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McCAIN DENOUNCES ANTI-CATHOLICISM; CITES HAGEE'S ROLE
March 10, 2008 by Bill
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It was reported over the weekend that Sen. John McCain denounced anti-Catholicism and explicitly mentioned Rev. John Hagee's role. McCain said that "I repudiate any comments that are made, including Pastor Hagee's, if they are anti-Catholic or offensive to Catholics."
Catholic League president Bill Donohue commented as follows:
"Sen. McCain has done the right thing and we salute him for doing so. As far as the Catholic League is concerned, this case is closed."


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On the other hand, there is good news - Gulf Coast Community College has something to cheer about.
The Department of Labor has granted the community college $2.5 million in grants.
Gulf Coast Community College President, Dr. Jim Kerley says it's part of a five year strategic plan for the school to reach out to businesses and develop alternative funding sources.
This in hope to improve the current health and technology programs.
The money will also be used to seed several health care programs in the surgical and dental field as well as develop industrial automation and robotics training.
Gulf Coast is one of only two colleges in Florida to offer degree programs in automation and robotics training.
"Part of out new strategic plan is to bring in new resources, so it really is an ongoing thing. The grant, its a multi-year grant. For several years the grant dollar are spread out and it will be used for several years and then the college will pick up and continue what we've started with the grants," said Kerley. " So its really good seed money to get some great programs started."
These new programs are designed to help retrain the workforce in light of the present unemployment situation.

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Patient Family Advisory Council
The Banner Desert Cancer Center Patient/Family Advisory Council is made up volunteers and Banner health professionals who work together as dedicated advocates for Banner Desert Cancer Center patients and families throughout the cancer journey.
We know the healing journey is significantly and visibly improved when patients, family members and professionals work together.
We encourage the involvement of patients in their own care, provide resources for caregivers and welcome the support of family members.
Our council also provides advice to the hospital administration on issues relevant to patient care. When collaboration between patients, families and healthcare professionals is strengthened, the result is the high standard of safe, comprehensive and compassionate care to which Banner Desert Cancer Center is dedicated.
The council is now in its second year of operation and is focusing on completing some key projects identified such as improved communication and education for our patients and families.


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....xp pro(til Vista gets fixed)....
if you are referring to getting fixed for KOTOR, I would like to tell you quite categorically:
The associated implications:
1. It isnt MS responsibility to fix. BioWare has no legacy partnership with MS ensure backward compatibility for subsequent OSs. Some engines made it through to vista virtually unscathed. A massive online community, like CStrike etc, usually ensures some legacy compatibility. KOTOR doesnt have this. Its a dwindling title, not a growing one. eg. I spend alot of time on a KOTOR forum, but havent played it for 2 years. Im sure Im not the only one!
2. BioWare/Obsidian would need to do a complete overhaul to fix it - will they: NO
3. Dont expect KOTOR to work in Windows7 for the same reasons as stated in 1.
Just stay with xp
@Like D33 said, KOTOR in 64bit is a no-no, and x64 gaming isnt really happenning atm
However, please be aware that the article from Toms submitted does not fully inform > it reminds me of why I want to take that freakin hammer from Toms logo and throw it at Tom, whomever he may be
Lets redress the imbalance, for incomplete information is more dangerous than complete ignorance
After reading that, people would go around saying "hey dude, 64 bit is no good unless you have 8gb RAM. I read it on Toms man. Like for real! "
Yes, 64 bit is good, for two things especially:
*Niche applications
> apps 'made to utilise x64' No, this doesnt include playing KOTOR with the 1337 custom stripy purple tunic and neckerchief someone modded. These niche apps are used by professionals in the fields of engineering, design, graphical design, animation and video editing applications.
High end networking
Servers: 64 bit OS perpetuate because of the server market. In Vista Ultimate there is a max capacity of 128GB RAM. That wasnt done by accident. Integrated with Windows Server 2008, the capabilities of networks built on these OS are significantly higher than ones based on server 2003 and xp x86.
Sure, this isnt relevant to many casual users or gamers. But it needs to be said. Knowing that, people can go out and instead say "64 bit wont really help much in gaming. It best works in programs written for it like professional video and graphical programs, and high end servers"
Finally, a decent article from Toms would have taken 5-10 commonly used apps from games to photoshop to video converters and put them through their paces on both OS variants and with 2,4,6-8GB etc. This should also include some niche application figures to demonstrate the x64 advantage when that advantage is being specifically targeted.
I hope the picture is more complete now
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A distinguished two-sport star, he served as captain of the 1916 baseball team. He won the first Southwest Intercollegiate discus title on 1916 with a throw of 117-2 and placed third in the 880-yard run in the same meet. His financial contributions are significsnt, including the establishment of the Kriegbaum Award in 1965, which is presented annually to the Wildcats' most valuable player in baseball. Following his death in 1970, a special Kriegbaum trust was created to assist the sports of baseball and track.


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Bat Dad Is Possibly The Greatest Thing To Come From Vine! [VIDEO]
Dun-nuh dun-nuh dun-nuh dun-nuh - Bat Dad! He might not have all the toys or skills of the real bat man, like a cool utility belt or a HUGE mansion or even the bat mobile. He probably doesn't even know Karate What he does have is a Walmart Batman mask that he stole from his kids and a great sense of humor. This is a compilation of all his Vines in one YouTube video that you have to watch. One of the best videos to date. I vote Bat Dad to be in the next Batman movie, can you say Ben Affff..who?


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Tom Hiddleston is one of the most hottest and talented actors today. He is Oscar material. Tom has worked on televison, theatre and of course the big screen. His most popular role to date is "Loki" from Thor and The Avengers. He will be the perfect host for SNL. Tom can also sing, dance, and do impressions and this is a great way for him to show all of his talents and promote his upcoming films, "Only Lovers Left Alive", "Black Wings Has My Angel" and "Thor 2". Tom also tweeted that he would love to host the show!
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Nibby Yogurt Parfait
We are used to thinking of chocolate when it comes to dessert: cookies, cake, mousse, pudding, or a nice chunk of a really good bar. Whatever the form, chocolate is almost always the perfect finale to any meal (we admit to being a little biased here, but you do agree, don't you?).
Yet our love for the cocoa bean sometimes inspires us to find ways to fit it into other parts of the day as well, and it occurred to us that it's time cocoa takes a rightful place in that so-called MVP of meals: breakfast. Sure, you've probably had pain au chocolat, that meltingly delicious combination of buttery pastry and chocolate. Maybe you are a morning mocha sipper, or perhaps you have fond memories of childhood bowls of Cocoa Puffs, the tan-hued milk at the bottom of the bowl steeped with the chocolatey goodness of those soggy, nutritionally vapid, delicious morsels. These things are a start, but we have higher hopes for chocolate at the breakfast table. We'd like to free the cocoa bean from the sugary chains that have bound it to the sweet pastry and cereal end of the breakfast spectrum. We think the nib is just the thing.
The humble nib, as we've mentioned many times before, is the heart of the roasted cocoa bean, the raw material of our chocolate. Nibs are a little rough around the edges and can be difficult to get to know but they contain the true character of the chocolate that they become—perhaps not unlike you before you get dressed and ready for work in the morning. What does a nib taste like? That depends on whom you ask. But we think that nibs often reflect the flavors of their tropical growing regions, such as coffee, banana, coconut, cinnamon, nutmeg. So we've created a breakfast that pairs nibs with these complementary flavors, and we've also included spicy-sweet ginger, which the Facebook fans among you will recognize as one of the contestants in the recent voting contest to choose the next flavor addition to our Classic bar line.
This yogurt parfait is made for weekday enjoyment. It requires just the tiniest bit of chopping and assembly on your part and is ready in minutes, because we know that although breakfast may be the most important meal of the day, most of us have trouble finding the time to make it that. Plus, it has all the satisfying texture you would find in a really excellent restaurant dessert—creamy, crunchy, chewy, smooth—yet it is savory enough to indulge in first thing in the morning, and you may even have the ingredients already in your pantry. No time to sit down at home for breakfast? No problem: simply assemble in a jar, secure the lid, and tote it with you to your desk, or wherever your work may take you. Good morning!
Nibby Yogurt Parfait
6 oz plain yogurt
2 tsp Theo roasted cacao nibs
1 3-inch segment of banana, diced
2 dates, chopped into small pieces
1-2 chunks of crystallized ginger, chopped into small pieces
2 tsp pure maple syrup or honey, or to taste
Ground cinnamon and/or nutmeg, for sprinkling
Scoop half of the yogurt into a bowl (or jar). Sprinkle with half of the nibs, banana, dates, ginger, and maple syrup. Top with the other half of the yogurt and the sprinkle on the rest of the nibs, banana, dates, ginger, and maple syrup. Finish with a generous dash of cinnamon and/or nutmeg.
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Samsung ships 31-36M smartphones in Q4 2011. Loses top smartphone maker spot to Apple
Samsung reported its Q4 2011 results today.
Unfortunately, with each quarterly report, Sammy is becoming more and more secretive about its mobile and smart phone shipment numbers. Leaving it to analyst houses to provide us with educated guesses. Which, for July-September quarter in smartphones, ranged from 23.6 million (IDC) to 27.8 million (Strategy Analytics) units shipped.
The only thing everyone agreed on in Q3, was that Samsung has passed Apple to become the #1 smartphone maker in the world. But they didn't hold the top smartphone vendor title for long.
Today Samsung was strangely precise in telling us about its smartphone growth in Q4 2011. Approximately 30% QoQ. Which can be 29.8 or 30.2 – but let's not get too greedy here. By being this precise – Samsung gives us little room for interpretation about what the analyst estimates about its smartphone shipments will be next week:
- Canalys – 35.5M units shipped
- IDC – 30.6M units shipped
- iSupply – 35.5M units shipped
- Gartner – 31.2M units sold (this number can be a bit different, since Gartner tracks actual units sold)
- Strategy Analytics – 36.1M units shipped
The actual reported numbers may differ a bit (probably +-0.5M), depending on how the analyst interprets the "approximate" part of 30% increase.
Still, whichever way you look at it, after a monster Christmas quarter, Apple is again #1 smartphone maker in the world. In Q4. For the full year 2011, estimates of who owns the #1 spot will probably depend on how much particular analyst house likes Samsung.
Another interesting newsbit at Sammy's earnings conference call, was their guidance for the overall 2012 mobile phone volume growth. Which they expect to be in the mid single digits. From a basis of "more then 300 million" phones shipped in 2011.
Which means that this year Samsung may overtake Nokia as the top mobile phone maker in the world, but I think it is unlikely. It will depend a lot on how much/whether Nokia mobile device shipments will fall in 2012. Nokia has slowed its overall phone unit volume decline to a trickle in the second half of 2011, and Samsung's mid single digits growth should be too small to catch up with Finns before next year.
Overall, even though it's again #2 both in smartphones and dumb phones, Samsung is killing it in wireless. During Christmas quarter, its mobile phone unit sales grew 54% YoY – to 17.82 trillion Won ($15.46 billion), while profits for all telecoms division increased by 79% to 2.64 trillion Won ($2.37B).
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Facebook Fortnight: Facebook FIR Live
So Facebook Week spread over to become Facebook Fortnight thanks to my techno-misery.
Saturday's Hobson & Holtz FIR (For Immediate Release) Live talk on Blog Talk Radio is worth a listen – a debate around sending people to a Facebook page rather than to a website as a tactic/strategy.
The panel:
Steve Rubel, Senior VP and Director of Insights, Edelman Digital, who wrote about the trend in his March column for Forbes.com
Scott Monty, head of social media at Ford Motor Company, which will use traditional advertising to drive consumers to a Ford Explorer page on Facebook
Jennifer Cohen, co-founder and president of Something Creative LLC, which ran a Facebook-focussed campaign for Uniball
Dominic Sparkes, Tempero, the social media management company which has recently added a formalised a Facebook moderation/management service based around new (Conversocial) software to its portfolio of services.
You have to get past the US-focussed diet ad and stumble at the beginning, but it's not long, and the content is worth the short delay.
The links are here:
and part two (resumption after a small technical hitch)
(Sadly part two has the ad as well!)
Claire Thompson, Freelance PR Consultant, Waves PR
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By Neville Hobson, August 16, 2010 @ 9:54 pm
Thanks for the write-up, Claire. We did have the gremlins at the beginning!
A better way for your readers to listen to the show is the single recording that we published as an FIR podcast. With no ads!
By claireatwaves, August 17, 2010 @ 12:32 am
Brilliant – thank you: much, much easier to access.
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Glad you're OK; things can be replaced. It stinks what those assholes did, though.
I'm so sorry about the accident but athomeontherange is right ... accidents are just that. Your boyfriend will deal with it .. usually the first response is not really how people feel in the long run. He already knew you were okay. Cars are weirdly personal - give him a pass for the initial response. Insurance will probably be a bitch to deal with and he know it .. they seem to approach actually covering what you are paying them for to be a crime beyond reason. It's a nightmare. I am glad you are okay. I am more glad that you were with a friend that was able to help you deal with the situation as it happened.
I'm really glad you had a good time over the weekend despite the accident. Cheating happens. It's tough when you are visiting others and there are lots of thing you 'shouldn't' eat. Remember it's the big picture that matters - not the weekend.
Glad you're OK; things can be replaced. It stinks what those assholes did, though.
Insurance rep did not call on time. I left a message and emailed and am hoping for a call today. I want to get this started ASAP! I guess since it's not my car, there might be up to $25,000 of property damage coverage? So that's good! I'll have my boyfriend contact his insurance today too, they are awesome (USAA) and hopefully can get us started quicker. The boyfriend hasn't looked at the damage yet, but we're both hopeful about getting insurance to take care of it.
Feeling sick today. Enjoyed the IF reading from Mark this morning, but I'm not sure I want to try it when I'm feeling poorly. This headache won't go away, my eyes are puffy even after a good night's sleep. I feel like I need a good helping of fat and protein. We definitely need to go to the grocery store today, the fridge is empty! I realized that my boyfriend regularly does IF as sometimes he only eats every 24 hrs because he's just not hungry in the morning and doesn't get around to eating till the evening. Probably helps contribute to his lean physique.
Boyfriend's insurance will cover it. I will pay the $500 deductible and am disputing my ticket. Hopefully the appearance date is manageable/I have enough PTO to make it work.
I kind of IF'd yesterday, but am doing it for real today. I ate last night (Burger King, shame shame) around midnight so I figured this would be a good day for it. Didn't wake up that hungry, and I really only have vague rumblings right now. I asked my boyfriend to make a grocery list, so we'll pick up some stuff tonight if he doesn't do it before I get home. I would like to make spaghetti squash again, but I'm not sure what to have with it.
Glad everything is okay! I was just listening to Paul Chek on Underground Wellness & he says that you shouldn't IF until you have been on a healthy primal type diet, exercising, & sleeping well for a year because you will be burning fat that holds a lot of toxins & you don't want to overwhelm your liver.
Notebook of a Nutrition Nerd
THE FOOD YOU EAT CAN BE THE SAFEST AND MOST POWERFUL FORM OF MEDICINE OR THE SLOWEST RELEASING POISON' - Dr Ann Wigmore.
Interesting. I was wondering if it would not be a terrible idea to do it periodically, if say for example $/resources simply do not allow for primal eating. Better to eat well, or just eat?
Starting to really think about lifting. I think I will bring gym clothes to work with me tomorrow, and if I wuss out about doing some weights, I'll just try some of the "couch to 5k" running (haven't done any, but really want to) in my socks on a treadmill.
Notebook of a Nutrition Nerd
THE FOOD YOU EAT CAN BE THE SAFEST AND MOST POWERFUL FORM OF MEDICINE OR THE SLOWEST RELEASING POISON' - Dr Ann Wigmore.
Am I off base here?
I went approximately 21 hours without eating yesterday, from midnight till sometime after 9pm. It wasn't a great way to break the fast, with meatballs & gravy (neither homemade), but my stomach felt fine this morning and my BM did not complain. This morning, I didn't feel very hungry, but I made 3 large bacon strips & 3 fried eggs anyway. This should help fuel me till dinnertime, especially because I'm meeting boyfriend at the gym for swimming today.
Boyfriend is still very reluctant to eat my food, even though it's not any different than what he's eating, except I'm eating more meat, and he has pasta/rice with it. I hope he'll make dinner tonight.
Frustrated with maintaining muscle mass. It doesn't seem right that a few days off from exercise (though admittedly it's been more like almost 2 weeks since I last swam save for the lake house) makes it so much harder. Will eating this way make it easier to maintain the strength I gain from exercise?


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In cold days like these now in Poland it would be nice to sit in a warm interior by a fireplace. This version, solid, with metal finishing (it is probably stainless steel) is fantastic also in summer, couterweighting white kitchen and being a beautiful centerpiece. I like a lot when the wood is exposed in a fireplace (although to be honest when the you buy fuel wood it's surely not that perfect and can spoil the whole effect! ;).
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Record-setting punter Jake Miller gets a kick off against Montana last year. He averaged 62.6 yards per kickoff in 2012, with 42 touchbacks in 86 kicks and had a school-record 74-yard punt versus Washington State.
Special teams were extremely special – and deep – in 2012 for the Eastern Washington University football team, and three of those key players return for the 2013 season.
Senior Kevin Miller, Eastern's kickoff specialist two of the past three seasons, is back, as well as two-year starting punter and current school record holder Jake Miller. Kickoff returner Shaquille Hill had a sensational debut season for the Eagles, and was a member of the College Sports Journal Freshman All-America team and earned honorable mention All-Big Sky Conference honors in 2012.
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Banner Del E. Webb honors its nurses
SUN CITY WEST, Ariz. (May 9, 2012) – To celebrate Nurses Week, Banner Del E. Webb Medical Center honored several nurses May 7 for their contributions to their field.
The 2012 Banner Del E. Webb Nursing Award recipients are as follows:
Contribution to Society winner Mary Carillo is described as a rock star nurse. She is always putting patients above all here at work and in the community. Carillo is known for volunteering at Maggie's Place helping single moms make it in the community. She is trying to set up a program to have some of the women volunteer here at the hospital to prepare them for the medical field. She is hard working and dedication to her patients and profession.
Contribution to the Profession winner Deb Liable has led Banner Del E. Webb in stroke care. She organizes and leads annual community stroke screening to serve the needs of our surrounding community. Her contribution to the profession is never ending. Liable works at the unit or individual staff level to implement stroke education and support. She has guided all of us in implementation of multidisciplinary stroke rounds on 4B to follow stroke guidelines/core measures in the patient's plan of care. Overall she leads us in planning, implementing and providing the best care possible for the stoke population.
Contribution to Patients winner Marlene Kropf was nominated for her advocacy for excellence and has used her passion and knowledge to innovate and look for opportunities to make contributions to nursing. She collaborates and provides recommendations to physicians based on evidenced practices in managing complex wounds. She is well recognized for her clinical expertise in providing patients with the unique care they require. She provides education to the staff in formal and informal setting on a daily basis as she rounds on patients and reviews wound documentations. She is the lead person in conducting the National Database for Nursing Quality Indicators (NDNQI) at BDWMC's skin prevalence studies assuring the data is collected a reported accurately. As a bedside nurse she role models ethical nursing practice by always respecting the privacy of patients and consistently demonstrates professional and clinical expertise. She is respected for her knowledge and for being a Clinical Expert RN.
Contribution to Nursing Leadership winner Terri Paulus has been an integral part of Banner leadership. As Director of Medical Surgical Services, her clinical outcomes, staff engagement and patient experience reflect her strong leadership and patient advocacy. In December 2011, she accepted the Interim Chief Nursing Officer position and was highly effective and respected for her abilities in this role. In February 2012, she successfully obtained Board Certification in Nurse Executive Advanced through the American Nurses Credentialing Center. She is highly involved in multiple process improvement teams.
The Surgical Family Waiting Room Pre-op and PACU Volunteers won the Friend of Nursing Award. It is their patient focused hard work that has allows Banner Del E. Webb satisfaction survey scores rise consistently. All the Pre-op and PACU nurses agree that our job would be almost impossible without them. They have identified many process improvements and submitted suggestions, many of which have been implemented. Several of the volunteers now start at 5 a.m. when they noticed that patients arrived to an empty dark waiting room. Their passion for their fellow mankind spurs them on to arrive early, stay late if needed and always smile and exude positive energy. This group of volunteers works in a fast-paced, quick-turnover environment that cannot be filled by just any person. The help to the nurses allows them to provide the excellent care to our patient that is priceless.
About Banner Del E. Webb Medical Center
Banner Del E. Webb Medical Center is a 404-bed, acute-care hospital offering orthopedic surgery, heart care, emergency care, general surgery, cancer care, obstetrics and gynecology, medical imaging, women's diagnostic services, outpatient services, rehabilitation and behavioral care. Banner Del E. Webb is part of Banner Health, a nonprofit health care system with 23 hospitals throughout the West. Supporting Banner Del E. Webb's mission of excellent patient care is Sun Health Foundation, which encourages charitable giving to enhance health care delivery. In 2012, Thomson Reuters named Banner Health one of the Top 15 Hospital Systems in the U.S.


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I am trying to prove
$$\Omega^n(X,x_0)\approx M(S^n,*; X,x_0)$$
where $\Omega^n(X,x_0)$ is the $n$-loop group and $M(S^n,*; X,x_0)$ is the set of pointed continuous maps from $(S^n,*)$ to $(X,x_0)$
My experience with the compact-open topology is very weak, so I have some misgiving about my attempted proof. I would be very grateful if anyone could look through my arguments and point out any errors (which I am sure are many).
My argument is as follows:
First note that $I^n/\partial I^n \approx S^n$ for all $n\geq 1$. Let $q$ be the quotient map between $I^n$ and $I^n /\partial I^n$ and let $h$ be the homeomorphism between $I^n/\partial I^n$ and $S^n$. Since $f$ acts constantly on the fibers of $q$, there exists a unique pointed map $\tilde{f}:(I^n/\partial I^n,*) \longrightarrow (X,x_0)$ such that $f=\tilde{f}\circ q$. Now define the map $\varphi: M(I^n/\partial I^n,*; X,x_0) \longrightarrow M(I^n,\partial I^n; X,x_0)$ by $\varphi(\tilde{f})=\tilde{f}\circ q=f$. Let $U^K$ be a subbasic subset of $M(I^n,\partial I^n; X,x_0)$. By definition, $\varphi^{-1}(U^K)$ consists of the $\tilde{g} \in M(I^n/\partial I^n, * ; X,x_0)$ such that $\tilde{g}\circ q(U) \subseteq K$. Note that $q(U)$ is open in $(I^n/\partial I^n,*)$, so we see that
which is a subbasic subset of $M(I^n/\partial I^n,*; X,x_0)$. Clearly $\varphi$ is surjective because for each $f\in M(I^n,\partial I^n; X,x_0)$, we have some $\tilde{f}$ which maps to it. The uniqueness of $\tilde{f}$ implies the injectivity of $\varphi$. An inverse for $\varphi$ is given by the map $\psi: M(I^n,\partial I^n; X,x_0)\longrightarrow M(I^n/\partial I^n,*; X,x_0)$ defined by $\psi(f)=\tilde{f}$. Let $U^K$ be a subbasic subset of $I^n/\partial I^n$. Note that we have $U=q(V)$ for some open subset $V$ of $I^n$. By definition
$$\psi^{-1}=\{f \in M(I^n,\partial I^n ; X,x_0) \; | \; \psi(f)=\tilde{f}\in U^K\}$$.
Since $\tilde{f}(U)=\tilde{f}(q(V))\subseteq K$, we see that $f(V) \subseteq K$ and so
showing that $\psi^{-1}(U^K)$ is a subbasic subset of $M(I^n,\partial I^n; X,x_0)$, hence is open. Thus $\psi$ is continuous. Composing with $h$ show that $\Omega^n(X,x_0)\approx M(S^n,*; X,x_0)$.
What most concerns me is my conclusion that the inverse image of the subbasic subsets are subbasic, where here I mean subbasic to say they are generators for the subbasis of the compact open topology. Have I made a mistake, or are my conclusion justified.
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In the past, unofficial housing providers have contacted MATS exhibitors directly, claiming they can secure hotel rooms on your behalf. Several unsuspecting exhibitors were caught by this scam, so we want to make everyone aware that all exhibitor reservations in the MATS Room Block are booked directly with the hotel property. None of the hotels use a 3rd party booking agent, nor does MATS.


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President Barack Obama called for flags to be lowered at all United States government institutions through Tuesday in response to the mass shooting in Connecticut Friday morning.
However, on Friday, the Enterprise Lions Club said they would not be lowering their giant flag off of Interstate 5 in Redding. The Enterprise Lions Club flag keeper Mike Ferrier said originally that the flag would not be lowered because it was dedicated for a specific purpose.
"Our flag is a memorial to those that give service, we leave it high to honor them and we lower the flag in respect to family members when there is an incident and that's about the only time the flag gets lowered."
On Saturday morning, it appeared on Facebook that the Lions Club had decided to change its mind after many disapproving comments from community members.
The Enterprise Lions Club issued this statement on its Facebook:
"The Giant Flag is being lowered to half-staff this morning. Thank you to all those who offered their opinions. It will be raised at sunset on the 18th. Our prayers are with the families and friends in Newtown."
The flag was dedicated ten years ago on the first anniversary of September 11th and flies to honor those who give service to our country.
The Lions Club typically only lowers the flag half-staff on servicemen holidays like Memorial Day, Patriot Day, and Pearl Harbor Day. Ferrier said that because the flag is on private property, the Lions Club can choose when they want to lower the flag.
On Friday on the "Giant American Flag-Enterprise Lions Club" Facebook page, Ferrier had said,
"We, at The Enterprise Lions Club, mourn the losses in Connecticut today... It will stay at full staff and we commend all those who have had to deal with this tragic situation."
Ferrier wanted to make clear that the club in no way wants to take away from remembering those lost in Connecticut today, but did not want to take away the meaning of what the flag was originally intended for.
When community members heard about the flag not being lowered, many of them took to social media, threatening to never donate to the organization again and some pleading with the Lions Club to lower the flag in honor of the children and school faculty who were killed.


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One Direction are just days away from releasing their new movie, "One Direction: This Is Us". The Morgan Spurlock-directed documentary/concert flick hits theaters on August 30, giving fans an inside look at what it's like to be in the group.
Ahead of the release, MTV News got the fivesome, who took home a Moonman on Sunday for Best Song of the Summer , to answer some fan questions. So, make sure to click on the video below to see/hear what 1D had to say — we're looking at you, @luanelemes, @CalumIsRuggedd and @Young_Dreamer_7.
Could Niall Horan And Zayn Malik Pull A 'Freaky Friday'? 1D Spills All!
@jocelyn1212 what was the last prank that they did?
— Luane (@luanelemes) August 24, 2013
Niall Horan: We're not the kind of pranky kind of band. We don't pull pranks on each other, do we really? It's kind of a bit like everyone around us gets pranked.
Liam Payne: We had a big water fight and I threw cereal at one of our band members onstage; that was a bit of a prank.
@CalumIsRuggedd: Will you ask them their favorite songs as of right now??
Harry Styles: My favorite song is "Flowers In The Window" by Travis.
Niall: I'm gonna go with Maroon 5's new one ["Love Somebody"].
Zayn Malik: Favorite song of the moment is [Migos' "Versace"]. "Versace, Versace, Versace, Versace."
Liam: I'm gonna go with Drake "Hold On."
@jocelyn1212 if You Could Be Bestfriends/Sidekick With A Superhero. who would it be and why?
— Jc Colon (@Young_Dreamer_7) August 24, 2013
Harry: I would pick Superman. Then actually, no I wouldn't. If you were best mates with Superman, you'd always be Superman's best mate. You could be like a really nice guy and they'd be like 'Well he's Superman so go on.' But you could fly around. It's bittersweet being best friends with Superman.
Niall: I'd pick the Hulk.
Liam: I think it's going to Iron Man 'cause he's just got that swagger about him and you know he'd be fun to be around. Maybe he'd let you try the suit on, who knows?
Louis Tomlinson: And you'd just want to go around to his house. Iron Man it is.
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A single observation is made from a poisson distribution with unknown mean $\lambda \geq 0$ However any value greater than 2 has been rounded down to 2. This we have the observed value of a single random variable X having distribution depending on $\lambda $ given by;
$\ P(X=0) = e^{-\lambda}. P(X=1) = \lambda e^{-\lambda} P(X=2) = 1 - (1+\lambda)e^{-\lambda}$
Parameterise the distribution by $\ \theta = e^{-\lambda} \in (0,1] $ Show that there is a unique unbiased estimator of $\theta$.
So I parameterise it; $\ P(X=0) = \theta$ $\ P(X=1) = -\theta log\theta$ $\ P(X=2) = 1-(1-log\theta)\theta$
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May 6, 2012Final Results (54-hole totals)
SUGAR GROVE, Ill. -- Sunday's final round of play in the Mid-American Conference Men's Golf Championship at Rich Harvest Farms was canceled due to persistent weather delays. Based upon the 54-hole final scores from Saturday, the Huskies finish the tournament in seventh-place with a three-round total score of 905. Play began at 8 a.m., on Sunday morning before the first weather delay of the final round halted action at around 10:15 a.m. Following a four-hour delay, play resumed for about two hours until a second delay finally forced the cancelation of the final round at 4:30 p.m."Obviously we are disappointed that we were unable to finish today's final round," said NIU head coach Tom Porten. "But our congratulations go out to Kent State on an excellent tournament. I want to thank The Rich Family for allowing us to use their spectacular venue to host our conference championship. It means a great deal for our conference to be able to play this event on one of the finest courses in the country. I would also like to thank all of the staff from Rich Harvest Farms, the MAC and NIU, as well as the volunteers, for making this a successful event."NIU freshman Thomas Dunne (Dublin, Ohio/Dublin Coffman) is the highest-placing Huskie finishing in a tie for eighth with a 54-hole total of 220. Team Scoring -- Final (54-hole totals)1. Kent State, -9 (283-281-291 -- 855)2. Eastern Michigan, +31 (297-297-301 -- 895)3. Ohio, +32 (305-304-287 -- 896)4. Ball State, +35 (303-304-292 -- 899)5. Miami, +36 (302-311-287 --900)6. Toledo, +39 (299-301-303 -- 903)7. Northern Illinois, +41 (301-306-298 -- 905)T8. Akron, +42 (303-302-301 -- 906)T8. Bowling Green, +42 (293-303-310 -- 906)Huskie Individual Standings -- Final (54-hole totals)T8. Thomas Dunne, +4 (74-73-73 -- 220)20. Paul Hammerschmidt, +10 (73-78-75 -- 226)T24. Kurtis Luedtke, +12 (77-77-74 -- 228)T33. Griffin Bauman, +17 (79-78-76 -- 233)T38. Bryce Emory, +20 (77-79-80 -- 236)Top-Five Individual Standings -- Final (54-hole totals)1. Corey Conners, Kent State, -7 (70-67-72 -- 209)2. Kevin Miller, Kent State, -5 (70-69-72 -- 211)3. Chris Selfridge, Toledo, -1 (73-71-71 -- 215)T4. Charlie Bull, Akron, +1 (70-73-74 -- 217)T4. Mackenzie Hughes, Kent State, +1 (72-71-74 -- 217)Mid-American Conference Player of the Year: Corey Conners, Kent StateMid-American Conference Coach of the Year: Herb Page, Kent StateMid-American Conference Freshman of the Year: Chris Selfridge, ToledoEarl Yestingmeier Sportsmanship Award: Scott Landreth, AkronAll-MAC First TeamCorey Conners, Kent StateTaylor Pendrith, Kent StateMackenzie Hughes, Kent StateKevin Miller, Kent StateCharlie Bull, AkronTyler Merkel, Ball StateAll-MAC Second TeamKyle Kmiecik, Kent StateChris Selfridge, ToledoBrian Churchill-Smith, Eastern MichiganPaul Grauer, OhioMAC All-Tournament TeamCorey Conners, Kent StateKevin Miller, Kent StateChris Selfridge, ToledoCharlie Bull, AkronMackenzie Hughes, Kent State


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LOS ANGELES, Calif. - The platform event was performed today at the final day of the Trojan Invitational. On the men's side junior Ruben Vaca placed first, scoring 525.40 points. Senior Omar Ojeda placed second with 502.35 points. Freshman Alex Vollelunga placed fourth (423.15), senior Arno Bergstrom placed sixth (420.00), freshman Josh Anderson placed seventh (412.90) and sophomore Scott Koenig placed eighth (403.25).
The Arizona women's team placed first and second on the platform event as well. Seniors Lindsay Berryman and Adrian David scored 426.05 and 399.30 respectively.
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Pokemon characters Charizard and Greninja will be part of Nintendo's Super Smash Bros., expected to launch for Nintendo 3DS this summer. Polygon reports that the Wii U edition of the game will not be out until winter 2014.
Both characters will join two other playable Pokemon, Pikachu and Lucario in Super Smash Bros., something many Pokemon fans are excited about.
Charizard is an old-school Pokemon, first introduced in Pokemon Blue and Pokemon Red, the first generation of the Pokemon game series. The fire-based character is the third evolution of Charmander. Pokemon Greninja, the final form of Froakie, was first introduced in Nintendo's Pokemon X and Pokemon Y.
JoyStiq.com reports that Super Smash Bros. will have a new form of a Pokeball, the Masterball, with a rare Pokemon inside.
In addition to playable characters Charizard, Greninja, Pikachu and Lucario, Nintendo is including a long list of non-playable Pokemon to the game, including: Fennekin, Meloetta, Gogoat, Entei, Deoxys, Palkia, Kyurem, Victini, Keldeo, Xerneas, Meowth, Electrode, Evee, Staryu and Metagros.
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Crimson Tide takes final two games from Stephen F. Austin to improve to 4-2
Career Awards 2013 Spring SEC Academic Honor Roll
REDSHIRT Junior (2014)Was selected to the All-SEC Second Team ... finished the season ranked third on the team batting .302 for the season, as well as ranking first on the team with 19 doubles ... led Alabama in five categories in games played against SEC opponents, including batting average (.311), doubles (11), slugging percentage (.505), HBP (8) and on-base percentage (.410) ... appeared in all 61 games in 2014, starting 60 times (29 times at catcher and 31 times at DH) ... lost a prior career-high 10 game hitting streak on 4.4 as well as a team-high 12 game reaching base streak two games later ... went 3-for-5 against Kennesaw State (6.2) with an RBI and a run scored ... accounted for the game-winning run in the win over Florida State (5.31) with a two-run home run ... recorded a pair of hits and a walk in the finale against No. 16 Mississippi State (5.17) ... finished the Auburn series batting .455 (5-for-11) with a double, a walk and two RBI ... had his second home run, two runs scored, three RBI and a walk in game one of the doubleheader at Texas A&M (4.5) ... posted two singles in the win over UL-Monroe (4.1) ... swatted his first career home run in the win over Arkansas (3.21) with a double, four RBI, and three runs scored ... was 3-for-6 in the Alcorn State series, poting a triple, an RBI and three runs scored ... recorded a hit in each game of the MVSU series, including the game-winning two-run double in game two (3.8) ... had two multi-hit games in the series at No. 10 Louisiana and finished the series with a 2-for-5 performance with a double, two runs scored, an RBI, and a HBP to his multi-hit game in the finale (3.2) ... in a pinch hitting opportunity, slugged the game-winning RBI single in the extra-innings finale versus Stephen F. Austin (2.23) ... delivered the game-winning hit in game two against Saint Louis (2.15), rounding out his performance with a double and a pair of walks.
Junior (2013) Was a 2013 SEC Spring Academic Honor Roll honoree ... missed the first four weeks of the season after suffering a broken right ankle in a preseason scrimmage ... saw his first action of the season as a pinch-hitter against Tennessee on March 15 ... earned medical redshirt after having season-ending hand surgery.
Junior College (2011-12 - Meridian CC) Named first team Region 23 by the National Junior College Athletic Association following his sophomore season at Meridian Community College in 2012 ... in 57 games, hit .427 with 23 home runs, 18 doubles and 67 RBI ... added 46 walks and was hit by a pitch 12 times to finish the 2012 season with a .568 on-base percentage ... as a freshman at Meridian, hit .370 with 11 home runs, 39 RBI and 42 runs scored ...also had eight outfield assists in 48 games in 2011 ... was a teammate of former Alabama teammate Kenny Roberts at Meridian, under head coach Chris Curry.
High School A 2010 Florida Region honorable mention selection by Perfect Game USA ... was a 2009 honorable mention Preseason HS Underclassmen All-American selection by Perfect Game USA at Pensacola Catholic High School ... hit .367 with 10 home runs and 33 RBI during his senior season at Pensacola Catholic High School, helping team compile a 23-5 record and a 10-0 mark during league play ... teammate of current Alabama player Austen Smith at PCHS, under head coach Richard LaBounty.
Personal Selected by the Baltimore Orioles in the 13th round of the 2012 MLB Draft ... born Wade Thomas Wass on Sept. 23, 1991 ... son of Mark and Dixie Wass ... has an older brother Tyler ... majoring in general studies human environmental sciences.


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I have my PHP Version pinned at 5.2.x, Here is the command line output
php -version
PHP 5.2.10-2ubuntu6 with Suhosin-Patch 0.9.7 (cli) (built: Oct 23 2009 16:30:10)
Copyright (c) 1997-2009 The PHP Group
Zend Engine v2.2.0, Copyright (c) 1998-2009 Zend Technologies
Running this command to install php5-mhash :
sudo apt-get install php5-mhash
Here is the error message
Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree Reading
state information... Done Some packages could not be installed. This
may mean that you have requested an impossible situation or if you are
using the unstable distribution that some required packages have not
yet been created or been moved out of Incoming. The following
information may help to resolve the situation:
The following packages have unmet dependencies: php5-mhash: Depends:
php5-common (= 5.2.10.dfsg.1-2ubuntu6.10) but 5.2.10.dfsg.1-2ubuntu6
is to be installed E: Broken packages
My question is how do I fix this? Can I install an older version of php5-mhash and if so, how do I do that?
I am open to any suggestions.
Here is the output from running:
sudo apt-get install -f:
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.


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It's never too late to refinance
The steep drop in mortgage rates from 2007 to 2013 brought many people with relatively new mortgages a great opportunity to refinance. For people with older mortgages, though, is there a point at which it just isn't worth refinancing?
This question may face people who have taken several years to work through obstacles to refinancing, such as reduced property values and damaged credit histories. By the time they work through those issues, here are some of the factors that will affect refinancing:
The interest rate opportunity. According to the mortgage information website HSH.com, mortgage rates are now more than a full percentage point higher than they were earlier this year. However, weekly fluctuations, like last week, for example, brought mortgage rates down to multi-month lows. Even so, there still may be plenty of opportunity for people with older mortgages who have been unable to qualify for refinancing until now. Consider that just five years ago, 30-year mortgage rates were 2 percent higher than they are today, and over the past 30 years, rates have been as much as 10 percent higher.
Shortening a loan. What adds to the opportunity for people with older mortgages is the opportunity to refinance to a shorter loan, which typically means a lower interest rate. Someone 15 years into a 30-year mortgage may want to refinance to a 15-year mortgage, since rates on those are running nearly a full percentage point below 30-year rates.
The diminishing interest component. When you get down to the last few years of a mortgage, the best argument against refinancing is that most of your payments at that point are loan principal, so there is little to be saved even if you reduce your interest rate.
Refinancing often boils down to mathematics, and those numbers are very much dependent on your individual situation. While you should be aware of broad refinancing trends, such as what mortgage rates are doing, you should also periodically check the particulars of your situation to see if a specific refinancing opportunity has arisen.


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End of the line for physio?June 26, 2010 at 4:04 pm | Posted in arthrits, rheumatoid arthritis, fibromyalgia, joint pai, fibromyalgia, Me, rheumatoid arthritis (RA) | 2 Comments
Tags: arthritis, consultant, doctor, GP, NHS, physical therapy, physio, physiotherapy, R.A., RA, rhematoid arthritis, rheumatoid, Rheumatoid arthritis, rheumatoid arthritis (RA), thyroid
OK, here's the thing – the geniuses at my local NHS physo department (or should that be genii?) have decreed that in order to 'be in line with the private sector' they will only give any patient a maximum of six appointments before they kick them out. (The last three words are, of course, my terminology and not theirs!)
I asked Lovely Physio how this was 'in line with the private sector', as I had had to have quite a bit of private treatment before I got into the NHS programme and oddly enough they hadn't been anxious to see the back of me after six appointments. No surprise there – I was paying them. Why would they want to be shot of me? She said something like, 'I have no idea, but that's how they're presenting it to us!'
I suspect the idea is that by ignoring the fact that there are people with chronic conditions who can benefit enormously from regular therapy and pretending that everyone they see can be 'cured' in six appointments, they can massage their figures by getting the waiting list down from the current five weeks to a more 'in line with the private sector' one to three weeks.
The complexity of the system emerges from the fact that it's general practitioner budget that pay for this treatment, but once you were being treated, until now, it was up to each physio to decide when and if to discharge. The GPs had little or no say, but they had to pay. So the idea is that you now have your maximum of six appointments and then go back to the GP if you feel you need to still see a physio, to get re-referred, as I mentioned in the previous post. The GP can, of course, say no. I suspect if I see the one that knows me she would say yes … we'll have to wait and see, but even if she does we're looking at a five-week waiting list right now.
One silver lining in the cloud – they have an SOS system whereby if I need to see my physio in the next couple of months I can phone and make an appointment saying I'm on the 'SOS list'. I can then go in under that and have maybe six appointments then before getting kicked out! Hopefully I won't need to see her in the next two months, but last time I thought that I only lasted three weeks …
Unfortunately I feel I have very little fight in me at the moment – I don't know if that might be something to do with the thyroid issues i might or might not have, but that's the way it is!
The good, the bad and the mildly irritatingJune 25, 2010 at 3:53 pm | Posted in rheumatoid arthritis (RA) | Leave a comment
Tags: anti-TNF, arthritis, flare, hospital appointment, NICE, nurse practitioner, physical therapy, physio, physiotherapy, R.A., RA, RA flare, Rheumatoid arthritis
I was on my way to my six-monthly (ish) hospital appointment this morning, and feeling distinctly glum, most definitely not wanting to go, when the news came on the radio and cheered me up slightly. Some excellent news for UK RA patients generally, I'm delighted to say: NICE has reversed its ludicrous policy of refusing to treat patients who failed on one anti-TNF with another. Anti-TNFs are not all the same, so saying that because a patient fails on one they won't benefit from a different one is patently absurd, but that's exactly what NICE, the patently absurd National Institute for 'Clinical Excellence' had decided to do. From later this year though, patients who fail on one anti-TNF will be allowed another go. (I think only one more go, but that's better than none!)
Hopefully I shall never need to worry about this from a personal point of view as I seem to be doing well on the methotrexate. Inevitably the three-week flare I've just come through has now passed (just in time for the hospital appointment, of course) and didn't show up in the bloods, so it's not being taken at all seriously. Still, on the bright side it DOES seem to be over, so next time I shall just have to gird my loins and nag the hospital while I'm HAVING a flare, if only so they get to see it!
So that was the mildly irritating.
The bad is physio – not my physio of course; she's still lovely. But apparently, 'In order to be in line with private practice' they are going to restrict all patients to a maximum of six appointments before a re-referral is required. It's a very confusing system which I'll explain in another post, but I can probably get re-referred. However, if I normally have physio twice monthly, I'll have to get rereferred every three months and then wait around five weeks for an appointment, where presumably I won't be guaranteed to see my lovely physio and will be reassessed each time, even though after a couple of years I think between the two of us we have a pretty good idea of what works! (Anyway, more about this whinge later!) The bright side is that I have at least had her for around two years, and when I started seeing her I thought then that they'd kick me out after six appointments, so I suppose I can't complain. (Oh wait – yes I can …)
Puzzling painsMarch 11, 2010 at 9:19 pm | Posted in Me, rheumatoid arthritis (RA) | 3 Comments
Tags: aches, arthritis, computers, computres, exercises, flare, joint pain, neck pain, physio, physiotherapy, R.A., RA, rhematoid arthritis, rheumatoid, Rheumatoid arthritis, rheumatoid arthritis (RA), stiffness, stress
I've got two different rather odd pains to add to the usual mix at the moment! One is a burning pain that I get intermittently in my spine, a few vertebra down from my neck. It's not too bad, just a bit odd, a bit burny and a bit tingly. Bizarrely, my physio thinks this is a sign of a bit of stiffness. Does anyone else get stiffness manifesting as burning?! Well, she's given some exercises for flexing the upper thorax, and if they work then I guess she's right.
The other one is that, having found ultrasound fantastically helpful for ages now, I'm suddenly finding it incredibly painful on my acromioclavicular joint. (Excuse my showing off my knowledge of joint names – it took ages for my physio to teach me this one and I rarely get the chance to use it … it's the little insignificant (until it hurts) joint between the shoulder and color bone, right at the front.) It starts off alright and then it very quickly gets incredibly sore and painful. Physio says she's come across this happening before but she doesn't know why, and she wonders if it's just a bit more inflamed than usual.
I hope it's NOT more inflamed than usual. Did I speak to soon about averting a flare? Today certainly didn't help on the stress reduction front – all clients want their work now (if not last week), and one thought I could proofread 90,000 words in two weeks. Well, I could if I had nothing else to do … grrrr… Oddly enough I feel more stressed now with both computers working than I did yesterday with both computers not working. Does this say something about computers, I wonder?
Phew – coming out of a flare!February 19, 2010 at 2:28 pm | Posted in rheumatoid arthritis (RA) | 3 Comments
Tags: birthday, consultant, flare, occupational therapy, OT, physio, physiotherapy, RA, RA flare, Rheumatoid arthritis
At last I'm on my way out of a rather prolonged flare! While I'm sure that my consultant would be pleased to point out that it wasn't much of a flare – I mean I didn't even need a steroid shot – it was quite enough of one for me, thank you!
I had a very good birthday this year, in spite of being in the middle of the flare. Hubby had the day off too, which he doesn't often manage, or at least not to coincide with mine, and we had a leisurely morning in Norwich including a trip to the Castle Museum and lunch at 'The Waffle House'. Because of the whole flare thing we decided to come straight after an early lunch and I spent the afternoon lounging around in bed reading some of the many great books (mostly embroidery-related) that I'd got for presents, before heading off to Mum's for a yummy meal in the evening. While I'd have liked to have been able to DO more on my birthday, it was still a jolly good day!
I suppose at least I'm finally learning to pace myself. Talking of which, the OT is NOT in my good books at the moment. I drove for forty minutes in stinking traffic through rain and hail and sleet and snow and fog (and semi-darkness for part of it) to get to my OT appointment only to be told, 'She's gone home'. Luckily for both of us I suppose a) I like her and b) I know she wouldn't do that deliberately and c) she phoned and apologised profusely this morning.
I told her she could make it up to me by fitting me in between physio and a hair appointment next week, which she is doing. I shall come away feeling thoroughly pampered after all that: not quite a luxury spa treatment, and believe me, our local hospital doesn't bear much resemblance to a luxury spa, but the closest I'm likely to get to one for a while!
Wax bath therapyNovember 20, 2009 at 7:52 pm | Posted in Me, rheumatoid arthritis (RA) | 10 Comments
Tags: arthritis, exercise, occupational therapist, occupational therapy, physical therapy, physio, physiotherapy, R.A., RA, rhematoid arthritis, rheumatoid, Rheumatoid arthritis, rheumatoid arthritis (RA), wax bath, wax bath therapy
I'm slightly confused because my lovely physio has suggested wax bath therapy for my hands … and referred me to an occupational therapist for it. My confusion arises from the fact that I would have thought that wax bath therapy was a physio sort of thing to do and definitely not an OT thing! I wonder if the OT will say the same when I see her? I wonder how long it will take to see her, given that it took seven months to get a physio appointment.
Anyway, if anyone has ever used a wax bath could they let me know; I'd be really interested to know if it helped at all. I did find a research paper that said it could be helpful in RA if combined with exercises but not on its own – well my hands certainly get plenty of exercise with all the typing and craft stuff, and I do some simple range of motion type exercises in the mornings too, so perhaps the wax thing will do some good.
Physiotherapy – what's it all about?November 9, 2009 at 3:03 pm | Posted in rheumatoid arthritis (RA) | 2 Comments
Tags: arthritis, doctor, exercise, flare, flare-up, hospital, neck pain, NHS, nurse practitioner, physical therapy, physio, physiotherapy, R.A., RA, rhematoid arthritis, rheumatoid, Rheumatoid arthritis, rheumatoid arthritis (RA), rheumatology
Wren posted a comment asking about physio and I thought it might get a bit long-winded for a comment answer, so I'm making a post out of it!
This was Wren's comment – sorry Wren, just realised that this answer is going to come a bit too late for your appointment! "On another subject: How often do you see your physio (physical therapist)? What do you do at the appointments? Are there special exercises? I'm curious because I keep reading of others having PTs they go to frequently, but this is something that I've never done, or even had suggested by my doc. I'm seeing him on Saturday morning, and I plan to ask about it, but in the meantime, how does this work for you?"
I personally see my physio every two weeks at the moment, but that's a timing that we decided between us and it's changed over the months I've been seeing her. I started seeing her weekly when things were really bad and we've moved on to two weekly. We tried three-weekly but that didn't work out – by the time I saw her after three weeks my shoulders were in agony!
There are indeed special exercises, but again they're entirely individual to each patient. I think it's fair to say that generally you don't do any exercises during a flare, reduced exercises during a "fizzle" (if you have fizzles, as I do!) and you try really hard to do them when things are fine, but frequently forget! Luckily I have a very understanding physio (this is afterall the woman who recommended a year's supply of cake, but she says I'm not allowed to post that story!!) and she appreciates that it's hard to remember to do the exercises when things are good!
What we do at the appointments is 1) Talk through how I've been over the last couple of weeks since I've seen her 2) Decide what needs doing this time 3) Do it. Usually, what needs doing is either ultrasound on my knee(s) or ultrasound on my neck and shoulder(s) or both. Again, I'm lucky to have such a flexible and understanding physio. By the time I got to see her, I'd been seeing another physio privately for months. Long story – see here and we'd established that ultrasound works for me. Again, it's a very personal thing. Some people find acupuncture fantastic, especially, apparently, for knees – I don't. Some people find ultrasound completely useless – I don't.
If there's a different joint giving me problems we'll talk through that and discuss if there are any exercises that might help, or whether ultrasound, TENS etc. might help.
I have a whole selection of exercises that I should do regularly for my neck, shoulders and knee, and a bunch of others to ease morning stiffness in other parts of me. The knee, neck and shoulder exercises are more to strengthen the muscles in those parts, so that they can do a better job of supporting the joints, rather than to actually do anything to the joints themselves.
The attitude of the nurse practitioners is 'use it or lose it', so the consensus seems to be that the more you exercise (within limits), the better. Not being the world's most active person the only time I'm likely to overdo those limits is when I'm having a flare (where minimal exercise is fine) or if I'm doing crochet, embroidery etc. and don't want to stop although my hands hurt!
I hope this helps explain the whole physiotherapy/physical therapy thing a bit, but it is, I stress again, only my own very personal viewpoint, and I know that every physio is different (because I've seen at least five over the years) and every patient is different. I reckon if you find a physio that suits you it can only help, so why not give it a try?
Stress, stress and more stress … but feeling OK!March 11, 2009 at 9:24 pm | Posted in Me, rheumatoid arthritis (RA) | 3 Comments
Tags: arthritis, doctors, flare-up, joint pain, neck pain, physio, physiotherapy, positive mental attitude, RA, Rheumatoid arthritis, stress
So, are my flare-ups related to stress, or not? I thought they were but I hope they aren't, because if they are I'm in for a big one any time now!
Yesterday I had my first ever row (maybe too strong a word, but very strong disagreement) with a client, on the phone. I was, to say the least, short with them. I was convinced I was standing firmly on the moral high ground as they'd made a bit of a mess of things, and I told them so… only to realise mid-conversation that I'd also made a mistake. While theirs was more serious, it caused an earthquake in my moral high-ground leading to rather a landslide.
It took the rest of the day to try to repair some of that, and to TRY to stop constantly worrying about it, while also trying to get on with some work.
It was all put into perspective somewhat when I got home to find that one of my friends had lost his job, another's cat had died and a third's husband had had a stroke!
All in all not one of my best days. I ended it by telling myself firmly that tomorrow WOULD be a better day, and it has been. (Not that that would have been hard!)
As for the RA, I had practically no problems yesterday and although I was pretty stiff on getting up this morning, it didn't last too long. My neck and shoulders are stiffening up again now, and slightly achy, but that may just be because it's been over two weeks since I had physio, as my physio isn't well and had to cancel the last appointment. Employing positive mental attitude to assume that's what it is, and not the start of a stress-related flare!
New NICE guidelines on RAMarch 9, 2009 at 9:56 pm | Posted in Me, rheumatoid arthritis (RA) | Leave a comment
Tags: arthritis, DMARD, doctor, GP, hospital, New NICE guidelines, NICE, NRAS, nurse, nurse practitioner, occupational therapist, physiotherapy, RA, Rheumatoid arthritis, rheumatoid arthritis (RA), rheumatology
Well it seems that NICE (the ironically named and aforementioned National Institute for Clinical Excellence in the UK) have done an about face on their original 'if you try one anti-TNF and it doesn't work, tough. You can't have another one, ner ner ne ner ner'. They've released new guidelines which are actually very positive. Of course it doesn't mean that all rheumatology departments will agree with or follow their guidelines but I suppose it's a start. Here are some of the positives (IMO), and it's only a very select few that resonated with me:
- Newly diagnosed people should be offered a combination DMARD therapy straight away, including methotrexate, ideally within three months of persistent symptoms. Well I don't think I know ANYONE in the UK that was diagnosed within three months of persistent symptoms, let alone given the combination therapy option, but I'm glad if that's going to change.
- A level of what is acceptable disease control should be agreed with the patient in advance and worked towards. HA! I'll believe that when I see it. The nearest we come to discussing acceptable levels is 'Really you're not too bad. I see much worse people in here every day.' Well yeah, and there are people much worse off than me in Africa, and indeed round the corner, but that doesn't mean I have to be content with my lot!
- Quoting direct from the NRAS site (www.rheumatoid.org.uk) "People with RA should have access to a multidisciplinary team (MDT); this should provide the opportunity for periodic assessments of the effect of the disease on their lives ( such as pain, fatigue, everyday activities, mobility, ability to work or take part in social or leisure activities, quality of life, mood, impact on sexual relationships) and access to a named member of the MDT (for example, the specialist nurse) who is responsible for coordinating their care." Well yeah, I have access to a multidisciplinary team. Like any team, some are fabulous (physio that I see now, occupational therapist, even if we don't share a sense of humour, rheumatology nurse at the GP surgery), and some aren't. One that isn't is the one who would no doubt be 'coordinating my care', gawd help me, if that happened; the RA Nurse Practitioner at the hospital. I can imagine quite vividly what her assessment would be like. She would read off a form in a board voice, 'Are you depressed? No? Good. Do you have sex? No? Good.' And of course what's required is that thing they don't have time for at hospital, a CONVERSATION!
And don't get me started on the patient guidelines – well, if you know me you know I will no doubt get started on the patient guidelines when I have time and feel up to it, but just for now I'll say they're absolutely appalling, patronising, insulting …you get the idea. I asked Arthritis Care for a copy. They were wonderfully efficient and friendly and sent me a copy return post, but having received them I took one look and went straight to the NICE website to find the health care professionals' version – THAT actually told me things. I am sorry I caused paper and Arthritis Care money to be wasted. The patient guide had lots of nice white space and simple bullet points that told me that as a patient I should definitely have the right to treatment, possibly with drugs. (OK, I exaggerate, but thin doesn't even begin to describe the level of information!)
Here's a a link to the patient guidelines if you want a laugh or cry. And here's a link to the healthcare professional guidelines if you actually want some information.
I'm probably being a bit harsh, but it surely can't be that hard to have something really, really simple with links or (see page whatever) if you want further detail, instead of assuming all patients are clueless. It's as bad as the hospital rheumy nurse giving me the very useful methotrexate book and saying, 'but really there's more information here than you need'. I think I should be allowed to decide that.
OOPS!!! Missed a physio appointmentFebruary 12, 2009 at 9:55 am | Posted in rheumatoid arthritis (RA) | Leave a comment
Tags: arthritis, pain, physio, physiotherapy, RA, rhematoid arthritis
Well I'm feeling a right idiot at the moment! I have had a physio appointment on a Wednesday afternoon (or very occasionally a Wednesday morning) since just after Christmas. Last week my physio said, 'I'm not in on Wednesday next week, but I've got one on Tuesday morning if that's OK?' It was fine, so we booked it on.
I'm sure you can see what's coming … I didn't put it on the calendar, and quite late on Tuesday afternoon I thought to myself, 'Hmm, wonder what time that physio appontment is tomorrow?'
OOOPS! By the time I phoned to apologise they'd all gone home for the day, but I hope she got the message. Perhaps she'll have forgotten by the time I see her again, as she's not in next week anyway!! So I'll have gone THREE WEEKS without physio by the time I see her again.
Still – things seem relatively good at the moment, so I'll just have to keep using the TENS machine and hope things stay stable until I see her again …
Neck brace – AHA! There are lots of front fastening ones out thereJanuary 28, 2009 at 9:30 pm | Posted in arthrits, rheumatoid arthritis, fibromyalgia, joint pai, Me, rheumatoid arthritis (RA) | 4 Comments
Tags: arthritis, cervical collar, hospital, neck brace, neck collar, neck pain, physio, physiotherapy, RA, Rheumatoid arthritis, shoulder pain
I had another physio session today – a very good one. Although I actually felt slightly worse coming out of the hospital, I feel significantly better now and I'm attributing it, rightly or wrongly, to the physio. Anyway, I mentioned to my physio that back fastening neck braces (aka cervical collars, neck collars etc.) were a pretty stupid idea IMO. She looked rather astonished and then said, 'Of course! You're quite right. Well they probably make them … but of course the department will just buy in the cheapest option.' Yup, that sums up the NHS, but then again, I'm very, VERY glad we've got an NHS, for all I moan! There are lots of places on line to buy front-fastening collars. The cheapest one I've found is here but there are lots of other options. I shall be buying one just as soon as some of my clients pay me!
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We're Heading Out to Truss a Turkey
These parsnips aren't going to peel themselves.
We're spending the rest of the day trimming Brussels sprouts, Frenching the hell out of some green beans, and overloading on turkey-carving-tutorial videos, so this is where we'll sign off. If anything happens to come up, here is New York's complete Thanksgiving Guide, which includes a few key tactical how-tos in addition to recipes. (There's also Vulture's very festive Hanksgiving, for dissenters and all you Joe Versus the Volcano enthusiasts.) In any event, enjoy the long weekend. We'll be back Monday morning, hopefully with leftovers.


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In advance of our New York show reviews, which will be decidedly skewed toward the new this season, we preview several debut brands that are either taking their tight vocabularies and original wares to the Mercedes-Benz Fashion Week for the first time or busy making major strides off the runways.
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Koi Suwannagate
If you were among the many who swooned at the delicate rosettes featured in the 3.1 Phillip Lim s/s '07 collection, you have designer Koi Suwannagate to thank. The Thailand-born, LA-based designer collaborated with Lim on that collection's signature details, and now Suwannagate is seeing her own star rise as a finalist for the 2007 CFDA/Vogue Fashion Fund Award. Suwannagate is known for hand-sculpted cashmere tops, cocktail dresses, and evening gowns that deftly bridge the art/fashion gap. She debuted her label in 2001 and her pieces were immediately snapped up by retailers such as Ron Herman and celebs including Gwyneth Paltrow and Nicole Kidman. Her pieces are now stocked in exclusive shops across the country including Barneys New York and Fred Segal. For s/s '08, look for Suwannagate to integrate silk chiffon and organic and recycled cotton into her collection.
Considering the fact that she grew up in a family of tailors, it's no surprise that Vietnam-born designer Thuy Diep ended up in fashion. After stints working as a patternmaker for some of New York's highest-profile designers (Herrera, Posen, Som) as well as United Bamboo, the cultish downtown label with a huge presence in Japan, Diep has now launched Thuy, her own line, which is showing its second spring collection. It was clear from her first collection — in which easy, drapey dresses in light chiffons were spiced up with a dollop of cascading ruching — that she would not rely on tricky details to make her mark. Soft futurism and sculptor Constantin Brâncu?i serve as intriguing inspirations for her s/s '08 collection.
JF and Son
What do you get when you cross a military-tech pedigreed Brown University grad and a Parsons alum? JF and Son is a new label by Jesse Finkelstein and Robert Cordero (our own style editor) whose modern take on urban femininity completely belies its partners' somewhat unconventional pairing. For its s/s '08 collection, JF and Son offers architectural dresses and color-block details that fit perfectly with the deathless '80s infatuation — although here they feel new rather than redone. Also look for refreshingly easy separates like shells, washed silk shorts, cashmere sweaters, block-printed pieces from India, and metallic coated linen skirts that are sure to become regulars in your summer '08 rotation.
Cora New York
The hat trend comes and goes. A quick glance through the a/w '07-'08 collections, however, yields one important truth: a polished, put-together look is in, and hats are a major focal point. But if the cloche is too uptown for you, check out the work of milliner Nashay Morris of Cora New York. Morris is one of the city's unrecognized style leaders and we're hoping that her foray into hats will bring her wider attention. It's all in the nuances of her Cora designs — Morris' hats feature classic shapes with a slight edge. The most intriguing piece is the "Anna": a black hat of suede and felt with a decidedly downtown flipped brim and an embroidered skullcap attached underneath. The line is available at Label in New York.
New Collections
Anne Valérie Hash
Fans of cult designer Anne Valérie Hash will have much more to cheer about come spring when the Paris-based designer launches her new line of dresses for the s/s '08 season. Named Dress Me, Anne Valérie Hash, the special capsule collection consists of ten luxurious designs with the throw-it-on-and-forget-about-it ease of spring dresses (a feat for AVH, who's prone to complicated confections). Designed to address the needs and desires of the modern woman, the collection ups the ante on the traditional frock's refined satins and crepe silks.
Warhol Factory X Levi's X Damien Hirst
Amid the explosion of premium denim lines, Levi's has always held its position as the quintessential workhorse jean. The most iconic of the Levi's line, the 501, is about to get a major overhaul courtesy of acclaimed British artist Damien Hirst. Launched in 2006, the ongoing Warhol Factory X Levi's project is part of Levi's partnership with the Andy Warhol Foundation, honoring the lifestyle and legendary career of Warhol and the Levi's brand. Hirst's collection is called Warhol Factory X Levi's X Damien Hirst, and makes its debut with a runway presentation at the Gagosian Gallery featuring reproductions of original works by both Hirst and Warhol, including a pair of Original 501s adorned with crystal skulls, a favorite motif found consistently in the work of both artists. The Hirst line of Levi's lands in stores in January and offers styles for both men and women.
Elise Øverland
From Abba to Ane Brun, the Knife, and the catchy tunes of Peter Bjorn and John, Scandinavians have made significant contributions to the global music scene. Instead of becoming a musical sensation, however, Norway's Elise Øverland became the go-to designer for rock stars including the White Stripes, Gwen Stefani, Alicia Keys, and Steven Tyler. In 2006, with a more toned-down look seemingly fit for the streets, Øverland presented an a/w '07 collection that did not neglect the stage. Featuring taut leather leggings under georgette frocks, metallic corsets, and garters on ruched dresses, as well as motorcyle jackets and calfskin boleros with custom hardware, it hit just the right rock 'n roll beat. Øverland describes her s/s '08 line as coming from a "feeling rather than a specific image — the powerful, soul-filled warrior that exists in every time — blood and magic."
Fashion Week Debuts
Katy Rodriguez
If you've found yourself within striking distance of a fashion magazine anytime during the last decade or so, chances are you've heard of Katy Rodriguez. Her bicoastal vintage emporium Resurrection was (and still is) the place for high-end, covet-worthy vintage finds. She recently turned her attention to ready-to-wear, launching her highly praised namesake label in 2005. This fall, Rodriguez makes it official with her first Fashion Week appearance at the s/s '08 shows, displaying a collection that refigures the classic American pin-up girl for today's woman.
Manish Arora
We lauded his fantastically futuristic a/w '07-'08 collection at London Fashion Week and it wowed us again on our spring trip to Wills Lifestyle India Fashion Week in Delhi. Now Manish Arora is launching his label in the US at Mercedes-Benz Fashion Week with an s/s '08 collection. Arora debuted his label in 1997 in India with a "traditional with a twist" aesthetic, combining the bright colors of Indian dress with off-kilter, out-there styling involving boldly patterned tights and trainers. (He now has a major development deal with Reebok.) Arora's deeply personal style has earned the praise of some of the industry's most well-respected critics, including Hilary Alexander and Suzy Menkes. The designer takes his road show to Paris next month.
-Jennifer Smith Tapp
Koi Suwannagate a/w '07-'08
Thuy a/w '07-'08
JF and Son s/s '08
Cora New York s/s '08
Anne Valerie Hash a/w '07-'08