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Too much capital: The average Tier 1 capital ratio at OCBC, DBS and United Overseas Bank was a unhealthy 14% at the end of last year.
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Jackie Ellis sat carelessly on a worn leather chair facing away from the dull oak door in the centre of the north wall. A small glass of gin rested in her right hand, her sharp nails tighten around the fragile glass. A sharp rap on the door broke the peaceful silence of the office. Jackie lowered the glass on to the polished table top, lighting a cigarette with a plain gold lighter from her lower left pocket. "Enter†she said crisply in the direction of the door.
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"So jacks, what you got for me?†said the man, a slimy smiles sketched upon his features. "Nothing I haven't told you before†Jackie sniped, the cigarette clinging to her bottom lip. "As I have told you before, your father owns 51 percent of the company, even if all the senior partners go against him†she continued coolly, swiftly pulling the cigarette from her mouth. "Which they won't, you would still not be in control of the company†she concluded with a flick of ash from the dieing cigarette.
The man face glared stony back at her. "Doesn't my 10 percent share count for nothing†said the man with a flash of anger. "Your father wasn't stupid enough to give you the deciding percentage, your stocks in the company added to the senior partners only adds up to 49 percent of the total worth, leaving your father overall owner of the company†she said unemotionally, Putting out her existing cigarette in small crystal ash tray and taking a deep drink from the gin glass, in one fluid movement.
The man, with a sickly smirk on his face, causally slid a thick brown envelope across the smooth surface of the table. "There's ten thousand in that and another five when the jobs completed†he said with a look of satisfaction.
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"I am not some common gangster who you can pay to bump your father off!†She silently screamed, lighting another cigarette. "What do you want then?†The man spat at her, his face raw from the hit. "Nothing†she replied angrily, puffing slightly aggressively at the cigarette "your father as made sure there is no possible way of you or anyone else to seize the company without him directly handing his percentage over to him†Jackie stated her original calmness returning.
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Today, the second Twitter For Food event is happening on the popular social network, Twitter. As you know, food bank donations are down and the need is up. About 100 million more people worldwide are going hungry this year as compared to last, and with the poor economy, donations for food have dropped.
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Patient: I went to the gynae for a check up and a 50mm all round cyst on my left ovary so they operated and removed it but not even a month after the op I started getting pains and so went for another check up and doctor said the cyst is growing back Too soon to operate again so he gave me hormone tablets for a week and anti inflamitries and now I still get pains he said if it doesnt clear he will have to remove my left ovary but I am only 24yrs old My next appointment is 20may 2011 But now I am scared it hasnt cleared and he is going to remove my left ovary so now I have been trying to fall pregnant because I dont want to struggle to have children I hear plenty of women taking things for cyst but my gynae has not once mentioned it What must I do or can do
Doctor: The treatment of the ovarian cysts is usually based on the age, desire to pregnancy, future fertility options etc. If yo ur previous cyst was surgically removed, it may have been sent for pathology test and diagnosis of the underlying cause. You may discuss the available treatment options (based on the previous pathology and diagnosis of the cyst), with your doctor, and choose the best option to retain your maximum chances of pregnancy. However, in general, your potential to become pregnant with single ovary does not reduce compared to women with both ovaries, because although both ovaries contain infinite number of eggs, only one ovary is sufficient to release eggs every month.


text: If they are not sleeping or eating, Jacqueline and Elise are climbing! I have come to accept that the furniture in our house is an object to be climbed on and have therefore thrown my hands in the air of defeat. With unbearably cold weather this winter, the girls have had little chance to run around outside. Jacqueline and Elise have discovered their love of transforming our home into an indoor playground complete with ramps, obstacle courses, tunnels, and foam pits. As a mother, I want to encourage curiosity and playful fun, but my furniture is surely taking a beating. Please let summer be here SOON!


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Zack Greinke [RHP – ARI] and Justin Verlander [RHP – DET] are too expensive tonight. We have several other pitchers with comparable ceilings at much cheaper price points, and all of them have equal strikeout upside on Friday night. Greinke and Verlander have both been quite superb, but they face two bottom-10 strikeout opponents in hitter-friendly venues and are going to cost you a fortune across the board. I'll take my chances elsewhere on high-upside arms with better matchups and/or much cheaper salaries.
Jon Gray [RHP – COL] is a stellar mid-range play against a Padres squad that owns a sub-4-run implied total on Friday night. San Diego has been much more potent against left-handed pitchers of late, so I'm not nearly as concerned with them facing a right-hander at Petco Park. They own the league's 29th ranked wOBA (.300), 22nd ranked ISO (.162) and second highest K-rate (25.1%) vs. right-handed pitching this season, while sitting 29th, 24th and 3rd, respectively, in those categories at home. They're still a bad baseball team despite a few decent games against southpaw starters.
Rich Hill [LHP – LAD] might not offer double-digit strikeout upside in this specific spot, but the Giants are a legitimately putrid baseball team at the dish. No team owns a lower wOBA (.290) or ISO (.117) at home than the Giants, as they've recorded only 47 home runs across 2915 plate appearances this season! Sure, this game takes place in L.A., but it's still a pitcher-friendly venue (I initially thought they were at AT&T Park and didn't want to delete those ridiculously bad home splits). They're better than only the Angles vs. left-handed pitching this year, too, and have offered virtually no power regardless of venue.
No, the Giants don't strike out at a favorable clip for fantasy purposes, but good pitchers have had success against them in that department. Moreover, the Giants own the lowest implied run total on Friday's 15-game slate (2.9). Hill is priced $3K lower than Greinke and Verlander, has been fantastic at home this year, and boasts a 12-percent swinging strike rate, 31-percent K-rate and 6.9-percent BB-rate since the All-Star break.
Masahiro Tanaka [RHP – NYY] isn't as safe as tonight's top-shelf pitching options, But his ceiling is as high, if not higher than both. Get this: Tanaka ranks third in swinging strike rate (15.0%) behind only Corey Kluber and Max Scherzer, leads the league in O-Swing% (38.2), and sits fifth in Contact% (70.2) this season. Despite his 4.76 ERA, Tanaka still ranks top-15 in xFIP (3.57) and 14th in SIERA (3.63) among all qualified pitchers. He's racked up eight-plus strikeouts in nine of his last 18 starts with two or fewer runs allowed in 12 of those outings.
Toronto is a middle of the road team when it comes to strikeout rate vs. right-handed pitching (21% K), but they don't have many hitters who serve as pure-contact bats. Richard Urena (40.8%), Teoscar Hernandez (29.3%), Jose Bautista (23.9%), Ezequiel Carrera (23.1%), Miguel Montero (23.1%), Josh Donaldson (22.8%), Justin Smoak (22.1%), Kendrys Morales (21.9%) and Russell Martin (21.3%) all strike out at a 20-plus-percent clip vs. RHP–some much higher–so this isn't exactly a low-upside matchup for Tanaka. He should go overlooked in tournaments tonight, but this is a nice spot for Tanaka as a GPP pivot away from the other high-end options. Lets just hope he doesn't continue to suck away from Yankee Stadium.
Jeff Samardzija [RHP – SFG] obviously doesn't draw a great matchup on paper, but the Dodgers are flat out trash right now. Over the last month, L.A. ranks 29th in wOBA (.289) and seventh in K-rate (24.6%). They'll likely be without Justin Turner and Corey Seager on Friday, too, which is a massive blow to an already downtrodden lineup. I'm actually not against using Shark in some lineups, as he boasts a 26.3 percent K-rate away from home, and lit the Dodgers up for 8/0/11 earlier this year. At a $7,600 price point on DraftKings Samardzija actually serves as a nice value if you're willing to bet on the Dodgers' continued struggles.
Ubaldo Jimenez [RHP – BAL] is Friday's boom-or-bust punt of the night, facing a K-heavy, yet potent Rays squad at Camden Yards. First and foremost, Caleb Joseph has to be behind the dish if we have any intentions of rostering Jimenez. Nearly the entire Orioles pitching staff has produced elevated fantasy totals with Joseph in the squat, while all of them have been putrid when Welington Castillo is catching. There isn't much gray area with Jimenez, though; he's either posting 20-plus DKPT (5 of his last 10 starts) or less than five (four of his last 10 starts). Ubaldo's last two starts vs. Tampa Bay look like this: 6 IP, 3 H, 2 ER, 9 K, 24.5 DKPT and 2.1 IP, 7 H, 9 ER, 1 K, -324056 DKPT. As you can see, he likely won't be 'just okay' tonight. You might get 25-30 fantasy points or the night could be over before it started. Tampa's left-handed power is a legitimate concern, and if they aren't striking out, Jimenez will be toast.
TOURNAMENT PLAYS: Kyle Gibson [RHP – MIN] @ DET
J.D. Martinez [OF – R] has absolutely dismantled left-handed pitching this season, sporting a massive .522 wOBA and .500 ISO with a ridiculous 55-percent hard-hit rate across 103 PA. With 11 home runs, nine doubles and a triple with the platoon advantage, Martinez has recorded an extra-base hit per every 4.19 at bats. He ranks top-five in wOBA, ISO and wRC+ since being dealt to the D-Backs, where he's sporting a league-leading .500 ISO over that span.
Adam Conley would be better off calling out sick tonight, as he'll have no chance of successfully navigating around the likes of Paul Goldschmidt [1B – R], A.J. Pollock [OF – R] and Martinez in the front half of Arizona's order. Martinez is not the only top play here, as a Diamondbacks stack should be at the top of your list. Their 5.9-run implied total serves as the highest mark on this 15-game slate.
Freddie Freeman [1B/3B – L] should tee off against Ben Lively inside the lefty-friendly Suntrust Park. Lively relies on his curveball to sit down left-handed hitters, but that shouldn't work against Freeman who ranks top five against the pitch this season. Lively doesn't have a viable changeup and is allowing far too many fly balls to succeed in such a spot. Freeman is finally hitting for power again, so there's no reason he should be ignored on Friday night. The multi-position eligibility on DraftKings also makes him an easier fit since the first base position is so unbelievably deep.
Rhys Hoskins [1B/OF – R] and Matt Olson [1B/OF] also draw spectacular matchups and offer dual-position eligibility, too. Hoskins' .484/.536 wOBA/ISO vs. LHP is more than appealing against Newcomb, who's suffered serious control problems since being called up. Hoskins also boasts a 52-percent flyball rate and 52-percent hard-hit rate with the platoon advantage, so I wouldn't be surprised to see another fine performance from the young stallion.
Olson leads the league in home runs (8) over the past two weeks, seven of which have come over his last 10 games. This ridiculous power surge will come to an end eventually, but I'm not sure Friday's meeting with Nick Martinez would be a good bet for him to settle down.
If you're feeling frisky, and want to load up on power bats while spending down at pitcher, it's actually possible to fit Goldschmidt, Freeman, Hoskins and Olson into the same lineup on DraftKings despite all of them having first base eligibility. You can fit all of them and J.D. Martinez with a Samardzija/Jimenez pairing and still have $3K remaining per player for your final three roster spots. I don't need to tell you this, but it's obviously a huge roll of the dice on pitching if you decide to take this route.
HONORABLE MENTION: Brian Dozier [2B – R] @ Norris [LHP]; Trea Turner [SS – R] @ Gsellman [RHP]
Travis Shaw [3B – L] has oddly had less success at home this season, but that shouldn't stop us from targeting him against John Lackey inside the homer-happy Miller Park. Lackey, on the year, is allowing a .359 wOBA, .244 ISO and 2.19 HR/9 to left-handed hitters, while striking them out at a mere 16.9 percent clip. Shaw's power with the platoon advantage has been on full display this season (.255 ISO, 40% HH), and Lackey has been crushed by lefties on the road (2.68 HR/9, 5.65 xFIP). I like this spot quite a bit with Shaw being reasonably priced across the industry.
Daniel Murphy [2B – L] was priced to face Jacob deGrom tonight, not Robert Gsellman. That alone is enough to target him at only $4K on DraftKings. Murphy is having a relatively quiet 2017 campaign, but he's still posting quality numbers against right-handed pitching (.383/.225 wOBA/ISO) and shouldn't be priced the same as Dustin Pedroia on Friday.
Yoan Moncada [2B – L/R] is also underpriced in a plus matchup with Hammel. The young prospect is finally acclimating to life under the big lights, and has now racked up six extra-base hits, eight RBI and five multi-hit efforts over his last 10 starts. Moncada has performed much better from the left side of the plate, and should continue to hit towards the top of Chicago's order tonight.
Kevin Kiermaier [OF – L] is a boom-or-bust mid-range play tonight, much like his opponent Ubaldo Jimenez. This is one matchup where I wouldn't mind having both sides in different lineups. Jimenez has been much better with Joseph catching and is actually producing decent strikeout numbers at times, but he's also ceding a mammoth .406 wOBA, .321 ISO and 2.81 HR/9 to left-handed hitters this season. There are more than enough quality pitching options to go nowhere near Jimenez, which would give us much reason to target Rays lefties at Camden Yards. Kiermaier offers some pop but also has speed on the basepaths. Each year Jimenez ranks towards the bottom of the league in every base-stealing metric, is incapable of holding runners, and even worse when Joseph is catching. A Rays stack could explode tonight, both at the plate and on the basepaths.
Byron Buxton [OF – R] has crushed lefties over the last month, boasting a .428 wOBA and .341 ISO over that stretch. He's one of a few Twins righties who can be had at a mid-range salary tonight, which will be hard to ignore considering their 5.5-run implied total against Daniel Norris. Norris has been worse against same-handed bats, but he's allowing 43-percent hard contact and 40-percent fly balls to righties, so I can't say I'm especially worried about this matchup. If you're looking for Minnesota exposure without having to pay a premium for Dozier, Buxton should make for a nice alternative in the outfield.
HONORABLE MENTION: Aaron Altherr [OF – R] @ Newcomb [LHP]; Didi Gregorius [SS – L] @ Estrada [RHP]; Ian Happ [2B/OF – L/R] @ Woodruff [RHP]; Mike Moustakas [3B – L] @ Lopez [RHP]; Jake Lamb [3B – L] vs. Conley [LHP] [GPP]; Kyle Schwarber [OF – L] @ Woodruff [RHP]
Chris Iannetta [C – R] should easily be considered a top option at the backstop position tonight. Seldom do we find a catcher with pop, batting second with the platoon advantage, inside one of the most hitter-friendly venues around, priced very reasonably across the board. Iannetta is an inexplicable $2,400 on FanDuel, giving us no real reason to look elsewhere in cash. Even in tournaments I'll happily use Iannetta as much as possible on FanDuel and DraftKings. Batting ahead of Pollock, Goldschmidt and Martinez should provide Iannetta with plenty of good at bats and hittable pitches. He's the top catcher play across the industry and I don't think it's close.
Lucas Duda [1B – L] and Mallex Smith [OF – L] have been ice cold in recent weeks, which is one of the reasons I highlighted Jimenez as a potential tournament play. That being said, both of them are dirt cheap across the industry against a volatile left-hander who has plenty of blowup potential at home. If I'm using Rays bats I'm probably stacking them, as they are incredibly easy to fit, and offer a nice power/speed combination throughout the order.
Kiermaier and Smith won't hesitate to run against a right-hander who is incapable of holding runners (18 SB, 4 CS for Jimenez in 2017), while power hitters like Duda and Morrison can pay off their salaries with one swing of the bat. Corey Dickerson [OF – L] hasn't been good, either, but he's also close to minimum salary on both FanDuel and DraftKings.
Nick Williams [OF – L] is an intriguing tournament play against Sean Newcomb, who for his entire professional career (including the minors) has struggled against same-handed bats. Williams is actually sporting a .284 AVG and .336 wOBA vs. LHP this season, and gets a nice park shift at Suntrust this evening. Sure, it's a risky play, but you won't have to pay much for him and he should go completely overlooked across the industry.
HONORABLE MENTION: Nick Delmonico [1B/OF – L] vs. Hammel [RHP]; Brandon Drury [2B – R] vs. Conley [LHP]; Ozzie Albies [2B -L/R] @ Lively [RHP]; Alex Avila [C/1B – L] @ Woodruff [RHP]; Ketel Marte [SS – L/R] vs. Conley [LHP]


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Bulletin of the American Physical Society
APS March Meeting 2018
Monday–Friday, March 5–9, 2018; Los Angeles, California
Session G60: Poster Session I
Tuesday, March 6, 2018
LACC Room: West Hall A
Abstract: G60.00263 : Performing Electron Interferometry Using a Transmission Electron Microscope with an Thermionic Source*
Rose Marie Haynes
(University of Oregon)
Rose Marie Haynes
(University of Oregon)
Gino Carrillo
(University of Oregon)
Fehmi Yasin
(University of Oregon)
Benjamin McMorran
(University of Oregon)
Here we demonstrate the capability of the FEI Tecnai Spirit Transmission Electron Microscope (TEM) to perform electron interferometry. This TEM, like many other older models, uses a thermionic emission source with low spatial coherence. Presently, electron interferometry can be performed in a TEM using methods such as the Mollenstedt Biprism, but such methods require much higher spatial coherence than can be attained with lower-end TEMs. By using a nanofabricated grating as a beam splitter, we are able to perform electron interferometry with much lower spatial coherence. The goal of this experiment was to verify that older TEMs could be used to study the properties of electron-transparent materials using this method. Gratings were milled with a pitch of 200 nm and a diameter of 20 μm using a focused ion beam. The grating was placed in the aperture of the TEM and was used to split the electron beam into spatially separated, well-focused diffraction orders at the specimen plane. By refocusing these diffraction orders we obtained an image of the grating in which the sinusoidal features on the grating were visible, suggesting that electron interferometry can be performed in TEMs with thermionic emission sources.
*This work was supported by a grant from the National Science Foundation.
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On Sunday March 5th, 2017, Tom proposed. Continue reading "Thom's Thursday Thoughts on Proposing"
Might be fun, no promises.
On Sunday March 5th, 2017, Tom proposed. Continue reading "Thom's Thursday Thoughts on Proposing"
On Sunday night, March 5th, 2017, Tom proposed.
Continue reading "Thom's Thursday Thoughts Leading up to the Proposal"
An essay I began back when I was unemployed.
My mother is worried.
"If you find a job," she says, "Then you can get engaged soon after." Continue reading "Marry Me, Maybe?"
Leaving the theater on Wednesday night, I checked my phone and saw that my mother had called during the show. She left a message: Continue reading "Anniversaries: My Mother's Take"
Last night my cousin and I paid a visit to the Chengs, family friends with whom we've grown up and whose kids now have kids. Mr. and Mrs. Chengs are an exceptional older Asian couple, meaning they openly show their affection for one another, as though it were the most normal and obvious thing to do. We sat around their dining table, the lazy susan upon which had still not been cleared of their abundant dinner – fried prawns and fish and new year's cake, all of which seemed to have hardly been touched- and discussed their upcoming trip to Japan. There were eight of us in all, including Geoff – the Cheng's eldest son, his wife Jenny, her parents and sister, and my cousin and I. Geoff's one year old baby daughter played with tattered red envelope from some generous relative. A few 1000NTD bills lay about her high chair. We talked about the rising cost of airplane tickets (though the Chengs, having made a sizable fortune from window treatments, could hardly be discouraged from traveling even if tickets were absurdly expensive – though "absurdly" is also relative).
Geoff sat to my right, slouched down low in his chair with his belly stuck out. I tried hard to remember him as a teenager, a shrimpy, scowly boy with a terrible temper. He had softened both emotionally and physically as he grew older and now at thirty-two was a father, married to Jenny, a beautiful petite young woman from the south who, when people first met her and knew that she was engaged to Geoff, made them scratch their heads, "How the hell did he get her?"
She was just a year older than I and had a soft, pleasant smile, a sweet, tuneful voice, and powdery pale skin with the slightest touch of pink – a complexion comparable, I thought, to her baby daughter's. All of this was emphasized by her dark eyes and thick brows. Her corners of her small, rosebud mouth seemed always to be turned up, so that a soft smile constantly played on her face. On top of this she was well-educated, polite, exceedingly agreeable and fertile; in short, every (Asian) mother's dream daughter-in-law. She met Geoff shortly after turning twenty-five and put up history's weakest struggle – after all, Geoff was neither a looker nor very charming – until she gave in to the package that men like Geoff are lucky enough to be borne into and that makes them attractive rather than atrocious marriage prospects: despite his outwardly prickly demeanor, Geoff was a good guy with a steady job working in sales at his father's company. He came from a tight-knit and wealthy family helmed by pleasant, generous parents.
"Still," I said, when I saw photos of the happy couple, "The ten is marrying a…five. (I factored in Geoff's unsightly weight gain which could not be evenly distributed across his small frame) Or a four."
My aunt said that in Chinese, this was called, "A flower stuck on a pile of horse shit."
Within a year of their engagement she was pregnant and I was now sitting across from her and her one-year old baby girl. I looked at Geoff and then back at his young wife – Goeff seemed disgruntled, perhaps he was too full – but then again, he always seemed like that. Jenny played happily with her daughter as though all her childhood dreams had been fulfilled.
Geoff's sister in law was a year older than his wife but, judging by the fact that she'd just returned from a trip with just her mother and now sat in the Cheng's dining room fussing with the baby, I gathered she was still years away from the life her younger sister lived now. I can't explain it. Perhaps I'm wrong, but I was exercising my single girl radar – like gaydar but equipped with more assumptions, more judgement – and gathered that she was single and struggling to find a husband like most plain-faced, big-boned girls my age in Taipei and in big cities across Asia where small frames, small faces, and perfect skin tend to be physical requisites for wifely material.
The young woman had a plain name and pimples, to which Geoff's mother-in-law deemed fit to turn the conversation.
"I just don't know what to do about her face anymore," she said, and the girl looked awkwardly down on her plate and shrugged.
"What do you use?" Mrs. Cheng asked. Ten minutes before Mrs. Cheng had come downstairs in a tangerine colored silk vest – not designed exactly to hide her round figure, but certainly made her appear the wealthy and well-fed matriarch of such a clan. My aunt often reminds me that in her youth, Mrs. Cheng was a very great beauty, so much so that when Mr. Cheng first set eyes on her he said to himself, "Now there, she will be my wife."
Mrs. Cheng was no longer beautiful, but one could hardly call her ugly. She had blown up, for lack of a better phrase, from the nutrients of too many shark's fin soups, abalone congees and swallow's nests desserts, but her eyes were bright and her skin shiny and supple. For all the years I've known her, she maintained the same haircut – a blunt helmet-like bob, with a row of short, heavy bangs, beneath which her face grew rounder with each passing year. Mrs. Cheng's sister had always been her harshest critic and said years ago, when the weight began to creep on, that Mrs. Cheng's hair was like a bowl and her pale face like white rice that was beginning to overflow. Regardless, Mrs. Cheng carried herself with an enviable grace and confidence and never seemed to stop glowing with the pride borne from having a good husband and from knowing that they had built a good life together.
Geoff's sister in law pursed her lips. She was thinking of reasons as to why her skin was so bad. "I don't use many products at all," she said, "I used to try and cover it up all the time, but it seemed to just make the problem worse. So now I just try to keep it clean and use a little bit of moisturizer."
"It just takes time," Mrs. Cheng said assuringly, though one could tell that Mrs. Cheng had never had a bad skin day in her life.
As though reading my thoughts, Mr. Cheng chimed in.
"Mrs. Cheng's skin has always been perfect," he said, "She doesn't use anything. She has always had wonderful skin."
To emphasize his wonderful opinion of his glowing wife, he reached up to stroke the back of her head. I gave a sidelong glance to my cousin Karen. We both thought, "Hm."
"It's true," Mrs. Cheng said, "I don't use much. Just this cheap pharmacy brand from Japan," (here Karen and I exchanged glances again – we knew the brand and it was cheap and we were about to be very impressed until Mrs. Cheng continued), "And one drop of that gold bottle from Chanel. You know that bottle? Just one drop. That's it!" Later, my aunt would say that the gold bottle cost three hundred dollars and Mrs. Cheng had given her a bottle, claiming that one drop performed skin miracles.
And did it?
"I need about five or six drops," my aunt had said wryly.
Mr. Cheng leaned forward and nodded at us nodding along to his wife's words, and I did not know whether to laugh or keep nodding. It was a small thing, this talk about skincare, but this little motion of his, and his affirmation of his wife's beauty which to him had faded not a whit, was marvelous to me in an anthropological sense.
Later, I asked Mr. Cheng if he planned on retiring anytime soon.
"From the company, yes," he said, "but not from my charities. My charities still require a lot of work."
Mr. Cheng's charities – a hospital, childcare center, senior citizen center and a civic education center, to name but a few – are funded by the alms donated by hundreds of thousands of devout Buddhist Taiwanese citizens to three popular and venerated temples established by Mr. Cheng's late father in the 1970's.
"But these centers," Mr. Cheng said, "were not my father's vision but my wife's vision. Everything is her vision. She has so many ideas, so many great and wonderful ideas on how to benefit society, and I, I," he tapped the brochures he had run upstairs like a young man to retrieve and show me, "I make it my work. I love this work. I cannot stop, not quite yet."
He looked at the brochures in his hands as I turned to look at his wife. She was plump and happy as the granddaughter she held now in her lap. The baby clapped and smiled. So did she, so full of life and humor. I had secretly accused her senses of being dulled by money and an easy life, but having heard enough stories of her impoverished childhood from my aunt and now attaching these stories to what appeared to be Mr. Cheng's motivation for adding such legacies to his existing charities, I saw my accusations were unfounded. Mr. Cheng was a devout Buddhist and in his wife he had found his personal Bodhisattva – a woman full of light and who, in her own right, had made the right choice as well.
Every evening they strolled in the park across from their sprawling Taipei home, and every evening Mr. Cheng smiled adoringly at Mrs. Cheng regardless of how bright the lamplights shone. Once, their group of friends asked the men for whom they made so much money and one after another the men answered, "For my children, for my children," until the question fell upon Mr. Cheng who replied without pause, "For my wife. All for my wife."
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Later that night, Karen and I readied for bed like an old lesbian couple.
"I don't know if I'm the type of woman to strike a man like that," I said, "Actually, I know I'm not the type. That just seems so strange to me. The one arrow to the heart sort of thing."
"Me neither," Karen said, "It's written in some people's lives, but perhaps not ours." It seemed very one-sided to us, and feeling slightly slighted by fate and/or genetics, we fell asleep, dreaming of one-sided love stories. The kind we seemed to know best.
But in the morning as we relayed the night's events to my aunt, my aunt shook her head at me. The best and most sustainable romances are not those where the man chases tirelessly, blindly after a beautiful woman who cannot be made happy because she does not see in the man what he sees in her.
"Mrs. Cheng truly was stunning," my aunt said, "She truly did have her pick of suitors, some of whom were much more handsome and much wealthier than Mr. Cheng."
"Then why did she settle for Mr. Cheng?" I think even before my aunt replied I knew the answer and that to use the word "settle" (even though there is no true Chinese equivalent for it, "settle" was implied by my tone) was incorrect.
"She did not settle," my aunt said, "she felt a certain familiarity. They had never met, not ever, but there was something comforting about him as though they'd met before, like they were old friends."
I thought of that Rihanna song, and that Michael Buble song, and that old lady Fate, who ran in circles from that life to this one and will sprint on to the next and the next. I thought of the people who are destined, one way or other, to meet. When they do, the feeling is just how Mrs. Cheng described: like meeting an old friend, or rereading a favorite tattered book. Like coming home.
The girl, expectedly, was not happy.
"I don't want to move to the beautiful country," she spat the Chinese name of America, "You can't just uproot me and move me halfway across the world without talking to me about it."
"I'm talking to you now," her mother said as a matter-of-factly, aware of her use of the singular. Even though her husband sat right next to her, he said nothing. Fine with her. Mothers are expected to deliver the bad news that would change their children's lives for the better.
The girl was nearly speechless with anger, but she saw on her mother's face the expression she had come to hate: the one of resolute, immovable decision. In it was etched the selfishness and the stubborn pride she had come to associate with her mother and everything wrong in general with old-fashioned, conservative mothers. It was like a disease, that expression. The girl saw it in the parents of some of her friends as well – the flashing but strangely dead eyes that signalled a challenge almost to their offspring. Fight me, the eyes said, but you will lose. In the future, when the girl's English improved she learned the phrase "my way or the highway," and often thought of it when she fought with her mother. As afflictions went, the girl felt her mother had an almost terminal case of it. Saving face, saving face – this was what her mother lived by so that it seemed she had only one face, one expression – her mother seemed like a statue to her then, but oddly, the girl did not see the strength of stone, but weak plaster wanting desperately to represent something it was not. Regardless, the die had been cast by her mother's stiff hand and her father, though far from a pushover, was only slightly more alive and would not do anything to reverse it.
"We will come back during the summers, unless you need summer school," her mother continued, "some kids who don't study hard during the school year need to stay and take extra courses during the summer, but," the woman looked at her daughter, "hopefully you won't need it."
"And dad?" the girl turned to her father. She loved him more than she loved her mother, but she felt a growing rift. In her gut she knew he had very little to do with this decision.
The woman looked at her husband. He leaned forward and rubbed his face. He did not know, precisely, what it was he felt at the moment except that his family seemed very far from him even though they were, at present, sitting right in front of him.
"Your father will stay here and work," the woman said simply, and as though to reinforce her words she rubbed his back, which instinctively stiffened to her touch. Whether the woman felt this he did not know or care. "Your father works very hard, as you know, and his work is here. He can come visit us whenever he wants, and we will come back for all your breaks. Unless you have summer school."
The man finally spoke.
"Your mother and I discussed this at length. You're not doing well here. We think you will do better in the American school system. You have more freedom there."
The girl leaned back. What a robot. She was disgusted, but mostly she was sad. She had not the words to describe this sadness, not at that age when one's world is small and narrow, but only that whatever family life she had was slowly being chipped away and deemed unimportant.
"We need to think about your future," the man said, "Education comes first."
Of course it does. But this freedom her father referred to. Did he know his wife at all?
She was barely fourteen, had not yet begun to develop an appetite for the world but still, she knew a thing or two about freedom and how certain environments could help expand or limit already limited freedom. At least in Taipei she could go out on her own, could walk around the city or hide out in cafes and bookstores. She'd gone to the US before to visit cousins who liked her enough but were clearly different. They spoke such rapid English, for one thing, and didn't understand half of the words she used in Chinese, but what's more, they relied on their parents to take them anywhere. This took some getting used to. She had done the requisite visits to Disneyland, Sea World, all fun places but inaccessible without a car. And what of her beloved hiding spots? Would she find new ones in the new world? She could not even begin to imagine life in California and she did not want to.
"Get yourself ready," her mother said, "tell your friends you will come back and that they can come visit us anytime."
She would not say anything to her friends, the girl decided. It was much easier to disappear off the face of the earth and let everyone wonder.
The girl did not cry when her mother stood up to go. Her father stayed behind with her on the couch. She was silent and sat staring out the window – the sky had gone dark since they'd first sat down, and it felt like years ago when really, the whole disruption of her present life had taken less than fifteen minutes. She thought it had begun to rain but turned to find that her father had turned the TV on to the weather channel. It was raining elsewhere, not in Taipei. But it didn't matter. The weather in Taipei would not affect the girl at all, not in a few months, and after a moment her father got up and left too.
She came from a fairly well-to-do family and was used to certain things. With this man she could see that materially, things could only get better. He had drive – her parents often told her this was more important than coming from a wealthy family, from where the children often lacked ambition and direction. The woman pitied the girls who had failed to find themselves husbands and for the first time she did not focus all her energies on her studies or even choir practice. Her grades slipped slightly but it didn't matter. She quit trying to give weight and shape to the abstract career thoughts; instead, they took another shape altogether, that of the man she loved and the life they would lead together.
She and her beau spent hours discussing their future, strolling down the palm-lined walkways of their prestigious university on warm summer nights. Other young lovers walked the same paths at the same hours, but when she was with him she felt the path was theirs alone. The street lamps shone solely upon them, like spotlights on a stage that every young woman her age longed to be on. She would turn to look at him under the lamps' soft glow, not saying a word as he talked animatedly with his hands about the businesses he wanted to start – something about computer parts or panels, she didn't really understand and instead was mesmerized by the sheen of microscopic sweat forming on his brow and temples. The angles of his face glowed with promise. Such straight teeth! Such bright eyes and strong hands! She felt beautiful in his presence because she felt lucky – she was not picky with men and she did not need to be. He had selected her – of all the roses in the school, he had chosen her.
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They graduated, already knowing they were to marry. He made his intentions clear to her parents and they nodded, seeing the same promise their daughter saw. They gave them their blessing and showered the young couple with a borderline lavish ceremony. It was, the woman thought, one of the happiest days of her life. But that night she lay awake next to her toast-drunk husband and thought, "Why happiest?" She was so young. There was so much ahead of them. Things could only get better.
And for a while they did. His career took off with flying colors – he was a shrewd business man, unafraid of hard work and sacrifice. He made it very clear to his wife that it was for both of them. Within the first year his business doubled then tripled and showed no signs of slowing and the woman smiled contentedly, thinking herself his lucky charm. She let him leave her for long hours because in the beginning it was just him and a handful of his partners, none of who were married so they could stay late at the office without worrying about a wife waiting at home while dinner got cold. She understood these things, and anyway it didn't matter; if he came home late – which was often – she would simply reheat the dinner she had cooked. She gave him no advice, took no role in his business – she had no head for such things – and sang to him when he returned home exhausted from work. Only once, when he couldn't sleep for one reason or other did he ask her to quiet down. The other times his sleep was so deep he did not hear.
When did things begin to change?
When does any marriage begin to change?
When the woman could not get pregnant.
A few days ago my mother came in to say goodnight and saw me hunched over my work phone, typing something out to my boss. I looked up, aware my eyes projected fatigue if anything.
She kept her hand on the door handle, as though deciding whether or not she should come in – it was late. She was constantly reminding me to sleep earlier but at the same time saw so little of me during the day that the evenings, right before bed, were the only time we really got to talk
I look forward to talking to my mother at night. Now, she is busier than my father (though he will never agree to this); after teaching a few hours she comes home to make dinner (unless my father, having left work early as he often does now, comes home to make it first) and then prepares to leave again to play two hours or so of badminton at the local club.
When I was younger and she didn't play badminton, I often watched her sneak in a short naps here and there. I would come home from school and shout something to my brother who would say, "Shh. Mom's sleeping." And she'd be in the living room, stretched out primly on the flowered couch, her knees propped up or feet crossed at the ankles, a slight frown on her face. A light sleeper who stirred at the slightest sound, she was never fully asleep. I pitied her for it because my father's snores are murderous – meaning you will either die from exhaustion, or kill him in the middle of the night.
Whatever my mother thought of her sleeping situation, she and my father worked it out long ago. She took to retiring earlier than he – to get a head start, I suppose. Her tactic was to enter REM before my father came to bed, and would thus be immune to the noise. But I doubt this. It is one of those sacrifices women make when they marry. My father gives her love, warmth, a family, the financial stability to pursue her non-profit Chinese school dreams – all that and more – in exchange for the restful slumber she had before she met him.
And yet to my surprise I observed that my mother slept poorly when my father was not there. As they grew old together, she came to rely on the rhythm of his breath to put her heart at ease. At the end of the day everything was fine – he was there, alive and well, and together they were whole. Her children may grow and fly the coop (though this has yet to happen with the youngest bird), but at the eleventh hour through the first, her husband was there, sleeping peacefully albeit noisily by her side.
So perhaps it was not the sleep. Whatever it was, she seemed to be always tired, in the same way I feel now. For a long time we thought it was her liver. My mother is also very gullible – fatigue and gullibility do not mix. Fatigue makes one desperate, even more gullible than usual, and she bounced from one doctor to the next, collecting a docket filled with lies about her physical condition.
She was never known for being fair, yet one doctor said her skin appeared jaundiced, which indicated her liver was failing her. Another doctor pointed to the white hairs along her hairline, saying it was something to do with her blood. Lupus. Cancer. Hypothyroidism. We never really did figure it out, but thank goodness my mother, despite her gullibility, hates western medicine with a passion and refused to take any of the medication. "Why damage my liver further, if my liver is already weak?" she reasoned.
Chinese medicine, with its strange herbs and animals parts were another story – my mother believed in eastern medicine with the same principles with which she adhered to Buddhism. Not strictly, but willingly, out of familiarity. Eastern medicine could be explained in Chinese terms more readily than western medicine and procedures, and was, in general, a more holistic approach, which appealed to my mother's nature-loving bent. She spent a small fortune on carefully measured packets of horsetail, cordyceps, starfish, feverfew and fenugreek which she dutifully boiled every night with dates and ginger root so that our house smelled not unlike the strange, dim doctor's offices she visited on Taipei's outskirts.
As a family we tried to persuade her to take on less. Cut her private tutoring classes. Forget doing the Chinese school – not only was it a non-profit, it bled money. Don't serve on the advisory board of this Chinese committee and that. Stop editing Chinese textbooks for free. And for Chrissakes stop traveling to China and Taiwan for exhausting two-week long conferences while staying in shitty hotels with bad food.
But my mother is stubborn when she sets her mind to something and she had learned long ago that married or not, a woman must have her work. So she persisted in building her Chinese school, and despite our protests, took on more private tutoring students. For a while I feared she would die of exhaustion. And somewhere in the middle of all this, she began to play badminton, hours at a time, three or four times a week.
I thought, "Oh goodness. She will collapse one day."
Instead, the opposite began to happen. She became more energetic, more lively, more ambitious. It wasn't just the exercise but also the growing profile of her tiny Chinese school. The two together: a woman's work and the care she devotes to her body – is a powerful combination for happiness. Yes, she still comes home exhausted some days, but for the most part I have never seen her look so vibrant. My father noticed too, and rather than continue to persuade her to quit, he now accepts his growing role as Mr. Mom – he cooks more, takes care of more things around the house – not that he didn't before, but he is home more often than my mother is, and the role of half-house husband suits him well.
From my mother I learn that for a woman – or any person, really, to stick to their work, stick doggedly to it even though no one pushes them to do so, they must really love the work. She has the energy to do it because that is how the mind functions – it provides phantom energy, the most potent and secret kind, to help you accomplish what you most love and need in order to feel whole.
And now my mother, armed with phantom energy, comes into my room each night to ask me about my work.
"Does it make you happy?"
"Is your boss a nice man?"
"Do your coworkers like you?"
Yes, yes and yes, I say, but still, there is a feeling that everything about the job is fleeting, much like every other job I've held in the past.
I tried to go in with an open mind, thinking, "Who knows how long I'll stay?" Maybe I will love it and end up staying three, four, five years. A decade?
I heard a hollow laugh when I posed the possibility to myself.
I'm too young to think that any position I hold now will be my "career," but I can't shake the feeling – both paralyzing and liberating – that I may never have a "career," not in the conventional sense of the word. What is industry? What industry? How should I categorize myself and where, in the vast career planes and skyscraping corporate verticals, do I belong?
"It was a great comfort to turn from that chap to . . . the battered, twisted, ruined, tin-pot steamboat. . . . I had expended enough hard work on her to make me love her. No influential friend would have served me better. She had given me a chance to come out a bit—to find out what I could do. No, I don't like work. I had rather laze about and think of all the fine things that can be done. I don't like work—no man does—but I like what is in the work,—the chance to find yourself. Your own reality—for yourself, not for others—what no other man can ever know."
Joseph Conrad, Heart of Darkness


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The determinants of aggregate supply (points 1)
We will suggest three different rationales for the downward sloped curve: the real balances effect, the interest rate effect, and the foreign purchases effect.The price increases that result from increases in AD are examples of Demand-Pull Inflation.
Aggregate Demand Aggregate Supply - Klein Oak.orgIt can be on both curves simultaneously by being a point where the curves.
The determinants of aggregate supply (Points: 1) are consumption, investment, government, and net export spending. explain why real domestic output and the price.Changes in Government Spending unrelated to a change in the price.This relationship between prices and the amount of goods and services that can be purchased with a given money supply is called the real balances effect.In this range, increasing output is possible, but only at the expense of rising prices.
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Chapter 8--Aggregate Demand and Aggregate SupplyThere is a specific reason for why the AS has this peculiar shape.There is no way to simultaneously decrease inflation and decrease unemployment using demand side shifts.
CHAPTER 11As you bid up wages in the labor market to attract additional workers, prices in the economy will also rise, because now it costs more to produce your product.During the 1970s, a variety of factors shifted the AS curve to the left.In the graph below, we show the standard aggregate expenditures curve at three different price levels.The following table lists several determinants of aggregate supply.
The determinants of aggregate supply: a). rightward shift of the aggregate supply curve along a fixed aggregate demand curve. c).As we consider each of the determinants remember that those factors that cause an increase in AD will shift the curve outward and to the right and those factors that cause a decrease in AD will shift the curve inward and to the left.Aggregate demand is the total amount of goods and services demanded in the economy at a given price level and in a given time period.This range is named after the Classical Economists who assumed that the economy, in the long run, would always achieve full employment.As interest rates go up, investment demand and certain interest-rate sensitive consumption purchases will fall.Suppose you have a given amount of money (Rs.100) now the actual value of your money depends on the price level in the market.How to Study for Class 4: The Determinants of Demand and Supply.
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The high inflation that was combined with a stagnant economy (low levels of output and high unemployment) gave rise to the term Stagflation.
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Reading is such a pleasure to me……I love to curl up with a good book and get lost in it.
I kept thinking about doing a post on my favorite books….and that would just be impossible. There's hundreds of them!
I love the classics. I love really great writers that create characters you relate with and feel like you know. So…..I had a dilemma….there is no way I could share all of my favorite books that I've read. There are too many in every category.
So, I thought that I would just share a few that lately I've been in the mood to read….or at least wish the authors would get with it and publish another soon! Autumn is such a great time to curl up under your favorite blanket, grab a cup of coffee/hot chocolate/tea, and get lost in a wonderful story.
When I first heard of The Mitford Series it sounded like something I really wouldn't like….so I just didn't pay attention. However, it did intrigue me that the whole series was based on one of my favorite towns…Blowing Rock, NC. We go there as often as possible. 🙂
Several years ago I was trying so hard to find a good book…..I was in the mood for a great story; I didn't want to read a book about 'how to be a better mom/wife/friend/person'. I just wanted a fun story that spoke to me.
I bit the dust and bought the first Mitford Series book: At Home in Mitford. I was quickly hooked….and within 3 months had read all 9 books in the series. Jan Karon is a fabulous writer and knows how to spin a tale. While in Blowing Rock a few years ago we got to meet her….and she is a gem.
A couple of years ago I was, once again, searching for a fun story……and found these 3 books by a new author, Jennifer Valent:
Great stories that my daughters fell in love with, as well. They are set in the 30's….and are full of great characters. So glad I picked that first one up!
For some deep soul-searching and encouragement…..I love all of Ken Gire's books. He has written over 20…and they are all such wonderful ministry. They will touch places in your heart that you didn't know existed. You can find them here.
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Do you have any great stories or books that have ministered to you in special ways? I'd love to hear about them….I'm on the hunt for a good book these days!
Enlighten me…I need suggestions~