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New York State Route 64
Map of the Finger Lakes region with NY 64 highlighted in red
|Route information
|Maintained by NYSDOT
|31.06 mi[2] (49.99 km)
|1930[1] – present
|Major junctions
|South end:
|NY 21 in South Bristol
|US 20 / NY 5 in East Bloomfield
|North end:
|NY 96 / NY 252 in Pittsford
|Ontario, Monroe
|Highway system
New York State Route 64 (NY 64) is a north–south state highway in the Finger Lakes region of New York in the United States. Its southern terminus is at an intersection with NY 21 in the hamlet of Bristol Springs within the town of South Bristol, Ontario County. The northern terminus is at a junction with NY 96 and NY 252 in the village of Pittsford, Monroe County. NY 64 is a mostly two-lane highway that primarily serves as a connector between the southeastern suburbs of the city of Rochester and the Canandaigua Lake area, home to Bristol Mountain Ski Resort. Near the midpoint of the route, NY 64 has an overlap with U.S. Route 20 (US 20) and NY 5 that takes the route through the village of Bloomfield.
The majority of what is now NY 64 was originally designated as part of Route 14, an unsigned legislative route, by the New York State Legislature in 1908. In the vicinity of Bloomfield, however, Route 14 initially followed what later became NY 20C in order to access Holcomb. The alignment of Route 14 through Bloomfield was modified in 1921 to use modern NY 64 instead. When the first set of posted routes in New York were assigned in 1924, the portion of Route 14 between Mendon and Pittsford became part of NY 15. In the 1930 renumbering of state highways in New York, NY 15 was realigned to follow a new routing to the east while the Mendon–Pittsford segment of its former routing became the basis for NY 64, a new route that extended southward over the post-1921 routing of legislative Route 14 to South Bristol.
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NY 64 begins at an intersection with NY 21 on a ridge overlooking Canandaigua Lake in Bristol Springs, a hamlet of South Bristol. The route heads to the northwest as a two-lane highway, running in the base of the Bristol Valley, a lowland created by a pair of imposing mountain ranges to the east and west that is home to the Bristol Mountain Ski Resort. At the hamlet of Bristol Center (in the town of Bristol), roughly 7.5 miles (12.1 km) from Bristol Springs, the western mountains give way to flat farmland while the eastern range continues on, although to a lesser extent and a lower elevation than before. The elevation of NY 64 remains virtually unchanged, however, as it progresses northward. 1.5 miles (2.4 km) from Bristol Center, the route meets US 20A.[3]
US 20A joins NY 64 here, following the latter for about 4 miles (6 km), allowing US 20A to terminate at its parent, US 20, here concurrent with NY 5, at an intersection in East Bloomfield. At this point, NY 64 turns west onto US 20 and NY 5. The three routes head westward across mostly open fields, meeting the southern terminus of NY 444 south of the former village of Holcomb. Past the junction,[3] which once served as the eastern terminus of NY 20C,[4] US 20, NY 5, and NY 64 continue into the village of Bloomfield before NY 64 breaks from NY 5 and US 20 and turns northward toward Rochester once again.[3]
A mere 50 yards (46 m) north of US 20 and NY 5, NY 64 meets the west end of Bloomfield's West Main Street at a rural intersection that was the western terminus of NY 20C.[3][4] North of West Main Street, the highway curves to the northwest as it exits East Bloomfield and enters the adjacent town of West Bloomfield. In the northeast corner of the town, NY 64 passes through the hamlet of Ionia. Northwest of the community, the route breaks to the north, taking a due north alignment as it passes into Monroe County and becomes Mendon–Ionia Road. The road stays on a relatively straight path northward as it heads through the rural southern portion of the town of Mendon to the hamlet of Mendon, where NY 64 meets NY 251 in the center of the community.[3]
On the opposite side of NY 251, NY 64 becomes Pittsford–Mendon Road. Outside of the hamlet, the highway maintains a consistent northerly alignment as it runs through slightly more populated areas of the town of Mendon and passes over the New York State Thruway (Interstate 90 or I-90). The route enters the town of Pittsford a short distance north of the Thruway, at which time NY 64 becomes Mendon Road. Within Pittsford, NY 64 passes through increasingly more populated areas as it approaches the village of Pittsford. Directly south of the village, the highway enters an intersection with South Main Street, Stone Road and Mendon Center Road at a sharp angle.[3] NY 253 once entered this junction on Mendon Center Road and followed NY 64 into Pittsford;[5] however, today, NY 64 continues alone onto South Main Street. The route ends just under 1 mile (1.6 km) later at the junction of South Main Street and Jefferson Road, where it meets NY 96 and NY 252.[3]
In 1908, the New York State Legislature created Route 14, an unsigned legislative route that extended from Corning to Rochester via South Bristol and Pittsford. The majority of Route 14 south of Pittsford was routed on what is now NY 64; however, in the vicinity of Bloomfield, Route 14 broke from modern NY 64 and used what later became NY 20C to access Holcomb. At the same time, the portion of current NY 64 that overlaps with US 20 and NY 5 was included in Route 6, a cross-state highway connecting Albany to Buffalo.[6][7] On March 1, 1921, Route 14 was altered to bypass Holcomb to the south on what is now NY 64.[8]
When the first set of posted routes in New York were assigned in 1924, the portion of legislative Route 14 between Mendon and Pittsford became part of NY 15, a route that mostly followed the current alignment of NY 96 from Owego to Rochester. Between Victor and Pittsford, however, NY 15 strayed from the modern routing of NY 96 and followed what is now NY 251 to Mendon. At the same time, the segment of legislative Route 6 in East Bloomfield became part of both NY 5 and NY 5A. The NY 5A designation was replaced along this stretch with NY 7 by 1926,[9][10] which in turn was replaced by US 20 in 1927.[11] In the 1930 renumbering of state highways in New York, NY 15 was realigned to bypass Mendon to the northeast by way of the current alignment of NY 96 between Victor and Pittsford. The former alignment of NY 15 from Pittsford to Mendon became part of NY 64,[1] a new route that extended south to South Bristol over the post-1921 routing of legislative Route 14.[12] The 4-mile (6.4 km) portion of NY 64 between Vincent and South Bloomfield became part of US 20A c. 1939, allowing the route to reconnect to US 20 at South Bloomfield.[13][14]
NY 64 briefly extended north of the village of Pittsford during the 1950s and 1960s. In the mid-1950s, NY 96 was realigned onto the new Eastern Expressway from Bushnell's Basin to NY 31F near East Rochester. From there, NY 96 followed modern NY 31F west to East Avenue, where it rejoined its original alignment. The portion of NY 96's original surface routing between the village of Pittsford and what is now NY 31F became part of an extended NY 64.[15][16] A northwest extension of the freeway to what is now the Can of Worms was completed c. 1957 as a realignment of NY 96, resulting in another extension of NY 64 along East Avenue to the eastern edge of Rochester.[16][17] NY 64 and NY 96 were restored to their pre-1950s alignments c. 1961 when the Eastern Expressway was designated as I-490.[18][19]
Major intersections[edit]
|South Bristol
|Hamlet of Bristol Springs
|US 20A west
|Southern terminus of US 20A / NY 64 overlap; hamlet of Vincent
|East Bloomfield
|US 20 east / NY 5 east / US 20A
|Eastern terminus of US 20 / NY 5 / NY 64 overlap; northern terminus of US 20A / NY 64 overlap; eastern terminus of US 20A
|Southern terminus of NY 444; former eastern terminus of NY 20C
|US 20 west / NY 5 west
|Western terminus of US 20 / NY 5 / NY 64 overlap
|West Main Street
|Former western terminus of NY 20C
|Village of Pittsford
|Eastern terminus of NY 252
|1.000 mi = 1.609 km; 1.000 km = 0.621 mi
See also[edit]
- ^ a b Dickinson, Leon A. (January 12, 1930). "New Signs for State Highways". The New York Times. p. 136.
- ^ a b "2008 Traffic Volume Report for New York State" (PDF). New York State Department of Transportation. June 16, 2009. p. 125. Retrieved January 31, 2010.
- ^ a b c d e f g Microsoft; Nokia (July 13, 2015). "overview map of NY 64" (Map). Bing Maps. Microsoft. Retrieved July 13, 2015.
- ^ a b Canandaigua/Geneva/Farmington/Victor – Ontario County, New York (Map). Map Works. 1998. ISBN 1-882488-45-8.
- ^ Mobil Travel Map – Buffalo, Niagara Falls, Rochester (Map). Cartography by Rand McNally and Company. Mobil. 1985.
- ^ State of New York Department of Highways (1909). The Highway Law. Albany, NY: J. B. Lyon Company. pp. 57, 59. Retrieved April 12, 2010.
- ^ New York State Department of Highways (1920). Report of the State Commissioner of Highways. Albany, NY: J. B. Lyon Company. pp. 511, 522. Retrieved April 12, 2010.
- ^ New York State Legislature (1921). "Tables of Laws and Codes Amended or Repealed". Laws of the State of New York passed at the One Hundred and Forty-Fourth Session of the Legislature. Albany, NY: J. B. Lyon Company. pp. 42, 55–56. Retrieved April 12, 2010.
- ^ "New York's Main Highways Designated by Numbers". The New York Times. December 21, 1924. p. XX9.
- ^ Official Map Showing State Highways and other important roads (Map). Cartography by Rand McNally and Company. State of New York Department of Public Works. 1926.
- ^ Automobile Blue Book. 1 (1927 ed.). Chicago: Automobile Blue Book, Inc. 1927. This edition shows U.S. Routes as they were first officially signed in 1927.
- ^ Road Map of New York (Map). Cartography by General Drafting. Standard Oil Company of New York. 1930.
- ^ New York Road Map for 1938 (Map). Cartography by General Drafting. Esso. 1938.
- ^ New York (Map). Cartography by General Drafting. Standard Oil Company. 1939.
- ^ New York with Special Maps of Putnam–Rockland–Westchester Counties and Finger Lakes Region (Map) (1955–56 ed.). Cartography by General Drafting. Esso. 1954.
- ^ a b New York with Special Maps of Putnam–Rockland–Westchester Counties and Finger Lakes Region (Map) (1957 ed.). Cartography by General Drafting. Esso. 1956.
- ^ New York Including Long Island (Map). Cartography by H.M. Gousha Company. Sunoco. 1957.
- ^ New York and New Jersey Tourgide Map (Map). Cartography by Rand McNally and Company. Gulf Oil Company. 1960.
- ^ New York and Metropolitan New York (Map) (1961–62 ed.). Cartography by H.M. Gousha Company. Sunoco. 1961.
External links[edit]
|Wikimedia Commons has media related to New York State Route 64.
|KML file (edit • help)
- New York State Route 64 at New York Routes


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Aaron Wilbraham struck a 79th minute equaliser to preserve City's unbeaten start to their Sky Bet League One campaign.
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After watching my body, broken and bruised,
my eyes bleeding tears no love should refuse,
they hoped
you would be the happy ending
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there is nothing.
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my heart is a void for you.
My memories of you that once shone like stars
have decomposed.
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Who were we?
Who were those people
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all that remains,
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Soham killer Ian Huntley was tested for brain damage after his second unsuccessful suicide bid, it emerged last night.
His attempt to take his own life came after he was taken off round-the-clock suicide watch - despite official warnings that he still wanted to kill himself.
It is thought that Huntley, who was last night in intensive care, could have suffered permanent damage after collapsing because his brain may have been starved of oxygen.
The child murderer, 32, was under sedation in hospital after swallowing an overdose of anti-depressant tablets he bought from fellow inmates on the prison black market.
Huntley, serving life for the murders of Holly Wells and Jessica Chapman, was found unconscious in his cell on the hospital wing of Wakefield jail in West Yorkshire, early yesterday. He is expected to survive.
But last night, as both police and prison officials launched an inquiry, prison officers' leaders claimed that the supervision of Huntley - who first tried to take his life in 2003 - was downgraded earlier this year. This was despite a damning report into the first suicide attempt warning that he presented an 'ongoing significant risk' of self-harm.
One source said last night that Huntley had been taken off constant surveillance 'a number of months ago' after a risk assessment. Others claimed the new regime was implemented last month.
But no matter when it happened, it meant that instead of having a guard permanently stationed outside his cell, Huntley was simply checked on five or six times an hour.
Staff at Wakefield also received heavy criticism following the suicide of mass killer Harold Shipman at the same jail. Dr Shipman hanged himself with a home-made noose made of sheets.
Last night Brian Caton, general secretary of the Prison Officers Association said: 'There would appear to have been changes to the way the watch was carried out. My understanding is that the status of constant watch was removed three weeks ago.
'It was based on the fact that the assessment of him changed. We are convinced that our colleagues at Wakefield have done what they are expected to do. But some suicidal prisoners spend hours just studying where there may be loopholes in the system.'
Huntley was taken to hospital in Wakefield where he was sedated and placed under police guard. Doctors are now awaiting toxicology tests to see what drugs he swallowed.
First suidicide attempt
He made his first death bid in 2003 while on remand at Woodhill jail in Milton Keynes. On that occasion, he simply stored 29 pills in a box of tea bags. As a result, he is now given his regular dose of anti depressants in liquid form.
Sources at Wakefield believe that Huntley was so determined to obtain tablets that he bartered luxury goods such as tobacco on the thriving prison black market.
West Yorkshire Police last night confirmed that the force has launched an inquiry into how Huntley was able to obtain the drugs.
His cell has been padlocked and sealed and is being treated as a crime scene.
The full report into the June 2003 incident was released by the Home Office less than eight weeks ago following a Freedom of Information request.
It concluded: 'Mr Huntley presents an ongoing significant risk of self-harm. In managing him, the safest strategy is to assume he will commit another act of self-harm if given the opportunity.'
It also revealed that Huntley was taking the anti-depressant Amitriptyline at the time of the 2003 bid.
Huntley was jailed for life in December 2003 for the murders of Holly and Jessica in Soham, Cambridgeshire, in August 2002. He killed the ten-year-old youngsters at his home and buried their burnt bodies next to a nearby RAF airbase.
Soham councillor Colin Fordham, who is friends with Holly Wells' grandparents, said yesterday that no-one in the village cared about Huntley's fate. Both sets of parents were informed by police early yesterday.
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James Paice, Tory MP for Cambridgeshire South East, said: 'While one's initial reaction might be it is a pity he didn't succeed, most people think he should serve his sentence and not get off lightly.
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The Prison Service last night launched an inquiry into Huntley's suicide bid. Sources played down the POA's claims that Huntley's observation status had been downgraded, saying that his 'care plan' was 'fluid' and changed according to the degree of risk.
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I'm not a LEO, but I definitely would like to see how that stop would go. I would guess you would be detained and trying to explain 9 firearms.
This is a discussion on Quick question for LEOs within the Concealed Carry Issues & Discussions forums, part of the Defensive Carry Discussions category; I'm planning a motorcycle trip for a few days where I'll be checking in on some remote properties (also known as "Range time!"). Now I'm ...
I'm planning a motorcycle trip for a few days where I'll be checking in on some remote properties (also known as "Range time!").
Now I'm required to disclose what I'm carrying if I'm pulled over, and have never had a problem disclosing my primary and bug. However, I'm feeling funny about the thought of having to explain why I have an additional 5 or 7 more handguns in my saddle bags.
I know technically that I'm clean no matter how many, but I'm starting to re-think how many that I bring, simply because I don't want to flag myself for detailed scrutiny. So, if you pull over a 6' 225lb scruffy-looking dude on a Harley with a clean record, CWP and about 9 handguns, would you be tempted to detain him for a little while?
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I'm not a LEO, but I definitely would like to see how that stop would go. I would guess you would be detained and trying to explain 9 firearms.
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I would ask what you are doing with 9 handguns. If you gave me a satisfactory answer, then there would be no reason for keeping you any longer than necessary.
You ought to see me when I go to the range. I might have over 10k worth of firearms with me.
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I'm not an LEO, but I think they would handle the same as anytime someone gets pulled over going to a range or whatever. If everything is on the up and up and you are honest with them, I don't think it should be an issue. If you tell them you have a CWP and the handguns if you get pulled over, I would think that would indicate that you probably aren't a 1%er running guns. I would think you wouldn't be detained any longer than a normal traffic stop to run a back ground check.
Of course, if you obey all traffic laws, it shouldn't really be an issue.
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Tell him you have an octopus in the other saddle bag and the other 8 handguns are his.
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Thanks for the responses, folks (particularly HotGuns & SIXTO). I think I'll go for it. I'm sure I'll be talking to the popo at some point, not because I've done anything wrong, but because I'll be accessing property that people aren't used to seeing anyone access, so someone usually phones me in.
I'll be bringing my laptop and camera too, so I might post my groupings and examples of how to make a Harley behave like a dirt bike .
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Just tell the cop that you are rehearsing for a bit part on "Sons of Anarchy". Just the type of scene you don't want.
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The reality of it is, he is in South Carolina. If he were riding though say, Detroit or Baltimore or NYC, he would more than likely get a different response.Seriously though. Unless you get a cop who's having a bad day or is very anti-gun, I can't really see it being a problem as long as you're honest and polite.
Here's a scenario...
Driving through any city that is known to be hostile gun ownership. Maybe you can own a gun there, but you have to jump through 2 years of hoops, or have an FOID or know the governor or something stupid like that just to get it.
He gets stopped for doing 45 in a 35 because he has missed the sign saying 45 and other than that,nothing has seemed to change. Rookie cop steps up and in the conversation he is made aware that the WHEC724 is carrying at least two gun on his person. The rookie cop doesn't seen many people carrying, he has never really encountered any because its just not something that people seem to care about. and about the only people that he encounters carrying guns are bad guys. Rookie cop sort of gets his mind blown when he gets told that there are another half dozens guns in various places on the motorcycle. Now he is wondering if this big ole scruffy looking biker dude is coming from a burglary or something, because he has never encountered anyone with that many guns, and why?
Just to be sure, and because he is trying to be thorough in his duties, he calls up his supervisor. Since his supervisor cant really tell whats what over the phone, he comes on over to check things out. So,, in the mean time Rookie officer calls the Dispatcher, runs the DL, and registration just like he always does and he asks if there have been any recent burglaries or gun thefts over the line because this biker has a lot of guns. Now,Rookies buddy that is patrolling his own segment of the city just a few blocks over is just driving around, he hears this over the radio and he decides to head that way "just in case".
In a matter of minutes, there are 3 cops behind WHEC724 and he is wondering what the heck is going on. Passerbys see a big burly biker being surrounded by 3 cops and all sorts of things are going through their heads.
Just to be on the safe side, they ask for his guns that the serial numbers can be run on them. WHEC724, gives his up so that they can do that, and they move him to the back of the car to separate him from the guns.They may retrieve the guns in the saddle bags to be safe, and WHEC724, having absolutely nothing to hid, gives his permission to do so.
Now, you can see where location makes a difference. The responding officer can make a difference. The Shift Commander can make a difference. The fact that a local pawn shop had a truck driven though it doors at 2AM and 100 guns were stolen 3 weeks ago makes a difference.
So...now what happens?
I've shown how there are sooooo many variables to consider in a situation like this and any one of them can change or determine a whole scenario. Its just something to think about. What may be standard operation in one district may be frowned on in another district.In parts of Chicago I am told that the police respond to any traffic stop with their guns in their hand. If a cop around here did that, it would make the front paper and he wouldn't be doing it but once unless he could justify it with other reasons. Does that make it wrong? No it does not because the circumstances are different in both places.
Thats why these sorts of discussions sometimes seem to have contradictory responses. We have people from all 50 states represented here and the opinions and dealing with the cops in their areas can be very different.
What Sixto does in Ohio, is liable to be very different where I operate in Podunk Arkansas. Me and Sixto might want to talk guns if we stopped you and everything checked out.Others might hook you up and let the lawyers sort it out because thats the normal mode of operation where they are located.
It sucks, but that is the way it is.
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I say take all you want and can carry. be polite and non confrontational with LEO and up front and you should be OK.
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I few years back I was transferring from San Diego to Mississippi. I had already drove my jeep down and flown back for my Harley. I got tired of the interstate and decided to take some back roads. I was towing a Bush Tech trailer with all my guns. I figured it would be more secure than a soft top Jeep, plus I camped everynight rather than getting a hotel. I pulled over in east Texas for a break and a plain clothes police officer pulled over when he saw me stopped. We chatted for a while and I asked him about a few different routes. He asked if I had a map and told me he would show me some good roads. I told him I have an atlas in the trailer and there were several guns in the trailer. He said thats o.k. grab the map. I did and he showed me some senic roads and continued to talk about riding and now guns. I have to admit there were a few wild out comes running through my mind. He never even asked for ID or anything. I guess he was enjoying a little break also.
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Which Assets Have Done Well During Fed Rate Hikes?
A look at the last five rate-hike cycles could offer some clues about the next one.
The big investment question for 2015—when will the U.S. Federal Reserve begin hiking the federal funds rate, and by how much?—is closer to being answered. In a report issued at the conclusion of the meeting of the policy-setting arm of the Fed, the Federal Open Market Committee (FOMC), on June 16–17, 2015, 15 of 17 Fed officials said they expected the Fed to begin raising short-term interest rates before the end of 2015. The Fed has four more meetings scheduled for 2015—in July, September, October, and December—with markets expecting the first rate hike in September.
What might this mean for investors? One way to assess the potential impact is to look at history, although past performance is not a guarantee of future results. Earlier this year, for example, Zane Brown, Lord Abbett Partner and Fixed Income Strategist, wrote a series of articles exploring how key U.S. fixed-income categories and large-cap equities performed during the past five periods of a rising fed funds rate. And now because the June 17th Fed projections emphasize just how close the central bank is to delivering its first rate hike, we thought it would be a good time to summarize those findings.
Let's first look at the historical fed funds rate, and the most recent projections for where the rate could be headed (see Chart 1). We'll start in the early 1980s, just after the overnight rate had peaked at nearly 20% in response to the inflation crisis back then. From this starting point, we can view the five distinct periods when the FOMC raised the fed funds target rate—some very rapidly, as in 1994, and others over a longer time period, such as during 2004–06. To see where the rate might be going in 2015, we include two sets of projections: 1) a dashed line evenly connecting the median points from the Fed "dot-plot" predictions (from the 17 members), and 2) the rate priced into the fed funds rate futures market for the next three years. Fortunately for investors, both sets of projections indicate the kind of "gradual" rate increase that the Fed chairwoman Janet Yellen has stressed.
Chart 1. Where Has the Fed Funds Rate Been—and Where Could It Be Headed?
Fed funds target rate (December 31, 1984–June 19, 2015) and indicated projections of future rates
Source: Federal Reserve and Bloomberg. Percentage figures accompanying arrows refer to the size of the total increase in the fed funds rate during the indicated period. Market forecasts and projections are based on current market conditions and are subject to change without notice. Projections should not be considered a guarantee.
Now that we've mapped the interest-rate landscape, let's turn back to those last five fed rate-hike periods and summarize the performance of various segments of the bond and stock markets during each period to assess how markets might react in the coming years. We present this performance in Table 1. Then, we offer some of Brown's observations about what the historical record suggests for each of these sectors when the Fed begins the next phase of interest-rate hikes. [Of course, past performance is no guarantee of future results.]
Table 1. How Have Key Asset Classes Performed during Past Periods of Fed Rate Hikes?
Total return by index during indicated periods of Federal Reserve rate hikes
Source: Federal Reserve Bank of New York, Citigroup, Barclays, BofA Merrill Lynch, and S&P Dow Jones Indices. Two-Year U.S. Treasury = Citi Treasury Benchmark 2-Year Index. 10-Year U.S. Treasury = Citi Treasury Benchmark 10-Year Index. Barclays Aggregate = Barclays U.S. Aggregate Bond Index. Short Corporate Bonds = The BofA Merrill Lynch 1-3 Year U.S. Corporate Index. Floating Rate Loans = Credit Suisse Leveraged Loan Index (historical data for this index is monthly; returns reflect nearest month-end). High Yield Bonds = BofA Merrill Lynch High Yield Index. S&P 500 = S&P 500 Index.
Past performance is no guarantee of future results. The historical data are for illustrative purposes only, do not represent the performance of any Lord Abbett mutual fund or any particular investment, and are not intended to predict or depict future results. Indexes are unmanaged, do not reflect the deduction of fees or expenses, and are not available for direct investment. Due to market volatility, the market may not perform in a similar manner in the future.
The value of an investment in fixed-income securities will change as interest rates fluctuate and in response to market movements. As interest rates fall, the prices of debt securities tend to rise. As rates rise, prices tend to fall. Treasuries are debt securities issued by the U.S. government and secured by its full faith and credit. Income from Treasury securities is exempt from state and local taxes. The value of investments in equity securities will fluctuate in response to general economic conditions and to changes in the prospects of particular companies and/or sectors in the economy.
U.S. Treasuries
The performance of U.S. government bonds during the five periods in our survey was largely a function of the bonds' maturity. The lower duration, or price responsiveness to interest-rate changes, of a representative two-year U.S. Treasury index allowed a positive return in every cycle and an average return of 2.41% during these periods. The story changes dramatically farther out on the yield curve, as an index of 10-year U.S. Treasury securities posted an average return of -1.87%.
Short-Term Corporate Securities (Short Duration)
The performance picture improved greatly outside the government-bond sector during the rate-hike periods in our survey. A representative index of one- to three-year investment-grade corporate securities handily outperformed both classes of U.S. Treasury securities in each of the past five Fed rate-hike episodes. This outperformance came despite the fact that in every cycle, except 1986–87, the yield on two-year Treasuries rose substantially more in than did that of 10-year Treasuries.
Since short-term bond yields are more closely tied to the fed funds rate than are longer-maturity bond yields, one might ask whether short-maturity bonds would be more susceptible to losses when the Fed begins to raise rates. To that point, note that when the Fed tightens, short-term yields increase more than long-term bond yields, causing the curve to "flatten." So, does this mean that investors should avoid short-term bonds? Apparently not, since history suggests otherwise.
It is true that short-term yields tend to rise more than long-term yields during Fed-tightening cycles, leading to a flattening of the Treasury curve. However, during such periods, short maturities historically have delivered positive returns, despite rising yields. The higher income generated by short-maturity, credit-sensitive sectors offer greater prospects for returns in the face of rising rates.
Bank Loans
There have been three Fed-tightening cycles since 1992, which is the beginning of reliable bank-loan index data. The three episodes that began in 1994, 2000, and 2004 represent a range of rate hikes and time frames. In each case, bank loans (as measured by the Credit Suisse Leveraged Loan Index) performed well relative to the alternatives. The three-cycle average performance of 6.04% for the representative leveraged-loan index compares favorably to 2.41% and 1.02%, respectively for the two-year U.S. Treasury index and the Barclays U.S. Aggregate Bond Index.
While past performance is no guarantee that bank loans will again perform in a similar manner in the next rate-hike cycle, the "data-dependent" nature of the Fed's upcoming policy decisions suggests initial rate hikes likely will coincide with evidence of self-sustaining U.S. economic strength. More robust U.S. growth likely would also support the economically sensitive bank loan sector. Based on current valuation measures, the bank loan sector offers potentially attractive relative returns, almost regardless of when the Fed chooses to hike rates.
High Yield
What has happened to the U.S. high-yield sector when the Fed has raised interest rates? In every period but the interval of June 1999–May 2000, the representative BofA Merrill Lynch High Yield Index outperformed the Barclays U.S. Aggregate Bond Index. The high-yield index also returned more than the two-year U.S. Treasury note during three of these five periods. If we combine all five periods, the high-yield index provided an average return of 3.84%, compared to 1.21% for the Barclays Aggregate Index and 2.42% for the two-year Treasury Index.
This is no guarantee that high yield will outperform when the Fed's widely anticipated policy tightening finally takes place. However, the historical returns of the high-yield index imply economic sensitivity, rather than rate sensitivity, for the asset class, and the importance of the higher yield that accrues over time. The criteria that favor rate hikes—stronger economic growth and slightly higher inflation—seem to argue for U.S. high-yield securities, regardless of whether those conditions allow the Fed to launch an interest-rate "liftoff" in September or later in 2015.
U.S. Large-Cap Equities
In four out of five periods, returns on the representative S&P 500® Index outperformed that of a conservative strategy which invested in two-year U.S. Treasury notes. The surprise Fed tightening in 1994 was the one period when the two-year Treasury performed better than the S&P 500. Over the five tightening cycles, average S&P 500 performance of 13.71% compares favorably to the 2.41% average for the two-year strategy. Even if we were to exclude the extraordinary S&P 500 return of 35.35% at the period beginning in late 1986, the average outperformance of equities versus two-year Treasury securities during the past five Fed-tightening cycles is meaningful.
Historically, the Fed has raised rates to temper excessive economic growth and contain or lower inflation. The Fed's current objective is instead to normalize interest rates without adversely affecting economic growth. Arguably, this more economy-friendly objective could favor equities and other economically sensitive securities more than past rate-hike policies have, when economic slowdown was part of the objective. Thus, if the Fed is successful in its implementation of rate hikes, interest rates can move gradually higher without seriously affecting the economic growth that supports corporate earnings and, in turn, equity valuations.
Summing Up
Whether the Fed decides to tighten as early as July, or as late as December 2015 (or even later), market anticipation of rate hikes suggests that some fine-tuning of fixed-income portfolios now may be appropriate. Equity investors also may decide to reassess their approach as they await the Fed's next move. Regardless of an investor's appetite for risk, there have been a number of investment strategies that historically have worked well. Investors may wish to review them as the day of rate-hike reckoning approaches.
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A Note about Risk: The value of an investment in fixed-income securities will change as interest rates fluctuate and in response to market movements. As interest rates fall, the prices of debt securities tend to rise. As interest rates rise, the prices of debt securities tend to fall. High-yield securities, sometimes called junk bonds, carry increased risks of price volatility, illiquidity, and the possibility of default in the timely payment of interest and principal. Bonds may also be subject to other types of risk, such as call, credit, liquidity, interest-rate, and general market risks. Lower-rated bonds carry greater risks than higher-rated bonds. Moreover, the specific collateral used to secure a loan may decline in value or become illiquid, which would adversely affect the loan's value. Longer-term debt securities are usually more sensitive to interest-rate changes; the longer maturity of a security, the greater the effect a change in interest rates is likely to have on its price. No investing strategy can overcome all market volatility or guarantee future results. The value of investments in equity securities will fluctuate in response to general economic conditions and to changes in the prospects of particular companies and/or sectors in the economy.
Treasuries are debt securities issued by the U.S. government and secured by its full faith and credit. Income from Treasury securities is exempt from state and local taxes. Although U.S. government securities are guaranteed as to payments of interest and principal, their market prices are not guaranteed and will fluctuate in response to market movements.
Neither diversification nor asset allocation can guarantee a profit or protect against loss in decline markets.
There is no guarantee that the asset classes listed in this article will perform in a similar manner under similar conditions in the future.
Forecasts and projections are based on current market conditions and are subject to change without notice. Projections should not be considered a guarantee.
Duration is the change in the value of a fixed-income security that will result from a 1% change in market interest rates. Generally, the larger a portfolio's duration, the greater the interest-rate risk or reward for underlying bond prices.
The fed funds rate is the interest rate at which a depository institution lends immediately available funds (balances at the Federal Reserve) to another depository institution overnight.
Yield is the annual interest received from a bond and is typically expressed as a percentage of the bond's market price.
The Barclays U.S. Aggregate Bond Index is an unmanaged index composed of securities from the Barclays Government/Corporate Bond Index, Mortgage-Backed Securities Index and the Asset-Backed Securities Index. Total return comprises price appreciation/depreciation and income as a percentage of the original investment. Indexes are rebalanced monthly by market capitalization.
The BofA Merrill Lynch 1-3 Year U.S. Corporate Index is an unmanaged index comprised of U.S. dollar-denominated investment-grade corporate debt securities publicly issued in the U.S. domestic market with between one and three years remaining to final maturity.
The BofA Merrill Lynch High Yield Index tracks the performance of U.S. dollar-denominated below investment-grade corporate debt publicly issued in the U.S. domestic market. Qualifying securities must have a below investment-grade rating (based on an average of Moody's, Standard & Poor's and Fitch), at least 18 months to final maturity at the time of issuance, at least one year remaining term to final maturity as of the rebalancing date, a fixed coupon schedule, and a minimum amount outstanding of $100 million.
The Citigroup 2 Year Treasury Benchmark Index is a broad measure of the performance of two-year U.S. Treasury securities.
The Citigroup 10 Year Treasury Benchmark Index is a broad measure of the performance of 10-year U.S. Treasury securities.
The Credit Suisse Leveraged Loan Index is designed to mirror the investable universe of the U.S. dollar-denominated leveraged loan market. The CS Leveraged Loan Index is an unmanaged, trader-priced index that tracks leveraged loans. The CS Leveraged Loan Index, which includes reinvested dividends, has been taken from published sources.
The S&P 500® Index is widely regarded as the standard for measuring large cap U.S. stock market performance and includes a representative sample of leading companies in leading industries.
Indexes are unmanaged, do not reflect the deduction of fees or expenses, and are not available for direct investment.
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Meeting Angela
Air rushed out of my lungs as I hit the ground hard. The ball slipped out of my grasp, snapped up by someone else. With a groan, I pushed myself back to my feet, wiping the mud from my eyes. I had no idea why I did this to myself. I've been playing rugby since I was five. Maybe it was about time to give it up. My legs and ribs definitely agreed with this notion. Rolling my neck to try and loosen the muscles, I glanced over at the next playing field. The girls' hockey team would be training now, and Angela with them. She'd been at the school for barely a month, and already on the team. The girls had been stagnating for a while, always managing to get third place in the county standings, but now they thought they were in with a chance for the regionals, possibly even the nationals. Scanning the field, I could see Angela with the ball, streaking down the field towards the goal, an expression of fierceness written on her face that I wouldn't have thought her capable of. Tearing my gaze away from her, I jogged over to where the rest of the rugby team was waiting for me.
I crossed her later, coming out of the changing rooms after practice. Her long hair hung down her back, freed from its usual plait. Swallowing hard and summoning up all the courage I could muster, I seized the chance I had been avoiding for the last month. Hurrying a little to catch up, I fell into step alongside her.
"Hey, Angela, I, uh, I'm Lucius..."
"No," she replied, hunching her shoulders a little, her grip on the strap of her bag tightening, glaring at me out of the corner of her eye. I felt the confusion of her vehnement rejection write itself on my face as I stammered another couple of syllables. "I'm not looking for a boyfriend or any manner of close relationship."
"I wasn't going to ask you on a date!" I burst out. Blood suffused my face as I realised that what I had said could be taken several ways. God, what kind of a moron must she take me for now? She turned her head to look at me with a critical and wary expression. This was the first time I had seen her face this close. She seemed to be flawless, smooth skin and delicate features. At a second glance, I could see that she had a contact lens in one eye, the edge of it just visible around her iris. A thin scar ran the length of one cheekbone. Her whole expression was carefully guarded, not letting a single thought escape without careful scrutiny.
"If you're looking for a one night stand..."
"I just want to be friends," I tried to assure her. I was pretty sure I was stammering like an idiot. "Nothing more, nothing physical, I swear! Just... you never hang out with anyone at lunch and you seem kinda lonely and, uh, I um, wanted to help..."
Angela's expression softened a little as she processed that information. Looking down at the floor, she rubbed the back of her neck. "Uh, I guess I owe you an apology for snapping at you. It's just..."
"Every guy you meet wants to get into your pants?"
A flash of a grimace passed over her face. "Yeah, pretty much."
"So, uh, friends?"
Had it not been for my male dignity, I would have skipped home.
We should probably have guessed about the existence of the MCs a long time ago. They were the ones who held the world together really. An earthquake was a geokenetic having an argument. A good harvest was the benediction from the fey. A volcanic eruption was a fire mage having a bad day. The majority of nurses were actually witches and MCs with healing powers trying to to their bit to keep the humans safe. Cultures from ages past weren't wrong when they thought that natural disasters and blessings were because of some higher power that they termed as deities. In a way, the MCs were gods. They watched over humans as they developed into the creatures we are now. Protected us, civilised us and taught us. When religion started to take hold of the world, they realised they had done all they could and bowed out, hiding themselves away, but they still watched over us, kept us safe. They would have kept themselves hidden if it hadn't been for that reporter. Now everything they do, either the government takes credit for or they blame it on terrorists. But despite everything, the MCs haven't fought back. They haven't tried to destroy us. In their place, I would have obliterated humanity for the injustices they'd laid at the feet of the MCs. A lot of them lost close to everything. With explorers, deforestation and ID cards, they were coming closer and closer to the inevitable: extinction. I guess the world isn't ready for them yet.


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What Is The Point Of Life?
Stan Coffey
Ecclesiastes 1:1-3
We are beginning a brand new series entitled, "Experiencing Life Before Death." I want you to turn to the Old Testament, Ecclesiastes. Psalms, Proverbs, Ecclesiastes, right after the book of Proverbs is Ecclesiastes, chapter 1 verse 1. The message is entitled, "What Is The Point of Life?"
What profit hath a man in all of his labor that he taketh under the sun? A little first grade boy came to his mother one day as she was washing dishes and asked her a question. He said, mommy, where did I come from? Well, she began to go into a detailed explanation of the reproductive organs and all that happens at conception and birth. And when she finished after about 15 or 20 minutes, he said, oh, well, Jimmy comes from Dallas! She said I had that sinking feeling that I had given the wrong answer to the question. That I was answering the question that he was not asking. But we want to answer questions that people are asking.
In the newspaper there is a big article on one of the sections, a full-page article on metaphysics. Meta means beyond, physics means physical, so beyond the physical. Metaphysics is greatly involved in what we know as the New Age Movement. And it said in human kinds quest to find the meaning of life, more and more people are turning toward metaphysics for the answer. In other words, people can't find answers in merely the physical. It went on to define metaphysics as an individual quest for people to find inner peace and to find answers in a world filled with inner turmoil. And in these next several weeks we want to be addressing those kinds of things. How to have inner peace, how to discover real happiness, how to define real purpose and real meaning in life, experiencing life before death. Folks, did you know that Jesus Christ is not just interested in adding years to your life, He wants to add life to your years. He is intere ...
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Chapter 9:And a Little Child Shall Lead Them (and Be Led)
Is it not plain that the people had frightened their children with so many tales that they could not sleep without dreaming of the devil, and then made the poor women of the town confess what the children said of them?
–Francis Hutchinson, Historical Essay Concerning Witchcraft (1718), describing the 1669
"seduction" of 300 children in Mora, Sweden, which resulted in the burning of 85 "witches"
While the search for repressed memories began in earnest only after the publication of The Courage to Heal in 1988, it was preceded and augmented by another witch hunt in which little children were led to accuse innocent adults of sexual abuse. Although this book focuses primarily on the adult recovery of supposedly repressed memories, the cases involving preschoolers are equally distressing, often resulting in unnecessarily traumatized children and lengthy jail terms for people who committed no crimes. As we will see, the two phenomena–induced child accusations and adult recovered memories–are not only parallel, but often interact with one another within the same family.
As a result of increased awareness of the true horrors of child abuse, Walter Mondale championed the passage of the Child Abuse Prevention and Treatment Act in 1974. This landmark legislation offered matching federal funds to states which passed their own laws mandating that doctors, psychologists, police officers, teachers, nurses, and other professionals report any suspected child abuse to the appropriate child protection agency. The act offered anonymity and immunity from prosecution to anyone reporting child abuse. Those who failed to report suspected abuse faced fines or prison sentences.
The legislation has produced a self-sustaining bureaucracy of social workers, mental health experts, and police officers who specialize in rooting out sex abuse. The more cases they find, the more funds they receive, and the more vital their jobs appear. The result? Beyond question, many cases of actual abuse have been brought to light. But tragically, the legislation has also encouraged false accusations that have ruined the lives of innocent people. A network of self-righteous child protective service workers has blanketed America, eager to find offenses, even in cases where little or no evidence exists. A rumor or malicious allegation is enough to start the wheels rolling. Often, children are taken away from parents without notice, and the accused are arrested without ever being questioned. Those seeking an exhaustive investigative report on the day care cases should read Satan's Silence: Ritual Abuse and the Making of a Modern American Witch Hunt , by Debbie Nathan and Michael Snedeker, describing how, in the authors' words, "the psychotic delusions of a few individuals were translated into public policy."
McMartin: the First Day-Care Scandal
In August of 1983, in Los Angeles, Judy Johnson–diagnosed later as a paranoid schizophrenic–noticed that her two-year-old's bottom was red and decided that he had been sexually abused. She called the police. Although the boy could not speak in complete sentences, uttering only the occasional single word, the police assumed that the mother was correct. They did not question the diagnosis of sexual abuse, but at first, it wasn't clear who had sodomized the boy. Perhaps it had been someone in the park. Soon, however, after repeatedly questioning the child, the mother and police became more certain. It was 25-year-old Ray Buckey, one of his day-care teachers at the McMartin Preschool.
Without further investigation or observation of the day-care center, on September 9 the local California police sent a letter to 200 McMartin parents, warning of "possible criminal acts" such as "oral sex, fondling of genitals, buttocks or chest area, and sodomy, possibly committed under the pretense of taking the child's temperature." As a result, concerned parents began questioning their children intensely. They also called one another and compared notes. The young children–most of whom were three or four–at first denied that anything bad had happened to them at the day-care center. Under a barrage of parental pressure, however, some began to tell stories of how they had been touched.
It is almost impossible to reconstruct how these rumors spread, but by the beginning of November, there was a full-scale panic among the parents, many of whom had taken their children to the police, who questioned them aggressively. Parents began to take their supposedly traumatized children to the Children's Institute International (CII), where Kee MacFarlane and other experts in child sexual abuse interviewed them, using leading questions, coercive techniques, and "anatomically correct" dolls. Eventually, over 350 children submitted to the CII "therapy." In Satan's Silence , Nathan and Snedeker offer a devastating description of the interview process at CII:
To put the children at ease, the women [therapists] dressed, clownlike, in mismatched clothes and multicolored stockings, and sat on the floor with the youngsters. They talked in gentle, high-pitched voices, and encouraged discussion about genitals and sexual behavior that young children hardly knew words for. And they used a new diagnostic device: "anatomically correct" dolls, which came with breasts, vaginas, penises, anuses, and pubic hair. The children were introduced to MacFarlane's collection of hand puppets…. The session became a scene of naked dolls with genitals touching, poking and threatening each other. Cloth penises were being inserted into mouths. "Did that happen? Ooh, that must have been yucky," MacFarlane said. "It didn't happen," corrected Tanya; "I'm just playing." There was talk of being spirited from the school to molesters' homes, though whether they were people's houses or doll houses was unclear. After prompting from MacFarlane, Tanya named Peggy Buckey as a witness to abuse.
About that time, the allegations expanded beyond Ray Buckey to include his sister Peggy Ann, his mother Peggy, his grandmother Virginia McMartin–a septuagenarian in a wheelchair–and three other day-care providers. MacFarlane and her cohorts soon elicited horrifying tales of how the Buckeys and other teachers had forced children to drink blood and urine and had killed animals in front of them, in what sounded like satanic ceremonies.
Meanwhile, Judy Johnson's account of what her inarticulate two-year-old son was supposedly telling her became more graphic and bizarre. Ray Buckey had worn a mask and sodomized her son while sticking his head in a toilet. She also stated that he forced the boy to ride naked on a horse and molested him, while Buckey dressed alternatively as a policeman, fireman, clown, and Santa Claus. Her charges soon escalated to involve other McMartin Preschool teachers. They had purportedly jabbed scissors into the boy's eyes and shot staples into his ears, nipples and tongue; they had also killed a baby and made him drink the blood. (Other abusers Judy Johnson identified included male models she saw in magazines and strangers following her on the highway. Two years later, she was hospitalized for psychosis, and a year after that, she died of an alcohol-related liver disease.)
Eventually, under intense questioning by therapists, parents, and police, many children came to believe that they had actually been molested, embellishing their stories with wild accusations of having been abused in hot air balloons, on distant farms, in cemeteries, and in tunnels under the school. Lawrence Pazder, the Canadian psychiatrist who co-authored Michelle Remembers , the 1980 book about repressed memories of satanic cults, flew in to tell the police and parents how to spot ritual abuse. Soon, more and more parents and children were convinced that the McMartin Preschool was part of a satanic cult ring of child pornographers and ritual abusers. Testifying before Congress in 1984, social worker Kee MacFarlane stated: "We're dealing with an organized operation of child predators," asserting that the preschool served as "a ruse for a larger, unthinkable network of crimes against children."
The media unquestioningly lapped up the sensational McMartin story.
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