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Outlook So Europe's banks need to raise €106bn (£93bn), which was the final number to come out of the "phew they've actually done it" crisis meeting on the Continent's sovereign debt crisis.
If you believe the European Banking Authority, banks in Spain require €26bn to get to the required capital levels. That's quite a chunk by any measure. And yet on the very same day Santander airily dismissed any concerns about a cash call, claiming it could meet the requirements without raising capital or cutting its dividend. (Deutsche Bank and Commerzbank have said much the same. German banks need €5.2bn.)
A number of analysts have, naturally, suggested otherwise. Of course, analysts aren't always right. There were some in Britain who said that the likes of HBSC, Barclays and RBS would need to raise money, but the EBA has said British banks don't need a penny. Score one for the FSA/Bank of England.
As for the EBA, the analysts and the case of Santander (and of Commerzbank and of Deutsche), it may be that some people have got their figures wrong. And it may be that by some miracle everything is indeed rosy and all the requirements can be met by retained profits. And it may be that we'll see one or two cash calls which aren't categorised as such over the next few months. Things like quietly disposing of businesses here and there, or partially floating them off.
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Climate change is big news. Along-side terrorism, there's no issue more talked about, or threat more feared. Now, a number of postgraduate courses are catering for those wanting to get ahead on environmental issues. Several begin at the start of next year.
The Graduate School for the Environment – accredited by, though no longer part of, the University of East London (UEL) – is taking the lead in the UK's transition to a low-carbon economy, and runs a fascinating MSc in how to create buildings in a sustainable way. Called architecture: advanced environmental and energy studies, the course is flexible in the extreme. First, it has a March 2008 intake for those keen to begin right away. Second, it can be completed on a full-time (one year) or part-time (two year) basis. Third, it can be completed via distance learning, or at the graduate school base, the Centre for Alternative Technology in Mid Wales – or a combination of the two.
The Centre started life in the 1970s as a bunch of hippies experimenting with organic food in a disused quarry. In 2000 it became part of higher education by opening its doors to UEL students on the MSc.
Simon Tucker, leader of the environmental and energy studies course, says that it offers a mixture of the practical – looking at sustainable materials – and the theoretical – academic study of global issues and what "sustainable" actually means.
The course has around 400 students, making it one of the largest Masters courses in the UK. Students are able to spend intensive, five-day modules at the graduate school's home, the Centre for Alternative Technology. They can then develop this work at home. "It's a serious, academic course but it has that practical element at the centre. Suddenly the stuff that is in books about organics is right there in front of you – it's made very real for students," says Tucker.
Glasgow Caledonian has a similar climate change hub: the Caledonian Environment Centre. The university offers two environmental courses – MSc energy and environmental management and MSc environmental civil engineering – that start in January.
"We take students from a wide range of backgrounds, from economics and geography to engineering and politics," says Dr Stas Burek, who lectures on the energy and environmental management course. "What we aim to do is teach students about the environment so that they can put this into the context of what they already know: we call it 'value-added'.
"We do this by teaching the basics of a range of topics from biology to renewable energy to waste management. We also cover the 'softer' side of things such as legislation and the social aspects."
Students at Glasgow Caledonian will benefit from a number of field trips. Like students at the Centre for Alternative Technology, who have the Snowdonia National Park on their doorsteps, Caledonian students have the Highlands at a stone's throw.
The environmental obsession is being witnessed across the board. "Just recently there's been an increase in interest," says Jane Sherwin of De Montfort University. "It's the 'in-subject' at the moment."
Sherwin is programme administrator on De Montfort's postgraduate courses in environmental quality management and environmental protection.
The programmes are taught by distance learning: CD Rom plus contact with a personal tutor by telephone and email. All tutors are professionals with industry experience.
These courses offer three intakes a year and, says Sherwin, the university accepts people right up until the last minute – just pick up the phone and check, she urges. "We've always had three intakes because it's not ideal to start in September for everybody. It's flexible: to start in January could be perfect. After all, Christmas is out of the way and its weeks before you have to start thinking about holidays for the family. It's an ideal opportunity to get stuck into the course," she says.
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Skip to comments.The Rubio Deception
Posted on 06/10/2013 9:58:47 PM PDT by Nachum
The Rubio Deception: Truth v Lies
The Immigration bill is constructed to deceive the public. And, does a good job of creating the false illusion of greater security. But Rubios claim of enforcement triggers is a dishonest argument. His amnesty scheme is chock full of deception with many behind the scene maneuvers all designed to obfuscate truth. The bill makes America less safe, not more.
Rubios scheme allows illegal aliens to be legalized immediately. All at a huge cost to the US taxpayer [Note] and sovereignty of our nation. Like Obamacare, the legislation was crafted behind closed doors with pro-amnesty lobbyists, unions, immigration lawyers, and Progressive groups like La Raza and AFL-CIO representing illegal aliens. Groups that stand to make millions from this legislation.
The Gang of Eight prohibited anyone with a significantly different opinion on immigration reform from providing input. Law enforcement: border sheriffs, interior sheriffs, deputies and immigration agents, and the ICE Union President were all locked out of discussions.
The de facto leader of the Gang of Eight and public face of immigration reform in the Senate leading the charge in convincing conservatives and TV and radio talking heads that Obamas second-to-be signature achievement is both bipartisan and good for America; Marco Rubio. Every gang needs a leader.
Rubios Amnesty scheme is Obamacare Part Deux. Seemingly sexy slogans. Rubio is a smooth talker. Watch this video as he shims and shams. Like Obamacare, its all or nothing; several bills tied into one. The Bill is huge, complex and progressive. It is designed to serve politicians. Rubio makes many false claims, illusionary promises, cons and lies. This speech exemplifies Rubios deception.
Rubios media offensive con tour starts by trying to sell the idea his bill wont give amnesty when, in fact, it is instant Amnesty. The term
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This country is about to crack/shatter.
"Whoever thought that a Cuban Republican was going to get primarily Mexican American Hispanics to vote for the GOP was delusional from the get go. "
And Romney would have had to get more Hispanic votes than Obama to win in 2012. Its all bullsh**.
Among other disasters, this amnesty will further drive down wages in a host of occupations.
The ruling elite on both sides of the aisle couldn't care less about it either because it doesn't affect them like the poor slob trying to put food on the table while watching his neighborhood being turned into a 3rd world sh**hole.
I don't understand why it can't be security first, then lets talk a deal. That only makes sense for bipartisan ship.
I'm not sure I see a way for this to pass the House...
Rubio has already shown his leftis leanings or at least the GOP-e mindset.
It's possible that Rubio was lured into this in order to damage his name, reputation, and brand. And he fell for it.
The minute Rubio and Schumer pull this off there will be 12 million new democrat voters and then all the restrictions Rubio is saying are in the bill will be overturned in no time - including the 13 year waiting period.
Thank you !!!!!
I have posted here over and over again that there is no such thing as a "Hispanic" and that Mexicans were not going to vote for an (allegedly) anti-Castro Cuban. Finally, somebody gets it.
Wait till all the members of the extended families get here. We're looking at at least 40 million.
Umm, no, quite a few people here kept touting Rubio as a "Hispanic" vote magnet, and argued with me when I said it wasn't so.
What the heck are they paying all these "Republicans" to get them to support this crap? Including Rand Paul? Surely they know that if this passes, no Republican will ever be elected dogcatcher again. They should be introducing bills to deport current Democrat voters, not import and naturalize MORE.
That didn't occur to me at the time. They were touting Rubio and this Hispanic number like crazy. There were a bunch of them. I thought they were just stupid/ignorant.
Now I see your point. Thanks.
No one lured him into anything. He squashed bills against illegal immigration when he was Speaker of the House in Florida. He is a traitor, period.
f Rubio.
Hey Rubio,
you fooled me once in to voting for your sorry ass.
It won't happen again ya turd.
I keep waiting for some brilliant news reporter to ask Marco "whats the big rush to immediately legalize 11-20 million illegals that we know nothing about other than they broke a law and came here illegally?"
Why not let them come forward one by one and make a determination of their eligibility to stay based on what they can contribute to the good of the country? I would love to hear what Marco has to say about that idea.
Personally I think we need to start enforcing our immigration laws and most of the illegals will self deport but I would still love to put Marco on the hot seat and see what happens.
She should be a vocal opponent of this bill because of how it makes it harder for her constituents to compete fairly in the job market.
But of course her fealty to 0bama trumps her devotion to her people.
If that's true why is he ready for this bill's fallout?
Resurrecting an old article you all need to read with an updated version of the same..
Rubio is DANGEROUS! Better find out who owns Marco! He is a Trojan Horse! BTW...Cesar Conda is Ryan's mentor and owns him too!
Refresher: Rubio's Deceptions
[snip]To understand Rubio, you have to understand his Chief of Staff; a man by the name of Cesar Conda. Who is Cesar Conda? He's a pro-amnesty immigration lawyer, who once worked as a DC lobbyist for the Association of Immigration Lawyers [video], mutual friend and close associate of fellow amnesty pusher Grover Norquist, who together have carried out their three-decade long Amnesty Jihad. Like Norquist, the amnesty pushers on the left like Cesar Conda.
Norquist, a corporate lobbyist and co-founder of the Islamic Institute, has had ties to CAIR, radical Islam, known terrorist financiers and unsavory relationships with Muslim activist for years. This video warrants particular scrutiny of Norquist, who actively promotes and advances the Islamic agenda. These are Norquist's bedfellows; it's why he actively petitioned support for the "Ground Zero Mosque" and it's why he is very active in "Muslim outreach."
Norquist is on the Advisory Board of The Hispanic Leadership Fund, member of the Council on Foreign Relations [CFR], Founder of Americans for Tax Reform [ATR] and good pal of felon Jack Abramoff and GOP stooge Karl Rove whose Crossroads GPS group has been a major donor to Norquist's fund. Secret emails exclusively obtained by Breitbart News show the libertarian Cato Institute, Norquist's ATR, and Rubio colluding on immigration reform "messaging" after the Boston Marathon bombing.
And, then there is Norquist's lobbying on behalf of Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac. Norquist's primary interest in DC is Norquist. For his part, he is hitting the media trail attempting to combat what he calls the "bitter enders" who oppose the bill by trying to counteract the effect of "a handful of radio talk-show hosts who talk loudly." Also assisting Rubio, Conda and Norquist in their Amnesty scheme is the Southern Poverty Law Center [SPLC], a Soros-backed group. SPLC's history.
Cesar Conda sat on the Editorial Advisory Board with George Soros of the publication, The International Economy Magazine. He also actively worked to promote and advance Judge Sotomayor's nomination. Conda was a lobbyist for the powerhouse private prisons GEO Group who supported open borders and government money for incarcerated illegal aliens. He also lobbied for the US Chamber of Commerce, who supports the Gang of Eight Amnesty bill. His paw prints also extend to the expensive bank bailouts, something Rubio claims he was against.
Conda is a domestic policy wonk. His government experience runs deep. In fact, Conda has weaved and bobbed between so many roles in Washington he was included in Roll Call's "Fabulous Fifty" list of top congressional aides. He undertook policy roles spanning the 1996 Dole-Kemp to Mitt Romney's 2008 Presidential Campaigns. Both Conda and Norquist worked together to destroy prop 187 in California in the 1990's.
But, what also sets Rubio's office apart is Cesar Conda's supposed continued ties, major abuse of power, and financial relationship with his lobbying firm, Navigators Global. Navigators clients included GlaxoSmithKline, AT&T, Visa and Citigroup, which got $45 billion under the bank bailout. Rubio's ties to K-Street are extensive. His deputy chief of staff, Sally Canfield, is a former lobbyist for Sanofi-Aventis, a French drug company.
And, from 1997 to 2005 Rubio himself, was a lobbyist. Consider what one of his most vocal critics said about him here, which likely put a halt to Romney selecting Rubio as VP candidate. Consider: City commissioner, lawyer, lobbyist, one-time GOP Party of Florida American Express card holder, top-echelon House leader and, ultimately, House Speaker, oh and Jeb Bush water boy. Florida is a politically corrupt state. From 2000 to 2010, there were 781 federal convictions on corruption charges. That's an average of one every five days for 10 straight years.
Like Conda, Rubio has amnesty as a core belief. He is John McCain with an 'accent'; and without a military record of crashing planes. His past record is relevant. All you have to do is look at history. This page provides history of the efforts of Floridians to enact immigration enforcement legislation in the 2008 Florida Legislative Session. All legislative results were thwarted, at the time, by House Speaker Marco Rubio.
Rubio stalled and "blocked" all enforcement bills in Florida stating: "There is nothing the state of Florida can do unilaterally to solve global warming. And there is nothing we can do unilaterally to solve immigration." Rep. Juan Zapata, R-Miami and Miami Rep. David Rivera, the son of Cuban exiles, usually ran anti-enforcement interference for Rubio in the Florida House.
But there were other legislative matters. Rubio pushed for free in-state tuition for illegal aliens on Florida taxpayers dime. He fought to allow a "self pay" (no insurance) for medical care without the hospital collecting a balance on the hospital billing; while prohibiting the hospital from pursuing civil remedies. This would serve illegal aliens by protecting them from detection. And he made an attempt to keep all "working papers" (such as dead bills) from seeing light of day...
Bumping this old article, because people need to know...
WHO OWNS MARCO RUBIO and his MEDIA friends!
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It was announced last week that we are moving to a rear spoiler and I think it will look better. I think all spoilers look better than what the wing does on our car. From what I heard from the guys who tested with them at Texas, it is just a small change. It's not really a big deal. As for how they should effect the car, the spoiler should make more downforce and drag. It will probably handle a little better, but go a little slower down the straightaway. It will be a little shift in balance and help the car turn better. I hope it makes for better side-by-side racing. That's the biggest thing I'm looking for.
Daytona is just around the corner and I am looking forward to going with Martin to Daytona. We are not going to put any added pressure on ourselves. We are just going to do everything we can to get the best finish we can and that's a win.
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AS A social worker who works closely with low-income youths and families, along with being a mother of two teens, I continue to hear the criticism from many of how our world is turning out: how bad the youths are, how low-income individuals should get a job. What right do you have to complain? What have you done to make a difference, to give back, to bring forth change? "You have no right to complain if you're not willing to help with making a change" is my favorite quote. If you have done nothing to help with the issues you're complaining about, you have no right to complain. Get off your high horse. Roll up your sleeves and begin asking, "How can I help to make a difference?"
Hard-working farmers
THE COMMENT regarding the poor farmer and the new equipment was obviously a sarcastic one. I am of the opinion that if a farmer's grain and livestock were sold to a market where the government wasn't making sure food was kept cheap, the farmer would probably be better off. We can never know the true price grain and cattle would bring so long as the government tries to keep food cheap for everyone. I don't want to take the chance and let what is produced bring the price that it would in a real open market. Many would starve. The farmers might end up with even bigger combines and equipment, and the person who made the comment about farm subsidies might not be able to afford to feed himself. I know farmers who get subsidies. They still work harder, sweat more and work longer days than most other business owners I know. They'd work hard whether they got subsidies or not. Not many family farmers can live off the subsidies they receive, and they don't pay off equipment.
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CAN SOMEBODY please explain why child-support and custody laws are so worthless in Missouri? How can a father not pay a dime of child support and it has no effect on his visitation rights? I am not granted this luxury as a mother. If I were not willing to spend any of my income on taking care of my child, the state would most likely end up taking her from me. Also, noncustodial parents can skip out for as long as they like with no explanation. When they decide to show back up, their visitation rights cannot legally be denied by the custodial parent. Where is the justice in our system?
Subsidy reality
DON'T BE untruthful with the Speak Out readership. Businesses feed at the public trough in the form of subsidies of one kind or another just as much as farmers do. Socialism for the wealthy is an accepted way of life in America. Sadly, subsidies for those most in need are still opposed by most.
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My favourite moment within PEEL has definitely been the launch of our newest ship, TUI Discovery. Away from PEEL, I have been lucky enough to perform at Edinburgh Festival Fringe, and also recently won an award for Best Pantomime Fairy at the Regional theatre Awards…you never lose it!
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I'm Heavily involved with recruitment of Light Entertainment hosts, musicians and technicians across the fleet. I love to be busy and this job is perfectly suited to me, that's probably why I've been with PEEL for so long!
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Agricultural Cooperatives and the Law: Obsolete Statutes in a Dynamic Economy
Peter Carstensen
University of Wisconsin Law School
South Dakota Law Review, Vol. 58, p. 462, 2013
Univ. of Wisconsin Legal Studies Research Paper No. 1245
Farm cooperatives are important vehicles for the marketing of agricultural production. The Capper-Volstead Act's limited antitrust immunity and the Agricultural Marketing Agreement Act's authorization of cartels along with some other equally old statutes still structure much of the marketing process for cooperatives. The results are anti-competitive harms to both farmers and consumers. In addition, despite the very large scale and vast membership of some cooperatives, no state or federal law provides membership governance rights and information disclosure comparable to that imposed on similarly sized corporations. Current judicial interpretation has constrained some of the worst aspects of these statutory schemes, but only a fundamental revision of the legislation can address the full range of current issues.
Number of Pages in PDF File: 38
Keywords: Farm cooperatives, Capper-Volstead Act, Agricultural Marketing Agreement Act, Antitrust exemptions, Agricultural commodity market, Governance of cooperatives
JEL Classification: K42
Date posted: February 22, 2014
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Trackpad stopped working, Pearl 9100
Hey all,
The trackpad on my 9100 quit working. Everything else on the phone is fine, but I can't move the cursor/mouse. So I can't do anything really except answer phone calls and make phone calls, as even things like text messaging require me to move over and click something.
Is a broken trackpad a common problem for the Pearl 9100? If so, is there a way I can fix it or hire someone else to do so? Presumably for less than the cost of the phone itself, heh.
I also need to get some of my pictures/files off the phone if possible, especially if I can't use it anymore. I assume I can still connect it to a computer via USB and get the files off? Or would that require the trackpad for whatever reason? They're saved on the phone's memory, not a SD card.
Thanks all!
P.S. I love this phone. I bought it off eBay about a year ago, because to be frank it is the ONLY smartphone on the entire market I find appealing. It has a physical keyboard, but it's smaller and more comfortable (for me) than the Curve or Bold. It hasn't got a touchscreen (which I don't want). Etc. I say this because I don't want to get a brand new fancier phone, which is what everyone suggests. I'll find another used 9100, unless RIM ever gives us a half decent upgrade to it.
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Did you by any chance pull the battery, reinstall and reboot to see if it was a software glitch?
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I did pull the battery a few times and reboot, but I didn't reinstall. Reinstall what? The Blackberry OS? I didn't know I could reinstall the OS on a phone this age without issues, but I can try. I've no idea how though.
Would I lose my pictures? Because some of them are important.
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Chapter 2: Enrique Ramirez
Garrett looked closely at the lad; he had thick, wavy black hair, olive skin and beautiful light brown eyes. His brows were much thicker than Garrett would have imagined they were; the thief ran his fingers through the mass of silky black hair and then down the thick brows that somehow complimented his face perfectly.
He could feel that the boy's heart beat had softened a little now, but it still beat with fervor.
The thief took a healing potion from off his belt pouch – it was something he always took with him but never had a need to use until now. He tore a little piece of the boy's shirt off and dripped the edge into the potion. He then rubbed the cloth across the boy's bloodied lip, cheeks and arm.
It seemed to sting, for the boy flinched and moved back slightly, but Garrett continued until all the blood was gone. The healing potion took effect immediately, and the small cuts and big bruises began to disappear. The boys stared at him in disbelief. Was this thief really helping him? Was he not going to hurt him?
"This is going to taste foul," Garrett warned as he pushed the boy's mouth open with his thumb, stuck the potion between his teeth, and, lifting the boy's head back, made him drink the whole thing.
The boy tried to choke some of it out, but Garrett pushed it back into his mouth with his thumb. As soon as the boy had finished the entire thing, Garrett released him.
"Had to heal you: I can't blackjack a wounded kid, you know?" he joked. "A healthy one, though…"
The boy of course didn't understand he was jesting, so looked at him with a mix of fear and something else that Garrett didn't quite understand.
Garrett pulled away from his stare. "Seriously," he whispered, "I have to do something to you: if I don't knock you out, you can alert the thugs. If I tie you up and gag you, they'll think it's suspicious that you're the only one I didn't knock out."
The boy didn't answer at first, but stared at him with that same look. Garrett was starting to feel unnerved. What was that look the boy was giving him? What was he supposed to do with him?
The boy leaned forward and softly touched his lips to Garrett's. Garrett was too shocked to do or say anything, so, taking this as a good sign, the boy leaned over again and touched their lips together a second time. Still satisfied with the results, he ran his lips across and kissed Garrett's lower lip. Twice. And then he ran his tongue across the older man's lips, making Garrett's eyes widen and his lips part slightly.
The boy's lips met Garrett's parted ones, and, clasping Garrett's thick neck tightly in his little hands, he leaned his whole body against Garrett's chest as he desperately, passionately locked their lips together.
The boy's body still shook, and his breaths came in short gasps, but it was only partly out of fear this time.
Garrett was still too shocked to understand what was going on, but when the boy began dominating his mouth with his lips and tongue, he finally began to understand.
He managed to get the boy off him after several moments of deep kissing and tongue dancing. Panting a little to catch his breath he looked on with wonder at the boy. So that was that emotion he couldn't read...
The boy didn't intend to leave him alone. He arched his neck back, inviting Garrett to kiss him more. It was a very tempting offer, seeing such passion in such beautiful brown eyes, so, slowly and cautiously, thick pale hands found their way up a thin olive neck to the back of a fluffy black head of hair, while thin pale lips ran across said silky smooth dark olive neck.
The boy gasped and clenched his hands while Garrett's lips made their way to up his neck, to the side of his jaw, across his cheeks and up to his ear, where Garrett softly bit at the fleshy lobe. All the while he ran his big hands through the boy's hair and needily rubbed and massaged the back of his neck.
"Take me with you," the boy begged through gasps. "Please, take me with you. Take me with you."
Garrett stopped what he was doing and lifted the boy, who now had fallen to the ground and was somehow interlocked in his body. "Take me with you," the boy continued, panting, his face contorted with a mix of need, fear and desperation. "I'll be your slave. I'll do anything you say. Just take me with you. Touch me like you do now. I'll sleep on the ground; I'll eat whatever scraps you leave for me. I'll work for you: I'll do whatever you tell me to. Please, please take me from here. Take me away in your arms. Make me yours."
Garrett softly pecked the boy's lips. What had he just done? He was in a den of thieves – ones who had it out for him for a couple years now – and he was just about to stop his mission to make love to a beautiful boy. Said beautiful boy now wanted to follow him.
There were several things wrong with this scene. Firstly, he had and still was putting himself and the boy in grave danger. Secondly, if he understood the situation correctly, it was the boy's grandfather he had just knocked out beside them. Thirdly, again, if he understood the situation properly, this boy was the son of his enemy, whom he had come to defeat. Fourthly, the boy wanted to follow him now. And, fifthly, to make everything more complicated, the boy was…well, a boy...and so was he...
The truth of the matter was that ever since he was younger, Garrett had always loved and wanted Brother Artemus, but Artemus was married to the Keepers. Not only that, Artemus would have been horrified if he had known that another man was in love with him.
And then there was Viktoria: the servant and right-hand woman of the Trickster.
And now there was this boy. Why? Why did he always jump into things? Why did he always fall for the people who either didn't care about him or wanted to hurt him?
Why did he have to fall for guys? He couldn't forgive himself for falling for Artemus, especially after his confession to Keeper Malison led to his expulsion from the Keepers. Now here he was again, with another man.
Garrett sighed deeply and sat up. The boy looked around nervously, wondering what he had done.
"What's your name?" Garrett asked at length.
"Please sir, my name is Enrique."
"Enrique Ramirez?"
"Yes sir."
"You are Ramirez's bastard son?"
"Yes sir. ... Are you mad at me?"
"And that is your grandfather?" Garrett asked, nodding toward the fallen man lying on the cold stone floor beside them.
Enrique sniffled and moved away slightly. "Yes."
"You killed your mother?"
Tears swelled out of the boy's already swollen eyes. "Yes."
Garrett brushed his thumb across Enrique's eyes, letting the tears roll down his hand. "How?"
"My grandfather was indebted to Mr. Ramirez, so he gave him his daughter. But my fath- but Mr. Ramirez didn't marry her. He beat her and hurt her and sent her back to the kitchen. He'd beat me a lot, because h wanted a strong son to take over after him. But I was always sick and weak. I was good for nothing. And, and mother would stop him from beating me. So he'd beat her. It was all my fault. It was all my fault…" He cried, tears streaming down his cheeks. As he talked, he began to dig into his arm, just about to draw blood. Garrett grabbed his hand and held it tight in his own. The boy continued to sob, so Garrett brought him close to his chest, and, with big arms, engulfed the boy.
"Don't say things like that," he told him as he kissed his head. "I don't believe it. It was your father and her father, not you. The bastard didn't have to give her away – he was just afraid for his own safety. And Ramirez, well, he's a bastard; always has been. It's no surprise that he hurt her. Both of them are to blame: not you."
"But if I wasn't born –" Enrique began in a whisper.
"If you weren't born, she still would have remembered what happened to her," Garrett interrupted, holding him back so that he could see his face. "Trust me, things like that don't go away." Enrique didn't say anything to counter it, but he still looked away. "If you weren't born, I couldn't have found you," Garrett continued.
"That is a good thing," the boy told him. "I always bring bad luck to everyone I know. I'm bad. Everyone I know and meet is hurt by me."
"Kiss me."
"Kiss me."
Enrique wiped the tears out of his eyes and slowly leaned forward, touching his lips with the thief's.
"That didn't hurt me," Garrett told him. "Enrique, if you will let me, I will take you out of this den of thieves: I will give you a good home, protection from the Hammers, and lots of food and drink. I will give you a different name, nice clothes, and a warm bed, which, if you will allow me to, I'd like to share with you. I will give you – "
Before he could finish with promises of anything else, Enrique leaned over and kissed him again, this time no longer timid.
Garrett smiled down on him as Enrique rested his head against his chest. "How old are you?"
Garrett nodded and ran his fingers through his hair. "I will make you forget this sorrow and fear and blame. You have nothing to blame yourself for, and I will make you realize it. …But, now, I have something to do before I can go: I'm here to bring your father down; I need to find incriminating evidence on him. Is that okay?"
"Grandfather has a couple letters that he took from father's office. I think he was going to blackmail him with them. He keeps them under a floorboard under his bed. I've seen him put them there some times."
Garrett nodded and brought the boy up to his chest. "Come with me. I want you and will do everything I can to make you happy. Everything I already offered to you, I will give you. As for myself, well, I am plain and simple, not the brightest star in the sky. I will give you myself – coarse and barbaric though I am – I will give you my life if you ask it of me. I will give you my shattered soul, my broken and scarred body, and my pleading, needy heart. Could you possibly accept someone like me?"
It wasn't the best of propositions. In fact, to anyone else, Garrett's offer would have sounded really bad – who wants spoiled goods? – but to Enrique, he was a slave in the middle of the wilderness with wolves lurking in every shadow and a god came down and offered him heaven.
His breathing deepened until he thought he was going to faint. He rested his head against Garrett's shoulder and clung tightly onto the thief's shirt. "Take me. Take me anywhere. I will follow. I will obey."
Garrett gently kissed the boy's head and held him tightly against his body.
Enrique took the letters his grandfather was going to use to blackmail his father, he took all the gold his grandfather had been saving up and then rested on his grandfather's bed until Garrett was done looting the place.
Every minute seemed like an hour as he waited for Garrett to return to him, and then, when he heard his father's screech echo down the hall, his heart stopped beating for a moment or two as he imagined that Garrett was dead or mortally wounded. He ran to where he heard the voices just in time to see six guards and his father attack Garrett.
He wasn't quite sure what happened next because everything went white. It took him several seconds before he recovered his vision, and when he did, all seven thieves were on the ground, unconscious, in front of Garrett.
Enrique collapsed to his knees. Surely, this WAS a god he saw before him. No one – no one – no human could do something like that.
The boy could only gaze up in awe at his new lover for a couple minutes before he was grabbed by one arm and thrown over the thief's shoulder.
He was brought into his father's counting room and placed on a table as Garrett kneeled in front of him to pick a locked chest.
Glancing through and pocketing the papers in said chest, Garrett stopped on one. He chuckled slightly as he read it. He lifted it up to Enrique to read: it was a wanted poster Ramirez sent out to his minions for the capture of Garrett.
"Boy, I should have given myself up for that amount," Garrett joked.
"Who is this 'Garrett'?" Enrique asked.
"Me," the thief answered, somewhat taken aback. "Who did you think I was?" Just then he remembered that although the boy had told him his name, he had not yet told the boy his own name.
"A god."
Garrett slipped a dagger off his belt and closed Enrique's hand around it. He then pulled a sleeve up his arm, and, taking Enrique's hand in his, dragged the dagger across the top layer of skin until a blood trail was left behind.
"If I can bleed, I can die."
"But, if you are Garrett, then you killed the Trickster?" Garrett nodded as he shuffled through more papers. "Are you truly not a god to kill another god?"
Garrett smiled and rested his head on Enrique's lap. "Not a god. If anything, more of a demon."
Enrique ran his fingers across the thief's face and gently lifted it up to his so that he could examine it. Garrett blinked several times, slightly unnerved, as people rarely ever saw his face or wanted to look him in the eyes. Enrique's soft hand rubbed over his right brow. "This is the fake eye they talk about?"
Garrett nodded and Enrique brought his lips against the thick brow. "Can you see well out of it now?"
Garrett shook his head yes, and, feeling slightly unnerved, went back to gathering loot. Enrique smiled on him. "It tells of your sacrifice to mankind. Please don't hide it from me. I'm not afraid of it."
Garrett stopped and looked up at him again. Enrique smiled and kissed his right brow.
Garrett pulled the olive-skinned boy down onto his lap and held him close, breathing him in deeply. Who was this strange boy who found him, who dared to look at him, who dared to touch him, who actually wanted him?
Was he really a boy, or was he an angel sent to comfort him?
It was almost dawn when Garrett, one arm full with Enrique and the other with a loot bag knocked on Father Boris's door and entered without an answer. Father Boris just finished lighting a candle when Garrett threw several documents onto the table beside him and was half way out the door.
"I told you not to come in without my permission," the Father grumbled.
"I knocked this time," Garrett told him.
"But you didn't get my permission! … What is that in your hand?"
"Which one?" Garrett asked. Slightly raising the loot bag in one hand he informed him, "This is gold and gems." Nodding toward the other arm on which he held Enrique, who was asleep against his chest, he informed him, "This is treasure. I've been searching for it all my life, chasing after the most beautiful, shiny gems I could find. But they all turned out to be fool's gold. Now, in a pile of pebbles, dirty and chipped, I have found the rarest and purest of gems. I will polish him with my love and I will shine him with comfort and ease, until he glows and sparkles with contentment and joy and all the world recognizes him as the greatest treasure ever found."
And with that the thief and the boy disappeared into the darkness of night, leaving the father alone to shake his head at them.


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A month or so ago, when life seemed particularly bad, I decided to read Mary Oliver to cheer myself up. Bad, bad, bad idea. When one is sitting in an 'open' office, in a gray cubicle, with no windows, no idea of the time outside or the direction one is facing, it is very very bad idea. I only depressed myself more and had to click the page closed in a bit of a hurry before misery began leaking.
Now that I am back replete from the mountains and escape to even more good times seems close at hand, reading her is :-). Sitting by my window with the gurgle of pigeons nearby and a view of a sky amorphously light grey with cloud it is :-) :-). Listing the first of my reads below for the lazy but for more click on …
A Dream of Trees
There is a thing in me that dreamed of trees,
A quiet house, some green and modest acres
A little way from every troubling town,
A little way from factories, schools, laments.
I would have time, I thought, and time to spare,
With only streams and birds for company.
To build out of my life a few wild stanzas.
And then it came to me, that so was death,
A little way away from everywhere.
There is a thing in me still dreams of trees,
But let it go. Homesick for moderation,
Half the world's artists shrink or fall away.
If any find solution, let him tell it.
Meanwhile I bend my heart toward lamentation
Where, as the times implore our true involvement,
The blades of every crisis point the way.
I would it were not so, but so it is.
Who ever made music of a mild day?
Mary Oliver
I was waiting for my head to settle before I devoted writing time to VoF. A chronology of the trip seemed too mundane. It was similar to other trips in one sense – the anticipation, the pleasure gained from plugging in (however temporarily) into another way of living, breathtakingly beautiful scenery, good company, new tales to tell at family dinners and the final sigh of comfort when returning to the familiarity of home - they were all there. So recounting them in neat 'day 1, day 2 posts' would not have anything new to offer.
This is the standard profile of pilgrims that make the grueling trek up to Hemkund Sahib. There are several who take pithus or ponies making one appreciate the hardy pilgrim even more. No trekking shoes for this lot – normal footwear, hawai chappals or in some extreme cases, naked feet are the order of the day. A stick for support of the body and a chant of 'wahe guru' to keep the mind going. I felt rather jealous of the strength this faith gives. Especially on the final 3 kms where I was stopping every few minutes to catch my breath!
There is one class of books that I find difficult to judge. Books that deal with holocaust or partition - difficult to pick up and then impossible to put down. It seems an insult to the victims somehow, to not finish their story. It's a feeling of 'they suffered through it, can't I just suffer through the book.'.
The past few months have been a bit holocaust ridden – first there was Maus. Then there was The Boy in Striped Pajamas and just now, there was The Book Thief. The first is a cartoon; the other two are fiction for young adults. The nature of audience and in the case of Maus, the technique of delivery, means that the facts seep out slowly through the story. Telling the tale of one boy or girl and in the case of Maus tracing the life of one survivor through the eyes of his estranged son forces one to measure the horror in something other than numbers.
Sigh. Now I want book where only the bad guys die and fully happy ending happens.
On a little sinful expedition into Landmark my experiments with the vernacular continued. Moser Baer has decided on a logical extension – cheap CD's to cheap movies on CD's. Very brilliant. For Rs. 28/-, I thought my ROI will be good. Low denominator, you see. K put 'Edir Neechal' into my basket and I thought 'Bandhana' would go well with it. Nothing like a little head to head between Tamil and Kannada to bring that happy Cauvery feeling back. J
Now, my previous experience with Kannada movies has mostly been thanks to the Sunday evening movie on good old Doordarshan and my memory of Vishnuvardhan from those happy times is of the tubercular hero who gives 10 minute speeches while attempting (and failing) to be discreet in coughing blood (or tomato ketchup) into handkerchiefs. He lives up to this in Bandhana. Wah wah. In fact he excels himself. Even before the 10 minute death speech there are several bad lines. Move over Partner... the woriginal is here!
The movie begins with Dr. Harish (Vishnuvardhan… henceforth known as VV) and Dr. Nandini (Suhasini) in a rattly minivan heading into the hinterland to provide quality medical aid to the deprived folk of rural Karnataka. For 20 days, while they serve the masses, advising them to have hysterectomies and vasectomies, VV and Suhasini find time to go jogging, play a couple of games of badminton, exchange some extremely corny dialogues and (on VV's part) fall in love. The first hour of the movie is spent in VV delivering truly bad lines (either in reality or in dream sequences) to win heroine's affection. Consider this sample:
VV: I found this flower in the garden. Isn't it nice?
S: Beuutifull. It is verry nice.
VV: A beautiful flower will look beautiful in beautiful hair. (holding out flower to S) .. Please wear it.
And this dialogue is at the beginning of all acquaintance. Maybe that line worked in the 80's. Plastic earrings did.
Unfortunately for VV someone else (Jai Jagadish… henceforth known as JJ) had already beaten him to delivering the lines. So when VV finally gathers up courage and confesses loove S tells him 'Uh. But I got engaged yesterday to childhood friend.' Heartbroken, the next time we see VV on screen, he is coughing and his patients are dying on the operating table because he is too busy having little fits.
Along the way to this point in movie there are dream song sequences where hero and heroine dance around in white. And hero pours red water on heroine in white salwar kameez / sari. I'm not even touching the symbolism on that one with barge poles.
Back to main story line. Post wedding and honeymoon, it turns out that JJ expects our heroine to be adarsh bharatiya nari and our lady has hospital shifts to do. He is not understanding when she has to visit a sick VV at his home or comfort him with a hug when his mom dies of third degree burns. VV after having lost mommy also, gets 'enlarged heart' and is given grim prognosis - only six months to live. S, is devoted 'friend' now. And JJ cannot understand this either. VV tries to make matters better by insisting S and JJ throw anniversary party which he then promptly spoils by
a) Turning up
b) Singing sad song while clutching heart and coughing blood
c) Quaffing drinks , getting sotted and then coughing blood into the balloon glasses
d) Collapsing after the drinks
e) Riding off from party in ambulance with S by his side while poor JJ is left to deal with blood, dirty dishes and guests
JJ takes revenge (evil man!) – demands divorce from pregnant wife if she will not give up the VV and then makes unwelcome advances to poor widowed relative that has moved in with them. S is stoic through all of this, listens to VV's dialogues and continues with pregnancy. Sample of priceless VV dialogue that S bears
VV to S: "I would ask God to take me quickly. Do you know why? In this janma I have not had the good fortune to be your husband. So in the next janma I want to be born as your son so I can stay with you always. (I could not believe my ears and went into rewind mode to make sure I had heard right. I had!)
So in the denouement that is what happens. When S walks out on JJ over his infidelity, he pushes her, resulting in "operation that has to be performed in half an hour" by none other than our hero who braves power cuts, lack of staff and his own failing health to deliver baccha and save jaccha. Baccha is delivered but is not breathing so our man after 10 minute speech to god, dies and baccha lives. S divorces JJ, picks up baby in one hand, stethoscope in the other and walks off into shining light at the end of the hospital corridor unheeding of potentially repentent husband calling out 'nandineee'. And this line comes up on screen ... "The Bandhana of love was broken into a hundred pieces, The Bandhana of duty has begun calling out."
Did I say I was missing home? The past couple of days have been amazing weather. After the rains, the world was muted, the greens are greener but every other color is softer, the brash reds and yellows of summer have disappeared and the air is fresh and cool. The ever present clouds, never present sun and the occassional threat of a drizzle, all remind me of home. Heart felt sighs for
Then today I got on the road and remembered why I left
There are times when one has absolutely fabulous runs of books and there are times like now L . The Hedgehog is turning out to be utterly puerile. So I'm sorry folks… the transliteration might not proceed apace.
I decided to go back to old favourites (need recovery time!) and pulled out all the books I wanted from the divan. While MacLean and Harry Potter serve to amuse for now, I can't find The Edible Woman. L L My beatiful, tattered, second-hand version with blue cover seems to be missing in action.
Its long been an ambition of mine to read in a language other than English and my efforts have always turned out to be memorable. I have Kuvempu to thank for several laughs with SRS. The expression on his face when I cornered him on the basis of a (then) very slender acquaintance to ask him what "Loudi" meant was simply priceless. And once I moved languages, my grand mom's attempts to explain the meaning of 'suvaru' in context still get me in splits every time I think of it. I am dedicated to the cause - I still refuse to read 'Parthiban Kanavu' in translation. One day, my Tamil will be good enough to read it. (sigh.)
At any rate, a couple of weeks ago, inspired by how well the unsuspecting French populace took to 'mon francais', I invested in a book written in (hold your breath) French. Now, this book came with recommendations.
a) It was the best that Relay had to offer at the airport. Everything else seemed to be a translation of the latest angrezi chick lit.
b) I liked the blurb. ( i.e. I understood all of it)
So I bought it. And now that I have disposed off Potter and given up on Pamuk, I have begun reading Ms. Muriel Barbery. Except that the blurb was deceptive. I seem to be reading Le Robert and Larousse de Poche even more than I read her. L
I have decided to share my experience with reading in transliteration with a wider public as an experiment. You can go here to read a chapter a day from "The Elegance of a Hedgehog" translated by yours truly. As a teaser, you can read the blurb below without making the extra click. ;-)
The Elegance of a Hedgehog
By Muriel Barbery
Translated by Gayathri
"My name is Renee. I'm 54 years old and I'm the caretaker of
"My name is Paloma. I'm 12 years old. I live at
Staying with yesterday's theme... I wish this were my Catcher in the
Sometimes the notes are ferocious,
skirmishes against the author
raging along the borders of every page
in tiny black script.
If I could just get my hands on you,
Kierkegaard, or Conor Cruise O'Brien,
they seem to say,
I would bolt the door and beat some logic into your head.
Other comments are more offhand, dismissive -
"Nonsense." "Please!" "HA!!" -
that kind of thing.
I remember once looking up from my reading,
my thumb as a bookmark,
trying to imagine what the person must look like
why wrote "Don't be a ninny"
alongside a paragraph in The Life of Emily Dickinson.
Students are more modest
needing to leave only their splayed footprints
along the shore of the page.
One scrawls "Metaphor" next to a stanza of Eliot's.
Another notes the presence of "Irony"
fifty times outside the paragraphs of A Modest Proposal.
Or they are fans who cheer from the empty bleachers,
Hands cupped around their mouths.
"Absolutely," they shout
to Duns Scotus and James Baldwin.
"Yes." "Bull's-eye." "My man!"
Check marks, asterisks, and exclamation points
rain down along the sidelines.
And if you have managed to graduate from college
without ever having written "Man vs. Nature"
in a margin, perhaps now
is the time to take one step forward.
We have all seized the white perimeter as our own
and reached for a pen if only to show
we did not just laze in an armchair turning pages;
we pressed a thought into the wayside,
planted an impression along the verge.
Even Irish monks in their cold scriptoria
jotted along the borders of the Gospels
brief asides about the pains of copying,
a bird signing near their window,
or the sunlight that illuminated their page-
anonymous men catching a ride into the future
on a vessel more lasting than themselves.
And you have not read Joshua Reynolds,
they say, until you have read him
enwreathed with Blake's furious scribbling.
Yet the one I think of most often,
the one that dangles from me like a locket,
was written in the copy of Catcher in the
I borrowed from the local library
one slow, hot summer.
I was just beginning high school then,
reading books on a davenport in my parents' living room,
and I cannot tell you
how vastly my loneliness was deepened,
how poignant and amplified the world before me seemed,
when I found on one page
A few greasy looking smears
and next to them, written in soft pencil-
by a beautiful girl, I could tell,
whom I would never meet-
"Pardon the egg salad stains, but I'm in love."
Billy Collins


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I got pancakes for a late dinner (around 9:30 PM) from Everest Diner because 1) it was open and 2) I didn't want Chinese or Italian food or anything else beside PANCAKES. This is probably the diner that I live closest too. I've passed it a gazillion times on the way to Chinatown but never felt compelled to try it.
So. The pancakes were okay (I daresay, I think I could make better pancakes) and the strawberry goo on top was not to my liking, but I like 99% of pancakes (it'd have to be realy bad for me to not like it) and it was such a nice thing to eat after walking for about half an hour trying to find a place I wanted to eat at. The restaurant closed at 10PM and I went in at 9:30 so I felt a bit like "Eek, I came late, I'm one of those evil customers." There was another guy eating an omelette though. Anyhoo, this was about $6, which was probably too expensive but I found out there's a luncheonette not much farther away that also sells pancakes for cheaper so I'll try that place too.


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Richard Jones were on hand to keep the unlucky contenders
dancing 'til dawn. Best of all, the evening raised well over
£20,000, hurrah!
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