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Book on Local Printing and Publishing to be Printed Locally: Partnership Announced

by msquare | Books

The Brattleboro Words Project is proud to formally announce two new partnerships in the publishing and printing of the much anticipated book, “Print Town: Brattleboro’s Legacy of Words.”

In a culmination of three-years’ of dedicated work, the book, due out this fall, will be published by the Vermont Historical Society, Inc. and printed by Howard Printing in Brattleboro.

BCTV Schedules – Week of October 12, 2020

by BCTVProg | Media

BCTV Channel 8 / 1075 schedule for the week of 10/12/20

Monday, October 12, 2020

4:00 am Education and Enrichment for Everyone – Votes… for Women?
5:00 am Yestermorrow Fall Speaker Series – Art as Story Through an Indigenous Lens
6:00 am The News Project – Press Pass – Xander Landen and Kit Norton
6:30 am The News Project – In Studio – A Conversation with Scott Milne
7:00 am All Things LGBTQ – Interview Show 9/29/20

The New Meaning of Life

by RDavis | Sci-Tech

This past week Emmanuelle Charpentier and Jennifer Doudna were awarded the Nobel prize in chemistry for their work on gene editing relating to something called CRISPR. In order to understand what CRISPR is requires a quick lesson in genetics.

CRISPR is an acronym for Clustered Regularly Interspaced Short Palindromic Repeats. But first the basics. Our genetic material is contained in 23 pairs of chromosomes found in each cell in our body. Half of each pair comes from each parent. Genes are the pieces of DNA inside the chromosomes that define the characteristics of an organism.

BCTV Schedules Week of October 5, 2020

by BCTVProg | Media

BCTV Channel 8 / 1075 schedule for the week of 10/5/20

Monday, October 5, 2020

4:15 am The Rhema Word – A Spiritual Revival is Coming
5:00 am The News Project – In Studio – A Conversation with Scott Milne
5:29 am The News Project – Press Pass – Xander Landen and Kit Norton
6:00 am Brattleboro Rotary Club Speaker Series – Episode 18 – Sophia Howlett
6:40 am Meet the Candidates – Sen. Jeanette White, Candidate for State Senator WDH
7:00 am Meet the Candidates – Peter Welch, Candidate for Representative to Congress (D)

What Does The US Flag Stand For?

by spoon | Philosophy

What does the US flag stand for? As far as all of the values of democracy and rights values are concerned we could more be flying a Swedish or French or any number of sovereign flags that would be better representative. Values these days seem to be changing every day and becoming more and more difficult to name and provide evidence. At this point, with our very uncertain future unfolding before us, the US flag may only be representing a certain defined physical territory that our government believes it is legitimately allowed to control and defend. Our fifty states and our several colonies. (The mere fact that we still have colonies, Puerto Rico being the major, immediately throws our supposed values into question). I believe that our real values are reflected in the way we live. We may have a good selection of moral values on paper but they only apply to those who have the money or other means to access them. It was set up this way from the very beginning (using our constitutional convention in 1788 as the beginning) when access to rights, security, comfort was tied to citizenship and private property of which wealth alone is a major part. From day one money and power swamped democracy.

BCTV Schedules – Week of September 28, 2020

by BCTVProg | Media

BCTV Channel 8 / 1075 schedule for the week of 9/28/20

Monday, September 28, 2020

4:00 am Keeping Up with Senior Solutions – Episode 10 – Pati Kimball
4:33 am Spotlight – Okemo Resort’s Upcoming Season
5:00 am Meet the Candidates – Cris Ericson, Candidate for State Auditor (PROG) 9/2/20
5:20 am Meet the Candidates – Cris Ericson, Candidate for Attorney General (PROG) 8/23/20
5:51 am Poems to Live By – OnLiving by Nazim Hikmet
6:00 am Meet the Candidates – Emily Peyton, Candidate for Governor (Truth Matters)
6:30 am Meet the Candidates – Pamala Smith, Candidate for Secretary of State (I)

BCTV Schedules – Week of September 21, 2020

by BCTVProg | Media

BCTV Channel 8 / 1075 schedule for the week of 9/21/20

Monday, September 21, 2020

4:30 am Slow Living Summit – Finance Farming 6/9/20
6:00 am The Mural – A Film by Matt Kelly – The Mural – A Film by Matt Kelly
8:00 am Democracy Now! – Democracy Now! Daily Broadcast
9:00 am Here We Are – with guest Mike Fitzgerald
9:30 am Community Forum – The Politics of Debt and the Green New Deal 8/31/20

For the Amusement of Petitioners

by Lise | Creative, Culture

Leafing through an old notebook, I found this poem by myself called Petitioning. It was written a long time ago in 2005 but despite the issues being 15 years out of date, it still made me laugh. If you’ve ever petitioned, you might get a chuckle too….

BCTV Schedules – Week of September 14, 2020

by BCTVProg | Media

BCTV Channel 8 / 1075 schedule for the week of 9/14/20

Monday, September 14, 2020

4:30 am All Things LGBTQ – News 8/25/20
5:30 am Doing Life – 202 – Culture in the Verse
6:15 am The Loons At Lowell Lake – Jane MacKugler
7:00 am GMALL Lectures – “Women Take Wilson”
8:00 am Democracy Now! – Democracy Now! Daily Broadcast
9:00 am Brattleboro Historical Society presents – John Carnahan and the Brattleboro Historical Society Origins Story

On Reading All of The Decameron

by Lise | Books, Culture

There are a number of conundrums about Boccaccio’s Decameron – a collection of bawdy tales set in the Plague year of 1348 – that can’t be solved by reading it. How was it written? Why was it written? For whom was it written? And what has made it so enduring?

For starters, we know that it was written between 1349 and 1353 – nearly 100 years before the invention of the printing press, meaning that all 600 printed pages were originally hand-written with a quill pen. Furthermore, it contains precisely 100 “tales,” plus another dozen or so interstitial chapters that tell the overarching story of 10 young noble persons, seven women and three men, each telling a tale a night for 10 nights. It is a very long book, designed to while away the hours during oh, I don’t know, voluntary isolation as a result of a major epidemic of a potentially fatal disease…