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== Monthly Project Meetings (online)==
== Monthly Project Meetings (online)==
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PASADENA, Calif. (AP) ? The Bowl Championship Series will be replaced by the College Football Playoff.
PASADENA, Calif. (AP) ? The name says it all: College Football Playoff.
The major college football conference commissioners named the new postseason system that starts in 2014 on Tuesday, the first of three days of meetings at a resort hotel in the Rose Bowl's backyard.
Out with the Bowl Championship Series and in with the College Football Playoff.
"I don't think you can ever go too wrong calling something what it is," Pac-12 Commissioner Larry Scott said. "Things that make sense tend to stand the test of time."
Next on the agenda is to pick three more bowls for the six-bowl semifinal rotation ? the Rose, Orange and Sugar are already in ? and where the first championship game will be held on Jan. 12, 2015. That comes Wednesday.
Four bowls have bid to be part of the rotation. The clear front-runners are the Cotton, Chick-fil-A and Fiesta. The Holiday Bowl in San Diego also put in a bid, but even its organizers acknowledged they are a long shot at best.
The finalists to host the first championship game are Cowboys Stadium in Arlington, Texas, the billion dollar home of the NFL team and the Cotton Bowl, and Raymond James Stadium in Tampa, Fla., home of the NFL's Buccaneers and the Outback Bowl.
Arlington is the favorite, but the competition has been serious.
"I'm glad it has," Big 12 Commissioner Bob Bowlsby said Tuesday. "I think it will give us a better outcome."
Even before an official announcement about the name was made on Tuesday, the website www.collegefootballplayoff.com was up and running and allowing fans to vote on a new logo. And there also was a Twitter handle: @cfbplayoff.
"It's really simple. It gets right to the point," BCS executive director Bill Hancock, who will hold the same position in the playoff system, said at a short news conference.
"Nothing cute. Nothing fancy. We decided it would be best to call it what it is."
Premiere Sports Management in Overland Park, Kan., was hired to help come up with a name and brand the new system. A committee of commissioners handled the naming of the new system, and Hancock said they ran through "in the neighborhood of three dozen" names.
Scott said: "We're clearly trying to make a clear break from the BCS."
The new postseason format will create two national semifinals to be played New Year's Eve or New Year's Day, with the winners advancing. The six bowls in the playoff rotation will host marquee, BCS-type games on New Year's Eve or New Year's Day during the seasons they do not host a semifinal.
The first semifinals will be played at the Rose and Sugar bowls on Jan. 1, 2014.
Also on the agenda this week for the commissioners will be the composition of the selection committee that will set the field for the playoff. They have said they would like the committee to be similar to the one that picks the teams for the NCAA basketball tournament, made up of conference commissioners and athletic directors.
Bowlsby said he expected both current and former administrators to have a spot on the committee.
"The hardest thing is making sure we're arming whoever is on the committee with the tools that it takes to differentiate among closely proximal teams," Bowlsby said. "You have to have some metrics available to differentiate between three, four, five, six and seven.
"You can't just say we like blue uniforms and not gold uniforms. You've got to arm the committee with the tools that it takes to do their job."


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Harm to Kent
Local residents and businesses are horrified at the potential harm which may be done, such as:
Traffic congestion
It will not fix Operation Stack, it will only bring MORE lorries into our area, affecting the local residents and businesses. This has a knock-on effect for the whole of Kent and further afield.
The proposed lorry park to take 3500 – 4000 HGVs will devour 150 acres of countryside and farmland in the ancient village of Stanford, adjoining Areas of Outstanding Natural Beauty, along with all the existing flora and fauna we enjoy in the Garden Of England.
Air quality
The increased emissions and particulates produced by so many lorries concentrated into one area could kill vulnerable people living nearby.
Particulate 2.5 which are produced by diesel engines are so small that the human lung cannot filter them and thus they go straight into the blood stream. These particulates are directly linked to cancers, heart disease and lung disease, which all medical bodies accept cause premature death to thousands of people each year in the UK. There is no safe limit to these particulates entering the human body.
Sound pollution
The rumbling of Highways England's expected 540 HGVs per hour will be heard for miles around and refrigerated units run through the night too.
Light pollution
The proposed full lorry park capacity will be lit up like a small town at night. No more starry skies to admire.
even though most lorry drivers are careful, we already know what sort of disgusting litter is left by a few unscrupulous truckers, including bottles of urine and bags of worse. Our environment could be littered even more with the increase in lorry traffic and time spent parked.
We have been given no assurance about how the potential increase in crime will be handled, since we do not even have enough police officers in Kent now.
Emergency services
No one has been able to explain to those concerned about an emergency on the proposed lorry park, where there would be an increased risk of fire, for example. This would be an added burden to the emergency services, which are already overloaded. It appears no one has thought about emergency access if the sliproad is blocked (presumably through the village?!) and no thought to what emergency response times would be.
Some worry that a single large site holding multi-nationals could be a target for terrorism.
Of the two sites proposed, one is on a flood plain. 150 acres of tarmac will cause an immense run-off of polluted water which will need treating before it can be returned to the environment. The proposed pumping station associated with this is not reassuring.
Quality of life
Residents are understandably worried about the quality of life which they have worked so hard for will be destroyed, without so much as the courtesy of being consulted.


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When we were growing up, the standard in over-the-top excess was generally held to be the Beverly Hills mansion of TV producer Aaron Spelling (above, right). And, for some reason, the symbol of this let-them-eat-cake profligacy became Mrs. Candy Spelling's gift wrapping room (above, left).
Imagine, went the cries of disbelief, a whole room devoted to packing up gifts. Well, we figure if you happen to have 123 rooms at your disposal what's so wrong about devoting one to giftwrap? Frankly, after yet another Christmas lead-up spent on the dining room floor wrestling unspooling ribbons and disobedient tissue, the thought of a well-ordered wrapping station is rather seductive to us.
Not that wrapping needs to be complicated, Candy-style confections. Here are three recent giftwrap ideas we spotted that we found particularly charming.
Go monochrome, with one striking accessory (above). The effect wouldn't have been nearly as striking if the bow didn't match the paper, and how lovely the teal color draws you to the "eye" of the peacock feather.
Follow fashion's colors. Neon pink was a big story on the catwalks, often paired with a neutral, and look how modern the same combo looks on a present (from the windows of Bonpoint, above). The reason this works so well is that the paired ribbons are of different widths, so you get a nice play of textures as well as colors.
It really is the thought that counts. This gift (above) was for a celebration in New York, and not only is the paper a map of Manhattan, some of the destinations for the visit are marked with a red dot. You have to admit this is a pretty genius idea — and one we're definitely filing away for future use.
As this is our last post for the merry season, we send you the happiest of holiday wishes, and let them be wrapped in good cheer!


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My limited experience with Lent began as a young newlywed. I was determined to be true to my husband's Catholic faith, especially during Lent, a season celebrated with absolutely no fanfare by my Baptist ancestors. Our first year of marriage we lived in a little duplex apartment in Moscow, Idaho while my husband was in graduate school. I didn't know any Catholics in town but when Lent rolled around I dutifully prepared to observe meatless Friday meals.
The first week I served tuna casserole. Good so far.
The next week I prepared roast chicken. My husband didn't say much, just looked at me over the drumstick with a confused expression.
On successive weeks I alternated chicken and proposed tuna casserole. I say "proposed" because every time I said, "Oh honey, I thought I'd make Tuna Casserole tonight," he would respond with something like, "You don't have to do that. It's Friday. Why don't we go out and have bean burritos?" Who could resist an invitation like that?
This continued throughout Lent that first year and for the next few years as well. Chicken and "proposed" tuna casserole were our standby Friday night meals. As it turned out, we both learned something from those Lenten sacrifices.
It wasn't until much later that I discovered the real reason we ate out so much during Lent was because my husband hated tuna casserole. It reminded him of the one can version cooked by his mom.
After overhearing me share a chicken recipe with a friend, my husband finally figured out my affection for fowl. I thought meatless Fridays meant no RED meat, and chicken, therefore, was an acceptable Lenten alternate. Like fish, only with feathers.
Funny postscript to this story: my son's favorite meal is chicken schnitzel, chicken breasts pounded flat, lightly breaded and cooked in butter. He calls it "Flat Chicken." I once asked him why he liked it so much. His reply, "Because it tastes like fish." Good Catholic boy.
P.P.S. – My fellow Catholic Gene Editors asked me to post this story and to add my tuna casserole recipe. I didn't think this would be a problem until I realized that that the recipe probably joined the leftovers in the garbage. Instead, I offer a similar version adapted from a recipe in one of my mother-in-law's Slovenian cookbooks.Enjoy!
Noodle-Tuna Casserole
1 package egg noodles
1 or 2 cans tuna, drained
1 can Cream of Mushroom Soup
handful diced celery
pinch celery salt
1 cup grated cheese
crushed potato chips
Cook the noodles and drain. Butter a casserole dish. In a large bowl, mix noodles, tuna, soup, celery, celery salt and grated cheese. Place mixture in casserole dish and top with crushed potato chips. Bake uncovered at 350 until hot and bubbly, about 30 minutes.
Adapted from a recipe in Pots and Pans, Hermine Dicke, ed. (Joliet, Illinois: Slovenian Women's Union of America, 1982).


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NEWS- No rain: Dry September raises drought fears
Heading into fall after a drier-than-average summer, the Rivanna Water and Sewer Authority placed Charlottesville and Albemarle under a drought warning August 15. Concurrently, the city and county began a joint radio campaign of public service announcements warning, "Water is not a renewable resource."
According to data from UVA's McCormick Observatory, September's 0.69 inches of rain made it the fourth-driest September in Charlottesville history, well short of the 4.2-inch average for the month, and dangerously close to matching 1985's all-time low of 0.62.
The total is quite a change from last year's 7.28 inches that made September 2006 one of the wettest ever.
Jerry Stenger, research scientist in the UVA Climatology Office, says the phenomenon is due in part to the lack of big storms working their way up the East Coast from the Caribbean Sea.
"Usually, this time of year, some tropical system or its remnants will make its way up here, and even though we've had two Category-5 hurricanes make landfall in the Atlantic– the first time that's happened– they haven't gotten up here," he says. "One or two of those bad boys could change things in a hurry."
Additionally, Stenger blames lack of thunderstorms.
"We really rely on thunderstorms in the absence of tropical systems," he explains. "There just hasn't been a lot of widespread activity."
Given the rainfall shortfall, is an official drought in our immediate future?
No, says Tom Frederick, executive director of the Rivanna Water and Sewer Authority, who claims that efforts to promote conservation have apparently worked.
"The demand for water is down, and that's helping us to manage our water supply," he says. "We suspect very strongly that's due to conservation efforts, and we're exceeding the targets we set for a drought warning."
"Right now we're at about 9 million gallons a day, down from 10.5 million," says Albemarle Service Authority executive director Gary Fern. "If we continue to conserve at this pace, we feel pretty comfortable with where we are."
Frederick contends there are no immediate plans to declare a drought– and the increased restrictions on water use that such a declaration entails– especially considering that the changing seasons are working in favor of maintaining high water levels in underground water tables.
"Now that fall is coming, the deciduous trees are losing their leaves, and they don't consume as much water as they would in the summer months," explains Frederick, although he notes that should dry conditions continue into the autumn and winter, the city and county water supply will be in real trouble.
"We'll have huge concerns in this office if we don't get rain this winter," Frederick says. "We've had moderately dry summers in the past, but they've tended to follow winters when we got a decent amount of rain and the groundwater tables were high enough so the droughts were more moderate. If we have low groundwater tables going into next summer, it's dangerous."
The last time that happened was after the nearly snow-free winter of 2002 that created widespread drought conditions the following summer, despite the fact that the season's total precipitation was 11.21 inches, only 2.33 inches below the average.
Is recent climatological history about to repeat itself?
"These things come and go, and there are no discernible long-term trends," says Stenger. "There are no long-range forecasts that we can rely on for any guidance."
Stenger and Frederick agree that in spite of the oft-repeated public service announcements, water remains a renewable resource.
"It's a resource we should use wisely, but, yes, it is renewable," says Frederick.
"Being parsimonious of most resources is usually a good idea," says Stenger. "But for all intents and purposes, water is renewable in the long term."
Fern says he's gotten calls about the "renewable resource" line, and while he concedes that water does evaporate into the air and eventually fall again as precipitation, he stands by the advertisement.
"Sure, the hydrologic cycle is there," Fern says, "but within our service area, our reservoirs are limited in size, and once we use it up, it's gone."
Fern adds that a new series of PSAs will soon hit the airwaves, focusing on specific, everyday things people can do to curtail their water use, but he says he doesn't think they repeat the claim about water's renewability.


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A dozen films to be shown at this year's Maryland Film Festival have ties to Baltimore or Maryland — a record number, organizers say. Here are some of the highlights:
"12 O'Clock Boys" Maryland Institute College of Art grad Lotfy Nathan's documentary follows a teenager nicknamed Pug as he tries to get in good with the West Baltimore dirt-bike gang that gives the film its title. The film, Nathan's first, was a big hit at this year's South by Southwest festival. 7 p.m. Friday (MICA's Brown Center) and 5 p.m. Sunday (Charles Theatre 1).
"By and By: New Orleans Gospel at the Crossroads" The Electrifying Crown Seekers, the Big Easy's family-based gospel group, are the subject of this effort from Baltimore filmmakers Matt Bowden and Joe Compton. 8 p.m. Thursday and 11:30 a.m. Saturday (Charles 5).
"I Am Divine" Baltimore's favorite son/drag queen is the subject of this documentary, which includes interviews with his friend, John Waters. 10:30 p.m. Thursday (Charles 1) and 5 p.m. Saturday (Brown).
"I Used to Be Darker" This third feature from Baltimore's Matt Porterfield tells the story of a teenager who, after getting in trouble in Ocean City, seeks help from some Baltimore relatives who have their own problems. Shot entirely in Maryland. 8 p.m. Saturday and 2 p.m. Sunday (Charles 1).
"If We Shout Loud Enough" Local underground music favorites Double Dagger embark on their final tour. 10:30 p.m. Saturday and 2:30 p.m. Sunday (Charles 2).
"V/H/S/2" One of the segments on this horror omnibus was shot in Maryland by Frederick native and "Blair Witch Project" co-director Eduardo Sanchez. 11:59 p.m. Friday (Charles 1) and 11 p.m. Saturday (Brown).


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Grunge webbed ceilings
lunged lowly atop the impure
pagan elegance of lifestyle.
A tinfoil taped kitchen window
peered only in gold. Unfurled
garbage trashed the strewn
linoleum. Ruptured pipes
bled from the wooden walls.
A plate of cigarette ashes
censored the blushed areola
of paper girls, crinkled, rolled
and torn.
Stuffed sofas stabbed
open, suede skin of auburn.
Rubber bodies bed down like
damaged floorboards. Corvette
red gums crimped dabs of blood
to perspire. Travel bags packed
for home long ago robbed.
Water flogged denim and linen
wedged to spill over the skeletal
beds rid of sapiens. This
abandoned tabloid of an urban
omen made men mad by the odor,
who crowded ruined suits with
their fat wrists and bulbous bones.
Goddamn the white noise
in cold blood. It found us out.
The shortcoming of a man,
made manmade, running loud
and out of shape into the arms
of hell.
Mitch Green founded Rad Press Publishing in September of 2016. He is an avid artist in visual design and literature. Published in various literary journals and magazines: The Literary Yard. The Penmen Review. Vimfire Magazine – Mitch aims to seize the narrow line between all artistic mediums.
A few of his known poetic titles are: "Flesh Phoenix" "Monsters" "The Wolves Howled".
Offering his hand in graphic direction – his book design portfolio can be found here.
Follow Mitch and Rad Press Publishing on Instagram.


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Course Details for A.Y. 2018/2019
A. Year:
Basic information
Course Objectives
To give students a rigorous understanding of the theory of real- and vector-valued functions. Students will acquire an understanding of basic properties of the field of real numbers, concepts of infinity, limits of functions and methods for calculating them, continuity, differentiation, integration and Taylor series.
Course Content
- Set theory (basic notations and concepts), real numbers (basic properties, order, completeness), mathematical induction
- Sequences and series (convergence, divergence and irregularity, convergence criteria)
- Functions (injectivity, surjectivity, invertibility, composition)
- Limits (basic definitions, the Sandwich Rule, boundedness)
- Continuity (basic definitions, the Intermediate Value Theorem, numerical methods for solving equations)
- Differentiation (basic definitions, rules and properties, Rolle's Theorem, the Mean Value Theorem), L'Hopital's Rule (techniques and applications), Taylor's Theorem (polynomial approximations to functions, convergence criteria for Taylor series)
- Integration (basic properties, the Riemann definition, the Fundamental Theorem of Calculus, integration by parts and substitution, improper integrals)
- Limits and continuity of functions of several real variables (basic techniques, polar coordinates)
- Differentiation of real- and vector-valued functions of several real variables (partial derivatives, gradient, differential, Jacobi matrix)
- Integration of real functions of several real variables (simple domains, Fubini-Tonelli's Theorem, integration by substitution)
Learning Outcomes (Dublin Descriptors)
On successful completion of this course, the student should
have a good knowledge and understanding of basic properties of real numbers, functions; demonstrate an understanding of basic topics in the analysis of functions, including limits, continuity, differentiation, Taylor-MacLaurin series, and integration;
be able to apply his knowledge and understanding to tackle basic problems from applied mathematics and engineering; understand formal mathematical definitions and theorems, and apply them to prove statements about functions;
demonstrate skills in mathematical reasoning and ability to conceive a proof;
be able to explain the main notions and results of mathematical analysis;
demonstrate capacity to read and understand advanced texts.
Prerequisites and Learning Activities
Basic mathematical notions and methods as learnt at high school
Assessment Methods and Criteria
Written and oral exam
- Klaus Engel, Appunti del Corso di Analisi Matematica http://people.disim.univaq.it/~klaus.engel/ana1.pdf
- A.Marson, P.Baiti, F.Ancona, B.Rubino, Corso di Analisi Matematica 1 , Carocci.
- P.Marcellini, C.Sbordone, Esercitazioni di Matematica , Liguori.
- S.Salsa, A.Squellati, Esercizi di Matematica , Zanichelli. (vol. 1)
- M.Bramanti, C.D.Pagani, S.Salsa, Matematica , Zanichelli.
Internet Resources
Teaching material:
Course page updatesThis course page is available (with possible updates) also for the following academic years: university course catalogue .
Course information last updated on: 01 febbraio 2018, 15:18


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The New England Patriots played all day as if they were wearing ankle weights against the New York Jets, but still managed to push the game past regulation into overtime with a late and shining moment of clutch city from Tom Brady. Let's just say things went downhill fast soon as OT started.
In an act of madness the Patriots chose to kickoff, after winning the coin flip for overtime.
Here is the transcript of the coin toss at MetLife. Seems like Slater just made a mistake. Game-changer. pic.twitter.com/ajuyE0u2Ml— Kevin Seifert (@SeifertESPN) December 27, 2015
@MikeGarafolo pic.twitter.com/9dLTXxMSOv— Eli Chesner (@eli_chesner) December 27, 2015
Unsurprisingly it took the Jets a mere five plays to drive down the field for a six-yard TD pass from Ryan Fitzpatrick to Eric Decker for the win.


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Eddie McGuire has opened up about the way redundancies were handled at Channel Nine.Channel Seven sacks veteran reporterTen risks ratings disaster after cutsGuess who came to lunch?
When Eddie McGuire was forced to axe 100 staff from Channel Nine – barely a few months into his new role as CEO – he decided to give it to them straight.
Unfortunately, his HR department had other plans.
Instead of letting him sit down and talk with each unlucky worker, they made him read a scripted statement to them. He was also advised not to answer their questions.
"It was a disaster . . . the worst thing I did," McGuire confessed to his Triple M listeners last week. "These HR people come in, they have their set plays – and they never work."
That was in 2006: an annus horribilis of bad headlines for Nine. Of course, its redundancies were never going to be painless. But as McGuire found out, the advice from HR only compounded that pain.
Now, the embattled Ten Network seems intent on replicating these blunders with a series of ham-fisted sackings from its news department, including the removal of presenter Helen Kapalos.
And it is not alone: most TV and radio networks have swallowed the misconception that redundancies should be swift and brutal. No farewell to loyal audiences. No saying goodbye to colleagues. Just hand in your pass, pack your things and go. Now.
The theory is that a swift sacking equals a "clean break". The reality is that using a guillotine leaves a lot of blood. Badwill rises. Leaks spring. Rumours swirl.
The most bemusing aspect is that all this could be avoided through common decency. No one likes being sacked but a simple thank you, a farewell gathering and the option to work until the contract ends goes a long way towards reducing animosity.
Yet the idea persists that brutal axings are a hallmark of "decisive" management.
"Apparently in radio, people have to be sacked with some kind of great drama," Wendy Harmer, a former 2Day FM host, once told me. "You can't be told in advance you're going to lose your job. There has to be some sort of vile skulduggery."
Indeed, many hosts have no idea they're doing their final show until it's over. Often, they're sacked as they come off air and told not to return.
This happened to Mix FM's George McEncroe in 2009 – on April Fools' Day, no less. Eventually, her bosses convinced her it was no joke and McEncroe later described the experience as "very David Brent".
Others have endured rumours and even newspaper reports of their impending demise, including former Triple M hosts Peter Helliar and Myf Warhurst. By the time they were sacked, it was common knowledge in the industry they were making way for Eddie McGuire.
Likewise, Sydney newsreader Bill Woods was assured by Channel Ten management that recent reports of his sacking were wrong. Woods even told Fairfax Media he was looking forward to returning to work after the weekend – only to be sacked the moment he did.
Ten claims its decision had not been made when Fairfax Media reported it, just two days before it happened. It's hard to believe they weren't seriously considering it, though – and even harder to understand why they let Woods think he was safe.
If, on the other hand, Ten did decide to sack him just hours before doing so, it suggests such decisions are made on a whim: not a good look for a network in crisis.
Needless to say, Woods isn't the first newsreader to receive false reassurances.
In 2005, Beverley O'Connor was sacked by Channel Seven. As she wrote in the Herald Sun recently, "Execution day was also a Friday but they decided to do it a few hours before I was due on air. Not only were they dumping me, but I had to go on air and announce my own humiliating departure to Peter Mitchell at the end of the bulletin."
One executive looked her in the eye and promised she'd be given another job. That promise amounted to nothing.
It's hard to decide whether this is worse than the unvarnished cruelty of Seven's executives in sacking Mal Walden almost two decades earlier.
Last year, Walden told me, "We coined them the 'princes of darkness' because of their sheer acts of bastardry. I remember one guy standing at the door of the newsroom on a Friday and saying, 'I'm going back to Sydney now to draw up a list of those I'm going to fire on Monday. Enjoy your weekend.' "
What did this executive hope to achieve with such needless barbarism? Whatever his goal, it backfired spectacularly when almost all of Seven News' audience switched off in protest over Walden's sacking.
The most mystifying part of all this, however, is that such tactics are patently dumb.
People don't like seeing their colleagues treated badly. Even if they've escaped the axe themselves, it diminishes their respect for the company – leaving them happy to leak damaging information to other journalists.
If media companies want to cut costs, perhaps they could start with the overpaid HR executives who peddle the nonsense theories that McGuire learnt are no substitute for simple, decent treatment.
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text: Arts in Health Class Leads into InternshipsA new class in Hamline's College of Liberal Arts merged what could be thought of as vastly different disciplines, art and public health. The Arts in Health class, offered for the first time during January term of 2014, allowed students to explore real-world applications of art in the health field and the relationship of creativity to health. The class also served as a prerequisite for a valuable professional opportunity, an art therapy internship at Shriners Children's Hospital."This course and internship experience are truly at the heart of the kind of interdisciplinary and high-impact learning opportunities that Hamline prides itself on," Professor Sharon Preves, former co-director of Hamline's public health sciences major and chair of the Department of Sociology, said. The Art in Health class was taught by Nicola Demonte, an expert in art therapy, and involved hands-on activities that aimed to create a connection between personal health and the process of making art. Exploring the intersection of art and neuroscience, activities ranged from group painting, exploring the relationship between images in a collage using techniques from the Bauhaus, approaches in neuropsychology and neurophysiology, to challenges such a drawing an object without looking at the paper, or replying to questions by drawing instead of using words. The class also explored art education programs in healthcare settings, the history of anatomy and art, developmental stages in children's drawings, and the role of aesthetics and creativity using functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) studies."Public health is a rapidly growing field, and is projected to continue to grow over the coming decades as we deal with the high prevalence of chronic diseases, modifiable health behaviors such as inactivity and dietary choices, and our aging population," Lisa Stegall, chair of the public health sciences major, said. "A course and internship like this give students a unique niche that can prepare them to bring interesting skills to the career table. I also think that this is an example of liberal arts at its best."Students developed their observational and analytical skills by writing about images from various collections that include: Getty's Open Content project collection, the Minneapolis Institute of Arts, The Museum of Modern Art, New York University School of Medicine, the British Library, The Center for the History of Medicine at Harvard University, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, and Professor Demonte's collection of art from his art therapy sessions. In the course of his practice, Demonte has focused on drawing and painting techniques, developed individual and group art therapy programs, and is creating interventions to address the complex nature of autism, anorexia, depression, neurological disorders, post-traumatic stress disorder, schizophrenia and traumatic brain injury. 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Hello. My name is Alex. I'm 32 (33 in a few weeks). I reside in the Bay Area. I've been an Agnostic/Atheist for about a decade now, though I wasn't open about it until I was about 26. I was raised in an African-American Jehovah's Witness family up until the age of 13 when my parents separated and my Mother became Baptist and then "Non-Denominational", bringing myself and my two siblings along. I've always been into science (loved ZooBooks as a kid and wanted to become a zoologist or biologist when I grew up. Ended up in accounting) so early on I was very skeptical of some of the claims I heard in the Kingdom Hall and later in church because they never quite seemed to make sense or fit with what I knew (as a kid, and loving animals and dinosaurs, the story of Noah's Ark became a big source of doubt for me). As I got older and my critical thinking sharpened (as well as forming personal convictions and become socially aware) many of the teachings seemed to range from morally ambiguous to out immoral, but being young and wanting to be part of the group I hid my doubts and just kept going along.
The event that pushed me out of the flock was an experience I had at my Mom's church when I was visiting during college. We went to a service and her pastor gave a sermon about healing physical and emotional ailments, etc, then the music came on and people started dancing and going up the aisle to be "touched by the holy spirit". I went up there with a nudge from my Mom and younger sister and when I arrived before the pastor she told me to put my arms out to my sides and look up, then she spoke in tongues over me, poured some type of oil in her hands, placed her hand on my forehead, and said some words. Then absolutely nothing happened. I felt nothing. I was just standing there with a greasy face. The pastor played it up and and kept praying over me while the music was blaring and all the people in the congregation were dancing and clapping while other people who had come up were walking around crying or shouting "Thank you Jesus!!" In all the commotion the pastor leaned forward to me and told me to lie down on the floor and close my eyes. I thought it was odd but I went along with it and just laid there on the floor in the front of the Church and she went on the the next 3 people behind me. As I was lying there on the floor I made the mistake of opening my eyes and looking up and made eye contact with a young boy in the front row who just looked at me and then started laughing. At that point I thought to myself "What the hell am I doing here? This is complete BS."
I spent the next few years studying the history of religion and world history and came to the realization that not only had I been lied to for a very long time, I was never given the whole picture to begin with, and neither were my family members and friends. Initially I'd attempt to take a bit more militant approach to what I'd learned and tried to school my family members and friends on what they were missing, but I learned early on that while facts logically trump fiction, emotions are fact proof, and when someone is emotionally invested on to a lie based foundation to call it into question is seen as an emotional attack, so I'm a bit isolated among my friends and family. I became the "Apostate' to my girlfriend. My Mom attributed my beliefs to my bad relationship with my Dad and my rough childhood. They try to label it as a phase I would outgrow or a sign of depression. They couldn't accept that I simply found the stories untrue for intellectual and moral reasons, and I find it insulting.
So here I am, looking for other rational minds to connect with.
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Greets and salutes, Alex. Welcome to a place where people won't accuse you of going through a phase or hating a deity that doesn't exist or any one of the half-a-hundred other different specious things you hear from believers. That scene in the church had to be uncomfortable as all get-out, and if you took a powder from it and whatever belief it represented, you are hardly to be blamed.
In any case, we're glad you joined us! Do enjoy yourself here and if there's anything you need by way of help navigating the site, give a shout!
Welcome Alex, great to meet you! Your story about your militant period made me think of this quote for the SECOND time today (I just shared it on FB for similar reasons) but it seems appropriate to share again here:
"It is difficult to free fools from the chains they revere." - Voltaire
It took a while, a few years in fact, for my immediate family to come around and now my mom even records herself as a 'none' on medical forms. Though she's still a believer, having seen what some of the more zealous family members tried to do to me and my child, she decided religion was quite ugly and dangerous and she wanted no more of it. Many of my family members I no longer count as family and they know it. I told one in particular that I wouldn't stop and piss on her to put her out if I saw her on fire beside the road, in fact I'd probably throw lighter fluid at her and beep the horn! She tried to get my child taken from me and when that didn't work, she set about to poison her against me using her children as the go between. Lesson learned, family will do you first and you can choose your friends.
If they don't love you as you are Alex and accept your love without reservation, they do not deserve you.
Welcome, Alex. Thanks for sharing your evolution in rationality. Sounds a lot like my evolution and probably many others on N/V. I look forward to seeing more of your contributions.
Nice to meet you! Welcome to the site. I hope you enjoy it here.
Welcome Alex
Welcome, Alex. Thanks for telling part of your story.
You are not going through a phase. Once someone knows the rational truth, you know it. Rarely someone will return to religion, but for the most part almost no one goes back.
Militancy is understandable. It's hard to see the abuses, intolerance, manipulation, hypocrisy, inane silliness, judgement, agendas, and profiteering of religion and not be militant. But it's hard living a militant life. Can wear you out.
The important thing to know is you are not alone. There are great minds and generous hearts in the world with you.
It's amazing how long we've been fighting religion. If you haven't read Robert Green Ingersoll, you might find it interesting. In the 19th century, he wrote many works on the topic, such as:
Religion can never reform mankind because religion is slavery.
It is far better to be free, to leave the forts and barricades of fear, to stand erect and face the future with a smile.
It is far better to give yourself sometimes to negligence, to drift with wave and tide, with the blind force of the world, to think and dream, to forget the chains and limitations of the breathing life, to forget purpose and object, to lounge in the picture gallery of the brain, to feel once more the clasps and kisses of the past, to bring life's morning back, to see again the forms and faces of the dead, to paint fair pictures for the coming years, to forget all Gods, their promises and threats, to feel within your veins life's joyous stream and hear the martial music, the rhythmic beating of your fearless heart.
And then to rouse yourself to do all useful things, to reach with thought and deed the ideal in your brain, to give your fancies wing, that they, like chemist bees, may find art's nectar in the weeds of common things, to look with trained and steady eyes for facts, to find the subtle threads that join the distant with the now, to increase knowledge, to take burdens from the weak, to develop the brain, to defend the right, to make a palace for the soul.
This is real religion. This is real worship.
I am really cautious about what I say
I live near the Chesapeake Bay
People hate Nontheists here
They effectively tie them up and burn them at the stake by making sure they can't make an income
Just Kidding.. most people seem reasonably tolerant of all faiths..
I was just standing there with a greasy face.
I liked that line. I used to have to attend church as a child, but I have never had faith. I put up with all the shit that the Presyterian church was dishing out, but it was pretty non-intrusive compared to what you described. I think I would have had a very public meltdown if someone tried to make me participate in such a ridiculous custom as what you went through. Welcome to the rational side of the internet.
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Marble Season sometimes feels like one long, seamless shot of budding love, brimming violence and suddenly struck friendships. This is a highly physical, meta-Peanuts suburban universe in which adults are off-camera, but navigating other kids is plenty harrowing.Washington Post, Best Comics of 2013
The untold coming-of-age story from a contemporary comics master
Marble Season is the all-new semi-autobiographical novel by acclaimed cartoonist Gilbert Hernandez, author of the epic masterpiece Palomar, and co-creator of the groundbreaking Love and Rockets comic book series, along with his brothers Jaime and Mario. Marble Season is his first book with D&Q. It tells the untold stories from the American comics legends' youth, but also portrays the reality of life in a large family in suburban 1960s California. Pop-culture references—TV shows, comic books, and music—saturate this evocative story of a young family navigating cultural and neighborhood norms set against the golden age of the American dream and the silver age of comics.
Middle child Huey stages Captain America plays and treasures his older brother's comic book collection almost as much as his approval. Marble Season subtly and deftly details how the innocent, joyfully creative play children engage in (shooting marbles, staging backyard plays, and organizing treasure hunts) changes as they grow older and encounter name-calling naysayers, abusive bullies, and the value judgments of other kids. An all ages story, Marble Season masterfully explores the redemptive and timeless power of storytelling and role play in childhood, making it a coming-of-age story that is as resonant with the children of today as the children of the 1960s.
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Mr. Hernandez captures the wonder of childhood — the joy of imagination, an appreciation for comic books and all the ultimately petty but seemingly world-shattering trials and tribulations of friendships during that time in one's life.The New York Times
Hernández is brilliant on the particular embarrassments of growing up (the moment, say, when an older boy points out how illogical some pretend game is, and the whole illusion suddenly falls apart), and on the way its disappointments, however trivial, linger into adulthood.The Guardian
Wistful and wise, deft in its portrait of the psychology of childhood, Marble Season can be compared to Charles Schulz's Peanuts, with one crucial difference... in Marble Season, the slow encroachment of adolescence, both a threat and a promise, gives the work emotional heft.The Globe and Mail
Marble Season, in short, is beautiful...a quiet masterwork.The Comics Journal
[Marble Season] is an enchanting, absorbing work, a window into the childhood experience. Build into this handsomely designed hardcover is a space-time machine, a portal to Gilbert's past and to all of our pasts and to the present of every kid who is, ever was, and ever will be.The Comic Pusher
If you've ever been a kid with a crush, or a kid who made a new friend, or a kid who can't believe the injustice of the world, you'll love Marble Season.Slate
This lyrical, memorable book stands alongside the sequential work of Stanley's Little Lulu, Fitzgerald's Dennis the Menace comic books, and Schulz's Peanuts as a masterful, involving, funny, and real portrait of kids and their wide world, unlimited by reality—until, at least, it's time to go home for dinner.Publishers Weekly, starred review
Hernandez's clean and artfully simple illustrations belie the depth of adolescent angst and yearning portrayed in this excellent and all-too-true reminiscence.Miami Herald
The brilliance of Gilbert Hernandez's Marble Season isn't simply that it recreates childhood as many of us remember it, it's that the book captures the way children perceive the passage of time. It's not only the best graphic novel to do so, but perhaps the best work of art, period, to demonstrate how kids live in the eternal Now.London Free Press
Not only does Hernandez beautifully capture the dialogue and interactions between children, he even captures the way they stand — and the way they stop and reflect on a moment. There is a sense of awe and wonder present in children that is often forgotten — or neglected — in adulthood. Hernandez has not forgotten, and his careful drawings and occasional open panels invite readers to pause and remember when each day was a new adventure, and anything could happen if you just said the word: "pretend."Iowa Gazette
Marble Season is told in a vivid but measured style that invites readers to linger on those small moments that make childhood so special.Honolulu Star Advertiser
[Marble Season is] a benign, lovely, encouraging view of [childhood], and a tribute to those that have made this journey before Hernandez did. Marble Season is a formidable work from one of our best cartoonists.The Comics Reporter
[Hernandez] brings a quiet mastery to his spare panels, with their quick-stroked skies and exaggerated facial expressions.Chicago Tribune
[Marble Season is] a thoroughly winning work brimming with pleasures about childhood pleasures. As with those comparative carefree times, you may not want to see Marble Season end.Bookgasm


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I just ran 3 different benchmarking utilities (NovaBench, XBench & iBench) just for the heck of it, & after running all 3 I happened to switch to my desktop, fullscreen, & I have 5 files sitting there now that I didn't put there. 4 of them look like they came from a Photoshop directory, & the 5th one is "Msieve.dat." What happened & why & how, dunno. Really weird. Msieve.dat being a .DAT file, this has to be an important one for SpamSieve. I did a search for it on my HDD using the 3rd party "EasyFind" util, searched for hidden files too, hoping to find that it'd maybe just been duplicated but noooo… the only one around was the one on my desktop. And I know it don't go there.
I have got to make sure my wonderful SpamSieve is running properly & on all 8 cylinders 'cause I get about 250 or so crapmails every single day & I've got SpamSieve trained at about 99.5% accuracy. I used to use one of those online spam filter services where you change your MX records in your domain's email setup, but I'd prefer to use SpamSieve for now because the MX one would periodically (i.e, at least one every couple of days) snag good stuff, even though I'd immediately whitelist those good ones in the "snagged" screen that lists all the crap O' the day there.
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This goofy glitch that happened on my Macbook may have altered the file's attributes too, maybe, so on your HDD the file may be tagged to be hidden, don't know. And it may be in a hidden system-type of directory.
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Abstract: This paper investigates the importance of the educational mix of employees at the firm level for the probability of firms being involved in innovation activities. We distinguish between four types of innovation: product, process, organisational, and marketing innovation. Moreover, we consider three different types of education for employees with at least 16 years of schooling: technical sciences, social sciences, and humanities. Furthermore, we examine the influence of these different innovation activities on firm productivity. Using a rotating panel data sample of Danish firms, we find that different types of innovations are related to distinct educational types. Moreover, we find that firms that adopt product and marketing innovation are more productive than firms that adopt product innovation but not marketing innovation and firms that adopt marketing innovation but not product innovation. In addition, firms that adopt organisational and process innovation demonstrate greated productivity levels than forms that adopt organisational innovation but not process innovation that again demonstrate greater productivity than firms that do not adopt process innovation but not organisational innovation. Finally, we establish that product and marketing innovation as well as organisational and process innovation are complementary inputs using formal tests for supermodularity. Complementarity can be rejected for all other pairs of innovation types. URI: http://hdl.handle.net/10398/8498
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Parasitoid turns its host into a bodyguard
There are many examples of parasites that induce spectacular changes in the behaviour of their host. Flukes, for example, are thought to induce ants, their intermediate host, to move up onto blades of grass during the night and early morning. There, they firmly attach themselves to the substrate with their mandibles, and are thus consumed by grazing sheep, the fluke's final host. In contrast, uninfected ants return to their nests during the night and the cooler parts of the day. As another example, terrestrial insects parasitized by hairworms commit suicide by jumping into water, where the adult worms reproduce.
Behavioural changes like these are thought to be induced by the parasite so as to increase its transmission to the final host, but there are alternative explanations. It is possible, for example, that the hosts already behaved differently before becoming infected. Hence, infection is a consequence of different behaviour, not its cause.
Increased transmission can also be called into question: the behavioural changes of the host may result in increased attacks by other non-host animals, and this would seriously decrease the probability of transmission. Increased transmission should therefore always be tested under natural conditions.
In a recent publication in the online, open-access journal PLoS ONE, a research team from University of Amsterdam, the Netherlands, and the Federal University of Viçosa, Brazil, led by Arne Janssen, now offer evidence that behavioural changes of a host are indeed beneficial to the parasite in the field. In research supported by WOTRO, carried out in Brazil, they studied a moth, the caterpillars of which feed on leaves of the native guava tree and on an exotic eucalyptus. Small caterpillars are attacked by an insect parasitoid wasp, which then quickly inserts up to 80 eggs into it.
Inside the caterpillar host, a cruel drama takes place: the eggs of the parasitoid hatch and the larvae feed on the body fluids of the host. The caterpillar continues feeding, moving and growing like its unparasitized brothers and sisters. When the parasitoid larvae are full-grown, they emerge together through the host's skin, and start pupating nearby. Unlike many other combinations of host and parasitoid, the host remains alive but displays spectacular changes in its behaviour: it stops feeding and remains close to the parasitoid pupae (see photo). Moreover, it defends the parasitoid pupae against approaching predators with violent head-swings (see movies of predatory bug attack in the article at PLoS ONE).
The caterpillar dies soon after the adult parasitoids emerge from their pupae, so there can be no benefit whatsoever for the caterpillars. In contrast, unparasitized caterpillars do not show any of these behavioural changes, but continue feeding and developing into adults. The research team found that, in the field, parasitoid pupae which were guarded by caterpillars suffered half as much predation as those which had no bodyguard. Hence, the behavioural changes of the host result in increased survival of the parasitoids due to the host that acts as a bodyguard of the parasitoid pupae.
Whereas it is still unclear how the parasitoid changes the behaviour of its host, it is tempting to speculate. The research team found that one or two parasitoid larvae remained behind in the host. Perhaps these larvae affect the behaviour of the caterpillar, and sacrifice themselves for the good of their brothers and sisters.
Citation: Grosman AH, Janssen A, de Brito EF, Cordeiro EG, Colares F, et al. (2008) Parasitoid Increases Survival of Its Pupae by Inducing Hosts to Fight Predators. PLoS ONE 3(6): e2276. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0002276 -- http://www.plosone.org/doi/pone.0002276
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The Devil You Know
Submitted by Tyler Durden on 11/12/2012 19:30 -0500
Via Mike Krieger of Liberty Blitzkrieg blog,
Politics is the entertainment branch of the Military-Industrial Complex.
- Frank Zappa
Democracies die behind closed doors.
- Judge Damon J. Keith
Every act of creation is first of all an act of destruction.
My Thoughts on the Election: The Devil You Know
Regular readers know that I voted for the Libertarian candidate for President, former Governor of New Mexico, Gary Johnson. I outlined my reasons for this choice in several posts, most definitively in my piece Meet Gary Johnson: The Libertarian for President Polling at 7% in Colorado. While I was already excited for my first act of Presidential civil disobedience, I didnt realize how truly liberating it would feel until the next morning.
Many Americans voted for the lesser of two evils and were disappointed
in the result. This must have been an emotional double whammy in the sense that not only did the guy you disliked so much that you were willing to vote for a candidate you didnt like win, but you didnt vote your conscience.
Personally, I didnt have to deal with either emotion because I voted for the person I liked the most despite residing in a swing state. What allowed me to do this was the complete and total recognition that under both major candidates America loses.
My major issues are:
- The Federal Reserve scam and Wall Street theft.
- Civil liberties and the destruction of the Constitution.
- Our aggressive foreign policy and imperial wars abroad that help only the oligarchs and impoverish the masses.
On these three issues, Mitt Romney would have been as bad if not worse than Obama and that is why Mitt Romney lost. There has been a lot of talk in the past few days about the future of the Republican Party and rightly so.
The strange genius of Obamas first term was that it was a perfect continuation of the disastrous policies of George W. Bush, and he was able to get away with it because of the left cover that the brainwashed fake liberal class in America provided him.
This left the Republican establishment desperate and confused and this came through crystal clear in Romneys Presidential run.
Unless the Republican Party rids itself of the chicken-hawk, neo-con, warmongering contingency that seems to have a peculiar obsession with the female genders reproductive habits, they are doomed to disappear.
It is so out of step with the growing political awakening in America its not even funny.
Meanwhile, the Democratic Party has basically become the Republican party under George W. Bush with the exception that they support abortion and gay marriage.
Politics is becoming very interesting indeed.
I have to admit that I was much less irritated by Obamas victory on Wednesday morning than I expected to be.
There are several reasons for this.
First of all, he is the devil we know. By this I mean that the resistance to Obama and his crony-capitalist, fascist policies is reasonably well advanced.
Obama spent his entire first term blaming his predecessor for the crappy economy.
He will have no one to blame but himself in the collapse that is coming.
This is good and will allow people to finally focus on some real issues.
Furthermore, there are many prominent progressive journalists and activists that held his feet to the fire throughout his first term and will continue to make the arguments in the second.
On the other side of the political spectrum, although Gary Johnson received a disappointing 1% of the popular vote, he still did get 1.1 million votes and the Libertarian movement is strongest with the youth, which is of course the future.
While still only a bud barely breaking the surface of the soil, the Liberty Movement is alive and well and will only grow in the years ahead, as power is transitioned from the baby boomers and their tired ideas to a new generation that sees the world very differently from their parents.
I believe that had Romney won, the fight to really change things would have been delayed.
His supporters would have held back criticism for a while as they hoped that he would make it all better.
It would have take a little while for them to realize that he is just another crony capitalist oligarch puppet.
Based on his comments and Wall Street backing, there is no doubt that he would never have done absolutely zero in the realm of structural reform.
The country has cancer, not a common cold, and our response therefore must be much more serious than either of these corporate candidates are willing to commit to.
We know that such legitimate change will not come from the political class and Gary Johnsons disappointing result proves to me that things will have to get ten times worse before the public gets the joke.
Unfortunately, it will get ten times worse in the coming years, and I strongly believe that 2013-2016 will be a historic period in the political transformation of the United States.
The show is over.
Its time to buckle up.
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fresh cold storage Jinxiang red garlic / purple garlic / normal white garlic
- Garlic
- Shandong China (Mainland)
- 1 Carton
- US $700 - $1600 / Metric Ton
- 10kg/20kg mesh bag/ctn
- around 7 days after receipt of 30% deposit
- T/T with 30% before production, 70% balance before delivery; L/C
- Supply four seasons, all the year round. 280 Metric Ton/ Metric Tons per Month
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fresh cold storage Jinxiang red garlic / purple garlic / normal white garlic
Quick Detail:
Style: Fresh
Product Type: Liliaceous Vegetables
Type: Garlic
Cultivation Type: Organic
Size (cm): 4.5cm, 5.0cm, 5.5cm, 6.0cm, 6.5cm
Certification: Global Gap, SGS, HACCP, ISO 9001
Weight (kg): 10/20
Place of Origin: Shandong China (Mainland)
Brand Name: Garlic
Model Number: G029
H.S Code (NCM): 0703.20
Harvest Time: in May
Supply Period: all the year round
Packages: 200g, 250g, 500g, 0.5lbs, 1lbs, 1kg, 3p, 4p, 5p, 10kg, 20kg ( carton/bag) ---according to customer's requirement
Colors: Pure White Garlic & Normal White
Garlic Uses: Cooking, Medicinal, Seeds, Industrial
Origin: local production
Advantage: intergrating process, store and export in a body
chinese red cold garlic plant in Pizhou planting areas normal white garlic size 4.5-6.5cm up
1. Variety available: normal white garlic, pure white garlic
2. Grade: Excellent quality, all kinds of garlic
3. Processing base: Jinxiang, Shandong, China
4. Supply period: all the year round
4.1) Fresh seasons: Early June to Sep.
4.2) Cold storage seasons: Sep. to next June
5. Supply capacity: 3,000MT/year
6. Size: 4.0cm / 4.5cm / 5.0cm / 5.5cm / 6.0cm / 6.5cm
7. Packing:
7.1) Loose packing: 20kg/mesh bag, 15kg/mesh bag, 10kg/mesh bag, 5kg/mesh bag, 20kg/ctn, 15kg/ctn, 10kg/ctn, 8kg/ctn, 6kg/ctn, 5kg/ctn, 4kg/ctn
7.2) Small packing: 3pcs/net bag, 4pcs/net bag, 5pcs/net bag,
250g/net bag, 500g/net bag, 1000g/net bag
7.3) Customer's packing available upon request.
8. Minimum order: 40RHC
9. Conveyance:
9.1) 25MT per 40RHC: carton + mesh bag packing
9.2) 28/30MT PER 40RHC: mesh bag packing
9.3) 26MT per 40RHC: carton bulk packing
10. Price terms: EXW, FOB
11. Rich experience of profession exportation ensures us to deal the whole situation efficiency and with high quality.
12. Inspection Certificate: Certificate of Origin, Phytosanitary Certificate and Inspection Certificate of Quantity.
Medicinal use and health benefits
Animal studies, and some early research studies in humans, have suggested possible cardiovascular benefits of garlic. A Czech study found garlic supplementation reduced accumulation of cholesterol on the vascular walls of animals. Another study had similar results, with garlic supplementation significantly reducing aortic plaque deposits of cholesterol-fed rabbits. Another study showed supplementation with garlic extract inhibited vascular calcification in human patients with high blood cholesterol. The known vasodilative effect of garlic is possibly caused by catabolism of garlic-derived polysulfides to hydrogen sulfide in red blood cells (RBCs), a reaction that is dependent on reduced thiols in or on the RBC membrane. Hydrogen sulfide is an endogenous cardioprotective vascular cell-signaling molecule.
A 2012 meta-analysis of randomized, double-blind, placebo-controlled trials looking at the effects of garlic on serum lipid profiles, found garlic was superior to placebo in reducing serum total cholesterol and triglyceride levels. Compared with the placebo groups, serum total cholesterol and triglyceride levels in the garlic groups was reduced by 0.28 (95% CI, −0.45, −0.11) mmol L⁻¹ (P = 0.001) and 0.13 (95% CI, −0.20, −0.06) mmol L⁻¹ (P < 0.001), respectively.
Allium sativum has been found to reduce platelet aggregation and hyperlipidemia.
In 2007, the BBC reported Allium sativum may have other beneficial properties, such as preventing and fighting the common cold. This assertion has the backing of long tradition in herbal medicine, which has used garlic for hoarseness and coughs. The Cherokee also used it as an expectorant for coughs and croup. However, in contrast to these earlier claims concerning the cold-preventing properties of garlic, a 2012 report in the Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews concludes that "there is insufficient clinical trial evidence regarding the effects of garlic in preventing or treating the common cold. A single trial suggested that garlic may prevent occurrences of the common cold but more studies are needed to validate this finding. Claims of effectiveness appear to rely largely on poor-quality evidence."
Garlic is also alleged to help regulate blood sugar levels. Regular and prolonged use of therapeutic amounts of aged garlic extracts lower blood homocysteine levels and has been shown to prevent some complications of diabetes mellitus. People taking insulin should not consume medicinal amounts of garlic without consulting a physician.
Garlic was used as an antiseptic to prevent gangrene during World War I and World War II. More recently, it has been found from a clinical trial that a mouthwash containing 2.5% fresh garlic shows good antimicrobial activity, although the majority of the participants reported an unpleasant taste and halitosis.
Garlic cloves are used as a remedy for infections (especially chest problems), digestive disorders, and fungal infections such as thrush. Garlic can be used as a disinfectant because of its bacteriostatic and bactericidal properties.
Garlic has been found to enhance thiamin absorption, and therefore reduces the likelihood for developing the thiamin deficiency beriberi.
In 1924, it was found to be an effective way to prevent scurvy, because of its high vitamin C content.
Garlic has been used reasonably successfully in AIDS patients to treat Cryptosporidium in an uncontrolled study in China. It has also been used by at least one AIDS patient to treat toxoplasmosis, another protozoal disease.
Garlic supplementation has been shown to boost testosterone levels in rats fed a high protein diet.
A 2010 double-blind, parallel, randomized, placebo-controlled trial, involving 50 patients whose routine clinical records in general practice documented treated but uncontrolled hypertension, concluded, "Our trial suggests that aged garlic extract is superior to placebo in lowering systolic blood pressure similarly to current first line medications in patients with treated but uncontrolled hypertension."
Garlic, raw
Nutritional value per 100 g (3.5 oz)
623 kJ (149 kcal)
33.06 g
- Sugars
1 g
- Dietary fiber
2.1 g
0.5 g
6.36 g
Thiamine (vit. B1)
0.2 mg (17%)
Riboflavin (vit. B2)
0.11 mg (9%)
Niacin (vit. B3)
0.7 mg (5%)
Pantothenic acid (B5)
0.596 mg (12%)
Vitamin B6
1.235 mg (95%)
Folate (vit. B9)
3 μg (1%)
Vitamin C
31.2 mg (38%)
181 mg (18%)
1.7 mg (13%)
25 mg (7%)
1.672 mg (80%)
153 mg (22%)
401 mg (9%)
17 mg (1%)
1.16 mg (12%)
14.2 μg
Domestically, garlic is stored warm [above 18 °C (64 °F)] and dry to keep it dormant (lest it sprout). It is traditionally hung; softneck varieties are often braided in strands called plaits or grappes. Peeled cloves may be stored in wine or vinegar in the refrigerator. Commercially, garlic is stored at 0 °C (32 °F), in a dry, low-humidity environment. Garlic will keep longer if the tops remain attached.
Garlic is often kept in oil to produce flavored oil; however, the practice requires measures to be taken to prevent the garlic from spoiling. Untreated garlic kept in oil can support the growth of Clostridium botulinum which causes the deadly botulism illness; refrigeration will not assure the safety of garlic kept in oil. To reduce this risk, the oil should be refrigerated and used within one week. According to wikihow, the garlic immersed in oil should be stored in the freezer and not the fridge. Commercially prepared oils are widely available. Manufacturers add acids and/or other chemicals to eliminate the risk of botulism in their products. Two outbreaks of botulism related to garlic stored in oil have been reported.
In 1961, Chester Lilley from Kent in England was the first person to transform garlic into a pill form for storage. Although not widely accepted at the time for culinary uses, a capsulate solution for both the storage and simple dosing of garlic has become commonplace.
Pure white garlic, Normal white garlic
Fresh garlic: early June to Sep / Cold store garlic: Oct. to next May
chinese red cold garlic plant in Pizhou planting areas normal white garlic size 4.5-6.5cm up
We have our own farms and factories.
Competitive prices as well as favorable payment terms.
4.5cm ~5.0cm; 5.0~5.5cm; 5.5~6.0cm; 6.5up
Exporting standard
no root, clean, no black mould, not broken, no splits on the skin,
no internal germination
growth, no insects or fungous stuff.
Thick bright skin, whole and strong texture, plump shaped bulbs.
Weight: 40'RH
1.26-30MT/40' reefer container packing in mesh bags.
2.26.-28MT/40' reefer container packing in carton
Loose packing:
10kg/ctn, 9kg/ctn, 5kg/ctn, 10kg/mesh bag, 20kg/mesh bag,
Small packing
1, In 1kgx10bags into 10kg net carton
2, In 500gx20bags into 10kg carton
3, In 250gx40bags into 10kg carton
4, In 200gx50bags into 10kg carton
5, In2pc/3pc/4pc/5pc
peraginto4kg/5kg/10kg/30lbs carton
6, In 1kg into 5kg mesh bag
7, In 500g into 5kg mesh bag
Culinary uses
Garlic is widely used around the world for its pungent flavor as a seasoning or condiment.
The garlic plant's bulb is the most commonly used part of the plant. With the exception of the single clove types, garlic bulbs are normally divided into numerous fleshy sections called cloves. Garlic cloves are used for consumption (raw or cooked) or for medicinal purposes. They have a characteristic pungent, spicy flavor that mellows and sweetens considerably with cooking.
Other parts of the garlic plant are also edible. The leaves and flowers (bulbils) on the head (spathe) are sometimes eaten. They are milder in flavor than the bulbs, and are most often consumed while immature and still tender. Immature garlic is sometimes pulled, rather like a scallion, and sold as "green garlic". When green garlic is allowed to grow past the "scallion" stage, but not permitted to fully mature, it may produce a garlic "round", a bulb like a boiling onion, but not separated into cloves like a mature bulb. Additionally, the immature flower stalks (scapes) of the hardneck and elephant types are sometimes marketed for uses similar to asparagus in stir-fries.
Inedible or rarely eaten parts of the garlic plant include the "skin" and root cluster. The papery, protective layers of "skin" over various parts of the plant are generally discarded during preparation for most culinary uses, though in Korea immature whole heads are sometimes prepared with the tender skins intact. The root cluster attached to the basal plate of the bulb is the only part not typically considered palatable in any form.
Garlic is a fundamental component in many or most dishes of various regions, including eastern Asia, South Asia, Southeast Asia, the Middle East, northern Africa, southern Europe, and parts of South and Central America. The flavor varies in intensity and aroma with the different cooking methods. It is often paired with onion, tomato, or ginger. The parchment-like skin is much like the skin of an onion, and is typically removed before using in raw or cooked form. An alternative is to cut the top off the bulb, coat the cloves by dribbling olive oil (or other oil-based seasoning) over them, and roast them in an oven. Garlic softens and can be extracted from the cloves by squeezing the (root) end of the bulb, or individually by squeezing one end of the clove. In Korea, heads of garlic are fermented at high temperature; the resulting product, called black garlic, is sweet and syrupy, and is now being sold in the United States, United Kingdom and Australia.
Garlic may be applied to different kinds of bread to create a variety of classic dishes, such as garlic bread, garlic toast, bruschetta, crostini and canapé.
Oils can be flavored with garlic cloves. These infused oils are used to season all categories of vegetables, meats, breads and pasta.
In some cuisines, the young bulbs are pickled for three to six weeks in a mixture of sugar, salt, and spices. In eastern Europe, the shoots are pickled and eaten as an appetizer.
Lightly smoked garlic is becoming increasingly popular in British and European cuisine. It is particularly prized for stuffing poultry and game, and in soups and stews. In both these cases it is important to utilize the undiscarded skin, as much of the smoke flavor is situated there, rather than in the cloves themselves.
Immature scapes are tender and edible. They are also known as "garlic spears", "stems", or "tops". Scapes generally have a milder taste than the cloves. They are often used in stir frying or braised like asparagus. Garlic leaves are a popular vegetable in many parts of Asia. The leaves are cut, cleaned, and then stir-fried with eggs, meat, or vegetables.
Mixing garlic with egg yolks and olive oil produces aioli. Garlic, oil, and a chunky base produce skordalia. Blending garlic, almond, oil, and soaked bread produces ajoblanco.
Garlic powder has a different taste from fresh garlic. If used as a substitute for fresh garlic, 1/8 teaspoon of garlic powder is equivalent to one clove of garlic.
Spiritual and religious uses
Garlic has been regarded as a force for both good and evil. According to Cassell's Dictionary of Superstitions, there is an Islamic myth that considers that after Satan left the Garden of Eden, garlic arose in his left footprint and onion in the right. In Europe, many cultures have used garlic for protection or white magic, perhaps owing to its reputation as a potent preventative medicine. Central European folk beliefs considered garlic a powerful ward against demons, werewolves, and vampires. To ward off vampires, garlic could be worn, hung in windows, or rubbed on chimneys and keyholes.
In both Hinduism and Jainism, garlic is considered to stimulate and warm the body and to increase one's desires. Some devout Hindus generally avoid using garlic and the related onion in the preparation of foods for religious festivities and events. Followers of the Jain religion avoid eating garlic and onion on a daily basis.
A belief among some Hindus is that when Devas and Asuras fought for nectar during churning of the ocean of milk (Samudramathan) in the other world, two Asuras were able to get access to nectar and had some quantity in their mouths in stealthy ways. Knowing the Asuras' foul play the God cuffed the heads of those Asuras before they could swallow it and as a result nectar fell down on the earth from their mouths in drops which later grew as garlic; that is why the vegetable has such wonderful medicinal properties.
In some Buddhist traditions, garlic - along with the other five "pungent spices" - is understood to stimulate sexual and aggressive drives to the detriment of meditation practice.
In the Philippine folklore garlic is used to drive away monsters.
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Ottawa: the town that fun will remember, after it wakes up with a wicked hangover.
Well, that may be a bit of an overstatement at this stage — but the city did take a solid step forward in its relationship with fun Tuesday night, with two major New Year's Eve destinations making their debut.
Thousands came out to both the Sparks Street "Times Square Experience" and to a Hogmanay party put on by the Scottish Society of Ottawa at City Hall. ("Hogmanay" is the Scots name of the last day of the year.)
Both events had live music and alcohol while managing to stay family-friendly. Each was an attempt to produce the type of destination event that the city has been lacking on New Year's Eve. While time will tell whether either, or both, will grow into a signature event for Ottawa, each can claim success in its first run. Attendance is hard to assess, since neither free event issued tickets, but both clearly drew large crowds.
"It's been a great success for Sparks Street and the Hogmanay," Ottawa Mayor Jim Watson said in an interview on Sparks Street. The mayor noted that tickets for another New Year's Eve party, at the Convention Centre, were also sold out.
"I'm very proud and happy to have all of these events going on in the downtown, because for a number of years we were viewed as a bit of a city that fun forgot on Dec. 31. But (Sparks Street) is packed and it's great and the Hogmanay at City Hall is amazing," Watson said. "It's brought some real life to the downtown on an important day."
The outdoor portion of Hogmanay featured the city's Rink of Dreams and a stage for the Barra MacNeils and other live acts. The indoor portion boasted what seemed like what must have been every bagpipe for a few hundred kilometers around.
There with her children and grandchildren was Lilian Alyea, who grew up with Hogmanay in Glasgow, whence she came 56 years ago as a teenager.
The idea to liven Ottawa New Year's with the traditional Scottish celebration was "pairfect," she said.
Hogmanay is a big deal in Scotland, she said, and is always a great time.
"Everyone's your friend," she said.
At 7 p.m., the organizers held a little countdown to Scottish midnight and Alyea was ready for that, too. In her purse was a little bottle.
"We always have a wee dram at 7:00, so it's the same time as Scotland."
John Ivison, one of the Hogmanay organizers (and a columnist for the Citizen's sister paper the National Post), said he was happy the evening transitioned well from a more family-style event early on to something more stage-oriented later. Ivison said he was pleased with the event — even though he had to stay sober to help run it.
"I've had one beer," he said.
On Sparks Street, the foot-traffic was the type much longed-for on the usually too-empty pedestrian mall. The venue benefited from nice weather, not too cold, right around zero, and with just enough of a light snow coming down to look pretty in the stage's coloured lights.
Christine Levesque, 27, said the mall was a "nice and cozy" place for the stage. She said she came out partly because she liked the headlining act, Arkells, and partly because it's the type of event option she was happy to have, especially after just getting back to town after visiting friends.
"Yeah, I didn't have a plan," she said.
It was a new type of event for the city, but with some distinctly Ottawa touches. On the blocks surrounding Sparks Street, the orderly pedestrians still crossed to the "Times Square Experience" only when the traffic signals permitted. And among the snacks for sale was Jamie's Cracked Corn, which sold food that was free of nuts, dairy, gluten and cholesterol.
Watson, who had even less to drink than Ivison — "I had a Diet Coke," he said — was not actually planning to stay for the grand finale to either event, though.
"I'll probably be in bed before midnight."
Watson said, however, that after the success of the night's events he hopes they will become permanent.
"Certainly, I'll do whatever I can to make that happen," he said.


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