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Bob Hyland: A Guru of Self-Watering Planters
Bob Hyland is a man who is spreading the word about a plant growing system called Sub-Irrigated Planters (SIP). Hyland thinks it's the perfect way to grow plants in an urban setting, especially if you are growing crops, and I am curious to know what you think of the system and the reasons to use it.
By putting a water reservoir at the bottom of a planter (as shown above), plants have steady access to water and nutrients. The reservoir keeps the water contained yet accessible to the soil as it draws only what it needs up to the plant roots. One look at Hyland's blog, Inside Urban Green, and you can see how passionate he is on this one subject. Here are his main reasons for advocating SIP systems in cities:
- Nutrients are not washed away as they are with conventional planters and watering.
- Up to 90 percent of the water put in is used by the plant, rather than lost through the drainage of a conventional planter.
- Since water is contained in a reservoir and does not drain out or evaporate, these systems need far less watering.
- Plants can access the water reservoirs as they need, which helps plants deal with the extremes of heavy sun and heat.
- By drawing water up from the bottom, the top of the soil stays dry and reduces the occurrence of certain garden pests.
- The contained system is perfect for gardening in areas with contaminated soil, which is very common in city plots.
With the amount of water conservation alone, the system seems more effective than even soaker hoses and drip irrigation. What I am not a fan of is the amount of plastic these systems seem to need in setting up. But this is offset considerably by the ability of a SIP to produce the amount of crops and conserve the amount of water that it does.
You have most likely seen the Earthboxes and Growboxes that are now commercially available, which are made of food-grade plastic and have a water reservoir below the layer of soil. But beyond the hype of these readymade systems the technology is quite simple and Hyland's blog shows ample examples on how anyone can experiment with this type of watering system.
This year my tomato plant looked like it was doing jumping jacks as I tried in vain to keep it steadily watered on a sunny roof. I have no doubt that the SIP system would have been a considerable help.
Brooklyn Based recently had a presentation by Hyland, and wrote a fantastic article of the event for those of us that could not attend. Frieda Lim also spoke about the garden she built using SIPs (shown below) and how successful her rooftop plot has been.
More links:
- Frieda Lim's 'Slippery Slope' roof garden (shown above)as profiled in the NY Post.
- Urban Green's review of the popular Earthbox.
- AT San Francisco Round-up of self watering planters
- The Kitchen highlights an SIP rooftop garden.
- Bob Hyland's Greenscaper Flickr set with diagrams and abundant photos.
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If you are ready to buy a home in a seller's market, don't despair. Windermere Real Estate agent, Michael Doyle, shares how you can find a good deal on a great home, even in the hottest housing market.
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February 27, 2017
3 Design Ideas to Try in Your Bedroom
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As far as design goes, bedrooms are pretty straightforward. Pick the typical necessary components — bed, nightstands, dresser — and you've got a bedroom. But too often homeowners stop there. The designers for these three bedrooms didn't. They took a holistic approach, embraced built-ins and celebrated simple white walls to turn what could have been ordinary rooms into spaces worth bragging about.
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February 24, 2017
Windermere Foundation By the Numbers
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Every dollar donated to the Windermere Foundation is put to good use! As you can see from the infographic below, even small donations make a big impact and help us fund things like food bank meals, school supplies for underprivileged students, and resources for children in crisis.
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February 21, 2017
New Features vs. Character
Posted in Buying by Tara Sharp
We are often asked, "Which is the better buy, a newer or older home?" Our answer: It all depends on your needs and personal preferences. We decided to put together a list of the six biggest differences between newer and older homes:
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February 17, 2017
The 4 Phases of Remodeling: The Honeymoon Stage
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You've just embarked on a new journey, and the excitement of watching the image of your new home come into focus just adds fuel to your fire. Revel in that post-contract-signing bliss and maybe enjoy a glass of your favorite beverage with your significant other while you two imagine the new space that will be formed in your newly torn-apart home. Enjoy it, because what lies ahead is a bit...
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Four Reasons Why Dodd-Frank Will Not Be Repealed
Posted in Market News by Matthew Gardner, Chief Economist, Windermere Real Estate
Many worry about President Trump's pledge to remove regulations relating to financial services and the rollback of the 'Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act'. For those who may be unware of this very substantial bill, it represented the most comprehensive financial regulatory reform measures taken since the Great Depression, and was a result of the financial crisis ...
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Oregon and South West Washington Real Estate Market Update
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Economic growth in Oregon continues to trend well above the nation and it is one of the fastest-growing states in the country. The region's housing market is benefiting greatly from this economic vitality. Sales activity continues to slow, but this has not adversely affected home prices. The market still clearly favors sellers and, even with recent increases in mortgage rates...
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Colorado Real Estate Market Update
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Annual employment growth in Colorado was measured at a respectable 2.2% in November and will likely finish the year having created around 55,000 new jobs. Within the metropolitan market areas included in this report, we are seeing employment growth at or above the state level and I anticipate that this will continue to be the case in 2017.
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Nevada Real Estate Market Update
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Employment in the Las Vegas market slowed modestly towards the end of 2016 after having performed very well for the past couple of years. November data showed that 943,100 people were employed in Clark County; this is up by 19,000 from November of 2015, representing a growth rate of 2.1%. In a further sign of an improving labor market, the local unemployment rate has dropped...
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DFG offers new incentive for becoming a hunter instructor
Any person wishing to go hunting in California for the first time must attend and pass a hunter education course. That means there is a continuing need for instructors.
Instructors do so on a volunteer basis to ensure students young and old know and understand the rules of the field. All instructors are certified by the Department of Fish and Game.
There are two department proposals in the works that I suspect are going to cause a flurry of new applicants to become instructors. The proposal package can be viewed at the department's website: www.dfg.ca.gov/HunterEd/Instructor_Incentive. Public comments will be accepted until the close of business Monday, May 14.
New sections that are being proposed would address specific eligibility criteria for instructors, such as employment status, length of volunteer service, in-service training requirements, compliance with existing game laws and payment of an application fee.
The one proposal that will draw the most interest in attracting new instructors is the regulation proposal that would create a new hunt drawing open only to instructors. Long-term volunteers would be rewarded with additional entries for the drawing.
To be eligible, instructors would have to complete three years of service, and an instructor would earn one additional entry for each 10 years of service completed.
Worth it? I think it could be for a good many hunters.
Is your boat water ready?
Spring is arriving with a clearing sky, decreasing wind and warmer temperature.
That's when the bell rings and families want to take their boat to a nearby waterway.
I find it surprising people think just because the boat ran like a bad dog the last time it was out last year that it will do the same on the first trip this year.
Maybe. Maybe not. I've towed a good many expensive boats back to docks over the years for that very reason.
Besides a total tune-up, possibly changing the water pump, better known as an impeller, and draining and refilling the lower unit oil, perhaps a new set of plugs, there's much you can do with the boat's appearance as well.
Most boat trailers today have Buddy Bearings that allow the wheel bearings to be greased. If your trailer doesn't have them, get them. When a bearing goes out and there's no grease, more than one boat has burned up from a wheel fire on the road.
For the first trip of the year, grease your bearings before you haul the boat. After that, grease the bearings each time you take the boat out of the water. Greasing it then will push out any water that may have entered the inner axle area during the launching and trailering operation.
There isn't a waterway anywhere with sparkling clear water. Water clarity often is dictated by the time of year you are on any water, the environment for that area and how much other boating traffic is roiling the water.
Soap and water does wonders for removing built-up scum on the outside of your boat. Road tar spots can quickly be removed with WD-40. Waxing your boat vastly improves the appearance and makes clean-up much easier next time.
Did you fully clean out your live well at the end of last season? If not, it should be good and stinky right now, possibly with mildew and mold, neither of which live fish like. Mix baking soda with hot water and flush out the tanks.
If you have a built-in ice chest, do the same thing. You can also make an ice chest smell fresh and sweet if you wipe it down with a few drops of vanilla.
If you have pesky water spots you just can't seem to get rid of, mix a 50-50 solution of water with white vinegar. Work over the spot with a rag, and it should slowly disappear.
WD-40 will remove fish scents from your boat's carpeting. However, use of such a product mandates that you follow up with soap and water.
Under no circumstances should you ever use a power washer on the flooring of your boat. That will separate the carpeting from the flooring. Use a garden hose with a sprayer.
Current fishing
San Francisco Bay: The early halibut bite has many anglers excited. Private and party boats are hauling the flatties over the sides in good numbers. Berkeley Flats, Southampton Shoals and Paradise Beach are showing good rod-bending action, while Angel Island and the beaches off San Francisco aren't showing much — yet. Watch the tides closely. The best bite is on a good outgoing tide and slows considerably on the slack or incoming. Some of the "butts" are hitting 17 pounds, and many are two inches short of the 22-inch minimum. Don't have a way to keep live bait? You can do well with even frozen anchovy bounced near the bottom or drift live shiners near the bottom. Keep the shiners in a minnow bucket floating alongside the boat.
Lake Camanche: Trout fishing still rages with several in the three- to five-pound category. While the temperature has cooled, the trout are still down 20-30 feet, which means lead core or downriggers, though early in the morning and later in the day you can find them closer to the surface. Try trolling from Hat Island to the dam. Bass are either in pre-spawn or spawn mode and are being hammered. One tilted the scale at just under eight pounds. The South Shore region around Chevron Point has several stick-ups, and the bite is good around there. Green plastic worms along with spinner and crank baits are working.
Stripers: There are some big stripers prowling around the mouth of the Feather River, but getting upriver from the confluence can be tricky unless you have a small boat. Sandbars make it difficult. Those who get upriver from the mouth and troll Rapalas are being rewarded.
Some small stripers are being found in the lower American River. Cut bait will account for some pecking action, but live jumbo minnows should account for the majority.
Stripers also are throughout the Sacramento River, from Rio Vista to the confluence of the Sacramento-Feather Rivers. Colusa to Grimes is showing decent action. There's action on trolling, soaking cut bait and drifting big minnows.
Get below Rio Vista, around the Power Lines or Liberty Island, hook up ghost shrimp or fresh eel, and chances are good of still tagging into a keeper sturgeon.
Lake Berryessa: With the warming weather, warm water soon follows. Bass have moved into the 8-10 depths on beds, and the fishing is good for all three types. Work the back of coves and the shoreline all around the lake. Kokanee are running an impressive size for this time of year — 15 to 17 inches. They're found down as much as 40 feet, so keep adjusting until you get regularly bit.
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Chrysler Group Named Among the 50 Best Employers for Hispanic Women
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AUBURN HILLS, Mich., Feb. 6, 2013 /PRNewswire/ --
- Chrysler Group is selected to the list of Top 50 Companies on the annual "Latina Style 50 Report"
- The Report "is the most respected evaluation of corporate America's employment opportunities and policies as they pertain to Latinas"
- Company will be featured in the August issue of the magazine
The editors of Latina Style magazine have selected Chrysler Group LLC for inclusion on the magazine's annual list of the 50 best companies for Hispanic women to work in the U.S.
The Latina Style 50 Report, now in its 14th year, highlights companies that have a dedicated effort to diverse recruitment and promotion initiatives, including companies that have programs to recruit veterans and military personnel. Chrysler Group was recognized for its inclusion on the prestigious list at the Latina Style Awards Ceremony on February 5 in Washington D.C. and will be featured in a special report in Latina Style magazine's August issue.
"This is another important recognition of the strategic value of Chrysler Group's commitment to diversity and inclusion," said Nancy A. Rae, Senior Vice President, Human Resources, Chrysler Group LLC. "Chrysler Group is committed to recruiting and fully engaging diverse talent as a source of energy and innovation to fuel our continued success."
Latina Style magazine began the Top 50 Report list as "a quest to explore deeper into the business world and bring forth powerful and useful information on the increasing importance of recruiting professional Latinas."
In 1997, with the assistance of the U.S. Department of Labor, the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, and national Hispanic organizations, the magazine developed a comprehensive survey that is sent annually to Fortune 1000 companies. The Latina Style 50 report, the result of that annual survey process, highlights each selected company's leadership programs, employee benefits and Latina representation in senior positions.
More than 800 companies are evaluated through the process each year in order to identify the top 50.
About Chrysler Group's Leadership Commitment to Diversity and Inclusion
In 2012, the Detroit Free Press named Chrysler Group as one of the best places to work in the state of Michigan. Chrysler Group has been named one of the "100 Best Companies for Working Mothers" by Working Mother magazine 13 times, and has been recognized six times by the Human Rights Campaign Foundation as one of the country's leading corporations supporting policies and inclusion of LGBT employees. Chrysler Group also has been named to HispanicBusiness magazine's annual Diversity Elite 60 list for implementing strategies to reach more Hispanic customers and to pursue more business with minority- and Hispanic-owned suppliers. In 2012, the Michigan Hispanic Chamber of Commerce named Chrysler Group Corporation of the Year for its achievements in bringing more minority-owned businesses into its supply chain.
In 2011 and 2012, the editors of DiversityInc magazine named Chrysler Group to the magazine's list of "Top 50 Companies for Diversity." This coveted annual benchmark is comprised of companies the magazine's editors believe are diversity-management leaders.
Over the years, a long line of Chrysler Group employees have received important professional recognition from various diversity organizations, including Black Engineer of the Year, Women of Color, HENAAC Great Minds in STEM and others, reflecting the Company's strong commitment to attracting and developing a diverse, talented workforce.
About Chrysler Group LLC
Chrysler Group LLC, formed in 2009 to establish a global strategic alliance with Fiat S.p.A., produces Chrysler, Jeep, Dodge, Ram, Mopar, SRT and Fiat vehicles and products. With the resources, technology and worldwide distribution network required to compete on a global scale, the alliance builds on Chrysler Group's culture of innovation, first established by Walter P. Chrysler in 1925, and Fiat's complementary technology that dates back to its founding in 1899.
Headquartered in Auburn Hills, Mich., Chrysler Group's product lineup features some of the world's most recognizable vehicles, including the Chrysler 300 and Town & Country, Jeep Wrangler, all-new Dodge Dart, Ram 1500, Jeep Grand Cherokee SRT8 and Fiat 500. Fiat contributes world-class technology, platforms and powertrains for small- and medium-size cars, allowing Chrysler Group to offer an expanded product line including environmentally friendly vehicles.
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Biological invasions occur when non-native species become established in areas outside of their original range. Biological invasions have tremendous ecological impacts and economical costs, causing extinction of native species and shifts in ecosystem function that are estimated to cost over $138 billion per year in the United States alone. Ecologists have developed several ideas that might explain why some exotic organisms are such good invaders. For example, exotic organisms might be good invaders because they leave their original predators behind when they invade a new place (an idea called the "enemy release hypothesis"). Although ecologists have come a long way in understanding biological invasions, our understanding of how invasions happen is still incomplete, as suggested by invasions that fail when they are predicted to succeed and vice versa.
Dr. John Orrock and Dr. Jim Reichman are examining a new idea that might explain why biological invasions happen: invasive plants might gain a foothold in native communities by changing the behavior or abundance of native animals in a way that increases the impact of native animals on native plants. Their work will take place in the grasslands of California, where 9.2 million hectares of grassland (almost 25% of the entire state) are dominated by non-native plants. By using fencing to alter the access of native animals, Dr. Orrock and Dr. Reichman will be able to determine whether native animals are the missing link that is promoting invasion. These results will impact restoration work and shed new light on the role that native animals play in affecting invasions. The results may suggest that understanding how potential invaders change the impact of native animals on native plants will increase understanding of how biological invasions happen.


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From Fr. John Main, "Purity of Heart," WORD MADE FLESH (London: Canterbury Press Norwich, 2009), pp. 58-59.
. . . .We often think of freedom merely as the freedom to do what we want to do. But even the most rudimentary experience of making contact with the power of Jesus in meditation shows us that freedom is not essentially the power to do but the liberty to be who we are
. . . . .To be who we are, we must be in relationship. We often painfully discover that we cannot be ourselves in isolation. The fundamental relationship of life is our relationship with God, and meditation is our commitment to that. Prayer could be described as the selfless attention we bring to this relationship in which all relationships find their source. So we do not think about ourselves in meditation. We attend to God. Even to think of God would lead us to thinking of God in terms of ourselves.
[. . . .] The wonder of prayer is that, in selfless attention, we enter God's all-goodness and become good ourselves; not through any kind of platonic striving but simply because we enter the radiance of the orbit of his goodness. This is the essential basis of all morality, not that we try to imitate God but that we participate in the goodness of God. The ancient Fathers called this "purity of heart." It is enjoyed when our heart is cleansed of all desire, including the desire for God. We should not want to possess God or even to possess wisdom or happiness. Desire itself prevents us from enjoying any of these. We should rather, simply and in quiet stillness, be who we are and be content to be good because we are in God.
We all come from a state we once enjoyed of simplicity, innocence and the joy of sheer goodness. This is the basis of a truly religious response to life. You can see this in the serious eyes of a child who is beginning to discover the wonder in the mystery of life, in religion, in God. Meditation is so important to all of us because, by the simplifying power of its action, it brings us again to this serious approach to the religious experience.
By serious, I mean that in meditation we are not trying to manipulate God for our own purposes. We are not condescending to involve him in our lives. We are rather discovering the wonder of his involvement in our life. We do so by saying the mantra, coming to stillness and silence, going beyond desire and coming to purity of heart. We are then simply open---but this requires everything we are---to reality in its purest and most intimate self-revelation. We are open to God's presence, within us and around us, as the power that sustains us by love
After meditation: Thomas Merton, "Informal Talk, 10/1968," THE ASIAN JOURNAL OF THOMAS MERTON, ed. N. Burton, et. al. (NY: New Directions, 1975), p. 308.
And the deepest level, communication is not communication, but communion. It is wordless. It is beyond words, and it is beyond speech, and it is beyond concept. Not that we discovery a new unity. We discover an older unity. My dear brothers [and sisters], we are already one. But we imagine that we are not. And what we have to recover is our original unity. What we have to be is what we are.
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All right, let's begin by looking at the first little outline there. And it would probably be best if you would just pull it right out of your note book and set it on top so you can take notes right on it on how to study the Scripture. Now we're assuming that you are a Christian and that you know the Lord Jesus Christ and you have received Him as your Savior by faith you've opened your heart and invited Christ to come in, take over your life to rule your life to be the Lord of your life. You've confessed your sin, you've acknowledged that on your own you can't make it and you've received the Lord Jesus Christ. And now, after that what do you do? This is kind of like the hut one hut two of boot camp; this is the first few steps of learning the march.
Just some practical things, and the first one is how to study the Bible. It is very obvious, I think, to every Christian, that the Bible is the revelation of God, that God has written His Word for us. It is the only rule we have for life. It is the only standard we have for behavior. It is the only authority. There may be other things that you learn in life that help you through life, but they don't have the authority that this does. When the Bible speaks, that is the voice of God. And it is authoritative and it becomes, then, for us, the standard of life.
Now, if that's the case then it is very important for us to learn what the Bible says. To be able, systematically, to approach the Scripture and find out what it says. Not only what it says but what it means by what it says. There are a lot of people who read what it says but they don't know what it means by what it says. So it is basically important in the Christian life to acknowledge that the Bible is the authority. There is no other authority equal to the Bible.
There are some Christians who read all kinds of books rather than the Bible. And we say they study about the Bible but they don't study the Bible. The primary thing to do is to study the Word of God. Through it God speaks. Now there are other good books that other men speak through with emphasis on Scripture and application and interpretation but there is no substitute for the Bible. So in the life of every Christian there must be that daily nourishing in the Word of God. It is critical.
Now, first of all, you'll notice in your outline that there is a thought there regarding the necessity of Bible study, that it is necessary. We want to spend just a minute on that. We've given you some reasons why it is necessary. First of all, it is necessary to study the Bible in order to grow. In I Peter, chapter 2, verse 2 says, "As newborn babes, desire the pure milk of the word, that you may grow by it." Throughout the New Testament Christians are spoken of as having been born again. You become a child of God. Repeatedly, you're called a child of God. Repeatedly you are called a child or a son of God.
You have been born into the family of God; you have been adopted as a son of God. You sometimes are even called babes. Now that implies that there is the capacity of life and growth within a new Christian and that, of course, is obvious. We are to be growing. And here he says, Peter does, in I Peter 2, that "We are to grow by the pure milk of the word like babies grow." If you don't feed a baby the baby dies, obviously.
You take a baby out of a hospital, like some people do and they want to get rid of it, and every once and a while you read about finding a dead baby in a trash can. And what happens is you don't feed the baby, it dies; it's obvious. And the same thing is true with a Christian. We are babies, we are to grow, and in order to grow the Word must be taken because the Word is our milk that brings us growth.
The Word is our food. The Word is our sustenance. In I Corinthians, chapter 3 in verse 3, we read in regard to the same thing. "And I, brethren, could not speak unto you as unto spiritual, but as unto carnal, even as unto babes in Christ. I have fed you with milk, and not with solid food; for…for this time you were not able to bear it, neither yet now are you able."
Now, just pulling one thought out of here. The apostle Paul says, "I feed you." Wish I could feed you meat, but I can't, so I have to feed you milk. But nevertheless I feed you. This just shows us that Paul understood the priority of feeding, and we know what he used to feed them. He used the Scripture. Sometimes the Scripture can be milk and sometimes it can be meat. Now that doesn't mean that some parts of the Bible are milk and some parts are meat. Really all of it is either milk or meat. It depends on how deep you go.
For example I can say to you God so loved the world, and if you are a brand new Christian you say, "Yeah, I understand that." That's kind of milk. But then if I took off and began to develop the character of God, the character of His love, how His love works, what His love is defined at in the Scripture, the depths of all that that concept means, then that gets deeper and deeper and deeper and deeper and gets into the meat aspect of that same simple truth. We say, for example, "God knows everything," and that's a milk statement. But we could develop that to the place where it becomes very complex and that would be the meat end of it.
So the apostle Paul recognized the need to feed; sometimes milk sometimes meat depending upon the situation involved. Depending upon the aptitude and the receptivity of the people. In Colossians chapter 2 it says in verse 6, "As you, therefore, have received Christ Jesus the Lord, so walk you in Him, rooted and built up in Him, and established in the faith." And here, again, the idea that Christians are to grow, rooted, and built up. And the way that that happens is through the faith. That is through the content of Christianity.
The more we understand the Christianity, the more established we are, the more built up we are. In Jeremiah, an Old Testament passage, Jeremiah 15:16, Jeremiah said, "Thy words were found, and I did eat them, and the word became within me the joy and rejoicing of my heart." So Jeremiah consumed the Word of God, as it was food to him. In Acts chapter 20, in verse 32 where Paul is saying goodbye to the Ephesians elders, he says, "I commend you to the word of His grace, which is able to build you up."
So the Word is necessary if we are to grow. And growth is basic to usefulness. Babies aren't really that useful. I mean they are nice to have around. They're kind of cuddly and you pet them a lot and kiss them and do that kind of stuff, but you can't really do much with them. You can't say, "All right, baby, go out and clean up the bed room," or whatever. You know they are not really too helpful.
And there are a lot of Christians like that that are just in the way. You know, you trip over them. They're always crawling around the floor messing with stuff and they are really not a whole lot of use to anybody. And the longer they stay that way, the more tragic it becomes. And so we assume that you want to grow. We assume in Christian life that where there is life there is growth. And so we desire that Christians would grow. And the way to grow is from the Bible and so we must study the Bible.
Second thing and we'll move ahead. The second reason that it is necessary to study the Bible is to defeat sin. We will never be able to defeat sin unless we defeat it with the Word of God. In Ephesians chapter 6, what is the armor that is used to fight again Satan? What is the one weapon the Christian has? The sword of the Spirit, which is what? The Word of God. The thing that defeats Satan's temptation is the Word of God. There are a lot of scriptures that relate to that. It says in Psalm 119:11, "Thy word have I hidden in mine heart that I might not sin against Thee." When a Christian takes the Bible in, it becomes a preventative to sin.
To give you an illustration just simply from my own life, the more scripture I learn, the more difficult it is for me to sin. You know, I used to be able to sin and just kind of enjoy it. I could enjoy a good sin, just live it us and have a great old time. Now, I can't even get into one without thinking of fifteen Bible verses. Now, I get just my foot into the deal and "Thou shalt not," you know. Because I know the truth of God and it's in my mind, it comes to my mind. If you don't know the truth of God, the Holy Spirit has nothing to bring to your mind. And so the defeating of Satan, the sword of the Spirit is the knowledge of the Scripture, the knowledge of the principles of the Word of God that become your defense against temptation.
Listen. It says in verse 9 of Psalm 119, "Wherewithal or how shall a young man cleanse his way?" How do you clean your life up? People come to me from time to time, and they say, "I wish my life was clean, it's a mess. How do I clean it up?"
"By taking heed according to Thy word." You see the way to clean your life up is to learn the book so that it becomes the dominating factor in your mind. You're like a computer.
You know what they say about computers, GIGO, garbage in garbage out. Whatever you put into your computer is what's going to come out in your life. And if you put in to it the Word of God, that's what's going to come out, righteousness and godly and holiness. That kind of behavior results from the truth of God being planted within you.
It says in I John 2:14, "I have written unto you, fathers, because you have known Him that is from the beginning. I have written unto you, young men, because you are strong. The Word of God abides in you, and you have overcome the wicked one." The only way to overcome the wicked one is to have the Word of God abiding in you. And there are other scriptures listed there that cover basically the same thing.
Okay, "C." It is necessary, thirdly, to study Scripture in order to prepare yourself for service, in order to prepare yourself for service. You'll find that when you get into the service of the Lord, the knowledge of the Word of God becomes your support so that when you get into a tough situation you have confidence in it. It becomes your information, so that when you get into a situation you know the principles to solve the situation, you know how to serve, you know the direction, you know how to operate to please God.
It's critical that if you are going to serve the Lord you know the Scripture; otherwise, you will go blindly into some activity thinking you are serving God while violating His principles. And you must know the principles. It's like a manual you know. If you come in and you've got a very complex job you're supposed to fill and the guy says, "Well, have you had any experience?" "No, I never did it before." Well, go in and take a whack at it." You are going to go in there and make an idiot out of yourself. You need to have some kind of instruction, some kind of training.
The Word of God prepares you for service. Joshua 1:8 gives us insight into this, "The book of the law," God's Word, "shall not depart out of they mouth, but thou shalt meditate therein day and night." That's a good way to go to sleep you know. Go to sleep reciting Bible verses; go to sleep reciting the Word of God because it tends to hang in your mind. "Meditate day and night, that thou mayest observe to do according to all that is written therein; for then thou shalt make thy way prosperous, and then thou shalt have good success."
Success in your life is dependent upon the occupation with the Word of God. This brings success. "Have not I commanded these – " verse 9 says " - be strong and of good courage; be not afraid, neither be thou dismayed; for the Lord thy God is with thee wherever you go." Now here is a young man in this particular book who is going to go out and do a tremendous job. He's got a tremendous task. And the Lord says to him, "Look Joshua, if you'll meditate in my Word you can handle the job. It will give you the direction you need in your life. It'll show you how I operate. It'll give you comfort in times of discouragement. Stick into the Word and you are going to have good success."
So it's necessary to know the Word in order to be useful in Christian service. Also added to that would be I Timothy chapter 4 in verse six. "If you put the brethren in remembrance of these things, you shall be a good minister of Jesus Christ, nourished up in the words of faith and of good doctrine." What makes a good minister of Christ? And the word minister, it means servant.
What makes a good servant of Christ? Somebody who is nourished up in the words of faith and good doctrine. When you know the Word of God you make a good servant of God. And you know, you see so many people who want to go around serving the Lord. But they don't know enough about the Bible to do it right, so they do it wrong, and then they get into problems.
All right, "D" in your outline. It is necessary to study the Scripture in order to be blessed. I don't know about you, but I like to be happy rather than sad. I'd much rather be happy than miserable. And I know that life is made up of miserable times and happy times. But I also know this, that the more I study the Word of God, the happier I am no matter what the circumstances are. The Word of God makes me happy. That's really practical.
When you see miserable people, the first question to ask him is; have you studied the Bible today? Simple question. You say, "Where does it say that?" Verse 1 of Psalm 1, "Happy is the man who walks not in the counsel of the ungodly nor stands in the way of sinners, nor sits in the seat of the scornful. But his delight is in the law of the Lord; and in His law does he meditate day and night." That's a happy man. A happy man is somebody who studies the Bible. That's a happy man.
I've talked to a lot of people who have said, "I just kind of floundered around and man, all of a sudden I started studying the Bible. My whole life has changed," et cetera, et cetera. "I have great happiness in my life." And that's exactly right. That's exactly what Psalm 1 says. Joshua 1:8-9, I read you earlier, said the same thing. You will be happy if you meditate day and night in the Word of God.
All right, "E" then. It is necessary also to study Scripture to help others. You really can't help anybody else unless you know something. God never put a premium on ignorance. Your ignorance not only makes you unable to help yourself, but it makes you unable to help anybody else. And Christianity is all about helping other people, isn't it? How best can you help a person in trouble? By showing them God's solution to their trouble, right. How best can you solve a persons problem by knowing what the Bible says about their problem, and how to handle it.
So you help others when you know the Word of God. For example, 2 Timothy 2:2 says, "That we are to teach faithful men in order that they may teach others also." The only way we can teach other people the principles, the only way we can help other people is to learn the principles ourselves. In I Peter 3:15 also…I think you have that one down on your list. "Sanctify the Lord God in your hearts, be ready always to give an answer to every man that asks you the reason of the hope that is in you, with meekness and fear." You need to know some answers.
You can't help anybody if you don't know any answers. I had a fellow come to me the other night that I've been discipling, and he said he got into a situation and hr just…this guy was asking him questions and he couldn't think of the answers. And then when he thought of the answers he couldn't think of the verses to support them, so the guy thought he was just giving his opinion. And so he said, "That did more to convict me of my lack of Bible study than anything that had ever happened to me." So he went right back in, got his Bible and he started studying the Bible like mad because he realized that he couldn't help the guy.
Now those are some of the basics. Roman numeral II in your outline, "How is it done?" And if you have any questions as we go, write them down, and we'll talk about them in just a minute. How is it done? How do we study the Bible? Well, first of all there has to be some preparation. If you're going to read the Bible, study the Bible, there are some basic things you have to do to prepare. Again, we would look at I Peter 2 verse 1. Verse 2 says we are to study the Word to grow. Verse 1 says, "Laying aside all evil," all evil, "and all guile," that's deceit, "all hypocrisies," or phoniness, "all envy and all evil speaking," that's talking about somebody behind their back, "put all that aside, then desire the milk."
Now what does that tell us? Before you can ever study the Bible with any effect, you gotta get rid of what? Sin. You gotta deal with it. So before you approach the Scripture, what's a good way to start? With confession, a time of prayer. When you lay those things before the Lord and you confess your sin to the Lord, you purify your mind before God and you become a willing and capable pupil of the Word of God. As long as your mind and heart and life is cluttered up with sin, you're never going to be able to grow. So preparation involves purification and that is a good place to start.
In James 1:21, "Put away all filthiness and overflowing of wickedness, and receive with meekness the engrafted word, which is able to save your lives." Now, there is a general principle there. Sin being set aside, you become able to receive the Word of God and so this is important. So that's the preparation. Before you study each day you spend a little time in prayer and confession. And you just acknowledge to the Lord whatever the sin might be and set it right, and then you go into the Word of God.
All right. Now, "B." How do you actually study? First of all, it's important that you read. If you don't know how to read, you need to get the New Testament on tape. But if you know how to read, you read. And, you know, you have to believe that just reading the Bible is an exciting thing because God promises to bless somebody who reads the Bible. I have had people say this to me in different school and say, "Well, ah, some parts of the Bible, you know, I don't understand."
One guy said to me, "I always avoid the Book of Revelation; I never read that because that's just too weird. I don't understand it." So I quoted him Revelation 1:3, "Happy is he that reads and they that here the words of this prophecy." You want to be happy? Read Revelation. That's a happy thing to read Revelation. You say, "Happy? Who could be happy reading about all that horrible…?" You got to read all the way to the end, then you get happy. You get happy that you weren't in the other part. Revelation can be a very happy experience. John says, "When I tasted all of this it was sweetness in my mouth even though it was bitterness in my stomach."
And so we are blessed, we are happy if we read, so it is important to read. When Paul was giving instruction to Timothy about how to preach, he says, "First of all, read the Bible. Read it." We need to do that, set aside a time every day to read the Bible. Now I'll tell you how to do it, and I suggested this in the little book God's Will Is Not Lost. This is a plan that really helped me. I used to struggle with the reading of the Bible. I'd read it, and I'd forget what I read the day before. Every time. And I'd read through a book and I'd get done, and would know anything about the book. And then I'd read another book and then I didn't know anything about that one either.
And I was just piling up tremendous ignorance and spending a lot of time doing it. You know I was working real hard to be stupid and I couldn't retain anything. And so I thought, "This isn't the way to go." And then I picked up a little book on How to Master the English Bible by James M. Gray, and I heard a speech by a particular guy who was telling how he studied the Bible. And I just started putting some pieces together, and I decided that the way I learn is by repetition. And I found that that's what Isaiah said when he said, "We learn line upon line, line upon line, precept upon precept, precept upon precept, here a little and there a little."
So I realized the only way to learn was repetition. Every time I had a test in seminary, I didn't just read it over once and leave it. I had to go over it and over it and over it. You know how you study for a test. You know how you should study for a test. By repetition. And you work out little formulas to remember things and you got all these little keys and signals in your brain and everything because you have to remember things, and repetition helps you remember. Well, I realized that and so I began to think, "Well, probably the best way to read the Bible is to read it repetitiously." So I decided to start with I John and that's what I would do.
Now, I'll tell you how it works. You start with I John; it's a good place for you to start. I John is not an easy book. It's a simple book in many ways but it has some great complexities, and you'll find the more you read it the more meat you will be able to receive. But you take I John, you sit down you read it straight through at one sitting. Now it'll only take you about 20, 25 minutes because it's five chapters, and it's not that tough. You just sit down and read it through. Maybe you need to pick the translation you like. I would suggest to you the New American Standard or the King James or the New International Version would be the three best.
But anyway, you read it through. That's it. Just read it through, close your Bible, have a little time with the Lord and then leave. And later on in the day you might want to do it again, but just once a day. Now the second day do the same thing, third day, fourth day, fifth day, sixth day, seventh day, you do the same thing. Do the same thing for thirty days. Every day for thirty days you've read through I John one time. At the end of those thirty days you will know what's in I John.
Somebody will say to you, "Where does it say if we confess our sins?" You say, "I John l, right-hand column, half way down, right about here. You know, that will be in your mind. You know if I were to say to you right now, "Quote me Romans 12:1," what's the first thing you see in your mind? You see a page, you see a column and you see a chapter heading, right. Because your mind creates a picture. You cannot learn without a mental picture.
And so what's hard about Bible memory is that all the pages look alike. That's why I draw in my Bible a lot. Because then every page has its own little quirks, and I see that page in my mind and I remember it. People ask me how I remember Scripture. That's one way. I have little squiggles in different places in the Bible, little sweat marks or tears or rips or something and I remember those, see. Whatever works right? And so at the end of thirty days you know what's in I John.
Somebody says, "Where does it say love not the world, neither the things that are in it?" "I John 2:15, right-hand page, right hand column, halfway down, right over…" You begin to know what's in first John. Now, you haven't defined everything, you haven't studied everything out, but at least you know what the book is about. Now about the tenth day you are going to feel like you got it all licked. "I don't need to keep doing this I know this thing." But you keep doing it and keep doing it and the 30th day you'll realize that you really don't know much at all because the more you read it the deeper ii becomes. I remember when I did this, I went through ninety days, because I began to get excited about I John.
Now, you finish I John, then you go to the gospel of John. Now, you say, "Well, wait a minute, John, that's 21 chapters. I don't have time." Well, that's good. You just divide it into three sections of seven chapters, and you read seven chapters every day for thirty days, and then the second seven chapters from chapter 8 through 14, then chapter 15 to 21, see. So the first thirty days you're reading 1 through 7 over and over and over. The second thirty days, you're reading 8 through 14, the third, 15 to 21. At the end of 90 days, you've knocked out the gospel of John.
If somebody asks you, "Where's the woman at the well?" you know where the woman at the well is. That's in chapter 4. If somebody asks you Nicodemus, that's chapter 3. Somebody asks you about the Bread of Life, that's chapter 6. Somebody asks you about the shepherd, that's chapter 10. If they ask you about the "I am the vine," that's 15. The intercessory prayer is 17. The capture in the garden is 18, 21 is the restoration of Peter. Chapter 20 is the resurrection, and so forth and so forth. I'm no scholar, you know. I read it ninety times. What do you expect?
But I mean that's the point. At the end of two and a-half years you've knocked off the whole New Testament. In two and a-half years, you'll be the only one on your block to do it, believe me. Two and a-half years. Well, you're going to study the Bible the rest of your life any way. You might as well do it so you learn it. And then the thing that's going to happen is you are going to be able to cross-reference. You'll be going through, "Oh yeah, that's over there in Philippians 2. Oh, I know, that's over there." And pretty soon you'll be…you'll cease to be a concordance cripple.
Somebody is, "Well, I don't know where it is but I'll look up the word in the back here see," and you can't ever find any thing. Pretty soon, by repetition, you'll begin to know where things are and then you will be able to go to those things. And then when somebody wants an answer to a question, you have that answer. So just imagine if you had started two and a-half years ago. Isn't that an exciting thought? Yeah, it's a depressing thought. I'll buy that.
And let me suggest to you, as I said earlier, that if you want the best translations of the Scripture, it would be New American Standard, The New International Version, or the King James, King James though is not the most up to date one. It's true to the original text, and in most all cases it's a beautiful edition. I think it has a dignity that some of the others lose.
Now, beyond reading, it is important that you study. You've read it, you've been reading it for two and a-half years. And, really, if you didn't do anything but just read it and come to church and listen and come to Bible studies and listen, that's fine, that's a great way to start. But once you've gotten it all read, you're going to find out that you already are pretty well able to interpret it because the Bible is interpreted best by itself. Some of you who come here know that this is how I do interpret the Scripture. If I want to explain a passage I'll go to another passage or several other passages to explain that passage.
So by just reading through the New Testament again and again and again, you'll begin to be able to do that. Now, when you get to the Old Testament don't do it that way just read it through once and go back and read it through again, and go back and read it through again through your life. Don't try to read it repetitiously. It's not that kind of thing that needs to be done that way. It's just history and narrative, and you can get it pretty well by just reading straight through it.
All right, so then once you've read it all, then you begin to study it. Now how do you study the Bible? For example, let me give you an idea. What about if you just decided I'm going to study all the prayers of the Bible. That would be a great study. It would take you a long time to do it; you start out in Genesis, find every time there was a prayer there and study about it. What did they say, who prayed, what was he praying for, what was the answer? Terrific! Then maybe you want to say, "I think I'll study all the prayers of the Apostle Paul." What a tremendous study that would be. You can make any topic you want.
"I'd like to study the subject of forgiveness. So you could go to the bookstore and you could buy a little book that's called a topical index, and you could look up the word forgiveness and it would tell you every passage in the Bible where forgiveness is discussed. And you could take that and look them all up, do a little study on that. And that would be exciting.
I would suggest…and I'll suggest some things in a minute…that you take some notes on some books that I suggest for you in a minute because they can really be a great help to you. You could say, for example, "I want to know about God's judgment so I'm going to go through…I'm going to go through the Book of Isaiah and find everything I can find in there about judgment. And then I'll know something of why God judges and how He judges and what the response is."
Another great way to study the Bible is biographically. Take somebody like Elijah and do a study on Elijah. Or take somebody like David and study the life of David. That absolutely is fascinating. Or Joseph, or find somebody really kind of offbeat like Ahithophel, or something like that, somebody who is just kind of a little bit of a strange character. Or take a character that's not talked about too much in the New Testament and try to dig a little bit and find out all that the New Testament says about him. Maybe somebody like Andrew who isn't quite as predominant as others.
Now, also in your study, read good books. Whatever your study is going to be on, find some good material on that or get some tapes on that and get some outside input. We have a library here to provide that, and you aught to find a good library wherever your area is. A good Christian library where you can check books out or where you can go and just sit and do some reading in reference books. There are good tapes available that supplement and you aught to purchase good books.
Don't spend a lot of your money buying popular kind of Christian books; you know what I mean? The kind of Christian book you read once because it's the testimony of somebody, and that's it, you put it away. That's fine if you want to check it out of the library or maybe once in a while if somebody gives you one, or you really want to buy one once and a while, but build your library on the books that are going to become reference books that you will use again and again and again.
For example it's good to have a concordance. Not the one in the back of your Bible, but one that has much more information than that, because that one is very limited. There are three major ones. They're easy to remember, Strong, Young and Cruden's. Strong for the strong, Young for the young and Cruden's for the crudes. I have Cruden's myself. Well, I also have Strong. But get a good concordance where you can look up words. That's very important.
And then it's important also to have a topical index. There are many of them. Well, there was a paperback one that I used by R.A. Torrey that was given away by Billy Graham Organization sometime back. There is Monser's Topical Index, there is Nave's Topical Bible. There's all types of topical index books, and all that means is you can go to that book and it will tell you every scripture on any subject you want so you can study it, find out all there is about it. Really a helpful thing to have.
One other thing that I would suggest is that you have a commentary. A commentary is a book that explains the meaning of the Bible. There are many good ones. I'll suggest probably the simplest one for a new Christian to use would be Wycliffe, Wycliffe Bible Commentary. One volume, you can look up any passage in the Bible and it gives you a basic explanation of what it means. Very, very helpful. Okay, in studying the Bible then, you want to study subjects, you want to study outside books so that you're studying in the Bible and you're studying those who have commented on the Scriptures as well.
All right, one other thing in studying the Bible, very, very important. While you're studying, find somebody else that you can share your information with. Find somebody else that you can share your information with. If you are a parent it may be one of your kids, it may be your spouse. If you don't have a family situation, it may be another Christian, it may be another person you've lead to Christ. I don't know. But find somebody that you can share your information with; otherwise you're not nearly as motivated to learn.
People say to me, "Well how can you possibly study as much as you do?" And I say, "Well, I mean, I come out here every Sunday and there's three thousand people sitting there saying, "Say something MacArthur." What do you expect? I've got to say something. The greatest motive that I have to study the Scripture is the responsibility of the ministry. I have to be faithful to God to teach the people He's given me.
If you don't have anybody that you are teaching then you really don't have any motive beyond yourself, and sometimes it's hard to drum that up. But if you've got some little bird in the nest that keeps opening its mouth and hollering for food then you are going to have to be responsible to give it something. You say, "But I'm a new Christian." Yeah, but there's a newer Christian than you, or maybe there's somebody who isn't even one yet and you need to teach them.
So find somebody that you can share the information you're learning with. Maybe it's even somebody who knows more than you do. Believe me there are people who know less than I do about the totality of Scripture, who can minister to me because they have fresh insight, or they see new things that I have never seen, or they see new applications in their life. Find somebody that you can share it with.
One other thing in studying, and that is find a pattern that you can follow. Find a human pattern that you can follow, very important. Maybe somebody like me, if you know me well enough to be able to see the pattern in my life. It may be somebody like your teacher in a Bible study. It may be a very godly person that you know very well, another Christian brother or sister. It may be one of the other pastors at the church. It could be any number of people, but find a pattern that you can follow. And you ought to some how try to establish enough of a relationship with that individual to be able to speak with and to concern yourself with the things in their life that would apply to you.
All right, one other area in terms of how it is to be done. Preparation, reading, studying, fourthly teaching or "D," Teaching. Now, what we mean by this is submit yourself to teaching, good Bible teaching. May I add that this is never a substitute for your own study. Don't ever think that because you came to church and heard the sermon on Sunday morning and Sunday night and you went to the Bible study on Friday that you don't need to study on your own. If that's the case, you know what you have just forfeited? All those things we gave you in point number one in their fullest possible capacity.
You are being benefited by teaching, but you are most benefited when you are being taught and when you are studying on your own. And you say, "Well, I haven't been a Christian long enough to study on my own." If you've been a Christian ten minutes that's long enough. Get at it, start. So you want to be sure you submit yourself to a teacher, be in a Bible class, be in a church service where somebody's teaching the Word of God.
I see so many new Christians whose only orientation to Christianity is they sort of follow around the Christian stars. You know, tonight we are having da, da, ta, da, and his orchestra, wonderful saved Christian something or other. And so they gravitate over there and they hear Christian music. Or over here they are showing the latest Christian movie, and over here they have got the greatest Christian ex-convict and over here is the…you know. And they just go. They're sort of like vagabonds; they just travel around to what's ever happening. Submit yourself to systematic teaching of the Word of God someplace. That's very, very important.
You know one of the things that we see so much in Christianity is when somebody gets saved, if they have anything that is marketable the Christianity community will suck them up and make a commodity out of them. I talked to a guy on his deathbed, who told me his life was destroyed as a Christian because he was a celebrity. He got saved; the Christian community marketed him as a saved celebrity, and he spent the rest of his Christian life going around telling how wonderful it was to be a saved celebrity and never learned a single thing about the Christian life.
Consequently, his whole life was defeated, and he had terrible, terrible guilt because of all the sin in his life. He was trying to get up and tell everybody what a wonderful thing it is to be a saved celebrity, and the truth of the matter was that he was eating his heart out because he wasn't growing. And that's a problem in Christianity.
I don't care if you are a celebrity. You still have to submit yourself to some teaching and some solid feeding by men who are gifted of God and given to the church to teach you, very important. All right, that covers what I wanted to say about how to study the Scripture, and it's a little bit more lengthy maybe than some of the others but that's because it's so very important.
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The launch of the teachers strategy is part of the 2012 World Teachers Day celebration. Take a stand for teachers is the slogan of World Teachers Day this year which UNESCO is celebrating along with the International Labour Organization, UNDP, UNICEF and Education International.


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Biotech Support Group Release: Albumin Depletion Using Albusorb for Proteomic Profiling of Cerebrospinal Fluid
Albusorb™ is an albumin depletion reagent supplied as a kit with necessary buffers. AlbuSorb™ comes from a silica-based, separation platform utilizing a new combination of surface microenvironments substituted with low molecular substrates that feature drug-binding motifs. Unlike immuno-affinity, the surfaces utilized are disposable eliminating cycle to cycle variance and cross-contamination.
Characteristics of Albusorb™
Removes >90% albumin from 30 mg albumin/ml sample
Affinity-type equivalence, virtually no cross-reactivity with other proteins
Bind and elute procedure - simply weigh powder, condition the sample, centrifuge and/or filter, and recover the albumin depleted serum
Economical new surface technology, not based on affinity chromatography
Mild conditions maintain tertiary structure of proteins and simple transfer to secondary analysis
The albumin depleted filtrate retains the enzymatic and biological activity
Removes albumin from samples such as serum, plasma and from species including human, mouse, sheep, bovine, goat, rat, and calf
The flow through fraction is compatible with LC-MS, activity based protein profiling and proteomic studies.
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Biotech Support Group also has AlbuVoid™ for albumin depletion plus low abundance serum protein enrichment.
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Biotech Support Group LLC is a leading provider of genomics and proteomics sample preparation products and enrichment reagent kits as well as integrated biotechnology services for life sciences research, biomarker and drug discovery. Based in New Jersey, it's principal products include: Albusorb™ for albumin depletion, AlbuVoid™ for albumin depletion plus low abundance serum protein enrichment, Cleanascite™ for lipid adsorption and clarification, NuGel™ for passivated silica-based affinity chromatography, and ProCipitate™ & ProPrep™ for nucleic acid isolation. Biotech Support Group is the leading developer of sample preparation products for separating and purifying hemoglobin from blood samples. HemoVoid™ is a hemoglobin depletion reagent kit from red blood cells and HemogloBind™ is a hemoglobin capture reagent from hemolyzed serum. Currently, Biotech Support Group LLC and ProFACT Proteomics Inc., are collaborating on the development of a proteomics platform used in functional profiling for proteomic analysis and a separations method for generating sub-proteomes used in biomarker and functional proteomic prospecting. For more information, go to: www.biotechsupportgroup.com
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AlbuSorb™ References
Rat Serum
Holmberg R, Refai E, Höög A.Lowering apolipoprotein CIII delays onset of type 1 diabetes. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.2011;108(26):10685-9. http://www.pnas.org/content/early/2011/06/08/1019553108.abstract?elq=06e83b82098d4e9798d154c3ad738c83
Cerebrospinal Fluid
Gwenael Pottiez, Pawel Ciborowski. Proteomic Profiling of Cerebrospinal Fluid Expression Profiling In Neuroscience Neuromethods.2012;64:245-270 http://www.springerlink.com/content/j4u06x2k73u11476/#section=1013451&page=1
Happonen KE, Fürst CM, Saxne T et al. PRELP protein inhibits the formation of the complement membrane attack complex.Journal of Biological Chemistry.2012;287(11):8092-100 http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/22267731
Holmberg R, Refai E, Höög A.Lowering apolipoprotein CIII delays onset of type 1 diabetes. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.2011;108(26):10685-9. http://www.pnas.org/content/early/2011/06/08/1019553108.abstract?elq=06e83b82098d4e9798d154c3ad738c83
Tang MX, Ogawa K, Asamoto M. Effects of Nobiletin on PhIP-Induced Prostate and Colon Carcinogenesis in F344 Rats Nutrition and Cancer.2011;63(2):227-33 http://www.researchgate.net/publication/49814854_Effects_of_Nobiletin_on_PhIP-Induced_Prostate_and_Colon_Carcinogenesis_in_F344_Rats
Holmberg, Rebecka Apolipoprotein CIII and Ljungan virus in diabetes 2010. Doctoral Thesis http://publications.ki.se/jspui/handle/10616/39507
Lu Q, Zheng X, McIntosh T Development of different analysis platforms with LC-MS for pharmacokinetic studies of protein drugs. Analytical Chemistry.2009;81(21):8715-23 http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/19788250
Suggested References
Kabat, Elvin A., Murray Glusman, and Vesta Knaub. "Quantitative estimation of the albumin and gamma globulin in normal and pathologic cerebrospinal fluid by immunochemical methods." The American journal of medicine 4.5 (1948): 653-662. http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0002934...
Cutler, R. W. P., G. V. Watters, and J. P. Hammerstad. "The origin and turnover rates of cerebrospinal fluid albumin and gamma-globulin in man."Journal of the neurological sciences 10.3 (1970): 259-268. http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/0022510X...
Ganrot, Karin, and Carl-Bertil Laurell. "Measurement of IgG and albumin content of cerebrospinal fluid, and its interpretation." Clinical chemistry 20.5 (1974): 571-573. http://www.clinchem.org/content/20/5/571.short
Habgood, M. D., et al. "A developmentally regulated blood-cerebrospinal fluid transfer mechanism for albumin in immature rats." The Journal of physiology456.1 (1992): 181-192. http://jp.physoc.org/content/456/1/181.short
Müller, Norbert, and Manfred Ackenheil. "Immunoglobulin and albumin content of cerebrospinal fluid in schizophrenic patients: relationship to negative symptomatology." Schizophrenia research 14.3 (1995): 223-228. http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/092099649400045A
Stevens, R. W., et al. "Application of fluoroimmunoassay to cerebrospinal fluid immunoglobulin G and albumin." Journal of Clinical Microbiology 10.3 (1979): 346-350. http://jcm.asm.org/content/10/3/346.short
Cutler, Robert WP, Ruthmary K. Deuel, and Charles F. Barlow. "Albumin exchange between plasma and cerebrospinal fluid." Archives of Neurology 17.3 (1967): 261. http://archneur.ama-assn.org/cgi/reprint/17/3/261.pdf


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The Heart Walk is the American Heart Association's premiere event that brings communities together to raise funds and celebrate progress in the fight against this country's No. 1 and No. 5 killers, heart diseases and stroke.
This inspirational day is filled with energy, excitement and hope! Designed to promote physical activity and heart-healthy living, the Heart Walk creates an environment that's fun and rewarding for the entire family. This year, more than one million walkers will participate in nearly 350 events. Your participation will help us raise even more in our fight to save lives. Walk with friends, family, coworkers and other members of the community you meet along the way.


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Animal Defenders International (ADI) has released video evidence of the company who appears to have the rights to Rose-Tu's baby, Have Trunk Will Travel, beating their elephants with bullhooks and shocking them with stun guns. ADI is sending a message to Kim Smith, ex-officio Director at the Oregon Zoo, calling on the zoo to rescind this agreement.
A portion of the video can be viewed at:
(High resolution VNR footage available upon request. )
The footage shows:
Jan Creamer, President of Animal Defenders International (ADI): "ADI has released recordings of training of elephants at Have Trunk Will Travel in Perris, CA, where the animals were hit with bullhooks and electric shocked with stun guns by the owners, Gary and Kari Johnson, and their trainers. The video includes a vicious hit on the head and hooking in the mouth of baby elephant Tucker. The Johnsons, who have insisted that they stand by their training methods, own the elephant Tusko, and have a contractual agreement to Rose-Tu's baby. We are appalled at the prospect of Rose-Tu's baby being handed over to Have Trunk Will Travel, considering the abuse seen on our video, and call upon the Oregon Zoo to rescind the agreement, in light of the evidence we have provided."
High resolution VNR footage and photographs are available.
The video was shot by an ADI investigator working for HTWT, who documented the routine abuse of elephants at Have Trunk Will Travel's Perris California compound. In the video, elephants are repeatedly given electric shocks with hand held stun guns and beaten about the head and body with bullhooks during training. Gary and Kari Johnson, owners of Have Trunk Will Travel, have insisted that they stand by their training methods. Tusko was not present at Have Trunk Will Travel at the time of the ADI investigation, he had been moved to the OR Zoo just before the investigation began. The baby elephant seen on the video is Tucker.
Animal Defenders International
ADI is leading the campaign to end the suffering of animals in entertainment and currently has major campaigns running in Europe, South America and the USA. ADI recently rescued and relocated a record breaking 29 circus lions from Bolivia to sanctuaries in the U.S. ADI collaborated with Bolivia's wildlife officials, to enforce Bolivia's national ban on the use of animal in traveling circuses, enacted after ADI undercover investigations exposed the suffering of circus animals.
With offices in Los Angeles, London and Bogota, ADI campaigns across the globe on animals in entertainment, providing technical advice to governments, securing progressive animal protection legislation, drafting regulations and rescuing animals in distress. ADI has a worldwide reputation for providing video and photographic evidence exposing the behind-the-scenes suffering in industry and supporting this evidence with scientific research on captive wildlife and transport. ADI rescues animals all over the world, educates the public on animals and environmental issues.
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Tools for putting together a pipeline transforming the source for a post into a completely formatted HTML document.
- standardTransforms :: [Transform]
- optionsXF :: Transform
- profileXF :: Transform
- highlightOptsXF :: Transform
- passwordXF :: Transform
- titleXF :: Transform
- wptexifyXF :: Transform
- ghciXF :: Transform
- uploadImagesXF :: Transform
- highlightXF :: Transform
- centerImagesXF :: Transform
- citationsXF :: Transform
- data Transform = Transform {
- getTransform :: StateT (BlogLiterately, Pandoc) IO ()
- xfCond :: BlogLiterately -> Bool
- pureTransform :: (BlogLiterately -> Pandoc -> Pandoc) -> (BlogLiterately -> Bool) -> Transform
- ioTransform :: (BlogLiterately -> Pandoc -> IO Pandoc) -> (BlogLiterately -> Bool) -> Transform
- runTransform :: Transform -> StateT (BlogLiterately, Pandoc) IO ()
- runTransforms :: [Transform] -> BlogLiterately -> Pandoc -> IO (BlogLiterately, Pandoc)
- xformDoc :: BlogLiterately -> [Transform] -> String -> IO (BlogLiterately, String)
- fixLineEndings :: String -> String
Standard transforms
These transforms are enabled by default in the standard
BlogLiterately executable.
standardTransforms :: [Transform]Source
The standard set of transforms that are run by default (in order from top to bottom):
optionsXF: extract options specified in
[BLOpts]blocks in the file
profileXF: load the requested profile (if any)
passwordXF: prompt the user for a password if needed
titleXF: extract the title from a special title block
wptexifyXF: turn LaTeX into WordPress format if requested
ghciXF: run and typeset ghci sessions if requested
uploadImagesXF: upload images if requested
centerImagesXF: center images occurring in their own paragraph
highlightOptsXF: load the requested highlighting style file
highlightXF: perform syntax highlighting
citationsXF: process citations
highlightOptsXF :: TransformSource
Read a user-supplied style file and add its contents to the highlighting options.
Prompt the user for a password if the
blog field is set but no
password has been provided.
Potentially extract a title from the metadata block, and set it in the options record.
Format embedded LaTeX for WordPress (if the
wplatex flag is set).
uploadImagesXF :: TransformSource
Upload embedded local images to the server (if the
flag is set).
highlightXF :: TransformSource
Perform syntax highlighting on code blocks.
centerImagesXF :: TransformSource
Center any images which occur in a paragraph by themselves. Inline images are not affected.
citationsXF :: TransformSource
Format citations.
A document transformation consists of two parts: an actual transformation, expressed as a function over Pandoc documents, and a condition specifying whether the transformation should actually be applied.
The transformation itself takes a
BlogLiterately configuration
as an argument. You may of course ignore it if you do not need
to know anything about the configuration. The
--xtra (or
flag is also provided especially as a method of getting
information from the command-line to custom extensions. Arguments
passed via
-x on the command line are available from the
field of the
BlogLiterately configuration.
The transformation is then specified as a stateful computation
over both a
BlogLiterately options record, and a
document. It may also have effects in the
IO monad.
- If you have a pure function of type
BlogLiterately -> Pandoc -> Pandoc, you can use the
pureTransformfunction to create a
- If you have a function of type
BlogLiterately -> Pandoc -> IO Pandoc, you can use
- Otherwise you can directly create something of type
StateT (BlogLiterately, Pandoc) IO ().
For examples, see the implementations of the standard transforms below.
pureTransform :: (BlogLiterately -> Pandoc -> Pandoc) -> (BlogLiterately -> Bool) -> TransformSource
Construct a transformation from a pure function.
ioTransform :: (BlogLiterately -> Pandoc -> IO Pandoc) -> (BlogLiterately -> Bool) -> TransformSource
Construct a transformation from a function in the
IO monad.
runTransform :: Transform -> StateT (BlogLiterately, Pandoc) IO ()Source
Run a
Transform (if its condition is met).
runTransforms :: [Transform] -> BlogLiterately -> Pandoc -> IO (BlogLiterately, Pandoc)Source
Run a pipeline of
Transforming documents
xformDoc :: BlogLiterately -> [Transform] -> String -> IO (BlogLiterately, String)Source
Transform a complete input document string to an HTML output string, given a list of transformation passes.
fixLineEndings :: String -> StringSource
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"I just want justice for my son," said Shelley Gurley, the mother of Jose Gurley.
BROCKTON – The wait for justice grew by one more day on Tuesday as the jury was unable to reach a verdict in the trial of Jose Gurley's accused killer.
Gurley, a 17-year-old Brockton resident and star on the West Bridgewater Middle-Senior High School football team, was shot and killed outside of a Brockton house party in July 2007.
"I just want justice for my son," said Shelley Gurley, the victim's mother. "I feel bad for both families. No one wins in this situation."
The trial began last Wednesday, and the jury began deliberating at 1 p.m., on Monday.
Andre Robert Brewer, 25, of Dorchester is accused of shooting Gurley.
In addition to first-degree murder, Brewer has been charged with unlawfully possessing a firearm, unlawfully possessing a loaded firearm and unlawfully possessing ammunition.
He has been held without bail at the Plymouth County Correctional Facility since his 2011 arrest.
Gurley's murder sparked vigils and peace marches across the city and garnered national media attention.
The case was featured on "America's Most Wanted," a national investigative crime show on the Fox television network, as authorities searched for Gurley's killer.
Edward Donga may be reached at email@example.com.


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Lady Bisons finish seventh in SIUE Tournament
The Lipscomb Lady Bisons golf team closed out the SIUE Intercollegiate hosted by Southern Illinois-Evansville Tuesday with a seventh place finish.
MacKenzie Carter led the Lady Bisons with a score of 170 (85, 85) to tie for 21st place. Allie Pancake finished tied for 27th with a score of 172 (90, 82).
Pancake's 82 was the lowest round of the day and the tournament for the Lady Bisons.
Sabrina Ferreri placed 37th with a score of 178 (89, 89).
Catherine Musser was the 45th finisher, shooting a 188 (101, 87).


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Author Notes: My mom wasn't a baker, but she did make gnocchi -- and, on occasion, savory phyllo pastries. I have a hard time thinking of one specific technique because many of the things I do now, I probably learned by simply being in the room, observing, listening, and doing. Cleaning as you go was a pretty big one, though! With this recipe, I remember being taught about gently dropping the gnocchi into the pot of boiling water, but only on the sides. My Mom told me that this was one of the very first baby foods she made for me because they were so delicate. I make them now when I have a hankering for home. Serve them with sour cream, and you'll be at our Russian table. - Naked Beet —NakedBeet
Food52 Review: WHO: NakedBeet is a graphic designer, writer, and food blogger living in Astoria, Queens.
WHAT: Soft little dumplings, made with just cheese, salt, and flour.
HOW: Mix your cheese, salt, and flour, form into balls, and boil.
WHY WE LOVE IT: These dumplings are humble food at its finest: easy, quick, and deeply satisfying. Served plain with a little salt and sour cream, it's hard not to fall in love with them. Similar to potato gnocchi or flour dumplings, they're really just salty little balls of creamy cheese. And that is a very good thing. —The Editors
Serves: 4
ounces farmers cheese
large eggs
dash salt
cup all-purpose flour
Pepper if you like it
- Mix the farmers cheese, eggs, and salt together. Incorporate all the flour. The consistency should be that of the dough coming together without looking like pasta dough or bread dough. It should still have a bit of stickiness to it. The less flour you add, the more delicate in taste the gnocchi will be.
- Set a pot of water to boil and keep on high until you're ready to place in the gnocchi.
- Once all the dough is mixed, start forming little balls of dough, about 1/2-inch wide, giving them a firm push in the center. Drop them gently into the boiling water. They will take a few seconds to cook and when they surface to the top, they're done!
- The most humble way of eating them is with some sour cream and salt, but you can also dress them in a more zesty pesto sauce or gremolata.
- This recipe is a Wildcard Contest Winner!
- This recipe is a Community Pick!
- This recipe was entered in the contest for Your Best Family Recipe
- This recipe was entered in the contest for The Best Recipe or Technique Your Mother Taught You
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Im making a selection of roots tunes for a friend and I need this name for the tracklist. Tune lyrics start..."Black Man you better know yourself(before your back is against the wall)"...W.Riley Production. So far Ive come up with the following selection...
BB Seaton, Brothers Beware/Forgive Them Lord
Horace Andy, Earth Must Be Hell/Can't You See It's Time
Glen Brown, Marcus Garvey Words discomix
Enos McLeod, I've Made Up My Mind/Version
?????, Black Man Know Yourself discomix
Interns, Praise Jah/Version
Revolutionairies, Angola Instrumental
The Rolands, Stormy Night discomix


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As our blogs wind down, I find that there is one candidate who I have mentioned about a total of two times. Former Governor Jon Huntsman has been a man of few words, as far as campaign advertising goes. According to a recent New York Times article, that reason is simply money.
"Mr. Huntsman's campaign, which is betting entirely on a strong showing in New Hampshire to stay alive, has relatively little. The commercial came not from the Huntsman campaign, but from a group called Our Destiny PAC.
The group, financed in part by Mr. Huntsman's billionaire industrialist father and guided by one of his former political advisers, has breathed new life into a campaign that otherwise lacks the resources to do much more than literally go door to door seeking votes." (Jim Rutenberg)
Now, this whole issue that includes his father is another topic entirely. But if Huntsman's main deterrent from taking the race is merely funding, then what is it about his campaign that makes the former governor something to talk about? To be honest, I have never even googled his name. Never really seemed necessary. However, it does not look like the Republican nominee is very clear to us at this point. So let's take a look at Huntsman's website and see what we can come up with.
A little background: Jon Huntsman born in California, moved to North Carolina at the age of ten. In his senior year, Jon dropped out of college to be a part of his band. (Totally cool in 1978.) But finally after accomplishing his academic requirements went on to study at the University of Utah. While there took a quick two years to go on a Mormon mission to Tawain, and later finished his studies at the university.
So how did he get into the political scene? It all started when he (somehow) become a staff assistant to President Reagan 1981. In '87 Huntsman graduated from University of Pennsylvania with a degree in International Politics. In the same year he became the vice president and director of the Huntsman business. Throughout the next ten years Huntsman is elected to job after job, including the United States ambassador to Singapore. In 2001 President George W. Bush named Jon deputy U.S. trade representative and U.S. trade ambassador. Since then Huntsman has successfully served as the governor of Utah and was later named the United States ambassador to China. And throughout all of this has had is beautiful family at his side.
A few copy and pasted words (for word space sakes) to briefly describe his stance on a couple of issues:
Jobs & the Economy-
"Jon Huntsman's comprehensive solutions to create jobs and revive our flailing economy are endorsed by the Wall Street Journal and described as "the most pro-growth proposal ever offered by a US presidential candidate."
National Security-
"Sustaining America's leadership position in the world requires we continue to maintain the world's most capable military. But being the best will not simply be a function of spending the most. Staying on top will increasingly depend on our willingness to adapt to the realities of the security environment in the 21st century, and prioritizing the right way with respect to the future of our armed forces."
I must say, there seems to have been very little error in this guy's life. He likes Harleys, food, his family, and clearly has enough experience for the job. Even an article in The New York Times "Magazine" section said that Huntsman has the best chance of beating Obama out of all the other G.O.P. candidates. After researching the man, I just might agree with him. Certainly don't see any skeletons coming out of his closet anytime soon. Let's see if Jon Huntsman gets that funding, and takes the lead.