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BCTV Ch.8 schedule for the week of 1/12/15
Monday, January 12, 2015
12:00 am Efficiency Vermont Forum on its 3 Year Plan
1:24 am Community Acupuncture at Morningside Shelter
1:30 am UVM Comm Med School: Knee and Hip Replacement
3:10 am Freedom & Unity Film Planning Workshop: 12/3/14
4:00 am Burlington Free University- US / Cuba Relations
WHATS’ WRONG WITH THE WTO AND NAFTA? THIS BOOK EXPLAINS! THE UNITED STATES CONSTITUTION IS BEING RIPPED AND SHREDDED!
This is a good book because it explains the problems with WTO and NAFTA.
Book Title: “If the Gods had meant us to vote, they would have given us candidates” Author: Jim Hightower
Is it the bugged-out look on his face? His nervous energy? The self-deprecation? Maybe we just don’t get the respect we deserve, and Rodney speaks for us.
Rodney Dangerfield is old-school, but hip nonetheless. Here we find him performing in 1995, reeling off nearly an hour of non-stop one-liners. Jokes about being ugly, the wife, sex, drugs, being old, and of course, getting no respect. Jokes like “My father wouldn’t take me to the zoo. He told me, “If they want you, they’ll come and get you.”
ON EXHIBIT at Brooks Library
MAIN FLOOR: Local artist Matti Salminen curates an exhibit of works by other local artists in various media, about issues of mental illness.
2ND FLOOR CHILDREN: Picture book author and illustrator Anna Dewdney.
This spring, Marlboro College will offer its first Board Leadership Institute. The Board Leadership Institute is a series of skill-building workshops in March and April that, taken together, introduce board members to the most important knowledge and skills for successful board service. Board Teams and Individual Trustees should register here to reserve their place in the Board Leadership Institute.
Next Stage Arts Project and Twilight Music present a triple bill of contemporary folk singer/songwriters featuring Antje Duvekot, Hayley Reardon and Hannah Hoffman at Next Stage on Saturday, January 10 at 7:30 pm.
Antje Duvekot is a German-born, American-raised singer/songwriter whose songs have been critically praised for their hard-won wisdom, dark-eyed realism and street-smart romanticism. Her bicultural upbringing and relative newness to English have helped shape her unique way with a song, giving her a startlingly original poetic palette. They are the keys to the powerful, even revolutionary, empathy that informs everything she writes. She has won some of the top songwriting awards including the Grand Prize in the John Lennon Songwriting Competition, the Kerrville Folk Festival Best New Folk Award and the Boston Music Award for Outstanding Folk Act.
I say, old chaps, I wonder if you mightn’t enjoy this 52 minute Sherlock Holmes episode with the irrepressible Jeremy Brett.
It has all the elements of what any decent Anglophile who appreciates the late-Victorian period would enjoy.Should you accept this most sensitive assignment of the highest order of the Empire, this message will self-destruct in 5 seconds.
The Second Stain by Arthur Conan Doyle
BCTV Ch.8 schedule for the week of 1/5/15
Monday, January 5, 2015
12:00 am Full Duty: The Civil War Collection of Howard Coffin
1:25 am Common Good VT: Campaign for Vermont
2:00 am Green Mtn. Vets for Peace: Guest Rache Siegel – Peace and Justice Ctr
3:00 am The Music and Life of Eugenie Gorin
4:15 am Vermont Association of the Blind and Visually Impared: Volunteer Video
There are many good reasons to cut back on oil consumption, and moving to self sufficiency, especially in terms of food, is wise, prudent and good. Global warming is one good reason, and preventing oil spills another.
But knowing when a commodity such as oil is going to run out, is not hard, its impossible Here is an article on the current oil glut, which it predicted. More interestingly, it also explains why all models are weak predictors of this resource.
On Exhibit at Brooks Library:
MAIN FLOOR: Local artist Matt Saliman curates an exhibit of works by other local artists in various media, about issues of mental illness.
2ND FLOOR CHILDREN: Original hand-painted relief etchings by Brian D. Cohen from his recent alphabet book, “The Bird Book,” with rhyming couplets about each bird by Holiday Eames
Let’s try something different in the New year, shall we? Instead of weekend concerts, we’ll do weekend comedians and see how that goes. Everyone needs a laugh, right? Plus, there are many, many funny people out there.
To kick things off, we’ll attend a show in NYC featuring George Carlin. This one has Italian subtitles, adding to the already-ample humor.
Carlin, to me, is best known for his love of language and observation of details. Some of his funniest pieces are about the way we use words, and things we do out of habit.
Vermont Reads: Haroun and the Sea of Stories by Salman Rushdie. Three events at Brooks Library. A film, a book discussion & a live streaming with Salmon Rushdie. All events are free and open to the public. Save the dates! January 3rd, 8th & 14th, please join us! Details below.
SATURDAY, JANUARY 3, 3 PM FILM: THE PRINCESS BRIDE (1987) 98 minutes–A classic fairy tale, with swordplay, giants, an evil prince, a beautiful princess. The film will be discussed on Thursday, January 8, in relation to Haroun and the Sea Stories. Director: Rob Reiner. William Goldman (book), William Goldman (screenplay) Stars: Cary Elwes, Mandy Patinkin, Robin Wright
BRATTLEBORO UNION HIGH SCHOOL BOARD
53 Green Street
Brattleboro, VT 05301
www.wssu.k12.vt.us
NOTICE OF COMMITTEE MEETINGS
The BUHS #6 Finance Committee will meet at 8:00 a.m. on Thursday, January 8 in the WSESU James E. Kane Conference Room, 53 Green Street.
NOTICE OF MEETING
The BUHS #6 Board of Directors will hold a Public Information Meeting on the Proposed FY ’16 Budget at 6:00 p.m. on Monday, January 5, 2015 in the WRCC Cusick Conference Room. The regular board meeting will follow at approximately 7:00 p.m.
Time for another experience that you won’t soon forget..this one features Allegedly Dave from the U.K. He will talk about practical free energy devices that you can make all by yourself
Join us Tuesday from 6-8 pm on Brattleboro Community Radio www.wvew.org and 107.7fm in town
BCTV Ch.8 Schedule for the week of 12/29/14
Monday, December 29, 2014
12:00 am Full Duty: The Civil War Collection of Howard Coffin
1:25 am Common Good VT: Campaign for Vermont
2:00 am Green Mtn. Vets for Peace: Guest Rache Siegel – Peace and Justice Ctr
3:00 am The Music and Life of Eugenie Gorin
4:15 am Vermont Association of the Blind and Visually Impared: Volunteer Video
River Gallery School will display the work of Jamis Lott, artist, puppeteer, maskmaker, and philosopher, throughout January with a public opening during Gallery Walk. Jamis, along with his father Steve, was killed recently in Townshend. He was 28.
Since early childhood, Jamis had an exceptional interest in and talent for art. Along with his friend and teacher, Margaret (Missy) Stearns, he worked on art projects exploring his vivid imagination. When he was a child, she helped him collage a giant dragon, which hung for years in his family’s kitchen. They remained close and important friends throughout Jamis’ life.
When Jeremy Bentham, in the 18th century, devised his ingenious architectural structure to revolutionize detention, little did he know that his idea would infiltrate every aspect of society. The simple premise of a central eye which sees everything, yet itself remains unseen, may have had a precedent in religious order, but aside from the Illuminati symbol which later appears atop the American dollar bill, no such mechanism was actually in place in any edifice near or far.
The Panopticon was designed to change schools, hospitals, asylum, and all manner of buildings committed to reform. However, execution was impractical, and its realization hardly employed.
BCTV Ch.8 schedule for the week of 12/22/14
Monday, December 22, 2014
12:00 am 2014 Statewide Housing Conference: Intro to Affordable Housing
1:20 am Ending Marijuana Prohibition: Should Vermont Lead or Follow?
2:40 am TED Talks: Pico Iyer: The Art of Stillness
3:00 am At BML: Mark Pokras, DVM – The Wildlife Vet Returns
5:05 am 2014 Veterans Day Remembrance
I was noticing how different various classic Christmas tales would be if the ending was chopped off. The carefully crafted endings to the favorite tales are crucial to us enjoying the story and coming back to it year after year.
The ending is typically where the lesson is learned, growth occurs, good overcomes evil, and so on. Not if you lob off the ending, though.
Here are some examples:
For any skeptics and scoffers out there, I would say that you should consider looking to the skies tonight, sometime after 6 PM. Our best psychics on the faculty at the University of Brattleboro, (the Oldest Non-Existent University in New England) when the UFAUXs are expected to materialize, somewhere above Elliot or Flat Street.
