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Where can I find a complete description about North American racial ideologies from 1500 to 1830 and their effects on Latin American Racial ideologies? Does this mean the transition from slavery to freedom?
I doubt if North American racial ideologies had much effect on Latin America during those years. The conquerors and colonists of North America -- Canada, U.S., Mexico, the Caribbean islands, and Central America -- held a variety of racial views. At first, some colonists tried to use the indigenous peoples as slaves. It didn't work.
Then, a few parts of North America imported Africans as slaves. Because of this, the U.S. Constitution did not recognize slaves as full citizens. This was corrected after the U.S. Civil War ended in 1865.
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Hi ! I'd just like to say I'm actually attempting to write the exact same essay you are.
Is it from this years AP World History test?
If it is, the question isn't how did they effect each other. It is to compare how each of the places effected their society.
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|Guanacaste National Park is the name of a fifty-acre parcel of tropical forest located on the north side of the Western Highway just to the east of the Roaring Creek bridge. Belize Audubon Society members suggested this beautiful area be set aside. The land was first held as a Crown Reserve, then became a park and later received the completely protected status of a National Park under the Belize government to be cared for by the Belize Audubon Society. The Park derives its name from the giant guanacaste or tubroos tree growing near the southwestern edge. This colossal old tree shelters a large population of epiphytes, or airplants, among its branches and to view it is well worth the
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The guanacaste or tubroos tree is a fast-growing species and one of the largest trees found in Central America. It can reach a total height of over 130 feet, 30 to 40 feet of which is straight trunk that may have a diameter in excess of six feet. The tree has a large, flat, wide spreading crown, pale green leaves and small white flowers. The seed pods are broad, flat, shiny dark brown, three to four inches across, and coiled into almost a complete circle, somewhat resembling a human ear. This may account for one of the names given to the tree - "monkey's ear tree". Cattle feed on the leaves, flowers and pods. Tubroos is a favourite timber for the dugout canoes that Belizeans call doreys. The wood is not readily attacked by pinworms. Feeding troughs and mortars for hulling rice are also made from the tubroos tree.
The guanacaste tree escaped being made into a dorey despite the tree's easy access to river traffic. The trunk, instead of growing straight, divided very near the base, so that the tree, instead of having one straight trunk, has three. This makes the tree even more widespread and a better support for numerous epiphytes, including several species of orchids, bromeliads, ferns and cacti.
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Mammals recorded within the park's boundaries include Jaguarundi, Kinkajou, Paca, Armadillo, Agouti, White-tailed Deer and several species of bats, rats and opossum. Four-foot-long iguanas have been seen sunning themselves in the safety of the upper foliage of the taller trees and are just one of many reptiles found within the park. Over one hundred species of birds have been seen in Guanacaste Park. During the winter months the park's avian population is swollen by the arrival of North American migrants. An early morning or late afternoon stroll along the trails can add 40 to 50 species to an experienced birder's list. A lucky visitor may sometimes get a glimpse of the park's two resident Blue-crowned Motmots or the furtive Black-faced Antthrush. Other birds recorded at Guanacaste Park include Smoky-brown Woodpecker, Black-headed Trogon, Squirrel Cuckoo, Red-tored Parrot, Bright-rumped Attila and White-breasted Wood-Wren.
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There is almost no landline infrastructure across the developing world, so mobile growth is explosive once state-owned phone monopolies have been torn down and private companies are allowed to build out wireless networks. Nigeria is no exception: Its 170 million people have about 100 million mobile subscriptions. But because the still-growing networks are congested, many people carry multiple SIM cards to ensure that they can connect. And businesspeople often carry two phones, which means the total number of people with mobile phones is likely much lower.
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Hiho to the wise among the glpers,
i'd like to share with you what i think of as "premonitory dream" i just had this night/morning.
to begin with, i'm a muslim convert and french (haters leave the thread pls), this crucial info might help you understand why i had this dream (and why about religious matter and with french means of war), it's not the first one and i hope it wont be the last, im very used and had lots of premonitory dreams that accurately occured in their due time, some other still havent occured (J.Day and epic great army of Angels coming down on Earth during a big war)
for the details, i had quite a round of useless/meaningless dreams this night , but among them there was this one, the kind of dream you think of by a big "WTF ?!?"
so here's the storyline, get your popcorn
i just jumped from a useless dream to this one, like i was thrown into this new dream from nowhere.
i looked around me surprised (like wtf im doing here), as to discover this new dream environement, so i was standing on the main bridge of an aircraft carrier, i looked at my left, there was a french nuclear submarine, it was literally written on it the word "SNLE" (french nuclear submarine with ability to launch nuclear weapons), and some conventional french submarines "SNA", there was some infantry troops and some other mere boats.
All of these guys boats/troops were shooting tirelessly at something, so i looked at the target.
It was a (vertical axis) rotating (3 sec/revolution) Book levitating high in the air protected by some kind of "bubble" or super electromagnetic field, the book was levitating over a great closed naval door, it was literally written on that door "East Gate" (i said to myself dafuq ? east gate of what ?), between the closed door and the book there was something like a videogame life bar, as to give the health of the door regarding the attacks.
The life bar was going down, but very slowly, thus i gone kind of bored, that's why i looked again at that book but from a closer view, i cant explain how but i was able to zoom in and out (any scale) on anything in that dream just by thinking about it, so when being very close (eye sight) to the book , i tried to read what was written on the cover and noticed that it was the cover of a regular Quran. I said to myslef "WTF !!!", i looked again while the book was rotating to be sure of what i saw, and no error it was a bright fresh healthy Quran levitating and rotating over there over the great door.
Some action was ongoing on my left side, there was a conventional "foe" submarine making a suicide attack on the french SNLE submarine, both of them sunk, i said again "dafuq is going on !!", some more "foe" arrived and began making suicide attacks at the shooting ships/subs, but it was way too late, the life bar was at its end and suddenly the bubble surrounding the levitating Quran disapeared, the bright light disapeared and the Book (the front cover appeared to be slighlty burned and the overall book took like thousand years old in the face and looked like a very old used book) fell down behind the naval wall. The (naval) East Gate was destroyed, the (naval) way was opened to the ships/subs/troops, invasion began, troops were shooting in all directions, there was like a freaking big chaos, and suddenly, the dream stoped.
so, my interpretation, regarding the elements of that dream, is that this East Gate represents either the entry of a muslim country , or a religious country, or a religious/muslim big city. Its military destruction means...well i'm not sure, looks like some freaking doom to me...so i made further little search, there is 3 major "muslim" countries with ocean "Saudi Arabia, Pakistan, Iran"...that is for the possibility of country invasion, now if it was about a religious city invasion, it would have to be a naval one, Jerusalem is not a naval city but look, there is still some astonishing info about that "East Gate" thingy of my dream.
i written "East Gate" in google and they all relate to the city of Jerusalem, among the links i found this (read it all its very interesting), maybe there's a link to it, maybe not :
link to www.raptureready.com
"the Eastern Gate of Jerusalem can be opened only when the Messiah comes."
"I was not aware that it was
, nor did I know that its opening was in any way biblically linked to the return of the Messiah."
"The Lord then reveals to Ezekiel that the Eastern Gate will be closed and will not be reopened until the Messiah returns in glory (44:1-3)."
"Legends abound as to why Suleiman (muslim) closed the Gate."
"The Eastern Gate is proof positive that the Bible is the Word of God. Its sealing is clear evidence that we are living in the end times. The Gate awaits the return of the Messiah. Then and only then, will it be opened."
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The title of this first ever song I sang to my dear Asher is very apt to my daily Mommy schedule. Albeit a graduation song, I love singing this when I lull him to sleep. I bet he loves it too kasi he falls asleep naman eventhough Mommy is not a singer.
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Sep 13, 2009 The History Page, = = General = = - General Discussion, = = On This Day. up with air-rifle type velocities -Flobert never used powder,
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You have probably heard the story of the boy, whose father desired to make him happy on his birthday. He gave him a flobert rifle and a diary, and said,
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Chuck Hawks writes A Brief History of .22 Rimfire Ammunitions. It was invented in France around 1845, designed for the Flobert indoor target rifle.
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20 posts - 6 authors - Last post: Mar 29, 2007Adding to what billc_sbio found on the Flobert rifle history: The concept of the rimfire cartridge was proposed in the 1830's,
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11 posts - 4 authors - Last post: Jul 6, 2005Also would like to know some history. Also what is proof mark on front of bolt? . JGA Karabiner Rifle 6mm-Flobert
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This is a fine non-excavated piece of firearms history. Item #: sr24339 It is the pattern for the 9mm European made Flobert rifles and pistols.
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Nov 3, 2006 We call these rifles Flobert, after the inexpensive breechloading action they I will show you the other side of this story on Monday.
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May 2, 2010 Quantity, 1, # of bids, 8 Bid History. Time left, Auction has Ended This auction is for the pictured 22 Caliber Flobert Rifle.
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The cartridge originated from the Flobert BB Cap of 1845 through the .22 Smith & Wesson Production history. Designer, J. Stevens Arm & Tool Company
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Two new .22 Winchester Magnum Rimfire autoloading rifles were introduced in 1997 , Smith & Wesson folks improved on the Frenchman Louis Flobert's BB Cap and came The most stellar event in the long and colorful history of the .22
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of bids: 28 (bid history). High Bidder(s): 1turkey. Location: RR21 These were made for the 9mm rimfire Flobert rifles and shotguns as well as the
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Old Granpa's Brief History of Wet-Pack Ballistics Testing Rifle Ballistics Figures (You may like to compare your mousegun) 6mm Flobert Short Cartridges (in Spanish language). 17 Caliber. 17HMR Wikipedia Article
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Description: Belgium Flobert Rifle. More Info Harrington & Richardson 622 Revolver (Lot# 181) Description: Harrington & Richardson 622 Revolver
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Production history. Designer, J. Stevens Arm & Tool Company The cartridge originated from the Flobert BB Cap of 1845 through the .22 Smith & Wesson
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Jun 8, 2010 I recalled the Flobert rifles and their little flip open ejectors. A fun bit of history, and shows we are not alone in our follies.
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History. History. The History of J. G. ANSCH‹TZ GmbH & Co. KG and carry out repair works, then they start to manufacture Flobert and target rifles.
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I suppose I'll end up selling it, and buying another airgun or old Flobert rifle . After all, if I didn't keep trading I wouldn't have as much to write about
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8 posts - 7 authors - Last post: Sep 6, 2009Not all the actions are from French Tabatiere rifles, and these are notorious for failing. wimpy loads after firing my Flobert rifle in 32 rimfire short. including load data and history of how they came about.
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For 150 years S&W firearms have been changing history. firearm to use a self -contained cartridge (Jacques Flobert patented that in France in 1846).
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Cornell Publications | World's Largest Old Gun Catalog & Manual Reprinter. The Flobert Gun - History.
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The story the Negro told was that he'd worked for Watson a long time and seen plumes were coming out ďreal good,Ē and a man with a Flobert rifle could
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History overview Hisory overview Together with Flobert's rimfire and Lefaucheux's pin-primer cartridges, first centrefire cartridges was curbed and total capacity used to manufacture rifle and handgun cartridges for the Army .
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Apr 27, 2010 Find St. Louis Mo Illustrated Meacham Arms Flobert Rifles in the Stamps category on Stamps >; United States >; Covers >; Postal History
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Feb 6, 2010 The Volcanic Repeater is a very important gun in history, if relatively obscure. Based on the unsuccessful Volcanic Rifle, this was a lever-action pistol Wesson also wanted to use a modified Flobert cartridge,
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by WT CORLETT - 2008J. H., male, aged twelve years, with a negative family history, Flobert rifles are still known in Great Britain as "garden guns" because they can shoot
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Sep 18, 2007 FLOBERT is a rimfire 'cap' ammunition, sometimes in .22 and also in . You will be pleased with the results, you own a piece of history.
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Oct 16, 2008 In trying to shoot sparrows with a Flobert rifle on Thursday, Arthur BEIDLER, a nine year old boy of Allentown, companion of the one who was
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Beating the Clock
Work. ten hours a day, six days a week, only taking off New Year's, Good Friday, the Fourth of July, and Christmas. The workaholic life of someone caught in today's rat race? No. This was the life of the average American manufacturing worker in the 1880s. As the productivity of American workers has risen, incomes have grown and the workweek has become shorter. In fact, the number of hours that the typical person spent on the job had decreased so much since the 1880s that, by 1964, Life magazine declared the beginning of a new "Age of Leisure."
But such an era did not materialize. Or, if it did, it certainly doesn't feel like it. People like Leora Wechsler feel like they are on a treadmill without a minute to catch their breath and enjoy. "I think about the time issue all the time," says the 30-year-old Suffolk County assistant district attorney. Family is crammed into weekends and short evening hours, and is interspersed with all the other errands that need to get done. Sleep and hobbies have gone by the wayside.
She is not alone. According to University of Maryland Professor John Robinson, about one-third of working-age Americans polled report "always feeling rushed." These feelings are particularly acute among those with higher levels of education and income, as well as among people in family-forming stages of life. "One of the most telling features from our recent surveys is that people are bothered more by lack of time than lack of money," he says.
If anything, the number of working-age Americans who have any inclination to think about the problems of excess leisure seems to have been decreasing since Life magazine published that article.
The common wisdom - frequently conveyed in the media - is that everyone is working longer and harder. But the data tell a slightly different story. Our best measure says that, for men, the average workweek has remained stable since the 1970s, around 42 hours, while for women it has risen from 34 to 36 hours, according to the Bureau of Labor statistics.
Within these relatively stable averages, however, more-educated workers have tended to increase their work hours, as the returns to education have grown, while less-educated workers have tended to reduce them. So, between the mid 1970s and the early 1990s, the work hours of more-educated women rose much faster than those of less-educated women; and less-educated men actually saw their work hours fall, according to Stanford economics professor John Pencavel.
But the emphasis on individual hours hides the most telling fact Families are spending more total hours on market work than ever before. Married couples, for instance, are putting in nine additional hours of work per week between them, as compared to 1974. This rise is due primarily to the dramatic increase in the number of women working for pay. Dual-earner families grew from being 45 percent of all married couple families in 1974 to two-thirds today (see the table). In addition, the hours worked by the average dual-earner couple also increased.
Couples with children have seen their hours of work increase sharply, as increases in labor market participation have been greater for women with children than for childless women. The labor force participation rate of married women with children under the age of three rose from 21 to 60 percent between 1966 and 1994. And, apart from market work, children and other dependents - as families increasingly have to care for elderly parents and relatives - are critical in generating time pressure, given the amount of attention and energy they require, as well as the additional financial burden they imply.
"Americans feel more pressed for time because there is no longer someone at home full-time to pick up the slack," says Jerry Jacobs, a sociologist at the University of Pennsylvania who has been studying who the "overworked" Americans are.
Among dual-earner couples, the time crunch is particularly acute for the more educated, says Jacobs. More educated people tend to marry each other, and this has become more pronounced over the past two decades. Since educated workers have also tended to increase their weekly work hours, the difference in joint husband and wife work hours between more and less educated couples has grown. If one looks at couples sorted by the educational attainment of the wives, for instance, the most educated couples worked 3.4 more hours on average than less-educated couples in 1970. This difference grew to 6.1 hours in 1997, according to Jacobs.
Single-parent families also face significantly increased time pressure. Aside from having to balance jobs and child care with far fewer resources than their married couple counterparts, single-parent families were working about six additional hours per week in 1998. Moreover, this group grew significantly, from being 15 percent of all families with children under 18 in 1974 to 27 percent by 1998.
Where there used to be two jobs, one paid and one unpaid, there are now three jobs distributed between the same two adults. "There's too much work, even if it were evenly split," says Kathleen Christensen, director of The Family and the Workplace program at the Sloan Foundation. "We are in the midst of some profound social changes and we have not sorted them out," she says.
As spouses and parents have increased their time on the job, family life has become more harried and scheduled. Dual-earner families have been adapting to women's increased market work by replacing what were traditionally their responsibilities with market-provided services. They have also adjusted their standards to meet their lifestyles.
In the time crunch, household cleaning is the first thing that gives. Between 1965 and 1995, the time women spent on housework almost halved - dropping from 27 to 15.6 hours a week, according to Robinson. Although men lent a helping hand, increasing their cleaning time from 4.6 to 9.5 hours per week, it didn't quite close the gap. And there's some evidence (admittedly not definitive) that standards may differ with education According to a recent Soap and Detergent Association survey cited in American Demographics, more educated people were less likely to think that dusting was important.
Families that can afford them resort to market-provided services. Over the past decade, for instance, the number of cleaners and servants hired by households has grown by 16 percent, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics. (This may underestimate the number as it does not include illegal immigrants hired in such occupations.) And that is just one example The list goes from child care providers through restaurants, precooked meals, and gardeners.
To some extent, new technology can also help. Manufacturers of cleaning products have been responding by developing easier-to-use, faster products, with stronger scents (while houses may not be squeaky clean, they can at least smell as if they are). An array of beepers, cellular phones, faxes, laptop computers, and the Internet makes the location of work less rigid and facilitates shopping, banking, and other transactions.
But technology is also speeding up the tempo of our daily routine, making it possible to squeeze more activities into our day and raising our expectations of what we can accomplish. As technology allows people to work practically any place any time, it can also make them feel like they are working everywhere all the time. "I do voice mail whenever I can at home when I'm cooking, when I'm folding laundry…" says Nicole Gardner, a VP at Mercer Management Consulting. This can be tough on families. "My husband once unplugged the phone from the wall, and I have a friend who once was caught by her husband doing voice mail in the bathroom while running the shower so that her husband would not hear her," she says.
Lower-income parents can't attempt to reduce their stress with cleaning help, gardeners, and people to do their errands; they have to do things themselves. As a result, they are more likely to depend on other family members for help. Or they may suffer alternating shifts in order to take care of the children.
For all families, there is a limit to what can be outsourced or speeded up by technology. Child care requires major investments of time and money, and parenting has no perfect substitute available in the market. Managing child care becomes a complex and stressful juggling act, which involves balancing each parent's schedule together with the children's. Kids 12 and under are spending much more time in structured activities today than they were just 16 years ago, says Sandra Hofferth, a senior research scientist at the University of Michigan's Institute for Social Research.
The feeling of not giving enough time to their children is a major source of stress for many working parents who want to play an active role in shaping their children's lives. Many worry about the impact of their packed and harried schedules on their children. However, the long-term consequences are hard to determine at this point. Perhaps because families are having fewer children, Professor Robinson's and other studies seem to indicate that parents are spending as much one-on-one time with their children as they did 30 years ago.
At the same time, economist John Johnson from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign found that, all else being equal, increasing work hours for parents was linked to slightly higher probabilities of divorce and to greater likelihood of grade repetition for children. However, the effect was not very strong. Moreover, Johnson also found that increased earnings tend to mitigate the negative effects on children. But the degree of freedom parents have to choose between more work hours and higher earnings, or more time spent with the children, is limited by the range of job options available and by financial need.
In many cases, parents seek to reduce their time stress through increased flexibility at work or by reducing their hours. In 1997, about 25 million full-time wage and salary workers had flexible schedules that allowed them to vary the time they began or ended work, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics. This represented over one-quarter of all workers, a very sharp increase from the 15 percent with flexible schedules in 1991.
But reducing hours is more difficult. Giving up the income is hard, especially for those with greater financial need. For people in managerial and professional occupations, greater responsibilities often make it practically impossible to reduce hours. Fixed salaries and no overtime premiums in these occupations also make it to an employer's advantage to entice longer weeks from workers.
Part-time work is generally available only to employees who have already proved themselves and are relatively well established within the company. When she started having her children - after working as a consultant for a couple of years - Gardner was able to make arrangements to work part-time and then to shift toward doing staff work (recruitment and human resources) rather than consulting. She feels that Mercer made an investment in her career and that she made an investment in the firm. Both are now reaping the results When her work requires it, she works full-time and arranges her life around that; when it becomes too much, she negotiates a different arrangement with the firm.
But not everyone has the opportunity to work out such an arrangement with his or her employer. Even for those who do, they may not be inclined to take it if it leads to the perception that they are less committed to work, reducing chances of promotions or making them more likely to be laid off. And gender differences persist. Women are still the most likely member of the couple to engage in part-time work.
Those who opt for fewer hours might find that the quality and content of work becomes less satisfying. Leslie Dangel was a researcher at a management consulting firm; and when her two children were born, she decided to reduce her time to 20 hours a week. Although her employer was generally supportive, she lost plum assignments simply because she wasn't around or couldn't put in the needed hours. "It was also very hard to see opportunities at work and say 'No,'" she says.
She now works to support herself after the marriage ended in divorce. "When I did jump back into the work force full-time, I was way behind my peers who had not left," says Dangel, now a marketing manager at GTE Internetworking. "I'm still a title or two behind my peers, and significantly behind in income."
If she had a chance to do it over again, Dangel says she would probably still make the same choice. "The kids had to come first. I just wish I hadn't had to pay for it," she says.
Whether or not the burden of work families face can be reduced, and how this can be accomplished, depends critically on why it is that they are working so hard in the first place. In the 1890s, the most highly paid workers worked the fewest hours, about nine hours a day (for men), while the lowest-paid worked close to 11 hours a day, according to MIT economics professor Dora Costa. Those who had higher incomes could afford more leisure time, while those who earned less had to work longer to make ends meet. Today, it is the highest-paid workers - who tend also to be those with greater schooling - who are working the longer hours.
This relationship between increasing wages and rising workweeks has led some critics to accuse Americans of choosing to pursue unbridled materialism in the pressure to keep up with the Joneses. There might be some truth here. The size of the average American house, for instance, has steadily grown as families have expanded the size of their kitchens and rooms and the number of bathrooms they need to live comfortably. Yesterday's luxuries have become today's necessities.
Moreover, Americans today are more pressed for time not only because they need to work in order to buy all these bigger and better goods, but also because consuming them takes time. The vacation in Europe and the home entertainment center both require time to be enjoyed. And that bigger house may mean a longer commute to work.
But, we might draw a very different picture if we looked at the hours that people work over their lifetime. Today, people tend to start working later - after spending more years on education - and also to retire earlier. Thus, many of the higher-paid workers may merely be postponing leisure for later in life. In fact, they may be choosing more leisure than their parents, as life expectancy has been increasing and the quality of life at older ages has been improving dramatically.
Moreover, people choose to work because it means more than bread alone. Work increases among more highly educated workers may be partly due to their finding their jobs more interesting than do low-wage people. "The nonmonetary returns to work have increased for the more educated and stayed pretty much the same for the less educated," says Stanford economics professor John Pencavel. Women's increased market work, in particular, owes much to changes in societal values and expectations. Also, it may be that today we tend to draw a closer link between professional success and our personal identity, and that this is particularly true of more educated workers.
For less-educated workers, whose income has fallen in real terms over the past two decades, the greater labor force participation of wives owes much more to the need to compensate for their husband's decreasing earnings than to a decision for unbridled materialism.
And, we can find some of the blame for the contemporary rush in choices that are made at a broader cultural and social level. For instance, economists Linda Bell and Richard Freeman have speculated that the reason Americans today tend to work more hours than Germans may be related to the higher degree of earnings inequality in the United States. There are greater rewards to effort at the high end in the United States, where people in the top bracket face lower taxes than Germans. At the same time, Germany has a much more generous social benefits system, which protects those at the low end. In the United States, the penalties to unemployment or layoff are substantial, and workers may find that they have to work as hard as they can when they can.
Within the constraints and incentives placed by our society, people have some room for individual choices in managing career and family, consumption and work. While the workplace and family routines will probably continue to adapt to the increased labor force participation of women, workers will probably always face inevitable and often painful trade-offs in making these choices.
And it is important to keep some perspective. Today's hours of work pale when compared to 100 years ago. The long days of workers in the 1880s were typically filled with repetitive motions, red-hot temperatures, poor-quality air, and the deafening din of the nation's rising industry. And that was an improvement from the 1830s, when the 12-hour day prevailed. Progress since then has been undeniable.
To a certain extent, the time pressure we feel today is an inevitable consequence of our wealth and progress. Many of us worry less about satisfying basic needs and instead hope for professional achievement, family well- being, and leisure. Moreover, increasing information technology makes us aware of all the alternatives available and fans our desires. A growing number of life alternatives and entertainment options makes time feel like the ultimate scarce resource.
Perceptions of time vary according to culture and place, says psychology professor Robert Levine at California State University in Fresno. And, he adds, the Northeast is most likely to be in the fast lane. Dr. Levine ranked the pace of life in 36 U.S. cities according to the walking speed of pedestrians in a downtown street, the transaction speed of bank clerks, the talking speed of postal workers, and the proportion of people wearing wristwatches during business hours. His results the Northeast outpaced the West Coast; Boston topped the list of 36 cities, ahead of New York and Buffalo; and Worcester, Providence, and Springfield (Massachusetts) were placed sixth, seventh, and eighth, respectively.
The cities that scored highest also tended to have higher incidence of heart disease and higher rates of cigarette smoking. But the connection between fast-paced environments and negative consequences is far from clear, according to Dr. Levine. Time pressure need not be stressful; it can also be seen as challenging and stimulating. "It is all in the person-environment fit," he says. "You take a fast-paced Wall Street lawyer and put him in Fresno, California, and he will be more stressed."
Because of women's integration into the paid labor force, families increasingly resort to the market for the types of goods and services that women traditionally provided. This has led to a greater specialization in household production.
"I outsource everything I possibly can," says Nicole Gardner, VP for Human Resources in North America at Mercer Management Consulting. After a long and travel-intensive workweek, Gardner wants to spend her time at home with her three children and her husband, who works at chip manufacturer LSI Logic.
To be able to do so, Gardner employs people to do the housecleaning, others to do the yard work, and a service called Streamline for grocery shopping, dry cleaning, film developing and other errands. As far as cooking goes, Gardner often orders takeout or buys prepared meals.
"I'm working with our new babysitter to help run certain aspects of the household like making dental appointments for the kids, keeping a shopping list, or taking the kids to the bike shop for new helmets," she says.
While all these services certainly help, they still require substantial coordination and management, and this can be another full-time job.
Michael and Leora Wechsler are both professionals in their early 30s. They love their jobs and derive great personal fulfillment from them. As professionals who work full-time, they both have long workweeks. And, as proud and devoted parents of two very young children, the rest of their time is more than fully taken.
"One night, I made Michael a peanut butter sandwich for dinner. He said to me 'Wow! You went all out!'" recalls Leora. "The thing was that he meant it. For us, salad is considered a luxury." The couple often ends up having cold cereal together after the kids are asleep. "Making our bed in the morning is not even on the radar screen," she says.
As an assistant district attorney in Boston, Leora specializes in prosecuting child abusers. Her hours are usually 830 a.m. to 530 p.m., and she generally doesn't need to work weekends. But, when she is on trial, everything else stops. Sometimes she needs to get in touch with policemen on late shifts, which means she is on the phone with them after midnight.
"We couldn't afford to live on one job," says Michael, who is a pulmonary physician involved in research and patient care at Boston's Brigham and Women's Hospital. His day job goes from 8 a.m. until 530 p.m., but he tends to work on his research after Leora has gone to sleep, sometimes until two in the morning. He also moonlights one or two nights a week at other hospitals - either in the emergency room or overseeing patients - in order to afford all their expenses.
Day care for their four-year-old son Avi, and their new baby, Rachel, is going to cost them close to $25,000 this year. Although they expect their salaries to increase as they get older, they are not expecting their costs to come down any time soon. "We haven't even begun to think about paying for college, but thanks for stressing me out" says Michael.
Avi has been in day care at Michael's workplace since he was 16 weeks old. Michael usually drops him off before 830 in the morning and picking him up on time is the most stressful part of the day. The day care center charges a dollar for every minute parents are late after six. Although they could arrange for someone else to take him home, the Wechslers do not want to do this. Since they only have one car, when Michael can't make it on time, Leora must take a cab.
For both Michael and Leora, family time is the most valuable. "You have really short (family) days when you work," says Leora. "You are cramming reading, fun, individual time - not to mention eating - all between 630 p.m. and 11 p.m." For Michael, the most detrimental aspect of his routine is that he doesn't get to spend as much time with his family as he would like.
On weekends, both are full-time parents. "I don't even put on lipstick," Leora remarks. They try to do fun things - of course, interspersed with going to the dry cleaners, buying gifts, sending cards, and all the other busy work which they try to do on their way to the zoo.
Neither of them knows how long they will be able to keep this pace. They would love to add more hours to their days, but since that can't be done, they continue to push time to its limit. "You have to be flexible, be willing to compromise, and set your priorities. It is impossible to have everything, but you can have almost everything," says Michael.Neither of them knows how long they will be able to keep this pace. They would love to add more hours to their days, but since that can't be done, they continue to push time to its limit. "You have to be flexible, be willing to compromise, and set your priorities. It is impossible to have everything, but you can have almost everything," says Michael.
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The "Oh, Yeah" ... of Commitment
By: Candace Chellew-Hodge
Preached June 26, 2010 at Jubilee! Circle, Columbia, SC
1 Kings 19:15-16, 19-21: "... then I will follow you."
Luke 9:57-62: "no one who looks back is fit for the realm of God."
Hear this sermon at the Jubilee! Circle Web site.
This morning's first song is the last number on hit for the Beatles. The Long and Winding Road hit number one on the Billboard charts on May 23, 1970. The song had been recorded on January 31, 1969, the day after the group's legendary final performance on the roof of their Apple headquarters in London. Paul McCartney said he wrote the song at his farm in Scotland during a tense time for the group. But, it was producer Phil Specter's remix of the original song, which added lush orchestration that brought the situation to a head for McCartney. He was outraged by the changes and nine days after the remix - he announced the breakup of the Beatles. Today, we'll do this sad song as it was intended.
The long and winding road, That leads to your door
Will never disappear, I've seen that road before
It always leads me here, Lead me to your door.
The wild and windy night, That the rain washed away
Has left a pool of tears, Crying for the day.
Why leave me standing here? Let me know the way.
Roads are a challenge for me. I don't like them very much because they have been the site of some unpleasant experiences. Anyone who knows me for about five minutes, especially if those five minutes are spent inside of a car with me, will learn quickly that I have problems with road rage. I regularly yell at drivers and flash the international sign of friendship whenever someone cuts me off or makes me angry in some way.
I once tried to curb my road rage tendencies by putting a "clergy" bumper sticker on my car. I thought that it might make me less apt to flip someone off because if my car was marked as a "clergy" car. What happened, instead, is there are a lot of people driving around Columbia who have told their friends, "Hey, a preacher flipped me off today!" Either that, or they think the car had been stolen ...
Either way, the sticker didn't work, and I'm still in the process of learning how to share the road joyfully and not take other people's stupid driving habits personally.
Another reason I hate the road is because it has been the scene of a few accidents for me. The most harrowing happened in 2002 on I-85 just south of Atlanta as I headed home in rush hour traffic. At one point, all six lanes of traffic stopped. I was in the furthest left lane when I looked in my rear-view mirror and saw a white van bearing down on me. I knew - without a doubt - that he was going to hit me.
I had limited options. I couldn't go to the right because there was car beside me. To my left was a narrow shoulder and a honking big concrete wall.
As anyone who has been in an accident can tell you, time goes all wonky while you're in the midst of the accident. To anyone watching from a distance, the accident probably happened in a matter of seconds. From where I was sitting, however, it seemed like an eternity - watching as that van got closer and closer - bracing for impact. Then, something happened - it's like instinct took over. In that matter of a few seconds it's like I left and somebody else took over the wheel. I maneuvered my car to that narrow shoulder, but I wasn't fast enough. The van hit my rear passenger side, shooting me up that shoulder at a pretty good clip. My motorcycle training kicked in at this point, because in safety class you learn that your bike goes wherever you look - and it's true. So, in that moment, all I could think was "look straight ahead" because if I had looked at that wall, I would have hit it.
The van hit the car that had been in front of me, forcing her into the truck ahead of her. Later, by the side of the road she said, "I saw you moved out of the way so he'd miss you and hit me."
"Lady," I said, "I moved out of the way to give him more room to stop so he hopefully wouldn't hit any of us."
If I had stayed put ... if I had not looked in my rearview mirror ... I probably would have died that day, or at least been seriously injured. But, it didn't happen that way. Whether it was instinct or the spirit or whatever - my actions had enabled all of us to walk away without injury from that crash.
All was not well with me after the crash, though. I did suffer from some post traumatic stress. I began hyperventilating whenever I would drive after that. I realized that when I got in heavy traffic, which is everywhere in Atlanta, I would hold my breath. It took me a good six months or so to stop hyperventilating on the road, though I'd still do it on occasion and have to remind myself to breathe.
So, when we're on the road of life, we have choices - we can listen to our gut - our inner voice - our connection with the Holy, or we can be sitting ducks just waiting to get run over. What makes the difference? Commitment. When we're committed to something we pay attention. When we're committed to something we take great pains to make sure whatever we're committed to happens or works out. Commitment means we are always vigilant, always ready to act.
Commitment isn't easy, though, and often when we're asked to commit to something, we hem and haw and make excuses for why we can't do it. Many of us have a fear of commitment - but it is this commitment that puts us on the road to amazing things in life - things that bless us, change us, mold us, and transform us into new and increasingly holy beings.
All the commitment in the world, though, can't stop us from still being dinged by life. After the accident, I was safe, but I still had a mangled trunk and bumper. There were still things in my life in need of repair and restoration. But, I was alive and well, and I could say, "Oh, Yeah."
Many times I've been alone, And many times I've cried,
Anyway you'll never know, The many ways I've tried.
And still they lead me back, To the long, winding road
You left me standing here, A long, long time ago
Don't leave me waiting here, Lead me to your door.
In our reading from the Hebrew Scriptures tonight we find a young man named Elisha. He's on the road of life and for him it's a pretty good ride. In his world, he's doing just fine. He's got land and twelve yoke of oxen. With land and that much oxen, Elisha is considered a rich guy.
But, if he had taken the time to check his rearview mirror he would have seen this old guy - probably with a white beard - coming up behind him at a pretty good clip.
Elijah passes by Elisha and tosses his mantle over him. Now, a mantle is a piece of clothing - a cape that is worn usually to ward off the cold. But, this gesture, this tossing of his mantle to Elisha, meant more than just giving someone a coat to keep warm. In this moment, he was transferring his authority as a prophet to Elisha.
You could say Elisha was a bit blindsided by this action. I mean, imagine it: you're plowing your field one day this dude passes by and throws his cape at you. This is not just any dude, though - this is Elijah - the rock star of prophets. Being a good Jew, you know what this gesture means - you're the new rock star prophet. For Elisha, it's like winning the lottery - or being chosen as the new celebrity apprentice.
Perhaps Elisha dreamed of this day, perhaps he didn't, but here it was. His time was now. By tossing his mantle, Elijah asked Elisha to make a commitment - to put aside life as he knew it now and get on the road - a road that would definitely be long and winding - a road that would at times be dark and dangerous - but a road, nonetheless, that would lead to an amazing, life changing, and spirit-filled place.
We've all been where Elisha is - that moment of decision. We've all stood at a crossroad in our lives, wondering which direction we should take. We've all consulted the map, gotten out the GPS, and tried to decide which is the best road to take - even if we don't exactly know where we're going.
What did Elisha do when he was asked to commit to the prophet's road? He did what we all do - he hesitated.
"Wait," he said, "let me kiss my father and my mother, and then I will follow you."
"Wait! I've got a few loose ends to tie up - a few things I need to do - then I'll get on the road."
Don't we all do that? When I have enough money, I'll quit my job and do what I really want to do. When I have enough education, I'll really be doing what I want. When my parents die, then I can live life like I want to.
When I find the right person to love me, then life will begin. When I get a little bit ahead, I'll give money to the church. When I get a little more time, I'll give more time to the church.
We're just like Elisha - we've been asked to make a commitment, to begin a life-changing, spirit-growing, amazing journey, to go on a road trip with Holy, and we stall out. We think of a million reasons why we can't. Oh, we'd really like to, we say, but we have all these other commitments, all these other worries, and concerns, and responsibilities. Let us take care of that - then, perhaps, we'll climb on board.
But, the Holy says - get your butt in the car - and if you make the commitment, you'll soon be saying, "Oh, Yeah."
Breathe deeply.
But still they lead me back, To the long, winding road
You left me standing here, A long, long time ago
Don't leave me waiting here, Lead me to your door.
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah
In 1991, Canadian singer Tom Cochrane wrote a song that would become his only number one hit in his native country. I guess you could call poor Tom a one-hit wonder. His song, Life is a Highway, peaked at number six on the Billboard charts in the US in 1992, and has sung by other artists including the country group Rascal Flatts, whose version we'll try tonight.
Verse 1: Life's like the road that you travel on,
There's one day here and the next day gone
Sometimes you bend, sometimes you stand,
Sometimes you turn your back to the wind
There's a world outside every darkened door,
Where blues won't haunt you anymore
Where the brave are free and lovers soar,
Come ride with me to the distant shore
We won't hesitate to break down the garden gate,
There's not much time left today
Chorus: Life is a highway, I wanna ride it all night long
If you're going my way, I wanna drive it all night long
The road I've been traveling for the past seven years has been an interesting, exhilarating, life-changing, and at times downright terrifying one. There have been twists and turns - long boring straight-aways - plenty of pit stops - a few flat tires - and one time when it felt like the road completely dropped out from underneath me. The whole journey, though, has been one of commitments. It was a commitment to a job that put me on this road. A commitment to a church has kept me on this road, and there was even a time of recommitment when the road finally rose to meet me. Without these commitments and recommitments, I would have been stuck. The commitments kept me going - gave me a destination. They gave my journey purpose.
One of those commitments is falling away. My job at the university ends in December, and I'm facing the prospect of being unemployed in the new year unless I can find something before then. For anyone who has lost a job, you know the terror of looking into your rearview mirror and seeing unemployment bearing down on you at a high rate of speed. Options - especially in this economy - can be limited. According to the experts, it takes the unemployed nearly 35 weeks to find a new job. That's about six months and that's a new record for length of unemployment. So, it's not a good time to be looking for a job.
I realized the other day, I'm hyperventilating again. The prospect of having no job, and especially no healthcare, is stressing me out. I'm forgetting to breathe. I'm looking in the rearview mirror and wondering what I can do to get out of the way of the unemployed fate that awaits me.
Breathe deeply.
In our Jesus story, we hear echoes Elisha. This, too, is a story about the subject of commitment. Jesus and the boys are traveling through a village when someone comes up and says they've decided to follow Jesus. "I will follow you wherever you go," the man tells Jesus.
Jesus had heard this line before, I'm sure. There were probably a lot of wannabe disciples who said they wanted to follow him, but fell along the wayside as time went by. They learned that following Jesus has a cost and Jesus tried to spell it out to this guy by saying:
"Foxes have holes, and birds of the air have nests; but the Son of Man has nowhere to lay his head."
He's telling the guy, "Sure, come on, but the road we're on isn't easy. It may have places to rest, but we'll never be settling down. If you follow me, then the road is your home. You'll live on the path - never in a cottage beside it - because this road continues into infinity - it's a journey we'll always be on - one that never ends, because we're traveling with the infinite - with the Holy - and we never know where we're going, and we never really arrive."
His response is more poetic, but the message is the same - this is a road you have to commit yourself to, or you'll never get to say, "Oh, Yeah."
Verse 2: Through all these cities, and all these towns,
It's in my blood and in it's all around
I love you now, like I loved you then;
This is the road, and these are the hands
From Mozambique to those Memphis nights,
The Khyber Pass to Vancouver's Lights
Knock me down and up again,
You're in my blood, I'm not a lonely man
There's no load I can hold,
the road's so rough, this I know,
I'll be there when the light comes in
Just tell 'em we're survivors
Chorus: Life is a highway, I wanna ride it all night long
If you're going my way, I wanna drive it all night long
Bridge: There was a distance between you and I
(between you and I)
A misunderstanding once, but now we look it in the eye
This new follower of Jesus is just like Elisha. He wants to come along, but there are some things he'd like to do first, like bury his dad. Unlike Elijah though, Jesus doesn't give the guy a chance to do this. He tells him, "No one who puts a hand to the plow and looks back is fit for the realm of God."
When we take to the road with the Holy, we can't look back. When we utter the "Oh, Yeah" of commitment, we say yes to the future and put the past where it should be - in our rearview mirror. We cannot take this journey if we are stuck in the past. No baggage from the past will fit in the trunk - we have to keep that open for new experiences, the souvenirs we'll gather as we embark on this new journey.
The past has to be the past for the present to be the present and for the future to unfold.
Elisha finally understood this. The scriptures tell us he went back to his farm and slaughtered all of his oxen, used his plow for firewood, and cooked up his beasts of burden as meal for the people. In short, he made sure that he could never return to his past way of life. All his oxen were dead, his equipment destroyed. All he had now was the road ahead - the journey that the Holy had invited him to embark upon. Nothing in his life was more important than the highway of life, and he wanted to ride it his whole life long.
In the next chapter of Luke, we're told that Jesus appointed seventy other people as his followers - but we're not told if this man is among them. We don't know what decision he made - but we're clearly left with the terms of the decision: "No one who puts a hand to the plow and looks back is fit for the realm of God."
What are you looking back at these days? What is it in your past that is preventing you from moving forward - from embracing that new highway of adventure and transformation? What excuses are you making for putting off that road trip with the Holy? What would it take to get you out of the rest area and back on life's highway?
Are you ready to put your past behind you and get on the road to the amazing future the Holy is promising?
Breathe deeply.
I'm spending a lot of time these days looking back. I love my job for many reasons and I would keep it forever if they would let me, but the reality is, the grant money is gone and so is my job. I don't want to accept that. I keep hoping for a miracle of a new grant and more money to stay on. Who knows? It could happen. But, I have to live like it won't. The Holy is inviting me to make the past the past and embark on a new journey, a new adventure, a brand new highway of commitment. I can see the signs ahead that read "Jubilee! Circle" - and it invites me to breathe the "Oh, Yeah" of that new commitment.
I hope, too, that you all can see that sign - the one that reads "Jubilee! Circle" - because this, my friends, is a journey and we're on it together. It will take the commitment of each one of us to make Jubilee! Circle the most amazing and wonderful place that it can be. I know that's scary and for many of you it's a big commitment. You may want to go off and consider it for awhile, weigh your options, or get things in order before making that commitment. But, I hope that, deep within you, is that "Oh, Yeah" of commitment to this endeavor. We're seeking to be an intentional community that makes a difference in this world, but also makes a difference in the lives of each person in the room.
When Elisha balked at taking Elijah's mantle and wanted to run back home before deciding to make his journey, Elijah said to him, "Go back again: for what have I done to you?" What's he's saying is this: "Do whatever you feel you need to do, because it's not me who is calling you to this new journey. The Holy calls you. I haven't done anything to you."
Jubilants, I am not calling you to commit to this community. If I called you, some of you might commit because you don't want to disappoint me or make me sad or mad. But, ultimately I don't have the power to call you to that kind of commitment, only the Holy has can do that. I hope that's a call you're feeling. I hope that it is the breath of life, the spirit of this world, that is calling you so deeply to this commitment that you cannot help but say, "Oh, Yeah."
If you choose to come along on this journey I can guarantee a few things. We will hyperventilate - a lot. We'll have to remind ourselves to breathe deeply - a lot. Which is why we do that a lot in our celebrations! We will question our decisions - a lot. We will go in the wrong direction and get lost - a lot. We will wonder what the hell we're doing here - a lot. But, if this is indeed a journey that the Holy calls us to, overall it will be a joyful one, despite any bent bumpers along the way. It will be a journey that inspires us, uplifts us, and makes us crank up the radio and sing along. It will be a highway we want to ride all night long - because we will be on the road with the Holy. That road means we are committed to work together to making this world a better place not just for us - but for all of us.
That, Jubilants, is a highway worth riding, because it's the ultimate journey with the Infinite, and on that journey we can't help but say: "Oh, Yeah!"
Chorus: Life is a highway, I wanna ride it all night long
If you're going my way, I wanna drive it all night long
Oh, Yeah!
Candace Chellew-Hodge is a recovering Southern Baptist and founder/editor of Whosoever: An Online Magazine for GLBT Christians. Her first book, Bulletproof Faith: A Spiritual Survival Guide for Gay and Lesbian Christians, published by Jossey-Bass is now available at http://www.bulletproofbook.com. She currently serves as the pastor of Jubilee! Circle, a progressive, inclusive community in Columbia, South Carolina. She is also a spiritual director and is currently taking on new directees. She blogs regularly at Religion Dispatches. She can be reached by email at editor-at-whosoever.org or by using the suggestion box.
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February 18, 2013
Thom Yorke and Nigel Godrich AMA Happens Today!
So, Thom Yorke and Nigel Godrich will be gracing Reddit with their presence on an AMA (Ask Me Anything) about their Atoms for Peace project. Personally, we're extremely excited, especially since Snoop Dogg's AMA left a little more to be desired. Via Pitchfork:
They'll be taking questions at 1730 GMT (12:30 p.m. Eastern time). Godrich tweets, "You can ask us anything but we reserve the right to not answer ;)"
You can check out their AMA here and here's the guidelines in case you forgot how to ask anything like the pros.
Atoms for Peace will release their record, AMOK, on February 25 in the UK and February 26 in the U.S. through XL Recordings.


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42 U.S. Code § 13723 - Congressional approval of any expansion at Lorton and congressional hearings on future needs
Notwithstanding any other provision of law, the existing prison facilities and complex at the District of Columbia Corrections Facility at Lorton, Virginia, shall not be expanded unless such expansion has been approved by the Congress under the authority provided to Congress in section 446 of the District of Columbia Home Rule Act.
The Senate directs the Subcommittee on the District of Columbia of the Committee on Appropriations of the Senate to conduct hearings regarding expansion of the prison complex in Lorton, Virginia, prior to any approval granted pursuant to subsection (a). The subcommittee shall permit interested parties, including appropriate officials from the County of Fairfax, Virginia, to testify at such hearings.
For purposes of this section, the terms "expanded" and "expansion" mean any alteration of the physical structure of the prison complex that is made to increase the number of inmates incarcerated at the prison.
Section 446 of the District of Columbia Home Rule Act, referred to in subsec. (a), is section 446 of Pub. L. 93–198, title IV, Dec. 24, 1973, 87 Stat. 801, as amended, which is not classified to the Code.
1997—Subsec. (a). Pub. L. 105–33 substituted "District of Columbia Home Rule Act" for "District of Columbia Self-Government and Governmental Reorganization Act".
Amendment by Pub. L. 105–33 effective Oct. 1, 1997, except as otherwise provided in title XI of Pub. L. 105–33, see section 11721 of Pub. L. 105–33, set out as a note under section 4246 of Title 18, Crimes and Criminal Procedure.
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I know this book is not a favorite of some new moms, given the methods they share on helping your baby sleep through the night, but I have used it with both of my kids and it has worked! My first slept through at six weeks and the 2nd at eight weeks. Every new mom has methods she swears by, so every mom can read this with her own discretion. But as for me, it worked & I would recommend it.
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Dear Wendy Updates: "Snoop Dog" Responds
It's time again for "Dear Wendy Updates," a feature where people I've given advice to in the past let us know whether they followed the advice and how they're doing today. After the jump, we hear from "Snoop Dog," that guy who "just happened" to guess the password to his girlfriend's email and discovered she'd been emailing back and forth with an ex. "The emails aren't really all that exciting," he wrote, "just things like 'how are you doing?' and updates on people they both know and general stuff like that. I'm not sure what to do here. Should I confront her about it?" After the jump, find out whether he confronted her or not and if they're still together.
I must say, it was an interesting experience for me, writing in. For one, I never expected that you would pick up the question. Secondly, I guess I didn't realize what a complete jerk I was in this whole thing. Fortunately, you and the readers in the comments section pointed out exactly what kind of jerk I was. And it hurt. I guess it's easy to tell yourself that what you're doing is okay, and to lie to yourself in order to make yourself feel better. At least, that's where I was. But it was kind of a wake-up call to me, reading through what everyone seemed to think, and how horrible I was as a human.
So I took a step back and thought about what was going on in my relationship, and the kind of person I was, and decided that I wanted to keep my relationship and so I was going to do my very best to stop reading her emails and believe that it was nothing, and that they were just friends. So, since the day I read your response, I haven't been reading her emails. I've been tempted quite a lot, but I've held off.
And it's true, by the way, that I didn't just "happen" to guess her password. This all started because I was curious if I could guess her password, and I was correct in what it was on the first try. It wasn't that hard to figure out. And this does indeed show something bad about me; you are right. So I didn't talk to her about the fact I was doing it, and I just let it go. I trusted that I would not need to go to therapy to address these issues if I worked through them myself. Besides, if I did go into therapy, she would be curious as to exactly why I had, and I'm not sure that would have been any better.
Then, a week ago, she took me out to dinner in a public place and told me that she had been emailing back and forth with her ex for a few weeks now, and the emails had become more and more heavy and she realized that she didn't love me and was still in love with him, and so she had decided to go back to him, and had actually cheated on me with him just a few days after you responded on the site. So, I guess I got what was coming to me.
Thank you for taking my question, and I still enjoy reading your column. Best of luck to you.
Well, that wasn't a fun update! I'm so sorry to hear you and your girlfriend are no longer together and that she cheated on you. That really sucks. But I hope you don't think her actions somehow validate your behavior. In the future, if your intuition is telling you something, talk it out. Don't revert to snooping. I don't think you're a "horrible" human being (and I'm sorry if my advice or the comments made you feel that way); you just made a mistake (as did your girlfriend, clearly!). Learn from it, move on, and do better in the future. And I still say therapy might not be a bad idea for you, especially now that you actually have reason to have trust issues. Good luck.
If you're someone I've given advice to in the past, I'd love to hear from you, too. Email me at {encode="[email protected]" title="[email protected]"} with a link to the original post, and let me know whether you followed the advice and how you're doing now.
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Survivors in Algeria tell of lucky escapes as terrorists hunted foreigners
The heavily armed Islamist terrorists burst into the living quarters of BP's natural gas plant in the Algerian desert at 5.45am on Wednesday. They cut the electricity so the complex was plunged into darkness. Then they rampaged through the rooms, smashing down doors, searching for foreigners.
One who escaped said yesterday: "All the time they were shouting they were only after expats, 'If you're Algerian you can go, get your stuff and get out'. They rounded up all the expats, tied them up and took them off."
Some of the foreign workers had explosives tied around their necks or chests. They were shut in a booby-trapped building and told they would be killed if the Algerian army attacked. One European was reportedly shot in the…


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Casa de Piedra, "The House of Stone" is the most recent addition to the Briar Patch Inn, designed for two with the ultimate in romance and appreciation of nature in mind.
18" thick walls of creek boulders embrace you as you sit in front of your crackling fireplace, or snuggle in the large log post bed while viewing the creek by the glow of the fire. Delight in the views from your private patio overlooking Oak Creek and the surrounding canyon walls. $445 (Based on double occupancy. Each additional person, $25.00.)
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Building A New Music D-
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Words about a new digital music being built in about improving audio sounds. It is called D - Touch. It is being controlled by computers. You need an online, computer, printer to be able to listen. This is done on physical blocks placed on a printed board.
Some of the puzzles that people list for the public get indexed by the search engines (like Google). Some people find those puzzles and cannot figure out how to make a puzzle of their own. So this page now has the navigation sidebar.
There are now buttons on the puzzle so that you can get a clean page, in either HTML or PDF, that you can use your browser's print button to print. The PDF format allows the web site to know how large a printer page is, and the fonts are scaled to fill the page. The PDF takes awhile to generate. Don't panic!