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Enzyme catalysis with small ionic liquid quantities
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Enzyme catalysis with minimal ionic liquid quantities improves reaction rates, stereoselectivity and enables solvent-free processing. In particular the widely used lipases combine well with many ionic liquids. Demonstrated applications are racemate separation, esterification and glycerolysis. Minimal solvent processing is also an alternative to sluggish solvent-free catalysis. The method allows simplified down-stream processing, as only traces of ionic liquids have to be removed.
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- Title
- Enzyme catalysis with small ionic liquid quantities
- Journal
Journal of Industrial Microbiology & Biotechnology
Volume 38, Issue 4 , pp 477-487
- Cover Date
- 2011-04-01
- 10.1007/s10295-010-0908-1
- Print ISSN
- 1367-5435
- Online ISSN
- 1476-5535
- Publisher
- Springer-Verlag
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- Topics
- Keywords
- Enzyme catalysis
- Solvent free
- Ionic liquid
- Multiphase
- Coating
- Industry Sectors
- Authors
- Fabian Fischer (1)
- Julien Mutschler (1)
- Daniel Zufferey (2)
- Author Affiliations
- 1. Institute of Life Technologies, University of Applied Sciences Western Switzerland, HES-SO Valais, Route du Rawyl 64, 1950, Sion 2, Switzerland
- 2. Institute Systems Engineering, University of Applied Sciences Western Switzerland, HES-SO Valais, Route du Rawyl 47, 1950, Sion 2, Switzerland


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Does anyone else garden by the moon?
Going by the moon's phases and signs plays a big part in my backyard. I was wondering if anyone else around here still uses these old ways?
My parents experimented with it for a couple decades, but found it more useful to correlate with other natural signs, such as planting corn when the oak leaves are the size of a squirrel's ear (not joking!). I rely on a thermometer, because it isn't going to matter what the zodiac sign is if the soil is still too cold and/or wet.
Are you doing any test controls to see what happens if the signs aren't followed?
Garden witch, I'm glad you posted this.... My husband refuses to plant the beans because a friend of his, an elderly Italian woman says that it is the wrong time of the moon to plant beans. He's waiting for the go-ahead from her.
I've been trying to figure this out somewhat logically, but began to really get bogged down on it.
It is logical that if the moon exerts a pull on the tides, it also will exert a pull on the earth. It may follow then that plants that do most of their fruiting above ground would benefit from a "pull" when they are just planted, and conversely plants that are root crop would get a better start when the "pull" is absent.
Since I am person who has always worked in the arts, I
have great gaps in my knowledge of science and I realize
that so many other factors would have a part in explaining the moon signs, but it seems that science always helps to prove ancient superstitions to be true. I would really like to hear more about how this could be true scientifically. L.
I just looked up the link you provided and there were all the answers that I asked about in the previous post. Someday I will look up the links before I jump in with my questions, no matter if I am tired and rushed. Thank you so much for providing that link. It is really interesting.... Lina.
There is one thing that puzzles me about planting by the moon (actually, the whole thing puzzles me):
Let's say you put some seed in the ground, seed that would, according to the rules found in the calendar (of the link above) be advantaged by planting right after the new moon. But then let's say that it takes the seed quite a while to "wake up" (I've had seeds that took months to sprout...) and happens to sprout more around the full moon... Then will you still get the "advantage" of sowing at the new moon?
I guess my question can be simply put: is it the sprouting time that should be in the "right moon" or the sowing time?
Other questions: does moon affect transplanting, pruning, fertilizing, and we could even include watering (full moon = rise of water = a better rise of water in the plant? )?
Thanks for your link. It is in the same spirit as the www.gardeningbythemoon.com.
But I'm surprised that it even extends to affecting the time of harvesting!
I think what I'm looking for is a more complete information. Mre answers to the why's. I understand the full moon, with it's gravitational pull, pulls the water up, which brings more water, and more nutrients, to plants. Perhaps taking more "sap" into the fruits making them juicier. After that I'm lost. Why some like the full moon and not others?
I guess the scientist in me is looking into the reasons why it should work. I definitly need to continue gathering info.
I think the thing is that so many ppl look at astrology as something hokey, new age, a fad, etc. But, farmers and gardeners have been planting by the moon's phases and signs for a very long time.
I don't think it is so much a belief as it is just another form of science. You don't look at the science behind it, but the science within it. Yeah, I suppose you could look at the gravitational effects of the moon and its position in relation to the earth, and that does play its part. That is the physical science, but there is just so much more than that. I guess its hard to explain without writing a whole book on the subject (which thankfully others have done for us!)
There is no part being played by gravitational pull. There is vastly more pull coming from your own body standing next to your plants that the moon's gravitational pull. As has been repeated often: "A mother holding her child "will exert 12 million times as much tidal force on her child as the moon".
Since I dont know what the moon is supposed to look like during its phases, I am looking for someone to email me with the proper moon planting instructions according to my location in NC. I dont even know if the Moon is in the same phase at every location on Earth. Can I get on a moon-planting mailing list? I dont want to have to remember to look at the moon daily. Anyone else feel that way?
I am totally confused about the moon phases also. Does anyone have a calendar showing the phases? And, good question, are they the same all over the earth? I mean, it's nightime here in NY but I know darn well it's still light in California. And it's already tomorrow in the eastern hemisphere.
The moon exerts the same gravitational force on the earth regardless of the phase. The phase is a function of how much of the earth is blocking the sunlight to the moon. The moon's mass doesn't change, hence the gravitational force doesn't change.
The only possible advantage of following moon cycles is that a lunar calendar is 13 months/year, instead of the 12/year we're familiar with. This 13/year might be a better map to natural cycles, since the 12/year calendar requires some adjusting (i.e., notice that Easter this year was in March, not April as usual; the timing of Easter is actually based on the lunar calendar). Also, a more accurate first/last frost prediction could be made on the lunar calendar than on a "normal" calendar.
I think most calendars have some phases of the moon on them, check any calendar you happen to have. This month my calendar says May 8th is a new moon, so I am planning on sowing some seeds 2 days before that. The Full moon is on May 23, this is the day I will transplant to rest of my tomatoes into the beds. I did most of them during Aprils full moon.
Our local famous gardener in my neck of the woods is Ed Hume and he puts out a little pocket sized guide every year with what to do on what days. He doesn't explain any of the why's but if all you want is to be told what to do on what days something like that would probably be what you are looking for. I found mine on the same seed racks that sold his brand of seeds at both Home Depot and Fred Meyer (which is a regional chain.) I am sure you have a similar local resource. It was only a couple of bucks and is about the same size as a shirt pocket.
A friend talked me into the notion a couple years ago, the jury is still out on the merits of moon phase planting for me. This winter I made it a point to obtain two different pharmacy calendars and they don't have a lot of common date information. Next I looked at three different farmers almanact's again there is a lot of difference from one to the next. I am currently communicating with Caren from the calendar web site listed above. She claims there are different ways to design calendar dates depending on how corrections are applied to lunar event period changes over the milleniums since zodiac events were first used and how accurately the designer accounts for not just days but hours in lunar cycles. I am still waiting for her to perscribe a calendar type of hers for my locality but also am wondering if it would be just as well to hang all those calendars in the out house and use them there. That thirteen bucks would buy a few more packs of fresh seeds or a grow light. What do you think.
I'm intrigued with moon phase planting and just ordered the calendar mentioned above - very reasonable for the download version at $1/month if you get the full year. I've had beginner's luck (didn't follow any particular gardening approach) growing monster tomatoes in containers or small plots with limited sun exposure back East (CT) - have never had pest issues, and am hoping that my new container garden (focusing on leafy veggies) in half wine barrels this year will be a hit.
If anyone wants to embark on this moon planting business for 2007, email me and let's compare notes. I'm just south of San Francisco along the Pacific Coast - but it doesn't matter where your location is. I am particularly interested in veggie gardens that are in part shade.
:-) Gigi
I've found that my time spent trying to find out what phase the moon, the zodiac,and the stars needed to be,would have been used more wisely working in the garden.Im not saying it dosent work,because through out my life Ive dug a few post holes.If someone says the moon does not effect the soil,go out dig a post hole on the increase and another on the decrease.You will find that one phase you will have more than enough dirt to fill and the other not enough.
I tried planting vegetables by the moon last year and did not notice a difference. For example: I did 6 plantings of peas at about two week intervals, good moon, bad moon, good moon The first 4 plantings all flowered at the same time and I had a ton of peas on all. The first two plantings were much smaller than the later plantings. No real difference between good or bad. For the last one it got pretty hot and they never did real well. Radishes the same procedure, good moon, bad moon I did not notice any difference in size, quality or taste between them. Although one of the good moon plantings had an 11+" circumference Cherry Belle radish. Very impressive but it rotted before I could get seed. Corn, beans and tomatoes same results Inconclusive!
This year I am going by the weather not the moons. When the soil temp is right, I will plant.
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Most the plants we grow originated 'elsewhere' and don't give two hoots about the phases of the moon in our latitude and longtitude. They are not impacted by 'the moon's gravity' or other mumbo jumbo.
We have something called the 'weather channel' and can check the week's forecast. It predicts precipitation, frost, etc.
I just looked at the farmer's almanac online. It showed what days to plant and what days not to plant and alot of other stuff. I'm going to try it. There is even a right time to get your hair cut. I really need to do that. I definitly got my hair cut at the worst time a few weeks ago. It stands up all over the place and nothing will control it!


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How do you know when the people "just say no" to chicken over rampant bird flu concerns? When even McDonalds (whose ad campaign for the past decade "I am loving it" continues to be an anagram for "ailing vomit") is forced to slash chicken-related prices, in this case the 20 piece McNuggets, from CNY36 to CNY20. Pretty soon not even giving away the McMystery meat will clear out the shelves of all chicken-related fast food first in Shanghai and soon elsewhere in China. Finally, we dread to imagine the horrors that will befall Yum (read China KFC sales), now that after so much pain, the fast-food chain had finally reported a modest bounce in Chinese sales [2]. So much for that.
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(Half A Cow) released In Reg Mombassa's cosmos, Jesus sits him down and tells him to stop telling lies and to lead a good life. The big fella then tells the former Mental As Anything sex symbol that he is tired of saving the world, just wants to settle down and meet a nice girl, maybe clown around a little. He blames the early Christians for putting him on a pedestal. Reg and his brother Pete O'Doherty do a nice line in wacky and The Jesus Song is a good example, but sometimes you get the feeling that wacky might be a negative - something that obscures the integrity of these heart felt and beautifully crafted little songs. Dog Trumpet is the siblings and friends project turned main game now that they've both abandoned the Mentals and its a collaboration not to be underestimated. This self titled CD is a wonderful collection of songs lovingly formed and nostalgically classic little pieces of pop that are rich with a sweet 60's sensibility. Pete's Don't Wait Too Long is a melodic tour de force that wouldn't sound out of place on a Neil Finn record and is backed with some beautiful strings. It's the stand out song of the record. but every track is good. Reg's Akenhaten is musically fascinating, a mystic hillbilly ditty and The Gun Song is a bit of a Pete Seeger style crack at our dishonest Johnny. This is a great record, hard to slip into a niche, impossible to program on our stylistically constipated radio stations and almost inevitably destined to be ignored, but I got it and I'm laughin'. **** stars By Peter Lalor, Daily Telegraph Thursday 11th April 2002 This is a nice low key and ultimately quite gentle collection from the two brothers who once graced the country's stages and guitarist and bass player with Mental as Anything now permanently Dog Trumpet. Each of them - Peter O'Doherty and the brother known as Reg Mombassa - contributes seven songs to the mix and individual styles, while complementary are very different. There's warmth and intimacy in Peter's This Waiting Game while there's the expected quirkiness in Reg's The Numbers. Peter's Slow Down contrasts Reg's Harrisonesque slide riffing with Lara Goodridge's pizzicato violin in a swirl of strings while 'blasphemy' has never been delivered with such understatement and simple humanity as in Reg's The Jesus Song. Monkey Tank is the closest you'll get to a Mentals kind of groove, yet delivered as it is by Reg's soft voice. It's totally Dog Trumpet despite the totally Mombassa guitar solo. I've no idea what the monkey fixation is all about or the song as a whole for that matter but its bops along nicely which I suppose is the point. Then again, what's with Akhenaten? Neat little tune but the connection between non pharaonic verse and pharaonic chorus is um, well tenuous. By hey, that's quirky for you! Ever the more eccentric Reg maintains the myth nicely here - just check out the well bent Gun Song. Then for something completely different there's The Flute Song - a nifty little instrumental excursion. Meanwhile that trademark guitar sounds gives Pete's Red Roof Sunsets and Everything Looks The Same a bit of Mentals edge too, subverting the Beatles/Nilsson stylings. The McCartney influence comes through more clearly on Don't Wait Too Long complete with the sumptuous strings of three quarters of Four Play (Amanda Brown (Go Betweens/Cleopatra Wong) does the string arranging honours for the plaintive In the Morning musing on the late great Nick Drake. All up here's an album that doesn't change the world, just leaves you feeling it's capable of being quite a nice place, if a little odd. Michael Smith, Drum Media 9th April, 2002 A labour of love from brothers and former Mental As Anything bandmates Peter O'Doherty and Reg Mombassa, Dog Trumpet's third album took four years to record. Now they've delivered, fans will appreciate that it's been worth the wait. It's an album that switches between wistful nostalgia, sadly pretty romance and quirky knees ups, always with a distinctly homemade, acoustic feel. The mood swings can probably be put down to the brothers' division of the writing credits. So O'Doherty sings of a rose-tinted childhood in suburbia on tracks like 'Red Roof Sunsets', then Mombassa sets a lyric about the sectioning of a mentally-ill relative against jaunty, jangling guitars on 'Monkey Tank'. The contrasts could have made for a messy album. They don't, because Dog Trumpet's main strength is the pair's ability to transfer that unspoken brotherly bond onto record. Like looking through the family album, Dog Trumpet is an intimate and revealing portrait of two men¹s private world. Ben Atherton, Time Off 16th April 2002
1. This Waiting Game 2. The Numbers 3. Slow Down 4. The Jesus Song 5. Monkey Tank 6. Red Roof Sunsets 7. Quiet Night 8. Everything Looks The Same 9. The Flute Song 10. Don't Wait Too Long 11. Akhenaten 12. In The Morning 13. The Gun Song 14. Emily Brown
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A lot of people have questions about meditation. Perhaps this is why my article 8 Basic Kinds of Meditation is the most popular post I've ever written. But there is also a lot of information out there that is just plain wrong, misguided, or given in a way that is so out-of-context as to be completely misleading.
Just as shadow and light are both necessary to allow your eyes to see forms, sometimes to know what the nature of a thing, it helps to consider what it is not. So here are 12 Common Myths About Meditation, offered in the hope that by describing what meditation is not, you'll have a better sense of what meditation is.
1. Meditation is about being present.
This is the big one. If you looked at what do so many 'experts' on meditation agree on, this would be the largest single area of agreement.
The only problem is that it's at best misleading, and at worst, totally wrong.
Meditation is about the state of unity, where you feel that you are part of all things, and all things are part of you. In our school, we cultivate the experience of unity within our hearts, thus we call this state the Universal Heart, as described by Puran and Susanna Bair in Living from the Heart, pp. 34-59, in which they describe 5 stages of being that are possible to attain in meditation. (Take Course 101: Introduction to Heart Rhythm Meditation to learn more about the 5 stages of meditation.)
The state of unity may simply happen spontaneously, as a state of grace. If it does happen, that is a great blessing. But mostly what we mean by the word 'meditation' is the conscious cultivation of this amazing state of unity through some sort of daily practice. Whatever the details of that practice, it will begin with concentration, with focusing the mind to a single point.
If this is what it means to 'be present,' then I agree it is the starting point. Yet there is more, far more. Concentration (stage 1) becomes contemplation (stage 2), which may then open to meditation (stage 3). (For more on these stages, see this post.)
There is a grain of truth in the idea that meditation is about the present, but the present is much bigger than is commonly thought. Time is more complex than we think; it is the rational side of our minds that makes time seem linear. The present includes the past and what may come to pass in the future. To say that only the present moment exists is not accurate, nor does it square with our experience of past and future coexisting with the present.
Unfortunately, the constant refrain about 'being present' is not only misleading, but unhelpful as well, because it makes people feel badly about the times their minds wander, which is often for reasons that are more emotional than mental.
When you have an intensely emotional experience, it often takes time to integrate it. Your thoughts will be drawn back to that experience during meditation, particularly if you meditate with the intent of opening your heart. This is not bad, and it's not a distraction. It means that you are focusing on healing, integrating, and absorbing the lessons of the past. What you need are a set of techniques that go with this tendency, helping you find wholeness. Our course 106: Healing Your Heart, which is offered through our two-year University of the Heart program, is designed to familiarize you with a set of effective methods for healing your heart.
2. Meditation is about having no thoughts.
In the state of unity, your individual identity is eclipsed by the enormity of the whole Being of creation, an experience of such grandeur and intensity that you may experience it as a complete absence of thought. If you do have thoughts, they may be of such abstraction, so totally divorced from your ordinary thoughts, that they may not even register as thoughts at all.
But if you sit in this state, thoughts will re-emerge. Perhaps that is because you got distracted; then you must re-focus, and go through the stages again.
Then there are the thoughts that come from a universal, timeless, infinite, and unlimited place. These are not personal thoughts, they are the thoughts of the Universe, arising in your own mind. These are thoughts of such power and profundity, that to compare them to your ordinary thoughts would be placing the sun next to a candle.
What happens with your thoughts is simply not the primary issue. The issue at hand has to do with your state of being, and your thoughts are just the tip of the iceberg.
3. Meditation is about leaving your body.
It is true that some meditation methods place great emphasis on leaving your body, but this isn't what meditation is really about. Remember, meditation is about the state of unity. Leaving your body would leave behind part of unity.
To leave your body means that what you identify as your self shifts to a locus that is different from what it is normally, when you tend to think of your personal identity as located right behind your eyes.
What we look for in Heart Rhythm Meditation is to bring out the unlimited in ourselves, filling every cell of our bodies with the perfection that is our true nature.
4. Meditation is about going into a trance.
What happens in a trance is that you lose a degree of conscious awareness of your surroundings, and your ability to make conscious choices gets curtailed. This doesn't happen at all in meditation, but it can happen with hypnosis.
Meditation should make you more awake, not less.
5. Meditation makes you spaced out.
Getting spaced out can happen with meditation, but it depends a great deal upon the kind of meditation you practice. Kinds of meditation that stress leaving your body, or dis-identifying with your ego or your desires, or getting rid of your thoughts, are more likely to make you feel spaced out.
But this simply means you're focusing on the wrong things. Getting spaced out isn't the goal, and when it happens, it often signals a weakness in concentration; it could also be that your meditation technique doesn't give you enough spiritual power, which is usually due to shallow breathing.
When you focus on your breath, heart beat, and the energy of your inner heart as we do in Heart Rhythm Meditation, you are very unlikely to become spaced out, because you're focusing on your body, emotions, and the challenges of your life, which keep you grounded in your humanity.
6. Meditation cannot be dangerous.
Anything that has power is potentially dangerous, and meditation techniques do indeed have great power. The power of meditation is what made the teachers of the past be very selective about what practices were given to a student, teaching only students that they knew personally so that the student would be helped by the practice and not harmed.
We also believe that the best way to learn Heart Rhythm Meditation, or any kind of meditation, is under the guidance of a teacher. This is why ouronline courses involve so much active guidance and support from our teachers, and that is why we also present live lectures, as well as teachseminars, and lead retreats.
If you have had a negative experience with meditation in the past, I recommend that you take our 101 course, so that you can learn with the help and support of a teacher. You can learn more about what common kinds of negative experiences and symptoms people report as well as a powerful technique for resolving and healing these symptoms here.
7. Every kind of meditation has the same goal.
It is true that all legitimate methods of meditation involve cultivating the experience of unity. Yet the way of working is very different, and like different paths that all lead to the same peak, the experience of traveling each path is different even though the destination is the same.
Some meditation methods focus on the third eye, others on the crown chakra. Some focus on the dan tien, others on the emotions. These different practices yield different experiences for the practitioners, yet there will be some commonalities as well.
8. Meditation must be done sitting cross-legged.
Nothing does more to discourage those raised in the industrialized world from trying meditation than the notion that meditation can only be practiced sitting cross-legged on the floor.
Sitting cross-legged is not only unnecessary, it is not ideal for Heart Rhythm Meditation. The reason is that the crossing of the legs closes the legs energetically; the energy that would normally flow down your legs and out your feet is closed off. Ideally, you would be able to make use of that energy, allowing it to build up as it re-circulates within you. What often happens instead is that your legs fall asleep, damaging your joints, muscles, and nerves through lack of circulation.
By sitting in a chair with the soles of the feet flat on the floor, you can exchange energy with the earth as your breathe in and out through your heart, strengthening your legs as you improve your posture. (We teach this technique in course 101.)
9. Meditation is against religion.
Every religion has a way of meditating, but over time, many of the specific methods and practices of meditation have been lost or suppressed, or are only taught to a few.
Some religions discourage people from learning meditation out of fear of people exploring other religions.
Our school has no religious affiliation, and we welcome people of all faiths, as well as skeptics, agnostics, atheists, and anyone who doesn't fit into any category.
We're about experience, not doctrine.
10. Meditation will take away all your problems.
Meditation can be very powerful, and is an excellent way of giving you more resources to bring to bear against life's challenges, but it won't take away all your problems.
You have your problems because of your understanding of yourself, the nature of the Universe, and the relationship that you feel exists between yourself and the Universe (Puran and Susanna Bair discuss this in their book Follow Your Heart: The Map to Illumination.) Over time, a practice of meditation can change and expand your understanding of all these questions, which will take away your current problems, and replace them with a new set of problems which are much more challenging.
Problems are an opportunity to grow, and life is about growth.
11. Everyone has their own form of meditation.
No doubt every student must take a technique and make it their own, but I often hear people saying something like:
Talking on the phone…
Fly fishing…
Having a beer…
Watching clouds pass by… is my form of meditation.
All these activities can be wonderful, but remember, meditation is about a regular practice which cultivates the experience of unity, making the mind-blowing experience of becoming One with All a regular part of your life.
So the question is, does this activity cultivate the experience of unity?
Maybe it does.
Or maybe it's simply a thing that you enjoy, that relieves stress, but doesn't push you to encounter new parts of yourself, and it isn't going to re-shape your understanding of who you are and how the world works.
We often enjoy activities that don't push us so hard, and there is no blame in that. I have many such activities, and while I always try to bring more spirit to everything I do, I find that my practice of Heart Rhythm Meditation leads the way to the experience of heart-centered unity more than any other activity that I've found.
One thing I look at is, does the activity give me just a little bit of a tremble, a little bit of pause, a sense that I may not emerge from it the same person who began it?
12. Meditation is about experiencing ultimate bliss and ecstasy.
Mind-bending experiences of ultimate bliss and ecstasy can and do happen in meditation, but this isn't what it's all about. Meditation is about the state of unity, and unity includes all emotions, not just those that are positive, blissful, and ecstatic. You may also experience great sadness and great pain.
When you practice Heart Rhythm Meditation, you may feel sadness, bliss, pain, joy, and everything in between, an infinite, oceanic expanse of emotion so big that you cannot separate it into different categories.
So don't feel bad if your experience isn't altogether 'positive' — what we want is for it to be real. To be perfectly frank, meditation may make you feel a good deal worse, as it strips away your excuses and compromises. Luckily, the negative has a purpose too — to help us grow. If life were comfortable all the time, we wouldn't be pushed to develop our potential.
What do you think — have I missed any myths? I'd love to hear your thoughts — please share a comment below.
yours in the One Heart,
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