activists are injured
>while chained to abortion doors?

First, we need to weigh the social costs of those few pro-life activists
who are injured while chained to abortion doors against the massive
economic benefits of not having to support 1.6 million unwanted children
a year, AS WELL AS the benefits of not having back-alley butchering, 
AS WELL AS the benefits of not having lots of pro-choice activists
get hurt in _their_ political protests, should abortion be outlawed.

I think it's pretty obvious in which direction the scales of Utilitarian
justice tip...

>The problem with utilitiarian arguments is that a fundamental right
>(be it choice or life) can never be usurped simply to benefit
>a large section of society.  That concept is at the crux of our
>Constitution.  

Correct. But think of Utilitarianism as a tie-breaker. We have a stand-off
between the fetus'es "fundamental" right to life and the woman's "fundamental"
right to bodily autonomy. We can't decide whether the fetus is a "person" or 
not, based on anything but an arbitrary legal fiat. So, how do we decide? 
That's when the Utilitarian formula comes in. And clearly, from a Utilitarian 
point of view, pro-choice makes more sense than pro-life.

>Any time an utilitarian argument is used to take
>a right from one group and give it to another, a similar argument can
>be found to do the reverse.  

Huh? Can you give an example of this?

								- Kevin
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From: kevin@rotag.mi.org (Kevin Darcy)
Subject: Re: A Modest Proposal: Illegitimate-conception Tax
Organization: Who, me???
Date: Sat, 23 Jan 1993 19:03:55 GMT

In article <19589@smoke.brl.mil> matt@smoke.brl.mil (Matthew Rosenblatt) writes:
>In article <C186t8.DAy@ddsw1.mcs.com> karl@ddsw1.mcs.com (Karl Denninger) 
>writes:
>
>>In article <1jkgjbINNeb0@gap.caltech.edu> peri@cco.caltech.edu 
>>(Michal Leah Peri) writes:
>
>>>kevin@rotag.mi.org (Kevin Darcy) writes:
>
>>>>What do you think we have right now, Dennis? With the current laws,
>>>>well-off single men are MAGNETS to the women you describe -- spend a
>>>>night of pleasure, get impregnated by him, and rake in huge child
>>>>support payments for 18+ years. What a deal! What a racket!   
>>>>[Kevin Darcy]
>
>>>You make it sound like the man has no choice in the matter.
>>>[Michal Leah Peri]
>
>If he wanted to have sex without having to worry about supporting
>a child, he should have been born a girl.
>
>>You make it sound like a woman who can't get a legal abortion has no choice
>>in the matter.   [Karl Denninger]
>
>If she wanted to have sex without having to worry about pregnancy,
>labor and delivery, she should have been born a boy.

And if anyone disagrees with the above, they should have been born
Matthew Rosenblatt, right?

								- Kevin
From: cdeberg@OAVAX.CSUCHICO.EDU (CURT)
Newsgroups: misc.legal
Subject: tenure
Date: 27 Jan 1993 19:37:36 GMT
Organization: California State University, Chico
Reply-To: cdeberg@OAVAX.CSUCHICO.EDU
NNTP-Posting-Host: oavax.csuchico.edu

I have a friend at the university who is going up for early tenure and
promotion this year. She has been at CSU, Chico for two and one half years, and
has won the College's Outstanding Faculty Award, the College Outstanding
Teaching Award, is the Project Director of a $200,000 FIPSE grant to
re-engineer a couple of courses. Unfortunately, her teacher ratings have been
average, largely because she has tried several innovative things in the
classroom (e.g., starting a student literary journal, making all exams essay
are problem-solving, emphasizing group learning, and abandoning the textbook).
Students rate her highly in enthusiasm and sensitivity to students, but
downgrade her on organization.

Here's the situation. For her to be considered for early tenure or promotion,
75% of administrative evaluations must be rated as effective or better. At CSU,
Chico, there are four evaluations each year: department committee, chair,
college committee, and dean. Two years ago, after having been in Chico less
than six weeks, she put her dossier together for annual evaluation. She scored
adequate, adequate, adequate, and effective, respectively, in teaching. Last
year she scored effective across the board.

The department committee recommends denial of early promotion or tenure becasue
five of her eight data points were effective, which is short of the 75% rule.

My question is this: Can the committee rely on Year 1 evaluations to come to
such a conclusion, given that only six weeks of information was used to judge
one year's worth of instruction? Or should (must?) it use only Year 2
evaluations? It should be noted that she had taught at a major university for 5
1/2 years before coming to Chico.

Can anyone advise me on this?  Thank you.
**********************************************************
CURT DEBERG, CALIFORNIA STATE UNIVERSITY, CHICO
CDEBERG@OAVAX.CSUCHICO.EDU
PHONE: 916-898-4824
FAX: 916-898-4584
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From: cramer@optilink.COM (Clayton Cramer)
Newsgroups: misc.legal,talk.politics.misc
Subject: Re: Making law (was: Shouting "Movie!" at a Fire Station)
Date: 25 Jan 93 17:32:07 GMT
Organization: Optilink Corporation, Petaluma, CA

In article <C1ArDw.3LE@panix.com>, lkk@panix.com (Larry Kolodney) writes:
> In <1993Jan22.024152.29134@ucsu.Colorado.EDU> fcrary@ucsu.Colorado.EDU (Frank Crary) writes:
> >>Quick, tell me what "due process" means.
> 
> >proceedures which the government must follow, before taking away
> >someone's life, liberty or property. From context, these proceedures
> >protect the individual from arbitrary or unfair punishment.
> 
> Okay, now.  You're a judge.  I am a death row prisoner.  I argue to
> you that the death penalty is arbitrary and unfair, since no other
> first world country still uses it.  You agree, and rule the death
> penalty to be a violation of the 5th amendment.  Are you making law?

Absolutely.  Especially since the Fifth Amendment SPECIFICALLY 
provides for capital punishment.  A valid argument could be presented
that the way a particular death penalty law operates violates equal
protection, or that the death penalty, administered in a *particular*
way is "cruel and unusual," but there is nothing so clear as the fact
that the Constitution made provision for capital punishment.  The
problem is that liberal judges, because of their opposition to the
death penalty (which I share), have chosen to rewrite our laws and
reinterpret the Constitution in a manner nearly 180 degrees contrary
to text and original intent, rather than carry out the law.

> larry kolodney:(lkk@panix.com) 

-- 
Clayton E. Cramer {uunet,pyramid}!optilink!cramer  My opinions, all mine!
"When freedom destroys order, order will destroy freedom." -- Eric Hoffer
Not a goal, just a statement of reality.
Newsgroups: misc.legal,alt.visa.us,justice.usa,talk.politics.misc
From: gottloeb@gumby.dsd.TRW.COM (Jeffrey R. Gottloeb)
Subject: Re: Can I make my own cheques?
Organization: TRW Space & Electronics Group
Date: Wed, 27 Jan 1993 18:30:36 GMT

In article <28556@sybase.sybase.com>, joe@bulldog.sybase.com (Joseph Weinstein) writes:
|> Is this off base?
|> 
|> Can I use cheques I've made myself by photocopying cheques issued
|> from the bank or cheque printing firm?
|> 
|> 
|> --
|> Joe Weinstein   joe@sybase.com   Sybase 1650 65th st.  Emeryville Ca 94608
|> 
|> NOT A DISCLAIMER!   THIS IS THE OFFICIAL OPINION OF AN IMPORTANT CORPORATE
|>                     ENTITY (NOT SYBASE).     FOR COMPLETE DETAILS SEND $10

While you can use your own checks, they must conform to the bank's requirements
or they may charge a special handling fee.  For example, your checks would
need to be imprinted with your account information and the bank routing number using MICR (magnetic ink, which is available for laser printers by the way)
so that their automated equipment could process them.

As an aside, why would you want to use checks either all with the same
sequence number (ie. photocopying them) or no sequence number?  It would
be very difficult to keep track of outstanding checks.


Jeff Gottloeb
gottloeb@gumby.dsd.trw.com
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From: sizex@bnr.co.uk (Eric Barber)
Newsgroups: misc.legal,alt.censorship
Subject: archaeology and the law
Date: 20 Jan 1993 08:45:28 GMT
Organization: BNR Europe Ltd, London Road, Harlow, England.
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From: tzs@carson.u.washington.edu (Tim Smith)
Newsgroups: misc.legal,alt.censorship
Subject: Re: Judges "making" law [was: Shouting "Movie!" at a Fire Station (Schenck v US)]
Date: 21 Jan 1993 08:03:03 GMT
Organization: University of Washington School of Law, Class of '95
Distribution: usa
NNTP-Posting-Host: carson.u.washington.edu

rjc@devo.unify.com (Ronald Cole) writes:                                        
>So, in other words, legislators pass what looks and smells like "law", 
>but which isn't "true law" until it comes out of the judicial     
>crucible.                                                       
>                                                                  
>IMHO, calling statutes "law" muddies the waters a bit and results in
>semantic flame wars.
>
>Have I missed the point?
 
When Jose Canseco hits a baseball out of the park, do you say he hit a   
home run, or do you wait until he rounds the bases and the umpire signals
the run before you classify it as a run?

--Tim Smith
Newsgroups: misc.legal
From: mwhhlaw!tim (Timothy E. Hollingsworth)
Subject: Re: Living Trusts
Reply-To: uunet!mwhhlaw!tim
Organization: Martin Wade Hartley & Hollingsworth
Distribution: usa
Date: Thu, 28 Jan 1993 13:14:27 GMT

In article <28271@sybase.sybase.com> herb@sybase.com (Herb Lison) writes:
> I've just learned about this group so excuse me if I'm bringing up
> a FAQ from earlier on.
> 
> I'm interested in anybody's experience with setting up a living
> trust.  I've read several books on the subject and except for the
> expense, it seems like an excellent idea.  Does anyone have some
> relevant experience they would like to share.  I'll post summaries
> if folks want to mail to me directly.
> 
Living Trusts:

Pluses - can aviod some probate costs, can keep disposition of the estate  
private.

Minuses - usually won't avoid death taxes.

Real minuses - vastly over sold, often promoted by charletans, often  
recommended as "self help" device.

My next book will be "Do you own Open Heart Surgery"
--
Tim  Hollingsworth
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