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Contributor's Marginalia: Paul Dickey on "The Belt" by Noah Kucij
As an instructor in Critical Reasoning and Philosophy (not English Comp or Literature), I may be the odd, ugly duck in this lake of 32. I teach my students that there are two ways that one fails to be clear. We are often vague and we are often ambiguous. Both are problematic in making one understood in a philosophical or logical argument, or even in day-to-day communication. They might worry whether their instructor is bald because just how bald does he have to be to be such, how much more hair would he need to have not to be so? Baldness seems vague. Although we seem to have some clue what it means, it does not clearly say what it means. But if I say that the blonde in the first row is hot, am I making an inappropriate sexual remark or am I concerned for my student's comfort in the classroom? We know at least two things I might be meaning. Thus, it is ambiguous, and my keeping my job hinges on that the Dean understands which one I am saying.
I tell students to avoid both vagueness and ambiguity. Of course, I am speaking to my class in the context of prose not verse. As a poet, I myself go home from class and bend and stretch every ambiguity I can find to the breaking point. In the case of poetry, of course, we just as seriously strive to be clear, but the fine points of doing so may be different. We think at times even vagueness in verse might be good, even suggestive (well, perhaps, but be careful). And of course metaphor is ambiguous. After all, isn't that the point of it?
So what counts as clarity in poetry? Ms. Marianne Moore suggested "imaginary gardens with real toads." Mr. Noah Kucij's "The Belt" in the latest 32 Poems points out to us the Walmart belt inching forward with "what we love." Of course, Mr Kucij avoids vagueness by identifying quite accessibly what is on the belt: Depends, Ensure, Lysol. But even more to the point here, the ambiguity itself is clarity. It is an ambiguity where two sides of the equation must exist at the same time, not be resolved into the one. Mr. Kucij's ambiguity is one where both meanings are fully relevant, necessary, engaged, enriching. We cannot speak only of one meaning without minimizing the meaning, not as in my earlier example of the "hot blonde," where dismissing one meaning clarifies the meaning.
Of course, Mr. Kucij's poem (and yes, my own in this issue) is not clear or understandable in terms of what I demand of my student's logical arguments. Though not vague, "The Belt" is quite ambiguous. Here, words do and should mean more than one thing, although they mean exactly what they mean (not vague):
in Walmart, celestial fixtures
never blink. At home, the dog
down with care. We merge into
a single lane, we slap our stories
on the belt,
or finally, even
putting bread on credit, double-
bagging bleach and ketchup, trying
to keep what we love alive.
Mr. Kucij achieves clarity through ambiguity by providing us a necessity (a deductive logic of sorts) of two different worlds we know well, and they are colliding in a way we always "knew" they would but at the same time also never suspected. A paradox, but what makes Mr. Kucij's poem clear is that in it we lose the distracting, confusing sense that we could do without either: 1) the belt moving forward, not stopping, even as we burden it with new items, or 2) our love. No denying it. We live in this dualistic world. Nothing can be clearer, as it were.
So, as you might also guess, I am partial to poetry that is not (to use one very frequently unclear word) "subjective." I consider poetry subjective (sadly, my own quite often), if image, craft, etc, are there because the poet for his or her reasons chose to put them there and then must work for the poem to justify them, to see them. This is not always bad poetry of course, but subjectivity, besides its other risks, often becomes unclear.
In "The Belt" the images are there because (sorry, there seems no other way to say it) they are there, they somehow have to be there. As such, these images/this language may even have to risk banality in places (which for the most part, I would argue Mr. Kucij avoids). That is, I like poetry that proves itself (which of course is an oxymoron). But, yes, I'll say it again, this poem proves itself. It is an oxymoron which, I believe, can enlighten us on much verse today, and in particular, enlightens Mr. Kucij's poem.
The poem, of course, is no syllogism recognizable by Aristotle:
Premise One: The celestial fixtures never blink.
Premise Two: We slap our stories onto the belt.
Conclusion: I want to kiss the haggard cashier older than my mother.
But if this is not a valid poetic argument, I don't know what is. In Mr. Kucij's poem, from premises, his conclusion inevitably follows. It is true, that is, in all of Leibniz's possible worlds.
—Paul Dickey
Paul Dickey's first full-length book of poetry, They Say This is How Death Came Into the World, was published by Mayapple Press in January, 2011. A new book, Wires Over the Homeplace, will be published by Pinyon Publishing this fall. Besides 32 Poems, his poetry, fiction, and creative non-fiction has appeared recently or is forthcoming in The Bellevue Literary Review, Pleiades, Prairie Schooner, The Hampden-Sydney Poetry Review, Memoir (and), and many other journals. Over the past five years, Dickey has been a frequent contributor to the acclaimed journal on prose poetry Sentence and appears in their textbook anthology, An Introduction to the Prose Poem from Firewheel Editions. In addition to his literary work, Dickey also writes plays and teaches philosophy at Metropolitan Community College in Omaha, Nebraska.


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Maplin still sell parts by mail order, though I suspect they're a little overpriced.
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Maplin still sell parts by mail order, though I suspect they're a little overpriced.
That's not saliva...
Oh, I'm sure that was entire intentional and you're only inflating their egos to bursting point by focussing on it. Hate to burst your bubble and all...
Oh god, the puns. They're ballooning.
Nah, he'll be racing against it in a Veyron. Possibly from the top of a cliff.
Gingerbread is just the OS, I'd be surprised if it came with that sort of capability built in.
Like they say: there's an app for that. :)
But at least the president isn't trying to get his rocks off.
I had no other way to work that joke in.
... I'll leave now...
"it's just fiction" is all good and well but it does rather miss the point itself. Fiction is a very large part of our culture. An incredibly large part of it. As such fiction forms a large part of our worldview by influencing both our value structures and how we perceive the world.
A culture is the social mores, beliefs and opinions and behaviours of a group, who learned those social artefacts while they were children.
This is a show aimed at children. Remember that for a moment.
Consider: if you want to influence a culture, where's the best place to start? At the top, with its leaders? They're already inculcated with a particular worldview. They can be nudged but, by and large, they've settled on their opinions and are unlikely to be shifted, and any change in the underlying culture often threatens their powerbase.
In the middle with the general adult population? Again, they've already absorbed their culture. Again, they are unlikely to be shifted from it because it would require reanalysis of their core beliefs. One or two may have an "epiphany" and change their behaviour when presented with an alternative culture but even they are still innately linked to the prevailing culture in which they were raised. It's burrowed deep into their brain and forms the primary motivations for their behaviour.
The children? They are young and malleable. They are still absorbing the cultural mores of their parents. They are equally open to any concept presented to them.
There's a reason why political movements always focus on children. They know that children, above all others, are easy to impress upon with new ideas, new claims, motivations completely alien to the culture they were born in. The quickest way to create a sea-change in a culture is to capture the next generation and introduce the ideas of that change within them.
Which brings us back to fiction (which forms, as I asserted, the majority of our culture). A child watching this will soak up the idea unconsciously and it will become part of his belief structure in some way. One instance won't do much, but if there are more instances, more pieces of fiction (especially television which, for a variety of physiological reasons, is an extremely potent way to influence the way people think) containing similar ideas, a cultural imperative will be crafted within the child to view open source with suspicion.
So "it's just fiction" is a bit of a red herring. It's presented as fact.
Who remembers Hackers?
"It has a bus!"
I was bashing hipsters before it was popular.
Aye, and it's not like the rocks are going to suddenly get up and walk away.
Though it'd be fun if they did...
They keep telling the truth about us, they must be funded by google!
The vast conspiracy meme gets old...
Mount a couple on SpaceX's Dragon capsule and we can invade Mars properly.
Er... mongo-what? Good god did you just cross a line, mate. Can't win an argument so you resort to disgusting insults.
Well done!
.... wait, an apple patent that covers an actual, physical implementation of a novel idea that isn't just "basic software concept X but on a mobile device" or "round corners"?
Hasham, the difference is simple: HMV and co are selling music. Advertisers are selling a product and using music to form part of that product's image. HMV and co don't alter the artist's creative intent by associating third-party imagery with the music. They don't blend it and break it and merge it with their own ideas, they just sell it. Advertisers transform a creative work, they associate that music with concepts that may be completely opposite the artist's original intent and in doing so they alter what the artist is trying to say. They are not selling the music. You're apparently labouring under the impression that selling music and using music to sell a product are the same thing when they are, in fact, completely different.
Better not launch it over Australia then.
I thought we were the popular people's front...
... how small are your hands?
With all the money saved "we" could buy a few-hundred rockets from SpaceX and shoot them all into the sun. I was originally going to suggest a one-way trip to the sahara, but we'd only end up with a dire shortage of sand.
I'd assume it's because the win16 environment was pretty much one gigantic security hole by that point and that it wasn't particularly well documented, or understood, or even compatible with the updated architecture of Vista. It makes sense to drop it from the default install, just like a default 64 bit Debian install doesn't come with the ia32 compatibility libs.
Why should they include an outdated architecture by default?
Now if you're arguing that they should have written a set of compatibility libs for 16 bit applications then you may well have a point, but that's a different issue to dropping default support.
Well... in most usage it amounts to basically the same thing.
Doff! DOFF! Doth be that which thee doest, he doth, they do, and not an action be. Thee doff thy cap to thy lord and he doth greet thee.
Always remember, thee is the formal, thou is the familiar, and be well.
Steam isn't quite the same thing. It has cloudy features now but it's not in the cloud. Your data resides on your computer, not in some fluffy abstraction out on the edge of the internet.
Of course it has a fairly comprehensive DRM scheme, but that's a whole different kettle of fish.
Why the state?
Yes, providing the option is a "step backwards". They should just force everyone to use the same OS regardless of what they want to acheive with the device.
No, it constitutes disagreement with the scientists, disagreement with the claims regarding the quality of the evidence and disagreement with the currently favoured hypothesis. Believe it or not, that is science.
The problems that would apply the Hubble also apply to the other earth-orbiting scopes. In addition their focal length rather rules it out; they simply can't focus on something that close. It'd be like asking you to read a screen right in front of your eyeball.
Combines the best of a tablet and laptop? Sounds familiar... oh wait, it could be because that's exactly the device I'm posting from!
Now if only ASUS would get off their butts and release the padfone here.
Putting McKinnon and Assange in the same category seems a little off to me. Assange is accused of rape and is attempting to avoid justice. McKinnon is accused of being embarrassing to an american politician and is attempting to find justice. One of these things is a serious crime. Can you tell which?
The very existence of the CPS is the reason why this went as far as it did, but that isn't a flaw in the CPS. It's the entire reason the CPS was created. The police, who had common sense, weren't bringing high-profile prosecutions; the government wanted prosecutions, so the CPS was created to take the job of bringing prosecutions away from the police in order to make political hay.
Whilst it was created in 1985 and thus isn't the sole responsibility of Blair's government, until 2003 it had to wait to be asked by the local police force to bring a prosecution, and only if that force chose to ask. What changed in 2003 was the introduction of the 2003 criminal justice at which, amongst such innocuous details as removing double jeopardy protection, right to trial by jury and creating more new crimes than at any time in British history, gave the CPS the sole right to bring prosecutions, reversing its relationship with the police completely and leading to the current series of farcical trials that make big headlines but don't achieve any sort of justice.
Zwei, you're wrong. The banks failed spectacularly, which is why they're being propped up with tax money right now, and storing up a whole world of pain for all of us in the process.
ZweiBlumen, nothing, nothing, is too big to fail. You've said it yoruself, facebook has replaced Google as "the internet" for most people, which means Google is starting to lose mindshare, which means in turn it will gradually stop being "search" for a lot of people, which in turn means something will replace it. It's as inevitable as the human species one day disappearing.
Everything dies. That's life, and it's a rule that applies as much to giant technology behemoths as it does to dinosaurs.
I'd have thought an algae mat would be a better comparison.
«Je suis sous la manche! Non, la manche! Oui, c'est merde!»
vous est ne m'a pas vu, d'accord?
What are the chances of that, eh?
Dunno about you, but I laugh every time I see them.
It used to be, in this country, that nothing was illegal unless it was specifically legislated against, or found by a court to be a breach of the common law. Now, it seems, successive governments have implemented incredibly broad legislation that outlaws huge swathes of "innocent" activity, and then adds caveats to "allow" what was only rendered illegal by their actions in the first place. It's fundamentally unjust and it leads to corruption, as lobbyists angle for their own particular exemption from the law and politicians create special classes of Thing that are now exempt, and expect to be treated as heroes for suppressing the rights of the people and then granting them a little bit back.
Genetic "failure"?
Doesn't surprise me at all. The lovely wife is an aspie and has all sorts of issues that are compounded by the fact that, as a Swede living in the UK, she faces culture shocks nearly every day and still hasn't fully grasped basic idiom. She's seen several therapists over the years, only one of whom was in any way qualified to deal with aspergers cases and that only because he was an aspie himself. None of the others seemed to even understand what aspergers was, never mind how to properly assess her mental state or deal with the issues she raised. They treated her as simple depression in most cases. Mental heathcare in the UK is completely and utterly inadequate.
Late diagnosis didn't help matters either, nor did the fact that Swedish healthcare is apparently even further behind than the UK when it comes to mental health. Over there they said vad tusan and stuck her on antidepressants that made the situation worse for several years.
When I was a volunteer mediator I spent time talking to more than a few disputants who were also aspies and, in every case, the same basic refrain was repeated: there is no real help. They get bounced through the welfare system, have money and all sorts of pills thrown at them (or just the pills in a lot of cases), but they never get decent assistance and nobody tries to assess the issues they actually present. They're just expected to "grow up" and then treated like retarded children.
Took me years to even begin to understand how the wife sees the world. She still doesn't properly understand herself but we're trying to get her fully assessed and, hopefully, that will help matters along considerably.
A terrible indictment of modern consume-credit-oriented society that requires us to work all hours of the day and nit just to stay above water whilst continually seeking the latest shiny t-
oooh new phone MUST HAVE BYE BYE COMMENTS
Tell me about it. I didn't realise technology had reached that sort of point. I recall a documentary a few years back about a system that was designed to try and give some limited vision to people who were completely blind by crudely stimulating the visual cortex with implanted electrodes fed from a camera, but that was enormously clunky and only showed a few tens of dots. What this guy is wearing seems almost Star Trek in comparison.
Now where's that anon who was pooh poohing the idea that the pi could or would be used for projects like this? I've got a special order of sour grapes just for him.
Trolling only works if you actually have brains.
We also had the RG-31, the vehicle that would have saved so many of our armed forces lives in Iraq if only we'd used it instead of the bloody landrover, before the Americans had even heard of the concept of using V-shaped monocoque hulls for better mine protection - and then we sold them off and went back to the landrover because... well, nobody actually knows.
This doesn't prove anything related to the article, except the MoD and the military top brass are fuckwits who will probably sell off our mine-sweeping capabilities just when the government decides that we really need to do something in the gulf and the Iranians decide that yes, they will start mining the strait of hormuz from coast to coast.
You think you could clarify that a little?
In other words you're discriminating against religious groups because they came to their conclusions via a different path to yours and added some flowery language to what is, in essence, the same basic statement and now you want to dictate what they can and cannot do because it doesn't fit in with your own beliefs.
This absolves them of nothing, I should add, but you really ought to consider what you're saying, because you are no different in the end.
43 You have heard that it was said, 'You shall love your neighbour and hate your enemy.' 44 But I say to you, love your enemies, bless those who curse you, do good to those who hate you, and pray for those who spitefully use you and persecute you, 45 that you may be sons of your Father in heaven; for He makes His sun rise on the evil and on the good, and sends rain on the just and on the unjust. 46 For if you love those who love you, what reward have you? Do not even the tax collectors do the same? 47 And if you greet your brethren only, what do you do more than others? Do not even the tax collectors do so? 48 Therefore you shall be perfect, just as your Father in heaven is perfect.
Matthew 5:43-48
"Yes, so raising the profile does what exactly?"
Raises their own profile. They get talked about, get noticed, get more "responsibility", get re-elected, get a better salary, get more prestige. Get to do it all over again with a new topic.
Duct tape.


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- 1 lb semisweet chocolate, chopped
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07/28/2014 8:30amReal estate website operator Zillow is buying rival Trulia in a $3.5 billion deal that would make the biggest player in the online real estate market.
German court receives suit against EU bank union
07/28/2014 8:41amA group of German professors has filed a complaint to the country's highest court against the European Union's plans to create a so-called banking union, a central part of the effort to make the continent's financial system more resilient.
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Contracts to buy US homes slip in June
07/28/2014 9:00amFewer Americans signed contracts to buy homes in June, as the real estate market appears to have cooled off this summer.
Grain mixed, livestock higher
07/28/2014 9:02amGrain futures were mixed Monday in early trading on the Chicago Board of Trade.
Report for Detroit creditor boosts value of art
07/28/2014 9:10amOne of the companies challenging Detroit's bankruptcy plan says the possible value of the Detroit Institute of Arts' collection is $8.5 billion — a figure that's higher than previous estimates.
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07/28/2014 9:31amUintah County Sheriff's deputies say a 21-year-old man and a 15-year-old boy are dead after a rollover crash in Dry Fork Canyon. The Sheriff's Office says Trevor Cuch of Vernal died after being ejected from the vehicle Saturday night and the teen died later at a hospital. Deputies say the two had borrowed the vehicle from a friend who reported they were overdue in returning it. That report helped identify the victims.
Tyson to sell Mexico, Brazil poultry operations
07/28/2014 9:41amTyson Foods plans to sell its poultry businesses in Mexico and Brazil for $575 million in cash to help pay debt from its recently announced acquisition of Hillshire Brands.
Analysis: Clinton impeachment shadows GOP lawsuit
07/28/2014 9:51amThe last time Republicans unleashed impeachment proceedings against a Democratic president, they lost five House seats in an election they seemed primed to win handily.
US companies increasingly fish for growth overseas
07/28/2014 10:00amMajor U.S. companies are starting to reap their most rapid growth in fertile lands of opportunity far from home.
Observers, investigators kept away by fighting
07/28/2014 10:11amA member of an observation team trying to reach the debris from the Malaysia Airlines plane in eastern Ukraine says, "We are sick and tired of being interrupted by gunfights."
US stocks fall at midday on cooling home sales
07/28/2014 10:20amU.S. stocks are slightly lower in midday trading after a report of sluggish sales in the housing market.
Medicare hospital fund to stay solvent until 2030, four years later than previous estimate
07/28/2014 10:20amMedicare hospital fund to stay solvent until 2030, four years later than previous estimate.
07/28/2014 10:21amSales, noon price and net change of the 15 most active New York Stock Exchange issues, trading nationally.
Virgin America files plans for IPO
07/28/2014 11:01amVirgin America's next destination is Wall Street.
Gadget Watch: PadFone novel as phone-tablet hybrid
07/28/2014 11:10amCompanies often blend old products to give you something new.
Red Lobster goes vertical on plate to push quality
07/28/2014 11:11amRed Lobster wants to be seen as a purveyor of quality seafood, so it's getting rid of some of its promotional discounts and stacking the food higher on plates, as is the style at fancier restaurants.
Trial in salmonella outbreak begins in Georgia
07/28/2014 11:11amJury selection is underway in the trial for three people charged in a deadly salmonella outbreak traced to a southwest Georgia peanut plant five years ago.
Zillow buying Trulia to build real estate titan
07/28/2014 11:21amZillow and Trulia, two companies that changed the way people shop for homes, are combining.
Virus drugmaker fights pediatricians' new advice
07/28/2014 11:51amA costly drug given mostly to premature babies is at the center of a clash between the manufacturer and the leading U.S. pediatrician's group, which recommends scaling back use of the medicine.
More hospitals to test newborns for heart defects
07/28/2014 12:01pmMore New Mexico hospitals are about to start screening all newborns for a type of heart disease.
CORRECTS: FAA proposes $12M fine against Southwest for flying planes without proper repairs
07/28/2014 12:11pmCORRECTS: FAA proposes $12M fine against Southwest for flying planes without proper repairs. (Corrects APNewsAlert that said FAA fines Southwest $12 million)
Lloyds bank settles with US, UK over market fixing
07/28/2014 1:11pmLloyds Banking Group is paying $369 million to U.S. and British authorities to settle allegations it manipulated a key global interest rate.
Officials: Funds secured for nuclear fuel project
07/28/2014 1:20pmSouth Carolina Gov. Nikki Haley and members of her state's congressional delegation say federal lawmakers have secured enough money to ensure a nuclear fuel project at the Savannah River Site goes forward.
Dollar Tree steps up fight, buys Family Dollar
07/28/2014 1:22pmThe fight for penny pinchers is intensifying.
Oil depot ablaze amid clashes in Libyan capital
07/28/2014 1:40pmA fire at the oil depot for the airport in Libya's capital raged out of control Monday after being struck in the crossfire of warring militias battling for control of the airfield, the latest violence to plague the country as foreigners flee the chaos.
Appeals court says St. Luke's can keep Saltzer
07/28/2014 1:41pmOne of Idaho's largest health care providers can continue to operate Nampa-based Saltzer Medical Group while it challenges a prior ruling that it broke antitrust laws in its buyout of Saltzer, according to a recent federal appeals court decision.
Smith & Wesson paying $2M to settle SEC charges
07/28/2014 1:42pmSmith & Wesson has agreed to pay $2 million to settle civil charges of bribing government officials in Pakistan, Indonesia and other countries to win military and police business.
Russia ordered to pay $50 billion over Yukos
07/28/2014 2:10pmRussian President Vladimir Putin's government must pay $50 billion for using tax claims to destroy Yukos, once the country's largest oil producer, and its Kremlin-critical CEO, an international court has ruled.
Fashion industry, retailers and the gender binary
07/28/2014 2:21pmAs a transgender woman who began her transition about a year ago, Kylie Jack is still figuring out her fashion style, but she wanted one thing right away: well-fitting bras.
Stocks end little changed ahead of earnings rush
07/28/2014 2:21pmU.S. stocks are ending little changed as traders wait for key economic and earnings reports later this week.
House bill lets airlines advertise pre-tax fares
07/28/2014 2:41pmIn a victory for airlines and their workers' unions, the House rejected consumers' complaints and easily passed legislation Monday letting airline advertising emphasize the base price of tickets, before taxes and fees are added.
APNewsBreak: Illinois: Doctor faked pot paperwork
07/28/2014 2:41pmIllinois regulators allege a suburban Chicago doctor misled a 79-year-old patient by issuing a bogus medical marijuana certification for a $250 fee, according to a formal complaint filed Monday.
Deal to improve veterans' health care costs $17B
07/28/2014 2:51pmA bipartisan deal announced Monday would authorize about $17 billion to help veterans avoid long waits for health care, hire more doctors and nurses to treat veterans and make it easier to fire executives at the Department of Veterans Affairs.
Medicare's own health looking better, report says
07/28/2014 2:51pmMedicare's financial future is looking brighter despite a growing wave of baby boomers reaching retirement.
Cruz ends hold on nominees over FAA flight ban
07/28/2014 3:01pmRepublican Sen. Ted Cruz is no longer blocking confirmation of a series of ambassadorial and other diplomatic nominees over the Federal Aviation Administration's 36-hour ban on U.S. airline flights to Israel.
Clarification: Fast Food Workers-Convention story
07/28/2014 3:01pmIn a story July 26, The Associated Press reported that Latoya Caldwell, a mother of four from Kansas City, Missouri, who earns $7.50 an hour at a Wendy's restaurant, said she works six days a week to get 40 hours and takes home $435 per paycheck. The story should have made clear Caldwell is paid every two weeks, so the paycheck reflects 80 hours of work.
Ford raising prices on new F-150
07/28/2014 3:11pmFord is raising the price of its new aluminum-sided pickup truck, but still trying to stay competitive with rivals.
FAA proposes to fine Southwest Airlines $12M
07/28/2014 3:11pmThe Federal Aviation Administration said Monday it is proposing a $12 million civil fine against Southwest Airlines for failing to comply with safety regulations related to repairs on Boeing 737 jetliners.
NY teacher tenure system faces new legal challenge
07/28/2014 3:21pmAn educational advocacy group led by former CNN journalist Campbell Brown is challenging New York state's teacher tenure system, filing a lawsuit Monday that alleges that job protections unfairly shield bad teachers.
'Lucy' smacks down 'Hercules' in box office bout
07/28/2014 3:31pmThe Scarlett Johansson-led action flick "Lucy" took it to stalwart action star Dwayne "The Rock" Johnson's "Hercules" over the weekend for the No. 1 spot at the box office.
Florida State law professor was killed in his car
07/28/2014 3:31pmA neighbor found a Florida State University law professor bleeding from a gunshot to the head in the driver's seat of his car in his garage, and the window had been smashed, according to a 911 call released Monday.
Florida State law professor was killed in his car
07/28/2014 3:31pmA neighbor found a Florida State University law professor bleeding from a gunshot to the head in the driver's seat of his car in his garage, and the window had been smashed, according to a 911 call.
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City: Emails show 'cozy' ties of PG&E, regulator
07/28/2014 3:41pmTop California regulators communicated often and enthusiastically with executives at Pacific Gas & Electric Co., even offering unsolicited advice on handling the media while they presided over a case to decide how much the utility should pay for a deadly explosion in a San Francisco Bay Area suburb, according to a trove of emails released Monday.
Judge rules against Clippers owner Donald Sterling, OKs sale of team to ex-Microsoft CEO
07/28/2014 3:50pmJudge rules against Clippers owner Donald Sterling, OKs sale of team to ex-Microsoft CEO.
Rule aims to help clear air around Grand Canyon
07/28/2014 4:00pmThe largest coal-fired power plant in the West will produce one-third less energy by 2020 and could close in 2044 under a proposal that the federal government adopted to cut haze-causing emissions of nitrogen oxide at places like the Grand Canyon.
Inspector had cited lauded Iowa nursing home
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Business owners concerned over Idaho liquor laws
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Mining deaths on rise, 22 in first half of 2014
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UN condemns terrorist oil sales from Iraq, Syria
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Argentina in last-ditch effort to avert default
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Texan Castro sworn in as new housing secretary
07/28/2014 5:10pmFormer San Antonio Mayor Julian Castro has been sworn in as head of the Department of Housing and Urban Development. The official ceremony makes Castro one of the highest-ranking Hispanics in the government.
Not in my backyard: US sending dirty coal abroad
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Officials: Little risk of Ebola outbreak in US
07/28/2014 5:51pmU.S. health officials are monitoring the Ebola outbreak in Africa but say the risk of the deadly germ spreading to the United States is remote.
NC Senate leaders hint at budget details
07/28/2014 7:21pmNorth Carolina's Senate leader said Monday that he hopes to have a final budget to vote on this week.
California governor takes dig at Texas guard plan
07/28/2014 8:10pmCalifornia Gov. Jerry Brown took a not-so-subtle dig at Texas' decision to deploy National Guard troops to the border, saying Monday that he expects it to be a short-lived measure and that "wiser minds will prevail."
'Pawn Stars' TV star plans stores near famous shop
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Darden CEO to step down amid Olive Garden troubles
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New fears about Ebola spread after plane scare
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UN sanctions NKorea operator of ship with weapons
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T-Mobile deal helps Rhapsody hit 2M paying subs
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Post codes. How did we manage without them? Postmen never seemed to have a problem.
Or Amazon. Or eBay. Or any of our stores.
Still. We need postcodes.
Apparently, 35 per cent of Irish addresses share that address with at least one other property. This, it seems, is confusing for delivery people.
Obviously, it's dead easy to mix up, say, Number 23, Oak Lawn, Killybegs, Co. Donegal with Number 23 Oak Lawn, Rathmnines, Dublin 6. Isn't it?
Anyway the thing about post codes is that they have X and Y co-ordinates, I heard the man say. Sure, you couldn't find O'Connell Street without X and Y co-ordinates.
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Emergency services don't like this code. FedEx, DHL, UPS, Pallet Express, and BOC Ireland won't use it.
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When filling in university applications, some athletic youngsters worry less about the institution's academic reputation than the quality of the sports and coaching facilities and the potential to consolidate their skills on the rugby pitch or in a scull. However, many undergraduates do little exercise for three years other than an occasional drunken shuffle around the student union disco.
"In the UK, there is a massive fall in physical activity among people between the ages of 16 and 24, but 40 to 50 per cent of students take exercise or play sports," says Phil Attwell, director of sport at Exeter University. "They have plenty of time, and peer pressure keeps many of them going."
Zena Woolridge, director of sport at Birmingham University, says that universities provide even those who aren't natural players with excellent opportunities to try a new activity.
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By Andrew Pearson, Asheville Citizen-Times
MURPHY N.C. Murphy High rising junior Brittany Henry cannot recall ever experiencing the fright of a hard-hit liner back to the pitching circle.
But the Smoky Mountain Conference softball player of the year still wears a protective mask during games.
Added safety and scoring could be the result of a major change coming to high school softball as soon as next spring.
The National Federation of State High School Associations has mandated that the pitching rubber be moved from 40 to 43 feet in 2011. States have the option of doing it in 2010.
The North Carolina high School Athletic Association will make a decision later this month, NCHSAA assistant executive director Carolyn Shannonhouse said Friday.
Shannonhouse said the NCHSAA is leaning toward making the change for next season.
According to the Mail Tribune in Medford, Ore., Oregon high schools experimented with the 43-feet distance this past season while Florida put it in in 2006 and Massachusetts in 2008. States such as New Jersey, according to NorthJersey.com, and Illinois, according to Illinoishighschoolsports.com, are discussing adopting it for the coming school year.
"This summer I'm playing on a travel team and we pitch from 43 feet," Henry said. "It lets you break the ball differently. You just have to adjust to it. After I practice, I can't tell much of a difference. I do throw more breaking pitches though."
Owen High coach Don McGeary and Roberson High coach Laura Beatty said 43 feet is ideal since it is the NCAA measurement as well.
"As coaches, we need to be getting kids prepared for the next level, so I think it's a good thing," Beatty said.
"I think there will be some pitchers who are still able to dominate. But I also think one of the reasons they are doing this is for safety."
Swain County coach Toby Burrell has taken his Maroon Devils to four straight NCHSAA tournaments. He thinks that moving the rubber back will help offenses but not too dramatically.
"The bottom line is that good pitching is good pitching," Burrell said. "It doesn't matter where you throw from."
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This M.D. has a new policy at Uptown Dermatology located at 1221 w Lake st. The policy is that patients do not have any privacy at any office visit anymore. Also,you are very unlikley to ever even see any licensed M.D. at this clinic. They believe in sharing your personal skin problems with others & you only seeing a physicians assistant who does not believe in patient confidentiality or take her job seriously.
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Doctor Davis helped me in a time of need.
I lived in Uptown and had seen Dr. Davis on television. I went to her with a traumatic injury I had suffered due to a bicycle crash. I also had a separate dry skin problem around my nose for the past 11 years, since I was 15 years old. My insurance was almost going to run out because I was leaving my job as working with a bomb explosive team to do something a little less dangerous because I got married recently. Dr. Davis was quick to diagnose my skin rash as Sebborheic dermatitis and prescribed me a medication that took the redness away. This is after I had seen many doctors who told me general things like eczema or just dry skin was the problem. She also took her time to write down shampoos I could use to combat the problem. She was very warm and friendly, and she told me the wound on my face would probably heal. I was worried if it didn't that my insurance would be running out by the end of the month. She told me not to worry. Well the wound did not heal and I called to see if I could get in to have her do the surgery. Doctor Davis added my appointment to her schedule on a day she was doing surgery even though she didn't have to. I will be forever grateful for this. The surgery was a success, and she did such an awesome job. I was so confident and calmed by her presence that I even watched. If you are looking for a doctor that truly cares about her patients, job, and responsibilities then Dr. Davis is the woman for the job.
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By Spc. Sharla Lewis
1st Cavalry Division public affairs
CONTINGENCY OPERATING BASE ADDER, Iraq - The 36th Infantry Division sponsored its quarterly Arrowhead Stakes competition Friday to name southern Iraq's soldier and noncommissioned officer of the quarter.
The competition was hosted by the 3rd Advise and Assist Brigade, 1st Cavalry Division, which also had individuals participating in the competition.
Cpl. David Nagle, Alpha Company, 215th Brigade Support Battalion, and Spc. Cory Penven, Bravo Troop, 6th Squadron, 9th Cavalry Regiment, competed against four other troopers from units throughout the division's area of responsibility.
The competition began in the early morning with an Army physical fitness test near the House of Pain Gym at Adder.
The soldiers then prepared their backpacks for a six-mile road march to the firing range where they completed a series of basic soldier task challenges, including firing an AK-47 assault rifle and administering medical trauma first aid to a simulated casualty.
Those participating in the competition said the physical aspect of the day was exhausting, though it only lasted until 11 a.m.
"The second mile of the run was bad," Penven said. "And the road march sucked."
The competitors later took turns sitting before a board of their superiors during a test of their Army knowledge in a rapid-fire, question-and-answer session.
The competitors, their sponsors and leaders from throughout U.S. Division-South gathered at the end of the day for dinner at Adder's Coalition Dining Facility to award the winners and review the day's successes.
Six soldiers entered the competition, but only two emerged victorious: Nagle and Penven. They received Army Commendation Medals, coins, backpacks and bragging rights.
Nagle said the competition was fierce, but he was proud and confident in his abilities.
"It was a healthy competition," he said. "But I knew after the board that I had it in the bag. We earned this. We'll represent 1st Cav all the way to (U.S. Forces Command)."
Penven said he wanted to start preparing to get promoted to sergeant, and Nagle nodded his head in approval.
"This is just one step closer to getting promoted and one step closer to making a difference in soldiers' lives," Nagle said.


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CIUDAD JUAREZ, MexicoIrma Angelica Rosales, 12 years old, arrived in her city of dreams on an 8 a.m. bus. It was a brittle desert morning in late January 1999.
Her chocolate-brown eyes devoured Ciudad Juarez as it unfolded through the dusty window. Outside was a life she imagined would soon be her own. She would get a job in one of the modern factories with the famous American names: Ford, Motorola, General Electric. She would have her own money to buy the stylish dresses and platform shoes the city girls wore. She - not just her older brothers - would send money back home to her ailing Mama and Papi.
Her parents were a 12-hour bus ride behind her, deep inside Durango state in Mexico's arid northern ranch lands. She was in a new world now. Juarez was a city built by globalization, by the jobs, money and social forces remaking Mexico. Here was the gateway to the world's richest economy. In the dry desert air, the buildings of El Paso, Tex., just across the Rio Grande, looked close enough to touch.
Still giddy on her first day, Irma accompanied her older brother, Miguel Angel Garcia, and his wife, Yadira, to meet Yadira's mother, Maricela Garcia, who looked out for the family members drawn to Juarez. But Maricela, a 49-year-old shopkeeper hardened by a lifetime of work in the big factories of Ciudad Juarez, was alarmed to see the little girl from Durango.
Maricela knew that Juarez, although it was one of Mexico's most modern and prosperous cities, had also become a dark and rootless place that could consume a small-town girl like Irma. The evidence was on the television news: reports showing the bodies and bones of girls and young women found in vacant city lots and vast, open tracts of desert. Over several years, a long list of young women, many anonymous even to police, had vanished from the streets, poor neighborhoods and buses of the city, never to be seen alive again. Dozens more disappeared with no trace of their bodies. By June 2000, the death toll would reach 238.
"You shouldn't have brought her here," Maricela hissed in Miguel's ear. "There are things she's not going to understand about Juarez."
In the days after her arrival, every time Irma wandered into dingy Garcia Groceries, with its sparse shelves and noisy video games, Maricela admonished, "Look, Irma, it is very dangerous. There are people raping and killing here."
"I don't care," Irma retorted, weary of the constant warnings. "They can rape me - just so long as they don't kill me."
Three months before Irma Rosales stepped off the bus from Durango, Suly Ponce arrived for her first day on the job in Ciudad Juarez as the special prosecutor for women's murders. She surveyed her new office in dismay. There were no computers and no files, just a typewriter, two little chairs and an ugly telephone.
She remembers thinking in frustration, "They've given little importance to the creation of this office. It's been created for the politicians just to say, 'I was here!' "
Ponce was the fifth person to head the state government's Special Office for the Investigation of Women's Murders in Ciudad Juarez in the nine months it had existed. After six years and 200 slain girls and women, virtually none of the crimes, excluding those committed in domestic disputes, had been solved.
The political pressures to solve a series of lurid slayings in one of Mexico's most important manufacturing centers were immense. Ciudad Juarez epitomized the promises of the 1994 North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA), which had helped create jobs for more than 1.2 million Mexicans - 250,000 in Ciudad Juarez - who churned out consumer products for the biggest name brands in the world. In a convergence of supply and demand, foreign firms and Mexican workers flocked to Juarez for the same reason: the wages, which were higher than elsewhere in Mexico, but more than 10 times less than the $5.15 minimum for an hour's work across the border in the United States.
For 3 1/2 centuries, Ciudad Juarez has been a strategic passage between north and south - for the Franciscan missionaries who first settled here in 1659, for the raids of Mexican revolutionary war hero Pancho Villa in the early 1900s, for bootleggers during U.S. Prohibition and, for the last 35 years, for the consumer goods manufactured in the border factories.
But the U.S. gateway that brought prosperity to this dust-coated city over the last four decades - more than quadrupling its population - also created a market for drug traffickers, migrant smugglers, gunrunners and car thieves. With the criminals came an explosion of violence and some of the highest homicide rates in Mexico.
Sometime in the early 1990s - police cannot say why or exactly when - the pattern of killings changed. Once confined mostly to drug feuds, brawls and gang fights, the slayings began to include large numbers of women and girls. Many of these killings were almost incomprehensibly brutal. Women were raped and strangled, crushed or mutilated. Some bore knife or teeth marks on the left breast. In some cases, victims' partially clothed bodies had been bound with shoelaces; often someone had carefully arranged the shoes beside the body. Body after body turned up with skin singed black by the sun or bones picked clean by desert vermin.
In attacking young women, the killer or killers were preying on victims furnished in part by the global economic forces so vital to Juarez's boom. The majority of the slain women worked outside the home. Many were migrants whose pursuit of 21st-century jobs had created a new phenomenon of mobile, independent - and vulnerable - working women, many living away from their more traditional rural communities for the first time. Of those victims who were employed, an estimated 40 percent worked in maquiladoras, the assembly plants that meant billions of dollars to international business and Mexican households.
Business leaders, citizen organizations and international human rights groups attacked Mexican law enforcement authorities for failing to solve or prevent the crimes. The new governor of the state of Chihuahua, where Ciudad Juarez is located, had campaigned on promises to curb the violence.
The job of deciphering the most macabre and baffling series of homicides in modern Mexican history now fell to Ponce, a chain-smoking 35-year-old with auburn hair who favored fashionable suits of bright red or butter yellow. She had been a university professor, federal elections commission official, public defender and local magistrate. She had never been a prosecutor.
If the sight of her new office depressed her on that first day, Ponce's first visit to a crime scene horrified her.
News photographers moved the body to get better angles for their pictures. Police trampled footprints and tire tracks that could have been valuable evidence and, with reporters and curiosity-seekers, littered the ground with cigarette butts and empty soda cans.
"We didn't know what we were looking for," recalled Ponce. "We lost all the evidence. Everything. Absolutely everything."
Furious, she cordoned crime scenes, claimed more office space, and installed computers and banks of fancy telephones. With help from FBI agents from El Paso, who offered advice on preserving evidence and tracking killings, she tried to make the investigators more professional. Even some of the FBI's Quantico, Va.-based serial killer profilers, the agents depicted in the movie "The Silence of the Lambs," were called in to test - and ultimately reject - the theory that a single, crazed mass murderer was on the loose.
And still, the killings continued: on Dec. 10, 1998, Celia Guadalupe Gomez, 13, a technical school student, raped, stabbed and strangled, left in a vacant lot; a month later, an unidentified teenager, strangled and dumped in the same empty lot where five other bodies had been discovered over the past three years; on Valentine's Day, the scattered bones of yet another unidentified female, found in the desert outside the city where numerous other bodies and skeletons had turned up.
After three months on the job, Ponce had nine new slayings - half of which fit the same horrific pattern - and no real suspects. She was under fire as just another ineffective bureaucrat.
"This was what was so alarming: We didn't know who it was," said Ponce. "We were studying the entire family [of the victims] and we couldn't reach any conclusions because many of them were good workers, many of them were students - good girls, clean girls."
"What's happening here?" she remembered thinking. "Who is behind all of this?"
"Mama, I want to go to Juarez," Irma pleaded.
She had a plan. She would move in with her half-brother, Miguel, and his wife, Yadira, who had been telling her about the big city her entire life.
"Ay, my daughter, you're so young," Rosa Maria Lozano remembers chiding her. "You have to finish school."
But at 12, not waiting to outgrow her childhood dimples and mischievous spirit, Irma had already decided to escape school, and along with it the tedium that enveloped daily life for a girl with dreams in the town of Gomez Palacio.
Irma had spent her entire life in the blue house at 185 Avenida Martin Carrera, Colonia Jose Rebollo Acosta, on the poor side of Gomez Palacio. The pavement stopped three blocks from her doorway, and with each passing car, dust seeped through every crack in the little three-room house. The view out Irma's window was the neighbor's front yard: a heap of rubble and chunks of concrete.
She lived with her 52-year-old mother, who had diabetes and heart trouble, and her 49-year-old father, Juan Rosales, a sometime truck driver with failing kidneys. He had spent much of the previous year in the hospital for dialysis treatments. A stern man, appreciated by his wife because he did not beat her or Irma, he had no use for parties, dancing, music or movies - Irma's passions. Even if he had, there was little money. Mama stuffed tamales in the kitchen behind Irma's room to sell at the local factory gates. It was a peso here, a peso there.
At the end of the fifth grade, Irma ripped up her report card in hopes that the school would prevent her from returning, but she was readmitted anyway. The pea-green walls of her classroom were bare except for two chalk-coated blackboards - no posters, no pictures. The teacher spent most of the day disciplining children; she knew that across Durango, one in three students would not advance past the sixth grade.
Every Monday, Irma refused to go to class because she did not like the flag-raising ceremony students were required to attend. Every Friday, she played hooky because she hated cleaning the blackboards and erasers. Instead of studying, she dreamed.
Often she thought about Miguel, Dona Rosa's 29-year-old son from her first marriage, and his life in Juarez. Miguel sent money to pay for her father's dialysis and to cover other expenses. He visited Gomez Palacio with his wife and their 4-year-old son, Jesus.
"Mama," Irma pleaded. "Let me go. Let me go and work with Yadira. I can work in a factory there."
Surely, the big international factories would not hire a child as young as Irma, Dona Rosa said to Yadira during a holiday visit to Gomez Palacio early last year. "Can she get a job there?"
"Yes, yes, they would hire her," said Yadira.
Dona Rosa remembers thinking: "We are in debt. My husband is sick." She was exhausted by her rambunctious daughter.
A few days later, Irma came home from school early, crying. She said that her teacher had accused her of smoking, had slapped her, had knocked her down.
"I don't want to go back to school," Irma said. "I want to go to Juarez with Yadira."
"Son, can you do it?" Dona Rosa asked Miguel, who was preparing to return to the border with his family.
"Well, if you like, I'll take her," replied Miguel. "She's my sister. We have room."
"You're the only one I'd let her go with," Dona Rosa said. "I know you'll take care of her."
Thirty-six hours later, on Jan. 27, 1999, Irma was in Ciudad Juarez.
Buses filled with migrants arrive every day in Ciudad Juarez from all over Mexico. They have pushed the city's population to more than 1.2 million - according to some estimates, as many as 2 million. Most newcomers are impoverished - farmers with land too worn out to provide for their families; economic refugees from the poorest pockets of the Mexican states of Oaxaca, Veracruz and Durango; thousands of women and girls who have never held a job beyond cooking, washing, cleaning and accommodating their fathers and husbands.
For many, Ciudad Juarez serves as a chaotic waiting room on the way to the Other Side. Tens of thousands of Mexicans cross the border here each year, legally or illegally. But for even more, Ciudad Juarez offers a $4-a-day job in the maquiladoras of U.S. Fortune 500 companies that dot the Mexican side of the Rio Grande.
Maquiladoras, which translates loosely as "places for making industrial products," were created in 1965 when Mexico formed a special commercial zone along its northern frontier where foreign companies - mostly American - could import parts duty-free and export finished products back to the home country or around the world at favorable tax and labor rates. Mexico now has 3,485 maquiladoras.
In addition to propping up Mexico's economy during years of financial crisis, the maquilas, as the factories are often called, spawned and nurtured one of the greatest cultural revolutions in modern Mexico. The factories - in which at least 60 percent of workers are female - lured hundreds of thousands of women and girls from their confining homes and remote villages across Mexico, giving them greater financial and social independence than perhaps any other single phenomenon in recent Mexican history.
But while Ciudad Juarez's maquiladoras pleaded for new workers to help fill orders for foreign markets, the living conditions for many workers were wretched, in communities that seemed to have been erected overnight from the scraps of the assembly industry.
Many houses near the neighborhood that Irma moved into with her brother and his wife were constructed from the wooden pallets and cardboard boxes discarded by the maquiladoras. Miguel and Yadira had fared better: They had a single cement room. Still, they had no telephone or running water. Their landlord provided electricity by pirating current from the city light pole in front of the house. Power surges frequently fried their television and refrigerator.
Rent for the room was $55 a month; it was bedroom, living room and kitchen. The two beds doubled as a place to sleep by night and sit by day. They now accommodated four people: Miguel, Yadira, their son, Jesus, and Irma. Yadira's mother lived just down the road, behind her tiny cubbyhole of a shop.
Yadira had lived in this neighborhood all but two of her 21 years. Miguel had been here since coming to Juarez with his father 15 years earlier in search of work. The couple had married when Yadira was 13. They had scraped by since. Miguel worked in a brick oven just out the back door, baking 1,000 bricks a day. In a good week he earned $70 or $80. In a bad week, when his calloused knees ached from leaning on the hard wet clay, he made half that.
Miguel and Yadira had seen Juarez grow, and knew the dangers of the dark streets where burned-out street lamps were never replaced. They had watched a protest movement emerge that put crosses on telephone poles to remind young women and girls to be especially cautious. Female activists marched through the streets under banners that urged "Women of Juarez Unite" and "Stop the Violence Against Women. Life and Liberty Without Disappearances and Impunity."
Whenever the television news reported another rape, another killing or another disappearance, Miguel would turn to his little sister and say, "Look, honey, another girl disappeared. You better not dare disappear on me."
Yadira, a shy woman with a heart-shaped face and long, coal-black hair, insisted on only one condition for Irma's job search: She wanted to find a factory where they both could work. With the killings continuing in Juarez, she didn't want Irma alone on the streets or buses.
The maquiladoras were desperate for workers. Banners hung larger than the company names outside most buildings: "Workers needed." "Operators needed." "Jobs available." Unlike the rest of Mexico, Juarez - with the lowest unemployment rate in the nation - had jobs for almost anyone.
Irma was four years shy of Mexico's legal working age. But in Juarez, for $20, Irma's brother could buy a fake birth certificate from a local forger that turned a 12-year-old child born at 2:30 p.m. on July 16, 1986, into a 16-year-old job applicant born at 10:30 a.m. on July 16, 1982.
"We were looking for just a day," said Yadira, who had decided to return to work after caring for young Jesus. "We went to one maquila and no luck; we went to a second, no luck either. And then the third one hired us. It wasn't that hard."
Irma presented birth certificate No. 260366 to Electro Componentes de Mexico, also known as International Wire Group Inc., with headquarters in St. Louis. The personnel office did not raise questions about the missing thumbprint that should have been in the corner, or the missing state seal. There was an official-looking stamp in the lower right-hand corner. Who would check beyond that?
The next day, after the mandatory pregnancy test came back negative, Irma and Yadira were in the training room wearing bright green smocks, earning 38 pesos, or about $4, for a day's work, the going rate for new employees at almost every maquila in town.
They learned to operate the machines that processed wiring for General Electric, Amana, Frigidaire and Maytag appliances. Nearly 2,000 people on two shifts labored in a cavernous workshop big enough to cover 2 1/2 football fields. Hundreds of clattering machines ate, then spit out, clusters of multicolored wires. Irma sat on a cushioned, blue high chair at a blue worktable testing purple, orange, green and black wires that would become the electrical veins of new refrigerators.
She was instructed: Stick the little white plug into a little hole in a little plastic box. Wait for the digital readout. Slap on an inspection sticker. Toss the wad of wires into a brown cardboard box. Then do it again, and again, and again. By the end of her 9 1/2-hour shift, Irma had tested 800 white plugs.
Watching her sister-in-law that first day, Yadira could see that already Irma's 12-year-old mind was wandering. Irma would gaze up at the row of gilt-framed photographs on the wall to her right: the annual winners of the Ugly King and the Congenial Queen contest voted by the plant workers. She joked with her neighbors. She ambled over to the nearby line where Yadira worked. They chitchatted over the racket of the clickety-clacking machines. The supervisor scowled. But Irma had never seemed happier.
When their shift ended, Irma and Yadira left the front entrance of the factory and followed smooth sidewalks paralleling the boulevards that curved around the factories. International Wire was framed in dense oleander hedges. Huge power lines towered overhead. A tiny employee park offered a basketball court and an oasis of benches under small trees. Guard booths and wrought iron fences separated each maquila's territory.
Irma and Yadira crossed the fenced boundary of the industrial park into Colonia Mexico 68, a squatters' neighborhood of 3,500 inhabitants that sprang from the detritus of the Juarez Industrial Park. The neighborhood was named for the 1968 anti-government protest in Mexico City in which dozens of students were gunned down by the Mexican army. On the 15-minute walk between the industrial park fence and the tiny cement cubicle where they lived, Yadira and Irma trudged past the houses built from wooden pallets, some with cardboard-box additions. Roofs were covered in tar paper or scraps of tin and held down by rocks, bricks and old tires. Irma and Yadira did not see a single blade of grass.
If there was a menacing side to the poverty and impermanence of her new home, Irma seemed too distracted to notice. She was busy making friends, and noticing how nice all the girls and women were dressed, how shabby she felt in Yadira's hand-me-downs and her worn tennis shoes. She wanted to buy herself some modern outfits, and to send a few pesos back to the little blue house in Gomez Palacio.
Her first weekend in Juarez, Irma called her mother from a pay telephone.
"Daughter, do you want to come back?" Dona Rosa remembers asking.
"No, Mama, I'm doing great!"
"If you're not happy, tell me."
"No, Mama, I'm really happy."
The banner in the lobby of International Wire declared the Juarez plant the winner of the company's "Distinguished Supplier Award" and boasted of its workers: "One team better and faster than anybody else in the world."
International Wire's plant, like all maquiladoras, was built for profit. It had low labor costs, no independent unions and no requirements to meet U.S. Occupational Safety and Health Administration standards. Bonuses were based on working fast. Promotions were based on working fast. Special perks were based on working fast. If you needed a bathroom break, a colleague had better fill in for you.
At her station, Irma was the talker. Irma did not get back to her worktable fast enough after lunch. She chatted too much. Workers in her group, or "cell," complained. They would not get their bonuses because they had not met their quotas - because the gregarious little Irma goofed off too much, they said.
On Friday, Feb. 12 - the end of Irma's first full week on the job - the supervisor warned Irma that she was not performing well, International Wire officials recalled. But the supervisor said, "You haven't been here long. We're going to give you another chance. We're going to change your work area on Monday."
That afternoon, Irma left the factory with her first week's paycheck: $21.
On Sunday, Irma took the bus with Yadira and Miguel to downtown Juarez, where the streets were bustling with maquila workers spending their wages. Irma bought a pair of black, stacked-heel sandals - her first high heels - and a filmy flowered dress with a matching slip. She even had a few pesos left to by a Valentine's Day sucker and stuffed animal for a boy named Oscar at work.
"Irma, you look so pretty," the neighbors called out when she got home.
This was the Irma she had dreamed of becoming: big-city girl, factory employee, her own paycheck.
On Monday, she wore her new shoes to work and came home with blisters on her feet. But she planned to wear the shoes and the dress again on Friday, like all the girls and young women who came to work wearing faux-velvet tops, leather miniskirts and high-heeled shoes - so they could go dancing Friday night right after the end of their shift.
As they had warned Irma earlier, factory supervisors had switched her to a new job. But one plant official said that after receiving instructions for her new job, Irma disappeared from her assembly line for several hours.
The next day, Tuesday, Feb. 16, Irma's boss confronted her about leaving her post. Less than an hour after Yadira took up her workstation, Irma was standing beside her: "I'm going home because the old guy fired me for not doing everything he told me on Monday."
"I can't leave," Yadira fretted. "I can't come with you. You have to go alone."
This was the first time Irma had left the factory by herself, and it made Yadira nervous.
"Take the bus," Yadira cautioned. "Look for a Ruta 5 or a Ruta 7. They go near the house. Don't walk."
Yadira watched her little sister-in-law follow the thick yellow line that skirted the work floor and led to the exit.
"Irma," she called out, "be careful."
Researcher Garance Burke contributed to this report.


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