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Michigan Credit Unions Take Business Lending to the Airwaves
This fall, small businesses across Michigan will hear how credit unions have increased their business lending efforts over the past few years.
CUcorp, a subsidiary of the Michigan Credit Union League in Lansing, Mich., will run two radio spots starting on Oct. 8 to help raise awareness that credit unions continue to support local businesses and the state's economy, the league said.
To coincide with print and digital business publication advertising that will run in October, November and December, the radio spots will run through Dec. 23.
The league said after the presidential election in November, when consumers turn their attention to holiday shopping, the radio spots will support Invest in America, with a focus on member discounts from Sprint and General Motors.
Formed in late 2008 by CUcorp, Invest in America provides consumers with discounts, supports credit unions with a program designed to increase member loyalty, and funds financial literacy initiatives.
The radio spots will continue through Christmas to take advantage of holiday gift-buying and year-end auto sales, according to the league.
Consumers will also be asked to visit creditunionlink.org to learn more about credit union business lending, the league said. Visitors can run a search by ZIP code that generates a list of credit unions offering business loans.

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WASHINGTON, DC, December 7, 2010 – Even with a sour economy, many parents will continue to agonize over finding their child just the right present, whatever the cost in time and money. Instead of stressing over what to buy, CFP Board Consumer Advocate Eleanor Blayney, CFP® has five creative strategies for parents (and grandparents) to tackle their toughest holiday challenge – making a child happy this holiday season:
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Yes, the 2012 NCAA champion Indiana Hoosiers were coached by two Columbus Crew legends in Todd Yeagley and Brian Maisonneuve. But the Crew connections on the Hoosier roster don't stop at Yeagley and Maisonneuve.
The team's leading scorer Eriq Zavaleta, playmaker A.J. Corrado started on the 2011 USL Super-20-winning Crew Juniors squad under Brian Bliss. In the Super-20 title match, Zavaleta scored on an assist from Corrado to help the Black & Gold to victory.
"[Winning the National Championionship] is good for those guys, and it's obviously good for us," Bliss said Monday. "It shows that we've identified some good players and hopefully we played a role in their development when they were here with us for two-and-a-half or three months of the year. We put a pretty good squad together in a competitive environment and hopefully that played a part in their development."
In addition to the two Hoosiers that helped Crew Juniors to glory in 2011, Senior captains Luis Soffner and Caleb Konstanski spent a week training with the Crew First Team last summer.
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Sean Murphy to address crime of aggression in Wayne Law lecture
October 12, 2010
DETROIT (Oct. 12, 2010) - The Wayne State University Law School Program for International Legal Studies and the International Law Students Association are pleased to host a lecture by Sean Murphy, Patricia Roberts Harris Research Professor of Law at George Washington University Law School, at 12:15-1:30 p.m. on Wednesday, Nov. 3, in the Law School's Spencer M. Partrich Auditorium. Murphy's lecture is titled "The new crime of aggression before the International Criminal Court."
The war crimes trials at Nuremburg charged Nazi officials with "crimes against the peace" - acts of aggressive war. Germany's invasion of its neighbors became the centerpiece of the Allied case against the defendants. But when the new International Criminal Court (ICC) came into existence in 2002, the waging aggressive war was missing from the crimes it could prosecute.
In June 2010, parties to the ICC treaty added the crime of aggression to the court's statute. Murphy's lecture will discuss whether this controversial action is a victory for the legacy of Nuremburg or whether the conditions and caveats added by the parties involved cripple potential prosecutions for aggression in the future.
"Whether the crime of aggression is a good idea or not has deeply divided legal scholars and human rights activists," said Professor Gregory Fox, Wayne Law professor and director of the Program for International Legal Studies. "Sean Murphy has addressed this question as a scholar and advised the U.S. government on similar issues as a lawyer in the State Department. He is the ideal person to present both sides of this complex and fascinating question."
Murphy has written extensively on the ICC and the crime of aggression. Before joining George Washington University, he served as legal counselor at the U.S. Embassy in The Hague, arguing several cases before the International Court of Justice and representing the U.S. government in matters before the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia, the Permanent Court of Arbitration and The Hague Conference on Private International Law. He also served as U.S. agent to the Iran-U.S. Claims Tribunal, arguing cases on behalf of the U.S. government and providing advice to U.S. nationals appearing before that tribunal. Between 1987 and 1995, he served in the U.S. Department of State Office of the Legal Adviser.
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Thousands of heart surgeries are performed every day in the United States. In fact, in a recent year, surgeons performed more than 200,000 coronary artery bypass procedures.
What is minimally invasive heart surgery?
In minimally invasive heart surgery, surgeons take steps to decrease trauma to the body and speed up recovery, often by using smaller incisions during the surgery. You may have heard the words "limited access," "keyhole," or "port access" to describe these minimally invasive operations. We will use the term "limited access" when talking about these procedures.
Surgeons perform limited-access operations through a small incision, often using special surgical instruments designed just for this kind of surgery. The incision is usually about 2 to 4 inches long and is made between the ribs, on the side of the chest. With traditional open heart surgery, the incision is usually 6 to 8 inches long and is made down the middle of the chest. Also, with limited-access operations, surgeons usually do not need to saw the breastbone open to gain access to the heart.
Some of the benefits of limited-access surgery may include
What are the types of limited-access heart surgery?
Most surgeons can perform a number of procedures using limited access.
Who can have limited-access heart surgery?
Surgeons look at a number of factors when deciding if patients are good candidates for limited-access surgery, including
Surprisingly, in many patients, it may actually be safer to use traditional heart surgery techniques.
What is videoscopic surgery?
In certain patients, surgeons may perform coronary artery bypass surgery or valve operations using a long thin telescope, or endoscope, attached to a video camera, to see inside the chest. This is another form of limited-access surgery called videoscopic surgery.
With videoscopic heart surgery, surgeons make several half-inch incisions or "ports" in the chest, between the ribs. In most cases, surgeons do not even need to spread the ribs to gain access to the heart through the ports. The endoscope with the video camera is then placed through one of the ports, and long, thin surgical instruments specially designed for the procedure are placed through the other ports. Surgeons can then perform the procedure through the ports, using the video camera to see. The video camera provides a well-lit, magnified image of the area where surgeons are operating and allows them to clearly see the ends of their instruments.
During videoscopic surgery, patients usually need to be attached to a heart-lung machine. In traditional open heart surgery, patients would be connected to the heart-lung machine after surgeons open the chest. But, for videoscopic surgery, patients are connected to the machine in a different way. Instead, special tubes are threaded through the arteries and veins in the groin and up into the heart, so that the chest does not have to be split open.
What is robotic-assisted heart surgery?
In yet another kind of limited-access surgery, the procedure is performed with the help of a surgical robot. Essentially, the surgical robot allows surgeons to perform videoscopic surgery with even greater precision.
In robotic-assisted surgery, surgeons make several small incisions in the chest wall, between the ribs, like they would if they were performing videoscopic surgery. But, instead of using conventional surgical instruments held in their hands, surgeons use specialized instruments attached to the surgical robot. Surgeons sit at a console and control the robot through their hand movements. The robotic instruments are still under full control of surgeons, but the robot allows them to make finer movements than they could if they were actually holding the instruments in their hands.
Surgeons can perform the following types of heart surgeries using a surgical robot:
As with other kinds of limited-access surgery, robotic-assisted surgery can mean shorter hospital stays and recovery times for patients. But, not all patients are candidates for robotic-assisted surgery. Again, it will be up to your surgeon to decide if this type of surgery is the right treatment option for you.
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Wild harvested from small lakes in the center of the Amazon jungle. The grape-sized red and purple berries are juiced directly after harvest and then freeze dried onto a tapioca root starch base-an ideal semi-sweet carrier for blending into juices and for use as a supplement in fresh fruit smoothies and candies. The pink powders add a fruity and semi-sweet acid flavor to most types of food and drink. Until recently, Japan bought most of the entire world harvest making Camu-Camu Mega-C a rare commodity even in the Amazon jungle. Today, tribes are beginning to care-take wild plantations and increase production by maintaining local trees. Planting orchards with grafted trees has become more widespread.
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By Robert Johnson | Sentinel Staff Writer
Posted November 4, 2002
The latest upgrade of the fear level at Disney World's Twilight Tower of Terror is aimed at re-creating the ride with surprises that will encourage guests to line up repeatedly.
"We hope it will be another reason to return to Disney World," spokesman Craig Dezern said.
Called "Tower4," the new version of the ride will be unveiled for visiting international travel journalists on Tuesday night. The new ride will be ready for guests in January.
On the outside, nothing about the attraction will change. It will still be appear to be a once-grand hotel built in the revival style popular in Southern California in the early 20th century.
The ride opened in 1994 as a gut-grabbing plummet of more than 100 feet. That drop is nearly twice as long as the plunge at Splash Mountain.
But the original thrills haven't been enough for Disney World management over the years. The ride has had three versions. In the original sequence, riders were taken up to the top floor slowly in an elevator and dropped -- actually the elevator car is pushed down by a motor and doesn't fall -- to the lobby level.
In 1996 the Tower got a new sequence: Riders were "dropped" three times. The third version was installed in 1998, when the ride was changed to feature seven minor and major drops and add a few seconds in the drop chamber.
Before the new 1998 version, riders were given one scary look out the elevator through an open window to see how high above MGM Studios they really were, and how far down they would momentarily go. But the third version in 1998 gave them glimpses out the window before several drops to reinforce the fear.
"Tower4" will have "a number of new drop sequences and you won't ever know which one you're going to experience," Dezern said. There will also be some new special effects, but he wouldn't reveal them. He also would not elaborate on the new ride sequences, even how many there are, but he said that a Disney staff mathematician had planned the new versions.
"The idea is that the tower is taking control. And the ride you will get is entirely random," Dezern said.
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The Pentagon is now using Web 2.0 services such as Facebook and Twitter to help relay the military's message while also tracking down possible recruits online.
"They live in the virtual world," Lt. Gen Benjamin Freakley recently said during an interview with the Associated Press. "You could friend your recruiter, and then he could talk to your friends."
At a time when some Americans don't believe mass media in the United States is portraying the correct message about the mission in Iraq, officials such as Gen Raymond Odierno, top U.S. commander in Iraq, have a Facebook page used to highlight things soldiers are doing in the Middle East.
The U.S. Air Force currently has an official Twitter account -- with more than 3,300 followers -- it uses to share information about activities of the Air Force. An official Facebook Air Force page has also been created, used to help share experiences and information of Airman deployed overseas.
The Marine Corps has dabbled with Web 2.0 experimentation, although it mainly has been for recruiting only. Both the Navy and Coast Guard are experimenting how to work in the Web 2.0 world, with even the Coast Guard commandant updating his Facebook status while he travels.
The Army, along with its online presence, even opened up a gaming center in the Franklin Mills Mall in Philadelphia to help attract new recruits. The Army Experience Center is a 14,500-square-foot location that has PCs, game consoles, and a virtual simulation machine.
As more possible recruits head online into the virtual world, expect each branch of the U.S. military to mimic their moves.
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This beach is situated near the mouth of the river Rhone as a narrow strip of sand and dunes between the evaporation basins of the Salin de Giraud and the Mediterranean. A relatively cold northerly wind blows sand into the sea. That's why almost no one is swimming.
France is affectionately referred to as "the Hexagon" for its overall shape.French history goes back to the Gauls, a Celtic tribe which inhabited the area circa 300BC until being conquered by Julius Caesar.The Franks were the first tribe to adopt Catholic Christianity after the Roman Empire collapsed. France became an independent location in the Treaty of Verdun in (843 AD), which divided up Charlemagne's Carolingian Empire into several portions.The French monarchy reached its zenith during the reign of Louis XIV, the Sun King, who stood for seventy-two years as the Monarch of all Monarchs. His palace of Versailles and its Hall of Mirrors are a splendid treasure-trove of Baroque art.The French Revolution ended the rule of the monarchy with the motto "Liberty, Equality, Fraternity!" On July 14th, 1789 angry mobs stormed La Bastille prison and began the Revolution in which Louis XVI, his wife Marie-Antoinette and thousands of others met the guillotine.One decade after the revolution, Napolean Bonaparte seized control of the Republic and named himself Emperor. His armies conquered most of Europe and his Napoleonic Code became a lasting legal foundation for concepts of personal status and property.During the period of colonization France controlled the largest empire in the world, second only to Britain.France is one of the founding members of the European Union and the United Nations, as well as one of the nuclear armed nations of the world.Text by Steve Smith.


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IN THE CIRCUIT COURT, SEVENTH JUDICIAL CIRCUIT, IN AND FOR ST. JOHNS COUNTY, FLORIDA PROBATE DIVISION FILE NO. CP98-460 DIVISION: 55 IN RE: ESTATE OF W.A. STARKS, A/K/A WILLIAM STARKS Deceased. NOTICE OF UNCLAIMED PROBATE FUNDS TO: ESTATE OF HAROLD STARKS; ESTATE OF ESSIE STARKS & ESTATE OF VERDELL ROBINSON RESIDENCE AND POST OFFICE ADDRESS: UNKNOWN You are hereby notified that the sum of $575.98 was received by me from Tracy Wilson Upchurch, as attorney for the Personal Representative of the Estate of W.A. Starks A/K/A William Starks, deceased, the said amount being the same due to you from the Estate W.A. STARKS, A/K/A WILLIAM STARKS. Upon expiration of six (6) months from the date of first publication of this notice, unless the same has been claimed, the said amount less fees of the Clerk of the Court and the cost of advertising, will be deposited with the State Treasurer as provided by Section 733.816, Florida States Annotated. Dated: JANUARY 13, 2004. (OFFICIAL SEAL) CHERYL STRICKLAND CLERK CIRCUIT COURT IRIS HALL DEPUTY CLERK L152-4 Jan. 23, Feb. 21, 2004
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Dodgers legend fields questions during bilingual chat
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Fernando Valenzuela: Thanks for your patience. Let's start.
Base_Ball: Where in Mexico were you born? With your busy schedule, do you get to visit Mexico very often?
Valenzuela: I was born in Sonora, Navojoa, Mexico. During the winter time, I go back to play winter ball for Mexicali for the last couple years.
Base_Ball: (In Spanish) What moment in your Major League career do you feel proudest of?
Valenzuela: (In Spanish) When I pitched in my first Major League game against Houston because that was the start of my career.
hjghjg_hjgjhgjgjgh: What was it like winning the Rookie of the Year and Cy Young Award in the same year?
Valenzuela: It was a great year and great moment for me because we had a good team and that helped me to win games and to earn those honors. It was all thanks to my teammates.
mlbeditor1: (In Spanish) Hey Fernando you're the best! What has changed in the game since you last pitched?
Valenzuela: (In Spanish) It hasn't changed all that much. Probably in the way they use the players, especially the pitchers with their pitch counts.
raul_carrillo: Hello Fernando. My family has always been a major supporter of you since day one. I wanted to know, have you ever thought about going into a manager role or becoming a pitching coach and how do you like this year's crop of rookie players?
Valenzuela: No, I've never thought of being a coach or instructor. I'm not a very patient person, so that would be difficult for me. As far as this year's rookies, they have all responded. They called them up and gave them the chance to play and they're doing a great job right now.
Base_Ball_3: (In Spanish) What does it mean to you to be an example to so many Mexicans and sons and daughters of Mexicans who have come to this country looking for a better life?
Valenzuela: (In Spanish) I feel being Mexican, and representing all the Mexicans, is an honor and I always tried to be my best. Thanks for all the support when I was pitching. That gave me a little extra strength to do things better. Hello to everyone out there.
Base_Ball_3: Fernando Mania, boy do I miss it! Do you miss playing in the big leagues?
Valenzuela: I've been out of big leagues for eight years. The first couple of years, I missed it a little bit, not much. Now, after eight years, I'm still playing winter ball in Mexico, so that's baseball.
adorofernando_2: (In Spanish) First, thanks for taking the time to speak to us. Secondly, what does the future hold for you?
Valenzuela: (In Spanish) Continue doing the Spanish-language radio broadcasts on KWKW. And probably continue pitching in Mexico in the winter.
cubsfan1357: I'm only 12, so I didn't get to see most of the prime of your career, but I was wondering, what was your favorite part of the 1981 season?
Valenzuela: The World Series. The third game when I pitched that game, that was a great moment. Thank you for following the Dodgers.
sonnydr132184: (In Spanish) Were you interested in playing for Mexico in the World Baseball Classic?
Valenzuela: (In Spanish) I had an invitation to help the Mexican pitching staff as a coach. I was proud to be part of that team.
jessel: Have you been asked to teach any of the young pitchers the screwball, and do you think that would be a good idea?
Valenzuela: No, no one has asked me to teach them. Right now, they are using more fastballs and curveballs. They're looking for more speed. But if somebody asked me, I'd be glad to help them out.
Diane_Gonzalez: (In Spanish) Hello El Toro! How does it feel now that your son is following in your footsteps?
Valenzuela: (In Spanish) I support him. I am happy that he is trying my same career. Although he plays a different position, first base. I hope he has a chance to make baseball his profession.
lwdnlbc: Other than baseball what's your favorite sport?
Valenzuela: Golf. I think that's similar to baseball because of the swing. It's a lot fun, especially when I lose a lot of golf balls.
Base_Ball: (In Spanish) Hello, Fernando. I just wanted to take this opportunity to thank you. You are the reason that I have been a Dodgers fan for 20 years. Are you surprised that you still have so many fans after all these years?
Valenzuela: (In Spanish) When I returned to Dodger Stadium for the first time after so many years I was surprised by the reaction of the people in the stadium.
Base_Ball_3: I remember you being a good hitter. Did you take pride in hitting and fielding?
Valenzuela: Hitting is part of my work. I could help myself not only with pitching, but if I got the opportunity to do it with the bat, I tried to do my best. I think fielding is part of pitching. For all young pitchers, it's a good idea to work on their fielding. They can help themselves win games with the glove.
oplascen: (In Spanish) Fernando, how do you see the Dodgers pitching staff this season?
Valenzuela: (In Spanish) They started real well, but in the last couple of games they have had some problems. But I think they will continue to reach the playoffs.
Valenzuela: Thank you very much for taking part in this web chat. We hope to see you soon at Dodger Stadium.
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Opening day started early Saturday morning for some Orange County Little Leaguers with ceremonies, the first pitch, and the resounding metallic pings as bats connected with baseballs.
In Tustin, nearly 1,000 children from 5 to 12 have signed up for the 2013 Tustin Little League season, which had its opening day Saturday.
The Tustin Eastern Little started the day with a pancake breakfast at 7a.m.at Utt Middle School followed by an opening ceremony which included a pep talk by former Angel's MLB pitcher Mark Langston. The city's other Little League, Tustin Western, had its opening day at Hewes Middle School.
After the Eastern league ceremony, hundreds of kids ready to play ball and parents weighed down by folding chairs and video cameras wandered the fields of Utt Middle School, where games were played throughout the day.
Many parents said they value the� camaraderie and life lessons that Little League offers.� Kim Hassenplug, whose son Trevor had the honor of throwing the first pitch of the season during the Eastern league's opening ceremony, said Little League has turned her son into a leader and a role model for his teammates. It has also taught him self-control.
"When he was little, he didn't know how to handle defeat very well. If he struck out, he pouted," Hassenplug said of her son. "He's got better sportsmanship now that he's older. It's no longer the end of the world if they lose."
Tustin Pony Baseball starts its opening day at 7:30 a.m. March 2 behind the Jean Thorman Elementary and A. G. Currie Middle schools in Tustin.


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I'm happy that you like to self guide, but the 'insurance' of having a replacement bike to keep us rolling was a consideration. I also preferred following the local leader, as opposed to tracking with a tank bag map or GPS on my initial Alps trip.
Edelweiss is a top tier outfit - (though if one of my fellow riders had a spouse trying to follow in a rented Fiat, I would not have had such a good experience.) We rode briskly and made good time, whether in the group or in small self guided tours - which you'll note we did for 25% of the time.


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A personal history of rheumatic fever may increase your chance of getting tricuspid valve disease.
In many cases, there are no symptoms. However, if symptoms do occur, they may include:
You will be asked about your symptoms and medical history. A physical exam will be done. The doctor may be alerted to tricuspid valve disease if you have a heart murmur.
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If you have mild tricuspid valve disease, your condition will need to be monitored, but may not need treatment right away. When symptoms become more severe, treatments may include:
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If tricuspid valve disease is causing severe problems, surgery to repair or replace the valve may be required.
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American Heart Association
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Antibiotic prophylaxis for heart patients. Mouth Healthy—American Dental Association website. Available at: http://www.mouthhealthy.org/en/az-topics/a/Premedication-or-Antibiotics. Accessed June 6, 2016.
Diseases of the tricuspid valve. Texas Heart Institute website. Available at: http://www.texasheartinstitute.org/HIC/Topics/Cond/vtricus.cfm. Updated July 2015. Accessed June 6, 2016.
Tricuspid valve disease. EBSCO DynaMed website. Available at: http://www.ebscohost.com/dynamed. Updated January 25, 2016. Accessed June 8, 2016.
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South-South tech cooperation: a call to action
[MANILA] Developing countries need an international policy framework for harmonising strategies on technology and innovation if they are to catch up with developed countries industrially, according to a report by the UN Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD).
Developing countries' demands for technology transfer from North to South have long been debated in the international arena.
Now, emerging economies have a chance to drive their own technological development through increased South–South collaboration, says the report, 'Technology and Innovation Report 2012: Exploring the South for Technological Empowerment and Innovation Capacity', published last month (31 October).
These countries' economic growth has been fuelled, in part, by investments in technologies, the report says, and the economic growth and capacity for technology and innovation are mutually reinforcing.
In some areas — trade in capital goods (machinery, equipment and other production-related goods), for example — partnerships between developing countries are now more common than North-South collaborations.
But this trade increase has not been accompanied by a growth in South-South collaboration on technology and innovation, the report finds.
The benefits of South-South collaboration includes tailoring partnerships to ensure they serve broad social and economic goals. It is also likely that developing or emerging country partners may better understand the constraints facing innovation in developing countries and have techniques for overcoming these, and possess a wider range of cost-effective technologies geared towards southern contexts.
Lourdes Orijola, from the Department of Science and Technology in the Philippines, says: "South-South cooperation [...] should be explored, particularly in Asia where there are countries, like India, with advanced [...] technologies with grassroots applications that are relevant to developing countries like the Philippines".
The UNCTAD report describes examples of successful joint ventures in the developing world.
The Ugandan pharmaceutical company Quality Chemicals, for example, has collaborated with the Indian firm Cipla, with backing from the Ugandan government. Cipla provides training and skills transfer to Ugandan scientists and managers, while the Ugandan government has provided investment, paid the salaries of Indian trainers, and committed to purchasing drugs.
To build on such examples more effectively to enable the long-term growth of more fruitful South-South collaborations, the report argues for a strong policy framework and proposes a clear set of principles.
It also suggests implementing a 'South-South Technology and Innovation Pact', as a specific policy instrument to provide institutional support at three levels: promoting technological learning and enterprise development; financing innovations specifically needed in developing countries; and acting as a platform for sharing innovation experience.
But William Padolina, a former science and technology minister in the Philippines, says the flourishing of South-South collaboration on technology and innovation will depend on many factors.
"One needs to look at the whole system, from governance to support — even the trivial things like whether materials are available and delivered on time," he tells SciDev.Net.
"Among many things, the ICT [information and communication technologies] infrastructure should be in place," Padolina adds. "We need to look at the intellectual property [IP] protection regime. How we settle disputes is also important, even in the judiciary, because many IP disputes need a very well informed system."
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Ross, Scheppers making push for rotation
By T.R. Sullivan / MLB.com
SURPRISE, Ariz. -- Right-hander Tanner Scheppers starts Friday against the Reds and left-hander Robbie Ross will follow him. Next Wednesday, Rangers officials will likely have their first organizational meeting to discuss the state of the team.
At that time, the Rangers will start forming definite plans for their rotation candidates. If Ross and Scheppers want to be in the rotation -- they both definitely do -- Friday night will be a good time to shine.
"It's what I want to do, so there is no better time than now," Ross said. "We need somebody to step up, and I plan on being that guy. Starting has been my passion since I started playing, so it would be great."
Ross has pitched in 4 2/3 innings in Cactus League games, allowing two runs on four hits and two walks with two strikeouts. More important, left-handers are 0-for-5 off him. Left-handers hit .341 off him last year, which is why Ross slipped behind Neal Cotts in the bullpen hierarchy in the second half last season. The Rangers want him to be better against left-handers, whether he is starting or relieving.
Scheppers is also a candidate to be the Rangers' closer. Whether it is starter or reliever, Scheppers will have a prominent role on the pitching staff. He is hoping it will be as a starter, although that would mean the bullpen taking a big hit.
"For me personally, I would love the opportunity to start," Scheppers said. "There are a lot of guys competing for a couple of spots. All I can do is control what I can do on the field."
Two more rotation candidates will take the mound Saturday when Colby Lewis and Nick Tepesch pitch against the Athletics in Phoenix. Tommy Hanson, Joe Saunders, Michael Kirkman and Jose Contreras are also competing for two spots in the rotation behind Yu Darvish, Martin Perez and Alexi Ogando.
Beltre departs game early with tight quad
SURPRISE, Ariz. -- Rangers third baseman Adrian Beltre tried playing in his fourth straight Cactus League game Thursday night. He didn't play as long as he wanted.
Beltre left in the top of the fifth inning after two at-bats with tightness in his left quad muscle during the first night game for the Rangers this spring. Beltre has been known to have minor leg injuries in Spring Training that he usually plays through during the season. This is the first time this spring that Beltre has reported an issue.
"It's tight," Beltre said. "I went through the workout earlier but didn't run, and before the game I sprinted and it felt tighter, tighter and tighter."
Beltre usually has problems with his hamstring muscles, which are in the back of the leg. The quad muscle is on the front side.
"I'm not used to the front," Beltre said. "I'm used to the back. This is new for me."
Beltre was scheduled to get the day off Friday and will likely not go to Phoenix on Saturday for the Rangers' game against the Athletics. So the earliest he will play is Sunday against the White Sox. He said he is not worried about the injury.
"I didn't run full speed today," Beltre said. "I don't know how it is. I tried not to force it."
Soto back in action ahead of schedule
SURPRISE, Ariz. -- Catcher Geovany Soto returned to the Rangers lineup Thursday, his first start since having surgery Feb. 22 to have a bone removed from his left ankle.
The plan for Soto was to catch four innings Thursday, take Friday off and catch five innings Saturday. The Rangers will probably repeat that plan next week and then decide if Soto is ready to play in back-to-back games. He was originally planning to make his debut Saturday but felt good enough to play Thursday.
"I have been testing it all week and I feel good," Soto said. "Why wait a couple of days? First and foremost I need to get as many at-bats as possible. The next week or so, I'll go to the Minor Leagues and get us some extra at-bats and get game ready. We've still got time but it's go time."
The Rangers still expect him to be ready for Opening Day and get the bulk of the catching time in the early part of the season. J.P. Arencibia was signed during the offseason to be Soto's backup but Robinson Chirinos has taken advantage of Soto's absence to get club officials to notice him. He was 7-for-15 going into Thursday's game against the Giants.
"Chirinos has been very impressive," Rangers manager Ron Washington said.
Arencibia, who was the Blue Jays' starting catcher the past three seasons, hasn't enjoyed the same success at the plate. He was 3-for-22 with six strikeouts in his first eight Cactus League games.
"It hasn't been as good as Arencibia would like it," Washington said. "We'll keep working and keep giving him at-bats and try to get it worked out."
Arencibia is still likely to be the backup catcher going into the season with Chirinos pairing with Brett Nicholas at Triple-A Round Rock. But the Rangers are still keeping an open mind about a number of areas and catching is just one.
"Everybody has got to show something," Washington said.
Worth noting
• Pitcher Justin Germano was given permission to leave the team for a personal matter.
• The Rangers play the Reds in Goodyear on Friday and Shin-Soo Choo will be recognized before the game. He will receive the Ernie Lombardi Award as the Reds Most Valuable Player in 2013.
• Mitch Moreland made his sixth start in the outfield Thursday and his first in left field. Moreland has played 45 games in the outfield in his career but hasn't played left since the Minors. But it appears as if the Rangers are serious about using Moreland in the outfield this season. Said Moreland, "I just came into camp keeping an open mind and being ready for anything."
• Matt Harrison will throw live batting practice Friday and then the Rangers will determine when his next outing will be. He is expected to pitch two innings but the Rangers aren't sure if it will be in the Cactus League or on the back fields.
T.R. Sullivan is a reporter for MLB.com. Read his blog, Postcards from Elysian Fields, and follow him on Twitter @Sullivan_Ranger. This story was not subject to the approval of Major League Baseball or its clubs.


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The TRUMPF JUPITER SYSTEM combines the principles of a universal surgical table with an integrated patient transport solution. The patient and the JUPITER tabletop are moved to the OR together via the JUPITER SYSTEM trolley. The shuttle is aligned over the JUPITER SYSTEM computer-controlled fixed column. The tabletop is safely secured to the column by remote control. Contact points provide control over all table functions via remote, column touch pad, or computer touch screen. During surgery the JUPITER SYSTEM provides a wide range of patient positioning options for all disciplines. At the conclusion of the procedure, the patient and tabletop are rolled out of the OR, again via the shuttle. Room changeover proceeds immediately with overall changeover time reduced. The next patient can be brought into the OR on another JUPITER tabletop, again via shuttle.
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The annual Schwab Advisor Services Impact conference always draws big attendee crowds and big-name speakers, and this year's gathering, which runs from Tuesday through Saturday, is no exception. But since Impact 2011 is being held in Schwab's hometown of San Francisco, this year's conference has a distinctly California and independence theme, with an international flavor noticeable as well.
In an interview last week, Nick Georgis of Schwab said that while the Schwab team is "excited about doing this in our home town," the major theme of the conference will be that "so many advice givers are continuing to join the ranks of independence, embracing a fiduciary responsibility."
With that ongoing movement toward independence, Georgis (left) said, there is increased interest among RIAs in learning "how do I become a best-managed firm," much like the annual recipients of the Schwab Impact Awards, which will be revealed Thursday morning by Charles Schwab CEO Walt Bettinger and Schwab Advisor Services' executive VP Bernie Clark.
This year's Impact—which will be covered onsite by AdvisorOne's John Sullivan, Janet Levaux and Jamie Green—will have more than 4,000 total attendees, Georgis said, and with a week to go before its formal start, Georgis said advisor attendance was approaching the same level as the biggest Impact conference, held in Las Vegas in 2007, the year that marked 20 years of Schwab providing custodial services for RIAs.
The conference begins with none other than California's Bill Gross speaking to Schwab's LizAnn Sonders in a Tuesday afternoon sit-down moderated by CNBC's Tyler Mathisen. The 'bond king' from Pimco has been even more visible than usual lately with his pronouncements on quantitative easing and the U.S. debt downgrade and, this week, that European and U.S. economic policies are stifling growth.
Georgis noted that "Chuck is the host" of Impact 2011 this year, and Charles Schwab himself will sit down for a "fireside chat" with CNBC's Maria Bartiromo on Thursday morning following the announcement of the Impact Award winners. Chuck Schwab, said Georgis, "has such admiration for entrepreneurs and advisors; people will hear that," along with Schwab's opinions on the economy and markets. (Schwab recently wrote an OpEd that appeared in the Wall Street Journal on the need for less regulation to support entrepreneurs.)
Charlie Rose of PBS will moderate on Wednesday, another California-themed general session, specifically on the state of the venture capital market within and without Silicon Valley, with Jim Breyer of Accel and Bill Draper of Draper Richards.
"Advisors like hearing the inside story," said Georgis in the interview, "that's why we have the VC people here," but there's also plenty of interest in "how connected the world is now, and the levers around the world that have an impact on our [advisor] clients." That's why there are multiple education sessions on international and emerging markets investing, and also why Schwab has scheduled a keynote speech by former British Prime Minister Tony Blair of the U.K. on Wednesday morning.
Schwab itself will focus on developments in its Intelligent Integration project during Impact, with hands-on demonstrations in the exhibit hall. It will also be the first Schwab show with a mobile conference app for attendees and while Schwab is famous for distributing backpacks and outerwear to attendees, Georgis pointed out that Schwab will allow advisors to donate that merchandise to charity.
The final morning speaker will be astronaut Mark Kelly, a decorated Navy captain who also is the husband of Rep. Gabrielle Giffords, who was shot in an attack on Jan. 8 in her home state of Arizona.
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PLATTSBURGH, N.Y. (Aug. 30, 2013) — SUNY Plattsburgh's Department of Criminal Justice will focus on the issues behind human trafficking 7 p.m., Thursday, Sept. 19, when the department hosts a panel discussion and screening of "Not My Life" in Krinovitz Recital Hall, Hawkins Hall.
Filmed on five continents over a period of four years, directed by Academy Award nominee Robert Bilheimer and narrated by Glenn Close, the film looks at the multibillion dollar global industry. It shows how modern-day slavery thrives along the transnational fault lines of extreme poverty, social injustice, political unrest and acts of violence. It further acknowledges that although trafficking and slavery affect millions of human beings all over the world, most are children.
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When adding details to highways or other ways, it is often important to differentiate between the direction of travel or the side of the way. To do this we define the four terms forward, backward, left and right, which all depend on the direction in which the way is drawn in OpenStreetMap.
It is important to know the difference between backward/forward and left/right.
Forward and backward
Forward and backward describe a direction along a way, but not a side of the way. Forward means the direction in which the way is drawn in OpenStreetMap, while backward means the opposite direction. The oneway=yes tag is a good example of a direction-dependent feature: if this tag is added to a way, it becomes a one-way in forward direction.
Left and right
Left and right describe a side of a way, but not a direction along the way. Left means the left-hand side of the road when looking in forward direction (as defined above), while right means the right-hand side.
Depening on the key both includes either both (left and right) sides of a way - for example in sidewalk=*. Or it includes both (forward and backward) directions - for example in overtaking=*.
As part of the key
Forward, backward, left and right are often appended as a namespace to a tag's key. This is done by adding a colon and the desired direction or side to the key.
Examples include:
- maxspeed:forward=* - maximum speed which only applies in forward direction
- lanes:backward=* - number of lanes in backward direction
- cycleway:left=* - a cycleway on the left side of the road
- parking:lane:both=* - a parking lane on both sides of the road
- name:left=*, name:right=* - e.g. when street name is different on the right and left side
As value
Forward, backward, left and right are also sometimes used as a tag's value. In this case, no additional namespace is added to the key of the tag.
Examples include:
- sidewalk=left - the side(s) of the road where sidewalks are present
- traffic_signals:direction=forward - the direction of travel affected by traffic signals
Identifying the direction of a way
In iD the direction of a selected way is indicated by the triangular midpoints half way between each pair of nodes on a way (note that clicking and dragging these midpoints will add a new node to the selected way). Furthermore grey arrows are shown on the way (even when not selected) if it is tagged with a oneway=* tag. The arrow direction is the opposite of the way direction if it is tagged oneway=-1.
Potlatch 2
In Potlatch 2 the direction of a selected way is shown ...
- ... if you choose the "Enhanced" map view in Potlatch 2 the direction is indicated by small, light grey arrows on the way itself. This only works if the way is tagged with key highway, railway or waterway (+ maybe also some other keys) and is currently not tagged as oneway street (reason follows).
- If ways are tagged as oneway streets then they always show bigger, grey arrows which indicate the allowed oneway direction (which is the opposite of the way direction if it is tagged
In JOSM arrows are shown on the selected way. To show arrows for all ways, go to menu Edit → Preferences → Display Settings page → "OSM Data" tab: check "Draw Direction Arrows".
In Merkaartor, you can switch way direction display between always-on, always-off and only-oneways in the View menu.
Data view on osm.org
The node list of a way in the data view on osm.org is sorted with the top/first node in the list being the start/first node of the way respectively the bottom/last node in the list being the end/last node of the way. Example way data view (iD, JOSM, Potlatch2, history, XML). The data layer helps you to get to such a page.
See also
- Category:Way Direction Dependent - Category of tags that depend on way direction
- The proposal page for ':right' and ':left' - Proposed_features/right_left


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If you're a fan of Dan Brown's novel "The Da Vinci Code," and you want to lose weight, then you may be interested in "The Diet Code" by Stephen Lanzalotta
Just as Brown's book discusses Da Vinci's Golden Ratio, Lanzalotta's does too -- and tells you how it can help you shed pounds. Lanzalotta, a baker who lives in Portland, Maine, applies mathematical principles to his cafe menu and shows you how to apply it to your daily eating for optimal health.
Below is an excerpt from "The Diet Code."
Chapter One: Leonardo da Vinci, the Golden Ratio -- and What's for Dinner
The wisest and noblest teacher is nature itself. — LEONARDO DA VINCI
Man achieves the height of Wisdom when all that he does is as self-evident as what Nature does. — I CHING
Milan, Winter 1492
The pencil drops from Leonardo's left hand as he picks up a chunk of bigio, or whole grain bread, to soak up broth from a steaming bowl of minestra, a Milanese broth featuring the region's distinctive savoy cabbage and a mix of root vegetables and their greens. He distractedly stabs at a bit of turnip with the fork in his right hand. Within reach are some thin slabs of creamy Taleggio cheese and a flask of wine from the vineyards of his patron, Ludovico Sforza, duke of Bari.
Momentarily focusing on his soup, Leonardo reminisces about his native Tuscany and the Florentine minestrone, spicy and meaty from a soffrito mix of minced and sautéed chicken giblets, pork and peppercorns. The duke had been suitably surprised by the dish when Leonardo prepared it for him. The Lombard ruler is quite fond of meat from the pig and well knows of Leonardo's reputation as a brilliant cook, but it was the last meal he expected from a vegetarian's kitchen.
Leonardo isn't painting much these days, because the duke is presently more interested in civic planning and engineering -- moats, walls, war machines and the like. But the duke has been suggesting a fresco for the Dominican monastery of Santa Maria delle Grazie, and Leonardo is already plotting the depiction of another meal of bread and wine. Unbeknownst to his patron, the artist has in mind to use the fresco to convey a message so grand, so unexpected and so shocking that its deepest meanings will have to be encoded if the fresco is to be painted at all.
That will come later, though. Now, Leonardo occupies his peripatetic mind with plotting the geometry of what will become one of his greatest works. Lifting the bowl to sip the last of his soup, he contemplates proportioning the enormous work by what he calls secto d'aurea -- golden section or, as it is later renamed, the golden ratio. He visualizes the way lines will relate to each other, forming key angles. If the numbers governing the structure of a painting are right, he knows, the aesthetic will resonate deep within viewers.
Leonardo lifts the bowl to his lips, sips the last of his soup and mops up the final drops with a crust torn from the loaf, enjoying a secret latent in his lunch: the key to long life and good health is literally in his hands.
In this imagined scene, one of the world's great geniuses finishes a meal as ideally proportioned as any of his master works. What Leonardo da Vinci brought a tavolo (to the table) was as balanced as anything he consciously designed during his long career -- a career in which he devoted much energy to exploring and exploiting an ancient mathematical formula that's come to be known as the Golden Ratio. Leonardo's application of the Golden Ratio was arguably quite calculated when it came to his art, but it was likely intuitive when it came to his meal planning. Leonardo simply chose from the variety of fresh whole foods available to him, nourishing his body and mind with ease in a way we seem to have entirely abandoned today. The effect of proper proportions is just as powerful on the plate and in the body, however, as it is on a canvas. Leonardo dined on the particular ancient triumvirate of bread, wine and N cheese, which makes up the trinity of essential macronutrients -- carbohydrate, protein and fat.
Leonardo, for one, reaped the benefits. He was slender throughout his long life and famously strong. (He was said to be capable of bending horseshoes with a single hand or stopping a horse running past him at full gallop with his bare hands.) That's not to mention cultivating perhaps the most amazing brain ever -- one of the keenest, most synthetic and far-reaching intellects of all time!
While I can't guarantee that eating the same way will turn you into a great painter, inventor, architect, engineer, botanist, anatomist, astronomer or sculptor, I can promise that consciously re-creating the quality, combinations and proportion of foods Leonardo relied on will help you become lean and strong. Put these new proportions inside your body, and you'll soon see new proportions outside. All you have to do is crack "The Diet Code" -- master the simple formula that unlocks the secret to easy weight loss: maximizing nutrition and metabolism.
As a self-taught baker raised on my grandmother's rustic Italian cooking, I've thrived on meals much like those on which Leonardo must have supped. I make breads hardly different from those he would have known, using the exact same technology as bakers in Leonardo's time did. More directly, I've admired Leonardo's polymath mind and strived for decades to take what insights I could from him and apply them across multiple aspects of my life. Again and again, I've circled back to that one formula, famously encoded in the angles of his spread-eagle Vitruvian Man, among many of his other works, not to mention a litany of designs dating back to the earliest human civilizations: the Golden Ratio.
The Golden Ratio guided Leonardo in designing the famous fresco (The Last Supper) that I imagine him contemplating in the opening of this chapter and has been given credit for the enthralling effect of his Mona Lisa. He used it in his more practical undertakings, too, proportioning garden schematics, city planning layouts, everyday engineering plans and the like. In doing so, he was rediscovering wisdom from ancient Rome, Greece, Egypt and Mesopotamia, which had at that point been all but lost; among Leonardo's many extraordinary achievements count rescuing and revitalizing this vital knowledge.
The latest cutting-edge science and technology has proven just how deep this mathematical wisdom goes, documenting the Golden Ratio in everything from the pattern of galaxies and the shape of ocean waves to the spiral of seashells and the arrangement of petals in a rose. The same natural laws of design also dictate the form of human genetic material (the DNA double helix), the development of the human fetus and many details in the architecture of the human body. The Golden Ratio has been successfully applied by humans in so many arenas simply because they affirm the greater wisdom of nature when they do so.
This ancient formula has guided me in designing my own woodworking tools as well as whatever I create with those tools. The Golden Ratio gets credit for the impact of my abstract paintings, even fixating people who don't "like" modern art. As I later turned to bread making, what I'd learned about ideal proportions and numerical, geometric and mathematical relationships helped me perfect the breads I turn out daily at my bakery café.
And now, after decades of experimenting with applications like these, gradually extending the use of the Golden Ratio into new aspects of my life, it's finally impressed me most in the most mundane area: what I eat. I learned to use the same "magic" that perfected my tools and keeps my bread in such demand to balance my diet and fuel my body better than I'd ever done before. In tinkering with the Golden Ratio, I've discovered it describes the diet that is most closely aligned with the needs of the human body, providing foods and nutrients in the exact proportions that dictate the inherent design of the body. Once I'd figured out how to use the numbers this way, it seemed it should have been obvious: The food that's best for the body is the food that follows the same blueprint as does the human body. Of course the same formula that dictates how you are put together should also dictate how you feed yourself. And when it does, you are working in harmony with your body's systems, and the natural result is optimal health and ideal weight.
Beyond that, a diet laid out in the Golden Ratio meets -- in fact, exceeds -- all accepted nutritional standards. It also looks gorgeous on the plate, tastes amazing and satisfies completely. And it stabilized my weight right where it was while I was a high school football player, even as I hit my mid-40s! All that, plus I can fix dinner in less than half an hour. And my children will devour it.
Drawing on this same formula, "The Diet Code" is a complete, balanced, satisfying and sane way to eat. And the only thing it has you do without entirely is the denial and extremes of fad diets. It is the feeling of deprivation that makes fad diets -- even those on which many find short-term success -- unsustainable. "The Diet Code" is flexible enough to encompass what you like to eat. This plan can be followed by vegans, vegetarians or those who, like me, enjoy a good steak. If you like wine or beer with your dinner, that fits in, too. You can indulge your sweet tooth (I'll show you how) without fear of undermining your results. Yes, you can fly in the face of recent decades of dietary advice. Eat bread! Eat butter! With its unique, proportional harmony between food groups and practical advice distilled into plans for truly balanced meals that are as simple and quick to make as they are delicious, "The Diet Code" is perfect for a post-Atkins America.
But it's not meant to be a quick fix. Rather, "The Diet Code" is a lifetime plan that honors both the art and the science of eating well. It provides exacting information for maximizing metabolic power and nutritional impact while you luxuriate in the pure, sensual pleasure of eating truly good food -- foods that are easily acquired and prepared to suit people living today's hectic lifestyles. Drawing on traditional Italian foods -- and, as important, traditional Italian ways of cooking and eating -- "The Diet Code" guides you toward freedom from food fads and fears with an Old World perspective that requires you to eat for pleasure.
"The Diet Code" allows you to lose weight at nutritionists' recommended rate for healthy, stable and permanent weight loss: 1--2 pounds a week; 4--8 pounds a month. You'll be eating so well that the weight loss will seem almost effortless. Over time, eating this way will restructure your metabolism and alkalize your system, creating vibrant good health as well as maintaining your natural, healthy weight.
I've experienced the changes that eating this way has brought about in my own body and have witnessed it working for others as they discovered it at my shop, Sophia's. When I made the transition to eating essentially this way (years before I fine-tuned it exactly to the Golden Ratio), the extra pounds I'd been carrying around fell away. Once I refined my personal practices precisely to match the Golden Ratio, I grew leaner still and more muscular. The numbers on the scale didn't really change, since muscle weighs more than fat, but I looked somehow less fleshy, and my clothes fit differently. Equally important, meals proportioned according to the Golden Ratio gave me the energy I needed -- the baker's life is a physically demanding one.
As soon as I realized the power of combining foods this way in my own life, I designed a menu along the same lines to serve in my bakery café. My customers responded as enthusiastically as they always had to my bread and began asking how they could eat like this at home, too. And many reported losing weight.
One woman, for example, told me she had started on the South Beach Diet before switching over to "The Diet Code" approach. She then ate bread every day and still reached her original target weight on time, dropping 25 pounds in four months. She's now the perfect fit for one of the (size small) T-shirts I sell in my shop, the ones that brag "Body by Bread"!
Another woman in her 40s ate "The Diet Code" way during and after her recent pregnancy. Just recently she was in the store for a pizza with her family (including her 3-month-old) -- and back at her usual size 4, with no trace left of the 50 pounds she'd put on while pregnant. A woman in her 60s came into the shop excited about her early success with the plan. "You might not be able to tell, since I'm still stout," she said to me, "but I've lost 7 pounds already!"
Even my own daughter, tall and slim but, in the unfortunate way of teenage girls everywhere, conscious of her weight, lost 7 pounds in three weeks when she started eating "The Diet Code" way. Since she wasn't overweight to begin with, her weight then stabilized. On both counts (the loss and the stabilization), proportion was the key. My daughter had been eating a typical American diet at her mom's-- coffee cake for breakfast, mac and cheese for dinner -- heavy on the starch, without the fresh vegetables and the balanced fat and protein to complement the carbs.
Even people who don't need or want to lose weight can reap the benefits of following "The Diet Code." My son, who has that beanpole build many teenage boys specialize in, noticed a difference when he moved back in with me. Over dinner one night, he said, "Dad, have you noticed I haven't been sick in about a year and a half ? I haven't even had a cold. That's never happened before!" One of my employees recently told me I saved his life -- he no longer craved junk food once he started eating from my shop. Getting better nutrition as well as better taste, he said his body was just not happy when he ate anywhere else.
Now this book reveals a plan anyone can use to reap the same benefits my family, my customers and I have. As many times and as many ways as the Golden Ratio has been used through the ages, never before has it been applied to taking in foods and nutrients in proportion with the inherent design of the human body -- and the universe. When your food is correctly selected, combined, portioned and proportioned to be directly in sync with your natural metabolic needs, the inevitable result is optimal health and ideal weight.
"The Diet Code" unlocks all that for you. This is age-old math, but revealed here for the first time is how it works with food, nutrition and weight loss. The Golden Ratio has kept artists and scholars busy exploring its complexities for millennia, yet in the end "The Diet Code" is as simple as one, two, three, as you'll discover in Chapter 2. The basic weight loss formula is accessible to anyone and everyone. "The Diet Code" program consists of three stages, which I'll walk you through in Chapter 7: a gentle initiation for beginners, including the specific formula for creating Diet Code meals; more details in a somewhat more intense period in the middle of the learning curve; and a final phase in which you relax into a lifetime of eating this way, having internalized the principles.
As I developed meals according to the Golden Ratio, I saw that not only was I using the numbers Leonardo did, I was using his foods, too. Not in the strictest sense, of course -- tomatoes are a staple of mine, for example, but they weren't even introduced in Italy from the New World until near the end of Leonardo's lifetime, and I do eat meat, while he was a vegetarian for most of his adult life. Leonardo lived during a prosperous time in Italian history, in a financial and cultural capital of the world. Food was generally plentiful -- certainly for tradesmen and the upper classes -- and varied, thanks to a moderate climate, extensive agriculture and bustling worldwide trade.
Food was also fresh, whole, organic, local, free-range, antibiotic-free, pesticide-free, unprocessed and nutrient-dense. General dietary patterns at the time reflect what I've now worked out as Golden Ratio proportions: carbohydrate based and balanced by moderate protein intake and the inclusion of healthy fats -- Leonardo's lunch of bread, cheese and vegetable soup. For these reasons, I initially thought of the system I was working out as "the da Vinci diet," referencing not only the man and his math, but also the time (fifteenth century) and place in which he lived. His home village (Vinci) in the Tuscan hills was once ancient Etruria, a cultural and culinary center of Italy even before Roman civilization developed.
That seemingly simple meal fueled not just Leonardo's genius but also the genius of his whole era. He lived during the Renaissance, which saw unprecedented changes to Italy, Europe and the world. It was an awakening unlike any before or since; literally (in French, via Latin) a rebirth. The fifteenth century was a maelstrom of rebirth of human aspirations, values and visions, a time of unrepentant inquiry in science, perspective, sociology and theology. It saw perhaps the biggest paradigm shift of all time, and everything was in play. It was a rebirth following a millennium of church domination during which scientific learning was suppressed and a dark age marked by traveling laborers, serfdom and ignorance was spread. It was also a rebirth after the Black Death wiped out one-third of the population of Europe.
Father of the submarine, bicycle, automobile, flying machine and computer, along with his fine art legacy, Leonardo da Vinci was the ultimate Renaissance man. The author Maria Costantino wrote that he was "possibly the most versatile genius in the history of mankind, consistently demonstrating ideas far ahead of his time... Today both his scientific vision and his skill as an artist seem breathtaking."
Leonardo as a Renaissance man has particular personal meaning for me not in what he invented (wondrous though those are), but rather in what he ceaselessly strove to apply anew -- having inherited knowledge from a long chain of people who'd gone before him. In the age of intrigue, suspicion and unrest in which he lived, everyone was on the move, often for their very lives. Counts and dukes wrangled for alliances; artists migrated from region to region seeking paying patrons. Little wonder Leonardo encoded and secreted his occult knowledge in enigmatic works that baffle us today.
Having struggled myself for decades against indoctrination and cultural biases to keep methods and teachings of the ancients alive amidst a fast-paced consumer-oriented present, I have come to respect Leonardo's persistence as much as or more than his creative genius.
With the invention of the printing press, mass media were born, beginning with the printing of the Bible. Trade routes to the East brought Chinese gunpowder and Islamic mathematics to Europe; firepower and more sophisticated calculations led to regular trans- Atlantic navigation and the subsequent plundering of the Americas. Society's entire worldview changed, quite literally, making possible the acceptance of Copernican theory (that the earth revolves around the sun, not vice versa) and the proposition that the globe is spherical. Scientists and scholars working from ancient Greek and Egyptian texts upset the canon of the clergy. Renaissance culture brought about breakthroughs in thought and advances in art, architecture, anatomy, cosmology, global navigation, engineering, humanism and social reform.
Taken together, this was one of the most significant clusters of events in human history, and it simultaneously expanded and fractured provincial Europe. Yet through this revolution, cuisine and culinary arts stayed much the same. What happened in the fields and at the tables of ordinary people may have been the only area of life not subjected to a major upheaval. Those ordinary people were working from truths with roots too strong to allow dislocation. The people of the Renaissance performed intense physical and mental exertions on a balanced base of carb-rich foods, including grains, beans, vegetables and fruits, combined judiciously with healthy fats and proteins. Leonardo and his fellow Tuscan mangiafagioli (bean eaters) would have been eating bread, pasta, wine and all kinds of fruits and vegetables, including leafy greens, onions, nuts and figs -- from the whole, unadulterated and organic dieta (fare) available to him in the fifteenth century. Leonardo's diet was as much in rhythm with the design and function of the human body and the natural world around him as were his creative efforts.
You might say I'm a bit of a Renaissance man myself: abstract painter, master woodworker, amateur classical and jazz pianist and violinist, student of the martial arts -- as well as baker and chef. And a single father with three teenagers. So I'm serious about the personal expression made possible through preparing wonderful food, and equally serious about making that a real-life proposition. Some nights, you just need to get a meal on the table. But even in the midst of a busy life, that meal can be a thing of beauty: gracefully proportioned aesthetically and nutritionally, and perfectly in sync with the needs of the healthy human body.
To that end, part I of this book examines the math behind the Golden Ratio and how I came to realize that a magical-seeming series of numbers held the secret to healthy eating and weight loss. It considers how out of balance our diets have become, as we've lost touch with the foods that have nurtured us and sustained us for almost the entirety of human history, and shows how crucial it is for us to reclaim what we've left behind.
Part II of the book presents the practical part of the program, giving you a closer look at the science behind and simple methods for living by "The Diet Code." It includes a look at the problems with cutting any food group out of your diet -- a mystifyingly popular approach guaranteed to result in a drastically imbalanced diet destined to cause weight gain and malnutrition simultaneously -- and why the only food you need to avoid for weight loss success is fake food. One chapter describes the short list of Fundamental Foods at the heart of "The Diet Code" program and introduces how to apply the Golden Ratio to be sure you get them in the proportions necessary for weight loss.
Another gives you the five basic steps you need to take to implement "The Diet Code": choosing foods by asking yourself, What would Leonardo eat?; combining your chosen foods properly; proportioning those combinations well; speeding up your metabolism and slowing down your life. The last chapter in the section lays out the actual Diet Code program, which leads you through a three-part plan modeled on the path of classical tradespeople -- from Apprentice to Journeyman to Master -- with varied intensity according to your abilities and desires. There's a gentle initiation for beginners, including the specific formula for creating Diet Code meals, more specifics and details in a more intense phase in the middle of the learning curve, and a final phase in which you can relax into a lifetime of eating according to the program, having internalized the principles and reached your ideal weight.
Finally, in part III, I share advice on creating and maintaining a Diet Code kitchen, a range of flexible meal plans, and delicious, proportionally balanced recipes that are as quick to make as they are delectable. Diet Code food is inspired by the tastes and smells of my grandmother's Italian kitchen, honed by the ancient numbers of the Golden Ratio and presented here to allow you to get dinner ready in half an hour or less while stabilizing your weight and health without experiencing even a day of deprivation.
This book is a blend of ancient lore, Renaissance history, higher mathematics, hard science, personal stories, smart nutritional information and mouthwatering recipes anyone can manage. It unites the structural, mathematical principles of the cosmos that govern the growth of natural life and the aesthetic of natural beauty with wholesome, Mediterranean foods in a breakthrough formula for health, vitality and weight control. It's a provocative yet practical system of nutrition based on an intriguing mathematical phenomenon that's been utilized for millennia but never before applied to nourishing the human body. That makes this book absolutely unique in offering a more sustainable approach to food and eating pegged not to eliminating any one food group but to eating for enjoyment and pleasure, promoting health and reaching an ideal weight. My passion for excellent food, together with my understanding of how to combine the right foods for health, satisfaction and weight loss, gives you a plan you can quickly and easily put to work in your own life in your own kitchen, rediscovering along the way your natural waistline as well as the pure joy of eating for pleasure.
Our rightful heritage of wholesome eating as embodied by Leonardo's daily fare has been lost amidst our modern culture of fast food, fad diets and food phobias. The last three decades in particular, dominated by low-fat and then low-carb regimes that ensured nothing more than hordes of Americans eating in disastrously unnatural and imbalanced ways, have left us in sorry shape physically (more than 65 percent of Americans are overweight or obese) and even spiritually.
Experts have calculated that obesity now cuts more years off our life spans than does cancer or heart disease. Americans have dieted furiously, yet grown ever fatter, no matter which way the prevailing dietary winds blow. It is time to dump the diets that have not just failed us but also aggravated (and even created) the obesity problem in favor of a lifestyle plan that will really work, once and for all. It is a lifestyle plan that puts an end to fad diets, a lifestyle plan from the ages, for the ages. "The Diet Code" reflects an ancient way of eating we've fallen away from. It's rightfully ours, however, and we need to reclaim it.


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