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How to create hand-drawn frames
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A Photoshop911.com inquiry referenced this Photo from the Starbucks sites, which changes to this photo when pages change. The reader is referring to the textured border at the top of the image.
A Quick Walk-through
Open the file you wish to generate a frame for. Command/A (ctrl/A) to select all.
Choose File > New File. The new file dialog should open pre-set to the size of the open file. Add enough extra pixels to provide room for your frame.
Use any of the selection tools to create the basic shape you want for your edge treatement (frame.) See: frame selection picture
With the selection active, click Add Layer Mask button at the bottom of the Layers Palette. (Round circle with dotted-line border.) See: Layer Mask Applied
With the layer mask selected (double borders on the mask in the layers palette) choose Filter > Blur > Guassian Blur and set to an appropriate radius. See: Layer Mask Blurred
This will introduce grayscale pixels into the mask.
Now, applie what ever artistic filter you wish to the mask. Here, you see we've use the "Rough Pastel" filter. See: Filter: Rough Pastel sample
The results of that filter applied to the image would appear to now frame the image
Once your frame is the way you like it, you can begin dragging new images into the same file on their own layers. (Use the Move Tool to merely drag the new image into the file.)
Now, click the little chain link between the layer mask and the actual layer thumbnail, to release their relationship.
Then Command-click (ctrl/click) on the layer mask we previously created, (which makes an active selection from the mask) and then select the layer for the new image. See: Selected Mask
With the new image layer selected, click the Layer Mask button at the bottom of the Layers Palette and voila... this new picture now has the same border / frame. See: Frame effect with different picture
If you're doing a series of these, make sure they're all the same size, and just keep adding.
Remember the key issues:
- * The frame is custom sized to fit your picture
- * The initial selection governs the shape of the opening
- * The amount of blurring governs the amount of frame
- * the filter gives texture, use any filter you like
- * The layer mask becomes a channel that can be applied to any other image.
Visit the Desktop Publishing Jumpstation in the Publishers' Warehouse and you'll find a whole collection of pre-made frame masks which only have to be pasted into the layer mask. In the Publishers' Warehouse Photoshop department you'll find more links to frames and tutorials.
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and fullback
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was getting an MRI after his knee unexpectedly swelled and forced him to miss Sunday's game.
also tweaked an ankle in the loss, but Carroll said he was fine.
As of now, Seattle's only healthy receivers on the active roster are
"We've got to find out what's the deal with (Obomanu) and we're not going to know about Doug and the likelihood is not great for Doug so we're looking at our options here," Carroll said.


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An important aspect of managing the costs of a project is tracking employee time and external expenses separate from other projects or operational costs. Although young companies are usually able to get away with using Excel spreadsheets and standard bookkeeping software to track all this information, as professional service businesses grow and start changing how projects get assigned, they often find these tools to be insufficient for their needs.
The solution is software that's specifically designed to track the time and expenses associated with each project. But with so many time management systems on the market, picking the right one can be a challenge. With that in mind, we've written this buyer's guide to help you as you start to narrow down your choices from the hundreds available.
Here's what we'll cover:
What Is Time and Expense Tracking Software?
Common Features of Time and Expense Software
Time and Expense Software Benefits
What Type of Buyer Are You?
Time and expense report software gives professional services organizations the ability to monitor and control the labor and costs associated with every project. This, in turn, helps streamline their invoicing, improve bid accuracy and reduce unnecessary costs.
Time tracking software is often used as part of a comprehensive professional services automation (PSA) suite, which would also include features that support project management, help desk, resource management and customer relationship management, among others.
Screenshot of time card in BillQuick
This type of software can be deployed in the cloud, or on premise. In the case of the former, the software is hosted online and accessed via Web browser. On-premise deployment, on the other hand, means the software is installed manually on a user's local servers and run directly on the user's machine. An online time tracking system may be preferable if you need remote access or prefer a lower up-front cost (since pricing for web-based systems is usually by annual or monthly subscription, rather than purchasing a license in full up front).
Features and functionality of time and expense reporting software include:
|Punch-clock and manual time entry
|The most basic functionality, which free and high-end products alike will provide: the ability to electronically clock in and out and to manually enter or change clocking times as necessary. The more advanced the product is, the more likely it is to offer PINs, magnetic card reader hardware, automated start/stop capability (e.g., clocking out when your computer goes to sleep) or other features.
|Expense tracking
|Monitor costs of materials, tools etc., with the ability to tie them to individual projects or to general expenses.
|Project-based accounting
|If you've got 15 employees each working on five different projects, accurate time reporting requires knowing which projects they were working on when. So this feature is there to help you track revenues and expenses by client and project and then export in a way that your accounting software can understand.
|Workload management
|Some time and expense tracking software can help you monitor the bandwidth of each employee, providing clear reports that show you which ones are working on which projects, how much time they're dedicating to each one, where they're heading and when and when they complete a certain project. This helps streamline employee assignments, and becomes especially useful as company sizes grow into the hundreds of employees.
|Resource planning
|An advanced feature, this uses historical data and analytics to improve your ability to estimate any given project. This impacts the accuracy of your bids and optimizes your budgets, so you never end up taking a loss on a project again.
|Mobile integration
|Since many consulting companies travel extensively, the ability to integrate this software with your mobile device is often essential.
If you're still on the fence about whether you should implement a dedicated time and expense software system, consider the following benefits it can bring to your business:
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Obsoinc necesitaba un nuevo diseño de logotipo y lanzó un concurso de diseño en 99designs.
Un ganador ha sido elegido entre 84 diseños de 31 diseñadores freelance.
You Compare Medicare
You Compare Medicare is a new professional services company focused on building new technology to support health care decisions. Our primary focus is on the Medicare space, but we will also be doing some work for the under 65 market.
We are not your standard government entity or a traditional insurance company. We are a consumer focused, technology driven company. Think Web2.0, social media, and etail while respecting our target audience and the traditional peers/partners we will have to work with.
Two primary targets: Consumers age 65+ and Business Partners (Both non-profit and corporate entities)
Consumers: The end user of our products will be age 65+, but are willing to adopt newer technologies like mobile, web and social media. Thus, our user base is most likely the more sophisticated of this age group. We will also be reaching these consumers caregivers which could range in age from 20-50...but they are all turning to technology to help them solve their problems. Typically the 65+ market likes larger fonts and easy to read fonts. They also tend not to be driven by shocking colors, but prefer softer, warmer colors. But not pastels.
Partners: These are the non-profits, government agencies and corporate partners that we will be teaming with. So our presence can't be too whimsical. Need to provide a sense of trust and confidence in our abilities.
Prefer a logo that incorporates text and a visual element. Ideally the visual element can be used on it's own as an icon. So the visual element needs to be able to be visible/identifiable when reduced to a small scale.
We want the logo to display that we are a technology/innovative organization and that we have vision for the future of healthcare.
Primarily will be used on the web and some printed materials, so would like a full color version and one in black and white for printed materials.
Colors need to be calm colors. Willing to push the envelope a little to make sure we are current, but stay away from anything too trendy that won't last.
Please provide full Illustrator files at the end of the process.
Thank you for your consideration!
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- Bassem Youssef is facing more complaints !! Yes new complaints !! The new complaints include : Insulting the public prosecution in his twitter account and insulting Pakistan !! Yes Pakistan and it has to do with he had done last Monday.
- ONTV channel Albert Shafik , TV host Gaber Al Karmoty and journalist Shaimaa Abu El Kheir are referred to the State security prosecution for threatening national security and spreading false news by Prosecutor General Talaat Abdullah. Shaimaa Abu El Kheir is the Middle East and North Africa consultant of Committee to Protect Journalists. She attended the investigation with Bassem on Sunday.
That thing made the group mad enough to report her !! Here is the video after the break, please watch it and tell me how Gaber and Shaimaa threatened our national security !!
Now I am quite amazed at the speed those three were reported to prosecutor general and how prosecutor general believed that they should be refereed to the state security prosecution.
From her side Shaimaa will comply with the decision of Egypt's journalists syndicate and will boycott the current prosecutor general.She will not go to the state security prosecution accordingly
لن امتثل لاى تحقيق امام نيابة امن الدولة العليا التزاما بقرار نقابة الصحفيين بعدم مثول الصحفيين امام #النائب الحالى
— Shaimaa Aboul El kir (@Shaimaa) April 2, 2013
- Last thing CBC channel got a warning from "GAFI" to watch out for Bassem says in his show from insults against public figures, religious icons , profanity and sexual innuendos otherwise GAFI will provoke the channel license. According to the warning GAFI got several complaints...bla bla bla. The warning is dangerous because it is based upon the shameful Anas El Faky so-called Media ethics codes that can close any private TV channel. The New regime is using the old regime's weapons !!


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YCC necesitaba un nuevo diseño de logotipo y lanzó un concurso de diseño en 99designs.
Un ganador ha sido elegido entre 71 diseños de 27 diseñadores freelance.
Leading edge Web 2.0 logo design for a College resource and social networking site. Your College Connections will use leading edge website and cell phone technology to deliver compelling content and resources tools to our pre-college and college student audience. (ages 15-24)
Your College Connections.com is an online site that will appeal to the fun, social networking side of college life as well as focus on providing the information, tools and resources needed for students to further their education, career and entrpreneurial pursuits. We would like our logo design to be a balance of those two "styles" - clean and professional but also fun and "trendy" - a current style that appeals to our target college audience. When we think of clean designs we think "http://www.apple.com" or http://www.apeer.com
- Logo will contain the words: Your College Connections
- Fresh design with clean lines
- Clean color design using - gray, white, with a "punch" of green
- If you think of a better color scheme - please go for it!
- .AI or .EPs formats
- White / transparent background
- Typical college block fonts or "sport letter" type fonts
- Heavy look and feel
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We've had more than a few "tried to sell the kid on Craigslist" stories floating around the Internet in recent years. Way too many, if you ask me. But there's something about the latest mom charged with trying to adopt out her 3-year-old son via a Craigslist ad that's a bit unusual.
The mom, Stephanie Redus, doesn't sound like your typical jerk mom who would use Craigslist to offload a kid because she doesn't care. I can't get truly enraged at her. If anything, I read the Texas mom's story and I felt ... pity.
The pangs of sympathy don't excuse what she's accused of doing. You just don't put your kid up for adoption on Craigslist, people. Who knows what kind of sicko is out there, just waiting to pounce?
That said, read what Redus' allegedly posted online:
Hi, I'm trying to adopt out my three year old son. I'm not in a good place in my life and don't feel like I can care for him properly, but I don't know where to start. If you or know anyone who is interested in caring for him please let me know. I'm a single mom and can't do this. Thanks, Desperate.
Does that sound like a mom trying to make a quick buck? A mom who really doesn't give two craps about her kid? Notice she repeats the words "care (or caring) for him" twice in there.
Call me a sucker, but Redus sounds ... like a fairly good mom.
Hey, I said fairly. She is charged with trying to arrange a Craigslist adoption.
But I should probably also tell you that Redus is pregnant.
Does that make you feel more sympathetic?
Me too.
It's HARD out there for parents who are feeling overwhelmed. There are "safe haven" laws, but in most places, they don't extend much past a baby's birth. Even finding a good babysitter to watch your kid for a few hours so you can get a handle on things is tough in this economy. As a recent report shows, the price of childcare has DOUBLED in the past 25 years.
Parents struggling with toddlers (or older kids) either have supportive family and friends to help out or ... what? Who will come to their aid when they're swimming as hard as they can and feeling like the undertow keeps pulling them in?
If we really want to put an end to the "kid being sold on Craigslist stories," maybe we need to look at why they keep happening.
So yes, we punish these parents who turn to Craigslist ... and we do something about the total lack of resources for struggling single parents out there.
That is how we make society better.
Do you feel sympathetic for this mom's plight? What do you think should be done with her?
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Indoor sky diving business coming to Naperville
A .7-acre lot in Naperville's Freedom Commons originally set aside for a bank soon will be home to something that's been called a lot more thrilling -- an indoor sky-diving facility.
The city council this week unanimously approved plans for Texas-based iFly to build a 9,800-square-foot sky-diving facility with a 50-foot-tall flight chamber at the southeast corner of Freedom Drive and Independence Avenue.
Approval was so simple for iFly that the changes it needed -- an amendment to plans for the Freedom Commons development and a sign variance -- were approved without any public discussion at the council level.
Councilman Steve Chirico, who acted as mayor pro-tem Tuesday night in Mayor George Pradel's absence, said he thought a question or two might arise from the dais -- possibly about the building's 67-foot height. But none did.
Chirico said he originally wondered whether the height of the tower was appropriate for the site, but then realized several hotels in the area already are taller.
"It seemed like it wasn't really going to stick out at all," Chirico said.
The building will be constructed just north of Cooper's Hawk Winery and will include the flight chamber as well as multipurpose rooms for birthday parties and corporate meetings.
Plans for the Naperville iFly facility, which will be the Chicago area's second after a location set to open in Rosemont, also breezed through the city's planning and zoning commission last month.
Commissioners called it a "very cosmopolitan use" and a "people-magnet" and said they want to be among the first lined up to try a half-hour indoor sky-diving session for $59.99.
For that price, new customers get all the gear, training and expert assistance they need to sky dive in a 14-foot-wide flight chamber with 11 other fliers. No jumping out of an airplane or off a ledge is necessary, as participants lean from the ground into the wind created by a fan system, iFly spokesman Stuart Wallock said.
"We offer a completely safe environment in which to experience the same thrill and excitement of jumping out of an airplane and free-falling," Wallock said.
While the Rosemont facility is set to open first, Naperville's iFly is expected to open sometime next spring, officials said.


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If for some reason you're not capable of reading numbers, this Grobag Egg shows you the temperature in easy to "read" colors. Blue if it's cold, yellow and orange if it's somewhere inbetween, and red if the roof is on fire. Of course, unless you suffer from congenital insensitivity to pain with anhidrosis, or NAMBLA, you should be able to detect the temperature from your own thermometer known as your body.
However, this Grobag Egg is supposed to be placed inside nurseries, so that you can easily determine how hot or cold a baby's bed is and adjust accordingly. But it's still a pretty neat gadget to place on your nightstand so you can determine just how fast you need to run to put on a jacket when you get out of bed in the morning.
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Opinion: Will Obama Bail Out Detroit?
Assistant OpinionJournal.com editor Allysia Finley on why Detroit and its workers pensions shouldn't be bailed out. Photo: Associated Press
This transcript has been automatically generated and may not be 100% accurate.
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President Obama Announces Key Administration Posts for National Council on Humanities and More
Today, President Barack Obama announced his intent to nominate the following individuals to key Administration posts:
· Gerald L. Early - Member, National Council on the Humanities
· Patricia Nelson Limerick - Member, National Council on the Humanities
· Shelly C. Lowe- Member, National Council on the Humanities
· Daniel I. Okimoto- Member, National Council on the Humanities
· Katherine H. Tachau- Member, National Council on the Humanities
President Obama also announced his intent to appoint the following individuals to key Administration posts:
· Chester Alonzo Finn - Member, National Council on Disability
· Captain Jonathan F. Kuniholm, USMC (Ret) - Member, National Council on Disability
· Jeff Rosen - Member, National Council on Disability
· Lynnae M. Ruttledge - Member, National Council on Disability
· Alice Wong - Member, National Council on Disability
President Obama said, "I am honored that these talented individuals have decided to join this Administration and serve our country. I look forward to working with them in the months and years to come."
Dr. Gerald L. Early, Nominee for Member, National Council on the Humanities
Dr. Gerald L. Early is Director of the Center for Humanities, Merle Kling Professor of Modern Letters, and a Professor of English at Washington University in Saint Louis. Since 1982, he has held various positions at Washington University, including Professor of English, African and Afro-American Studies, and Director of the American Culture Studies Program. Dr. Early serves on the Board of Advisory Editors of Oxford Companion to African-American Literature and is a Member of the Board of Trustees of the Missouri Historical Society and the Advisory Board of The Antioch Review. He is the author of One Nation Under a Groove: Motown and American Culture and The Culture of Bruising: Essays on Prizefighting, Literature, and Modern American Culture, which won the 1994 National Book Critics Award. Dr. Early received a B.A. from the University of Pennsylvania, and an M.A. and Ph.D. from Cornell University.
Dr. Patricia Nelson Limerick, Nominee for Member, National Council on the Humanities
Dr. Patricia Nelson Limerick is Chair of the Board and Faculty Director of the Center of the American West at the University of Colorado, Boulder, where she is also a Professor of History and Environmental Studies. Previously, she was an Assistant Professor at Harvard University from 1980 to 1984. Dr. Limerick is President of the Society of American Historians. She served as Vice President for Teaching of the American Historical Association from 2010 to 2011, and as President of the American Studies Association in 1996 and the Western History Association in 2000. Dr. Limerick has received numerous awards and honors, including the Bonfils-Stanton Prize in the Arts and Humanities in 2012, the Hazel Barnes Prize in 2001, as well as the MacArthur Fellowship in 1995. Dr. Limerick received a B.A. from the University of California, Santa Cruz, and a Ph.D. from Yale University.
Shelly C. Lowe, Nominee for Member, National Council on the Humanities
Shelly C. Lowe is the Executive Director of the Harvard University Native American Program, a position she has held since 2009. From 2007 to 2009, she was the Assistant Dean for Native American Affairs at the Yale College Dean's Office and Director of the Native American Cultural Center at Yale University. Previously, she served as the Graduate Education Program Facilitator for the American Indian Studies Program at The University of Arizona. Ms. Lowe served on the Board of Trustees for the National Museum of the American Indian from 2007 to 2009, and was Vice President of the National Indian Education Association from 2001 to 2002. Ms. Lowe received a B.A. and an M.A. from the University of Arizona.
Dr. Daniel I. Okimoto, Nominee for Member, National Council on the Humanities
Dr. Daniel I. Okimoto is a Professor Emeritus of Political Science at Stanford University, having served as a professor from 1977 to 2009. In addition, he is a Senior Fellow Emeritus at Stanford's Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies, and a Director Emeritus of the Shorenstein Asia Pacific Research Center, which he co-founded in 1976. He serves as the Chairman of the Board of Councilors for the United States Japan Council. Previously, Dr. Okimoto was the Vice-Chairman of the Japan Committee of the National Research Council at the National Academy of Sciences, and was a Member of the Advisory Council of the Department of Politics at Princeton University. Dr. Okimoto received a B.A. from Princeton University, an M.A. from Harvard University, and a Ph. D. from the University of Michigan.
Dr. Katherine H. Tachau, Nominee for Member, National Council on the Humanities
Dr. Katherine H. Tachau is a Professor of History at the University of Iowa, where she has taught since 1985. Previously, she taught at Pomona College from 1982 to 1985 and Montana State University from 1981 to 1982. From 1979 to 1981, she was a researcher at the Institute for Medieval Greek and Latin Philology at Copenhagen University in Denmark. Dr. Tachau has published extensively on medieval philosophy, science, and art; and has received the John Nicholas Brown Prize from the Medieval Academy of America. In addition, she received the Regents Award for Faculty Excellence at the University of Iowa in 2009, and she has been awarded fellowships from the Stanford Humanities Center, the National Humanities Center, the Guggenheim Foundation, and the National Endowment for the Humanities. Dr. Tachau received a B.A. in Spanish and Medieval Studies from Oberlin College, and an M.A. and a Ph.D. in History from the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
Chester Alonzo Finn, Appointee for Member, National Council on Disability
Chester Alonzo Finn is a Special Assistant in the New York State Office for People With Developmental Disabilities, a position he has held since 1997. He was first appointed to the National Council on Disability by President Obama in 2010. In 2008, Mr. Finn, who is blind and developmentally disabled, co-founded the Community Empowerment Programs Incorporated, which provides community services and educational programing for people with disabilities. He served as President and Chairman of the National Self Advocates Becoming Empowered from 2002 to 2006 and then again from 2009 to 2011. In 1995, he received the New York State Self Advocate of the Year Award. Mr. Finn received an A.A. from Genessee Community College.
Captain Jonathan F. Kuniholm, USMC (Ret), Appointee for Member, National Council on Disability
Captain Jonathan F. Kuniholm is the President and Founder of the Open Prosthetics Project, and the Founder of StumpworX, Inc., a prosthetic arm manufacturing company. Captain Kuniholm served in the United States Marine Corps from 1997 to 2006. He served as a combat engineer officer and platoon commander for the 1st Marine Division in Operation Iraqi Freedom II. In 2006, he was honorably discharged after being wounded in combat and losing his right forearm. He is a Member of the Board of the Given Limb Foundation, and is an advisor and past Chair of the Board of Able Flight. In 2009, he received the DESIGNsmith award from North Carolina State University, and received a fellowship from the National Science Foundation's Integrative Graduate Education and Research Traineeship Program in 2003. Mr. Kuniholm received an A.B. from Dartmouth College, and a B.S., M.S., and M.I.D. from North Carolina State University.
Jeff Rosen, Appointee for Member, National Council on Disability
Jeff Rosen is the General Counsel to ZVRS, a company that provides video interpreting services and products to facilitate communication between deaf and non-deaf speakers. Prior to joining ZVRS, Mr. Rosen served as the General Counsel and Vice President of Government.


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Norway to contribute some US$20 million to UNESCO and host debate on women's issues
Norway has announced that it will give UNESCO about $20 million (108.8 million Norwegian kroner) to support the Organization's programmes. Priority will be given to education, safeguarding intangible cultural heritage, protecting oceans and coastal zones, and media development with a focus on freedom of expression and the development of free and independent media.
The Programme Cooperation Agreement will be signed by Norway's Deputy Minister for International Development, Arvinn Eikeland Gadgil, and UNESCO's Director-General, Irina Bokova, on 11 October at UNESCO Headquarters (5 p.m.).
Norway's extra budgetary contribution will be given over the next two years. It stipulates that UNESCO will support national development plans and contribute to coordination among development partners, particularly within the United Nations.
Following the signing ceremony, Norway's Permanent Delegation to UNESCO will host a debate, "Nora's Sisters, Women Worldwide: Challenges of Freedom" at the Paris Institut du Monde Arabe (6.30 p.m.). Held under the patronage of UNESCO, the event will begin with a theatre performance of the last scene of Henrik Ibsen's play "A Doll's House". The debate will be opened by Irina Bokova, Mona Khazindar, Director-General of the Institut du Monde Arabe; and Arvinn Eikeland Gadgil.
Seven-people will be on the debating panel: Manal al-Sharif, Women's rights activist, Saudi-Arabia; Agnete Haaland, President of the International Federation of Actors and Artistic Director of Den Nationale Scene, Norway; Mariam Katagum, Ambassador of Nigeria to UNESCO; Bariza Khiari, Vice-President of the French Senate; Milagros Palma, French-Nicaraguan anthropologist; Blandine Pélissier, French actress and spokesperson of H/F; and Bunker Roy, Indian social activist, entrepreneur and educator.
Journalists wishing to attend these events should contact the Press Service of UNESCO: Djibril Kébé, d.kebe(at)unesco.org, +33 (0)1 45 68 17 41
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Studying the genome these days involves high-throughput assays, with the formidable datasets of microarrays now being superseded by the even more daunting data generated by massively-parallel sequencing. The limiting factor in these experiments is no longer the generation of data but rather their analysis. Lead by Dr Greally, our Division is focused on this rate-limiting step, creating a collaborative environment for innovative and powerful studies of the genome and epigenome in human disease. This Division also serves as the Departmental interface to other Einstein resources, such as the Center for Epigenomics and the Computational Genomics Core Facility. The Division is based in the Price Annex, in the ground floor of the Van Etten Building.
The Division currently consists of five full-time faculty:
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This might be the most active thread we have had in months. Fuji, who would have guessed. More nice shots, but how about a little touch of color in this thread?
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Hundreds gathered Sunday in a largely Polish cemetery in a Chicago suburb to honor the 97 victims killed in a plane crash in western Russia.
St. Adalbert Cemetery in suburban Niles is home to a memorial by Chicago sculptor Wojciech Seweryn, one of the victims killed in the crash.
Chicago churches held memorial services throughout the day honoring the victims, which also included the president of Poland.
The Chicago area has the largest concentration of people of Polish descent outside Poland. According to the 2000 census, roughly 950,000 Poles live in the Chicago area.
Video Vault: Seweryn on Katyn Massacre (1989)
The plane carrying Polish President Lech Kaczynski and other officials crashed Saturday in western Russia. The group was headed to events marking the 70th anniversary of the Katyn massacre, which was the slaughter of thousands of Polish citizens and military officers by Soviet secret police.
The sculpture in Niles, which commemorates the Katyn massacre, was covered with hundreds of candles, flowers and Polish flags on Sunday. Two journals at the base of the sculpture are filled with entries reflecting regrets and sorrow.
One reads simply: "Never Forgotten."
The sculptor's daughter, Anna Wojtowicz, lives in Mt. Prospect. On Sunday morning, she spoke with her mother, who traveled to Poland with Seweryn for the Katyn ceremony.
Seweryn's wife did not get on the ill-fated flight. Instead, she was visiting family when the plane went down. But when she saw video of the plane crash Saturday, she immediately knew it was the plane her husband, the president and all the dignitaries were on, Wojtowicz said.
In Chicago, Memorial Mass will be held at St. Constance Church, Holy Trinity Polish Church and St. Stanislaus Kostka Parish throughout the day. Cardinal Francis George, who sent a letter of condolence to the consul general of Poland after the crash, said he will also include a special remembrance in Sunday's Mass at Holy Name Cathedral.
"I extend my sympathy to the people of the Republic of Poland and of Polonia throughout the world, particularly here in the Archdiocese of Chicago, as they grieve the sudden and overwhelming loss of so many of their brothers and sisters," Cardinal George said.
Illinois Gov. Pat Quinn also offered his condolences.
In a statement, Quinn said Kaczynski was a courageous and dedicated champion of his nation and a defender of freedom. Kaczynski had been expected to visit Chicago late this month to help commemorate Polish Constitution Day, the governor's office said.
The Polish Consulate in Chicago has started a book of condolences for the families of the victims, which the public can sign. The Consulate is located at 1530 N. Lake Shore Drive.


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Blog of Dr. Miland Brown that features different aspects of world history. Not everything can be covered but sites dealing with any historical issue or topic are possible future posts. Also includes sites which discuss teaching history. Dr. Brown is an academic in North America.
Wednesday, April 26, 2006
Do Historians Have a Responsibility to Warn the Public About Misleading Websites?
I do like these suggestions he offers for dealing with the Holocaust denial site Hitler Historical Museum which does well in search engines for the word Hitler:
1. We should all pay attention to our institution's web sites. As I said, I found a number of .edu sites that link to the "Hitler Historical Museum."
2. Some of us can do what we can to reduce the number of links to the site. For example, I have removed about 20 links to the site from Wikipedia (which anyone can edit) from about a dozen language sites. This is worth doing, since whatever one thinks of the Wikipedia project, an astonishing number of people, including many of our students, use it. It also requires continuing monitoring, since there is nothing to prevent people from putting the links back on Wikipedia. I've emailed sites that look to be linking to the HHM in ignorance urging them to remove the link, with some success. It takes Google a while to register such changes, but I'm hoping that over time, the reduced number of links from reliable sites will lower the HHM's Google ranking.
3. Finally, following Marcuse's suggestion, we might consciously choose to link to high quality sources. The more links to such sources, the higher their ranking on the search engines will be. We don't all have to link to the same sites, but if people could agree on a few of the best sites on the Internet, it would surely help (e.g., Gerhard Rempel's site). I don't find a lot of good sites with .edu addresses, but it might be a good project for someone to develop a solid page on Hitler. My German Propaganda Archive, for example, averages about 8,000 visitors a day, and has led to all sorts of interesting things.
In essence, Bytwerk is suggesting that academics and historians actively become involved in promoting good sites on the Web and making it hard for bad ones to be found. This is called Search Engine Optimization and professionals in the Internet world do this full-time. History quacks tend to be good at learning the SEO ropes too. Although it will be hard for historians to beat the pros at the Web game, efforts in this area probably will pay off some. Google and other search engines like authority sites. And the .edu at the end of a site does mean something to the search engines.
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- sumir said...
I visit your site and links suggested by you.
I find many of the links highly useful and after browsing other sites, I come back to the same link as suggested by you. The other visitors may be having similar experience. That is why there are so many hits. In a way the visitor find credibility in the recommendation given by you.
This shows that Bytwerk is quite right in his conclusion.
No doubt, when you want to check some facts, either you try to check official sites or a link which carrys '.edu'.
Some days back You made a posting on Bengal famine report. Now, I am checking my books and trying to make notes out of it. If I have tried to find that site on my own, I do not think when would I have found that link. I would have not reached there. It was work of one historian which helped the other person.
Simiarly, there was a site on Asoka by some Indian enthusiast. However, the person took the historic interpertation casually. That presents the history in a mutilated manner. I tried to place a commnent on it referring to the contents of Inscription XIII of Dholi in order to tell the time of the event of Kalinga war which was a turing point in the history of Piyadasi and latter in the spread of Buddhism. Later I found that the administrator had corrected the basic facts.
Historians may be impeded by technical knowledge but as far as the content of History is conerned, I think they must do what is expected from a student of a subject and that is to say a fact as it is and have courage to tell other who distorts it. I have seen a commotion and observed how some knoweldge person presented their case on educatioin forum of John Simkin when Shanet Clark, a historian from America started a discussion of Holocaust and revivalist apporach. That in a way turned up a lesson for me.
I do not know what the people related to other fields of knoweldge like Physics, or Biology or other natural sciences deal with such websites. Do you have any idea that how they deal with the information available on internet and what are their reactions if some one put wrong information in their filed of study?
- Miland said...
Thank you for your thoughtful comment. Also, I am glad you have found this site helpful in locating good history sources.
I think the problem with history is that it can be interpreted in so many ways to fit the political, cultural, or religious beliefs of the person who owns the website.
Many times these views are valid and many times they are not. Some of the bad ones are basically harmless and ignored while others represent the views of native groups or large religious sects and are left alone by historians for fear of a backlash.
Of course, historians have gone after some bad history on the Web like holocaust denial.
One thing the bad history sites have in common though is they seem to have webmasters who know how to get their sites ranked in Google!
"I do not know what the people related to other fields of knoweldge like Physics, or Biology or other natural sciences deal with such websites."
Good question and I am not entirely sure. I have seen a coordinated attack on creation science and young earth websites by biologists and geologists. Clearly, some attempt is being made. I am not sure if this happens with less controversial topics though.


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The world's monetary floodgates are swinging wide open.
After watching Ben S. Bernanke take unprecedented steps for four years to rebound from the worst recession since the Great Depression, the Bank of Japan is signaling that the Federal Reserve's full-throttle approach to stimulus is the way to end 15 years of deflation.
New BOJ Governor Haruhiko Kuroda's move this week to embark on record easing means the world's four biggest developed-market monetary authorities -- the BOJ, the Fed, the European Central Bank and the Bank of England -- are aligned in their commitments to spur growth and return their economies to full strength.
"This is unprecedented on many levels," said Pippa Malmgren, president and founder of Principalis Asset Management LLP in London and a former financial-market adviser to President George W. Bush. "Not only do you have the most in terms of size of economy or number of central banks, but the effort is a record effort. We've never seen such unconventional methods used to create as much inflation as possible."
The Fed, the ECB and the BOJ have more than doubled the combined size of their balance sheets since the global financial crisis broke out in 2007, expanding them by a total $4.7 trillion. With the BOJ's action, that amount could be increased by at least a further $1.3 trillion by the end of 2014.
Global Boost?
Increased stimulus from central banks may bolster a global economy forecast by the World Bank in January to expand 2.4% this year, down from a previous projection of 3%. At the same time, the level of intervention carries the threat of inflation and asset bubbles as well as tension with emerging markets including China, Brazil and South Korea over exchange rates and capital inflows.
Billionaire investor George Soros and Bill Gross, who runs the world's biggest bond fund, both warned that the BOJ's easing risks creating a rout in the yen. Gross said the rest of the world may not be able to tolerate a yen low enough to accomplish the BOJ's goals.
"Much more depreciation of the yen has to take place in order to get even close to 2 percent" inflation, Gross said yesterday on Bloomberg Television's "Street Smart" with Adam Johnson and Sara Eisen. "I'm not sure that other G-7 countries are willing to permit that. They've to got to control it to some extent," said Gross, who is based in Newport Beach, California.
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Nomacorc's Select® Bio Receives New Technology Award at SIMEI-Enovitis Tradeshow
Nomacorc, the world's leading producer of alternative wine closures, has won the Innovation Challenge's New Technology Award for its Select® Bio Series. Hosted by the SIMEI-ENOVITIS tradeshow, the New Technology Award recognizes the company's achievements in innovation for developing the world's first zero carbon footprint wine closure, Select Bio.
The Innovation Challenge was created with the purpose of rewarding and highlighting companies in the wine trade who are directly investing in innovation, and who are contributing to the advancement of the wine industry sector. Submissions were evaluated by a technical committee composed of representatives from viticulture, enology, the scientific community and member wineries of the Unione Italiana Vini (UIV) trade organization.
"As an industry focused around farming and ecology, we recognize the importance of developing our closures in a smart and sustainable way," said Lars von Kantzow, president and CEO, Nomacorc. "We are extremely proud to be cited for our hard work in developing the world's first zero carbon footprint wine closure, Select Bio, and our achievements in innovation and sustainability."
Nomacorc's Select Bio closure was unveiled this past April at the Intervitis Interfructa tradeshow in Germany. Engineered to be the best closure solution for sustainable wineries and their wines, Select Bio is 100 percent recyclable and made using renewable, plant-based biopolymers derived from sugar cane. The closures will mirror Nomacorc's current Select® Series portfolio in oxygen management performance, and will help minimize the environmental impact of wines by preventing spoilage and waste from cork taint and oxygen-related wine faults, such as oxidation and reduction. Currently, the closures are being trialed by a select group of Nomacorc customers and the full portfolio will be commercially available for the 2014 bottling season.
"Since its inception, Nomacorc has been fueled by innovation and technology, focused on building a better wine closure, and serving as a partner to wineries around the world," said Dr. Olav Aagaard, Nomacorc's principal scientist. "As we continue to invest in research and development, we want to provide more sustainable and efficient solutions and help improve overall wine quality for the industry."
To celebrate Nomacorc's New Technology Award and the success of its Select Bio closure series, the company will be showcasing the first wine trialed under Select Bio, San Polo Montalcino Rubio by customer Allegrini Estates during the SIMEI-ENOVITIS tradeshow. The tasting will be held on November 12, 2013 from 11:00 – 18:00 at the Nomacorc booth, Padiglione 15 – Stand E21-F22.
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More than 80% of Russians believe President Vladimir Putin is leading the country in the right direction, according to a Gallup poll Friday.
At 83%, Putin's approval rating remains the highest since 2008, right before he stepped down as president after two consecutive terms. He is now serving a six-year term as president after winning the election in 2012.
The poll was conducted in late April through early June, likely driven by feelings of patriotism and triumphalism tied to Russia hosting the 2014 Winter Olympics in Sochi and its takeover of Crimea, according to Gallup.
On Wednesday, the U.S. unveiled a round of tougher sanctions against Russia for its intervention and support of a violent separatist group in Ukraine. Many of the sanctions close off U.S. capital markets to oil companies such as Rosneft and big banks like Gazprombank OAO.
Some analysts worry Russia could strike back against U.S. financial and energy firms with sanctions of its own. Putin told reporters at a summit in Brazil that sanctions "usually have a boomerang effect" and that the latest round "will force U.S.-Russian relations into a corner."
The next day, a Malaysian commercial airliner was struck by a missile in eastern Ukraine, killing all 298 people aboard and sending shockwaves across the world. U.S. agencies believe that pro-Russia separatists may have been responsible for shooting the plane down. The U.S. cautions that the investigation remains ongoing.
See: Live coverage of Malaysian plane crash in Ukraine
Another poll conducted by Gallup in July shows that a majority of Russians are content with how they're free to live their lives, but Americans are actually less satisfied with their freedom, with the percentage of unsatisfied Americans more than doubling from 2006 to 2013.
And Putin enjoys far more support among Russians than President Barack Obama does among Americans.
Here's the latest Gallup poll showing Obama's approval rating: 52% of Americans disapprove.
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