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- Research article
- Open Access
- Open Peer Review
Incidence of type 2 diabetes in Aboriginal Australians: an 11-year prospective cohort study
- Zhiqiang Wang1,
- Wendy E Hoy1 and
- Damin Si1Email author
© Wang et al; licensee BioMed Central Ltd. 2010
- Received: 27 January 2010
- Accepted: 17 August 2010
- Published: 17 August 2010
Diabetes is an important contributor to the health inequity between Aboriginal and non-Aboriginal Australians. This study aims to estimate incidence rates of diabetes and to assess its associations with impaired fasting glucose (IFG) and impaired glucose tolerance (IGT) among Aboriginal participants in a remote community.
Six hundred and eighty six (686) Aboriginal Australians aged 20 to 74 years free from diabetes at baseline were followed for a median of 11 years. During the follow-up period, new diabetes cases were identified through hospital records. Cox proportional hazards models were used to assess relationships of the incidence rates of diabetes with IFG, IGT and body mass index (BMI).
One hundred and twenty four (124) new diabetes cases were diagnosed during the follow up period. Incidence rates increased with increasing age, from 2.2 per 1000 person-years for those younger than 25 years to 39.9 per 1000 person-years for those 45-54 years. By age of 60 years, cumulative incidence rates were 49% for Aboriginal men and 70% for Aboriginal women. The rate ratio for developing diabetes in the presence of either IFG or IGT at baseline was 2.2 (95% CI: 1.5, 3.3), adjusting for age, sex and BMI. Rate ratios for developing diabetes were 2.2 (95% CI: 1.4, 3.5) for people who were overweight and 4.7 (95% CI: 3.0, 7.4) for people who were obese at baseline, with adjustment of age, sex and the presence of IFG/IGT.
Diabetes incidence rates are high in Aboriginal people. The lifetime risk of developing diabetes among Aboriginal men is one in two, and among Aboriginal women is two in three. Baseline IFG, IGT and obesity are important predictors of diabetes.
- Impaired Glucose Tolerance
- Aboriginal People
- Impaired Fasting Glucose
- Aboriginal Woman
- Diabetes Case
Diabetes is an important cause of coronary heart disease [1] and renal failure in Aboriginal people [2], contributing considerably to the 17 year life expectancy gap between Aboriginal and non-Aboriginal Australians. The prevalence of diabetes in Aboriginal Australians is higher than that in the general Australian population [3]. Most of the available data have been from cross-sectional studies. The incidence of diabetes in Aboriginal people from an 8-year follow-up study has been reported [4]. However, there are no data on age-specific and cumulative incidence, which is important information regarding individuals' risks of developing diabetes during a defined period.
Impaired glucose tolerance (IGT) and impaired fasting glucose (IFG) have been defined by the World Health Organisation [5]. The American Diabetes Association (ADA) Expert Committee on the Diagnosis and Classification of Diabetes Mellitus has recommended lowering the diagnostic threshold of IFG from 6.1 to 5.6 mmol/L, which supposedly results in a similar prevalence of IFG and IGT and increases the concordance between the two groups with respect to risk definition [6]. However, people with IFG may have a different background risk when compared with those with IGT[7]. Predictive values of IFG and IGT for risk of incident diabetes in Aboriginal people have not been investigated.
In this study we aimed to i) describe incidence rates of diabetes in an Aboriginal cohort with a median of 11 years of follow-up; and ii) examine relations of incident diabetes with the presence of baseline IFG, IGT and body mass index (BMI).
In 1992 a community-wide screening program was initiated in a remote Aboriginal community in Australia's Northern Territory. Participants were offered a baseline examination and testing between 1992 and 1995. Eight hundred and ninety seven (897) adults aged 20 to 74 years (representing over 80% of the adult population in the community) were included in the program. Baseline plasma glucose concentrations were measured in 802 participants: 414 participants had 75 g oral glucose tolerance tests (OGTT); 126 had fasting plasma glucose tests without OGTT; and 262 had random plasma glucose tests only. The remaining 95 participants had no baseline plasma glucose tests and were excluded in this analysis.
Of those 802 participants, 71 had clinically diagnosed diabetes before the baseline examination, and 45 had a new diagnosis of diabetes made at the baseline examination according to World Health Organisation (WHO) 1999 criteria [5]. The remaining 686 participants (321 females and 365 males) free from identifiable diabetes at baseline were followed up to 13 years.
The project was approved by the Behavioural and Social Science Ethical Review Committee of the University of Queensland.
New diabetes cases that occurred during the follow-up period after the baseline examination were identified through reviewing hospital records according to ICD-9 CM code of 250 and ICD-10-AM code of E11, and outpatient clinical records. Only the records related to the first documented diagnosis of diabetes for each individual were used for the analysis. All participants' hospital records were followed up to 30 April 2005. For those who were diagnosed as having diabetes during the follow-up period, their follow-up time was from the time of initial screening visit to the time of having a diagnosis first documented in hospital records. Those who had not reached an endpoint were considered "censored" at the date of 30 April 2005. Participants who had no documented diagnoses of diabetes in hospital records and had died before the end of follow-up were censored at the time of death.
An individual with a baseline fasting plasma glucose concentration of 5.6 - 6.9 mmol/L was considered as having IFG while those with a 2 hour plasma glucose (or random glucose) of 7.8 - 11.0 mmol/L as having IGT. Body weight and height were measured at the baseline examination for calculation of BMI (kg/m2). Other baseline measurements included smoking and drinking status, blood pressure, serum cholesterol and urine albumin creatinine ratio (ACR). Detailed baseline data collection methods have been reported elsewhere [3].
Statistical analysis
The data were partitioned into age bands of < 25, 25-34, 35-44, 45-54 and 55+ years. For individuals who fell into more than two age bands during the follow-period, their total follow-up time was subdivided and allocated into corresponding age bands as described by Clayton and Hills [8]. Incidence rates were estimated for each age group using the numbers of newly diagnosed diabetes cases divided by the person-years of follow-up. Cumulative incidence of diabetes was estimated using the Kaplan-Meier product-limit method. Rate ratios and their 95% confidence intervals were estimated using the Cox proportional hazards model adjusting for potential confounding factors. All analyses were performed using Stata 10.0 [9].
Baseline characteristics of study participants
Female (n = 321)
Male (n = 365)
Age (± SD), years
35.0 (13.5)
30.8 (10.0)
BMI (± SD), kg/m2
24.1 (6.2)
22.6 (4.4)
Waist circumference (± SD), cm
89.7 (14.8)
85.2 (12.7)
Systolic pressure (± SD), mmHg
117 (19)
125 (16)
Diastolic pressure (± SD), mmHg
71 (13)
77 (13)
Total cholesterol (± SD), mmol/L
4.3 (1.0)
4.8 (1.1)
59 (18%)
42 (12%)
BMI < 25 kg/m2
189 (60%)
266 (73%)
25 - 29 kg/m2
71 (22%)
77 (21%)
≥ 30 kg/m2
58 (18%)
22 (6%)
Incidence rates (per 1000 person-years) of diabetes in Aboriginal people
Incidence rate (95% CI)
Age group
< 25
2.6 (0.4, 18.2)
2.0 (0.3, 13.9)
2.2 (0.6, 8.9)
22.1 (14.4, 33.9)
7.2 (4.0, 13.0)
12.9 (9.1, 18.2)
26.4 (17.0, 40.9)
23.0 (15.3, 34.7)
24.5 (18.2, 33.0)
53.2 (35.1, 80.8)
23.6 (11.8, 47.2)
39.9 (27.9, 57.0)
28.2 (15.2, 52.4)
34.5 (16.5, 72.4)
30.5 (19.0, 49.1)
Estimated cumulative incidence rates (%)
Cumulative incidence rate (95% CI)
Age point
1.4 (0.2, 9.3)
0.9 (0.1, 6.2)
10.0 (5.5, 17.8)
3.0 (1.1, 7.8)
21.0 (14.4, 30.2)
7.9 (4.5, 13.6)
31.1 (23.2, 40.8)
17.6 (12.2, 25.1)
39.2 (3.07, 49.1)
27.9 (20.6, 37.0)
55.4 (46.1, 65.2)
36.6 (27.7, 47.2)
62.8 (53.2, 72.5)
42.4 (31.7, 55.0)
69.9 (60.1, 79.1)
48.6 (36.3, 62.5)
Incidence rates (per 1000 person years) of diabetes by baseline plasma glucose and BMI levels.
Incidence rate (95% CI)
Baseline normal glucose group
Normal BMI
8.6 (6.2, 12.0)
21.2 (14.1, 31.9)
53.2 (36.0, 78.7)
Baseline IFG/IGT group
Normal BMI
24.6 (13.6, 44.4)
66.9 (41.0, 109.2)
124.7 (73.8, 210.5)
Adjusted rate ratios for developing diabetes by impaired glucose regulation and BMI levels at baseline
Group at baseline
Adjusting for
Rate ratio
P value
Normal glucose group
Age, sex, BMI
IFG/IGT group
1.5, 3.3
< 0.0001
Normal glucose group
Age, sex, BMI, IGT
IFG group
1.0, 3.0
Normal glucose group
Age, sex, BMI, IFG
IGT group
1.0, 2.8
Normal BMI group
Age, sex, IFG, IGT
Overweight group
1.4, 3.5
Obese group
3.0, 7.4
< 0.0001
In this study we found that the incidence of diabetes in Aboriginal people was high, comparable to those in other high risk populations such as Pima Indians [10] and people in Mauritius [11]. The observed diabetes incidence rate among participating Aboriginal adults was higher than those reported in the general Australian population [12] and in European [13, 14] and American black and white populations [15]. For example, diabetes incidence rates in Aboriginal women were 4-8 times as high as those in the general Australian women for different age groups, while the corresponding values in Aboriginal men were 2-4 times of their general Australian counterparts [12].
Given the life expectancy of around 60 years for Australian Aboriginal peoples, the cumulative incidence of diabetes at age of 60 years calculated in this study provides an approximate estimate of lifetime risk of developing diabetes in this population. That is, the lifetime risk of diabetes among these Aboriginal men is one in two, and among these Aboriginal women is two in three. A previous study reported that lifetime risk of diabetes was 33% for males and 39% for females in the US [16]. The high lifetime probability of diabetes among Aboriginal Australians calls for implementation of effective primary prevention strategies at the population level. It also calls for a more sophisticated understanding of the nature of diabetes susceptibility in this population.
Results from several longitudinal studies have shown that the presence of IGT/IFG is a significant predictor of the development of diabetes [11, 17–19]. This study adopted the new American Diabetes Associate threshold for IFG. Studies in other populations have shown that those with new threshold of IFG are at increased risk of diabetes [7, 20]. In our study, IFG and IGT identified distinct groups with 36 participants with IFG only and 58 with IGT only. Their contributions to the prediction of incident diabetes are independent of each other, suggesting that the causes and physiological bases of IFG and IGT may be somewhat different. Raised hepatic glucose output and a defect in early insulin secretion are characteristics of IFG, while peripheral insulin resistance is often characteristic of IGT [21]. The presence of either IFG alone or IGT alone doubled the risk of diabetes compared to the normal glucose group. Even after adjusting for the presence of either IFG or IGT, the other remained to be a significant predictor of diabetes. This supports investigation of both IFG and IGT to capture high risk individuals in Aboriginal populations.
Baseline BMI value is an import predictor of diabetes. Overweight individuals have over twofold risk and obese individuals have over fourfold risk of diabetes relative to those with normal baseline BMI values. This finding is consistent with that from a previous study in Aboriginal populations [4]. BMI has been found to be a significant predictor of diabetes in the US general population [22] and in other high risk populations such as South African Indians [23], Pima Indians [24] and Nauruans [25].
The dose-response relationship between BMI and risk of diabetes exists regardless the presence of IFG/IGT. This is comparable with the results from a study of American Indians which have shown that BMI is a significant predictor of diabetes in both normal glucose tolerance group and IGT group [17]. We found the association between IFG/IGT and diabetes was independent of obesity status. The IFG/IGT group had a higher risk of diabetes in all normal weight, overweight and obese groups. Our findings stress the importance of reducing obesity and managing IFG and IGT on diabetes prevention. However, it should be pointed out that a considerable proportion of diabetes cases were from those with a normal baseline BMI (< 25 kg/m2) and normoglycemia, suggesting that other factors might have been important for the development of diabetes in this population. We previously reported that albuminuria was an important predictor of diabetes [26]. Hematocrit [27], inflammatory markers [28–31] and gamma-glutamyltransferase [32] are some potential useful predictors. Assessing novel risk factors in this population is currently in progress.
Some limitations of this study should be pointed out. First, the diabetes cases were identified through reviews of hospital and outpatient records. Ninety two percent of the participants had at least one occasion of hospitalisations during the follow up period. We could miss some diagnoses when diabetes was not severe enough for hospital care. This may underestimate the true incidence. Second, we relied on routinely documented diagnosis information in hospital records for identification of diabetes cases during follow-ups, and misdiagnosis might occur at routine practice. Furthermore, the true date of diagnosis of diabetes was probably earlier than that documented in hospital records. Third, there was potential for loss to follow-up of participants' hospital care due to out-migration to other communities. In reality, the hospital in our study setting is the only hospital serving the entire region, so that most people who had out-migrated to communities within several hundred kilometres, the usual pattern, would still have their hospital care recorded in the centralised hospital data system. Permanent out-migration is very uncommon. Fourth, because the sample size was relatively small for old age groups in this study, the incidence estimates may not be precise, as reflected in the wide 95% confidence intervals. Fifth, the data were collected in a remote community, it remains to be verified if the findings apply to other Aboriginal groups. Caution should be exercised in generalising the findings to the broader Aboriginal population in Australia. Sixth, cumulative incidence rates were estimated based on incidence data collected over one decade rather than over life time. If incidence rates change over time, so does an individual's life time risk of diabetes. Finally, the presence of IGT among some participants was determined according to the postprandial glucose values due to the absence of oral glucose tolerance tests. Some IGT individuals might have been misclassified as normal.
Diabetes incidence rates are high in Aboriginal people. The lifetime risk of developing diabetes among Aboriginal men is one in two, and among Aboriginal women is two in three. IFG and IGT identify people who have an increased risk of diabetes. Baseline IFG, IGT and obesity are important predictors of diabetes.
We especially thank the Aboriginal people who participated in this study. The baseline data were collected by the renal research team at the Menzies School of Health Research, Darwin, Australia. David Ung at the Northern Territory Department of Health and Community Services assisted in data collection. ZW's work is supported by an NHMRC Research Fellowship (#511013). DS's work is supported by an NHMRC Postdoctoral Fellowship (#569919).
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Tuesday, June 29, 2010
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Recent research finds a link between obesity and infant death. The strangest part? The link exists even if you're obese before even thinking about getting pregnant.
It's no secret that obesity is an epidemic, one that's attached to so many health issues and complications. But here's something you might not know about obesity: Recent research indicates that it's linked to infant death—even if you're obese before getting pregnant.
The Boston University School of Public Health study is the largest to date that looks at the relationship between pre-pregnancy obesity/prenatal weight gain and infant mortality. By cross-referencing birth and death records against the heights and weights, the researchers found a surprising connection between the two factors.
The findings indicated that infant mortality rates increased when mothers had high BMIs. The risk of infant death was 32 percent higher for those in the obese 1 category (a classification that refers to a BMI between 30 and 34.9) and 73 percent higher in the obese 2 category (BMI between 35 and 39.9) as compared to babies born to women in the normal weight range.
According to researchers, these findings show how important it is for public health officials to address the issue of obesity and encourage women to take action well before pregnancy.
"The findings suggest that primary care clinicians, OB-GYNs and midwives need to have conversations about weight as part of well-woman care and when women are contemplating getting pregnant," study author Eugene Declercq said in the study's release. "There is a need for more open, honest discussions about avoiding the possible risks of maternal obesity on infant health."
In addition to higher pre-pregnancy BMIs, the obese women surveyed displayed lack of adherence to medical guidelines suggesting obese women gain between 11 and 20 pounds during pregnancy. But even those who did manage to stick within the recommended weight gain range still saw higher infant mortality rates if they were obese before becoming pregnant. "These findings suggest that 60-75 percent of mothers aren't following the guidelines—and even when they do, adherence does little to lower infant mortality," Declercq said.
Pre-pregnancy obesity rates have been at around 20 percent in the US in recent years and the overall obesity rate for women aged 20-39 years is 32 percent. One thing is clear: We need to do something to bring those rates down soon—this new research just makes that point even more evident.


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there are some weeks that i wear dresses and tights every day, then there are weeks where i feel like rocking the jeans. and this was one of those weeks. you know what i mean?! i had those awful allergies and not in the mood to be creative. if you wear jeans, you only had the top half to worry about out. am i right? am i right? actually i really do love this cargo jacket. its uber casual yet you can add a belt or a pop of color with any tee. i've thrown it over some floral or lace making a fun contrast.
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Ahmad Al-Jallad
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Leiden University, Centre for Linguistics and Institute for Area Studies, Assistant Professor of Ancient Arabia and Arabic and Semitic Linguistics (2012-present); Director of the Arabic language program (2013-2014); Director of the Leiden Center for the Study of Ancient Arabia (2015-present).
Oxford University, Khalili Research Center, Research Associate on the Online Corpus of Ancient North Arabian Inscriptions project (2013-present)
University of Pisa, Post-doctoral fellowship on the Digital Archive for the Study of pre-Islamic Arabic Inscriptions project (2012)
Harvard University, Teaching Fellow in Arabic language acquisition (2007-2012); Intensive Summer School instructor (2009)
Brandeis University, Instructor of Arabic language (2009-2010).
Harvard University
- PhD, 2012, Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations (with distinction); secondary field, Historical Linguistics
- MA, 2011, Semitic Philology
Grants and funded projects
- NWO Veni grant: The Writings on the Rocks: Thamudic and Arabia's Linguistic Past, PI
- NWO Free Competition Grant: Landscapes of Survival: Pastorialist Societies, Rock Art, and Literacy in Jordan's Black Desert, c. 1000 BC to 500 CE, Co-PI, PI Peter Akkermans
- NWO PhD Scholarships in the Humanities: Linguistic Variation at Dadān, Supervisor, PhD student Fokelien Kootstra
- Old Arabic: An Evidence-Based History. Leiden: Brill, (HdO series).
- An Introduction to Ancient North Arabian Epigraphy. Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz, (SILO series).
- An Outline of the Grammar of the Safaitic Inscriptions. Leiden: Brill (translation into Arabic underway).
Articles and Book Chapters
- The Arabic of the Petra Papyri. In J. and M. Kaimio (eds.), Petra Papyri V. Amman: ACOR.
- The earliest stages of Arabic and its linguistic classification. In A. Benmamoun and R. Bassiouney (eds.), The Routledge Handbook of Arabic Linguistics. New York: Routledge.
- The linguistic landscape of pre-Islamic Arabia: Context for the Qurʾan. In M. Shah and A. Abdelhalim (eds.), The Oxford Handbook of the Qurʾan. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
- Ancient North Arabian. In T. Kaizer (ed.), The Blackwell Companion to the Hellenistic and Roman Near East. Oxford: Wiley-Blackwell.
- Graeco-Arabica I: The Southern Levant. In A. Al-Jallad (ed.), Arabic in Context. Leiden: Brill, 99-186.
- Was it sūrat al-baqárah? Evidence for antepenultimate stress in the Quranic Consonantal Text and its Relevance for صلوه Type Nouns. ZDMG 167.1:81-90.
- The Case for Proto-Semitic and Proto-Arabic Case: A reply to Jonathan Owens. Romano-Arabica 17: 87-117, w. Marijn van Putten
- Pre-Islamic " Ḥamāsah " Verses from Northeastern Jordan: A New Safaitic Poetic Text from Marabb al-Shurafāʾ, with further remarks on the ʿĒn ʿAvdat Inscription and KRS 2453. Proceedings of the Seminar for Arabian Studies 47: 117-128.
- Marginal notes on and additions to An Outline of the Grammar of the Safaitic Inscriptions (ssll 80; Leiden: Brill, 2015), with a supplement to the dictionary. Arabian Epigraphic Notes 3: 75-96.
- A few notes on the alleged occurrence of the group name 'Ghassān' in a Safaitic inscription. Archiv für Orientforschung 53, with M.C.A. Macdonald.
- New evidence from a Safaitic inscription for a late velar/uvular realization of ṣ́ in Aramaic. Semitica 58: 257–270.
- New Epigraphica from Jordan II: three Safaitic-Greek partial bilingual inscriptions, w. Ali al-Manaser. Arabian Epigraphic Notes 2: 55–66.
- An ancient Arabian zodiac. The constellations in the Safaitic inscriptions, Part II. Arabian Archaeology and Epigraphy 27: 84–106.
- New Epigraphica from Jordan I: a pre-Islamic Arabic inscription in Greek letters and a Greek inscription from north-eastern Jordan. Arabian Epigraphic Notes 1: 51–70, with A. al-Manaser.
- Echoes of the Baal Cycle in a Safaito-Hismaic Inscription. Journal of Ancient Near Eastern Religion 15.1: 5–19.
- A Thamudic B Abecedary in the South Semitic letter order. In A. Butts (ed.), Semitic Languages in Contact. Leiden: Brill, pp. 1–15, with A. al-Manaser.
- On the voiceless reflex of *ṣ́ and *ṯ̣ in pre-Hilalian Maghrebian Arabic. Zeitschrift für Arabische Linguistik 62: 88–95.
- Yusapʿil or Yuhapʿil, that is the question – two solutions to sound change s¹ > h in West Semitic. Zeitschrift der Deutschen Morgenländischen Gesellschaft 165.1: 27–39.
- What's a caron between friends? A review article of Wilmsen (2014), with special focus on the etymology of modern Arabic ši. Bibliotheca Orientalis 72: 34–46.
- Provincia Arabia: Nabataea, the emergence of Arabic as a written language, and Graeco-Arabica. In G. Fisher (ed.), Arabs and Empires before Islam. Oxford: Oxford University Press, pp. 276–373, with Z.T. Fiema, M.C.A. Macdonald, and L. Nehmé.
- An ancient Arabian zodiac. The constellations in the Safaitic inscriptions, Part I. Arabian Archaeology and Epigraphy 25.2: 214–230.
- On the genetic background of the Rbbl bn Hfʿm grave inscription at Qaryat al-Fāw. Bulletin of the School of Oriental and Asian Studies 77.3: 445–465.
- Aṣ-ṣādu llatī ka-s-sīn: evidence for an affricated ṣād in Sibawayh?: Folia Orientalia 51: 51–57.
- Final short vowels in Gəʿəz, Hebrew attâ, and the anceps paradox. Journal of Semitic Studies 49.1: 315–327.
- The Arabic toponyms and oikonyms in 17. In L. Koenen, M. and J. Kaimio, and R. Daniel (eds.), The Petra Papyri II. Amman: ACOR, pp. 23–48, with R. Daniel and O. al-Ghul.
- 15MinuteHistory Podcast: What writing can tell us about the Arabs before Islam.
- A reexamination of the alleged reference to the crucifixion of Jesus in a Safaitic inscription. Academia.edu.
- An ancient Zodiac from Arabia discovered. Leiden Islam Blog
- Het Arabisch: taal van de leemten. Leiden Islam Blog
Invited lectures
- To the desert, the night, and horses, I am well known; to the sword and the spear, to the blade and the stone: Writing among Arabia's pre-Islamic nomads. 10th Zenobia Congress, Amsterdam, Nov 14, 2015 (Plenery)
- Arabic, Upside Down. Forum for Arabic Linguistics. Essex, Jul 28, 2015 (Plenery)
- Multilingualism, Calquing, and Code-Switching in the Inscriptions of Ancient North Arabia. Narratives on Translation, Berlin, Nov 16–20, 2015
- Tracing the history of the Arabic definite article: a new perspective from Old (pre-Islamic) Arabic. ACMES, Amsterdam, Jan 28, 2015.
- More reflections on the linguistic map of pre-Islamic Arabia. Invited lecture, University of Helsinki, Apr 29, 2015.
- Ancient North Arabian and Old Arabic: State of the Art in the twenty-first century. GLECS, Paris, Apr 16, 2015.
- A reassessment of Old Arabic. Invited lecture, University of Erlangen, May 21, 2014.
- Echoes of Canaanite myth in Arabia: an excerpt of the Baal cycle in a Safaito-Hismaic inscription. Invited lecture, Polish Science Academy, Krakow, Sep 23, 2014.
- A dialect geography of Old Arabic. Horizons of Islamic Theology, Frankfurt, Sept 2. 2014.
- Before Sunrise: Arabic and Arabia in Antiquity. Invited lecture, University of Utrecht, Nov 25, 2014.
- Reflections on Proto-Arabic phonology in light of new evidence from the pre-Islamic period. Invited lecture at the University of Vienna, Jun 5, 2013.
- The Arabic of the Islamic Conquests based on the Greek transcriptions from P.Lond 4 and P.Ness 3. Arabic in Context. Leiden, Nov 2, 2013.
- Tē Arabōn Phōnē: the Arabic of the southern Levant through the pre-Islamic Graeco-Arabica, Ecrit et écriture dans la formation des identités en monde syriaque et arabe IIIe-VIIe siécles, Paris, Apr 4, 2013.
- Reflections on the Arabic of the Petra Papyri and its relationship with the modern Levantine dialects. Syrian and Lebanese Arabic in the 21st Century Continuity | Changes | Perspectives, Vienna, Jun 6, 2013.
Referred conference presentations
- Arabic-Aramaic language contact in the pre-Islamic period: a view from documentary sources. North American Conference on Afro-Asiatic Linguistics 43, Washington D.C., Feb 14, 2015.
- An Old Arabic inscription in Greek letters. AIDA 11, May 26, 2015.
- The first Safaitic poetic text, North American Conference on Afro-Asiatic Linguistics 42, Leiden, Feb 14, 2014.
- Reflexes of the emphatics in pre-Hilalian Maghrebian Arabia. Conference on African Languages and Linguistics, Leiden, Aug 24, 2014.
- The phonetic origins of Arabic orthography. International Society of Arabic Papyrology, Munich, Oct 9, 2014.
- The sound change s > h in West Semitic, revisited, North American Conference on Afro-Asiatic Linguistics 41, New Haven, Feb. 18.
- All levels of Arabic, from 1st year MSA to advanced reading and speaking courses
- The linguistic history of the Middle East
- Reading Arabic texts: Medieval and Modern prose
- Language, Power, and Identity (honors course)
- Introduction to Sociolinguistics
- Introduction to the comparative grammar of the Semitic languages
- Arabic linguistic diversity
- Sociolinguistics of the Middle East
- Historical grammar of Arabic
- Ancient North Arabian epigraphy
- The language of the Qurʾān: from early Islamic sources to the Luxenberg hypothesis
- Nabataean inscriptions
- Hebrew for North Arabianists
- Reading Dadanitic inscriptions
- Ancient South Arabian (Sabaic)
Leiden Linguistic Summer School
- Introduction to Ancient North Arabian (2013, 2015)
- Historical Grammar of Arabic (2014)
- Studies in Semitic Languages and Lingusitics, Brill, co-editor, w. A. Rubin
- Arabian Epigraphic Notes, Editor-in-Chief
- International Journal of Arabic Linguistics, Editorial board member
- Digital Archive for the Study of Pre-Islamic Arabian Inscriptions, Editorial board member
Digital humanities projects
- Founding editor of the Journal Arabian Epigraphic Notes, published by LeiCenSAA.
The Journal establishes a model for publishing without the involvement of a for-profit Academic publisher, utilizing the repository resource of university libraries (in our case, Leiden University). Online epigraphic databases are fully integrated into the citation system, so references are linked to the individual cards of these databases. Verification.
- Editor of on the OCIANA open-access database of North Arabian epigraphy. Verification.
- Editor of the DASI open-access database of pre-Islamic Arabian epigraphy. Verification.
- Online Dictionary of Old Arabic. Still in Alpha stage testing, and only includes vocabulary from the Safaitic inscriptions. Verification.
- Modern Languages: English (fluent), Arabic (fluent, Levantine and MSA), Dutch (conversational, reading and writing), French (reading), German (reading), Italian (reading)
- Classical Languages: Greek, Classical West Semitic languages, Akkadian (no cuneiform)


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This time last year Michael Quinn watched Longford take on Laois in the first round of the Leinster Senior Football Championship in an Irish pub in Australia. On Sunday the Killoe clubman will have a prominent role to play when he makes his debut in the championship as Longford again face Laois.
"I always kept an eye on Longford," Quinn told the Leader. "I couldn't see the Division 4 League Final on TV but when the championship came around I watched the game in an Irish pub over there. It's a bit of a change being in Australia watching it to now playing in the big game this year and I am really looking forward to the occasion.
"Getting the game against Wexford in the Division 3 League Final in Croke Park a few weeks ago was almost like a championship clash. We kind of have a fair idea where we are at now."
It has been a remarkable transition for Quinn since his return from the Australian Football League late last year. He has established himself in the heart of the Longford defence and was one of their best performers in the league. He believes the AFL has helped him greatly. "It has probably helped me make the transition to senior football quicker. I suppose if I was back here and didn't head over to Australia I would not have progressed or made an impact as quick because I wasn't as strong physically. That side of things has helped me fit in a lot faster."
Longford go into the Pearse Park encounter on the back of an unbeaten run in the National League where they gained promotion and won the Division3 title. Quinn admitted that although delighted with the league campaign, championship is completely different. "Once the championship starts the league goes out the window. A lot of people in Laois will be looking at it that way. The league has helped us with form and consistency but at the end of the day it is one more game and you have to put in the same effort. You are going to be judged off the game in Leinster, not the league."
Although Laois played in Division 1 this season, many people have tipped Longford to win this championship game after their unlucky one point defeat at O'Moore Park last year. But Quinn is not paying much heed to the favourites tag. "People are tipping Longford but we know ourselves it's unfamiliar territory; making us favourites for games. We are not taking anything for granted and not reading into it too much. When you do you start believing in your own hype. We're going to make sure it doesn't affect us."
Promotion was one of the aims for Longford this year but the main target was defeating Laois in the Leinster Championship. Sunday's game is what the players have been building up to. "We've talked about Laois since the start of the year and that was our goal. The league was about getting a bit of form and consistency going and we have got that. We have done all the preparation and we are just looking forward to the game at this stage," said Quinn.


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iOS may have adopted the use of third-party keyboards in the last couple years, but Android still leads the way when it comes to customizable, feature-packed keyboard alternatives. But how do you decide what to download? We've surveyed the Google Play store for the top options. From smarter predictive typing and highly customizable keyboard layouts to swipe typing, gesture controls and specialized layouts. Here are the 15 best Android keyboards available.
You might not expect a stock keyboard to be a contender, but Google has continuously improved the default Android keyboard. The newest iteration, Gboard, has all the features you'd want out of a good virtual keyboard such as gesture typing, dictation powered by Google's voice search, multi-language support and emoji input. It also supports non-standard and langauge specific keyboard layouts. In addition, Gboard builds Google search right into the keyboard, with a G key on the recommendation bar allowing you to quickly do a web search, get word definitions, find nearby stores and restaurants or anything else you might need without leaving your current app.
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SwiftKey has long been a powerhouse among Android keyboards, providing extreme customizations that are both functional and cosmetic. Plus, it incorporates features such as swipe typing. In addition the variety of keyboard layouts and input options, SwiftKey offers SwiftKey Cloud, a predictive tool that can link to your social networks so that SwiftKey can learn your typing habits, right down to predictive use of emoji. The app is free, but there is an in-app store for themes and cosmetic customizations.
Swiftmoji is a SwiftKey spinoff that focuses squarely on emoji, applying Swiftkey's predictive typing magic to the use of emoji. Like its more general use predecessor, Swiftmoji applies machine learning to your emoji use, learning which symbols you like to use and preemptively suggesting them to you as you type through the emoji bar.
Another Android keyboard hot on the heels of SwiftKey is Fleksy, which comes with all the standard features such as swipe typing and an autocorrect that learns from your vocabulary. Neat features such as gesture-driven typing shortcuts for a variety of tasks like deleting words, entering new dictionary items, or cycling through or undoing corrections round out what we like. And that's not even mentioning Fleksy's numerous extensions for extra functionality, such as an optional number row, GIF support, emoji and more.
The Slash Keyboard is all about connecting other apps and services straight to your keyboard with special slash commands. Typing the '/' key followed by an app-related shortcut allows you to share, search or bring up data from other apps and services, such as sharing a Spotify song, search Google, or send a GIF through Giphy. In addition, users can also create their own custom text shortcuts with the slash key, such as, for example '/work' or '/home' as a shortcut for your work or home address.
ai.type is an old favorite when it comes to Android keyboards, featuring staples such as smart autocorrect and predictive typing in more than 50 languages, swipe typing, configurable layouts, a variety of themes and a library of emoji built-in. The app includes dictation support, on-keyboard search and support for a variety of languages. A premium version ($3.99) removes ads and unlocks premium features.
The pioneer in gesture-based typing controls, Swype's competitive edge has been blunted as more and more keyboards have implemented their own swipe typing system. That said, Swype provides slick gesture typing, numerous keyboard layout customizations, emoji, an optional crowd-sourced dictionary of new terms and phrases and a predictive typing and learning system. Plus, you get a dictation system powered by Dragon's voice engine. Another neat feature is a gesture shortcut system for common operations such as copy and paste.


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If you are in Portland this week you should attend the opening of a photo show which will be held at Powells City of Books. The show will include some very talented photographers and skateboard legends including Ray Barbee, Molly Quan, Greg Hunt, Tobin Yelland, Thomas Campbell, Jon Humphries, and many more.
Opening reception will be June 2, 2011 from 6-9PM.
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I am an Associate Professor in the School of Engineering and Technology at University of Washington - Tacoma, and an Adjunct Associate Professor in the Department of Microbiology at University of Washington - Seattle. My research focuses on the development of machine learning tools, their application to computational biology and reproducibility of data analyses. My passion is method development for integration of multiple sources of big data. In particular, I am interested in the development of methods to effectively integrate heterogeneous high-throughput data sources in the construction of regulatory networks and the identification of biologically meaningful biomarkers.
I am a computer scientist by training (Ph.D. in Computer Science from University of Washington - Seattle under the supervision of Larry Ruzzo). My research spans multiple fields, including computational biology, big data analytics, cloud computing, virtualization, reproducibility of research, statistics and machine learning.
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Madigan pairs with UW to improve medicine, by Suzanne Ovel, Northwest Guardian, Jan. 5, 2017. Full article
Reproducibility of Research:
Our goal is to create easy-to-use and easy-to-deploy containerized tools for the creation, sharing and execution of reproducible bioinformatics workflows.
Our latest work BiocImageBuilder allows biomedical scientists to create Docker containers in a point-and-click user interface.
Related manuscripts: PLOS One 2016, 11(4):e0152686, bioRxiv 099028, bioRxiv 099010, Gigascience 2017, 6(4)1-6, bioRxiv 144816,
Related GitHub: BioDepot, Bioconductor notebooks
Summer Institute for Research Education in Bioinformatics and Biostatistics: This is a 3-week training program for undergraduate students interested in learning the basics of bioinformatics, biostatistics, statistical computing and data science. This summer program consists of one week of lectures and labs, followed by hands-on project experience over a two-week period. At the end of the program, participants will present the results of their group projects, and network with existing professionals, faculty and graduate students in bioinformatics and biostatistics. For more information: BioSummer School 2018
NIH LINCS consortium: I serve as an external data science collaborator on a NIH-funded BD2K-LINCS Perturbation Data Coordination and Integration Center (DCIC). The NIH LINCS project is generating millions of experiments, measuring the cell's response to drug and genetic perturbations. We work with other investigators in the LINCS consortium to develop computational methods and tools to build predictive models of complex diseases and drug responses. Related work: Mathematical Biosciences and Engineering 2016, 13(6):1241-1251, arXiv:1602.06316, bioRxiv 099028, bioRxiv 099010
Network inference from diverse genomics data: Interactions among genes and their gene products comprise a regulatory network. The goal of network inference is to generate testable hypotheses of gene-to-gene influences and subsequently design bench experiments to confirm network predictions. In the November 2011 issue of PNAS, Yeung and colleagues presented a methodology to construct gene regulatory networks from time series expression data in yeast, integrating various types of external biological knowledge available from public repositories. We generated microarray data measuring time-dependent gene-expression levels in 95 genotyped yeast segregants subjected to a drug perturbation. Our algorithm is capable of generating feedback loops and we showed that the inferred network recovered existing and novel regulatory relationships. In addition, we generated independent microarray data on selected deletion mutants to prospectively test network predictions. Related work: BMC Systems Biology 2012, BMC Systems Biology 2014, bioRxiv 099036
Nov 2013: Our proposal "Inference of Gene Networks Studying Human Cancers On The Cloud" won Microsoft's Windows Azure for Research Award.
From computational discoveries to translational research: The development of genetic predictors of clinical outcomes contributes to risk assessment in personalized medicine. In collaboration with Dr. Jerry Radich and Dr. Vivian Oehler at the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, we aim to develop computational models that can predict patient responses to therapy at diagnosis, which allow us to tailor therapy to individual patients of chonic myeloid leukemia (CML). We have previously applied Bayesian Model Averaging to a gene expression data studying the progression of CML, and identified 6 predictive genes in Blood 2009. Building on this work, we developed a network-driven approach that uses expert knowledge and predicted functional relationships to guide our search for signature genes in the March 2012 issue of Bioinformatics. We showed that our gene signatures of advanced phase CML are predictive of relapse even after adjustment for known risk factors associated with transplant outcomes.
Pattern discovery and feature selection: I have also contributed to the development and application of pattern discovery and feature selection in computational biology, including clustering algorithms and supervised learning methods.


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It's not easy being a striker in the Premier League.
Many teams only play with one up front, while plenty of outfits pack their defence with giant centre backs and imposing defensive midfielders.
However, there's no excuse for at least having some shots at goal – after all, you have to buy a ticket to win the lottery etc.
So who is the Premier League's laziest forward when it comes to trying to score goals? The answer has been revealed as Crystal Palace's Marouane Chamakh.
Not a big surprise to many Arsenal fans, Chamakh has had the least shots per 90 minutes this term, averaging less than one.
Fulham's Darren Bent is not too far behind, along with Aston Villa's Libor Kozak. All three should hang their head in shame.
The results compare shots per 90 minutes for all the strikers in the league who have played over 10 matches.
The top three least productive strikers:
1. Marouane Chamakh: 0.6 shots per game
2. Darren Bent: 1.09 shots
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I know it's been a while since I've posted one of these but I'm going to try to be better about posting! I've recently started making deadlines for myself and reminders to do certain posts and things. Hopefully this will help as it was intended. I have gone through a lot in the past couple of months and yet- the year has just begun and soon we'll be moving so that's a joy I look forward to! I say that sarcastically but it really will be full of joy. Joy has come up a lot for me lately, joy gets us through life- as exemplified by our Goddess of the week.
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Floribert Chebeya Bahizire, a prominent human rights defender in the Democratic Republic of the Congo and the director of Voix des Sans Voix, was found dead in Kinshasa on 2 June 2010. He was summoned to a meeting with General Numbi Banza Tambo, Inspector General of the police the previous day. The International Service for Human Rights is shocked to have learned of his death and sends its deepest condolences to his family and the human rights community in the DRC.
On 3 June the Human Rights Council held a minute of silence to honour Floribert. In presenting his report to the Council, Mr Philip Alston, the Special Rapporteur on extrajudicial killings, expressed his sadness at this loss of life. Mr Alston had met Floribert recently during his visit to the DRC. He stated that the circumstances of the killing raised questions about official involvement and called for an urgent, independent investigation. The High Commissioner for Human Rights also expressed shock and great sadness at the death of Floribert and called for a rigorous investigation. She was deeply concerned with the growing trend of intimidation and harassment of human rights defenders, journalists, political opponents as well as victims and witnesses in the DRC. ISHR and many other NGOs are calling for an end to killing and harassment of human rights defenders in the DRC and a full investigation into this tragic incident.


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Jack Meyer, who produced stellar investment results for Harvard's endowment but faced criticism for the multimillion-dollar paychecks he and his money managers earned, said yesterday he and some of his employees were leaving to start a private investment firm.
In the nearly 15 years Meyer was president of Harvard Management, the university's money management arm, the endowment grew from $4.7 billion to $22.6 billion. Over the past decade only two major universities -- Yale and Duke -- earned higher returns.
"Jack was one of the greatest assets Harvard had," said Tim Peterson, president of Regiment Capital, a Boston investment firm that manages some of Harvard's money.
But Meyer made as much news for his disputed compensation policies as for his investment prowess. Because Harvard manages a significant portion of its money internally -- a rarity among universities -- Meyer insisted he had to pay his investment managers the kind of salaries they could earn in the private sector. Two years ago, Harvard's top two managers made $35 million each. Meyer himself earned $7.2 million last year.
A small but vocal group of alumni complained that such outsized paychecks were inappropriate in a university setting. "The endowment should be managed for the benefit of its students, not its fund managers," said William Strauss, a member of the Harvard class of 1969 who has been active in the protest.
Harvard officials yesterday denied that the pay issue has anything to do with Meyer's departure. "There has been no change in the compensation policy at all," said James Rothenberg, Harvard's treasurer. Both Rothenberg and Harvard President Lawrence Summers praised Meyer for his contribution to the university.
Rothenberg will lead a committee to find Meyer's successor. The same committee will look at whether it still makes sense for Harvard to continue its longstanding tradition of managing some of its own money, or whether it would be preferable to give the money to outside managers. "This is a natural moment to reflect on aspects of the distinctive investment model that has greatly benefited the university over the years," said Rothenberg in a letter to alumni disclosing the news.
Among the members of Rothenberg's committee will be Summers and Robert Rubin, who like Summers served as Treasury secretary in the Clinton administration.
Meyer yesterday said he was leaving, in part, because it was time for him to do something new. But he conceded the public attention he received at Harvard -- both for his investment returns and his pay policies -- was not always welcome. "It will be nice to drop out of the public spotlight a bit," he said. Meyer often complained that the publicity about the high salaries was a distraction for Harvard. The publicity also made it more difficult for the endowment to retain top-flight managers, Meyer argued. In the private sector, compensation is generally kept quiet.
Meyer will stay at Harvard at least through June 30, the end of the fiscal year. He declined to say what exactly his new firm will do. But he did add that he will be joined by four other Harvard Management employees, including the endowment's top two bond managers, David Mittelman and Maurice Samuels. The pair earned roughly $35 million each two years ago and $25 million each last year.
In the past, Harvard has continued to invest with star money managers when they left the university to start their own firms. Rothenberg said it was too soon to say whether Harvard would give a slice of the endowment to Meyer's fledgling company, but he said, "That would certainly be a possibility."
When Meyer took over at Harvard in 1990, the university had what was considered a team of brilliant money managers, but its results were uneven and unspectacular. "We had no real discipline," said a money manager who was there then.
Meyer changed that in a number of ways. A big fan of diversification, Meyer pushed Harvard to invest in everything from foreign stocks to real estate to timber. In the bear market of 2001 and 2002, that diversification away from stocks allowed Harvard to outperform most of its peers.
Meyer also pushed his money managers to focus on adding value by doing better than an index fund would do. "This business is a giant scam," he said, several months ago in an interview. "Roughly 85 percent of investment managers don't add value. Those who can are rare." For Meyer, adding value meant a manager should concentrate on his strength -- such as stock picking -- rather than try to time the stock market or predict the future of interest rates.
The compensation policy was another Meyer creation, and he was very proud of it. "It is superior to any system I have ever seen," he once said. The heart of the system was pay for performance. A money manager could be awarded huge sums if he outperformed his benchmark, a comparable index fund. But he would be given only a portion of that award immediately. The rest would remain in a compensation account and could be taken away if his perfomance tailed off the following year. By withholding some compensation each year, the system was designed to reward success while discouraging excessive risk-taking in any given year.
Meyer argued that he was competing for talent with hedge funds, investment vehicles open to wealthy individuals. According to Alpha, a magazine that tracks the hedge-fund business, the nation's top 25 hedge fund managers last year earned an average of $200 million each. In recent years some of Harvard Management's top investors left to start their own hedge funds. As Meyer put it, "Did they leave because we paid them too much?"
But Meyer was always mindful that the big paychecks created public relations problems for the university, and he was aware Harvard might someday decide to revamp the system.
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onlooker wrote:I think Ralfy, Tanada and Rockdoc refer to EROEI theory as a way of modeling real world events via projections or analysis utilizing the metric of energy inputs and outputs. I do agree with Tanada, that modeling can be subject to subjective interpretation and manipulation.
But I do feel that economics alone does NOT give a full or totally accurate indication of the energy balance at any given time that an Economy is working with and by extension what the expected energy balance will be going forward. Tanada and Rockdoc, would say that it does not matter as economics will dictate the viability of continuing to utilize a particular energy source. The question for me is how precisely.
Not quite. Economics are a huge factor certainly, but political decision making both local and international also has a huge impact. For example Fracking in Pennsylvania and New York state is much more restricted by political decisions passing bans or regulations on the industry compared to Ohio (sharing the same source rock as Pennsylvania) or North Dakota or Texas where the state governments want to encourage fracking because it brings jobs and employee income taxes or sales taxes when they buy stuff is income for the government to play with. On the other hand the anti-nuclear hysterics have created such a regulatory tangle that building a new power plant in the USA is extremely difficult and that makes the expense of construction so high that even the very cheap electricity produced can't bring in enough profit to make the construction worth while from an economic standpoint of private companies.
You really want to unleash energy in the USA? Have the US Army Corp Of Engineers build the natural gas to diesel plants and the nuclear power plants and the new heavy oil upgrading plants preventing all the legal challenges in the civil court system and making following all the government regulations automatic from day one. Then have the government sell those facilities for cost to private businesses to own and operate. The price of diesel fuel would collapse overnight! For the nuclear simply build the new plants alongside the existing plants that are reaching the end of their useful lives and allow the utilities to upgrade their efficiency and safety systems without a 12 year court battle over ever piece of paperwork attached to the project. That would increase the already admirable safety rating of nuclear power to unseen levels and reduce fuel demand by a massive quantity providing continued cheap baseload nuclear electricity to the grid. You also avoid all the environmental impact studies, costs associated with creating new infrastructure and employment for the existing workforce for another 60-80 years before that Gen III+ plant needs to be replaced itself at end of useful life. For Ethanol fuel widen the subsidies to include all crop types, not just corn, and watch as the farmers in Iowa who want to sell to ethanol plants switch to growing sweet potatoes or sugar beets because their energy output is 12-15 times as high as that for corn starch.
But the political influence of the traditional oil refineries, anti-nuclear activists, and corn growers association are all fighting against those steps every minute of every day. Our nation is not operated in a rational manner to seek the best results for the general public or future generations, it is oriented to the next quarterly profit for the people with political pull.


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KTM 640 LC4 Adventure 2004
2004 KTM 640 LC4 Adventure specifications, pictures, reviews and rating
2004 KTM 640 LC4 Adventure. Picture credits - KTM. Submit more pictures.
|KTM's profilation of this bike
|Adventure everywhere: on Alpine roads, gravel runs, or sand dunes, at the weekend, or on long trips. The series version of Richard Sainct´s current Dakar Rally-winning bike. 30 litre tank, frameattached fairing, trip master cockpit. Characterised by the low Rally fender in front and the new front double disk brake.
|General information
|KTM 640 LC4 Adventure
|Enduro / offroad
|81.8 out of 100. Show full rating and compare with other bikes
|Engine and transmission
|625.00 ccm (38.14 cubic inches)
|Engine type:
|Single cylinder, four-stroke
|53.64 HP (39.2 kW)) @ 7000 RPM
|55.00 Nm (5.6 kgf-m or 40.6 ft.lbs) @ 5500 RPM
|Bore x stroke:
|101.0 x 78.0 mm (4.0 x 3.1 inches)
|Fuel system:
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|Overhead Cams (OHC)
|Cooling system:
|Transmission type,
final drive:
|Chassis, suspension, brakes and wheels
|Frame type:
|chromium-molybdenum, power-coated
|Front suspension:
|Rear suspension:
|WP - Monoshock
|Front tyre:
|Front brakes:
|Double disc
|Front brakes diameter:
|300 mm (11.8 inches)
|Rear brakes:
|Single disc
|Rear brakes diameter:
|220 mm (8.7 inches)
|Physical measures and capacities
|Dry weight:
|158.0 kg (348.3 pounds)
|Power/weight ratio:
|0.3395 HP/kg
|Seat height:
|945 mm (37.2 inches) If adjustable, lowest setting.
|Alternate seat height:
|675 mm (26.6 inches) If adjustable, highest setting.
|Overall height:
|640 mm (25.2 inches)
|Overall width:
|640 mm (25.2 inches)
|Ground clearance:
|315 mm (12.4 inches)
|1,510 mm (59.4 inches)
|Fuel capacity:
|28.00 litres (7.40 gallons)
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|Not available in the US.
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The American Olive Knuckle Hinge is a Paumelle-type hinge with an oval-shaped knuckle. Olive Knuckle hinges have been manufactured for over two hundred years without much change in design. Conventional Olive Knuckle hinges rely on a pivot shaft inserted into a bore in a knuckle with a bearing ring between knuckles. Because the weight of the door is not in line with the pivot, the bores and the bearing ring wear quickly and unevenly. This uneven wear causes a loose fit and prevents smooth and easy movement, and over time may cause the door to bind. As a result, Olive Knuckle hinges of conventional design are best suited for little used, light-weight doors.
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- 2 pounds potatoes
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- Salt
- White pepper
Separate head of garlic into individual cloves. Toss in olive oil and wrap tightly in small piece of aluminum foil. Bake in 350°F oven for 45 minutes. When the garlic has cooled to the touch you should be able to squeeze it out of the 'paper' shell of the individual cloves. Mash the roasted garlic with a fork, or force through a fine strainer. If you use a ricer as recommended below, simply rice the garlic along with the potatoes. Peel and boil potatoes in salted water until tender. Force the cooked potatoes through a ricer (recommended) or mash by your usual method. Put the riced potatoes, garlic, sour cream, butter, and salt and white pepper in a mixer bowl, and whip at medium speed until smooth. Add cream or milk to adjust consistency.


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