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The EPO Online Services which can/must be accessed using a smart card are:
Smart cards are credit card-sized plastic cards that contain a microprocessor and a small amount of memory.
The EPO decided very early on in the planning process for its online services that the certificates which would allow users to conduct secure transactions with us would be stored on smart cards. Unlike passwords, smart cards allow us to provide the more secure two-factor authentication, comprising something that is held (the card) and something that is known (the PIN.) Two-factor authentication means that PINs can be simpler and therefore easier to remember than with a password, since, without the card, the PIN is useless, and vice versa. Also, the simpler PINs are not susceptible to brute-force attacks because the smart card locks out after several unsuccessful attempts to enter the PIN.
In addition to being small and portable, smart cards afford a much higher level of secure storage for certificates than, say, if they are stored on a hard drive. They offer tamper-proof storage of the user's private keys and digital certificates, are highly resistant to unauthorised deletion or copying of the certificates and keys, and any attempt to tamper with them requires significant effort which would invariably result in physical damage to the cards themselves. Also, it is easier to spot the loss or theft of a card than of a certificate stored on a computer.
Yes, you can use it either with the EPO-supplied smart card reader, or with an internal smart card reader, supported by the Gemalto software.
Yes, you can use your EPO smart card as well, provided that you have installed the Gemalto software. You cannot, however, use your EPO smart card to access your company network.
Smart card packages are supplied free of charge.
No, this is not possible. Each person has to enrol individually (there is a secret security question for each card holder).
No. We can only issue EPO smart cards to individual natural persons.
No. The EPO can only issue one smart card per person and legal entity.
You can enrol for an EPO smart card online.
Please refer to the information on smart cards in the Security section.
Some non-EPO smart cards can be registered online.
Once we are in receipt of the signed paper copy of your enrolment form, your request will be processed and your new card will be delivered via the DHL courier service. You will receive a confirmation e-mail quoting the DHL tracking number once your card has been dispatched.
If you do not receive your smart card within 21 days, please contact us.
If we do not receive the paper copy of your enrolment form within two months of your online enrolment request, your smart card request will be automatically rejected. If you still require a card you will have to start the enrolment procedure again.
No, only authorised persons (representatives, authorised legal practitioners and employers) are allowed to use their smart card to sign applications.
EPO smart cards are now valid for five years. The validity date is indicated on the smart card.
The expiry date of your smart card is printed on the card next to your name. You can renew your card online up to 60 days prior to the expiry date. Your new smart card will be sent to your current address via the DHL courier service. Thereafter, a new PIN code will be dispatched via standard post.
Please contact us for further assistance.
If the expiry date has already passed, please contact us.
No, each new smart card is allocated a new PIN code.
Smart card holder, or the company Administrator is obliged to request the revocation of a smart card. Please contact us.
If your smart card has already expired or if you have already asked EPO User Support to revoke it, you should cut the smart card across the metallic chip and dispose of it. You do not need to return it to the EPO.
1) First check that you have the right software for new generation smart cards.
You need to have Gemalto Classic Client 6.3 (password-protected) correctly installed for new generation smart cards to work as they should.
If you have already installed the software, start by uninstalling it (it may not have downloaded properly the first time).
Then reinstall both of the following (choosing 32-bit or 64-bit installation, as appropriate):
Please restart your computer after the installation.
2) Then check your smart card.
Ensure that your card is correctly inserted in the reader.
Open the Classic Client Toolbox (Start => Programs => Gemalto => Classic Client => Classic Client Toolbox)
Go to Card Contents and click Certificates
You should see three red certificates and one public key, as in this example:
Please enter the PIN and click Login, and an additional private key will appear. Click the button Register All (see above), and the following message will appear:
3) Check that your web browser is correctly configured.
If you are using Internet Explorer 7.0 or later versions, please go to Tools, open Internet Options and check the following.
(a) The Enable Protected Mode option should be unchecked.
Alternatively add www.epo.org/ and https://my2.epoline.org/portal/ to the Trusted Sites.
(b) Users of Microsoft Internet Explorer 7.0 and 8.0 will need to uncheck Enable Protected Mode and enable SSL 2.0 to allow secure access to online services.
Users of Microsoft Internet Explorer 9.0 and 10.0 will need to uncheck Enable Protected Mode and disable SSL 2.0, TLS 1.1 and TLS 1.2.
If you are using Mozilla Firefox, please follow the procedure described here.
You should now be able to activate your smart card on our website.
However, you will still need to contact the EPO to have the necessary changes made concerning your:
Please contact us.
If you have not received you PIN code, please contact us for assistance.
Go to Start - Programs - Gemalto - Classic Client - Classic Client Toolbox - Card Administration - PIN Management - Change PIN - Next.
First make sure that your smart card is correctly inserted in the reader.
Then run the Gemalto Toolbox by clicking on Start - Programs - Gemalto - Classic Client - Classic Client Toolbox.
Click on "Certificates" under "Card Contents" and enter your PIN code to log in.
If your PIN code is wrong or blocked, an error message will appear.
You should contact us informing us of your smart card details and ask for your Admin PIN. You will be required to answer the security question which you initially provided when applying for a smart card.
Each smart card contains a personal electronic key, which is equivalent to a "live" signature in the paper world. Only authorised representatives, i.e. professional representatives before the EPO and authorised employees whose names are entered in the official list maintained by the EPO, are entitled to use a smart card to sign their submissions.
An alphabetical or text string signature is a string of alphabetical characters, preceded and followed by a forward slash [/], selected by an individual person to provide evidence of their identity and their intent to sign the document in question. The name of an authorised representative without the forward slashes cannot be used to replace such a signature.
A facsimile signature is a scanned image of a handwritten signature. The image file (in TIFF or JPEG format) is attached to the application.
Yes. You can draft applications in File Manager and send them. However, any documents filed online must be signed by a person authorised to act in the proceedings in question.
Yes. You can draft, sign and send filings. You can use all three modes of signing: digital (via smart card), alphabetical or facsimile.
You need a deposit account with the EPO, a smart card and smart card reader and an internet browser.
No, you need a smart card to be able to do this.
Your smart card will have to be replaced. Contact us for assistance.
Internet Explorer users
Your certificates are stored on your smart card and are automatically registered in the new Web browser on your new PC.
Gemalto Version 6.3
Start - Programs - Gemalto - Classic Client - Classic Client toolbox - Certificates. Then log in and click on the Register All
Mozilla Firefox users
If you want to set up Mozilla Firefox to recognise Gemalto so that it can read your smart card, you will have to manually register your certificates.
No. The certificates in your smart card are meant for use with the EPO's Online Filing and secure online services only.
We recommend that you use the readers we supply, as they have been tested and approved. However, you can also use any other reader that is recognised by the Gemalto software.
We cannot, however, offer support for readers not supplied by us.
If your reader is faulty or if you did not receive one with your smart card, you can request one from us.
No, but you have to install the complete Gemalto software (smart card reader driver and the appropriate Classic Client) on your computer.
Gemalto Classic Client 6.3
Look at the icon in the Windows system tray on the right-hand side of the task bar.
indicates that your smart card reader is functioning correctly, but that it does not contain a card.
or indicates that your smart card is recognized by the reader/software.
Try changing the connecting lead to another USB port. If that does not work, try it on a different computer. If your reader works on another machine, you should consult your computer dealer/IT department. If not, please contact us.
If the green light on your smart card reader is flashing, that means your smart card reader is switched on.
If the light is not flashing, plug the connecting lead into any functioning USB port on your computer.
The green light should go from blinking to steady when you insert your card. If it does not, check that the end of the card with the chip element is inserted face-up in the direction of the arrow, and that the Gemalto software is installed.
In Gemalto 6.3 go to Start - Programs - Gemalto - Classic Client - Classic Client Toolbox - Certificates. You will see the window below, with the reader icons shown.
This means that Gemalto Classic Client 6.3 is unable to access the smart card driver and that you may need to install it.
You will find the link to Gemalto Classic Client version 6.3 and the requisite driver in the cover letter accompanying your smart card, or you can request it from us.
The current version of Gemalto is Classic Client 6.3.
You will find the link to Gemalto Classic Client version 6.3 and the requisite driver in the cover letter accompanying your smart card, or you can contact us.
Gemalto Classic Client version 6.3 must be installed on every PC where a smart card reader is used.
Version 6.3 of Gemalto Classic Client is now available. Please contact us for the link and the password.
For instructions on please see our installation guide.
If you use Microsoft Internet Explorer 7.0 or 8.0 you will need to
If you use Mozilla Firefox you should read our guide to the setting-up procedure:


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Student Organizations
Involvement in campus organizations is an important part of the university's total
education program. These groups offer social and service opportunities for their members, the university, and the community at large. Membership can broaden acquaintances, develop leadership ability, build decision-making and problem-solving skills, and complement classroom instruction.
Located in Davies Center 220, the Student Organizations and Leadership Center is home to some 280 student organizations at UW-Eau Claire. It is also home to the Student Senate, the primary vehicle for involvement of students in university governance.
The Student Organizations and Leadership Center provides workspace, organization mailboxes, lockers, meeting rooms, computer access and staff support. A workshop located within the complex provides a workspace for creative projects. Supplies available for organization use include banner paper, construction paper, paints, markers, sidewalk chalk, crayons and stencils. Student organizations are welcome to use these materials at any time for organization purposes.
The Handbook for Student Organizations helps new student organizations get started, and helps established organizations run more effectively. A companion resource is QuickTips!, a set of online publications created to help student organizations and advisors develop new skills and build on their existing skills.
The Blu's Organizations Bash presented each semester helps students find the campus organizations that will give them the best opportunities for friendship, involvement, leadership and job-related experience.

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Our logo was designed by the Quilted cooperative.
Current version
Logo_hires.png is cropped from the version Sagannotcarl published on the Quilted site: Tif file, Illustrator file
While the color and concept is nice, the circuit is kind of ungrammatical. The little bumps on the top and bottom are used to emphasize that two wires are crossing over one another and not connecting --- but there's no other wire there for them to pass over.
A simple way to fix this would be to add a vertical line through the middle of the logo all the way to the edge of the circle; that would render the circuit grammatically correct, although it still wouldn't be a circuit that did anything useful, except perhaps convert a little sound into heat.
A perhaps cleverer idea would be to incorporate a "bridge" circuit into the logo. A bridge is a square with a diagonal, with things connected to the corners of the square not on the diagonal, and it's the simplest circuit that can't be decomposed into series and parallel subcomponents. A bridge rectifier with a speaker on the diagonal would be both a nice illustration of the name, and also might have interesting nonlinear audio effects (as an output stage, not as a noise generator itself) if you actually built it.
Kragen 16:19, 26 November 2007 (PST)
a bridge
After some IRC discussion, I'm uploading a photo of a pencil sketch of a Wheatstone bridge with an AC power source and a speaker in place of the galvanometer.
Kragen 17:04, 26 November 2007 (PST)
pencil sketch
Kragen 17:17, 26 November 2007 (PST)
High res art from Quilted
So I couldn't upload it here, but it's available from the Quilted site.[1]
I didn't have time to incorporate all the good ideas above, so I threw an extra line in to appease the electronics crowd. This could definitely use some work to include the other ideas though.
--Sagannotcarl 19:29, 6 February 2008 (PST)
A Few Ideas
Got to playing with InkScape a bit today, and made a few noisebridge-themed things to consider.
The circuit in the first is an audio signal going through a bridge rectifier to a speaker, which I haven't built (yet), but which would have the effect of kicking the fundamental frequency up an octave and distorting everything. The wheatstone circuit above would fit this layout too. This one had the interesting unintended side effect of being shaped like a cartoon rocket. The other two are just pseudo-oscilloscope buttons showing noise, keeping to the shape and color scheme of the current logo with a simpler theme. I uploaded these as pngs for easy web viewing, but if anyone wants the svgs to play around with let me know.
--Noahbalmer 14:13, 12 May 2008 (PDT)


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High Hedges: What if a Remedial Notice is Served?
Carrying Out Works Specified in the Remedial Notice
Under the legislation, the hedge owner, or occupier of the land where the hedge is situated, must carry out the works specified in the Remedial Notice, within the timescale set. Failure to do so, may result in prosecution and a fine. In some cases the Council could decide to carry out the work itself and then recover their costs from the hedge owner. However, the council is not obliged to cut a hedge even if a notice is being breached, this will be purely at our discretion.
The Remedial Notice does not give the complainant any right to intervene and take the necessary action themselves.
The Remedial Notice will take effect 28 days after it is issued. This date will be clear on the Notice. If you want to appeal against this notice, either because you are the hedge owner and don't feel the Notice should have been served, or if you are the complainant and don't think the actions go far enough to solve the problems the hedge causes to you, you must appeal before the Notice comes into effect.
Further advice about appeals can also be found in the ODPM leaflet
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VIP Interior is a one-page Fullscreen HTML template. It makes use of the newest features available today.
The layout has a unique sliding thumbnails which give the website elegant feel. Clear documentation is also provided.
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I have been having problems with a custom taxonomy not working with a url. For example mysite.com/testcat/test1 will 404 but mysite.com/make/ford will work.
More troubling is that mysite.com/?make=ford&testcat=test1 will bring up my test page (both taxonomies where included).
Here is a clipping of the functions.php
register_taxonomy( 'testcat', 'videos', array( 'hierarchical' => True, 'label' => 'testcat', 'query_var' => true, 'rewrite' => true ) );
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OK, is $300,000 middle class in Greater Boston?
Before you scoff, take a look at what this Boston-area attorney has to say.
Astrom makes $310,000 a year and argues he too is middle class.
He lives in a $250,000 condo and drives a Honda.
While his mortgage payments are hardly negligible, the real back breaker is $2,800 a month in day-care costs for twin, four-year-old boys. It may sound high, but it's in the ballpark for the Boston area.
That's enough for a good-sized mortgage. In fact, I'd argue day care is one of the major hidden cost traps for Boston-area homeowners, who too often don't factor this in before buying, especially if they are planning to have children, but have yet to cross the threshold into parenthood.
"So the bottom line is this: I want to have things that I can comfortably afford without an undue debt burden and at today's prices those are only middle class things," astrom writes. "Therefore, I am not rich by definition. I am middle class."
Read and hear him out - he put himself out there so show some respect. Still, let's hear your opinion as well. Is $300,000, given the high cost of housing, day care, and everything else in the Boston area, still within that middle class range?
Or does astrom simply fail to realize how good he has it compared to the average, cash-strapped Massachusetts homeowner.
Here's astrom's full comment:
I made $310,000 last year, but I consider myself a middle class person. I own a $250K condo and drive a Honda. I will not buy anything luxury that has a monthly payment atached to it. The reasons are as follows.
First, my income along with the healthcare can disappear with little notice because it all comes from my employer. I have zero job secuirty. I learned my lesson during the financial crisis when I suddenly had to leave my law firm job for a federal court law clerk position with $85K a year income.
Second, my wife and I have 4 year-old twins. Our day care cost is $2,800 a month.
Third, fully 30% of the paycheck goes to the Fed plus whatever the state wants.
Fourth, while I can technically afford a bigger home in a nicer town and to lease a couple of German cars, if I did that I would not be able to afford other things that I love to do, such as traveling to Europe and eating out.
Fifth, we have no debt (other than mortgage and my school loans).
Sixth, my wife has been a stay-at-home mom for the last 4.5 years.
So the bottom line is this. I want to have things that I can comfortably afford without an undue debt burden and at today's prices those are only middle class things. Therefore, I am not rich by definition. I am middle class.
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Redskins third-round TE Jordan Reed did not participate in rookie minicamp due to a bone bruise in his knee and a pulled quad.
Saints signed WR Hakeem Nicks to a one-year contract.
Mike Wallace failed the conditioning test to open Ravens' training camp.
Eagles placed RB Ryan Mathews (ankle) on the active/NFI list.
Rams released QB Nick Foles.
The Sacramento Bee's Matt Barrows believes Bruce Ellington is in "excellent position" to be the 49ers' "breakout player" on offense.
Cardinals signed ILB Donald Butler, formerly of the Chargers.
ESPN's Adam Caplan reports Jeremy Langford packed on 8-10 pounds in an effort to handle an "increased role" in the backfield.
Chiefs placed RB Jamaal Charles (knee) on the active/PUP list.
ESPN Bills reporter Mike Rodak doesn't consider suspended RB Karlos Williams a lock to make the team.
ESPN's Ed Werder reports the Jets and free agent Ryan Fitzpatrick have had "no recent talks."
The Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel's Pete Dougherty estimates Eddie Lacy reported to camp "around the 240-pound mark."


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NFL title game anything but Super
February 3, 2013
I AM a football junkie, but I will be the first to admit that today's Super Bowl leaves a lot lacking for my viewing interest. I have a disdain for both teams....
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Study: HPV Tests Better at Predicting Cervical Cancer Than Pap Tests
No Significant Gain From Combining the Tests, Study Shows
By Brenda Goodman
WebMD Health News
Reviewed By Laura J. Martin, MD
Aug. 22, 2011 -- DNA tests that detect the most virulent strains of human papillomavirus, or HPV, may find more advanced precancerous cells that can lead to cervical cancer than traditional Pap smears, a new study shows.
The study, which is published in The Lancet Oncology, suggests that testing for HPV strains 16 and 18, which cause about 70% of all cervical cancer, could replace Pap tests as the primary screening tool for the disease.
"We're not there yet, but this trial gives us more data that shows that it is reasonable to consider HPV as a standalone test," says Therese Bevers, MD, medical director of the Cancer Prevention Center at the University of Texas M.D. Anderson Cancer Center in Houston.
The study of more than 40,000 healthy women over age 25 found that HPV testing correctly detected nearly 40% more advanced precancers than Pap smears did.
"There are still points to be worked out, but clearly this study is providing more data to say that this may be a strategy that's reasonable to consider," says Bevers, who was not involved in the research.
Importantly, the study also found that combining HPV and Pap testing, as many doctors do, only found about 5% more advanced precancers and cancers, but it increased the number of women who falsely tested positive by more than one-third.
"You get a 5% gain for a 35% over-referral," says study researcher Mark H. Stoler, MD, professor of pathology and clinical gynecology at the University of Virginia Health System in Charlottesville, Va.
Those false-positive tests lead to more frequent or invasive testing to rule out cancer, more anxiety for patients, and more expense for individuals and insurance companies.
"The study suggests that if you're really concerned about efficiency with very little penalty, then HPV testing should be the first test," Stoler tells WebMD.
Comparing HPV to Pap Tests for Cancer Screening
The study recruited more than 47,000 women aged 25 and older from 61 clinical trial sites in 23 states.
Women were included in the study if they weren't pregnant and hadn't been diagnosed with low-grade cervical cell abnormalities within the last year.
All women had two swabs of cells taken from their cervix. The samples were tested for HPV viruses and the appearance of the cells was examined under a microscope.
All women who tested positive for HPV, those who had abnormal Pap smear results, and a random sample of those who had normal test results were sent to have a colposcopy, a closer examination of the cervix.
Overall, the prevalence of advanced cervical lesions among women in the study, which are considered to be precursors to cancer, was less than 2%.
Of the women diagnosed with the most advanced precancers, 92% tested positive for HPV, while 52% had abnormal Pap smear results. Among women with normal Pap smears who tested positive for HPV, the study found that those who tested positive for HPV strains 16 and 18 had significant risk of having advanced precancer.
"A woman who is HPV 16-positive with a normal Pap smear has a 10% chance of having a high-grade cancer precursor, so that's worth her having colposcopy," Stoler says.
The study was funded and designed by Roche, which manufactures the test for high-risk HPV strains.
Doctors Unlikely to Stop Using Pap Tests
Despite the study's vote of confidence for HPV screening, Stoler thinks it will probably take more research and more time to convince doctors to change the way they screen for cervical cancer, Stoler says.
"It's a matter of society and the organizations that write guidelines giving practitioners permission to do it that way," he says. "That's a hard thing to move."
HPV testing with Pap testing is an option for women over 30. However Stoler says the co-test, as it is known, isn't widely used.
Among doctors who do use it, recent surveys show that many doctors screen their low-risk patients -- those who test negative for both HPV and have normal cells on their Pap smears -- annually instead of every three years as recommended.
"This just shows that we're grappling, as researchers and clinicians, with how to incorporate HPV testing in our cervical cancer screening," says Elizabeth A. Poynor, MD, gynecologic oncologist and pelvic surgeon at Lenox Hill Hospital in N.Y.
"This study gives us additional information that when we look for HPV 16 or 18 or both, it is more sensitive than actually looking at the cells underneath the microscope," Poynor says.
Castle, P. Lancet Oncology, September 2011.
Therese Bevers, MD, medical director, Cancer Prevention Center, University of Texas M.D. Anderson Cancer Center, Houston.
Mark H. Stoler, MD, professor of pathology and clinical gynecology, University of Virginia Health System, Charlottesville, Va.
Elizabeth A. Poynor, MD, gynecologic oncologist and pelvic surgeon, Lenox Hill Hospital, New York. © 2011 WebMD, LLC. All rights reserved.
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How Long to Take Antibiotics
Q: I've noticed that whenever my children have a strep infection or ear infection, the doctor gives them antibiotics to take for ten days. Is it really important to take it for ten days or will six or seven days be enough?
A: The reason for giving the antibiotics for ten days is to make sure that the infection has been cleared. While it is true that some people probably clear the infection with less than ten days of antibiotics, most studies have shown that the best clearance rate for the most people occurs after ten days. There is no way to know ahead of time if your child will clear the infection sooner, so it is best to follow your doctor's recommendation and give it for the full ten days.
If the infection is inadequately treated, it can come back again, "smolder" in a milder fashion for a while, or cause serious complications.
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Shari Nethersole is a physician at Children's Hospital, Boston, and an instructor in Pediatrics at Harvard Medical School. She graduated from Yale University and Harvard Medical School, and did her internship and residency at Children's Hospital, Boston. As a pediatrician, she tries to work with parents to identify and address their concerns.


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Logan Waters of Greensburg was recently named to the Sterling College Dean's List for the fall 2012 semester. Waters is a senior and is the son of Grey and Lisa Waters.
Waters was one of 178 students named to the Sterling College Dean's List for the fall semester. Criteria for the Dean's List include the completion of at least twelve graded credit hours and a semester GPA of 3.5 or better.
Sterling College is celebrating 125 years as a Christ-centered, four-year, liberal arts college located in Sterling, Kan. Since 1887, Sterling has provided quality academics with a mission to develop creative and thoughtful leaders who understand a maturing Christian faith.
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Tales from Ohio State: How the Class of '08 Found Jobs
In the postcrash era, Ohio State grads say they found work—but barely
Megan Abady wasn't thrilled to move to Wisconsin after graduating from Ohio State University in the spring of 2008. But a job was a job, and this one, a supply-chain position at Kimberly-Clark Corp., paid fairly well. So the marketing major signed the contract and expressed relief that, unlike many of her classmates, she was employed.
Ms. Abady, who turns 27 this weekend, has since moved back to Ohio and earns a "comfortable" living as a merchandise planner at retailer The Limited. "I was one of the luckier ones," she says of her first five years out of school, a half-decade that coincided with a world-wide financial crisis and one of the toughest hiring markets in recent memory.
Welcome to the class of 2008, college graduates who stepped into the real world just when few would want—and now have their own war stories. According to the U.S. Department of Labor, the rate of unemployment for fresh graduates—those 20 to 24—shot up dramatically after the crisis, from 5.4% in 2007 to a peak of 9.2% in 2010. It improved to 7.8% to 2012, the most recent year available, but experts say this group is earning substantially less those who entered the workforce in better times.
Graduates like Ms. Abady from Ohio State—one of the nation's largest schools—are no different. According to a dozen interviews with alumni and career-services officers from the school, many have taken jobs they didn't want, faced rounds of layoffs and earned barely enough to cover student-loan payments. Now at the age when their parents were established in their careers, families and homes, many say their own lives haven't really started. Even those with flourishing careers aren't necessarily on the paths they expected.
Justin Rasanow aspired to work in finance, but grew disenchanted after witnessing the crisis close-up. A financial planning major who graduated in December 2008, he thought he was paving the way to Wall Street by accepting a job at a Columbus brokerage firm. But when his supervisor's $100 million client portfolio lost more than half its value in the months following the collapse of Lehman Brothers, Mr. Rasanow tired of "talking clients off a ledge."
So he quit, first moving back with his parents in Toledo to sell insurance, and then later he decided to leave finance. Last year, he was introduced to the owner of a firm that scans concrete to ensure construction projects don't hit underground utilities, and Mr. Rasanow, now 28, took a job as a regional manager in Tampa. His salary is nearly $100,000, he says, and comes without what he sees as the stigma of a career in banking.
"It's hard to get clients who are 70 years old and don't trust anybody. And they have every right to be less trusting," he says.
Other graduates at the school, spooked by massive layoffs at big employers, chose jobs that promised greater autonomy and a feeling of control over their careers.
Lindsay Freisthler initially "laughed in my recruiter's face" when asked during her senior year whether she could envision a career selling Mary Kay Cosmetics. Six years later, the human-resources major, now 27 and based in Columbus, earns more than $50,000 and leads a 100-person sales team. She's on track to land the company's signature pink Cadillac next year, and is eyeing a position as a national sales director someday.
Graduates who enter the workforce during a recession often don't feel settled professionally until age 28 or 29—two to three years later than those who get started during boom times, according to Anthony Carnevale, director of the Georgetown University Center on Education and the Workforce. Recession-era graduates often require two additional job moves to get on track to a stable career.
"You're on the stairs, and that's the good news. But it adds a couple of steps," he says.
Clay Lukas, who majored in communications at Ohio State, has a steady job working for a Mediterranean food importer in New York, but it took him years, and several false starts. After graduation, he moved to Denmark to work in nightclub promotions, only to return to the U.S. in late 2009—a moment when the hiring market was in a deep freeze.
He lasted six months at a Columbus collections agency, then moved back in with his parents, helping out at the family business and taking a part-time stint with the U.S. Census. After moving to New York City in 2010, he submitted more than 100 applications before he was hired by his current employer as a marketing assistant. Now a marketing production coordinator, Mr. Lukas says his salary of $52,000 is "barely" enough to cover living expenses and student-loan payments.
For some, though, struggles have turned into success. Matt Katz, 28, started professional life as a "glorified garbage man," earning $15 an hour sorting old files in the basement of a Manhattan real estate appraiser's office. Today, he is an appraiser himself. "I worked a crappy job, and got a better job out of that," says Mr. Katz, who this summer felt financially secure enough to propose to his girlfriend.
She said yes.
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I am looking for a description of the Plancherel Measure of $\textrm{SL}_3(\mathbb{Q}_p)$. Has this been calculated yet? I've search many places for it, but I've only found results on real/complex special linear groups and on $p$-adic general linear groups. Any help would be appreciated.
This is not a complete answer but only some hints that could help you.
Bushnell, Kutzko and Henniart have shown, for a general reductive group, that the restriction of the Plancherel measure to each block of the Bernstein decomposition may be computed via isomorphisms of Hecke algebras :
Bushnell, Colin J.; Henniart, Guy; Kutzko, Philip C. Types and explicit Plancherel formulæ for reductive $p$-adic groups. On certain $L$-functions, 55–80, Clay Math. Proc., 13, Amer. Math. Soc., Providence, RI, 2011.
In the following paper, Bushnell and Kutzko show that for certain blocks of ${\rm SL}(N)$the Hecke algebra is isomorphic to a Iwahori Hecke algebra for some ${\rm SL}(N')$ over another field.
Bushnell, Colin J.; Kutzko, Philip C. The admissible dual of ${\rm SL}(N)$. I. Ann. Sci. École Norm. Sup. (4) 26 (1993), no. 2, 261–280.


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January 14, 2009
Hout Bay – Flickr pic of the day
This photograph of Hout Bay was taken by our Cape Town. Live it. Love it. group member Nick Wonfor.
Nick took this great shot from above Chapman's Peak Drive using a Canon 350D Tv 1/30 Av 29 Canon 18-55mm lens @ 27mm.
He says: "I was walking in Silvermine Nature Reserve looking for interesting raptor activity. Because of the cliff face and general inaccessibility of the area above Chapman's Peak Drive I often see birds here that I rarely see anywhere else. The view from the top of the mountain is absolutely spectacular and in spite of the fact that I didn't find what I was looking for on the day, I was still pleased I made the trip."
Do you have images of Cape Town you'd like to share with us? We'd love you to join the Cape Town. Live it. Love it. Flickr group!
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PTI308: DigitalPub (2013-2014)
CURRICULUM PROGRAM: Career and Technical Education
COURSE TITLE: Digital Publishing
COURSE LENGTH: 36 weeks
Major Concepts/Content: Publication Software Applications is a course desgined for students with an interest in desktop publishing. This course will provide training in the software for personal use and employment. Students completing this course may be eligible to to take an Adobe certification exam.
Major Instructional Activities: Instructional activities will be provided in a classroom or a lab utilizing individualized instruction and online resources will be provided in a lab environment. Simulaitons projects, appropriate support software, internet activities and alternative resources may be used. Students will primarily use Adobe InDesign software while learning the following modules: Basic Graphic and Layout Designs; Graphic and Layout Design; Imaging Process and Creating Publications.
Major Evaluative Techniques: Assessment will be accomplished by checking student work in progress to ensure that timelines are developed and followed throughout the course. The students must also successfully complete all projecs deemed appropriate by the instructor.
Course Objectives: Upon completion of this course, students will be able to:
- Determine the appropriate situations for using desktop publishing software
- Demonstrate the ability to use a software package associated with publication
- Use computer graphics, capture computer images, or other multi-media sources (i.e. sound, video, etc.) to enhance publications
- Save graphics input deveices such as scanners and other digital devices
- Demonstrate knowledge of legal and ethical aspects of computer usage iwth using and modifying information
- Demonstrate ability to work with reference materials, documentation and other related resources
- Create desktop publications for personal use or use in a portfolio for employment opportunties or continued education in a publications career field
Course Notes: Year Long class for Certification (Name Change). May not be taken if took Publications Software Apps. Credit-computer or careers


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What is known about spaces of embeddings of contractible manifolds into Euclidean space? I am also curious about the case of small codimension (or even codimension 0). The same question about the configuration spaces in such manifolds.
(This is by far not a complete answer, just an example.) In dimension 4, a paper of Livingstone (build on previous work of Lickorish) constructs some (compact with boundary) contractible 4-manifold which embeds in $\mathbb R^4$ in infinitely many (countable) distinct ways. These are distinguished by the fundamental group of the complement.


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Facebook 101
Location:Bluffton Branch
Date & Time:Tuesday, February 19, 2013 - 10:00am – 11:30am
This course will guide students through the process of creating a Facebook account for the first time. Learn about setup, connecting with friends, liking pages and timelines. Participants should have an active email address and be comfortable using it.
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BCN:MCR is back for its second year and we're delighted to announce that Shillington is the main sponsor! This year some incredible Barcelona studios will feature such as, Toormix, Atipus and Two points. The exhibition is taking place at TwentyTwentyTwo from Thursday 27th March - Wednesday 23rd April 2014 and it's free! As those of you who went last year will know it's an amazing event and definitely not one to miss! More info can be found here.


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The Salvation Army was overwhelmed by community support during the holidays, but that's a trend they hope will continue throughout the year.
The Salvation Army Thrift Store sells new and gently used clothes, toys, electronics, and furniture. They say they're always in need of items and volunteers.
They say if you have something laying around unused, they can take it. Even if you can't make it during regular hours.
"We actually have a bin out there that people can put things in after hours when we're closed, and a canopy where they can put bigger stuff that won't fit in the bin," said Salvation Army Thrift Store Manager Sheryl Emberton.
Emberton suggests bringing electronics and things that can be damaged by rain inside during store hours when possible, but she says many people use the bin to donate.
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6 National Anthems That Will Make You Tremble With Fear
On Independence Day, Americans are probably feeling something approaching national pride. So we thought we'd take a closer look at the national anthem, that creepy ritual of bland patriotism.
We all know that the American national anthem tells the inspiring story of a brave flag that survives a scary night by believing in itself. But not all national anthems steal their plots from children's books. In fact, some countries aren't satisfied until their national anthem makes any child within earshot weep in terror. Here are six that take pride in their land to a whole new and insanely violent level.
#6. Algeria - "Qassaman"/"We Pledge"
Though it pre-dates both heavy metal and rap by several decades, the Algerian national anthem's lyrics expertly incorporate the prominent cornerstones of both genres' most violent moments. Destructive lightning? Check. Gratuitous bloodshed? Check. Machine guns? Check. Being held down by the man? Word up, son.
Algerian Prime Minister Cent.
The lyrics, written in 1956 by Moufdi Zakaria, are about two "hos" shy of being a Lil' Wayne single. At the time of the writing, Zakaria was being held captive in Algiers by French colonial forces. Realizing that it was, in fact, France that was holding him and his country down, he spent his downtime penning a tune about the ass whooping his fellow countrymen would surely be dishing out sometime in the near future.
Most Awesomely Violent Lyrics
"We swear by the lightning that destroys, By the streams of generous blood being shed"
"When we spoke, none listened to us, So we have taken the noise of gunpowder as our rhythm, And the sound of machine guns as our melody"
Did They Live Up To It?
Hell yeah! Beginning with guerrilla attacks by the National Liberation Front (FLN) against military and civilian targets in November of 1954, Algeria launched a bloody war for independence from France that would last almost eight years. By the time it was done, almost one million Pied-noirs (Algerian residents of European descent) had fled the country and Algeria was free to never be fucked with by anyone ever again.
#5. Italy - "Il Canto degli Italiani"/"The Song of the Italians"
Throughout the majority of the Italian national anthem, things sound pretty bleak. Hell, the main line in the chorus is "we are ready to die!" But Goffredo Mameli, the 20 year old poet who wrote the lyrics, clearly understood that one can only be down for so long.
Like most good national anthems, this one was written in the shadow of a looming war for independence, this time with Austria. Listening to the first few verses, you would think Mameli thought independence was a lost cause. But then, the final verse rolls around and Mameli goes from defeated poet to a Nostradamus-like teller of fortunes.
On an unrelated note, can you imagine what state our collective national anthems would be in if written by the 20-year olds of today? Booty booty booty booty bursting everywhere!
Most Awesomely Violent Lyrics
"Mercenary swords, they're feeble reeds. The Austrian eagle has already lost its plumes. The blood of Italy and the Polish blood it drank, along with the Cossack. But it burned its heart."
Burning heart= cooler imagery than star spangled banner.
Did They Live Up To It?
Sort of. Italy lost the first war for independence from Austria. And, for all intents and purposes, they lost the second war with Austria also. Hell, they basically lost the third. But thanks to a convenient alliance with Prussia, Italy eventually gained their independence. This half-assed eeking out of national independence was brought to you by the people responsible for the fucking Mafia. Go figure.
#4. Hungary - "Himnusz/Hymn"
Unlike most of the other anthems on this list, Hungary's really has no cause to be as violent as it is. There was no war for independence on the horizon. No foreign invader was occupying their homeland. Basically, a whole bunch of nothing was going on. It would appear that overall, Hungary is just such a shitty place to live that some dude decided to ask God to help him out.
Hungary. Probably. We don't know much about geography.
That's right, this anthem is written as a direct address to God. Most national anthems implore the citizens of their grand country to take up arms and fight against oppression, transgression, whatever. Himnusz is having no part of that. Really, it's a bit unclear what the problem was at all. But whatever was up their ass, it apparently required divine intervention. It's basically the national anthem equivalent of what an unemployed, alcoholic friend might call and moan to you at 2:30 in the morning.
Most Awesomely Violent Lyrics
"No freedom's flowers return, from the spilt blood of the dead, and the tears of slavery burn, which the eyes of orphans shed."
A Hungarian orphan.
Did They Live Up To It?
Yeah, they probably did. There is no evidence that Hungary ever kicked any serious ass, but you don't write lyrics about burning orphan tears without having put up with some serious shit.


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Communicating with Wittenberg
FERPA – Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act
The Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act is a federal statute that protects a student's educational record. FERPA provides for the right of students to inspect and review their own education records, the right to seek to amend those records, and the right to limit disclosure of information from the official records. Only those persons with a "need to know" (academic advisors, staff who need access to information to perform their job duties, etc.) are given access to the student's record. (Health and counseling records are confidential by law and are not considered a part of your educational record.) Exceptions to this policy include the event of a medical emergency or when the safety of the student or the community is in question. In those situations, parents will be contacted.
What Does that Mean for You as a Parent?
Your student will be your primary link to Wittenberg. We will communicate directly with your student about anything that might affect his or her educational experience; you can learn about these communications by talking with your student directly. This means that if you have a question about how your student is doing in classes, whether your student is attending classes, or want to talk about your student's experiences on campus, you will need to communicate directly with your student. We encourage you to discuss with your student your expectations for sharing that information with you. Students may give parents access to grades, schedules and financial information on the WittLink Portal.
Because of the Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act (FERPA) you can't call and talk to someone about your student's academic progress without written consent. Students who want their parents to be able to talk with university officials directly must sign a release form. Release forms are good for one semester and only for that specific office or individual.
Who should I contact?
For Academic Concerns:
Academic Services 937-327-7891
Vancenia Rutherford, Assistant Provost
For Personal or Social Concerns:
Student Development 937-327-7800
Casey Stevens, Associate Dean of Students, Student Conduct and Leadership
Dawn White, Senior Associate Dean of Students
John Young, Associate Dean for Multicultural Student Programs and the Womyn's Center
Mark DeVilbiss, Associate Dean for Residential Life
Campus Ministries 937-327-7411
Anders and Rachel Tune, Pastors to the University
For Physical or Mental Health Concerns:
Health and Wellness Center 937-327-7811
Kathryn McKee, M.D., Director of Health Center
Linda M. Lauffenburger, Director of Counseling
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4 Oct 2012 7:07 PM #1
Sencha GXT 3.0.2b is now available [update]
Sencha GXT 3.0.2b is now available
Update: We've released an updated build of GXT 3.0.2 with corrected localization files. Please download 3.0.2b from the Sencha Support Portal or update your Maven dependency, especially if you're using GXT with non-English locales.
Sencha GXT 3.0.2 is available for customers with current support subscription. You can get access to the GXT 3.0.2 build from the Sencha Support Portal.
Support customers also have the option of using Maven to automatically satisfy a dependency on Sencha GXT 3.0.2. However, because GXT 3.0.2 is a Support-only release, you'll need to take a few extra steps to give yourself access to our repository. Please note that if you use Nexus or Artifactory in your organization, it may be necessary to apply some of these details to your server instead of to your project files and your own personal settings.xml.
Configure Maven with your Support credentials
You'll need to configure Maven with your Support credentials to have access to GXT 3.0.2. To do this, you'll be modifying your settings.xml. For more details about settings.xml, see the Maven Settings Reference.
You should find in your settings.xml the servers element. You'll add a block like the following to that element:
<servers> … <server> <id>support-commercial-release</id> <username>Your support username</username> <password>Your support password</password> </server> … </servers>
Add the Support repository to your POM
Because GXT 3.0.2 is a Support-only release, you (and Maven) won't be able to find it in Maven Central. As a result, you'll need to add our Support repository to your project's POM. For more details about the POM, see the Maven POM Reference.
Look for the repositories element (a child of the project element) and add the following repository:
<repositories> … <repository> <snapshots> <enabled>false</enabled> </snapshots> <id>support-commercial-release</id> <name>Sencha Support Commercial Repository</name> <url>https://maven.sencha.com/repo/support-commercial-release/</url> … </repositories>
Increment your GXT dependency
Find the gxt dependencies in your POM and increment their versions to 3.0.2
<dependencies> … <dependency> <groupId>com.sencha.gxt</groupId> <artifactId>gxt</artifactId> <version>3.0.2</version> </dependency> … </dependencies>
Starting after the release of GXT 3.0.2, we will also be making nightly builds available to Support customers. Keep in mind that these are development snapshots that have not received the testing and polish that we have for releases.
Follow the settings above, but replace each code block with the following.
In your settings.xml:
<server> <id>support-commercial-snapshot</id> <username>Your support username</username> <password>Your support password</password> </server>
<repository> <snapshots /> <id>gxt-commercial-snapshot</id> <name>Sencha Support Commercial Snapshots</name> <url>https://maven.sencha.com/repo/support-commercial-snapshot/</url> </repository>Edmund Leung
Sencha Product Management
9 Oct 2012 6:45 AM #2
What's new in this minor release? Is there a release notes page?
Also, tried logging in to my subscription portal, but my subscription ran out. How do I extend it? Thanks!!
9 Oct 2012 10:35 AM #3
GXT 3.0.2 Release note
You can contact firstname.lastname@example.com to renew your support subscription.
And below is the release note for 3.0.2 listing the changes included in the release:
Release 3.0.2 (8/13/12 - tag 3.0.2)
General Changes & Enhancements
[EXTGWT-1506] - Unit Tests - Review and update for Draw & Charts
[EXTGWT-2186] - Look into adding a rendering quality option to draw.
[EXTGWT-2341] - Add event for date chosen in DatePicker popup
[EXTGWT-2356] - Use appearance with themed chart example.
[EXTGWT-2379] - Detect and handle IE compatibility mode (for intranets)
API Changes
Breaking change - PortalLayoutContainer changed to Composite which wraps a CssFloatLayoutContainer
DateField and DateCell implements HasExpandHandlers, HasCollapseHandlers
Added GridFiltersAppearance in AbstractGridFilters, added constructors
Hardcoded 'x-filtered-column' style now appearance based, see AbstractGridFilters
Breaking change - Added XElement parent parameter to getFrameSize method in Frame
Bug Fixes
Buttons and fields not focusable programmatically
[EXTGWT-1604] - Reset button in Fx Demo only resets position
[EXTGWT-1990] - Charts: ScatterRendererChart: Selection of dataitem is not shown in the menu drop-down s
[EXTGWT-2056] - Transformed bounding box calculations are not as accurate in VML.
[EXTGWT-2074] - Window height reduce 6px for every show
[EXTGWT-2097] - Column width of headers and data do not match in IE
[EXTGWT-2102] - NullPointerException using GridstateHandler(Grid) constructor
[EXTGWT-2132] - DatePicker does not change which dates are greyed when month is changed
[EXTGWT-2148] - setOnEsc doesn't work in dialogs
[EXTGWT-2180] - RowExpander appearance bug
[EXTGWT-2226] - ComboBox gets stuck open when clicking on border
[EXTGWT-2246] - GXT 3.0.0b - HtmlEditor.setEnable(false) does not work
[EXTGWT-2267] - XTemplates expressions dont support var deref
[EXTGWT-2270] - DrawComponent mouse up event.
[EXTGWT-2280] - (Grey Theme build UI Issue)Tree : Async Json Tree: Async Json Tree is displayed blank
[EXTGWT-2310] - Chart: Gauge Chart: The scale value label is truncated .
[EXTGWT-2342] - CartesianAxis doesn't allow rendering of odd and even grid config
[EXTGWT-2347] - Filter text fields not editable in IE7
[EXTGWT-2349] - Column headers don't reflect filteredness
[EXTGWT-2350] - Permutation explosion when specifying user.agent and including Charts
[EXTGWT-2365] - When reordering Grid columns, other Grids act like drop targets
[EXTGWT-2369] - DatePicker months are not localised
[EXTGWT-2376] - GroupingHandlerRegistration and widgetMap in Container causing memory leak?
[EXTGWT-2382] - Horizontal scrolling in grid cancels editing
[EXTGWT-2383] - [s9048] Bug with sprite fill.
[EXTGWT-2385] - Incorrect rendering of PieChart labels positioned outside
[EXTGWT-2386] - Bar Series is covered by Area Series
[EXTGWT-2387] - Missing sprite renderer calls.
[EXTGWT-2389] - Border issue when adding Charts to Porlets in PortalLayoutContainer
[EXTGWT-2391] - Charts :Scatter Renderer Chart: Check boxes are displayed with only two of the Max Radius options
[EXTGWT-2395] - Chart: Dashboard Chart : The graph is not displaying when the price filter matches with one record
[EXTGWT-2402] - Caret position in spinners is inconsistent
[EXTGWT-2403] - XTemplates does not appear to recognize isXXX boolean methods on beans
[EXTGWT-2411] - Reducing the number of items on the pie series leaves old slices.
[EXTGWT-2416] - All GXT 3 apps silently fail on Solaris
[EXTGWT-2442] - Forms: Advanced Forms(Local Intranet specific issue): Not able to select radio buttons under Forms Example form
[EXTGWT-2445] - window's height grows on each call to win.setVisible(true) [GXT3.0.2-shapshot 9/19]
[EXTGWT-2446] - Drag and Drop : TreeGrid to TreeGrid : "Exception Caught" error alert message is displaying when trying to drag the items in to the next panel.
[EXTGWT-2458] - remove of TreeModel with filtering enabled
[EXTGWT-2465] - Basic Binding: Symbol field accepting minimum one upper case and rest lower case
[EXTGWT-2363] - Dialog: tab doesn't change focus to action buttons
[EXTGWT-2370] - DatePicker needs to render weeks starting on Monday in some locales
[EXTGWT-2375] - Dialog should have a default button active
[EXTGWT-2346] - DatePicker does not disallow selection of invalid datesEdmund Leung
Sencha Product Management
10 Oct 2012 12:36 AM #4
Sorry for not understanding. 3.0.2 is a Support Only release. Does that mean that the bug fixes from 3.0.2 won´t ever become available for 3.0.1 GPL? Or do we just wait longer? I find this kind of strange to have a *broken/unfixed* GPL versions of your product but a *working/fixed* version for commercial use.
Maybe I don't fully understand what is going on here but please shine some light on the support only and GPL rules
10 Oct 2012 6:32 AM #5
Hi. I'm not sure if they will do it on 3.x the same they did on 2.x.
If so, then forget about it. The changes won't be available until they release another major change (probably 3.1.x). Only that one will be then available GPL.
20 Nov 2012 5:57 PM #6
Suggestion for Sencha
Dear Sencha,
Please stop calling it 'GPL'. A better name is 'Buggy Trial Version'.
Someone trying to use the 'GPL' version
20 Nov 2012 6:34 PM #7
p33t: Aside from licensing issues, the jars and zips are identical. Do you have specific problems, in the Bugs forum or otherwise? I'm only seeing one recent forum post regarding a bug - http://www.sencha.com/forum/showthread.php?240898. Are there other specific issues?
20 Nov 2012 7:34 PM #8
Hi Colin,
Thanks for asking.
I understand that only X.X.0 releases are available GPL, not bug fix releases (3.0.1 excepted for some reason). Hence the 'Buggy Trial Version' remark. Please correct me if I'm wrong.
I am experiencing a problem and the fact that the release notes are in a forum response just adds to the frustration.
I'm currently writing some code to demonstration an issue regarding the 'Light' column in the Inline Editable Grid example. I can't seem to reproduce that behaviour for my scenario.
21 Nov 2012 1:45 AM #9
why post a reaction when you have nothing really to say about the matter? The zips and jars are obviously not the same. 3.0.1 != 3.0.2b that's a very strange way to talk around the real matter here. The point is, if a bug is fixed for 3.0.1 don't put it in 3.0.2 only and let GPL users just 'hang' there saying they should buy a license, release this fix for 3.0.1 also! A bug is a bug, it's unrelated to licensing.
5 Jan 2013 5:41 AM #10
I just started evaluating GXT today and set up my HelloGXT project. I noticed that setOnEsc was not working on dialogs. I did a Google search and landed on this page.
I'm really disappointed to know that Sencha has this type of business model. I need to think again whether to continue with my evaluation or look elsewhere.


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Defining The Hot Rod And Custom Car Legacy WheelsWritten by Chris Shelton on December 3, 2013 Contributors: Car Craft Staff, Hot Rod Staff, Petersen Publishing Archives Part 3: Composite And Modular Wheels
Triumph Of The Wheel
Two months ago we set out to do something we thought was pretty noble: define the wheels that revolutionized the hot rod and custom car market. It really did seem like a good idea to open peoples' eyes to their options.
In retrospect it was probably pretty ambitious, if not entirely foolish. Even though we bookended our list at 1932 and about 1970 we still nearly became buried in a figurative avalanche of wheels. It proved exceedingly difficult to limit ourselves. Consider our quandary: We know it's silly to show obsolete wheels but at the same time it's boring to limit the discussion to nothing but the commercially available ones.
In the end we parsed the body of wheels into three entries. We covered the OEM and early accessory steel wheels in August. Last month we showed the aftermarket magnesium and alloy wheels. And that leaves this month pretty well defined.
But defined by what? The following wheels don't really fit well into any single category. What makes most so ambiguous is their composition: They're made of steel and aluminum, hence the composite term. Though the remainder are steel, they don't fit well in the first entry, as none were officially offered as OEM parts or through a formal dealer network. And a few have a special personality: Their rather generic basic designs can be readily altered to address a buyer's specific wants and needs, hence the modular term.
Before we begin, understand a few things about these wheels. For one, most existed as economical alternatives to performance-specific wheels; sourcing the largest part of their construction from the production world (the steel rim) kept the prices low. For another, those steel rims make most of these wheels no lighter than OEM-based steel wheels of the same size (in fact, most are considerably heavier). In other words, they existed exclusively as decorations.
If you go by how well these wheels sold, decoration was exactly what the average enthusiast wanted. People seemingly couldn't get enough of these wheels and as a result the market flourished. In fact one could argue that these orphan wheels put the aftermarket on the map faster and more successfully than any other single part in our industry. After all, manufacturers offered these wheels to fit just about any car, and every potential home needed four of them.
And most of all, this is where the entries get interesting. In the wheel world these examples are akin to the crazy-looking, deep-sea species that fishermen occasionally snare. Only a few of you will recognize these wheels. We promise you that much.
Wheel Centre Co.
Inspired by his gearhead students' aspirations to own then-exotic American Racing wheels, high school shop class teacher and Bonneville racer Dick Beith got an idea to reinvent the wheel itself. "I thought about it and the only difference between a mag wheel and a stock wheel is the center, or the spider as they called it," he says. "So I thought, if I just made a center piece and put it in a steel rim I'd have the look for way less."
And that's exactly what he did. "I made the wooden patterns in the shop class after school and had a foundry make the castings," he continues. Though he didn't realize it at the time, the zinc-rich Tenzaloy 713 that the foundry used came to define the alloy wheel market in the '60s: it cast well, polished to a magnesium-like shine, and achieved 80 percent of the strength of 356-T6 aluminum but without the costly heat-treating process. "The silly thing is that name later became the nickname for the wheel," he recalls. "'Hey, he's got Tenzaloys on it!' they'd say."
Beith acquired the rims by cutting the centers out of OEM wheels, welding the rivet holes shut and grinding them smooth, and having the same shop that polished the centers also plate the rims. "We drilled the spokes and the rim and bolted them together," he says. Wheel Centre Co. and the composite wheel were born.
"I made four wheels and put 'em on one of my students' cars," he continues. "We went to the Oakland Roadster Show on set up night and found a guy who had plain steel wheels on his car. 'Hey, you wanna swap wheels for the show?' I asked him. We jacked up his car on the show floor and ours in the parking lot and swapped wheels. Then I went down and had some brochures printed and handed them out."
The brochures worked probably better than he anticipated. "Dick Rader chased me down and said, 'Hey, you got a good idea; let's get together.' Instead he went to L.A. and teamed up with Mickey Thompson and away they went." (More on that later.)
Though Wheel Centre Co. later produced all aluminum wheels, it pioneered another notable composite design. "One-piece wheels are really expensive and time intensive and we were always back ordered," he says. So he came up with another center design that had a false aluminum "lip". "It disguised the whole rim part; it looked like a one-piece aluminum rim," he notes. And by having a steel ring cast in the outer perimeter of the casting it could be quickly welded to a steel rim. "We could squirt those out real fast," he enthuses.
Rader, Mickey Thompson, and Wheel Corp of America
You could say Dick Rader was destined to build wheels. Wheel is in his name after all (räder is plural for wheel in German). According to Rich Conklin at Radir Wheels (no relation), Rader began producing wheels by at least 1962 and possibly 1961. The Single Rib as Rader called it featured five flat spokes, each adorned with, well, a single rib down the middle.
As Beith mentioned, Rader teamed up with the highly competitive Mickey Thompson. Producing wheels in Long Beach under the name Wheel Corp of America, they produced an incalculable number of wheels in what almost seems like as many styles.
A promoter at heart, Thompson brought an intense level of marketing sophistication to bear on the wheel world. Wheel Corp wheels appeared everywhere, including the two most widely seen places in the '60s: on the Batmobile and in Sears catalogs.
Like other wheel designs, they also appeared as knock-offs. Speed Engineering produced a version of the single-rib. Former distributor Trans American Products in nearby Long Beach produced a copy that it called the Radar. Even the model number is an anagram of Rader's.
Astro Wheel
Astro Enterprises in Gardena, California, was one of the earliest entries in the wheel market. According to advertisements it established its footing in approximately 1962 with a dished-face modular wheel called the Custom. Though two pieces, the wheel was welded and ground on its face to appear as if it were a one-piece cast-aluminum wheel like the Ansen Sprint that followed (interestingly Astro cast an aluminum version that reportedly preceded Ansen's). It later produced the Super Custom, a variant of the custom that had a disc welded to its face to fortify the wheel hub's integrity.
Though it built more dished wheels than anything else, Astro is most famous for an all-steel wheel that resembles Wheel Centre Co.'s first composite models. Oddly enough, the most familiar bullet-spoked version was the revised model introduced in about 1965; the original design that dates to at least 1963 has five stumpy, barrel-shaped spokes that terminated at a flat hub. Even odder, enthusiasts still refer to Supreme-style wheels as Astros even though Astro ceased production sometime around the Nixon and Ford administrations.
The Supreme still enjoys brisk production by several companies, including Cragar, Allied Wheel, Truespoke, and Wheel Vintiques. Though cosmetically identical not all Supreme copies are up to the task; more expensive models feature tabs welded to the back of the spokes. Many maintain that without these tabs the wheels are prone to crack. Do your homework before you buy.
Winfield Terra Thrust
To keep things concise I tried hard to stick to wheels that are still in production or turn up frequently at swaps but there are some stories about unobtainum wheels that are just too good to pass up. Car customizer, fitness nut, and all-around great guy Gene Winfield set out to produce a line of custom wheels in 1963.
"I called them Terra Thrust," he says. "They had aluminum centers. It was a material called Tenzaloy and I had them cast. I used steel outers and I literally bolted them together—each spoke had two heavy-duty Grade 8 bolts.
"Of course I didn't know how to market that stuff or have the money to do it so I never did anything with it." He reportedly made 20 sets, one going to the original 'Solar Scene', another that went on the 'Strip Star', another for his '40 Ford sedan delivery that he sold to one of Brizio's guys, and another set that he's using on a recreation of the Solar Scene."
The Hollywood Wheel Disc Shop produced accessory wheel covers based on George DuVall's designs, starting in the '40s. By the '60s, however, demand for wheel covers waned. So Hollywood did what any viable company would: It changed with the times.
It hired A&H Foundry in Los Angeles to cast several wheel center models based loosely on the Torq-Thrust design. Others surely sold them but Hollywood's most visible retailer was none other than Speedway Motors.
Named for one of its co-founders (CRAne GARtz), Cragar existed as early as 1930. Though it produced monumental speed parts like overhead-valve conversions from the Miller Schofield tooling and later belonged to Bell Auto Parts' prolific owner Roy Richter, it made its greatest mark on the automotive industry with a wheel.
Though equipped with five spokes, Cragar's Super Sport resembled no other model on the market. More than unique, the wheel's shape was bolder and more purposeful looking than any of its contemporaries. Its immediate success spawned variations, including wheels with cast-finish centers, all-aluminum faces, and even other original designs.
Cragar's competitors confirmed the wheel's success by producing countless knock-offs of the design. Whether identical or merely loosely based on the original design, these copies validated the original. They also proved that there's something immortal in the design: The wheel enjoys 49 years of uninterrupted production and as much popularity today as it did when first released.
Keystone Kustomag/Klassic
In 1964 auto parts distributor Keystone introduced another composite-wheel variation with five-scooped edge spokes that tapered and rose dramatically toward the center of the rim. Christened the Kustomag, the wheel proved incredibly popular from the start.
Though initially quite popular, the Kustomag didn't enjoy the same lifespan as Cragar's Super Sport wheel. It returned a number of times, each bearing a subtle variation or name change.
Like most vintage designs the Kustomag is enjoying a modest reprise. Now produced by Carlisle Brake and Friction, the same company that produces Cragar, the Keystone Kustomag is back as the similar 32-series Klassic.
Kelsey-Hayes, the company that offered wheels that we featured in the first installment of this series, never got out of the accessory-wheel business. However, the specialty wheels it offered over the years differed little from its competitors. In 1969 it broke that streak.
It introduced a series of spoke-inspired wheels with cast-aluminum faces riveted to steel rims. Initially called The Bad Ones, the wheels soon acquired the equally improbable Stripper moniker.
Though never hotly embraced by the enthusiast crowd, the Stripper wheels found somewhat comfortable homes on cars prepared by supercar dealerships like Yenko. Their production life was brief but they frequently surface at swaps.
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Wheel Corp of America referred to the original single-rib Rader as the DBR-100R (polished) or DBR-100S or SPC (satin). A former Wheel Corp dealer, Trans Am knocked off this design in the later '60s. Radir Wheels produces a very faithful looking one-piece U.S.-made aluminum version of this wheel.Wheel Corp machined the faces of the 100-series wheels to create the DBR-300M, also known as the Monte Carlo. The similar DBR-500D has a perimeter ring cast where the center meets the rim. Both date to at least 1964, if not 1963.The DBR-600S featured four spokes and, because it had an undefined center, could take any bolt pattern regardless of lug count. Good luck finding them, though; they were uncommon even half a century ago. But now you know what they are if you find any.Astro's first entry into the wheel market was this all-steel dished modular wheel called the Custom (later Standard). It also produced another version called the Super Custom that was also welded on the face and ground smooth to appear as a one-piece wheel. Companies like Wheel Corp of America, Cragar, Superior, and others copied it with impunity.The Custom's versatility makes it a modular design; Astro promoted it as the Super Custom by building it any number of ways to suit a buyer's needs, including altering the cutouts and boring extra holes, as seen here.This was Astro's original Supreme as introduced as early as 1963 (this photo was taken in September 1963). Note the shorter barrel-shaped spokes. Just as with the Custom wheels, the joints were welded along the face, ground, and then plated to make the wheel appear as one piece.Here it is, the Super Sport or S/S as introduced in 1964. Then as now the wheel is available with either specific bolt patterns or with slots and washers to fit a range of applications. They're also available in a wide array of diameters, widths, and offsets.In 1966 Cragar introduced the G/T, an S/S-inspired wheel with an entirely cast face riveted to a steel rim. This is an odd one, though: it's basically an S/S but with an as-cast center. Cragar once again makes this as the 610-series all-aluminum wheel.In 1966 Cragar squared off and scooped out the G/T's spokes to create the G/T Plus. This is another one of those curiosities: its steel rim is exposed as if it were one of the wheels Cragar produced for the Shelby GT350, however, it has a larger center diameter. Cragar still produces it in aluminum as the 500-series.


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Illinois: Immigrant Entrepreneurs, Innovation, and Welcoming Initiatives in the Prairie State
In Illinois, there is no doubt that immigrant entrepreneurs and innovators play an important role. Immigrant entrepreneurs bring in additional revenue, create jobs, and contribute significantly to the state's economy. Highly skilled immigrants are vital to the state's innovation industries and to the metropolitan areas within the state, helping to boost local economies. Furthermore, local government, business, and non-profit leaders recognize the importance of immigrants in their communities and support immigration through local "welcoming" and integration initiatives.
Immigrant entrepreneurs contribute significantly to Illinois' economy.
- From 2006 to 2010, there were 99,810 new immigrant business owners in Illinois, and in 2010, 20.3 percent of all business owners in Illinois were foreign-born.
- In 2010, new immigrant business owners had total net business income of $5.4 billion, which is 16.5 percent of all net business income in the state.
- Illinois is home to many successful companies with at least one founder who was an immigrant or child of an immigrant, including well-known companies such as Sara Lee, Kraft Foods, McDonald's, The Boeing Company, and Baxter International, which all began in Illinois. Those five companies together employ almost 685,000 people and bring in $140 billion in revenue each year.
- In 2010, the foreign-born share of business owners was 27 percent in the Chicago metropolitan area. In the case of Chicago, the immigrant business ownership rate was higher than the foreign-born share of the total population.
Highly skilled immigrants are vital to Illinois' innovation industries, which in turn helps lead American innovation and creates jobs.
- Immigrants contribute to Illinois' economic growth and competitiveness by earning degrees in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) fields from the state's research universities. In 2009, almost 53 percent of STEM graduates from the state's research-intensive universities were foreign-born, and almost 70 percent of graduates earning PhDs in engineering in Illinois were not born in the U.S.
- Immigrants in Illinois also contribute to the state's innovation economy by earning patents on new research, products, and ideas. In fact, around 90 percent of patents within the University of Illinois System in 2011 had at least one foreign-born inventor. These patents often lead to licensing through existing companies or creation of new companies, leading to revenue and job creation.
- In 2011, the U.S. Department of Labor certified 16,700 H-1B high-skilled visa labor certification applications in Illinois, with an average annual wage of $66,854, which is higher than Illinois' median household income of $56,576 or per capita income of $29,376.
- An expansion of the high-skilled visa program would create an estimated 19,000 new jobs in Illinois by 2020. By 2045, this expansion would add around $7.2 billion to Gross State Product and increase personal income by more than $6.9 billion. The following is an example of a metropolitan area's demand for high-skilled foreign-born workers.
- The Chicago-Joliet-Naperville metropolitan area had 14,011 H-1B visa requests in 2010-2011, with 65.8 percent of H-1B visa-holders working in STEM occupations. Major employers with a need for H-1B high-skilled workers include Northwestern University, Verinon Technology Solutions, and the University of Chicago.
While the numbers are compelling, they don't tell the whole story.
- Immigrant entrepreneurs not only contribute to large innovative companies, but to small business formation in local communities. In cities across Illinois, immigrant family-owned small businesses contribute to the vitality of their local communities. Although initially aimed at other immigrant customers, many businesses quickly see an expansion of their clientele to include a diverse array of immigrant and native-born customers alike.
- In Chicago suburbs such as Villa Park, Lombard, Naperville, and Schaumburg, South Asian immigrants have become an integral dynamic of the cultural fabric, with restaurants, markets, shops, and other goods and services representing many South Asian points of origin, particularly India and Pakistan.
- Mohammed Anwar Gazi, originally from Pakistan, is the CEO of Shahi Nihari, a restaurant that caters to a diverse crowd by offering South Asian and American cuisine. Today, Shahi Nihari has three locations in Chicago's suburbs with plans to open two more in Morton Grove and Naperville. Speaking of his business plan, Gazi stated, "My dream? Like a McDonald's, a franchise."
- Zahra Syed, originally from Pakistan, along with her family, operates Delicacy beauty salon in Lombard, which caters to a diverse crowd of customers. Describing the growth of immigrant businesses in the area, Syed stated, "We had very few Indian grocery shops here; actually it was just one down the street. Now, you can go down the street you're going to find so many Indian stores, so many Indian restaurants."
- Chicago's North Shore suburbs also attract immigrant entrepreneurs and small business owners, including Freddy Sanchez, from Mexico, who owns Taco Nano in Northfield, and Josef Puehringer, a glass engraver from Austria, who runs The Crytal Cave in Glenview.
In Illinois, localities have begun recognizing and supporting immigration through "welcoming" and integration initiatives.
- Across Illinois and the broader Midwest, local places recognize the importance of immigrant entrepreneurs in their communities. According to the Chicago Council of Global Affairs, "Public and private-sector groups across the region have launched business incubators for immigrant entrepreneurs, sponsored networking opportunities with local employers, and helped skilled immigrants translate their foreign credentials to maximize their economic potential in the United States."
- Specifically, the Council states that "the Midwest cannot hope to keep up with other regions or international competitors without a vital entrepreneurial sector…Immigrants, risk takers by nature, are unusually successful entrepreneurs, more than twice as likely as native-born Americans to start their own firms."
- They go on to suggest that "the Midwest needs this kind of entrepreneurial energy, but historically the region has had some trouble attracting and retaining this talent. Business incubators in immigrant communities, microloan programs, and other initiatives to make credit available can make a difference."
- In 2010, the Illinois Governor signed an order to reestablish the Office of New Americans Policy and Advocacy. Specifically, the policies of the Office aim to "help immigrants enter the mainstream more quickly – whether that means learning English, buying a home, encouraging their children to succeed in schools, or supporting their communities in other ways."
- The Illinois Welcoming Center, in North Riverside, has a mission to "provide immigrant and refugee individuals and families with an array of service, information, programs, and classes to assist in their path towards successful integration to the state. Therefore, creating self-sustaining and thriving communities."
- The City of Chicago's Office of New Americans, a member of Welcoming America's Welcoming Cities and Counties Initiative, was created in 2011 and is dedicated to "improving services and engaging Chicago's global immigrant communities through enhanced collaboration with community organizations, academic institutions, and the private sector."
- The Office was created in 2011 and set the aspiration for Chicago to become "the world's most immigrant-friendly city." As such, the Chicago New Americans Plan outlines a set of initiatives to "welcome immigrants and maximize the contribution they make" to Chicago.
- Specifically, the plan "recommends a broad array of new programs and initiatives, which are designed to improve the day-to-day lives of immigrants while promoting Chicago's economic growth and cultural vitality."
- The Illinois Coalition for Immigrant and Refugee Rights, a member of Welcoming America, seeks to promote the "rights of immigrants and refugees to full and equal participation in the civic, cultural, social, and political life of our diverse society."
- The Coalition partners with member organizations to educate and organize immigrants and refugee communities about their rights and resources; promote citizenship and civic participation; monitor, analyze, and advocate on immigrant-related issues; and inform the broader public about the contributions of immigrants and refugees.
- The Coalition maintains a non-profit partnership with the State of Illinois on the New Americans Initiative to help newcomers navigate the U.S. citizenship process.
- In Skokie, a suburb north of Chicago, the Human Services Department plans various programs, outreach services, and community partnerships that seek to value and support its culturally diverse immigrant community.
- In 2008, for example, Skokie hosted an "International Leadership Academy" for immigrant residents interested to learn about becoming more involved in a community leadership role through volunteerism, service on a commission or board, or as an elected official.
- The community also prints an Immigrant Services Directory that contains information on area programs and services for the international community. For example, in an effort to acquaint the international community with community policing, the Skokie Police Department hosts an International Youth Police Academy each summer and an International Citizen Academy during the year.
- Additionally, Skokie partners with a variety of community organizations on different programs for the area's international community, including the annual Skokie Festival of Cultures[xxxviii] that celebrates the city's diversity.
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Why Humanity Can't Get Past The 7 Deadly Sins
#3. Pride
The desire to be better than others, failure to acknowledge the good work of others and excessive love of self.
So this is a problem. By obsessing over how perfect you are, you've got Pride in spades, and that's rough because it's classically one of the worst on a list of things that are deadly.
The Cure!
To avoid damnation, maybe try being a little less perfect. It'll be tough, but you can afford to not be so buff and toned. A little weakness will remind you that you are just mortal, after all, so work on making yourself less awesome. Skip the gym for a while. Have some milkshakes, go ahead. There's nothing wrong with eating a burger or two.
Just the two, though.
No ... no more than the two. Why don't- How about you slow down, on the- Jesus, how are they all even fitting in-
#2. Gluttony
Over-consumption to the point of waste.
You just couldn't stop, could you? Another sin of excess, this is the fancy way of telling you how fat you are (very). You are disgusting.
The Cure!
But this is a quick fix, you just need to get back into shape. Shed some pounds, hit the gym and in no time, you'll be back to your toned, fit, well-defined-
#1. Wrath
Uncontrolled feelings of hatred or anger.
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TORRINGTON — Austin Kelson's free throw with 15 seconds left forced overtime and Nick Mancini dropped in the game-clinching foul shots with 12 ticks to go in the extra period Friday night as Torrington High pulled out a 67-63 boys basketball victory over Naugatuck at the Connie Donahue Gymansium.
The game was also a fundraiser for the ALS Association in memory of former Torrington athlete and coach Tim Considine, who died of the disease last fall. Torrington coach Eric Gamari, whose wife Christine is Considine's niece, said roughly $6,000 was raised.
"Naugatuck came up with a fan bus. We had lots of fans. Our gym holds 1,600, and there had to be 1,200 people here tonight," said Gamari.
Fans made donations as they entered the gym, and both sides were asked to wear Irish green to the game. The coaches all wore green shirts and the players wore green warmup shirts that said: "Torrington-Naugy Battle Against ALS."
Torrington chose the game with Naugatuck for the fundraiser because Christine Gamari is a teacher there. Christine Gamari, her mother Pat Strawson and her aunt, Cheryl Considine, Tim's wife, were "the brains behind the event," according to Eric Gamari.
In the game, Torrington owned a 56-53 lead near the end of the fourth period, but missed the front end of two one-and-ones. That helped Naugatuck to rally and take the lead, 57-56. Kelson was fouled and made one of two with 15 seconds left to tie, and Naugy's shot to win at the buzzer rimmed out.
In overtime, the Raiders jumped on top by six. Naugy cut the lead to two, but Mancini sank his foul shots with 12 seconds to go for the final margin.
Kelson finished with 26 points while Dave Canny added 16 for Torrington (2-5), which led 33-29 at halftime. Husani Foote had a team-high 16 points for Naugy (3-5), while Brandon Kuczenski added 13 and Gabe Pulliam had 11.
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