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From Las Vegas to Louisiana, police suffer the same restrictions and indignities whether it be from legal authorities, their partners, criminals, or the citizens they are sworn to protect, while trying to make their world a safer place. If you enjoy all the technical aspects of police work, try these titles. All of these titles are located in the Adult Mystery section of the Library unless otherwise noted.
Burke, James Lee. Black Cherry Blues. 1989.
Also available: Cassette
Caunitz, William. One Police Plaza. 1984. (Fiction CAU).
Connelly, Michael. The Black Ice. 1993. Also available: Cassette, eBook, eAudiobook
Constantine, K.C. Cranks & Shadows. 1995.
Daley, Robert. Wall of Brass. 1994. (Fiction DAL).
Dee, Ed. 14 Peck Slip. 1994. (Fiction DEE).
Dexter, Colin. The Daughters of Cain. 1994. Also available: Large Type, Cassette
Freeling, Nicholas. You Know Who. 1994.
Gaitano, Nick. Special Victims. 1994. (Fiction GAI).
Grant, Michael. Line of Duty. 1991. (Ficion GRA).
Griffin, W.E.B. The Murderers. 1994. (Fiction GRI). Also available: Cassette, eAudiobook
Harvey, James Neal. Painted Ladies. 1992.
Hill, Reginald. A Killing Kindness. 1980.
Hillerman, Tony. Sacred Clowns. 1993. Also available: Large Type, Cassette
Holton, Hugh. Violent Crimes. 1997.
Howard, Clark. City Blood. 1994.
Jeffries, Roderick. Too Clever By Half. 1990.
Kaminsky, Stuart. Lieberman's Folly. 1991.
Kellerman, Faye. Grievous Sin. 1993. Also available: Large Type, Cassette, eAudiobook
Kent, Bill. Down by the Sea. 1993. (Fiction KEN).
Knox, Bill. Bloodtide. 1982.
Mahoney, Dan. Detective First Grade. 1993. (Fiction MAH).
Marshall, William. Yellowthread Street. 1975.
McBain, Ed. Heat. 1981. Also available: Cassette
McGown, Jill. Verdict Unsafe. 1997. Also available: Large Type
Melville, James. The Bogus Buddha. 1990.
Nabb, Magdalen. Death of a Dutchman. 1982.
Patterson, James. Along Came a Spider.
1993. (Fiction PAT).
Also available: CD, Cassette, eBook
Quinn, Patrick. Thick as Thieves. 1995. (Fiction QUI).
Sandford, John. Rules of Prey. 1989. (Fiction SAN).
Simenon, Georges. Maigret Sets a Trap. 1965.
Sjowall, Maj & Per Wahloo. The Laughing Policeman. 1970.
Van de Wetering, Janwillen. The Corpse on the Dike. 1976.
Wambaugh, Joseph. The Blue Knight. 1972. (Fiction WAM).
Wilcox, Collin. Mankiller. 1980.
Wright, Eric. A Fine Italian Hand. 1992.


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ENGL 1010 English Composition I 3 Credits
Study and practice of expository and persuasive writing. Topics include
critical reading and writing essays, with emphasis on research, writing processes
and effective formatting. Prerequisite(s): Satisfactory placement test scores; or
completion of learning support writing requirements
ENGL 1020 English Composition II 3 Credits
Analytic writing based on the study of literature; study and practice of research
writing. Prerequisite(s): ENGL 1010
ENGL 1030 Writing Workshop 1 Credit
Tutoring-based course for students in ENGL 1010 or 1020 who want additional
instruction in writing or who have been referred for additional instruction
by their ENGL instructors. The course offers instruction in style and mechanics,
paragraph development, essay structure, developing and documenting research
papers, and writing about literature. To receive credit, students must satisfy the
competency requirements established at the beginning of the instructional period
and must meet with the instructor assigned to them a minimum of 15 hours per
semester. Grading: P/NP. Prerequisite(s): Enrollment in or completion of ENGL
ENGL 1060 Basic Pronunciation—ESL 2 Credits
A course to help international students improve their English speaking skills
and master the patterns of English spelling. Students practice the production of
English sound patterns and related spelling patterns. Highly recommended to all
ESL students who do not have excellent pronunciation. Corequisite(s): ESLR
ENGL 1221 English Review for Non-native Speakers 5 Credit
Comprehensive review of English rhetorical structures. Extensive practice
in reading, vocabulary and writing. A student may be admitted to this course by
passing a comprehensive ESL placement test, which includes reading, writing,
vocabulary and grammar. Prerequisite(s): The student must achieve a score of
75 on the Michigan Test of English Language Proficiency and must complete an
ESL writing sample that demonstrates the ability to perform at the college level
as an ESL writer.
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Intensive practice in composition organization and development. A student
may be admitted to this course by passing a comprehensive ESL placement test,
which includes reading, writing, vocabulary and grammar. The course may be
taken before or with ENGL 1010. Prerequisite(s): The student must achieve
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complete an ESL writing sample that demonstrates the ability to perform at the
college level as an ESL writer.
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This course introduces students to the poems and plays of William Shakespeare.
Beginning with analysis and discussion of Tudor England, the Elizabethan
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Dream" and "The Winter's Tale." Prerequisite(s): ENGL 1020
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War Between the States. Prerequisite(s): ENGL 1020
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American literature from the War Between the States to the present.
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A study of the development of British literature from three periods: Anglo-
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Enlightenment, Romantic and Modern literature. Prerequisite(s): ENGL
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This course introduces students to literature written by major African-
American writers. It examines the vernacular (voice), the conventional literary
devices and the diverse writing strategies. It also covers the universal themes
found in the literature of the following periods: 1865-1919 (Narratives of Slavery
and Literature of the Reconstruction to the New Renaissance) and 1919-1940 (the
Harlem Renaissance). The course examines the writing of African-Americans
found in the following genres: essays, short stories, drama and the novel. The
course seeks to improve students' abilities to read critically, to write analytically
and to substantially increase their knowledge of African-American literary traditions
and writers. Prerequisite(s): ENGL 1020
ENGL 2510 Introduction to Poetry 3 Credits
A study of poetry as a unique genre of literature with an emphasis on the
critical tools for reading poetry. Prerequisite(s): ENGL 1020
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Critical tools for perceptive reading of play texts. Writing emphasis course.
Prerequisite(s): ENGL 1020
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A study of fiction as a unique genre of literature, with an emphasis on the
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This course introduces students to the fundamentals of writing poetry, focusing
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written by inspired practitioners. Prerequisite(s): ENGL 1020
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This course introduces students to the fundamentals of fiction writing, including
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Writing of plays in combination with study of models and techniques.
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Writing of screenplays in combination with study of models and techniques.
Prerequisite(s): ENGL 1020 or consent of instructor
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Instruction and practice in the forms and techniques of business and technical
writing and editing on the computer, with an emphasis on basic writing
skills when necessary. It is recommended that students be able to type 20 wpm.
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Name: Tillu J. Status: student Age: 17 Location: N/A Country: N/A Date: 2/26/2003
Why does the surface tension of water decrease on adding detergents? What is the phenomenon behind decrease in surface tension of water?
Tillu J,:
In the solid and liquid phase, water molecules are bonded to each other by virtue of an interaction between hydrogen atoms on one molecule and the oxygen atom of another -- the process is referred to as "hydrogen bonding." The result is a kind of "skin" on liquid water's surface.
Soaps and detergents have a polar head to which water is attracted and a non-polar tail that is hydrophobic -- water repelling. When these substances are present, they weaken the strength of the skin by interfering with hydrogen bonding between water molecules because the polar end of the soap or detergent is also attracted to the water.
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Dear Tillu,
I found the answer to your question in the book, Conceptual Physical Science, second edition, by Hewitt, Suchoki, and Hewitt copyright 1999, p 443.
"The surface tension of a liquid is defined as the energy required to break through the surface. Liquids in which there are strong molecular interactions, such as water, typically have high surface tensions. Surface tension accounts for the spherical shape of liquid drops. The surface molecules of a liquid are pulled sideways, but attractions from underneath also pull them down into the liquid. This pulling of surface molecules into the liquid causes the surface to contract and become as small as possible. Guess which geometrical shape has the least surface for a given volume? That's right-a sphere. So we see why raindrops, drops of oil, and falling drops of molten metal are all spherical.
The surface tension of water is dramatically reduced by the addition of soap or detergent. Soap or detergent molecules tend to aggregate at the surface of the water, where their non-polar tails stick out away from the water. At the surface, these molecules interfere with the dipole-dipole interactions among water molecules, thereby reducing surface tension, often as much as 90 percent."
I hope this helps.
Martha Croll
The surface tension is determined by what molecules are present in the one or so layers of molecules at the surface of the interface between a liquid and its vapor or air from the atmosphere. If the attraction between these molecules is strong, as is the case for water due to hydrogen bonding, the surface tension will be higher. For water it is about 72 dyne x cm = 72 erg / cm^2. I prefer the units of erg / cm^2 because it says that it takes 72 ergs of energy to create a new square cm. of surface, which I find easier to visualize. Now molecules that are surface active (surf-act-ants) or detergents have two properties that cause them to reduce the surface tension of water. First, there is an excess concentration of these molecules at the interface (called the surface excess concentration) and the forces between these molecules is smaller than, or interfere with, the bonding between the water molecules at the surface. So it is easier (takes less energy) to "stretch" the surface of the interface. It turns out that a lot, but not all by any means, of such molecules have a hydrophilic polar end, and a hydrophobic end. The polar end sticks into the water phase and the hydrophobic end (often a hydrocarbon) sticks up into the vapor or air phase. They are "standing on their heads"! Since these hydrocarbon ends are more weakly bonded to one another they are easier to stretch. As the surface is stretched and the surface density of the "tails" decreases there are new ones below in the water phase ready to take their place on the surface. In fact, within the water phase these surfactants form bodies called micelles where the hydrophilic (water loving) heads point into the water phase and the hydrophobic tails are on the "inside" of these microscopic globules.
Vince Calder
The surface tension of water exists because water molecules against the air cannot easily enjoy the same water-water interactions that the water molecules farther from the interface can. A water molecule in the "bulk" phase is not very restricted; it can move about and rotate without losing these stabilizing "hydrogen bonds." Water up against the air, on the other hand, cannot move into the air phase without losing all its hydrogen bonds, and it cannot rotate to point its hydrogen atoms toward the air without losing some of them, for instance. So the water molecules near the air surface are constrained in their movements by these interactions.
A detergent molecule has one end that is attracted to water, and one that is not. Because water molecules are so attracted to each other, a detergent molecule placed in water will find its water-loving end surrounded by water molecules, and its other end "squeezed out" because the water molecules would rather touch each other than it. At the air-water interface, the detergent molecules will line up so that their water-loving ends face the water phase and their other ends face the air phase.
Water molecules near the water-loving end of a detergent molecule "feel comfortable." They can rotate about and make hydrogen bonds to the detergent in a similar way as to other water molecules. If the air-water interface is completely lined with detergent molecules, then the water near the interface will not be as constrained as it would be without the detergent. This means that the surface tension is lower.
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PG Research Foundation, Darien, Illinois
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I'm trying to crank out lots and lots of tutus and i need a more effective way of bunching tulle, pulling the tread trough is not going fast enough. Is there any way i can trick my machine into doing it for me? Also, any helpful tips for making tutu's? |
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I'd suggest looking on you tube. I've linked a video below for a new sew version. You can investigate getting a gathering foot and trying a straight stitch on the tulle with it using the tightest setting on your top tension and see if it wont gather automatically for you. Or you could get a ruffler foot and see if the ruffler (which is really a pleater) won't help you get the gathers you want. |
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Giorgetto Giugiaro is the Car Designer of the Century, according to 132 (relatively) young automotive journalists back in 1999. Their grasp of automotive history seems to have been concentrated in their own adult lifetimes, however. Whether GG's influence is greater than Battista "Pinin" Farina's or Harley Earl's is very much open to debate, but there is no question that he is one of the most prolific designers alive. "I have designed cars for every major company but Honda, and one day I will do that," says the Maestro. The merging of his firm Italdesign with Volkswagen may signify an end to his half century of intense activity, but he remains a powerful and highly influential force in automobile design.
August 7, 1938: Born to an artistic family in Garessio, province of Cuneo, in northern Italy. His father is a painter.
1952: Moves to Turin, enrolls in the design school of the famous 1920s caricaturist known as Golia. At an end-of-term party, Golia's nephew Dante Giacosa, Fiat's chief engineer, sees Giugiaro's car drawings and offers him an apprenticeship at Fiat.
1955: Hired at the Fiat Special Vehicles Styling Center at Mirafiori. In four years, Giugiaro's immediate supervisor does not present any of his projects to the chief of the Center.
1959: Frustrated, he presents some drawings to Nuccio Bertone, who then assigned a trial design. "You know that design I had you do as a test? Well, I sold it to Alfa Romeo, so you'd better come to work for me." His monthly salary increases from $129 to $225. The drawing becomes the Alfa Romeo 2000 (later 2600), Giugiaro's first car.
1960: Assigned to an "Alpini" military regiment headquartered at Bra, well away from Turin. Bertone rents Giugiaro a hotel room, installs a drawing board, and keeps GG working on the design of the Alfa Romeo Giulia GT whenever he's off duty. He also does his first of three Ferrari one-offs with Carrozzeria Bertone.
1961: Second serious production model: the BMW 3200CS.
1962: Hitting his stride with another unique Ferrari -- Nuccio Bertone's personal 250GT -- and two production models -- the Simca 1000/1200 S coupes and the Iso Rivolta GT 300/340.
1963: Marries Maria Teresa Serra.
1964: The Canguro, Giorgetto's favorite Alfa. Giugiaro also designs a one-off Ford Mustang for Automobile Quarterly.


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The goal of treating hypertension is to reduce and maintain your blood pressure to within your desired range while minimizing side effects. Monitoring and maintaining blood pressure within specific limits will help to reduce the risk of blood vessel damage which can lead to complications, such as:
- Coronary artery disease (CAD)
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- Mild cognitive impairment
Management of hypertension involves a combination of lifestyle changes and medications. If you have any underlying conditions, such as diabetes or high cholesterol, they will need to be managed as well.
Treatment may need to be adjusted throughout your lifetime. Maintain contact with your medical team, adhere to treatment, and go to any scheduled appointments to keep your treatment on track.
Treatment involves the following:
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(Driven to Destruction is a series outlining how America became so dependent on the personal automobile, and how we must break this dependency if we want to create a sustainable way of life for future generations.)
Wendell Berry is a farmer and author who writes on issues of agriculture, the environment, and sustainability. In his 1997 essay "Energy in Agriculture," he blames the rise of fossil fuels for the damaging shift from family farms to industrial agriculture. He then connects this transformation in agricultural practices to the all-conmsuming oil addiction that is slowly bringing America to her knees – calling it theft from future generations:
(In the early to mid-1900′s), something was gaining speed in our country that I think will seem more and more strange as time goes on. This was a curious set of assumptions, both personal and public, about "progress." If you could get into a profession, it was assumed, then of course you must not be a farmer; if you could move to the city, then you must not stay in the country; if you could farm more profitably in the corn belt than on the mountainsides of New England, then the mountainsides of New England must not be farmed. For years this set of assumptions was rarely spoken and more rarely questioned, and yet it has been one of the most powerful social forces at work in this country in modern times.
But these assumptions could not accomplish much on their own. What gave them power, and made them able finally to dominate and reshape our society, was the growth of technology for the production and use of fossil fuel energy. This energy could be made available to empower such unprecedented social change because it was "cheap." But we were able to consider it "cheap" only by a kind of moral simplicity: the assumption that we had a "right" to as much of it as we could use. This was a "right" made solely by might.
Because fossil fuels, however abundant they once were, were nevertheless limited in quantity and not renewable, they obviously did not "belong" to one generation more than another. We ignored the claims of posterity simply because we could, the living being stronger than the unborn, and so worked the "miracle" of industrial progress by the theft of energy from (among others) our children. That is the real foundation of our progress and our affluence.
(Berry, Wendell. "Energy and Agriculture." Bringing It To The Table, On Farming and Food. Berkeley: Counterpoint, 2009.)
13 years after writing these words, I'd be curious to see if Berry would strengthen his condemnation of our energy practices. With the harsh realities of oil-fueled foreign wars, climate change, and now the BP oil spill dominating the headlines, perhaps "generational theft" is too weak of a charge. Infanticide might be the more accurate term. We are literally destroying our children's future, and we are helpless to stop or even slow down our craving for cheap oil.
Throughout his writings, Berry advocates for sustainable, small-scale food production that greatly reduces fossil fuel consumption and does not defile the land and the people who work it. To achieve that, Berry claims, we must overcome our love affair with progress. Like a young lover who is blind to the faults of his mate, we are unable to see the damage that our progress is doing – or at least we are unable to connect the dots between our consumptive habits (which we consider a sign of progress) and the social and environmental devastation they are enabling.
In the coming weeks, as my "Driven to Destruction" series winds down, I am going to start a new series that begins with Berry's vision of sustainable food practices. Called "Sustainability For The Rest Of Us," it will detail my own efforts to make my lifestyle less of an act of generational theft and more a process of investment in the future. This series will cover familiar topics such as local food, greening your home, and shopping responsibly. The twist, however, will be my focus on what makes achieving these things difficult for many people – family issues, financial limitations, apathetic communities, etc. Real life often gets in the way of us living the way we want to live, and I'll be sharing my struggles and soliciting advice on how to overcome these challenges.


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Letter SYDNEY, 19 May 1948
I hear that the question of lifting the ban will be raised at the meeting of the Federal Unions' Conference in Melbourne on Tuesday, 25th of May, 1948, at which, I understand, Mr Healy will be present.
In connection with our discussion of last week [1] I feel, that if you were to give Mr Healy the word to go ahead now, we may get rid of the boycott. I honestly believe, that if your desire to end the present situation is stressed, your efforts will be entirely successful.
I would have hesitated to write to you again but for the fact that the matter is too important and urgent to let the occasion go by to reach a satisfactory solution this time. [2]
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There exists a strange sort of arrogance in Canadian culture. It's one that helps us feel a meager measure of superiority over our larger, louder, more populous and far less concerned neighbors to the South. It's one that values the idea of a cultural mosaic above that of a melting pot, and it imagines that such a hierarchy of values rings true in the hearts of every Canadian. It's one that says:
Hey there, Mr. and Mrs. Immigrant, there's a nice little place for you right here in the collective stained glass window of our nation.
It's patently false. We're a country of ignorant and stupid morons who discriminate against people with differences just like every other nation on earth. What's so maddening to me about Canada's xenophobia is that a) I live in this country and not others, where I'm sure I'd be equally disturbed by it; b) That we imagine ourselves to be so high above something that we're not; and c) The continued platform given to Don Cherry by Canada's national broadcasting network.
On the Tuesday night/Wednesday morning, Gurdeep Ahluwalia and Nabil Karim hosted TSN's Sports Centre (notice the "re" instead of the "er"), as they did once before in March of 2012. Both Ahluwalia and Karim have brown-colored skin. This, to many Canadian sports fans who are used to seeing the white-colored skin of Jay Onrait and Dan O'Toole was cause to take to social media and express off-colored jokes.


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Estherhead - what a great story. And, something I am very guilty of. Oh well, I ate 10 cookies, I just as well eat the other 10. "I'll start tomorrow." I am going to try to follow your friends eating habits more closely.
QOTD: What is one healthy habit that IS you, that you no longer work at? As far as the QOTD, I never drink sodas with sugar. I figured a lot time ago, that I just didn't need the empty calories. Before I got laid off in February, I was, however, drinking several diet sodas a day. Now, I have cut back to no more than one a day, and lots of days, I don't drink any. |
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I am happy to say i lost almost a pound this week!! I would like more, but am happy it is a loss.
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Thanks to TammyNC for coaching last week! And thanks to this week's coach estherhead! That was a great inspirational story!
[QUOTE=estherhead;32443722]QOTD: What is one healthy habit that IS you, that you no longer work at? QUOTE] The only thing I really don't think about is brushing my teeth Unfortunately, when it comes to food, I'll always have to work at it. I do like vegetables, so I do good with them most of the time. I managed to get up early enough to do my weigh in today. Unfortunately its a gain of 0.9lbs. So in the 6 weeks of this challenge, I've only lost 0.1lbs. I need to keep my focus and find the time and energy to exercise. Last night I meant to exercise and do laundry; instead DH and I were playing Bejewelled Blitz on different computers, comparing scores. I did have the best score for the longest time, but he finally got a great one and got to be the leader.
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I'm going to do a post and run. Still in the middle of moving and AT&T screwed up my phone and internet so I am internetless at my home at the moment. I thought for sure I would have a big weight loss this week but I stayed the same. I have long suspected that the scales at my normal location weigh low (they are always at least a pound lower than my home scale). Hopefully I'll post a loss this week, but at least I only stayed the same, not gained!
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I'm just posting to show off my shiny new 30 pound clippie! I will probably never be a weekly biggest loser - I'm more of a turtle in weight loss, in running and in life, but I do eventually get there, even if the process looks non-dramatic.
I posted a loss of .6 this week, about which I am not complaining, but I have to admit I was hoping for a little more, given how well I've been eating and how much activity I've gotten. It will show up eventually, I know. I took my dog to the beach today and he had a great time bounding through the water, chasing his toy that I threw for him repeatedly. Talk about taking joy in movement - that dog knows. He was loving the day, the water, the leaping, bounding and swimming, the company of other dogs, the sand - all of it. I'd like to find some activities that are that much fun for ME!
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Those do-gooder food pushers:
When I was in labor with my first baby I was very clear with the doctors and nurses that I didnt want any drugs. No pitocin, no epidural, no drugs. Not because I love pain but because I wanted to take as little risk as possible and after research I had decided that the healthiest way to have a baby was to have little to no interventions, unless absolutely needed.
Things were going fine and I was managing the pain quite well and was happy. But this one nurse came in every 15-30 minutes to see if I was doing all right and if I was ready to quit being a hero and have some drugs. She was respectful and I liked her so I just kept saying no. Even though she was like some crazy drug pusher. Well, anyone who has been in labor knows that as it gets closer to pushing the contractions get a lot more intense. And I have to say it would be a rare woman who could continue to say, No, to the question, Would you like us to take the pain away? Uh, yeah Id LOVE to have you take the pain away. So eventually I said yes & they gave me Nubain. That Nubain was the absolute devil. It did NOT help with the pain and it put me in this crazy bubble and I couldnt deal with the pain. And I never would have had it without the "pusher." So with baby number two I made a sign that said, Please do not ask me if I want help with my pain, I will ask you for medicine if I need it. I made photo copies & handed it out to every hospital person I saw & posted it in my room. Im sure the staff was thrilled with crazy laboring mother in room 11 but I simply didnt care. My body, my rules, my opinion on what I put in it. No one offered me drugs and I had a delightful, Nubain & other drug free birth. The best choice for me. Food pushers are exactly like those pain-drug pushers at the maternity wing. They are just trying to be so helpful. With their little bowl of chocolates on their desk at work or their yummy apple pie they made especially for us or their last slice of pizza they are just too full to eat and dont want to throw away. They mean well. But just like I had to take drastic, assertive measures for my second birth to avoid drugs sometimes we have to take a very assertive, drastic stand for our healthy eating habits. Because sometimes food pushers are very pushy and generally we really want what they are trying to push, despite our research to the contrary. Its a tricky situation. The best thing to do is to have a pre-pushing plan. So instead of a second post Im posting my QOTD here: QOTD: What drastic measures have you taken to take control of food pushing situations? How do you plan for parties/picnics/holidays where the food & food pushers is/are plentiful?
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Good Saturday morning everyone. I made it through surgery just fine. I woke up in the surgery room and was wide awake from there. I was in pain and got some pain meds that made my head swim when it went. I do have some pain meds but even on the pain meds if I move the wrong way it hurts. If I sit quietly it is not too bad so I don't think I am moving off the couch any time soon. I am also less than 24 hours from the surgery. It will get better in a couple of days.
My girl friend brought me dinner last night. Dh brought me a bowl of cereal this morning and ds brought me some watermelon, water and my antibiotics a little while ago. Sleep was horrible I couldn't get comfortable. I was also on the couch since my bedroom is upstairs. I think I will be in the family room as long as I am on crutches. The room has a bathroom so I don't have to go too far. I don't know what dinner is going to be. I put some frozen health food meals in the freezer last week so I can have something for lunches. Thanks everyone for the kinds words the last couple of days. If you were working on COW 5 keep working I am going to count it as a 2 week COW because I didn't want to think about it on Thursday.
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donac, I am thinking of you and hoping that you are feeling better and hanging out working on your needlework today. I am off to the grocery store for my healthy food and later we are taking our boat out for awhile. It is going to be 85 here today! Have a great OP day, losers! |
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donac - I'm glad you made it through well and I hope you continue to feel better!
A little bit of an issue here - my computer is not working well once again and I am not going to have access to it for a few days, at least. Not that I'm the most regular poster, but just thought I'd send a heads up before I go silent for much of the next week. The hardest part: I am going to have access to WW online only via my phone. It is better than nothing, and I am not going to complain, but it's not so good for looking up points values. Hope everyone has a great losing week. I'll do the same and check back with you hopefully Wednesday or Thursday! Also, I'm loving the inspirational stories this week, estherhead. QOTD: I always try to plan ahead for those occasions, what I will be having. Sometimes a little splurge is just the thing. But at this point, my main plan is to eat dinner before I go and stick to fruits and veggies. And no mixers in my drinks. If I have a drink, even. OH, and don't bring anything to a potluck that I won't eat myself.
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I weighed in this morning since I was out of town this week. I am pleasantly surprised to say that I had a 1.6 pound loss. I only got in a few workouts and was at a weight-maintaining calorie level for 4 days since I was dining out every meal, but I got something right! I had healthy breakfasts, small portion snacks (unhealthy options at our meetings), lots of fruit, salads for lunches, and made okay choices for dinner (more cals than I should have, but not burgers and fries either).
I have extra motivation to stay on plan this week, because I leave next Thursday to go and visit family and have DD's 2nd birthday party. My mom is taking me shopping before the party for some new clothes, since nothing fits right now. My skinny clothes are still 5-10 pounds away and my clothes of the past 2 years are quite baggy. I'd like to look my best for the party and reach my mini goal by then: it's only 1 pound away! QOTD: What is one healthy habit that IS you, that you no longer work at? Drinking water. Sometimes I have to make a little effort to get all 8 glasses of just plain water, but without trying I get in 6 cups, 8 if you count milk, tea, etc. Exercise has really become a part of my routine. Minimum a few times a week - I actually WANT to work out. Feel kind of blah if I don't now. QOTD: What to do about food pushers? I've learned to smile and nod with a "No thanks" a lot with my mom's sisters - they are the ultimate food pushers. But then I'm used to it, and they push everything, like "when are you moving back east?" "When are you having a baby?" and now, "when are you having your next one?" A key in being able to resist the food pushing for me, is knowing where I stand before the party. Doing a weigh in that morning and having a plan for food - maybe it's a splurge day and that's okay. Otherwise, I stick to the veggie tray until the meal. Desserts though are always my Achilles heel, even without any pushing! One co-worker tries to get me to go to Mexican lunch & unlimited tortilla chips with her at least once a week. While I'd love to go out, thinking about the calories I'd need to chart to eat there...no thanks! Bringing my lunch I am saving both money and cals, and sometimes fitting in a quick walk around the block.
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QOTD: What to do about food pushers?
That's a hard one. My DH is the biggest pusher of food. He absolutely loves to cook and most of it is fattening. So I try to just take a small bit of whatever he cooks. Sometimes it works and sometimes it doesn't. |
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Good Sunday morning WISHers. Instead of a long, coaching type story, today I am going to cut to the chase with the QOTD. It seems on weekends we have more time to chill and that leaves us more time to make special food.
QOTD: What is your bestest, favoritist "special" recipe or food?
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I had a great day, though. The weather is gorgeous. DH and I sat in the gazebo and then would work on our yard a bit. It was a nice, relaxing day and things look a lot nicer. Hope that everyone had a great, OP day! |
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For both Jason and Carissa, their wedding day was a long time coming. Each of them has a compelling life story that will make you say 'wow' - they've been through a lot as independent and confident individuals. Because of that, they have a tight-knit protective group of friends around them, so when it would come time for Jason and Carissa to fall in love, it was going to be hard to live up to the high standards of this community who would only accept the very best.
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Jason and Carissa are all about style, style, style and Carissa was deeply inspired by F. Scott Fitzgerald's novel, The Great Gatsby, for their 1920's vintage wedding day. Based on Gatsby-glam, they chose the historic and happenin' old Hollywood haunt in University Heights, the Lafayette Hotel, for their ceremony space, and decked out the rustic Moniker Warehouse in east village with 1920's decor for the reception. MIHO Gastrotruck - one of the most delicious 'farm to street' food trucks in San Diego - catered the event and Couture Events brought every little detail to life! The wedding party was dripping with kind of glamorous fashion that will make you want to don your own sparkly headband and start kicking the Charleston, and Jason and Carissa looked like they had stepped right out of one of Gatsby's parties. In fact, this wedding was so over-the-top with details that it's our second three-parter wedding of the year!
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Jeff told Carissa that she was looking in the direction of Jason's room and she got a HUGE smile on her face.
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Well, that girl and I broke up. We still get along. It's weird not touching or kissing, but we'll get used to it. Yesterday she hung out with her ex and I couldn't take it and she said that maybe it wouldn't work and I agreed. But she wants to keep it open, and I tried to break it more cleanly.
I believe we shall still be best friends.
I also think she may be crushing on me a bit more than I on her.
I feel OK. I felt so terrible half the time we were dating that it's a bit of a relief. But I suspect tomorrow I'll feel sad.
hey, you. I've wandered my way back to oasis. It made my day to see a journal entry by you pop up (I've had a chem test and a math test, so it was a pretty sucky day). College. I used to think college was the solution to everything in my life. I'm disappointed that the reality is less than that, but high school in London is proving to be quite an adventure. I broke up with my ex-girlfriend over a similar matter. I think you did better than me, though, because once i realized i didn't really like her and had just wanted a girl to be with, I was too ashamed and angry to have any relationship at all with her (which I now regret). You know that statistic, that you are more likely to be murdered by someone you know than by a stranger? I have a feeling if that happens, it's going to be her ;). She was a little psycho.
Oh god, I'm not sure what I'd do if my girlfriend and I broke up. She's undeniably my best friend, so I'd be forced to still confide in her and be with her all the time, if only out of habit. Not touching/kissing would be horribly weird.
It sounds like you're better off broken up though. So for that, I'm happy. :-)
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The Wilderness Act of 1964 designated the BWCAW as a wilderness area. It is the only large/lake land wilderness in the designated Wilderness Areas of the contiguous US.
~Jane Greenberg, Minneapolis, MN
It serves to protect a beautiful and vulnerable wilderness for our use. All around it loggers are clearing large tracts of land, but the Boundary Waters Canoe Area Wilderness will continue to bring in adventurers from all over the world as well as serving Minnesotans. It is also an important and extensive habitat for animals which are otherwise beleaguered by lakeshore development.
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Minnesota is well known for its water. While the Mississippi River starts here, it goes south and is shared by several states along the way. Lake Superior is the same way. And our triple watershed is a geological feature shared by Montana in the Glacier National Park area. And of course, we have the 10,000 lakes (actual total closer to 13,000). But something we have that isn't shared by any other state is the BWCAW. This is a magnificent, unique natural wonder right here in Minnesota. People travel to Minnesota from all over the country and all over the world to take in its beauty and splendor. This definitely belongs well up on the list of 150 most influential forces in our state...
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BWCA blowdown on July 4,1999 Changed the landscape and created turmoil on whether to log off the areas or wait for a fire to clear the areas.
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The BWCAW shows that people are interested in saving areas of wilderness for future generations. The BWCAW gives people a low cost place to go to get away from everything and enjoy the great outdoors.
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The Boundary Waters epitomize the Great North Woods, which Minnesota is known for. People can still go there, in this era of technology, and experience the wilderness, getting away from it all, which is a feeling, a state of being that is hard to come by in today's world. Thank goodness our forefathers had the sense to preserve it. Lately, educators and scientists are saying that interacting with nature makes for better children, students - and probably neighbors, and citizens too. The Boundary Waters is a Minnesota treasure, a national treasure and a world treasure.
~Kathleen Schoenfelder, Winsted, MN
The BWCA makes me proud to live in Minnesota. The canoe area is a living testament to our outdoor values, and offer incredible and affordable ways to experience the wild.
~Adam Pagel
The BWCA is the most unique and unspoiled wilderness area in the world. People travel from around the world to canoe this wilderness and witness its pristine beauty. It gives the adventurer a glimpse into the past lives of the Ojibwe people's traditional lifestyle of traveling around by canoe and co-existing with the natural world. I am proud to be Minnesotan because Minnesota preserved this wilderness area for non-motorized vehicles and I see it as one of the only true wilderness areas in the world. It truly puts Minnesota on the world map in my mind.
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The Boundary Waters, because it shows off Minnesota's beauty.
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The Boundary Waters becoming a protected area. This shows our commitment to the environment and the wild creatures.
~Dawn Olson, Onamia, MN
This is a Minnesota gem, unlike anything else in the United States.
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Preserved a wilderness site for the entire country.
~Christine Hope, St. Paul, MN
There is no other place on earth like the Boundary Waters Canoe Area Wilderness, where ancient native American paths connect the lakes such that one can travel hundreds of miles for months at a time in a true wilderness setting. The fire grate and latrine give the traveler all the essentials that are unique only to the BWCAW!
~Brian Wieber, Rogers, MN
Provides conservation, education, beauty, green preservation and recreation. Model for parks around the world.
~Danuta Warec, Minneapolis, MN
Secured a wilderness for all to use as God intended.
~Toni Watt, Minneapolis, MN
This park was one of the first, if not the first, primitive area in the United States. Also, it is an international park combining with Quetico in Canada. It represents our concern and love of nature and the vision to reach out internationally.
~Mark Nelson, St. Paul, MN
Though controversial in its establishment, is the most popular wilderness area in the nation, drawing some 200,000 visitors per year.
~Sam Cook
Voyageurs National Park Thousand of years ago the glaciers melted away and left these beautiful lakes with unusual rocks along our Minnesota and Canadian border. The park came in this area in 1975 to preserve this precious wilderness land. Voyageurs was named for French-Canadian canoemen who traveled these waters in their birch-bark canoes. They transported goods to trade with the Indians in return for furs. The Indians were the first inhabitants. Voyageurs National Park is largely composed of water. It is 218,054 acres with 83,789 acres being water and 134,265 acres of land. It is the only national park without a road. You will need a boat to camp in the park. All campsites are accessible by water only. Roads approach the park in four locations along highway 53. People enjoy visiting the park to camp, snowmobile, fish and mostly to see the breathtaking scenery.
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