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Agreed, very broad question but I can share some general things to know before moving to Oklahoma City.OKC has a stable economy.In 2008 when the nation felt the first blows of a recession, the lives of most Oklahomans were left relatively unruffled. That year, the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics reported that Oklahoma was one of the states least affected by the national financial crisis. A near decade later, Oklahomans are still benefitting from a stable economy thanks to the natural resources that power our energy and agriculture industries. Oklahoma’s unemployment rate usually falls below the national average and homes can be affordably purchased while their values skyrocket.Millennials love Oklahoma City.A recent report published by CNBC placed Oklahoma City as the number one city in the nation to start a business and career in during 2017. The ranking was based on population size, unemployment rate, median housing cost, average income and the accessibility to acquiring a business loan. These factors plus the low cost of living in Oklahoma City, make it a haven for millennials on the job hunt.Everything is “hunky dorey”.On the prowl for a husband? Oklahoma just might be where you’ll find prince charming. In 2012 Time Magazine dubbed Oklahoma City the “manliest” city in the nation based on the ratio of men to women (about equal in Oklahoma) and based on the amount of so called “manly qualities” like the ratio of trucks owned compared to cars, the number of steak houses in the city and the amount of men employed in hard labor fields. Really though, all a girl needs to do is take a look outside in OKC; we might have rather consistent droughts throughout the spring and summer months but all year long, it’s raining men.OKC is gun friendly.In 2012 Oklahoma’s governor, Mary Fallin, signed an “open carry” bill which allows permitted handgun owners to openly carry their guns in public places. Oklahoma is also a state that has adopted the “stand your ground” law, meaning that people have the right to defend themselves even with deadly force when they face harm in any place they have a legal right to be. According to Demographic Data - Easy to read, compare and download US demographic stats and crime rates, about 43 percent of Oklahoma residents are gun owners. There are close to 70 gun ranges across the state.You’ll need a car.There are several ways to get around Oklahoma but the one most used by far is your own handy dandy automobile. Oklahoma does offer residents and visitors some public transportation but its usage is not all that common or accessible. An Amtrak station located in downtown OKC will take passengers to and from Fort Worth and Gainesville, Texas while city officials work to improve the Embark city bus system.Teachers pay is low.Job Search | Indeed reports that the average hourly pay for teachers in Oklahoma is just under $10, which is almost 40 percent below the national average. Teachers often protest at the state’s capitol regarding the low pay and local news reports tell stories of teachers migrating to other states to earn better pay.Oklahoma is a red state.Oklahoma City has a thriving LGBTQ community and is becoming cosmopolitan more and more each day. Fiscally, socially and politically however, Oklahoma’s population is predominately conservative.Source (and a few more fun things to know before moving to OKC): https://www.sparefoot.com/moving/moving-to-oklahoma-city-ok/20-things-to-know-before-moving-to-oklahoma-city/

Chandler deserves to be called the Father of Sarcasm.Joey: Some girl ate Monica.Monica: Shut up, the camera adds ten pounds.Chandler: Ahh, so how many cameras are actually on you?Monica: (panicked) Oh wait! You didn’t just sit on my Kit-Kats did you?!!Phoebe: No! There-there was a little, a little diff in the market and I lost 13 million dollars.Chandler: But the Kit-Kats are all right?!(Chandler sits down next to Rachel and puts a cigarette in his mouth, which Rachel takes away from him. He puts another cigarette in his mouth, and Rachel takes it away again.)Chandler: Okay, that’s like the least fun game ever.Phoebe: Hey!Chandler: You look great. I'm so glad we're having this rehearsal dinner, you know, I so rarely get to practice my meals before I eat them.Joey: I'm always on the swings! What am I doing wrong?!Chandler: That.Monica: Oh that’s so sweet! Look Chandler I don’t care if you can’t cry, I love you.Chandler: Oh that makes me feel so warm in my hollow tin chest.Joey: Hey, Chandler, when you see Frankie, tell him Joey Tribbiani says hello. He'll know what it means.Chandler: Are you sure he's gonna be able to crack that code?Monica: Hey, I see you got your mustache back.Richard: Well, my nose got lonely.Chandler: (to Richard’s date) And uh, you don’t have a mustache which is good. (She just smiles.) I’m Chandler; I make jokes when I’m uncomfortable.Monica: Oh, I cannot wait to read the front page of the Post tomorrow! "Restaurant reviewer admits: I was wrong about Monica."Chandler: The front page? You really do live in your own little world, don’t ya?Chandler: Woa-oh. Cereal killer.Monica: Cereal killer?Chandler: Hey, come on, I say more dumb things before 9 a.m. than most people say all day.Joey: Well, the tough thing is, she really wants to have sex with me.Chandler: Crazy bitch.(Janice leaving)Chandler: Oh, no, no, no, don't go! I've scared ya'! I've said too much! I'm hopeless, and awkward, and desperate for love!!Ross: What am I gonna do, I mean, this is like, a complete nightmare!Chandler: I know, this must be so hard. Oh no, two women love me! They’re both gorgeous and sexy. My wallet’s too small for my fifties, and my diamond shoes are too tight!Chandler: Couldn’t we just lose our virginities again? Because I think, actually, mine is growing back.Joey: I kind of had a dream. But I don't wanna talk about it.Chandler: Whoa whoa whoa whoa whoa whoa! What if Martin Luther King had said that?Ross: So, uh, does it do anything, you know, special?Chandler: Why yes Ross, pressing my third nipple opens the delivery entrance to the magical land of Narnia.Ross: I am gonna be happy this year. I am gonna make myself happy.Chandler: Do you want us to leave the room?Phoebe: I just realized something. Joker is poker with a j… coincidence?Chandler: Hey, that’s 'joincidence'… with a c.Phoebe: And he has one of these.Chandler: A face ass?Joey: So, you’re playing a little Playstation, huh? That’s whack. Playstation is whack. ‘Sup with the whack Playstation, ‘sup? Huh? Come on, am I 19 or what?Chandler: "Yes, on a scale from one to 10, 10 being the dumbest a person can look, you are definitely 19.Phoebe: Hey! I got you a present!!Chandler: Oh my goodness! Where did you hide it?Susie Moss: How come all I can think about is putting that ice in my mouth and licking you all over?Chandler: Because I went to an all-boys high school and God is making up for it?Chandler: I am sorry, moment to make fun of that, please!Joey: You may be a sissy but I'll still (pound you out on ground). All right, it hurts so bad, I could only let her do one eyebrow and now... they don’t match!Chandler: It’s like a baby caterpillar chasing its mama!Monica: That’s right. I’m no longer a bride. I’ll never be a bride again. Now, I’m just someone’s wife!Chandler: And I’m the happiest guy in the world!All: Cut, cut, cut, cut, cut, cut, cut..Chandler: You know, if you listen closely, you can hear a thousand retailers scream.Joey: I can’t! Y’know? You guys don’t know what it’s like to put yourself out there like that and just get shot down.Chandler: (incredulous) I don’t know what that’s like?! Up until I was 25 I thought the only response to, "I love you," was, "Oh crap!"Chandler: Hold on! There is something different.Ross: I went to that tanning place your wife suggested.Chandler: Was that place... The Sun?Chandler: I just don't get it. We didn't do anything wrong!Monica: I know. Although you did tell an awful lot of jokes.Chandler: I thought you said those jokes were funny! Joke, joke, joke, joke!Monica: Joke, joke, blah, blah!Chandler: Well maybe it was all of your questions.Monica: What was wrong with my questions?Chandler: The sheer volume. It was like flying with The Riddler.Monica: I'm sorry, was that another joke?Chandler: Was that another question?Joey: (running after bus with Chandler) "Ben! Ben! Ben!"Chandler: Oh, that's good. Maybe he'll hear you and pull the cord.Monica: Why is your family Scottish?!Chandler: Why is your family Ross?Phoebe: Do you guys know anything about chicks?Chandler: Fowl? No. Women? No.Chandler: (angry) Funniest guy she's ever met! (to the door) I'm funny, right...? What do you know, you're a door... You just like knock-knock jokes... (laughs about himself, but then gets determined again) Save it for inside! (he enters)Rachel: Chandler, you have the best taste in men.Chandler: Like father like son.Phoebe: One of my clients died today on the massage table.Chandler: Well that's a little more relaxed than you wanted him to get.Chandler: [to an extra in fatigues] Nice camoflauge man, for a minute there I almost didn't see ya.Ross: Okay, maybe it wasn’t my best decision. But I just couldn’t face another failed marriage.Chandler: Okay, let me just jump in and ask, at what point did you think this was a successful marriage?Ross: That guy Mark. From Bloomingdale's... She thinks he's just being nice to her. But I know he really wants to sleep with her.Chandler: It's seven years ago. (he looks surprised) My time machine works!Janice: What a small world!Chandler: And yet I never run into Beyonce!Rachel: I don’t like guys with boring jobsChandler: And Ross was like, what, a Lion Tamer?Ross: [on the phone] Woah, woah, woah australopithicus isn't supposed to be in that display. No. No. No, n, homo-habilus was erect, australopithicus was never fully erect.Chandler: Well maybe he was nervous.Joey: Hey!! We are so in luck! Treeger said that we could have all this cool stuff from the basement. Wait right there. (Goes back into the hall)Chandler: Oh no-no-no, I’m, I’m paddling away!Phoebe: Should we do something?Chandler: Yeah, never cheat on Rachel.Chandler: We have to assign heads to something.Joey: Right. Ok, ok, uh, ducks is heads, because ducks have heads.Chandler: What kind of scary-ass clowns came to your birthday?Joey: Easy there Captain Kirk. Oh, do you have a bobby pin?Chandler: Yeah. (Checks his hair.) Oh no wait, I’m not an nine-year-old girl.Joey: Oh, ha-ha-ha! Ooh! Wait a minute, I used to get medical experiments down on me all the time!Chandler: (reminiscing) Ah, finally an explanation.Joey: That book got me through some tough times.Melanie: There is a little child inside this man!Chandler: Yes, the doctors say if they remove it, he'll die.Ross: So, I just finished this fascinating book. By the year 2030, there'll be computers that can carry out the same amount of functions as an actual human brain. So theoretically you could download your thoughts and memories into this computer and-and-and live forever as a machine.Chandler: (not amused) And I just realized I can sleep with my eyes open.Joey: Hey, shaving?Chandler: No. Rabies.Joey: You don't know how long we're gonna be in here! We may have to repopulate the Earth.Chandler: And condoms are the way to do that?Ross: Someone at work ate my sandwich!Chandler: Well, what did the police say?'Chandler: Look at all that room on her side, you could fit a giant penguin over there.Chandler: I’m not great at advice. Can I interest you in a sarcastic comment?Rachel: Hey!Chandler: I'm sorry we, we don't have your sheep.Kathy: You have really great hair.Chandler: Well, thanks. I grow it myself.Chandler: Well, I'm off to Tulsa, so if your Maitre D. friend has any funny Oklahoma jokes, tell him to e-mail me at www.hahanotsomuchRoss: I don't want to be single, okay? I just... I just- I just wanna be married again!(Rachel enters in a wet wedding dress and starts to search the room.)Chandler: And I just want a million dollars! (He extends his hand hopefully.)Joey: Yeah, like you could find something as sophisticated as this.(Chandler picks up a basket from the table and puts it on his head.)Chandler: Done.And the list is never-ending

To be honest, I'm not sure they would.This is hard to admit, because I'm tremendously excited that a big company like Apple is trying to enter the healthcare arena. That said, its spear is a bit...well, dull.As their new ResearchKit page states repeatedly, the obvious pro that Apple offers is statistical power. Assuming you can come up with a research proposal, push it through your local IRB, recruit a programmer or three, develop an app, conduct small-scale comparison studies to validate your app's measurements against the current medicolegal standard (if any exists), publicize the app so people download it, and then convince people to use the app on a regular basis, Apple is basically dangling thousands, if not millions, of data points as the proverbial carrot on a stick.Those kinds of numbers are the stuff of researchers' dreams; in the ever-fiercer academic competition to publish or perish, if your study shows statistically significant results powered by 100,000 people, you're in the right ballpark to shoot for the most prestigious tier of medical research journals (e.g. New England Journal of Medicine)....but...as nice as it sounds...is ResearchKit really going to be so great?Issue #1: UniformityLet's talk for a minute about research protocols. They are, almost without exception, the driest part of any research paper, but they are also the most critical because by describing in detail how a study is conducted, you allow for replication and verification of its results.Now, let us imagine then, that you develop a research app targeted at the relationship between high blood pressure and exercise tolerance. Given that iPhones will be used in a variety of locales, standardizing the protocol will literally be impossible.Even in something as simple as blood pressure measurement, you have hundreds of different commercial/professional machines, all with varying degrees of accuracy. How do you account for different arm sizes requiring different size cuffs--what if the participant uses the wrong one? How do you account for falsely elevated readings from unreported activity or recent stress prior to measurement? How do you account for the inherent inaccuracy in wrist monitors?An in-person study can solve all of this simply by having the same trained professional use the same equipment on everyone, but in the uncontrolled setting of ResearchKit, you can't.Furthermore, how exactly are you going to measure exercise tolerance? Sure, you can ask everyone to walk/run as far as they can for X number of minutes, but you're still introducing a ton of variables. If overweight Betsy lives on a hill and records measurements walking downhill to the local grocery store in the morning while her neighbor Andy records measurements walking up the hill after a long day at work as a construction foreman, neither of their datapoints will be representative of their actual physical fitness.By contrast, an in-person study can ensure everyone uses the same treadmill model on the same settings every single time, eliminating as many variables as possible.So the reality is that any large-scale study using ResearchKit's sensors will likely suffer from the Achilles' heel of meta-analysis: data heterogeneity. That's a tough nut to crack, because uniformity and quality control are what drive a lot of research, but ResearchKit inherently doesn't allow for that. Instead, it's banking on being able to attract enough numbers to a study to power through the smaller variances, but whether it actually can remains to be seen.Issue #2: Value PropositionWhy should anyone spend time inputing data into yet ANOTHER app?What exactly can a research app offer to effectively outcompete the dozens of diabetes, high blood pressure, and fitness apps that already exist and have significant traction in the quantified self community? Will they offer a better social experience? Might HIPAA get in the way? Will they offer better feedback? How can a research app's feedback be better than what's currently available...when the whole point of conducting this research is that we don't yet know what's better than what's currently available?In other words, what's the incentive here? Why contribute time and effort for questionable immediate gain in a research app when equal or greater rewards are offered by other existing services?Issue #3: IdentificationThe beauty of a "traditional" medical research study is that someone verifies in person the participant's identity. Someone physically handles a driver's license, passport, birth certificate, or other acceptable form of ID to be sure that the demographic data is accurate....with an app, I can sign up as MightyAvenger McThorThor, a 7'2" 500lb Norwegian born in the North Pole on May 5, 1902. Or Brad Pitt, a 5'11" 160lb American born in Shawnee, Oklahoma on December 18, 1963.An app inherently introduces the ability to fudge the truth.How do you work around this? Do you ask everyone to submit photographs of their driver's license? Do you request verification from Apple regarding the owner of the device? But Tim Cook announced today that Apple does not see your data on these apps...Issue #4: Data-sharingThat brings me to my next point: I'm tremendously displeased that Apple shied away from offering a central research repository for users' health data.Right now, all the raw data in any given study stays at the participating organizations. What little gets published is already analyzed into nice graphs and figures that illustrate only what the authors intended. If a researcher at a different university wants to play with the same raw data to do a sub-section study, tough luck, gotta go gather your own.Just for a moment, imagine how powerful a central, open-access raw data repository could have been; data heterogeneity aside, researchers from any recognized research institution could sign up to access a pre-IRB-approved, pre-anonymized wealth of data to mine for potential insights. Ooh-la-la...Back to reality.Now, I'm sure that in many ways not setting this up was internally considered a brilliant move by Apple. Don't keep health data on Apple servers, and Apple can't be held liable if something goes wrong. The overhead of making a datacenter HIPAA-compliant falls to a third party. Also, Apple probably doesn't want to be perceived as "evil" by asking for too much, that's bad for business, right?[sarcasm] It's totally ok for Apple to have someone's name, birthday, address, and credit card, but heaven forbid Apple store whether someone has diabetes, because if that information got out, the world would totally end.[/sarcasm]Let me be blunt: I've worked in world-class university labs and I would much rather trust my health data in the hands of Apple than the sorry haphazard mess that is 99% of research facilities' poorly-funded IT departments. Seriously: even in the age of Dropbox, you have no idea how many research groups at top institutions would be hosed if they lost a single physical hard drive.Anyway, rant aside, I'm very disappointed that these ResearchKit apps do absolutely nothing to address the fragmented state of healthcare data that we have today. For all the talk of "big data", we have no advancement from the stone age of data still being locked up at individual institutions. It's nice that Stanford now has an app on cardiovascular health, but what if someone from Dartmouth wants to study cardiovascular health as well? Do they have to make another app? How many apps do we have to make to collect the same fucking data?Issue #5: SocioeconomicsThere have been numerous studies on the socioeconomics of healthcare, and they uniformly agree that socioeconomic status correlates quite well with outcomes. The lower a patient is on the financial totem pole, the worse their outcomes tend to be.My concern is that by and large, the people who can afford the temporal expenditure of participating in a research study in addition to the monetary expenditure of an iPhone are not the people at greatest risk from severe disease or the people who would benefit most from these studies.From a social advocacy standpoint, I can't help but think this "advance" primarily benefits those who already have significant health resources at their disposal, and that feeling doesn't sit well with me.Issue #6: Lack of aimThere's currently way too much hope that if you just gather tons of data, it's eventually going to be useful. That's...not always the case. And we've known that for quite some time.When you gather data for medical research, the point is that you first measure a baseline, then apply an intervention, and then measure the outcome of said intervention.For example: in a population of elderly patients who receive hip surgery, you could strive to demonstrate that early physical therapy results in shorter post-operative hospital stays, conserving money and healthcare resources....so how do you intervene with ResearchKit? Because right now, most of the focus seems to be on gathering data without a specific goal in mind. None of the five debut apps make it clear what their "goals" are, if any. I think this quote from Apple's ResearchKit page illustrates that uncertainty quite nicely (emphasis mine):We can’t continue to treat people with a one‑size‑fits‑all approach. The kind of data that ResearchKit will provide may be very useful in helping us understand serious diseases and what individuals can do to hasten recovery.~Dr. Patricia A. Ganz, UCLA Fielding School of Public HealthThat's correct: may. I feel these words were chosen carefully, and I don't know about you, but I don't find "may" particularly inspiring. I'm not sure about this quote either:Numbers are everything. The more people who contribute their data, the bigger the numbers, the truer the representation of a population, and the more powerful the results. A research platform that allows large amounts of data to be collected and shared — that can only be a positive thing for medical research.~Dr. Eduardo Sanchez, American Heart AssociationIt can only be a positive thing...how? I mean, yes, this is a great soundbite for a quote, but...how? What are we hoping to achieve with all this data we collect (which, as mentioned above, is likely only ever going to be seen/analyzed by researchers from, at most, one or a few institutions)?*sigh*In all seriousness, I am genuinely hopeful that all of the concerns I have will be blown away by the sheer brilliance of the research we see come out of ResearchKit. I want to trust that this new open-source tool represents a new era in big data in healthcare....but at this point, I'm not yet ready to wave ResearchKit's flag and rally people to its banner. I might change my mind later, but for now...I'm going to sip tea and wait.