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World Rabies Day is September 28, 2012. It is a day to raise awareness about the impact of human and animal rabies. More than 55,000 people die from rabies worldwide every year, a rate of one person every 10 minutes. This is an astonishing number, especially because rabies in humans in 100 per cent preventable. Most of these cases are transmitted to humans by dogs.

“This Sukhothai is a good place! There are fish in the waters, rice grows in the fields. The king does not tax his subjects. The faces of the people are happy.” – An inscription in stone found at the remains of the former royal city of Sukhothai, capital of the first Thai Kingdom in Siam between 1238 and 1349.

You know raising a teenager has some serious issues. Most of them, apparently, are my issues. Take guest towels, for example. Our family has long had problems with guest towels. Specifically, I love them. I am a sucker for pretty towels hanging in a bathroom. I cannot walk into a store and resist them. (I also cannot resist throw pillows, but that’s a whole other addiction and sadly, one that has no cure.)

The  Run for the Stink'n Roses 5/10K race will be held on Sunday, Sept. 30 at Solarsano Middle School in Gilroy. The cross country team from Christopher High School is staging this year's race having taken it over from South Valley Running Club.

MINNEAPOLIS – In the spring of 1995, I made one of the biggest mistakes of my career. I took a bunch of frauds seriously.