[afro-nets] Supercourse Newsletter, April 21 2004

[Ron LaPorte <super1+@pitt.edu>]

Supercourse Newsletter, April 21 2004
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http://www.pitt.edu/~super1/
 
Dear Friends,
 
Olympic Supercourse Lecture
 
Friends, we had a good idea over the weekend. The Olympics are 
to be held early in August. Why cannot the Supercourse be a part 
of it? We are thinking about establishing an Olympic Supercourse 
Lecture. The concept is very simple. We create a physical activ-
ity and health lecture. This lecture is then provided to all the 
Supercourse and Olympic countries world wide for presentation 
during the Olympics. The educators of the world obtain a world 
class lecture to teach their students, with the backing of the 
Olympics and the scientists of the Supercourse. This brings the 
Supercourse closer to another huge International organization, 
the Olympics. This brings a global prevention effort of the Su-
percourse closer to the Olympics, a health/prevention arm.
 
I contacted Steve Blair, and good friend who is CEO of the Coo-
per Clinic in Texas, and he got us in contact with an exercise 
leader in Greece. Eric Noji has gotten us in contact with the 
head of the Greek CDC, and the head of the School of Public 
Health in Greek. We are also thinking of getting famous athletes 
involved as well. The gold lecture of prevention reached 128 
countries, and potentially 300,000 people. With the Olympic Su-
percourse lecture we could reach millions. If any of you have 
contacts in the Olympic program either within your country or 
globally, it would be great if you could let us know. We also 
feel that our Supercourse relay team could take on runners from 
ANY country.
 
 
Nature, BMJ
 
We are very proud that Nature will publish an article about us 
titled e-recruiting next week, and the BMJ will publish an arti-
cle in mid may. It is exciting to be discussed in to heavy 
weight journals just a few weeks a part.
 
 
Tornado Supercourse
 
We are prepared for Tornados in Tornado Alley in the mid part 
the US. We have created a lecture on Tornados 
http://www.pitt.edu/~super1/lecture/lec14501/001.htm
 
We are making this available to all the educators in Kansas and 
potentially several other states. Should a tornado occur, we 
will update the lecture with new findings. We have global lead-
ers from CDC, NOAA, and many Universities who have joined in our 
Tornado lecture. We have been very impressed with the interest 
in the schools. We are also discussing how we can send informa-
tion and data upstream, to provide information about the "ground 
truth" of tornados. We see that building a national and global 
team of those of us in academia, and government with educators 
in the Schools, is a very powerful network for prevention of 
morbidity, mortality and fear. We plan to establish a set of 
about 10 lectures on the major types of disasters, and then have 
these available as backbone lecture that can grow as new infor-
mation comes forward.
 
Eugene Shubnikov has pointed out that in Sept. we will have 
reached 7 years development of the Supercourse. This has been a 
most wild and exciting ride!!
 
Best regards in Spring Time,
 
Ron, Faina, Mita, Soni, Eugene, Ali, Akira, Hercules, Rania, 
Abed, Tomoko, Denish, Mark Spitz, Mercury