Healthy Options 09/06/06

Host: Rhonda Feiman
Topic: Financial health with Ruth Hayden, Financial Educator and financial consultant, President of Ruth L. Hayden and Associates, www.RuthHayden.com
Why should financial health be part of our total health regime?
How do our beliefs about money determine our spending, saving or earning behavior?
What actual techniques can we use to have a healthy financial life and use money as a tool?

Family Radio Forum 09/08/06

Host: Ron Beard
Topic: The Balancing Act-work, home and college
Guests: Margaret Staples, University of Maine Center; Sarah Falvey, Mental Health and Human Services; Daniel Speranza, Nursing; Laura Brown, Liberal Studies
What are some of the issues and challenges related to balancing the demands of home life, work, and going to school?
What strategies have been useful in working the balancing act?
What kind of supports does the University Center offer adult students?

Doing Business 09/07/06

Host: Jane Haskell, Extension Educator, University of Maine Cooperative Extension Topic: How Do Incubators Work in Maine? Guests: Rosemary Baldacci, York County Community Action Program; Beth Calder, Extension Food Science Specialist, University of Maine; Joe Perkins, Small Business Specialist, Washington Hancock Community Agency What is the history of incubators in Maine? How many are there? How do businesses participate in them? Call in show

Conversations on Science and Society 09/05/06

Producer/Host: Jim Campbell
Topic:
Have you ever gone on an airplane trip to a place many time zones away, and for a few days after you arrived, felt a bit out of sync with your surroundings?
Or maybe you have a difficult time adjusting to the vastly different amounts of light available in a Maine summer and winter – and this is the time of year you really begin to notice it.
These feelings are a natural physical result of biological clocks built into our systems. Alan Rosenwater is our guest, and he has spent decades studying the phenomenon of circadian rhythms in animals and people.