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	2006 Press Release - 1200 Town Hall Meetings To Confront Underage Drinking as National Problem
		The town hall meetings are spearheaded by a Federal Interagency Coordinating Committee on the Prevention of Underage Drinking, chaired by the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA), in partnership with state and local agencies and organizations.
		Meetings are being held in all 50 states, four territories, and the District of Columbia.
		The town hall meetings are supported by the involvement of a growing number of governors and state first ladies, many of whom have championed the effort to reduce and prevent underage drinking in their states.
	www.samhsa.gov /news/newsreleases/060328_townhall.htm (923 words)

	Town Hall Meetings Fact Sheet
		Iraqi officials presided over Baghdad's first formal town hall meeting January 28, offering citizens of the Iraqi capital their first opportunity to come together in a citywide forum to discuss issues related to the democratization process and the transition of sovereignty to an Iraqi government.
		The meetings typically feature a panel of leaders from the local and national levels who are in positions to field questions from the audience about political, legal and community issues.
		Past town hall meetings have addressed issues ranging from the role of Islam in the new government to the potential for U.N. involvement in the transition process and the role of women in the political process.
	www.cpa-iraq.org /pressreleases/20040127_town_hall.html (344 words)

	Town Hall Meetings in Wales (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		Town Hall meetings are intended to allow citizens to voice their ideas and concerns on specific issues related to European Union affairs, and to allow the European Commission to hear what citizens wish to say.
		Meetings will be organised in the early evening to allow people to be able to attend after work or school and will, where possible, be held in central locations that are easily accessible.
		Meetings will be announced in advance, and a preliminary registration through website, fax or mail is requested, in order to allow us to organise meeting room facilities of an appropriate size.
	europa.eu.int /unitedkingdom/about_us/office_in_wales/town_hall_en.htm (930 words)

	Town Hall Meetings
		Every year Frank Lucas conducts town hall meetings in all counties in his congressional district to give his constituents an opportunity to meet with the congressman.
		Lucas meets with constituents at a town meeting in Weatherford
		These town meetings represent only a portion of the 50-plus town meetings Congressman Lucas holds each year on average.
	www.house.gov /lucas/services_townhall.htm (217 words)

	Town hall meetings on same sex marriage - Interim, Sept 2003
		The meeting was called to warn Christians about the dangers of "hate speech" Bill C-250 which is due to be voted on in parliament on or around Sept. 18.
		Hamel comments, "The meetings are very easy to organize since we advertise among the church community, and usually the venue is given free of charge.
		Political influence is hard to gauge, but since the two meetings in the Niagara region it would appear that all four of the MPs there are now supporters of traditional marriage.
	www.theinterim.com /2003/sept/07townhall.html (603 words)

	NORA : Town Hall Meetings \| CDC/NIOSH
		The town hall meetings attracted a diverse range of participants and viewpoints.
		Meeting content varied between an entirely regional focus to a combination of regional and sector specific sessions.
		Details of each meeting, including the partners, agenda, and verbatim transcripts are available.
	www.cdc.gov /niosh/nora/townhall/default.html (235 words)

	TOWN HALL MEETINGS ON GLOBAL WARNING (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		These meetings will serve as a wake-up call to the dire nature of the global problem and to the local manifestations which are becoming increasingly apparent.
		The meetings would also serve as an educational forum on causes and solutions, and as a springboard to motivate, initiate and assist with local actions.
		In many smaller towns these meetings might indeed take place in the Town Hall, equally appropriate, especially in cities, will be neighborhood community centers, schools, mosques, synagogues, churches and other public meeting spaces.
	www.climatecrisiscoalition.org /town_hall_meetings.html (333 words)

	Why Town Hall Meetings? (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		Town Hall Meetings offer people in every state an opportunity to participate publicly in dialogue and action that brings the Universal Declaration to life, illuminating both the Declaration’s meaning to their own communities and its power as a framework for international outcry.
		Town Hall Meetings provide both the impetus and the mechanism for collaboration among many voices to demonstrate the breadth, diversity and home-grown American character of the constituency supporting the Universal Declaration.
		Town Hall Meetings provide an opportunity to gather long-time leaders in the human rights movement with others who are engaging with the movement and its founding document for the first time - an unprecedented gathering of old and new voices, a powerful and lasting collaboration.
	www.udhr.org /TownHall/whytownhall.htm (316 words)

	Town Hall Meetings \| The Nonprofit Congress (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		Town Hall Meetings are a signature of the Nonprofit Congress.
		The Town Halls are summarized in the state reports and the Nonprofit Congress National Meeting Briefing Book, a summary of the key aspirations, obstacles, and solutions to challenges faced by nonprofits.
		Delegates to the first-ever Nonprofit Congress National Meeting held on October 16-17, 2006 in Washington, DC used this vital information from grassroots nonprofits to determine the three Top Priorities of the sector and begin drafting their state action plans.
	www.nonprofitcongress.org /townhalls.htm (277 words)

	Congressman Brad Sherman :: Representing the 27th District of California :: Town Hall Information
		The meetings are an opportunity to discuss issues facing Congress, including the Medicare prescription drug benefit, homeland security, education, and other issues.
		Congressman Sherman’s most recent town hall meeting may be watched by cable television viewers in the Los Angeles area with access to the “On Demand” feature.
		The complete town hall meeting is available free of charge to Time Warner Cable digital subscribers throughout the San Fernando Valley and all of Southern California.
	www.house.gov /sherman/town_hall.shtml (214 words)

	National Family Caregivers Association (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		NFCA hosted a series of Town Hall Meetings in a number of cities to give family caregivers the opportunity to hear from community leaders and to express their feelings and concerns about critical issues facing them and their families.
		The meeting combined all the ideas expressed at the regional meetings and brought national attention to the burgeoning family caregiver movement.
		Leading up to the meeting, NFCA along with other healthcare and family caregiver advocates developed Family Caregiving and Public Policy: A Statement of Principles.This document presents eight principles for underpinning future state and federal policy that can have an impact on family caregivers and their loved ones.
	www.thefamilycaregiver.org /empowerment/townhall.cfm (316 words)

	Town Hall Meetings -- Secretary's Commission on Opportunity in Athletics
		The general public is invited to attend each of the Town Hall meetings.
		Each Town Hall meeting will include three panels composed of four invited speakers to make statements on the various topics addressed in the commission's charter.
		The second meeting in Chicago will primarily focus on Title IX as it relates to High Schools and Junior Colleges; however there will be an opportunity to comment on Title IX in general.
	www.ed.gov /about/bdscomm/list/athletics/thm.html (581 words)

	Town Hall Meetings Tackle Underage Drinking
		The meetings, held in conjunction with Alcohol Awareness Month, were sponsored by the federal Interagency Coordinating Committee for the Prevention of Underage Drinking, which sponsored a pair of regional trainings to help local communities get the meetings off the ground.
		Typically, meetings were designed to explore the extent of underage drinking in local communities, portraying youth alcohol use as an overlooked problem and using testimony from teens, police, educators, and others to raise awareness.
		A number of the town-hall meetings succeeded in generating broad community interest: two local TV stations covered a March 28 meeting held in Albuquerque, N.M., led by first lady Barbara Richardson, for example, and the event was front-page news in some local papers.
	www.jointogether.org /news/features/2006/town-hall-meetings-tackle.html (1275 words)

	Town Hall
		Town Hall events are online audio events, where the audio from the Town Hall discussions is streamed through an audio file that members of the eBay Community can listen to through the Internet.
		The questions addressed during a Town Hall event reflect the issues that were most frequently asked about in the pre-submitted and live questions.
		Each Town Hall event is a made available via a streaming audio file that you can listen to from your computer.
	www.ebay.com /townhall (773 words)

	Town Hall Meetings at St. Mary's University
		The town hall meeting is intended to be a place for conversation, an experience of dialogic community, a chance to speak to each other, and to listen to each other, about things that matter to us.
		Although the town hall meeting is not the place for either problem-solving or decision-making, it is a time in which we can discuss important issues.
		All members of the faculty and staff are invited to suggest topics for the town hall meeting dialogue.
	www.stmarytx.edu /town_hall (200 words)

	Young People For: Town Hall Meetings
		Town hall meetings range from conversations with members of Congress on healthcare and education funding to discussions with young candidates about their campaign experiences.
		Town hall calls have included interactive discussions with presenters on topics including the Supreme Court, women's rights, international human rights and civil liberties.
		On average, town hall meetings last for one hour and include presentations and participant questions.
	www.youngpeoplefor.org /leadership/townhall (161 words)

	PUBPAT News > PUBPAT Questions Openness and Objectiveness of "Town Hall" Meetings on Patent Reform
		NEW YORK -- The Public Patent Foundation ("PUBPAT") has questioned the objectiveness and openness of today's "Town Hall" meeting on patent reform held in San Jose, CA and the future "Town Hall" meetings on patent reform to be held March 4 in Chicago and March 18 in Boston.
		The "Town Hall" meetings are being administered by the American Intellectual Property Law Association ("AIPLA"), an association of patent attorneys.
		AIPLA is limiting participation in the "Town Hall" meetings and charging an entry fee of between $60 and $265 to any one who wishes to attend the meetings to voice their concerns regarding the patent system.
	www.pubpat.org /Town_Hall_Meetings.htm (460 words)

	Town Hall Meetings \| XML Conference & Exposition 2005 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		The deadline for town hall submissions has passed and the PC has decided which proposals will receive a speaking slot.
		The Purpose of the town hall meeting is to provide a venue that allow all attendees (and non-attendees) the opportunity to voice their opinion on controversial topics in the XML community.
		To Organize a town hall meeting volunteer to be a facilitator and submit a topic along with three starter questions you would ask the audience to get the discussion going.
	2005.xmlconference.org /participation/townhallmeetings (188 words)

	Underage Drinking Prevention: Town Hall FAQs
		The Underage Drinking Prevention: Town Hall Meetings are part of a national effort to increase understanding and awareness of underage drinking and its consequences, and to encourage individuals, families, and communities to address the problem.
		These local Underage Drinking Prevention: Town Hall Meetings will give local communities the opportunity to come together to learn more about the new research on underage drinking and its impact on both individuals and the community, and to discuss how their community can best prevent underage alcohol use.
		These Town Hall Meetings are designed to alert and empower the community as well as generate interest from the media.
	www.stopalcoholabuse.gov /townhall (311 words)

	Town Hall Meetings - Norfolk, VA
		The meetings come on the tenth anniversary of Neighbors All: A Conversation about Our Community and its Future, and offer a continuation of the spirit and momentum established by that initiative.
		We are “One City, Many Neighborhoods,” and the purpose of these meetings is to seek citizen input on issues of interest and concern as they relate to the City overall, the respective wards and downtown.
		These will be working meetings with participants broken into small groups so that everyone has a fair chance to participate.
	www.norfolk.gov /Town_Hall_Meetings/default.asp (139 words)

	Attend a Town Hall \| The Nonprofit Congress (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		If you are hosting a town hall meeting and don't see it on the list, add your meeting to our list.
		If there is no town hall meeting scheduled for your area, find out how to host your own town hall or contact your state association to see if one is being planned.
		A Town Hall meeting was held in South Carolina in July.
	www.nonprofitcongress.org /attend.htm (803 words)

	Truthdig - Reports - Bush Outsources Town Hall Meetings to India
		The controversial decision to outsource town hall meetings to India was not motivated by the increasingly acrimonious tone of citizens’ questions in recent weeks, the president said.
		At a town hall meeting today in Dayton, Ohio, attendees were surprised to be greeted not by the president but instead by a speaker box onstage leading them through a series of automated prompts.
		The town hall meeting was then conducted by a disembodied voice that identified itself only as “Rajiv” and attempted to answer the audience’s questions on a host of issues.
	www.truthdig.com /report/item/20060327_borowitz_bush_outsource (779 words)

	[No title] (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		PFP town hall meetings are invaluable networking opportunities with some of the best financial planners in
		town hall meetings when they are held throughout the year.
		Information on scheduled town hall meetings will be available in the electronic
	pfp.aicpa.org /Events/PFP+Town+Hall+Meetings.htm?PrinterFriendly=true (50 words)

	Town Hall Guide
		The Town Hall Meetings are part of a national effort to increase understanding and awareness of underage drinking and its consequences, and to encourage individuals, families, and communities to address the problem.
		These local Town Hall Meetings will give communities the opportunity to come together to learn more about the new research on underage drinking and its impact on both individuals and the community, and to discuss how their community can best prevent underage alcohol use.
		Go to Town Hall Materials for a guide on how to hold a 'town hall' meeting on underage drinking and other resources, including downloadable public service announcements from the Ad Council created for the national media campaign: Start Talking Before They Start Drinking.
	www.nc4hc.org /townhall.htm (659 words)

	Christine L. Sundt: Been There, Done That!
		At the conclusion of the meetings, three guideline documents emerged from their subcommittees: Educational Multimedia, Distance Education, and Digital Images, while three others were abandoned in committee before they reach final form: Electronic Reserve Systems, Interlibrary Loan and Document Delivery, and Use of Computer Software in Libraries.
		The Town Hall Meetings, the brainchild of Susan Ball of CAA and Doug Bennett then of ACLS, commenced with the CAA annual conference in New York in 1996 and continued with help from both the Kress Foundation and NINCH in Indianapolis, Portland, Atlanta (AAM), and Toronto (CAA).
		Corel, he affirmed that "a photograph of a public domain art work cannot be copyrighted (based on lack of originality), so this would not be an infringement." He continued, however, to caution the artist that this didn't mean that someone might not attempt to sue her, purporting to own copyright in the image.
	darkwing.uoregon.edu /~csundt/copyweb/CAAcls.htm (3373 words)

	Delta's Town Hall Meetings
		Late last winter our phones began ringing off the hook with hunters asking “where were the ducks?” After receiving so many calls we decided to revive our earlier “town hall meetings”, hitting the road to visit with hunters about the challenges facing ducks and Delta’s vision for keeping our rich waterfowling heritage alive.
		Mossy Oak graciously agreed to underwrite the cost of the meetings and cover our gumbo bills, and the three musketeers were on the road again.
		Some of their questions were off-the-wall and some were challenging, but all attendees had one thing in common: An in-the-gut passion for ducks and duck hunting.
	www.deltawaterfowl.org /magazine/2004_03/03_THM.php (1558 words)

	Action to Reduce Regulatory Burden: Main Page
		A series of Town Hall Meetings was held in several cities across the country to provide the public with an opportunity to comment on quantifying the economic impact of major federal regulations governing the health care industry.
		Commenters were requested to provide an estimate of the economic impact of health care regulations, guidance documents, or paperwork requirements, and also to describe the methods they use to calculate the economic impact of the regulations.
		Findings from the Town Hall Meetings and other written comments will be synthesized and included in a report to Congress.
	aspe.hhs.gov /arrb (288 words)

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