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Death is a part of life, perhaps the most natural thing that is bound to happen to all living creatures.
Over the millennia, humans have come to regard death both with reverence and fear. Various world cultures and religions have developed their own perspectives on death that lead us, the living, to either celebrate it and fondly remember our deceased, or otherwise to fear that final reality, the knowledge that we are finite, as well as all sorts of ghosts and ghouls that perhaps still linger from beyond.
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Franklin County's updated master plan will be reviewed and picked over by members of the planning and zoning commission as that board gets its first official view of the document that has taken years to put together.
The planners are scheduled to meet at 7 p.m. on Tuesday, July 17, in the second floor commission chambers of the Franklin County Government Center in Union. The plan is the only item on the agenda.
The county planning and zoning department is requesting the county planners review the proposed document and make a recommendation to the Franklin County Commission. The planners have the option to leave the plan as is or make any changes they deem appropriate. The county commission has final say.
"This meeting will be the first time the planning and zoning commission will see what the master plan will look like in its entirety," county senior planner Scottie Eagan told The Missourian earlier this week.
Eagan also said the document now is called the Franklin County Master Plan instead of the Comprehensive Plan 2020.
The plan has been in development since 2009.
More than two years ago, county officials conducted open house forums at five locations around the county to seek input for the plan. Included in that process was a survey of county residents, which generated more than 1,700 responses.
In that survey, the majority of residents rated the quality of life as "good" or "excellent."
The majority of respondents also said the county should offer more public transportation options, establish a countywide parks program and extend water and sewer systems to areas that lack the services, but only a third said the county should fund those services with additional taxes or fees on residents.
According to presentation material used at the open houses, the comprehensive plan was supposed to be finalized sometime in late 2010.
Eagan said that hasn't happened, however, and the county is no longer using a contractor to complete the plan.
The county's current master plan was adopted in 2002.
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According to language in the plan, its purpose is to "plan and prepare for the future, building on an awareness of what has happened in the past.
"Franklin County continues to grow, and the demographic makeup and economic characteristics of the county continue to change. As characteristics change, the needs of Franklin County residents also change. This plan builds on Franklin County's past while also acknowledging the future needs."
It continues by stating that "the mission of master planning in Franklin County is to provide for the orderly growth and development of Franklin County."
The document then lists six areas of focus: land use; transportation; stormwater, which includes streams, wetlands and floodplains; utilities; solid waste management; and economic development. The plan includes summaries, goals and objectives for each area as well as an overview of existing conditions.
The second part of the plan includes an implementation strategy that continues to focus on the six separate areas. Goals again are listed with specific strategies included on how each goal can be reached.
"I feel this is a well written plan that couldn't have been complete without all the hard work of those involved," Eagan said. "It has been a long time coming, about three years in the making, and we are very excited to finally have a final draft to present to the planning and zoning commission."


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"Marnie," he whispered, his voice thick with sorrow. "I'm sorry. I know you would want to save Lily. I'm sorry."
She lay there silent on the blades of cut grass, softness gathered, green and new and fresh in the light of the bare bulb that swung above. He couldn't reach her, could only turn the crumpled black earth with the shovel that now felt leaden in his hands, watching the soil as it dropped in damp clumps scattering, until he could no longer see her face; until she was gone and he could breathe in deep choking breaths, shuddering.
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USD/CAD is falling for the fifth day in a row correcting down from the 4-1/2-year high at 1.1278. The pair's once again approaching the support of the 55-day MA (1.1066) and the daily Ichimoku Cloud (1.1032).
The decline was the result of a strong MACD divergence seen on the daily chart. The pair has been trading in this manner since the beginning of the year with the thrusts up and the following declines. Last week US dollar has risen too fast versus its Canadian counterpart: CAD weakened as the Bank of Canada's Governor Stephen Poloz gave more dovish than expected comments, while the fed signaled that it may start raising interest rates earlier than expected. This week worries over geopolitical tensions eased after leaders of the Group of Seven major industrialized nations agreed to hold off on sanctions targeting Russia's economy unless President Vladimir Putin takes further action to destabilize Ukraine.
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To Americans of a certain generation, the news this weekend must have seemed dreadfully familiar: an endless war, whose rationale is ever harder to understand, and where "victory" is gradually drained of meaning; a group of soldiers enraged by the loss of a comrade to an invisible enemy, running amok and exacting revenge on civilians, whose only crime was to have been in the wrong place at the wrong time.
Today, the name that threatens to besmirch an entire war is Haditha, a town on the Euphrates river, north-west of Baghdad, deep in the "Sunni Triangle". A generation and a half ago, the place was My Lai, a hamlet in South Vietnam.
At Haditha, it is US Marines who are under accusation, soldiers from K or Kilo Company of the 3rd Battalion of the 1st Marine Division. In Vietnam, the troops who carried out the massacre at My Lai were from C, or Charlie Company, of the 11th Brigade of the Americal Division. But though separated by 37 years, the similarities abound.
No one disputes that what happened at Haditha on 19 November 2005, when as many as 24 civilians, including families complete with women and children, may have been shot by rampaging US soldiers, was provoked by the death of the 20-year-old Marine Lance Corporal Miguel Terrazas, killed in a roadside bomb. In Vietnam, dozens of members of Charlie company had been killed and wounded by insurgents in the weeks before the atrocity in the hamlet of My Lai 4 (then known in military jargon as Pinkville).
A couple of days earlier, on 14 March, a Vietnamese version of the IED (Improvised Explosive Device) of the variety that took L/Cpl Terrazas's life had killed one C Company sergeant and wounded others. Military intelligence concluded that a crack unit of the Viet Cong was holed up in My Lai, and C Company was ordered to destroy them. Three platoons were assigned to the operation, one led by a lieutenant named William Calley, an unemployed college drop-out who had been rushed through officer training before being sent to lead soldiers in a full-scale guerrilla war.
Lt Calley's platoon entered the hamlet with guns blazing at around 8am on the morning of 16 March. There was no hostile fire and the men found only 700 residents: old men, women, and children ("we never saw a male of military age," one participant later confessed).
Over the next three hours, the men ran amok. Villagers were bayoneted, women and children were shot in the back of their heads as they prayed, at least one girl was raped and murdered. Lt Calley himself is said to have personally slaughtered dozens of villagers whom he rounded up and ordered into ditch, mowing them down with a machine-gun. By 11am it was all over. The exact number of victims is unknown to this day, anywhere from 300 to over 500. A monument at the site lists the names of 504 people, their ages ranging from 1 to 82.
My Lai, in fact, was far from the sole example of such barbarity in Vietnam. During 1967 a unit called the Tiger Force is said to have murdered hundreds of Vietnamese men, women and children in the Quang Ngai province of the former South Vietnam, that country's equivalent of the Sunni Triangle, where guerrillas melted into the local population, as indistinguishable to the unqualified eye of the ordinary American soldier then as Iraqi insurgents in Haditha today.
An initial investigation was quietly put to rest some 30 years ago. The full story was laid bare by the Toledo Blade newspaper in several articles in October 2003. Published at a moment when public support for the Iraq war was still strong, they attracted relatively little attention. But, apparently just like Haditha now, My Lai was proof of the ghastly things that can happen in wars fought by young troops who have lost close friends to an enemy they cannot see, in another skirmish in a conflict seemingly with no end, where every victory is fleeting, which unfolds amid a civilian population whose language the young soldiers cannot speak, whose true sympathies they cannot fathom.
Part of the blame undoubtedly attaches to commanders who failed to impress upon trained soldiers the difference between right and wrong, even under such pressure. But should we be surprised that this group of US Marines seems to have snapped? Can we all put our hands on our hearts and say that under such appalling stress, when a fighting man's greatest loyalty is not to his country or his commander-in-chief, but to his buddies alongside him in the heat and the dust and the carnage, we could not have done something similar?
Rarely, alas, do such considerations cross the minds of the presidents and prime ministers who send their armies into war. Delivering the commencement speech at West Point military academy this weekend, George Bush invoked the Cold War as the comparison for the "war on terror", of which the White House has long proclaimed that Iraq is the central front. But more clearly with every passing day, the war that Iraq resembles is Vietnam.
In this electronic age, of course, everything in war is speeded up, including cover-ups. The first official version of My Lai spoke of a signal victory, in which the Americans had killed 128 insurgents and suffered only one casualty. But, in March 1969, an ex-soldier who had heard eyewitness accounts of what had really happened sent letters detailing what he had heard to President Nixon, the top commanders at the Pentagon, and members of Congress.
Slowly the military was prodded into action, but only on 5 September 1969, almost 18 months after the massacre, was Lt Calley charged with premeditated murder. The wider public knew none of the details until the story was broken by Seymour Hersh, the same investigative journalist who, in April 2004, first disclosed the prison abuse at Abu Ghraib - which was, at least until Haditha, the greatest single blot on America's reputation left by the Iraq War.
A cover-up was attempted at Haditha too, but it has unravelled far more quickly. Within two months, Time magazine was informing the military of allegations of an atrocity and, in mid-March, published the first details.
The criminal investigation should be wrapped up by late June; some Marines are already reported to be in custody, likely to face murder charges that could carry the death penalty. General Michael Hagee, commander of the US Marine Corps, is already in Iraq, impressing upon his men the overriding need to observe the rules of war. But it may already be too late.
If the worst accounts are true, Haditha could be devastating on three separate scores. It can only further erode the trust of ordinary Iraqis in the invaders who were supposed to bring them peace, democracy and human decency. Second, it could eat into public affection for the troops - one of the most pernicious legacies of the Vietnam war and of incidents like My Lai, where returning veterans found little honour even in their own land. Today, whatever his or her view of the war, no American will speak ill of soldiers at the sharp end in Iraq. But now, who knows? Most important, Haditha could affect the US prosecution of the war. The death toll may not be on the scale of My Lai. But the incident has occurred when public opinion here has already turned against the war, far more decisively than when details of the slaughter at "Pinkville" became public knowledge.
Even before the latter, opinion was shifting, evidenced a fortnight earlier, on 6 March 1968, when the CBS anchorman Walter Cronkite had broken the reporters' code of neutrality and spoken out on air against the war. "If I've lost Cronkite," President Lyndon Johnson mused, "I've lost the American people." And so it would ultimately prove.
But not until after Hersh published his account of My Lai did polls first reveal a majority against the Vietnam war. Today, six out of 10 Americans already believe the 2003 invasion of Iraq was a mistake - a disillusion that even that peddler of illusions George Bush had to acknowledge at his rather downbeat press conference with Tony Blair last Thursday.
Conceivably, Haditha could be the stone than unleashes an avalanche of clamour for a speedy American exit from Iraq, not matter what. It is no co-incidence that the congressman who has spoken out most loudly about the affair is John Murtha, a normally hawkish Pennsylvania republican, highly respected and with close ties to the Pentagon. Last November, he created a sensation by demanding a swift US withdrawal from Iraq, arguing that the war was doing America more harm than good.
Haditha has only strengthened that conviction. "This will be very, very bad for America," the former Marine and combat veteran from Vietnam noted earlier this month as he reported that his Pentagon contacts had told him that the incident was even more savage and inexcusable than first thought.
"This is the kind of war when you have to win the hearts and minds of the people," Mr Murtha told ABC's This Week programme yesterday. "And we're set back every time something like this happens. This is worse than Abu Ghraib."
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Simulation studies show that the residual bootstrap test works well. The proposed method is applied to BIG 1-98 randomized clinical trial of breast cancer with Ki-67 as biomarker to consider the treatment effects on patients in two subsets. We also extend the residual bootstrap method to clustered survival data with an application to data from the I-SPY 1 clinical trial with the estrogen receptor total score as a biomarker. Another research topic of the thesis is deriving the asymptotic distribution of a penalized likelihood ratio test statistic for testing biomarker effect and treatment-biomarker interaction in binary data. The model can be viewed as a mixture of logistic regression models with unknown cut-point for which the regularity conditions of ordinary likelihood methods are not satisfied. We first approximate the indicator function defining biomarker subgroups by a smooth continuous function. To overcome irregularities, we develop a penalized likelihood method, introducing a new idea of using random penalty term. Proposing a new set of regularity conditions helps us to study the properties and limiting distributions of the maximum penalized likelihood estimates of the parameters. We further prove that the penalized likelihood ratio test statistic has an asymptotic $\chi^{2}_{3}$ distribution under the null hypothesis. Extensive simulation studies show that the proposed test procedure works well for hypothesis testing. The proposed method is applied to a clinical trial of prostate cancer with the serum pro-static acid phosphatase (AP) as a biomarker. An impulsive differential equation model for Marek's disease Rozins, Carly http://hdl.handle.net/1974/14944 2017-03-30T14:26:45Z 2016-09-22T00:00:00Z An impulsive differential equation model for Marek's disease Rozins, Carly Many dynamical processes are subject to abrupt changes in state. Often these perturbations can be periodic and of short duration relative to the evolving process. These types of phenomena are described well by what are referred to as impulsive differential equations, systems of differential equations coupled with discrete mappings in state space. In this thesis we employ impulsive differential equations to model disease transmission within an industrial livestock barn. In particular we focus on the poultry industry and a viral disease of poultry called Marek's disease. This system lends itself well to impulsive differential equations. Entire cohorts of poultry are introduced and removed from a barn concurrently. Additionally, Marek's disease is transmitted indirectly and the viral particles can survive outside the host for weeks. Therefore, depopulating, cleaning, and restocking of the barn are integral factors in modelling disease transmission and can be completely captured by the impulsive component of the model. Our model allows us to investigate how modern broiler farm practices can make disease elimination difficult or impossible to achieve. It also enables us to investigate factors that may contribute to virulence evolution. Our model suggests that by decrease the cohort duration or by decreasing the flock density, Marek's disease can be eliminated from a barn with no increase in cleaning effort. Unfortunately our model also suggests that these practices will lead to disease evolution towards greater virulence. Additionally, our model suggests that if intensive cleaning between cohorts does not rid the barn of disease, it may drive evolution and cause the disease to become more virulent. Thesis (Ph.D, Mathematics & Statistics) -- Queen's University, 2016-09-22 10:30:23.342 2016-09-22T00:00:00Z Irreducibility of Random Hilbert Schemes Staal, Andrew P. http://hdl.handle.net/1974/14882 2017-03-30T14:26:44Z 2016-09-13T00:00:00Z Irreducibility of Random Hilbert Schemes Staal, Andrew P. We prove that a random Hilbert scheme that parametrizes the closed subschemes with a fixed Hilbert polynomial in some projective space is irreducible and nonsingular with probability greater than $0.5$. To consider the set of nonempty Hilbert schemes as a probability space, we transform this set into a disjoint union of infinite binary trees, reinterpreting Macaulay's classification of admissible Hilbert polynomials. Choosing discrete probability distributions with infinite support on the trees establishes our notion of random Hilbert schemes. To bound the probability that random Hilbert schemes are irreducible and nonsingular, we show that at least half of the vertices in the binary trees correspond to Hilbert schemes with unique Borel-fixed points. Thesis (Ph.D, Mathematics & Statistics) -- Queen's University, 2016-09-11 13:52:03.771 2016-09-13T00:00:00Z Codomain Rigidity of the Dirichlet to Neumann Operator for the Riemannian Wave Equation Milne, Tristan http://hdl.handle.net/1974/14738 2017-03-30T14:26:43Z 2016-08-23T00:00:00Z Codomain Rigidity of the Dirichlet to Neumann Operator for the Riemannian Wave Equation Milne, Tristan We study the Dirichlet to Neumann operator for the Riemannian wave equation on a compact Riemannian manifold. If the Riemannian manifold is modelled as an elastic medium, this operator represents the data available to an observer on the boundary of the manifold when the manifold is set into motion through boundary vibrations. We study the Dirichlet to Neumann operator when vibrations are imposed and data recorded on disjoint sets, a useful setting for applications. We prove that this operator determines the Dirichlet to Neumann operator where sources and observations are on the same set, provided a spectral condition on the Laplace-Beltrami operator for the manifold is satisfied. We prove this by providing an implementable procedure for determining a portion of the Riemannian manifold near the area where sources are applied. Drawing on established results, an immediate corollary is that a compact Riemannian manifold can be reconstructed from the Dirichlet to Neumann operator where sources and observations are on disjoint sets. Thesis (Master, Mathematics & Statistics) -- Queen's University, 2016-08-23 15:00:13.283 2016-08-23T00:00:00Z


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In the wake of a prisoner exchange, President Barack Obama said Washington was ready for a "new chapter" in relations with communist Cuba and would re-establish its embassy in Havana, shuttered since 1961.
"We are all Americans," Obama declared, breaking into Spanish for a speech that the White House portrayed as a bid to reassert US leadership in the Western Hemisphere.
Cuba's President Raul Castro, speaking at the same time in Havana, confirmed that the former enemies had "agreed to re-establish diplomatic ties" after a half century of rancor.
"President Obama's decision deserves the respect and acknowledgement of our people," Castro said, while warning that the embargo – which he calls a "blockade" – must still be lifted.
In Washington, Obama admitted the US trade ban had failed and said he would urge Congress to lift it, while using his presidential authority to advance diplomatic and travel links.
"We will end an outdated approach that for decades has failed to advance our interests and instead we will begin to normalise relations between our two countries," Obama said.
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Obama later raised the hitherto unthinkable prospect of a US president embarking on a visit to Cuba, saying nothing was ruled out.
"I don't have any current plans, but let's see how things evolve," Obama told ABC's "World News Tonight" in an exclusive interview.
Plaudits for the significant policy shift poured in from all corners of the globe.
The European Union, which is also moving to normalise ties with Cuba, hailed the breakthrough as a "historical turning point".
In Havana, Cubans erupted in celebration.
"I have goosebumps all over," said Ernesto Perez, 52, who works at a cafeteria in Havana's historic city centre.
Chile's Foreign Minister Heraldo Munoz spoke for those in Latin America who are frustrated by the diplomatic divide, declaring, "This is the beginning of the end of the Cold War in the Americas."
Obama and Castro praised the help given by Pope Francis, the first Latin American pontiff, and the Catholic Church in brokering better relations between the long-time enemies.
In response, the Vatican said the pope warmly congratulated both governments for overcoming "the difficulties which have marked their recent history."
Canada was also praised for hosting secret talks between the sides.
The surprise breakthrough came after Havana released jailed US contractor Alan Gross and a Cuban who spied for Washington and had been held for 20 years – one of the most important US agents in Cuba.
Havana also agreed to release dozens of political prisoners, a senior US official said.
The United States in turn freed three Cuban spies, and Obama said he had instructed the US State Department to re-examine its designation of Cuba as a state sponsor of terrorism.
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Life is a long journey with lot of twists and turns. Life is a series of small episodes. It is similar to a book with lot of chapters. We cannot be the major character in all episodes or chapters. There is no magic recipe to get the best out of our life. Times can be favorable or challenging. There will be periods of both success and failure. The ultimate success depends on how we leverage the lessons learned from each small success and failure. Stand alone success or failures should not be allowed to make or break us. The ultimate success will be decided by the effectiveness of adjusting the sail according to the wind.
You have realized from the previous article that you are unique and you are a success. 'Being you', is the basic principle to succeed. Consider that a runner in a marathon is leading from tenth kilometer. To emerge as the winner, he should not stop at this moment, but should retain the edge till he completes the race. You may be a success in the short term, but need to maintain the lead till the end of life.
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Each journey is associated with an identified destination. In life, we give another name for the destination and the name is ambition or aim. Becoming a scientist, businessman, social worker, professional or politician are all various kinds of ambitions. We are born with a purpose and the purpose is leading a good, happy and peaceful life useful for other human beings and society. So our ambition should be based on the foundation of becoming a good human being. A good person is respected everywhere. A person with a bad character, however successful, is never respected.
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Consider that we have identified our destination for a journey. We then start collecting details such as the route, lodging facilities, climate, availability of food etc. In short, we plan the trip. If the trip is a short one and the destination is known, these aspects happen unconsciously. But if the journey is to a distant place, we become more focused and invest more time.
Similar is the case with the life journey also. We have an ultimate ambition. This ambition can be reached by covering different points on the route. Each point in this cycle is a life stage. The ultimate aim can be achieved by covering different life stages. As in the case of a long distance journey, it is necessary to have an idea about our long term ambition and the different short term stages to be covered to attain our ultimate aim. This can be achieved through proper planning.
Consider that your desire is to be a successful scientist. In this case your long term ambition is becoming an established scientist. Do not forget the other side of the coin, being a nice person. To be a scientist, we have to go through different stages like aquiring basic education and higher education, identifying the desired field and the institutions for education and research and so on. These all comes under planning.
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Bedrooms: 4
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Lot Size: 0.31 Acres
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Year Built: 1967
Garage Dimensions: 2 car
Garage: Attached Garage, Driveway - Concrete, Garage Door Opener
Style: (SF) One Story
Water: City Water/Connected
Sewer: City Sewer/Connected
Square Feet: 3055
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Dining Room: 12x12
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Bedroom 3: 13x10
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Bedroom 4: 15x11
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Media Room: 17x14
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Dining Room Description: Separate/Formal Dining Room
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If you have owned mutual funds over the past decade, you've probably chalked up what may look like some pretty fat gains. After all, the average annual return for the past 10 years comes to a nifty 11.8%. But before you pat yourself on the back for being such a savvy investor, take the time to examine a critical element in evaluating your fund's investment performance: taxes.
Most people--including the entire mutual-fund industry--judge a fund before considering the taxes shareholders will have to pay, which could be a big mistake in these days of higher income-tax rates. The difference between pretax and aftertax returns can be startling, depending how much the fund relies on dividends and interest and how frequently the fund trades its stocks.
If you're in the highest tax bracket, returns on your equity fund could be about 25% to 30% lower than you think--and that's just taking federal income taxes into account. Roll in state and local bites, and those returns may look even less enticing. Moreover, ranking funds by their aftertax returns can send leaders to the back of the pack and turn laggards into stars.
At a time when investors are pouring money into mutual funds in record sums--$69.8 billion in equity funds and $73.5 billion in bond funds through July of this year alone--there isn't much evidence that they're taking taxes into account. "I can't tell that investor behavior is changing much because of higher taxes," says Neal Litvack, an executive vice-president of Fidelity Investments. "Maybe it hasn't sunk in yet."
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But if investors haven't yet caught on to the potential impact of taxes on their investments, you can't blame them: There's little information to go on. Most fund-ranking systems use pretax total returns, since they are the only numbers the funds report. And the growing number of fund investors with individual-retirement and other pension-type accounts, such as the Fidelity Retirement Growth Fund that caters to pension accounts, need not worry about aftertax returns now. They're not paying taxes anyway. But most money in funds is taxable, and analysts and academics are starting to look at aftertax returns. What they're seeing puts funds in a new light.
Stanford University economists Joel M. Dickson and John B. Shoven studied pre- and aftertax returns for 62 mutual funds from 1963 through 1992, and they found some dramatic shifts. The Franklin Growth Fund, for instance, was in the bottom 20% of the list based on pretax returns. But when Dickson and Shoven adjusted the return for the taxes that the highest-income shareholder would have paid, the fund's relative ranking jumped into the top 40%. Likewise, the economists found several funds that dropped significantly in the lineup after taxes. Dickson does not advocate choosing funds solely by past performance, but, he says, "investors need more information about tax effects to make informed decisions."
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To see how taxes can affect fund returns, consult the table at right. Look at Fidelity Magellan Fund and the column showing 10-year average annual returns. That figure includes the fund's appreciation and assumes the investor reinvested the dividends and capital gains--as most do. Magellan's 10-year average annual total return for the period ending Aug. 31 was 18.5%. But after taxes, that's just 15.4%. Roughly 17% of the return was eaten away in taxes. If you ranked these 50 funds by 10-year pretax returns, Magellan would be No.2. After taxes, it's No.3.
Not too great a difference. But consider Vanguard/Windsor Fund: With a 15.6% average annual pretax return, it's No.16 of the 50 for the 10 years. But after taxes, its position changes markedly. With an 11.3% return, Windsor drops to 30th place. In sharp contrast, Vanguard Index 500 Trust, with 14.6%, is No.27 pretax. But with a 12.4% aftertax return, the fund jumps to No.19.
SITTING PRETTY. Aftertax rankings differ from traditional rankings because of the way tax laws affect mutual funds. Basically, mutual funds make money two ways: from interest or dividends paid by the securities it owns, and investing in securities that go up in price. The law makes mutual funds distribute their net income and proceeds from profitable security sales, or "realized" capital gains, and they must do so before the end of the year in which profits were earned. Funds can also dump their losers and use those losses to offset some of those gains.
How much capital gains the fund generates depends, of course, on the overall state of the stock market, but also on how frequently the fund trades. "Buy-and-hold" funds, or those with "low turnover," typically let their profits ride and trade infrequently. They generally have lower capital-gains distributions and higher aftertax returns than a fund that trades more frequently. That, says John C. Bogle, chairman of the Vanguard Group, helps to explain why the Vanguard Index 500 Trust--which doesn't trade its portfolio--beat the more actively managed Windsor Fund after taxes. The other reason: Windsor often buys out-of-favor stocks with higher-than-average dividends and so generates more income than the index fund.
Indeed, the components of a fund's return are as important as the return itself. Conservatively run funds, such as income funds, equity-income funds, and balanced funds, make interest and dividends a priority, and these are taxed at the shareholders' top rate. That explains why the 10-year aftertax returns on such funds as Income Fund of America, Fidelity Puritan, and Fidelity Equity-Income are roughly one-quarter less than their pretax returns.
Now look at Twentieth Century Ultra Investors, which invests in fast-growing companies that rarely pay dividends. The fund has distributed only 21 in income over the past 10 years. During the same time, it tended to hold on to its winners and thus minimized its capital-gains distributions. As a result, Ultra's aftertax return of 14% was 89% of its pretax return, 15.7%. For the past three years, its pretax and aftertax returns are virtually the same.
LESS IS MORE. Ron Neville, chief financial officer at Twentieth Century Mutual Funds, says the Ultra fund isn't deliberately trying to avoid capital-gains distributions. That's just the outcome of its investment style, which focuses on companies with accelerating earnings. "If a stock disappoints us, we sell it and don't hang on," he says. So the fund usually has realized losses that can be used to shelter gains.
While comparing pretax and aftertax returns provides insight into a fund's past, another calculation can be a window into the future: "estimated tax liability." This figure, which Morningstar now reports as well, sizes up unrealized capital gains in a portfolio and expresses them as a percentage of fund assets.
In theory, at least, the more unrealized gains in a fund, the greater the chance that they will be realized. That's O.K. for longtime investors who participated in the appreciation of those stocks. But what happens if an investor buys a fund with a large tax liability, and the fund sells those profitable stocks tomorrow? The new investor who paid top dollar for those stocks when investing in the fund, will be hit with the same taxable distributions as the investor who was in for years.
Funds with big tax liabilities--or "embedded gains"--can surprise investors, especially if the portfolio manager decides to start taking profits because he or she detects a change in the market or wants to change the fund's strategy.
But many funds carry unrealized gains on their books for years, if not decades. The Pioneer Fund, for instance, has a huge 63.4% of its portfolio in unrealized gains. Pioneer also is the quintessential buy-and-hold fund: Its 600,000 shares of Greif Brothers Corp., a container manufacturer, were acquired 40 years ago for $521,000 and now are worth nearly $24 million. Nor is Pioneer quick to take profits on the rest of its portfolio. Its average turnover is 15%, vs. 80% for the average equity fund. So it is unlikely that the fund will start dumping stock and incurring capital-gains taxes for its shareholders.
GOLD DIGGERS. Perhaps even more interesting--and potentially more profitable for investors--is the concept of "embedded losses." These are the negative tax liabilities, or tax-loss carryforwards, that some funds have on their books if they have made poor investments. They build up because mutual funds can't distribute capital losses to shareholders. Funds can, however, hold on to them for eight years and use them to offset gains.
Not surprisingly, the funds with the largest negative liabilities are gold funds, which despite their shining 1993 performances have been big losers for past decade. Even if Lexington Strategic Investments, the year's top-performing fund, keeps up its torrid, 118% year-to-date return, its shareholders won't have to pay taxes on its capital gains for years. It has tax losses amounting to more than twice the assets in the fund. If you're convinced a beaten-up type of fund is about to rebound, buying one with tax-loss carryforwards can be a smart move.
Of course, in choosing equity mutual funds, taxes should not be the primary consideration. Investors should select the funds that best fit their financial goals and ability to take risks. Still, with tax rates on the rise, factoring in the impact of taxes is a must for the sophisticated investor.


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Hey Guys… Heading out to Colorado next week to hit Mt Elbert and Massive.
Trying to decide if we should access both from the Halfmoon Creek direction, taking Elbert as an up and back and Massive as a loop (Halfmoon Creek to Massive Trail to CT)…or…if there are any decent loops taking in Elbert and Massive connecting via Halfmoon Creek or via French, Champion, etc.
Also, any suggestions for a shortish 10k' or 11k' acclimation hike around Leadville for the day prior.
We'll arrive Sunday afternoon and will have Mon-Wed for Elbert/Massive.
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Leadville is at 10K. So walking around town would qualify.
Since you are flying in and doing the hike the next day, I'd just hang out. You aren't going to acclimate in a day. Save your energy for the "real" hike.
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@buldoggeLocale: Midwest
I'm driving in.
When we did The Pecos (Truchas area) in May we did a 9-9.5k hike before hitting 12k the next day (and eventually 13k). To be honest, I didn't see/feel the need for it in retrospect. I got a light/dull headache the 1st night and was OK after that.
I'll study the topos/trail maps, I was just hoping someone had a good loop they had experience with.
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