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A Sensitivity Assay that Proves Food Is the First and Best Medicine
Caregivers of Complementary and Alternative Medicine (CAM) often instruct their patients on what has long been known about the workings of Mother Nature: nutritious food is good CAM therapy. The 1960's adage, 'you are what you eat," could be emblazoned on the reception room walls of every holistic health care professional to remind patients how important nutritious eating is to their health.
"One-Size-Fits-All" Diets
Widespread and commonly employed by the government, dietiticians, and by both nutritionists and physicians, "one-size-fits-all" diets have become standardized menu plans and food supplements for everyday consumers and patients. The truth is that both the caregivers and their patients have no way of knowing which foods are allergenic until each patient is tested for responses to antigenic foods.
Yet, allergens can be detected and documented simply by health professionals taking samples of their patients' blood and submitting them for bloodprinting by the Immuno Laboratories facility in Ft. Lauderdale, Florida.
Tammy Born, DO, Utilizes Human Bloodprinting
"Because I have confirmed repeatedly that human bloodprinting is the most significant diagnostic tool available to me, I use it every day. If there was only one test I might be allowed to perform on all patients, it would be this diagnostic food assay. Bloodprinting provides an exact list of what each person should eat and not eat," states preventive medicine specialist Tammy Born, DO, Medical Director of the Born Preventive Health Care Clinic in Grand Rapids, Michigan. "Human bloodprinting invariably helps patients, and I can offer case histories to illustrate the test's value.
"Lets look at my son, Drew, who at age three frequently experienced ear infections. The lmmuno Laboratories bloodprinting assay uncovered that Drew was highly allergic to eggs. Removing this food from his diet had my son completely free of symptoms, but even occasional feeding him his favorite, scrambled eggs, caused the boy to become someone I could hardly recognize," Dr. Born explains. "He quickly became unacceptably irritable, argumentative, sensitive, and uncontrollably tearful. Then, the next day Drew always became nasal with runny nose all stuffed up so that he couldn't breathe. In another 24 hours he would be struck by severe ear pain from infection. His was an absolutely classic allergic response.
"Now, ten years later, Drew can tolerate eggs very well. But without my having that original knowledge provided by his Immuno 1 BloodprintTM he would have remained chronically sick with constant ear trouble, clogged nose, fretfulness, and exceedingly short-tempered. Here was a fine example of what allergenic food elimination can do to restore health to a little boy," assures his physician/mother.
"Let me offer another example of the bloodprinting's excellence: About two years ago a 44-year-old female patient, consulted me for chronic sinusitis. Periodically her nasal passages swelled causing pressure, pain, headache, fever, and local tenderness. Every year from September through May she required a physician's prescription for antibiotics. Their adverse side effects caused her to respond with various symptoms: gastric cramps, bowel pain, metallic mouth taste, vaginal yeast infections, and more," Dr. Born says. "But by following the instructions which accompanied her human bloodprint, my patient just stopped having attacks of sinusitis. Thus, she experienced no more antibiotic side effects. Now, just this week for an unrelated matter, I had a pleasant visit from her. The woman reports feeling ecstatic with her complete freedom from sinus trouble and antibiotic usage.
"Another use for my application of the Immuno Laboratories' bloodprinting test is to find the real cause for a gastroenterologist's non-descript diagnosis of 'irritable bowel syndrome' (IBS) [which really means 'You have something wrong with your gut, and I don't know what it is']. My technique for determining why a patient's lBS is present merely requires a blood draw for an Immuno 1 BloodprintTM with an accompanying stool analysis. By acting on the diagnosis derived from these two simple tests, bloodprinting and stool evaluation, within two weeks my patient gets rid of gas, cramping, pain, and other abdominal symptoms," Dr. Born adds.
"This bloodprint assay is really helpful for additional health problems, too: autism, asthma, arthritis, and various degenerative diseases. And the elimination diet is a mandatory follow up to bloodprinting. It's the key for allowing a person to function healthfully once again. The body's immune response to certain foods is directly tied to symptoms of degenerative diseases, especially arthritis," says Dr. Born. Articular heat production, irritation, general inflammation, and other joint difficulties are part of the immune system's response to food allergens.
"Immuno 1 BloodprintTM responses are reproducible — a couple of times I've checked the test using the same patient's blood. I've marked it with two different identifying names and received back bloodprint reports showing exactly the same readouts," Dr. Born says. "I'm impressed. The results I witness are clinically significant since my patients become well once again by following guidelines sent out by the staff of Immuno Laboratories. The personnel are superb in their performance; each is supportive, cooperative, accurate, and reliable, especially laboratory director Dr. John Rebello. And you must know that a clinical laboratory is only as defect-free as its laboratory director."
Immuno Laboratories Director John Rebello, PhD
The Immuno 1 BloodprintTM designed by Dr. Rebello, utilizes the Indirect Method of Enzyme Linked Immunosorbent Assay (ELISA.) His test detects the presence or absence of a patient's blood antibodies known to be indirectly involved in the allergic food reaction. In two of his publications, author Sidney M. Baker, MD, recommends this same ELISA lgG test.2,3 Dr. Baker writes, The test I find most useful measures lgG antibodies to foods... We have found that this test is quite valid when done at a laboratory with reliable methods. In certain situations, it is an essential tool in the treatment of patients with complex chronic illness. However, this test is technically tricky and lab directors have told me that they have tried to set it up and could not get consistent results. John Rebello of Immuno Laboratories in Ft. Lauderdale, Florida has perfected a technique that produces results that are reliable by the strictest definition of laboratory dependability. Moreover, his tests are the only ones subjected to scientific clinical studies in which patient success is based on the lab results4.
The Rebello Bloodprint Procedure
Dr. Rebello was required to perfect his own testing system, including a procedure for cleaning and preparing the potential allergen plates. These plates are shaped into a matrix of wells containing a minute specimen of each antigen. The allergens or antigens must first be "optimized" before coating the wells of the microtiter plate. Optimization of antigens is the first important step in producing accurate results.
1) Draw a sample of the patients blood for centrifuging so that only the serum, which contains antibodies, is used for the test.
2) Optimally dilute this serum for buffering and place it (using a dropper device) into a microtiter plate which has already been coated with various food antigens. Specific antibody from the serum will bind the food antigen in that particular well. Each food antigen applied to the microtiter well forms a first layer of molecular test material. Thus the blood serum containing antibodies forms a second layer of molecular test material.
3) "The plate containing the antigens and the diluted blood serum is then incubated at room temperature for two hours," explains Dr. Rebello. "As the serum incubates, lgG binds to the allergen-coated wells. The only allergens undergoing a bindary reaction are those which are affected by specific antibodies floating in the patient's blood serum. All the other antigens are unaffected by the presence of the blood serum."
4) Detection of the antibodies begins by washing the test plate three times with a buffer to remove any antibody or serum proteins which have not been bound to food antigens in the plate. Anti-lgG conjugate is added to all the wells of the plate and kept for one-hour incubation at room temperature. The conjugate is a mixture of anti-lgG with the enzyme HorseRadish PerOxidase (HAPO). The anti-immunoglobulin can be thought of as forming a third layer of molecular test material and HRPO as a fourth layer.
5) Dr. Rebello continues, "The unbound conjugate then gets washed off and replaced by another substrate, TetraMethyl Benzidine (TMB). acted upon by HRPO to produce a blue-colored compound. Incubation is allowed to take place for a half-hour, after which the reaction ends by contact with sulphuric acid. The entire enzymatic reaction undergoes a color change from blue to yellow".
The Immuno 1 BloodprintTM makes it possible to provide a patient with dietary recommendations and restrictions that are simple, specific and minimal, but which will have a maximal effect. Often the effects are immediate. A three-month introduction period is commenced as quickly as possible which involves a food rotation. Sufficient time must be allowed for the antibodies already built up in the patient's bloodstream to subside once the offending foods are discontinued.
A Double-Blind Placebo-Controlled Study of IgG Food ELISA
When accurate, reliable testing is used, the results of a double blind placebo-controlled crossover study involving 15 patients presented at an advanced seminar of the American Academy of Environmental Medicine in 1994, demonstrated dramatic differences from a diet restricting allergy reactive foods. Researchers Sidney M. Baker, MD, Maureen McDonnell, RN, and Carroll V. Truss, PhD, concluded that, "Despite negative mitigating factors (caused by the placebo-diet), the study showed with overwhelming statistical significance, that the avoidance of lgG foods resulted in a decrease in symptom severity greater than that achieved by a placebo diet." (See Graph A depicting effects from the double-blind placebo-controlled crossover study.)
Hidden Food Allergies and Diabetes
Hidden food allergies are so pervasive that testing for them should be the first step in determining a patient's dietary program before discussion of potential effects from consumption of any specific foods. This is especially crucial for an illness which uses diet as the primary treatment. For example, how can any dietician recommend a menu plan or some other dietary program for a diabetic without first knowing to which foods the person is allergic? Diabetes is a serious health problem by itself, but recommending foods in an eating program to which he or she is allergic, will actually make that patient feel sicker instead of better. Luckily, it is simple to avoid this problem by first testing the individual for allergic food reactions and then designing appropriate menu plans.
Testing for food allergies is so simple it could be done for all patients seen by a medical practitioner. The symptoms of toxic food syndrome are diverse; therefore, hidden food allergies should be the initial line of investigation with all patients.
Vern Cherewatenko, MD, Bloodprints Patients Routinely
Family practice specialist Vern Cherewatenko, MD, Director of HealthMax, a CAM clinic in Renton, Washington, and author of The Stress Cure,5 affirms, "I think one of the very first things that a physician should do is ask the patient, 'Has anyone ever tested you for a link between what you eat and how you are feeling?' It's mandatory to find out what people are feeding themselves and then run a scientific test to find out what antibodies they've developed.
"Being a family practitioner, I use food allergy testing in patients as a first line therapy to determine their underlying cause of illness. Bloodprinting is my most important diagnostic treatment. And I call this procedure a treatment, even though it's a laboratory assay, because when I receive the test results I can educate my patients to make them understand their allergies," states Dr. Vern Cherewatenko.
Holistic physicians are all too familiar with the conundrum of a new patient who presents with a confusing collection of symptoms. A patient's negative response to the question, "have you ever been tested for food allergies?" can immediately shed light on a probable source of illness. Patients experiencing persistent, chronic symptoms that have evaded diagnosis and treatment despite the best diagnostic tools and medications that allopathic medicine has to offer, are probably suffering from toxic food syndrome.
Food Allergy Testing Is Used by Lyman Fritz, MD
Bloodprinting for food allergies has been incorporated into the assessment of patients by Lyman Fritz, MD, board certified family practice specialist in Birmingham, Alabama, who offers health care at The Fritz Clinic. Dr. Fritz relies on food allergy testing and an elimination dietary procedure as components of detoxification to promote his patients' wellness and anti-aging. He explains, "As part of my usual basic physical workup I always require a patient to undergo the delayed onset allergy test involving the Immuno 1 Bloodprint.TM I like to combine the elimination rotation diet that this test provides with Dr. Barry Sears' Zone Diet. The elimination of toxic foods joined to the Zone Diet makes it easy for me to achieve healthy weight loss for my patients.
"Fortunately, results of the Immuno 1 BloodprintTM offer a sure diagnosis including unambiguous scientific proof. With bloodprinting's results I can furnish my patient with the basis for a cure just involving changes in food intake. Many patients benefit immediately when they know which foods to avoid that are 'poisonous' to them (but fine for other people)," says Dr. Fritz. "Despite inconveniences of restricting offending foods, people consulting me breathe a sigh of relief when informed that their chronic symptoms result from food allergies and not from a more lethal and difficult to treat disease."
Michael Constantine, ND, Explains Overall Effects of Testing
Having earned his doctorate in naturopathic medicine and now assisting the State of Florida with establishing naturopathy licensing procedures, Michael Constantine, ND, is expert on using the Immuno 1 BloodprintTM as part of patient therapy. His knowledge of nutrition and bloodprinting is provided by Immuno Laboratories to health professionals who are new to food allergy testing. Dr. Constantine explains, "The bloodprint's structure for achieving patient wellness involves incorporating an elimination diet intent upon removing the tested reactive foods for 90 days. Added to this is a rotation diet consisting of non-reactive foods. Part of this practice is nutritionally-oriented and a second part involves pure immunology.
Probably the first thing that most bloodprinted patients report, is an improvement in energy from improved sleeping and experiencing elevated energy during the day," continues Dr. Constantine. "Lots of other subtle symptoms disappear as well: a runny nose clears; ringing in the ears stops; irritable bowel syndrome goes away; discomforts from rheumatoid arthritis improve. Invariably relief from the person's chief complaint is found. It all happens within the three-month-period because this interval is about the time it takes for immunoglobulin G to catabolize.
"Allergies are considered a 'mistake' by the immune system. If the patient's immune system is allowed a chance to recover and not bombarded by food antigens, it will gear up and use its own natural self-defenses."
The Candida albicans Immunoassay and Gluten Test
A blood test for the presence of Candida albicans is offered by Immuno Laboratories to accompany its food allergy test. Dr. Rebello developed the Candida albicans Immunoassay to detect lgG reactions to any of the fungal organism's cytoplasmic antigen (after breaking down the cell wall). Since numerous patients will test positive for candidiasis, this new test is so sensitive that the presence of Candida a/b/cans fungi is assigned a numerical score gauging its concentration. Candidiasis is both a diagnosis and an overall indicator of a patient's health, such as leaky gut.6
"Most doctors use the Immuno Laboratories' candidiasis test not to determine if their patient has the condition," Dr. Constantine explains, "but to find out at what level of immunity the patient is functioning." An instruction book, The Immuno Health Guide, supplied with the test results, includes detailed patient recommendations for combating this disabling yeast infection.
Bread and bakery desserts are such a fundamental part of the American diet, the Immuno 1 BloodprintTM includes additional testing for gluten reactions. As explained by Dr. Rebello, "Gluten is a protein-carbohydrate substance found in the endosperm of wheat and rye, and to a lesser extent barley and oats. Gluten is the substance in wheat responsible for the trapping of carbon dioxide during the rising of dough in the bread making process. It is this property of gluten that lends the spongy texture to bread... Gliadin is very rich in the conditionally essential amino acid glutamine, which makes up approximately 43% of its amino acid content. Gluten, which is gliadin and carbohydrates, comprises practically the entire endosperm of the wheat kernel." Experience shows that some patients will receive a mixture of positive and negative results, such as positive to wheat and negative to oats. Dr. Rebello can perform a test specifically for gliadin antibodies to resolve the contradiction.
The Lancet reported that during the 1980's and 1990's, it became apparent that celiac disease was underdiagnosed and that the clinical features of the disease changed in both children and adults. The presence of circulating antibodies and their disappearance on a gluten-free diet support the diagnoses.7
Although a peroral small-bowel biopsy of the damaged intestinal tissue is the definitive diagnosis of celiac disease, with a follow-up biopsy after treatment with a gluten-free diet, Dr. Rebello's diagnostic blood tests are equally useful indicators for recognizing this destructive illness.
For more information about the Immuno 1 BloodprintTM and other blood tests, or to receive a complimentary copy of Toxic Food Syndrome, written by laboratory owner Jeffrey S. Zavik, contact Immuno Laboratories, Inc., 6801 Powerline Road, Fort Lauderdale, Florida 33309 USA; 800-231-9197 or 954-691-2500; Fax 954-691-2505; Email: firstname.lastname@example.com; Medical consumers' website: www.betterhealthusa.com; Health professionals' website: www.immunolabs.com.
1. Zavik, J.S. & Thompson, J. Toxic Food Syndrome (Fort Lauderdale, FL: Fun Publishing, 2002), P. 6.
2. Baker, SM. Detoxification and Healing (New Canaan, CT: Keats Publishing, Inc., 1997), pp. 114-116.
3. Baker, S. M., Optimal Digestion — New Strategies for Achieving Digestive Health. Avon Books, inc., New York, New York, 1999, p. 157
4. op. cit.
5. Cherewatenko, V. The Stress Cure (New York City: Harper Collins, 300 pp), September 2003.
6. Trowbridge, J.P. and Walker, M. The Yeast Syndrome (New York City: Bantam Books,1986)
7. Maki, M. & Collin, P. "Coeliac disease "The Lancet 349 (9067):1755, June 14, 1997.
Eighteen years ago Zavik decided to adopt this philosophy as a way of life with his wife and two children in the mountains of North Carolina, by farming organically using forty-five raised beds. He lives a lifestyle of environmental purity and says to readers, "How much are you spending right now on foods that are actually slowly poisoning you? You're likely purchasing perfectly good supermarket groceries, even some from health food stores, but if you're highly sensitive or allergic to something like gliadin or gluten in wheat, you could be buying detrimental food stuffs. For instance, it might be whole wheat bread which is causing unrecognized adverse gliadin-associated reactions.
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♈ Aries: Let us start with you Aries gals, the adventurous pioneers of us all. Your ruling planet is action-oriented Mars (fittingly named after the Roman god of war), with your element being trail-blazing fire. Confident, spontaneous, & independent, an Aries girl could pull off any outfit she sets her mind to (think of your trendsetting fellow sun sign sisters: Lady Gaga, Victoria Beckham, & Sarah Jessica Parker). The perfect color to emphasize your sizzling personality would be red. Your symbol being the Ram, it makes sense that your sign rules the head, so consider accentuating that area with the latest in accessories!
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These are delicious cookies and the orange zest in them gives them the extra orange zip my husband loves. It was a good way to use up some dried cranberries and Grand Marnier that had been around the house awhile!
Oatmeal Cookies with Orange-Soaked Cranberries
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- 3/4 cup dried cranberries
- 1/3 cup orange liqueur
- 1 1/2 cups all-purpose flour
- 1 teaspoon baking soda
- 3/4 teaspoon baking powder
- 1/4 teaspoon salt
- 1/2 cup unsalted butter, softened
- 1/2 cup granulated sugar
- 1/2 cup firmly packed light brown sugar
- 1 large egg
- 2 teaspoons orange zest
- 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
- 1 cup uncooked regular oats
- 4 ounces white chocolate, chopped
- 1. Combine first 2 ingredients in a small bowl. Cover and let stand at room temperature overnight. Drain and set aside. (To quickly steep cranberries, combine cranberries and liqueur in a small bowl, and microwave on high 30 seconds; cover and let stand 2 hours.)
- 2. Preheat oven to 350°. Whisk together flour and next 3 ingredients in a medium bowl.
- 3. Beat butter at medium speed with an electric mixer until fluffy; gradually beat in granulated and brown sugars. Beat in egg, orange zest, and vanilla. Add flour mixture, and beat at low speed just until combined. Stir in oats, chocolate, and cranberries.
- 4. Drop mixture by rounded tablespoonfuls 2 inches apart onto greased or parchment-lined baking sheets. Bake, in batches, 10 to 12 minutes or until edges just begin to brown. Cool on baking sheets 5 minutes. Transfer to wire racks, and cool completely.
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Hello. We are SMITH/GREY - a Jewellery Design Studio based in London. SMITH/GREY uses jewellery as a narrative medium to unlock the imagination and awaken curiosity. Our handmade objects of desire combine sophisticated design with a sense of wonder, inspired by memories, stories and traditions. Excited by observations centered on our surrounding visual and human culture, SMITH/GREY creates high quality wearable jewellery designs out of our London based studio.
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I think so too . . . each spec should FEEL different and have different spells unique to their own tree. Right now, I think we have it, with some utility spells going across the specs (counterspell, polymorph, invis, cone of cold . . .) but they are used for utility, not so much for dps. (While CoC does damage, other specs use them for the slowing effect mostly). Dragon's Breath is very fiery, as is Blast Wave.
I would much rather see AM on the move than arcane having to use Scorch. Or how about Arcane Bullets . . weaker form of AM that can be used on the move?
While fire should remain the MAIN DoT/AoE spec, I think Arcane and Frost should have their own DoTs. Or maybe frost has a few, I don't know. Arcane . . . not sure how it should be but they should have their own that feels . . . arcane-y. As I see it, arcane is the energized manifestation of pure mana, rather than mana turned into other elements, so the DoT effect should somehow reflect that.
I'm probably trying to make the spell designers' job a bit harder, but I'd love to see each talent in a tier have a similar effect on different spells depending on your spec. (LIke, one choice would have you enhancing CoC, Dragon's Breath and Slow, for example, and another would maybe give you a chance to get a brand new spell effect or two, either one which would fit all three specs well or diff ones for each, but sill allow us to keep the baseline abilities of CoC, Dragon's Breath and Slow, without the enhancement, if we choose the other ones. This is just a wish on my part of course. Bur right now, mages, as squishy as we may feel now, have some great tools at our disposal (I've used CoC, Ring of Frost, Dragon's Breath, Blastwave, Frost Nova, and Iceblocking after Cauterize, all in one fight, and realized how many tools we have for survival . . . and would be fantastic if we could keep most of them). Maybe being greedy but I've been LOVING my spec and class so much during Cata . . . and yes, this is a mage NOT whining about the state of things right now. :)


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Counter example? You mean WoW fan art that is worth noting? Just google "wow fan art." There are hundreds, probably thousands, of artists who spend hours to produce original work. Do any of these people ever get highlighted on wowinsider? Nope. All we get are people who spend 10 minutes playing around with filters in photoshop. That's not art.


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Episode 7 opens up with a casual conversation about nicknames... We all have them. Some are more embarrassing than others. We switch the conversation to movies (our topic of choice) and discuss our love of Netflix as well as our differing tastes in movies. Apparently, romantic comedies/love stories are not for everyone...
Who isn't talking about Charlie Sheen these days? We briefly touch on the actor's recent shenanigans, and follow up with a little celebrity gossip. Somehow, we transition into a discussion about yoga and other unconventional work-outs, and Emily takes us to the "gun show". After, we answer the all-important question: "What would you be if you were a baked good?"
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SPOKANE -- A car wash for a family who lost their home to a house fire last weekend raised $1,200.
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In particular, liquid water clouds covering as little as 10%-20% of the planetary surface, with more than half of these covered by ice clouds, still create a polarized rainbow feature in the planetary signal. Indeed, calculations of flux and polarization signals of an exoplanet with a realistic Earth-like cloud coverage, show a strong polarized rainbow feature.


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Designing the error path in the code is not the most entertaining part of a programmer's job. We are focused on coding the solution, the success path, and the damn exceptions stand in the way pretending to be handled. What makes it even harder and murkier is the lack of well established rules for what constitutes an exception and how to decide what kind of exception each one is: checked vs unchecked. And this decision is haunting because whatever you decide will influence the handling policy in the client code.


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Son Camden Jack isn't even two months old yet, but Kristin Cavallari is already talking about giving him brothers and sisters! The actress spoke with People about her desire for more children with fiance Jay Cutler, who — according to Cavallari — would like four children. Cavallari said she would like to be pregnant again within a year, ideally hoping for three boys and one girl. Sounds as if Camden must be an easy baby!


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After my daughter in laws horrific experience where she was traumatized by the district administration, I have lost my faith in the Levittown schools. My husband and I started our teaching career in Levittown so we held it dear to our hearts. My daughter in law has moved on in her career but the experience was horrible. She taught those kids and loved them and they loved her.
This is a great school. Teachers are there to help. My daughter had a hard time with math. She spoke to her teacher, started getting extra help and before we knew it she was taking college math. Never heard of any bullying incidents, there is ZERO tolerance for it. My daughter really enjoyed this school.
This high school has a great team headed by its principal , and a very safe learning environment , and no bulling allowed great teachers , great students , just great
This school has dedicated teachers who will do anything to the students succeed including giving up their time to give extra help. The schools administration is respected by all and the principle is one of the nicest people you will ever meet. The Honors, ACL, and AP classes are taught by great teachers who know their material and know how to present it effectively.
A great school, wonderful, dedicated and caring teachers/educators. Dedicated work staff. Outstanding extra-curricular choices for the students; superb sports department. Exceptional music department (Award-winning)...great group of students, who look out for each other and care about their community and school.
alcohol and drugs are a real problem here (as I'm sure they are in most Long Island school districts). But the school, and the community as a whole doesn't seem to be addressing this enough.
This school offers many ways to achieve, academically and socially. This schools offers a variety of books in the library and hads influnced nmy child in to reading more. Althought the smoking across the street has to end overall this school is a well maintained and displined high school.
This is a tremendous school that offers many varied courses and a disciplined attitude towards academics.
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Can You Live Plastic Free?
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Vancouver resident Taina Uitto has made the decision to be plastic free for an entire year. Think there's no way you could possibly do the same? Check out her tips for living without plastic after the jump.
Featured on Granville Online Taina has provided some tips for people who want to go plastic free:
Plastic challenge 1: Refuse and reduce plastic waste
• Rethink your use of plastics. Remember that every plastic item ever created still exists, and ask if that disposable convenience is really worth it. That plastic granola wrapper, for example, will be on this planet for thousands of years--could you do without it, or make/find a better treat?
• Recognize where all of the disposable plastic items in your life come from. What are your own bad plastic manners? What items are you buying out of habit? Are others constantly imposing plastics on you without notice?
• Refuse single-use disposable plastics. Start with easy things: coffee lids, drinking straws, plastic bags, cutlery and wrapped muffins. Then move to "harder" things, sourcing one alternative at a time. Be creative, and visit Plastic Manners for tips and alternatives.
Plastic challenge 2: Take stock of your plastic habits
• For one week, collect all the plastic you acquire. This means all the caps/lids, bags, wrappers, cans (yes, they are lined with plastic), bottles and containers etc. Be sure to follow your normal routine, and carry a big bag!
• At the end of the week look at the trash you've accumulated. Remember, all this plastic will be on the planet forever. Ask yourself: Where is it coming from? What items did I not need in the first place? What items can I replace with a non-plastic/plastic-wrapped alternative? What items can I not live without? (Be realistic!) What items have no alternative?
• Adjust your habits accordingly. Set ground rules for the things you plan to eliminate and goals for the things you plan to replace--just be sure to allow yourself time to find alternatives at your own pace.
TIP: Do this challenge with a group. At the end of the week, get together and compare your trash!
Plastic challenge 3: Take a plastic inventory
Your kitchen and bathroom--where most disposable plastics live--are the perfect places to start becoming more aware of your plastic habits:
• Gather every item from these two rooms that's plastic or has a plastic component--and we mean everything!
• Make a big pile, stand back and take it all in. Remember, all this plastic will be on the planet forever. Ask yourself: Where is it coming from? What items did I not need in the first place? What items can I replace with a non-plastic/plastic-wrapped alternative? What items can I not live without? (Be realistic!) What items have no alternative?
• Adjust your habits accordingly. Set ground rules for the things you plan to eliminate in the future--just be sure to allow yourself time to find alternatives at your own pace.
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Realistically, this probably isn't viable for the majority. Completely cutting out plastic is a lot harder than it looks. We're not all fortunate enough to live in areas that promote farmer's markets and green living. However, buying as few plastic things as possible and making sure they're recyclable is much, much easier.
Another thing to remember is that your plastic soap dispenser doesn't really NEED to be replaced. If it breaks and you have to go buy a new one, that's when you look for a plastic-free alternative. Getting rid of everything plastic you own if it's still good is pointless and wasteful.
Completely cutting out plastic is very difficult. It's easy, however, to make small changes that can add up very quickly. I've been trying to cut back on the disposables I use for a little over a year now, so I speak from experience. It's easier than you might think. Taking little steps and keeping track of your accomplishments is key!
Kudos to Taina Uitto for going the extra mile (marathon, really) and setting a high standard for the rest of us to aim for!
Plastic Inventory - a great idea - I'm a little terrified to see what mine would look like though!
I'd be curious how they feel about all the non-disposable plastics out there. Electronics, cars, appliances, etc. Where do credit cards fall?
The number one thing that new parents can do to help this that I didn't see mentioned is switch to cloth diapers! In addition to keeping a lot of plastic out of the landfill, it is a substantial cost savings. I read in a parenting book recently that if you account for the money saved by not buying disposables, the time you spend maintaining a set of cloth diapers "pays" about $15 an hour...
Hidden plastic consumption isn't mentioned... For example, the silver ring on Taina's finger was created using a one-time plastic mold. The paper card was printed using a plastic stamp and plastic based ink. Plastic buttons on clothing, thread used to sew clothing, plastic zipper coils, rubber bands are really plastic bands, motor oil changes aren't all oil, they are partial liquid plastic, etc. etc.
Not to be a nay-sayer just an observation.
Wow, what a sombering post. I'd love to take on this challenge. I actually think Re-Nest should do a challenge like this among the readers. Kinda like how AT does design/cleaning/organizing challenges. While it may not be easy to completely cut out plastic, I would like to at least reduce my use of it. I am one of those people who have tons of re-usable bags yet rarely bring them with me. I know I should do better but use laziness as an excuse. I'm going to take up this challenge to reduce my use of plastics. As for the hidden plastics--there is so much that makes our lives more convenient that hurt the future of our planet and most of the times we don't even know it!
P.s. I use grocery bags to dispose of my cat's waste. Does anyone have a better suggestion? I know there are some decomposable bags out there on the market, but does anyone have a brand suggestion?
@TKPgirl would these work? http://www.re-nest.com/re-nest/pets/look-biodegradable-dog-waste-bags-043828
It is hard to get rid of plastic, especially since your own choices on have so much affect on the choices of makers and sellers (ring makers for example). I take it in small steps. For instance, I don't put fruit or vegetables in plastic bags. I just put them in my cart, and the grocer bags them into my fabric bags. I tend to cook food from scratch, when able. I carry by coffee and tea around in mason jars. Our trash pile continues to shrink. Right now, we're not even filling our one, 20 gallon trash can on a weekly basis, and are looking at switching to trash pick up every two weeks (will take so planning and storing of product wrapping around Christmas, but that's okay.) It feels monumentally large if you put it in a pile. If you pick one thing, change that, and when you're ready to pick the next thing...that pile is going to shrink, in some ways without you even noticing. (By contrast, by parents fill three large garbage cans that come up to by stomach, every week...so compared to what I was used to, filling a 20 gal can once every two weeks is a big change).
Also, we just use paper bags for our trash. Don't know if that works with poop...but then you could compost it...
I think there are some very good uses for plastics. I agree that we should all cut down on our plastic use, but it would be sooooo hard. Ever see a (post 1960's) computer w/ accessories that didn't have plastic?
In the article, Uitto specifically mentions single-use disposable plastics as her primary target, fully recognizing that plastics are important in things like bumpers for cars, for those who are wondering about her approach to those plastics in our lives.
And, ahem, it's GranvilleOnline. No e. :)
Basically, this is a great idea but lacks logic with with this question What items can I replace with a non-plastic/plastic-wrapped alternative?
Why should I thow something plastic I already own away (= create more waste) when it still makes sense to use it?
This is not nearly as hard as everyone's making it sound. First off, of course not every piece of plastic on Earth will be replaced. If it's for a medical condition or a car part, just forget about it.
They're talking about everyday items. We replaced most of our plastic. It was mostly broken anyway. It feels awful to throw things in the garbage or recycling knowing it can't really be recycled - but with that disposal, I pledged to get away from plastic and it's an amazing sense of accomplishment. Plus, no more of that horrid BPA.
I agree with TKPKgirl. I'd love to see AT put out that challenge! This IS viable for the majority, it's only a matter of will.
I think it would be interesting to live without plastics in your home, but... I don't think there's any way you could ever live entirely without plastics. Modern medicine, anyone?
This is interesting. Instead of refusing drink lids, just bring your own travel mug. Having worked in a coffee shop, we couldn't hand the customer their coffee or hot beverage without a lid. Safety issue.
Is there a way to get toiletries in bulk and fill my own containers with them? Like shampoo?


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Status Update for Backlogged Pardon Applications
(Received by the PBC between July 2010 and Feb. 22, 2012)
Who is affected by the backlog?
The backlog applies to applications submitted to the Parole Board of Canada between July 2010 and February 22nd 2012.
Applications submitted on or after February 23rd, 2012, are not part of the backlog.
What is the current status of backlogged applications?
All applications in the backlog have been screened for eligibility. This means that all applications in the current backlog have been accepted as eligible for a pardon and are ready to proceed to the enquiry stage of the application process.
The PBC is now processing backlogged pardon applications according to the date they were received.
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Once my backlog application moves to the enquiry stage, how long will it take for a decision to be made in my case?
The amount of time it will take to make enquiries and render a decision on a backlogged pardon application depends on many variables, including the complexity of the file, whether it is for a summary or indictable offence, the number of convictions, the nature of the offence(s), and whether there is a proposal to deny.
The PBC expects that for most of these files, it will take about 3 months* to complete them once the enquiry stage begins, if there is no proposal to deny.
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The easy answer is whenever the league wins.
That the two sides spent all last week negotiating the split of basketball-related income and then, on the day Commissioner David Stern announced cancellations, huge gaps on all system issues were revealed suggests it will be a while.
The owners aren't losing this one. The comments of Stern and deputy commissioner Adam Silver about all 30 teams needing a chance to win a title means increased revenue sharing and stiffer luxury tax penalties will be in place, even if, technically, a hard salary cap isn't.
I'm guessing late December or early January. That's better than an entire season. I do think the amount of negotiating that has transpired is a good sign.
Early February
Barry Stavro
Los Angeles Times
Entertainment conglomerates love sequels, so let's call this one: 1998-99, version 2.0.
Granted, David Stern really likes his marquee games on Christmas Day, but those will pass without a game being played.
Then, like the last NBA work stoppage 13 years ago, around Jan. 1 the huffing and puffing by the labor combatants will intensify. So Stern and players union boss Billy Hunter will convene once again, someone will blink first, and the framework of a new labor deal will be reached.
And voila, like the last time, around early February the games will begin — in a compressed regular-season format of about 50 games.
Home court for Christmas
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In the first week of December, Oonaballoona, that sassy woman from Kalkatroona sent me a piece of fabric I had admired just a few weeks earlier.
For readers post November 14th………..
During my one and only meetup with Oonaballoona, my husband's camera broke while in her hands at Mood Fabrics. Oonaballoona erroneously blamed herself, and three weeks later this tropical banana leaf jersey arrived at my house along with a chocolate bar for hubby .
Or is feathers? The woman does love her feathers……….
Whatever it is I wanted to savor every inch of this fun print, and I'm celebrating the return of warm weather sewing with my Oonaballoona dress!
Greetings from Edisto Island!
Do you know I've never made a fun Maxi dress? The last time I even wore one was at age 15, but after a rendition of this McCall's pattern by SewWil, one of my favorite Pattern Reviewers, I was all about sewing a maxi dress with Oonaballoona's gift.
The pattern is super easy and was sewn in a day. All of the edges are turned rather than faced , and my trusty roll of Steam-a-Seam was incredibly helpful in stabilizing the edges for even turning, pressing and top-stitching.
Indeed, I used every inch of this fabric – the belt must be 10 feet long!
Back in my RTW days, I didn't consider trying on a Maxi because the limited wearability seemed like a waste of money. Now I think I'm nuts.
This dress is so fun and so w e a r a b l e – it's already made the rounds at Edisto very comfortably………… but don't think I've been lounging around all weekend in my new dress.
Hardly. ….. more like washing windows and scrubbing concrete etc………. but now I'm done and it's time to live a little – Oonaballoona style :)
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In Ecuador we have a thing it's called Colada Morada and it's my favorite thing ever. This bad boy:
Now in Europe I have found a decent replacement a generic French smoothie
It's not Colada Morada but if you heat it with sugar and cinnamon then it's a sound replacement I'm so happy :D
Our rooftop garden in San Sebastian, Quito
Parco delle Iguane - Guayaquil, Ecuador
I can't wait!! #summer #traveling #Ecuador #campsinternational #Quito #city #2013
Marine Iguana, Galapagos, Isla Floreana, Ecuador
Finados / Dia de difuntos
The Catholic All Souls Day is an important festivity in Ecuador, we even get a day off. In Ecuador the Catholic tradition have mixed with precolumbian ancients veneration rituals to create a very unique way of celebrating. So usually today people do three things:
- Go to the cemetery: Is the main purpose of the day, Ecuador being a flower exporter there are lots of flowers seller in the street ironically many cemeteries not longer allow real flowers. So people arrange their parents tombs and often do some cleaning. People of indigenous communities and rural background in the Sierra often bring food to the cemetery to share a meal with their ancestors and deceased members of their families. It's not only a province thing, you can see that even in Quito, in the cemetery of Calderón for example.
- Eat guaguas de pan: Guagua is Kichwa for Child. So we eat Bread-Child, those long doll-shape bread that can have marmalade inside. (Some have even dulce de leche and nutella). They come from a pre-columbiam tradition, people in those times often take the corpses and skeletons out of the tombs in festivities to celebrate the death. Spanish clergymen forbid that practice but agreed to include dolls that represented the defunct. Those dolls where usually very decorated and made with Marzipan. With time edible ones appeared and that's how the guaguas came to be.
- Drink Colada Morada: If you speak Spanish Julio Pazos can explain it much better than I. In Andean regions there are several kinds of maize. The one used for the colada is the Purple Maize. Purple maize drink were reserved to special occasions in precolumbian Ecuador. With the arrival of the Spanish culture black became the color of mourning. So the Colada associate the mourning color to an already ceremonial preparation.
Probably there are people who don't do any of these or do completely different things. You can tell me about that. And I hope you all have a very good day today.
The only Ecuadorian food I actually crave for. And a great holiday too.
¿How seguro?
It reads: Safe abortion.
In Ecuador like in most Latin American countries abortion is illegal. Illegal abortion is a huge problem specially because Ecuador ranks high among the countries with more teenage pregnancies.
Safe abortions have always been available to the rich, Dan. You simply want to deny them to the poor, and if you succeed, poor woman will be forced to get them anyway. They'll be forced into the alleys with hangers, plungers and vacuum cleaners, risking death or mutilation. But you'd like that, wouldn't you, Dan? You sadistic, elitist, sexist, racist, anti-humanist pig!
I come from a country with that sometimes hit the highest percentage of pregnant teenager of the subcontinent, it varies from year from year to year with others countries of the region. In my country, in some public bathrooms along the well maintained roads you can read ads written in the wall of women bathrooms. "Do you need an abortion?" Followed by a cell phone number. In my country is well know that women, and very often young girls die in illegal abortion clinics. Because the chances to obtain a good illegal abortion are directly proportional to how much money you have. There was a graffiti in the country capital about it, some months ago: "We all abort, rich girls go to Europe and poor ones to the grave."
You may think is because we are an underdeveloped country, but we have condoms, and contraception is theoretically taught in college. But there is poverty, immigration, and a culture of machismo and also religious opposition. So young girls still get pregnant, and poor girls, poor women, those who have no one to take care of them, no money and no prospects for the future are the one that suffer the most.
#galapagos #iguana (at Santa Cruz, Galapagos)
(1/2: Jama Coaque 300-500 BC, 3/4 Quitus and Manteño: 400-Incas/600–1534, 5/6: Incas 1438–1533)
Meanwhile in Ecuador….
I like the Middle Ages because for me they are so exotic. I'm Latin American and if we had a great history we had no Middle ages so I often had to do an equivalence between MA and my school history lessons.
While Europe was living his Middle Ages in Ecuador the Integration period was taking place: Small kingdoms and the first cities appeared in the Coast and Highlands, there were lot of different tribes, commerce was alive and metal was know even if pottery and textiles where more common, but soon a great Empire will come and conquer all he Highlands after defeating a fierce resistance. In of course talking about the Incas. So they get the Highlands, expand their empire, move population and then when then engage in a civil war a band acquires strange allies, with powerful weapons and metal clothing who sailed 2 year ago from Seville. And then our Histories are linked for the better and for the worse, forever and ever.


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WARREN (WKZO) -- The damage to the General Motors Technical Center in Warren from an explosion last week could reach five-million dollars.
The estimates come from a police report following the explosion in the battery-testing lab at the facility. The blast blew out windows and caused a small fire.
One worker remains hospitalized due to the explosion. GM says gasses from an experimental battery pack ignited during a test.


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UKC Testing - 2014
Tarquin - Lead - 06/Sep/13
DALLAN - Lead O/S - 06/Sep/13 with Joe Fisher
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Dave Latimer - AltLd O/S - 28/Aug/11
Hidden - AltLd - 2008
A horribly broken route with tons of loose rock. The head wall was my lead and was a good move but I am suprised that this route makes it into the Italian (Bernadi) selective guide. The route was packed with Italians as well.AndyP - AltLd O/S - 16/Jul/06 with Jamie
Open route, very loose in places, actually nearly all of it. After some pitches there was this sort of vertical scree! Poor quality route, more of a scramble than a climb.Jamie Simpson - AltLd O/S - 2006 with Andy porter


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Guitarist Bill Frisell has been on the cutting edge of jazz guitar since his arrival on the scene in the early 1980s. With amazing technique and voracious creativity he incorporates the whole of American music, from country to the avant garde, into his unique work. Frisell performs a sweet solo version of the Hank Williams classic, "I'm So Lonesome I Could Cry," before joining McPartland for "Blue Monk."


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So, unfortunately, mushroom hunting didn't go as planned. Buddies came to visit - and we opted for…Denny's…in Springfield before they departed. Hardly the great outdoors, but damn, those folks can make some hashbrowns. I made up for this by making some delicious salmon and lentils with onions, leeks, carrots, celery. Add a lot of salt and red wine vinegar to the mixture and it makes for a tangy bite. The best way I've found to make salmon is to cook the salmon for four minutes in an extremely hot dry pan, flip it, and put it in a 450 degree oven for seven minutes. Its skin is crispy, but the salmon is still moist and pink. Voila! So delicious and healthy and northwesty! Ate while reminiscing about Macklemore last night … "every time somebody steps out on the road, they bring a little northwest soul with them, ameeeeeen" !!!
I just left a lecture given by author Hank Shaw, a cook first, hunter second, who has created these inspired recipes from real life experiences in the outdoors. The book is divided into plant, fish, and game outlining creative yet practical recipes, like Spanish braised squirrel, and a manual on foraging itself while forging an intimate relationship with food. One of the most interesting aspects he spoke about is how what works in the wild will work on a plate. You can look at what game flies around the mushrooms, what nuts or berries grow around the bend, or even what crops are common in or around the area. Always looking for ways to be outdoors and eat, this weekend I've decided to venture into what some call the greatest mushroom mecca in North America…my backyard. Yes, the Pacific Northwest is renowned for its variety of mushrooms, and I intend to pluck a few on a hike this weekend around Brice Creek, bring 'em home, and create something buttery and emanating that particular northwesty food flair.


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