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“Exercise for healthier aging”

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We all know that exercise is great for our overall health. Exercise is important for our cardiovascular health of course, which is why the American Heart Association recommends 150 minutes of moderate intensity exercise every week. No less importantly, and especially as we get older, another huge benefit of exercise is in fall and injury prevention.
Starting an exercise routine, especially when starting from scratch, can be daunting. The simplest way to get started is to start a timed walking routine. Start with 15 minutes per day. If you can’t walk outdoors or on a treadmill, find a long hallway or a large indoor space like a store or mall and just walk. If you are consistent, you will find that week by week you will be able to increase your time ideally up to 30 minutes a day or more. If you have a friend or family member who shares the same goal, a walking partner will increase your odds of success.
If you have a condition or disability that keeps you from walking, alternatives abound. Some people are much more able to use a stationary bike, or exercise in a pool. Chair exercise or upper body only routines can be found online; use the same principles, starting at 15 minutes and increasing the time gradually.
Already got walking or your alternative down? You can increase the intensity by exercising more briskly or adding some hills or resistance to your routine. And better yet, you can add some strength training to maintain and build muscle. No fancy equipment needed – start with some squats from a sturdy chair; try a 30 second plank. Adding some variety to your routine is great to keep things interesting and reduce any risk of overuse injury.
There are some great ways to work on exercise in a group if your community has access. Many communities have free group chair exercise or walking groups that you can try out. If able, try a yoga, pilates, or tai chi class. That pesky friend who keeps inviting you to play pickle ball – say “why not” and give it a go! Probably the most important thing to help you be consistent with exercise is to find activities that you actually enjoy doing, so don’t be afraid to try something new!
Our exercise abilities and goals might change as we get older, but the benefits of moving our bodies are present at all ages. So get out there and move! You’ll be glad you did.
Kelly Evans-Hullinger, M.D. is part of The Prairie Doc® team of physicians and currently practices internal medicine in Brookings, South Dakota. Follow The Prairie Doc® at www.prairiedoc.org and on Facebook featuring On Call with the Prairie Doc® a medical Q&A show providing health information based on science, built on trust, streaming live on Facebook most Thursdays at 7 p.m. central.

KU News: Week of events celebrates completion of walking labyrinth at KU Field Station

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Week of events celebrates completion of walking labyrinth at KU Field Station
LAWRENCE — Several public events in early October will celebrate the completion of “here-ing,” an environmentally embedded artwork by Janine Antoni at the KU Field Station. A two-mile walking labyrinth, “here-ing” is shaped like the anatomy of the human ear that traverses a reseeded former cropland and woodland. In addition to artist talks, the plans include a two-day celebration with music, poetry and more from 5 p.m. to 7 p.m. Oct. 6 and from 1 p.m. to 3 p.m. Oct. 8.

1923 Jayhawk Celebration scheduled for Sept. 22 as part of Family Weekend events
LAWRENCE — KU Memorial Unions will host a 1923 Jayhawk Celebration at 12:30 p.m. Sept. 22 outside of the Kansas Union on Ascher Plaza, Level 4. Join Union staff in singing “Happy Birthday” to the beloved Jayhawk. Refreshments will be served. This event is part of Family Weekend, hosted by Student Affairs, which will conclude with the KU football game against the Brigham Young University at David Booth Kansas Memorial Stadium.

Military jets to fly over campus Friday, Saturday in advance of football game
LAWRENCE – Two military jets are scheduled to fly over campus twice this week in advance of Saturday’s football game between the University of Kansas and Brigham Young University. The jets will fly over David Booth Kansas Memorial Stadium about 15 minutes before the 2:30 p.m. kickoff Sept. 23 and do a practice run over the stadium at 1 p.m. Sept. 22.

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Contact: Elizabeth Kanost, Spencer Museum of Art, 785-864-0142, [email protected], @SpencerMuseum
Week of events celebrates completion of walking labyrinth at KU Field Station

LAWRENCE — Several public events in early October will celebrate the completion of “here-ing,” an environmentally embedded artwork by Janine Antoni at the KU Field Station. A two-mile walking labyrinth, “here-ing” is shaped like the anatomy of the human ear that traverses a reseeded former cropland and woodland.
The Spencer Museum of Art commissioned Antoni to create a public artwork at the University of Kansas. The resulting multiyear project is a partnership that includes researchers from the Kansas Biological Survey & Center for Ecological Research and students from the Designbuild Studio in KU’s School of Architecture & Design. In addition to creating the labyrinth, the project has taken steps to help restore portions of the landscape through prescribed burns, cultural burns and the reseeding of native plants. At the heart of the project is an invitation for the public to return to their bodies by engaging with the land.
“Walking the circuitous path gives us an opportunity to slow down, arrive in our bodies and enter a receptive state,” Antoni said. “As we continue to draw the ear with our steps, we listen more deeply.”
Antoni and art historian Carol Becker of Columbia University will discuss the project’s creative process during a free public talk titled “To Grow an Artwork” at 5:30 p.m. Oct. 3 at the Kansas Union in the Malott Room. Other KU researchers involved in the project will join Antoni for a discussion titled “Communing with the Land: How the Arts, Ecology, and Architecture Meeting Along the Path” at 6 p.m. Oct. 5 at Sunflower Outdoor & Bike Shop.
Finally, the public is invited to experience the labyrinth in an immersive way with music, poetry, stone carving, audiology, ecology and more. This two-day celebration will occur from 5 p.m. to 7 p.m. Oct. 6 and from 1 p.m. to 3 p.m. Oct. 8.
“‘here-ing’ has brought together researchers, students, and the public to experience the land, appreciate its history, and participate in mutual rejuvenation,” said Joey Orr, Spencer Museum Curator for Research. “Walking ‘here-ing’ creates the path for others to follow.”
The “here-ing” labyrinth is open daily from sunrise to sunset and is located adjacent to the Roth Trailhead at the KU Field Station. It is searchable on Google Maps. Visitors are encouraged to wear hats, sunscreen and closed-toe shoes with long pants tucked into socks to avoid ticks.
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Contact: Mikayla Leader, KU Memorial Unions, [email protected]
1923 Jayhawk Celebration scheduled for Sept. 22 as part of Family Weekend events
LAWRENCE — KU Memorial Unions will host a 1923 Jayhawk Celebration at 12:30 p.m. Sept. 22 outside of the Kansas Union on Ascher Plaza, Level 4. Join Union staff in singing “Happy Birthday” to the beloved Jayhawk.
A century ago, sophomores Jimmy O’Bryon and George Hollingbery designed a new Jayhawk that the Kansas Alumni magazine characterized as “quaint” and “duck-like.” This Jayhawk led to more extensive use of the Jayhawk trademark, which began to appear on jackets, sweaters and uniforms around campus as well as on commercial products off-campus.
Celebrate 100 years of the 1923 Jayhawk with cupcakes, activities and more for all to enjoy including a special announcement from the KU Bookstore.
This event is part of Family Weekend, hosted by Student Affairs, which will conclude with the KU football game against the Brigham Young University at David Booth Kansas Memorial Stadium. View more information about Family Weekend, Sept. 22-23 on the website.

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Military jets to fly over campus Friday, Saturday in advance of football game
LAWRENCE – Two military jets are scheduled to fly over campus twice this week in advance of Saturday’s football game between the University of Kansas and Brigham Young University.
The jets will fly over David Booth Kansas Memorial Stadium about 15 minutes before the 2:30 p.m. kickoff Sept. 23.
The jets will do a practice run over the stadium at 1 p.m. Friday, Sept. 22.
Both flyovers will originate from the south and proceed north over the stadium.

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Wait, Kansas has to turn clocks back for daylight saving time? Didn’t lawmakers end it?

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Kansas residents will soon gain an hour when they set their clocks back at 2 a.m. Nov. 5 for the end of daylight saving time, which began in March.

Fall officially began Sept. 23, and the sun is setting earlier while residents await cooler autumn weather.

Legislators in Kansas and across the U.S. have introduced many bills aiming to change the practice of “springing forward” and “falling back.” Here’s what to know about the state of daylight saving in Kansas.

Daylight saving time legislation in Kansas

Kansas legislators introduced a bill to exempt the state from daylight saving time in 2019, but it died in committee in 2020.

In 2021, lawmakers tried another route by introducing House Bill 2060, which would make daylight saving time permanent in the state. This bill died in May 2022.

These recent pieces of legislation were far from the only effort to end clock-changing, and the U.S. Senate has signed off on similar measure for the nation. But so far, Hawaii and Arizona are the only states in the country that don’t observe daylight saving time, and the Navajo Nation portion of Arizona does practice daylight saving .

The history of daylight saving

Daylight saving time was made a legal requirement by the Uniform Time Act of 1966, the U.S. Department of Transportation’s Bureau of Transportation Statistics reports.

State governments cannot independently change time zones or the length of daylight saving time, the department reports, but they can exempt themselves from the practice.

“States do not have the authority to choose to be on permanent Daylight Saving Time,” the U.S. Department of Transportation website reads.

Next year’s daylight saving time will begin March 10, 2024.

How does daylight saving affect sleep?

While Kansas residents will gain an hour Nov. 5, the time change might not actually translate to more sleep.

“There is little evidence of extra sleep” on the fall night when daylight saving ends, according to a 2013 article from the Sleep Medicine Reviews journal, and you might actually be losing rest .

“The cumulative effect of five consecutive days of earlier rise times following the autumn change again suggests a net loss of sleep across the week,” the article’s abstract reads.

The end of daylight saving time has also been linked to other issues, such as increased collisions with deer , a 2022 article published by Current Biology reports.

While you might be less well-rested when the time changes this November, a March article from the Mayo Clinic Health System offers tips on how to reduce your sleep loss :

  • If you feel tired a few days after daylight saving time ends, take a 15-to 20-minute-long nap in the early afternoon.
  • Assess whether naps are helpful to you. Napping can hurt nighttime sleep for some people, while others may benefit from short naps.
  • Make an effort to be well-rested before the time changes.
  • As reported in Wichita Eagle.

Auction in rear-view mirror

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Our big downsizing auction is now in our rear-view mirror. It was anything but big, money-wise, as far as auctions go, but it was big in the one respect that really mattered — we got rid of almost all our superfluous “stuff” that we didn’t need any more, had gotten the joy out of, and won’t have room for in our new home. So, we figger the auction a success in the big picture of our little universe.
Watching your possessions change hands during an auction is any interesting phenomenon. Country music singer Sammy Kershaw long ago recorded a song titled “Yard Sale” that has some lyrics that fit a downsizing auction, too. Here are a few of those excerpted lyrics: “
“Oh, they’re sortin’ through
What’s left of you and me.
Paying yard sale prices
For each golden memory.
Oh, I never thought
I’d ever live to see
The way they’re sorting through
What’s left of you and me.
…Well there goes the baby’s windup,
And the mirror from the hall.
I’d better take just one last look
Before they take it all.”
In my life, I’ve been to too many auctions looking for “buy bargains” to ever be critical of folks who did the same at our auction. But, as I watched folks tote off things I paid good money for long ago, it made me chuckle a bit to wonder what value I saw in the item when I bought it. All I can say is I hope they get as much use or enjoyment out of their newly acquired item as I did.
Judging from our auction, nobody really buys used furniture these days. I’m left to guess that folks put a premium on buying only new furniture. Which leads me to this observation: We won’t be insuring the contents of our new home for nearly as much as we have the contents of our current home insured for. In the future, it only makes sense to insure the six major appliances — refrigerator, deep freezer, stove, washer, clothes dryer, and dish washer — and a few thousand bucks for all the rest of the contents. If disaster strikes, you can replace all your other furniture at substantially less than new price.
Reflecting on it all, it’s rather refreshing to face the future with an updated slate of possessions. That said, just this morning at the Old Geezers’ Breakfast Club, I acquired my first extraneous new possession.  I got a brand new one-piece bread toaster — for free. It was a good way to start our new collection of “ new stuff.”
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Before I quit the auction report completely. One item that didn’t sell is the fiberglass pickup truck bed cover. It fit the bed of my long-departed 1997 Ford F-150. I will give it to anyone who will come get it. Just give me a call at 620-344-1350 if you’re interested.
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Our new home is gradually nearing completion. The builders are mostly working on the shelving, the lighting, the bathroom tiling, and installation of plumbing fixtures. It will nip and tuck to see if we still get to move the first week of October.
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I regularly mention my wildlife encounters at Damphewmore Acres. Well, after the last one, I can assure that the world’s strongest raccoon recently showed up here. One evening, I discovered an old hen had gone to chicken heaven. It was too late in the day to bury her carcass in the compost pile, so I placed it under a 20 gallon stainless water tank that weighs at least 25 pounds. I figgered to compost her the next morning.
Alas, I had not figgered on King Kong Raccoon. The next morning I drove my UTV to the chicken house and, “Whoa,” I discovered the stainless steel tank had been slid at least 30 feet into the middle of the driveway. And, it was overturned and the hen carcass long gone. Only the dusty tracks of King Kong Raccoon told the tale. I wish I could have seen how it moved the heavy tank and how it overturned it for a chicken dinner. It would have been an interesting sight.
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I’m always thinking about ways to make a quick buck easily. After watching TV for decades, I think I’ve hit upon a new money-making scheme. I want to be paid to come up with new names for new prescription medicines. Now, the pharmaceutical companies pay big bucks for expensive public relations companies to come up with the weirdest new medical names — like Zulaxid. Penctil, Ovyvara, Kydatid, Jalepto, Bedenyx, Peqavi, Kyrolen, Viagra, Cialis, Eliquis, Jevtana, Xgeva, and Ozempic, as examples.
Well, I can do job just as good and for a lot less money. I will build a “Medico-Dart Board” with lots of the letters Q, Z, J, X, and V. There will be fewer of the letters B, C, D, F, G, K, M, P, and W. The rest of the alphabet will have just a smattering of letters on my “Medico-Dart Board.”
When a pharmaceutical company needs a new medicine name, all it will have to do is tell me how many letters it wants in the name. Then, for a cool, but cheap, $10,000, I’ll go to my “Medico-Dart Board” and throw the proper number of darts. Voila, a new medicine will be named at a fraction of the current cost — which means the med can be sold to us much cheaper.
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Two more good friends went to the Great Beyond this week. One friend and former co-worker died in Puyallup, Wash. The second was a current neighbor lady. Both were good folks who will be missed. RIP.
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My words of wisdom for the week are from Christopher Parker: “Procrastination is like a credit card. It’s a lot of fun until you get the bill.”
Have a good ‘un.

Gary Sandbo

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“Whenever I saw him, I lit up a bit because he was such a positive force in the universe,” Roger Verdon said.

News of Gary Sandbo’s death at age 77 came with crushing force. On Saturday morning, September 16, he had been at the funeral of a beloved friend. He delivered an eloquent tribute, returned to his seat and collapsed. In a moment he was dead.
Sandbo’s last words were about the beauty of someone else, the power of his friend’s love of teaching, of his selfless dedication and service. Sandbo had also been a teacher, a world-class coach, a passionate civic volunteer, a Christian who lived the Commandments so easily and modestly, as though they were born in him. His final act was to praise a friend.
For Gary Sandbo, giving was not second nature, it was ingrained. He believed in understanding and encouragement; his hand light on a shoulder softened the deepest trouble.
And that smile, its golden squint, eyes alight with mischief and affection, a grin loaded and ready to go off.
Like Roger, we lit up a bit whenever we saw Gary Sandbo. Our world is better because he lived in it. He was what good people dream to be.
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Campus lessons
School has begun and small college campuses are a big part of small cities. Only weeks ago they stirred, busy in a snap, taking deep breaths and looking here and there as though they had just come out of a long nap. Curbs were lined and parking lots packed with cars and trucks, many from away.
Campuses carry special ambiance, landscapes of energy and color: the garden settings at Bethany, Bethel’s majestic limestone in North Newton, the venerable brick and stone at McPherson College and Wesleyan in Salina, all settled in the shade of old big trees.
They share a semester’s prelude: Vans and wagons tossed against the curb, doors open, piles of clothing and boxes of whatnot lying about, trains of people loaded to their chins, sliding in or out of doorways and along the halls like overweighed stewards after a long day on the trail.
Early days were for searching: for a place to park, for the lost power cord, the missing back pack, a better chair, a code to log in; or for negotiating: a place to park, a bigger closet, a later class, a reluctant window, an open window, a not-so-reluctant roommate; for local menus and carryout, for time to have a look around.
The grounds now are astir, people moving along the walks, among the gardens, past the statues and fountains and the stare of an administration building. Here is the thrum of opening weeks, prelude to autumn, its brisk dawns and freshly laundered air.
Summer, its oppression and heat, is stuffed to memory. The town, pants pressed and shirt tucked in, looks on. Youth has returned thin-clad and loose, carrying promise and energy and the grit and pluck of inspiration.
The campus rustles, liberated, stretching its arms. Students move over the grounds as though skating to music, and the campus seems to cohere – a thrilling thing to watch, bodies at last freed in their persistent attempt to catch up with the spirit.
A campus brings the revivifying energy of youth, of classes for the enrolled and lessons for us all.

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