It’s a low-cost method of reaching voters

Winston-Salem Journal - In political campaigns, reaching voters is key.

Local candidates knock on doors, attend church cookouts and organize phone banks. If they can afford it, they might run ads on local TV or radio.

This year, more of them are taking their messages to the Web.

“It is a growing trend, there’s no doubt about that, in both local elections and those for higher office,” said William Cassie, a political scientist at Appalachian State University. “If people are interested, it’s a very inexpensive way to get a message out there. It can be used for positive reasons or it can be used for negative reasons.” Read the full article

Health24.com (South Africa) - Older women who walked for a half-hour daily for a year reported half the number of colds as women of similar age who didn’t exercise, US researchers report in the November issue of the American Journal of Medicine.

The study’s lead author is Cornelia M. Ulrich, an associate member of the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Centre in Seattle. Her team’s study is the first randomized clinical trial to look at the impact of moderate physical activity on the actual number of colds contracted, she said.

The study results make sense to David Nieman, a professor of health and exercise science at Appalachian State University, Boone, N.C., and a veteran researcher of the exercise/colds link. In his own research, Nieman found that walkers experienced half the number of days of cold symptoms as non-exercisers. Read the full article

It’s a low-cost method of reaching voters

Winston-Salem Journal
More and more politicians are using the Web as part of their campaign strategy, says
William Cassie, a political scientist at Appalachian State University. Read the full article

CBS News Canada - Moderate daily exercise can help fend off the common cold, new research suggests.

Older women who walked for a half-hour daily for a year reported half the number of colds as women of similar age who didn’t exercise, U.S. researchers report in the November issue of the American Journal of Medicine.

“There’s been a lot of anecdotal evidence that exercise prevents infection, and colds in particular,” said the study’s lead author, Cornelia M. Ulrich, an associate member of the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center in Seattle.

Her team’s study is the first randomized clinical trial to look at the impact of moderate physical activity on the actual number of colds contracted, she said.

The study results make sense to David Nieman, a professor of health and exercise science at Appalachian State University, Boone, N.C., and a veteran researcher of the exercise/colds link. In his own research, Nieman found that walkers experienced half the number of days of cold symptoms as non-exercisers. Read the full article

U.S. grant to help develop program

Winston-Salem Journal - Boone isn’t Bordeaux, true.

But the college town in the North Carolina mountains and the southwestern French port city might have more in common in the coming years if a few wine lovers at Appalachian State University have their way.

ASU announced last week that two of the school’s chemistry professors got a $65,000 grant from the U.S. Department of Education to develop a degree program in wine science.

The program centers on a yearlong exchange at universities in Udine, Italy, Lisbon, Portugal, or Bordeaux, France, to study the European wine business.

ASU offers a handful of classes in viticulture and enology. It does not have a degree in viticulture right now and lacks a vineyard for hands-on training, said Grant Holder, who teaches a course called “Cellar Science” and is one of the grant’s recipients. Read the full article