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Action on Smoking and Health (ASH) is a national nonprofit legal action and educational organization that fights against the many problems of smoking and for the rights of nonsmokers. ASH uses the tremendous power of the law in courts and legislative bodies, and before regulatory agencies, and has also become a major player in tobacco control internationally. For more than 40 years, ASH has been one of the most effective antismoking and nonsmokers' rights organizations in the world.
ASH was formed in 1967 by Executive Director John F. Banzhaf III, and a distinguished body of physicians, attorneys and other prominent citizens who saw the need for an effective organization to to fight smoking and to represent and protect nonsmokers' rights. Banzhaf, who served as Executive Director for more than 40 years, stepped down at the end of 2010 shortly after his 70th birthday. He was replaced as Executive Director by Laurent Huber, who has been ASH's International Director for over ten years. In 2011 Banzhaf serves as Special Counsel to ASH.
Although ASH's income is tiny compared with much larger national health organizations also active in the field – in part because it receives no money from the government or from the multi-state tobacco settlement – ASH has been a major force in the war against smoking. For this reason, and because of its location in the nation's media center, ASH has also emerged as a major spokesperson for nonsmokers on radio and television and in print media.
Also, unlike the many smaller state, local and specialty antismoking organizations with which it cooperates, ASH is active with regard to all aspects of the problems of smoking and nonsmokers' rights, and has a truly national focus. Also, more recently, ASH again engineered a major expansion of its focus to become a leading player in the international war on smoking by serving as secretariat of the Framework Convention Alliance [FCA]. The FCA is an umbrella organization made up of hundreds of individual organizations in more than 100 countries, all working to enforce and effectuate the Framework Convention on Tobacco Control [FCTC]; the world's first public health treaty.
One of ASH's major roles in the U.S. is to serve as a think tank and incubator for new strategies and tactics, and as a vehicle for propagating these new ideas to other antismoking organizations, legislators, regulators, and the general public. Thus, ASH was out in front in proclaiming nicotine as a addictive drug, in urging bans on smoking not only in indoor public areas and workplaces, but also outdoors and in private apartments and homes where necessary to protect adjacent apartment dwellers and children living in the home, in pressing for lower health insurance rates for nonsmokers, and in many other areas.
ASH was one of the first major organizations to publicize how as little as 30 minutes of exposure to secondhand tobacco smoke could cause a fatal heart attack in nonsmokers, the dangers of polonium 210 in tobacco smoke, the weaknesses of so-called smokers' rights laws, and the dangers of thirdhand tobacco smoke. It was ASH that first argued that courts can and should issue orders prohibiting smoking around children involved in divorce proceedings, and around foster children – a new movement which has now also led to bans on smoking in cars when children are present.
More recently, ASH has led the fight to require e-cigarettes to be regulated, and to protect bystanders from the risks posed when these new products are used in areas where the smoking of conventional tobacco cigarettes is prohibited. ASH also helped develop and promote the concept of differential health insurance premiums; i.e., that nonsmokers should pay less than smokers for health insurance.
In short, ASH takes action on smoking and health, and it does so very effectively both domestically and abroad, providing more "bang for the buck" than most other antismoking and nonsmokers' rights organizations.
Below are some of the major actions and accomplishments of ASH during 2010.
ASH continued a campaign it had begun during the prior year, when health care reform was being considered, of alerting Members of Congress – via emails, appeals through the media, etc. – to the huge and totally unnecessary costs smokers impose on health insurance programs, and the advantages of requiring smokers to pay more for their health insurance than nonsmokers. The final health care reform bill contains a provision permitting smokers to be charged up to 50% more for health insurance than nonsmokers.
ASH's so-far successful campaign of urging attorneys general to take legal action against the unrestricted sale of e-cigs continued to bear fruit during 2010 when the Attorney General of Oregon forced one of the largest e-cig sellers to stop selling in his state.
When the Food and Drug Administration [FDA] issued important warnings about the dangers of e-cigarettes [e-cigs] in a court document which was largely overlooked by others, ASH publicized its conclusions – in numerous press releases, in radio and TV appearances, on the Internet, and in ASH publications – including that e-cigs pose "acute health risks," and that the "danger posed by the unrestricted distribution of [these] unregulated products containing toxic chemicals cannot be questioned."
ASH prepared and publicized a special report, triggered by a scientific article which received very little publicity, showing that, even if e-cigs are safer for their users than tobacco cigarettes, the widespread availability of e-cigs could nevertheless result in more deaths.
ASH prepared and widely publicized a report showing how each smoking employee can cost his employer (and, indirectly, his fellow employees) more than $12,000/yr in added expenses, a conclusion based upon a court proceeding in which ASH participated, and the only known one in which evidence of the costs of smoking employees was presented under oath and subject to cross examination. The report explained why much lower figures (in the range of $4,000/yr) which are often quoted in articles on this topic were incorrect: they failed to include the indirect as well as the direct medical care costs, and ignored added disability payments, added time lost from work, lost productivity due to smoking breaks, and other costly factors.
ASH helped to publicize a little-noticed scientific study which showed that nicotine released into the air by conventional tobacco cigarettes or by e-cigs combines with other common air pollutants to produce deadly, highly carcinogenic substances which can cling to surfaces for a considerable period of time after the smoking (or e-cig use) has ceased, thereby creating a health hazard, especially to young children.
ASH filed a formal legal complaint with the FDA over the sale and advertising of marijuana e-cigs which bragged that: "now I can get high while watching a game, at the office, or even on the airplane."
ASH formally requested all domestic airlines to prohibit the use of e-cigs on their flights, and followed those requests with a project encouraging ASH members, other antismoking organizations, and others to write directly to each airline to protest the use of e-cigs. This included a single email address which allowed ASH members to send emails to all of the major airlines. Subsequently, airlines pledged not to permit the use of e-cigs on flights.
ASH, at the request of the military, prepared a detailed report of the health hazards and other problems of permitting the use of e-cigs on submarines, and in other enclosed places where the smoking of conventional tobacco products is prohibited.
ASH wrote a letter to the Joint Commission – the organization which sets standards for hospitals, and which now prohibits smoking conventional tobacco cigarettes – putting the organization on notice about the "acute health risks" (as the FDA summarized them) of e-cigs to the users, and to the potential health problems to nonsmoking patients, staff, and visitors to hospitals.
Since many Muslims who fast during the holiday Ramadan already refrain from food, drinks, and cigarettes from dawn to dusk, ASH joined Muslim spokesmen in urging observers to go all the way and use this opportunity to quit smoking entirely. It also urged non-Muslims to support them in trying to quit. ASH's suggestion was picked up and repeated not only in the U.S., but also in several Muslim countries.
During the year, the New York State Assembly voted overwhelmingly, 125-0, to ban e-cigarettes. Earlier, ASH had sent an email to all of New York's legislators seeking to correct misinformation they apparently received from the marketers and others about e-cigarettes, and testified on the bill.
ASH prepared, and posted on its website, a special report on smoking in casinos, and why it should be banned as it is in many other places of business.
During 2010, ASH took the lead in publicizing and raising public concerns – through press releases, discussions on radio and television, and through the Internet – about thirdhand tobacco smoke. The New York Times called it "the invisible yet toxic brew of gases and particles clinging to smoker's hair and clothing," Scientific American concluded that it's "the cocktail of toxins that linger in carpets, sofas, clothes and other materials hours or even days after a cigarette is put out," and the medical journal Pediatrics said that "third-hand smoke is tobacco smoke contamination that remains after the cigarette has been extinguished."
ASH provided backup and support to a claim by the head of the Royal College of General Practitioners that smoking around children could constitute "child abuse" by providing legal analysis of both American and British law to show that the conclusion enjoyed strong support.
Because several states were beginning to consider it, ASH prepared a special report on why smoking should be banned in vehicles when children are present, including a link to a video graphically showing just how quickly toxic chemicals in tobacco smoke build up in a car when someone is smoking, even if the windows are open. An ever-growing number of jurisdictions are banning smoking in cars when children are present.
ASH's fund raising expenses during the year 2010
amounted to only about 5% of its total expenditures, and ASH spent only
about 9% on management and other general expenses – including mandatory
costs such as the preparation of an annual report prepared by an
outside auditor, fees imposed by government, insurance and other
necessary fees, etc. In short, over 85% of ASH's expenditures went to
fight smoking and protect nonsmokers – a record few other organizations
can match.
Solely for the purpose of permitting readers to more easily find additional information about ASH – and about other charitable organizations – ASH provides below links to several organizations which provide such information on line for visitors. The listing below of any such information-providing organization does NOT suggest or imply that the organization endorses or supports ASH in any way, nor that ASH necessarily agrees with everything in the organization's report.
American Institute of Philanthropy (CharityWatch):
http://www.charitywatch.org http://www.charitywatch.org/toprated.html
Charity Navigator: Why ASH Earned 4 Out of 4 Stars 4 Years in a Row
http://www.charitynavigator.org http://www.charitynavigator.org/index.cfm?bay=search.summary&orgid=8247
Give.org (Better Business Bureau):
http://charityreports.bbb.org http://charityreports.bbb.org/Public/Report.aspx?CharityID=2305 *
* ASH meets all of the numerous BBB standards except that it has not designated one Board member as a Treasurer. Instead , for 2010, it had two different chief financial officers, and two separate bookkeepers who produce an annual report audited by an independent accounting firm.
PLEASE REMEMBER: These listings do NOT necessarily suggest or imply that the organizations endorse or support ASH in any way.
For all of the many reasons listed above, and because ASH relies so heavily upon contributions from concerned nonsmokers, please also check out the following important links:
Why Join ASH online
Contribute to ASH
ASH's Trustees and Sponsors: http://ash.org/ashboard.html
ASH's Directors (Trustees):
Mr. Doug Blanke, Director, Public Health Law Center
Dr. Chuck Crawford, President, Kimball Physics
Mr. Martin Adam Jacobs, New York Mercantile Exchange
Ms. Patricia Lambert, Director, International Legal Consortium, The Campaign for Tobacco Free Kids
Dr. Alfred Munzer, Washington Adventist Hospital
Ms. M.R. Wells, Author & Screenwriter
Mr. Laurent Huber (ex officio), Executive Director, ASH
ASH'S Staff
Mr. Laurent Huber, Executive Director, ASH
Ms. Elizabeth Furgurson, COO, ASH
Mr. Chris Bostic, International Programs
Mr. Josef Verovic, International Programs
Ms. Annie Singkouson, International Programs
Mrs. Nichelle Gray, Domestic Programs
Prof. John Banzhaf, Special Counsel to ASH
ASH's Goal and Mission: http://ash.org/mission.html
ASH's Privacy Policy: http://ash.org/privacypolicy.html
What Others Say About ASH: http://ash.org/whattheysay2.html
ASH's Form 990: http://ash.org/990_2010.pdf
The following information is taken from ASH's Audited Financial Report for 2010:
Total income = $3,986,663
Program Expense 1: Public Education = $2,911,064 (75% of Total Expenses)
Program Expense 2: Legal Action = $379,663 (10% of Total Expenses)
Total Program Services = $3,290,727 (85% of Total Expenses)
Fund Raising Expenses = $195,623 (5% of Total Expenses)
Administrative (Management and General) = $368,742 (10% of Total Expenses)
Total End of Year Assets = $7,302,702
Action on Smoking and Health
701 4th St. NW / Washington, DC 20001 / (202) 659-4310
A national nonprofit, scientific and educational organization founded in 1967.
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"I have to say pretty much everyone in the National Park Service is really excited to be back at work today," she said. "We are much better at welcoming people into their national parks than keeping them out of them."
Picavet says the park sold 1,600 tickets for Alcatraz within the first hour after re-opening for reservations.
Kelly and Victor Jayrow, who were visiting from Edgewood, Texas, said they rushed to buy tickets after hearing that the national parks had re-opened.
"We knew that it was closed and we were very disappointed," said Kelly Jayrow. "And so we watched the news this morning and found out it was open and decided to come down and try to get a ticket."

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Heavy rains occurred in the suburbs of Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso, on July 6, 2013.
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Nwe, '13, Receives Statewide Ceramics Award
Art major Soe Yu "Joy" Nwe, '13, adds to her string of undergraduate achievements with the Michigan Ceramic Art Association's 2012 Scholarship Award. The statewide competition, intended to encourage serious students of ceramics, included a $1,000 prize.
"I thought maybe I was the only one who applied," Nwe said modestly of her reaction to the news. "But this definitely gives me confidence in applying to graduate school."


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An online journal about visual art, the urban landscape and design. Mary Louise Schumacher, the Journal Sentinel's art and architecture critic, leads the discussion and a community of writers contribute to the dialogue.
My first impressions of "Current Tendencies III"
Unlike many biennials, the Haggerty Museum of Art's "Current Tendencies" is not one to overstate its case.
The upcoming Wisconsin Triennial at the Madison Museum of Contemporary Art may rightly be described as one of the most prestigious showcases of contemporary art in the state, and the Mary L. Nohl Exhibition employs a rigorous application process designed to identify exceptional and rigorous artists.
But the "Current Tendencies" exhibit, the upstart among these critical surveys of contemporary artists, is described simply as a collection of Milwaukee artists.
Asked how the artists were selected, Wally Mason, the museum's director, describes a process that is organic and about following instincts wherever they might lead rather than a systematic approach. Each member of the curatorial staff brings names to the table of artists they've discovered on their art travels.
"Then we have polite disagreements," Mason said.
In some ways, this more informal approach makes "Current Tendencies" the wild card in these surveys (the other two open later this month). The third edition of this every-other-year show differs from the others in that the museum asked the artists to respond to a work of art in the permanent collection. Creating this kind of challenge was a risk. Some artists found inspiration in the constraint while others were simply constrained.
Tyanna Buie, Evan Gruzis and Jon Horvath integrated the Haggerty works into their installations, making them very much their own. William E. Carpenter, Jason Yi and artist team Cassandra Smith and Jessica Steeber use works from the collection as conceptual points of reference. Mark Mulhern and Jean Roberts Guequierre respond to their selected works thematically and the most directly.
On the whole, the show is a collection of nine independent installations. It is not a group show that reveals anything significant about the tendencies that are current here, though I have to say this didn't bother me a bit. What we find, instead, is a random array of truly relevant artists who pushed hard and experimented in the Haggerty's galleries. Many of them worked through ideas with the kind of freedom you'd expect to see in the studio rather than a museum gallery.
Horvath pushed his art to the precipice of failure in an installation that is so jammed with work that it is absolutely bewildering to the viewer at first, a conceptual bombardment. Anyone who knows soemthing of Jon's dense mind and layered practices, will recognize the explosion of thinking going on here. As I spent time with the installation, I found my puzzlement giving way to amazement as the multitudes of associations and meanings began to surface.
Horvath created three titles for this single installation. Each title, a re-arrangements of the same letters, and the distinct descriptions that accompany them all hold up beautifully, an indication that meanings can multiply and shift.
Perhaps the best key to this work is the little zine hanging on the wall and featuring pictures of "pathetic clouds," tiny whisps and poofs of white set against the sky. It's a reminder of the way we read meaning into the meaningless, the way we see butterflies and cars and other things s in the shifting shapes of the clouds above our heads.
Sitting in the middle of the installation is a small desk where two people can sit face to face. Slip on the headphones and you hear the sound of Morse code tooted out with a tuning instrument. Horvath asked his father, who intercepted and deciphered Morse code during the Vietnam war, to communicate the things he's wanted to say to his son but hand't hadn't been able to using this technique.
Horvath doesn't know Morse code, so for him, his father's message is an aural abstraction, sentiments and words broken down into component parts. The messages are secreted away in the language of war, a poignant sentiment for a father and son. And yet, even for those of us who don't know Horvath's dad, there is something about the presence of his breath and the simple realization that he gave himself over to the project, that embodies affection.
In a video installation, we see Horvath and his father throw water balloons at each other beside Lake Michigan and whistle to each other across a field using blades of grass. The repeating gestures of these wordless back-and-forths, as rhythmic as the waves on the shore, are comedic and absurd. Oddly enough, they connect to the formal works — the lines of a Sol LeWitt or Horvath's own Minimalist wall made from more than 20,000 baseball cards, too.
In many ways, Horvath's work (and there's so much more to it) is about watching our minds assemble, disassemble and reassemble meaning and associations. It's about the nature of riddles and desire and the pleasure of experiencing the intellect at work. Understanding is not something to get or to unlock. It is a continuum of experience, he seems to say. His work is also about family and the distances that exist between those we love the most.
Gruzis created a memorial-like installation from works within the Haggerty's collection that I can't shake from my mind. High on the wall is a one of the familiar square-floating-within-a-square works by color theorist Josef Albers. A charcoal drawing of a crashing wave by Robert Longo hangs beneath it. Then, on a chic, angular shelf, a death mask cast from the actual death mask of James Joyce sits, theatrically lit.
First we see Albers, the abstractionist who mined a single idea for the whole of his creative life. Though his black-and-white piece is technically still a study in color, it doesn't feel like it in the context of this monochromatic set-up. Then we get Longo, a photo realist from Brooklyn who couldn't be more art historically distant from Albers. He offers up a moment of culmination, a crash, an end. Looking up at all of this is the mask, a version of a version of an actual man.
While there's overstatement and satire here, it feels like a lament to me, maybe for art itself. Or maybe it poses a question: What's left for art anyway? To this, Gruzis supplies his own answer in works that are not coincidentally photo realist ink paintings and abstract paintings. His works are remarkably sophisticated studies in illusion and artifice achieved with small, subtle moves, tricks that are not at all what they seem.
"This combination of the real, the represented, and the abstract sets a precedent for viewing my canvases, which in turn flirt with the emptiness of the decorative and play with geometry and material to signify modes of perception," he writes in his artist statement.
Buie is everywhere right now, the emerging artist of the moment. She was included in "Wisconsin 30" at the Milwaukee Art Museum, a companion show to "30 Americans," and she will be in the Nohl show and Triennial shows later this month.
Buie, who grew up moving from one foster family to another, has been creating work that attempts to reassemble memories and artifacts from that lost and chaotic childhood. In truth, though, her exquisite mixed-media prints are more about the narrative of forgetting, of irreplaceable loss.
For this show, she created a monumental series of faceless family portraits based on actual mug shots, including one of her mother. These works are so lush, they look like tapestries. The surfaces shift from dimensional to flat, from waxy to velvety to matte. And there is a gorgeous layering of decorative marks. Still these prints are hung informally, tacked up as it were, adding an air of the transitory, perhaps the shifting, unfixed nature of the narrrative at hand.
On a far wall, Buie incorporates silver serving objects from the Haggerty's collection, the kinds of prized heirlooms that get passed down in families. The pitchers and platters had been in the collection so long that there is actually no record of their history either, creating an appropriate counterpoint to Buie's obscured history. They cast shadows against Buie's wallpaper-like installation, which is pieced together like a Gee's Bend quilt, bringing the idea of remnants and fragments to mind. I couldn't help but wonder what would have happened if Buie had pushed into the room more and tried to integrate these disparate things in a home-like setting.
There is so much more to say about this show. Yi created a mountainous installation, a chaotic architectural structure with a skin of brightly colored duct tape that seems to hold the piece to the gallery floor. It is a violent and amorphous conflation of a built piece and the natural world. Images of obliterated landscapes, of the moutains of cars and buildings that supplanted cities in the wake of the 2011 Japanese tsunami were in Yi's mind as he created this piece.
Mulhern's large drawings of pigeons, which seem to track time and movement and remind me of dance step diagrams, were a lovely homage to Karl Priebe's postcards of birds. And Jean Roberts Guequierre's reconsideration of the Haggerty's Madonnas were stark and disturbing.
I confess I felt that artist team Jessica Steeber and Cassandra Smith, for whatever reason, did not deliver their best work for this show and that William Carpenter, an exciting, young artist to keep an eye on, did not have enough strong work for us to get a complete sense of his promise.
"Current Tendencies III" is on view at the Haggerty Museum, at 13th and Clybourn streets, through Dec. 22.
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Desert Plants / Desert Peoples
Ethnobotany of the Sonoran Desert
Join us for this exciting exploration of the useful plants of the Sonoran Desert. This program, funded by the Wallace Research Foundation, delves into the ethnobotany (how people use plants) of southern arizona, past and present. This program is available as an on-site offering here at the Gardens, or we can bring it into your classroom or event.
Sonoran Desert People
This tour includes a series of activities that help students understand the many ways people of the Sonoran Desert use native plants. The activities primarily focus on the uses of plants by the Tohono O'odham (Papago), the Yoeme (Yaqui), and the Hohokam (prehistoric ancestors of the Tohono O'odham). Tohono O'odham and Yoeme people not only lived in the Sonoran Desert long before European Settlers but they developed extensive uses of Sonoran Desert plants. Today, there are Yoeme and Tohono O'odham villages in and around Tucson and students of both cultures attend most area schools. Also, Tucson's heritage is rich with Hispanic culture. Having lived in the Sonoran Desert for over a hundred years, many people of Hispanic descent also developed uses for native plants.
What is Ethnobotany?
Ethnobotany is the study of people's use of plants. The word is derived from ethnology – the study of people, and botany – the study of plants. Regardless of where people live in the world, they have turned to their immediate environment for materials to aid in survival. Perhaps the most abundant and diverse materials in nearly every ecosystem around the world come from the plant kingdom. Thus, as long as people have been in existence, they have been using plants as food, fiber, shelter, tools, arts, and medicines. Ethnobotany examines and records these uses. Ethnobotany tends to focus on indigenous people's use of native, uncultivated plants. However, the study does include all people's uses of plants, including the use of some cultivated plants such as corn, cotton, and squash.
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Pre-Visit Field Journal
Students make a field journal that will also serve as a nametag for the Tucson Botanical Gardens fieldtrip.
Note: The field journals should be made during the first part of the pre-tour activity. After the field journal has been made, students should complete the front page (name tag). The teacher will then teach an introductory lesson and students will complete page 1 in their field journals. Students should wear their field journals on their fieldtrip to the Tucson Botanical Gardens.
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Creating Basic Web Pages
This handout provides a brief overview on how to create a basic web page with Netscape Composer and how to post that page to the World Wide Web through the Hartwick domain.
Composer is the standard html editor that comes with the Netscape browser and allows the creation of simple web pages without any knowledge of the underlying html code. This excercise is tailored to Netscape version 6 and above, though the instructions will also work with versions 4.5 and 4.7.
A. Creating the First Page
- Open Netscape Composer.
Open the Netscape browser Communicator and then select File --> New --> Composer Page. See the four tabs at the bottom left, three of these provide different editing options. Stay in the default 'Normal' mode for which no knowledge of html code is necessary.
- Adding and formatting content
Generally, Composer works like any other document editor. You can use different fonts, bold and underline text, align text as desired and create tables. However, you should be aware that Composer does not have all the features of more advanced document editors like MS Word. Familiarize yourself with the various options, understand what works and what doesn't. This is crucial before you make any larger design and outline decisions for your page.
Note: Use caution with the underline feature as this usually indicates the presence of a hyperlink. However, some sites use a specific color to indicate a hyperlink - in those cases use text color with caution.
- Add a link
Highlight a word, phrase or text area that will be used as a hyperlink. Then select Insert --> Link, or click on the Link icon in the toolbar. Type the full URL of the web page you want to link to (i.e. include http://) or alternately copy and paste the URL from another browser window.
You can use this feature to link to related pages if you are creating a multi-page site and to link to specific sections within a given web page using 'anchors' (aka bookmarks, or targets). In the latter case you will need to identify and create the 'anchor' first before adding the link from the originating location. The URL will most likely contain the URL of the originating page (or the extension thereof) followed by the # symbol and the name of the anchor.
- Add an e-mail address
Creating a link for an e-mail address is similar to creating a general hyperlink. This link will force a mail form to appear that includes the address of the recipient that you specified. This feature is most commonly used as a way of communicating quickly with the person responsible for the page.
The major difference to general hyperlinks is that in the Link Location field you will need to type "mailto:" first and then the e-mail address of the recipient (note that there are no spaces between the individual URL elements). The e-mail URL should look something like this:
- Standard web page etiquette
Your page should include some form of identification, usually your name and / or the institution you are representing. It should also include a date of when the page was created and possibly when the page was last updated. Finally it should include a way of contacting you, usually an e-mail address is the preferred method.
In terms of style try not to overload the page with colors, images or frames. Though style is highly subjective, focus on what the intent of the page is: if it is to inform either about yourself or a particular topic try to help the user locate the information quickly.
- Page properties
These features enable the faster retrieval of the page by other users. Select Format --> Page Title and Properties. Provide a page name (required), an author (optional) and description (optional). If you want your page to be located by search engines provide relevant keywords for the description field. This is one of the main areas search engines rely on to locate your page.
- Adding images
Adding images can greatly enhance the visual appeal of your web page. However, be aware that images can cause all kinds of problems on your page, especially if you aren't able to edit them prior to posting them. The most common problem is that they are too large which in turn influences the structure and outline of the remaining page as well as the 'loading time' of the page.
First, identify the area where you want your image to appear. Then select Insert --> Image, or click on the Image icon. Find and insert the saved image. It is always a good idea to provide 'alternate text' so that information on the image can be quickly identified. Please note that you will need to save the image in the same folder as the web page -- see below under B4.
- Saving and previewing your page
You can save the page locally and then select browse. Make adjustments if necessary by going back to the editing mode. More than likely you will need to go back and forth frequently in order to fine tune your page. Be aware that to make the page(s) 'live' you will need to first complete the steps below.
B. Posting your new web page on the web
- Policies
Please read Hartwick's 'Acceptable Use Policy' first. Go to the "Related Links" on the right, the link will take you to the section pertaining to web pages and servers.
- Map Drive
You will need to be logged into the computer as yourself. Right click on the "My Computer" icon on the desktop and select "Map Drive".
In the first field 'Drive' find and select a drive that is not used, usually E through Z. Make sure that the M drive is not already in use.
In the second field 'Folder' type \\Einstein\xyz -- replacing xyz with your Hartwick username. Click OK.
- Locating the www folder, creating a subfolder if necassary
Right click on the 'My Computer' icon and select open. Locate your user name on Einstein (it is under the drive you selected above). Note that there is a folder named 'www'. If you plan on creating a multi-page site and/or creating different sites later you should think about creating subfolders within the www folder. Name the folders appropriately to the content of the web page(s) since the subfolder's name will be part of the URL for the page. Be aware of small and capital letters: the URL is case sensitive.
- Saving the web page to the www folder, saving images seperately
You can now save your page to the www folder on your Einstein (network) account. Make sure that the page has either the extension '.html' or '.htm' and remember which extension you used. If your page includes images you will need need to save them seperately to the www folder. Make sure that the URL for the image is linking to the correct location of the image file in your www folder .
- Understanding the URL for this page
The basic syntax for personal web pages on the Hartwick domain is as follows:
If you created a subfolder in the www folder and then a webpage within that subfolder, the URL will change accordingly. The basic syntax for this page will then look like this:
Note that the name of the web page and the folder is case sensitive - it must correspond exactly to how it is saved on your Einstein account.
- Preview the new page with a standard browser.
After saving your work you can now open any browser and type the URL of your new page in the address field. Review the page: check to see if all the links work, the images load correctly, and the desired formatting has been maintained. View the page with different browsers, you may be suprised! Look at the source code to troubleshoot if necessary.
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Tuesday, April 17, 2012
Suicide Prevention Training for Community Leaders
Community leaders have the power to convene people. This is a wonderful skill that comes with many responsibilities: logistics, marketing, catering, volunteer coordination, etc. I believe that our responsibilities as community leaders goes beyond these basic steps and includes creating a welcoming and safe space for our community.
When we help co-create those kinds of spaces, we help guard against isolation, depression and burn out that many experience when they operate for too long without a supportive community. Unfortunately, many community leaders themselves feel this isolation because they lack a strong peer network and are carrying on their shoulders all the pain and suffering brought to their attention by their community members.
To support my fellow community leaders, I'm offering a training on how to deal with one of the hardest topics faced by any community. For the purpose of these trainings, I've defined "community leader" as anyone who regularly convenes groups of people. If that's you, I hope you'll join me. If not, please share this with a community leader in your life.
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They locked us in the office at Bad Robot, so that we could read the script, and I dropped it and grabbed my Blackberry and kept saying, "This man's crazy! J.J.'s out of his mind. I'm not that aware about Star Trek, but I do know that [Spock and Uhura] never mingled. It's crazy!" But once I finished the script, it just made so much sense. They have the most similar characteristics. I almost feel like she had this admiration for Spock because he was older and sort of like a teacher, and there was this crush or platonic infatuation with someone that's wiser, wittier, handsome and had pointy ears. Why not?
The relationship between Spock and Uhura, that dynamic provides a lot of levity and humor between Kirk and Spock and between Kirk and Uhura. But between Spock and Uhura, I think it actually represents a depth, whereby Uhura is almost a canvas onto whom Spock can project the emotion that he is not able to express himself.
Frankly, I was extremely jealous of his scenes with Zoe Saldana, and I think it's totally unfair that I never got to do that. I will never forgive the writers and the director, for having put me in this position, to have to be watching that, rather than participating.


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City approves site for communications towers
Houston County Courier - September 2009
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Members of Crockett City Council approved a specific use permit for the installation of a communications tower in the Crockett Industrial Park by ETMC EMS.
Prior to council approval, Mayor Wayne Mask conducted a public hearing on the matter.
ETMC EMS representative Jeff Haislet, director of communications for ETMC EMS said the process of securing a location for the communications tower had been ongoing for several months and was a joint effort between the city and the council of governments.
Haislet said the towers would be constructed in Crockett and Groveton and would serve all emergency services.
The Crockett tower will be constructed in the Crockett Industrial Park on property located just off Industrial Park Boulevard and Hwy. 19 south.
He added that the two towers would cost a total of about $1 million. Following a question from Councilman Nathan Gardner regarding other users of the towers, Haislet said that other users may be allowed on the lower levels if they did not interfere with the emergency services.
Councilman Robert Meadows asked if the tower would improve communications for the Crockett Fire Department and CFD Chief Darrell Deckard responded by saying, "It will greatly improve our communications, especially in the areas outside the city limits."
Houston County Emergency Management Coordinator David Lamb said the tower would also improve the amateur radio and sheriff's office communications.
In other business, City Administrator Ron Duncan told council that a Loop 304 Expansion Meeting was held on Wednesday, Sept. 2 that was to include representatives from TxDOT and a few local businesses including Citizens National Bank, Crockett Farm and Fuel and NAPA Auto Parts.
Duncan said that at the last meeting Councilman Ansel Bradshaw and Crockett Economic and Industrial Development Executive Director Tim Culp agreed they would get input from businesses that would be affected by the expansion and bring the data to the next meeting.
Duncan said they provided a letter to TxDOT that outlined alternatives to the project that included the construction of a three-lane highway between US 287 south and Hwy. 7 east.
The median would be replaced with a continuous turning lane.
Duncan said the city suggested that any savings created as a result of the proposed changes to the project be used to extend the work further south along the loop.
Council also approved a resolution amending the 2009 fiscal year budget from slightly under $7.5 million to slightly over $7.6 million.
Duncan said the adjustments covered a number of issues not included in the fiscal year 2008 budget outlining the revenue and expenditure differences in detail.
Council voted to table approval of an ordinance that would adopt a drought contingency plan required by the Texas Water Code and applicable rules of the Texas Commission on Environmental Quality.
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At Harding Middle School, serving one of the area's most diverse and poor neighborhoods, groups of middle- and high-schoolers huddle together after school in classrooms to share original works of poetry. They riff on school issues - bullying, fads - and life issues - everything from sexual abuse to a lack of having a father figure at home.
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- transitive v. To regard or treat (an abstraction) as if it had concrete or material existence.
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- v. To regard something abstract as if it were a concrete material thing.
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- To make into a thing; make real or material; consider as a thing.
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- v. consider an abstract concept to be real
I implemented my lazymap library in terms reify where gen-class was required before.
Factor analysis is harmless as data reduction, but it is tempting to "reify" the factors, to suppose that they are the hidden causes behind the observations.
The usual inclination, however, is to reify, sometimes magnify, differences, especially when we consider culture and violence.
It is easy to reify the categories—German and Jew, Hutu and Tutsi, Turk and Armenian, Catholic Irish and Protestant Irish—but difficult to flesh them out.
No, Obama has thrown down the gauntlet, and is trying to reify the sloganeering of the 1960s.
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I have been witness to efforts by some in the Middle East to twist and distort comments made by American policymakers, Israeli leaders, and others in order to reify their fantastic but unreal constructs explaining some international event or accident or decision.
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A law student might even claim that it does more than reify our sins, but that it alsodispenses justice, if it were not for the fact that not only the greedy now suffer.
Markus might as well have been describing the existential state of a burgeoning class of male poets who use masculine-coded grammar, syntax, diction, rhythm, and rhetoric to reify the terminally-compromised state of masculinity in the present era.
This is done in order to reify that binary and make it appear to be "natural," rather than arbitrary.
When Helen posted the headline 'Cis man murders woman' recently it * was* surprising, because it de-familiarised the usual power imbalances that journalists just unthinkingly reify.
Using or misusing this word is a in-group password in our social sciences grad program. The concept seems important - I still 'intensely dislike' the word.
A law professor used this in a lecture today. I didn't know what it meant then, but I'm now fairly sure she wasn't using it correctly.
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Milwaukee-based Northwestern Mutual Life Insurance Co. Inc. has agreed to donate $4.2 million over the next five years to The American College in Bryn Mawr, Pa., to create The Northwestern Mutual Granum Center for Financial Security.
When completed, the donation to fund the center will be the largest single corporate gift ever received by The American College.
The Northwestern Mutual Granum Center for Financial Security was named in honor of O. Alfred Granum, a Northwestern Mutual managing partner who led the company's Chicago office and innovated the business.
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This is a short 3 video mini series showing looks for blue, green, and brown eyes. I have had a lot of people ask why I am not including hazel eyes, and there is a few reasons: the first mainly being that I just ran out of time before moving to film another video. I really was planning to do a video for hazel eyes, but time got the better of me and I had to pack everything up before I knew it! Another reason is that since hazel eyes tend to consist of a combination of all brown, green, and blue, I really feel that people with hazel eyes can wear any of these looks, depending on what color they want to emphasize. I've also gotten requests for gray eyes, but I feel like gray eyes can be put in with blue eyes. Later on, once I'm all set up here, I may add on to this series and do a look for hazel and gray eyes, but that's mainly why they weren't included this time around.
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I have a question about the nature of SMTP. I have a mail exchange server I am responsible for. At present I have one MX record pointing directly to the mail exchange server. This all works fine.
I've read the RFC for SMTP, and from what I can gather, if my server goes down and mail cannot be accepted, the SMTP client trying to deliver the mail should retry at set interval, and retry for a period of time (generally 3-4 days) until either a successful delivery of the mail has been made or a permanent failure occurs (in which case it is obliged to send a report to the returnpath address?,
It is section 18.104.22.168 Sending Strategy in RFC 2821 that specifies that if an SMTP Client accepts responsibility to deliver a message to destination then it has to attempt to deliver more than once and only fail after a reasonable amount of time.
The reason I ask is because if this is true, if the SMTP server goes down, that means I will have at least 2-3 days to get it back up without any loss of service, and I don't need a backup SMTP server listed in my MX details?
If anyone knows what I'm talking about, would really appreciate a response,
If your the SMTP server goes down the mail will get delivered eventually when it is back up again but I think you might find people getting a little upset when the mail starts arriving two or three days late.
Depending on how much traffic you handle, you are going to have a backlog that is going to slow down current mail. A backup sever is a good idea.
Most commercial SMTP servers handling hundreds if not thousands of Emails an hour will fail after a few hours as they don't want a backlog either.
Hi Stuart,
Thanks for your response, the company is only a small one and they are looking to moving to a Regus building, where they have to take up a new IP address. The move should take 24 hours, from the time the mail exchange is taken offline to the time where it is reachable again. I guess if people follow the RFC, and keep mail for a day or two, there shouldn't be any loss of email?


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Part time mowing
I am looking at possibly trying to pick up about 10 accounts that I can mow to supplement my income. I will most likely not try and get this started until next spring as I feel that it probably wouldnt do much good to try and get accounts now. I was thinking of just starting out with my personal stuff I use at home and work from there. I'm wondering what kind of costs are involved with it. Do I need to get a BU number right away or should I wait to see what kind of accounts I can pick up? Should I get insurance right away? I currently do lawn and tree shrub spraying full time but my company doesn't offer mowing, should I ask my bosses if I can solicit my customer base for accounts? What do you guys think? I've been in the green industry for over 15 years and am just now thinking of doing this! Any help would be appreciated!!
Your home equipment won't last long even if you are doing 10 yards a week. (that is 10 times what they are made for). If you ever hit anything with those blades(and you will) they will be bend real easy and maybe even damage your deck.
You could start looking at fall cleanups now. Maybe check with other Lawn companies and see if they have some they want to pass on. I do do that all the time. As I move up I pass on some out of area or smaller ones.
I don't know about using that data base that might mean that if you screw up they will go back to the company.
Get insurance...nothin worse than kicking a rock up and taking out a picture window!
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I started out the exact same way you are thinking. This is my 4th season mowing and I now have 16 accounts. I know it don't sound like much, but when you get a good growing summer with plenty of rain like we have had here it tends to be some good extra money. I would recommend that you try to land some accounts this fall for the leaf cleanup. That is how I started and it worked very well. If I remember right I did about 20 yards that fall and at least 8 of them turned into fulltime mowing accounts the following summer. Like one of the other members said I would definately get yourself a used commercial grade mower at least, you can probably get by with home owner hand helds for now. I started out with a 5 year old John Deere tractor. Plus if you buy a comm. grade mower and after your first year you decide you don't want to mow anymore, you can sell it pretty easy and still get most if not all of what you paid for it back again. Hope some of this helps and good luck with your new venture.
Almost forgot, definately get insurance before you start anything. I waited till the spring before I got my tax number, business name, etc. That is why I suggested you start with some fall cleanups, that way you can get a feel for how much of a demmand there is in your area for mowing next year. Just my 2 cents worth.
Thank you all so much for the replys!! My home mower is a commercial grade honda. I figured I would get that for my home lawn because they had great reviews and it would last me awhile!! I will probably look into something bigger though if I start to pull a few accounts! I will try and advertise for some fall cleanups too!! You guys on here are the best!!
Is this only going to stay part time? I'm getting out from part time lawn mowing as I just dont have the time to do it anymore (family). Insurance, YES, forget the window you just took out how about the kids playing next door and you hit them with a rock!!!....Tax (fed, state, sales if needed)...YES. Do it right. I personally know a few who didn't and it wasn't pretty.
The thing I realized with part time is you need to run the tightest ship you can and be efficient. I'm not sure what accounts you will attempt to do and if you are just using a push mower. Larger accounts will take too much time push mowing and if you hustle too much will look like hell. Commercial equipment costs $$$. If your route isn't real tight fuel will eat away at your money. A successful friend of mine said to me "You need to be in this for the long haul to make money" When I started I had just enough accounts to pay for my commerical mower, but I chose to start with new equipment. Trailer was out of pocket along with trimmers, blowers, hand tools, etc... Still needed to recoup that cost even though it was paid with cash. After getting more accounts I was asked about doing landscaping maintenance. I had the truck and trailer so no problems doing so but needed to purchase more tools to complete those jobs. Oh as a side not you get discounted materials with being licensed because you need to prove you are a business to vendors. I used quickbooks to keep track of stuff and man that is an eye opener if you are true with it. It's amazing how things can add up so quickly and I'm just talking about normal operating expenses. I'm upset that I need to get out of this as things really started looking good this year (everything paid for, referrals coming in) but working 70-80hrs/week isnt all its cracked up to be for extra income, eventhough it was good. I may try and continue to do the landscaping side, but the weekly "chore" mowing had become isnt for me.
So now after that rediculous story here are my thoughts on this.
1.) How much is enough to supplement your income?? $100, $1000, $10,000?? This changes everything!
2.) Get the right equipment for the customer you would like to potentially service (small yards, large yards, new builds, etc..), used commercial is fine. Efficiency is key here. You cannot efficiently mow larger yards with small equipment.
3.) How are you going to acquire accounts? Thats tricky with your current employer, I cant advise on that. Maybe just advertise (MORE MONEY) or find friends and family. I did a small classified and only got a few good calls, lots of bad ones, and only a couple customers. What if no one calls? What next?
4.) Can you commit to the weekly needs of mowing on top of your current job? You have to keep those customers happy and have to sacrifice other things (family, friends, activities) for that or they'll drop you instantly.
5.) Do you have cash on hand to purchase equipment (mowers, handhelds), trailer, fuel, insurance, advertising, trimmer string, gas can, 2 cycle oil, gloves, boots, safety glasses, equipment replacement/repair (things break and used stuff is not warrantied). I know some of this stuff is cheap or "what if" but it adds up and in reality needs to be reclaimed by your business even if it's your on hand cash. You could have just put that cash in a bank and made interest but now it's gone so it needs to be made back.
6.) Is this a "quick gold" extra income sort of thing in your head? If so I think you are in for a serious wake up call unless a couple hundred bucks a month is a good enough supplement, which it may be. Like my friend said, you need to be in it for the long haul to actually make money. It took me 5 years and now I'm out. But at least if I wanted back in I have a much better understanding of this business.
Just get it all organized and good things can happen. Sorry for the long post but extra mowing money isnt that simple.
The post was long but great information!! I am looking to supplement my income as much or as little as it can. If I can't get a lot of accounts I will look elsewhere for extra income. I just absolutely love to mow grass and thought it would be a good way to earn a little extra money! I realize it is a lot of hard work and with my full time job I have friday, saturday and sunday to mow.
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Energizer Bunny
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Hugh Hefner
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|Most Likely To Get Invited To A Sleepover
Hugh Hefner
Oh mama! We got two king-size beds ready, and they each fit four people. Do the math boys, Manny is in for a big treat tonight.
|Got Milk?
We'd be sucking on either battery acid or silicone. Just remember, don't squeeze too much or bite too hard, leakage can occur in either case.
|Most Likely To Endorse Nike
Hugh Hefner
Guys, the man is over 70 years old and look at him go. He's been living by the "Just Do It" motto forever, in every sense of the word. God bless the man.
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Hugh Hefner
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Hugh Hefner
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Clare Huntington
Associate Dean for Research and Professor of Law
Curriculum Vitae
SSRN (academic papers)
Telephone: 212-636-6832
Email: email@example.com
Office: Room 7-104
Research and Teaching Areas
Family; Immigration; Poverty; Legislation and Regulation
Professor Huntington is an expert in the fields of family law, poverty law, and immigration. Professor Huntington's legal experience includes serving as an Attorney Advisor in the Justice Department's Office of Legal Counsel as well as clerking for Justice Harry A. Blackmun and Justice Stephen Breyer of the Supreme Court of the United States, Judge Merrick B. Garland of the United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit, and Judge Denise Cote of the United States District Court of the Southern District of New York. Prior to joining the Fordham faculty in 2011, Professor Huntington was an Associate Professor at the University of Colorado Law School. Professor Huntington earned her J.D. from Columbia Law School and her B.A. from Oberlin College.
Selected Publications
Failure to Flourish: How Law Undermines Family Relationships (Oxford University Press, 2014) (reviewed in the Harvard Law Review (forthcoming), Michigan Law Review, Texas Law Review, and JOTWELL; featured in a symposium on Balkinization)
Articles and Essays
Postmarital Family Law: A Legal Structure for Nonmarital Families, 67 STAN. L. REV. 167 (2015)
Staging the Family, 88 N.Y.U. L. REV. 589 (reviewed by Katharine Bartlett in JOTWELL) (2013)
Purple Haze, 109 MICH. L. REV. 903 (reviewing Naomi Cahn & June Carbone, Red Families v. Blue Families: Legal Polarization and the Creation of Culture) (2011)
Familial Norms and Normality, 59 EMORY L.J. 1103 (2010)
Repairing Family Law, 57 DUKE L.J. 1245 (2008)
The Constitutional Dimension of Immigration Federalism, 61 VAND. L. REV. 787 (2008)
Mutual Dependency in Child Welfare, 82 NOTRE DAME L. REV. 1485 (2007)
Rights Myopia in Child Welfare, 53 UCLA L. REV. 637 (2006)
Welfare Reform and Child Care: A Proposal for State Legislation, 6 CORNELL J. L. & PUB. POL'Y 95 (1996)
Book Chapters
Affective Family Law, in The Emotional Dynamics of Law and Legal Discourse (John Stannard & Heather Conway eds.) (Hart, forthcoming 2015)
New Knowledge in Child Protection: Neuroscience and its impact on practice, in Beyond the Risk Paradigm: Current debates and new directions in child protection (Marie Connolly ed.) (Palgrave, forthcoming 2015)
Invited Symposia and Other Work
Children's Health in a Legal Framework (with Elizabeth Scott), 21 FUTURE OF CHILDREN (forthcoming 2015) (invited symposium)
Family Law and Nonmarital Families, FAM. CT. REV. (forthcoming 2015) (invited special issue)
Introduction, Special Issue: Feminist Legal Theory, STUD. L. POL. & SOC. (forthcoming 2015) (with Maxine Eichner) (guest editor for special issue)
The Child Welfare System and the Limits of Determinacy, 76 LAW & CONTEMP. PROBS. 221 (2014) (invited symposium).
Neuroscience and the Child Welfare System, 20 J. L. & POL'Y 37 (2013) (invited symposium)
Flourishing Families, 50 FAM. CT. REV. 273 (2012)
Introduction, Special Issue: Emerging Family Law Scholars and Teachers, 50 FAM. CT. REV. 179 (2012) (guest editor for special issue)
Feminism's Family, Legal Feminism Now Symposium, Issues in Legal Scholarship, Berkeley Electronic Press (2011) (invited symposium)
Embracing the Affective Family, 33 HARV. J. L. & GENDER 321 (2010) (invited symposium)
Happy Families? Translating Positive Psychology into Family Law, 16 VA. J. SOC. POL'Y & L. 385 (2009) (invited symposium)
A House Still Divided, A Response to Adam Cox's Immigration Law's Organizing Principles, 157 U. PENN. L. REV. PENNUMBRA (2009)
Parents as Hubs, 94 VA. L. REV. IN BRIEF 45 (2008)
Missing Parents, 41 FAM. L.Q. 131 (2008)
Family Group Conferencing in the United States: Questions for the Future, in Family Law: Balancing Interests and Pursuing Priorities (Lynn D. Wardle & Camille S. Williams eds.) (International Society of Family Law) (2007)


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Genres: Television, Sci-fi / Fantasy, 60s
Cast: Bill Mumy, Buddy Ebsen, Buster Keaton, Cliff Robertson, Cloris Leachman, Dennis Weaver, Fritz Weaver, James Best, Lee Marvin, Lee Van Cleef, Richard Conte, Richard Kiel, Robert Cummings, Rod Serling, Shelley Berman, William Shatner
Director: Allen H. Miner, John Brahm, Jus Addiss, William Asher
Synopsis: 20 CLASSIC EPISODES FROM ROD SERLING'S GROUNDBREAKING SERIES
Travel to another dimension of sight and sound again and again with this special collection of classic episodes from Rod Serling's legendary series!
Episodes: The Passerby, The Grave, Death's Head Revisited, The Last Rites of Jeff Myrtlebank, Perchance to Dream, The Hitch-Hiker, King Nine Will Not Return, Shadow Play, Third from the Sun, The Shelter, To Serve Man, The Fugitive, Nick of Time, The Prime Mover, It's a Good Life, The Mind and the Matter, The Last Flight, Once Upon a Time, A Hundred Yards Over the Rim, The Trouble with Templeton
Language: English
Country of Origin: United States of America
Production Year: 1963
- "The best that has ever been accomplished in half-hour filmed television.", Daily Variety
- Release Date: May 8th, 2012
- Catalog Number: ID8016CUDVD
- Rating: Not Rated
- Run Time: 500
- Color Format: Black & White
- Audio: Dolby Digital Mono
- Language: English
- 16:9: No
- Aspect Ratio: 1.33:1
- Number of Discs: 5
- Closed Captions: No
- Subtitle: English
- Special Features:
Series History
Cast Info
Includes English Subtitles for the Deaf and Hearing Impaired


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PAW PAW, Mich., July 11, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- Michigan's oldest, largest and most awarded winery, St. Julian, has joined forces with Paw Paw Brewing Company to host the first annual Uncork Paw Paw: Grapes and Grains Festival on Saturday, July 20 from 2 p.m. to 10 p.m. at the St. Julian Winery. The festival will incorporate local music, never-before-sipped spirits and tasty family fare in a celebration of the Paw Paw community, all the while supporting a great cause.
The festival aims to create awareness and raise funds for the Two Rivers Coalition, a non-profit organization working to protect and preserve the rivers and lakes in Van Buren County, and in turn, the water locals drink. The event's five dollar admission fee will help support the local organization's effort to save Maple Lake.
"We're excited to not only bridge the gap between craft beer and fine wine, but to also bring awareness to the importance of maintaining our rivers and streams, which in turn secures a great future for Michigan beer and wine," said Ben Fleckenstein, owner and operator, Paw Paw Brewing Company.
Among other favorites on tap at the festival, Paw Paw Brewing will feature its limited edition Barrel Aged Cherry Stout, along with St. Julian Winery's Gunga Din Cider. The list of bands keeping attendees entertained throughout the day includes Brocoustic, Exit 41 and Delilah DeWylde. Family owned and operated Amore Pizza will also be on-hand to serve up family fare including pizza and hot sandwiches.
St. Julian Winery is located at 716 S. Kalamazoo St. In addition to the Grapes and Grains Festival, the Paw Paw Area Chamber of Commerce will be hosting Paw Paw Days, taking place Friday and Saturday, July 19-20. The 17th Annual event will feature a classic car show along with arts and crafts tents throughout downtown Paw Paw, making it a great event for the entire family.
For more information on the Uncork Paw Paw: Grapes and Grains Festival, please visit the St. Julian Winery events page here or the Paw Paw Brewing events page here.
About St. Julian WinerySt. Julian Winery was founded by Mariano Meconi over 90 years ago and is still family owned and operated today. All grapes are grown within 45 miles of their Paw Paw location and they pride themselves on being a Pure Michigan company. In addition to great wines, they produce sparkling juices and even distill vodka and brandy from grapes. www.stjulian.com
About Paw Paw Brewing CompanyPaw Paw Brewing Company was founded by brothers-in-law Ryan Sylvester and Ben Fleckenstein in early 2010. Nestled on the banks of the Paw Paw River in the heart of southwest Michigan's farm land and fruit belt, Paw Paw Brewing focuses on combining local ingredients and local culture into their handcrafted brews. www.pawpawbrewing.com
About Two Rivers CoalitionTwo Rivers Coalition, an alliance of the Black and Paw Paw River Watersheds, is a citizen based group working to protect the health of Michigan's rivers and lakes through conservation, education, and advocacy. www.TwoRiversCoalition.org
SOURCE St. Julian Winery; Paw Paw Brewing Company


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Case against Shaon, Mazharul withdrawn
The case against celebrated writer Humayun Ahmed's widow Meher Afroz Shaon and friend Mazharul Islam over alleged murder of the noted litterateur has been withdrawn on Wednesday.
Chief Metropolitan Magistrate of Chittagong ABM Nizamul Haque withdrew the case after complainant filed a petition seeking withdrawal of it, reports our Chittagong correspondent.
On August 1, thirteen days after the death of Humayun Ahmed, lawyer and writer advocate Nazrul Islam filed the case against Shaon and Mazharul, publisher of Annya Prokash Publications Ltd, for committing the 'murder' in connivance with each other to misappropriate the cash and property of Humayun Ahmed.
Nazrul filed the petition on Wednesday requesting withdrawal of the case in line with section 248 of the Code of Criminal Procedure and it was readily accepted.
On query, why he requested withdrawal of the case, Nazrul told The Daily Star, "After I filed the case, close relatives of Humayun Ahmed, especially his brothers, noted politicians and public intellectuals stated in different media that Humayun should be kept beyond unnecessary debates and disputes."
"I filed the petition showing respect to these statements," he said.
Humayun Ahmed died of colon cancer in a New York hospital on July 19 at the age of 64.
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- Disclose names of corrupts: Khandakar Mosharraf - 12 Sep 2012


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ELKHART LAKE, WI, JUNE 4: Monster M4 Suzuki's Martin Cardenas narrowly topped Team Graves Yamaha's Josh Herrin in first Daytona SportBike qualifying at Road America in Elkhart Lake, Wisconsin.Cardenas was fastest on his seventh and final lap of the 4.05-mile road course, but that wasn't necessarily the plan."We were having a little bit of problems with the brakes," he said his lap of 2:21.136 mins., which edged Herrin by .055 secs. "This morning and this afternoon we were just trying some different things and this last run we tried something with the disks."And, no, I went and pushed as hard as I could for two laps and one of them was the fastest one."Project 1 Atlanta's Dane Westby was a few tenths slower than Herrin with Latus Racing's Steve Rapp (Duc) at the end of a close provisional front row: First to fourth were covered by .809 secs.Geico Powersports/RMR's Danny Eslick was behind Cardenas on the second row, which was tighter packed than the front. Vesrah Suzuki's Cory West, Team Graves Yamaha's Tommy Aquino, and Vesrah Suzuki's Chris Fillmore were covered by just over half a second.Project 1 Atlanta's Clinton Seller (Yam) and Celtic Racing's P.J. Jacobsen filled out the top ten.
1. Martin Cardenas (Suzuki) 2:21.136
2. Josh Herrin (Yamaha) 2:21.191
3. Dane Westby (Yamaha) 2:21.443
4. Steve Rapp (Ducati) 2:21.945
5. Danny Eslick (Suzuki) 2:22.067
6. Cory West (Suzuki) 2:22.160
7. Tommy Aquino (Yamaha) 2:22.276
8. Chris Fillmore (Suzuki) 2:22.576
9. Clinton Seller (Yamaha) 2:23.533
10. P.J. Jacobsen (Suzuki) 2:23.976
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My Christies
As a painter, Matisse is identified with one thing above all – color. Glowing with reds, blues and greens his paintings are amongst the most iconic works of the 20th century. But there is a less well-known side to the artist. This Matisse is a master of black and white and the drawn line, someone who, using a range of printmaking techniques, created a galaxy of stunning, sensuous, intimate images. Christie's is privileged to be offering nearly one hundred of these minor masterpieces in an online sale running from 19 November – 4 December, 2012, with subjects ranging from portraits to figure studies, exotic odalisques to elegant ballerinas. Consigned directly from the personal collections of the Matisse family, the sale represents a unique opportunity to view, and acquire, these hidden gems.
La Persane
Lithograph, 1929, on Arches
Signed in pencil
Nu debout en peignoir
etching, 1929, on Chine appliqué to Arches
signed in pencil
Visage de Profil reposant sur un Bras, Paravent Louis XIV
lithograph, 1924, on Chine
signed in pencil
Marguerite V
lithograph, 1945, on Rives BFK
signed in pencil
Orientale sur lit de repos, sol de carreaux rouges
Lithograph, 1929
Signed in pencil


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Bureau of Labor Statistics
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Census Bureau's Economic Briefing Room
The Census Bureau's Economic Briefing Room page provides convenient access to a number of key coatings economic indicators, among them construction, new home sales, housing starts, manufacturing, retail, international trade and inventories. It also provides a tool to produce charts and graphs on demand.
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Census Bureau, Quarterly Survey of Manufacturers for the Coatings Industry (discontinued)
(MQ325F - Paint and Allied Products)
Corporate Tax Statistics
The IRS's centralized resource on business tax information, from the U.S. Internal Revenue Service.
Current Economic Conditions
Commonly known as the Beige Book, the Federal Reserve Board publishes this report eight times each year. Each Federal Reserve Bank gathers anecdotal information on current economic conditions in its District through reports from Bank and Branch directors and interviews with key business contacts, economists, market experts, and other sources. The Beige Book summarizes this information by District and sector.
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Economic & Housing Data
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Economic Census Report - Paint and Coating Manufacturing: 2007
The economic census, conducted by the Census Bureau every 5 years (covering years ending in "2" and "7"), is the major source of facts about the structure and functioning of the nation's economy.
This report provides more detail about the coatings industry, not only publishing data on the industry's revenues and shipments, but also such things as total employment, manufacturing operations, payrolls, value added, inventories, etc. It also provides data, in many cases, on a state level (as opposed to aggregated national data).
Economic Indicators.gov
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Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia Business Outlook Survey
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Federal Reserve Economic Data
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FedStats provides a window on the full range of official statistical information available to the public from the Federal Government. It allows users to track economic and population trends, education, health care costs, aviation safety, foreign trade, energy use, farm production, and more and to access official statistics collected and published by more than 100 Federal agencies without having to know in advance which agency produces them.
Highlights from the Preliminary Report on Manufacturers' Shipments, Inventories, and Orders
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Monthly Producer Price Index from the Bureau of Labor Statistics
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Monthly Wholesale Trade Survey
This website provides U.S. Census Bureau data on the wholesale sector.
U.S. Department of Commerce, International Trade Administration
The ITA provides international trade statistics through its TradeStats Express™ website.
U.S. Economic Indicators
Key census bureau area for national economic indicators data. These include links for data on construction, governments, manufacturing, mining, retail trade, services, transportation, wholesale trade, and international trade.


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