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Vermont Public Radio
Fifth Annual HackVT To 'Hack The Climate'
Vermont Public Radio
Climate change will be the theme for the fifth annual Vermont hackathon. Participating programmers will spend 24 hours coding October 9-10 at Burlington's VCET @ BTV space. In addition to creating a new climate app for Vermont, teams will compete for ...

Barksdale Airmen participate in EUCOM exercise > Air Force ...  Air Force Link

Climate policy needs a new vision  SciDev.Net

Johnson State College's Environmental and Health Sciences Dept. hosts free ...
vtdigger.org
JOHNSON, VT – Johnson State College's Department of Environmental and Health Sciences hosts a popular speaker series on most Wednesday afternoons featuring experts on science. Free and open to the public, the presentations are held from 4 to 5:15 ...

Female farmers suffer twin productivity blows
SciDev.Net
Female farmers suffer from a double disadvantage of a lack of access to funds and labour, which leads to their farms being much less productive than those headed by men. A study in the journal Development Studies last month found that limited access to ...

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RiverheadLOCAL
Electrical line workers recruit apprentices
RiverheadLOCAL
... poles, and towers of various heights. must be willing and able to travel to worksites anywhere within Connecticut, Delaware, Maine, Maryland, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, New Jersey, New York, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island, and Vermont. must provide ...

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Are Vermont dirt roads polluting Lake Champlain?
WCAX
"We found that some of those practices were very highly effective in reducing sediment and phosphorus production and in protecting the integrity of the road against big storms," said Beverley Wemple, associate professor of geography at the University ...

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WTNH Connecticut News (press release)
Texas football players say coach told them to strike referee
WTNH Connecticut News (press release)
Northside Independent School District Athletic Director Stan Laing, left, and superintendent Brian Woods, right, address an emergency meeting of the University Interscholastic League (UIL) State Executive Committee, Wednesday, Sept. 9, 2015, in Round ...
Football Players Who Blindsided Ref Say They Were Following Coach's Orders ...Good Morning America - Yahoo
Football Players Who Blindsided Ref Say They Were Following Coach's OrdersABC News

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KSN-TV
Baby Doe's mom arrested, boyfriend charged with murder
KSN-TV
BOSTON (AP) — A mother has been arrested and her boyfriend is charged with murder in the death of a little girl whose body was found inside a trash bag on a Boston Harbor island this summer, a prosecutor said Friday, after a monthslong campaign to ...

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Making a killing: Human cost of the global arms trade
SciDev.Net
Many of the bombs now maiming and killing civilians in Syria and Yemen began their lives far away from the urban battlefields of the Middle East, in the weapons labs of the West. And many of the deals that provided the weapons used in these bombing ...

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KSN-TV
Texas football players say coach told them to strike referee
KSN-TV
Northside Independent School District Athletic Director Stan Laing, left, and superintendent Brian Woods, right, are sworn in during an emergency meeting of the University Interscholastic League (UIL) State Executive Committee, Wednesday, Sept. 9, 2015 ...
Football Players Who Blindsided Ref Say They Were Following Coach's Orders ...Good Morning America - Yahoo

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KSN-TV
Charleston church suspect's friend charged with lying to FBI
KSN-TV
In this June 18, 2015 frame from video Joey Meek, friend of Dylann Roof who is accused of killing nine black church members during Bible study on June 17 in Charleston , S.C., speaks to The Associated Press. Meek was arrested Thursday, Sept. 17, more ...

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KSN-TV
Good Samaritans pull kids from bus
KSN-TV
TAMPA, Florida (WFLA) – Normally Tom Batchilder lays paver patios for his company T&J Pavers out of Palm Harbor, Florida. But Thursday afternoon was anything but normal. “You think you've seen it all then all a sudden something else happens,” ...

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BurlingtonFreePress.com
Trooper collapses during training, dies at hospital
BurlingtonFreePress.com
A Vermont State Police trooper collapsed during training at a Jericho firing range Thursday and later died at a Burlington hospital, officials said. State police spokesman Scott Waterman confirmed the death late Thursday afternoon a few hours after the ...

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Victoria Advocate
Hot Rod Riot to feature vintage automobiles
Victoria Advocate
For weeks, Chris Koliba was using his days off to work on his wife's 1961 Ford Unibody truck. Michelle Koliba, his wife, swung through the glass door of South Texas Performance, a Victoria auto shop that specializes in hot rods, with a familiar ease ...

Digital work signals a global race to the bottom
SciDev.Net
Online technologies could hurt workers' rights by connecting rich and poor into one labour market, says Mark Graham. William is a 26-year-old freelancer from one of Nairobi's slums who does search engine optimisation work. He is one of millions in ...

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Is South-South cooperation just a catchphrase?
SciDev.Net
The term global South is often used to lump together everything that is not a traditional industrialised country. But comprised as it is of the nations of Africa, Central and South America and parts of Asia, the global South is much more diverse in ...

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The wrong solution for the refugee crisis
SciDev.Net
Knowledge exchange and innovation funding would do more to build stability in North Africa than EU aid ever can. It was the poignant photo of a drowned Syrian boy on a Turkish beach that finally launched a widespread public debate on Europe's refugee ...

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Jones: It's time to take responsibility
Barre Montpelier Times Argus
For instance, on these pages, reasonable people who understand the problem — from The Times Argus editors to writers such as Alan Betts, Tom Watkins and the owner of the Alchemist Brewery — have tried to encourage vigorous, more realistic responses ...

Jones: It's time to take responsibility
Barre Montpelier Times Argus
For instance, on these pages, reasonable people who understand the problem — from The Times Argus editors to writers such as Alan Betts, Tom Watkins and the owner of the Alchemist Brewery — have tried to encourage vigorous, more realistic responses ...