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Gutsy rise of a sick little girl who grew up to win gold (and swig beer with a Prince)
Life is full of 'ifs' and 'buts' and extraordinary coincidences. Even so, Laura Trott's journey to double Olympic gold medallist reads like an incredibly tall story.
If she hadn't been born a month early with a collapsed lung, turned completely blue and had to be fed through a tube in intensive care for six weeks, she probably wouldn't have developed asthma.
And if she hadn't suffered from asthma, she wouldn't have been encouraged by doctors to take part in sport as a child to strengthen her immune system and regulate her breathing.
And if her size-24 mother Glenda, 50, hadn't tried cycling as a last ditch attempt to lose weight – after trying every diet under the sun and being banned from a cable car in the US (of all places) for being too fat – Laura, then eight, would probably never have joined in and got on a bike too.
Fans in high places: Laura Trott drinks from a bottle of lager as she watches the beach volleyball with Prince Harry
Making a point: The pair looked deep in conversation as the nation's sporting heroine enjoyed a well-earned break
King of the laughs: It looks as if Jason Kenny and Laura Trott cannot tempt Prince Harry to have a beer, as he clutches his bottled water
Or won two gold Olympic medals and a place in our hearts as a 5ft 3in national sporting heroine, aged only 20.
She also wouldn't have found herself sitting next to Prince Harry at the beach volleyball yesterday, drinking from a bottle of lager and apparently jokingly offering the young royal a swig.
Laura's story of her path to glory is one of the most uplifting of the past ten days. But the thing that makes it extra special is the fact that, right from the start, it's been a fabulous Trott family effort.
Because, for Laura, not even two gold medals can compete with her family – teaching assistant mother Glenda, father Adrian, 52, an accountant, and elder sister Emma, a professional road cyclist, if not medal winner – yet.
All she could think about before Tuesday's omnium in the velodrome – a series of six trials making up one event – was celebrating with them afterwards. And seconds after crossing the finishing line, she pedalled over to her parents in the front row and launched herself, sobbing, into their arms.
Brought up in her beloved Cheshunt (home of Tesco) in Hertfordshire, despite her health problems and diminutive size (she is barely eight stone) Laura was always a bundle of naughty energy, forever playing practical jokes, hiding things and then blaming her big sister.
Following in her idol's footsteps: A young Laura Trott beams as she meets her cycling hero Bradley Wiggins
Golden girl: Laura Trott celebrates winning the Gold medal in the Women's Omnium Track Cycling 500m Time Trial as screaming fans applaud her remarkable effort
Sport was an obsession in the Trott household. So instead of pop groups or film stars, Laura's pin-ups were all athletes – Victoria Pendleton, Sir Chris Hoy, Michael Schumacher and David Beckham ('because he lived nearby'). She watched back-to-back sport TV, punctuated with episodes of EastEnders and pounds of chocolate.
But it was her mother's sudden decision to take up cycling at the local track in Welwyn Garden City that changed everything.
She took the whole family along to try their hand on terrifying track bikes which have no brakes, and a back wheel which stops dead and hurls you over the handlebars if you back-pedal for a second, and they were all instantly hooked.
All bar Laura, that is, who hated the wind and rain and freezing cold track meets with the Welwyn Wheelers – and the horrible acid reflux reaction in her stomach that made her throw up after every race.
She was just about to give it all up when she started winning. And winning. She didn't seem to be able to stop, despite having to use an inhaler before and after every race and taking a pill every night to control her asthma.
'Once I got that winning feeling, that was it, I really didn't want to not win,' she said.
Laura's victory is made even more incredible as she would regularly need to use her inhaler for her asthma before and after her races
Keeping it in the family: Laura's family prompted her obsession with sport and have supported her from the very beginning of her career
So for years, the entire Trott family travelled thousands of miles round the country from their semi-detached home to cheer on Laura and Emma and the rest of the Welwyn Wheelers, and brandish the bucket for Laura's nasty post-race acid reflux.
'No one is more enthusiastic in their cheering than Glenda and Adrian,' said Laura's team-mate and fellow gold medal winner Joanna Rowsell. 'You can hear them from miles away yelling "Trotty! Trotty! Trotty!" as she powers in wearing all her lucky charms.'
Ah yes, those charms. Laura is so superstitious that she must wear a whole host of lucky items before a race, and she believes they may give her an edge over her competitors.
'I am really superstitious,' she said. 'I have lucky necklaces, lucky rings, earrings, a bracelet, hairband.
'I did have a black and silver lucky hairband which I wore when I won the juniors, so I wear that around my wrist now.
'I am not allowed to wear my lucky bangle around my wrist during races so I usually push my ponytail through my bangle and wrap a bun around it.'
She also performs a bizarre ritual of standing on a wet towel on the morning of a competition.
Somehow, it all seems to work for her, as her call-up to be the youngest member of the British team at the Commonwealth Games in Delhi two years ago may prove.
Unfortunately her post-race reflux was a bit more public in Delhi... 'It was on telly, wasn't it?' she said. 'Me being sick in a bucket! I don't care, though – that's what happens when you push your body to its limits.'
Despite all her potential, no one expected her to take part in London 2012, not even her biggest fan, her father. 'Just getting selected was a bonus,' he said. 'We assumed if she was going to do a Games, it would be Rio in 2016. Laura was incredible!'
Laura Trott
Indeed, Laura was so confident that she was out of the running for medals that she promised her sister a new car if she won two golds.
The Trotts are the sort of family you read about in books. Her father gave up his beloved cricket to ferry Emma and Laura to cycle meets all over the country, while her mother, after years of hopeless dieting lost seven stone on her daily cycling regime and never put an ounce back on.
Laura herself is the typical naughty little sister – funny, bubbly, generous, incredibly messy, ever so slightly spoilt and brilliant fun.
And what of Emma, the elder sister who in 2010 was hit by a car and nearly killed when she was out cycling, and has been fighting back to cycling fitness ever since? Is it the teeniest bit galling to watch Laura's staggering ascent?
'No, I'm not jealous of Laura at all,' she said. 'I know that if I work hard enough that I'll get there as well. She always achieves things before me, in school, sport and life. Laura has all my luck. She has all our family's luck, I think.
'It's always been the same and it's never bothered me because we're so close – cycling made the whole family much closer. She's the person that I protect, and I'm the person that she protects.'
Emma is also partly responsible for Laura's epic success on Tuesday. Half way through the omnium, and despite being draped in all her lucky charms, Laura was unravelling with nerves.
So Emma spent half an hour on the phone calming her little sister down. 'I was sitting on a train trying to calm her down, and thank God there weren't any tunnels so we didn't get cut off.'
It paid off. Laura refocused and powered her way through the final 500m sprint against her arch-rival to take gold.
So will success change the pocket rocket from Cheshunt? 'Not a chance,' said Emma. 'When we were celebrating later on, she was all, "Emma get this! Emma do that!" She hadn't changed at all – she was just as bossy as ever!'
Though, happily, she'll be off first thing in the morning to buy Emma a new car.
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A fired Lafayette police officer plans to appeal in district court two unanimous decisions the civil service board made Wednesday upholding disciplinary action that led to his dismissal.
The Municipal Fire and Police Civil Service Board sustained 5- and 7-day suspensions administered to Uletom Hewitt who, over a period of six months in 2011, was suspended twice and later fired.
"Next stop: district court," said Hewitt's New Orleans attorney, C. Theodore Alpaugh, after a daylong hearing in city hall.
Board members said a lack of evidence to support Hewitt's position led to their decision.
"We saw a lot of inconsistencies and discrepancies in what officer Hewitt said and what a lot of other people said," board member Richard Chappuis said.
Attorney Michael Corry, who represents Lafayette Consolidated Government, agreed.
"The testimony's been crystal clear by everybody that's testified, except Mr. Hewitt," he said.
Hewitt was suspended for five days in March 2011 for his handling of a December 2010 incident at the Acadiana Mall when a suspicious package was found in the food court while he was working off-duty security for Dillard's.
A mall employee filed a complaint against Hewitt claiming he caused panic by leaving his post at Dillard's, telling mall patrons there was a bomb and ordering them to evacuate the premises.
Hewitt's supervisor at the time, Precinct 1 Commander Capt. Luraine Richard, was assigned to investigate the complaint. She testified that she obtained written statements from mall employees and other police officers involved in the incident, all of whom supported the allegations that Hewitt had misled mall patrons about a bomb in the building.
Alpaugh argued that there was no video or audio evidence presented to support the claim, and that Richard erred in failing to obtain witness statements from Lafayette Parish Sheriff's Office deputies who were also on the scene that day.
Hewitt also faced allegations that he disobeyed an order to quit telling people the mall was being evacuated and to return to Dillard's.
In his own testimony, Hewitt argued he never mentioned a bomb to mall customers and that once the emergency situation was underway, store employees and customers turned to him to respond.
"The way I look at this whole incident, I was damned if I do, damned if I don't. And I'd rather be damned for doing something than for not doing something at all," Hewitt said.
Although Hewitt presented witness statements from Dillard's employees commending his behavior while inside the store, he failed to produce evidence that could convince the board he acted properly while outside of Dillard's.
Hewitt faced a second suspension — this one for seven days — in August 2011 for allegedly failing to classify and upload videos recorded on the in-car camera in his police unit on 86 different occasions over a four-month period.
Hewitt claimed he often worked traffic control and that his supervisor told him he did not have to record while working that beat. However, he failed to produce evidence to support that claim.
Alpaugh ultimately tried to nullify the second suspension on a technicality in the Officers' Bill of Rights, which requires an investigation leading to disciplinary action be opened and closed within 120 days.
He alleged the department handled Hewitt's second suspension over a period of 122 days, arguing it began when Richard filed an allegation of misconduct form on Feb. 25, 2011.
The board disagreed with Alpaugh's argument and sided with Corry and Police Chief Jim Craft, who argued that the investigation did not formally begin until March 2, 2011, when Craft ordered it to move forward.
"I think the city's evidence is much stronger," board member Thomas Hayes said.
Hewitt's hearings had been delayed multiple times, most recently at the board's December meeting when Alpaugh filed a restraining order against the board in a dispute over issuing subpoenas.
The 3rd Circuit Court of Appeal last summer ordered the board to hear Hewitt's case, reversing a district court judge's ruling that had delayed the hearing since spring 2013 while a civil suit alleging corruption and retaliation in the police department was ongoing.
Hewitt was a plaintiff in that case, which was dismissed in August by U.S. District Judge Richard Haik.
A hearing date for Hewitt's appeal of his Aug. 30, 2011, termination has not been set.
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Mayiladuthurai to Thirukkadaiyur distance, location, road map and direction
Mayiladuthurai is located in India at the longitude of 79.65 and latitude of 11.11. Thirukkadaiyur is located in India at the longitude of 79.81 and latitude of 11.07.
Distance between Mayiladuthurai and Thirukkadaiyur
The total straight line distance between Mayiladuthurai and Thirukkadaiyur is 17 KM (kilometers) and 541.4 meters. The miles based distance from Mayiladuthurai to Thirukkadaiyur is 10.9 miles. This is a straight line distance and so most of the time the actual travel distance between Mayiladuthurai and Thirukkadaiyur may be higher or vary due to curvature of the road.
Mayiladuthurai To Thirukkadaiyur travel time
Mayiladuthurai is located around 17 KM away from Thirukkadaiyur so if you travel at the consistant speed of 50 KM per hour you can reach Thirukkadaiyur in 0.35 hours. Your Thirukkadaiyur travel time may vary due to your bus speed, train speed or depending upon the vehicle you use.
Mayiladuthurai to Thirukkadaiyur Bus
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The Black Stone, the All-father, was revered by the Naga as the origin of the Akasha and his own race. It was the creation myth of the Naga race and was believed it was the embodiment of the Akasha.
A single tear fell from the Pale Eye from the Heavens on the earth. It created a black stone, that broke and created the Naga people, all cut from one stone, from one soul, the Akasha. The Pale Eye looked it and whispered a prayer that became words and language, which set the Naga apart from all the other races.
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Around the Place of the Falling the Naga built a city, the Holy City. Three times per day they turned their faces toward the west in worship. The Naga had not been there for a thousand of years. [1]
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The Rokugani told a tale which described the stone as the one eaten by Onnotangu, when Amaterasu tricked him to get one of her wishes, the Necklace of Amaterasu. [2]
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Amaterasu wished to be gifted with a necklace by her husband. She invited him to a feast, giving great quantities of wine and bread, which allowed Amaterasu to feed to him with a stone. The next morning when Onnotangu followed his wife in the sky the weight of the stone made him slow, the Goddess sailed across the sky away from him, and the night came, and he was alone in the sky. Amaterasu promised to return if he gifted a necklace, which he did taking the stars. In return for the gift she took her wakizashi, slitting him across the gullet, and the stone fell free. In his pain, the God let go the necklace of jewels and they scattered across the sky, forming the River of Stars. The God never recovered from his wound and he chased her across the sky, he slowly and at night and she swift as the day. [2]
Creation of the Naga Edit
The stone had been under the mud of the earth before it was eaten, and inside that piece of obsidian laid a small Greensnake, sleeping inside, which grew within the body of the God. The power of the God changed the snake, and it began to think beyond the chaos of animals. When the stone was freed from the God's belly, it fell upon the earth and shattered into a thousand pieces; each piece became a Naga. The snake trapped inside the stone became their first Champion, and he named himself Qamar. [2]
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Today, the Fiscal Year 2013 State, Foreign Operations, and Related Programs Appropriations Act was voted out of committee and will be considered by the full House in two weeks. Language pertaining to the International Joint Commission (IJC) was included in the report at Representative Ann Marie Buerkle's (NY-25) request.
"The International Joint Commission is currently considering a proposal known as Plan BV7 which will set water releases and levels for the St. Lawrence River and Lake Ontario. The implementation of this proposal could have significant consequences for the people who live, operate businesses, and recreate along the river and lake. We must ensure the IJC has appropriately examined all potential economic outcomes that Plan BV7 has on stakeholders and that is what this report language urges the Secretary to do," said Rep. Buerkle.
The following language was included in the FY2013 State, Foreign Operations, and Related Programs Appropriations Act:
The Committee understands the International Joint Commission is in the process of updating water regulation levels and releases for the St. Lawrence River and Lake Ontario. The Committee urges the Secretary of State to ensure that any new regulatory plan approved by the Commission is based upon clear, current, and in-depth study, including a thorough examination of the economic impact on stakeholders of the final plan.
The northwestern portion of Representative Buerkle's 25th Congressional District borders Lake Ontario. In January of this year, Buerkle hosted a listening session regarding Plan BV7 and has been actively engaged in ensuring the concerns of those living in the areas where the plan will be implemented are heard.
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Hubby turned in the rental vehicle this evening and got his pickup truck back. We will have to wait on the insurance company of the driver that hit him to settle up on the claim.
We cut wood this evening because the temperatures are supposed to drop here from highs in the 70s, to highs in the 50s and rain is expected for the next 10 days.
We drained the water off of the winter cover and the next day the ground collapsed into a sink hole. The grass never tore apart and there are no cracks in the soil but we have about a 3' in diameter hole in back of the pool.
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We had a sink hole that got bigger and bigger - it didn't crack on top either. The next door neighbor kept draining his pool in the same spot for years and the water landed there. The county came out and fixed it - there was a bunch of debris buried underground by the builder - there was a time when they were allowed to do it. The county paid 30000. To fix our backyard!
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We were at a friend's house a couple of weeks ago and I was admiring a Hosta in her garden, when all at once it disappeared...........sink hole. They live on a lake. and we had had lots of rain, so I guess that is why it happened?????
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Very high price
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Ouch! At least the other driver will pay for the truck. Is the pool damaged? A small sinkhole could be an opportunity for a flower bed. I had to dig some dirt away from one fence gate so it would open better. I also had some erosion issues around the base of the basement door. The extra dirt got moved to the eroded site, I got my gate working and I had dirt for my potted plants inside my outdoor small green house. One problem fixed two! Look for positive opportunities in the problems. Many problems are blessings in disguise.
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If your DC go to private school, how do you arrange childcare in the long school holidays?(199 Posts)
If both parents work, its hard enough to cover childcare during the ordinary state school holidays, but how on earth do you cope with the longer holidays at private schools?
If both parents need to work full time all year round in order to pay the school fees, what on earth do you do when your children then have three or four weeks off at Christmas and Easter, and two months off in the summer? Do you end up having to find even more money to pay for holiday camps/activity weeks etc?
I'd be interesting in any estimates of how much to budget for longer holiday childcare on top of school fees, but I suspect this may be a bit like asking how long is a piece of string ....
Well us women can't have dcs 'just short of 60'
Actually I was 51 when my DS came along. Many women can have DC at that age. My DW was younger though ( much younger than me).
Thats makes me 57 coming 58 now in case you need help with the maths
(maths is my subject)
Mortgages - when I bought my home in 1999 mortgages were not that easy to get. I had a good deposit and asked for a relatively small mortgage ( peanuts in fact - 30K) Interest rates were high ( 5% ish?) . I paid it off in less than 5 years. But that was by sheer hard work, slog and saving. In fact that was around the height of my career financially also.
Of course all of this is relative to income. In 1981, my salary was less than 5K and that was considered good money for a young graduate. So really things were not so good then any more than now. My first "wage" (in 1979 ) was £35 a week.
It's just not the case that many women can have children at 51. There is a strange tendency I've seen among otherwise intelligent and well-educated men to focus on average age of menopause (51-52) and ignore the massive drop-off in fertility that takes place before that. I don't know whether you fall into that category or are just joshing with us by pretending naïveté.
Casey, I am not sure I would call someone who thinks many women have children at 51 as 'well educated' ...
Casey - there is a strange misconception ( pardon the pun) about women being fertile these days. It never seems to have been there in the past. The NHS do not keeprecords of women over 50 who have babies. They lump it in with the over 40's. In the past, before birth control it was well established that women would have "late pregnancies". I went to school with several who had mums who were over 50 when they were conceived. My own family has several instances of elderly ( over fifty - as old as fifty five in fact) giving birth. These children survived and were normal too and were my aunts and uncles and cousins.
Its naother of those falacies that goes around like house prices, mortgages or household income.
However, my DW is was only in her thirties when she had our DS. I married a lady much younger than myself. She was one of my students although by the time I married her she had left college. Oh the outrage
So, Jabed, you appear to be in a position where you are mortgage-free, you have a holiday home in Canada which you can afford to pay for flight to for your family regularly, you have a part-time only job, a wife who does not work at all, and you can afford private school fees for your child.
I put it to you that, while you scorn parents who work all hours and suggest that they are inadequate parents as a result, you yourself are in the privileged position of not having to worry about money. You say you go without things so you probably don't consider yourself rich, but in fact you are. Maintaining the lifestyle you describe is just not how most people live. We have to work all hours just to pay bills. I don't have a holiday home, or a non-working partner, and I would love to be at home with my DCs more, but I am out of the house 7.30am-7.30pm every day working to pay the bills. I have 5 weeks' holiday a year. My DCs are in state schools. There are 13 weeks of holidays a year. I think the sneering tone you've taken towards working parents betrays a complete lack of understanding of how most people have to (not want to) live.
jabed the fact that you can afford children as you had them when you were in your 50s makes your opinions on childcare costs as irrelevant as a lottery winner's.
I put it to you that, while you scorn parents who work all hours and suggest that they are inadequate parents as a result
I have not said this at all. I have just asked why parents - any parents who have DC in independent schools complain about our longer holidays . They should know about it when they register. They should therefore know they have to deal with the child care issue if they have one. That is all I have said.
It annoys me they complain/have problems about something they should be amply prepared for.
Oh, and my DCs' state primary offers no before or after school clubs at all. They won't make any parents' evening appointments after 5pm because the teachers want to go home. So if you have a job which you have to stay at till 6pm an then travel half an hour home, well, tough luck. Take one of your precious holiday days off instead, meaning one day less with your DCs in THEIR holidays.
I suspect this level of fuckwittery in the state system is why working parents who can afford it might choose private schools: private schools cater better for parents who have jobs.
Jabed, see my last post. Length of holidays is, I imagine, fairly low on the list o selection criteria when parents are choosing schools. They probably consider things like how good the school is, whether it caters for their child' interests, etc., first. However, having made the choice, and particularly since they are paying, working parents might express the view that arranging holiday childcare is a pain and it would be good if the schools ran longer.
To say I think your posts on this thread are disingenuous would be extremely generous. I am going to work now. Have a nice day riding on your high horse.
So, Jabed, you appear to be in a position where you are mortgage-free, you have a holiday home in Canada which you can afford to pay for flight to for your family regularly, you have a part-time only job, a wife who does not work at all, and you can afford private school fees for your child
I have a home in Canada - not a holiday home. I have a Canadian DW. My DS has Canadian nationality. Otherwise it is a fair assessment.
But I am not wealthy by any means. I did not marry when younger because I could not afford it. I worked and I saved and I have spent many years without any hoiday at all. I have never lived in fancy houses with losts of mod cons etc. That even includes the sort of thing you may take for granted. That is where my disposable income seems to come from - being a bit of a skinflint in other ways. DW keeps a good table.
I delayed having a family for that reason too. I left it late (as indeed do some ladies these days it seems). I consider myself to be the luckiest guy on the planet to have my DW and DS.
I do not buy the idea that most families "need" two incomes to pay the bills. It seems to me too many people seem to have a different idea of what is necessary and what is a luxury.
If you're still here OP:
If you belong to a David Lloyd gym, their holiday clubs encompass time that independent schools are off.
Jabed, you are totally out of touch with reality. How you came by your money is irrelevant. What is relevant is the fact that you now have a lot of disposable income that most people do not have. We DO need more than one income. My mortgage is £500 a month, not massive at all. My house is probably worth £240k, it's a small 3 bed mid terraced house. My childcare is £650 a month, and that is with a close family member doing the childcare (yes, family do expect payment). Food and petrol (for an 80 mile round trip to work) is £550 a month. Council tax and utility bills take up another £400 a month. That's £1900 a month gone.
Very nice for you to have saved so long that you are mortgage free and can afford for your wife not to work now that you have a young child even though you are in your late 50s. One view might be that children benefit from having a father young enough to live beyond the child's early adulthood. But I guess you'll leave them well provided for, so well done you.
I take that back - it's £2,100 a month gone.
Jabed - are you a real person? Cannot understand how anyone can be so patronising? Your suggestion that any family with 2 working parents has lost sight of what is 'necessary' versus 'luxury' is absurd.
When you first bought a home, it cost 3-4 times your salary. Our home today cost 14 times my husband's salary. To afford it, we both need to work. We can only afford independent education with generous help from our family.
We were fully aware that there were long holidays when we chose an independent school - but to suggest we should not have chosen it for that reason is, again, absurd. We chose the school we liked the best for our children, and we now have to deal with the logistics.
The OP came on here to get some suggestions for holiday care for herchildren - not to whinge about long holidays as such. You have effectively taken over this thread - initially with a rant asking why people had kids if they dn't want to look after them, and now with stealth boasts about how wealthy and financially astute you are. When in fact, you are someone who has done very well out of the property markets in Canada and the UK (oh to have a £30k mortgage) and who didn't get married until financially comfortable (a lucky circumstance rather than clever planning). And to state that woman can habitually have children well into their fifties defies belief. Well done to your family - clearly you are super fertile. For the average woman, having a baby beyond 40 is exceptional - having one at 55 is record breaking.
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Your wife "keeps a good table?"
Who are you, Charles Dickens?
Jabed, you are totally out of touch with reality. How you came by your money is irrelevant
Ginda, how I came by my situation is completely relevant. You have two choices as far as I can see. You do as I did and wait ubtil you can afford a family oryou do as you have done and stretch the finances such that you are in some difficulty really. It certainly cannot be worry free and comfortable for you.
Having a mortgage 14 times your DH's salary is not prudent.
I was prudent but I possibly nearly left it too late for a family.
The thing is all about balance. Hoever, taking a return snipe at your side swipe about my age - at least my DS will be young enough to enjoy his inheritance. My mother is still alive, My father passed away last year aged 90. I will not see any inheritance until I am probably 70+.
I am out of touch? No, you are I think You are out of touch with the facts of economic lfe You seem to want it all and want it yesterday and have hocked yourself up for it.
I did the opposite and very nearly didnt have a family. But at least I am aware of my mistake. It anoys me beyond belief that MNers come here wanting everything and not having thought through their situations before embarking on actions ( like babies and child care)
I never suggested having childrern late in life was general. However it is more normal than you suggest. Its always been a factor. 55 is not record breaking. The oldest naturally recorded conception and live birth was to a 58 year old around 2000 I think. In the 1950; when I was born, many more olderladies had children. Many were probably just around menopause. Ny the way average age of menopause for women today is 54. Thats a statistic.
jabed - I said the house was worth 14 times dh's salary - I did not say our mortgage was at that level. (you are not the only one with financial acumen) - I was using that as an illustration of how the housing market has changed since you were lucky enough to get on it.
You are genuinely saying that women should put off having kids until their fifties in order to be financially secure? I think you have lost the plot completely. If you had been lucky enough to fall in love with a woman the same age as you in your early twenties, you would have deliberately put off having kids for 30 years so that you could provide them with the kind of lifestyle you have now?????
None of us are being demanding or unrealistic with the financial choices we make - having large overheads is a part and parcel of modern life. You have been extremely lucky with how your finances have played out.
Your ds may well be young enough to enjoy his inheritance (poor you - not having parents who were thoughtful enough to plan this for you...) but in the meantime he has a father who is old enough to be his grandfather.
It annoys me beyond belief that MNers come here wanting everything and not having thought through their situations before embarking on actions ( like babies and child care)
There I will say it again. If the OP has had to ask this then she did not consider the situation. The only solution is alternative childcare. Simple as.
Jabed- you married one of your students!!!???
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jabed dear - the whole purpose behind this thread was so the OP could work out how the organise alternative childcare. the fact that she didn't begin planning her baby 30 years ago is really quite normal you know.
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Foreign-Exchange Controls
Korea has liberalized foreign exchange controls in line with OECD benchmarks.
A foreign firm that invests under the terms of the Foreign Capital Promotion Act (FCPA) is permitted to remit a substantial portion of its profits, providing it submits an audited financial statement to its foreign exchange bank. To withdraw capital, a stock valuation report issued by a recognized securities company or the Korean Appraisal Board must also be presented. Foreign companies not investing under the FCPA must repatriate funds through authorized foreign exchange banks after obtaining government approval. Although Korea does not routinely limit the repatriation of funds, it reserves the right to do so in exceptional circumstances, such as in situations which may harm its international balance of payments, cause excessive fluctuations in interest or exchange rates, or threaten the stability of its domestic financial markets. To date, the Korean government has had no instances of limiting repatriation for these reasons, even during and after the 1997-98 financial crisis.
Project Financing
Medium and short-term credit is available from Korean and foreign banks and through the issuance of debentures. Domestic companies generally have better access to local funding as well as informal and secondary financial markets charging higher interest rates. Debentures are a financing alternate, although slightly more expensive than bank financing. Long-term debt is available from the Korea Development Bank, but generally for high priority industries.
Several local financial service companies provide project financing for social infrastructure and private projects in Korea. Project financing was first introduced in Korea in 1995 for a highway construction project between Seoul and the Incheon International Airport. Currently, most of Korea's social overhead capital (SOC) projects are funded by project financing. Project financing has become a popular method of financing for private sector projects too, which include real estate development and buyouts of financially troubled companies.
As a developed country, there are no multilateral development banks nor aid funded projects in Korea.


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