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To: CrashDavis who wrote (1252)	5/16/2014 1:09:09 AM
From: Kirk ©	1 Recommendation Recommended By Blasher Respond to of 26587

Thanks. Who really understands all that happens with the bond market? I recall Uncle Louis Rukeyser on TV, RIP, made fun of their "smarts" just about every week when he had his show. Doing the update for my monthly newsletter tonight and the REIT fund is up over 15% YTD!!! So it is benefiting both from flight to yield as well as inflation AND the inability of most to get a loan to buy a place. Here in the Bay Area a gal I mentor just bought a home for total cost before tax savings of less than she was paying to rent. BTW, the European fund I have is up 4.5%. Funny how the "smart money" said to avoid Europe and now stocks are doing well there. Amazing how well REITs are doing... maybe when CNBC/Cramer start talking about them it will be time to take profits buy something else they neglect or hate. -grin-

To: CrashDavis who wrote (1252)	5/18/2014 9:41:58 AM
From: Kirk ©	Respond to of 26587

I need to keep taking good care of myself so I can make it to the upload, singularity time. I wonder what sort of technology will hold and backup the data..... By 2040 you will be able to upload your brain... ...or at least that's what Ray Kurzweil thinks. He has spent his life inventing machines that help people, from the blind to dyslexics. Now, he believes we're on the brink of a new age – the 'singularity' – when mind-boggling technology will allow us to email each other toast, run as fast as Usain Bolt (for 15 minutes) – and even live forever. Is there sense to his science – or is the man who reasons that one day he'll bring his dad back from the grave just a mad professor peddling a nightmare vision of the future? By Mike Hodgkinson Saturday, 26 September 2009 Should, by some terrible misfortune, Ray Kurzweil shuffle off his mortal coil tomorrow, the obituaries would record an inventor of rare and visionary talent. In 1976, he created the first machine capable of reading books to the blind, and less than a decade later he built the K250: the first music synthesizer to nigh-on perfectly duplicate the sound of a grand piano. His Kurzweil 3000 educational software, which helps students with learning difficulties such as dyslexia and attention deficit disorder, is likewise typical of an innovator who has made his name by combining restless imagination with technological ingenuity and a commendable sense of social responsibility. However, these past accomplishments, as impressive as they are, would tell only half the Kurzweil story. The rest at independent.co.uk