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[ Tuesday, October 31, 2006 14:22 PDT ]
Legacy Journal: Halloween in the Heartland.
Section:
Briefs
Summary:
“Assiduously avoid insolence and sloth” … Motto of the DAMfast 10:00 lane one faithful.
Halloweenin Yolo County and the Davis community is appropriately centered on the bounty of the Harvest in the Heartland, a light hearted celebration of youthful fantasies, and a tip of the witches hat to 5 out of 1,OOO Davisites from ages 3-7.
Main:
DAMFast had swimcaps and dark glasses on the desk pumkins, the elementary schools were featuring class parities, the DSC had a noontime costume contest judged by students from the campus, and the downtown merchants were hosting a gathering of the young set.
Meamwhile, the main mischief seemed to be on the campaign trail. At a southern California rally near Pasadena City Junior College with govenatorial candidate Angelides, John Kerry seemed to imply that members of the military servicing in Iraq are there because they failed in the classroom. OOPs. Clarity counts.
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Calendar: • Davis Community: • Davis Aquatic Masters: • Senior Center: • Demographics: • Spectored Tales: • Valley Viewpoints: • Rhetoric: • Popular Culture: • (0) Comments: • (0) Trackbacks: • Permalink:
[ Monday, October 30, 2006 15:48 PDT ]
Legacy Journal: Mulittask Monday: iPods and Sweats.
Section:
Briefs
Summary:
The iPod Y generation is into multtasking big time if field observations at UCDavis are any indicatation of this well documented trend.
The elliptical machines were humming at an impressive rate at the ARC this Monday morning. The lady Aggies were clipping along at an impressive 5 MPH clip x 30 minutes for calculated burn rate of 560 kcal/hr. In addition, iTune video downloads were piped to the miniscreen and the ear plugs. The morning edition of the Aggie was scanned, the indoor tracksters had an audience and the exit path included a quick shower, a change and a charge to class or the library. Chances are that the afternoon may include a team practice or an IM sports match.
Meanwhile, the Oscher Senior Fitness group continued to get aquainted, was introduced to Nordic Walking, new stretches and new muscle groups by Coach Vochatzer. Dispersing to the weight room, the track, and the machines to mix and match contrasting styles with the younger generation comes naturally to those with a campus teaching or service background.
Main:
The same attitude isconsistently found at the 0545 and 1000 AM DAMfast pool workouts.
The monthly meeting of the Davis Genealogic Club was a change of pace. The good news is that cowboy and horse culture, real and mythical, are still deeply rooted in the collective American memory. The fact is that cowboys are great multi-takers. For example, they can rope, ride and swear at the same time.
It appears that part of the cultural change in Davis town is attributed to the cowboy mentality of some of the campus jocks who a transitioning to Division 1 status. Hard partying by some Aggie men’s water water polo players may have accounted for their 0-2 record on the second day and third days of competiton as the host team of a Shootout at Schaal. The Air Force team was up, out and bright eyed early on Saturday morning. By contrast, the Aggie midmorning team workout at Hickey Pool was both a postscript and a prelude to the story of a tough two days of completition, match scheduling not wiith standing.
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Calendar: • Monday: • Davis Community: • Davis Aquatic Masters: • Senior Learning Unlimited: • Demographics: • Exercise and Health: • History and Heritage: • Leisure: • Life Lines: • Multitasking: • News: • Sports: • Straight Talk: • Swimming: • Training: • UCDavis: • Athletics: • Young at Heart: • Popular Culture: • (0) Comments: • (0) Trackbacks: • Permalink:
[ Sunday, October 29, 2006 13:24 PDT ]
Legacy Journal: Time for Active Recreation and Exercise.
Section:
Parks & Recreation
Summary:
The most recent Time Magazine cover story was a demographic snapshot of this busy, joung and growing nation.
Main:
300 million is the current count.
Of interest are the following:
* One third of the working population commutes to work alone in their car. In this region the one way drive is more than 30 minutes.
* Women average 11 minutes in daily recreational or fitness exercise.
* Most women buy walking or running shoes as part of an active wear outfit purchasing decision.
* Judging by the waistlines, the UCDavis initiatives to promote “Wellness” programs among its 30,000 employees not been visibly successful.
Food and food tends to consistently draw larger audiences than exercise and fitness. For example, we note that this season’s community reading project is the book, the Omnimvore’s Dilemma, by Polan.
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[ Saturday, October 28, 2006 16:50 PDT ]
Legacy Journal: Whats Hot in Davis
Section:
Alerts
Summary:
What is hot from the Valley point of view:
Main:
San Francisco is known as “The City”; there is also “The Valley”, as in the Great Valley of California.
The town of Davis is centrally located between The City and Sacramento near the delta confluence where the Sacramento and the San Joaquin Rivers turn west to join the Bay.
* Buses and the Capitol Corridor commuter trainline are Hot. The student run campus Bus system moves campus students, public school students and other residents all around town and includes stops near the Amtrak station and connecting points with other bus system including: Yolo county buses to Sacramento and the International Airport, Solano buses to Fairfield, UCDavis buses to the Sacramento UCD Medical Center, and UC Buses to UC Berkeley. In addition, Amtrak buses connect with Modesto and Stockton.
* Ski fitness training is in. Nordic Walking training for ARC student employees started today in preparation for the Sierra Ski Season and the winter quarter offerings at the ARC. Nordic rollerbladeing is part of the progression.
* USC Trojans and Oregon State Beavers PAC 10 football game from Corvillis was hot and on the big HD screen at the Graduate. It was was a three ring event with an OSU trifecta with Oregon State, Ohio State and Oklahoma State fans banding as brothers this the Aggie folks to help beat the Trojans.
* Meanwhile, it is time to reset the clock and start enjoying the super sunrises from the Arroyo Pool at the DAMfast.org 0545 swimming workout.
* For a furthur lift, Bill Bryson and his memoir of the Thunderbold Kid is worth a read and a chuckle. His humor is just the right antedote for the angst and anger of this political season.
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Calendar: • Fourth Quarter: • News: • Sports: • Swimming: • Training: • UCDavis: • Events and News: • Young at Heart: • What is Hot?: • What is New?: • What is Next?: • (0) Comments: • (0) Trackbacks: • Permalink:
[ Friday, October 27, 2006 10:36 PDT ]
Legacy Journal: Blogging the News in Science, Technology and Research
Section:
Health and Medicine
Summary:
Weblogs have found a reasonable amount of respectability among the the new media journalists on the science, technology research beat.
Two recent and local examples at UCDavis are the presentation by Eliot Spindel of the Oregon National Primate Center on the prevention of the fetal and newborn effects of maternal nicotine dosing by vitamin C., and the launching of Egghead, a UCDavis science news service blog.
Main:
In the first instance, the wire news services have already preannounced the early research findings of Dr. Spindel who used a total of seven subject monkeys. However, we know of no women who have been continuously infused with a constant dose of nicotine during the course of their pregnancies, Meanwhile, the adverse effects of maternal smoking on the morphology of the placenta, the growth of the fetus, on childhood development, behavior, and disease is well known. What is not know, but is doubtful, are the protect effects of smoking damage by high doses of vitamin C by large numbers of using and abusing and theoretically nicotine addicted mothers around the world. More information is available online with a new blog search service from Google. News archives are now also available as a Google search option.
In the second instance, UCDavis Egghead, a Web journal or Weblog from Andy Fell of the UCDavis Communications service, has been moved the top of the web page and the head of the class. There, the news folks and the University schools, colleges, departments and institutes can show their stuff.
show their stuff/
For example:
* Today’s Egghead posting reports that $543,983,761 of “external funding” for research, training, travel and infrastructure was granted to the University in the most recent fiscal year. The amounts supplied by private, endowments, non profit organizations and corporate sources is not reported. “Internal funding sources” are also substantial and unreported.
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Calendar: • Diet, Nutrition & Health: • IT3 Tech: • Information Tech: • Instructional Tech: • Internet Tech: • Media Watch: • Medicine: • Previews: • Science and Technology: • Natural Sciences: • Biology: • Molecular Biology: • ShoutBox: • Trends: • What is New?: • Dollars and Cents: • (0) Comments: • (0) Trackbacks: • Permalink:
[ Thursday, October 26, 2006 15:39 PDT ]
Legacy Journal: Fit for Duty
Section:
Sports
Summary:
The topic will not go away. Obesity is out. Health and Fitness is in. So are the food police.
Main:
It appears that few organizations and institutions have standardized fitness standards. Flexibility, balance, rhythm, stength, speed, endurance, power, recovery, activity specific skills, and body composition are just a few of the fitness variables. One recent textbook from a well known publisher had no job specific, sex appropriate, age adjusted norms. Masters swimming records are kept by a stroke, distant, age and sex. What is clear are the following:
* Performance based fitness testing and performance is difficult to model and simulated in the laboratory, in the gym , on the beach or on the deck. Swimming must done in the pool or in open water. Cross training breaks the monotony of lap swimming and aids stroke technique.
* Long term diet and nutrition are imporant in general health and fitness.
* Fitness requires daily preparation and training. Davis folks have no public indoor pools. In winter, the best facility is Hickey Pool at UCD. It has a southern exposure and 360 ° wind and rain protection.
* Those who are long on the job like the folks at UPS ,protect themselves, their bodies and their backs. Many athletes do the same. The military does the same. Military pilots have high standard and regular competency testing.
* Individualized age, sex, interests and health status appropriate exercise is important. Sutter West in Davis has a well staffed cardiac rehabilitation facility as well a convenient free standing PT staffed walkin unit that is appropriate for working and retired seniors. It happens to be close to a firestation.
* BTW. The fitness standards of many fire and police forces is not good.
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