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Towards the sunrise
A glorious sunrise on what is called Kyiv Sea. It is really the Dnieper river, north of Kyiv. The colours of the water and sky were simply wonderful and a small boat came into the scene, still silhouetted from the early morning sun.
St. Michaels in the Snow
This St Michaels Golden Domed Cathedral in Kyiv. I took this after a heavy snowfall and at a time of day when the sun was on its way down. This is actually the back of the cathedral.
I walk past this cathedral every day to work and always find it inspiring.
Palms reflected
Seville is known for its dusty hot weather. Occasionally though, even in high summer, one gets a beautiful sunset. This shot was taken looking at palm trees reflecting in a pond.
The park is called the Maria Luisa Park, which is near the Plaza de Espana
Afternoon sun on Primrose Hill
London used to be famous for its fogs. They still happen from time to time. This photo was taken on one such afternoon. Here the winter sun is poking through the bare trees, creating a golden sky, through the mist and fog.
Rocks in the Sea
These rocks are on the Mediterranean coast in south east Spain, in Andalusia. The rocks are called Arrecife de las Sirenas. I was there just before sunset and here, with a long exposure, I was able to get a smooth sea that blends into the horizon.
Church on the peninsula
The church is called Sevanavank. It lies on a peninsula jutting out into Lake Seven in Armenia. This is a day time shot, with some interesting clouds as it looked as though a storm might be coming.
This was taken in high summer and there were a lot of mosquitoes around!
Gomi Street, Tbilisi
Tbilisi, the capital of Georgia, is fast becoming one of the must visit tourist destinations. This is a shot of a yellow painted balcony with the spire of the Upper Bethlehem Church in the background.
I was fortunate to capture this on a day when the sky was also yellowish. With a little enhancement in lightroom and photoshop, I think the sky compliments the foreground providing the photo with balance.
Chair on a Jetty at sunrise
This shot was taken on a wonderful early morning on the Dnieper River, north of Kyiv in a place commonly referred to as Kyiv Sea.
Autumn view in the Sierra Nevada
This was a surprise shot. Sometimes they work out well. On a walk in the Sierra Nevada in Andalusia, a sudden turn around, and there was the sun poking through these trees. This is a bracketed shot of three exposures, enabling me to pull out the full highlights and shadows of the scene.
Narikala and the river at night
This is a shot taken in the early evening in Tbilisi, Georgia. What was interesting that evening was a dramatic cloud formation moving over the old town that provided a perfect backdrop to the Narikala Fortress and its surrounds
Yachts at the harbour wall
An early morning shot in the picturesque town of Collioure in France. Two yachts were moored and with the harbour wall providing a balance, the mood is of serenity with the possibility in the sky of something else.
Real Alcazar Baths
Inside the Real Acazares in Seville are these beautiful baths. While it is very dark and one often sees shots that make the baths look rather drab, here I used a long exposure of around 8 seconds and then in post processing boosted the colours to create this image.
The baths themselves are called the Baths of Lady María de Padilla and are in fact rainwater tanks.


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Golden Spa Tones CD
Ethereal tones of Tibetan singing bowls gently soothe the soul like a massage for the spirit. 64 min.
These magical sounds create a sense of relaxation by dissolving patterns of stress and worry. Flute and bowls effortlessly take you to a divine inner place of acceptance, balance and peace. Gentle ocean waves and the Earth Resonance Frequency deepen the experience to a contemplative Alpha state.
Tibetan Singing Bowls
The origin of Tibetan Singing Bowls is shrouded in mystery but it is certain that they were used by monks as an aid in their meditation practice. Ancient bowls were an alloy of as many as twelve different metals that were pounded and shaped into bowls. When a bowl is struck by a wooden mallet, a rich blend of harmonic overtones is created. Because of the multiple harmonics, the sound can have the effect of bringing both hemispheres of the brain into synchronization. Whether used in meditation or simply to create a calm, serene state, the clear tones of the bowls bring a sense of harmony and balance. In this way, sound can be the medium that transports a person to an elevated state of consciousness.
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- Bells
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Track List:
1 - Harmonic Waves (5:39)
2 - Bell, Bliss, Joy (9:19)
3 - Infinite Ocean (5:06)
4 - Sound Is Love (6:21)
5 - Stretch Your Soul (4:11)
6 - Deeper Compassion (7:38)
7 - Mystic Spirals (7:24)
8 - Walk on Water (5:51)
9 - No Boundaries (3:38)
10 - Golden Moment (8:31)
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Rachel, Jessica, and Tiffany all share a difficult secret: they're all struggling with major financial problems. A sudden divorce has turned Rachel from a stay-at-home mom to a strapped-for-cash divorcee about to enter the workforce for the first time. Tiffany's spending has been out of control for years, and her mounting credit card bills have put a major strain on her marriage. And Jessica just had the rug pulled out from under her. After struggling her entire life to make ends meet, she's just gotten engaged to a man with a big bank account…and now he's asked her to sign a pre-nup.
When the women share their problems at their weekly crafting group, they decide to band together to take control of their finances. As they struggle to bring balance back to their checkbooks and their lives, they learn that some things in life, like good friends, are truly priceless.
This is the exciting premise of Sheila Roberts' new women's fiction novel, Small Change (St. Martin's).
Sheila is no stranger to penning novels and books that speak of friendships among our fellow sisters are her specialty. Her other books include Love in Bloom, Angel Lane, On Strike for Christmas, and Bikini Season.
How many women know of a special woman friend they could lean on through thick and thin? Small Change gives all of us reasons to believe nothing is too hard to tackle as long as we have a little help from our friends.
Here's a little excerpt from Sheila Roberts' Small Change:
There it sat, a Cloud Nine queen-sized luxury gold comforter with red ribbon applique and metallic embroidery. Forty percent off. It was the last one left. Tiffany Turner had seen it, and so had the other woman.
The woman caught Tiffany looking at it and her eyes narrowed. Tiffany narrowed hers right back. Her competitor was somewhere in her fifties, dressed for comfort in jeans and a sweater, her feet shod in tennis shoes for quick movement – obviously a sale veteran, but Tiffany wasn't intimidated. She was younger. She had the drive, the determination.
It took only one second to start the race. The other woman strode toward the comforter with the confidence that comes with age, her hand stretched toward the prize.
Tiffany chose that moment to look over her competitor's shoulder. Her eyes went wide and she gasped. "Oh, my gosh." Her hands flew to her face in horror.
The other woman turned to see the calamity happening in back of her.
And that was her undoing. In a superhuman leap, Tiffany bagged the comforter
just as her competitor turned back. Score.
Boy, if looks could kill.
It would be rude to gloat. Tiffany gave an apologetic shrug and murmured, "Sorry."
The woman paid her homage with a reluctant nod. "You're good."
Yes, I am. "Thanks," Tiffany murmured, and left the field of battle for the customer service counter.
As she walked away, she heard the other woman mutter, "Little beast."
Okay, now she'd gloat.
She was still gloating as she drove home from the mall an hour later. She'd not only scored on the comforter, she'd gotten two sets of towels (buy one, get one free), a great top for work, a cute little jacket, a new shirt for Brian, and a pair of patent metallic purple shoes with 3 1/2 inch heels that were so hot she'd burn the pavement when she walked. With the new dress she'd snagged at thirty percent off (plus another ten percent off for using her department store card), she'd be a walking inferno. Brian would melt when he saw her.
Her husband would also melt if he saw how much she'd spent today, so she had to beat him home. And since he would be back from the office in half an hour, she was now in another race, one that she didn't dare lose. That was the downside of hitting the mall after work. She always had to hurry home to hide her treasures before Brian walked in the door. But she could do it.
Tiffany followed the Abracadabra shopping method: get the bargain and then make it disappear for a while so you could later insist that said bargain had been sitting around the house for ages. She'd learned that one from her mother. Two years before, she had successfully used the Guessing Game method: bring home the bargains and lull husband into acceptance by having him guess how incredible little you'd paid for each one.
She'd pull a catch of the day from its bag and say, "Guess how much I paid for this sweater."
He'd say, "Twenty dollars."
"Too high," she'd reply with a smirk.
"Okay. Fifteen."
"Too high.
"Nope. Eight ninety-nine. I'm good."
If you'd like to find out more about Sheila and her books, visit her website at www.sheilasplace.com. If you'd like to order her book at Amazon, click here. The book will be available on March 30.
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Safe Instructions to Fix Windows System ErrorsRestore, Optimize and Maintain PC Performance
There are literally quite a number of Executable (i.g. EXE) files on Windows operating system. Every program you have on your desktop or laptop does its job because the EXE application files execute the missions that need to be accomplished. rasexit.exe is exactly one of them.
You may not know that every website you visit is not fully and completely static at the first beginning, it needs to use EXE files to display webpages properly.
Just imagine how you can not completely dominate a thing when you have already paid for its "life". Still counting on computer repair shops to resolve problems for you?
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Imagine that hundreds of thousands EXE files along with rasexit.exe, supported by millions of DLL (Dynamic Link Library) files, stay together on your drive, while you are accessing them, cleaning them, and downloading new ones every day. It is hard to avoid mistaken actions that lead to unwanted consequences.
You must be troubled with similar kind of issues very much, that's why you are reading this. And yes, you have turned to the right instructions. You can either directly get to simple solutions to fix rasexit.exe Error, or learn more about EXE files here if you are interested.
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EXE is an extension for executable files on OS/2, MS-DOS, and Windows system. It mainly includes the following formats:
·DOS executable: The simplest one, can run on both DOS and Windows. It is identified by ASCII character string "MZ" (the same as 4D5A in hexadecimal) ahead. "MZ" represents one of the MS- DOS developers, Mark Zbikowski.
·16-bit new executable: Identified by ASCII character string "NE" ahead. It can only run on Windows and OS/2 system.
·Mixed 16/32-bit executable: Identified by ASCII character string "LE" ahead. Only used as VxD drive on Windows 3.x and Windows 9x system.
·32-bit linear executable: Identified by ASCII character string "LX" ahead. It can run on OS/2, 2.0 and the later versions, or be used for some DOS extensions.
·32-bit executable: Currently the most popular format. Identified by ASCII character string "PE" ahead. Mainly run on Windows 95/NT , the later versions, or BeOS R3.
·64-bit executable: Similar as the last one, except that it uses 64-bit CPU. Run on Windows 64-bit Edition, such as Windows XP 64-Bit Edition, and Windows Server 2003 64-bit Edition.
Some Trojan virus may destroy the correlation of executable files to avoid being caught by anti-virus softwares, which means those files will go unserviceable. Many people helplessly choose to re-install the system, while the truth is they can totally solve the problem themselves.
I hereby give several ways regarding the said problem. Glance over those subtitles to choose the one you prefer the most. Let's see the relevant approaches:
1.Download a free anti-virus product
2.After successful installation, conduct the Full Scan
3.Restore the system with its System Repair Functions, and rasexit.exe can be repaired at the meantime.
Reset the registry settings to their default status by taking the steps below:
1. Click on "Start" at the lower left corner → and type "regedit" in the Search box → press "Enter" key.
2. Right-click Regedit.exe in the returned list → select Run as administrator
3. Find the following registry key:
1) HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\rasexit.exe
With rasexit.exe selected, right-click (Default) it, and select Modify…
Alter the Value data to exefile
2) HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\exefile
With exefile selected, right-click (Default), and select Modify…
Alter the Value data to "%1" %*
3) KEY_CLASSES_ROOT\exefile\shell\open
With open selected, right-click (Default) and select Modify…
Alter the Value data to "%1" %*
Now you may close the Registry Editor, and reboot your PC.
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1. General situation.
1) Click on "Start" button → type "CMD" in the Search box → press "Enter" key to open Command Prompt
2) Type in "ftype exefile=notpad.exe %1" (It means all the EXE files will be opened with 'notepad', which is unavailable for virus.)
3) Restart your PC, you will see many "notepad"s opened. There are not only virus for sure, but also some original system files, such as: Input method program
4) Right-click any of them → select "Open with" → click on "Browse" to get to directory "Windows/System32" → select "cmd.exe" to open Command Prompt again
5) Click on "Start" button → enter "ftype exefile=""%1""%*" to restore the correlations of all EXE files.
2.In case the correlation is damaged and anti-virus software can't run, restore that correlation.
Method One:
1)Create a "notepad"
2)Type in "assoc rasexit.exe", and save the changes
3)Rename the notepad as "(whatever-you-want).bat" and run it
Method Two:
1)Create a "notepad"
2)Type in:REGEDIT4
3)Save it as "exe.reg" (registry script file), and run it
Method Three:
1)Open "This PC", locate C:\Windows\Regedit.exe (If the extension is not shown, adjust the settings in Folder Options.)
2)Rename it as "Regedit.com", and run it.
3)Find HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\rasexit.exe, and change the Value data: to "%1" %*
4)Find KEY_CLASSES_ROOT\exefile\shell\open, change the Value data to "%1" %*
Method Four:
Export HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\rasexit.exe and HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\exefile from another computer, copy and import them to your PC.
1.Restart your computer
2.As it is restarting, press and continuously hold "F8" key (The regular launching process will be stopped that way, and the Advanced Boot Option menu will be loaded. )
3.Select "Safe Mode" with the highlight, and press "Enter" key.
If this subtitle has drawn your attention, there is no doubt that you're seeking for the most convenient method. You can see computer is a smart but delicate companion that needs to be taken care of. When it gets "sick", you may have no clue to start the cure since you're not its maker.
That's fine, ready-made recoveries have been designed to radically help users out. To better fix rasexit.exe error, click on the Download button below to take a change on this third-party tool, leaving out those cumbersome courses and unnecessary risks.
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A.P.A. Industries, Inc. is proud of the exemplary reputation and quality of our ÜRO Parts product line. In order to uphold this reputation and quality standard, significant measures are taken to prevent premature failures and/or defective parts.
All of ÜRO Parts manufacturing facilities are ISO 9000 certified to ensure manufacturing standards consistent with the highest levels of quality.
Every ÜRO part also undergoes one or more of the following measures in order to make certain that each part meets or exceeds OE standards for fitment, function, durability, and design:
- Installation and use of the part in real world conditions for a specified duration of time
- Laboratory testing of rubber and metal compounds for tensile strength, shear strength, compression strength, elasticity, stiffness, etc. under extreme conditions
- Intensive factory and local inspection of each part against Genuine samples and engineering drawings to ensure consistent quality every time
At our headquarters in Simi Valley, CA we have both a mechanical and electrical testing laboratory that is used to validate each and every product prior to production (see images below). Having these facilities also facilitates us to respond quickly to customer concerns or complaints while others rely on partners or outside testing.
In the unlikely event one of our products fails, the distributor can contact us for a fast and no hassle return.
All ÜRO Parts come with an industry leading 24 month unlimited mileage warranty against defects in materials and workmanship. All warranty returns are carefully scrutinized to determine the cause of failure so corrections and improvements can be made. At ÜRO Parts, quality is an ongoing pursuit that never ends. We have also recently introduced our ÜRO Premium line, which uses upgraded materials and/or designs to outlast their OEM counterparts. This new product line features an unmatched limited Lifetime Warranty.
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Did you know that almost 30% of the worlds population is currently suffering from asthma? Since the 1970s, the number of people with asthma has steadily increased, and it is estimated that by 2019 a striking 400 million people worldwide will be living with this chronic disease. The cause for asthma is traced back to the environment we live in, genetic factors, and lifestyle. But not many people know that an active lifestyle could actually lead to less asthma symptoms and potentially even reduce the amount of asthma medication needed. Cenk Aytekin, a Turkish born designer and recent MA graduate from Umeå Institute of Design in Sweden, recently presented his 'Asthma Wellness Kit'; a concept showing how holistic thinking and wellness can be incorporated into asthma care today.
The project, completed in collaboration with Philips Healthcare, suggests that an active lifestyle can be an alternative way to asthma management. Today's asthma treatment is mainly focused on management through medication, and exercise is rarely promoted. Many asthmatics leave their running shoes at home believing that they cannot exercise due to their asthma diagnosis, but this cannot be farther from the truth. With the right guidance and support, an active lifestyle has many health-benefits for asthmatics in particular.
The largest barriers stopping asthmatics from regular exercising are the mental and physical barriers, both of which can be overcome through a combination of the right equipment, understanding the signals of an asthma attack, and proper motivation. Not knowing when, or being scared of the mere possibility of having an asthma attack during an exercise session becomes a huge mental barrier to an active lifestyle for many asthmatics.
An asthma attack can be triggered due to various reasons depending on the individual. The most common triggers during exercise are cold air and hyperventilation, which causes dried out airways. The 'Asthma Wellness Kit' includes a mouth-worn product which contains a built-in heat exchanger and peak-flow meter. The heat exchanger humidifies and levels the temperature of the inhaled air, while the peak-flow meter continously monitors airway contractions giving you early signals of a coming attack. Learning to distinguish exercise fatigue from asthma related symptoms is an important piece of knowledge that could lead to an increased feeling of safety.
The product together with its charging unit is designed as a piece in a holistic system containting support, guidance, and knowledge on motivational benefits. When buying this product the user will get access to an interactive online service complete with medical guidance, motivational stories, interactive forums, progress monitoring, a knowledge database, and weather information.
The 'Asthma Wellness Kit' is still at a concept stage with no plans for production at the moment
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Someone really wants there to be a Facebook phone, but it's not the social network.
"Facebook is not building a mobile phone," a San Francisco-based Facebook spokesman told the "Press:Here" blog. "Facebook wants to be on every phone and not force users to one particular phone."
The same sentiments was echoed internationally by Facebook officials as they also denied the rumors today that it was working with Taiwanese manufacturer HTC to create a branded phone.
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"This is really just another example of a manufacturer who has taken our public APIs (application programing interfaces) and integrated them into their device in an interesting way," Dan Rose, head of business development at Facebook, told Reuters at a London press conference.
London business newspaper City A.M. had reported that HTC would unveil two new Facebook-branded mobile phones at next month's Mobile World Congress in Barcelona, in a story that was widely picked up in other media.
"The rumors around there being something more to this HTC device are overblown," Rose told journalists. . . . Asked whether the device would be Facebook-branded, he answered: "No."
Rumors of a Facebook phone have been active for the last year, with TechCrunch reporting it as gospel on Sept. 19, citing unnamed sources. It also named two prominent employees Joe Hewitt and Matthew Papakipos involved in the project. Facebook has consistently denied all phone rumors.
Facebook does have "deep integrations" with some mobile phones, but none are Facebook phones, the spokesman said.


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At CeBIT 2014 (Hall 7, Booth A28) Fujitsu presents new services, solutions and products around the industry megatrends of Security, Mobility, Big Data and Cloud, all under the guiding principle of Fujitsu's vision of a Human Centric Intelligent Society. In the SAP HANA Showroom on the SAP Booth in Hall 4, Fujitsu will demonstrate SAP HANA deployment scenarios and show a complete in-memory database (IMDB) portfolio, from infrastructure solutions to extensions of SAP HANA in the cloud.
Also at CeBIT, Fujitsu will demonstrate how new mobile devices allow safer working thanks to the integration of Fujitsu PalmSecure palm vein scanning technology, and smart card authentication into new mobile devices including the Fujitsu LIFEBOOK U904, the world's thinnest 14- inch business Ultrabook, the CELSIUS H730 mobile workstation and the STYLISTIC Q704 tablet PC. These premium class, lightweight devices are all suitable for the demands of business users, since they offer not only convenience but also security. Fujitsu's device showcase is completed by application scenarios and best-practice solutions for both fixed and mobile palm vein scanning for biometric authentication, for example as a password replacement, or to gain entry to a building.
Also new in the workplace portfolio are all-in-one X-line PCs with integrated features that fully support Unified Communications and Collaboration (UC&C) environments. The new Fujitsu ESPRIMO X923 and ESPRIMO X923-T models come with features such as Low Power Active Mode and user Busy Light that help take desk-based unified communications and collaboration to the next level.
For secure mobile device management and adherence to corporate compliance regulations, Fujitsu offers Managed Mobile, a solution to manage a heterogeneous pool of mobile devices. Providing a solution for the headache of managing employee-owned mobile devices, role-based administration allows secure mobile access to data, applications and communication channels. Prior to roll-out the Managed Mobile solution is customized to meet the exact needs and policies of the organization, and is supported by Managed Services, delivered eith on-premise or via the cloud.
Also at CeBIT, Fujitsu will present a secure runtime environment that utilizes end-to-end encryption at the application level. Combined with higher bitrates for encryption, this allows secure, centrally-managed high-performance connectivity for individual users and devices in specific workflows and applications, plus the secure connection of employee-owned devices for companies with a Bring Your Own Device policy.
Addressing this year's CeBIT theme of Datability, Fujitsu presents services, solutions and products that help to manage ever-increasing amounts of data. The versatile Fujitsu ETERNUS DX S3 disk storage systems allocate memory capacity according to changing customer requirements to achieve new industry-best levels of system utilization, of up to 90 per cent. A new super-fast ETERNUS model is also introduced: the ETERNUS DX200 All Flash Edition with 24 installed Solid State Disks and a total online storage capacity of 9.6TB. The system is ideally suited to in-memory applications like databases, SAP HANA deployments and for backing up applications that run in real-time.Fujitsu will also present the jointly developed reference architecture vShape, based on Fujitsu PRIMERGY server technology, NetApp FAS storage, network components from Brocade and virtualization software from VMware and Microsoft. vShape is the first Converged IT Infrastructure based on clustered NetApp Data ONTAP, the industry's most innovative storage operating system.
As a certified SAP HANA partner, Fujitsu's showcase at CeBIT will also discuss the challenges presented by Big Data projects and share its experience from more than 300 SAP HANA implementations. For a quick and easy entry into In-Memory data management, the Fujitsu Power Appliances for SAP HANA are designed for implementing in-memory databases (IMDB), as well as the Fujitsu Interstage Terracotta BigMemory server for in-memory data management that enables the use of enormous amounts of data from field locations in real time, incorporating Terracotta BigMemory from the Software AG subsidiary. In the SAP HANA Showroom on the SAP booth in Hall 4, Fujitsu showcases SAP HANA usage scenarios, best practices, and cloud services as well as concepts for comprehensive real-time data platforms based on SAP HANA, Sybase ASE, Sybase IQ and Hadoop. Industry-specific solutions – including those for Retail and Mobility will also be presented.
Also shown at CeBIT is the FUJITSU Cloud Integration Platform, targeted at organizations that are looking to extend their on-premise systems into the cloud to gain a greater degree of flexibility but also want to ensure the uniform management of cloud and non-cloud services. The FUJITSU Cloud Integration Platform provides a single console to control the integration, deployment and management of all cloud services and traditional ICT systems.
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This article from Scientific American Mind suggests we aren't always as conscious as we would like to think we are.
How Unconscious Mechanisms Affect Thought
Clever experiments root out nooks and crannies in the brain that are hidden from your conscious awareness
By Christof Koch
What is consciousness? What is this ineffable, subjective stuff—this thing, substance, process, energy, soul, whatever—that you experience as the sounds and sights of life, as pain or as pleasure, as anger or as the nagging feeling at the back of your head that maybe you're not meant for this job after all. The question of the nature of consciousness is at the heart of the ancient mind-body problem. How does subjective consciousness relate to the objective universe, to matter and energy?
Consciousness is the only way we experience the world. Without it, you would be like a sleepwalker in a deep, dreamless sleep, acting in the world, speaking, having babies, but without feeling anything. You would feel nothing, nada, nichts, rien. Indeed, in the most famous deduction of Western thought, philosopher and mathematician René Descartes concluded that because he was conscious he existed. That was his only unassailable proof that he wasn't just a chimera. Maybe he didn't have the body he thought he had, maybe he had fake memories (premonitions of The Matrix), but because he was conscious he must exist.
Yet the questions go on. Are only people conscious? What about a fetus? What about a neurological patient in a persistent vegetative state, such as Terri Schiavo (who died in 2005), who can't do much more than open and close her eyes? Although many are willing to accord sentience, consciousness, to our beloved cats and dogs, what about apes, monkeys, whales, mice, bees and all the other critters on the planet? Can a fly be conscious? What about artificial consciousness? Is your cool iPhone sentient? Can machines ever become conscious, as is widely assumed in so many science-fiction novels and movies?
Until recently, these questions were purely within the domain of speculative philosophy and fantasy. But over the past decades, science has been making huge strides in exploring the brain. An immense number of psychological, medical, neurobiological and physical stories about consciousness can now be told. Each Consciousness Redux essay will illuminate one facet of one of the most central, enduring and puzzling aspects of the world, subjective feelings.
I am a scientist who seeks rational explanations of ineffable consciousness and of how and why it arises in the brain. But I also realize that our universe is a strange place; there are more things in heaven and earth than are dreamt of in philosophy. So I try to be humble when it comes to one of the most mystifying aspects of this universe—that I wake up each day and find myself conscious, capable of seeing, touching, loving, feeling and remembering. I am not a zombie! Many different traditions besides the modern scientific one have provided answers, and we should not reject them out of hand but listen to them.
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As I write these lines, I am flying back from the annual meeting of the Association for the Scientific Study of Consciousness that took place, this year, in Taipei, Taiwan. It's a gathering of hard-nosed philosophers, neurologists, psychologists and neuroscientists concerned with consciousness. One of its high points is an annual award, named in honor of the father of American psychology. The 2008 William James Prize for Contributions to the Study of Consciousness went to Naotsugu Tsuchiya, a young neurobiologist from the California Institute of Technology. What had he done that caught the attention of the prize committee?
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Feb. 28, 2008 -- Baxter, maker of about half of the U.S. heparin supply, today recalled all of its heparin products.
But there's no shortage of the commonly used blood thinner. Heparin maker APP, which generates the other half of the U.S. supply, has upped production.
The products include single-use and multi-use vials of heparin, as well as "heparin lock flush products" used to clear IV lines. Heparin is widely used as a blood thinner to prevent clotting during surgeries, dialysis, and other procedures.
In a news conference today, Sandra Kweder, MD, deputy director of the FDA's office of new drugs, said there have been 448 reports of adverse events in patients receiving heparin, of which 389 identified Baxter products as the source. Twenty-one patients have died.
But Kweder said that many of these reports may be duplicates or may have nothing to do with the use of heparin in severely ill surgery patients. However, four of the deaths appear to be from allergic reactions having "the same clinical picture," Kweder said.
"We at FDA understand how unsettling this report is for health care professionals and patients," Kweder said. "So far, the underlying cause of these adverse events is unknown. We are doing everything possible -- we are determined -- to get to the cause of these adverse events."
The FDA's investigation has led to an inspection of a Chinese factory, Changzhou SPL, which supplied Baxter with heparin. The FDA inspection team found the plant was no longer manufacturing heparin, Michael Rogers, FDA field investigations director, said at the news conference.
Raw materials for heparin come from pig intestines. Rogers said the initial investigation of the Chinese plant "identified a number of potentially objectionable conditions" including steps to remove impurities, reporting of self-inspection results, "issues related to waste materials flow," and equipment.
The investigation is going beyond the SPL facility to follow the flow of raw materials -- pig intestines -- to their source. These sources include small workshops and farms in remote areas of China. Rogers praised Chinese authorities for their cooperation with the investigation.
It is not yet clear whether the Chinese raw materials or manufacturing process actually had anything to do with the adverse events and deaths of U.S. patients.
So far, it seems that Baxter heparin products are the only ones affected. However, Kweder said the FDA has asked doctors to report any adverse events following the use of any heparin products.
Kweder said the recall was delayed in order to ensure a continuous supply of heparin. She said nearly all of the product already has been given to patients, so few doses of the drug will actually be sent back to Baxter.


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• Verizon Vacation Blackout Reveals The iPhone 5 Will Launch On Friday, September 21 – Similar news leaked out of AT&T last week.
• Windows 8 Pro to be priced at $199 following $69.99 promotional pricing – The lower pricing expires at the end of January.
• Samsung to invest $4 billion in Austin plant – The plant makes processors for tablets and smartphones.
• Amazon debuts cheap archival and backup cloud storage with Glacier – It's designed for long-time data storage, with deliberately slow retrieval times and costs as low as 1 cent per GB per month.
• This Week in MarissYa: iPhones for All, Flickr Love and Management Musical Chairs – This may explain a lot: Yahoo is pretty much a BlackBerry shop. But Marissa Mayer may be about to change that.
• Updates to Skype for iPhone & Skype for iPad Improves Performance & Adds Photo Sharing
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• Insanely Huge: Apple Becomes the Most Valuable Public Company Ever and Apple Is Not The Most Valuable Company In The History Of The World – IBM is tops, with a $1.3 trillion valuation if you account for inflation.
• Samsung Sought To Beat IPhone With Galaxy Nexus, Apple Says – This is in a separate lawsuit from the Apple v. Samsung trial in Silicon Valley, with court hearings taking place in Washington, D.C.
• The Rise Of Third Party Services And Fall Of Google In iOS – Over time, Google has become less of factor in iOS, as third party services become more integrated.
• Insight: Experts hope to shield cars from computer viruses – Intel has hired a team of hackers to look in automotive software for flaws that evildoers could exploit.
• Early Facebook Investor and Board Member Peter Thiel Sells Nearly All Of His Company Shares – Facebook's stock dropped further in after-hours trading. And Facebook's Ambition Collides With Harsh Market
• How Eduardo Saverin Sold Facebook Ads in 2004 – A look at thefacebook.com's media kit from the service's early days as a university-only network.
• E-books and the Personal Library – E-books make it easier to move a personal library, but an existing collection of paper books is more, well, personal.
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I don't find that Eagle crashes exceptionally often
You wrote that you already paid for V6. No need to upgrade to V7 at the moment.Just download and install the latest V6 version which is 6.60 and you are fine.We have a licence for V7 but we will stay with V6.60 till at least V7.30 is available.Always wait till the bugs, introduced with new features, are fixed...
The incentive for V7 was the new routing engine...
Hm, CadSoft does not seem to have older downloads on their site. At least not that I could find. I did find a download of 6.6 from other sites but I prefer to get it from them directly. Do they make older versions available?
I'm not going to argue that autorouting is a great solution, but I will say that Proteus' autorouter is fast and produces decent results. Much faster than Eagle.
Quote from: LabSpokane on April 14, 2015, 06:51:41 pmI'm not going to argue that autorouting is a great solution, but I will say that Proteus' autorouter is fast and produces decent results. Much faster than Eagle.I love auto routers. With eagle, I manual route ~30% of the nets (power and critical) and let the auto router do the rest. It's does better job than me figuring the topology of the traces.What I am missing with eagle is a push and shove manual router. More important than streamlining the UI.
I have tried DT, AutoTrax, I downloaded, and then removed it, it felt too heavy for me, massive tool bars etc, but that's not to say it isn't good, but read the forums, the owner is very arrogant, but apparently is quick to fix bugs.


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Man aspires to own every VHS copy of 'Speed' ever created
MOSCOW, Idaho — One local man said he dedicates his free time to collecting copies of the movie Speed, the 1994 thriller starring Keanu Reeves and Sandra Bullock.
"One time, I bought 30 copies from a store," says Ryan Beitz, who wants to be the sole owner of all VHS copies of the film.
It all started as a joke seven years ago, when Beitz bought six copies from a pawnshop.
Now, "we're running a Kickstarter to get the van fixed up and painted like the bus from the movie Speed. It's so we can travel the country, come to your town and get copies of Speed," Beitz told KTVB.
It's rare to come across VHS tapes today in a world of DVDs. Beitz says he had 550 VHS tapes of the movie as of April 23.
"A lot of people just donate them to me. They send them from all over. I've got a few from Japan," he says. "I would buy them all off of Amazon, but the shipping costs $4 when the copy costs a penny. It's ridiculous."
It could be Beitz's enthusiasm that's made his obsession go viral.
Beitz started the World Speed Project in 2007. His one-man mission took off in April and was picked up by NPR, Good Morning America and a Japanese reality-TV production company.
"No one ever really knows if the work they're doing is making the world a better place or not, but they don't give up. That's how Speed works. We just have to keep going no matter what," Beitz says.
Asked to estimate how many copies of the movie he wanted to get his hands on before he would stop looking, Beitz says:
"No, I'm never giving up. I can't stop my whole life because I'll never know. So I'll die looking for Speed."


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WASHINGTON, Aug 14 (Reuters) - Hit by years of budget cuts, some U.S. public school boards are looking to avoid providing health benefits to substitute teachers and supporting staff under President Barack Obama's reform law, education officials say.
According to the law, employers will have to offer health coverage to all full-time employees, defined as those who work an average of 30 or more hours per week each month, or else pay a fine starting in 2015.
School boards, already struggling to manage after years of state budget cuts, are trying to get ahead of the potential costs of Obamacare for the current academic year, education and labor officials say. The need to find creative solutions, or risk cutting back staff hours further, will increase as they finalize their budgets, they say.
In Pennsylvania's Penn Manor School District, Superintendent Mike Leichliter said there is no room in its constrained budget to provide additional employee insurance. Instead of cutting hours, the district used a substitute-teacher contracting service to pay part of the salaries for 95 employees. Money for such a service does not count against the school's budget.
"When we looked at our costs, (healthcare) was one area that really had the potential to skyrocket," Leichliter said. "This is absolutely the worst time for school districts to be faced with mandated increases."
The National School Board Association said many states and school districts have at least explored reducing hours, according to Linda Embrey, a communications officer. Several school officials contacted by Reuters said they could not find a way around cuts.
In Indiana's Fort Wayne Community Schools district, one of the state's largest, administrators reduced hours for 610 of its 4,050 employees, including substitute teachers and support staff, who were working 30 or more hours a week. Providing them with health insurance would have cost $10 million annually, said Krista Stockman, public information officer for Fort Wayne.
"You get to a point where there's a danger that you're cutting too much and that the quality of education you're providing isn't as great," Stockman said. "We're just going to have to do the same amount or more with less."
Most of the employees affected are substitute teachers, classroom aides, cafeteria workers, bus drivers or similar support staff, according to school officials and labor representatives. They had not been receiving healthcare coverage from their employers in the past. Now, instead of getting such employer-sponsored benefits under the reform law, they may be eligible for government-subsidized coverage that will be offered by new state insurance exchanges starting on Oct. 1.
During the 2012-2013 school year, 26 states provided less money to local school districts than the prior year, and 35 states provided less funding than in 2008 (a better year), according to the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities.
This year they are also grappling with across-the-board "sequester" spending cuts introduced after Congress deadlocked over how to fix the deficit. An Obama administration official said those cuts plus the states', and not healthcare reform, are the main reasons for staff losing work-time at schools.
"We are seeing no systematic evidence that the Affordable Care Act is leading to a shift to part-time work," the official said. "There are a variety of factors impacting schools, including sequestration, which is cutting budgets and is a completely separate issue."
The National Education Association is working with union leaders across the country to figure out how to encourage employers to avoid cutting hours as a result of healthcare reform, said Joel Solomon, NEA senior policy analyst. The effort has included a training session for dozens of labor representatives in June, and more sessions are planned for this year.
Solomon said one popular solution offered by the NEA is to help schools get a more precise accounting of employee hours to see whether staff are truly working an average of 30 hours a week each month when holidays and other time off are included. That has helped some schools make less drastic cuts in employee hours, he said.
Many school employees are expected to qualify for Obamacare's tax subsidies, which are available starting in January to people who make within 400 percent of the federal poverty level ($45,960 for an individual and $94,200 for a family of four in 2013).
Even if they don't, the new plans are preferable to what they currently have to buy on the individual market because insurers cannot deny coverage based on prior illness.
In Nebraska, the Plattsmouth Community School District is limiting the hours of permanent substitute teachers, who typically work every day, said Marlene Wehrbein, a labor union official who advocates for employees in the state's public school districts.
"It creates a lot of inconsistency in staffing, and I can't see how that would be good for students," Wehrbein said. "How could you have a teacher teaching English four days a week and then on the fifth day you have someone else?"


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Defending the Jayson Werth Deal
Yesterday, I learned that there are two crazy people in the world, Washington Nationals GM Mike Rizzo and me. Rizzo signed Jayson Werth to a seven-year, $126 million contract, and I stated that Werth was projected to be worth $127 million in terms of revenue generation over this time period. I understand why this contract is universally hated. This is a huge contract, a long contract that takes Werth into his late-30s, and while most fans understand that Werth is good he's not considered a superstar.
Werth has risen from an injury-plagued and disappointing career to the top of the game, without being flashy. He's played on a good team where he's been overshadowed by Roy Halladay, Ryan Howard, Chase Utley, and the list could go on. In 2010, I estimate that he was the sixth-best player in the National League—just behind Adrian Gonzalez, who is apparently discussing a longer and more valuable contract extension with the Boston Red Sox. Werth is an excellent and valuable player.
How will Werth age? A lot of people feel that players age drastically, and that at 38 Werth will have aged out of the league. That is possible, but my research indicates that aging is rather flat. Good players tend to stay good, bad players tend to stay bad. When players get to their late-30s, it's difficult to study aging, but I use my aging function to diminish his performance according to the past history of major-league players, so this value roughly accounts for that.
I also assume that league revenue will grow at nine percent per year. That may seem like an aggressive assumption—and revenue cannot continue to grow at that rate forever, or MLB will take over the US economy—but it is consistent with historical revenue growth. If you'd like to scale the growth rate back, I won't argue with you. But, I can see where the Nationals might get their revenue projection.
And what about the argument that the Nats would have been better of by signing Adam Dunn? The Chicago White Sox signed away Dunn with a four-year, $56 million deal. I estimate that as a designated hitter, Dunn is worth $54 million. But, if he has to play the NL, where his defensive liabilities can't be hidden on the bench, he's worth only $49 million. The Nationals might have liked to have kept Dunn, but an AL team was going to value him more. Furthermore, Werth is a better player than Dunn: in 2010, I estimate that Werth's play was worth about $5 million more than Dunn's.
And what about the future? A few years down the road the Nationals may not just be a losing team, but a loser with an albatross contract. I think the Nationals signed this contract looking forward, rather than trying to make a splash now. The Nats may have needed some good press in DC, but Werth isn't quite the household name to make that splash. The Nats have a core of good young players, such Ryan Zimmerman, Stephen Strasburg, and Bryce Harper. In a few years, when the team wants to add another piece to push them into the playoffs (and with players will be worth more) Werth could be worth more than his contract. Now, if the plan doesn't work out, the Nats may end up having to cut their losses and deal away some of their good players. When that time comes, they can minimize some of their losses by selling away overpaid players for less—the loss isn't the full salary of the contract. Yes, a loss is a loss, but risking a loss to make money is something that businesses must do every day.
I'm not sure I would have recommended this deal to Rizzo if asked, but I can understand why this deal was made. It's aggressive, but reasonable.
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The deal is entirely about restoring the Nats credibility in Washington. People aren't going to the games. They are perceived here as playing in a taxpayer-built park and putting a rancid product on the field. Also, given the Nats situation, the only way to get a top free agent to come was to, arguably, overpay. It is also about placating the face of the franchise, Ryan Zimmerman, who was pissed about losing Dunn. Who knows how it will work out, but the Nats had to do something, just as the Braves had to overpay to get Derek Lowe.
What are the odds of injury though? There are a few different kinds of injury that Werth could experience that may or may not be protected by insurance. If he has a bad year or two that's injury driven but is generally productive, like say Jim Thome, that's pretty easy to account for. On the other hand Frank Thomas was still a productive hitter but basically lost 3 years between age 32 and 38 which would be really damaging to the Natinals. And he could have an injury that removes part of his value, like a shoulder injury that could cost him a throwing arm that saves 4 runs a year.
Correct me if I'm wrong, buy your aging study attempts to separate aging effects from other attrition effects, such as chance of injury. Do you include those other attrition effects in your model?
We can argue whether or not 7 years $126m is the appropriate value for Werth. The reason that I question the deal is I don't think that the highest value the organization could have gotten out of this spent $18m/year is/was on Werth (a player who is peaking now). The Nats aren't winning next year. I think there are other places where this money could have been better spent (investing in the future i.e. on more draftees w/ signability issues and/or international free agents). The Nats may now win 75 games next year instead of 73, but at a cost of having been able to spend that money on more potential stars that will pay dividends the same time Harper is ready. I think that the Werth signing prolongs any substantial longer-term improvement for the Nats.
I was looking at page 57:
"Yes, some players do fall off a cliff at the end of their careers — sometimes in their early 30s — but such occurrences are unlikely to be the natural product of aging. An abrupt performance decline is normally the product of a major injury or another significant effect. General managers who sign a player in their 30s should expect a decline; but, the decline is so gradual that an excellent player will continue to be a good player for many years beyond his peak."
To the poster saying that the Nats would be better off spending that $18M/year on the amateur draft, makes a good point. But the Nats owner is worth $2-3B (Billion) according to Forbes, and can afford to spend $18M on Werrth, and another $18M on the farm. Pretty sure that Ted lerner is the richest owner in the MLB.
I expect that given the Nats track record in signing Strasburg, Harper, Solis and AJ Cole in the past 2 years, that they are committed to keeping the farm fully populated.
For commentors that use the term "Natinals" – I'm sure I'm not the only one who stops reading at that point.
I don't know if this is going to turn out to be a good contract or not. But it was a necessary contract. At some point, the Nats need to start winning and putting those pieces together. And Werth is one of those pieces.
Hi MarkW:
A bunch of people have been calling them the Natinals (sic) b/c some players on the team have on multiple occasions last year worn jersies that didn't have the 'O' in them. If it happened only once, then people could understand. But it happened a few times. Google the term Natinals and look at the images. If the team sends its representatives out there w/ Natinals written on their uniforms, then one could argue that that's what the organization wants to be called.
All in good fun,
It appears that there isn't an exact 1:1 relationship between an owner's wealth and the willingness to have a high payroll. An example: Pohlad in Minnesota is crazy rich, but until last year they consistently had a payroll in the bottom half of the league. So I wouldn't fully dismiss my point that the $126MM going to Werth perhaps might have been the best use of that money. Even if adding Werth adds 3 wins to the team, they're still a long ways off from contending.
Yes, we can't fully judge this Werth deal in a vacuum i.e. just by itself. But I think it's fair to look at the organization's (putrid) performance record over the past few years and I think one shouldn't be surprised if the team still flounders in the years ahead.
John S:
A mistake like that turning up on two jerseys for three innings once is NOT the same as happening on "multiple occasions". Check your facts before trying to defend someone else's sub-par sense of humor.
Majestic also took responsibility for the mistake (see the link in the name), so perhaps the argument should be that they're the ones who prefer the name?
That said, I do think this deal has merits beyond just performance on the field. The chances of this deal cratering towards the end are pretty high, and perhaps the marginal increase in wins in the short term won't be fully justified by the price tag. But, like Mark S. said in the first comment, this also has to be viewed as at least a token effort by the club to show its fans (as well as current and future players) that it's willing to spend money to get top-flight free agents. Like the saying goes, you have to spend money to … be able to spend more money in the future?
After nearly five cellar-dwelling seasons of rebuilding, it may take more than a 69-win season to keep even the most hardy fans interested in the team….
Let's put it this way. People aren't going to the games. If the Nats announce, well, we are going to take this money and invest it in the farm system, even fewer people will go to the games. Sometimes, you have to make a short-term move to enable long-term moves. Intellectually, you can say it doesn't matter if the Nats win 73 or 75 or 80 games but to people deciding whether to spend their money, it makes a big difference if the team looks like they are trying, especially since they are playing in a ballpark given to them by the city.
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Target Date Folios are an alternative to traditional target date funds, launched on the Folio Investing platform in December of 2007. These portfolios now have more than five years of performance history. Prior to the design of the Folios, a detailed analysis of target date funds suggested that they could be considerably improved. The Folios were designed to provide investors with an enhanced target date solution. In this article, I will discuss the design and performance of the Folios and target date mutual funds over this tumultuous period. The risk and return characteristics of these funds and Folios provides insight into the effectiveness of different approaches to portfolio design and diversification.
Risk Targets vs. Years to Retirement
There are a number of considerations in designing a target date strategy. The first step is to estimate an appropriate risk level at each stage in a typical investor's life. Here, at the outset, there are substantial differences in the approaches employed for funds vs. the Folios. The most common fund approach starts with using the percentage of a portfolio that is allocated to equities as a proxy for risk. Using this approach, the designer of a target date fund determines a target percentage to equities for investors, as a function of the number of years until they retire (this is often referred to as the 'glidepath' of a fund). The most commonly identified problem with this approach is that different target date strategies may have dramatically different allocations to equities at each stage in an investor's life. The second problem, far less appreciated, is that using the allocation to equities as a proxy for risk can mask huge differences in the actual risks. Our analysis of target date mutual funds has clearly shown that there are substantial differences in risk levels even for funds with the same percentage allocated to equities. This should not be all that surprising. Some equity sectors have far more risk than others. Similarly, some bond classes are much riskier than others. Among target date funds designed for people who retired in 2010 with the same percentage allocation to equities, the trailing three-year risk levels varied by as much as 44%.
The risk levels of different asset classes vary through time. The volatility of the S&P 500 increased dramatically from 2007 to 2008, for example. Similarly, the relationships between different asset classes change over time. During periods of market stress, risky asset classes tend to move together, reducing the effectiveness of diversification as a risk mitigation tool, for example. For these reasons, the traditional glide path, which manages to an asset allocation goal, can expose investors to dramatic variations in risk level through time. The alternative is to manage to a risk goal, and varying the asset allocation through time to meet the appropriate risk level. This is the approach that we have taken with the Target Date Folios. Each year, the allocations are adjusted as needed to provide investors with a portfolio at the appropriate risk level rather than maintaining a policy asset allocation.
Diversification Strategy
The defining goal for target date strategies is to provide investors with well-diversified portfolios at an appropriate risk level. A diversified portfolio is one that combines asset classes with different types of risk, so that a decline in one asset class will tend to be at least partly offset by returns from other asset classes. While this idea sounds simple, the implementation of a diversified portfolio is quite complex and there are different schools of thought on how to build a well-diversified portfolio.
The simplest approach to diversification is simply to own some of everything. By spreading your equity exposure across thousands of stocks, you limit your exposure to the risks of a decline in any single firm. The most common way to own a vast number of stocks is to buy an index fund, such as one that tracks the S&P 500 or a global stock index. A similar approach can be taken with the bond portion of the portfolio. At the simplest implementation, a target date fund might hold just a few funds. Vanguard's target date funds are the best example of this approach. Vanguard's 2040 Target Date Fund (VFORX), for example, is comprised of a 63% allocation to the Vanguard Total Stock Market Index Fund (VTSMX), 27% to the Vanguard Total International Index Fund (VGTSX), and 10% to the Vanguard Total Bond Market Index Fund.
This very simple strategy helps to keep costs low, but there may be some unintended consequences. While VTSMX holds more than 3,000 stocks, Apple (AAPL) comprised 3.95% of this fund at the end of September of 2012. Apple comprised such a large portion of the total stock index because of its enormous market capitalization. VTSMX holds stocks in proportion to their market cap. The more the price of a stock goes up, the larger the allocation to that stock. With 63% of VFORX allocated to VTSMX, and 3.95% of VTSMX invested in Apple, VFORX had 2.5% of its assets in Apple at the end of September of 2012.
The second limitation to the very simplest asset allocation approach that holds just stocks and bonds is that research suggests that there are substantial diversification benefits to be had by investing beyond a total market stock index and bond index. Even through the bear market of 2008, there is evidence that diversification provided considerable value.
If we move to more complex strategies than simply holding a few stock and bond index funds, what are the alternatives? First, we might replace the passive index-weighted exposure to different asset classes with actively-managed funds. The intent behind such an approach is that active managers will select investments that will, as a portfolio, out-perform the index-based allocations. The debate over the relative merit of active vs. passive investment selection is beyond the scope of this article. The second alternative, which is the approach used with the Target Date Folios, is to use a quantitative asset allocation model to create portfolios with the highest expected return per unit of risk. In this approach, a quantitative model projects risk and return for asset classes and sub-classes, as well as calculating the correlations between them. A quantitative model is used to determine the portfolio of assets that has the highest expected return for a target risk level. The goal of quantitative asset allocation is not to predict which stocks or sectors will out-perform, as would be the case with actively managed funds, but rather to combine asset classes in a way that maximizes expected return anticipating risk offsets between asset classes. This, in turn, tends to increase risk-adjusted return for the total portfolio. This process is often referred to as strategic asset allocation.
There are a number of standard methods for performing quantitative strategic asset allocation. In the approach used for the Target Date Folios, we start with the universe of available ETFs. To be included in the analysis, an ETF must have at least four years of performance data. Without sufficient data, we are not confident that we can properly characterize the risk and return properties. Along with the risk constraint, we also specify limits on interest rate exposure. The portfolio allocations are determined using an optimization algorithm that maximizes expected return at each risk level.
The Target Date Folios are re-analyzed once per year, and the asset allocations that result from the quantitative analysis vary somewhat from year to year. As noted previously, we specify risk goals rather than specific asset allocations and the model determines the portfolio with the highest return for a given risk level. In 2007, for example, the Target Date Folios had substantial allocations to inflation-protected bonds (TIPS). By 2012, the allocations to TIPS were much smaller and there were substantial allocations to municipal bonds. This shift in allocation was primarily due to the changes in the correlations between TIPS and equities. In 2007, TIPS had a very strong negative correlation to equities, which means that TIPS tended to offset risk from equities very effectively. By the end of 2012, this diversification benefit had been dramatically reduced, making TIPS less attractive.
Five Years down the Road
From their launch in December 2007 through December 2012, the Target Date Folios have out-performed a composite of the three largest target date fund families (that together hold about 75% of all assets invested in Target Date Funds) by 1% per year. This level of out-performance can have a huge impact over an investor's lifetime. As I have written previously, it is reasonable to project that this level of out-performance will result in 20% higher lifetime wealth accumulation over a working career. We cannot provide assurance that the out-performance will persist in the future, but the fact that the level of out-performance is consistent with what we originally projected could be obtained with additional diversification is encouraging. Our current projections suggest that this 'diversification alpha' persists. All projections are subject to a high level of uncertainty, of course.
Target date solutions, all-in-one well-diversified investments, are an important innovation. Many, if not most, individual investors lack the expertise and time to build and manage a portfolio that is matched to their long-term needs. As the evolution from traditional pensions to self-directed plans continues, target date funds play an important role. We are seeing rapid adoption of target date funds, and this growth seems likely to continue.
The value of target date funds notwithstanding, there are areas in which these funds need to be improved. Target Date Folios are designed to be the next generation of target date strategies. The primary benefits of the Folios as compared to mainstream funds are (1) improved risk management, and (2) better diversified asset allocations. In the five years since the Target Date Folios were launched, these non-traditional asset allocations have out-performed at a level consistent with projections.
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