An article today off of Reuters extols a Stanford study published in JAMA showing that giving people pedometers causes them to walk more and lose more weight. The original paper was based on interviews and a review of previous studies. It appears that the studies were all done in the US, and thus the findings might be entirely cultural, but it’s not a new observation.
Monthly Archives: November 2007
Two Places Together
Tuesday is mail day, and I don’t have a lot of quotes to give you. I had some wonderful letters on my story of the Saint Paul Christmas tree being dragged down West Seventh, but modesty prevents me from posting them here. I save this space for the provocative leaning towards nasty, and I just haven’t gotten many of those lately.
Thanksgiving
The day known as Thanksgiving fills this week in the USofA, between the big day on Thursday and our need to make it home ahead of that. It’s not a particularly American holiday, but it is a special celebration of our nation for many reasons.
Mechanical PR
You may have heard of the “Amazon Breakthrough Novel Contest”. As a way to promote their createspace service that allows a wide variety of self-publishing, from books to music to movies, Amazon had an open manuscript submission for the first 5000 novelists. All valid entries would be read (!) and judged by a panel. The winner is to have their novel published by Penguin.
Heavy and Light
The air was heavy on Monday, the grey colored cold that rides like a burden on your back. It was a car-free day for me, so I had to walk back through this from a series of appointments on the Hill. Saint Paul is a city of 6 1/2 hills, but each one is always “The Hill”. Burdens like November air are somehow lighter when you can convince yourself they are being shared by friends, or at least a familiar terrain.
Barataria - The work of Erik Hare 