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Cuchulain possesses extra-ordinary stamina, speed, reflexes and resistance to harm above any other man. He is also an exceptional warrior with a sword and in unarmed combat. His preferred weapon was a spear called gae-bolg.
In the time of the Guardians, Cuchulain was massively powerful (Class 100 strength), able to survive sub-nuclear explosions and go one-on-one with Drax the Destroyer and come out on top.
Cuchulain was born around 540 AD (see comments) to the sun-god Lugh and Deichtire, sister of King Conchobor of Ulster. She named him Sedanta and he proved himself to be of divine birth by defeating fifty youths in his uncleĺs court. He earned the name of Cuchulain after slaying the watchdog that belonged to Culann the smith. As penance for its death, he had to take the place of the dog for twenty years and protect Culann from harm.
Cuchulain eventually was released from his sentence in time to defend Eire against the three sons of Nechta Scene who were terrorizing the land. He killed them by cutting off their heads at once. He even hung the heads from his chariot as a trophy. Queen Mughain, whose husband had ousted King Conchorbor, tamed Cuchulain by treating him hospitably. He desired her daughter, Emer, to be his wife. Before he could prove to be worthy husband for her, he had to travel to Gaul (modern France) and serve as a student to the prophetess Scathach. He clashed against her rival, Aoife, a female warrior, and raped her to humiliate her. She eventually gave birth to his son Conla. Cuchulain also tried to capture mystical birds as gifts for Emer, but was punished by the Celtic Goddesses Fand and Li Ban for trying to harm them.
Returning to Eire, Cuchulain and two other warriors, Loeghaire Buadhach and Conall Cernach were bribed to claim the honor of carving the roast of Bricriu, a minor hero with the malicious intent of turning them against each other. The heroes clashed as he had planned as they went to Queen Medhbha for best judgement on who was the best warrior. She chose Cuchulain, but the other two were sure he had bribed her so they went to King Roy of Munster for a second opinion. He also chose Cuchulain and they seemed to accept this judgment although their feud was left unsettled.
King Roy then used mystical means to prove his choice. He sent a giant to challenge the three warriors. The giant fought Loeghaire and lost his head in the fight--literally. Reclaiming his head to reattach it, he returned the next night and claimed the right to claim Loeghaireĺs head. Loeghaire asked Conall for help against the giant and he resevered the giantĺs head from his body. Recollecting his head, the giant returned a second night claiming the right to take both their heads. Loeghaire and Conall fled to Cuchulain for help and all three of them killed the giant once more by cutting off his head. Reclaiming his head, the giant returned to claim all of their heads. As Cuchulain stepped forward to take his punishment, King Roy appeared and declared Cuchulain the true champion of Eire for being able to concede defeat.
By now, Cuchulainĺs son, Conla, had grown to manhood. He came to Eire to take his fatherĺs place as the greatest champion of Eire. Killing Conall in his search, he was recognized by Emer as Cuchulainĺs son, but Conla had taken a vow from his mother to not reveal his identity to his father. Cuchulain clashed with Conla to exact revenge on the death of Conall and delivered a fatal blow. Dying, Conla admitted to being Cuchulainĺs son and his body was presented to the men of Ulster for a noble burial.
Cuchulain later served King Roy by invading Caledonia (modern Scotland ) and returning with several treasures. When he refused to share his spoils of war with King Roy, the wily ruler sought to teach him a lesson by having him buried in the ground up to his head. His head shaved, Cuchulain swore revenge on his former ally by conquering Munster and taking his wife, Queen Blathnad, as his mistress. Fercherdne, the royal bard, avenged King Roy by slaying Blathnad for allowing herself to be taken so easily and for giving herself to Cuchulain.
Cuchulain single-handedly protected Ulster from King Ailill and Queen Medhbhaĺs invading armies. Morrigan, Queen of the Celtic Gods, appeared in the battle in her form as the war-goddess and when Cuchulain refused to recognize her, she cursed him with madness. He tried to break the curse by eating the flesh of a dog which ended up weakening his godly endurance. Realizing he was about to die, he tied himself standing to a pillar in order to die in battle standing up. Killed by Medhbhaĺs soldiers, Cuchulain was beheaded by his enemies.
(Guardians of the Galaxy#51 (fb) - BTS) - Cuchulain was an ally (and possibly a member) of the Red Branch Knights, to whom he was a hero (see comments).
(Guardians of the Galaxy#51 (fb) - BTS) - Cuchulain fought the Scots Giant, Finn Mac Cool (see comments).
(Guardians of the Galaxy#51 (fb) - BTS) - (see comments).
(Guardians of the Galaxy Annual#3) - <2001, Earth-Guardians timeline> A century after their first assault, the Martian Masters again attacked Earth. Many of the Earthĺs modern heroes died in the invasion as the heroine Shamrock fled to protect modern Ireland. Doctor Druid, however, saw a need for the Earth to be restored years after the end of the invasions. He presented her with the Book of Kells, a mystical book detailing Ireland's history. He learned that Cuchulainĺs spirit was one of many protecting her and restored him to life to protect her through infinity.
In the 31st Century, there became a need to reverse a growing illiteracy problem and the Guardians of the Galaxy sought out the Book of Kells and traced it to a forgotten Celtic tomb near Newgrange, Ireland. They encountered Shamrock and Cuchulain and helped them to defeat Samhain, an ancient demon who sought to destroy the book. Aided by the Guardians, Cuchulain and Shamrock defeated Samhain before departing to investigate the 31st Century and restore Ireland.
(Guardians of the Galaxy#51) - The Guardians of the Galaxy came to Earth to recruit Cuchulain's aid in freeing their member Charlie-27 from the prison-planetoid, the Stockade, in which he had been placed for false charges of being the interstellar murderer Ripjak. Initially attacking Major Victory (whose appearance had changed dramatically due to bonding with a Venom-like symbiote, I think), Cuchulain released his stranglehold on Vance upon recognizing the others. Cuchulain agreed to join them and returned with them to their starship. Not long after, the Guardian Talon manipulated the techno-ignorant Cuchulain into activating the Trans-Molecular Reconstitutor, which cured his secret back injury and transformed him into a much more savage form.
(Guardians of the Galaxy#52) - Arriving in orbit around the Stockade, Major Victory led Cuchulain to the Stockade, where the chief constable presented documentation of Charlie-27's guilt. Not liking this, Cuchulain threatened the small constable, attracting the attention of the large Jadroxxian Gladiators that served as guards at the Stockade. More than happy to engage in a wee donnybrook, Cuchulain battered the guards into submission, prompting the constable to call a Double D alert--standing for Drax the Destroyer. A guard deactivated Drax's cartoon show and told him that Cuchulain had cut them off, and that Cuchulain was trying to make it so that he could never watch TV again. Drax was less than pleased.
(Guardians of the Galaxy#53) - The furious Drax assaulted Cuchulain, furious at him for cutting off his cartoons. Pleased to have finally found someone able to give him an even fight, Cuchulain fought back, and the two shattered walls, ceilings, floors, and anything else in their path. Drax eventually managed to get Cuchulain in a neck-breaking hold, but the Wolfhound managed to shatter a nuclear containment chamber, causing an explosion that buried them both. Cuchulain was the first to revive, and he lifted off the debris and returned to the Icarus. Afterwards, the Guardians sent Cuchulain on an auto-shuttle which returned him to Earth, but not before Yellowjacket gave him a friendly "super-send-off."
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On Sep 14, 2006, at 7:56 AM, Jeff Genender wrote: > The JMS provider would be a pluggable comm strategy. For performance > reasons, I want to start with TCP communication. Why do you think that AMQ will not perform well? > I definitely want to > have a JMS strategy...maybe next. But initially I don't want any > dependencies on other servers or brokers. > > With that said, after looking at openwire, the comm marshaller for > ActiveMQ, there is a lot to leverage there and will prevent a > rewrite of > the comm layer. So, there will be some use of that code base > initially. IMO, AMQ already provides a rich clustering environment, with failover, master-slave, dynamic discovery, firewall-happy transports, monitoring and a heck of a lot more. Seems like it would be a waste to go and re-implement all of that. It also seems that if you wanted to get something up sooner, that it would be much easier to design a AMQ strategy first, which means that you only have to worry about the message passing to sync up and invalidate state, rather than all of the details of who is in what cluster, failing over, blah, blah... And, I guess that if after that was implemented you still thought it was not fast enough, then it might be better to get AMQ fixed to perform better, though I don't think that the performance using AMQ will differ all that much from a custom socket protocol to pass messages. I am a huge fan of AMQ and would really like to see G exploit its network communications facilities as much as possible. IMO, this is the best way to get the most features for clustering up and running sooner, with less code to maintain. --jason
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Frieze // The tale in which we find ourselves Augmenting by Frederick Hubble
Frieze// The tale in which we find ourselves Augmenting our way around the open market archipelago of artists, merchants and a bobble clad woman.
After having been invited to Frieze to compose a piece of writing about my experiences there and pinpointing some of the artists I found particularly engaging, I found myself in a perplexed state of knowing where to start. There is so much, an amalgamation of booths searching for buyers as well as doing their best not to allow the art to become a fetishised commodity. Having recently been introduced to the Augment app by a friend and fellow artist Emily Sparkes, I'd had much fun projecting deer into the toilet and conjuring a Rodin sculpture onto the coffee table.
I thought the best way to approach the temporal nature of Frieze would be the vessel of my phone. So much of the Frieze experience to those who do not attend is funneled through magazine reviews or via Instagram, an inhabiting of the space through adding to it, with Augment, seemed like a suitable approach to grasping Frieze.
Through creating virtual collages with Augment, Frieze becomes a place of potential creativity; it wasn't so much a journey to be stirred by the art on show as much as it becomes an opportunity to do the stirring. Frieze itself feels a lot like an act of distancing, whether it is because everything there seems reasonably unattainable to a recent MA graduate or perhaps it is here we see the synapses where connections are made, all islands singing their own tunes to each other and to us.
Bringing forth a giant Rhinoceros into an installation can become an amicable croak amid the siren song of Frieze. A moment of iconoclastic joy within the spectacle, made all the more temporary by existing on the plasma canvas of the phone screen, nothing is added in reality, only temporally.
Objects bump their way into the tent, summoning children's playgrounds and celestial bodies into space. Augmented planets play with Olafur Eliasson and a disembodied model goat sits next to a twice-removed cousin in one of Damien Hirst's boxes. The mundane has its day among nineties favourites.
Jon Rafman's Trans Dimensional Serpent offers a direct mainline into virtual reality, allowing the viewer to inhabit the space of Frieze within an altered reality. The queue for the installation seems to reflect this desire of escape to inhabit a space beyond the real, or in turn something adjacent to it. The hunger for new media is in no short supply, a new generational understanding of how ideas collide, the glitch, the fetish for failures.
Augmenting Frieze became a chance to explore these notions, the naff and the poignant going hand in hand, in a festival looking back as it looks forward, occupying some space between feeling and being consumed.
A group of 10 artists from Staffordshire, Birmingham and the Black Country were nominated to attend Frieze London 2016 with the support of New Art West Midlands' Artist and Curator Professional Development Programme. Those selected are all alumni of the New Art West Midlands graduate exhibitions. This text is the second in a series of reflections on their individual experiences of Frieze.


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The highest level of gangsta...Being push to the point and state of mind that physical violence might ensue, and the only action that can describe what you might do to someone or something can only be described as something done or found in the Old Testament of the bible.
yo you see that fight yesterday, Justin hit that dude with a rock like David did the Goliath. I told you he was Old Testament Gangsta.
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Superyacht Columbus 181 now extended and renamed Columbus 200 Classic at Burgess
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Alev Karagulle at Burgess sends news that the 55.73m motor yacht Columbus 181, currently under construction at Columbus Yachts, has been extended to 60m and renamed Columbus 200 Classic with, of course, a price increase.
Scheduled for delivery in 2013 and the second delivery from the Palumbo Shipyard Group, this is an opportunity to step into a stylish and sleek new yacht on a tried and tested platform that's still in a position to be entirely customised to her first owner's tastes and wishes.
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Seeing her disappointment suddenly made him want to pull the mask out, despite his words. He pulled his hand away from her wet spot, taking her face in his hands. "Don't worry, love. If you still feel you need it as soon as give you a check, I will be happy to put it on your little face. Don't forget, I also have that Ambu bag, which you can put over your face and squeeze yourself. Or have me do it if you prefer."
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"What are you doing here," Now I halt the story here so that you know what my name will be when I get to court to change it. I think I will change my name to Kathy! Now let the story commence! "Kathy?!" Grim asked supprised more than I had ever seen him before.
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Realignment approved by BOG - Jets move to Western Conference, "Division B"
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wow...that would really suck in my opinion.....being the only canadian team not in a conference with any other canadian teams would make us lost in the media hinterland more than we already are....we are already demoted to the 2:00 time slot on saturdays....imagine what this would do.
tough to form a rivalry with giant american cities where the sport is number 5 on the popularity list, and none of their fans could find us on a map, or pronounce the name of our city....the natural rivalries are with canadian cities, where there is some passion for the game....where we have a connection beyond the game on the ice.
the best games are when toronto, montreal, edmonton have come to town because the barn is full of opposing fans.....everyone in winnipeg knows someone in those cities.....remember the games in calgary and vancouver last year?...they were like home games for the jets.....we are intimately connected to those cities......none of that will happen with St. louis or Denver....i doubt many of their fans will be coming up here for games the way people from edmonton did last year.
at least before we had 2 original 6 teams as compensation for being the ugly duckling.....now we dont even get that....all of these hockey night in canada games we get......all the games we get on TSN, sportsnet, will mean nothing to us at all.....how often is there a nashville/dallas game on tv?...how often is there a calgary, edmonton or vancouver game on?.....4-5 times a week?
i was hoping they would at least abandon the 4 conference idea so games all across the west meant something to us in the standings....this year is a perfect example of how games in the other conference mean nothing......i have zero interest in watching all of those games we see because they mean nothing to us.
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I had thought about adding an entry for 'Totally Radical', but I reneged for two reasons: 1) They weren't trying nearly so hard as "Beakman's World", and 2) I didn't know what to call that thing editors do where they loop the same fraction-of-a-second of footage over and over before continuing, like "SCI-SCI-SCI-SCI-SCIENCE!". Does that have a name?
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It's been months since Apple's pro video app Final Cut Pro X received an update, but if the trial version is anything to go by, then an update may be right around the corner.
Richard Taylor, an Apple Certified Trainer for Final Cut Pro, attempted to download the Final Cut Pro X 30-day trial and was met with an unsuccessful download. After looking at the version number of the download, he noticed that it was showing version 10.3, instead of the publicly released 10.2.3 now available on the Mac App Store.
Unfortunately, the download was unsuccessful, so this could mean that Apple jumped the gun on the trial update, or an outright mistake was made. My gut feeling says that a 10.3 update is coming, and the trial download page was updated before things were ready. I independently verified Richard's findings, as I was met with a incomplete disk image that was only a few bytes in size.
The last Final Cut Pro X update, version 10.2.3, was significant, as it brought customizable default effects, 4K export presets, support for the iPhone 6s series hardware, and a bevy of fixes to the table. The 10.3 update could add official iPhone 7 series hardware support for sharing. It could also add support for the upcoming Mac hardware refresh that's scheduled for next Thursday or macOS Sierra improvements.
Whatever the case may be, I'll just be happy to get a new version. The last Final Cut Pro X update happened at the beginning of 2016 in February, which is basically eons in software update terms. We'll be sure to let you know if and when version 10.3 goes live.
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Fifth Third Bancorp announced that on June 12, 2012, the board of
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Long-term follow-up of a high-intensity exercise program in patients with rheumatoid arthritis
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The aims of this study were to describe rheumatoid arthritis patients' compliance with continued exercise after participation in a 2-year supervised high-intensity exercise program and to investigate if the initially achieved effectiveness and safety were sustained. Data were gathered by follow-up of the participants who completed the 2-year high-intensity intervention in a randomized controlled trial (Rheumatoid Arthritis Patient In Training study). Eighteen months thereafter, measurements of compliance, aerobic capacity, muscle strength, functional ability, disease activity, and radiological damage of the large joints were performed. Seventy-one patients were available for follow-up at 18 months, of whom 60 (84%) were still exercising (exercise group: EG), with average similar intensity but at a lower frequency as the initial intervention. Eleven patients (16%) reported low intensity or no exercises (no-exercise group: no-EG). Patients in the EG had better aerobic fitness and functional ability, lower disease activity, and higher attendance rate after the initial 2-year intervention. At follow-up, both groups showed a deterioration of aerobic fitness and only patients in the EG were able to behold their muscle strength gains. Functional ability, gained during the previous participation in high-intensity exercises, remained stable in both groups. Importantly, no detrimental effects on disease activity or radiological damage of the large joints were found in either group. In conclusion, the majority of the patients who participated in the 24-month high-intensity exercise program continued exercising in the ensuing 18 months. In contrast to those who did not continue exercising, they were able to preserve their gains in muscle strength without increased disease activity or progression of radiological damage.
KeywordsDisease activity Erosions Exercise Functional status Rheumatoid arthritis
Patients with rheumatoid arthritis (RA) are in general less fit [1] and more at risk of comorbidities such as cardiovascular events [2, 3] and osteoporosis [4, 5] when compared with healthy, age-matched controls. Their worse health status could in part be contributed to a lack of physical activity as it has been demonstrated that a relatively low proportion of patients with RA exercises [6] and that patients with arthritis have a lower level of physical activity than the general population [7, 8, 9].
To counteract the negative consequences of physical inactivity, exercise is nowadays often advised to RA patients. In the past decade, the safety and effectiveness of exercise programs with moderate-to-high levels of intensity have been established in a number of studies [10, 11, 12].
The Rheumatoid Arthritis Patient In Training (RAPIT) study demonstrated that RA patients are able to improve their physical capacity, functional ability, and emotional status and delay the development of osteoporosis. In addition, the compliance with a long-term intensive exercise program appeared to be high, with 78% of patients allocated to the exercise group still participating in exercise classes at the end of the study and with the median attendance rate of all patients started being 74% over 2 years [13]. Similar results were obtained by Häkkinen et al. [8]. They followed the participants in a randomized controlled trial on the effectiveness and safety of non-supervised home-based muscle strength training for 5 years. These relatively high compliance rates with long-term exercises were undoubtedly facilitated by the fact that patients participated in a trial, which is a not a real-life situation.
The objective of the current observational study was to examine (1) the compliance with exercises classes in a setting more proxy to "real life" than during the execution of a randomized controlled trial, (2) the determinants of continuation of intensive exercises, and (3) the effectiveness and safety of long-term intensive exercises in such a setting.
Patients and methods
This observational study concerns the 18-month follow-up after the end of the 2-year RAPIT study. The results of this randomized, controlled, multicenter trial are published elsewhere [12].
The inclusion criteria for the RAPIT trial were: (1) RA according to the 1987 revised ARA criteria [14]; (2) age between 20 and 70 years; (3) stable dose of disease-modifying drug in the last 3 months; (4) functional class I, II or III according to the 1991 ACR revised criteria for classification of functional status [15]; (5) ability to cycle on a home trainer; (6) willingness to exercise biweekly on a fixed schedule; and (7) living within the distance of 20 km (or a maximum of 30 min transportation time) from the various training and assessment centers. Exclusion criteria were: (1) inability to tolerate cardiorespiratory fitness training due to a serious cardiac or lung disease and (2) the presence of one or more prostheses of weight-bearing joints (ankle, knee, or hip).
After 2 years, of the 150 patients allocated to the exercise group, 118 patients (78.6%) were still actively participating in exercise groups. For the present follow-up study, only data regarding patients allocated to the exercise group and who were still exercising at the end of the 2-year intervention were used. For logistical reasons, however, only patients derived from the J. van Breemen Institute, Amsterdam (n = 39) and all patients derived from Leiden (n = 32) were invited to participate in the follow-up study. All of these 71 patients were, after the termination of the original RAPIT study, encouraged to continue exercising, either by pursuing their participation in their original intensive exercise group or by engaging in other (community based) sporting activities with a similar level of intensity as the RAPIT exercise program. The RAPIT exercise program was a supervised group program of 1.25 h duration per session [13]. Each session had three parts: "bicycle training" (20 min), "exercise circuit" (20 min), and "sport and game" (20 min). Each session was preceded by a "warm-up" and followed by a "cool-down". Bicycle load was based on two indicators: (1) heart rate during bicycling, progressing to 70–90% of the predicted maximal heart rate (the equivalent of >6 metabolic equivalents) and (2) rating of perceived exertion (range 0–10) with a target score of 4–5. Exercise circuit training consisted of eight to ten different exercises to improve muscle strength, aerobic capacity, joint mobility, and activities of daily life (such as getting up or lifting). Each exercise was repeated eight to 15 times, with a rest period in between. The proportion of exercise duration/rest duration varied and was 90 s/30 s at the end of the original RAPIT study. Several sport and game activities were used, such as badminton, volleyball, or indoor soccer.
The medical ethics committees of the two participating centers approved the follow-up study, and all patients gave written informed consent.
Basic demographic and disease characteristics
Baseline characteristics (age, sex, disease duration, and presence of rheumatoid factor) were obtained at the start of the original RAPIT study by screening of the medical records.
Compliance with exercises and reasons not to participate
At the start of the follow-up study, all participants were informed that at 18 months they would be asked about their exercise activities during this period. No diaries were provided. At 18 months of follow-up, all participants completed a ten-item questionnaire comprising questions on frequency, intensity, and compliance to exercises, and the reasons for not continuing the participation in the RAPIT group and choice for an alternative if applicable. Patients reporting participation in extended RAPIT groups or other classes were asked to give the name of their supervisor and their actual participation was checked with the lists of participants available from the providers.
Effectiveness and safety
All measurements of effectiveness and safety were done after termination of the original RAPIT study and after 18 months of follow-up.
Aerobic fitness was measured by means of a standardized ergometer test with the results presented in watts (W) [16].
Muscle strength of the knee extensors was measured with an isokinetic dynamometer at an angle velocity of 60°/s and is given in newtons (N) [10].
Functional ability was assessed with the McMaster Toronto Arthritis Patient Preference Disability Questionnaire [17]. The change of the weighted score can vary from −38 (maximal deterioration in functional ability) to +38 (maximal improvement).
Disease activity was assessed with the original disease activity score with four variables (DAS4) [18]. The DAS4 is a compiled index based on a 44 joint count for swelling (SW44; range 0–44), tender joint count (Ritchie Articular Index; range 0–78), erythrocyte sedimentation rate, and the patient's global assessment of disease activity measured on a visual analogue scale (range 0–100). The DAS4 ranges from 0 (no disease activity) to 10 (severe disease activity).
Radiological damage of the large joints (shoulders, elbows, hips, knees, ankles, and subtalar joints) was scored independently by two experienced readers (HMK and ZdJ) by the Larsen method [19] for the situation at the end of the original RAPIT study and 18 months thereafter without information on the sequence in time and the patient's identity. The Larsen joint score ranges from 0 (no joint space narrowing, no erosions) to 5 (maximal possible damage) for each joint. For each patient, a summed Larsen score was calculated by summation of all Larsen joint scores. The summed Larsen score for large joints ranges from 0 (no damage) to 60 (maximal possible damage).
Statistical analysis
In this observational study, all available data were used. Measures with a Gaussian distribution are expressed as a mean and SD and measures with a non-Gaussian distribution as median and interquartile range (IQR).
Patients were divided into two groups according to their engagement in exercise or physical activity: Patients who indicated continued participation in their original RAPIT exercise classes or in individual or group sports or game with similar intensity and frequency of physical activity as the RAPIT intervention were designated as "exercisers" (exercise group; EG), whereas patients who did not were designated as "non-exercisers" (no-exercise group; no-EG).
To analyze the differences between the baseline characteristics of the patients in the two centers participating in the follow-up study and the other center and between the patients in the exercise and the non-exercise groups, the unpaired Student's t test, Mann–Whitney U test, or χ2 test were used when indicated.
To determine the predictors of exercise adherence, baseline demographic and disease characteristics, baseline aerobic fitness, muscle strength and functional ability, changes in aerobic fitness, muscle strength and in functional ability during the course of the initial intensive exercise program, and attendance rate were compared between the exercise and the no-exercise groups. The analyses were performed as a binary univariate logistic regression model and expressed as odds ratios (95% CI).
Within-group differences between the end of the initial exercise program and 18 months of follow-up were analyzed with the paired Student's t test or Wilcoxon signed-rank test, where appropriate. The changes from the baseline were compared by analysis of co-variance (ANCOVA) and presented as a mean difference in change between the groups with 95% CI. All effect analyses were performed after correction for statistically significant baseline differences.
As a threshold for relevant progression in radiological damage of the large joints and a surrogate for clinically relevant increase in damage, we used the smallest detectable difference (SDD) of the change score calculated according to Lassere et al. [20]. Proportions of patients in whom the SDD was exceeded were compared by means of the chi-square test.
There were no statistically significant differences in the patients' age, sex, duration of RA, physical and functional ability, or radiological joint damage between the completers of the original RAPIT exercise groups who did (n = 71) and did not (n = 47) participate in this follow-up study (data not shown).
After 18 months of follow-up, 50 of the 71 participants in the follow-up study (70%) had been exercising within their original RAPIT exercise group and ten patients (14%) reported participation in community-based exercise activities of similar absolute intensity as the RAPIT exercise program (EG). Eleven patients (16%) reported low-intensity exercises at home or no exercises (no-EG). From the 60 patients in the EG, eight patients (13%) reported exercising less frequently than once a week, 33 patients (55%) one to two times per week, and 14 (23 %) at least twice a week, and in five (9%), the data on frequency were incomplete but it was agreed that the patients did fulfil the criteria for intensive exercise.
For the 11 patients in the no-EG, the main reasons for not pursuing the exercises were time constraints (n = 5) and logistical problems (n = 4). In addition, one patient mentioned pain in the ankles after exercising and one patient stated not to engage in exercises because of unpleasant confrontation with her own limitations due to the disease.
Predictors of exercise adherence
Baseline characteristics of 71 completers of the original RAPIT exercise groups (data obtained at the termination of the RAPIT study = start of 18 months of follow-up)
Total group (n = 71)
Exercise group (n = 60)
No-exercise group (n = 11)
Odds ratios (95% CI)
Age, years
56 (15)
56 (17)
59 (11)
0.97 (0.91–1.04)
Female; n (%)
61 (86)
50 (83)
11 (100)
0.00 (0.00–0.00)
Duration of RA, years
6 (7)
7 (7)
6 (7)
1.03 (0.92–1.15)
RF positive; n (%)
40 (56)
34 (57)
6 (55)
0.92 (0.25–3.34)
Aerobic fitness, W
171 (91)
180 (95)
162 (63)*
1.02 (0.99–1.03)
Changea in aerobic fitness
18.4 (37.1)
18.4 (39.6)
−0.03 (36.4)
1.01 (0.98–1.03)
Muscle strength, N
190 (94)
191 (94)
182 (124)
1.00 (0.99–1.01)
Changea in muscle strength
20.5 (83.0)
21.5 (86.5)
17 (37.2)
1.03 (0.99–1.01)
Functional ability, MACTAR
58.0 (12.2)
59.5 (10.0)
51.5 (12.3)*
1.09 (1.01–1.19)b
Changea in functional ability
9.0 (21.4)
9.3 (22.3)
2.2 (6.3)
1.07 (0.99–1.16)
2.59 (2.3)
2.46 (1.14)
3.66 (3.10)*
0.53 (0.29–0.97)b
Large joint damage, Larsen score
3.0 (4.5)
2.0 (4.0)
4.0 (6.25)
1.04 (0.87–1.23)
Changea in damage of large joints
0.0 (0.5)
0.0 (0.5)
0.0 (0.5)
1.92 (0.59–6.27)
Attendance rate in the original study, %
77.9 (17.6)
79.5 (16.9)
71.2 (23.4)*
1.06 (1.01–1.12)b
At the start of the follow-up study, the patients in the EG and the no-EG were similar with respect to most characteristics, except for a better aerobic fitness, functional ability, and a lower level of disease activity in the EG (Table 1). In addition, the median (IQR) attendance rate in the exercise sessions during the original RAPIT study was significantly higher in EG than in the no-EG (79.5% (16.9%) and 71.2% (23.4%), respectively; P = 0.036).
When possible predictors of exercise adherence were explored, it appeared that, besides the higher attendance rate during the original study, higher functional ability and a lower disease activity at baseline were predictive for exercise adherence (Table 1).
Clinical outcomes in 71 patients with RA who completed a 2-year intensive exercise program after 18 months of follow-up
Total group
Exercise group
No-exercise group
∆ Exercise minus ∆ no-exercise groupa
(n = 71)
(n = 60)
(n = 11)
P valuesb
Mean (95% CI)
P valuesc
Aerobic fitness, W
Baselined (n = 68)
171 (91)
180 (95)
162 (63)
Follow-up (n = 69)
162 (93)
162 (113)
135 (35)
13.6 (−7.7–34.8)
P values baseline versus follow-upe
Muscle strength, N
Baseline (n = 68)
190 (94)
191 (94)
182 (124)
Follow-up (n = 66)
186 (98)
192 (95)
135 (97)
32.6 (5.6–59.5)
P value baseline versus follow-up
Functional ability, MACTARf
Baseline (n = 70)
58 (12.2)
59.5 (10.0)
51.5 (12.3)
5.4 (−1.0–11.6)
Follow-up (n = 71)
59 (9.0)
60.0 (9.0)
54.0 (11.1)
3.35 (−2.3–9.0)
P value baseline versus follow-up
Disease activity, DAS4
Baseline (n = 69)
2.59 (2.3)
2.46 (1.14)
3.66 (3.10)
Follow-up (n = 69)
2.77 (1.09)
2.68 (0.99)
3.27 (1.46)
0.15 (−0.46–0.76)
P value baseline versus follow-up
Large joint damage, Larsen score
Baseline (n = 67)
3.0 (4.5)
2.0 (4.0)
4.0 (6.3)
Follow-up (n = 69)
3.0 (4.0)
3.0 (4.3)
4.0 (6.0)
−1.0 (−2.3–0.3)
P value baseline versus follow-up
At baseline, the patients in the EG demonstrated a better functional ability than the participants in the no-EG (P = 0.036). During follow-up, the functional ability remained relatively stable in both groups (P = 0.290 and P = 0.919) with no significant difference in change in functional ability between the groups (P = 0.240).
The results of the measurements of safety at baseline and follow-up are shown in Table 2.
At baseline, patients in no-EG exhibited a more active disease than patients in EG (Mann–Whitney U test; P = 0.033). No significant changes in disease activity were found during the follow-up period in either group (paired t test; EG: P = 0.179 and no-EG: P = 0.799) with no significant difference in the change scores in disease activity between the groups (ANCOVA; P = 0.618).
During the follow-up period, the damage of the large joints did not increase significantly in either group (EG: P = 0.109 and no-EG: P = 0.084; Table 2), and no significant difference in change in damage between the EG and the no-EG group was found (P = 0.124). The SDD of the progression of large joint damage based on the scores of the two observers, amounted to 1.65 score points. When the SDD was used as a threshold for a relevant increase in damage, we found that it was exceeded by 3 (30%) of the participants in the no-EG and 7 (12.5%) of the participants in the EG (chi-square test; P = 0.155) in this follow-up study. No statistically significant differences between the duration of the RA and/or DAS score between the participants in the EG in whom the damage of the large joints did or did not exceeded SDD were found (data not shown).
There were ten patients in whom, in the original RAPIT study, the change in damage exceeded the SDD who did participate in the EG of this follow-up study. In this study, in only two of them, the change in damage exceeded again the SDD.
This observational study demonstrates that a majority of the RA patients who participated in a 2-year high-intensity exercise program continued, in a "real-life" situation, exercising at a similar level of intensity but at a lower frequency. Patients who choose to continue the exercises had better aerobic fitness and functional ability and lower levels of disease activity at the end of the initial 2-year program, and they had higher attendance rates over the past 2 years than patients who did not pursue. After 18 months of follow-up, the original gains in functional ability were sustained, irrespective of continuation of exercises. In contrast to the patients who did not continue intensive exercise, the patients from the EG were able to conserve their gains without any detrimental effects on their disease activity or radiological joint damage. Aerobic fitness deteriorated in both groups.
During follow-up, the patients who decided to continue intensive exercises trained less frequently than during the RAPIT trial, while the intensity level of the exercises remained approximately similar. This is in agreement with our earlier finding that after 2 years of participation in exercise classes of the RAPIT trial, 50% of the completers preferred a frequency of once a week to above twice a week and 74% of the completers indicated to be satisfied with the intensity of the exercise program [13].
Patients who decided not to continue intensive exercising were patients with lower attendance rate during the RAPIT trial. At the start of the follow-up, they also exhibited less aerobic fitness and a lower functional ability and had a more active disease. This observation is in concordance with our earlier finding that low adherence to intensive exercise classes is (weekly) associated with high disease activity and low functional ability [13]. Patients themselves brought up the time management and other logistic problems as the most common reasons of not continuing the exercise, suggesting that the benefit/risk ratio was probably low for these patients.
Studies on the effects of long-term detraining after regular exercise in humans demonstrate a loss of aerobic fitness [21, 22]. While highly trained athletes from a variety of sports have been shown to decrease their maximal oxygen uptake (VO2 max) by 6–20% during long-term training cessation [23], studies on recently trained individuals indicate a complete reversal of VO2 max to pretraining levels [24]. Gains in aerobic fitness may decrease significantly even after a relatively short period (8 weeks) of detraining [25]. Our findings of a decrease in aerobic capacity towards pre-RAPIT levels in both groups are thus in agreement with the current literature. The fact that in our study this decline did not reach the level of statistical significance might be due to a low number of participants and/or to a large scatter in aerobic capacity between the patients.
At 18 months of follow-up, despite a lower median frequency of exercise sessions, the patients in the EG did not turn in their gains in muscle strength. This finding is in agreement with the results of other authors who demonstrated that continuation of strength exercise at lower-intensity levels [8] or even a relatively short period of detraining [25, 26] does not result in a loss of gains in muscle strength. Even patients in the no-EG did not lose their muscle strength gains after 18 months of detraining. Also this finding is in agreement with the findings of other authors. Several studies indicate reversibility of muscle strength gains only after a prolonged period of detraining. Häkkinen et al. showed that prolonged (24 weeks) detraining does result in a decrease of muscle mass and a loss of voluntary strength [26]. Winters et al. investigated the effects of detraining on the muscle strength of pre-menopausal women after 12 months of resistance training [27]. Only after 6 months of withdrawal of exercise, the muscle strength returned towards baseline values.
At 18 months of follow-up, the patients in both groups were able to conserve their level of functional ability. This observation is in concordance with the findings of Häkkinen et al. [8] and our earlier observation that long-term exercises produce a prolonged positive effect on functional ability [12]. A possible explanation for this finding might be a general increase in levels of activities of daily living as a consequence of positive experiences derived from past long-term participation in an exercise group. Our current finding that the decrease in muscle strength is not followed by a decrease in functional ability supports this hypothesis. To conserve functional ability continuation of intensive exercises does not seem obligatory.
Importantly, no significant difference in the rate of damage of the large joints was found between the EG and the no-EG. Theoretically, long-term weight-bearing exercises of damaged and/or inflamed large joints might result in increased rate of damage. In the original RAPIT study, a trend towards more increase in damage was found in the EG when compared with the control group [12]. In this follow-up study, this phenomenon could not be confirmed. There were ten patients in whom, in the original RAPIT study, the change in damage exceeded the SDD who did participate in the EG of this follow-up study. In this study, in only 2 of them (Welke Groep), the change in damage, again, exceeded the SDD.
The following data can have biased our results. Recall bias can be a significant problem in studies when an appeal is made to patients' memory. In this study, a questionnaire was used to collect retrospectively the information on the exercise intensity and frequency in the past 18 months. However, to anticipate on this, at the start of this follow-up study, all participants were informed that they will be asked about their exercise activities during the study period at 18 months. Furthermore, they were aware that information on their compliance was retrieved from the supervisors of the exercises when applicable.
The results of this study have to be interpreted with care because the participants in this follow-up study formed a relatively small proportion of the original RAPIT exercise group participants (71/151 of the original EG participants). The selection of the participants for the follow-up study was due to logistic reasons, resulting in the recruitment of patients from only two out of the four original study locations. Although we found that the baseline characteristics from the study participants did not differ from the non-participants, it cannot be ruled out that the participants were more motivated and/or had less physical problems and/or had more positive experiences with previous RAPIT exercises.
In this follow-up study, in the group of patients who did not continue exercising, the proportion of women was significantly higher (11/11 = 100%) than in the group who sustained participation (50/60 = 83%; P value of chi-square test = 0.144), indicating that female gender has a negative effect on long-term dynamic exercise adherence. This finding is concordance with the literature, where, in RA patients, men are in general found to be more physically active than women [6, 28]. However, the proportions of women in the original RAPIT study (79% women) [12], the completers of the intensive exercise program of the original RAPIT study (82% women) [13], and this follow-up study (86% women in the total group and 83% women in the subgroup who continued exercising) were relatively higher as compared to the common sex distribution found in RA. The relative overrepresentation of women in this follow-up study could probably be explained by the time of the day the RAPIT exercise intervention was provided in this follow-up study (during the day). This could make sustained participation less attractive for persons with a paid job, among whom there are usually relatively more men. However, as we did not assess the working status of the participants in neither the original RAPIT study nor in this follow-up study, it remains unclear to what extent the planning of the intervention and working status may have played a role. It could also be hypothesized that men prefer other forms of exercise than women, e.g., unsupervised activities and/or individual activities. Irrespective of the explanation, the potential selection bias towards female patients indicates that the results of this follow-up study have to be interpreted with care and cannot be generalized to all RA patients.
Finally, we have to acknowledge the small sample of non-EG group. This may violate somewhat the applicability of statistical methods and more importantly lead to less power to find relevant results.
This study on the determinants of continuous participation, compliance, and effectiveness of high-intensity exercises is one of only the two studies with long-term follow-up in RA patients [8]. It confirms again that patients with RA are able to perform long-term intensive exercise safely and effectively. Importantly, the majority of patients who made acquaintance with intensive exercise and its benefits in a trial situation were motivated to continue in "real life". In addition, we demonstrate that while the continuation of regular intensive exercises at higher frequency might be necessary to preserve the gains in aerobic fitness (important for cardiovascular health), a lower exercise frequency seems adequate to maintain the gains in muscle strength and functional ability. In highly populated countries, exercising in classes is possible and practical and stimulates compliance and has added value in respect to patients' education. Some RA patients will be able, after a period of exercising with their fellow patients, to join successfully community-based classes.
However, the minimal necessary intensity and frequency of exercises and relation between the two are not yet clear.
This work was supported by the foundation 'Vrienden van Sole Mio'.
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In mathematics, a sequence { an }, n ≥ 1, is called superadditive if it satisfies the inequality
for all m and n. The major reason for the use of superadditive sequences is the following lemma due to Michael Fekete.[1]
Lemma: (Fekete) For every superadditive sequence { an }, n ≥ 1, the limit lim an/n exists and is equal to sup an/n. (The limit may be positive infinity, for instance, for the sequence an = log n!.)
Similarly, a function f is superadditive if
for all x and y in the domain of f.
For example, is a superadditive function for nonnegative real numbers because the square of is always greater than or equal to the square of plus the square of , for nonnegative real numbers and .
The analogue of Fekete's lemma holds for subadditive functions as well. There are extensions of Fekete's lemma that do not require the definition of superadditivity above to hold for all m and n. There are also results that allow one to deduce the rate of convergence to the limit whose existence is stated in Fekete's lemma if some kind of both superadditivity and subadditivity is present. A good exposition of this topic may be found in Steele (1997).[2][3]
If f is a superadditive function, and if 0 is in its domain, then f(0) ≤ 0. To see this, take the inequality at the top. . Hence
The negative of a superadditive function is subadditive.
Examples of superadditive functions[edit]
- Mutual information
- Horst Alzer proved [4] that Hadamard's gamma function H(x) is superadditive for all real numbers x,y with x, y ≥ 1.5031.
See also[edit]
- ^ Fekete, M. (1923). "Über die Verteilung der Wurzeln bei gewissen algebraischen Gleichungen mit ganzzahligen Koeffizienten". Mathematische Zeitschrift. 17 (1): 228–249. doi:10.1007/BF01504345.
- ^ Michael J. Steele (1997). Probability theory and combinatorial optimization. SIAM, Philadelphia. ISBN 0-89871-380-3.
- ^ Michael J. Steele (2011). CBMS Lectures on Probability Theory and Combinatorial Optimization. University of Cambridge.
- ^ Horst Alzer (2009). A superadditive property of Hadamard's gamma function. Springer. doi:10.1007/s12188-008-0009-5.
- Notes
- György Polya and Gábor Szegö. (1976). Problems and theorems in analysis, volume 1. Springer-Verlag, New York. ISBN 0-387-05672-6.
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