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The Role of Police
The police are by nature a closed and secretive organization. This essay, identifies and discusses the variety of difficulties social scientists face when researching the police.
How we define the role of police is much more than an interesting problem in community. Rather, it is a direct reflection of society's heart. Using primary source documents to trace the evolution of the role of police in society who handle contemporary police problems in the UK. But it also chronicles the attempts of political leaders, reformers, scholars, and police executives to deal with a range of social problems such as immigration, population growth, urbanization, racism, poverty, gender bias, and technological change as well as crime.
Policing addresses one of the most fundamental problems of social living- how to deal with those who violate group customs, norms, rules, and laws that enable cooperation. Cooperating together in large groups enables us to take advantage of one another's strengths and to compensate for individual weaknesses. The resulting sum can be much greater than the parts and, all else being equal, the large the social group, the larger the potential benefit. But social living also provides opportunities for people to cheat. Instead of cooperating to produce a shared benefit, people can use force, fraud, or stealth to obtain valued resources. Once again, generally speaking, the larger the social group, the greater the opportunities for cheating. Cheaters weaken the cooperative bonds that enable productive social living and, like parasites in an animal, too many cheaters can kill or cripple a society.
In a general sense, crimes include those acts or omissions punished by law to maintain public order. This in accordance with the inherent duty of the State of parens patriae or to be the guardian of the rights of the people.
Crimes are the most common topic of news because more often than not, they satisfy the essential requisite of research worthiness of a particular fact or event. And just like any other topic in journalism, crime-related events should be presented, as much as possible, in a balanced, objective, accurate and adequate manner because parallel to the duty of social scientist to investigate and inform the public of the issues which are of public interests is the right of the public to be informed of facts truthfully.
In view of this fact, this paper aims to provide an analysis of the difficulties of social scientists face when researching the police. The objective is to determine the variables related to the practices of social scientists when researching the police. An analysis of these variables is provided as well as its interpretation and its possible consequences in relation to the image of the society that these portray.
The role of the police service has changed immensely since its conception by Sir Robert Peel in 1829. The new system of police was the first of its kind within the world. It had been established in London, to formalise the policing to the laws governing in society. The previous Anglo-Saxon system of watches, and parish constables had failed due immense social and economic changes and the consequent movement of the population to the towns. It was at this time government passed the first Metropolitan Police Act and the Metropolitan Police Force was established.
Actually, the basic principles that Sir Richard Mayne believed in are still one of the many that are used in running the modern police service seen in Great Britain, and throughout the United Kingdom today. Although the actual role of today's police service is somewhat of a debate, even internally to its own individual chief constables or commissioners, the belief that the police are there to primarily prevent crime, and secondarily for the detection of crime and punishment of offenders is a stereotypical view carried in today's community. The truth in the matter is nowadays the police service are merely the 'gatekeepers' on today's criminal justice process, and are supported by a several other equally important agencies in the quest of detecting crime, the punishing of offenders, and the ensuring of justice. Today's police force also carries other roles except the management of crimes, and pursing cases to court.
However, there are some cases that police image are devaluated through bad impressions such as police ineffectiveness, brutality, etc. These types of mistakes led to the public confidence in the police dealing effectively with crime and criminals slipping below an acceptable standard. This has also not been helped by the fact of the majority of the public's impressions of today's police force are being driven by the drama series seen on TV, a majority of which are based in UK law enforcement agencies. These programmes glamorise the role of the police, with the star of the show solving the crime and always winning in court, without showing the obvious burdens and bureaucracy of paperwork and the complete process of the British legal systems.
In addition, despite the popularity of the 'crime-fighter' image, a great deal of police work is humdrum. Research has demonstrated that far less police time is spent in 'crime-related' activity than in providing a 'service' by, for example, calming disturbances, negotiating disputes and responding to a wide range of accidents and emergencies. (Maguire, Morgan, et al. 2002 p. 987). The 1988 British Crime Survey statistics have in the past shown that only 18% of all public contact with the UK's police services actually involves crime. It can therefore been seen as ironic, that given the proportion of time spent dealing with crime related incident, and the higher proportion thus dealing with the other service related functions, that the public devalue the police purely on the face of crime related incidents.
The public poor perception of the police and in particular the perceived lack of contact with today's police force has caused the government to essentially redevelop the face of the police service within Great Britain. The new Police Reform Act, and related legislation has helped introduce new roles and responsibilities for the police services in the UK. Exceptionally, the new initiative has also introduce the Community Support Officer, and other such civilianised positions to help support constables in helping to release more police officers, and uniformed civilian staff into the community by cutting bureaucracy and paperwork.
With regards to the roles and status of police in society, issues regarding researches of social scientist to police practices are emerging. Actually, most of the problems encountered by social scientist to police practices are almost similar to the problems encountered by a regular citizen. Most of the problems are regarding police secrecy, misconduct, abuse of authority and social problems. Thus, the review of most social scientist complaints is an important and rapidly changing aspect of police oversight. Police officer misconduct results in public dissatisfaction with police services, particularly when social scientist who file formal complaints believe that their charges are not investigated thoroughly. Problems associated with the complaint process have inhibited positive relations between law-enforcement agencies and the communities they serve. This issue is even more important today, as law enforcement moves into the era of community policing, with its emphasis on closer interaction between police departments and social scientist.
Traditionally, police departments have reviewed social scientist complaints internally. Sworn officers assigned to the internal affairs or office of professional standards unit investigates individual complaints and recommends a final disposition to the chief executive. But nationally, municipal law-enforcement agencies sustain an average of only 10 percent of all social scientist complaints reviewed internally (Pate and Fridell 1993, 113-120).
In addition to the problems encountered by most social scientist in researching the police, interrogation among policemen seems to become an issue. Perhaps the defining characteristic of the modern police interrogation is its almost universal endorsement by the policing community as a necessary component of any effective investigation (Baldwin 1993). Based on this conviction, interrogative practices have come to play an irreducible role in the justice process as a means of establishing the culpability of suspects, and subsequently, preparing the cases against them. As Baldwin (1993: 326) argues, "It has now become something of a truism to observe that, in most criminal cases, the crucial stage is the interview at the police station, for it is at that stage that a suspect's fate is as a rule sealed".
Despite this widespread endorsement of the interrogation as a key stage in the justice process, considerable ambiguity and debate surround the specific nature of its functions and effects. Thus, while the most typical rationale involves its technical role in eliciting confessions, providing inculpatory evidence, and generating information pertaining to other crimes (Leo 1994), a number of researchers have indicated that, in actual fact, the interrogation plays a much more limited role in the majority of police investigations (Bryan 1997). McConville and Baldwin (1982:169) provide perhaps the strongest articulation of this position arguing that, "The available evidence suggests that, in the total law enforcement picture, the interrogation is comparatively unimportant". The implication here is that most case outcomes are determined by evidence which precedes the interrogation itself- such as forensic data and eyewitness accounts. Nevertheless, despite its apparently limited technical value, the police interrogation continues to be endorsed by the majority of analysts as a key investigative practice, a contradiction which requires a much more subtle, sophisticated, and ultimately, less technical appreciation of its nature and functions.
The starting point for such an alternative approach lies in re-framing the interrogation in relation to the wider structure and context of police work. Specifically, interrogative practices must be viewed as natural extensions of the police activities of case construction and legitimation. This follows from an interpretive approach to policing (Ericson and Baranek 1982) which conceives of police work primarily in terms of the production and legitimation of narrative accounts of criminal behaviour, an inherently social process which is itself dependent upon the interpretive work and social interactions of individual police officers under conditions of autonomy and low visibility. It is the relative success of the police in constructing and justifying these accounts, and hence in de-legitimating competing visions, that is believed to be largely determinative of the outcomes of specific cases (Ericson 1993). This preliminary narrative work is thus largely constitutive of the power relations between the police and the public. In this respect, the later stages of the justice process come to represent sources of justification and legitimation for the initial accounts developed by the police, rather than autonomous mechanisms of adjudication (Ericson 1985).
From this perspective on police work, it is reasonable to argue that the police interrogation functions as an integral component of a more general process of account production and legitimation. This stems from its existence as an interactional medium and dramatic ritual through which police narratives of criminal acts are not only tested, elaborated, and reaffirmed, but also endowed with the organizational and personal commitments of the individuals involved. The result is the conceptualization of interrogations as, "… social encounters fashioned to confirm and legitimate a police narrative" (McConville et al. 1991: 327).
It should be noted that an integral part of this process of legitimation is the reconciliation of any lingering ambiguities with the official account of the event. In this way, a narrative is created which highlights the suspect's guilt and selects out mitigating facts and circumstances (McConville and Baldwin 1982). As part of this process of translation, simplification, and naturalization, the suspect's viewpoint is ultimately either ignored or incorporated into the police account through an active process of negotiation and persuasion (McConville et al. 1991; Ericson and Baranek 1982).
Ultimately then, the interrogative process, drawing upon specific police schemas and theories of suspect culpability, is designed to persuade a suspect to accept a particular, predetermined rendition of events – a narrative account which is based on the excessive simplification of what is, in reality, a complex situation with ambiguous meanings and consequences. In conformity with this underlying logic, the questions asked are not of any true probative value but, "… merely seek to persuade suspects to accept a predetermined version of events" (Baldwin 1993: 341).
While the production of a confession is one specific outcome of this process, of more implicit importance is the commitment that the interrogation fosters, on the part of both the police and the suspect, to the official account of a criminal act. For the police, the performance of the interrogation ritual provides them with an opportunity both to confirm previous suspicions about a case (Bryan 1997), and actively to incorporate the suspect into the official account through the elicitation of confirmative statements. This latter function is particularly important as it supplies the suspect with what appears to be an authentic subject-position within the police narrative. In this way, the legitimacy of the police account is bolstered as the suspect's involvement in the case is articulated in their own words, rather than those of the detectives. For the suspect, this process usually results in a reluctant identification with the police position – at least to the extent that it is the police account which now becomes the recognized framework according to which the suspect's defense must be organized and articulated. This identification is only accelerated as other possible framings of the events are successively foreclosed through the course of the interrogation.
The end result of this entire process is the legitimation of the organizational narrative and the police actions that were taken in its defense. Once again, this must be seen to conform to the overall logic and structure of police work itself which is premised upon the rendering of the ambiguities and complexities of life events into stabilized, organizationally supported narratives that offer clear lines of organizational action (Ericson 1993). The interrogation thus emerges as a critical sense-making medium through which the unique circumstances of cases may be applied against a background of taken-for-granted assumptions, and thus, converted into fairly routine forms of organizational work (Manning 1986).
Beyond its implications for police narratives as applied in specific cases, there is also a second respect in which the police interrogation fulfills a crucial legitimating function. Following from the position of the police as key representatives of the socio-normative order, and consequently, a critical point at which the boundaries between appropriate and inappropriate behaviour are negotiated, the interrogation may be viewed as a mechanism for both identifying deviations from the status quo, and shaming the individuals who are responsible for this deviation (McConville and Baldwin 1982).
Based on the discussion, it is found out that the police function is a product of the societal structure of which it is a part. Simply stated, where the structure of that society is classless and uncensored, that is, where there is more or less an equal right and opportunity for all societal members to share in access to and use of basic resources, then the police has as its function to see that individuals who attempt to interfere with that free and equal access are prevented from doing so. Where, however, a society is class-based, that society must have a state structure to maintain that unequal access to basic resources. A police is the element of that state structure that has for its function the maintenance of that inequality by force.
Recent examples of propertied classes using police to patrol inner-city minority areas, to control worker efforts at unionization, to suppress protests against government policies to fight unpopular wars, or to maintain repressive regimes such as the southern slavocracy are legion and need no citation.
Thus, it is obvious that the possibility of producing an equal police from an inegalitarian society would have about the same chance as expecting a swan to emerge from a hen's egg. Yet, having examined as many societal attempts to deal with this problem as we have, we believe that we should make an attempt to apply what we have learned to at least imagining a society in which such a police would be possible rather than leave the reader with the unsatisfactory conclusion that nothing can be done until society, at some distant moment, is restructured to our satisfaction.
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Baldwin, J. (1993) Police interview techniques: Establishing truth or proof?. British Journal of Criminology 33(3): 325-352.
Bryan, I. (1997) Interrogation and Confession: A Study of Progress, Process, and Practice. Aldershot: Ashgate-Darmouth.
Ericson, R V. and P. Baranek (1982) The Ordering of Justice: A Study of Accused Persons as Dependants in the Criminal Process. Toronto: University of Toronto Press.
Ericson, R. V. (1985) Legal inequality. Research in Law, Deviance, and Social Control 7:33-78.
Ericson, R. V. (1993) Making Crime: A Study of Detective Work. Toronto: University of Toronto Press.
Leo, Richard A. (1994) Police interrogation and social control. Social and Legal Studies 3:93-120.
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McConville, M. and J. Baldwin (1982). The role of interrogation in crime discovery and conviction. British Journal of Criminology 22: 165-175.
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A Lesson by The Professor
Using the New Mini Translator in Office 2010
Allow me to introduce myself. I have traveled far and taught at many universities. I have seen how people everywhere around the world use computers to reach their full potential and connect with others. And now, I have joined with the Office Global Experience team because people need to understand how much Office has to offer to our global customers. Starting today, I will conduct classes periodically through this blog. I'll even have quizzes and homework if you really want to shine. If you come to my class – be ready to learn! So, let us begin…
Our lesson today is about using an exciting new feature in Office 2010 called the Mini Translator!
The Mini Translator provides on-the-fly translation as you select a word or phrase and provides dictionary definitions of individual words. With the Microsoft Office 2010 Mini Translator, you can point to a word or selected phrase with your mouse, and the translation will display in a small window. The Mini Translator also includes a Play button so you can hear an audio pronunciation of the word or phrase using a text-to-speech engine. A Copy button is also available so that you can paste the translation into another document. You can use the Mini Translator in Word, Outlook, OneNote and PowerPoint.
The great thing about Mini Translator and Office applications is that it works the same way in all of the applications. So if our lesson today takes you through the Word application, you can rest assured that you've learned the basic information you need to use the same feature in OneNote, Outlook and PowerPoint! One lesson, four applications – what a return on investment!
So, now that you know what Mini Translator does, it's time to learn about how to do it!
1. Start your Word 2010 application and either open a document or type some text.
If you want to have Word give you three quick paragraphs of text - at the beginning of the Word document - type: =rand() and press the Enter key. If you want to control the number of paragraphs you'd like, type it between the parenthesesi.e.: =rand(5) and then press the Enter key.
Go ahead, try it... I'll wait.
2. Now that you have text in your document, let's verify the Mini Translator feature is turned on!
3. Click on the Review tab, and then the Translate Button.
4. The Mini Translator is turned on and off by clicking Mini Translator.
If the Mini Translator icon is highlighted, it is turned on.
If the Mini Translator icon is not highlighted, it is turned off.
Note: The translation language will always show in the menu whether the MiniTranslator is on or off.
5. When you click on it the first time, it will bring up the Translation Language Options dialog, or you can click on the Choose Your Translation Language option, and click on Mini Translator to see the below dialog:
6. Here, you can choose what language you'd like to have your text translated into. Click on the arrow in the Translate To list:
7. Once you select the language you'd like the text translated to – click OK to save the selection and close the dialog.
How can you verify that the Mini Translator is really 'ON'?
How can you tell what language the Mini Translator will translate to without opening the Translation Language Options dialog?
Clue: See step 4.
8. Now that you have Mini Translator turned on – you simply select the text you want to translate and hover over it:
9. You might be wondering what else you can do with the Mini Translator – good question!
If you want more information, you can open the Research pane from the Mini Translator, by clicking Expand.
If you want to copy the contents of the Mini Translator window to the Clipboard - in the Mini Translator, click Copy. You can now paste the translation as you wish.
If you want to hear the text, in the Mini Translator, click Play. (You must have speakers and the text to speech engine for that language.)
10. Hovering over a single word will allow the Mini Translator to show the Bilingual Dictionary:
Ok class that is the lesson for today for the basic usage of Mini Translator!
Future lessons will explore the other options of the Translate feature and will drill down into more specifics about the capabilities of Mini Translator.
If you have questions, I'm always available – just leave a note below and I will respond as soon as I can!
Happy Translating!
The Professor
PS. I would like to offer recognition to Sandy Rivas for her significant contribution on this article. Sandy is a Software Development Engineer in Test at Microsoft with the Office Global Experience Platform team based out of Redmond, Washington, USA. Sandy and her team are responsible for designing, developing and testing the Mini Translator feature as well as bringing you these blogs - they are busy folks!
PS. I would like to offer recognition to Sandy Rivas for her significant contribution on this article. Sandy is a Software Development Engineer in Test at Microsoft with the Office Global Experience Platform team based out of Redmond, Washington, USA. Sandy and her team are responsible for designing, developing and testing the Mini Translator feature as well as bringing you these blogs - they are busy folks!
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That's a pretty interesting feature. I hope that the Mini Translator doesn't use Microsoft Anna in Windows Vista to spell a text in Spanish or French.
Will Microsoft include a speech engine for these languages? How will it be in Windows XP, in Vista or in Windows 7?
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Great feature; one thing I noted translating from English to Italian is that the app retains the English structure of the phrase: specifically in English the adjective always preceed the related word while in Italian is the opposite; for example:
American Express would greatly appreciate your feedback
is translated as:
American Express notevolmente apprezzerebbe le vostre risposte
while in Italian should be:
American Express apprezzerebbe notevolmente le vostre risposte
I would not consider this a very serious issue although if the fix could be easily implemented the translation will be very much enhanced.
Hello Jorge,
Thanks for your comments. Regarding your question, Text-to-speech engines are included as part of the operating system or can be obtained from 3rd party providers. Office doesn't include additional text-to-speech engines and Mini-Translator relies on those already installed on the computer. You can configure your preferred Speech Properties (including default voice) using Windows' Control Panel. For more information regarding Microsoft's speech technologies, please visit MSDN or Microsoft.com.
Hello Stefano,
Thank you for your feedback. As you can imagine, automated language translation is extremely difficult, as the meaning of words and phrases often depends on the context and specialized knowledge of the domain area or culture. As you've noted, sentence structures and grammatical rules vary significantly between two languages, which adds to the complexity of the translation and may produce text that is not completely accurate. The research team is continuously working on improvements and the quality of translation for some language is already improving; however, as with any emerging technology, we still have work to do. You can find more information about Microsoft Translator at http://blogs.msdn.com/translation/.
Is it possible to create my own custom translation for specific words. For example if a small business owner wants to encourage his employees to use always the same translation for technical terms that are unique to their line of business, he might want to deploy a custom bilingual dictionary that includes the "approved" list of translation for the specific list of technical terminology. Is this possible in Office 2010 (or does this even exist in previous Office/Word versions?)
Hi Markus,
Yes, it is possible to customize the service. Please see this blog for more information:
I love the mini translator, but it would be great to be able to use the mini translator in reading mode/slide show mode in power point. As a student, I find reading powerpoint notes is best in reading mode, because you can't accidentally change the content without going into full screen, but it's certainly a hassle to exit reading mode, scroll to the slide you want to look up a word for (when switching views, the normal view doesn't go to the slide you were reading but the original slide before you switch to reading mode), just thought it would be great to be able to use mini translator in reading mode in general (for Word, OneNote [which I think should have a web page view like word], etc)
Thanks very much, Karmen, for this interesting and thoughtful feedback. We hadn't considered this particular scenario before, and will certainly remember your suggestion when deciding which improvements we'll be making to the mini translator. Your effort in submitting this feedback is greatly appreciated!
I was encouraged with this software as it reads to you. This is what a blind person needs.
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I Am (band)
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|Years active
|U Call It Productions
|Frank Klepacki, Greg Greer, Dan Ryan, Rod Arnett (as pictured)
I Am (often stylized as I AM) was an alternative progressive rock band formed in Las Vegas in 1995 and disbanded the same year. The rhythm section of the defunct band Shatterbone created the group and released an album in 1995.[1] The band featured Greg Greer on vocals, Rod Arnett on bass, Dan Ryan on guitar, and video game music composer Frank Klepacki on drums.[1]
There's a Home[edit]
Their first and only album, There's a Home (1995), featured thirteen original tracks (one hidden) drawing influences from Tool and Soundgarden.[2] The hidden thirteenth track, "I will...", simply features a man reciting self-help instructions and a humorous mantra — "the louder the apartment, the happier I will be."[2]
The eleventh track, Destructible Times, was used the same year in the video game Command & Conquer, specifically in the credits for the Brotherhood of Nod faction. Developers at Westwood Studios requested the song's use because it "reflected the war aspect and bad-ass vibe of [Nod's] side."[3] The band was once recorded live while performing this song.[4] There's a Home was the first commercial album Klepacki's playing appeared on; he wrote several songs for the band. After the group broke up, Klepacki joined Home Cookin' while Arnett and Ryan formed Beatknuckle.[1] Klepacki still supports the band's music, offering There's a Home for sale on his website along with a t-shirt referencing Destructible Times.[5]
Band members[edit]
- Rod Arnett - Bass guitar
- Greg Greer - vocals
- Frank Klepacki - drums
- Dan Ryan - Acoustic and electric guitar
- There's a Home – 1995
Audio clips[edit]
A 32 second sample of "There's a Home" track 11, "Destructible Times", which was featured in Command & Conquer
A 32 second sample of "There's a Home" track 6, "Stand Alone", demonstrating the band's main musical style
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- ^ Frank Klepacki. "COMMENTARY: Behind the C&C Soundtrack". frankklepacki.com. Retrieved 25 August 2006. External link in
- ^ "I Am Performing 'Times' Live". Retrieved 3 February 2006.
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I think it meant a new account on your PS3, since, you know, you've been banned from PSN once before with that PSN ID
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i did the same i created a new one and still cant in, saying.. access to sony entertainment network from this system has been banned or temporarily suspended, how can i bypass this
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How'd you get it to work?
yes i did that
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make sure your running this unban UP0001-NOBAN_00-0000000000000000-430.pkg
you will have to run it every time you reboot, just noticed that
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I will still remain loyal to their polishes because the colors are beautiful, long lasting, and the top makes it easy to apply. But I will find a different top coat.
I purchased the top and base coat after receiving a color sample. First impression was, this is a small bottle. As for the product itself it reminded me of the nail polish you played with when you were little and playing dress up. It peeled right off in a matter of days. At first I thought it was the other polish I was wearing (a thicker glittery kind), but then I tried it with a plain solid color, and same thing it peeled off easily in big chunks. I have used many other top/base coats and never had this happen before.1
I purchased this product because I've been on a quest to find a great chip-proof top coat. I have used this only once, with other 'chip-free' products that usually work quite well, and am very disappointed. The usual brand of polish and chip-free basecoats usually last me a few days, at least. With only changing the top coat to this product, my nails were chipped within 12 hours. This was not worth the price.... at all.1
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For you women who have done this before..... is having a bathrobe at the hospital really needed? If not what did you find helpful instead?
Bathrobe for the hospital?
LO born 3/3/2010
Well, for me, yes.. But I don't like not being covered up. Also,bring maternity/nursing pjs or something else comfortable to wear. I hated wearing the gowns. You walk around a lot, We pushed the baby up and down the corridor just so I could be on my feet and walking around. Comfy slippers or flip flops also are good.
I wasn't allowed to walk around during labor for some unknown reason, so I never had the need for a bath robe. I also didn't have a heplock, so I had to drag my stuff with every time I went to the b/r and back to bed. We weren't allowed to have our baby out of the bassinet in the hallways so I never went walking around there either. I'm sure visitors would've loved to have seen my hind acre though! Look, visit a baby AND get a free show! :)
Planning on bringing one this time in case I am allowed to peruse the hallways while in labor. If I don't use it, oh well.
Tanja - Mommy to Peanut (1.05), Bean (3.10) and Chicken Nugget due 09.26.12!
Having kids is a lot like being pecked to death by a chicken.
I brought my own jammies that allowed me to breast feed easily and ones that I felt covered up in. I don't wear a robe at home much so I didn't use one at the hospital. HTH!
Prior to delivery, I only wore their stuff. I mean really, it gets messy! So I ruined thier sexy get up, and saved my money.
After delivering, I had packed pants and a comfy shirt. Yoga type pants work great. I am up often to, so a night gown at a hospital is not for me. :) I have lots of visitors, so I am more comfy with pants, instead of a nighty.
Never needed a bathrobe/houserobe. However, the hospitals offer them, they even match the sext gowns. LOL
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Sorry, I meant for after the delivery. ITA, wear their stuff until afterwards.... I was allowed to push the baby in the bassinet in the hallway. Lots of traffic there (lol), all the women who had c-sections had been told to walk a lot, so that is what we did. When I was in the hall, i wore my pjs or sweats, and my robe. Just felt more comfortable.
I brought pajamas but ended up wearing the hospital gowns plus my own robe. I probably won't bring pajamas this time but will bring the big ol' robe. It is nice to have something that allows you to feel more covered up.
Mom to Eli born July '07 and Cora born March '10
I just used the hospital's robe. And a nursing gown of theirs, too. Why get my stuff dirty?
I bought one, a cute fluffy blue one, when I was pregnant with my son. But I never wore it at the hospital! I wore the ones the hospital provided, because they got nasty and full of blood!!! AHHHHH!
I only wore what the hospital provided. I never left my room while there so there was really no reason. Plus I tore and they were constantly checking me so pants would have been no good.
George 7/17/07 & Molly 03/03/10 & DSS 10/12/00
I never needed one. The only time I left my room with any of my kids was when my son was in the NICU. And then I just wore an extra gown backwards as a robe. I don't use a robe at home ever so it's not worth getting one just for the hospital for me.
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Snotnose: If you're ever in the area be sure to visit the factory where it's made. The tour is OK, but it's on this huge patch of land that's pretty much an open air zoo.
Mrbogey: I prefer Crystal's and Louisiana. Louisiana works ridiculously well on a shrimp po-boy fully dressed.
But yea, Tabasco is good in a pinch.
jaytkay: Fubegra: One of those rare commercials I actually like.
I ate cold leftover pizza with Tabasco this morning so I'm getting a kick out your reply.
RIP Mr. McIlhenny
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Real Women Drink Akvavit: I mix Crystal Extra Hot with Tapatío to make sauce for chicken wings. If I've never heard of or tried a hot sauce, I'll grab it. If I like it, I keep it on hand. Crystal is one of several spicy condiments that I keep on hand. Tapatío was mostly a Los Angeles thing but is available pretty much everywhere now, I think. I grew up with that stuff so it holds a special place in my heart condiment refrigerator.
Real Women Drink Akvavit: logicalman: I absolutely abhor obituaries that don't specify the cause of death.
Bleeding ulcers?
/just a guess
//loves hot sauce, even if it will kill me some day
JonZoidberg: Touch of vinegar? If it was just a touch it'd be grainy from all the peppers and salt.
My favorite is the jalapeno green sauce, followed closely by the chipotle. If you do go visit the factory. I recommend buying their charcoal if they're still selling it. They chop up the barrels they use to cure the sauce. It made some good ribs, but then maybe it was more cook than coals.
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WASHINGTON — The Obama campaign launched an attack against Mitt Romney's business experience at Bain Capital on Monday, marking the beginning of what is almost certain to be a defining debate in the presidential campaign.
It was a moment that both sides have long expected, but one that nevertheless provided an early indication of how the battle over Bain — and the candidates' differing versions of capitalism — will be fought.
In a two-minute ad that will air during the evening news Wednesday, the Obama campaign focuses on a shuttered steel mill in Kansas City, Mo., and the workers who lost their jobs after it went bankrupt under the supervision of Bain, a private-equity firm co-founded by Romney, now the likely GOP presidential nominee.
One former worker in the ad calls Bain a "vampire" that "came in and sucked the life out of us."
The not-so-subtle theme — that Bain is a corporate menace that rewards investors at the expense of employees — mimics a strategy first used to devastating effect by then-Sen. Edward M. Kennedy, D-Mass., who trounced Romney in a 1994 Senate race.
The Romney team responded swiftly. Within hours, it released its own 60-second video, titled "American Dream," about Bain's investment in Steel Dynamics, an Indiana company that Bain helped grow from 1,400 employees to more than 6,000. The campaign also distributed research to reporters and put senior adviser Ed Gillespie on a conference call with conservative bloggers.
The message from the Romney team was designed as both a defense and an attack: Obama just doesn't understand how the economy works. Sometimes businesses succeed, sometimes they don't — and the president would know that if he had spent any time in the private sector.
How the public comes to view Bain, a Boston-based company Romney led for 15 years, is critical to the former Massachusetts governor's chances in November. He has pointed to his time at Bain and the business experience he gained there as the singular reason he is the right man to fix the nation's troubled economy.
Bain was a pioneer in an aspect of capitalism that was widely accepted before the economic meltdown. It invests in start-ups, such as Staples, an office supplies superstore, and it makes leveraged buyouts of ailing companies that can lead to large-scale job losses through restructuring. Many Americans now consider such maneuvers part of the problem, a facet of finance that enriches investors while caring little for workers and their communities.
Democrats are trying to tap into that sentiment to raise doubts about Romney.
"That's the heart of his campaign," said Tad Devine, who helped craft similar Bain-related ads for Kennedy. "And if you undercut that, there aren't a lot of places left for Romney to go."
The two campaigns have been preparing for this moment for months: Obama began devising a Bain strategy over the winter, and the Romney team's response was pulled from a library of prepared videos.
The Obama ad, which will air in Colorado, Iowa, Ohio, Pennsylvania and Virginia, highlights the story of a steel mill that Bain bought in 1993. GST Steel eventually went bankrupt, costing 750 workers their jobs, as Bain's leaders walked away with an estimated $12 million in profit.
Obama also started a new Web page, RomneyEconomics.com, that shows a six-minute version of the video. The TV buy for Wednesday is not expected to be large, but advisers said the campaign will roll out more examples over the next several weeks as part of a broader strategy to portray Romney as a champion of the wealthy at the expense of the middle class.
Using Bain to make that argument was undercut somewhat on Monday by Steven Rattner, Obama's former "car czar," who said "the ad is unfair."
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My office building is perhaps the worst-designed building I've ever seen. Construction started some time in 1994, then stopped, since the developer had run out of money (or some similar reason). It then stood as a concrete shell for 10 years, and was eventually finished in 2004.
A few problems:
There are EIGHT (8) elevators in a FOURTY-THREE (43)-storey building
The single freight elevator is the same size as a regular elevator, so deliveries are frequently held up
There are two elevator lobbies, which slows down all elevators, as they usually stop at both.
It is UGLY
And just now, as I was working with the window open (the one good and unusual design feature, though they've messed that up, too, by hinging the window at the bottom so if I open it when it's raining, all the water gets in...) the rope that holds the window washer (who sits on a SINGLE WOODEN PLANK, like a children's swing) got CAUGHT IN THE WINDOW. WHO DIDN'T THINK THAT MIGHT BE A PROBLEM WHEN DESIGNING THIS PLACE???
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