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Melissa Hagman, MD, FACP, ACP Governor
Lisa S. Inouye, MD, MPH, FACP
It is my pleasure to announce that Lisa S. Inouye, MD, MPH, FACP, has been elected the Idaho ACP Governor-elect. Dr. Inouye is a general internist and teacher extraordinaire at the Boise VA. She has a primary care patient panel in the Boise VA Womens' Clinic and attends on the VA Medicine Wards with medical students and residents from the University of Washington. In addition to patient care and education, Dr. Inouye is interested in quality improvement and lifelong learning. Dr. Inouye will assume the Governor role in April 2020.
My huge thanks to Mark Christenson, MD, FACP, who ran a good race. Dr. Inouye and I look forward to continuing to work with Dr. Christenson as a vital member of the Idaho Chapter Council.
Melissa (Moe) Hagman, MD, FACP
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I am really looking forward to representing our chapter! Moe is doing a fantastic job as governor and will leave big shoes to fill. I hope to expand membership and continue the excellent education and advocacy (for patients and for internists) this chapter currently provides.
Registration is now open for the 2019 Winter Conference and Idaho Chapter Meeting! The meeting will be held January 17-20, 2019, at the Hunt Lodge in McCall, Idaho. Learn how to treat opioid use disorder with buprenorphine/naloxone in a four-hour interactive session Saturday afternoon. Dr. Pieter Cohen from Harvard will talk about slow medicine and nutritional supplements. Other topics will include: updates in hospital and outpatient medicine, dermatology for primary care, women's health, gut microbiome, Mediterranean diet, DVT, pulmonary medicine, peripheral vascular disease, and more. To see the full agenda, visit the Hindson Foundation
ACP has published an updated version of our 2014 firearms policy paper Reducing Firearm-Related Injuries and Deaths in the U.S. in Annals of Internal Medicine. The update offers nine evidence-based strategies that will help reduce firearms-related injuries and deaths by keeping guns out of the hands of those at risk of harming themselves or others. The new recommendations include support for laws to prohibit persons with a history of domestic violence—including persons subject to restraining orders—from buying and possessing firearms and for extreme risk prevention laws to allow family members to seek an immediate court order to remove guns from a family member who is at risk of using firearms to inflict harm on themselves or others.
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Wharton Follow-Up: Motown the Musical
It's What's In The Grooves That Counts
Last night, I had the pleasure of witnessing Motown the Musical debut at the Wharton Center for Performing Arts in East
Lansing. As someone who grew up with Motown at home, I have plenty of memories of dancing in the living room to Stevie Wonder, The Temptations, Marvin Gaye and Smokey Robinson (to name a few of my favorite artists). I was excited to see the music I had grown up with come to life on stage. I'm pleased to tell you that last night's performance blew me away.
The show opens with a punch, starting out with a medley of some of the Four Tops and The Temptations biggest hits. For the next two hours, the cast continues to wow with big solo acts and fun group numbers, incorporating a good amount of humor, sass and audience engagement into the show; all that Motown is truly about.
It's important to note that the script is well-written and incorporates several major storylines: Motown's struggle as an independent label trying to break into a severely segregated industry; the Civil Rights Movement and the volatile times of the 60s and 70s; and the story of Barry Gordy and Diana Ross' personal and professional relationship over the years.
Everything feels authentic, especially the impressions of well-known stars. From Smokey Robinson's light, breathy voice to Diana Ross' big-eyed, diva attitude, the cast makes you truly believe that your favorite Motown stars are performing on stage.
The costumes and the sets lend glamour to the show, giving it that "wow" factor. Short, strappy, sparkly dresses adorn The Supremes during their later performances, while the famous Ed Sullivan Show board and Copacabana sign bring touches of nostalgia.
Two notable show-stealers also happen to be the youngest members of the cast, including Leon Outlaw, Jr. and J.J. Batteast. Both boys play some of Motown's most famous stars in their early years, including Berry Gordy, Stevie Wonder and Michael Jackson. A crowd favorite was clearly The Jackson Five's hit I Want You Back, bringing audience members to their feet to sing and dance along.
At the end of the night, I walked away with a huge grin on my face. The best thing about this show is that it reminds you just what Motown music is all about; making music that speaks to the soul. No matter what year you were born, Motown the Musical will pull you in and make you never want to leave.
Motown the Musical is running from March 15-20 at The Wharton Center. For more information and to purchase tickets, visit whartoncenter.com
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Title: Old Windmill, Paros
Original: $475.00
Size: 9.5 X 6.5 inches
Medium: graphite pencil & watercolor
Location & Date: Paros, Greece – June 5, 2002
George's Postcard Note: In the morning, on my way up to paint the Longovardas Monastery, I had noticed the mottled walls of an old windmill, set in the fields below. Late in the afternoon Peter and I drove back so that I could paint it. There stood the mill, all alone in the most beautiful field of herbs and wildflowers crisscrossed by granite walls. We enjoyed sunset there, with wine and cheese — so very pleasant!


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I have been doing some coding lately, but as usual it is with a very limited depth. I played around with python and zope for no reason, just because I wanted to try out some OO database. There went my days wasted on useless things, or so I thought of it more (I think of it less, but I don't think of it on the contrary yet). On the other hand, I always wanted to get another blog. Not that I have been very diligent with my personal blog since I was always aware of the type of entries I put in it. I would only put entries that were not IT related, that would somehow relate to a more general audience. IT related topic, I figure, would just bore the audience.
But not if I start another blog! Yipee this was the solution, and a little bit of googling brought me to WordPressMU (read: WordPress-mew, was very shiny on October 2006). MU stands for Multiple-User, and this child of WordPress does exactly what I wanted. As a result, I now have this new shiny.mwinata.com, and I have moved my personal blog to me.mwinata.com.
The export function did everything in terms of moving my old posts to the new place, but I have to say that WordPressMU is not documented as nicely as the original wordpress. I found some of the installation tidbits to be unclear and I had to re-install the app several times. Just to edit the main page, I need to modify the file


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Oil wrestling is the hottest sport in Turkey.
In the United States, two lubed men mounting each other in a park would probably be perceived as gay. Luckily, that's not the case in some other countries. In Turkey, for example, muscular men often lube up and grapple in the grass while thrusting their hands inside their partner's leather trousers.
Although to the untrained eye it may look like a gay orgy; it's actually a sport known as oil wrestling or grease wrestling (Yagli Gures in Turkish). Oil wrestling, Turkey's national sport, is a combat sport in which men douce their bodies in olive oil and then attempt to mount and pin their opponents, there's no penalty for holding.
The entire competition is based on contenders battling to shove their hands down their opponent's pants, which are called kispet. While it may appear to be lawless their wrestling, there are rules to the game. For example, wrestlers are not allowed to take hold of their opponents balls or enter their anus.
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While mounting a lubed lad is typically an easy job, it's much harder when your partner is trying to mount and pin you at the same time. According to the rules of Turkish Wrestling, the first fighter to have their "umbilicus exposed to heaven" loses the match. To win, you must keep your umbilicus (belly button) facing the ground at all times.
Although the photos below are exciting in general, the most captivating factor is the level of physical comfort the men have in touching each other. In many cultures, that degree of male-on-male contact would be view as a "gay".
Scroll through 29 of our favorite oil wrestling photos by the talented Jim Mavro.