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"Don't touch that," Elloth said as I leaned in to examine an odd-looking root upon the work-bench. At times the dispensary smelled like an entire garden dried and pressed into one room, sweet dark herbs and bitter pale tubers and sharp spices all crushed together in thick confusion. It made my eyes water.
"Why not?"
"Because," she said, carefully turning her mortar in her hand, "if you touch it, you'll die. And what's worse," she added, grinding the instrument harder for emphasis, "you'll have a horrid case of boils."
I considered this statement for a moment. "I do not think I believe you," I replied, although I realized that I had placed my left hand safely in the pocket of my smock. My right hand was beginning to ache from the weight of the full water-pail I clutched.
"As you will," she said, with a brief glance at me.
I set the pail down beside the bench, and the movement sent a gentle ripple out from the center. Small things held my eye these days, strange though it might seem. "There is your water," I said.
"Thank you," she said. "And who was that young man with whom you were walking today?" she asked lightly, just as I was turning to leave.
"A soldier," I said, wiping my hands on the front of my smock. "I tended to a friend of his."
Elloth nodded, looked thoughtful for a moment. "Does he like you, then?"
"I don't know," I shrugged, although it had occurred to me earlier that young men were not inclined to ask young women whom they disliked to accompany them on walks.
"And what is his name?"
I gave a weary sigh. "Beren."
"Beren," she repeated. "Woe betides a woman who loves a man named 'Beren,'" she added in a solemn voice.
"Valar, Elloth! It was a walk. I don't love him—or at least I should hope not. I would think that that sort of thing takes a month, at the very least."
Elloth inclined her head prettily to one side and made a noise that sounded like hm.
"How often do you think about such things, anyhow?" I asked.
"As often as I do not care to think of other things," she replied tersely. I stared at her from the doorway. In the dim light her slender hands were pale against the dark leaves she was crushing in the pestle.
"Well," I said. "Fíriel is waiting on me."
"I have been thinking about her, too."
She nodded. "Does she ever seem lonely, to you?"
"No." I folded my arms over my chest. It had never occurred to me—Fíriel was always moving to fill the empty spaces and to smooth the rough edges of things. "No more lonely than any of the rest of us."
"Between the two of us," she said in a loud whisper, glancing up at me, "I always thought that she should marry Valacar. They would be well-suited."
I raised my eyebrows and opened my mouth to object, as was my habit whenever Elloth took to making such pronouncements. But I found that this time, I found that I could not disagree with my usual virulence.
"Well," said another voice. I turned and realized that Fíriel had appeared beside me in the doorway. Her own arms were folded; her mouth was unsmiling but her eyes were not unamused. "That would certainly be interesting."
But of that she said no more, as both Elloth and I were far too embarrassed to further press the subject.
* * *
I was tired. Mostly I felt chilled, and there was a heaviness behind my eyes. At times my stomach was knotted with worry, but at other times the world would fade into a grey blur and I found that I little cared about what was happening within or without our walls. The news and the rumors, both sensible and wild, persisted in every corner of the Sixth Circle, from the wide doorways of the statesmen's offices down to the dead-end cobblestone alleys where the message-lads played in their free moments. You could no more avoid hearing them than you could avoid breathing the air. But at times I yet found myself deaf to their meanings, letting the words slide away from me like water from stone.
I was tired, and I was forgetting. It no longer seemed strange to me that the streets and the corridors were dotted with soldiers only, not tradesmen or apprentices, serving-maids or vendors. It no longer seemed strange to lie down in a room that was close and crowded with women every night, instead of my bed in my own house. Many a time when I ached for sleep, my muscles were wound too tightly beneath my skin and I could not make myself be at ease in the dark. I would rest stretched out on the thin pallet and listen to the breathing of the others, and only then would the tales of the day return to me, and I would wonder, in my helpless waking, what was to become of us all.
I no longer found it remarkable to smell the smoke of the funeral-fires every time I stepped outside, nor to turn a corner in the Houses and find a new row of shrouded corpses.
And I was no longer frightened by the hollow windows of the empty houses that lined the echoing streets. I walked by indifferently, and let them stare as they might.
* * *
Elloth's dispensary records were a busy grid of marks and tallies; I thought of a map of tiny rooms, crowded with people. Rooms and beds and tables, row on row—it made me weary even to think of it.
She noticed me staring. "Are you looking for something?"
"Suppose I asked you for something, but you had no more left, or…"
"Yes, yes," she replied with a wave of her hand. "We take down everything. All of the requests. The herb-master wants precise tallies, so that we know how much of everything we need to plant, or purchase, or…"
"And what if you had it, but you refused me? Because it was the sort of thing that would kill me and give me boils," I added.
"We take down everything," Elloth repeated. "Why?"
"No reason," I murmured. I thanked her and she watched me as I left.
* * *
And then there were the men who lingered in their dying. The Siege was over and the healers were no longer needed in all places at once. I had to teach myself how to keep vigil at bedsides once more, to wait in the company of waning heartbeats and paling skin. At times my temples ached and I would reach up and slowly slip the cloth from my head and sit with my hair uncovered, though I was not supposed to.
"'Tis women's work," Ioreth said to me once in those days. "For everyone is brought into the world by a woman, you see, and so 'tis only proper that a woman should see them out, when she may. Or that was what my mother in Lossarnach said to me, at least, many years ago. But you know about these things, I should reckon, for you are a clever girl." She smiled, and her wrinkled hand was soft against my face when she patted my cheek. She had been all the same throughout all of this, not leached sober and quiet like many of us.
She left me. The man lying in the bed behind me groaned, and I turned to tend to him.
* * *
"Does it ever grow dull, when you do naught but sit like that?" Laeron asked me. We were in the kitchens again, and I was waiting for Lady Éowyn's meal. Laeron was rolling an apple back and forth on the table before him, pushing it between his hands. At the sudden ending of the Siege he had seemed disappointed, though mostly relieved and dazedly astonished as all the rest of us were.
"I like to sit," I replied. "'Tis good to have a rest now and then."
"Well, what do you think about?" he said.
"My mother said that if someone is dying, I ought to think about where he is from, and how he might have lived, and his family, as well." I remembered the days when I was younger and she had taken me by the hand and guided me. And here is the place where you now must be, dear one. "She said that no one should pass without being thought of."
"Does that take a long time, then? Thinking of all those things?" He tossed the fruit up with one hand, caught it, tossed it again.
I shrugged and leaned against the door-frame. My feet were sore. "I don't do it very often, anymore. It feels too much like inventing stories to myself."
He blinked. "There is nothing wrong with that." The apple rose and descended once more.
I held my hands out, palms open. Laeron stared at me for a moment, then threw the apple in my direction.
"Why aren't you with Valacar?" I asked as I caught it.
"He said that things are going slowly today and that I would do well not to expose myself to unnecessary tedium, because I am but nineteen years old and will have more than ample opportunity for such things when I am older." I tossed the apple back to him. He tried to catch it one-handed, then fumbled and closed both of his palms around it.
"That sounds like him."
"Aye," Laeron nodded, cleared his throat. "Although I suspect it might be more that he does not like the way I arrange his instruments for him."
"Did he say as much?"
"No. But I can tell. Sometimes he goes and fixes them after I am through."
"Is he good to you, Laeron?"
"Aye." He took a bite out of the apple, chewed slowly. "He is. Though he has been quiet, lately. More than is usual, I mean." He looked around, and said in a lower voice, "And not a word about the dealings with Aradîr, or anything of the sort. Though that is no business of mine, I suppose." He shook his head.
I looked at my feet.
"Sometimes," he went on, "when I am with someone, and they do not speak, it puts me ill at ease. As if I should speak, even if I haven't got a thing to say. But I do not mind so much when Valacar is quiet. Often I wish he would tell me more, I mean; but he has a good way of being silent."
"Like Fíriel," I put in, relieved that the subject had not lingered on the Master of the Houses.
He nodded. "Yes, like her, I suppose. A great deal, actually…"
"Elloth said—" I began with a roll of my eyes, then paused and looked around quickly. Laeron's attention had risen visibly at the mention of the name. "She said she thought them suited to one another."
His eyebrows rose slightly and he made a noise that sounded like hm. "Well, Fíriel hasn't a husband, has she?"
"No, she hasn't. And Valacar has not got a wife, I suppose?"
"He's never spoken to me of one." He paused, took another bite of his apple. "Although I am told that some of the surgeons never speak of their wives or their children when they are at the tables and the wards. So that they can keep them apart from…well…" he trailed off, swallowed.
I nodded. To labor in the Houses was to be able to conceal some things, in a way, or at least to reveal only what you chose. Maidens, wives, and widows alike all kept their heads covered, as was the proper and modest thing for ladies who worked in such a place. Men and women who had wedding rings wore them on chains about their necks, under their clothes, so as not to lose them or sully them in the blood and the mire. My mother kept up this practice, even after my father had died. When she was troubled or startled, her hand would go briefly to the spot at her chest where the small bands rested beneath the cloth of her dress.
"But then—" Laeron began, then stopped abruptly.
"Then?" I asked.
He shook his head. "Nothing. It's just—he's said some things, once or twice, and I thought perhaps—" He broke off once more, and this time his gaze went to the space in the door beside me.
I looked to where his eyes were, afraid that one of the subjects of my talk had overheard me for the second time that day, but instead I received a greater surprise.
"Hello, Master Meriadoc," Laeron said. The perian standing next to me glanced up at me with large eyes, smiling uncertainly. He barely came up to my waist. Pale bandages were apparent beneath his thin shirt, but the color in his cheeks was good. I had glimpsed the small creature now and then over the past few days, and every time I had blinked in bemusement; I was too weary to manage genuine amazement. "This is Master Meriadoc, come to us of late from the North," Laeron said for my benefit. I nodded.
"Hullo, Master Laeron," replied Master Meriadoc. I had half-expected his voice to be that of a child's, but it had the same timbre of any young man's. "Pleased to meet you, lady," he said to me.
"And you," I said. I dropped a curtsey and introduced myself. He was not wearing any shoes, I noticed. He moved between me and Laeron, leaning against the bench and casually palming a piece of bread from the tabletop with an ease that bespoke his familiarity with our kitchens, or perhaps with kitchens in general.
"I was wondering…" he began, looking first at Laeron, and then at me. "Your Warden said…that it might be good for me to sit with the Lady Éowyn while she takes her supper?"
Laeron and I exchanged glances. "Of course," I said. "Come with me in just a moment, and we will go to her together."
"Be sure to ask him about the Shire," Laeron smiled to me as one of the other girls put a full tray of food in my hands. He took another bite of his apple and looked at the perian once more. "You'll tell her about the Shire, won't you?"
* * *
Later, the songs and the stories would emerge from the fresh rubble of the War, about the journeys of the Halflings, and all their trials and their perils. We knew already of the one who had sworn himself to the service of the Tower, and of this kinsman of his who had ridden with the Rohirrim and met the Black Captain on the field. Lady Éowyn had enquired of his wellbeing no few times, but I could never offer her an adequate answer; now I was pleased that I could bring him to her in the flesh.
Later, the songs and the stories would tell us all we wished to know and more, but for now Master Meriadoc simply walked beside me and told me of some of the green places of the world. In the narrow parts of the corridor his sleeve would sometimes brush against my skirts. His step was slow from his recent hurts, and as we walked to the wing of private rooms I had ample time to hear of the warm, busy holes his countrymen built in the ground, the gardens and Bywater and the river they called the Brandywine. I could almost see Buckland, myself, or at least I thought I could. He spoke of the place as the weary men were wont to speak of sleep, and as the lonely men spoke of absent children and wives.
"That sounds lovely," I said. "The fields and forests especially, I think."
He nodded, craned his neck to look up at me. "That is what many of your people say. You all seem to be in terrible want of trees and grass and things."
"Aye," I laughed. "A terrible want. But please, forgive me. I am sure you must weary of telling the same tale to all of us, here."
"No." He shook his curly head. "No, I do not mind it at all."
He spoke, too, of his young cousin Peregrin, and of another cousin and his servant who had journeyed with them for a ways. But of those last two he said little.
* * *
I had planned to sit with the Lady Éowyn and wait on her as I usually did, but then I watched her and the Halfling greet one another in the quiet chamber. She was at first reserved, and he seemed wary and shy. But he went and sat on the edge of her bed and they spoke as I arranged the food upon the table, and there seemed to pass between them something very like that which passed between the soldiers in the wards. A peculiar sort of understanding. I decided to let them alone, and I shut the door behind me and returned to the corridor.
* * *
I tended to one of the black-tagged men. Part of his face had been wrecked; part of his shoulder was gone. I did not know how he was yet alive.
I was thinking back to my talk with Laeron. As I changed the bandages over the oozing flesh, I leaned in to whisper to the man that the King was returned to us. I whispered to him that his struggle had not been in vain. I was close and I could smell him; my breath stirred what was left of his hair. Outside, the sky was gray once again, and the air was heavy.
I tied off the last of the bandages. I did not know if he had heard me; perhaps I was grown still more selfish, I thought, and my murmurings were more for my own benefit than for his.
"You would not rob him of that, then?" said a quiet voice behind me after I had gotten up from my crouch. I turned around and started. It was the wounded soldier, standing now; he leaned easily against the wall, carving knife once more in his right hand. Perhaps he slept clutching it, as well, I thought. In his left hand was another blunt scrap of wood. His eyelids were heavy but the glare beneath them was now sharp. "Rob him of his last hours, no matter how cruel they be?"
I wiped my hands slowly on the front of my smock, pressed them against the cloth. "What do you mean?"
"No, of course you would not," he went on, unheeding of my query. Again, that private, self-satisfied smirk. "There are too many others, about, are there not? Someone might see."
"This is no concern of mine, sir. Now, my business lies elsewhere…" I had half-turned to go when he lunged forward and seized me by the arm. His grip was tight. I gasped; his breath was slow and warm at my neck.
Just as quickly, he released me, smiling.
"You mind your hands, sir!" I hissed, hoping that my words were sharp enough to mask any shaking in my voice. I rubbed my arm where he had clutched at me. The man on the bed beside us stirred gently and made a low moaning noise in what remained of his throat.
"Nay, little one. 'Tis you who would do best to mind yours." The soldier paused and casually repositioned his knife in his fingers, played the edge lightly about the pale wood. "And that surgeon," he added. "He has got a look about him, you know. That is not a thing for one time only—'tis far easier than you would think."
"What do you know of it?" I demanded, regretting the question as soon as it left my lips.
He regarded me. The smile had not left his face. "Of what?" he said softly. "Of death?" The knife made a quick jab into the wood, then twisted slightly. "Much more than the likes of you, I should wager. Much more than you." All the time his gaze was on me, but as he spoke he slid the blade lower and closed his left hand into a fist, let the lines of blood bloom around the wood, in the spaces between his mottled fingers. He leaned forward again and I nearly jumped, but this time he only whispered in my ear.
* * *
The gray-haired captain who had told us to check the bodies on the Second Circle for letters had been visiting some of his wounded men in the ward, but now he sat alone on an unoccupied bed in the far corner, turning a piece of parchment in his hands, angling it towards the light. He stopped and folded the scrap when I came and stood before him.
"That man, sir," I said to him, "that man is not well. He will do himself harm." And perhaps others, besides, I added silently. My heart was beating quickly and painfully.
The captain glanced up, over my shoulder. "There, against the wall. Over at the end, in the dark jacket," I said. I did not look behind me.
"And why think you this, good lady?"
"I—he spoke to me, just now, and his words seemed most unsettling, and—"
"Valar," the captain murmured, still gazing beyond me. "I thought them all lost."
"What, sir?"
"The markings on his shirt—that is the livery of the eastern river company, if I am not mistaken," he marveled. "It was their position that took the greatest losses when the forts fell. My men told me that few or none had escaped with their lives, that they were all but swept away. Slaughtered. The numbers of the Enemy were too great." He looked at me once more, and his face was weary and grave. "Men like that," he said, "rarely fail to say things that are most unsettling, good lady. They are best left to themselves, at least for a time."
* * *
The soldier, left hand bright with iron-smelling blood, had leaned in close to me once more, leaned in close to whisper. And yet, little one, you still do well to confide in men who are soon to be no more.
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It was 28 years ago today (July 13th, 1985) that the Live Aid concerts took place in Philadelphia's JFK Stadium and London's Wembley Stadium. The mammoth fundraising shows were organized by then-Boomtown Rats frontman Bob Geldof, who began the music industry's efforts to fight famine in Africa with Band Aid's "Do They Know It's Christmas" all-star single in 1984.
Live Aid featured performances by Paul McCartney, Mick Jagger and Tina Turner with Hall & Oates, Madonna, U2, Judas Priest, Duran Duran, Queen, Eric Clapton, Sting, Elvis Costello, Bob Dylan with Rolling Stones guitarists Keith Richards and Ron Wood, David Bowie, Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers, and scores of others. Led Zeppelin, the Who, and Black Sabbath staged one-off reunions especially for that day. The 16-hour Live Aid marathon was watched by an estimated global audience of 1.5 billion and raised more than $140 million for famine relief.
Organizer Bob Geldof recalls that his panic for the show to come off smoothly actually turned into physical pain for him: "I was frightened that nobody would show up. I had no contracts. I had a very sore back and my wife used to put towels underneath the sheets in the bed because I used to have cold sweats, y'know, with fear. And as the day wore on, my back got more and more painful, and Bowie came over and said, 'Lie down.' So I lay down and David Bowie gave me a massage, y'know. Best massage by a rock star that I ever had."
Judas Priest performed at the Philadelphia portion of the event and Rob Halford remembers that it finally gave him the opportunity to meet one his personal musical heroes, Joan Baez. However, for Halford it was temporarily an anxious encounter, because Priest had made a monstrous metal anthem out of her song, "Diamonds And Rust," and he worried that she would not approve: "She's like, 'I just wanted to speak to you about the "Diamonds And Rust" song,' and I go 'Yeah . . . OK . . .' She says, 'My son is like a huge Priest fan and, y'know, I really think you did an incredible version of my song.' So, I'm like, huge sigh of relief, y'know, major letting-go of the slumping shoulders. And I said, 'Well, that is so cool that you've said that to me because it is an incredible song and we certainly (laughs) mutated it beyond belief.' Because the original version is just Joan and acoustic guitar, and Priest got a hold of it and just threw all these slabs of heavy metal on top of it and crushed it to death."
Hall & Oates, who were at the peak of their success at the time of Live Aid, performed a separate set with Temptations' David Ruffin and Eddie Kendricks -- as well as serving as Mick Jagger's backing band. Daryl Hall revealed that it actually was his idea to work with the Rolling Stones frontman: "Mick was doing his first solo thing then. And in fact, I was working with him on one song and he didn't have the band -- the rest of his band -- so he needed a backup band. So, I said, 'Well, why don't, y'know, Hall & Oates band will back you up.' And then that's how we closed the show. So it all worked out."
Phil Collins was among Live Aid's stars, playing in London on his own and with Sting, then taking the Concorde to America, where he was rushed to Philadelphia to perform on his own and with Eric Clapton and Led Zeppelin. He says that he was surprised Live Aid came off in the first place: "Sting called me and said 'Have you heard about this concert Bob's trying to put on? I said, 'I've heard about it, yeah. It won't happen, will it?' And he said, 'Well, I think it's gonna happen.' And he said, 'Do you want to do something together.' And I actually did not dream that it would still be talked about 20 years on."
Collins recalls legendary British promoter Harvey Goldsmith explaining to him that it was feasible that he could actually perform at both the London and Philly shows: "He said 'Of course you could do it if you wanted to. You could play both.' I said 'What do you mean?' He said 'Well, you could in theory get on Concorde and be there, you know, in time to catch Eric's set and Robert's (Led Zeppelin's) set if we put them on later.' So, because it could be done, I did it."
Brian Wilson's bandleader Jeff Foskett first began touring with the Beach Boys in 1982 and was on hand when the band -- including Wilson -- performed at the Philadelphia show: "It was so cool. We did 'Wouldn't It Be Nice' and Brian and I were singing it together and they had Brian's picture up on the screen of that for the majority of the time and, it was so cool. We walked off that stage and somebody, y'know, had a cell phone -- which was fairly new in '85, I mean, they didn't really start happening till later in the '80s. And somebody called from Wembley backstage and said, 'The Beach Boys just destroyed Great Britain!' (Laughs) How cool is that? That was a really, really great gig."
Paul McCartney, who was the final act prior to the finale at Wembley, remembers Live Aid as being one of the worst gigs of his career: "Oh my God, Live Aid is just one of those things I'd sooner forget. I didn't have a roadie, I didn't even have someone to make sure my mic and speakers were working! So I just sort of went on -- there I was in front of the world. And I heard in my monitors a very ominous sound of roadies talking. I though, 'This could be a disaster.' I couldn't hear myself, I couldn't hear anything, so I was not giving a sort of measured performance. But the dear old audience helped me out, God bless 'em!"
Live Aid was commemorated in two 2005 DVD packages: Live Aid: Boxed Set, which contained portions of the two historic shows, and the single-disc documentary Live Aid -- 20 Years Ago Today.
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Does this could be a Spreading way of Chagas disease?
One has been to Peru,Entered Andes mountain range,and he bought some special local product or sell some thing.And the money with Trypanosoma cruzi or with dejecta of insects that passed from local villigers to the triper.
Then he carry the money all the time,and he never minded the medium on the note paper.So when he eat something or do something other,can he catch Chagas disease into his body?If he go to a far country,and gave the note to some others,Were they in the dangers of infection of Chagas disease?
Just talk about it.I'm not a biologist,so please don't laugh at me for my ingorance.
Chagas disease can be acquired through an insect vector, like trypanosome-carrying triatomine bugs... these bugs emerge at night to feed, a perfect time wen usually the host is in deep slumber... at the time of biting the bug also defecates , depositing the infective feces on the skin of the host. so that wen the host rubs the skin (as the feces causes that area to itch), T. cruzi now gets the chance to enter the host body thru open wounds, mouth or eyes.
However, gettng the disease thru currencies seems a bit unlikely... (UNless it got contaminated with the bugs feces then accidentally ingesting it... ) Rather eating an unsanitary (uncooked) food directly contaminated with infective bug feces is more probable mode of acquiring/spreading that disease.. if by a chance that traveler came in contact with infective bug feces, and unknowingly ingested it, chances are, that traveler could be harboring the parasite.
other modes of transmission are by receiving infected blood transfusion, or congenitally..
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I recently returned from a trip to Placencia, Belize. One the third day I woke up with a swollen red area around my right eye. Later in the day I noticed a "C" shaped "burn" on my leg and an ovel shaped "burn" on my waste on my back. Later the same day I noticed my right knee appeared to be sunburned. The next day liquid blisters appeared on them and they begin to itch. A week later, they are no longer red, but look like large bruises and still itch. I have noticed a small rash on my wrist and one on my right elbow.
I visited my doctor and he couldn't diagnose it. He referred me to a dermatologist and he didn't know. I am going in for bloodwork today. Does this sound like Chagas Disease?
Denise, your symptoms don't match Chagas Disease at all.
Since trypanosomes do not form cystlike structures, their ability to survive any kind of drying environment would be very limited - transfer by money would be very unlikely. Usually, they depend upon contamination of the bite wounds with feces from the biter.
Thanks to your quick response. Do you have any suggestions on what it could be? I was prescribed a topical steroid, but haven't seen any changes. I never ran fever, vomited, or had a headache. I've looked up "Belize skin rashes" and found some similiaties, but no real solution or answer.
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This is the last article on taxes for the week. Hopefully you enjoyed articles one, two, three and now four. Please make sure to read the other three articles, before checking this one, because it is a continuation of them all.
In my retirement strategy, I currently have the bulk of my funds in taxable brokerage accounts. They are producing approximately enough dividend income to cover 50 - 60% of my annual expenses. As I am maxing out 401 (k), Sep IRA and Roth IRAcontributions this year, this leaves less to be put towards my taxable dividend portfolios. The tax savings are more than worth it however. If I were a fan of Early Retirement Extreme and worked for 4 years, while saving $17,500/year in a 401 (K), the tax benefits would be equivalent to me working over one whole year. I would end up with a total of $17,500 in savings in a taxable account merely because of my marginal tax rate of 25%. This is in addition to having the contributions for four years in the 401 (k).
I expect to be able to not have to work in a traditional job environment by the end of 2018. By this time, my dividend income would likely be covering 100% of my expenses. This is because I expect dividend growth of 6 – 7% in my dividend portfolio, which continues to be reinvested in dividend paying stocks whose average yield is somewhere in the 3% - 4% range. Currently, it covers approximately 50 – 60% of expenses.
I am also expecting that I would earn some money on the side in a 1099 capacity after my retirement date, although I am not counting on it. Of course, if I have all the free time in the world, chances are I could write a book on dividend investing, start a stock picking paid service, create and run a low cost dividend mutual fund or start a TV show on dividend investing ( to name a few possible items). Or I could get really bored and start advising persons on financial and tax matters for a fee. This extra income however, would not be spent but merely end up accumulating. Since I would consider myself retired, and already have dividends covering my income, this would mean that some of my assets would need to be put in a tax deferred account today. Otherwise, I would be drowning in cash, and would be paying too much to the tax person for years. For example, if I make $24,000 in annual dividend income, and $24,000 in contracting income, but only need $24,000 to live on, I am essentially earning too much. If I made the dividends in a tax-deferred account, I could therefore choose to withdraw them as I please (or as I need the money to live on). It doesn't make sense to pay taxes for dividend income I am not using, especially if it is in a taxable account. In a tax-deferred account, the money will compound tax-free for decades.
Therefore, the optimistic scenario is that I max out contributions and keep the 401 (k), Sep IRA and Roth IRA to compound tax-free for several decades. If I do not make too much money from dividends and side hustles once I retire, but enough to live on, I would start rolling over portions of my 401 (k) into a Roth IRA. I would try not to pay more than a 15% tax on that rollover. I expect that within 3 – 4 years after retirement, I should be able complete the conversion process. After that, I might also consider rolling any IRA and Sep IRA accounts over to Roth, depending on balances and my tax situation.
However, if I end up making too much from my dividend stocks and side hustles, I would likely have to simply roll those 401 (k) amounts into a regular IRA, and slowly convert it into a portfolio of dividend paying stocks. I expect it to compound tax-free for several decades, until I reach the age of 70.50 years old and have to take required minimum distributions. Since I have several decades before I hit that age, this could potentially be a large tax hit. Of course, I would much rather use any trick under my sleeve to accumulate as much cash as I can to generate as much dividend income, in order to achieve my goals of retiring early. The trade-offs are well worth it.
This is because it is much better to accumulate $17,500 in a 401 (k) in a single year, rather than accumulate only $13,125 in a taxable account for the year. In addition, I am somewhat protected from increases in tax rates on the amounts that would stay inside tax-deferred accounts. If tax rates on dividends and capital gains increased to match ordinary income rates, this could be bad for retired dividend investors. Of course, I do not know where tax rates are going to be 30 – 40 years from now, which is why I try to diversify against the risk of higher taxes by shifting some of my assets to tax deferred types of accounts.
Last but not least, I fully expect my taxable accounts to be able to cover my expenses in 4 - 5 years based on current levels, and projections for reinvestment at yields of 3 - 4 % and dividend growth of 6 - 7 %/year. The excess is going to tax deferred accounts ( 401K, Sep IRA and Roth IRA), which would likely be able to cover somewhere between 25% - 33% of expenses above 100%. This would be the reserve account in case my dividend income does not grow at or above the rate of inflation or if I experience too many dividend cuts for whatever reason. Another reason for the reserve is that I might end up spending more than I initially projected. Since I am hoping not to have to touch this "reserve fund" unless something unexpected happens, it is much better to be in a tax-deferred account, and it won't generate tax liabilities on income i don't need.
After reading all four articles on tax deferred accounts, I hope you learned the general overview of options available to you outside of taxable accounts. I also hope my take was helpful.
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Friday, October 25, 2013
My Retirement Strategy for Tax-Free Income
This is the last article on taxes for the week. Hopefully you enjoyed articles one, two, three and now four. Please make sure to read the other three articles, before checking this one, because it is a continuation of them all.
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- AnonymousOctober 25, 2013 at 6:16 AM
What are your thoughts on after-tax 401k contributions vs Roth IRA contributions?ReplyDelete
I currently max out my 401k contribution, and the old-guy extra $5500/year Catch Up contribution. I also plan to add about $21000 to my after-tax 401k.
My company also continues their matching contribution on my after-tax contributions so it is a pretty good deal.
Based on their offering the match on after-tax and the ability to to contribute a much larger amount to my retirement savings, I decided to go the after-tax 401k route rather than a Roth IRA.
Excellent series of posts with some great insight on tax advantaged strategies. Good luck with your 2018 goal. That's a lot of writing this week, I think you deserve a few days off!
- MichaelOctober 25, 2013 at 9:50 AM
It would be helpful to know what you expect your dividends to deliver for your annual income. If you're pulling down less than $25,000 a year, you're probably be living in a mobile home park.ReplyDelete
That's the missing piece of the puzzle in your pieces.
Are you willing -- or able -- to state this? For myself I need $1.5 million @ 5.5 percent (av.) to provide $82,500. This does not include my home that is vlaued at $1.2 million, but on which I have a $130,000 mortgage.
I want to maintain the standard of living that I currently have, and I do not want to downsize my home and I do want to maintain my current lifestyle, which includes 2 vacations a year and financial peace-of-mind.
$25,000 and a mobile home would not do this for me. So what is your financial situation, after all this blog is amoung finance, isn't it? Full disclosure, please.
Hi Anon,ReplyDelete
Unfortunately I don't think Roth 401K is available for everyone ( that includes myself ;-() . It looks like a nice thing to do. But basically, I am trying to get a deduction today with 401K (regular), and then pay almost no taxes later on by doing a Roth Conversion. It would be nice to be able to put $21K/person in a ROTH 401K, I wont lie to you. However, everyone's situation is different..So I unfortunately do not know what option is best for you ;-(
I actually write some of my posts months in advance.. I have a huge backlog of posts for at least 1 year now.. After I started keeping a notepad with me at all times, any ideas I get are written down ( even if they are bad, they are written down too ;-) )Replies
Will you start doing roth conversions when you retire or when you don't make enough to max out your roth contributions from your income?Delete
Those are great questions. I generally do not disclose numbers, and information about myself, because I am not anonymous on the internet. For safety reasons, I am keeping my numbers, name etc confidential.
However, in most cases, this should not matter to the reader whether I am a millionaire or a thousandaire.
I hope that the articles I post on DGI site, inspire readers and help them identify things they can learn and apply in their own lives. For example, whether your portfolio is valued at $20K or $200K or $2M, you should probably follow a similar strategy in managing it. Therefore, asking myself about income, portfolio size etc, should not matter to you as a reader
The other reason I do not use specific numbers is because of past reactions by readers. When I discussed investing $3000/month in an article, readers were enraged that this amount is too high. I was called names, and told that I was out of touch with reality. I then stupidly decided to illustrate the point that it is possible to build a diversified dividend portfolio $200 at a time in 20 something positions, using ROTH IRA contributions for 2013. It was stupid of me for assume that all people can use a concept and apply it to their own situation. Now I have a few readers who are being obnoxious, because they believe that this amount is too little. One of the most ridiculous comments I received from a reader is when they try to insult me, by telling me that what I say does not matter, because I supposedly only buy one share at a time. This is something that is pretty dumb to say to someone, particularly because they are the ones coming to my site, and not the other way around.
I am not trying to be rude or anything, I am just using the above paragraph as an example of the negativity I deal with in the background of this site. As a result, I am not going to disclose specific numbers about myself, because this should not matter to readers. This is also done to protect readers from themselves, because by disclosing specific numbers, they will be focusing on the wrong thing. For example, if I bought 400 shares of ARCP at 12.50, that is a $5K transaction. The focus of conversation would somehow shift to how much $5K is, and how rude I am to flaunt my success. If I bought 20 shares for $250, this meaningless data point would be ridiculed. In reality, the conversation should be whether ARCP is a good or a bad investment idea, according to fact.
As far as your other question, it is all relative whether someone can live on $25K/year. For a young couple with no kids in the Midwest, who owns their home and paid off the mortgage, it is very doable. For a single person living in NYC or SF, it is pretty much impossible. In some parts of the world, earning $25K/year you would be considered royalty ( exaggerating, but you get the point) This is a personal choice that people have to make. Once again, the articles I write are for people to use as ideas to see if they apply in their situations. There are a couple thousand people reading the site per day, and I can guarantee you that every one of them has a situation that is different than yours.
- MichaelOctober 25, 2013 at 4:31 PM
I appreciate what you are saying, but I have to disagree that providing the amount that you invest in a stock should not matter. It does. For instance, if you state that you bought 10 shares of XYZ Inc. for $10 that is a $100 investment. If, however, you said that you bought 200 shares at $10 that is a $2,000 investment and speaks highly of your faith and confidence in this stock than a $100 investment.ReplyDelete
As for buying one share in a company, unless it's akin to BRK.A at $175,000-plus, I would not consider this as being meaningful.
I wonder what other readers think?
I have read all four articles.ReplyDelete
I suggest that if you can may enough money to forgo using these retirement accounts, do it. Don't use these accounts.
Unfortunately, sometimes you are forced into them because part of your compensation is tied up in matching funds that you would lose.
The reason is that the complexities of these accounts outweigh the benefits unless you want to become a creature of the tax code.
I'll give you an example. Let's say you have a 401k, and you roll it over to an IRA. Then you add to the IRA subsequently. Simple, right?
Well, no. In some states you get tax deferral on 401K contributions but not the IRA contributions.
When you pull the money out, you need to allocate money to each bucket: taxable contributions, taxable earnings, and untaxable contributions. If you convert to a ROTH you need to make sure you don't pay taxes on the IRA contribution money for your state.
I recently rolled over a 401K that had after tax money - actually not a common situation but it occurs. Guess what, you can take that money free and clear. My accountant didn't know this and had tried to get me to pay taxes on it again.
I won't even get into the details of converting a 401K to a ROTH IRA if you already have a tax-deferred IRA. Ridiculously complex.
I didn't think of it from that perspective. I used to put something like I bought half a lot/position in a stock or a full lot/position in a stock. Thus meaning that a half lot position might be something like $1K, whereas full lot would be double. The lot was the building block of a portfolio for each stock owned, and could be comprised of several lots for each position.
I guess if I said $100 or $1000, this might be irrelevant if my portfolio size was equivalent to yours though.
Either way, interesting idea to show my confidence in a security.
You raise some good points about tax-deferred accounts. They are complex, and should be done after discussions with a CPA.
But I think that the conversion of 401K, where all contributions were pre-tax, to a ROTH is straightforward. In my research, I read how rolling an IRA into a ROTH might be more challenging from a calculation perspective.
Either way, a good CPA can probably help. However, based on discussions with readers, it seems that most of them have had terrible experiences with tax advisers. I had an elderly gentleman, whose CPA advised them not to invest in pipeline MLPs merely because of increased complexity of the tax returns. And this gentleman is a millionaire dividend investor.
I wanted to say something about the use of "personal data" and the merits of someone's advice.
You have to examine what is said, or written, with how it relates to the message at hand.
What everyone has access to, as far as investable capital is concerned, is unique to their present situation.
Time and money are closely tied.
Reducing your expenses by $1 can go as far, and even farther than earning $1 more.
Almost everyone needs motivation to continue to do things that others around them do not presently do.
Like exercise, being in control of your finances requires discipline.
No one has all the answers, and we can all better our understanding and education by being open, and humble, and receptive to others.
- AnonymousOctober 25, 2013 at 10:17 PM
I enjoy reading any ideas for optimizing investment dollars. Although your goals don't fit mine, it was an interesting real. One thought: in a prior comment, you mentioned not being able to convert 401(k) money into IRA money while still employed at that job. Some plans may offer "in-service withdrawal" feature -- it's worth looking into (there will be restrictions). I myself didn't even know my own employer's plan offered this until someone else pointed it out. You could take an in-service wdr into a rollover IRA.ReplyDelete
- AnonymousOctober 26, 2013 at 7:16 PM
I for one prefer to see your ideas and research, not dollar amounts. Your ideas have been used here successfully, though I don't always agree with a particular company you may have invested in, the education you provide is worthwhile in any case. As I have said to you before, you have given me focus in investing, which I did not have before. So I don't care how much money you have, how much you invest and don't need to hear it. Such information does not help me to see your commitment to a particular company at all. The ideas are most important to me.
Best of luck,
- AnonymousOctober 27, 2013 at 2:48 PM
Allow me to point out one other thing with regard to Michael's comment on dollar amounts, the amount of your portfolio, etc.. I want to remind you that many many times, you have focused in on 'growing income' during retirement, that dollar amounts invested are not important. In Michael's case, if he has $1.5M invested at 5.5%, it is a static amount of income he generates every year and does not grow. If they are invested in dividend stocks, with 7% growth in the dividend itself, he maintains income during retirement, even beats inflation. What's important is not the $82,500 he says he needs in retirement, but that in ten years it's $160k. And whether some of the $1.5M is invested in cash and bonds for stability is another conversation. The lesson from your blogs, your teachings, is the need for growing income in retirement and how one might accomplish it.
Thanks again,
This was very timely. I have recently realized, like you, that I need to be doing more to shelter tax expense and so we've decided to max out our 401k allocations going forward. The key part that was missing was how do we eventually pull out the distributions while minimizing tax expense. The 401k to Roth IRA conversion provided some useful ideas.ReplyDelete
Thanks DGI. Being late on the investing strategy I may reconsider investing in a taxable account. As it grows so will my age and if funds aling with age 60 it would have made more sense to have kept everything in tax free accounts the whole time.ReplyDelete
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Beginning this month, Californians will have a new option for auto insurance. It's called Pay As You Drive (PAYD), and it could save money and reduce our impact on the environment at the same time.
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Grand Island, NY — The Erie County Sheriff's Office and The Century Council, a national not-for-profit organization funded by distillers dedicated to fighting drunk driving and underage drinking, partnered today to bring a life-saving lesson about the dangers of drunk driving and underage drinking to students of Grand Island Senior High School. In advance of Prom and Graduation season, Brandon Silveria, a young man who was involved in an alcohol-related crash at age 17 just before his high school prom, and his father Tony spoke to students about the importance of "making the right choice" about alcohol — and if students are under the age of 21 — the only responsible decision is not to drink.
"Prom and Graduation Season is a time of great celebration for high
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students make plans for prom and graduation night."
"Last year in New York, 298 youths under the age of 18 were arrested for driving under the influence and 1,134 were arrested for liquor law violations (UCR 2004)," added Pam Beer of The Foundation for Advancing Alcohol Responsibility. "I'm pleased we were invited to give these presentations today. During our visit, we hope to raise awareness about this serious problem, and by doing so, save lives in New York."
During his presentation, Brandon Silveria told students his wrenching story of how as a high school student he had everything a teenager could want — a job, girlfriend and plans for the future — until he had a few drinks at a party and chose to drive home. After falling asleep at the wheel, crossing the centerline and crashing into a tree, he was left in a coma for three months and spent several years in rehabilitation.
Silveria was so badly injured that basic motor functions such as walking, talking and swallowing had to be re-learned. He has permanent brain injury and suffers from dangerous seizures. Brandon's presentations continue to receive standing ovations from students across the country.
"What you become depends on the choices that you make," said Brandon Silveria. "When I was seventeen, I had a job, a car and a girlfriend. I had the world at my fingertips, and that all changed because of a stupid choice I made. My hope is that by sharing my experiences with other young people, I can prevent others from being hurt or killed."
Through educational efforts such as the Silveria lecture and video program, The Foundation for Advancing Alcohol Responsibility educates students across the country about the hazards of underage drinking and driving. Since Brandon and his father Tony have become spokespeople for The Foundation for Advancing Alcohol Responsibility, they have addressed well over one million high school students nationwide and have been featured on such television programs as "Rescue 911," NBC's "Today," and "Leeza."
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The warmth and comfort found in a hot bowl of cream of potato soup has staved off winter chills for generations of Canadians, and few kitchens are without a basic recipe at hand. But the use of creamed white beans in place of the standard milk and flour base found in most recipes makes this cream of potato soup a filling and nourishing meal all on its own, while adding a depth of flavor that is all the more satisfying for the addition of turnips as well.
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Published on February 20, 2009
Simple, tasty and nourishing "cream" of potato and turnip soup with creamed white beans taking the place of milk or cream and flour


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WASHINGTON (CNN) — Former GOP presidential nominee Mitt Romney dismissed reports that he passed over New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie as his running mate because of Christie's weight.
On NBC's "Meet the Press," the former Massachusetts governor told David Gregory that Christie's size and health had nothing to do with his not being picked for the GOP ticket.
"With regards to his health, he provided his records to us. His health is very solid, very good. There's not an issue there," Romney said.
The report that Romney stressed Christie's girth in his vice-presidential vetting came from the soon-to-be-released book, "Double Down: Game Change 2012," by reporters Mark Halperin and John Heilemann. Reports on the book say the campaign had issues with the governor's size and that even the candidate himself had a laugh at Christie's expense.
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Romney ultimately decided to choose Rep. Paul Ryan, R-Wisconsin, as his running mate.
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Still, Romney seemed pretty high Sunday on Christie's chances in 2016. He's up for re-election as governor Tuesday, a race he's expected to win easily.
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switched from bb to surfing last june.. ive been getting better and just bought a shorter board yesterday. im getting pretty good on rights but i cant quite get the hang of lefts any tips?
switched from bb to surfing last june.. ive been getting better and just bought a shorter board yesterday. im getting pretty good on rights but i cant quite get the hang of lefts any tips?
i just seem to always not turn enough and get smashed or turn to much and kick out
i'm a regular foot and i find it easier to get barreled going left for some reason also, i guess, its easier for me to stall going left
yeah well thats the totall opposite with me i can get barreled easier going right.
for left bashes its all about the bottom turn, the setup is more important than the actual slash. a really vertical hooked bottom turn is gonna lead to a vertical bash. And as for left barrels, drop in deeper than you think you should, still try to stall as much as possible, and once your in there run it out like hell. you'll find that you can get deeper barrels backside, cause your pigdoging. For all of my best left barrels, i didnt think was any way i would make the drop and make the barrel, but trust me, you will surprise yourself.
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go goofy........
i am goofy and find it easier on big days when its throwing to go right, and make it. something about grabbing the rail and going right is easier to get barrled and stay with the wave
Going left when you're a regular footed surfer is largely about wave sensitivity, being more aware of your surroundings and being able to sense what's coming next. What makes it seem harder is your restricted field of vision, but when you really think about it, even when you go right you're not looking at the wave right beside you, but rather out in front of you. If you take that approach on the lefts, you'll begin to gain confidence. Look for what's coming next, not what's happening now and then project yourself down the line to the next section.
The fun part of going backside is the extra torque you can apply to bottom turns. And then of course the rebound utilizing your knee bend to absorb the pressure of your cutback.
All this. . . and of course practice- over and over and over. Just don't avoid going backside and you're bound to get better at it.
For the small waves we get (all this barrel talk gives me a chuckle) the key is shoulders. you want to keep your shoulders perpendicular to the wave, not parallel. also, watch your right arm. if that gets behind you it pulls your weight back and slows you down.
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