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In case you didn't get the memo, we have twins. And when we had twins we immediately went from having two children to having four children.
And apparently, that gives everyone the right to comment on the size of our family, the amount of work it must be, how tired and broke we must be and how glad they are that it isn't them.
Well, first off, I'm glad it isn't you, too.
Second, let me tell you a little something about how we came to have twins. No, I didn't go through IVF or any other fertility treatment, but thank you very much for asking me that in line at the local grocery store, I found your question to be totally appropriate and welcomed considering we've never met before. If I had gone through fertility treatments I probably would not have told you that, though, because in reality it's none of your damned business.
We have twins because we decided to try and have a third baby. And we got pregnant. And then we weren't pregnant. And then we decided to try again. And we got pregnant.
And then we had an ultrasound.
And then we found out we were having twins.
And while it was quite possibly one of the scariest things we've ever encountered, it was not the worst thing in the world.
And it still isn't.
Is it a lot of work? Sure, but so is one kid or two or 22.
Are we broke? OF COURSE WE ARE BROKE! We have children and I am a teacher. I know some of you are under the false assumption that teachers pull in the big bucks but I'm here to reassure you, WE DO NOT. AND anyone with kids, one or 42, is shelling out a lot of cash each month for kid related things and that often leads to trying to figure out which bill you can let slide until next month and which one you have to pay RIGHTNOW. And, yes, sometimes cable wins out over everything else.
Are we tired? This might be the dumbest question ever. Both my husband and I work full time, he actually works two jobs, and we're trying to remodel and paint our new home. Yes, we're tired. But I have yet to meet anyone who isn't tired these days- kids or no kids.
So, there are your answers to all the questions and assumptions you've made, except for one. The worst one of all, actually.
I am SO TIRED of heard people say to me, "Well, we're thinking about going for number 3 but look at what happened to you guys....I just don't know what we'd do if that ever happened to us!"
First, let me say this, when we found out we were having twins I was terrified. Terrified of being pregnant with two kids at once. Terrified of raising twins and the cost of it all. Terrified of all of the implications that these two new babies would have on our lives.
But never once did I ever think to myself, "Oh, why did this have to happen to us?!"
Having twins is NOT the worst thing in the world. It's not even CLOSE to the worst thing in the world. And I don't think that saying something to the effect of, "Look what happened to you guys..." is an appropriate thing to say or even think with regards to children.
Any time anyone says this to me I want to look at them and say, "Really?! Because it sounds like you're equating my children's existence to being in a car accident or losing your home or getting some awful disease. Is that really what you think?"
Do you understand what a gift I have been given? What my family has been given? And what you would be getting if you were lucky enough to have twins?!
No, because if you did then you'd keep your f-ing mouth shut and not say something so insensitive and rude.
Did I enjoy being pregnant with twins? Nope but I didn't enjoy any of my pregnancies. And you know what? I'm not in the minority. There are TONS of women who don't enjoy pregnancy. Yes, it's wonderful to know you're growing a human or two or three and when you feel them move it's amazing but, I didn't enjoy pregnancy at all. That doesn't mean that I didn't want my children.
Was it a large adjustment when our twins came along? Of course! We all of a sudden went from a man defense to a completely penetrable zone defense and we're still trying to figure out the full court press that we need to maintain order.
But, my God, I wouldn't change a thing. And having our twins was not something that, "happened to us". It was something that not many people will ever get to experience and holy shit am I grateful for that.
Having our twins has been an incredible roller coaster of emotion and chaos that many days is hard but exciting and exhilarating.
And you know what? If you really look at us and base whether or not you should try for another kid on the fact that we did and ended up having twins than I implore you, don't try for another kid because you're not going into it for the right reasons.
If you end up trying for another kid and you end up with twins I hope that you recognize how incredibly lucky you are. Really, you're lucky no matter how many you have. I hope you also have the opportunity to look at your babies on the floor one day and smile at the fact the you have two adorable kids who are making life so much fun and so much more work that it makes you exhausted at the end of the day. I hope you get to think to yourself one day, "Wow! Everyone should have two babies at once because this is actually a lot of fun!" And then the projectile vomit will hit you and you'll, maybe, reconsider that for a moment but only a brief moment because the baby that vomited on you is now laughing at you covered in their predigested formula and cereal!
The worst thing in the world, for me, would be if we had never had our twins and then I really have to wonder what would have happened to us then?
Friday, March 16, 2012
Not The Worst Thing in the World
In case you didn't get the memo, we have twins. And when we had twins we immediately went from having two children to having four children.
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Piracy: (Some Of) The Short & The Long Of It/
Thankfully, Taylor Hackford recognizes that the film industry needs to wise up and educate itself on piracy. He and I agree on that. And I think we agree on the goal of it all, but I suspect we have completely different approaches to solving the problem. And that is where I am really concerned. To solve it, Hackford seems willing to sacrifice greater principles in the service of business, and that is a shame. I hope I am wrong. Mr. Hackford, president of the DGA, was recently speaking at the Content Protection Summit and Variety reported on it. Reading the article I remain unclear as to what Hackford's point is about piracy beyond that it is bad and we need to make it a real concern of the industry. He seems to be saying that if we want to protect our content, we have to be willing to give up on a free and open internet. He claims groups like Public Knowledge and Free Press as enemies. Shutting down a free and open internet is not the path to solving the piracy problem; it is the path to a closed society that favors a class or capital over access and opportunity -- and that is the antithesis of what we need to do.
We can not create a system that favors the powerful, the connected, or the well capitalized. The Film Business already favors all those niches quite well, and government and utilities should do all they can to provide for all equally. Equality under the law and within the society remains one of the greatest ideals, and personally speaking, I would rather have a world that strives for that ideal's enforcement, even if that striving has to support some bad apples, rather than risk that anyone does not have equal access or equal opportunity.
Hackford was insightful to link Hollywood's focus on event pictures to piracy, in that if piracy is eroding film's revenue -- or even thought to be -- then investors will be more likely to put money into the projects most likely to generate the quickest return and the most unique experience. The insight would actually make sense if individual investors were backers of event pictures, let alone studio pictures. They rarely have such opportunities.
Being someone who has depended on private equity for all but a few of my 60+ films, I have never once heard an investor confess concern about piracy (and granted some of that may have to do with their education on the issue). I do have investors express concern about distribution opportunities, access to markets, cost of promotion, and difficulties to reaching audiences. I do hear people intrigued about using the systems that have been developed by pirates and copy-forward advocates to reach audiences that they have not reached before. They know that the system has to change and recognize the realities of the time we are living in.
I have witnessed first hand, and was one of the key witnesses, in a successful anti-trust suit against the MPAA for coercing the studios to take action that unfairly hurt independents in the process. That case, popularly known as The Screener Ban, used piracy as the fear that prompted excluding the key marketing tool of Award Screeners from all filmmakers' arsenal. The powerful often look out for their interests without even consulting the rest of the industry about their practices. When Dan Glickman took over at the MPAA, he was quite vigilant at soliciting the indie sector's opinion on the state of the industry, and I hope his successor remains as committed. I hope whomever takes over the MPAA recognizes the necessity of our culture industry to commit to a free & open internet or else exclude a serious sector of our community.
When it comes to protecting artists' rights, piracy is a serious issue, but open and free access to a public good (i.e. the internet) is a greater one. We can not look at short term solutions that have long term repercussions. The focus on the piracy issue tends to take place at events that exclude a large portion of the film community -- namely the truly independent artists that will never have access to the studio system. We need institutions, organizations, and methods that make sure to include this segment's voice -- and that includes the DGA.
I, and artists everywhere, will not be able to support ourselves -- and thus generate new work -- if our work is widely stolen and we are not compensated. Mr. Hackford is right on when he speaks of the need for passion and education when it comes to the issue of intellectual property theft, but as we enter that discussion, we need to strenuously protect the greater ideal of equal access and opportunity. We also need to recognize human behavior and the current state of things -- people want convenience, but they also want other things. The large media corporations have done little to offer a better option to theft. Our methods of licensing and distributing work relies on out of date analogue models. There are actions that can be taken, by artists and businesses, and it is hight time that we begun this discussion in earnest -- but let's not abandon the ideals as we start the march down the road.
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I saw a thread over on my realm forum which I really enjoyed, thought I'd mention the same over here.
High level fishermen (or fisherorcs, fisherbulls, etc) can fish in the Dalaran Eventide fountain and catch, occasionally, coins that figures from WoW history have thrown in, complete with the wish they made when they did so etched on the coin. My favorite is Landro Longshot, who wished "I wish i still had that coin." Amusing from the purveyor of TCG loot items.
With that in mind, if someone caught your coin from the fountain in Dalaran, what would it say on it? I'll start.
Palehoof Geargrinder's Shiny Silver Coin:
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Bornakk's copper coin: There are so many cool coins and you got mine, poor you!
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That victory for defendants who were charged with violating the Act has helped the ACLU in similar cases. In 2010, the group brought a case against Cook County State's Attorney Anita Alvarez, who had been prosecuting ACLU staff members for recording on-duty police officers. The Northern Illinois District Court judge overseeing the case ruled that in light of the higher courts' decisions, Alvarez may not charge anyone else with violating the Eavesdropping Act. And now this month, the judge ruled that Cook County taxpayers must foot the $645,549 legal bill the ACLU racked up prosecuting the county's state prosecutor. The payment of that penalty will be finalized at a Cook County board meeting on Wednesday of next week, according to the Chicago Sun-Times.
"The Illinois Eavesdropping Act... violates the First Amendment of the United States Constitution as applied to the open audio recording of the audible communications of law enforcement officers (or others whose communications are incidentally captured) when the officers are engaged in their official duties in public places," a January ruling [PDF] by Judge Sharon Johnson Coleman read. "Defendant Anita Alvarez, in her official capacity as Cook County State's Attorney, is permanently enjoined from enforcing the Illinois Eavesdropping Act against the American Civil Liberties Union of Illinois and its employees or agents who openly audio record the audible communications of law enforcement officers (or others whose communications are incidentally captured) when the officers are engaged in their official duties in public places."
In March of 2012, an Illinois judge ruled that the Eavesdropping Law was unconstitutional in a case involving 60-year old artist Christopher Drew, who was charged with a Class 1 felony for recording audio of his interaction with police. (Drew died of lung cancer in May.) In a similar case, Indiana woman Tiawanda Moore was acquitted in 2011 of eavesdropping when she made a recording of police officers who were trying to get her to drop a sexual harassment complaint.


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Google has secured a patent for left-handed people that puts the Google Glasses eyepiece on the other side. Someone at Google must be a pretty huge TLC fan (RIP Lisa Left Eye Lopes).
As a righty/normal person, it's pretty easy to make fun of a special patent for southpaws. But it would be a huge pain in the ass to reach across your face to use the command center of Google's wearable display shades. Honestly, it probably would be enough to make you dislike the experience of wearing Google's Star Trek specs. Left pride. [USPTO via Engadget]


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|Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] Segfault with volk on 32 bit AMD
|Wed, 21 Mar 2012 09:52:46 -0400
See dmesg text below:
[53882.751765] volk_profile[30672]: segfault at b7191000 ip b76acb74 sp bfddc894 error 4 in libvolk.so.0.0.0[b768b000+ec000]
I'm thinking that this is a linux kernel/hardware issue. I am going to do some more testing on different hardware but same processor and Slackware version, etc.
On 03/20/2012 06:55 PM, Tom Rondeau wrote:
On Tue, Mar 20, 2012 at 2:24 PM, Nick Foster <address@hidden> wrote:
On Tue, Mar 20, 2012 at 10:59 AM, Tom Rondeau <address@hidden> wrote:
On Tue, Mar 20, 2012 at 11:03 AM, Frederick Stevens <address@hidden> wrote:
Tom, et. al.
Here is the output from the volk_profile run (see attached).
Well, Fred, that output looks good. Everything's showing up as it should. Interesting that it passed this time, but I half expected it to. It seems like there's a memory allocation problem going on, since when it crashes, it did so just a bit after getting half way through, must have been when it hit something else llocated. Very odd behavior that I've seen on occasion, but they way the memory is allocated in the volk_qa_aligned_mem_pool, I wouldn't expect there to be a problem.
Right now, I'm at a loss on how to proceed. I can't think of any more really useful tests. Were I able to reproduce this error on one of my machines, I'd just have to start tinkering around and getting more output data.
If volk_qa_aligned_mem_pool were passed the wrong "type" argument due to a parser error, it could allocate half the required memory. But I'd expect to see significantly more catastrophic failures across many more machines & tests if this were the case.
Yes, the output info I asked Fred to produce was to test for exactly that problem, but it's setting the correct type signature for all inputs and outputs, so that's not it. It _looks_ like it's allocating the right amount of memory and nothing suggests that it's not (except for the segfault, that is).
On 03/20/2012 09:47 AM, Marcus D. Leech wrote:On 03/20/2012 10:42 AM, Tom Rondeau wrote:<pedantic>
Fred,Thanks. Can you get the entire output (in a text file)? There's some information that's printed at the top that's important. Just run it from the command-line and pipe (>) the output into a file.
Just because I'm a grumpy old Unix guy from waaaaay back, I'll point out that the term "pipe" is very frequently mis-used to mean
"redirect", when in fact, the pipe symbol in the Unix shell is "|" and is a mechanism for attaching the standard output of one program
to the standard input of another. The ">" symbol means "redirect the standard output to a file", which is similar, but not the same as,
the use of a "pipe", which is an IPC mechanism.
Oh, and that trailing whitespace warning shouldn't be a problem. The patch should have still be applied.
On 03/20/2012 08:49 AM, Tom Rondeau wrote:On Mon, Mar 19, 2012 at 4:49 PM, Frederick Stevens <address@hidden> wrote:
New run using my simple "trace" See attached files.
Fred,A good start. It's only going through half of the data it's supposed before seg faulting, so it's like one of the buffers (probably the bPtr buffer to the 32f input) isn't getting allocated properly.
I've attached a patch that only tests this kernel so no other outputs will confuse things and I've shortened the run length (single iteration, fewer samples). This now spits out the data used to generate the input and output buffers. It also outputs the size of the data types in the test instead of the pointer size.
if you're unfamiliar with working with patches, just reset your git tree (git reset --hard, unless you have some changes you need to / want to keep) and apply this (git apply location/volk_slackware32.diff). I suggest the reset so there aren't any conflicts or problems when applying.
On 03/19/2012 11:26 AM, Tom Rondeau wrote:On Mon, Mar 19, 2012 at 12:04 PM, Frederick Stevens <address@hidden> wrote:
See the attached file. I am running volk_profile now. If this is what you need then that is great otherwise I will keep working on this with whatever suggestions you have.
That'll be a good start. We'll see if that tells us anything.
On 03/19/2012 08:10 AM, Tom Rondeau wrote:On Sun, Mar 18, 2012 at 8:00 PM, Frederick Stevens <address@hidden> wrote:
Volk_profile ran to completion. I am using the git source tree updated just before I did the run. I commented out line 38 of volk_profile.cc as you suggested and ran volk_profile under gdb. The output is in the attached text file. I have also attached the generated volk_config from ~/.volk/volk_config.
Thanks. Strange that it's just that kernel, then. Can you put in some debug lines that will print out the size of the buffers being used and the 'number' variable in volk_32fc_x2_multiply_32fc_a when the crash occurs. I just want to see if the loop is trying to go beyond the bounds of the arrays.I noted from running gnuradio-companion version 3.5.1, (which works) that when I use a multiply block, this message from python is generated:
>>> gr_fir_fff: using 3DNow!
but volk_profile does not seem to recognize the 3DNow! processor extensions (produces sse2 and sse3 messages on the Intel Atom 32 bit machine).
Yeah, that's fine. Without a 3DNow! kernel, Volk will just fall back on the generic implementation. The thought being that the generic version will work for everyone. So we need to figure out why that's not true for your...Hope this helps! Let me know if you want me to try anything else. I'll let you know how things turn out on the other machine as well.
On 03/18/2012 04:31 PM, Tom Rondeau wrote:On Fri, Mar 16, 2012 at 6:11 PM, Frederick Stevens <address@hidden> wrote:
Well, after a few restarts, here is my output. I did a fresh pull from git because I was getting some errors with missing *.h files in gruel/src/swig or something like that. Hope this helps!0xb7edbb74 in volk_32fc_32f_multiply_32fc_a_generic (cVector=0xb7448008,
RUN_VOLK_TESTS: volk_32fc_32f_multiply_32fc_a
Program received signal SIGSEGV, Segmentation fault.
aVector=0xb7768008, bVector=0xb78f8008, num_points=204600)
at /home/fred/extras/gnuradio/gnuradio/volk/include/volk/volk_32fc_32f_multiply_32fc_a.h:74
74 *cPtr++ = (*aPtr++) * (*bPtr++);
(gdb) bt
#0 0xb7edbb74 in volk_32fc_32f_multiply_32fc_a_generic (cVector=0xb7448008,
aVector=0xb7768008, bVector=0xb78f8008, num_points=204600)
at /home/fred/extras/gnuradio/gnuradio/volk/include/volk/volk_32fc_32f_multiply_32fc_a.h:74
Alright, Fred, definitely something strange going on here. My only guess is that for some reason on your architecture/OS/whatever, something is being handled incorrectly and the buffers a, b, and c are not getting generated correctly, maybe something like it's not doubling the number of items for the complex data type (before this function test, there are 16ic, or complex shorts, being tested, but this is the first complex float test).
It's hard to tell if it's something about it being an AMD chip, 32-bit, Slackware version, gcc version, etc. And I don't have an AMD chip to test on, but I could load up a 32-bit Slackware VM at least.
How much work are you willing to put into this to help us nail this down?
If you can follow through the volk_profile test code, we can start outputting more debug info. To start with, I'd suggest going into volk/apps/volk_profile.cc and commenting out line 38, rebuild the application, and run this new volk_profile to see if it fails on any other kernels.
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(AP) — Boeing said its flight of a 787 on Friday should wrap up the testing for its fix of the battery problems that have kept the plane grounded.
Boeing called the flight "the final certification test for the new battery system." The next step will be for the Federal Aviation Administration to decide whether Boeing's battery fix is good enough for airlines to safely fly it again.
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One attendee asked if we could modify the logging level in a particular session from another session while it was still running. The answer is yes you can. The best example I could give at the time was baking a loaf of bread. Most ovens have a window and a light. Half way during the baking process you can turn on the light and see how your bread is doing. Logger allows you to do that as well. The following example highlights this:
SQL> -- Simulate production setup SQL> exec logger.set_level('ERROR'); PL/SQL procedure successfully completed. SQL> -- Procedure to simulate batch script create or replace procedure run_long_batch( p_client_id in varchar2, p_iterations in pls_integer) as l_scope logger_logs.scope%type := 'run_long_batch'; begin logger.log('START', l_scope); dbms_session.set_identifier(p_client_id); for i in 1..p_iterations loop logger.log('i: ' || i, l_scope); dbms_lock.sleep(1); end loop; logger.log('END'); 17 end run_long_batch; 19 / Procedure created. SQL> -- *** In another session run the following code *** SQL> exec run_long_batch(p_client_id => 'batchdemo', p_iterations => 60); SQL> -- In current window toggle the logging level for the batch job SQL> -- Note: This is done while it's still running in the other session begin -- Enable debug mode for batch job logger.set_level('DEBUG', 'batchdemo'); dbms_lock.sleep(2); -- Disable logger.unset_client_level('batchdemo'); dbms_lock.sleep(10); -- Enable again logger.set_level('DEBUG', 'batchdemo'); dbms_lock.sleep(2); -- Disable logger.unset_client_level('batchdemo'); end; 15 / PL/SQL procedure successfully completed. SQL> -- View items that were logged select logger_level, text, time_stamp, scope from logger_logs order by id; LOGGER_LEVEL TEXT TIME_STAMP ------------ ---------- --------------------------------------------------------------------------- 16 i: 8 11-SEP-13 01.40.34.879699 PM 16 i: 9 11-SEP-13 01.40.35.881973 PM 16 i: 20 11-SEP-13 01.40.46.890244 PM 16 i: 21 11-SEP-13 01.40.47.891464 PMFrom the query's output you'll notice that it started logging, then stopped for a short period, then started again, then stopped. This can really help if a batch process is taking a long time and you want to see where exactly in the code it is.


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In Eretz Yisroel they seem to light outdoors. Why in Chutz Laretz dont we not do the same? as there would seem to be more Pirsumay Nissah: advertising of the Miracle That way?(besides of course if your Menorah will get stolen But I dont believe thats the reason) And why is it certain Chassidm light completely indoors by their door?
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It's hard to believe there's only three weeks until Labor Day weekend. Where did summer go? I'm living in the moment and enjoying each and every day.
I love this time of year! I think I say that every season, don't I? We still have time to enjoy the long, warm days of summer but there's just the slightest hint of autumn in the air. There's still time to enjoy the lush green mountainside views and gorgeous sunsets. Sitting in our tiny courtyard late in the day with a large glass of iced tea with lemon and fresh mint while enjoying a good book – what's better than that. I just noticed the abundance of basil in the garden which means I better add pesto making to my to-do list for next week. I usually freeze small batches, but my neighbor just told me she puts hers in mason jars with a bit of olive oil on the top before sealing and it lasts about 8 months on the shelf.
Speaking of time in the kitchen, I've been missing in action lately. We've been eating lots of salads and sandwiches, maybe a take-out pizza and tons of fruit. I just haven't been in the mood to cook much lately, but I can feel that shifting. I feel the urge to start cooking and baking again – I'm sure my husband will be happy to hear that.
I hope you're all taking advantage of these last few weeks of August. We still have plenty of time left for swimming, vacationing, gardening and just plain relaxing and enjoying. And to my friends on the other side of the world, I know you're looking forward to spring.
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How to Preserve Food Without Nutrient Loss
Anyone who cans their own tomatoes, apple sauce, pickles, or jams knows that the difference between these simple preserves and the chemical-laced stuff you can buy at the store is immense. The flavor of home-preserved vegetables and fruits so far surpasses that of mass-produced stuff there's almost no comparison.
But even preserving food at home by canning in a hot water bath can denature and destroy certain nutrients. To get the absolute most out of your home harvest or CSA haul you should investigate traditional methods of food preservation such as fermentation, drying, salt-curing, storage in oil or sugar, and more.
These methods are simple, require no fossil fuels, and are just as safe as hot-water-bath canning.
The following excerpt from Preserving Food Without Freezing or Canning: Traditional Techniques Using Salt, Oil, Sugar, Alcohol, Vinegar, Drying, Cold Storage, and Lactic Fermentation by the Gardeners & Farmers of Terre Vivant, will introduce you to some of these methods.
Canning or freezing. With few exceptions, these seem to be our only choices when we want to enjoy ready-to-eat fruits and vegetables out of season. As it is used today, the word "preserves" (like the French word conserves) evokes little more than food in cans or jars, preserved through sterilization. However, the original sense of the word was much broader, encompassing all known methods of food preservation.
These days, frozen foods tend to replace canned and bottled goods, since foods lose fewer nutrients through cold than through heat. But freezing is not very satisfactory either: it is expensive, consumes a lot of energy, and destroys many of the vitamins. In the home kitchen, we observe the same development as we have seen in industry: Canning, which was very popular in the 1960s (country folks each with their own sterilizers, putting up their own green beans, shell peas, and tomatoes), has given way to freezing. Emerging relatively recently (sterilization in the nineteenth century, freezing in the twentieth century), these two processes have relegated traditional food-preservation methods to obscurity, if not complete oblivion, as their scope of application has dwindled away. By far, the best example of displacement is lactic fermentation. Formerly used to preserve all sorts of vegetables, it has survived solely for making sauerkraut, and at that, more for gastronomic reasons than as a preservation process in its own right.
Fortunately, the traditional methods of preservation still live on in the French countryside, although they are rapidly disappearing. There is a wealth of knowledge to be gathered here before it falls into anonymity. This, then, is one of the goals of this book. Nevertheless, far from presenting a study of "preservation ethnology," this collection is meant to be a practical guide. Every recipe we have included is still in use; some have even been enhanced by the advent of new technology, such as high-performance solar dryers, and water-sealed lactic-fermentation jars.
Left on its own, most fresh food quickly becomes unfit for consumption. Food is biochemically altered, due to the action of enzymes, and provides microorganisms—primarily bacteria—with a fertile environment in which to grow. To prevent this process, the most radical method is simply to kill the microorganisms by placing the food in an airtight container, and then heating it to temperatures greater than 100°C/212°F for a sufficient length of time. This technique, discovered by Nicolas Appert at the beginning of the nineteenth century, gave birth to the canning industry as we know it today.
Other methods of preservation seek to prevent microorganisms from spreading, without necessarily killing them. If the temperature is too low, acidity too high, water content insufficient, or salt concentration too high, microbes simply cannot multiply. As it is equally effective to destroy microorganisms or inhibit their growth, the method chosen should be the one that best protects the appearance, flavor, and nutritional value of the food, without adding undesirable substances. Of course, no method is ideal: During any preservation process, some alteration of the food is unavoidable. Moreover, no one method has proven superior to all others in all cases. And so, for most foods, we have a variety of techniques to choose from, each with its own advantages and disadvantages.
Three methods overwhelmingly dominate the history of food preservation before the industrial age: cellar storage under cool, dark conditions, for certain fruits and winter vegetables (such as root vegetables, tubers, apples, and pears); drying, for fruit; and lactic fermentation for most other vegetables.
Natural-state preservation in a cellar is the most basic way to preserve foods that take well to this method. Although it is possible to dry apples and to lacto-ferment carrots, winter provisions have traditionally relied on apples stored in a cellar in their natural state, and carrots preserved likewise in a root cellar, or in the ground.
Nor is the choice between drying and lactic fermentation made arbitrarily. Experience has shown that dried fruits keep much better than most dried vegetables, retaining more flavor and vitamins due to their natural acidity. It is no coincidence that one of the few vegetables traditionally preserved by drying is the tomato, an acidic fruit-vegetable. As for lactic fermentation, people soon discovered that it was an unsuitable method for most fruit: Everyone knows that when fruit is fermented, we get alcoholic beverages.
Applications for the other methods of food preservation described in this book—sugar, salt, oil, vinegar, wine, and alcohol—are more limited, but certainly interesting nonetheless. For example, there are no substitutes for slow evaporation when preserving sugar-free jams, nor for oil and vinegar with herbs, salt with cod, and so on. In practice, the choice is often obvious, and simply depends upon the food to be preserved and its future culinary use.
Inevitably, food is altered in the preservation process. However, unlike sterilization or freezing, many traditional methods do not necessarily mean a loss in flavor or nutritional value. Lactic fermentation, for example, enhances digestion and also increases the enzyme and sometimes the vitamin content, compared with the unfermented food. In other processes, the act of preserving often enhances the flavor of a food rather than its nutritional value. It might seem bizarre to preserve grapes in vinegar when this fruit keeps perfectly well by drying, but any gourmet will tell you that grapes in vinegar are divine with game or poultry.
Preserving basil in oil and vinegar serves two purposes: to preserve the flavor of this precious herb itself, and to impart its flavor to two ingredients used daily in cooking. And while drying preserves fruits, it also increases their sugar content, opening a new world of uses, such as sweetening desserts and certain beverages and providing energy-rich snacks for athletes. In bygone days, North Africans used raisins or dates, not cane sugar, to sweeten tea.
Over fifteen centuries ago, Hippocrates himself pointed out the positive effects of different preservation methods on the quality and properties of meat:
Meats preserved in wine become dry and are nourishing: they dry out because of the wine; they are nourishing because of the flesh. Preserved in vinegar, they ferment less, because of the vinegar, and are quite nourishing. Meats preserved in salt are less nourishing, as salt deprives them of moisture, but they become lean, dry out, and are sufficiently laxative.
The art of food preservation, which remains in part to be discovered, is this: For each food, use the method that not only best protects its nutritional value, but also enhances its flavor (and occasionally medicinal qualities), according to the eventual use we have in mind.
Today, as home gardeners and cooks rediscover the joys of preserving, they often must confront a gap in cultural knowledge. Instead of turning to a parent or grandparent for advice, they turn to government agencies (chiefly the USDA) or to conventional books on canning, which advise sterilizing jars of food in either a boiling water bath or a pressure canner. However, as this book demonstrates, there are many traditional options for putting up fresh food that help food retain more of its flavor and nutritive value.
There is an important distinction to be made between sanitary and sterile conditions. Unless you live in an autoclave or hospital operating room, your kitchen (no matter how sanitary) will be far from sterile. Fortunately, absolute sterility isn't necessary for most aspects of food preservation. For instance, though metal jar lids and tops will need to be boiled and sterilized, you can keep many disease-causing microbes in check simply by washing your hands frequently; by rinsing off raw foods; by thoroughly cleaning all utensils and cutting surfaces; and by following a few commonsense food safety guidelines (such as avoiding "cross-contamination" by using different utensils and surfaces to prepare raw meats and other foods).
In most (though not all) cases, food that has spoiled in storage should be readily apparent. Signs to look for include mold growing inside the lid of the container, on the food itself, or on the outside of the jar. Food that is badly discolored or darkened, or that is smelly or slimy, is likewise suspect and should be thrown away. When food is going bad, small bubbles may form inside a storage jar, and gas or liquid may escape in a rush when you unseal the container.
Remember that the point of preserving food is not to place it forever in suspended animation, but to extend the bounty of the fresh harvest season. Depending upon the type of food and the method of preservation used, this extension, or "shelf life," might range from a few weeks to many months. Think of your pantry or cold cellar as a close cousin to the outdoor cold frame or unheated greenhouse—a simple, low-cost technology that can help you prolong the garden year and make the most of it. Many of the recipes in this book provide estimates on how long the prepared or stored foods will keep in good condition. Using this information, it's possible to enjoy your preserved foods at their peak of flavor, just as you would fresh fruits and vegetables. Here's to good food and good health!
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General Motors experimented last year with giving away insurance as a way to entice buyers, but quietly let the program expire after it failed to bring in crowds of willing customers.
Honda has become the latest to try and lure customers with free insurance, but only on a single model that really shouldn't need incentives or gimmicks to boost sales: The Honda Fit EV. You would think Honda's first electric vehicle would be popular enough on its own, but the company hopes its offer of no-cost insurance will help get 1,100 people to sign the dotted line on a lease.
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Paella is a complicated dish. Not difficult to make, but rather a dish full of multiple contrasting flavors that become so much more than the sum of their parts. There are many variations on the basic theme of rice, meat, or some seafood, and each has its passionate advocates.
And it is also complicated by layers of associations and memories.
We have eaten paella at outdoor restaurants up and down La Rambla in Barcelona. Wonderful paella, studded with lobster, mussels, and clams, served steaming hot in individual paella pans at tables under the night sky. The noises of the city, the flow of Spanish conversation, the sights of the crowded pedestrian street, the soft warm air and the summer stars, all served as a backdrop to some truly memorable meals.
But the version of paella I love best, the one that I hold up as a standard by which to judge all others, is the paella that Michael makes. His recipe varies just a little, depending on his mood and what is available. The asparagus, bell peppers, or artichokes come and go, but the core elements are always there: the rice richly flavored with garlic and saffron, the chorizo, roasted chicken legs, and shrimp. This is the paella that he makes for friends, and the one he also makes for intimate dinners for two.
And then, another layer of association: Michael's paella recipe grew out of a memory of the long-ago summer he spent on Long Beach, of night after night at a restaurant with friends, eating paella bursting with chicken legs and fat shrimp.
As is always true, the pleasure, the real magic, is not just in the food itself. It's also in the warmth and comfort associated with it, the view of the city outside rain-streaked windows, the pleasure of watching his assured movements as he puts the finishing touches on a special meal for just the two of us, as he did this Valentine's Day.
If you don't have a proper paella pan – the traditional shallow, double-handled pan – a large cast-iron skillet will do quite well. You can vary almost any of the ingredients to suit your own tastes-use chicken breasts if you prefer, or leave the chicken out entirely or substitute lobster. This will easily make enough paella for four to six people, but it is just right for two with leftovers, as well.
Classic paella
1/2 cup olive oil
6 chicken legs
1 large onion, chopped fine
4 garlic cloves, minced
1 link (about 6 ounces) chorizo, thinly sliced
1-1/2 cups rice
3-1/4 cups chicken broth
1/4 teaspoon saffron threads
1/2 teaspoon pimenton
8 ounces shrimp, peeled and deveined
1/2 cup finely grated manchego cheese
Red pepper flakes to taste
Salt and pepper to taste
1/2 cup finely grated manchego cheese
And any or all of the following:
2 cups broccolini, cut into bite sized pieces
1 bunch asparagus tips
2 cups red and green bell pepper, chopped
1 cup peas
1 cup baby corn
Heat the oil in the paella pan over medium heat. Cook the chicken until well-browned all over, remove from pan and set aside. Add the onions and garlic and cook for a few minutes. Add the chorizo, rice, broth, saffron, pimenton, shrimp, and cooked chicken. Reduce heat to medium, cover, and cook for a further 20 minutes. Mix in the vegetables, and salt and pepper to taste. Cook for a further 5 minutes or until the chicken and rice are tender and the broth has been absorbed. Remove the pan from the heat, sprinkle with the Manchego cheese and red pepper flakes, and serve.
Christina Masters blogs at The Rowdy Chowgirl.
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Nats' Strasburg shuts down Phillies
Stephen Strasburg struggled during pregame warmups and tweaked his groin in the second inning. Yet after nine innings, he was still on the mound for the first time in the majors.
Strasburg pitched a four-hitter and struck out 10 in the first complete game of his career, Jayson Werth had his second straight three-hit game and the Washington Nationals completed a three-game sweep with a 6-0 victory over the Philadelphia Phillies on Sunday night.
Strasburg (6-9) dominated the Phillies for his first win since July 7 against San Diego. The Nationals, who have been famously cautious with their star pitcher's workload throughout his career, had lost five straight games started by the right-hander.
"I've learned how to go out there and get outs with less pitches," Strasburg said after finishing off the Phillies with an efficient 99 pitches.
He's also learned how to pitch when not at his best, which in this case allowed him to hear the crowd of 32,355 chanting his name during the final inning.
"Honestly, I didn't feel good at all. I didn't really have good command in the bullpen," Strasburg said. "When that's happened in the past, I feel like I would just try to jam it down their throat and throw it as hard as I can. I kind of learned that really didn't get much accomplished."
The Phillies never had a runner in scoring position during their 11th straight road loss. Philadelphia has lost nine of 11 overall and 17 of 20.
"It's been tough," Phillies manager Charlie Manuel said. "Since I've been managing in the major leagues, this is definitely the toughest stretch we've ever had."
The sweep denied Manuel the 1,000th win of his career.
Washington scored two runs in the fourth and three in the fifth against Kyle Kendrick (10-9), who surrendered 11 hits over 5 1-3 innings. All 13 of the Nationals' hits were singles.
"It wasn't like they were killing him," Manuel said. "He battled, but they put up some runs on him."
When needed, Strasburg provided the power.
"He's tough," Manuel said. "His breaking ball really set up his fastball in the middle innings until the end of the game. He was good. Power when he wanted it."
In between wins, Strasburg went 0-3 with a 4.93 ERA in five starts, though the Nationals scored only 10 runs in those games. Two of Strasburg's six victories on the season have come against the Phillies.
His biggest stress came starting the second inning. He winced after throwing a second straight ball to Domonic Brown, leading to a visit from the Nationals' training staff.
"We were concerned when we went out during the game that it was something with his arm," said Nationals manager Davey Johnson of Strasburg, who had Tommy John surgery on his right shoulder in 2010.
"If he didn't fly open, it didn't bother him," Johnson said of Strasburg's pitching motion. "Obviously, it didn't bother him."
After walking Brown on four pitches — the only walk he issued — Strasburg struck out Darin Ruf and Cody Asche on his way to retiring 14 of the next 15 batters. The right-hander has allowed two or fewer runs in 11 of 13 home starts.
Johnson, who has been dealing with back pain, said he would get an epidural treatment on Monday. With Strasburg in control, the manager headed to the locker room for treatment after the middle innings.
He later had company, as Werth left the game after the sixth. The right fielder tweaked his knee while scoring during a home plate collision in the fifth inning, Johnson said.
"We were sharing tables there in the eighth inning," the winning manager cracked, before adding he expects Werth available for Tuesday's series opener against San Francisco.
Werth, who had a go-ahead, two-run homer among his three hits Saturday, delivered an RBI single in the first inning to give Washington a 1-0 lead.
Steve Lombardozzi also had three hits, including an RBI single.
Philadelphia had not been swept by the Nationals-Expos franchise since losing a four-game series from August 25-28, 2003, while in Montreal.
Making his fourth start against the Nationals this season, Kendrick allowed six runs, four earned. He has allowed 14 earned runs over his last 13 1-3 innings.
Wilson Ramos and Denard Span each had RBI singles in the fourth inning.
Chase Utley's throwing error in the fifth allowed Werth and an alert Ian Desmond to score from second base. Lombardozzi tacked on an RBI single for the Nationals' third run of the inning.
Kevin Frandsen had two of the Phillies' four hits.
Notes: The Nationals scored 23 runs in the three-game series after totaling 20 in their previous eight games. … Philadelphia's last road win came July 19 at Cincinnati in its first game after the All-Star break….The Phillies' road trip continues at Atlanta on Monday with LHP Cole Hamels (4-13, 3.81 ERA) facing RHP Julio Teheran (9-5, 2.96). … Following a day off, the Nationals opener pits LHP Gio Gonzalez (7-5, 3.52 ERA) against Giants LHP Madison Bumgarner (11-7, 2.75 ERA).


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The massive, meandering clouds of ash from last week's Iceland volcano continued to blanket wide swaths of Europe's air space for a fourth day Sunday, bringing the total number of flights canceled since Thursday to well over 63,000.
For some airlines, that's an estimated loss of more than $200 million a day.
European Union transport ministers will examine the results of weekend test flights by empty airliners on Monday and consider how soon the skies might be back open for business.
It may still be days, which is bad news for any business heavily reliant on air freight and for anyone trying to travel to, from, or through Europe. But for the tens of thousands of stranded travelers, it may be even worse.
The novelty of their predicament – "Volcanic ash?! No way!!" – wears off fast. As does the whole "we are all in this together" thing.
Long lines, long faces, and lots of Muzak
What you are left with is masses of frustrated travelers stranded around the globe – their movement thwarted by a volcano named Eyjafjallajokull – searching for alternative routes, standing in long lines, shelling out money they do not want to spend on food and hotels, and listening endlessly to Muzak on their cellphones, on hold for an airline representative.
The billboards at Heathrow, the airport with more international travelers than any in the world, said it all: Madrid: Cancelled. Dallas/Ft Worth: Cancelled. Istanbul: Cancelled. Hong Kong: Cancelled. Toronto: Cancelled. Sydney via Singapore: Cancelled.
And Costa Rica? Yes, yes, those flights are canceled, too.
"The information is not changing much," says a tired Kim McIntyre, a veterinarian from Washington with a big wheelie bag.
Most travelers, advised of the situation, had left Britain's airports, but those who were unclear about what was going on, or who had no money to go anywhere else, or who were simply desperate – milled around for a third day Saturday, lugging suitcases from here to there and back, and hoping the bizarre turn of events that messed up their plans would reverse itself and become right as suddenly as it had gone all wrong.
Some were stressed because they needed to get back to their offices.
Others were stressed because this had been their opportunity to get away from their offices.
Some had weddings to attend. Others, funerals.
Couples were arguing. Babies were crying. Siblings were punching each other. Airline representatives were, it would seem, by and large AWOL.
'Not ideal'
The whole thing, as was put in typically English understatement by William and Gloria Rogers – who were headed to New Zealand for their long awaited retirement trip – was "not ideal."
"We considered a terror attack, but this – Oh no, this is too much," Mr. Rogers said.
Tent cities
Where there any bright spots? Anything learned? Any random acts of kindness and neighborliness to shore up one's faith in human nature during times of trouble?
Well, two Dutch guys with tents and camping gear heading to a trek in Nepal got friendly with two American contractors, on their way home to Florida after a year in Afghanistan. The contractors also had tents and the little group got together and set up a tent city near the Marks and Spencer mini store in Terminal 3.
"Nice tents," remarked Tony Dorgan, a Turkish farmer stuck on his way to Izmir, where he was returning to take care of his 7000 olive trees. "Tell me stories from Afghanistan," he requested, and ordered a pizza special to share with the group.
Abdulla Alhajr, from Dammam, Saudi Arabia, wandered by and eyed the tents enviously. Trying to get home after three months at English language school in Bournemouth, he had been sleeping on the floor near the deserted Virgin Information desk with his five friends since Thursday. "I wish we had tents. We just have towels," he sighed.
Mr. Alhajr and his friends think the whole volcanic ash thing is, but of course, a conspiracy.
"This is a ploy by the British to get foreigners to spend more money in the country," he explained to Maria Seller, a Canadian who runs the shoe department at Sears in Edmonton, Alberta and was trying to get home after a holiday in Romania, and Gracella Rodriguez, an elderly Spanish woman, stranded after coming up to London for a one day cardiologist appointment.
The three discussed which airline's representatives were worse at picking up the phones – Air Canada, Saudi Airlines, or Iberia.
Dorgan puts in a word for Cyprus-Turkish airlines. William and Gloria suggest Qantas. The American contractors show everyone photos of their kids on their Iphones.
Red Bull to the rescue?
Into this mix come the Red Bull girls -- as the drinks company, never ones to let a little volcanic ash temper their promotional spirit, has sent over an army of good looking young women, many of whom seemed to be called Poppy and Georgie, to Terminals 1, 2, and 3 with coolers. The Saudis raise their eyebrows.
The contractors snap some more photos.
A veritable global village.
From Edinburgh to Oslo, by car – and train
Over at Saint Pancras International rail station in central London, meanwhile, thousands of travelers who thought to leave Britain by train waited patiently on incredibly long lines to try and buy Eurorail tickets which would get them to Paris or Brussels from which – well, it was not immediately clear where they would go from there.
"From Brussels, I will get a taxi to this rental car office where I have managed to book a car in Antwerp, and from there, drive to Oslo" explained a flustered Diana Miller who had already hitchhiked from Edinburgh to London and was not really sure how long it might take to drive from Antwerp to her hometown of Oslo (an approximately 1500 kilometer trip)
"Do I like to drive?" she ponders. "No, not at all."
Even the best of schemes sometimes led to exactly nowhere.
For, despite all the extra trains – Eurorail added on eight high- speed trains Saturday – many would-be passengers could not get a seat.
"All Euro star services are fully booked," repeated the voice over the loudspeakers. "It is currently not possible to buy or exchange a ticket ... All Euro star services are fully booked...."
"Let's go get some sliced pineapple," suggests stranded traveler Roland Didier, a baseball player from France with a tote bag.
"Sliced pineapple?" his friends don't understand.
"Do you have any better ideas for the moment?" he counters.
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Before allegedly opening fire on a crowded theater of Batman fans, James Holmes reportedly kept himself busy by frequenting prostitutes.
And one of them has only nice things to say about the man allegedly responsible for killing 12 people during Friday's midnight premier of "The Dark Knight Rises."
The woman, who calls herself Tiffany, told TMZ she had "no issues" with Holmes, whom she identified as a customer.
"He was really nice," she told TMZ. "He felt bad that I wasn't getting more customers while in Colorado, so he called a few days later and we met up again."
Holmes reportedly posted often on a message board meant to review prostitutes working in the Colorado area. He posted several critiques "in which he details multiple sexual encounters with different prostitutes," TMZ reported Wednesday.
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Slow Food Seattle Day of Service
Your volunteer power is needed on September 22!
Every year Slow Food Seattle organizes a "Day of Service". To celebrate Day of Service we ask our members to join us as volunteers to help an organization with common values. Our Board has decided to focus our efforts this year on organizations that are cultivating and harvesting urban-grown food. The Slow Food Seattle Board nominated two great organizations for us to support for Day of Service—City Fruit and Alleycat Acres.
City Fruit promotes the cultivation of urban fruit in order to nourish people, build community and protect the climate. City Fruit helps tree owners grow healthy fruit, provide assistance in harvesting and preserving fruit, promote the sharing of extra fruit, and work to protect urban fruit trees.
Alleycat Acres connects people with food, through community run farms in under-utilized urban spaces. By farming the cityscape, we are helping to create solutions that address a number of issues facing our communities. Our urban farms lay the groundwork to enable anyone to join in the process of what we refer to as Farming 2.0: cultivating food, relationships, and a connection to our land in an urban setting.
In years past we've chosen one organization among those that were nominated. This year the Board was a little indecisive. Since City Fruit and Alleycat Acres are both so worthy we said, "Hey, let's support both!" It's a tall task. We think we are up to it, but we need your help. We're going to need twice as many volunteers this year because on September 22 one team of volunteers is going to help City Fruit and another team is going to help Alleycat Acres.
Board member Rob Salvino will lead the City Fruit volunteer team. Board member Renai Mielke will lead the Alleycat Acres volunteer team. To make things interesting we're going to have a friendly competition to see who can recruit more volunteers—Rob or Renai. Visit our Facebook event page to learn more about the day's activities and sign up for Rob's City Fruit team or Renai's Alleycat Acres team.
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The Slow Food Seattle volunteers who join Team City Fruit will maintain fruit trees along the Burke-Gilman Trail. The Burke-Gilman Trail Urban Orchard Stewards of the City Fruit program rescued 22 apple and pear trees along 1 1/2 miles of the Burke-Gilman Trail between the University Bridge and Gasworks Park. These trees provide fruit for passersby and for foodbanks. Team City Fruit will be weeding, planting daffodils, spreading mulch, and mooning bicyclists. Actually, that last part was just a joke. Mooning of cyclists will not be allowed. Even without the mooning we will have fun while lending a hand for a worthy cause. More details on time and location to come as the date nears!
Join Team Alleycat Acres!
The Slow Food Seattle volunteers who join Team Alleycat Acres will be working at the newest farm site on East Cherry St. & MLK in the Central District. We'll be working on putting the garden to bed for winter- laying mulch and cover crops, and planting seeds and bulbs for spring crops. Many of these crops will be later donated to local food banks- delivered exclusively by bicycle! We'll also have the opportunity to join in with another event happening at the same time - a local honey tasting, and talk with Alleycat's residential beekeeper from Urban Bee Company. We'll be meeting at the site at 9 AM and working until 1 PM. Please feel free to join us for any amount of time, or even just pop by around noon to check out the bees! Be sure to dress for the weather, and bring plenty of water.
When you RSVP for this event, please let us know in your comment which group you'd like to team up with. Feel free to bring kids, friends, family, co-workers, neighbors, etc, but please leave pets at home.
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There's an old saying that the stock market can remain irrational longer than investors can remain solvent. But when it comes to the bond market and dealing with interest rates, solvency isn't the issue.
The bond market can remain irrational longer than investors can remain tolerant, and judging from the conversations I've had recently, investors are running out of patience in this low-yield environment. That's not entirely a new trend, but it is growing as the rate hikes that most investors expected to see in 2014 have been pushed back and now aren't anticipated to arrive by most experts for 12 to 18 months.
At the recent Morningstar Investor Conference, several conservative money managers – including some who run "unconstrained bond funds" that could seek out any type of fixed-income instruments anywhere – owned up to keeping large chunks of their portfolios in cash, guarding against what could happen when rates rise. The problem is that cash isn't earning anything, and it's got a negative real return – a loss – when you factor in the 0.75% or more those money managers are charging in expenses.
And when that happens long enough, investors will not be sympathetic. They are already starting to beat a path out the door to funds they think can goose returns, and for most of those people those changes are occurring without even knowing what any lagging bond fund is doing to dampen its performance, and whether the manager is sacrificing short-term numbers for longer-term positioning.
The issue is central to the asset allocation of individual investors, many of whom are still fearful of a market downturn, feeling burned by the financial crisis of 2008 despite a five-year-plus bull-market rebound.
Having sought safe havens – and having been rewarded for those choices – investors are overweight in bonds, and have been happy to get annualized average returns north of 6 percent from intermediate-term bond funds over the last five years.
The problem is that those average returns have been decreasing – the average intermediate bond fund is at about 3.5 percent over the last 12 months, according to Morningstar – and with that investor patience has been decreasing.
It's no secret that whenever the Federal Reserve raises interest rates, bond funds will suffer. When yields rise, bond prices fall, and mutual fund prices are set by determining what the fund would be worth if every holding was liquidated at the end of the trading day. When rates rise, the underlying paper would bring a less-attractive return, cutting into the fund's share price. The further out the duration of the bond, the greater this short-term pricing impact.
Thus, if investors lose their patience and tolerance of low-rates now and start to stretch for yield by riding up the risk curve – taking a chance on longer maturities or riskier credit instruments – they will be setting themselves up for trouble.
Investors need to remember how badly they called the market for 2014. The vast majority of money managers and economists surveyed in a number of polls late last year said they would have expected a rate hike by now. Had they acted on that – and many did – their call wasn't necessarily wrong, it may have just been early.
But for investors who act now thinking that a rate hike is still a ways off, they might be early (again) or they might be wrong. What they should be, for now, is tolerant, accepting that their strategy may be in stasis for the foreseeable future, because the price for getting jumpy right now could be steep when rates move later.
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"The first thing investors want to do right now is do no harm, and see if future volatility gives us better entry level into longer maturities," said David Rolley, portfolio manager for the Loomis-Sayles Global Bond Fund. Rolley suggested that investors need to keep maturities tight, recognizing they sacrifice some yield in exchange for more peace of mind and the ability to re-deploy their money at more opportunistic times once the interest-rate picture changes.
"The way to calm people down is to look at maturities; when do you get your money back," said Rowley. "Let's say we did that last year; a three-year piece of paper [purchased in 2013] is now a two-year piece of paper, so if you think you can see your way to 2016, you probably get your money back."