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This is my second cycle using it and that's what happened to me.. CD14 started reading high until 20th day of testing and went back to low. So that's a default setting?
First cycle was all low with 42 days in my cycle
Yes, you still could have ovulated and the monitor just didn't detect the surge. Some women have a short LH surge and if this surge comes on after having tested one morning and is already gone by test time the following morning then the monitor will miss it. Some women also have weak surges and since the monitor is preprogrammed to to detect a surge as anything at or above 30iu/l, a surge even slightly below that level probably wouldn't be detected and the monitor would give only a high reading.
If your cycles are consistently 40+ days long you might not be ovulating regularly and even if you are, the monitor is probably not going to work properly for you. It's not programmed for cycles longer than 35 days and I think if you read the instructions it says so in there somewhere. That's why it stops testing after 20 sticks have been used. You can make the monitor keep testing later into your cycle by simply NOT pushing the 'M" button on day 1 of your cycle and instead wait however many days it is you want to extend the test time. However, the first thing you should do before wasting money on test sticks is to consult your doctor, if you haven't yet, about the long cycles so that you can find out if you're even ovulating and what can be done to fix the problem if you're not.
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How to deal with new cash from dividend payments
As a dividend investor, you have the luxury of receiving regular cash infusions into your portfolio on a regular basis. During the accumulation stage, you will also have extra cash that you would need to deploy on a regular basis. Even once you become retired however, you might still find a trickle of excess cash finding its way to your bank accounts, that you might decide to put to work in your dividend portfolio. You then have the opportunity to deploy this cash in one of two ways that you believe are the most optimal for your portfolio. The two options are to reinvest automatically (DRIP), or reinvest manually. Another option could be to mix and match both strategies.
Each of those strategies has its pros and cons. The major negative about DRIPing is that investors risk reinvesting distributions into shares without regards to valuation or opportunity cost. It could be very costly in the long run, if you mindlessly allocate dividends received into the overvalued companies that generated them, particularly if more attractive places for this cash are available. This is one of the reasons why I usually combine new cash with dividends received every month, and then make a purchase in my best ideas at the time.
One of the positives of DRIPs is that you are taking immediate advantage of the power of compounding, by putting cash dividends received into more shares right away. That way, you are not wasting time trying to accumulate enough cash so that it is cost effective to make an investment. Plus, you can set it and forget it, and take a more passive approach to compounding your wealth and passive income.
Another advantage of automatic dividend reinvestment is that you are not charged a commission when putting money back into the same stock that distributed cash for you. I do not advise anyone to pay more than a 0.50% in commissions before investing in dividend paying stocks. If you lose a portion of dividend income to excessive brokerage fees, you are shooting your compounding process in the foot. This is why automatic dividend reinvestment is ideal for situations where your dividend income is low, or you cannot add money to this account, in order to justify waiting for a set amount of capital to accumulate in cash.
I only reinvest dividends automatically for my Roth IRA account, which I started in 2013. This is because I can only put $5,500 per year in it, and the amount of dividend income generated per year is a couple hundred dollars. Therefore, it is not cost effective to wait for cash to accumulate and pay an exorbitant commission of over 2%, which would stump the turbocharging effect of growing dividends that are being reinvested. It is much better to reinvest dividends back into the company that paid them for free, rather than taking the time and paying a steep fee in order to reinvest elsewhere. Manual dividend reinvestment is quite inefficient for smaller portfolios with no new additions of capital. For my taxable portfolios, which are the lions share of everything however, dividends are reinvested selectively.
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Thanks for your blog. I am new to DGI and your blog is very helpful. Perhaps you know but Scottrade (which I use) has DRIP with a twist called FRIP the F being flexible. It allows you to accumulate all your dividends into one pot and reinvest it in up to 5 stocks of your choice. This can have many advantages such as re-investing dividends with regards to valuation and saving commission fees.ReplyDeleteReplies
Unfortunately, I do not have a Scottrade account. I have heard about the FRIP option, which sounds awesome - what is better than having the option to reinvest dividends for free in the best values of your choice!Delete
- AnonymousApril 11, 2014 at 12:10 PM
my broker does not charge management fees so I could wait to invest my dividends, BUT, if I do that, then I pay a purchase fees, thus I reinvest dividends into the stock as I receive them. I am not the sharpest tool in the draw and do not want to pick a date to reinvest and also pay a buying fee. I follow the thought to avoid making as many decisions as possible. Making a decision is an opportunity to also make a mistake so I make as few decisions as possible. I do use a lot of time to select new shares to buy with new money as that is another time to make a mistake. I have seen over the years that it matters little at what price I buy, today or next week as over time it seems more important to own the stock and the dividend than if I save a few pennies at the buying price.ReplyDeleteReplies
That is a pretty good comment. Some studies have shown that most individual investors are not as good at making decisions as they think they are. Knowing yourself is the best strategy to limit downside, and reach out for success.Delete
I make a lot of mistakes myself, but I think that reinvesting into companies without thinking about valuation is not the most optimal decision for my money.
Good luck in your journey!
Our family's dividend stock portfolio is approx. $50K so its only generating approx. $2,100 in dividends per year. If I we didn't get 100 free trades per year, I would probably have chosen a DRIP to avoid paying a high commission rate. But I agree with you, .05% sounds like a good limit for paying commission.ReplyDeleteReplies
How do you receiving 100 free trades per year? Who is your broker - I have not heard about that deal. The only free broker I know of is Loyal3 - but they don't have all companies I am interested in, and their trades take a while to get executed.Delete
- AnonymousApril 5, 2015 at 12:46 PM
I reinvest my dividends in a different fashion.ReplyDelete
As soon as I collect dividends, I automatically buy an ETF (VOO). My broker, like many others, allow me to buy ETFs for free. I stash up all incoming dividends this way. My money stays on the market instead of decaying in idle mode. As soon as I have collected enough dividends AND I spot a decent dividend growth stock, I sell the ETF and buy the stock.
This strategy ends up costing me about 5$ (I pay for selling the ETF, but not for buying it). The upside is that I ride the S&P500 while waiting for an opportunity, and even collect dividends from the ETF when the timing is good.
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Close to Escalante/Grand Staircase. A nice park with a nice staff. Sites are dirt and they are working to improve the landscaping. - cactuslady
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Only 22 sites, 7 with Elec & Water. $25.00 for Elec site, all others $19.00. Very nice, pleasant surprise! - Destinations
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Our rate includes Reserve America booking fees. This is a very small but beautiful, green park in a red rock canyon on a lovely reservoir with only a few sites with electric and water (no sewer). We had site 21 which fit our 30 ft travel trailer. The setting was beautiful. The restrooms were very clean. The showers, individual rooms, were very clean also. The road and sites are paved and most have a nice covered picnic table, BBQ grill and fire pit. It looks like they may be expanding. There is petrified wood to see in an easy walking loop, and a hiking trail up the canyon walls to a larger area to see the petrified forest. A large group of noisy rowdy boys who rudely walked through other's campsites was a big negative for us. The ranger should have addressed the issue. The dump station was out of order when we were there. - R&S
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We arrived at the park around 10:00 am but they had no openings. Suggested we return at 4:30 pm and they could put us in the overflow area that serves as their day use area right on the shore of the reservoir. This park has water and electric but the overflow did not. But we were right on the shore and woke up with two deer right at our door. Had to be out by 10:00 the next morning and could check on vacancy at 9:00 but we elected to head out to the next park in the morning. Showers and bathrooms looked to be almost brand new. Most sites also included a covered eating area. We walked the campground and we think larger rigs might have a problem fitting into the sites. We would use this option again. - travlinphoolz


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I understand the painting... but the piano just feels out of place.
For some reason it reminds me of the last stage in Devil May Cry 3.
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December 10, 2013
KAWS 'Pass The Blame' at Galerie Perrotin
While downtown NYC gets treated to the 20 foot Companion statues, KAWS gives the Upper East Side neighborhood a more fine art approach. The Pass The Blame show at Galerie Perrotin is all paintings done by KAWS on special canvases shaped like popular cartoon and comic book characters- if you look carefully you can spot Snoopy, Felix the Cat and Garfield amongst others.
The gallery building, which is really old world NYC, plays off of the brightly colored canvases to create a very cool juxtaposition of old and new, the same way that the canvases of classic cartoon and comic characters which are filled in with KAWS' contemporary patterns and imagery do. Although we recommend the Mary Boone show for the shock and awe factor, Pass The Blame is also worth checking out if you're a fan of the artist.
KAWS - Pass The Blame
Galerie Perrotin - Until December 21, 2013
909 Madison Avenue
Upper East Side, NYC
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UConn Women Capture 8th National Championship With Rout Of LouisvilleGeno Auriemma has been chasing Pat Summitt since he started coaching. Now with his eighth national championship, he has finally caught her. It might not be long before Auriemma stands alone with freshman Breanna Stewart leading the way.
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Former UConn Star Taurasi Tests Positive For Banned SubstanceThe lawyer for WNBA standout Diana Taurasi tells The Associated Press that the former UConn star has tested positive for a mild stimulant while playing in a pro basketball league overseas.
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Originally posted by Fantastic_Damage
If this isn't terrorism have have no #ing idea what is.
When is America going to send troops into DR Congo?
[Edited on 21-5-2003 by Fantastic_Damage]
The UN troops have been pulled back into Bunia for their own protection after the killing of two soldiers some 70 km north of the town.
There not!!! They don't care about a bunch of Africains, plus there is no oil there
there is no oil there
Originally posted by Estragon
The history of the region is almost unique: it was never really a "colony" of Belgium - by some very strange diplomatic skulduggery it was made in effect a personal possession of the King of the Belgians.
Other than commercial exploitation, little else was ever done there. IT remains uniquely "unwesternised".
One of the best short novels of the late 19th Century is Conrad's "Heart of Darkness" set in the Congo: well worth a read, based on Conrad's own experience.
Perhaps Estragon we should all pretend that peace above all is so important that eating others is well within the UN Charter????
Estragon I have neither the desire or need to insult you despite your
inclination to do the opposite.
To be very honest I couldn't care less.
Simply stating an opinion Estragon, if you do not like it perhaps you would seem more credible by attacking the opinion and not the person responding.
In your last response prior to mine you cited military action with respect to 1940.
That to me is a joke with respect to how much technology has advanced since then.
As far as your concern about Sars given what you have said about your life its understandable.
While some gentlemen may cry peace other's cry for liberty specifically from the BS
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Craig boys tennis takes second in quad
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Oregon won the four-team meet with a 3-0 record, followed by Craig at 2-1. Monroe was third at 1-2, followed by Elkhorn at 0-3.
Oregon defeated Craig, 5-2, in the first round. The Cougars then notched 4-3 wins over Monroe and Elkhorn.
Scott Catlin and Sam dePoutiloff led the Cougars with two wins at No. 3 doubles. DePoutiloff then won at No. 3 singles, and Catlin won at No. 4 singles.
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We enjoyed our stay. The staff is amazing and helpful with everything. The location is right at the medina, so everything is walkable. Its the perfect place for people looking for a cheap and simple place to stay! the atmosphere is great, too. Very easy to get in touch with other backpackers and to get some travel tipps! Totally recommended!
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Recorded: Monday, January 14, 2013
Alexander Tabarrok, Research Director for the Independent Institute, discusses gun buyback programs on Americas Radio News Network hosted by Ernie Brown and Rachel Sutherland.
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Economic Religion vs. Environmental Religion in America
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For decades, efforts to end world poverty have focused on redistributing wealth, rather than creating it. This approach, however, has done little to foster long-term economic progress in Africa.
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The arrests and the hundreds of millions of dollars in potential losses notwithstanding, is the alleged fraud at German fund of hedge funds firm just a simple case of lost in translation? Or an accounting snafu?
Cautioning against boldness, the firm's auditor–a professor of finance and accounting at an august German institution of higher education–wants us to remember that "until now nothing has been proven." After all, that country's financial authorities and courts can't even decide if the firm can even be regulated, let alone prosecuted.
K1's founder, Helmut Kiener, is accused of ripping off his banks and brokers to the tune of $400 million. But this is a man who deals in euros, not dollars. How else to explain the fact that he's listed his beachfront Florida home for twice what it's worth?
Helmut Kiener, the K1 Group hedge-fund founder under arrest in Germany on suspicion of fraud, is seeking to sell his oceanfront home in Delray Beach, Florida, for $23 million to repay investors, people briefed on the matter said….
"They are not going to get $23 million," said Sandra Strickland, an independent Realtor in Delray Beach, about 50 miles north of Miami, as she stood outside the house last week. "Right now, we are mostly flooded with $200,000-and-under properties," said Strickland, who estimated it's worth about $12 million.
The house, called by real-estate agent Premier Estate Properties "lavishly scaled yet eminently inviting, may be extravagant by Bernard Madoff standards . But it still features a chandelier over the bath tub and "exotic marble and onyx throughout." Oh yea, and "at least five televisions hung from the ceiling" and "fingerprint access," according to Bloomberg. Not to mention the "outdoor amphitheater."
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German watchdog lacks bite in face of K1-type funds [Reuters]
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The University of California in San Diego (UCSD) is undertaking an unusual forestry project on the roof of two of its parking garages. The "Solar Trees" being constructed on the roofs will comprise steel components fitted with a canopy of Kyocera photovoltaic modules to provide solar energy for the university.
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David Lawrence, Royal Dutch Shell's executive in charge of North American exploration -- including last summer's troubled Arctic drilling program -- has announced his resignation. The Financial Times reports that Shell denies he was fired.
Shell said David Lawrence, 57, who is responsible for all Shell's exploration activities in the Americas, was leaving the company "by mutual consent" in the middle of the year. He has been at Shell for 29 years. ...
A person familiar with Shell said it was "obvious" that his departure was linked to Shell's well-publicized failures in the Arctic. Shell declined to comment on this connection. The company has spent some $5 billion on its Alaskan campaign without completing a single well.
Mr. Lawrence did not respond to a request for an interview.
A year ago, Lawrence told Dow Jones Newswires the upcoming drilling off Alaska would be "relatively easy." Chukchi Sea drilling was started in 2012 but the program was plagued by problems and has been called off for this year.
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Despite the best efforts of the New England Patriots to distance themselves from former tight end Aaron Hernandez, who is currently in jail facing a murder charge, there will certainly be unexpected references to Hernandez that will come up during the season that will undoubtedly make things pretty awkward. Case in point: Aaron Hernandez is the featured player for the month of August in the Patriots team calendar. Photo via @AMahn7 / Twitter. Obviously at the time the Patriots were putting together this year's calendar, they would never have been able to forecast what was going to happen with Hernandez. However, that doesn't make this any less uncomfortable. No word yet if the Patriots will be doing a calendar exchange, as they did with the Hernandez jerseys. H/T BI. Visit us at holdoutsports.com and follow us on Twitter @HoldoutSports.
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November 28, 2011 - December 2, 2011
8th Solanaceae and 2nd Cucurbitaceae Joint Conference (SOL & ICuGI 2011)
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Kobe Convention Center - Kobe, Japan
Broad area of Solanaceae and Cucurbitaceae research, including genomics, physiology, breeding, horticulture, pathology, evolution, and nutrition.
November 17-17, 2011
WEBINAR - How to Use Double Haploids to Improve Winter Wheat
South Dakota State University
Online at 1pm Eastern Standard Time (GMT - 5:00) (12pm Central, 11am Mountain, 10am Pacific). - Brookings, SD, United States
Drs. Bill Berzonsky and Melanie Caffe at South Dakota State University will describe how to generate double haploids in wheat and demonstrate the use of the technique in the South Dakota State University winter wheat breeding program.
WEBINAR - How to use double haploids to improve winter wheat
Online at 1pm Eastern Daylight Time (GMT - 4:00) (12pm Central, 11am Mountain, 10am Pacific) - , United States
November 16-17, 2011
Colloquium des Research Center of Biotechnology and Plant Breeding
University of Hohenheim
Schloss Hohenheim, Aula - Hohenheim, Germany
November 15-16, 2011
1. Symposium Zierpflanzenzüchtung
Julius Kühn Institut
Julius Kühn-Institut, Bundesforschungsinstitut für Kulturpflanzen - Großer Sitzungssaal - Erwin-Baur-Str. 27 - Quedlinburg, Sachsen-Anhalt, Germany
Schwerpunkte sind der Einsatz von molekularen Markern in der Zierpflanzenzüchtung sowie die Vorstellung von wissenschaftlichen Untersuchungsergebnissen zu abiotischem und bio-tischem Stress. Hierbei spielen Trockentoleranz, Screening-Verfahren, das Deutsches Phänotypisi...
Quedlinburg , Germany
Schwerpunkte sind der Einsatz von molekularen Markern in der Zierpflanzenzüchtung sowie die Vorstellung von wissenschaftlichen Untersuchungsergebnissen zu abiotischem und biotischem Stress.
November 10-10, 2011
WEBINAR - How to design and analyze experiments using an augmented design
Oregon State University
Dr. Jennifer Kling, Oregon State University, will describe the augmented design and demonstrate sample analyses using her meadowfoam breeding program.
November 9-9, 2011
Seed Central SCIENCE
Seed Central
University of California Davis, Plant & Environmental Sciences Building, Room 3001 (2:00 - 4:45 pm) - Davis, CA, United States
Research & technology presentations - Topic: strategies for using modern genomics in breeding - Speakers: Dr. Richard Michelmore, The Genome Center, UC Davis & Dr. Allen van Deynze, Seed Biotechnology Center, UC Davis
Seed Central FORUM
University of California Davis, Buehler Alumni and Visitors Center (5:00 to 7:30 pm) - Davis, CA, United States
Monthly networking event on the 2nd Thursday of the month, with featured speaker Dr. Jorge Dubcovsky, whose research illustrates the power of modern biotechnology approaches in delivering new tools to breeders.
November 7-11, 2011
III SIMF International Symposium on Forage Breeding - Simpósio Internacional sobre Melhoramento de Forrageiras
Empresa Brasileira de Pesquisa Agropecuária (Embrapa)
Bonito, Mato Grosso do Sul, Brazil
Aims to promote the discussion on themes related to forage breeding and update the participants on the progress attained in the last decades. Theme: Breeding Forages for Climate Change Adaptation and Mitigation Eco-efficient animal production.
November 7-18, 2011
9th Training course on Molecular Plant Breeding for Crop Improvement
International Crops Research Institute for Semi-Arid Tropics (ICRISAT)
ICRISAT Campus - Patancheru, Hyderabad, India
Major focus: analysis and the use of marker genotyping data rather than on data generation. Presentations and/or hands-on training on topics like overview of molecular marker technology especially SSRs and SNPs, experimental design and data analysis components of phenot...
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Novi Sad, Serbia
November 3, 2011 - December 8, 2011
COURSE - Online plant breeding course: Cross-Pollinated Crop Breeding
University of Nebraska
Online course offered by the Dept. of Agronomy & Horticulture, University of Nebraska-Lincoln - Lincoln, Nebraska, United States
Online graduate-level course offered for noncredit professional development. Course covers standard breeding methods and theories associated with population movement of cross-pollinated crops and self-pollinated crops that are forced to cross-pollinate.
September 27, 2011 - November 1, 2011
COURSE - Online plant breeding course: Germplasm and Genes
Online graduate-level course offered for noncredit professional development. Course focuses on the importance of creating the necessary genetic variation resources for conventional and modern plant breeding programs.
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That's it. If the BBC don't want me, I'm boycotting them
Yesterday, at about a quarter to midnight, I was sat at my computer Googling Kate Smurthwaite. Who, you may ask, is Kate Smurthwaite? Good question. I didn't know, and I desperately needed to find out.
So it's the witching hour, and a middle-aged man is hunched over his computer screen in south-east London, studiously ignoring his wife's desultory instructions to come to bed, whilst frantically trying to find out everything he can about this mysterious person. You can park that image for a moment, but we'll be returning to it.
There are a number of advantages to being a commentator for a national newspaper. One of them is that at entirely random moments total strangers will come up to you and say "I saw you on the television the other day". To which I always respond "Did you? Great. What did you think about what I was saying?" To which they respond "Oh, I can't remember what you were saying. But I knew it was you."
Doing "broadcast" is fun. You get a paid a little money. You get to meet all those famous people you've watched and listened to for most of your life, and you can then subtly drop into conversations things like "when I was talking to John Humphrys the other day …" And London cabbies embrace you like you're a long-lost cousin.
At least I'd always thought it was fun, until last night, and my midnight online investigation into Kate Smurthwaite. Actually, my doubts had crept in a little earlier in the week. I'd been having a protracted conversation with someone from the BBC's This Week programme. They'd called me on Monday or Tuesday and asked "would you be available to do a short film and then come on the program to talk about 50p tax?" Would I! "Yep", I said coolly, and as I texted them back I thought to myself: "I wonder what costume they'll want me to wear? Last time it was a lab coat. Mary Ann Sieghart wore a circus ringmaster's outfit once. I quite fancy being a circus ringmaster."
But then I didn't hear anything. So for a couple of days I sat around wondering to myself whether I'd get to spend Thursday talking about marginal tax rates while dressed as Billy Smart. And then yesterday morning I finally got a text saying. "Sorry, we're going with Syria instead." Oh well, I thought, maybe I'll get to wear a top hat and red breeches on national television some other time.
But then I thought about it a bit more, and I realised that I'd spent quite a lot of time over the past week speaking to people from the BBC about programmes they didn't actually want me to go on. There was the woman from Newsnight, who wanted me to talk about Labour and its relationship with business. But she cancelled. Actually, she just never rang me back. Then there was the guy from Newsnight. He wanted me to talk about Labour and business as well. He did phone back. But only to say he didn't need me after all. And then there was the man from Today. I think that was 50p, too. He cancelled me the same evening. "At least we stood you down the night before for a change!" he texted happily.
That's when the first doubts started to creep in. "Is my desperate desire have a dry BBC croissant with Sarah Montague not becoming just a little bit … well … sad and belittling?" I thought to myself.
So I started to replay some of my more sad and belittling broadcast experiences. And there were a lot of them. An awful lot.
Like last year's Tory conference, when I'd agreed to do a PM program debate with Kevin Maguire on Ralph Miliband. Then 10 minutes before I was due to go on I got a call. "Sorry, we're going in another direction with this. We're going to have to stand you down." "No problem" I said. Then Harry Cole, who was standing next to me, answered his mobile. The conversation went something like this:
"Hi … what PM … yep … Ralph Miliband … OK … what … 10 minutes … yes … fine … me and Maguire … OK, I'll come over now."
Then there was the time I was supposed to be on Today, talking about One Nation Labour. After speaking to about ten different researchers about what I was going to say, I got a call about midnight. "Hi, sorry, we won't be needing you now. We've decided we need someone other than a former Labour aide". A few hours later I was woken up to the sound of Jim Naughtie saying " … and here to talk to us about One Nation Labour is former Labour aide Neal Lawson …"
A few weeks ago I'd tried to rationalise these constant humiliations to myself. When I first started working in PR, and I did my first bits of television, I'd had a chat with a friend who was a TV producer. "You're quite good on telly", he said to me "but your eye's a problem. It's not relevant." I'd looked at him blankly – through my good eye.
"What do you mean my eye's not relevant?" I asked. "It looks a bit odd. And it's not relevant to the story. If you were on talking about weird eyes, it would be fine. But you're not. You have an irrelevant eye."
So I explained all this to another journalist. And they listened politely. And then they said, "OK. But why is your irrelevant eye a problem on radio?" Which had me a bit stumped.
Actually, I wasn't stumped at all. I was just kidding myself. I know that people like me only get on these BBC programmes when there's literally nobody else. They really want Chuka Umunna or Ken Clarke. Or in my case, Neal Lawson or Harry Cole.
But we put up with all the messing around, and the petty humiliations and the "being stood down" because … because of what? Because we're bonkers, basically. We kid ourselves it's about "contributing to the debate" or "raising our profile". But it's not. It's about good old fashioned vanity and ego.
Which brings me neatly back to Kate Smurthwaite. Question Time is the big one. You get to engage in a trial of intellectual strength with David Dimbelby and a couple of angry schoolteachers from Gwent.
Last year I got asked three times if I'd like to appear on QT. Three times. And three times they said at the eleventh hour: "I'm sorry, we don't think this is the right show for you this week." Not the right show? I was born to be on that show.
Anyway, last night I saw that someone called Kate Smurthwaite was on the panel. And I'd never heard of her. Didn't know her from Adam. Or Eve. And there she was on Question Time. Sitting in my chair. On my show.
"Who the hell is she?" I said to myself. "I've never even heard of her". And that's when I started frantically Googling.
And then I stopped Googling. At long last the full awful, pathetic, juvenile, stupidity of what I was doing dawned on me. "Are you 44 years old, or 10?"
And there was only one answer. I was indeed 10.
So that is it. I'm done with this sort of broadcasting. Not that I ever really started with it.
I'll still do Sky, if they want me. They're cool, but in a homey way. And Radio Wales. And anything for LBC or the Daily Politics. They're all easy and nice and if they ask you to go on you know they won't ring to cancel at 5am because the "new shift" have to prove how much better at booking they are than the "old shift".
But there will no QT appearances for me, or any other programmes where they say "can we get back to you?" when you and they both know that they never will. I've decided to get a life again. Or to at least try.
Kate Smurthwaite was born 9 December 1975, is a British Goth, a stand-up comedian and a political activist. And last night she was ace on Question Time.
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