| Archive preserves visual past
Experts and amateurs who manage the University of Vermont's online archive of historical photographs are still looking for a new crop of curators, ages 6 to 96.
They also want your photo albums.
Geology professor Paul Bierman, one of the founders of the Landscape Change Project, said the collection was designed from the ground up in 1999 to sow interest among authorities and novices, teachers and students, historians and curiosity-seekers.
On Tuesday, Bierman and his UVM faculty colleague, Christine Massey, will lead a workshop for home-schooling parents in a hands-on scavenger hunt through their Web site.
"A big part of our mission is to disseminate successful educational models," Bierman said. "Kids see old pictures of their town, of places they know -- and they start asking questions.
Baked from scratch: Local bakers sprout plan to grow wheat
It won't be your run-of-the-mill bread they're spinning their wheels for. The bicycle-driven thresher and grain mill being demonstrated at Saturday's first-of-its-kind Winter Fare at Greenfield's Second Congregational Church points to a Montague baker's plan to grow his own wheat for 'Daniel Shays Bread.' Jonathan Stevens and Cheryl Maffei of Hungry Ghost Bakery became interested in what some are calling their 'little red hen' idea of giving people wheat seeds to grow locally after a New Mexico baker at a conference eight or nine years ago introduced them to bread made from locally grown grain. Instead of baking with organic flour grown in North Dakota that gets trucked to North Carolina for milling, Stevens said, it makes much more sense to look at growing wheat and other grains nearby and milling it locally -- especially since Massachusetts is believed to have been the site of North America's first oat harvest -- on the Elizabeth Islands -- in 1602.
2007 Subaru Forester Sports XT Review
"Crossover" means a motor vehicle that offers a cross between carlike comfort and SUV style, with SUV ground clearance. The car is usually some sort of family sedan, and your typical crossover is really the contemporary station wagon. Your typical crossover is practical and roomy, and can hold people and cargo in almost endless variation. Your typical crossover is also, for the enthusiast driver, about as exciting as the family sedan in its ancestry, which is to say "not very". The Subaru Forester XT is a little different, as the car in its ancestry is a WRX. Or, to be more exact, a WRX STi. Coming from that gene pool, boredom is guaranteed to be banished. The Forester debuted a decade ago as the first Subaru made expressly as a crossover, following in the successful footsteps of the Legacy-derived Outback and smaller Impreza Outback Sport.
Futurepedia: The tragic nature of Nick Saban
November 2007: After a three-game losing streak against LSU, Mississippi State and Louisiana-Monroe, Alabama's $4 million-per-year coach Nick Saban challenged his players to unify and reverse their fortunes. "Changes in history usually occur after some kind of catastrophic event. It may be 9-11, which sort of changed the spirit of America relative to catastrophic events. Pearl Harbor kind of got us ready for World War II, and that was a catastrophic event." A school spokesman later clarified that Saban was not directly comparing the outcomes of football games to those invasions of the homeland. The thousands of innocent people killed in those events could not be reached for comment. December 2007: Following an Iron Bowl loss to Auburn and an Independence Bowl loss to Colorado that ended the Crimson Tide's year with a five-game losing streak, Saban summed up the disappointment of his first year at the helm of the storied program by saying it felt like "riding off the top of the Empire State Building on a bicycle that had no seat, and I landed on the pole that held the seat when I hit the ground." A school spokesman later clarified that Saban was not directly comparing the inept first season to fantasy dares that third-graders make in their elementary school cafeterias.
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Alligators seized from home
Belisle's problem last year was one bad inning, one big inning, that sank so many of his starts, something he plans to rectify to solidify his spot as a starter for the Cincinnati Reds. "This guy has potential to be a big winner for us," said Baker. "I've talked to him and he has confidence. He knows he can do it and it is frustrating when you're not doing it and know you can. Hopefully, last year really helped him. "I know he was (8-9) in 175 innings — a pretty good workload for a guy who hasn't done that before," Baker added. And his one-inning walks into Dreamland? "A lot of times that's a phobia you can get over," he said. "It's like a pitcher who says, 'I know I'm going to give up a homer pretty soon,' then he gives up a homer.
Father testifies about slain 10-year-old
The father of a slain 10-year-old testified Tuesday that he had warned his daughter to be careful of strangers before her mutilated body was found in their neighbor's apartment.</p><p>"I told her you can't be trusting people and do not go into anyone's apartment," Curtis Bolin testified Tuesday in the murder trial of Kevin Underwood, 28, who is accused of killing Jamie Rose Bolin in a cannibalistic plot.</p><p>Bolin, an auto mechanic, testified that he gave her this warning after she told him she had met Underwood and knew that he had a pet rat.</p><p>Assistant District Attorney Susan Caswell asked Bolin if he thought his daughter understood the warning.</p><p>"I thought she did," he said, his voice trembling.</p><p>Prosecutors allege Underwood, a quiet grocery store stocker with no prior criminal record, used the pet rat to lure Jamie into his apartment after she arrived home from school on April 12, 2006.</p><p>Once inside, prosecutors say Underwood sneaked up behind the girl while she was watching television, beat her over the head with a wooden cutting board and then suffocated her while she fought for her life.</p><p>Bolin testified that he grew increasingly nervous on April 12, 2006, when his daughter failed to return home after school, and called police.
On the Farm: Flexie Flyer a blast from the past
We are back in full swing with activities on the vineyard as our crews move from block to block, removing last year's canes.
Cars start arriving at the ranch around 6:30 a.m. and making their way to the fields, where the people will begin work at 7 a.m.
About 6:45 a.m., the last shadows of night give way to the early morning rays of the sun shining over the hilltops and through the branches of the oaks surrounding the grapevines.
The people begin to get out of their warm cars, bundled up against the cold morning air, pruning shears in hand, as they make their way to their respective crews.
For a short time, the sunlight reflects off the ice of the frosty morning along the vineyard floor, shimmering like little diamonds spread out over the landscape.
2 held, cops ‘unearth’ court blasts plot
The Uttar Pradesh Special Task Force on Saturday claimed to have unearthed the plot behind the serial court blasts in Lucknow, Faizabad and Varanasi after the arrest of two alleged members of the Harkat-ul-Jehad-al-Islami. The two — Mohammad Tariq Kasmi of Rani Sarai in Azamgarh, and Khalid Mujahid of Madiyahun, Jaunpur — were caught near Barabanki station, 30 km from Lucknow, around 6.20 am. The cops claimed to have seized 1.25 kg of RDX and three detonators from Tariq and ammonium nitrate and three more detonators from Mujahid. Additional Director-General (law and order) Brij Lal said Tariq, who has been an active member of HuJI since 2003, was part of its administrative wing while Mujahid used to execute the assignments, which included planting bombs.
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