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Specifications: 10%~98% sesamin
CAS No.: 607-80-7
HS Code: 29329990.90
Formal Name: [1S-(1a,3aa,4a,6aa)]-5,5’-(tetrahydro-1H,3H-furo[3,4-c]furan-1,4-diyl)bis-1,3-
benzodioxole

MF: C20H18O6
FW: 354.4
Melting point:121-122℃
Supplied as: A crystalline solid
UV/Vis: lmax: 235, 287 nm
Solubility: Ethanol (0.5mg/ml) DMSO (12ml/ml), and Dimethyl Formamide (33mg/ml). Chloroform, Benzene, Glacial acetic acid (any quantity)
Sesamin, a magic component in sesame seeds represents strong antioxidation in life body resulting in multiple physiological functions:
1. Liver guard: Sesamin is a non-competitive inhibitor of Δ5-desaturase, It inhibits the conversion of DGLA to arachidonic acid, and consequently decreases the formation of proinflammatory 2-series prostaglandins.
2. Antioxidation: Sesamin helps protect blood vessels by scavenging free radicals and ensuring efficient nutrient and oxygen delivery for healthy brain function.
3. Antihyprtensive: Sesamin induces nitric oxide and decreases endothelin-1 production in HUVECs, possible implications for its antihypertensive effect.
4. Skin protection: The experiments in rats shows that sesamin can inhibit the growth of SC (skin cancer) cell. It can protect skin from UV rays.

“Economy poised for surge as most accurate economist sees U.S.” reads the Bloomberg headline. So it’s a major disappointment to read what Bloomberg considers a “surge”: 3.5 percent growth in 2010.

Um, that’s really subpar for recoveries, let alone recoveries from deep slumps:

Read more at Paul Krugman’s blog –>

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Acerola
Latin Name: Malpighia glabra
Acerola is a small tree that grows in dry areas of the Caribbean and Central and South America. Traditionally, its fruit has been used to treat diarrhea, arthritis, fevers, and kidney, heart, and liver problems. Acerola contains 10–50 times more vitamin C by weight than oranges. Other important substances found in acerola include bioflavonoids , magnesium , pantothenic acid , and vitamin A .
What is Acerola Used for Today?
Acerola is primarily marketed as a source of vitamin C and bioflavonoids. Because of these constituents, it has substantial antioxidant properties. 1 One study found that acerola significantly increased the antioxidant activity of soy and alfalfa . 2 It is not clear, however, that this rather theoretical finding indicates anything of significance to human health. Other powerful antioxidants such as vitamin E and beta-carotene have proved disappointing when they were subjected to studies that could discern whether their actions as antioxidants translated into actual health benefits.
Like many plants, acerola has antibacterial and antifungal properties, at least in the test tube. 3,4 However, no studies in humans have been reported.
Principal Proposed Uses
• Source of Vitamin C
Other Proposed Uses
• Antioxidant
Dosage
A typical supplemental dosage of acerola is 40–100 mg daily.
Safety Issues
As a widely used food, acerola is believed to have a relatively high safety factor. However, it has been discovered that people who are allergic to latex may be allergic to acerola as well. 5
Maximum safe doses in young children, pregnant or nursing women, and people with severe liver or kidney disease have not been established.

Our papaya extract is made from Carica Papaya, a tropical fruit. The main active ingredient is Papain, a type of vegetable endolytic cysteine protease, has strong biological activity and the decomposing ability of protein. According to Papain Activity, we have 3 kinds of Papain:
1. Coarse-enzyme Papain:
White or light yellow powder
Papain Activity: 600000-900000u/g
Water Content: 8% max.
Ph value: 4.5-6.5, 1% papain coarse-enzyme papain solution
2. Refined-enzyme Papain:
White or light yellow powder
Papain Activity: 2000000-3500000u/g
Water Content:5% max.
Microorganism: 10cfu/g max.
3. Liquid Papain:
Brown liquid
Papain Activity: 50000-3000000u/g
Ph value: 4.5-6.5, 1% papain liquid papain solution
As a purely natural, toxin-free vegetable protease, papain is widely used in following industries:
1. Pharmaceuticals: help ease swelling, alleviate inflammation, relieve pain, improve immunity, promote digestion and diminish intestinal parasite.
2. Cosmetics and daily chemicals: soap, facial cleanser, body wash,shampoo,etc, with papain ingredient, help whitening the skin, remove cuticle, making the skin soft and elastic, tender and full of vigor, Used in washing powder, hand wash, etc, helps care hands.
3. Food Industry: Papain can hydrolyze the animal and plant protein, as well as placenta and bean, thus , the papain can be made into softener for biscuits, tenderizer for meat and purifying agent for beer and wine ferment etc. It is widely used in wine brewing industry, soy making and beverage manufacturing industry.
4. Feed industry:Papain can be widely used as additives in the forages for such animals as pigs, oxen, sheep, chicks, ducks, geese, fish, shrimps, eels and cows to increase the availability and inversion of protein, decreasing gthe cost for forages and exploiting sources of protein.
5. Leather industry: The papain can be made into depilatory for tanning the leathers, making the products smooth and exquisite with good texture.
Storage and packaging: store in sealed container under 4 celsius degree, 25kg/drum.

Product Name: Marjoram Extract

Specification: sabinene

Detection method: HPLC

Botanical Name: Origanum majorana L.
About Marjoram Extract:
Marjoram oil’s main chemical constituents are sabinene, a-terpinene, y-terpinene, p-cymene, terpinolene, linalool, cis-sabinene hydrate, linalyl acetate, terpinen-4-ol and y-terpineol.
Marjoram oil is extracted from the fresh and dried leaves and flowering tops of the plant by steam distillation and yields 0.5 – 3 %.
Marjoram oil has a warm, slightly spicy smell and is colorless to pale yellow/amber in color.
Actions:
1)Marjoram oil has a warming action and calms emotions, relieves anxiety as well as stress and helps to calms hyperactive people. It has good muscle relaxant properties and the pain killing properties are useful for rheumatic pains as well as sprains, strains and spasms, as well as swollen joints and painful muscles.
2)It soothes the digestive system and helps with cramps, indigestion, constipation and flatulence and has a beneficial action on colds, sinusitis, bronchitis and asthma.
3)As a general relaxant, marjoram oil is used for headaches, migraines and insomnia and although it can diminish sexual desire, it is great for treating delayed, painful or scanty monthly periods as well as menstrual cramps.

We offer Olive leaf extract made from with leaves from Greece; the Oleuropein content is tested by HPLC.
Olive trees are tough. The secret of their long life under harsh conditions is Oleuropein. This plant makes this substance to resist diseases and pests. The leaves of Manzanillo and Mission Olive Trees contain unusually high amounts of Oleuropein and other substances that could be of benefit to humans.
Olive Leaf is a natural herbal antibiotic and antioxidant that can support the body’s ability to fight or prevent many diseases. The active compounds of Oleuropein and Eleonic Acid in Olive leaf have been reported to act as an Antimicrobial agent, which slows invaders enough for the body’s natural immune system to react. The result is a natural antibiotic and antioxidant with effects similar to garlic and onions. Olive leaf can be enjoyed regularly as a preventative or used directly to combat ailments. In turn, oleuropein itself consists of elenolic acid and calcium elenolate, which work synergistically to repel a wide spectrum of microorganisms. Contains no additives or preservatives

Not only has the U.S. passed a major 2007 peak in total oil consumption, but in particular it’s also consuming far less jet fuel than just a year ago… or even eight years ago.

The U.S. has yet to re-take its peak jet fuel consumption from 2001, pre-9/11. This despite the substantial economic growth since then.

Infectious Greed: The real peak came in August of 2001, before 9/11 changed everything in air travel. And we’re now down 23% from that particular peak.

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Regular readers know I’m fascinated with sky phenomena. On December 26, 2009, around 4:30 p.m. local time, I happened to look out my office window and saw a gorgeous beam of orange light shooting straight up into the sky out of the sunset. I rushed outside with my camera and got this shot of it:

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Isn’t that pretty? I think it’s a sun pillar, a vertical column of light caused by the setting sun’s light being reflected off of the flat surfaces of hexagonal ice crystals in the air. Given that it was several degrees below freezing when I shot this, ice crystals in the air isn’t a totally crazy idea.

However, I can’t be sure this isn’t just a run-of-the-mill crepuscular ray, just those normal beams of light you see coming from the setting Sun as it’s broken up by clouds near the horizon. But it’s rare to see a single ray like that, and much rarer to see it beaming straight up like that.

As I was taking this shot, I heard honking coming from the north that I instantly knew was coming from geese. I waited a moment, and then hundreds of geese in formation flew right into the shot! Awesome, and very scenic. I was able to get some pictures, but had to stop down the camera to get the geese, and that introduced noise (the speckly grainy look in digital images) into the sky. I fiddled with the contrast a bit to show the geese, and the picture still looks a little “grainy” but cool:

There were several V-formations of geese this size going by over the course of a minute or two, and during that time the pillar faded, as you can see in this shot. Still, what a sight!

This is the kind of thing you see when you open your eyes and look up. If we could take every human on the planet one at a time, hold their hand, and simply show them this, then I just bet this world would be a better place.

Life is beautiful. You just have to notice it.

Audi announced that its future plans include a 7.3 billion Euro ($10.5 billion) investment on plant upgrades, new products and technology research. Its purpose is expanding its number of customers, as well as increasing its market share.

The 7.3 billion Euros will be spent from 2009 and 2012. Audi seeks to expand its current line up from 34 models to a number of 42 models by 2015. About 5.9 billion Euros will be directed towards new products and future technologies.

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Well, here’s an interesting one. There were reports last week claiming that Reuters had spiked a story about hedge fund big shot Steven Cohen after Cohen complained to Reuters management. While Reuters has since strongly denied the charge, it is interesting to note (as sent in by reader JJ) that at least one Reuters blogger complained quite vocally about this decision. The full blog post, written on Reuter’s Hedge World blog is well worth reading. Here’s a brief snippet:

As a news organization, all we have connecting us to our audience is our credibility. When we make mistakes, when we miss the point, when we fail to publish in a timely manner–each of these creates a little crack in that credibility. Once enough cracks form over time, the credibility is eroded and ultimately broken apart. At that point it doesn’t matter how many orange dots you have swirling around your TV commercial or how intelligent you claim your information is. Once that bond is broken you’re screwed.

Because Reuters is my company, there’s a big part of me that hopes this incident has been blown out of proportion; that the blogs don’t have the whole story. I fear that’s not the case, however. The way it looks now is positively scandalous. And as a journalist it makes me almost physically ill to think about it.

I hope someone above me addresses the situation publicly, because lord knows not addressing it ain’t working. Right now this incident is relatively contained (although it was the most viewed post on ZeroHedge as of Tuesday). But by next week, this will be all over the place–Romanesko, Drudge. From there it could get real ugly real fast.

And herein, I hope, lies a lesson for whomever killed Matt Goldstein’s Steve Cohen story: When you make a decision like that, under those circumstances, the back story will get out. And the fallout from that back story will always, always be worse than the fallout from the story itself.

What strikes me as most interesting about this is that this Reuters post is still up. Reuters did not pull it. It does have an update link at the top to another blog that posted Reuters’ denial (not even a Reuters page… which is also noteworthy). While I’m still curious about the decision to spike the story, I have to admit that the fact that a Reuters blogger was allowed to post this blog seriously questioning the integrity of Reuters management (his own bosses) lends at least some more credibility to Reuters itself. This is strengthened by the fact that the blog post has remained up as well.

Compare this to the stories that went around when the Associated Press was announcing its silly and totally useless attempt to DRM the news. At the time, I heard from a few different AP reporters who thought it was a ridiculous idea that made the Associated Press look bad — but they weren’t allowed to say that publicly, and had no real outlet to do so. Reuters and the AP compete pretty directly in the newswire business, and every time I compare them to one another Reuters seems to come out ahead in recognizing where the world is heading. If it is true that Reuters spiked the Cohen story, that would be quite damning and could make me question trusting Reuters, but how it’s handled this news so far, and how it’s reacted to its own blogger talking about the story is impressive.

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Last time we heard of a custom Triton motorcycle was the one specially commissioned for Chanel in July, so we were quite excited to find out that another one was recently unveiled by the French designers Frank Charriaut and Vincent Prat from Southsiders MC. The customized Triton was built by Daniel Delfour, one of France’s leading motorcycle builders.

As English motorcycle fans, we choose to use a Norton featherbed frame and a Triumph 750 Bonneville engine, said Prat. But we didn’… (read more)

Despite the state of the economy Amazon is doing great bringing in record revenue. Another area where Amazon is flying high is e-books, which are quickly entering the mainstream thanks to the very successful Kindle. This holiday season, the Kindle was one of the most popular gifts in the US, and certainly the most popular on Amazon, by the company’s own accounts. Now Amazon is releasing an interesting statistic claiming that, on Christmas day, it sold more electronic books through the Kindle store than it did physical books.

“Kindle has become the most gifted item in Amazon’s history. On Christmas Day, for the first time ever, customers purchased more Kindle books than physical books,” the company said in a statement.

“We are grateful to our customers for making Kindle the most gifted item ever in our history,” Jeff Bezos, founder and CEO of Amazon.com said. “On behalf of Amazon.com employees around the world, we wish everyone happy holidays and happy reading!”

This may sound like a great breakthrough, and it certainly is from a certain perspective, but the sales came under some very special circumstances. First of all the sales counted were only on Christmas day, when a lot of people got a Kindle as a gift. It’s pretty obvious that the first thing anyone would do when getting a K… (read more)

Kia and its partners at Hyundai continue to move ahead on fuel cell technology, and Kia has released new footage of their latest fuel cell prototype, the Borrego/Mohave FCEV (the Borrego is badged as Mohave in the Korean market).

While the base Borrego is a rear/all-wheel drive body-on-frame SUV, the FCEV drives the front wheels through a 110 kW AC electric motor. The fuel cell stack is located under the passenger compartment and puts out 115 kW. Interestingly, Kia claims its stack is designed to work with air at ambient pressure, eliminating the need for a compressor, a major component of other FCEVs. Kia also claims its fuel cell can utilize 98 percent of all the hydrogen to produce power.

Electrical energy from regenerative braking is stored in a super-capacitor module and then released for an extra power boost when needed. Kia does not say what the capacity of the 700 BAR hydrogen storage system is, but the range of the vehicle is claimed to be 425 miles. Kia still plans to produce the FCEV in low volume series production in 2012, with mass production three years after that. Watch the video after the jump and check out our First Drive report of the last-gen Borrego FCEV.

[Source: Kia]

Continue reading VIDEO: Kia remains committed to fuel cells, shows more of Borrego FCEV

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Bob More wrote:

1—Increasing use, validation and acceptance of surrogate endpoints for clinical trials.

2—Novartis’ imatinib (Gleevec). The first drug for specifically inhibiting an enzyme causing cancer rather than killing fast dividing cells….

3—Human papillomavirus vaccines. This is both for innovative science, and innovative treatment of a vaccine for a virus tied to cancer.

4—Robotic surgery. (Intuitive Surgical)

5—Growing organs in a lab (Tengion, etc)

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Snow hit a lot of countries in Europe, so traveling by car became more and more difficult. As most drivers have the option of canceling the trip or just go by train, there are still some who need to drive for a living.

Some van drivers are part of this category, so they have been warned about the serious snow and bad road conditions now present in the UK. Swinton, one of UK’s most important van insurance retailers, recommends van drivers to keep an emergency kit.

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A giant Hong Kong property auction just delivered a dose of reality to the city’s soaring property market.

Bloomberg: Sino Land Co. and K Wah International Holdings Ltd. together paid HK$10.4 billion ($1.3 billion) for two waterfront sites in Hong Kong’s New Territories, falling short of estimates for the auction.

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“Apart from Sino Land, which owns sites nearby,” no one had an interest in pushing the price, said Conita Hung, head of equity markets at Delta Asia Securities Ltd. in Hong Kong. The two 20,925 square meter (225,000 square foot) plots in the Tai Po district were the largest properties offered at auction since September 2007, according to Lands Department records.

Missing price estimates is a sharp departure from a market where home prices jumped 30% this year alone. Property stocks slipped in Monday trading. Read more here.

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Shortly after the rumors surrounding the Sprint and LG event at CES just days away, we were greeted with this little screen shot in our inbox this morning. It looks like Sprint will be getting a LG Android handset pretty soon (though we’re not ruling out the possibility of a WiMax WinMo phone being announced there, too). We’re not sure what the LS680 is just yet, but given the OS we know that it will have a large touchscreen and possibly a QWERTY keyboard as LG likes to do with its LX series. Details are scant for now but we’ll be sure to give you guys all the goods as soon as it comes our way.

Thanks, Javy!

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