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[ Saturday, May 29, 2004 11:27 PDT ]
Fat or Fit: A nation at risk
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Advice
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Most of us can not afford a personal nutritionist to give us advice on what and how much to eat. Personal trainers can supervise our workout, motivate a heart pounding and sweat popping regime at the Pilates or Performance Palace. However, how many of us have looked in the mirror, stepped on the scale, calculated our fat index, read the 2,000 extra steps program on a Wheaties cereal box, done 10 minutes of jumping rope daily, and believe that obesity kills?
Apparently, many choose to believe that lifelong and daily exercise is only for athletes, firefighters and those given to eating red meat, engaging in self centered non productive activities and exhibiting compulsive behavioral tendencies.
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However, consider the evidence on obesity:
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[ Friday, May 28, 2004 07:30 PDT ]
Modelling the World
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Columns
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Modelling and simulating the natural world seen to be all the rage in teaching and academic circles these day. Virtual reality and looking good after a quick makeover seems to work in the visual world of simulation. A laptip, Power Point , and Quicktime movies have replaced Kodachrome slide in the travelling experts tool kit.
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* In the fall of 2004 the new College of Biological Science will be adding a 2 unit modelling class to its evolving core curriculum.
* Complex system modelling is part of a simulated snapshot graphic presentation of “reality”. That reality may be a system of metabolic pathway, climate, or an economic sytem.
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[ Thursday, May 27, 2004 07:38 PDT ]
Jogging with the President
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Essays
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“If you’re not making mistakes, then you’re not doing anything. I’m positive that a doer makes mistakes.” —John Wooden
Today, UC President, Robert Dynes is at UC Davis, his next to last stop on state wide two month tour of the the vast system he newly heads. Bob typically starts his day a 0730 with a jog at a 8-9minute mile pace in the company of students and a few inshape staff like Myer and alumnus Bob Kerr. One likes him immediately: he is a physicist from a middle class Canadian background and is without pretense. He wears a knee support following arthroscopic surgery and says he is looking for a personal trainer following his move from San Diego to Kennsington in the east bay.
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The students are a collection of althletes from the various UC Davis teams and clubs. Coach Simmons from Men’s BB presented the President with an appropriate team tee shirt, but declined the invitation to join the jogging pack.
The 3.4 mile course throught the campus, the town and the Arboretum was cruised by campus police on bikes. the reward was a quick shower and change of clothes for breakfast in the newly opened student activities building, ARC—a real eye candy kind of place that is open 0600 to 2200.
It is more than interesting that none of the attendees at public lectures on exercise physiology and brain energetics and imaging were at the run with researcher Bob Dynes.
* In the afternoon at the Jackson Theater Mondavi Center, Dynes informally Dialogued with the largely student audience, fielded questions from the editors of The California Aggie, took questions from the floor, and then joined the Chancellor Vanderhoef in his private box seat to enjoy some samples of student entertainment from the Departments of Music and of Theater and Dance.
* Among the challenges for the new UC President are: Recruiting chancellors at UCSD, UCB, and UCSC. The new campus at Merced is behind schedule, the national nuclear, weapons and national security research facilities are no longer a given UC Regents monopoly. system cash cow, professorial sinecure. Charges of waste, fraud and abuse of power and privilege about from many quarters.
* 150 students from the School of Veterinary Medlcine were present to seek a justification for their 2004 tuition increase of $4,000 with addons in 2005 and 2006. They, like UC undergraduates are paying move and getting less as the price tag of higher education in the state continues to rise faster than the rate of inflation and the cost of living. Students seeking value for dollar and avoidance of crushing debt contine to chose the community college system and out of state institutions.
* And what is the average age of ladder professors at UC Davis? 57 and aging you say? The President may be more right than he suspects when he says that the UC system is in an unhealthy state of affairs in the faculty recruiting battle.
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[ Wednesday, May 26, 2004 11:10 PDT ]
Memorial Day in the Heartland: A multimedia WebWise Review
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WebWise Review
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Some may recall the Buddy Poppy campaign based on Colonel John McCrae’s poem Flanders Fields honoring the wounded and disabled veterans of WW I. To that, and other memories a 2003 Quicktime multimedia clip was produced. It is hosted at homepage.mac.com/dfisk
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Memorial Day services were restarted in Davis in 1992 after an absence of 59 years. This year the service on Monday, 2004-05-30 will be at the Davis Cemetery, East Eighth Street and Pole Line Road. Music by the Davis Brass Emsemble will begin at 0930. The theme will be the WW ll generation. The feature speaker will be Commander Ted Robinson, USNR- Retired. Music will be by the Davis Children’s Coral and the Nadine Salonite.
VFW Post 6949 and Davis Ace Hardware ( Housewares Building) are sponsoring a flag retirement program.
The nation will dedicating the WW 11 Memorial on the Mall in Washington, D.C. and viewing the traditional telecast of the Monday evening public concert from the Capital Mall.
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Big Science Week at UC Davis
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Briefs
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This week UC Davis campus visitors and lecturers include:
* UC President, Robert Dynes
* UCB Dept of Integrative Biology, Exercise Physiologist, George A. Brooks.
* Sterling Professor of BioPhysics Yale School of Medicine, Robert B Schulman
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Big Science is the theme. Funding, Partnering, Service Contracts, Grants, Gifts, Bitechnology Transfer, Foundatiion and Institute Building and IP licensing are all part of the message at an institution that sees itself a transforming from the Agricultural branch of UC to a World Class Research University.
Davis is not you grandmother’s Davistown. It is on the map.
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[ Wednesday, May 19, 2004 07:46 PDT ]
Big Bang Finals
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None
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Finals 19 May 1800-2000 at the Alumni Center
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