Along with yesterday's post about growing livestock and pet food, one of my goals for the homestead is to be able to grow certain medicinal plants and herbs. So, its winter, and obviously we can2t plant outside, but i can start some things indoors for planting later.
The plants pictured here all have strong medicinal or culinary uses. I am not a doctor or herbalist, and this isnt medical advise. My opinion of these plants is based on a long tradition as well as scientific research.
Ginger is very easy to grow. Just take one of the fresh ginger roots in the produce section of the grocery store, and plant it in damp soil. Ginger is a powerful plant...helps with the immune system, digestion, nausea, amd other ailments. It likes warm humid conditions, and thats why they are sitting on the radiator.
Tumeric is also an extremely valuable medicinal plant. You usually see it ground into a powder in the spice section of the market. It is a common seasoning in certain eastern dishes. It is also found in regular ol'mustard. Tumeric is a pain reliever and anti inflammatory, and has been associated with improvement in dementia amd Alzeimer's symptoms. I have known of a runner who was going to drop out of a 100 mile race due to some knee pain. He tried some tumeric at the aid station, and it did such a good job that he was able to finish the race.
Bay leaves are a seasoning and add a wonderful flavor to things like chicken soup, or roast meats.
Aloe vera has many uses. It is especially useful for skin issues, burns, cuts, and rashes. It is also taken internally for a variety of complaints. You are all probably familiar with using Aloe Vera for all those things.
the celery plant is just something i am rooting to plant in a pot indoors. I will be able to snip stems off these once they grow..
And then there is the elderberry bush. Elderberry is a perennial shrub, native to Europe and the US, which bears clusters of tiny, dark purple berries. Elderberry can be made into jam or pies, but it is a powerful immune booster, and traditionally made into a syrup as a tonic to battle infections, colds, flus, etc. You can actually purchase elderberry syrup in the drug store under the name Sambucol. I want to have several of these shrubs, but i bought this one as a start, and will plant it outdoors in the spring.
There are a couple of annual plants that fall into this category of having good medicinal qualities. I guess you could say that real food (not the processed refined crap that passes for food) is all medicine, but some individual plants definitely have uses. One of these is cayenne pepper, which can dramatically stop bleeding when the ground up dried pepper is packed into a wound. I have used this myself, and I wont be without cayenne in my arsenal of helpful plants. Garlic is an immune booster and anti-viral. I planted the garlic already. They will over winter under a thick layer of mulch in the garden.
Weather today. I forgot to look, but it was probably single digits. Basically, cold. Snowed again today.
wildlife- saw the turkeys again, and the usual birds at the feeder.
Daily exercise- I spent about two hours shoveling snow. This seemed sufficient to stand in for my upper body and core work.


The Michigan Supreme Court has ruled in favor of a century-old inn in a lawsuit over hot coals on a Lake Michigan beach.
ARCADIA, Mich. — The Michigan Supreme Court has ruled in favor of a century-old inn in a lawsuit over hot coals on a Lake Michigan beach.
The court says Watervale Inn is protected by a law that shields landowners from liability during recreational activities. The court last week reversed a decision by the Michigan appeals court.
A 10-year-old girl, Bailey Noble, suffered burns while stepping on the hidden remnants of a beach bonfire in 2013. Bailey wasn't staying at Watervale Inn in Benzie County, but a friend's family had been invited to use the beach.
The case was closely watched by people who allow public access to their properties. They feared that a decision against the inn could make them liable in the future.
Justice Kurtis Wilder didn't participate. He had handled the case while on the appeals court in 2017.


a black heart is dying.
an old deck's awash with blood.
look back to that day.
a hinge creaked as i did.
that love that i kept.
but you showed it the sun.
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This is beautiful Tim! It genuinely touched me. I love it!


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Notes: I received an ARC of the book from the publisher in exchange for an honest review.
Annie Rush was living the dream until one fateful day, it turned into a nightmare. On what should have been one of the happiest days of her life, she'd just learned she was pregnant, she walked in on her husband with another woman. Moments later she was struck on the head by some faulty equipment and fell into a coma. She awoke a year later to find herself divorced sporting a new short hairstyle, childless, and with little to no memory of her marriage.
"Memories are strange things, aren't they? You can't touch them and hold them in your hands, but they have incredible power. Because I've lost so many memories, I feel as though I've lost that power."
This was a doozy of a story. Annie had everything crashing down on her, literally and figuratively. You could not ask for a much worse day. Then to sleep right through everything to emerge and find out the world as you knew it is gone? I couldn't help but feel for the woman.
In some ways, by making Annie forget so much, it makes it easier for her to accept what happened and move on. I kind of love that she got a chance to view her marriage from the outside looking in and reevaluate all that happened.To see her ex-husband through eyes that weren't clouded by her emotions, in this instance, would be a gift. Plus, not having as much of an emotional attachment to such a man who has done you so wrong would be welcomed. While it would still hurt, it lightened the blow. What I liked most about the situation was seeing Annie come into her own for the second time in her life, and emerging stronger than ever.
I gave this one 4 1/2 out of 5 roses. A wonderful story about finding oneself in the face of tragic circumstances. Annie's new/old love interest, Fletcher, didn't win me over at first, especially in light of how things had ultimately ended between the two in the past. In my eyes, he truly had to prove himself worthy which he ultimately did. I loved that Annie got her happy ending because she so deserved it, but then don't we all? On the Lisarenee Romance Rating Scale, this one earned a BLUSH rating--at the beginning stages of romance where something is just starting to be stirred.


The other day I was thinking about what living with diabetes would be like if I didn't write this blog or have my instagram and other social media pages. I was diagnosed with Type 1 Diabetes in 2014 so I was lucky enough to have instant access to social media to find out more about diabetes from people who are living with it. That was how I was inspired to create my own page which I use as an outlet and as a place to share my journey. I never share anything about diabetes on my personal social media pages you see, mainly because I use them to promote myself as a performer, but mostly because I don't want to people to associate illness with me. Far too many people have uneducated opinions of diabetes and I don't think I am ready to fight off those comments – yet! However, the majority of people who follow this blog are diabetic so they (you) understand. How did you connect with other diabetics before the internet? Was there a group you could attend? What happened?
On another topic, my training this week has consisted of 2 hours of weight lifting for legs and back, 5 hours of pole dancing, 3 hours of yoga and 1 hour of kettlebell training. I also do unintentional cardio (walking) in work which adds another 3 hours. I might keep my training similar for the next couple of weeks, aside from rehearsals, as I feel that my body is responding well to it. By reducing weight training by 1 session I can lift myself easier and I seem to be healing quicker from the muscle soreness. No complaints with diabetes this week apart from a few lows. My 7 day average has been 6.5mmols so I am really pleased with that, my mind definitely feels a little bit clearer for it. I suppose the increased basal rate at certain parts of the day has really helped. Especially the morning one. I feel that waking up with a good blood sugar really sets me up for a better day, I don't have that foggy hungover feeling to brush off.
For the past 4 weeks I have been maintaining my calories and my weight so insulin has been pretty similar each day. I am so happy that I have finally found my personal maintenance level where I finally feel satisfied and healthy. It has taken such a long time, and although I am not completely content with my current body fat levels, I am pleased with how my attitude has adapted for the sake of my health. Whenever I have thought about dropping my calories again, because that's bound to happen, I think of how far I have come with my strength. I know that if I drop my calories significantly I will lose some of those strength gains which is definitely not in line with my goals. It's funny because a few blog posts ago I was eating much less and considering dropping the calories then. I'm so glad that I didn't and that I carried on.
Hope you have had a nice week. Let me know what you have been up to? Have your blood sugars been good?
Check out my book Diabetes and Healthy, Active Living which is now on sale at Amazon where you can purchase it for only $2.99. It's packed with useful information for weight loss, muscle gain, maintenance, macronutrients, reverse dieting and how to prevent binge eating. Get your copy today and let me know what you think.


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New Kickstarter Campaign Is Your Chance to Help the FCPX Documentary 'Off The Tracks'
By now, we are sure you are familiar with Bradley Olsen's documentary about FCPX called 'Off the Tracks.' Now is your opportunity to help get this film finished by contributing to his Kickstarter campaign. And yes, there are T Shirts!
So far the trailer for Brad's documentary 'Off the Tracks' has been received well. But completing a film to cinematic presentation level is still an expensive business.
That's why he's launched a Kickstarter campaign to raise $10,000 to help finish the film off. He's also produced a fund raising promo which you can view below. (Sorry about the lack of thumbnail)
Brad, where are you with the film?
We're still editing and I will be picking up a couple last minute interviews in the next few weeks.
What you need to do to finish the film?
What I still need to do is a lot! The biggest hurdles looking forward would be a music score, stock footage, and all the legal stuff (releases, clearance rights, lawyers, insurance). I'm learning more and more each day about what I don't know. Making the film is hard enough on its own, but there's a lot of unexpected challenges that come with distribution.
What people will get at the different tiers of contribution?
We have lots of rewards for the different pledge levels: advanced download of the movie, t-shirts and stickers, an autographed poster, tickets to the premiere, passes to the creative summit, on screen credit in the movie...
So please head over to Brad's Kickstarter campaign for Off the Tracks and if you can, a donation will help to get this film finished.
Here is the original trailer:
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What is on your wish list for the next 10 years at Alliance Architects?
What are the three career lessons you've learned thus far?
Never compromise your values. Communication is key to any team's success. Humility goes a long way.
I hope to see more recycled material and sustainable green buildings.
Volunteer and work with military veterans.
Raising my son. It's been the hardest, yet most rewarding aspect of my life.
I once rescued a baby opossum before finding an Opossum Rehab Facility (yes, there really is such a thing!); I don't recommend raising a baby opossum.
I paint murals for children's rooms and play spaces. I love to make homemade jelly in the summer.


Leeds City Council is ploughing over £1.5 million from right-to-buy sales back into affordable housing.
Money the council receives once a tenant buys their council property is being awarded to five organisations to provide another 56 homes that will be available to rent through the Leeds Homes Register.
The innovative approach has seen the council offer housing providers up to 30% of the costs of their developments.
Canopy, GIPSIL, Latch, Guinness Northern Partnership and Leeds & Yorkshire Housing Association will take a share of £1.57 million to build 41 new homes and refurbish 15 empty properties across the city.
The homes will need to conform to the new Leeds Standard with high design quality, be spacious and flexible for modern living and meet high standards of energy efficiency.
"With demand for council housing so high, we're making the most of the funds available to us from right to buy sales to provide another 56 much needed homes.
Grants are still available and housing organisations and providers are invited to submit creative solutions by contacting james.kilroy@leeds.gov.uk.
In particular, the council is interested in hearing about potential schemes that meet the needs of older people, smaller households, larger households and specialist housing for families with a disabled family member.


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Гриневе́цький Моде́ст ЧСВВ (хресне ім'я Михайло; 8 листопада 1758, Літовищі — 1 квітня 1823, Львів) — церковний діяч (УГКЦ), богослов та історик, джерелознавець, професор і ректор Львівського університету.

Життєпис
Народився у селі Літовищі (Лютовиська) на Лемківщині (пізніше Ліського повіту, тепер Бещадський повіт, Підкарпатське воєводство, Польща).

Навчався у так званій граматикальній і гуманітарній школі в місті Самборі, пізніше в містах Добромилі та Замості.

1777 р. вступив у монастир Василіянського Чину. На облаченні в монашу рясу отримав монаше ім'я Мелетій, однак на вічні обіти змінив його на Модест, тому в біографічних статтях часто замість справжнього хресного імені подане саме це перше ім'я.

Як студент Замостської академії написав розвідку «Філософське обґрунтування фізики» (1781 р.). Був учителем василіянських гімназій у Дрогобичі (1781–1782), Лаврові (1783–1784, викладав тут риторику, за даними «Енциклопедії Українознавства» заклад називався «окружна школа», був аналогічним до головної школи). З кінця 1784 до 1789 р. навчався християнського богослов'я і філософії у Відні, пізніше Львові.

Викладав догматику української мовою у Провізоричному науковому інституті в руській мові () при Львівському університеті, з 1793 р. очолював кафедру латинської мови та догматики. 1799 р. одержав звання доктора і титул звичайного професора, 1800, 1801 та 1806 р. — «прокуратор» чину василіан на Галицьку провінцію.

1791 р. підготував для теологів українською мовою «Догматику», а на прохання Чернівецького єпископату склав «План систематичних богословських студій» (1816 р.).

У 1817 р. внесений у список послів Галицького станового сейму.

За станом здоров'я відмовився від пропозицій переїхати працювати у Краківському та Віденському університетах. З 1822 р. — ректор Львівського університету, протоігумен василіянських монастирів у Галичині.

Географічний словник Королівства Польського стверджував про його смерть у Лаврові. Модест Гриневецький похований на цвинтарі ченців монастиря Св. Онуфрія та парафіян Успенської церкви Львова (тепер — монастирський сад) поблизу церкви Св. Онуфрія у Львові.

Діяльність
Був поборником міжслов'янських наукових взаємин. Листувався і обмінювався літературою з Петром Лодієм, Максиміліяном Оссолінським, Петром Кеппеном, Зоряном Доленґою-Ходаковським. Постійно збирав і описував стародруки, скопіював напис на надгробній плиті Івана Федоровича, написав передмови до праці Вількоровича і «Хроніки м. Львова» Бартоломея Зиморовича.

Примітки

Джерела
 Довідник з історії України. — , 2001.
 Стеблій Ф. І. Гриневецький Мелетій Модест  //
 Finkel L., Starzyński S. Historya Uniwersytetu Lwowskiego. — Lwów : Drukarnia E. Winiarza, 1894.

Посилання
 Шейко О. Отець Модест Гриневецький — монах, професор і ректор Львівського університету  // Фотографії старого Львова, 20 квітня 2016.

Католицькі богослови
Українські історики
Священники УГКЦ
Василіяни
Ігумени монастиря святого Онуфрія (Львів)
Богослови за алфавітом
Посли Галицького станового сейму
Професори
Доктори богослов'я
Персоналії:Ліський повіт
Померли у Львові
Поховані на цвинтарі Святого Онуфрія
Протоігумени Провінції Найсвятішого Спасителя ЧСВВ

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Health Department Announces New Company Commitments to the National Salt Reduction Initiative
Six major food companies join nationwide initiative to reduce sodium in their products; Daytime TV's The Doctors promotes NYC-led effort as it embarks on its own 'Halt the Salt' campaign
November 23, 2010 – Hostess, Butterball, Snyder's of Hanover, Premio, Furmano's and Delhaize America are the latest major food companies to sign on to the National Salt Reduction Initiative (NSRI), the Health Department announced today. These companies join 16 of the nation's leading food makers in a nationwide effort to cut the salt in packaged and restaurant foods by 25% over five years – an achievement that would reduce the nation's salt intake by 20% and prevent tens of thousands of deaths each year due to conditions caused by high blood pressure. The addition of these companies demonstrates their dedication to leading the food industry toward a healthier food supply.
The initiative has developed specific targets to guide company salt reductions across 62 categories of packaged food and 25 categories of restaurant food. The food companies committing to targets today will reduce sodium in 29 of the NSRI packaged food categories. Heinz is expanding its earlier commitment to include some frozen entrees, in addition to ketchup and tomato sauce.
Butterball is a popular brand-name manufacturer of turkey, poultry, and deli meats, as well as specialty products. The company commits to meeting the NSRI sodium-reduction targets in deli meat and hot dogs.
Delhaize America is a supermarket group whose 1,600 stores include Food Lion and Hannaford. The company will reduce sodium levels in the products it manufactures across 22 packaged-food categories, including frozen pizza, cereal and butter.
Furmano's, a supplier of foods to consumers and restaurants, will cut salt across its varieties of canned beans, baked beans and tomatoes.
Heinz, which made an initial commitment for its ketchup brand and Classico tomato sauce, is increasing its commitment to include frozen pizza and entrees.
Hostess, one of the largest wholesale bakeries in the country, produces bread, snack cakes and donuts under many brand names, including Wonder and Nature's Pride. The company commits to reducing salt across its entire line of bread products.
Family-owned Premio is the maker of 20 different sausage products. It commits to decreasing salt in its uncooked sausages.
Snyder's of Hanover, the nation's largest pretzel maker, also produces potato chips, tortilla chips and a brand of low-fat snack foods. The manufacturer already meets the NSRI target for pretzels and now commits to cutting the salt in its unflavored chips.
These companies join Au Bon Pain, Boar's Head, FreshDirect, Goya, Hain Celestial, Kraft, LiDestri, Mars Food, McCain Foods, Red Gold, Starbucks, Subway, Unilever, Uno Chicago Grill and White Rose, all of which are already committed to NSRI targets.
The latest company announcements come as The Doctors, an Emmy Award-winning syndicated series, launches an independent campaign – "Halt the Salt" – to raise awareness of the excessive sodium in our diets. Mayor Michael Bloomberg and Dr. Sonia Angell, Director of the Health Department's Cardiovascular Disease Prevention and Control program, will appear on The Doctors Wednesday morning (check local listings) to discuss the NYC-led National Salt Reduction Initiative.
"High sodium diets can cause high blood pressure, which may lead to heart disease and other debilitating illnesses," said Dr. Travis Stork, host of The Doctors and a faculty physician at Vanderbilt Medical Center. "We're concerned about sodium sneaking into our diets, mostly from the pre-packaged foods we buy in stores and meals we consume in restaurants. We hope our Halt the Salt initiative will raise viewers' awareness of this hidden danger. This is our call to action to all the moms out there who want to shop for better products for their families. By taking the Halt the Salt pledge, our viewers can make their voices heard, sending a strong message to food manufacturers."
The National Salt Reduction Initiative now includes 32 local and state health departments and 25 other partners. New partners since April include the Hawaii State Department of Health, the Idaho Department of Health and Welfare's Heart Disease and Stroke Prevention Program, Kaiser Permanente, the Minnesota Department of Health, the New Jersey Department of Health & Senior Services, the New Mexico Department of Health, the Ohio Department of Health, the North Dakota Department of Health, and the Texas Medical Association.
"Reducing salt intake has been a public health priority for decades," said Dr. Thomas Farley, New York City Health Commissioner. "The national initiative that New York City spearheaded has begun the work to achieve this goal, and we're pleased to see the partnership expand and grow. Thanks to these food manufacturers and the NSRI's 50-plus partners, the initiative truly has the potential to save tens of thousands of lives each year that otherwise would be lost to cardiovascular disease."
Americans consume roughly twice the recommended limit of salt each day, causing widespread high blood pressure and placing millions at risk of heart attack and stroke. Only 11% of the sodium in our diets comes from our own saltshakers; nearly 80% is added to foods before they are sold. The sodium in salt is a major contributor to high blood pressure, which in turn causes heart attack and stroke, the nation's leading causes of preventable death. The Health Department recently unveiled a new public-awareness campaign, which includes posters in the subway system and a multilingual Health Bulletin, to educate consumers about these risks, urging them to compare labels and choose foods with less sodium.
"Butterball places a high priority on offering a wide variety of delicious turkey products for every day occasions and celebrations, including options for consumers who are seeking lower sodium products," said Kari Lindell, director of retail marketing for Butterball. "We fully support the vision of the National Salt Reduction Initiative. We're actively working to reduce the sodium in our products. The majority already meet the NSRI 2014 guidelines, and we're committed to making further reductions in our remaining products. We look forward to continuing to offer better-for-you turkey products for consumers, whether they are cooking bacon for breakfast or enjoying a whole turkey for Thanksgiving."
"Hostess Brands is proud to partner with the National Salt Reduction Initiative in our continued efforts to reduce sodium levels in our bread portfolio and to meet the guidelines set forth by the NSRI by 2012," said Stephany Verstraete, Vice President of Bread Marketing. "In addition to making changes to our existing products, new Hostess Brands breads will be formulated with reduced sodium levels."
"Premio Foods understands full well the importance of maintaining a healthy diet and life style," said Marc Cinque, President and CEO of Premio Foods. "It recognizes that as a food manufacturer, it has a significant responsibility to provide the consumer with products that are not only of the highest quality and taste, but that also foster good health. Premio is committed in every regard to meeting NSRI standards while maintaining its long-standing tradition of providing a great tasting product."
"We are proud to join with the National Salt Reduction Initiative in its effort to improve cardiovascular health by lowering the amount of salt Americans consume," said Carl Lee, President and CEO of Snyder's of Hanover. "As the #1 national brand of pretzels, Snyder's has always been a better-for-you salted snack option with significantly lower sodium levels than any other leading brand of pretzels – in fact up to 40% to 65% less sodium. We look forward to continuing to provide great tasting, premium quality snacks while working with the NSRI toward reducing sodium across our full line of snacks."
When a company signs on to the initiative, it pledges that its overall salt level in a given category, taking sales into account, will meet the relevant target, even if some individual products in that category do not. A company selling three equally popular lines of crackers, for example, could keep one of them salty as long as its overall cracker sales met the target. If manufacturers and restaurants work together to reduce average salt content, consumers will enjoy the health benefits without a noticeable difference in taste.
The National Salt Reduction Initiative received extensive support from philanthropists and donors, including the W.K. Kellogg Foundation and the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. The evaluation of population salt intake was made possible by funding from the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, the New York State Health Foundation, the National Association of County & City Health Officials and the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. This funding is administered by the Fund for Public Health in New York, a private non-profit organization that supports innovative initiatives of the New York City Health Department.
MEDIA CONTACT: (212) 788-5290
Susan Craig/Zoe Tobin: PressOffice@health.nyc.gov
National Salt Reduction Initiative Partners
Alaska Department of Health and Social Services
American College of Epidemiology
American Dietetic Association
American Society of Hypertension
Arizona Department of Health Services
Association of Black Cardiologists
Association of State and Territorial Health Officials
Baltimore City Health Department
Boston Public Health Commission
California Department of Public Health
Chicago Department of Public Health
Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment
Council of State and Territorial Epidemiologists
Delaware Department of Health and Social Services, Division of Public Health
District of Columbia Department of Health
Hawaii State Department of Health
Idaho Department of Health and Welfare, Heart Disease and Stroke Prevention Program
InterAmerican Heart Foundation
International Society of Hypertension in Blacks
Joint Policy Committee, Societies of Epidemiology
Los Angeles County Department of Public Health
Maine Center for Disease Control and Prevention
Maryland Department of Health and Mental Hygiene
Massachusetts Department of Public Health
Michigan Department of Community Health
National Association of Chronic Disease Directors
National Hispanic Medical Association
National Kidney Foundation
New Jersey Department of Health & Senior Services
New Mexico Department of Health
New York City Department of Health and Mental Hygiene
New York State Chapter, American College of Cardiology
New York State Department of Agriculture and Markets
New York State Department of Health
North Carolina Department of Health and Human Services, Division of Public Health
North Dakota Department of Health
Northern Illinois Public Health Consortium
Ohio Department of Health
Oregon Department of Health and Human Services, Division of Public Health
Pennsylvania Department of Health
Preventive Cardiovascular Nurses Association
Public Health, Seattle and King County
Society for the Analysis of African-American Public Health Issues
Tennessee Department of Health
Washington State Department of Health
West Virginia Department of Health and Human Services, Bureau of Public Health
World Hypertension League


Full Description: Beautiful villa for sale in Boliqueime. Large traditional styled Portuguese villa for sale at a VERY good price.
The property is situated in a nice area, and from the second floor you have some nice countryside views from the large terraces off the bedrooms.
The gardens have been look after magnificently and offer a wonderful area to enjoy along with the swimming pool, the beautiful weather of the Algarve.


HOUSTON (AP) — Everything is bigger in Texas, including population booms.
Conroe, a Houston suburb, was the fastest-growing, increasing by 7.8 percent during that span. That growth rate was more than 11 times higher than the national average.
Next on the list were the Dallas suburbs of Frisco and McKinney, which had growth rates of 6.2 percent and 5.9 percent, respectively. Rounding out the top five were Greenville, South Carolina, which grew by 5.8 percent, and the Austin suburb of Georgetown, which had a 5.5 percent population increase.
"A lot of times when people think of Texas, they think about cowboys and roping cows. But really we have ... cutting edge manufacturing, technology and finance, and certainly all of the oil extraction activity as well," said Texas State Demographer Lloyd Potter.


My overall view is that last year's predictions were generally correct and in the right direction but progress towards them has been slow but steady. This often seems to be the case with Small Cell forecasts, with operators themselves more optimistic about how quickly they can deliver.
Highlights include the massive greenfield 4G rollout by Reliance Jio in India, involving 10Ks of Airspan (outdoor) LTE small cells, SpiderCloud's adoption by Verizon (see our case study), Parallel Wireless showcase demos for FirstNet, deployment in buses for M1 Singapore and 3G/LTE dual mode rural trials with EE UK and ip.access neutral host platform sale in Brazil. It's also easy to overlook the continuing shipments of millions of residential femtocells (mostly 3G) across the installed base with Free France is almost certainly the largest deployment (they ship these as standard with every set top box). A few neutral hosts are starting to appear, small cell wireless backhaul is being used for Enterprise and Wi-Fi schemes, in-building planning tools are mature and now widely accepted, SON and other software tools better understood.
I've observed wider themes affecting the industry this year. The marketing hype has shifted from virtualisation to 5G and IoT. VoLTE has proved much more difficult to implement (dare I say retrofit) to LTE and this is holding back LTE only deployment. SON is slowly gaining acceptance and deployment. More LTE spectrum has been lit up outdoors, where lower frequencies have improved coverage including in-building penetration while higher 2.6GHz bands have added substantial. But this has its limits, such as inside larger high-rise buildings or once all new spectrum has been exhausted.
The cellular industry should be proud of achieving high average data rates with LTE, which have dramatically increased over the last couple of years. The chart below compares progress against Wi-Fi as experienced by smartphones. I suspect Wi-Fi speeds have been hampered by congestion (average 10-15 devices per access point isn't unusual) and limited backhaul (residential and public use broadband).
Enterprise sector will dominate growth.
While small cell volumes remain highest in the residential sector, with millions still being shipped annually, there have been few new residential deployments. Growth by numbers is in the Enterprise sector, although perhaps the greatest revenue comes from urban segment (where some vendors classify anything other than a macrocell as a small cell).
We have seen some progress here, using a variety of technologies. More planning/permit applications are being made for equipment installation. Volumes are in the hundreds, rather than thousands of small cell sites per city. Clearer regulations about the physical format are becoming established, such as in New York where they're looking at a single shroud hosting two small cells per lightpole.
LAA standards will be published, trials will continue, but mass adoption is still some time off.
True. LAA demos were shown at Mobile World Congress in February, with the 3GPP formal specifications approved mid-year. MulteFire specifications (which are evolved from LAA and eLAA) are due out Q1 2017. Commercial availability for all three will be gated by handset availability so still some 2-3 years off.
The CBRS scheme has been approved by the FCC and is now available for use in several US cities. We saw standalone demos from Ruckus Wireless, SpiderCloud and Nokia in Sept/October. The centralised SAS databases have been extensively tested. We'll need to see several trusted neutral hosts in place as well as compatible handsets for this to really take-off, but there is clearly some pent-up demand. Cable TV companies (MNOs) expressed interest, with CableLabs formally joining the CBRS Alliance.
VoLTE remains difficult to deploy with VoLTE roaming especially complex. Nonetheless, I've heard of one or two operators happy to deploy LTE only small cells. More will follow as and when their user base matures. In one case study we documented, the operator accelerated handset upgrades so that all users in the Enterprise had VoLTE capable devices.
Wi-Fi will continue to be popular in the home and office, perhaps less so elsewhere. Wi-Gig (superfast 802.11ad Wi-Fi at 60GHz) will appear towards end of 2016 with the promise of Gigabit speeds in the same room.
Wi-Gig is available commercially is some broadband router products, but it will be 2017 before it's commercially in high-end smartphones. Products are going through certification testing now. What's more noticeable today is the degradation in Wi-Fi performance as we hook up ever more devices to each hotspot. Complaints about poor in-home performance have increased substantially (50% of all broadband issues with one wireline provider) while public Wi-Fi seems to be suffering and many users remaining on LTE due to better performance and lower prices.
Operators appear to be still very conservative about enabling small cell deployments through trusted third party/neutral hosts. A change of mindset is required, and we are seeing some progress. This will accelerate once a few start to gain competitive advantage from effectively free or heavily cost reduced RAN equipment inbuilding.
New technologies, such as CBRS and MulteFire, help because they don't directly interfere with existing licenced spectrum. These will need new handsets and good VoLTE roaming to become mainstream. Existing spectrum and handsets can be used today, even shared, should operators be willing to permit it. In the medium term, demand will remain for multi-mode (3G/LTE) Enterprise small cells.
My headline predictions for 2017 aren't radically different from this past year, but I'm hopeful we will see more visible evidence of progress.
Enterprise sector will continue to dominate growth.
Wi-Fi performance will become a growing concern, especially in public areas which haven't be professionally designed/maintained or are backhaul limited. We'll see growing reliance/migration to LTE instead, especially when outdoors/away from home/office.
Have you got any other/different predictions for the year ahead? Have I missed anything?
Why not add your thoughts with a comment below.


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Q: Cast a data frame to a 3-dimensional NumPy array because each cell contains a signal my data frame contains 9 channels where every row contains a single array. casting the data frame to NumPy array gives an array with a 2-dimensional shape yet I can still access the three dimensions. this could be due to the that a second dimension type is an object. tried casting it to a float using astype() function but I get an error: setting an array element with a sequence. I want to have a data frame as a 3-dimensional array to be able to use it as a classifying model like CNN but the model reads the input as a 2 dimensional.
               rootdir = r'/content/gdrive/MyDrive/orderdEEG'
               df = pd.DataFrame()
               signels=[]
               labels=[]
           for subdir, dirs, files in os.walk(rootdir):
                for file in files:
                location='{}'.format(os.path.join(subdir, file))
                c = genfromtxt(location, delimiter=',')
                c=c[1:341,0:9]
                delta=[]
                theta=[]
                low_alpha=[]
                high_alpha=[]
                low_beta=[]
                high_beta=[]
                low_gamma=[]
                high_gamma=[]
                for i in range(1,340):
                     delta.append(c[i][1])
                     theta.append(c[i][2])
                     low_alpha.append(c[i][3])
                     high_alpha.append(c[i][4])
                     low_beta.append(c[i][5])
                     high_beta.append(c[i][6])
                     low_gamma.append(c[i][7])
                     high_gamma.append(c[i][8])
                df2 = {'delta': np.array(delta).astype(np.float32), 'theta': np.array(theta).astype(np.float32), 'low_alpha': np.array(low_alpha).astype(np.float32),'high_alpha':np.array(high_alpha).astype(np.float32),'low_beta':np.array(low_beta).astype(np.float32),'high_beta':np.array(high_beta).astype(np.float32),'low_gamma':np.array(low_gamma).astype(np.float32),'high_gamma':np.array(high_gamma).astype(np.float32),'label':subdir[-1]}

                df=df.append(df2,ignore_index=True)
                labels.append(subdir[-1])

this is the way I read the CSV files containing channel columns containing the single values.
how the data frame looks


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Discussion in 'Dieting / Supplement Discussion' started by Stuckey1, Jun 22, 2008.
Didn't see anything in the FAQ...what are the benefits to taking a magnesium supplement?
Magnesium is just as important as calcium for strong bones.
Magnesium will give you rock hard erections.
Magnesium is HIGHLY underrated IMO.
I agree. We use it for so much it is ridiculous, and the average diet barely contains any magnesium. It always makes me feel damn relaxed when I take it, too.
It's not a flashy supplement, not even as flashy as whey protein, but when it comes to improving your overall well-being, it is topped by fish oil and very little else.
How many mg are you using a day?
I've been using this for the past year and a half. What do you think?
Usually a serving of ZMA+whatever is in my multi, and I got out of my way to eat mg-rich foods. I occasionally use a magnesium citrate or oxide supplement as well/in place of. The citrate is very bioavailable and you don't need to take near as much to feel the effects.
Ionic Fizz? It sounds like a gimmick to me, promoting better absorption. In the supplement facts label it just lists "ionic" as the form, not something like citrate or aspartate. Without more info, it's hard to give an opinion on it.
I guess what sold me was the bond with HCL, betaine which is imperitive for absorbing minerals. Or is that false?
Magnesium dietary supplement in Ionic Liquid form.
"Nano particle magnesium was developed by inspiration from God. This product started out as a mistake but it turns out the mistake was a turn of heavenly guidance. When development began on this product, strange events took place inside the research containers being used for this formulation."
I'm going to go out on a limb here(ha!) and say this stuff is a waste of money. At the very least, I'm be happier spending my money elsewhere, and not fueling the religious zealots selling nutritional supplements. I have no idea if "ionic nanoparticles" make magnesium more bioavailable than forms like citrate or aspartate, but I'm guessing "No".
Lindberg JS, Zobitz MM, Poindexter JR, Pak CY.
Center for Mineral ****bolism and Clinical Research, University of Texas, Southwestern Medical Center, Dallas 75235.
Umm, I guess I didn't notice the religious verbiage. Many apologies as I find a hole to fill with my embarrassment.
From now on I will be more thorough with my efforts to waste your time.
From what I understand, we (humans) have a difficult time recognizing (absorbing) all minerals due to them being high in molecular weight and particle size. Is that correct? I have a hard time believing that we can absorb such a large molecule efficiently enough to supplement with it, which is why I was turned on by the "ionic" thing.
I have heard some in the industry say that we in the western world have lost the much of the necessary enzyme HCL due to lifestyle, starbucks, stress, over-stimulation, lack of sleep, etc.. Betaine being what breaks down those large minerals.
Do you have a comment on that, or corrections?
Lol, Chad - I hope you can forgive me for having a giggle at the religious content of what Mike just highlighted. On a serious note, I really need to start taking more magnesium as I don't feel I get anywhere near enough from my day to day diet. I'm really tired so I'm gonna read this thread properly tomorrow, it's lost on me right now.


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Q: Map tile creation I am experienced in Leaflet and used Mapbox. But I think the time has come to have to bake our own tiles as the data has got so large.
Basically we need to show building level data around the world but with 100 variations. So you can select a variation and the buildings will colour accordingly, additionally we will need intractivity so when you hover or click on the map the application will provide information about the building.
I have looked around for quite a bit played with TileMill but found it hard to use and not look as compelling as Mapbox maps.
Does anyone have any suggestions on the best stack / software to use for this?


A film made for the City Engineer's Department to help plan a road widening scheme for Norwich.
Views of Norwich streets are filmed through the windscreen of a moving car, starting down Stephen Street and into the city, along Castle Meadow, Redwell Street, down St Andrew's Hill, into Charing Cross and through St Benedict's.
The car proceeds along St Augustine's into the city at Charing Cross, up Exchange Street, along the Walk and right, into Theatre Street. Continuing up Earlham Road, the car turns right at the Roman Catholic cathedral and then left into Chapelfield North, past the park, down Theatre Street and Rampant Horse Street.
The journey continues along Crown Street, left and right into Bank Plain, right again and left into Upper King Street and Tombland. Then, down Magdalen Street towards Stump Cross and Magdalen Gates. The route is shown back into the city.
Finally, the car follows the route along Riverside Road towards the bottom of Kett's Hill, over the bridge near Fishergate towards St Martin Palace Plain. Shops, pedestrians, buses, posters and other vehicles are all clearly visible. Some derelict buildings, possibly war damaged, are also seen.
The film was shot from a Wolsey police car, driven by Sergeant Kemp, Road Safety Officer. Crown Street no longer exists, but was between the Agricultural Hall and the old Post Office. Both buildings were leased by Anglia Television, who also took over the road to build on it.


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KAB x JunGALA Interview: Samo Sound Boy
Music Things to do
This Saturday, it comes recommended to make the pilgrimage from Albany to New Paltz (it really is just a straight shoot down 87 after all) to catch Dubbel Dutch and Samo Sound Boy play out in celebration of the two-year anniversary of JunGALA at Cabaloosa's.
Simply put, this booking feels like planets aligned, especially considering that it is a two-year celebration (big ups New Paltz!) and also how last year when Samo was billed to play JunGALA, we were hit with a cancelation due to brutality in the form of Hurricane Irene. Thankfully the good folks involved with JunGALA and Broken Teeth Crew worked out bringing him back around and, no less, at a time when his label Body High is really beginning to turn heads.
Recently, Alexander Wang featured a track from the label's own DJ Funeral during its runway show (!!!) and next week (Feb. 28) DJ Sliink's Vibrate EP comes out on Body High! Sliink absolutely did the damn thing in the club last week and I'm stoked to catch Samo, (co-founder of the label alongside Jerome of the LOL Boys) just a week later. Also of note, this will be Dubbel Dutch's second time gracing JunGALA so you can stop kicking yourself if you missed him play out locally last time (like I've been).
Samo Sound Boy, of Trouble & Bass, is a Los Angeles based producer and DJ whose powerful live sets and original productions have brought him to the forefront of today's global club scene. With his second EP released through Palms Out Sounds, another for Trouble and Bass, and forthcoming remixes for the likes of Tim Dolla, Bassanova, and NGUZUNGUZU, Samo is only getting started spreading his club aesthetic that Chicago journalist Dave Quam described as: "Weird, banging, and beautiful. Like a shortwave radio recording of all the best stations at once."
Hit the jump below to get better acquainted with Samo Sound Boy!
How did you get involved with producing and DJing? What drew you in? I got involved with producing and DJ-ing down in Argentina, in Buenos Aires, it was all through a club down there called Fugees 99, where I got my first DJ gig, and there I also met Gavin Burnett (Oro 11) who was living down there at the time, and DJing there as well, and producing. I learned to DJ at the club, and he was the first person I learned any production stuff from. I would go over there and sit and watch him use Reason, and started to figure out how to use it.
How did you link up with Jerome? Working together on Body High and as DJ Dodger Stadium naturally means spending a lot of time together, has one ever punk'd the other? What's your chemistry like in the studio and overall, what's it been like working together? Jerome and I met two or three years ago in LA, and we became friends. Last summer we met up to work on music together. It started really casually at first, but it was really fun, and everything came together better than we thought, so we just kind of ran with it, and ended up with the DJ Dodger Stadium EP, and we were really happy with it. Jerome is a huge punk, but he's also the best guy ever, and I think overall our chemistry is a yin yang thing, we balance each other out in terms of our personality, and I think I tend to see stuff in the bigger picture, and I think Jerome's really great at figuring out how to make everything better in the moment.
What's it been like the past couple days following the release of DJ Soulja Man's Eski Tech? Have you had any moments of reassurance or particular feedback that stood out to you following the release, especially given that Body High is still a relatively new imprint/venture? The feedback for everything has been building with each release, but fortunately we have a pretty great network of DJs who know our stuff and like it, so we get great feedback there, and our fanbase seems to be growing exponentially. It's great to see responses from new names every time. That's really cool.
How did you link up with people like DJ Funeral, DJ Soulja Man and DJ Sliink? What was the deciding factor to put out their music on Body High? Do they all have a common denominator-quality you are looking for to represent Body High, or did it just conceptualize/come to be naturally? What do you look for in future releases? The biggest factor with Body High is we want the material to really stand out as having original concepts and sounds and takes on club music. But more than being an experimental label, we want everything we release to be the hottest tracks you could possibly play in the club. So it's a combination of wanting stuff that's really firey and hot but also original. So everyone we've put out has that in some way. And DJ Sliink was somebody who fit the idea of a Body High release, because his stuff is undeniably the biggest tracks in the club right now, but it's also original. He's somebody who I met recently, but it happened really naturally: DJ Sliink's manager, Dirty South Joe, is somebody who helped me a lot when I was starting out, so it was easy to connect, and we could all work together to get his stuff out.
KAB Bonus: If you missed it, check out the Q+A we did with Sliink last week before he set (le) poisson rouge and Fuze Box ablaze, respectfully. Previous OUTPOST1 x on the sly guest MYRRYRS also is releasing on Body High. Past Q+A here.
What was it like creating the video for "Shuffle Code"? Did you write the story? Have you made anything like it before? What did you learn during the process? I did write the story. I think the biggest thing it showed me or reinforced was how far plot and story go in a project like that. Even if it's loose, having a bit of a story to follow it really catches people's interest. That's a really important thing for me, even with releasing music, is thinking about how to explain it, giving the honest story of where something comes from and what it means. "Shuffle Code" wasn't just kind of this collage of images, there was a real thread. In general story is just a really powerful thing, if you can figure out story and plot into what you do, even if it's not a video, even if it's just a press release. It has to come from an honest place, but you can take something a lot further with that. It made me realize how much people really want a narrative.
Do you think that DJ Dodger Stadium will grow to be more than a side project for you and Jerome? Are you still planning on working and releasing on music under the name Samo Sound Boy? What's up next for you and T&B? We'll be doing stuff both ways, DJ Dodger Stadium will have a release coming out this year, and Samo Sound Boy will have at least one or two releases coming out this year.
Currently based out of L.A., how often are you traveling and swapping coasts (such as to do T&B business)? How do you pass the time en route? I travel a lot these days, I'm kind of back and forth all the time and all over the place. I mostly pass the time working on new material. The plane is the great place to work, there's no distractions, and I never buy the Internet or anything. That's one of my favorite places to work for sure.
What was your first gig like? My first real gig in a club was down in Argentina. I played literally while the guys were mopping the floor and cleaning up from the night before. Screwing in light bulbs, counting money. I played for 2 hours while the main DJ smoked weed in the bathroom, and then he took over as soon as any real club goers got there. So yeah, that was my first real gig. Playing for bartenders in Argentina.
What do you do when you're not making music? Do you have a thing called 'free time'? How do you combat boredom? I definitely never get bored and I don't have that much free time. Especially now since Body High is in full swing– man I don't have any free time any more. It's basically all I think about these days.
Favorite kind of taco? Al Pastor.
What can we look forward to on Saturday in New Paltz? I'm really looking forward to Saturday. It's going to be amazing to play with Dubbel Dutch. I've known him for a really long time, and he's personally my favorite producer. We're both going to play some different stuff. It's going to be the first time I've played some Body High tracks anywhere. I want to give a preview of what Body High's going to do in 2012. Which is, just light the club on fire.
JunGALA is this Saturday February 25th and the cover is $6 21+ / $8 18+. More information available over at the Facebook event.
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    License as published by the Free Software Foundation; either
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title: "Web UI"
description: "The Sensu backend includes the Sensu web UI: a unified view of your Sensu resources with user-friendly tools to reduce alert fatigue. Read this guide to start using the Sensu web UI."
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product: "Sensu Go"
version: "5.18"
layout: "single"
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    identifier: web-ui
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The Sensu backend includes the **Sensu web UI**: a unified view of your events, entities, and checks with user-friendly tools to reduce alert fatigue.

**COMMERCIAL FEATURE**: Access the Sensu web UI homepage (shown below) in the packaged Sensu Go distribution. For more information, see [Get started with commercial features][6].

Sensu web UI homepage

## Access the web UI

After you [start the Sensu backend][1], you can access the web UI in your browser by visiting http://localhost:3000.

{{% notice note %}}
**NOTE**: You may need to replace `localhost` with the hostname or IP address where the Sensu backend is running.
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## Sign in to the web UI

Sign in to the web UI with your [sensuctl][2] username and password.
See the [role-based access control reference][3] for [default user credentials][4] and instructions for [creating new users][5].

## Change web UI themes

Use the preferences menu to change the theme or switch to the dark theme.

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I'm a left aligned satirist and center aligned poet. I really enjoy writing poems & making them take on shapes like something as simple as a ball or more complex like a pagoda.
I love words & I love playing with them more so. You will find alliteration, always rhymes, double entendre & creative wordplay in my work!


And many know it firsthand.
Unfortunately, the sting of divorce is rampant. If you haven't felt it personally, chances are you've felt it through friends or family.
Since it is, by nature, the destruction of a covenant of the utmost intimacy, divorce is never a light or easy topic.
This Sunday, I preached, in part, over Matthew 5:31-32. There, Jesus briefly discusses divorce as it relates to adultery. I believe that Jesus' main point was to reclaim the seriousness of marriage by emphasizing that the marriage covenant should never be severed, unless by the direst of circumstances: sexual immorality within the marriage. To be clear, Jesus is not creating an excuse for divorce; rather, He is limiting His followers to never treat divorce as a readily available option. Christians should always seek to preserve marriages first. Divorce is, on occasion, a necessary action due to the exceeding sinfulness of the human heart, but it should only be utilized under certain circumstances.
Of course, we could spend all day discussing what marriage ought to be, but the reality is that nearly half of all marriages do not survive. And even when brokenness and devestation are left in divorce's wake, many often find solace in searching for love again in remarriage. Yet because of the Christian's high view of marriage, is remarriage after divorce an option, or is it sinful?
Truthfully, you will find numerous pastors and theologians arguing a variety of answers to that question, and the purpose behind this post is NOT to defend one of them. Instead, I simply want to present the possible answers and turn your eyes to Scripture.
If we believe that the Bible is God's Word, we will submit to its teaching, not whatever we feel God should have said.
I cannot do justice to the weight and complexity of this issue within a single post, so I only hope to present for you Scriptures to prayerfully meditate upon and articles, sermons, and books for you to think through.
You will, therefore, find two sections below: first, a list of applicable Scripture (non-exhaustive, of course, but it should be a good start), and second, a brief description of the various views with links to the articles that defend them in more detail (yeah, I know it's a lot).
Matthew 5:31-32 | It was also said, 'Whoever divorces his wife, let him give her a certificate of divorce.' But I say to you that everyone who divorces his wife, except on the ground of sexual immorality, makes her commit adultery, and whoever marries a divorced woman commits adultery.
Luke 16:18 | Everyone who divorces his wife and marries another commits adultery, and he who marries a woman divorced from her husband commits adultery.
Romans 7:1-3 | Or do you not know, brothers—for I am speaking to those who know the law—that the law is binding on a person only as long as he lives? For a married woman is bound by law to her husband while he lives, but if her husband dies she is released from the law of marriage. Accordingly, she will be called an adulteress if she lives with another man while her husband is alive. But if her husband dies, she is free from that law, and if she marries another man she is not an adulteress.
1 Corinthians 7:10-16 | To the married I give this charge (not I, but the Lord): the wife should not separate from her husband (but if she does, she should remain unmarried or else be reconciled to her husband), and the husband should not divorce his wife. To the rest I say (I, not the Lord) that if any brother has a wife who is an unbeliever, and she consents to live with him, he should not divorce her. If any woman has a husband who is an unbeliever, and he consents to live with her, she should not divorce him. For the unbelieving husband is made holy because of his wife, and the unbelieving wife is made holy because of her husband. Otherwise your children would be unclean, but as it is, they are holy. But if the unbelieving partner separates, let it be so. In such cases the brother or sister is not enslaved. God has called you to peace. For how do you know, wife, whether you will save your husband? Or how do you know, husband, whether you will save your wife?
1 Corinthians 7:39-40 | A wife is bound to her husband as long as he lives. But if her husband dies, she is free to be married to whom she wishes, only in the Lord. Yet in my judgment she is happier if she remains as she is. And I think that I too have the Spirit of God.
Ephesians 5:22-33 | Wives, submit to your own husbands, as to the Lord. For the husband is the head of the wife even as Christ is the head of the church, his body, and is himself its Savior. Now as the church submits to Christ, so also wives should submit in everything to their husbands. Husbands, love your wives, as Christ loved the church and gave himself up for her, that he might sanctify her, having cleansed her by the washing of water with the word, so that he might present the church to himself in splendor, without spot or wrinkle or any such thing, that she might be holy and without blemish. In the same way husbands should love their wives as their own bodies. He who loves his wife loves himself. For no one ever hated his own flesh, but nourishes and cherishes it, just as Christ does the church, because we are members of his body. "Therefore a man shall leave his father and mother and hold fast to his wife, and the two shall become one flesh." This mystery is profound, and I am saying that it refers to Christ and the church. However, let each one of you love his wife as himself, and let the wife see that she respects her husband.
I should first emphasize that remarriage itself is not a sinful idea, and each of the four presented views agree on at least two crucial matters.
First, the Bible clearly presents remarriage after the death of a spouse as a justifiable action. Romans 7 even uses the idea of death breaking a covenant to describe how Jesus freed us from the Old Covenant. Therefore, each of these views agree that remarriage for a widow or widower is biblical.
Second, they also agree that divorce is permitted, at times. Jesus clearly states that divorce is allowed in the case of sexual immorality within marriage. Paul also adds that if a Christian spouse is divorced by his or her non-Christian spouse, "let it be so." Thus, the positions below each acknowledge that divorce because of adultery or abandonment is sometimes unavoidable.
Remarriage is the element of disagreement.
This view claims to uphold the words of Jesus in Luke 16:18 (which is similar to Matthew 5:31-32, only without the exception clause), and they often cite Paul's words at the end of 1 Corinthians 7 as proof that a spouse is only "free" from a marriage when the other dies. Ephesians 5:21-33 is also crucial to their understanding. They argue that if a husband truly loves his wife as Christ loves the Church, wouldn't that prevent him from clinging to a new wife? Would he not lovingly wait for her in singleness, praying that she would one day be reunited to him?
John Piper argues for this position in this article.
This next view agrees with much of the previous but adds a single caveat: sexual immorality. They argue that Jesus' teachings in Matthew 5:31-32 & 19:3-12 clearly imply remarriage in their discussion of divorce. This view also claims that separation by a non-Christian spouse is permissible, but remarriage is not an available option in that circumstance.
R. C. Sproul holds this view. Read his quick thought on the issue here OR listen to a sermon on it here.
Holders of this view agree with the previous views on death and adultery but also claim that abandonment justifies remarriage. 1 Corinthians 7 is the primary text in view here. Paul clearly allows for divorce if a Christian's non-Christian spouse seeks it. They argue that Paul emphasizes fighting for reconciliation (vv. 10-11), but if the non-believing spouse refuses reconciliation, the Christian is then free to remarry if the Lord wills.
John MacArthur argues for this view of remarriage here.
This view agrees with view #3, except they add in another caveat: abuse. Some who hold this view support it biblically by claiming that domestic abuse is form of the abandonment that Paul describes in 1 Corinthians 7. They state that abuse destroys the marriage since it effectively strong-arms the Christian spouse into acting out the separation.
Mandy Marshall defends this view here.
You can also read another thought on abuse, divorce, and remarriage here.
I'm under no illusion that these four views presented are all-encompassing. They are, however, four of the most common and most biblical.
You will also find within the articles linked a common thread of thought: divorce (and remarriage) is never meant to be an easy solution. Jesus taught that God only permits divorce because of the hardness of people's hearts (a.k.a. sin).
One man, one woman, lovingly united until death: that's God's design of marriage.
I encourage you to let Scripture guide your thoughts on divorce and remarriage. Not the culture. And not even your own experiences.
Below are a few more resources worth checking out.
Remarriage After Divorce in Today's Church: 3 Views // This book covers views 1, 3, & 4 above.
Divorce and Remarriage: Four Christian Views // This books also covers the view that divorce is never permissible for Christians.


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The five-week government shutdown was not like anything we have experienced before. It was a trying time for many Forest Service employees and their families and, yet, we made it through, together.
On behalf of the Forest Service employees, I want to thank you, our communities, for your outpouring expressions of care and concern for our federal workforce.
It is heartwarming and humbling to know that you saw beyond the "workforce," to see the people and the lives affected, and you reached out to make us one with you.
Times like this accentuate the importance of shared stewardship of public lands with local communities.
We are grateful for our partners who continued our shared conservation work in our absence and also offered their help and support throughout the shutdown.
During the five weeks of the shutdown, I heard of many extraordinary offers from private citizens, businesses and other providers towards the well-being of our employees.
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Fannie Ward (nacida como Fannie Buchanan; 22 de febrero de 1872-27 de enero de 1952) fue una actriz estadounidense que trabajó en teatro y cine. Conocida por interpretar papeles cómicos y dramáticos, Ward interpretó a Edith Hardy en The Cheat, una película muda de 1915 de género sexual dirigida por Cecil B. DeMille. Según varios informes, la apariencia juvenil de Ward la ayudó a mantenerse como celebridad. En su obituario, The New York Times  describe a Ward como una actriz que nunca llegó a la cima de su profesión ... [y que] se dedicó incansablemente a parecer perpetuamente joven, un acto que la hizo famosa.

Primeros años y Carrera en el teatro

Ward nació en San Luis (Misuri), siendo hija de Eliza y John Buchanan, quién trabajaba como comerciante de productos secos. Ward tenía un hermano, Benton.

En 1890, "en contra de los deseos de sus padres", Ward hizo su primera aparición en la industria teatral interpretando a Cupido en Pippino, protagonizada por el intérprete de vodevil Eddie Foy. Pronto logró éxito tras haber hecho 10 producciones teatrales en Nueva York antes de poder navegar a Londres en 1894, donde apareció en The Shop Girl. Sus actuaciones llevaron a que los críticos compararán a Ward con Maude Adams. En 1898, se retiró de la industria teatral, tras casarse con Joseph Lewis, un comerciante de diamantes de clase alta. Ward decidió reanudar su carrera en 1905 después de que su esposo sufriera graves pérdidas comerciales que lo dejaron, según varios informes de prensa, prácticamente sin un centavo. En abril de 1907, Ward regresó a los escenarios de Broadway para hacer una aparición en A Marriage of Reason en el Teatro Wallack. Dos años después, Ward fue elegida para aparecer en otra producción de Broadway, The New Lady Bantock; después de haber hecho su presentación en el Teatro Wallack, ella y otros miembros del elenco decidieron llevar la obra de gira a varias ciudades en 1909. Sin embargo, otra obra popular de Broadway que Ward llegó a aparecer fue Madam President, que fue presentado en el Teatro Garrick desde septiembre de 1913 hasta enero de 1914.

Cine

En 1915, cuando la carrera teatral de Ward estaba en decadencia, el director y productor estadounidense Cecil B. DeMille decidió convencerla para interpretar a Edith Hardy en The Cheat, una película de género dramático protagonizado por el actor japonés Sessue Hayakawa. La película resultó ser una sensación debido a su trama mezclaba temas raciales y sexuales. En la película, Ward interpreta a una mujer que roba dinero y recurre a un comerciante de marfil asiático (Hayakawa) en busca de ayuda, pero termina en brutales consecuencias. La película logró éxito en las carreras de DeMille y Hayakawa, quién se convirtió en la primera estrella de cine asiática de Hollywood.

Además de protagonizar The Hardest Way en 1921, Ward también aparece en varios cortometrajes estrenados durante la década de 1920: el cortometraje de Phonofilm Father Time (1924), The Perennial Flapper (1924); y en el cortometraje de Vitaphone The Miracle Woman (1929).

En 1926, aprovechando su apariencia juvenil pública, Ward abrió un salón de belleza en París, llamado «The Fountain of Youth» ('La Fuente de la Juventud').

Vida personal y muerte

Fannie Ward se casó dos veces, en 1898, se casó con Joseph Lewis, un prestamista británico y comerciante de diamantes. En 1909, durante una entrevista con la periodista Marguerite Martyn, Ward declaró: Mi esposo odia mi trabajo, y luego se había cuestionado el porqué de que las mujeres fuesen tratadas de manera diferente a los hombres profesionalmente:

El 14 de enero de 1913, cuatro años después de haber hecho su entrevista, Ward y Lewis se divorciaron. Al año siguiente se casó con su segundo marido, John Wooster Dean (nacido como John H. Donovan, 1874-1950), un actor que había protagonizado frecuentemente con ella en obras teatrales y películas mudas.

Su única hija, Dorothé Mabel Lewis (1900-1938), fue el resultado de haber tenido una relación amorosa con el vizconte de Londonderry, quién en 1915 se convirtió en Charles Vane-Tempest-Stewart, 7th Marquess of Londonderry (1878-1949), un aristócrata anglo-irlandés de Úlster.

El 21 de enero de 1952, a los 79 años, Ward sufrió un derrame cerebral en su departamento ubicado en Park Avenue, y un vecino la encontró inconsciente. Permaneció en coma hasta su muerte seisdías después en el Hospital Lenox Hill. The New York Times afirmó que Ward había muerto sin un testamento y había dejado un patrimonio con un valor estimado de 40000 dólares. El periódico también afirmó que le habían sobrevivido tres nietos ingleses: Lord Patrick Plunkett, Shaun Plunkett y Robin Plunkett.

Filmografía

 The Miracle Woman (1929) … Ward protagonizó un cortometraje de Vitaphone (película sobreviviente)
 The Perennial Flapper (1924) … Ward realizó un sketch cómico de perennial flapper en un cortometraje de DeForest Phonofilm
 Father Time (1924) cortometraje de Phonofilm
 La Rafale (1920)
 Le Secret du Lone Star (1920)
 Our Better Selves (1919) … Loyette Merval (película perdida)
 The Profiteers (1919) … Beverly Randall (película perdida)
 The Cry of the Weak (1919) … Mary Dexter (película perdida)
 Common Clay (1919) … Ellen Neal (película perdida)
 The Only Way (1919) (estado desconocido)
 The Narrow Path (1918) … Marion Clark (película perdida)
 A Japanese Nightingale (1918) … Yuki (survives)
 The Yellow Ticket (1918) … Anna Mirrel (película perdida)
 Innocent (1918) … Inocente (película perdida)
 On the Level (1917) … Merlin Warner, aka Mexicali May (película perdida)
 The Crystal Gazer (1917) … Rose Jorgensen/Rose Keith/Norma Dugan (película perdida)
 Her Strange Wedding (1917) … Coralie Grayson (película perdida)
 Unconquered (1917) … Mrs. Jackson (película perdida)
 A School for Husbands (1917) … Lady Betty Manners (película perdida)
 The Winning of Sally Temple (1917) … Sally Temple (película sobreviviente)
 Betty to the Rescue (1917) (lost)
 The Years of the Locust (1916) … Lorraine Roth (película sobreviviente)
 Witchcraft (1916) … Suzette (película perdida)
 Each Pearl a Tear (1916) … Diane Winston, aka Each Hour a Pearl (Estados Unidos: título alternativo), Every Pearl a Tear (película sobreviviente)
 A Gutter Magdalene (1916) … Maida Carrington (película perdida)
 For the Defense (1916) … Fidele Roget (película sobreviviente)
 Tennessee's Pardner (1916) … Tennessee (película sobreviviente)
 The Cheat (1915) … Edith Hardy (película sobreviviente)
 The Marriage of Kitty (1915) … Katherine «Kitty» Silverton (película perdida)

Galería

Referencias

Enlaces externos

 Fannie Ward at Silents Are Golden

 Fannie Ward at Silent Ladies & Gents
 	Fannie Ward scrapbooks, 1875-1954, held by the Billy Rose Theatre Division, New York Public Library for the Performing Arts
 Fannie Ward her stage years portrait gallery at NY Public Library Billy Rose collection
Rare portrait of Fannie Ward

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100 Days of Rodrigo Duterte
October 8, 2016 by ACFJ
Text by Luz Rimban
Photos by ACFJ's Diploma in Photojournalism alumni and Visual Journalism students
DPJ: Mark Cristino, Froilan Gallardo, Mario Ignacio IV, Toto Lozano, Raffy Lerma, Lyn Rillon, Aaron Vicencio, and Veejay Villafranca
DVJ: Jinggo Montenejo and Richard Reyes
100 Days of Rodrigo Duterte / Google Photos
The promised metamorphosis of Rodrigo Duterte has not materialized, at least not in his first 100 days as Philippine president. That it could happen sometime in the next 2,090 remains a possibility. But Filipinos are, for sure, waiting for him to fulfill the vow he made on June 2 when, after a tirade against priests and the press, he said he would stop cursing once he assumed office on June 30 and that Filipinos would wake up to see a truly presidential Rodrigo Duterte.
And yet it was probably too much for the president to ask of himself. At 71, more than a decade into senior citizenship, the former mayor isn't someone who takes to change that easily. He has actually become even grumpier, snapped at bigger enemies, and repeatedly shocked the world with his verbal attacks on whoever caught his ire at the moment, a practice he perfected while being Davao City's top honcho.
Change is probably coming, but very slowly to Rodrigo Duterte. And that is evident, at the very least, in the sartorial department. That's what the Asian Center for Journalism discovered from photographs contributed by alumni of its Diploma in Photojournalism program to mark the president's 100 days in office.
The most powerful person in the land simply refuses to dress the part, and he couldn't care less that he happens to be in the hallowed halls of Malacanang Palace with guests wearing their Sunday best or standing in a sea of soldiers clad in freshly ironed uniforms and shiny boots.
The photos tell the story, or at least part of it: Duterte greeting young guests in Malacanang shod in red loafers that blended well with the carpet; Duterte in brown loafers administering the oath of office to Vice President Leni Robredo; Duterte in the traditional barong tagalog with perennially rolled-up sleeves, and Duterte in a T-shirt talking to former President Fidel Ramos or walking into a palace sitting room.
And then there are the photos of the President at the headquarters of the 4th Infantry Division in Cagayan de Oro City. There, too, he broke protocol, not just because he was wearing rubber shoes and an untucked shirt, but because he executed a salute prematurely, preempting a soldier who was supposed to give it to him first.
Dress codes, written or unwritten, are not the only rules the president has brushed off. By now, Filipinos know of the thousands of alleged drug addicts summarily executed, following Duterte's call for an all-out war on drugs. The president and his police chief have been criticized for running roughshod over the rights of suspected drug addicts, but he bristles at the criticism, arguing that it's the only way to pull the country back from the brink of being a narco-country.
And yet life goes on for Filipinos, who gave Duterte a 76 percent approval rating as the country marked his hundredth day in office. Even his critics say his government has done some things right—appointing good people to executive positions, forging peace with Muslim and leftist rebels, pushing for the regularization of contractual workers, among others. For sure, there are things he has and hasn't done. But then, again, it's been just a hundred days.
Luz Rimban is the executive director of the Asian Center for Journalism (ACFJ). Aaron Vicencio is the coordinator of the ACFJ Diploma in Visual Journalism. Froilan Gallardo is based in Cagayan de Oro City and writes for MindaNews. Raffy Lerma and Lyn Rillon work for the Philippine Daily Inquirer. Toto Lozano is a presidential photographer. Veejay Villafranca is a multi-awarded photojournalist. Mario Ignacio IV runs a business and is a photographer on the side. Mark Cristino shoots photos and videos for the European Pressphoto Agency. Jinggo Montenejo and Richard Reyes are current students of the Diploma in Visual Journalism program of the ACFJ.
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Fa sostenido mayor (abreviatura en sistema europeo Fa♯M y en sistema americano F♯) es la tonalidad que consiste en la escala (la unión de 7 notas consecutivas) mayor de Fa sostenido, y contiene las notas fa sostenido, sol sostenido, la sostenido, si natural, do sostenido, re sostenido, mi sostenido, fa sostenido . Su armadura contiene 6 sostenidos.
Su tonalidad relativa es Re sostenido menor, y su tonalidad homónima es Fa sostenido menor. Su equivalente enarmónico es Sol bemol mayor.

En Guitarra
(tónicas/notas)

6ª cuerda, 2º traste / 14.º traste (octava)

5.ª cuerda 9.º traste / 21.º traste (octava)

4.ª cuerda 4.º traste / 16.º traste (octava)

3.ª cuerda 11.º traste / 23.º traste (octava)

2.ª cuerda 7.º traste / 19.º traste (octava)

1.ª cuerda 2.º traste / 14.º traste (octava)

Otros

Domenico Scarlatti compuso sólo dos sonatas en esta tonalidad, las K. 318 y K. 319. Ninguna de sus sonatas está en una tonalidad con más sostenidos. La única sinfonía del repertorio estándar sería la Sinfonía n.º 10 de Gustav Mahler, que quedó inconclusa (si bien hay algunos movimientos de otras sinfonías que están en esta tonalidad). Dos de las sonatas para piano de Aleksandr Skriabin, las n.º 4 y n.º 5, están en Fa sostenido mayor. Es usada en sinestesia para representar el color celeste.

Obras clásicas en esta tonalidad

 Sonata para piano n.º 24 Op. 78 - Beethoven
 Estudio para piano n.º 5 "Teclas negras" Op. 10 - Chopin, este mismo hace a la mano derecha tocar únicamente las notas negras del piano (C#, D#, F#, G#, A#), característica de la tonalidad en cuestión que las contiene.
 Humoresque Op. 101 No. 7 - Dvorak
 "Sixtes" de la serie Six études, op 5 de Jeanne Demessieux.

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Tonalidades musicales


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New census data: Northern Va. still tops for income, but Silicon Valley creeping up
Northern Virginia remains home to some of the highest median household incomes in the U.S. but is facing stiff competition, according to new Census Bureau data. Find out which county came out on top.
Northern Virginia remains home to some of the highest median incomes in the U.S. but is facing stiff competition from Silicon Valley, according to new Census Bureau data.
The median household income in Loudoun County ticked up to just under $140,000 last year. That's the highest median income in the country, according to the 1-year estimates from the bureau's American Community Survey, released Thursday.
But Santa Clara County, Marin County and San Mateo County — all part of California's famous tech hub — were hot on Loudoun County's heels, with median household incomes ranging from $124,000 to $126,000.
While Loudoun remained tops, the D.C. region's share of areas with the highest median incomes has actually fallen over the past several years.
It's not that incomes in Northern Virginia are declining. In fact, following a national trend, all of the counties in the D.C. area notched increases last year.
"It's just that other jurisdictions, particularly those in California, have been growing faster," said Jeannette Chapman, deputy director of the Fuller Institute at George Mason University.
In 2010, the last year the full census was completed, the D.C. region claimed five of the Top 10 counties for highest median household income. That fell to three last year.
"Part of this reflects (the D.C. region's) recovery from sequestration, and our lagging growth rate because of the federal cutbacks," said Chapman, referring to the automatic budget cuts which went into effect several years ago, and wreaked havoc on the region's bottom line.
Top places for median household income in the U.S. in 2018:
Loudoun County ($139,915)
Santa Clara County, California ($126,606)
Marin County, California ($126,373)
San Mateo County, California ($124,425)
Arlington County, Virginia ($122,394)
Fairfax County, Virginia ($122,227)
Somerset County, New Jersey ($121,378)
Douglas County, Colorado ($119,615)
Howard County, Maryland ($116,984)
Nassau County, New York ($116,304)
(Note: The census considers Howard County part of the Baltimore area)
Still, the D.C. area remains home to some pretty cushy incomes.
The median income in Fairfax and Arlington counties hit more than $122,000 last year, both increases from the previous year.
Incomes are rising fastest in the District, according to Chapman's analysis of the census data. In D.C., median incomes increased to $85,203 last year — up from $76,038 in 2014.
Incomes are also rising swiftly in Prince William County: $107,925 in 2018, compared with $97,667 in 2014.
Overall, incomes across the entire region are well above the national median of about $62,000.
Median incomes in D.C. area in 2018 (2014 data in parentheses)
Loudoun County: $139,915 ($129,787)
Arlington County: $122,394 ($115,788)
Fairfax County: $122,227 ($117,302)
Montgomery County: $108,188 ($104,073)
Prince William County: $107,925 ($97,667)
D.C.: $85,203 ($76,038)
Prince George's County: $83,034 ($76,902)
Income inequality also rising
In addition to the nationwide rise in incomes, however, came a more troubling rise in income equality — both across the country and in the D.C. area, according to the census data.
The census measures income inequality using the Gini Index, a scale from 0 to 1. A score of 0 indicates complete equality, while a score of 1 indicates complete inequality, meaning one household has all the income. The higher the number, the greater the income inequality.
Nationally, the Gini Index rose from 0.482 in 2017 to 0.485 last year.
Income inequality for the broader D.C. metro area actually clocked in just under the national level. However, income inequality specifically in the District remained among the highest in the country — 0.524 in 2018.
In Virginia, although income inequality is still below the nationwide measure, it's on the rise. In large, wealthy counties, for example, such as Fairfax and Loudoun counties, income inequality rose last year. It declined slightly in Arlington.
In Maryland, the measure of income equality stayed basically flat last year.
Poverty is generally declining across the broader D.C. area. In 2018, about 5% of households in the D.C. metro area reported incomes below the poverty line. It was 7.6% for families with children under 18.
In 2018, about 9.3% of U.S. households reported incomes below the poverty level.
Longest commute time goes to …
The new figures from the American Community Survey's 1-year estimates are a treasure trove of other kinds of demographic data as well.
For example, the new data shows the time D.C.-area residents spend commuting each day continued to tick up.
The mean travel time for the entire D.C. metro area was just under 35 minutes in 2018.
WTOP selected a handful of counties in Maryland and Virginia that are in WTOP's immediate listening area for further review.
Among those, Prince George's County, long home to the most time-consuming commutes, maintained the No. 1 spot. The average commute time for a Prince George's County resident was 37.5 minutes in 2018.
Arlington County residents reported the shortest average commute — just about 30 minutes.
Here's a look at average travel times across the D.C. area in 2018:
Prince George's County: 37.5 minutes
Montgomery County: 34.4 minutes
Loudoun County: 34.2 minutes
Fairfax County: 32.5 minutes
DC: 30.9 minutes
Arlington County: 30.1 minutes
Who's driving solo? Who's working from home?
Of the counties WTOP selected, Loudoun County reported the highest percentage of solo drivers commuting to work — about 76%. Next came Fairfax County at 70%, Prince George's County at 67%, Montgomery County at just under 66%, Arlington County at just under 48% and D.C. at 34%.
Not surprisingly, D.C. residents were the most likely to take public transportation to work. In the District, 34.4% of workers take Metro or the bus to work. That's followed by Arlington County at just under 29%, Prince George's County at about 14%, Montgomery County at about 13%, Fairfax County at just under 10% and Loudoun County at about 3%.
Arlington County had the highest percentage of workers clocking in from home. Just under 9% of workers reported working from home. That was followed by Loudoun County at about 8%, Fairfax County at 7%, Montgomery County at slightly under 7% and D.C. with 6%.
In Prince George's County, just about 3% of residents telework.
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Pancreatic lipase (PL),one of the exocrine enzymes of pancreatic juice, catalyzes the hydrolysis of emulsified esters of glycerol and long chain fatty acids. The substrate is not a single molecule but a nonaqueous phase of aggregated lipid (Brockerhoff and Jensen 1974). The operative substrate characteristic is aggregates of ester molecules, micelles or monomolecular film, interfacing an aqueous medium. Enzyme activity is directly related to the concentration of substrate molecules on the interface (Esposito et al 1973; Lagocki et al 1973. PL attacks the primary ester groups most readily. Monoglycerides are poor substrates (it is the 2-monoglycerides that are absorbed through the intestinal wall and reformed into lymph chlyomicrons). Pancreatic lipases have been thoughly reviewed by Brockerhoff and Jensen (1974), and Desnuell (1972). Liberman and Ollis (1975) have reported on lipase immobilized on stainless steel and polyacrylamide beads. Using a fluidized bed recycle reactor it is indicated that enzyme-substrate affinity is not altered.
Two lipases are present. Lipase A is more acidic than Lipase B; otherwise, the two isoenzymes are nearly the same (Verger et al 1969). Normally, a cofactor is bound to the enzymes (Maylie et al 1971). Two co-lipases were purified by Erlanson et al (1973). They were quite similar polypeptide chains with a molecular weight of 11,000. See also Borgstrom et al (1974). Borstrom and Earlanson (1973) indicated that co-lipase might be classified as a co-enzyme for lipase in that they interact in a stoichiometrical relationship.
Activity:See Desnuelle (1972) on "Catalytic Properties" (page 586). Momsen and Brockman (1976a and b) report the effects of taurodeoxycholate and co-lipase. At low concentrations, up to 0.3mM, the bile salt increases the stability of the lipase to 5 fold. At higher levels (0.3-0.8mM), but below the critical micelle concentration, it interferes with enzyme adsorption on the substrate interface, thus inhibiting lipolysis. Co-lipase counters this inhibitory effect by providing high affinity binding sites at the surface of the lipase-bile salt complex. See also Borgstrom and Elanson (1973), Borgstrom et al (1974), and Kaimal and Saroja (1989). Co-lipase without bile-salts only mildly stimulates activity. Brockman et al (1973) report on PL activity toward soluble triglycerides such as tripropionin. It is stimulated in the presence of hydrophobic surfaces. Santhanam and Wagle (1971) indicate that protein kinase, Mg2+ , ATP and cAMP stimulate PL activity.
Activators: Ca2+ is required for activity [Sr2+ and Mg2+ are less effective activators (Sarda et al 1957)].
Inhibitors: Versene, Zn2+ ,Cu 2+, Hg2+,iodine, PCMB (Willis 1960). DFP does not inhibit.
Stabilizers: DFP may be used to stabilize impure preparations containing proteinases in solutions.
Stability: Highly purified, homogenous preparations of hog pancreas lipase are extremely labile.


Brief description: First of all, the oil samples must be diluted. 1 ml of the sample is taken from the sample bottles in the sample tray using a "diluter" and is diluted in a 1:10 ratio with kerosene before being poured into a test tube.
The samples are stirred thoroughly in a sample changer, before being pumped into the nebuliser with a peristaltic pump. They are then atomised with an argon flow. The aerosol then enters a cyclone chamber where the large drops are removed. The aerosol, now prepared, enters the plasma, a mixture of atoms, ions and electrons. The temperature is approx. 10,000 °C. This extremely hot plasma provides the energy to stimulate the individual elements.
The resulting radiation emitted, which has a characteristic wavelength for each individual element, is spread out spectrally and detected with a CCD chip. This allows an entire emission spectrum to be absorbed.
Statement: The ICP procedure can identify over 30 wear metals, contaminants and additives with an optimum detection limit.
The wear metals present in the oil are important sources of data. Their presence allows direct conclusions to be drawn regarding wear to parts or rather machinery elements from which the particles might originate. In that case, it is not significant whether the wear is corrosive or mechanical.


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