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College Football DFS FanDuel Plays for Week 10
High-Tier
Kyler Murray, QB, Oklahoma ($10,600)
It's difficult to ignore D'Eriq King on this slate, but it's impossible to ignore Oklahoma's Vegas line. Oklahoma is a -10.5 point favorite in a game set at 78 points. They feature the highest implied team total on the slate this weekend. Murray is their star player, throwing for 2,329 yards and 28 touchdowns on 183 pass attempts. He has also added 474 yards and six touchdowns on the ground this season. He has thrown for three or more touchdowns in each of his last seven games, and Murray comes with elite upside in this matchup.
AJ Dillon, RB, Boston College ($9,800)
Dillon was considered a Heisman candidate early this season, but injuries have removed him from that conversation. He has looked outstanding when healthy, though, as he's averaging 133.5 yards and 1.2 touchdowns on 23.0 carries per game. He doesn't add much in the passing game, but Dillon should continue to see plenty of carries in a game that is expected to stay close. He comes with tremendous touchdown potential, and he's a player that may go overlooked with the other elite options on the slate.
Charlie Brewer, QB, Baylor ($9,100)
Brewer was forced from his last game with a concussion, but he has passed the protocol to play this week. He gets a great matchup against Oklahoma State, who has struggled against the pass this season. Brewer looked outstanding through his first five games of the season, averaging 21.8 fantasy points in those games. There's very little reason to believe he won't be able to find similar success in a game set at 68 points. The Brewers are +8 point underdogs, suggesting they will throw for the majority of the game, as well.
James Proche, WR, SMU ($9,300)
Proche could potentially go overlooked because of the other known commodities around his price tag. He has been an elite option this season, though, leading SMU in receptions, receiving yards, and receiving touchdowns by a wide margin. Overall, Proche is averaging 6.9 receptions for 86.4 yards and 1.0 touchdown per game this season. He has recorded six or more receptions in each of his last six games, and he should see a healthy number of targets in what should be a high scoring game once again this week.
Low-Tier
Emanuel Hall, WR, Missouri ($8,400)
Hall is priced down because of a recent injury, but he's probable to play this week. He has only played in three games this season, but still leads Missouri in receiving yards. Before his injury, Hall averaged 6.0 receptions for 143.3 yards and 1.0 touchdown per game. He has also totaled over 150 yards and one touchdown in two games this season. This is a tough matchup for Hall, but it's impossible to ignore him at this price tag.
Lamical Perine, RB, Florida ($8,000)
Perine saw a limited role early in the season, but that role has expanded over his last three games. In those games, Perine is averaging 122.7 yards and 1.0 touchdown (19.1 fantasy points) on 19.7 touches per game. He's entirely too cheap for his recent role for Florida, and he should see plenty of carries near the end of the game, as Florida is a -6 point favorite this weekend.
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Trap Muzik – drugi solowy album rapera z Atlanty T.I., wydany 19 sierpnia 2003 roku przez Atlantic Records. Pierwszym singlem jest utwór "24's", który znalazł się na ścieżce dźwiękowej słynnej na całym świecie serii gier wyścigowych pt. "Need For Speed".

Na płycie usłyszymy takie osoby jak 8Ball & MJG, Jazze Pha, Bun B i Mac Boney z P$C.

Produkcją płyty zajął się T.I., Jazze Pha, Kanye West, David Banner, Madvac, Sanchez Holmes i DJ Toomp.

Płyta zadebiutowała na 4. miejscu Billboard 200, sprzedano 103.000 egzemplarzy w pierwszym tygodniu. Trap Muzik sprzedał się w nakładzie ponad 1 miliona egzemplarzy w Stanach Zjednoczonych i uzyskał status platyny.

Zmiana wytwórni
Po niezbyt udanym debiucie (tj. słaba sprzedaż płyty), młody raper musiał opuścić Arista Records.

W 2002 roku T.I. wraz ze swoim managerem Jason'en Geter'em stworzył label Grand Hustle Records, pod którego szyldem wydał trzy mixtejpy, które pomogły wypromować samego rapera jak i jego skład Pimp Squad Click.

Latem 2003 roku Tip wystąpił gościnnie w utworze "Never Scared" Bone Crusher'a, który okazał się hitem w świecie rapu. Dzięki sukcesowi tego utworu jak i dobrze recenzowanym mixtejpom, o Tip'a zabiegało wiele wytwórni takich jak Warner Bros, Universal Records, Epic Records, Columbia Records, Def Jam South, oraz Bad Boy South. Raper ostatecznie podpisał kontrakt z Atlantic Records tego samego roku.

Lista utworów
 "Trap Muzik" (feat. Mac Boney)
 "I Can't Quit"
 "Be Easy"
 "No More Talk"
 "Doin' My Job"
 "Let's Get Away" (feat. Jazze Pha)
 "24's"
 "Rubber Band Man"
 "Look What I Got"
 "I Still Luv You"
 "Let Me Tell You Something"
 "T.I. vs. T.I.P."
 "Bezzle" (feat. 8Ball & MJG & Bun B)
 "Kingofdasouth"
 "Be Better Than Me"
 "Long Live Da Game"

Single
 "24's" (2003)
 "Be Easy" (2003)
 "Rubber Band Man" (2004)
 "Let's Get Away" (feat. Jazze Pha) (2004)

Teledyski
 "24's"
 "Be Easy" / "Look What I Got"
 "Rubber Band Man"
 "Let's Get Away" (feat. Jazze Pha)

Sample
Be Easy
 "Somebody To Love" Al Wilson
No More Talk
 "Can't Find The Judge" Gary Wright
Doin' My Job
 "I'm Just Doin My Job" Bloodstone
Let's Get Away
 "Day Dreaming" Aretha Franklin
I Still Luv You
 "She Only A Woman" The O'Jays
Let Me Tell You Something
 "I Wanna Be Your Man" Zapp & Roger

Przypisy

Albumy T.I.
Albumy muzyczne wydane w roku 2003
Albumy Atlantic Records
Albumy Grand Hustle Records
Albumy wyprodukowane przez Davida Bannera
Albumy wyprodukowane przez DJ-a Toompa
Albumy wyprodukowane przez Jazze Pha
Albumy wyprodukowane przez Kanye Westa

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April 9th – Dietrich Bonhoeffer
4th February 1904 – 9th April 1945
"When Christ calls a man, He bids him come and die"
– The Cost of Discipleship, Dietrich Bonhoeffer
Dietrich Bonhoeffer was a German protestant pastor and theologian who during his short life wrote several books and articles on the Christian faith, founded the Confessing Church and actively opposed the Nazi regime, for which he was later executed.
After being born into a large family, Bonhoeffer went to study at post-graduate level in America. Whilst he was there he grew to love African-American Spiritualist culture which influenced him theologically and birthed his concern for the oppressed and marginalised. After returning from America Bonhoeffer began a lecturing career in 1931 and was eventually ordained as a pastor aged 25. He continued in this work until 1934 when he helped set up the Confessing Church in response to the Nazi party's take over of the German Chruch. Under Nazi control the Church in Germany had demanded that all pastors be of european, not Jewish, decent and had voted to remove the Old Testament from the Canon. The Confessing Church passed a motion that decalred Christ, not Hitler, was the head of the church and so was forced underground where Bonhoeffer took a key role in training new ministers for the church.
Bonhoeffer's key work is a book titled The Cost of Discipleship in which he criticses a secularised Gospel which minimises the need for repentance in return for forgiveness which he famously called "Cheap Grace". In response to this Bonhoeffer advocated a more active discipleship which began with confession and repentance and moved towards a more active Christian life.
Under Nazi persecution, Bonhoeffer was forbidden to speak in public or publish any work. To avoid conscription he joined the Germany intelligence agency, through which he learnt about German atrocities committed during the war. This knowledge lead Bonhoeffer to begin working with the Resistance movement. He used his position in the Intelligence agency to travel abroad and begin secret peace talks with Allied nations as well as feeding information back to the Resistance fighters. After a failed assassination attempt on Hitler, Bonhoeffer's work was uncovered and he was imprisoned along with other resistance members. After learning about their betrayal Hitler ordered that Bonhoeffer and other Intellegence agency workers be executed. Bonhoeffer was taken to the gallows after leading his final sunday service.
Bonhoeffer remains one of the greatest Christian minds of the twentieth century, not only due to his martyrdom but also for the legacy of theological and ethical work he left behind, he was executed by the Nazi regime on this day, 1945.
A Prayer for Dietrich Bonhoeffer:
Lord God of Justice and of Peace, we give you thanks for the work and fearless example of Dietrich Bonhoeffer. We thank you for his theological insights and the bravery he displayed through his faith in challanging the great evil of Fascism. We pray that we too have the courage to stand up for what is right and never fall into reliance upon Cheap Grace. In your most Holy Name, Amen.
Suggested Bible verse:
Matthew 16.24-28
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China launching gold backed global currency…
Posted on March 2, 2015 by huttriverofnz
Yankee dollar on the way out:
According to the article, China is recasting all of their gold reserves into small one kilo bars in order to issue a new "gold-backed" currency. Many say this will disrupt global trade and will eventually cause a collapse of the US dollar.
There can be no doubt that the US dollar will soon be history. China is recasting all of their gold reserves into small one kilo bars in order to issue a new 'gold backed' global currency. This is surely a strategic part of their recent push to sign new trade agreements with Russia, Japan, Chile, Brazil, India, and Iran. The cat is now out of the bag, the US will be given the 'bums rush' by the largest trading nations in the world and the dollar will go down in flames. GATA now estimates that 80% of the gold that investors believe they have in allocated accounts is long gone, the majority of it probably wound up in China.
Here is an excerpt from Jim Willie's 'Hat Trick Letter'
Jims recent article starts out with…
Many are the events, signals, and telltale clues of a real live actual systemic failure in progress. Until the last several months, such banter was dismissed by the soldiers in the financial arena. But lately, they cannot dismiss the onslaught of evidence, a veritable plethora of ugly symptoms of conditions gone terribly wrong and solutions at best gone awry and at worst never intended in the first place.
CHINA RECASTS GOLD BARS
China is well along an ambitious plan to recast large gold bars into smaller 1-kg bars on a massive scale. A major event is brewing that will disrupt global trade and assuredly the global banking system. The big gold recast project points to the Chinese preparing for a new system of trade settlement. In the process they must be constructing a foundation for a possible new monetary system based in gold that supports the trade payments. Initally used for trade, it will later be used in banking. The USTBond will be shucked aside. Regard the Chinese project as preliminary to a collapse in the debt-based USDollar system. The Chinese are removing thousands of metric tons of gold bars from London, New York, and Switzerland. They are recasting the bars, no longer to bear weights in ounces, but rather kilograms. The larger Good Delivery bars are being reduced into 1-kg bars and stored in China. It is not clear whether the recast project is being done entirely in China, as some indication has come that Swiss foundries might be involved, since they have so much experience and capacity.
http://www.jewsnews.co.il/2015/02/28/china-launching-gold-backed-global-currency/
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China threatens to claim Hawaii….
Posted on February 13, 2015 by huttriverofnz
America 'stole' Hawaii in the first place. Is this a case of karma coming back to kick America in the backside:
China has suggested arming Hawaii's independence activists in retaliation for U.S. arms sales to Taiwan andrecently threatened to challenge American sovereignty by making legal claims to the Pacific islands as its territory.
Chinese threats to back several groups of Hawaiian independence activists who want to restore the islands' constitutional monarchy, ousted in a U.S.-backed coup over a century ago, has raised concerns that military facilities on the strategic central Pacific archipelago are threatened at a time when the Obama administration is engaged in a major shift toward Asia as part of its military and diplomatic rebalance.
Michael Pillsbury, a Pentagon consultant and author of the recent book 100 Year Marathon, said Chinesemilitary hawks, known as "ying pai," told him they are ready to provide arms to Hawaiian independenceactivists in retaliation for U.S. arms sales to Taiwan.
"Beijing's extraordinary sensitivity to American arms sales to Taiwan—even one bullet or a spare tire for a jeep—often provokes angry words," said Pillsbury who has held talks with 35 Chinese generals in recent years.
"A favorite comparison the ying pai has made to me is 'How would the Pentagon like it if we provide arms to our friends in Hawaiian independence movement?'" he said. "I was incredulous because I had never heard of such a movement in Hawaii, but, after checking I met a few of them."
Pillsbury said Chinese backing for the independence movement would be a concern. Some U.S. archival material shows U.S. authorities acted on their own in the 1898 annexation, he said, something Congress later investigated.
Pillsbury's book, published last week, reveals that Chinese hawks in the military and Communist Party are a key part of a 100-year strategy to vanquish and eventually overtake the United States as the world's leading power in the coming decades.
Another indicator of Chinese interest in fomenting unrest in Hawaii surfaced in 2012, when then-Secretary of State Hillary Clinton revealed Beijing had threatened to assert legal, territorial claims over Hawaii.
Clinton said U.S. ownership of Hawaii came up during talks with the Chinese after she pushed back against Beijing's destabilizing territorial activities in the South China Sea.
"At one point in one of my long discussions about this, one of my Chinese interlocutors said, 'Well, we couldclaimHawaii,'" she said. "I said, 'Well, go ahead, and we'll go to arbitration and prove we own it. That's what we want you to do.'"
The Hawaii sovereignty movement is made up at least 10 groups that are seeking some form of independencefrom the United States and the re-establishment of the monarchy ousted in 1893, with the support of the U.S. government and a company of U.S. Marines.
The movement is non-violent and its protests in recent years have been limited to temporary takeovers of government facilities.
Leon Siu, a Hawaiian-born musician who holds the title of foreign minister of the Hawaiian Kingdom, one of the groups seeking independence, says U.S. military facilities on the islands are contrary to the original monarchy's neutrality.
"First of all we're not native Hawaiians. We're Hawaiian nationals and we see our country as a lawful, independent country, and we're working to restore that," Siu said in an interview. "The bottom line is we want our country back."
Siu said he has met with Chinese government representatives in the past but was unable to discern their motives or level of support for Hawaiian independence. He has been working through international organizations and international legal institutions for the past 10 years to gain recognition of Hawaii as an independent state.
Hawaii was ruled under an internationally neutral constitutional monarchy in the late 1800s. After the 1893 coup, a provisional government and then a Republic of Hawaii preceded formal U.S. annexation as a territory in 1898. Hawaii became the 50th state in 1959. About 1.4 million people live on the eight main islands.
Hawaii today remains one of the Pentagon's most important strategic military outposts, located in the middle of the Pacific Ocean, some 2,500 miles from California, and 4,000 miles from Tokyo. It is the central point of the military's strategy of shifting forces to the Asia Pacific as part of the so-called "rebalance," designed to counter Chinese bullying in the region.
The Navy's historic Pearl Harbor Naval Base is home to the U.S. Pacific Fleet, which commands some 27 ships, 1,100 aircraft, and more than 140,000 sailors and civilians based throughout the Asia Pacific.
The Air Force operates nearby Hickam Air Force Base, headquarters of the Pacific Air Force, with 45,000 airmen in the region and 300 warplanes.
The Army's Schofield Barracks is the headquarters for 80,000 Army troops deployed throughout the Asia Pacific region. The Army, facing sharp budget cuts, has announced plans to cut the number of troops based at Schofield by 16,000 and another 3,800 at nearby Fort Shafter.
The National Security Agency also operates a major electronic eavesdropping post in Hawaii known as "Kunia."
A defense official said military counterintelligence agencies several years ago conducted routine assessments of the Hawaiian independence movement to determine whether the movement might pose a threat, should its activists turn to violence and threaten U.S. troops.
Siu, of the Hawaiian Kingdom group, said he was told by a Pentagon official several years ago that contingency plans had been drawn up for withdrawing forces from Hawaii in the event of independence. "But I'm sure [the U.S. military] would rather renegotiate" the military bases to keep forces in place, he said.
Pentagon and Pacific Command spokesmen said they were unaware of any such contingency plan. "I'm not aware of any concerns here in the Pentagon for something like this occurring," said Pentagon spokesman Mark Wright.
On a future U.S. military presence, Siu said Hawaiian nationals believe they should be the ones to determine whether U.S. military bases remain in the country.
A military presence, however, would be contrary to Hawaii's declared status as a neutral power in 1854.
A new Hawaiian Kingdom government after independence would have to decide the fate of the military facilities.
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http://overpassesforamerica.com/?p=4992
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The Chinese Government takes extreme measures against Muslim terrorists…
Posted on December 11, 2014 by huttriverofnz
The Chinese government recently executed eight Uighur Muslims for terrorism, and planning a major terrorist attack. We read from a Chinese report:
Eight terrorists have been executed with the approval of the Supreme People's Court in Xinjiang, according to the publicity department of Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region on Saturday.
Their crimes involved five cases including the terrorist attack in the Tian'anmen Square in Beijing, the gun-seizing and police-assaulting case in Aksu, the illegal manufacturing of explosives and intentional killing case in Kashgar, and the establishment of terrorist organization, murder of government officials and incineration of checkpoint in Hotan.
Huseyin Guxur, Yusup Wherniyas and Yusup Ehmet had been sentenced to death and deprived of political rights for life by court for organizing and leading terrorist organization and jeopardizing public security with dangerous means. They masterminded the terrorist attack in the Tian'anmen Square of Beijing which killed 3 and injured 39 on Oct. 28 in 2013.
Rozi Eziz, also sentenced to death by court, was convicted of gun seizing and intentional killing of police officers. He committed the crime on June 28, 2013 in Wushi County of Aksu.
Abdusalam Elim had organized a terrorist gang with himself as the ring head since May 2011. The court found that Abdusalam Elim and others listened and watched religious extremist audio-visual materials and conducted illegal religious activities. They raised funds for members to conduct physical training and manufacturing, storage and transportation of explosives devices. He was sentenced to death and deprived of political right for life by court on charges of organizing and leading terrorist organization as well as illegal manufacturing, transportation and storage of explosives.
The court found that Memet Tohtiyusup had watched audio-visual materials on religious extremism, violence and terror since February 2013. He killed an innocent civilian on April 18, 2013. He was sentenced to death and deprived of political rights for life by court for intentional killing.
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If Falun Gong is benign, why is the Chinese Government scared of it?
Posted on November 21, 2014 by huttriverofnz
Protest against the Chinese Communist Party and its control over Chinese society, organized by various associations including Falun Gong. Paris, Place d'Italie, February 26, 2006, near noon (Photo credit: Wikipedia)
'If Falun Gong is benign, why is the Chinese government afraid of it?' After nine years of persecution this basic question remains common. I'll try answering it here.
In the 80s, Chinese parks brimmed at dawn with some 200 million people performing slow-movement exercises known as qigong. In 1992 Master Li Hongzhi introduced Falun Gong, outwardly a qigong practise like any other. But Master Li uniquely placed emphasis not on healing or supernormal abilities, but on self-cultivation towards spiritual perfection.
Falun Gong became an almost instant hit. Master Li travelled through China introducing the practise and its principles. Word of Falun Gong spread quickly, and it could soon be found in thousands of parks. The Chinese embassy in Paris invited Master Li to teach in their auditorium, and an official study found that Falun Gong saved the country millions in health costs.
Fast-forward to July 1999 and suddenly Falun Gong is public enemy number one. Practitioners are sentenced to 'reform through labour' camps where they are starved, beaten, and tortured with electric batons. By 2008, there are over 3,000 documented cases of practitioners killed by state persecution. Increasingly solid evidence suggests many more have been targeted as unwilling donors of kidneys, livers, and hearts. How many more, we have no idea.
Why, then, this bizarre persecution?
Weak explanations
Facing international criticism and domestic sympathy for Falun Gong, the ruling Chinese Communist Party scrambled to rationalise its campaign. It has claimed Falun Gong is a menace to society – a superstitious, foreign-driven, tightly organised, dangerous group of meditators. State-run media tell gruesome stories of mutilation and suicide, but outsiders aren't allowed to examine them. When investigators somehow manage to scrutinize such cases, they find stories of individuals who don't exist and crimes committed by people who have nothing to do with Falun Gong. Human Rights Watch simply calls the official claims 'bogus'.
Some Western academics have suggested Party leaders feared Falun Gong because it reminded them of past religions-turned-rebellions. But the broad-brush parallels ignored how bloody those groups were – the often-referenced Taiping, for example, was responsible for 20 million deaths. Falun Gong has been strictly non-violent and had no rebellious plans.
One final flawed explanation is that the April 25, 1999 gathering of 10,000 Falun Gong practitioners in the political heart of Beijing startled Party leaders and triggered the oppression that followed.
But the peaceful demonstration actually came after three years of escalating state oppression already taking place. In fact, it was a direct response to practitioners being arrested and beaten in nearby Tianjin and a smear media campaign against them.
The individual leader explanation
The incident was pivotal, but for different reasons. That April day, Premier Zhu Rongji engaged members of the gathered group and listened to their grievances. Those arrested were released. Practitioners who were there told me they had felt elated about the open communication between the government and its people.
But that night, then Chairman Jiang Zemin rebuffed Zhu's conciliatory stance. He labelled Falun Gong a threat to the Party and said it would be an international loss of face if Falun Gong were not immediately crushed. Indeed, many experts attribute the campaign to Jiang's obsession with Falun Gong as much as any other factor.
The popularity explanation
What appears to have scared Jiang and other Party hardliners (some who are still in top posts, maintaining the campaign) was how popular and cross-social strata Falun Gong had become. In northern cities, workers practised Falun Gong together in factory yards before heading to the machines. Professors and students meditated on Tsinghua University lawns. Party leaders' wives and senior cadres had their own little group in central Beijing.
This fear of Falun Gong's popularity explains why its main text, Zhuan Falun, was banned from publication weeks after becoming a bestseller in 1996. And why, when a government report estimated there were more Falun Gong practitioners (70 million plus) than Party members, security agents began interrupting exercise sessions.
The predatory Party-state explanation
For decades the Party has persecuted different groups – intellectuals, artists, clergy, conservatives, reformists – through political movements. Some are targeted because they are outside Party control or have their own ideology. Falun Gong, with its spiritual teachings, sense of community, and independent network falls into that category.
Others are targeted when Party leaders manoeuvre to align power to themselves. Falun Gong appears to be a victim of that, too, as the persecution provided an excuse for strengthening state security apparatuses. It gave the Party an opportunity to oil its machinery – from Cultural Revolution-style purges to Internet surveillance systems.
As torture survivor Zhao Ming told me in Dublin, 'the Party's machinery of persecution was there – Jiang pushed the button'.
http://www.newstatesman.com/blogs/the-faith-column/2008/08/falun-gong-party-chinese
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The stuff of nightmares: New species of insect discovered in China – with a wingspan of eight inches…
Posted on July 27, 2014 by huttriverofnz
The largest aquatic insect in the world has been found in Chengdu, China
It is of the order Megaloptera and has a wingspan of 8.3 inches (21 cm)
This is larger than the previous record, which stood at 7.5 inches (19 cm)
The giant insect has huge mandibles that it uses during mating
Can be found near wet environments such as lakes but lives just a few days
A newly discovered member of the Megaloptera family has been found that could be the largest aquatic insect in the world.
It was found on a mountain in Chengdu, Sichuan province in China.
The mysterious specimen of which little is known has a wingspan of 8.3 inches (21 centimetres).
No thanks: This photo from the Insect Museum of West China shows the largest aquatic insect ever found, discovered recently in a mountain of Chengdu. When they are larvae they spend a lot of time out of sight in the water, only leaving when they pupate and they become adults. They can be found in or near lakes and ponds
The family of Megaloptera includes about 300 species of fishflies, dobsonflies and alderflies.
The name Megaloptera describes that insects have large (megal) wings (ptera) compared to their bodies
This insect, of the order Megaloptera, has a wingspan of a whopping 8.3 inches (21 centimeters), making it the largest aquatic insect in the world
And this latest find is no exception, dwarfing other such insects of the order.
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According to Scientific American members of the Megaloptera family are not well known.
When they are larvae they spend a lot of time out of sight in the water, only leaving when they pupate and they become adults.
They can be found in or near a variety of wet environments including ponds, lakes and swamps.
The huge mandibles at the front of the insect, meanwhile, are not used for eating but rather to attract females and hold them in place during mating.
The species is also known for its ferocious bite, which can break human skin.
Megaloptera insects typically live for only a few days as adults, so many will spend there few days of adulthood mating, producing new larvae to grow underwater.
With a wingspan 8.3 inches (21 centimetres), this species breaks the previous record holder for largest aquatic insect, the South American helicopter damselfly, which has a wingspan of 7.5 inches (19 centimetres).
The insect was found on a mountain near Chengdu, Sichuan province in China (shown)
The huge mandibles at the front of the insect, shown, are not used for eating but rather to attract females and hold them in place during mating. The females of the species are also known for their ferocious bite, which can break human skin. Megaloptera insects typically live for only a few days as adults
FROM BIG TO SMALL… TINY SPECIES OF WASP DISCOVERED
A scientist discovered a new species of wasp less than a millimetre long living in a tree in his son's school playground.
Dr Andrew Polaszek, an insect expert at London's Natural History Museum, found the wasp inside whiteflies on a maple tree.
He said: 'I noticed some of the whiteflies looked slightly different to the others so I took them to the laboratory. When I saw the wasp inside I knew it looked different to anything I'd seen before.'
Dr Polaszek, 54, made the discovery five years ago at Sevenoaks Primary School in Kent, where his son Timothy was a pupil.
But rigorous tests to establish the wasp as a new species – named Encarsia harrisoni – have only just been completed.
The wasp, which Dr Polaszek named after fellow Sevenoaks scientist Dr David Harrison, is a parasitoid, meaning it lays its eggs inside other insects.
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Legalised hemp would turn the world economy on its head…
Posted on June 24, 2014 by huttriverofnz
The real reason hemp was made illegal…
The real reason Cannabis has been outlawed has nothing to do with its effects on the mind and body. MARIJUANA is NOT DANGEROUS. Pot is NOT harmful to the human body or mind. Marijuana does NOT pose a threat to the general public. Marijuana is very much a danger to the oil companies, alcohol, tobacco industries and a large number of chemical corporations. Various big businesses, with plenty of dollars and influence, have suppressed the truth from the people.
The truth is if marijuana was utilized for its vast array of commercial products, it would create an industrial atomic bomb! Entrepreneurs have not been educated on the product potential of pot. The super rich have conspired to spread misinformation about an extremely versatile plant that, if used properly, would ruin their companies.
Where did the word 'marijuana' come from? In the mid 1930s, the M-word was created to tarnish the good image and phenomenal history of the hemp plant…as you will read. The facts cited here, with references, are generally verifiable in the Encyclopedia Britannica which was printed on hemp paper for 150 years:
* All schoolbooks were made from hemp or flax paper until the 1880s; Hemp Paper Reconsidered, Jack Frazier, 1974.
* It was LEGAL TO PAY TAXES WITH HEMP in America from 1631 until the early 1800s; LA Times, Aug. 12, 1981.
* REFUSING TO GROW HEMP in America during the 17th and 18th Centuries WAS AGAINST THE LAW! You could be jailed in Virginia for refusing to grow hemp from 1763 to 1769; Hemp in Colonial Virginia, G. M. Herdon.
* George Washington, Thomas Jefferson and other founding fathers GREW HEMP; Washington and Jefferson Diaries. Jefferson smuggled hemp seeds from China to France then to America.
* Benjamin Franklin owned one of the first paper mills in America and it processed hemp. Also, the War of 1812 was fought over hemp. Napoleon wanted to cut off Moscow's export to England; Emperor Wears No Clothes, Jack Herer.
* For thousands of years, 90f all ships' sails and rope were made from hemp. The word 'canvas' is Dutch for cannabis; Webster's New World Dictionary.
* 80f all textiles, fabrics, clothes, linen, drapes, bed sheets, etc. were made from hemp until the 1820s with the introduction of the cotton gin.
* The first Bibles, maps, charts, Betsy Ross's flag, the first drafts of the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution were made from hemp; U.S. Government Archives.
* The first crop grown in many states was hemp. 1850 was a peak year for Kentucky producing 40,000 tons. Hemp was the largest cash crop until the 20th Century; State Archives.
* Oldest known records of hemp farming go back 5000 years in China, although hemp industrialization probably goes back to ancient Egypt.
* Rembrants, Gainsboroughs, Van Goghs as well as most early canvas paintings were principally painted on hemp linen.
* In 1916, the U.S. Government predicted that by the 1940s all paper would come from hemp and that no more trees need to be cut down. Government studies report that 1 acre of hemp equals 4.1 acres of trees. Plans were in the works to implement such programs; Department of Agriculture
* Quality paints and varnishes were made from hemp seed oil until 1937. 58,000 tons of hemp seeds were used in America for paint products in 1935; Sherman Williams Paint Co. testimony before Congress against the 1937 Marijuana Tax Act.
* Henry Ford's first Model-T was built to run on hemp gasoline and the CAR ITSELF WAS CONTRUCTED FROM HEMP! On his large estate, Ford was photographed among his hemp fields. The car, 'grown from the soil,' had hemp plastic panels whose impact strength was 10 times stronger than steel; Popular Mechanics, 1941.
* Hemp called 'Billion Dollar Crop.' It was the first time a cash crop had a business potential to exceed a billion dollars; Popular Mechanics, Feb., 1938.
* Mechanical Engineering Magazine (Feb. 1938) published an article entitled 'The Most Profitable and Desirable Crop that Can be Grown.' It stated that if hemp was cultivated using 20th Century technology, it would be the single largest agricultural crop in the U.S. and the rest of the world.
The following information comes directly from the United States Department of Agriculture's 1942 14-minute film encouraging and instructing 'patriotic American farmers' to grow 350,000 acres of hemp each year for the war effort:
'…(When) Grecian temples were new, hemp was already old in the service of mankind. For thousands of years, even then, this plant had been grown for cordage and cloth in China and elsewhere in the East. For centuries prior to about 1850, all the ships that sailed the western seas were rigged with hempen rope and sails. For the sailor, no less than the hangman, hemp was indispensable…
…Now with Philippine and East Indian sources of hemp in the hands of the Japanese…American hemp must meet the needs of our Army and Navy as well as of our industries…
…the Navy's rapidly dwindling reserves. When that is gone, American hemp will go on duty again; hemp for mooring ships; hemp for tow lines; hemp for tackle and gear; hemp for countless naval uses both on ship and shore. Just as in the days when Old Ironsides sailed the seas victorious with her hempen shrouds and hempen sails. Hemp for victory!'
Certified proof from the Library of Congress; found by the research of Jack Herer, refuting claims of other government agencies that the 1942 USDA film 'Hemp for Victory' did not exist.
Hemp cultivation and production do not harm the environment. The USDA Bulletin ..404 concluded that hemp produces 4 times as much pulp with at least 4 to 7 times less pollution. From Popular Mechanics, Feb. 1938:
'It has a short growing season…It can be grown in any state…The long roots penetrate and break the soil to leave it in perfect condition for the next year's crop. The dense shock of leaves, 8 to 12 feet above the ground, chokes out weeds.
…hemp, this new crop can add immeasurably to American agriculture and industry.'
In the 1930s, innovations in farm machinery would have caused an industrial revolution when applied to hemp. This single resource could have created millions of new jobs generating thousands of quality products. Hemp, if not made illegal, would have brought America out of the Great Depression.
William Randolph Hearst (Citizen Kane) and the Hearst Paper Manufacturing Division of Kimberly Clark owned vast acreage of timberlands. The Hearst Company supplied most paper products. Patty Hearst's grandfather, a destroyer of nature for his own personal profit, stood to lose billions because of hemp.
In 1937, Dupont patented the processes to make plastics from oil and coal. Dupont's Annual Report urged stockholders to invest in its new petrochemical division. Synthetics such as plastics, cellophane, celluloid, methanol, nylon, rayon, Dacron, etc., could now be made from oil. Natural hemp industrialization would have ruined over 80f Dupont's business.
Andrew Mellon became Hoover's Secretary of the Treasury and Dupont's primary investor. He appointed his future nephew-in-law, Harry J. Anslinger, to head the Federal Bureau of Narcotics and Dangerous Drugs.
Secret meetings were held by these financial tycoons. Hemp was declared dangerous and a threat to their billion dollar enterprises. For their dynasties to remain intact, hemp had to go. These men took an obscure Mexican slang word: 'marihuana' and pushed it into the consciousness of America.
MEDIA MANIPULATION
A media blitz of 'yellow journalism' raged in the late 1920s and 1930s. Hearst's newspapers ran stories emphasizing the horrors of marihuana. The menace of marihuana made headlines. Readers learned that it was responsible for everything from car accidents to loose morality.
Films like 'Reefer Madness' (1936), 'Marihuana: Assassin of Youth' (1935) and 'Marihuana: The Devil's Weed' (1936) were propaganda designed by these industrialists to create an enemy. Their purpose was to gain public support so that anti-marihuana laws could be passed.
Examine the following quotes from 'The Burning Question' aka REEFER MADNESS:
a violent narcotic.
acts of shocking violence.
incurable insanity.
soul-destroying effects.
under the influence of the drug he killed his entire family with an ax.
more vicious, more deadly even than these soul-destroying drugs (heroin, cocaine) is the menace of marihuana!
Reefer Madness did not end with the usual 'the end.' The film concluded with these words plastered on the screen: TELL
YOUR CHILDREN.
In the 1930s, people were very naive; even to the point of ignorance. The masses were like sheep waiting to be led by the few in power. They did not challenge authority. If the news was in print or on the radio, they believed it had to be true. They told their children and their children grew up to be the parents of the baby-boomers.
On April 14, 1937, the Prohibitive Marihuana Tax Law or the bill that outlawed hemp was directly brought to the House Ways and Means Committee. This committee is the only one that can introduce a bill to the House floor without it being debated by other committees. The Chairman of the Ways and Means, Robert Doughton, was a Dupont supporter. He insured that the bill would pass Congress.
Dr. James Woodward, a physician and attorney, testified too late on behalf of the American Medical Association. He told the committee that the reason the AMA had not denounced the Marihuana Tax Law sooner was that the Association had just discovered that marihuana was hemp.
Few people, at the time, realized that the deadly menace they had been reading about on Hearst's front pages was in fact passive hemp. The AMA understood cannabis to be a MEDICINE found in numerous healing products sold over the last hundred years.
In September of 1937, hemp became illegal. The most useful crop known became a drug and our planet has been suffering ever since.
Congress banned hemp because it was said to be the most violence-causing drug known. Anslinger, head of the Drug Commission for 31 years, promoted the idea that marihuana made users act extremely violent. In the 1950s, under the Communist threat of McCarthyism, Anslinger now said the exact opposite. Marijuana will pacify you so much that soldiers would not want to fight.
Today, our planet is in desperate trouble. Earth is suffocating as large tracts of rain forests disappear. Pollution, poisons and chemicals are killing people. These great problems could be reversed if we industrialized hemp. Natural biomass could provide all of the planet's energy needs that are currently supplied by fossil fuels. We have consumed 80f our oil and gas reserves. We need a renewable resource. Hemp could be the solution to soaring gas prices.
THE WONDER PLANT
Hemp has a higher quality fiber than wood fiber. Far fewer caustic chemicals are required to make paper from hemp than from trees. Hemp paper does not turn yellow and is very durable. The plant grows quickly to maturity in a season where trees take a lifetime.
ALL PLASTIC PRODUCTS SHOULD BE MADE FROM HEMP SEED OIL. Hempen plastics are biodegradable! Over time, they would break down and not harm the environment. Oil-based plastics, the ones we are very familiar with, help ruin nature; they do not break down and will do great harm in the future. The process to produce the vast array of natural (hempen) plastics will not ruin the rivers as Dupont and other petrochemical companies have done. Ecology does not fit in with the plans of the Oil Industry and the political machine. Hemp products are safe and natural.
MEDICINES SHOULD BE MADE FROM HEMP. We should go back to the days when the AMA supported cannabis cures. 'Medical Marijuana' is given out legally to only a handful of people while the rest of us are forced into a system that relies on chemicals. Pot is only healthy for the human body.
WORLD HUNGER COULD END. A large variety of food products can be generated from hemp. The seeds contain one of the highest sources of protein in nature. ALSO: They have two essential fatty acids that clean your body of cholesterol. These essential fatty acids are not found anywhere else in nature! Consuming pot seeds is the best thing you could do for your body. Eat uncooked hemp seeds.
CLOTHES SHOULD BE MADE FROM HEMP. Hemp clothing is extremely strong and durable over time. You could hand clothing, made from pot, down to your grandchildren. Today, there are American companies that make hemp clothing; usually 50emp. Hemp fabrics should be everywhere. Instead, they are almost underground. Superior hemp products are not allowed to advertise on fascist television. Kentucky, once the top hemp producing state, made it ILLEGAL TO WEAR hemp clothing! Can you imagine being thrown into jail for wearing quality jeans?
The world is crazy…but that does not mean you have to join the insanity. Get together. Spread the news. Tell people, and that includes your children, the truth. Use hemp products. Eliminate the word 'marijuana.' Realize the history that created it. Make it politically incorrect to say or print the M-word. Fight against the propaganda (designed to favor the agenda of the super rich) and the bullshit. Hemp must be utilized in the future. We need a clean energy source to save our planet. INDUSTRIALIZE HEMP!
The liquor, tobacco and oil companies fund more than a million dollars a day to Partnership for a Drug-Free America and other similar agencies. We have all seen their commercials. Now, their motto is: It's more dangerous than we thought. Lies from the powerful corporations, that began with Hearst, are still alive and well today.
The brainwashing continues. Now, the commercials say: If you buy a joint, you contribute to murders and gang wars. The latest anti-pot commercials say: If you buy a joint…you are promoting TERRORISM! The new enemy (terrorism) has paved the road to brainwash you any way THEY see fit.
There is only one enemy; the friendly people you pay your taxes to; the war-makers and nature destroyers. With your funding, they are killing the world right in front of your eyes. HALF A MILLION DEATHS EACH YEAR ARE CAUSED BY TOBACCO. HALF A MILLION DEATHS EACH YEAR ARE CAUSED BY ALCOHOL. NO ONE HAS EVER, EVER DIED FROM SMOKING POT!! In the entire history of the human race, not one death can be attributed to cannabis. Our society has outlawed grass but condones the use of the KILLERS: TOBACCO and ALCOHOL. Hemp should be declassified and placed in DRUG stores to relieve stress. Hardening and constriction of the arteries are bad; but hemp usage actually enlarges the arteries…which is a healthy condition. We have been so conditioned to think that: Smoking is harmful. That is NOT the case for passive pot.
Ingesting THC, hemp's active agent, has a positive effect; relieving asthma and glaucoma. A joint tends to alleviate the nausea caused by chemotherapy. You are able to eat on hemp. This is a healthy state of being.
The stereotype for a pothead is similar to a drunk, bubble-brain. Yet, the truth is ones creative abilities can be enhanced under its influence. The perception of time slightly slows and one can become more sensitive. You can more appreciate all arts; be closer to nature and generally FEEL more under the influence of cannabis. It is, in fact, the exact opposite state of mind and body as the drunken state. You can be more aware with pot.
The pot plant is an ALIEN plant. There is physical evidence that cannabis is not like any other plant on this planet. One could conclude that it was brought here for the benefit of humanity. Hemp is the ONLY plant where the males appear one way and the females appear very different, physically! No one ever speaks of males and females in regard to the plant kingdom because plants do not show their sexes; except for cannabis. To determine what sex a certain, normal, Earthly plant is: You have to look internally, at its DNA. A male blade of grass (physically) looks exactly like a female blade of grass. The hemp plant has an intense sexuallity. Growers know to kill the males before they fertilize the females. Yes, folks…the most potent pot comes from 'horny females.'
The reason this amazing, very sophisticated, ET plant from the future is illegal has nothing to do with how it physically affects us..
POT IS ILLEGAL BECAUSE BILLIONAIRES WANT IT THAT WAY!!!
http://worldtruth.tv/the-real-reason-hemp-is-illegal/
http://worldtruth.tv/sugar-alcohol-and-tobacco-are-more-dangerous-than-marijuana/
http://www.dailyherald.com/article/20140522/news/140529432/ Another story here.
English: Title screen of the film Hemp for Victory from 1942. (Photo credit: Wikipedia)
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A car crash can change your life in an instant. While many car crashes result in few or no injuries, serious accidents can leave you with severe injuries that may impact not only your quality of life but your wallet as well. Even a minor fender-bender can end up costing a great deal in repair costs, medical expenses, and cause injuries, resulting in lingering pain and suffering.
Car wrecks are also rarely blameless, as typically one or more drivers involved were negligent by driving carelessly. In rare cases, a car mechanic or manufacturer could be found negligent for not replacing or recalling a defective auto part.
Either way, you may wish to seek compensation by filing a lawsuit against the at-fault individual. However, these lawsuits, as well as the process for filing them, can be complicated without a personal injury attorney to guide you through them. If you are hurt in a car crash, you may benefit from speaking to a St. Louis car accident lawyer who could help you with your legal case.
Auto insurance is going to play a role in almost any car accident case. St. Louis operates under a tort—or fault—system when it comes to car wrecks. This means that the insurance company for the at-fault driver would be responsible for paying accident benefits to any injured individuals.
Unfortunately, insurance companies can be incredibly difficult to deal with. While their job is to provide benefits to those injured, too often their main focus is on preserving their own profits by preventing those same benefits from being paid out to those injured by the negligent conduct of their insureds. As a result, insurance companies often deny claims or offer a settlement that is not enough to cover the cost of injuries.
Missouri minimum insurance requirements may also not fully cover the cost of damages or injuries. Missouri drivers are only required to carry $25,000 per person for bodily injuries and $50,000 per accident for bodily injuries when more than one person is injured. This is often not enough to cover the high expense of medical bills or the pain and suffering damages.
When insurance benefits do not cover the cost of injuries, or when the insurance company is trying to avoid paying fair compensation for an injured party, a car accident lawyer in St. Louis could be a great help. An attorney could speak to the insurance company on your behalf and help you file a lawsuit when the minimum insurance requirements do not provide the needed benefits. Other options for recovery may include the at-fault driver's personal assets or, more commonly, uninsured or underinsured coverage on the injured party's insurance.
The damages in a car wreck can add up very quickly. Costs can include actual expenses such as medical expenses, loss of income when injuries are so bad you cannot work, vehicle repairs, and even expenses for a rental vehicle if you are able and still need to drive after the accident.
However, there may also be damages that do not have an objective dollar value, such as emotional distress or pain and suffering. These damages can be claimed as compensation in a lawsuit as well, and unlike some other states, Missouri does not place caps—or limits—on the compensation available in a car crash case, allowing you and your St. Louis car accident attorney to pursue the full amount of compensation you may be eligible for.
That being said, if you were also partly to blame for your accident, that compensation may be reduced according to the concept of comparative fault. Comparative fault means that when more than one person is to blame for the crash, both parties may be entitled to compensation regardless of how much they were at fault. This could reduce the amount of compensation the plaintiff in a civil suit ultimately receives.
Car crash victims can claim compensation when they are seriously injured, but doing so is rarely easy. You may need to talk with a St. Louis car accident lawyer to ensure the other party does not try to lay blame on you and reduce the overall amount of compensation you receive.
A qualified attorney can work with the insurance company on your behalf, help you file a lawsuit, and work to recover the full amount of compensation to which you may be entitled to. To learn what a lawyer could do for you, call today to set up a consultation.


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Low Vitamin D Levels for Skin Cancer Patients
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Posted: Oct 18, 2010 / 09:55 PM EDT / Updated: Jun 19, 2015 / 08:06 AM EDT
Study Shows People With Basal Cell Nevus Syndrome More Likely to Have Vitamin D Deficiency
WebMD Health News
By Jennifer Warner
Reviewed by Laura J. Martin, MD
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Oct. 18, 2010 — Protecting your skin from the sun to help prevent skin cancer may have an unhealthy side effect: vitamin D deficiency.
A new study shows vitamin D deficiency is increasingly common among people with a genetic predisposition to sun-related skin cancers known as basal cell nevus syndrome.
Researchers found people with basal cell nevus syndrome were three times more likely to have low vitamin D levels than the general population.
"Vitamin D deficiency has been associated with an increased risk of autoimmune disease, fractures, cancer, cardiovascular disease and all-cause mortality," write researcher Jean Y. Tang, MD, PhD of Stanford University, and colleagues in the Archives of Dermatology. "There is increasing concern that sun protection, recommended by dermatologists to prevent further UV damage in populations susceptible to skin cancer, may result in abnormally low levels of [vitamin D], which may have subsequent detrimental effects on health."
In the study, researchers took periodic blood samples from 41 people with basal cell nevus syndrome over a period of two years. The results show 23 (56%) of the participants had vitamin D deficiency.
Blood levels of vitamin D were lower among those with basal cell nevus syndrome who were overweight and in those who had blood samples taken in winter compared with summer.
Reducing Sun Exposure
People with basal cell nevus syndrome tend to develop multiple cancerous lesions in early adulthood. As a result, they are advised to take steps to reduce their sun exposure and skin cancer risk by using sunscreen and avoiding the sun during peak hours.
Sunlight is the best source of vitamin D, but it is also found in fortified milk, butter, eggs, fish liver oils, and supplements.
Researchers say it's not surprising to find high levels of vitamin D deficiency in people at risk for skin cancer, but the magnitude of the problem was unexpected. The results suggest vitamin D supplementation may be recommended for people with basal cell nevus syndrome.
The researchers also suggest that further studies are needed to determine the optimal amount of vitamin D supplementation needed for preventing deficiency in people in the general population using sunscreen and other methods of sun protection.
SOURCES:Tang, J. Archives of Dermatology, October 2010; vol 146: pp 1105-1110.News release, American Medical Association.
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Precious metals: Catalyzing industrial innovations
By Volker Raab, PhD, Director Global Segment Homogeneous Catalysis, Umicore Precious Metals Chemistry
The chemical industry is continuing to develop green chemical processes in response to customer and consumer demand and the precious metal catalysts sector is no exception to this. Dr Volker Raab of Umicore PMC explains how key industry stakeholders are responding to such demand and gaining new insights into how both existing and developmental precious metal catalytic processes may be improved.
Over the past few decades, the chemical industry has expanded its primary focus from product innovation to ensuring sustainable product and process development. As stakeholders begin to realize the benefits of green and environmentally friendly chemical processes, the industry is demanding innovative catalytic technologies that offer improved yields, high selectivity and lower energy requirements. When addressing sustainability, modern chemists are faced with many new and evolving challenges. Smarter and greener catalytic technologies can provide the chemical and pharmaceutical industries with the cutting-edge tools needed to overcome these difficulties.
By examining how key stakeholders in these industries are approaching catalytic process development, it is possible to gain insights into the challenges and key solutions that can be used to further their improvement.
Recognizing challenges
When looking to improve industrial processes, it is important to first examine how these methods are developed. Having been taught a whole host of traditional reactions, such as the Wittig or Horner-Wadsworth-Emmons (HWE) reactions, process chemists and engineers might feel the requirement to stick to the classics. But on further inspection, in many conditions these reactions have poor atom economy and are highly inefficient. For example, the Wittig reaction, which finds multiple industrial uses such as in vitamin and carotenoid synthesis, can produce large amounts of waste, such as triphenylphosphine oxide (TPPO). This issue is further compounded as TPPO is notoriously difficult to separate from desired products.1
While these challenges may not dramatically impact the efficiencies at lab scale, during scale-up these issues may severely affect process performance. As such, it is necessary to take a step back and understand how a process is developed and consider the conditions that the reaction is most likely to be carried out in. Only when these factors are extensively studied will it be possible to begin to develop sustainable, efficient and robust processes.
Process technicians at the Umicore PMC facility in Tulsa, OK, USA. Precious metal catalysis is making its contribution to a cleaner and greener chemical industry.
Optimized chemistries
In many industries within the chemical sector, chemical commodities are passed on within their relevant sector as semi-finished products. As a result, these high-value products often undergo longer and less sustainable processes.
Precious metals have long been used in catalytic systems, often providing rapid and more sustainable routes to high-valued and industrially important compounds. However, some routes that require costly transition metal catalysts can often lose a high percentage of the catalyst during reactions, be it through specific intermediate reactions, or unoptimized metal separation and recycling methods. Hydroformylation, also known as the oxo synthesis, is one of the most important homogeneous catalyst-mediated reactions. It enables highly versatile aldehyde functional groups, which are useful for further manufacturing of performance chemicals and chemical intermediates such as plasticizers, lubricants, etc. The hydroformylation reaction can be catalyzed by a rhodium containing catalyst and its industrial viability relies on the combination of the selectivity of the catalyst together with the high efficiency of its separation – once used – from the reaction stream and of the recycling of the Rh metal it contains. Umicore's global approach to both high-quality catalyst and highly efficient metal recycling, in this instance, is a key way to protect this precious metal investment. This helps to ensure long-term profitability of a reaction or process, whilst helping to increase its productivity.
Alongside ensuring that chemical or pharmaceutical reaction routes are both cost- and time-efficient, industries need to limit the environmental impact of their processes. Catalysis has long been at the forefront of green chemistry, and is an essential consideration when analyzing new systems and processes. The production of waste, and the use of high temperatures and pressures, are all common problems to overcome in many industries, and are essential considerations when ensuring the circular economy and valorization of feedstocks. One such example, which has been published by researchers in polymer chemistry, used Umicore's metathesis catalysts to facilitate the previously difficult process of recycling natural rubber (NR).2 The study, by Abbas et al, utilized cross-metathesis to degrade vulcanized rubber waste, promoting its conversion to norbornenes through a cycloaddition reaction. NR production amounts to about 13.3 million tonnes per year, and with incineration being the typical end-of-life treatment, alternatives had become an increasingly important time- and money-saver.3
Production control at the Umicore PMC plant in Tsukuba, Japan. Precious metal catalysis is making its contribution to a cleaner and greener chemical industry.
The tools for success
While metathesis technologies have already been readily applied to a vast majority of sectors, its true value remains to be unharnessed. Metathesis has the potential to provide a sustainable and green approach to reaction synthesis. Being able to shorten complex reaction steps can improve productivity, reduce waste and energy consumption, use less solvent, or even reduce the CO2 emission footprint of a reaction. Related to the sustainability component, metathesis reactions are increasingly being sought as alternatives to previously difficult reactions or processes.
The future possibilities for success are seemingly endless. When specifically looking at the chemical industry, metathesis has already proven to be successful in many manufacturing industries. These include, but are by no means limited to, the manufacture of active molecules for hepatitis C virus (HCV) treatments and the creation of functional polymers with temperature-, corrosion- or abrasion-resistance properties.4,5 In these applications, metathesis has proven a key enabler for efficiency, allowing previously difficult reaction pathways in this area to be reached with relative ease.
Umicore PMC has been active in providing metathesis catalysts for more than a decade, and recognizes that this has not been done alone: collaborations within academia and industry have built the foundations of an unrivalled portfolio of intellectual property and metathesis catalysts that can be applied at an industrial scale. This portfolio, leveraged with multiple decades of expertise in the field, has enabled the continued growth of the range, and helped to establish new and exciting collaborations within both the academic and industrial setting.
Shaping sustainable pathways
There is a growing demand for chemical processes that generate less waste and provide companies with a long-term, green future, all whilst providing commercial benefits. The future of the chemical industry is therefore undoubtedly environmentally friendly, with regulatory requirements forcing cleaner reactions. New synthetic processes are utilizing highly-reactive compounds in low concentrations to increase throughput and push reactions to be both cleaner and cost efficient.
Umicore PMC offers the combination of metathesis catalysts with advanced homogeneous catalysts, including Buchwald catalysts and multiple generations of Grubbs catalysts. Many years of research have ensured that the necessary manufacturing capabilities can be offered, and the advanced catalyst needs of global partners can be met, at their desired scale. And, by further advancing academic and industrial partner collaborations, any reaction bottlenecks can be overcome and the next generation of materials created.
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Jobless claims dropped by 21,000, falling further than economists predicted.
Applications for unemployment benefits in the U.S. declined to the lowest level in almost two months, showing further healing in the labor market.
Jobless claims in the week ended Nov. 16 dropped by 21,000 to 323,000, the fewest since the week ended Sept. 28, from a revised 344,000 the previous week, the Labor Department said today in Washington. The median forecast of 47 economists surveyed by Bloomberg called for a drop to 335,000. Last week included the Veterans' Day holiday, which makes adjusting the data for seasonal swings more difficult, a Labor Department spokesman said.
Rising sales going into the holiday-shopping period will probably prompt employers to keep current workers on staff to meet demand. Fewer firings may also lead to bigger gains in hiring that will help boost consumer spending, which accounts for almost 70 percent of the economy.
Economists' estimates in the Bloomberg survey ranged from 323,000 to 360,000. The prior week's claims were revised up from an initial reading of 339,000.
No states estimated the number of claims for last week, the Labor Department said.
Another report today showed wholesale prices dropped in October for a second month, showing inflation remains tame.
The 0.2 percent decrease in the producer price index followed a 0.1 percent fall the prior month, the separate Labor Department report showed. The decline matched the median estimate in a Bloomberg survey of 75 economists. The so-called core measure, which strips out volatile food and fuel, climbed 0.2 percent after a 0.1 percent gain in September.
Stock-index futures held earlier gains after the reports. The contract on the Standard & Poor's 500 Index maturing in December rose 0.2 percent to 1,783.5 at 8:50 a.m. in New York.
The four-week average of claims, a less-volatile measure, decreased to 338,500 last week from 345,250 the prior week.
The number of people continuing to receive jobless benefits increased by 66,000 to 2.88 million in the week ended Nov. 9.
Continuing claims don't include Americans who have exhausted their traditional state aid and are receiving emergency and extended benefits under federal programs. Those job seekers decreased by about 32,200 to 1.3 million in the week ended Nov. 2.
The unemployment rate among people eligible for benefits held at 2.2 percent in the week of Nov. 9, where it's been since mid-September.
Forty-seven states and territories reported an increase in claims, while six reported a decrease. These data are reported with a one-week lag.
Federal Reserve policy makers meet next Dec. 17-18 to weigh whether economic growth and progress in the labor market merit a reduction in the $85 billion of monthly asset purchases. Fed Vice Chairman Janet Yellen, nominated to succeed Ben S. Bernanke when his term expires Jan. 31, told lawmakers last week that "supporting the recovery today is the surest path to returning to a more normal approach to monetary policy" and that the Fed "has more work to do" in boosting the expansion.
Employers added 204,000 workers to payrolls in October even as gridlock over the budget in Washington forced the partial closing of federal agencies, topping the most optimistic forecast in a survey of economists, a Nov. 8 Labor Department report showed.
Retail sales showed a stronger-than-forecast pickup in October, a positive sign for companies as shoppers enter the holiday season. The 0.4 percent increase was the most in three months and higher than the 0.1 percent median in a Bloomberg survey of 86 economists.
Consumer spending gains even amid the 16-day partial federal government shutdown are lifting the outlook for businesses such as La-Z-Boy Inc. of Monroe, Michigan.


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"Squid Game," "Midnight Mass," "Ted Lasso"… 8 Tips for Choosing Your Next Binge
By Patricia PuentesLast Updated December 20, 2021
"Squid Game." Photo Courtesy: Youngkyu Park/Netflix
You might be wondering if you should stream Squid Game right now — that's if you haven't already watched Netflix's latest viral sensation. The streamer has touted the South Korean drama as their biggest series launch ever, with the show reaching 111 million households. In comparison, Bridgerton was Netflix's previous biggest series ever, a title it claimed when a record 82 million accounts watched the Regency-era-set show in the first 28 days after its debut. (However, bear in mind that Netflix doesn't specify how many people finished watching any of their shows).
Squid Game currently sits at the number 1 position among Netflix's Top 10 streaming titles in the U.S. and has kick-started an endless tirade of memes on social media. The new series follows 456 contestants as they battle against each other in a survival competition comprised of a series of traditional Korean childhood games. But be advised: the show packs a generous amount of blood and violence — which is the reason why I still haven't found the energy to commit to watching its nine-episode first season.
Squid Game is not the only recent show lacking a big marketing campaign or a recognizable brand name to make it to Netflix's popular Top 10 chart. Just a couple of weeks before Squid Game, the horror-themed Midnight Mass walked a similar path. Before that, there was Clickbait and the three-season-old Manifest. After being canceled by NBC, Manifest rose to the top of Netflix's Top 10 and was even uncancelled by the streamer for a fourth and final season.
Netflix's viral shows have made us discover the bingeability of the French gentleman thief drama Lupin starring Omar Sy, the Spanish adrenaline-fueled melodrama Money Heist and, back in 2016, it made us devour Stranger Things, a then-little-known supernatural show set in the '80s and starring Winona Ryder.
But should virality be the measure by which you choose what to watch next and how to invest your time in front of the television?
Dos and Don'ts: How to Choose Your Next TV Show
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Virality is only one of the many ways to find out about new shows to watch, and you shouldn't limit yourself to that one factor. Here are a few more things you should and shouldn't do while choosing a new series — and, no, selecting a show by how its poster looks is never a good option.
Trailers can help you make an informed decision. Of course, they're not an infallible method and they tend to be a very condensed representation of a show, both trying to convey its plot and not reveal too many spoilers. So trailers can be confusing sometimes. But my rule of thumb is: if I'm not able to finish a trailer — they are usually no longer than 2 minutes and 30 seconds — then I probably won't like the show.
Read what critics are saying. We review a good deal of films and TV shows every month. Apple's Foundation with Lee Pace (and his arms), HBO's Succession season three, FX's Y: The Last Man and Hulu's Only Murders in the Building are some of our recently reviewed shows here at Ask. And you've probably already watched the second season of Ted Lasso, which wasn't as good as the first one but still a great way to decompress. But since we can't review everything, you may want to head to a review aggregator like Rotten Tomatoes, which offers you not only a score based on professional and vetted critics' reviews, but also an additional score from viewers.
Don't forget to check our Coming Soon section, where every month we recommend a good variety of what's coming out in theaters and streaming and what's returning for new seasons. Take a look at our selections for October.
Research a little before committing to your next binge, especially if you're one of those completionists who needs to finish something once they start watching — even if they're not enjoying it that much. And try to find out things like what shows did the showrunner make before this title? What genre is the show? Do you typically like that genre? How many seasons are available? How many episodes per season? Do you have enough time to watch all those episodes?
You may decide to dive into the worlds of The White Lotus or Mare of Easttown thinking they're one-and-done limited series that'll be over after a few episodes, but success can turn any miniseries into an ongoing show. So keep in mind that you may have to keep watching something even if you didn't initially plan to do so.
Also, enroll in the streaming services that best serve your tastes. We've written quite a bit about the impossibility of keeping up with so many subscriptions during the streaming wars, but that only means more choices for you as a viewer. Services like Netflix or Hulu offer you a general selection of all sorts of flavors and genres. But there are also niche streaming services like BritBox, a must for lovers of all things British; Crunchyroll for anime fans; and Shudder for horror enthusiasts.
Making a decision should be a little bit easier now. Although, with so much to watch, I understand if you feel overwhelmed and just end up rewatching something you previously enjoyed. Don't be afraid to experiment and to try new things. Just remember that you can quit a show at any point. No need to finish something you're not enjoying, even if it's become the latest viral sensation.


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