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BEN Swift is targetting consistency in his next season with Team Sky.
The Anston cycle star was disappointed to have his year ended prematurely by injury, and surgery, but the 24-year-old is determined to improve in 2013.
"It was a shame for the season to end like that, but at least it's given me a bit of a break," he said.
"I'd really like to push forward this next season and be a lot more consistent."
"I won two races, and had five second places and four thirds."
"I've been there or thereabouts a lot this year, so hopefully I can push on next season."
Although the departure of world class sprinter Mark Cavendish to the Omega Pharma-Quick Step team will see Swift bumped up the Team Sky pecking order, the Anston man sees himself as a different operator from the 'Manx Missile'.
"Cav going opens up the door a little, but I'm not an out and out sprinter," Swift said. "I prefer the hillier finishes."
With cycling in the spotlight in the wake of the Lance Armstrong doping revelations, Swift is hopeful that the sport can move on now, particularly in the UK.
"I hope we are doing enough as British riders to move past this," he said.
"When you look at the amount of people getting out on their bikes, having been inspired by what they have seen from our cyclists, then that is very encouraging and something we want to protect."
"We've had a massive push for cycling in Britain in recent years. In the rankings for national teams this season we finished second, which is unheard of, and even a few years ago something we could never have thought possible."

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If you thought booking a deluxe suite has gotten pricey, hold on to your hat. Some of the world's most luxurious hotel suites are going for tens of thousands of dollars per night. So fire up your private jet, pack your Louis Vuitton bags, and get ready for an over-the-top stay.
Hotel Martinez Presidential Suite, Cannes, France
Certainly most U.S. Presidents haven't even experienced the level of luxury of the Penthouse Suite at the Hotel Martinez in Cannes, France—and it can be yours for the bargain price of 12,000 to 34,000 Euros during the high season (that's about $53,000). Clocking in at a massive 10,700 square feet, the Art Deco-inspired suite (which can be split into two apartments) offers a Jacuzzi on a private terrace, four bedrooms, four bathrooms equipped with Whirlpool baths and Turkish baths/showers, an open bar and two saunas. And in case anything is amiss, you'll also have a butler at your disposal 24 hours a day.
Palms Resort Hugh Hefner Sky Villa, Las Vegas, NV
Get ready to don your red smoking jacket and slippers: Even if you can't party at the Playboy Mansion, you can stay in the lavish Hugh Hefner Sky Villa at the Palms, featuring Playboy artwork selected by Hef himself. For $40,000 a night, you'll have an outdoor terrace overlooking the lights of Vegas with a cantilevered Jacuzzi tub, a personal massage room, workout room, dry sauna and more. Oh, and there's also an eight-foot round, rotating bed with mirrored ceiling, in case you're thinking of living out any of those Playboy fantasies.
Four Seasons New York Ty Warner Penthouse, New York, NY
Forget the view from the Empire State Building. This lavishly appointed Four Seasons suite's floor-to-ceiling bay windows offer a sweeping 360-degree view of all of Manhattan. For $30,000 a night, guests can enjoy the view, as well as living and dining areas, a library illuminated by a gilded bronze LaLanne chandelier, an infinity-edge bathtub, a master bedroom with a gold-threaded Thai canopy bed, an indoor-outdoor Zen garden and a private spa room. Should you want to leave the suite, you'll also have access to a private chauffeur in your choice of a Rolls Royce Phantom or Mercedes Maybach. Decisions, decisions.
President Wilson Hotel Royal Penthouse Suite, Geneva, Switzerland
In case you're thinking of entertaining while you're away, the mahogany dining table at this $37,000 per night suite at the President Wilson can seat 26 people. The suite, reached by private elevator, also boasts a cocktail lounge, a library and billiards room, along with four bedrooms that all overlook serene Lake Geneva. If you're concerned about security, all of the windows and doors are bullet-proof to ensure maximum safety.
Grand Resort Lagonissi Royal Villa, Attica, Greece
This gorgeous resort villa at the Lagonissi, going for about $35,000 a night, on the Aegean Sea is a swimmer and sunbather's paradise. It not only features a private indoor pool equipped with a gym and workout area, but an outdoor pool as well (accessible by an open living and dining area). And did we mention the private marina and private beach? Guests at the Royal Villa can relax in one of two master bedrooms, a bar area or a private massage room. There's even a full business center (not that you'll want to do any work).
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Wednesday, July 2, 2008
The World's Most Expensive Hotel Rooms: Prepare to Max Out Your Credit Card
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World's most expensive toy car
It's the perfect toy for the boy who has everything: a diamond encrusted model car billed as the most expensive in the world.
Toy makers Hot Wheels unveiled the car, made to commemorate the production of its four-billionth "vehicle", at the 105th American International Toy Fair in NewYork.
Valued at US$140,000 (£71,187) - a figure that would normally buy six family cars - the model is cast in 18-karat white gold and covered in blue, white and black diamonds. It has rubies set into its tail lights and even the car's case comes with 40 white diamonds.
Designed by celebrity jeweller Jason of Beverly Hills, the vehicle's bonnet can be lifted to reveal more jewels encrusting a miniature engine.
The 1:64 scale car will be auctioned later this year, with proceeds going to the charity Big Brothers Big Sisters.
"Since its introduction, Hot Wheels has revolutionized boys' toys and inspired automotive trends," said Tim Kilpin, general manager and senior vice president, Boys and Entertainment, Mattel Brands.
"The historic activities we have planned are a fitting tribute to the brand's heritage and will allow us, and our fans, to celebrate this milestone year in true Hot Wheels style."
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Thursday, June 12, 2008
Chinese Man Pierced 2008 Times for Upcoming Olympics
China has been buzzing with anticipation for the 2008 Olympics this summer. From putting up sexy Olympic street lights to naming 3,500 babies after the event, you can definitely feel the pride and excitement for the coming games.
Wei, a 60 year-old Chinese acupuncturist from Guangxi province, showed his patriotism for the upcoming Olympics by piercing his head, face, chest, and arms with 2008 decorative needles in five different colors.
The event broke his previous Guinness Record of 1790 needles set in 2004. Wei also hopes to share more about the history of acupuncture to the world.
Initially inspired after reading about a Canadian who had set a record for inserting 420 needles in his arm, Wei felt that it was "not much compared to our centuries-old acupuncture," and began experimenting with piercing his own body with needles.
On January 13, 2007, Wei had also paraded through town with 800 needles in his forehead and even put on skates and skated around the streets to show he was not in pain and alright.
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Dubai tower reaches 630 m to become world's tallest structure
Burj Dubai, a skyscraper under construction in the oil-rich United Arab Emirates, has reached 630 meters (2,066 feet) to become the world's tallest man-made structure, Al-Ittihad newspaper said on Tuesday.
Mohammed Ali Alabbar, chairman of state-owned development company Emaar - one of the builders of the tower - was quoted by the paper as saying the building is now higher than the 628.8-meter (2,063-foot) television transmission mast in North Dakota, U.S. The mast had held the title of highest structure for 45 years.
Alabbar said the $1 billion tower, designed by the U.S.-based Scidmore, Owings and Merill, already has 160 floors. The planned final height of the building has been kept secret.
When completed, the skyscraper in the heart of Dubai will feature 56 elevators, luxury apartments, boutiques, swimming pools, spas, exclusive corporate suites, a hotel, and an observation platform.
The deadline for the project carried out by a consortium led by South Korea's Samsung, has been postponed by four months from the end of 2008.
Alabbar said Christmas parties would not take place in the tower as was earlier planned. However, next year Burj will meet all criteria to become the world's tallest building, in terms of room space, the highest occupied floor, the roof's top, the spire's tip, antenna length, etc.
Burj will surpass Taiwan's Taipei 101, which has held the record at 508 meters (1,667 feet) since 2004.
Earlier reports said more than 5,000 engineers and laborers are employed in the project. Some 330,000 cubic meters of cement and 39,000 metric tons of reinforced steel will be used in the construction and over 140,000 sq m of glass will be used for the facade.
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Wednesday, June 11, 2008
Indonesia Diving, Raja Ampat Island "The incredible reef and fish"
No doubt about it, the Raja Ampat is definitely the richest place for fish, that I have ever been. Dr G.R.Allen
"I was like a five-year-old, seeing a reef for the very first time. I was awestruck, held by the incredible power of this richest reef. We must, with all available resources, preserve the beauty of Raja Ampat. This may be the last frontier." Michael Aw
"I love the people, I love the diving, It's super!! I've never been for a second time to the same dive destination but now I'm thinking about going back for the third time!! Should I say more?" Peter van Dalen
(Taken from www.iriandive.com)
Raja Ampat Island is the most western district of the Indonesian province of Papua. Raja Ampat consists of an area surrounding four major island off the western coast of Birds Head Panisula of New Guinea Island. The western half of which is Indonesia and the eastern half, Papua New Guinea. The province was called Irian Jaya, and its a cluster of over 1500 small Islands.
Raja Ampat is the most bio-diverse location in the world more than 3000 species of fishes and over 300 species of corals have been identified here, in a single one and half hour dive you can identified more than 282 fish species and more than 400 species. Till this very day the area is virtually unexplored and unknown due to its size. This area as there are still many remnants of WW II.
The Roughest seas and decreased visibility in the Raja Ampat area are from mid-June until the end of August. During the rest of the year, the sea is mostly very smooth whit good visibility.
Dive sites in Raja Ampat Island:
At a Glance Irian Diving
It is easiest to fly through to Sorong via Jakarta or via Singapore. Merpati, Pelita and Lion/Wings Airlines operate daily flights from Jakarta to Sorong (with stopovers in Ujung Pandang/Makassar and/or Manado), whereas Silk Air operates regularly from Singapore to Manado. Daily flights to and from Sorong by Airlines Merpati, Lion/Wings or Pelita.
Raja Ampat Island have several accommodations whit traditional design, and there many boat you can rent for a stay. If you using dive operator they will arrange for your base came.
Raja Ampat islands have a very diverse topography with steep mountain shores and deserted white sand beaches. Explore the land on foot. Use a boat to move from one dive site to another dive site.
There are several restaurants and cafes throughout Sorong. Try their specialties: traditional irian foods!
There are many traditional souvenirs made from wood.
You can visit gorgeous waterfalls, ancient burial sites, bat caves and stunning waterways breathtaking limestone landscapes and Manta ray spotting and bird watching.
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The Flight of Dragonfly Robots
One day, the U.S. military hopes to use tiny flying robots, equipped with cameras and sensors, for surveillance. But such robots would need to be able to navigate around obstacles, carry weight, and be efficient enough to fly for long periods of time. A group of researchers believe that the key to making such a robot might lie in the dragonfly.
Dragonflies are one of few creatures that utilize four independently controlled wings to fly, allowing them to hover, dart, glide, move backward, and change directions rapidly. Looking to understand such abilities, scientists at the Royal Veterinary College, in England, and the University of Ulm, in Germany, have developed a robotic dragonfly to measure the current flows over and under the wings at different flap cycles. While most of the dragonfly hovering scenarios were not efficient, the team found that if the lower wings are beating slightly ahead of the top wings, the double set of wings proves more efficient at generating lift, employing 22 percent less power to lift the same weight as a single pair.
"The one specific advantage you get in four wings is the maneuverability and ability to pick things out of the air and hover and dart around," says Jonathan How, a professor at MIT who works on flying robots but was not involved in the dragonfly project. "It would be really amazing if we could build something that got anywhere near that level of performance. If you can achieve the same lift at a lower power, that's helpful."
Despite their potential advantages, small flying robots that mimic dragonflies' agility have not been successfully made, in part because of the complexity of the aerodynamics around four wings, and also because of fabrication issues involved with small flying machines. However, studies of wing motion and air forces that reveal how dragonflies achieve their agility may enable roboticists to eventually build capable, swift flyers that use four wings.
To measure the air currents, the Ulm researchers immersed the robotic dragonfly in a tank filled with mineral oil and peppered with air bubbles. Two green lasers combined and reflected off the air bubbles as a high-speed camera took images 10 to 20 milliseconds apart. By comparing images, the scientists calculated the direction of flow for regions within the tank.
In terms of four-wing versus two-wing systems for a biomimetic micro air vehicle, "it's a trade-off," says Fritz-Olaf Lehmann, a researcher at the University of Ulm who worked on the study. With a four-wing system, the disadvantages are the need for an extra control system and extra power. However, a system with two wings must incorporate ways to change the angle, amplitude, and frequency of the wings flapping to change lift, says Lehmann. Conversely, with four wings, "you can just advance one flight system against the other, and then you change lift production," he says. "I think that makes building a micro air vehicle much easier."
In creating an autonomous micro air vehicle, "every little bit of efficiency counts," says Robert Wood, a professor at Harvard University who has developed some of the smallest flying robots. "You could make the argument that if you have a four-winged vehicle, you'll have more [control] to assist you in stabilization," he says.
Michael Dickinson, a professor at Caltech who works on understanding and mimicking fly flight, says that interest in dragonflies is growing and that the Lehmann paper is not the first containing this kind of analysis but "one in a floodgate of papers." While the study might add to the understanding of the subtle aerodynamics of four-winged flight, Dickinson points out that researchers must still develop a better, lighter battery that powers the vehicle and makes an effective control system.
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Tuesday, June 10, 2008
Apple Updates iPhone, Slashes Price
Steve Jobs, Apple's CEO, confirms rumors that a cheaper iPhone with GPS will be available in July. Since March, when the iPhone software developer kit was launched, a number of third-party companies and individual programmers have been racing to develop applications that run on the phone. At the conference, Apple highlighted a handful. Game developers are excited about the potential for using the built-in accelerometers as game controllers, and Sega showed off its Super Monkey Ball game. Loopt, a location-based startup that has previously only run on Sprint and Boost Mobile phones, demonstrated how a person using its service could find nearby friends. Typepad, a popular blogging tool, will offer software that enables easy mobile blogging on the iPhone. In addition to the iPhone upgrades and previews of third-party software, Apple announced that it has revamped its .Mac service, a $99 a year service that provides e-mail, a Web page, and syncing options. It has been rebranded into MobileMe and will enable mail, calendar updates, and address-book changes to stay constantly synchronized over all Macs, PCs, and iPhones. This move illustrates that Apple is finally ready to recognize the importance of cloud computing, famously the province of Google and other Internet companies. However, since it's a pay service, it's unclear how much traction Apple will see as it competes with popular free services such as Gmail and Yahoo's Flickr. As with all Steve Jobs keynotes, bullet points were big, and technical details were scarce. However, in the coming weeks, and after the iPhone's release on July 11, more information is expected to emerge. Some experts were predicting an upgrade to the phone's camera, but on Monday, there was no mention of a camera update or added video capabilities.
As at any Apple event, attendees of the World Wide Developers Conference in San Francisco showed up on Monday expecting to be awed by a Steve Jobs Show. And judging from the elevated mood in the room immediately after the Apple CEO's presentation, they were. The biggest technical news, which was widely predicted, is that the new iPhone, available July 11, will operate over so-called 3G networks, which are many times faster than the EDGE networks that the iPhone currently uses. Also confirmed was the rumor of GPS for real-time location tracking on the iPhone. But perhaps the most crowd-pleasing announcement is the dramatic price cut: from $399 for an eight-gigabyte model to $199. A 16-gigabyte model will be $299 and available in black and white.
When the iPhone was introduced last June, some analysts predicted that consumers would reject it because of its hefty price tag and its reliance on AT&T's relatively slow network. Since the phone's release, roughly six million iPhones have been sold to people who have looked past sluggish downloads and fallen in love with the gadget's intuitive touch interface and impressive graphics. But the difference between the EDGE and 3G networks can be startling. During Jobs's presentation, he contrasted the two versions of the phone. It takes 59 seconds for the current phone to load a Web page with heavy graphics. On the new 3G phone, the same page loads in 21 seconds. By comparison, it takes 17 seconds on a Wi-Fi network. E-mail applications download 3.6 percent faster.
By adding GPS, Apple has taken an important step toward expanding location-based services--tools that people use to find friends and activities around them in real time. Today's iPhone has the ability to locate itself, within a relatively large radius, using signals from cell-phone towers and Wi-Fi stations. GPS takes it a step farther, pinpointing location down to a couple of meters. This enables real-time tracking, making the iPhone a useful in-car navigation tool.
Jobs also provided an update of the third-party software, available in the forthcoming iPhone application store, and updates on the phone's compatibility with enterprise software. As announced in March, the iPhone will support Microsoft Exchange, providing compatibility with Outlook's mail, contacts, and calendar. The iPhone will also support Apple's iWork collection of productivity software, as well as Microsoft Office. And importantly, it will include the security features that have convinced enterprise customers--including the U.S. military and a number of Fortune 500 companies, law firms, and pharmaceutical companies--that the iPhone is as secure as any mobile device.
Since March, when the iPhone software developer kit was launched, a number of third-party companies and individual programmers have been racing to develop applications that run on the phone. At the conference, Apple highlighted a handful. Game developers are excited about the potential for using the built-in accelerometers as game controllers, and Sega showed off its Super Monkey Ball game. Loopt, a location-based startup that has previously only run on Sprint and Boost Mobile phones, demonstrated how a person using its service could find nearby friends. Typepad, a popular blogging tool, will offer software that enables easy mobile blogging on the iPhone.
In addition to the iPhone upgrades and previews of third-party software, Apple announced that it has revamped its .Mac service, a $99 a year service that provides e-mail, a Web page, and syncing options. It has been rebranded into MobileMe and will enable mail, calendar updates, and address-book changes to stay constantly synchronized over all Macs, PCs, and iPhones. This move illustrates that Apple is finally ready to recognize the importance of cloud computing, famously the province of Google and other Internet companies. However, since it's a pay service, it's unclear how much traction Apple will see as it competes with popular free services such as Gmail and Yahoo's Flickr.
As with all Steve Jobs keynotes, bullet points were big, and technical details were scarce. However, in the coming weeks, and after the iPhone's release on July 11, more information is expected to emerge. Some experts were predicting an upgrade to the phone's camera, but on Monday, there was no mention of a camera update or added video capabilities.
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More than 72 per cent of 1,000 surveyed end-users were limited to only being able to access corporate email on their mobile device and had no access to corporate applications or data while out of the office. Another 63 per cent of respondents also felt that when accessing work email on a personal device the experience was of a lower standard than personal email or they found it difficult to switch between the two.
Two fifths of end-users believed that they would be more productive if they were allowed to use their own mobile devices for work purposes. This highlights a significant share of the workforce willing to meet their own IT needs and a desire to participate in a bring Your Own Device (BYOD) scheme. This is in stark contrast to the fact that only 19 per cent of IT managers who believe employees want to see BYOD implemented for reasons of productivity.
Despite this dissatisfaction amongst end-users, only 43 per cent of IT managers see meeting employee expectations as a benefit and driver for adopting a BYOD policy. Nick Lowe, VP of Sales, EMEA, AppSense said that the figures highlight that there is a disconnect between the IT department and the employee over mobile.
"Users are becoming frustrated with the experience offered to them and see it as restrictive, while this research would suggest that IT decision makers are oblivious as to what is happening all around them in their own organisations," he said.


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Robin Hood may start with an inventive battle scene featuring all the ingenious, raw trappings of Medieval warfare—crude bombs, hot tar being poured on soldiers over a castle wall, whooshing arrows that the camera follows from bow to someone's eye—but that's not what makes it a worthy addition to a long list of Robin Hood movies that stretches back to Hollywood's early years. What's satisfying about the flick is that it mixes the action with a story that goes beyond a dude in tights taking from the rich and giving to the poor.
Consider Robin Hood a grown-up prequel to the legendary story: It traces Robin Longstride's leap from soldier fighting in the Crusades in an effort to kick Muslims out of Jerusalem—and who's had it with a cause he no longer believes in—to a natural leader who seeks justice from the country's weak leadership back home. Don't expect the usual scenes featuring Robin and his cohorts stealing jewelry or goods from rich people traveling through Sherwood Forest and doling them out to peasants. This isn't that story. Rather, it's the story of a man who gets redemption by following his convictions—and who becomes an outlaw for it. If that sounds like a little less fun than you're used to for a Robin Hood summer movie, at least the film makes up for its seriousness with lovely bits of smart humor peppered across the script and gorgeous period details.
The cast is superb: As Robin, Russell Crowe, reunited with his American Gangster and Gladiator director, Ridley Scott), radiates integrity; Cate Blanchett is fierce as the independent, resourceful Marion, here a bride who was left behind by a husband who went off to war; watching the two Aussies' brainy chemistry as they go from antagonists to lovers is one of the rewards of the film. As a blind, cash-strapped nobleman who becomes Robin's father figure and knows better than anyone what's really important, Max von Sydow is pretty much the soul of the film. As King John, Cuban-Guatemalan actor Oscar Isaac plays his character big, a mix of humor and menace just this side of campy—and manages to steal every scene he's in.


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|Methods for the Evaluation of the Impact of Food and Nutrition Programmes (UNU, 1984, 287 pages)
|1. Basic concepts for the design of evaluation during programme implementation
|(introductory text...)
|Costs of evaluation
|Purposes of evaluation
|Setting programme objectives as a basis for evaluation
|Investigating causality
|Confounding variables and evaluation design
|Levels of analysis
|Definitions of population groups involved
|Appropriate indicators for different objectives
|Note on sample size
|2. Stages in the evaluation of ongoing programmes
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|Stage 1: preliminary tasks
|Stage 2: evaluating the plan of the programme
|Stage 3: evaluating implementation
|Stage 4: evaluating gross outcome
|Stage 5: evaluating net outcome
|Stage 6: move to a built-in evaluation
|3. Measuring the impact of nutrition interventions on physical growth
|(introductory text...)
|General considerations
|Minimum anthropometric battery
|Physical growth norms
|4. Measuring impact using laboratory methodologies
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|Development of a primary nutritional deficiency
|Choice of tissue for laboratory assessment
|Selection of laboratory methodologies for nutritional impact evaluation
|Laboratory methods for assessment of nutritional impact
|Annex A. Laboratory evaluation of protein nutriture
|Annex B. Laboratory evaluation of vitamin A nutriture
|Annex C. Suggested methods for hematology
|5. Measuring impact using clinical, morbidity, and mortality data
|(introductory text...)
|Framework for analysis
|Methods of measurement
|Annex A. Field nutrition assessment form
|Annex B. Xerophthalmia field survey forms
|Annex C. Diarrhoea/growth study illness surveillance form
|Annex D. Brief examination of child
|Annex E. Birth report form
|Annex F. Death report form
|Annex G. Maternity history questionnaire
|6. Measuring impact by assessing dietary intake and food consumption
|(introductory text...)
|Reasons for assessing household food practices
|Deciding on a method
|Models for household dietary assessment
|Additional data
|Steps and procedures in surveying
|Assessing dietary change
|Annex A. Development of a score card for the rapid assessment of calorie and nutrient intakes
|Annex B. Household quantitative intake record
|7. Measuring impact using immunologic techniques
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|Concluding remarks
|8. Measuring impact on physical activity and physical fitness
|(introductory text...)
|Physical activity and energy expenditure
|General comments on methodology
|Techniques available for measuring energy expenditure
|General considerations in use of techniques
|Physical fitness measurement
|9. Methods for the behavioural assessment of the consequences of malnutrition
|(introductory text...)
|Description of methods in published studies
|An information-processing approach
|Annex: Behavioural test battery
|10. Anthropological methodologies for assessing household organization and structure
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|The basic household interview
|Components of the basic household interview
|Some general methodological issues concerning the household interview
|11. Micro-economic analysis in the evaluation of supplementary feeding programmes
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|The use of micro-economic analysis
|Measurement issues
|Summary and conclusion
|12. Data recording and processing
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|Data recording
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|13. Policy evaluations
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|A policy evaluation methodology
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|14. Built-in evaluation systems for supplementary feeding programmes why and how
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|The concept of a built-in evaluation system
|Reasons for built-in evaluation
|Characteristics of a built-in evaluation system
|Implementing a built-in evaluation system
|Use of the data for overall programme management
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Recent studies have documented the usefulness of employing immunocompetence as a functional measure of nutrition (17). In growing infants, it may be a sensitive index of imminent failure to thrive and of infectionrelated morbidity.
Obviously, there are many unanswered questions. Many of the immunologic processes act in unison and often interact in a synergistic fashion. Impairment of one facet of immunity may be of little functional consequence for the host if other components are intact. The specificity of tests of immunocompetence is debatable. Other disorders, often clinically apparent, as well as infection, can depress immune responses. The threshold of clinically relevant immuno-deficiency is ill-defined. How much reduction in the number of circulating T cells is biologically significant? Does a 50 per cent decrease in serum complement C3 concentration predispose to more frequent or severe infection? Infection often complicates malnutrition and can suppress immunity.
The answers to these and other crucial questions must await further investigation. Nevertheless, existing knowledge indicates that the assessment of immunocompetence by the methods currently available provides useful prognostic information in relation to nutritional deficiency and in the evaluation of nutrition intervention programmes.


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Bad Head Gasket And Leaking Replacement
Posted July 29, 2014 - 12:05 PM
Fitted a new alu gasket. Done by the merchant's machi and now it leaks when giving revs. The white stuff in the pic is a solution to de-rust the water ports.
Problem for me is that the Moto is 350km away at my GF's house.
So in true South African the term to use now is "Ish ish howa" which means this is a big problem 😄
Posted July 29, 2014 - 12:13 PM
Under low revs the flow in the radiator is what the doc ordered, opening up to higher revs the pipe closes up.
My diagnosis is that the radiator core is blocked on some port and can not supply demand at high revs?
Posted July 29, 2014 - 01:20 PM
Before putting in a new head gasket, you need to check that the head is flat within tolerances. I've spent many hours with a machinists straight edge, a file, and prussian blue dye. Small heads can be done with a piece of plate glass and very fine sandpaper or emory cloth. You will probably need to use a proper sandwiched head gasket. Good Luck, Rick
Edited by boyscout862, July 29, 2014 - 03:42 PM.
- trowel and StefC have said thanks
Posted July 29, 2014 - 03:04 PM
I agree, if it's still leaking afterwards, sounds like head is not flat.
I also agree on the coolant blockage, pull the lower hose and see if you can see something up in the radiator. Probably not, the cores are probably plugged. I usually have a stiff spring inside the hose also on the lower one to help prevent collapse of older hoses.
That blockage maybe leading to your leaking head gasket too.....pressure building up in coolant system and that is a week spot blowing out gasket.
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Posted July 29, 2014 - 03:33 PM
I'am with boyscout and tahoe on this one-----check the head for flatness,if not flat get it milled,the bottom hose must have a spring in it to keep from collapsing and get the radiator flushed out----------good luck.
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It was not entirely a surprising decision, given that rural and regional communities that had thought they had money for local economic development projects signed up, were in uproar about the original move.
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In a week dominated by the Coalition's first spectacular political management debacle over school funding, spying scandals, ASIO raids, cosying up with the Greens to get rid of a legislated ceiling on government borrowings, continuing unhappiness within the government about the obsessive attempts by the PM's office to control absolutely everything, and on-going digestion of
But the decision, and Broadbent's intervention in the party room, says much about the way things are going around the government at the minute.
For a start, it involves a decision to spend money, rather than save it. It is a decision driven by the rural constituency championed by the Nationals, and the remarks by Broadbent were a reminder to the Prime Minister that not everyone in the Coalition hated the ABC, amid something of a hatefest on the national broadcaster in the party room led by
Watergate reporter Carl Bernstein noted this week the appearance of The Guardian's editor-in-chief Alan Rusbridger before a parliamentary committee (where he was asked whether he loved his country) was "an attempt by the highest UK authorities to shift the issue from government policies and excessive government secrecy in the United States and Great Britain to the conduct of the press".
And it is hard not to see a certain parallel in Australia. Like WikiLeaks, the Snowden leaks pose complex questions for the media and for governments.
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But the Coalition's opportunistic use of the controversy to not just attack the ABC, but launch such an onslaught that it subsumes reporting of the bigger problem for the government that came from the leaks – our relationship with Indonesia – and how a new Prime Minister is dealing with a problem thrust upon him, is just a little too convenient.
The intensity of the onslaught is only increased by the fact it is also coming from The Australian, whose owners have a publicly stated hostility to public broadcasters around the world as rivals that threaten their commercial interests.
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"Snowden, a former US National Security Agency contractor, is also believed to have extensive material involving Australian intelligence efforts directed at China, Malaysia, Papua New Guinea, East Timor, Thailand and the Philippines, as well as various South Pacific nations," he wrote.
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So thanks, Greg, you've confirmed all the things Australia has been up to which might not have been revealed. But since you are not from "The Left" you are acting responsibly.
The manufacture of an ugly ideological divide that is escalating by the day in federal politics leaves you wondering what chance we have of having rational debate about any serious policy issues.
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From opposition, Tony Abbott blew up a bipartisan consensus on climate change.
In government, the Coalition has been doing the same thing on education.
It is too easy to look at what has happened to school funding policy over the past two weeks as no more than a really badly fumbled bit of politics.
Having failed to land an attempt to cut $1.2 billion from education on the basis that it had been secretly ripped out of the budget by Labor, the Coalition had to cut its losses and reverse its decision to not meet its election pledge to match Labor funding.
This week, it has been valiantly trying to argue that this is actually $1.2 billion more than Labor was promising. But it is the government's assertions beyond this that are really worrying.
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The funding model that generated the PISA results was the so-called SES model, put in place by the Coalition.
The extra funding Pyne refers to is Labor's contentious capital investment in schools. Whatever you may think of that, it has had nothing to do with the way money has been distributed to schools.
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The Coalition has now been forced to embrace a bastardised version of the student-based "base funding plus loadings" model partly implemented by Labor.
Its distaste for it is clear. Its intention to get rid of it as quickly as possible is also clear. Pyne implies the funding issue has at least been sorted for now and we can talk of other things. But it hasn't.
Like the SES model before it, the Gonski model that has been introduced has been compromised by Labor pledging there would be no losers and by deals that left it to states and the Catholic school system to devise their own systems of distribution and loadings. But the base for a system that might just deliver better results than the one that produced this week's shocker PISA results is there and ready to be improved over the years if there was some will and bipartisan commitment to do so.
But like climate policy, the Coalition has taken us back to year zero on this debate, without having ever proposed any serious alternative model. Notably, Pyne kept making assertions about what "The Left" – that is, evil people who disagree with him – might want from education.
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The boy, who had been regarding him with the tolerant curiousness one accords to the prattlings of the feeble-minded, answered promptly.
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A recent cartoon in the New Yorker got me thinking about certain brands that have fallen out of favor in this post-affluent economy. In it, a couple of ladies are looking up a store window plastered with "half-price!" and "big sale!" signs. One says to the other, "Finally! Cheap is the new black."
It captures a universally held sentiment in the silly sophisticated way that distinguishes this magazine's talented humor contributors from others'. But sentiments like these are no laughing matter when consumers feel embarrassed about the brands they once coveted and purchased.
What does this mean for luxury companies with brands that, in less than a year, went from being on the "most wanted" list among well-to-do consumers to becoming badges of conspicuous consumption? What should we make of reports of women asking luxury store personnel to put their purchases in brown paper bags like some new form of pornography?
We should not jump to conclusions. The time of luxury goods has not passed. There is nothing wrong with Hermes, Graff,
The marketing strategy I'd advise for long-time luxury brands, those with a history of exquisite products and gracious service? Make sure the consumers you want to attract, those worth attracting, consider your brands worth the exquisite price point. Wealthy consumers will not pay for luxury unless the products are well worth it and unless they, as capable buyers, are treated well.
With the competition heating up, it's time to become even more exclusive. Put on the gloves--the white gloves, that is. Offer a level of service beyond expectations. Reestablish your right to be in the stratosphere. Establishing a middle position will only muddy the waters. You're better off as a brilliant niche brand than a middling mass-market brand.
While long-standing luxury brands will most likely be fine if they deliver true quality and the high level of service well-heeled consumers expect, some other brand categories probably won't survive this new era of non-gratuitous spending. These are brands that represent not just big money, but a big lack of concern for the environment and society. Suburban McMansions, houses that are expensive to build and maintain and are big just for bigness' sake, are now seen as wasteful extravagances.
And how makers of big cars and trucks will ever be able to convince drivers to feel anything but embarrassed about a vehicle that gets four miles per gallon is among their biggest challenges. It's amazing how many drivers believed they needed SUVs, including the behemoth known as the Hummer, as the country tried to divest itself from dependence on foreign oil. This category now tops consumers' "least wanted" brand list.
What are makers of brands like these to do? Can
The way consumers view certain brands has shifted with the economy. An embarrassment of rich choices has become just plain embarrassing. Given the transparency and speed of information exchange created by online media, this sentiment isn't going to change anytime soon, if at all.
Remember, however, there is nothing wrong with a company that offers a genuinely high-end product if it focuses its attention on those who can genuinely afford it and delivers as promised. A brand that's perceived as politically incorrect for reasons other than its high price tag is a different story.
Either way, it's a hard time to be in the luxury brand business. But with all there is to make fun of, it's a great time to be a cartoonist for the New Yorker.
Allen Adamson is managing director of the New York office of Landor Associates, a brand consultancy and design firm. He is also the author of BrandDigital and BrandSimple.


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Asterisk cmd MusicOnHold
SynopsisPlay Music On Hold indefinitely.
Plays hold music specified by class. If omitted, the default music source for the channel will be used. If you have configured MusicOnHold in musiconhold.conf it will get played automatically if the extension is put on hold. This command FORCES musiconhold music.
The default MusicOnHold class is set with the SetMusicOnHold command (Deprecated in 1.6).
ExampleExtension defined in extensions.conf with "forced" MusicOnHold. Remember to Answer before letting the music pour down the line. Otherwise music on hold will not work correctly.
; Answer required as Music On Hold does not answer the call
exten => 6000,1,Answer
exten => 6000,2,MusicOnHold()
It is often useful to turn off music on hold in several situations:
- when a particular extension calls (originates)
- when connectiong to a particular extension
- when traversing a particularly expensive network
- when connecting to a conference
(So, how do we do handle each situation?)
You can turn off MOH on a per call by using the SetMusicOnHold command (Deprecated in 1.6).
Add a new class to musiconhold.conf
Create a macro in extensions.conf to turn off MOH
exten => s,1,NoOp(Turn off MOH for this channel)
exten => s,2,SetMusicOnHold(none)
Now call this macro when you dial an extension
exten => 7020,1,NoOp(Dial -> IAX2/outbound/${EXTEN})
exten => 7020,n,Dial(IAX2/outbound/${EXTEN},,M(nomusic))
exten => 7020,n,Hangup
Asterisk 1.6MusicOnHold(class[,duration])
Plays hold music specified by class. If class is omitted, the default music source for the channel will be used. Change the default class with Set(CHANNEL(musicclass)=...). If duration is given, hold music will be played specified number of seconds. If duration is ommited, music plays indefinitely.
Returns 0 when done, -1 on hangup.
play-fifo (3rd party addition)This small C program will create if necessary, open and listen on a fifo for slinear audio and delivers it to STDOUT. If STDOUT is blocking, it discards the data. The idea is that you would use it in a custom class in res_musiconhold. Now you can use whatever means you choose in a seperate process to deliver raw 8khz mono slin to the fifo which will be heard as the music class fifo. An example would be to play your line-in into the fifo and the buffer will not overflow because this program does a poll on the STDOUT and discards STDIN when STDOUT is busy.
You can find it here, it is not part of the Asterisk distribution.
See also
- MusicOnHold Configuration
- Asterisk cmd SetMusicOnHold
- bug 16091: Asterisk 1.4 plays own MOH when put on hold by remote ISDN trunk
- Asterisk cmd MP3Player
- Music on Hold - where to find music both free and paid
- Asterisk MOH Uploader - convert and upload MP3 using Charozt
- Sounddogs Royalty Free Music
- BMI Commercial Music Licenses
- Using ffmpeg to convert Music On Hold files Convert to WAV and u-Law PCM in one step using ffmpeg
- Using ffmpeg to convert to Asterisk Native SLN Convert just about any audio to Asterisk Native SLN using ffmpeg
- Using Slimserver for Music on Hold: How to use a local or remote slimserver for your Music on Hold
- Asterisk MoH Patch How to play native file formats in asterisk
- StarTel has a large collection of MP3's suitable for Music on hold
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Imatinib is a molecularly targeted therapy that inhibits the oncogenic fusion protein BCR-ABL, the tyrosine kinase involved in the pathogenesis of chronic myelogenous leukemia (CML). Selective inhibition of BCR-ABL activity by imatinib has demonstrated efficacy in the treatment of CML, particularly in chronic phase. Some patients, however - primarily those with advanced disease - are either refractory to imatinib or eventually relapse. Relapse with imatinib frequently depends on re-emergence of BCR-ABL kinase activity but may also indicate BCR-ABL–independent disease progression not amenable to imatinib inhibition. Clinical studies have demonstrated responses in chronic phase (CP) patients lasting more than 3 years, whereas most responding patients in blast crisis (BC) relapse early despite continued therapy. Complete hematologic responses to imatinib have been observed in 96% of newly diagnosed patients in CP, 95% of patients in CP CML after failure of interferon alpha, 71% of accelerated phase (AP) patients, and 31% of patients in myeloid BC. Drug resistance, however, has been observed, particularly in advanced phase but also in CP CML. In AP, 24% of patients treated with imatinib (600 mg/day) failed to reach hematologic remission and 60% relapsed after initial response to imatinib monotherapy. In myeloid BC, 66% failed to achieve hematologic remission and of the patients who achieved hematologic remission, 938% relapsed. In contrast, the proportion of CP patients who relapsed within 36 months was 20% in patients after failure of interferon-a and 7% in newly diagnosed CML patients. In about 50% of patients, mutations of the BCR-ABL kinase domain are associated with hematologic resistance. These observations combined with insights provided by an increased understanding of the molecular mechanisms of resistance, have established the rationale for strategies to avoid and overcome imatinib resistance in the management of CML patients. To prevent resistance, early diagnosis and prompt treatment with appropriate initial dosing is essential. Management of resistance may include therapeutic strategies such as dose escalation to achieve individual optimal levels, combination therapy, treatment interruption, or, preferentially, administration of alternative tyrosine kinase inhibitors, like AMN107 or dasatinib. The oncogenicity of BCR-ABL will likely mandate that inhibition of its kinase activity remains as the cornerstone of treatment for CML. Improvements in the technologies used to characterize disease and monitor response, when integrated with results from clinical trials, will facilitate the design of future strategies aimed at optimizing the prognosis for patients with CML.


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To consent, collect, de-identify, process, bank and distribute annotated, high-quality breast tumor, blood and urine samples from patients participating in SPORE clinical trials and/or enrolled in the Vanderbilt Breast Tissue/Body Fluids Repository protocol, while protecting patient confidentiality by de-identification of specimens upon distribution.
To perform rigorous quality control by a breast pathologist on all distributed tissues to ensure that adequate, high-quality tissue appropriate for the research application is supplied to the investigator and to provide oversight on optimal utilization of each sample.
To provide SPORE investigators with specialized technical and interpretative histology services including:
expertise in developing, performing and evaluating IHC and FISH;
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pathologist-guided laser capture microdissection (LCM) services.
To partner with the Vanderbilt Ingram Cancer Center (VICC) Informatics Shared Resource (ISR) to provide a strategy for collection, histopathological and clinical annotation, tracking and distribution of breast tissues for translational research conducted by SPORE investigators. This strategy includes developing and maintaining informatics tools for a virtual tissue repository with specimen-specific information as well as links to IHC, FISH, gene array and sequencing data, permitting queries to inform future studies.


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Arsenal Transfer News & Rumors: Park, Santos, Mertesacker, M'vila, Bendtner...August 30, 2011
As the transfer window cruises into its last 24 hours, Arsenal has finally awoken from its summer slumber.
There have been more "credible" rumors during the last six hours than there have been in the rest of the window. Arsene Wenger and the Arsenal board have surely been stung by the humiliating 2-8 reverse against Manchester United at Old Trafford on Sunday. The manager has reportedly been given a £70 million transfer kitty, and has been told he can spend it before the window slams shut.
Stories are emerging thick and fast about transfers to and from the club. Two deals have been done today, and more than a handful are reported to be in the works. Here's a quick summary of who's in, who's out and who's somewhere in between:
Coming in
The club confirmed today that it has signed South Korean captain Chu Young Park from French club Monaco. Park has signed a long-term contract with Arsenal, and has been given the number 9 shirt, previously worn by Eduardo. Here are some images from Park's first official Arsenal photo shoot, and if you're inclined to watch him in action, here's a montage of all his goals for Monaco. Encouraging, to say the least.
Close on his heels is Brazilian left back Andre Santos, set to join from Turkish club Fenerbahce. Reports suggest that Santos, 28, will be signed for a fee in the region of £6.2 million, subject to him passing a medical and agreeing personal terms. Santos has been likened to legendary Brazilian left back Roberto Carlos due to his attacking prowess, and one theory that has already been mooted is that he may be deployed in a midfield role in front of first choice left back Kieran Gibbs.
Another defender who is supposedly in London to complete his medical is German giant Per Mertesacker of Werder Bremen. In fact, certain reports suggest that the deal is as good as done. Arsenal fans are delirious at the prospect of the experienced (75 caps for Germany) 6'6" defender joining the club. It is expected that a possible partnership with Thomas Vermaelen at the heart of the defense will ease a number of the club's defensive issues, including a weakness at dealing with set-pieces.
Another rumor that is sure to get the fans' pulses racing is that Arsenal are putting together a club record bid of £25 million for Rennes defensive midfielder Yann M'vila. M'vila will add some much-needed steel to the Gunners' midfield, and will provide competition to Alex Song for a starting place. Alternatively, he may be paired alongside Song in a more defensive formation.
Another possible arrival is Fulham's American midfielder Clint Dempsey, but there has been nothing beyond a reported initial move last week. Fulham are demanding in excess of £10 million, and that price may make the Gunners look elsewhere...
...Whereby I mean inside the club itself, where Danish striker Nicklas Bendtner is still very much on the rolls. All summer there have been consistent reports that he would be sold, but with 24 hours to go, "super-Nick" is still very much an Arsenal player. There are reports today that Bendtner may actually extend his stay at the club, paving the way for woefully-out-of-sorts teammate Marouane Chamakh to leave on loan. With things as they are at present, that's an outcome I would find most agreeable.
To wrap things up, it appears as if deals for Bolton's Gary Cahill, Chelsea's Alex and Florent Malouda, Everton's Phil Jagielka and Mikel Arteta, Lille's Eden Hazard and Real Madrid's Kaka are completely dead in the water, so that's all I have to say about them. Though if any of them were to sign for Arsenal, I would be pleased as punch.
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Arsenal today confirmed that left back Armand Traore has joined Queen's Park Rangers on a three-year deal. Traore could never establish himself during his five year stay at Arsenal, and was loaned out for two one-year spells at Portsmouth and Juventus. He played in the 2-8 humbling at Old Trafford, and having seen how badly exposed he was by the trickery of Nani, Wenger made up his mind to let the defender go. His departure also adds credence to the rumored arrival of the Brazilian, Santos.
If Bendtner stays, as alluded to above, then Chamakh is likely to go. The club will also be keen to move goal keeper Manuel Almunia and defender Sebastien Squillaci out, either permanently, or on loan, as both seem surplus to requirements. And there might be loan deals in the future for some of the younger players, including Costa Rican striker Joel Campbell, who has failed to get a British work permit.
Closing thoughts: In addition to Park, Santos and Mertesacker, Wenger still needs to sign one, if not two midfielders. Hazard or Kaka would be fantastic (though unlikely) additions, and would really lift the club, something desperately needed in the wake of recent events.
Stay busy, Arsenal.