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The State of Illinois Comptroller has brought down the hammer in the Illinois Funeral Directors Association Scandal. The regulator has issued a must repay the letter, to the IFDA requiring the repayment of 10 million dollars to the IFDA Preneed Trust The Trust is now managed by Merrill Lynch.
It does not appear that the Illinois Funeral directors Association has the money($10 million dollars) but since the Associations Finances are a closely guarded secret we do not know. Those finances are held close to the vest by both IFDA Board members and the State of Illinois Comptrollers Office. IF THE IFDA FAILS MUCH OF THE PRENEED FUNERAL INDUSTRY IN ILLINOIS may under go too quick of an overhaul.
The Illinois Comptrollers office, the Secretary of State in IL., and the Illinois Department of Financial and Professional Regulation all are doing Investigations. There are rumors of a Grand Jury Investigation.
Summary from the Comptrollers Press Release:
Illinois Funeral Directors Association to repay 10 million.SPRINGFIELD, IL — Comptroller Dan Hynes is demanding the return of nearly $10 million in excess fees taken by the Illinois Funeral Directors Association in its administration of a trust fund intended to pay for consumer funerals.
Greed And Betrayal
"The IFDA was overcompensated by the trust," Hynes said. "These excess management fees are a display of greed and a betrayal of the consumer trust that will not be tolerated. I am demanding that IFDA return the excess fees to the trust." Hynes said his office found a significant shortfall in the IFDA Trust due in part to questionable investment practices and the excess fees taken by the IFDA. As a result of that discovery, Hynes' office brought in outside auditors to review the findings and notified appropriate authorities."
Sadly it appears that the the Illin1os Funeral Directors Association has lost the trust of State Government, it's members and the Citizens of the State of Illinois.
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This is an extremely important word for this moment, which Mike and Cindy Jacobs of Generals International just sent out early afternoon. Also included is a time for a "prayer vigil" being held tonight at 5pm, PDT at the Las Vegas City Hall. If you are in the local area, I encourage you to join them and if not, we can be praying together in the spirit tonight and of course going forward throughout this week.
Yes, there is much chaos and challenge we are facing as a nation and throughout the nations right now. Cindy shares some recent prophetic words spoken by the ACPE in the last year and also by Chuck Pierce while praying at the White House earlier this year.
Please forward on this important prayer alert which includes vital pray points...that we ALL can be participating in.
One last note, with words circulating on the net with great "doom and gloom" in our midst, in times like these, the world needs to see the love of Christ poured out in us: "Now hope does not disappoint, because the love of God has been poured out in our hearts by the Holy Spirit who was given to us" (Romans 5:5). (To Subscribe to the Elijah List subscribe here.)
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This morning, we woke up to the news that a terrible tragedy occurred last night in Las Vegas, NV. A lone shooter, using an outlawed automatic weapon, shot hundreds of people attending a country music concert there. As the day has gone on, we have discovered that at least 58 people have been killed and over 500 sought assistance at local hospitals. Untold numbers will have been traumatized.
The Mayor of the City of Las Vegas will hold a prayer vigil at the Las Vegas City Hall tonight at 5:00 P.M. PDT. It is open to the public at 495 S. Main St., Las Vegas, NV, 89101 #prayforLasVegas. Consider joining with them in prayer from wherever you are in the nation: 5:00 P.M. PDT/ 6:00 P.M. MDT/ 7:00 P.M. CDT/ 8:00 P.M. EDT.
We are in a season in America that is chaotic and dangerous. The Lord showed Chuck Pierce and me (Cindy) that hard times were ahead for a while. Also, the Apostolic Council of Prophetic Elders, which met together last November, saw upheaval across the nation in the year following our national elections, but we really had no way of knowing how challenging it would be or what the nature of the danger would be. When the Lord gives prophetic words like this, He has a reason to warn us. Primarily, He would have us be watchful and positioned on the walls to pray. We believe our actions of intercession can minimize the effect of what is coming against us.
God gave Chuck Pierce a word while at the White House in late May that we were entering 10 months of struggle and difficulty, even war, that would be followed by 3 years of great success and progress. This season of difficulty should end in late February, on or about 2/22/2018. This is a helpful window that we need to pay attention to and we need to take action!
Other situations that we are still dealing with as a nation are:
The aftermath of Hurricane Harvey, which devastated Rockport and Port Aransas, TX, while flooding Houston, Beaumont, Port Arthur, Orange, and other areas from the southeast coast of Texas into Louisiana. This resulted in the largest economic loss due to a natural disaster that our nation has ever had.
The aftermath of Hurricane Irma, which flooded the southern coasts of Florida, causing massive destruction to the Keys and many islands of the Caribbean.
The desolation of Puerto Rico, a U.S. Territory. Puerto Rico was devastated, as was the U.S. Virgin Islands, another territory of the United States. We can't imagine the ruin on these islands. Many places have no water or electricity. Roads collapsed or fell apart and help can't get through.
We also recently faced massive wildfires in the Pacific Northwest, in California, Idaho, and Montana. At our recent Reformation Prayer Network's annual gathering, we asked God to send the rain and snow to halt the fires. Within two days, the rain and snow began across the entire region and the fires that had raged for months ended. This shows the power of corporate intercession!
In addition to natural disasters, the prophets felt that there may be violent protests this year. So far, largely due to many groups' ongoing 24/7 prayer, these activities have been minimal with only a small amount of damage. However, I strongly feel that God is still warning us that danger lies ahead. I feel Him calling us to get on the walls to pray, and to act as peacemakers wherever and whenever we can.
"As for me, I look to the Lord for help. I wait confidently for God to save me, and my God will certainly hear me." (Micah 7:7; NLT)
Join Mike and me in prayer:
Pray for the families and friends of those who lost their lives in the Las Vegas shooting. "Blessed are those who mourn, for they shall be comforted." (Matthew 5:4; NIV)
Ask the Lord to heal those who were wounded or traumatized. Pray that God would heal them completely from their physical injuries and the memories of the moment. Include the performers and the stage crew. "He heals the brokenhearted and binds up their wounds" (Psalm 147:3; ESV).
Intercede for the healers: the emergency responders, the doctors, nurses, and counselors. Ask God to increase their skill.
Pray that local and federal law enforcement agencies will work well together to quickly find out exactly what happened.
Ask the Lord to make supernatural ways for disaster relief to get where it needs to go in areas hit by the hurricanes: the Texas Gulf Coast, Florida's southern coast, the Florida Keys, U.S. Virgin Islands and, the most important current need, in Puerto Rico.
Intercede for miracles for the people in these hard-hit areas.
Thank Him for intervening by sending rain and snow to the fire-ravaged Pacific Northwest, California, and Montana. "God, You are the one performing awesome deeds. You reveal Your might among the nations" (Psalm 77:14; ISV).
Cry out to God for the peacemakers to be raised up in this nation, who will be able to stand in the gap to diffuse any planned violence over the next few months! "Blessed are the peacemakers, for they shall be called the sons of God" (Matthew 5:9; NASB).
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Finally! The slope of weeds is now a slope of perennials.
Earlier this week I spent a couple of evenings distilling my ideas and plant lists into an actual planting plan. I'd been putting this off because it seemed hard. I don't know much about individual plants. With many of the perennials that seemed most suitable based on my reading, I only had photos to go by – I had no picture in my head of what they actually look like or how large they grow.
I was hoping there would be a tool for this, some nice software package or web site where I enter the size of my planting area, place my plants and then see some rendering of what it might look like. But no – I found nothing of the sort.
So for the first draft I went back to my favourite low-tech tool: sticky notes. A small sticky note measures about 35 by 50 mm, which is not so far from the size of the average perennial, scaled down by 100. I drew our slope on paper, to scale, and then played around with sticky notes representing the various kinds of plants I had in mind. When I was roughly done I looked up each plant's actual planting distance and drew a prettier and more durable version.
Today we went plant shopping, big time. And then we planted them and now it's done! It will be very exciting to see whether this turns out anything like I imagine, and how well the plants will thrive.
Well… almost done. There were no Cimicifuga to be found at Ulriksdal, so we'll have to find those elsewhere. We took all the Aquilegia they had (of the colour that I wanted) and a few of them were barely alive, so I might have to replace those as well.
The planting list, for the record:
Front border: Alchemilla mollis (jättedaggkåpa, pehme kortsleht).
Just behind the Alchemilla, barely visible: Aquilegia "Ruby port" (akleja, aed-kurekell).
Behind those, around the stones: Carex morrowii "Ice Dance" (japansk starr, jaapani tarn).
Behind the Carex: placeholders for the Cimicifuga (höstsilverax, lursslill)
Behind those, nearest the cellar wall: Lamprocapnos spectabilis (löjtnantshjärta, murtudsüda).
Border next to the stairs: Epimedium rubrum (röd sockblomma).
Between the Epimedium and the stones: Astilbe "Rock and Roll".
Top edge: Hosta fortunei "Aureomarginata"(funkia).
Far corner: Hemerocallis "Frans Hals" (daglilja, päevaliilia).
Jackpot in the game of yellow car: being first to remember the parking lot of the local post office and call the five yellow cars lined up there.
Two afternoons in a row.
The anger and discontent continues. I am almost (almost) getting immune to it. But it is affecting all of us.
The day begins, literally, with Adrian angry at us for waking him. Then we go downstairs and read a story, which means complaining about the choice of book.
The breakfast is wrong, the bowl is wrong, the fact that porridge was served by Eric and not me is wrong.
Really whatever we do it's wrong. In the morning he is angry because it's Eric who will drop him off at daycare and not me. In the afternoon he is angry because it's me picking him up and not Eric.
If I come by bike he's angry; if I walk he's angry; if he has to ride his balance bike he is angry.
If we go to the supermarket he's angry about having to do that. If I've done the shopping beforehand without him, he says he wants to go to the supermarket.
He seems to be extra angry when he's just with us, and less so when he's with friends.
And when he isn't angry, he whines. He seems almost incapable of expressing an opinion without whining our shouting.
My current working hypothesis is that this might perhaps be due to lack of sleep. He refuses to go to bed, and he especially refuses to go to bed with Eric, and he extra super refuses to go to bed earlier than Ingrid. So most evenings he goes to bed later than I think he really needs to. I guess we may have to simply start ignoring his opinions about this and forcefully carry him to his bed when we think it's time.
When he isn't angry, his favourite game is "mommy daddy baby". Usually I am the baby and he is the daddy. My job is easy; I need to lie down and sleep in the play tent. He pretend reads books for me, brings me toys, makes me breakfast etc. "Baby, daddy will be back in just a moment!"
He is interested in who eats what. What do dogs eat? And snails? Ducks? And what about frogs? And thieves?
I wonder what or who he thinks a thief is. He knows I had my bike stolen by a thief, but I wonder what kind of picture he sees in his head when he thinks about that.
Favourite vegetable: Broccoli.
Favourite book: Sipsik.
Favourite plaything: Lengths of plastic pipe (left over from when I built bird netting frames for our planter boxes). One large cardboard box. Lego.
Yesterday the Solhem homeowners' association had an open gardens day. There will be a countrywide open gardens day in two weeks; this is a mini version of the same thing. Ingrid and I briefly visited four gardens in our neighbourhood while Adrian was attending a birthday party.
For some reason I didn't bring a camera. Somehow this decision seemed to make sense at the time.
The gardens were of course all very different. But afterwards I thought about what they had in common that made them interesting. What does an interesting garden have?
- Water elements. One of them had a beautiful pond with a deep blue mosaic bottom. But even the tiniest pond and the smallest bird bath adds life. Which is an odd thing to say given that water is not alive and the most of rest of the garden is… So maybe it adds something else. Reflection?
- Level differences. Not one of the gardens was flat, and the flat parts were generally the least interesting ones, no matter how pretty the bushes and flowers.
- Rooms – places to discover. All of these gardens had parts that were hidden from view, not because they were on the other side of the house but because the garden had intentionally been divided into rooms.
- Architectural, large man-made structures. A beautifully designed trellis, a stone wall, a gate or an arch, a stone path…
- Decorations. Small sculptures, hanging decorations in trees, etc.
For some reason when I think about adding any large structure to our garden, like a trellis wall or even a stone path, I feel a resistance. The same with decorative elements like metal sculptures or glass details. It just feels wrong. But when I see them in place in others' gardens, I invariably like them.
Ingrid finished first grade this week. The last day of school was this Wednesday. The entire school gathered in the schoolyard; kids sang and performed; the headmistress held a speech. Then Ingrid and I went to town and celebrated with a sushi lunch, ice cream, and a large Lego Friends set.
Ingrid was not entirely happy to finish first grade. She was perfectly happy about the school year ending and summer vacation beginning. But having to move up to grade 2 was not all positive, because it will involve more change than Ingrid wants. The main problem is that her class will move to a different building. This year classes 1A and FA (year 0) were in the same building, and three of her best friends from preschool are in that FA class. Now they will be further away, so they won't be in after school care together any more. Luckily they will have the same teachers next year at least.
Ingrid is a novelty-seeker but she also wants things to stay the same. She likes doing and seeing new things, going to new places, etc. But she wants the foundation to be unchanged: home, family, school, friends.
She is open to new things but not if they replace old things. It is difficult for her to let things go, and to choose between alternatives when choosing one thing means giving up the other. When she chooses to have chocolate for dessert instead of, say, a piece of cake, she asks if we can make that cake again some other time. We say yes, of course, and that is enough – she can let it go and never asks for it again.
But choices that are final and for real are hard, like choosing between staying at home and watching a movie with Adrian, or going to the supermarket with me. Or deciding what sports she will want to do this autumn. She vacillates and hesitates and then in the end sticks to the same ones that she did this year.
Her sense of balance has matured and she no longer has her childhood tolerance for swinging and spinning. She now gets nauseous on merry-go-rounds, especially the small fast ones at playgrounds. She can still swing, but cannot read on a swing like she used to. She also cannot read in the car any more.
This meant that car rides became incredibly BOOH-RING! because sitting still and not being entertained by anything is just awfully unbearably boring. Then she remembered the game of "yellow car", and now this keeps her really busy. And she is good at it! While my brain is busy with other thoughts (such as driving for example), she really focuses and racks up point after point.
In our version of the game we just play for points: the one to first spot a yellow car gets a point. Our rules are that only cars count (not trucks or buses). Parked cars count; however taxis don't. There is one taxi company in Stockholm that has yellow cars and all the taxis were making the game way too easy.
Adrian occasionally joins in and shouts "blue car" or "white car" and then asks how many points he has. We usually tell him some random number and he's happy with that.
We reset our point counts after the last rule adjustment (the addition of the taxi rule) and the score is now about 35:10. At first she spotted about two yellow cars for each one of mine, and now she's pulling ahead at an even faster pace. My only defence is that I am thinking about other things. But really she is both better at noticing details, pays more attention to her immediate surroundings, and has faster reactions.
Her faster reactions are very apparent in Minion Rush, which is her current favourite iPad game. It's a fun game and I've spent some time playing myself. I am nowhere near as fast as her. I watch her play, effortlessly navigating the obstacles at speeds that I usually don't reach (because I crash before I get that far), and she even has brain capacity left over to talk at the same time!
She is still really polite and I hear lots of please and thank you from her every day. She tells me I am the best mum in the world, because I am so kind. Sometimes she kind of overdoes it a bit and thanks me three times for the same thing but really I don't mind.
Words she thinks are super funny: Tuberkulos. Chihuahua. Trehundra kvart i sju. (That last one means "three hundred quarter to seven" and is something Adrian said once: he doesn't yet understand that some measurements cannot be combined with others).
She likes knee socks and likes them pulled really taut so they absolutely do not sag even a millimetre.
You know how people say that becoming a parent has changed them, and that it has taught them new things about themselves? All sorts of life lessons, often deep and true.
It turns out that this also applies on the very lowest levels, the smallest things – such as sleep habits.
Adrian still sleeps with us. The actual position has varied – first it was me next to him, then Eric, now it's my turn again. Most of the night Adrian is on his side and I am on mine and I don't notice him much. But in the early hours of the morning, as he moves into lighter sleep, he wants body contact.
He likes to sleep with the soles of his feet pressed against me, for example, or even with his legs on top of me: as if he was supported from below when sitting or standing.
He also likes to put his hands inside his pyjamas, so his palms are against his neck and shoulder. Or he clasps his hands and then tucks them next to his neck.
I had never really thought about it much but I've noticed that I actually do kind of the same. I also like to press my feet against Eric (but not at 5 o'clock in the morning, and not against his ribs). And there is something oddly comfortable about putting my hand on my neck and shoulder when I'm sleeping on my side (or on my abdomen if I'm on my back). It's as if an open loop was closed. I am grounded.
Ingrid is picky about the physical sensation of her sleeping arrangements. She needs everything to feel just right. She has a narrow comfort zone when it comes to temperature, for example. During the day she doesn't care much, but at night it can take her a long while to find a good blanket solution. She tries one blanket, then the other, then the thinner one folded double… then puts her legs out, then just her feet… it's either too warm or too cold, and needs to be adjusted until it's right. And only then she can go to sleep.
The blanket needs to lie right as well before she can feel comfortable, and if I am holding my hand on her chest or stomach that also needs to be right: not too far up or too far down, and in the middle rather than to one side. And likewise her own arms and legs. She can't just put them down and be comfortable – they need to be adjusted until they feel right.
Now I'm not too picky about blanket weight (I think) – my usual blanket is usually warm enough. But I do recognise this feeling of things being uncomfortable when they're not just right. For me it comes and goes; sometimes I feel it much more strongly and then for a long time I may not notice it at all.
During a "sensitive" period I feel every wrinkle in the bedsheet, especially under my feet. It can really bother me if the blanket lies more heavily on one leg than the other, or if it touches me too lightly in some place. The blanket needs to come up to my shoulders but not touch my neck.
I grew up in an apartment and I lived in apartments all the way until we moved here to Spånga, 6 years ago. Although I did spend all the summers of my childhood at my grandmother's sommer cottage in the country.
I knew that a house would bring all sorts of new responsibilities. All sorts of renovation projects, shovelling snow and raking leaves – no big surprises there.
One thing I wasn't quite prepared for was the amount of death, or perhaps the closeness of it.
In an apartment one may find dead house plants, and flies and spiders, and probably nothing higher up the evolutionary tree.
Here, we have had birds kill themselves by flying into our windows. We've had strong circumstantial evidence (of the olfactory kind) of a dead rat/mouse and then another poisoned rat under the house. And in the past two weeks we've found two dead young birds in the garden.
Ingrid found the first one. She didn't want us to just throw it in the garbage so we buried it, and planted a primrose on it grave. When we found the second one I gave it a less ceremonial burial. Now I'm thinking I should maybe mark its grave somehow after all, because otherwise I might get an unpleasant surprise if I ever try to plant something there.
I wonder how long it takes for a dead bird to be reduced to its skeleton under the ground.
I found dead birds surprisingly hard to identify. They do not look like they normally do at all. Posture is a big part of birdness. However based on their size and colouring, I guess they might have been young blackbirds – probably taken by cats.


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Two Cycling Off Modes in Pressure Support: Study of Respiratory Mechanics, Breathing Comfort and Asynchrony Patterns
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|ClinicalTrials.gov Identifier: NCT00910286
Recruitment Status : Completed
First Posted : May 29, 2009
Last Update Posted : May 29, 2009
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Objective: To compare termination criteria (TC) of pressure support ventilation (PSV).
Design: Randomized cross-over clinical trial.
Setting: Intensive Care Units.
Patients: Sixteen patients on PSV with ability to answer a visual analog scale (VAS).
Protocol and Measurements: Each patient was ventilated with two different TC ventilators, fixed and automatic, with measurements of ventilatory mechanic variables, breathing comfort and asynchrony patterns.
|Condition or disease
|Ventilator Weaning Respiration, Artificial
|Other: Pulmonary Ventilator
|Not Applicable
Two ventilators with different flow termination criteria (TC) were compared: Servo 300 (Siemens-Elema, Solna, Sweden) with fixed TC (5% of peak inspiratory flow) and Newport E500 (Newport Medical Instruments, Costa Mesa, CA) with automatic TC (varies between 5% to 55%). Each patient remained three hours in the protocol, one hour in each ventilator, after been randomized to one of two sequences of 3 steps: Fixed 5% / Automatic / Fixed 5% or Automatic / Fixed 5% / Automatic (Figure 1). The transition among the ventilators was realized through a three-way flow directional valve (Three-Way T-Shape TM, Hans Rudolph Incorporation, Kansas City, EUA).
The PS level was determined by clinical staff to partially unload the respiratory muscle without respiratory distress based on observation of the patient's breathing pattern. The PS, the positive end expiratory pressure (PEEP), the inspiratory oxygen fraction (FiO2) and the pressure trigger sensitivity levels were unchanged during the protocol.
Study variables: Patients' demographic, anthropometric and clinical data were obtained (Table 1).
The study variables were detected noninvasively using only airway pressure (Paw) and flow signals, obtained with a pressure differential pneumotachometer (CO2SMO Plus; Novametrix Medical Systems, Wallingford, CT) located at the distal end of the ventilator circuit . Three records of five minutes were realized in each study step: time = 0' (0-5 min), t = 30' (30-35 min) and t = 55' (55-60 min). Data were digitalized at 100 Hz and recorded on a personal computer for subsequent analysis (LabVIEW 7.1, National Instruments Corporation, Austin, TX). A total of nine record phases of five minutes from each patient were analyzed .The variables values were obtained by one hundred ventilatory cycles from each recorded phase
Measured variables:
The following variables were analyzed (detailed descriptions of each one were in the Electronic Supplementary Material - ESM):
- Ventilatory parameters: PS (PSadjusted); measured PS (PSeffective) and PEEP (PEEPeffective); peak airway pressure; effective flow termination criterion (TC - V'ti/V'peak, %) .
- Breathing pattern: tidal volume obtained by mathematical integration of the flow signal; respiratory rate; minute ventilation; inspiratory time; expiratory time; duty cycle (Ti/Ttot); time constant obtained by measuring the slope off the expiratory limb of the flow-volume plot .
- Respiratory effort: pressure-time product required to ventilator trigger (PTPtrigger) ; inspiratory delivered assistance pressure-time products at 300 ms (PTPdelivered-assistance300) and 500 ms (PTPdelivered-assistance500) after the onset of inspiratory effort; over assistance pressure-time product (PTPover-assistance) (see Figure 2 for details); airway occlusion pressure at 0.1 second (P0.1) .
- Breathing comfort: evaluated by a modified VAS, labeled 0 to 10 (0 = best comfort and 10 = worst comfort) .
- Asynchrony patterns: ineffective efforts, both during inspiration and expiration, (IEinspiratory and IEexpiratory), double-triggering (D-T) and autotriggering (A-T) were detected by visual inspection of the flow and airway pressure signals recordings .
Statistical Analysis:
The statistical analysis was performed using the Statistical Package for Social Science (SPSS 15.0, Chicago, EUA) and the significance level was established as p < 0.05. Tests are detailed in the ESM.
|Study Type :
|Interventional (Clinical Trial)
|Actual Enrollment :
|18 participants
|Intervention Model:
|Crossover Assignment
|Single (Participant)
|Official Title:
|VENTILAÇÃO MECÂNICA COM PRESSÃO SUPORTE: ESTUDO DA ASSINCRONIA EXPIRATÓRIA (in Portughese)
|Study Start Date :
|December 2004
|Actual Primary Completion Date :
|December 2007
|Actual Study Completion Date :
|June 2008
Two ventilators with different flow termination criteria (TC) were compared: Servo 300 (Siemens-Elema, Sweden) with fixed TC (5% of peak inspiratory flow) and Newport E500 (Newport Medical Instruments, CA) with automatic TC (varies between 5% to 55%). Each patient remained three hours in the protocol, one hour in each ventilator, after been randomized to one of two sequences of 3 steps: Fixed 5% / Automatic / Fixed 5% or Automatic / Fixed 5% / Automatic . The PS, the positive end expiratory pressure (PEEP), the inspiratory oxygen fraction (FiO2) and the pressure trigger sensitivity levels were unchanged during the protocol.
Other: Pulmonary Ventilator
The aim of the present study was to compare two different cycling off modes in PSV, a fixed and other automatic, about ventilatory mechanic variables, breathing comfort and patient-ventilator asynchrony patterns
Other Name: pressure support
- comfort [ Time Frame: 30 minutes ]
Choosing to participate in a study is an important personal decision. Talk with your doctor and family members or friends about deciding to join a study. To learn more about this study, you or your doctor may contact the study research staff using the contacts provided below. For general information, Learn About Clinical Studies.
|Ages Eligible for Study:
|18 Years and older (Adult, Older Adult)
|Sexes Eligible for Study:
|Accepts Healthy Volunteers:
Inclusion Criteria:
- Patients under PSV for more than 24 hours,
- Age > 18 years
- Ability to answer to a symptom visual analog scale (VAS)
Exclusion Criteria:.
- Hemodynamic instability (use of vasoactive drugs like dopamine, dobutamine or norepinephrine)
- Bronchopleural fistula
To learn more about this study, you or your doctor may contact the study research staff using the contact information provided by the sponsor.
Please refer to this study by its ClinicalTrials.gov identifier (NCT number): NCT00910286
|Hospital Mae de Deus
|Porto Alegre, RS, Brazil, 91900580
|Principal Investigator:
|josue a victorino, phd
|Hospital de Clinicas de Porto Alegre
Publications automatically indexed to this study by ClinicalTrials.gov Identifier (NCT Number):
|Responsible Party:
|josue almeida victorino, hospital mae deus
|ClinicalTrials.gov Identifier:
|NCT00910286 History of Changes
|Other Study ID Numbers:
Two cycling off modes in psv
|First Posted:
|May 29, 2009 Key Record Dates
|Last Update Posted:
|May 29, 2009
|Last Verified:
|May 2009
Keywords provided by Hospital de Clinicas de Porto Alegre:
Pressure support ventilation
cycling off criteria
expiratory trigger
patient-ventilator interaction
patient comfort


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These icons I found on internet represent the best of the best. You can easily tell that were made by very talented graphic designers and you must admit that these icons look fantastic. Imagine a web project that contains some of these.
Don't forget that when working with high quality icons, are pluses and minuses. The minuses are represented by the problems you might have integrating with your layout. You can't just put these great icons in a poor designed website. It's like having a great pc case with an damn old, slow computer. So, it's not something like plug&play. You must think very well the whole website project.
Also, have in mind that some of these icons are only allowed for personal use. I suggest you to always read the license before using something you find free on the internet.
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The economic efficacy (in terms of cost and quality outcomes) of outsourcing IT services and cleaning services by large Australian companies and government business enterprises
Date of Award
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Doctor of Philosophy
First Advisor
Alan Brown
On-shore outsourcing has been common in Australia for a number of decades across a range of business services in both the public and private sectors. Given this, there is less literature examining Australian on-shore outsourcing than one would reasonably expect. Whilst the literature examines the general motives for organisations to outsource and the economic effects of outsourcing for those organisations, it generally does not examine whether there are any differences in the motives, management strategies and techniques, and economic outcomes associated with the outsourcing of high skill functions compared to the outsourcing of low skill functions. The literature also devotes less attention than may be expected to the role of managerial strategy in determining the economic outcomes and relative successes of outsourcing projects. This study aims to contribute a bounded examination of these issues to the academic literature, by presenting an in-depth comparative investigation of the on-shore outsourcing of (high skill) IT services and (low skill) cleaning services by large Australian Government Business Entities (GBEs) and private sector companies, from each organisation's decision to outsource to the end of their outsourcing lifecycle (relationship). The study will;
- identify and explain any differences (or lack of differences) in the cited motives for Australian GBEs and companies to outsource IT and cleaning services;
- discuss the economic impact of outsourcing decisions upon these GBEs and companies;
- examine the strategies used by those organisations in outsourcing cleaning and IT services, and the effects of these chosen strategies upon the economic outcomes of outsourcing for each organisation; and
- explain any differences (or the lack of difference) between the economic outcomes of outsourcing cleaning and IT services.
The study was conducted over a number of years, using a triangulated mixed methods design involving thirteen case study organisations (with in-depth semi structured interviews with a large number of primary interview subjects at each case study organisation site) and data triangulation using corroborative interviews, company and public records, service provider records, service provider (corroborative) interviews, and focus group data.
LCSH Subject Headings
Contracting out - Economic aspects - Australia
Information technology - Contracting out - Australia
Buildings – Cleaning - Contracting out - Australia
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Access to this thesis –the full text is not available by author's request. Email request to email@example.com
Recommended Citation
Tonti-Filippini, J. (2010). The economic efficacy (in terms of cost and quality outcomes) of outsourcing IT services and cleaning services by large Australian companies and government business enterprises. Retrieved from https://ro.ecu.edu.au/theses/1868


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The Lucky One
Alright , don't judge me. I've just finished reading The Lucky One by Nicholas Sparks. Yes, I said it, Nicholas Sparks. Before you go all crazy and start doubting my judgment as a literature teacher, let me just say that I found little to know literary value in this book. However, there is some. Was it predictable? Yes. Did it follow the same plot line as every other Nicholas Sparks book? Yes. But, was it entertaining? Yes, it was. I'll say one thing for the guy, he's nailed down a formula for romance novels that works. So why did I pick up this cliché chick lit book? Well, every year I try to complete the 40 book Challenge, and every year I get stuck trying to find a North Carolina author to read, and well, the book was available at the library so I checked it out.
For those of you who haven't had the pleasure of reading Nicholas Sparks before (and sadly, I've read my fair share), I'll go ahead and give you the plot line of this book (and for that matter, basically every other book he's ever written). Mysterious vagabond, Logan Thibolt (pronounced Tebow) arrives in the small North Carolina town of Hampton with his German Sheppard, Zeus. Thibolt's arrival in Hampton causes lots of questions. First, he claims to have walked all the way from Colorado with only his dog and his backpack. Second, he has a photograph of Elizabeth, and no one knows why. Elizabeth has lived in Hampton all of her life. Elizabeth has a son, Ben, and a jealous ex-husband, Sheriff Keith Clayton, who's continually running off any men she tries to date. Thibolt has come to Hampton in search of Elizabeth after he found her picture on his first tour in Iraq. He thinks the photograph has kept him safe and he wants to thank her. Predictably, he meets Elizabeth and they fall in love, but he doesn't get around to telling her why he's come to Hampton. Clayton finds out and drama brews. I won't spoil the ending, but, if you've read any other Sparks' novels you can probably figure it out.
So, this seems like the perfect time to have a discussion about archetypes, what they are, and why authors use them. Archetypes are characters that you come to know because they play the same or similar roles in every story they are in. For example, the trusted side-kick such as Batman's Robin, and Sherlock's Watson, play a very similar role in both stories. They are there to assist the hero and keep him or her out of trouble. They always have the hero's back. I'm sure if you think about it, you could come up with a long list of trusty side-kick characters. That's because that character is an archetype.
Nicholas Sparks is a big fan of using archetypes in his writing. Almost every story he writes has the mysterious or misunderstood newcomer whose arrival sparks controversy and upsets the status quo. There is also the jealous/violent ex whose presence in the story serves to provide the main conflict. Generally because said mysterious newcomer falls in love with the sweet-natured, but also internally suffering all-American girl who happens to be the ex of the jealous/violent ex character. Now, not all of Sparks' novels use these archetypes, but enough do that it's safe to say he likes to use them.
So, why do author's like Sparks use archetypes in their writing? Well, to be honest, it saves the author a lot of time in the novel that might otherwise have to be used to explain these characters. As readers and consumers of stories, we've subconsciously started to expect these archetypes and when they show up in a story, we already know a lot about them. We don't question the trusty side-kicks loyalty because we've become accustomed to this character and his/her role in the story. We inherently know that the jealous ex-boyfriend is going to be the villain because, well, he always is. Therefore, by using these archetypes in their stories, authors save a lot of time on having to explain backgrounds and plot points because they are generally understood.
So, while not necessarily a book I'd recommend to all readers, I will say that if you like Nicholas Sparks books, you'll like this one too. While slightly predictable, and similar to other's he's written befo
American Born Chinese
For years, I've watched students read graphic novels and thought, I should read one of those, but never did. Well, I've finally done it. I've read my first graphic novel, and I must say, my introduction into the genre was quite pleasant. So much so, that I'll most likely read another one soon. For my first graphic novel, I chose American Born Chinese by Gene Luen Yang. I chose this particular graphic novel for two reasons. First, it had been recommended to me by several people including a student of mine. Second, it was on the bookshelf at the library. That being said, I highly recommend this graphic novel, especially if you, like me, have never read one before.
American Born Chinese follows three story lines. The first is of young boy Jin Wang who finds himself the only Asian student in his new school and faces the xenophobia of the other students at his school. All Jin wants is to fit in and have friends. The second storyline follows the Monkey King who desperately wants to be seen as the all powerful god that he is, but everyone sees him as just a monkey. Third is Danny, an all-American basketball player with an embarrassing Chinese cousin who visits every year. His cousin causes so much social damage that Danny is forced to switch schools at the end of every school year. Believe it or not, all three strands of this story find themselves woven into one larger story, creating a very interesting plot with a universal theme.
What these three stories have in common, and why I think this story is so popular, is the theme. All three stories touch on the theme of being happy with yourself and who you are, and not trying to be something you aren't. This is such a universal theme that it was hard not to see myself in the story as I read. But how can I relate to this story? I'm not remotely similar to any of the characters. Except that I am in one way - in fact we all are. We all have times where we wish we were something that we aren't or that we had things we don't have. Whether it's longing for straighter hair, better athletic abilities, or more friends, we all can relate to wanting things we don't have. We know what's it like to be embarrassed about something too. We know that feeling of wanting to crawl under the covers and hide until everyone forgets what we've done. So, the reason this book is so relatable has nothing to do with it's characters or even what happens to them. It's that we can all empathize with how they feel. It also lets us know that we aren't alone in these feelings. (Even though we tend to think we are). And it reminds us to be happy with who we are, because there is only one me and only one you - and we're pretty cool.
Looking for Alaska
I picked up the book, Looking for Alaska, because it was written by John Green. To date, I've read three John Green novels. Two have disappointed me and one is arguably the best book I've ever read. Unfortunately, this book was one of the disappointments.
So why the disappointment? Well, as I read Looking for Alaska, I couldn't shake the feeling that I had read the book already. I was sure I hadn't but the plot line just seemed so familiar. The story is told by Miles Harper, an awkward kid who's never really had many friends at his school in Florida. He convinces his parents to send him to Culver Creek boarding school in Alabama, telling them that he is searching for his Great Perhaps (and what that is - no one really knows). At boarding school he quickly befriends his roommate, Chip "The Colonel" Martin. The Colonel nicknames Miles "Pudge" (because he's so skinny) and introduces him to his friends Takumi Hikohoto and Alaska Young. Alaska is beautiful, moody, mysterious, and totally out of Pudge's league. Predictably, Pudge falls head-over-heels in love with Alaska. Toward the middle of the semester, the four friends plan a crazy prank that they carry out together in the middle of the night, and shortly thereafter, Alaska disappears leaving Pudge to spend the rest of the school year wondering what really happened to her.
So what do you think? Sound familiar? Perhaps a bit like the plot of Green's later book, Paper Towns? Both books deal with a sort of awkward/nerdy boy falling for a beautiful, moody, and mysterious girl who is way out of his league but who he is friends with. Both novels have a night full of pranks in which said nerdy boy and mysterious hot girl pull off the pranks together - creating a bond between the two characters. And BOTH novels deal with said hot girl disappearing out of nowhere after which said nerdy boy pines over her disappearance for the rest of the novel. And now, for the disappointing part - neither novel provides much in the way of a resolution. They both sort of end with the nerdy boy, Pudge in this case, essentially saying 'oh well I guess I'll never really understand why she left' and then walking away from the situation.
Ok, so, if you couldn't tell, this book disappoints me because at the end the whole journey just seems so pointless. The fact that the same writer has done this to me TWICE started to bother me, so I did some digging and I found that John Green had a similar experience in HS to the one that Pudge goes through. Looking for Alaska was John Green's way of trying to make sense of what happened to him when he was younger. I think it's safe to say that he really didn't make sense of it, because four years later he wrote Paper Towns with an eerily similar plot line and the same disappointing ending. I'm not sure what Green has in the works for now but I'm going to have to take a bit of a break from him. There is only so much disappointment a girl can take. Until next time, happy reading!!


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META: Spartan Week Reminder
Greetings MGoDenizens. Just a reminder that this is a week where a fan base with an inferiority complex will be taking on your Michigan Wolverines.
This leads to unfun things in these parts, so remember, don't feed the trolls. Mods will take care of them when we have the time. Downvote and move on.
We're expecting this type of stuff not only this week, but next week, and every week, because if you're a Spartan, you have nothing better to do.
And on that note, let it be said, DO NOT GO TROLLING THEIR BOARDS EITHER. It only encourages them to troll back. Take the high road and stick to your own team's blog(s).
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Derek Jeter, Major League Baseball team owner. The title may not be as familiar as shortstop and captain of the New York Yankees, but after MLB owners approved his group's offer to purchase the Miami Marlins, Jeter is now a part owner of the team.
During a Hall of Fame career spanning 20 years, Jeter was ultra-competitive and confident on the field. Those traits, along with an unmatched work ethic, made him a stalwart of the Yankees teams of the late 1990's and early 2000's that won five World Series titles.
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Jordan Kobritz is a former attorney, CPA, Minor League Baseball team owner and current investor in MiLB teams. He is a Professor in and Chair of the Sport Management Department at SUNY Cortland and maintains the blog: http://sportsbeyondthelines.com The opinions contained in this column are the author's. Jordan can be reached at firstname.lastname@example.com.


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