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aKademy Hackers Port Mozilla to Qt/KDE
Among the most exciting things to come out of aKademy, the recent KDE Community World Summit, is a Qt port of Mozilla's Gecko rendering engine. This will give Gecko the full native look and feel of KDE/Qt, and make it available as a KPart, where it can provide an alternative HTML renderer for Konqueror.
"This is the best of both worlds for KDE" said Lars Knoll of the KHTML
On the night before the start of the hacking marathon, a conversation
The Mozilla organization was supportive: "We are delighted to work with
There have been previous starts at this idea in the past. Trolltech's
this is a great example...
... of Qt's toolkit and KDE's component system in action. It was very cool to watch Zack and Lars rip though the code like no tomorrow. I think this is a great example that shows off the power of the KDE archatecture for enterprise applications. Now all we need is Opera and Konqueror supports basicly all the big rendering engines ;)
By ian reinhart geiser at Sat, 2004/09/11 - 5:00am
Were you in the middle of a spasm when you wrote that? Mozilla is already portable across three GUI toolkits. I don't think this qualifies as a "great example of Qt's toolkit [...] in action."
Good work on the part of the developers, but what was that garbage about "enterprise applications"?
By Kannan at Sun, 2004/09/12 - 5:00am
Re: wtf?
What he means is that integrating a foreign html renderer into KDE and porting a html renderer to QT were achieved quickly thank to the high quality of both technologies. The fact that gecko has been designed to be portable was fundamental too.
By Philippe Fremy at Sun, 2004/09/12 - 5:00am
Re: wtf?
By dgfh at Wed, 2006/02/22 - 6:00am
questions and musings
Congratulations on the great hack!
I take it that for the immediate future KDE will provide KHTML as default and Gecko as an "alternative". Are typical Konqueror users expected to know that they can switch from KHTML to Gecko? Or are we expecting that distributors will evaluate the choices and choose one themselves?
What has the Kecko team found so far, is Konqueror with Gecko competitive vs Konqueror with KHTML? I suppose if it is, it only makes sense to defer to Gecko as the default since it has a massive and independent development effort behind it.
Have any distributors expressed an interest in using Konqueror with Gecko instead of Firefox? I suppose the next step would be to get KaXul in Konqueror.
By Navindra Umanee at Sat, 2004/09/11 - 5:00am
Re: questions and musings
> Have any distributors expressed an interest in using Konqueror with Gecko instead of Firefox?
Novell/SUSE has (with Novell Linux Desktop in mind).
By Anonymous at Sat, 2004/09/11 - 5:00am
Re: questions and musings
Killer! That's quite encouraging.
By Navindra Umanee at Sat, 2004/09/11 - 5:00am
Re: questions and musings
I think many KDE-default distros will be interested too, as many of them default to Mozilla-browsers or present both a Moz browser and konqueror browser--- such as Mandrake, Knoppix, Linspire, Xandros, mepis,
Re: questions and musings
With improvements from Apple, I don't see the point to be honest. Firefox is a cross-platform application, not one to be integrated into a desktop.
By David at Sun, 2004/09/12 - 5:00am
Re: questions and musings
Getting geko to be the standard for open source layout engines helps everyone since you get more eyes looking at a code base instead of their own code.
This just looks like further movement in the goal to merge geko and khtml.
More developers on geko (whether they use gtk and the suite (mozilla) or firefox) is a very good thing(tm).
By Mike Fedyk at Sun, 2004/09/12 - 5:00am
Re: questions and musings
Unfortunately Gecko is not better. Why on Earth do you think Apple chose KHTML (and they worked on Netscape/Mozilla!)
By David at Sun, 2004/09/12 - 5:00am
Re: questions and musings
Because it is easier to maintain and faster (since it wasn't intended to draw itself, and because accuracy wasn't a top preference).
Re: questions and musings
By illogic-al at Mon, 2004/09/13 - 5:00am
Re: questions and musings
In all the CSS support (and correctness) tests I have seen, Gecko is the best. No doubt KHTML is getting close, but I have no good reason to take your assertion as a truth.
Apple chose Gecko because of size and cleaner-coding of KHTML. This is not an issue for the end-user (Gecko browsers such as Firefox are under the 10 MiB). What the end-user wants is good rendering.
By oliv at Mon, 2004/09/13 - 5:00am
Re: questions and musings
Which is why Apple chose it. Browse backwards and forward between a handful of pages to see the speed difference. Apple needed a rendering engine that gave them a selling point for Safari (rendering speed) that would get IE off Mac. They succeeded. If they didn't think it would render well, they would never ever have picked it over Gecko.
By David at Mon, 2004/09/13 - 5:00am
Re: questions and musings
I am sure for many people Gecko works better, but I have had some aweful luck lately. khtml seems to do a better job on many of the sites I visit. Great hack guys, but for now I will stick to khtml.
By brockers at Wed, 2004/09/15 - 5:00am
Re: questions and musings
The advantage of this integration, is that in the future you can use gecko rendering engine with native KDE components. Just like under MacOSX, when they use Safari, everything looks OSX native, just like firefox under windows. But when I firefox on linux or OSX, the buttons all look strange (or primitive).
For MacOSX the camino project is a good start, but for what I mostly need it. It is the designmode option in Gecko, so you can edit like RichText in your browser. That works with Mozilla & Firefox, but not yet with Camino.
And it AT THE MOMENT certainly doesn't work with KHTML. I know there is someone who has been working on it for the last two years, but it still isn't finished, and even when it is finished, it will take some time, for someone to build a script that supports RICHTEXT editing in MSIE & GECKO & KHTML.
I would like to see firefox with KDE look & feel, and also firefox with MacOSX look & feel.
I think that would be a win for all plattforms. I do not really like Konqueror for webbrowsing, probably because I'm used to the shortcuts for firefox, they are mostly the same under windows and linux.
And JavaScript handling for gecko and KHTML still isn't 100% the same, so I still have to test and improve the script under KHTML, after that it works for GECKO & MSIE. But I have to say, that correcting a script after it has been made to work for GECKO is much easier, than correcting it to work for MSIE!
By Boemer at Thu, 2005/03/03 - 6:00am
Also, what about JavaScript in Konqueror/Gecko? Is this still handled by kjs or does Gecko take over? Essentially, does using Gecko in Konqueror mean that rendering will be 100% comparable with Firefox or will there be something missing?
By Navindra Umanee at Sat, 2004/09/11 - 5:00am
Re: javascript
JavaScript is done by Gecko, read Zack's blog.
Well, as neat as this sounds, I would like to see a standalone web browser that supported the extensions of Firefox on the Qt side of things. I really don't want to see Gecko rendering in Konqueror as much as a Gecko browser for KDE that's not Konqueror. Hopefully we will see this.
My main complaints about Konqueror are twofold:
No mozilla extension capability, so no adblock.
Clicking on home takes you to your home directory.
By Turd Ferguson at Sat, 2004/09/11 - 5:00am
Re: KFirefox?
Well, when this is done, won't you just be able to use Firefox with Qt/KDE instead of GTK?
Right now, Firefox can be compiled on Linux against either GTK2 or GTK1. On other platforms (Mac or Windows, it can be compiled against their native toolkit. So there's no reason to not add a third toolkit option for Linux, as it's quite possible.
By QV at Sat, 2004/09/11 - 5:00am
Re: KFirefox?
I agree. I spent ages trying to work out how to set my home page before realising that I couldn't have a filesystem home page and a separate web home page.
I think they should separate the web browser from the file browser. Allow the web browser to display local files and the file browser to display web pages, but you do different things in a web browser to a file browser...
By Tim at Sat, 2004/09/11 - 5:00am
Re: KFirefox?
I agree. File manager and web browser should be two apps with a lot in common, rather than the same app except configured differently. Or even just giving seperate sets of preferences for the two would be enough...
By Gábor Lehel at Sat, 2004/09/11 - 5:00am
Re: KFirefox?
Uh... you can do that already.
Please lookup the docs for Konqueror profiles.
By Roberto Alsina at Sat, 2004/09/11 - 5:00am
Re: KFirefox?
We've already done this. Yes, starting Konq the web browser can be made to have a different starting page than Konqueror the file manager. But when you hit the Home button in the web browser, suddenly you're browsing the filesystem. The docs for Konqueror profiles are silent on this subject (which is part of why I use Mozilla instead)
By ac at Mon, 2004/09/13 - 5:00am
Re: KFirefox?
Ok, that's trickier, but not impossible.
* Create a plugin that simply goes to your home folder (that's the hard step ;-)
* That plugin should now be available to add as a button in the toolbars
* On the web profile, use the "Home" action in the toolbar
* On the file manager profile, use the new plugin
By Roberto Alsina at Mon, 2004/09/13 - 5:00am
Re: KFirefox?
I appreciate that a solution can be created, but I prefer my one-step solution: 1) Don't use Konqueror for anything but file browsing until this is fixed.
By ac at Mon, 2004/09/13 - 5:00am
Re: KFirefox?
Had you been any less of an asshole about it, I would have published the plugin, since I just wrote it. Your loss.
By Roberto Alsina at Tue, 2004/09/14 - 5:00am
Re: KFirefox?
He isn't the only one who thinks that this behaviour is weird.
By CE at Tue, 2004/09/14 - 5:00am
Re: KFirefox?
It's a solution, sure, but it's also a dirty hack. May publish it on friday if I have any free time.
By Roberto Alsina at Tue, 2004/09/14 - 5:00am
Re: KFirefox?
Can you not fix some CSS bugs that have been bothering me too? I just want to see how unhelpful I can make you.
By ac at Tue, 2004/09/14 - 5:00am
Re: KFirefox?
No, since that would involve actual work, instead of editing the example konqueror plugin and changing ten lines of code.
By Roberto Alsina at Tue, 2004/09/14 - 5:00am
Re: KFirefox?
I don't think that separating web from file browser would be a good thing. Integration is the key KDE is so much powerful and so much different from the other desktops. If the problem with the homepage button is the only problem you have, it is a good sign that things are working quite good :)
By fake at Sat, 2004/09/11 - 5:00am
Re: KFirefox?
Yeah, I am not saying Konqueror should get slimmed down. I like its universal file viewer capability among any i/o slave, including the web. I mean, I think that it should have HTML capability, but I think that overall Konqueror makes for a poor web browser as opposed to Firefox and makes an excellent file browser as opposed to Nautilus, or heaven forbid, Windows Explorer.
But I think that Mozilla's extension system is the best around and it's foolishness not to support it.
KDE is full of duplicate applications and despite my constant complaining that a lot of these should get deprecated, like kedit, kpaint, and noatun (nothing against noatun, but I find the similarities with kaboodle and its uncapabilities compared to amarok reason for its removal) to name a few, what's bad about a new web browser for KDE?
By Turd Ferguson at Sat, 2004/09/11 - 5:00am
Re: KFirefox?
> KDE is full of duplicate applications and despite my constant complaining that a lot of these should get deprecated, like kedit, kpaint, and noatun (nothing against noatun
- kpaint is already gone
They're dropping KEdit? Why?
Personally, I think if they're going to drop an editor, they should get rid of KWrite.
KEdit has an advantage in that it's very light. Kate has an advantage in that it's very powerful. I use both regularly, depending on what I want to do. KWrite is neither as light as KEdit, nor as powerful as Kate. I never use it, ever--there's no reason to.
Now, dumping Noatun, that I can agree with. JuK runs circles around it, IMO (I recently switched to JuK from XMMS, and like it quite a bit). Unfortunately, JuK doesn't support streaming audio, but AmaroK does. AmaroK also runs circles around Noatun, tho I prefer JuK to AmaroK in every area except streaming.
By QV at Sun, 2004/09/12 - 5:00am
Re: They're dropping KEdit? Why?
To gain anything they have to drop KEdit, since KWrite and Kate are the same editor. KWrite is only a light version of Kate, without all the advanced stuff.
By Morty at Sun, 2004/09/12 - 5:00am
Re: They're dropping KEdit? Why?
Personally, the only one I use is KWrite, because a lot of files that I look at would be a lot harder to use without syntax highlighting. If I need anything more powerful than KWrite I tend to jump straight into KDevelop.
I guess removing KWrite would work though, as we have a really light editor (KEdit) and a slightly heavier editor (Kate), and then a full development IDE.
By David House at Sun, 2005/05/01 - 5:00am
Re: KFirefox?
I for one don't want to see Noatun go for the very simple reason that Juk sound quality is not very good (I don't know why but the sound its garbled) as compared to Noatun which plays with very high fidelity. If someone has had the same problem and found a way to fix Juk let me know so I can fix it too..... otherwise I would hate to boot into Windows just to listen to MP3s
By Kostumer at Mon, 2004/09/13 - 5:00am
Re: KFirefox?
I had issues with Juk on certain files causing lots of static. My guess is it had to do with the bit rate or frequency or some other setting. I never did figure out what caused it, as it went away when I upgraded to KDE 3.3. :-) If you've not yet upgraded I suggest you do so, as there was probably a lot of cleanup internally for that sort of problem.
Noatun has always bugged me, as it takes a long time to load and then doesn't let me edit tags. Why bother with it? :-) (Or if it's supposed to, it malfunctions for me.)
Elsewhere in this thread someone mentioned that artsd is going away in KDE 3/4/4.0. Why is that? Has ALSA caught up to the point that artsd is redundant?
By Larry Garfield at Mon, 2004/09/13 - 5:00am
Re: KFirefox?
Regarding the first point (why bother with noatun), I must say that I've been a long-time noatun advocate. I tried Juk for a week or so a little while ago, and loved the id3-editing portion. However, it fell down when it came to how I use my mp3-mplayer. I hate how it resets to whereever you starting playing in the playlist whenever you hit stop (rather than go to beginning of the the current song). In fact, I think that's the only thing that was wrong with it, and that alone was enough to drive me back to noatun :-) It's something that's very simple, but incredibally annoying if done wrong.
Secondly, arts and alsa are not on the same level. If KDE switched to alsa as it's multimedia layer, it would suddenly not be usable (for sound and video) on any *BSD, OSX, or Cygwin. Alsa does stand for Advanced *Linux* Sound Architecture, you know :-) The last I heard (and admittedly, it's been a while), kde-multimedia was looking seriously at gstreamer to use instead. There may be other systems, I forget. But basing it directly on alsa (or oss, or CoreAudio, etc) is simply not an option. Oh, and it definetly won't go away for 3.4, which by definition has to be compatible with all 3.x apps.
By David Bishop at Tue, 2004/09/14 - 5:00am
Re: KFirefox?
I agree too! KHTML is great, but having the web browser integrated with the file manager is a real PITA. Homepages is one example (and I must commend the KDE team on there not being many more), but also just the fact that Konquror the file manager had more than enough stuffed into it with out need a web browser on top of that. Also, I can't see why they were married in the first place, a web browser and a file manager are two completely seperate concepts. Also, to the person who says this is good integration, it isn't! It would be good integration if clicking an HTML opened it in the appros browser (which I'm sure it does), but making and application bloated in terms of features is bad. Usability?
By Anonnysauraus at Sun, 2004/09/12 - 5:00am
Re: KFirefox?
It isn't a matter of making Konqueror a bloated application. It's actually a relatively lightweight container. The parts which are loaded in order to accomplish a task don't need to be loaded at the same time unless you're using both. That goes for the kparts viewers that load directly in Konqueror as well. This argument is somewhat akin to stating that Netscape is a bloated app because Adobe's PDF plugin loads Acrobat Reader in the same window. The main difference is that the apps are more closely knit in KDE, with more options.
Re: KFirefox?
Re-read my initial post. I said bloated in terms of features, not resources.
By Anonnysauraus at Sun, 2004/09/12 - 5:00am
Re: KFirefox?
I did read it, but it seems to miss the point. Konqueror isn't a web browser or file manager. It's a container application, sort of a universal meta-browser. The file manager and HTML renderer are simply plugins. Features can be added or removed dynamically by adding or removing plugins. If you don't use it as a file manager, then it isn't. The same is true about the web browser portion. Calling it bloated in terms of features seems a bit silly since features can be added or removed dynamically. If you take that away, it's no longer Konqueror.
As an example, try right-clicking on a text file in the file manager. Choose "open in new window" from the menu that pops up. If you have the appropriate kpart, voila, Konqueror is now a text editor. Depending on what other plugins are present, other data types may have a part that can be loaded into konqueror. PDF files, filesystem trees and audio files are examples off the top of my head. You can use the location bar or even one of the plugins to access other plugins. IMO, it's a great model for data access that isn't constrained by a focus to be a single type of application.
Re: KFirefox?
Completely agreed with mr. Anonymous from previous post.
By koos at Sun, 2004/09/12 - 5:00am
Re: KFirefox?
Actually it helps me get my work done faster that kde is network transparent all over the place and that konqueror is a kpart viewer that uses ioslaves to grab data. I do web stuff for a living and in my world a lot of html resources are on remote sites that I need to access with sftp, ftp, webdav, etc. With konqueror I can go to any url that the system can recognize and an appropriate kpart is launched. khtml will render pages just fine no matter what protocol is used to get them and that saves me many hours a week.
You may consider it bloated and horrible usability but for me it is the primary purpose I use kde. I have used gnome some and the integration was just too painful. In kde I set spellcheck ONCE. I set proxy settings ONCE. I set my default editing compenent ONCE. I set my address book settings ONCE. It just saves me so much time by having stuff network transparent in a world where resources really are network transparent it is just that most are not used to dealing with network transparency. I have also worked with windows and mac machines extensively over the years and for web app stuff I consider them unusable. Overall the ioslave system should be some vfs layer just about the os (ie still userspace but below almost all the rest of userspace) So that you have one http, webdav, sftp, imap, pop, gzip etc layer on the system and EVERY app that uses it can do so. Think of how much nicer many things would be if mozilla, opera, lynx, links, wget etc did not have any understand of http at all but used a very nice vfs layer instead. You could improve the protocol, add a new version, fix bugs etc and all transparent to the apps.
The kde way really is the right way to do this to stop so much duplication of effort and they really have not gone far enough but at least the developers seem to be pushing for more transparency over time.
By Kosh at Sun, 2004/09/12 - 5:00am
Re: KFirefox?
Completely agree with Kosh - KDE's network transparency is awesome once you get used to it. It's good for new computer users as well - you shouldn't have to use different applications for each type of file resource. Lots of things fit very well into the ioslave model, so you have two great usability bonuses:
- Only learn one overall model for file access. (protocol:/[domain/]path, with graphical browsing to make the path part easy)
Compare with the way GNOME are trying to do it - one model for the desktop (spatial), another for file dialogs (hierarchal/browsing), and then another for remote access (URL based). The internet is here to stay and KDE embraces it.
I prefer to think of Konqueror as a GUI equivalent of a shell. No one would say that bash was bloated because you can do a million and one things with it - it is the glue that allows you to use the other programs. Konqueror is the same for file access and viewing, except you don't need to have programmer leanings to use it.
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I am asked, often, about how I come up with my crazy-kicked up ideas. Well, I admit I watch a lot of food tv shows, either on the Food Network or on PBS. (btw, Emeril Green on Planet Green is pretty good too). When I watch these shows I see what they are doing and always, always, always want to do it differently than what they did. The only time this does not happen is this seasons' Top Chef: Las Vegas; I'm blown away by the huge amount of talent. Almost every single dish they've made I am sitting there saying 'holy moly how very clever'! You know? Season one was sooo good too.
I keep a notepad with me almost at all times: there is one in the car, one on my nightstand, and one at my desk. The others times I carry one with me because I do get a lot of ideas when I'm at the gym or walking about. I'd say I get most of my ideas at night just before bed, and in the middle of the night to as I'm trying to fall asleep my mind just races with ideas. My list of 'to-make' is long, oh so very long; I finally resorted to typing them into my computer years ago or else I would be like those old college professors with papers, stack of papers, and stick-it's all over the place. I'm sort of a neat freak so that wouldn't fly. I am up to over 30 typed pages of ideas, not to mention the stack of recipes I printed from other food bloggers. I am very guilty of making more sweets than meals. My first love is french cooking, and I haven't been good about keeping that end up lately it seems.
Just like every chef and cook alike I have a fairly large cookbook collection. A lot of inspiration comes from cookbooks. One of my favorite things to do is look through a newer cookbook, ear-mark something, then go research almost the same thing in an old cookbooks and try to fuse the two together. Collecting old cookbooks is an addictive behaviour of mine that I don't get to practice as much as I'd like. Here on cape cod there are a lot of old, rotting bookstores with ginormous piles of neglected books; it takes hours to find the cookbooks because nothing is labeled and most of the people who go there prefer literary novels and the like, so the cookbooks are like those rug warehouses where the best carpets are at the very bottom! Don't get me started on the old, mile-long bookstores in NYC. That is heaven!! What I love about the older cookbooks: those food stains/mug stains on the pages, the withering ear-marked pages, and of course the old book smell--Love that old book smell!
There are so many food-creations I make that never make it to the food blog or are sitting in the photo archives. But I shall change that as most of you said you have no problem seeing my recipe-fails. This pretzel shortbread inspiration came from an old food & wine magazine--orignally it was a pretzel crust with chocolate filling type pie. I wanted to see if I could make shortbread with it. Came out ok, but for whatever reason they go stale fast--lasting only a couple days after being baked & dipped. Will I make this again? Not so sure, this is one of my recipe-fail ones, but I might if I add in more sugar and a hint of vanilla to it next time around.
pretzel shortbread
inspired from food & wine
print recipe
1 stick unsalted butter, softened
1 1/4 cups coarsely crushed thin pretzels (I used 1 & ½ cups)
3/4 cup confectioners' sugar, sifted
A small pinch of sea salt
1/2 cup all-purpose flour
1 large egg
Chocolate dip:
About ½ cup of melted milk or dark chocolate (milk is way better)
In a standing electric mixer fitted with the paddle, beat the butter with 3/4 cup of the pretzels and the confectioners' sugar at low speed until creamy.
Beat in the flour, egg, and salt.
Add the remaining 1/2 cup of pretzels, being sure to leave some pretzel pieces intact.
Flatten the dough between 2 sheets of plastic wrap and refrigerate until chilled, at least 30 minutes. I only flattened them to ½ - ¾ inch thick—you don't want them too thin.
Preheat the oven to 350°.
Roll out the dough between the sheets of plastic wrap. Cut them into circles of strips, whatever shape you desire. Place onto parchment lined cookie sheet.
Bake for about 10 minutes or until tops are almost light golden brown. These bake FAST! Once they turn a medium brown they are no good.
Let them cool a bit before dipping in melted chocolate. When you are ready to dip them make sure to let them set on parchment paper.
Note: these do not keep more than 2 days. They get stale fairly fast for whatever reason.


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With the second-quarter 2013 earnings season now in peak week, S&P Capital IQ has stepped forward with its Q2 outlook, predicting that S&P 500 earnings growth will come in at 3.45%, while revenues will continue to lag at an estimated -1%.
Notably, strength in Q2 is anticipated to come from the financials and consumer discretionary sectors, with earnings per share (EPS) growth seen at 16.17% and 14.43%, respectively.
"Corporations have needed to very carefully manage costs and profit margins because of a year-over-year decline in revenue growth," said Robert Keiser, vice president of S&P Capital IQ Global Markets Intelligence, in a Tuesday webinar. "We're still looking at a very subpar growth environment, which is having a negative impact on revenue growth."
Although U.S. companies are likely to finish out 2013 with single-digit earnings, the market expects double-digit earnings growth in 2014, Keiser noted. S&P Capital IQ pegs overall 2013 EPS coming in at an all-time record of $110.54, surpassing the record of $103.47 posted in 2012.
He said that investors currently prefer high-quality stocks, with a bias toward large-cap equities.
The 3.45% growth expectations come as of Tuesday morning, when six companies reported Q2 earnings, including the financial companies Goldman Sachs (GS) and Charles Schwab (SCHW), said Christine Short, associate director of S&P Capital IQ Global Markets Intelligence.
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Goldman Sachs' Q2 profits doubled as the investment bank saw trading revenues roll in from fixed income, currency and commodities. Profits totaled $1.93 billion versus $962 million from Q2 2012, while EPS stood at $3.70 versus $1.78 a year ago and revenues jumped 30% to $8.6 billion. Analysts' expectations were for EPS of $2.82 on $7.98 billion in revenues.
Short said Schwab was the only company on Tuesday to miss revenue expectations. Schwab reported EPS of $0.18, down from $0.20 in Q2 2012, although quarterly revenues saw a 4.2% increase to $1.34 billion. Total expenses were 8.7% higher, which cut into Schwab's profits.
The U.S. stock market headed south on Tuesday after the Dow Jones industrial average reached an all-time high on Monday for its third straight trading day. At midday, the DJIA was down 41.85 points, or 0.26%, at 15,442. The S&P 500 was down 7.67 points, or 0.46%, at 1,675. The Nasdaq index was down 11.60 points, or 0.32%, at 3596.
Taking a broader view of overall economic trends, Keiser went on to say that the U.S. economy has responded positively to the Federal Reserve's third round of quantitative easing, yet concerns remain about the future pace of GDP growth and the Fed's plans to taper its QE3 bond purchases.
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Sauteed brussels sprouts are delicious when shredded and sautéed with pancetta, garlic and oil. If you don't think you like brussels sprouts, I challenge you to try these!
I love when people tell me they don't like brussels sprouts, then quickly change their mind when they taste them prepared this way. I too once thought I didn't like brussels sprouts until my girlfriend turned me on to shredded them before sauteing in garlic and oil. Now I love them! You can easily prepare this the night before and warm it up when you are ready to serve if you are making this for Thanksgiving.
Sautéed Brussels Sprouts with Pancetta
Servings: 14 • Size: about 1/2 cup (not packed) • Points +: 1 pt • Smart Points: 1
Calories: 56.2 • Fat: 2.8 g • Carbs: 6.1 • Fiber: 2.5 • Protein: 2.2 g
2 oz pancetta, minced
2 lb brussels sprouts (weight after outer leaves and stems removed)
1.5 tbsp extra virgin olive oil
4 cloves garlic, minced or sliced thin
kosher salt and fresh ground pepper
With a large sharp knife, finely shred the brussels sprouts after thoroughly washing.
In a deep heavy saute pan, sauté pancetta on medium-low heat until fat melts and pancetta becomes golden, about 5 minutes. Add olive oil and garlic and sauté until golden. Add shredded brussels sprouts, salt and pepper to taste and sauté on medium-low heat for about 4-5 minutes until tender crisp.
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A spokesperson for London's Metropolitan Police told NBC News on Monday that a 34-year-old man was in police custody on suspicion of causing a public nuisance over the bottle incident.
The man, who police would not identify by name or nationality, has not yet been charged, the spokesperson said.
Police said the man was heard shouting abuse before he threw the bottle.
Edith Bosch, 32, of the Netherlands, who placed third in the 70-kg. (154-lb.) category in judo earlier in the Games, wrote on Twitter that she was in the stands when the fan threw the bottle.
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"A drunken guest threw a bottle … on the track! I HAVE BEATEN HIM … Unbelievable!" she wrote.
"Throwing a bottle on to the field of play is unacceptable not just at an Olympic Games, at any sports venue," the BBC quoted Sebastian Coe, the Olympic double gold-medalist and chief organizer of this year's Games, as saying. "The guy was removed; anyone who does that in future will be removed."
Coe added: "It was poetic justice that they did that sitting next to a judo player. I think the expression is 'Ippon'," referring to the highest score a fighter can earn in judo.
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Bosch told Dutch TV she had slapped him around the head before he was taken away by police.
"I had seen the man walking around earlier and said to people around me that he was a peculiar bloke," The London Evening Standard quoted Bosch as telling NOS TV.
"Then he threw that bottle and in my emotion I hit him on the back with the flat of my hand. Then he was scooped up by the security," she was quoted as saying.
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"However, he did make me miss the final, and I am very sad about that. I just cannot understand how someone can do something like that," Bosch was quoted as saying.
Bosch won her category at the 2005 World Judo Championship in Cairo.
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Police did not comment on Bosch's claims.
"Man in front of me threw bottle onto track just at start! Had to be wrestled off ...," one spectator wrote on Twitter, according to The Telegraph newspaper.
"So a drunk p---- actually threw a bottle onto the track as 100m started! He got punched by Dutch judo bronze medallist Edith Bosch tho," the newspaper quoted another spectator as writing on Twitter.
Security was seen rushing toward one section of seats just after the 100-meter final started.
No effect on race
Olympic organizers told NBC they were aware of the incident and said it was being handled by London police.
"A man was arrested inside the Olympic Stadium [Sunday] evening after throwing a plastic bottle on to the track just before the men's 100m final," a spokesperson for the London Organising Committee of the Olympic and Paralympic Games (LOCOG), told NBC News in a statement.
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"The incident had no impact on the competitors or the event. LOCOG does not tolerate abusive or anti-social behavior and will seek to remove people behaving in this way from its venues," the statement said.Slideshow: Olympic Emotional Moments (on this page)
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The eight competitors in the final were apparently unaffected, and many said they did not know about the bottle until being told about it by reporters afterward.
"I just heard about it. I didn't actually see it," Jamaican Usain Bolt, who retained his 100-meter title in an Olympic record time of 9.63 seconds, said. "I don't promote violence. Sorry to hear that."
Commentary: Bolt achieves 'legend' status with victory
The bottle landed on the track about 10 meters behind the runners, who were already in the starting blocks. The bottle bounced a few times and came to rest in the lane occupied by Jamaica's Yohan Blake, who finished second in the race.
"I was so focused, I didn't see anything," Blake said.
Bolt's Olympic party may only be beginning
"There was a little distraction," said American bronze medalist Justin Gatlin. "I didn't know what it was. But when you're in those blocks and the whole stadium is quiet, you can hear a pin drop, literally. So you just have to block it out and go out there and do what you have to do. You can't complain about that. The race went on. It was a great race."
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My World Domination Tour 2009 is officially done (though it looks like I'll have some Canadian dates to announce in November). The retreat at Tokei-in temple in Shizuoka, Japan ended yesterday. It was real and it was fun and it was real fun. We had 14 people at the beginning and ended with 16. This is a reverse of the usual order of things, in which someone always runs away from the retreat before it's done. We actually gained in numbers this time! How about that?
About my only complaint was that it was yet again another sausage fest. The ratio would have been a bit better but for the fact that two of the women who signed up had to cancel out before the retreat began due to personal matters. Even so, the ratio would have been still way too man heavy.
It's not always like this. The retreat I led at Southern Dharma Retreat Center earlier this year had more women than men, and the one I led near Munich was even-steven with five of each. But the general trend tends to be more male dominated. I've mentioned this before and I still don't have a good reason for it. Such is life, I suppose.
This trip has been a great opportunity to meet a lot of the other Dogen Sangha people. I spent a couple nights with Mike Leutchford, met Jeremy Pearson, had lunch with Richard Morrisey, got shown around London by Rachelle Allen, sat sesshins with Michele Proulx, Gabrielle Linnebach and Gerhard Wolfram, saw all of Finland with Markus Laitenen, made some really nice connections with Jurgen Seggelke, Gustav Ericsson, Nicole de Merkline and Kevin Bortolin, and even had some very friendly contact with Mike Cross. I'm starting to think this Dogen Sangha thing just might work after all.
In mere hours I'll be winging my way back to the USA where I'll stay for at least a couple of days (sorry, I couldn't resist). Well until I go to Canada anyway.
And, HEY MEXICO, my dad's moving to your country (he says) and wants me to come visit in December. So if anyone down South of the Border wants me to come speak there, shoot me an email (email@example.com). But don't actually shoot me, OK?
All right. I gotta go. I promise a real Zen article some time after I get back.
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User:Pranav Rathi/Notebook/OT/2012/11/13/Optical Tweezers Calibration
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To perform accurate measurements with optical tweezers, it is necessary to calibrate some experimental parameters and even before that study the active components of the optical tweezers setup. The parameters I want to calibrate: Stiffness; which measures the force that is exerts on the trapped bead, and Sensitivity; which measures the relative position of bead within the trap. The components I want to characterize: Laser, AOM (acoustooptic module), microscope objective, z and x piezo, lens and mirrors, QPD (quadrant photo diode), and electronic filters. It is necessary to characterize these components first because not only they affect the experimental parameters but also reduce the chances to see something unexpected in data later on.
I characterized most of the active components time to time in the setup. The characterization also helped me in designing this tweezers.
I use two lasers: 1064nm 2W ND:YAG crystalaser for tweezing and 633nm 2mW He-Ne for surface detection and alignment purposes. It is important to know some details about the source. IR-laser is more important because it is tweezing laser. I did not do a rigorous study (because it was not necessary), just specified few parameters like power output, beam waist and its location, polarization, beam mode profile and beam propagation factor. I used this information to design the tweezers expansion optics. The laser specifications are given in the following link:
Acoustooptic modulator is used to modulate the laser intensity in the trap. So it is second most important component of the tweezers. AOM has two components: AOM driver and AOM module, I characterized both. The specifications are given in the link:
- AOM driver
- AOM module
I use 1st order diffraction beam from AOM to feed the tweezers. NI-DAQ controlled by feedback96_main_mx labview v7.1 program controls the AOM through analog input voltage to AOM driver. So there is a relationship between the analog input voltage and output laser power in 1st order diffraction beam. Unfortunately this relationship is not linear; it is some odd function (characteristic curve; see the second link). Once I know the curve I can calculate the laser power in the trap at particular input voltage. This information is very useful while calculating the stiffness from the corner frequency.
It is absolutely unpractical to measure the laser power in the trap before every power-spectrum data is acquired to calculate the stiffness (for stiffness I need corner frequency from power-spectrum and laser power in the trap at which the spectrum is acquired). So, it is done in advance: I record the laser power after the water-immersion objective for RF-input voltage of 1.3 to 4.9 in .2 volts increments. I put a water droplet on the objective and record the power with a power meter directly. I used Thorlabs sensor: model D10MM (S212A 10W) S/N 0938D08 and detector: PM100 S/N M00229006. Reflection loss at water-air interface is still less than 2%.
The Pictures shows the data and characteristic curve for AOM RF-input voltage Vs laser power after the water immersion objective. The curve looks exactly the same as AOM characteristic curve. The data is presented below; I measured the laser power for 10 times each. I use the curve and data in OT calibration program written in labview V9 to calculate the laser power in the trap from RF-input voltage. Laser power and corner frequency gives me the stiffness. To know corner frequency, I usually do power-spectrum at 1.45 volts; at this voltage power measurement error is 8%. That means calculated stiffness accuracy will not be better than 92%. I will discuss the final number later when i discuss the corner frequency and power-spectrum.
AOM RF-input voltage Vs laser power after the objective:
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Note: the data is good until no change is made to the optical path/components downstream from the objective that may change the laser power at the objective.
Microscope objective
Objective is another very important part of the tweezers. I am using Olympus UPLANSAPO (UIS 2) water immersion IR objective. The objective gives a maximum spot size of 760nm with a Rayleigh range of 567nm. The objective has 55% transmittance (55% of the input laser power makes through) and it has a collar for cover glass correction (spherical aberration gets worse with the depth in the sample, but i do not have to worry about it while doing power spectrum or DOG). The full details of the objective are available here:
X & Z-piezo
We use "Mad city lab" nano position systems; Nano-OP30 for x-piezo and Nano-F25HS for z-piezo. None of the stages required any calibration. Characterization shows that x-piezo sensor output ground from drive has noise of 60Hz and its multiples, but very low.
Lens and mirrors
All the optics is rated for 1064nm. Some power measurements are as follow:
- Laser power before the AOM: 1.8W
- Laser power after the AOM: 1.7W, 6% transmission loss
- Power in 1st order diffraction beam: 1.238W, 27% transfer loss
- Laser power before the 1st lens of steering assembly: 1.18W, 5% transmission loss through expansion optics and mirrors
- Maximum laser power achievable in the trap: 610mW, 48% transmission loss through lens, dichroic mirror and objective.
Infrared-sensitive quadrant photo diode is used as a detector in optical tweezers. Bead position relative to trap center in x-direction is measured by the deflection of the laser beam. This deflection is imaged at the detector-plane by condenser and imaging lens in front of the QPD-detector. I use Hamamatsu S5981 QPD with analog amplifier On Track OT 301. Amplifier measures the current from the four quadrants of the diode and produces normalized position signals and sum signal in voltage.
- [math] X= \frac{q1-q2-q3+q4}{q1+q2+q3+q4}; Y= \frac{q1+q2-q3-q4}{q1+q2+q3+q4}; Sum= q1+q2+q3+q4 [/math]
This voltage signal goes through low-pass 8-pole Bessel filters cutoff at 1.5 kHz by Krohn-Hite. The signal is sampled at 13-20 kHz rate by data acquisition box BNC-2111 through PCI-card PCI-6052E by national Instruments.
Calibration data: power-spectrum and detector sensitivity is produced in X, Y and sum voltages by QPD at some laser power. On track amplifier can introduce a gain from 1 to 6 to this signal before it is sampled. So there is a need of characterization of QPD for laser power in the trap Vs voltage signal for various laser powers at different gains. This will help me choosing the right laser power in the trap (at right AOM RF-input voltage) and gain for power-spectrum.
My goal is to get a data set for Laser power in the trap (mW) Vs QPD sum signal (mV) at 1x and 2x gain (3x and above saturates the DAQ; maximum detection voltage is 10V). I will do this for two methods:
- Laser power in trap Vs QPD sum signal without trapped bead.
- Laser power in trap Vs QPD sum signal with trapped bead.
These two methods will help me decide which method is more accurate. In my experience when a bead is trapped, the beam through the trap diverges (expands) much faster. So some of the light is not entirely collected by the condenser and there is a reflection loss too because some of the light is going through total internal reflection inside the bead. The two can drop the voltage signal making this method more inaccurate.
Laser power in trap (mW) Vs QPD sum signal: {{#widget:Google Spreadsheet |key=0ApjWjFYiQdkfdGlwX3dNNTlja2tZM2l1NHV5WkJ3Z3c |width=750 |height=200 }}
I took 3 data sets with 1.04 μm(r=520nm) bead sample in water. I put the sample on the tweezers and start recording the sum signal for 1.3 to 4.9 volts in .2 volts increment.
1) 1X gain data set is not useful; a voltage under .1 volt is not registered accurately by DAQ, which makes power-spectrum inaccurate for laser powers below 45mW (AOM RF-signal input 1.5V). See the data in spread sheet.
2) 2X gain is enough for whole range of AOM RF-signal input voltage from 1.4 to 5 Volts. The relationship is linear between the laser powers in the trap Vs QPD sum signal (see the chart).
I took this data set with no bead trapped. Laser power in the trap divided by QPD sum signal gives us a calibration parameter which will help us to calculate the laser power in the trap for data analysis. Data analysis program Secret peeking software_KL written in labview v7.1 needs three calibration parameters (conversion parameters) to determine the force exerted by the trap. These parameters are; detector sensitivity, trap stiffness and laser power from sum. The laser power from sum parameter (mW/mV) calculates the laser power from QPD sum signal. The laser power (mW) and stiffness (pN/nm/W) gives the stiffness at that laser power at which the data was acquired. Now this stiffness and displacement by detector sensitivity (mV/nm) gives the force.
Since the relationship is linear I can average this parameter for all the laser powers, which gives me .0700 (mW/mV) with 2.57% error considering the parameter calculation is done using the laser powers which were measured with different errors. So after doing an error analysis the accuracy of the parameter is 97.4%.
Calibration parameter for laser power for sum signal is .0700±2.57% mW/mV.
3) 3rd data set is taken with a bead trapped with same settings and procedure as 2nd. The purpose of this data set is to decide which method is more accurate. Calibration parameter by this method is .0722 which is only 3.8% different by previous method. If I do error analysis then these two numbers will overlap within the error range, which makes either method correct. But the sum voltage acquired with this method is less for every laser power by 3%. And while doing this experiment I notice a sudden increase in voltage of sum when a second bead falls in the trap, which suggests my notion for beam divergence because of the bead is true. As two bead trapped along the z-axis of light the cone exiting in the case of two beads is smaller in comparison to single bead, so condenser can collect more light, which suggest this method is less accurate because less light is reaching to QPD.
Electronic filters
I use Krohn-Hite single-ended input 8-pole low-pass Bessel filters with cutoff at 1.5 kHz for x, y, sum and piezo signal. Even though the filters have cutoff at 1.5 kHz but they affect the power-spectrum generated corner frequency even at 500Hz. I use x-signal from on-track to generate the power-spectrum.
To study this behavior I generate an interferogram of sound with frequency components from 10 to 1600 Hz with whitesoundmain program written in labview V9 and produce it at the output of soundcard of one computer. I feed this sound signal into mic-input of another computer and read the interferogram with Noise investigator and helper program written in labview V9 (I used the same programs and method to study structural resonance of optical setups). See the slide show for more information.
I record the data; when there was no filter between the output and input (signal goes straight from one computer to another) and when there is a filter between (signal goes through the filter before input). The result is as expected: Graph is a power spectrum of input interferogram; without filter (Red curve) it is a square function over 1600Hz, with filter (white curve) frequency starts rolling off after 360Hz. This means with filter on power-spectrum taken at frequencies higher than 360Hz will report false corner frequency (low corner frequency will report low stiffness).
Fix of this problem is simple; remove the filter when doing power-spectrum.
Now we have collected all the essential information about the active components of our setup, it is time to proceed for calibration. Optical tweezers calibration is a tedious task, but it is done only once, if no major changes are made to the optical path or components downstream from the objective.
Optical tweezers calibration schematics in image shows all the parameters and programs I use. To determine the force exerted by the trap I need to know two parameters: Stiffness and displacement.
Calibration of Trap Stiffness
The stiffness of the trap is proportional to the corner frequency of the overdamped trapped free bead's Brownian motion. Basically trap stiffness depends on two parameters: Corner frequency and Stokes drag coefficient. There are multiple ways to determine the trap stiffness but we do it Power-spectrum way.
When a bead is trapped the mechanics of Brownian motion in a harmonic potential can be exploited to determine the stiffness of the trap. We can assume that the trap exerts a linear spring force on the bead. The one-dimensional equation of motion of a trapped bead is that of a damped driven oscillator:
- [math] m\ddot{x}(t)+{\beta}\dot{x}(t)+Kx(t)=F(t) [/math]
Where x is position of bead, m is the mass of the bead, β=6πηr is the stokes drag coefficient for a sphere of radius r in a fluid of dynamic viscosity η, K is the stiffness along x-axis. and F(t) is the Brownian forcing term, whose power spectrum is white.
I use 520nm radius polystyrene bead which has a mass of 6.24e-13 gm. Also Reynolds number in the experiments is no greater than 10e-2. For this mass I can ignore the first term and rewrite after Fourier transformation (frequency representation):
- [math] \mathbf X(f)[K-i2{\pi}f\beta]=F(f) [/math]
here Brownian noise have amplitude of:
- [math] \mathbf |F(f)|^2=4\beta k_B T [/math]
where kBT is the thermal energy. Square both sides and rearrange:
- [math] |X(f)|^2=\frac{k_BT}{\pi^2\beta[(\frac{K}{2\pi\beta})^2+f^2]} [/math]
This is the power-spectrum equation for the bead's motion. This has a Lorentzian roll-off with corner frequency of:
- [math] f_c=\frac{K}{2\pi\beta} [/math]
- [math] \mathbf K=2\pi\beta f_c [/math]
Stiffness depends on the corner frequency fc and drag coefficient. Drag coefficient plays an important role in corner frequency determination, because it is height dependent. If the bead is too close to the surface the drag coefficient will change to Faxen's law:
- [math] \beta=\frac{6\pi\eta r} {1-\frac{9}{16}(\frac{r}{h})+\frac{1}{8}(\frac{r}{h})^3-\frac{45}{256}(\frac{r}{h})^4-\frac{1}{16}(\frac{r}{h})^5} [/math]
If the bead is too close to the surface (h<10 times the bead radius) in drag coefficient Faxen's term dominates, and reports a wrong corner frequency (hens wrong stiffness). So when I do power-spectrum I make sure that I am more than 10 times of bead radius away from the surface. This affect can be exploited to determine the height of the bead correctly above the surface. If I know the corner frequency way away from the surface I can calculate it at any height from the surface; for example when bead center is a radius away from the surface the corner frequency would be 1/3. So knowing the corner frequency precisely I can position the bead precisely above the surface. This can help me knowing the trap height above the surface. But just remember the bead center and trap center do not coincide; due to the scattering force the equilibrium position for the bead center is slightly away from the trap center in the z-direction., which can be calibrated and since i am using water immersion objective with correction color i do not have to worry about the focal shift.
The calibration requires free beads. I make samples with dilute suspension of the beads in deionized water. Some facts about the beads:
- I use bead from Bang's labs [1]. Material is polystyrene with refractive index of 1.2 in water, density 1.06 g/cm3, radius either 520nm or 261 nm, mass either 6.24e-13 or 7.89e-14 g.
- Sample preparation in H2O:
1μl of bead (1:50) + 3μl of BGB in H2O=4μl of bead (1:200)
2μl of bead (1:50) + 10μl of BGB in H2O=12μl of bead (1:1200)
In D2O
1μl of bead (1:50) + 3μl of BGB in D2O=4μl of bead (1:200)
2μl of bead (1:50) + 10μl of BGB in D2O=12μl of bead (1:1200)
To determine the stiffness I need corner frequency. To know the corner frequency I do a power-spectrum of position signal of a freely trapped bead in the x-direction (x-signal from ontrack). This gives me a one sided Lorentzian on a log-log plot (magnitude Vs frequency). To get the corner frequency I fit this data with power-spectrum equation; fit gives me relative magnitude, corner frequency and variance. This is done by Power-spectrum module built in feedback96_main program. I use RMS averaging, linear weighting mode and hanning window. The dependence of the cutoff frequency is measured on two quantities:
- Laser power, which is directly proportional to cutoff frequency. I know the laser power from the AOM RF-input voltage.
- Trap height-the distance from the center of the trap to the surface of the coverglass- which affects the dynamic viscosity of the surrounding water and it may also affect the trap stuffiness by changing the amount of aberration (but I do not worry about this too much because we have correction color on our objective to reduce this effect)


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Ella's parents thought this behavior was a typical part of growing up. But when their daughter's teacher said that Ella's anxiety was starting to affect her grades in school and relationships with classmates, they decided it was time to talk to a doctor about finding ways to help Ella deal with her worries.
Anxiety is really just a form of stress. It can be experienced in many different ways — physically, emotionally, and in the way people view the world around them. Anxiety mainly relates to worry about what might happen — worrying about things going wrong or feeling like you're in some kind of danger.
Anxiety is a natural human reaction, and it serves an important biological function: It's an alarm system that's activated whenever we perceive danger or a threat. When the body and mind react, we can feel physical sensations, like dizziness, a rapid heartbeat, difficulty breathing, and sweaty or shaky hands and feet. These sensations — called the fight-flight response — are caused by a rush of adrenaline and other stress hormones that prepare the body to make a quick getaway or "flight" from danger.
The fight-flight response happens instantly. But it usually takes a few seconds longer for the thinking part of the brain (the cortex) to process the situation and evaluate whether the threat is real, and if so, how to handle it. When the cortex sends the all-clear signal, the fight-flight response is deactivated and the nervous system starts to calm down.
Everyone experiences feelings of anxiety from time to time. These feelings can range from a mild sense of uneasiness to full-blown panic (or anywhere in between), depending on the person and the situation.
It's natural for unfamiliar or challenging situations to prompt feelings of anxiety or nervousness in people of all ages. You may feel it when you have a big presentation at work, for example, or when life gets overly hectic.
Kids might feel it, too, in similar situations — when facing an important test or switching schools, for example. These experiences can trigger normal anxiety because they cause us to focus on the "what if's": What if I mess up? What if things don't go as I planned?
Some amount of anxiety is normal and can even be motivating. It helps us stay alert, focused, and ready to do our best. But anxiety that's too strong or happens a lot can become overwhelming. It can interfere with someone's ability to get things done and, in severe cases, can start taking over the good and enjoyable parts of life.
Anxiety disorders are among the most common mental health conditions. That's partly because everyone experiences stress and worry. There are many different types of anxiety disorders, with different symptoms. But they all share one common trait — prolonged, intense anxiety that is out of proportion to the present situation and affects a person's daily life and happiness.
Symptoms of an anxiety disorder can come on suddenly or can build gradually and linger. Sometimes worry creates a sense of doom and foreboding that seems to come out of nowhere. Kids with anxiety problems may not even know what's causing the emotions, worries, and sensations they have.
Disorders that kids can get include:
Experts don't know exactly what causes anxiety disorders. Several things seem to play a role, including genetics, brain biochemistry, an overactive fight-flight response, stressful life circumstances, and learned behavior.
A child with a family member who has an anxiety disorder has a greater chance of developing one, too. This may be related to genes that can affect brain chemistry and the regulation of chemicals called neurotransmitters. But not everyone with a family member who has an anxiety disorder will develop problems with anxiety.
Things that happen in a child's life can set the stage for anxiety disorders in childhood or later in life. Loss (like the death of a loved one or parents' divorce) and major life transitions (like moving to a new town) are common triggers. Kids with a history of abuse are also more vulnerable to anxiety.
Growing up in a family where others are fearful or anxious also can "teach" a child to view the world as a dangerous place. Likewise, a child who grows up in an environment that is actually dangerous (if there is violence in the child's family or community, for example) may learn to be fearful or expect the worst.
Although all kids experience anxiety in certain situations, most (even those who live through traumatic events) don't develop anxiety disorders. Those who do, however, will seem anxious and have one or more of the following signs:
These problems can affect a child's day-to-day functioning, especially when it comes to concentrating in school, sleeping, and eating.
And it's common for kids to avoid talking about how they feel, because they're worried that others (especially their parents) might not understand. They may fear being judged or considered weak, scared, or "babyish." And although girls are more likely to express their anxiety, boys experience these feelings, too, and sometimes find it hard to talk about. This leads many kids to feel alone or misunderstood.
The good news is that doctors and therapists today understand anxiety disorders better than ever before and, with treatment, can help kids feel better.
A child's anxiety disorder can be treated by a mental health professional. A therapist can look at the symptoms, diagnose the specific anxiety disorder, and create a plan to help a child cope.
A type of talk therapy called cognitive-behavior therapy (CBT) is often used. In CBT, kids try out new ways to think and act in situations that can cause anxiety, and to manage and deal with stress. The therapist provides support and guidance and teaches new coping skills, such as relaxation techniques or breathing exercises. Sometimes, but not always, medication is used as part of the treatment for anxiety.
The best way to help your child is to acknowledge the problem in a supportive, nonjudgmental way. Talk openly about your child's symptoms and really try to understand how they are affecting everyday life. It can also help to talk to other adults in your child's life, such as teachers and coaches.
Be patient and positive as your child undergoes treatment and finds new ways to cope. Sometimes it helps to talk to your child about your own stresses and how you've been able to overcome them. Remind your child that letting go of worry allows space for more happiness and fun.
Rest assured that with the right care, your child can overcome anxiety and learn to face the future ready and relaxed.
Reviewed by: D'Arcy Lyness, PhD
Date reviewed: March 2014
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Maybe it's the "taper tantrum," wild markets, dysfunctional government or riots overseas—whatever the reason, advisors are confident clients need, and are looking for, help.
A new report from Russell Investments released Thursday found the "overwhelming majority" of advisors optimistic about client acquisition in 2013: 87% reported feeling optimistic about acquiring new clients and households.
This follows similar numbers for 2012: 86% of advisors acquired more clients than they lost in 2012, with nearly half indicating they brought on more than 10 clients or households.
The quarterly Financial Professional Outlook survey focused on client acquisition, the use of referrals to drive business growth, and the implications of an aging client base.
Top acquisition strategies for 2013 include receiving client referrals reactively (76%), referral prospecting through current clients (54%) and professional networking (43%).
Fully 32% of advisors say they believe clients are optimistic about the capital markets over the next three years—the highest proportion since the March 2011 FPO survey. Three-quarters (75%) of advisors reported that they, too, are optimistic about the markets.
"Many advisors are finding it easier to acquire new clients than it was just six months ago, as investors' willingness to participate in the market is bolstered by strong recent performance," Kevin Bishopp, director of practice management for Russell's U.S. advisor-sold business, said in a statement. "Yet there is a finite universe of individual investors and a highly competitive environment for advisors. To differentiate themselves, advisors need to deliver a superior service and relationship experience, not just a product or portfolio."
In addition to acquiring new clients, most advisors reported fairly high levels of client retention. The majority of respondents (55%) said they lost one to three clients in 2012, while only a quarter (26%) lost four or more clients. In identifying the primary reasons for losing clients, many advisors pointed to a cause beyond their control: a client's death.
"It's important for advisors to consider the composition of their books of business when establishing an acquisition strategy. If an advisor has many clients in the decumulation phase of retirement, when income distributions begin to exceed investment returns, it can be important to seek out younger clients in their peak accumulation years to help maintain a sustainable business," Bishopp said. "One rule of thumb is that for every client over age 70, an advisor likely needs one or two clients in their fifties who are accumulating at an increasing rate. This can be an important consideration when thinking about the types of new clients to seek out."
He also pointed to the "generational risk" clients in retirement can pose, or the danger that an advisor may not retain the assets transferred to an investor's beneficiaries.
"When thinking about client acquisition, it's also important that advisors consider establishing relationships with their clients' children and heirs," Bishopp concluded. "If they can demonstrate their value and engage these emerging prospects, they can put themselves in a strong position to continue to manage inherited assets and drive referrals amongst the next generation of investors."
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This week in new hires, Gail Cohen was elected to chair the New York Bankers Association for 2013, Porter Schutt and Bill Dugdale joined Brown Advisory, and Brian Major went to AlixPartners.
Also, Nick McParland was welcomed at New York Life Retirement, and Thomas Tooley of Lincoln Financial Distributors was named to The American College's board of trustees.
Gail Cohen Elected Chairwoman of New York Bankers Association
Gail Cohen, vice chairwoman and general trust counsel of Fiduciary Trust Co. International, was elected by her peers to chair the New York Bankers Association (NYBA) for the 2013 one-year term. Her election elevates her to the top tier of influential bankers in the U.S.
At Fiduciary Trust, Cohen is responsible for the firm's client relationships as well as its trust and estate services in New York and across its regional offices. She joined the firm in 1994 and has more than 30 years of experience in trusts and estates. She is a member of the board of directors, as well as a member of the management and executive committees.
Brown Advisory Welcomes New Partners Porter Schutt and Bill Dugdale
Brown Advisory announced on Friday the appointment of Porter Schutt and Bill Dugdale as partners in Wilmington. Schutt will oversee the Wilmington office and leverage his expertise in global equities to help develop innovative solutions for private clients and nonprofits. Dugdale will be primarily responsible for the office's client service and advisory functions, while also sharing his investment expertise with the firm.
Schutt joins from Marvin & Palmer Associates, where he was a partner and portfolio manager for emerging markets and domestic large-cap growth equity portfolios. Prior to that, he spent four years in Hong Kong with Goldman Sachs Asia; earlier, he had spent four years in institutional sales for Peregrine Securities, also in Hong Kong.
Dugdale comes from Friess Associates, where he most recently served as client relationship manager and portfolio specialist. During his nearly 20-year tenure at the firm, he advised a diverse range of institutional, intermediary and high-net-worth clients and was extensively involved in the investment management process, including eight years managing portfolios. AlixPartners Welcomes Brian Major
AlixPartners announced Monday that Brian Major has joined as a managing director in the firm's enterprise improvement unit. He will be based in Chicago.
Major joins from McKinsey & Co., and brings with him consulting experience that includes expertise in consumer products, retail and operations. He has background in virtually all aspects of the consumer supply chain, from product development through procurement and supply management, and he has advised clients on a broad range of strategic issues including performance improvement on a global scale, turnaround and restructuring, and portfolio optimization. Earlier, he was a vice president and partner in the operations practice of A.T. Kearney.
New York Life Retirement Appoints Taft-Hartley National Director
Westwood, Mass.-based New York Life Retirement Plan Services has appointed Nick McParland as national director, Taft-Hartley market, effective immediately. He will report to Joan Driscoll, managing director of client strategy, and Patrick Murphy, managing director of sales. McParland replaces Jim Byrne, who has left the industry.
McParland joins from Intercontinental Real Estate Corp., where he spent three years as director of institutional services, responsible for raising capital from institutional investors primarily in the Taft-Hartley market. Earlier, he was a senior vice president of sales and relationship management at Macquarie Capital, and prior to that, spent a combined ten years as a managing director of institutional sales at Prudential Financial and vice president of Taft-Hartley plan sales at Cigna Retirement & Investment Services up to that business's acquisition by Prudential in 2004. He also served as a retirement investment specialist at Putnam early in his career. Tooley Elected to The American College's Board of Trustees
The American College recently announced that Thomas Tooley, senior vice president and head of insurance solutions distribution at Lincoln Financial Distributors, has been named as the newest member of its 44-member board of trustees. In his current position at Lincoln, he is responsible for leading the distribution initiatives associated with the firm's life insurance and executive benefits businesses.
Tooley joined Lincoln in 2010 as national sales manager, independent planner channel. In September 2011, he was also named SVP and head of insurance solutions distribution, a title he holds concurrently with his previous appointment. Earlier in his career, Tooley served as a senior executive responsible for life insurance distribution at The Hartford. He also held leadership positions with Travelers Life & Annuity, Smith Barney, Citigroup, and Aetna Life & Casualty.
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I am continuing my efforts to retrieve/extract the Jewish records from the Catholic parish of Biechow (an homage to moja dobra żona, Tereza) during the years when the Catholic Church was ordered to act the civil registration authority for all parties/religions. My previous postings were for the years 1810-1820 inclusive.
These are the Jewish Births and even the Death records too from 1821 recorded in Biechow parish. Ergo, this posting brings us upto: 1810-1821 inclusive. The prior post is here .
As per usual, I give permission for all Jewish data that I have been posting to be included in the JRI project. Happy New Year 5772 [upcoming this week].
In 1821, there were three Jewish births out of a total of 112 births recorded in the Biechow parish. That works out to be 2.7% of the total.
There were no indexes for Marriage or Death. There were 57 death records total and five deaths were Jewish residents. That works out to be 8.8% of the total.
Year: 1821 Priest: Jozef Parzelski Gmina: Biechow Powiat: Stopnica Departement: Krakow 111 Total Births LDS Microfilm#: 936660
Record #1 Date: 12/31/1820 [yes it was actually in the prior year, but recorded the 1st week of 1821]
Father: Mosiek Simolewicz, Handlarz, Age 36, Wola Biechowski House #7
Mother: Serra z Jaklow, age 38
Baby: boy Szmul
Witnesses: Zelman Majorowicz, Handlarz, age 30 Biechow & Wulf Jaskowicz, Pakiarz, <no age>, Piestrzec
Record #43 Date: 4/10/1821
Father: Jakob Majorowicz, Mlynarz, Age 36, Biechow House #12
Mother: Hay z Rzelkowna, age 30
Baby: boy Martka
Witnesses: Gicel Fulfowicz, Pakiarz, age 45 Biechow & Moska Szmolowicz, Pakiarz, <no age>, Wojla Biechowski
Record #48 Date: 5/11/1821
Father: Icek Majorowicz, Mlynarz, Age 24, Biechow House #12
Mother: Sara z Moskowiczow, age 20
Baby: girl Haja
Witnesses: Jakob Majorowicz, Mlynarz, 36, Biechow & Mindla Abramowicz mlynarz, <no age>, Wojcza
Deaths – 57 total deaths
Record #12 Date: 3/6/1821
Witness1: Jasek Linden,
Witness2: Salomon Steyberg,
Deceased: Icek Majorkiewicz 30 Biechow
Record #17 Date: 3/10/1821
Witness1: Zelman Steyberg, <no age> Biechow
Witness2: <none>
Deceased: Jakob Majorkiewicz 36 Biechow
Record #40 Date: 8/28/1821
Witness1: Mendel Fryszman, Age 46, Wojcza
Witness2: Herszla Herszkowicz, Age 60 Wojcza
Deceased: Ruka 2 weeks? daughter of: Mendla Fryszman & Sarl z. Sewkowiczow
Record #47 Date:10/26/1821
Witness1: Jasek Linden, Age 44, Biechow
Witness2: Hycek Bartmanowicz, Age 38 Chrzanow
Deceased: Hansa Mendlowa 36, Biechow, House #217 [? number hand written in afterwards in a gap left]
wife of Abraham Mendlowicz
Record #48 Date: 10/24/1821 [yes this date is earlier than prior record]
Witness1: Jasek Linden, Age 44, Biechow
Witness2: Hycek Bartmanowicz, Age 38 Chrzanow
Deceased: Hycek Abramowicz <no age>, Biechow
[both deaths, 47 & 48 were recorded on the same day, 10/27/1821]
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AN ANTHOLOGY OF NOISE AND ELECTRONC MUSIC VOLUME 6 (double CD)
6th in this wide-ranging series featuring, with a few exceptions, pieces made in the last two decades in Mexico, USA, Slovakia, Iran, Austria, Holland, Japan, China, Belgium, Germany, France, Spain, Poland, Israel, Denmark, Italy, and Greece with the emphasis this time mostly on the noise component: the Japanese stratum is well represented and there's a furious recording of Z'ev in Holland. Computers are much in evidence too. Exceptions include Henry Cowell performing The Banshee in 1957, Dick Raaijmakers' fine Piano-Forte (1959) and Tvi Avni's Vocalise from the Princeton Electronic Music Centre in 1964.
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A new Application Intelligence Platform 7.1 (AIP) from Cast designed to analyze security, robustness, health, and reliability of software systems has been updated with a new Delivery Management Tool. This augmentation should allow users to upload their source directly within the Cast AIP portal with the press of a button.
This software is intended to help team leaders to benchmark the quality of their applications against competitors in their industry, as well as ease the burden of analyzing and measuring the software structure of enterprise-sized applications.
NOTE: AIP 7.1 comes to market with several enhancements for software analysis, including enhanced configuration management, a new custom reporting engine, an extended API, and advanced source code delivery automation.
Cast is all about making big claims and the firm says that these new capabilities make AIP the "closest the market has seen" to a fully automated, plug-and-play solution for the enterprise.
"I'm sure the CEOs of NASDAQ, Knight Capital, American Airlines, and Sabre wished they had CAST AIP 7.1 pointed at their critical IT systems before they crashed and made headlines, tarnished their image, and sent their stocks plummeting," said Dr. Bill Curtis, chief scientist at Cast.
NOTE: Curtis means crashed the company stocks, not the airline.
"Every one of these companies could have benefited from having the latest AIP dashboard on the CEO's desk. I'm confident none of these failures would have happened if they had been able to see this train coming before it went off the rails," he added.
The new reporting capability uses the extended, REST-ful web service API, linking preconfigured templates in MS Word to the AIP knowledgebase. To customize additional reports, the customer has to configure a new MS Word template, connect the fields to those available via the API, and hit go.
A new level of source code delivery automation is introduced in the Delivery Management Tool (DMT). The DMT plugs into all forms of source code management and build management tooling. Integrations to major tools are available on the CAST Customer Forum; exotic or custom tools are integrated by scripting.
The DMT then orchestrates the collection of all source code elements needed to fully represent a snapshot of an application. DMT automatically checks the completeness of the application, ensuring apples-to-apples analysis between snapshots — an issue that's critical when implementing enterprise-grade software measurement.
In its latest incarnation, AIP provides advanced application analytics for decision support, software risk prevention, and application visibility unavailable to this point at the enterprise level. AIP v7.1 has been in beta deployment over the summer and is generally available as of September 24.