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For the third-quarter Professional Outlook Survey, Russell Investments took a closer look at retirement income planning.
The report, released Thursday, found that one of the main challenges to planning is the way advisors measure success. It seems no one can agree on the best way to do that.
More than a third of advisors said they measure retirement plan success based on how much principal is preserved after distributions. Twenty percent said they look at the portfolio's projected rate of return and 15% compare the current net present value of projected assets to liabilities.
Russell argued that the best way to approach the problem is for advisors to stay engaged with their clients. "The conversations around retirement income are important, ongoing and often require best guesses. That's why quality analysis on the part of the advisor is so important," the report says.
More than 80% of advisors say they're using a total return approach for their clients, compared with just 7% who said they're relying on dividends and interest for their clients' income.
Interestingly, 12% of respondents said they had an "other" retirement strategy. Russell said respondents' individual comments describing those strategies included bucket strategies, master limited partnerships, covered calls and a mix of yield-seeking strategies.
"Focusing on seeking yield might seem simpler, but it may not deliver the results clients need in the current low-rate environment. What's more, reaching for yield in these low-yield times can be a dangerous exercise," Russell noted in the report.
Mutual funds were by far advisors favorite product for retirement income, with 78% saying they had created a diversified portfolio of these funds for their clients. Almost half said they were using variable annuities and 48% used dividend-paying equity funds or dividend-paying stocks. About a quarter use bond funds or ladders.
In general, advisors are more optimistic about the economy than their clients are. More than 80% said they were optimistic about markets over the next three years, up from 75% last quarter. Their clients' optimism, however, has remained relatively flat, dropping one point to 31%.
Furthermore, advisors said 37% of their clients had unrealistic expectations about their retirement. Two-thirds of those said their clients didn't have a good picture of their spending in retirement and 55% said their clients didn't understand how their spending today would affect their retirement. Nearly half said their clients were listening to nonprofessional sources that were giving them the wrong idea about retirement.
The topics advisors are discussing with their clients have remained relatively the same as well. Advisors are sticking to portfolio rebalancing (54%) and performance (38%) and running out of money in retirement (33%) in client meetings. Advisors also noted that more than half of clients are still worried about market volatility and government policies, and 46% are focusing on their portfolio's performance.
"Conversations among advisors and investors have remained fairly consistent over the last several quarters. It's possible that interest in global events could tick higher next quarter as events in Syria continue to unfold and Germany holds elections in September," the report said. "We expect the markets to digest whatever happens, short of an all-out war, and move on. Our strategists don't see a lasting market impact there."
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text: Tuesday, April 16, 2013 Cardin, Lockard, and Klonowski Recognized at APTA Forum At the APTA Federal Affairs Forum today, APTA President Paul Rockar Jr, PT, DPT, MS, conferred APTA''s 2013 Public Service Award to Sen Ben Cardin (D-MD) for his longtime support of the physical therapy profession and his leadership to repeal the Medicare therapy cap. The Public Service Award recognizes legislators, agency officials, health and legislation association staff, and public figures who support physical therapy on a national level. Rockar presented APTA's 2013 Federal Government Affairs Leadership Award to APTA member John Lockard, PT, OCS, owner of Northwest Physical Therapy in Philadelphia, for his work with Rep Allyson Schwartz (D-PA) on initiatives to move toward comprehensive reforms of Medicare payment and delivery systems. The award honors APTA members who make significant contributions to APTA's federal initiatives. Rockar also recognized physical therapist Mike Klonowski, PT, DPT, PCS, who is currently treating Sen Mark Kirk (R-IL) after the lawmaker's stroke in January 2012. From left: Paul Rockar stands with Federal Government Affairs Leadership Award winner John Lockard and Drew Bossen of the Iowa Chapter, who nominated Lockard. Mike Klonowski (left) stands with APTA President Paul Rockar. Comments Way to go John - you definitely deserve this award! Kay Posted by Kay Scanlon on 4/22/2013 3:30 PM

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OTTAWA - If the NHL does start a shortened season next month, don't expect Sergei Gonchar to finish it with the Ottawa Senators.
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Legends of Hockey wrote:Most people will agree that Bobby Orr is the best defenseman ever. But how about the best pure defensive defenseman? While there are a lot of candidates, one of them would have to be the heavily underrated and under appreciated Dave Burrows.
While Orr lit up the scoreboard during the 1970s, Burrows was busy preventing goals with the Pittsburgh Penguins...
Burrows wasn't a physically dominating, crease clearing blueliner. Instead he relied on a greater understanding of the game to be in perfect position no matter what scenario he was faced with. He was an expert shot blocker and above all else, was known as one of the best skaters of his time. He amazed many observers with his incredible speed and agility. Some felt he could skate faster backward than most could go forward.
"I took a lot of pride in being able to move laterally and backwards with great ease. It took a lot of practice, but it was something I enjoyed doing," he said.
"In fact, I used to get a big kick out of skating backwards on two-on-one breaks or one-on-one breaks against me when I was back on defense. It was a challenge trying to break up situations like that. I enjoyed that part of the game the most."
Unfortunately for Burrows and defensive minded rearguards like him during the 1970s, he received virtually no recognition. Bobby Orr revolutionized the way defensemen played the game. No longer were they on the ice to stop goals, but instead to create offense.
Pittsburgh Post-Gazette - Feb. 5, 1976 wrote:...defensive star for the Pittsburgh Penguins. ||| The Penguins are surpassed in defensive ineptitude only by the Washington Capitals, Kansas City Scouts and New York Rangers. Burrows manages to rise above the record, a glittering example of a defenseman's defenseman. At long last, help is on the way.
The Pittsburgh Press - Oct. 14, 1975 wrote:"He is the best defenseman in hockey," Boileau said, "so why shouldn't he be on the ice?" That statement is easy to make as long as the cast remains on Bobby Orr's leg, but becoming the Penguins' designated "Superdefenseman" is all right with Burrows. ||| Boileau said he may even use Burrows on the point during the power play... ||| "He's cool out there," Boileau said, "and he anticipates well. The most important thing a pointman can do on the power play is keep the puck in the attacking zone, and Burrows does that well."
Pittsburgh Post-Gazette - Jun. 22, 1973 wrote:Two of the brightest stars in the Penguins' galaxy will be around the Civic Arena scoring goals and stopping goals for some time to come...Dave Burrows, one of the most rapidly-rising defensive players whose future is unlimited, has autographed a three-year paper. ||| St. Paul (WHA) sought Burrows' services with a bundle of greenbacks. There seems to be little argument among hockey men that Burrows rapidly is becoming one of the best defensemen in the NHL. He is not spectacular, like some defensemen, but it is seldom an opposing player is able to get past him for a good shot on goal.
Legends of Hockey wrote:One label that bothered Edestrand during his NHL career was being called an "offensive" defenseman. "I'm sick and tired of it," Edestrand complained, while playing for the Pittsburgh Penguins "People say I get caught up ice a lot, but I'm trying to prove differently." From that verbal retort in 1973, Edestrand concentrated hard on dishing out more hits and not getting himself out of position. He became a more defensive player, but that was also the last time he scored more than ten goals in a season.
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Sometimes it can be hard to think of the right gift to get for a child for the giving tree. Here is a list of classic children's books and great new stories for children who are in need of a great gift. Also see below a list of titles available in Spanish and titles that are great for English as a second language.
Giving Tree Book Suggestions
- All the World by Elizabeth Scanlon. A family discovers the importance of all things great and small in our world, from the tiniest shell on the beach, to warm family connections, to the widest sunset sky.
- Bark George by Jules Feiffer. Why is George the dog making meowing, oinking, and mooing noises?
- Bear Snores On by Karma Wilson. Animals enjoy themselves in the warmth of a cave, only to discover it's inhabited by a bear! Any of the delightful Bear stories make a great gift.
- Chicka-Chicka-Boom Boom by Bill Martin. The alphabet is up to fun and excitement when the little letters race to the top of the tree. You can't help but bounce along with this text.
- Elephant and Piggie Books by Mo Willems. This former Sesame Street writer knows how to make great books for kids. Also consider any of his Pigeon Books.
- Food for Thought: The Complete Book of Concepts for Growing Minds by Saxton Freymann. Shapes, colors, numbers, letters, and opposites…oh my!
- Froggy Gets Dressed by Jonathan London. Silly Froggy hops out into the snow for a winter frolic but is called back by his mother to put on some necessary articles of clothing.
- Harold and the Purple Crayon by Crockett Johnson. Harold can go anywhere and do anything with his imagination and his famous purple crayon.
- How Do Dinosaurs Say Good Night? by Jane Yolen. The Yolen Dinosaur books are fun read-alouds with great dinosaur characters.
- If You Give a Mouse a Cookie by Laura Numeroff. Kids will really clue in to the narrative of this story as a mouse sends his human companion running around in circles.
- Joseph Had a Little Overcoat by Simms Taback. Joseph creates a smaller piece of clothing each time the fabric becomes "old and worn." Beautiful visual rendition of old song.
- The Mitten by Jan Brett. A wonderful winter tale of animals squeezing in a mitten until a sneeze leads to fun results.
- The Napping House by Audrey Wood. The peaceful slumber of those at Grandmother's house is destroyed by a wakeful flea in this cumulative story.
- Olivia by Ian Falconer. Whether in the original book or any of the sequels, Olivia is a spunky pig who has a lot of personality maybe too much for her own good.
- Round Is a Mooncake: A Book of Shapes by Rosanne Thong. As a little girl discovers things round, square, and rectangular in her urban neighborhood, she is reminded of her Chinese American culture.
- Seven Blind Mice by Ed Young. Each blind mouse "sees" the elephant as something different from the others in this retold Indian fable.
- The Snowy Day by Ezra Jack Keats. A preschooler delights in the simple pleasures of newly fallen snow.
- Swimmy by Leo Lioni. Swimmy, a small black fish, finds a way to protect a school of small red fish from their natural enemies.
- Why Mosquitoes Buzz in People's Ears by Verna Aardema. West African tale which explains why mosquito, who is responsible for baby owl's death, buzzes in people's ears for forgiveness.
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- Color Zoo by Lois Ehlert. Innovative color and shapes transform into different animals with each turn of the page. And other Lois Ehlert titles. Very visual.
- Everything I Need to Know Before I'm Five by Valorie Fisher. Fanciful photographs depict concepts for young children, such as opposites, weather, mixing colors, and seasons.
- Good Night Gorilla by Peggy Rathman. It's bedtime at the zoo, and all the animals are going to sleep. Or are they? Who's that short, furry guy with the key in his hand and the mischievous grin?
- Hop on Pop! by Dr. Seuss. Not only are many of his books great for the learning to read crowd, but the ones like this can really help build phonetic awareness.
- Jump, Frog, Jump! by Robert Kalan. A cumulative tale in which a frog tries to catch a fly without getting caught itself. Very simple text but excellent for building narrative skills.
- The Lion and the Mouse by Jerry Pinkney. This wordless retelling of an Aesop fable can be shared in any language and the pictures won it a Caldecott.
- Neighborhood Mother Goose by Nina Crews. Classic, memorable nursery rhymes with fantastic photographs of modern children to bring them to life. Also try The Neighborhood Sing-a-Long by Nina Crews.
- No David! by David Shannon. A young boy is does naughty things for which he is repeatedly admonished, but finally he gets a hug.
- 26 Letters and 99 Cents by Tana Hoban. Bright, eye-catching photography helps reinforce the letters and numbers.
- Yummy: Eight Favorite Fairy Tales by Lucy Cousins. Little Red Riding Hood -- The three billy goats gruff -- The enormous turnip -- Henny Penny -- Goldilocks and the three bears -- The little red hen -- The three little pigs -- The musicians of Bremen. All told in simple text with bright bold illustrations.
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Many children's picture book classics and favorites are available in bilingual editions, such as: Five Little Monkeys Jumping on the Bed, Where the Wild Things Are, Click Clack Moo, Mouse Paint, Curious George, The Very Hungry Caterpillar. Ask for your favorite at your bookstore.
- Abuela by Arthur Dorros. A young girl imagines that she and her grandmother float up to the sky and fly over New York City.
- Chato's Kitchen by Gary Soto and Susan Guevara. Chato the cat prepares a feast for the neighborhood mice.
- De Colores and Other Latin American Folksongs for Children by Jose-Luis Orozco and Elisa Kleven. Bursting with color and spirit, this collection of Latin-American songs has songs for all occasions and moods.
- Eight Animals Bake a Cake by Susan Middleton Elya. Eight animals add crazy ingredients together to make a very surprising cake and use the numbers 1-8 in English and Spanish.
- Fiesta! by Ginger Fogleson Guy. Join a wonderful group of children as they go throughout their town to purchase candy & toys to put in their piñata – and learn how to practice your 1,2,3's!. Also available Siesta.
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- Moon Rope : a Peruvian Folktale by Lois Ehlert. Fox and Mole try to climb to the moon on a rope woven of grass.
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text: Friday, August 31, 2012 Help Celebrate Extraordinary PTs and PTAs Do you know an extraordinary physical therapist (PT) or physical therapist assistant (PTA) who deserves recognition for outstanding personal and professional achievement? By nominating the person or people you feel are most deserving of an APTA Honor or Award for 2013, you can help APTA celebrate their many contributions to the physical therapy profession. APTA now is accepting Honors and Awards nominations. Your participation in the nominating process is extremely important. It's quick, easy—and in keeping with APTA's green initiative, all APTA national Honors and Awards applications are available for electronic submission. Go to www.apta.org/honorsawards and submit your nominations online. All submissions must be received by December 1. E-mail questions to email@example.com or call 800/999-2782, ext 3233, for more information.


text: Thursday, January 03, 2013 Beyond Vision 2020: Proposed Vision Statement Released Responding to a charge from the 2012 House of Delegates to revise Vision 2020 to "reflect the vision of the profession of physical therapy and its commitment to society beyond 2020," the Vision Task Force sent a revised vision to the APTA Board of Directors for consideration at its November 2012 meeting. The Board will forward the proposed vision to the 2013 House of Delegates for consideration. Information about the proposed vision has been posted and is available for members and delegates to review. Please direct your comments about the vision to your chapter or section delegates or directly to the members of the Vision Task Force. Comments The vision statement is a good start in emphasizing optiomal movement performance. However, I think there needs to be more emphasis on prevention and wellness activities that influence optimal movement. Posted by Duane Williams -> CJYc< on 1/6/2013 10:38 AM If future wellness efforts are to succeed the elements of the vision that must be addressed are collaboration, value and consumer-centricity. So far there has been uncertain value to what we have offered and little interest by consumers, employers or payors. The future should include screening glucose and lipid profiles alongside exercise prescription and patient education. Customized approaches must be developed that encompass full physiology with a more wholistic view of function. Posted by George O'Malley -> EGPb on 1/6/2013 10:16 PM


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Despite Federal Reserve chatter about normalizing monetary policy and tapering bond buying, Bill Gross — manager of the world's largest bond mutual fund — says that low interest rates will persist "for decades to come."
In his monthly investment outlook for October, the PIMCO manager waxes theological about the cruelty of a world where sickly lion cubs become hyena food, but sees a parallel between an indifferent nature and repressively low interest rates that punish savers.
Predicting low policy rates not just for the next year or two but for decades, Gross compares the current situation to the early 1940s — "the last time the U.S. economy was this highly levered" — when 10-year Treasury rates averaged 3% less than nominal GDP for a quarter-century.
In today's circumstances, that implies a "10-year Treasury at close to 1% and the policy rate at 25 basis points until sometime around 2035!" Gross writes, adding: "I'm not gonna stick my neck out for that – April, May and June of 2013 have taught me a lesson that low yields can become high yields almost overnight. But they should stay abnormally low."
While Gross professes "rage and incomprehension at the pain and death of living things," he comes to accept that government financial repression — channeling funds to itself to maintain near-zero rates — is necessary in an economy in which households can't afford to pay higher rates.
"How high a rate can a homebuyer handle?" he asks. "The increase of over 125 basis points in a 30-year mortgage over the past 6–12 months seems to have stopped housing starts and importantly mortgage refinancings in its tracks. It was the primary 'financial condition' that Chairman [Ben] Bernanke cited in his September press conference that shifted the 'taper to a tinker to a chance' that maybe they might do something next time."
So, while Gross says that tapering must commence at some point — "they can't just keep adding one trillion dollars to their balance sheet every year without something negative happening" — once quantitative easing ends, rates will still remain low.
"If you want to trust one thing and one thing only, trust that once QE is gone and the policy rate becomes the focus, that fed funds will then stay lower than expected for a long, long time," Gross writes. "Right now the market (and the Fed forecasts) expects fed funds to be 1% higher by late 2015 and 1% higher still by December 2016. Bet against that."
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Enjoying Hot air balloon rides is something anyone can enjoy, but it is also a very popular way to go on a date! When you speak with the pilot you are thinking about booking with, always to ask how many other passengers will be on the flight.
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Quickies: Boson, K3b, KDE-Forum.de
Boson, the real-time 3D strategy game for KDE has been freshly ported to OpenGL in its 0.7 incarnation (screenshots). There is no AI yet, so a minimum of 2 players is required. From UnixReview.com: "Do you miss the nice, slick GUI CD burning programs under Windows and Mac OS X? Or just want to stop using command-line tools to burn your CDs? K3b might just be what the doctor ordered." Check out the full review of K3b including screenshots. Finally, a couple of people wrote in to point out the launch of the KDE-Forum.de web forums for German speakers. English web forums should be available soon.
English web forum
By Anonymous at Tue, 2002/11/19 - 6:00am
Re: English web forum
Great forum.
By KDE User at Tue, 2002/11/19 - 6:00am
Re: English web forum
maybe becoz its not ready??? read KDE-LOOK.org.
By ac at Tue, 2002/11/19 - 6:00am
Re: English web forum
Ok ok.
By KDE User at Tue, 2002/11/19 - 6:00am
not good
I don't want to sound bad, but you see, I know boson sinse 0.4, it's a cool program and all, but...
I don't have a 3D board, so I can't play it anymore
I think Boson shold have kept 3D for later, but well, at least I still have freecraft :)
By Iuri Fiedoruk at Tue, 2002/11/19 - 6:00am
Re: not good
Use software GL. Mesa does this maybe.
By ac at Tue, 2002/11/19 - 6:00am
Re: not good
I think people don't know how to use Mesa right. Every 3D game I've ever tried with Mesa has had framerates that are simply awful, even the ones with horrible graphics. Even the 2D OpenGL game Chromium is unplayable. I think people just aren't paying attention and are using features of Mesa that are godawfully slow in software but are accelerated in hardware. I mean, I can run Half-Life in software mode on my computer and it is playable, but GLTron practically brings my system to a halt. I can hardly even navigate the menu. More attention needs to be paid to making 3D games work without accelerator cards, especially since Linux's 3D card support isn't very broad. I do have a 3D accelerator but it is not supported.
By not me at Wed, 2002/11/20 - 6:00am
Re: not good
It's not a matter of using Mesa properly. Most professionally written games, such as half-life, use various occlusion algorithms that eliminate parts of the scene that are hidden. Every polygon constructed in a GL scene is rendered, pixel by pixel, even if it will never be seen on screen. Modern 3D accelleration hardware removes most of the unseen polys and only fills the pixels it needs too. Software implementations like Mesa don't, as doing so really isn't correct. In professionally written games, the "world" is usually broken into objects which are stored in a tree structure, often refered to as a visibility tree. When one node on the tree is determined to be invisible, all of its children are as well. This is quite complex to implement properly, so most OSS projects don't do that till much later in the development cycle.
By Paladin128 at Wed, 2002/11/20 - 6:00am
One way to get "free" culling is to use some kind of scene graph. I use OpenSceneGraph (http://openscenegraph.org/), and it has view frustum culling based on hierarchical bounding spheres. So you can pretty easily get much of your data culled away.
For anyone not too experienced in OpenGL I'd suggest going with a scene graph instead of doing all the hard work by hand. There are other libs too, such as PLib, which is supposed to be really good too.
By chakie at Wed, 2002/11/20 - 6:00am
Re: not good
You're confusing software emulation of OpenGL with software mode in Half-Life.
Software mode in Half-Life doesn't look anything like real OpenGL mode. If you would play Half-Life with software emulated OpenGL, you would get unplayable framerates.
By . at Wed, 2002/11/20 - 6:00am
Re: not good
I'm not confusing them, I'm just comparing them. Half-Life's engine features an advanced software renderer that does everything Half-Life uses OpenGL for, except for the texture smoothing (which of course is a very nice feature, but slow in software). The game looks exactly the same in software and OpenGL, except for the smoothing. And it runs playably, while GLTron crawls, with much worse graphics. I think the above comments about culling are very interesting. Perhaps Boson should look into using a scene graph or something to speed up its rendering. Or maybe they could use Crystal Space, it seems to be getting quite advanced now, and it has culling algorithms. I guess they're probably too far along to switch to Crystal Space now though...
By not me at Thu, 2002/11/21 - 6:00am
Re: not good
3D boards are pretty common nowadays, and are only going to become more so.
Granted, Open Source can cater to the minority (ex. those without 3D cards) quite well, if that minority cares enough to help solve their problem. Thats why KDE has such great internationalization, better then most commercial software.
By eean at Wed, 2002/11/20 - 6:00am
Re: not good
Nah, I don't think we should even BE catering to the non 3D cards any more. HELL, you can get a CHEAP NVidia clone for UNDER $50! And a DECENT one for under $100!
And if you don't have one, then chances are VERY good you shouldn't be playing games on it anyway. :) IE servers/business machines. :)
By jstuart at Wed, 2002/11/20 - 6:00am
Re: not good
Well, then, please, tell me, how to install this decent NVidia clone to my lovely ThinkPad i1400 ? I'll gladly pay $50 for card and $50 for work, if you'll do it...
By Yarick at Wed, 2002/11/20 - 6:00am
Re: not good
Hum, do you know that 100 dollars are aprox. 350 reais (brazilian currency)?
Heheh, seriously guys, I'm not agains 3D support, but look at Quake2!
By Iuri Fiedoruk at Wed, 2002/11/20 - 6:00am
Re: not good
On the other hand, those people without a 3D card could also spend their time on writing fast software rendering. After all, *they* want it. Why should the developer, if he has no interest in unaccelerated 3D graphics, do this?
By AC at Wed, 2002/11/20 - 6:00am
Re: not good
ye i know it sucks don't it.
By ma top at Sun, 2006/03/12 - 6:00am
Noe everyone knows how goot k3b is....
so why don't we incorporate k3b into KDE's code. It's the prefect burning app. Much better than KonCD IMHO. a CVS merge is what ne need :)
oh, and has this been grought up before? If so what release is planned on intergrating k3b into itself?
Good article glorifying the wonderful-ness that is k3b.
By standsolid at Tue, 2002/11/19 - 6:00am
Re: Noe everyone knows how goot k3b is....
Maybe merge the apps KonCD, K3B and cdbakeoven -> become the best cd-burning - tool ever. I know, it´s not possible :-(
By star-flight at Tue, 2002/11/19 - 6:00am
Re: Noe everyone knows how goot k3b is....
Agreed! K3B is a very nice application and it makes burning cd's (audio, video, data) a breeze. It may just be a case where the best app is going to be an add-on. .i.e Think of windows xp (it comes w/ cd burner). However, most people go elsewhere for something more powerful (.i.e nero,etc) Maybe k3b will overtake koncd just as kopete is doing to kit..
By SmallThinker at Tue, 2002/11/19 - 6:00am
Re: Noe everyone knows how goot k3b is....
I really like K3B. I've been playing with it for a few weeks. I mostly got it for my girlfriend, so she could burn CDs without learning a bunch of unix commands.
One thing that bothers me is that it needs to be installed in your normal KDE directory. I installed it in /opt/k3b/ instead, and it can't find its icons or pictures, and has trouble with the k3bsetup thing.
I read a bunch of messages about problems with K3B, and most of them are just answered with "did you set your --prefix correctly? It needs to be the same as your KDE directory".
So why is it imperative that it be installed into your KDE directory? Do most KDE apps do this? I seem to remember a similar problem when I tried Atlantik a while ago and threw it into /opt/atlantik. Is this the standard for KDE apps, or is K3B poorly designed in this respect?
Am I alone in wanting bundled-with-kde programs to live in /opt/kde/bin and not-bundled-with-kde programs to live in /opt/program/bin? I think it's a pretty silly thing. Don't most programs compile the --prefix string into themselves, so that they know where to read their own files from? I thought that was the whole point of --prefix! It seems like a waste also, since they can always use the KDEDIR environment variable to find KDE files.
I guess this turned into sort of an offtopic rant, but it's a pet peeve of mine. :)
By AC at Tue, 2002/11/19 - 6:00am
Re: Noe everyone knows how goot k3b is....
it seems pretty logical to me that you put all your kde stuff in the same prefix.
By dwt at Wed, 2002/11/20 - 6:00am
Re: Noe everyone knows how goot k3b is....
Well, I like to keep things clean. If I want to uninstall something completely I can delete the /opt/ directory, instead of searching hunting through the KDE dirs looking for everything to delete. I also tend to play with multiple versions of a program at the same time. So could have /opt/abc-0.9.7 and /opt/abc-0.9.8 both installed, and just by changing the /opt/abc symlink switch between them.
I kind of think it should be beside the point whether I'm compiling a "KDE app" or a "Gnome app", as far as where I can install it... Why can't it just check for its files under the --prefix dir like everything else?
I suppose I could keep the source code around and make uninstall, but that kind of thing tends to be the first thing I delete when I need some disk space...
By AC at Wed, 2002/11/20 - 6:00am
Re: Noe everyone knows how goot k3b is....
> If I want to uninstall something completely I can delete the /opt/ directory, instead of searching hunting through the KDE dirs looking for everything to delete.
You want to use "checkinstall".
By Anonymous at Wed, 2002/11/20 - 6:00am
Re: Noe everyone knows how goot k3b is....
Couldn't agree more.
By Jad at Wed, 2002/11/20 - 6:00am
Re: Noe everyone knows how goot k3b is....
In the infamous words of a certain kde developer whose name shall remain anonymous "KDEDIR is dead, long live KDEDIRS". Make sure that you include the directory where you installed the application to the KDEDIRS variable. You can also use KDEHOME to change your local .kde where you config files are stored etc.
And for those of you who might not be aware of this, KDE since the original 3.0 release (or might be a bit prior than that) comes with a kde-config command line tool much like many other open source apps. You can use this tool to see where the different things in KDE are stored and where KDE looks up when it searches for icons, config files etc...
Good day,
By KDE Helper at Wed, 2002/11/20 - 6:00am
Re: Noe everyone knows how goot k3b is....
Thanks! That is a big help.
I still think each app should check under its own --prefix directory for files though. What's the harm?
But KDEDIRS will certainly help me work around my problem. Thanks again. :)
By AC at Wed, 2002/11/20 - 6:00am
Re: Noe everyone knows how goot k3b is....
My experience is that KDE apps work pretty fine installed in any directory you like if you set $KDEDIR correctly before starting them. The only minor problem left is that they cannot integrate themselves with the KDE menu and mime type configuration as they don't know where the KDE file are but that's easy to fix manually. :-)
Just try
export KDEDIR=/opt/k3b/
on the konsole, there's a good chance that this could work. If it does write a tiny wrapper script to start k3b.
Gunter Ohrner
By Gunter Ohrner at Thu, 2002/11/21 - 6:00am
Re: Noe everyone knows how goot k3b is....
Mh, okay, first read, then write, Gunter...
Gunter Ohrner
By Gunter Ohrner at Thu, 2002/11/21 - 6:00am
This is a general *nix problem...
Title says it all. Why are _all_ command line binaries installed into /usr/bin, while their auxiliary files are somewhere completely different, e.g. /usr/share/docs/whatever? The filesystem hierarchy is a complete mess.
It makes much more sense to put all the static files that belong to an application or package into a single directory. Apparently, Mac OS and BeOS-alikes are able to do that. Heck, even some Windows apps get it right (not messing up the System32 directory etc...). Unix fails completely.
Of course there are technical problems, but they can all be solved. For example, in order to find binaries from the CLI, you need to be able to quickly list all binaries on the system. But that's not really a problem - write some scripts that automatically place symlinks to binaries into a directory.
In fact, a similar system already exists, it's called Stow: http://www.gnu.org/software/stow/stow.html
By Nicolai Haehnle at Thu, 2002/11/21 - 6:00am
Re: Noe everyone knows how goot k3b is....
No, no, no ...
K3B is nice, but hardwired with SCSI generic implemenation of Linux. It make him very unflexible!!! See the source.
From "flexibility" point of view cdbakeoven is very better.
Best regards
By Alex at Wed, 2002/11/20 - 6:00am
Re: Noe everyone knows how goot k3b is....
I think k3b use cdrecord as backend, and cdrecord runs on many diferent platforms, not only on broken ones (linux :-) ).
By fura at Wed, 2002/11/20 - 6:00am
Re: Noe everyone knows how goot k3b is....
What's broken about Linux? I just made a couple audio cds and burnt an iso yesterday on my computer running Debian and omg, what to do you know, it works.
By rrp at Thu, 2002/11/21 - 6:00am
Re: Noe everyone knows how goot k3b is....
You can read some realy bad words about Linux SCSI implementation in cdrecord's author's homepage (and *BSD userland too).
BTW I failed to build k3b on NetBSD box - unfortunately it's Linux only app :-(
By fura at Thu, 2002/11/21 - 6:00am
Re: Noe everyone knows how goot k3b is....
In the end, it doesnt matter. I've never had a bad cd burn using my 50$ cd burner. I'm sure they're fixing the scsi implementation in the 2.5 kernel.
By rrp at Thu, 2002/11/21 - 6:00am
Re: Noe everyone knows how goot k3b is....
With the 2.5 kernel, you can do CD burning without IDE-SCSI. There are patched versions of cdrecord which support the 2.5 development kernels already available. Of course, the command line parameters are different, so none of the front-ends support it yet. But it'll be coming soon.
By ShavenYak at Fri, 2002/11/22 - 6:00am
False information
The article about k3b leaves you with the feeling that there was no Unix GUI CD burning up to now. That either you used windoze/Mac or you were doomed to the command line. This is unfair to the developers (mainly one) of X-CD-Roast. This program is mentioned but underestimated. The author states that he used to use X-CD-Roast for audio burning and command line for data burning. That was probably his decision, but ISO burning on the fly has been available for a long while in X-CD-Roast.
Moreover, most of the basic functionality he praises in K3b has been available for a long time in X-CD-Roast. Don't get me wrong. I like competition, I like to see new programs emerge, and I would love to see a great CD burning as a default app in KDE. Not only that, but also the K3b screenshots look fabulous. But this doesn't mean we have to be unfair with software that has been doing the job for tons of people for a long time.
By NewMandrakeUser at Tue, 2002/11/19 - 6:00am
Re: False information
xcdroast is ugly and ridiculously hard to use. enough said.
By ac at Tue, 2002/11/19 - 6:00am
Re: False information
I prefer X-CD-Roast to the various KDE front ends (haven't tried K3b yet, though) but the author certainly mentions that it exists, but that it's just not adequate for his expectations.
By Otter at Wed, 2002/11/20 - 6:00am
Re: False information
I switched from xcdroast to k3b. Drag and drop of folders with konq and renaming/creating directories within a project made this my favourite front end.
By zelegans at Wed, 2002/11/20 - 6:00am
Why I don't use X-CD-Roast
X-CD-Roast was the first cd burning gui I tried for linux. For some reason I was never able to burn an audio cd properly. The tracks all became (sort of) 1 big long one. I think it had to do with an incorrect table of contents on the cd or something, as it would play correctly on a computer, just not with a cd player.
I also found the way some things worked to be a little unintuitive. I then updated my system, and the program stopped working. It said I didn't have a burner or something. The application's web site stated it couldn't work with the cd tools I had installed. It was then I bumped into k3b on the net and mate, it was brilliant. It is very easy to use, it makes sense, and it integrates nicely into my KDE environment. It gives you the option of configuring everything for you, and well, it just works.
Another thing is, you can tell just by looking at it that a great deal of time and effort has gone into making it as good as possible. I can honestly say k3b is the best, most professional application I have ever used with kde, outside of the kde CVS tree. It has a couple of little bugs though, and as soon as I have some time I will send in bug reports. Other than that, it is perfect.
So that's why I chose k3b :)
By Joel at Wed, 2002/11/20 - 6:00am
Re: False information
No mention of cdbakeoven either. Nor of KreateCD (now defunct?).
By Kirill at Wed, 2002/11/20 - 6:00am
Re: False information
Never did figure out X-CD-Roast. I would rather burn from the command line than use it. Now k3b is another matter. Very nice.
By Echo6 at Wed, 2002/11/20 - 6:00am
Re: False information
Can k3b make cd's bootable?
By CJ at Wed, 2002/12/11 - 6:00am
Off topic? Perhaps.
Anyone know if we're going to see KDE 3.1 this week, or RC4?
I noticed they deleted the rc2 tree off the unstable dir leaving only rc3... and they deleted rc1 when rc3 showed up... but still no appearance of 3.1 final or rc4.
By Vic at Wed, 2002/11/20 - 6:00am
Re: KDE 3.1
RC4 already exists but only as tag KDE_3_1_0_RELEASE in CVS.
By Anonymous at Wed, 2002/11/20 - 6:00am
Re: KDE 3.1
"The future plans include (of course) a patch release named KDE 3.1.1
YES! KDE for workgroups! Finally!
By ac at Wed, 2002/11/20 - 6:00am
Short K3b question
Any progress on the "multisession" site?
I had X-CD-Roast, KisoCD I/II, KonCD, cdbakoven, KreateCD etc. running, but K3b is best.
Only problem so far K3b 0.7:
1. It couldn't empty CD-RWs in full mode, have to use KonCD
Go on with your GREAT work!
By Dieter Nützel at Thu, 2002/11/21 - 6:00am
Re: Short K3b question
Does mkisofs & friends really support changing the existing session at all? I know that you can overwrite old files with the new ones, but is there really any way, from the command line, to say re-attach directory trees from the old session in a new session, to change names of existing files, to delete existing files, etc?
I.e. rudimentary stuff that's supported since ages by formerly-Adaptec CD-burning thingo, and that doesn't seem to be supported by anything on linux?
By Kuba at Mon, 2002/11/25 - 6:00am
Re: Short K3b question
You are RIGHT.
By Dieter Nützel at Tue, 2002/11/26 - 6:00am


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The browser ballot, the selection screen allowing Windows 7 users in the EU to pick which browser they would like installed, is coming to Windows 8, too. Microsoft is currently being investigated for antitrust abuse once again by the EU, after complaints that it was unfairly disadvantaging third-party browsers on Windows 8 and Windows RT. The company has promised to comply fully with the investigation.
Microsoft started providing the ballot application to Windows 8 users on September 4th. It gets installed by Windows Update, and after installation it runs as a full-screen Metro-style application offering a selection of browsers.
In 2009, the company settled its long antitrust case with the EU, agreeing to show European users a choice of twelve browsers (five main ones, with seven more revealed by scrolling), including Internet Explorer, in Windows 7. Since then, it has had a troubled history. The first version didn't properly randomize the order of the five main browsers. A subsequent update caused it to stop randomizing entirely in Poland.
The biggest problem was the discovery earlier this year that Windows 7 users running Service Pack 1 were not offered the ballot due to what the company called a "technical error." In the wake of this discovery, the European Commission launched a new antitrust investigation.
The extent of that investigation was then broadened after complaints that third-party browser makers are denied access to the same APIs as Internet Explorer uses on Windows RT. Windows RT only allows third-party applications that run in the tightly restricted Metro environment. These restrictions preclude the implementation of high-performance Web browsers. Internet Explorer, however, is not subject to these restrictions.


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Bank of New York Mellon (BK) announced Wednesday net income to shareholders of $833 million, or $0.71 per common share, on record revenue (GAAP) of $4.009 billion in its second quarter, ended June 30.
Net income, which was up from a loss of $237 million in Q1 of this year and net income $465 million in 2012's second quarter, was aided by an after-tax gain of $109 million related to the firm's equity investment in Convergex (CVGX), a global brokerage and trading service, during the quarter.
GAAP revenue rose 11% compared to 2012's second quarter, and 11% over Q1 of 2013.
In BNY Mellon's quarterly earnings call on Wednesday, Hassell noted the bank's "strong revenue growth across all our businesses, without exception," along with highlighting increased collaboration among different divisions of the company. Specifically, he mentioned a new separately managed account product coming out of Hong Kong, led by John Brett, and noted "we've started making private banking loans to Pershing customers," to which "we're already seeing a nice level of receptivity." (Pershing Advisor Solutions' CEO Mark Tibergien spoke of the private banking loan initiative and other internal collaborations benefiting Pershing customers in a June interview with ThinkAdvisor at the annual Pershing Insite conference.)
Chairman and CEO Gerald Hassell said in a prepared statement that during the second quarter, BNY Mellon "generated nearly $900 million of capital, approximately $500 million of which we used to step up share buybacks by more than 50% and increase our quarterly dividend by 15%."
During the quarter, BNY repurchased 11.9 million shares of its stock for $330 million, and on July 17 it announced a dividend of $0.15 per common share payable Aug. 6. Assets under management increased 6% over 2012's second quarter, to $1.43 trillion, and were up slightly from 2013's first quarter. Assets under custody or administration (ACUA) increased 4% to $26.2 trillion compared to the prior year, but were down slightly from 2013's first quarter.
Clearing services revenue increased 4% to $321 million in the quarter, which the company attributed to "higher mutual fund fees" and a 21% year-over-year increase in daily average revenue trades (DARTs) to 227,500.
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71 comments:
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As programming has matured over time, modular application design has increasingly been given due (and desired) consideration. Often, especially for application programmers, this means focusing on simple, modular, and flexible design without giving much consideration to security. For example, if we talk about a procedural language like C, functions call each other under a master deriving function,
main. Whether a function is able to do what it promises or not is signaled through a return value, which can provide decision-making information in the application later on, and which, in turn, can change the application flow.
The Modify-function-return-value hack changes the return value of a function in a manner that can be used by a hacker for his advantage. It is not necessary to apply this hack to each and every function in the application/library. A key function, if hacked, may compromise the whole application this is highly dependent on the application design itself.
In this article, I explain how this hack can be executed and what a developer can do to make such attacks harder for the hacker. I used the word "harder" because there is no 100% guaranteed defense.
An Example Victim Application
Let's look at how an application is vulnerable to this kind of hack. For this example, suppose the hacker is attacking an application, we'll call it
victim_client. Let's assume the app is running on x86-based Linux.
The hacker, posing as a user, knows that
victim_client, once invoked from a computer (say, computer A), does some processing. It relies on some services from a remote server whose IP address it reads from an environment variable
'REMOTE_HOST.' However, the hacker can run this on his computer only; he can't use this application on another computer (say, computer B). Here is the crux of problem: The hacker wants to run this application on another computer. To solve this problem, he needs some information about the victim application. For the rest of this example, I am assuming the role of a hacker to demonstrate one way of perpetrating the hack. This is just the one way there are many others.
Information Gathering
Tools like
ltrace and
strace can provide some initial information to hackers. So, let's execute the victim application, on computer B, under the influence of these commands:
Output of 'ltrace'
[[email protected]]$ export REMOTE_HOST=192.168.109.138 [[email protected]]$ ltrace -s 500 ./victim_client (0x49dfa51c, 0x49dfaab0, 0, 0, 0) = 0x49dfa8e4 __libc_start_main(0x8048863, 1, 0xbfd5bed4, 0x80488e0, 0x8048950 <unfinished ...> getenv("REMOTE_HOST") = "192.168.109.138" gethostname("ComputerB", 255) = 0 socket(2, 2, 17) = 3 htons(0, 2, 17, 0x49e06458, 0x49e00e38) = 0 htonl(0, 2, 17, 0x49e06458, 0x49e00e38) = 0 bind(3, 0xbfd5bdc8, 16, 0x49e06458, 0x49e00e38)= 0 htons(9930, 0xbfd5bdc8, 16, 0x49e06458, 0x49e00e38) = 51750 inet_aton("192.168.109.138", 0xbfd5bddc) = 1 snprintf("ComputerB", 99, "%s", "ComputerB") = 9 sendto(3, "ComputerB", 100, 0, 0xbfd5bdd8, 16) = 100 recvfrom(3, 0xbfd5bd60, 100, 0, 0xbfd5bdd8) = 30 close(3) = 0 puts("\n Could not initialize... exiting" Could not initialize... exiting) = 34 exit(1 <no return ...> +++ exited (status 1) +++ [[email protected] ARTICLE]$
What is happening here (on lines 7, 14, 15, and 18) is:
- The application is creating a socket to communicate to a remote entity.
- It is sending some data(100 bytes).
- It is receiving some data (30 bytes).
- And then it fails to execute, as expected, because computer B is not supposed to run that application.
Output of 'strace'
[[email protected]]$ strace -s 50 ./victim_client execve("./victim_client", ["./victim_client"], [/* 29 vars */]) = 0 brk(0) = 0x8f7b000 mmap2(NULL, 4096, PROT_READ|PROT_WRITE, MAP_PRIVATE|MAP_ANONYMOUS, -1, 0) = 0xb7794000 access("/etc/ld.so.preload", R_OK) = -1 ENOENT (No such file or directory) open("/etc/ld.so.cache", O_RDONLY|O_CLOEXEC) = 3 fstat64(3, {st_mode=S_IFREG|0644, st_size=100980, ...}) = 0 mmap2(NULL, 100980, PROT_READ, MAP_PRIVATE, 3, 0) = 0xb777b000 close(3) = 0 open("/lib/libc.so.6", O_RDONLY|O_CLOEXEC) = 3 read(3, "\177ELF\1\1\1\3\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\3\0\3\0\1\0\0\0\20h\341I4\0\0\0\4\177\36\0\0\0\0\0004\0 \0\n\0(\0+\0"..., 512) = 512 fstat64(3, {st_mode=S_IFREG|0755, st_size=2000316, ...}) = 0 mmap2(0x49dfd000, 1759836, PROT_READ|PROT_EXEC, MAP_PRIVATE|MAP_DENYWRITE, 3, 0) = 0x49dfd000 mprotect(0x49fa4000, 4096, PROT_NONE) = 0 mmap2(0x49fa5000, 12288, PROT_READ|PROT_WRITE, MAP_PRIVATE|MAP_FIXED|MAP_DENYWRITE, 3, 0x1a7) = 0x49fa5000 mmap2(0x49fa8000, 10844, PROT_READ|PROT_WRITE, MAP_PRIVATE|MAP_FIXED|MAP_ANONYMOUS, -1, 0) = 0x49fa8000 close(3) = 0 mmap2(NULL, 4096, PROT_READ|PROT_WRITE, MAP_PRIVATE|MAP_ANONYMOUS, -1, 0) = 0xb777a000 set_thread_area({entry_number:-1 -> 6, base_addr:0xb777a6c0, limit:1048575, seg_32bit:1, contents:0, read_exec_only:0, limit_in_pages:1, seg_not_present:0, useable:1}) = 0 mprotect(0x49fa5000, 8192, PROT_READ) = 0 mprotect(0x49df9000, 4096, PROT_READ) = 0 munmap(0xb777b000, 100980) = 0 uname({sys="Linux", node="ComputerB", ...}) = 0 socket(PF_INET, SOCK_DGRAM, IPPROTO_UDP) = 3 bind(3, {sa_family=AF_INET, sin_port=htons(0), sin_addr=inet_addr("0.0.0.0")}, 16) = 0 sendto(3, "ComputerB\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0"..., 100, 0, {sa_family=AF_INET, sin_port=htons(9930), sin_addr=inet_addr("192.168.109.138")}, 16) = 100 recvfrom(3, "STOP\0terB\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0", 100, 0, {sa_family=AF_INET, sin_port=htons(9930), sin_addr=inet_addr("192.168.109.138")}, [16]) = 30 close(3) = 0 fstat64(1, {st_mode=S_IFCHR|0620, st_rdev=makedev(136, 1), ...}) = 0 mmap2(NULL, 4096, PROT_READ|PROT_WRITE, MAP_PRIVATE|MAP_ANONYMOUS, -1, 0) = 0xb7793000 write(1, "\n", 1) = 1 write(1, " Could not initialize... exiting\n", 33 Could not initialize... exiting) = 33 exit_group(1) = ? [[email protected] ]$
What is happening here (on lines 26, 27, and 32) is:
- The application is sending some data to IP address
192.168.109.138, using port 9930. The length of the data sent is 100 bytes. However, most of the data bytes are
\0. It may be the remote entity is using this all 100 bytes or only the non-null bytes, we're not sure.
- The application receives data — a length of 30 bytes. The received data is
STOP\0. Again, most the bytes are
- The application fails with the error code.
Running the application under
strace on computer A, I got
SUCCESS\0, as the data received in the second parameter to
recvfrom. This is interesting information. It's clear that the server is sending different responses to the application when it is running on computer A than when it is running on computer B.