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Join The Arbor Day Foundation

If you love trees, but for any number of reasons, you’ve never joined this national organization dedicated to inspiring people to plant trees, here’s your chance. “What’s in it for me?” you may ask. Well, check this out: the foundation is doing a promotion through which anyone who joins during the month of August will receive not one, not two, but 10 flowering dogwood trees. The trees will be shipped postpaid at the right time for planting in each member's area, which will fall between Oct. 15 and Dec. 10. The 6- to 12-inch trees are guaranteed to grow or they will be replaced free of charge. New members will also receive “The Tree Book,” which includes information about tree planting and care. Membership is $10 but for 10 trees and a book, that’s a bargain. Join online at arborday.org/august.

Visit Charleston, “No. 2” City

Charleston, S.C. is embracing its “No. 2” ranking among cities in the United States and Canada. Now attractions, hotels and restaurants in the city, ranked No. 2 last month in Travel and Leisure magazine's list of the top cities in the United States and Canada, are offering specials that cheekily incorporate the number 2 in their marketing campaigns. They include a “2 is better than 1” special at the King Charles Inn, where rooms are priced at $222 a night. All of the specials are listed at www.Come2Charleston.com .

Those who still want to book a summer getaway should consider this beautiful city, about 10 hours’ drive from Elkton.

Watch “Shark Week”

Just when you thought it was safe to go out in the water, this annual Discovery Channel series puts the “What’s that? No seriously – what just swam past my leg?” back into you. SNL’s Andy Samberg is acting as the channel’s “Chief Shark Officer” this week, hosting segments to air throughout the week, and special TV shows will include “Rogue Sharks” (tonight at 9), “Summer of the Shark” (tonight at 10), “Killer Sharks” (tomorrow night at 9), “How Sharks Hunt” (Wednesday night at 9), and “Shark City” (Thursday night at 9). Check out http://dsc.discovery.com/tv/shark-week/ for a full TV schedule and interactive, shark-friendly games like Shark Yourself and Shark Munch.

Read “Rules Of Civility”

Amor Towles whips up a riveting tale of high-society trickery for those itching to fill the “Mad Men” void this summer. It tells of Katey Kontent, daughter of Russian immigrants who seeks an entrée into New York’s upper crust. She starts out working as a secretary and soon works her way up the ladder to become editor at a fashion magazine. Along the way, she meets Tinker Grey, a man who will change her life forever. The story takes a few hints from “The Great Gatsby,” a few more from “Breakfast at Tiffany’s,” but it’s still intriguing and wholly readable.

Absolutely MAD Magazine – 50+ Years Reviews | All ... - DVD to iPad

Lastly, from a former printer, the register is not always great, as if they used poorly printed pages here and there. Print colors bleed. However, buy this one; it will not get any better. Find someone who has the old audio inserts or the original programs. Or, maybe I missed it, but dagnabit! I sure looked for them boogers. [Added] After more looking, they actually show the vinyl record and its reverse side, which is blank, but do not have the sound files. I don’t really care about the extras like Spy animations that were not part of the original issues, especially when they leave out a key essential as a vocal version of a classic parody that WAS part of the originals.

Wow. To think I have box after heavy box filled with old MAD Magazines in my house and even that only goes back to the 80s. Now I can toss all those out and just have everything on one coaster sized DVD (yes it is on one DVD desipite it mentioning two somewhere above). But just kidding, I could never part with my paper copies, but still this DVD is a MUST HAVE for any MAD fan. I mean it has every single issue up through 2005 on it (so it is one year shy of being totally complete, but I guess they had to draw the line somewhere). Still 52 years of a magazine on one DVD is pretty darn impressive.

It is easy to get started too. Nothing to really install. After upgrading to Adobe 7.0 which is suggested, I was on my way. The interface is simple, you simply start with the decade you want, then narrow it down to a year, and then are presented with all the covers for the choices for that year. The regular issues are on the left and the specials on the right. I am not a huge fan of Adobe usually, but for this sort of product it does the job. It is easy enough to move pages, zoom in, etc. However I didn’t realize everytime I’d look at a new issue, it opened a new tab on my bottom task bar. I must have had 30+ tabs open at one point. Oh well, such MADness. The way the Super Specials and other reprint issues are handled is OK. Instead of being able to flip through all 100 pages in a row like with the regular issues, you are only given the cover, contents, and any pages that were NEW material. All the previously reprinted material is available by clicking the link in the table of contents and you are taken to the issue it first appeared to view it that way. I suppose that makes sense rather than double and triple printing articles to save space. But just be aware, you can’t page through the specials like you can the regular issues. The few Color Classics issues from the 90s and 2000s are intact however as those reprints were “new” since they were in color for the first time. Oh and on the regular issues you can also click on the content page listing to be taken right to a particualr article which is handy.

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