| Policy Implications of an Innovative Model for Self-financing ...
A model for self-financing ecological sustainable integrated development for the world's poor (referred to in the rest of this article as "the Model") has been presented. The Model is in the public domain. It can be downloaded from website www.flowman.nl, which is controlled in the public interest by the Dutch NGO Stichting Bakens Verzet in Amsterdam. Interested parties can use the Model to draft their own sustainable integrated development projects free of charge and to apply for seed financing for them. The Model has far-reaching policy implications in many sectors. This paper describes some of them. The Model weaves social, financial, service and productive structures together into a single tightly-knit development fabric. The fibres of the fabric are carefully interlinked, so there are several possible ways of making an analysis of its effects on national and international development policies.
Donna Maurillo, Food for Thought: Diet season comes with summer
Summer is always the time when people pay the most attention to their food intake. "Swimsuit season is here!" "Get in shape for summer!" We get it from magazine covers, resort-wear shops and our own internal voices. We skip carbs, don't eat anything white — flour, sugar, bread, rice — skip meals, drink meal replacements, eat cabbage soup, avoid fat and try the latest herbal weight-loss fad. But does anything work? That's what the June issue of Consumer Reports wanted to know, so they did a study to compare results. What came out on top? Of the popular diet plans, it was Volumetrics, followed by Weight Watchers, Jenny Craig and Slim Fast. The Atkins Diet came in last. In the middle were the eDiet, the Zone Diet and the Ornish Diet. If you haven't heard about Volumetrics, it's a plan developed at Pennsylvania State University that trains you to eat greater quantities of low-calorie foods rather than small amounts of higher-calorie foods.
Mike Selvey at Lord's
Such is the fickle nature of batting that single innings, and beyond that careers, can hang by the slender thread that is a brilliantly taken catch or a dolly dropped. For a year now Andrew Strauss has been a batsman in torment, a high achiever for whom success had come readily at first only to find it increasingly elusive as bowlers began to understand his game, and he was required to find countermeasures that took him away from his cut-and-carve comfort zone. .
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