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NEW YORK (WOMENSENEWS)–Brooklyn-native Kathy McArdle had a few special things going for her when her partner of 10 years was deported.
She was a U.S. citizen, authorized to legally work and receive federal assistance. She did not have to fear detention, deportation and the risk of her young son entering foster care when his father, Calvin James, was deported to Jamaica in late 2005.
But McArdle, at the time, was not employed because of health issues. She still struggled to care for herself and their then 6-year-old son. They wound up living with different friends for nearly two years before entering the shelters system in 2008.
They remained there for a year-and-a-half while McArdle sought full-time work as a secretary. All the while, she sent money to Jamaica to support James, who had been living in the United States legally on a green card, but ran into trouble stemming from a mid-1990s criminal conviction for selling marijuana.
She says they are still in a relationship, but has no intention of relocating her family to Jamaica to be with him anytime soon.
"We still consider ourselves a family and we are working towards being together as a couple one day," McArdle said. "We want to be together and we will just wait until that can happen." More women than ever are in this kind of predicament in the United States. But for most, the circumstances are worse. The United States deported a record-breaking 397,000 people from October 2010 through the end of September 2011, according to U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement figures.
A growing proportion of these deportees, about 46,000 in the first six months of 2011, were parents of U.S.-citizen children, the New York-based think-tank the Applied Research Center reported in early November.
The immigration authority doesn't provide a gender breakdown–male versus female–of detainees and deportees and the Applied Research Center wasn't able to obtain these figures in its Freedom of Information Act request.
Parental Rights Threatened
"It's really hard to tell since those numbers are not available, but when we are talking about families in the report we are looking oftentimes at women being disproportionally affected by threats to their parental rights and to the prospects of their families being permanently shattered," said Seth Wessler, senior researcher for the center's Nov. 2 report, "Shattered Families."
That report found at least 5,100 children whose parents have been either detained or deported are currently living under foster care. In the next five years, at least 15,000 more children will be at risk for entering the foster system under a similar set of circumstances, the report says.
Michelle Brane, director of the detention and asylum program at the Washington-based Women's Refugee Commission, said in a recent phone interview that there is about a 50-50 split between women and men in terms of immigrants who are living in the United States. However, she estimates about 90 percent of the undocumented people the United States detains each year are men.
Children will be covered by federal programs, said Brane, but incidents of shelters and child protective services reporting undocumented parents to immigration officials have been recorded.
Amy Gottlieb is program director of the American Friends Service Committee Immigrant Rights Program, based in Newark, N.J. She hasn't noticed any particular gender aspect to those who are detained or deported in her work with immigrant families.
Suddenly single fathers struggle just as much as newly single mothers when one partner is detained or deported and two paychecks are reduced to one, or one paycheck the family was once dependent on dissolves, she added.
'It Gets Worse and Worse'
One single mother from the Ivory Coast said that in her Newark community she mostly sees other undocumented mothers struggling to support their families, following their partners' deportation.
"It's all the same for them," said the 44-year-old woman in an interview held in American Friends Service Committee's Newark office. She asked to be identified as Jeanne Twam. "You are always hoping for the best, that one day it will get better and better, but it gets worse and worse."
Twam has been supporting her school-aged children, mother and husband since 2008, when her husband was deported, following his denial of political asylum. Immigration agents came for him at their home early in the morning, she said, when her children were sleeping and she was at nursing school.
Her worries about the family's tight finances and her lack of documentation discouraged Twam from pursuing a legal case on behalf of her husband. He now lives in their native West African country and still relies heavily on her financial support. But Twam lost her job as a nurse's aid this past spring and says keeping up with her responsibilities is becoming increasingly difficult.
"Right now I lost my job and when you don't have the right papers there is no help," said Twam. "You go to the government and the social workers and they won't tell you straight forward, but you can feel that because of these lack of papers this help is not coming."
Options for homeless families with undocumented members are becoming more limited, said Linda Flores-Tober, executive director of the Elizabeth Coalition to House the Homeless in Elizabeth, N.J., which provides about 2,5000 people annually with emergency shelter and rental assistance, in addition to educational and recreational support for homeless young people.
More than two-thirds of the immigrant families it supports with housing aid are led by single women, said Flores-Tober. Their partners or husbands are often detained in the nearby Elizabeth Detention Center, or Essex County Correctional Facility, which is proposing an expansion in part to house more detainees.
Inmates' relatives — most of them women — in early September staged a demonstration outside the Essex jail, calling the area environmentally unfit. Fumes from a nearby water processing plant, the relatives said, made living conditions unsanitary and potentially unsafe.
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Using Standard Input and Output
One Argument with a cat Isn't Enough
Send (only) Standard Error Down a Pipe
Problems Piping to a Pager
Redirection in C Shell: Capture Errors, Too?
Safe I/O Redirection with noclobber
The () Subshell Operators
Using {list} to Group Bourne Shell Commands
Send Output Two or More Places with tee
How to tee Several Commands Into One File
tpipe-Redirecting stdout to More than One Place
Writing to Multiple Terminals for Demonstrations
The "Filename" -
What Can You Do with an Empty File?
What to Do with a Full Bit Bucket
Store and Show Errors with logerrs
There is absolutely no difference between reading data from a file and reading data from a terminal. [1] Likewise, if a program's output consists entirely of alphanumeric characters and punctuation, there is no difference between writing to a file, writing to a terminal, and writing to the input of another program (as in a pipe).
[1] If a program's input consists entirely of alphanumeric characters and punctuation (i.e., ASCII data or international (non-English) characters).
The standard I/O facility provides some simple defaults for managing Input/Output. There are three default I/O streams: standard input, standard output, and standard error. By convention, standard output (abbreviated stdout) consists of all "normal" output from your program, while standard error (stderr) consists of error messages. It is often a convenience to be able to handle error messages and standard output separately. If you don't do anything special, programs will read standard input from your keyboard, and they will send standard output and standard error to your terminal's display.
Standard input (stdin) normally comes from your keyboard.
Many programs ignore stdin; you name files directly
on their command line - for instance, the command cat file1 file2
never reads its standard input; it reads the files directly.
But, without filenames on the command line, UNIX commands that need input
will usually read stdin.
Standard input normally comes from your keyboard, but the shell can
redirect stdin from a file.
This is handy for UNIX commands that can't open files directly - for instance,
mail (1.33).
To mail a file to joan, use
filename-to tell the
shell to attach the file, instead of your keyboard, to mail's standard
mail joan < myfile
The real virtue of standard I/O is that it allows you to redirect input or output away from your terminal to a file. As we said, UNIX is file-based (1.29). Because terminals and other I/O devices are treated as files, a program doesn't care or even know [2] if it is sending its output to a terminal or to a file. For example, if you want to run the command cat file1 file2, but you want to place the output in file3 rather than sending it to your terminal, give the command:
[2] A program can find out.
cat file1 file2 > file3
This is called redirecting standard output to file3. If
you give this command and look at file3 afterward,
you will find the contents of file1, followed by
file2-exactly what you would have seen on your screen if you
omitted the
> file3 modifier.
One of the best-known forms of redirection in UNIX is the pipe.
The shell's vertical bar (
|) operator makes a pipe.
For example, to send both file1 and file2 together in a mail
message for joan, type:
cat file1 file2 | mail joan
The pipe says "connect the standard output of the process at the left
cat) to the standard input of the process at the right
Article 45.20 has diagrams and more information about standard I/O and redirection. Table 13.1 shows the most common ways of redirecting standard I/O, for both the C shell and the Bourne shell.
|Send stdout to file
|prog >
|prog >
|Send stderr to file
|prog 2>
|Send stdout and stderr to file
|prog >&
|prog >
file 2>&1
|Take stdin from file
|prog <
|prog <
|Send stdout to end of file
|prog >>
|prog >>
|Send stderr to end of file
|prog 2>>
|Send stdout and stderr to end of file
|prog >>&
|prog >>
file 2>&1
|Read stdin from keyboard until c (see article 8.18)
|prog <<
|prog <<
|Pipe stdout to prog2
|prog | prog2
|prog | prog2
|Pipe stdout and stderr to prog2
|prog |& prog2
|prog 2>&1 | prog2
Be aware that:
While standard I/O is a basic feature of UNIX, the syntax used to redirect standard I/O depends on the shell you are using. Bourne shell syntax and C shell syntax differ, particularly when you get into the less commonly used features. The Korn shell and bash are the same as the Bourne shell, but with a few twists of their own.
You can redirect standard input and standard output in the same command line. For example, to read from the file input and write to the file output, give the command:
prog < input > output
The Bourne shell will let you go further and write stderr to a third file:
prog < input > output 2> errors
The C shell doesn't give you an easy way to redirect standard output without redirecting standard error. A simple trick will help you do this. To put standard output and standard error in different files, give a command like:
( prog > output ) >& errors
Many implementations of both shells don't care what order the
redirections appear in, or even where they appear on the command line.
For example, SunOS lets you type
However, clarity is always a virtue that computer users have never
appreciated enough. It will be easiest to understand
what you are doing if you type the command name first - then redirect standard
input, followed by standard output, followed by standard error.
There are some more complex forms of standard I/O redirection,particularly for the Bourne shell . (45.21, 45.22, 45.23)
Of course, programs aren't restricted to standard I/O. They can open other files, define their own special-purpose pipes, and write directly to the terminal. But standard I/O is the glue that allows you to make big programs out of smaller ones, and is therefore a crucial part of the operating system. Most UNIX utilities read their data from standard input and write their output to standard output, allowing you to combine them easily. A program that creates its own special-purpose pipe may be very useful, but it cannot be used in combination with standard utilities.
Some UNIX systems, and utilities such as gawk (33.12), support special filenames like /dev/stdin, /dev/stdout, and /dev/stderr. You can use these just as you'd use other files. For instance, to have any ordinary command read from the file afile, then standard input (from the keyboard, for example), then the file bfile:
afile /dev/stdin bfile
In the same way, a process can write to its standard output through /dev/stdout and the standard error via /dev/stderr.

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How to answer "Perl is not secure" objections?by radiantmatrix (Parson)
|on Sep 06, 2007 at 17:55 UTC ( #637487=perlquestion: print w/replies, xml )
|Need Help??
radiantmatrix has asked for the wisdom of the Perl Monks concerning the following question:
I'm used to dealing with Perl-FUD of many shapes and sizes, from "it's unmaintainable" to "it's not enterprise-ready" to "it's too slow{1}". Today, though, I got a new one. My manager's manager's manager (manager^3, for short) is trying to put the brakes on a very nice project that happens to be mostly Perl code, on the grounds that "Perl is not secure."
As far as I can tell, manager^3 believes that this is the case because 'Perl has bindings into OS calls that bypass OS security'.
Fortunately, manager and manager^2 don't buy it. Manager^2 has asked me to disprove manager^3's misgivings. Now, I can certainly explain how Perl works, but that (a)will probably be beyond manager^3's ken, and (b)manager^3 will not be convinced by just my words alone.
I've Googled quite a bit, but can't really find what I'm looking for: a good article (not on someone's blog, unless they are a well-known technologist{2}) that explains how Perl compares to .NET and/or Java in terms of security. FWIW, the application in question is to be installed on a RedHat Linux sever and run under mod_perl, so any suggestions specifically germane to that environment would be useful as a supplement to more general resources. Ultimately, any help I can get from the Monastery would be useful.
I know there are Monks here who could probably write and publish such a piece, and whose work would be respected, but I'd be happy with any reference I can get hold of. Unfortunately, time is short, I only have a few days to make my case that we don't need to ditch an entire product just because it's written in Perl.
Whatever material I find elsewhere, I will post here as well. Whatever I use, I will collect together and post, with a report on how it was received. When that happens, I will link to that post (probably a Meditation, I'd think) by updating this node as well.
Many thanks!
Based on links provided below (thanks to those that read and understood that I needed external documentation, not just a technical explanation), and in collaboration with some savvy pro-Perl managers at my organization, I've come up with the following upper-management-friendly summary:
This is not entirely final, so if others have something to add, please feel free to do so.
Ramblings and references
The Code that can be seen is not the true Code
I haven't found a problem yet that can't be solved by a well-placed trebuchet
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Environmental Impacts on the German Blitzkrieg in World War Two
AbstractThe Blitzkrieg was the combined use of tanks, air craft and infantry hitting hard and fast to seize the initiative in World War II. While there have been other avenues pursued by historians for understanding the Blitzkrieg, few have focused on the role of the environment played one of the most important factors in the implementation of the blitzkrieg. This paper uses primary and secondary sources pertaining to all of the aspects of the Blitzkrieg, from the common infantry man, to the Panzer divisions, and also the Luftwaffe. With all of these elements, the environment played possibly the most important factor in the success or failure of German blitzkrieg tactics. From the Panzer Vs becoming bogged down in the mud during Operation Barbarossa, to the Luftwaffe becoming grounded due to severe snow storms or fog during the Battle for Britain, the environment played the most direct role in determining the outcome of each situation. Other evidence suggests that the German High Command knew of the environmental conditions and tried to evade them.
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Here is a Soprano clef sight-reading exercise: Play this game in soprano clef to learn how to read music.
How to play:
- Choose the difficulty
- Choose your options: Speed, colors, sound, answer mode
- Click on start
- And find the good answer when music notes appears
If you have any knowledge about music notes reading in soprano clef, so read these articles:
- Note names
- The staff (stave )
- Clefs and especially C-clefs
- Reading music notes
How to use the game
Goal of the game:
The music notes will appear one after the other, it will be necessary to find and choose the correct answer for each note (there is no sharp and no flat in this game, only notes of the C major scale).
Setting game options:
- Difficulty: You can choose the difficulty mode that suits you best, this parameter can only be chosen at the start of the game.
- Speed: By default (speed 0), the speed at which music notes appear is moderate, but you can choose a slower or faster playing mode.
(Colors): If this option is selected, the musical notes and the buttons will be colored, the color of the button for the correct answer will correspond to the color of the note whose name must be found. This option is ideal for the youngest.
(Sound): If this option is selected, the sound of the note will be played when the note appears. This allows hearing to be associated with vision. The sounds are those of a piano.
(Click = next note): If this option is selected, when you click on a response button, a new note will appear immediately, otherwise the next note will appear depending on the speed of appearance you have selected (speed option) .
The response buttons:
You can choose the style of response buttons you want, this choice cannot be changed during the game.
DO RÉ MI Buttons (DO, RÉ, MI, FA, ...)
Piano keyboard with note names
Piano keyboard without note names
Anglo-Saxon Buttons (A, B, C, ...) for Anglo-Saxon notation
midi keyboard MIDI keyboard (only available on certain browsers, including Chrome.)
Start the game:
To start the game, just click on start, and at any time in the game, you can choose to take a break by pressing the pause button.
End of the game:
You can choose to start a new game or replay the same game to improve.
Keyboard shortcuts:
You can also play with the keyboard of your computer:


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If you haven't heard (in which case you are either Helen Keller or dead), some woman named Samantha Brick wrote a million-word humble-brag in the Daily Mail about how terrifically difficult it is to go through life as a magnificent beauty. It's that same old trope you hear supermodels trot out on every late-night talk show when they're trying to sound down-to-earth—My life isn't perfect even though my body is! I can't help it that other women were born disgusting! Also I love video games! Relate to me!!!
Brick even followed that up with the second oldest trick in the please-like-me-even-though-I'm-better-than-you handbook—telling Huffington Post that she used to be a big fat ugly-duckling tomboy who got teased every day because she was basically a human pimple in a softball uniform who never stopped eating submarine sandwiches. That is, until one morning when she woke up and discovered that she was literally Cindy Crawford. And life became a new kind of hell. Yawn x infinity.
But while it's nothing we haven't heard before, Brick's Daily Mail article is stunningly annoying and embarrassingly delusional. Some examples:
If you're a woman reading this, I'd hazard that you've already formed your own opinion about me—and it won't be very flattering. For while many doors have been opened (literally) as a result of my looks, just as many have been metaphorically slammed in my face—and usually by my own sex.
I'm not smug and I'm no flirt, yet over the years I've been dropped by countless friends who felt threatened if I was merely in the presence of their other halves. If their partners dared to actually talk to me, a sudden chill would descend on the room.
From there Brick relates approximately 4,000 anecdotes about different times when ugly lady-ogres were mean to her or supposedly "discriminated against" her because of her looks. She's been passed over for promotions by "jealous" bosses, she's never been asked to be a bridesmaid, and she can't keep female friends for more than five minutes because the power of her beautiful vagina will inevitably bewitch their husbands. (Meanwhile, she can't walk down the street without men showering her in jewels, or fly on a plane without receiving free champagne compliments of the captain's boner.) At no point in the article does Brick confront Occam's razor—the idea that people might not want to work with her or talk to her or be her friend because she's an annoying dumbass and a shitty person. Maybe? Just a thought. Or, sure. It's because you're pretty and no pretty woman has ever had a friend before.
Obnoxious, yes—on the "WAAAAAAAHHHHHH" scale, complaints like this one fall somewhere between misandry and reverse racism—but to be honest, my first reaction was pity. And not the kind of pity Brick is looking for. See, the whole thing is complicated by the seven photos of Brick and her face and her body and her hilarious French husband (hoh hoh hohhh!!!) accompanying the article. She's just...and I know I'm walking a delicate line here...not that cute. She is freakishly average. If you looked up "just some lady" in the dictionary, there'd be a picture of Samantha Brick. She's fine. She's normal. She's one of us.
So I can't help but feel like the Daily Mail is playing a trick on her.
The Daily Mail is a large-scale professional troll, and this article is troll-bait of the highest order—a master stroke of carefully orchestrated misogyny. It basically screams, "HERE, TROLLS! DON'T YOU HATE THIS AWFUL BITCH? LOOK, SHE THINKS SHE'S BETTER THAN YOU BUT SHE ISN'T EVEN PRETTY!" It begs women to go all mean-girl on her (every woman I spoke to succumbed to the temptation immediately), gives men a pass to comment on the relative value and fuckability of her body, and encourages both sexes to eviscerate, body-shame, and judge Brick with impunity because her ideas are so repellant. Like if she were prettier she would have earned the right to say such ridiculous shit.
Everyone's opinions are open to scrutiny—that's where progress comes from—but Brick's ideas (if she's even being sincere) are obnoxious independent of whether or not we think her physical appearance matches her self-perception. There is no magic attractiveness quotient that makes stupid ideas more or less acceptable. I'll criticize Samantha Brick because her ideas are offensive and divisive, thank you very much; taking her to task for her crow's feet is sexist, gross, and letting her off too easy.
It's also sad. The Daily Mail article and its backlash would be one thing if Brick was unassailable, but she's not. She elicits this feeling that's almost like a class tension—like she's punching above her weight, looking down on the rest of us normals with pretensions that she hasn't earned. For the Daily Mail to put such an obviously average woman (whose self-regard transcends confidence and becomes something close to paranoid delusion) on display like this, with crazy ideas like this, on a platform like this, feels uncomfortably close to bullying. And it makes Brick pitiable.
The trolling is working. People are going fucking nuts. The Telegraph has fustily declared the backlash to be "worse" than the original article—and even though that's obviously silly (the article is bullshit and deserves to be called out as such), I'm sure as hell not interested in piling on at this point. It feels too much like a set-up. By giving Samantha Brick miles of rope and an extremely public tree, the Daily Mail is trying to trollify us all. It's a little peek behind the curtain at how the media deliberately pits women against women for fun and profit. Fuck that. Ladies, let's stop biting.


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Wet weather has continued to dominate coastal NSW into the first day of July 2013. June 2013 was incredibly wet and the latest wet weather event has led to a massive landslip in Sydney at the Harris Park Railway Station. The link below is to an article reporting on the slip.
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Dear BIO-WWW members, CALL FOR PAPERS AgBioForum Special Issue "Bio-Based Products" "What if the future of manufacturing was still in plastic, but not plastic from petroleum-rather, biotech plastic made from corn?" - CBS News, Feb. 7, 2002 The coming era of industrial biotechnology will revolutionize the production of plastics, textiles, fuels, and other high-tech materials from agricultural products. This new form of agbiotechnology will have far-reaching impacts on farmers, researchers, business, industry, and consumers worldwide. Some of the applications or products may include: * Plant-based plastics * Renewable fuels (such as ethanol or biodiesel) * Carbon sequestration * Bioengineered forestry * Innovative uses for oilseed crops - detergents, inks, resins, lubricants, drugs, etc. * New sources for paper, rubber, and other materials * Development of new uses for agricultural waste products (peanut hulls, wheat straw, etc.) * Phytoremediation (oil-spill cleanup, toxic waste, heavy metals, etc.) As these novel technologies develop, the editors of AgBioForum think it important to examine the current state of the art and the potential impacts of this rapidly evolving subset of agbiotech. Possible paper topics might address (but are not limited to) any of the applications or products listed above, as well as: * The legislative environment for bio-products * International trade in bio-based products AgBioForum is a quarterly electronic journal that publishes peer-reviewed articles on the economics and management of agrobiotechnology. Its readership includes researchers, university faculty and other educators, industry, government, and advocacy groups. More than a quarter of AgBioForum's audience is international, including readers and contributors from Europe, Asia, Oceania, and South America. AgBioForum is published out of the University of Missouri-Columbia by the Economics and Management of Agrobiotechnology Center (EMAC). AgBioForum is currently being indexed in the American Economic Association's electronic bibliography of economic literature (ECONLIT); AGRICOLA; the Journal of Economic Literature (JEL), and its electronic edition (e-JEL). Interested authors should follow the AgBioForum manuscript format, as described in the "Submission Guidelines" available at http://www.agbioforum.org/submission.htm. We offer complimentary Author Services including: * Online article submission * Real-time tracking of the submission and review process * An article statistics page which provides statistical information (number of readers, evaluation scores) and reader comments on your published article(s) To submit online, visit the AgBioForum website (http://www.agbioforum.org) and use the "E-Submission" link located under the "Author Services" link. The closing date for this special issue is December 1, 2002. Of course, the editors welcome and encourage submissions of papers on the economics and management of agricultural biotechnology at any time to AgBioForum. Please direct any inquiries to the editors of AgBioForum at editor at agbioforum.org. ---


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Like most parents, I worry.
Will my son, Jacob, succeed in life? Will he pass Spanish? Will he become a useful member of society or will he remain in the basement until he is dragged off by the Health Department?
But today I learned that I have one more worry to add to the pile. You see, now I have to analyze his text messages for clues about his health.
Yup, it's true. Because today in an article I found on Reuters.com, I read that there is a new malady, called "Dystexia." It's when a person texts back nonsense in response to a regular, ordinary question. And it can involve a trip to the emergency room.
The article linked to above, talks about a husband who realized that there was something wrong with his pregnant wife when her texts didn't make sense. She was rushed to the hospital and they found out she had had a stroke.
Now if you have a child, aged 8 to 25, you've already figured out where I'm going with this.
Because personally, I think I'm going to start worrying when my son's text messages start making sense.
Unless, of course, he wants money. Then I'll be sure it's him and that he's broke in a whole different way.


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There are the skills with which fighters advertise themselves, and there are the skills by which promoters actually match them.
Renato "Babalu" Sobral (35-8 MMA, 1-1 SF) and Robbie Lawler (19-5 MMA, 1-1 SF) say they are well rounded enough to fight on one another's stylistic turf at Wednesday's "Strikeforce: Los Angeles" event.
But in reality, the 195-pound catchweight fight, which takes place at the Nokia Theatre in Los Angeles, is about who can impose his strengths on the other.
Lawler, a former EliteXC middleweight champion, originally was scheduled to face Jason "Mayhem" Miller at Wednesday's Showtime-televised event. However, Strikeforce CEO Scott Coker pulled Miller from the card because of his part in an April brawl at "Strikeforce: Nashville."
Sobral, a former Strikeforce light-heavyweight champion, was scheduled to fight June 30 in the first round of a planned light-heavyweight tournament in Japan's DREAM promotion. When the tournament was postponed, Strikeforce slotted him in Miller's headlining spot.
The 34-year-old Sobral has defeated five opponents by strikes, and he says he can strike with anyone. But he has defeated 18 opponents via submission, and no matter what he says, he would rather take the fight to the mat.
The 28-year-old Lawler has just one submission victory to his name, but he's worked with a room full of grapplers for most of his career. Still, he'd rather knock an opponent's head into the fourth row.
In terms of hype, the two are pretty unaffected by each other's threats. They'd just as well leave a little bit of doubt in the minds of those who think the fight breaks down easily. They've been up and down the ladder of rankings and have seen many wars in a combined 21 years in MMA. Promotion is just old hat.
"He's a great striker as everybody knows," Sobral said. "He's going to try to knock me out, so I have to defend from there. I can punch as well."
Lawler also hinted at a well-rounded game.
"I've just been doing what I normally do (and) working on my skills – striking, grappling (and) wrestling – and just trying to build everything at the same time," Lawler said.
What's left unsaid is that Lawler has fallen prey to submission artists while Sobral has fallen prey to headhunters.
Lawler, who most recently was battered by Melvin Manhoef at "Strikeforce: Miami" before uncorking a one-punch knockout, fell short of the Strikeforce middleweight championship when current (and possibly outgoing) champion Jake Shields hopped on his torso for a guillotine-choke win. Three key career losses against Evan Tanner, Jason Miller and Shields have hampered his advancement.
The un-riseable Lawler writes off the Shields setback.
"I got caught in a submission, it was tight, and I made a mistake," he said. "It was an easy mistake to fix, and that's what I've been doing."
Meanwhile, Sobral most recently suffered a 60-second knockout loss to former Strikeforce light-heavyweight champion Gegard Mousasi this past August. His career potential has been hampered by a vulnerability to punches (for example, a UFC light-heavyweight title shot against then-champion Chuck Liddell at UFC 62).
"Babalu" is a little more forthright about his struggles and says the closing of Affliction Entertainment, his former promotional home, deeply distracted him.
"Sometimes it's good when you get your ass kicked," he said. "You can come back harder and stronger. Mentally, I feel prepared for this. Now, I'm come back and try to fight again."
Lawler prepared for the June 16 fight in Arizona and said he got a chance to work with several good submission artists.
"I'm always mentally there where I believe in myself, (and) I believe I can beat anyone; that's easy," Lawler said. "The physical part is always a part where you need to work hard to get back in shape, and that's what I did."
Sobral said he gathered together as many southpaws as he could to prepare for Lawler.
"I've been [preparing with] my basics," he said. "I just [wanted] to push the training a little bit more and train with a lot of strikers and submission (fighters). [I had] a very, very amazing camp."
"Cyborg" Santos plays brawler to Marius Zaramoskis' striker
Evangelista "Cyborg" Santos (17-13 MMA, 0-1 SF), the nicer half of Strikeforce women's champ Cristiane "Cyborg" Santos, is as ferocious a striker as you can get. The longtime member of the Chute Boxe Academy swings for the fences at every opportunity; 10 of his 17 wins come by way of knockout.
It's kill or be killed, and his style often brings him the latter, especially when he's paired with a technical striker (seven of his 13 losses come via strikes).
Since an uneven run in PRIDE, Santos is 2-6 and appears to be on the downside of his career. In his most recent fight, he returned to vintage form with a head-kick knockout over the unheralded Daniel Zarate this past December.
Although he was dismantled by Nick Diaz in his most recent performance at "Strikeforce: Miami," Zaramoskis carries a distinct advantage in technical striking when compared to Santos. Prior to Diaz, the Lithuanian fighter notched three straight knockouts by head kick and has earned all but two of his victories by way of stoppage due to strikes.
Zaramoskis (13-4 MMA, 0-1 SF) struggled to pull the trigger against Diaz, but he may feel more comfortable against Santos' all-out charge. Look for the DREAM champion to cut angles and look for the high kick when the action storms out of the gate.
Otherwise, Santos may inch his way toward a takedown in order to protect himself from dangerous strikes.
In other main-card action, highly regarded middleweight Tim Kennedy (11-2 MMA, 2-0 SF) gets a tough test in Strikeforce regular Trevor Prangley (22-5-1 MMA, 3-1-1 SF), and jiu-jitsu standout Conor Heun (8-3 MMA, 0-1 SF) meets former boxer and promotional newcomer K.J. Noons (8-2 MMA, 0-0 SF).
The complete "Strikeforce: Los Angeles" card includes:
- Robbie Lawler vs. Renato "Babalu" Sobral (195-pound catchweight
- Evangelista "Cyborg" Santos vs. Marius Zaramoskis
- Tim Kennedy vs. Trevor Prangley
- Conor Heun vs. K.J. Noons
- R.J. Clifford vs. Jeremy Umphries
- Marcus Kowal vs. Hugo Sandoval
For more on "Strikeforce: Los Angeles," check out the MMA Rumors section of MMAjunkie.com (www.mmajunkie.com).


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The Democracy Barometer is an instrument to measure the quality of established democracies.
Democracy Index
The Democracy Barometer is an index of democracy. It aims to overcome the conceptual and methodological shortcomings of existing measures, in order to measure the subtle differences in the quality of established democracies.
The Democracy Barometer is based on a middle range concept of democracy, embracing liberal as well as participatory ideas of democracy, which illuminate the phenomenon from different perspectives.
It consists of a stepwise theoretical deduction of fundamental elements of democracy. The starting point is the premise that a democratic system tries to establish a good balance between the normative, interdependent values of freedom and equality and that this requires control. In order to guarantee these three fundamental principles and thus the quality of democracy, nine democratic functions need to be fulfilled. Every function is further disaggregated into two components each, which finally, are measured by several sub-components and indicators.


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The Obama administration says in a report out Wednesday that a combination of Mother Nature and Uncle Sam has recovered or dispersed three-fourths of the estimated 4.9 million barrels of oil that gushed into the Gulf of Mexico as a result of the BP calamity.
And the oil that's left — 26 percent of the total — "is in the process of being degraded," the document reports. Administration officials say the figures show the government's response has paid off. The document constitutes a promising ecological prognosis and the first time the government has said authoritatively that the disaster's impact may not be as bad as many experts had feared.
Both oil and BP $20 B payoff fund may both be hard to find..


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Send color email with different fonts on iPad
iOS 5 brought us some enhancements to the mail app but there is still no built in feature that will allow users to send emails with different color fonts or different font types and sizes.
Luckily, there is a free app for the iPad that will allow users to send rich text emails with all of those different font options.
EH Advanced Note is a notes app that has 130 different colors, almost 60 different font types and the ability to change the font size to several different sizes. The app will let you add checkboxes for creating checklists. You can also use bold, italic and underline, which is also included in Apple's mail app.
You can double tap text to highlight it, then select a different color, font type or size from the top toolbar. If you have an email that you created in the standard Mail app you can copy it, paste it in this notes app and send the email from the EH Advanced Note app after you edited the color and fonts.
This free app is supported by an ad that is at the top of the screen. The ad is not intrusive and is a small price to pay for the features this app includes.
The app includes way to share documents over bluetooth. Since there is no iPhone app available, I don't know if many people will find file sharing over bluetooth all that useful. The developer promises to update the app regularly and encourages feedback, which can be sent via the app.
I can't say it's the best notes app I've ever used but I can say it's best way I have found to send emails on the iPad with different fonts and colors.
Get EH Advanced Note at the App Store for Free.


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Huzzah! I finally fixed the E18 error I've been experiencing on my Canon PowerShot SD450, which prevented my lens from extending when the power was turned on, and the fix wasn't nearly as difficult as I had expected. I've even snapped some shots of the process so that you can follow along at home, and fix your own camera if you are experiencing the same problem that I was.
If you're not yet familiar with the E18 error, check out this information on the topic from Wikipedia:
The E18 error is an error message on Canon digital cameras. The E18 error occurs when anything prevents the zoom lens from properly extending or retracting.[1] The error has become notorious in the Canon user community as it can completely disable the camera, requiring expensive repairs.
This is a fairly prevalent problem with the PowerShot cameras, and a class action lawsuit was filed (but dismissed) against Canon:
A Chicago law firm, Horwitz, Horwitz & Associates, has already filed a class action,[4] while the law firm of Girard Gibbs & De Bartolomeo LLP are investigating this camera flaw and may issue a class-action lawsuit against Canon.[5] There is at least one other.[6] Although the suit was dismissed in a court of law, the plaintiffs are appealing.
Fortunately, at least in my case, the fix did not require returning the camera to a Canon repair facility or having to take unreasonably complex steps.
My solution for the PowerShot SD450/IXUS 55 follows:
(You'll need a very small Philips head screwdriver, #00, to remove the screws)
- There are six screws holding the metal frame of the camera body together, two on each side, and two on the bottom. Remove all screws, pop the strap-hook plate (sorry, probably not the most technical term there), then gently lift the front plate off by pulling up from the bottom, and remove the back plate in the same fashion. These should come off relatively easily. This is what the camera should look like as you remove the plates:
- Now, looking from the top of the camera, you should see a small motor on the left side, as shown below (it's beneath the cable with a "22" written on it):
- Take your screwdriver (or another small instrument) and gently try to rotate the plastic piece attached to the motor on the left side, as shown below:
- At this point, try placing the battery back in the camera (if you have removed it), turn the camera to one of the capture modes, and press the power button. If all went well, your lens should now be able to extend and retract properly.
Further information (and other repair tutorials) are available at the following locations:
- Canon PowerShot A70 Error E18 Fix (Translated from Bulgarian)
- Canon E18 repair guide for SD300 [PDF]
- CNET: Digital cameras: Fixed my SD450 e18 error
- Canon and the E18 Error / Lens Error, Restart Camera
- Canon E18 Error Dialog
- Canon E18 Error: Repair Instructions
- E18 Error
- E18 – Repair Guide part 1
Unforunately, the site that had the most comprehensive information about this issue, e18error.com, seems to be down for the time being. Here's a quote from their site that I saved in another blog post before the site was taken down:
Canon E18 error happens when the lens gets stuck while trying to extend. The camera will beep a few times and the LCD will display a little E18 in the lower-left corner. The lens gets stuck in the extended position, and refuses to move either to focus the lens or to retract when powered off.
Apparently, people who posted about this incident on forums say they had to send the camera for repair and that Canon has horrible customer support and response time.
Here is how the E18 error looks like. You just get a black screen with small "E18″ sign in the lower-left corner:
The problem usually happens because dirt or sand get into the lens mechanism. But it seems that more and more people are showing, who took great care of their camera, and still started receiving E18 errors.
Please share your experiences with this fix, or the E18 error in general, in the comments below. Thanks for reading!


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Wanted: A Gospel Worth Following
The Gospel of Anarchy
By Justin Taylor
Harper Perennial, 256 pages, $13.99
For many, college is a first sip of freedom, but for the characters in Justin Taylor's debut novel, college is an incarnation of the evil machine against which they were born to rebel.
"The Gospel of Anarchy," is set in the inland swamp of Gainesville, Fla., during the summer of 1999. Gainesville is home to one of the country's largest state universities, and Taylor hones in on its triple threat of "student ghetto," bourgeois "Republicats" and the parasitic businesses that suck parental money from fun-seeking kids. Offended by this and feeling set apart is David, a secular Jew and former student with a fetish for lugubrious internet porn and a compulsion to perform what must be some of the most glum novelistic masturbation to date.
Being reprimanded at his call center job for enacting what he sees as a basic human kindness unhinges something inside him. He is unjustly reprimanded and, feeling discontent with the world and his station in it, he takes to sending naked images of his ex-girlfriend to a listserv hungry for skin.
"The Gospel of Anarchy" comes hard on the heels of Taylor's frenetic and fresh-voiced coming-of-age story collection, "Everything Here Is the Best Thing Ever," (Harper Perennial 2010) and a collaboration with Eva Talmadge applauding literary tattoos, "The Word Made Flesh." Throughout his fiction, Taylor, a native Miamian, gives voice to a particular form of secular Southern Jewishness pressed into punky young men in the region. He treats this archetype suspiciously, lovingly and with humor; his Jews are "Hanukkah-and-lox, not Kashrut-and-Shabbos," as he writes in "Tennessee," a story in "Everything Here Is the Best Thing Ever." Taylor's protagonists, like many of their real Southern counterparts, cling to the traditions and symbols that allow them to feel Jewish without marking them as too different from the Christian majority.
On a walk to clear his head, David encounters another secular Jew suspicious of his roots — Thomas, who is dumpster diving with a female friend for half-eaten gyros. David follows them to Fishgut, a dilapidated house near campus; home to wanderers and runaways, punks and "aspiring Luddites," and venue for the frequent bacchanalian orgies that alarm both readers and participants alike. In an effort to circumvent the American college experience, David arrives at an all-too-college-like scene of bingeing and promiscuity.
The sections David narrates, which are significant in size and bookend the story, are undoubtedly the novel's strongest. It's the closest we come to knowing anybody in this stifling world of demon computers and oppressive strip malls, which are peppered throughout and regarded with contempt by the anarchists-in-training. Once at Fishgut, the narrative is given over to an omniscient third-person that roams above the house's inhabitants in order to differentiate them. Rather than provide a bird's-eye view, though, the flat tone has a tendency to make the reader fly away.
The narrative seems most comfortable in David's at first curious and increasingly ecumenical perspective; Things go awry when we leave David's narration and are blown around the periphery of several other housemates' lives. The residents are drifters and mostly college dropouts who move outside Gainesville's mainstream as much as possible, though commerce catches up with them when their needs can't be satiated with the meager bits they steal. Love couples, triangles and quadrangles form, dissolve and re-form. David joins the bed of two women, one of whom is the plush temptress, Katy, a ringleader and a "wannabe Brigham Young." The "anarchists" of Fishgut persistently crash against each other, yet it's unclear whether they feel anything at all, not unlike many of the protagonists in "Everything Here Is the Best Thing Ever."
What galvanizes the sleepy commune to action is a vision to take to the presses and codify a religious doctrine based on the diaries of a bum who once lived in Fishgut. He is Parker, and he becomes their dime store Jesus, their rebel God and father figure. None of the housemates has much background in liturgy, but they so badly need something to believe in that they shape their gospel around the one who, smartly, got away. The disciples orchestrate a religious ceremony of making soup from what's left in the fridge. Explicitly to mock the Jewish tradition, they mark the start of their Sabbath well after sundown, and extend it to Monday to spite those on the grid — people who need to wake up for their jobs.
Fishgut's mostly Christian doctrinarism is somewhat surprising, as Christian gospel is already so pervasive in the world they extract themselves from, and because evangelism reeks of everything they long not to be. The sole success of these nebulous anarchists is to lurch from a shadow college existence to a shadow religious one — but the narrative shows little awareness of the satirical possibilities of this irony.
Fishgut's many impressionistic sensory experiences — the surging punk music, noxious body odor and rancid food, the dim flicker of Catholic prayer candles imprinted with various saints — make it feel like an unshowered hostel full of unknowable human shapes. There is only so much to be done with a group of smelly not-quite-rebels who want little and achieve less. And unfortunately, the intermittent poems, screeds and narrative platitudes only further garble the pace and tone. Soon after we enter Fishgut, the pulse and wit of Taylor's prose ebbs away and the plot stagnates in the standing water of Fishgut's swamp.
"Christianity alone has felt that God… must have been a rebel as well as a king," writes the English author G.K. Chesterton in the novel's opening quote. The rebel-king figure inspires the wannabe anarchists, who believe their faith is unique. And perhaps Taylor is laughing at the notion that faith is enough. "What is faith anyway?" he asks. But Christianity claiming a monopoly on the concept of rebel-king is an absolute that, like the oxymoron of organized anarchy, does not hold. After all, the tempestuous God of the Hebrew Bible was a rebel, too.
Contact Allison Yarrow at [email protected]
Click here to listen to a podcast with the author, Justin Taylor.


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Normandy butter (about a teaspoon, melted, per serving)
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Roquefort (about 100 g, crumbled)
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My Nanny Rose passed away last week. I know. How can this be? Nanny Rose. Perpetual 40 year old. She was a wonderful Nan, tall, beautiful. Strong.
On the day she passed I admired my favorite artist at work with the orange sky.
In another direction the early evening offered the sunlit moon.
I grabbed my camera, because I love to capture and went off sunset hunting.
Some chase storms, I chase sunsets.
In this I thought of Rosie, and all of the sunsets she had seen in her life. Faithful. Constant.
I looked up to the hills where I saw the remnants of fire.
And that image was the one that struck me most.
Yes the world still turns, fiery sunsets faithfully happen and the same bright moon rises.
But the flame of Rosie lives on and burns in each of our hearts.
We live on with a wonderful legacy of how to do family well, of knowing how to celebrate, and an unconditional love which supported and accepted us all.
There is nowhere in the world I would have wanted to be last week other than Stourbridge.
So I flew home to be with my family.
Tears flowed as quickly as laughter came as this cycle found its way round many times.
I walked into Nan's house and enjoyed catching up with her lifetime scattered throughout. I touched Nan's stuff, those things, trinkets and ornaments and pictures that make Nan's house what it is.
This time differently though, through the eyes of grief. I savored that moment.
And as we gathered to say goodbye, we did it as only our family could do. Close.
With my lovely brothers shouting shotgun as they got in the funeral car.
With my Mom admiring the flowers and not knowing that Nan was part of a cards club. Then realizing she was looking at another's flowers.
With all the people, who you don't see for years, but who played a beautiful part in our Rosie's story.
As she did ours.
So here I am at 4am. Jetlag laughing at my confused state.
I soon flew home again. To be with my family.
Home – there's no place like it right?
And now. The home of all homes.
The eternal destination or as Lewis puts it 'the secret signature of the soul'.
I am sure of our heavenly home is within reach, the one we all journey towards – we glimpse – yet can't quite grasp it. But our homesick hearts know it is there.
Until one day… when we will not only see it, but taste, feel, hear and experience it.
So, until then, I ask. 'Your Kingdom come, your will be done, on earth as it is in heaven'.
Dedicated to Charlotte Rose Homer. My Nan.
"I have come home at last! This is my real country! I belong here. This is the land I have been looking for all my life, though I never knew it till now…Come further up, come further in!" ― C.S. Lewis, The Last Battle.
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"If God can accomplish His purposes in this world through a broken heart,
then why not thank Him for breaking yours?"
Oswald Chambers
So yesterday I wrote a bit of a confession.
I confessed that whereas I had proclaimed, just a few days prior, that there would
be absolutely no tree this year—suddenly on Sunday, there was a tree.
And thus Tricia, over on Freedom Through Empowerment, in her vast wisdom,
made a most profound observation…one that I just had to share.
The backstory as to why I had I opted on no tree was that
no one was coming home this year.
It would just be me and my husband and that would be a tremendous amount of work for
just the two of us.
Another reason as to why I was not going to put up a Christmas tree was
the fact that one of the tubs that housed my porcelain angels
and age-old nutcrackers fell off of a shelf back in June when I was moving
the older Christmas ornaments out of the deathly hot Georgia attic
to a spare closet.
In the midst of moving, I heard the crash and the ensuing breaking of both
angel and nutcracker alike…
and in turn, the breaking of a piece of my own personal keeping of Christmas.
I immediately told myself that I'd deal with it all in October as it was just more
then I could bear.
At the time—October was far enough away and just seemed like a good time to
think about putting the pieces back together.
Yet October came and went…came and went without any sort of attempted repair.
It was a burden I just wanted to ignore.
I was getting too old for the meticulously gluing back together of the pieces
of so many Christmases past—it was simply more then I what I felt up to doing.
It seems that everything I own or hold precious, in this little corner of life,
has been pieced back together and glued at some point or other.
Knowing that so many of the treasures of my past were now in a thousand shards
and pieces was frankly overwhelming…does everything have to break?!
I knew the work that it was going to take to laboriously sort then attempt to
glue all those broken angels and nutcrackers back together.
Tiny little arms, noses, bases, wings, ornamentation…
Many I had long before I married….going all the way back to high school.
Not expensive really, but just threads of what it is that has helped to make me.
They are the tangible pieces of those who I have loved and who are no longer here.
Those now broken bits being the physical links…the memories of gifts given,
of tiny "treasures", gathered together.
Each one having a face and a specific memory behind it.
And so I finally dug in on Sunday.
I sorted and started gluing.
Following which, I put up and trimmed the tree…piecemeal angels and all.
Yet my friend Tricia made a very keen observation:
"Beautiful tree Julie!
And really, the broken pieces glued together make it all the more glorious.
Kind of like our savior piecing our broken selves together to a more magnificent product.
Merry Christmas Julie!
And what a revelation!
Here I had what I thought to be a total disaster but in actuality, it was
a telling reminder.
It was a reminder, as well as a lesson, of my very own being.
More than me having come from the memories of trinkets given, past down over the years…
It was actually me being something and someone who was and is so much more.
It is the story of a Savior, who has come to put back together my very own brokenness.
Piecing me back together in order that I might be made whole once again.
Isn't that what Christmas is all about?
A Son, a Savior, who is given as a gift for all mankind?
The bridge that spans the chasm of divide, uniting once again both God Creator
and man created.
He had to come in order to put together that which was broken…broken
that day in a garden so very long ago.
As the breaking has continued down through the ages of time with no hope of repair…
not until the gift of a baby found laying in a manager on a lonely night
in the outreaches of a desert town…it was the Savior who born man that was
the hope of repair.
And so I thanked Tricia for reminding me that now, each year when I go to
decorate a tree, not only will I think of the stories behind each ornament…
of those I have loved and lost…of those whos and wheres of how each ornament
came to my tree…but from now on I will look at a handful of glued together bisque angels
and I will see their glue marks, their faults, and fractures and I will be reminded
of the absolute reason as to why I have a tree in the first place…
I will stop and remember that God sent His only son into the world to repair
the brokenness of someone like me.
And what profound joy is found in that revelation.
So thank you Tricia…thank you for reminding me of what this tree and these ornaments are
really all about…and a very Merry Christmas to you as well my friend!!
For unto you is born this day in the city of David a Saviour, which is Christ the Lord.
And this shall be a sign unto you; Ye shall find the babe wrapped in swaddling clothes,
lying in a manger.
And suddenly there was with the angel a multitude of the heavenly host praising
God, and saying,
Glory to God in the highest, and on earth peace, good will toward men.
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Author: Jeannette Walls
Hardback: 288 pages
Dad came home in the middle of the night a few months later and roused all of us from bed.
"Time to pull up stakes and leave this shit-hole behind," he hollered.
We had fifteen minutes to gather whatever we needed and pile into the car.
…An hour passed before we finally tied Mom's paintings on the top of the car, shoved whatever would fit into the trunk, and piled the overflow on the backseat and the car floor. Dad steered the Blue Goose through the dark, driving slowly so as not to alert anyone in the trailer park that we were, as Dad like to put it, doing the skedaddle. He was grumbling that he couldn't understand why the hell it took so long to grab what we needed and haul our asses into the car.
"Dad!" I said. "I forgot Tinkerbell!"
"Tinkerbell can make it on her own," Dad said. "She's like my brave little girl. You are brave and ready for adventure, right?"
"I guess," I said. I hoped whoever found Tinkerbell would love her despite her melted face. For comfort, I tried to cradle Quixote, our gray and white cat who was missing an ear, but he growled and scratched at my face. "Quiet, Quixote!" I said.
"Cats don't like to travel," Mom explained.
Anyone who didn't like to travel wasn't invited on our adventure, Dad said. He stopped the car, grabbed Quixote by the scruff of the neck and tossed him out the window. Quixote landed with a screeching meow and a thud, Dad accelerated up the road, and I burst into tears.
"Don't be so sentimental," Mom said. She told me we could always get another cat, and now Quixote was going to be a wild cat, which was much more fun than being a house cat. Brian, afraid Dad might toss Juju out the window as well, held the dog tight.
–The Glass Castle by Jeannette Walls, pages 17-18
This incident haunted my mind throughout the whole book. I couldn't help think, "If they could just toss the cat out without a thought, telling me we could just get another, who's to say they wouldn't do that to me, as well?" Later in the book when Jeannette takes a tumble out of the moving car, the same thought occurred to her as she watches the family disappear down the road. "What if they decide I'm too much trouble to come back for?" It had to be a terribly difficult uncertainty to grow up with.
Not only is there the impermanence of home and things, there are virtually no rules nor supervision, as the Rex, Jeannette's father, spends much of his time "researching" at the local tavern and her mom, a narcissistic enabler with some sort of mood disorder fritters her time and money away escaping reality in books and painting. Too many times to count, the kids are forced to go hungry… or worse, dig through garbage to find food… while Dad drinks and smokes the money away and Mom sneaks nibbles of Hershey bars hidden under her covers.
On the rare occasion the mother works, it's the kids who have to force her out of bed and onto school where she's a teacher, then clean her classroom after school, grade her papers and make out her lesson plans in the evenings. After spending 8 weeks away from Rex and the kids, living in a dorm, eating regularly and taking classes to keep her teaching licence up to date, she comes home to report she's had an epiphany. She tells her teenage daughter who has been handling the bills, working and feeding her siblings, that she's spent her whole life taking care of everyone else and now she's gonna live life for herself… say WHAT?!
yeah….. m'kay.
The Glass Castle by Jeannette Walls is a shocking and heartbreaking memoir of growing up with an alcoholic father and mentally ill mother. Over and over, I was stunned and even angered by the so-called adults complete and total lack of parenting skills. At one point, Jeannette, who was 7 or 8 at the time, wakes up to find a strange man touching her beneath her covers, and when she tells her parents maybe they should shut and locked the doors at night so as to keep the creeps out, they tell her some crap about fresh air and not letting fear get the better of you. In her teens, when Jeannette tells her mom that her uncle has been inappropriate with her, her mother tells her he's just lonely and that "sexual assault is a crime of perception." Time and again, these two genetic donors (calling them parents is going too far, to be honest), show a complete lack of common sense and sheer laziness to step up to the plate. I am amazed that the kids lived to adulthood, let alone to be anything close as successful as they nationally syndicated columnist and regular contributor to MSNBC. Brian and Lori also made good despite their upbringing.
One thing I can say about reading this book is that I can say with 100% certainty that I'm not that bad as a parent. It's done a lot to make me feel better as a parent… at least I shut the doors at night and feed my kids and make sure they bathe regularly. I make sure they're fed before I feed myself and I'd damn sure have food in the fridge AND pantry before gnawing on a Hershey bar. I feel guilty if I decide not to share my candy bar.. or Lindt truffle balls, nom nom nom… but that's because they've ate plenty and had dessert, and By GOD, this is ONE thing I kept for myself. And I feel guilty for THAT! I can't imagine the utter self-centeredness, truly clinical narcissism, the mother wallowed in. Also, I can say with certainty to my kids that they've never gone hungry. They may not like what's in the cabinets, but there IS food… it's just not ready-made junk for them to snack on.
I read a few reviews of The Glass Castle, and one reader dinged the book because the author conveys such neglect and abuse in a very unemotional manner. How could anyone suffer such a life without feeling a sense of indignity and injustice? To this I must point out that Walls is a professional journalist, and relaying information in an objective, matter-of-fact way is part of the job, so I wasn't surprised by that at all. Also, I think it's a normal part of the coping skills of an abuse survivor to learn to be able to talk about it with some distance and disconnection.
The Glass Castle by Jeannette Walls is a great story of resilience and survival. I don't recommend it to be read in one sitting, as it can get emotionally overwhelming, but definitely a worthwhile read. If I could ask Walls one question, I'd want to know how she thinks her life might have turned out without public libraries and books to turn to. At times, it seems the only escape the kids had and a part of her best memories. I give The Glass Castle 4 out of 5 stars.
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NEW YORK (AP) — Rihanna rocked the lingerie look at Wednesday night's Victoria's Secret fashion show in New York, holding her own on the catwalk with some of the world's top models.
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The fashion show has become a pre-holiday tradition for Victoria's Secret and CBS will turn it into a one-hour special to be aired on Dec. 4. It will also feature performances from Justin Bieber and Bruno Mars.
This year's event had a slight twist. It started with an announcer noting that Victoria's Secret and CBS had each made a donation to relief efforts for Superstorm Sandy.