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Gadgets that connect iPods to home entertainment centers aren't new. The booming iPod accessory industry has long offered docks and cables that allow music stored on an iPod to be played through a home audio system, and remote controls to manage the playback.
But, with the advent last fall of the video-capable iPod, a new type of product is emerging: connectors and docks that allow iPods to play video through a TV, as well as playing audio through home receivers and speakers. In addition, there are finally some iPod docks that place a menu of options, similar to the iPod's own menu, on a TV screen.
$99 Apple iPod AV Connection Kit, www.apple.com/ipod/accessories.html
If you own a video iPod and happen to miss Sunday's episode of "Desperate Housewives," you can easily log on to Apple's iTunes Music Store, pay a couple of bucks to download the episode and copy the video onto the iPod for watching on the go.
But watching movies or TV shows on your home entertainment center will always be more enjoyable than watching on a comparatively tiny 2.5″ iPod screen while listening through earbuds.
This week we reviewed two of these new iPod video connectors: the $99 iPod AV Connection Kit from Apple Computer Inc. itself and the $150 HomeDock Deluxe by Digital Lifestyle Outfitters, or DLO, as the smaller company calls itself.
When it comes to watching videos or digital photo slide shows, these two docks are about the same. Because of limitations in the iPod itself, video and slide-show menus can't be projected on the TV screen, so selecting them requires manipulating menus on the iPod. But for listening to the iPod's music through your speakers, the DLO HomeDock Deluxe pulls ahead. It offers a special mode that lists music on your television screen, not just on your iPod screen like the Apple kit, so you can see song details clear across the room. And overall, the DLO remote is much easier to use than Apple's.
Griffin Technology, another popular maker of iPod accessories, has plans for its own iPod video connector that it will call the TuneCenter. This product — like the DLO HomeDock Deluxe — will offer music navigation through a TV screen menu. It should be available starting in June.
For our tests, we used a $299 30-gigabyte iPod, and made sure to copy two videos onto it from our iTunes library: rock band Coldplay's music video of its song, "Fix You," and the latest episode of the Bravo channel's TV series "Top Chef."
We started with Apple's iPod AV Connection Kit, which includes a simple white dock, tiny white remote, white AC connection cable (red, white and yellow plugs at one end) and power adapter to charge the iPod while it docks.
We used one of four small adapters to fit our iPod into the dock. A power adapter cable and AC connection cable plug into the dock's back side, and a small circular infrared receiver for the remote decorates the front. The other end of the AC cable fit into our TV's red, yellow and white plugs, just like attaching a DVD player to a TV. We also made sure to turn on the iPod's "TV Out" setting, so videos could be transmitted out rather than just playing on the iPod itself.
We picked up the iPod dock's tiny remote, and pressed play, hearing music from our TV's speakers, but seeing nothing on our TV screen. You can use the remote to skip through songs and turn the volume up or down, but that's where its functionality ends. You can't use the remote's Menu button (nothing happens), nor can you use it to select other settings like listening to a play-list of music or turning on the iPod's useful Shuffle Songs setting.
As if this weren't maddening enough, we got even more frustrated when trying to use the remote to watch videos or photo slide shows on the iPod AV Connection Kit — it works only if you've already selected a video or slide show using the iPod buttons, not the remote.
If you're tired of this remote limiting you to one list of songs and you want to suddenly start watching a video or slide show, you'll have to get up, walk over to the iPod, pick it up (it's easier to operate when holding) and start playing the video or slide show. Only then can you use the remote to navigate within that media. Apple says you wouldn't be able to see the screen to use the remote anyway, but we'd rather have the option.
$149.99 DLO HomeDock Deluxe, www.dlo.com
After dealing with the tiny remote's big hassle, we did watch videos and slide shows through the iPod on the TV screen. While watching the episode of "Top Chef," we easily paused with the remote to get a show-inspired snack.
Using the DLO HomeDock Deluxe was liberating compared with working with the limited Apple device. It's a little bigger and is black, rather than white, with slots that hold its 18-button remote and the iPod. It uses the same cables and jacks, powering up from a wall plug and hooking into the TV with an AC cord.
But because the HomeDock Deluxe uses two modes — one that displays a useful user interface on the TV screen while playing music (On-Screen Navigation Mode) and another that operates videos and slide shows, as well as music (iPod Mode) — a special button on the remote must be pressed to switch between the two modes. This gets a little clumsy, stopping the iPod in midsong, for example, to swap over to the new mode.
In iPod Mode, where all data only show up on the iPod screen like on Apple's iPod AV Connection Kit, you can listen to music, watch videos or watch photo slideshows. But the remote doesn't limit you to one list of songs, as Apple's does. Rather, you can skip through the iPod's menus selecting various options with the remote, even going from videos to slide shows to music. We did have to stand closer to the HomeDock Deluxe to read some smaller print, but we never had to pick up the iPod in frustration.
We watched the Coldplay video, rewinding and fast-forwarding easily to find a favorite moment when the group's lead singer, Chris Martin, bursts onto a stage surrounded by fans after running through the streets of London.
A small button in the HomeDock Deluxe remote's top left corner switches to On-Screen Navigation Mode. This mode shows a brightly colored welcome screen on your TV that lists Music, Shuffle Songs, Playlists and HomeDock Settings. The Music section showed Playlists, Artists, Albums, Songs, Genres, Composers and Audiobooks — a familiar iPod-like format that was easy to navigate.
Each song's information — minus album art — showed on the screen as it played, and the bigger screen allowed us to move far away and just glance to the TV to see the upcoming song or what artist was singing. DLO hopes to add the album art to this screen in the future.
A few times, while using the HomeDock Deluxe remote, our iPod's backlight went off, which was annoying. The company says it is working on this bug, but a special button on the remote turns it on again for now.
Overall, the DLO HomeDock Deluxe is more satisfying to use than Apple's iPod AV Connection Kit, though it still has to work out a few kinks. Its remote is more functional than Apple's, and it just works more easily. We're looking forward to the day when a dock like this one can offer a TV-screen navigational mode for videos and slide shows, as well as music, so users can see all of the iPod's data in a big-screen view.
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Rdio was launched in 2010 by Skype founders Niklas Zennström and Janus Friis, after which Billboard named it "startup of the year." The service's seven day free trial doesn't require a credit card, and it offers two plans — $5/month for unlimited web access and $10/month for unlimited web and mobile. Reports released last year put Rdio's library at about seven million tracks — a markedly lower number than the competition's, for now anyway.
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Negatives: The Rdio app is almost too spare. It's simple and monochromatic, and maybe even a little dull. Recommendations link to full albums, not tracks, and require several clicks to listen to the music. And while the recommendation engine and other social aspects are great for discovery, it often takes time for users to spend enough time with the site to build a strong profile, which is something that the seven-day free trial period doesn't leave a lot of time for.
Who it's great for: People who want to discover music based on what tastemaking outlets and their friends are listening to will enjoy Rdio. It's also a quick and easy way to find out and consume what Spin magazine or XLR8R thinks you should be hearing, even if you don't take the time to build up your social network within the service.
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Having coproduced "Let Me In" (the 2010 English-language remake of Sweden's "Let the Right One In"), Hammer Films – the premier producer of British genre films in the 1960s and '70s – continues its slow crawl out of the grave with "The Woman in Black," based on Susan Hill's 1982 ghost novel.
The main commercial selling point here is the presence of Daniel Radcliffe in his first major screen role after a decade portraying a certain young wizard in a series of eight rather successful films. (Can we make it through this review without explicitly mentioning Harry P ... Oops. I guess not.) In a bizarre, if trivial coincidence, the story was previously adapted for TV in 1989, with Radcliffe's role filled by Adrian Rawlins, who portrayed his father in the "Harry Potter" films.
"The Woman in Black," an adaptation of a book and London's second-longest-running West End play by the same name, is a haunted house tale, with all the requisite shock cuts and spooky off-screen noises. But, for some of us, the scariest moment occurs within the first five minutes, when a 4-year-old (Misha Handley) addresses Radcliffe as "Daddy." I know that time flies, but this feels like Mach 2 and then some.
The film is set around the turn of the century – not the recent one but the Victorian/Edwardian one. Radcliffe plays Arthur Kipps – a winking reference to the H.G. Wells hero, maybe? – a young lawyer whose once-promising career has been sinking ever since his beloved wife died in childbirth. He has never recovered from his grief: The first thing we learn is that he's suicidal and only keeps going on for the sake of the above-mentioned 4-year-old.
His long-dissatisfied employer gives him a final chance to save his job: He must go from London to the remote Yorkshire village of Crythin Gifford and straighten out the papers of an old woman who died without friends or heirs. On the train, he strikes up an acquaintance with the affable, well-to-do Sam Daily (Ciarán Hinds). Sam will be the last affable face – spectral or live – he sees for the rest of the movie.
The rest of the villagers are downright hostile and try to prevent him from going to the ominous-looking Eel Marsh House, which is cut off from the mainland during high tide. As everyone other than Arthur and Sam knows, Eel Marsh House is haunted by a vengeful spirit, a woman in – you guessed it – black. The mere fact of Arthur's presence seems to provoke her into murdering people in the village. (The mechanism here is central to the story and is never quite clear. It's as though Arthur is somehow bringing her back with him from the house – or something.)
Director James Watkins ("Eden Lake") uses all the traditional tricks – creaking sounds, doors mysteriously locked and unlocked, lights snuffed out, and the rest. To those, he adds devices more identified with the last decade or two of Japanese and Korean horror films and their American remakes ("The Ring," "Dark Water," "The Grudge"): glowering figures just glimpsed in the background when Arthur is looking the other way, indistinct black forms rising from nowhere, children's crayon art gone bad. Mostly it's effective, but he overuses the "sudden loud noise" shock tactic, and he crams in so much that the plot becomes less and less clear as we go along.
Radcliffe's fidgety performance is convincing, and he does come across as an adult, though a very young one. He wears stubble throughout. Perhaps Arthur doesn't trust himself with a razor so close to his jugular or maybe this was a fashion of the period. But likeliest it's to make Radcliffe look older.
The project was doubtless shaped to attract its star's adolescent and preadolescent female fan base. Many of them at my screening not only screamed numerous times right on cue but almost as many times without a cue. Grade: B- (Rated PG-13 for thematic material and violence/disturbing images.)


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If Ebola Hits U.S., Even Healthy Americans Will be Quarantined
"Well persons" who "do not show symptoms" would be forcibly detained
Ebola: Spider's web of infection is growing as hunt continues for 30,000 'victims' of outbreak :Ebola conspiracy theories spreading fast:(video)In Lies We Trust: The CIA, Hollywood and Bioterrorism – LEONARD HOROWITZ 1
This Is What Is Going To Happen If Ebola Comes To America
By Michael Snyder, on July 30th, 2014
If the worst Ebola outbreak in recorded history reaches the United States, federal law permits "the apprehension and examination of any individual reasonably believed to be infected with a communicable disease". These individuals can be "detained for such time and in such manner as may be reasonably necessary". In other words, the 'federal government' already has the authority to round people up against their will, take them to detention facilities and hold them there for as long as they feel it is "reasonably necessary". In addition, as you will read about below, the federal government has the authority "to separate and restrict the movement of well persons who may have been exposed to a communicable disease to see if they become ill". If you want to look at these laws in the broadest sense, they pretty much give the federal government the power to do almost anything that they want with us in the event of a major pandemic. Of course such a scenario probably would not be called "martial law", but it would probably feel a lot like it.
If Ebola comes to America and starts spreading, one of the first things that would happen would be for the CDC to issue "a federal isolation or quarantine order". The following is what the CDC website says about what could happen under such an order...
Isolation and quarantine are public health practices used to stop or limit the spread of disease."Isolation" would not be a voluntary thing. The federal government would start hunting down anyone that they "reasonably believed to be infected with a communicable disease" and taking them to the facilities where other patients were being held. It wouldn't matter if you were entirely convinced that you were 100% healthy. If the government wanted to take you in, you would have no rights in that situation. In fact, federal law would allow the government to detain you "for such time and in such manner as may be reasonably necessary".
Isolation is used to separate ill persons who have a communicable disease from those who are healthy. Isolation restricts the movement of ill persons to help stop the spread of certain diseases. For example, hospitals use isolation for patients with infectious tuberculosis.
Quarantine is used to separate and restrict the movement of well persons who may have been exposed to a communicable disease to see if they become ill. These people may have been exposed to a disease and do not know it, or they may have the disease but do not show symptoms. Quarantine can also help limit the spread of communicable disease.
Isolation and quarantine are used to protect the public by preventing exposure to infected persons or to persons who may be infected.
In addition to serving as medical functions, isolation and quarantine also are "police power" functions, derived from the right of the state to take action affecting individuals for the benefit of society.
And once you got locked up with all of the other Ebola patients, there would be a pretty good chance that you would end up getting the disease and dying anyway. The current Ebola outbreak has a 55 percent percent mortality rate, and experts tell us that the mortality rate for Ebola can be as high as 90 percent.
Once you contracted Ebola, this is what it would look like...
Sudden onset of fever, intense weakness, muscle pain, headache and sore throat. That is followed by vomiting, diarrhoea, rash, impaired kidney and liver function and internal and external bleeding.The "external bleeding" may include bleeding from the eyes, ears, nose, mouth and just about every other major body cavity.
So how is Ebola spread?
Well, medical authorities tell us that it can be spread through the blood, urine, saliva, stools and semen of a person or animal that already has Ebola.
If you are exposed to the disease, the incubation period can be from anywhere from two days up to 21 days. But the average is usually about eight to ten days.
In other words, you can be spreading it around for over a week before you even know that you have it.
There is no vaccine for Ebola and there is no cure.
Not everyone dies from the virus, but most people do.
Needless to say, this is about the last disease that you want to catch. And the doctors that are treating Ebola patients in Africa are going to extreme lengths to keep from getting it...
To minimise the risk of infection they have to wear thick rubber boots that come up to their knees, an impermeable body suit, gloves, a face mask, a hood and goggles to ensure no air at all can touch their skin.But despite all of those extraordinary measures, multiple doctors have already gotten sick.
Dr Spencer, 27, and her colleagues lose up to five litres of sweat during a shift treating victims and have to spend two hours rehydrating afterwards.
They are only allowed to work for between four and six weeks in the field because the conditions are so gruelling.
At their camp they go through multiple decontaminations which includes spraying chlorine on their shoes.
For example, one of the doctors leading the fight against Ebola, Dr. Sheik Humarr Khan, died on Tuesday...
A doctor who was on the front lines fighting the Ebola outbreak in Sierra Leone has died from complications of the disease, Doctors Without Borders said Tuesday.And two American doctors that went over to Africa to help fight the disease are now battling for their own lives...
Dr. Sheik Humarr Khan fell ill early last week while overseeing Ebola treatment at Kenema Government Hospital, about 185 miles east of Sierra Leone's capital city, Freetown.
He was treated by the French aid group Medecins Sans Frontieres -- also known as Doctors Without Borders -- in Kailahun, Sierra Leone, up until his death, spokesman Tim Shenk said.
Dr. Kent Brantly, who was treating victims of the Ebola outbreak in Liberia, is currently being treated in an isolation unit in the Liberian capital, Monrovia, the AP reported Tuesday.This is not like other Ebola outbreaks.
"I'm praying fervently that God will help me survive this disease," Brantly said in an email Monday to Dr. David Mcray, the director of maternal-child health at John Peter Smith Hospital in Fort Worth, Texas. The Texas-born Brantly, 33, completed a four-year medical residency at the hospital, the AP said.
Brantly's wife and two young children left Liberia to return to Abilene, Texas, days before he began to show symptoms of Ebola. They are being monitored for any signs of fever, a City of Abilene spokeswoman told the AP.
A second American, aid worker Nancy Writebol of Charlotte, N.C., is also stricken with Ebola, according to CBS/AP. Writebol had been working as a hygienist to help decontaminate people at an Ebola care center in Monrovia.
Something seems different this time.
But instead of trying to keep things isolated to a few areas, global health authorities are going to start sending Ebola patients to other parts of the globe. For example, one German hospital has already agreed to start receiving Ebola patients...
A German hospital has agreed to treat Ebola patients amid widespread fears of a possible outbreak of the deadly disease in Europe. Over 670 people have already been killed by the disease in West Africa with doctors struggling to control the epidemic.Will Ebola patients also soon be sent to hospitals in the United States?
A German hospital in Hamburg agreed to accept patients following a request from the World Health Organization (WHO), Deutsche Welle reports. Doctors assure that the utmost precautions will be taken to make sure the disease does not spread during treatment. The patients will be kept in an isolation ward behind several airlocks, and doctors and nurses will wear body suits with their own oxygen supplies that will be burned every three hours.
And of course there are many other ways that Ebola could spread to this country. For instance, all it would take would be for one infected person to get on one airplane and it could all be over.
Federal authorities seem to have been preparing for such an outbreak for quite a while. As my good friend Mac Slavohas pointed out, "biological diagnostic systems" were distributed to National Guard units in all 50 states back in April...
The Department of Defense informed Congress that it has deployed biological diagnostic systems to National Guard support teams in all 50 states, according to a report published by the Committee on Armed Services. The report, published in April amid growing fears that the Ebola hemorrhagic fever virus might spread outside of West Africa, says that the portable systems are designed for "low probability, high consequence" scenarios.Let us certainly hope for the best.
Some 340 Joint Biological Agent Identification and Diagnostic System (JBAIDS) units have thus far been given to emergency response personnel. The systems are "rapid, reliable, and [provide] simultaneous identification of specific biological agents and pathogens," says executive officer for the DOD's Chemical and Biological Defense group Carmen J. Spencer.
Let us hope that this latest outbreak fizzles out and that we won't even be talking about this by the end of the year.
But experts are warning that if a major global pandemic does break out that millions upon millions of people could die.
If that happens, many people will go crazy with fear.
And we got just a little taste of some of the paranoia that an Ebola epidemic in America would create in Charlotte, North Carolina earlier this week...
It is not too hard to imagine forced quarantines and people being rounded up and shipped off to Ebola detention facilities.A corridor of Carolinas Medical Center – Main's Emergency Room was roped off on the first floor, near the entrance Wednesday.A security guard was posted outside, to prevent anyone from crossing the line.
During a 4 p.m. press conference Katie Passaretti, who is an infectious disease specialist with CMC, said precautions were put into place when patient was brought in Tuesday night. The patient was traveling from Africa and arrived at the hospital around 11:30 p.m.
Around 3 a.m. the security precautions were put into place at the hospital, Passaretti said.
Passaretti said they determined the patient did not have Ebola. The patient has been discharged home.
In fact, if Ebola were to start spreading like wildfire in this country, many people would actually start demanding such measures.
For example, one member of Congress is already proposing that citizens of Guinea, Liberia and Sierra Leone (and any foreigner that has recently visited those nations) be kept out of the United States...
In a letter addressed to Secretary of State John Kerry and Department of Homeland Security Secretary Jeh Johnson, Alan Grayson, a Florida Democrat, proposed that citizens of Guinea, Liberia and Sierra Leone, as well as "any foreign person who has visited one of these nations 90 days prior to arriving in the United States" be kept out of the country. He urged the secretaries to "consider the enhanced risk Ebola now presents to the American public".
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911 - look who were aboard flight 77 ---- CIA SETUP?
Was this not the plane that was downed in 9-11 ???? If so, look who was aboard that plane...
Flight 77 is piloted by ex-Navy fighter pilot who worked on anti-terrorism strategies in same area of Pentagon hit by his plane and a passenger on board is an ex-Navy Admiral, jet fighter pilot, and American Airlines captain who also worked at Pentagon
Very interesting the way these Reptoids have this set up..
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200+ 9/11 'Smoking Guns'
This was all planned before hand...Now we know why all the shooting are happening NOW !!! I did the red so it wouldn't be missed.
200+ 9/11 'Smoking Guns'
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Connecting the dots. Where do they point?
(last updated: 08/14/2006)
- 1962 - US military drafted 'Operation Northwoods', a plan to commit terror acts in US cities, kill innocent people, hijack airplanes, and plant evidence as a way to trick the public into thinking Cuba committed an unprovoked attack against the US in order to support a war against Cuba. (ABC, Natl Security Archives)
- March '00 - Filming begins for The Lone Gunmen's 'Pilot' episode that depicts a US plot to crash an electronically hijacked Boeing 727 into WTC and blame foreign terrorists to provoke war and increase military's budget (KC Star), March '01 - 'Pilot' episode airs on FOX TV, 6 months before attacks (TV Guide), Lone Gunmen co-producer hopes WTC attack wasn't 'somehow inspired' by anything they did. (KC Star)
- June '01 - Attorney General John Ashcroft stops flying commercial aircrafts because of a 'threat assessment'.(CBS)
- Sept 7 - Jeb Bush puts the Florida National Guard on alert (WorldNetDaily, MyFlorida.com), Sept 10-11 - President Bush is in FL, state that controversially handed him 2000 presidency (Telegraph), 9/11 - Jeb Bush declares state of emergency in FL immediately after 2nd tower fell (WorldNetDaily), At least 15 of the 19 hijackers have Florida ties. (Augusta Chronicle)
- Twin Towers were hated, poorly designed money-losers subsides by the State and weren't torn down before because of expensive asbestos removal in which 9/11 benefited the owners by efficiently destroying the complex in a way that they didn't have to pay for any of it. (Baltimore Sun, Salon, Front Page)
WTC Ground Zero workers claim they helped FBI find 3 of the 4 black boxes from planes that struck WTC, contradicting official accounts that none were found. (Philadelphia Daily News)
Bombs, flashes, other explosions
Teresa Veliz on the 47th floor of the WTC 1 feels the building shake again more violently then the shaking from the 1st crash and hears explosions going off everywhere inside the building and also hears explosions when she was outside that she was convinced bombs were 'planted all over the place' and that someone was 'sitting at a control panel pushing detonator buttons.' (September 11: An Oral History)
BBC's Stephen Evans reports there was a big explosion from 'much, much lower' in the WTC from where the plane crashed. (BBC)
FEMA report concludes specifics of WTC 7 fires and how they caused it to collapse remain unknown and call for further investigation and also says the building collapsed as a result of an 'implosion.' (FEMA)
- Alleged Flight 77 hijacker pilot, Hani Hanjour, was described as a horrible pilot by his flight instructors, was the only hijacker who didn't have a passenger number or seat assignment, and was unable to rent a single-engine Cessna 172 one month before 9/11 because he had trouble controlling and landing it during a test flight. (CBS,NY Times, Washington Post, Newsday)
Describing a missile
Describing aircraft very different than a Boeing 757
Witnessed no/little plane debris at crash site
Smelled explosives, heard multiple explosions
- 9/11 - Flight 93 reportedly lands at a Cleveland airport, adjacent to NASA Glenn Research Ctr, due to a bomb scare after a man over Flight 93's intercom says a bomb is on board and the plane will be 'returning to the airport' at about the time it is flying over Cleveland. (WCPO-TV, Pitt Post-Gazette)
- 9/11 - Somerset county coroner says no remains were visible at Flight 93 crash site if the plane had 'stopped and let the passengers off before it crashed' and that the most 'eerie' thing was that he hadn't seen a 'single drop of blood' there. (Pittsburg Live, Washington Post)
- 1994 - US intel warned that terrorists might attack US using airplanes as weapons (CNN, CBS); 1995 - US warned of 'Operation Bojinka' plot to hijack planes and attack the Pentagon and CIA headquarters (CNN); July '01 - US and Italian officials were warned that Islamic terrorists might attempt to kill President Bush and other leaders by crashing an airliner into the Genoa summit. (LA Times)
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|Your Number is Up! ("Magical" numbers and OCD)
By Fred Penzel, Ph.D.
Within limits, a certain amount of superstitious thinking can be a harmless part of normal life. The popularity of horoscopes, tarot card readings, good luck charms, and psychics in our own society bears witness to this. However, even in primitive societies where magic controls people's actions and decisions on an everyday basis, it is integrated into everyday life, regarded as a tool, and does not paralyze its users. In OCD, unfortunately, its usage and negative effects expand far beyond these ordinary limits. Beginning as a way to control anxiety brought on by obsessions, it gradually escapes the user's control, taking over their life, and actually generating greater anxiety than it was originally supposed to relieve.
There is currently no scientific explanation as to why some individuals tend to think magically as compared to having any other symptoms. No one actually understands why anyone has his or her special type of obsessive concerns. Many of those with OCD are constantly bombarded with very strange and doubtful thoughts about harm coming to themselves and/or others. These thoughts can be quite extreme. Their inner world of doubt seems out of the range of normal control.
One other possible influence upon the development of magical thinking in OCD may be if an individual with OCD comes from a culture in which superstition and daily ritual plays a strong role. Growing up in such a background cannot, of course, cause OCD, however, I believe it can certainly help give someone at risk a push in the wrong direction if everyone at home is regularly practicing magical rituals. No one with OCD was ever made better by growing up in a superstitious environment.
Those who suffer from magical obsessions have a great need for control in the face of their extraordinary and unusual fears, but they quickly come to realize that ordinary types of protective measures cannot help them. Their doubt is so overwhelming that the normal means of control simply don't apply in their magical obsessive world. The most logical or scientific thinking usually cannot give them explanations or reassurance. OCD, after all, was formerly known as "The Doubting Sickness." I am fond of saying that if you had to sum up OCD in two words, they would be "Pathological Doubt." As in primitive times where people felt a need to control happenings in a world they couldn't explain, those with magical obsessions feel that they must therefore resort to something far beyond the ordinary. Only in this way can they have a sense of security and control. What can supply this? The answer, of course, is magic. It appears to be their only possible alternative, and as we know, is something that comes rather easily to humans.
Superstition and magic create connections between things that according to logic and the laws of science, don't connect within the real world. Numbers, words, and actions appear to control events in the present and future. Bad luck or good luck can be spread by thought, by sight, by touch, or simply by association. Those with this type of OCD realize that their behaviors are unrealistic and sound crazy to others, but they use them anyway to relieve their anxiety. Because magic figures into a fair proportion of OCD, and can sound so irrational, it is most likely the reason that so many sufferers have been misdiagnosed over the years as having schizophrenia.
Like the magic of old, compulsions of the magical variety can include all sorts of superstitious and ritualistic behaviors. What these different magical compulsions all have in common with each other and with ancient magic, is that they are performed for the purpose of preventing bad events in advance, or for undoing events or thoughts which have already occurred. One other similarity to other types of magic is that often, the steps of the compulsive ritual must be kept rigidly "pure" and perfect, and cannot vary, or else they will not work. Additionally, rituals must be performed while in the correct state of mind, with no interfering 'bad' or wayward thoughts. Because anxiety typically hampers the performance of almost anything, sufferers generally find it very difficult to get their rituals to be perfect. They get the steps in the wrong order, forget to do something, or an unpleasant obsession or image intrudes during the ritual, thus "contaminating" and destroying the magic. Even if an individual's obsessions allow them to redo botched rituals, they may still get a fair proportion of them wrong. This, of course, can lead to hours spent ritualizing to get things 'just right.' If the rules governing a sufferer's obsessions will not allow them to have another chance at the ritual, a lot of careful planning or activity can be totally ruined in an instant. If, in particular, it is a ritual that can only be done at a special moment or on a specific day, there might not be another chance for days or even weeks to try it again. An entire day, a month, or even a coming year can be "ruined" in this way. I have seen people utterly unable to function during these "ruined" time periods. This is how rituals, themselves, become sources of anxiety in a circular sort of way.
It has been believed since ancient times that numbers could be a source of power. Pythagoras, the ancient Greek philosopher is reputed to have stated:
"The world is built upon the power of numbers."
Actually, in terms of what physics, math, and chemistry are currently showing us in terms of understanding the patterns of our universe, there is a certain amount of truth to this, but not in the sense that numbers can somehow be magically manipulated.
The false science of numerology has been in existence since at least the time of the ancient Babylonians. It was based upon the concept that the universe is composed of mathematical patterns, and that all things can be expressed as numbers that connect to these patterns. Pythagoras, himself, believed that the entire universe could be expressed numerically. Numerologists and magicians have always believed that every number has a special vibration, or power. Numbers have been used over the centuries for forecasting the future (also known as divination) and in magic practices. Ancient numerologists assigned numbers to letters of their alphabets, and through them were able to tell people's futures, or even find hidden magical meanings in the bible and other written works, as if these were written in some type of special code. In different cultures, numbers may have the power to give magical control, and some may also be taboo (such as 13 or 666).
Many of the rules for numbers seen in numerology and magic are also seen in OCD. Some of these rules are common to many sufferers (13 and 666 are bad, even numbers are good, odd numbers are bad, etc.) and some are particular only to specific individuals. Sometimes multiples of bad numbers are also bad, or even worse than the original bad number. For some, a multiple's power to do harm seems to increase with its size. Undoing rituals are quite common where magical number obsessions are present. For instance, bad numbers are usually canceled out by good numbers, or simply by counting to, thinking of, or looking at higher numbers. In the case of some sufferers, if they are reading a book and stop reading on a bad numbered page, they must keep reading until they can stop on a good numbered page. I can't tell you how many patients I have had, who had to turn their TVs or radios on or off on a particular numbered channel or station.
As mentioned earlier, some magical behaviors often have to be performed a special number of times or on special dates that are seen to have magical significance. Midnight, noon, or the first or last days of the month or year are the most common times that figure into these rituals. Certain times of day, when they appear on a clock, can also be lucky or unlucky, depending upon which numbers a person's obsessions fasten on to. Actually, the invention of the digital clock has contributed quite a lot to these types of obsessions and compulsions. Some sufferers cannot act or speak when particular numbers come up on a clock or wristwatch. Those with magical touching rituals frequently incorporate numbers into their behavior and have to touch certain objects a special number of times in order for them to be effective.
The making of special mental arrangements of things such as numbers, information, words, names and special images makes up another subtype of magical ritual. As a mental compulsion, this type of behavior is generally not visible to others, yet it can be as serious and agonizing as any other OC symptom. At times it can be much more complicated than rituals involving only numbers.
Numbers are also used in OCD in non-magical ways. They are frequently used as tools to ensure that compulsions are done properly or for a long enough period of time. This is frequently necessary because OCD is, after all, a problem of doubting. Also, some rituals can be rather complicated and it is easy to lose track of what one has been doing. These uses for numbers could include counting while hand washing to make sure that it was done for a long enough time period to certify that decontamination had taken place, when performing touching rituals, to help the sufferer to be certain that they have touched the particular object a correct number of times, when performing stepping rituals (such as walking through doors or over thresholds) to make certain that the sufferer has gone back and forth the right number of times.
In terms of what can be done to remedy magical obsessions and compulsions, I recommend, as usual, the two-pronged approach of medication plus behavioral therapy. I can't tell you everything there is to know about this broad subject in this article, but I can give you a brief rundown. As far as medications go, antidepressant medications such as Anafranil, Prozac, Zoloft Paxil, Luvox, Effexor, Serzone, Celexa, or Lexapro can provide a degree of symptom relief, reducing the obsessive thoughts and the urges to do compulsions sufficiently to allow behavioral therapy to help the sufferer overcome the rest of the problem. This is not to say that one cannot be successful without medication, however, it does improve your chances quite a bit. On the other hand, medication alone usually isn't sufficient to do the job entirely.
By behavioral therapy, I mean specifically, Exposure and Response Prevention (E&RP). The person in treatment is gradually encouraged to put themselves in a position for the bad luck or harm to occur, and then is discouraged from carrying out the avoidance or the magical ritual. It is not that magical thinkers totally believe in their magic. They don't. They do, however, experience serious doubts and need encouragement to take the risks necessary to see that their beliefs aren't justified. One of the great problems of OCD is that these beliefs are never challenged. Most of those with OCD don't stay in the presence of what they fear long enough to learn that nothing would actually happen and that their anxiety would eventually pass even if they did nothing in response to the obsessions. The fact is, that you really can't run away from obsessive fears. Doing behavioral therapy for OCD is, in reality, a way of getting closer to the truth. It teaches people to act as scientists conducting experiments. By repeatedly confronting obsessions and then resisting compulsions, sufferers gradually build up a tolerance to what they fear, until it can no longer have any impact on them. I like to tell my patients that:
"You can't be bored and scared at the same time"
In therapy, a listing, or hierarchy, is created in which all feared situations are ranked in order, usually on a one to ten or a zero to 100 scale. This scale is then used in the creation of homework assignments. As patients carry out therapy assignments, they work their way up the scale, gradually tackling more and more difficult items via homework assignments, or working with the therapist in the office or on field trips. No one is ever forced to do anything, and nothing is thrown at them by surprise.
Exposure to obsessive thoughts may be accomplished via taped presentations, writing assignments, or selected readings. I have found the exposure tapes to be of particular value. They tell the sufferer in gradually increasing doses that the harm they fear really will occur, and that there is no escape. They are used several times per day, and increased in difficulty as the listener's anxiety decreases with presentations. Despite what you may have heard from various sources, obsessions can be as effectively treated as compulsions. It all hinges on a well-designed treatment. Exposure can take place on the mental level just as easily as in the physical world. Some people require repeated exposures to feared situations, and some may require only one. In this latter case, it is almost as if by finally facing the fear, the sufferer is breaking a 'spell' (to use a magical term). This is certainly not to suggest that therapy is in some way like magic; it isn't. Far from it. Therapy requires persistent and consistent work.
By working in this way, confidence is progressively increased, and symptoms are systematically eliminated. The person becomes habituated to their fearful thoughts to the point of no longer having to react to them, even if they do not completely cease. In uncomplicated cases, the process described above should take anywhere from six to twelve months. With individuals who habituate after only a few exposures to each feared situation, the process may even be more rapid.
In any case, the technology of treatment exists, and there is no reason for anyone to suffer with magical obsessions or any other symptom of OCD at this point in time. If you have been sitting around hesitating or procrastinating, make every effort to seek help now.
If you would like to read more about what Dr. Penzel has to say about OCD, take a look at his self-help book, "Obsessive-Compulsive Disorders: A Complete Guide to Getting Well and Staying Well," (Oxford University Press, 2000). You can learn more about it at www.ocdbook.com
Please Note: Then information in this site is presented as a public service to our patients and friends. It is not a substitute for a careful evaluation by a qualified mental health professional. If you are already under treatment, do not make any changes in your regimen without consulting your doctor.
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IBM to sell Sun Solaris on x86 and mainframes; pigs fly
Last week's announcement that IBM will support and sell subscriptions for Solaris on its System x servers and mainframes has industry analysts aflutter.
During a press conference on Thursday, Aug. 16, Sun President and CEO Jonathan Schwartz and IBM Senior Vice President and Group Executive William Zeitler jointly presented the news.
The companies will jointly invest in system optimization to make Solaris run as efficiently as possible on IBM servers. Sun will provide support for Solaris.
To date, IBM has supported SUSE Linux, Red Hat and various Windows offerings.
Thus far, this is the closest relationship Sun has forged with any vendor, Schwartz said. Sun also partners with Hewlett-Packard Co. (HP), but the relationship is at "arm's length," he said. HP does not distribute licenses for Solaris, nor does it optimize systems for Solaris. Schwartz would not comment on Sun's relationship with Dell Inc.Partnership is surprising, but strategic
The IBM/Sun deal elicited a great deal of commentary from industry pundits.
"This gives Sun's software group access to IBM's channel and will gain revenue based on subscriptions from that business," said Jean Bozman, research vice president for IDC's Enterprise Servers group. "You can download Solaris for free, but Sun would like to sell subscriptions for profit, and working with IBM's sales force allows them to do that."
Charles King, a senior analyst at Pund-IT Inc., a research firm in Hayward, Calif., was surprised by the partnership agreement between IBM and Sun given a history of enmity between the two companies. But King added that the agreement makes sense for the direction in which Sun is headed.
"I could not have imagined this occurring when Scott McNealy was CEO of Sun," said King. "It seems Jonathan Schwartz is taking the company in a more open and software-driven direction."
IBM can only gain from the deal. It has limited its partnership to System x and blade servers, so there is no conflict with IBM's Unix, or System p platform. "I don't see it as a huge income generator for IBM, but it portrays itself as the provider of a wider array of solutions, and this puts IBM way ahead of the curve," King said.
"For a long time now, IBM has held the view that we are better off serving the needs of customers," Zeitler said. "When we started offering Linux, it was a concern. But we are doing better now that we give clients a choice."
IBM servers that will support Solaris include IBM BladeCenter HS21 and LS41 servers and IBM System x3650, System x3755, and System x3850 servers. Zeitler also said that in the future users can expect to see Solaris running on IBM System z mainframes as well.
In light of the new virtualization market, IBM's decision to add Solaris to its list of offerings is especially wise. Users running virtualization can run more than one operating system on a single server, so a user can run Solaris and Windows on a single physical IBM server, Bozman said.
"In the industry, we've become accustomed to the idea of one OS per server, but now with virtualization, we can have quite a few different OSes running," Bozman said. "Users like this, because certain apps run better on certain OSes."
The Solaris OS is now supported on more than 820 x86-based platforms and more certified with 3000 x86-based applications.
The two companies are also planning on enabling Solaris to run on IBM mainframes. Sine Nomine Associates, an Ashburn, Va.-based consulting firm that helped port Linux on IBM's System 390 and zSeries, is reportedly working on porting OpenSolaris to System z in virtual machines. No timeline for mainframe support for Solaris was given.
There is continuing skepticism about Solaris' place on IBM mainframe systems, but King said Solaris on the mainframe will be attractive, especially to Sparc users looking to consolidate their systems.
"There was a lot of doubt in the industry questioning the value of it, but Linux gave mainframe a whole new life, and IBM pressed forward with specialty processor for Java and Web apps," King said. "There is a ton of business out there from users with huge, aging Sun Sparc rack servers – especially in the financial services and telco space[s] -- where the mainframe has won as a consolidation platform. With Solaris available, I can imagine IBM moving Sparc onto mainframe platforms."
Bozman of IDC said OpenSolaris on mainframe is an intriguing option. "You could have Solaris running on the mainframe with virtualization capabilities, with logical partitions and multiple instances of Solaris running, the way we've seen with Linux."
When asked how IBM will manage conflict between the new partnership and IBM's Unix operating system AIX, Zeitler said, "mature vendors respond to customer requirements, and that is what we are doing. We will continue investing in AIX, but we know lots of customers like Solaris. We don't see that as a compromise. It adds to our commitment to interoperatibility in the marketplace.
"When we decided to put Linux on mainframes, we debated whether that would compromise us or open us to competition we didn't have," Zeitler said. "But it opened us up to more customers and enabled us to compete based on our merits. There will be times when customers look at us and at Sun and decide Sun's hardware is better, but in my experience, you are better off meeting clients in the way they want to be met."Mutual back scratching
In the new commercial relationship Zeitler calls "co-opetition," IBM will benefit by selling servers; in turn Sun receives payment for support contracts. Further, when IBM delivers a Solaris license, IBM will pay Sun for use of its intellectual property, Zeitler said.
The plan is mutually beneficial, but especially so for IBM, Bozman said. While it will offer the option of Solaris, IBM will likely sell more of its own middleware products that support that operating system, such as Lotus Notes or other DB2 software.
Joe Clabby, head of Clabby Analytics, said that IBM already sells a ton of Solaris services, and IBM Global Technology Services does a lot of business supporting Solaris deployment and management today.
"If IBM's existing base of Solaris customers are looking to consolidate, it makes natural sense for IBM to offer Solaris support on IBM blades," Clabby said. "Many of these customers are already receiving support from IBM."
"For Sun, this move promotes Solaris as the Unix choice on Intel. But I have to wonder if it might also detract from Sun blade sales over time," Clabby said.
Schwartz doesn't appear concerned about losing hardware sales to IBM, however, contending that x86 servers will stand on their own. He said when Sun decoupled its hardware and software business, it began selling more of both, and software revenues grew 13%.
"When you make your products available on more platforms, you are accessible to more customers and will benefit from that," he said.
Sun will sell more Solaris subscriptions because IBM's x86 channel is more extensive throughout the world than Sun's, Bozman said.
IBM holds the No. 1 spot in the worldwide server systems market with 37.9% market share in factory revenue for the fourth quarter of 2006, growing factory revenue by 3.8% year over year, driven by solid performance from its System x, System z and System p servers, according to an IDC report. HP holds the second spot, followed by Sun with 9.7% share for the fourth quarter of 2006.
Customers can run Solaris on the select IBM servers now by going to Sun's download site, but IBM system optimizations and testing is still in progress. Optimized systems will be available by next quarter, Zeitler said.
Following the news, HP sent out a contemptuous email welcoming IBM to the party.
Since 2004, HP has generated more than $1 billion in revenue by moving Sun customers to HP servers. In fact, since 1996, HP has been certifying Solaris on x86 platforms.
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105g kao fen (cooked glutinous rice flour)
30g shortening
95g icing sugar
160 ml orange juice (I used ml instead of gm)
2 drop of orange food color
400g lotus paste
50g tapioca flour/Hong Kong flour(steamed for 10mins, cool and sift twice
Method for Dough:
1. Sift kao fen and icing sugar together.
2. Rub in shortening into the flour mixture until it resemble bread crumb.
3. Mix all the liquid and essence together.
4. Add in liquid mixture into the flour mixture and mix to form soft dough. Do not overmix. (You may need more or less liquid depend on the quality of the flour. Dough will look rough but soft in texture.)
5. Cover the dough and rest in the fridge for 15 mins.(I leave it on the counter since my kitchen is cold)
1. Divide the lotus paste into 6 portions of 100g each
2. Roll them into balls.
Divide dough into 6 portions of 80gm each
2:Dust the surface, rolling pin and mould lightly with flour.
3. Roll out the dough, leave the centre slightly thicker than the edge.
4. Wrap the dough with the lotus paste and seal the edges.
5. Press into the mould and plunge it out slowly.
6. Use a brush to brush away excess flour around the mooncake.
7. Chill in the fridge and serve.
Weight of the skin and filling depend on the size of the mould


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Mobile Hairdresser Johannesburg in Rivonia before I go into the points to help you choose your hairdresser, I should first outline the definition of what is a mobile hairdresser? A Mobile Hairdresser Fourways is a hairdresser who usually works for his or herself visiting clients at their homes or place of work, or any other agreed venue and does not operate from a fixed hair salon or beauty shop.
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1.When to consider using a mobile hairdresser. The services of a mobile hairstylist may often be required to be used at a home for a wedding when it may often be inconvenient for the bride to travel to a hair or beauty salon to have her hair and her make-up done, requiring her then to travel back to her home to put on her wedding gown. Instead, the hairdresser will travel to the bride's home in order to style the bride's hair for her special day. A In Home Beauty Services hairstylist is often in demand for Care homes, hospitals, prisons, the armed forces, and in many other situations where individual attention is required.
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Your mobile hairdresser should be happy and prepared to recommend the perfect hairdos and often make-up to accentuate and compliment the individual looks of the customer, and offer suggestions on what hairstyle or make up should best suit the client.
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Like any other kinds of types of jobs, profession and career in the world, there are advantages and disadvantages to being a hairdresser. Yet despite the pros and cons, as long as you have the motivation, inspiration and the love for what you do, nothing will hinder you from succeeding as a hair dresser or any other career you choose to pursue.
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- Interaction with different types of people. A hairdresser always has this opportunity with various types of clients, young or old, male or female. As a matter of fact, it is this dealing with different personalities that add challenge and reward to the job. A hairdresser is prevented from boredom as each client requires specific hair care needs.
- Work Flexibility. If you are a hairdresser, you may choose to work for a salon or for yourself. You may opt to work in an 8-hour shift or by appointment only. You may also establish your own salon or offer home service.
- Variety of services. These days, clients prefer a convenient on-stop salon where they could get different services like hair styling, facials and nail care. If you are a hairdresser working for a salon such as this, you would need to know how to perform other beauty services. Expect that every day, you might be performing a different service and not just the basic hair trimming.
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It won't take long to find a salon that does eyelash extensions in Southport, Queensland. However, not all of them offer mobile services that come directly to your front door. This is ideal for those planning a bridal party or a girls' night out, whether you live in Broadwater Parklands or Pivotal Point. These beauty professionals come to women who don't have time to get away, as they offer a beauty innovation that is straight from Hollywood.
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Maize, Salmon, Barley, Chicken Fat, Prairie Meal, Oats, Beet, Linseed, Green Leaf Vegetables, Dicalcium Phosphate, Yeasts, Salmon Oil, Peas, Milk Thistle, Marigolds, Seaweed, Carrot, Mint with EC permitted natural antioxidants, Vitamin C, Mixed Tocopherols and Rosemary Extract.
Protein 23%
Oil 11%
Fibre 3%
Ash 5.5%
Vitamin A 14,000iu/kg
Vitamin D3 1,400iu/kg
Vitamin E 200iu/kg
Copper (as Cupric Sulphate) 16mg/kg
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Second ingredient is a named meat product
Inadequate meat content, some low quality ingredients, controversial filler
The first ingredient in this food is maize (corn). Corn is a difficult to digest grain of limited value in dog food, and which is also commonly associated with food allergies. Even if this had been a decent grain, however, we would still note that grains are not a natural foodstuff for canines and are of very low quality compared to meat (on which dog foods should instead be based).
The first (and only) meat product in this food is salmon, second on the ingredient list. This is not a meat meal ingredient, but instead is inclusive of water content (about 80%). Once this is removed, as it must be to create a dehydrated product, the ingredient will weigh around 20% of its wet weight. As ingredients are listed in order of weight, it is thus unlikely that this ingredient is truely amongst the most prolific in the food and would be more accurately placed further down the ingredient list. Not even outweighing the corn ingredient in it's wet form, it appears unlikely that there is significant meat content in this product.
We note that chicken fat is the fourth ingredient, and that research at Purdue University has identified fat in the top four ingredients of dry food as a factor increasing the risk of bloat in large breed dogs. Smaller breeds are untested.
Barley and oats are decent quality ingredients, but "prairie meal" - better known as corn gluten meal - is low quality. This is defined as that part of the commercial shelled corn that remains after the extraction of the larger portion of the starch, gluten, and term by the processes employed in the wet milling manufacture of corn starch or syrup. In plain English, the remains of corn after most of the nutritious bits have been removed.
Beet pulp is a controversial filler. It is a by-product, being dried residue from sugar beets which has been cleaned and extracted in the process of manufacturing sugar. It is a controversial ingredient in dog food, claimed by some manufacturers to be a good source of fibre, and derided by others as an ingredient added to slow down the transition of rancid animal fats and causing stress to kidney and liver in the process. We note that beet pulp is an ingredient that commonly causes problems for dogs, including allergies and ear infections, and prefer not to see it used in dog food. There are less controversial products around if additional fibre is required.
We note the food has added vitamins and minerals, but no information is given about these and may include synthetics.
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Every day more than 10,000 Americans turn 65, and this flood of big birthdays will continue for the next two decades. It's estimated that by 2030, 70 million people—almost a quarter of the population—will be 65 or older. By 2050 the number of senior citizens is expected to reach 89 million.
How will they retire? Even they don't know. In fact, in response to a 2012 survey by the Employee Benefit Research Institute (EBRI) 67% of American workers said that they are behind schedule on saving for retirement.
Most advisors are already leveraging this demographic event and capitalizing on the opportunity to help affluent and high-net-worth clients plan for and manage their retirement years. The second, more subtle opportunity comes in the form of the advisor's opening to broaden an existing wealth management practice by serving as a retirement advisor not only to the participants of a 401(k) plan, but also to the 401(k) plan sponsor.
If ever there was a group of people that needed advice and help with financial planning, it is American workers, who rely on their company 401(k) plans to fund their retirement. This is a large market, with more than $4.1 trillion in assets. Small- to medium-size 401(k) plans (up to $100 million) represent an excellent opportunity for qualified, quality advisors to render investment advice and serve as a fiduciary to the plan sponsor, and so serve the best interests of the plan sponsor and the plan participants.
Today, most small to midsize firms use proprietary, "401(k) plan in a box" type bundled solutions. However, much like the wealth management industry before it, the 401(k) industry is moving toward a more open-architecture solution.
This trend plays to the strength of independent advisory firms, which have long been familiar with open architecture and portfolio construction. But to be successful in the 401(k) arena, advisors really need more than portfolio chops—they need to have a scalable business. The investment aspect of advising plan participants and plan sponsors represents an area well within the core competency of most advisors. Where the challenges arise is in the areas of data aggregation, compliance, reporting and keeping abreast of the latest regulatory changes.
Probably the biggest initial hurdle for advisors new to the 401(k) arena is aggregating multitudinous data streams from different record keepers and third-party administrators. These agents incorporate 401(k) plan and performance data into books and records for plan providers and participants. That sounds simple, but it's not. The debacle surrounding the launch of healthcare.gov is the most glaring example of what can happen when you lack a time-tested system that can smoothly aggregate data from an extremely wide range of sources.
Advisors can greatly facilitate their move into the 401(k) business by allying themselves with the right solution provider, one who can offer a holistic integrated platform, data aggregation and reporting. Outsourcing the data aggregation function can open up a new world of business opportunities, but advisors must be judicious in choosing the right partner for their practice.
As mentioned earlier, any good advisor should have the requisite skill set to meet with a plan sponsor, review the plan's stable value funds, target date funds and mutual fund options and evaluate those funds. Making recommendations for adding or deleting funds from the lineup and providing help with asset allocation models so the plan sponsor can provide a more diversified portfolio experience for participants is business as usual. But the advisor then needs to have a system in place to monitor those recommended funds and portfolios, replace them and rebalance the portfolios as warranted—and then be able to report back to the plan sponsor and plan participants on a quarterly basis.
Another area where 401(k) plan advisors need to be especially careful is around fiduciary responsibility. Taking a fiduciary role in advising individual clients is acknowledged in the industry as a best practice, and clients have come to expect it. When it comes to advising a retirement plan, however, regulations require that advisors declare in writing whether or not they are a fiduciary to the plan sponsor.
For advisors who operate under the RIA of their broker-dealer, the requirement for a fiduciary relationship becomes an issue. Broker-dealer representatives are not registered investment advisors and cannot serve in that fiduciary capacity. Under those circumstances the best solution is to outsource that fiduciary advice role to a qualified partner.
An outsourced fiduciary partner can offer two types of services, defined by their regulations: ERISA section 3(21) fiduciary advice and ERISA section 3(38) fiduciary management solutions. A 3(21) fiduciary advisor will provide research, due diligence, recommendations and ongoing advice on the investment options in the 401(k) plan to the plan sponsor; a 3(38) fiduciary manager will assume discretion to manage the recommended investment options in the 401(k) plan.
Working with 401(k) plan sponsors and participants presents both tremendous challenges and opportunities for advisors. I don't want to sound alarmist by talking about the retirement crisis, but the fact remains that there is a huge population that is aging but is not financially prepared for retirement. According to Financial Engines' 2011 Survey of 401(k) Plans, 72% of Americans are not on track to reach their retirement income goals when they retire at age 65. It's no shocker, then, that according to a 2011 Employee Benefit Research Institute Retirement Confidence Survey, just 13% of working Americans feel confident that they've saved enough to maintain their pre-retirement lifestyle after retirement, and fully 74% expect to continue working after retirement to supplement inadequate savings. For many American workers, the money in their in 401(k) plans represents the bulk of their retirement nest egg, which makes proper planning and investment management more important than ever.
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Amateur astronomer John Putnam (Richard Carlson) and his fiancee Ellen Fields (Barbara Rush) are stargazing in the desert when a spaceship bursts from the sky and crashes to the ground. Just before a landslide buries the ship, a mysterious creature emerges and disappears into the darkness. Of course, when he tells his story to the sheriff (Charles Drake), John is branded a crackpot, but before long, strange things begin to happen, and the tide of disbelief turns. (1953, b&w)
Mark Says:
This is one of the first sci-fi films I remember seeing as a boy, and still one of my favorites. Richard Carlson (Creature from the Black Lagoon) and Barbara Rush (When Worlds Collide, Moon of the Wolf) are the quintessential 1950s sci-fi couple as Ellen Fields (the pretty school teacher) and John Putnam (the astronomer who is not afraid to state his beliefs).
One of the elements that endeared this movie to me as a child is the juxtaposition of John Putnam the "star gazer" against the simple-mindedness of the sheriff and the townsfolk. It is the classic battle of a man with imagination struggling with the comfortable perceptions of the populace.
John was not only a hero for convincing the aliens not to destroy the world when they thought the mob was going to apprehend them, but because he was a man open to strange and foreign ideas. When one of John's colleagues accuses him of being "odd", another colleague answers, "More than odd, Bob, individual and lonely, a man who thinks for himself." It sounds corny today, but those were powerful words to a 10 year old boy staying up late to watch Creature Feature.
It Came from Outer Space has other things going for it, too. It's based on a story by Ray Bradbury, who also wrote the screenplay, if you take stock in what film historian Tom Weaver says (the credit is given to Harry Essex). The desert motif is creepy, and new for the time, and the musical score was written by Henry Mancini (though it is probably the eerie sound of the theremin that you'll most remember). The dialog is often hokey, but fun.
The aliens are the major drawback to this movie. They look like a cross between a big toe and a Mr. Potato Head. We also see far too much of them for too long. Forgivable, but this is still a thorn in the side of an otherwise great B-film.
Admittedly, this movie gets big points for nostalgia value. I would still recommend it to any sci-fi enthusiast. It was produced by William Alland and directed by Jack Arnold.
It Came from Outer Space was filmed in 3D, but this doesn't detract significantly (if at all) from the DVD version.
Scene to watch for: In those days, even mild-mannered stargazers kept handguns in their glove compartments.
Line to listen for: "Putnam, you frighten 'em. And what frightens 'em, they're against, one way or another."
Special Note: I highly recommend getting the DVD version of this film which includes the commentary by film historian, Tom Weaver. Mr. Weaver takes his job seriously and packs a lot of information and stories into his narration.
Mark's Rating: ! ! ! ! ½ out of 5.


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