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Deep within the NSA is Desk Three, a top-secret unit of special operatives inserted into the field when the threat is great and the response demands sensitivity and invisibility. Charlie Dean, a former Marine sniper, is a senior officer. With his colleagues Lia DeFrancesca and newcomer Ilya Akulinin, they form the core of a high-tech team known as Deep Black.
Off the coast of Africa lie the beautiful Canary Islands, a resort destination of millionaires. But underneath this idyllic paradise is one of the most volatile fault lines in the world. There, an alliance between radical Islamic terrorists and a rogue element of the Chinese government is planning to unleash an act of unimaginable geological terrorism that could devastate the U.S. East Coast, striking it with waves up to 1,000 feet high.
In the central Asian Republic of Tajikistan, 12 nuclear warheads, stolen by the Russian Mafia, are about to be smuggled out of the country into the hands of the conspirators. Charlie and Ilya go on an intercept mission, but before they can retrieve them, the weapons disappear.
Lia is sent to Berlin to infiltrate the operations of a ruthless Chinese billionaire, whose machinations have come to the attention of the NSA. She risks immediate execution if her true identity is revealed.
Meanwhile, in a hotel in New Jersey, a best-selling author is assassinated to prevent the release of his stranger-than-fiction story about an Islamic plot to change the course of history.
Their paths all converge in the Canary Islands, where Lia finds herself in the hands of a sadistic torturer. Unless the Deep Black team intervenes, the islands could be the epicenter of apocalypse, with millions of lives - and the entire world order - at stake.
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- Bob
- 20/08/2011
Excellent! A real page turner
Coonts is one of my favorite authors along with Clive Cussler. I think this is one of the best of all the books from both authors. Phil Gigante does a superb job of narrating and keeps you wanting to keep reading! If you like thrillers and mysteries, you'll love this one. One of the other nice things about this, is that you don't have to had read any of the previous books in the series. I give him a lot of credit for that with this being the ninth book. It is Definitely worth a credit and the time to read it. I can't wait to hear what Charlie and Desk 3 get into next. Based on this story, I'm pretty sure it will involve the Chinese. Don't pass this one up!
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- Aaron
- 05/03/2011
Another great book in a fun series
Coonts and Keith do it again with the latest edition of the Deep Black series with this book. The narrator does a great job pulling the listener into the action such that you just don't want to turn the book off.
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- 25/05/2013
Not the best Coonts but the story on the whole was
The story on a whole was good – although a couple of moments where characters did things that just seemed too unlikely, to the point where you stopped being absorbed and starting thinking of why. It was too good a story for the convenient easy move of putting a victim in need of rescue during the final action.
My lasting feeling of disappointment with this listening experience was the narrating, or at least just one aspect of the narrating that would otherwise have been good. This aspect was so grating and horrible that it destroyed every moment created and broke every spell created ....It was the very very very feeble and breathy voice of every female, this above all else dropped this experience to the lowest listen of all so far.
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Thousands of people flocked to a college football stadium in Chula Vista to celebrate the hometown team that won the Little League World Series.
The 12 and 13-year-old members of the Chula Vista Park View All-Stars rode to Friday's rally at Southwestern College on top of a fire engine ladder truck.
The team has had many celebrations since defeating a team from Taiwan 6-3 on Sunday for the World Series crown. The boys got to watch the San Diego Chargers practice on Tuesday, dined with Adrian Gonzalez and other San Diego Padres players on Wednesday, and appeared on "The Tonight Show with Conan O'Brien" on Thursday.
They will also be honored Sept. 12 at Petco Park before the Padres play against the Colorado Rockies.
Artie Ojeda and Greg Bledsoe blogged about the celebrations at the rally throughout the day.
Greg Bledsoe at 10:30 p.m:
The stadium at Southwest college is empty now. The stage is gone. The lights will go out in a few minutes. But what happened here tonight, and in Williamsport, Pennsylvania earlier this week will shine on.
The Park View Little League team capped off its week of celebrations here tonight at a rally in front of about 10,000 people. The screams reminded me of the Beatles first trip across the Atlantic (not that I was alive then, but I have seen it on tape, and had to turn down the volume).
They can't drive, but practically hold the key to the city of Chula Vista. The mayor, the city council, County Supervisors, and former Padres all shared the stage with the team tonight.
Former Padre Phil Nevin even eluded to envying the team a little saying he never got a world series title.
"It was crazy." said Bulla Graff, "They treat me like royalty."
Not to take that quote out of context, Bulla went on to talk about how he plans to take the advice of his coaches and parents, and keep this all in perspective.
"Don't get too big headed because then you'll lose focus in school." he recalls those words of wisdom.
Luke Ramirez added, "(We're) Just trying to be polite to all the adults around, and not trying to be bigshots."
This is a group of a dozen 12 and 13 year-olds who, in the past five days, have won the Little League World Series on national television, met the vice president, practiced with the Chargers, gone to dinner with Adrian Gonzalez, appeared on The Tonight Show, and been screamed at by girls one, maybe even two grades ahead of them.
You can imagine how they're feeling.
"Well, I definitely get a lot more attention," said Kiko Garcia, who then went on to repeat the advice from his mom. "It's not gonna look good if you think you're better than everyone else just because of this."
Being in Williamsport with these kids a week ago, I would have described them as humble, almost shy (Sunday's postgame performance of "Sweet Caroline" excluded). I would describe them the same way right now, and that's saying a lot considering how much their lives have changed in the past five days.
Congratulations on winning, and doing it well.
Greg Bledsoe at 7 p.m.: From the sound of it, you would think the Jonas Brothers here. Among the crowd of an estimated 10,000 fans, hundreds of screaming girls. Some of the girls are holding signs with their favorite players' names.
The players entered the stadium to a roar from the crowd singing Neil Diamond's "Sweet Caroline." It's the song the players said they listened to before every game.
Artie Ojeda at 5:30 p.m.: It's 5:30 and there are already thousands here at Southwestern College.
Many people are holding signs with pictures and special messages. Easily the best: "Daniel P. Will You Marry Me?" The sign is held by 13-year old April, who said she goes to school with Daniel Porros Jr., the Park View Little League catcher. She said she showed the sign to him and he blushed.
Anticipation is in the air for the arrival of the Little Leaguers. They're scheduled to leave a Chula Vista fire station in about 15 minutes and then get a ride on a fire truck here to the stadium, where they will be greeting by thousands of fans!
He's going over details of where officers will be staged during the rally.
Artie Ojeda at 2:43 p.m.: "Check 1-2. Check 1-2."
The announcer's voice is booming across the PA system at Southwestern College's Devore Stadium. This is the calm before the big celebration storm. Park View's Little Leauge champions aren't expected here for another 3 1/2 hours, but there is a flurry of activity here.
Food booths are being set up, powder blue T-shirts are on sale and anticipation is in the air. Roman Flores, 9, is one of the very first fans at the stadium. He's here with his mother, Natalie.
"They're a Chula Vista team. Wow!," Roman said.
"We're just very proud of the boys. Its really boosted the spirits of the city" Natalie said.
The Floreses will be passing out American flags and small stickers that say I Love PVLL.
Artie Ojeda at 12:05 p.m.: Sharon Garcia is Kiko Garcia's mom. Everybody knows Kiko.
The national news media went out of its way to compare Kiko to a former Major League player by the same name, but here's a funny catch: according to the younger Kiko's mother, Kiko is not his real name! His given name is Enrico Garcia. It turns out, his younger sister couldn't pronounce it. It came out as "Kiko." The name has stuck.
Artie Ojeda at 11:27 a.m.: A tumultuous rally at Southwestern College on Friday night will end whirlwind week for the Chula Vista Park View Little Leaguers.
I'll be there to blog the day's big events.
What a week its been for the young men. After defeating Taiwan last Sunday in Williamsport, Penn., the Little Leaguers returned Tuesday night for a homecoming rally, and there have been school assemblies, a meeting with the Chargers, dinner with Padres first baseman Adrian Gonzalez, and, oh, yeah, an appearance Thursday night on the Tonight Show with Conan O'Brien.
Right now, I'm working on a story with one of the unsung heroes of this tremendous run: Sharon Garcia, better known as "Kiko's Mom."
She has been responsible for "water bottles, Lysol and, um, cleaning up puke in the middle of the night" when one of the players got sick.

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Is it possible to look more natural after plastic surgery? "High School Musical" star Ashley Tisdale, 22, just got a nose job -- and her newly shaped schnozz made its first appearance yesterday at Madison Square Garden.
Tisdale claims she got the plastic surgery to fix a deviated septum -- the same excuse reason expressed by Jennifer Aniston and Cameron Diaz for their rhinoplasty. Something smells fishy!
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"Good Spirits: Alcoholic Beverages in the 18th Century" Conference Toasts Colonial Beverages and their Consumption
Colonial Williamsburg's Historic Foodways staff and some of today's top scholars and authors from England, Canada and the United States explore the beer, wine and strong drink of the 18th century during the conference, "Good Spirits: Alcoholic Beverages in the 18th Century," March 18-20. They will examine the manufacture, trade, service and consumption of the most popular beverages of the period and delve into how every level of society had their favorites. Learn about some of colonial barman's more bizarre concoctions and sample some of their best.
Peter Brown, noted English food historian, sets the tone with a keynote presentation. Speakers discuss beer, cider and perry, fortified wines, punch, and the variety of glasses, bowls and other paraphernalia of serious drinking. There is gin, rum and whiskey. The afternoon will focus on the use of alcohol in cooking — both then and now — and culminate with a special version of the Williamsburg Lodge's Wine, Wit and Wisdom. Along the way, there will be more tastings and samples.
Additional presenters include Daniel K. Ackermann, associate curator, Museum of Early Southern Decorative Arts, Winston-Salem, N.C.; Phil Dunning, material culture researcher, Parks Canada, Ottawa, Ontario; David J. Hancock, professor of history, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Mich.; Dennis Pogue, vice president, preservation, George Washington's Mount Vernon Estate, Museum & Gardens; and Frederick Smith, associate professor, anthropology, College of William and Mary, Williamsburg, Va.
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MOUNDS VIEW, (AP) - A Minneapolis man is charged with fatally stabbing a man he met on a phone chat line.
Fifty-one-year-old Stephen Gooler is charged with second-degree murder in Ramsey County District Court. A criminal complaint says Gooler and the victim, 49-year-old Perry Paulson, met Thursday and were drinking at Paulson's Mounds View apartment before he was attacked.
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I'm going to be closing Something Greater for awhile. With Natasha no longer contributing, it's difficult to keep up with. I have loved writing here and getting to know those who have read this blog. It still means a lot to me, and who knows? I may revive it in a little while. But for now, I'm going to stop posting.
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Today Citizen announced that it has signed Nicole Vaidisova as the face of the new Eco-Drive "Unstoppable" campaign.
"Citizen Eco-Drive utilizes the power of light from any natural or artificial light source and converts it into stored energy. Enough energy is stored to power the watch for at least six months, even in the dark."
They're pretty cool watches; I own one myself.
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With the Google buyout of NEST thermostats, attention has turned from the "smart meter" to the thermostat as a focal point of residential energy efficiency. (Read this recent editorial by Alan Meier.) But several years ago Energy Star decided to no longer certify programmable thermostats, since several studies showed that people at home did not take advantage of the thermostat's programming possibilities. One reason why people didn't program the thermostats was that programming the devices was too complicated.
Now it is common for thermostats to be programmable and communicating, which means most new thermostats allow the homeowner, utility, or third-party to access the thermostat remotely. Think of people turning up or down their thermostats from their iPhones while riding the subway.
The Sacramento Municipal Utility District (SMUD) wanted to take a closer look at several of these thermostats to see how efficiently customers use them, what their preferences are, and how users perceive the usefulness of these devices. SMUD commissioned Herter Energy Research Solutions to do a three-day lab study involving 163 users, 26–28 users each of 12 different thermostats.
Which thermostats received the top scores and what features do utility customers look for in a communicating thermostat? You can download for free a copy of the Herter Energy study, "SMUD's Communicating Thermostat Usability Study" here to find the answers.
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There is a bit more to just the communicating thermostat then meets the eye.. You need to think about the purchase price of the NEST stat by google. Based upon the purchase price and the amount of thermostats sold annually If google was in it for selling stats, they would loose their shirt. As it will take them over 12 years just to break even on the sale price. Now think about how the goggle platform works. Every time you use your computer to look something up you create a cookie which is tracked. And every time after your done and you go onto a web site, even Facebook, what shows up on the side bar? The same things that you searched for. Well with the NEST stat it has a built in cookie that is tracked by the manufacture. So now you wonder what is that all about? Well think about this. It means google knows when your waking, sleeping, leaving the house and returning. It knows if your keeping your house cooler then average perhaps in an attempt to save more money, or warmer because your always cold. With the Nest stat it also knows when you walk by it. As for those who have not installed them, or seen them up close and personal as I, they wake up and turn on so you can read the dial.
So what all that means is they are tracking your habits, This will enable them to learn about you and what your living environment is about. In future models you will begin to see other features that sense moisture, dirty filters all the other things many other manufactures already provide. And because this thermostat has your IP address it knows all about you. And when you being to log onto your computer, those pesky pop ups and ads you see on the sides of pages, will begin to slowly be things that perhaps you just may be interested in buying, such as a new coffee maker as they know when you wake, Perhaps an alarm system seeing your stat is off for 10 hours a day. This is what the future brings. And companies such as Google who really is not in the HVAC business is in the future of retail sales.
Also for those who have not put them in and programed them. I have been in the HVAC and home performance business for more then 30 years. The NEST and this is not a plug for them, is one of the easiest, quickest, and most friendly thermostat to install and program. I have installed hundreds of them over the years, all brands and makes. Only thing I do not like is they are sold retail and even though I am a certified nest installer, big woop by the way. I pay the same price as my customer so they know what they cost. No markup on materials so I make much less then the other trade only available wireless units sold at the wholesaler.
Just made a correction: "SMUD commissioned Herter Energy Solutions to do a three-day lab study involving 163 users, 26–28 users each of 12 different thermostats." The original version did not mention the total number of 163 participants in the study.
Also, an update from Karen Herter of Herter Energy Research Solutions:
"... as for energy savings, I'm finishing up the evaluation for a couple of field studies that made use of the Ecofactor and Nest thermostats. The results are done, but I'm not sure if/when SMUD will make them publicly available."
Look here or in Home Energy for the latest results.
Yes they can, maybe. I know that I use mine in program mode and when the program does not fit my schedule due to changes in work patterns or just life having its way with me. I can access the Tstat and change the temps where it would have (on schedule) raised the heating temp.
Like everything, it is how it is used. Everything works well until you put people in the mix. BY giving the customer more control, they are more involved and will hopefully make more informed decisions concerning their comfort and energy concerns.
You are actually missing the main reason to have one. THEY ARE COOL!!! you may not be able to control your life, work or kids but you can control your home. At least that one part of it.
PCT's when set correctly save a substantial amount on power bills when combined with TOU pricing.
A good article on this is at http://money.msn.com/saving-money-tips/post.aspx?post=1453ea21-3702..., which points out that you CAN save if you use programmable thermostats the right way, which is often not the case. The article includes a reference to the FPL study I managed where programmers used more than non-programmers. The link in the article to the 2010 ACEEE Paper we wrote is broken, but you can see the paper at http://www.aceee.org/files/proceedings/2010/start.htm and find Lopes in the Author index. In that study, we did not compare programmable communicating t-stat (PCT) users to non PCT users but programmers to non-programmers with the same units. The non-programmers' manual settings resulted in less overall energy for cooling (by 12%) but this is likely a function of climate (South Florida) and absence of TOU rates, which would have saved customers money if with higher overall usage.
Good question Colin. Anybody want to weigh in? Joseph? Steven? Eric? Carlos? Bob? In your experience, do communicating/programmable thermostats save energy?
Great article on usability of thermostats but is there any new information that they save energy?
Jim, I am just finishing up the M&V study for Austin and will suggest we submit something for Home Energy. We tried to get an ACEEE paper but were declined.
Very interesting Joseph. Maybe you could write something up for Home Energy about the Austin Energy program and any early results?
I've been involved with Carrier Comfort Choice thermostats for over 12 years in my role as evaluation consultant for Direct Load Control Programs for several major utilities. One of the studies involved Florida Power & Light, where we found that thermostat programmers used more energy than non-programmers because they set their overnight temperatures cooler. We presented the results at the 2010 ACEEE Conference. So, it worked very well for load control, but confirmed the problem cited by EPA that just having a PCT does not guarantee savings, although customers would have saved if they were on a TOU rate. We reported these findings to EPA as they were about to rescind the Energy Star labeling and they were happy to have real data to support their decision. The newer options for smartphone, as well as web, remote monitoring and control definitely help, since thermostats are still hard to program at the unit, despite recent improvements. Austin Energy recently started a program to enroll WiFi thermostats in their load control program (I am their M&V consultant) and the results are expected to much better than the one-way versions without remote programming capability.
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In the last of our shortlisted entries to the 2011 Wellcome Trust Science Writing Prize, Mike Jones explains the inventions a researcher is using to map the lives of penguins.
It's early May. I am sitting with 15 other Oxford biology students in a seminar, as part of a course on ecology and conservation. The room is dark and hot, with the last of the afternoon sunlight streaming through a narrow gap in the curtains. All eyes are fixed on Rory Wilson, a professor visiting from Swansea University. "After we'd made the magnets small enough to fit in their bums," he explains, "the difficult part was figuring out how powerful to make them."
Curiosity drives people to do strange things. Isaac Newton famously inserted a long needle into his eye socket, carefully noting the effects upon his vision. Charles Darwin covered his billiards table in earthworms and besieged them with tobacco smoke and bassoon music, just to see what would happen. Professor Wilson's curiosity about penguins resulting in him having three or four of them in his back garden, magnetically (and, I hasten to add, accidentally) affixed by their bottoms to a nearby piece of corrugated iron.
Thankfully, Wilson is not a deranged lunatic; he is a biologist who specialises in the study of hard-to-observe animals, using a variety of bizarre and ingenious devices. It is relatively easy to watch the behaviour of large, terrestrial animals like buffalos or chimpanzees. However, animals that spend their lives underground, under water or in the air – in other words, most animals – are impractical or impossible to observe by conventional means. Sadly, there will probably never be a Jane Goodall of sperm whales – if we are to learn anything, we must be creative.
This is where Wilson and his colleagues come in. They study animal behaviour through remote observation, by attaching (and eventually retrieving) tiny contraptions to animals that record detailed information about their activities. One such invention is a bit of engineering wizardry called the 'Daily Diary'. This is a tiny, 30 gram cylinder that contains, among other gadgets, a triaxial accelerometer – a device that measures acceleration along three axes (up, down, and side-to-side). This information can be used to map animal movement on a fine scale, be it the soaring spiral of a vulture catching a thermal or the sudden lunge of a penguin catching a squid.
How do we know that it was, in fact, a squid? Wilson has developed a device called a 'beakometer' that consists of a tiny magnet and a transducer – one attaches to the lower half of the beak, one to the upper. The transducer responds to the strength of the magnetic field, recording the opening and shutting of the beak. This conveys a surprising amount of information, since activities such as breathing and eating leave unique, identifiable signatures in the data. By analysing the erratic patterns in a spidery line graph you can tell whether a penguin is swallowing a fish or a squid and even how large it is.
There is also a parallel device called a 'bumometer' – hence Wilson's backyard R&D with magnetic suppositories. The bumometer measures the obvious bodily function in addition to heart rate, body temperature and breathing rate. These enable accurate estimates of energy expenditure, giving us an idea of the cost of particular behaviours. It turns out that penguins catch fish fairly effortlessly, using their natural buoyancy to swoop up at fish from below, as graceful in water as they are ungainly on land.
I have focused here on penguins, Wilson's specialty, but these devices can be used on virtually any large animal. This information gives us insight into the inner workings of ecological systems that humans' activities threaten to disrupt or destroy. The more we know about ecosystems, the greater our understanding of how to minimise our own impact upon them. However, it is not only the practical applications that matter. At the heart of remote monitoring is a deep curiosity about life on Earth, a profound aesthetic appreciation that remains undiminished even after nature has been translated into, digital information.
At the end of the seminar Professor Wilson shows us an early animation from his next project: a short 3-D film of a leatherback turtle swimming past an enormous seamount. It's a stunning reconstruction, based purely on remote monitoring data and landscape data from Google maps. The dream is to weave together these threads of information, creating open-access digital movies of real animals going about their lives in exquisite detail. This is an amazing prospect, and a rare example of technology bringing us closer to the natural world rather than distancing us from it.
Mike Jones
This is an edited version of Mike's original essay. Views expressed are the author's own.
Find out more about the Wellcome Trust Science Writing Prize in association with the Guardian and the Observer and read our 'How I write about science' series of tips for aspiring science writers.
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At Jamba Juice's expanded fresh juice roll-out this year, store employees spotted several problems, including how to reduce the foam from spinach juicing.
In the past, such an issue would have been sent first via email from a store manager to a district manager before being passed on to the company's corporate office. This time, however, a solution was instantly posted on Jamba Juice's /quotes/zigman/17530616/delayed /quotes/nls/jmba JMBA social-networking site on Yammer, often described as the business equivalent of Facebook.
This "has dramatically reduced" emails coming to corporate support desk by 80%, said Grace Chanpong, manager of communication and technology at Jamba Juice, in an interview. Questions "don't have to bubble up to hierarchy. Now it's instant problem shooting."
Chanpong said the company is trying to move away from email and also is considering giving its front-line store employees the ability to join the social network to allow the headquarters ability to "communicate with them directly."
Jamba Juice isn't alone. Many retailers, which don't give their front-line cash registers and other store employees a corporate email account, are now using different business social networks to crowd source ideas and receive instant feedback about a product, a store layout or a customer complaint.
For instance, Kroger Co. /quotes/zigman/231658/delayed /quotes/nls/kr KR uses Yammer to seek front-line store employee feedback on store shelf stocking while Red Robin /quotes/zigman/88405/delayed /quotes/nls/rrgb RRGB has significantly reduced its burger roll-out time to four weeks from months in the past as restaurant servers give its home office burger "design" team instant feedback, Adam Pisoni, co-founder of Yammer and now a corporate vice president of Microsoft Office /quotes/zigman/20493/delayed /quotes/nls/msft MSFT , told MarketWatch, adding Tesco /quotes/zigman/56321/delayed /quotes/nls/tsco TSCO , for instance, has used it to get front-line store employee feedback about bad produce.
As a sign of the industry shift, since Microsoft's purchase in 2012, Yammer has more than doubled
its customer and user count to more than 400,000 companies worldwide, including over 85% of the Fortune 500, and more than eight million users, the company said.
David Peterson, enterprise collaboration manager at bike-maker Trek, said the company is using the business social networks to allow dealers in 29 countries to brainstorm ideas in real time that in the past would not have been possible. For instance, if someone posts a nice store banner or layout, dealers in other countries could quickly see it and try to replicate it.
"We are trying to have a global collaborative conversation," Peterson said in an interview, adding the company also began to get its sales team to use the social network. "There wasn't much sharing in the past."
The idea of a real-time, collaborative conversation has also affected the way companies are redesigning their work space.
Ryan Anderson, director of future technology at furniture-maker Herman Miller, told MarketWatch that in the last three to four years, he has seen an uptick in corporate customers giving their employees permission to redesign their workspace. In response to the rising demand, Herman Miller this year will unveil a Metaform line of furniture that would allow corporate employees to tweak their desk, chair and work space to engage in communication with other workers without even going through a facilities department, Anderson said.
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I've loved skateboarding for what seems like my whole life. It is the reason I'm still alive today, without a doubt. Tattooing has been great to me, and I love it, traveling as well… But there is nothing that feels as good as skating with my bros, feeling like there wasn't another person on earth besides us…. I guess I've been chasing the dragon like some kind of heroin guy or whatever with all the travels and tattoo stuff, just hoping that something will feel as great as those days…. No luck yet….. Anyway, if I break my arm, I can't work, so skateboarding doesn't happen much in real life for me anymore…. But, and if you know me, you know this is true, I still spend a lot of time lost in my mind skateboarding like it was 1992 everyday…… Tech decks are the best thing since the real thing.
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Please forgive this uncharacteristic self-tooting of our own horn, but this project has been SUCH a long time coming– and we are so very excited that it is finally here!
Prestigious publication CHRISTIANITY TODAY scored the first review of 'Faroe Islands' and rated it 4 out of 5 stars. Here's a sample from their website:
Style: Southern soul; compare to Mike Farris, Jason Crabb, Michael English
Top tracks: "Heaven," "God's Love," "Help Me"
Christian music's most unique voice continues his legendary thirty-year recording legacy with a project inspired by friends from and recorded in the Faroe Islands. An amalgamation of his career's genre-bending diversity, the bluesy singer covers southern rock ("Rock Bound"), pop ("Love Is a Cross"), alt-country ("Here Comes Jesus"), gospel ("Heaven"), and inspirational tearjerkers ("Help Me") compellingly, while alternating original co-writes with his Faroe friends with high-profile covers of Larry Gatlin and Bob Dylan. Horn hits, ultimate background vocal soul, and funky tight band arrangements complete the stellar set. And though the album's influences are varied, Taff's scruffy vocal soul is constant. Copyright © 2011 Christianity Today


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New York Knicks' Carmelo Anthony Scores Big Over New Rivals the Brooklyn Nets
NEW YORK – It's official: the Knicks-Nets rivalry is on.
"I hate him," Brooklyn Nets guard Deron Williams said of New York Knicks player Jason Kidd and his tie breaking 3-pointer Tuesday night.
While Williams may have been kidding (the point guards are friends), similar sentiments arose among Nets fans as Carmelo Anthony scored a season-high 45 points helping the Knicks rally from an early 17-point hole to beat Brooklyn 100-97.
Kidd finished with 18 points against his former team, who used to dominate the Knicks when he played in New Jersey. He pumped his fist afterward in what he said was as much emotion as he shows, though denied taking any special pleasure in beating the Nets.
"I'm a competitor. I want to win," he said.
Now the series is tied at 1-1 since the Nets moved to Brooklyn, both games coming down to the tense final minutes.
"It is (a rivalry). I mean, after that first game, we might as well accept that," Anthony said. "It is what it is. They're on our division, we see them four times a year. It is a rivalry. It's great for New York to have that in Brooklyn and in Manhattan. When we come here it's a battle. When they come there, it's going to be a battle. We expect that."
It is a rivalry. It's great for New York to have that in Brooklyn and in Manhattan. When we come here it's a battle. When they come there, it's going to be a battle.
Andray Blatche scored 23 points in place of Brook Lopez, who missed his sixth straight game with a sprained right foot. Williams added 18 points and 10 assists, and Reggie Evans grabbed 18 rebounds, but the Nets lost their fifth straight.
Gerald Wallace scored 17 points, but both he and Williams missed potential tying 3-pointers on the last possession after Kidd broke a 97-all tie with his 3-pointer from the left side while being fouled by Jerry Stackhouse.
Kidd missed the free throw in an otherwise terrific effort for the 39-year-old point guard who helped carry the Knicks while fellow point guard Raymond Felton was struggling through a 3-for-12 night. Kidd had six rebounds and six assists, playing 38 minutes.
There were wild swings in momentum and crowd support in the second half, once the Knicks had gotten themselves untracked after the Nets threatened to run them off the floor in the first quarter.
The crowd was loud and energetic, the players and fans eventually matching the playoff-like intensity from the first meeting, a 96-89 Nets victory in overtime here on Nov. 26. That had left both teams tied atop the Atlantic Division at 9-4, but the Knicks have since gone 7-1 to surge to the top of the Eastern Conference, while Brooklyn has gone 2-5.
It occasionally felt like a Knicks home game, with "MVP! MVP!" chants for Anthony — which the Knicks think he deserves — and a black-and-orange dressed Spike Lee sitting courtside and yelling at the referees.
"He's had some pretty good games under my tutelage but I just think tonight he wanted it so badly, man," Knicks coach Mike Woodson said. "He made shot after shot."
The Brooklyn native never wanted to play in New Jersey, preferring instead a trade to the Knicks, and Kidd eventually wanted out after leading the Nets to two NBA Finals but never the local popularity of the Knicks.
But despite their efforts, the Nets had plenty of chances to send their fans home happy.
"This was a winnable game," Nets coach Avery Johnson said, "but we just couldn't quite close it."
The Nets scored the first five points, gave up a 3-pointer to Kidd, then outscored the Knicks 16-2 over the next five-plus minutes to open a 21-5 lead on Blatche's layup with 4:29 left in the first quarter. Brooklyn hit nine of its first 11 shots, led by as much as 17 and was ahead 30-16 going to the second. Blatche had 12 points on 6-of-7 shooting in eight minutes.
The Nets still led by 16 with 4:49 remaining in the half, but Anthony nailed a jumper and 3-pointer, triggering an 18-6 run to end the half that he capped with a layup with 1.8 seconds left, bringing the Knicks within 53-49 as they headed to the locker room.
The Knicks scored the first five points of the second half to take their first lead, but Williams quickly put the Nets back ahead and Blatche helped them stay there. Brooklyn was back up by nine late in the third quarter before settling for a 79-74 lead.
Brooklyn held the lead until Kidd tied it a 91 on a 3-pointer with 4:01 to play. The Nets lost a potential go-ahead basket when Blatche's tip in was ruled an offensive violation, and Anthony tipped in his own miss to give New York a 93-91 edge with 2:47 to play.
The Nets tied it again at 95 when Wallace — who just moments before had banged knees hard with J.R. Smith and could barely stand — tipped in a miss. Two free throws by Anthony followed by Joe Johnson's basket set the stage for Kidd's go-ahead shot.
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Pan-VEGF Blockade for the Treatment of Retinopathy of Prematurity (BLOCK-ROP) (BLOCK-ROP)
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|ClinicalTrials.gov Identifier: NCT01232777
Recruitment Status : Withdrawn (Lack of funding)
First Posted : November 2, 2010
Last Update Posted : October 17, 2013
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|Condition or disease
|Retinopathy of Prematurity
|Drug: Bevacizumab
|Phase 2
Retinopathy of Prematurity (ROP) is a leading cause of blindness in children in developed countries around the world, and an increasing cause of blindness in developing countries.
The retina lines the inside of the eye. It functions as "film" within the camera, which is the eye. When an infant is born prematurely, the vascular network necessary to nourish the retina has not fully developed. As a consequence, in some infants abnormal vessels grow instead of the normal ones--a condition known as ROP. The abnormal vessels carry scar tissue along with them, and may lead to retinal detachment and blindness if the eye is not treated.
The multi-center trial of Cryotherapy for Retinopathy of Prematurity (CRYo-ROP) Study demonstrated that ablation of the peripheral avascular retina reduced the risk of poor structural and visual outcome due to retinal distortion or detachment in ROP (1980's). The ablated retina is not functional and is not amendable to regeneration.
Peripheral retinal ablation is not universally effective in fostering regression of ROP. This is particularly true for an aggressive form of ROP (aggressive posterior ROP, or APROP), which typically afflicts profoundly premature and sick neonates. In this subset of infants, progression of ROP to retinal detachments in both eyes and even blindness may occur despite timely and complete peripheral retinal laser ablation.
The development of ROP is largely dependant on vascular endothelial growth factor (VEGF). When an infant is born prematurely, the relatively hyperoxic environment that the baby is introduced to shuts down the production of VEGF. Retinal maturation is thus delayed. Subsequently, at a time when intraocular VEGF levels would be declining late in the third trimester of pregnancy, abnormally high levels of VEGF are seen due to large areas of avascular retina and associated tissue hypoxia.
The availability of FDA-approved drugs for anti-VEGF treatment renders it possible to treat such eye off-label. Available drugs include pegaptanib sodium (Macugen) for partial blockage of VEGF-A, or drugs such a ranibizumab (Lucentis) and bevacizumab (Avastin), which cause complete blockage of VEGF-A.
As VEGF is required in the developing retina for normal angiogenesis, and our goal is not to penetrate tissue, but to block the excessive levels of VEGF trapped within the overlying vitreous which is responsible for the abnormal vasculature in ROP.
For purposes of this study, we have chosen bevacizumab (Avastin) which will: a) attain complete blockage (vs. Macugen) of intravitreal VEGF-A, and b)which is limited in its ability to penetrate tissues because it is a full antibody (vs. Lucentis, an antibody fragment specifically designed for better tissue penetration), and is more likely to restore VEGF homeostasis within the developing retina.
|Study Type :
|Interventional (Clinical Trial)
|Actual Enrollment :
|0 participants
|Intervention Model:
|Parallel Assignment
|None (Open Label)
|Primary Purpose:
|Official Title:
|Pan-VEGF Blockade for the Treatment of Retinopathy of Prematurity (BLOCK-ROP)
|Study Start Date :
|June 2012
|Estimated Primary Completion Date :
|April 2015
|Estimated Study Completion Date :
|July 2018
Active Comparator: Bevacizumab (Avastin) 0.75mg/0.03cc
1/3 of study participants will be randomized to this treatment in one eye (study eye) and the other eye will receive laser (fellow eye)
Drug: Bevacizumab
A single dosage of: 0.625mg(0.025cc)or 0.75mg(0.03cc) will be given intravitreally.
Other Name: Avastin
Active Comparator: Bevacizumab (Avastin) 0.625mg/0.025cc
1/3 of patients will be randomized to this treatment in 1 eye (study eye) and the other eye will receive laser (fellow eye).
Drug: Bevacizumab
A single dosage of: 0.625mg(0.025cc)or 0.75mg(0.03cc) will be given intravitreally.
Other Name: Avastin
Active Comparator: Laser ablation
1/3 of study participants will be randomized to this treatment in both eyes (study eye and fellow eye)
Drug: Bevacizumab
A single dosage of: 0.625mg(0.025cc)or 0.75mg(0.03cc) will be given intravitreally.
Other Name: Avastin
- To demonstrate non-inferiority of Anti-VEGF treatment to standard-of-care laser [ Time Frame: With patient #58, 116 and 174 (within 3 months after each patient being enrolled) ]It is the intent of this clinical study to develop alternative therapy (a single bevacizumab injection) to standard therapy (laser ablation) and to show that bevacizumab is as safe and efficacious as laser.
- Decreased laser ablation and improved vascular maturity [ Time Frame: With patient #58, 116 & 174 (within 3 months after each patient being enrolled) ]These 2 end-points will be monitored by evidence of persistent disease and presence/absence of progression to retinal detachment. If either or both of these objectives are not met, it is indicative of failure of treatment.
Choosing to participate in a study is an important personal decision. Talk with your doctor and family members or friends about deciding to join a study. To learn more about this study, you or your doctor may contact the study research staff using the contacts provided below. For general information, Learn About Clinical Studies.
|Ages Eligible for Study:
|30 Weeks to 36 Weeks (Child)
|Sexes Eligible for Study:
|Accepts Healthy Volunteers:
Inclusion Criteria:
- Inborn babies at participating NICU's who meet inclusion criteria
- Outborn babies transferred to participating NICU's who meet inclusion criteria
- Type 1 pre-threshold ROP
- No prior treatment
- Post menstrual age less than 36 1/7 weeks
- Post menstrual age greater than 30 weeks
Exclusion Criteria:
- Fatal systemic anomaly
- An ocular anomaly of one or both eye affecting the retina or choroid
- An ocular anomaly precluding use of the RetCam (ex., microphthalmia)
- Neonatologist feels inclusion will unduly challenge the infant
- Refusal of initial consent
- Refusal of subsequent evaluation
- Media opacity precluding fundus visualization (ex., cataract)
- Any ocular or periocular infection(s)
To learn more about this study, you or your doctor may contact the study research staff using the contact information provided by the sponsor.
Please refer to this study by its ClinicalTrials.gov identifier (NCT number): NCT01232777
|United States, California
|Children's Hospital Los Angeles
|Los Angeles, California, United States, 90027
|Jules Stein Eye Institute, UCLA
|Los Angeles, California, United States, 90095
|Eye Insitute at Stanford
|Palo Alto, California, United States, 94303
|United States, Florida
|Bascon Palmer Eye Institute
|Miami, Florida, United States, 33136
|United States, Georgia
|Emory Eye Center
|Atlanta, Georgia, United States, 30322
|United States, Massachusetts
|Children's Hospital, Dept. of Ophthalmology
|Boston, Massachusetts, United States, 02115
|United States, Michigan
|Associated Retinal Consultants/William Beaumont Hospital
|Royal Oak, Michigan, United States, 48073
|United States, New Jersey
|Insitute of Ophthalmology and Medical Science, New Jersey Medical School
|Newark, New Jersey, United States, 07103
|United States, New York
|Department of Ophthalmology, Weill Cornell Medical College
|New York, New York, United States, 10021
|United States, Ohio
|Abrahamson Pediatric Eye Institute, Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center
|Cincinnati, Ohio, United States, 45229
|Cleveland Clinic
|Cleveland, Ohio, United States, 44105
|Midwest Retina
|Dublin, Ohio, United States, 43016
|University Hospitals Eye Insitute, Rainbow Babies & Children's Hospital
|Mayfield Heights, Ohio, United States, 44134
|United States, Pennsylvania
|St. Christopher's Hospital for Children, Drexel Univ. School of Medicine
|Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States, 19134
|United States, Texas
|Austin Retina Associates
|Austin, Texas, United States, 78705
|Texas Children's Hospital
|Houston, Texas, United States, 77030
|United States, Utah
|University of Utah, Moran Eye Center
|Salt Lake City, Utah, United States, 84132
|United States, Wisconsin
|Medical College of Wisconsin--Eye Insititute
|Milwaukee, Wisconsin, United States, 53266
|Canada, Alberta
|Ells Retina Centre
|Calgary, Alberta, Canada, T2T 5R6
|Principal Investigator:
|Michael T Trese, MD
|Vision Research Foundation
|Responsible Party:
|Michael T. Trese, M.D., VitreoRetinal Surgeon & Researcher, Vision Research Foundation
|ClinicalTrials.gov Identifier:
|NCT01232777 History of Changes
|Other Study ID Numbers:
|First Posted:
|November 2, 2010 Key Record Dates
|Last Update Posted:
|October 17, 2013
|Last Verified:
|October 2013
Keywords provided by Michael T. Trese, M.D., Vision Research Foundation:
Retinopathy of Prematurity
Vascular Endothelial Growth Factor
Additional relevant MeSH terms:
Retinal Diseases
Premature Birth
Retinopathy of Prematurity
Obstetric Labor, Premature
Infant, Premature, Diseases
Eye Diseases
Obstetric Labor Complications
Pregnancy Complications
Infant, Newborn, Diseases
Antineoplastic Agents, Immunological
Antineoplastic Agents
Angiogenesis Inhibitors
Angiogenesis Modulating Agents
Growth Substances
Physiological Effects of Drugs
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Owners of Volvos with advanced crash avoidance features find the systems useful, and the vast majority would want the technology again, an IIHS survey shows. The positive results are in line with an earlier survey (see "Luxury owners embrace systems to skirt crashes," Nov. 18, 2009). This time, the participants were not limited to the early adopters questioned several years ago, when the technology was new.
Researchers interviewed nearly 500 owners of Volvo models with crash avoidance features. Some had City Safety, a low-speed forward collision avoidance system standard on certain models; some had an optional technology package that includes forward collision warning, lane departure warning and other features; and some had both.
"The majority of these drivers told us they like the crash avoidance technology in their vehicles," says Anne McCartt, senior vice president for research at IIHS. "For the most part they are taking advantage of the systems, and many credit them with preventing crashes."
Based on insurance data, these systems appear to be reducing crashes. The Highway Loss Data Institute (HLDI) has found that the rate of property damage liability claims for Volvos with standard City Safety is lower than for other vehicles in the same class and for Volvos without the technology (see "Volvo's City Safety prevents low-speed crashes and cuts insurance costs," July 19, 2011). HLDI also found lower claim frequencies with the optional technology package, which includes a higher-speed forward collision warning system with autonomous braking, adaptive cruise control, distance alert, lane departure warning and fatigue warning (see "They're working: Insurance claims data show which new technologies are preventing crashes," July 3, 2012).
Drivers' reactions are important because many systems provide only warnings and require drivers to take action. And most features can be deactivated, so the technologies need to be accepted to be effective.
Among the respondents with the optional technology package, about half said they always used adaptive cruise control, which maintains a set following distance, on high-speed roads. Eighty-nine percent said that when adaptive cruise control is not in use they always drive with distance alert, which warns the driver if the vehicle is getting too close to one in front but, unlike adaptive cruise control, doesn't affect vehicle speed. The same number said they leave forward collision warning on at all times, while fewer than two-thirds always drive with lane departure warning. Of the respondents with City Safety, 78 percent always drive with the system on. Eighteen percent said they weren't aware they had City Safety. It is likely those people also were driving with the system activated, since the default is "on."
The lower use rate for lane departure warning may be related to the annoyance factor: One-third of respondents said they found the feature's warning chime annoying. Drifting slightly over a lane marking is a common occurrence, and some drivers are accustomed to exiting, merging or changing lanes without signaling, which would trigger the warning. The system also can be triggered by things like old lane markings in construction zones.
The earlier IIHS survey, which involved owners of Volvo and Infiniti vehicles with crash avoidance features, also found that fewer drivers kept lane departure warning on at all times than other features. In that survey, a quarter of Volvo owners and 41 percent of Infiniti owners found lane departure warning annoying. The tendency to turn off the system seems to have grown: Among the first group, 69 percent of Volvo owners said they always drove with lane departure warning, compared with 59 percent in the new survey.
In the current study, most owners reported experiencing activations of lane departure warning, forward collision warning and fatigue warning. Thirty-seven percent said they experienced autonomous braking, including City Safety. Many respondents said they believed the features had helped prevent crashes. For example, 45 percent of those who had driven with forward collision warning said the alerts from that feature had helped them avoid a crash.
Warnings perceived as false or unnecessary were reported by 37 percent of owners for forward collision warning and 33 percent for lane departure warning. Unnecessary autonomous braking wasn't as commonly reported at 14 percent.
For each feature, more than 80 percent of respondents said they would want the system again on their next vehicle.
Percentage of owners who drive with crash avoidance systems on
Percentage of owners who want system on next vehicleAmong current owners of each system
While the responses are similar to the earlier survey, this update shows positive reactions weren't limited to drivers who eagerly snapped up a brand new safety technology. The first survey involved Volvos from 2008, the first model year that both forward collision warning and lane departure warning were offered as options. The current study involves 2010-12 Volvos and is the first to look at City Safety, which, because it comes standard, could be more likely to include respondents whose attitude toward safety is similar to the average driver.
"While lane departure warning lags behind other technologies in the percentage of drivers who use it all the time, all these features are proving to be popular with a majority of drivers," McCartt says. "That bodes well for the future of crash avoidance. With more driver interest, more manufacturers should understand that it pays to invest in these systems and will offer them in more vehicles."
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91 year old - Tackling scams head on!!
Following months of receiving Scam letters Mail Marshal Lilian is now tackling Scams head on!
91-year-old Lillian fought back against scam mail con by becoming an NTS Scams Team Mail Marshal. Lillian marks scam mail that is delivered to her home and Bexley Trading Standards are collecting this on a regular basis. Lillian is now so clued up on how to spot a con that she is actively showing others what to look out for.
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About Last Night :: Toro Y Moi at Indie Grits [Saturday, April 16]
And even more specifically: Toro y Moi. Two complaints: the crowd was "ability" in nearby what is former gamikok theatre. There s nothing wrong assessment ' here: people in fine Indie gravel what do firefighters,
April 2011
DJ Shadow, Superchunk, Thurston Moore, Battles, Toro Y Moi Join Pitchfork ...
Bichfork Music Festival now includes "DJ Shadow" and "sobirchonk", "Thurston Moore" and "battles," and "MOI y Toro" and "Jesus", "shadow Zola twin, tune-yards, cold cave, wild thing off!, Juliana rock body, darkstar, and gatekeeper. Passes for three days of the Festival.
April 2011
Toro Y Moi delivers the dance in Boston
Pack bosbands coming from the South by Southwest, born Moi y Toro buzz that won ' t seem to disappear. Movement shalluf, music (founded and bendeck Chaz) critically-acclaimed.
April 2011
Chillwave Heats Up: Chaz Bundic, Toro Y Moi, at Rock and Roll Hotel
In 2010 ' s "kausirs," Chaz bendeck brainchild � ? "24-year-old behind the indie upstart Toro y Moi � ?" found himself at the forefront of the movement of so-called shalluf, Lo-Fi recording style includes sinths Spacey and 1980s nostalgia.
April 2011
Review: Toro Y Moi at the Music Hall of Williamsburg
Development of easy bendeck chazoik ' s made perfect sense sound last night, as play mastermind Toro y Moi to continue in Brooklyn ' s Williamsburg Music Hall.
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Allen & Shariff necesitaba un nuevo diseño de logotipo y lanzó un concurso de diseño en 99designs.
Un ganador ha sido elegido entre 178 diseños de 43 diseñadores freelance.
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Integra International is a newly formed company specializing in High Performance Buildings. We handle all aspects of building projects including Real Estate Development, Design (Architecture + Engineering), Construction, and Facility Management and Maintenance.
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Global / International
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Technology / Technical Experts
The company focuses on the energy efficient / cost savings side of Green Technology, and less on the Save the Whales / Tree Hugging side of Green.
The audience is Governments, End Users, Developers, and others in the Real Estate Industry. International market includes Middle East / Northern Africa, Southeast Asia, and North America.
The logo should be current and sophisticated, and not too trendy. Would like to convey professionalism and "Simple Elegance".
The main company is Integra International, however the same logo will be used for other companies yet to be named, such as:
Integra Development
Integra Design
Integra Construction
Integra Management.
For this reason the logo should focus on the first word of the name, "Integra" and allow the other word to be swapped out as needed.
Vector file required.
Edited to add Color Information: We would like to use a Dark Blue (Navy?) and a Light Green (Lime) color, but we have not selected any specific colors yet. So please feel free to come up with a combination that you think is pleasing. Addition of black and white is obviously acceptable as well.
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For many workers, a 401(k) plan is the cornerstone of their retirement plan. With defined benefit plans disappearing, Americans are now charged with making sound financial planning decisions, often with little professional assistance from an advisor.
While millions of Americans rely on a 401(k) plan as their main source for retirement savings, it's safe to say the decisions they make when managing these plans could make or break those nest eggs.
Unfortunately, various studies have revealed that the average 401(k) balance for a 65-year-old is estimated to be around $25,000, hardly enough to maintain one's lifestyle after leaving the workforce.
(Read more: You are your 401(k) plan's worst enemy)
Moreover, many participants reportedly fail to review the selections in their plan or reallocate the portfolio, which may lead to long-term holdings that are inconsistent with their current risk tolerance and time horizon. This should come as no surprise, given that hands-on investment advice is seldom made available to 401(k) participants. Even when the proper tools are at their disposal, it's apparent that investors aren't taking full advantage of them.
Despite the fact that the advisor of record for a firm's 401(k) plan has a fiduciary responsibility to offer investors a diversified mix of securities, the level of advice afforded is rarely continuous or sophisticated. As a consequence, many workers find their nest egg unattended to, likely because many financial advisors are unable to be compensated from 401(k) assets and instead focus their efforts on money held outside of 401(k) plans.