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Question: I have some eggs in the refrigerator that I'd like to use, but the date on the carton was a week ago. Are they still safe to eat?
Answer: Yes, your eggs should be fine, provided you've been storing them properly.
As the Washington-based Egg Safety Center notes, the dates you see on egg cartons are not food safety dates. They are most commonly used as a guide for stores to know how long they can sell the eggs.
Raw eggs will maintain their best quality for about 3 to 5 weeks after the date you bought them and took them home, assuming continuous refrigeration.
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A third annual campaign to feed the hungry in southern Oregon is underway. The "ACCESS" hunger campaign hopes to raise enough money in the next month to provide a quarter of a million meals throughout the area.
11 mayors in southern Oregon have joined the effort to help the estimated one thousand homeless in Jackson county. The head of "ACCESS" says those needing their help has changed over the years from single adults to families with children.
From now until September 17th "Mayor's United" hopes to raise 50-thousand dollars for the 250-thousand meals they want to provide. That's about 100-thousand more than last year's goal.

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USA TODAY's founder loved his country — and making waves.
Finding opinions about Al Neuharth has always been about as difficult as getting wet in a thunderstorm. During his heyday running the Gannett Co. from 1973 to 1989, they rained down. He was admired and cursed, idolized and feared — inside the company and out — sometimes all at the same time.
But nobody, or at least nobody we know, was neutral on Al, and that's as fitting an epitaph as any for USA TODAY's founder, who died Friday at age 89. He liked nothing better than making waves, and the more boats they rocked the better.
There were plenty of big ones.
He built a small newspaper company into the nation's largest.
He invented this newspaper and, despite nearly universal skepticism, made it so successful that it altered the entire industry, foreshadowing epic changes the Internet would bring two decades later.
In "retirement," he transformed a small foundation into a high-impact organization dedicated to the First Amendment, with a museum of news toured by millions — and he started a new family, with six adopted (or as he liked to say, chosen) kids.
Al was a complex guy. Brilliant. Idiosyncratic. Affable. Egotistical. Thoughtful. Harsh. Kind. And in the clinches, hardscrabble tough, befitting his South Dakota prairie upbringing and Depression-era roots — at least until those kids softened him up. Way too complex to define adequately in this space.
But to get a shorthand sense of the man, all you really need is an understanding of why the publication you're reading right now exists. Al liked to spread credit elsewhere, but USA TODAY was all his — an alchemy of vision, brass and an unerring instinct for the public taste.
Flash back to the pre-Internet world of 1982. USA TODAY wasn't there yet. CNN, invented by another visionary, was ushering in round-the-clock TV news. Newspapers were drab, and TV was flashy. And along came Al with a new idea. In retrospect, it sounds simple: Figure out what people disliked about newspapers — from dull content to messy ink — and create one that fixed the problems.
And with the nation in the midst of a deep recession, out came USA TODAY. Colorful, concise, upbeat, studiously impartial and tightly packaged with graphics to brighten the traditional gray sea of words. TV in print.
It was to be a place where the USA — particularly Al's beloved heartland — could see a reflection of itself. The mission, he said in a statement that still appears in the newspaper every day, was "to serve as a forum for better understanding and unity to help make the USA truly one nation."
The news establishment mostly hated it, dismissing the light and breezy content as junk-food journalism. For Al, the criticism didn't sting. It was proof of concept. He thought newspapers had grown out of touch, and he invested nearly a billion dollars to prove it. The newborn would grow. And so it did.
The vision was just the starting point. The newspaper would have died without Al's relentless command of detail. Mess something up, or do something really well, and you'd find a "peach screamer" in your mail — a personally typed note on peach-colored paper. They were opened gingerly.
For Al, no detail was too small to address and no idea was too big to pursue. Put one with the other and you have the not-so-secret sauce that has been cooked up by successful innovators from Henry Ford to Steve Jobs.
Throw in a deep commitment to advancing opportunities for women and minorities, add a sprig of passion for the USA (the only term he'd allow to refer to the country) and an ample helping of inspiration, then top it off with a collection of eccentricities, and there you have him: Al Neuharth.
In his final act, he was the Cal Ripken of columnists. He weighed in weekly on presidential politics, railed at the stupidity of war and tweaked pompous bigwigs. But he often stuck to personal matters, writing about his family, making sports predictions, or even reciting his experience with adult diapers (in hopes that he could make the subject less awkward for others).
Al was part way through his 1,283rd consecutive column last Wednesday when he was mortally injured falling down the stairs in his Florida home. That left him 11 years short of one of the few goals he failed to attain: living to 100. Ever focused on the future, he had had both knees replaced at 85 so he'd be mobile till he got there.
All the same, he wouldn't complain. He was active, productive and happy until the day he died.
Everyone should be so lucky. But few will ever leave behind as much.


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Seasoned lender to serve as interim head of Real Estate Industries Group
RICHMOND, CA, June 26, 2008-- John C. Wells, a seasoned banker with a diverse and comprehensive real estate background, has joined Mechanics Bank as Senior Vice President and interim head of the Real Estates Industries Group. Wells will be Mechanics Bank's lead contact for participations and syndications activities.
Wells, most recently with City National Bank where he was a Senior Vice President and Senior Relationship Manager, previously held senior positions with U.S. Bank, Bank One Corporation and Sanwa Bank, where he began his banking career in 1989.
"John's diverse and comprehensive lending background, combined with proven leadership skills, is the right combination to steer us steadily through a turbulent period in the real estate and financial services industries," said Mechanics Bank Executive Vice President Cort O'Haver, Director of Lending for Corporate Banking.
A California State University Sacramento graduate with a degree in business administration, Wells has completed a number of additional real estate, banking and management courses. He is a member of the National Association of Industrial and Office Properties (NAIOP) and a board member of the Rehabilitation Loan Program Committee for the City of Pleasant Hill Redevelopment Agency.
Wells and his wife Virginia reside in Martinez with their son, John, who recently graduated from high school.
For more than a century, Mechanics Bank has been committed to helping people build prosperous communities as a trusted financial partner, forging lasting relationships through teamwork, respect and integrity. The $2.7 billion independent bank, headquartered in Richmond, California, offers personal banking, business banking, trust, brokerage and wealth management services through 33 offices across Northern California. For more information, please visit www.mechbank.com.
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Feels excactly like ephedrine but little weaker. I wonder if proprietary blend includes this. Someone else said for the full pack that they stocked it up when in sweden. But this adapt 232 does not exist in sweden other formula exist but not this. In sweden it would not say proprietary blend as this is forbidden. All things in it must be written on label. Ginseng never gave me ephedra like feelings.
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Valbuena Called up To Take Stewart's Spot
Ian Stewart has been officially placed on the DL, and Luis Valbuena has been called up. Valbuena is with the Cubs now, and will be in the starting lineup at third base today.
Here's a look at how Valbuena has done this year at Iowa.
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Here's how RW members rated this race in the past (185 votes).
In short: Run for nothingIn full: Ran the race, found out they had an explosion of entries on the day. I pre-registered with my brother in law and when we finished no medals as they had run out!! Since then the organisers have fobbed us off with excuses like the the t-shirts are still at the printers (medium for everyone?). Do it again, no chance!!Date of review: April 7, 2010
In full: Really enjoyed running on the smooth flat circuit. The event was very well organised and you could keep warm until just prior to the start of the race. The course is pretty windy in parts, but my husband and I both PB'd on the day and we'll definitely be doing this race again.Date of review: April 1, 2010
In short: set a new PB, a flat motor racing circuit, theres always got to be potential!In full: A good race slightly marred by the trek around the outside of the track to the start line, muddy trainers and I had only just washed them after the last one! The circuit being on the Cotswold Hills and slightly exposed does tend to suffer a bit with the wind and rain, thankfully no downpour just a bit of mist.Date of review: March 6, 2010
In short: My first ever 10k race and I really enjoyed it. Weather was "chilly" and started to rain as we ran. Had hat just wish I'd taken my gloves!!yDate of review: March 3, 2010
In short: PB heaven, which is good as there's nothing to look at!In full: Excellent PB course with parking, toilets and heated observatory very close by. Not quite sure why the organisers decided to lead us over a very slippy and wet muddy bank to the start line instead of using all the acres of tarmac available, but hey-ho, dirt don't hurt!It was a bit windy on the home stretch but the forcasted heavy rain stayed in the clouds so it was not too cold/hot - ideal for PB'ing -, and provided me with a great starting point to my 2010 season.Even though the scenery was dull, they also hold this event in August where the centre of the circuit is planted with colourful crops by one of the local farmers, so it's more picturesque - although painful for hay-fever sufferers I imagine!Date of review: March 2, 2010
In short: Great atmosphere and organisationIn full: Very classy race, great buzz with the duathlon at the same event. Good cafe - good places to get warm on another cold and wet day. Nice showers if you can find them. Goody bags, tshirt. Loads of prizes.Love it.Date of review: March 1, 2010
In short: Fast course, well organisedIn full: Overall very well organised - but why ask for a stamp addressed envelope on the application and then not use it?Could do with more lavatories unlocked / more paper in them.I expect I will be be back, generally a good race with friendly efficient people running it.Date of review: March 1, 2010
In short: Good for a PB, but chilly was the right wordIn full: At least the weather wasn't as bad as the forecast had suggested it might be. It was decidedly cold- and I didn't enjoy squelching through the mud up and down a grass bank on the walk to the start- but there are distinct advantages to racing on a circuit. No distractions, no traffic, just you and the person in front.I wasn't too worried about the lack of scenery. The thing about 10k is that there isn't really time to be bored. Doing three circuits was fine- by the second time round I knew where the tough spots would be (the wind in the last part of the lap was hard going, especially as it coincided with the only real incline).The organisation was faultless, I got a PB, what more can I say?Date of review: March 1, 2010
In short: Reasonably well organised, fast, flat with good PB potential.In full: Despite the wind and rain it was a nice race. Very friendly and a good mix of runners so didn't feel out of place by being a slower, non-club runner! Very boring scenery but I found someone nice to run and chat with so didn't mind too much. Good facilities on site.Date of review: March 1, 2010
In short: Well organised. Great PB eventDate of review: March 1, 2010
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It must be fun to be royalty. Princess Charlene of Monaco has been jet-setting from fashion week to fashion week all over the continent. A few weeks ago, we spotted her at the Dior Haute Couture show in Paris with a Dior Lady Dior Tote, and now here she is, headed in to the Armani Fall 2013 fashion show at Milan Fashion Week carrying an Armani Spring 2013 Runway Satchel. Charlene has a long-standing relationship with the brand - Armani designed her gorgeous wedding gown for her controversial 2011 nuptials to Prince Albert. Armani bags and clothing are rarely sold online, but the brand's goods can be purchased at official Armani stores worldwide.
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Topic: How to create a "Recent Activity" page with multiple models
Many web apps have a "dashboard" or "recent activity" page that shows what has changed over a certain time period. I'm going to describe how I implemented such a page in a Rails project.
Imagine an application with WorkOrder and Comment models. A WorkOrder has many Comments, and a Comment belongs to a WorkOrder. A help desk system might use a similar design, where a support person creates a new WorkOrder with a description of the problem, and it is updated with comments until it is marked as completed. The Comment model uses Rail's built-in timestamps, but the WorkOrder model has both start_date and completed_date fields.
Our "recent activity" page needs to display all started work orders, completed work orders and posted comments in chronological order over a specified period of time. How can we do this?
First, let's use three separate find calls to gather up our objects. We'd do this in our controller:
started_work_orders = WorkOrder.find(:all, :conditions => ["start_date >= ?", 3.days.ago])
completed_work_orders = WorkOrder.find(:all, :conditions => ["completed_date >= ?", 3.days.ago])
comments = Comment.find(:all, :conditions => ["created_at >= ?", 3.days.ago])
Notice I'm not using a single find call on WorkOrder with an "or" condition. That's because we'd have no way to tell whether any particular WorkOrder was in the list because it was opened over the last three days or because it was closed! Since we are going to combine these into a single list (so we can sort all activity chronologically), we need a way to determine which list a particular WorkOrder came from. For this we can use a virtual attribute that isn't saved to the database using the attr_accessor method. In the WorkOrder.rb model, add:
attr_accessor :sort_using_start_date
Now we'll set this virtual attribute to either true or false so we can refer to it later:
started_work_orders.each { |wo| wo.sort_using_start_date = true }
completed_work_orders.each { |wo| wo.sort_using_start_date = false }
Great! Now we can combine all our matching objects into a single array and store it in an instance variable for our view:
@recently_active_objects = started_work_orders + completed_work_orders + comments
Next step: sort the list! But how? A WorkOrder will need to sort via start_date or completed_date, and a Comment will need to use created_at. One solution to this problem is to have all the objects provide their sort time via the same method. We'll call it sort_timestamp. Adding it to the Comment.rb model is simple enough:
def sort_timestamp
For the WorkOrder.rb model, we need a bit of logic to make sure we return the correct date:
def sort_timestamp
self.sort_using_start_date ? self.start_date : self.completed_date
Now all the objects in our @recently_active_objects array will respond to the sort_timestamp method. The sort becomes easy:
@recently_active_objects = @recently_active_objects.sort { |x,y| y.sort_timestamp <=> x.sort_timestamp }
Notice the positions of x and y around the <=>. This will sort in reverse (so the latest objects appear first in the list). If you want the opposite behavior, just reverse x and y.
The only tricky part left is to identify each object as you loop through the array in your view, so you can display the appropriate information. I suggest creating a helper method like this:
def activity_message_for(object)
case object.class.name
when 'WorkOrder'
object.sort_using_start_date ? "Work Order #{object.id} was started" : "Work Order #{object.id} was completed"
when 'Comment'
"A comment was added to Work Order #{object.work_order.id}"
Your view would then iterate through @recently_active_objects, display a formatted version of each element's sort_timestamp value, and call activity_message_for(object) to get an appropriate activity message.
If you ever need to add additional models to your activity page, just make sure they implement a sort_timestamp method and modify the activity_message_for helper.
EDIT: Fixed case statement in activity_message_for
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Well, that was just sad. "Breaking Bad" often operates in very dark territory, and it's not like I didn't feel it coming, but [spoiler alert] losing Mike (Jonathan Banks) in such a fashion was utterly heartbreaking. Walt (Bryan Cranston) shooting Mike — not to mention saying he could get the names of Mike's guys from Lydia (Laura Fraser) — represents his megalomaniacal worst.
Mike wasn't a saint, but the structure of the penultimate episode made us sympathetic to the man. The look on Mike's face when he had to leave his granddaughter was purely redemptive. We were reminded why Mike does what he does — for his family. Walt has long forgotten that was the same reason he started cooking meth. Now Walt is in the empire business. Wait, I take that back. There is no more Walt, only Heisenberg.
This is the darkest, most vicious season of "Breaking Bad" yet, and we have only Walt to thank for that. Ever since the episode with Walt's 51st birthday, I no longer look at "Breaking Bad" as a crime drama. It's a terrifying horror show and Walt is the absolute monster at its center. He callously manipulated and alienated those closest to him, Jesse (Aaron Paul) and Skyler (Anna Gunn), and shows no remorse.
I don't know what's in store for Sunday's finale, but it's sure to be a gut-wrenching culmination to a season built around tragedy and evil. Walt may have broke bad long ago, but how much worse can he get?


text: In all honesty, I love all of the sushi at Akai Hana. But the Upper Arlington restaurant's specials truly are special. The Pixie roll (pictured) I had there recently was perhaps the most perfect roll I've ever had: salmon, mango and avocado on the inside, pink soy paper and more salmon on the outside, served on a plate intricately decorated with spicy mayo, wasabi sauce and soy sauce. Now I just have to persuade them to make that for me again sometime.


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Degrading and insulting
I just received my March-April 2013 Purple Heart Magazine and on page 10 was an article in regards to the Department of Defense's decision to recognize military personnel whose extraordinary achievements may indirectly impact combat operations while they remain safely away from the battlefield with and award whose order of precedence would place it above other awards for heroism on the battlefield, such as the Bronze Star for Valor.
As announced, the Distinguished Warfare Medal would rank even higher than the Purple Heart Medal, which can only be received by a service member who is either wounded, killed in action or dies of wounds by the enemy.
I received a Purple Heart while in Vietnam. My father, his brother and my mother's brother who were Marines all received Purple Hearts while on Okinawa during World War II. My father's brother died the day after of his wounds.
To rank what is basically an award for meritorious service higher than any award for heroism is degrading and insulting to myself and the memory of my father and uncles and every American combat soldier, airman, sailor or Marine who risks his or her life and endures the daily rigors of combat in a hostile environment.
I would strongly urge the newly-appointed Secretary of Defense and the Joint Chiefs of Staff to either reconsider the precedence of the Distinguished Warfare Medal or develop another way of recognizing the achievements of those whose indirect actions contribute greatly to the accomplishment of the mission without diminishing the sacrifice of life and limb by those who confront the enemy firsthand on the battlefield.
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Sir Paul McCartney
Beatles legend Sir Paul McCartney has teamed up with Peter Kay for a spoof talent show comedy.
Macca agreed to appear in a cameo role in Kay's new Channel 4 project this month.
The pop icon has filmed several scenes for the comic's mickey-taking Britain's Got The Pop Factor And Possibly A New Celebrity Jesus Christ Soapstar Superstar Strictly On Ice.
The two-hour programme is a spoof of TV talent shows and Kay dresses up to play some of the wannabe starlets, while Macca, 66, is believed to be appearing as himself.
A show source said: "They met at Sir Paul's recent Anfield gig and Peter asked him if he could spare a day to do some filming.
"He loved the idea. He is a fan of Peter's work. Getting Macca is a big coup."
Other big names appearing in the show on Sunday, October 12, include rock band Kaiser Chiefs and TV presenter Cat Deeley.
I can't wait for this, I've always been a big fan of Peter Kay.


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Actress Wendy Richard dies at 65
Thursday, 26 February 2009
On April 22-23, 1965, a young Wendy Richard (Miss Brahms) worked on a scene deleted from Help! in which she played Lady Macbeth, a student at the Sam Ahab School of Transcendental Elocution. Fortunately, production stills from this scene survive, and here we can see Wendy with Sam Ahab (played by British comedian Frankie Howerd) and some guy named Paul McCartney. More on that can be found here: http://beatleshelp.50megs.com/delscenes/ds04.html
Wendy Richard won millions of fans as Miss Brahms in "Are You Being Served?"
Richard teamed up with Bill Treacher for "EastEnders" in 1985.
As EastEnders' downtrodden Pauline Fowler with her beige cardigan, laundry bags and bottle-blonded efforts at glamour, Wendy Richard, who has died aged 65, was one of Britain's most recognisable actresses.
Ruling over her family with a will of iron and occasionally kitchen utensils, Pauline was, until 2006, one of only two characters to remain in the series from the very first episode in 1985.
Ian Beale, played by Adam Woodyatt, was the other.
During nearly two decades in the soap, Wendy Richard's character buried her husband, mother and brother, supported her daughter's teenage pregnancy, and coped with her son's HIV-positive condition.
Such episodes were no more traumatic than events in Wendy Richard's own life. Her parents ran a pub where Ruth Ellis, the last woman to be hanged in Britain, used to drink.
Richard's father committed suicide when she was 11, and her mother died 17 years later. Left without any family, Richard also suffered three divorces, blaming her stressful career for the third.
Comedy credits
Born Wendy Emerton in Middlesbrough but raised in London, she was educated at the Royal Masonic School for Girls in Rickmansworth.
Richard had originally wanted to be an archaeologist. She left school at 15, though, and worked in the fashion department of luxury Piccadilly store Fortnum and Mason.
She left to study drama at the Italia Conti Stage Academy in London and decided to change her surname to Richard because "it was short and neat".
Her leggy, blonde looks soon secured her a role in the Albert Finney film Gumshoe, and on television she appeared in The Likely Lads, Dad's Army and Please Sir.
Other credits included Bless This House, Help and On the Buses. And she carried on with Sid James and his team in the hit films Carry On Girls and Carry On Matron.
Richard also enjoyed chart success in 1962. She went to number one with Mike Sarne, who continually pleaded with her to Come Outside. She was having none of his charm, though, famously telling him to "give over".
Before EastEnders, she was best known as Miss Shirley Brahms, the glamorous but dippy shop assistant, in the long-running BBC sitcom Are You Being Served?
Downtrodden doyenne
From 1973 to 1985, Richard was the resident sexpot of Grace Bros department store and comic foil to the indomitable Mrs Slocombe, played by Mollie Sugden.
The cast reunited for the 1990s sequel Grace and Favour, and Richard even called her own dog Miss Brahms.
But it was as the damaged but undefeated Pauline Fowler that she will be best remembered.
She took no prisoners with her sharp tongue and even resorted to the frying pan when she discovered her husband Arthur's infidelity.
Like the best matriarchs of soap tradition, Pauline's hot temper belied a warm, loyal heart. For nearly 20 years, she was brought to life by Wendy Richard, who said of herself, "I am not a hard person. I cry very easily and my feelings get hurt."
For her contribution to entertainment, she was awarded an MBE in the Millennium Honours List.


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The Heart of the Hellgate 100K - Page 2
"Hellgate is classic Horton," says Grossman, "There is no other event like Hellgate. Horton created it to inspire humility."
Its unique challenges include the December race date and the midnight start time, the latter of which was implemented, Horton has said, to insure that all runners, no matter their speed, will spend the same amount of time in the dark. Due to unpredictable late-season weather conditions, the nature of the course varies greatly from year to year.
Adds Grossman continued, "Hellgate is perhaps most representative of what an ultra means to "Horton": huge withering climbs, brilliant wide-open vistas, plenty of brutal technical terrain but also miles of free running."
Another unique aspect of Hellgate, however, is what Grossman calls its "intimacy." Hellgate is semi-invitational; Horton hand picks the field based on runner applications and experience. "Entries are capped to keep the numbers low—140 runners this year. Horton knows you. And he wants you to face your demons, even if it takes 'Forever' to do it," says Grossman, referencing a notoriously challenging section of the race known as the Forever Trail. The race includes a pre-race family style meal, lodging at a comfortable bunkhouse and a great post-race party, including bonfires, bowls of chili and birthday cakes with friends old or new.
In 2012, the race's 10th year, temperatures soared. Start temps hovered around 45 degrees and by midday Saturday, had risen to a humid 70 degrees. "Perfect for Californians but not-so-perfect for the East Coasters who have no acclimation!" says Spiedel.
After a bit of leap-frogging with Shellhammer (11:07:29), one of only five runners who have competed in the race all its 10 years, Grossman finished second (10:57:54) behind Canadian Alister Gardner (10:52:48).
Kristin Eddy, a 42-year-old Virginia native, claimed the women's victory with a fast time of 12:49:51. Jacqueline Palmer, 24, who had come from Delaware for the event, finished second in 13:53:48, while Speidel, 49 and also from Virginia, came in third, clocking 14:33:50.
Updating Horton's Facebook page, his wife, Nancy, wrote, "I cannot begin to express our gratitude for the many prayers and so many comments & emails! It's very humbling to see the photos and hear the stories. You have truly been a blessing! David is doing well. The doctors are amazed at how quickly he has come along."


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Go Daddy CEO Named 'Scummiest'
Bob Parsons, CEO of Go Daddy, is so heinous that we created an award just for him: the Scummiest CEO of the Year Award.
Parsons recently boasted on his blog that he traveled to Zimbabwe to shoot elephants and posted a graphic video of the slaughter. He tried to justify the killing by pointing out that elephants sometimes eat farmers' crops, saying, "It's one of the most beneficial and rewarding things I do."
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We don't see how it could be "beneficial" or "rewarding" to mow down animals who are among the most intelligent and social on Earth. Elephants reason, use tools, and have exceptional memories. They are the only species besides humans, great apes, and dolphins who have been shown to be "self aware" (meaning that they can recognize themselves in a mirror).
Elephants form deep bonds and comfort and protect each other. Their mourning rituals over the death of a family member rival any that we humans have developed. How many elephants are mourning the family member whom Parsons killed for fun? And it certainly was for fun, since there are many humane ways to keep elephants away from crops, like chili-infused string, cowbells, and spotlights.
PETA is canceling our account with Go Daddy and taking our domain-name business elsewhere—and we're asking everyone to do the same. Please email Bob Parsons and tell him you will not use Go Daddy's services until he agrees to stop shooting animals.
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Go Daddy just RIPPED ME OFF BIGTIME!!! I didn't know about the incidents below. I paid them over $100 to reserve first bid rights on a domain name: http://www.MorningskyProductions.com. Then I bid. Go Daddy waited till the last minute, raised their bid $5 over my own and blocked the button so their auction site would not accept my bid over theirs. Go Daddy bought my domain name, and now they want to sell it for $70. They are thieves. When I was searching for how to report them I found this even more hideous information.
I will not renew my accounts with godaddy.com.
I have used Godaddy for 12 years and they have become a dictatorial company. They have taken down some of our sites without warning. They do not follow due process and simply do as they wish. Their CEO is corrupt and despicable.
I am gladly transferring all four of my domain names over to NameCheap. They are donating portions of every transfer to help elephants, use the code so they know you want there to be a donation. Google NameCheap elephant donation for the correct code. lets put go daddy out of business and may that horrible CEO rot.
WARNING! Go Daddy SCAM! Do not use Go Daddy, they expire your domains without telling you, then you call tech support. They want $90.00 each to turn you domains back on. They just did this with 25 of my domains. They are trying to SCAM me for over $2000.00. So I just lost 25 domains, because Go Daddy tricked me. This guy makes me sick… stealing money from me (and many others) so he can kill innocent animals from far away with a big gun.
You know, I completely agree that slaughtering elephants is cowardly, cruel and unencessary but where is the outrage from PETA on the slaughtering of human babies in the womb? I have no doubts that should the same occur in any of our animal kingdom cohorts there would be a massive outcry. But what about the very same autrocity against our own species? Hey, humans are "animals" too no?
We've registered 3 domains with godaddy, all of which we'll be transferring to a new registrar this summer. When we go, I'll be sure to tell GoDaddy why (especially since they supposedly haven't lost any revenue from us reasonable Americans who understand that "people need to eat" — what a jerk!).
We as Sri Lankans love animals so much. That's how we were taught to practice by Lord Buddha. We are so proud to be good Buddhists.
It is unfortunate to hear these stories. No matter how rich they are, they'll burn in **** in their next life until sin is over.
May all living beings live free from suffering!!!!
Until now I have never heard of either Mr Parsons or Go Daddy but it sounds like a good idea if he were to follow his own advice and not come back until he has mended his unpleasant cruel ways. My virtual boycott of his products whatever they are starts now !


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When and why did you start training for fighting? I was always involved in martial arts and I just loved competition. I started in Karate from age five to seven and then at age nine I enrolled in a school called Universal Defense Systems, which covered a wide array of styles from kickboxing, judo, Kung-fu, and Arnis. I started in point sparring tournaments, Arnis (Escrima) tournaments, amateur kickboxing, and after enrolling in a Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu school under Rodrigo Gracie I started in BJJ tournaments. The next step was, of course, MMA. So in 2003 I had my first fight at 185 pounds against Ronald Stallings. I was hooked ever since. Fighting has always been part of my life.
What ranks and titles have you held? Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu Black Belt, Ring of Combat Lightweight Champion, The Ultimate Fighter Season 8 Finalist.
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SACRAMENTO (AP/CBSLA.com) — California health officials say 147 people in the state have died from the flu this season.
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The state only tracks flu deaths among people 65 and younger. The death toll does not include the elderly, who are most vulnerable.
Last season, a total of 106 flu-related deaths were recorded.
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Here's how RW members rated this race in the past (33 votes).
In short: A very pretty route without it being too challengingIn full: Just the right distance for a good work out. The marshals were very helpful and plenty of them. I am definitley going sign up for next year. The only grumble that I have is, can they also have an alternative drink for the non - drinkers. I don't drink, so I got nothing after the race.Date of review: July 14, 2010
In short: Fast, mostly flat course with great atmosphereIn full: This was the first time I have run this race and I was suitably impressed! The organisation was spot on, the marshalls excellent, a flat course with one not so nice uphill so good for pbs, and of course the welcome glass of cider at the finishing line! Lovely race with nice scenery and friendly organisation, I will look forward to doing this again next year. Thanks.Date of review: July 13, 2010
In short: Great for a PBDate of review: July 13, 2010
In short: An excellent introduction to 10k running.In full: This was only my second 10k, as I usually prefer half marathons. I was again surprised by the extra pace of a 10k, but once I got used to it, it was an enjoyable run. The organization was first-rate and the local runners friendly. I certainly didn't miss the hyperactive local DJ you usually get shouting at you at a big city half marathon. This race was more restrained but without sacrificing the enthusiasm. I'd recommend it to anyone thinking of trying the shorter distance. Date of review: July 20, 2009
In short: .In full: A good race run through quiet country roads, with nice views of the Severn at one pont. Good PB potential, was undulating for the whole course but somehow it seemed that there was more downhill than uphill! Rather windy. The start was rather further from the parking area than expected but luckily I arrived in plenty of time. And a nice glass of cider at the end is your reward for finishing!Date of review: July 20, 2009
In full: Fairly enjoyable run through some pleasant countryside and villages. Gently undulating course with some PB potential. Good mix of abilities and a friendly atmosphere. Liked the glass of cider at the end but could have done with a bigger glass! Excellent value at £6, not sure I would travel all the way from Swindon by myself to do this one again but in a group I definitely would.Date of review: July 14, 2009
In short: Nice local runDate of review: July 18, 2008
In short: Nice flat course, ideal for a beginner (such as myself) Date of review: July 17, 2008
In short: Good evening raceIn full: First time at this race and enjoyed the village atmosphere and rural course.Felt sorry for the young Kwik cricketers whose game was continually interrupted by us runners wandering over to the Race HQ. Sorry boys and girls! I guess this would not be a problem if the race was based at the normal sailing club venue, so thanks to cricket club for hosting us instead.Date of review: July 17, 2008
In short: Very pleasantIn full: Lovely village race, good fast course and very well organised. RecommendedDate of review: July 15, 2008
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Cadmium chloride is filthy stuff. Its cadmium ions are extremely toxic, causing heart disease, kidney disorders, and a host of other health problems. One accidental spill of the water-soluble compound can wipe out fish from a river.
And rather than needing to use fume hoods and gas masks, as is required during the cadmium chloride process, "We can deposit magnesium chloride using an airbrush, spraying it on the back of the solar cell," says Major.


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Northern California Business Owners and Managers Optimistic and Planning to Hire, Despite Adversity
Richmond, CA, May 23, 2005 –They're expecting higher taxes, more regulation, and a tougher time finding qualified employees. But do Northern California business owners and managers let little things like that get them down? Not on your life.
The first annual Mechanics Bank Northern California Business Optimism Survey and Index, completed in February and March, paints a picture of Northern California business owners and managers as decidedly more optimistic than their counterparts responding to recent national and statewide polls. Nearly four out of five of the randomly selected 1,214 respondents expect 2005 profits and revenue to increase and nearly nine out of ten expect their businesses to continue to improve in 2006. That compares with just 47% of respondents expecting improvement in The Conference Board's first quarter 2005 nationwide CEO Confidence Survey. Best of all, businesses appear ready to put their money where their mouths are, with over 54% planning to hire new staff, and only 8% thinking it likely they'll reduce staff. Businesses even are showing a propensity to add, rather than reduce, employee health benefits.
"Faced with some of the highest costs and most challenging state and local government regulations, doing business in Northern California requires a high degree of optimism," said Steve Buster, president and chief executive officer of Mechanics Bank, a 100-year-old Richmond, California-based community bank with over 6,800 business customers throughout the Bay Area and Sacramento. "Our local businesses have that in spades--yet they also are highly realistic about the challenges they face. Their perseverance in the face of adversity is simply awesome."
Despite such boisterous optimism, a significant margin of those polled said that doing business in Northern California is harder than in other parts of the country and felt that many of the external forces impacting their businesses – from the cost of employee benefits, taxes and regulation to transportation issues – will only get worse during the next 12 months. They also think it will be harder to find qualified employees.
Mechanics Bank survey, which kicks off an annual Business Optimism Index, gave business owners the chance to sound off. Asked what they would tell the governor to change, respondents confirmed that in addition to workers compensation, taxes, regulations and the cost of health insurance are their biggest headaches. "I would say that unless the tax burden and regulatory burden is lifted California will fall into the ocean long before the San Andreas pushes us in," said one respondent. "We need a better healthcare system so that we can afford to give more health benefits to employees and also workman's compensation fees need to be affordable," said another.
Despite those challenges, business owners seem to love their independence. Asked what they found most satisfying, typical comments included: "Everything about my company has been great this year and my profits have been skyrocketing. I love being a self employed businesswoman and being able to see my business grow before my own eyes." Another lauded "the pride of being self-employed and not being on government welfare." And still another said, "It's mine. It's my business and it's what I make of it and I get to do what I love doing and make money at it."
The core questions forming Mechanics Bank's Business Optimism Index—all of which will continue to be asked in future surveys—were designed to illuminate business owners' intentions regarding their own businesses and their expectations of some of the external forces that create the environment in which they operate. One set of questions asked how likely they were over the course of the next year to hire, reduce or replace staff with temporary contractors; invest in new equipment or develop new product or service lines; have increased sales/revenue or profits; expand to new domestic or international markets; and borrow to finance expansion.
Responses to most of these questions yielded general agreement across such dimensions as county and industry. But technology companies were most likely to develop new products or services in the next 12 months, followed by manufacturing companies and wholesalers. Technology companies, manufacturing companies and wholesalers also were more likely to develop export markets than were any other types of businesses.
Another set of Index questions measured owners' expectations of the governmental, regulatory and institutional environments in which they operate—and predictably, these drew the least optimistic responses of the overall study. Across the board, business owners and managers by large margins expected things to get worse over the course of the coming year, with the cost of employee benefits (78%), transportation issues (71%) and Workers Compensation (66%) at the top of the list. Sixty percent also anticipate a worsening local regulatory environment. These expectations held consistently by geography, industry and size of the business.
"The overall picture created by these responses is one of little faith that government at either the local or the state level will improve business conditions or reduce the constraints under which business people labor," said Buster. "These findings make it abundantly clear that the optimism that business people feel is firmly grounded in their own business skills and talents and in their own abilities to succeed in a difficult environment."
Almost half (48.8%) the businesses surveyed provide health benefits, with the lowest percentage in the retail industry and the highest in the transportation, communications and utilities industries. Interestingly, only 53% of healthcare businesses surveyed provided healthcare benefits for employees. Generally, businesses that have been in business longer are more likely to offer healthcare benefits than are newer businesses. But surprisingly, very few (9%) respondents indicated they have changed their benefits in the past year—despite a nationwide trend to do so—and the majority of those had added rather than decreased benefits.About Mechanics Bank:
Mechanics Bank, headquartered in Richmond, California, celebrates a century of innovative community banking this year. An independent community bank with almost $2.5 billion in assets, it has become one of the largest banks headquartered in the San Francisco Bay Area.
Mechanics Bank's Northern California Business Optimism Index is based on a telephone survey of 1,214 conducted in February and March, 2005, of randomly selected owners and senior managers of businesses with annual revenues ranging from $50,000 to $20,000,000. Survey results are accurate to within ± 2.8 percent at the 95% confidence level. The Optimism Index defines 17 business indicators that represent Optimism in business. Periodic tracking of those indicators will allow Mechanics Bank to analyze and report upon future increases and decreases in Optimism over time. The survey was conducted for Mechanics Bank by Seldin Research, an independent market research company located in Half Moon Bay.
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Clear a path for mail, gas meters
With winter weather officially under way, one seasonal tool is expected to make its return at homes and businesses – the snow shovel.
To help letter carriers deliver mail, the Postal Service is asking customers to clear snow and ice from sidewalks, stairs and mailboxes.
"Snow and ice make delivery dangerous and slow," said Iron Mountain Postmaster Michael Johnson. "Maintaining a clear path to the mail box – including steps, porches, walkways and street approach – will help letter carriers maintain consistent delivery service."
Residents receiving door delivery should make sure their sidewalks, steps and porches are clear.
Residents receiving curbside delivery should remove snow piles left by snow plows to keep access to their mailboxes clear for letter carriers.
Delivery service may be delayed or curtailed whenever streets or walkways present hazardous conditions for letter carriers or when snow is plowed against mailboxes.
"The Postal Service curtails delivery only after careful consideration, and only as a last resort," said Johnson. "Any curtailed mail is attempted the next delivery day."
Blue collection boxes also need to be kept clear for our customers to deposit their mail and for the Postal Service to collect the mail for delivery.
Residents and businesses with collection boxes near their property are asked to keep them clear of snow and ice.
"We want our letter carriers to be safe," adds Johnson. "We can only do this with the help of our customers."
Additionally, We Energies is reminding customers to avoid the dangers of snow and ice buildup on exhaust vents and natural gas meters. These areas often are overlooked when buried under several inches of snow.
Snow and ice accumulation on furnace vents can lead to potentially deadly carbon monoxide levels in homes.
Accumulated snow and ice also can damage natural gas meters, which could lead to potentially dangerous gas leaks.
Keeping meters clear also allows We Energies employees to properly service meters in case of emergencies.
To avoid problems:
– Use a broom to gently brush snow off the meter.
– Avoid kicking or hitting the meter to break away built-up snow or ice.
– Always shovel away from the meter.
– Take care when using a snow thrower or plow near the meter.
Any customer who smells a natural gas odor should leave the house immediately
and call the We Energies gas emergency number at 1-800-261-5325 from a nearby
We Energies serves more than 1.1 million electric customers in Wisconsin and
the Upper Peninsula and more than 1 million natural gas customers in
Area residents are also reminded that shoveling snow has its risks.
"One of the reasons heart attacks can occur during snow shoveling is the combination of colder temperatures and physical exertion which increases the workload on the heart," said Dr. Vishal Gupta, MD, MPH, Borgess Cardiology Group, of the Borgess Heart Institute, Borgess Medical Center in Kalamazoo. "As a result, too much strain on the heart during these conditions can cause a heart attack."
To help make snow removal safer, the American Heart Association offers the following tips:
– Consult a doctor. If you have a medical condition or don't exercise on a regular basis, schedule a meeting with your doctor prior to the first anticipated snowfall.
– Take frequent breaks during shoveling so you don't overstress your heart.
– Don't eat a heavy meal prior or soon after shoveling since it can place an extra load on your heart.
– Don't drink alcoholic beverages before or immediately after shoveling. Alcohol may increase a person's sensation of warmth and may cause them to underestimate the extra strain their body is under in the cold.
– Be aware of the dangers of hypothermia. Heart failure causes most deaths in hypothermia. Wear a hat and dress in layers of warm clothing, which traps air between layers forming a protective insulation.
– Use a small shovel or consider a snow thrower. Lifting heavy snow can raise blood pressure acutely. It is safer to lift smaller amounts more times, than to lug a few huge shovelfuls of snow. When possible, simply push the snow.
– Listen to your body. If you feel the warning signs for heart attack, stop what you're doing immediately and call 9-1-1.
The warning signs of a heart attack include:
– Uncomfortable pressure, fullness, squeezing or pain in the center of the chest that lasts for more than a few minutes, or goes away and comes back. Pain spreading to the shoulders, neck and arms. Chest discomfort with lightheadness, fainting, sweating, nausea or shortness of breath.
For more information, call the American Heart Association at 1-800-968-1040.


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As people move on from the suspense, excitement, and sometimes disappointment that was Rio+20, at least one thing is clear to us—the Ecological Footprint is more important than ever in a world where international cooperation on sustainable development has not delivered everything the world hoped it would.
Global Footprint Network Science Coordinator Kyle Gracey (far right) at the Eye on Earth Panel
Through nearly a dozen presentations and lectures that our team delivered in Rio, we saw time and again that decision makers and ordinary people want concrete tools to help them make smarter resource decisions. They want them in the European Union, as a packed room listened to us present with the Czech Republic on new metrics for sustainability. They want them in detail and from around the world, as people from dozens of nations overbooked our 3-hour training on the "Footprint Family." And they want them to be visual and available online, as the popularity of our Brazil Ecological Footprint calculator and two Ecological Footprint infographics by Universo Online (Brazil's largest online news portal) and The Guardian show.
We also saw at Rio an explosion of civil society organizing on sustainable development. Nearly 100,000 people participated in formal and informal Rio events, and many millions engaged virtually from around the world. This included many regional and local governments, which increasingly are taking account of resource limits in their daily policy choices—and pushing their national governments to do the same.
The more than 700 voluntary commitments made by cities, provinces, companies and individual nations at Rio+20 shows that there is a will to move towards a sustainable world. Many of those commitments, at their core, have a recognition of resource constraints and their impact on human development. Civil society gets it. Sub-national governments get it. This means national leaders have more domestic support than they realize to adopt policies that utilize new measures like the Ecological Footprint. As we detail in our new Annual Report, released just before Rio, many governments are already on board.
Lastly, whether the media and pundits judge Rio a success or failure is irrelevant. Our most important takeaways from Rio are that: 1) The world is intensely interested, with even more focus than at past "Earth summits," in achieving sustainable development; 2) Interest in the Ecological Footprint was strong, both from those who sat through every minute of negotiations and those who never set foot inside; and 3) As our Research Scientist and Science Coordinator Kyle Gracey said at the close of our final presentation in Rio, "Tomorrow, no matter what the headlines [are about Rio], resource prices will still rise, supplies will still be constrained, and governments will still be entrusted with the welfare of their citizens." And the Ecological Footprint will remain a powerful tool for forward-looking nations to compete in this challenging new world.
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Jerry was born in Minot, where he attended school and married Violet Melhus on June 21, 1942. He joined the Navy and served in the South Pacific returning to North Dakota and Minnesota where they spent the next 59 years together raising six children. He was an avid golfer, curler, hunter/fisherman and also enjoyed a good game of poker.
He is preceded in death by his wife Violet and son Michael.
He is survived by his children: Judy Sala, Tacoma, Wash., Tod Mahoney (Mary), of Dallas, Dee Hubert (Bob), Spicer, Minn., Steve Mahoney (Kim), Pukalani, Hawaii, Mary Schultz (Richie), New Hope, Minn.; devoted partner, Jan Haines, Beaverton, Ore.; plus 11 grandchildren and several great-granchildren.


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Matrox Graphics rarely gets media coverage since the company has dedicated itself to niche graphics solutions and does not make high-performance graphics chips for consumers. Nevertheless, it does not mean that the company does not produce innovative products. On Tuesday Matrox unveiled the world's first single-slot graphics card that has eight display outputs.
"The M9188 is designed specifically for professional monitoring environments that require visualization of large amounts of data at once to enhance mission-critical decision making. The expansive multi-monitor configuration allows system operators to accurately manage energy grids or train dispatch applications, while ensuring maximum performance across all displays," said Ron Berty, business development manager at Matrox Graphics.
Matrox M9188 graphics board that supports up to eight displays via mDP (Mini DisplayPort) connectors is based on Matrox's PCIe graphics processing unit that does not support WDDM and hence Aero interface of Windows 7 and Vista operating systems. The graphics card features 2GB of memory and can drive eight DisplayPort monitors at 2560x1600 per display or DVI single-link monitors at 1920x1200 per display.
The novelty from Matrox Graphics is designed for energy, transportation, process control, financial trading, and other mission-critical environments. Supporting eight monitors with a single graphics card is indisputably an achievement; nevertheless, this is not a breakthrough: ATI Radeon HD 5800 graphics chip (which fully supports Windows Aero and even DirectX 11) can drive up to six displays with no external logic and, once configured accordingly, can be cooled-down using a single-slot cooling system. The price of ATI's solution – which yet has to be adopted for professional 3D or 2D market – is already five times lower compared to Matrox M9188.
Matrox M9188 PCIe x16 will be available in Q4 2009 for the price of $1995. There will be a less expensive version – M9128 – that only supports two monitors for $259.


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In a few breathtaking months, we've culturally moved from seeing Wall Street as an icon of thriving civil society to discussing its workings with book titles like House of Cards and Animal Spirits. As part of our ongoing Repossessing Virtue series, we look at what science is learning about trust, fair play, and empathy — and what these qualities have to do with human character and economics.
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I was struck reading your interview with Paul Zak, because after many years of hiding my head in the sands of literature and religion, I've gotten interested in the role of economics and its place in the world of spirituality and religion. I've read Paul Hawken's books and am also reading The GIft: Creativity and the Artist in the Modern World by Lewis Hyde, which is in part an anthropological analysis of the distinction between the market economy and the gift economy. I'd love to hear an interview with either of these fascinating writers.
What a great show!
Best wishes,
Heather Kohout
Allow me to begin by paying you a huge compliment. While listening to you conduct an interview, you often remind me of Bill Moyers! I have read so much of what you have read and what Moyers has read that I often feel as if I know why you asked a question and what led you to that question. So I find myself smiling at the two of you and loving you for asking a question that I would have loved to have asked. You both are a gift.
I now come to your two interviews today with Chris Farrell and Paul Zak about economics. I majored in economics in college some 40 years ago and have maintained an interest ever since. I would no sooner challenge either of your guests about economics than I would challenge you about spirituality. But I have read a lot about both subjects and noticed a failure of you and Chris to align on one of your questions, a very good question.
You asked Chris what he thought of Paul's statement about a recession being a cleansing. My economic mind immediately shifted gears to my mythological/mystic mindset and thought of the word catharsis (I bet yours did too). Chris seemed to interpret cleansing as Joseph Schumpeter's destruction of the weak and the pains of those destroyed. Chris, the economist, sees the suffering in Schumpeter's Darwinian approach while the mythologist sees the monomyth -- birth, death, rebirth or light from darkness. What an intriguing juxtaposition! I think of Chris, the reasoned economist, as Reinhold Niebuhr's moral sentimentalist -- wow! I see Paul, the reasoned scientist, seeing through the eyes of a Meister Eckhart or maybe even a Krista -- detached, not without compassion but detached.
In closing, allow the economist in me to speak out. We have government and its laws to tether man. We learned long ago that man without a tether will be the snake that eats his own tail. The mess we are in today is a result of man without a tether and government failing to do the job it was created to do.
Krista, you are a brave girl to dip your toe in economics and I admire your gall. I think there must be some gall there... I think.
I just read a book by a neurologist that I bet you have read: On Being Certain, Robert Burton.
For some unknown reason this quote came to mind: "Every act of creation is first an act of destruction." ~ Pablo Picasso
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Your piece on Paul Zac coincides with the publication of the new Encyclical 'Caritas in Veritate, AND with the reprint of a 1997 book of profound theological reflection - 'Grace and Mortgage - the language of faith and the debt of the world' by Peter Selby until last year, Anglican Bp of Worcester, UK. If a transatlantic interview is possible, I believe his eloquence and the gravitas of his contribution would fit the soaring quality of your broadcasts. To that end I give you his email. [email@example.com ] He is an occasional visitor to the States so that might provide another opportunity. If contacting him, it would be fine to speak of my enthusiastic advocacy. Note - I used Mass. as my state becaause the site gives no scope for a UK region Canon Peter Challen Chair of the Christian Council for Monetary Reform
How much is trust needed in the economic system? When the Society of Friends began they were not allowed to practice law and of course they could not be part of the established religion. Other than farming, Friends went into business and science. They succeeded in business in part because they were trusted. I wonder if this type of history of trustworthy business people in the UK helped support the ideas of Adam Smith?
I thoroughly enjoyed the discussion with Paul Zak. A few questions came up which would be interesting to discuss further.
1) How does the trust response change with exposure to prolonged stress? I think about the millions of people who live on less than $2/day and wonder how their brain chemistry may or may not be modified by such prolonged exposure to stress.
2) I wonder how societies such as Rwanda or South Africa that have endured such horrific trauma come to develop such helpful mechanisms as the Truth and Reconciliation Commission?
3) He mentioned that those who struggle with social anxiety disorder are somehow unable to be affected by oxytocin. Given that the amygdala is central to our fear and anxiety response I wonder how oxytocin interacts with the amygdala.
Great show. Keep up the good work.
Dr. Zach says that his research shows that oxytocin levels rise in the brain when trust exists. Has he done any research into how they drop when trust is destroyed or at least, seriously damaged?
Trust is essential to any human inter-relationship, including with the Great Holy. But we all know instances where someone's faith is shattered, or at least, seriously damaged, by some incident which the majority culture calls "an act of God". It would be interesting to see how oxytocin levels differ in people of absolute faith from those who are, say, atheistic, particularly if those in each group have been thru similar faith-shattering incidents & the atheism occurred after the incident.
The same could be researched in romantic relationships, or those where a parent abuses 1 or more children in a family.
I just listented to the Science of Trust (July 9 3009) show. Great show, especially since I listened to "Inside Job" on NPR's This American Life on Saturday. It would be interesting to hear Dr. Zak's comments on the hedge fund managers highlighted in the "Inside Job" story.


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Topic: Conferences: useful?
I'm pretty new to Ruby/Rails, though I've finished a couple personal Rails projects and I'm working on an app for the public. My general goal is to ease my way from my present job as a Java developer into full time Ruby work either as an independent guy or in a company.
I've been wondering whether I should make more of an effort go to conferences. I feel sort of guilty for not going them. It's just that I can't figure out the value. There is already more information available in books, websites, online video, podcasts, and forums than I could possibly assimilate.
It seems like going to a conference is like trying to drink from a firehose and then someone dumps a cup of water on your head. And then a dog comes up and bites you. (The cup of water represents the conference, the dog represents the airlines, I've already explained the firehose.)
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ALPENA – City of Alpena department heads and administrators are in the early stages of crafting the 2013-14 budget.
The city's budget, which runs from July 1, 2013 through June 30, 2014, is facing a serious challenge, as it is expected the revenues will fall about $800,000 lower than the expenditures. Alpena City Clerk/Treasurer Karen Hebert said because of this and other factors the city will have to use a portion of its fund balance again this year to balance the budget.
Hebert said the city should have about $2.2 million to begin the next fiscal year, but it will have to take money from the fund balance to even out the revenue and expenses. She said July 2012 the fund balance was at 30 percent or $3,095,000. She said depending how the rest of the current fiscal year plays out the fund balance could be down to 20 percent before drawing from it to balance the 2013-14 budget. Hebert said after the budget is balanced the fund balance could be as low as 10 or 12 percent. She said her numbers are conservative and believes there is a chance the fund balance can be more than 20 percent when the budget is done and more than the 12 percent after it is balanced.
"It is too early to tell where it will be right now, but I think it will come in better than 20 percent," Hebert said. "We always try to come above our estimates, so hopefully we will again this year."
There are many reasons why the expenses outweigh the revenues for 2013-14. Hebert said there is still uncertainty how much revenue sharing will be received from the state and it is still unknown how much the city will lose in personal property tax now that lawmakers have decided to do away with it. She said there also are significant increases in expenses that need to be considered.
"Next fiscal year health insurance will increase 11 percent or about $90,000 and our retirement pensions about $60,000," Hebert said. "The taxable values went down again and although not as badly. We are still losing $70,000 from our tax roll. So the cost of everything is going up, but the revenue is shrinking and there right now there really is no way to increase it."
The city also has lost out on revenue from the low interest financial institutions are paying on investments. Hebert said in years past the city could earn as much as $60,000 a year, but now it is only between $10,000 and $20,000. She said the budget concerns have made it difficult to do much needed projects in the city and if things continue as they are now, the city may have to borrow money to have needed work done.
"We have put off capital for a few years. A few years is fine, but now we need to start doing some maintenance on our parking lots, buildings, our roads and our parks," Hebert said. "We might have to finance these projects because there isn't the money in the general fund."
Hebert said the city is not in a lot of debt and the obligations it does have are not very large. She said there were some smaller loans the city took out that have been paid or almost completed so the ability to borrow money is not an issue.
The budget must be approved by July 1, but Hebert said a new city manager should be in place sometime in late March and whoever gets the job will have to make suggestions or propose changes to it before it is approved by Alpena Municipal Council. She said if nobody is hired before the budget is done amendments can be made to it after each quarter of the budget year.
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