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- A comparison of the availability and affordability of a market basket in two communities in the Chicago areaDaniel Block
Department of Geography, Sociology, Economics, and Anthropology, Chicago State University, 9501 South King Drive, Chicago, IL 60628, USA
Public Health Nutr 9:837-45. 2006..Detailed analysis focuses on the relationship between community store mix and price, availability and produce quality...
- The making of an interdisciplinary partnership: the case of the Chicago Food System CollaborativeYolanda Suarez-Balcazar
College of Applied Health Sciences, University of Illinois at Chicago, 1919 West Taylor, MC 811, 60612, USA
Am J Community Psychol 38:113-23. 2006..Despite the challenges of interdisciplinary partnerships, the potential benefits and impact of such efforts reflect their value as a comprehensive approach to addressing complex social problems...


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On the two, comfortable double beds found in this room, you will truly sleep in utter comfort all night long.
The non-smoking environment makes it easy to breathe and the free Wi-Fi allows guests to find local activities in a jiffy.
The room also comes with a mini-refrigerator, coffee maker, iron and hairdryer.

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If rock climbing, or gorge walking is too adventurous for you, but you still want to feel that sense of challenge and achievement by moving over rocks and near water then scrambling is a great alternative and training for future challenges. The Aberdeen sea cliffs offer excellent coastal scrambling on rocky shores and cliffs.
Scrambling involves moving together as a team to explore rugged cliff areas. It does not usually involve the use of ropes but protective clothing, strong boots and helmets are worn. Scrambling is a popular activity for groups that want to be on the move together. Looking after one another and depending upon each other is the key skill that is developed. As the activity involves constant movement it is ideal for keeping warm on those cold days! For the most part, the activity involves walking over grassy and rocky sections of a cliff. It is an exciting and educational experience which offers the chance to look closely at the rocks plants and creatures along the way. It can involve climbing over, through, around and under rock obstacles, squeezes and boulders.
The Aberdeen sea cliffs offer many sites for rock scrambling activities. The main sites used by Adventure Aberdeen are the complex and stunning areas of sea cliff at Souterhead and Cove.


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- Verification of performance specifications of a molecular test: cystic fibrosis carrier testing using the Luminex liquid bead arrayFelicitas L Lacbawan
Department of Pathology, State University of New York Downstate Medical Center, Brooklyn, 11203, USA
Arch Pathol Lab Med 136:14-9. 2012..Prior to offering a US Food and Drug Administration-approved test, it is necessary that performance characteristics of the test, as claimed by the company, are verified before the assay is implemented in a clinical laboratory...
- Unique phenotype in a patient with CHARGE syndromeShobhit Jain
State University of New York Downstate Medical Center, Children s Hospital at Downstate, Department of Pediatrics, Division of Pediatric Endocrinology, Brooklyn, NY 11203 USA
Int J Pediatr Endocrinol 2011:11. 2011..Our report continues to expand the CHARGE phenotype and highlights that stringent fulfillment of conventional criteria should not strictly guide genetic analysis...


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Stillwater bridge meetings set
The Minnesota and Wisconsin Departments of Transportation will hold two informational meetings to update the public on the St. Croix River Crossing project.
Both meetings will follow the same format with an open house from 5 p.m. to 7 p.m. Staff members from Mn/DOT and WisDOT and consultant staff will be on hand to address questions and share information about the project status. Comment cards will also be provided for attendees to submit written statements. There will be no formal presentations.
The Wisconsin open house is set for Thursday, July 16, from 5-7 p.m. at Somerset High School, 645 Sunset Drive, Somerset.
The Minnesota meeting will be Wednesday, July 15, from 5-7 p.m. at Stillwater Area High School, 5701 Stillwater Blvd. N., Stillwater, Minn.
Next steps for the project include the development of the bridge design and construction criteria in preparation for a 2013 letting. To accomplish this, the project team will be performing technical studies to analyze the bridge depicted in the Visual Quality Manual, examining the constructability of the structure and developing detailed construction cost estimates.
Additional information about the project is available from Amber Blanchard, 651-366-4529, Todd Clarkowski, 651-234-7714 at the Minnesota Department of Transportation and Paul Conlin, 715-833-5364 at the Wisconsin Department of Transportation.


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The Genius – Yes Genius – of the Tea Party
[Cross-posted at Femocracy.net]
As we all know, it's Primary Day today, finally marking the end of what has seemed like the most interminable primary season of all times. This means that after today, the news will shift from the "Democrats are going to lose big in November" storyline that's been coming up at least once a day, to amplifying itself and playing around the clock until the inevitability is ingrained in our heads. Fantastic. But for right now, I'm breathing in and enjoying this moment of watching the GOP scramble after shooting themselves in the foot by trying to placate Tea Partiers.
Even though the media narrative has been for some time now that Republicans are posed for potential takeovers in November, I've been wondering whether that was accurate. Here's the problem – in order to court the votes of people that put on three-cornered hats and wave signs equating taxes to slavery, the GOP has had to swing even more right, just after moderates had been mostly purged from the party. But the Tea Partiers weren't even happy then, mostly because they at least recognize that the GOP suddenly paying them lip service had in fact been in office when the deficit started ballooning. So they ran their own candidates in some states, started getting some attention, and in some cases started knocking out establishment candidates to win Republican nominations.
The downside of this, of course, is that many of these candidates aren't the closet wingnuts that have come to make up today's GOP, but are straight-up, loud and proud wingnuts. The end-of-days fundamentalists who think raped women should be forced to carry the child of their rapists meet those who clearly miss the 1950s and are happy to finally direct their anti-Commie, anti-Fascist sentiments somewhere, even if it's toward a thoroughly moderate president, mixed with those who don't like African Americans that much, or gays, or women, or anyone who isn't a white man, mixed with those who are such small-government purists that they would abolish the federal government and go back to frontier living with guns just to avoid paying taxes. It's a crockpot of disparate far-rightwing attitudes that have been cooking on low heat for a while now, until the Tea Party that was ostensibly about deficits and government spending and "taking our country back" because an amorphous mass of culture war frenzy. So some of the winning candidates – from bizarreness of Sharron Angle in Nevada, to the embarrassment of Christine O'Donnell in Delware – may have a harder time on Election Day. It's one thing to win a primary, another to be electable to a wider public. So the Republican Party is now watching the monster they created potentially jeopardize some of their seats, to the point where in O'Donnell's case, they're actively trying to squash her candidacy.
But despite a lack of electoral strategy, or any apparent legislative know-how, it strikes me today how the Tea Party has been genius. Yes, I said that. I say it because they have successfully made their agenda the national agenda. In our two-party system, for better or for worse, parties used to move to the middle to capture votes – because most of the population sees themselves as middle-of-the-road when it comes to political ideology. The only difference was that Republicans were center-right and Democrats were center-left. But the Tea Party has pulled the Republican party even further right than it otherwise would have been after its losses in 2008, because not only did they put on silly hats and go to protests, but because they mounted a credible threat at the polls for Republicans. At the end of the day, I don't know if it was really their goal to win elections. But it sure as hell was their goal to make their issues the central ones of the campaign, and they've succeeded in setting the agenda. But as they pull the Republicans rightward, they're pulling the Democrats rightward as well, because our perception of "the middle" is changing. This is the Tea Party's further genius – by exerting greater influence than their numbers would otherwise suggest. I don't think nearly as many people are "Tea Partiers" as the media attention would have you believe, but they function as a real threat. Suddenly, not only does it become impossible for Republicans to do any type of sensible governing at all, but there's a perception that it's politically unpopular for Democrats to pursue their own policies – like raising taxes on the richest 3 percent of the population, which is, actually, supported by a majority.
I'm frequently disappointed with the Democratic Party, because I consider myself to be more liberal than most of the legislative items they achieve. But it makes sense to me why this would be – because the Democrats are a big tent party in comparison to the Republicans. They have a lot of interest groups to satisfy. They also have a lot of should-be-Republican members like Ben Nelson, whom they have to please – even if it's at the expense of the left. Which makes me dream up a pure thought experiment, if we lived in the world where the left created our own Tea Party equivalent – a truly liberal progressive party who could yank the Democrats leftward. Think about what this would look like. A party that elevates issues important to women on the left – full support for reproductive rights, fair pay in the workplace, paid parental leave that's better than the three-month unpaid allotment we get now, so that both women and men can take time off work to raise their children without being penalized. A party that supports full equality for LGBTQ folks, that treats them with decency and humanity by supporting the immediate repeal of "Don't Ask, Don't Tell," full gay marriage rather than just civil unions as a way of waffling, and laws to protect them from discrimination. A party who sees it as not just important to protect the middle class, but also returns to the days when poverty was a problem they seriously wanted to address – and would really fund Medicaid, food stamps, childcare, job training, and social services, rather than yanking that support every time the budget needs a trim. A party that would strengthen the social safety net, not only dash talks of privatizing Medicare or Social Security, but that would have a stronger unemployment system, at the very least a public option in health care, etc. A party that would fund infrastructure and real jobs programs, and encourage small businesses by not allowing corporations to game the system. I could go on for days about what my party would look like and what they would fight for.
I doubt that liberals will ever organize to make this a coherent strategy. But that's why pressure from the left on our current leaders is so important. That's why I fully supported when labor unions and Firedoglake, among others, supported Bill Halter in the primary against Blanche Lincoln – it forced her more leftward from her bland, centrist state than she had ever been. Halter may have lost, but the campaign was still successful – because the left got to set the agenda, rather than just be told to be happy with the scraps. The Democrats have become the party of everyone who thinks the Republicans are too far out to vote for. I'm feeling like they are my party even less and less – because it's as if they are ashamed to be truly progressive and to take leftists stances on issues, for fear of being tarred as a "librul." They run from it rather than owning it and remaking it. And this is why my personal voting enthusiasm has been dampened.


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IDG Updates CreativePro LineupNew audio conference track added; Apple and Macromedia to deliver feature presentations
The Macworld CreativePro Conference is targeted specifically to Macintosh creative professionals, focusing on video, print, audio and Web production technologies and techniques. According to IDG, an Apple executive will address attendees July 16 at 9:30 a.m. Norm Meyrowitz, president of Macromedia Products (who also oversees Director, Shockwave, Dreamweaver and Flash), will speak the same day at 3:00 p.m.
Also added to the CreativePro lineup is an audio track developed by Apple. Sessions will include:
- The Vision of Audio in Mac OS X
- ProTools 6 for Mac OS X
- Advanced Editing with Emagic Logic for Mac OS X
- High Level Functions of DJ/Remix Applications within Mac OS X
- The Guitar in the World of Mac OS X
- Surround Production with MOTU DP4 for Mac OS X
- Utilizing Mac OS X Audio Units in Recording and Live Performance
- Audio Restoration and Enhancement of Existing Content.
Sessions are open to all registered attendees. A complete conference lineup is available at http://www.macworldexpo.com.
Contact the author: Dave Nagel is the producer of Creative Mac and Digital Media Designer; host of several World Wide User Groups, including Synthetik Studio Artist, Adobe Photoshop, Mac OS, Adobe InDesign, Adobe LiveMotion, Creative Mac and Digital Media Designer; and executive producer of the Digital Media Net family of publications. You can reach him at [email protected].
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Here is the CARS quilt I was commissioned to make. Boy, oh boy, is that Licensed fabric expensive!!! If I ever do another one I will just do a panel in the center and do borders around it. This took almost 2 yards to get enough "fussy cut" squares.
I was also disappointed in the satin binding, it only has cars on one side, the other side is red/blue checked.
The quilt is 44" x 49 1/2" - it is for a 3 yr old boy.
CARS quilt - front
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text: Angkor Spirit Palace Hotel puts you within a 15-minute drive of Angkor Wat and features free airport pick-up service (available on request). Guests can indulge in deep-tissue massages, body scrubs, or facials, and Angkor Spirit Restaurant serves breakfast, lunch, and dinner. An outdoor pool and a garden are offered, and rooms get the details right with bathrobes and slippers.


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Registrar's listing spring 2015
Interested in fall 2014 courses?
Use the drop down menu to select the category for which you would like to to see courses.
Gateway Course for English and Creative Writing
ENG 1a, Introduction to Literary Studies
David Sherman, MWTh 12-12:50
ENG 53b, The Poetics of Plague Writing
Jodie Austin, MW 5-6:20
ENG 64b, From Libertinism to Sensibility: Pleasure and the Theatre, 1660-1800
Tom King, TF 11-12:20
ENG 132b, Chaucer
Mary Baine Campbell, TF 12:30-1:50
ENG 88a, European Encounters: American Writers & Artists Abroad
Kathy Lawrence, TTh 5-6:20
ENG 48a, Trash
Mary Baine Campbell, TTh 3:30-4:50
ENG 117b, Faulkner
John Burt, TF 11-12:20
ENG 20a, Bollywood
Ulka Anjaria, TTh 3:30-4:50
ENG 60b, Disney
Caren Irr, MWTh 11-11:50
ENG 160a, Digital Media and Culture
Jodie Austin, TTh 5-6:20
ENG 177a, Hitchcock
Paul Morrison, MWTh 1-1:50
Screening: M 6:30-8:30
ENG 111a, How Fiction Works: Narrative in Theory and Practice
Susan Lanser, MW 2-3:20
ENG 111b, Postcolonial Theory
Ulka Anjaria, TF 12:30-1:50
ENG 20a, Bollywood
Ulka Anjaria, TTh 3:30-4:50
ENG 10b, Poetry: A Basic Course
Paul Morrison, MWTh 10-10:50
ENG 68b, The International Legacy of Anne Frank
Dawn Skorczewski, MW 8:30-9:50
COML/ENG 140, Children's Literature and Constructions of Childhood
Robin Feuer Miller, MW 2-3:20
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ENG 10b, Poetry: A Basic Course
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ENG 79b, Writing Workshop: From Memory to Craft
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- British Grand Prix - FP2
Wet running still useful - Schumacher
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Michael Schumacher said he was able to learn some useful information from Friday's wet practice sessions for the British Grand Prix.
Schumacher completed 22 laps over the two sessions, with the third fastest time in the afternoon. With more wet weather expected over the weekend, the Mercedes driver said there were lessons to be learned.
"There are still things to be learned on days like these and the positive about today's rain was that it is also forecast for tomorrow and Sunday," he said. "This meant that we were able to use today to prepare for the race, primarily on the wet tyres. We also tried the intermediates briefly but they were no faster in these conditions. The rain was constant, which allowed us to at least complete some parts of our programme.
"There was a lot of standing water, but it was hard to spot from the cockpit, which meant that the drivers had to be very vigilant. Today's sessions went okay and, in any case, we know that at this circuit, with its particular characteristics, rain offers us good chances and opportunities."
Asked if his Mercedes programme had suffered as a result of the weather, Schumacher said: "Not as much as all the fans outside that had to suffer."


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JACKSONVILLE, Fla. -- Denard Robinson's production certainly didn't match the buildup for the player the Jaguars listed as an "offensive weapon."
He had two carries for 1 yard in the Jaguars' season-opening loss to Kansas City.
The reason, offensive coordinator Jedd Fisch said, has nothing to do with Robinson's work in practice. Robinson wasn't involved as much because the offense was so stagnant that Fisch didn't want to try the wildcat formation until the Jaguars at least began moving the ball with some consistency.
That didn't materialize in the first quarter (12 yards on five possessions), so Fisch did try the wildcat early in the second quarter. Robinson gained 1 yard.
"When you're trying to find a rhythm you don't want to be searching for something," Fisch said. "I think Maurice Jones-Drew had 15 carries for 45 yards or so. I would have preferred to call one more handoff to Maurice if we got ahead of the chains at all, rather than say let's try a wildcat gimmick play.
"If we can get the chains moving and get a couple first downs now there's a place for some more of the creativity."
Getting the chains moving may still be a pretty tough chore considering five key offensive players -- not including quarterback Blaine Gabbert, who has already been ruled out for Sunday's game at Oakland -- are battling injuries. Tight end Marcedes Lewis (calf), receivers Mike Brown (back) and Cecil Shorts (groin), and guards Uche Nwaneri (knee) and Will Rackley (knee) were all limited in practice on Thursday.
Jaguars coach Gus Bradley said it may take until Sunday morning before he'll know if Lewis and Brown are able to play.
With Brown and Shorts ailing and Justin Blackmon serving a four-game suspension, the Jaguars have just two healthy available receivers: rookie fourth-round pick Ace Sanders and Stephen Burton, whom the team claimed off waivers on Sept. 1. The Jaguars have two receivers on the practice squad -- first-year player Jeremy Ebert and rookie Tobais Palmer -- so they could promote one if Brown is unable to play.
Robinson, who holds the NCAA record for most rushing yards by a quarterback in a career (4,495 yards) and in a single-season (1,702), was drafted with the thought that he could play running back and receiver. However, he has had issues with his hands and spent extra time during training camp working with Shorts and coaches to try and improve.
His second carry last Sunday came as a running back, which is where he'll likely see the bulk of his playing time. The wildcat formation will make an appearance, but only if the offense is able to generate some kind of rhythm.
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Dell announces UltraSharp monitors that cover 99% of AdobeRGB gamut
Dell has announced its 27" U2713H and 24" U2413 LED monitors designed for color critical applications like photo editing. These latest flagship models promise 99% coverage of the AdobeRGB color space, feature a 12-bit internal processor and 14-bit LUT (lookup table) for software calibration. The U2713H and U2413 are currently available at prices starting at US $999/£802/€829 and US $599/£490/€519 respectively.
The company has also launched the 30-inch U3014 monitor and its first ultra-wide monitor with a unique aspect ratio of 21:9 - the 29-inch U2913WM as an alternative to dual monitors.
Press Release:
Dell Updates Flagship Line of UltraSharp Displays with PremierColor Monitors and New Ultra-wide Model
|The U2913WM is Dell's first 29-inch ultra-wide monitor with a unique aspect ratio of 21:9, providing an alternative to dual monitors.
- Dell UltraSharp monitors with PremierColor offer outstanding color accuracy, precision and performance
- Dell UltraSharp U3014 30-inch, U2713H 27-inch and U2413 24-inch monitors are designed for color-critical work
- Dell Single Monitor Arm and Dual Monitor Stand provide an optimized set-up for productivity and comfort
- Dell UltraSharp U2913WM enables productive multi-tasking with an ultra-wide format
Users will experience outstanding color accuracy, precision and performance with the Dell UltraSharp U3014 30-inch monitor with PremierColor. The U3014 is Dell's flagship high performance monitor with a 16:10 aspect ratio, suitable for the fine level of detail required for color-critical work such as CAD/CAM, graphic design, desktop publishing, gaming or media creation. In addition, users will experience stunning high-definition details and the ability to view more onscreen content with 2560 x 1600 resolution. More than just a high performance monitor, the U3014 offers flexible viewing options, versatile digital connectivity and is designed for exceptional efficiency with an eco-design that meets the latest environmental standards like EPEAT®, ENERGY STAR® and TCO Certified Displays.
Dell UltraSharp U2713H 27-inch and U2413 24-inch Monitors with PremierColor
Engineered to equip you with the best for color-critical work, the Dell UltraSharp U2713H 27-inch and U2413 24-inch monitors with PremierColor offer rich, vivid, lifelike images right out of the box. Users will experience remarkably consistent, precise, and accurate colors calibrated at the factory to support 99 percent AdobeRGB and 100 percent sRGB coverage with a deltaE of less than 2; each monitor arrives with a certified report to indicate its exact color calibration. A 12-bit internal processor enables a whopping 1.07 billion colors, superb color reproduction and gradation onscreen. For even more precise color calibration, the Dell UltraSharp Color Calibration Solution software provides access to the 14-bit LUT so users can calibrate the monitors to several popular color spaces. Dell recommends the optional X-Rite i1Display Pro colorimeter (sold separately) for generating custom color profiles.
Dell UltraSharp U2913WM 29-inch Ultra-wide Monitor
In addition to the updated Dell UltraSharp U3014, U2713H and U2413 monitors with PremierColor, Dell recently announced the U2913WM 29-inch Ultra-wide monitor featuring a unique aspect ratio that takes multi-tasking to a whole new level. The U2913WM is Dell's first 29-inch ultra-wide monitor with a unique aspect ratio of 21:9, providing time-conscious, multi-tasking workers with a great alternative to dual monitors. For additional space, users may simply replicate or extend content to additional monitors using DisplayPort 1.2. After a productive day at work, a wide Full HD, visually stunning color accuracy and a breathtaking panoramic view can redefine an evening's entertainment experience.
Dell Single Monitor Arm and Dual Monitor Stand
The Dell Single Monitor Arm (MSA14) and Dell Dual Monitor Stand (MDS14) are designed to improve the viewing comfort of users and enhance user productivity. The MSA14 articulating arm can help maximize viewing comfort and improve productivity. Its multi-adjustment capabilities including height adjustability, tilt, swivel and pivot features let users move the monitor to the desired position and collaborate more easily. It can easily be attached to the U3014, U2713H, U2413 and select Dell monitor panels with a simple snap to the Dell Quick Release mount at the back of the monitor without needing screws. With the MDS14 dual monitor stand, users can snap on two Dell monitor panels with the Dell Quick Release mount and enjoy improved productivity and a clutter-free desktop. Tilt, swivel, height adjust and horizontally slide the monitors on the stand to customize to preferred viewing angles. The U-shaped monitor stand also frees up productive desk space in front of the monitors and reduces cable clutter with a cable management slot on the stand riser.
"The Dell UltraSharp series offers one of the industry's highest-quality and most advanced technology experiences," said George Toh, Marketing Director of Dell Displays. "We are thrilled to update the UltraSharp family with the U3014, U2713H and U2413 displays, along with our first Dell-branded single monitor arm and dual monitor stand. The displays and accessories offer users an outstanding visual experience and the versatility to boost productivity and multi-task with ease."
Pricing and Availability
Dell UltraSharp U3014 is coming soon worldwide starting from USD$1499. Dell UltraSharp U2713H & U2413 monitors are currently available worldwide starting at USD$999 and US$599, respectively. The Dell Single Monitor Arm is currently available starting from US$149, and the Dual Monitor Stand is currently available starting from US$169.
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Just got a 24" U2713 as a free replacement due to the older kit monitor was shipped broken to me, Sweet picture, crisp colors and text WOW..thanks dell for free upgrade :o)
Hope it doesn't have the usual crappy anti-glare matte that makes it impossible to distinguish noise from the matte artifacts.
Ordered 3 of the U2413, cant wait to use them!
Received a new U2713Hb from Dell as a replacement for my new U2711 with some problems. IMO the anti glare coating are better on the U2713, but it is a lot worse in terms of viewing angle issues. With this monitor size you will see uneven density and color shifts (yellow/blue) even if you are positioned right in front of the U2713. I would not recomend it for critical Photoshop work even if it covers 99% of Adobe RGB.
u2713h don't had great uniformity of luminance than u2711.
See the below u2713h's review page.
I've just bought a 2713H and the wide gamut is very useful as you can see what you have compared to what you will get with srgb viewing and make informed choices about how to squeeze into sRGB. The resolution / pixel pitch is really great, and windoze is still usable (which is probably not true of a retina style display. Even on apple machines retina displays can be a problem as many apps are not geared up for such high resolutions yet (including Aperture as I understand it).
My only problem with the 2713H is incompatability of the USB ports with some ASUS motherboards (you need to use the USB connection to load the lut / calibrate with either x-rite standard or the dell variant software).
Timescapes preview looks absolutely stunning at native resolution and shows up 1080P something wicked. Roll on 4k!
Are you saying you already have it delivered and using it?
How strange, I've been using Aperture with a retina Mac for months now. Not only is it fully supported, the images look absolutely stunning thanks to the high density, allowing 4 times the detail to be seen over regular screens.
It's getting harder and harder to distinguish those being paid to badmouth Apple (see "I earn a fortune from home" type adverts) from those who just didn't bother learning about the things they like to talk about.
@Vlad, yes it arrived Wednesday last week - has been available in the UK for a few weeks now I believe
@Najinsky, I have no apple axe to grind one way or the other, I have a friend with all apple kit and he was saying that the user interface in aperture doesn't work well on hi res screens as it doesn't rescale properly (the piccies do look great once you get there though as you say).
I'll stick with NEC and their 30" for $1799 (at B&H). If Dell street prices the U3014 for $1100, that might be worth considering.
This is a copy of Dell's press release. OK, what's DPR value-add? Perhaps they (the masters of holding the cams right side up) could tell us which laptops support these great resolutions? Yes, start with the DisplayPort and take it from there...
As a leading website for digital photography reviews and information I have no problem with dpreview posting the Dell press release, or any press release related to digital photography for that matter. The value-add is that the information has been made available for users to read if they choose. I would not have known about the release if it wasn't for dpreview.
2560x1080 ...
I have two good 4:3 screens and a hight of 1024 now. Thats more or less the same pixel area. So ... this is not an investment that feel necessary. I am waiting for half the pixel pitch. 2000x5000 or so would be nice :-)
Interesting. Up until the announcement the U2713H was available on the Dell site for SOHO users pre-order at $850 for a couple weeks already. Now the "sale" is no more and the price is as listed.
I have a Philips television with this screen format, and I have to say that it's wonderful.
So for wide screen video work it might come in handy to see the end result. As a photographer myself I don't see the real use for it. The 99% Adobe RGB might come in handy for the extreme color critic.
It is written that Dell UltraSharp U3014 is for color critical work, however only U2713H is mentioned to have 99% ARGB coverage. Are the two monitors different in color reproduction/panel/calibration/etc? Am I missing something here?
I have the U2713 and it has presettings adobe RGB & SRGB
Does it really help for the overwhelming most of us who view our pictures on just average laptops and sharing them on the web or printing them on inkjets that cannot come close to showing all the color? Would certainly be nice if it could be appreciated and I guess in commercial work it might. Am I right?
You are right. Viewing jpegs or images from the internet requires only an sRGB monitor as both are, or should be, just sRGB. Unless you are working with images you expect to print with an AdobeRGB capable printer or a printhouse that accepts them, these monitors are in fact a bit of a nuisance. These may have an sRGB mode as have some other recent Dell monitors, and if they do, you will definitely want to use that mode for viewing jpegs or browsing. Or just buy a good sRGB monitor if you don't do AdobeRGB photo editing and printing.
Great displays as these new DELLs seem to be ...
I won't buy into them before I see 24", 27" and 30" external RETINA displays arrive (which double the resolution for photo work w/o making the UI unusable).
Of course, it may require Apple to support Retina for external monitors (maybe done already but nobody can test) and Sharp to ramp up their IGZO panel production.
Interesting in this context: http://sharp-world.com/corporate/news/121128.html
Does the 14-bit LUT mean these monitors are hardware calibratable?
This article suggests that you calibrate your monitor rather than the video card but recommends NEC monitors that are usually a lot more expensive than a Dell:
Of course it's from 2009 but the question remains - does the 14-bit LUT place this 2013 Dell model in the same league as a 2009 NEC in terms of display calibration?
as TFTCentral noted, yes, hardware calibration is possible, but only with the mandatory "optional X-Rite i1Display Pro colorimeter (sold separately)" and their dell-branded software.
I wasn't aware that the folks at TFT central have already reviewed the new monitors. I've just checked out their website and indeed found this:
"One thing which separates this screen from many mainstream monitors... is the support for hardware calibration. Users can program the monitors 14-bit Look Up Table (LUT) if they have the appropriate software... The software part of is easy, Dell provide their own free... software... allow[ing] the user to access the hardware LUT to calibrate the screen in two available modes.. The second part is not so easy... as you require a compatible calibration tool to work with this software and allow hardware calibration. Oddly Dell... have locked this so that you can ONLY use the X-rite i1 Display Pro colorimeter. Other devices are NOT compatible at all, including the i1 Pro spectrophotometer, i1 Display 2, ColorMunki, Spyder series or any other colorimeter."
That is very clearly written and answers my question. Thanks!
The i1Display Pro is the second best colorimeter available in the market and way better than the i1Display II colorimeter or the i1 spectrometers for monitor calibration and profiling. The price differences to other models that perform worse is not that high.
These new models are pretty nice, but the U3011 and U2711 are still great values at $1099 and $999, respectively.
It's so ridiculous. Smartphones provide us with 300dpi and even more while PC monitors deliver an abysmal low dpi count.
Agree, overcoming the 72dpi barrier is the thing to go to, moving 35MP onto 30" and making prints (almost) obsolete. Sure there are technical obstacles to overcome (bandwidth, scaling, fonts...) but the 72dpi is where we will wonder how people settled for such low resolutions in the past. Hopefully soon...
luchs wrote: "Think how small the regular icons of 22*22 pixels will be! I would currently not use a monitor with more than 120dpi - 96 is still ideal."
Wow...people still think this way? Even after Apple long ago released HiDPI monitors with normal-sized icons?
Think about it like this: When you read a paper catalog, it was printed at 300dpi, but no one ever complains that the pictures or text are too small. There is nothing about high-resolution monitors that will cause objects to be too small...unless you are using an operating system that is not capable of compensating. High resolution object size is a solved problem, it was solved in print, and print came before the web screwed up everyone's idea of how resolution works.
I can clearly say that none of the repliers here saw retina display in action (the one that 15" macbook have) first of all you can change the size of the icons from the OS with ease. Second of all, at retina resolution, pixels are so small that you can actually scale the resolution down perfectly to 1440x900, 1680x1050 and to the original retina resolution. This downscale does not cause blurring like regular lcd's do at all.
By the way, to all the people who are planning on buying a new monitor.. Instead of buying one 30" monitor, I recommend getting two monitors in dual-head configuration -one 24" IPS and a second smaller cheap TFT monitor. Keep all of your tools on the TFT monitor (except the color palette) and do all of your processing and color work on the IPS monitor. It's less expensive this way and it's also better on the eyes since you can always turn off the second monitor if you don't need the extra screen real estate, plus you can conveniently adjust the position/angle of the second monitor. I'm using this setup since 2000 for 3D, digital imaging and illustration work, it's working really well for me..
(some advice to novice users) :)
In theory a good advice. I tried it myself but ...
When using a drawing tablet (Wacom) a big amount of "drawing estate" of the tablet is used for the 2nd monitor. Leaving less for the primary monitor = reducing resolution & precision.
Even though I run a dual monitor config I restricted the tablet drawing estate to the primary monitor.
Something i just found out recently with my wacom (i use a three monitor setup) is you can map the tablet to cover a portion of your second (and third monitor) so i place the photoshop tools in this region so i can still each them with the pen.
Well, the "drawing estate" depends on a lot of things..
1. The size of your wacom tablet, of course..
2. The resolution or the orientation (vertical/horizontal) of your second monitor..
3. Your style.. What I mean by that, is how an individual draws, for example if they make large or small strokes.
I have a wacom tablet too, 6x11, an indispensable tool.. :) It's setup with a 1080p as the primary and the second one is 1280/1024. For the tablet size I have, this works very well for me (horizontally 1280+1920) -this is equivalent to a 3200x1024/1080 single monitor, now that's a lot of screen real estate. Personally I do small strokes, so I don't have to move my arm around on the tablet a lot, if I need to add some specific detail -I zoom on the image anyway. However, if I had two 1080p side by side horizontally (1920+1920), maybe my tablet would be too small, unless I would spin the second monitor 90 degrees vertically (horizontally 1080+1920) or lower the resolution on the second monitor..
So I guess gl2k, you can try spinning the other monitor, lower the resolution of the second monitor, or just get a bigger wacom tablet.. :)
I have an even better idea for those with lots of money & desk space. Get the 30" monitor which has a vertical resolution of 1600 pixels if my memory serves me correctly. Also get a 20"-22" 1600x1200 monitor and then set it next to the 30" one, but in portrait orientation. This way their vertical pixels match.
Then have the whole 30" monitor for the image and the smaller monitor will have plenty of height required by all those layers, or history, or actions etc.
How does that sound?
I've used exactly this setup for many years. Having the smaller sRGB TFT monitor allows me to see proper color of sRGB jpegs and sRGB web content and also check sRGB files I produce from RAW AdobeRGB files. My 24" AdobeRGB monitor (older 96% of AdobeRGB monitor) does not have an sRGB mode and switching to that mode on the newer monitor several times each day would seem to be a nuisance
I have a cheap Dell laptop. And am amazed at the processing in Raw i get. I am going to buy the 27" just because of the excellent laptop. I am seriously getting into high quality bird photography. Do you guys think this is a good move? Can I expect much better processing with PS-5?
are you sure that the video card in your laptop can handle the new monitor?
Max resolution depends on the bandwidth capability of the interface.
The max resolution of single-link DVI is 2.75 megapixels according to Wikipedia. For resolutions above that, you can use dual-link DVI, which has been required for many years for 27- to 30-inch monitors. Apparently the max resolution of dual-link depends on the source, cable, and sync.
The max resolution of HDMI depends on the version of HDMI your equipment uses. If I'm reading Wikipedia right, HDMI 1.4 can reach 4096x2160 if limited to 24 frames per second.
Since DisplayPort is more flexible than HDMI, including being an open standard unlike HDMI, DisplayPort is what higher-end laptops and Microsoft Surface use.
Hopefully the U2413 will calibrate better than the U2410. I have both a U2410 and the older 2407. I use the Eye-One display 2 to calibrate both and the 2407 gives more faithfull color than the U2410 - prints from the labs I use with the labs' icc profiles for soft proofing look just like the image on the 2407 and not the 2410 and both displays are calibrated to the same color temperature. The U2410 has more color controls than the 2407, but changing an RGB value by 1 % in the color controls on the U2410 can change the color temperature by 200 degrees. I missed the return date (dell only gives 21 days now instead of the 30 they use to give) and Dell never responded to my concerns.
You need a better calibrator and some tricks, solution at http://forums.dpreview.com/forums/post/50756245
My advice has always been "stay away from wide Gamut unless you know what your doing". For me it's not worth the hassle to see colors no one else can. You don't see it in print, your clients don't see it, on the web they can't be seen. So what good is it? It's great for a dedicated graphics station but for general use it causes many folks a lot of head aches. So if WG is your cup of tea go for it. If your not sure do your research first, there are lot of threads on this subject going back for years and nothing has really changed.
I couldn't agree more. I just sold my U2410 and bought a U2713HM (not wide gamut). The bottoms line I that we live in an sRGB world, and working with wide gamut can get confusing at the best of times. There isn't a single OS that manages it well enough, and the sRGB emulation mode will only add to the confusion, since the OS still thinks its wide gamut.
I agree. Most clients look at the photos on cheap office type monitors.
I also Agree with you comment. I am using a Dell Precision M4600 with WG LED display. To be honest. Yes. the color on the monitor is excellent. But when your program don't support color management, you will have a hard time deciding which is the correct color to represent when your client see your images. We alll live in a sRGB world. So, Is better off to get a very good sRGB IPS monitor.
it is irrelevant if it's WG or not - my U2711 worked totally fine switched into sRGB mode.
basicaly these DELL babies are the only sane option for an average photography joe on the market, and no amount of WG pro/contra discussion is going to change that. Buy NEC? no thank you, I can buy 2 Dells. Downshift into shady $500 internet Korean stuff? No thank you.
this time around it's even better, those who need any advice on gamut would just buy the cheaper consumer U2713HM option and automatically stay out of trouble.
You may not see it in prints from a lab, but photo inkjet printers have been able to print way beyond the sRGB colorspace for quite a while now.
Another option - buy the wide gamut display, enjoy it, do your color management thing on it, edit on it, etc., and then have a second monitor that saturates just sRGB and use it for multitasking/menus and color proofing sanity checks of your output. You can enjoy benefits of the expanded colorspace that wide gamut delivers from your main, and the convenience of sRGB only from the second monitor.
I have been following these discussions for years and no one has ever given me a good reason to go WG. I do shoot raw and process in LR, so the benefits of WG color space are still there and some day in the future when almost everything is properly color managed I will go to a WG monitor.
As far as ink jet printing (the better photo printers) goes there is a very small visible difference when the content is favorable to WG and you don't need a WG monitor to get those benefits although it would help to see what your getting before you print. If I remember right LR has a feature to see what is out of gamut before printing even if you don't have a WG monitor. Like a lot of folks I don't do much printing anymore and when I do I get them done at Costco. On rare occasions I will order larger HQ prints from West Coast Imaging or Black River imaging. Ink Jet printing just is not cost effective for me anymore. The main point is I never see the benefits of WG that I know of.
I've had the 2713H for a few weeks now. Anti-glare is much, much better than the 2711 that I had before this. The best thing about this monitor, however, is that it comes with a factory uniformity calibration, making it very, very even across the entire screen. Highly recommended.
Yes, the 2711 was really grainy. On white/light it almost shimmered. It was really distracting. The 2713H is more like the matt screen on an older macbook pro. Even, effective, and not distracting at all.
Also, there is a big diff between the 2713H and the 2713HM. Buyer beware!
> mine calibrated up just fine
Using what LUTs? Were you using CAL1/CAL2 or your videocard LUTs? See also: http://www.tftcentral.co.uk/reviews/dell_u2713h.htm
"Strange that glowing reviews I read of the 2711 never mentioned that crazy effect."
It has been discussed in several reviews; for example, http://peterhallam.com.au/dell-u2711-anti-glare-review/
> Preset mode is Custom Colour
Exactly! Monitor LUTs calibration is available only in "Color Space" preset so you were using video card LUTs calibration and not monitor LUTs calibration. That's why you could use uniformity compensation.
> mine is the best I've used
Nobody would argue that there are worse monitors than these Dells :).
Note that like any wide gamut monitor this will be BAD for general web browsing and stuff. Images without a color profile (or any images at all in browsers which don't support color profiling) will appear heavily over saturated.
I spotted these monitors in their ads last week and will likely buy the 24 inch monitor, which at $599 is a good choice considering the apple monitors stand alone unit are $999. Maybe apples monitors are a bit better spec wise, but this is a good price for almost similar colour performance I think. Great controls, and lumens can be set from 350 high end to 50 minimum. This monitor has multiple inputs, HDMI and DVI and miniport for multiple uses for video or photo editing.
If you're shopping for monitors, I recommend you checkout Viewsonic, they make excellent professional IPS monitors at very good prices. I have been using one for the past 3 years (bought my 23" for $330 back then, now they cost about $270), and I find the color accuracy, viewing angle and brightness is excellent (plus they have 0 dead pixels guarantee). I highly recommend them..
As for apple monitors, they are used by designer/artist noobs and fashion victims. The surface of their screen is reflective, you can see the reflection of yourself and the background while working on them. Totally unacceptable..
I have a 27 inch imac and yes some minor reflection on it, but it does not distract me at all in edting, as I have it in room with dim lighting. Many professional use this 27" imac. I checked the Viewsonic site as mentioned, and cannot find any info on calibration for monitor. I had a Viewsonic LCD before and had difficulties getting the Lumen setting low enough (too bright) to match my printing house recommendations. The 24" Dell offers the right calibration. So, if you are printing inhouse only from your own printers, Viewsonic is very much fine to use. Sending out of house print jobs, Dell (with a Windows CPU) is a better choice to meet industry standard 100 or 120 lumen settings with proper calibrated software. This is why a Pro would buy a more expensive monitor, so see what a print house sees. The 24 inch Dell looks ideal in this regard.
So buying a 2410 looks to be a good deal for those on a budget? I'd be curious to know what other older monitors are good for photography. My "problem" is that 12 years ago I bought a really high quality graphics CRT and it's still a great monitor. So it's a bit large for the screen real estate by today's standards, but it's just really accurate and nice to look at so I haven't upgraded. When I do, I'll probably be looking at something like the 2410 at less than $400.
Sir, first thing you should do tomorrow morning is to take your CRT and toss it in the dumpster (better yet, dispose of it properly) and then go to a store and buy an IPS monitor. You will not regret it! The image on the new monitor will have better tonal range, it will be more crisp, vibrant, and without any distortions. I know this will be hard to do, because I done it myself, I had a perfectly working professional flat CRT monitor that I threw out.. I was really sad when I was throwing it out, I even put a big note on top of it "working", hoping someone would pick it up and use it.. lol but I have no regrets now, because the IPS image quality is superb, I could never go back to CRT. If you want a very good IPS monitor at a good price, get Viewsonic, they're excellent. I have one, and I'm very very pleased with it.
There is a really useful review at http://www.tftcentral.co.uk/reviews/dell_u2413.htm
Of particular interest is the comparison with the U2410 and U2412M monitors, and an explanation of the features that each provide. You don't always need the latest and best - the wide gamut available on the U2413 may actually be a disadvantage for many users.
It's taken Dell five years to get back to almost the quality they built into their 2408WFP monitor in 2008? That old 24" monitor had a Delta E of 1.7 before calibration (1.3 with) and the color gamut was over 100% of the Adobe RGB standard (http://www.anandtech.com/show/2518/5). These new Dells sound pretty good with a price that won't break the bank ..
Old News - the U2713H and U2413 at least has been available to buy for about a month now......
If your shopping for monitors, make sure you buy a IPS panel. The other common type that is very bad for color and view angle is called TN.
Dell Ultrasharp monitors use LG panels; these are the same panels used in apple's best monitors. They are also used by HP pro line monitors.
I have two U3011's. (decoded name: Ultrasharp 30" 2011) They are huge. The 27" has more pixel density but its 16:9 (Less Height than 16:10; 2560x1600 vs 2560x1440)
There's a simple way to remember which type of display is best suited for photography, has the widest angle of view, etc. It's the most expensive one.
@BigBen08, LG is a manufacturer of LCD pannels.
ISP is the best or similar best to the competing type of display which I can' t remember of the top of my head. Check out Wikipedia if your interested. The LG pannel is used in the same Apple monitor, the HP ZR30z, the Dell 3011 and one other. Interestingly the cost of these varies by $500, for the same IPS panel, just different inputs.
You can pick up a nice 24" IPS panel for around $300. I like dell brand monitors. Apple, HP, Dell tend to use LG panels but they do use different layers of films on them. Some will be full gloss, my U3011 are matte. If you get a 27 or 30", keep in mind you can not use the full resolution with HDMI (HDMI is limited to 1920x1080 or a tad more). You need dual link DVI or displayport. So you might have to upgrade your graphics card.
No offense Mssimo but I think you are confusing the hell out of people that doesn't follow display technology.
My Dell Ultrasharp is S-PVA and there are also PLS and MVA monitors out there not to mention the various type of IPS from cheap E-IPS to high end H-IPS.
I think it is better to say this is a great monitor with great color and viewing angle and buy it if you have the money and demand the best. To get technical is like telling people to buy BSI 1/1.7 or bigger sensor when shopping for compact camera. You'd be driving them nuts.
I hope the new monitors have the 16:10 aspect ratio of their existing 24" photo monitor and not the more common 16:9 aspect ratio. The squarer format is much better for photo work.
I've been working on a Dell U2711 (16:9, 2560x1440) for more than a year now - I think vertical resolution is a more important factor that aspect ratio. I say this because I also have a 24" 1920x1200 monitor, which I used for my photo editing prior to the U2711 - but the extra 240 vertical pixels (not to mention the extra 640 horizontal pixels) of the U2711 make it much nicer to work on. Toolbars go on the side of the screen anyways, so I don't really mind having the extra horizontal space.
If the monitor is big enough, then vertical resolution can compensate for the 16:9 aspect ratio.
Nobody really ever mentions this.. but the aspect ratio of the monitor would be best defined as ideal by what software you use, and how you've customized your screen views. Ie. where do you put your menus and toolbars, etc. and how do these effect the resulting available space for the photo to be viewed and edited?
"You will always find 16:10, but it will be a business class monitor for Pros."
In 30" only. Not a single 24/27" monitor is 16:10 any more.
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Willy Wonka, the factory's owner, is quite a character and equally fabulous is the dream world that he has built. I'm sure Dahl had concealed lots of morals in the book - what with all the other children who accompany Charlie on this trip falling prey to one of their faults and Charlie, the virtuous one, winning the factory as a grand prize. But what always fascinates me is the world Willy Wonka created inside this factory - chocolate rivers, Oompa-Loompas and that most amazing glass elevator that moves all-ways.
I've read this book many times over the years and enjoyed it every time. I've also craved a lot of chocolate during and after reading this book. So for this month's post, I decided to make chocolate truffles.
Start by making a firm ganache. Chop 150 gms semi-sweet chocolate into small bits. Heat 100 ml cream with 1/2 tsp vanilla essence in a small pan until it is simmering. Pour it on the chocolate, wait a minute and then mix to make a smooth paste. Cover the ganache with a plastic wrap and chill for a couple of hours.
Remove from fridge and carve out small bits with a melon baller. Roll between palms to make a round truffle, then roll into cocoa powder. That was half my truffles. For the other half, I rolled the ganache balls into finely ground almonds for that lovely white speckled effect.
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Sweatha did what I did and made truffles too.
Rachel made Chocolate Almond Bars.
Sunshinemom made Puffed Rice Balls
In February, we are reading my all-time favorite author Agatha Christie. Out of her 100-odd novels, we have picked "Adventure of the Christmas Pudding", a Hercule Poirot mystery. If you would like to join us on a trip to Poirot's world, leave a comment here and I will get back with more details.


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We hear much about "millennials," the generation ahead set to save the world. But a distinctive feature of our times, as we rise out of the first decade of the millennium, is the rise to authenticity of brand new states. Canada is first among these new millennial states, free of the burdens of the old and ready to awaken the new.
Canada's rise in the world started in a hockey game in the 2002 Winter Olympics between the Canadian and U.S. women's teams. The dour American Vice President Dick Cheney was on hand, and the call was for another "Miracle on Ice." Why America would see Canada in such a light remains a mystery. Possibly it was our way of showing that we did not consider only Russia to be an enemy; Bush/Cheney considered the entire world to be the enemy. It is like when the wishful queen Daenerys Targaryen in "Game of Thrones" was asked by the wishful child king: Who is the enemy? She replied, "Everyone who is not us."
Since, Canada has risen to the top 10 world nations in hard studies like math and science, while America sinks beneath the top 25. Canada rises in prosperity and every Canadian today is per capita $60,000 richer than every American. And in temperament, Canadians have changed. Canada is no longer, as Canadian poet Robertson Davies claimed, the introverted half of America.
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Ottawa, the center of the world: Nebraska senate candidate Ben Sasse created controversy a few weeks ago when he called on moving the capital of America to Nebraska. It got a good laugh, but Sasse made his mark. The case was made in this column early on that the capital of America was in the right place in 1776, the benign vortex between North and South, but America is now an East-West country in an East-West world, and the capital is in the wrong place. Victoria was more forward-thinking when she put Canada's capital in Ottawa. Ottawa then, in today's world, finds the center.
Toronto: Mayor Rob Ford's clownish antics are only a prelude to a prime-time show ahead, as Toronto rises in world status and leadership. The impressive and popular Olivia Chow is ahead.
Global Brief: A must-read for all with an eye to Canada rising is the fascinating and electric Global Brief magazine on "World Affairs in the 21st Century." From editor Irvin Studin's "When Canada becomes the West's Second State":
"By century's end, if Canada still exists, it will be the West's second state. It will be less important than both China and the U.S., but larger than any country in Europe, with the likely exception of Russia."
Prime Minister Stephen Harper: "Canada supports Israel because it is right to do so. This is a very Canadian trait, to do something for no reason other than it is right. Even when no immediate reward for, or threat to, ourselves is evident."
Israel has a clear friend in Canada, possibly since both are born free since World War II. They are young, while most, save Singapore and a few others, are old. They are the millennials who rise first, fresh and free from the burdens of the dead. The press in Canada is yet to catch up to this awakening and still travels in the comet's tail as fellow travelers and imitators of passing American opinion and sensibility. That is soon to change.


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The Battle for 2014 Begins on Day One in the Senate
For a few hours on Thursday, when the new Senate comes into session, Majority Leader Harry Reid will have a chance to help the Democrats re-take the House of Representatives in 2014, and hold the Senate. He can do that by simply reforming - genuinely reforming - the filibuster. In doing so, he will not only put an end to years of rampant Republican obstructionism in the upper chamber, but also significantly slow down the billionaire-funded Tea Party.


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Unleashing female entrepreneurial talent in Saudi Arabia
New research reveals that although a small but growing number of women in Saudi Arabia are actively challenging the status quo, further regulatory, educational and socio-cultural changes are urgently needed to promote women's entrepreneurship and fully realise the economic and social aspirations of the Kingdom.
Although Saudi women are more economically active than often perceived internationally and opportunities for economic participation are increasing, the report 'Giving voice to women entrepreneurs in Saudi Arabia' confirms women remain vastly under-represented in the vital entrepreneurial sector.
The study, carried out by the Women's Entrepreneurship Initiative, a non-profit company that supports women in business, in collaboration with Ashridge Business School, is the first of its in kind in the region whereby 37 aspiring and established Saudi women entrepreneurs engaged in a series of workshops and in-depth interviews.
The Findings
The research suggests women entrepreneurs lack essential competencies and capacities for successful entrepreneurship, including:
Current Obstacles
The Saudi Arabian government has committed to ambitious targets to enhance the economic activity of women and the opportunity for women to play a more prominent role in the Saudi economy has never been greater, with a comprehensive policy addressing women's participation in the entrepreneurship sector pending.
The researchers make a number of recommendations to help overcome some of the barriers and allow women to play their part in driving positive change. To find out more download the executive summary.
The researchers make a number of recommendations to help overcome some of the barriers and allow women to play their part in driving positive change:


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This L.A. mom loves Kanye. So so did a little creative stitching and now she's a star, herself.
Twitter has helped launched the careers of countless artists whose tweets have landed them book deals, stand-up performances and Internet notoriety. But for artist Amy Sheridan, 37, of Santa Maria, Calif., its other peoples tweets that have helped her become a rising star on Etsy.
Over the last two months Sheridan has sold 27 limited edition stitched and framed tweets from rapper Kanye West, one of the most popular and self-absorbed personalities on Twitter. His tweets were the perfect opportunity combine a historic art form with a budding blogging platform, Sheridan told the Daily Dot in an email.
"Social media has become a huge part of our daily lives and, for me, art is usually a reflection life," she said. "I think people will always appreciate something handmade—to know that a piece wasn't created in a factory, or spit out by a machine, to know that something tangible was handled and created by a person—whether it's a hand-knitted scarf, the perfect Polaroid shot or a hand-stitched tweet, that makes it even more special."
Sheridan has been a long-time Etsy member who credits her 12-year-old son and husband with keeping her "apprised of all the cool things in the world." Her Etsy store sells artsy photos and stuffed animals, but its Sheridan's Huffington Post-famous stitches that have flooded her inbox with requests and left her "feeling extremely lucky and grateful."
Daily Dot: What inspired you to start stitching tweets? And of all the Twitter personalities out there, why Kanye?
Amy Sheridan: I decided to stitch my first tweet because I'd never seen it done before. I thought it would be funny to mix something new (tweets) and something old (embroidery).
There was never a question of who I was going to stitch. I''m a huge Yeezy fan and his tweets play jump rope with the line between sublime and ridiculous. I don't know if Kanye or any of his people have seen the tweets, but I'm guessing he's way too busy being awesome to give half a second of attention to a geeky girl with some needles and thread.
DD: How long have you been stitching?
Sheridan: I've only been stitching for a couple of years. I've always done creative stuff, but I'd never given embroidery a thought until I was introduced to the world of subversive stitching by my friend, Shannon Genova-Scudder (gigglymama on etsy). She does these unbelievable stitched portraits and she really opened my eyes to the fact that embroidery isn't a craft that's exclusively for grandmas anymore.
Every single stitch of these is done by hand. By my hand. Until my husband lets me turn the garage into a workshop and I figure out where to hire elves, I'm strictly a one-woman operation.
DD: How long does a tweet stitch take? How has business been since the HuffPo shout-out?
Sheriedan: If I'm extremely focused and hopped up on caffeine, I can do one and a half in a day. Two if I eschew household chores and basic hygiene. With the attention my stitching has gotten in the past couple of weeks, the number of requests I've gotten (and sales of other stuff in my shop) has exploded. Pre-tweet attention. I was selling one or two pieces a month. Now it seems like I spend half my time at the post office and half my time answering emails (which is great, I'd much rather have too much work than not enough.)
DD: Did you ever expect people to really take to stitched tweets? How does all the attention feel?
Sheridan: When I stitched the original, I hoped that people would like it—I'm an artist. Of course my fragile little ego craves validation, and I would have been thrilled with 10 or 11 comments on Tumblr or Flickr, but to see so many people posting it and liking it was… amazing and bizarre and wonderful, to say the least. I didn't expect that much feedback, but I think it all goes to prove the power of Kanye.
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Like many others, I read Mark Oppenheimer's article on Dan Savage and monogamy in today's The New York Times Magazine (or online) with interest. I agree with the author and Savage that monogamy is not for everybody, and that people should not feel compelled to enter monogamous relationships if this is not truly what they want. I also agree with the idea that when forming a new relationship, the future partners should talk about the boundaries of their relationship, including what counts as adultery and if and when some straying outside the relationship will be allowed. Finally, I strongly agree that partners need to be honest with each other through the relationship, even when it's painful, and if both partners freely consent to change the nature of the relationship, that's their business.
What I think they overlook is the symbolic nature of fidelity. The sacrifices that partners make when they choose to enter into a monogamous relationship contribute to the meaningfulness of that relationship. Though my point applies to committed relationships in general, it bears mentioning that the traditional wedding vows mention "forsaking all others"—openly recognizing that the future partners may be tempted, and at the same time allowing them to show each other how much they are willing to give up to be with the other person and how much they mean to each other.
But when one partner strays, he or she breaks that agreement, saying in essence that the relationship (and the other person) doesn't mean enough to forsake all others anymore. The cheater has his or her reasons, good or bad, impulsive and deliberative, but that doesn't change the fact that the other person in the relationship was counting on the fidelity of his or her partner, valued his or her strength in face of temptation and took it as a sign of devotion and love. When one partner cheats, that shows the other that he or she wasn't worth that strength or resolve anymore—there are other things more important to his or her partner now.
This is where the authors are spot on with their call for honesty, particularly before any promises are broken. It simply shows respect for your partner to let him or her know that you have strong feelings, whether physical or emotional (or both), for another person, or that you have needs (again, whether physical, emotional, or both) that aren't being met in the present relationship. Being upfront with these feelings gives your partner the chance to try to satisfy them within the relationship. And if that can't be done, the relationship may be better off dissolved—maybe you aren't cut out for monogamy—or, perhaps, you will see that you value the other person, and your relationship with him or her, more than your unmet needs. In the best case scenario, urges to stray can be useful as a sign that something needs tending to in the relationship, rather than as an excuse for playing around.
A question to end with: Why is it so hard to expect people to give up things for the people they love? Why is it that in this day and age, when we are urged to sacrifice time, money, and comfort for the sake of the environment or political causes—commitments well worth making and sacrificing for—we are not urged to make similar sacrifices to the persons we have pledged fidelity to? Why are we so hard on ourselves in some areas and not others?
See here for a list of my other posts on adultery at Psychology Today.
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Press Releases
Lanes of College Avenue to Close Temporarily for Mall Construction, Tree Removal
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- Emily Wilmsen, Public Relations Coordinator, 970-221-6870, ZXdpbG1zZW5AZmNnb3YuY29t, Website: http://www.fcgov.com
As the Foothills Mall progresses, construction of infrastructure and tree removal will result in several upcoming lane closures in June.
College Avenue will remain open to traffic, although lane restrictions will be in place. Typical working hours are weekdays from 7 a.m. to 6 p.m.; however, work may occur outside these times or on the weekends to expedite the project.
Project dates are estimates based on favorable conditions; variances may occur due to weather or other unforeseen circumstances. Project updates and progress will be posted online at fcgov.com/foothillsmall.
June 9-10: The western-most southbound lanes of College Avenue generally between West Monroe Drive to south of West Foothills Parkway will be closed during daylight hours while new curb-and-gutter is built.
June 16-18: The eastern-most northbound lane of College Avenue roughly between Monroe Drive and Foothills Parkway will be closed during daylight hours for tree removal. As many as 235 trees will be removed from the Foothills Mall property for the next phase of the site's redevelopment; some of those trees were already removed as part of previously announced work by the developer.
As part of the demolition of part of the existing mall and perimeter buildings, the project design team for the mall and the City have worked diligently to reduce the number of trees lost through construction. Trees will be mulched and made available to a private contractor. About 300 new trees will be planted in place of the 235 trees that are being removed.
Walton Street Capital and Alberta Development Partners, owners and developers of the mall, have worked with the City's Forestry department on a tree mitigation plan for the project.
The two-year mall project includes a total of three phases with an overall project investment of about $313 million. Most recently, developers are demolishing the Youth Activity Center and are building scaffolding inside the mall so construction work can occur at night. Stores remain open; a portion of the mall has been closed permanently to allow for more outdoor community and gathering space.
Other construction updates:
- The east entry of the main mall including children's play area is closed. Demolition of that entrance is scheduled to begin the week of June 9.
- The College Avenue entrance to the former Corner Bakery is closed while construction of the Phase 1 building and infrastructure continues.
- Crews are preparing the new temporary entrance to the main mall building, which will be about 60 feet to the west from the existing entrance. That entrance is expected to be open the week of June 16.
- The City is maintaining a Flickr account on Foothills Mall construction. See the most recent photos - a tour with members of City Council of the recycling and reuse facilities on the site - on the Flickr account. Regular updates on the project will be available at fcgov.com/foothillsmall.
The mall project is expected to be a catalyst for new development as part of the City's – and the Fort Collins Urban Renewal Authority's - efforts to rejuvenate the Midtown area and help address a long-term decrease in the mall's sales tax revenue. Net taxable sales at the mall have declined 61 percent over the last decade.
The redevelopment includes a $53 million public assistance package through the Urban Renewal Authority. That includes an investment in City infrastructure, including a new Foothills Activity Center, and an underpass for pedestrians and bicycles under College Avenue that connects the mall to the Mason Street Corridor and the recently opened MAX Bus Rapid Transit.


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An Alabama man was in court Monday to stand trial for the death of his newlywed bride during a honeymoon diving trip in Australia.
Gabe Watson arrived at the courthouse in Birmingham with his current wife. He didn't talk to reporters before going inside.
Circuit Judge Tommy Nail is set to consider several legal questions before beginning jury selection for Watson's capital murder trial.
Nail refused the defense's attempt to subpoena former Alabama Attorney General Troy King. Watson's lawyers argued that King pursued the case for political gain, but Nail ruled the claims are irrelevant to the murder charge.
Watson is accused of drowning his first wife, Tina Thomas Watson, during a scuba dive in Australia in 2003. He pleaded guilty to manslaughter there and served prison time.
The defense says the woman died in an accident. Prosecutors claim Watson drowned her for insurance money.


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Tycho crater
Research published in 2007 concludes that the impactor which created Tycho came from a enormous collison between two asteroids in the main asteroid belt, some 160 million years ago.1 This collision, the research suggests, also produced the impactor which struck the Earth 65 million years ago and gave rise to the Chicxulub crater and the devastating mass extinction in which the last of the dinosaurs died out. See the Chicxulub crater article for more details.
Science fiction connectionsTycho features in the film and book 2001: A Space Odyssey as the location of TMA-1 (Tycho Magnetic Anomaly 1) which turns out to be one of the enigmatic monoliths placed in the solar system by an alien civilization. In the story, Dr. Heywood Floyd travels from Clavius Base to see the artifact. Tycho also serves as the location of a 24th century community called Tycho City in the film Star Trek: First Contact.
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By Brent Blackwelder There are physical limits to growth on a finite planet. In 1972, the Club of Rome issued their groundbreaking report—Limits to Growth (twelve million copies in thirty-seven languages). The authors predicted that by about 2030, our planet would feel a serious squeeze on natural resources, and they were right on target. In 2009, the Stockholm Resilience […]
A Sustainable True-Cost Economy Promises an Escape from Massive Water Pollution
by Brent Blackwelder A year ago, I wrote about how a true-cost steady state economy would deal with water pollution. Last August, the alarming green slime at the west end of Lake Erie was so bad that it shut down Toledo's water supply for half a million people. Who would pay the tremendous damages caused […]
The Pope Francis Encyclical And Its Economics
By Brent Blackwelder The Encyclical Letter of Pope Francis is attracting extraordinary attention for its message on global warming, deforestation, loss of biological diversity, and other pressing environmental issues. What is less well known is the extensive critique of the global economy found in his 184-page Encyclical. This blog highlights some of the significant points […]
Progress Toward a True-Cost Economy Now Comes From Developments in Renewable Energy
by Brent Blackwelder A renewable energy revolution is sweeping the planet. This revolution has profound implications because it signals that the global economy is moving to stop the growth of our human carbon footprint. The global economy has run for a century primarily on fossil fuels but is now undergoing a rapid transition to a global […]
Earth Day Message: Double the Native Forest Cover
This Earth Day, Brent Blackwelder urges us to double the current amount of native forest cover.
A New Economy Will Help Save Rivers and Fisheries
Many activities that today damage rivers and fisheries would not occur in a steady state economy.
Potential New Allies in the Effort to Achieve a Sustainable True Cost Economy
Dr. Blackwelder discusses how those in faith-based communities can become powerful allies for those of us seeking an economy that meets peoples' needs without undermining the life support systems of the planet.
Crossroads on Global Infrastructure
A momentous choice is before us. Will we choose more mega-highway projects, centralized electric power plants, and mega-dams, or more decentralized wind and solar investments?
The Role of Cities in Moving Toward a Sustainable Economy
What can one person do to affect positive changes for Planet Earth? Look to the city level for inspiring answers!
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Hinata is pretty epic, there is much more to her than being paired to Naruto.
1. brave. she has shown this trait in the chuunin exams against Neji, in the forest of death against an enemy team, bravely facing pain, countless zetsu, even moving in to fight tobi in the most recent chapter.
2. powerful. she had more endurance then neji during teh war and even saved him. She also wasn't instanlty koed against pain, she managed to drive him back. she managed to destroy the juubi's spikes, and finnaly wiht teh chakra cloak managed to push the freaking god of the narutoverses attack away. that feat is beyond so much that isn't even funny
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the juubi the most powerful thing in naruto history, its attack was pushed away by a girl that most of the naruto fans view as useless and a crybaby. let that sink in for a moment.
3. character development. from a shy timid girl, who was shunned by her father, who was a ninja with no talent, grew and become unshy, non timid, brave strong woman who impressed her father, and became one of the greatest of the hyuuga's
4. saved and encouraged naruto. encouraged him with neji, saved him from pain, protected him during teh war, saved Naruto from the ten tails attack while he was helpless by destroying some of the spikes, teaming up with teh nine-tails convinced naruto not ot give in to the dark side and to not become darth Naruto. lol
Hinata isn't there just to be Naruoto's girlfriend or a girl with big breasts, she is a vital piece of the naruto story, who is very useful and powerful she isn't that shy little girl anymore.
don't get me wrong i support naruhina, i just want to say there is more to her than just being naruto's mate.
I like strong and well-developed females and Hinata is one of the very few well developed females in the series.


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Priests rebel against Synod-appointed bishop
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Varna diocese refused to accept temporary administrator appointed by the Synod of the Bulgarian Church
Metropolitan Kalinnik had been appointed temporary administrator of the Diocese of Vratsa
VARNA. After the death of Metropolitan Kirill of Varna priests of the widowed diocese refused to accept the interim administrator appointed by the Synod of the Bulgarian Orthodox Church, according to the Bulgarian edition of the "Standard".
Just a few hours after the burial of Metropolitan Kirill of Varna in his diocese there was a scandal: the clergy refused to transmit to Metropolitan Kallinik the affairs of the case to Metropoli (office and personal account at the direction of Metropolitan Kirill Patriarch Neofit were sealed after the news of his death).
Archpiest Doncho Alechandrov, the official representative of the diocese of Varna read the petition to the diocesan clergy to the Synod and the Patriarch, expressing hope for the wisdom of the synod hierarchs and the wish that either Metropolitan Ambrose of Sistrina or Metropolitan Gabriel of Lovech would be appointed interim administrator.
As related by Fr. Doncho, diocesan priests wrote this petition after speaking with Metropolitan Kalinnik after the funeral in the office building the Metropolia.At the start of the conversation Vladyka Kalinnik had hoped to overcome the situation, but then retreated -- angry, left. But, according to the priests, his departure does not mean the rejection of the Synod's order.
The election of Metropolitan Kalinnik as the administrator of Varna diocese raised eyebrows among the Bulgarian clergy and the faithful, as the Bulgarian Orthodox Church usually appointed as administrators to the widowed dioceses bishops of neighboring dioceses -- so that when organizing the election of the new metropolitan the interim administrator would not have to make long journeys. In this case, the administrator of the eastern diocese of Varna was the hierarch located at the opposite end of Bulgaria. However, as reported by Bulgarian media, relations between the deceased and the Metropolitan Kalinnik had always been very strained.
Also, Bulgarian media reported that the Metropolitan Kalinnik himself proposed to the Synod his candidacy for administrator of the Varna diocese, and all the hierarchs of the Synod unanimously voted for him .
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