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Man to take over Women's Health Initiative
After years of struggling to be recognized as a valid subspecialty of medicine, the Women's Health Initiative has announced that Dr. Robert McGowan will take over the management of feminine healthcare nationwide. Linda O'Connor, a physician specializing in women's health, stated, "This is good news for women everywhere." After much discussion over who to put in charge of the Initiative, the Board of Directors finally landed on McGowan. Stated one member, "Simply put, we needed someone who is right most of the time."
No one is more excited about the news than Dr. McGowan himself. He said, "It's about time they put me in charge. No one really knows what women need more than a man such as myself." Dr. McGowan is board certified in both internal medicine as well as obstetrics and gynecology. His first order of business is to change the way that medical students and residents are taught about women's health. He says that he hopes to have the American Board of Internal Medicine recognize women's health as a subspecialty sometime this afternoon.
As part of his tenure he hopes to secure reproductive rights for all women, increase the accessibility of mammograms and Pap smears, and to portray female doctors on television as something more than drama queens who are constantly caught in love triangles. "Women everywhere need to know that their doctor isn't going to be like Meredith Gray." He also plans to tackle diseases that are common to women-most notably, the wondering uterus and fibromyalgia.
When asked to comment on their decision to put a man in charge of the Women's Health Initiative, O'Connor stated, "We look at the amount of time needed for this project and realize that this is a man's job." She provided the following two graphs as evidence.
In the past the leadership role in the WHI was a shared, co-presidency. McGowan will take on both positions. "We were tired of hiring two women to fill the job that could be performed by one man," explained one board member.
Dr. McGowan is also a fervent Christian. He states that religion should play a larger role in the Women's Health Initiative. "We need to turn to the Man upstairs to help us out in our time of need," he elaborated. Many are thinking that McGowan just might be the best man for the job.
Said O'Connor, "Women everywhere need to bow down to this man of character."
Thanks to The Onion for inspiration.
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Anon said,
I knew I could smell an Onion! I prefer male doctors for female health care. They never assume anything and ask lots of questions. Women are like, "Well you and I are the same size and I have seven pound babies. . ." (I still have 10 pounders. Surprise-surprise.) On your graphs– on what men do, you have it backwards.
Lisa said,
I do prefer a man OB, but I think that no one knows a womans body better then a woman. I for one bust my butt all day at work and my job does not end at 5 like a typical mans job would!! I have two children and caring for them is a full time job on its own. I have literally no time to make superfical compliments, or any of the crap that is listed above!! I think that a woman works harder then a man bar none!!! (And yes you do have the mens chart backwards)
Samantha said,
Dr. O'Connor, I provided my e-mail address, would you please sent me information you used to create such a bogus pie graph.
There is no way the information gathered here portrays the average woman. Take this for example. There are 24 hours in the days. At least 8 of those are spent at work, if the women is lucky enough to have a normal 9-5 job. That leaves 16 hours left. lets subtract 6 for sleep, now we have 10, that gives us 1 hour of driving around from home to work to home again 9 left, then to run errands, give that 2 hours, who else is going to buy food, now we are at 7. . then we get to cook dinner and do dishes minus 1 hours 6left. clean the house, pay the bills and if she has children, help them with their homework and put them to bed lets give that at least 3 hours. that gives us 4hours left. so with the kids to bed, how are we going to have time to go clubbing every night? and why would we dream of having more babies? women support eachother but i wouldnt confuse that with superficial compliments. and we are so busy reading the front page of the newspaper who has time to spend that much time reading horoscopes and only really irresponsible women shop with money they dont have, i wouldn't say that average woman even does that. and with what ever time we have left over i can guarantee you that we dont spend our free time thinking about our weight or crying for practically 1/7 of the day. we watch tv, go for a walk, spend time with friends and family. Then get ready for bed and start it all over again. Maybe we cry once a week on a really bad day. sounds like the people you studied have too much free time, no job and are depressed.
Half M.D.: You're joking, right? Did you really think that this article was real???
Jo said,
I love the whole article! both charts are great. judging from the comments, looks like you have gotten the first chart right by leaving "laughing at random jokes and not get offended" out. however, shouldn't the two areas in the second chart overlap? you can increase efficiency and productivity by doing both at the same time…
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Former U.S. Senator and co-chairman of President Barack Obama's deficit commission Alan Simpson told an audience Tuesday that citizens should vote for leaders that demonstrate a willingness to compromise.
"The word compromise now means you're a wimp," said Simpson. "And let me tell ya, if you can't learn to compromise an issue without compromising yourself you should never be in any legislative body and furthermore you should never be married," he said to laughter.
"What the hell is that about?" he continued. "If you can't compromise on an issue without compromising yourself you're a zero. You're nothing."
The remarks came during an event moderated by George Washington University's Frank Sesno sponsored by Face the Facts USA.
Sesno pressed the former Republican Senator from Wyoming on his remarks. "When you ran for office, when you ran for reelection," said Sesno, "did you [go around] giving speeches about how you were going to go to Washington and compromise?"
"I used to say, find me where they're after my butt and I'll have a town meeting," said Simpson. "I'll speak for five minutes and let them talk for two hours. I took on the veterans, I took on the AARP, and the best thing that ever happened after every meeting was 'Simpson, you're cute and you're smart and you're a smart aleck. I didn't agree with you but by God you answered the question honestly.'"
"And that's all people want," continued Simpson. "You don't have to be with them, just tell them the truth!"

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LostWallet is going to be an online resource that provides free tools and advice to help replace the contents of your lost or stolen wallet or purse quickly, and save you some cash along the way with special deals on bank cards and credit cards.
The concept started when I lost my wallet and was not sure of what steps to take. I searched online only to find limited information was available. I want this to be the go to website for people who have lost their wallet in Australia.
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Primary audience: Generation Y - because their busy lifestyle leads to them being the most likely to lose items such as their wallet. They are also more likely to search online to find a solution when they do lose their wallet.
The recent global financial crisis has also encouraged them to save and seek out better deals.
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Anderson leads Tourists in Game 3 rout
Rockies' No. 6 prospect retires final 12 batters faced in 9-0 win
By Zack Cox / Special to MLB.com | September 13, 2012 7:35 PM
Tyler Anderson turned in a masterful performance on the mound and Asheville blasted four home runs Thursday night in a 9-0 romp over Greensboro, putting the Tourists one win away from a Sally League title.
The Rockies' No. 6 prospect retired the final 12 batters he faced, scattering four hits over seven innings. It was the left-hander's fifth scoreless start of the season.
Anderson said he didn't have any one specific "out" pitch going for him, and instead relied on keeping pitches in the zone and trusting the defense behind him. The first-year pro struck out just three in the contest, but did not issue a walk.
"Nothing was really standing out as [a pitch] that was fooling guys, and the key when that happens is just getting out ahead of guys and throwing a lot of strikes," he explained. "That's what it came down to."
A first-round Draft pick in 2011 out of Oregon, Anderson was dominant in his debut season. The 6-foot-4 southpaw led all Sally League pitchers with a 2.47 ERA, compiling a 12-3 record in 20 regular-season starts.
Anderson has lived up to his hype in the postseason, striking out a career-high nine in a 6-2 win over Rome in the Southern Division Finals. He's allowed just one run over 13 innings in two playoff starts.
"These games are awesome," the Las Vegas native said. "On our team, these guys are so close. ... In big situations our team cowboys up, so it's a lot of fun to pitch for them. Our hitters battle all the time, so going out and trying to return the favor is a lot of fun."
Asheville has scored 19 runs since dropping a 6-3 decision in Game 1, pounding Greensboro for 27 hits over the last two games for a 2-1 series lead. The 10 runs put up by the Tourists in Game 2 was the highest one-game total of the Sally League playoffs.
All nine of the Tourists' runs Thursday came via the home run. Shortstop Taylor Featherston opened the scoring with a three-run blast in the third, and Ryan Casteel followed with a two-run shot in the next frame to give Asheville a 5-0 advantage.
Jared Simon launched a tape-measure shot over the left-field wall in the eighth, and Trevor Story -- Colorado's No. 2 prospect -- capped the victory with a two-run homer three batters later.
Simon racked up a game-high four hits, and he, Story and Casteel each scored twice for the Tourists.
"As a pitcher -- especially as a starter -- you try not to look at the scoreboard and pitch every ballgame like it's 0-0," Anderson said. "But it definitely makes it a little easier to throw strikes and get ahead when your team puts up a five-spot. It's going to take a lot for them to come back from that."
Greensboro starter Jake Esch (0-1) struck out seven but was chased after four innings, surrendering five runs on six hits.
Asheville can close out the series with a win Friday night in Greensboro.
Zack Cox is a contributor to MLB.com. This story was not subject to the approval of the National Association of Professional Baseball Leagues or its clubs.View More


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- 1 Chavín de Huántar Archaeological Acoustics Project
Chavín de Huántar Archaeological Acoustics Project
Acoustic Measurement, Archiving, Analysis, Modeling, and Simulation/Installation
Chavín de Huántar is a monumental World Heritage archaeological site [1] in the Peruvian highlands predating Inca society by over 2000 years. Since 1995 Professor John Rick of Stanford University and teams have been excavating the site [2], revealing peculiar and unique architectural features in both surface and underground structures. It is the underground structures, a complex of labyrinthine galleries and corridors, that are of particular interest to this project, because explanations for their purpose and function have led to Rick's hypothesis that they were constructed, at enormous cost in labor, to establish social hierarchy through sensory manipulation in the context of religious ritual: a priest-elite over the novitiates.
In 2001 Rick discovered in one of the galleries twenty engraved ceremonial Strombus (conch) trumpets, some of which showed (through wear) use over several centuries. This important discovery reinforced his hypothesis that the acoustic properties of the underground part of the site were fundamental to the ancient ritual and perhaps even a determinant in architectural layout and design. One of the important (and enticing) questions is whether there is an acoustical relationship between the Strombus trumpets and the dimensions and layout of the underground galleries. That is, are the acoustic properties of the Strombus trumpets in any way coupled to the resonant frequencies and temporal features of the galleries and corridors? Finding an answer to this question will provide Rick with data to further elaborate and refine his hypothesis regarding the importance of sensory manipulation in Chavín ritual.
Since an important area of research at CCRMA is physical modeling of acoustic sources and reverberant spaces, we saw the opportunity to join two disciplines with the purpose of extending Rick's three-dimensional measurements and CAD renderings of the site to include physical models of the site's acoustics, with excitation sources such as Strombus trumpets, rushing water through canals both above and beneath galleries, and the human voice. Acoustic measurements and models of a site can be used to archive site acoustics, estimate the acoustics of inaccessible or alternative site architectures, and reconstruct original site acoustics; they may also be used to corroborate aspects of rituals suggested by other archaeological data. Measurement and modeling may be used to understand the implications of auditory experiences within these galleries as related to the role of the site in developing religious authority.
It is notable that because Chavín de Huántar presents intact enclosures primarily without post- period modification, acoustic measurements can be made throughout much of the site that closely reflect period conditions. Such an opportunity to archive relatively unmodified ancient architectural structures is rare. However, this opportunity may soon be altered: Chavín de Huántar is an important touristic attraction; thus the Peruvian government must make the underground galleries safe for visitors, adding reinforcing structures that will irreversibly alter the acoustics. It is therefore imperative that onsite measurements be made soon, precisely, and thoroughly.
The project is divided into three phases as shown below. Phase 3 represents the ultimate goal: a complete and site-independent virtual simulation over multiple loudspeakers, produced using a computer-based model of the acoustics of the underground galleries and above-ground plazas. These acoustic models will provide a rich research base with which to evaluate a variety of acoustic conditions, architectural geometries, source placements and listening positions within the galleries. Such a simulation can also be exhibited as an installation/virtual walkthrough, at both the Chavín museum in Peru, and at Stanford, reconstructing an auditory-visual experience of the original galleries.
Team Information
- John Rick, PhD, Professor, Stanford University, Archaeology/Anthropology
- Julius O. Smith, PhD, Professor, Stanford University, Center for Computer Research in Music and Acoustics (CCRMA)/Electrical Engineering (by courtesy)
- Jonathan S. Abel, PhD, Consulting Professor, Stanford University, CCRMA
- Patty Huang, MA, Graduate Student, Stanford University, CCRMA
- Miriam Kolar, MFA, Graduate Student, Stanford University, CCRMA
- John Chowning, DMA, Professor Emeritus, Stanford University, CCRMA/Music
Local Collaborators:
- Christian Mesia, Ph.D, Instituto Nacional de Cultura, Lima
Team Background:
- John Rick has been heading excavations and directing research at the Chavín site since 1995
- Digital waveguide techniques were pioneered at CCRMA by Julius O. Smith III
- Julius O. Smith and Jonathan S. Abel have been working together on acoustic array processing and related problems since 1985
- Patty Huang is a PhD student working under Abel on physical modeling and analysis of reverberant spaces
- Miriam Kolar is a PhD student with extensive field experience in recording engineering
- John Chowning is a composer having long standing interest in spatial modeling
- CCRMA has expertise in field measurements, psychoacoustics, digital signal processing, and artificial reverberation
Phase 1. Preparation and Onsite Measurements
- Preliminary on-site tests [completed 12/07]
- Preliminary on-site tests [to be completed 3/08]
- Specification of test and recording equipment [ongoing; 1-2/08]
- Purchase and assemble gear [ongoing; 2-?/08]
Simulation Trials in local environments
- CCRMA stairwell, hallways, "Pit"
- SU subsurface spaces-"famous" steam tunnels
- Outdoor space similar to Chavín Circular Plaza?
Specify Provisional Mapping (for sound source-receiver placements from CAD rendering) [in progress; 1-?/08]
- from each chamber to main space
- least damaged areas
- with and without plastering
- peculiar geometries (e.g. , adjoining (comb-like) chambers, etc.)
Onsite Measurements at Chavín
- Plastering of section of Chavín (selection of plastered sections is critical (soon after arrival to allow for drying)
- Adjust mapping of source-receiver points
Measurements -- Sources
- balloon pops
- speaker-generated sinusoidal chirps
- other signals
- strombus trumpet live/recorded
- record stream/water sound, wind noise
Measurements -- Receivers
- distributed mics
- in-ear-canal mics
- $3,000 (2/08) equipment
- $13,000 (summer 2008) equipment, data collection costs, logistical support [estimated; final costs TBD]
- $8,000 travel and accommodations (2 weeks on site) for 2 faculty (Rick, Abel), 2 graduate students (Huang, Kolar)
- $1,000 on site wall-building, plastering, and removal (summer 2008)
Potential Sources of Funding
Equipment Loan
- Sennheiser Research Lab
Acoustics'08 Paper [5]
- Presentation in Paris, June-July 2008
Phase 2. Analysis and Generation of Physical Model
- compare plastered and unplastered and extrapolate to the entire structure
- IR measurement to render the modeled spaces
- measurement processing to model the pristine state
- Strombus trumpet
Physical Model
- calculate acoustical properties of materials
- rendering from architectural models
- use waveguide mesh processing
- Stanford invention of and current work with waveguide mesh allows effective method to address computation/simulation of acoustical spaces
- process and match/fit measurements then extend to parts of site that aren't necessarily intact or accessible for comprehensive measurements (plastering).
Potential Funding Sources
- National Geographic [6]
- National Endowment for the Humanities- Collaborative Research Grants [7]
- National Science Foundation- Archaeology and Archaeometry [8]
Phase 3. Electroacoustic Simulation & Public Interface
- Stanford
- Chavín Museum
- National Museum, Peru
Public Interfaces
- Virtual walkthrough (headphone tour) in present condition
- Virtual walkthrough (headphone tour) in reconstructed condition
- Enhanced reverberation system for visitor experience
- Installations of replica in various formats (online, DVD, museum, show, etc.)
Conservation & Reconstruction
- Quantify and compensate for support structures
- Simulation of plastered walls


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As long as the Bears win, Jay Cutler can do what he wants.
As long as Cutler throws for 300 yards and two or three touchdowns, he can stiff any coach he likes.
That's what I'm getting in my emails and on my Twitter account. That's what I'm reading in comments to the Tribune, hearing from callers to radio shows, and seeing in tweets to Comcast SportsNet.
"Y do you care if he's an ass off the field? Just win and don't kill or maim or rape anyone off the field. It's really simple.''
Hashtag palmtoforehead.
"YOU need to stop it. Stop it. My goodness, so much for objective journalism.''
And so much for your knowing what the point of a column is.
But anyway, let me see if I have this right:
Cutler's shoving J'Marcus Webb in Green Bay was wrong because the Bears lost, but dissing Mike Tice on the bench was fine because the Bears won.
New football maxim: Winning isn't everything, but everything is excused by winning.
Maybe it's me, but it's wrong to publicly humiliate your boss. Try that with your boss and see how that works out.
Maybe it's me, but it's a lame version of leadership to shove a teammate. Stupid, too, when that teammate is charged with protecting your blind side.
It's not professional. It's not what a leader does. It was a dumb act, sort of like Cutler's playing the martyr card on his radio show after getting criticized for his dumb act, saying the media blows everything out of proportion.
Seems to me, if you don't pull some selfish, unprofessional act, then there's nothing to blow out of proportion.
Cutler has this pattern. It goes back to last season when microphones picked up the F-bomb he dropped on former offensive coordinator Mike Martz.
By the way, why does Cutler have so many offensive coordinators? Does Lovie Smith hire so many dumb assistants or does the sometimes petulant Cutler have something to do with the coaching turnover? Discuss.
Meanwhile, back to Cutler's pattern. This feels familiar: some bad moves, some terrific talent, some questionable acts as a teammate. Yeah, Sammy Sosa. This defense of Cutler has a Sosa-ness about it.
As long as Sosa hit 60 homers, he could make whatever selfish move he wanted, and fans and management would accept it. Heck, they'd justify it and defend it and buy him a new boombox, if necessary.
Until he couldn't do it anymore, and then the people who enabled Sosa turned on him viciously. Revenge is public. The monster ate the team, and no surprise, the team fell apart.
Baseball isn't as much of a team sport as football. Football is the ultimate team sport, so you'd think it would require acute attention to bonding brotherhood, respect and support. Maybe it's me, but shoving a teammate and dissing your boss don't seem to strengthen brotherhood, respect and support.
Maybe it's me, but I can't think of any unprofessional acts that would strengthen a team.
Maybe it's me, but I would expect the example to be set by the quarterback, whom the NFL has paid and legislated into the most important player on the field, and by extension, off it.
Although Cutler's actions cannot possibly help, I'm not saying the Bears will fall apart because of this. I'm not predicting doom because Cutler can't always work and play well with others.
But I will predict this: The people who are defending Cutler's incivility by ripping me will be the first to empty the magazine with invectives if he doesn't lead the Bears to the Super Bowl, and some of them will question his leadership skills.
Oh, and I'd also bet that Cutler won't take much, if any, of the blame.


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Cinema Biographies
I have many cinephile friends--foremost among them The Siren--who have a great taste for cinema biographies. I've read far too few of them, and for no good reason.
André Bazin died 50 years ago last week. In remembrance, I re-read Dudley Andrew's superb, indispensable 1978 biography. Andrew also has an essay in the new Film Comment for the occasion (not online, alas).
Two of my favorite cine-biographies are memoirs: Jean Renoir's My Life and My Films and Luis Buñuel's My Last Sigh. I've returned to them several times over the years. There are many biographies--of Howard Hawks by Todd McCarthy, Fritz Lang by Patrick McGilligan, John Ford and Roberto Rossellini by Tag Gallagher--that I haven't read from start to finish. I'll dip into them after I've seen a movie by these directors, and read just the sections pertaining to the movie. Not a very systematic or exemplary way to approach this valuable genre of writing!
And so, I'm wondering: Any favorite cinema biographies--of filmmakers, performers, craftsmen, etc.--that you would like to recommend? I'd appreciate it.
Some links:
-- The several online exclusives in the new Film Comment issue include the transcript for the panel "Film Criticism in Crisis?".
-- Catherine Grant has been doing an awe-inspiring amount of work at her blog Film Studies For Free. See, for instance, this recent post on authors of note with links to their writings.
-- At Dan North's blog Spectacular Attractions, several new posts on subjects including Hitchcock's cameos, special effects and the virtual actor, Jacques Tati's Playtime, and "How to Watch Werckmeister Harmonies".
-- Matthew Flanagan on "Towards an Aesthetic of Slow in Contemporary Cinema" in 16:9.
-- Brian Sholis, of Artforum and Bookforum, has a new blog called The Search Was The Thing. It's subtitled "Thoughts on Art, Literature and History".
-- David Hudson rounds up the new issue of Sight & Sound.
-- Marc Raymond on Very Short Introductions, the pocket-sized series of academic books from Oxford University Press.
-- In the New York Times: "Google signs a deal to e-publish out-of-print books."
-- David Cairns' Shadowplay is among the most enjoyable places in the entire film-blogosphere. Right now, David gives us: Frank Borzage Week.
-- David Bordwell on Charles Barr's classic 1963 essay on widescreen and Barr's useful idea of "gradation of emphasis".
-- Recent posts at Jonathan Rosenbaum's place: on Pere Portabella, Gus Van Sant's Psycho and Jacques Tati's Parade.
-- J. Hoberman in Bookforum on two recent books devoted to Andrei Tarkovsky.
-- Chris Fujiwara on Jerry Lewis at Moving Image Source.
-- Glenn Kenny gives us a preview of the upcoming Murnau/Borzage box set.
-- New addition to the Serge Daney trove of translations at Steve Erickson's place: "John Ford For Ever".
-- At Film of the Month Club, there are posts on Ed Howard's pick, Su Friedrich's Sink or Swim (1990).
-- Michael Hirschorn on Peter Watkins in The Atlantic.
-- Jon Jost blogs about seeing the Leighton Pierce installation The Agency of Time.
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Wednesday, January 6, 2010
Another Notch In The ER Cot
The other day, during another busy shift, I walked into Room 31, ready to treat a new patient. What I walked into, however, caught me off-guard. In fact, I think I blushed. And after everything I've seen and treated in the ER over these past years, to get me to blush is a major accomplishment.
Lying in the cot, covered by a thin papery sheet, was a very "loving", shall we say, young couple. They were in the midst of some passionate maneuvering--four tangled arms wrapped around one another, shirts rumpled and pulled up, shoes kicked off to the side of the cot, and mussed up hair. My timing couldn't have been better. Lucky me. A front row ticket to an amateur peep show.
Maybe in my twenties, I would have been more enamoured about this situation but, to be honest, I'm in my early forties now--the only thing I felt was a little frustration. And, guessing from my warm cheeks, embarrassment. Well, some wonderment too--who in their right mind looks around an emergency treatment room and gets "in the mood?" Is it the gowns? At least this explained why the room curtain and sliding door were closed.
I cleared my throat and skipped my usual greeting. 'What's going on in here?" I asked, trying to sound like my father, stern and all-knowing.
Surprised, the girl sat up. "Oh my gosh," she giggled, hardly embarrassed, "we got a little bored after waiting for so long to be seen."
"I'll tell you what. I'm going to step out of this room for one minute, and when I come back in, I expect you to both be presentable. If not, you will both be escorted out of the ER by security. Do I make myself clear?"
They both nodded their heads at me, the middle-aged doctor who interrupted their cheap thrills.
I walked back to the nurses' station shaking my head. I wasn't buying the bored routine. Each patient room has its own television, complete with a remote control and more cable channels than I get at home. Each room also has a filled magazine rack and its own telephone for local calls. We even have available wireless internet if someone is so inclined to bring in their laptop with them. Outside of a pillow, a warm blanket, and a two-day old turkey sandwich with fresh lemon jello, what more could a waiting patient want?
Obviously, some privacy. And some form of birth-control.
I found the nurse for Room 31 and after making her aware that our patient had just been actively trying to get pregnant in our ER, we both walked back to the room together. Maybe, we joked, they would name the baby after one of us.
The curtain and sliding doors were both open. We walked into the room. The twentyish male companion was sitting meekly in the corner chair, the patient in the treatment cot. They were both dressed.
This time, I introduced myself and their nurse. "So," I said, after introductions, "which one of you might be the patient? Because from what I walked in on earlier, I would think that neither of you is sick enough to visit us in our ER."
After some putzing around, we got to the reason. The patient, it turns out, had missed her period and came to our ER for a pregnancy test. Yes, I am being serious. She got sent to the ER's acute-care side instead of our express wing after telling the triage nurse she had abdominal pain, thinking it would get her seen faster when, in fact, it tripled her wait time. The triage nurse, trying to move things along, had ordered the pregnancy test and some basic blood work.
There must be a higher power--her pregnancy test was negative.
This whole scenario, though, got me thinking that maybe there was some club I wasn't aware of, a club that nobody filled me in about since they know I work in the ER. This isn't the first time I've caught a couple fooling around in a cot. It's happened before and I would be disillusioned to think it wouldn't happen again. The common denominator, though, seems to be that they are all younger people, ranging from their late teens into their twenties.
I guess that rules my wife and I out. Initially, after catching this last couple, I had started making plans to take my wife to our ER to spend the night and find out what we were missing. And I was going to splurge, yessirree. No regular treatment room for my honey. I was going to get us one of those big trauma rooms with the really sturdy cot. Warm blankets. Cable TV. Pack our own sandwiches and pillows. Get a baby-sitter for the kids. All I had to do was register one of us, embellish some medical symptoms, give our insurance information, and the room would be ours.
"Hey honey," I would have said, "pack up your suitcase and jump in the car. I'm taking you on an overnight excursion. You don't need to pack a nightgown, either. Where we're going, they have plenty of them." If those prospects didn't intrigue her, what would? "Oh yeah," I'd add, "don't forget our insurance cards!"
In the midst of all this planning, though, it hit me--I probably wouldn't get a good night's sleep in the ER sharing a trauma cot with my wife. And, as I think I mentioned, I am in my early forties now. I held both my hands out and weighed the situation. A good night's sleep at home versus joining some obscure "notch in the ER cot" club. I yawned as I thought about it and with my yawn, the answer came quite easily.
So, this brings me back to my original question. Is there an ER club similar to the "mile-high" club that I don't know about? Do I really want to know? And does it have a nickname? I do like "notch in the ER cot" but I made that up on the fly--I would hope the name would be something better and more original than that.
Finally, if any of you are members to either club, keep it to yourself. I don't want to know. Now, if you'll excuse me, I'm going to get a good night's sleep.
As always, thanks for reading...next post will be Friday, January 8th. Let me know if you think of any good nicknames...
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- AtYourCervix said...
I'm no prude, but ANY kind of sex in the hospital just sends shivers down my spine (not the good shivers either).
One of our med students found a couple getting busy in one of the labor rooms a few months back.
When I was a patient on postpartum (years ago, with a semi-private room), my roommate, who had just given birth (like me!) was going at it with her boyfriend in the other bed, behind the curtain. EW!!!
- January 6, 2010 at 9:34 AM
- Peter said...
Hi! This one just cracked me up! Never in my wildest dreams would I have imagined anyone getting up to hanky panky in ER. I can only put it down to the porn like lighting!
Take Care,
- January 6, 2010 at 10:54 AM
- DreamingTree said...
Creepy. Just plain creepy.
- January 6, 2010 at 11:20 AM
- terri c said...
Well, and the worst is, she's now going to need another pregnancy test.
- January 6, 2010 at 12:05 PM
Just *hilarious*!
After 10 years at a Level 1 Trauma Center, I can relate :-0
Perhaps it's all just too.much.Grey's.Anatomy.watching.
- January 6, 2010 at 1:00 PM
- SeaSpray said...
"Is it the gowns? " hahahahahaha! Oh yeah ..especially if an inpatient and you get those gowns with the old fashioned boxer shorts print... you have to fend people off I tell you! ;)
I Love it ..taking your wife out for an overnight excursion to join the club. It's not complete though unless one of the staff walks in. is there anyone you don't like? Choose that night shift. :)
You know ..doctors and other med staff do this too. Maybe not in ER ..but if slow and no one around ..I'll bet it's happened.
I heard about a doc and a nurse caught going at it on a stretcher in the nursery.(night shift) Lost privileges and nurse fired.
And I've known about the ED doc's call room being a revolving door for "guests".
Gray's Anatomy isn't that far from reality with the sex in the hospital. I don't know about now with all the security cameras... but before that...
Maybe it's hormones, the thrill of maybe getting caught upping the excitement , bad manners and stupidity.
I laughed out loud with this post. Thanks for the laughs. :)
- January 6, 2010 at 1:38 PM
- Cal said...
Like you, I think age makes me appreciate a little comfort more so these days, and a hospital cot is definitely low on the comfort scale, particularly when you would be trying to fit two people canoodling on it. The only benefit would be once you had fallen off the cot and split your forehead open you would already be on the right spot for treatment.
- January 6, 2010 at 2:51 PM
It's kind of hot, I think. LOL. I wasn't supposed to say that, right?
Nicknames, for what?
- January 6, 2010 at 3:36 PM
- MLee said...
Too funny!!! I do believe there is an ER mile high club. When we closed our ER to open the new one, I found one of our cardiac fliers behind the curtain getting his $5.00 worth from one of our PID fliers. The only reason i found them was because he was hooked to a cardiac monitor and was just a little tachy. I said screw it, (no pun intended), left them to their business arrangement. About 10 minutes later they signed out AMA.
- January 6, 2010 at 6:59 PM
- 911RN said...
Funny stuff....have seen some steamy, preamble, foreplay in our ER but no outright sex. Our wait times must be shorter!
How about Cot Notchers Club or Stretcher Knockers Club ?
Ahh, those twenty somethings...did not even have to "get a room"- one was provided by their local, accomodating ER!
- January 6, 2010 at 7:28 PM
- ERP said...
- January 6, 2010 at 10:43 PM
Perhaps you could sign up the Radiologists and start an "MRI Scanner Club". There might be a publication in that one.
- January 7, 2010 at 8:59 AM
- Dr Grumble said...
The MRI studies have been done already:
- January 7, 2010 at 9:25 AM
- Grumpy Old Ken said...
Brilliant! Makes my life seem so very dull. Like your comment 'I am a writer'. I wonder what happens to our blogs when we're gone. Mind you, you're too young to go yet!
- January 7, 2010 at 4:14 PM
- Maha said...
All you have to say in a very concerned voice is "Oh crap! The last patient had infectious bloody diarrhea in this cot and infection control told us it wasn't cleaned thoroughly".
And I think there's a hospital wide variation of the mile high club. I found a couple on a tele floor in the midst of... well... we all know!
- January 8, 2010 at 6:41 PM
- Hey, You said...
Club Med?
Code Blue Club?
Or if you don't worry that people will take it the wrong way: ED Club?
- January 10, 2010 at 5:21 PM
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The Mets are off today giving us other things to think about, such as the Giants' secondary and inability to put together a running game. Also a chance to lament about another September of non-meaningful games for the Mets.
The Mets are mired in fourth place, thinking about how a hot run could have them chasing .500, which would be a successful season. Personally, I'd rather have the collapses of 2007 and 2008 than what they are today. At least they were in a pennant race, and if you're a baseball fan, that's all you can ask for from your team.
Since 1997, when Orioles manager Davey Johnson was named manager of the year and fired the same day by Peter Angelos, the franchise that long symbolized baseball excellence had hit the skids.
The Orioles showed some improvement last year, but were still projected to finish last in the AL East. But the Orioles have some power, their bullpen has pitched well and they took an impressive 24-7 record in one-run games. That record, despite a negative run differential, is the probably the single most significant stat to explain why the Orioles are in a pennant race.
Conversely, the Mets are 17-18 in one-run games, symbolic of a team with sporadic power and an inconsistent bullpen.
Can the Mets improve enough from within to be a contender like the Orioles?
Baltimore has more power, where the Mets' anticipated power from David Wright – he's fallen way for of expectations in that area- Jason Bay and Lucas Duda hasn't been there. Maybe Wright and Duda will produce next year to bring the Mets' power numbers up.
Building a bullpen is a tricky proposition and should Sandy Alderson accomplish that objective, perhaps Citi Field will be alive as Camden Yards will be tonight. It could be if the Mets split their losses in one-run games. Add nine wins and subtract nine losses and the Mets are right there in wild-card contention.
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December 6, 2011. Alumni from the Chicagoland area joined with Chairman of the Board Steve Bowen '68, President Pat White, and Dean Joe Emmick '92 to celebrate the Holiday Season at the University Club in downtown Chicago.
Following lunch, President White updated the attendees on the great fall the College has enjoyed. Pat reinforced the all inclusive nature of liberal arts learning as he outlined student immersion trips to Ireland and France. He also noted the wonderful seasons enjoyed by our cross country and football teams.
President White also took a few moments to highlight the many contributions to Wabash made by Joe Emmick '92, Dean for College Advancement. Joe leaves Wabash at the end of the month to join the leadership team at Elmhurst College in nearby Elmhurst, IL.
Greg Jania '93, president of the Wabash Club of Chicago, served as the emcee. Trustee attendees included Bob Wedgeworth '59 and his wife C.K. Also attending from the College were Major Gifts Officer Steve Hoffman '85 and Admissions Counselor Tim Cheek '10.
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This morning, Omaha Mayor Jim Suttle and Lincoln Mayor Chris Beutler will announce the official launch of the reEnergize Program, a community initiative to fundamentally transform the energy efficiency market in the Greater Omaha/Greater Lincoln area.
In November 2009, the cities of Omaha and Lincoln collaborated on a grant for Energy Efficiency and Conservation Block Grant (EECBG) Competitive Program from the Department of Energy. This program was initially known as Retrofit Ramp-up and subsequently renamed the BetterBuildings Program. The DOE prioritized energy efficiency programs that would lead to market transformation through whole-neighborhood retrofitting, with a focus on existing buildings. In addition, the programs selected needed to be replicable and scalable to other communities and maximize the creation and/or retention of jobs. In April 2010, the Department of Energy notified Omaha and Lincoln that they were one of 25 applicants selected to receive an award.
The reEnergize Program received $10 million to design an approach that will help catalyze the energy evaluation and upgrade markets in the residential and commercial building sectors. This Program is designed to help consumers overcome existing market barriers including access to quality information, access to financing, and access to a skilled workforce. The approach will include standardizing services, pre-qualifying contractors, and streamlining data collection.
"I'm honored we were selected for this important federal funding. The reEnergize Program will allow Omaha and Lincoln to become regional leaders in energy saving practices," said Mayor Jim Suttle. "As the two largest cities in Nebraska, we have a duty to lead by example. This program will foster innovation, provide jobs, and help move our great cities forward."
While there are many reasons to invest in energy efficiency, Mayor Beutler said knowing which improvements to make and how to pay for them can be barriers. "The reEnergize program is going straight at this knot in the market, and working to untie it for building owners in our two cities," he said. "Once that knot is loosened, I believe the market for energy upgrades will surge in Nebraska, creating jobs, savings, and efficiencies that will be a boon for our cities for decades to come. ReEnergize Omaha and Lincoln, working through multiple public-private strategies to boost access to energy efficiency information, financing, and skilled workers, is a home run for our cities."
Over the next two and a half years, the reEnergize Program will develop and implement a set of innovative tools to help build market capacity. Working closely with community Leverage Partners, the Program will focus on workforce development, small business support, financial mechanisms, consumer information, neighborhood advocacy, and product accessibility.
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- Being taken out to dinner to your favorite restaurant (East), where the food is so delicious that it makes my mouth water by the pure thought, by that same friend.....and she knows you DIE for this food.
- Coming home to her place after dinner to find that she has even bought you presents (crazy girl ;)) that are SO YOU and they are even wrapped with Cupcake pattern gift wrapping!!
- Staying up way too late, catching up on everything and nothing.
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- Having a friend who has proactively tried out the best place in Stockholm for your favorite pastry to ensure you don't waste your time (or your calories for that matter ;)) on something that is simply not worth it.
Happiness is being lucky enough to have a friend like Aryan..... I love you sweetheart!!! Thanks for everything!
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Lincoln Mayor Don Wesely and officials with the City Parks and Recreation Department today accepted a $50,000 grant from the United States Golf Association (USGA) to support the City's effort to make the Jim Ager Memorial Junior Golf Course in Antelope Park more accessible to those with disabilities.
"We are very proud of all five of our City golf courses and of our commitment to make all City services and programs available to all citizens," said Mayor Wesely. "The Ager Junior Golf Course was one of the first public or private golf facilities dedicated primarily to youth, and this grant again makes it a trend-setting course."
"The City of Lincoln has proven its commitment to youth for years through the Jim Ager Junior Golf Course," said USGA President Reed Mackenzie. "We are proud to support a project that will now make the course accessible to individuals with disabilities so that they can benefit from the game's many valuable lessons as well."
USGA Women's Committee member Laura Saf was in Lincoln to make the presentation, which was also attended by individuals with disabilities from the Madonna Rehabilitation Hospital. Using grant and matching funds, the City will buy two single-rider golf carts for use by those with disabilities. One was on display at the check presentation. The plan to create a more accessible golf course will also involve the replacement of the two bridges that cross Antelope Creek with larger bridges and concrete approaches to allow the carts to travel the course. In addition, the grant will support scholarships and access for youth from diverse backgrounds to participate in clinics and lessons at the course.
The Ager Junior Golf Course opened in 1967 through efforts of the Lincoln Home Builders Association and other golf enthusiasts. The nine-home, par-three facility gives young golfers priority over adults. The Ager Junior Golf Course averages nearly 26,000 rounds of golf each year and currently has 435 youth golfers participating in a summer golf league. The Parks and Recreation Department applied for the USGA Foundation grant in July 2001.
"In looking at all five of the City's golf facilities, it was felt that the Ager Junior Golf Course had the greatest potential, with some modifications, to become a totally accessible golf course for golfers with disabilities," said Lincoln Parks and Recreation Director Lynn Johnson. "We want to thank the USGA, the Parks and Recreation Foundation and the Madonna Rehabilitation Hospital for their support with this project."
Since 1997, the USGA Foundation, based in Colorado Springs, Colorado, has been awarding grants through its "For the Good of the Game" Grants Program in an effort to make golf more affordable and accessible. This 10-year, $50 million initiative has traditionally focused on programming for economically disadvantaged youth and individuals with disabilities, as well as the introduction of youth to the game and the golf industry through caddying and other work-based programs. Beyond its Grants Program, the USGA partners with national organizations to promote affordable and accessible facility development, inexpensive course access, girls golf, and initiatives for individuals with disabilities while also fostering the professional development of recent college graduates in its Fellowship in Leadership in Service program. Those wanting more information on the USGA Foundation can visit its web site at www.usga.org.
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Currently, when in timed charging mode, when you plug in, you see the blue LED lights light up in order: 1 then 2, then 3, etc.
This happens for only a few minutes, and then all the lights go out.
The problem with that is that "all lights out" could indicate either of two things>
1. Timed charging is not set up, or
2. Timed charging is set up, but not in the last few minutes
This problem caused us to have an uncharged car this morning. That is, if the display continued, we would have noticed when we checked the car before going to bed.
Yes, perhaps the flashing LEDs would drain the battery a tiny bit, but that's a small price to pay.


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Redskins crowned WBL champions
ELIDA — The Wapakoneta wrestling team did what they do best Saturday afternoon.
The wrestlers travelled to Elida for the WBL championships, and after more than nine long hours of wrestling, the Redskins were crowned Western Buckeye League champions.
For the fourth straight year.
In each weight class there was a bracket-style format to determine each winner at each weight class. If you lose one match, you move from the winner's bracket to the consolation bracket.
The two wrestlers remaining in the winner's bracket then competed for first place in the weight class. The two wrestler's in the consolation bracket competed for third place.
Wapakoneta had six wrestlers competing for first place and six wrestlers competing for third place in the finals. The most out of any other team by far.
For the second session of wrestling, the first place match took place on one match, and the third place match for each weight took place on another. There were only two weight classes that Wapakoneta did not have a wrestler, so the Redskin-heavy crowd always had something to cheer about.
The first match was the 106-pound class, which John "JT" Martin was set to wrestle Hunter Lucas from Shawnee. Unfortunately for fans of both schools, Lucas sustained an injury throughout the afternoon, and could not compete for the title.
Martin was named WBL champion at the 106-pound class. Martin has won the WBL championship in all four years of his career, and becomes only the fourth wrestler in WBL history to make a career sweep as WBL champion.
The next match, Wapakoneta's Drew Robenalt wrestled Ryan Lantow from Defiance for third in the 113-pound class. After a tough match, Robenalt fell to Lantow, and took fourth in the 113-pound class.
Next up for Wapakoneta was Dylan Plaugher in the 120-pound class. Plaugher wrestled Collin Hennon from Shawnee for the championship. After an exciting, hard-fought match, Plaugher was edged by Hennon 4-3. Plaugher took second place.
Wapakoneta's Dallas Ambos fell to Shawnee's Joe Arthur 138-pound class. Ambos took fourth for that weight class.
Wapakoneta's Jordan Kaeck was pinned by Defiance's Cisco Chavez in the third place match for the 132-pound class.
In the 145-pound class, Wapakoneta senior Nate Valentine beat Defiance's Seth Meyer to take home the WBL championship.
Wapakoneta's Justin Dauch fell to St. Marys Jaden Heitkamp in the 152-pound class. Dauch took fourth place.
In the 160-pound class, Redskin wrestler Heath Newman wrestled Ryker Rabley for third in the
class. Newman beat Rabley to take third.
Redskin senior Holden Hengstler wrestled freshman Dylan Hefner from Shawnee for first in the 170. A hard-fought and exciting match ensued, as Hengstler was able to find enough points for the win. That makes three WBL champions for the Redskins. All three of them, seniors.
Wapakoneta's Colton Brown wrestled Jacob Wells from OG for third in the 182-pound class. Brown pinned Wells for the third place victory.
Alec "A.J" Brown was next for the Redskins in the 195-pound class. He wrestled and defeated Elida's Nickolas Sackinger for another Redskin WBL championship.
Four seniors, four WBL titles. Check out Tuesday's edition of the Wapakoneta Daily News for a feature on these four wrestlers.
Wapakoneta's Jarred Carpenter made things a little sweeter for the Redskins with a win over Bath's Kyle Lhamon for first in the 220-pound class. Carpenter joined the four seniors as a WBL champion.
Wapakoneta head coach Jason Rostorfer was named WBL Coach of the Year.


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Tiffany Cowley, as told to Alden Wicker.
Hi, my name is Tiffany, and I'm a recovering shopaholic.
I got my first credit card when I was in college. It had a 26% interest rate; it was definitely a "my first credit card" for students.
At the time, my father was paying for my tuition, but I had a job to pay for my living expenses. In other words, I didn't have a ton of money to throw around.
The credit card, on the other hand, felt like free money. Don't get me wrong—I knew that I was going to get a bill at the end of the month. But I didn't fully grasp that it would need to be paid back eventually.
Even so, initially, I was fairly responsible. I would only use my card if I needed art supplies for class, or if it was the end of the month and I needed food. I tried to keep it reined in. But I was going to college in New York City, which has pretty incredible shopping.
And I like shopping.
Getting in Deep Shoes were my gateway drug. It started when I went into a fabulous SoHo boutique where everything in the store was hundreds of dollars, and I picked out something special and put it on the card.
Some shopaholics feel guilty and try to justify their decisions, telling themselves, "I deserve this today!" Not me. I saw it, I wanted it, I had a credit card and I bought it. I felt totally guilt-free. Why not? I had this fabulous thing in my wardrobe, and it was my favorite thing I had ever bought.
But then, I was on to the next kill, the next most amazing thing I had ever bought.
It proceeded this way, with each shopping trip being only a single purchase: a really expensive pair of shoes or a really expensive coat. But then it turned into whole shopping excursions, like when I needed a t-shirt and would leave the store with $350 worth of clothes. When I got home and found myself hanging up five shirts and a dress and a coat in my closet, that's when I started feeling really guilty. I realized that this problem was taking up physical space in my life.
It wasn't even a status thing. I just really loved consuming. It made me feel good to own new things. I mean, it's not like I was shopping in designer stores. I shopped in the same places as all my friends. I would just buy a lot more. That was my way of being reasonable, I guess.
I would tell myself, "Oh, I can pay my credit card back at the end of the month." It was this game where I always said, "Tomorrow! Later!" It's a pretty classic addict's way of never taking responsibility.
The Turning Point This went on for a couple years, and I started to feel overwhelmed. I was getting statements in the mail and barely making minimums. And now, I was using my credit card to pay for my basic essentials too, like food and school supplies, because my money was going toward this shopping habit. I had accrued $5,000 on a single credit card, with that 26% interest rate. I was only making minimum payments, and it was growing fast.
There wasn't just one exact moment I remember as a turning point, just a gradual realization that this had gotten out of hand, and that I needed to grow up and stop doing this before I graduated college.
Fortunately, I was self-aware enough to know what was driving my shopping addiction. When I was in the store, I coveted all the beautiful things I saw, and just had to own them. To break my habit, I still needed to get that feeling somehow, just in a less expensive way.
The Three Dwindling Steps of My Recovery
I figured out a three-step process to save me from myself. The general idea is to get the joy of acquiring items, to feel and touch the beautiful things I want, but to avoid blowing all my cash. Bit by bit, I was able to cut down on each step to make it more manageable (and more sane).
In the beginning:
I would go into a store and pick up everything I wanted to buy.
I would go try it on, make my 'yes' and 'no' piles, and then I would take the 'yes' pile to the register and buy all of it. I would take it all home and hang everything up in my closet.
The next day (or two or three days—sometimes it would take that long to convince myself I truly didn't need those things), I would return it all to the store and get my money back.
I did this enough times to realize it wasn't even owning that gave me that rush … it was the possibility of owning these things. From there, the process got shortened a little:
I would go into a store, pick up everything I wanted to own, go into the dressing room, try everything on, decide what I wanted to keep, and—this is important—walk around the store with it in my arms.
Then I put it all back, shirt by shirt, dress by dress, right where I found it.
In the final stage of my recovery, there was only one step. I didn't even need to try anything on, just to feel it in my arms:
I picked up everything in the store that I liked, carried it around and then put it all back. I was leaving the store empty-handed and under control.
I had managed to tame my shopping addiction.
Staying Vigilant Like any recovering addict, I could still relapse if I'm not careful. I'm still capable of going into a boutique and buying everything I see.
You know how you don't go grocery shopping when you're hungry? I don't go into a store when I've just read a fashion magazine. I go when I really need a new shirt, or a pair of jeans. If I find myself obsessing over a dress in the process of perusing the jeans, I'll let myself try it on, and then put it back.
It's been more than seven years since I graduated with $5,000 in credit card debt, and I'm proud to say that I've paid it all down.
My self-made, three-step program worked. And I haven't gone into debt for shopping ever again.
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As America's obesity rate continues to climb, a number of health clubs are collaborating with their city and state governments to develop wellness programs that reach the deconditioned market and their communities.
Ranking as America's fattest city isn't exactly the kind of publicity that city officials and resident health club operators ever wish for. However, the attention can sometimes serve as quite the catalyst for positive change in the community — both physically for residents and financially for fitness facilities.
That was the case for Houston in early 2005 when Houston Mayor Bill White launched Get Moving Houston and a wellness council to address Houston's ranking as the fattest city in America in 2005. Those efforts helped lower the city to No. 5 on 2006's fattest list. Besides sponsoring a number of wellness events including competitive runs and bike races, the council is aggressively studying how to target the deconditioned market.
"This year we dropped another notch down to No. 6," Herb Lipsman, chairman of the Houston Mayor's Wellness Council and president and CEO of The Health Club Co., says of the ranking. "Because of all of our initiatives, we'll probably get off the top 10 this coming year. We would like to eventually get to the fittest list."
Each year, Men's Fitness magazine releases its top 25 fittest and fattest cities. And each year, a number of city mayors, officials and health club owners and fitness facility managers anxiously await the list, hoping that this year their hard work and dedicated resources have moved them up or down at least a few notches on the list (depending on which list the city is placed on).
The annual list examines numerous lifestyle factors in each city it studies, including how much residents use their gym memberships, how much junk food they consume and how much time they spend sitting in traffic, to name a few. Men's Fitness also interviews mayors and city park and rec departments to learn about local exercise venues, programs designed to get citizens off their couches and civic leadership. The list is extensive but by no means scientific, according to the magazine and many health professionals. However, the list is widely reported by the mainstream media, which can bestow serious praise — or tough criticism — on city officials and health club operators.
The 2007 list was released last month (see the top 10 fittest and fattest cities on p. 38) to many fitness professionals and city professionals' chagrin/pleasure (again, depending on which list their city landed). In fact, a number of cities and states have launched public campaigns aimed at getting their residents active in direct response to this annual list. Not only are these programs helping to get their communities fitter, they're also reaping big benefits for fitness centers across the country, in cities large and small.
Last December, Mayor White also launched the Houston Wellness Association (HWA), a collaborative effort of national corporations and Houston-based businesses that, as founding partners, have pledged to spearhead the health care needs of all segments of the population.
"The HWA is a trade association for everything that comes under the wellness umbrella — health club business, health insurance, health food stores, anything you can think of that has to do with health and wellness," Lipsman says. "Corporate sponsors give us $25,000 per year for financial support to get this up and running."
Westside Tennis and Fitness in Houston is one of those founding partners. Best known as a tennis center holding events such as the U.S. Men's Clay Court Championships, the facility is transitioning to a multi-sport facility, says Lipsman, who consults for the club.
To promote that change and get involved with the community, Westside joined HWA. On May 12, it will open its doors to the public for a group exercise marathon in conjunction with a major group exercise class licensing company. Lipsman expects more than 5,000 participants.
"This will be our launch party," he says. "The club has a 5,300-seat stadium for tennis, and we're going to take it over for these classes."
These types of partnerships benefit both parties, he says. "As far as the club is considered, we'll get a lot of memberships out of [the event] because they'll be so enthralled. In terms of the community, we'll make this an annual event."
Come Together
Chicago faced a similar dilemma to Houston when the Windy City moved from No. 5 in 2005 to the dreaded numero uno on Men's Fitness' fattest cities list in 2006, despite having created a Mayor's Fitness Council (MFC) in 2002. (Needless to say, many on the council have issues with the magazine's grading systems.) The council comprises about 40 of Chicago's companies, associations, fitness facilities, hospitals, professional sports teams and the public school system, with an interest in health and fitness.
"Over the years, we have doubled participation, continued to add new and trendy classes and incorporated family fitness," says Colleen Lammel-Harmon, executive director of the Chicago Mayor's Fitness Council. "We've also done a kids' fitness arcade, had more health club and hospital participation each year, and have improved health screening techniques and methods each year as well."
Moving down from the fattest city to the 13th fattest city on this year's list is another major improvement, she says.
However good or bad the city's ranking is, though, some health clubs say it doesn't matter — the Chicago market is ripe with fitness-oriented citizens.
"East Bank Club is unique in that we have a very health conscious and fit population, so the ranking doesn't really affect East Bank Club in any way," says Jasmine Jafferali, fitness and wellness manager at East Bank Club in Chicago. "The MFC is doing its best in trying to spread the word about health and exercise, but being a nonprofit, grassroots organization, it is not easy to do with limited funding. However, all the volunteers on the MFC will go out to corporations and speak to employees about employee wellness if requested."
Although East Bank Club plays a somewhat quiet role in Chicago's fitness initiatives, the club is active by teaching various group exercise classes at Chicago Moves Day each May and the Mayor's Sports Fest each December, she says.
Other competitors (Bally Total Fitness, XSport Fitness and the YMCA of Metropolitan Chicago, to name a few) are also at these events, since there is more than enough work to go around.
"We all have a common goal with the other health clubs, and it is great to get involved to improve the health and well-being for the city of Chicago," Jafferali says. "We are all in it for the greater good, and that is how we all benefit each other as a whole."
Events aren't the only way fitness facilities can get involved with municipal and state wellness programs. The Arkansas Methodist Medical Center (AMMC) Wellness Center in Paragould, AR, applied for and won the 2005 Arkansas Governor's Leadership in Fitness Award. The hospital-based fitness center is open to the community and serves more than 750 members. Although the center hasn't worked extensively with the Arkansas Governor's Council on Fitness, the award helped increase its visibility to the community — especially the deconditioned. The center's marketing department advertised the news by sending press releases to the local newspaper and hanging a banner outside the facility announcing the award.
"It changed the perception of the community," says Andre Watson, director of the AMMC Wellness Center. "It definitely added some credibility [to our facility]. It also further separated us from the iron-head gyms and let people know we weren't just for aerobic queens. We're open for all people."
Fit and the City
Sometimes, though, city officials can be the ones to extend the olive branch first, knowing that fitness facilities are their strongest ally in getting their communities in better shape.
The city of Carmel, IN, and hospital Clarian North Medical approached Bryan Hammes, owner of Cardinal Fitness, a 10,000-square-foot facility in Carmel, IN, last year looking for help with the inaugural Carmel Mayor's Wellness Challenge. Cardinal Fitness helped design the four-month challenge that kicked off in January and covers topics ranging from healthy eating, getting active, auto safety, spirituality and financial help. In total, the fitness facility will dedicate resources and staff to put on about 20 classes over the course of the challenge. The club is also offering free training for those signed up for the program, along with an 80 percent discounted joining fee (all Cardinal Fitness memberships are month-to-month).
"To put the classes together in advance and stay on top of the structure of the classes, it does take some time," Hammes says. "But, the more time you put in it the better it's going to be. Since it's fitness related, the fitness industry could have a lot more to do with it than other businesses."
Without giving hard data, Hammes has seen an increase in membership and retention. However, he says that these types of collaborations take effort on everyone's side, including resources such as staff time for planning and implementation.
In Maryland, Merritt Athletic Clubs took matters into their own hands. Armed with the idea for a statewide walking program, the 11-club chain brought the idea to the University of Maryland Medical Center and School. Three years into Get Fit Maryland, which runs once a year for three months in the spring and summer and urges participants to log at least 13,000 steps a day, all Merritt Athletic Clubs are seeing quantifiable results.
"Our involvement in Get Fit Maryland has connected us with more than 6,000 individuals in our very own community," says Giancarla Calzetta, community health director for Merritt. "To date, Merritt has enrolled approximately 150 new members from the combined years of the program and helped many current members get involved and stay motivated."
Merritt offers participants a free 30-day pass for any of their Baltimore area locations, and the clubs assist with registration and any promotional events with hopes to increase traffic in the clubs, she says.
Besides winning numerous awards, receiving media attention and improving business, Get Fit Maryland has helped Baltimore move, quite dramatically, from the fattest to fittest list in only a few years' time. In 2005, the city landed at the 25 spot on the fattest list, rebounded to the very top spot of the fittest list in 2006 and this year took eighth on the fittest list. They intend to stay there, Calzetta says.
"We like that we're on the fittest list," she says. "It's my goal to stay on that list."
|2007 Ranking
|2006 Ranking
|1. Las Vegas
|2. San Antonio
|3. Miami
|4. Mesa, AZ
|5. Los Angeles
|6. Houston
|7. Dallas
|8. El Paso, TX
|9. Detroit
|10. San Jose, CA
|2007 Ranking
|2006 Ranking
|1. Albuquerque, NM
|2. Seattle
|3. Colorado Springs, CO
|4. Minneapolis
|5. Tucson, AZ
|6. Denver
|7. San Francisco
|8. Baltimore
|9. Portland, OR
|10. Honolulu
City to City: Tips on Working With Your City or State Government
Be proactive. Contact your city and/or state government to see if any wellness initiatives are already in place and see how you can help. If not, suggest one and offer your services to help start one.
Don't worry about the competition. Stay open-minded, and let clubs know it is a team effort to get the city moving and eating better (i.e. there is no competition on how many sales everyone gets), says Colleen Lammel-Harmon, fitness senior program specialist and executive director of the Chicago Mayor's Fitness Council.
Don't lose sight of the target population. You are trying to reach the deconditioned market, so a walking program at a local park makes more sense than a high-intensity, group cycling class. Also, don't rely on getting the word out only at fitness events — they won't appeal to the sedentary population.
Be social. Seniors are drawn to social settings, not fitness, so provide that outlet for them. Make sure to include events for families, too.
Be creative. As fitness professionals, you're the experts, so put those skills to good use.
Represent your facility and the fitness industry well. Dress appropriately and be prepared. You'll leave a positive, lasting impression.


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I finally started working in my limited edition USk folding Moleskine. It took me a while to think of how I wanted to use it, but I decided I would do a series of street panoramas here in San Antonio, Texas. The first of these, on Houston Street north of Alamo Plaza, is (almost) done, but I should have room for two more in the sketchbook. I did part of it during the sketchcrawl, but I wasn't able to round up any other local crawlers this time around. The next street will be Navarro Street in front of the Nix Hospital, which I've already begun.
The Federal Courthouse and Post Office
More Courthouse
The Express-News building is in the background left, Emily Morgan Hotel foreground right
The Emily Morgan Hotel
The whole shebang


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This website is a reference resource for world history. A large number of articles are dedicated to ancient history, from the "cradle of civilization" in Mesopotamia through the rise and fall of the Roman empire and the middle ages.
This website also features detailed lists of the monarchs, kings, queens, and rulers of more than 250 kingdoms and dynasties throughout history
In addition to extensive information on world history, JRank.org/history/ is also proud to host the Encyclopedia of Canadian History, an in-depth look at the people and events that shaped the Canadian nation and modern Canadian government.


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OSLO, Norway — Recalling the "burning, blinding and suffocating" horrors of chemical weapons, the head of a watchdog trying to consign them to history accepted the Nobel Peace Prize on Tuesday.
Ahmet Uzumcu, director-general of the Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons, said such toxic tools of warfare have an "especially nefarious legacy," from the trenches of World War I to the poison gas attacks in Syria this year.
"You cannot see them. You cannot smell them. And they offer no warning for the unsuspecting," Uzumcu said as he collected the $1.2 million award in Oslo on behalf of the group.
"And we only need to look at the fate of the survivors of such attacks — people destined to spend the rest of their lives suffering unbearable physical and psychological pain — to understand why such weapons must be banned," he added.
The OPCW was formed to enforce a 1997 international convention outlawing chemical weapons. It worked largely out of the limelight until this year, when it received its most challenging mission to date: overseeing the destruction of Syria's chemical weapons stockpile.
The Nobel Peace Prize was announced on Oct. 11, just days before Syria officially joined the OPCW as its 190th member state.
"It is of course a huge challenge for the OPCW to manage to destroy all these weapons under the conditions of war and chaos prevailing in the country," Nobel committee chairman Thorbjorn Jagland said. "The anonymous inspectors from the OPCW do an extremely important and difficult job."
Both Jagland and Uzumcu paid tribute to the late Nelson Mandela, who shared the Nobel Peace Prize with F.W. de Klerk in 1993.
Jagland called on the U.S. and Russia to speed up the elimination of their own stockpiles and urged the six countries that have not signed or ratified the chemical weapons convention — Angola, North Korea, Egypt, South Sudan, Israel and Myanmar — to do so.
When the prize was announced, some in Syria lamented that it would do nothing to end the bloodshed inflicted with conventional weapons, a point that Jagland recognized in his speech.
An Aug. 21 poison gas attack killed hundreds of people in the Damascus suburb of Ghouta, while tens of thousands have been killed by conventional arms in fighting between President Bashar Assad's forces and opposition fighters since the conflict began in March 2011.
"On the road to a more peaceful world, however, it is nevertheless important to combat the most monstrous weapons first, the weapons of mass destruction," Jagland said.
The Nobel awards in medicine, physics, chemistry and literature were set to be presented in Stockholm later Tuesday.
The award ceremonies are always held on Dec. 10, the anniversary of prize founder Alfred Nobel's death in 1896.
Ritter reported from Stockholm.


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Blair Underwood is returning to series television in a remake of "Ironside," which shares few similarities with the original series that starred Raymond Burr.
The character's name and job as a detective is the same, and he uses a wheelchair after being paralyzed from the waist down.
In a nod to Burr, Underwood's character ends the day by sipping a glass of bourbon.
"Everything else is re-imagined. All new characters, a new city, new texture, new storytelling, new audience," Underwood told the Television Critics Association on Saturday. "It's a crime drama wrapped in a character study."
The original series, set in San Francisco, ran on NBC from 1967-75. The reboot is based in New York City and filmed in Los Angeles. NBC has ordered 13 episodes of the show that debuts Oct. 2.
Underwood said he got used to the wheelchair by using one at home while learning his lines. The role is especially meaningful to him because his mother, Marilyn, is in a wheelchair as the result of multiple sclerosis.
In preparing for the part, Underwood is working with technical adviser David Bryant, who became a paraplegic after a skiing accident at 19. Bryant's self-sufficiency inspires the new "Ironside" incarnation, with the handles on the character's wheelchair removed just as they are on Bryant's chair.
"It's something I had to delve into and continue to delve into as often as possible," Underwood said. "Our job is to make you believe it and be authentic in that."
Ironside's personal life is noticeably spicier than it was on the old show, too.
"What David told me is every injury is unique, and everybody is different depending on where it affects your spinal cord," Underwood said. "So, yes, in Ironside's case, he is able."
Underwood returns to TV after a stint on Broadway last year. The 48-year-old actor has a long history on NBC, including a breakout role in "L.A. Law."
His "Ironside" co-stars include Spencer Grammer, the oldest daughter of Kelsey Grammer, a star on the NBC hits "Cheers" and "Frasier."