It has been many years and each one of the many years has been good. Part of the many years were divided by exactly half.
The first half was in a place with familiar people. The second half was in a new place with few new people.
It has been many years and each one of the many years has been good. Part of the many years were divided by exactly half.
The first half was in a place with familiar people. The second half was in a new place with few new people.
2016 IATLH Commitment Award
I continue to combine the cardio work outs with strength training (actually bit less cardio these days due to the increase in strength training). Since about two months now I have been slowly increasing the number of work-out machines I am using during the lunch hour.
During the last few weeks, I have added the following machines to my routine. New ones are Cybex abdominal.
Life Fitness Back Extension
2016 Halloween Night
Monday, October 31, 2016
This year Halloween came on a Monday night and since it was a school/work day there were very few kids doing the “trick/treat” routine in our neighborhood. Typically, we see the revelers come around 6:30 PM. However, today the first batch came only around 7:15 PM.
We had candy and distributed them until about 8:00 PM. VtS had a special costume and face paint.
Today, my colleague helped me to try-out some weight training at the Leach Center Gymnasium. So far I have been reluctant to try any the weight and strength training and instead choosing to do lots of cardio. Just last week or so I saw an article in Time Magazine (Sept 12/19, 2016 issue; The New Science of Exercise) about how it is better to mix cardio with weight and strength training.
So we started out with few simple machines. My friend who has been training for more than decade demonstrated some of them and after reading the instructions they were simple enough to do.
So, today I started out with the following four machines as a try out. Few minutes each for each of these machines.
I started with Lateral Raise first.
Then I moved to Biceps Curl.
Then we moved on to Row
Then finishing with Pulldown.
Then I went to did some cardio exercise too.
The John & Mable Ringling Museums
Sarasota Bay, Sarasota, FL
Friday, May 06, 2016
2016 Digitech
FSU Conference Center
Wed, Mar 30, 2016, 1:00 to 3:30 PM
I participated in the 2016 FSU Digitech Innovating with Technology event sponsored by FSU’s Program in Interdisciplinary Computing.
We put a display for our unit Institute of Molecular Biophysics and demonstrated our Simple Robotic Imager for crystal screening.
Several visitors stopped by our booth and asked questions. Overall, we had a very good response.
Flora and Fauna of Aruba
We traveled to Aruba, an island nation which is part of the Lesser Antilles and part of Leeward Antilles located in the Caribbean Sea and ~25 miles off of Venezuelan coast. It is part of the Dutch Caribbean and one of the countries of the Kingdom of Netherlands.
We stayed in Oranjestad, the capital of Aruba and visited beaches and other areas where we saw some trees, birds, and animals which are unique. First in the beach we saw trees that are unique to the Caribbean.
We saw lots of iguanas. The young ones are in green color and older adults were ranging in color from blue to dark grey. We also some skinks.
Iguanas were plentiful and they were very shy and ran away if you even came closer than 10 feet.
We also saw lots of house sparrows, black birds, and bare eyed doves.
We also saw lots of black birds called Carib Grackle Quiscalus lugubris that were roosting on the palm trees next to our hotel. They were lots of noise in the morning and took some time in the night before they settled down.
In the area near the Alto Vista chapel (past the Arashi beach) and the north eastern corner of Aruba also called Hudishibana, we saw a male Aruban whiptail lizard (Cnemidophorus arubensis) with its beautiful turquoise color. Locally they are called codoco or kodoco.
We saw lots of cacti too.
November 12, 2015, 1:30 to 3:15 PM @ Dunn Street Community Garden
During the Tallahassee Forward meeting few weeks ago, I met Nathan Ballentine, the Man-in-overalls. I was the moderator for a session titled “Addressing Health Disparities” and he was one of the Panelists. He is the co-founder of Tallahassee Food Network, Start-up coordinator for iGrow Whatever You Like among other things. He invited me to join the Collards and Cornbread Gathering’s November meeting on Thursday, Nov 12, 2015 at the Dunn Street Community Garden. I was happy accept the invitation and wanted to share some basic information about Thai Pongal (தை பொங்கல்), the South Indian farmers festival with Tallahassee Food Network and iGrow Whatever You Like movement.
I met many folks at the Collards and Cornbread Gathering and all of us spoke about our food memories that reminded about why we were thankful to the food we shared with others. We had about 30 folks at the gathering. Karin from Mission San Luis spoke about historical traditions of our area. Then I spoke about Thai Pongal (தை பொங்கல்) and Mattu Pongal (மாட்டு பொங்கல்) and shared the information about South Indian food habits and festivals.