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The Spring Rosacea Review is now online. This issue announces the awarding of new research grants by the National Rosacea Society, as well as the Society's efforts to increase visibility of the disorder during Rosacea Awareness Month.
While some signs and symptoms of rosacea can be challenging to control, effective medical therapies have been extensively studied and approved for the treatment of the bumps and pimples of subtype 2 (papulopustular) rosacea, according to the standard management options for rosacea recently published by the National Rosacea Society.1
The National Rosacea Society (NRS) has awarded funding to three new studies and continues to fund three ongoing studies as part of its research grants program to advance scientific knowledge of the potential causes and other key aspects of this potentially life-disruptive disorder.
The National Rosacea Society (NRS) announced today that the estimated number of Americans now suffering from rosacea has increased to 16 million, while untold millions more may be in temporary remission. April is designated as Rosacea Awareness Month by the NRS to alert the public to the warning signs of this red-faced, acne-like and often life-disruptive disorder, and the importance of seeking early diagnosis and treatment.
Although subtype 3 (phymatous) rosacea often involves excess tissue, it can be effectively treated with a range of options appropriate for the severity of the case, according to the standard management options for rosacea recently published by the National Rosacea Society.1
The Winter Rosacea Review is now online. This issue discusses the growing incidence of rosacea, as well as results of research funded by the National Rosacea Society (NRS) that point to a new cause of flushing.
Although the number of people with rosacea continues to rise with the growth and aging of the U.S. population, most fail to recognize the warning signs of this potentially life-disruptive disorder now estimated to affect well over 14 million Americans. The National Rosacea Society (NRS) has designated April as Rosacea Awareness Month to alert the public to the signs and symptoms of this chronic and conspicuous facial condition and to emphasize the importance of seeking medical help.
Rosacea is the featured topic of a recent segment on ABC-TV's Good Morning America Health. Dr. Doris Day, clinical assistant professor of dermatology at New York University, discusses signs and symptoms of the disorder as well as treatment options and avoidance of triggers.
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Heat often brings on the signs and symptoms of rosacea, and this can be a problem even in the frosty winter months, according to a recent National Rosacea Society survey of 424 rosacea patients.
Researchers have now identified the molecular pathway for flushing caused by niacin -- also known as vitamin B3 or nicotinic acid, and found in many foods -- according to a study recently completed by Dr. Robert Walters and colleagues at Duke University and funded by the National Rosacea Society (NRS). The new findings may lead to future improvements in the treatment or prevention of rosacea, which is commonly associated with flushing.
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The best offense against a common skin problem such as rosacea is a strong defense, according to Charla Krupp, noted beauty expert and best-selling author, in offering some "makeup makeover" tips and other advice to help rosacea sufferers look their best.
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Results of research funded by donations from members of the National Rosacea Society (NRS) are not only increasing medical understanding of the disorder, but are now revealing potential causes that may lead scientists toward important new advances in therapy.
The Summer Rosacea Review is now online. This issue highlights the National Rosacea Society's efforts to increase awareness of the condition, as well as new study results on the potential link between emotional stress and rosacea.
New grants are available from the National Rosacea Society (NRS) to support research on potential causes and other key aspects of rosacea that may lead to improvements in its treatment and potential cure or prevention. Medical researchers can obtain application forms by contacting the National Rosacea Society, 800 South Northwest Highway, Suite 200, Barrington, Illinois 60010, telephone 888/662-5874, fax 847/382-5567, e-mail email@example.com or by filling out the request form here.
The same biochemical process that causes people to flush when alarmed or embarrassed may be linked to the development of rosacea, according to findings presented by Dr. Richard Granstein, chairman of dermatology at Cornell University, during the recent Society for Investigative Dermatology annual meeting.
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The Spring 2009 Rosacea Review is now online. This issue announces the awarding of four new research grants by the National Rosacea Society, plus an article on essential steps to successfully manage rosacea.
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both of which are erroneous. Additional problems arise from the fact that GO's and are both specified in their definitions as referring to the space (how large a space?) external to the outermost structure of a cell.
Another type of problem turns on the failure to distinguish relational expressions which, though closely related in meaning, are revealed to be crucially distinct when explicated in the formally precise way that is demanded by computer implementations. An example is provided by the simultaneous use in OBO's Cell Ontology of both and while no clear distinction is drawn between the two [ 11 ]. This problem is resolved in the treatment of derivation and transformation below, and has been correspondingly corrected in versions 1.14 and later of the Cell Ontology.
Efforts to improve GO from the standpoint of increased formal rigor have thus far been concentrated on re-expressing the existing GO schema in a description logic (DL) framework. This has allowed the use of a DL-reasoner that can identify certain kinds of errors and omissions, which have been corrected in later versions of GO [ 12 ]. DLs, however, can do no more than guarantee consistent reasoning according to the definitions provided to them. If the latter are themselves problematic, then a DL can do very little to identify or resolve the problems which result. Here, accordingly, we take a more radical approach, which consists in re-examining the basic definitions of the relations used in GO and in related ontologies in an attempt to arrive at a methodology which will lead to the construction of ontologies which are more fundamentally sound and thus more secure against errors and more amenable to the use of powerful reasoning tools. This approach is designed also to be maximally helpful to biologists by avoiding the problems which arise by virtue of the fact that the syntax favored in the DL-community is of a type which can normally be understood only by DL-specialists.
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Thursday, October 30, 2008
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I missed the last 2 days! Sorry about that-- I almost fulfilled the challenge! Just didn't have time!
Ms. Hill and two students help me make vegan Energy Balls at a school demo yesterday
My oldest granddaughter, S., who is 16, is the only vegetarian in my family besides me, my husband, and my sister. She decided on this at age 14, and she has stayed the course. (Update Oct. 2014-- Granddaughter S is now a vegan.) Her mom often makes things that they can all eat and then adds meat to the dish after removing S.'s portion. She also buys S. vegetarian products. S. is a busy straight-A student who is also active in drama (particularly improv), but she has also learned to cook veg for herself (she spent some time with me learning a few tricks.) She is not a vegan, but she is very careful not to use gelatin capsules in medicines and nutritional supplements; she seeks out vegetarian-friendly cosmetics, and does not eat anything with cochineal in it-- pretty well-informed!
S. invited me to come and give a short demo during lunchtime for her high school's "Books with Bite" day, and the foods teacher kindly volunteered her classroom for it, AND assisted me! It's always great to have an opportunity to talk to interested teens about vegetarian and vegan lifestyles, especially if they can taste some of the food!
We didn't have alot of time, so I only demonstrated one recipe, but I brought two quick and easy bean dishes that we thought the kids might like-- my 30-Minute Vegan Chile, made with pinto beans, and my Mexican-Influenced Bean Dip (or Refried Bean Stand-in), made with black beans. (Both of these recipes are in my book The Fiber for Life Cookbook. I used Yves Veggie "Ground Round" in the chile, and I added 1 tablespoon roasted sesame oil and some smoked hot paprika to the dip this time.)
The students enjoying the chile and bean dip with blue corn chips
The students asked some questions about when and why I became a vegan, and about some of the products I brought to show. Ms. Hill also had some pertinent questions to ask, and so did my granddaughter when there was a lull in the questioning (smart girl!). They perused my books and took extra recipe handouts for friends. They ate up most of the food and took some extra for friends and staff!
Although I had less than an hour, I think it was a great success. Ms. Hill said she wanted to invite me back for the vegetarian portion of her Foods class!
Here is my recipe for Energy Balls:
Printable Recipe
Servings: 4
Yield: 4 large or 8 smaller balls.
These are yummy and so easy to make! You can multiply the recipe as needed.
1/2 cup oatmeal (or other cereal flakes for cooked cereal)
1/4 cup moist brown sugar
1/4 cup peanut butter or other nut butter (I used almond butter in the school demo)
4 tsp fine unsweetened grated coconut (or ground nuts or sunflower seeds)
4 tsp chopped dates or raisins, or other dried fruit of choice
4 tsp non-dairy milk
1 tablespoon unsweetened cocoa (or carob) powder
1 tablespoon maple syrup
more coconut to roll the balls in
Grind the oatmeal in a food processor until chopped well. Add remaining ingredients and blend until a ball forms. Roll into 4 large or 8 smaller balls. Roll the balls in fine unsweetened coconut.
Nutrition Facts
Nutrition (per serving): 254.5 calories; 43% calories from fat; 13.2g total fat; 0.0mg cholesterol; 14.4mg sodium; 282.1mg potassium; 31.5g carbohydrates; 3.6g fiber; 20.2g sugar; 27.9g net carbs; 6.6g protein; 5.5 points.
Posted by Bryanna Clark Grogan at 11:44 AM
Labels: energy balls, Vegan MoFo, vegetarian teens
3 comments:
- Bugette said...
I'm trying this tonight!!!!!!!!!!
- Thu Oct 30, 01:16:00 PM PDT
- JohnP said...
How wonderful that the school did this!
- Thu Oct 30, 01:43:00 PM PDT
- zlamushka said...
Hi Bryanna, that is wonderful that the kidos were interested in a lot more healthier approach to food. Your Gdaughter is such a good girl :-)
next time you can suggest a cooking workshop to involve everyone and cook all your wonderful recipes. You have so many i like :-)
- Thu Nov 06, 08:35:00 PM PST
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One September day in 1886, Roosevelt was reading a New York newspaper in his Elkhorn cabin, when he saw that he had been nominated by a body of Independents as candidate for Mayor of New York City. Whether he had been previously consulted or not, I do not know, but he evidently accepted the nomination as a call, for he at once packed up his things and started East. The political situation in the metropolis was somewhat abnormal. The United Democracy had nominated for Mayor Abram S. Hewitt, a merchant of high standing, one of those decent persons whom Tammany Hall puts forward to attract respectable citizens when it finds itself in a tight place and likely to be defeated. At such a pinch, Tammany even politely keeps in the background and allows it to appear that the decent candidate is wholly the choice of decent Democrats: for the Tammany Tiger wears, so to speak, a reversible skin which, when turned inside out, shows neither stripes nor claws. Mr. Hewitt's chief opponent was Henry George, put up by the United Labor Party, which had suddenly swelled into importance, and had discovered in the author of "Progress and Poverty" and in the advocate of the Single Tax a candidate whose private character was generally respected, even by those who most hated his economic teachings. The mere thought that such a Radical should be proposed for Mayor scared, not merely the Big Interests, but the owners of real estate and intangible property.
Against these redoubtable competitors, the Independents and Republicans pitted Roosevelt, hoping that his prestige and personal popularity would carry the day. He made a plucky campaign, but Hewitt won, with Henry George second. In his letter of acceptance he went straight at the mark, which was that the government of the city was strictly a business affair. " I very earnestly deprecate," he says, "all attempts to introduce any class or caste feeling into the mayoralty contest. Laborers and capitalists alike are interested in having an honest and economical city government, and if elected I shall certainly strive to be the representative of all good citizens, paying heed to nothing whatever but the general well-being."* When Tammany reverses its hide, the Republicans in New York City need not expect victory; and in 1886 Henry George drew off a good many votes which would ordinarily have been cast for Roosevelt.
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Nevertheless, the fight was worth making. It reintroduced him to the public, which had not heard him for two years, and it helped erase from men's memories the fact that he had supported Blaine in 1884. His contest with Hewitt and George set him in his true light--a Republican by conviction, a party man, also by conviction, but above all the fearless champion of what he believed to be the right, in its struggle against economic heresy and political corruption.
The election over, Roosevelt went to Europe, and on December 2, 1886, at St. George's, Hanover Square, London, he married Miss Edith Kermit Carow, of New York, whom he had known since his earliest childhood, the playmate of his sister Corinne, the little girl whose photograph had stirred up in him "homesickness and longings for the past," when he was a little boy in Paris. Cecil Spring-Rice, an old friend (subsequently British Ambassador at Washington), was his groomsman, and being married at St. George's, Theodore remarks, "made me feel as if I were living in one of Thackeray's novels."
Mrs. Roosevelt's father came of Huguenot stock, the name being originally Quereau; the first French immigrants of the family having migrated to New York in the seventeenth century at about the same time as Claes van Roosevelt. Like the Roosevelts, the Carows had so freely intermarried with English stock in America that the French origin of one was as little discernible in their descendants as was the Dutch origin of the other. Through her American line Mrs. Roosevelt traced back to Jonathan Edwards, the prolific ancestor of many persons who emerged above the common level by either their virtue or their badness.
After spending several months in Europe, Mr. and Mrs. Roosevelt returned and settled at Oyster Bay, Long Island, where he had built, not long before, a country house on Sagamore Hill. His place there comprised many acres--a beautiful country of hill and hollow and fine tall trees. The Bay made in from Long Island Sound and seemed to be closed by the opposite shore, so that in calm weather you might mistake it for a lake. This home was thoroughly adapted for Roosevelt's needs. Being only thirty miles from New York, with a railroad near by, convenient but not intrusive, it gave easy access to the city, but was remote enough to discourage casual or undesired callers. It had sufficient land to carry on farming and to sustain the necessary horses and domestic cattle. Mrs. Roosevelt supervised it; he simply loved it and got distraction from his more pressing affairs; if he had chosen to withdraw from these he might have devoted himself to the pleasing and leisurely life of a gentleman farmer. For a while his chief occupation was literary. Into this he pitched with characteristic energy. His innate craving for self-expression could never be satiated by speaking alone, and now, since he filled no public position which would be a cause or perhaps an excuse for speaking, he wrote with all the more enthusiasm.
Although he was less than seven years out of college, his political career had given him a national reputation, which helped and was helped by the vogue of his writings. The American public had come to perceive that Theodore Roosevelt could do nothing commonplace. The truth was, that he did many things that other men did which ceased to be commonplace only when he did them. Scores of other young men went on hunting trips after big game in the Rockies or the Selkirks, and even ranching had been engaged in by the enterprising and the adventurous, who hoped to find it a short way to a fortune. But whether as ranch man or as hunter, Roosevelt was better known than all the rest. His skill in describing his experiences no doubt largely accounted for this; but the fact that the experiences were his, was the ultimate explanation.
Roosevelt began to write very early. He thought that the instruction in rhetoric which he received at Harvard enlightened him, and during his Senior year he began the "History of the Naval War of 1812," which he completed and published in 1882. This work at once won recognition for him, and it differed from the traditional accounts, embedded in the school histories of the United States, in doing full justice to the British naval operations. Probably, for the first time, our people realized that the War of 1812 had not been a series of victories, startling and irresistible, for the American Navy. Nearly ten years later, Roosevelt in the "Winning of the West" made his second excursion into history. These volumes, which eventually numbered six, are regarded by experts in the subject as of great value, and I suppose that in them Roosevelt did more than any other writer to popularize the study of the historical origin and development of the vast region west of the Alleghanies which now forms a vital part of the American Republic. One attribute of a real historian is the power to discern the structural or pregnant quality of historic periods and episodes; and this power Roosevelt displayed in choosing both the War of 1812 and the Winning of the West.
In his larger history Roosevelt had a swift, energetic, and direct style. He never lacked for ideas. Descriptions came to him with exuberant details of which he selected enough to leave his reader with the feeling that he had looked on a vivid and accurate picture. Here, for instance, is a portrait of Daniel Boon which seems remarkably lifelike, because I remember how difficult other writers find it to individualize most of the figures of the pioneers.
The backwoodsmen, he says, "all tilled their own clearings, guiding the plow among the charred stumps left when the trees were chopped down and the land burned over, and they were all, as a matter of course, hunters. With Boon, hunting and exploration were passions, and the lonely life of the wilderness, with its bold, wild freedom, the only existence for which he really cared. He was a tall, spare, sinewy man, with eyes like an eagle's, and muscles that never tired; the toil and hardship of his life made no impress on his iron frame, unhurt by intemperance of any kind, and he lived for eighty-six years, a backwoods hunter to the end of his days. His thoughtful, quiet, pleasant face, so often portrayed, is familiar to every one; it was the face of a man who never blustered or bullied, who would neither inflict nor suffer any wrong, and who had a limitless fund of fortitude, endurance, and indomitable resolution upon which to draw when fortune proved adverse. His self-command and patience, his daring, restless love of adventure, and, in time of danger, his absolute trust in his own powers and resources, all combined to render him peculiarly fitted to follow the career of which he was so fond."*
Winning of the West, 1, 137, 138 (ed. 1889).
Roosevelt contributed two volumes to the American Statesmen Series, one on Thomas Hart Benton in 1886, and the other on Gouverneur Morris in 1887. The environment and careers of these two men--the Missouri Senator of the first half of the nineteenth century, and the New York financier of the last half of the eighteenth--afforded him scope for treating two very diverse subjects. He was himself rooted in the old New York soil and he had come, through his life in the West, to divine the conditions of Benton's days. Once again, many years later (1900) he tried his hand at biography, taking Oliver Cromwell for his hero, and making a summary, impressionistic sketch of him. Besides the interest this biography has for students of Cromwell, it has also interest for students of Roosevelt, for it is a specimen of the sort of by-products he threw off in moments of relaxation.
More characteristic than such excursions into history and biography, however, are his many books describing ranch-life and hunting. In the former, he gives you truthful descriptions of the men of the West as he saw them, and in the latter he recounts his adventures with elk and buffalo, wolves and bears. The mere trailing and killing of these creatures do not satisfy him. He studies with equal zest their haunts and their habits. The naturalist in him, which we recognized in his youth, found this vent in his maturity. And long years afterward, on his expeditions to Africa and to Brazil he dealt even more exuberantly with the natural history of the countries which he visited.
Two other classes of writings make up Roosevelt's astonishing output. He gathered his essays and addresses into half a dozen volumes, remarkable alike for the wide variety of their subjects, and for the vigor with which he seized on each subject as if it was the one above all others which most absorbed him. Finally, skim the collection of his official messages, as Commissioner, as Governor, or as President, and you will discover that he had the gift of infusing life and color into the usually drab and cheerless wastes of official documents.
I am not concerned to make a literary appraisal of Theodore Roosevelt's manifold works, but I am struck by the fact that our professional critics ignore him entirely in their summaries or histories of recent American literature. As I re-read, after twenty years, and in some cases after thirty years, books of his which made a stir on their appearance, I am impressed, not only by the excellence of their writing, but by their lasting quality. If he had not done so many other things of greater importance, and done them supremely, he would have secured lasting fame by his books on hunting, ranching, and exploration. No other American compares with him, and I know of no other, in English at least, who has made a contribution in these fields equal to his.
Throughout these eight or ten volumes he proves himself to be one of those rare writers who see what they write. As in the case of Tennyson, than whom no English poet, in spite of nearsightedness, has observed so minutely the tiniest details of form or the faintest nuance of color, so the lack of normal vision did not prevent Roosevelt from being the closest of observers. He was also, by the way, a good shot with rifle or pistol. If you read one of his chapters in "Hunting the Grizzly" and ask yourself wherein its animation and attraction lie, you will find that it is because every sentence and every line report things seen. He does not, like the Realist, try to get a specious lifelikeness by heaping up banal and commonplace facts; he selects. His imagination reminds one of the traveling spark which used to run along the great chandelier in the theatre, and light each jet, so that its passage seemed a flight from point to point of brilliance. Wherever he focuses his survey a spot glows vividly.
The eye, the master sense of the mind, thus dominates him, and I think that we shall trace to its mastery much of the immediate power which he exerted by his writings and speeches on public, social, and moral topics. He struck off, in the heat of composition or of speaking, phrases and similes which millions caught up eagerly and made as familiar as household words. He even remembered from his extensive reading some item which, when applied by him to the affair of the moment, acquired new pertinence and a second life. Thus, Bunyan's " muckraker" lives again; thus, "the curse of Meroz," and many another Bible reference, springs up with a fresh meaning.
No doubt the purist will find occasional lapses in taste or expression, and the quibbling peddler of rhetoric will gloat over some doubtful construction; but neither purist nor peddler of rhetoric has ever been able in his writing to display the ease, the rush, the naturalness, the sparkle which were as genuine in Roosevelt as were the features of his face. On reading these pages, which have escaped the attention of the professional critics, I wonder whether they may not have a fate similar to Defoe's; for Defoe also was read voraciously by his contemporaries, his pamphlets made a great rustle in their time, and then the critics turned to other and spicier writers. But in due season, other critics, as well as the world, made the discovery that only a genius could have produced Defoe's "every-day," "commonplace" style.
His innate vigor, often swelling into vehemence, marks also Roosevelt's political essays, and yet he had time for reflection, and if you examine closely even some of his combative passages, you will see that they do not spring from sudden anger or scorn, but from a conviction which has matured slowly in him. He had not the philosophic calm which formed the background of Burke's political masterpieces, but he had the clearness, the simplicity, by which he could drive home his thoughts into the minds of the multitude. Burke spoke and wrote for thousands and for posterity; Roosevelt addressed millions for the moment, and let posterity do what it would with his burning appeals and invectives. He was not so absolutely self-effacing as Lincoln, but I think that he realized to the full the meaning of Lincoln's phrase, "the world will little note, nor long remember what we may say here," and that he would have made it his motto. For he, like all truly great statesmen, was so immensely concerned in winning today's battle, that he wasted no time in speculating what tomorrow, or next year, or next century would say about it. Mysticism, the recurrent fad which indicates that its victims neither see clear nor think straight, could not spread its veils over him. The man who visualizes is safe from that intellectual weakness and moral danger. But although Roosevelt felt the sway of the true emotions, he allowed only his intimates to know what he held most intimate and sacred. He felt also the charm of beauty, and over and over again in his descriptions of hunting and riding in the West, he pauses to recall beautiful scenery or some unusual bit of landscape; and even in remembering his passage down the River of Doubt, when he came nearer to death than he ever came until he died, in spite of tormenting pain and desperate anxiety for his companions, he mentions more than once the loveliness of the river scene or of the massed foliage along its banks. Naturalist though he was, bent first on studying the habits of birds and animals, he yet took keen delight in the iridescent plumage or graceful form or the beautiful fur of bird and beast.
The quality of a writer can best be judged by reading a whole chapter, or two or three, of his book, but sometimes he reveals a phase of himself in a single paragraph. Read, for instance, this brief extract from Roosevelt's "Through the Brazilian Wilderness," if you would understand some of the traits which I have just alluded to. It comes at the end of his long and dismaying exploration of the River of Doubt, when the party was safe at last, and the terrible river was about to flow into the broad, lakelike Amazon, and Manaos was almost in sight, where civilization could be laid hold on again, Manaos, whence the swift ships went steaming towards the Atlantic and the Atlantic opened a clear path home. He says:
'The North was calling strongly the three men of the North--Rocky Dell Farm to Cherrie, Sagamore Hill to me; and to Kermit the call was stronger still. After nightfall we could now see the Dipper well above the horizon--upside down with the two pointers pointing to a North Star below the world's rim; but the Dipper, with all its stars. In our home country spring had now come, the wonderful Northern spring of long, glorious days, of brooding twilight, of cool, delightful nights. Robin and bluebird, meadow-lark and song-sparrow were singing in the mornings at home; the maple buds were red; windflowers and bloodroot were blooming while the last patches of snow still lingered; the rapture of the hermit thrush in Vermont, the serene golden melody of the wood thrush on Long Island, would be heard before we were there to listen. Each was longing for the homely things that were so dear to him, for the home people who were dearer still, and for the one who was dearest of all.' *
Through the Brazilian Wilderness, 320.
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Seeing as it's the weekend, a holiday one for those in the States, it seems appropriate now to highlight some guesstimation on the size of the Nokia Lumia 1520. Sure, we'll know more in the coming weeks on the actual dimensions but there's no harm in adding a little math to give a rough idea.
Revealed in a photo earlier this week, the Nokia Lumia 1520 was placed next to the Lumia 1020 for size comparison. Windows Phone Central can now confirm that the photo is legitimate through a second source who attested to its authenticity. Based off of that image, forum member Cornelius took a break from his bachelor thesis to calculate the Lumia 1520's exact size.
While we're not engineers nor math buffs ourselves, Cornelius laid out his methodology, which seems sound to us:
- Applied perspective correction in Photoshop to the leaked photo
- Make some smaller corrections, to make sure, that the visible tiles are quadratic
- Calculate the dimensions based on counting pixels
Based off of a 6-inch display, the Lumia 1520's device size would be 169.9 mm x 88.9 mm (6.69 in x 3.5 in).
For comparison, the Samsung Galaxy Note 2, which has a smaller 5.5-inch display, comes in at 151.1mm x 80.5 mm (5.95 in x 3.17 in), making the Lumia 1520 12.5% longer and 10.5% wider.
But what about the even larger Samsung Galaxy Mega 6.3? That massive device comes in at 168 mm x 88 mm (6.6. in x 3.46 in)—in other words, it's fairy comparable, even though the Mega sports a slightly larger display. Surprisingly though, the Samsung Galaxy Mega 6.3 features only a 720P display while the Nokia Lumia 1520 will have a higher resolution 1080P one.
Samsung Galaxy Mega 6.3
(Check out Android Central's review of the Mega to learn more about that monster of a device.)
Either way, that's one big device, folks.
Of course, the conclusion is only as good as the assumptions made, in addition to the math. For instance, in a leaked photo from January, the Lumia 1520's display bezel looked to be much thinner near the bottom, which could alter the dimensions.
Do you think you can do better than Cornelius? Have some information that could help elucidate a better conclusion? Hop into our forums and add you two cents.


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Itamar Franco
Itamar Franco, 81, former Brazilian president who in the 1990s tamed inflation in Latin America's biggest country, died of a stroke Saturday at Sao Paulo's
hospital, the hospital said in a statement. He had been hospitalized since May after being diagnosed with leukemia and pneumonia.
Franco became president in 1992 after
stepped down to avoid being impeached as a result of corruption charges. Franco had been elected vice president in 1989.
In early 1994, Franco launched a program that curbed a monthly inflation rate of about 50% by raising interest rates and controlling government spending. High interest rates also attracted more foreign capital.
The program, considered Brazil's most successful anti-inflationary action, was created by Franco's finance minister, Fernando Henrique Cardoso, who was elected president later in 1994.
Franco was born June 28, 1930. He grew up in the city of Juiz de Fora, where he was elected mayor in 1966 and 1972. He was elected to the Senate in 1974 and 1982.
In 1999, a year after Franco was elected governor of Minas Gerais, he declared a 90-day moratorium on the state's debt with the federal government, claiming that the state was broke. The news fanned fears that Brazil would default on debt payments, and investors pulled their money out of the country.
Franco was elected a national senator in 2010 for the Popular Socialist Party.
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Ron Smith, 77, a longtime triathlete and former executive with the Chart House restaurant chain, died June 29 of
at Scripps Memorial Hospital La Jolla, said his son, Matt.
Smith was chief executive and president of the Chart House chain until retiring in 1976, his son said. He started competing in triathlons in the 1970s and won national titles in his age groups.
Ronald Kenneth Smith Jr. was born July 13, 1933, in Long Beach, the first of three children. His father was in the Navy.
After attending what is now the University of the Pacific on a football scholarship in the 1950s and graduating with a degree in physical education, Smith joined the Navy and eventually became an instructor for the Underwater Demolition Teams.
He left the Navy in the early 1960s and taught and coached at the Army and Navy Academy in Carlsbad. He also worked for a surfboard maker in Encinitas before becoming involved with the Chart House.
Smith found triathlons "a natural transition" after his years in the Navy and as a competitive swimmer in high school and college, he told the San Diego Union-Tribune in 1987.


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Taxing amputees: The medical device tax in context
April 30. 2013 7:54PM
Taxing "the wealthy" or "businesses" to pay for emotionally appealing government initiatives - such as expanding health insurance coverage for the general public - tends to be a winning political move as long as the benefits fall on a majority of voters while the costs fall on a demonized minority. What happens, though, when that minority turns out to be heroic?
When Obamacare was being strong-armed through Congress, the American people were told that the benefits would accrue to everyone while the costs fell on sinister corporations and the wealthy. Among the dark and mysterious business interests that would bear the cost of the new law was the medical device industry. Obamacare included a 2.3 percent tax on the sales price of medical devices - not on profits, so even startups that have yet to make a profit have to pay the tax on every device they sell.
Since Obamacare became law in 2010, a funny thing has happened to employment in the medical device industry. It has fallen. U.S. employment in the industry hit 409,000 in 2009, according to research by Diana Furchtgott-Roth of the Manhattan Institute. Through 2011, the latest year for which data are available, it fell to 387,000. During the recession years of 2007-2009, medical device manufacturing grew from 3.2 percent of the U.S. manufacturing sector to 3.7 percent. But after 2009, its share declined.
Cheerleaders for Obamacare mock opponents of this tax as pawns of rich business interests. The New York Times on April 2 editorialized against the entire medical device industry, portraying it as a wicked puppet master in an editorial titled "One industry's hold on the Senate."
Wrote the Times, "there has been a forceful and well-financed campaign to repeal the tax - waged, naturally, by the medical device industry. It has donated generously to lawmakers and candidates, taken them on tours of their plants and spent tens of millions in lobbying."
Heaven forbid that business owners singled out for taxation exercise their rights of speech and assembly to educate their elected representatives about the actual effects of said taxation.
The Times' editorial was inspired by a non-binding Senate vote on the medical device tax. The March vote was 79-20 in favor of repealing the tax. Even Al Franken and Elizabeth Warren voted for repeal. The Times blames their switch on the corrupting influence of money in politics. But perhaps seeing firsthand how the tax hurts employment and production in an industry that saves, prolongs and improves the lives of people with serious medical problems might also have had an effect.
To some ideologues, no business can possibly be noble or heroic. Yet the artificial legs and feet that will be worn by the at least 15 amputee victims of the Boston Marathon bombings, and have been worn by countless veterans of Iraq and Afghanistan, have to come from somewhere. They will be manufactured by companies like Next Step Orthotics in Manchester - companies that have spent years urging their elected officials to repeal the tax that costs jobs, impedes innovation and slows growth in their industry, making artificial limbs more expensive.
Demonizing medical device manufacturers so the American people will support extracting $29 million from them over the next decade might make for good politics, but it is horrible policy. No one would come out and say, "let's tax amputees to support Obamacare." But that is precisely what the medical device tax does. Let's kill it before it does lasting damage to an important and once-growing American manufacturing industry.


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I've been running this "Beginning Biz Basics" column every Monday for 2 months without calling much attention to it.
Today, I thought I'd point out some previous posts that have timeless advice for artists just starting out. Check out the ones that are of interest.
How to organize your artist résumé
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Haim, "Days Are Gone" (Columbia Records)
Siblings Este, Danielle and Alana Haim have been steadily gaining momentum with tour support slots for Mumford & Sons, Rihanna and Florence + the Machine. Their audience is mostly comprised of young girls who just want to rock out without giving up on their pop just yet.
"Days Are Gone," the trio's debut album, is slick and radio-friendly, thanks to producers Ariel Rechtshaid (Vampire Weekend, Usher) and James Ford (Florence + the Machine, Arctic Monkeys). The tracks are delivered with energy and confidence and catchy hooks are easy to come by. This album is instantly likable.
"Forever," ″Falling" and "Don't Save Me" are upbeat jams laced with 1980s synth guitars, while "My Song 5″ is gritty with its Muse-esque dark guitar licks and R&B vibe. "Let Me Go" is full of attitude, with the group showing off their perfect harmonies.
The album's closing track, "Running If You Call My Name," brings Haim's anthemic pop-rock effort to a close with vulnerable lyrics and punchy vocals. These L.A.-based sisters are newcomers, but they've made quite an impact with this stunning debut.
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Aspyr Media, in collaboration with Kaplan Test Prep and Admissions, today announced the name and all-new details for its SAT prep game. Called futureU, the company has revealed that the game will be divided into three main categories - Math, Reading and Writing. Designed to be an engaging and visually dynamic complement to traditional SAT programs, futureU teaches core concepts, measures player progress, and provides an accessible, interactive experience unlike any other learning program of its kind. The game is rooted in Kaplan's proven curriculum and includes original methods and specialized strategies.
These details come on the heels of Aspyr and Kaplan's announcement in March that the companies have entered into a multi-year agreement in which Aspyr will bring Kaplan-branded interactive entertainment products to market. Scheduled to hit retail outlets this fall, futureU is the first title to be released under the agreement. The game is currently in development at Aspyr Studios and will be published by Aspyr Media for Nintendo DS, PC and Mac.
Aspyr has released the following details on each of the categories:
Reading: Focuses on honing players' reading skills with vocabulary building, main idea identification, attitude and tone, themes and arguments, technique, and recognizing word meaning based on context.
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For the past few months I have been getting reports that I have to say are a bit disturbing.
In fact most people tend to blow this off and call in for the "Tin Foil Hat Brigade"
When so many are "poo-pooing" the information saying "surely this isn't true" then tossing it on the conspiracy pile, that is when I start to do some digging and see what is going on.
So what seems to be happening that no one wants to acknowledge?
It appears that Russian military forces are being staged for what appears to be a possible US Invasion or UN Police action.
Yea, it sounds pretty far fetched and I do not want to believe it myself.
But several things took place yesterday that kind of raised my red flag level from "blow it off" to "it is possible."
First I got the following from Steve Quail…
Spetsnaz Verification
All of us have heard over the years rumors of foreign troops in the USA. I've always been reluctant to mention on-air because I have no way of verifying the reports. I received a call today from a long-time trusted Christian friend whom I have known for many years. The couple is wealthy and well-connected to movers and shakers in the USA and Europe. Trust me, if they want to "name drop" it's not an exaggeration for them. I was was informed by the wife that they have a friend in DHS who promised to pass on anything significant that would be a sign for immediate preparation.
That agent called yesterday. He is hearing talk inside DHS that thousands of Sp….N…Z boys from that place connected to Alaska have been infiltrating from Canada into USA throughout this summer. He estimated the number so far exceeds 20,000 commandos. He advised my friends to take action immediately for food, water, ammo. I told her forget it! You need a plane ticket. The greatest shock to the American people will not be the invasion, but the merger of DHS with the invaders. Then they will understand the purpose of the 750 million rounds of hollow point ammo. Marxist Communist Valery Jarrett is the real power in DHS – not Napolitano. The nation has been compromised and sold out. Colonel Lunev told me in 1999 that the Sp…N…Z…boys will start arriving in large numbers months before the war.
Source – http://www.stevequayle.com/index.php?s=33&d=48
The "Rick" that sent this is Rick Wiles of TrueNews. I have been on Rick's show several times and consider him a kindred spirit.
This in and of itself, well hearing from someone who heard from someone who heard from a DHS official, yea can be hear say. And by itself, I would put that in that camp.
But when we start looking at a lot of what is going on around us, report after report, things like this get a little bit more credibility than if they were a stand alone report.
The second thing that happened yesterday, I discovered a movie trailer.
About 10 days ago the trailer for the remake of one of my favorite movies of all time was released.
Red Dawn –
ABOUT – Red Dawn was released in 1984 where the United States is invaded by the Soviet Union along with its Cuban and Nicaraguan allies. The story follows a group of American high school students who resist the occupation with guerrilla warfare, calling themselves Wolverines, named after their high school mascot.
Many of you may remember this movie and the famous shout of defiance "WOLVERINES"!
This coming Thanksgiving the movie is going to be re-released.
You can watch the trailor here >> http://youtu.be/UoqlBHSePw0
So why is this such a big deal? I am one who believes that the powers that be like to "telegraph" of drop hints as to what they plan to take place or allow to take place. One can look at many major films out there and see correlations. Now is this exact science? No and in fact many would call it "tin foil hat" conspiracy stuff.
But when we start adding up reports, something in my gut does not feel right.
Just in the last few months the following has taken place.
1 – Russian Submarine in Gulf of Mexico Raises Concerns
The Russian Akula-class nuclear attack submarine ventured undetected in the Gulf of Mexico and was able to operate for weeks before being discovered only after it had left the area, raising concerns over gaps in U.S. patrols off American coasts, according to reports in The Washington Free Beacon
Source – http://global.christianpost.com/news/russian-submarine-in-gulf-of-mexico-raises-concerns-80126/
2 – Russia Moves Nuclear Missiles to Cuba
A report out of Pravda quotes President Vladimir Putin as saying that Russia has moved strategic nuclear missiles to Cuba in response to the United States' continuing efforts to encircle Russia in Eastern Europe.
Source – http://www.prisonplanet.com/report-russia-moves-nuclear-missiles-to-cuba.html
3 – Russian Troops to 'Seize' CIA Facility in Elaborate War Game… on U.S. Soil
According to reports, the U.S. and Russian military will be engaging in an anti-terrorism exercise that will involve Russian paratroopers using U.S. weapons to "take and hold" the main facilities of the CIA and Denver International Airport in Colorado and the National Security Agency in Utah.
Source – http://www.theblaze.com/stories/report-russian-troops-to-seize-cia-facility-in-elaborate-war-game-on-u-s-soil/
4 – Russian Troops Coming to U.S. for Terror Drills, DoD Confirms
Russian "Airborne Assault Forces" will be arriving in Colorado this May for joint terror-war exercises with U.S. soldiers, according to U.S. officials and Russian military personnel cited in media reports. The Kremlin's Defense Ministry and the U.S. Department of Defense both said it would be the first time in history that American and Russian airborne special operations troops would be training together on U.S. soil.
Source – http://www.thenewamerican.com/usnews/foreign-policy/item/11002-russian-troops-coming-to-us-for-terror-drills-dod-confirms
5 – The Bear at the Door – Russian nuclear bombers test U.S. air defenses in arctic war games during chilly Obama-Putin summit
Russian strategic nuclear bombers threatened U.S. airspace near Alaska earlier this month and F-15 jets responded by intercepting the aircraft taking part in large-scale arctic war games, according to defense officials.
The Russian war games began the same day President Obama and Russian President Vladimir Putin held a frosty summit meeting in Mexico June 18.
Source – http://freebeacon.com/the-bear-at-the-door/
What really caught my attention in that report from Rick Wiles to Steve Quail was the following…
"The greatest shock to the American people will not be the invasion, but the merger of DHS with the invaders."
I don't know about you but when I read this there was a "thud" that took place in uh. That thud is what I feel when things ring true.
Something that I learned in reading Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's Sherlock Holmes was this, "Once you eliminate the impossible, whatever remains, no matter how improbable, must be the truth."
I believe that with the passage of the NDAA and it allowing the indefinite detainment of American citizens, under the laws of war has ended the debate over government intent in terms of domestic action.
When FBI Director Robert Mueller's admitted that he "did not know" if assassination programs would be used against American citizens also heaped evidence on the matter. (6)
You and I already know that if you are a bible believing christian, believe in bible prophecy, own guns, believe in the constitution, served in the military, etc, etc, ect, DHS has labeled you as a potential treat and possible domestic terrorist. Local police departments no longer see the citizens as citizens, they have been trained to view us as enemy combatants. In fact I have questioned several police officers personally on this and they have not disagreed.
In a past PZ Breaking News I also noted the FEMA Contract needing to feed 3,500,000 – 17,500,000 packaged meals and Social Security Administration To Purchase 174 Thousand Rounds Of Hollow Point Bullets.
If you missed that, you can read that report here >>> http://tinyurl.com/PZ-news-08-16-12
Something is Going Down – Gov is Gearing Up
When a country is quietly preparing for war, the first signs are usually revealed by a purchasing of armaments. If stockpiling is taking place without a warranted threat present then one has to be concerned that the likelihood that aggression might be internal. Since George W Bush and his getting rid of posse comitatus (using the military on US Soil) we have seen an ever growing military presence / training taking place in our own cities.
The primary office that is pushing and funding much of this across the nation is DHS.
We have all heard that DHS placed an order for over 450 million rounds of hollow point .40 cal ammunition in April of this year. (1)
DHS also placed an order for over 7000 new semi-automatic combat rifles chambered in .223 (5.56 by 45mm NATO) immediately after (2)
Local police through programs like the 1033 Program which allows the Sect of Defense to distribute "surplus" to local police departments. Millions of dollars in free military equipment, including body armor, night vision equipment, APC's, aircraft, first aid supplies, weapons, surveillance equipment, Kevlar helmets, gas masks and filters, vehicles, etc are being supplied. (3)
All of this equipment, though issued to state agencies, is still heavily tracked and regulated by the federal government, making it clear that these "gifts" come with strings attached (4)
And finally, new FAA regulations will soon allow the dispersion of tens of thousands of predator drones with armament capability in the skies of the U.S. over the course of the next few years(5)
Now, anyone with an IQ over a soap dish would ask "who" is the government arming itself and also the local police to fight against?
The goal of the powers that be have been for several generations to bring down this nation.
Why? because we are the last bastion of God fearing freedom this world has. Eliminate the US, and the communist luciferian powers that be can rule the world.
This all falls right in line with what I believe to be the judging of our nation that I have been writing about for the past 2-3 months.
God has been warning us and warning us. He has sent judgement after judgement. He has lifted His hedge of protection and we are standing at the threshold of being put in bondage.
Like ancient Israel when she turned her back against God, we have done the same thing. Israel and America are the only two nations in man's history to be dedicated to Him. We are not in covenant, but we have been dedicated to Him.
The only thing that will turn this nation around, bring us to our knees and finally return to God is the bloodshed of our own. If we do not repent because of that, we will surely see bondage.
The powers that be want us in bondage, they do not want us to return to God. They will do everything in their power to corrupt us, pollute our minds, tear apart our families, destroy our beliefs, degrade our God, grind us down till there is nothing left to grind.
Every 100 years we see Chaos enter the world. Every generation I believe that the enemy has his man waiting in the eves. The last one I believe was Adolf Hitler. The world loved him. In fact he was Time Magazine's Man of the Year two times they loved him so much.
I believe that the enemies man for this generation is also waiting in the eves to be revealed.
What prevented Hitler was America standing for what is right.
Today we no longer no what is right anymore.
In Isaiah 5 we read…
Isaiah 5:20 (KJV) Woe unto them that call evil good, and good evil; that put darkness for light, and light for darkness; that put bitter for sweet, and sweet for bitter!
We no longer know good. Today evil is good and good is evil.
We are standing at that crossroad once again. The powers that be want to see us fall.
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More and more people are becoming concerned about intrusion into their private lives. One might say "I have nothing to hide, so why should I care."
What would happen if our own nation became hostile towards bible believing Christians?
Now do you have something to hide?
I personally believe that this is something that we seriously need to start taking into consideration. I believe that we need to start thinking about networking with each other, teaching each other and being a source of encouragement to each other now instead of later.
It is my desire for PZ Insiders to have an area where they can learn more about dealing with the topic of going underground like many churches in persecuted countries have previously done.
As I find more information, I will post it to the PZ UNDERGROUND area. I will also be adding files to the PZ Survival Library to support this area as well.
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1 – http://rt.com/usa/news/dhs-million-point-government-179/
2 – https://www.fbo.gov/index?s=opportunity&mode=form&id=d791b6aa0fd9d3d8833b2efa08300033&tab=core&tabmode=list&=
3 – http://www.ogs.state.sc.us/surplus/SP-1033-index.phtm
3 – http://www.wired.com/dangerroom/2012/06/cops-military-gear/all/
4 – http://www.newsherald.com/articles/program-103291-state-law.html
5 – http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2012/feb/7/coming-to-a-sky-near-you/
5 – http://articles.latimes.com/2011/dec/10/nation/la-na-drone-arrest-20111211
6 – http://jonathanturley.org/2012/03/08/mueller-i-am-not-sure-whether-i-now-can-kill-citizens-in-the-united-states-under-obamas-kill-doctrine/
6 – http://jonathanturley.org/2012/03/07/obamas-kill-policy/


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By Jon Terry
LEWISBURG, Pa. — The Bucknell Bison have claimed the second best graduate rate in the nation, according to the NCAA's annual student-athlete graduate-rate survey released on Thursday. Bucknell's four-class average for student-athletes entering between 2002-03 and 2005-06 ranks second nationally among all Division I programs, using both the NCAA's Graduation Success Rate (GSR) formula and the U.S. Department of Education's standard for graduation rates. || Read more about the NCAA's GSR rates
The GSR differs from the federal graduation-rate formula in that the GSR factors in transfer students who do graduate, and does not penalize schools for losing transfers who leave in good academic standing. Bucknell's GSR of 99 percent trails only Dartmouth's 100-percent rate, and Bucknell's figure is up from 97 percent one year ago.
All but two Bison sports programs have perfect 100 percent GSR ratings. Every Bucknell women's program has a perfect GSR score, and the Bison men's basketball team is one of 33 out of 340 Division I programs to boast a GSR of 100.
The Bucknell football team just missed a perfect score, but its GSR of 98 percent ranks third nationally, behind only Dartmouth and Columbia.
According to the federal standards, Bucknell has a four-class average graduation rate of 91 percent. Only Stanford at 92 percent came in higher (note that the Ivy League and military academies do not report federal graduation rates). Notre Dame also has a 91-percent graduation rate, while Davidson and Holy Cross were the only other programs in the nation to reach 90 percent.
Bucknell's student-athlete graduation rate of 91 percent is slightly higher than the university's general student body graduation rate of 90 percent.
By the federal guidelines, 10 Bison varsity programs boast perfect 100-percent graduation rates. Those programs are men's basketball, men's and women's golf, men's soccer, men's swimming and diving, men's and women's water polo, women's rowing, women's lacrosse and women's tennis. Bucknell is one of only six Division men's basketball programs with a perfect percentage, joining Belmont, Davidson, Georgia State, Utah State and Wisconsin-Milwaukee.
Bucknell improved from its position in last years's survey, in which the Bison ranked fourth nationally with a graduation rate of 89 percent.
Bucknell has topped the nation in graduation rates on several occasions, including in 2003, when it received a USA Today-NCAA Academic Achievement Award with a perfect 100 percent.
Each spring, the NCAA releases a separate set of data, called the Academic Progress Rate (APR), which measures both academic performance and retention. Each program receives an APR score, with teams falling under a certain threshold subject to penalties such as loss of scholarships and postseason bans. The top 10 percent in each sport receive APR Public Recognition Awards from the NCAA — an honor 17 of Bucknell's programs received last June, the fourth-highest total in all of Division I. All of Bucknell's programs easily met the NCAA minimum standard, and 15 maintained perfect scores.
Bucknell sponsors 27 intercollegiate sports at the Division I level. It is a charter member of the Patriot League and has won the league's all-sports championship in 17 of the 22 years it has been contested. Bucknell ranks fifth in Division I in producing Academic All-Americans.


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