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Completely restored and renovated, this historic luxury hotel is a year round destination in the Aosta Valley region and close to Mont Blanc, Cervino-Matterhorn, and Monterosa-Gran Paradiso.
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A growing number of universities are offering classes on personal genetics to educate students about a medical field that is becoming increasingly important as the price of genetic testing drops. Here's a look at the basics:
Q: What is genetic testing and genotyping?
A: A genetic test analyzes DNA to look for a specific gene to test for the presence of a condition, such as Huntington's disease. Genotyping goes far beyond that, analyzing several or even thousands of variants across an individual's full set of genes, known as the genome.
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A: Medical providers use the testing routinely. It helps them diagnose patients who have symptoms of a disease, screen newborn infants for disease risks, tell parents whether their unborn child will have a genetic condition, and determine the amount and type of medicine best suited for a patient.
But what is becoming more available and common is testing done by private companies marketing services directly to consumers, such as 23AndMe and AncestryDNA. These tests typically analyze thousands of different variants but do not look at the entire genome. The tests can cost $99 to more than $1,000, depending on the extent of testing done. 23AndMe and AncestryDNA require individuals to submit saliva samples, and initial results can be available within six weeks.
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text: Wednesday, July 25, 2012 CBO Updates Costs of ACA Insurance Coverage Provisions The insurance coverage provisions of the Affordable Care Act (ACA) will have a net cost of $1,168 billion over the 2012-2022 period—compared with $1,252 billion projected in March 2012 for that 11-year period—for a net reduction of $84 billion, the Congressional Budget Office (CBO) announced yesterday. The projected net savings to the federal government is a result from the Supreme Court's decision allowing states to choose whether or not to expand eligibility for coverage under their Medicaid programs. The reductions in spending from lower Medicaid enrollment are expected to more than offset the increase in costs from greater participation in the newly established exchanges. CBO and the Joint Committee on Taxation (JCT) now estimate that fewer people will be covered by the Medicaid program, more people will obtain health insurance through the newly established exchanges, and more people will be uninsured. The magnitude of those changes varies from year to year. In 2022, for example, Medicaid and the Children's Health Insurance Program (CHIP) are expected to cover about 6 million fewer people than previously estimated, about 3 million more people will be enrolled in exchanges, and about 3 million more people will be uninsured. These estimates are dominated by the movements of people losing eligibility for Medicaid. However, other smaller shifts in coverage also are expected to occur. Federal spending over the 2012-2022 period for Medicaid and CHIP now is projected to be $289 billion less than previously expected, whereas the estimated costs of tax credits and other subsidies for the purchase of health insurance through the exchanges (and related spending) have risen by $210 billion. Small changes in other components of the budget estimates account for the remaining $5 billion of the difference. The report issued yesterday does not include the budgetary impact of other provisions of the ACA. Additionally, CBO and JCT found that the latest repeal bill (HR 6079) would cause a net increase in federal budget deficits of $109 billion over the 2013-2022 period. Specifically, they estimate that HR 6079 would reduce direct spending by $890 billion and reduce revenues by $1 trillion between 2013 and 2022, adding $109 billion to federal budget deficits over that period.


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Woman's wallet had been stolen 12 days earlier
A waitress in Colorado recently found herself serving drinks to a woman using her stolen ID.
Brianna Priddy's wallet had been stolen nearly two weeks earlier during a night out with friends, Denver TV station KUSA reported.
Since then, someone had been using her identity to write hundreds of dollars in bad checks, according to The Associated Press.
Payback came on Feb. 25, when a woman came in to the Applebee's Priddy works at with a group, ordered a drink and handed her the stolen ID.
"I didn't say anything," Priddy told KUSA. "I handed it back to her and said, 'Sure I'll be right back with your margarita.' Went straight to the phone. Called the cops."
Lakewood police arrived in minutes, and took the 26-year-old woman into custody.
She's now facing identity theft and criminal impersonation charges. Police said they also found drugs on her.
"We found some narcotics in this woman's possession, so she's in quite a bit of hot water," police spokesman Steve David told KUSA.
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Somewhere along the line, the shortfall methodology that underlies the 4% rule was anointed the gold standard for judging withdrawal rate strategies. What began as a good-faith exercise to point out the risks from withdrawing too much each year from a retirement portfolio has gained a mythic and potentially unhelpful place among advisors. It's time to dust off the 4% rule and see whether it deserves its place on the shelf of best practices.
First a mea culpa. My co-authors David Blanchett, Wade Pfau and I recently pointed out that low bond yields may nuke the 4% rule. We used the same shortfall methodology, but we ran a Monte Carlo analysis since we don't have historical bond rates as low as the current real bond rates. So I've used the shortfall methodology in my own research. We can possibly be forgiven since we did it to point out one flaw of the shortfall methodology—that it only uses healthy 20th-century U.S.bond and equity returns that may not be relevant in the 21st century.
We wanted to make the point that today's forward-looking bond rates imply no positive real yields for more than 10 years (according to TIPS rates). Since we've never experienced a sustained period of negative real bond yields, we might get a false sense of security from using historical bond returns in our safe withdrawal rate analyses. And current bond yields have historically predicted future 10-year bond returns with a 90% coefficient of variation (R-squared).
Add to that the importance of the first decade in retirement on portfolio failure rate, known as sequence of return risk, and relying on the safety of a 4% rule starts to look like a sucker's bet. We estimate a failure rate beyond 50% if real yields don't revert to their historical mean, and a 20% failure rate if yields mean revert after just five years. Unfortunately, there's no evidence that bond rates have mean-reverted predictably in the past.
The most sobering conclusion is that retirees who believed a 4% withdrawal rate was safe in the past should instead rely on a much lower rate—perhaps as low as 2.8%—to achieve the same degree of shortfall security. Such a low rate suggests that workers need to save a lot more and retirees should cut back sharply on their lifestyle to avoid the risk of running out of money. But it doesn't have to be that way. That's because there's something else wrong with shortfall studies.
Longevity Risk
Running out of money is usually at the top of the list of concerns when building a retirement income plan. It should be. The traditional shortfall methodology assumes you spend down your assets without a safety net. What happens when the trapeze artist performs without a safety net? Obviously, they're going to be more cautious and a lot less fun to watch. You can think the same way about a retirement income plan without a longevity hedge. If you bear that risk, you're going to be a lot more careful. And careful does not a fun retirement make.
Bearing longevity risk without a hedge is stupid. Many advisors would recoil at the idea of investing a retirement portfolio in the stocks and bonds of one company. The reason? Excessive unsystematic risk means that you get no expected reward for the amount of risk taken. These same advisors, however, don't think twice about building a retirement portfolio without a longevity risk hedge even though the client gets no reward for the amount of longevity risk they assume.
In order to avoid this risk, advisors employ an extremely conservative retirement income strategy. Or at least it was conservative before asset yields sank to unprecedented lows. The flip side of the conservative strategy is that the retiree leaves money on the table by not enjoying retirement.
Ideally, retirees would decide how much they wanted to leave to charity and heirs, divide the remaining assets by their expected longevity, and live it up. But since their actual longevity is in the hands of the normal distribution, they spend a lot less so they have a 95% or more chance of dying with money in the bank. That money in the bank over and above their desired legacy is the money left on the table in the game of retirement living.
I asked David Blanchett, head of retirement research for Morningstar Investment Management, to estimate a traditional retirement income shortfall analysis using historical returns. We then plotted the distribution of residual wealth left over after the demise of the hypothetical client who begins with a million dollars in retirement saving and invests 50% of a portfolio in stocks, 40% in bonds, and 10% in cash. We added a 1% asset management fee. (See graph.)
Think of the $0 line as representing the point where the retiree wins the game of retirement living (assuming he or she has taken care of desired legacy through life insurance). Anything to the left means that the client ran out of money before the finish line. Anything to the right means money was left on the table: vacations not taken, restaurants not visited, flights to visit family not flown. Those with a more puritan ethic might view this as not such a bad thing, since it represents a legacy for the next generation. But wouldn't it be better to decide how much legacy is optimal and spend the remainder on the best possible lifestyle in retirement? That is why we save money in the first place.
The problem with the shortfall analysis is that it cares only about the outcomes to the left of the line. When you're on the trapeze without a safety net, it makes sense to care most about not falling and less about a more entertaining performance. What if there was a different objective? What if the objective was happiness? Would that change how we spend money in retirement? Yes, say most economists. The 4% rule ignores the outcomes to the right of the line. If we took those more positive outcomes into account then we'd behave differently.
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More rigorous academic studies give us a much clearer idea of how to win the retirement living game. The first rule of retirement income planning is that every competitively priced tool has tradeoffs. There is no retirement product alchemy; putting investments in buckets, wrapping them in a variable annuity, exposing them to greater market risk, putting all your money in TIPS—each has its own pluses and minuses. The right plan mixes the tools to best achieve retirement objectives.
A 2008 study by Olivia Mitchell from Wharton and her co-authors from Goethe University in Frankfurt shows the amount of welfare gained and lost from a number of different retirement income strategies. As with similar articles by Moshe Milevsky and an article I published last year with graduate student Duncan Williams and American College professor Wade Pfau, an important element of the optimal retirement strategy is risk tolerance. More risk-averse retirees will prefer strategies that avoid the possibility of a steep drop in spending.
The tradeoff of annuitization is reduced liquidity available to meet unexpected expenses, such as a decline in health and a lower bequest amount. But wrapping any investment in an annuity, whether it be the safe bond portion of a portfolio using a SPIA or risky assets in a variable annuity, provides greater annual spending and a safety net that protects against a severe drop in spending if investment assets run out in old age. It is important to note that expenses embedded within each of these options will impact optimal strategies.
So what is the right plan? The answer is that it depends on clients' risk aversion (and assessing risk aversion isn't easy) and how much happiness they get from spending their own money versus passing it on to their heirs. The optimal plan for risk-averse retirees leans toward full annuitization. For more risk-tolerant retirees or retirees with a stronger bequest motive, the best option is to annuitize later in life (or buy a deferred annuity). It should be noted that Moshe Milevsky has been making this point for over a decade.
Mitchell and her co-authors estimate that the average retiree could improve expected happiness in retirement by as much as 50% by employing a blended annuitization and investment strategy. They also find that one of the best ways to improve welfare isn't through just annuitization but flexibility in withdrawal rates. This is the last problem with the 4% strategy: It doesn't allow retirees to ratchet down spending if they experience bad luck in their investments or increase spending if they do well. This lack of flexibility both increases the likelihood that they'll run out of money when faced with low investment returns, and leaves more money on the table if markets perform well.
One example of a dynamic strategy forced upon retirees is required minimum distributions. Unfortunately, the U.S.tax code does not encourage retirees to build a safety net through annuitization within qualified accounts. Both the U.K. and Germany provide strong incentives to annuitize in advanced age.
So what should we make of a 4% rule that is based on a process that fails to hedge longevity risk, may be overly conservative and spends a fixed amount each year regardless of investment experience? We should recognize that this approach was useful in beginning the conversation about optimal withdrawal rate strategies, but science is all about constantly improving on old techniques. Best practices mean changing with the times.
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My blender broke the other morning as I was making a smoothie, and I couldn't be happier.
I bought the Black and Decker model last fall for $60 in part because it had an "ice crusher" button, which, in reality, merely "chipped" the ice. So for the last year, I have been drinking rather clumpy smoothies.
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I know it's spring outside because the wisteria planted by my front door has begun to burst into bloom. It started with a single delicate spray of flowers at the end of March, but now, the whole plant is starting to flush blue, and it looks stellar. At the same time, it's erupting with new shoots, showing me that despite the heavy frosts of December, it recovered okay and it's ready to keep on looking fabulous.
The same can't quite be said of the rest of my garden, which is looking a little ragged right now, a reminder that I need to get on my April garden checklist -- and I can't use the heavy rains of March as an excuse any more! Soggy soil or not, it's time to get started, because my garden is growing at a runaway pace and it doesn't care how lazy I feel.
The Chicago Botanic Garden reminds me that I can safely plant out cool season annuals as well as seedlings at this point, which means I can start whipping my garden into shape for the coming months. Get floral borders going, fill in gaps, and make your vegetable garden shine! If you still haven't started seedlings, get on it -- or consider making a trip to the nursery and picking up six packs of favorites like lettuce or newcomers like mizuna.
This is also the time to divide most summer and fall-blooming perennial plants and redistribute them (along with some fertilizer). Leave irises, day lilies, and oriental poppies alone for now, though -- you'll want to relocate them later in the year. Meanwhile, fertilizer your bulbs and cut off dead flowers, but let their foliage remain so they can gather energy. Older bulbs should be dug up, divided, and replanted.
If you've had insect or fungus problems with your fruit trees in the past, now is the time to spray them with an appropriate product. There are a number of organic products like copper sulfate on the market, but no matter what you use, remember to follow the directions carefully and wear face protection while you work. Even organic solutions can cause skin and eye irritation!
Check your greenhouse more frequently. April brings warmer weather, which can in turn get your greenhouse a little toastier than it needs to be. Open windows and doors for ventilation if necessary. If you want a weekend project, consider upgrading with an automatic ventilation system that will open windows when the indoor temperature gets too hot -- and close them again when it starts to get cool.
Rake, fertilize, and overseed your lawn to get it growing lush and healthy. Meanwhile, step up your mowing schedule (like me, you probably need to, just because the grass is growing so fast). Save money on fertilizer by setting your blades high and leaving the clippings behind -- they're a great source of nitrogen and as they break down, they'll enrich the soil for the growing grass left behind. The tradeoff, however, is that you'll have to mow more often!
Climbing plants like wisteria, along with shrubs, should be fed so they can develop healthy, even growth with that warm spring weather. Meanwhile, you can plant some smaller trees and shrubs, although bigger specimens should already be in the ground. This is also the time to finish winter pruning -- after around the middle of the month, you should plan on leaving any remaining pruning until next year, because it will be too late.
All this work in the garden should be generating some serious compost fodder. Make sure to maintain your balance of greens and browns to keep the compost healthy, because you'll be wanting to use it. This is also the time to get your mulch up to speed after a rough winter. Remove thick mulch to give roots some more room to breathe, and add a fresh layer of light mulch to help them retain moisture as the temperatures start to heat up.
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Family rooms are where we spend much of our time relaxing, entertaining, and gathering together to laugh and play. Depending on your light control and privacy needs, there are a variety of family room window treatments that can provide the functionality you need and the look you want. Consider cordless window treatments to keep this family gathering space safe from the dangers of dangling cords. For windows that are very tall or difficult to reach, you may consider a motorized window treatment that can be remote controlled.
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DataStax has released a new version of the Planet Cassandra knowledge, expertise, and education portal. This free service is designed to enable community members to deepen their knowledge, network with each other, and also to promote themselves.
Apache Cassandra is typically described as a "massively scalable" free and open-source distributed NoSQL database for managing large amounts of structured, semi-structured, and unstructured data. Cassandra is designed to scale to a very large size across many commodity servers with no single point of failure.
"The C* community's household names of tomorrow will be born at Planet Cassandra," said Matt Pfeil, vice president of customer solutions at DataStax. "We're pleased to be the custodians — finally integrating all Cassandra knowledge and the community in a single place."
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Some years the Super Bowl itself is a bust, but at least the ads give everyone something to talk about. Some are great, some are forgettable and others are just plain bad. Bad enough to be memorable.
It's easy to find lists of the greatest Super Bowl ads around the Internet. They almost all include iconic commercials like Mean Joe Greene tossing his jersey to an awestruck young fan in a pitch for Coke or Apple introducing its computers to the nation in 1984.
Financial firms also take advantage of the huge audience (more than 100 million each year in the U.S.) to try to lure customers. E*Trade's ubiquitous baby (alone, with "girlfriend," or looming parent, but always opining about life) might be wearing thin for some viewers, but is hard to forget. Banks, brokerages and insurance companies have all bought airtime during the big game.
AdvisorOne looked at 46 years of commercials to find 10 Favorite Super Bowl TV Ads by Financial Firms. Some of these ads are great and some aren't great but intriguing in an old-fashioned kind of way.
(Check out Top 7 TV Advertising Slogans by Financial Firms at AdvisorOne.)
1) 2004, AIG: In the Clutch
Watching ads from Super Bowls past can be like entering a time machine. AIG, forever, or at least for now, known as the company bailed out by the government because it was too big to fail (and whose board contemplated suing over that same bailout) was once a stable company trying to attract business. One example is its 2004 ad in which it positioned itself as the company that will come through in the clutch to help you plan your financial future. Nowadays, that idea seems downright quaint.
2) 2004, MasterCard: Homer Simpson
MasterCard struck gold with its "For Everything Else There's MasterCard" campaign. In 2004, it rolled out the big guns by utilizing America's everyman, Homer Simpson, to add a twist to the series of ads.
3) 2003, Charles Schwab: Home Run King
How times change. You don't need to look for any more evidence than this 2003 Charles Schwab ad featuring Barry Bonds taking batting practice while a voice urges him to retire. The voice is revealed to be that of Henry Aaron, whose home run record Bonds was still chasing at the time. Since then, Bonds has been under a cloud for possibly having used performance-enhancing drugs and was found guilty in 2011 of obstructing justice during his lengthy steroid trial. He is appealing the conviction. Aaron, for his part, has distanced himself from the new career home-run leader.
4) 2001, E*Trade: Ghost Town Chimp
Before E*Trade found its inner baby, it trotted out a clever ad that poked fun at the dot-com bubble. It featured a chimp dressed in Western garb entering a ghost town littered with the detritus of dot-coms that went bust. We are surprised this clever, bold pitch slipped from our memory.
5) 2000, Charles Schwab: Anna Kournikova
Tennis star Anna Kournikova was known for two things: her beauty and her inability to win a grand slam tournament. Perhaps the expectations were too big. She did play at a high a level for several years. In any case, she had a winner playing herself to hawk Charles Schwab's services. Playing against stereotype, Kournikova's knowledge of P/E ratios and other investment jargon made her unpopular with players like Mary Joe Fernandez.
6) 1993, American Express: Seinfeld/Superman
American Express has had a big presence for years during the big game. Often, the firm's ads lean on celebrities. Jon Lovitz and Dana Carvey had their moment in the sun, but for our money, Jerry Seinfeld stole the show with his one-minute turn with Superman. Only Seinfeld's AmEx card could save Lois Lane, leaving Superman an also-ran for once.
7) 1987, New York Life: Couple in Bathroom
This is one ad that leaves us mystified. Financial firms sometimes use their ads to play against the staid image of the business. Other times, the commercials reinforce the bedrock steadfastness of the advertiser (think of Prudential and its iconic rock). Maybe New York Life wanted it both ways. This ad found a couple in a bathroom, she just out of the shower, he shaving. If such a thing is possible, the whole thing smacks of dull flirtatiousness. In the end, the couple ends up in company headquarters and full-bore steadfastness takes over the ad.
8) 1983, Merrill Lynch: Chess
Merrill Lynch has run its share of ads on Super Sunday and their iconic bull has been a steady presence. That bull has wandered beaches and cities, but in 1983 he was featured on an oversized chess board. He made it through without knocking over nary a pawn.
9) 1980, E.F. Hutton: Joggers
Once upon a time, everyone who watched TV (so, almost everyone, we'd venture to say) knew about E.F. Hutton. Their ad slogan, "When E.F. Hutton Talks, People Listen" became a part of everyday discourse. For the 1980 Super Bowl, the firm used two joggers who got the attention of everyone around them just by speaking the name of the iconic firm. Amazingly, 12 years later Paine Webber used joggers to flog its services to Super Bowl viewers.
10) 1973, Mutual Funds
It might be hard to imagine now, but there was a time when mutual funds were unknown to many. The need to make investors comfortable with the financial instrument was great enough that the Investment Company Institute was moved to produce a straightforward 30-second spot that explained why mutual funds were a good place to put money.
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The hepatic function panel, also known as liver function tests, is a group of seven tests used to evaluate the liver for injury, infection, or inflammation.
The liver plays important roles: It stores energy from food, makes proteins, and helps remove toxins. The liver also makes bile, a fluid that helps in digestion.
Liver function tests help doctors find out whether the liver has been damaged. If your child is experiencing symptoms of liver disease — including jaundice (yellowish skin or eyes), dark urine, nausea, vomiting, or abdominal swelling — these tests may be ordered. They also may be done to help diagnose viral infections (such as hepatitis or mononucleosis) or to monitor medications that can cause liver-related side effects.
The hepatic function panel evaluates:
Although the hepatic function panel can be done without any preparation, it's more accurate when performed after fasting. Your child may be asked to stop eating and drinking for 10 to 12 hours before this blood test. You should also tell your doctor about any medications your child is taking because certain drugs might alter the test results.
On the day of the test, having your child wear a short-sleeve shirt can make things easier for the technician who will be drawing the blood.
A health professional will usually draw the blood from a vein. For an infant, the blood may be obtained by puncturing the heel with a small needle (lancet). If the blood is being drawn from a vein, the skin surface is cleaned with antiseptic, and an elastic band (tourniquet) is placed around the upper arm to apply pressure and cause the veins to swell with blood. A needle is inserted into a vein (usually in the arm inside of the elbow or on the back of the hand) and blood is withdrawn and collected in a vial or syringe.
After the procedure, the elastic band is removed. Once the blood has been collected, the needle is removed and the area is covered with cotton or a bandage to stop the bleeding. Collecting blood for this test will only take a few minutes.
Either method (heel or vein withdrawal) of collecting a sample of blood is only temporarily uncomfortable and can feel like a quick pinprick. Afterward, there may be some mild bruising, which should go away in a day or so.
The blood sample will be processed by a machine. Parts of a hepatic function panel may be available in minutes in an emergency, but more commonly the full test results come after a few hours or the next day.
If any of the results seem to point to liver damage or disease, further testing may be necessary to determine what's causing the problem and how to treat it.
The hepatic function panel is considered a safe procedure. However, as with many medical tests, some problems can occur with having blood drawn, like:
Having a blood test is relatively painless. Still, many children are afraid of needles. Explaining the test in terms your child can understand might help ease some of the fear.
Allow your child to ask the technician any questions he or she might have. Tell your child to try to relax and stay still during the procedure, as tensing muscles and moving can make it harder and more painful to draw blood. It also may help if your child looks away when the needle is being inserted into the skin.
If you have questions about the hepatic function panel, speak with your doctor. You can also talk to the technician before the procedure.
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When the Federal Reserve's policymakers surprised investors and postponed their plans to taper bond purchases, both the stock and bond markets rallied on Wednesday. But now that the dust is settling, fixed income exchange traded fund flows have gone back to what they've been doing since early May: trending toward opportunities in yield-producing ETFs.
In a media conference call on Friday, Michael Iachini, Schwab's managing director of ETF research, joined John Keller, State Street Global Advisors' (SSgA) vice president of global cash and fixed income investment management, to identify where those opportunities might lie.
The focus of their call was on how ETFs are holding up in the rising interest rate environment, and the factors that investors should consider when looking for yield in bond ETFs. To be sure, both Iachini and Keller spoke of the risks implicit in high-yield bond ETFs, but they also asserted that yield has a key role to play in a broader allocation strategy.
"Obviously, the Fed's statement surprised most of the market," said Keller, whose firm is a partner on Schwab's ETF OneSource commission-free platform. He noted that he saw one report showing institutional expectations were 99% that the Fed would announce a start to tapering.
While SSgA expects the Fed to begin tapering in mid-2014, rates are still low, and if not at all-time lows, then at historically low levels, Keller added. "Investors have to think of portfolio duration," he said. "What investors need to think about is not that the Fed surprised the market, but that they need to make sure to think about the overall composition of their portfolios."
In light of the bond market's current low-yield conditions, Schwab's managing director of ETF research, Michael Iachini, has identified four income-generating strategies for investors to consider:
1) High-yield bond funds. "A lot of investors are eager to jump into ETFs that pay a lot of income," even though the underlying bonds are issued by by less creditworthy companies, Iachini said during a media call on Friday that also featured State Street Global Advisors' John Keller.
Investor, be warned: "Typically, if you're receiving good income from an ETF, there's a catch: increased risk," Iachini said. He observed that high-yield bonds — also known as "junk" — carry a default risk, and they move in tandem with the stock market.
ETFguide Chief Market Strategist Chad Karnes seconds Iachini's observation in a comment published Thursday: "If there is one investment category that does belong in the same discussion as 'highly correlated' with equities, it is junk bonds," Karnes writes. "These types of high-risk bonds behave and act more like equities than any other bond class." 2) Bank loan ETFs. Again, Iachini said, short-term bank loan ETFs are debt issued by companies that are less creditworthy, so these investments are subject to default risk.
Yet Morningstar found that while advisors' interest in fixed income funds has slackened since 2012, bank loan strategies were featured on both its top mutual funds and top ETFs lists this year.
"What we're seeing in fixed incom at State Street's SPDR family of funds is a lot of flows into the sectors that Michael mentioned," Keller said. "We're seeing outflows from broader maturity ETFs and inflows to shorter duration ETFs." 3) Mortgage REIT ETFs. These instruments have the advantage of being pegged to an index rather than mortgage bonds.
However, according to IndexUniverse's Cinthia Murphy, since the beginning of the year, mortgage REIT ETFs have had a tough time getting off the ground, as the companies they hold face declining book value amid rising interest rates.
"The higher-rate environment — 10-year Treasury note yields have jumped nearly 100 basis points so far this year — has hurt the mortgages that are on the books of these REITs because, at least in theory, the book value of REITs is inversely correlated to interest rates," Murphy wrote on Aug. 13. 4) Closed-end funds. CEFs can buy a variety of assets, and they are currently popular as a higher-yielding instrument, Iachini said.
Investors in June got a new ETF that seeks to provide income by investing in a basket of closed-end funds, ETFtrends reported on June 19: "Exchange Traded Concepts LLC in conjunction with YieldShares LLC earlier this year filed a registration statement, including a preliminary prospectus, for the YieldShares High Income ETF (YYY)."
The risk? CEFs use leverage to amplify income, but risk increases when the bond market falls, and they can trade "at a disconnected value to assets," Iachini said.
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Financial firms' reputations are regaining traction after the financial crisis, but they have a long way to go, according to Makovsky, an independent communications firm.
Makovsky on Wednesday released its 2013 Most Improved Reputation List, which ranks financial services companies.
The study was designed to determine the current state of the financial industry's reputation and identify best practices and emerging trends, Makovsky said in a statement.
Echo Research completed 151 interviews in May with executives and managers responsible for the management and supervision of communications, investor relations or marketing at large and midsize publicly traded and private financial services institutions.
Respondents were asked, "Thinking about corporate reputation, what one financial services company has improved the most in the past 12 months?" Following are the most improved companies:
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The panelists concurred that there were no shortcuts to rebuilding reputations. Much of the damage from the financial crisis remained, they said, and the industry would take a long time to completely heal.
They contended that winning back the industry's overall reputation had been hampered by a number of regulatory and legal hurdles. They saw regulations often becoming more cumbersome and a burden to consumers (e.g. the request for more documentation or information that had never been collected before).
They noted that many companies had retooled their lines of business to go back to the basics, focus on core strengths and reduce risk, and this had helped them rebuild reputation.
The executives believed that financial firms would continue to try to differentiate themselves from other companies that had problems, but understood that when one firm had a big reputation problem, it was usually a problem for everyone.
They said internal communications were increasingly critical. Financial firms' employees must not only understand strategies, but believe in them and be able to speak to them.
The industry as a whole was spending a lot of time building internal ambassadors with a strong understanding of brand and strategy before taking messages out to the general public, they said.
Social media have become closely tied to business initiatives at financial services firms and an important tool in rehabilitating reputations, the executives said.
Financial firms would make greater use of communications platforms such as Twitter and Facebook to directly engage with consumers, and conduct more and deeper monitoring of social media sites to better gauge public impressions of programs.
"It appears that corporate reputation in the financial services industry is on a comeback, but it is a slow, fragile and sometimes dicey recovery," Makovsky executive vice president Scott Tangney said in the statement.
"Our study indicates a very long road to strong reputation remains and the risk of recurring government actions and fines as well as other negative news will impede the entire industry's image restoration."
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I first met Chris Minnes, the GM of the stylish and hip 968 Park Hotel during a stay at the hotel several months ago. Chris and his staff are on the cutting edge of the hospitality market. If you're tired of typical "Hotel Speak" and policies – this crew has the market cornered. Don't get me wrong – they are true professionals and take their jobs seriously – they are just really creative and fun in the process.
Carrie and I shared coffee with Chris one morning in the lobby bar, made chiefly with recycled lumber and decor, hatching a plan to link up one day for an event. We were both Eco-aware businesses that were doing right by the environment in our individual pursuits…why wouldn't we put something fun together and create an event for locals and guests to enjoy…it just made sense.
October 17th began with the Traeger Pellet BBQ's slow smoking Tri-Tip, French Cut St. Louis Spare Ribs and Chicken Thighs on a skewer. Zucchini, Mushrooms and Pineapples were prepared or stuffed with a secret blend of goodness – all of the food was cooked outdoors on the BBQ.
The 968 Park Hotel wine bar, stocked with a nice selection of wines from the local region was set up and managed by Mike, the always affable member of the 968 Park Hotel crew. He poured all evening without a break – I think he was having more fun than the guests. People were checking in from all over the county and sharing in the festivities, excited to see what was going on. Many couples that were headed out for a dinner reservation, canceled their plans and stayed to sample the BBQ and sip the wine.
Each of the BBQ foods was designed to eat while holding a glass of wine – and either complimented what was being poured or cleanse the pallet so other wines could be tasted subjectively.
Green Leaf BBQ is proud to have helped 968 Park Hotel create this event. I'm sure that you'll see us working together in the future. Please visit the hotel website at www.968parkhotel.com to book your next stay in the Tahoe area. They offer a wonderful array of massages in an Eco-friendly environment that will please the most discerning client.


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I was gone for two whole days, Saturday and Sunday. Monday, when I got home, I went to two supermarkets, Costco, and a farmers' market. When I pulled into my parking space and opened my back door, I realized that I needed a cart to bring all my groceries up. Suddenly it hit me, like a ton of bananas. I stood staring at my back seat and open trunk, every inch covered with bags. "Wow, that's a lot of food," I mumbled to myself. I had just gone shopping before we left, and it's only Jeff and me.
I couldn't move. Standing alone in my parking garage with the car doors open, I was ready to admit it: "My name is Susan, and I'm a food shopaholic."
Ignoring reality, I got all the groceries upstairs and consoled myself the only way I know how. I started cooking.
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My girl Miss C. and I got right down to business and whipped up a remarkably easy and flavorful cornmeal dough from Cooking Light for a galette. I used coarse cornmeal so each bite has a wonderfully crunchy texture and rich corn flavor. It's light and flaky, not too rich and not too sweet -- the perfect vessel for a cinnamon and vanilla laced peach and blueberry fruit filling.
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Peach and Blueberry Galette
Serves 8
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1 3/4 cups all-purpose flour
1/3 cup granulated sugar
1/4 cup coarse cornmeal
1/4 teaspoon salt
1/2 cup cold butter, cut into small pieces
1/3 cup fat-free buttermilk
Fruit Filling:
2 1/2 cups fresh blueberries
3 cups thinly sliced peaches (about 3 large)
1/2 cup granulated sugar
1/4 cup light brown sugar
1 teaspoon ground cinnamon
1 teaspoon pure vanilla extract
1 teaspoon fresh minced ginger
3 tablespoons cornstarch
1 egg white
2 tablespoons fat-free milk
1 tablespoon turbinado sugar
To make the dough, combine flour, sugar, cornmeal, and salt in a processor; pulse 2-3 times. Add butter and pulse 4-5 times, or until mixture resembles coarse meal. With the processor running, slowing pour the buttermilk through the chute, processing until the dough forms a ball. Remove the dough ball and adhere any remaining pieces of dough to it, then wrap in plastic wrap or parchment paper. Refrigerate for 30-35 minutes.
Center a rack in the oven and preheat to 350 degrees F.
To make the fruit filling, combine all ingredients in a large bowl, and toss gently, making sure that the cornstarch is coating the fruit. (This will prevent too much juice from leaking out while the galette bakes.)
Remove the dough from the refrigerator and place on a sheet of parchment paper. Starting at the center of the dough, roll out, forming a 14-15-inch wide circle. Place the dough with parchment paper on a baking sheet. Add the fruit mixture to the center of the dough, leaving a 2-inch border. Fold the border over the filling, overlapping where necessary and pressing gently to adhere the folds.
Lightly whisk the egg white and milk in a small bowl. Brush dough with egg wash, and sprinkle with turbinado sugar. Bake for 1 hour, or until crust is golden brown and the filling is bubbly. Transfer the baking sheet to a wire rack to cool for at least 20 minutes. (Cutting it too quickly will cause the dough to crack). It's best served at room temperature or slightly warm. Optional garnishes include vanilla ice cream, a dollop of creme fraiche, or freshly whipped cream.
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|General information
|Other names
|The Hidden City, The Hidden Realm, The Hidden Rock, Ondolindë, The Rock of the Music of Water
|Northen Beleriand; in Tumladen, surrounded by the Echoriad
|Sindarin, Quenya
|Preceded by
|Fall of Gondolin
Gondolin (S, pron. [ˈɡondolin]; First Age c. 126 – 510, existed c. 384 years), the great Hidden City of Turgon was concealed from friend and foe alike during the First Age by the Encircling Mountains, and guarded from trespassers by the Eagles of Thorondor.
In the fiftieth year of the First Age, Turgon journeyed from his halls in Nevrast with his cousin Finrod. Ulmo guided him to the hidden valley of Tumladen, and there he founded Gondolin. The city was completed circa 116, and Turgon's people who had dwelt in Nevrast travelled there secretly.
The city was inviolate for almost four hundred years; Turgon did not break his secret leaguer until the time of the Nirnaeth Arnoediad in F.A. 472, and even after that disastrous battle he was able to return in secret to the city with the aid of Húrin Thalion.
Morgoth's servants finally discovered Gondolin through the treachery of Maeglin, and it was sacked in 510 (Main article: the Fall of Gondolin). Turgon was lost in the Fall of the city, but some few (including Tuor and Idril, with their child Eärendil) escaped the destruction and dwelt as Exiles at the Mouths of Sirion.
[edit] History
[edit] The Building of Gondolin
The round valley of Tumladen, within the Encircling Mountains, had originally been a lake, and in its centre stood a hill that had once been an island: Amon Gwareth. It was here that Turgon decided to found his Hidden City, as a memorial to ancient Tirion that lay beyond the Great Sea.
The first building of the city took fifty-two years to complete. After this time, the people of Turgon, a great number of Noldor and Sindar, traveled from Nevrast, where they had dwelt, and secretly entered the valley of Tumladen. Turgon gave his city the name Ondolindë (Quenya for "The Rock of the Music of Water", because of the fountains of Amon Gwareth), but in Sindarin this was rendered Gondolin, the Hidden Rock.
After their arrival in the new city, the Gondolindrim continued to labour in its building, until it was said to rival even Tirion itself. Its walls stood high and white above the plain, and its most prominent feature was the great Tower of the King, where, among the fountains, Turgon himself made Glingal and Belthil, trees of gold and silver made in memory of the Two Trees of Valinor.
[edit] The Coming of Maeglin
There followed two centuries of happy peace: Morgoth was besieged in the far north of the world, and the people of Gondolin lived undisturbed by the events outside their fair city. At last, though, a seed of discontent appeared: King Turgon's sister Aredhel determined to leave the city, much against Turgon's wishes, and journey into Middle-earth. Soon after her departure, her guards returned, and reported that they had lost her in the dark and sorcerous region to the south east of the city, known as Nan Dungortheb.
More than twenty years then passed, and then suddenly Aredhel returned. With her was one who she claimed to be Maeglin, her son by Eöl the Dark Elf of Nan Elmoth. This Maeglin accepted Turgon as lord, but his father Eöl had followed his wife and son to Gondolin and been captured at the entranceway. He was brought before Turgon. Eöl refused to submit to Turgon's authority, and instead chose death for himself and his unwilling son. He threw a poisoned dart to slay Maeglin, but instead struck Aredhel, who fell ill with the poison and died. The body of Eöl was broken on the Caragdûr for this.
Maeglin, though, had had no part in these evils, and Turgon accepted him, and he grew to be among the great in Gondolin, wise in council, cunning in smithcraft and mighty in battle.
[edit] Two Great Battles
For more than a hundred years after the deaths of Aredhel and Eöl, Gondolin again had peace. The time was coming, though, when Morgoth would break the Siege of Angband, and the unstoppable doom of the Elves would fall upon them. One winter's night, the fires of Angband destroyed the league of the Noldor: the Dagor Bragollach. In this disaster, the people of Gondolin played no immediate part.
They were drawn into the events of those years, though, when two young brothers of the race of Men, Húrin and Huor, were cut off from their army and became lost amid the feet of the Crissaegrim. Thorondor brought them to Turgon. At the bidding of Ulmo, Turgon accepted them, and they remained in Gondolin for almost a year, when they returned to their homes. In this kindly act were the first seeds of Gondolin's destruction, more than fifty years later.
Turgon now devised a new policy for the salvation of the Elves: he began secretly to send his people out westward across the great sea, to seek the land of the Valar and ask their pardon and aid. None of his mariners succeeded, but this was a wise course, though Turgon never knew it: he was lost long before his grandson Eärendil, aided by a Silmaril, finally succeeded in this task.
As time passed since the destruction of the Dagor Bragollach, the Elves of Beleriand began to arm for a counterstroke, and Turgon secretly began his own preparations. Fourteen years after the breaking of the Siege of Angband, and some three hundred and fifty since the completion of Gondolin, Turgon rode for the first time to war. Unknown and unbidden by his kin, he rode to their aid with an army of ten thousand. This was to be the great battle that was to become known as the Nirnaeth Arnoediad.
[edit] Gondolin's Decline
Morgoth poured much of his strength and resources into discovering the location of the Hidden City, and his spies infested lands about the Encircling Mountains and wherever he could penetrate. After Nargothrond fell, Gondolin was the last great stronghold of the Noldor. The unbidden coming of Maeglin precipitated the destruction of the great city.
The first great blow to the security of Gondolin came by accident. Húrin, who was once held captive by Morgoth, was released to wander in the world, unconsciously furthering the Dark Lord's cause. He came to the edge of the Mountains, hoping that an Eagle would bear him to Gondolin. But Turgon, afraid for the lives of those in his city, and rightfully fearing what Morgoth might have done to Húrin, withheld rescue for too long. Húrin, seeing nothing, cried out in a loud voice "Turgon, Turgon, remember the Fen of Serech! O Turgon, will you not hear in your hidden halls?". Morgoth now knew the general area in which Gondolin lay, for his spies were watching this. Húrin turned away, broken and bitter.
Ulmo, the "patron god" of the city, watched with sad eyes, foreseeing the doom of Gondolin. He called forth Tuor, son of Huor, to the Sea, where he gave him a message for Turgon. Tuor delivered this message faithfully, by the aid of Ulmo and an elf named Voronwë, who guided him to the city. Ulmo's advice was that Turgon must abandon the city and seek the sea. For though hitherto the Valar had barred Turgon's messengers from reaching the Undying Lands, Ulmo foresaw that a direct descendant of the lords of the Noldor might be allowed to pass to the lands of the West. Turgon, because of his pride and the love of his city, decided to ignore this warning. Tuor, however, was welcomed in the city by all save Maeglin. Unwittingly, Turgon, who had always been so careful about strangers, further advanced the events that would lead to the fall of Gondolin by allowing Tuor to stay. For Tuor and Idril, the King's daughter, fell in love.
It was an extremely rare thing for a man to wed an elf-woman, but Turgon, who loved Tuor as a son, permitted it when he found that his daughter was full willing. Maeglin hated Tuor for this, and plotted his revenge on Idril. . . and as the years passed, on their son, the beautiful Eärendil.
[edit] The Fall of Gondolin
- Main article: Fall of Gondolin
While searching for ore and straying (against the commands of Turgon) too far from the city, Maeglin was captured by Orcs. At his begging and bribing they took him before Morgoth himself, who extracted the information about Gondolin at a price: the death of Tuor and Eärendil, the hand of Idril, and the lordship of Gondolin after its capture.
Maeglin returned to Gondolin and kept his capture by Morgoth a secret. Idril, however, who had noticed and rejected his advances, saw and feared the change that had come over him. Therefore she discussed with her husband the idea of making an escape tunnel. Tuor, confused but willing, complied. In secret, a tunnel that cut through the rock of the hill and out under Tumladen was constructed.
At last Morgoth finalized his plan, and he loosed his massive army upon the city. Again Tuor and others urged Turgon to flee the brunt of the assault, but, convinced of the invincibility of his city (and with Maeglin whispering in his ear), Turgon decided to stay and fight.
There was a great siege, during which Maeglin sought (from the inside) to take Idril and throw Eärendil from the walls. But Tuor arrived in time to save them both, and after a brief struggle hurled Maeglin down into the flames. But the city could not be saved, and thousands were killed. One by one the great lords of Gondolin fell, and Turgon, disillusioned and broken-hearted, ordered all to follow Tuor out through the tunnel when he saw that the destruction was inevitable. Only his guard stayed around him, and all who remained were killed as the white tower collapsed.
Gathering as many of the people as they could find, Tuor and Idril escaped down the tunnel. It was a hard road through the mountains; Glorfindel was killed by a balrog that lay in ambush. But at last the Gondolindrim came to Nan-tathren, and after resting there for some time they came down to the refuge at the Mouths of Sirion, where they mourned the loss of the White City.
[edit] Description
Tolkien drew several pictures of Gondolin himself, but his largest description of Gondolin is found in the Fall of Gondolin.
- "...Then they looked up and could see, and lo! they were at the foot of steep hills, and these hills made a great circle wherein lay a wide plain, and set therein, not rightly at the midmost but rather nearer to that place where they stood, was a great hill with a level top, and upon that summit rose a city in the new light of the morning..."
- ― The Fall of Gondolin (Houghton Mifflin version page 158)
- "...But Tuor looked upon the walls of stone, and the uplifted towers, upon the glistering pinnacles of the town, and he looked upon the stairs of stone and marble, bordered by slender balustrades and cooled by the leap of fountains of Amon Gwareth..."
- ― The Fall of Gondolin (Houghton Mifflin version page 159)
- "...Then did the throng return within the gates and the wanderers with them, and Tuor saw they were of iron and of great height and strength. Now the streets of Gondolin were paved with stone and wide, kerbed with marble, and fair houses and courts amid gardens of bright flowers were set about the ways, and many towers of great slenderness and beauty builded of white marble and carved most marvellously rose to the heaven. Squares there were lit with fountains and the home of birds that sang amid the branches of their aged trees, but of all these the greatest was that place where stood the king's palace, and the tower thereof was the loftiest in the city, and the fountains that played before the doors shot twenty fathoms and seven in the air and fell in a singing rain of crystal: therein did the sun glitter splendidly by day, and the moon most magically shimmered by night. The birds that dwelt there were of the whiteness of snow and their voices sweeter than a lullaby of music. On either side of the doors of the palace were two trees, one that bore blossom of gold and the other of silver, nor did they ever fade, for they were shoots of old from the glorious Trees of Valinor that lit those places before Melko and Gloomweaver withered them: and those trees the Gondolindrim named Glingol and Bansil..."
- ― Fall of Gondolin (Houghton Mifflin version page 160)
See also quotes at Tumladen.
[edit] Major inhabitants in Gondolin
- See also Category:Gondolindrim
- Turgon, King of Gondolin and head of the House of the King
- Idril Celebrindal, daughter of Turgon and wife of Tuor
- Aredhel, sister of Turgon, wife of Eöl, and mother of Maeglin
- Twelve Houses of the Gondolindrim
- Maeglin, son of Aredhel and Eöl, betrayer of Gondolin, chief of the House of the Mole
- Tuor, messenger of Ulmo and husband of Idril, father of Eärendil
- Glorfindel, chief of the House of the Golden Flower
- Galdor, chief of the House of the Tree
- Penlod, marshal of the House of the Pillar and the House of the Tower of Snow
- Duilin, master archer and chief of the House of the Swallow
- Egalmoth, chief of the House of the Heavenly Arch
- Salgant, chief of the House of the Harp
- Ecthelion, chief of the House of the Fountain
- Rog, chief of the House of the Hammer of Wrath
- Elemmakil, Captain of the Guard of the secret path to Gondolin
[edit] Etymology
Gondolin means "hidden rock" in Sindarin from gond "rock" and dolen "hidden".
Gondolind is perhaps a Mithrimin name[1] and means 'stone of music'. In proper Sindarin it was named Gonnólen which means "hidden rock". In Quenya it was named Ondolinde.
In Eriol's Old English translations, Gondolin is referred as Stangaldor(burg) "stone-enchantment-(city)", Folgenburg "hidden city" Galdorfaesten "enchantment-fortress".[2]
[edit] Other versions of the Legendarium
In The Book of Lost Tales, Gondolin was known as the City of Seven Names. Its other six names were (in Gnomish):
- Gondobar (Stone House), translated into Qenya as Ondomard- or Ondosta
- Gondothlimbar (House of the Stone Folk), translated into Qenya as Ondostamard-
- Gwarestrin (Tower of Guard), translated into Qenya as Tiri(o)stirion or Vara-, Vorastirin
- Gar Thurion (Secret Place), translated into Qenya as Ardalomba or Ardaurin
- Loth (Flower), translated into Qenya as Losse (Rose)
- Lothengriol[note 1] (Flower of the Vale or Lily of the Valley),[3] translated into Qenya as Endillos[4]
[edit] See Also
- ↑ Earlier forms of the name Lothengriol were Losengriol and Lósengriol. Cf. J.R.R. Tolkien, Christopher Tolkien (ed.), The Book of Lost Tales Part One, p. 172 and J.R.R. Tolkien, Christopher Tolkien (ed.), The Book of Lost Tales Part Two, p. 202.
- ↑ J.R.R. Tolkien, "Words, Phrases and Passages in Various Tongues in The Lord of the Rings", in Parma Eldalamberon XVII (edited by Christopher Gilson) p.133
- ↑ J.R.R. Tolkien, Christopher Tolkien (ed.), The Shaping of Middle-earth, "III. The Quenta: Appendix 1: Fragments of a translation of The Quenta Noldorinwa into Old English, made by Ælfwine or Eriol; together with Old English equivalents of Elvish names"
- ↑ J.R.R. Tolkien, Christopher Tolkien (ed.), The Book of Lost Tales Part Two, "The Fall of Gondolin", p. 158
- ↑ J.R.R. Tolkien, "The Alphabet of Rúmil & Early Noldorin Fragments", in Parma Eldalamberon XIII (edited by Carl F. Hostetter, Christopher Gilson, Arden R. Smith, Patrick H. Wynne, and Bill Welden), p. 102