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"The difference between BYU and Utah is, had the roles been reversed and BYU were in the Pac 12 and not Utah, the Cougars would not be fighting the second tier conference teams for last place."
Are you kidding! Talk about out of touch with reality. BYU would face the same problem in the BIG 12 as they would in the PAC 123. They have never ever in the history of their football program, played ranked, high profile power conference teams on a weekly basis. BYU would be average at best.
Get real.
- 7:11 p.m. July 29, 2014
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Interesting that you didn't address what I called you out on (that the teams "like MTSU" were equal or tougher opponents than the bottom of the PAC. Instead you (like all good trolls) changed the topic to "players in the NFL." O.K. I'll bite.
I answered it, if you can't comprehend that #103 MTSU 8-5 with 9 NFL players would be worse than P5 bottom feeders like #106 Virginia 2-10 (28 players) or #118 Cal 1-11 (38 players) playing a "real schedule" then that's on you.
And Utah has 33 NFL players and TCU 18 (BYU 10)... so what?
Georiga Tech is not "like MTSU", they play a real schedule.
Houston, Boise State, and Utah State would finish at or near the bottom in a P5 league, just like Utah and TCU. Only BYU which is on par with MTSU would be in the middle of the pack in any P5 team according to Deseret News.
- 8:35 p.m. July 29, 2014
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Interesting that you didn't address what I called you out on (that the teams "like MTSU" were equal or tougher opponents than the bottom of the PAC. Instead you (like all good trolls) changed the topic to "players in the NFL."
I clearly said: "The talent at Colorado and Virgina is significantly better than teams like Middle Tennessee."
You said: "Only Crimson colored glasses would keep one from seeing that "teams like Middle Tennessee" are equal to or superior to the dregs of P5 conferences."
So I never claimed "that the teams "like MTSU" were equal or tougher opponents than the bottom of the PAC", it was you (see above).
Then you went on to make an argument for:
* Boise State (0-2 vs P5 teams)
* Utah State (0-2 vs P5 teams)
* Houston (0-1 vs P5 teams)
* Georgia State (which is NOT a team like MTSU considering they play in a P5 league)
So your argument is BS, USU, and Houston who are a combined 0-5 vs P5 teams would be equal or superior to teams at the bottom of a P5 leagues like Cal, Virgina, Colorado, Utah, and TCU?
- 9:12 p.m. July 29, 2014
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If I read the comments I would think the article stated that BYU was better than Utah or that Utah was better than BYU. I think the point of the article was to reference that on a national scale BYU and Utah are viewed as teams of similar caliber. I think rationale people would agree. Over the last 20 years all but a few of those games have been won by 7 points or less. When they were in the same conference they were both consistently at the top of the conference. The fact that Utah moved from the MWC to the PAC did not suddenly make them a better team or give them a history as a football powerhouse. In Utah there is a wide debate over who is better. Outside of Utah (again and again and again) the analysts and the computer statistics say - BYU and Utah have similar quality Football programs.
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@soonerute sounds a lot like everything the utes sacrificed for a bunch of stickers for your car windows without your team name even on it lol
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I defined 7 vertical managers witdth of 640 in a horizontal field of dimensions 640x300. when i am scrolling in a touch screen i want the each vertical manager to come in screen on a single scroll not half part. Can any one tell me
how to make the entire individual vertical manager to be in focus in one time of scroll.
It seems you want to 'centre' the VFM on the screen when you scroll horizontally.
You can do this using your own Thread and actively listening for scroll events, then using set HorizontalScroll to move the Fields into the correct position.
However an easier way of doing this is to set the focus on VFM you want centered. As long as you have something in the VFM which accepts focus and is full width, then the framework will try to display all of it, which means it will scroll and stop at a point this Field is in focus.
I think you could do this with a sort of NullField which did not display focus, had a full width and 1 pixel height.
i kept the nulllabel field it is working fine in non touch screen....when comes to touch if i am moving horizontallly without using traceball...then my half of the null field is coming in screen
Sorry missed that step.
When you swipe, focus is not moved. So you have to do it. One way is to have a scroll listener. When the scroll listener detects a scroll movement, it waits until the scroll changes stop happening. Then it figures out which VFM should be in the center, and sets focus on that.
That is easy to explain, not so easy to do, I've seen this done with a Thread, but perhaps you can do it with a Timer.
You may have some issues with determining which Field in the VFM should get focus, unless you always scroll to the top.
i tried a lot by keeping different conditions in scrolllistener but it not giving the output what i want. Please tell me some hint to do this.
I check the touch device where i open the blackberry app world and select the games option. There on the screen we have list of options horizontally like "category", "topratings ".
here when i am scrolling horizontally according to the topheadings the below part in moving.
I also want the same functionality in my app....can any one tell me how to implement this.
05-27-2013 04:24 AM - edited 05-27-2013 04:25 AM
If you want to do something like App World, I suggest you look at developing for OS 6.0 and above only. I believe PaneManagerView does what you want. I have never tried to use this class or the associated classes since I still developing for OS 5.0.
I suggest that developing something like PaneManagerView yourself would be very hard, because you are not that familiar with how the BlackBerry UI works. But I think you would start by doing what we are doing here using ScrollChangeListener.
Thankyou. My app is for os7 ...so i will try panmanager as u said ...any useful information if you have about this please
share with me..it will be helpful for me
As noted, never used it. I suggest you create a simple standalone example and make sure it works for you. Then if you have problems, you will be able to post the code here.
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When I received my modules a few weeks ago, I did the same thing and also used a 9V battery. I don't have my readings handy at the moment, but as I recall they closely matched your readings.
I'm not sure what I expected, but obviously the circuitry on the mini-breakout board draws quite a bit of current at both idle and shutdown.
I also have an Edison-Arduino breakout board but haven't measured it yet. With all its circuitry, it will draw a lot more than the mini.
I tried replicating your tests, and I can't seem to your low power readings. I can only get it down below 40mA.
I am using the edison breakout board, even re flashed the edison to make sure I didn't have anything messing with the readings. Is there anything you did to get these low readings?
I was using the mini breakout board with 9V from a bench power supply on J21. The only measurement I had problems with was idle power.
I notice the re-flashed version no longer has the annoying lag on the serial port. I wounder if the newer image no longer puts the Edison into sleep mode….
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As a side note, I found that when you power down the edison it still draws 5ma I assume this is from LED on the mini breakout board, so sleep mode should only draw around 5mA or 45mW without the LED.
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Skip to comments.Hook girl busted in burka at Belmarsh
Posted on 12/22/2010 3:49:42 PM PST by MamaDearest
THE daughter-in-law of hate cleric Abu Hamza was arrested at his jail for allegedly trying to smuggle in a sim card under her burka.
Guards rumbled Chayme, 26, in a routine search as she went to visit the hate preacher.
Hamza's eldest son Mohamed Kamel Mostafa was also nicked over the contraband the next day. The find raised fears that hook-handed Hamza has access to a mobile in prison where he is awaiting a US bid to ext-radite him for allegedly running terrorist training camps.
The tiny microchip was found in a pocket in clothing under her flowing black robes at Belmarsh Jail in Woolwich, South-East London, last Friday afternoon.
Police were called and she was taken to nearby Plumstead nick. She is said to have become agitated after police demanded she remove her veil for a custody photo. One source said: "She felt it was a violation of her rights as a Muslim woman to have her mugshot taken.
"It was explained that she had to comply with the law and she finally agreed to it."
Chayme claimed she didn't realise she had the sim card, sources said. But a prison insider said: "There are clear orders on signs in the visiting area that nobody should carry through any items."
Mostafa, 29, was arrested after voluntarily agreeing to attend Plumstead police station. The pair have been bailed until February pending further inquiries.
Father-of-eight Hamza, 50, was jailed for seven years in 2004 for soliciting murder and inciting racial hatred.
He completed the sentence but is still being held in the secure unit pending a European Court of Law decision to extradite him to America.
A security source said: "The very idea of Hamza having access to the outside world while in prison has to be a serious concern."
I worry we won't have the will and they will kill us all.
I worry we won't have the will and they will kill us all.
Fear not.
Some of us are more than willing to take up the slack of the hesitant. And then some.
With Homeland Security excusing women in burkas from TSA screening, if this is an example of what airline passengers can expect from burka wearing women (might be much worse than a SIMS card), we're in deeper caca than anyone can imagine.
It's all a fabrication. A slanderous lie! You infidels KNOW Muslim women are pure and honest and decent. Your hatred of our Religion of Peace (tm) drives to make the most libelous accusations. If Muslims weren't such peace loving peoples,this might otherwise cause them to blow up your subways!
Wonder what's on the sim card.
BTW, I was expecting a story about a girl with a hook for a hand or somethin'.
Uhh.. OK.
Since I have blonde hair and blue eyes, I think I shall don a blue burkha for my next flight. I really hate those pat downs and this should let me slip right through.
Our country is in deep trouble.
Thanks for the post.
We have not heard whether this was actual policy now, we mean to exempt oe excuse women in burkas from TSA screening.
Can someone state whether this is actually the case? Are there any sources on the Internet documenting this policy?
Hamza says it is his followers' destiny to become "shaheed" (martyrs) and bring jihad (holy war) to "your own door".
"You don't have to travel thousands and thousands of miles to become a shaheed - you can be shaheed right on your own doorstep. May Allah open our eyes for what's good for us - so we don't waste our Muslim blood far away."
"The real weapons of mass destruction are the desire for martyrdom. Millions of you are ready to be shaheed. Half a million martyrdom shaheed is enough for Muslims to control the whole of earth forever. In the end of the day, Islam must control earth, whether we like it or not."
That would be her daddy....
Abu Hamza lost both his hands during the 1990s and now uses a distinctive hook as his right hand. Abu Hamza travelled to Afghanistan where he claims he sustained injuries to both hands and was blinded in the left eye as the result of helping clear land mines left behind by the Soviet Union. Some dispute this claim, and offer alternative theories, including that hands may have been cut off as punishment for theft in Saudi Arabia..
Can someone state whether this is actually the case? Are there any sources on the Internet documenting this policy?
From CAIRs press release:
Special recommendations for Muslim women who wear hijab:
* If you are selected for secondary screening after you go through the metal detector and it does not go off, and sss is not written on your boarding pass, ask the TSA officer if the reason you are being selected is because of your head scarf.
* In this situation, you may be asked to submit to a pat-down or to go through a full body scanner. If you are selected for the scanner, you may ask to go through a pat-down instead.
* Before you are patted down, you should remind the TSA officer that they are only supposed to pat down the area in question, in this scenario, your head and neck. They SHOULD NOT subject you to a full-body or partial-body pat-down.
Yep, No doubt things are completely backwards of what they should be.
I'm wondering what pressure is on McCalls, Simplicity and Vogue for burka patterns!
Indeed... and then some.
In this PC world no one has the courage to confront what they are doing. Eventually, they will dominate. That's just fact and our children and grand children will have to live with it or change it somehow.
its only a matter of time.
How in the world did they find a SIM card on her? Would a metal detector pick up something that tiny?
It was in the open taped on her bomb belt.
Excellent search methods it appears. Some clothing pockets have holes in them, which would present an avenue of hiding something if the garment was not removed and thoroughly searched. I've put change in an old coat pocket that had a hole in it and found when short on money, it was a mini-savings account with loose coins. The possibilities of using the burka to hide something are NOT minimal.
You are right, it'll end up us or them. Doesn't this same thing come up every few hundred years???
blam, this one has no problem with assisting with as many as possible when the time arrives.
Add a wee bit of spam to the rounds and it'll be a footrace to catch em and send em on to get the herd of virgins.
From CAIRs press release:
Special recommendations for Muslim women who wear hijab:
* If you are selected for secondary screening after you go through the metal detector and it does not go off, and sss is not written on your boarding pass, ask the TSA officer if the reason you are being selected is because of your head scarf.
* In this situation, you may be asked to submit to a pat-down or to go through a full body scanner. If you are selected for the scanner, you may ask to go through a pat-down instead.
* Before you are patted down, you should remind the TSA officer that they are only supposed to pat down the area in question, in this scenario, your head and neck. They SHOULD NOT subject you to a full-body or partial-body pat-down.
I appreciate this response.
Now I'm wondering if anyone has anything official on this from the TSA or DHS; something in official government or agency directives.
I am out of the country where NONE of these shenanigans are going on at airports, and so I don't have the opportunity to observe for myself.
However, I am thinking of the future, and I am wondering, if CAIR can issue such instructions, and IF they are being heeded, and IF the TSA is actually honoring the rules laid down by the Muslims, then . . .
What is to say that such a compendium of Christian holiness and fundamentalist groups could not issue similar instructions and expect the TSA to honor Christian modesty as well.
We have compiled a list of:
Holiness, Mennonite, Amish, Independent Baptist, Other
. . . groups, that if they would, issue such instructions.
At present, I am fighting for some time in my own schedule to contact some well-known people within these groups about issuing a joint set of instructions for Christian women, and also submitting that to the TSA and DHS.
It does not help that so many professing Christians are so worldly and go through the TSA gropings and porno booths without a whimper. Those people about who we have read going through in bikinis and under-clothing would probably tell us that they are Christians, too.
The Christian testimony is not taken seriously by government agencies---too much compromise with Satan and the world's standards (or lack thereof) has gone on.
Nevertheless there are still millions of true Christian people who till believe in holiness of life, and separation from worldliness.
There are still millions of us who will not be photographed naked, even if it were for the eyes of only one official sitting at a monitor, and for no others. Of course, we believe that no matter what the government claims, those images will always be subject to be being passed along for insidious uses.
The same millions do not want to be groped in a public airport or any place else.
If Muslims women can get away with "NOT [being] subject . . . to a full-body or partial-body pat-down" then Christian women dressed with an obvious manner of holiness must be given the same courtesy. This includes (1) Catholic/Orthodox nuns, (2) any other ministers or sisters of any Christian sect that dress in full-cut and long apparel as per their exemplification of holy living, (3) women in obvious traditional apparel of the Mennonite, Amish, German Baptist, or other similar groupings, (4) Holiness and other Separatist Christians who wear full-cut and long clothing as a matter of their Separatist faith and convictions, (5) Any professing Christian who dresses modestly and decently because of their Christian standards of behavior.
It would help us to formulate some instructions for Christian women if we had in hand official directives, or documentation from TSA/DHS training sessions on how to treat Muslim women who are in hajib.
Though . . . . for most people . . .
I really don't think 'naked' is all it's
uhhhh . . . cracked up to be.
Frightful comes to mind.
There is no reason why modest Christian or Jewish women shouldn't be exempted the same way modest Muslim women are. It is an absolutely hypocritical policy if, in fact, Muslim women are given special treatment over and above other religions. If true, it should be legally challenged.
With Holder's Justice Department and the New Black Panther ruling, true justice under this administration has become questionable at best. When "justice" implies political protection of illegal aliens over the rights and sovereignty of US citizens and the USA itself, again we question the motives and agenda being forced upon us. The nation is seeing that some (Muslims and illegal aliens) are MUCH more equal than others.
I've been prepared all of my life. GOD, Country, Family.
Man gets pulled over by a cop... when he hands the officer his license, the cop sees his CC permit. "You packing"? asks the officer... "Yes", the man replies. "What are you carrying?" the cop asks again... "Got a .45 in my vest pocket... a 9mm in the glove box". "IS that all", asks the cop... nope... gotta AR15 and an 870 12ga in the trunk". The cops asks, "What are you afraid of"? The man answers, "Absolutely nothing".
. . . for key cases . . . and increasingly across the board . . .
true justice has been murdered in this country for at least 110 years.
Thankfully, God has scheduled a complete and overwhelming redress.
Alas, AFTER blood flows as high as the horse's bridles.
All supported by the taxpayers of the UK.
The more I read and learn about past presidents, globalism has been the goal for quite some time. The agenda has been there all along. The Constitution, Bill of Rights and judicial adherence thereto are obstacles in the hearts of a majority of our elected representatives. Whether the newly elected congress will fall in line with the RINOs (joining the democrats) or actually making a change for the salvation of our nation is critical.
The UK is hopelessly politically correct to the point of self-destruction.
I'm curious . . .
given that a huge meteor is supposedly going to hit London in these END TIMES . . .
and or whatever other calamities hitting the Isles . . .
where on earth are the Royals and other British elites going to ride out the destruction of the little people?
Australia? I hope they have great advance warning.
Thank you for your e-mail regarding your concern that individuals in the Muslim community may not be screened using the Transportation Security Administration's (TSA) advanced imaging technology at our Nation's airport security checkpoints.
All individuals desiring to enter the airport sterile area are required to be screened. However, when the primary screening method is advanced imaging technology, it is optional for all individuals. Please be assured that individuals who do not wish to be screened by this technology will be required to undergo alternative screening, including a physical pat-down.
Absent specific intelligence information, targeting any one group on the basis of race, gender, ethnicity, national origin, or disability would undermine not only our security, but also the civil rights and civil liberties we cherish as Americans. TSA is committed to ensuring that individuals desiring to enter the sterile area are not subjected to additional screening based on discriminatory factors. Our Transportation Security Officer training stresses these points.
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In this latest from the author of The World in Half, the Mexican Rivera family moves to Delaware so that their brain-damaged daughter, Maribel, can attend a special school. Sharing the same neighborhood is the Panamanian Toro family, whose younger son, Mayor, becomes enamored of Maribel. As the bulk of the narrative shifts between Alma, Maribel's mother, and Mayor, the story unwinds into a Romeo and Juliet reenactment, with both families opposing the relationship, and tragedy the unexpected result. Henríquez does a spectacular job of creating highly believable characters and poignant scenarios: the guilt that wracks Alma because of the accident that rendered Maribel mentally disabled, the social and educational frustrations of a challenged adolescent, Mayor's budding teenage psyche, the inconsolable grief upon suddenly losing a spouse, and, above all, the experience of adjusting to a new culture and way of life. Regularly inserted is a series of testimonials by other participants, which, though thematically important, interrupts the story's otherwise smooth flow. VERDICT A well-written coming-of-age story set among "unknown Americans," ostensibly Hispanic but in many ways any family involved in similar circumstances regardless of ethnicity.—Lawrence Olszewski, OCLC Lib., Dublin, OH
The Book of Unknown Americansby Cristina Henríquez
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"A triumph of storytelling. Henríquez pulls us into the lives of her characters with such mastery that we hang on to them just as fiercely as they hang on to one another and their dreams. This passionate, powerful novel will stay with you long after you've turned the final page." —Ben Fountain, author of Billy Lynn's Long Halftime Walk
A boy and a girl who fall in love. Two families whose hopes collide with destiny. An extraordinary novel that offers a resonant new definition of what it means to be American.
Arturo and Alma Rivera have lived their whole lives in Mexico. One day, their beautiful fifteen-year-old daughter, Maribel, sustains a terrible injury, one that casts doubt on whether she'll ever be the same. And so, leaving all they have behind, the Riveras come to America with a single dream: that in this country of great opportunity and resources, Maribel can get better.
When Mayor Toro, whose family is from Panama, sees Maribel in a Dollar Tree store, it is love at first sight. It's also the beginning of a friendship between the Rivera and Toro families, whose web of guilt and love and responsibility is at this novel's core.
Woven into their stories are the testimonials of men and women who have come to the United States from all over Latin America. Their journeys and their voices will inspire you, surprise you, and break your heart.
Suspenseful, wry and immediate, rich in spirit and humanity, The Book of Unknown Americans is a work of rare force and originality.
This eBook edition includes a Reading Group Guide.
Editorial Reviews
In this latest from the author of The World in Half, the Mexican Rivera family moves to Delaware so that their brain-damaged daughter, Maribel, can attend a special school. Sharing the same neighborhood is the Panamanian Toro family, whose younger son, Mayor, becomes enamored of Maribel. As the bulk of the narrative shifts between Alma, Maribel's mother, and Mayor, the story unwinds into a Romeo and Juliet reenactment, with both families opposing the relationship, and tragedy the unexpected result. Henríquez does a spectacular job of creating highly believable characters and poignant scenarios: the guilt that wracks Alma because of the accident that rendered Maribel mentally disabled, the social and educational frustrations of a challenged adolescent, Mayor's budding teenage psyche, the inconsolable grief upon suddenly losing a spouse, and, above all, the experience of adjusting to a new culture and way of life. Regularly inserted is a series of testimonials by other participants, which, though thematically important, interrupts the story's otherwise smooth flow. VERDICT A well-written coming-of-age story set among "unknown Americans," ostensibly Hispanic but in many ways any family involved in similar circumstances regardless of ethnicity.—Lawrence Olszewski, OCLC Lib., Dublin, OH
"Powerful. . . . Moving. . . . [Henríquez has] myriad gifts as a writer." —The New York Times
"Passionate, powerful. . . . A triumph of storytelling. Henríquez pulls us into the lives of her characters with such mastery that we hang on to them just as fiercely as they hang on to one another and their dreams." —Ben Fountain, author of Billy Lynn's Long Halftime Walk
"Gripping, memorable. . . . A novel that can both make you think and break your heart." —San Francisco Chronicle
"A remarkable novel that every American should read." —Minneapolis Star Tribune
"Unfailingly well written and entertaining. . . . [Henríquez's] stories illuminate the lives behind the current debates about Latino immigration." —The New York Times Book Review
"Lyrical. . . . This is a book about love, about how we seek to help those we love, sometimes with unforeseen and tragic consequences." —The Dallas Morning News
"Powerful. . . Henríquez gives us unforgettable characters . . . whose resilience yields a most profound and unexpected kind of beauty." —Ruth Ozeki, author of A Tale for the Time Being
"There's an aura of benevolence in these pages. . . . Henríquez's feat is to make the reader feel at home amid these good, likable people." —The Wall Street Journal
"Characters are as vivid as they are resilient. . . . [The] story is told from Alma and Mayor's points of view, but their voices are interlaced with tales of dreams deferred from the other tenants." —Elle
"A lovingly woven portrait of how friendships sustain people, how people support one another, and how people make a home in unlikely places. . . . Henríquez offers up stories we need to hear and lets us sit with her characters in communion and even friendship." —Christian Science Monitor
"Unforgettable: an important story about family, community, and identity, told with elegance and compassion." —Jami Attenberg, author of The Middlesteins
"Passionate." —O, the Oprah Magazine
"Henríquez distills the vast sea of immigrant stories into a small apartment building community in Delaware. . . . Through Henríquez's unadorned prose, these immigrants' struggles ring clear, their voices rising above that din of political debate." —USA Today
"An exquisite and profound novel of love, longing, and the resilience of the human spirit. . . . [These characters] leave an indelible mark on the heart." —Gilbert King, author of Devil in the Grove
"Henríquez allows the characters to speak for themselves. . . . The politics of immigration, while never explicitly argued, remain subtly in play, as do more existential matters affecting immigrants, such as the mixed national and cultural allegiances and affiliations between the generations." —Chicago Tribune
"Distinctively compassionate and original. . . . Extraordinary." —Heidi Julavits, author of The Vanishings
"[Henríquez is] a world-class stylist." —Chicago Reader
"Beautiful . . . Cristina Henríquez introduces us to . . . vibrant lives, to heartbreaking choices, to the tender beginnings of love, and to the humanity in every individual. Unforgettable." —Esmeralda Santiago, author of Conquistadora
Product Details
- 9780385350853
- Publisher:
- Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
- Publication date:
- 06/03/2014
- Series:
- Vintage Contemporaries
- Sold by:
- Random House
- Format:
- NOOK Book
- Pages:
- 304
- Sales rank:
- 38,227
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We heard they were from México.
"Definitely," my mom said, staring at them through our front window as they moved in. "Look at how short they are." She let the curtain fall back in place and walked to the kitchen, wiping her hands on the dish towel slung over her shoulder.
I looked, but all I saw was three people moving through the dark, carrying stuff from a pickup truck to unit 2D. They cut across the headlights of the truck a few times, and I made out their faces, but only long enough to see a mom, a dad, and a girl about my age.
"So?" my dad asked when I joined him and my mom at the dinner table.
"I couldn't really see anything," I said.
"Do they have a car?"
I shook my head. "The truck's just dropping them off, I think."
My dad sawed off a piece of chicken and stuffed it in his mouth. "Do they have a lot of things?" he asked.
"It didn't seem like it."
"Good," my dad said. "Maybe they are like us, then."
We heard from Quisqueya Solís that their last name was Rivera.
"And they're legal," she reported to my mom over coffee one afternoon. "All of them have visas."
"How do you know?" my mom asked.
"That's what Nelia told me. She heard it from Fito. Apparently the mushroom farm is sponsoring them."
"Of course," my mom said.
I was in the living room, eavesdropping, even though I was supposed to be doing my geometry homework.
"Well," my mom went on, clearing her throat, "it will be nice to have another family in the building. They'll be a good addition."
Quisqueya took a quick look at me before turning back to my mom and hunching over her coffee mug. "Except . . . ," she said.
My mom leaned forward. "What?"
Quisqueya said, "The girl . . ." She looked at me again.
My mom peered over Quisqueya's shoulder. "Mayor, are you listening to us?"
I tried to act surprised. "Huh? Me?"
My mom knew me too well, though. She shook her head at Quisqueya to signal that whatever Quisqueya was going to say, she'd better save it if she didn't want me to hear it.
"Bueno, we don't need to talk about it, then," Quisqueya said. "You'll see for yourself eventually, I'm sure."
My mom narrowed her eyes, but instead of pressing, she sat back in her chair and said loudly, "Well." And then, "More coffee?"
We heard a lot of things, but who knew how much of it was true? It didn't take long before the details about the Riversa began to seem far- fetched. They had tried to come into the
United States once before but had been turned back. They were only staying for a few weeks. They were working undercover for the Department of Homeland Security. They were personal friends with the governor. They were running a safe house for illegals. They had connections to a Mexican narco ring. They were loaded. They were poor. They were traveling with the circus.
I tuned it all out after a while. School had started two weeks earlier, and even though I had told myself that this would be the year the other kids stopped picking on me, the year that I actually fi t in for once in my life, things already weren't going exactly as planned. During the first week of school, I was in the locker room, changing into my gym shorts, when Julius Olsen tucked his hands into his armpits and started flapping his arms like wings. "Bwwaak!" he said, looking at me. I ignored him and cinched the drawstring on my shorts. Actually, they were my older brother Enrique's shorts that had been handed down to me, but I wore them because I thought that maybe they would make me seem cooler than I was, like maybe some of Enrique's popularity was trapped in the fibers and would rub off on me. He'd been a senior the year before, when I was a freshman, and every single person in the school had adored him. Soccer stud. Girlfriends by the dozen. Homecoming king. So opposite of me that when I tried to earn points with Shandie Lewis, who I would have given just about anything to hook up with, by telling her that I was Enrique Toro's brother, she said that was a really stupid thing to lie about.
"Bwwaaaak!" Julius said louder, jutting his neck toward me.
I balled up my jeans and shoved them into my locker.
Garrett Miller, who had basically made picking on me last year his special project, pointed at me, laughed, and said, "Fucking chicken legs." He flung his boot at my chest.
Julius snorted.
I took a deep breath and shut my locker. I was used to this kind of abuse. Last year, whenever Enrique caught wind of it, he'd tell me to stand up for myself. "I know you don't want to fight," he said once. "But at least have the balls to tell them to fuck off." And in my head I did. In my head, I was Jason Bourne or Jack Bauer or James Bond or all three of them combined. But beyond my head, the most I ever did was ignore it and walk away.
"How do you say 'chicken' in Spanish?" Garrett asked.
"Pollo," someone answered.
"Major Pollo," Garrett said.
The kids at my school loved changing my first name to English and then tacking insults onto it. Major Pan (short for Panamanian). Major Pan in the Ass. Major Cocksucker.
Julius started cracking up, and he squawked at me again. A few of the other guys in the locker room snickered.
I started walking— I just wanted to get out of there— but when I did, I bumped Garrett's boot, which was on the floor in front of me.
"Don't touch my shoe, Pollo," Garrett said.
"Kick it over here," Julius said.
"Fuck you," Garrett snapped. "Don't tell him to kick my shoe."
"Don't worry," Julius said. "He can't kick for shit. Haven't you seen him out there after school trying to play soccer? He's a total fuckup."
"Major fuckup," Garrett said, stepping in front of me to block any hope I had of leaving.
Garrett was thin, but he was tall. He wore a green army coat every single day, no matter what the weather was, and had a tattoo of an eagle on his neck. The year before, he'd spent a few months in juvenile detention at Ferris because he beat up Angelo Puente so bad that by the end of it, Angelo had two broken arms and blood pouring out of his nose. There was no way I was going to mess with him.
But when the bell rang and the other kids started fi ling out into the gym, Garrett still didn't budge. The locker room was in the school basement and it was so quiet right then that I could hear water coursing through the pipes. There wasn't anywhere for me to go. Garrett took a step closer. I didn't know what he was going to do. And then Mr. Samuels, the gym teacher, poked his head into the room.
"You boys are supposed to be out in the gym," he said.
Garrett didn't move. Neither did I.
"Now!" he barked.
So that was one thing. The other thing, as Julius had pointed out, was soccer. The only reason I'd gone out for the team in the first place was because my dad had forced me into it. For him, the logic went something like: I was Latino and male and not a cripple, therefore I should play soccer. Soccer was for Latinos, basketball for blacks, and the whites could keep their tennis and golf as far as he was concerned. He'd applied the same reasoning to my brother, too, except that in Enrique's case, it had actually worked out. Enrique had been the fi rst player in the history of our school to make varsity as a freshman, and when he got a full- ride soccer scholarship to Maryland, it was like my dad had been vindicated. "See?" he'd said, waving around the offer letter when it came in the mail. "You were meant to do this! The next Pelé! And this one," he'd said, pointing at me, "the next Maradona!"
Enrique might have been the next Pelé, but I wasn't even in the same galaxy as Maradona. Two weeks into practice, I had bruised shins, a scabby knee, and a scraped elbow. Coach even pulled me aside once to ask whether I was wearing the right size cleats. I told him they were size seven, which was my size, and he patted my shoulder and said, "Okay, then. Maybe you should just sit it out for a while," and directed me to the sidelines.
In the past few days, a flock of girls had started coming to our practices, sitting in the empty stands and pointing at us while they texted and talked. Word got around that they were new freshmen. They didn't look like any freshmen I knew, in their skimpy tank tops and lacy black bras they wore underneath, but what I did know was that our team got a hell of a lot better after those girls showed up. Everyone was running faster and kicking harder than before. I felt like a loser, hanging around the sidelines all the time. Whenever the girls broke out in laughter,
I was sure they were laughing at me. One day, I asked Coach if I could go back in, even if just for a few drills. When he looked ambivalent, I lied and said, "I've been practicing with my dad at home. Even he thinks I'm getting better." Coach worked his jaw from side to side like he was thinking about it. "Please?" I said. Finally he gave in. "Okay. Let's see what you got."
We set up a star drill where guys spread out into a circle and dribbled the ball a few paces into the middle before passing to a teammate who took the ball and repeated the sequence. Each time I ran through and got back in line, I looked up at the girls in the stands, who weren't laughing anymore, just watching. Maybe I got overconfident. Maybe there was a divot in the grass. The next time I ran into the middle to get the ball, my ankle turned. Ethan Weisberg was stepping toward me, waiting for me to pass to him. I was so eager to get the dribble going again that when I went for the ball with my other foot, I rolled my cleat up over it instead. The ball was still spinning, and I stumbled again just as Ethan, impatient and frustrated, finally came at me and tried to spear his foot in to swipe the ball out for himself. When he did, I fell. His leg caught under mine. And before either of us knew it, I had taken him down, both of us landing on top of each other in the middle of the field. "What the fuck, Mayor!" Ethan yelled. My hip throbbed. Coach blew his whistle and jogged in to untangle us. The girls erupted in laughter.
Meet the Author
Cristina Henríquez is the author of the story collection Come Together, Fall Apart, which was a New York Times Editors' Choice selection, and the novel The World in Half. Her work has appeared in The New Yorker, The Atlantic, The American Scholar, Glimmer Train, Virginia Quarterly Review, Ploughshares, TriQuarterly, AGNI, and Oxford American, as well as in various anthologies. She lives in Illinois.
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An insightful look at the lives of Hispanic immigrants from many countries, Well written and an accurate look at their different cultures, the reasons they come and what they encounter and endure in our country! It lead to a lively discussion at Book Club and we will look for more books by this author.
LOVED IT LOVED IT LOVED IT I saw this book listed in the Oprah Magazine and had to buy it! Sure glad I did, read half the book the first day. In 1985 I visited Patzcuaro, Michacan, beautiful little town, so I can understand how Alma & Arturo felt coming to the US, not knowing the language or anybody to help them, but parents will do whatever it takes for their children, sad but also inspiring story. I highly recommend this book, you don't have to be an immigrant to read this story you just have to be a human being.
I read this book for my bookclub. I loved it!
If I remember correctly this is a debut book by this author. Not a page turner in the usual sense, yet still I stayed up late turning pages. These are vignettes that are held together by time, place and circumstance. It is a story of immigrants that we white people ignore, persecute, and for some of us the word "hate" is not too strong. A story we know, and need to be reminded of. Take a chance, this is a readable book that may just get under your skin.
This book was ok. It did not deserve all the raves about books of the year, etc.... I rely less and less on critics because half of the time the postings are inaccurate such as this one. It wasn't a waste of time but I was disappointed.
This is not a story about immigration but intertwined stories about immigrants whose stories draw parallels to stories my grandmother and grandfather told of their own experiences in the 19th the common experience of fitting in and making a better life staying true to yourself and your culture
I found the individual stories interesting but the writing style was more for a YA book. As a urban adult, I am familiar with the struggles of immigrants from Mexico and South America.


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