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OFFER E-NEWS REDESIGN
E-NEWS
has undergone a major redesign in 2007!
We hope
the new look of the OFFER E-NEWS is more user
friendly and provides easier access to the archives
and information on the OFFER web site,
http://www.offerutah.org.
We would like to get
your input on the new E-NEWS. If you have
suggestions that you think might make it more
effective, just click on the "Suggestions and Ideas"
tab on the left.
OFFER EDUCATION MEETINGS
OFFER's
Education Meetings are the first
Wednesday of each month at
7:00 p.m., and are free and open to
everyone.
Council
Chambers, Salt Lake County Complex North Building
2001 South
State Street, Salt Lake City, UT.
(Park free
at the northeast corner of the complex)
February 7, 2007
Stuart Drescher, Ph.D.
OFFER Board Member
"Depression and Chronic Pain"
For more
information go to:
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March 7, 2007
Loren Lambert, J.D.
OFFER Board Member
"Legal Do's and Don'ts of a Disability Claim"
OFFER 2007
Conferences rapidly approaching!
Register NOW for the OFFER PATIENT
CONFERENCE!!!
We have some exciting news! Lynne
Matallana, National Fibromyalgia Association
President, has agreed to make a
presentation at our Patient Conference.
Lynne is the FMA Founder, Fibromyalgia Aware
Magazine Publisher, on the FDA Center for
Drug Evaluation Research Arthritis Advisory
Committee, member of National Institue of
Arthritis & Musculoskeletal & Skin Diseases
Coalition, featured on Newsweek, Dateline
NBC, in numerous national media, on
television and radio broadcasts, and is the
author of The Complete Idiot's Guide:
Fibromyalgia. You can read more about
this inspiring woman who was diagnosed with
Fibromyalgia in 1995 by going to:
http://www.offerutah.org/Conference.html
and clicking on "Speakers Biographies and
Photos".
The Patient Conference is
set for the afternoon of Saturday,
May 5th, 2007. This is only three
months away! Make sure that you register by
April 27th, 2007 to take advantage of the
early registration discoutn!
Please help OFFER get the word out.
OFFER's 2007 Provider and Patient
Conferences have been scheduled. The
Provider Conference is set for all
day Friday, May 4th and Saturday
morning May 5th, 2007. The
Patient Conference is set for the
afternoon of Saturday, May 5th, 2007.
Please go to the following link on OFFER's
website to see the details regarding the
Provider Conference. If you are a
person with CFS or Fibromyalgia and would
like your medical providers to attend this
groundbreaking conference, you can
print the flyer and, if you like, the actual
speaker list that is on our website and
give them to your providers so they
can pencil in the dates. Medical
providers plan their schedules months in
advance, so the sooner you get this
information to your providers the better
chance that they can attend.
"Of all the attitudes we can acquire, surely the
attitude of gratitude is
the most important and by far the most
life-changing."
Author: Zig Ziglar
The 8th International IACFS Conference on
Chronic Fatigue Syndrome, Fibromyalgia and other
Related Illnesses took place in Ft.
Lauderdale, Florida from January 10-14. It was a
groundbreaking conference with five days of
outstanding presentations. Our Chairman, Stuart
Drescher, Ph.D., and our Executive Director, Lucinda
Bateman, MD, attended the Patient and Provider
Conferences. We hope to get their impressions and
insights on this conference in our next OFFER
E-NEWS.
Dr. Bateman stars in promo:
Dr. Bateman was also a presenter at the Patient
Conference. The entire conferences were put on
DVD's with the latest technology allowing you to
view and listen to the presentation while also
seeing the PowerPoint slides in sequence during your
viewing. InstaTapes
Media© calls their process DigiVision. InstTapes
Media© taped the entire conferences and have them
for sale on the IACFS website. To demonstrate their
DigiVision process they used one of the many
presentations at the conference. Guess which one
they used? They used Dr. Bateman's presentation!
To view her entire 50 minute presentation, 'Making
the Most of Your Doctor's Appointments' you need to
have Windows Media Player version 7.1 or later (you
can download it for free). Just go to the IACFS
website at
http://www.aacfs.org/ and click on the
DigiVision box on the upper right of the page. Then
scroll down and click on: SEE DEMO HERE!!! Just
give it a minute to get started and you can watch
the entire presentation.
An Informal Summary of the
January 2007 IACFS Conference
ImmuneSupport.com
1-31-2007
Review of Ampligen clinical
trials in Chronic Fatigue Syndrome
by
W. Mitchell
ImmuneSupport.com
1-17-2007
INFO-LINKS
OFFER's Web Site
Helping Others Helps You
Vijai P. Sharma, Ph.D
Helping others is good for
your health. It is healthy to forget yourself
on a regular basis and concentrate on helping
others. Volunteer to care for someone, but
limit it to the extent that you can handle
without taxing yourself. A study which involved
2,700 residents in Tecumseh, Michigan, observed
that residents who volunteer their time for
community organizations were two and a half
times less likely to die from any diseases
compared to those who did not volunteer.
"Forget past mistakes. Forget
failures. Forget about everything
except
what you're going to do now - and do
it."
Author: William Durant
VOLUNTEER CORNER
OFFER is in need of
volunteers who would like to help in one or more
of the following areas:
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Education Meeting:
sales, planning speakers, publicizing,
information table, running microphone,
operating camera
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Data entry,
office/clerical/phones
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Fundraising
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Special event planning
and operating (Conference Planning, etc.)
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DVD/CD production,
editing, and packaging
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Distribution of
Brochures and DVD's
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Website content review
and writing
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Public service
announcements and publicity
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Writing reviews of
monthly education meetings
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Shopping, errands,
cleaning, driving, cooking, etc. for
homebound individuals
If you have interest in
doing any of these, please call OFFER at
328-8080 or send an email to:
offerregistration@yahoo.com.
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"It's not the will to win, but the will to
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Author: Paul "Bear" Bryant
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Note: the inclusion of information in this
newsletter does not constitute or imply endorsement
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Chapter. Please consult your medical care provider
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