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Parental Guidance
March 18, 2016 § Leave a comment
"Testing, testing, one…two…"
I sat, bored, in the collapsible chair they'd set up for me in the middle of the room, trying to ignore the incessant buzz that was filling the room to its corners. Eventually, an impossibly cheerful woman whose name tag seemed to shout "Sarah" slid into the empty seat opposite me. I was vaguely aware that she was patting my arm, most likely offering the standard advice to "Just be yourself! They'll love you!", but all I could focus on were her gleaming white teeth. I'd never seen anyone smile that wide before, but she wasn't the worst presence to have in my house.
"We are here today with Katherine Smith, world-famous runner and now the youngest coach of the national track team! Tell us Katie, how on earth does someone so young achieve all that you have! Most of us probably spent our adolescence watching too much television and listening to rude music!"
A soft murmur of appreciative giggles rose from the surrounding crew and Sarah herself was rocking silently at her coffee-table humour, all the while aiming her blinding smile at the camera.
"It's Katherine, actually."
A quick shadow crossed Sarah's radiant face, but in the manner of a true professional, it disappeared in the same moment.
"Of course, Katherine. So is there anything you'd like to share with the throngs of young girls who look up to you? How can they strive to be as driven and disciplined as you?"
"Well, routine is important for any athlete. Early to rise, early to bed, with training and nutrition in between."
"Easier said than done, right!" Sarah said, turning and winking at the camera. "Did you set that regimen up for yourself? Or did your parents have a hand in building that discipline? After all, parents influence so much of who we are, don't they!"
"Not so much my father, mostly my mother."
My mother was beautiful. Or so I've heard, from friendly, albeit somewhat nosy, neighbours.
She had a delicate appeal, feminine by any measure, with sloping shoulders and a cinched waist. Her oval face and pleasant features evoked inherent trust, and her coiffed blonde hair always looked perfect perched on my father's arm.
Theirs was a fairytale romance, Tony and Cass, my father looking every inch the part of the handsome prince who had swept his fair maiden off her feet and into the sunset. They'd met in college, both business majors, both intellectually leagues above their classmates. To everyone who knew them, it only made sense that they fell in love, and it could only last forever.
From photos I'd found in their closet, their life before me had been unrealistically blissful with countless trips across the globe, sporting the same happy glow from Iceland to Rwanda. When I came along, they packed away their worn suitcases, balled up their effervescence, and decided to settle down in suburban Iowa. My dad found a stable job as an admissions officer for their alma mater – it forced him to travel more often, but "the pay was good". My mother hung her degree above their dresser and set about getting accustomed to a new life of homemaking.
"So Katherine, as we see competition for Ivy League schools rise exponentially every year, do you think your active interest in running helped with your admission into Yale at all? Should other sporty youngsters be sure to flesh out their activities when applying?"
"Perhaps. It wouldn't hurt."
I watched, invisible, from the top of the stairs as my father came home exceptionally late one evening.
He hung up his coat and hat and disappeared around the corner into the kitchen, where I heard the clink of glass and a quiet cascade of alcohol over rocks of ice. I was just about bored of listening to the incomprehensible muttering when the lower of the two voices suddenly spiked in agitation.
"Admissions are getting more difficult, Cass. I'm telling you, things aren't the same as when we went to school, alright? Katherine should be doing more, doing better, doing…something. I can't baby her, I'm barely at home what with working my ass off to pay the mortgage and save up for her education."
"But I don't know the first thing about getting her ready for -"
"Then find out how! This is your responsibility Cass," my father snapped, setting down his glass. "With your degree gathering dust you have enough free time anyway."
There was a pregnant silence as his words hung in the air. I could only imagine my mother's face and my father's furrowed brow, stress and scotch numbing him to the tension in the room. I thought my mother would argue with him, but after what seemed like too long, a muffled voice poked through the quiet.
"Alright, I'll take care of it."
I might be wrong, but I'm almost certain this was not the first time my father hurt my mother.
"But how do you motivate yourself to keep going? Have there been instances where you've just not been able to get out of bed like the rest of us?"
"Of course, but there is always a reason to get up," My eyes flickered around the room momentarily, searching for the "us" she referred to, but quickly returned to Sarah's patient microphone. "I'd imagine it varies for different people."
"Mom, it's SO cold today," I said as I watched my breath cloud just past the tip of my nose.
I crawled back into the warmth of my bed from the bay window, allowing the inky shadows of five o'clock in the morning to weave themselves back into my eyelashes and hair. Previously disrupted images of snowmen and frozen ponds were beginning to reform behind my eyelids, a gentle visual lullaby.
"The cold will make you stronger, sweetheart. Come on, it's time to get up now."
I ignored her purring command – her dulcet voice seemed to melt into the comfort of my wintry wonderment…and then there was a shuffling of leather, a swish of air, a deafening crack, and an excruciating pain.
Frozen in agony and shock, I heard her tell me to put on my running shoes and meet her at the gate through ringing ears, saw her leave quietly through the door with liquid eyes, and felt a warm, thick substance pool at my side with trembling hands. I didn't need to turn on the light to know that my pyjamas were no longer blue, and my mother didn't need to see my face to know I was wide awake. The room smelled like coins.
"Aside from skimping on beauty sleep, you mentioned that nutrition was integral to your routine. Care to elaborate on what we should and shouldn't be eating to stay in tip-top shape?"
Sarah leaned forward, giving the impression that she had just posed a question of grave importance.
"Avoid the usual suspects – fast food, excessively sweet treats… oh, and no soda. Definitely no soda."
"Katie honey! You look like you're wasting away! We have to put some meat on those bones; you have to let me treat you to something. Ice cream maybe? Chocolate pie? Anything, darling!"
I looked to my mother and was met by pursed lips and taut cheeks.
"No thank you, Aunty June. I'm really not that hungry."
"Come on Katie, at least let me buy you a soda!"
Before I could process my mother slowly shaking her head from side to side, my aunt had ordered for me.
The tall, luridly coloured confectionary drink arrived, and my mother sported an accommodating, measured smile, asking me to drink up, never faltering from her curated image of the perfect guest, the gentle mother, the inoffensive woman. But there was something in her gaze, a subtly scalding anger at being defied, indirectly or otherwise. Caught between impoliteness and disobedience, I lowered my head slowly and ingested my impending fate, sip by sip.
In the quiet of our home later, I learnt the importance of a healthy diet, as well as how cuts on the palm do not heal swiftly or painlessly due to the constant movement of flesh.
"Man, what a difficult creed to live by," Sarah said, raising her hand to her sizeable chest in feigned disbelief. "But Kati – Katherine, I have to ask the naughty question that some of our viewers have brought up. Do you think your father being an admissions officer had anything to do with you being admitted to Yale?"
"No, my father would never have used his position to pull any strings. That would be dishonest. Besides, he wasn't exactly around by the time I went to college. Not that he was extremely present the rest of the time either though, his work kept him fully occupied."
My father's job kept him busy flying across the globe to meet new applicants, but whenever he came home, he would go through the same routine of tousling my hair, giving my mother a peck and asking how my studies, running and social life were going – in that order.
My mother looked different now, only partially due to the cruelty of time. Her once silky skin had lost its plumpness, it was stretched thinly over perpetually tense sinews and her hair was streaked with salt and pepper strands. The most noticeable difference, however, was the new hardness in her eyes, offset by a smattering of fine lines around her face and brow that suggested growing frailty. Nonetheless, she would put on bright red lipstick and wear her most beguiling dresses to welcome my father home on a weekly basis, preparing a sumptuous feast of sinful home-cooked food, complete with streaky bacon, mountains of mashed potatoes and pools of syrup in crispy, cratered waffles – a cardiologist's nightmare.
It was no surprise then, that I found my mother screaming and sobbing on the floor of their bedroom one morning, the day my father was meant to conduct one of the last interviews of the year. He had collapsed in the bathroom, toothbrush teetering on the edge of the sink, the mint stripe straining towards the porcelain.
As I watched the formerly-fair maiden cradle her dead prince, I found myself dispassionately wondering whether he had meant for her to train me the way she had been all these years. Whether the admissions process had truly called for such measures, whether the reason my mother made up stories for each scar and bruise was because it was wrong, whether it really was for my own good. Just as coldly, I realised the answer didn't matter.
Later, while my mother continued to grieve in the darkness of the front porch, I found several documents in my father's briefcase that suggested a second family – a pacifier, an unfamiliar set of keys and a few empty paper bags with hugs and kisses scrawled on them. I wondered what to do with this interesting, but largely irrelevant information, then considered the fact that my mother may have always known. After all, I knew firsthand that my mother was fully aware of what we should and shouldn't eat.
I'm very sure that this was the last time my mother cried because of my father.
After answering a few more equally inconsequential questions, I gladly ushered Sarah's smile out, along with the army of equipment, both human and inanimate.
I stood in the doorway for a while, looking at nothing in particular, recovering from the strain of being candid. As their van clumsily pulled out of my driveway, a breeze blew through the property, agitating the creaky floorboards and loose shingles on the roof, coasting downwards and rustling through the old tree at the foot of the garden.
Soon after receiving my acceptance from Yale, I'd found my mother hanging from that tree. It wasn't dramatic – as her sole audience I had let out no gasps and even fewer tears. She'd left no further explanation for her untimely demise. No matter really, as I didn't particularly think much more needed to be said. Both she and my father rest in what I hope is peace, successful parents by the world's standards.
As I headed upstairs, I couldn't help but chuckle quietly. There is such passivity in interviews: Sarah and others like her depend on whatever manicured facts their guests offer in response to their contrived, uncreative questions. If they had any semblance of true curiosity, and took the initiative to venture just twenty steps upstairs, they would have found my parents' bedroom perfectly preserved, with their faded, smiling photographs painstakingly framed and arranged on the walls. They would have found the whip hung up neatly in the closet, with the pen knife on the desk. Mementos from my first coach, my personal trainer. If they were genuinely observant, if they were really doing their job well, they would also notice a faint, but recognisably metallic smell. As it turns out, parents do really have a profound influence on their children.


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It's coming… the tsunami is coming….
I just got back from voting and the lines were long for my rural area. I spoke with people in line and everyone was voting for Trump, even blacks folks.
Make America Great Again!
~ Hardnox
It's coming… the tsunami is coming….
I just got back from voting and the lines were long for my rural area. I spoke with people in line and everyone was voting for Trump, even blacks folks.
Make America Great Again!
~ Hardnox
Go Hillary, Go! ……. to jail~!
Bull sent me the article yesterday that she had cancelled her fireworks. Wasn't that a show of huge hubris for her to set up these fireworks for 9:30 pm to begin with??I was to glad to see her cancel them. Must show she's not so sure now that she's going to win.
#MAGA Trump/Pence is coming!!!
Nox: If voters in your neighborhood are Trumpers, that is indeed good news. Where you live there must be a lot of 1%-ers who work in the DeeCee metro and come to the rolling hills of Virginia to build their weekend homes — the homes they can retreat to, to escape the illegals and the gangbangers their policies have created. These carpetbagging progressives destroy a region with their policies, move out to decent American towns, and bring their failed policies with them, thus trashing their new neighborhoods. Just look at the east coast of Florida if you want to see what happens.
I'm just back from voting at my small rural district. The weather was chilly but with a sunny sky at 8:30AM. The mood is upbeat and the turn out probably will exceed all other elections that I have participated in. It was hard to find a parking place.
There was one lady handing out info in the parking lot. She was supporting Donald Trump. No one there from the other side in this blue, soon to be red, state.
Fingers crossed.
It was a balmy 50 degrees up here, in the north country, and, though I was sweating like a whore in church, I decided to vote for Hillary. Reason: I want all that free shit and I want to be able to kill anyone who pisses me off and get away with it. (Just kiddin', of course)
Even in my small town, of maybe 1400, there was a steady flow. Though I don't know the numbers yet, I'm sure they'll be high.
Way too many folks have been up in arms over this election. Some bitter, heated "discussions" have occurred and, even though we're "supposed to be" a blue state, most folks, in this county, are conservatives. Which really pisses the rest of the state off to no end. Sucks to be them, right?
Can't wait to look those morons in the eye and ask: " Do you have the mailing address to Leavenworth"?
*I* know why the fireworks were called off. Team Shrillary knows The Hillarrhoid could have one whopper of a stroke, courtesy of the pyrotechnic stimuli. If y'all don't recall her reaction to balloons, here it is!
TWICE in the past week up my also-rural way I was having casual discussions with a woman at a thrift and another at Walmart: Each woman abruptly stopped the thread when they saw my Trump button, turned on their progressive heels, and stomped away. The WM one had to adamantly repeat that she'd already voted for Hillary before she left…I clucked at her sympathetically. These allegedly-tolerant Gliberals can't even tolerate the mere SIGHT of opposition!
Lord, let us sing on the morrow: "We shall over-comb…" :>)
It's warm in Southern California today @90 degrees! I'm hoping the libtards warm up to Donald Trump. I'm in Orange County, so I know my county will be for Trump.

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Samantha Karen �Sam� Fox (born April 15, 1966 in Mile End, London) is an English former glamour model and dance-pop singer.
As the eldest daughter of the late Patrick John Fox and Carole Ann Wilken, Samantha Fox came from a family of market traders in the East End of London. She has a sister, Vanessa, who is six years younger, and a half-sister, Frederica, from her father�s second marriage.
She attended St Thomas More RC School, Haringey, and took a keen interest in the theatre from an early age. She first appeared on a theatre stage at the age of three, and was enrolled in the Anna Scher Theatre School from the age of five. Her first television appearance came in 1976, at the age of ten, in a BBC play entitled �No Way Out�. She started at the Judi Dench Mountview Theatre School, near her home in Crouch End, at the age of eleven.
Interested in music from an early age, she formed her first band at the age of fourteen. Her first record deal came a year later, with Lamborghini Records. However, both her theatre and music careers went on hold when her modeling career took off.
In the late-1980s, Fox began a successful singing career, producing three albums in three years (1986-1988), and working with notable music producers such as Stock Aitken Waterman and Full Force. Her debut single, �Touch Me (I Want Your Body)�, released when she was just 20 years old, made the Top Ten on both sides of the Atlantic (Number Three in the UK; Number Four in the US). It also topped the charts in many countries. Her debut live performance came at Peter Stringfellow�s club Hippodrome. Fox had three Top Ten hits in both the United States and Britain. In Canada and the U.S., �Naughty Girls (Need Love Too)� (Number Three in the US; Number Eight in Canada) and �I Wanna Have Some Fun� (Number Eight in the US; Number Ten in Canada) made the Top Ten; whereas British audiences put �Do Ya Do Ya (Wanna Please Me)� (Number Ten in the UK) and �Nothing�s Gonna Stop Me Now� (Number Eight in the UK) into the Top Ten. Her successful singing career resulted in Fox touring the world, including unusual places such as Bosnia, Russia, Ukraine, and Siberia. In total Fox achieved eight Top 40 hits as a solo artist in the UK and four other singles found a place in the Top 75 in the U.S.
After a three-year break, Samantha Fox released her fourth and final album in for Jive Records in 1991, entitled Just One Night. The album mirrored her previous work on 1988�s I Wanna Have Some Fun, by presenting a mix of old school hip-hop style tracks featuring Full Force, along with a collection of pop and rock tracks. Just one Night became a hit for Fox in Canada. In 1992, Jive released Samantha�s first official compilation, Greatest Hits, which featured three new tracks.
In 1995, Fox attempted to revive her singing career again by participating in the �Song for Europe�, the competition to select the UK�s entry for the annual Eurovision Song Contest. She performed �Go for the Heart�, as lead singer of the group Sox, but failed to reach Eurovision after finishing fourth in the public vote. �Go for the Heart� was released in European territories and became a chart hit in the Netherlands.
In 1997, she released a new album, 21st Century Fox. The album featured Eurodance and Hi-NRG music. The album was released in the US a year later with the lead single �Let Me Be Free�. 21st Century Fox became her first Indie release. She also co-wrote and produced many of its tracks. Other singles from the album are �Deeper� and �The Reason is You�. This is the album that made her a bigger favorite with her fan base.
In 1998 Fox teamed up with DJ Milano who produced the club hit �Santa Maria�. The track charted in the UK and reached Number One in Austria as well as Top 40 positions in other European countries. In 2004, Fox teamed up with Mats Soderlund (alias Gunther) in order to do a remake of �Touch Me (I Want Your Body)�. This version reached Number One on the Swedish Singles Chart and included remixes by DJ alligator and lounge mixes. This version also charted in Greece, Finland, Norway and became a firm favorite with clubbers around the globe appearing on many dance and hit compilations.
In summer 2005 Fox was featured on the Superchumbo album Wozie Zowie and recorded the house track �Sugar�, which received rave reviews and was a underground hit in the clubs for most of 2005 appearing in many DJ charts across the world. The track also appeared on various House Hits compilations.
In November 2005, Fox released her latest album, Angel with an Attitude, in Canada. For the album, she chose to work together with the award-winning producer Joe Barrucco.
Fox toured Australia throughout late-August and early-September 2007, as part of the Countdown Spectacular 2. Songs performed were �Do Ya Do Ya (Wanna Please Me)� and Touch Me (I Want Your Body).


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Posts in this series
- The Met Breuer from an Amateur Art Aficianado
- Happy Birthday to the Whitney Museum of American Art!
- Museum of Ice Cream: Sneak Peak!
UPDATE! The Museum of Ice Cream is re-opening in Los Angeles, CA in April. The exhibit will be open through the end of May. Tickets are on sale now!! Don't miss out!
Earlier this summer a friend sent me a link to the pop up Museum of Ice Cream. I knew instantly that it would be a hit, and insisted we order tickets right away! My intuition was correct, just a few weeks later I invited other friends to join us, but when they went to buy their tickets, the event was already sold out. When I visited just after the first week of being opened, the wait list for tickets was over 70,000 people! I had the chance to speak with co-founder, Mary Ellis Bunn, and she said because so much of the exhibit is edible, it was only built to last 4 weeks. She's contemplating a traveling exhibit or potentially finding a new space. So humble, she never thought this idea would take off. Boy was she wrong!
So what exactly did you miss if you weren't amongst the lucky few to get tickets to this pop up museum?
Photo Booth
A party isn't really a party without a photo booth, and video photo booths are all the rage these days. If only we knew about that interesting ice cream cone hang thing across one side of the screen. Oops!
Ice Cream Samples
Instead of a traditional ticket, or a sticker like you would receive at many museums, you are granted an ice cream as you enter this museum. Each week the type of ice cream changes, but we had a delicious vanilla covered with cereal, taking us back to our childhood.
Edible Balloons
The first stop in the museum was a colorful room decorated with ice cream cones and a machine to make edible balloons, filled with helium! So if you popped it just right, you could have ended up with a squeaky voice. That didn't quite happen for me, but it was fun nonetheless!
World's Largest Collaborative Ie Cream Sundae
Sprinkle Pool
Miracle Berry
The miracle berry, also known as synsepalum dulcificum, tis found on a plant and can change sour foods to sweet. As you enter the room, you are handed one of these miracle berries, and then ice cream cones magically appear at filling stations with lemons. You can grab an ice cream and explore this trippy taste sensation.
And last but not least, you have to take a turn on the Museum of Ice Cream playground before leaving. There's an ice cream scoop shaped seesaw (not easy to maneuver in a dress, but doable) and a swing in the shape of an ice cream bar.
The Museum of Ice Cream is located directly across the street from the Whitney Museum at 100 Gansevoort Street. Tickets are sold out for the current exhibit, but join the mailing list to learn about new ticket releases or other events relating to the museum. If you have a ticket for later this month, be prepared to wait in the line. Even if you have a ticket, they only let in groups of 8 every five minutes or so. I waited in line about an hour. Luckily they treat their patrons well showering you with candies, bottles of water, and ice cream samples, so the wait isn't all that bad! But bottom line, it's an instagrammer's paradise!


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Life is Always Worth Living*
Snoop & Son: A Dad's Dream Episode 5 is more like highlight footage from previous episodes. Cordell committed to UCLA and the cameras were there on signing day. (more…)
It's no secrete, Kanye West married someone unmatched in talent therefore allowing him to roll like a locomotive facing very little resistance. Kim, who comes across as though she has very little say, told Love magazine. "Kanye pushes me to dress more sexy."
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Enter twoChois Lucky Draw to win "Korean Language for a Good Job 2". This is a good book for people who are learning Korean for work or doing business in Korea. ###
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제 15 회 Lucky Draw에 많은 관심을 보내주셔서 감사합니다.
오늘부터 진행되는 열여섯 번째 Lucky Draw도 많은 관심 부탁드려요- >_<
This book is suitable for upper elementary level learners who plan to work at Korean company.
Book Info.
Korean Language for a Good Job 2
Author : Lee Mi-hye Book page : 248 pages S
upplement : 2 Audio CDs, Key Expressions & Dialogues Book
ISBN: 9788959957781(895995778X) Size: 182×257 mm
About This Book
The Best Korean Language Kit!
All the Korean you need to learn to do your work.
• Practical use of situational conversations and daily vocabulary for the workplace!
• Helpful information to do a good job!
• Easy-to-learn essential Korean grammar and expressions!
• Sufficient tasks and practice to enable complete understanding!
• Situational conversations and practical expressions that are used in your daily working life!
• Systematical and precise understanding of Korean pronunciation!
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1955 · New York
by John Langstaff; Feodor Rojankovsky (illus.)
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Close Encounters- Mrs. Fee's Grade 8 Artists
My grade eight students created portraits using Chuck Close's grid technique and got some amazing results!
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Chuck Close is inspiring for not only his amazing artwork but also for his perseverance and triumph over many difficulties he has faced in his life.
Chuck Close makes larger than life portraits using a grid techinique.
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I encourage everyone to google Close's life story. It's really amazing.
Taking from Close's grid process, I had students implement the same procedure Close uses. (See photo above)
Students selected a photo from a magazine or home that was able to be cropped to 6 inches by 9 inches.
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(Photos were photo copied to make all photos gray scale. This makes shading in pencil a little easier.)
To create larger portraits that were proportionately accurate, everything had to be doubled.
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For some sovereign borrowers, the bond markets have been like a jungle path at night in 2010: hazardous, hard work and at times, impenetrable. However, of almost equal importance to many of those borrowers are the swap markets.
Uncertainty has engulfed them too this year as banks and their clients have had to react to regulatory reform and a sea change in the pricing of credit and liquidity.
For years, sovereign borrowers have been used to getting their swaps away at next to no cost. But all that could be about to change. At the heart of the problem is the increasing cost of extending lines of credit. Banks, after years of trading on prices within a whisker of so-called mid-market prices, can no longer stomach the cost of giving a collateral free pass to counterparties.
That free pass comes in the form of one-way credit support annexes: bilateral agreements between two parties governing among other things how swaps between the pair are collateralised. Traditionally, sovereigns have demanded it is only the banks that have to post collateral to them when the net present value of a swap is in its favour. When the trade was in the money for the bank, the sovereign did not have to reciprocate, arguing that, as a sovereign, it posed no risk of defaulting or becoming illiquid.
Then the credit crunch came along. To the extent that dealing costs have risen and credit standards been tightened and may well tighten further under Basel III the market has now evolved to the point where Portugal has begun work to put in place two-way CSAs with its swap counterparties so that it can keep its costs of derivatives dealing down and keep lines open.
"Sovereigns have been using derivatives for liability management and hedging of bond issues as much as in any other year," says Kentaro Kiso, head of the public sector group at Barclays Capital. "But from the banks side, the awareness of this derivatives exposure to sovereigns has moved to a different level.
"The reality is, it is an overhang cost to the bank and it is expensive with one-way CSAs where the sovereign will only accept government bonds or cash as collateral."
Market participants do not suggest this applies to all sovereign credits and nor is it purely a matter of banks getting the jitters about sovereign default, although that is not far from their minds in some cases. "Certain countries had a lot of credit problems so trading derivatives became tricky for them," says Elie el Hayek, HSBCs global head of rates. "The triple-A countries continue to use derivatives as they have in the past with no big changes, however."
Although predominately a liquidity issue at the moment, there may be further unknown charges for banks to pass on to sovereign swap counterparties to come, such is the uncertain regulatory environment. "There is also an element of credit charge sometimes and now potentially also a capital charge," says Kiso. "The Financial Services Authority is looking at derivatives books and putting a contingent charge on the exposure. It will be a double collateralisation. There are a lot of unknowns at the moment."
Two-way debate
Banks argue that there are myriad advantages to sovereigns following Portugals lead and taking a more serious look into two-way CSAs. The ability to cancel out in and out of the money trades will relieve the burden on banks to find cash or government bonds often the only securities sovereigns will accept to post as collateral. Whereas the charge was once absorbed by the bank, it has grown too large for such generosity but a two-way CSA would allow banks to lower the charge once more.
With sovereign and bank financing so intertwined, both parties could benefit from such a move. It is becoming the case that only the biggest balance sheets can consider one-way CSAs. That limits the number of counterparties available in the market and therefore, concentrates risk.
"If you have a smaller list of counterparties, you run greater credit risk," says Christina Cho, a derivatives marketer at BNP Paribas covering SSA credits. "So you have to find ways to diversify your list of counterparties. You have to be very careful with what you do with credit lines nowadays."
The move could also lead to lower borrowing costs for some sovereigns, argues el Hayek. "Some of the banks hedge the swaps they do with sovereigns by buying CDS on those governments." he says. "This pushes the CDS level up which may impact the level they can issue at so it is in their own interests to have the best pricing when they need to hedge something. It is in the interests of all countries who use derivatives to have two-way CSAs."
Many supranational and agency issuers benefitted from one-way CSAs too although as the various crises have swept over markets since summer 2007, some have been forced to sign two-way agreements with banks to free enough swap lines to do the volume of business necessary.
One of the traditional arguments that such borrowers used before against signing such agreements was that it would incur too much operational cost to post collateral. It is an argument that many sovereigns rely upon today: that unlike banks, they do not command huge back offices staffed purely for the purpose of administering the trades.
However, for countries with one-way CSAs in place, the marginal effort in posting collateral in addition to receiving it should be straightforward and not prohibitive, say bankers.
"It depends on each sovereign individually but I dont see it as a major problem and I imagine they would want to handle it in-house," says Cho. "It is only a case of hiring people and setting up systems. If they already have one-way CSAs, it is only a case of handling the reverse. They just have to figure out who in the department can receive cash and who cant and so on. It is definitely not rocket science."
Bill Northfield, head of sovereign, supranational and agency originations at Deutsche Bank, says the issue of two-way CSAs should be approached on an individual basis. "For the supranationals and sovereigns, it will be a focus as banks prepare for the implementation of Basel III," he says. "Equally, while some triple-A issuers might not think its worthwhile to upgrade to a two-way CSA, we have been contacted by clients who are seeking to expand their exposure to us and so they have initiated two-way CSA discussions as a means to open up greater trading capacity. That said, posting collateral is not right for everyone. For issuers who already have the ability to value OTC portfolios and receive collateral, they should certainly be able to accept collateral."
Indeed, bankers feel that not every sovereign needs to sign a two-way CSA with its swap providers despite the obvious temptations. "From the banks perspective, its probably quite obvious and trivial to say two-way CSAs would make us more aggressive in terms of pricing," says Myles Clarke, head of the frequent borrower syndicate at the Royal Bank of Scotland. "But Im sure borrowers have examples where that aggressiveness has not been weakened this year. Theyve still been able to do their business at their preferred levels."
Whats in the post?
There is also hope in some quarters that sovereign borrowers will start to accept different forms of collateral. If they start to receive and post less expensively sourced securities, it will be another way to keep a lid on costs. Though restricted to government bonds or cash in the majority of cases at the moment, one bank expressed its desire to use gold or carbon emission rights. While bankers report some issuers are listening to these ideas, the pace of procedural change in sovereign debt markets remains as glacial as ever.
"We would love to post these things but collateral management teams are very rigid and selective about what they want to receive," says one SSA syndicate and origination manager. "Negotiations are ongoing but slow."
Other banks are less concerned about innovating new forms of collateral. "As long as the bonds are posted with the appropriate haircuts then we do not mind if the collateral posted is cash or bonds," says one SSA debt capital markets officer. "After all, we do not approach this on a credit basis but on a liquidity basis.
"There is a tiering of haircuts depending on the maturity of the bonds posted and as long as the haircuts are appropriate and the bonds are eligible for repo I dont see a problem. Every house will have a different view. It will still have a small impact on the credit charge as the counterparty will have a liquid security as collateral that it didnt have before.
"The problem arises in a default scenario where it is very difficult to assess your recovery rate on the collateral that you hold but default scenarios are a God forbid scenario."
For what will count as collateral in one or two-way CSAs or whether sovereigns will sign them at all may hinge on the change in the balance of power that this liquidity problem has brought to markets.
"We could expect more sovereigns to take up two-way CSAs because they dont have the same status that they used to have as infallible triple-A borrowers," says Cho. "That has given banks more of a leg to stand on now in terms of the arguments they can use to propose two-way CSAs."
Wherever the negotiations lead to, Cho is not convinced that genuine two-way CSAs between sovereigns and banks will become the new standard. "When we say bilateral CSAs with sovereigns, are they really going to be bilateral?" asks Cho. "Well, probably not."
Instead, sovereigns could opt to make things cheaper for themselves by raising the point at which they need to receive collateral from a bank making it less likely the bank will have to incur such costs in the first place.
Clearing obstacles
The next step on from two-way CSAs is also at the heart of the regulatory reform debate in derivatives markets on both sides of the Atlantic: clearing houses or central counterparties. In Europe, sovereigns will be exempt from having to join clearing houses as proposals stand. Daily margin maintenance with the exchange would be an even more onerous operation than running a two-way CSA. "You have your initial amount upfront and also an independent amount that you post in addition depending on your rating," says Kiso. "Then there are frequent marks to market and that is a lot of operational cost for a sovereign."
Yet if sovereigns were to join derivatives exchanges, this would provide a great deal of market stability and also help to ease the burden on the state of supporting a banking sector, say bankers. "A lot of sovereigns and even supras and agencies realise that going into a central clearing party is a laborious process," says Kiso. "Two-way CSAs can be less labourious and more cost-efficient but these sovereigns really need to foster a liquid interbank market by supporting CCPs [central counterparties]. Somebody at the sovereign level has to push these processes. In the US it is the government and regulators that push this process, not banks. In Europe, it is the banks pushing it. They need the whole system to be more robust and transparent. You need the authorities help to do that. They need to sponsor it. A system driven only by banks will be weak."Again, the pace of change in the sovereign swap market is not likely to be rapid. For issuers that almost never put on a vanilla interest rate or cross-currency swap that hedges either a new issue or alters the duration of their portfolios, it is unlikely they will look to embrace the complexities of joining a clearing house despite the possible benefits. "You need to justify the effort with a big turnover," says el Hayek. "Bilateral CSAs are a first step and as the clearing market develops sovereigns can use banks to do the clearing for them. There would still be a little credit risk but not as much as if the bank only faced the clearing house in the swap. The swap would be back-to-backed through the bank to the clearing house so the bank is hedged and doesnt have to charge as much for the credit exposure."
Basis for issuance
Italy a familiar name in this market place placed $2bn of three year bonds in September. As recently as the end of November, Nomura managed to find ¥20bn of 20 year demand for Spain at a time when the country was on the verge of being sucked into the eye of the sovereign crisis.
"It is starting to make sense for investment managers to consider yen as a currency," says Elie el Hayek, HSBCs global head of rates. "It is still a little bit shy but has been driven by lower yields elsewhere. The yields between yen and other currencies are now similar and since the yen has appreciated a lot, people start to see it as a currency to invest in which has made yen an attractive issuance currency for some borrowers."
Dollar rules
European banks needing to fund dollar assets, in combination with international investors exiting euro holdings, have driven the market levels in the euro/dollar basis swap with basis swap markets generally quoted against three month dollar Libor, it is the market through which all euro borrowers must pass before swapping into other currencies.
With concerns about the eurozone far from over, the market may well remain favourable to European sovereigns looking to raise foreign currency bonds for some time to come. The fact the arbitrage opportunity remains despite the issuance of dollar bonds by so many European borrowers demonstrates the markets depth. By nature of the currencies involved it is also a relatively liquid market.
Not all basis swap markets are created equal, however. "Aussie dollars back into euros is quite difficult," says Kentaro Kiso, head of the public sector group at Barclays Capital. "There are a lot of funding charges because the FX and FX forward volatility and the interest rate differentials are quite large so we would want to face counterparties with two-way CSAs."
Whatever arbitrage opportunities basis swaps provide in the year to come and however the new collateral and capital requirements for banks manifest themselves, sovereigns can no longer have the swap market all their own way. "It is a case of finding where the flexibility is in the system for the entire market to have better funding flexibility overall," says Christina Cho, a derivatives marketer at BNP Paribas covering SSA credits."Sovereigns do not want to increase systemic risk in the financial sector. They do not want to extend funding risk so it is a case of finding a way of achieving that without increasing the cost of funding to and the operational burden on the sovereigns."


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I don't know who put my book up for this - but thank you! I only just found out about it. I voted for myself - now I feel guilty but I did vote in other categories!ReplyDelete
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And you're still moving up the list. #6 now! Just one more and STRANGERS will be in the TOP FIVE! I'm SO glad readers have discovered what a fantastic story this is.
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Is there anyone else awake I can't sleep I think i have insomnia it is now 4:35 am and I can't sleep
I used to have that same problem about a year ago when I was superstressed with work, money probs, stupid relationship etc. Either I couldn't get sleep or woke up too early. I tried some herbal pills that help you sleep and they helped me. I don't know whether it's the placebo effect or do they actually work, but I feel they are a somewhat safer option to the sleeping pills doctors can give you.
Then earlier this year the same not sleeping thing started all over again and I went to a acupuncturist! This is the best thing ever! I went there 3 times (once a week) and I have never slep better! No drugs needed and got help for some other minor problems at the same time. Perfect!! Higly recommended!
^^^hmm thanx for the advice I have thought going to a acupuncturist before for crazy reasong but now I am really consider it and I think it is the stress that doesn't let me rest...
I used to have that too, for about 4 months. I used herbal pills too, didn´t really help me though.. Try to get some fresh air and exercise about an hour before going to bed, that could help.
I take 1/2 an excedrin pm before going to bed. It helps me sleep through the night. (As you can see, I forgot to take it last night!)
Yeah, I've gotten insomnia off and on for about 10 years. I got through periods where for 1-2 months at a time I sleep terribly for most days out of a week. It's not unusual to still be awake at 4am and have my alarm go off at 6am for work. I honestly still haven't found a solution - teas, herbs, candles, more comfy pjs, better pillows, counting sheep cows dogs...nothings works...but I get to see allot of bad late night tv .
^^^lol I count from 100 to 1 backwards it kind of helps...
Yikes! I had the same last night!
I was really tired but I just couldn't sleep. It was 4 a.m. when I finally slept... and woke up again at 6 a.m.! Had a hectic day at school too (I always get a bit noisy and worked up if I didn't get enough sleep. Was a nice school day though, had lots of fun) so I'm soooo tired right now...
Good idea about the counting back, I'll try it tonight!
Me too...I always lay in bed for, like, 4 hours or something before I fall asleep. That, or I fall asleep right away, but when I wake up, I feel like I haven't slept at all. I've tried couting and stuff, but I don't really like dealing with math/numbers.
Luckily I have never really had a problem sleeping... wish I knew a good way to tell you to help!
I couldn't get to bed until probably after 4 a.m. and I had to get up way too early at 6:30. I have a horrible time going to bed early.
It's 1:56am in the UK atm, I need some sleep but can't for some reason :/
I am taking MsReya's advice and I made an apointment with an acupuncturist
I might need to do the same. I sometimes feel like I'm running a marathon when I'm lying in bed as my mind races and I lay there for hours thinking. There has to be some way to switch off. Let us know how the acupuncturist goes!!!
i dont really have problems sleeping as such, i but i often have problems in positioning before i sleep. Its hard for me to sit still even when tried. this has been going on since i was a child, so no im not high on coffee or medication or toad licking lol. I contortion my body in all types of positions sometimes i like to be pressed against the wall etc. its really random, and i dont know how I will sleep with another person in my bed but its a dam annoying habit, and i cant help it. it can take up to 3 hours for me to sleep, but it eventually happens


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The "deres" are used a lot in anime to develop a story line. There are several types that listed above on the chart. Which one are you?
I'm bored so yeah. :)
Which one are you?
Have an opinion?
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Funny.. there's suddenly a whole lot of different ones. ^.~
To me it was/still is only Yan/tsundere
one which starts sweet, becomes cold
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I guess I'd be a middle part of Yan, and Kuu
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Awesome. I think I'm Dandere
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A mixed of Yandere and Tsundere, I'd kill for my loved ones. And also Kuudere - fits me quite well ahah xD00|00|0
I don't know. In real life, a human can't just be only one of these types. The human personality is much more complicated. xD
I tried but I certainly am a mix of many types. @_@"00|00|0
Awesome! :3
Dandere. I'm reserved, but there's not a zipper where my mouth should be. But I guess that one.00|00|0
Awesome :)
Tsundere my boyfriend says I act like Taiga from ToraDora sometimes00|00|0
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I'm sure you all know people who look entirely different in real life than on their facebook/instagram. With the right angle and good light, every can look gorgous. But I feel people, girls especially are kinda over doing it these days. How much is too much?
When I look through my brothers tinder, most girls look stunning. Statistically that's not possible, so it's obvious they've put a lot of effort into their pictures. I suppose no one wants to upload a picture in which they look ugly, but it shouldn't be your best one either?
So I was wondering, guys if you met, each of the examples below online, with the first picture in their profile and in reality they look more like the second. Would you think it's too misleading? Too much? Would you not go on a second date based on the descreoency in looks?
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3 Jennifer Lawrence
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Agreed that celebrities are overrated quite a bit. However, you can't take any random girl off the street and give her a glamour treatment that will make her look anywhere close to the hottest celebrities. You can, however, probably do that for some of the best-looking girls you see on the street every day.
To me they're not so misleading since it becomes obvious to any guy with sufficient sexual experience that having Jessica Alba snoring in your bed and not at her best (say she had a night of explosive diarrhea and is on her period) isn't going to look anywhere near as close to good as her best glamour shots.
On the flip side though, take a celebrity like Shakira in even the most mundane, amateur photo:
... she's still quite lovely. And those defined abs of hers when she dances and that overall figure of hers is definitely quite real.
So I think anyone who idolizes celebrities a bit too much just needs a bit more sexual experience to understand the difference between fantasy and reality. At the same time, it still takes quite a good-looking person to look like consistently like an idol in hundreds of glamour photos and videos even with professional photography, make-up, perfect angles, and even possibly Photoshop.11|00|0
I wasn't really talking about celebrities, but normal girls. I just didn't want to take pictures on random girls
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Not so much. I've met some celebrities in person like Jessica Alba and Michelle Rodriguez and while they didn't look anywhere near as glamorous as their best pictures, they're still quite attractive women. That's all I can compare though -- I know you're focusing more on Tinder and so forth, but I never tried online dating to see the discrepancies.
Another thing that has come with my age and some experience with a wild youth is that I've come to favor bodies more than faces. When I was a teenage virgin I idolized blemish-free, synthetic-looking images too much and there was some time for me to align my expectations of women with reality. But once I did that, I started to value bodies more (still like a pretty face but not quite as crazy looking for the most perfect-looking face). It's harder for a photo to lie about a woman's figure -- like it's hard to subtract 30 pounds from a woman with good camera angles and even Photoshop unless it's like Photoshop taken to the point of practically redoing the entire picture. Women in decent shape will tend to look quite amazing when the clothes come off even if their faces look quite plain in comparison to their glamour shots.
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But what's the harm? I don't see why you're so caught up on how another girl chooses to portray herself. All I get from that is that you're possibly not able to take stunning photos of yourself and you're viewing other girls as competition. So you have a problem with that.00|00|0
right, because I question what is common on social media, I'm just jealous. Sure. Believe that if you want.
FYI, I did ask because I was thinkto make a tinder profile myself and I too have a lot of pictures in which I look great, but I wasn't sure if I should use them since it doesn't necessarily represent how I look on a daily basis


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February 14, 1999
East Side Story
Dennis Smith's Irish Catholic mother tried to keep her family together and the world at bay.
By DENNIS J. CARROLL
An Irish-American Memory.
By Dennis Smith.
369 pp. New York:
Warner Books. $23.
ennis Smith's first book, ''Report From Engine Co. 82'' (1972), describes a firefighter's sense of sacrifice, empathy and contribution. His new book, ''A Song for Mary,'' explains his predisposition to these traits. Smith's ''Irish-American Memory'' is like a familiar melody that recalls long-forgotten lyrics; it evokes his childhood impressions of growing up on East 56th Street in Manhattan, in the forced intimacy of a tenement where everything was crowded, from kitchens with bathtubs to strangers squeezed from apartments below, whose muffled conversations floated up the air shaft with the clarity of digital sound. Mostly, though, the book is Smith's musings about his mother, an Irish-American woman who lived for her children and raised them alone, on her own tough terms.
The book is set in the mid-1950's and early 60's, in a poor neighborhood trapped between the shadow of the United Nations and the exclusive wall of Sutton Place. Here Smith delivered newspapers, worked in a drugstore and attended St. John the Evangelist School, while his mother cleaned apartments and took in wash. Eclipsed by his older brother academically and athletically and, until he was 12 years old, lied to about his father, a patient in a mental hospital, Smith was raised poor, Irish Catholic and isolated. ''It's as if the Irish have their own brand of religion, different from the other hundreds of millions of Catholics in the world,'' he writes. ''And I think staying close to God is the only thing that makes any sense about being separate, about being Irish Catholic.''
Mary Smith exacted respect and obedience from her two sons; she nurtured the old Irish siege mentality that keeps the world at bay and the family together. ''You must never tell anyone these things, about your father, or about us being on welfare, or about not having any money,'' she once scolded Dennis when he was 13. ''Or anything in our lives. This is our secret. It's our lives.'' All three kept their own counsel and led separate lives within the confined space of their apartment. Smith's experience, by necessity, fostered independence.
As a teen-ager, Smith rebelled, caught in the struggle of trying to separate his mother's love and attention from what he saw as her will to control him. He dropped out of high school, hung out with his friends, came perilously close to alcoholism and tottered on the brink of heroin addiction, as his drug-induced reveries became more appealing than dealing with life's demands. ''My hand is made of concrete, and it is welded on my lap, and I can't raise it, but I don't care,'' he writes in depicting one heroin-induced reverie. ''And time begins to pass. I can't think of time. There is no time. . . . I just want to float in this blackness, thinking that if I had one wish in the world, I would wish that my brother and my mother knew to come get me.''
When Smith was almost 17 and facing his first serious bout with the law as a participant in a vicious street brawl, a judge dismissed the charges and allowed him to sign up for a stint in the military. Before he departed, his mother took him to the Poughkeepsie State Hospital. ''I see my father for the first time, lying there in a bed,'' Smith writes. ''I look closely now at my father and look for even the smallest sign that he is happy. But there is no sign. There is no expression on his face.'' Acceptance that he was on his own, distance from the neighborhood and maturity brought salvation of a sort.
''A Song for Mary'' is hauntingly familiar and courageously personal, drawn from gritty summer nights sleeping on the fire escape, Sunday Mass and trips to the bakery, and walks ''down to the river . . . with the girls to watch the Pepsi-Cola sign blink on and off.'' But, above all, it is pessimistically Irish -- ''My mother was right. There are no good times in a person's life. . . . Just different times'' -- written and played as sorrowful but beautiful music.
Dennis J. Carroll is the author of ''Of Cops and Priests: Uses of Social and Moral Authority in Contemporary Irish-American Literature'' and of a forthcoming novel, ''War Babies.''
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Full title reads: "Namur. Motocross: Briton's 1st And 2nd".
Namur, Belgium.
LV Competitors go into first bend. SV Crowd. LV Rolf Tiblin and Smith come towards and past camera on their motorcycles. LV Another rider coming towards and past. LV Geboers from Belgium comes up and over hill. LV Pan Tiblin goes past at speed. LV Theuwissen comes up and over hill. LV Group of riders come past camera. SV Pan Jeff Smith comes round bend close behind John Burton. LV Pan as Smith passes Burton. SV Pan Smith goes round last bend now leading on BSA. LV Smith crosses line followed by Burton. SV Crowd applaud. CU Jeff Smith takes helmet off.
Full title reads: "Namur. Motocross: Briton's 1st And 2nd".
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