Are bond funds a safe haven if the stock market crashes?
With interest rates about to rise, is it a good time to invest in a bond fund?
These are questions investors may be asking themselves as the stock market may be peaking and the Fed keeps jacking up interest rates. If you are fearful of what may happen in the stock market, you may also be considering putting money into one of the popular bond ETFs. Read further to understand that a bond fund comes with its own set of risks, ones that the financial services industry won't tell you about.
Let's start with the basics of bonds.
When you buy an individual bond, you are in effect making a loan to the issuer. You will receive a fixed rate of interest until the bond matures. At that time, you will receive the face amount of the bond. For example, if you buy a $10,000 face value bond with a 4% coupon yield, you will earn $400 per year in interest and get the $10,000 back when the bond matures.
Bonds are marketable securities, which makes current yields and prices more interesting. Interest payments from bonds are fixed, so the market adjusts for changing interest rates by moving bond prices. Using the example bonds, if current interest rates were greater than the 4% coupon, the bond would sell at a discounted price, below the $10,000 face value. If current rates for comparable bonds are lower than 4%, the bond would be priced at a premium, or higher than the $10,000 face amount. If you think about it for a while, this makes sense. Changing bond prices allow bonds to reflect current rates.
When you buy a bond at a discount or premium price, the dealer will quote you a yield-to-maturity. This is the actual annual return you will earn, accounting for the discount or premium and coupon payments if you hold the bond until maturity.
Now you know more about bonds that the majority of bond fund owning investors.
The next step is to understand how a bond fund or ETF differs from owing individual bonds. The fact that bond fund investors don't grasp is that a bond fund does not have a maturity date when a face value will be paid. A fund is constantly buying and selling bonds as investors buy and sell shares of the fund. Many funds also have a target duration or time to average maturity. This means they will sell bonds as their maturity shortens to buy longer term bonds. Because of the open-end maturity of a bond ETF, when interest rates go up, bond prices and the fund's share price will go down and that price will not recover. The only thing that will cash a bond fund's price to increase is declining interest rates. This means in an extended period of rising rates; bond fund investors will see their principal decline without the possibility of a recovery.
Here are three examples of popular bond funds and what could go wrong with an investment in each.
As a defensive move against rising interest rates you will often see financial advisor recommend a short-term bond fund such as the Vanguard Short-Term Bond ETF (NYSE: BSV), which $25 billion in investor money.
This fund has an average portfolio duration of 2.7 years. A rough rule of thumb is that a bond portfolio will decline by the duration for every one percent increase in interest rates. This means the BSV share price will drop by about 3% for each one percent increase in rates. Not exactly a safety of principal investment. For all of that "safety" you get a current SEC yield of 2.84%.
Bottom line: Short-term bond funds are not as safe as advertised.
High yield bond funds such as the $16 billion in assets iShares iBoxx $ High Yield Corporate Bond ETF (NYSE: HYG) pay a more attractive current yield, but with added danger to your invested principal. High-yield is the term for non-investment grade bonds. These are also called junk bonds.
The low credit ratings of high yield issuers mean the companies behind the bonds are more at risk of default. High yield bonds can be a good investment if the economy is doing well. However, when a recession hits, defaults in the high-yield universe sky rocket.
A fund like HYG will lose significant value as investors run for the exits and the fund managers must sell their best bonds to pay off redemptions.
It could get very ugly and not worth the current 5.7% SEC yield.
The iShares Core U.S. Aggregate Bond ETF (NYSE: AGG) is the largest bond ETF with $56 billion in investor money. The fund is touted as a diversified way to cover the full range of investment grade bonds.
Total bond funds like AGG are the less well informed financial advisors' recommendation to get bond exposure in an investment portfolio. Unfortunately, this fund has a weighted average maturity (very similar to duration) of over eight years and an SEC yield of just 3.1%. A one percent rise in average rates would cause the fund share price to drop by about 8% a 2% increase would be a mid-teens loss of principal.
Not a good trade off to earn 3% per year.
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THE 11 BEST PUNISHER STORIES EVER
ekko | August 31, 2010 |
Continuing my regular column of comic book top tens, a focus this week on Marvel's skull-shirted Charles Bronson wannabee. Inspired by the reference to him in the newspaper headline read by the cabbie in the opening shot of the trailer for the 2010 Avengers cartoon. A favorite regular comics column that I read, "Comics Should Be Good," did a readers' poll of the best Punisher stories, and nearly all were by Garth Ennis (duh). And I agree that his work is by far the best in terms of readability (and re-readability)—but his vision is only one take on the character. Other tales have helped shaped him, and their stories would make damn fine (and essential) additions to your comic book collection. So my favorites include some Garth, but there's more here, too . . . Plus, their list only went up to 10, but this one goes to 11!
P.S. Nearly everything is from the 2000s, which may be seen as a result of comics getting better, or the fact that I didn't read comics for most of the 1990s. You pick.
11. The Punisher 1-5 (1986), a.k.a. "Circle of Blood." Written by Steven Grant and illustrated by the best Captain America artist of the 1980s, Mike Zeck, this initial series tried to soften up Punisher by explaining his homicidal tendencies as having been due to the involuntary ingestion of psychopharmaceuticals. Remember, this was around the time of Alan Alda and the assassination of Ronald Reagan—crazy guys with guns weren't exactly popular. But the cover of the first issue still got away with featuring a gigantic Punisher, his back to the wall in a hail of bullets, armed and firing back. It was good enough to get Punisher his own series the following year (with art by Klaus Janson). It gets on my top 11 not for the story so much as the art. Oh, and that cover of issue one. Whenever I think of Punisher, that's the image that first comes to mind.
10. "The Frankencastle saga" (2010). Go ahead, give me crap for this, but I'm standing by this entry. First of all, the book that started the storyline, Dark Reign: The List – Punisher, was shocking—Daken versus Punisher, and Pun loses. (Plus, art by John Romita, Jr.!) Continuing in Punisher #11, we see Frank's body collected and stitched together by none other than Morbius and the League of Monsters—a "team" that had been absent from the Marvel Universe for way, way, wayyyyyy too long! I admit, once that story started getting going it dragged on too long and wore out its welcome, so I'm going to say you should read just these books: Dark Reign: The List; Punisher numbers 11 and 12 (for context); and then the current crossover four-issue storyline, "Punishment," which begins in Dark Wolverine #88, and shows Frankencastle seeking revenge against Daken. It's not poetry, and you have to be willing to accept the premise, but it's about the most mayhemic fun you'll ever have reading about Punisher. And yes, I made up the word "mayhemic" just for this piece. Because no other word fits.
9. Amazing Spider-Man #129 (1974). Gerry Conway and John Romita, Sr., introduced the character for the first time (and also The Jackal, by the way) on the very first page of this book, as Punisher assassinates a statue of Spider-Man. That's right, Spidey is the Punisher's first target. Like most "classic" Marvel tales, the two fight and then talk (why do they never talk and then fight?) until Punisher comes to understand that he can't believe everything he reads in the Daily Bugle and the two end up being pals. We don't learn much about Big Pun's past here, only that he is an ex-Marine.
8. "Barracuda" (Punisher MAX #31-37 (2006)). What do the first Burton and the second Nolan Batman films; all the Lee/Ditko Spider-Mans; Johnny Cash songs; and Omarosa's season on Celebrity Apprentice all have in common? Great villains! A keen understanding of the principle that a hero is only as interesting as his enemy is the backbone of Garth Ennis' run on Punisher. And the greatest villain created during this period was the cannibal with the cuss-words on his teeth, Barracuda. Profane, nasty, and as macho as humanly possible, Barracuda is my favorite Ennis creation of all time. He reappeared a few times and even got his own series.
7. Punisher Max "Mother Russia" (Punisher MAX #13-18 (2005)). The Punisher MAX story featuring Nick Fury and Russian spies. Awesome, and a rare foray by Ennis into the rest of the Marvel Universe. It grabs you by the shorthairs right from the start, and never lets up.
6. "Small Wake for a Tall Man" (Punisher War Journal #4 (2006)). Matt Fraction and Mike Deodato present the funeral of Stilt Man, at which the villains paying respects all share their hatred of Punisher. What makes the Ennis books so different is that Punisher isn't really the star—the villains are. Here, Fraction tells the same kind of story, only he does so with the "Marvel Universe" version of Punisher. It's truly unlike any other Punisher story, and it has a (literally) explosive ending. The entire Fraction run represented the Marvel Universe's reclaiming of Punisher, after Garth Ennis took him outside of that world. There was never any attempt to match this Frank Castle, who fought supervillains, used gadgets, and idolized Captain America, with the adult-oriented, gritty MAX title. Marvel deserves a lot of credit for this: The character can be different in different stories, and not everything has to fit into continuity. Incidentally, the Civil War tie-in (in War Journal 1-3) has Punisher and Cap facing off, in one of my favorite Punisher fistfights of all time.
5. Punisher Meets Archie (1994). Yes. That's right. A done-in-one drawn by the legendary John Buscema. Punisher mistakes Riverdale's Archie for a crime lord on the lam, and hilarity ensues. The best part is that only Punisher is drawn "the Marvel way"—all the Archie characters are in the old innocent Archie style. Best publisher crossover of the 1990s.
4. The Punisher MAX: The End (2004). In this done-in-one special, Garth Ennis gives us the last Punisher story ever. He's managed to survive a nuke blast, and he goes after the coven of billionaires, politicians, and other fortunate ones who profited from it. In killing them, Punisher kills off the rest of the human race. Since this character has always had trouble defining "the line" between good guys and bad guys, wiping out all humanity seems to be poetic justice: There's no need to draw the line anymore. Nobody is good enough. No potential for rehabilitation or redemption outweighs the need for punishment. Brilliant.
3. Born (2003). An Ennis MAX miniseries, with his "The Boys" artist (Darick Robertson) on art shores. I actually thought this would be boring, since most war comics are, but it was in fact both brilliant and powerful. In it, we learn that Punisher's wife and kids being killed actually didn't do all that much to change the dude. Even back in Vietnam he was the way to becoming a homicidal maniac willing to kill anyone whose ideas of justice were different from his won. It should be noted that Ennis wasn't the first one to put Frank in a realistic wartime setting. Back in 1992, Vietnam veteran Doug Murray's series "The 'Nam" brought Castle in for frequent cameos, which was a little strange since The 'Nam was a fact-based semi-autobiographical series and The Punisher . . . isn't.
2. Daredevil #183-184 (1982). I've mentioned these two issues before, as one of the greatest Daredevil stories ever, here. So I won't say more than this: Frank Miller does Punisher, and proves that the character has mad potential. This was the beginning of a noir version of the character.
1. "In the Beginning" (Punisher: MAX #1-6 (2002)). The Marvel Knights Punisher maxiseries "Welcome Back Frank" (2000-2001) was Garth Ennis' Punisher debut, alongside Steve Dillon, but was a little silly and pretty clunky. Also, I am not a fan of Steve Dillon (but I can't debate its importance both to the character, who had stalled out in the early 1990s, and to Marvel (it helped inspire editor-in-chief Joe Quesada to start Marvel's MAX lineup)). Still, I'd argue that this storyline, the first one for the MAX imprint, was more important. In it, Ennis brought back Microchip (the dude in the panel truck from countless lame 1990s Punisher storylines) as a traitor who is trying to arrest Castle for warcrimes. In doing so, Ennis breaks Punisher from his capes-and-tights past both literally, by ending his relationship with Micro, and symbolically, by showing how that past betrays the potential for a well-drawn character. It was Ennis' way of saying that his Punisher series would be multi-dimensional, and would not be beholden to past visions of the character. Probably the best retcon in history.
Punisher Kills the Marvel Universe (1995). Another done-in-one that's just a lot of fun. It's a What If? story, and the title says it all.
Jason Aaron's current work. The jury is out on this, but Aaron is probably the best writer Marvel has in its stable.
Marvel Universe Vs. The Punisher. Also on sale now, written by Jonathan Maberry and drawn by Punisher MAX artist Goran Parlov, this series has great potential.
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A Chat with Danh Vo About 'Noguchi for Danh Vo: Counterpoint'
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Danh Vo in front of his work Untitled (Structure for Akari PL2). Photo: M+, Hong Kong
Noguchi for Danh Vo: Counterpoint, the latest exhibition at the M+ Pavilion, showcases a dialogue between two artists, both considered to be some of the most influential figures in modern and contemporary art: Japanese–American artist Isamu Noguchi (1904–1988) and Vietnamese–Danish artist Danh Vo (born 1975). The show is curated in partnership with the Isamu Noguchi Foundation and Garden Museum, New York.
Danh Vo was born in Vietnam in 1975, but his family fled the country as refugees when he was four years old, ending up in Denmark. He creates works that poetically conjure up lesser known histories and biographies through found objects and artifacts. We recently sat down with Danh Vo to find out more about both his own works in the show, and his relationship to Noguchi.
Can you tell us about the background of this show?
I'm Danh Vo. I'm an artist, and, together with M+ and The Noguchi Museum, I proposed and have prepared this exhibition with my own work and the works of Isamu Noguchi.
What was bringing Isamu Noguchi into this exhibition like?
Danh Vo looking up at Noguchi's Akari PL2 lamp, on the side of his own work Untitled (Structure for Akari PL2). Photo: M+, Hong Kong
The purpose of the exhibition is to present two bodies of work from two artists. Noguchi is an artist that I looked into relatively late, and it has just been this fantastic universe to explore. I want him to be a guideline for me in terms of what I want to achieve as an artist. Many of the challenges have of course been with presenting Noguchi's work, because how do you represent sixty years of work? It's a difficult task, but it has been fantastic to learn about the works through installing them.
Just like Noguchi, you have lived in many places. How have the places you lived or visited influenced you? How do you feel about the concept of 'home'?
I learn through my work. I always consider my most important works to be the ones that teach me about the world. I'm sure that it was my curiosity that has been the engine that moved me from one place to the other, and I can relate my approach to life to having parents who were refugees. I think that really taught me to move, because I grew up not knowing about my past. My parents never talked about it, because it was traumatic for them. I think when you decide to move to another place and never return, you look forwards. And if I grew up with anything, it was this idea of moving forwards, and not looking back.
A chat with artist Danh Vo, and curators Doryun Chong, and Dakin Hart
Curators of the exhibition Doryun Chong and Dakin Hart offer insights into the shared backgrounds of the two artists Isamu Noguchi and Danh Vo—their multicultural upbringings and explorations of different cultures—to reveal why and how they have been paired for this exhibition.
DANH VO: It's the combination of Noguchi's work that is intriguing for me because it illustrates this beautiful, curious mind.
DORYUN CHONG: Noguchi for Danh Vo: Counterpoint is a two-person exhibition of Japanese-American artist Isamu Noguchi and Vietnamese-Danish artist Danh Vo. It is structured around the concept of 'counterpoint' which is a musical term that describes two separate, independent melodies that sometimes weave together to create a harmony and at other times exist independently and separately.
DAKIN HART: With the idea of the scholar's garden, we try to use Noguchi's to create a world, a universe for Danh to move around in and think about, and inhabit it seemed like an ideal metaphor for a way to connect them. Isamu Noguchi is an American sculptor, who was born in Los Angeles to a Japanese poet and an American editor and writer. He was a set designer, he was an industrial designer he collaborated with lots of different kinds of creative people across the spectrum and he really made a career out of, as he said being at home nowhere, precisely but making himself at home everywhere. And he really tried to see himself around the planet and to draw on many, many cultures obviously, he was bi-racial, and multi-cultural that became the heart and soul of his practice.
Play was extraordinarily important to him play is how we learn how to interface with the world and each other. He thought of something he called 'non-directive play' and the idea is to make playgrounds that are more like nature than they are like military training grounds which is what playgrounds looked like when he started thinking about them. Nature doesn't tell you what to do with it nature is an open space with infinite interpretations physical interpretations.
DORYUN CHONG: Danh Vo—in the early part of his career he became known for mining his own family's histories as refugees arriving in Europe after having left Vietnam that had been devastated by war and the continued turbulence. He is a connoisseur of forms and skills and craftsmanships with an incredible eye and one aspect of Danh Vo's practice has been deep engagement with stories and histories and narratives of different individuals. Sometimes these individuals are not artists but are still people with incredibly touching and meaningful life stories.
DANH VO: When I started to work on We the People to recreate the skin of the Statue of Liberty I was interested in working in opposition to how people have framed my work at the time people talked a lot about that I was using my personal history in my work etc. and I wanted to work against that idea because I don't think it's true. I think one has to explore different ways of working. It was really interesting to discover that the Statue of Liberty was actually only 2mm thick in the skin. I thought it was important because I could take an image that most people have a relationship to so I thought I freed myself from the personal history and so forth.
DAKIN HART: Noguchi spent his entire life on the margins of the canon and Danh is doing the same thing now. Danh is trying to create an alternative parallel from the outside that asks different questions [and] provides a different perspective on old stories. Noguchi didn't really think in human time. Human time is a blink. That's why he loves stones because stones were a way to think about much longer arcs.
Danh, I would say, tends more to insert one cultural perspective into another. The root impulse is the same which is a sort of diasporic mentality... how to let seeds disperse, and help them take root and help them grow into new things.
DORYUN CHONG: What Danh Vo's doing with Isamu Noguchi is not just an academic exercise of researching and exploring the older artist's body of work he is thinking of Noguchi as a kind of a lodestar for his own body of work that is continuously evolving.
In the end this exhibition is about how artists can inspire one another.
What is the concept behind the pavilion in the gallery space, Untitled (Structure for Akari PL2)?
In the works of Noguchi, he seamlessly transversed the categorisations of many things, but especially with sculptures and design. We wanted to have a place in the exhibition where we could hang and place objects, but also a place where people could rest, sit down, and look at the gallery. I had recently started to look into these pavilions, because they are representations of the classical Chinese building tradition, and it's just a fantastic design. When you strip away all of the ornaments, it's basically a modular system that is a very important element in modernist architecture. Even Bauhaus looked into these modular systems. It's just a beautiful structure.
There are no walls guiding visitors through the exhibition. What impact do you think this has on the viewing experience?
Installation view of the M+ Pavilion space during Noguchi for Danh Vo: Counterpoint. Photo: © South Ho
I learned very early on that I cannot control the viewer. We all look at things differently, and what I like about the space without walls is that it's the sculpture in itself that defines the space and architecture. When you deal with sculptures, you walk around them; you walk back and forth, and you explore. I think as an artist you make a proposal, and people walk in it and explore it on their own terms.
Can you tell us about your works in the containers outside the gallery space?
The containers outside of the M+ Pavilion containing Danh Vo's works. Photo: © South Ho
When we started to select the works to be in the show, I wanted to create a little bit more space, so I decided to put two containers with my works outside.
One of works in the containers is called Dirty Dancing, and it's about religion. I was actually forced to go to church every Sunday until I was eighteen years old, and I really hated it. I didn't know what I was doing there. Later on, I discovered that my father was not always Catholic; he converted to Catholicism late in life. Before that, he was actually Confucian, and a very big believer in Ngo Dinh Diem, the first South Vietnamese president, being able to unify Vietnam. Dirty Dancing is about the relationship between me and Christianity and my father.
Part of Danh Vo's sculpture We the People (detail) leaning against one of the container walls. Photo: © South Ho
Another one of the works inside the containers is a part of We the People (detail), which is almost three hundred sculptures distributed across the world that, if put together, create a one-to-one replica of the Statue of Liberty. When I started to work on We the People (detail), I was interested in working in opposition to how people were framing my work. At the time, people talked a lot about how I was using my personal history in my work, and that I didn't make a lot of large pieces. I wanted to go against that idea, because I didn't think it was true. I think one has to explore a lot of different ways of working.
So I was invited to Kunsthalle Fridericianum in Kassel, a relatively big institution with big exhibition spaces, and in my mind the only thing I could come up with when thinking of a large thing to put there was the Statue of Liberty. I thought it was important because I could take an image that most people have a relationship to, freeing myself from any personal history, and creating this Frankenstein's monster that got its own life.
What is one of your favourite works by Noguchi in this exhibition?
Close-up view of Noguchi's Akari [16A], 1952. © The Isamu Noguchi Foundation and Garden Museum, New York / ARS; Photo: © South Ho
I think it's the combination of Noguchi's works that really is intriguing for me, because it illustrates his wonderfully curious mind. But I really envy him for creating the Akari lamps. I think they're so misunderstood, having sometimes been seen as too commercial. For me, I just see these beautiful sculptures. He was an apprentice of Constantin Brâncuși, the Romanian sculptor, but also American architect Buckminster Fuller. And when you look at these lamps—at his decision to put modern technology and structure into this old Japanese lantern tradition—it's like a mix of his mentors unified in this beautiful item.
As told to Ellen Oredsson. The above interview has been edited for clarity. This article was originally published on M+ Stories.
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One of the best parts of a cruise holiday is all the amazing food there is to try on board the ship. From speciality dining options that let you sample the cuisine of the countries you are visiting, to formal dinners that rival the quality of top restaurants, your cruise is likely to be a delicious exploration for your taste buds. However, dining room etiquette, getting the best value for money, and arranging to have speciality needs met can all be a bit daunting for people that are new to the wonderful world of cruising. That's why we've got some of the best experienced cruisers in the business – the bloggers – to give you their top tips for hacking the cruise ship dining room and getting the most out of your cruise.
One you've got to know the staff, you'll find that everyone is more than willing to help you out should you need something a little extra, just ask! Cruise lines are usually great at accommodating any special dietry needs or little requests you may have, but they can't help if you don't ask. Don't be shy, make friends with the waiters and you'll soon see how wonderful cruise ship service can be.
Some cruise lines offer amazing deals on additional packages, which can include unlimited alcohol and dining packages that offer you the chance to try several speciality option for a fixed price. Matt Hochberg of the (unofficial) Royal Caribbean Blog, points out that "Royal Caribbean's unlimited alcohol package has been extremely popular since they debuted a few years ago, and the key to saving at least 20% on an unlimited drink package is to pre-purchase the drink package online." Plus, booking online means that you can skip the queues once you get onboard. What's not to love? Head to the pool deck and kick back with an all-inclusive drink instead.
This is especially true if you are planning a special occasion. There's nothing worse than having an exciting evening of celebration planned, only to find that you can't get a reservation for your chosen evening. Instead, book in advance online to avoid disappointment. You might even find that the staff can help you give the evening a little extra je ne sais quoi if you give them plenty of notice.
As with most things, you will find it easier to make special menu requests if you let your server know well in advance so they can be as helpful as possible. Lot of people find that the waitstaff quickly get to know them and anticipate their needs without them evening having to ask after a few days, so don't be afraid to ask.
When you're booking your cruise, it is well worth checking what additional perks are available with your package. Doug Parker, from Cruise Radio, says, "To provide more value, a lot of lines are throwing in extra perks such as dining packages, free wifi, select shore excursions, unlimited drinks, pre-paid gratuities, and onboard credit." A quick look at the options before you click book can save you lots of money and effort once you're on board.
Experienced cruise travellers all know that taking advantage of first night offers can often save you a lot of money, or at least secure you extra little perks. Both Cruise Radio's Doug Parker and luxury cruise writer, Andrea M. Rotondo, recommend asking reception or the head maître d about the embarkation night specials as soon as you board. A lot of cruise lines offer a complimentary bottle of wine to diners on the first night, plus you get to sample the alternative dining options before anyone else discovers them.
Whilst the glitz and glamour of speciality dining options, or the speed of the buffet, can be alluring, making the most of the dining room is a great way of saving time and money. Whilst the buffet is often overrun at breakfast and lunch, you'd be surprised how few people use the dining room at these times. Sherry Laskin, Cruise Maven, suggests that the dining room is a great option if you are cruising alone, as it doesn't require you to try and find a table with your food already in hand.
Even without a celebrity name, the main dining room often has excellent food options that shouldn't be overlooked. Jason Leppert, Editor of Popular Cruising, advises, "With so much emphasis on specialty restaurants, main dining rooms are often bypassed, but they should not be forgotten. There's still great food to be had there, and in some cases the experience is far better than you'd expect." The food is usually top quality, and the larger menus make it easy to find something delicious to suit your tastes.
Cruise lines make a big deal of their speciality dining options, which are often developed in conjunction with famous chefs, and for good reason. These are often a great way to discover new cuisine, sample the flavours of the region you are sailing to, and experience luxury dining while you're on board. Whether you're a massive foodie or you're just looking for an extra special meal, it's worth the extra cost for what may well be the best meal of your cruise.
Buying food and drink on shore excursions can soon add up, especially if you aren't prepared and end up buying from the nearest vendor because you just can't wait. Johanna Castro, who runs blog Lifestyle Fifty, suggests making the most of the cruise ship's amenities to make sure you don't end up having to buy overpriced food and drink on shore. She recommends, "Take a couple of items of fruit from the breakfast buffet and pop them into your day bag so that you have a healthy snack handy when you're on shore excursions." According to Jo, taking a bottle of water that you've filled on the ship is also a good idea, as plastic bottles of water are often expensive on shore. This way, you can make sure you only have to buy delicious local foods you want to try, rather than having to grab the most convenient thing.
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Insect Stings: Symptoms, Treatments, and Prevention
Including stings from wasps, hornets, yellow jackets, and bees.
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Maggie O'Neill is a health writer and reporter based in New York who specializes in covering medical research and emerging wellness trends, with a focus on cancer and addiction. Prior to her time at Health, her work appeared in the Observer, Good Housekeeping, CNN, and Vice. She was a fellow of the Association of Health Care Journalists' 2020 class on Women's Health Journalism and 2021 class on Cancer Reporting. In her spare time, she likes meditating, watching TikToks, and playing fetch with her dog, Finnegan.
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Being outside when it's nice out can mean a lot of things. a picnic in the park, a swim in the springs, and a heartrate-raising trail hike. However, sometimes venomous bugs like bees, wasps, yellow jackets, and hornets can show up to ruin your fun. Wasp stings are some of the most painful of those run-ins, according to MedlinePlus, a resource from the National Library of Medicine. Here, experts weigh in on what you need to know about wasp stings, including symptoms, treatment options, and prevention methods.
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What Are Wasps and Other Stinging Insects?
Wasps, hornets, yellow jackets, and bees are part of the scientific order Hymenoptera, of which there are 150,000 different species, according to StatPearls. Fire ants are also part of this order of insects. Bees belong to the scientific family of Apidae, while wasps, hornets, and yellow jackets are in the Vespidae family.
You can find wasps, hornets, and bees in all 50 states of the U.S. as well as in Canada, in parts of Europe, North Africa, Asia, and Australia.
Wasps, bees, yellow jackets, and other insects have a barbed stinger that they use for self-defense or when provoked. That stinger contains venom, which is transmitted when you get stung. It's the venom that causes the pain you feel afterward.
Sometimes, the barbed stinger of a bee might get lodged in your skin and be left behind after a sting. This doesn't usually happen with wasps due to their retractable stinger that can sting many times. With exception of the Africanized bee, most bees are docile and will only attack as a defense or when provoked.
Wasps—and other Vespidae family members—have a more aggressive nature. Some will build large nests that can hold many wasps or hornets. Yellow jacket nests are usually located underground or in hedges.
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What Does a Sting Look Like?
Wasp stings can either be a painful nuisance or they can trigger a full-blown allergic reaction, depending on the person—so you want to avoid them altogether if you can.
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Upon first glance, the local reaction of a wasp sting might not look too different than many other bug bites or stings. They're usually swollen and either pink or red, Michael Cameron, MD, an assistant professor of dermatology at Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai in New York, told Health.
Additionally, there's typically a red mark that looks like a pen prick in the center of the sting, Tania Mucci-Elliott, MD, an infectious disease, allergy, and immunology expert at NYU Langone, told Health.
Sting Symptoms
Your sting symptoms depend on whether or not you're allergic to wasps. If you only have a local reaction—the red, swollen patch on the skin that shows up where the sting happened—you may only feel itching or pain at the site, according to UpToDate.
"While the initial symptom at the time of sting can be painful, most people complain of itching afterward," Dr. Cameron said. This usually calms down within a few hours of the sting.
In some cases though, wasp venom can cause a severe, potentially life-threatening allergic reaction called anaphylaxis. Signs of a severe reaction can look like any of the following symptoms, according to MedlinePlus:
Swelling in the lips, tongue, mouth, or throat
Rapid heart rate
Collapse (from shock)
Abdominal cramping
As long as the person isn't having a severe allergic reaction, stings can be treated at home. "If there are no signs of a systemic allergic reaction, then a doctor would not handle things very differently than what a person can do at home," said Dr. Cameron.
Your first step: Remove the stinger if it happens to get lodged in your skin 0151which isn't usually the case —by carefully flicking it out without squeezing it. According to Dr. Cameron, you should avoid squeezing the stinger with because it can release additional venom.
Once the stinger's gone, wash the site with water and gentle soap, apply a cold compress to keep the swelling down, and try an over-the-counter medication like ibuprofen for pain, said Dr. Cameron. Dr. Elliott also recommended keeping the area elevated and using an analgesic like Cutter Bite MD Insect Bite Relief stick to help with pain and itching.
While most should be able to treat a wasp sting at home, if you've been stung multiple times, going to your local urgent care clinic or another healthcare provider's office might prove beneficial, as an expert might be able to help you remove multiple stingers from your skin.
When To Seek Medical Attention
While most people will only have a minor local reaction to a wasp sting, the possibility of a serious allergic reaction is possible, per UpToDate—especially if someone gets stung by a wasp for the first time.
It's important to keep in mind the signs of a severe allergic reaction (listed above) in this case. "If swelling spreads to areas besides the sting location or if you develop difficulty breathing, nausea, widespread hives, dizziness, you should go to your local emergency department as this would be signs of a systemic allergic reaction," said Dr. Cameron.
There, they may treat you with epinephrine, per UpToDate, which you can also keep on hand in the form of an EpiPen if you have a history of severe allergic reactions.
Even if you aren't experiencing any of the telltale signs of a severe allergic reaction but still feel like something's off, it can't hurt to check in with your healthcare provider.
If you're going to an outdoor picnic, you'll want to limit attracting bees, wasps, and other stinging insects. Consider bringing covers for any food and drink items you'll have. When hiking or working in the yard know the typed of environments where stinging insects like to build their nests. Try to avoid provoking bees and wasps by swatting at them if possible. Also, if you frequently notice wasps in your backyard—or another area near your home—you should regularly check for wasps' nests in that location, Dr. Cameron said.
Additionally, it's important to simply be mindful of where you're hanging out when you're outside. "Try to avoid areas where there will be wasps, like eaves of houses," Dr. Elliott said.
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Great wealth and bitter tragedy were both reaped by this family. Even a brief account of their lives can demonstrate how much more there is to learn about Greek experiences in North America than we can now find in standard historical accounts.
Antonio was born of Greek parentage in Beria, Macedonia (modern-day Veria) in 1844 and came to the United States in 1873. He became a naturalized citizen on August 19, 1875 in San Francisco. Louis was also born in Beria on December 24, 1854. He is said to have arrived in New York in 1879 and from there went to St. Louis, San Francisco and Santa Cruz. Other accounts report that the two Proto brothers arrived in New York City together in 1878.
In this version of the Proto Brothers' arrival they came bearing sponges which they immediately sold at great profit. The brothers then traveled to Colon, Panama where they worked for a time as translators an occupation for which they were eminently well fitted, being conversant with several languages. Then, the various accounts on the Proto Brothers flow together again.
In 1879, we learn that the Protoses are living in San Francisco where they owned a restaurant. In 1882, they moved to Tucson which was then a part of the Arizona Territory. And here we have a moment in Greek-American history yet to be fully understood. With their arrival in Tucson in 1882 it is impossible not to believe that these two men did not seek out Alexander Wilkins (1827-1905), the town barber and fellow Greek immigrant. For the moment all we have is speculation on this event. But that it must have occurred seems assured.
After a short stay in Tucson, the ever-enterprising Proto Brothers purchased businesses in Tombstone and Sonora, Mexico engaging in general merchandise. In 1884, they moved to Nogales, AZ opening a bakery on Morley Avenue in an 8'x 10' adobe room crowded with merchandise and sacks of flour, beans and green coffee stacked to the ceiling. If this does not sound like your usual bakery, it must be understood that in 1884 transportation of any kind of goods and most certainly the distribution of food was not what it is today. You bought food and provisions when they became available. This hard fact accounts for the newspaper notices of when basic items like manufacturers, and then sells them to retailers. Jobbing houses can deal in any commodity destined for the retail into a general merchandise store. All these efforts transformed into a general merchandise store. While the brothers were aided in their growing business by three of their nephews Spiro, Anton, and Manuel, published accounts do not report when these three young men came to join their uncles.
As the Proto Brothers were to discover, they had just settled into a region known to locals on both side of the border as Ambos Nogales (e.g. both Nogales). Ambos is the common name massive by any standards. In time, the brothers expanded their ranch into one quarter of a million acres. Aside from their mercantile businesses on both sides of the border the Proto brother's interests soon included cattle, horses, timber sales, mining, oil exploration and other ventures.
The Proto Brothers married into local Mexican families who had long held vast ranches in the Ambos region. Tensions between these families led to the assassination of Louis Proto in early 1909. Reports of the assassination were front-page news for nearly three years on both sides of the border. While the five assassins were eventually caught and the principal murderer shot by firing squad, the tensions along the U.S./Mexico border were such at this specific moment in time that Proto's death almost led to war.
Certainly, part of the jealousy and hate directed toward the Proto family was based in part on the fact that the brothers always took an active interest in public affairs. In terms of the Arizona side of the border, Anton Proto was president of the Nogales Protective Association, four terms on the city council and in 1894, he was elected mayor of Nogales serving one term and so became first Greek mayor of that city and so became the very first Greek-born mayor of any city in the United States.
Another milestone in the Proto family's presence in the Ambos region took place on May 1914, when this family established the Arizona Gas and Electric Company which served both sides of the border (Border Vidette May 2, 1914).
On January 5, 1924, the 25th Infantry in full military dress matched in half step to a funeral dirge leading the citizens of Nogales to the cemetery to pay Anton Proto their last respects.


Elle fut bâtit dans les années trente. Son avenir en tant que piscine est certes un lointain souvenir, mais sa réhabilitation à caractère culturel est en cours. L'avenir dira.
"Photography can only represent the present. Once photographed, the subject becomes part of the past"
The temperature has dropped to the lowest in Sauna Jee. The pools were no longer empty for a long time, the solarium stopped broadcast UV and the dressing rooms are empty. In the restaurant the customer left and never returned. Jee was the place of relaxation and well-being during these moments of glory, which are now a distant memory!
The pool closed permanently in 2001 to the public. The years that followed was fierce squabbling about a possible new destination or a total breakdown. The nickname "Le Crachoir" used in the urbex world is due to the spittoons in the wall that were used for the discharge of chlorine.


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Bloody Murder (2000)
Movies Like The Cabin in the Woods
Movies Like The Predator
Movies Like It Comes at Night
Movies Like Us
Director: Ralph E. Portillo
Stars: Jessica Morris, Peter Guillemette, Patrick Cavanaugh, Crystalle Ford, Tracy Pacheco, Lindsey Brooke, David Smigelski
Julie McConnell is one of a dozen camp counselors working to re-open a summer camp when a series of murders and disappearances begin commited by a hockey masked killer who may be the urban legend killer Trevor Moorehouse. When Julie looks into the murders by herself, she finds that she may be the killer's next target when she gets too close to some dark secrets of the camp which may lead to the killer's identity.
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Just Before Dawn (1981)
Tremors 3: Back to Perfection (2001)
Incense for the Damned (1970)
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Windows (1980)
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Murderous Intent (1986)
Splatter Disco (2007)
Star Light (2020)
Leatherface (2017)
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The Final Girls (2015)
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Rubber (2010)
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Today's market only offers two levels of virtual reality: budget-minded introductory devices and expensive, premium VR devices. As of right now, there's no in-between (although that will change on October 31, 2016 when Sony releases PlayStation VR).
On the introductory side, you have options like Google Cardboard*, Samsung Gear VR*, and a bunch of similar devices* that work with compatible smartphones. These offer the cheapest route to VR, but leave a lot to be desired regarding visual quality, immersion, and anything else you can think of that makes virtual reality attractive. They're bare bones, basic, and should only be used to give you a rough idea of what virtual reality is like. After all, it is just a cell phone strapped to your face.
On the other end of the spectrum, you have expensive devices such as the Oculus Rift* and the HTC Vive*. These devices launched at $599 and $799 respectively.
Although there's inarguably room for growth, these devices produce incredibly immersive virtual reality experiences, and that quality is the reason people believe VR is finally here to stay.
You may see people complaining about SDE, god rays, or glare issues, but the vast majority of reasonable customers admit that, although occasionally visible, these concerns rarely disrupt their experience when immersed in the virtual environment. This has been my observation as well – there's room for improvement, but these premium VR devices are finally delivering incredibly immersive virtual experiences.
Another artifact of today's technological limitations is the cord you're tethered to when using either of these premium headsets. Admittedly, this is one advantage that the mobile VR solutions have over premium VR.
These technical limitations shouldn't scare anyone truly interested in virtual reality away from purchasing right now. There's plenty to enjoy, and the industry is buzzing with energy and excitement – something that won't be as tangible when the masses start catching on.
Just wanted to let you know it's not possible to read the first row of text because it's on top of the featured image. I don't know what's causing it but the same error seems to be repeating on many of your other pages as well.
Hey Matthew – are you on a mobile device? And what browser are you using? I'm not getting any display issues on my side so I want to try and replicate the conditions as closely as possible to see if that makes a difference.
I tried with my mobile device and it showed it correctly unlike my laptop.
That's a weird thing if it's displaying correctly for you and not me, not sure if it's just my laptop displaying it incorrectly or this website. I tested with another computer and to my surprise it showed it as should. Maybe it's just my pc messing then if it shows correctly to others though I have to admit I'm baffled since I haven't encountered the same issue on other sites.


Part One of this article focused on making the decision to hire employees and the costs of doing so. Part Two provides a brief overview of the numerous Federal and California State laws and regulations governing employers. It is important that businesses become familiar with these laws as they contemplate hiring their first employees. Minimum wage, Social Security and Medicare, tax forms and withholdings, workers' compensation, eligibility to work in the United States and other labor laws are all important considerations.
As businesses look to hiring employees, their first consideration is cost. Wage is of course the largest component of employment costs, and in California the minimum wage is $8.00 per hour. This is the minimum wage cost prospective employers face. In addition to the employee's wage, the employer is responsible for paying an equal contribution to the employee's Federal Social Security and Medicare payments. This is the same payment individual business owners pay as their self-employment tax. Currently, the combined tax is 15.3% of the employee's wage (12.4% for Social Security and 2.9% for Medicare) of which the employer is responsible for half.
Employers are also required to withhold taxes from the employee's pay. The amount of tax withheld is determined by the employee's W-4 form which is provided to the employee by the employer. The employee identifies his or her tax status and desired number of exemptions which the employer uses, along with state and federal tax withholding tables, to calculate withholdings. At the end of each year, the employer reports the employee's income and total amount of withholdings to the IRS and the California State Franchise Tax Board via a W-2 form which is also provided to the employee for his personal tax return.
In addition, to wage, tax and withholding requirements, California employers are required to maintain workers' compensation insurance. California does not regulate workers' compensation premiums so the rates vary. See the California Department of Insurance Website for a list of authorized insurers in California. Employers should also familiarize themselves with the most salient features of California's State Disability Insurance (SDI) Program, child labor laws, and federal and state anti-discrimination and anti-retaliation laws.
Development of an employee policy (which will be discussed in part three of this article) and consultation with a San Diego employment lawyer are the best ways to ensure compliance with all of the above regulations. Finally, new and growing businesses today have the option of outsourcing key human resource tasks to companies or free lancers that specialize in payment of wages including handling employee tax forms and withholdings.


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Arvo Ensio Saloranta, född 26 december 1895 i Rengo, död 3 april 1976 i Helsingfors, var en finländsk militär.

Saloranta var kompanichef vid Tekniska högskolans skyddskår 1917–1918 och genomgick Vörå krigsskola, krigsfänrikskolan och officersaspirantkursen i Viborg 1918. Han deltog i finska inbördeskriget med Vörå krigsskola och tog efter kriget sin examen vid Tekniska högskolan samt åkte sedan till Danmark, där han absolverade krigshögskolans tekniska avdelning 1920–1923 samt praktiserade vid vapenfabriker 1923–1924. Vid återkomsten till hemlandet blev han vapenkonstruktör på försvarsministeriet, var teknisk direktör vid statens gevärsfabrik 1927–1929 och chef för vapensmedsskolan 1929–1939. I början av vinterkriget fick han till uppgift att konstruera en pansarmina. För att åstadkomma detta grundade han en byrå och åtta produktionsanläggningar. Under fortsättningskriget tjänstgjorde han som vapenkonstruktör och var efter andra världskriget vapenchef vid huvudstaben ända fram till 1955. Han uppnådde generalmajors grad 1953.

Saloranta konstruerade tillsammans med Aimo Lahti L/S snabbeldsgeväret 27, planerade och tillverkade i början av vinterkriget en pansarmina av trä, försedd med tändrör. Denna mina utgjorde 90 procent av de pansarminor som användes. Vid årsskiftet 1940–1941 konstruerade han en ismina som togs i bruk under namnet ArSa och 1941 en ägghandgranat som undanträngde de mindre effektiva gamla handgranaterna och en lätt granatkastare (modell 47/41).

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