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A Chat With Leigh Chapman
December 8, 2010
Leigh Chapman doesn't look like any seventy year-old screenwriter you've ever seen. Auburn-haired and svelte, she arrives for coffee clad in tight jeans, a loose-fitting blouse with only one button fastened, and designer sunglasses. Two young women stop to admire her knee-length boots, which are black and metal-studded. "My Road Warrior boots," she says.
It's apt that Chapman would identify with Mad Max. Her resume reads like a long weekend at the New Beverly, as programmed by Quentin Tarantino. Chapman tackled just about every subgenre now enshrined in grindhouse nostalgia: beach parties (A Swingin' Summer), bikers (How Come Nobody's on Our Side?), car chases (Dirty Mary, Crazy Larry), martial arts (the Chuck Norris campfest The Octagon). She did an uncredited polish on Robert Aldrich's lady wrestler opus, …All the Marbles, and a treatment about a caucasian bounty hunter that morphed into the blaxploitation howler Truck Turner.
"I wrote action-adventure," Chapman says. "I couldn't write a romantic comedy or a chick flick if my life depended on it. I could write a love story, but it would have to be a Casablanca type of love story, and some people would have to die."
Chapman arrived in Hollywood at a time when women fought uphill to succeed as screenwriters, and rarely specialized in masculine genres like westerns and crime pictures. She fled her South Carolina hometown ("a humid, green version of The Last Picture Show") after college and found work as a secretary at the William Morris Agency. Chapman had minored in theater, and the agency sent her out on auditions. She landed a recurring part as the spies' Girl Friday on The Man From U.N.C.L.E. Screen Gems signed her to a six-month contract and cast her as a guest ingenue in episodes of its television series, including The Monkees.
"They thought I was going to be the next Katharine Hepburn," says Chapman. "Of course, they weren't doing any sitcoms that had anything to do with Katharine Hepburn."
Acting wasn't her bag anyway. Congenitally nocturnal, she hated the 5 A.M. makeup calls, and recoiled at the notion of revealing her inner self on the screen. While moonlighting as a typist, Chapman decided she could write scripts as good as the ones she was transcribing. Television jobs came easily. Her favorite shows were those that let her think up clever ways to kill people, like Burke's Law (an exploding tennis ball) and The Wild Wild West (a gatling gun in a church organ).
One of Chapman's last casting calls was for the legendary movie director Howard Hawks. Hawks was instantly smitten. Only years later, after she caught up with Bringing Up Baby and Red River, did Chapman understand that Hawks had seen her as the living embodiment of his typical movie heroine: feminine and pretty, but also tough, fast-talking, and able to hold her own in an otherwise all-male world.
Hawks had a fetish for deep-voiced women, and he started Chapman on the same vocal exercises he had devised to give an earlier discovery, Lauren Bacall, her throaty purr. "I was supposed to press my stomach into an ironing board, to make my voice lower," she remembers. "It only lasted as long as I was pushing myself into the ironing board."
Hawks deemed Chapman hopeless as an actress, but liked the sample pages she gave him. He put her to work on a Vietnam War script (never produced), and for a while Chapman shuttled out to the director's Palm Springs home for story conferences. Finally, Hawks made a tentative pass, and Chapman shied away. "That was the end of it. He had too much pride," she believes, to persist.
Hawks wanted her to write Rio Lobo, the John Wayne western that would be his swan song. Instead, Chapman "dropped out" and moved to Hawaii, where she spent a year lying on the beach and taking acid. It was one of many impetuous, career-altering moves for Chapman. A self-described "adrenaline junkie," she collected dangerous hobbies: motorcycles (Hawks taught her how to ride dirtbikes), fast cars, guns, skiing, and even momentum stock trading, which pummeled her portfolio when the dot-com bubble burst. In 1963, she spent her first paycheck as a professional writer on a Corvette.
Skeptical about commitment and children, Chapman favored passionate but brief affairs, some of them with Hollywood players. Her U.N.C.L.E. co-star Robert Vaughn and the science fiction writer Harlan Ellison are two that she will name for the record. Any time permanence loomed, Chapman bailed – a response more stereotypically associated with the male of the species. "My alter ego is male," she says. It is a credo vital to her writing as well as her personal life. "I decided early on that guys got to have all the fun. Women don't interest me."
Today, Chapman keeps a low profile. She lives alone in a Sunset Boulevard high-rise, drives a vintage Mercedes, and burns off pent-up energy at the gym. It is the lifestyle of a professional assassin awaiting an assignment, although Chapman, at least so far as I know, has never killed anyone. Her final film credit, for the 1990 thriller Impulse (one of her only scripts to feature a female protagonist), preceded a decade of turnaround follies. She was attached briefly to Double Impact, the camp classic in which Jean-Claude Van Damme played butt-kicking twins. The Belgian kickboxer hired her to flesh out another idea ("Papillon, but with gladiatorial combat"), but that script was never made. Later Chapman rewrote the pilot for Walker, Texas Ranger, but she fell out with the showrunners and substituted her mother's name for her own in the credits.
"One day," says Chapman, "I woke up and just said, 'If I write another script, I'll puke.'"
Now she channels her energy into underwater photography, a hobby she took up about five years ago. She hopes to arrange a gallery showing of her photographs, which she alters digitally into exuberant, kaleidoscopic whatsits. Scuba diving began as another kind of thrill for Chapman, but what she loves about it now is the feeling of weightlessness that comes as she drifts among the reefs.
"It's the most serene I will ever get," Chapman muses. "Which is not very."
Above: Leigh in her television debut, an episode of Ripcord ("Million Dollar Drop," 1963). Top: Promotional still from The Man From U.N.C.L.E. (courtesy Leigh Chapman). Photo captions and Ripcord image added on 10/31/13.
Author's note: This piece was commissioned last year by LA Weekly, but spiked after a change in editorship. A longer question-and-answer transcript, focusing more on Chapman's television work, will appear next year in the oral history area of my main site. Below are two of Leigh's underwater photographs, with her titles (and the note that these images have minimal digital manipulation, relative to some of her other work).
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September 7, 2010
John Ford directed a handful of television shows, but the most Fordian television episode I've ever seen is "A Head of Hair," a Have Gun Will Travel from 1960.
Scripted by the unsung master Harry Julian Fink, "A Head of Hair" sends Paladin deep into Indian country to find a long-ago kidnapped white woman, who may or may not have been spotted from a distance by a cavalry officer (George Kennedy). The girl is blonde, but we'll learn that hers is not the head of hair to which the title refers. As a guide, Paladin recruits a white man who used to live as a Sioux, but who is now a destitute alcoholic. The first sparse exchange between them lays out the impossibility of the mission and establishes BJ's quiet self-contempt:
PALADIN: Would a couple of men have any chance at all?
ANDERSON: Men? A couple of Oglala Sioux, maybe. Maybe even me, seven, eight years ago. But you? They'd stake you out between two poles and flay you alive.
But Anderson takes the job because he needs drinking money. The series of tense confrontations with the Nez Perce through which he and Paladin then navigate are not standard cowboys-versus-Indians stuff. They are precise, specific rituals of masculine and tribal pride, none of which take a predictable shape. Because Paladin is a novice among the Nez Perce and Anderson is an expert, Fink has a clever device by which to clue the audience in on what's at stake in each conflict. Gradually, these question-and-answer sessions also disclose a profound philosophical schism between the two men. Paladin is preoccupied with personal honor and ethics, while Anderson is consumed with a self-abasing nihilism. Both are deadly pragmatists, but only one of them will take the scalps of dead braves.
The Nez Perce mission concludes in victory, but it comes with a price. Success turns the two trackers against one another, for reasons that Paladin cannot understand until after violence erupts between them. "Why? Why?" are Paladin's last words to Anderson in "A Head of Hair," and only the answer is the unsatisfactory moral of the story of the scorpion and the frog: because it was in his nature.
Maybe it's a coincidence that "A Head of Hair" falls chronologically between the two John Ford westerns that depict a two-man journey into the wilderness in search of a missing white woman (or women) in the custody of Indians. Both of the films imagine such captivity as a kind of unspeakable horror. "A Head of Hair" doesn't dwell on that aspect of the story, but it does glance at the repatriated Mary Grange (Donna Brooks) long enough to construe her as lost, maybe for good, in the breach between two cultures. Another spare Fink line: "I would have gone with him," Mary says, looking sadly after a departing Anderson. "They say the Sioux are kind to their women."
I haven't yet identified the actor who plays Anderson because that's the blinking neon sign that points to Ford. It is Ben Johnson, the ex-stuntman who was an important member of Ford's "repertory company" during the late forties and early fifties. Johnson delivers what may be his finest performance prior to the Oscar-winning turn in The Last Picture Show: understated, unadorned, just barely hinting at a deep well of sadness and self-loathing. Imagine that line – "maybe even me, seven, eight years ago" – in Johnson's voice and then picture the flicker of a weary smile that goes with it.
There's another Ford fellow-traveler in the mix here, too: the director, Andrew V. McLaglen, was the son of Victor McLaglen, who won an Oscar for The Informer and overlapped with Ben Johnson in two of the Cavalry Trilogy films. McLaglen didn't have Ford's eye but he did get to shoot "A Head of Hair" on location (in Lone Pine?), and frame his actors against the landscape in a way that reminds us the wilderness is part of the story. The precision in McLaglen's compositions match the precision in Fink's scenario; when those three braves whose scalps are about to be up for grabs turn their backs on Paladin, there's room to believe that maybe gunplay really has been avoided. All that's left is something to give "A Head of Hair" some size, and that comes via Jerry Goldsmith's sweeping brass- and woodwind-driven score. It was one of only two that Goldsmith wrote for Have Gun Will Travel.
"A Head of Hair" falls within a string of amazingly strong segments that opened Have Gun's fourth season. There's another Fink masterpiece, "The Shooting of Jessie May," a four-character confrontation that ends in a really shocking explosion of violence; "Saturday Night," a jail-cell locked-room mystery with a dark underbelly; "The Poker Fiend," a study of degenerate gambling with an existential component and a mesmerizing, atypically internal performance from Peter Falk; and "The Calf," a cutting allegory about a man (Denver Pyle, also a revelation) obsessed with the wire fence that marks his territory. Lighter entries like the baseball comedy "Out at the Old Ballpark" and "The Tender Gun," with Jeanette Nolan as a crotchety female marshal under siege (Nolan, like Walter Brennan, had a with-teeth and a without-teeth performance; guess which one this is), are not as strong but they do demonstrate the impressive tonal range of Have Gun. One measure of a great television series – one which The X-Files taught me – is the extent to which it can avoid being the same show each week while still remaining, on a fundamental level, the same show each week.
The source of the fourth-season shot in Have Gun's arm? A new producer and story editor, Frank Pierson and Albert Ruben, took over, and it's not a coincidence that both were superb writers. By that time, the star of the series, Richard Boone, had seized control of it in a way that would soon be common for TV stars but that was unprecedented in 1960.
Boone got to direct a lot of episodes but, more importantly, he had approval over the story content and the behind-the-camera personnel. A snob who thought he should be doing serious acting, not westerns, Boone set out to make Have Gun as un-western a western as possible. That's probably how Pierson and Ruben got their jobs: Boone wanted bosses (or "bosses") who would be down with phasing out the cowboy schtick in favor of broad comedies, existential tragedies, pastiches of Verne and Shakespeare, and so on. Of course, Pierson and Ruben fell out of favor with Boone and he kicked them to the curb after a year or so . . . but that's a story for another day.
Regime change and star ego-trips also characterized Wanted: Dead or Alive in its third and final season. Steve McQueen had always been the whole show, but by 1959, everybody knew he was destined for major stardom, including McQueen himself, who seemed to be using the final run of episodes as a laboratory in which to determine exactly which tics and slouches to incorporate into his definitive screen persona. Wanted: Dead or Alive also got a new producer for its home stretch, a man named Ed Adamson. Supposedly McQueen drove him crazy. Adamson was a prolific writer and, either to save money or time or just because McQueen was all the hassle he could take, he took the unusual step of divvying up all twenty-six of that year's script assignments between himself and one other writer, Norman Katkov.
Katkov was one of my first oral history subjects. Since I published that piece, I've used this blog to weigh in on some of Katkov's work that I hadn't seen at the time of our interview. The most important of the shows that were unavailable to me then was Wanted: Dead or Alive. Katkov's fourteen episodes represent his only sustained work on a series other than Ben Casey, and so I am a little disappointed not to be able to call them another set of overlooked gems. In most cases, without consulting the credits, I'd have a hard time telling which episodes are Katkov's and which were written by Adamson, a straight-arrow action and mystery man.
Katkov managed a couple of idiosyncratic scripts, like "The Twain Shall Meet," in which Josh Randall teams up with a fancy easterner named Arthur Pierce Madison (Michael Lipton). Madison is a journalist, which allows Katkov (a former beat reporter) to get in some knowing gags. Contrary to the usual genre expectation of the western hero's stoic modesty, Josh is intrigued, even flattered, at the prospect of having his exploits recorded for posterity. Mary Tyler Moore has an amusing bit as a saloon girl who's even more dazzled by the prospect of fame. Katkov focuses on the differences in how Josh and Madison make their respective livings: the contrast between physical and intellectual (and, amusingly, steady versus freelance work). In a quiet moment, Madison asks, "Is it all you want?" Josh replies, "Almost." Westerns did not thrive on introspection, so it's a shock to see a show like Wanted: Dead or Alive take a pause to contemplate whether its hero is happy in his work.
Does it seem as if this space circles back sooner or later to a small group of very good writers? I would argue that the history of television circles that way, too. Anthony Lawrence: another oral history subject on whom I've followed up here, first on The Outcasts and now on Hawaii Five-O. Lawrence logged one episode each in the third and fourth season, and the trademarks I described out in my profile are evident in both. There are the show-offy literary allusions: "Two Doves and Mr. Heron" ends with a quote from the Buddha. There is the interest in topical issues, which began on Five-O with the germ-warfare classic "Three Dead Cows at Makapuu" (germ warfare). Lawrence followed that up with scripts on homosexuality (Vic Morrow, fruity in more ways than one, as a whack-job who fondles John Ritter in "Two Doves") and Vietnam ("To Kill or Be Killed").
There is also what may be Lawrence's defining trait as a writer: the unpredictable burst of emotional intensity within otherwise routine material. "To Kill or Be Killed" reminded me of how puzzled I was that the same Outer Limits writer could have come up with both the heart-rending "The Man Who Was Never Born" and the diffident, heavy-handed "The Children of Spider County." In "To Kill or Be Killed," Lawrence caps three hit-or-miss acts of family melodrama (dove son vs. hawk father) with a long, exhausting monologue – a tape-recorded suicide note that plays over horrified reaction shots of the other characters. It might seem like lazy writing, and maybe it was, to withhold all the emotion from a script and then dump it into the final minutes. But I think Lawrence was crazy like a fox. That monologue concerns My Lai (under a different name), something a lot of people watching Hawaii Five-O probably didn't want to hear about, and with his crude structural tactic Lawrence drops the topic in their laps like a turd on the dinner table.
Hawaii Five-O, in its fourth year, is almost exactly the same show as it was in its first. It's still a show that allows for a lot of variety in its formula – or rather, the alternation between six or eight different formulas. Unlike on Wanted: Dead or Alive, one can detect an individual authorial touch in many of the episodes. The lurid pulp shocker "Beautiful Screamer" is pure Stephen Kandel. The dullest espionage outings and the most heavy-handed McGarrett lectures usually trace back to the team of Jerry Ludwig and Eric Bercovici, who, unfortunately, wrote quite a few of each.
One of the most popular Five-Os, "Over Fifty? Steal," falls into this stretch of the series. It was penned by a writer new to the show, E. Arthur Kean. It's a semi-comedy in the cuddly-oldster-as-criminal-mastermind genre, featuring a smug Hume Cronyn as a serial robber who goes out of his way to taunt McGarrett and crew. I like "Over Fifty," but Kean's second script for the series deserves more attention. More diamond-hard than heart-shaped, "Ten Thousand Diamonds and a Heart" is another caper, but played deadly straight this time. It starts with a parking garage prison bust and turns into a jewel heist, which Kean sets up as a battle of wits between another master criminal (Tim O'Connor) and an impregnable high-rise. Kean fusses over the details: scale models, elevator schematics, medication for a bum ticker. Somehow, he makes the minutiae fascinating. They're the diamonds, and the heart is the clash between O'Connor and the "banker" (the guy who's funding the heist) played by Paul Stewart. It's a portrait of two paranoid career criminals who can't trust anyone but themselves, gnashing at each other until they tear their own caper apart.
I had seen a few of Kean's earlier scripts, for The Fugitive and The F.B.I., without having much of a reaction. But the Hawaii Five-Os that mark him down as, in the Sarrisian lexicon, a Subject For Further Research.
Also this year I've watched most of the fourth and penultimate season of NBC's Dr. Kildare, a once near-great doctor drama that slowly turned mushy and bland. Further research department: one of those turkeys marked the prime-time debut, as far as I can tell, of one E. Arthur Kean.
A few fourth-year episodes written by series veterans like Jerry McNeely and Archie L. Tegland still felt the old Dr. Kildare: tough, smart, sagacious. Tegland's "A Reverence For Life" trots out one of the standbys of the medical drama, a story of a patient who refuses life-saving treatment due to her religious convictions. My own inclinations always favor science over superstition; but Dennis Weaver, with his innate humility, is so perfect as the Jehovah's Witness whose wife is dying that I was rooting for him to prevail in his faith.
I am also partial to Christopher Knopf's "Man Is a Rock," a terrifying study of a heart attack victim (Walter Matthau) forced to confront his own mortality, and "Maybe Love Will Save My Apartment House," a zany romp by Boris Sobelman, who wrote a handful of very funny black comedies for Thriller and The Alfred Hitchcock Hour. But Kildare's fourth year includes duds from other good writers, like Adrian Spies (Saints and Sinners) and Jack Curtis (Ben Casey), and that's often a sign of tinkering from upstairs.
By 1964 Richard Chamberlain was one of TV's hottest stars, a heartthrob with a viable recording career. MGM (which produced Dr. Kildare) had cashed in on his popularity by building three medium-budget feature films around him in three years. Both the studio and the network had a big investment in Chamberlain, and I'm guessing that executive producer Norman Felton may have capitulated to pressure to give viewers a maximum dose of Chamberlain romancing and singing. I'm not kidding about the singing: "Music Hath Charms" is a plotless let's-put-on-a-show show about an amateur night for the hospital staff. I can't decide which episode is the series' nadir: "A Journey to Sunrise," a vanity piece that gives Raymond Massey (who co-starred as Kildare's windbag boss Dr. Gillespie) a dual role as a dying Hemingway-esque writer, or "Rome Will Never Leave You," a prophetically titled, turtle-paced three-parter that contrives gooey romances for both Kildare and Gillespie during an Italian business trip.
I've proposed corporate greed as the major cause for the de-fanging of the once sharp Dr. Kildare, but there's also the David Victor factor. In the years before signing on as Norman Felton's right-hand man, Victor was a hack genre writer (with a partner, Herbert Little, Jr., who disappeared after Victor hit the big time). In the years after he and Felton parted ways, Victor copied the Kildare format and quickly ran it into comfortable mediocrity as the head man on Marcus Welby. Was Victor the source of the blandness that set in on Kildare as the show's exec, Norman Felton (by all accounts a discerning producer), turned his attention to developing The Lieutenant and The Man From U.N.C.L.E. Maybe he was just in the wrong place at the wrong time – but if so, Victor was in an even wronger place at an even wronger time a year later, when he moved over to The Man From U.N.C.L.E. as the supervising producer who supervised that show's second- and third-season slide into cringeworthy camp.
The Man From U.N.C.L.E.: When we last checked in on TV's favorite spies, we found a mortified Robert Vaughn frugging with a man in a gorilla suit. I had hoped to follow that cheap shot with a report on how The Man From U.N.C.L.E. rebounded in its final half-season, as new producer Anthony Spinner followed the network's oops-we-fucked-up orders to take out the yuks and put back the action. I'd heard that the fourth season was "too grim," but hey, I like grim. Especially if it's the alternative to Solo and Kuryakin partying with Sonny and Cher or riding on stinkbombs (funny for Kubrick, not for Kuryakin). Grim is good.
Didn't work out that way. The fourth season isn't grim, it's dull. The plots are perfunctory, the characters cardboard, the casting uninspired. The books say that Spinner tried to bring U.N.C.L.E. back to its roots, but the shows play like nobody much cared what went on the screen. I gave up when I got to "The THRUSH Roulette Affair," which rien ne va pluses with one of the laziest deus ex machinas I've ever seen. See, THRUSH baddie is torturing some guy with a machine that figures out the victim's worst fear and then gets him to talk in a room full of (not at all scary) footage of said fear. In this case, the poor sucker is more afraid of being run over by a train. Wouldn't you know it, when the shit hits the fan, the evil scientist bursts out with a clumsy load of exposition: turns out he tested the machine on the main THRUSH baddie (Michael Rennie), and his greatest fear is exactly the same as the other guy's. Two trainophobes in a row! Which means that when the U.N.C.L.E. guys shove Rennie into the scaring-to-death machine, all of that (not at all scary) train stock footage is already cued up!
Usually I don't even notice plot holes but, seriously, this one's just insulting. How could Spinner or the writer (Arthur Weingarten) or the story editor (Irv Pearlberg) not come up with anything better than that? Especially since they swiped the idea from 1984 in the first place?
Another of the fourth season U.N.C.L.E.s spieled some boring Latin American palace intrigue (featuring not-at-all-Latin American Madlyn Rhue), which got me to thinking. The Lieutenant ended by sending its stateside serviceman hero off to die in Vietnam. U.N.C.L.E. should've gone out the same way, with Solo and Kuryakin headed off to Chile to assassinate Salvador Allende. That would've been my kind of grim.
Obituary: Irving Pearlberg (1925-2008)
July 2, 2008
Irving Pearlberg, a television writer and producer active from the mid-sixties through the mid-eighties, died on June 29.
Pearlberg's first TV script, as far as I can determine, was a good Kraft Suspense Theatre from 1964 entitled "Charlie, He Couldn't Kill a Fly." It was about a town loudmouth (Keenan Wynn as Charlie), all bluster and no bite, who finds that after he's accused of murder he wins the attention and respect of neighbors who didn't take him seriously before. Charlie offers a false confession and undergoes a crisis of identity as the authorities come closer to discovering who did the killing.
It was a familiar story that's been done by many a crime show. In fact, one could say that Pearlberg was paid the ultimate compliment when The Defenders telecast a blatant lift of his Kraft script only five months later. That episode, "Hero of the People" (written by Rod Sylvester and William Woolfolk), featured Gerald O'Loughlin as the milquetoast who gains sudden celebrity after killing someone. In both shows, so as not to muddy the ethical issues at hand, the dead man was a drug peddler, the scourge of the community. Also in both, there was the hint that the protagonist's trampy wife/girlfriend (Beverly Garland on Kraft, a young Ann Wedgeworth in The Defenders) was turned on by his act of vigilantism. Pearlberg (or the producers of Kraft Suspense) could have sued – assuming the premise of "Charlie, He Couldn't Kill a Fly" had not itself been borrowed from someplace.
After Kraft Suspense Theatre, Pearlberg quickly moved into staff jobs, working as the associate producer (really a story editor) on the final, serialized season of Dr. Kildare (1965-66) and then moving over to do the same task for The Man From UNCLE (1966-68). Both were MGM shows produced by that studio's main TV guru, Norman Felton. Following the stint for Felton, Pearlberg went freelance, but gravitated toward series in production at Universal's busy TV factory: Ironside, The Name of the Game, The Bold Ones (two episodes of the "Doctors" cycle), Alias Smith and Jones, Columbo. On an unusual number of these segments Pearlberg's name appears atop a group of complex split credits, which suggests to me that he may have enjoyed a reputation as a reliable script doctor.
The family's obit for Pearlberg condenses his resume to "a wide variety of police dramas," which is true – he wrote for The Rookies, Police Woman, Baretta, Eischeid, Paris, Hawaii Five-O, and Quincy – but I would venture this was less a personal specialty than an index of what the market was buying during the seventies. Pearlberg also branched out into comedy (The Courtship of Eddie's Father) and did scripts for two fish-out-of-water shows about transplanted city professionals starting over in the sticks (Apple's Way and The Mississippi). His last credits were on The Paper Chase and Falcon Crest. Pearlberg was a classic example of the all-purpose TV writer.


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Recycling & Waste
Denison has a long legacy of recycling. Started in 1984, the Denison University Recycling Program is still active on campus and works to promote recycling and waste reduction. Around campus, recycling receptacles are available in the campus commons, academic buildings, and behind dormitories.
In 2004, Denison opened the Denison University and Granville Community Recycling Center located on Pearl St. in Granville, Ohio.
What Can Be Recycled at Denison
Denison utilizes single stream recycling on campus and also collects a variety of e-waste.
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Glass Bottles & Jars
Metal Cans
Office Paper (including post-its, envelopes & index cards)
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RecycleManiaAnnually, Denison participates in the national RecycleMania competition. Hundreds of colleges participate annually in the 10 week competition. The goal of Recyclemania is to increase awareness and inspire students to adopt more environmentally sustainable practices. As part of the 2013 competition, students participated in a trash sort to remove recyclable items from one day's trash that were incorrectly thrown away and then displayed them in the student union.
Denison was ranked 43rd nationally with a recycled material amount of 25.00lbs/person and a total of 72,435lbs campus wide.
Denison Office Supply ExchangeEvery year Denison faculty and staff take part in an office supply exchange or "freecycle" where office supplies that are no longer needed in one office or department are exchanged with another office. Items exchanged range from pens, pencils and folders to printer cartridges and desk organizers. By taking part in the exchange, offices are able to save resources and reduce department purchasing for items that are already in stock on campus.
Denison Surplus SaleEach year the Purchasing Office at Denison conducts a surplus sale of used items that the college no longer needs nor intends to use. These items generally include: file cabinets, desks, tables, chairs, bed frames, mattresses, and various other dorm and office materials. Items can be purchased by Denison employees and non-profit organizations that service the local community. The goal of the sale is not necessarily to generate funds, but rather to ensure that usable items are not thrown into the trash or kept in storage until they become too old to be of value. The surplus sale is one of many ways that Denison works towards reducing its waste and impact on the environment.
Operation Move-OutIn an effort to reduce waste and encourage recycling and the reuse of discarded or unwanted items, Denison's Facilities Department organizes two annual events - Operation Move-In and Operation Move-Out.
Operation Move-In occurs in the beginning of the academic year. As students move into their residence halls, they often have extra boxes and bins. Facilities designates areas behind each residence hall to collect these items and and any unwanted items so that they can be donated to charity or recycled.
Operation Move-Out occurs annually at the end of the academic year. Collection tables are placed in every dorm for discarded items that are still usable. Starting on the last day of classes, students can deposit their items in the designated location. Facilities staff and various student volunteers collect the items and bring them to a central storage area on campus. Once collection is complete, local service agencies come and pick up the collected items. This year over 20 organizations came to take items.


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Product development began more than 15 years ago by Irish Veterinarian, Thomas Farrington, MVB MRCVS VetMFHom. We are now one of the world's leading producers of natural solutions for animal care, with products available in 8 countries around the world.
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HomeoPet Anxiety Relief is a homeopathic remedy for relief of general anxiety in pets, including vet/grooming visits, kenneling and shows. Separation from familiar surroundings, introduction of new pets and most stressful situations cause barking, whining, crying, hiding, shaking and feather plucking in birds. Anxiety Relief can lessen or prevent that. Anxiety or anxiety induced conditions: Veterinarian/grooming visits, separation from familiar surroundings, kenneling, shows, rescue patients, lick granulomas, psychogenic alopecia, hysteria-barking or destruction when left alone, crying at night, cystitis and priapism, training classes and feather plucking in birds.
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What is homeopathy?In 1796, a German medical doctor named Samuel Hahnemann discovered the principles of homeopathy. The therapy is based on the theory of "like cures like." That is, if a substance causes a symptom, consuming a very small amount of the same substance may cure the illness by prompting the body's own healing mechanisms to relieve different ailments and return the body to a healthy condition.
How does HomeoPet fit into the concept of homeopathy?HomeoPet is the name of a company that manufactures and promotes a line of combination homeopathic remedies for animals. Accredited and licensed veterinarians, homeopaths, pharmacists and bio-chemists formulated these remedies in Ireland after 12 years of development.
How long have HomeoPet remedies been around?HomeoPet remedies have been under development since 1977 and were introduced into clinics in 1987. In 1994 they were released for commercial sale through veterinary clinics and in 1995 they became available on the market.
Are HomeoPet remedies registered with the FDA?Yes, HomeoPet remedies are registered with the FDA They are also are manufactured under an FDA registered process, in an FDA inspected facility, meeting all GMP (good manufacturing practice) standards.
Are HomeoPet remedies recommended by vets?Yes, HomeoPet remedies are used and recommended by veterinarians on a daily basis in several thousand clinics throughout the USA.
Do you need a prescription for HomeoPet remedies?No, you do not need a prescription for HomeoPet remedies, however HomeoPet recommends that you obtain a diagnosis from your veterinarian and then chose the remedy best suited to your pet's ailments.
Is the alcohol content in the remedies safe?Yes, HomeoPet remedies are preserved in 20% USP alcohol, which is pure ethyl alcohol, used for preserving homeopathics. Because there is only a drop or two of alcohol per dose, most pets will have no response to oral dosing. In rare cases, a cat or dog may be sensitive to alcohol and salivate excessively, or shake his head in response to the alcohol content. This can be alleviated by putting the drops on food/treat and letting it sit for 20 minutes before presenting it to your pet. Alternatively, placing drops in a small amount of water and letting sit for 20 minutes will prevent a reaction.
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Each successive c adds 2 zeros to the end number, making it safer with every c.
Can I use more than one remedy on my pet at a time?Yes, if you are using 2 remedies for the same reason, they may be dosed together. If the remedies are for different ailments, space them 20 minutes apart.
Are there any side effects with HomeoPet remedies?There are no known side effects to date. However, if a pet is susceptible to homeopathy, an improvement may be seen in as little as one dose, and if the remedy is continued at full dosing schedule, an aggravation of symptoms may occur. Ceasing to use remedy will alleviate symptoms. Some pets, especially cats, may salivate excessively, or in very rare cases, throw up. Putting drops on food/treat and letting sit for 20 minutes will prevent such a reaction.
Can HomeoPet remedies be used long term?Yes, there are no negative issues related to using HomeoPet remedies long term. However, if there are no symptoms present, you do not need to continue with a remedy. Some ailments such as joint stress, incontinence or skin & seborrhea require a maintenance dose indefinitely.
How do I open the bottle?HomeoPet remedies have a safety seal which is the round lip at the bottom of the cap. If the cap does not twist off easily, try pushing down on the safety seal to separate it from the cap. This will allow the cap to twist off easily.
How are the remedies dosed?Each remedy comes with detailed dosing instructions inside the box. Please read all instructions before dosing pets.
Will HomeoPet remedies test on my show dog?No, there is nothing in any of the HomeoPet remedies that will show up positive in tests.
About Homeo PetHomeoPet is based in Westhampton Beach, New York, where it continues to develop new solutions to address the needs of patients both old and new, whilst working to continuously improve the effectiveness of its current range. As part of its philosophy of commitment to improving and enhancing patient care, clinical trials are currently underway in the United Kingdom and Australia, with HomeoPet leading the field in this area of research. HomeoPet's goal for the future is to continue to be a world leader in providing safe, natural and effective treatments in the field of animal care.
Now the # 1 veterinary recommended natural therapy, HomeoPet was founded by Daniel H. Farrington to market products formulated by his brother Dr. Thomas J. Farrington. In 1994 HomeoPet filed labels with claims with the FDA CVM, responding to warning letters and requests for additional information HomeoPet produced additional data and materials over 5 years. In 1999 HomeoPet received marketing approval with labeled claims from the FDA – CVM. Anxiety was the first product released, entering the market in 1998. It was the first commercially available product to provide a solution to the problem of anxiety in pets. He continues to improve and expand the HomeoPet range in response to patient needs.
To establish clinical efficacy Daniel joined with his brother the eminent veterinarian Dr. Thomas Farrington M.V.B., M.R.C.V.S., LF Vet Homm, an honors veterinarian with an advanced degree in Veterinary Homeopathy, a degree that is recognized by the Royal College of Veterinarian Surgeons. Utilizing advances in science to analyze results from veterinary clinics and university research programs on three continents, the Farrington brothers developed a new technology, AHPT or Advance Homeopathic Pharmaceutical Technology. A.H.P. Technology addresses the most common conditions seen today as a result of social, economic and environmental changes in the world we live in.
Homeopathy is a natural medicine therapy that has been used for hundreds of years. Utilizing advances in science research began in the 1970's, highly skilled scientists working with a research laboratory identified the purest raw materials; ingredients free of all chemicals, pesticides and fertilizers. The high standards of a dedicated, FDA inspected, manufacturing facility ensures that the finished products are manufactured to standards meeting or exceeding GMP's - Good Manufacturing Practice standards.
HomeoPet LLC is the global leader in researching, developing, licensing and producing AHPT's -Advanced Homeopathic Pharmaceutical Technology-. HomeoPet LLC is the only homeopathic company to have the credentials in original product quality control, in technology development; in funded university based research programs and substantiated levels of product efficacy to meet the growing demand from veterinary clinics and consumers for quality pet health care products with their unsurpassed levels of safety.
Many conditions while not life threatening cause suffering in animals, previous ways of treating were with expensive and often harmful drugs that had significant unwanted side effects. HomeoPet treatments are targeted to provide support to the animals own natural healing system and bring relief without the unwanted side effects. HomeoPet products provide safe, gentle and effective relief to suffering animals.
Remedy may be dosed directly into mouth, in water or on food/treat. Remedy may also be dropped around bedding area 3-5 times daily. The only way to dose birds is adding 1-2 drops to at least 8 oz. of water daily. When improvement is seen, decrease frequency of dosing. If improvement is maintained, stop dosing after 2 days. If symptoms reappear, repeat the original dose.
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About 100 years ago, Greer got lucky. It was already blessed with aspens, ponderosas, meadows and streams — the natural wonders you read about in Robert Frost poetry — but in the early 1900s, the little village was swallowed up by the newly established Apache National Forest. At the time, the appropriation ruffled some feathers, but looking back, that move by the federal government ensured that Greer and its surroundings would be spared from overdevelopment. It got lucky.
Today, Greer is synonymous with the middle of nowhere. It's the rustic heart of the White Mountains — the place people go to get away from it all. Of course, the lack of development means limited overnight accommodations, but there are a few options, and one of the best is Hidden Meadow Ranch.
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Originally homesteaded by an old-timer named Chellis Hall, the ranch features a large main lodge and 12 log cabins made from hand-peeled blue spruce. All of the cabins include a living room/dining area with a wood-burning stone fireplace; bathrooms with slate countertops and oversized soaking tubs; a covered porch overlooking the meadow; bedrooms outfitted with Spring Air pillow-top mattresses; hand-carved wood furniture; and XM satellite radio. This isn't Little House on the Prairie. This is the lap of luxury.
The same theme dominates the main lodge, where the seasonal gourmet menu incorporates fresh ingredients and features entrees like achiote-marinated elk tenderloin and pan-seared crab cakes. It's haute cuisine, which is about the last thing you'd expect in this neck of the woods. What's more, the atmosphere of the lodge makes it even better. There's knotty pine from floor to ceiling, 20-foot picture windows, through which you can see a billion stars, and a 35-foot granite fireplace. About halfway up the façade is a mounted elk shot by supermarket magnate Eddie Basha, a friend of the original owner.
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UBS fined $47.6 million for unauthorized trades
London, United Kingdom (4E) – Swiss bank UBS was fined with £29.7m ($47.6m) by the Financial Services Authority (FSA) for letting former trader Kweku Adoboli lose the company more than $2bn.
In a statement released on Monday, the FSA cited the bank's weak systems and controls as reason that allowed Adoboli to rack up $2.3bn of losses.
The investigation, which was conducted by the FSA and Swiss regulator Finma, revealed serious weaknesses in UBS.
Failings in UBS's systems and controls exposed serious weaknesses in the bank's procedures, internal controls and management systems, according to the FSA.
Tracey McDermott, director of FSA's enforcement and financial crime, blamed the firm's defective controls for the significant trading loss which is now the biggest in UK's history.
Because UBS decided to settle early with regulators, the fine was lowered from £42.4m although it had been speculated to reach as high as £50m.
Since the losses were discovered, UBS took several changes including fixes in its financial reporting.
Last week, Adoboli was convicted of two counts of fraud and received a seven-year prison sentence.
The trader was accused of undertaking unauthorized trades that exceeded risk limits. Adoboli kept his exposure using fictitious hedges and hid his earnings so that he could transfer them into his official accounts.
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part of crucial experiments involving key scientists in their
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system, cosmology, and many more topics related to astronomy and
space science. Digital resources that have significant and
long-lasting value are cataloged and stored in the digital
collections database, along with the necessary copyright
permissions. Assets from our collection grace exhibit components,
where they offer visual interpretations and the basis for ongoing
dialogue with our visitors.
In 2001, a citizen science effort included a system
of allsky cameras, many mounted on the rooftops of schools around
the state and one atop the Museum, their purpose is to record the
appearance of bright fireballs in the night sky so that the
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perhaps found. In addition to helping locate fresh meteorite
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The Newsroom is a physical location, a place inside the Museum with the necessary equipment and resources, where staff and volunteers research, prepare and deliver up-to-date astronomy and space science content to the floor of Space Odyssey.
The Newsroom team includes Collections Manager, Marta Lindsay, Content Specialist, Dr. Dimitri Klebe and Newsroom Manager, Kim Evans; in addition, the two Space Sciences curators (Steve Lee and Ka Chun Yu) act in advisory, content review, and volunteer/staff training capacities as needed. They work together with the Newsroom volunteers to deliver topical and exhibit resources, ranging from spaceflight missions and science news, to astrobiology and supernova, to the importance of infrared light in the study of astronomy. This content is made available to Galaxy Guides via the Galaxy Guide Web Portal or as high resolution images and movies for the exhibit screens and interactives. Context, usage, and focus can change over time by virtue of changing gallery programming, targeted facilitation, and the flexibility of digital media. The challenge for the Newsroom team is to provide the volunteer Galaxy Guides with the resources they need to provide spontaneous and engaging conversations with Museum visitors on a daily basis.
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Scientists from the Space Sciences Department at the Denver Museum of Nature & Science take you "behind the stories" using the best images and animation available to help understand the latest developments.
August 2014 – Dr. Dimitri Klebe recently attended the SPIE conference, the international society for optics and photonics, and brings you the best of the lectures he attended. He talks about the largest observatories currently in operation and those in the coming decades.
Dr. Ka Chun Yu talks about new findings from a NASA-funded instrument that have resolved a decades-old puzzle about a fog of low-energy X-rays observed over the entire sky. Known as the Local Hot Bubble or LHB, scientists have been in disagreement about whether these x-rays emanated from within our solar system or was the result of interactions with the passing solar wind.
Links to Dimitri's stories: James Webb Space Telescope Square Kilometre Array First Light for MUSE Rosetta Mission Links to Ka Chun's story: NASA-funded X-ray Instrument Settles Interstellar Debate Evidence for Supernovas Near Earth
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In his classic book, "Common Stocks And Uncommon Profits," Philip Fisher describes the attributes of a great investment, one that will return hundreds of percent in gains to its investors.
One of his main principles to look for in a winning stock is how much the prospective company spends on research and development (R&D). He explains that the only way an investor can realistically expect consistent gains over ten or twenty year periods is if he invests in companies with a strong emphasis on R&D. These companies will always try to stay ahead of the game by developing state-of-the-art technology with state-of-the-art tools.
Where it really counts
Spending on R&D is important in all sectors, be it auto manufacturing, entertainment, or consumer staples. But most all of, it's absolutely essential in the pharma and healthcare sectors. That's because a company that doesn't invest sufficiently in R&D simply won't have a pipeline of new medicines five years down the road.
For pharma companies, investing in R&D literally means investing in the company's lab. And that's why it pays to monitor these exceptional companies that invest heavily in R&D. It's equally important to not only look at the absolute dollar numbers of R&D spending, but to also consider them as percentage of sales. This way, you even the playing field for large and small companies alike.
The superior R&D spenders
The diagnostics division of Roche (NASDAQOTH: RHHBY)) is the biggest R&D spender out there. The maker of Herceptin forked out $1.08 billion in 2012, up from $978 million in 2011. This R&D investment equates to 10% of the company's sales. This is a very high figure, both in absolute terms and in relation to other peers.
Roche can invest so much in R&D because it's flush with cash. Cash flow from operating activities in 2012 totaled $16.5 billion, up from $13.8 billion in 2011. That's an impressive 20% in growth in cash flow from operations. Shares are fairly priced at a forward price-to-earnings of 15x and a price-to-sales of 4.5x.
A second prominent R&D spender is Agilent Technologies (NYSE: A). Agilent spent $668 million on R&D in 2012, which represented 9.7% of its total sales. The company designs and manufactures electronic and bio-analytical measurement instruments and equipment for measurement and evaluation. It's the "blue chip" of the measurement devices sector.
Agilent is a cash generating machine. It made $1.2 billion in cash flow from operations in 2012, up from $720 million in 2010. That's a whopping 66% increase in cash flow from operations in only two years. Shares are modestly cheap, trading at a forward price-to-earnings of 14x and price-to-sales of 2.5x.
Becton Dickinson (NYSE: BDX) was the third largest R&D spender in 2012. The maker of needles and medical syringes spent $472 million on R&D in 2012, which represented 6.1% of total sales. Becton has been gradually improving its cash generation over the years. It made $1.7 billion in cash from operations in 2012, up from $1.5 billion in 2010. It's worth noting that shares of Becton are up 36% since the end of 2012, but are still fairly priced at a forward price-to-earnings of 16x and price-to-sales of 2.5x.
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R&D spending doesn't have a color. Some companies invest heavily in products which don't have any direct business relationship to the products that are already within the business scope of the company. The investing community coins this term a "diworsification."
When a successful watch company thinks that it can also manufacture refrigerators, this usually doesn't end very well for the company's shareholders. That's why, it's also important to pay attention where the R&D money is going.
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To invest in companies that are heavy R&D spenders is to invest in the future. That's because these companies are more than likely to become the leaders of their industry. If you're aiming for consistent long-term profits, rather than one-time gains, you should consider the R&D clause to be your best guiding friend, especially in the pharma sector.
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It may be too cold to play but that didn't stop local golf enthusiasts from getting together this weekend.
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Vendors had equipment and apparel for sale. Also, show-goers could book golf trips or arrange early tee-times at area courses.
There were even professional golfers offering tips.
"In Northwest Ohio and Southeast Michigan golf is huge. We have the most golf holes per capita than anywhere in the country. We're spoiled by the amount of golf you can see and play and we want to get more people to play more golf," said Andrew Brown, of the Toledo Golf Show.
More than 50 vendors took part at the event.
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