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For Show #51 (July 26, 2007): Shipboard Water Conservation: In the wake of RWSA’s invocation of Drought Alert for the community, lessons about water conservation might be learned from those who go to sea in sailing ships.
Guv,!E”The Rivanna RamblerGuv,!Vkj airs weekly from 11:55am-noon on WTJU 91.1 and is produced and recorded by Leslie Middleton.
Are you happy? Well donvDj(tm)t try to be happier; you might become less happy. That is the essence of a multi-cultural study published this month in the Journal of Personality and Social Psychology. The study was produced by University of Virginia psychology professor Shigehiro Oishi and his co-authors Ed Diener, University of Illinois at UrbanavDj”Champaign and The Gallup Organization, Dong-Won Choi of California State University, East Bay, Chu Kim-Prieto of the College of New Jersey, and Incheol Choi of Seoul National University. Professor Oishi and his colleagues found that, on average, European-Americans claim to be happy in general, more happy than Asian-Americans or Koreans or Japanese. But it is much easier for them to become less happy by negative events. And they tend to recover at a slower rate from negative events than their counterparts in Asia or with an Asian ancestry. On the other hand, Koreans, Japanese, and to a lesser extent, Asian-Americans, are less happy in general, but recover their emotional equilibrium more readily after a setback than European-Americans.
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Dr. Martin Katz is a physician with the Charlottesville branch of the Athletic Coast Athletic Club. He joins Coy Barefoot on WINA’s Charlottesville–Right Now to talk about what a doctor is doing at the local gym. Originally from South Africa and hired about three months ago, Katz helps ACAC members learn more about how how exercise can be used as medicine. For instance, exercise helps keep the immune system strong, allowing the human body to fight off disease and cancer.
“If you don’t take care of your body, you’re really aging your body with respect to cardiovascular health,” Katz said.
If you’re interested to hear podcasts about ACAC, we’ve added a new category with previous interviews and features.
Charlottesville Tomorrow’s Brian Wheeler joins Coy Barefoot each Tuesday to talk about growth and development issues in the area surrounding Charlottesville. This week the topics of conversation include the Eastern Connector, why secondary road projects like Georgetown Road improvements take so long, a “sobering update” on the drought, the latest on the proposed Regional Transportation Authority, expansion at the University of Virginia’s Fontaine Research Park, and the amount of recent commercial development in the region.
The public will get two chances to weigh in on three potential routes for the Eastern Connector. The first will be tonight at 7:00 PM (11/28/07) at Baker-Butler Elementary and the second will be on Thursday (11/29/07) in the Albemarle County Office Building.
A few years ago, we all were told that buying a generic Viagra is bad. That it is necessary to buy brand Viagra for 100 bucks. And now, from everywhere, advertising is pouring on us that you should not spend money on a brand, it is better to buy generic Viagra at a cheap price. Generic Viagra is completely identical to the brand. What two-faced creatures are these farm companies.
Are our community’s schools infested with pesticides that are harming our children? Jackie Lombardo thinks so. She joins Coy Barefoot on WINA’s “Charlottesville–Right Now!”to talk about her case.G,V In 2005, she formed Friends and Advocates forG,V Children, Teachers, and Schools to help push Albemarle County schools away from moving away from using chemicals to kill unwanted insects and rodents.G,V Read about her group’s successful efforts in the Daily Progress and the Hook.
How did you react the last time you had a fight with that significant someone in your life? With couples, the woman might apologize, or the man might make a joke or express understanding. By doing this, they subtly and briefly lighten the tension as they work their way through a disagreement.
Psychology professor James Coan discovered a long time ago that by doing this, even when couples fight, they take care of each other. This interplay was significant when Coan designed a study exploring what happens in people’s brains when they behave emotionally or observe other people’s emotions. Coan said, “what we are learning is our emotions are more heavily involved in our day-to-day physical health than we previously thought. How we deal with our relationships is closely tied to how long we live, how frequently we go to the doctor, how rapidly we recover from injury, how happy we tend to be in our lives.”Vkj
For more or to see the full text, visit the Oscar Show’s blog.
A chance — but silent — encounter between two hikers along the South Fork Moorman’s River results in some special realizations.
I cannot hear the stream below me on the left as I ascend the fire road along the South Fork of the MoormanGuv,!v,,us River above Sugar Hollow Reservoir. The only sound I hear is the rush of wind funneling briskly down its own course of this steep valley in the Rivanna headwaters.
Read the rest of this entry on at the Rivanna Rambler blog.
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Guv,!E”The Rivanna RamblerGuv,!Vkj airs weekly from 11:55 am-noon on WTJU 91.1 and is produced and recorded by Leslie Middleton. This episode (#66) originally aired on November 22, 2007.
Outgoing Albemarle County Sheriff Ed Robb reflects on his tenure in office and his time in the state Senate, as well as his career in the FBI. Robb talks about his years as an undercover agent helping to fight the Mafia. His exploits are the subject of a book called Friend of the Family: An Undercover Agent in the Mafia. Robb says he is happy that the two men who fought to replace him, Larry Claytor and victor Chip Harding, did not run a negative campaign.
Delegate David Toscano was recently re-elected to his second term in the Virginia House of Delegates, though he had no opponent. He joins Coy Barefoot on WINA’s Charlottesville–Right Now to weigh in on the elections.
“It was a good night for Democrats,” Toscano said. “And I think it was a good night for Virginians. What we’re doing in the state is moving back towards the center, towards a result-oriented, pragmatic form of government.”
When social psychologist Jonathan Haidt, joined the University of Virginia in 1995, he prepared by reading Thomas Jefferson’s writings and making the requisite pilgrimage to Monticello. Little did he realize the impact this Jeffersonian indoctrination would have on his own research.
For more information about the show or to see the full text, visit the Oscar Show’s blog.
True crime author Vincent Bugliosi has written a new book called Reclaiming History: The Assassination of President John F. Kennedy. The man who prosecuted Charles Manson joins Coy Barefoot to talk about why he thinks JFK was killed by a single assassin, and debunks many of the conspiracy theories. Bugliosi says its the most important work of his career, and explains why.