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Hope you are having a wonderful weekend.
It was fairly quiet at the Craft Market yesterday but I did have a few sales - enough to cover the cost of the table and a few extra pennies to buy some more stash :o)
So so cute and a lovely layout. Enjoy your Sunday x
Lovely card Debs, sweet image x Susan x
Oh Debs, what a gorgeous stamp...so sweet!! Great papers too xx
Hi Debs this is a gorgeous Christmas card. Love those little cuties and your gorgeous snowflake border die!
Have a wonderful day, Susan x
This is gorgeous Debs, I love the sweet image and pretty papers.
I hope you enjoy the rest of the weekend.
hugs Sue xx
Morning Debs.
Sorry to hear yesterday's Fair was a no show for people, hate it when that happens, bet you had made some gorgeous stuff too. My next one is in October, did not have any near me for this month.
Sweet card from you, love the colours and that sweet image.
I have got to start thinking about my Christmas Cards soon!!
Have a good Sunday.
beautiful Debs love the image and your use of the WRS papers a lovely design very eye catching
hugs Kate xx
Oooo what a cute image and am loving those gorgeous border dies too, luv Sam x
Gorgeous Debs. Love the layout and cute image.
Deborah A
So cute! I haven't seen that snowflake die before - it really makes the card extra special.
Caroline xxx
Awww this is SO adorable Debs… what a fab image!! Love the scrummy papers and snowflakes… I've just bought that Holly Lane pad, but still at the stroking stage!! :-)) Lol
glad the craft fair went well.. enjoy the rest of the weekend!
Hugs Sue xx
Very cute card Debs, love it!
Donna x
Adorable image and fab colouring Debs..love the papers and the snowflake die..gorgeous.
luv CHRISSYxx
This is an adorable Christmas card Debs, such a cute image and I love your Frosty Corner die.
Love this oh-so-cute image and fabulous layout Debs... GORGEOUS card!
Christine x
Such a cute card! I love your design and those gorgeous die-cuts.
Hi Debs
A lovely festive card .... pleased you were able to make a few sales.
At least people know your work now and will know to look out for your another time (in a good way LOL!!).
An adorable card with a great layout using traditional colours. Hugs, Claire x
An adorable card with a great layout using traditional colours. Hugs, Claire x

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funny you should say that. I made a special trip just for the Tena, at my target (ky) they only carry the large size for $11.99. bummer ….
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Sunday, January 5, 2014
Linn Energy: Swapped LINE for LNCO
I did this switch because I no longer want to fool around with extra tax forms. When I first started dividend investing I planned to own a bunch of MLPs. The past year or two I've had a change of heart, not to mention there are many ways to invest in the same businesses without added tax work. Fast forward to today and LINE is the only holding left that still issues a K-1. Doesn't make sense to do extra work for just one holding. For those who don't know, LINE and LNCO are the exact same company. LINE units pay distributions and issue a schedule K-1 tax form. LNCO is registered as a C-corp and actually just owns LINE units. LNCO shares pay dividends and issue a 1099-DIV tax form.
Since LINE and LNCO are the exact same company, with exactly the same monthly payout, I don't consider this a sale. It won't be listed as such on my monthly reports. However I suppose for tax purposes it really is. I'm going to list LNCO's cost basis on my portfolio page when I update it, but to be fair I'm also going to expunge LINE distributions from my progress page too.
2013 was a rough year for Linn with bad news ranging from a scathing Barron's article, to short sellers stirring up fear, to a poor earnings release, all the way to an actual SEC inquiry! Hard to believe this company used to be loved by dividend investors. I managed to hang on believing most of the "hot news" was just a bunch of hot air. I never discovered anything actually wrong with Linn other than a falling share price. My beliefs seemed to have been vindicated so far as Linn was cleared of the SEC inquiry, it was given the nod of approval to acquire Berry Petroleum, the Berry acquisition was approved by shareholders, and dividends were never cut.
I'm taking a loss (for tax purposes) with LINE, including distributions I'm down approximately $240. Honestly I thought it would have been worse... actually that's a really cheap education. LINE was quite the learning experience! I now know the difference between a SEC inquiry and a SEC investigation. I uncovered some Seeking Alpha authors (ie. James A Kostohryz) who write articles for shock value and should be avoided at all costs. Anyone can write articles for Seeking Alpha, and there are some real shysters on there, please use caution! I discovered MLP accounting is confusing and had the opportunity to vote on the BRY acquisition. I found out hedge fund guys/short sellers can impact share price in a major way. Above all else, I learned to trust my instincts.
Well it was definitely a roller coaster ride, but I still like Linn Energy and think it has a lot of potential. LNCO is one my (two) speculative positions so if it doesn't work out I'll simply replace it. Not a big deal. So far it has performed as intended, except that dividend increases were affected by the madness last year. I'm looking for a small dividend raise soon though.
Symbol: LNCO
Core Position: No
Speculative Position: Yes
Expectations: High income
Automatic Sell: Substantial dividend cut
Consider Selling: I lose faith in the company, small dividend cut, dividend freeze, management becomes untrustworthy
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On an unrelated note, I plan to start implementing small weekly purchases in my Scottrade account. I know other investors like to average into the market using weekly purchase plans with Sharebuilder. Think I'll try it too. I'll be doing weekly purchases for the next 2-3 months using up a bunch of free trades before they expire.
I'm currently interested in TGT, MCD, and UL. I believe TGT is still undervalued. MCD seems fairly valued. UL looks a bit over valued, but appears to command a premium similar to PG.
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I'm glad it turned out ok for you. I've had several of those "cheap education" moments. Like chasing a high flying stock in college or making major macro bets that turned out to just be bets. I'd like to say I'm older and wise, but time will tell. I was in Colorado last week when some snow was rolling in. Did you guys get some more in the last few days?ReplyDelete
I live in Colorado Springs. Not much snow here, but it's dang cold. However Breckenridge was pummeled with snow last weekend. It was awesome, except we had to drive home in it too.Delete
I'm still interested in LNCO and I think you made a good switch. Taxes are complicated enough without further complication from extra tax forms. That's awesome that you have some free trades to use up. When I first read it, it didn't make sense because commissions would eat up so much of the capital, but then I noticed it said free trades.ReplyDeleteReplies
Personally, I don't mind having a couple speculation stocks. I still think Linn will do well medium term and offers a crazy monthly dividend payment in the mean time. Long term I'm not so sure. There is a lot of hype from the bulls and fear mongering from the bears/short sellers with LINE/LNCO. It can be hard to sift through it all, but the truth lies somewhere in the middle!Delete
For some reason LNCO stock seems to be very polarizing. Weird.
Best wishes!
Nothing wrong with making the switch. You'll have to deal with the K-1 for two more years (2013 and 2014) since you sold it after the first of the year, but simplification is never a bad way to go if you aren't sacrificing quality.ReplyDeleteReplies
I'm giving myself a present next year when I do my taxes though. I'll benefit from taking a loss. I don't need the extra tax $ this year since I'm very solid financially right now. Who knows what will happen in the future.. lot's of things can go wrong.
One other reason that I should have mentioned in the post. LNCO currently trades at a discount to LINE. I would have done this sooner, but LNCO shares commanded a large (usually 10+%) premium over Linn units almost all of last year. I actually received a few extra bucks from switching, and the monthly payments stay the same. I didn't notice the discount till the past weekend. Not sure when it started, but I assume it has to do with the BRY acquisition which was approved only two weeks ago. I think LNCO will get its premium back when the dust settles. Not dealing with K-1s is a bonus and the stock market will remember that.
Ok goodnight! Why am I still up?
- AnonymousJanuary 17, 2014 at 9:11 AM
Was this considered a wash sale?ReplyDelete


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(Inside The Java House on Washington St. in Iowa City, Iowa).
On an otherwise ordinary street in Iowa City, the perfect coffeehouse sits tucked between a bar and a discount clothing store. It is perpetually dim, offering an ambience reminiscent of the space between the early hours of the morning and the first shock of sunlight. Then there are those lush Latinate words that taste of fine art and sultry outdoor cafes: espresso, cappuccino, macchiato, dopio, americano. Yes, in the perfect coffeehouse tongues lavish in oratory complexity, in their ability to reaffirm their own sophistication. The perfect coffeehouse is teaming with tables and comfortable chairs, at times mismatched, scuffed and broken, at times curated, clean and poised. These tables and chairs do a remarkable job of always appearing full but not overwhelmed, which suggests the success and validity of the perfect coffeehouse. Noses are nurtured by various aromas- the smooth kiss of chocolate, the rich rot of wine, the nuttiness, the sting of acid- elicited by brews hailing from distant lands and fields in Colombia, Antigua, Ethiopia, Yemen. All of the ceramic cups are white and all of the saucers are white and it is all so chic and simple in the perfect coffeehouse. It has free Wi-Fi. It boasts a plethora of house-baked croissants, muffins and scones.
There are frazzled novelists with papers sprawled haphazardly. There are sorority girls swirling their silly straws in their saccharine drinks. An elderly gentleman is highlighting the New York Times and petting his dog beneath the table. A barista with an octopus tattoo on her forearm is frothing milk. Someone, maybe God, calls my name. My "Giant of the Earth" pour- over coffee is obsidian and gorgeous. I submerge myself in an overstuffed chair pocked with gaping holes of various sizes. I swear my allegiance to the perfect coffeehouse and sip with gusto, scorching my tongue.
Four years later, I have successfully navigated my way through Iowa City's 45 other registered coffeehouses, most of which were lusterless in comparison to the paradigm of "the perfect coffeehouse." I am a bonafied caffeine-queen. I wield my French Press like a scepter and I wear my clandestine affair with the latte like a crown. My various orders are carved into my brain: Nutty Caramel Latte with almond milk and an extra shot of espresso for when my mantra is "treat yo'self," a pour-over coffee when I've got a story twitching in my fingertips, a cappuccino for conversation and never, under any circumstance, an artisanal tea.
It's a Saturday in March. I've got lines and characters and plots waltzing from right to left in my brain. I email my fiction professor a fervent request that he meet me later to discuss my story. I make a beeline for the perfect coffeehouse. The sky is grey with spring cold and as my boots scuff across the cobbled streets of Iowa City, I imagine myself a female Ben Franklin, coat billowing, spectacles slipping, rushing off to a Club of Honest Whigs meeting at the London Coffeehouse. The soft bounce of my laptop against my back draws me out of my reverie.
At 7:04 a.m. the perfect coffeehouse still rubbing the sleep from its eyes. The barista's smile is soft as she maneuvers around the pour-over coffee bar to pour steaming water over the fresh grounds. I watch the water sieve through the filter and into the perfect coffeehouse's iconic cups. As the drops accumulate, I ponder (as I am prone to d0) the implications of my desire for this particular space and for this particular drink in the context of my creativity.
At this point, it is pertinent that I disclose that the perfect coffeehouse (Iowa City's beloved Java House) is the brainchild of Tara Cronbaugh, a former University of Iowa student, who discovered her passion for coffeehouse ambience while visiting her brother at the University of California Berkeley in 1990. Tara was fascinated by the unique combination of "social and relaxing" vibes that were exuded by the locally owned coffee establishments they visited. Most importantly, she unearthed a key tenant of the coffeehouse success algorithm: it wasn't about the coffee served but rather the entire experience that the coffeehouse could provide.
You see, it wasn't coffee (although it is delectable in every sense of the word) that garnered my loyalty to the perfect coffeehouse. Out of Iowa City's 45 other coffeehouses (41% of which belong to corporations including Starbucks, Caribou Coffee and Dunkin Donuts), it was the story that Tara crafted and told me that I fell in love with. The perfect coffeehouse became an emblem of the narrative that I constructed for myself: it was well-loved and slightly weathered like the Velveteen Rabbit, it was occupied chiefly by hipsters and other messy minds and my very presence in it, solidified my membership in the society of intelligent, stylish and undoubtedly witty coffee-aficionados. The perfect coffeehouse was a place where I could linger, a place where I could whip out my scribble-marred, tattered Moleskine with pride.
No! Precious beads of pour-over coffee slide over the sides of the cup in nearly translucent, pale brown rivulets. I snatch the cup deftly up, ignoring the burn of hot liquid against my bare hands. The barista offers me a napkin. I decline and rush off to my favorite alcove near the window. I look out as my coffee breathes; the small city is beginning to stir and stretch last night's stiffness from its sinews. Patrons are beginning to harken to the perfect coffeehouse; its siren song calls their decaffeinated brains and their aesthetic-loving hearts. The door of perfect coffeehouse functions like the hands of a clock: the mornings fly swiftly by as the rush quickens, the afternoons lounge about in one long, quiet dwindle and the evenings are punctuated by the soothing entrance of a twilight breeze. I wish I could set my watch to it.
(a rare sighting of my one true love: the infamous, sensual and delightful Nutty Caramel Latte.)
This is the moment my four semesters of Italian prepared me for. The perfect coffeehouse encourages la dolce far niente or the sweetness of doing nothing, of time devoted to interest and rumination rather than obligation. Even its name, "The Java House," implies that there is no need for hustled orders or quickly crafted drinks. Although you can certainly order your coffee to go, there is something so decadent about immersing yourself in the perfect coffeehouse's humming and carefully crafted atmosphere. As the gold light of morning pouring through its rectangular windows, my coffee has finally achieved drinkable status; its temperature falls somewhere between scalding and warm. My olfactory organs inhale the darkness of the roast. I open my laptop and begin to unfurl my tangled ball of ideas.
If I were to draw up an algorithm of Tara Cronbaugh 's The Java House it would be divided into three equal parts and their caffeinated brews wouldn't factor in. What it does so damnably well, what makes it worthy of the moniker "the perfect coffeehouse" is its trifecta of experience: it offers a creative space, it tells a good story and it provides customers with the chance to do nothing, should they so choose to indugle. Which is why many of the Iowa City's residents, especially its large student and writer population, prefer this local shop to the more widely known java joints such as Dunkin' Donuts and Starbucks, the latter of which sports multiple locations within the city limits.
When questioned about the difference between large coffee chains and the perfect coffeehouse, a fellow coffee-enthusiast stated, "When I'm in a hurry, Starbucks is my jam but when I want to take my time, accomplish something or impress a girl, I always come here [Java House] because it's got personality." He lifted his thick brown brows at me and leaned in as a gesture of confidence, "Well, and the barista's actually give a shit about what they make here."
With that, he toasted his macchiato towards me. I raised my Nutty Caramel Latte in solidarity, its tessellated milk foam dancing. Yes, the perfect coffeehouse is detailed and careful, presenting each cup o'joe as if it were a piece of art. We are simultaneously soothing our coffee-addled brains and dropping clues about our world-view. We are paying homage to the scholars of the Age of Enlightenment, gatherings to discuss our interests and passions over cups of coffee. The perfect coffeehouse says something about who we are. We are social, intellectual and we can properly pronounce "espresso." As patrons, we tell its story to others out of love and admiration for its authenticity, and it in turn, reinforces the narrative we tell ourselves about ourselves.
There are over 500 art galleries in New York City. There are 83 museums across the five boroughs. Universities with storied creative programs such as Columbia, The New School, The Juilliard School and NYU. People move to New York City for the story. They move to New York City because that is just what creative people do, because that is just where creative people are. With all of its culture and contrasts, it promises adventure and romance and conflict and explosions of creativity. It lets us "lie" to ourselves in just the same way that the perfect coffeehouse does: we consume their stories and then adopt them as compliments to our own narratives.
New York City boats over 1,700 coffeehouses. Of that number, 57% are single-location or small chain spots. The remaining 43% are made up of the popular chain coffee retailers, Dunkin' Donuts and Starbucks. In contrast, Iowa City is home to only 45 coffeehouses. Of that number, 75.5% are single location or small chain spots, which leaves less than 25% to large coffee retailers.
In the January/ February issue of Communication Arts (Typography 6), Monica Kass Rogers' article "A Beautiful Mess" excavates the ever-changing realm of food photography. In accordance with today's "looser, messier, more idiosyncratic" food styling, she writes that " [food] is not as limited by the boundaries of the plate so that they may tell bigger food stories: where it's from, what it is, why it matters. Food has become the window into lifestyle stories."
I vehemently agree with Monica's assessment. There are no small stories in this world. Even within the coffeehouse industry. Sure, the large corporate coffee conglomerates have a grip on a vast majority of the population but if you take the perfect coffeehouse's story as a model, there is a vital message: you don't have to convince everyone that your story is important, you only have to convince those who share your worldview that your story is authentic. Each cup, each visit, each exchange with a knowledgeable barista functions as one brushstroke on the larger canvas of the story. Consequently, the experience of the perfect coffeehouse is allowed to transcend the boundaries of consumerism and become a part of the consumer's narrative about their chosen lifestyle.
As the United States only UNESCO City of Literature and the birthplace of the illustrious, historical and extremely exclusive MFA program The Iowa Writer's Workshop, Iowa City is something of a Midwest bohemia. With its cobbled streets, its boutique businesses, its vintage sport culture, its sweater-clad trees and local restaurants, it tells the same myth that the perfect coffeehouse does. As with the most powerful tales of our age, the medium becomes the message. The perfect coffeehouse tells me a story of a girl with a story twitching in her fingertips, waiting to be unleashed. It's a story I can imagine and plot and fill with characters and mess up and revise. It's stronger than the notes of my freshly-poured French roast. It warms the palms of my hands. My fiction professor scurries through the door. His red scarf is obscuring his mouth. His blue eyes stop on an unoccupied barista.
"Story can wait," he mumbles in lieu of a greeting, "Coffee first."
So as your sip your morning brew and savor your Tuesday, please consider this week's (whit)ticisms:
- The Internet is a wonderful realm that allows us to access material and inspiration from sources produced hundreds of years ago. This enables an artist to create work that has a past but feels absolutely present. Steal like an artist this week and write a riff on a classic story (something that relies on money, a miracle, ego, fun, safety, pleasure, belonging ect.).
- Treat yo'self. Devour that giant cinnamon roll. Chug that spiked milkshake. No seriously, do it. Trust me, I'm three quarters away from my second Hurts donut as I write this.
- Be aware of the fact that every choice, every word and every action constructs your personal narrative. The average human lifespan is 71 years. Due to the brevity of existence, there are no small moments. Remember Monet's dappled brushstrokes? He applied paint in small strokes that ultimately built up into broad fields of color. It was a laborious process but look at the beauty that came from it.
- Watch this short video about the "Vagabond Barista" and how he fused his personal journey with coffee in order to tell and share an authentic narrative to others:
may your love & your coffee be strong,
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A parolee fleeing police in a stolen car Tuesday was shot and wounded by a Long Beach officer who thought the man was reaching for a gun, police said.
Joseph Jay Burr, 29, recently released from prison for robbery, was shot in the right side and in the wrist and taken to St. Mary Medical Center, where he is listed in good condition, Long Beach police spokeswoman Karen Kerr Owen said.
When officers tried to pull over Burr's vehicle about 1:20 a.m., he sped away, police said. The car smashed through a chain-link fence in the 1100 block of East Hill Street.
Burr began to run from the officers but then reached into his coat pocket, took out a dark object and pointed it at officers, said Owen. Thinking it was a weapon, one officer, whose name was withheld, fired at Burr three times, hitting him twice.
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AIR's digitalisation to stretch beyond 2015
NEW DELHI: The All India Radio digitalisation programme may not be complete by 2015 due to shortage of funds, says AIR engineer-in-chief AS Guin.
The Short Wave bands will be digitalised first and this can be achieved by 2015, provided the Planning Commission releases the entire amount, but medium wave "which is the poor man's band" will not be fully digitalised and more specifically, there will not be complete switch off from analogue to digital radio, Guin explains.
The AIR has asked for Rs 59 billion from the Commission under the 11th Five Year Plan. They feel the amount is huge, and the government may not be able to release the entire fund. To go for complete digitalisation would take much more funds - almost astronomical - and AIR mandarins feel that they should not ask for the moon, which is why no further plans are afoot for asking for more funds.
Short wave transmitters that have been in use for more than 20 years will be replaced and these alone would be DRM compatible, not all.
"But in any case, we shall not switch off the analogue mode for the medium wave by 2015, because that is the wave compatible with the radios costing Rs 50 or 100, the one used by the poorer section of the society. They will not be able to bear the cost, so we cannot deny them the only source of information and entertainment some of them have," Guin stressed.
In fact, as of date even the fairly well-to-do would not be able, or may not wish to spend money buying a digital radio set.
"The ones available cost in today's prices about $70, that is Rs 3,500," Guin revealed, adding: "This is prohibitively costly."
So why bring in a technology that even the well-off may not opt for?
"It is expected the prices will come down as we go by," he averred. There are two factors at play here.
First, as and when DRM technology goes national, prices will come down. "As of now, most countries are using DRM technology for SW for their external broadcasting. National lever SW DRM tests have been conducted in Mexico and other places," Guin said. But when DRM goes national, the price will come down.
The other factor is that as the new digital mode becomes popular, the prices of the sets would also come down.
"The main thing will be the content," Guin said. The content for SW and MW have to be different, because if the same content is run on both, why would anyone buy a costly handset to catch SW?" he asks.
There have to be popular programmes specially developed for SW bands, he felt, otherwise the digital radio programme will not pick up in good earnest.
The digitalisation process would start with all the studios. Each state capital would have one Short Wave transmitter and there will be three transmission complexes with five transmitters per complex for national digital radio coverage.
These complexes will be suitably located., Each complex will transmit five digital channels across the country, including regional language channels. This will mean that these channels will be accessible across the country. So, a Bengali in Mumbai would not have a problem if he wishes to hear All India Radio Kolkata.
Explaining the merits of such a costly technology, Guin said that interactive broadcasts and a number of value-added services will be possible. One of the most important things will be the pro-active role AIR will get to play in disaster management.
AIR will introduce a system across the channels on the coastal belts, which will be integrated with the early warning systems.
Thus, whenever an early warning is triggered off the computer linkage with the radio stations will ensure that the channel would automatically switch over to transmitting the warning, with the ongoing programme switched off.
Once the warning has been issued, the radio station would switch over to the normal ongoing programme. This will give a huge lead time for people to evacuate.


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Five takeaways from the Clippers' 121-115 win over the Kings at Golden1 Center in Sacramento on Thursday:
1. Montrezl Harrell got the opportunity to play more because of yet another Clippers injury, and he took advantage.
Harrell scored a season-high 25 points. He missed just one of his 12 shots. He played 27 minutes, 4 seconds, most of that because DeAndre Jordan went down with a sprained left ankle in the second quarter.
Harrell, the backup center, played with his usual zest and energy.
2. Wesley Johnson played one of his better games of the season. Johnson had 13 points and three rebounds off the bench. He was three-for-four from three-point range.
3. The Clippers stroked the three-point ball very well. They made 41.9% of their three-pointers.
Per usual, Lou Williams led the way by going five-for-12 from three-point range. Blake Griffin was two-for-seven, Tyrone Wallace one-for-three, Milos Teodosic two-for-five, and Johnson three-for-four.
4. The Clippers put their 20th different starting lineup of the season on the floor, an NBA high.
Rookie Wallace started his first game of the season, alongside Griffin, Jordan, Teodosic and Williams.
5. In just his fourth game of the season after being called up from the Agua Caliente Clippers of Ontario, the Clippers' development league team, Wallace made the defining play for Los Angeles.
The Clippers were clinging to a two-point lead late in the game and had put the basketball in the hands of the capable Williams.
But when he was trapped, Williams threw an errant pass and the ball was stolen by Kosta Koufos with 15.2 seconds left. Koufos, a center, looked unsure what to do with the ball as he took a couple of dribbles.
Sensing this, Wallace kept his eye on Koufos, who also threw an errant pass. Wallace stole the ball and dribbled in for a dunk and a 119-115 Clippers lead with 10.9 seconds left.
Williams was one of the first Clippers to high-five Wallace.
Wallace finished with eight points, three rebounds, two assists, two steals and one block in 36:37.


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NEW YORK (TheStreet) -- Citigroup's (C) business model is "not sustainable in [the] new regulatory era," and the bank needs ramp up its efforts to simplify its operations, according to Societe Generale's equity research team.
The Societe Generale analysts, including Murali Gopal, Andrew Lim and Axel Richard on Friday downgraded Citigroup to a "hold" rating from a "buy" rating, while cutting their price target for the shares to $52 from $58, following the surprising rejection of Citigroup's 2014 capital plan by the Federal Reserve on Monday.
The Fed announced the results of its Comprehensive Capital Analysis and Review (CCAR) on Wednesday. This was the second part of the regulator's annual stress-test process, incorporating banks' submitted plans for capital deployment to the same nine-quarter "severely adverse" economic scenario used in the first part of the stress tests that were concluded the previous week.
Citi passed the first round of stress tests with a minimum Tier 1 capital ratio through the severely adverse scenario of 7.2%, well above the 5.0% required to be considered well-capitalized and pass the tests. For CCAR, the bank submitted a capital plan calling for $6.4 billion in common-share buybacks and an increase in the quarterly dividend to a nickel from a penny. If the bank were to deploy this much capital, its minimum Tier 1 common equity ratio through the severely adverse scenario would be 6.5%, still significantly above the required 5%.
But the Federal Reserve's rejection of Citi's capital plan wasn't based on those numbers. It was based on "qualitative concerns, including the "significantly heightened supervisory expectations for the largest and most complex BHCs in all aspects of capital planning."
The Fed went on to question Citigroup's ability to "project revenue and losses under a stressful scenario for material parts of the firm's global operations, and its ability to develop scenarios for its internal stress testing that adequately reflect and stress its full range of business activities and exposures." The regulator also said it had previously identified some areas of concern to Citigroup, but had not seen "sufficient improvement" in these areas.
CLSA analyst Mike Mayo in a note to clients Wednesday had some harsh words for the Federal Reserve: "In the new world of Big Brother Banking, the government can make decisions such as this, even if a bank is well above regulatory minimums, allowing a new level of regulatory discretion. The Fed's decision makes it look like there is no level of capital that is sufficient whereby Citi could repurchase stock."
He also wrote that it might be a good time for Citigroup to sell its Banamex unit in Mexico, which recently identified a $400 million fraud that forced the parent company to restate its 2013 earnings.
The Societe Generale analysts delved further into Citigroup's international operations, calling the bank "excessively diversified as beyond Mexico, Brazil, Korea and India no other EM contributed more than 1.5% of total revenues."
"We believe operational/regulatory risks outweigh the upside potential," the Societe Generale analysts added. "In our view, Citi needs to come up with a credible plan to restructure its business model."
With the possibility that Citigroup's revised 2014 capital plan may not include any buybacks or dividend increase, Societe Generale estimates the bank's book value could rise by $24 billion over the next two years. But this may not do much for the stock, according to the analysts, unless the bank begins significant capital deployment. The continued buildup of excess capital will also lower the bank's return on equity.
With so many emerging-market units contributing relatively little, Societe Generale sees a "tremendous opportunity" for Citigroup to simplify its business. Emerging markets the bank might consider exiting include Russia, China, Poland, Indonesia, Turkey, Thailand, the Philippines and Argentina.
Of course, if Citigroup were to exit so many emerging markets, the company could be sacrificing its unique long-term positioning to ride these markets to fabulous profits. The company would have quite an identity crisis.
The Society Generale team pointed to JPMorgan Chase (JPM) as a good example of a competitor doing everything it can to get its regulatory house in order, citing that bank's recent deal to sell its energy trading business, as well as other steps to lower its risk. "Last year, JPM committed its top management and a significant amount of resources to address its own issues surrounding the capital planning process," The Societe Generale analysts wrote.
JPMorgan on Wednesday received approval from the Fed to raise its quarterly dividend to 40 cents a share from 38 cents and for $6.5 billion in share buybacks from the second quarter of 2014 through the first quarter of 2015. And the CCAR results showed JPMorgan's minimum Tier 1 common equity ratio through the severely adverse scenario and including the above capital deployment would be 5.5% -- way below the Fed's estimated minimum Tier 1 common equity ratio for Citigroup under Citi's submitted capital plan.
So investors can expect plenty of announcements from Citigroup this year, as it works to improve its internal stress-testing systems and possibly sheds businesses in order to make the Federal Reserve happy.
Citigroup's stock was down slightly in early trading Friday to $47.42, while JPMorgan Chase was up 0.3% to $60.07.


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I'm delighted to be in post as the new festival director of The Guardian Edinburgh International Television
Festival powered by You Tube and I'm looking forward to helping shape an event that will celebrate creativity but also deliver great business insight for all our delegates.
Festival powered by You Tube and I'm looking forward to helping shape an event that will celebrate creativity but also deliver great business insight for all our delegates.
We're busy developing session ideas at the moment and there are some great suggestions which we'll be announcing in coming weeks. I'm also thinking hard about how we make this premier event in the TV calendar even better and I'd love to hear your thoughts. (You can email me on the address below).
We're likely to make a few tweaks this year and introduce further changes in the longer term, but we plan to keep you up to speed with all our news in these new fortnightly newsletters. One new initiative I'd like to tell you about is our new awards category, TV Moment of the Year - and I'm sure many of you have material which could be a contender for the title.
If you think about your favourite TV series of years gone by, there's always a classic moment that sticks in the mind. They may be moments that make us laugh no matter how many times we've seen them - the comedy gold of Del Boy falling through the bar in Only Fools and Horses - or moments in which we marvel at the sheer inventiveness of the show's creators - from Python's Dead Parrot to David Lynch's dancing dwarf in Twin Peaks.
They may be cringeworthy moments - the first time we saw a jungle-dwelling celebrity chow down on a testicle; or David Brent gyrating in The Office - or even moments we wish we could forget, but can't - George Galloway, on his knees, lapping milk like a cat on Big Brother makes me shudder even now.
Then there are the moments that shock, that surprise, that leave us gasping in incredulity - the Breaking Bad finale or Game of Thrones' Red Wedding.
Every producer seeks that golden moment - whatever the genre - the moment that causes the nation to unite and react together whether in sadness, shock or laughter. It's the moment that sees everyone take to Twitter to ask: 'did you see that?!'
Which is why we wanted to add a new category to Edinburgh's Channel of the Year Awards. We want to identify and celebrate the most iconic moments of the year and there is certainly plenty to choose from in what has been a stellar year for television.
Whether it's the explosive ending of a series such as Sherlock; the exit of a much-loved character such as Corrie's Hayley; or a heart-wrenching minute such as Musharaf overcoming his stammer on Educating Yorkshire, we want to reward the most talked-about 60 seconds of television.
You can make your submissions for TV Moment of the Year until June 30, and submitted clips will be showcased online in May and June when the category will be opened up to a public vote. The winner will be announced as part of the festival's Channel of the Year Awards on August 22.
Don't forget to tweet about your moment, and include a link using #TVmoment. You can find us at @EdinburghTVFest.
We'll also be featuring a selection in our newsletters.
So get your entries in and good luck!
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Boston, September 9 - Mesenchymal stem cell therapy
to treat multiple sclerosis so far appears safe and without side
effects, according to data released Tuesday and obtained through
clinical trials on patients as part of the international Mesems
project coordinated by University of Genoa neurologist Antonio
The results were announced ahead of the World Congress on
Treatment and Research in Multiple Sclerosis opening in Boston
Wednesday through Saturday.
The Mesems project involves researchers from nine countries
- Italy, Spain, France, Britain, Sweden, Denmark, Switzerland,
Canada and Australia.
It is the first large phase II international multicentre
clinical trial to determine the safety of a consensus treatment
protocol established by the International Mesenchymal Stem Cells
Transplantation Study Group to obtain information on its
effectiveness on multiple sclerosis patients.
So far, 81 patients have been involved in the project - half
of the 160 needed for the whole clinical trial.
About 73 - or 90% of those involved in blind testing - were
given at least one injection with mesenchymal therapy or got a
placebo while 51 - or 63% - were given both injections and 27 -
33% - completed the study.
"The promising result is that so far none of these 27
people have suffered significant adverse events, which means
that, so far, the treatment appears to be safe", said Uccelli.
The neurologist warned that "caution is necessary" and that
the effectiveness of the therapy can only be determined once the
study is completed in 2016.
Uccelli however added that preliminary studies on animals
have persuaded researchers that mesenchymal stem cells "can halt
inflammation on the central nervous system and probably succeed
in protecting nervous tissue, even repairing it where damage is
Out of the 81 patients recruited so far, "28 are Italian
and 10 of them have completed the study", Uccelli said, adding
that all patients over the past year did relatively well except
for one who was treated with placebo.
The neurologist expressed the hope that "data in 2016 will
give final confirmation that the therapy is effective so we can
take the subsequent step with a larger phase III study aimed at
demonstrating the role of stem cells as neurorepairers".
Meanwhile Genoa's bioethics committee has approved a
two-year extension of the project, which will be called Mesems
Plus, "to verify, beyond the year of observation provided for by
Mesems, the long-term safety of treatments in the study and the
potential insurgence of adverse events in all those treated",
said Uccelli.
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Thoughts on Newcastle United 1 Manchester City 3
Phew. I said last week that Newcastle was not a must-win game, and it wasn't – no league game in December is, nor in January or February. But anything less than a victory at St James Park, or whatever it's called nowadays, would have left City with an almighty mountain to climb at such an early stage of the season. It isn't just the points difference with United that would have posed a problem, but United's subsequent run of imminently winnable games meaning that reducing the gap in the near-future is unlikely. With victory over Sunderland a given for United later in the day, this was a big win.
It's hard to assess how difficult a game this counts as. Newcastle is a hard place to go to, against a team with many very good players, but a team on a bad run, and only just above the relegation zone. In the end, City came away with their sixth consecutive league victory over Newcastle.
So it turned out that Kompany was injured, Barry banned for mocking Mark Clattenburg's toupee, and Balotelli was grounded. As soon as the team was announced, Nasri and Garcia were getting slated online. That's how it is nowadays. Nasriwill be mentioned more next, but to a lesser extent Garcia answered his critics too, with a better performance than previous appearances, and once more proved his aerial prowess. He may turn out to be a failure, but let's not write him off just yet.
And it seems Samir Nasri may have balls after all, though they may be black and blue for a few days. I may take my anger at his feeble actions in the wall last week with me to the grave, but there was partial redemption in Newcastle as he was a class above until forced to withdraw through injury. With a bit more composure from him and others, the rewards could have been much greater.
It was a great game, and a rather strange game at times. Newcastle started on the front foot, but after weathering the early storm, City played the best 30 minutes of football of the season. Nasri, Silva, Aguero and Tevez ripped Newcastle apart almost at will. The only concern was the wastefulness in front of goal, and the creeping fear that City would pay for their profligacy. And all the while, Newcastle were looking threatening themselves.
As for the first goal…utterly sublime. And from Yaya Toure, one of the passes of the season.
The second half was mostly a huge disappointment. City have scored 70% of their goals in the second half of matches this season, but this time City were put under great pressure for quite a while, and Newcastle spurned three good chances to equalise. When Newcastle did score, City's defending was little short of woeful. Having said that, City could easily have scored seven or eight themselves over the course of the match.
Yaya Toure seemed to have his mojo back, and his brother didn't do too badly either. I had written off Kolo at least a year ago, but there seems to be life left in him now he's off the slimming pills, and he is a useful squad member to have around, especially if you're after a 4-door saloon with rear-wheel drive, anti-lock braking and a 5-year warranty.
How ridiculous that City will lose both for up to 5 weeks soon to the ACON, when they have already lost them for that amount of time this year.
From the 89th minute of last weeks' match, Gael Clichy has seemed very lightweight. But then the defence as a whole was not great. Maybe they weren't protected enough, but too many crosses entered City's penalty area, too many chances presented themselves to Newcastle players. Kompany's leadership was missed, but at least Hart was back to his best.
The injuries seem to have built up far more than last season. This may be down to nothing more than bad luck, or maybe sacking the club doctor after a near injury-free season.
Pablo Zabaleta is a legend. Nothing more really needs to be said.
Though I will add that his 12 tackles were 8 more than anyone else on the pitch.
Mario Balotelli dropped from the squad for not working hard enough? I would hope this is due to training alone, as his performance in the derby did not warrant such a reaction from Mancini, and only helps fuel the media overreaction to the player. That said, if it is true he is taking City to a tribunal, then his days may be numbered. And to be brutally honest, I couldn't care less.
Tevez and Aguero start, City win. It's not rocket science. Meanwhile, Dzeko's star continues to wane. City could and should have had two more goals late on, but for his poor distribution.
"Where were you when you were shit?" was given its latest airing by Newcastle fans. The ability of football fans to embarrass themselves never fails to stagger me.
So a good day for City? No, the newspapers say otherwise. Kolarov to be investigated in racism row. Mancini has fallen out with City's new chief executive and sporting director ("ticking timebomb"). Aguero is unsettled and wants out. Balotelli is taking City to a tribunal over club fine.
City in crisis, as ever.
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Cable Trenching for SurveillanceAuthor: Brian Rhodes, Published on Jul 17, 2013
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Good article. You go into detail on the intricacies of what is really involved in "the invisible trench". You correctly cite NFPA 70 code requirements and the differences between using rigid or PVC or direct burial etc. and of course common sense hand digging in tight areas. The timing is uncanny as I just completed many long trenching runs using PVC at 18" deep (24" deep under a roadway) with caution tape in the backfill etc. for a surveillance system following NFPA 70 code.
This is good information for IPVM members who are consultants or manufacturers where in the normal course of their business would not be exposed to that level of detail or information, or need to, but can appreciate it for what it is.
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Good stuff Brian thanks!
Great article Brian! I know very little about trenching, and this is very handy to know. That being said, has there (or is there) ever a case where water is unavoidable? Would someone still recommend trenching, or search for an alternative?
Pneumatic piercing systems have also been growing in use. These systems can ram a pipe through the ground relatively short distances without disturbing the surfaces except at the insertion and extraction points. More sophisticated rams support relatively modest directional control as they function.
I've always wondered how you would survey to decide when it's better to pierce and when trenching is necessary.
Trenching in areas where labor, land, and/or permits are expensive, especially with existing roadways, sidewalk or other interfering utilities, trenching/wiring can get up to 10x the cost listed. ~$125 -->> $1,250 per foot especially on small projects where you can't get much savings from economies of scale.
A long trench in dirt on private property in many places can be cheap and easy.
A short trench under a parking lot/road/sidewalk, with utilities, restricted work hours, re-routing of traffic, political issues, permits, permits, and permits, other utilities, and such can really drive up costs.
Good luck!
Great article Brian. Really makes use of a trenching & boring subcontractor attractive. The use of a specialty sub can be as cost-effective as doing it ourselves and with fewer pitfalls.
Thank you Brian. Being an integrator who also has a fully equipted outside plant/utilities division, I can tell you that it is a lot more cost effective to put pipe in the ground with a bore rig rather than trenching (if you own the equiptment). The cost to put a 2" pipe in the ground can range from ~$20 to ~$30 per foot.
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Card-chasing Dunne hopeful he can "seal the deal" soon
Paul Dunne was frustrated to make just his second bogey of the week at the 18th but he sounds confident that he's turned his game around after a tough stretch and hopeful he can clinch his European Tour card sooner rather than later.
He has a huge chance to do it on Sunday after a third round 69 left the Greystones rookie tied for sixth on six under par at Himmerland, just four shots behind Bradley Dredge as he bids to move from 122nd in the Race to Dubai to comfortably inside the all important top 110.
A maiden European Tour win would be the dream scenario and Dunne cannot afford to think of anything less, even if a top three or four finish would all but guarantee him his card for 2017 with a tally of around €250,000 the minimum required.
Right now Dunne has €154,456 from 17 starts and he knows that the longer he continues outside the top 110, the tougher it will become.
Asked if his recent form had relieved the pressure, Dunne joked: "Not really. I'll tell you after tomorrow. I came into this stretch of tournaments after having five weeks off after The Open. I took a little bit of a break.
"I was struggling in the six weeks up to The Open and I just needed to clear my head and get back to work with my coach in America. So the break was good for me. I have come back ready to get to work and hopefully we will seal the deal in the next few weeks."
The week has gone swimmingly for the 23-year old former Walker Cup player, though he was irritated to drop a shot at the 18th — just his second of the week.
"It's a bit annoying because I have never played two bogey free rounds in a tournament before," he said. "My game is in pretty good shape. I have been hitting it pretty well and given myself a lot of chances. I just haven't capitalised on the chances.
"I am just playing pretty steady, picking up a short here or there and just waiting for my low round to come."
Dunne's tally of two bogeys in 54 holes is outstanding and by far the fewest of anyone else in the field. [Leader Dredge has made four bogeys and a double bogey] And while he had a top 20 in the Czech Republic last week and is heading for another good finish, he's keep his head down.
That's partly because the conditions have been so testing with strong winds adding to the difficulty of the course.
"The first day, the weather was perfect. There was a five-mph wind and the sun was out and it was warm. Then yesterday, the first six or seven holes I played it was like playing amateur golf back in Ireland.
"It was really windy and I was hitting a five-iron about 130 yards. Then it died down as the day went on and today was just a steady, 15 mph wind, which is what this course is designed to take."
Dunne compared the atmosphere to an Irish Open with warm, knowledgeable crowds adding to the experience."
Shane Lowry also shot a two under 69 and rose another 10 place to tied 20th on four under as he tries to impress Ryder Cup captain Darren Clarke that he's worth one of those three wildcards.
Cormac Sharvin was four under for the day with three holes to play but bogeyed the 16th and 17th for a 69 that left him tied 34th on two under while Peter Lawrie's 79 relegated him to 71st on eight over.
Pieters is one of Lowry's rivals for a wildcard and the young Belgian will be hard to leave out if he wins on Sunday.
To do that he must pass Dredge, who remains on course for a first European Tour title in ten years after a third round 72 gave him a one shot lead over Pieters, David Lipsky and Adrian Otaegui.
Another player hoping for a Ryder Cup wildcard next week, Germany's Martin Kaymer, moved into contention with an impressive round of 66, which included a superb scoring run of four birdies and an eagle in the space of five holes from the second.
The German is four shots back on eight under par in a share of sixth place with Dunne and Portugal's Ricardo Gouveia.
Kaymer said: "It was a nice start to the round but when you are six or seven under par after 12 holes you are hoping for something lower, but it was a solid round and I played myself back into the tournament.
"If I putt the same way as I did today then I might have a good chance tomorrow."
Bradley Dredge – 72 (-12)
"It was not my best day today. I really struggled off the tee mainly, struggled with the driver which has been a big strength of mine in the last two days so it was a tough day and I just had to try and make the most of it to stay in there and hopefully I'll play better tomorrow.
"I was in this situation a couple of years ago and I've been up there a couple of times this year. I want to win, that's what I play golf for. I go along with my game plan, hopefully I play better tomorrow and just give myself a chance. If somebody plays great then they play great, but hopefully I'll be up there and in with a shot in the last few holes.
Thomas Pieters 69 (-11)
"I played pretty nicely today but I had a shocker on the fourth. All of you saw it. I don't know what happened there. I was not focused or there was nothing going on in my head there. I made a terrible seven there but I'm quite proud of the way I fought back after that. I needed to get the anger out so I threw the ball away. You just restart and try to get birdie on the next hole.
"I did a good job because I got two birdies in a row after that. I'm still learning mentally to handle stuff like that but I thought I did a good job. The putts weren't dropping in the last few holes but maybe tomorrow they will.
Adrian Otageui – 68 (-11 total)
"I'm pretty happy with today's round. I played good from the beginning and just dropped one shot on number ten which I hit over the green and it was a tough up and down. So four birdies and one bogey – I'm pretty happy with that. I'm playing solid tee to green so let's keep it going tomorrow.
David Lipsky 67 (-11)
"It's really good to be three rounds under par here, especially with me playing yesterday afternoon, a bit of a bad draw, I'm pretty happy with where I'm at.
"I've played this stretch before and won two years ago (Omega European Masters), and I played well so hopefully I can just keep it going like I did then."
Complete round three scores
201 B Dredge (Wal) 63 66 72,
202 A Otaegui (Esp) 68 66 68, D Lipsky (USA) 65 70 67, T Pieters (Bel) 62 71 69,
203 J Lagergren (Swe) 62 70 71,
205 Paul Dunne (Irl) 68 68 69, R Gouveia (Por) 69 67 69, M Kaymer (Ger) 69 70 66,
206 R Sterne (RSA) 66 67 73,
207 C Hanson (Eng) 69 69 69, E Molinari (Ita) 70 68 69,
208 R Karlsson (Swe) 69 70 69, M Haastrup (Den) 69 73 66, J Winther (Den) 68 67 73, D Brooks (Eng) 67 70 71, S Kjeldsen (Den) 68 67 73, P Lawrie (Sco) 70 66 72, J Van Zyl (RSA) 67 75 66, J Axelsen (am) (Den) 71 70 67,
209 R Ramsay (Sco) 67 69 73, M Lundberg (Swe) 71 69 69, Shane Lowry (Irl) 75 65 69, Y Yang (Kor) 72 68 69, T Lewis (Eng) 62 72 75, J Singh (Ind) 66 72 71, M Baldwin (Eng) 71 69 69, T Aiken (RSA) 68 67 74,
210 O Wilson (Eng) 70 65 75, R Evans (Eng) 73 68 69, B Hebert (Fra) 70 72 68, R Paratore (Ita) 73 70 67, J Kruger (RSA) 71 66 73, L Canter (Eng) 70 70 70,
211 R Coles (Eng) 69 71 71, K Broberg (Swe) 69 67 75, D Burmester (RSA) 70 73 68, J Roos (RSA) 65 72 74, J Knutzon (USA) 67 73 71, C Paisley (Eng) 67 71 73, G Murray (Sco) 70 67 74, L Haotong (Chn) 67 69 75, C Lee (Sco) 72 69 70, Cormac Sharvin (Nir) 72 70 69,
212 T Van Der Walt (RSA) 68 72 72, S Cappelen (Den) 72 71 69, P Edberg (Swe) 69 72 71, T Linard (Fra) 69 74 69, B Evans (Eng) 71 71 70, P Peterson (USA) 72 69 71, J Walters (RSA) 70 72 70,
213 S Manley (Wal) 73 70 70, O Lindell (Fin) 71 72 70, C Aronsen (Nor) 69 70 74,
214 D Drysdale (Sco) 69 73 72, J Morrison (Eng) 67 73 74, S Gallacher (Sco) 70 70 74, J Donaldson (Wal) 68 72 74,
215 D Im (USA) 73 68 74, S Benson (Eng) 67 72 76, S Jamieson (Sco) 65 78 72, R Green (Aus) 73 70 72,
216 S Dyson (Eng) 67 74 75, D Løkke (Den) 71 71 74, B Virto (Esp) 69 72 75,
217 K Ferrie (Eng) 68 75 74, M Southgate (Eng) 69 72 76,
218 D Dixon (Eng) 74 69 75, C Costilla (Arg) 67 75 76,
219 S Webster (Eng) 68 75 76,
220 A Hansen (Den) 71 71 78, L Bjerregaard (Den) 69 74 77,
221 Peter Lawrie (Irl) 72 70 79,
225 G Storm (Eng) 70 73 82.


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Let P = (x , y) be a point on the circle. Then, make a right triangle by drawing a line perpendicular to x. The line is shown in green.
The horizontal leg of the triangle is x units away from the origin and the vertical leg of the triangle is y units away from the origin.
We can take a step further. Let us name t the angle made with the radius in red and the x axis.
Take a close look at the triangle and you will see as we learned before that the adjacent side to angle t is x and the opposite side is y.
Therefore, sin(t) = y / 1 = y and cos(t) = x / 1 = xWe can replace x = cos(t) and sin(t) in x2 + y2 = 1
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They say that at any moment in the ocean, a shark could be mere inches away from you, and it would be impossible to know. Swimming circles around you and thinking about how tasty your calf looks, while you're trying not to look like an idiot on your boogie board – blissfully ignorant of the fact that the only thing separating you from a watery grave is the appetite of your predator.
The point is, danger is constantly around us, and most of the time we are unaware of that fact. Tarantulas in boots, faulty wiring, poorly prepared seafood – all of them are killers. Each one a chamber in an ongoing game of Russian roulette against the universe.
Some people realize the futility of constantly trying to dodge death. They assume that in order to enjoy the game, they have to pull the trigger a few times. Most "normal" people fall into this camp. Some people, although fewer, like to pull the trigger a lot. In fact, they think Russian roulette is overall quite dull, and bring a few extra bullets of their own just to liven things up. These people are what we call daredevils. They take narcotics, skydive, or break the speed limit.
And then there's people like me.
For the sake of continuing the metaphor, people like me don't like Russian roulette. In fact, we're pretty sure that every chamber in the cylinder is loaded.
Someone once said that "The meek shall inherit the earth." He must've been one of us, because that's what I'm doing. I'm waiting to inherit the earth.
And I've been waiting a long time.
I've been going to St. Dymphna's for a few months, now. I have yet to attend a single class. That's the old saying – you can lead a horse to water, but you can't make it drink. And I'm one very stubborn horse. About once every week a staff member tries to coerce me out of my room – but I never do. The voice is usually a gruff and masculine one – a voice that seems to rattle the door on its frame as he speaks. It's not surprising that my imagination tends to run wild when I hear a voice like that but no face to assign it to.
Why would Darth Vader want me to come out of my room, anyway?
By this point, the faceless man had tried everything. Asking nicely, trying to coerce me out with rewards, and then the assurances.
I would flunk out. Is it even possible to flunk out of a place like this?
I wouldn't get into university. Do people who come here graduate to universities, or mental institutions?
My parents would be disappointed in me. Oh, he had saved the best for last. My parents. The same loving, caring individuals who sent their only daughter overseas to Vienna to stew in her own juices at a loony-bin-with-a-library rather than talk to her on a personal level. But I'm not bitter or anything.
I guess their first concerns were piqued when I started skipping class back in middle school. But whenever they found me, I wasn't hanging out with friends or smoking in the bathroom – I was tucked in bed, reading. Skipping class evolved into skipping school entirely – first once every few weeks, then a few times every week, then skipping the majority of the school-week every week.
My parents are both psychologists, which meant they were both eager to pick my brain as soon as trouble started cropping up. They spent weeks trying to diagnose me. Long nights poring over DSMs past and present, doctoral theses, and even college textbooks when they got desperate. Never once did they try to talk to me like their daughter – I was always their patient.
Naturally they didn't come up with anything. Anxiety, depression, schizoid personality disorder, the list was endless. But no matter what label they stuck on it, nothing came of it. So they shipped me out here, where I wouldn't be their problem any more.
Am I afraid of being outside? Am I afraid of people? It's questions like these that one would expect to find on some self-diagnoses website. "Are you afraid of people?"
"Well, clearly you're afraid of people!"
And ultimately, that's all those websites ever will be – regurgitation of input, which helps nobody. Because to the afflicted, the technical terms don't matter. A starving man doesn't care that he's suffering from marasmus – he cares that he feels hungry.
Simply put, I don't know what's wrong with me. I don't know what I'm afraid of, but I'm afraid of it. I get queasy if I go outside my room. I don't trust organizations. I don't trust animals. I don't trust the cars on the road or the people that drive them. I just want to be left alone. But that's too much to ask from some people – like the asshole knocking at my door right now.
"Anne? Anne are you awake?"
It's the faceless, gruff-sounding, Darth Vader man. I hold my breath – maybe he'll go away if he thinks I'm sleeping. "Anne, I know you're awake. Your alarm practically woke up the whole dorm, from what I gather." I affect my voice to make it sound groggy and just roused from sleep.
"Mmm... hello?" I ask, almost like a normal person from one of my books.
"Good morning Anne. Have you looked outside your window today?" the voice asks. I roll to my left, peering out the thick black curtain I've draped over the only window in the room. It's a beautiful day, and late-morning sunlight glares off the city highrises into my room and stings my eyes. I don't answer Darth Vader's question. "Well, it's a beautiful day," the voice explains, "and we were all hoping you'd feel like coming outside today." Who the hell is we? His is the only voice that has come to visit me since my arrival. There is no we. Hell, there's barely a him. I breathe deeply, praying for the voice to leave. "Anne?" Nothing. After ten minutes, the faceless man stops trying and walks away to try again next week.
I open my laptop, resuming my place in a digital copy of a new book. In just a few minutes, there would be a different knock at the door. But this one wouldn't have a voice – this one would have a smell. And this knock came three times every day – at morning, midday, and dusk. And no matter how cold the food is, I always eat it.
Say what you will about shut-ins, but we're not picky eaters.
Apart from the increasingly meaningless numbers blinking on my laptop screen and the endless day-night cycle outside my window, the arrival of food is the only thing that indicates the passing of time – and the only thing that keeps me on a semi-regular sleep cycle. If it weren't for the food deliveries, I could wake up and midnight and be back in bed by noon.
The hours between deliveries are tough to fill. I used to spend a few hours a day self-examining. I suppose the difference between self-searching and masturbation is research – and I'd done my fair share of that. I may be a recluse, but I'm a knowledgeable recluse. If you want anything done right, you've got to do it yourself.
But there's just not much to know. I exhausted everything even remotely useful inside two weeks of arriving. In that time, my life had been one continuous case study. I actually logged my sleeping patterns, dietary intake, book progress... anything that could be quantitatively evaluated, I kept track of. And there was no pattern.
So I gave up.
There's a knock at my door, followed by the familiar sound of a tray being set down gently on the hallway carpet. I listen attentively for the sound of receding footsteps, then wait five minutes before opening my door for the first of three times today. Even from my doorway, the world seems huge and empty. Plotting. I quickly snatch the tray left at the base of the door before checking my surroundings.
There. Just down the hallway. There's a girl staring at me with an inquisitive edge in her eyes. My heart freezes, and blood rushes to my face. She's just standing there – watching me. She scribbles something in a notebook before waving and stepping toward my door. I don't see what she does next – I slam the door like the hallway was on fire.
This is no good. That girl was watching for me. She had a notebook – it was no coincidence. She had taken a note about me. Maybe she's collecting data. How long had she been waiting?
I don't even know how she knew to look for me. I don't broadcast my presence. I stay curled-up, under-the-radar, incognito, just to avoid this kind of thing. Just to avoid being stared at like some sort of carnie freak.
And now my cover's been blown by some stupid girl with a notebook. Before now, I'm sure I had just been a campus spook story Boo Radley would've had a hard time outdoing. But now, there's an eyewitness.
Maybe nobody would believe her. It is a school for those kinds of people – maybe they'd just ignore her. "Silly girl," they'd say. "Nobody lives in that room."
They'd definitely ignore her. What could she have scrawled in her notebook so quickly that would be incriminating, anyway? The world's fastest profile sketch?
But still, it's no good. If there's anything reading countless detective novels has taught me, it's that people like this girl aren't quitters. She'll be out there again. Maybe she'll bring her friends and they'll all laugh at me. She'll definitely do that.
Now I'm stuck in a predicament. Do I starve to death, or risk seeing this girl again? The starving to death isn't really appealing, but then again, neither is being spied on. Maybe I could get my food delivered through the window?
No, no, no. That's stupid. I'll fight this girl my own way. She wants something to look at, so I'll giver her something to look at.
She wants a battle? I'll give her a war.