When you hire Spencer Group, you get an entire staff of seasoned professionals with a wide range of experience. We truly work as a team on your behalf — each one of us is involved in some way with every client. We value and appreciate the close working relationships we've developed over the years and welcome the opportunity to serve you.
Mike has 25 years of experience in data management, direct marketing and fundraising. Prior to starting his own firm in 1989, he was an account executive with Epsilon Data Management, an industry leader in the field. During his career, Mike has served a wide range of commercial and nonprofit clients. Over the past two decades, he has developed a series of sophisticated analytic reports that have been used by over 200 organizations. He has also been a speaker and presenter at industry seminars and conferences. Mike is a graduate of the University of Vermont with a B.S. in business administration.
Chrissy (Mike's youngest sister) has been with Spencer Group since 1995. In that time, she has played a key role in dozens of annual fund and planned giving programs, and has managed the production of numerous direct mail appeals. Chrissy was also instrumental in developing a state-of-the art job management system which tracks the specifications and progress of every project. She holds a degree in marketing from Champlain College and currently resides in Burlington with her husband Marco and their daughter Ava.
Sue (another Spencer sister) was the inspiration behind the company's move from the Washington, DC area to Vermont in 2004. For seven years, she served as a vice president and account manager. Today, in additional to her full-time duties in the financial aid office at the University of Vermont, Sue continues to provide strategic, operations and human resources support to the Spencer Group team. She and her husband Roger live in Colchester and have three college-age children, Spencer, Zach and Megan.
Kelley is the first "non-Spencer" to join the company since it moved to Vermont. In doing so, she brought 15 years of experience in client services and project management, most notably with Bombardier SeaDoo watercrafts in Melbourne, Florida and Green Mountain Coffee Roasters here in Vermont. Her exceptional organizational skills and calm demeanor have made for many happy clients. Kelley graduated from the University of Vermont with a bachelor's degree in economics. She is a native Burlingtonian, where she currently resides with her husband Mark and their children Maggie and Nash.
Mike has over a decade of experience working for and with nonprofit organizations. Initially, he was involved with childcare programs at the Greater Burlington YMCA before serving as Membership Coordinator for the Vermont Alliance of Nonprofit Organizations (VANPO). At VANPO, he worked with nonprofits, funders, grantmakers, consultants, and private companies in an effort to strengthen and sustain the Vermont nonprofit sector. Today, he serves as our data and analytics guru, a responsibility he assumes with good humor and meticulous attention to detail. His combination of in-depth technical knowledge and strategic acumen are key ingredients to his effectiveness as a consultant to all our clients. He and his wife Tracy live in Burlington with their children Caris and Charlie.
Bill is passionate about visual communications, and is the artistic talent behind the graphic design services we provide to our clients. He joined us in 2011 and has over 20 years of experience in graphic design, commercial print production and data management. We met Bill in 2004 when he served as our resident problem-solver as our print vendor's Prepress Coordinator. As a designer and signmaker as well over the past 17 years, Bill's portfolio has grown to include a wide variety of projects, from all manners of marketing materials and publications, to logo design and branding. Bill is also involved with local non-profit organizations, serving as vice president of the Milton Historical Society, co-chair of the General Stannard House Restoration Committee and on the boards of the Milton Artists' Guild and the Lake Champlain Byway Council. He is a graduate of Champlain College, where he holds degrees in Marketing and Business Management. He and his wife Jen reside in Milton with their children Anna and Evan.
Jane's 20 years of marketing, public relations and development experience began in the Alumni Office of her alma mater, Boston College — and was further fueled by development-focused leadership roles in both large regional and small local nonprofits. Her fundraising experience spans the strategic to the tactical — from planning and implementing integrated development plans; to writing grants; to cultivating and soliciting donors; and to stewarding these donors through personalized, relevant communications. At Spencer Group, Jane is our chief copywriter and creative strategist. She holds both a bachelor's and a master's degree (English) from Boston College, and lives in Burlington with her partner Rob.


I've been working on designing and coding web projects like our newly launched Applications section, and a revamp of the Forums. It's been awesome thinking of the different ways to show the amazing things our users have been making with the Form 1+, as well as participating in the design and production process.
More recently I switched to working on a new version of the software used to calibrate the printers on the factory floor. The variety keeps me excited.
This past semester at MIT I wrote a python and OpenSCAD program to parametrically generate a maze wrapped around the surface of a cube. A clear outside layer wraps around the outside with two holes for the start and end points to solve the maze with a small ball. During the semester I had printed it on a Makerbot but could not print the outside wall because I didn't have a way of making the clear outside wall.
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The CASE Act is the Solution to the Alleged Copyright Troll Problem, Not the Cause. by Keith Kupferschmid
An updated version of the CASE Act, H.R. 3945 — a bill that was introduced by Rep. Jeffries last year and revised last month — is expected to be considered soon by the House Judiciary Committee. The bill is a priority for individual creators and small businesses who are often victimized by infringement but can't afford to enforce their rights in federal court because federal litigation is too expensive and their claims are usually too small to justify the cost. And since the Copyright Act grants the federal courts exclusive jurisdiction of copyright infringement claims, these creators are left with no real option other than to continue to suffer the harms of infringement.
The CASE Act provides another option. It would help address this problem by creating a voluntary small claims system within the U.S. Copyright Office that could serve as an alternative to federal court litigation. It creates a streamlined process that would alleviate the need to hire an attorney (unless the party wants one) and would allow law students supervised by a licensed attorney (for instance, students in a law school clinic) to represent a party. The bill allows for recovery of a maximum of $15,000 in statutory damages per claim—one-tenth of what could potentially be recovered in federal court. Most significantly, participation is completely voluntary. If someone accused of infringement (called the respondent in the bill) does not want to participate in the process, they can simply opt out and it's as if a claim was never brought against them.
The CASE Act enjoys tremendous support from small businesses and individual creators across the country as well as bipartisan support from members of Congress. Most, if not all, large businesses are indifferent because as copyright owners they have no problem bringing infringement cases in federal court and therefore don't need the CASE Act. And if someone brings an infringement case against them, they are comfortable knowing they can opt out if they so choose.
Despite the tremendous support for this important legislation, there is a very small minority made up of the usual copyright naysayers, including the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) and Public Knowledge (PK), that don't support the bill because they believe there is a copyright "troll" problem that the CASE Act might exacerbate (and because they generally oppose anything that would benefit copyright owners).
For the sole purpose of showing just how completely misguided these allegations are, I will assume for the sake of argument, that EFF's and PK's underlying premise regarding a copyright troll problem is correct; I do so only to demonstrate that even if that were the case — a premise with which I wholeheartedly disagree — the CASE Act would not exacerbate that problem and would in fact actually alleviate it.
Specifically, the CASE Act includes numerous safeguards to prevent "trolling." The most important of these safeguards is that participation in the small claims process is completely voluntary. If a person thinks the claimant (i.e., the copyright owner who is suing them) is a copyright troll, they (the respondent) can opt out of the case, resulting in the case and the alleged troll disappearing.
The voluntary nature of the process makes it impossible to "coerce" someone into court or to bring "frivolous claims," as EFF and PK have argued. After all, how do you coerce someone when they can simply opt out to make the case disappear? Furthermore, no one would intentionally bring frivolous claims because they stand to lose the non-refundable filing fee when the respondent opts out. In short, there can be no trolling problem since the CASE Act gives the respondent leverage, not the claimant.
If the ability to opt out on a case-by-case basis were not enough, the revised bill goes a significant step further by allowing individuals and organizations to file a preemptive "blanket" opt-out that would exempt them from the entire small claims system for a set period of time, as opposed to on a case-by-case basis. Anyone on this blanket opt-out list would not even receive a complaint. If someone was really worried that the CASE Act would create or exacerbate a copyright troll problem, they could simply opt out of the system and make their concern evaporate.
EFF wrongly claims that the CASE Act "bypass[es] the safeguards against abuse" that exist in the federal court system. Nothing could be further from the truth. In fact, the CASE Act actually has MORE safeguards to prevent against abuse than presently exist under federal law.
For example, under the CASE Act, if a copyright owner is found to have brought claim(s) in bad faith, the Copyright Claims Board has the authority to:
award attorneys' fees to the respondent of up to $5,000, and (under the revised bill) can exceed that amount in extraordinary circumstances;
dismiss a claim for good cause that it finds "unsuitable for determination;"
prohibit that claimant from filing a case with the Board for a period of one year; and
dismiss all pending cases filed by the claimant.
These are substantial penalties and only the first of them is available when a case in filed in federal court. The other three safeguards are unique to the CASE Act.
EFF also claims that the CASE Act will "coerc[e] Internet users to fork over cash 'settlements'" and lead to "threats of massive, unpredictable copyright damages." EFF is not only wrong, but once again relying on fear-mongering to prevent valid copyright enforcement.
Damages for copyright infringement under the CASE Act cannot be "massive" because the bill caps damages at a maximum of $15,000 in statutory damages per claim. This figure pales in comparison to the $150,000 in statutory damages per claim available in federal court for copyright infringement. EFF's argument also fails to account for the $30,000 aggregate per case cap under the CASE Act because there is no cap under existing federal law. If someone wanted to make "threats of massive, unpredictable copyright damages" to extort cash settlements, as EFF has claimed, they would be foolish to try to use the small claims process established by the CASE Act for such purposes.
Damages will also not be "unpredictable" because not only are damages capped under the CASE Act, but the CASE Act also specifies that determinations of the Copyright Claims Board are required to be made in accordance with judicial precedent. (Where there is conflicting judicial precedent among the courts, the bill provides that the Board should follow the law of the federal jurisdiction where the case could have been brought.)
EFF further claims that the CASE Act empowers copyright "trolls" by allowing the issuing of "subpoenas for the identity of an Internet user, who can then be targeted for harassment and threats." This statement is also false because the revised CASE Act no longer includes a subpoena provision. EFF's claim that the CASE Act allows the "Copyright Office to issue a $5,000 'parking ticket' through a truncated process" is also false because there is no provision in the bill as introduced or as revised that would do this. The process for deciding an infringement case under the bill is the same whether the damages are $15,000 or $150. The only difference is that a lower-amount claim that is less complex could be decided by one judge, as opposed to three judges, as a cost and resource savings measure.
It should also be noted that the revised CASE Act limits individuals to filing no more than ten cases over the course of a (calendar) year. To the extent that the opt-out provisions, bad faith penalties and damages cap do not prevent the filing of frivolous claims or trolling, this limitation certainly would, especially when one considers that there is no such restriction on the number of cases that can be filed in federal court.
I'm not so naïve to think that this blog will change the minds of EFF, PK or others like them who have never — and will never — support any copyright bill that helps creators. But those who are more open-minded and who take the time to review the provisions of the CASE Act and to understand the problem trying to be solve here, cannot escape the conclusion that even if we assume for argument's sake that an alleged troll problem exists, the CASE Act is a solution to that problem, not the cause.
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Brett Gordon March 28, 2018 Kitchen
While going out to a bar or club with your friends is undoubtedly fun, sometimes you just want to stay in to watch TV, play board games, or strike up a card game. The only problem with staying home instead of going out is that you don't have easy access to cocktails and other types of alcoholic beverages. However, with a cocktail shaker set, you can be your own bartender, and easily make the alcoholic beverages of your choice.
A cocktail shaker set consists of a number of different receptacles and tools which make the creation of cocktails and simple and painless as possible. If you're an alcohol connoisseur, or are just tired of drinking beer, a cocktail shaker set might be just the thing you're looking for.
What is a Cocktail Shaker Set?
1 What is a Cocktail Shaker Set?
1.1 What are the Benefits of Using a Shaker?
1.2 Who are the Contenders for Best Cocktail Shaker Set?
1.3 Considerations for Choosing the Right Cocktail Shaker Set
1.3.1 Number of Items
1.3.2 Construction
1.3.3 Durability
1.3.4 Additional Features
1.4 Number of Items
1.4.1 Rare Fool Cocktail Shaker Set
1.4.2 Absolute Cocktail Shaker Set by SILVERgrade
1.4.3 Mixologist World Cocktail Shaker Set
1.5 Construction
1.6 Durability
1.7 Additional Features
2 Conclusion: Our Cocktail Shaker Set Reviews
2.1 Cresimo 24 Oz Cocktail Shaker & Jigger – Best Cheap
2.2 Mixologist World Cocktail Shaker Set – Best for the Money
2.3 Rare Fool Cocktail Shaker Set – Best Overall
2.4 All in All
A cocktail shaker set is, essentially, exactly what it sounds like it is; a collection of alcohol receptacles and tools that allow for the simple and convenient shaking of cocktails. Cocktail shaker sets can possess any number of different tools, but at their most basic include just a shaker. Jiggers and swizzle sticks are also commonly included.
While most cocktail shaker sets are made out of stainless steel, shaker sets can also be made out of plastic and glass. Additionally, though it's not true in every case, cocktail shaker sets also often include recipe manuals.
What are the Benefits of Using a Shaker?
While you could certainly throw together a cocktail without one, a cocktail shaker set makes the shaking of cocktails as painless as possible. You can simply pour your drink ingredients into the shaker, give them a shake, and pour your mixed drink into your glass.
More advanced cocktail shaker sets also include items such as corkscrews, bottle openers, and ice tongs, allowing for even more convenience and ease. Not to mention, they are a classy, aesthetically-pleasing addition to any kitchen or bar.
Who are the Contenders for Best Cocktail Shaker Set?
Rare Fool Cocktail Shaker Set – Made completely out of stainless steel, this Rare Fool cocktail shaker set comes with a total of 8 pieces made with the finest of construction. Packaged in an attractive carrying case, this set can be carried or stored with style regardless of where it's taken. With a cocktail recipe book included, it has everything you need to successfully make top-notch cocktails and alcoholic beverages.
Mixologist World Cocktail Shaker Set – A 3-piece set, this Mixologist World cocktail shaker set includes a shaker, a jigger, and a swizzle stick, giving you all the basic items you need to make high-quality cocktails. Made out of stainless steel, these pieces are machine-washable, and ridiculously easy to take care of. Included with the set is a detailed e-book which includes recipes for all types of world-renowned cocktails.
Absolute Cocktail Shaker Set by SILVERgrade – Equipped with a shaker, a jigger, and two pourers, this Absolute cocktail shaker set makes cocktails as well as any cocktail shaker set you're going to find. Made out of rust-resistant stainless steel, it is dishwasher-friendly, making its maintenance beyond easy. With an included e-book possessing over 50 different cocktail recipes, it provides you with all the information needed to start making cocktails instantly.
Considerations for Choosing the Right Cocktail Shaker Set
Cocktail shaker sets come with a number of different types of items, with the most basic sets including just a shaker and perhaps a recipe book. The size of the set you purchase is completely up to you; some will prefer and have a need for more bar-related items while others may just want the bare-bones necessities. However, apart from the size of the set you plan to purchase, there are a number of other aspects that must be considered. These aspects include the set's overall durability, its overall construction, and any special, additional features.
As we mentioned above, cocktail shaker sets come with a number of different types of items, with the most basic sets including only shakers and recipe books, and the most advanced sets including everything from shakers, to jiggers, to swizzle sticks, to bottle openers, and more. Choose your set according to your own personal needs and desires.
While most cocktail shaker sets include items that are made out of stainless steel, there are other sets on the market which include items made out of plastic and other materials. Stainless steel cocktail shaker sets not only perform exceptionally well, they also possess an attractive, and aesthetically-pleasing appearance.
As with any item you purchase, you want your cocktail shaker set to possess a great deal of durability. Stainless steel cocktail shaker sets are equipped to withstand a lot of wear and tear, whether that entails falls or collisions.
Additional features in cocktail shaker sets include everything from attractive storage cases, to muddlers, to ice tongs, and more. While none of these features are an absolute necessity, they will serve to make your cocktail experience all that more convenient.
Rare Fool Cocktail Shaker Set
Possessing a total of 8 items, this Rare Fool cocktail shaker set has everything you need to create your own little, mini bar. Possessing a shaker, jigger, hawthorne strainer, ice tongs, and more, it's the elite cocktail cocktail shaker set in terms of volume.
Absolute Cocktail Shaker Set by SILVERgrade
This Absolute cocktail shaker set doesn't possess as many items as the Rare Fool cocktail shaker set. Possessing everything from a shaker, to a double jigger, to two pourers, it makes cocktails as easy as possible.
Mixologist World Cocktail Shaker Set
Containing a total of 3 items, this Mixologist World cocktail shaker set is not quite as expansive as the Rare Fool set, but still has more than enough to get you by. Equipped with a shaker, a two-sided jigger, and a swizzle stick, you'll have everything you need to make superb cocktails.
Constructed entirely out of stainless steel, this Rare Fool cocktail shaker set does not leak even in the slightest. With a shiny and smooth texture, it is both highly attractive and ridiculously easy to clean.
This Mixologist World cocktail shaker set is made entirely out of stainless steel. A tough, solid set, it prevents leaking at all costs, keeping your ingredients safe and contained at all times.
This Absolute cocktail shaker set is made entirely out of stainless steel. With tight, non-leak construction, it can be shaken as much as it needs to be without the risk of spilling.
As far as durability goes, this Rare Fool cocktail shaker set is as tough as any cocktail shaker set you're going to find. Made out of solid stainless steel, it is capable of withstanding a great deal of wear and tear, whether that be from falls or collisions.
When it comes to durability, this Mixologist World cocktail shaker set is right on par with the Rare Fool and Absolute cocktail shaker sets in our top 3. Made out of high-quality stainless steel, it can withstand wear and tear, and is also dishwasher-friendly.
Made completely out of stainless steel, this Absolute cocktail shaker set is just as durable as both the Mixologist World and Rare Fool cocktail shaker sets in our top 3. Dishwasher-friendly and rust-free, it possesses an exceedingly long lifespan.
When it comes to additional features, this Rare fool cocktail shaker set reigns supreme. Including everything from an attractive storage case, to a muddler, to a bottle opener, to a corkscrew, and more, it has everything you need to stock your own, little mini-bar.
With a cylindrical storage case, a fabric carrying bag, cleaning fabrics, and pourers included, this Absolute cocktail shaker set has everything you need to keep your pieces clean and maintained. While it doesn't possess as many features as the Rare Fool set, it still possesses plenty of items to function exceptionally.
While it doesn't possess as many additional features as the Rare Fool cocktail shaker set in our top 3, this Mixologist World cocktail shaker set still possesses plenty of features. Including a recipe e-book as well as a jigger and a swizzle stick, you will have no problem whipping up high-quality cocktails on command.
Conclusion: Our Cocktail Shaker Set Reviews
Cresimo 24 Oz Cocktail Shaker & Jigger – Best Cheap
For a cocktail shaker set in its price range, this Cresimo cocktail shaker set is a fantastic buy. Though it possesses only two pieces, it still has everything needed to make top-notch cocktails; a shaker and a jigger. Made out of tough stainless steel, it's leak-proof and capable of being washed in a dishwasher. If you're looking for a very nice cocktail shaker set at a very affordable price, you need to take a look at this.
Tough stainless steel construction
Comes with a cocktail recipe e-book
Shaker possesses a 24-ounce capacity
Lid has a tendency to slip off if not held on while shaking
Mixologist World Cocktail Shaker Set – Best for the Money
Though it doesn't provide quite as many pieces as other high-end cocktail shaker sets, this Mixologist World set is the best cocktail shaker set you're going to find at its price. With a shaker, a jigger, and a swizzle stick as well as a cocktail recipe e-book, it has everything you need to successfully make high-quality cocktails. Made out of stainless steel, it is leak-free and machine-washable, making it beyond easy to clean and maintain. If you're looking for the best cocktail shaker set at a reasonable price, you need to consider this one.
High-quality stainless steel construction
Aesthetically-pleasing set
Only possesses 3 pieces
Rare Fool Cocktail Shaker Set – Best Overall
Though there are other cocktail shaker sets that come close, we're going with this Rare Fool shaker set as the best cocktail shaker set currently on the market. Sporting 8 different pieces, including a shaker, a jigger, a bottle opener, a corkscrew, and more, it's like its own little bar. Made out of tough stainless steel and stored in an attractive carrying case, it will look great regardless of where you decide to put it. If you're looking for the best cocktail shaker set around, you can't go wrong with this one.
Comes in an attractive carrying case
Possesses 8 different pieces
Made out of machine-washable stainless steel
Shaker is a little undersized
All in All
Almost everybody likes to sit back and have a cold drink every once in awhile. While a beer is nice, sometimes a cocktail is even better. And what's the best way to make a cocktail? With a cocktail shaker set, of course.
Expansive, high-quality sets like provide you with everything you need to quickly and conveniently make cocktails of the highest level. Don't make half-hazzard cocktails with a spoon and a cup. Get yourself a great cocktail shaker set and enjoy the results.
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New Online Magazine Aims To Bring Together Nevada's Equestrian Community
By ThisIsReno January 5, 2018
Samantha Szesciorka
PRESS RELEASE: Equestrians in Nevada will soon have a new resource for information about what is happening around the state. Sagebrush Rider is a new monthly magazine launching in March 2018.
Each issue will feature in-depth feature articles, news updates, destination spotlights, and interviews, along with classified ads, shows and events, and directories of professionals.
"There are some really interesting things happening in Nevada's equestrian community," says Editor in Chief Samantha Szesciorka. "We want to get those stories out there."
Sagebrush Rider will exclusively focus on the state of Nevada. The magazine's mission is to raise awareness of equestrian opportunities in the state, to highlight and celebrate Nevada equestrians, and to get more people out riding. The team behind Sagebrush Rider is small, but they have big goals.
"We hope this magazine can become a valuable resource for equestrians," says Szesciorka. "We want to bring the community together and inspire some pride in the Silver State."
Sagebrush Rider will be published online each month and will be available to readers for free. Learn more at www.sagebrushrider.com.
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The Source Awards nominee list came out this week. In all the main stream articles it was not pointed out that Tupac is nominated for Single of the Year (Male) nomination for "Thugz Mansion". Closer inspection of the listing shows "Thugz Mansion" – Tupac feat. Anthony Hamilton (Producer: 7 Aurelius). Notice this is not the "Thugz Mansion" version feat. Nas.
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François Ruchon (* 18. September 1897 in Genf; † 17. Mai 1953 ebenda) war ein Schweizer  Romanist und Historiker.

Leben und Werk
Ruchon, dessen Vater Franzose war, studierte in Genf. Er wurde 1923 promoviert mit der Arbeit Jules Laforgue (1860–1887). Sa vie. Son œuvre (Genf 1924). Ruchon war Gymnasiallehrer in Genf und Privatdozent der Universität Genf.

Er engagierte sich politisch in der Genfer Radikalen Partei, war ab 1943 deren Stellvertretender Vorsitzender und gab ab 1945 deren Presseorgan Le Genevois heraus.

In Genf ist eine Strasse nach ihm benannt.

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Romanistik
Jean-Arthur Rimbaud. Sa vie. Son œuvre. Son influence, Paris 1929, Genf 1970
(Hrsg.) Rimbaud. Documents iconographiques, Genf 1946 (mit Claude Pichois, Genf 1960)
(Hrsg.) Paul Verlaine. Documents iconographiques, Genf 1947
(Hrsg.) L'amitié de Stéphane Mallarmé et de Georges Rodenbach, Genf 1949
(mit Alan Martin Boase) La vie et l'œuvre de Jean de Sponde, Genf 1949
Jean de Sponde et ses méditations sur les pseaumes, Genf 1951
Essai sur la vie et l'oeuvre de Jean de La Ceppède. Poète chrétien et magistrat (1548–1623), Genf 1953

Geschichte von Genf
(mit Lucien Fulpius) Georges Favon. 25 ans de politique genevoise, Genf 1927
(Hrsg.) Les Mémoires de James Fazy, homme d'État genevois (1794–1878), Genf 1947
Histoire politique de la République de Genève. De la restauration à la suppression du budget des cultes (31 décembre 1813–30 juin 1907), Genf 1953
Histoire de la franc-maçonnerie à Genève de 1736 à 1900 d'après des documents inédits, Genf 1935 (Neuausgabe in 2 Bden., Genf 2004)

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 http://ge.ch/noms-geographiques/voie/geneve/rue-francois-ruchon (Kurzwürdigung, französisch)

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'Give back property, or else we'll commit suicide'
A victim family arranged a press conference to get back the ancestral property worth around Tk 14 crore which was evicted from an influential businessman in Natore.Hajera Begum, the daughter of the late Hazrat Ali, who claimed to be the real owner of the land, read out a written statement at a press...
Founding anniv of Jatiya Adivasi Parishad observed
As part of the central program, the 27th founding anniversary of Jatiya Adivasi Parishad, the only organization of small ethnic groups in the plains, was celebrated in Natore on Thursday.On this occasion, a human chain programme was held in front of Natore United Press Club at 11:30 am organized by ...
New train stoppage inaugurated in Natore
A new stoppage of Panchagarh and Kurigram Express trains was inaugurated in Natore Railway Station on Tuesday. Shafiqul Islam Shimul, member of Parliamentary Standing Committee on Ministry of Railways and MP from Natore-2 constituency, inaugurated the stoppage by cutting ribbon. Natore Railway ...
'999 call' saves 40 people
It was late at night. There was a hissing sound. Big water waves, no houses anywhere, no lights, no direction. 40 people, including women and children, lost their way on a boat trip in the Chalon-Bil area of Natore in the middle of the night.Piyas Sarkar, the son of Amrit Sarkar of Balramchak in Atr...
'I am always beside Natore people'
State Minister for Information and Communication Technology Zunaid Ahmed Palak, MP, has said, "We have worked side by side with the people in all past disasters. We have provided humanitarian assistance on behalf of the Honorable Prime Minister lSheikh Hasina. I have been repeatedly elected wi...
RMG worker gang-raped; 4 arrested
A garment worker was gang-raped in Harishpur area of Natore on Friday (August 14).Police have arrested four rapists in this incident, informed Natore Superintendent of Police Liton Kumar Saha at a press conference on Sunday afternoon. According to the Superintendent of Police, the incident took plac...
Inspector of Baraigram police station died of coronavirus
Officer-in-charge (OC, investigation) of Natore's Baraigram Police Station Sumon Ali, 40, died of coronavirus infection.He died at Rajarbagh Police Lines Hospital in Dhaka on Thursday (August 13th).Natore Superintendent of Police Liton Kumar Saha confirmed the death of Sumon Ali.He said he con...
Int'l Indigenous Day observed in Natore
On the occasion of the International Indigenous Day on August 9, National Indigenous Council organized a human chain demanding 9 points including constitutional recognition as indigenous people, formation of a separate land commission and ministry for the plains, and providing incentives to indigeno...
Palak distributes relief among flood-hit people
State Minister for Information and Communication Technology Zunaid Ahmed Palak, MP distributed relief items among hundreds of flood affected people taking shelter at five shelters in Kalam Union of Singra Upazila of Natore on Wednesday afternoon.Kalam UP Chairman Moinul Islam Chunu, Singra Upazila A...
Fish worth Tk16 lakh poisoned in Natore
A victim at Gurudaspur in Natore has held a press conference demanding the arrest of those involved poisoning fish in his pond, which was worth Tk 16 lakh.Ali Hasan, son of Musharraf, the owner of the pond, read out a written statement at the press conference at the Gurudaspur Model Press Club...
'Relief to continue for flood victims'
State Minister for Information and Communication Technology Zunaid Ahmed Palak shas aid, "We will give a better life to the people of Chalanbeel on behalf of the people's leader Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina. Relief and medical services will be provided to the flood victims as long as needed...
Housewife murdered by husband
Due to a family quarrel in Moharkaya village of Lalpur upazila of Natore, husband Abdul Jabbar killed his wife Smriti by giving her sleeping pills, squeezing her pillow and throwing her body in a pond.He confessed to the murder during police interrogation after his arrest and gave a confessional sta...
Two accused in a gang-rape case arrested
DB police have arrested two accused named Swapan Ali and Shahadat Hossain in a gang-rape case in Baraigram of Natore. They were arrested on Monday after conducting raids in different places of Baraigram upazila. This information was given by Superintendent of Police Liton Kumar Saha in a press ...
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Nat'l Fisheries Week celebrated in Natore
National Fisheries Week 2020 is being celebrated in Natore with the slogan "Increase fish production, build a happy and prosperous country". On this occasion, Deputy Commissioner Mohammad Shahriaz inaugurated the Fisheries Week by releasing fish fry in a pond in front of the Deputy Commiss...
Schoolgirl commits suicide for smartphone
A schoolgirl named Sajni Khatun, 17, committed suicide out of pride as she did not get a smartphone from her father. Police recovered her body from the house in Lashmikol Old Hallmore area of Baraigram Upazila in Natore on Saturday morning. Sajni is the daughter of Shipon Rana of Daulatpur poli...
Youth perishes under train wheel
An unidentified youth died after falling under a train at Bagatipara in Natore on Monday afternoon.The incident took place at Maria Railgate area on the east side of Lokmanpur railway station in the upazila. The police suspect that the young man may have committed suicide.Locals said the young man h...
Man held for molesting 6yr-old girl
Police arrested a grocer named Abul Kashem for allegedly trying to violate a 6-year-old child in Natore's Baraigram. He was arrested from Kumarkhali village of the upazila on Monday morning. The arrestee is the son of Hashem Ali of the same village.Dilip Kumar Das, Officer-in-Charge of Baraigram...
Woman posts photos with notes before committing suicide
A divorcee woman at Boraigram upazila of Natore district committed suicide on Saturday noon. The woman was identified as Jeny Baby Costa (40) daughter of Abraham Costa of village Bahimali under Boraigarm upazila. Before committing suicide by hanging herself by wrapping with a scarf with the cei...
Man's hanging body found in Bagatipara
Police recovered the hanging body of a man named Moharram Hossain, 50, from Bagatipara area in Natore on Thursday morning.The body of the man was recovered from a tree branch near his house in Dumrai Sarkar Para village. Muharram is the son of late Mojibur Rahman of the same area. According to...
Intercity train stops for expectant mother
Considering humanitarian ground, non-stop intercity Kurigram Express train was given a stoppage at Natore railway station at dead night to send an expected-mother to the hospital to give birth of a child. The newly born child was named as Israf. Both the child and his mother Kamrunnahar are lea...


Lithuania's Ministry of Foreign Affairs recommends Lithuanian companies to refrain from business deals with Russians subject to sanctions over the events in Ukraine.
The recommendation follows a report by the Lithuanian public broadcaster LRT on Thursday, stating that Agrokoncernas, a business group owned by Ramūnas Karbauskis, leader of the ruling Lithuanian Farmers and Greens Union, imports fertilizer from Russia company Minudobreniya via an intermediary, despite Minudobreniya's key shareholder Arkady Rotenberg being subject to international sanctions.
Rasa Jakilaitienė, spokeswoman for the foreign minister, told BNS Lithuania on Thursday that "the Ministry of Foreign Affairs recommends Lithuanian companies to assess risks associated with the existing sanctions against the owner and refrain from business ties."
LRT reports that Agrokoncernas is buying fertilizers from Russia's Minudobreniya via a Dubai company. Rotenberg owns over 80 percent of the Russian company and has been subject to international sanctions since 2014 due to his close ties with Russian President Vladimir Putin, although Minudobreniya itself is not on the sanction list.
The existing sanctions against natural persons ban them from coming to the EU and their assets are frozen. But there's no ban to work with their businesses directly, unless specific companies are put on the sanction list.
Aurelija Katkuvienė, spokeswoman for the State Security Department, told BNS Lithuania the department has been publicly reminding for many years that "business ties with Russia increase the risk to get into the traps of hostile intelligence services."
"So our public recommendation is to pay attention, assess risks and take responsibility," she said, without disclosing whether Lithuania's intelligence has warned Agrokoncernas directly against cooperation with Rotenberg's business.
Agrokoncernas admits that although Minudobreniya's fertilizers are bought in Dubai, they are not brought to Lithuania from there. The company does not disclose which country it imports them from.
Karbauskis says agroculturalists working for Agrokoncernas cannot know all shareholders. Agrokoncernas says it does not violate any laws by importing fertilizers from Rotenberg's Minudobreniya.


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Help for Libraries Offering Publishing Services
The RUSA Publishing Toolkit, a new professional tool designed to assist librarians who offer publishing services, collects links to (mostly) free online resources that cover how to offer education and instruction, content development and editorial, design and production, and marketing and dissemination services.
Reflections on the ALA Emerging Leaders Program
The EL program seeks to develop leadership skills in new professionals. Each year, fifty library school students and professionals working in the field for fewer than five years are chosen to participate in leadership seminars, networking events, and work groups that span the Midwinter and Annual meetings. These activities lend insight into the structure and workings of ALA and offer a fast track to serving on committees within the organization. Truly the heart of the program is the work teams formed to complete projects devised by the divisions. Catering to a variety of interests, these projects allow participants to develop new skills and contribute to the profession on a meaningful way.
ALA Addressing Systemic Racism in the Library
Providing equal access to all library patrons is an essential component of every library's mandate. In fact, the ALA Mission Statement asserts that librarians must "ensure access to information for all." With that in mind, the ALA Task Force on Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion hosted a workshop at ALA Midwinter on how librarians can become more aware of and even work against systemic racism: "If I Hadn't Believed It, I Wouldn't Have Seen It: Exploring Systemic Racism and Its Implications for Our Lives and Work."
Artists Focus on Toronto Public Library
There's an explosion of library related art happening in Toronto. Local artists, inspired by the now 100 branch library system, created love letters to the library through art. Then, via the power of social media, the library took notice. Two projects that are getting international attention are the Toronto Library Passport and an adult coloring book featuring library buildings called All The Libraries Toronto.
Adult Coloring, an Easy and Cheap Programming Option
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Service Animals in the Library
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What Libraries Can Learn from Record Stores
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There's big news for tiny libraries. LibraryThing, the social book cataloging site, announced the launch of a new OPAC called TinyCat. Designed for small collections of less than 10,000 items, TinyCat is perfect for cataloging and circulating the collections of religious institutions, schools, community centers, and academic departments. Built on the user-friendly LibraryThing backend, TinyCat is a low cost, low skill way to offer library-like services.
Giving to Get: Using Contests to Gather Patron Feedback
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Borders and Exile: On the Recent Translation of Yuri Herrera's First Novel, "Kingdom Cons"
By W. S. Lyon
IN YURI HERRERA'S three slim novels, elderly men get swallowed into a suddenly gaping earth, deadly epidemics spread through itinerant bubble-gel vendors, and ambitious young drunks sing corridos in the courts of violent kings. Although not strictly linked, together these books create a world of ecstatic crisis, a world in which an unreachable other place, a secular beyond, plays foil to the flesh-and-blood present. His protagonists remain cool, always in control, blending gilded cartel aesthetics with the clipped wit of hard-boiled crime fiction to create a nuevo noir style all his own. On the surface, Herrera writes about people along the border between Mexico and the United States (inspired, one can guess, by his time spent in El Paso and Ciudad Juárez), but his real subject is a border condition, a state of exile, an existence between two extremes — this side and the other side, narco and gringo, life and death.
The latest of the three novels to appear in English, Kingdom Cons, released in June by And Other Stories, was actually Herrera's first novel, originally published in his native Mexico in 2004. And it feels like a first novel, especially when read after the two superior novels that succeed it: his dazzling second book, Signs Preceding the End of the World, and his third, The Transmigration of Bodies, appeared in English in 2015 and 2016, respectively. All three have been translated by Lisa Dillman, who provides an afterword on the translation of Signs, where she lists the many complications of translating Herrera's unique patois — a language made from a mix of places and traditions and ways of being, which is to say, a language that rises from the dust of the earth and particulates in the clouds like rain; a petrichor language, hanging in the air with the oddly pleasant fumes of regeneration.
"Tijuana is not Mexico," wrote Raymond Chandler in The Long Goodbye. "No border town is anything but a border town, just as no waterfront is anything but a waterfront." Border towns exist somewhere outside or between the nations of their border, just as exiles, dead or alive, exist somewhere outside or between the nations they inhabit. Roberto Bolaño, who spent a decade in Mexico after fleeing Pinochet's Chile, but who never set foot in the border town of Ciudad Juárez, the geographical and cultural inspiration for his masterpiece, 2666, and who, after leaving Mexico, also lived in France and Spain, wrote a short essay around the time of his first trip back to Chile after the death of Pinochet, around 1997 or 1998. (It was later translated by Natasha Wimmer into English as "Exiles"). "To be exiled is not to disappear but to shrink," the essay begins, "to slowly or quickly get smaller and smaller until we reach our real height, the true height of the self." From there the essay itself seems to shrink quickly or slowly toward its elusive conclusion: that exile is nothing, or that exile is everything, one can't be sure. These concepts are always in flux, more or less, and no less so when handled by a madman like Bolaño. In any case, the author contends that all writers enter into exile in some form or another — if not by leaving their political homelands, then by leaving the homeland of childhood, or by embarking on writing, which is exile by another name — just as all readers, by opening a book and fleeing into it, leave behind the so-called real world and cross the border into the imaginary. Bolaño claimed that he did not believe in exile, or at least not literary exile, which we might take to mean that he only believed in exile and therefore had no use for the distinction. Everything and nothing, one and the same, the border between them thus dissolved.
Which brings me back to the young novelist Yuri Herrera, who grew up in Actopan, Mexico (which is neither a border town nor a waterfront town but a town in the heart of Mexico), and who has since lived in El Paso and Berkeley and now New Orleans. In June of this year, Herrera spoke on a stage in New York before the screening of Robert Altman's adaptation of Raymond Chandler's The Long Goodbye, a film that refuses the hard masculinity of Humphrey Bogart's interpretations of Philip Marlowe while zeroing in on the tenderness of the character as played by Elliot Gould. Could Bogart ever have cared so much about his cat? Herrera wondered. About his cat's eating habits? About his cat's preference for a very particular brand of cat food? The hard-boiled world may be ragged and tough, but in the end, it's Marlowe's compassion that drives Chandler's best novels. And that compassion, that mix of sensitivity and nonchalance, that unflinching posture in the face of violence, an unquenched desire to get to the bottom of things, to understand — that is where Herrera draws the power for his own leading characters.
Kingdom Cons tells the story of a young man, known as the Artist, as he is pulled into and later exiled from the inner circle of a powerful cartel based just outside the City on the border. He falls in love with the King's power, and then the King's would-be stepdaughter, a damsel in distress known as the Commoner, whose predicament lights the Artist's way toward a chance at what we might call redemption. His choices along that path lead him to the knife's edge that, in this world, separates him from annihilation.
The book is written as a modern-day fable, self-conscious but restrained, mixing titular names with a studied attention to what Herrera calls the narco-aesthetic — opulent, insular, ultra-violent — drawing connections between ancient stories of royal courts and the kingpin sagas of our time. At just over a hundred pages (in English), Herrera's debut takes us from the grit and grime of a borderland cantina to the glitz and glamour of a cartel ball, shunting the reader through a tale of epic proportion.
Beneath that enormous vaulted ceiling his voice projected, taking on depths it never had in the cantinas. He sung his song with the faith of a hymn, the certainty of a sermon, and above all he made sure it was catchy, so people would learn it with their feet and their hips, and so they, too, would sing it later.
This is the Artist's foray into the King's inner sanctum, his first performance after impressing the King with an impromptu audition in the nearby City, clearly modeled on, if not named as, Ciudad Juárez, where the author used to frequent real-life cantinas while in graduate school at the University of Texas, El Paso.
The narrator of this tale, for most of the book, stands just outside or behind its central character, the Artist, in a so-called close third person, but in places relents to a more seductive tierra de nadie — a voice disembodied from any natural place that in its abstraction feels all the more real.
These surreal passages raise the specter of Juan Rulfo's 1955 classic, Pedro Páramo, a comparison Herrera's work invites and rejects in equal measure. "This town is filled with echoes," begins a section in Pedro Páramo. "It's like they were trapped behind the walls, or beneath the cobblestones. When you walk you feel like someone's behind you, stepping in your footsteps." No doubt it must feel like that today as a young novelist from Mexico: those tricky voices from the past always stepping just where you step. But rather than fear the echoes, Herrera employs them to his own unmagical end. After all, this is not Mexico but the borderland.
This passage is from the shortest chapter in Kingdom Cons, where the narration takes on the texture of a nihilistic psalm:
What's out there? What lies beyond the walls of things?
Like this, like this, there's nothing.
Turn your back on this smug cut grass and choose your own mirror: raise it to your eyes and see:
A chilling glimmer, a tiny spiral asking for a chance, a secret obscured in its own dark light. The whole world can be seen in this mirror, each detail a reversible code. Pieces and more pieces falling over themselves asking to be touched, ever-changing skin.
Besides Rulfo, it brings to my mind this passage from Hart Crane's poem of coastal exigency, "Cape Hatteras":
Relapsing into silence, while time clears
Our lenses, lifts a focus, resurrects
A periscope to glimpse what joys or pain
Our eyes can share or answer — then deflects
Us, shunting to a labyrinth submersed
Where each sees only his dim past reversed
Crane's poem praises Walt Whitman, that "joyous seer" who through his own song of transmigration, through his rendering of the Brooklyn Bridge, through his vision of that 19th-century waterfront border town, New York, became, in Crane's eyes, immortal.
In this dim light, I can't help but read in Herrera's first three novels a writer struggling with what it means to be a writer from Mexico who has left Mexico and sees himself, or is seen by others, as some kind of bridge between one place and the next. In other words, a writer in exile, which is to say a writer of merit.
Kingdom Cons sometimes falters under the strain of the weight of its ambition. In places where the compression of the epic relies too heavily on symbol and vague myth, the connections between, say, Charlemagne and El Chapo, feel corny and dull. But the novel soars in places where legend and fine detail merge into something original and true.
Ever since arriving at the Court he'd been surprised by people's urge to cross the line, or to go to some other city, even if it was on this side. Not even tales of artists living the gringo life had altered his own Why would I go? stance, when the Palace had it all: voices, colors, drama, stories. And it wasn't that he'd changed his mind now, but that he admitted the possibility of there existing some point on the horizon that might be different from the two extremes he was bouncing back and forth between. What if … ?
Herrera's debut is the work of a writer coming to terms with his subject as he searches for the nuance in his voice. In Signs Preceding the End of the World, the book starts with the literal opening of a sinkhole. The main character watches a man drop away into the shadow of the earth. "Slippery bitch of a city," she says, peering into the void. It is as if, in his third effort, Herrera has finally pinpointed the locus of his literary sources and, in so doing, shed their weight. In Signs, Herrera has worked out more precisely how to affect the power that lies between "the two extremes." In Kingdom Cons, while the potential of that power is evident, its full strength is not yet on display. In that sense, uneven as it may be, Herrera's debut is a charming look into the origin of one of our most original voices. And I use the inclusive pronoun, our, with emphasis. Herrera is a writer who in writing about borders transcends them. In shrinking slowly to his real height, the height of the self, Yuri Herrera has revealed himself to be a nimble giant, far taller than the tallest of walls.
W. S. Lyon lives in Princeton, New Jersey. He is working on a book of fiction.
Kingdom Cons
By Yuri Herrera
The Neobaroque Immigrant: Aura Xilonen's "Campeón gabacho"/ "The Gringo Champion"
By Ignacio M. Sánchez Prado
Mexico's Enduring Contrasts: An Interview with Nicholas Mainieri
By Andrea Penman-Lomeli
"Huizache": A Vision of Fused Borders and Culture
By Casey Walker
Bolaño's Teeth: Valeria Luiselli and the Renaissance of Mexican Literature
By Aaron Bady
All Borderlands Are Ghost Lands
By Ranbir Singh Sidhu


The Leadership of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) led by the Chairman of the National Caretaker Committee, Senator Ahmed Makarfi, CON has reacted to the Ruling of a Federal High Court in Abuja on Thursday July 28, 2016, presided over by the controversial Judge, Justice Okon Abang describing it as objectionable, questionable and very strange to say the least in the history of Nigeria Judiciary.
The Party in a statement by its Spokesman, Prince Dayo Adeyeye declared that what Justice Okon Abang did today is to Seat on an Appeal over the Court of competent and coordinate jurisdiction and that's what makes his Interlocutory Order very strange. The Judgment of the Federal High Court in Port Harcourt was very clear that the National Caretaker Committee was duly constituted and recognized; and in line with that, the scheduled National Convention for August 17, 2016 still holds.
We have just received information that Justice Okon Abang of the Federal High Court in Abuja has granted an Order of Interlocutory Injunction stopping our scheduled National Convention in Port Harcourt, Rivers State, but we want to state that the Judgment of the 4th of July, 2016 supersedes any Ex-Parte Order or Interlocutory Injunctions. So, our National Convention will hold as scheduled in Port Harcourt, Rivers State" Prince Adeyeye said.
Let Nigerians recall the two former Judgments before the Port Harcourt Judgment, declared that Senator Sheriff is not qualified to be a National Chairman given that the PDP Constitution 2014 which he claimed brought him to power is not in existence and therefore, null and void.
The PDP wants Nigerians to know that Justice Okon Abang is deliberately engaging in acts of derailing the Country's democracy given the fact that his Court is not an Appeal Court that can set aside any Judgment. He has penchant for abuse of court processes and actions of legal impunity. This Judge Nigerians will recall, issued Judgment against the Governor of Abia State that led to INEC re-issuing another Certificate of Return to a man who did not contest election thereby causing unnecessary hardship on the people of that State. He also issued an Order to INEC to recognize Senator Sheriff's candidates in Edo and Ondo states before they could even plan their purported congress in Edo.
In today's Case, this same Judge out rightly denied the PDP representation in Court which is unheard of by serving the Plaintiff (Sheriff & Co.) who instituted the Case also as PDP (defendants). His excesses are extremely absurd, strange and unbecoming of a Judge who enjoys putting the Judiciary on the spot. We therefore bring this matter before the highest level of Judiciary in the Country to stop this Judge forthwith from waging war against the PDP.
We are equally calling on Nigerians and the international community to compel Nigeria Judiciary to address Justice Abang's excesses before he kills our hard earned democracy.
However, the Party is law abiding and therefore, will apply for Stay of Execution of this Order and also Appeal it.
Finally, the Party calls on all its members and teaming supporters nationwide to remain calm and law abiding and be rest assured that the PDP National Convention will hold as scheduled and all preparation towards the August 17, 2016 National Convention remains the same.


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There are two types of unsweetened cocoa powder: Dutch process and natural cocoa powder.
Can you tell by the photo which one is which?
The natural unsweetened cocoa powder is on the left. The Dutch processed cocoa powder is on the right.
Dutch process cocoa is treated with an alkali to neutralize the acidity. It must be used in recipes calling for baking powder, unless there are other acidic ingredients used. It is a darker, reddish-brown color and has a mild flavor. I used this cocoa for my Chocolate Tortillas.
Unsweetened cocoa is lighter in color and is more intense in flavor. When combined in recipes using baking soda (which is an alkali), it reacts, causing baked goods to rise.
No, they are not. I tried using Dutch process cocoa in some cookies that had both baking powder and baking soda. The taste was different, as there was more of an acidic taste due to the alkali in both the Dutch processed cocoa and the baking soda.
In recipes calling for only baking powder, you can use Dutch processed cocoa.
In recipes calling for baking soda (or both baking powder AND baking soda), used natural cocoa powder.
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What a revelation! I didn't know enough about the two leavening agents and why each works best with each cocoa. Thanks!


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BREWERS PLAYERS HELP PUPILS WITH READING SKILLS
BURTON Albion footballers have dropped into a Burton primary school to check out the youngsters' reading skills.
First teamers Nasser El Khayati and Anthony O'Connor paid a visit to Horninglow Primary School to meet staff and pupils.
The youngsters chose a favourite book to read to the players and also asked them questions about playing for Burton Albion. The players then signed the pupils' reading books and posed for pictures.
Nasser, on his last community visit before departing for QPR, said: "It was a pleasure to hear the children read. We know how important literacy skills are, whatever career you go into, and we were very impressed with the pupils' reading."
Mrs Gower, from Horninglow Primary School, said: "It was very exciting for the pupils to meet the Burton Albion players and it gave them a chance to demonstrate their reading skills, which are very important for all children."


With Facebook reeling after revelations that an app maker exposed millions of user profiles and then gave that user data to Cambridge Analytica, marketers, barring a few, have so far been mostly quiet about whether they will take action against the platform giant.
Other advertisers that have pulled money from Facebook include Mozilla. COO Denelle Dixon wrote in a blog post that the company was "pressing pause" on its Facebook spend. Germany bank Commerzbank said it would do the same.
In a blog post, Sonos said the reason it won't permanently abandon those platforms is because it fundamentally believes in them: "We have found Facebook, Instagram, and other online platforms to be incredibly effective ways to reach our customers and to share our mission as a company — Not to mention stay in touch with friends and family in our personal lives," the company wrote in the post.
With Sonos, and any marketers that respond to the Facebook scandal, there has to be a specific brand strategy. Sonos cares as a brand about privacy — it has been vocal with issues like net neutrality and the idea of an open internet. "They're early, and they're putting their money where their mouth is," March said.
Elsewhere, brands are mostly quiet. A rep at a top media-buying agency told Digiday it's not seeing moves away from Facebook at this point.
A second media buyer also said no clients are pulling their ads from the platform. "Facebook's problem is with its users, not its advertisers," this person said.


The Afro-American Cultural & Historical Society, Tri-City Area invites everyone to engage in the rich history of Black Americans through educational and cultural activities.
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This weekend, One Billion Rising comes to the Hudson Valley for a day-long event honoring the commitment to take care of ourselves so that we can also do our part to take care of others.
One in three women will be raped or beaten in her lifetime. Do the math: that's about one billion humans on this planet — too many mothers, daughters, sisters, aunts — who will experience physical abuse and its aftermath. Joining the movement on Saturday, 2/13, local teachers from around Ulster County are donating their yoga classes with all proceeds going to The Washbourne House, a shelter which houses and supports survivors of domestic violence.
Students with WSY class cards won't be impacted at all— Saturday is a regular class and donating is completely optional. But as a gift to you for simply showing up, Whole Sky will be giving One Billion Rising wristbands to ALL in attendance, giving you access to incredible discounts at businesses in the area and free classes at other participating movement studios!
Together with One Billion Rising, we're helping to raise awareness on an important issue: violence against women. If you and some friends want to get wristbands and make a day of it by popping into Le Shag or Birch Body Works, or a taking a meditation, dancing or pilates class later on, you should! Either way, you're taking care of yourselves through yoga asana, and that's a revolution of its own.
An updated schedule of participant studios and businesses is below. If you want more information, feel free to contact me or visit the One Billion Rising Hudson Valley Facebook page.
Hope to see you in class on Saturday!


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The homey feel of Dumaguete makes it a favorite spot for those who want to relax but still feel the need to connect with the city life. Life in this city has been a brew of idleness and stir. The streets may be busy but locals still have the time to walk along Rizal Boulevard and indulge on a 50 peso massage. People can be engrossed with work but once you ask for help, they are so glad to deliver and even go the extra mile. This is my favorite city so far and here are the 10 things I love about it.


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Ethics of relations (R): morals, values, judgements of what's good and bad; traditions, rituals, stereotypes; attachments, habits; respiratory system.
The intellectual and communicative aspects of R manifests themselves as veiled or hidden assessments. Reasoning in the R-state manifests as a person being afraid to admit to themselves and others that they prefer one object over another. In this state, a choice is made between two logically identical options.
There is another strategy of R-thinking – consciously choosing the opposite of what one really prefers. Thus, the R-judgments are rational, there is a reason for them, even if it is hidden, but they may seem absolutely illogical from the outside.
At the social level, a person in the R-state is able to play an informal role of a harmonizer in a team. Their actions are aimed at maintaining a warm and friendly psychological climate, smoothing out sharp corners, and reconciling people. A person performing an R-role does not act as a judge or a "resolver" of conflicting opposites, but as a conciliator. They know how to calm people down, to relieve emotional tension. Personal preferences, of course, do not disappear, instead they are carefully hidden.
Psychologically, the state of R is experienced as an inner attraction to someone or something, manifested as a deep attachment. Interestingly, this state is not emotional at all. There is no expression in it, but there is a long-term dependence of a moral and ethical nature. The R-state is a guarantee of fidelity in a relationship. It is like a compass needle, which, whenever you try to turn a frame, returns to its preferred northern direction. Our R shapes us how we perceive people, places, and time periods as our own and akin, or as alien and foreign.
Physically, the state of R is very difficult to identify, precisely because its true attitude is hidden behind indifference or behind an opposite preference. It can be detected by subtle misalignments of what is being said and minor disruptions in a normal way of communication. A voice may tremble slightly, the facial complexion may change slightly, the eyelids may momentarily flutter and quickly assume their normal blinking – all these are reliable signals of the R-state. Indirectly manifested likes and dislikes, attraction to or repulsion from a person, accompanied by a slight internal excitement, physically indicate that you are observing a state of R.
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The musical NINE is another tour de force for Second Generation, only five shows left!
by Peter Hall June 27, 2019, 8:15 am 0 Comments
THE BASICS: NINE, the 1982 multiple Tony Award musical (Best Musical, Best Original Score, etc.) by Arthur Kopit and Maury Yeston presented by Second Generation Theatre, directed by Victoria Pérez, runs through June 30, Thursdays at 7:30 p.m., Fridays at 8, Saturdays at 2 & 8, and Sundays at 2 at Shea's Smith Theatre, 658 Main Street (508-7480). www.secondgenerationtheatre.comRuntime: 2 hours – 15 minutes with one intermission (full-service bar, snacks).
THUMBNAIL SKETCH: Based on Federico Fellini's semi-autobiographical film 8½, the musical NINE, set in Venice in the 1960s, is the story of fictional film director Guido Contini, who is: A. dreading his imminent 40th birthday, B. unable to come up with a new movie, and C. seemingly incapable of relating as an adult to his wife. Basically, it's a midlife crisis for a 39-year-old adolescent who never really grew up, and whose lifetime of romantic adventures have come back to haunt him.
THE PLAYERS, THE PLAY, AND THE PRODUCTION: First off, let me stipulate that this was a good production featuring a first-rate cast, staff, and orchestra. It was presented by a company founded and run by women; it was directed by a woman; and it starred 15 wonderful actresses. So, if I were smart, I would say "Hey, if that's what they want to do…."
HOWEVER, let's be clear about something. This is a musical that presents toxic masculinity, serial infidelity, cheating, straying, adultery, being unfaithful, having affairs, etc. as normal. It's also a product of the Italian/Catholic culture of exalting men while women are, as the musical explains, either whores or wives. This is the same 1960s culture that glorified organized crime and covered up sexual abuse by priests. But, because it's so glamourous, it's okay?
I'm reminded of a popular meme that appeared in various forms a few years ago: "Fifty Shades of Grey is only romantic because the guy is a billionaire. If he were living in a trailer park it would be an episode of Criminal Minds."
In one scene we've got a stage full of women dancing as French strippers, in another scene spreading their legs and smacking themselves, and in other scenes pouting and fawning. Now I'm going to put all of that into one compartment and accept that if the over two dozen women involved in this production were cool with it, I should be too.
Aimee Walker (standing), Kelly Copps, Ben Michael Moran, and Arianne Davidow
So, in the spirit of "Critique what you see, not what you wish you could be seeing" let's get to the good stuff. I'm going to go out on a limb and state that this stage orchestra is the best I've heard, on any local stage, for this entire theatrical season, and there were only five (5) musicians! Allan Paglia led the group from his keyboard, with Brian McMahon, percussion, and only a trio of strings: Jenna Noreck, violin; Connor Sullivan, cello, and Robert Webster, bass. Why do I keep writing "only?" There's a reason why the BPO has about 45 string players on stage for most concerts, and that's because strings generally sound better in multiples. When the number of players is less than 10, we're in the exalted realm of what is called "chamber music" where the slightest lapse can ruin the show. There were no lapses. Zero. Wow.
…if the over two dozen women involved in this production were cool with it, I should be too.
In order to realistically portray the glamor of the Italian film industry, the founders of Second Generation Theatre (Kelly Copps, Kristin Bentley, and Arin Lee Dandes) have assembled a very good-looking cast around their leading man, the very good-looking Ben Michael Moran. You don't have to "suspend disbelief" for a second. These folks really do "look the part." To reference another musical, A CHORUS LINE, it's not "Dance 10, Looks 3." It's "Dance 10, Looks 10."
Let's start with the so-called "ensemble" (those without named roles). Just like the fabulous "Laker Girls" at last fall's Kavinoky Theatre production of SPAMALOT, these six actresses could stop traffic just by standing on the corner waiting for a bus. Here they also sing and dance and appear in various stages of dress and undress, and you've seen their names in other fine productions: Bethany Burrows, Anna Fernandez (Dance Captain), Stevie Jackson, Cassidy Kreuzer, Jessie Miller, and Julia Murphy.
And those various stages of dress and undress? Let's give a HUGE shout out to Costume Designer Lise Harty who must have been working on this project for over a year. The costumes were numerous, varied, clever, and 100% communicative of each individual scene. While we're at it, let's applaud Cassie Cameron who for this production took on the exhausting job of Stage Manager and from what I hear, just nailed it night after night (Jessica Faery, Assistant Stage Manager).
Ben Michael Moran as Guido Contini
Ben Michael Moran is at the top of his game these days and has quite a range, from British comedies over at the Irish Classical Theatre to the tortured souls of, recently, "Prior Walter" in SGT's production of ANGELS IN AMERICA, and now "Guido Contini" who has gotten himself estranged from his wife (brilliantly played and sung by Aimee Walker whose "My Husband Makes Movies" will rip your heart out), his producer (played with a less than successful French accent by Lisa Ludwig), his former lovers ("Carla" played with ferocity by Kelly Copps and "Claudia" played with elegant style by Arianne Davidow), and, the biggest cause of his mid-life crisis, his estrangement from his former self, the 9-year-old Guido, a role played successfully by Max Goldhirsch.
As an actress Copps can summon up a lethal cocktail of confusion, hurt, and anger. I've seen it before and she lets 'er rip here. I know she loves musicals, but I wish she'd be in even more straight plays with that expressive face. I also want to call attention to the Act II opening duet between Moran and Davidow, "A Man Like You" which was a superb blend of voices.
All of the action takes place on a rather "Italianate" stage of circular platforms decorated to look like marble (Chris Cavanagh – Set, Light & Sound Design). Other fine actors include Mary Gjurich who so looked the part as the mother of 9-year-old Guido; Sabrina Kahwaty was terrific as the arch critic "Stephanie Necrophorus;" and Nicole Cimato was magnificent as "Saraghina," the prostitute who introduced all the young men at the convent school into the world of sex. Cimato's interaction with young Goldhirsch was a study in "how to inhabit your character."
And rounding out the cast were two of my favorite sopranos, Leah Berst as the mysterious go-between, "Our Lady of the Spa," and, the lady with the high notes, Charmagne Chi, with much appreciated comic relief as Mama Maddalena. Hey Leah, howzabout a cabaret some day to show off them pipes? And everyone reading this, remember Charmagne has two cabarets planned with Joey Donahue III ("now with 30% more jokes") on August 16 and 23 at MusicalFare.
Images courtesy Second Generation
UP NEXT: Second Generation Theatre (SGT) has announced their 2019-2020 season starting in October with the cult rock musical THE TOXIC AVENGER, then in March (2020) it's Albee's Pulitzer Prize winning THREE TALL WOMEN, and next June's summer musical will be CABARET.
*HERD OF BUFFALO (Notes on the Rating System)
ONE BUFFALO: This means trouble. A dreadful play, a highly flawed production, or both. Unless there is some really compelling reason for you to attend (i.e. you are the parent of someone who is in it), give this show a wide berth.
TWO BUFFALOS: Passable, but no great shakes. Either the production is pretty far off base, or the play itself is problematic. Unless you are the sort of person who's happy just going to the theater, you might look around for something else.
THREE BUFFALOS: I still have my issues, but this is a pretty darn good night at the theater. If you don't go in with huge expectations, you will probably be pleased.
FOUR BUFFALOS: Both the production and the play are of high caliber. If the genre/content are up your alley, I would make a real effort to attend.
FIVE BUFFALOS: Truly superb–a rare rating. Comedies that leave you weak with laughter, dramas that really touch the heart. Provided that this is the kind of show you like, you'd be a fool to miss it!
Tagged with: Allan Paglia, Anna Fernandez, Arin Lee Dandes, Ben Michael Moran, Bethany Burrows, Brian McMahon, Cassidy Kreuzer, Cassie Cameron, Chris Cavanagh, Connor Sullivan, Jenna Noreck, Jessica Faery, Jessie Miller, Julia Murphy, Kelly Copps, Kristin Bentley, Lise Harty, Musical, NINE, Robert Webster, SECOND GENERATION THEATRE, Shea's Smith Theatre, Stevie Jackson, Victoria Pérez
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Peter Hall continues trying to figure out how "it" all works. For 20 years, as program host on Classical 94.5 WNED and continuing on-stage with the Buffalo Chamber Music Society, he's conducted over 1,000 interviews with artists as he asks them to explain, in layman's terms, "what's the big picture here?"
As mentioned recently in Buffalo Spree magazine, Peter's "Buffalo Rising reviews are the no-holds barred 'everyman's' take." And, on "Theater Talk" (heard Friday mornings at 6:45 and 8:45 a.m. on WBFO 88.7 FM and Saturday afternoons at 5:55 p.m. on Classical 94.5 WNED) his favorite question of co-host Anthony Chase is simply "What's goin' on?"
A member of Buffalo's Artie Awards Committee, Peter holds a B.A. in Comparative Literature from Columbia University and an M.B.A. from SUNY at Buffalo. For over twenty-five years he has been an adjunct professor for Canisius College's Richard J. Wehle School of Business.
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NBA great Bill Russell dies at 88
NEW YORK: Bill Russell, one of the greatest players in NBA history and the cornerstone of the Boston Celtics' dynasty, died Sunday, ESPN reported. The Hall of Famer was 88. "Bill Russell, the most prolific winner in American sports history, passed away peacefully today at age 88, with his wife, Jeannine, by his side," a statement posted on social media said Sunday.
During his 13 years in Boston, he carried the Celtics to the NBA Finals 12 times, winning the championship 11 times.
A five-time MVP and 12-time All-Star, Russell was an uncanny shot blocker who revolutionized NBA defensive concepts. He finished with 21,620 career rebounds — an average of 22.5 per game — and led the league in rebounding four times. He had 51 rebounds in one game, 49 in two others and 12 straight seasons of 1,000 or more rebounds. Russell was awarded the Medal of Freedom by former President Barack Obama in 2011, the nation's highest civilian honor. And in 2017, the NBA awarded him with its Lifetime Achievement Award. In 1974, Russell was elected to the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame, and in 1980, he was voted Greatest Player in the History of the NBA by the Professional Basketball Writers Association of America. He was part of the 75th Anniversary Team announced by the NBA in October 2021. In 2013, Boston honored Russell with a statue at City Hall Plaza.
Russell's 11 titles with the Celtics included eight in a row from 1959-1966. Today's NBA Finals MVP award is named for him. He averaged 15.1 points and 22.5 rebounds per game for his career, building a famed rivalry with Wilt Chamberlain in the 1960s. Off the court Russell was a giant in the fight for civil rights. "But for all the winning, Bill's understanding of the struggle is what illuminated his life," Sunday's statement said. "From boycotting a 1961 exhibition game to unmask too-long-tolerated discrimination, to leading Mississippi's first integrated basketball camp in the combustible wake of Medgar Evans' assassination, to decades of activism ultimately recognized by his receipt of the Presidential Medal of Freedom… "Bill called out injustice with an unforgiving candor that he intended would disrupt the status quo, and with a powerful example that, though never his humble intention, will forever inspire teamwork, selflessness and thoughtful change."
NBA Commissioner Adam Silver called Russell "the greatest champion in all of team sports, but added that his accolades "only begin to tell the story of Bill's immense impact on our league and broader society. "Bill stood for something much bigger than sports: the values of equality, respect and inclusion that he stamped into the DNA of our league," Silver said in a statement on Sunday. "At the height of his athletic career, Bill advocated vigorously for civil rights and social justice, a legacy he passed down to generations of NBA players who followed in his footsteps. "Through the taunts, threats and unthinkable adversity, Bill rose above it all and remained true to his belief that everyone deserves to be treated with dignity."
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