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Easy Gluten Free Baked Meatball Subs
By: Andrea Glenn – Author of A Lazy Girl's Guide to Living Gluten Free
I have been extra busy at work lately, which is in addition to all the normal craziness I manage to pack in each week. Needless to say, I have not had much time or energy to cook lately, but I still try to have dinner on the table each night, even if it only takes me ten minutes to make. That's where these meatball subs are perfect. I had some Udi's hotdog buns in my freezer and a bag of Meijer pre-made frozen meatballs and figured I could make a quick meatball sub that still tasted amazing. These subs took very little time to prepare and even less effort, yet they were very delicious.
- 4 Udi's Gluten Free Classic Hotdog Buns
- 20 Frozen or homemade Meatballs (4 medium meatballs will fit into 1 Udi's bun)
- 3/4 (18 oz) Jar Prego Pasta Sauce
- 1 cup Shredded Mozzarella Cheese
- Preheat oven to 400F. Grease a 9×9 inch baking dish.
- Place frozen meatballs (no need to thaw) and pasta sauce in a sauce pan. Coat the meatballs by turning them carefully with a spoon. Cook over medium heat until heated through.
- Place buns open side up in the greased baking dish. Be careful to keep the buns intact if possible. Put 4 cooked meatballs in each bun and top with remaining sauce if desired. Cover each sub with shredded mozzarella cheese; I probably used more than a cup since I love lots of cheese.
- Bake subs in preheated oven until cheese is melted and slightly browning.
Make sure to stop by Andrea's blog Lazy Girl's Guide to Living Gluten Free for lots of simple and delicious gluten free recipes!
20 responses to "Easy Gluten Free Baked Meatball Subs"
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But the recipe looks great,ill just make and freeze the meatballs before hand. Thanks
According to the meatball website they contain wheat. I just checked.
I have never had a problem with crumbling of the buns, but I notice that they don't stay together well – so I would put cheese in them first with the idea that the cheese might hold the buns together better. We love the taste of these buns so much that we rarely use them for anything except a treat right out of the bag. 🙂 Will try this next weekend, as we too love cheese – dairy free.
Make your own meatballs and use goats cheese – life is not that difficult – we are gluten, dairy, soy and msg free and we are doing well.
Please chill on negative remarks – a LOT of gf people are also df.
You could also do this over a campfire. 🙂
There are FOUR Udi's hotdog buns in a bag.
Haven't tried the hotdog buns but the hamburger buns are wonderful. Can't wait to try this out on my husband who isn't even gluten intolerant, but VERY protective of me with my food selections in restaurants. YUM!!'
Thank you for posting! Your recipes are beautiful and always make me hungry!
Can't find 'print' to get the recipe to carry to the kitchen; must have to copy and paste on Word then print?
Why should these recipes be made dairy-free? This site caters to the gluten-free site, not the dairy-free site. If you have other issues, that's YOUR concern, not the concern of those contributing to this site. It's demanding and lazy to expect that strangers cater to your whims.
The meatballs I used in this recipe are Meijer Fully Cooked Microwaveable Homestyle Meatballs and I had no reaction at all (I am very sensitive). I also did contact Meijer and they assured me that these meatballs are definitely gluten free.
Thanks for the concern and hope this helps!
A Lazy Girl's Guide to Living Gluten Free
My experience has been that the Udi's hot dog buns crumbled in my hands when I went to eat them. They're not as stable as the breads and pizza crusts. I'd LOVE to be able to eat a sub sandwich again, but no such luck.
Margaret, Have you tried microwaving the bread/buns first? Gluten free bread becomes a little easier to work with if you microwave it for a few seconds.
Were the buns defrosted or did you put them in the pan frozen?
Hi Shari,
I defrosted the buns first. Sorry I forgot to specify that.
Just a thought, but aren't there 6 buns in a bag? So why not use a 9×13 pan, all 6 buns, a full jar of sauce, and 24 meatballs (the meatball math looks wrong to me; 4 buns times 4 meatballs equals 16, not 20…)? Wouldn't that work better?! Who wants 1/4 jar of sauce and two buns lying around…?!?!
I started using a 9×9 to begin with since I had already used one bun out of the bag and I was only feeding two people. You can certainly modify it to use all six buns if you would like!
Please note, almost all frozen meatballs contain gluten. I have not found ANY that meet our needs, dairy, soy and gluten free.
You need to also get the recipes diary free also.
Where do you find frozen gluten free meatballs?
Not all frozen meatballs are gluten free. Here a quick site to provide five gluten free options: http://www.examiner.com/article/5-store-bought-meatballs-without-gluten


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It costs roughly $1,580 a year to own a medium-sized dog, according to the American Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals, a price tag not just anyone can afford.
So perhaps it's a testament to India's growing prosperity that the total number of dogs increased by 58 percent there between 2007 and 2012, according to market research firm Euromonitor International—the fastest growth rate of the 53 countries surveyed.
India still has a largely poor, rural population, so it has a relatively low overall dog-ownership rate of four dogs per 1,000 people. But its economy is projected to grow by 6.7 percent from now until 2030, making it a prime target for start-ups, elite U.S. colleges, and increasingly, extremely pampered pooches:
Meanwhile, similarly fast-growing Brazil has the largest number of small dogs -- the kind most likely to fill urban apartments -- with more than 101 per 1,000 people.
Quartz, which flagged the study, adds that the growing pup population has spawned cottage industries of trainers, groomers and pet-supply purveyors for the wealthy:
Among India's upper class, high-end dog trainers are helping to housebreak pampered pups in big cities, where US-based DOGTV is now available via satellite, playing calm music for pets left at home alone along with shows supposedly intended to improve their behavior.
The 1 percenters of Indian dogs enjoy birthday parties complete with cakes "made of flour, cheese and chicken tikkas, garnished with a rib-shaped biscuit on top," Reuters reported. Another Euromonitor report estimated that India's pet industry is expected to grow 22 percent this year and reach 4.5 billion rupees (around $81 million), while the per capita income is $1,256.
And upper-crust dogs fare even better in Brazil, according to Quartz...
Dogs are taken in droves to be blessed by priests in honor of St. Francis of Assisi; a few are even ferried about in "pet taxis," taken for dog face lifts, or brought to breed in a doggie "love motel."
At least that's better than what is reportedly another increasingly popular hobby among some wealthy Brazilians: Cocaine.

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BREAKING NEWS: The Act of Succession has been updated! Hundreds of years of Primogeniture has been turned on its head! Should the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge have a daughter first, and a son second, the son will not precede the daughter in ascending the throne, simply due to his gender. A daughter can now inherit first, regardless if her other siblings are boys!
This is wonderful news, and while I had no doubt that the act would pass, I am delighted and I think I can safely say that somewhere, Elizabeth I is smiling...In fact, Elizabeth I and Queen Victoria have been mentioned copiously in news coverage of this recent development in the monarchy. Some of the best monarch's of England where undoubtedly queens!
Think of all that Elizabeth, the Empress Matilda, and Mary Tudor went through to become monarchs, and to keep their thrones. It is a blessing no Princess shall have to struggle for the throne again!
Queen Elizabeth II rightfully announced this year's theme as "Women as Agent's of Change"! This will be a great year for British women, if it was not already!
Also, monarch's can now marry a Catholic; previously this was not allowed and could prevent an heir from inheriting the throne altogether. As Barb Alexander (@tudortutor) said on, "somewhere Mary I and Catherine of Aragon are high-fiving!"
Elizabeth the Protector
|The Wanstead Peace Portrait of Queen Elizabeth I, by Marcus Gheeraerts. Painted between 1580-85.Picture acquired through Wikimedia Commons. Image public domain.
There are countless instances, recorded both in state records and in personal papers and letters, that demonstrate the magnanimous nature of Queen Elizabeth. While she could be temperamental and prone to outbursts, she balanced these volatile Tudor traits nicely with her genuine love for her subjects.
Today I will share with you two such instances that exhibit Elizabeth's defense of those who could not defend themselves...
Queen Elizabeth personally intervened to protect some of the 6th Earl of Shrewsbury's Derbyshire tenants, after they made allegations of his abuses of power. The fact that the Earl of Shrewsbury was a trusted courtier of the Queen, and that their friendship did not cloud her judgement and make her biased, is commendable. Elizabeth always could tell right from wrong.
George Talbot, the Earl of Shrewsbury was appointed to keep Mary, Queen of Scots under house arrest in 1568. This was a position he would fill for the next 18 years. Shrewsbury was also the father of Catherine Herbert by his first wife. Catherine was a good friend of the queen who was married to Henry Herbert, the Earl of Pembroke, whose 3/4 length suit of armor resides in the collection at the museum where I work. The Earl of Shrewsbury would go on to marry the impressive Elizabethan matriarch Bess of Hardwick
|A detail of a portrait of George Talbot, the 6th Earl of Shrewsbury. Picture acquired through Wikimedia Commons. Image public domain.
In 1590, Queen Elizabeth protected a minor customs official who had "blown the whistle" on the financial corruption of some of his superiors. Cecil and Burghley disapproved of the queen's involvement in what they thought to be a very trivial manner. She responded to their judgment that she was 'queen of the meanest (lowliest) subjects as well as the greatest' in her kingdom.
|A detail of a portrait of Francis Walsingham, Elizabeth's Spymaster. Picture acquired through Wikimedia Commons. Image public domain.
Queen Elizabeth not only improved lives on a grand scale, but also in more minor and personal ways. She pardoned, pitied and assisted the nobles, the tradesmen and the poor of her kingdom, and I look forward to sharing more anecdotes of her good nature on this blog.


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Treating Depression in Teens: Getting the Help You Need
By Holly Lebowitz Rossi
Depression is an all-too-common disorder among teenagers, affecting an estimated 10 to 15 percent of teens, or 1 or 2 out of every 10. Once parents have recognized the signs their teen may be depressed and reached out to a pediatrician or counselor for an accurate diagnosis, it's time to make a plan.
The good news is that treatment options abound. But the plethora of choices can feel overwhelming to parents who are adjusting to the new normal of life with a depressed teen. But no matter how overwhelming or confusing it might be, it's essential for parents not to be dissuaded from taking action.
Medication for Depression: Making the Right Choice
Whether or not to prescribe a teen medication for depression is often the primary concern parents have when working with a therapist or psychiatrist to develop a treatment plan. Often, experts say, the decision to medicate depends on the diagnosis the teen has been given.
Medication is not always the first line of defense, especially for less severe cases of depression. Talk therapy or lifestyle adjustments may prove effective in those cases. "For mild depression, the evidence base is just as strong for exercise as for any other intervention," says Dr. Theodore Murray, medical director of Child and Adolescent Intensive Services at the Cambridge Health Alliance in Cambridge, Mass
For moderate or severe depression, however, many experts recommend a combination of medication and therapy, a decision parents need to make together with their child's doctor or therapist.
Perhaps the most controversial aspect of medication for depression is the "black-box warning" that appears on many anti-depressants, cautioning that patients taking the medication may be at higher risk for suicidal thoughts or actions. Studies have found that these warnings have dissuaded some parents from using these medications. But Murray says much of the concern is misplaced, and that parents should have honest conversations with their teen's doctor before making the decision to avoid medication.
"For every 150 kids who started an antidepressant, one may have increased thoughts about suicide," he says, adding that research does not show an increase in actual suicide attempts or completions. Failing to appropriately seek professional help and treat teens with moderate to severe depression, however, does increase the instances of suicidal thoughts and actions.
Keeping in Touch: Regular Monitoring is Key
Crucial to the success of any treatment plan—whether it involves talk therapy, medication, lifestyle adjustments, accommodations at school, or a combination of these elements—is regular professional monitoring.
Parents should advocate for weekly appointments during the first month of treatment, says Murray, and twice-monthly exams for the next 9-12 months to make sure the treatment is working or make any adjustments that may be necessary. Encouraging communication among a teen's care team—including doctors, therapists, social workers, and school counselors—as well as between clinicians and parents also will help the teen get the best, most consistent treatment.
For teens who are on medication, monitoring is of particular importance, and parents should not be alarmed if the doctor recommends changes in medications or dosages. Murray says 60 percent of teens will respond to any given anti-depressant medication, and of those who don't, 30 percent of those will respond to a different medication. Sharing information about family members who have tolerated certain medications—or had difficulty with them—will help clinicians prescribe with the greatest chance of success.
Life at Home with a Depressed Teen
Treatment for depression doesn't stop at the psychiatrist or therapist's office door. Parents, siblings, and friends may need to learn new ways to communicate with the depressed teen, especially at the beginning stages of treatment. A supportive home environment is an important complement to the clinical interventions a teen is experiencing.
Experts advise a calm, open approach to conversations with teens during this delicate time:
- Offer unconditional support and let a teen know you can handle anything they have to tell you.
- Don't give up if your teen doesn't want to talk at first. Remind him that you're there whenever he's ready to talk.
- Make listening a priority and try to avoid lecturing your teen about how she "should" feel.
- Be validating about the difficult emotions your teen is experiencing, acknowledging painful feelings even as you're encouraging steps toward healing.
Outside of new avenues of communication, experts advise parents to maintain as much normalcy as possible, even around issues like chores and behavioral expectations. "Parents need to have normal expectations and structure and not tiptoe around the child," says Janet Lehman, the co-creator of The Total Transformation program and a clinical social worker with 40 years of experience working with teens and families.
Naturally, if a child is adjusting to medication or returning home after time at an inpatient facility, there will be a period of transition during which parents may consider backing off expectations around chores, academic work, and life routines.
But once the teen begins to stabilize, parents should—working with their professional team along the way—shift back to the family's routines around mealtimes, school work, behavioral expectations, and chores. "The goal is always to return to the structure" that worked for the family before the depression started, says Lehman.
With a smart, thorough treatment plan in place, your teen is more likely to see their depression go into remission and, eventually, recover from it.
More from Holly Lebowitz Rossi:
Concerned Your Teen Is Depressed? Watch for These Signs and Symptoms
What Causes Depression in Teens?


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IN the Syrian city of Aleppo, there are neighborhoods that are almost entirely abandoned; blocks of buildings with their facades blown off, apartments open to the street; and other buildings, intact but empty, their curtains billowing out the windows. Broken water pipes have turned roads into debris-clogged rivers. And tribes of cats stalk around like predators; every now and then you pass one lying dead on the ground, its body torn apart by sniper fire.
The snipers, both rebel and regime, are everywhere. The MIG jets are always overhead, and shelling continues day and night. You cannot escape the smell of dead bodies, and it feels as if it is only a matter of time before you are hit, too.
This is life on the ground for the remaining residents of Aleppo. With only this in mind, it is easy to argue that the West should intervene — arm the rebels, help them overthrow the vicious rule of the Assads, and try to create something good from the chaos. After all, the rebels are outgunned, outsupplied and outfinanced. They are battling a force that is aligned with Iran and Hezbollah, and one that commits daily atrocities.
And yet, all things considered, I can't argue for intervention in Aleppo, or in the wider Syrian conflict.
For a few days in September, I was embedded with the Ahrar al-Sham, or Free Men, rebel faction in the city. These men are fierce and battle-hardened. They sit chatting or sleeping while shells fall all around, and seem nonchalant while lobbing homemade bombs into government compounds. Some taunt the enemy. Others seem almost excited to fire their guns — for them the conflict is jihad, a badge of honor. We sat with one rebel marksman as he followed government soldiers through his scope and laughed as he shot at them. "My throat is full of victims," he said.Continue reading the main story
But every couple of streets in Aleppo is under the watch of a different brigade, and while they sometimes work together, they are just as often at odds. I have seen one brigade lay down covering fire to allow another group to retrieve the dead body of one of its fighters, only to see the same two factions scream at each other later in the day and refuse to cooperate in a battle that did not benefit them both. I have met some members of the Free Syria Army who prefer to enter Aleppo illegally rather than go through the gate held by the Northern Storm Brigade, a strict Islamist group under the umbrella of the F.S.A. "They're not our guys," one explained.
In addition to great mistrust, there is a general lack of leadership. The opposition coalition in exile, the National Syrian Council, debates from Istanbul but gets no respect from the fighters on the ground. Last month, the leader of the F.S.A., Riad al-Assad, announced that he was moving his headquarters to Syria in an attempt to unify the different battalions under his watch, but rumors abound that he remains in Turkey. Other leaders who have tried to command respect are defectors from the regime of President Bashar al-Assad, and they are not often trusted.
Many of the rebels are fighting for a noble cause, and have no motive beyond protecting their homes and families. But it is hard to pick them apart from those who seek to take advantage of the chaos to transform Syria into a Shariah-based fundamentalist state. In Aleppo, I heard Salafi jihadists talk of slaying the minority Alawites, and call for both the immediate support of America, and its immediate demise. These extremist groups are getting weapons from Saudi Arabia and Qatar already; they are not groups that the West would choose to arm. Compared with them, it is not clear that Mr. Assad is the bigger foe.
It would be an error for the United States and the European Union to supply arms to the rebels or intervene on the ground. No one would be happier to see America mired in the country than Iran, which sees a chaotic Syria as the next best thing to an allied Syria.
The most the West can do is impose a no-fly zone under the auspices of NATO to ground the government's air force. This would level the playing field, giving the rebels space to try to form a more unified leadership near the Turkish border, while preventing the slaughter of civilians and the destruction of more cities like Aleppo. Since the rebels took over an air defense base near the city last week, this seems to be an ever more feasible option. But it won't be easy: no-fly zones are hugely expensive, and Syria is no Libya; its air defense system is far more sophisticated.
And even with a no-fly zone, it's hard to see a way out of this quagmire. Turkey has been in discussions with the rebels and the government about the possibility of beginning a peace process, but it seems unlikely at this point that the rebels will stop until they have taken Damascus.
So for all the horrors on the ground, it seems almost impossible that the United States and Europe can do much to help while the future is so blurred and so bleak. As President Bill Clinton once said, "Where our values and our interests are at stake, and where we can make a difference, we must act."
Despite what I have witnessed, I am not convinced we can in Syria.Continue reading the main story


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Looking closely at the places where the spirals cut across the waves on f68v3, one can see that the waves are behind the spirals and only partially hidden.
Using Paint.NET I have drawn in the covered parts of the waves and counted them, adding a number to each wave. The result is 43 waves.
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The latest colorway of the Nike LeBron 12 Elite hits stores tomorrow.
Known as the "Rose Gold" edition, this Nike LeBron 12 Elite comes in a black, white, hot lava and metallic red bronze. Featuring a black based upper with white, lava and bronze accents, a unique graphic on the tongue and a full translucent outsole. A general release, look out for them at select Nike accounts worldwide on Friday, June 5th, 2015. Retail is set at, $275.
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"I need you to plan a presidential assassination," U.S. intelligence honcho Isaac Johnson (Danny Glover) tells ex-Marine Gunnery Sgt. and all-round super sniper Bob Lee Swagger (Mark Wahlberg). It's for the good of the country, of course: Seems that the CIA has a tip on a plot to take a potshot at POTUS; and Swagger, a former Marine Gunnery Sgt. who can nail a gnat from a mile away in a high wind, is just the fellow to get into the mind of the would-be Hinckley and prevent the fourth killing of a U.S. President.
If you smell a setup the old governmental double-cross don't bother congratulating yourself. We're only halfway through Act 1 of Shooter, the latest movie in the conspiracy-theory genre. Filmmakers have spun some pretty decent political nightmares out of the fear of another Lincoln, McKinley or Kennedy assassination. The Manchurian Candidate, of blessed memory, established the format; The Parallax View, Three Days of the Condor, Winter Kills, JFK, Conspiracy Theory and last year's BBC fake-umentary Death of a President all ran cunning variations on it. Shooter, written by Jonathan Lemkin from Stephen Hunter's novel Point of Impact and directed by Antoine Fuqua, is an honorable rather than exceptional addition to the canon.
At the start, Swagger, still on active duty, is perched on a hilltop in Ethiopia "a country we're not supposed to be in" on assignment to shoot down some enemy soldiers. The movie has established its fidelity to the war and cop genres in this first scene, when Swagger's spotter, a nice kid, mentions he can't wait to see his girlfriend back home and is promptly killed. That information also gives Swagger a rare ally (pretty, stalwart Kate Mara, who played Heath Ledger's daughter in Brokeback Mountain) once he's on the run from Washington, D.C., to Tennessee, which he calls "the patron state of shootin' stuff." (The always authoritative Levon Helm has an excellent cameo here as a Yoda of gun lore.) His other helper is a rookie FBI agent (World Trade Center's Michael Pena), who does a lot of Internet research before he joins Swagger and gets to blow up some traitors.
Fuqua, who directed Training Day and King Arthur, knows his male audience, and knows that they like how-to movies on survival against all odds. So he spends plenty of screen time showing Swagger at work: cauterizing his own bullet wound, driving backward off a bridge into a river, planting napalm (a nice Vietnam touch) in an enemy compound. Indeed, the film is best at giving instructions in the assembling and detonation of weapons of movie distraction. And Wahlberg, so muscled up he looks as if he's ready to explode, is serious and committed to the genre. We happen to be in a period when the youngish male stars are mostly light comedians. Wahlberg could be the actor that action movies have been looking for since Sly, Arnold, Harrison, Bruce, Jackie and Jean-Claude all in their 50s or 60s got too old to execute the leg lifts necessary to kick bad guys in the butt.
Like most of the earlier conspiracy thrillers, this one proceeds from two warring premises: a synoptic cynicism about the men who run things, and a dewy belief in the myth of the lone hero. You're to accept on faith that the high-level perps are both deeply malevolent and supremely competent. (Uh-huh. Then why can't they run a simple Iraq occupation?) In the Oliver Stone tradition who killed JFK? Everybody! the mischief-makers have infected all branches of power: the military, the CIA, the Senate, big business. "There's no head to cut off," one of the perps explains. "This is a conglomerate." With a monopoly on state-sponsored (stateside) terrorism, they apparently can kill whomever gets in their way. Toward the end, one of the villains (Rade Sherbedgia) spills the entire conspiracy plot to Swagger because "This is just one dead man talking to another" and because, otherwise, we wouldn't have a clue to what's going down.
In opposition is just one person: the Erin Brockovich of decommed soldiers, a Rambo with a higher IQ Bob Lee Swagger! With a surname redolent of American machismo, and Christian names that suggest both Good Ol' Boy and President Assassination Suspect, Swagger is your standard-issue outlaw hero. He loves his pet pooch, has little use for humans. On being offered the assignment to prevent an assassination, he spits out his apolitical nihilism: "I don't much like this President. Didn't like the last one much either." (As a non-voter for either Bush or Clinton, he's in sync with nearly half of the American electorate.) But he soon has a personal motivation: "These boys killed my dog." Besides, a man's gotta do what a man's gotta do. And Swagger was born, bred and trained to locate and kill the enemy. Even the enemy within.
Toward the end, Swagger gets a civics lesson from a venal Montana Senator (Ned Beatty): "There's always a confused soul who thinks that one man can make a difference.... That's the problem with democracy." Actually, no. The problem with democracy is thinking that all men can make a difference. One man: that's despotism, or comic-book wish-fulfillment. Or the premise of nearly every Hollywood movie, which says that the system is corrupt, and the little guy can beat it. (Until the next movie, where the system is corrupt...)
With the entire U.S. police force, half the military, and seemingly most of the employees of Blackwater USA trying to kill him, will Bob Lee survive? We'd never tell, but a quick check of amazon.com will show that Hunter has already published two Swagger sequels. There are other conspiracies to uncover, or invent, other countries in need of a superhero. Readers and moviegoers need him too, as an imaginary solution to monstrously real problems. It's too bad that Swagger is a fiction, and that the notion of one man who can right wrongs is less plausible than the conspiracy fears that summoned him up as a solo world police force.


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This commentary originally appeared in Real Clear Policy on August 13, 2014.
It's come to this. No less a figure than the U.S. Commission Civil Rights' Michael Yaki is reported to have proclaimed that college students do not merit the freespeech rights of adults, because students' brains are still "in a stage of development."
For over two millennia, higher education had been animated by Socrates' assertion that "the unexamined life is not worth living for a human being." Apparently Yaki's new maxim is, "The unexamined life is not worth living except by college students."
How did we get here? How can 18-year-olds have the constitutional right to vote, but somehow lack the First Amendment right to debate the pressing issues their votes will help decide? How are students "developed" enough to pick their courses (after universities dismantled required core curriculums in the '60s), but lack the right to raise questions based on what they've learned in these courses?
To understand this, we should start by refusing to highlight Commissioner Yaki alone. Nor should we dismiss this latest assault on freedom as a passing fad. It is, instead, a conscious, unrelenting project to transform American higher education and therewith American political life. Yaki's defense of speech restrictions on campus is but the logical extension of some professors' rationale for squelching free discussion in the classroom. Duke's Michael Munger makes this clear in a recent Pope Center article, where he relates that a fellow professor told him, "I don't need to spend much time with my liberal students, because they already have it right. I spend most of my time arguing with the conservative students." As Munger demonstrates, this tack denies a liberal education Socrates's examined life to liberal and conservative students alike.
But what if some students remain unconvinced, and continue to voice their outofseason questions and concerns after they've left the Star Chambers that such classes have become? Yaki answers: They will face similar oppression on the campus quad, for they lack the "development" to question the reigning orthodoxy. Then, having locked down our campuses into Thinking Prohibited Zones, the oppressive project to end oppression will extend to the faculty, as a recent Harvard Crimson oped demands (the author would deny support for the scholarship of gadflies like Professor Harvey C. Mansfield). But didn't universities restrict students in the "bad old days" prior to the '60s campus revolts? Under the powers arising from universities' acting in loco parentis ("in the place of a parent"), schools restricted visitation to dorms of the other sex, imposed curfews, etc. Back then, administrators believed they possessed objective knowledge about the good life, and felt it their right and duty to enforce the conditions of optimal learning on campuses. All that fell with the rise of sex, drugs, and rock 'n' roll in the '60s, justified by arguments rooted in moral and cultural relativism.
But the "Campus Spring" of untrammeled freedom has now collapsed into repression, as in loco parentis has transmogrified into in loco Big Nurse into the simultaneous infantilization and repression of "underdeveloped" students, denying them the difficult and rewarding intellectual exercises required to become informed citizens and effective leaders. This development was far from a reversal. It was the culmination of the principles animating the revolution from the outset. How?
Moral relativism, taught in our universities for the past halfcentury, closes human reason off from access to and guidance by natural standards of justice and injustice. All that is left in the academic vision to "support community" is the solitary, unsupported "self." As a result, the question for our universities became how to construct community out of a diversity of unconnected selves. The answer: Only by "celebrating diversity" can society do justice to the self without a soul (fixed nature). On these premises, it's unsurprising that the new vision of community requires for its implementation the oppressive imposition of diversitycelebration on those who would dare voice any standard (natural or divine) superior to standardless selfcreation.
More simply, the new academic vision replaces in loco parentis, but does so on the basis of relativism; hence, diversityasmonolith (political correctness, campus speech codes, sensitivitytraining seminars) imposes the communal value of value nonimposition (diversitycelebration) in the name of the lawless liberty of the soulless self.
Add to this brew the "discovery" by our academics that, not only is the quest for objective truth impossible (because there are no absolutes to discover, except for and contradictorily the absolute truth that there are no absolutes), but also, all alleged truthseeking in the past, as well as the freedom required for such seeking, was merely a rationalization in the service of maintaining power over those disenfranchised on the basis of race, class, and gender the universities' new Trinity. A Harvard committee report praises humanities research of "the last thirty years" for "unmask[ing] the operations of power" and exposing how "domination and imperialism underwrite cultural production."
With this, the unfortunate, sometimes racially insensitive pranks of campus fraternities Yaki's Exhibit A in his case for curbing campus speech are put on the same moral plane as all "cultural production," including all texts previously thought to be the "Great Books" of civilization. The minds of Socrates, Aristotle, and Locke were apparently as "underdeveloped" as Yaki deems undergraduates to be. Their unfiltered voices, like those of students, must accordingly be silenced.
If those on the left dismiss such criticisms with "we won, conservatives lost; shut up," they fail to see that this is far more than a partisan battle. It is a struggle over whether genuine intellectual liberty, or freedom of the mind, is possible. It is thus a struggle between civilization and barbarism, between light and darkness. At this point, the darkness is winning. Witness how a civilization commits suicide.
Thomas K. Lindsay directs the Center for Higher Education at the Texas Public Policy Foundation and is editor of SeeThruEdu.com. He was deputy chairman of the National Endowment for the Humanities under George W. Bush. He recently published Investigating American Democracy with Gary D. Glenn (Oxford University Press).


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Since Zane has Costello Syndrome, he is expected to have some developmental delays. This section of Zane's blog will just note which milestones he's hit and if he hit them late or right on time!
My biggest one right now is that he smiled around 2months old and he isn't smiling anymore at 3months old. However he has had trouble with breathing and also added a new diagnosis: Opsoclonus Myoclonus, so I think he has been uncomfortable and probably not wanting to smile. (Update: Zane smiles ALL the time now, he loves life, he especially loves hearing his brothers and sister laugh, he loves peak a boo and he loves being lifted up then down quick (picture a quick drop ride at Six Flags or something but in your arms, not letting go of him of course just very gently)
Here are some milestones a regular 3month old baby should have and wether Zane is doing them or not:
Coo'ing– YES- not fully belly sounds but he definately babbles
Smiling at faces–YES, hes gotten so good at this you can barely tell he's blind! He doesnt look at my forehead anymore or the wall behind me, he actually looks at me, and he is VERY responsive to noise, shadows moving over him, smells
Recognizing parents & siblings–YES- he looks for me across a room, he calms when he hears me talking to other people, he smiles when he hears his brothers and sister, he kicks his legs when hes excited!
Look at you when he hears your voice– Yes!
wave arms and pump legs– YES! Mostly in the bath tub, he kicks his legs and splashes!
bring both hands together– Yes and even to his face now
swatting at toys on mobile– totally mastered this now, unbelievable
starting to laugh– yes, all the time!
grabbing– He can reach about 6inches away from his body, his range in motion is getting SO much better! he can even hold a ball now without holes
lift head during tummy time– YES and he is getting SO CLOSE to being able to sit a longer time supported.
(I got this list of developmental milestones from Baby Center's website)


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The White Man's Burden: Why the West's Efforts to Aid the Rest Have Done So Much Ill and So Little Good
Penguin, Mar 16, 2006 - Social Science - 448 pages
From one of the world's best-known development economists—an excoriating attack on the tragic hubris of the West's efforts to improve the lot of the so-called developing world
In his previous book, The Elusive Quest for Growth, William Easterly criticized the utter ineffectiveness of Western organizations to mitigate global poverty, and he was promptly fired by his then-employer, the World Bank. The White Man's Burden is his widely anticipated counterpunch—a brilliant and blistering indictment of the West's economic policies for the world's poor. Sometimes angry, sometimes irreverent, but always clear-eyed and rigorous, Easterly argues that we in the West need to face our own history of ineptitude and draw the proper conclusions, especially at a time when the question of our ability to transplant Western institutions has become one of the most pressing issues we face.
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CHAPTER THREE You Cant Plan a Market
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CHAPTER FIVE The Rich Have Markets the Poor Have Bureaucrats
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CHAPTER NINE Invading the Poor
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Wednesday, August 8, 2012
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I have decided that I am giving up Dr. Pepper. This is gasp worthy if you know me in real life. I live with a can in my hand. But I have decided that I need to be healthier (I even walked a mile yeterday) and drink more water. It is a slow hard process, but I did learn that 2 excedrin migraine and 3 ibuprofen just barely numbs the lack of caffeine headache.
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GOOD LUCK GIRL... I tried giving up Pop last year (since I realized I had gained a whole ton of weight and drank like 10 a day) and I lost a lot of weight and I felt much better about myself! I'm slowly drinking it again and hoping I don't get out of control again :) Let me know how it goes! Good luck!ReplyDelete
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Dear Kirk,
I am a young photographer who has been shooting architectural work for a short while. I have sent you this email because you are a noted architectural photographer and I figured you could give me a dependable answer. I have very basic knowledge of interior lighting, but wonder which is better using strobes daylight balanced or hot lights with quartz halogens. I have been asked to shoot an interior with a large glass curtain wall on one side and several banks of flourecents on the other and possibly some tungsten accent lights. So for me I am unsure what would work best. I realize that this may not have a simple answer but would appreciate your suggestions.
Yours truly,
Mike, this is a big question that is hard to answer without seeing the space. But here are some thoughts.
Are you shooting digital? Digital is more forgiving and easier to adjust color temperature in mixed light situations. Your example sounds like a situation where I would use strobe (which is daylight balanced) for fill light, if I was shooting it in the daytime (at night I might choose halogen fill). The warm accents from a few small halogens can look good and natural in a strobe lit daytime interior. The glass in the curtain wall commonly has a slight green cast. This will make daylight coming through the glass more like the color of the fluorescents if they are cool whites. It may be useful to put a light green filter on the strobes to make a color match between the daylight coming through the glass and the cool white fluorescents and then do a custom white balance to neutralize these three main sources. A 1/4 Rosco + green filter is usually good (see B&H)
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Kauai, nicknamed Hawaii's Garden Island, is most famous for its lush vegetation, pristine white sandy beaches and the warm friendly nature of the people who live here. Kauai is the oldest and fourth largest of the main Hawaiian Islands, having a land mass of just over 552 sq miles. From the action packed beach resorts to the incredibly beautiful mountain trails - there is something for all ages and all tastes and one of the reasons why Kauai is one of those places where people go back to time and again.
In a single day, you can kayak up a lazy river, hike through the forests and discover hidden waterfalls or take a tour of the famous and spectacular Na Pali coast - the area used for filming Jurassic Park - and still be back to your vacation rental in time for a dip in the turquoise waters of the Pacific Ocean, before catching the sunset from your beachfront villa.
A Four Season Holiday Destination
Kauai is a year-round playground with a warm tropical climate - the best time to visit really depends on what you want to see and do from whale watching and big surf breaks in the winter to warmer and more tranquil summer days.
Mid August until the end of September is the hottest time of the year, with the average high of 85°. January is the coolest season with average highs of 78°, so there is really no cold season. However, Kauai is known as the wettest place on the planet but when it does rain, its tropical so heavy short bursts are the norm.
Kauai Vacation Rentals
Self catering holiday rentals along kauai's coast are plentiful and certainly good value especially for family vacations. You will find beachfront villas, often with private swimming pool, spacious condos and family holiday homes to rent along the entire coast.
The main and popular places to stay on Kauai include...
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Poipu Beach is located on the southern shore of Kauai, and it is the most popular beach on the island. Like Waikiki on Oahu, this beach is near many entertainment options and is often crowded. It also offers great swimming opportunities, as well as surfing and boogie boarding.
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This lovely South Shore beach is one of Garden Kauai's most popular beaches mainly because Kiahuna is a great spot for swimmers, beginner surfers and boogie boarders. Also, when the conditions are good meaning good visibility, snorkeling is a firm favourite.
Whilst the summer months have gentle waves making the beach popular for swimmers, the winter months see the huge swells coming in to the bay making it a good spot for surfing. Services at Hanalei beach incude restrooms, shower and lifeguide.
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Sitting in a sunken valley, surrounded by mountains and soaring cliffs rising to over 1200m, Tunnels Beach is one of the best scuba and snorkeling spots on Kauai, especially during the more tranquil summer months when the sea is at its calmest and the surf waves quite tame.
The white sandy beach stretches two miles from Hanalei Colony Resort to Haena Beach Park where the road ends. Tunnels beach caters for families who want to relax and swim in the calm waters near the shore but also for divers with the reef teeming with tropical fish and close to shore, there are some deep-water caverns for cave diving.
10 Popular Things to see and do
If you are visiting Kauai for the first time it can be a bit overwhelming with so many things to see and do in such a short space of time. Here are a few suggestions....
|Explore the Na Pali coast by boat
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|Opeakaa Falls in Wailua
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|Waikapalae Wet Caves
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|Waimea Canyon State Park
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|Fern Grotto
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|Hanalei Valley Lookout
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|Ke Ala Hele Makalae trail
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|Keahua Arboretum
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As the "Garden Island" of Hawaii, Kauai will take your breath away with its spectacular lush cliffs on the Na Pali coast and gorgeous white sandy beaches. With its long hot summers and mild winters, Kauai attracts tourists from all over the world throughout the year. And what better way to experience the local culture than by staying in a vacation rental. Whether a beach villa or condo, self catering vacation rentals provide freedom, space and flexibility to do what you when you want - home from home!
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OMREN established Oman KID federation to allow restricted access to services, including Electronic Library, Knowledge of the identity system, The electronic system for research proposals, financial system to manage research grants, and programs to support innovation and research.
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- Angel Yin one of longest drivers on tour
- 2017 was teenager's first full LPGA season
- Women's game will get "longer and longer"
(CNN)When Angel Yin first picked up a golf club aged six she'd never even heard of the sport.
That didn't stop the young American immediately hitting the ball 150 yards and then making a pretty wise decision.
"I'm going to do this for the rest of my life,' Yin told her mother Michelle Liu, dashing long-held hopes she'd learn the piano.
Thirteen years on, with a Solheim Cup win under her belt, how the fresh-faced teenager must be thankful.
"I don't know why my mother listened to a six-year-old but that day she did," Yin told CNN's Living Golf. "I kind of knew ever since I was little that I was going to become a professional golfer."
Precocious talent
Yin routinely hits the ball over 300 yards off the tee, sometimes booming drives towards the 350-yard mark, in what has been her first full year on the LPGA Tour.
Her vast potential and power has been evident from an early age.
In 2010, Yin won the first of two California State Women's Amateur Championships a month after her 12th birthday -- the same year she was youngest in the field at the US Women's Amateur Championship.
At the 2013 Kraft Nabisco Championship, now known as the ANA Inspiration, she ranked second in entire field for driving distance aged 14.
Yin, who turned 19 in October, has averaged drives just over 272 yards in 2017 -- only Lexi Thompson (273 yards), Joanna Klatten (278 yards) and Maude-Aimee Leblanc (279 yards) boast a higher average.
It has been a rapid ascent to the game's top tier, but the girl from Monterey Park, California is just getting started.
"After I decided to turn pro I wasn't nervous, I was just more pumped than anything!" she says.
"The LPGA is the best of the best in the world. I like competition, it makes you improve. Overall as a person I've grown -- a lot. Learning from these girls, talking to them, traveling with them."
With five top 10 finishes on the LPGA Tour already, Yin feels her game has got "less sloppy and more together" in the company of the very best, though acknowledges there's no room for error.
"You can't make mistakes out here," she says. "You really can't.
"My short game has been good but it's still not tight enough. I should be better at it since I always hit it so long."
Yin tells the story of playing a par five with a dogleg to the left in recent times where nobody else could carry the water.
"I got too excited and hooked it in the water that day, but still made birdie," she recalls. "When I make a mistake, with my distance, I can make it up."
'Exhausting' schedule
Yin calls the "weeks on the road" the toughest part of her step up to the pro ranks, noting she's not stayed home for more than a fortnight all year.
"Every week's a different hotel, a different place, the time change -- it's just exhausting!" she says. "You don't get much sleep but you have to keep grinding."
But with that intense schedule comes the opportunity to broaden horizons.
Yin has reveled in the LPGA's move to host more events in Asia -- the so-called "Asian Swing" included three tournaments in 2017 -- and hopes to "take in more culture" going forward.
She feels women's golf is going to get "longer and longer" and aims to be top 20 in the world next year, "playing on TV two times a week."
But don't think Yin is the sort to sit back and think she's made it.
"You kind of let a breath out, a little bit," she says, looking back on her achievements. "But you have to get right back in. I've still got a lot of goals I haven't reached.
"I feel like I have the game but I'm missing a lot of pieces -- small pieces, not big pieces -- to win."


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My book is done! Woot, woot! Of course, editing now takes place, and there will certainly be some corrections. But by and large, it is done. The blood, the sweat, and the tears are over – at least with the creative portion of this particular project.
The title of my book is…
S.E.L.F. Centered Leadership: Becoming Influential, Intentional and Exceptional
While the editing and the book cover are in process, I wanted to let you know WHY you should read my book when it's ready.
I've decided that, although there are as many reasons to read this book as there are peeps in the world, I'm going to provide you with just 30 reasons. I'm going to do this by way of a count down.
Are you ready?
Reason #30 for reading S.E.L.F. Centered Leadership: Becoming Influential, Intentional and Exceptional –
You will learn how to prepare for, and how to survive, an ODYSSEY.
Although this book is not about wilderness survival, desert survival, or even surviving a long ocean voyage, it is about learning to keep keeping on when it becomes very hard to do so.
In my book, I share with you how an odyssey is required if your desire is to become exceptional. Great leaders are great leaders because they have overcome great hardships.
Through personal stories, and stories of others, my book, S.E.L.F. Centered Leadership: Becoming Influential, Intentional and Exceptional, will teach you how to prepare for hardships, and how to get through them in order to become exceptional.
"The only way out is through" ~ Carol (last name withheld)
Tune in as the count down continues. You'll want to know all 30 reasons for reading my book.


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Friday, November 15, 2013
Powerpoint on YD
**Hyperlinks** I chose to do hyperlinks for this post because, for me at least, the powerpoint was easier to understand with other articles and videos that related to it. It was hard for me to grasp at first because I did not understand all of the terms within the power point but finding this article helped me to attain a better understanding of what the power point was trying to describe.... I liked this article because it went into the sub categories of risk factors, such as low parent involvement and/or witness to violent behavior, and protective factors, such as religion and/or a high GPA. The way that the article was organized helped me to kind of piece the categories together and understand the diagram on the power point on YD.
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This seems like a nice entry into your philosophy of YD! Seems like you are drawn to thinking about risk factors and protective factors. I'm glad you found multiple ways/entries into this content!ReplyDelete
I thought this was an excellent diagram, easy to understand and with compelling informationReplyDelete
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Education of patient and family is important but often neglected aspect in the management of asthma. All patients should be taught how to monitor their symptoms so that they will know when an attack is starting, and those with moderate or severe asthma should know how to use a flow meter. They should also have a written "action plan" to follow if symptoms suddenly become worse, including how to adjust their medication and when to seek medical help. If more intense treatment is necessary, it should be continued for several days. Over-the-counter "remedies" should be avoided. When deciding whether a patient should be hospitalized, the past history of acute attacks, severity of symptoms, current medication, and whether good support is available at home all must be taken into account. Patient education should include nature of asthma, preventive measures/avoidance of triggers, drugs used and their side-effects, proper use of inhaled drugs, proper use of peak flow meter, knowledge of the difference between relieving and preventive medications, recognition of features of worsening asthma (increase in bronchodilator requirement, development of nocturnal symptoms, reducing peak flow rates), self management plan for selected, motivated patients or parent, and the danger of non prescribed self medication including certain traditional medicines.
Long-term asthma treatment is based on inhaling a beta-receptor agonist using a special inhaler that meters the dose. Patients must be instructed in proper use of an inhaler to be sure that it will deliver the right amount of drug. Once asthma has been controlled for several weeks or months, it is worth trying to cut down on drug treatment, but this must be done gradually. The last drug added should be the first to be reduced. Patients should be seen every one to six months, depending on the frequency of attacks. Treatment for chronic asthma is based on a stepwise approach. The initial objective is to abolish symptoms and normalize lung function, then adjust medication appropriately in response to changes. The outline below generally describes the stepwise approach, which is often modified to suit the patient.
Patient treatment should be reviewed every 3-6 months; Step down rapidly from high dose oral steroids if PEFR responds promptly i.e. within a few days, otherwise need to be stable for 1-3 months before attempting more gradual step down.


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Hostway has received an attestation from external independent auditors and the company will provide additional peace of mind via a signed Business Associate Agreement (BAA) validating that it will appropriately safeguard protected health information.
Emil Sayegh, CEO of Hostway said:
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- Poster presentation
- Open Access
0671. Extended extracorporeal lung support in a porcine acute lung injury model. Feasibility and preliminary data
© Bruhn et al; licensee Springer. 2014
- Published: 26 September 2014
- Lung Injury
- Acute Lung Injury
- Extracorporeal Membrane Oxygenation
- ECMO Circuit
- Saline Lavage
During the last years there has been a renewed interest in using extracorporeal membrane oxygenation (ECMO) to treat severe ARDS. ECMO may correct hypoxemia but may also aid in protecting the lungs [1]. However, there is scarce data about the optimal way to ventilate the lungs during ECMO. Experimental models of acute lung injury with ECMO are usually too short.
To develop an extended severe ARDS model supported with ECMO suitable to assess the impact of different ventilatory strategies during ECMO.
Eighteen domestic pigs (27-35 kg) were anesthetized, mechanically ventilated (Vt 10 ml/kg, PEEP 5, O2 1.0) and invasively monitored. Thereafter they were randomized into 3 groups: sham, lung injury, and lung injury + ECMO. SHAM animals were ventilated for 24 hours with standard ventilation (Vt 10 ml/kg, PEEP 5, FiO2 1.0 and RR adjusted to keep PaCO2 30 to 50 mmHg) and then euthanized. In the other groups lung injury was induced by saline lavages (30 ml/kg per lavage) performed repeatedly in both supine and prone position until PaO2/FiO2 dropped below 250. They were then subjected to a 2-hour injurious ventilation with PCV, PEEP = 0,Pinsp = 40 cmH2O, RR = 10/min, I:E = 1:1, one hour in prone and the other in supine. After completing lung injury (time 0) animals were subjected to 24 hours of standard ventilation. In the ECMO group, animals were immediately connected to a saline primed-MEDOS Hilite ECMO circuit by inserting a AVALON 23F double-lumen cannula through the external jugular vein. Blood flow was set at 60-70% of cardiac output. Respiratory and hemodynamic data, as well as plasma and BAL samples were collected at times 0,3, 6, 12, 18 and 24h. After euthanizing animals at time 24h tissue samples were extracted from the lungs.
An extended lung injury model supported with ECMO is feasible. The two-hit model produced a steady compromise in compliance despite partial recovery of hypoxemia.
Grant acknowledgment
CONICYT, Fondecyt 1130428
Authors' Affiliations
- Gattinoni L, et al.: Towards ultraprotective mechanical ventilation. Curr Opin Anesthesiol 2012, 25: 141–147. 10.1097/ACO.0b013e3283503125View ArticleGoogle Scholar
This article is published under license to BioMed Central Ltd. This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.


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Bath bombs are the beauty industry's biggest craze, but what if we told you that "bath bombs" exist for your RV toilet? Before you go running over to your local Lush store and ask for toilet bombs, stop and take a look! This is an awesome, easy DIY project that will help to clean your RV's icky, sticky, stinky black tank! Forget the chemicals, soaps, and long-handled sprayers and whip up some of your own black tank cleaning bombs!
What You'll Need:
- 1/3 cup each of:
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- Large silicone ice tray, bath bomb mold, or other sizable round mold
- Essential oils (optional)
- Mix the baking soda, borax, and citric acid together in a large mixing bowl.
- Add a teaspoon of water and continue to mix. Slight fizzing is normal.
- If you want to add a little extra fragrance, also add a couple drops of your favorite essential oil (optional). This is not at all necessary as this bomb is going right down the toilet (literally), and chances are you may never smell it, but it's worth a try!
- The ingredients should remain as dry as possible while binding together. If the mixture remains as a loose powder, add more water little by little until it binds without getting mushy and too wet. You'll want to the mixture to stay as dry as possible!
- Once the mixture is the perfect consistency, press spoonfuls of the mixture tightly into molds. If you care about the appearance of the bombs, use a bath bomb mold. However, the nature of where this bomb is going makes a simple silicone mold perfectly acceptable too! This recipe should make nine bombs.
- Let bombs dry overnight, then pop them out and store them in an airtight container until you need to use them.
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- After dumping your black tank, make sure there is some water in the tank.
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Wake County charter wants opening delayed but other schools growing
One new Wake County charter school wants to postpone its scheduled August opening while four other charter schools in the county want permission for big enrollment expansions this fall.
The State Board of Education discussed this week the request from Pine Springs Preparatory Academy for a one-year delay in its planned 2016-17 school year opening. Pine Springs is citing unexpected delays in their acquisition, approval for, and construction of their proposed facility in Holly Springs.
The Office of Charter Schools is recommending approval of the one-year delay as long as Pine Springs meets a series of stipulations. The State Board had previously voted in August to give the school preliminary approval to open in 2016.
The State Board is expected to vote in June on the request from Pine Springs, which had projected having 396 students in its first year. But even without Pine Springs, the State Board will vote in June on giving final approval to three other new charter schools in Wake County that have a projected first-year enrollment of 1,434 students.
Also this week, the State Board discussed a request from 23 charter schools to expand their enrollments by more than 20 percent for the upcoming school year. That group includes requests from East Wake Academy, Southern Wake Academy, Triangle Math And Science Academy and PAVE Southeast Raleigh to increase their enrollments by 762 students this fall.
The Office of Charter Schools is recommending approval of the expansion requests. That board vote could come in February.
Charter schools that want less than a 20-percent expansion don't need to go to the state for approval. Charter schools are taxpayer-funded schools that are independent of traditional public schools.
This new round of charter-school expansion comes at a time when the Wake County school system is facing increasing competition from those non-traditional public schools.
The school system reports that 9,577 Wake County students are attending charter schools across the state this school year. That's a 9.4 percent increase in a year where only one new charter school opened in the county. Enrollment in charter schools among Wake County students has increased 51 percent in the last three years.


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Dietsch is an effective leader for District 9
To the Editor:
Taking on the role of Chair of Peterborough's Select Board has given me the opportunity to get to know a whole host of dedicated people who give of their time and talents through service on town committees working on a range of issues.
One of those people is Jeanne Dietsch, now a candidate to represent Peterborough, Bedford and the 12 other towns in District 9 in the state Senate in Concord.
I've seen Jeanne's leadership in action through her work with town committees and at town meeting to improve high-speed internet access and implement creative new strategies to bring more young people here and strengthen our local economy. Jeanne is highly effective as a speaker and in making compelling presentations. She has that combination of experience, passion, and vision that helps groups accomplish big goals – and I think that's a winning combination for our region and our state.
Not only is Jeanne aware of the devastating effects of many years of short-sighted policies at the state level that have downshifted more costs onto our towns and local property taxpayers, but she has specific ideas to make needed changes. She is persistent, thorough and effective.
I have generally been a Republican my whole life but now see in Jeanne a Democrat whom I can fully trust to do what she says and believe in without reservation – and that bodes well for her chances in November. Jeanne is a true leader who I strongly believe we need in our state legislature now.
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Sometimes I think I see clothing differently from the way some others do. I don't know why, really. Maybe it has to do with the fact that I grew up poor. Shopping at second-hand stores, I learned that I wasn't always going to find exactly what I wanted, and some adaptation would be required. For instance, I once found a lovely blouse, but the sleeves were slightly too short and the cuffs were too big. It fit everywhere else, but the sleeves were an awkward length. So, I unpicked the cuffs, cut off a couple of inches of the sleeve and sewed the cuff back on. Voilà! Three-quarter-sleeved blouse!
Now, I know people who never think about this. If they try on a blouse in a department store and it is just slightly small in the chest, they will go to the next size larger, even if the larger one is too big in the shoulders. For me, it's a lot easier to look at the seams and see if there is any extra to let out. Letting out a seam is easy. I just run a line of stitching at the base of the seam finishing and unpick the original seam. Easy peasy.
I just bought a new pair of fat pants, and they were (wonder of wonders) too big. They had elastic in the back, stitched firmly enough to survive Armageddon. I cut the waistband entirely off, took in the side seams a couple of inches, folded the top down to make a waistband and ran elastic through the whole thing, instead of just in the back.
I kind of feel badly for people who don't have the ability to do these things, but I know that there are only so many hours in a day, and most people really don't have the time to sew...or learn to sew.
For me, it was self-defense. My mom sewed, and made me the most god-awful clothes. She never did figure out how to adapt a pattern, so nothing ever fit. Nothing she made for me ever fit. Too big in the waist, too big in the hips, too big in the shoulders, too big everywhere. I was skinny as a rail. Once, in high school, I made myself a shift out of a single yard of fabric. I got many compliments on that thing, and that encouraged me to make more of my own clothes. The blouse I made in that ill-fated Home-Ec class was the start. By the time I was a senior, I had made three dresses (besides the shift), a jumper, a gored skirt, a "granny" dress and the formal for my Graduation Dance. I had also learned how to take things in and hem them up. I was much better dressed in my senior year in high school than I was before that, and I had much more confidence. I could do things like go to the thrift shop and adapt the blouse that went so well with my home-made jumper. I was wearing that outfit in this picture (fifth from the left in the back row):
...And here's the dress I made for the Graduation Dance.


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Welcome to my videos page. I film many of my pencil pet portraits, framed, unframed and in progress so my clients can see the portraits in a little more detail. I find it is much more three dimensional than the final scans. click the tabs for more content and info about each portrait. I hope you enjoy the videos.
These three drawings were commission by a client in the USA. The first is an 18 x 14 drawing of Violet and Gil, both English Setters, the second is an 8 x 10 drawing of a Cocker Spaniel called Charlie and the third is an 8 x 10 drawing of English Setter called Rooney. They were all hand drawn by myself - Melanie Phillips.
Melanie : Here are my latest three portraits commissioned by the same client for their family. If I come in slightly closer this is an 18 x 14 pencil portrait of Gill and Violet and I absolutely loved drawing both of these dogs. They have such expressive eyes and all the curls and the little spots on their faces - it's just absolutely fantastic and so I really enjoyed drawing them. Moving over very slowly to Charlie and Charlie is a 10 x 8 pencil drawing and again I really loved drawing Charlie, he's got such expressive eyes and his curls in his ears - there's lots of detail so that was fantastic to draw, and then finally to Rooney another 10 x 8 pencil drawing and he looks such a happy chappy. He's got such an expressive face and again fantastic to draw. So all three of them are going to be packed up and hopefully heading off to very happy recipients this Christmas I hope you enjoyed the video.
This is an 8 x 7 drawing of a beautiful cat called Padstow. Sadly Padstow passed away at a very young age and so this portrait will serve as a wonderful memory for all of the family.
Melanie : This is the latest cat portrait that I've completed and it's a lovely cat called Padstow and you should be able to see the scale of the drawing from the pencils on the drawing. If I go in slightly closer you'll be able to see the fine details that I've created. The eyes are everything in this portrait of Padstow, my shadows going over the drawing a little bit because it's evening here but it should be able to give you a better idea of what the drawing is like and so this one's going to be packed up and sent to the client early next week and I'm on the next portrait so there'll be another video coming along soon I hope you enjoy it. Published on 2 Dec 2016
The video is about a 16 x 12 pencil drawing of a very special dogs called Mike who passed away very unexpectedly. The portrait will serve as a heartfelt memory for Barry and all of his family. Click on the photo tab to see a photo of Barry, in his home in Australia, with the framed drawing.
Melanie : This is my latest pencil portrait and it's a 16 x 12 drawing and I've added my pencils into show scale. This is a lovely dog called Mike and the first drawing of Mike was when he was a puppy and the other drawing is Mike when he was slightly older as an adult. I think it's a lovely way to show two stages of a dog's life in one portrait and it's going to be heading off to Australia this week - I hope you like it.
Paula had recently lost her beautiful dog called Teasel and emailed to ask if I would create a portrait for her. I drew Teasel at 10 x 8 size and you can see a photo of Paula and Teasel's portrait in my testimonials section of my website. Have a look also in the final scan tab to see a larger version of the drawing.
Melanie : Teasel is currently on my drawing board and it's a lovely dog, ill just zoom in slightly you can see how lovely her eyes are. They just have a beautiful look and she was wonderful to portray, I really enjoyed drawing her. She's a 10 by 8 and she's going to be packed and sent off to the recipient today. My clients have been really really thrilled so hopefully I'll be able to post some testimonials on my website from the client soon. I hope you enjoy viewing Teasel. My name is Melanie and you can find more of my pencil portraits at www.pencil-petportraits.com
Caroline commissioned me to draw a portrait of her mums Tibetan Terrier HollIe who passed away at the age of 14. I was so excited to draw Hollie as I have my own Tibetan Terrier and feel I know the breed pretty well. I hope you like it!
Melanie : This is my most recent portrait of my drawing board it's a lovely dog called Hollie and she's a Tibetan Terrier. We've got a Tibetan Terrier so it was really nice to be able to draw another little character- they've got so much character these dogs and I love drawing the long fur. If i zoom in slightly closer you should be able to see a little more detail. The portrait is a 12 by 10 pencil drawing and it's going to be packed up and sent off today to the client. I hope that the recipient is thrilled- thank you for watching and I'll have another video along shortly.
See what was on my desk and find out about my drawings!
Melanie : My neme is Melanie and I'm professional pet portrait artist, drawing dogs cats and horses for commission. I've got three pieces of artwork on my desk ready to send clients and I thought this would be a good opportunity to take some video for clients to be able to see my work a little better. So onl the right hand side is Teasel and this is a 12 by 10 pencil drawing and on the left is Hollie and she's also a 12 by 10 pencil drawing. The montage in the centre is of Casanova and it's a 24 by 18 . The montages are fantastic because clients can have a large central study and then different studies around the outside. So in this case the horse and rider doing different things. The montage is going to be framed using the Honey Knots frame and we've also got an engraved plaque to go on it. You should be able to see that in my galleryvery soon. I hope you enjoyed viewing my work and seeing where I work. If you would like me to draw your cat, dog or horse you're more than welcome to contact me any time.
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